The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-09 00:00:00

Price Sixpence, or free by post for Seven Stamps. THE SPEECH of the RIGHT HON. B. DISRAELI, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, on introducing THE REFORM BILL, February 28, 1 859 . Authorised Edition. London : Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, Farringdon- street. rrHEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee—Mr. E. T. Smith. TO-MORROW, will be performed the original English Ballad Opera, entitled WILLIAM AND SUSAN. William Mr. Haigh ; Susan, Miss Lucette. ro conclude with the new pantomime, ROBIN HOOD ,• or, harlequin Friar Tuck and the Merr y Me n of Sherwood Forest. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. TO-MORROW, will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean; Macbeth, Mr. C. Kean. Alter which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled 'ME KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin Prince D;amond and Princess Brighteyes. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--- Farewell Season of Mr. CHARLES BEAN as Manager. Last Nights of the undermentioned Plays : LOUIS THE' ELEVENTH, on Wednesday, the 16th ; on Monday, the 21st, and (last time) on Friday, the 25th. Wednesday, (this Evening), March 9th (being Ash-Wed nesday), there will be no performance. MACBETH, on Thursday, March the 10th ; and on Thurs day (last time) the 17th. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, on Friday, March the 11th; on Tuesday, the 15th ; on Friday, the 18th ; on Tuesday, the 22d ; and on Thursday, the 24th. THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, on Saturday, March the 12th ; on Saturday the 19th ; and with (last times) A MID SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, on Tuesday and Thursday, the.22d and 24th. _ _ _ HAMLET will be performed on Monday, March the 14th ; and (last time) on Wednesday, the 23d. *** These plays will not be re-produced, with the exception, perhaps, of one or two representations only, towards the ter mination of the Management in the latter part of the month of July. The Public is respectfully informed that Mr. and Mrs. C. KEAN'S annual Benefit will take place on Monday, March the 28th, when will be produced the Historical Play of KING HENRY THE FIFTH, being the last Shaksperian revival under the existing management. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. T O-M ORR 0 W, will be performed AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mr. Buckstone, eze. Followed by the new grand 'Comic Pantomime, entitled UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters. Commence 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer, Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. TO-MORRO W, will be produced THE FAIRY CIRCLE. Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams. After which, THE HOUR AT SEVILLE. Mrs. Barney Williams in ten characters. To conclude with THE LEPRACHAUN; or, Bad Luck's Good Luck with Good Looking After. Messrs. Barney Williams, Barrett, &c. And a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Reduced Prices—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 30. ; Pit, 2s. • Stalls, ss. ; Gallery, -I s. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past 8 to commence at 7 every evening. MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING (Ash-Wednesday) No Performance. TO-MORROW, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. John Milelmay, Mr. A. Wigan ; Mr. Potter, Mr. Charles Selby ; Hawksley, Mr. Billington; Mrs. Mildmay, Mrs. Billing-ton ; Mrs. Sternhold Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright. To conclude with THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Woolgar, Miss Arden, Miss Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Doors opewat a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh TO-MORROW will be presented MATRIMONIAL PRO SPECTUSES. After which, the new Extravaganza, KENILWORTH ; or Ye Queene. ye Earle, and ye Maydenne And THE LITTLE SAVAGE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Brilliant and unprecedented success of the new Dramatic Spectacle. TO-MORROW, the performances commence with a grand new Spectacle, from the pen of R. Phillips, Esq., interspersed with extraordinary hippodramatic effects and striking situa tions, in three Acts, and entitled TETE HUNDRED CUIRASSIERS. Produced with new scenery, mechanical arrangements, gorgeous in I characteristic costumes, elabo rate equestrian and spectacular appointments, and the hand somest Stn . ?. of Horses in the world. . Characters by Messrs. Holloway, Phillips, Anson, Francis, Anderson, M. Howard. Herbert; MesdamesDowton, Blanche, JullaWeston, Thorne, &c. To be followed by SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Maddlle. Fleurette, and Madame Fran cisco, being tne greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night at any theatre. Grotesques : Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with the CAPTAIN IS NOT AMISS. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d., Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor—C. MORTON. The public Is most respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 (clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Coilec- Jon of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental pertbrmances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-STJN OFFICE, MARCH 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.42--a very great .rise. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with very fine weather. THE SUN. ,le . 40.0.0 i• 4 4 ,. , _ , , _ ' 3 l. ci- ' .:l- i ''' q ' u'EP: _ . ----„, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9, 1859. Another—let us hope the last—postponement of the long-wished -for reform with a view to the total and permanent abolition of tolls upon our metro politan bridges, as well as upon the turnpike roads within a radius of six miles from Charing-cross ! On Tuesday, the 22d ult., according to announce ment, Mr. ALCOCK moved than an humble address be presented to her MAJESTY, praying her MAJESTY to direct further instructions to this effect to the Royal Commissioners now sitting for the investi gation of the problematic question of the Turnpike Tolls of the Metropolis. The motion, seconded by the hon. member for Boston, was subsequently withdrawn, in obedience to. the suggestion of the then Mr. Secretary "WALPOLE, who deprecated as untimely any such enforcement of this sufficiently obvious reform upon the attention of the Royal Commissioners. At the same time the HOMO Secretary acknowledged plainly, in so many wo r d s, that, " for his own part, he was perfectly alive to the inconvenience which, in more than one instance, resulted to the inhabitants of the metropolis from the maintenance of the tolls to which the hon. gentleman's motion related ;" adding, that `- 4 he should be very glad to find that sonic reasonable remedy for that inconvenience could be provided." Mr. WALPOLE'S chief argument was, that a corn plianco with the suggestion of Mr. ALCOCE might i possibly, would probably, necessitate a delay n the completion of the report preparing by the Royal Commissioners. "Let us wait," Mr.WALPOLE observed, "until we have seen that report to ascer tain whether the abolition of bridge tolls, and tolls on the turnpike roads, as proposed, would or would not be practicable." There would be great difficulty, the Home Secretary reminded us—of course there would—in procuring the funds which would be re quired to be raised in order that the suggested aboli tion of tolls sliould be effected. Not a moment's doubt of this. But surely,, important and con siderable though that difficulty might be, it cannot in reason be regarded as in any Way insuperable— if only by reason of this paramount consideration. Firstly—the universal application to all classes and individuals, without distinction, of the advantage inevitably resulting from such an abolition. Secondly—the wealth .of the great capital it is cal culated to benefit so instantaneously and perma powerful argument advanced in n en fly. The deprecation of the motion, and the urgency with which it was addressed to Mr. ALCOCK by the late Home Secretary, left the former gentleman no alternative. The motion was withdrawn. The Commissioners of Turnpike Tolls are not to have their attention distracted for a moment from the preparation of their report until the completion of their now pending investigation. So soon, however, as that report shall have Seen submitted to the consideration of Parliament, we do earnestly trust that the project advocated by the motion withdrawn on Tuesday, may be at length pushed home upon the attention of the Government. It has been evaded already by too easy and too tanta- lizing postponements. The abolition of the tolls upon the metropolitan bridges and upon the turnpike roads, north, south, east, and west, within a radius of six miles from Charing-cross, we have long regarded as the first requisite among all our great metropolitan improve ments. It is to the scheme of these improvements what the Ballot is to the complex problem of the Reforms of Parliament. Having opened up, for once and for all, free of tolls, the turnpike roads of the capital to a distance of six miles in all direc tions from the Nelson Monument—having broken down entirely the barriers hitherto obstructing the traffic to and fro across Waterloo-bridge, across Southwark-bridge, and across the old and the new bridge at Battersea—then, but hardly till then, let us set earnestly about the realization of all the other grand metropolitan improvements. Once rid of these tolls, we may prepare in earnest for all the other innovations A New National Gallery, devoted exclusively to the purposes of a National Gallery. A new pair of fountains in front of it worthy of the name of fountains. A clear sweep of the block of houses filling up the space between St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand. A clear sweep, also, of Middle Row, Holborn. A Palace of Juctice in the midst of the law courts, with a flying bridge across Fleet-street connecting the new building with the Temple. A central railway terminus connecting all the trunk lines together, either upon the site of the old Fleet Prison, or in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's-inn- Fields. A magnificent collection of Government offices, affording a fitting home to the different departments of the Administration. An effectual scheme for the purification of the River Thames, accompanied by a rational and comprehensive sys tem of metropolitan drainage, such as may hence forth secure the rational application of our present wasted, and, indeed, worse than wasted, treasures of alkalies and ammonias to the wondrous and beneficent purposes of agriculture. These and other projects tempt the energies of our national mdileship. But first of all—to begin with—let us, in the name of common sense, clear away these obstructive toll-bars upon our metropolitan bridges, and upon all turnpike roads to a distance of six miles from the great central point of London and Westminster. We have always hitherto cordially supported Mr. BERKELEY in all his efforts on behalf of the Ballot. We are very old advocates of the measure, while he has been successor to Mr. GROTE on the question, and we have had, on the whole, no reason to differ with him in regard to his practical opera tions. We have wished, indeed, sometimes that he had confined himself less to humour, that he showed whatever earnestness he felt in the cause, and 'did not give even the slightest occasion to opponents to suggest that he looked upon it rather as a capi tal affair for a joke than as serious business. The justification is indeed obvious enough. Opponents furnish no arguments worth replying to. They deserve to be answered according to their folly ; and, with Mr. BERKELEY'S powers for awarding them their deserts, it is natural he should be in clined to give it. We are, however, a grave busi ness-like people, and no measure can be carried with us by the light artillery of fun and joke. Con fessedly, the Ballot has now arrived at its business stage. Two hundred and thirty-eight Liberal members are pledged to it ; every public meeting, every assembly of Reformers, great or small, puts the Ballot in its programme. We believe that even Lord JOHN himself is ready to own that its adoption is but a question of time, and at no dis tant time ; and the offer to the nation of a Reform Bill, of which it forms no part, while the speech of the introducer of the bill did not even advert to it, has rendered the moment critical. It is now the part of Mr. BERKELEY and his supporters to render the position of anti-Ballotmen —and of Liberal waverers especially—as untenable as possible. It must be made unpleasant for them to vote wrong. A harassing fire, such as Mr. MILNER GIBSON kept up on the Advertisement Duties and the Newspaper Stamp, is the course for success. Awkward questions must be put to ' Ministers, pseudo-Liberals must be placed in false positions, no rest must be givn to the sticklers for open voting, if opportunities occur which may faci litate an exposure of the weakness of their cause In a word, the Ballot movement must now be per tinaciously worked in the house ; and if honourable members think it a bore they must be apprised that they will be bored with it yet more, till they get rid of it by sending it to the Lords, and thus in no long time to her MAJESTY. Above all must nothing, nothing whatever, be conceded to the con venience of Whig cliques. We know pretty well the mind of the elect few who form the House of Commons body-guard of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord PALMERSTON respectively ; and well do we know that with uplifted eyes and hands they will beseech Mr. BERKELEY not to embarrass them just now. "Do but just let us whip these Tory place holders out, and let us get in, and we will honour ably arrange about the Ballot afterwards." But Mr. BERKELEY must be stern. He has the most important clause of any Reform Bill in charge. The country has not assigned him his present poll. tical status merely to smooth things for the old Whigs or the young ones either ; the country asks him to make things as uncomfortable for them as possible, till they choose to hearken to the country. With these views we confess we were not a little Friday ann of oyed to see M r . B ERKELEY g i ve no ti ce l as t a motion on the Ballot far the,wrong time. Th e motion was good enough—" That, in of this the opinio n House, a e ne acceptable t a e b x l e t extension itohne people,of t he suffrage will be deemed as a complete measur e of reform, unless it be ac companied by vote by ballot." But Mr. BERKELEY proposes to make this motion on the House going into committee on the bill. What the country, however, wants is, that every member, in the event of a dissolution, should have been required to register himself either for or against the Ballot in reference to a second Reform Bill. The country has a right to ask this ; and it is the part of a leader, on any question in the House of Commons, to see that the country secures its wishes. Should Tr.oi the amendments which it is said Lord . RUSSELL will propose, 1)3 carried, and s Ministry resign on them, Lord JOHN 6 willho a u i l the nd the immense advantage of appealing to the country on an issue of which the Ballot forms no part ! The same would be the result should a motion for "the bill to be read a second time that day six months" be carried. It might not be so easy to get in, now, a ballot motion prior to the motion for the second reading of the bill, but if this cannot be done, the Maillona _~___ _ ~..,. ___ _~ s- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY ''''EVENING, MARCH -9, 1859. Ballot will lose an important vantage ground which it might have taken. We trust Mr. BERKELEY will take our observa tions in good part. We feel that, as amongst the oldest advocates of the Ballot, we have a fair claim to speak ; we had gathered from the resolutions of the Ballot Society that it was intended to make the motion on the Ballot on the motion for the second reading, and we felt not a little disappointed to see it shifted to a time which may never arrive, and which does not appear to us to have the slightest practical advantage. Mr. BERKELEY, therefore, and the friends with whom he acts, will excuse us if we inform them that "no time for a motion on the Ballot will be acceptable to the people, as a complete Ballot movement, which is not accompanied by the advantage of testing each member prior to any possible dissolution of Parlia ment." LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received ai Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, MARCH 8 The evening edition of the official Vienna Gazette publishes a long article, stating that for several reasons founded on international law, Austria will insist upon the complete maintenance of her special treaties with the Italian states. The only additional article to the treaty with Naples--in which the conformity of principles of government is stated merely as an existing fact — could be suppressed if both parties should agree upon the point. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 8, The Gazette of the Senate of this day publishes the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded between Russia and England, which was ratified by the Emperor on the 10th of January last. It is rumoured in Paris that Prince Napoleon will be appointed Grand Admiral. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, BOURSE, March B.—The opening of the market exhibited a general improvement of prices, but heavy sales were effected, and they afterwards gave way. Threes, after having been clone at 69fr. 45c., declined to 69fr. Mobilier varied from 830 fr. to 805 fr. ; Austrian, 557 fr. 50e. to 550 fr. ; Lyons, 850 fr. to 8421 r. 50e. ; Orleans, 1,355 fr. to 1,345 fr. ; Southern, 535 fr. to 530 fr. ; Northern, 950 fr. to 940 fr. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 95 70 / Credit Foncier 645 Do. end month .. 95 70 I Belgian 41 3 per Cents 69 101Piedmonteso (5) 80 50 Do. end month 6B 85 Roman B6 Bank Shares. 2890 I Austrian Credit Mobilier 805 Spanish Threes Do. Account . 805 Home Debt in tow. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The royal mail steamship America, Capt. Miller, which sailed from Boston on the 23rd, and from Halifax on the 25th ult., arrived here to-day. She brought 61 passengers, and in specie 74,820 dols., and £2,275 sterling, The steamship Africa hence, arrived out at New York on the 22d ult. The screw steamship Bremen, from Southampton for New York, put into Halifax on the 22d ult., short of coal. The news by this arrival is of slight importance, In the Senate the bill providing for the acquisi. Lion of Cuba continued to be discussed. The House passed the Army Appropriation Bill, after reducing the estimates 1,500,000 dols. The total amount appropriated for this branch of the public service is about 14,000,000 dols. The Committee on Ways and Means had autho rised their chairman to report a bill for a re-issue of treasury notes. As it will require two-thirds to take it up, it stands no chance unless combined with a change in the tariff. A telegram from St. John's, Newfoundland, under date of 19th ult., says :—" The tenor of pri vate advices received per Prince Albert render it certain that the British Government will grant a subsidy of £150,000 to the Galway Steamship Company. Mr. Henley, chief electrician of the Atlantic Cable Company, has arrived here, with be tteries and instruments, to commence operations with them on this end of the cable." The steamship Black Warrior, bound from Havannah to New York, ran ashore on Rockaway Bar, Long Island, during a dense fog, on the morn ing of the 20th ult. The passengers and mails were taken off in safety, together with the 208,000 dols. in Mexican dollars, which she had on freight. At the latest dates it was feared that without very favourable weather she would not be got off. Her value was about 135,000 dols. Incessant rains for a week throughout the west, had caused a, freshet in the Ohio river, and at Cin cinnati the water was up to the second stories of houses in Water, street. All the upper streams were overflowing. Travel on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad was suspended. Advices from California to the sth ultimo had reached New Orleans. The mail steamer of that date for Panama had on board 1,400,000 dollars, in cluding 304,000 dollars for England. Business was brisk at San Francisco, and money easy. The mining news was favourable. The latest intelligence from Mexico states that President Miramon had reached Orizaba with several thousand men, on his march to attack Vera Cruz. Great apprehension was felt regarding the result. Gold had been discovered on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, near Cheralda. Jacmel advices to the 30th ult. state that all the excitement of the revolution had passed by, and business had revived to its former briskness. Coffee was coming in freely from the coast and the inte rior. The Governor of Jacmel, one of the Emperor's officials, had been deposed. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX NEW YORK, Feb. 24, Evening.—The screw steam ship City of Manchester, from Liverpool, arrived here to-day: The United States mails, which were to have been taken out by her on Saturday next, the 26th, have been transferred to the Cunard screw steamship Lebanon, which will sail on that day for Liverpool. Our cotton market is very dull, and prices are -IT. lower, but quotations are almost nominal. Mr. W. P. Wright calls middling uplands 11 , : 5 -c. The market for breadstuffs is WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—A highly intelligent Mexican authority announces that Miramon is col lectin funds and treasure with a view of abandon ing Mexico. Arrangements are also rapidly pro gressing to furnish Alvarez with the needed arms and ammunition for his army. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23.—The ship Mary Ade line, while loading for Cork took fire last evening and was scuttled ; 2,000 bales of cotton on board; belonging to Messrs. Lecesne and Co., were lest. The cotton is insured in France. The ship Nor mandy arrived here yesterday from Liverpool. Advices from Vera Cruz, of the 12th in s t., repre • sent Juarez as preparing for a vigorous defence of the city against the threatened attack of Miramon. Juarez has already a force of 5,000 men and 200 field pieces, and had ordered an additional force of 2,000 men from the interior. He had sanguine hopes of defeating Miramon. HALIFAX, Feb. 25.—The royal mail steam ship Canada arrived here last evening and proceeded to Boston. SPORTING _NOTES. DERBY. The running at Nottingham yesterday was not remarkable. Lifeboat turned the tables on the Speaker, and Gladiolus and the Greek proved the correctness of their Liverpool performances. Turfites to-night will quit Nottingham and get to Derby with all convenient speed, and Mr. T. Marshall is quite prepared to give them a hearty reception, and has provided for them an abundance of amusement. When I took my pen in my hand I purposed indit ing a long and interesting article, but really I cannot find any subject which would interest the reader. Speculation on the Spring Handicaps makes little or no progress, and the Derby betting is, with the exception of the support which has of late been conceded to both Volcano and Musjid, a blank. The former has, it is said, wonderfully improved, and the fact of Tom Taylor's possessing thsa right sort of "tackle to try him with, has in creased the fondness which the public is at all times inclined to place in a " nobleman's horse." But now to the Derby Spring Meeting. Tease, of course, must be my representative for the Mid land Steeple Chase. The Earl of Essex will perhaps win the Staunton Harold Stakes, and for the Harrington Plate I shall select Tame Deer and Weatherwise. A FRESH MAN. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 9.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.; moderate breeze, and fine, clear, dry weather. PLYMOUTH, March B.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived— Warner, from Stockton for Calcutta. RAMSGATE, March B.—Wind W.S.lV.—Arrived—Mys stery, from London for Demerara. QUEENSTOWN, March S.—Sailed—Weser (screwsteamer) for New York; Queen of the Isles, for Old Calabar. SHIELDS, March B.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Sailed— Cleveland, for Shanghai. NE WPORT, March B .—WindW.N.W,—Arrived—Baven, from London, and Aid, from Bristol, both for Jamaica. Sailed—Maria Frederika, for St. Thomas. GLOUCESTER, March B.—Sailed—John Wesley, for Sydney, N.S.W. CARDIFF, March B.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Lizzie Southward, for Savannah. Tourt,ty March 7.—Th ere arc 60 sa il o f vesse l s i n th e bay, but the weather precluded all communication. Wind N.W. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Hamburgo, steamer, from Hamburg ; Itolla, from Shields; Alliance, steamer, from Havre; Enterprise; from Waterford ; Laura, from Newcastle; Charlotte, from Guernse— • _ , _ Sailed:—Mary Ann, for Newcastle; Lamplighter and Syren, for Sunderland ; Ann, for Shields. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morninage Wind N. Arrived, March B.—Archibald, from Demerara; Emma •om Marseilles ; Igimo, from Alexandria. Off—Maria, from Santa Maria. The Maria y Juanna, fob Havannah, has returned into dock, having been in contact, on the 7th inst., with the Samaritan. The Clara, of Liverpool, from Newport, with coals, 'cap sized yesterday afternoon off the Point of Ayr. Crew saved in the boat Margaret. _ The Pollock, from New Orleans, drove athwart the Alli ante, for Charleston, in the river. The former had bul• warks, boats, Ix., stove ; the latter lost jibboom, &c. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Wind N.W. ; tide five hours' ebb ; fine. No arrivals. Sailed—Nieholas Wood, for Leghorn; Holland, steamer, for Ostend ; Winterthur, for Calcutta ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Wind N.V. ; fresh. No arrivals. Sailed•—Star Queen; and Ouiver, for Loudon, the former COURT or ALDERMEN.—Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of business. A precept was . ordered to be issued for the election of a common councilman as suc cessor to Mr. Wooltorton, late member for Farringdon Without Ward. Upon the motion of Alder Man Humphery it was unanimously voted that the annual allowance of £3O a year to Miss Macauley, daughter of the late Alderman INlacauloy, should be continued. The court then ad journed. S9UTTI KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the wad: ending. March 5, the visitors have been as follows : On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 5,024; on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings 4 509. On the th ree ,• students' days (ad m i ss i on to the public 6d.), 649.• one students' evening; Wednesday, 295 ; total, 10,477. From the opening of the muSemit, 809,004. SALE OF BERKELEY HOUSE.—Yesterday the building materials of Berkeley House, Spring-gardens, the residence of . the late Earl Fitzhardinge, were disposed of, by public aucti on , by Messrs; Pullen a n d S on , on th e authority of the Metropolitan Board of Works, preparatory .to clearing the site for the erection of the new offices of the board, and widening the thoroughfare leading from Spring gardens to St. James's-park. The sale was well attended, and good prices for the materials were obtained. COURT CIRCULAR. I Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort honoured the performance at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Macdonald, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Hon. Mary Butteel, the Earl of Sheffield, Lieut.-Colonel H. Ponsonby, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, visited the British Museum yesterday morning. Lady Macdonald has succeeded the Countess of Caledon as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen; and the Earl of Sheffield and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore have succeeded Viscount Strathallan and General Sir Edward Bowater as the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Right Hon. W. Gladstone had an interview with Sir E. Bulwer Lytton yesterday at the Colonial-office. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE TO THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. On the Ist April next, and thenceforward, the following alterations will take place in the British rates of Postage, chargeable upon letters, book packets, and newspapers conveyed by packet between the United Kingdom and, Buenos Ayres, or any other part of the Agentine Con federation. The postage will be reduced to the uniform British rate of sixpence the half ounce, and so on, according to the usual scale. This postage must, as heretofore, be in all cases prepaid. The British postage of book packets will also be reduced, and the following will be the rates, which must be paid in advance, viz. :—Not exceeding four ounces, 3d. ; above four ounces, and not exceeding eight ounces, 6d. ; above eight ounces, and not exceeding lib., ls. ; above lib., and not exceeding 111 b., Is. 6d. ; above 111 b., and not exceeding 21bs., 2s. ; and so on, adding 6d. for each additional half pound, or fraction of half a pound. A book packet may contain any number of separate books or other publications, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, parchment, or vellum ; and the books or other pub lications, prints, maps, &c., may be either printed, written, or plain, or any mixture of the three. Further—all legiti mate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, publication, &c., or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding, &c., be loose or attached ; as also rollers, in the case of prints or maps ; markers (whether of paper or other wise) in the case of books, and; in short, whatever is neces sary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter, or usually appertains thereto ; but no patterns or books of patterns (unless consisting merely of paper) will be allowed. The following regulations must be observed :- 1. Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. 2. A book packet must not contain any written letter closed or open, nor any enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection ; nor must there be any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter written in any such packet, or in or upon its cover. 3. No book packet must exceed 2 feet in length, width, or depth. The British charge upon a newspaper, not exceeding four'ounces in weight, will be one penny, and a like sum of one penny will be charged for each additional four ounces or fraction of four ounces. This postage must also be paid in advance. By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, March 8, 1859. IVEST LONDON UNION. At the usual weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the West London Union, held yester day, the matter of the summons issued against three gentlemen of the board (Messrs. Potter, Long, and Lamprell), was warmly discussed. The sum mons was for a cheque surcharged by the auditor, amounting to £4 95., and was heard at the Guildhall on Friday last, as reported in our journal. Mr. HENRY POTTER explained to the board the manner in which he acted upon that occasion, as the representative of the board, and said that he had certainly gained a little further insight into the tyrannical nature of the Poor-law Board, which allowed one of their officers to act as a Louis Napoleon in a small way ; drag three gentlemen as criminals before a magistrate, and demand that he should sign a distress warrant, without afford ing them any opportunity of giving an explanation. He therefore called upon the board to take such action in the matter as they thought proper. Mr. LUSHER hoped the guardians of the West London Union would, to a man, stand against the encroachments of that centralising board, and op pose them in every possible lawful manner. He therefore moved the following resolution :—" That the clerk do write to the Poor-law Commissioners and inquire why the letter of the 22d January, sent from this board, has not been answered, and ex pressing the deep surprise and regret of this board th at three of their number should have been sum moned by the auditor before a magistrate for sigling a cheque which this board believed to be just and. proper ; and this board enclose a copy of the pro ceedings for the information of the Poor-law Com missioners, and wish to know whether, under the circumstances, the auditor will be instructed to proceed further in the matter. The board would also like to know how the expenditure in question was contrary to the statute, or to any order of the Poor-law BOard, by which alone they are guided." Mr. PEDLER would do all in his power to sup port the dignity of the board ; and he, therefore, heartily seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried unanimously. It was then moved by Mr. PEDLER, seconded by Mr. BUTCHER, and resolved—" That this board approve of the way in which Messrs. Pater, Long, and Lamprell met the summons taken out against them, and that those gentlemen be assured that this board, whilst sympathising with their position, will resolutely support them in their continued opposition." . _ _ Mr. PONTIFEX (the clerk) read a letter which he had received from the commissioners, with reference to his conduct at the Guildhall on Friday, asking whether the reports in the public journals of what he then said was correct. His reply thereto was read and met with the hearty approval of the board. Some routine business was transacted, and the board adjourned. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the College at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 7th inst.—viz., Messrs. Henry Nichol, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire ; George Palatiano, Corfu, lonian Islands; John Ald erson , Aslackby, Licolnire ; Daniel. O'Brien, Piccadilly; Hugh Lewis Pugh, Dolgellan, North Wales; George White Martin, Rochester • John Edmonstoune Stewart, P or t Royal Jamaica ; Rochester; Searle Bayliffe, Chippenham ; Geor:e Verry, Kilburn ; Brownell Richard Murphy, R o y a l Navy; and William Henry Richardson, Clifton, York. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—At the usual weekly meeting of the commissioners yesterday, Mr. Deputy Christie in the chair, Dr. Letheby, medical officer of health, reported on the state of 209 houses, and submitted a lid of 44 places requiring sanitary improvement in various parti culars. The Mortality returns for the week were greatly below the average, the number of deaths being only 48, against 51 for the corresponding period of the last three years. The weekly death rate in January was 68, and in February 55 ; it appears, therefore, that the public health has been undergoing a marked improvement for the last few weeks. Of the 41 deaths, 21 were among children of less than five years old, and 8 among persons of sixty and up wards. Among the causes of death there were 10 from hydrocephalus and the convulsions of infancy, 3 from whooping cough, 2 from measles, and 1 from fever; but there were no deaths from diarrhoea, dysentery, small-pox, or scarlet fever, and of the pulmonic affections 4 were from phthisis, 2 from infantine pneumonia, and 9 from bronchitis. Altogether the improvement in the state of the public health is highly satisfactory. THE CASE' OF THE REV. MR. PUGll.—Yesterday at the weekly meeting of the directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, 'held at the Vestry-hall, Camden town, Mr. Churchwarden Attenborough in the chair, a com munication was read fram the Poor-law Board, enclosing the copy of a letter they had directed to be sent, to the Rev. Thomas. Pugh, the late chaplain of the workhouse, on the subject of his dismissal by the vestry, on the recommendation 'of the'directers',from that office. It will be remembered that the ground of the dismissal of the Rev. Thomas Pugh was his alleged correspondence with, and refusal to give up the address of Muskett, one of the medical officers, who, having been guilty of a criminal offence, had absconded. The com munication from the Poor-law Board, after adverting to the circumstances of the ease, and the refusal of the vestry to ehPrri afford th em any information, expressed an opinion that that com plained was of calculated each although i n th e course he had adopted Mr. Pugh was ac tuated by consc i entious motives, still the Poor-law Board could not feel sunp rise at learning th a t th e di rec t ors had placed n an th d e cthoneyfidc e e n r c t e a w in h l yiehthtchategdlii rectors had p re Vi ou t sly in im (the Rev. T. Pugh) and to prejudice his future ministrations as chaplain. The communication thus concludes :--" Upon a careful consi deration of the whol e o f the facts, and liCoking to the posi tion in which you are personally placed with regard to your future ministrations at the workhouse, the board think it right to intimate to you that they will not be prepared to mintain you in the office of chaplain, and they therefore con sider that you most expedient course will be at once voluntarily to tender your resignation." This document was received and ordered to be entered on the minutes. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .6 1352 50 .. 1345 Northern 940 937 50 New ditto BO5 .. 805 Lyons and Mediterranean 845 842 50 New ditto . Geneva . Midi . 540 - .. 540 Southern Western Eastern Grand Central Sardinian Austrian 525 - .. 525 600 - .. 600 685 - .. 680 • 405 .. 405 • 550 .. 548 75 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 97c. SARDINIA. The Opinione of Turin thus comments on the pacific note published in the Moniteur " This note says that if negotiation does not attain the desired end, and Austria attacks, as seems to be her intention, the Emperor Napoleon, firm in his alliance with Sardinia, will appear before Europe, not as inciting to disturbance, but as a vindicator of international right, and as a protector of the peace of Europe. The responsibility of war will rest with Austria, who attacks, and not with Piedmont, nor with the Imperial Government o France, who is united with Piedmont by a commu nity of opinion and national interests." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th do not bring any news of much political importance. The Senate was occupied with the affair of M. Santaella, and in the Chamber of Deputies the Government had produced papers relative to contracts entered into by the Sartorius ministry for the construction of the Canal of Manzanares, which contracts are made the subject of accusations against that ministry. Military manoeuvres on a grand scale, in which, in addition to the infantry and artillery, 4,000 cavalry are to figure. are, it is said, shortly to take place in the vicinity of Madrid in presence of the Queen. It is stated in one of the journals that the Govern ment will modify the bill on the press so as to satisfy the bishops. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant, the Count de Flandre, and the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg', both on Sundayand the day after walked :or some time on the public promenades of Brussels. A Paris letter in the Indepenclance states that the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Constantine of Russia are expected, after their return from the Mediterranean, to pay a visit to the Emperor and Empress of the French, and that it is for their Im perial Highnesses that apartments are being pre pared in the palace at Fontainebleau. The military commission to take part ir: the deliberations of which the Archduke Albert, Governor of Hungary, had been some short time back summoned to Vienna, has, it is said, recom mended the formation at Laybach of an army of reserve of 35,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 73 pieces of artillery. Field-Marshal de Wimpfen is to have the command of this force, should it be established. The National Gazette of Berlin publishes a long article en the existing political crisis, which declares that as long as France does not take any decided steps to disturb European peace Prussia has not the slightest motive for assuming a hostile attitude with regard to that power; and that above all things the German Governments should employ all their efforts to prevent the Austrian possessions in Italy, as being guaranteed to her, from becoming anew the subject of discus- sion in a congress. BAPTISM OF TILE INFANT PRINCE A BERLIN. The Prussian Gazette of Saturday evening gives the following details of the baptism of the infant Prince : " To-day, at one o'clock, took place at Berlin, in the chapel of the Royal Palace, the baptism of the Prince born on the 27th of January, and son of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Dr. Strauss, principal Court Chaplain, assisted by several other clergymen, officiated. The young Prince received the names of Frederick William Victor Albert. The following were pre sent :—Prince Regent of Prussia and the Princess of Prussia, the Prince and Princess Charles of Prussia, the Prince and Princess Frederick Charles ofPrussia, the Princes Albrecht, father and son ; Alexander George and Adalbert ofPrussia; the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklen burg-Strelitz, and Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarin gen. The following were absent:—Their Majesties the King and Queen of Prussia; the .Queen of Great Britain and the Prince Consort; the Emperor and the ,Empress Dowager of Russia; the King of Hanover, the King of the Belgians, , his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, the Grand Duchess Dowager of Saxe Weimar, the Grand Duchess Dowag( r of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Grand Duke of Mecklenb urg -St re lit z the PrinCess Al ex . andrine of Pru ss i a , th e Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince and Princess Frederick of Holland, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, the Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the Princess of liegnitZ. After the baptism his Royal Highness the Prince Frederick William gave an entertainment. " A letter from the Prussian capital gives us a few additional particulars. The Prince Regent, it appears, held the infant Prince at the baptismal font; and the young mother, the Princess Frede rick William, was a witness o f the ceremony from an apartment the doors of which open into the chapel. When the baptisth was over, the Grand Mistress of the Household, Countess Perponcher, took the child 'to its mother, and all the company followed to present their congratulations to her Royal HiglinesS, 'no streets were dressed with flogs and garlands, and at night the entire city was illuminated. Some of the streets presented a mag nificent, appearance, ' Among the public edifices remarkable for. the splendour of the illuminations was the Hotel de Ville, which was lighted up by . more than 50,000 jets of gas. At all the theatres a gala representation . was given." We observe that Mr. Lawton, the attentive hall keeper of the Haymarket theatre, has announced his benefit .for Thursday next, when a good bill of fare has been pro vided. Those who have experienced his courtesy will do well to support him on that occasion. Tickets only ob tained from himself will serve .the purpose they desire. TILE NAVE Announcements were yesterday posted at the gates of Woolwich dockyard that ablebodied seamen are required for the following ships now in commis sion—namely, the Mersey, Hero, Doris, and James Watt. The Lords of the Admiralty have signified that Marines who, on the termination of their first period of service (12 years), shall re-engage for the further term of years required to complete a total service of 21 years, shall have issued to them each the present rate ofbounty, granted to a recruit—viz., £3, with a further sum of £4 in lieu of free kit, deducting for the latter sum the cost of any article or articles of regimental necessaries the man may at the time require to complete or replace his full kit. The above order, which was yesterday issued at Wool wich, directs Colonels Commandant to cause a schedule to be attached to each man's attestation noting the date of re engagement on the fly sheet, so that the same may be satisfactorily registered and recorded. The Mersey,4o, screw steam-frigate, Captain H. Caldwell, C. 8., being fitted in the steam-basin at Portsmouth, will, if she can be possibiy got ready, make trial of her machinery and speed in Stokes Bay this day. In the event of her not being ready she will not be able to make her trial until next " springs." Steam-power was applied yesterday in hoisting from the gun-hoy, lying alongside the north wall of the dockyard, the heavy 10 inch, maindeck guns for this ship. The guns weigh each 85 cwt., and the height of hoist was 30 feet. The engine used was one of Taylor's portable engines of 6.horse power, and the time occupied in hoisting the gun with a common threefold purchase was five minutes. The consumption of fuel in 12 hours is about Ocwt. The Hardy and Havoc, gunboats, at Portsmouth, are masted and rigged, shipwrights and riggers are employed on board bringing them forward for immediate service. The Mary Ann troopship, which disembarked the 58th Regiment at Portsmouth on Monday, sailed from Spithead from Spithead for Londom yesterday. The screw steamship Doris, 32, Captain Heath cott, was commissioned at Plymouth on Monday by Lieutenant Little, and towed to the moorings off tho Devonport dockyard. The screw steam frigate Topaze, 51, was hauled alongside the sheer-hulk in Hamoaze on Monday, to be fitted and rigged for the steam reserve, in place of the Doris. The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Monday, with stores saved from the wreck of the hired steam transport Czar, lost near, the Lizard. The paddlewheel steam frigate Virago, 6, Com mander Dunn, steamed from Hamoaze into Ply mouth Sound on Monday. The small French Government steamer Galilee, Lieut.-Commander Lemosy, which left Dartmouth on Monday morning, arrived at Plymouth in the afternoon, to watch the French fishing boats now in harbour there. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—James Lewis, paymaster, to the Impregnable; William T. Rogers, surgeon, to the James Watt ; Augustus N. Preston, surgeon, additional, to the James Watt ; Thomas H. Keown, surgeon, to the Hero; Julian W. Bradshaw, sur geon, additional, to the Hero ; Pat r ick K ee t an , assistant-surgeon, to the Hero ; John E. Palmer, assistant-surgeon, to the James Watt ; Cuthbert R. Radham, clerk, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Alfred P. Cox, clerk to the Exmouth ; and John J. Covey, master's assistant, to the Rhadamanthus. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-( THIS DAY) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.) JUDGMENT.-THE MAYOR. OF' BRECON V. SEYMOUR. His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, said—ln this case I think the plaintif is entitled to decree. I think in de ciding this case I ought to follow the decision which I gave in the decided case of De Winton and the Mayor of Brecon. The plaintiffs bill was filed for a reconveyance of the lands mortgaged on payment of the advances. Ha contends that he is entitled to have his fees applied in payment of the incum brance, and then to have a reconveyance of the land to him. The mortgage was made in 1835 on the market place for £750 and the security was taken in the name of the mayor and corporation. The market buildings were erected under the Municipal Corporation Act. Two mortgages were . after wards granted or assigned to Mrs. Payne over this same property, one for £2,250 and the other for £1,500, and a question was raised whether the second mortgagee was entitled to take anythingunder these mortgages. His Honour held that the second mortgages under the act were in valid. And the question now raised was whether the plaintiff was entitled to a reconveyance on redemption. His Honour on, referring to the 35th, 83d, and 94th sections of the act, said that he must consider this case the same as the ordinary case of mortgagee and mortgager, in the case of a private contract, where the mortgagee offers to resell the property mortgaged to the mortgager, who insists on his right of pre-emption. His Honour, therefore, made the usual order for reconveyance on payment of the mortgage, the proceeds to be applied in the usual way, and the title-deeds to be delivered up to the plaintiff with costs. His Honour made a similar decree in De Winton's case with directions and costs. Counsel in the cause—Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. Follett, Q.C. ' SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C. FISII SALESMEN AND BILLINGSGATE •MARKET..--SNUGGS. V. ALEXANDER. This was a judgment summons, and the defendant applied for a new trial, on the grounds that he was deterred from attending the first summons by mistaking the day of hear ing, and that he was not the principal in the transaction, but servant to a person named Marian Benjamin. Plaintiff said he was a fish-hawker, and upon a certain day he purchased two pods of fish ; he sold two of the fish, but they were so bad that they made the person ill, and he returned the lot. When he bought the fish he handed the money to one Lawrence, who at once gave it to defendant, who, upon being complained to of the badness of the fish, offered plaintiff 6d. Defendant said that when plaintiff first called upon him be asked him for two or three shillings, which he (de fendant) refused upon principle, as he had nothing to do with the transaction. He was a servant to Mrs. Benjamin, and as such certainly not liable. He would, however, give plaintiff 58. and his costs. His Honour said the application was too late, and he regretted to see business so badly conducted in Billings gate-market. A great number of these cases were brought there, and a great deal had been said upon the subject. If defendant had made his application before the judgment summons, it might have been entertained ; as the matter now stood, the application must be refused, and defendant would be committed for four days, the warrant to be in the office a week. BROWN V. RAMSAY.--TIIE LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE ACT. This was a judgment summons for 3s. 7d., and the de fendant's wife pleaded great poverty, and stated that the plaintiff kept a chandler's shop, and that she (Mrs. Ram say) had dealt with him for a number of years. One Sun day morning, before nine o'clock, she went to him for some goods, and tendered 10s. 6d. Plaintiff refused either to take the money or to let witness have any goods, and said that people ought to go to church on Sunday. Now, her husband could not get any money on Saturday night, and so she could not got to plaintiff's before Sunday. Plaintiff said he made it a rule never to serve anybody on Sunday. He went to church. His Honour did not think it would have hurt plaintiff to let these poor people have a little food. A witness was called, who said that Mr. Ramsay was much afflicted, and unable to work. His Honour—Well, Mrs. Ramsay can pay something. Witness—Ah I but she can't. His Honour—Oh, she must. Witness—But she won't. Plaintiff pressed for a commitment, but His Honour bade him carry his religious feeling beyond the L - ord's-day observance, and ordered the defendant to pay a small sum weekly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH -STREET. "NOT Two PRICES AT MARYLEBONE."—john Harris, a cab-driver, badge 1,087, cab 706, was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of his cab. The case having been proved by Smith, 34 C, who saw the defendant going slowly along, and ultimately get the wheel of his cab locked with a post in Silver -street. He then, to prevent further mischief, seeing he was drunk, took him into custody. The defendant having admitted he was drunk, was asked by Mr. Beadon whether his license was endorsed P Cabman—Oh yes, once ; for the same offence. I was then fined 20s. Mr. Beadon—Then it must have been a bad case. Cabman—Oh no. I was before Mr. Long, at Al aryle bone, and if he over gets any one before him its always 20s. On that occasion I had been doing a little haymaking and fell asleep on my box. Mr. Beadon—As to being always fined 205., it is all non sense. Cabman—l can assure your Worship there are not two prices at Marylebone. (Laughter.) That worthy magi strate fines all alike as long as they are cabmen. Mr. Beadon—l shall fine you the same-20s. or 14 days. Cabman (leaving the dock)—Then its all one price here too I suppose. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.--Jeremiah Hurley, an Irish labourer, was brought before the Hon. G. C. Norton, charged with committing a violent assault upon MarY M'Carthy, at No. 59, Pinnington. street, Ratcliff-highwah last night, during a quarrel. Mr. John Courley, a surgeon, High-street, Whitechapel, said he was called upon to attend a woman named M'Carthy, in the Leman -street station-house, and found her bleeding copiously from a wound on the top of the head. It was two inches in length and penetrated to the scalp. An artery was divided, and he had some difficulty in sup pressing the hemorrhage. The woman lost a large quantity of blood. In answer to Mr. Norton, the witness said ho believed the wound was inflicted with a sharp instrument, certainly with an in strument of a sharp character. A policeman produced a publican's half-gallon tin can, and Mr. Cowley said the edge of it might have inflicted the wound which was one of a very serious character. He sent the woman to the Lon don Hospital, and it would be a week before she would be able to leave her bed. A woman named Driscoll said that the prisoner was the son-in-law of the woman in the hospital, and that they were drinking together last night, and quarrelled, and after some offensive words had passed between them, the prisoner struck his wife's mother on the top of the head with the can produced and knocked her down. The woman called her son-in-law many bad names. Mr. Norton remanded the prisoner for a week. THE ARMY. Mr. John Anderson, F.R.S., inspector of machi nery to the War Department in Woolwich Arsenal, was yesterday appointed assistant-engineer of rifled ordnance, to carry out, in conjunction with Sir W. Armstrong, the manufacture of his guns for distri bution to the Royal Artillery. Mr. Anderson, whose scientific direction of the machinery depart ment of the Royal Arsenal was marked by various productions for which he was most liberally re warded by Government grants and otherwise, was a short time ago presented with a compensation of £3,000 by the Council of the Board of India for his invention in the manufacture of leaden bullets. More civilian appointments are also spoken of as about to take place in the Laboratory and the other manufacturing departments of the Arsenal, which will considerably promote the well-being of the establishment and tend materially towards the ad vancement and economy of the Government service. Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, was yesterday announced in orders to have been granted leave of absence, and to have delivered over the temporary command of the garrison to Colonel Bloomfield, second com mandant, during his absence on Parliamentary duty. The garrison order likewise announced that the promotion of non-commissioned officers should be proceeded with for the formation of the 12 new batteries—viz., 12 sergeants to quartermaster sergeants; 36 corporals to sergeants; 72 bombardiers to corporals, and 108 acting bombardiers to bom bardiers. NAVIGATION OF THE .RIVERS OF INDIA. AN INTERESTING EVENT IN THE TYNE. An interesting event took place on Saturday, in the launch, from the building yard of Messrs. C. Mitchell and Co., at Low Walker, of a large paddle steamer, of peculiar construction, destined for inland Indian navigation. Messrs. Mitchell and Co., in conjunction with Messrs. R. Stephen son and Co., of this town, were recently com missioned to construct a powerful steam flotilla for the East Indian Railway Company, and from the peculiarity of the service required, and the conflicting elements necessarily embraced in the design, it has been deemed a wise economy to complete and equip a model steamer, in order to test both vessel and machinery, under all circum stances corresponding with the actual service in tended, The obvious advantage of such a determi nation is that all faults, if any, are discovered and rectified, the whole arrangement perfected, and all doubt regarding the result removed; so that in the re-erection of the vessels in India there may be no impediment to their immediate and effective work ing. The fleet of steamers of which this is the type, will be employed on the river Ganges, for the sole purpose of transporting the materials required by the East Indian Railway Company in the formation of their line. Such is the scarcity of regular and expeditious conveyance on the Ganges, and other Indian rivers, that the railway company have been compelled to construct these steamers for their own special use ; and some notion of the importance and value of such property at the psesent time may be gathered from the fact that the company feel con fident of more than realising the entire money value of their flotilla during their temporary employment while making their line of railway. The steamers are 225 feet long, 30 feet beam, and about 7 feet deep. Light draught of water being the essential feature of the traffic, the efforts of the constructors have been chiefly directed to combining in the best proportions the maximum of strength with the minimum of weight, and that has been principally accomplished by the extensive use of steel instead of iron in the construction of the hull. --This material is known as " puddled steel," is manufactured by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company, and its principal advantage con sists in its strength being double that of the iron usually employed for shipbuilding purposes ; con sequently plates about half the usual thickness only need be employed. The natural longitudinal weak ness of so long and shallow a vessel has been com pensated for by the introduction of web girders upwards of 10 feet deep, and extending the entire length of the vessel. These form the sides of the engine-room, and are connected with the top, bottom, and ether important parts 'of the vessel, and are, as it were, the back-bone and main die• meat of strength in the fabric. The machinery is nominally of 170 Worse-power, but the actual working will be at least 650 horse power. In the construction, steel has, as far as practicable, taken the place of and no expense has been spared to produce engines of the highest excellence, Both vessels and machinery have been designed and constructed under the superintend ence of the company's engineers, Messrs. M. and G. Rendel of London, and the execution of the work has been under the inspection of their repre sentative, Mr. E. Brisc oe . A number of scientific gentlemen were present at the launch, and seemed to be deeply interested in examining the peculiar features of the strange vessel, a class of vessels that seem destined to com pletely revolutionise the navigation of, every large river in the world. As the vessel floated on the waters of the Tyne, and without her enginie, she looked as buoyant as a person may notice a basin in a skeel of water carried on the head of some pit lassie from the well. We understand when the engines are put into the vessel, the principal direc tors of the East Indian Company and other scientific gentlemen will come down to the north, to be pre sent at the trial trip. The readers of Mr. Oliphant's book on Russia and the Black Sea will remember_his interesting account of the navigation of the Volga, and th e manner by which produce is brought down that river in the strange country craft. Tyne skill will be shortly re presented on that river, as Messrs. Mitchell and Co. arc building four iron s t eam vessels that have to be sent out to the Volga, and which will in every particular upset the ancient ideas of navigating that river. Messs. Mitchell and Co. have also on hand two iron vessels for the Black Sea. TRIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Tc-day's market was very scantily supplied with home grown wheat coastwise and by land carriage. For most kinds there was a moderate inquiry, at Mondays decline in the quotations. Foreign wheat, the, show of which was extensive, moved off heavily. In prices, however, no change took place. Floating cargoes of grain commanded very little attention. There was a good demand for both barley and malt at full prices. Oats were a fair inquiry, but not dearer. The supply was rather limited. Both beans and peas moved off slowly, and late rates were barely supported. We had a dull sale for flour, and inferior parcels were the turn lower. ARRIVALS TATS WEEK. • Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour. English B3O 460 620 ; 1,170 ; 810 Irish Foreign 2 ,440 3,680 9,770 ; 700 sks 1 1,980 Ulr BOROUGH HOP. All new hops continue in fair request, at very full prices : otherwise the demand is in a sluggish state, on former terms. WHITECHAPEL. We had a fair demand for meat to• day, as follows Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; lamb, Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 2s 6d to 40 2d per 81b., by the carcase. The Nord of Sunday announces very cooll that " the Holy See i s now engage d i n recruiting a body :of 5,000 men in Ireland, who are to be sent forthwith to Rome to form his Holiness's body guard !" The'London Directors of the Grand Trunk Rail way of Canada have issued a statement of its present posi tion and prospects. The capital raised and expended (ex clusive of the £3,111,500 on provincial bonds, for which the company have been exempted from liability until the line yields a profit of 6 per cent.) is £8,426,200. Of this £2,000,000 is in the shape of Preference Six per Cent. Debentures, £2,144,000 ordinary debentures, and £1,500,0 00 Seven per Cent. Debentures, while the amount of stock is £2,781,600 ; and it is now proposed to raise an additional £1,111,500, by an issue of second preference debentures, which will suffice to open the whole road from Sarnia to Quebec and Riviere du Loup and to Portland, a total of 1,057 miles, including the Victoria bridge. The length at present open is 880 miles, and the bridge and the extension to Sarnia of 70 miles, are to be ready for traffic in October. Assuming the t o t a l cap i ta l on which interest will have to be paid at £ 10 ,000,000, the directors still calcu late, from their experience thus far of the working of th e line, on a net profit of £614,050, 111-1. This by sev4 Divine take tE The Tewke Sove mon of benefitt demos( Sir ( John I the Fo] Lord reading I will I give no On t] Lord Reoond bill a h n brought further After Mr. .] Pone tt order to The 1 At thi that a SOTHER i ance of 1 tion of 3 Lord contends been bix of the p Subject. 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