The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

INDIA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) BOMBAY, APRIL 26. The capture of Tantia. Topee, announced in ra_ y last letter, only preceded his trial and execution by a a few days. As I foresaw, he was brought to drum-head court-martial at Se p ree on the 15th of April, and sentenced to death. He was hanged on the 18th. Maun Sing has had all the credit of the capture, which, but for other agencies, of which I have spoken, m ight not havebeen effected. There is no doubt that' A he led in the pursuit. party of the 9tl, Native Infantry his disposal, and was placed at . at two o'clock in the morning of the Bth of April the capture was effected. Tantia is described as a stout, well-made man of about 50, five feet six in height, with a Large head, eyes sunken beneath pro jecting cheek bones, and high arched brows. He was a native of Poona, confessed to have been in the service of the Nana at Bithoor, but denied having taken part in the massacre of Cawnpore. He affirmed, indeed, that the Nana was also guiltless of any participation in that affair, having been a prisoner at the time the murders were planned and carried out. After the capture of Delhi, he was one of those who commanded in the Doab, and Colonel Greathed will be surprised to learn that one tosf was g,a ge a rebel bands with which he had en led by Tantia, who afterwards rose t o tl t :e e e n position Betwa. of Commander-in-Chief at Calpee and It is said that Tantia was a pe nsioner of the East India Company. I cannot ascertain the truth of this assertion. Whatever may :have been his short comings in action, he met his death bravely. He was charged with n fight in g against the British Government." On that charge . he pleaded guilty, and only asked that the proceedings might be sum mary. Of th e other rebels, the Rao and Feroze Shah, nothing has been heard since their defeat by De Salia's brigade at Muxundunghur, near Goor nah. In a pursuit of several miles, and in partial engagements, the various parts of the brigade cut up more than 500 of the enemy. The fats: of Tantia Topee may act as a warning to the rest of the rebel chiefs, who will perceive that no pardon is in store for those who refuse to surrender. While the rebellion in Central India is thus rapidly closing, the rebels on the Oude border have broken, out of their secret places in the hills of Nepaul, and renewed the war. The troops on the Termi had been fortunately strengthened in antici pation of such an event, and after a while the line of the Gogra was made as strong as possible. At first the rebels endeavoured to break into East Ben gal, in the direction of Tirhoot. But after an at tempt to force the passage of the Gundulk they with drew westward into Nepaul, and concentrated their strength at Betaul. Here it was that on the 24th and 28th of March they were attacked and defeated by Colonel Kelly. After the first of these defeats a part of the rebels withdrew along the borders of the Terai, in the direction of Bankee. They threat ened at onemoment Colonel Smith at Dukkerea and a detached corps nearer the frontier at Tillewarrah, but ultimately they passed on to the westward, and passing Toolsepore, attacked the van of Horsford's column at Musha, north of Chundunpore. Hors ford, with the remainder of his brigade, advanced and defeated them on the 4th of April. The enemy, now divided, took different directions. One part, consisting of the old Nusseerabad Brigade, attacked the police station of Bunhounee, north of Bhinga and the Raptee, were driven back, took a southerly direction across the last named rivir, plundered the defenceless fort and village of Akhona, and, follow ing the course of the Koanee Nullah, suddenly appeared in force on the road from Fyzabad to Gonda. They were not long unmolested, how ever, for on the 13th of April Lieutenant-Colonel Cormick with a sufficient force advanced against them, attacked and completely defeated them within eight miles of Gonda. I hope that a speedy account of all these rebels may be given, as the time is approaching when the Tema will be too deadly for European troops, and we shall have the alter native of leaving it to our enemies or of boldly marching against the remains of them in the Nepaul hills. I have hastily sketched these results of mili tary movements in India, because the greatest in terest is no longer concentrated in the dying embers of the rebellion. Much greater importance is at tached to reforms in the system of government and the old policy of Indian government. One of the great results that have flowed from the rebellion of 1857-1858 has been to make the inhabitants of every part of India acquainted with each other. We have seen the tide of war rolling from Nepaul to the borders of Guzerat, from the deserts that cover Rajpootana to the frontiers of the Nizam's territories, the same men overrun ning the whole land of India, and giving to their resistance, as it were, a national character. The paltry interests of isolated States, the ignorance which men of one petty principality have laboured under in considering the habits and prospects of other principalities, all this has disappeared, to make way for a more uniform appreciation of public events throughout India. We may assume that in the rebellion of 1857 no national spirit was aroused, but we cannot deny that our efforts to put it down have sown the seeds of a new plant, and thus laid the foundation for more energetic attempts on the part of the people, if in the course of future years England has not done something towards reconcil ing the numerous inconsistencies and suppressing someof the dangerous tendencies of its rule in India. One of the most effectual checks to future disaf fection will be found in decentralisation, in the creation of provincial municipalities, and the grant ing of greater powers to the Governments of Presi dencies. At present the Supreme Council and Legis lature of Calcutta, who are entirely composed of Government officials, regulate the Administrations of all India, the Governments of the Presidencies have no initiative, and the want of such initiative is the cause of serious inconvenience to them, at the same time that it .leads to hasty legisla tion on the part of the centralised Administra tion at Calcutta. A proper consideration of these radical defects cannot be postponed. It should be entered upon with determination, and the results to be anticipated are the demonstration that measures of a nature too general in their application should be avoided, because what is a good law in one part of India will be found a bad one in another part of the country. The field of legislation will be con tracted and subdivided, and the dangers incident to centralisation will gradually be neutralized. .The present period is very propitious for reforms ; such a plain field has seldom been open to a statesman, and a heavy responsibility will be incurred by our present rulers if advantage be not taken of it. The necessity of new ta xes an d re t renc h men t a l r eady afford just grounds f or a lt er i ng s y s t ems w hi c h h ave been maintained beyond the time when they could be preserved with advantage, and, though it does not appear as yet that the opportunity of improve ment has been clearly understood, there are still symptoms which indicate the rise of a new policy. Sir C. Trevelyan at Madras seems to be the pioneer of a new order of things. He has just dealt a final blow to a great and intolerable nuisance. The system of correspondence which so long involved in delays inextricable the most important questions of national improvement is from henceforth to be revised. Sir C. Trevelyan's assurance was not re quired to convince us that the correspondence with the Home Government had become intolerable, but it was news to residents in India to hear that the Home Government was prepared to discontinue it. The system baying been disapproved at home, the :41atiiral consequence is that no compunction will be felt in its abolition in India. The system of refer ences from Bombay and Madras to Calcutta, and from Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta to London, involv ins- as it does, the duplicate and triplicate copying of immense files of letters, has become an intolerable nuisance by delaying for years the final settlement of questions frequently in their nature trivial, and therefore requiring nothing but immediate decision. The majority of questions submitted are practically neglected. The most important only are considered, and the result is that routine prevents improvement in small things, while in large and important mat ters it delays and impedes their final settlement. That these pernicious results are to be avoided in future is a great boon to all who have dealings with the Government. The saving to the Exchequer from the reduction in the espying department will, at the same time, produce a most gratifying reduc tion in expenditure. Having gone thus far, the Government will not, I hope, halt in so judicious a course. It will see the necessity of reforming the system of check, countercheck and audit, which necessitates the entertainment of an army of unne cessary clerks. The number of abstracts, certificates, and other documents drawn out during a month in the pay and audit offices of the Presidencies would astonish and frighten Downing-street or the Horse Guards. Words would fail to convey to you a just impression of this nuisance, and I cannot do better than quote one instance, among many, of the e xtent to which it affects those who are suib tefetatittisvoannoyance. A Bengal subaltern officer Bombay for thinfantry regiment arrived recently in certificate. e purpose of proceeding home on sick for the Ravingpartial reestablishment been recommended a sea: route. li - l e d s i t a ablishrnent of his health before finally leavi n o. to lle obtained a month's pre paratory leave proceedthan to Bombay. The journey was a longer one thesick man antici pated, and his leav e exp i r e d - two pre vious to ! could landing here. Bef ore he days leave this harbour for home the following formalities imposed. upon him :—He had to - write to Calcutta to were to have his leave extended for the two d a y s. T o his letter a reply would be despatched, on receipt of which his agent in Bombay would be Ole to draw pay for two days on the production of an abstract in 'triplicate, a copy of the order, and a form of authority constituting the drawer as agent ~ Thus five documents were to be produced before ti le question of this officer's pay could be finally dispos ed of. I now transcribe in detail the list of docume' nts he had to sign before leaving Bombay :-1, a o, 'spy of the order of preparatory leave ; 2, pay ceri ifi cate ; 3, "no demand" certificate, showing that no claims are producible against his pay ; 4, seem ity bond, in case any such claims should be forthco. w ing ; 5, extract of General Order granting furlont Th to Europe ; 6, a life certificate, assuring the autlik 1- rifles that the officer in question is not dead ; 7, Al. certificate that no advances have previously been made ; 8,9, 10, abstracts for pay in arrears up to the date of the expiration of the preparatory leave ; 11, 12, 13, abstracts for three months advance of pay ; 14, 15, 16, abstracts for the first half of pas sage money; 17, 18, 19, abstracts for the second half of passage"money ; 20, certificate from i the cap tain of the date on which the vessel sailed n which the officer took his departure ; 21, pilot's certificate that the ship sailed, and that the o ffi cer was a pas senger in her (this certificate, to be attached to the abstract of the second half of passage-money, enables the agent of the ship to draw) ; 22, 23, 24, abstracts for the two days'extension of preparatory leave already alluded to; 25, extract of the order extending the preparatory leave ; 26, form of autho rity on which the officer's agent is to draw pay for the two days on his behalf. Thus 26 documents were required before a Bengal subaltern could draw three months' pay and proceed on furlough to England. I leave you to judge of the immensity of the number of Government records when those of a not unfrequent case are so voluminous. If Bombay has not as yet taken the initiative in reforms similar to those of Madras, it appears to be on the eve of changes in policy which are of exceed ing importance. The fast that the Chief of Meeruj, in the South Mahratta country, is permitted to adopt a son is a proof that the hereditary policy in that respect is altered. I have reason to believe that adoptions will never in future be objected to. This and the enactment of the new' Succession Law, which is to supersede the enam resumption, will do more than any other measure to secure the loyalty and affection of the Southern MahrattaU. DEATH OF YEH. T_he notorious Yeh died at Calcutta on the 9th of April. The only regret that he expressed Was on account of his having been unable to destroy all the Chineoc rebels and all their kindred. TANTIA POPEE. (r,vpm the Bombay Gazette.) SEPREE, April 18. I had expected before this to have reported the execution of Tantia Topee ; but he is still alive, under a strong guard of the 3d Bengal Europeans in the fort. But the electric flash may transmit to you his exit long before this reaches you. The telegraph appears to transmit orders concerning Tantia with its usual rapidity. On Thursday last an escort was told off to accompany him, some re ports said to Goonah, others to Jhansi, others to Gwalior, where his family are at present confined in the fort. In a few hours these orders were can celled. Tantia was to have been hung on Saturday at 5 p.m., a scaffold having been erected on the encamping ground in front of the old Sepoy lines ; but reports say this is intended for a couple of malefactors—father and son—who have lately been amusing themselves by plundering the mail. Maim Sing, who has his tent and his guard under some trees close by the encampment of the European detachment, and Tantia Topee, are , the lions of Sepree at, present. Maun rides out on his prancing charger or smart going elephant, driving the latter himself, iron spike in hand, followed by his limited retinue and the tagrag and bobtail of the station. No natives are allowed to approach Tantia—by his own wish, it is presumed. Europeans only arc allowed to have a peep at him. A respe3tably dressed native merchant requested to have a look at him. The Baboo said he wished to see Tantia, as it would be all he would get for 900 r. which the rebel chief had some time ago made him disburse. Tantia looked glum, and the Baboo shook his head. Tantia answers questions put to him in Hindus tani curtley and apparently straightforwardly ; he appears not ,to understand much English, and to inquiries of him in English or by tyros in Hindus tani he quietly answers, " inahtnz nat . ." A glance of quiet contempt is noticed in his countenance when following . the departure from his presence of mediocre superiors. For Burra Sahib Major Meade Tantia appears to have considerable respect. . Meade is reported by his own men and all who know him to.be a kind man and a *good soldier. We have generally noticed that a brave, courageous, ' and considerate soldier is never a martinet, conse quently is respected by those who serve under him and ultimately succeeds in his profession. It would be well for the army were there more of such men. Tantia had his charge read to him on Wednesday and Thursday, to which he'made a statement, which was afterwards prepared and read to him by a moonshee. He afterwards signed this latter docu ment in good English writing, " Tantia Topee." He disclaims all participation in the massacre at Cawnpore or in the killing of Europeans, except in fair fight; and he also absolves from the same im putation the Nana Sahib, who, Tantia says, was at one time made a prisoner by his own men, because he would not proceed with them to Delhi. Tantia attributes the massacre and subsequent murders to the unrestrained, infuriated soldiery. He states that he himself put provisions, &c., on board the boats at Cawnpore, and that no orders were given to commit the atrocities that ultimately took place. Tantia says he was fourth in corn mand at Cawnpore ; and was afterwards in com mand at Calpee, where he was four months. At the battle of the Betwa he had the greatest rebel army which had been under his command -22,000 men, with 130 pieces of artillery, but after wards at Koonch it had dwindled down to 8,000. When the Gwalior Contingent came down on Agra on the 10th of October, Tantia commanded, and had then 8,000 with him. He says he would then have given Greathed more to do had he not been deceived by the red jackets of the 3d Bengal Europeans and the noise they made, thinking the reinforcement was greater than it really was. Sir Hugh Rose in his Gwalior despatches gives Tantia Topee credit for the skilful disposition of his troops when Sir Hugh attacked them and made the rebels so quickly fly from Gwalior. The last affair which Tantia states he was engaged in was at Dowsa, in January last, when Brigadier Showers came on the rebels by surprise one morning just before daylight. Tantia was at some distance in rear when Showers made the attack ; but ultimately in this affair had a splendid gray charger shot under him. The rebels were then completely disorganised, disputes were high among their chiefs, and guards were bolting with the scanty ways and means, which were now beginning to be more difficult to get hold of than they had hitherto been. Since then Tantia Topee has been a wanderer and a vagabond until the be trayer, Maun Sing, assisted Meade in capturing him. Tantia was under trial by a court-martial nearly the whole of Friday at Captain Field's bungalow. When the officer told him the previous day to pre pare for his trial, Tantia said that he knew for fighting against the British Government his punish ment would be death ; he wanted no court, and he therefore wished to be despatched (holding up his manacles) from this misery either from a gun or by the noose as quickly as possible. He did not wish to see his family, but the only one thing he asked the Government was that they would not punish his family for transactions in which they had no concern. Tantia Topee is a native of Poona, which he left 30 years ago, and it is stated he was a Government pensioner, having been at one time in the Com pany's military service. Latterly ha was in the service of the Nana at Bithoor, as a keranit. He is 49 years of age, stands about 5 feet 6, is stout and well made, has a pretty large head of great breadth from ear to ear ; it is covered bountifully with strong gray hair, with beard, moustache, and whiskers to Match. His cheek bones are slightly elevated, and his black eye, under sharply- arc h e d eyebrows, is clear and piercing. Altogether his features are intelligent and expressi - re, denoting decision, energy, and ability. Tantia is a Brahmin, and the Braluninical cord is always very religi ously placed over the ear when he goes out of his tent to prepare his meals, &c. He performs his ablutions, goes through his genuflexions, and pre pares and devours his Khanna once a day with all the strictness and religious ceremonies of his caste, having members of the Brahmin caste there to attend him. I have now given you all I can at present glean concerning the celebrated rebel chief, Tantia Tepee, whose military . skill and ability were worthy of better troops in a better cause. I suppose his charge, proceedings at his trial, and statement will nltirnatelv be given to the public for their infor mation. * The execution was announced as about to take place as I was writing (4 p.m.),•so I proceeded to where the scaffold was erected. The ground was kept by some men of the 24th and 9th Native Infantry, and some of Meade's Horse. Tantia was brought from his tent in the fort by an escort of the 3d Bengal Europeans ; and then a consider able square was formed, with, the gallows "in the centre. The companies'of the 24th and 9th Native Infantry formed one side ; the men of the 14th Dragoons and 17th Lancers, who had come into the station that morning and the previous day, were drawn up on another side ; the detachment of 3d ~ Bengals and Meade's Horse, in considerable strength, formed the two remaining sides. A con siderable number of natives were scattered all over the plain, and any little elevation command ing a view of the scaffold was thickly studded with white-clad spectators. Tantia had expressed some anxiety to know his fate, and to have it expedi tiously executed. Consequently at 12 (noon) it was intimated to him that he was to be executed that evening. He again feelingly expressed a wish that, as were about to take his life, the Government would see to his baba in Gwalior. Major Meade read the charge, that he, being a resident of Bithoor, in British territory, was guilty of rebellion in waging war against the British Government. The Ending of the Court was guilty, and the sentence, th at he be hanged by the neck until he was dead. TA e mistree then knocked off the leg irons, he mo tinted the rickety ladder with as much firmness as t.l:e handcuffs would allow, was then pinioned, and .his legs tied, he remarking that there was no neces.lity for these operations, and he then delibe rately put his head into the noose, which being drawn .tight by the executioner, the fatal bolt was d raw n. He struggled very slightly, and the " mehters s '''' were called to drag him straight. A sergeant lif the 3d Bengals acted as hangman. Thus finish.ld the career of the rebel chief Tantia Topee, with :el the due solemnities of British mili tary routine. When the suspended body became motionless, the troops were all marched off, and the body remained bunging for the remainder of the evening. After Ow troops left a great scramble was made by officers anal others to get a lock of hair, &c. (From At Friend of India.) Tantia Topee has been caught at last. The co lumns under Col. de Solis and Col. Birch came upon the rebels under Feroze Shah, in the Seronje jungle, and inflicted a signal, and we hope final, defeat. No less than 500 are reported to have been slain, and immediately after the victory Tantia Topee, who had either rejoined or never quitted the force, fell into our hands. Whether he was captured, or surrendered under the proclamation, is not stated, but in either case his doom is, we imagine, sealed. He was, we fear, among the actors in the Cawn pore tragedy, the only gang for whom, even in the strong reaction of the English mind, no voice of pity has been raised. It is just as well as politic that he should die, but among the horde of princelings, zemindars, and adventurers who rose to command among the mutineers, Tantia Topee is the only one whose fate will elicit in India a solitary expression of regret. He is the only one whose career comes up to the English idea of the mutability of Asiatic fortune—the only one who had the brain to revert at once to the Asiatic mode of warfare. With his ill-armed followers and inces sant defeats he has probably cost us more lives than the Nawab of Bareilly, with his " Soubandars," " English institutions regular army, and orga nised dominion in Rohilcund. Tantia Topee, according to the official account, is a Brahmin, from the neighbourhood of Calpee. Up to the period of the mutinies he is said to have been a money changer, and probably never saw a shot fired in anger in his life. The mutinies, however, so full of possible careers, and so deficient in men to pursue them, seem to have woke him up to a new ambition. Where or how he became connected with the Nana, or whether he was connected with him at all, seem to be one of the endless uncertainties attending his biography. It is doubtful, even, whe ther the strange name by which he is known among Europeans is an invention, a nickname " the weaver artillerist," or a corruption of his real title as com mandant of the Peishwah's artillery. His first appearance as a recognised leader was at the battle of the Jumna, where he appeared as commander-in chief of the army of the Peishwah, so called, we imagine, not because it obeyed the Nana, but be cause its nucleus was formed from the Gwalior Contingent. These men—Scindiah, their immediate Sovereign, being openly hostile to them—had no resource but to fall back upon the ancient authority of the Peishwah, just as the Sepoys of the Mussul man States, passing over the King of Oude, fell back upon the Emperor of Deihi. It is curious, by the way, to observe how little the theory of legiti macy in the European sense entered into their ideas. They looked only to the powers who immediately preceded the British raj. The true head of the Mah rattas, for instance, is the heir, whoever he may be, of the Sattara family, the descendants of Seevajee. The only legitimate Hindoo Monarch in Northern India, the Rana of Oodeypoor, was defied and insulted by his own troops. At the battle of the Jumna Tantia planned the most formidable attack With which Sir Hugh Rose had to contend. He was not, however, present, retiring then and ever afterwards at the very be ginning of the fray. His career is a strange one for a coward, but either personal timidity or mis taken policy has made this habit the weak point of his proceedings. Thoroughly acquainted with his countrymen, their prejudices, and their credulity, Tantia has , repeatedly raised armies from the ground. He seizes some admirable position, posts his force with a skill which leads English Generals to anticipate a severe contest, and then flies on ahead to plot again, leaving the web he has already spun to be torn to pieces. Immediately after the fall of Calpee his influence was felt in one of the heaviest blows dealt us in the war. He had con trived to secrete himself in Gwalior, where, screened by a small section of the Durbar, who longed for the old days of plunder, he opened communications with Scindiah's remaining troops. He secured them all. Scindiah, aware as he was of the character of his countrymen, finding he could not obtain Euro peans, met the rebels advancing on Gwalior with his own forces. They all fled or deserted, except a few of his bodyguard, and Tantia Topee gained a kingdom at a stroke. He had posssession of the city, the richest remaining to the Mahrattas, of its fortress, one of the strongest in India, stores to equip a great army for the field, artillery in abun dance, and a treasure estimated at from £1,500,000 to £5,000,000, He had at least 22,000 soldiers, and a single victory, a successful skirmish against the Europeans, would have brought him 100,000 men. The blow was felt by every Englishman in India, though the natives, who have an instinctive percep tion of the vital points of the empire, considered the march of a few hundred men into the Delta infinitely more importaut. With an enemy less persevering than the British Tantia might have founded a great State, rebuilt the Mahratta power, and reigned as Peishwa,—an office not originally hereditary. Sir Hugh Rose, however, approached, the old terrors fell fast on Tantia and his followers, and Gwalior was evacuated without the contest it deserved. And then commenced that marvellous series of retreats which, continued for 10 months, seemed to mock at defeat, and made Tantia Topee's name more familiar to Europe than that of most of our Anglo-Indian generals. His reputation, though ex aggerated by the fact that all other resistance had ceased, was by means undeserved. The problem before him was not an easy one. He had to keep together an army of beaten Asiatics, bound by no tie to his person, and bound to each other only by one common hate, and one common fear—hate of the British name, and fear of the British gallows. He had to keep this ill-assorted army in constant motion, at a pace which should baffle not only the enemies who pursued him, but the enemies who streamed down at right angles to his line of march. He had, while thus urging his half disciplined host to mad flight, to take some dozen cities, obtain fresh stores, collect new cannon, and, above all, in duce Tecruits to join voluntarily a service which promised only incessant flight at 60 miles a day. That he accomplished these ends with the means at his disposal indicates ability of no mean • kind. Slightly as we may hold the marauding leader, he was of the class to which Hyder Ali belonged, and had he carried out the plan attributed to him, and penetrated through Nagpore into Madras, he might have been as formidable as his prototype. As it was the Nerbuddah proved to him what the Channel was to Napoleon. He could accomplish anything except cross the stream. His original idea, if we may judge from hisrnarches, was to collect a great army from the little States bordering on the Nerbuddah valley, fly down towards Bombay at a pace which Mould baffle pursuit, cross into the Deccan, and raise the true Mahratta provinces, and perhaps a large section of the Bombay army. He was disap pointed by movements which form one of the most remarkable features of the struggle. The Govern ment of Bombay could find no troops to catch, or even seriously to threaten him with capture. But they could and did find a succession of moveable co lumns who presented them selvesat the shortest notice at every menaced point. From the moment he quitted Gwalior to the moment he surrendered at Sono* Tantia Topee found but one great place at once rich in munitions and undefended. These columns, which moved at first as slowly as British columns are accustomed to move, learnt to march at last, and some of the later marches of Brigadier Parke and Colonel Napier were equal to half of Tantia's average rate. Still he escaped, and through the hot weather, and the rains, and the cold weather, and the hot weather again he was still flying, sometimes with 2,000 " dispirited" followers, and sometimes with 15,000 men. His last experithent was to penetrate into Bikaneer, but it failed, and he was compelled to double back on Bundelcund, where all hope of further retreat seems to have left him. He took, as Koer Singh did, to the jungle, and was caught. i We question if he will object to die. Twenty months such as he had led since May, 185 k, must be worth in their mad excitement the remains of life. There must be many Asiatics like him in India, to whom life is intolerable unless it consists of long intervals of rest broken by flashes of adventure. It is not a pleasant reflection that by the necessity of , THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1859 our position the only career we can leave open to such men is insurrection. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKET, FROM THE 11Th-TO TUE 25TH OF AFRIL. The Salsette, 'with the English mails of the 18th March on board, arrived here early on the morning of the 11th inst. We have received advices up to the 26th of March, by electric telegraph, from Chile. The China mails of the 31st of March reached us on the 20th inst. per steamer Singapore. The money market remains easy. ' IMPORTS. Cotton Piece Goods—The business transacted in the im port market has been to a fair extent, though there is no appearance of much activity. Gray shirtings 40-45 inches and 50.54 inches are firm in demand and prices. Gray madapollams are steady, and gray T cloths have advanced, and are in great demand. Bleached and Fancy Goods.—Bleached shirtings, bleached jacconets, dimity, and satin spots are steady; bleached mulls unchanged in ,inquiry and prices. Turkey red has declined considerably. Yarns.—These have not been in active inquiry, and prices in some instances have gone down. Metals.—Copper bas been in good inquiry, and prices look up. In iron little change, Other descriptions are in fair request. EXPORTS. Cotton.—The market has been very active, and large purchases have been made. Prices remained fluctuating during the fortnight. Tonnage.—The rates, after a considerable decline, have remained firm nearly as before. We quote £1 12s. to £1 15s. per ton to London and Liverpool. Exchange.—We quote Credits at 2s. 1 5-16 d., and Docu ments at 2s. lid. to 2s. 12d., at six months' sight. On Calcutta, 97r. , and on China, 214 r. per 100 dollars, at 60 days' sight. • MANNING TRE NAVY. Just now every Briton must ardently desire to have our Navy thoroughly efficient, and must be well aware that it can only be made so by the hearty co•operation of our seamen. They are the life and soul of our ships,, and they hurl "the thunder" which strikes down the enemies of England, and preserves her in safety, by securing her the do minion of the sea. Every man must now accord ingly be pleased with the well-meant efforts of Ministers to revive and strengthen the attachment of the seamen to the naval service. They are very properly also taking measures toinform the seamen of the advantages they are sure to find from serv ing the State ; and the contrast now exhibited of a captain of her Majesty's Navy gathering the hardy seamen of the North around him, and publicly explaining to them that wages are higher in the Queen's service, the treatment while afloat better, the labour lighter, the danger less, and the provision for old age and decrepitude superior to those of the merchant service ; with such an officer, in former times, arming a pressgang, and sending it ashore at dead of night to carry off these seamen and force them to serve on scanty wages and hard fare, is as great, as it is instructive. Captain Pim, at two meetings which he has already held at Newcastle and South Shields, was extremely careful to show the seamen that those who serve her Majesty are now well paid, that the provisions supplied to them are abundant, the slops cheap and good, the pensions large, and discipline mild. explained that the seamen are no longer exposed w formerly to be arbitrarily and indis criminatel3 lve•ed—that " the use of the cat" is con fined to" lazy .sxulking characters," that every officer is not allowed to punish men at his pleasure as for merly, and that even the captain is now compelled to institute en inquiry, and allow a certain number of hours to elapse after passing sentence before he inflicts punishment. Captain Pim could find a foil for the Navy in the case of the man recently tied up on board a steamer and burnt to death, and told the seamen that no such cruelties were perpetrated in her Majesty's ships. His appeals to the reason of the seamen, contrasted with the violence fbrmerly employed to seize them and the florid declamation used to delude them, are infallible signs that the heads of the naval service have at length arrived at the conclusion that seamen are rational beings whose services to any amount are to be obtained, like those of all other men, by fair treatment and just rewards. _ The pains now taken by the naval authorities to inform the seamen that discipline in the Navy is no longer the arbitrary, cruel and terrific rule which prevailed to the close of the great French war, when for the first time a trifling restriction was laid on the power, previously unlimited, of inflicting any and every kind of punishment, is in, fact a public recog nition of the injuriousness of the old system. It is an ample justification of those benevolent indivi duals who continually endeavoured, with only slight success, to abate the old cruel ties, and of those right minded officers who denounced the system and preferred the sacrifice of their professional hopes to keeping silence on its enormities. But if it be necessary and advantageous to get rid of some of them, why leave any in existence ? The use of the cat is an old barbarity—a pa - t of the system which Captain Pim and the Admiralty take credit for having amended. At the South Shields meeting, Mr. Charles Liddel, a seaman, said the Government " had not treated the British sailor in a proper manner. He referred to the use of the lash as an objection to seamen joining the navy." Mr. John Fish, a veteran, claimed for the seamen the same privileges as are awarded to the officers. Now the officers are in no manner subjected to any such degrading punishment, and the captains are no longer allowed, as they once were, to the young gentlemen to a gun and flog them: To prohibit flogging for them is to condemn its use ' • for if it be horrifying to flog young gentlemen, why should grown-up men be flogged ? The use of the lash on board ship is a remnant of the old system of which impressment was a part, and to continue it is wholly incompatible with the appeal now made to the reason, the feelings, and the interest of the seamen. The merchant shipowner may possibly complain of an increase of bounty and wages, which he must equal to retain the services of the seamen, but he would make no objection to an amelioration of the system which would remove the chief impediment to well-bred youths going to sea, and increasing by hundreds and thousands the number of seamen ready to serve either the Government or the mer chant, Both - must be served. Defence and trade are equally necessary to the national welfare ; and Government still takes a very narrow view of its duties, where it prefers entering into a pecuniary competition with the merchant for the services of a very limited number of seamen, to providing by rational treatment for such an increase in thein as shall supply both. The ma l es i n G rea t B r it a i n , a t , the soldier's age of 20 to 40, amounted in 1851 to 3,193,496, according to the census Commissioners, and of them, without including youths between 20 and 14, many of whom are available, and indispen sable to service on board ship, surely one-tenth, or 300,000, could, without difficulty, be obtained for both services. Never yet have the two together needed or had so many. When we consider the vast number of our people qualified by age for seamen, and the number required for both services, we at once conclude that only an obstinate and blind adhesion to some antiquated barbarities, such as the use of the cat, prevents our spirited male population from crowding to our ships, and at all times supplying as great a number of hands as the two services can possibly require and adequately pay. Now that the Government is sensible of the pub lic advantage of ameliorating the old system, why does it not carry the principles it professes to admire fairly out ? Why should it still retain any of the old barbarities which have helped to degrade the merchant service as well as the Royal Navy, and continually terrify many of our youth from a sea' life ? It makes a maritime life unpopular, and wastes the public money in a competition with merchant shipowners to counteract the effects of its own adhesion to unlegalised errors. Had it com menced soon after the peace in 1815, as was then recommended, to cleanse the Naval Service fromall those old usages which make it hateful to our youth, and had Government employed ail the funds appropriated to the Naval Service to rear and nourish only seamen, not soldiers, in our ships, setting a good example by its humanity and justice to the merchant shipowners and forcing them to treat their servants with more-kindness and equity, there can be no doubt that now more than 300,000 seamen of a superior character could be readily found for both services. Had the Go vernment, when administered by the "Whigs, fol lowed, their liberal teaching, the State would not now be disgraced by a puffing competition with trade to obtain custom froth the seamen. Unfortu nately the advocates of old practices look merely at discipline, though it be in the main only a bundle of petty and mischievous restraints, and entirely overlook the larger social and national interests to which these practices are fatally adverse. What the Government has done and'is doing is mostly in the right direction; but it does not go fast enough, and far enough. As it has begun to consult the feelings of the seamen and the maritime population, it has no alternative but to do what they justly require. They demand more limited service, and pensions and rewards in propor tion to their rank, similar to those of the officers. They emphatically demand " better treatment," a fair day's pay for a fair day's work," wages at the market rate, with as much freedom as is compatible with efficiency. They must be consulted, not the old arbitrary principles of the Plantagenets and the Tudors followed. The use of steam in naviga tion has introduced new classes of men and different moral treatment into the navy. Engineers, like other artisans, must be fairly treated, and their services fairly paid for. A different rule cannot now be followed for the seamen. Yet a lingering dread still remains, should " war break out," that they will again be impressed, and Capt. Pim could only try to assure them by expressing a hope that there would be no occasion to resort to such a means of manning the navy. To entertain such a notion is to be lukewarm in favour of the measures which must yet be taken to make the navy agreeable to the sea men. The Admiralty should for ever discard it, and should join the seamen in reprobating the injustice of which, as they are now keenly sensible, they have so long been the victims. If it thus demonstrate its readiness to rely exclusively on voluntary service, it may be sure, in the present disposition of the people, ready to form Volunteer Rifle Corps in every town and county, that the maritime population will flock to the Royal Navy. They will then have in the Government, which has hitherto been their enemy and their oppressor, a friend and a protector, and they will joyfully rally roun d it s s t an d a rd.—:Daily News. TILL IRON STEAM FRIGATES- OR RAMS. It is now decided that the Thames Iron Company is to build the first of the huge iron-coated steam frigates or rams for the Royal Navy. The .design selected by the Lords of the admiralty was prepared by the Surveyor of the Navy at the beginning of the present year, before the competing designs lately submitted to them were sent in. It is due, however, to Mr. Scott Russell to say that he had previously placed a design in the hands of the Admiralty; but with the details of this we are not at present acquainted. We have on former occasions spoken of the marked ability with which the construction department of the Surveyor of the Navy's office is conducted. One or two facts connected with the design for the singular ship now about to be built may be cited in confirmation of this view. • No less than 15 designs were submitted to the Admiralty by Messrs. Laird, Mare, Napier, Palmer, Scott Russell, Samuda, Thames Iron Company, Westwood and Baillie, and the Master Shipwrights of her Majesty's dockyards. The only conditions stipulated for were that the ship should carry 36 guns, with certain men and provisions for four months, should travel at , 14 knots per hour, and should be covered over a certain portion of its length with 44- in. iron, backed by two feet of solid ti m b er . All other elements, such as dimensions, horse-power, &c., were left entirely to the discretion of the designers. And strangely indeed did these gentle men differ from each other in their idea of what these undetermined elements were required to be ! We are not at liberty to publish an analytical statement of the elements of the whole ; but we may mention some of the extremes between which certain measurements of the several designs ranged. While the length, for example, of the least was 340 feet, the length of the greatest was no less than 430 feet. The breadths varied between 52 feet and 60 feet ; the draughts of water between 21 feet 9 in. and 26 feet 6 in. ; the horse power between 1,000 and 1,800 ; and the tons burthen between 4,887 and 7,544! In order to afford to the ship builder some clue as to the kind of structures proposed, we may also add that the proportions of the weight of hull per ton (exclusive of armour plates) to the burthen in tons, ranged between -48 and .86. Ncrw, the curious fact to be noted, and one which speaks so strongly in favour of the Ad miralty contractors, is this—that their design, which was prepared, as we have said, before the others, turns out to be, in all her principal elements, as nearly as possible, a mean of the other designs. That is to say, if the average length of all the other designs be taken you get her length, which is 380 feet ; if their average be taken you get her breadth, which is 58 feet ; if their average displacement be taken you get her displacement ; if their average horse power be taken you get her horse power, which is 1,250. The average quantities obtained are not, of course, exactly her's in any case ; but they are so nearly her's as to fully justify the view{ of the facts here presented. These facts, it will be admitted, although they demonstrate nothing, serve nevertheless to indicate both the skill and the care exercised in the con struction of our ships of war. It should be remem bered, moreover, that the design in question was for a ship of an altogether novel character ; on this account the department deserves the greater commendation, It would be well, indeed, for the country if in all our public departments the ability of the servants of the Crown was found to bear so severe a comparison with the privale talent of the country with so much honour to itself. — Mechanics' Magazine. LAW INTELLIGENCE—May 19. FULL COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMO NIAL CAUSES, Cases to be heard before the full Court for Divorce . and Matrimonial Causes. The Court will sit at Westminister to-day and on the 21st, 23d, 24th, and 25th days of May, 1859 :—Levermore v. Levermore and Lewis (respondent dead)—Astrope v. Astrope (for further hearing)—Ratcliff v. Ratcliff and Anderson—Mawdsley Mawdsley (post poned by consent)—Hawkyard v. Hawkyard and Foster— Peckover v. Peckover and Jolly—Dixon v. Dixon—Joseph v. Joseph and Wenzel (respondent dead)—Braham v. Bra ham and Miller—Oliver v. ' Oliver—Tim-st v. Hurst and Parker—Brunell v. Brunell—Hall v. Hall and Webb— Laws v. Laws—Popplewell v. Popplewell—Smith v. Smith ► and Vickers—Hearne v. Hearne—Jones v. Jones—Turner v. Turner and Gill—Withers v. Withers and Furley— Pulley v. Pulley and Samuel—Spencer v. Spencer and Vick—Dyson v. Dyson—Hooke v. Hooke—Bengough v. Bengough and Kelly—King v. King and Brown—Braines v. Braines and Wood—Hamer v. Hamer and Carter—Gwyn v. Gwyn—Stead v. Stead—Walker v. Walker and Water son—Brittain v. Brittain and Camp (for further hearing)— Cunnington v. Cunnington and Noble—Tolfrey v. Tolfrey and Krause—Bevan v. Bevan—Rylance v. Rylance—Hor ton v. Horton—Yearsley v. Yearsley—Bennettv. Bennett— Wal ton v.Walton and Hibell—Palmer v.Palmer- -Howard v. Howard—Hunter v. Hunter—Wilks v. Wilys—Lutwyche v. Lutwyche and Cox—Evans v. Evans (for further hear ing)—Mure v. Mure and Chichester----Hall v. Hall and Walker—Potts v. Potts—Cramp (falsely called Cremer) v. Crerner—Gibson v. Gibson—Tomkin v. Tomkin and Drege —Seaby v. Seaby and Baverstock—Goggs v. Goggs— Devereux v. Devereux (for further hearing)—Groves v. Groves and Thompson (for further hearing)—Davies v. Davies (for further hearing)—Dax v. Dax—Hunter v. Hunter and Vernon—Stoakes v. Stoakes and B ough-- Sadler v. Sadler and Kell—D'Oyly v. D'Oyly and Baldie (for further hearing)—Croker v. Croker and Mavius— Leigh v. Leigh—Stanmore v. Stanmore and Waterhouse— Palmer v. Palmer—Styrin v. Styrin and Hiley—Nelson Nelson and Grantham—Holmes v. Holmes—Hawker v. Hawker and Seale—Cook v. Cook and Quayle—Kretzsch mar v. Kretzschmar and Rinecker (for further hearing)— Harris v. Harris and Meadus—Dyer v. Dyer—Hancock v. Hancock and Bell—Sheward v. Sheward and Ward —Du Terreaur v. Du Terreaux —Pellew v. Fellow' and Berkeley—Shore v. Shore—Huggett v. Huggett —Egg v. Egg and Cooper—Russell v Russell—Chan dler v. Chandler—Tollemache v. Tollemache (jury) — Cousins v. Cousins—Hall (falsely called Castleden) v. Castleden—Curwood v. Curwood and Catterrnole—Wales v. Wales and West—Allen v. Allen and Shirley and Rutter —Charter v. Charter and Berwick —Tongue v. Tongne— Polkinghorn v. Polkinghorn and Wadge--M'Kechme v. M'Kec'huie and Menzies—Haswell v. Haswell and Sander son—Millson v. Millson—Boyd v. Boyd and Collin— Phillips v. Phillips and Norman—Marsden v. Marsden— Lawrance v. Lawrance—Manton v. Manton—Field v. Field —Leach v. Leach—Wrightson v. Wrightson and Whitby —Howe v. Howe and Fry (jury)—Alexander v. Alexander and Amos—Brown v. Brown and Wild—Baldwin v. Bald win and Kelly—Hervey v. Hervey and the Right Hon. Lord Ribblesdale (jury)—Worner v. Werner and Mayo (jury)—Rogers v. Rogers and Paul (jury)—Macdonald v. Macdonald—Soden v. Soden and Schmidt—Rowley v. Row ley—Vaughan v. Vaughan and Gillyeat—Weatherhead v. Weatherhead—Hughes v. Hughes—Griffiths v. Griffiths —Thomas v. Thomas—Wilton v. Wilton and Chamberlain —Evans v. Evans—Scantlebury v. Scantlebury and Cross —Cook v. Cook and Lucy—Pensom v. Pensom and Clark, otherwise Cross—Goffrie v. Goffrie and Moore—Pritchard v. Pritchard—Coles v. Coles—Matthews v. Matthews —Neale v. Neale and Holland—Biller v. Biller and Green (jury)— Winter v. Winter and Norrnanville—Smith v. Smith— Yalden v. Yalden and Freeman—Evans v. Evans and Edwards and Watkins—Faulkner v. Faulkner and Moore— Parker v. Parker and M'Leoyd (jury)—Midgley (falsely called Wood) v. Wood—Lloyd v. Lloyd and Chichester— Rowe v. Rowe and Marsh—Page v. Page and- Barnes— Baconv. Moon and Bacon (jury)—Baggott v. Baggott and Thompson (jury)—Bannister v. Bannister and Davis— Stainthorp v. Staintherp—Fuller v. Fuller and Dyer— Gapp v. Gapp—Crommelin v. Crommelin—Buckingham v. Buckingham—Allen v. Allen and D'Arcy (jury)—Daniels v. Daniels—Nash v. Nash and Jones (jury)—Boynton v. Boynton (jury)—Pearraan. v. Pearman and Burgess (jury) —Cock v. Cock and Hatfield—Lupton v. Lupton—Jones v. Jones—Simonin (falsely called Malac) v. Malac—Dennis v. Dennis and J ohnson—Wilt on v. Wilton—Bill v. Bill and Shepherd—Davis v. Davis—Wells v. Wells and Rushby—Coulson v. Coulson and Barnsdale—Bell v. Bell and the Most Hon. the Marquis of Anglesey. The above causes, except those which are marked for trial on specified days, will be called on in their turn. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —May 19. HAMMERSMITH.—SINGULAR APPLICATION FOR THE DISCHARGE OF A PROTECTION ORDER.— A ROMANTIC STORY.—Mr. .Martin, the solicitor, attended before Mr. Dayman, pursuant to arrange., meut, for the purpose of producing evidence for the discharge of a protection order, granted a t time ago to a female named Mary Richards, wh o declared upon oath that her husband had deserted her. Mr. Butler appeared in support of the order, and the .proceedings seemed to excite considerable interest. The wife had represented that she was living in, the Moscow-road, Bayswater, and was married to John Richards on the 4 th July, 18 31, but the mar riage was never consummated. After the ceremo n y was performed her husband lefther, under the pretence of preparing a home fo r her recepti on , b u t she never' saw him again until 183 07, and then only for a short time, when he wanted to.obtai n h er pro perty. He then left her, and she never saw or heard of him again until a few weeks ago, Om she believed he h4d retlicned order Australia, She then itsked for his worship's to proteot her earn- ~;:~: ings and property since he had deserted her, and one was immediately granted. Mr. Dayman inquired if the wife was present. Mr. Butler said she was not, as she was too ill to attend. Mr. Martin said he should call evidence to show that the wife had deserted her husband, and not that he had deserted her. In that case his worship would discharge the order, as the act specified that the husband must desert the wife for protection to be granted. John Richards, a respectably-attired elderly man, was then sworn, and deposed that he now resided in Lisson-grove, and was out of business. On the 4th of July, 1831, he was married to Miss Mary Brown, who was the daughter of his mother's exe cutor. He was on good terms with the father, and they were marriedwithout his knowledge, although the mother knew of it. He spent the day with his wife, and they arranged that she should live with her father until the differences were made up. He and his brother carried on the business of a grocer in Upper Baker-street, and on the day of his mar riage he returned home, and his wife went to her home. They were to carry on the business until his youngest brother was of age, and then the property was to be divided. His wife came to see him several , times ,in Upper Baker-street, and that continued for 18 months or two years. The marriage was consummated, and they were on happy terms with each other. At the end of that time, the visits of his wife ceased, and upon making inquiries he found that she had gone into the coun try with her mother, but he was unable to find out the whereabouts. In 1837, her father died, and he again made inquiries, and discovered that they were living in Northamptonshire. He went down and saw his wife, and afterwards returned to London. His wife came up about a month afterwards, and he executed a deed, whereby the property of her father, who died intestate, was conveyed to her own use. They saw each other repeatedly while the deed was being executed, and after it was signed they lived with each other as man and wife, in Hans-place, Chelsea, for more than a month. In consequence of the importunities of the mother that her daughter should live with her they removed to Marshall-street, London-road, where they lived together for several weeks. From there they went to Camden-town, and lived together for about three weeks. At the end of that time his wife was in duced to go into the country and live with her mother, as she was ill. He visited his wife in the country, and in October, 1840, she came to London, and lived with her mother in St. Petersburg-place, Bayswater. At that time his wife can& to him, and said her mother was dissatisfied with the deed he had executed, and wished him to execute another. The property consisted of two houses in St. Peters burg-place, and she wished one to be conveyed to hpr and one to his wife. He consented to execute the second deed, and it was also arranged that he should live with his wife and her mother in one house and that they should let the other. On the 20th of October he went with his wife to the solicitor's, where they met the mother, and the deed was accordingly executed. Both ladies then said they wanted to go out shopping, and told him to meet them in the evening at St. Peters burg-place. He went accordingly, and asked for his wife, but was told by a woman that she had gone out, and perhaps he would never see her again. He made inquiries of the trustee to the deed, living in the Moscow-road, and he told him he knew nothing about her. He made long and anxious inquiries after his wife, but he never could succeed in obtaining any information of her. In 1852 he sailed to Melbourne, and he returned to this country on the 12th of April last. He then heard that his wife had married a man named Smith, and was living somewhere in Lancashire. He called at the house of the trustee, but he told him he knew nothing about her. The next thing he heard was reading in the newspapers that his wife had obtained a protection order, and was living in the Moscow-road, which was at the house of the trustee. Mr. Butler contended that the husband had committed an act of desertion by contracting, a second marriage. The husband denied that he ever contracted a scond marriage. Mr. Butler said he was able to prove that he con tracted a second marriage within sixteen months of the first, and that it came to the knowledge of his wife in 1840, 'who refused to live with her hus band after that time. Mr. Martin said, if they went into that question he should proue a second marriage of the wife, and he believed that the second husband was then in court. Mr. Dayman said he could not take a second marriage as an act of desertion, that would be a question for a divorce, It was a very curious affair altogether, and he could not understand the execu tion of the second deed. There was :a complete mystery between 1840 to 1859, but sufficient had been shown that before that time the wife had withdrawn herself from the society of her hus band. He therefore should grant the application. and give an order of discharge. WORSHIP-STREET.- SERIOUS CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—A person of gentlemanly exterior and address, describing himself as a " lawyer," at Hare court, Temple, and giving the manifestly fictitious name of John Brown, was charged before Mr. Hammill, with violently• assaulting Henry Sole, and Harriet Holland, a married woman. Inspector Webster, N division, put in a certifi cate from Dr. Coward, the divisional surgeon, stating that Harriet Holland was suffering from a severe wound on the head, and her husband pro duced one of a later date, from Mr. Wright, of Clayton-square, desc r ibi ng the injury as " danger ous,' and the sufferer unable to leave her bed. The following evidence was taken:— Henry Sole said--I am a labourer, and shortly after 12 o'clock last night was returning home along the Hackney-road, having, in company with my wife and others, just previously left the Horns Tavern, opposite Shoreditch Church, when we met the defendant and' two more gentlemen, arm-in arm. My brother and sister were in advance of us, and I noticed the gentlemen push against them intentionally, and so forcibly that they were forced nearly into the road. The next person they offended was a young man of our party,walking alone; and as in turn they met myself and wife, they forced up against her in a similar manner, thereby caus ingher to stumble and nearly drop the baby from her arms. Defendant was nearest to her, and I asked—What did you do that f or ? I nstahtly he struck me with a cricket-bat he carried in a green baize bag, upon the mouth, causing it to bleed profusely. I fell, and was stunned for a brief time. have an indistinct recollection of grappling some man as I lay. and afterwards charged that man with the assault, but almost instantly perceived my error, and identified the de fendant as my assailant. He was then flourishing the bat about, and struck my sister down like a bullock. The police arrived, and at the station de fendant said ho bad had a lesson from " Harry oprme," and could " pot" a lot of such as us. Mr. Hammill—Can you swear to defendant as being the person who struck you ? Complainant —I can. There was a lamp near us. I think that he was a little in liquor. William Holland, husband of the injured woman, stated that he was a " dancer," and had just left an "engagement," when this outrage wus com mitted. He described the annoyance and assaults in' nearly similar terms, adding, " My wife begged me to go to the assistance of her brother, and as I hastened up I distinctly perceived defendant knock him down with his bat. I tried to seize it, but he made a blow at Mrs. Sole, which missed her and fell on the shutters of a shop. My own wife at that moment came up, and he struck her with the bat across the face. She fell senseless. Defendant ran away. I called" Police," and he was brought back, I think almost immediately, with the bat still in his hand. 'Mr. Hammill—Were the blows apparently dealt at the females, or were they struck by defendant flourishing the bat about indiscriminately? Witness—Certainly they were not accidental, but clearly intended for them. James - Bray, another witness, having also cor roborated the assaults, Hopper, 358 N, spoke to hearing the disturbance and receivinc , charge o f d e f endant. The woman spoken of as being unable to attend, he said, was first taken to R o b ert -street Station' in a cab, and subsequently- removed to her residence. De fendant told him he had been knocked down, and defended himself with the bat. Under the ap prehension of being rearly murdered, he was Obliged to strike for his life, but he did not say with what. The witness Holland Were mentioned to the ma gistrate that he had, while at the court, received information of his wif3 being much worse than when he left her that morning. She was unable to swalk anything. Mr. Hammill expresses his regret, and advised the husband to hasten hem°. The defendant, who hal cross-examined the wit nesses with considerable ecumen, in order to show that he had acted only oa the defensive, assured the - magistrate that the Mow on the woman was quite unintentional, - and he deeply regretted the injury so inflicted. Mr. Hammill having notified his intention to send the case for trial, no witnesses were called for the defence, altholgh it was understood th ey were without' the court, and subsequently T. Beard made a strenuous appeal for the defendant, to be admitted to bail, which could be offered to any amount, and observed that by the express desire of Mr. awn, Dr. Wordsworth had visited the injured woman, and returned a certifi cate of her not being in immediate danger. Mr. Hammill, however, positively refused to ac cede to the request, at this stage of the case, how ever he might feel disposed on the next hearing, and the prisoner stands remanded for any further evidence that can be adduced. COUNTRY ArA RKB T 5, BIRMINGHAM-MAT 19. The show of wheat was very large, and the demand small, at about is per qr. higher than the preceding week , but 2s under the value of Monday. There was not much barley on offer, and little business passing. Oats in limited supply. Beans were scarce, and made late prices. White peas held for is to 2s higher. MANCHESTER— MAY 19. This morning we had a good attendance of millers and dealers at our corn exchange. Holders of wheat and flour commenced by asking an advance of fully 2s per qr and sack, but there was no disposition to operate, and in the little business transacted late currencies could not be ex ceeded. Oats and oatmeal rather lower. Beans and Indian corn went firm. BOSTON-MAY 18. The supply was rather good, and English wheat met fair sale at an advance of 58 to 6s per qr. upon the rates of this day se'nnight. There was little disposition shown to buy all descriptions of spring corn, at late prices. Wheat, white 548 to 588 Beans, Mazagan.. --s to red I to 56s Middle & small 42s to 50s Barley 3os to 40s I White peas —s to - -- " 1 Oats 22s to 30s Grey.. 43s to 49e Averages for the week : Wheat 2,559 qrs., at 50a 9d Oats 350 „ Rye — /I —s Od. Barley — „ —s Od Beans BO „ 49s 3d Peas • • 9 If 42s Od LOUTH-MAY 18. - - The wheat' trade was inactive to-day, and the business done was at 3s to 4s per qr advance on the rates of las t week. Barley, beans, oats, and peas were at a slight ad vance on previous prices. Wheat .50s to —5 Oats.... 2ss to 2 80 White do .54s to —s Beans —s to rs Barley .35s to 38s Ditto, old ........44s to 480 , EDINBURGH GRAIN—MAT 18. Small supplies of grain to-day, and sales were heavy for wheat. Wheat on the top is Od up.. average 2s lld up• Barley on the top is 6d down. average Os 5d up• Oats on the top 2s Od down.... average Os 2d doWU• Beans on the top 3s Od down. .. average 2s 4d uP• Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat.... Barley 1,',16 1 0-12tb.s Oats 1 7 8 11-12ths Beans -12ths Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .1663 qrs Sold 900 qrs Barley... 402 qrs Sold 373 qrs Oats .2233 qrs • Sold 932 qrs Beans 165 qrs Sold 104 qrs GLASGOW—MAY 15. The supply of wheat limited and higher prices denlanain in the business transacted. O a t s a sma ll show. Barley slow request, and at a de c li ne o f l s . F o r beans and Peas we merely repeat previous quotations. CORK—MAY 18. ged The following were the quotations this morning • og wheat, 24s Od to 25s ; white, 27s Od to —s Od; burley to —s Od; oats, 14s 6d to 16s 3d. • DERBY SMITHFIELD—MAY 11. waS The supply of fat beasts to-day was limited.here rly a good attendance of buyers. and a clearance w,., as in d —e wi B l/ 1 effected at extreme rates. The pens ware well 1 3 -' - ' e sheep and the demand was flat, a considerable fluter n:iaining unsold. Lambs more numerous. rig s a 1) show. - Calves again very plentiful. 6d to 30 Beef 7d to 71d Veal ........... 6 er stone to 6d Mutton .. 6ld to 71d Pork .. ... . .... Lamb 9d to 91d Rough ... .. 6d p Hides, 3/d to 54d; calf skins, 51-d. to 6d. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—We extract a few out of the r(latii expressions of gratitude from invalids cured withoU rabic& medicine by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta A ford Food :—Cure No. 71, The Right Honourable the I S it , Stuart de Decies, of many years dyspepsia and bootie horrors. Cure No. 49,832, " Fifty years' agony, from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, ~i d stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomaelltir;t vomitting, have been removed by Du Barry's ell p e ,:' Food.—Maria Joly, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Nate . sr . Cure No. 47,121, Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing V :IC so, age, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nervouSles. indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan ear Cure No. 48,314, Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre; Liverpool, a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the indeser rors of nervous irritability. Cure 18,216, Dr. Atn.„, lire of constipation, dyspepsia, and nervous irritabilU: Cure No. 34,210, Dr. Shorland , of dropsy and fieb t . e . Cure No: 36,212, Captain Allen, of epileptic fits. C No. 42,116, Major Edie, of liver complaint and total pf"; stratiou of strength. Cure No. 36,418, Rev. Dr. *ir ts A ls; of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. No. Dr. Harvey, of diarrhoea and debility. t'`"- ~,C. .„ 1 11: No. 39,628, Dr. Wurtzer of con sum pti o n. Cur 22,880, William Hunt, Esq , barrister, of p ar— l s b In tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 128.; 268. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of pes_ . office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Londo_l!, Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxfoar.a__ street ; .330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishora: Piccadilly; Abbis, street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at uC Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Manchester, Sharl 3 Scott ; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and C o. ; at Sol"- ampton, Randall and Son „ • no [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey ' s Food for Cattle i s rnw beginning to seriously attract the attention of the fa . t • breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unretuTieli care and attention have enabled its inventor to take ,t.,71. ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstorled ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts h; te j, against it and its probable utility, the food, from its ado , „ 4 . value, will become a necessity to the agricultural intere:4B Experience has proved, first, that it effects a consident saving in the consumption of p rovender ; secondl y , dot ite produces health and v i g our in all animals sub j ected t° influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degte° l ,o early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating ` n A . s i ng ularly efficacious food, aimed at a comp oun d calculs'; to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and exen t s hi ' mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. 111 ,„70 he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very 13- , a 7,0 desire to improve upon the invention, so as to ntake t," „"-; unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, plicable to every description of domestic animal. The lash farmer was slow to encourage its use and manifested unwillingness in the produce of his farm, fancying he ir s to s- fee a ample materials where ent and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate tha by the en 3 l 3l o ° Y ra mso addition to the natural produce of the farm ; or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this W i , - ;, a p been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as c `^ - all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely subtal_ ii t r ; to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the t Usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, bee:to apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair aPPli c of Thorley' s Compoun.ded Food. It is believed that the pre 0 , inasmuch as , unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its yerY f e s ral use, in preference to any other of the usual food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wite,atlly nourishing and proper food for the working horse,cer:,jeo it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, °, ° „;itli possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the l',`" p ie and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a et and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their food, materially assists their digestive powers—a inattertu°, great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact tha t e nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, coaso quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestfiai organs ; it will also be found to be particularly hell a tvo in restoring to good working condition horses which ~ a re been over-worked, or become weak from disease 0 ; a re naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects the artic e.s undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doublin4 e hes yield of milk and butte r , w hil s t i t at the same time cur i till the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities nicest more remarkable, displ a yi ng i n a few wee k s its Yoa - - superiority over every other, kind of compound Su c hlo o tle Royalty, factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. yis• been its marked success, that at all our great catao The patrona noblemen, and other who have fed their era! on Thorley's Food, have invariably carrid off the Pr ne c i l e i a, ge of Royalty, of our pm' prizes, whilst cards of commendation have bee n a war tbe ve * eler m ust Pr ° 0 ,1 gy ! and of our leading a iculturists course; incitement t thi gl vi o s gentleman to pursue . so and he may confidently rely, in producing nf each highly favoured a compound, on a continuatinn 9 high and distinguished patronage. cipal nobility, BIRTHS. BENTINCK.—On the 18th inst., at 48, Charles keley-square, Mrs. George Cavendish Bentinek, preen turely, of a daughter, stillborn, L a dy HERVEY.—On the 19th inst.,at 47, the Hervey, of a son. ~.,,,do MARE.s.---On the 19th lust ;at 44, Bedford-square) u''• of Jacob Marks, Esq., ofa daughter. the Wife TODD.— On the 19th inst., at 51, Wimpole-stree t ) of John Todd, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES ~,a , r ze ' 9, LINDSAY—MUNDY.—On the 18th inst., at St , t7e --- n otl Hanover-square, the Rev. Wm. J C Lindsay, L ady 6 J. C. dthe son of George Hayward Lindsay, Esq., an m ily, Charles - stre et ' ' Mary Lindsay, of Glaslaevin, Dublin, to Rosaanond B dy, the eldest daughter o f th e l a t e F re d er ick Clinton gu t ' • Esq. La v prene e ' PANTIN—HARRIS.—On the 18th inst , at St. ...a- „his, to Soy of Reading, Charles Pantin, Eq ., of Blackheath , Anne, youngest daughter of William Harris, Bs c i'' Reading. .... __ DEATHS. ATKINSON.—On the 17th inst , Christopher ChaPreau . • Atkinson, of 48, Canonbury-p ar k south, a ged 46. vus .. BAIRD.—On the 18th inst., a t 45, S ou thampton - N W, sell-square, John Baird, Esq., M.D. hara DAVIES.—On the 14th in s t at Brecon, the Yen. ed Davies, M.A., Archdeacon and Vicar o f 'Brecon , ag 82. tcentt GROSVENOR.—On the 17th inst., Sittingbourney George Grosvenor, Esq., aged 68. Pnocron.—On the 13th inst , suddenly, Henryt Aberhaf.,sl; Hall, Montgomeryshire, Lieut.-General H Adolph Proctor, C. 8., aged 74. SMITII.—On the 18th inst , at Compton Basse tt, Matildsf widow of th e l a t e Thos.. inst. Smith, Esq. vfil i in TRAFFORD.—On the 18th inst., at Oughtrin ton the county of Chester, Trafford Trafford, Esq., a g' - de , - IVATERMAN.—On the 7th March, at Marion , near of laido, South Australia, Mr. James Waterman, la te Threadneedle-street. ... ro LONDON : Printed and Published by KURD() yovr4li of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office,NC• I'o Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county Aliddleaex, Friday, May 20, 1859. I