The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

NA.R.RIAGES IN ENGLAND AND WALES. The twentieth annual Report of the Registrar- General has just been issued, being dated the 3d of May, 1859. It commences by stating that 1,401,080 names were inscribed that 318 national registers during the year 1857 ; that 318,194 persons married in that year ; that 663,071 children were born ; and that 419,815 person of all ages died. All the births are not registered, owing to a defect in the Act of Parliament. The excess of births over deaths was 243,256, rather less than in 1856. The estimated population (England) in the middle of the year was 19,304,897. The marriage rate is, it appears, ob tained by comparing the number of persons mar -ied in a year with the number of persons living, and thence deducing the proportions. Thus, in the year, to every 100,000 persons living, 1,648 mar ned. The births were at the rate of 3,435, the deaths at the rate of 2,175, to every 100,000 living. The average rates per cent. per annum during the 20 years were as follows :-The marriage rate 1.634, the birth rate 3.293, the death rate 2.232. The three rates during the last year were 1.648, 8.435, and 2 . 175. The marriage rate and birth rate were above, the death rate was below the average. These rates may be stated in another way : on an average of 20 years 1 in 61 of the people married annually, 1 in 45 died annually, and 1 child was born alive annually to every 30 persons living. During the last year these proportions became 1 in 61, 1 in 46, and 1 in 29. After this general introduction the report gives the following interesting details on the subject of marriages :- 131,031 marriages were celebrated according to the rites of the Established Church, and 28,066 otherwise. The proportions were nearly as 82 to 18. Upon comparing the results with the returns of the previous year, it appears that the marriages ac cording to the rites of the Established Church de creased to the extent of 2,588 ; while the marriages in the registered places and registration offices in creased from 25,718 to 28,066, or 2,348, being 9 per cent. in excess of the former number. The marriages (7,360) in the Roman Catholic places of worship are less by 167 than the numbers in the previous year; the marriages in the regis tered places of other denominations increased by 976, or 10 per cent., and amounted to 10,686; the marriages in the superintendents' offices rose from 8,097 to 9,642, so the increase was 1,545, or 19 per cent. on the numbers in the previous year. 67 marriages were contracted by members of the Society of Friends, and 311 by Jews ; the former less by 5, the latter less by 1, than the numbers in the previous year. The accession of numbers to the class of persons /pito married not according to the rites of the Esta blished Church does not imply any change of creed in any considerable part of the population. It was rather the result of the extension of the principle of toleration by an act (19 and 20 Vie., cap 119), which came into operation on the first ay of the year 1857. Notices of marriages had formerly to be read before the Boards of Poor-law Guardians, and the grant of licenses by the superintendent registrar was clogged with difficulties. Both these grievances have been swept away by the act of Parliament. No one has now any just ground of complaint ; and the 131,031 marriages in the national church were performed by no unwilling conformists to her rites. Of the church marriages 9 were by special license, 21,250 by license, 102,062 by banns, and 3,748 by superintendent registrar's certificate ; in 3,962 in stances the mode was notspecified. In 100 of these marriages 16.7 were by license, 80.3 by banns, and 3.0 by certificate. The proportions differed slightly from those in the previous year, the marriages by license being in rather larger proportions. The marriages have been found to vary with the prosperity of the country. When young people are in unusually good circumstances, they marry in un usual numbers, and conversely. The prices of a commodity, like wheat, of universal consumption, also vary, and affect the condition of different classes variously. Thus it has been shown in previous re ports, that as the price of wheat falls the propor tion of marriages by banns in churches increases. In seven years, when the price of wheat, ranging from 745. Ba. to 565. 5d., was 665. 3d. on an average, there were 4, 936 marriages by banns to 1,000 marriages by licence ; in the five years when wheat was 525. id., there -were 5,469 marriages by banns to 1,000 by license; and in the five years when wheat was 425. 9d., railging from 50s. ld. to 38s. 6d., there were 5,530 m,arriages by banns to 1,000 marriages by license. Tile numbers 4,936, 5,469, and 5,530 were in the inverse order of 665. 3d., 525. ld., and 425. 9d. The marriages of the middle and of the higher classes are apparently most numerous when the price of wheat is highest, while the reverse hap pens with respect to the m arriages of artizans and labourers. These classes marry in the greatest num ber when the price of wheat is near the general average. All violent fluctuatim:ts in prices are in jurious ; and the medium price, w hat ever it may be, is most favourable to, the happiness of the great bulk of the people. MARRIAGES OF MINORS.-8,885 men aid 28,798 women married under 21 years of age ; and of every 100 married 858 men, 1810 women, or 11 - 84 per sons of both sexes, were minors. The proportion of minors steadily increased from 8.72 in 1847 to 12.03 in the year 1856, and slightly declined in the year 1857. It will be seen at the next census whether the number of young persons out of whom the marriages took place increased in any unusual proportion. The increase of early marriages is chiefly in the mining and manufacturing counties. In London 2.74 of the men and 12.11 of the women who married were not of full age. There is an excess of adults in the metropolis at the marry ing ages over 21 ; and there are not apparently the same inducements to marry early as exist in the midland counties. The five counties in which the proportion of men marrying as minors was highest were Bedford, 11-75; Huntingdon, 10.83; Cambridge, 9.38; Buck ingham, 8.95 ; Northampton, 8.81. The five counties in which the proportion of women marrying as minors was highest were Staf ford, 26.85 ; Durham. 25.83 ; Bedford, 25.37 ; Hunt ingdon, 21.95; the West Riding of York, 24.67. In the South Midland counties the men and women marry in early life ; many minors every where appear to marry young girls. Rutland 1.81 in 100, Middlesex 2.07, Hereford 2.48, Westmoreland 2.96, Shropshire 3.02, are the counties in which the smallest proportion of men who marry are under age. North Wales 11.78, Dorset 12.56, Cumberland 12.71, Middlesex 12.76, Hereford 12.85 are the counties in which the smallest proportion of women marry under age. The ages at which 187,910 persons married are stated at pages 26-7 of the Report ; and it will be there observed that more than half the bachelors and spinsters who marry are 20 and under 25 years of age. The mean age at marriage was, bachelors, 25.9 years; spinsters, 24.7; widowers, 41.9 ; and widows, 38.8 ; men without distinction, 28.0 years ; women, 25.9 years. To the Registrar-General's Report is annexed a table, wherein the counties are arranged in the order of the marriages of minors, beginning with the county in which the marriages of minors were in greatest excess in 1841 ; and to which is added for comparison the proportional number of women married who signed the register with marks ; and the rates of mortality aviong children under five years of age. This table deserves to be carefully studied. It will be observed that great irregularities prevail, but that the general law evidently is, that in the counties where the women are the most ignorant they• marry m the largest proportions under 21 years and lose the largest numbers of their children. the relation is o hen the counties are thrown into groups perceptible. RE-mAn 21,872 widowers and 14,487 widows marril . c ( l ) .u w rin g the year ; and out of 100 men 14 were widows, 86 were bachelors; out of 100 women 9 were In Middlesex, out a London, ro spinsters. portion (15 . 86) of widowers 11 , the greatest pro portion ntnd, in Hertfordshire the smallest proportion, In Staffordshire the greatest proportiOn proportion, 1.57, of in Westmoreland the lowest widows marry. 13(9,317 bachelors married the sam e number of spinsters ; 6,908 bachelors married widows ; 14,293 widowers married spinsters ; and 7,579 w i dowers married widows. In 1851 the bachelors of the age of 20 and up wards amounted to 1,428,000, the spinsters to 1,445,000, the widowers to 334,000, and the widows to 662,000. And if marriage had taken place in differently between the several classes the mar riages betiveen bachelors and spinsters would have been less numerous than they actually were. The marria g es between bachelors and widows, widowers and spinsters, widowers and widows, were actually fewer than they would have been upon the above hypothesis. The respective ages, among other cir cumstances, have great influence upon this result. SIGNATURES OF PERSONS MxrnlED.-In signing the marriage registers 115,084 men wrote their names, 44,013 made their marks ; while 97,332 Ivonum wrote their names, and 61,765 made their =ado. I. Of the men 72, of the women 61, in 100 wrote. their names ; of the men 28, of the women 39, in 100 made their marks. This implies a great d'eflcien cy in the elementory education of the p t lople. But indications of improvement appeared i n 1847, kind as the persons married were educated sot ne year, s ago, it is evident that the education of the people. started onwards after the passing of the Ref, ?rm Bill, ; and has since then made consideroble progress. In 1846 sixty-seTen men, in 1857 seventy two men in 100 wrote their names ; the proportion of women writing rose, in the same period, from 52 to 61. The progress of the women has been greater than the progress of the men ; and in the following counties the women who write exceed the men in proportion :—Surrey (out of London), Sus sex, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Hunt ingdonshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Wilts, Here fordshire, and Rutlandshire. In other points of learning the women also probably excel the men. In Bedfordshire the women are very illiterate ; only 51 in 100 who marry write their names. In Cornwall only 55 in 100 write their names. In Staf fordshire the " blackness of darkness" hangs over the people ; less than half, or only . 45 in 100 women write their names. Cheshire is bad (50) ; but the women in Lancashire are unhappily kept in still thicker darkness, for 44 only in 100 write their names. In the West Riding of Yorkshire less than 50 in 100 women write their names. The Welsh will labour under some disadvantages until they all learn the English language in infancy; of the women in Monmouthshire only 44, in North Wales only 43, and in South Wales only 38 in 100 who married, wrote their names. In the northern counties the employments inter fered largely with the attendance at schools ; but we may hope that arrangements will be made, by the educated classes in the worst counties, to con fer the blessings of education upon their less en lightened neighbours. BUILDINGS REGISTERED FOR THE SOLEMNISA TION DF MARRIAGES.—The number of places of public wDrship registered for the solemnisation of marriages, a.nd on the register, on the 31st Decem ber, 1857, was ;3,925, being an increase of one hun dred and fourteen dining the year. 1,342 of these places of worship beicknged to the Independents, 882 to the Baptists, 697 to the various sects of Wes leyan Methodists, and 490 to the Roman Catholics. Of the modern sects, the New Church had 21, and the Catholic and Apostolic Church 16. In London there were 263 registered buildings, in Lancashire 430 (of which number the Roman Catholics had 112), and in Monmouthshire and Wales, where Dis senters are more numerous than in any other divi sion, 594. Including 12,272 churches and chapels belonging to the Church of England, the places of worship wherein marriages might be solemnised amounted at the end of 1857 to 16,197, besides the Jewish synagogues and Quakers' meeting .houses. There were, in addition, 629 Superintendent Regis trars' Offices for the celebration of civil marriages. THE NA Tl'. Thd birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort was observed in the usual manner at the port and garrison of Chatham yesterday. The Wellesley, 72, Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8., guard ship of ordinary, " dressed" at sunrise, and the other vessels of war in harbour were decorated with their colours. At 12 o'clock a Royal salute was fired from the Cornwallis battery by a party of Royal Marine gunners under the orders of the master gunner of the garrison. At Portsmouth the men-of-war in harbour and at Spithead, and the Russian squadron at the Motherbank, were dressed out in colours and the Royal standard hoisted at all the public establish ments. At noon Royal salutes were fired from the different men of war, the Russian squadron at the Motherbank, and from the saluting battery of the garrison on the King's bastion. The Duke of Somerset and the Lords of the Ad miralty, accompanied by Lord C. Paget, returned to town last evening from an official visit of inspec tion to Chatham and Sheerness. The Hon. Council for India have chartered the following additional vessels for conveying cavalry and infantry reinforcements to India :—The Mer chantman and the King Philip, for Calcutta, to sail from Cork ; the Akbar, for Bombay, to sail from Portsmouth ; Earl Balcarras, for Kurrachee, to em bark reinforcements at Portsmouth aid Cork; the Brunelle, for Bombay, to sail from Cork ; and the Hougomont, for Madras, to sail from Gravesend. The whole of the above vessels are to embark their troops between Sept. 10th and 17th. Our Malta correspondent reports tho appearance off that Island on Aug. 22, preceded on the 18th by the Caradoc, from Palermo, of the squadron under Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, consisting of five steam ships of the line and a gunboat. The other squa dron, under Rear-Admiral Mundy, was passed by the Wanderer, which arrived at Malta from Con stantinople and Rhodes on Aug. 18th, about 130 miles to the eastward of Malta, where the Assur ance, detached from this squadron, arrived on the 21st. The Euryalus arrived at Malta from Palermo on Aug. 13th. The Urgent left Malta for Corfu on the 18th, and is expected to return to Malta on the 24th, when she will leave for Portsmouth'with un serviceable powder, stores, and invalids. The Channel squadron, in two divisions, consist ing of 12 ships in all, were passed cruising off the Lizard on Wednesday, the 24th inst. The gunboat Redwing left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday, for shot practice. The screw steam corvette Scylla, 20, Capt. A. Lambert, under steam from Deal, arrived at Ply mouth on Ic;;ldnesday ; she is in want of hands, and has some slight defects to make good. The steam-sloop Hecla was taken up Hamoaze from the lower moorings on Wednesday. The screw steam-ship St. George, 91, at Devon port, is all ataut. The lighter Tortoise, J. Head, master, having been repaired at Devonport, was undocked on Wed nesday. The crews of the gunboats Grappler and For ward were paid advance of wages at Plymouth on Wednesday. Their guns have been removed to the Sidon, preparatory to sailing for Vancouver's Island. The Turkish screw line-of-battle ship Shadia, 90, at Devonport, had steam up on Thursday to try her machinery, but owing to some slight disarrange ment the trial was postponed. The Mohawk, 4, screw despatch vessel, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the China station. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Archibald Elliott, surg., to the Impregnable ; Thos. Kipling, acting assist.-surg., to the Arrogant; E. C. D. Phillips, master assist., to the Sidon ; and Richard Drury, clerk, to the Terrible. THE ARMY. The Himalaya screw troopship, Commander J. Seccombe, will embark at Portsmouth on the 2d proximo for conveyance to Quebec, the following officers, men, women, and children of the Royal Artillery-2 officers, 11 men, 2 officers' wives, and 3 officers' children. At Quebec she will embark the 39th Regiment, consisting of 39 officers and 840 men, for conveyance to Bermuda, to relieve the 26th Regiment, which returns to England in the Himalaya. The Albuera, hired troop ship, Captain Tanner, anchored in Cowes Roads on Thursday evening from Calcutta, and arrived at Spithead at three p.m., yesterday. She has the following troops on board :—The head-quarters of the gallant 32d (Cornwall) Light Infantry, Lieut.-Col. W. Bell, in command ; Capt. H. Priestly and lady ; Capt. W. Knox ; Lieuts. J. Strachan, J. Garforth, J. T. Gray, and S. B. Noble ; Ensign W. T. Goad; Adjutant and Lieutenant H. S. Stabb, Surgeon W. Boyd ; 5 staff sergeants, 16 sergeants, 16 corporals, 6 buglers, and 245 privates, 10 women, and 18 children. The baggage was landed by steam tug from the Albuera last evening, and the troops will be disembarked this morning and proceed by rail to Shorncliffe Camp. The glorious deeds of the 32d at the de fence of Lucknow, and their sufferings in common with the remainder of tho garrison, during the period of that memorable siege, are far too deeply impressed on the minds of their countrymen to need any repetition of their services at our hands. Dr. Boyd, who has come in medical charge, was at the Residency throughout the eventful time. Since the suppression of the rebellion he has been to England on sick leave to recruit his shattered health, and arrived in Calcutta, on his return from leave, only three days before the Albuera's sailing for England, when he again re sumed medical charge of his old companions in arms. The Albuera left the Sand-heads for Eng land on the 27th of March last; thence to the Bay of Bengal had light winds' and calms. Off the Cape of Good Hope had strong westerly gales for 27 days; was at anchor at the Cape seven days. Ori the 27th July was 400 miles S.W. of Corvo and Flores, since which time had experienced nothing but light easterly winds and calms. A r i l: t h il e i f e tt ry ne: w as alof Assist.-Sure; Arthur Henry Taylor , attached to the Medical Staff of the Royal Horse yesterday performed at Woolwich with the full milit ar y honours due to his rank. The death of the deceased took place at Chelsea, whence , his body h a d b een remove d to W oo l w i c h for sepul ture in fulfilm en t o f hi s own request. The distin guished caree r o f th e d ecease d during his period of service in the Russian campaign was on various i occasions notified, in his despatches to Government, b y Major-Geoeral Sir Richard__ Dacres, at present comm anding the garriso n of Woolwich On Wed -1 nesday a general notification i n garr i so n orders was issued for the arrangement of the funeral, at which th e whole of the officers were invited to attend. The burial had be en arran g ed to take place on 1 Thursday at 2 o'clock, but it was necessarily deferred till yesterday. At 11 a.m. the coffin, containing the body, was brought forth from the Hospital (where it had been temporarily deposited) by six gunners of the Royal Artillery, heroes of the Crimean war, who had solicited that duty as a doleful tribute to him, whom, under Providence, they impute their recovery from severe and dangerous wounds incurred at Inkerman. The remains of the deceased were conveyed to the place of interment on the usual military bier, a gun-carriage covered with a union jack. On a small black cushion, placed on the bed of the coffin, were laid the decorations won by the deceased, together with his busbie and sword ; and at his head and feet a garland and wreath of ian mortelles. The whole of the Artillery and Engineer troops not otherwise engaged were in attendance, and the escort, marching four abreast with arms reversed, consisted of 100 rank and file, in conia mand of Major J. F. Pennycuiek and one m;.baltern officer. The full baud of the Royal Artillery headed the procession, performing win' peculiar effect " The Dead March in Saul," and the two bands of the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Artillery followed the bier. Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, accompanied by a numerous body of his own officers and those of other corps in garrison, attended as a ma rk of es p ecial res p ect to deceased. Col. Walpole, commanding Royal Engi neers ; Col. Stranshani, commandant of Woolwich division of Royal Marines ; Col. Hopkins, R.M., C. 8., and many others, were likewise present, the whole of whom attended on foot, and formed the rear of the cortege. The East Essex Rifle Militia, under the com mand of the Hon. C. H. Maynard, whose enrolment was postponed on account of. the harvest, will as semble at Colchester for 21 days' training on the 21st Sept. On the same day the West Essex Regi ment, under the command of Lieut.-Col Brise, will assemble in Chelmsford for 21 days' training. THE SUN, LONDON, SATMIDAT EVENING„- AUGUST 27, 1859. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, AUG. 26. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) BOYLAN V. GODFREY. - This was an action to recover compensation for the alleged negligence of the defendant, an attor ney at Liverpool, in conducting the defence of the plaintiff to a petition filed by the plaintiff's wife in the Divorce Court for a judicial separation, in not pleading and proving the adultery of the plaintiff's wife, whereby the plaintiff was decreed to pay £1 a-week to his wife, who was judicially separated from him. Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Brett appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. L. Temple for the defendant. It appeared from the opening speeoh of the learned counsel for the plaintiff and from the evidence that the plaintiff was married at the German Church in Dublin in 1833, and that after the marriage he and his wife cohabited together, and had seven children, two sons and five daughters. At the time of the marriage the plaintiff did not believe it to be a va lid marriage. After titi'C'e children were born the plaintiff and his wife lived at Waterloo, near Liver pool, where the plaintiff's wife let lodgings. They then separated, and the plaintiff allowed his wife a separate maintenance. In May, 1858, the plaintiff's wife filed a petition in the Divorce Court for a judicial separation, and through the introduction of a man named Boosey, the plaintiff made the acquaintance of the defendant, who is an attorney at Liverpool, and whom be instructed to take the necessary proceedings to defencethe tion. The plaintiff instructed the defendant, to deny the general validity of the marriage, and also to deny the allegations contained in his wife's pe • tition of cruelty and adultery, and also to allege against his wife that she had been guilty of adul tery, and he gave the names of the witnesses to the defendant who could prove the fact of adultery committed by the wife. At the trial the question of the marriage was adjudicated against the plain tiff, but to his surprise he found that nothing was said, nor was any inquiry instituted, regarding the alleged:cruelty, which be denied, nor regarding his wife's adultery, which lie was prepared to prove; and he subsequently discovered , that the plea which would enable his counsel ' to raise this de fence had been omitted from the record, and this was the negligence complained of. The result was that the Divorce Court had decreed a judicial sepa ration against him, he had had a large sum of money to pay to the defendant for conducting his case, had been saddled with the costs of the suit, and was ordered to pay £1 a week to his wife for the remainder of her life, she being now but 7 16 years of age. The plaintiff denied the cruelty alleged, and believed that his wife had committed adultery, and had fully instructed his attorney to set up these defences to the proceedings of his wife in the Divorce Court, but the defendant, with full knowledge of the facts, had neglected to put the pleas on the record which enabled him to set up these defences, and for this negligence the action was brought. The plaintiff, who was sworn, denied the cruelty imputed to him on oath, and swore that he could prove that his wife had com mitted adultery both at Waterloo and in France, and that he had given the particulars to the defendant's clerk, who took them down in writing, and also the names of Mary Bowles and Margaret Hanlon, his witnesses. He had paid the defendant upwards of £2O in advance to conduct his case and take the proper steps for his defence against the petition, and had procured the attend ance of his witnesses in London when the case came before the Divorce Court in November last, but the defence which he had instructed to be raised he was told could not be gone into, and a judicial sepa ration was decreed, with £1 a week alimony to be paid by him. It appeared on cross-examination that the plaintiff was now living with his house keeper, and that he had lived and cohabited with a woman named Russell, that he had frequently left his family in want, and had neglected to pay the alimony to his wife which he had "been decreed to pay. The case was adjourned last night to this morning. On the part of the defendant it was proved that the instructions of the plaintiff were found, on exa mination, to be frivolous, and that there was no ground for imputing adultery to his wife, and there fore a plea setting up that defence had not been placed on the record. The wife of the plaintiff was placed in the box, and she denied on her oath the facts charged against her imputing adultery, and her daughters proved that, so far as they had ever observed, the conduct of their mother had been exemplary. His Lordship, in directing the jury, told them that it was the defendant's duty, if satisfied on the evidence before him that there was no ground for imputing adultery - to the wife, not to place a plea on the record which was frivolous, and could only lead to an useless waste of the public time. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. (Before Mr. Justice Hill and a Special Jury.) GARDNER AND OTHERS v. CATALAN GENERAL IN SURANCE COMPANY OF BARCELONA. Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Mellish were counsel for the plaintiffs; Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Mr. Rew for the defendants. This was an action on a policy of insurance for £BOO on the freight of the ship Blorenge, on a voyage from Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico, to the United Kingdom. The defendants pleaded that the vessel was not se tworthy, that the plain tiffs knew of her ss at the time that the policy was effected, and that the plaintiffs had induced the defendants by misrepresentation to grant the policy. The vessel was chartered in February, 1858, for the voyage in question, and £l,OOO was insured by another company on her freight and out fit. On the 3d of August, 1858, the plaintiffs re ceived a letter from the captain dated Mazatlan. the Ist of June. On the latter day they applied to Mr. Deacon, an insurance agent at Liverpool, to procure another policy on the freight for £l,OOO. Mr. Deacon put himself into communication with his London correspondents, and through them ob tained on the 6th of August an offer from the agent of the defendants to insure £BOO at 60s. per cent. This offer was, on the 7th, communicated by Mr. Deacon to the plaintiffs, who instructed him to accept it. An insurance for £2OO was, at the same time, effected with underwriters. On the 10th of August the loss of the vessel, by driving from her anchor upon the bar at Mazatlan on the 11th of June, was announced in Lloyd's List, which the plaintiffs swore was the first intelligence they had of it. The news was known in London the day before, the 9th, and the broker in London who transacted the business with the defendants' agent announced to him, on that day, at the same time, that his offer was accepted, and that the vessel was lost. On the 2d of September the plaintiffs got, by the same packet, four letters from the captain, the first dated in May, and the other three in one en velope and dated respectively the 2d of June and Ist and 4th of July. That of the Ist of July gave details of the loss of the vessel, and stated that the crew were saved. The defendants instituted in quiries, and were informed that letters from Mazat lan, slated the 14th of June, three days subsequent to the loss of the vessel, had been received by Messrs. Murietta,in London, on the 2d of August, which, however, did not mention anything about the Blorenge. Prior to the 2d of September the plaintiffs appeared also to have stated to some of the friends of the crew that the latter were saved. It also appeared that the real value of the freight was between £l,lOO and £1,500 only. From these circumstances the defendants contended that it might be inferred that the plaintiffs had news of the loss before the defendants' policy was effected. The learned judge, in summing up, observed that the burden of proof that the plaintiffs, previously to effecting the insurance, knew of the loss, rested upon the defendants ; that the mode in which the loss of the ship was mentioned in Lloyd's List— viz., that it was feared the vessel and cargo would not be recovered, without mentioning the crew, would naturally induce the plaintiffs to suppose that the crew were saved, and that the plaintiffs had positively sworn tlut they had not heard of the loss till the 10th of Angast. There were some cir cumstances which led the defendants to suspect that the insurance was - cid, but the evidence did not confirm their suspicioi. The freight having been over-insured, the jury uld, if they found a ver dict for the plan.) tiffs, ptve such proportion of the sum insured as had lsen adjusted on the oth er policy. £24 had been pud into court. The jury nave a vcrdiet for the plaintiff-- , Damages, 570. POLICE INTELJIGENCE.-Aug. 26. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Pagden attended before Alderman Carter, with Mr. Richard Bentley, of New Burlington-street, ,nd Mr. Joseph Bentley, of Paternoster-row, bookselers and publishers, to com plain of the following Ennoyance, and to put the public on their guard "pith respect to certain im positions which were bang practised in various parts of the country in 41eir names. Alderman garter inqui'ed if the party complained of were present, and on being answered in the ne gative, said he should behappy to forward the ends of justice in every way consistent with his duty as a magistrate, and if the }hied Messrs.:Bentley had in view was for the pubic benefit he would hear the statement they wished to make. Mr. Pagden said he represented Mr. R. Bentley and Mr. Joseph Bentley in this matter, but per haps the magistrate bid better hear what Mr. Joseph Bentley had to slate, as it was a case of per sonation. Mr. Joseph Bentley said he had , been very much annoyed during the lasi five years in consequence of a person of the name of W. H. Garrett having taken offices at 13, Paternoster-row, where he (Mr. Bentley) carried on business, and issued circulars to all parts of the country, with the view to raise subscriptions to enable him (Garrett) to publish portraits of popular clergymen ; • but he (Mr. Bent ley) more particularly complained of the course adopted by Garrett, who directed all applications respecting such subscriptions and portraits to be made to Messrs. T. Bentley and Co., 13, Paternoster row, and in the name of Ar. Richard Bentley, as well as in his (Mr. J. Bentley's) name. He (Gar rett) had since been ejected from the premises, 13, Paternoster-row, for non-payment of the rent, and he had written to the Postmaster-General, request ing all letters addressed to T. Bentley and Co. to be forwarded to some otter address, which the Post-office authorities refused to devulge. The consequence was that as Garrett never published the promised portraits unless he got sufficient sub scriptions, the disappointed subscribers were con tinually applying to hits and Mr. R. Bentley on the subject, Garrett laving represented that he came from their firms. The system pursued by Garrett was that of running down to the most re tired parts ha the country, where there happened to Ina popular preacher, and miler() he readily obtained subser4tions for the publication of the portraits, Messrs. Bentley's name being used as a guarantee fer the due publication of the portraits, but the t v were in no way connected with either Garrett or the portraits. He (Mr. Bentley) wished to know why, when such a person was fairly driven out of his usual haunts, the post-dice should afford him such facilities for carrying cn the system he com plained of, and refuse to give any information that might aid him in putting a stop to the annoyance. Alderman Carter thought it a pity that the con venience of the Post-office mould be prostituted to such a purpose, but he was quite sure the press would give every facility to the complainant, in order to suppress transacticns of such a character. He believed publicity was the only means by which the system could be effectually stopped, but at the same time, were he in Mr. Bentley's place, he would indict the man for fraud whenever he found him. Mr. Richard Bentley made a similar complaint, and said the annoyance became so great that he at length put an advertisement in the newspapers cautioning the public against the imposition. Alderman Carter said the public exposition of such a practice would no doubt have its effect, but that was all the assistance he could render them in the case. The matter then dropped, and the parties retired. LAMBETH.—ONE OF THE BENNETT QUACK DOCTOR GANG.—William Charles Allen, a young fellow, who described himself as a medical student, and who appeared, in discharge of his bail, to meet a complaint preferred against him on a former day, of assault and riotous and disorderly conduct in Westminster-road, at an unseasonable hour of the morning, was again charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, with being concerned with two persons named Waters and Edwards in defrauding several persons by representing themselves as doctors, and undertaking to cure all conceivable diseases, while, like their former associates, the Bennetts, the stuff they dispensed as medicine was of the most dis gusting description. Mr. Benjamin Thomas Jones, of 75, Mount street, Grosvenor-square, who had been the prose cutor in the case of Dr. "Wafters, and Edwards, his confederate, identified the prisoner Allen as one of the persons he had seen at Dr. Wafters' in Mount place, Westminster-road , and as the individual to whom he had paid ss. on his first visit. On the apprehension of \\ratters and Edwards the prisoner absconded, and though Inspector Young had spent much time in endeavouring to trace and apprehend him, he managed to keep out of his reach. He was, however, included in the indictment with his com panions, and a true bill was found against all three, and on the Bth of July last Watters and Edwards were tried at the Old Bailey, convicted and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour each. The prisoner, who offered nothing in defence to the charge, was remanded to give time to obtain a copy of the bill of indictment as found by the grand jury, preparatory to his being sent to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Jones informed the magistrate that it was by mere accident he saw the prisoner, his attend ance at the court being for a different purpose than that of, giving evidence, and he had not the slightest idea of meeting Allen. He then brought to his worship's recollection the fact that, on last Saturday week, he had waited upon him respecting the expenses he had been put to in prosecuting to conviction the former prisoners, Waters and Edwards—no less a sum than £6l 35., while all he received for his expenses was £1 45., when his worship kindly expressed a strong hope that the medical profession as a body would not allow him to be at a loss, but would subscribe a sum sufficient to hold him harmless. The press had as kindly noticed his worship's expressed opinion in reference to his case; but he was sorry to say that, with the exception of the £5 so very generously subscribed by Dr. Smith, of the National Ear Institution, Pall-mall, he had not received more than £3. He had waited, he said, on a number of gentlemen holding high stations in the medical profession, to solicit their subscriptions, but the reply of these gentlemen (though they spoke of his exertions in the matter as most deserving and entitled to their thanks) invariably was, that the fee for re gistration was so high that they could give no more, that the registration fund amounted to at least £50,000, and that his losses should be made good from that fund or by the public. Mr. Norton said he was very much surprised and disappointed at the result (:)f so reasonable and just an appeal to the liberality and generosity of a profession so liberal and respectable as that of the medical community, as he had hoped from the very kind and proper notice taken of the case by the press that the appeal would have been at once liberally responded to. Mr. Jones said that had he had the least idea that lie should have to pay so exorbitant a sum for the prosecution -of the parties, he' should not have undertaken it, and the offenders would have es caped. The matter had placed him in great diffi culties. • Mr. Norton was decidedly of opinion that the Medical Council should . pay Mr. Jones out of the large sum they had received for fees. Mr. Smith fiere said he did not think the regis tration fee fund was so much as £50,000, but it might be half that sum, and it was possible that the Council might still act on the suggestion of his worship, Mr. - Norton hoped they would do so, as it was only just, and if they did not, he felt satisfied a generous public would not se• Mr. Jones at a loss, and all he :could say was that he would be happy to receive subscriptions for the purpose. TIIAIES.— STEAM NAVIGATION UPON THE THA 31 ES.— THE SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.---Mr. John Walker, the master of the steam-tun called the:Tam o'Shanter, belonging to the Caledonian Steam Towing Company, appeared before Mr. Solfe, upon an information and adjourned sum mons, which charged him that while he was in charge of the steam-vessel Tam o'Shanter he did unlawfully use in the working of the said steam vessel.On the river Thames a certain steam furnace not constructed so as to burn or consume its own smok c. Mr. Hosaelc, barrister, prosecuted on behalf of the Government ; Mr. Shigh, Minister, instructed by Mr. Forsyth, a solicitor, of Lombard-street, de fended Mr. Walker. Mr. Hosack said the summons was taken out by Mr. Evans, superintendent of the Thames Police, by direction of the Secretary of State, and that an amended act, the 19th and 20th Vic , cap, 107, was passed in July, 1856, which enacted "that all steam-Vessels plying to and fro between London bridge and any place on the river Thames west ward of the Nore Light shall be subjected to the provisions of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act relating to steam-vessels above London-bridge." Inspector Cox . stated that on the 10th. of June last he saw the Tam o'Shanter steam tug, and the defendant in charge of her, upon the river. She was towing the Kentish Knock, Trinity light-ship, from Blackwall.reach Up to Barking Creek, and she returned to the Folly-house, Blackwall, where she anchored and let ofeher steam. The time occupied was 70 minutes. There was a good deal of smoke issuing from the funnel of the steamer•. Sometimes it was black and sometimes of a dirty yellowish hue. In cross-examination by Mr. Sleigh, the witness said the Tam o'Shanter was simply a steam towing vessel, and used for no other purpose. She did not carry passengers, like the Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Margate, and Ramsge.te steamers. He had seen the Tam o'Shanter in all parts of the river as low as Gravesend, He could not say of his own knowledge that the Tam o'Shanter ever went beyond the Nore Light, and as far as the Downs and Deal. By Mr.. liosack—The Tam o'Shanter was cer tainly engaged in the river Thames below London bridge, and between London-bridge and the Nore Light. Inspector King, of the Thames Police, gate similar evidence ; and Mr. William Sandison, Government inspector and civil engineer, said he had examined the fur naces of the Tam o'Shanter. No apparatus had ever been applied to the furnaces to consume or burn the smoke. Mr. Sleigh contended that the information must fail, and that it would be against the letter and spirit of the act to convict in such a case as this. The Tam o'Shanter did not ordinarily " ply to and fro between London-bridge and any place on the river Thames to the westward of the Nore Light." The act of Parliament was intended to apply only to the steamboats conveying passengers between London-bridge and Greenwich, Woolwich, and Gravesend. The Tam o'Shanter was used for mercantile purposes only, and often proceeded east ward of the Nore Light. The information was so utterly at variance with the letter and spirit of the act that he was surprised the case was ever brought into court. There was another case upon all points with this, and heard before Mr. Burcham at the Southwark Police-court, when he decided that the steamer did not come within the meaning of the act. He was aware that his worship was not bound by any decision of another magistrate, but Mr. Burcham's decision, given after mature deli beration, might be a guide to the magistrate he had now the honour of addressing. If the act was to be applied to all sea-going vessels coming into the river Thames, it would interfere materially with the operations of commerce, and entail an enormous expense on steamboat companies. Inspector Cox was recalled, and said that he had repeatedly seen the Tam o'Shanter towing ships and vessels between Blackwall and Limehouse up and down the river. Mr. Sleigh—Don't you know that she tows ves sels out to sea ? Cox—l do not, sir, Mr. Sleigh—She has been as far as the Isle of Mr. Hosack—Yes, that may be, but she plies on the river. Mr. Sleigh was ratisfied that the act was only intended to be applied to steamers running up and down the river. Steamships from all parts of the world were continually coming into the London river and going out again, and it was never in tended they should be interfered with. He would appeal to Mr. Sandison himself, whether the power of marine engines was not decreased, and the speed of the vessels lessened by the application of an ap paratus to consume or burn the smoke. The Tam o'Shanter towed ships eastward of the Nore, as well as westward of the Nore. Steam navigation at sea was very different to steam navigation in our rivers. If towing vessels in the practice of going to sea were compelled to apply apparatus to their furnaces, the Rotterdam steamers, the Irish and Scotch steamers, and the fleet of the General Steam Navigation Company must all come within the ope ration of the act, and the expense and trouble would be incalculable. If any person applied his plain common sense to the act he would be convinced it was only intended to apply it to vessels ordinarily engaged in the passenger traffic, and the passenger traffic only, between London-bridge and the Nore, and that it was never intended to apply the Smoke Consuming Act to towing vessels which proceeded eastward of the Nore. Mr. Thomas Forsyth Watson, manager of the Caledonian Steam Towing Company, said their ves sels towed vessels as far as the Downs, and some times only as far as the Nore. In cross-examination by Mr. Hosack, the witness said the Tam o'Shanter went as far as the Nore within two days of the summons being taken out. The Nore was 23 miles from Gravesend. Mr. Selfe asked if there had not been convictions before under the amended act, as regards vessels plying between London-bridge, and the answer was two ; one was the Victoria, a passenger boat, and the other the Magnet, a towing vessel. Mr. Sleigh said the question was never raised before in that court. Mr. Ilosack maintained that all steamers navi- gating. the river, whether they proceeded to sea or not, ought to burn or consume their own smoke. Mr. Selfe admitted the great importance of the case, and thought the question raised. ought to be. settled by a higher tribunal. He believed it would be the most convenient course to convict, and then a case could be stated for the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench. If he was to dismiss the case, it could only be on the ground that he had no juris diction, and then the onlp remedy would be au ap plication for a mandamus, which was a most expen sive course to adopt. His own impression was that the act did apply to a ship circumstanced like the Tam o'Shanter. As to the remark of the learned counsel, that the steam tug was only used for com mercial purposes, there was nothing in that, be cause the Smoke Nuisance Act for factories on land related only to the furnaces of manufacturers, sugar refiners, alkali works, glass works, chemical works, and other trades, and was not applicable to private houses at all. The object of the Legislature, in his opinion, was to purity the Thames, and prevent the people living in houses, cottages, and farms on either bank from the annoyance of dense volumes of smoke continually issuing from the funnels of the numerous steamers navigating the stream. There was no question about the facts of the case, and he should formally convict the defendant. Mr. Sleigh then asked the magistrate to state a case for the opinion of a superior court. After some discussion between the learned coun sel, Mr. Selfe, and Mr. Forsyth, who said a nomi nal penalty would suffice, if the magistrate was determined to convict, a penalty of ss. only, and costs, was inflicted. Mr. Selfe then agreed to state a case for the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench. The recognisances usual in cases of this nature were then ordered, and the parties retired. Mr. Forsyth said there were ten vessels belong ing to the Caledonian Company, and an. apparatus must be applied to each if the decision of the'Court above was adverse. FAY AL ACCIDENTS TO TOURISTS. "A sad affair," says the Paris Union, "has oc curred at Bagneres. de Luchon, in the Pyrenees. An English clergyman, the Rev. Mr. B an archdeacon, on Friday last ascended with some friends and a guide the mountain called the Col du Port de Venasque. Arrived nearly at the top, where visitors generally stop, he resolved to go to the very summit, though told that the ascent was very dangerous, and he went alone, refusing to allow even the guide to accompany him. Hours passed away and lie did not return. Nothing having been seen or heard of him up to Monday, several guides were sent out to search, and after some time discovered his dead body dreadfully mu tilated at the bott:.:m of an abyss near the Port de Venasque. The rev. gentleman, who was to have set .out on Mond ty for En land, was a great pedes trian, and had ascended Mont Blane." . A correspondent at Zermatt communicates the particulars of a fatal accident which has occurred to a Russian gentleman named Edouard do Grotto. it appears that in descending froth the top of the Weissthor Pass, instead of turning to the left and taking the usual route along the Gorner Glacier to the Riffelberg, he descended by the Findelen Glacier, which slopes from the pass directly down into the valley of Zermatt, and affords a shorter, though much more perilous, route to the town than the Gorner Glacier. The traveller and two guides were fastened together by a rope, the traveller being in the middle; the rope was tied ..-ound his body ; but was not, as it should have been, tied round the guides also ; it was only held on the left arm of each by a large loose loop. In this. way they passed safely over the greater part of the glacier, and were within a few minutes of leaving it altogether, when they came to a large patch of snow, which the guides, according to their own account, proposed to pass round, but which the traveller insisted on crossing. Accordingly the first guide crossed it in safety. The traveller—wh o was a fine, powerful man—then followed him, but when he had reached the middle the snow gave way under his feet, and he sank into a hidden crevasse. Having no Alpenstock, he could not break his fall in the usual way, by holding it across the elitism; and so his whole weight was thrown with a sudden jerk upon the rope, which broke instantly on both sides of the crevasse, down which the unfortunate man consequently fell. His voice was soon heard calling for assistance, which the guides were not skilful enough to render ; the crevasse was a pecu liar one, being narrow at the top, and widening downwards for some distance, after which it nar rowed again till its sides met—a depth of about 200 feet. This circunastance rendered it impossible to reach him without a rope ; he appeared to be about GO feet from the top, wedged between the sides of the crevasse ; and ft ey had no rope excepting the two ends that had remained with them, of about a yard each, so they determined that one of them should go to the nearest chalet—a two hours' walk —for ropes. The idea of trying to make a rope by cutting up their coats and shirts, and especially ; their leathern knapsacks, seems, most unaccount ably, never to have occurred to them. Thus the unfortunate M. de Grotte received no assistance for four hours, during which he frequently spoke to the guide above ; he was, he said, in a sloping position, with his head lower than his feet, and with his right arm free, but he was con stantly sinking lower. After three hours the flow of blood to his head, and the intense cold, had very much weakened him ; he spoke seldom, say ing only that he was being (frozen to death. At last, after four hours, the guide returned from the Findelen chalet with assistance ; the rope was lowered, but was found to be 12 feet too short to reach him. Now, it will scarcely be credited, but it is a fact, that when the rope was found to be too short nothing more was done, but men were sent for more ropes to Zermatt, a distance of four hours, so that the unhappy man was condemned by the helpless clowns above him to pass eight hours more in his icy prison. He had endured the most dread ful agony, for at first the warmth of his body dis solving the ice next him, caused him to sink lower; but as the vital heat departed the cold gradually regained its superiority, so that he was frozen in tightly between the walls of ice, which, as their wetted surfaces congealed and slightly expanded towards each other, crushed him between them with irresistible force. About the end of the fifth hour the poor man died. The correspondent who sends this account is of opinion that the explanations of the guides as to the breaking of the rope, &c., are unsatisfactory, and that a more thorough inquiry ought to be made. We are glad to find the following in the Glas gow Daily Mail :—" The English gentleman, Dr. Smith, who was reported to have suddenly disap peared in one of the crevices of Goatfell, in Arran, when ascending the mountain, in company with a friend, on Saturday afternoon last, and of whom no trace was said to have been found after two days' search, arrived in Glasgow yesterday evening, by the Hero steamer, hale and sound." FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT INDTA-OFFICE, Auo. 24. The Secretary of State for India in Council has received the following paper : _ _ Fort-William, June 3. The subjoined notification is to be substituted for that published in the Gazette. Extraordinary under date the 22d of April, 1859. The 2d battalion Military Train is under orders for im mediate embarkation for England. The career in India of this corps has been short but bril liant, and eminently serviceable to its country. Upon arriving at the presidency, it was at once converted into a cavalry force, and sent untrained into the field. Throughout the glorious campaign in Oude the Military Train bore a part which would have reflected credit upon the oldest and most experienced cavalry soldiers. It has served with distinction in various affairs under Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, at the capture of Lucknow, in the operations about Azimghur, and lastly in the harassing campaign of Shahabad. The Military Train leaves India with the best wishes of the Viceroy and Governor-General in Council, for the future honour and prosperity of the battalion. A. salute will be fired from the guas of Fort Williams on the departure of the corps. R. J. H. BIRCH, Major-General, Secretary to the Government in India. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 25. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James F. Maguire as Consul at Melbourne for the United States of America. WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 26. GENERAL ORDER.—No. 734. Horse Guards, Aug, 26. , The Queen has been graciously pleased to command that the undermentioned Assistant-Surgeons of her Majesty's Indian Army be promoted to the Brevet Rank of Surgeons, from the 7th September, 1858, in consideration of their services during the siege of Lucknow : Assistant-Surgeon 'Joseph Fayrer, M.D. Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Bowen Partridge. Assistant-Surgeon Henry Martineau Greenhow. Assistant-Surgeon Robert Bird. By command of his Royal Highness the General Com manding-in-Chief. (Signed) W. F. FORSTER, Deputy Adjt.-Gen. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 26. Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Charles Wilmer Duncombe to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice A. E. H. G. Viscount Grey de Wilton, who retires; Algernon Wm. Fulke Greville, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenont, by purchase, vice Dun- combo. 10th Light Dragoons—Henry Price Holford, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Slacke, promoted. 15th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon John Griffith has been permitted to resign his commission. 17th Light Dragoons—Gentleman Cadet George Rosser, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Macgregor, promoted. Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon George Arthur Grant, fr3in the Staff, tobe Assistant-Surgeon, vice Farquharson, appointed to the Coldstream. Guards. Royal Engineers—The first Christian name of Ensign Haig is Arthur, not Anthony, as stated in the " Gazette" of July 1. Military Train—Lieutenant Wm. Corbett to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet .Major H. H. A'Court Inglefield, deceased ; Ensign John Taylor to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Corbett. Bth Regiment of Foot—Ensign Chas. Dudley Ryder Mad den to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pinniger, who re tires. Sth Foot—Capt. Wm. Henry Peel, from the Ceylon Rifle Reggiment, to be Captain, vice Bloxsome, who exchanges. 12th Foot—Ensign Robert Edward Dawson, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Wither, who retires; Henry Smith Andrews, Gent., to be Ensign, by p urchase, vice Siddons Mair, promoted. 17th Foot—John Henry Thorold, Gent., to be Ensign,. by purchase, vice Lawrence F. Arguimbau, whose appoint ment has been cancelled, that officer not having joined since his appointment. 20th Foot—Ensign Macaulay's appointment bears date 23d August, 1859, not 23d August, 1858, as erroneously dated in last Tuesday's " Gazette." 21st Foot—Captain Augustus Breedon, from the 89th Foot, to be Captain, vice de Vie Valpy, who exchanges. 31st Foot—George Moore Lambert, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice La Touche, appointed to the 30th Foot. 41st Foot—Ensign John Caulfield,. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macleod, who. - has retired ; Ensign Nathaniel Montgomery to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fraser, who retires ; QuaYtermaster James Simpson, from a Depot Battalion, to be Paymaster, vice (;rant, de ceased. 46th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Murphy, from half-pay late Turkish Contingent, to be Lieutenant, vice Atkinson, promoted to an Unattached Company, without purchase. 53d Foot—Ensign Charles Pye to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Macneill, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 54th Foot—Ensign James Chute to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Evered, promoted. 60th Foot—Surgeon Henry James Schooles, M.D., having completed 20 years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major, under the Royal Warrant of the Ist Oct., 1858. 80th Foot—Major Cam Sykes, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Ormsby, who exchanges ; Capt. Chas. Fitzgerald Studdert to be Major, by purchase, vice Sykes who retires ; Lieut. Horatio Pettus Batcheler to beap tain, by purchase, vice Studdert; Ensign Valentine EnsO' C i o g n n n o w r t a o l t b e r e Li Howard eutena n t o t , h b y e p L u i r e c u h t a e n s e a , n v i t c b e y Batchelorpurchase, vice Burrowes, promoted. 81st Foot—Robert John Macdonnell, G ent , to be Ensign, by purchase vice Jackson, prom o ted. 86th Foot—Lieutenant William Knipe to be Captain, without purchase, vice Boyd, retired upon full-pay. 89th Foot—Captain Do Vic V a lp y, f rom th e 21 st Foot, to be Captain, vice Breedon, who exchanges. 95th Foot—Arthur Thomas Helme, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilkinson, promoted in the 17th Foot. 96 E th ns F Lennox ign oo , t— wi F th ra o n u c t i p s ureae a , George Grey, Gent., to be vice Musters, who resigns. 98th Foot—Ensign Thomas Thomson Simpson to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Lewes, promoted. 2d West India Regiment —George Fletcher Coward, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fyfe, de ceased. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant James 'Campbell Fielding to be Captain, without purchase, vice Clement, deceased ; Captain Berkeley Charles William Chiches ter Bloxsome, from the Oth Foot, to be Captain, vice Peel, who excha nges ; E ns ign Joseph Albert D en t on to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fielding ; John Glover, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Denton, promoted. DEPOT BATTALION. Major James William Dewar, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Rowlands, who exchanges. STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles Henry Somerset, C. 8., 72d Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-General to the forces serving in Bombay, vice Brevet-Colonel E. H. Greathead, C. 8., Bth Foot, who has resigned that appoint ment. Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Williams Reynolds, Unattached, from Deputy Assistant -Adjut ant- General at Head-Quarters, to be Deputy Adjutant- General to the Forces in Jamaica, in succession to Brevet- Colonel T. H. Tidy,• whose period of Staff service has expired, HOSPITAL STAFF, Surgeon-Major Henry Mapleton, M,D , , to the rank of D e p u ty I ns p ec t or General of Hosp itals. Acting Assistant-Surgeon James Lande r, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon t o th e Forces. to be promoted TO RAVE THE BREVET RANK. OFD URGEON. Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Fayrer, M.., of the Bengal Medical Staff. of the Ben- Assistant-Surgeou Samuel Bowen Partridge gal Medical Staff. Assistant-Surgeon Henry Martineau Grecnhow, of the Bengal Medical Staff. Assistant-Surgeon Robert Bird, of the Bengal Medical Staff. BREVET. The undermentionedpromotions to takeplaoe, consequent on the death of General Sir John Slade, Bart., G.C.H., Colonel of the sth Dragoon Guards, on the 13th August, 1859 : Lieut. •General Sir Frederick Stovin, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., Colonel of the 83d Foot, to be General. Major-General Francis J. Davies, Colonel of the 67th Foot, to be Lieut.-General. Colonel Sir Charles T, Van Straubenzee, K.C.8., half pay, 3d, Foot, serving,on the Staff, with the temporary rank of Major-General in command of the Forces in China, to b. Major-General. Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel John Wegg Major, on half-pay 42d Foot, to be Colonel. Brevet-Major William IVl'llonald, 26th Foot, to be Lieut.- Colonel. Captain E. M. the Earl of Longford, 2d Life Guards, to be Major. Captain W. C. Russell, of the Bengal Artillery and Commiss ar y o f O r d nance at Allahabad, to b e M a j or in the Army. Captain Henry Finch, of the 31st Bengal Native In fantry, to be Major in the Army. Paymaster William Young, of a Depot Battalion, having retired upon half-pay of Quartermaster previous to the de claration of war with Russia, and who had completed in all a service of thirty years, ten of which as Quartermaster, to have the honorary rank of Captain. ADMIRALTY.—ALa. 25. CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES. Mr. Henry Fuller, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Mr. James Leeky, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Mr. William Taylor Miller, Gent , to be Second Lieu-. tenant. Mr. James Maurice O'Connor, Gent., to• be Second Lieutenant. teri‘,larnt.Rilwose Drew Tully, Gent., to be Second Lieu- COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. al County of Westmoreland—To be Deputy Lieutenants— , William Moore, Esq., William Hopes, Esq., Frederic a .,,a Gandy, Esq., Matthew Benson Harrison, Esq., William (1 off Wilson, Esq., Arthur Shepherd, Esq., William Brougham, Esq., William Henry Wakefield, Esq., and Frank Atkinson 5 , 031 Argles, Esq. 11: I North Riding County York—Henry William Ferdinand . 0 , Bolekow, Esq., to be Deputy'Lieutenant. r . fil City of York—William Dalla Husband, "Esq., Lord . ayor of York, to be Deputy Lieutenant. ' rqval 2d West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry— 'I 03 14 ' William Fenton Kenny, Gent ' to be Cornet, vice Sir ~,i1 W. R. C. Cooke, Bart., promoted. • ' • I Li 1 " , 1 County of Brecknock—To be Deputy Lieutenants — • ) David Morris, Esq., M.P. ; Joh n Maund, Esq. ; a nd Cap .l. tain Henry Gore Lindsay. Brecknock Volunteer Rifles—Captain Henry Gore Lind- , ort say, late Rifle Brigade, to be Captain of the Ist Company Brecknock Royal Regiment of Militia—Edward Tyrrel Lewis, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Morisco° Lloyd Fredericks, resigned. Artillery Regiment of Royal Lancashire 't Second Lieutenant Widenham Francis Foshery to be First f , Lieutenant, vice Thomas Gawne, resigned. Ilford Volunteer Rifle Company—John ,Cooke Davis,; c Esq., to be Captain. Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—John Curtois Adolphus Bones to be Second Lieutenant, vice Elliston, promoted. Ist Company of Dorsetshire Volunteer Rifles—Henry Augustus Templar, Esq., to be Captain; 'Henry Saunders , Edwards, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William. Hounsell, Gent., to be Ensign. . i sit Northumberland and Newcastle Regiment of Volunteer A Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Charles Edward Cookson, r'r r' to be Captain, vice Butler, resigned ; Cornet Matthew ") Charles Woods to be Lieutehant, vice Cookson, promoted ; Thomas Salkeld Bramwell, Gent to be Cornet, vice Woods, promoted, 'WY/ BANKRUPTS. v>>, Edward Staff Prior a nd Alfred Staff Prior, coal mer-" ' j 4 chants, Bishopsgate-street, to surrender Sept. 9, at eleven, - and Oct. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. it Benjamin White tailor, 8, Lower Grosvenor-sfreq•eg Grosvenor-square, Sept. 9, at half-past twelve, and Oct. /.1 at eleven, at Gubb ironmonger, the ourt of Bankruptcy. William Topsh am, Devonshire, Sept- 1)d ? 12 and Oct. 5, at twelve, at the Exefer Disti id Court. 4. Thomas Alexander Nicol, upholsterer Sloane - at ree :' ' Chelsea, Sept. 10, at eleven, and Oct. 10, at half- past o n e, at the Court of Bankruptcy. sv :i Levi Cobb, eating-house keeper, Li ver p oo l, Aug'4lB if' and Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Co" „ Clement Harwood, carpenter, H a lb er t on , Def° rls ,4. , t r Sept. 12 and Oct. 5, at twelve, at th e E xe t er District Co eitYr-• .m 1 Eliza Medland, eating-hou s e k ee p er , Cheapewel - 44 = Sept. 7, at eleven, and Oct. 10, a t one , a t the Cour' - Bankruptcy. alf- Richard Morrison, guano dealer, Carlisle, Sept. 8, a" past eleven, and Oct. 20, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upou,ti ' Tyne District Court. - a V Arthur Edward Windus, scarf manufacturer, bury, Sept. 10, at eleven, a n d Oct. 10, at half-past eleven,. at the Court of Bankruptcy. , James Yates, pawnb r ok er , B o lt on -l e -M oor s, Lellea S l i f e : Sept. 13, at eleven, a n d O c t. 7, a t t we l ve , a t the Man' i ''. , ter District Court. llea. , Henry Sturenburgh (and not Sturemburg, as seivort i in last Tuesday's Gazett e ), an d Willi am Golden ship brokers, Liverpool, S e pt 2, a t e l even , an d 23, a t tlr°' , i 11044 i at the District Court of Bankruptcy. ' .4 frvi, SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. .0 1 J. " George Henderson Benham, temperance hotel- 'Leer - Edinburgh. no Alexander Brown, grocer, Edinburgh. John Forsyth, builder, Glasgow. =•=f 11 : 1 JD , BANK OF ENGLAND. ; An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth pic toa y cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 24th ' ) of August, 1859 : j , ,i) ISSUE Notes issued • • £O, 1.30,689,800 1 Gov e rnment bebt go; Other Securities .. .n . 4400 Gold Coin &Bullion 16,2 , Silver Bullion .... /30,689.° £30,689,8001 BANKING a Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche- • quer, Savings' Banks, Commis - ntissioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 6,152,539 Other Deposits 14,183,853 Seven Day and other Bills 864,222 lEPARTAMT. Government Seen rifles (including Dead Weight A nnuity) X11,2 14,665 Other Securities 18,300_...11/ Notes Gold and Silver Coin 662,43b £39,197,406 M.l Dated August 25,1859. £39 '197,406 .RSHALL, Chief Cashier. AVERAGE PRICE •OF SUGAR. • The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 23d day of August, 1859, exclusive of the 'duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into. Great l3ritain Per owt. From the British possessions in America .. 26s 6d Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius —s Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —a COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—Ann. 26. Our market this morning had a thin attendance of the town and country trade, and with only a retail demand for both wheat and flour at nominally late rates. A fair inquiry for Indian corn, and holders were firm, at the ex.' Creme quotations of last market. All other articles were WSW little dealt in, and prices generally the turn in favour 01) 01 buyers. The market closed heavy. • , ~ 'al WAKEFIELD—Aua. The show of wheat is moderate, and both new and ota qualities meet a slow demand at a decline of is on the prior of Friday last. New barley sells pretty freely at from In to 38s per qr. Grinding barley unaltered in value. In beans, oats, shelling, and malt a steady request, and quo ., tations unaltered. Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, ina- Kent, white, old, 48s to 528 ; new, 48s to 535; ditto, red, old, 42s to 45s ; new, 42s to 45s ; Lincolnshi r e and York shire white, new, 46s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,897 qrs., at 45s 6kd Peas "Of/ .. —9 Beans - Od 1/ •vir•ln 10 ~ 323 o{l Oats ,, •—s Od ---6 ' •'' Rye - ~ Od EXETER—Ana. 24. ' ' - - The business was extremely dull to=day, at the followilll prices : . . Wheat, white.. 58 6d to 5s 9d I Barley.. Ss 9 d to 4s 01 Ditto red ..4s 3d to 4s 6d 1 Oats . .. 3s Od to 30 3d.• rt I Flour, fine, 32s to —s ; seconds, 30a to. —s per sack. CATTLE—The market was poorly suppiiied with stook. , A moderate attendance of farmers. Pork rcases in small id e supply. i a Jig Fat beef,p score, 10s to llsOd Ewes, per lb .... 6id to 0 , 1 , Pork carcases, do 7s to 7s 6d Wethers, d 0.:.... 61d to O i„ Lambs, per lb. .... 7d to 8d Fat calves, d0....5fd to 6d, ,! 1 Rough fat, 4d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—AIio. 26. prices. Refined goods also experienc° a dull sale ' . Our market continues dull, and, in order 0 tenwt sales. importers have been compelled again to submit to lower and have participated in the decline upon kaw goods. For rum the improved demand which we last week noticed is continued, and more parcels have been cleared than for some weeks past. Prices are firm :_.-...—...--------------..m ------. BIRTHS. BLICKEUEN.—On the 224 inst., at Killearn House, Stir lingshire, Mrs. Blackbnrn, of a daughter. Hu LSE.—On the 25th inst., at Breamore, Hants, L a dy Hulse, of a son and heir. TOLLEMACHE.—On the llth inst., at Helmingham Ha y , Lady Emma Tollemache4 prematurely, of a on, still- born. S P IELER the 25th inst., at Ma on-road, Charlton, the wife o f J. Spiller, Esq., F.C.S., of the War Depart ment, Woolwich, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. AINSLIE—P EPP ERCORNS.—On the 25th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Woodford, Essex, Charles, youngest son of the late Sir Robert Sharpe Ainslie, Bart., of Great Torring ton, Lincolnshire, and Chingford, Essex, to Emma, the youngest daughter of the late James Peppercorne, of Woodford. RRELL—ITLSTON.—On_the 25th inst., at St. Michael's, , Stockwell, John Hurrell, Esq., of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, to Susan, relict of the late Captain, 131ston, of Brixton. DEATHS. BElNieEnTeTtt.,—Eosnci,:hoef2slt4h, in isi t o t ai n n t s. U ha p n p i e . r pi S ac yr , nLhoanind,onWt aged 81. IiELL.—On the 24th inst., at 37, Shad Thames, Mr. He nr i Bell, aged 70. BUTLER.—On the 23d inst at Kirkntahoe, Dumfries, N. 8., Captain J. H. Butler. Fri ZMATIRICE. —On the 24th inst., at 8, Hyde-parkgates Esther, wife of the Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, late 2d Life Guards. GREY.—On tho 9 5th inst., in Southwick -place, Hyde-par square, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Chas Edward Grey. GußFoßle.—On the 25th inst., Miss Gu rford, of 10, Br an. Portman-square. NototunnutneYss.—DOnatgbeer of isTo 25thinrbstu.,ry, e at aged 70. Countess the - - LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, August 27. 1859.