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THIt S I ZIN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, jority of b.onourable members ' • and, secondly, on accou:nt elf its greater simplicity as compared with the co m.7,aeting Bill. /low, respecting the first of these allegations, we can only say that it'rests upon a most violent and untenable assumption. The division i in which the house, by a majority of 150, passed the first reading of Lord Palmerston's Bill by no means expressed any approval of the scheme it contained, or even of the principles on which it was founded. How, indeed, was it possible for the Legisis.ture either to approve or condemn a measure which they had not seen, upon such loose data as could bo collected on the spot from the ministerial exposition of its provisions, and without time for any deliberate consideration? On this very ground it has become an accepted canon of Parliamentary esage, that 110 vote on a motion for leave to bring in any Bill shall pledge either the house collectively or members individually, as to their course with respect to its subsequent stages. Ner did the terms of the question, on which Lord Palmerston took "the sense of the house" when first laying his measure before the Commons, imply an opinion of any sort as to its merits. The division took place on Mr. Baring's amendment declaring that the time was unfit for legislation on the subject. The majority, whereof the ex-Premier's supporters make so much, decided no other issue than that of time. It was then ruled—so far as a t•ingle vote could determine anyquestion so importatitand com plicated—that some new system of Indian adminis tration should forthwith be organised. This decision was recognised by Mr. Disraeli as having prompted— it might almost be said compelled—the present Ministers to undertake the task of framing a bill for that purpose. But as regards the selection of any particular system or proposition for effecting the object iu view, the House was left altogether unfettered ; and the so-much talked of "majority" could be as justly claimed by Lord Ellen borough in support of Bill No. 2, as by Lord Palmerston in approval of Bill No. I. These considerations aro so obvious that we should not have ventured to recapitulate them were it not that we find the ex- Ministerial organs still dwelling upon the argu ment, that the House has actually committed itself to a formal sanction of the Palmerstonian measure. The second allegation, that of " simplicity," is more feasible. But the superior merits thus im parted to the Bill No. 1, would be far better ap preciated by the Ministers of a despotic Sovereign than the subjects of a free State. Lerd Palmer ston's proposed " Council of Eight," all nominated by the Crown, is, no doubt, much more simple in construction than a body of eighteen members, all of whom must possess certain qualifications, while half of their, number are to be elected by popular constituencies, variously composed, and differing considerably as to their numbers and condition. Just in the same manner must we allow that a sheer despotism is more simple than any form of constitutional government. There may be coun tries where this quality would be recognised as con ferring an incontestible superiority. We do not, however, suspect that it wilt obt tin very extensive approval in the British House of Commons. It seems to be understood on all sides that the " trial point" between the two Bills will lie in their respective schemes for the composition of a Council for India. Other provisions relate either to prin ciples on which every one is agreed—such, for ex ample, as the appointment of a fourth Secretary of State for the Administration of Indian Affairs, with his official staff and parliamentary responsibilities or else to details which may be altogether left for determination by the House itself, when the clauses of the accepted measure are debated in committee. We are required, therefore, to examine, as the House will have hereafter to discuss, not merely the original constitution, bat also the subsequent functions and powers . of this Council. Wheo the framers of the Bills have got their respective Councils, what do they propose to make of them ? Here we find the real distinction between the two propositions. Lord Palmerston, when suggesting a body of only eight nominated members, evidently contemplates converting it into a mere " Board." The Council for India, under this system, would belong to the same class of adtniuistrativerfunction earies as the Board of Admiralty, the Junior Lords of the Treasury, or the chiefs of Departments in the Colonial-office. The so-called Councillors woull degenerate into mere Commissioners—differing from the officials above-mentioned only iu the circumstance, that as they were forbid to sit in the House of Commons, they could never be subjected to inconvenient cross-examinations ; and as re tiring from office at certain prescribed intervals, they would always be induced to consult the varying aspects of the political barometer, so as to secure re-appointment at the end of their term, rather than address themselves independently and consistently to promote the well-being of our Indian Empire. With a Council thus organised, where would be the check on the Minister, or the responsibility to Parliament I Who knows now, or knowing, could alter the proceedings of the Treasury, the Admir alty, or any matter of practical detail ? Certainly not the House of Commons Ass tiled on such points, the Minister is always able either to elude the difficulty, or to involve the question iu such a cloud of official mystery as to baffle the most per severing pursuit. Some curious earreipondence has, indeed, been lately published respecting the competitive plans for the eonstruclion of new public offices, showing that between two departments of the same Administration " my Lords" were able to defy the power and ignore tho remonstrances even of a Chief Commissioner of Works, Such, and worse, would be the position of Lord Palmerston's eight Councillors, since they would enjoy more com plete shelter from parliamentary interference, and at the same time be more subject to political in fluences. Iu the Council of Eighteen, proposed by Lord Ellenborough, a very different principle is recog nised. From is mere magnitude this body would exercise a far higher degree of influence over the Minister of the day. But, in addition to their personal importance, nine members being elective, wonll wield the power conferred on them by their constituencie4. This is a distinction whose value, we may add, does not depend on the actual num ber or prescribed qualification of the constituent body. It is a difference of kind rather than degree. A. c , uncillor nominated by the Crown has abso lutely no right even to remonstrate should his opinions be overset by an autocratic dictum from the Minister of the Crown. Where can he appeal —since the same power to which he owes his own appointment has also set a superior over his head ? But an elected Councillor, under such circumstances, appeals to his constituents, be they many or few ; and, through his constituents, to public opinion. This is the principle on which Lord .Ellenborough's bill claims an essential pre-eminence over Lord Palmerston's scheme. The particular mode in which, or the electoral body by which, the nine members of Council shall be chosen, are matters for future consideration, The Government have pretty plainly intimated their perfect readiness to accept any modification in the proposed measure which the house might think proper to indicate. In this deference to the opinion of Parliament, her Majesty's Minister's cauuut be charged with tres passing on the bound ar i es o f o ffi c i a l co nsi s t enc y. Supposing, for instance, that it should be expedient to abandon the proposal for electing five members of Council by the 101. householders of five cities and towns, the change thus oocasioned would Le far less important than that introduced into the Reform Act by the celebrated " Chandos Claus," which the framers of that measure nevertheless felt it quite within their competence to adopt rather than sure ender their bill or resign their offices. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 5. MANSION-HOUSE—VT. H. Chadwick was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with havingrobbed his employers, Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., the extensive publishers, of No. 65, Corn hill. Mr. Wontner appearad for the prosecution, and stated that the prisoner had been in the service of the firm about two yeals-and-a-half, and had com mitted in the house a series of robberies during that time ; that he had beer. treated most liberally, and that suspicions having keen entertained that he had abused the confidence roposed in him, Jarvis, the City detective officer, had been directed to watch him, the result of wLich was the discovery that plunder had been committed by him to a serious amount. The prosecutors having in their employ ment 150 persons, cxusidered it to be necessary to make an example of any of their servants whom they found to be guilty of acts of dishonesty, and had determined to pursue that intention in the present instance. Mr. Henry Samuel King, a partner in the firm, said—From suspicions which I entertained of the prisoner's conduct, I gave directions to the police, and on Saturday night, at about seven o'clock, the prisoner was brought to me by Jarvis, the detective officer. I said to him, "I know why you were brought back, Mr. Chad wick ; you have been robbing us." He said, "It's no use denying it, I have." I said, " You have some of our property up-stairs." He said, " I have," and I wont with him up-stairs, and he opened his drawer with a key and took out four or five books, and said, "Those are your property." I told him to get his bag and unlock it, and he took it from a cupboard and unlocked it, and took two more books out, and then he placed some.other books down, and admitted that they were ours. The officer took a pocket book from him, and the prisoner said " That is your property, I took it on Friday," and then the officer produced some postage stamps, and the prisoner said they belonged to the firm. He was then taken to the station-house. I have since that time ex amined a number of the books which are produced by the officer, which I believe to be our property. The prisoner said he had left some at his house, and also some at the house in King William-street. Jarvis (the detective officer) said—On Saturday night I took the prisoner into custody as he left the premises of his employers, and brought him to Mr. King. At the station-house the prisoner gave his address, and I went there, and found 64 printed books, which I now produce, and several parts of works. I found upon the prisoner's person a pocket book, which I produce, and also 12s. 6d. worth of postage stamps. I siw him take from his drawer four books, and from his bag four others, and from a shelf in the same room two others in a parcel. I have since obtained five other books from a house in King William street. The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to say anything, said, " No, no." Committed for trial. James `Minden was charged under the following circumstances : Policeman 101—At half-past tan o'clock on Saturday night I was in Leadenhall-street, and I saw two men there. There was some talk between them about skeleton keys. The prisoner joined the men, aMd I went over and took him into custody with this ba.dc , t in his possession. I asked him what he had there, and he said his own clothes, and nothing belonging to me. I found that the basket contained tw© pieces of pork and two pounds of mutton chops. The prisoner then said he was going to take the chops to Messrs. Lockyer and Davis, and the pork to the same place, and that he was in the employment of Messrs. Bannister. Mr. Edward Bannister, partner in the firm of Messrs. Bannister, of Threadneedle-street, butchers, said—The prisoner has been in our employment some time, and we never suspected him of die honwity. We have pork like that produced. Tne prisoner had to leave some ohops at Messrs. Lock yer's, but no pork. I believe the plrk to be ours. The Lord Mayor—Had he any right to take the pork from your premis e s ? Witness—Not at all ; we have been watching two men who have been lately lurking about our premises. The prisoner is respectably connected, and always had an adequate allowance of money. The Lord Mayor said the prisoner had been de tected i❑ very good time, and if the couversati about the sk-leton key were to be considered as an intimation of future operations, very probably Mr. Bannister bad reason to congratulate himself upon what had taken place. The prisoner—l was not certain whether it was pork or mutton that bad been ordered, and I took the pork at the same time to see which it was. The Inn' Mayor—You shall go to the House of Corr,ctiin for one month.—Committed, MKRLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mathew Junes, a respectably attired young cluntryman, was charged wi h knowingly uttering a false note on the Leicester and Leicestershire Bank for 51., and thereby defrauding one George Mason, of No. 6, Castle-street. The prosecutor said he was a turf commissioner and telegraph agent. On Saturday night last he was at the bar of a public-house, when the prisoner came in, and ffrcing himself into conversation, very much preised him to lay the odds on a particular horse entered for the Newmarket Handicap. Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, asked what the prosecutor meant by describing himself, among the rest, as a telegraph agent Prosecutor replied' that his telegraphic business was chiefly of a spoiting character ; he transmitted bets on turf matters for gentlemen, in a similar way to Stock Exchange affairs. The prisoner, having teased him very much to have a bet with him, fol lowed him out of the house, and still continuing, offered a 30s. bet on the forthcoming race. He added, as he was a stranger, he would stake the money with him. Prosecutor at length consenting, received from the prisoner the 5/. country nAe pro duced, and gave him 31. 103. difference, and the prisoner went away. Prosecutor subsequently found the note was good. for nothing. On taking the note the prisoner said, to prosecutor, "It is a Lsieester6hire note, but you will find it all right. I have three or four more of them in my pocket." Prosecutor, ho we ver, foundit "all wrong," and gave information and a descriptiom of the prisoner to police, and the prisoner was la consequence traced out and taken into custody. The prisoner, who said if the note was bad he did not know it, was remanded till Wednesday next. Alexander Rose was on Monday, the 22d ult., charged, on the evidence of police-constable C 71, with stabbing a woman in the head w ith some in stt ument whereby she was placed i n great d anger, and unable to make her appearance then in sup port of the charge. The constable deposed that he was going his rounds through Princes-row, Soho, about half-pa=t 12 on the previous Saturday night when he met a woman known to him as Elizabeth Cullie, who was bleeding profusely from the head ; she was, in fact, covered with blood, and groaning as if in great pain and weakness. He raised her up, and 03 , as intelligibly as she could, told him she had been stabbed by a man. As it was close by he ltd her to No. 5, Princes-court, where she at once, on entering, pointed out the prisoner as the man from whom she had received the injuries. There was a vast deal of blood over the floor of the room. The prisoner was then taken into custody and the in jured woman to the hospital. This being the earliest day the woman could be permitted out to give evidence she made her ap pearance against the-prisoner as the complainant. Her head was bound up and she was accommodated with a seat during the time she gave ln-r evidence because of the extremebodily weakness under which she was labouring. She gave her evidence with great difficulty. Complainant, on being sworn, said—My name is Elizabeth Cullie, and lam a widow. I had been living with the prisoner for three years on and off —the last time for about three months. 1 had again left him for about a week before the assault. On 'Saturday, the 20th, last mouth, in the evening, I had occasion to go to him at his lodgings, in Princes-coutt. What took place on my reaching hi 3 room I cannot - recollect. I had had something to drink, and sa t d own on the f oo t o f th e b e d. What my forgetfulness arises from Ido not know, but believe it to be from the injuries I received ; but cannot say positively. I received a violent blow from the prisoner on the he ad,and lost a large quantity of blood in consequence. I lost my consciousness, and on coming to myself found I was in the hospital. I do not know what instrument the blow was given with. The prisoner, who mole no remark, was r minded for anifher w:ek, and she woman conveyed hack to the hwpital, of which she still remains an in-door patient. H.A.MMERSMITH.—Mrs. Leuningbam, a lady residing at 43, Rutland-gate, Knightsbridge, was summoned to answer the complaint of Geo. Forest, a cab-driver, for refusing to pay 6d., the remainder of a fare. Defendant did not appear, but was represented Ly her husband. Complainant deposed the. he frequented the cab stand in Charles-street, Trovor-square, and was called off on this occasion to tike up at No. 43, Rutland-gate. He drove defendant to the Oratory at Brompton, and upon the lady alighting she gave him 6J. Ho told her the fare was ls,, but she answered that sho never paid any more than 6d., and walked away. Thiswas a common occurrence of the lady, having cabs for that distance, and not paying more than 6d. lie had taken, her two or three times, and all the cabmen on the stand knew her. The distance exceeded a mile. Mr. Ingham askrd the driver if he had measured he distance. Complainant said he bad, and found that it was 70 yards over the mile. Mr. Lenningham said he had made inquiries and found that it was a bard Gd. for the distance, and he had given instructions for the is. to be given in future, as it was the proper fare. Mr. Ingham then made an order for the payment of the Gd., with 7s. costs, being 2e. 6d. for each day the cabman attended, and 2s. the summons. The money was immediately paid. THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The following reinforcements, selected from the let, 2d, and 3d battalions at Chatham garrison are ordered to embark at Gravesend this day on board the East India Company's steamer Benares, for Kurrachee, for the purpose of augmenting the corps serving in India, viz. :-51 men of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, 21. men of the 27th Enniskillens, 51 non commissioned officers and men of the 52d Light Infantry, Ensign Arthur E. Flood and 18 men of the 61st Regiment, 14 men of the 70th Regiment, Capt. W. Egerton Todd and 19 men of the 81st Regiment, and Ensign Caulfield French with 30 men of all ranks of the 94th Regimeht. In consequence of several cases of small pox having broken out among the troops belonging to the 23d Royal Welsh Fusi liers, who embarked on board the Abeona at Gravesend for Calcutta, all the men of thot corps have bees disembarked and returned to the depot at Chatham, where they will be stationed until the disease has disappeared. General Sir Ralph Darling, G. C. H., C.lonel of the 69th Regiment, died on Friday at his residence at Brighton, at the advanced age of 83 years. He as entered the army in May, 1793, ensign in the 45th Foot, with which regiment he served in the West Indies until the peace of Amiens. Soon aft€ r his arrival there the slaves in the island of Granada, assisted by the French from Guadeloupe, revolted and murdered the Governor and many of the prin cipal inhabitants, when he was called upon with his regiment to quell the insurrectio n . I n 1797 he volunteered in the expedition against Trinidad, and was present at the destruction of the Spanish ships of war, and was at the surrender of that island, and in June, 1799, proceeded with the expedition against the Dutch settlement of Surinam, and was employed in the arrangements for the capitulation and present at the surrender of that colony. In April, 1801, he accompanied the expedition against the Danish and Swedish islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Martin, and St. Bartholomew, and was present at their reduction. The deceased was placed on the Staff in 1806, but in Sept., 1808, his regiment (the 51st) being ordered on active service iu Spain, he resigned his Staff employment as As sistant-Adjutant-General, and took the command as Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment, and joined the army in the Peninsula under General Sir John Moore. He was under that distinguished General at the advance and retreat, the action at Lugo, and the battle of Corunna, after which he returned with his regiment to England. In the following year, July 1809, he was appointed Deputy-Assist ant-Adjutant-General to the force sent to the Scheldt under the Earl of Chatham, and was pre sent at the siege and surrender of Flushing. On his return he resumed his Staff duties at the Horse Guards, which he fulfilled up to 1818, when he was appointed to command the troops at the Mauritius, a command he held for five years, and for 18 months of which he administered the civil government of that colony. In 1825 the gallant deceased was ap pointed Governor-in Chief of New South Wales and Yan Diemen's Land, and for six years commanded the troops in those dependencies of the British Crown. In 1835 he was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, The gallant General in September, 1857, had the colonelcy of the 41st (the Welch) Regiment of Foot conferred on him, which he retained until February, 1848, when he was removed to that of the 69th (the South Lincolnshire) Regiment, which becomes at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief. Sir Ralph had received the gold medal for his services at Co runna. His commissions bore date as follows : Ensign, May 15, 1793: Lieutenant, Sept. 2, 1795; Captain, Sept. 6, 1796 ; Major, Feb. 2, 1800 ; Lieut.-Colonel, July 17, 1801; Colonel, July 25, 1810; Major-General, June 4, 1813 ; Lieut.-Ge neral, May 27, 1825 ; and General, Nov. 23, 1841. We unfortunately mentioned the services of the wrong officer yesterday in reporting the retirement of Major Travers, the barrackmaster for 45 years of Portsmouth garrison ; but as there have been 37 " fighting Travers" in the services, several of whom are living, the error is excusable. The gallant offi cer whose services we mentioned yesterday is the barrack.matter of Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. Major Travers, of Portsmouth, served the campaign of 1799, in Holland, as a Lieutenant, and was severely wounded in the body in the action near the Helder on the 27th of August. He was present when the enemy under Marshal Brune were defeated in their attack on the British lines on the 10th of Sept. ; be was also present at the battle of the 19th of Sept., and that of the 2d of Oct. at Berghen (and wounded), together with the actions of the 6th and 10th of Oct. The Major is in the receipt of a mili tary pension in consequence of the severe nature of his wounds. On his retirement Major-General the Hon. Sir S. Yorke Scarlett, K. C. 8., Lieutenant- Governor of Portsmouth, issued a district order, expressing his sense of the uniform propriety with which Major Travers had discharged his duties, and the great benefit which had accrued to the service from the unremitting attention which had marked his career. The D battery of the Royal Artillery, which has been for some time stationed in Leeds, left that town yesterday morning for Woolwich. Major Newton's G troop of Royal Horse Artillery yesterday morning assembled on parade at Wool wich in heavy marching order, and underwent a final inspection by Gen. Williams, preparatory to departure for Dublin. Immediately after inspec tion the troop commenced their first day's march for Highgate, under orders to reach Liverpool on the 21st. They were escorted to the precincts of the garrison by the General and staff, and were preceded by the mounted band belonging to the corps. The following officers accompanied the troop, Major H. H. Newton, in command ; Second Captains Wilkinson and Sandilands, and Lieu tenats Brown and Sandham. The G 1 troop has been in existence little more than three months having been organised and established in December last. General Williams likewise attended the " guard mounting" parade, and afterwards in spected the brigade of Horse Artillery on Woolwich common. The troopship Golconda arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning for the embarkation of troops and ammunition for the East. The freightship Birch Grove commenced shipping war stores yester day from Woolwich for Hongkong. BILL. (Front he Morning Herald.) We proceed to redeem our pledge of instituting a comparison between the two India bills submitted to Parliament by Lord Palmerston and the Earl of Derby. Both contemplate the same end, but the means of arriving at this are different. The East India Company are to be deposed, and the govern ment of the territories over which they hold sway is to be vested in the Crown. In both plans a council is to be established for the future direction and management of the affairs of India. Accord ing to Lord Palmerston, the council is to consist of a president and eight members : according to Lord Derby, of a secretary of state and eighteen mem bers. It is objected to both schemes that each contains the vicious element of divided responsi bility, the council being a screen for the president or secretary of state, in the same sense as the East India directors were a screen to the Board of Con trol. It may be asked of those who reason after this fashion whether there is any individual fit to be trusted with the government of 180 millions of people, speaking 75 languages or dialects, and scattered over a territory containing 1,300,000 square miles. Were any such man to present himself, and volunteer to undertake a task so ardu ous, most competent persons would pronounce him disqualified on account of the excess of his egotism. No other argument need be adduced to show the necessity of the chief of the department being assisted by able advisers. Whether the preferable number should be eight or eighteen is entirely one of degree, to be regulated by a comprehen sive review of all the circumstances of the case ; but if it be maintained as a principle that com plete responsibility can only be secured where supreme and uncontrolled power is lodged in the hands of a single individual, then both Lord Palmerston and Earl Derby must be equally con demned, since both their plans involve a departure from unity. The eight members of council, in the measure proposed by Lord Palmerston, are to be chosen from persons who have been directors of the East India Company, or who have been for ten years at least in India, in the service either of the Crown or of the Company, or who have resided at least 15 years in India. It eppears stran g e that the selec tion of the future council should be made from the directors of a company which this bill is ex pressly designed to extinguish. They are con demned, and still they are to be trusted. If they are not fit to rule how are they qualified to advise? A residence of 15 years in India is certainly a strong presumption in favour of local knowledge, which ie the basis of official aptitude ; but it is a serious de fect in the plan that the range of choice should be so narrowly restricted. Athough old Anglo-Indians may be fully conversant with . the wants and wishes of the natives, it is highly probable they may have contracted inveterate prejudices,land Lord Palmer ston has not provided any check. In this respect his scheme lacks comprehensiveness. It may be presumed that his council would be all of one mind and view all subjects through one medium, and this unanimity would be fatal to the extension and sifting of ideas. Debateable topics ought to be dis cussed with a combination of European and Asiatic minds, but the former element is excluded. We will now place in contrast the composition of the council recommended by the Earl of Derby. It has already been stated that it will consist of eighteen members, nine of whom are to be nominated by the Crown, while nine are to be elected by constituen cies ; but as the Crown will only be able to choose out of classes clearly defined, and possessing certain qualifications, Mr. Disraeli declated, with truth, that the whole council would consist of " represen tative men." It has been objected by professing Liberals that a body partly nominated and partly elected cannot work well together, but no reasons have been assigned for such a decision. It is simp!) , captious, and is here only noticed to be dismissed, for the combination is plainly in harmony with the usage of the constitution, since an elected House of Commons and an hereditary peerage, the latter derived originally from Royal nomination, are co equal and co-ordinate institutions, and form the common council of the realm ; while experience has shown that their united action, so far from throw ing the machinery of government out of gear, pre vents disturbance and maintains order. It may be that the querulous Whigs, aware of the frivolity of their argument, have been induced to urge it from vexation at the Conservatives having intro duced the elective element into the construction of the Indian Council. Any recognition of that prin ciple by the Conservatives must be to them! gall and wormwood, for their past ascendancy was gained by falsely describing their opponents as sworn enemies to popular rights and rational progress. That de lusion has nearly passed away, and if it still linger on the minds of any earnest and candid politicians, we would recommend them to read. carefully and compare Lord John Russell's " Essay on the Bri tish Constitution " and Mr. Disraeli's " Coningsby" and "Sybil." In our first remarks on the two India bills we expressed it as our opinion that the test of their relative merits was, which of the two was better adapted to confer benefits on the natives of India without injury to the rights and liberties of Eng land. Under that view, let us inquire into the qua lifications required in the nine members of the council to be nominated by the Crown. It is made a condition absolute that they shall kayo resided in India, and there been employed either in the civil or military service. Here, then, at once, is a gua rantee for official aptitude, while none is afforded in the plan of Lord Palmerston. The Noith Western Provinces, Lower Bengal, Madras, and. Bombay, will each have one representative mem ber in council, and no person is to be eligible un less he has been engaged in the civil service fur ten years within the territories designated. It is plain that such an arrangement must be beneficial to the natives of India, since gentlemen so selected must be perfectly familiar with their wants and wishes, able to point our grievances and •defecte, and recommend appropriate remedies. The fifth member must also have resided ten years in India, in the service of the Government of India, and during five years at least of such period have served as political agent or resident in some one or more of the native States. This is a most im portant condition, and were we to move an amendment it would not be against the prn ciple involved, but in favour of its extension, for two such representatives might be preferable to one. It may be well hero to observe that the native princes of India still govern with more or less authority, over 717,000 out of the 1,201,000 square miles which form the area of Hindosten, and rule 53,000,000 of the inhabitants. They are our allies, the relariens between us and them being either ,übsidiary or protective. We have bound them down strictly to the exclusion of Europeans and Americans from their service. By the terms of alliance the native states relinquish the right of self-defence and that of maintaining diplomatic re la'ions among each other or with foreign nations, while the erbitrement of all disputes among each other is vested in the Company as the paramount power. The aggregate revenue of the native princes (at least before the annexation of Oude) was ten millions sterling, and they paid one-tenth of that sum as tribute to the British Government, besides being bound to maintain a military contingent of 32,311 men, commanded by British officers and available, on demand, by the Company. Their collective military resources are estimated at 12,962 artillery, 68,303 cavalry, and 317,653 infantry—a grand total of 398,918 men. These facts abundantly prove the sound judg ment of Lord Derby in providing that one of the members of the council should be familiar with the usages of the native courts and the general character of their princes. The qualification of the sixth member is to have served for five years at least in her Majesty's army in India ; while the seventh, eighth, and ninth members respectively must have served for ten years at least in the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies. A distinction is here made which perh'sps will be reconsidered, for unless some special reasons can be adduced it does not appear equitable or expedient to require only five years' service from a Queen's officer, and ten years from the officers of the company. On the whole, however, it is difficult. to believe that any unprej u di ce d politician can raise a valid objection to the mode of appointing the first nine members of the council, or to the qualifications required from them ; moreover, with most honourable and unre served frankness; Mr. Disraeli has announced to Parliament the names of the nine gentlemen who will be the first nominated. We shall enter more fully into the merits of the elective portion of the plan on an early day. Hia ExcePency Count de Platen, Swedish Minister to the Court of Stare Tames, visited Portsmouth yes terday to inspect tie dockyard, (te. ; having been himself in the navy his Excellency takes much in terest in such establishments!. Admiral Sir Geo. Seymour, the Commander-in-Chief, entertained the Count and his suite at the Admiralty-house. Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Captain Fran tis Scott, C. 8., was taken out of the basin at Ports mouth yesterday, and will now receive her crew from their bulk. She will proceed to her station (embraced in the cruising ground from the Isle of Wight to Salcombe) shortly after. The Renown, 91, Captain Forbes, the Diadem, 31, Captain Moorsom, C. 8., the Curacoa, 31, Captain Mason, and the Racoon, 21, Captain Paynter, at present at Spithead, are expected to put to sea in a few days, and another or two are re ported to join them, for a cruise to test their respec tive merits as far as Lisbon, where they will ren dezvous in time to honour the marriage of the King of Portugal with a salute, &c. An Admiralty order has been received at Chat ham dockyard. by Captain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., directing that the pay of the seamen riggers em ployed at that establishment he increased to 1/. per week. Henry W. Molowworth has been appointed assis tant paymaster to the Euryalus ; John A. P. Williams, clerk, to the Urgent; and Cuthbert B. Hod ham, clerk, to the Exmouth. [A DV ERTISEMSN TA—Holloway's Ointment and —An Unparalleled Cure of a 'Rad Leg.—F. 13ird, gar dener, 50, Georgex-grove, Holloway, wag afflicted for ; 20 years with a bad leg, caused by a blow on t h e sh i n, which ultimately formed itself into an angry wound • be consulted several medical men, and tried almo,at every thing recommended him by sympathisi n g Mena% with out effect. As a lastiresource, be determined to, give Holloway's Ointment a trial, and, after persevering for a. few months, was completely cured, and now enjoys the best of health.—Sold by all Medicine Vendors through out the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London ; by A. Stamps, Constantinorle A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE.—A return show ing the time occupied by the Australian mail steamers in their voyage out and home has been printed, on the motion of Mr. Macartney ' M.P. In the Suez and Sydney services there are five steamers of 1,533 to 2 754 tons, and of 300 to 750 hone-power. Two—the Emeu and the Simla —arechartered. To the Oneida new inachineryis being fitted ; and the Tasmania is prepar ing for sea (not yet surveyed by the Admiralty). Last year it appears that the Emeu was four days behind tim3 on the voyage out (penalty 5001.) The Etaa and European (which divided the voyage between South ampton and Alexandria an I Suez and Sydney) so managed as to have a default of nearly nine days, for which 1,8001. penalty was levied. The Tamar and Colum bian were, in the same way, seven days in arrear on the whole of the outward voyage, and • 1,4001, was the 6ne imposed. In the joint voyage of the Juts and Simla 11 day was saved, and a premium of liol. was paid ; on the home ages from Sydney there were two failures ; in one, where 11 days were lost, 3,3001. w.s ampose I ; and in another, although the voyage was performed two days within the time, 2001. was abated from the contract as penalty, in consequence of a delay at Alexandria. In two other cases there was an excess of five days and one day, tint the penalties will not be deduc ed until the next quarterly payment. In the case of the failure cf the wail from Suez to Sydney by the dent to the Emeu, the penalty will be deducted in (F ro m the Morning Chronicle) Cie same way. A eorre-pondence betw,en the Her Majesty'd Opposition have at length made E iropean and Australian Mail Company, the R yal up their minds what to do about the proposed urea- Mail Steampacket C.impaoy, and the Go werameet of sure for the Government of India. They intend to her Moj -sty, in reference to the arceilgama.'ion cf tn , e run through Palmers l on's scheme against Lord aid companies, and for the future performance of mail Ellenborough's bill. The former, as it happ ens , , crvices to and from Australia, the West d stands for a second reading on Thursday, the 22d South America. The Royal Mail Company apprised the inst., that day having been fixed by the noble lord Admiralty on the 14th JAIL last that they had ace -3i ted himself prev.ously to th e i n troduction of the tenders for two paddlewheel steamers of iron, of 3,000 nisterial measure. The latter takes nearly a week's tthonesoaand 800 horse-goer;w and of fora third steamer of Led powery fr s sea d i n 8 'z9' twenty all months w from they m h the hoped o to precedence precedence on the notice-p a p er , the second in readct have ; being appointed for Friday wee k, A pr il IG. Some the contract wi h the Government; these steamers a'e Parliamentary contrivance will, however, easily for the West India Transatlantic mail service. One get over this technical difficulty, an d p l ace th e two iron steamer of 1,000 tons and 250 horse-power is to be bills side by side before the House of Common, built by the same company for the mail service between for discussion and judgment ou their its. Rio de Janeiro and the River Plate. The contract of the Acceptance is challenged for Lord Palmerston's Royal Mail Company h as b een ex t en d e d t o th e I s t o f proposition by the partisans of the late Minister,' January, 1864, and the acceleration of the Brazil rout chiefly on t w o grounds. First, that it has al rea dy is to commence on the 9 th of May ensuing. A copy of as they a ll ege , rece i ve d the sanction of a large ma- a supplemental contract in November, 18§7, relative to tho Australian mails is also printed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, MONDAY. By the establishment of certain new Stakes an im provement has keen made in the list of sport for the meeting which commenced this day. Still a fortuitous interest only was impartel to the proceedings, and what ever success attended the racing was not attributable to the administrative capacity of the Jockey Club. The ruling authorities at Newmarket scarcely study the true interest of the town. Their conduct of racing affairs is regulated by an exclusive principle ; public opinion is rather defied than conciliated, and the inducements to gentlemen to send horses to the town are slender indeed in comparison with the considerations which produce a contrary effect. Public patronage is not solicited for the meeting ; it is rather discouraged, arid, however pleasant it may be for the members of the Jockey Club to have a free range ef the Heath, and to preserve their courses from the in cursions of the mob, the innkeepers and tradesmen of the town scarcely find the absence of the people either agreeable or profitalile. While at " provincial" towns meetings which are managed by committees flourish, those at the metropolis of the turf, with only three ex ceptions, maintain merely a doubtful vitality. An eff .rt, however, is about to be made to arrest the gradual decay. On Wednesday next a meeting will take place to receive the report of the committee appointed to revise the rules of racing, and to take into considera tion other matters affecting turf pursuits. The Club, however, deprecate the interference of the public with their plans. The presence of the reporters was always deemed by certain people an intrusion at Newmarket, and comments on the management of affairs at "head-quarters," and the conduct of the proceeding., an impertinent meddling with matters which were de signed for the amusement and occupation of individuals in high stations. Accommodation for the representatives of the press at Newmarket was never expected or solicited, but it was believed that no restrictiens world be placed I upon the exertions of those gentlemen whose duty it is to convey to the public faithful and accurate reports of the proceedings which come under their notice. V,xa tions obstructions have been placed in their way, and an official order from the Jockey Club has debarred them from entrance to the " cebined, cribbed, confined" rooms which serve the purpose of weighing stands at Newmarket. At every race meeting in the kingdom except at Newmarket special arrangements are made for the rezesentativer of t'ie press, and the officials afford them every facility for the transaction of their business. At Newmarket the reverse is the fact. The deliberations of the Jockey Club, theie " commissions of inquiry" upon any dispute brought before them, have always been carried on with a secrecy worthy of a Masonic lodge, and now even those matters on which the public have a right to ex ;? ect full and unreserved information are to be arranged is a kind of Sporting Star Cnamber. At Newmarket where horse racing is supposed to be conducted in all its purity—at the metropolis of the English turf--the reporters are to be excluded, and the information to be conveyed to the public 'trust be oh taiued casually by a stroll on the Heath. These circumstances compel us to state that, owing to the exclusion of the representatives of the press, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the weight 4, and the coructness of the jockey's names at these meetings. A. bitterly cold east wild marred the enjoymeut of the sport, and the assemblage of company was most meagr-; not eve , so important an event as the match fur 3 0001 being a sufficient inducement for many people who were not directly interested in the proceedings to muster on the black heath. . . By putting on a special train in connectison with the evening train froni Cambridge the Eastern Counties Company afford great accommodation to those per-ons who wisn to return each evening The racing was decided as under : The Craven Plate of 50 soya, f )1- 3 yr-olls and upwards. Weight for age. A.F. (1 mile 2 furl.mgs 73 yards.) Mr. J. B. Starky's Fisherman, 5 yrs, Bst 13lb (hall) 1 Lord Clifden's Latitude colt, 3 yrs, 6s Gib (Bray) 2 Mr. J. Merry's Special License, 4 yrs, Bst 41b(Aidcroft) 3 Fly-by-Day and Gourd also ran. Betting—Even and 5 to 4 on Fisherman, 7 to 2 agst Special License. Won by a short head ; bad. tbirl. To Latitude colt slightly cannoned against Fiiherman within a few strides of the chair, and Gourd bolted at the bushes across Fisherman, whom he nearly carried away. handicap Sweepstakes, of 15 cove each, 10 ft, for 3 and 4-yr-olds. D. M. (7 furlongs 201 yards.) Major Houstoun's Barry Stanley, 3 yrs, fist 121 h (Plumb) 1 Mr. Goodwin's Apathy, 4 yrs, 84 12Ib (Bray) 2 Mr. Hodgman's Bannockburn, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Fordhatn) 3 Duke of Bedford's Aster, 4 yrs, 84 41b ...(E. Sharp) 4 Betting-2 to 1 agst Apathy, sto 2 agst Bannock burn, 3 to 1 apt Aster, 4 to 1 agmit Harry Stanley. Won by half a length, bad third. The Bennington Stakes, of 50 soya each, h ft, for colts Eat 71b, fillies 84t 21b. C .rtain allowances. D. M. (7 furlongs 201 yard). 10 rubs. Gen. Peel's F.,rerunner, 8 t 4ib (A Day) 1 Mr. Bowes's Star of the East, Bst 41b (Wells) 2 Mr. Payne's Glealucs colt, Bst 4lb (Flatms.u) 3 Lord W. Powlett's Brother to Scandal, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 4 Bating-2 to lon Star of the East, sto 1 agst Fore runner. Wo❑ by a length, threa lengths between the second and third. After going a short distance the saddle of Brother to Scandal slipped from under S. Rogers, who was compelled to ride home barebacked. Handicap Plate of 100 80,1 S. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards.) Mr. Nicholson's Marauder, 3 yrs, 64 lib (Perry) 1 'Jr. Edward , 's Theodora, 5 yrA, Bet 121O...(Fordhain) 2 Lord Clifden's colt by Loadtorie, out of Royalty, 3 yrs, 5-t 101 b (carried sst 12 lb) (Bray) 3 The foil wing also ran :—Olympus, Flimsy, The Poacher, Neva, Kilbride, Misty Morn, G-orgis, Sooth sayer, Brother to Farthingale, arid Benefield, Betting-7 to 2 agst Theodora ' 7 to 1 agst Misty Morn, 10 to 1 agst Olcimpus, i3ellefield, and Marau ler, 12 to 1 agst Georgie, 15 to 1 agst Brother to Far thingale. Won by three-quarters of a length ; two lengths be tween the second and third ; Kilbride, Georgie, and Olympus were next, well up. Match, 3,0001., h ft, 84 lib eae%. A. mile and a quar ter over the F at. IVIr. F. Robinson's Anton, by Bay Middleton (A. arty) 1 Mir. S. Williams's Kent (Fla:man) 2 Bettin4-6 to 5 on Anton. They took a wide berth, Kent going away with a lead of about eight lengths. In the curds Anton joined him, but within a fdxv strides of the chair showed temper and seemed inclined to bolt. Kent then appeared to be w i nn ing easily, but Alfred Day with admirable tact recovered his horse, and, hitting him over the head, got him straight, and won o❑ the post by a neck. Kent ap peared to " stand still" at the fluigh. The pace was good throughout. The Forty-fourth Riddlesworth Stakes, of 200 soya. each, h. ft., for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Ab. M. 4 subs. Mr. S. Williams's Gourd, by Nutwitb, 7,b, (Faulk ner), walked over. Duke of Bedford's Aneroid withdrew his stake. BETTING 13P TO SIX O'CLOCK. NEWSIAIIKET HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Monarque (taken). 7 tvt 1 agst Pavilion (takot,), 7 to 1 agit Worcester. 7 to 1 agst Wouvermans. 10 i,o 1 agst East Langton. Two TRousARD. 9to 2 agst Clydesdale (taken) 11 to 2 agst Tile Peer (offered) 10 to 1 agst Toxophilite (taker) 12 to 1 agit Mentmore (taken) 12 to 1 agst Brother to Bird-on•the-Wing (taken and oMred) 100 to 8 ag4 Happy Land 300 to 200 on Two*lite agst Mentmore (taken) DURHAM RACES.-MONDAY. TRIAL STAKES. Bradley .. Early Bird HOPEFUL STAKES. Dutchman's Daughter Amazon DURHAM HANDICAP. Logic o'Buchan TA LLY-13.0 STAKES. Ligie o'Buchan Pkt VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.--On Saturday afternoon, a violent thunderst,rui passed from the west over heath, near Bramshill. At the same time a carter in the employment of Mr. John South, with four horses, was leaving a field in which they had been ploughing, when a flash of lightning struck the poor fellow arid all the horses to the ground. Two of the horses immediately got up and another Foot; afterwards, but one of them and the carter were killtd on the spot. The man's bat was literally in shreds ; the lightning had wreck him on the kit side of the head near the ear, burning the hair and skin under the chin, al , o severely scorching the breast, abdomen, loins, and the inside of his right thi c ;ll and lee ; his flannel shirt was also macs burnt. 18'58 BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 20th day of Ruch, 1858 : Average Amount. 8,403 PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. ..... Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt Pomfret,and Co. Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury —Z. D Hunt 18,018 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock —Wells. ~nk, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 7 ,695 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co Bedford Bank, Bedford—Barnard and C ... 30,812 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-11. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham -Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford. Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Clavpons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—T. Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—.J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 29,909 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-- Bartlett, Par rott, and Co Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury —J. C and A 8,304 14,815 20,050 58,451 14,680 57,107 28,343 24,561 Gillett Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Son, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Lloyds &Co 18,772 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. - --- Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 32,820 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Co Burlington and Driffield Bank Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co 9,305 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Worlledge and Co 2,371 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge— Mortloek & Co. 13,046 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co 2B 020 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons 15,747 Chertsev Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son 2,786 Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and 41,658 Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co 33,194 Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co 37,958 Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock 5, nl5 City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co 16,491 Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Rank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co 027,998 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke 54,130 6,978 10,626 33,620 and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster 6,723 10,035 —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington--Ba,ckhouse & Co fievonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old B nk and Dorsetshire Bank, 54,331 73,199 8 058 Dorchester—R. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Lisk.sard—Robins, Fos- 38,465 ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank, and Bishop's Stortferd Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Vantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co G-odalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 72,713 47,313 37,926 23,422 6,011 9,691 5,726 4,866 11,640 24,210 Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Veasey and Co Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitehin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archen field Bank. R 03.4 - Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co 16,703 Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son 5,276 Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds —W. Williams, _ _ Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—T. &T. T Paget 23,723 Lewes Old Mank, Lewes—Whitfi.l , l and C 0..., 19,975 Lincoint...lk, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. 69,251 Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan ddo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co 16,305 Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock 7,080 Lymington rank, Lymington—S, and G. F St. Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co 7,964 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hung Irford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Isl eri onethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son 5,336 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 12,379 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, A.bergavenny—Bailey and Co 25,600 Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co 9,575 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell 17,715 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co 42,637 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock 16,465 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co 15,657 Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons 47,995 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys aMd Birkbecks Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co 7, 242 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co 2,802 Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co 8,204 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Parsons and Co. ... 30,920 011 Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Sons 10,278 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 40,750 Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Wading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, 8,552 6,635 24,262 27,113 5,150 _ and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham ' and Strood Bank, Roches. ter—Day and Nicholson ... Royston Bank, Royston—Fordharn and Sons Rlsgby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son... Rye Bank, Rye— R. C. Pomfret, & Rosa Old Bank, lieredf,rd,hire, Ro qat Illaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and Noah Essex Bank, S;fl from Walden—Gibson; au , 1 Co. ............ Salop Bank Shrewsbury —Burton, Lloyd, and Co. ... .................... Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough —Wood all and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury a nd Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, EY tons, and ....... ................... Sitti.,abourne And Milton Ban s it tirgbourne Barak, —Valiance a n d Co. ................ Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddieou and . Pearce 2,900 6,161 12, 72 8,300 8,261 4.126 29 i 57 10,819 19,143 29,948 2,041 fV.RECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP. The American b irk Petrea, Captain Samuel Odaorne, from Havre for New York, with emi grants to ti , e euineer of 217, French and German, and it geueial n , rg gt..t -ashore on Sunday morn ing, at ab ut half past 2 (as briefly related in the ,Sun of ye , terday), en the shoals off the har beur of Oh.eheeter, or "Chichester Pool," wind at the time b!ewing fresh aid weather thick. On striking. the captain ado;eted the usual measures of beceine sail &e:, with the view of easing her off, but ,u no purpose, as she took the shoal at high title and struck heavily, and the fall left her more embedded in the strand. On the vessel being discovered in her perilous position by the Coastguard at East Wittering, under the command of Lieut. W. Heston, R.N., every assist ance was rendered to that officer and his ciew. At about 3 p.m. a boat manned by twelve hands was .espatch- d by the cap am to the Chevalier Pappa -1 ti do, United coesul at Portsmouth, inform in9; him of the disaster, and asking assistance. The Consul immediately embarked and returned in the boat to the wreck, distant about twelve miles from Portsmouth. through a rough sea. On board ing the bark he found the emigrants in a state of great alarm for their lives and property, enough all had bet-n done by the captain that he could,to calm their fears and inspire confidence. M. Pappalardo at once gave such directions as were necessary, and engaged a g; ng of men to man the pumps and endeAv.Fur to keep her free from water, the el ew being exhausted. A steamer had been sent to the assis ante of the ship in the course of Sunday from Portsmouth, by the French Consul (Chevalier Vaudenbergh), a. report having eeu made to him that it was a French ship, but tte pow -r of the steamer was found too limited to admit of her assistance being • ffective in moving the wreck, end she returned. Ye'terday, at daybreak, the wind blowing a gale from the east-south-east, feering 'hat she would b_ come a total loss, Consul P,,ppalardo, actieg in conjunction with the captain, deemed it expedie-nt no longer to delay attempting to land the passengers. Accordingly, he superin tended the hoisting over the side all hands, by means of a barrel and a " whip," the women and ch.ldren being atteuded to first. A he av y sur f was beating enthebeach, but another gang of Coastguard men and others by ropes helped to drag the boats to laud, and tht se combined efforts were so success ful that all were landed to the number of 239 Souls, without any accident of any kind, the Consul and the captain being the last to quit the wreck. They then saw all berthed in a building engaged for them by tie Consul, aiid comfortably victualled and otherwise provided for. The Consul then proceeded per express train to P. rtswouth, and applied to the naval authorities for a powerful steamtng to extri cate the ship from her perilous position, ani lighters and hands to save as mach as possible of her cargo, should i be f 'rind impracticable to float her. The tug, &c., was promptly sent, but there seems lit le hope for the stranded vessel, as the wind his freshened since, an • .he tides are dead neap. However, the scup is a strongly built one, of about 500 tons burden, and well fastened. C;uulibr ka,rKets. COLCHESTER- APRIL 1. A short supply of wheat, the trade was firm, and on some samples Is. per quarter advance was obtained. Barley for malting was rather dearer. Beans and peas were both the turn in favour of the seller. Prices to-day were as follow :—Virheat, white, 463 to 504 red, 42s to 465; barley, 36s to 43s ; oats, 24s to 322 ; beans. Ilazagan, 34s to ;As ; middle and small, 36s to 40s ; pea', white, 40s to 428 ; grey, -10 s to 445. OFIELMSFOIt D—APRIL 3. The wheat trade was somewhat brisker than last week, ali(i for better qualities a rise of Is. per quarter took place et the close of the market. Everything else ruled the same as last week. Whoa., white, old, per s. a. a. a. qr. 44 51 Oats, per qr. 24 29 I new.... 44 51 Peas, Partridge ..... :.40 44 red, - old 41 46 White 38 42 new..-39 46 Boiling 39 44 Barley 34 40 Dun 38 40 Chevalier 38 44 ! Beans, Tick 15 37 Grinding 23 32 1 Harrow ticks 36 39 Halt 70 731 Mazagan 32 35 '- Chevalier 72 73 Ditto, uew...32 31 KIRKCALDY—APRIL 3. Here, to-day, we had small supplies of all kinds of grain. High prices were asked, which caused a slow sale, but ulti ui,Ltely most things sold at last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. First Second Third 36s Od I 21s Oa 22s Od j Os 04 COAL kf RR WI.—MARCO 31. Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market s. d. Walisend, arc. _ _ _ Bebside's Hartley 1 5 3 s Davison's West Hartley 15 3 I3raddyll l6 6 kiolywell ..... .............. 14 6. Framwellvate 14 9 Howard's West Bartley Keiper Grain° 17 0 Tyne Main 12 0 Canfield Stour l2 61 Canfield Moor Butes 12 6 Walker Primrose l2 31 Nylain ,Ru.sell's lietton l6 3 South Hetton 17 ShineMs 14 9 Lieugu Hall .15 0 Kelloe 16 9 South Hartlepool l6 0 Tees l7 6 'Thorp l6 6 Whitworth l4 6 Cowpon Hartley l5 3 Nixon's Duffryn. 21 6 Powell's Duffryn Steam 20 9 ;,143 ; sold 125. Wallsentl, Acorn Close l5 3 Eden ueeerth l4 3 Riddell Eden NUM .. 15 ti Ships at market CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—An important communi cation was received horn the commissioners at the close of last week, and we believe we are correct in stating that, among other things, it intimates their intention to insist on the following points :—Tnat the terms should. commence earlier than at present ; that a residence for t xo-thirds of a trrm should be indispensable, instead of one-half; and that the Black Hood and White Hood House- 'bould be amalgamated into one.—Cantoride Indepehdent. TRANSPOL.TATION OF M lITINEEIIS. --The ships Roman' Emperor and Edward will leave this on Monday morn ing for the Andaman I lands with the mutineers lately brought to Kurrachee. 176 ‘it the mutineers embark this, morning on'boa.d the Rowan Emperor, and 142 on the ship Ed ward. The arrangements made for conveyance to. the bonder and reception ~f the vagabonds on board are very commendabie. Tney will be removed from the gaol at 6 o'clock in Cirts, under the escort of the Punjaub.. police, who accompanied hem from the Panjaub. The loaer decks if the snips have been fitted up with cages on each side, with a passage in the centre for_ he guard. Fney are to be chained down to the d,ck, and are to attend to all their own wants on. noard, and to be their own topa-ses T oe on l y thing to be done f , r them will be their provisions, which will he cooked by the vessel. The crew and officers are to r“- well armed, so there is no fear of their attempting to hreak out. On arrival at the Andaman Islands, their fet , tete will be taken off. and they will be let loose amongst Lhe -avages. The goverament of Bengal we understand have ord , red two y,ars'povieions to be stored on the island for them, and the steamer Semiramis is to be sta tioned there to prevent any vessels removing these scoundrels. The only remaining thing to be done now 1 , , that the King of Delhi should be disposed of in eit wactly the same tniviner, and left to propagate a kingdom among his pet lambs. Sindian, Feb. 17. BIRTHS. LLOYD—On the Pd inst., at Aston Hall, near Oswestry, the Lady Francis Lloyd, of a daughter. LEARMONTH —On the 9th Feb. last, at Ereildoun, near Ballarat, Victoria, tha wife of Thomas Learmonth,juu.. of a daughter. CONRAN—On the 31st March, at Ousden Hall, Suffolk, the wife of Captain Wm. Conran, of twins. LONERGAN—On the 2d inst., at No. 7, Old Bond-street, Piccadilly, the wife of Win. Lonergan, Esq., of a son. SINCLAIR Ou the 3:1 inst., at 25, Charlotte-square, Edin burgh, the wife of J. G. T. Sinclair, Esq., of Ulbster and Benmore, of a son and heir, TROWER -- On Easter-day, at No. 33, Hyde-park -square, the wife of George Trower, Esq., of a daughter. SMITH—On the 4th inst., at Ilighltate-rise, the wife of Thomas Smith, Esq., of a daughter. 'MARRIAGES. ODELL —LOMER—WaI t air, Madras, Lieut. W. Odell, 43d Regiment, Madras NJ., to Bertha Bishop, second . daughter of the late Captain 0. Lerner, 21st Regiment, Bengal N.I. RUSSELL —Howu— On the 31st of March, at Lewisham. road, by the Rev. Joshua Russell, minister of the chapel, and the Rev. S. Luke, of Clifton, uncle of the bride, Jno. Addison Russell, of Fore-street, City, son of Mr. Jacob Russell, of Old Kent-road, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. P. H. Howe, of Dartmouth-grove, Blackheath. BUTT -- KNIGHT—On the 3,1 inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. Charles Butt of Glocester, to Miss A. Knight, of New-cross. BARNETT—SIDDELEY— On the 3d inst., at Knutsford, by the A ..11. 1 e . v , . 1 1 2 Z. , A C l i o b ‘ a v i e i y s, -street, R eg ent's -pack, to Kat e , Robert Barnett, Esq., it. youngest dau g ht er o f M r. Siddeley, Aigburth, Liver pool. DEATHS. GonT-- On Frid,y, the 2d inst., at Potetsham, Battey, Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Gort. 2.3iddesJtat.S.onlasto,f a T t o se b a ia , i Ca ß :. a ta w i d n en G , eo l r a g te e H. M.'s Customs, L on d on. BAWD}, N C s : , I , i n e 11 E. Baw. , en, /I , B : c ' o e n he li r Losin the 29th March, at Maryox-road, Wool wich, John 11,rcorn, Esq , late of the Ordnance Depart-. met a, Pt iddy's Hard, Gosport. SECRETAN—On tho :list March, at Brentwood, Mr. John Thomas Sceretan, of the Stock Exchange. RAmsAY —On the 31st March, at Whitebill, Midlothian, L N O . Flora „‘a k, d leyßamsay, Catherine, : aged y sixth daughter ea . o f Mr. and Lady DARLING—Ou the 2d inst., itt No. 39, Brunswick-square, Brighton, G,ntral Sir Ralph Darling, G.C.H., Colonel of the 69 , A1 Regiment. Printe,l arlii Put:A' , died by MITTWO VOLiNt • Printm, at The Sun Ottice, No. iu in life Lowly , of Middlesex, Tuesday, April 6, 185$. B. 144 Di /IT Pa ref ev, ac( WL Ivi, fea wi: ref ilia