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Infirmary for the Cure - of Strictures of tie Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the ♦arious kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly , and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular, Dec. Ist, 1858. London: IL BRilliere, 21.9 Regent-street. A New Edition of THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE. By JOSEPH KAHN, Graduate in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery in the Royal and Imperial University of Vienna, Erlangen, &c. This popular work (which has been translated into four dif ferent languages) has now gone through 41 Editions of 10,000 each, and is designed to impart accurate knowledge on sub jects which involve the means of securing moral and physical happiness. Price Is., or post tree for 12 stamps direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street, Cavendish -square, London.W. Now ready, No. XII., price Three-halfpence (to be continued weekly), T HE SUNDAY TIMES' RACING RECORD AND HANDICAP BOOK. EDITED BY ALBERT FEIST. Subscribers in all parts of the United Kingdom may hare the weekly numbers and the bound parts supplied to them, post free, on the payment of one guinea per annum. THE SPRING PART OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' RACING RECORD Is Now Ready, mice sixpence, post free sevenpence. It contains the Programmes for March and April ; Nomi nations for the principal races ; Derby, Oaks, and Handicap Lots ; Lists of Jockeys and Trainers, and other useful infor mation. The SUMMER PART of the Sunday Times' Racing Re cord will be published on the first of June. Published by Edmund Seale, at the Office, 103, Fleet-street, London, E,C. 0 YAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT 1 -U INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Ilerries and Co. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Supermatorrhcea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences ; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marring. ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CH APT ER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending over a period of 25 years. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to which is added the Author's receipt of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 23d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the esurce of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more Irequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. At home for consultation, daily, from le till 3 and 6 to 8. Sundays, 10 to 1. MEDICAL ADVICE. R. LA'MERT, Itegist cre dLiS.A , Honorary as Member of the London hospital Medical Society, 111. D. usness, and On the Secret In p on t th a e ll U c t z s o f i ty pe o ti f il l i iir y l , a w ng . e e ry n o , may be CONSULTED tirmities of Youth and ?.faturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till El ht, at his residence, 37, BED - FoRD.SQUARE, LONDON Dr. Es",liert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravine . s and Cases. New Edition or hi s W or k , SET, 14'-1' E ESE RYA T I ON, which will he sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Minn, 39 Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps. CON TENTS. StcartoN T.—The PlivsiOlog,7 of the Generative Organs. ; , r.c.TroN H.—Puberty- -Manhosri —The Morale of Genera ive Physiolo.c7—True and False Morality. SECTION I I I.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Itelatione—lts Expectancies and Disappointinents—Advan tagen of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring:. ECTION l V.—Spermatorrhen, and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. —The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION Vl.—Treatment or Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles of Treatment; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practioel The above work is intended for the perusal of those who have in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules of morality. In its pares facts of paramount utility are brought together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the guise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the oonstitutiOn frequently followed by serious consequences, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1860.! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY.—(CONCLUDED.) Helter Skelter Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, the second to save his stake. Half a mile. 9 subs. Mr. Hughes's Fractious, by Orlando, 5 yrs, 7st 41b (Custance) 1 Captain Archdall's Niger, 3 yrs, 6st .. (Sadler) 2 Mr. Newland's Buttercup, 3 yrs, Gst Sib (Bottom) 3 The following also ran :—Fusee, Miss Julia, Layton, Swale, Brocketina, and Pretty Rosa. Betting-2 to 1 agst Fractious; 4to 1 agst Pretty Rosa, 5 to 1 each agst Miss Julia and Layton. Won by a length ; half a length between the second and third—good fourth. The Scramble Handicap, of 5 sovs each, with 30 added. The winner to be sold for SO sovs, &c. Three-quarters of a mile. Six subs. Mr. Hughes's Spiteful Dick, by Bryan O'Lynn, G yrs, 7st 101 b (Custanca) 1 Mr. Hardy's Emerald, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Entwistle) 2 Mr. Dawson's Si: Joseph, 4 yrs, Bst 41b.. (Bullock) 3 The following also ran : —Miss Eleanor, Rattlesnake, and Miss Fisher. Betting-5 to 4on Spiteful Dick ;2to 1 agst Rattle snake. Won by six lengths; a length between the second and third ; Miss Eleanor and Rattlesnake close up ; Miss Fisher beaten off. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for three-yr-olds, 7st 21b ; four, 9st 21b ; five, 9st 121 b ; six and aged, lOst 21b. Twice round. Mr. T. Parr's Avalanche, by Wild Dayrell, 3 yrs, 7st 21b _ . , (Clements) 1 Mr. C. Peck's Crim Tartar, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (H. Robertson) 2 Mr. Edwards's Jack Spring, 6 yrs, lOst 21b (J. Osborne) 3 II Gardenia filly and Ploughboy Barlow weighed for Mr. Brandreth's Music, 3 yrs, but was thrown on his way to the post, and the filly did not start. Betting-6 to 4on Avalanche, 2to 1 agst Jack Spring. Won by a length, the same between the second and third ; bad fourth. Ploughboy tailed off. THURSDAY'S RACING. The Scurry Handicap of 5 sous each, with 30 added. Three-quarters of a mile. 6 subs. Capt. Christie's Brandy Ball, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. Brown's The Norman, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (Woodhouse) 2 Mr. W. Sharp's Layton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Charlton) 3 The following also ran :—Buttercup and Sheffield. Betting-5 to 4 agst Brandy Ball, 6to 4 agst Norman. Layton made play to the turn into the straight, where lie was beaten, and the favourite took up the running, closely pursued by Norman, who never got up, and was beaten by half a length ; bad third ; Sheffield, last throughout, was beaten off. Marquis of Westminster's Plate, value 100 in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstake of 10 soya each ; extra weight for winners ; the second to receive 20 sous out of the stakes. Grosvenor Course. 18 subs. Mr. Hargreaves's Horace, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (W. Buck) 1 Mr. Gibbs's Golden Pippin, 3 yrs, 6st 21b..(Grlinshaw) 2 Mr. Merry's Apollyon, 3 yrs, 7st (Custanee) 3 The following also ran :—Master Bagot and Homeward Bound. Betting—Even on Golden Pippin, 3 to 1 agst Apollyon, 6 to 1 agst Horace and Master Bagot. Apollyon, Horace, and Master Bagot ran in front to the stand, where Horace took up the running. The favourite lay last until half way up the Dee side, where she took second place, but never caught Horace, who won by half a length; a length between second and third ; bad fourth, The Cheshire Welter Cup of 100 sovs, by subscription of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, with 50 added. Grosvenor Course. 16 subs, 9 of whom declared, and pay 5 soya each. Mr. Pearce's Irish Emigrant, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (inc. 51b ex.) (Thorpe) 1 Mr. Eastwood's Tommy Noble (h b), 3 yrs, 1 Ist 61b) (Mr. Blake) 3 Mr. Whitworth's Lady Mary gelding, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 131 b (inc. 51b extra) Mr. C.Reynard's Cherry Cb.ap,s yrs, 1 Ist 91b (Mr. Boynton) 4 Betting—Even on the Lady Mary gelding, 7 to 4 agst Irish Emigrant, 6 to 1 agst each of the others offered. Irish Emigrant made all the running, and won by half a length ; a neck between the second and third, Cherry Chap close up. The Dee Stakes of 10 sons each, with 200 added, forth i -7 7- yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes. 47 subs. Mr. Merry's gr c Brother to Rainbow, Bst 71b(Custance) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Sir William, Bst 71b (Bullock) 2 Mr. Parker's Common Sense colt, Bst 71b....(Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Upperhand, Man-at-Arms, Grand Master, Error, South Australian, and Sparrow Hawk. Botting-7 to 4 agst Upporhand, 4 to 1 agst Sir William, 5 to .1 oast Bvher to Rainbow, 100 to 15 agst Sparrow hawk, 8 to 1 agst the Common Sono° oolt, 9 to 1 agst Man at-Arms. The favourite got away first, but on passing the Stand Sparrow Hawk showed in advance, Error, Brother to Rain bow, Man-at-Arms, and Common Sense colt being next. Midway up the Dee side of the course Brother to Rainbow took the lead, and was followed into the straight by Sir William and Common Sense colt ; the grey, however, maintained his advantage to the end, and won by a length, the second beating the third by half a length, good fourth, Man-at •Arms fifth several lengths off, and Grand ;Master last. Immediately after the race 1,000 to 15 each was taken Brother to Raini3ow and Sir William, and 1,000 to 10 ten times about Upperhand, for the Derby. Match, £lOO, h ft.—Aquamarine beat Schoolmaster. The Stand Cup. Brandy Ball Golden Pippin Black Cloud Won by three-quarters of a length. The Biennial. Big Ben ..Walked over. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. THE MORTARA CASES. Yesterday Mr. Denis O'Connor, one of the prin cipal parties charged with th e a bd uc ti on o f th e Sher wood children, presented himself before the Court i ?f ss Q u e u d e e a n g ' a s n ß s e t n h c i h m t o o n a , s u w e s e d r a t y h ewwe wee r k i t . of o n ha b b e e i a n s g e i o n rc e u r s . rogated by the Chief Justice, Mr. O'Connor ex pressed his regret that it was not in hi s p ower t o produce the minors, as it was another person who removed them. One of the other Judges then in formed him he was in custody for contempt, and he was finally ordered, being of a respectable class of life, to find securities himself in £lOO, and two sureties of £5O each, to answer certain interroga tories which were to be exhibited to him. O'Connor was finally removed in custody. In the same case an'absolute order for a writ of habeas corpus, to be directed to the Rev. Jeffrey Lynch, P.P. of West laud-row Chapel, and also to the grandmother of the infants, and Catherine Davis, was obtained on Monday last, from the Lord Chief Justice, in chamber, and the writ, returnable to-day, issued, directing them to bring up the bodies of the four infants, by whatsoever name they might now be called or known. The affidavit on which the order was obtained stated grounds for believing that the ehildren were in the custody, power, or procure ment of the parties named. A return was handed in by the Rev. Jeffrey Lynch, in which he states that he has not the children, and had them not, and that he does not know where they . are, and there fore cannot comply with the mandate of the writ. THE BANKRUPTCY BILL •,,.. The Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney-General, in its amended form, has just been printed. Among the principal alterations are the following :—The Assistant-Judge is to , sit in Basinghall-street (in stead of Portugal-street), so that all the bank ruptcy business in London will be transacted in one ' building. The proceedings in any bankruptcy may be removed into a County Court on the resolution of a majority of creditors, without reference to the amount of liabilitks or assets (instead of the juris diction of the Court, or the action of creditors being limited to estates with assets not exceeding £1,000). The claus - es relating to acts of bankruptcy for non payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes are ;,truck out. The clauses as to seizure and sale under an execution by the sheriff being an act of bankruptcy are amended by compelling the sheriff in all cases to sell the goods by public auction, and to advertise such sale three days be fore it takes place. The execution creditor is to be paid the amount due to him at the expiration of seven days from sale, unless the sheriff has notice of a petition for adjudication ; but if a petition shall be presented within sixty days after such sale the assignees may recover back the amount from the execution creditor • after sixty day s th e sale is not to be a n ac t of bankruptcy. Clauses have been added to enable the Court to issue a summons returnable in four days, calling upon a debtor to show cause why he should not be adjudged bank rupt upon the creditor filing an affidavit deposing to the following facts :—That a debt sufficient to support a petition for adjudication is due, that he has ell •• • •40nzentrzlthe verily...believes •his •- • Or sin insolvent circumstances, and setting forth his reasons for entertaining that belief. On the hearing of the summons, if the Court shall be satisfied that the debtor is insolvent, it shall adjudge him bankrupt. If after the issuing of the sum mons, and before the debtor shall have satisfied the Court of his solvency, he shall pay the creditor any money on account of such debt, and the debtor shall be adjudged bankrupt upon his own petition, or on the application of any other creditor, within sixty days after the issuing of the summons, the assignees shall recover back all money so paid. The Court is to have full power to award costs to either party on the hearing of the summons. Creditors' assignees are not to be paid remuneration, but shall be selected from the body of creditors, and allowed to appoint a manager (not being an official assignee or solicitor), to wind up the estate under their direction and responsibility, and such manager is to be paid out of the assets realised. (In the original bill official assignees might be appointed creditors' assignees, and allowed remuneration.) The stamp-duty payable upon petitions for adjudication in the chief court or county district court to be £5, half of which sum is to be returned if the assets do not exceed £3OO. Petitions in the London District Court or a County Court are to have a stamp of £l. (In the bill all petitions for adjudication were to pay a £lO stamp duty, half of which was to be re turned where assets did not exceed £300.) It will be noticed that these various modifications do not include the introduction of any penal inflictions on insolvents setting up vexatious defences. Some provision of the kind will, however, it is believed, be found absolutely essential, and the Mercantile Law Amendment Society will doubtless continue their vigilance on that point. —Times' City Article. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The screw steamship Anglo Saxon, Captain Ballantyne, which sailed from Portland on the 21st ult., and touched at Queenstown yesterday morn ing, arrived here to-clay. The approaching Democratic National Conven tion at Charleston monopolised. the attention of politicians. The Convention was to assemble on the 23d ult., and the latest despatches state that Charleston was already crowded with visitors. President Buchanan had written a letter posi tively and peremptorily declining the use of his name for re-nomination. The proceedings in Congress had been of slight importance. The Legislature of the State of New York bad adjourned sine die. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says it was understood that the republican senators would support the Mexican treaty, if amended. A Washington telegram of the 20th says : " The question involved in the protest of the Spanish ministers against the capture of Marin's steamers is, as to their legal transfer from the Spanish owners to General Miramon, previous to that occurrence. "There is reason to believe that the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will report a bill for providing a first class mission to Sardinia, in accordance with Mr. Burlingame's resolu tion, adopted to-day. It was prefaced by a Preamble,,which, however, was withdrawn at the request "of several gentlemen. The - preamble sets forth that the kingdom of Sardinia, by recent ac cessions, has been raised to a first-class power, ex tending from the Alps to the Adriatic, and em bracing within its limits the richest and most popu lous portion of Italy, over which extensive dominion constitutional representative government has been established, order maintained, and freedom of the press and religion secured. The treaty which Minister Preston has concluded with Spain provides for the ascertainment and set tlement of the pending claims. The New York .Herald says :—"We are informed that no less than six vessels have left this port for the African coast within the past fortnight, all of which expect to have negroes for their return cargoes." The United States steamer Powhattan sailed on the 7th for Panama, with the Japanese embassy on board. The Japanese steamer Candinmarrah will remain at San Francisco till advices are received of the arrival of the embassy at Washington, and then return to Japan, to announce to the Emperor the news of their reception at the federal capital. IRISH PROSPECTS. The Cork Examiner, referring to the rapid pro press of emigration, describes the persons emigrat ing as belonging to the most valuable class in Ire land—young men and young women, full of life, health, and energy, who are formed to give vigour to a race. " Labour," continues the Examiner— " Is everywhere seance, and is daily becoming less available. So much the better, it. may be thought, for those who are left behind, as they are secured better wages. If we are to judge by the exodus of producers from our shores, it is not too gloomy an anticipation to look forward not merely to a continuance, but to an increase in the startling deficit of last year. Some landlords to our know ledge, wiser than their fellows, have begun to see that a wilderness of pasture and turnip fields is not so profitable a substitute as they once imagined for populous farm steadings. Nay, they have even thought it necessary to do now what, had they and their fellows done it at first, would have saved Ireland much of the misery it has gone through— that is, they have re-let their land and on fair terms. This, however, is not the rule. Farms are put up to let throughout the county of Cork, after a system based on the known anxiety of the Irish peasantry to obtain land. Rack rents are still fished from farmers, even though the rate of wages for labour has during the last 10 years more than doubled." - THE WEATHER. The accounts this morning from the provinces are all that could be desired. North, east, south, and west, are of the one character. The change of Saturday has been universal, and the whole face of the country now presents the appearance of rapid vegetation. The price of hay is tumbling down ; in Dublin, in one day, it fell nearly 2s. per cwt., and should there be a return of the rain a' still greater decline may be expected. At present, how ever, the wind is in a dry point, and the atmosphere less genial than it was in the earlier part of the week. RIFLE TRIALS AT HYTHE. The Council of the National Rifle Association having invited all the rifle makers in England to a competition of small bares at Hythe on the Ist of May, the invitation was responded to by Mr. Whit worth and by a deputation of Birmingham gun makers, headed by their chairman, Mr. Goodman. The United Gunmakers declined to enter their rifles for the trial under the name of any particular maker, but sent 10 rifles, representing the best that could be turned out by the trade, in the hope that some one of the 10 might be found superior to the Whitworth. The London makers appear to have declined the contest altogether. It is a significant fact that all the rifles sent to contend with those of Mr. Whitworth had the bore and turn which hehas adopted, so that at the very outset it was tacitly admitted that in its bore and turn the Whitworth system is right. The council of the association were represented at Hythe by Lord Spencer, Lord Elcho, Lord Vernon, Gen. Hay, Mr. T. Fairbairn, and the secretary, Mr. St. John Mildtuay. Theprogramme of the trials was drawn up on Tuesday, and in spite of the high winds which prevailed, some score shots were fired from the rival rifles, each firing alternately at the same target at a range of 800 yards. The ex periments; vvere begun at too late an hour of the day to admit of their being long continued. The results, as far as they went on the first day, were greatly in favour of the. Whitworth. On the fol lowing day, in spite of the wind, which was blow ing a complete gale, the trials, under the judic ious arrangement of General Hay and his well•organized staff, were proceeded with. The United Gun makers insisted that all the shooting should be from the machine-rest, as that was the most satisfactory mode of testing the guns, without depending on the marksman's skill. They had not, however, pro vided a rest of their own, but made use of one con structed by Mr. Whitworth for the Hythe Scho ol . of Musketry. Mr. Whit wor th b roug ht w ith h i m a similar rest and b o th were pl ace d s id e by side in the first instance at 800 yards from the target. The superiority of the Whitworth rifle was manifest from the first, and the United Gunmakers, after trying two of their best rifles, found it hopeless to continue the contest, and withdrew their rifles from further competition. The mean deviation of 40 shots of the Whitworth rifles was 21.36 inches ; of 40 shots of the gunmakers' rifles 70.80 inches, at 800 yards. It should be stated that the wind con tinued to blow down the range with the greatest vidence throughout th e t r i a l s , and, in fact, about half of the shots of the United Gunmakers failed to hit the target, which was 18 feet square. All the Whitworth shots hit, as the Whitworth projectile, owing doubtless to its greater velocity and lower trajectory, was much less affected by the wind. With the view of rendering the comparison more complete, the best rifles of the United Gunmakers, 39 inches long, was fired against a Whitworth 33 inches long, at a range of 1,100 yards, and the result, as was, in fact, anti c i pate d , more fully confirmed the superiority of the Whitworth rifle. It can hardly be said , consid er i ng t h e results which have been obtained from these tri a l s , t h at t h e counc i l o f the National Rifle Association committed an error in judgment when they proposed that the Whit worth rifle should be used at the national rifle meet ing in July by those who intended to compete at the longest ranges. THE EMPEROR AND THE SPIRITS. During the time which Mr. D. D. Home spent in Paris he was a constant visitor and guest of the Emperor and Empress. On his first visit, in a room of which the Emperor and he were the sole occupants, the wonderful manifestations of which he is the medium were rigorously scrutinised by the Emperor, and were repeatedly displayed under conditions prescribed specially by the Emperor, in order to enable him to pronounce definitely upon the phenomena. No jumping to conclusions, but rather a jumping on table and chairs, to obtain more accurate demonstration of their truth. After all the conditions of the Emperor had been satisfac torily complied with, and not a doubt could remain upon his innocent mind, he said, " The Empress must see this ;" and he went himself to bring her from the salon where all the Court were assembled. Upon her coming with the Emperor, for two hours the three were seated together at the table, wonder struck at the phenomena which were produced before them. After this Mr. Home became a con stant guest, and in repeated sittings nearly the full range of spiritual manifestations were made fami liar to both the Emperor and the Empress, as well as to most of the French Court and aristocracy. A record was kept of these different sittings by direc tion of the Emperor, and 50 copies were printed in his private printing-office for distribution. The Emperor, not being a Fellow of our Royal Society, makes no secret of what be saw and heard, but on the contrary has made it a subject of frequent con versation ; and, among others of his acquaintance, both he and the Empress have informed our Queen and Prince Albert of all the wo n d ers h e h as seen . On one occasion four persons were sitting together at the Tuileries—the Emperor and the Empress, the Duchess de Montebello, and Mr. Home. A pen and ink were on the table, and some paper. A spirit hand was seen, and presently it took up the pen, and in their sight and presence dipped it in the ink, went to the paper, and wrote upon it the word " Napoleon," in the autograph of the great Emperor. The Emperor asked if he might be allowed to kiss the hand, and it went to his lips, and then to those of the Empress ; and afterwards, on Mr. Home making a humble request, he was permitted to kiss its warm and soft texture. The autograph is now among the valued contents of the " Emperor's spiritual portfolio."—Spiritual ,Illapans. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 20.—Money is in more de mand, at unchanged rates. Sterling exchanges in moderate request only. Stocks are quite active, but prices are variable—some higher and others lower. The following are the latest quotations: —United States Fives of 1874, 1031 ; Erie Rail road shares, 16/ ; ditto Third bonds, 851 ; Panama Railroad, 1351 ; Michigan Southern Guaranteed, 251 ; ditto Southern Railroad, 131 ; Reading Rail road, 44 ; New York Central Railroad, 801 ; Michi gan Central Eight per Cent. bonds, 941. Cotton quiet and unchanged. Middling Uplands, 11*. Sales to-day 700 bales. BREADSTUITS.—State and Western flour droop ing ; superfine State, 5 dols 25c to 5 dols 30c ; extra, 5 dols 35c to 5 dols 45c; round hoop Ohio, 5 dols 90c to 6 dols 10c. Southern more active and better; mixed to good, 6 dols 30c to 6 dols 40c ; fancy and extra, 6 dols 50c to 7 dols 50c. Wheat dull, and nominally in favour of buyers. White Western, 1 dol 70c ; choice white Canada, 1 dol 60c. Corn firm. Mixed Western, 741 c to 75c; White, 76c to 78c; yellow, 76c. Freights quiet. Cotton to Liverpool, 3-16 d to 7-32 d. Flour, 2s. "INDIGNATION MEETING" OF VOLUN TEER OFFICERS AT LIVERPOOL. Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon a meeting of the volunteer officers of Liverpool and the hundred of Wirral (Cheshire) was held at the Cotton Sales room, for the purpose of considering the recent resolutions relative to the presentation of volunteer officers at court. From 50 to 80 officers were pre sent ; and on the motion of Mr. George :,Arkle, Lieut.-Colonel Bourne, of the 4th Division Lanca shire Artillery, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that as a question was about being raised by Mr. Bowyer in Parliament relative to the rank of volunteer officers, it had been thought advisable to hear the opinions of the volunteer officers of Liverpool on the subject, for he thought that gentlemen who devoted so much of their time and money voluntarily to the service of the public were at least entitled to be placed on the same footing as other military officers, whether in the line or militia. Lieutenant-Colonel w. BROWN (deputy-lieu tenant of "the county, and late M.P. for the Southern Division of Lancashire) then moved the following resolution :—" That inasmuch as by the 26th section of the General Volunteer Act, under which the officers of volunteer corps receive their commissions, it is enacted that all officers in corps of volunteers having commissions from his Majesty, or lieutenants of counties, shall rank with the offi cers of his Majesty and militia officers, as the youngest of their respective ranks, we officers of volunteer corps in public meeting assembled, having been informed that attempts to interfere with the full meaning of the law have been recently made, and feeling that such proceedings are calculated seriously to dimish the influence which our com missions are intended to confer, earnestly protest against any infringement of our just privileges." He said he thought that considering the slight that was attempted to be put on the volunteer officers, in refusing their admission to the court levees, &c., on the same footing as other military officers, they were bound to protest against such an insult. At considerable expense they devoted themselves to support the dignity of the Crown and the country, and it was most unjustifiable that they should sub mit to the degradation attempted to be imposed upon them. The resolution was seconded and carried nem. con. Captain BOUSFIELD (Ist Lancashire) then moved that a copy of the previous resolution be forwarded to the lord-lieutenant of the county, with a request that he would exert his influence to maintain the rights of the volunteer body as defined by Act of Parliament. Captain V. A. RING (2d Cheshire) seconded the resolution, which was also carried. STRIKE OF THE JOURNEINIEN PAINTERS AT HUD DERSFIELD. On Monday the whole of the operative painters employed in Huddersfield struck work at very short notice, in consequence of the refusal of the masters to comply with certain demands made by them a short time since. The original demands made by them were—let. An advance on their weekly wages of 2s. from the Ist of March to the Ist of November, and that from the let of November to the Ist of March they should be paid at the rate of 51d. per hour. 2nd. That they should commence work at seven o'clock on Monday mornings, and other mornings at six, leaving work at - six o'clock at night, having half-an•hour for breakfast and one hour for dinner, and to leave work on Saturdays at one o'clock. 3d, That all overtime be paid at the rate of eight hours per day, and all overtime after ten at night, and after one o'clock on Saturdays, to be paid at the rate of time and half. 4th. That lodgings, and omnibus fare and railways be paid, or time for walking allowed, at all jobs between four and ten miles once a-week, and once a fortnight at all jobs between 10 and 20 miles away. The masters cheerfully complied with their request for an ad vance of 2s. a-week, but at first rejected the other require ments, " as likely to interfere seriously with the exigencies of the painters' business." Now, however, they have con ceeded all except the proposal to lessen the hours of labour two hours per week, and this is now the only difference be tween them. Notwithstanding this, both parties express their determination not to yield, and all painting and glaz ing operations are now suspended in consequence of the course taken by the men. FIRST MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Henry Fitz-Alwin was the first elected to the dignity of Mayor of London, by King Richard the First, in the first year of his reign, in which office he continued until the 15th of the reign of King John, 24 years, when ho died, and was buried in the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Aidgate. He was one of the king's bailiff's at the time he was nominated Mayor of the City of London, and held those offices conjointly without intermission upwards of 24 years successfully. Over the master's chair, in Drapers' Hall, is a fine old three-quarter length portrait of Fitz-Alwin, painted on panel. '['he Dra pers' Company claim him as a brother member of their community, in contradiction to Stow, and other writers, who describe him to belong to the Goldsmiths' Company. Until the 9th of May, 1214, the office of chief magistrate was held for life. King John, however, by letter patent bearing this date, granted permission for the mayor to be chosen annually, but required that ho should take his cor 'aerial oath for the due execution of his trust in the royal presence, otherwise in that of King's Justices. Henry the Third, by two charters, confirmed this regulation, and sti • pulated that the oath of the mayor should be taken before the Barons of the Exchequer in all cases where the king should not choose to be present ; and Edward the First, by a further charter, granted the privilege of the oath beino taken before the Constable of the Tower, when neither the king nor those barons were in London or Westminster. At present the oath is administered before the full Court of the Barons of the Exchequer, as his Majesty's representatives upDA the occasio4,-04a'res$, PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, SD. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, APRIL 28. There has unfortunately been an outbreak on board the James Watt, one of the screw line-of battle ships lately joined. Everything connected with it is kept very secret; a court of inquiry is searching into the particulars. I believe the cause was very simple. It appears that the James Watt has one of the finest and. smartest ship's companies in the fleet ; but to insure beating the other ships they had resorted to some dodges which enabled them to shift sail in a very speedy manner, such as tying the sails with rope yarns, which they can break from the decks, so as to render it wider for the men to go out on the yard to cast loose. This is not considered seamanlike, and is considered unfair by the other ships. This trick was spied out very quickly by the active and indefatigable captain of the fleet, and the first attempt at practising it was promptly stepped by Admiral Dacres, who signalled for the captain of the James Watt. Admiral Dacres is notorious for speaking pretty plainly, and not always in the most Parliamentary language, so it is supposed the captain got a smart reprimand ; at any rate he returned on board his ship in anything but an amiable humour; and whatever he had received from Admiral Dacres he :transferred to the com mander with interest, and the commander to the ship's company with compound interest. Now the seamen of the James Watt are first-rate sailors, but being lectured made Jack savage, and the captain being out of humour, the commander out of humour, and the Shies company the same, it required but a spark to set friise inflimmable materials ablaze, ana" this spark was quickly found, for on the petty officers and good-conduct men asking permission to go on shore it was refused, and a disgraceful scene followed. However, the high character of the commander-in chief, his known determination, and rigid justice soon restored discipline. A court-martial is to be held on board the Hibernia on Monday next, and there is little doubt that whoever is to blame will be unsparingly punished. In the meantime the ship is restored to perfect discipline, and her ship's com pany on shore on leave, and all parties seem rather ashamed at this outbreak. Last night two of the mounted police rode after four robbers about two miles from the town, when two of the robbers turned and shot one of the police men dead on the spot. One man, a notorious offender, has been arrested on suspicion. Sir Gaspard Le Marchant leaves the government of Malta for England on six weeks' leave from the 14th May. PRESERVATION OF LIFE F.ROII SEIPTERECK. A meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti tution was held yesterday, at its house, John street, Adelphi, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There was also present Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. ; Admiral Cator, Sir Edward.Perrott, Bart. ; Alexander Boetefeur, Esq.; George Lyall, Esq., M.P.; Admiral Saumarez, Montague Gore, Esq. ; Colonel Palmer ' Captain de St. Croix, H.C.S. and Captain Ward, R.N. Mr. LEWIS, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, A reward of Xll was voted — to the crew of the institution's lifeboat, stationed at Teignmouth, for putting off early on the morning of Monday week, when it was very dark, and rescuing from the rig ging the crew of two men, who were found nearly benumbed with cold, from the sloop Wonder, of that port, which during heavy weather had sunk in the course of the night. A few months ago this same valuable lifeboat was instrumental in bringing into port a disabled barge, and her exhausted crew. A reward of .£6 10s. was likewise granted to the crew of the Lytham lifeboat, belonging to the Natiosal Institution, for going off, during a heavy gale of wind, and rescuing the crew of eight men and a lad, from the brigantine Nancy, of Teign mouth, which, having struck on the dangerous sand called the Horse Bank, immediately after wards sank. Her crew took to the rigging, from which perilous position they were rescued by the lifeboat The poor boy was found quite exhausted, and unable to help himself, and two of the life boat's crew had therefore to jump on the wreck, to bring him down from the masthead. The lifeboat was reported to have behaved on this occasion, as on former ones, remarkably well. Within the last few months this same excellent lifeboat had been the means of saving the crews, consisting of 13 men, from two wrecked vessels. The neighbouring lifeboat stationed at Fleet wood had also, under the command of Captain Wasey, R.N., inspecting commander of the Coast Guard, been instrumental, within the same brief period, in rescuing three shipwrecked crews. In acknowledgment of which gallant services the Admiralty have extended his appointment in the Coast Guard two years. Capt. Wasey received the silver medal and second service clasp of the National Lifeboat Institution for the same services. A reward of DI 10s. was also voted to the Lossie mouth lifeboat, belonging to the institution, for putting off with the view of rescuing the crew of a pilot boat, which had been swamped during a sud den squall in that bay. In less than twenty minutes after the accident was observed the lifeboat was on the spot, but unfortunately out of the pilot boat's crew two had sunk to rise no more. A reward of £5 was also presented to the crew of the lifeboat at Kessingland, Suffolk, for putting off and rescuing the crew of seven men, of the brigan tine Little Joe, of North Shields, which, during a gale of wind was wrecked near the place, on the 19th ult. The Ramsgate lifeboat, belonging to the Royal Harbour Commissioners, was reported to have ren dered, at the imminent peril of the crew's lives, im portant services, in conjunction with the commis sioners' steam tug, on the night of Friday last, to a vessel en the Goodwin Sands. A reward was also voted to a boat's crew for pull ing off and saving three men from a small boat which had been capsized by the unskilful conduct of one of the persons on board in ascending her mast, which caused her to be top-heavy. We again take this opportunity to once more warn all those who are comparatively inexperienced in the manage ment of boats, that no more certain expedient can be adopted to upset one than for a person to climb to its masthead. As the small weight of an ordi nary steelyard will, when carried to the end of the beam, counterbalance so much greater a weight on the other side of its axis, so the weight of one person raised so high above the centre of gravity as a boat's masthead, is sufficient to counterbalance the whole weight of that part of the boat herself, and of those within her below that centre, thus mak ing her " top-heavy," and ensuring her upset ting, unless her largeness of size, or quan tity of ballast, be sufficient to counteract the weight at her masthead. One of those on board the capsized boat, a lad, son of a coast guardsman, was found apparently dead when picked up. Hav ing been placed on his face in the boat, the method of the institution for the recovery of the apparently drowned, founded on that of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, was immediately resorted to, and, after 20 minutes of unceasing treatment, the boy was fortu nately restored to consciousness. These excellent rules are everywhere distributed on the coasts of the British isles, and they ought also to be so on the banks of all our inland rivers. Several other rewards for saving life from diffe• rent wrecks were afterwards voted. During the past month the institution had for warded new lifeboats and transporting carriages to Penzance and Porthcawl, and another was about to be sent to Silloth, on the Cumberland coast. The cost of the two last-named boats had been presented to the institution by Miss Burdett Coutts and another benevolent lady. The institution decided on taking into connection with it the Margate lifeboat, which was also pre sented by Miss Coutts to that town last year. The society also decided on presenting its thanks, inscribed on vellum, to Miss Dix, an American lady, in acknowledgment of her philanthropic la bours, in establishing, at her own expense, several lifeboat stations on the coasts of the United States and British possessions in America. It was also a lady, the sister of a sailor, who originally presented the cost of a lifeboat to the National Lifeboat Insti tution. Her humane example has since been fol lowed by many persons. It was reported that the institution expected to have by the return of the equinoctial gales 103 lifeboat stations on various parts of the coasts of the British isles , in thorough working order. It is to be hoped that the public, by their contributions and endowments, will enable the society to maintain this noble fleet in a perfectly efficient state. It was said that the lifeboats of the institution mere, during the course of their construction, sur veyed by Mr. Prowse, of H,M.'s dockyard, Wool wick ; its lifeboat transporting carriages, by Mr. Morris, the master wheelwright, of the Royal Ar senal; and its lifeboat houses, built from designs specially prepared by the society's honorary archi tect, Mr. C. H. Cooke. The charter of incorporation, granted by the .manity. Messrs. Clayton, solicitors, of Lancaster-place, Strand, had generowly declined to accept any re muneration for their valuable s erv i ces i n ass i sting the institution to obtain the charter. Payments, amounting to £597, having been made on various lifeboat establislunents, the proceedings closed. TILE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee yesterday, at which the following officers were present :—Rear-Admiral Smart, Captain S. S. L. Crofton, M. S. Nolloth, William R. Rolland, F. Liardet, S. Brock, C.B:, E. St. L. Cannon, E. G. Fisburne, the Hon. Thomas Baillie, Hon. George D. Keane, M. J. Lake, and M. E. B. Tumour; Commanders J. M. Jackson, C. Sterling, Hon. W. F. Ward, G. A. Phxyre, John Moresby, Robert D. Aldrich, and J. E. B irg ham ; Lieuts. C. T. W. Cerjat, John W. Pike, Brickwell, C. M. Chapman, and John D. Ramny., A careful survey is now in progress at Chatham dockyard of the various gun-vessels and morta-r -boats in dock and hauled up at that establishmemt, in order to ascertain the condition of that class; of vessels, most of which were built for the Admira Jty by private firms, during the Russian war and ea a subsequent period. Although the survey has only been just commenced, and is not by any means completed, yet enough has been ascertained to con demn the past system of allowing an important class of vessels for the British navy to be constructed without inspection at private establishments. One of the first of the gun-vessels surveyed was the liglindereit 200- Artrrse-powet;. screw despatch - gunboat. This vessel was built about four y ears since, at a private establishment, but the names of the contractors are• stated not to be known at Chatham dockyard. She was immediately de spatched to the Mediterranean, where she was em ployed for a lengthened period in carrying de spatches, and was eventually paid off at Chatham at the commencement of the present year. A con siderable portion of the planking and sides a this gun-vessel has been opened, and a cursory exami nation shows that she is in a very rotten and de cayed state, many of the timbers giving symptoms of the fatal*" sap," proving that not only has faulty unseasoned timber has been used, but, further, that the workmanship is likewise bad, and such as if turned out of either of our Royal dockyards would bring lasting discredit on the establishment. There are also several of the mortar vessels built during the Russian war hauled upon the slips at Chatham dockyard, and placed under cover to pro tect them from the effects of the weather. Two of these have recently been taken into:the second dock, they are numbered 30 and 32. Both these vessels have undergone a careful survey, and give such un mistakeable proofs of rottenness and decay, that if they are only a specimen of the other gun and mortar vessels, a large number of which are at Chatham and the other ports, their condition is, to say the least, alarming. Although these, with other vessels, were carefully scraped and cleaned by the convicts, the timbers and frames are in a seriously faulty state, the timbers being ex ceedingly rotten, showing bad materials used by the contractors, while, at the same time, insects have made great ravages in the timbers below the water. Two mortar vessels hauled up on the slips have likewise been inspected, one of which shows the workmanship to have been rather better, but both are rotting, the timber being of a quality which ought never to have been used for such a class of vessels. There is a complete squadron of these gun and mortar boats lying at Chatham, and, from the result of the examinations already made, grave fears are entertained that all these vessels will be found, more or less, in a state of decay. The Bulwark, screw steamer, building at Chat ham, has a number of shipwrights employed in planking her. She is being completed with the utmost despatch, and is expected to be ready for launching during the present year. The Royal Oak, 91, and the Belvedere, 51, two of the new screw steamers ordered to be built at Chatham, are having their timbers prepared pre paratory to being laid down. The, Torch, screw gun•vessel, built by private contract, is fitting at Chatham. The Megtera, screw troopship, Commander llen derson, was berthed alongside of the dockyard, at Portsmouth, and will this morning embark the troops enumerated in The fun of the Ist inst. for conveyance to Malta and Gibraltar, calling at Queenstown. The Victoria, 121, screw, in the steam basin at Portsmouth, has tested her machinery at 401 b. pres sure. Everything turned out satisfactorily. She is expected to make her contractor's trial outside the harbour to-morrow, and to test her speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay about Tuesday next. The Albion, paddle steam-vessel, in No. 4 dock at Portsmouth, is being broken up, the defects in her hull having been found of too extensive a nature to admit of repair. She is 33 years old. The Octavia, 51, sailing frigate, having been cut asunder in No. 9 dock at Portsmouth, for the pur pose of lengthening and conversion to a screw, and her after-body bulk-headed in and caulked, the water was yesterday let into the dock until it reached the 16-feet mark on the frigate's sternpost, when she showed symptoms of being alive on her blocks. Tackles attached to her stern hauled the after-body to a distance of 58 feet 8 inches, the space required for her midship lengthening, when the water was again pumped out, and the Octavia was finally placed in position to complete her conversion from a sailing craft to a screw. Her outer stern post will be placed 13 feet 8 inches abaft her pre sent one, to adapt her stern for the propeller. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth of his Majesty Carl XV., King of Sweden and Nor way, the Swedish corvette Najaden, together with the port division of the Channel Fleet and her Majesty's ship Victory, and ships in Portsmouth harbour, dressed out in colours with the Swedish ensign at the main, and at noon fired a Royal salute in honour of the day. A Royal salute was also fired at the same time from the - garrison salut ing battery, on the King's Bastion. Capt. Ekman, commanding the Najaden, accompanied by the Swedish and Norwegian Consul, afterwards paid an official visit to the military and naval authorities. We are requested to state that Capt. Douglas Curry now commands the Aboukir, having super seded Capt. Schomberg for more than three months. The following appointments ware made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. Lord F. 11. Kerr to the ImH. Stewart, W. H. T. M. C.B.,pr e t g e n t a h b e l e m , v a i r c l e b e S r t e e e w g a h r , t v ; cCapt. Kerr; W the Excellent W. Davies, and C. AI. a c n . d L . i H e u a t r . v E ey . P to the Mersey ; L. A. Bell , F. Weld, Ma gn to a Tumor, midshipman , to the Bacchan te ; C. W. c H ell ' e M n t . ; C L a i r e r n e t ' • R. Beaumont, midshipman to the Hero; William Jef fery, master, to the Saturn, for the Andromache ; Henry G . Raynes, master, to the Edinburgh ; John Penn, master, to the Monarch ; Richard W. Ward, master, additional, to the Dauntless ; J. D. Will shire, acting second-ma‘ ter, additional, to the Blen heim; Albert Carr, master's assistant, to the Mel pomene ; Daniel Alcock, acting assist.-surg., to the Terrible ; William Pratt and Ashley It. Mexhain, acting third-class assistant engineers, to the Ma , gzvra, as supernumeraries. Yesterday a draught of 25 non-commissioned officers and men of various corps left St. Mar3's invalid establishment, 18 of whom received their discharge from the F. ervice, and the remainder pro• ceeded to join their respective depots. 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