The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

GENERAL DR LAMORICIERE'S APPOINTMENT. The Independance Beige says of General de Lamo riciere's appointment to the command of the Papal troops We know at last the object of General de Lamo riciere's journey to the Roman States. The Journal of Rome of April 7 announces his appointment to the chief command of the Papal troops. Up to the last moment we wished to doubt that the general could so far forget his past career, so break with his noble friendships and cancel his real services. Now doubt is no longer possible, and the error has been committed. General de Lamoriciere, who in 1849 regretted his inability to save Mazziui's republic, and who merely accepted the expedition to Rome as a mes sage for saving the liberty of the inhabitants, can no longer avail himself of the same excuses. During the last 12 years the Holy See, protected by the presence of the French troops, might have laid the foundations of that liberty. It has done no thing of the kind. It has remained deaf to all ad vice, to all warning ; even the hard lessons of the present times have produced no effect on it, and in the separation of the Romagnas it has seen merely the rebellion of a few restless spirits excited by the ambition of a foreign prince. In nowise has it thought of looking into itself and asking itself if its own Governmental proceedings had nothing to do with the disaffection of the governed. What the Holy See neglected to do when it had the power, without danger, sure of the applause and encouragement of all Europe, it will still less do now in favour of populations groaning under their yoke and passionately desiring those benefits which the Romagnols have forcibly obtained for them selves. Those populations will be kept down, not by a national army formed from their midst, but by a horde of foreign mercenaries gathered and re cruited from every country, to assist in this work of oppression and tyranny. Such are the men whom General de Lamoriciere has consented to command —such is the work to which he lends the authority of his name. As for the reforms, they will become what they can become. Cardinal Antonelli will take good care of that, and when necessary, in the name of canonical law, will abduct some fresh Mortara child from the arms of its mother ; General de Lamori ciere will be the accomplice and executioner of this barbarous crime ; when it shall be necessary to re new the mighty exploits of Perugia, General de La moricier, commanding the pillag ers of the city, will become the emulator and rival of the Schmidts and Kalberntattens. Such is the position freely ac cepted by a man who has been living in exile, and calling himself a martyr of liberty, of violated right. A proclamation by General de Lamoriciere, which we have this instant received, proves to us that we are even too indulgent towards him in the preceding reflections. In fact, in this proclamation the general, for the purpose of misleading both public opinion and the soldiers he is going to com mand, identifies the cause of civilisation and liberty with that of the Papal Government. He proclaims all those to be revolutionary who do not bow down before the monstrous abuses of the Roman theo cracy. It is impossible to belie truth more signally, impossible to cover with a more deceitful mask a real tergiversation. The Pope has at last got a real General, who promises to raise for him a real army. General Lamoriciere has gone to Rome, not as a mercenary soldier, but as a devotee, and has issued his first order of the day as Commander-in-Chief of the Pon tifical troops. The Pope has no confidence in that "vendetta of prayers" which he lately threatened; and as for his excommunication, even Mr. Bowyer assures us that it is no curse. Bayonets and can non are after all the true supports of the Papal chair, so his Holiness has sent for an old Algerian officer, and the sword which for near fifteen years quelled the fiery Moslem is now to keep in awe, and if need be smite, the Christian flock of the Holy Father. We congratulate the gallant Gene ral on his new function. We applauded his gal lantry in Africa and his patriotism in the National Assembly ; we admired the dignity with which he bore the wrongs inflicted on him with so many others when Louis Napoleon perpetrated the coup (Feint ; but we did not suspect that the eloquent denouncer of the exped ) tion to Rome would erne day consent to be the hired hangman of a Government of priests, and convert into a reign of terror the foreign occupation of Rome, which he was among the first to condemn. The General's address to his soldiers—a part of which has been verbally transmitted by the tele graph—is a strange document to appear at Rome. " Catholic Christianity," says the General, " is the life of civilisation. Europe is , threatened by revo lution, as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause of the Pope is that of Civilisation and Liberty." Any objection we might feel inclined to make to these assertions i 3 nothing compared with the gain which we descry in the spirit of the appeal. It is then at last thought worth the while of the Papacy to reason. and to satisfy men's judgment and conscience. This is indeed innovation. Gene ral Lamoriciere, we dare say, would have struck as hard at Perugia as Colonel Schmidt, but no Swiss or Austrian officer serving the Pope would have put the words "civilisation" and " liberty" in an order of the day. Whether the Pope's cause is that of civilisation and liberty, the, Pope's subjects know much better than the French general can tell them ; but, at any rate, M. Lamo riciere's language is an admission that it ought to be. The - Romans will thank him for this. It will be impossible hereafter to proscribe those two dread. fill words. The general has made a complete armoury of sacerdotal weapons—divine mission, authority of St. Peter and Paul, sacred rights, and other Roman implements—quite obsolete by a stroke of the pen. Chambers and matchlocks, much less pikes and crossbows, will not work with the Minie musket and rifled cannon. Are General Lamori ciere's orders of the day free of the censorship ? .'We infer from the words of General Lamoriciere that he has carried to Ro ne something better than a sword. The worthy aspirations his proclamation betrays are French, not Papal. 'W can easily give him credit for sincerely desiring that the Papal cause may become what he says it is. He is just now in his first sanguine drys, and he is to be pitied, for he has undertaken a task beyond human strength. He cannot change the Papal Govern ment, the ch ar Ic t er an d wor k s o f which belong to its nature. As a theocracy it cannot condescend to the level of oth er an d more h formsa of go vernment, and set the interests u of the governed before itself as the chi e f cu d of its existence. Be fore long General Lamoriciere will either retire from Rome, as many gene rous men w h o w i shed well to the Pope have done, disgusted with the un natural spectacle of a whole people excluded from national life to become the domestic servants of a college of priests ; or, like M. de Rayneval, he will sacrifice his experience and his good sense to super stition. The notions of reform and progress which he entertains will soap bring him face to face with that rock of infallibility. against which so many bright prospects have been shattered. lie will hear the fatal non possumus, and learn that he has been sent for to defend and not to regulate the temporal power of the Pope. Even this humble office he ,will find above his strength. He may organise an Italian army in the Roman States, for which Italy will be grateful to him ; but when ever that army sheds its blood. it will not be for a knot of intriguing fanatics separated from the na tion by every idea and every interest, the. Monsi gnori who despise them and eat them up. In vain does the Pope collect devoted adherents from Brit tany, Ireland, or Bavaria. Every stranger who. takes service under him only demonstrates the more evidently to the world the parasitical nature of his rule. The few persons among the great body of in structed Catholics who are so unjust as to desire that the population of a whole State should be sac rificed to the earthly grandeur of their spiritual lord, will find themselves no match for a people' bent on obtaining good government and its gua rantees for themselves and their children. In any case the Roman people will not acquiesce in a eivi lisatlon represented by the Index Expurgatorius, nor in the liberty administered by the Inquisition. --Daily News. Premature Grayness,. -- Nervous neadaWeak or Falling Hair, Neuralgia, h Rheumatism , "(Red with ease : e ' Brushes and Combs. by HEnnniG's Patent Magnetic newly-invented Teazle Their use is an absolute luxury. His zle Brushes for Colth, Velvet, &c,. are 'l admirable—they not only cleanse, but preserve the fabric in a remarkable manner. st. The public are cautioned Manufactory is 32, Basinghall- ____ l id .:i!. against counterfeits . — AD VT. 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The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and 7, Co., , Rec,ent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, pic'eadilly ; Albis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-conrl-road. Also at Dublin, 13ewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Ct.,. at Liverpool, Nikon and Thew; at fvfaneheAter, Sharp an' Scott; at York; Raimes, Blanchard ancl Co • at South smpton, Randall and Bon • : , TILE POST-OFFICE. The sixth report of the Postmaster-General to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury has just been published. The document extends to between 40 and 50 pages, exclusive of 1 ppendixes, and the following is but an abstract. : With regard to the general progress, it appears that though there has been an mere i e in the pos tal revenue, reductions have been made in the rates of postage between the United Kingdom and several foreign co untries and the inland post , w hich for many years had steadily and rapidly improved, has again made good progress, at once as regards I the means of posting letters in town, the extension of rural posts, the frequency, speed, and regularity of the mails, the extent of the area in which free deliveries are made, the hour in the morning at which the first delivery is completed, especially in London and its suburbs, where it was for merly late, and the daily numbsr of de liveries; and all this has been accom plished without any addition to the labour of the officers, though meanwhile their salaries and wages have in many cases been considerably aug mented, so that the scale of remuneration is higher now than at any previous time. EXTENSION OF INLAND SERVICE, Last year the number of post-offices in the United Kingdom was increased by 177, making the whole present number 11,412, of which 825 are head post offices and 10,587 sub post-offices. To these must be added 1,958 road letter-boxes, 790 of which were put up last year. Thus the whole number of pub lic receptacles for letters is now 13,370, as com pared with 4,518 before the establishment of penny postage. Although in some cases attempts have been made to deface road letter-boxes, and thrust dirt into them, such abuse is rare. New post-offices have been completed and occupied 'at Canterbury, Doncaster, Southampton, Torquay, and Kilmar nock; ancaiew offices are nearly ready for use at Dover and Lincoln. New post-offices are in contem plation at Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, and large improvements in the post-offices at Manches ter, Hereford, Norwich, Preston, and Taunton. Further improvemenis have been made in the office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and others are in pro gress. Great relief, too, has been obtained by the transfer to the district offices of much of the busi ness previously transacted at the central office ; so that, with reference to the quantity of work per formed, the central office is now more commodious than it had been for many years. There has been a corresponding improvement in its lighting and ventilating. It is fortunate that the original con struction, although in Many respects very defective, allowed of very considerable additions being made to the available room, and that at a very moderate cost; while, either by an additional story, or by carrying the building over the area reserved for the railway vans, abundant space may be obtained for all requirements within the extremest range of probability. . When the district offices are completed, instead of possessing, as formerly, only one post-office at which mails are despatched and received, and letters sent out for delivery, London will have ten such post-offices. Although the postal district system has now in London, been in operation to a greater or less extent more than three years, it is not yet complete there, notwithstanding the progress made each year since its commencement. The chief difficulty has been to procure good sites for the district offices ; but this difficulty is now nearly surmounted, and in most of the districts a new office, if not completed, has been commenced, while in every case a temporary office at least has been provided. In each district the morn ing delivery within London proper and the despatch to the suburbs are now made from the district office, the mail bags being brought to it direct from the railway stations, instead of being first conveyed, as formerly, to the General Office, in St. Martin's-le- Grand ; and the result is greater punctuality in the deliveries and diminished labour to the letter car riers, who are no longer required to come on duty at so early an hour as when they all were required to assemble at the Central Office. The facilities afforded by the district system for the rapid inter change of letters between one part of London and another has enabled the department still further to abridge the time between the posting of a letter and its delivery ; so that there is no difficulty, so far as the Post-office is concerned, in a person in Lon don writing to a friend there, obtaining a reply , I and sending a rejoinder, all in the same day. Any letter posted in the town portion of either of the districts just before the box is cleared for delivery in the same district, is despatched by the letter carrier within 30 minutes of the time of posting. With few exceptions every resident in London is now within a furlong of a post-office or a road letter-box, and within a quarter of a mile of a money order office The co-operation afforded by the public in the rapid sorting of lettere by placing upon them the initiale of the district is acknow ledged with thanks, and also the assistance given to the letter-carriers by the more general use of door letter-boxes. In most of the suburban parts of the districts arrangements have been made for accelerating the deliveries and for giving addi tional facilities for posting ' • and, within six miles of London, a late evening, delivery has been esta blished. In order to save the letter carriers from undue labour, this last delivery was at first accom panied with several restrictions ; but the delivery is now made at all houses which are provided with letter-boxes, or which, like hotels and re tail shops, are usually open to the letter carriers, provided the letters be fully prepaid. Although there are already ten deliveries every day in London proper, the adding one more is in contem plation, an arrangement which, with the open ing of the other new district offices, the revision of the posts in the few rural parts of the suburbs which have not yet been dealt with, and some other minor alterations, will complete the scheme of London district improvement. After many efforts some machines have at length been constructed which are found in practice to perform the work of stamping and obliterating more quickly and perfectly than by hand. Some of these machines have been in use for a considerable time, and many more are in course of construction. For the further development of the provincial rural posts, a work in constant progress, the depart ment has incurred an additional expense of more thaw £ll,OOO per annum ; but it is hoped that is time all this expense will be repaid, and will be found, in addition, to yield a fair profit. At 1,516 places free deliveries were established for the first time last year; and at 504 other places, including Neweastle•on-Tyne, Liverpool, and Londonderry, the free delivery was extended or otherwise im proved. About 93 per cent. of the letters, news papers, and other postal packets delivered in the United Kingdom are now conveyed without any charge beyond the ordinary postage, by letter car riers ' and rura l messengers , to the houses of the ad dresses; and this propo r ti on , great as it is, is always on the increase. The division of London into postal districts has brought to light some of the causes which there in fluence the increase and decrease of correspondence, and which could not have been ascertained had the circulation continued to be through one central office. As may be supposed, the gr e ate s t var i a tions the the south-western two central districts and in the awreestfeorumed in and chiefly influenced by circumstancesl tle first w arffeetin t gt o being chiefly n h eee in g n i _ o m f er cial Parliament and the tehie, London i two latter by the m ee ti ng season. A r decrease occurred after in the London district correspondenc es u Midsummer last year (as compared w i th andtite cor responding period , in the previous year), h apparently caused partly by the unusual number of in consequene of , ethe great heatpe rpersons o o n f sw the h who left eat w h t e o r; n partly by the absence of the large number of election circulars posted in the previous summer; partly by a temporary check to trade, while the season in 1858 was one of un usual activity ; and partly by the builders' strike, by which many branches of trade were suspended. As an example of the postal effect of a Parliamen tary election in one of the metropolitan boroughs, it may be mentioned that the number of letters and circulars which passed through the post in reference to the Marylebone election was upwards of 70,000. During the last year 77 towns were provided with day mails to or from the metropolis of one or other of the three parts of the United Kingdom, and some of them with mails in ,both directions ; this mail being in several instances the third during the twenty-four hours. The mail to the Scilly Islands is now despatched three times a week, and a steamboat has been substituted for a sailing vessel, thereby greatly improving the communication, both in frequency and regularity. The conveyance of mail bags by ordinary trains, at the rates usually charged to the public for parcels, was considerably extended during the year; but this extension of postal convenience at a moderate charge has been confined chiefly to the following lines of railway, viz., the Great Northern, the South Eastern , an d the London, Brighton, and South Coast. Improve ments in the cross post communication of the coun try are of almost daily occurrence; one of the most important during the last year being that which gave to Liverpool and Manchester a more direct communication with Cornwall and Devonshire. But by far the most important acceleration of the past year was that of the night mail, via Car lisle, between London and Edinburgh and Glasgow, referred to in the last report. This acceleration has givenanearlier i arrival and later despatch of twothe night mail at d hours each (thusbhbo hours), rrsg)h increasing and interval b y nearly for reply by nearly fou r lar boon to Perth, Dundee,labnedrdhas aff orded a simi een, Inverness, and _the north of Scotland generally. As regards Edin- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 160.: burgh and Glasgow, the success of the measure has been promoted by an arrangement for partially sorting the letters en the railway. As already ex plained this acceleration has been chiefly effected by an arrangement for limiting by the mail train (at a great expense, however, to the Post-office) the passenger and , parcel traffic ; so that the train may not be impeded by the great weight which at certain seasons of the year it used to carry. The experiment has proved successful. The improvement has been twofold—increased speed and greater regularity. Since the beginning of the present year an earlier despatch and an acceleration have been made of the day mails from London to the north by both the western and eastern routes; by which means an im portant improvement has been afforded to Liver pool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, and the north of England generally. Considerable progress has been made in the ar rangements relative to the improved postal com munication with Ireland, the contract for which will probably come into operation in the course of the ensuing summer. Improvements have been made in the harbour at Holyhead for facilitating the landing and embarking of mails and passengers when the larger vessels now in course of construc tion shall have come into use ; and the building of the larger vessels is also making satisfactory pro gress. There still remain, however, many prepara tions before the Post-office can be ready for so ex tensive a change. The number of travelling post-offices, used to save time, by doing much of the business of sorting while the mails are in progress, has been considerably in creased. Under this arrangement the public are enabled to post letters up to a later time than they would otherwise be practicable, and to, obtain an earlier delivery. To promote the health and com fort of the clerks and guards employed in the tra velling post-offices a careful examination has been made by the medical officer and the Inspector- General of Mails, which has led to the suggestion of many improvements in the construction of these offices; and, among other benefits, has secured a much better ventilation. The use of machinery for the exchange of mail bags without stopping the train has been further extended, with great ad vantage to the general mail service of the country. The " double arm," by which the delivery of a se cond set of bags at the same station is managed,has also been brought into further use; and in one or two instances even a third set of bags is delivered. An improved van has been devised for conveying the mails between the General Post-office and the metropolitan railway stations, and a model van on this better construction is nearly completed. For a much more important improvement in this part of the service, however, die Postmaster-General looks forward to the metropolitan railway, now in course of construction, which is to link together the greatest railways which start from London. Ulti mately he hopes that all the metropolitan railways will be thus united. The department has entered into general agreements, for the right to use all their trains, with the companies owning the Corn wall railway, the Londonderry and Enniskillen, and the Dublin and Kingstown railway; making the whole number of such agreements.l7. The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom by railways, mail coaches, &c., steam packets, boats, and foot passen gers, is about 140,000 miles per day ' • being about 7,500 miles more than at the end of 1858. This in crease is principally in railway conveyance, and in conveyance on foot; though the amount of the rail way service, even now, does not much exceed that performed by coaches and mail carts. NUMBER OF LETTERS, NEWSPAPERS, AND BOOKS. The following table shows the number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom during the last year, with the rate of increase, and the proportion of letters to population : Number Increase Proportion of of Letters' per cent. Letters in 1859. on Number to Population. In 1858. England Ireland 47,000,G00 „ 7 7to each person Scotland - United Kingdomi 675,000,0001 18 to each peraoi As compared with 1858, the total shows an in crease of 22 millions; and as contrasted with the year previous to the introduction of penny postage (1839), an increase (omitting franks) of 469 millions ; making the present number of letters rather more than seven-fold - what it was in 1839. During the last five years the rate of increase, as contrasted in each instance with the number in the preceding year, has been on an average rather more than 4 per cent. In the London office al6ne, counting the letters both inwards and outwards and counting forward letters, there has been an increase of more than 12 millions. Nevertheless, by improved ar rangements in sorting, this great increase has been disposed of without any additional labour being thrown on the officers ; and except as regards deli very, without any addition to the force. The num ber of London district letters, that is, of letters posted in the London district for delivery within the same—the old twopenny post—is now equal to the total number of letters, whether general or local, posted 20 years ago in the whole of England and Wales, London inclusive. The number of letters given in the foregoing statements includes those from beyond sea. The great bulk, however, are in land; the colonial and foreign forming less than 1- 50th of the whole. The number of registered letters last year was nearly 1,400,000, or 1 registered letter to about 400 ordinary letters. Th:s number shows an increase of about 6 per cent. on the previous year. "In 785 cases, or 1 in about 1,750, complaint was made that the registered letter had not reached its destination. All these letters, however, except 15 were afterwards recovered ; and although there is no legal claim on the department for the contents of a letter, whether registered or not, the Post-office in six cases voluntarily made good the loss ; fault in these instances having been traced by the depart ment to its own officers. In the other cases it was found that eight of the letters bad been lost after they left the custody of the British Post-office ; and in the remaining instance too much time had been allowed to pass before the loss was reported, to ad mit of the letter being traced. The number of newspapers delivered in the United Kingdom last year was about 70,500,000. The number of letters returned to the writers wing to the failure in the attempts to deliver them, was about 1,900,000, being about 200,000 more than in the previous year. This is equal to about lin 280 of the whole number of letters. Nearly half the non-deliveries was owing to the letters being ad dressed either insufficiently or incorrectly; more than 11,000 having been posted without any address at all. The amount of property found in letters which could not be delivered nor, for want of an ad dress in the inside, be returned to the writers, was about £260. Owing to the cause mentioned in the case of letters, about 470,000 newspapers were also undelivered, being 1 in 150 of the whole number. In the case of newspapers the cause of non-delivery is sometimes carelessness in the folding, and the damp state of the covers occasionally, when the papers are received from newspaper agents. But it is found that, however caused, in the London office only one newspaper in five thousand escapes from its cover. The returned letters, as compared with those of the previous year, have increased in a greater ratio than the whole amount of correspondence; which is attributable in part to the circumstance that insufficiently directed letters are no longer sent from place to place 'for trial, but, as speedily as possible, are returned to the writers. About 60,000 letters were refused last year because they had not been prepaid. About 200 letters per day are posted at the chief office in London unsealed. fora change which had long been in contemplation, ands which' will now soon be made, this change being an increase from £5 to £lO in the sum for which a money order may be drawn. Advantage wild also be taken of the opportunity to reconstruct the scale of commission, so that while the charge in some instances will be reduced, there will no longer be a large class of orders which do not pay their cost. It will, moreover, be in the power of any perion by using, as the case may be, a penny or twopenny stamp (besides paying the commission), to direct that his money order shall not be payable till ten days after date, so as to give time to obtain an acknowledgment before the order be cashed. To discourage the sending of coins by post, by facilita-. ting the transmission of very small sums of money (for which the money order system with its neces sary checks and attendant cost is scarcely appli cable), provision has been made in the London offices for exchanging postage stamps for money. The charge is 21 per cent., with a minimum of one halfpenny. Thus for ss. worth of stamps 4s. 100. is paid, and for stamps worth ls. Bd., ls. 71d. It is intended soon to extend the arrangement to all the post-offices in the country. A remarkable in crease is observable in the orders issued at Ports mouth and Devonport ; indicating, it is hoped, a tendency in our soldiers and seamen to send more and more of their earnings to their families. The unclaimed money orders last year amounted to £2,013, which, according to the established rule, was carried to the fund for assisting the officers of the department in insuring their lives. In June last the money order system was extended to Canada, between which time and the end of the year nearly four thousand orders were issued in Canada on the United Kingdom, and about 1,150 in the United Kingdom on Canada; the average amount of each order being rather more than £3. It was thought prudent, in the first instance, to make the commission rather high—viz., fourfold that for an inland money order, but it is thought that the charge may now be somewhat lessened. TEB BRLIGIOUS DISSENSIONS AT T. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST. "Miierday Mr. William John Thompson, the senior churchwarden of the parish of St. George in-the-East, appeared before Mr. Yardley to answer a summons which charged him with assaulting Mr. Charles Warren Adams, a young gentleman who is a personal friend of the rector, and has taken a prominent part in the unhappy disputes arising out of the innovations introduced into the services of the church. Mr. Prideaux (in the absence of Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, the senior counsel for the prosecution, who did not arrive until four o'clock) opened the case for the prosecution, and said the complainant was a young gentleman of good family, the son of the late Mr. Sergeant Adams, and his (Mr. Pri deaux's) personal friend. The learned counsel went over some of the events connected with the un- happy disputes in the parish of St. George and the fearful distarbance, of Sunday evening last, with which the public are so familiar, and said there was a pre-determination to prevent the proper and decent performance of Divine service in the Church. He accused Mr. Thompson of exceeding his autho rity as churchwarden, and urged that the sole de sire of the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, was that the services of the Church should be conducted in a solemn and religious manner, and without interrup tion. Mr. Prideaux then stated the circumstances of the assault as given in evidence, and accused Mr. Thompson of being actuated by private malice and spite against Mr. Adams, who had written two let• ters to the churchwarden, demanding his authority for informing the Chancellor of the Bishop that he (Mr. Adams) had broken down the reading desk rail. To those letters no answer had been returned, although the first was forwarded to Mr. Thompson on the Ist, and the second on the Eit'i of March. The defendant had only acted colourably as church warden to gratify private malice ; and, if he even had a right to remove Mr. Adams from the altar where he was standing, he had no business to do it so roughly as he had done, and was guilty of an excess. The evidence of the complainant, who was corro borated by Mr. Baker, an army surgeon attached to t:ie 3d or Fusilier Guards, Mr. Morrison, a solici tor's clerk, and Mr. Lamert, went to show that in the course of the disturbances in the parish church on Sunday evening last Mr. Adams heard that the people Were at the altar which since the removal of the choristers' seats had been set apart for the choris ters, and that some persons had got within the rails. Mr. Adams made his way tp the gates of the altar to prevent any more persons entering, with his arms crossed ; while in this position several.persons at tempted to enter the altar, and among them was a labouring mar., a dirty man. He kept them back. Nlr.Thompqon came up iu a violent passion and said, " What business have you here? Where do you come from ? I will have you out of this," seized him by the collar, and with the assistance of half a-dozen other persons pushed him forward. Mr. Thompson also kicked him with his knee, and he was sent "flying," and "flew" into the arms of the beadle, who led him towards the western end of the church, treated him very courteously, and released him. The witnesses all agreed that Mr. Thompson was very much excited. - It was asserted by Mr. Lamert, one of Mr. Bryan King's choristers, that his surplice was torn in the struggle and confusion, and he fainted. A chorister boy received a blow on the head and was nearly killed, and was now labouring under concussion of the brain. In cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the wit nesses admitted they had been in the practice of passing through the parsonage, and being admitted into the church by a private entrance every Sunday, to take possession of preferential seats. -They also admitted that the altar was decorated in an unusual manner for Easter day on Sunday last. Mr. Prideaux called upon the defendant to put in two letters addressed to him by Mr. Adams in March last. Mr. Howell did not see what they could have to do with the case. Mr. Yardley--I don't know. The object is to show some ill-feeling on the part of the defendant, I suppose. The two letters were handed to the magistrate by Mr. Thompson. [The letters were of the nature described by counsel. No answer had been returned to them.] The Rev. Bryan King, rector of St. George's, was g is e t a u t rb l e a n nces and the indecent conduct gth,—H e said in consequence of x a the examined at disturbances the people I gave directions for the gates of the e church not to be opened until the police came. The police were late, and I directed the sexton to open the gates at 22 minutes before 7 o'clock on Sun day evening; the usual hour of opening the gates ibrmerly was half-past 6 o'clock. I sent for the defendant soon afterwards to the little vestry, and said to him, " Mr. Thompson, there are people in front of the altar while the seats are empty. It is your duty to seat people." Mr. Thompson said, " I don't want to be told my duty by you. I have been kept waiting at the gate 10 minutes." Some Sundays since I said- to Mr. Thompson, " You may pass through the parsonage and into the little vestry to gain admission to the church." in cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the witness said that it was the duty of the sexton to assist the people to take their pews. I do not mean to say it is the duty of the churchwarden to be pew opener. Since the police have attended the church I have ordered the gates to be opened on their arrival. My own personal friends come from a distance to preserve order and to restrain violence in the church. In cross-ex4mination the rev. gentleman said the altar was decorated in precisely the satne manner last Sunday as it was on every Easter day, except that there were five bouquets last Sunday, instead of four. The cross-examination was continued for a long time, and embraced all the leading topics connected, with the disturbances in St. George's Church daring the past year. The rector concluded by stating that if the churchwardens had acted with firmness and deter mination the first day and suppressed the disturb ances, they would not have been repeated. He was not in the church on the first .day the dis turbances took place, Mr. George Allison, inspector of the K division, said he was in St. George's Church on Sunday last. Mr. Thompson spoke to him, and was not in the least excited at that time. A place was kept free between the pulpit and the altar for the choristers. He saw the complainant trying to keep the people out of the communion. In cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the witness said the people crowded towards the altar to see the floral decorations and crosses, at which they appeared much displeased and irritated. He believed Mr. Thompson did all in his power to preserve order end preveat disturbances. By Mr. Yardley —Several persons had got into the altar before Mr._ Thompson approached it, and he immediately removed Mr. Adams and cleared them all out of the apse or quasi altar. Mr. Thompson made a general clearance of the altar. It was all done by the churchwarden instantly. I saw no violence of manner and no excitement on the part of Mr. Thompson. Mr. Yardley gave a strong opinion that on the evidence of th e l as t witness called by the learned counsel the case against Mr. Thompson entirely failed, The defendant appeared to have done what the rector wished him to do—requested the people to take their seats and cleared the altar. Mr. Thompson did not remove Mr. Adams solely, but . • he removed everybody in the altar and cleared a space for the choristers. Mr. Sergeant Ballantino and Mr. Prideaux seve rally arglied . against the view taken by the magis- trate, and contended that an assault had been &Om- mitted and the churchwarden ought to be convicted. After a lengthened discussion, Mr. Howell addressed the Bench on the part of the churchwarden, who, he said, was elected for the third time by the vestry on Easter Monday, and for two years had performed the duties of his office to the satisfaction of his fellow parishioners and the public at large. Mr. Thompson had been compli mented by the magistrates of that court and by the public press for the able manner in which he had performed his duties under the most trying circum stances. Mr. Thompson did not collar or kick the complainant or use any violence. The witnesses severally declared that the conduct of Mr. Adanis was calculated to lead to a breach of the peace. Mr. Henry Ashcroft, an elderly gentleman, said that he really thought Mr. Adams was out of his mind on Sunday evening, and that he shoved Mr Thompson and several other persons. John Button, beadle of the parish of St. George, and a constable sworn in by the Commissioners of Police, said he heard the churchwarden call for the police in attendance to remove Mr. Adams from the altar gates. He asked Adams to leave the place, and on his refusal took him by the arm and led him away towards the rector's vestry, and said to him, " I am very sorry, sir, I have the task of doing this, and laying hold of you." The defendant said, " Never mind, I don't blame you or the churchwarden." When he returned to the com munion Mr. Thompson was removing the people. By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Mr. Thompson did not kick the complainant or collar him. I removed him from the altar rails. Mr. Yardley summed up the case at considerable length. If Mr. Thompson had acted upon the feel ings suggested and made use of his office of church warden as a cloak to gratify private malice, and assaulted Mr. Adams in the church, the case -would have been one of very considerable aggravation, however slight the assault. If it had been shown by strong evidence that had been so he should have sent the case to the Quarter Sessions ; but, if the case were presented before a jury as it was presented to him, only one result would follow. There was no safe evidence that the defendant had been guilty of the mean and improper act imputed to him ; and he should also fail in his duty if he compelled Mr. Thompson to be at the trouble, expense, and incon venience of answering this charge at the sessions, and also prolong and embitter the strife which existed. It was a new phase in the history of these unhappy, these long-continued, irritating, torment ing, despicable riots in St. George's parish that the person who, above all others, ought to preserve order was charged with violating the sanctity of the church. He had more than once condemned the conduct of the people who indulged is miserable brawls and unjustifiable riots in the church, but he always took credit for believing. the cburchwar• dens did all in their power to suppress them, and he always believed Mr. Thompson was acting with perfect good faith, and acting with sound judgment and discrimination. It appeared to hin. (Mr. Yard ley) that it was dorie on the complainant's own motion. He did not mean to say Mr. Adams was actuated by improper motives, but he appeared to have overstepped the bounds of propriety, and to have taken upon himself duties which more pro • perly belonged to the churchwarden. If he had been in the churchwarden's place he certainly would not have entered into a controversy with such an impetuous young gentleman as Mr. Adams. He did not believe any assault had been committed by the churchwarden on the complainant, and should therefore dismiss the summons. Murmurs of applause followed the decision, which were speedily repressed by the officers. THE DOUBLE IiIURDEI? 4 T IBL 4 AP, g-TII',ITEIGHT. The inquest was held on Thursday afternoon at the Packhorse Inn, nearly opposite the scene of the tragedy, by Mr. W. S. Rutter, coroner. The coroner told the jury that he thought it would be necessary to adjourn the inquest, and he would now only take evidence as to the finding of the body, and the medical testimony. He under stood that suspicion attached to a daughter and son of the deceased. The daughter had been taken into custody and was quite insane, even to madness. However, the jury would have to investigate the matter, and if they found that the daughter had been the means of the deaths, it would be neces sary, notwithstanding her state of mind, to find a verdict of wilful murder against her, and it would then be for another court to determine what her state of mind was. Joseph Scholes, having been cautioned by the coroner, said—l am the son of the deceased William Scholes. I was coming up Salford last night from a quarter to half-past six o'clock, and I fell down in the Crescent in a fit. lam subject to fits, and have been so something like ten or twelve years, I can not say exactly. I don't remember falling, but I remember being in the Crescent, and when I re covered found myself in the police-station at the Salford Town-hall. I had had one gill of beer dur ing the day. I have a bruise at the back of my head, which I believe was done in the fall. It is a very slight bruise, but it bled. I walked home, and passed- Pendleton Church about a quarter to nine o'clock. When I got home I went in by the back door, which was left loose, and the gas had been left burning in the kitchen. I called for my father and broter, but could not get an answer. There was no one down stairs, and they must all three have been locked in the room where we found them, as the door of that room was locked, and I could not get in. After having a bit of-supper I went to bed. My father, brother, sister, and myself were the only persons who lived in the house. Not getting any answer from my father and brother, I thought they were out, and my sister in bed; so I waited for them till nearly 11 o'clock, and then I thought it was time to go to bed, thinking they would come in afterwards. My father slept in the room over the kitchen, and I slept in the room over the yard doors, with my brother; and my sister slept in the front room. When I went to bed my sister was quiet ; but about two 'o'clock she began to scream and knock at her door with a stick or something, and I went and asked what she wanted, but she could not tell- me. I got up and went to her door, perhaps eight times between that time and half past five o'clock, when I got up to go to my work. My sister kept calling my name, and crying out that she was chocking ; but the door was locked, and I could not get in ; nor could I get any proper answer from her. I.went and got company when I found what it was. I went down the yard, and two neighbours, Mrs. Phoebe Hall and Mrs. Sarah Anne Smethurst, wanted to know what all the. knocking had been during the night, and I said it was Sarah, and that I could,not find my father nor brother. Mrs. Hall said if Sarah was locked up she was likely to make a noise, and I was to go and break the door open. I took her with me, and she saw me prise the door open, and I found my father and brother corpses, and my sister in bed in a- very rough state. I broke the door open with a kind of axe. I then came down and alarmed the neigh bourhood. I could not quiet my sister by any means whatever. She was dressed and in bed with her boots on. She began to kick me, and I pulled her boots off. The doctors came, and she was sent to the workhouse. She grasped at me with her hands several times. She was subject to fits, but I had never seen her so bad. Frequently, after a fit, if she did not sleep, she would become very passionate. There was blood running out of my father's ear, and my brother had blood on the side of his face. My sister's cap had ,some blood upon it. After I got into the room, my sister kept calling my name, and said, "I'm chok ing," but if I offered to assist her she would only grasp at me. My father was 75 years of age, my brother 39 or 40, and my sister about 29. Mrs, Phoebe Hall said—l live next door to the deceased's house. I heard Sarah Scholes calling out for help, about three o'clock this morning, as I lay in bed. My husband wanted to get up, but I said it was no use, as we had heard her many times in the same way before. There was a deal of knocking. At six o'clock this morning Joseph was in the yard, and I asked him what had been the matter ; he said he could not tell, but that his sister was locked up in the room, and .his father and brother had locked her up. I suggested that the door should be broken open. I stayed at the bottom of the stairs whilst Joseph broke the door open, and then I went to the door of the roam. I saw his sister take hold of him by the hands and point to the other side of the room where the bodies were. The sister did not, look peaceable at all, but was excited and agitated. Joseph seemed very much surprised when he saw his father and brother dead, and asked me to come into the room. He said, " Why, they are here, and both dead !" The neighbourhood was alarmed im mediately, and the police and medical men sent for. Sarah Seholes was very violent sometimes when she had fits. I don't think the father and brother (W. Edward) have treated her well. She has told me so ; but I suppose she was at fault, and didnotdo what they wanted her to do. She has told me that they have struck her, but she Complained more par ticularly of her brother William Edward. lgaria Turner said—l am 10 years old. I live near Seholes's. I saw Sarah and William Edward Seholes both down stairs, in their own house, last night, about a quarter - past nine o'clock. They were talking, "but not quarrelling. I did not see the father at all. Sergeant Lee stated that he found a stick under the pillow of _Sarah Scholes's bed, and a k n if e en MONEY ORDERS. During the last year 108 additional money order offices were opened in England and Wales, and 20 in Ireland ; while in Scotland, although 10 new offices were opened, 17 were closed owing to the small o f extent mone y of or t d h e e r i r offices busin i e s s sn.oTwh2u,s4tBhle: exclusivewho l whole num ber o colonial money order Theoffi offices in connection with the issued in the United Kingdom during f moneythe ye ar orderswas United Kingdom.number 32. 6 , 9 69,108; the amount per cent., 41. profit, after deductin portion of money or England and Wales the corn ' • • Ireland, 1 to ever; every 6 persons. Th money orders last year was ease ni q at about the same rate The money order system, thou n c , h , 00,930 ; the increase mission, £ 116,369 ; and the orders issued £29,115. The pro sissued to population is, in nearly l3 l. to every 3 persons;' The increase Scotland, 1 to the number of nearly asi .00,000, which is. of alarge profit in England and Scotland, carried at a loss in Irelani. Althou ot im provements had from time to time gt the previous year. productive. l and, i s st ill great been . made in the money order system resulting in increased economy and greater facilties to the public, it thought that by a further revision of the whole vas ‘ma nagement, and a min nte examination o f its various parts, important amendments might still be made.. About a year ago a committee was appointed4fOr this purpose, vthich, after a long and laborious in vestigation, presented a very able report, in which they showed that, by the withdrawal of certain checks, which they proved to be no longer neces sary, and by other judicious alterations, the work of the Money Order Office might be so much re duced* ultimately to afford a saving of about £4,000 per annum • while at the same time the po sition of some of the clerks might be ameliorated, and the general convenience of the public pro moted. Several of the committee's recommenda tions, including an abolition of the distinction between major and minor offices, have already been carried into effect ; and, so far as there has been time to test them, have been fully successful. The committee's report afforded additional rea s o n .... .... ::..~_ the mantelpiece, besmeared with blood. There was only blood enough on the floor to cover a shilling. The medical men not having finished their post mortem examination, the coroner adjourned the inquest to Tuesday next, at one o'oclock. EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION OF THE DAUGHTER. Yesterday morning Sarah Eliza Scholes was brought before the New Bailey magistrates, charged with having murdered her father and brother. The prisoner is nearly 30 years of age, and is a remarkably fine-looking woman. The surgeons, who made a post-mortem exami nation of the bodies, stated that the father had been strangled, and that the son had been killed by a wound in the eye, inflicted with' a sharp instru ment that had peiletrated to the brain. Police•sergeant Lee said that on Thursday morn ing he went to the house of the deceased, and he there found the prisoner an a bed, greatly excited, and being held down by three men. He found the room in the state above described. He found a walking-stick under the pillow of the bed, and one pocket-knife on the mantelpiece, and another in the hand of the father. Police•sergeant Dixon deposed that on Thursday morning, about nine o'clock, he took the prisoner to the Salford Union Workhouse, and remained there with her till ten o'clock that night. About three o'clock in the afternoon, while he was sitting with the prisoner, a minister came into the room in which they were. The prisoner had, heretofore, been rather boisterous, but she now became more calm and collected. In about an hour from this time she began to say that on the previous night her brother William came home and began to make a kind of disturbance, whereupon she went up stairs into her own room, and her father and bro ther followed her, and got upon her bed to beat her. She, however, got up, and stood in her own defence, took a stick and struck her brother with it and then she throttled him. After having done that she throttled her father, who fell upon her brother. The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday next. The unfortunate woman during the examination seemed to take some interest in the proceedings and to know well what was being done, as it was ob served that she f r equently no dded assent to the evi dence of the police-officers. On being asked by the magistrates, however, as to whether she had any questions to put to the witnesses, she invariably answered, "No; T don't remember anything about it." FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 11. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard S. Newbold as Consul at Trinidad, for the United States of America. WHITEHALL, APRIL 11. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Duncan Stewart to the Charge and Of of Third Minister of the United Parish of Inverness and Bona, in the Presbytery and County. of Inverness, vacant by the death of the Rev. Hugh Mackenzie. BOARD OF 'TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 13. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister to the Argentine Confedera tion, inclosing translation of a Decree of the President of that Confederation abrogating the laws of the 19th July, 1856, and the 29th July, 1358, respectively, imposing diffe rential duties upon merchandise brought into any of the provinces of the Argentine Confederation, from within the Capes, at the mouth of the River Plate. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. County of Ayr—Graham Somervell, Esq., to be Deputy. Lieutenant. City of Edinburgh--The Lord Cowan, the Hon. Bou verie Francis Primrose, Sir John M'lsTeill, G.C.8., Sir W. Johnston, Sir John Melville, Professor James Miller, Robert Chambers, Esq., David Mure, Esq., Archibald T. Boyle, Esq., David Anderson, Esq., William J. Duncan, Esq., George Young, Esq., George Eliza Russell, Esq., Alex. Hill, Esq., and Thomas Ranken, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants. Cheshire.-22d Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers — Thomas Horatio Marshall, Esq., to be Captain ; Wm. S. Bradburne, Gent., to be Lieutenant. 23d Company—John Bolton Littledale, Esq., to be Captain. 24th Company—C. H. Hitchen, Esq. to be Captain; F. W. Jackson, Gent., to be Lieutenant; T. F. Linnell; Gent., to be Ensign. 25th Company—A. Lyon, Esq., to be Captain; A. M. Gardiner, Gent., to be Lieutenant; ; R. K. Gardiner, Gent., to be Ensign. 26th Company—T. W. Tatton, Esq., to be Cap tain ; G. Peel, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; F. Ham son, Gent., to be Ensign. 27th Company—E. H. Greg, Eeq., to be Captain ; J. Railton, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; E. C. Hopps, Gent., to be Ensign. Wordestershire.-13th Company of Worcestershire Rifle Corps—Harry M‘Leod, Esq., Lieutenant in her Majesty's army, to be Captain ' • J. A. Macnaught, Gent., to be Lieu tenant; T. L. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign. 14th Company —John Parker, Esq., to be Captain. 15th Company—R. Bourne, Esq., late Captain in her Majesty's army, to be Lieulenant ; C. Gardiner, Gent., to be Ensign. IGth Com pany—P. W. Bennitt, Esq., to be Captain. Lanark. : -Ist Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)— William Coulborn, Gent., to be Supernumeiary Limite nant. 52d Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Hamilton) — The Rev. Thomas Struthers to be Honorary Chaplain ; Walter Walker Lennox, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant- Surgeon. 80th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)— Robert M'Gavin, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; John Adam Skelly M'Gavin, Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Quigley, Gent., to be Ensign. County of Nottingham.—Southern Regiment of Not tinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet John Wright to Lieutenant, vice Lowe, resigned ; John Chaworth Mus ters, Esq., to be Cornet, vice Francis Bradshaw the younger, promoted ; Thomas Bromley, Esq., to be Cornet, vine Wright, promoted. Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet William Knight Hamilton Ramsay White to bo Lieutenant, vice Baring, resigned ; Alfred Brodhuritt, Gent., to be Cornet, vice White, promoted. Toi'er Hamlets.—Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers (No. 2.) —James - Scott Walker, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel. To be Captains—Joseph D'Aguilar Samuda, Esq., Clif ford Wigram, Esq., John Holt, Esq., Edward Hegely Byas, Esq., William Waring Gwillim, Esq. To be Lieu tenants—Charles Hampden Wigram, Gent., Ashley Will mott Barrett, Gent., Joseph Lloyd, jun., Gent., Russell Gole, Gent., Charles William Laws, Gent. To be Ensigns —Thomas Burt, Gent., George Pecke Meeson, Gent., Hugh Moody Robertson, Gent.; Alfred Thomas Pitchford, Gent., William Charles Secretan, Edward Stillard. To be Surgeon—Thomas Gray, M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeon —William Thomas Garrett Woodforde, M.D. Lancashire.-15th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers— Philip Frederic Tinne, Esq., to be Captain Commandant; Richard Watt, Esq., to be Captain; Robert M'Connell, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; John Mewburn, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; John Park Robinson, ent., to be Second Lieutenant. 56th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers— Richard Husband, Esq., to be Captain; Joseph Beckton, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Charles Mercier, Gent., to be En sign. 61st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Ensign Robert Hyde Barton, to be Lieutenant ; Clarence Brazil, Gent., to be 'Ensign ; Richard Carver Coupe, Gent., to be Ensign. Sussex.-7th Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Lieutenant Manaton Pipon, to be Captain; Ensign Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., to be Lieutenant. Berwick-upon-Tweed.-Ist Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed Artillery Volunteers—Alexander Kirkwood, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon. let Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed Rifle Volunteers—Robert Ramsay, jun., Esq., to be Captain; Henry Lindsay Christison, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign. Northumberland.—let Corps Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—Captain Edward Potter, to bo Major. BANKRUPTS. William Evans Prichard, licensed victualler, Borough, to surrender, April 21, at eleven, and May 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Pyke, tailor, Edgeciare-road, Middlesex. April 28, at half-past twelve, and May 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joseph Edward Morris, grocer, Bristol, April 23, at eleven, and May 21, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Williams, chemist, Horsely Heath, Tipton, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Innocent, grocer, Covent-garden, April 25, at half-past twelve, and May 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. • Henry Turner, grocer, Rotherhithe, April 23, at half past one, and May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. isliclolas Male Grose, wine merchant, Wadebridge, Corn wall, April 25 and May 30, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Joseph , Bahnforth Booth, draper, Elland, Yorkshire, April 30 at eleven, and May 21. at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. _ George RoylZ, flint glass manufacturer, Sutten, Lanca. shire, April 24 and May 15 at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis. trict Court. Eliza Eastwood, fruiterer, Manchester, April 25 and May 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Matthias Edward Bowra, manufacturer of patent beds, Birmingham, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. John Ashby, builder, Carlisle-street, Soho-square, April 25, at twelve, and May 21, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Charles Frank Boyce, livery stable keeper, Epsom, April 26, at eleven, and May 21, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. .Tames Barton, farmer, Rowantree Hall, Dumfriesshire, William Bogg, typefounder, Glasgow. William Davie, carter, Duntocher, Dumbartonshire. Alexander Milne and Co., jewellers, Edinburgh. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 11th day of April, 1860 : ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £28,389,340 Government Debt Zit ( 15,100 Other Securities .. 3,469,909 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,914,340 Silver Bullion .... £28,389,340) £28,389,310 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche- • quer, Savings' Banks, Commis mission ers of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- PARTIMENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead WeightAn- nuity) ": £9,728,943 Other Securities '23,534,38S Notes Gold and Silver Coin 722,762 counts) 5,878,135 Other Deposits 14,570,717 Seven Day and other Bills 705,829 438,908,178 N. 71 £38,008,178 :14.RSHALL, Chief Cashier. I Dated ,April 12,1860. ~*~-~; COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-APRIL 13. A fair attendance to-day, and wheat a tolerably ready sale at Id to 2d per centat advanceC on the extreme rates of last week. There was a general improvement on all articles at market, and altogether a healthy tone. • RIPON—APRIL 12. There was only a moderate supply of grain to-day, and a fair business done at late prices. WAKEFIELD-APRIL 13. A moderate supply of grain. Wheat generally was firm at an advance on last week's prices, and a good sale was experienced for best red at is to 2s more money. Other sorts also higher. Barley steady. Beans, oats, and shel ling rather dearer. EXETER—. With a tolerable attendance •ApitiL 13. .e, the business to-day was firm at the following prices Wheat, white..6B 3d to 6s 6d Barley.. 4s Od to 5s Od I Ditto red 5s 3d to 5s 6d Oats Flour, fine, 34s to 35s ; seconds, 32s to 33s per sack. CATTLE. The attendance was good, and market was moderately supplied with fat stock. X small supply of pork carcases, at previous rates. Fat beef,p score, 10s6d to lls Ewes, per lb ....60d to 7 1 Perk carcases, do 9s Od to lOs Wethers, d 0...... 7d to 7i I Sheep, per lb. Od to lid Fat calves, d 0.... 5d to sid Rough fat, 4id per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-APRIL 13. A fair business this week, but at rather irregular prices. Sales— 300 hhds West India at 40s to 41s 6d ; 4,000 bcixes Havana at 28s Gd to 29s for Nos. 11 to 12; 8,000 bags of Mauritius landed, at 435.; 2,600 bags old low Pernams in store at 38s ; and 2,000 baskets Java to arrive, price not known. Refiners' produce commands a steady sale. Rum still in improved demand, and a fair amount of business has been done this week, chiefly in Demeraras, at about 2s per proof gallon. RAIL TVA Y INTELLIGENCE: TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE N 4 EEK. Miles Opened Receipts. Railways. ,----...--, ~..--.....--, 1860. 1859. 1860. 1859. ___ - --,-- X X Ballymena and Portrush... 35 35 - -- Redale and Leyburn lO 10 - - Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,451 1,201 Belfast and Comity Down 2O 20 692 517 Birkd., Lane., & Ches. Juno 32 32 . 3,218 2,554 Blyth and Tyne 2O 20 1,559 1,948 Bristol and Exeter 125 119 6,517 6,137 Caledonian 193 184 14,203 12,740 Ches.&Holyhead(withMold; 94 Cockermouth& Workington 231 220 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 362 346 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage. 61 6 1 23? 206 Deeside l7 17 265 256 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 56 1,254 1,208 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,625 1,452 Dub. & Wicklow (m.Kingst ) 401 401 1,950 1,595 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath 174 174 670 557 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jim. 31 31 1,077 960 East Anglian 674 674 1,065 910 E.Countfes,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 489 27,0 46 23,467 East Kent 194 - 356 • - E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 - - Edinburgh and Glasow ... 142 142 5,85 9 5,691 Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,389 3,070 Forth & Clyde Junction ... 29/ 291 255 291 Furness Glasgow & South-Western 183/ 1831 7,914 7,292 Great Northern 283 283 24,327 21,348 Great North of Scotland 51t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ; 226 226 6,955 6,433 Great Western 466 466 32,619 28,891 Hull and Holderness - - mverness & Aberdeen June. 55 65 657 587 Irish South-Eastern 254 254 58 214 Killarney Junction Lancaster and Carlisle (in. Kendal and Windermere; 1 1001 - - Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn 289 2891 35,970 30,950 Limerick and Foynes • 2 21 174 149 4 Llanelly 4 417 425 London & North-Western . 917 891 77,667 68,592 London and Blackwall st 1,604 1,361. London & South-Western . 339 307 18,790 14,904 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2234 1904 17,965 12,424 f L'derry and Enniskillen Lond., Tilbury, & Southend . 45 45 960 953 slan.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh. 1734 1731 11,835 10,324 Blanch. S. J un.& Altrincham 94 91 1,273 898 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,095 1,038 Midland . Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 177 177 4,643 4,607 Monkland 52 52 1,429 1,501 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,145 2,251 • Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,607 2,939 , Newport,Aberg.,& Herefor 5O 50 1,461 1,348 L North British (in. Dalkeith) 154 144 5,464 4,925 North Devon . 35 •35 421 418 North-Eastern 746 7354 38,499 33,300 1 North London 9 9 2,582 2,432 I North Staffordshire 233 233 7,872 7,381 , North-Western 464 - - N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 1 6 4 - - . Oxford, Wore~ & Wolver Peebles lBl 181 196 184 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 2,014 2,947 I Scottish Central 5O 50 3,076 2,886 • Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,680 3,395 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 1,797 1,720 a Shrewsbury and Chester ... 48 48 3,115 2,909 s Shrewsbury & Hereford ... 51 51 1,694 1,561 _ Shropshire Union 291 291 1,030 951 • South Devon South-Eastern 306 302 22,932 17,552 - South Wales l7l} 1714 0,198 6,381 e S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,827 2,755 - Stockton and Darlington „ 119. 119 0,705 7,012 Taff Vale 54 54 3 , 956 4,521 Ulster 52 52 1,770 1,511 Ulverstone and Lancaster '' Vale of Neath 251 25.1 1,249 1 , 30 - Warrington and Stockport lO - - - ; Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 ' 321 341 Waterford and Limerick _ West Cornwall 274 274 738 621 n W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail. 3 9 39 3,871 3,43 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 632 501 r) Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 510 501 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 372 261 b- FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ;o Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 887 79 5- Austrian B2B 673 3 2, 4 1 3 28, 63 Belgian a E n a d st m ern nw J a u u n k c i t e ion . 264 264 257 25 ie Buffalo and Lake Huron t, Detroit 185 185 2,565 1,72' I Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,092 2,42 y Grand Trunk of Canada BBO 880 14,675 10, 61 RI Great Indian Peninsula 194/ 1304 4,051 3,27 Great Luxembourg l2l 122 2,505 1,65 „ Great Western of Canada.. 345 294 9,050 7,90 i. Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 - - Lyons and Geneva 142 142 4,272 3,82 f.- Madrid, Saragossa drAlleant 310 284 13,492 7,25 [y Maria Antonia 2l 21 - - 1- Northern of France k i N pa o ri rw s, e t o - i y a o n n lr & tint 602 574 43,742 40,91 editerrn 84 479 840 73,161 68, 92- . Paris and Orleans 922 922 47,818 49,17 1$ Paris and Strasburg 1,032 1,016 - 1 Royal Danish 69 69 816 5 0 d, Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,234 1, 34 __ )e Soutkern of Franc e 777 773 19,497 16,7-? , n West Fland ers W. and N.W. of France 742 74, 34,339 34,27 220 346 206 256 1,208 1,452 1,595 750 . 557 960 910 23,467 346 1,309 524 3 '500 600 266 790 28, 60 256 1,042 1,729 2,42 5 10,81 6 3,274 1,55 6 7,9 1 ) 6 - 3,82 4 7,25% 40.6fg 68,9 25 49,176 50 5 1,348 16,2 35 73 5 34,273 I FOREIGN_ MAIL PACKET LIST. in the following table E signifies that letters are deepateheJ 4 , by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails. OW DESTINATIONS. mil Despat ch Mails. Despatch. D P es o p rt att. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via M arse ill es Bahamas and Havana via New A A p p r r i i i i i - B, ,M B lSouthamp. o u v a e i r r ..41 0 York Aprill4,E Liverpool.. Apr, t i, Canada, &o. (by Canadn. pckt ) April—, E Liverpool"' APr zi Cape of Good Hope, Ascen -3 slon, and St. Helena . China, Penang, and Singa- „ A 0 pore, via Southampton Apr Gibraltar, via Southampton .. April—,M Southamp. over did Honduras and Blewfields .... Aprlll7, M Southamp. Apr il India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, r il ig via Southampton .......... April2o , M Southamp. AP- JO In D dl i a tto, via Marseille s y), via South- Di tt amptmon ................ Apiil—, M Southamp. cov e _A rais ; o, via iiarseilles April 18, B Ap ril. Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ay res , and P. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto A M p a ril Y 17 9 , M M S S :n u th h am am p P .. -,13421*--111 5 11 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via ertitif South ampton April—, H Sonthamp . °• r il 1% Ditto, via Ma rse ill es Mexico and Havana ..., Newfoundland April24, E Liverpool.. United States and British N A America (by British packet) Aprill4, E Liverpool.. —P r i1i11 .... . Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Cast of Africa, Ma April deira, a nd Teneriffe April 23 B Liverpool.. West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Pern, Grey- Aoril i* town, New Granada, &c. —,Apr.1117,11 Southamp. ---__:_,.., [ADvEunsEmENT.]---Holloway's Pills ,for the Cur d Dropsical Affections. —The causes of dropsy are very Y r _, A ris• I is often enge n d ere d b y th e mor b id state of th e 017 30 , When the circulation is s l ugg i s h , i mpover i s h e d, or i ra P dr• the first thing to be do ne t o e ff e t a cure i s t o corr ect t h e ' ', ' prayed humours of the blood an d g i ve t one t o the stolpi. This is effectually ac com pli s h e d b y a course o f 110110 10 " 0 . Pills. They are a g en tl e b u t mos t e ff ect i ve aper i e nt asi( 1 : 04 0 rifler. They speedily put the whole system into order' ne r• give the patient more s t reng th an d soun d er health thif4oo; haps he ever enjoyed before at any period of hts life• ti.ns for the use of Holloway's Pills accompany BIRTHS. „ at tr° , FURNISS.— rtn-f a rioOn the 12th inst., at 3T, Porcheste , Hyde park, the wife of Thomas S. Furaiss ; Esq., Pti— ter-at-law, of a daughter. lit HAMMACK —On the 13th inst., at Sudbury, Harrov f l wife of James T. Hammack, tag., of a daughter. , HonAN.—On the 12th inst., p,t F r i ern W a t c h, Whete t° Mrs. E. Homan, of a dau.rAter. ro ~.. MAP RIAGES. -a ; O r ' HonLoCK.--AWARD.— -On the 13th inst., Darrell 1. Horlock, Esq., of L : impsfield, Surrey, to Alice, dye e' dot daughter of Alieb? .e l Saward, Esq , o f Chatham.ids,_.„ BLOFIELD---, ‘IIIIT H.—On the 12th ' inst., Arthur -011117.; M the third 'surviving son of the late C. J. Blomfieltdfa r of Bishop of London, to Caroline Harriet, third datag.°"" C. C. Smith, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund's. DEATHS. _ as eett FO.ASTER.—On the 9th inst , at 18, Great Queenicy Westminster, Job a Forster' , Esq., of Hanch Ira% field, aged 74. li e ge' LIVESAY.—On the Bth inst., suddenly, at Great Co street, Camden-town, Dr. Salter LivesaY, it. l4 ' • ht, PRATT.—On th e 12th i ns t., M r . Charles Pratt, , gi ti g bridge-te rrace . 13 01 i i. SMITIL—On th e 12th i ns t ., a t 5, Blatadford - sq u Smith, Esq., formerly . . • IVI P for the c it y of No 01, aged 77. i0n .. 0 4119re' WESTMACOTT, —Oll the 11th inst., at 1, Gore (3_,,e., B . Henry Seyraour I' ‘restmacott, Esq., o f Johnstr ford-row, solicittr r, aged 51 aLe.O4 ~aQr la ' LONIION Printed and Published by Bitatm — Nv llintb n t of Ne.. 112, Strani 1, Printer, at 77+s Butt Ofn e rn ools oi '9 l Stmand, in • the - Pr aoinot of the SavoY, in the° Saturfi ay, April 14, 1860. i At ( 4i 1 11:1 brig d on o , fr o , Jain con c i Per o Rdtic 4th, r i l Barn ease, 4 howi Ilo na fo, A I poi 408: r P ort ` Co: InJl 41 4