The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-13 00:00:00

riltrb Ulittton SUN OFFICE, Severn o'clock. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT BY MR. VERNON SMITH. SUPPRESSION OF AN IMPORTANT LETTER, We have at last the true account of the letter from Lord Canning, which Mr. Smith has sup pressed, and it differs strangely from all that we have heard, upon this subject from Lords Granville and Lansdowne. Lord Canning sent home the famous procla mation with a despatch and a private letter, —ad dressed to Mr. Vernon Smith, as President of the Board of Control. In this letter Lord Canning stated that he was anxious to give further explanations about the proclamation, but that he was forced to postpone them to some future time. What did this in fact mean ? Why, naturally, Lord Canning, supposing that he was writing to his official chief, intended to say, "My despatch is an incomplete defence of my procla mation, and judging of it by what you know officially, I dare say you will condemn it ; but I h a ve explanations to give, which will modify your opinion ; wait till you are in possession of them. I have not time to give them to-day." Now, will any one deny that, if Lord Ellenborough had received such a request from the Governor- General his conduct would have been very diffe rent t Perhaps he would have abstained from judging the Proclamation, until Lord Can ning's explanations had arrived ; probably, if he had expressed any official opinion upon it, he would have done so in more measured terms ; certainly, he would never have published his cele brated reply. Thus, then, in all its most important bearings, the course of Lord Ellenborough has been affected by the suppression of Lord Canning's letter to Mr. Smith, and as we are now told that Lord Palmerston advised its suppression, we can only look upon the whole business as an in trigue to lay a trap for Lord Ellenborough, by keeping him in ignorance of Lord Canning's most important communications. TATTERSALLS'—(This Evening.) For the Derby, Beadsman advanced from 25 to 1 to 15 to 1, and hie stable companion, Fitz-Roland, receded from 425 to 100 (taken) to 5 to 1 (offered) ; the latter odds, however, were finally taken about him. 6 to 1 would have been taken to money about Toxophilite. Ethiopian advanced to 25 to 1 (taken), whilst Physi cian, who was for for some in much favour, retrograded t• 40 to 1 (offered). CLOSING PRICES. DERBY. sto 1 agst Fitz-Roland (taken) sto 1 agst Toxopholite (off) 100 to 6 agst Happy Land (off) 100 to 6 agst Eclipse (taken) 100 to 6 agst The Hadji 100 to 6 agst Mr. Gratwicke'o two (Deceiver and Ethiopian) 12 to 1 aget Longrange 14 to 1 agst The Ancient Briton (taken) 15 to 1 agst Beadsman (take 16 to 1 freely) 18 to 1 agst Ditto (taken) 20 to 1 aget Sedbury (•aken) 25 to 1 aget Ethiopian 33 to 1 aget Kelpie 40 to 1 aget Physician 40 to 1 agat Deceiver (off) 100 to 1 agst Telegram (off) 1000 to 10 agst Jordan OAKS. 10 to 1 eget Target ARRIVALS AT HARPENDEN. Glautius, Ruth, Little Cob, Pactolus, Happy Queen, Wanderer, Kate, Bastion, Colt by Gibraltar out of Grasshopper, New Brighton, Cantrip, Cicada, Nognian Smith, Hebe, Barege, Thornhill, lnd Mariola. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.---(This Evening.) Their lordships did not assemble this evening in con sequence of its being A.sceriion Day. SOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : --Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway ; Bessel sleigh Road ; Blyth Harbour and Dock ; Exeter and Exmouth Railway ; Formartine and Buchan R way ; Inverury and Old Meldrum Junc . :ion Railway ; Liverpool Improvement ; Manchester, Hyde, and Mut tram Road ; Metropolitan Board of Work 4 (Victoria Park Approach) ; and Balby and Worksop Road. The following bills were further considered and or dered to be read a third time :—Brentford and Richmond Railway, East Kent Ral. may (Western Extension), Worcester and Hereford Railway. TEES CONSERVANCY. Mr. C. FORSTER. moved that the return present,6 10th May, relative to the Tees Conservancy, be referroa to the committee on group 11 of railway and canal bids —Agreed to. IN DIA . Mr. LYGON gave notica that he should to-morrow, on the motion of adjournment till Monday, c,ll the attention of the house to the information understood to hare been withheld from the Beard of Control. MAGISTRATES FOR BELFAST. Mr. DlA7SYTsice7ltirChiefSecretary for Ireland, whether it was the intention of the Irish Government to carry into effect that portion of the report of the Belfast Commissioners, in which they recommended that soma Roman Catholics should be appointed magistrates for the borough of Belfast/ Lord NAAS said the hon. and learned gentleman was in error in supposing it was intended to appoint magis trates for the borough of Belfast. The magistrates who noted in Belfast borough were appointed solely by the Lord-Lieutenant. REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA. Mr. WYLD asked the Secretary of the Board of Con trol if despatches had been recently received from Sir Colin Campbell asking urgently for imm e di a t e reinforce ments If the Court of Directors of the East India Company bad declined for the present to provide trans ports fur the troops which the military authorities had reported to be ready for embarkation ? Mr. H. BAILLIE said such questions as this might lead to serious public inconvenience if persisted in. (Hear. ) He, ho wever,ehould answer the question. No despatch had been received from Sir C. Campbell for immediate rein forcements, nor had the East India Company refused to furnish transports for any troops that were required for Mr. WYLD gave notice that he would repeat the question in another shape on a future day. RESIGNATION OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH. Lord A. V. TEMPEST asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the resignation of Lord Ellen borough bad been his own spontaneous act—(laughter) —or whether it was partly attributable to the directly or indirectly expressed wish of the Government that th e noble lord should resign—(laughter ) — and whether it was the intention of the Government to adopt the views conveyed in the despatch of the Secret Committee to the Governor-General in Council, 19th April, 1858, or whether it was the intention of the Government to accept the policy laid down in the pro elamation of the Governor-General of India, dated•Alla babad, March 14, 1858 (Hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, in reply to the second question, that he thought, upon re -1,!on, the house would agree with him that the in quiries contained in it involved more the nature of a resolution than the scope of a question , and 136 was de s i ra bl e o f obtainin informa tion, he f t ! u ggested to th e no bl e lord g that it wo uld br better for him be to pursue d that course that the que3- tion might ebateel.. The second question he thought was ans w ere d in the frank al.(' generous speech of Lord Ellen gl announcing his res i gnation in another place. (Rea r.) a perusal of that speech o th f e th n e ob c f r e o l w or e d w av es oubldetflanwcat r h e aj ef e t ven the First Minister had been lahiedresignation of Lord Ellen borough until it at the foot o f h er t a h n a ol!,,r o f th e that Majesty—(bear, hear)— an d he (the b .Exchequer) had no doubt the m ot i on ' the noble lord, though not unconstitutional, w a s rathe r influenced unusual; but bad those who had the honour of lately the noble lord's colleague 3 been aware of his e in tention, the great regard . for his personal qualities, and admiration of his genius', wo uld . have induced O leo ', unanimously to have requested him to have withdrawn his resignation. (Loud cheers.) THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'3 PROCLA MATION. Mr, NEWDEGATE asked the sight hon. member for I Tortbas spton, whether the late Government received any intimation of Lord Canning's intention to issue such a proclam stion as that addressed to the chiefs and inha- ~~ ~ ~ . bitants of Oude which was sow before Parliament, or that proclamation ; whether the late Government were consulted by Lord Canning as to the policy of issuing Quell a I)* ,. ‘c 4 a.v , %ti". or of any meaetire for tee same pu. p , llt ; It tie lee Government were thus inform ed or coneuited, at what. period their attention was first called to the subject, and what were the dates and nature of the co mmunications be tween the late Government and the Government of India thereon 3 Mr. V. SMITH said he should be most happy to ifhwoauss eallwudoeudldto n b d u u tl such hina answ er with a n th e el p a u n e a s t t n n of w t h h a e t if e a e c e o d u i s g e of t were he c h o o n u t s r e a , r y he t w o u t h l p r o e s g t u p l o a n t ed e it orde r till he of po motion r of adjournment to-morrow. The CHANCELLOR of the EXC HEQUE R. —I think it would be much more convenient. Mr. V. SMITH—Then I will postpone it. (Loud ,e N o , no, " "Go on, go on.") The question, so cfarires of as he was concerned, would be answered. He re ceived a letter from the Governor-General of India, dated March 6 ; but before answering the question, it was necessary to inform the house that the mode of commu nication adopted by the Governor General of India was either through the Court of Directors, the Secret Com mittee of that body, or privately to the President of the Board of Control, the latter being the most confidential of all. He was prepared admit in the fullest sense that every ex-Minister, or any one, who heard anything ad vantageous or disadvantazeons to his country, was bound to communicate to the Minister of the day, taking care not to communicate anything of a private character that would betray the confidence reposed in the party. After leaving office, he communicated to Lord Ellenborough a private letter of Lord Xlphinstone, which the noble lord returned without inviting farther comment ; and, as regarded Lord Canning, he stated that his communications to him (Mr. V. Smith), from their being private friends as well as public colleagues, were not so reserved in his private communications as they otherwise would have been. The communication alluded to, and to which he thought undue impor tance was attached, was dated the 6th of March, aad arrived in this country when be (Mr. Smith) was absent in Ireland, and his reason for not communicating it to the Government was that he did not attach much importance to its contents. Amongst other things which it contained of a private character, was a paragraph stating that Lord Canning intended to issue a proclama tion addressed to the zemindars or landowners in Oude, that would reach him officially by that mail, and that his lordship had hoped to have accompanied it with a full explanatory dispatch, but more urgent business had prevented his doing so. That letter did not convey to him (Mr. Smith) any explanation of the proclamation, and in consequence be did not think it necessary that he should have communicated thatletter to her Majesty's Government. iCries of oh, oh.) There was no neces sity for hie informing the Earl of Ellenborough that he (Mr. Smith) had heard privately that he had received by that mail a public despatch from India, and to have informed him that Lord Canning intended to send him an explanatory despatch, which, for all he (Mr. V. Smith) knew, never might be sent, would be a work of supere rogation. Such a communication to Lord Ellenborough would have been not only useless, but impertinent. Certainly Lord Ellenboroogh was the last man in the world to whom he (,Ir. V. Smith) should wish to make an impertinent communication—(" oh, oh," and hear, hear - because he could only have communicated to the noble lord that he (Mr. Smith) had received a public despatch informing him that a proclamation was about to be issued in Oude, but that such was his sense of the noble lord's intemperance and irritation —(Dries of Oh, oh, and Hear, hear)—that he considered he was about to act on a proclamation, without waiting for an explanation ; and if he had so communicated:,te the noble lord, he thought that the noble lord would have had cause to have justly pronounced it au impertinent comwwnication. (Hear, and oh, oh.) The noble lord knowing better than he (Mr. Smith) did the mode of communication adopted between the Governor-General of India and the Home authorities, and as the Governor-General commu nicated with the Chairman of the Board of Directors, when oases of importance arose, be (Mr. Smith) had a right to suppose that the Fame mail that brought his letter would have brought a communication of the like kind from the Chairman of the Board of Directors, with whom the noble lord was in constant communication, and would have communicated it to the noble lord if it bad been of importance. There fore, looking at the communication, and the contents of the letter generally, he considered he was justified in not forwarding it to the noble lord. He read it immediately he received it to his noble friend the member for Te,-rton—(loud cheers from the Ministerial benches)—to whom it did not occur any more than to himself the necessity of its being, communicated to the Government. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Ho was quits prepared to justify his conduct, respecting which he did not entertain the least regret. (Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.) He believed he had acted perfectly correct in the course he had pur s4ud in believing what was written to him in a private letter was of no sort of importance, and he defied any one t) show that it had affected the decision of the Government in anything they had done with regard to India. If her Majesty's Government pretended to say it had or could have done so, then he must express his wonder that they did not first inquire in every quarter if any communication bad been made to any one about it. (Hoar, hear.) Sir M. FARQUHARSON asked the right bon. gen tleman if, as a matter of course, bad he continued Pre sident of the Board of Control, he would have received a draft of the proclamation said to have been forwarded by the same mail with the letter. Mr. V. SMITH—Of course. The subject then dropped. OATHS BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL brought up the report of the com mittee appointed in reference to the Lords' amendments to the Oaths Bill. The le asons for dissenting from the amendments were put seriatim by the house, and agreed to, Mr. Newdegate first entering his protest against them. It was then agreed that a message should be sent to the Lords, asking fer a c ,nforence. THE - VOTE OF CENSURE. TheCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER inquired of Mr. Cardwell how he intended to bring the motion of which he had given notice before the house to-morrow —whether by way of amendment to the motion for going into supply or as a substantive motion. He asked the question that if the latter course were adopted he might move that notice of motion should have precedence of orders of the day. (Hear.) Mr. CARDWELL—Asa substantive motion. (Hear.) Mr. M. GIBSON—Is the motion to be submitted to the house in the same words in which it is now on the table of the house 1 Mr. CARDWELL—ExactIy. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that to-morrow notices of motion should have precedence of the order of the day.—Agreed to. MASTERS AND WORKNIEN BILL. The second roadinz of this bill was withdrawn. JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY BILL. Mr. HEA.DLAM moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. BLACK rose, and was Liar SPEARING. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, lIIREJK OF THE AVA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The following extract from a letter from one on board the Chesapeake may interest some of your readers.—l am, sir, yours truly, May 11. IL. L. B. " Her Majesty's ship Chesapeake, March 25, odthe Ava's wreck. " We have b3en lying off the scene of the Ava's wreck now for 12 days, which I assure you have not been passed i4ly. " The first thing to recover was an iron engine shaft intended for another of the company's ships, which is quite useless until it arrives ; its value, therefore, to the Peninsular and Oriental Company is immense, though its intrinsic value does not ex ceed 2,0001. or 3,0001. "Our boats' crews worked away most manfully, diving down and putting lashings around it, and eventually hoisting it up to the surface. It was then made fast to a pontoon of boats and empty casks, and tow e d alongside the ship, where we rigg e d heavy purchases and hoisted in the mass of 10 tons wlteitghhettiuiteeeas in the We are now busy getting is excited as bex th a s f t e t i cwaonr get t s u oo p l. t , h bute after ekr . box li. ids,ome andcomes in, grea t Each o f interest there wholneloif'g t r e fu b l o l awfully boxes sf (worth bilge. If Nv aboute 250,0001.) we flatter ourselves orah t tla h ov a ue t the East India Government will scarcely begrudge f us a few boxes rgitvreonubulse.a very to divide among ourselvesy old rules about salvage would that ll has been large claim ; so, to repeat a b going about, ' We hope that we shall luck had now as well as Peel's Brigade.' Yesterday we but(3 wa t thei this a grand ' blow up' at the wreck, all around us was discaloured with indigo ; morning we find the explosion to have been mor successful, and the boxes of rupees will now be more easily accessible. The captain and officers of the unfortunate Ava have run up comfortable sheds on shore, and with the assistance of native divers have done everything in their power to retrieve their misfortune ; there is a strong current always setting on to shore, and this I suppose is the secret of the wreck. The captain, though a young man, is evi dently a highly ini,elfigent and valuable officer." LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVE 'POOL-MAY 12. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market to-day has been quiet but , teady. Birkenhead, 71 2—Leeds Northern, 23i 4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 38 to /—London and North Western, P 4 . 1 3—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 92 to - -Midlands, 93 4—Eastern Counties, 12 4 —Caledoniln., 42 3 —Blackburn, 94 10 —South Eastern, 20—North British, 12 1 1-16—Dutch Rhenish, 44 d.—Groat Western of Canada, 19,4 19I—York and North Midland, 37 1 1 8— Chester and Holyhead, 18 to 18/—Berwicks, 23/ to —East Lancashire, 90/ to 9'4—Grand Trunk of Canada, 12/ to 5-16. MANCHESTER, MAT 12. STocy EXCRANGII.—Th e market opened with a better business. Midlands, 931 4—Leeds, 9 i—Dovere, 211 - 46 , q —Sheffields, 372—Lonoona, +{4 l — Trnolcs, 12 3-16---East Lancashire, CN—Eastern counties, 12k, THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. NUNE.: TO rDNEsDAt NIGHT. The coroner and jury empanelled est.rt'a:; t., luvr h tigate the circumstances atteAing this disastrous acci dent reassembled to-day at the Bull Hotel, in this town, for the purpose of further prosecuting the icquiry. The Marquis of Chandos, chairman of the London and North• Western Railway, Mr. Bruyeres, supe'rintendent of the southern division, and other officials of the com pany were present. Mr. Cleather, from the office of Mr. Carter, of Great George-street, attended to watch the proceeding for the railway company; and the in terests of two of the deceased were professionally repro sented,—in the case of Mr. Richmond by Mr. Moordaff, of Cockermonth ; and in that of the Rev. Mr. Miller, by Mr. Girdwood, of Belfast, brother-in-law of the de ceased gentleman, The jury consisted of 14 highly respectable inhabi tants of the parish of Attleborough, among whom were three clergymen. Mr. H. R. Harper, a magistrate for the district, was unanimously chosen foreman of the panel. After the jury had returned from viewing the scene of the accident yesterday, Mr. Girdwood made a formal complaint against the railway company for having, as he stated, effected im portant alterations in relaying the rails since the acci dent. He said he was informed and believed that the metals had been raised from their previous level fully 1i inches. Mr. Cleather assured the learned gentleman that no thing had been done beyond restoring the rails to the original position from which they had been displaced by the accident, in order that the traffie over the line might not be interrupted. The identification of the bodies was then proceeded with. Mr. 'W. Morgan, of London, identified the remains of Mr. W. J. Morgan as those of his son. Mr, W. Girdwood, of Belfast, identified the body of the Rev. T. Miller, who was witness's brother-in-law. Mr. Bruyeres here handed in a pocket-book and other property taken from the deceased, which he had re ceived from the conductor of the train. Mr. Girdwood identified the pocketbook as having be longed to the deceased, and complained that an insur ance ticket, which he understood his brother-in-law had upon him at the time of the accident, could not be found. Mr. Bruyeres said the property produced was in pre cisely the same state as he received it from Edgar, the conductor of the train, and he knew nothing of an in surance ticket. Mr. Girdwood inquired if Edgar was in attendance Mr. Bruyeres said he was not. He was so much shaken by the accident that he had not been able to leave London that morning. Care would be taken to insure his future attendance. Dr. Allenby, of Leamington, identified the remains of Mr. J. Richmond, The evidence as to the accident was now proceeded with. Robt. Wyatt was first called. He said—l was guard of the 9 a.m. Scotch express from Enstan on Monday last. We proceeded on our regular course over Trent Valley line until within about a mile and a half on the south side of the Nuneaton station. I was then in my van looking out for signals, and while so engaged I ob served a cow on the rails, ab nit 100 yards in frent i f the engine. I immediately put the break on. Vile my hand was on the break the engine seemed to strike some thing, which I supposed was the cow. I was knocked by the shock into the bed of the van, which was thrown elf the rails on to its side into a field. I broke the win duw and gut out. The 9 o'clock train is not timed to stop at Nuneaton ; but I think we ought to pass Nun eaton about 23 or 25 minutes past 11. Alter I got out of my van I saw a portion of the carca-e of the cow on the line, and I have no doubt that it was the cow which I had previously seen, and which was struck by the engine. The train was going about 40 wiles an hour. We were running at our regular speed. I saw nothing but the cow on the line. Ido not know that a part of the cow's hide with the horns had got en tangled in some of the carriage wheels. There is rather a sharp curve near the place where the accident cc curred, which prevented my seeing the cow sooner. I have no doubt that the collision with the cow was the c .use of the accident. There is an aux . liary signal near at hand, but I did not observe it. I only looked at the cow, and my first thought was to do ad I could to stop the train. We cannot see the signal till we reach a bridge near to which the accident occurred. The collision took place instantaneously on my seeing the cow. .Taeaes Harrison was next called. He said—l am an engine-driver in tho employ of the London.and North- Western Railway C maps.ny. I drove the train which left London on Mor.day morning at 9 o'clock. The train in toe,tion consisted of six carriages and two vans. I saw the cow coming towards me on the rails near Attleborough crossing. I immediately shut oil the steam. told the fire man to apply his break, and also whistled for the guard to do the same. Directly that was done the engine struck the cow, and the carriages were scattered over the line. The couplers broke, and the carriages fell over the shallow embankment to the right and left of the line. The engine, tender, and the last van were left on the rails. After the collision the train proceeded about 40 yards before the couplers broke. The gateman at Attleborcugh was in an adjoining field, apparently striving to get ahead of the cow and drive it off the line. I was not knocked down, because I held on to the engine with both hands. The gateman waved his danger signal flag to u", but I saw the cow before he did so. If the gateman had been at his post I should not have seen him before I saw the cow. After the accident had happened, and I saw the damage done, I ran my engine to Nuneaton to obtain medical and other assistance, and stop all coining trains. I returned with my engine back to the place of the acci dent, and did all I could to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded passengers. During , he examination of this witness Mr. Gird wood complained of the manner in which the inquiry was being conducted, and at length carried his interruptions to such an extent that the foreman severely admonished him, and desired that he would desist from tur.her in terference with the jury. John Reeve, being sworn, said — l am a guard on the Trent Valley Railway, and accompanied the train, in the rear break van, on Monday morning. When we arrived within about a mile and a half of Nuneaton the driver seunded his whistle. I immediately put my break on, and the cohisioa instantly occurred. As soon as I got clear I told the signalman, who was on the other side of the hedge, to go back and stop all down trains. He was waving his red flag at the time tits acci.'ent oc curred. Everything that could be done was done to stop the train. My van was net thrown off the reile The first intimation I had was the whistle of the-engine. I did not see the cow. I went up the line about hail a mil-, although I had sent the signalman to stop any train. I stopped a train of empty waggcns. When I got back the bodies had been removed. We were as near as possible to our time, having started from Rugby at the proper hour. The witness was then examined as to the signals at Attleborough crossing. He said it was considering the speed at which the train was travelling, to have pulled up in time to avoid the acci dent. At 40 miles an hour it required at least GOO yards, and probably more, to bring the train to a ilaud still. John Guest, stoker to the train, was next examined, and gave evidence corroborative of that of the driver. This closed the proceedings of yesterday. On re assembling to-day, Mr. Joseph Thompson, farmer, of Attleberough, was called—He said he occupied a farm closely adjoining the scene of the accident, and sublet a small piece of land, something less an acre, to the owner of the cow which had caused this accident. On Monday last, about. ha f past 11 o'clock, be was walking near the railway, when he observed a cow upon the line. She was then walking up towards Rugby, and "lowing" as if lost. He called to the gatekeeper to assist him in getting the animal off the line, and together they endeavoured to turn her back and get her out of danger. They failed to do this before the down express hove in sight, and imme diate!), afterwards witness saw the engine come in contact with the cow, and the carriages of the train topple over and fall down the embank ment. The remainder of the cow's carcass was scattered along the railway for about 50 yards. The accident occurred almost opposite to the slip of land out of which the cow escaped. The land was separated from the railway by a " cut and laid" qnickset hedge, which, when he last saw it before the accident, was a very good one. That was some three months back. A cow might leap such a fence, but it would be a good jump. Witness had known a cow jump over a five barred gate. Where this fence might be considered in sufficient was in places where the posts and rails, placed on either side of it when the quickset was planted, had been removed. Had they been allowed to remain, wit ness would have considered the fence strong enough for anything. By Mr. Cleather—Witness had never heard of stock getting out on to the railway in that neighbourhood before. He considered the fence good enough fur quiet cattle, but, in consequence of the field iu which this par ticular cow was confined being " ridge and furrow" the land rose near the hedge, and the fel ce was less difficult t) clear. Witness did not examine the hedge on the day of the accident after it had been broken down by the carriages, and trampled upon by many persons in their did all c he iecaotubEldr endeavours t o assist t h e wounde d persons . Th ere was no delay i n extricati . g those who were kille d . Wi tness sent for w i ne f rom his house for the injured persons, and to sva relieve gladthe r t o s uhffaevre an opportunity opportunity of publicly acknowledging the valuable assi,ance which Mr. .Thompson had ren d ere d , and in the ' name of the company he begged to thank him for it During the ex am i nation of this witness . come obser vations tell from M r . Gird wood which were g indi nanty resented by the ju r y ; upon which Mr. Girdwood ' threatened to leave the iequest room, and see if he co uld not get justice at anoth er t r ib unal ' . George Baker, jun., keeper of the 801 l Lie, at Attie borough, and owner of the cow which occat.ioned the accident, said he had purchased the ani_aal with her calf on the previous Friday at Coventry mark et. took 'away her 9 He i calf and turned her nto the piece of land adjoining the railway on Saturday morning, toge ther with a pony. The cow now and then " lowed" for her calf, but witness took no notice cf that. Nothing had ever strayed out of this field Lefore during he three or four years he had held it. The fence was "cut and I.id" abr.ut six or eight weeks ago, and vale of the old! pekoe and rails were then rem wed. After that witness told his father that he did not think the fence was so good as it had been. It was about 3 feet 5 inches high, and witness did not think that was sufficient to shut in cattle in their ordinary state. By Mr. C!,,,thei —I never gave inforrnation to thi, eff-ct to any person belonging ;0 the railway coirpary. George Baker, the elder, father of the last witrees, said be saw rbe cow in his eon's field alyint nice o'ck.ck on Monday morni: g, ar d again at , ;u:, a quarter-past 10 and the next time he saw her she was "all to pieces," strewed about the railway. After the accident witness walked up and down his son's field by the side of the hedge, but could trace no footmarks of the cow to show whera she got over, and he did not believe she did get on to the railway out of that field. There was a gap i❑ one corner opening on to another persons land, from which the cow might have passed on to the railway through a gate, if it had been accidentally left open. This witness identified the Rev. Mr. Miller as one of the persons whom he saw dead after the accident. He heard the unfortunate ma❑ exclaim, "I'm so faint," and immediai - ely he expired. Mr. Edward Mason, surgeon of Nuneaton, proved having been summoned to the scene of the accident by the statio❑ master at Nuneaton i❑ order to attend the wounded. He travelled to the spot on the engine of the disabled train, and rendered all the assistance in his power to the wounded. He saw the dead bodies of the three gentlemen who had been viewed by the jury, but, not having made any examination, was unable to speak as to the cause of death. Mr. Thos. Skeffington Bourne, surgeon, of Nuneaton, proved having also been summoned to the spot by the Nuneaton stat ion -master. After seeing to the relief of the wounded, witness directed the removal of the bodies of the deceased persons to the place where they were now lying. Witness, having obtainer] the verbal instructions of the coroner, bad since made a post mortem examination of one of the bodies—that of Mr. Morgan, who had evidently died from pressure across his loins and chest preventing respiration. In this case there were no fractured bones. Witness was in the act of examining the body of the Rev. Mr. Miller, when he was interrupted by Mr. Gird wood, who complained that his feelings were outraged by suc h an ac t, an d would not allow him to proceed. On appealing to the coroner, that gentleman bad informed witness that under. the circumstances he did not think it would be necessary to put the county to the expense of a post-mortem exa mination. He had, therefore, desisted from doing more, and was unable to describe the cause of death in two cases. What he had done was for the purpose of afford ing the jury that information which he thought they would require, and he hoped he need not assure Mr. Gird wood that he had no intention whatever of causing pain to any person. The foreman said the jury were of opinion that Mr. Bourne was entirely exonerated from any blame what ever in the matter. James Edgar, conductor of the train, who wag too unwell to be examined yesterday, was next called. He said when the train arrived within about a mile and a half of Nuneaton station he heard the engine driver's whistle, and put on his break directly. The crash fol lowed instantaneously. Witness saw the gatekeeper waving his red flag as the train ran past him. He saw nothing to occasion the accident. There were four breaks attached to the train, and all of them were applied be fore the accident happened. Mr. Bruyeres said this was the officer who received the Rev. Mr. Miller's property, which had been handed to Mr. Gird wood yesterday. Edgar, on being questioned, said he knew nothing of an insurance ticket being found upon Mr. Miller, nor had he any knowledge of his having held one. By Mr. Moordaff—l have bee❑ a conductor of trains for tour years, and I consider it proper on all occasions to apply the breaks when a danger signal is exhibit'd. Joseph Wagstall, taiUr, of Attleborough, proved having seen the cow in the field adjoining the railway, restless and bellowing, some time before the accident. Witness also saw t he gatekeeper outside his b , x a quar ter of an hour before the cow got on the line. He assisted in extricating the wounded parsons. A screw jack which he obtained from the engine was used for this purpose, and horses were attached to portions of the wreck to pull them off some of the sufferers. The inquiry, having now lasted six hours, was ad. journed until Monday next, when it is understood further evidence will be forthcoming as to the state of the fence before the accident. Mr W. H. Seymour is the coroner who is conducting the inquiry. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S r.—Your account this morning of the accident on the Trent Valley Railway suggests the importance of providing railway engines in use in this country with guards similar to those employed in A ruerica. It often occurs in America that cattle straying upon the line are run into by the engines, but it is seldom that any acci dent results, because the engines there are furnished with a guard which extends forward in an inclined plane front, and, as it were, picks up any animal in the way and throws it off to one side. Of course the shock occasioned by doing this is little or none, but without such a guard the mangled remains of the animal, a 4 occurred in the accident you revrt, are likely to get under the engine, and, acting as a drag, so fsr to impede its course as to cause a serious shock to the train. A. drawing of the kind of guard I refer to may be seen In the last number of the Illustrated London News. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, May 12. E. E. K. NAVAL AHD MILITARY INTELLIGESCE Letters of the 11th of March from Sydney slate that the 77th Regiment was held i❑ readiness to embark for India. Her Majesty's ship Megcera was sent from Calcutta to Sydney on the 15th of February, to fetch a regiment for service in Bengal. Orders were yesterday received at the head quarters of the Royal Engine e rs, Brompton Bar racks, Chatham, far the 12th company of Royal Sappers and Miners to embark at Portsmouth on Tuesday next, on board the Manchester, for the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve the Royal Engineers now at that station. The officers selected to em bark with the 12th company are Captain Montag,u, Stopford Whitmore, Lieutenant Frederick Richard Clements, and Lieutenant Chas. Crawford, R. E. Preparations have been made at St. Mary's in valid depot Chatham, for the reception at that establishment of the sick and wounded troops who are daily expected to arrive from India in the Himalaya steamer, intelligence having been re ceived that the Himalaya will bring home about 600 sick and wounded troops. The troops belonging to the Royal Engineers have made considerable progress in the formation of the camp inside the Spur Battery, Ctiatharo, anal the whole of the tents to be occupied by the troops belonging to the depots attachsd to she Ist battalion of infantry have now been pitched. As soon as the necessary camp equipments have been supplied to each tent the first detachment of troops will move out of Chatham Barracks, which are now overcrowded, and take possession of the tents. The vast number of 1,079 iron guns captured in the Crima, and which were subsequently stared at Woolwich, is now considerably reduced by the distribution which was ordered to be made to each of the corporate towns of Great Britain, as well as to the various colonies belonging to the British empire. Ot the 91 brass guns from the sam e source a portion, it is believed, were some time ago employed in casting a pyramid to com memorate the part taken iu that war by the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Th 3 pyramid, or obelisk, was some months ago completed, and was destined to be erected i❑ the centre of the gra.s•plot front ing the residence of Lieut.-Colonel Wilmot, RA./ superintendent of the Royal gun fac - ories in the Arsenal. The Government, however, disapproved the proposal, and the obelisk, although completed, has not been applied to its intended purpose. A court of inquiry has assembled for the purpo'e of investigating the matter, the result of which has not transpired. The obelisk was 15 feet high, and of solid gun metal, containing on its four sides the names of the officers of the Royal Artillery who were killed in the Crimea. A brass bell, said to have been cast from Russian guns, and intended to have been hung in ihe newly-erected clock-tower in the Royal Arsenal, has shared a similar fate to that of the Crimean obelisk, and the clock-tower has been ordered to be appropriated to some other purpose, the public cicck over the principal entrance of the Royal carriage department having been pro nounced amply sutfieieut for the purposes of the entire establishment. The Marlborough, 131, screw three-decker, Capt. Lord F. H. Kerr, will leave Portsmouth harbour for Spithe td this morning, about 10 o'clock. She will not return to harbour, but complete her com plement, &c., at Spithead. The screw she is fitted with, which is upon a new principle, to compete with Grifliths's, is by the makers of her engines, Maudslay and Co., and not Penn and Son, as stated yesterday. The Topaze, 51, screw frigate, which was to be launched at Devenport yesterday afternoon—the ceremony of christet.ing to be performed by Lady Reynolds—is of the following dimensions : Ft. In, Length from fore part of figure to taffrail Length between the perpendiculars. Length of keel for tonnage . Breadth, extreme.... 5O 1 Breadth for tonnage Breadth moulded . Depth in hold Burden in tons (old measurement).. ..... ... 2,658 57-94 Burden in tuna (now measurement) 1,159 1,160-3,500 Engines (by Messrs. Maudslay) ..... ...600 horse-power. The Renown, 91, screw, Captain Arthur Forbes Rear Admiral Sir H. D. Chads, K.C.8., will, after conveying the qteen of Portugal to Lisbon, leave for the Mediterranean, but whether the gallant admiral will remain on beard is not yet known. The Dutchman steam-transport embarked th, troops fully enumerated yesterday at Portsmouth in the forenoon, and at 5 o'clock steamed out ot harbour with them for Mali a direct. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty a— Mr. J. Large, Assistant-Master-Shipwright at Woolwich, to be Sec mid A-sistant-Surveyor of the Navy, vice E lge, superannuated; Gorge P. Mar tin, Paymaster, advanced to second class ; Wilmot B. Mainprise, Paymaster, advanced to the third class, MAY 13, 1858. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Since our last notice of the admirable new pay submerging this ctible, which the ,: , xpe; ience ,f the defects of the furm9r appara- tUB has ef:ab!ed toe company to conztiuct - t for the attempt now soon to be repeated, gce.,t of otts insure success to the undertaking have been made. No precaution has been neglected, no suggestion (and these have come by thousands) that was worth attention has been ignored, and all that skill or science cau effect towards carrying out a scheme in which so much, unfortunately, depends on chance has been accomplished. The cable at Key ham has now been stowed away on board the two vessels with which last year's attempt was made. Within the last few days the Adonis quitted the wharf, off Messrs. Glasse and Elliot's factory, at Greenwich, with one of the paying-out machines and 300 miles of cable, in addition to the extra lengths already made. Since her departure, however, it has been determined to make 100 miles more, and the ma chines at the works are revolving day and night to complete the extra length in time. The total length of cable with which the attempt was made last year was rather under than over 2,400 miles, which was so near the quantity actually required to span the distance that the first loss of 300 miles proved fatal to the whole attempt, for that time at least. Now, however, the length of cable ou board both vessels is precisely 3,012 mile., exclu-ive of the shore ends, of much greater weight and thickness, and which amount to about 30 miles more. There is therefore in round numbers 3,050 miles of cable to submerge between two points only 1,950 statute miles apart, so that 1,100 miles, or about 40 per cent., is allowed fur accidents and slack in paying-out. This immense cable, which weighs about one ton per mile, will be equally divided between the Agamemnon and Niagara. The latter has her share distributed over all her decks, and, of course, most amidships. There is one coil on the upper or spar deck, be tween the fore and main masts, of 100 miles, 30 feet diameter and 2 feet deep, and there is one of 130 miles, and occupying about the same space between the main and mizen masts. On the main deck there are two, one aft and one amid ships, of 297 and 294 miles respectively. On the berth deck there is one of 180 miles, and in the hold a coil of 350. In place of the shore end, which was last year carried on the spar deck forward near the capstan, there will now be a coil of about 100 miles, and the heavy shore ends for both countries will go its the accompanying frigates. Last year the cable was coiled in the hold of the Agamemnon in one vast mass of 1,250 miles long and this immense weight stowed amidships balanced her like a Chi nese toy. The result was, of course, that she rolled to an extent that it was hard to say which side of the vessel was uppermost, and on lauding the cable after the failure of the attempt it was found that the pressure of the heavy mass on comparatively so small a surface had strained her timbers to some extent. To obviate partly these serious disadvan tages, therefore—disadvantages which, in case of the Agamemnon encountering heavy weather, might and would endanger the safety of the vessel, —the cattle, though still coiled in the hold,i s dis tributed in such a manner that the gt e atest part of the weight rests on a much larger surface. 1,150 miles will be stowed in the hull, and about 350 miles on the berth deck forward, and to count° :- balance these heavy masses the coals will bestowed as far att as possible. All the ships of the squadron will leave Plymouth, as we have previously an nounced, about the 24th or 25th of this month on their experiment Al trip, which will occupy from six to tea days. During this about 100 miles of con demned cable will be used in ascertaining the effi ciency of various buoys, laying down and under running the wire, &C., and when all doubrs and theories have been practically solved the squadron returns to Qaeenstown, makes its brief fin prepa rations, and starts for the great attempt about the 10th of June. About that period of the year there is a month of almost uninterrupted calm in the At lantic, and anything like seriously heavy weather has not been heard of at least for the last 50 years. Bad weather, however, in the ordinary ac ceptation of the term, in those boisterous 13-ti tucks, even if it does occur, is not likely to affect the process of submerging after it has once fairly commenced, for t he paying-out mtchine is so sufficiently self-acting as to almost compensate in its action for any sudden rise in the stern of the vessel to the pitch of the sea. Beth ships, with the accompanying frigates, make all speel to the centre of the Atlantic, or rather to the centre of the space to be traversed by the cable, which is about 32 deg. west of Greenwich. Here the splice between the two halves will be made without loss of time. To overcome the difficulty caused by the two portions of the cable having their " lay" or t mist of the out side spiral wires turning in different directions, and forming right and left baud screws, the splice will be secured to rods of iron loaded with a weight in the centre; in f an apparatus of the same kind as that by which railway carriages are coupled. together. By this means the tend., , ncy of the diffe rent spirals to untwist each other will be overcome. There is 1,500 fathoms water where this join must he made, and both vessels will remain stationary until the splice has well settled oa the bottom, when the Niagara will at once steer for the New World, and the Agamemnon return to the Old. Each will steam as fast to her homeward destina tion as is consistent with the safety of the great undertaking, so the cable will be either laid or lost within 12 or 14 days from starting. The depths to which the Niagara will have to sink her portion vary quickly and irregularly from 1,500 to 2,500 fathoms, or from 1 to about 3i miles ; and this is the case also with the Agamemnon's potion of the distance. But on the American side the water shoals easily and gradually towards Newfoundland, whereas on the British portion of the ocean the Agamemnon will have to surmount a tremendous ridge, which may be called the Andes of those vast submarine plains of the Atlantic. It commences at about 15 deg. west longitud-, and in the course of a few miles the water suddenly shoals from 1,750 fa hocns to 550. Up this vast rocky precipice— almost as steep as the side of Mont Blanc—the cable must be laid with extreme care. This diffi culty once overcome, the way thence to Valentia b!comes compara - ively of no account. In case of dangerous weather arising the first con4deration in all cases will be, of course, the satety of the cable ; and, no muter how advanta geous such and such courses of action may app far, nothing will be done by which the success of the undertaking is jeopardised or even left to chance. Each vessel is provided with reels of strong wire rope which can be attached to buoys made in the manner of ordinary fishing floats, though, of course capable of sustaining a weight of several tons. Pro vided with this apparatus, the cable may be cut without reluctance, if ever the weather threatens, and the end of it (firmly secured to the rope and buoy) allowed to rest alwo-t upon the bed of the ocean, to be hauled up directly the storm has passed. Proper precautions have also been taken to make the floating ends of the buoys conspicu,us And easily found in case of - the ships being driven from them. A number of experiments have recently been made with- a view of increasing the rapidity of working signals through the entire length of the cable. These experiments, in which a variety o' inventions and applications have been employed, have been conducted by Professor Thompson, Mr. Hughes, the American electrician (whose printing telegraph is likely to revolutionise the present un certain system), Mr. Henley and Mr. Whitehouse. The result, though on the whole far more satisfac tory than was at first anticipated, shows indubit ably that more than one submarine cable will be required to do all the business likely to be trans acted between this country and the New World. Such a result, however, need dishearten no . one, since none but those unacquainted with the subject have for a moment imagined that one working ca ble would, be sufficient, or do more than show the way which others will be soon ready. and anxious to follow. How many wires are there kept incessantly employed between London and Liverpool and be tween Liverpool and Ire!and, where cost of the post is only a penny, and the delay in using it only a few hours ? Yet we believe that nearly 30 wires are scarcely sufficient to meet the demand for mes sages between these places. Taking this, then, as the standard, how many aubmarine cables will be re quired for the business between the New World and the Old? If we are not much mistaken, the messages to New Orleans alone would employ and richly pay one cable. At all events, if it is only f.r the purpose of counteracting the disturbing in fluence of those mysterious magnetic storms, it will be necessary for the Atlantic Company to lay down a second wire as soon as possible,—that is, to have a complete metallic circuit for the rani-, of the electricity along the outer wires of the second cable, instead of bein g discharged by the earth. Formerly. the signals we:e worked through the Atlantic coil by means of a Simei'a battery of 48 large cells with large induction c',ils, constituting probably the moat powerful battery ever c ,n -structed. How insulation of the cable withstood this severe test is an enigma. It has, however, since b..en ascertained that an ordinary battery of six cells transmitted the signals with the same facility, and that, in fact, the quantity of electri city generated by the enormous power of the first battery choked or charged the wre. Mr. Heuley has recently been making a number of experiments upon the cable at his own expense, with the view of perfecting a very simple and beau tiful magneto-electric machine, by which a current s transmitted greater in intensity, though much less in quantity, than the ordinary galvanic cur rent, and thus the liability of the wire to become charged is considerably reduced. The immen<e advantages which a magneto-elec tric pe,sesEe:i over an ordinary battery are of altr.os' incalcutible importance. It is always • ready, can be used anywhere, at any time, and by any rerso, ; and, ab ye all, is no exi erase beyond the nose, of M k'ng i Io faci, rie differ-rice between Mr. Henley's machine and an o dinary battery is as great as between the electric and old semaphore telegraphs, or as great as the difference which would exist between an ordinary musket and one constructed on such inevitable laws as to keep itself always loaded, clean, and ready for action. It consists of an ordinary large permanent magnet, between the poles of which a soft iron mag net, with its coils of secondary wire, is fixed. By this arrangement it is necessary only to deflect the keepers of the magnet to produce an equal current at all velocities, and either in one direction or al ternately backwards and forwards. The magnet is 2 feet 10 inches high, and consists of 30 plates of the finest steel, a quarter of an inch thick and 4 inches broad. The soft m agne t i s f orme d o f 44 so f t i ron plates in a mass 3 inches broad and 2 deep, and of the same height as the permanent magnet. The se condary coils for producing the current in the poles of these magnets contain (each) 25 miles of the finest silk-covered wire, or 100 miles for the four magnets. With this machine alread3 8 words per minute can be sent through the cable in its present condition, and of c6urse the words can be transmit ted with greatly increased rapidity when the cable is laid out in a straight course, for no position could be more unfavourable for transmitting signals than that in which the wire is at present stowed, in huge coils one over another. Up to the present all looks well and hopeful for the success of this great scheme, and we earnestly trust that after a few weeks more all doubts and misgivings will be solved in the most gratifying and conclusive manner. MR. CA KL WALL'S hEsOL UTI ON. (From the Daily News.) For their own sakes it is to be hoped that Mr. Cardwell and those who act with him will embrace the opportunity offered by the resignation of Lord Etlenborough to reconsider the resolution that is to be moved on Friday night. Lord Ellenborough and his despatch are out of the field. In so far as Lord Canning's personal feelings are concerned, the discussion might be allowed to drop. The paramount consideration at issue is what expres sion of opinion as regards the policy to be pur sued in India is most consonant to the welfare of the empire and the honour of England. We have much at stake. It is difficult to imaeine that a proposal to confiscate the whole lands of Oude should not have a perilously irritating effect on the public mind throughout India. According to • the proclamation of Lord Canning, the threatened confiscation is to apply to the land; of all " Talook dars, chiefs, and landowners." Every person who claims a proprietary right in land in Oude will feel alarm. The co-parceners of the " estates" and villages must be in as feverish a state of excite ment as the great Zemindars. That there is peril in such a state of affairs is denied by no one. Even Mr. Cardwell, in his resolution, declines to express approbution of the policy of the proclama tion. Lord Canning himself (or Sir Jas. Outram for him) has softened considerably in his proclamation some of the harsher features of the draft. If a majority of the House of Commons is bent upon censuring Lord Ellenborom,-;11's despatch, aed its public .tion, even after the noble lord has withdrawn from office, let, at least, the expression of censure b= accompanied tay some declarati , n regarding the future policy of the A_nglo-Indian. Government that may re-assure the minds of the innocent or the penitent throughout our Indian dominions. Is the propect of our being disgracefully driven out of India t :o remote to tell upon the imagination of the people of England ? Then let this considera tion bring it borne to our apprehensions :—On ac count of the civil war in India we have already been obliged to increase our army beyond the ave rage pe4ce establishment. The campaign in Robil cund during the hot season will increase to an enor mous amount the mortaliy iu the ranks of our European soldiers in India. With what a drain upon our healthy adult population does the recruit ing that must replace these lasses threaten us ! How much will it cost us to keep our European army in India on an effective footing ? How long may this expenditure in lives and money last '? Can we afford to brave a prolonged and internecine war in India by carrying into effect a policy which every body shrinks from defending ? Tee Directors of the India Company have set the example of denuding the question of all irritating personalities, and doing what in them lies to concentrate attention on the necessity of adopting a just . and concliatory policy towards the natives of India. Tuey have de clared to Lord Canning that their confidence in him is not abated ; but they have at the same time indi cated to his LordAiip the course which they think he ought to pursue. With reference to the Despatch of the Se 'net Committee, the Court of Directors has expressed its continued confidence in the Governor-General, aiding its conviction that his measures for the pacification of Oude and the other disturbed districts in India will be charac terised by a generous policy and by the utmost clemency that is found to be consistent with the satisfactory accomplishment of that important. object. If a majority of the House of Commons is bent upon pouring balm into the wounded feel ings of Lord Canning, let it at least show so much consideration for the honour and prosperity of the empire, as to follow the example of the Court of Directors, and give Lord Canning to understand that it is by a just and humane policy that he must seek to earn a continuance of its favour. In the part we have taken in this discusSion we have resolutely banished from our minds every consideration but what is conducive to the pros periT and happiness of India, alid, through that prosperity and happiness, to the honour and per manence of the British einpife. We are, of course, by principle, opposed to the present Administra tion ; but we will not, with a view to preopitate its fall, which under no circumstances can be very remote, ri,k a renewed conflagration in Hiadostam That would he to follow the example of the Chinese in Cnarles Lamb's grotesque but genial legend, and burn down our house to roast our pig. Nay more ; before we take Rot in any move ment to unseat the present Ministry, we are disposed to ask for some guarantee that we are to get a liberal Ministry in its place. To put out the present men is one thing, and to establieh a real, strong, united, stable,. L beral Ministry, is another. To bring back Lord Palunerstoa as die tator, with Lord Clanricarde, Mr. Vernon Smith, and Mr. Robert Lowe in his train, would be no great victory. Lord Palmerston was only a few months back deposed by a majority of the House of Commons—has he now regained the confidence of that majority ? He has not, on the contrary, been further weakened since that time by losing the confidence of some who then remained faithful to him ? Are Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, or Lord John .Rte-sell any more disposed to rake office along with Lord Palmerston now than they were a few months ago ? The truth is that the time has not yet arrived for reconstructing the Li bat al party on a looad and satisfactory basis. That re-construction must be the result of a closer ap rroxiaration among the various sections of the Liberal party in sentiment and principle than has yet taken place. It cannot be brought about by a few leaders agreeing to make-behave that they have been reconciled. That the Liberal party will he re-constructed we have no doubt, and nothing shall be wanting on our part that can contribute to so desirable a consummation. But nothing is to be gained by factitious patching up of alliances where there is neither cordiality nor agreement in prin ciple. We can afford to " bide our time," and see no isteuninhaiffsectt,eignugnt,osibuellpielyve b t e h c a t t u s tl e ie t p he ol s it u i c c c a e l s m so i lennsuccessors in office of the late Mr. Coppock wish us to do so. artri. SIGGT • AND HEARING --SPECTACLER--,.. Powe s . 13, Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, fADVESTITEZBI/EcTo.pj; OPERA, RACE, AND P ERSPECTIVI , GLASSES.— Observe—opposite the Yo r k H o t e l , W . al Letters Patent for vWuable and ex traordinag improrementhe most powerful and b r illi ant y r e t e Majestyecad ii , l s y. Roy t T e l esc opes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons Saturn's ring, , and the double stars ; with th e same telescope can be seen a person's countenaLce three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and aro of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every itr• pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, t c sportsmen, gentl emen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera Camp, Perspective, and Race-c•Jurse Glasses, with wonderfce powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses, of the greatest transparent power, The great advarstage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very aged person*, are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those lenses of a much loss magnifying power —and they do not require the frequent change, to the clan, gero - as effects of furtt'er powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the - mos , ' remote part of the world by send. in- one of the glaeses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the dist:nee from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-ieveatA instrument for deafness, entirely different from all of iers surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prot ably can lie, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct iyat church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation el singing noises in the ears is entire',v removed, and it atlmd all the assistance that possibly could be desired.—:39. A 114) Ii Do.rio-otroot, Piccadilly— , Opposite the York Hotel, Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET MAT 11. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 8, Od to 113 Od per kemple of 16 stoney trot) ; wheat do., 7s 0i to 10a ed ; barley do., 830 d. to 8a 6d. Hay from 10d to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL—MAY 11. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 41s 6d and ---s. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—MAY 10. There were in the market to-day 21 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack o f 2801b s Fi rs t . Second. Thir d . imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditt o — s Od —s Od —s Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od Od —s Od DUBLIN —MAY 11. Our corn market was generally dull to-day. Wheat and oats met a very slow sale, and the latter must be noted 3d to 6d cheaper than on Friday. Barley b are ly suppor ted that day's prices. No transactions in Indi an corn , exce pt in retail, and our highest quotation is rather an extreme one. White wheat, 27s Od to 293 Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to 26s 6d; ditto new, s Od ; barley, malting, 14s to 18s Od; grind ing, —e to —a ; oats, old, 153 to 163 61; ditto, new, -- 41 to —s Od ; oatmeal, 143 Od to 16s Od; bere, new, —s to Od ; ra,peso , d, —s Od to —a Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 148 6d to 19a Od per cwt; Indian corn, 35s 01 to 37s 6d per 480 lbw. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton a, .-AlAr 12. the close of the market Walleend, tic. s. d. Tanfield Moor ' 12 3 ranfield Moor Butes 12 6 Howard's West Hartley _ s (1. Braddyll . . 16 3 Halton l4 6 Eden Eden Main l5 6 Framwellgate l5 0 Powell's Duffryn Steam 21 0 Haswell 17 6 tees l7 6 Hetton ' 17 6 Shineliffe 15 3 Keiper Grainge l6 9 Hilda 14 0 Bell l4 6 Belmont .. 14 6 Hartlepool l6 6 Netherton - 16 0 1 Wylam l4 3 Bell's Primrose l2 3 Buddle W. Hartley l6 J Bebside's Hartley 16 0 Haswell Gas 13 0 Stewart's Steam 13 0 Eiolywell l3 6 ;t, 69 ; sold 55. Wsllsend, Ize. Acorn Close l5 Heugo Hall .15 3 Latnbton l7 0 Hunwick l4 6 Ships at marke P.R1C.82 OF SHARES. Bran the Official Lzst. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. P 7446 Annum. Share. ...........-•• £ s. d. £ s. d. British Provincial .. • • 71. per cent 20 0 0 all 24% Brighton .. ••..•• •• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 14 City of London .. •• •• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 150 0 0 --- Equitable.... • ... •• .. 2/. 50 0 0 all 4$ European .... ..• •• .. 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 - -- ;real Central •• • • .... 81. per cent , 10 0 0 - 11 Imperial .. .• ........ 10/. per cent. 50 0 0 SO Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 6 --- Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0 0 Do. Continental IstCap. 31. ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 •"'" Do. Do. 2d Cap. 4/. 15s. 60 0 0 41 0 0 ....• Do. Do. 3d Cap. 41. 10s. 50 0 0 43 10 0 --",„ Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31. 5 0 0 0 41 0 0 u' Independent London Parl. Preferen. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 - ?bollix Ratcliff .. •••..• • • • • • 5/. 20 0 0 16 0 0 I'7' surrey Consumers United General - -.• Westminster Chartered 7 per cent. 50 0 0 - 52 Ditto, New - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1° Sfi %%rest ern A ... .. • • 10 0 0 all Ditto B ........„ 10 0 0 4 0 o__.--,' MISCELLANEOUS. ...... Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. F rit* Annum. Share. .....•••° A s. d. £ a. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 --- African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 --. Assa.ui lea .. -- . . 6/. rer cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Anctien Mart•• -•• •• 214/per cent 50 0 0 - Australian Ag riculture - 25 0019 0 0 3114 Australian Trust .... 81. pr cont. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -- Australian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all -- Anglo-Mexicau Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all ..- British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 Canada ... ••..- • • .. 61. per cent 100 0 0 32 10 0 13 7 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. per cent Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5/.per cent. Stock IGO 0 0 "...„ 13 , tt0, 6 per cent. .• Si. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 ...., Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 Q. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 " 0 4 Crystal Palace ..... 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 all ..- Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 ...., Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all City Navigation Bonds 3% 1. per cent - - - 03 . 4 411ectric Telegraph .• 6/. per cent. Stock. 100 0 0 ] iii Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all ...:: Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all .... Equitable lteversionry 51per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 ...,,. Ditto New ........ - 50 0 0 22 10 0 .... Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all Gen.SteamNavigation tot. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 8 Hudson's 8ay........ 5/. per cent. Stock Stock --.. Hungerford .... • • .... 2/. 53. 100 0 0 aIL .... ..- Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all -- London Reversionary Si, per cent. 15 0 0 all -- Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all Nat. Discount Comp.. - 25 0 0 5 0 0 -- N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 51. per cent. - 100 0 0 Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all ... North of Europe, Stm. SI. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 .... Price's Patent Cenci. Co - 21 0 0 all it Peel River.Land&Min. - 50 0 all 79, Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 1 7 / 4 Ditto New ........ - 50 0 0 10 0 0 ...• Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent 100 0 0 all ... Ditto New •• •• •• - 1. 2 /. pr cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 5 , Royal Mail Steam.... ti. p. share. 100 0 0 Si' 0 0 06 Scottish Aus. Invest. 15/. per cent. 1 0 0 all .... South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all ....- Trust and Loan Comp. 734. , . pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 ' op , Vas Diemen's Land.. 103. 100 00)28 10 0 .... 5 per cent. Bonds .... 6 per cent - - ......-... 1. ...hip THE OUTWARD AUSTRALI AN MAIL.-The atm.--; ik THE OUTWARD AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—The 400 0 3 Cambria (chartered by the Royal Mail Company) .15f Soutba-npton yest er d a y f or Al exan d ria, with the mon , Australian mail, 35 passengers (among whom is Afisiefre% Commiepary-General Hector), an average cargo, eP s° ,rf the value of 4501., and jewellery 3,9401. . party Of EMIGRATION FROM MILFORD HAVRN.—s. emigrants for Auckland, New Zealand, will embark 14 0 Neyla.nd, the terminus of the South Wales Railway Milford Haven, on Wednesday next, the 19th inst., a ti l . sail the following d a y f or N ew Z ea l an d. Th e steal: l3 Lord Ashley is one of several ste amers i n t en d e d for 1:e intercolonial mail packet servioe. ; Ds [An[ADVERTISEMENT.]--Until the introduction, by A-, • for Barry, of the Revalenta Arabica Food, both as a regitne'" t el invalids and infants, and a remedy for all disorders cOone ° , o . with the stomach, nerves, kidneys, liver, and int es ti ne s ge rally, it might have been asserted, with truth, th a t the tr! .. at o , meat of patients, in some of the most o b.ti na t e , sing, and p inful complaints to which the human ir r 7 o l is liable, was one desperate g a m e of haehazard—diffe,fr practitioners pl tying off different systems, involving indri b iS bable suffering and expense, a n d en di ng i n failure. -Al'Aos• is now happily changed. With ou t l a yi ng ou t mone y 1 0 :e tors' bills, without enduring the ho rrors o f " d oc t o rs' en - re but situp].) by the adoption of a pleasant and palatable zia. rative Food, disease is binished, and he a lth an d ac tivity its place. It is on no mere theory that these thingsb asserted. When Fifty Thousand persons are referred to, ee{ , of waom has separately described the wondrous healing e ye of the preparation in an infinite variety of maladi_ ,es , f ot theory resolves itself into ascertained and demonstratee , —a fact neither to be hushed up, ni r explained away on other ground than that of the unparalleled efficacy of ar t ioa valenta Arabica Food in extirpating almost every deserT , ,0 re of morbid action or condition from the system. Th e pab'l° naturally " slow" in awakening to an app rec i a ti o n of a o ig and better state of things ; and much excuse th ere is fb_r slowaess, so often has expectation b een b au lk e d by the PL foro sions of contending theorists. H ere, h owever, we have "v be us proof of the most positive and complete kind which can m conceived by human reason, and coming from such a mult i e P h " t he goefnsuoiunrecesastheof joyfultestim g o i n a i t a i l t s u r d e e c . eiv .ti e d u tasodsvbheeorli s e a r ei ue soz , show outpouring which appears in our paper of to-day, contains Itogetb el of a few of the letters of thanks, which constitute altogether such a body of undeniable evidence as was never brourin, together upon any subject whatever, and f c ' rla ,,,io noble national monument in illustration of the 0 —" Honour to him to -whom honour is Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated rh: ; fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A. Ure; Dr. Shorland; Dr. Hane y . Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurser; Dr, Wool: Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castiestae"', Major Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable ~,,P7t sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full iner,„ . tions, In canisters, 11b. 2s, 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d.; 51b. A 1 . 0", 121 b. 225. The 121 b cani s t ers are sent carriage free on ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and C0.,.-sr Regent-street, London . Important Cauti on aga inst the f s it ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chance llo _,%b, William Page Wood gra n t e d an I n j unct i on on the 1001111;0 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill for imitating Barry's Revalenta Arabica Foo " BIRTHS. COTTON—On the 12th_inst., at 2, Southwick-place, the of Henry Cotton, Esq., of Lin'coln's-inn, of a son. o f LEmramas—On the sth inst., at Brompton, Kent, the W U. Capt. G. R. Lempriere, R.E., of a son. PAJA—On the 6th inst. at Ballyglan, county of the lady of Sir Robert Paul, Bart., of twin daughte r " 00 SUCKLING—On the 10th inst., at 134, N ew B o nd - stree t ht wife of Frederick Herbert/Suckling, Esq .) of 52d Infantry, of a son. -.Jaw:fad' MARRIAGES. , ga rar HIGGINS —JEPscar—On the 11th hist ,at St. Mars , Of sir ton, Warner Charles, second son . of the late Colae'dg, Samna Gorden Higgins, K.O H., Sco's Fusilier aul e c. to Sophia Susanna Portis, second daughter of Ilen r f son, Esq., of Hampton. ROUTLEDGE—BELL— On the 11th inst., at St. Andrew's C", Newcast e-upon-Tyne, George Routledge, EQ./ %Woo ringdon-i treet, and Russell-square, London, to ?diary l i t t• eldest daughter of the late Mr. Alderman Bell, of castle-upon-Tyne. DEATHS. , m agoir ALLNATT—On the 10th inst., at Winterbrook, near ford, Berks, John Joseph Allnatt, Esq., aged 6 4 . „. of BEViL —Om the 13th March last, at Port-Elizabeth , id e r - s pil Good Hope, John Hughes Bevil, Esq., of Cape ToWno CAMPBELL— y formerl 3d inst hOn of Kennington, aged 56. I 44 te . ' 0 0 0. of Fa rfield House, Moat(); Ayrshire, l a te of the E.laged 73. o ath IMAM—Killed, on the I4th of March, at the Ke ise ! r , OA S Lucknow, while at the head of his regiment clear ing w in. place of the enemy, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas O n slovf f nington Ingram, 97th Re g t., secon d s urviving see 0 ,, of late Rev. E. W. Ingram, of Bibbesford, in the colln"," Worcester, aged 42. LONDON : Printed and Published by KURD° Y°111;14 of No. U 2, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offloot.:4; 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in WI 647 " 4 " . of liirtidleses, Thuraklay, May 13 1858. ! 12 cu Pe tri itl 1 Mr Off, the Pos tai l Oa;