The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-02 00:00:00

irb I.sllttion SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 1. The Q has been pleased appoint Edward Stanley gag., F ueen .R.S., to be Surgeon-Extto raordinary to her Majesty., ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Paget, Esq., F.R.S., to be Surgeon-Extraordinary to her Majesty. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 1. The Queen ha , ' been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Frelerick Waymouth Gibbs, Esq., Preceptor t , his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. to Class, Ordinary Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 24. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Gre orin Luigi Marc, Esq. ,to be her Ma j est y 's Consul for the Island of Samos. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 31. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir John Fiennes Crampton, K.C.8., now her Majesty's En voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraord inary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of all the Russian. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Andrew Buchanan, Esq., C. 8., now ;ler Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the King of Denmark, to be her Majestys Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint George John Robert Gordon, Esq., now her Majesty's Mi nister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to the King of Hanover. The Queen bas also heels graciously pleased to appoint Captain the Hon. Edward Alfred John Harris, RN., late her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires to the Republic of Chile, to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George Howard, now Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George Elliot, now Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Vienna, to be her Majesty's Envoy Ex trordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Augustus W. F. S. Loftus, now Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Berlin, to be her M jesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emporor of Austria. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Viscount Chelsea to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre- derick Doveton Orme, Esq., now Secretary to her Ma j •sty's Legation at Copenhagen, to be her Majesty's Chargé d'A thin and Consul-General to the Republic of Bolivia. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Honourable Julian Henry Charles Fane, now Secre tary to her Majesty's Legation at St. Petersburg, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Vienna. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint William Lowther, Esq. Secretary to her Majesty's late Legation at Naples, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Len- Lion at St. Petersburg. The Queen has al , o been graciously pleased to appoint Augustus Berkeley Paget, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Berlin. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Edward Herries, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Berne, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega tion at Lisbon. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph Hume Burnley, Esq. , now First Paid Attache to her Majesty's Legation at St.Petersburgh, to be Secratary to her Majesty's Legation at Berne. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint William Campbell Manley, Esq., now Paid Attache to her Majesty's Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Copenhagen. NOTICE. FOREIGN•OFFICE, MARCH 31. A despatch has been- received by the Earl of Malmes bury, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Earl Cowley, her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, stating that the competent authorities will be authorised for the future, as heretofore, to furnish to British subjects, resident in France, passports to travel in the interior of the French territories ; anl also in cases of urgent neces sity to grant passports to British subjects to return to Eng land. COMMISSIONS SIGNE n BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— William Melliar Foster-Melliar, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Smith, promoted. East Kent Regiment of Militia—Hamilton Campbell, Gill, Gent., late West Essex Militia, to be Ensign, vice Knatchbull, promoted ; Samuel Lang, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bury, resigned. Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Regiment—Francis Maurice Drummond Davies, Gent., to be Second Lieu tenant, vice Williams, appointed to the sth Regiment of Foot. 31 Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia--Henry Chandos Rivers, Gent., to be Ensign. Northamptonshire Militia—Richard Carr, Gent., to be Ensign. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 26th of March last.] Northamptonshire Militia—William Croome, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hampden Henley acleao, re signed. NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-Honse, April 1, 1858. Notice is hereby given ro all persona interested therein, that preparations are now making for the intended distri bution of proceeds arising from the schooner, Name Un known, captured on the sth August, 1857, by her Ma jesty's ship Myrmidon. Agents or other persons having any just and legal demand unliquidated against the said proceeds, are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Regis trar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the judge of the said Court. Agents and all other per:ons holdin4 powers of Attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Depart ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi ralty, Somerset-house." Due notice will bo given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette of the date proposed for the commencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be an nounced. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. William Nichols, worsted spinner, Wilsden, Yorkshire. James Danby Lee and James Crabtree, machine-makers, Calverley, Yorkshire. BANKRUPTS. James William Golden, card maker, Brighouse, York• shit..., to surrender, April 19, a n t M a y 11, a t half-past bleven, at the Leeds District Court. _ Henry Seaton, woollen draper, Chelmsford, April 16, at two, and May 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edward Webster Morris, printer, Oxford, April V, at half-past two, and May 14, at- one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. John Bunton, hotel keeper, King's Lynn, April 13 and May 14, at eleven, at the Court of Benkr uptcy. Henry Robert Wilkins, draper, Westbromwich, April 15 and May 8, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. - John Phillips, timber dealer, Birmingham, April H and May 5, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Morrison, coal merchant, Rhyl, April 16, and May 13, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. James Syred, seedsman and florist, Red Hill, Reigate, April 14, at two, and May 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles James and Henry George Evans, coopers, Beer lane, City, April 14, at one, and May 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Ince, apothecary, Wilton-street, Middlesex, April 15, at eleven, and May 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edward Shingler, shoemaker, Birmingham, April 19, and May 10, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. William Weston Young, Joseph Westen Young, and George Young, millers, Neath, Glarmorgenshire, April 16, and May 17, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Chad Fisher Richardson, victualler, late of Church street, Stoke Newington, April 15, at twelve, and May 14, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George White the elder, tailor, Plaistow, Essex, April 13 and May 14, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. William Harrison and George Taylor, brewers, Hadlow, Kent, April 15 , at one, and M a y it, a t t we l ve, a t th e C our t of Bankruptcy. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. . . Douglas and Son, watch %kers,' Greenock. James Galt, farmer, Whiteshaw, Carhike. J. and A. Dykes, and Morton, warehonsmen, Glasgow. David Rust, clothier, Aberdeen. James Stewart, hotel keeper, Arbroath. David Davidson Manson, farmer, Spynie, Elginabire, BANK OF ENGLAND• An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Cap. 32, for the Week endin g on WeJnesday, the 31st day of March, 185%. lEatiE DEPARTMENT. x Notes Issued . . 32,280,385 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities .. • • 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 17,805,3 85 Silver bullion• ••••• • • -- 432,280,385 Z 32,281,385 BALL Chief Cashier. Dated the let day of April, 1858, BANKING IN 'AITMENT. Proprietors' capital 14,553,000 Rest ..... • public deposits (in ' eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ing,' Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 7,630.763 Other deposits seven Day and other • Government securities '•' (includg•DeadWeiglit Annuity) .. •• • • .... 9,901,993 Other Securities• ..... 16,857,437 Not es ........ 12,329,635 E Gold ani Silver Coin.. 823,532 811,165 £39,912,597 X 39,912,557 r, MARSHALL, Chief (2 as!ller. Dated the Ist day of April, 1858. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corr. puled from the returns made in the week ending March 30, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : 0. d. From the British Possessions in America 27 104 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 26 3 Muscovado, the ptoduco of the East Indies 3l 6i Average of tha above debuiptions. 'kilt SUN, LONDON;FRIDAY EVENING, THE CASE ,OF THE CAGLIARI. •••• invoked the application to these facts of the lavr in force in the kingdom, which declared every vessel of a piratical character; or which had assisted the enemies of the Crown to be good prize, and they contended that the Cagliari was liable to condem nation on both these grounds. Now, the crime of piracy by the law of nations is a crime of a settled and determined nature, and whatever may be the. diversity of definitions in other respects, all writers on maritime law concur in holding that piracy, by the law of nations, is robbery, or forcible depreda tion on the sea, committed animo furandi. tPirata deprredator est in marl, et potent dici fur et latro maris. Santerna, 1. 4n. 50. Pirata3 aunt latrones maritimi. Straccha. It is competent, indeed, for any nation to declare any offence to be piracy, but, alth , iugh an offence may be declared to be piracy by the municipal law of a State, it does not thereby become piracy by the law of nations. A State, by declaring an offence to be piracy, may authorise its own tribunals to punish all offenders who may be amenable to its municipal law, in the manner in which pirates under the law of nations would be punishable. The slave trade, for instance, has bean declared by some States to be piracy, but those States can only enforce their municipal law in this respect against their own subjects, and against the subjects of other States with which they have trea ties to that effect. Although, therefore, the breach of the sanitary laws of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies may be punishable as piracy under the territorial law of the State, foreign vessels are only amenable to that law while they are navigated in Sicilian waters. In a similar manner the other offences charged against the Cagliari may be punish able as piracy under the special provisions of the code of the Two Sicilies ; but the Cagliari was no longer amenable to that code when she was once more on the highway of nations ; neither could she be rightfully seized thereon and reduced into possession by the seizors, so as to be lawfully brought by them before the Neapolitan tribunals for a breach of that code. There is a certain class of cases to be found in the reported judgments of the English and the American Courts which way seem at first sight to conflict with the position that merchant ships cannot be rightfully seized on the high seas by a foreign cruiser for a breach of the municipal law of the State to which the cruiser belongs ; for instance, the Statute Law of England against hoverers (24th of Geo. 111., cap. 47), and the Statute Law of the United States of America against the importation of slaves (Act of 1807), authorize the national cruizers to seize all merchant The following opinion has been given in this case by Dr. TraVers Twiss, the Vicar-General : " Having been.requested to advise the Sardinian Government whether the documents submitted to me disclose any sufficient grounds for the seizure and detention of the Sardinian ship Il Cagliari by his Sicilian Majesty's steam cruisers, Il Tancredi and L'Ettore Fieramosca, I have directed my atten tion particularly to the proceedings of the com mission of Maritime Prize at Naples, and to the Act of Accusation preferred by his Majesty's Pro curator-General against the master and crew of the Cagliari, before the High Criminal Court at Salerno. The above-mentioned papers appear to me, after .a careful examination of all the docu ments, to furnish the most material data for form ing a correct notion of the legal character of the transaction —as they disclose the cases formally set up by the Sicilian authorities on the one hand, against the ship, and on the other against her master and crew. There can be no doubt, on the face of these documents, that the. Cagliari was seized and detained by the Sicilian cruisers in the strict sense assigned to those by the law of na tions. The log book of the Tancredi, which was produced before the commission of prize, is con clusive evidence on this head against the seizors. The entry of the 29ili of June, 1857, is to the fol lowing effect :—‘That at 8.45 a.m. the Tancredi was about 12 miles to the westward of the Island of Capri, cruising, in company with the Ettore Fieramosca, which was about two miles astern of her, when the Tancredi descried a vessel under steam and sail, making a course from the waters of Cape Licosa, which would carry her outside of the most westerly headland of Capri. That the com mander of the Tancredi at once directed his vessel towards the steamer, and at about half-past 9, per ceiving that she was edging away to the right, to wards the coast, he altered his course with a view to cut her off ; soon after which he made out that she was a Genoese mercantile steamer, and from her appearance, suspectingtbat she was the vessel which he was ordered to arrest, at about 10 o'clock, having approached sufficiently near, he fired a shot across her bows, and summoned her to obey his signal to bring to ; that upon the steamer complying with the summons by shutting off her steam and furling her sails her captain was ordered to repairon boat d the Tancredi with his papers ; meanwhile an armed boat's crew in the Tancredi's launch was sent on board the steamer to search her for munitions of war ; that an opened case of 50 gun barrels, and a case unopened, said to contain 50 double-barrelle4 fowling-pieces, and some other loose small arms, were found on board the Cagliari, and she was shortly afterwards taken in tow as prize by the Ettore Fieramosca, the captain of the Cagliari being detained a prisoner on board the Tancredi.' Such are the circumstances of the seizure narrated in the log of the Tancredi. The reports made by the commanders of the cruisers to their naval superiors at Naples, which were given in before the Court, agreed with the statement in the log. There was nothing in the depositions of Capt. Sitzia and two of his crew which were read before the Court which conflicted with the statement on the part of the seizors as to thecircumstances and place ot the seizure Captain Sitzia's depositions, which seem to have , been made on interrogatories as in prize proceed ing, were chiefly explanatory of the events at Ponza and at Sapri, and did net extend to any matters subsequent to the departure of the vessel from Sapri, excepting so far as he was asked cv!.y he did not at once leave the port of Sapri and in form the anthorities on the continent. His answer was that his crew were compelled to leave the vessel, and that he could not put to sea with the passengers only on board. It appears, however, from the depositions of a physician named Mascero, who was a passenger on board the Cagliari, and who was examined with the other passengers before the magistrates at Naples, and-whose state ment was confirmed by his companions, that the master of the Cagliari on leaving Sapri had told them that he intended to proceed to Naples and make his report, but the witness dtd not state whether he understood that this report was in tended for the Sardinian Legation or the Neapo litan police. This evidence, however, was not put in before the Commission of Prize, neither was it admissible consistently with the rules of prize proceedings, unless further proof had been allowed by the Court to the owners of the ship. But the circumstance of the captain's having announced his intention, whether he spoke with good faith or not, could not affect the legal character of the sei zure, either in favour of the owners or in favour of the seizors with respect to the locality where it was effected. It results, then, from the evidence before the Commission of Prize—and upon which evidence the Court proceeded—that the cruisers were upon the high seas when they first descried the Cagliari; that the Cagliari herself was also at such time on the high seas, steering a westerly course away from the Neapolitan waters and in a direction to pass outside the most westerly headland of Capri, and that the seizure itself took place while the Cagliari was still on the high seas. The ques tions which arise upon this state of facts are confined within a narrow compass. The pursuit commenced, and the seizure was effected upon the high seas, which are Ittatius territorium, and with in which no State can claim to exercise jurisdiction on the grounds of local sovereignty. A State may enforce its municipal laws within its own territo rial waters ratione loci against the mercantile ships and crews of all nations, which on leaving the open highway of the ocean sustain a new and special relation to the sovereign whose waters they have entered. But on the high seas a vessel is subject to no laws but those of her own nation, of which the general maritime law forms a part, being common to all States. In this sense, indeed, a ship has been sometimes said to be an extension of the territory of IJ-e nation to which she belongs, and the slightest application of the municipal law of another nation to her may be resisted. The loca liy of the se zure of the Cagliari being thus ou the high seas,'end the locus in quo giving to a Sicilian cruiser no absolute title to seize and detain a vessel under the mercantile flag of another nation, it will be convenient to examine how the seizure and de tention of the Cagliari might be justifiable ratione personarum or ratione delicti. A ship may be la wfullyseizsd on thehigh seas for a breach of its own municipal law, or for a breach of the general maritime law which is a portion of the lew of nation.. It can only, however, be seized for a violation of its own municipal law by the authority of its own sovereign, who may either commit his 'authority directly to the commander of a ship under his own flag, or may communicate indirectly to the cruiser of another State, under a treaty engagement with the Sovereign oethat State. In the absence, how ever, of any such treaty-engagement rights of sove reignty can only be enforced against a merchant ship on the high seas by a cruiser belonging to the State under the protection of whose mercantile flag the ship is sailing. The seizure of the Cagliari does not come within the scope of either of the above principles. She was sailing under the protection of the Sardinian flag, wheregs the nationality of the seizors was Sicilian. On the other hand, there was no treaty-engagement between the Sardinian and Sicilian Crowns which would authorise the seizure of a Sardinian vessel on the high seas by a Sicilian cruiser for a breach of the muni , oipal law of Sardinia. It may, however, be the case that the seizure of the Cagliari by the Siciliansbips of war was justified by the general maritime law, which the public cruisers of all nations are entitled to enforce against all private ships. A public vessel is by the law of nations entitled to verify the flag of a private vessel on the high seas, and no private vessel is allowed by the law of nations to sail on the high seas without proper documents on board to establish her right to the flag which aloe carries. This rule is tot ally independent of any special re gulatious of the State under whose flag she sails, and if a public cruiser, on visiting a private ship on the high seas, finds her unprovided with such ship's documents as are required by the law of nations to verify her flag, the cruiser may lawfully seize and detain such vessel in the interest of the general police of the seas. The owners of any such vessel who may have sent her to sea without proper docu ments on board must abide the consequences re sulting from their own default. The Cagliari, how ever, was not amenable to seizure and detention from any defect of her ship's documents. Her ship's papers, according to the requirements of the law of nations, wore regular and complete, and her captain exhibited them without delay to the com mander of the Tancredi. There being so far no breach of the law of nations on the part of the owners of the Cagliari in the mode in which they sent the vessel to sea, if any culpability attached to her sufficient to justify her seizure and detention it must have arisen out of the mode in which she was navigated—in other words, the master and crew must have committed Some breach of the law of nations after they quitted the Sardinian waters. The onus probandi on this head devolves upon the seizors. The case set up by the seizors before their own tribunals may be taken to be the best exposi tion of the g roun d s upon which they claim to sup portthe seizur e . Th e s hi p a ppears to have been pro ceeded against Commission t tforethe Naples in theof pirate and of enemy,' by reason that she had infringed the twofold character of Prize at sanitary regula ionPonzaof th e I s l an d of Ponza that her crew had landed upon that island and fought against the t roops o f hi s Sici lian _ Majesty ;. that certain fugitive felons and other persons in rebellion against the Crown of the Two Sicilies had disembarked fi ona her at Sapri ; and that she was on her way back to Ponza, to em bark other fugitive felons, -when she was pursued and captured by the Sicilian cruisers. The seizors vessels which are found with certain cargoes on board, beyond the limits of the ordinary maritime jurisdiction, and vessels so seized have been brought for adjudication before the tribunals of the seizors, and sentence of forfeiture has been pronounced against them. Again, the same and other statutes in matters of trade authorize the seizure of vessels which have committed an act of forfeiture within the territorial jurisdiction, although they may be met with by the cruiser on the high seas. Such laws, however, are only an authority to the seizors before the tribunals of their own Sovereign, but they are no authority to the State which has enacted them against the Sovereign Power under the protection of whose flag the vessel was sailing on the high seas at the time of the seizure, if such Sovereign Power should not acquiesce in her seizure, and should demand her restitution. Mr. Jus' ice St iry, iu the Marianna Flora (11 Wheaton's Re ports, p. 40), has pointed out that the State which authorizes by her municipal laws her cruizars to effect such seizures, incurs a responsibilie y towards foreign Powers in executing such laws ; in fact, it is only under the comity of nations in matters of trade that a State can venture to put such laws into execution ; it exercises in such matters only a permissive jurisdiction, and if any other State should remonst? ate and resist their applica ti in, she must withdraw her claim to enforce such laws. L trd Stowell, in the well-known slave case, Le Louis' (2 Dodson p. 246), alludes to an in stance of thiskind in the case of a Swedish ordinance authorising S vedish cruisers to examine foreign vessels on the high seas bound to Swedish ports, which, however, was resisted by the British Go rnxnent as unlawful, and the claim was finally withdrawn by the Swedes. In ordinary cases, in deed, where a merchant ship has been seized on the high seas for a violation of the laws of another State in matters of trade, the sovereign whose flag has been violated waives his privilege, considering, the offending ship to have acted with mala fides to wards the other State with which he is in amity, and to have consequently forfeited any just claim to his protection. It is for the sovereign alone, not for the individual whose ship has been seized, to assert the inviolability of the flag, precisely as in time of war, when an enemy's vessel has been cap tured in neutral waters,' the claim ofnieutral privilege must be made by the State whose terri tory has been violated; and cannot be set up in bar to the seizure by the owners of the ship. In the present case the King of Sardinia, whose mercantile flag has been violated on the high seas, has asserted the privilege of his flag, and has claimed the resti. tution of the vessel, considering that the transac tion does not disclose any case of mala fides towards the •Sicilian State on the part either of the owners of of the master and crew, and the King of the Two Sicilies cannot set up the provisions of his own law as an answer to a claim made under the law of nations. The case of the Carlo Alberto, in 1832, sited by the Sicilian Crown lawyers, conflicts in no possible way with the above view of the law. The Carlo Alberto was a Sardinian merchant ship, which had been chartered at Leghorn by the Duchess de Berri, with the object of effecting a landing of her self and her adherents on the coast of France. The vessel left the port of Leghorn, having on the face of her papers au ostensible destination to Barcelona, and she succeeded in landing the Duchess and her partisans near the port of Marseilles. The vessel, thereupon put out to sea again, and left the French waters, but was sulssequen ly compelled by accident to Ler boilers to put beck into Lc .ea _:etced of °iota', and so placed herself again within the territorial jurisdiction of the French Crown. Her master and crew were thereupon so zed by the municipal offi cers of police and brought before a French tribunal, on a charge of having violated the municipal law of France. The Court at Aix entered them to be re leased, as having been arrested in violation of the law of nations • but the Court of Cessation, upon appeal, overruled the decree of the inferior court, and condemned the master and crew for an offence against the municipal law of Franc-, by taking part in an enterprise against the security of the State. No pte c edings were, however, instiemted against the ship as prize, and she appears to have been restored to her owners. It will b 3 at once seen that there is this notable distinction between the Carlo Alberto and the Cagliari, that the crew of the former vessel when seized were within the local jurisdiction of the State whose municipal law they had violated, and • the ordinary courts of the country were accordingly competent to try them for a breach of such law, whereas the Cagliari was on the high seas when her master and crew fell into the hands of the seizors. The judgment, how ever, of the - Commission of Prize at Naples did not go all the way with the seizors. The Court ap pears to have condemned the ship, not as a pirati cal vessel, but as an enemy's ship ; and it further condemned a portion of her cargo as contraband of war, decreeing the restitution of the remainder of her cargo to the owner of it. The Court applied to the seizure of the Cagliari the considerations of law which attach to captures made during time of war. Assuming, than, from the moment, that the trans actions in which the ship was engaged at Ponza and Sapri bore the character of what has been termed by publicists be//um mixtum, the master and crew would no doubt be subject to the penalties which the law of nations has sanctioned. But the master and ciew have been indicted before the High Criminal Court at Salerno, not for any offence against the law of nations, but for an offence against the municipal law of the Two Sicilies. They are charged with being accessories to an act of high treason committed by subjects of his Sicilian Majesty in an attempt to change the Go vernment of the country, and a tribunal whose func tion it is to administer the municipal law is asked to proaoutice them liable to the penalties prescribed by the 123 d section of the code of the Two Sicilies, which says Emisfatto di le3a Maesta e punite colla morte et col terzo grado di publico esempio l'attentato ela cospirazione the abbia per oggetto o di distruggere o di cambiard it Governo r o di ecci tare i sudditti a gli abitanti del regno al armarsi contro Pautorith reale.' The penalties thus invoked against the master and crew of the Cagliari are upon the face of the Atto di Accusa penalties unknown to the law of nations, the offence itself being that of 'imam irajestatis,' an offence also unknown to the law of nations. To return, however, to the judgment of the Commission of Prize, it is perfectly clear—to borrow the language (mutatis mutandis) of Lord Stowell in his judgment on Le Louis, 2 Dodson, page 246—that the Cagliari could not be deemed a pirate from any want of a national cha racter legally obtained. She was the property, not of sea rovers, but of acknowledged Sardinian subjects ; she had Sardinian ships' papers on board, and was an acknowledged portion of the mercan tile marine of that country. If, therefore, the character of. pirate could be imprewed upon her, it must be only on the ground of her occupation. Under the orders of her owners she was bound with passengers and cargo from Genoa to Tunis, touch- nag at Cagliari. Under the conduct of those on beard of her she was, as alleged on behalf of the Crown of the Two Sicilies,- instrumental to an act of high treae on against the Sicilian State. Neither of these occupations can be legally deemed piracy, so as I o subjezt her to seizure wherever found as hostis humani generic. , The cite; ge, indeed, of piracy was not noticed in the judgment. It may WOOL AND W OOLt,EN MARKETS. TRADE or LEEDS, Tw-sday.—We have. no new feature to notice in the market this morning. There has been a fair steady Tuesday's business transacted, principally in light summer goods. HUDDERSFIELD,.Tuesday.—Tne improved char acter of the market, reported on the previous Tues day, was fully supported, tie() tendency being to a better order of transactions, and a feeling of re newed confidence. The business is still to a con siderable extent restricted to purchasers in the cheaper qualities of good, and the bulk as y e t changing hands bears a disadvantageous proportion to the operations of former years. The inquiries for summer goods are, however, gradually increas inv, and the genial aspect of the weather has con firmed the hopes of manufacturers in that direction. In wool we can report no variation. lADvsariszmmer.l A few more of the extraordinary cures without Medicine of ladigch tion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, C ons tipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debil it y effected by Du Barry's d e li c i o us health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Fe«l, are here given : Cure 52,422. Bridgehouse, Frimley, 3d April, 'lBs4.—Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, spitting blood,oocstirtiion, debility, derangement, t live d r iliy, s shortness of nedeafnes singing in the ears, coustipption, , breath, and cough, have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica, My lungs, liver, stomach, head, and ears aro all right, my healing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaintances.—JAMES ROBERTS, Wood Merchant. —From the Venerable Atch deacon. of Ross.—No. 32,838. —Three years' excessive nervousness with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food.—ADEXAYDER STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen. Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated Pro fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A. Ure; Dr. Shorland; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart; Major Gee. Thomas King, and many other respectable per edwith full m so e n a s ;is w o h f o c s u e re he t a a l d th fa h i a lo s d b . een sn i i • t e: b to iv red pac b k y it, after all other instruc tions, In canisters, 11b. 2s, 9d.; 2 24 - 4s. ed ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. ggs. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free on re ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Caution against the fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chaucellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitating' "Du ' Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food.", APRIL 2, Ig5R„ therefore be dismissed as a chargn which the Court POLICE IN: regarded as not sustained upon the evidence before it. The condemnation of the ship seems to hvae GUILDHALL.---Mr. Richardson, of Charles proceeded on the ground that there was war de facto street, St. James's, stated that he had received a between the ship and the Crown of the Two Sicilies. notice from the. cashier of this court informing Now war, according to Grotius, is not an act of h i m tha t the magistrate had directed the flue hostility, but it is the_state and situation of those recently imposed on the Mariquita- Gold Mining , who dispute by force of arms--'l7s us obtinet, ut non Company to be paid to him (Mr. Richardson) i n actio, sed status eo nomine indicetur, ita ut sit bel- aid of the costs incur r e d by him ins p rosecutin g lum Status per vim certantium, quo tales seine— the complaint against that company for not corn- Grotius de Bello et Pace, 1. 1. c. 1. According to plying the requirements of the last Joint-Stock the above definition it seems difficult to understand. Companies Act. He said the complaint was not how any of the doctrines of war can apply to the made merely on his own account, but on behalf seizure of the Cagliari. There was amity between of the other shareholders, and he therefore de tne two Crowns, and there was no dispute by force dined to accept the amount of the fine in aid of between the two vessels. The Cagliari submitted at his ex penses, and begged it might be placed in once upon being warned to bring to ;no r sistancc t h e poor -box. was made by her master and crew, no act of a hos- Sir J. Mitserove said he was much obliged to tile nature was committed by them against the Mr. Richardson for remembering th e p oor-box, as cruisers. As far, then, asthe conduct of the ma - ter pitiable objects presented themselves from time to and crew of the. Cagliari in imatediatb relation to time to whom a few shillings from the magistrate the cruisers is concerned everything consists with a proved a great assistance. Sir John expressed a lope that the decision of the presiding Alderman state of peace. It was however, contended , o n t he part of the seiz r 4 that the outrages committed by w h o imposed the fine would be beneficial to the the revolters at Ponza and at Sepri constituted a shareholders. state of hostilities whereby the Cagliari becam e Mr. Richardson sai d it had settled one p oint ; lawful prize of war ; in other words, that th e Ca- but a fresh dif ficult y arose under the new Joint gliari was infected with the guilt of the revol t s a n d stock Companies Act, which deprived shareholders that the revolt had outgrown the propoitions of an of the privilege they were entitled to under the insurrection to be put down by the civil authorities former Act of inspecting the minute-book of the aided by an armed force, and had acquired the ex- company. ttemecharacter of a civil war. Now, it is compe tent to every State which is imperilled by a revolt to proclaim martial law. It may use its military power to put down an armed insurrection too strong to be controlled by the civil authority. It may fur ther, by declaring martial law, constitute a state of war under which the sovereign authority ;may ree ert ' to the rights and usages of war to maintain its ,lf and to overcome any unlawful opposition. (" Lutl.er v. Borden," 7 Howard's Reports, p. 46.) But a temporary disturbance of the peace of the country, however violent it may be for the time, cannot be subaequeutly invested by the judicial sentence of a Court with the character of a state of war, so as to reflect upon the property of the subjects of another State seized ou the high seas during the disturbance, and, to render it amenable to the grave consequences which by the law of nations attaches to the property of enemies captured on the high seas during war. Vattel 1. 111., c. 18, s. 292, ma' ea the distiuc' ion between & civil war and a rebellion to consist in the fact 'that in the former the malcon tent have some reason to take up arms, while the latter is a rising against the legitimate autho rity destitute of all appearance of justice.' ' The Sovereign,' he remarks, does not fail to call all his subjects who resist him, rebels, but when they are strong enough to Make head against him so as to oblige him to make war against them regularly he must resolve to endure the expression "civil war."' Vattel proceeds further to remark that 'in the case of civil war the common laws of war are to be observed by both belligerents. If the Sovereign considers himself entitled to hang his-pri soners as rebels the opposite party wilt use repri sals.' It is unnecessary, however, to pursue this iiunject further. The Government of the Two Side lies has decided to regard the revolt as an act of re bellion against the Stet', and to try the revolters under the ordinary criminal law as guilty of high ' treason. They have include iin the same criminal proceedings the maser and clew of the Cagliari as accessories to the attempt or the conspiracy to change the Government of the country. The Pro curator-General of the King of the Two Sicilies en deavoured before the Commission of Prize to recon cile the civil proceedings against the ship with the criminal proceedings ag iinst the master and crew, on the grounds that there was this distinction be tween a bellum mi.etum and a bellum publicum,— that when a bellum mixtum was brought to an end -the jus imperil to punish those who had engaged in it revived, and might be exercised by the Sove reign ; whereas in a bellum publicum the return of peace brings with it a general amnesty. It is obvi ous,however, that the jus imperii can only revert to te Sovereign in relation to his own subjects. The jus imperii, can h ave uo application to the subjects of another State—against the latter the rights which were founded on the state of bellum mixtum terminate with the occasion of them ; so that if it could be maintained that at the conclusion of a Nikon mixtum the Sovereign may enforce against such of his prisoners as are his subjects and owe him allegiance the penalties which are pre scribe I by his municipal law for certain offences committed in time of peace, which proposition, how ever, is totally inconsistent with the whole doctrine of bellum mixtum as distinguished from civil tumu t, tha theory of the revival of the jus imperii at the termination of the war cannot be extended to the master and crew of the Cagliari, who were de jure subjects of the Sardinian Crown, and were not de facto within the allegiance of the King of the Two Siciliea. Upon the best consideration which I have been able to give to this impertant question, which involves in its simplest form sore intricacies of law, but which has become inv4vd in greater intricacies by the legal proceedings on the pert of the Sicilian authorities subsequent to the seizure, I am brought to the conclusion that the seizure and detention of the Cagliari under the circumstances sttted in the log of the seizors was not justifiable by the lawof nations, which is the onlylaw whereby the cruizers of a sovereign power can be entitled to seize and detain on the high seas a merchant ship sailing under the protection of the flag .of another sovereign. The'right to demand the restitution of the ship together with her master and crew on the ground of the violation of the flag rests with the sovereign whose flag has been violated. If the High Criminal Court at Salerno, however, should con demn the master and crew under the 123 d section of-the penal law of the Two Sicilies, and the Sici lian Government should proceed to enforce the pe nalties of its municipal law against the craw of the Cagliari,' it will be competent at ertsh time if any of the crew should happen to be subjects of any other foreign Power than Sardinia, for that Power to in terfere in behalf of its subjects, on the ground that the municipal law of the seizors cannot under the circumstances of their seizure be rightfullyenforcel against them. I amunwilling, however, toconclude this expression of my' opinion as to what I appre hend to be the strict law applicable to the case of the Cagliari without alluding to a possible incon venience which may seem to result from such a con dition of the law, viz., that a State would be help less to check or punish outrages on i ts coast s which do not amount to piracy committed b y vessel s under the mercantile flag of anether State -if such vessels can only escape in time on to the. high seas b e fo r e the cruisers of the State fall in with them. The re medy, however, for such au anomaly, which is in practice more ideal than real, is found in thee enity of nations, which tempers the law of nations, just as equity tempers the appl . c stion of the rules of posi tive law to civil transactions. The privilege of the flag, as already observed, is the privilege of the Sate, and when there is mala fides in the wrong doers, the State, through courtesy, waives its pri vilege,' and extends no longer the aegis of. its nationality over its subjects, but either permits the State which has been injured to avenge the breach of its laws through its own tribunals, or will assist it to obtain redress against the wrongdoer before the Courts of their own country, if they have in any way made themselves amenable to punish ment for a breach of their own laws. " TRIVERS TWISS. "Doctors'-commons, March 22." IZ-April 1 BOW-STREET. —A dirty untidy-looking woman named Isabelle Driscoll was charged with stealing a gold ring. Prisoner went into the shop of Messrs. Dobree and Tomlinson in the S'rand, and asked to look at some w..dding-iings. A case was shown to her by the foreman, and she tried on about half-a-d n, ono of which she abstracted, but not without being detected by the young man, who at once taxcu her with the theft. She denied it, but he was so cert.:in of it that he determined to give her in charge. At the stationhou-e the female searcher o-,served that prisoner had something tightly clenched in her hand, and on forcin g it open took from her the ring in qwstion. She gave a fLlse address at the station. Prisoner said it was her husband's address, hut she was separated from him. She bad no regular m eans of living, and no home "in particular." Sue pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Ball sentenced her to imprisonment for six months. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday, Mr. Arthur Gratigor, a starioner, &c., at 308, High Holborn, was charged, at the instance of Mr. Col;ard, super in'eratent of the Great Western Railway Company's police, wi di having sent a pack-t addressed to Mr. Underiull, Tipton, Staffordshire, the said packet being of an inflammable nature. Tue defendant plea tad gttil y, and he was con victed in the penalty of 101. and costs. Mr. Collard said, that some time ago inflammable matter was sent by railway, and that 10001. damage occurred. THAMES I .—Thomas Jenman, aged 42, the cook of the steamer Gibraltar, lying in the L radon Dock, was charged wit) smuggling 341 h. of foreign manufactured tobacco, by which hs had incurred penalty of 1001. Mr. Cumberland, from the Customs' solicitor's office, pr..sacuted on the part of the Crown. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, defended the prisoner. Mr. George Hardy, a tide surveyor of Customs, stated that the Gibraltar was trading . bet seen this port and Cadiz. On Thursday she arrived in the London Dock. and he sear.:hel a cabin, in which were two berths, occupied by t le prisoner and the third mate, and found 9JO cigars, weighing 311 b., concealed i a the lining of the vessel. The p!acs of deposit was very artfully made. He had to re move a board at the bottom cf the cabin, and th-n take away a batten on which it rested, before he could discover the hiding place. In cross-examination by Mr. Young the witness said the prisoner declared the cigars were not his and that it was very hard to take him. The pri soner also said that he did not know the cigars were in the ship until that day. Tae third mate left th,e ship while he was seizing the first lot of cigars. He intended to arrest the third mate wherev he could find him. Mr. Cumberland said the Custoals' Act was ve stringent, and necessarily so. The whole of the people on board were liable to be arres , ed, and could be fine I ; bait the C immissionerA of 0 istoms had only sleet those for prosecution who must have had a guilty knowledge of the cigars being secreted. Mr. Claridge, Qmen's appraiser of condemned goods in the port of London, said the cigars pro duced were of foreign mauufaJture, and. 'lathe to a duty of 9• , . sd. per lb. Mr. SASe. sentene,,d the prisoner to pay a fine of Mr/, to the Queen, and be imprisonei until it was paid. Mr. Young—The cigars really did not belong to the cook. They were the property of the third ' mate of the steamer. SOUTEIWARK.—JAmes Berry was brought up for ilia, examination, cha!g , d wt t wlially and knowingly uttering several counterfeit crown pieces to diff-J.ent tradeqp , ople in Bermondsey. There were a great number of the prisoner's vic tims in court to identify him. The prisoner was committed. fur trial. L A.MBET ft —Henry Warherton, a well-dresse 1 and respectable-looking young man, who has studiously avoided giving any account of bimsolf by which he might be traced, bur wOo is suspected to belong to a gang of expert tnieves who commit robb-ries at puhliclioas, , s and heershops, was brought up foe ui d ex.amiliation, charged with atteinptlng to corarnit a robbery at the Queen beer house, East-street, Kent-road, on the 18ai of last month. Aft -r a recapitulation of the evidence given on the former occasion, The prisoner hev,ged hard to be dealt with by the magistrate, declaring he should never commit such an act again. Mr. Norton said,—Do you wish to give any ac count of yourself, your place of residence, or who your friends are ? p r isoner—l should rather not, as Ish , uld only be bringing disgrace upon my friends, who are molt respectable. Mr. Norton—Have you any objection to give up the names of your confederates in this attempted robbery to the police, so that they may be able to trace them ? Prisoner—l'd rather not, sir ; I h Iva no wish to bring them into trouble. Mr. Norton —How canyon expect, after thus re fusing to (live any account of yourself or your weo ! c iates, that I shall deal favourahly with you ? Be sides, the case is of too serious a character to be summarily dealt with, and I shall therefore send you to take your trial at the Old Bailey. WANDSWORTH.—The four prisoners, James Touusend, alias Bennett, his cousin, Eliza Rome, Richard, a general dealer, of Saffron-hill, Holborn, an d William Jones, a watchmaker, of No. 3, Gravel-lane, Southwark, who have been so ire qu ently remanded on the numerous charges pre ferred against them by persons from all par is of the metropolis, were fully committed fur trial b) Me. Dayman. Tounsend, who is alleged to have 1.2 wive', and who is committed . for trial for an attempt at mur der, presented to the court the following extraor dinary written statement as his &fence :—" Myself and another man, named George Lewis, went to a house in St. George's-road, Pimlico, to a policeman named Fells. We wont with the intention of rob ing a house at 114, Warwick-street, St. George's road. The time we went wagon a Sunday. i be lieve about 1 o'clock. Mr. Fells was then mindin g an empty house. We told him we had come to do the j ib in Warwick-street. He said we could go ui:stairs, then no one would see us hanging about. We then could see the house we intended to r. , b. We watched the house all Sunday afternoon till about 11 o'clock on Sunday night. We then left Fell's house and went towards 114, Warwick-street. George Lewis then got over the railing mei forced the window up, and got in. He had been in the house about five minutes when I heard a woman scream. I then went back to Fells's house, and told him that George Lewis had got in, and I thought he was knocking the girl about, as I heard her scream. Fells then said, He will not butt the girl.' I said, '1 doo'c know, he will not come out without the plate.' Fells ghen said ho thought he should go to bed. He then said, 'lf you get it, bring it clown the are a steps and put it under them, as it will be all right, no one will look there. You can then place a stone between the railings near the gate, and I then shall know it is allright.' I came the next morning, and Fells told me what was there. I fetched it away in a bag, and met George Lewis. We disposed of the plate, and we then went to see Fell.. We :met him down by Grosvenor-place. We then gave him some money, and then went and bad something to drink. The rope that was found round the girl's neck was Fell's rope." The pri soner also made another charge against Fells, who belongs to the B division, of conspiring with him in ebtaining money from a young woman named Juliet Akins, whom he married in the name of Charles Lewis, the fact being known to Fells that he was already a married man. Fe the officer alluded to, has been watching the c from the commencement, and gives a posi tive cl - mial to the charges. He prcves a f,rmer I comic ion against Tounsend. BA 'NS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 20th day of March, 1858 : Average Amount. 8,403 PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and C 0....... Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt Pomfret,and Co. 9 531 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hu . nt . 18,018 ,31 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstanle—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke Seymour, Lamb, and Co. • Bedford Bank. Bedford—Barnard and Co. ... 80,812 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co .. 8,304 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Banla, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb 14,815 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 20,050 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Monet and Sons -- Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Clav pow' and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—T. Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Seaiey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 29,909 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham— Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury —J. C. and A Gillett Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett,`ion, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Lloyds & Co. 18,772 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co - Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 82,828 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Co. Burlington and Driffield Bank Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Worlledge and Co Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock. & Co. Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters 41,658 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris 7,695 14.079 57,10' 28,343 24,561 9,305 2,371 13,046 28 020 and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Costs and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, 15,747 2,786 and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birlcbecks, and 14,838 23,194 37,958 6,?05 16,491 5 4, 130 Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross ansl Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans k Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co HeYonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old B , nk and Dorsetshir• Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank . Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Sieter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham —Hardy and Co Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Veasey and Co Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and 6,978 10,626 33,620 27,998 6,723 10,035 54,331 73,199 8,058 $1,465 72,713 47,313 $7,92G 23,422 6,011 9,691 6,726 4,866 11,640 24,210 11,707 17,412 42,213 Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Ross Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, rfadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Motley Bank, and Wo Abridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. K.naresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna,resborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds —W. William; Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—T. & T. T Paget Lewes Oha. Bank, Lewes—Whit s -1 ,1 and C 0..., Lincoln Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Lian dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—S. and G. F Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— , Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hung wford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgslly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ron and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, arid Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbecks Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham. Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co No ST Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co.._ Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, 0 westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Oid Bank, Oxford -Parsons and Co. . . Oli Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Well, and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beaching Onfordshire Witnoy Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Sons Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverlay Bank, Hull—Pease and C 0.... Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and C 0.... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeehire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royde, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches tor—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—l'ordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye BAnk, ltye—R. C. Pomfret, & Co Roe Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Ross Allaway and Maodougal !Saffron Walden aad North Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gi4sons and Co. ........... !Salop Bank Shrewsbury — B urto n , Lloyd, and. Co. .. ............................................. Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough —Wood all and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and. Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--i.. Rocke, tons, and Ca.... ............................ Sitti , gbourae .nd Milton Back, —Valiance nud Co. ............. ........ g .. . b . .. ..... ..... Southampton Toast and County 13aek, South ainpton—Maddison and Pearce 30,755 7,964 11,498 1,686 THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The at rangements preparatory to making another attempt to connect Europe and America by tele graph during the present summer, are progressing a.: t ively. The cable, which has been stored during the winter in the tanks erected by permission of the Government at the Keyham Steam Yard, at Devon port, is now being coiled on board her Majesty's ship Agamemnon and the United States frigate Niagara, both of which ships have again been de voted to this work by the countries to which they respectively belong. . Up to yesterday, 320 miles had been coiled on board the Agamemnon and 84 on board the Nagara. A large number of men are engaged in the coiling, from the hours of five a.m. to seven p.m., every day, except Sunday, and the whole is expected to be on board by the 10th of May. The additional 300 miles of cable recommended by the directors in their report to the shareholders is in process of ,manufacture by Glass, Elliot, and Co., a sufficient amount of the new capital having been subscribed for this pur pose. It will have been completed and coiled on board by the second week in May. The scientific committee appoin ted to consult and carry on experiments with regard to the paying-out machinery have at length so far decided upon the principle of the sheaves and retarders to be used on the presen•, occasion as to be enabled to order one complete machine, which will be finished in about a fortnight, and which will then be set up at the works of Messrs. Easton and Amos, and subjected. to several experimental tests. When this is don- it is the intention of the direc t rs to invite by circular as madly engineers and machinists of known ability and eminence as pos sible, to visit and inspect the entire apparatus during a certain fixed period, and to solicit as a favour 'their critical observations and suggestions upon its form aura construction. If no good cause be shown for further important alterations in the '• machinery, it is intended that the Niagara and Agamemnon, which it is esti mated will have been completely fitted and ready by the last week in stay, shall, before commencing to lay the cable, proceed to sea, and in the deep water, ab art 300 miles from the Irish coast, re hearse a series of experim. nts in paying out and haulink it., and put to a practical test several sug ge-tions and appliances that have been proposed to the company by various ingenious persons who have ' taken an active interest in the success of the enter- Country Maniets MANCHESTER-APRIL 1. 3,488 BOSTON-MARCH 31 3Q 633 19,308 19,455 58,52(5 Official Averages. Wheat 3685 quarters, at 4ls 4d Barley Oats 226 „ 23s Od Beaus Peas 46 ~ 40s 7d 8,763 21,409 16,703 39,969 5,276 48,601 8i,513 21,723 19,975 69,251 16,305 7,080 3,915 NEWARK—MARcn 31. GLASGOW-34Auca 31. prise. The two ships will then return to England again and report progress, and under this arrange ment, sliou , d the experiment show that improve ment or alteration is desirable in any of the apparatus, there will be time to get it effected so as to enable the expedition to make their final start at a period of the ,ear when, according to the unanimous testimony of all whose experience of the weather in the North Atlantic has been consulted, the sea and air are likely to be in the most favour able condition for facilitating the success of the undertaking. The Agamemnon is now being put in commission, and will be commanded by Captain George W. Preedy ; and the Admiralty have, in addition to the Agamemnon, appropriated the Gorgon, Com mander Dayman ' and another paddle-wheel steameri to the service of the A 'antic Company, the latter as auxiliary to the Agamemnon in ease of her need ing assistance, and the former to keep the sailing course, there being a possibility that the compasses of the ships containing the cable may be affected by the proximity of so large a miss of iron. It is expected that the United States Govern ment will also shortly despatch to England a large paddle-wheel steamer on a similar service in respect to the Niagara. Thus there will be a total of five ships of war engaged on the present occasion to realise this great international work. In the electrical dep irtment, the directors have called to the aid of Mr. Whitehouse the services of Professor Thomson, LL.D., Mr. Walker, F.R.S., and Mr. Henley. It is also their intention to con sult other electricians and telegraphists, with a view to secure the greatest attairuble amount of speed in working through the cable and the best practic able form of appal atus for transmitting signals. There was an average attendance this morning. English wheat of good quality was sold at last week's prices, and secondary sorts neglected. American sold slowly, and must be called rather cheaper, while French, being in better supply, 2d to 3d per 701 b. Flour is per sack lower than last week. Oats were fully as dear, and oatmeal sold slowly. In other articles no material change. LOUTH —MARCH 31. Wheat, 39s to 41s ; mixed, 43s ; barley 325 to 343; oats L's to 22s ; beans, 38s to 41s. We had a fair attendance of farmers to-day, and a good supply of grain of all sorts. Wheat mew a firm t•ale, at previous rates. Oats and beaus in request at fully last week's rates. Prices :—Wheat, red, 40s Od to 42s Od; new, —s to —s ; white, 42s titi to 44s Od extra, 455. Barley, 26s Od to 344 01. Oat- 20s to 265. Peas, 40 to 423 (Id. Beaus, 38s 01 to 403 Od per qr. This day's market was pretty well attended, and a small supply of wheat, with a slow sale, at a decline on the last week's prices. Fine barley in improved request, at the extreme rates of last week. Oats and beans fully as dear as before. _ _ Wheat, white 48s to 545, red 449 to 465; barley, malting 40s to 445, grinding :i2s to 345; oats, 24st. 32s to 365, 22st, 26s to 28s ; beans, 42s to 44s ; malt, 66s to 72s ; peas, 40i to 42s ; tares, 50s to 56s per qr. At our corn market to-day there was a small attend ance, and wheat and flour met a slow sale at barely the last week's prices. Barley at previous rates. Oats 6d per 2641 b. dearer. Oatmeal was improved 6d to is per 2801 b. Beans scarce, and the turn lower. Egyptian were re. ther cheaper. EDINBURGH GRAIN.-MARCH 31. A limited supply of grain to-day, sales were heavy, except for oats, and prices were much the same as last week. Wheat, on the top, 95 Od down, and on the average Os ld down. Barley, 2s Od up on the top, and Os 31 up on the average. Oats on the top were is 01 up, and on the average Oi 3d up. Beans on the top 43 Od up, and on the average Os 5d up. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 1 0 6-12th. Do. new -12ths. Barley 1 12 1 8-12ths. Oats 1 8 5 9-12 the. Beans -12ths. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 902 qrs sold 564 qrs Barley B2B qrs sold 628 qrs Oats 1150 qrs sold 918 qrs Beans 271 qrs sold 198 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.-MAR 30. The following were the quotations :—Beef, sid to ed ; mutton, 7d to lid ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d tc —d per lb. ; pork, sid to 5.' 2 d per lb ; rough fat, N 0 to Os per 141 b. ; hides, 2id to :aid per lb ; calf-skins, 4d to 5.1 per lb. COURSE OF EXO ANGE..-YESTERDAY. 11 15% Gibraltar........ 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