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

GENERAL DE LAMORICIERE'S APPOLYTMENT. The Independence Beige says of General de Lamo riciere's appointment to the command of the Papal troops : We know at last the object of General de Lamo riciere's journey to the Roman States. The Journal of Rome of April 7 announces his appointment to the chief command of the Papal troops. lip to the last moment we wished to doubt that the general could so far forget his past career so break with his noble friendships and cancel his real services. Now doubt is no longer possible, and the error has been committed. General de Lamoriciere, who in 1849 regretted his inability to save Mazzini's republic, and who merely accepted the expedition to Rome as a mes sage for saving the liberty of the inhabitants, can no longer avail himself of the same excuses. During the last 12 years the Holy See, protected by the presence of the French troops, might have laid the foundations of that liberty. It has done no thing of the kind. It has remained deaf to all ad vice, to all warning ; even the hard lessons of the present times have produced no effect on it, and in the separation of the Romagnas it has seen merely the rebellion of a few restless spirits excited by the ambition of a foreign prince. In nowise has it thought of looking into itself and asking itself if ita own Governmental proceedings had nothing to do with the disaffection of the governed. What the Holy See neglected to do when it had the power, without danger, sure of the applause and encouragement of all Europe, it will still less do now in favour of populations groaning under their yoke and passionately desiring those benefits which the Romagnols have forcibly obtained for them selves. Those populations will be kept down, not by a national army formed from their midst, but by a horde of foreign mercenaries gathered and re cruited from every country, to assist in this work of oppression and tyranny. Such are the men whom General de Lamoriciere has consented to command —such is the work to which he lends the authority of his name. As for the reforms, they will become what they can become. Cardinal Antonelli will take good care of that, and when necessary, in the name of canonical law, will abduct some fresh Mortara child from the arms of its mother; General de Lamori ciere will be the accomplice and executioner of this barbarous crime ; when it shall be necessary to re new the mighty exploits of Perugia, General de La moricier, commanding the pillagers of the city, will become the emulator and rival of the Schmidts and Kalberniattens. Such is the position freely ac cepted by a man who has been living in exile, and calling himself a martyr of liberty, of violated right. A proclamation by General de Lamoriciere, which we have this instant received, proves to us that we are even too indulgent towards him in the preceding reflections. In fact, in this proclamation the general, for the purpose of misleading both public opinion and the soldiers he is going to com mand, identifies the cause of civilisation and liberty with that of the Papal Government. He proclaims all those to be revolutionary who do not bow down before the monstrous abuses of the Roman theo cracy. It is impossible to belie truth more signally, impossible to cover with a more deceitful mask a real tergiversation. The Pope has at last got a real General, who promises to raise for him a real army. General Lamoriciere has gone to Rome, not as a mercenary soldier, but as a devotee, and has issued his first order of the day as Commander-in-Chief of the Pon tifical troops. The Pope has no confidence in that " vendetta of prayers" which he, lately threatened ; and as for his excommunication, even Mr. Bowyer assures us that it is no curse. Bayonets and can non are after all the true supports of the Papal chair, so his Holiness has sent for an old Algerian officer, and the sword which for near fifteen years quelled the fiery Moslem is now to keep in awe, and if need be smite, the Christian flock of the Holy Father. We congratulate the gallant Gene ral on his new function. We applauded his gal lantry in Africa and his patriotism in the National Assembly ; we admired the dignity with which he bore the wrongs inflicted on him with so many others when Louis Napoleon perpetrated the coup d'etat ; but we did not suspect that the eloquent denouncer of the expedition to Rome would one day consent to be the hired hangman of a Government of priests, and convert into a reign of terror the foreign occupation of Rome, which he was among the first to condemn; The General's address to his soldiers—a part of which has been verbally transmitted by the tele graph—is a strange document to appear at Rome. " Catholic Christianity," says the General, "is the life of civilisation. Europe is threatened by revo lution, as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause of the Pope is that of Civilisation and Liberty." Any objection we might feel inclined to make to these assertions is nothing compared with the gain which we descry in the spirit of the appeal. It is then at last thought worth the while of the Papacy to reason, and to satisfy men's judgment and conscience. This is indeed innovation. Gene ral Lamoriciere, we dare say, would have struck as hard at Perugia as Colonel Schmidt, but no Swiss or Austrian officer serving the Pope would have put the words " civilisation" and " liberty" in an order of the day. Whether the Pope's cause is that of civilisation and liberty, the Pope's subjects know much better than the French general can tell them ; but, at any rate, M. Lamo riciere's language is an admission that it ought to be. The Romans will thank him for this. It will be impossible hereafter to proscribe those two dread ful words. The general has made a complete armoury of sacerdotal weapons—divine mission, authority of St. Peter and Paul, sacred rights, and other Roman implements—quite obsolete by a stroke of the pen. Chambers and matchlocks, much less pikes and crossbows, will not work with the Minie musket and rifled cannon. Are General Lamori ciere's orders of the day free of the censorship ? We infer from the words of General Lamericiere that he has carried to Rome something better than a sword. The worthy aspirations his proclamation betrays are French, not Papal. We can easily give him credit for sincerely desiring that the Papal cause may become what he says it is. He is just now in his first sanguine days, and he is to be pitied, for he has undertaken a task beyond human strength. H e cannot change th e P apa l Govern ment, the char icter and works of which belong to its nature. As a theocracy it cannot condescend to the level of other and more hu nane forms of e•o -vernment, and act the interests of the governed before itself General _ as the chief end of its existence. Be fore long manyLamoriciere will either retire from Rune, ase generous a men wno wished well to the Pope have disgusted with the un natural spectacle of a whoie de p m eo e p st Le e xcluded from national life to become the a servants he of willa college of priests ; or, like M. de Rayneval,erv sacrifice his experience and his good sense to super stition. The notions of reform and progress which he entertains will SO3ll bring him face to face with that rock of infallibility against which s o many bright prospects have been shattered. H e will hear the fatal non possunzus, and learn that he has been sent for to defend and not to regulate the temporal power of the Pope. Even this humble office he will find above his strength. He may organise an Italian army in the R o man States, for which Italy will be grateful to him ; but when ever that army sheds its blood it will not be for a knot of intriguing fanatics separated from-the na tion by every idea and every interest, the Monsig nori who despise them and eat them up. In vain does the Pope collect devoted adherents from Brit tany, Ireland, or Bavaria. Every stranger who takes service under him only demonstrates the more evidently to the world the parasitical nature of his rule. The few persons among the great body of in structed Catholics who are so unjust as to desire that the population of a whole State should be sac rificed to the earthly grandeur of their spiritual lord, will find themselves no match for a people bent on obtaining good government and its gua rantees for themselves and their children. 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The document extends to between 40 and 50 pages, exclusive of , ppendixes, and the following is but an abstract. : With regard to the general progress, it appears that though there has been an increi , e in the pos tal revenue, reductions have been made in the rates of postage between the United Kingdom and several foreign countries, and the inland post, which for mmy years had steadily and rapidly improved, has again made good progress, it once as regards the means of posting letters in town, the extension of rural posts, the frequency, speed, and regularity of the mails, the extent of the area in which free deliveries are made, the hour in the morning at which the first delivery is completed, especially in London and its suburbs, where it was for- merly late, and the daily number of de liveries ; and all this has been accom plished without any addition to the labour of the officers, though meanwhile their salaries and wages have in many cases been considerably aug mented, so that the scale of remuneration is higher now than at any previous time. EXTENSION OF INLAND SERVICE. Last year the number of post-offices in the United Kingdom was increased by 177, making the whole present number 11,412, of which 825 are head post offices and 10,587 sub post-offices. To these must be added 1,958 road letter-boxes, 790 of which were put up last year. Thus the whole number of pub • lie receptacles for letters is now 13,370, as com pared with 4,518 before the establishment of penny postage. Although in some cases attempts have been made to deface road letter•boxes, and thrust dirt into them, such abuse is rare. New post-offices have been completed and occupied at Canterbury, Doncaster, Southampton, Torquay, and Kilmar nock; and new offices are nearly ready for use at Dover and Lincoln. New post-offices are in contem plation at Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, and large improvements in the post-offices at Manches ter, Hereford, Norwich, Preston, and Taunton. Further improvements have been made in the office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and others are in pro gress. Great relief, too, has been obtained by the transfer to the district offices of much of the busi ness previously transacted at the central office ; so that, with reference to the quantity of work per formed, the central office is now more commodious than it had been for many years. There has been a corresponding improvement in its lighting and ventilating. It is fortunate that the original con struction, although in many respects very defective, allowed of very considerable additions being made to the available room, and that at a very moderate cost ; while, either by an additional story, or by carrying the building over the area reserved for the railway vans, abundant space may be obtained for all requirements within the extremest range of probability. When the district offices are completed, instead of possessing, as formerly, only one post-office at which mails are despatched and received, and letters sent out for delivery, London will have ten such post-offices. Although the postal district system has now in London, been in operation to a greater or less extent more than three years, it is not yet complete there, notwithstanding the progress made each year since its Commencement. The chief difficulty has been to procure good sites for the district offices ; but this difficulty is now nearly surmounted, and in most of the districts a new office, if not completed, has been commenced, while in every case a temporary office at least has been provided. In each district the morn ing delivery within London proper and the despatch to the suburbs are now made from the district office, the mail bags being brought to it direct from the railway stations, instead of being first conveyed, as formerly, to the General Office, in St. Martin's-le- Grand ; and the result is greater punctuality in the deliveries and diminished labour to the letter car riers, who are no longer required to come on duty at so early an hour as when they all were required to assemble at the Central Office. The facilities afforded by the district system for the rapid inter change of letters between one part of London and another has enabled the department still further to abridge the time between the posting of a letter and its delivery ; so that there is no difficulty, so far as the Post-office is concerned, in a person in Lon don writing to a friend there, obtaining a reply, and sending a rejoinder, all in the same day. Any letter posted in the town portion of either of the districts just before the box is cleared for delivery in the same district, is despatched by the letter carrier within 30 minutes of the time of posting. With few exceptions every resident in London is now within a furlong of a post-office or a road letter-box, and within a quarter of a mile of a money order office. The co-operation afforded by the public in the rapid sorting of letters by placing upon them the initials of the district is acknow ledged with thanks, and also the assistance given to the letter-carriers by the more general use of door letter-boxes. In most of the suburban parts of the districts arrangements have been made for accelerating .the deliveries and for giving addi tional facilities for posting ' • and, within six miles of London, a late evening delivery has been esta blished. In order to save the letter carriers from undue labour, this last delivery was at first accom panied with several restrictions • but the delivery is now made at all houses which are provided with letter-boxes, or which, like hotels and re tail shops, are usually open to the letter carriers, provided the letters be fully prepaid. Although there are already ten deliveries every day in London proper, the adding one more is in contem plation, an arrangement which, with the open ing of the other new district offices, the revision of the posts in the few rural parts of the suburbs which have not yet been dealt with, and some other minor alterations, will complete the scheme of London district improvement. After many efforts some machines have at length been constructed which are found in practice to perform the work of stamping and obliterating more quickly and perfectly than by hand. Some of these machines have been in use for a considerable time, and many more are in course of construction. For the further development of the provincial rural posts, a work in constant progress, the depart ment has incurred an additional expense of more than £ll,OOO per annum ; but it is hoped that is time all this expense will be repaid, and will be found, in addition, to yield a fair profit.. At 1,516 places free deliveries were established for the first time last year; and at 504 other places, including Newcastle-on-Tyne, Liverpool, and Londonderry, the free delivery was extended or otherwise im proved. About 93 per cent. of the letters, news papers, and other postal packets delivered in the United Kingdom are now conveyed without any charge beyond the ordinary postage, by letter car riers and rural messengers, to the houses of the ad dresses; and this proportion, great as it is, is always on the increase. The division of London into postal districts has brought to light some of the causes which there in fluence the increase and decrease of correspondence, and which cou ld not have been ascertained had the circulation found culatio in the ncontinu tw ed t o eontbe the greatest vari a ti ons through on e cen t r al a office. As m a y be supposed, weral rn ; the dist first tworictsand being intlie chiefly weste influenced western byaci and the south-western umstancesaffectin g the com emfeprcairalliacmomenmtuannidt y by ntbe London twolatter by the meetin g o occurredA decrease after Midsummer last year (a in the London district correspondences compared with the cor responding period in the previous apparently caused partly b y the ununa s uamndbewrasof year), ln persons who left town in consequence of the great heat of the weather ; partly by the absence of the large number of election circulars posted in the previous summer; partly by a temporary check to trade, while the season in 1858 was one of un usual activity ; and partly by the builders' strike, by which many branches of trade were suspended. As an example of the postal effect of a Parliamen tary election in one of the metropolitan boroughs, it may be mentioned that the number of letters and circulars which passed through the post in reference to the Marylebone election was upwards of 70,000. During the last year 77 towns were provided with day mails to or from the metropolis of one or other of the three parts of the United Kingdom, and some of them with mails in both directions; this mail being in several instances the third during the twenty-four hours. The mail to the Scilly Islands is now despatched three times a week, and a steamboat has been substituted for a sailing vessel, thereby greatly improving the communication, both in frequency and regularity. The conveyance of mail bags by ordinary trains, at the rates usually charged to the public for parcels, was considerably extended during the year ; but this extension of postal convenience at a moderate charge has been confined chiefly to the following lines of railway, viz., the Great Northern, the South Eastern, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast. Improve ments in the cross post communication of the coun try are of almost daily occurrence ; one of the most important during the last year being that which gave to Liverpool and Manchester a more direct communication with Cornwall and Devonshire. But by far the most important acceleration of the past year was that of the night mail, via Car lisle, between London and Edinburgh and Glasgow, referred to in the last report. This acceleration has given an earlier arrival and later despatch of the night mail at Edinburgh and Glasgow by nearly eperbp two hou rs each ( thus increasing the interval for reply b by nearly four hours), and has afforded a simi lar boon t Dundee, ndee,Aberdeen, Inverness, and the north of Scotlan generally. As regards Edin- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY' . EVENING, APRIL 14, 1860.: burgh and Glasgow, the success of the measure has been promoted by an arrangement for partially sorting the letters on the railway. As already ex plained this acceleration has been chiefly effected by an arrangement for limiting by the mail train (at a great expense, however, to the Post-office) the passenger and parcel traffic ; so that the train may not be impeded by the great weight which at certain seasons of the year it used to carry. The experiment has proved successful. The improvement has been twofold—increased speed and greater regularity. Since the beginning of the present year an earlier despatch and an acceleration have been made of the day mails from London to the north by both the western and eastern routes; by which means an im portant improvement has been afforded to Liver pool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, and the north of England generally. Considerable progress has been made in the ar rangements relative to the improved postal com munication with Ireland, the contract for which will probably come into operation in the course of the ensuing summer. Improvements have been made in the harbour at Holyhead for facilitating the landing and embarking of mails and passengers when the larger vessels now in course of construc tion shall have come into use ; and the building of the larger vessels is also making satisfactory pro gress. There still remain, however, many prepara tions before the Post-office can be ready for so ex tensive a change. The number of travelling post-offices, used to save time, by doing much of the business of sorting while the mails are in progress, has been considerably in creased. Under this arrangement the public are enabled to post letters up to a later time than they would otherwise be practicable, and to obtain an earlier delivery. To promote the health and com fort of the clerks and guards employed in the tra velling post-offices a careful examination has been made by the medical officer and the Inspector- General of Mails, which has led to the suggestion of many improvements in the construction of these offices; and, among other benefits, has secured a much better ventilation. The use of machinery for the exchange of mail bags without stopping the train has been further extended, with great ad vantage to the general mail service of the country. The " double arm," by which the delivery of a se cond set of bags at the same station is managed, has also been brought into further use; and in one or two instances even a third set of bags is delivered. An improved van has been devised for conveying the mails between the General Post-office and the metropolitan railway stations, and a model van on this better construction is nearly completed. For a much more important improvement in this part of the service, however, the Postmaster-General looks forward to the metropolitan railway, now in course of construction, which is to link together the greatest railways which start from London. Ulti mately he hopes that all the metropolitan railways will be thus united. The department has entered into general agreements, for the right to use all their trains, with the companies owning the Corn wall railway, the Londonderry and Enniskillen, and the Dublin and Kingstown railway; making the whole number of such agreements 17. The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom by railways, mail coaches, &c., steam packets, boats, and foot passen gers, is about 140,000 miles per day ' • being about 7,500 miles more than at the end of 1858. This in crease is principally in railway conveyance, and in conveyance on foot ; though the amount of the rail way service, even now, does not much exceed that performed by coaches and mail carts. NUMBER OF LETTERS, NEWSPAPERS, AND BOOKS. The following table shows the number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom during the last year, with the rate of increase, and the proportion of letters to population : • Number I Increase Proportion of of Letters, per cent. Letters in 1859. i on Number to Population. in 1858. England Ireland' 47,00,000 „ 7 7to each parson Scotland 52,000,000 „ 2 16 to each person United Kingrdom!s4s,ooo,oool „ 4} 18 to each person As compared with 1858, the total shows an in crease of 22 millions . ; and as contrasted with the year previous to the introduction of penny postage (1839), an increase (omitting franks) of 469 millions ; making the present number of letters rather more than seven-fold what it was in 1839. During the last five years the rate of increase, as contrasted in each instance with the number in the preceding year, has been on an average rather more than 4 per cent. In the London office alone, counting the letters both inwards and outwards and counting forward letters, there has been an increase of more than 12 millions. Nevertheless, by improved ar rangements in sorting, this great increase has been disposed of without any additional labour being thrown on the officers ; and except as regards deli very, without any addition to the force. The num ber of London district letters, that is, of letters posted in the London district for delivery within the same—the old twopenny post—is now equal to the I total number of letters, whether general or local, ' posted 20 years ago in the whole of England and Wales, London inclusive. The number of letters given in the foregoing statements includes those from beyond sea. The great bulk, however, are in land ; the colonial and foreign forming less than 1- 50th of the whole. The number of registered letters last year was nearly 1,400,000, or 1 registered letter to about 400 ordinary letters. This numbershows an increase of about 6 per teat. on the previous year. In 785 cases, or 1 in about 1,750, complaint was made that the registered letter had not reached its destination. All these letters, however, except 15 were afterwards recovered ; and although there is no legal claim on the department for the contents of a letter, whether registered or not, the Post-office in six cases voluntarily made good the loss ; fault in these instances having been tracedby the depart ment to its own officers. In the other cases it was found that eight of the letters had been lost after they left the custody of the British Post-office ; and in the remaining instance too much time had been allowed to pass before the loss was reported, to ad mit of the letter being traced. The number of newspapers delivered in the United Kingdom last year was about 70,500,000. The number of letters returned to the writers owing to the failure in the attempts to deliver them, was about 1,900,000, being about 200,000 more than in the previous year. This is equal to about lin 280 of the whole number of letters. Nearly half the non-deliveries was owing to the letters being ad• dressed either insufficiently or incorrectly; more than 11,000 having been posted without any address at all. The amount of property found in letters which could not be delivered nor, for want of an ad dress in the inside, be returned to the writers, was about £260. Owing to the cause mentioned in the case of letters, about 470,000 newspapers were also undelivered, being 1 in 150 of the whole number. In the case of newspapers the cause of non-delivery is sometimes carelessness in the folding, and the damp state of the covers occasionally, when the papers are received from newspaper agents. But it is found that, however caused, in the London office only one newspaper in five thousand escapes from its cover. The returned letters, as compared with those of the previous year, have increased in a greater ratio than the whole amount of correspondence ; which is attributable in part to the circumstance that insufficiently directed letters are no longer sent from place to place for trial, but, as speedily as possible, arc returned to the writers. About 60,000 letters were refused last year because they had not been prepaid. About 200 letters per day are posted at the chief office in London unsealed. for a change which had long 150eir in contemplation, and which will now soon be rmade, this change being an increase from £5 to £lO in the sum for which a money order may be ( frawn. Advantage will also be taken of the opportunity to reconstruct the scale of commission, so that while the charge in some instances will be reduced, there will no longer be a large class of orders which do not pay their cost. It will, moreover, be in the power of any person by using, as the case may be, a penny or twopenny stamp (besides paying the commission), to direct that his money order sir 11l not be payable till ten days after date, so as tog give time to obtain an acknowledgment before the o rder be cashed. To discourage the sending of coins 'by post, by facilita ting the transmission of very sm all sums of money (for which the money order syst em with its neces sary checks and attendant cosi., is scarcely appli cable), provision has been made in the London offices for exchanging posta4;e stamps for money. The charge is 21 per cent., NI rith a minimum of one halfpenny. Thus for ss. worth of stamps 4s. 10;d. is paid, and for stamps wor' zh ls. Bd., ls. 71d. It is intended soon to extend 'che arrangement to all the post-offices in the cow rtry. A remarkable in crease is observable in the orders issued at Ports mouth and Devonport ; indlicating, it is hoped, a tendency in our soldiers and, seamen to send more and more of their earnings to their families. The unclaimed money orders last year amounted to £2,013, which, according to the established rule, was carried to the fund for assisting the officers of the department in insuring their lives. In June last the money orclor system was extended to Canada, between which time and the end of the year nearly four thousand orders were issued in Canada on the United Kingdom, and about 1,150 in • the United Kingdom on Canada; the average • amount of each. order being rather more than £3. L It was thought prudent, in the first instance, to • make the commission rather high—viz., fourfold L that for an inland money order, but it is thought that the charge may now be somewhat lessened. he removed everybody . in the altar and cleared a space for the cho r ist ers . _ Mr. Sergeant Ballantino and Mr. Prideaux seve rally argued against the view taken by the magis trate, and contended that an assault had been com mitted and the churchwarden ought to be convicted. After a lengthened discussion, Mr. Howell addressed the Bench on the part of the churchwarden, who, he said, was elected for the third time by the vestry on Easter Monday, and for two years had performed the duties of his office to the satisfaction of his fellow parishioners and the public at large. Mr. Thompson had been compli mented by the magistrates of that court and by the public press for the able manner in which he had performed his duties under the most trying circum stances. Mr. Thompson did not collar or kick the complainant or use any violence. The witnesses severally declared that the conduct of Mr. Adams was calculated to lead to a breach of the peace. Mr. Henry Ashcroft, an elderly gentleman, said that he really thought Mr. Ad ams was ou t o f his mind on Sunday evening, and that he shoved Mr. Thompson and several other persons. John Button, beadle of the parish of St. George, and a constable sworn in by the Commissioners of Police, said he heard the churchwarden call for the police in attendance to remove Mr. Adams from the altar gates. He asked Adams to leave the place, and on his refusal took him by 'the arm and led him away towards the rector's vestry, and said to him, " I am very sorry, sir, I have the task of doing this, and laying hold of you." The defendant said, " Never mind, I don't blame you or the churchwarden." When he returned to the com munion Mr. Thompson was removing the people. By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Mr. Thompson did not kick the complainant or collar him. I removed him from the altar rails. Mr. Yardley summed up the case at considerable length. If Mr. Thompson had acted upon the feel ings suggested and made use of his office of church warden as a cloak to gratify private malice, and assaulted Mr. Adams in.the church, the case would have been one of very considerable aggravation, however slight the assault. If it had been shown by strong evidence that had been so he should have sent the case to the Quarter Sessions ; but, if the case were presented before a jury as it was presented to him, only one result would follow. There was no safe evidence that the defendant had been guilty of the mean and improper act imputed to him ; and he should also fail in his duty if he compelled Mr. Thompson to be at the trouble, expense, and incon venience of answering thi s c h arge at the sessions, and also prolong and embitter the strife which existed. It was a new phase in the history of these unhappy, these long-continued, irritating, torment ing, despicable riots in St. George's parish that the person who, above all others, ought to preserve order was charged with violating the sanctity of the church. He had more than once condemned the conduct of the people who indulged ia miserable brawls and unjustifiable riots in the church, but he always took credit for believing the churchwar dens did all in their power to suppress them, and he always believed Mr. Thompson was acting with perfect good faith, and acting with sound judgment and discrimination. It appeared to him (Mr. Yard ley) that it was done on the complainant's own motion. He did not mean to say Mr. Adams was actuated by improper motives, but he appeared to have overstepped ,the bounds of propriety, and to have taken upon himself duties which more pro perly belonged to the churchwarden. If he had been in the churchwarden's place he certainly would not have entered into a controversy with such an impetuous young gentleman as Mr. Adams. He did not believe any assault had been committed by the churchwarden on the complainant, and should therefore dismiss the summons. Murmurs of applause followed the decision, which were speedily repressed by the officers. TIIR DOUBLE MURDER AT IRLAMW (7-TH' -HEIGHT. The inquest was held on Thursday afternoon at the Packhorse Inn, nearly opposite the scene of the tragedy, by Mr. W. S. Rutter, coroner. Tho coroner told the jury that he thought it would be necessary to adjourn the inquest, and he would now only take evidence as to the finding of the body, and the medical testimony. He under stood that suspicion attached to a daughter and son of the deceased. The daughter had been taken into custody and was quite insane, even to madness. However, the jury would have to investigate the matter, arid if they found that the daughter had been the means of the deaths, it would be neces sary, notwithstanding her state of mind, to find a verdict of wilful murder against her, and it would then be for another court to determine what her state of mind was. - Joseph Scholes, having been cautioned by the coroner, said—l am the son of the deceased William Scholes. I was coming up Salford last night from a quarter to half-past six o'clock, and I fell down in the Crescent in a fit. lam subject to fits, and have been so something like ten or twelve years, I can not say exactly. I don't remember falling, but I remember being in the Crescent, and when I re covered found myself in the police-station at the Salford Town-hall. I had had one gill of beer dur ing the day: I have a bruise at the back of my head, which I believe was done in the fall. It is a very slight bruise, but it bled. I walked home, and passed Pendleton Church about a quarter to nine o'clock. When I _got home I went in by the back door, which was left loose, and the gas had been left burning in the kitchen. I called for my father and brother, but could not get an answer. There was no one down stairs, and they must all three have been locked in the room wherti we found them, as the door of that room was locked, and I could not get in. After having a bit of supper I went to bed. My father, brother, sister, and myself were the only persons who lived in the house. Not getting any answer from my father and brother, I thought they were out, and my sister in bed; so I waited for them till nearly 11 o'clock, and then I thought it was time to go to bed, thinking they would come in afterwards. My father slept in the room over the kitchen, and I slept in the room over the yard doors, with my brother ; ; and my sister slept in the front room. When I - went to bed my sister was quiet ; but - about two o'clock she began to scream and knock at her door with a stick or something, and I went and asked what she wanted, but she could not tell me. I got up and went to her door, perhaps eight - times between that time and half past five o'clock, when I got up to go to my work. My sister kept calling my name, and crying out that she was chocking; but the doer was locked, and I could not get in ; nor could I get any proper answer from her. I went and got company when I found what it was. I went down the yard, and two neighbours, Mrs. Plicebe Hall and Mrs. Sarah Anne Smethurst, wanted to know what all the kimking had been during the night, and I said it was Sarah, and that I could not find my father nor brother. Mrs. Hall said if Sarah was locked up she was likely to make a noise, and I was to go and break the door open. I took her with me, and she saw mo prise the door open, and I found my father and brother corpses, and my sister in bed in a very rough state. I broke the door open with a kind of axe. I then came down and alarmed the neigh bourhood. I could not quiet my sister by any means whatever. She was dressed and in bed with her boots on. She began to kick me, and I pulled her boots off. The doctors came, and she was sent to the workhouse. She grasped at me with her hands several times. She was subject to fits, but I had never seen her so bad. Frequently, after a fit, if she did not sleep, she would become very passionate. There was blood running out of my father's ear, and my brother had blood on the side of his face. My sister's cap had some blood upon it. After I got into the room, my sister kept calling my name, and said, "I'm chok ing," but if I offered to assist her she would only grasp at me. My father was 75 years of age, my brother 39 or 40, and my sister about 29. Mrs, Phoebe Hall said—l live next door to the deceased's house. I heard Sarah Scholes 'calling out for help, about three o'clock this morning, as I lay in bed. My husband wanted to get up, but I said it was no use, as we had heard her many times in the same way before. There was a deal of knocking. At six o'clock this morning Joseph was in the yard, and I asked him what had been the matter; he said he could not tell, but that his sister was locked up in the room, and his father and brother had locked her up. I suggested that the door should be broken open. I stayed at the bottom of the stairs whilst Joseph broke the door open, and then I went to the door of the room. I saw his sister take hold of him by the hands and point to the other side of the room where the bodies were. The sister did not look peaceable at all, but was excited and agitated. Joseph seemed very much surprised when ho saw his father and brother dead, and asked me to come into the room. He said, " Why, they are here, and both dead !" The neighbourhood was alarmed im mediately, and the police and medical men sent for. Sarah Scholes was very violent sometimes when she had fits. I don't think the father and brother (W. Edward) have treated her well. She has told me so ; but I suppose she was at fault, and did not do what they wanted her to do. She has told me that they have struck her, but she complained more par ticularly of her brother William Edward. Maria Turner said—l am 10 years old. I live near Scholes's. I saw Sarah and William Edward , Scholes both down stairs, in their own house last night, about a quarter-past nine o'clock. They were talking, but not quarrelling. I did not see the father at all. Sergeant Lee stated that he found a stick under the pillow of Sarah Scholes's bed, and a knife on. MONEY ORDERS. During the last year 108 additional money order offices were opened in England and Wales, and 20 in Irel an d ; w hil e i n S co tl an d, a lth oug h 10 new offices were opened, 17 were closed owing to the small extent of their business. Thus the whole num ber of money order offices is now 2,481 , exclusive of colonial mon e y or d er offices in conection with the United Kingdom. The number of money issued in t ; h t e h United nit cd amount,K ingd o m . durin g the per cent., 41. the commission , il3, 2o 0 , 2 , 9 1 3 1 0 6 ; ,3 t 6 lbe . increase an d the E ir n el g a l u an d d , profit, after deducting expenses, £29,115. ' The pro portion of money orders issued to population is, in oTa e v fth e ae r a y lmba o 6 rougn p tee e y r pt s hro o oer n fid s ste . a l nd te W ev a e l l ei e n l e i3 a n rly 1 to every 3 persons; money orders las a t ni y e ea r r a w te a c s 300,000 , S th eo e t la n n n t h 1e whichr to sf nearly t n h ; h the u p g r e h v i g o r u e s a y t eai . . s n e o e w tlan p d ro , d i u s c s t t iv il e i carried at a loss s had from time to time been . made in the money order system resulting • economy and greater facilties to the public , n hi ln e creased thought that by a further revision of the w-lh'ollte wad' ma nagement, and a minute examination of its variouparts, important amendments might still be made. About a year ago a committee was appointed for this purpose, which, after a long and laborious in vestigation, presented a very able report, in which they showed that, by the withdrawal of certain checks, which they . proved to be no longer neces sary, and by other judicious alterations, the work of the Money Order Office might be so much re duced as ultimately to afford a saving of about, £4,000 per annum ; while at the same time the po sition of some of the clerks might be ameliorated, and the general convenience of the public pro moted. Several of the committee's recommenda tions, including an abolition of the distinction order in i snyEsi England system, mil aa, nnpartidneesh. persons u o ennrA n aldh between major and minor offices, have already been carried into effect; and, so far as there has been time to test them, have been fully successfui. The committee's report afforded additional reason TEE RELIGIOUS DISSENSIONS AT ST. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST. yesterday Mr. William John Thompson, the senior churchwarden of the parish of St. George in-the-East, appeared before Mr. Yardley to answer a summons which charged him with assaulting Mr. Charles Warren Adams, a young gentleman who is a personal friend of the rector, and has taken a prominent part in the unhappy disputes arising out of the innovations introduced into the services of the church. Mr. Prideaux (in the absence of Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, the senior counsel for the prosecution, who did not arrive until four o'clock) opened the case for the prosecution, and said the complainant was a young gentleman of good family, the son of the late Mr. Sergeant Adams, and his (Mr. Pri deaux's) personal friend. The learned counsel went over some of the tents connected with the un happy disputes in the pirish of St. George and the fearful disturbance of Sunday evening last, with which the public are so familiar, and said there was a pre-determination to prevent the proper and decent performance of Divine service in the Church. He accused Mr. Thompson of exceeding his autho rity as churchwarden, and urged that the sole de sire of the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, was that the services of the Church should be conducted in a solemn and religious manner, and without interrup tion. Mr. Prideaux then stated the circumstances of the assault as given in evidence, and accused Mr. Thompson of being actuated by private malice and spite against Mr. Adams, who had written two let ters to the churchwarden, demanding his authority for informing the Chancellor of the Bishop that he (Mr. Adams) had broken down the reading desk rail. To those letters no answer had been returned, although the first was forwarded to Mr. Thompson on the Ist, and the second on the Blth of March. The defendant had only acted colourably as church warden to gratify private malice ; and, if he even had a right to remove Mr. Adams from the altar where he was standing, he had no business to do it so roughly as he had done, and was guilty of an ' excess, The evidence of the complainant, who was corro borated by Mr. Baker, an army surgeon attached to the 3d or Fusilier Guards, Mr. Morrison, a solici tor's clerk, and Mr. Lamert, went to show that in the course of the disturbances in the parish church on Sunday evening last Mr. Adams heard that the people were at the altar which since the removal of the choristers' seats had been set apart for the choris ters, and that some persons had got within the rails. Mr. Adams made his way to the gates of the altar to prevent any more persons entering, with his arms crossed ; while in this position several persons at tempted to enter the altar, and among them was a labouring man, a dirty man. He kept them back. Mr. Thompson came up in a violent passion and said, " What business have you here? Where do you come from ? I will have you out of this," seized him by the collar, and with the assistance of half a-dozen other persons pushed him forward. Mr. Thompson also kicked him with his knee, and he was sent " flying," and " flew" into the arms of the beadle, who led him towards the western end of the church, treated him very courteously, and released him. The witnesses all agreed that Mr:Thompson was very much excited. It was asserted by Mr. Lamert, one of Mr. Bryan King's choristers, that his surplice was torn in the struggle and confusion, and he fainted. A chorister boy received a blow on the head and was nearly killed, and was now labouring under concussion of the brain. In cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the wit nesses admitted they had been in the practice of passing through the parsonage, and being admitted into the church by a private entrance every Sunday, to take possession of preferential seats. They also admitted that the altar was decorated in an unusual manner for Easter day on Sunday last. Mr. Prideaux called upon the defendant to put in two letters addressed to him by Mr. Adams in March last. __ _ Mr. Howell did not see what they could have to do with the case. Mr. Yardley—l don't know. The object is to show some ill-fccling on the part of the defendant, I suppose. The two letters were handed to the magistrate by Mr. Thompson. [The letters wore of the nature described by counsel. No answer had been returned to them.] The Rev. Bryan King, rector of St. George's, was examined at ,great length.—H e said in consequence of the many disturbances and the indecent conduct of the people I gave directions for the gates of the church not to be opened until the police came. The police were late, and I directed the sexton to open the gates at 22 minutes before 7 o'clock on Sun day evening; the usual hour of opening the gates formerly was half-past 6 o'clock. I sent for the defendant soon afterwards to the little vestry, and said to him, " Mr. Thompson, there are people in front of the altar while the seats are empty. It is your duty to seat people." Mr. Thompson said, " I don't want to be told my duty by you. I have been kept waiting at the gate 10 minutes." Some Sundays since I said to Mr. Thompson, " You may pass through the parsonage and into the little vestry to gain admission to the church." In cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the witness said that it was the duty of the sexton to assist the people to take their pews. I do not mean to say it is the duty of the churchwarden to be pew opener. Since the police have attended the church I have ordered the gates to be opened on their arrival. My own personal friends come from a distance to preserve order and to restrain violence in the church. In cross-examination the rev. gentleman said the altar was decorated in precisely the same manner last Sunday as it was on every Easter day, except that there were five bouquets last Sunday, instead of four. The cross-examination NN , as continued for a long time, and embraced all the leading topics connected with the disturbances in St. George's Church during the past year. The rector concluded by stating that if the churchwardens had acted with firmness and deter mination the first d a y an d suppresse d th e disturb ances, they would not have been repeated. lie was not in the church on the first day the dis turbances took place. Mr. George Allison, inspector of the K division, said he was in St. George's Church on Sunday last. Mr. Thomps on spo k e to hi m , an d was no t in the least excited at that time. A place was kept free between the pulpit and the altar for the choristers. He saw the complaivant trying to keep the people out of the communion. In cross-examination by Mr. Howell, the witness said the people crowded towards the altar to see the floral decorations and crosses, at which they appeared much displeased and irritated. He believed Mr. Thompson did all in his power to preserve order end preveat disturbances. By Mr. Yardley—Several persons had got into the altar before Mi. Th ompson approached it, and heimmediately removed Mr. Adams and cleared r th , em all out o f the apse or quasi -altar. Mr. I hompson made a general clearance of the altar. it was all done by th e c h urc h warden instantly. I saw no violence of manner and no excitement on the part of Mr. Thompson. Mr. Yardl e y gave a strong opinion that on the evidence of the last witness called by the learned counsel the case against Mr. Thompson entirely failed. The defendant appeared to have done what the rector wished him to do—requested the people to take their seats and cleared the altar. Mr. Thompson did not remove Mr. Adams solely, but the mantelpiece, besmeared with blood. There was only blood enough on the floor to cover a shilling. The medical men not having finished their post mortem examination, the coroner adjourned the inquest to Tuesday next, at one o'oclock. EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION OF THE DAUGHTER. Yesterday morning Sarah Eliza Scholes was brought before the New Bailey magistrates, charged with having murdered her father and brother. The prisoner is nearly 30 years of age, and is a remarkably fine-looking woman. The surgeons, who made a post-mortem exami nation of the bodies, stated that the father had been strangled, and that the son had been killed by a wound in the eye, inflicted with a sharp instru ment that had peLetrated to the brain. Police-sergeant Lee said that on Thursday morn ing he went to the house of the deceased, and he there found the prisoner on a bed, greatly excited, and being held down by three men. He found the' room in the state above described. He found a walking-stick under the pillow of the bed, and one pocket-knife on the mantelpiece, and another in the hand of the father. Police-sergeant Dixon deposed that on Thursday morning, about nine o'clock, he took the prisoner to the Salford Union Workhouse, and remained there with her till ten o'clock that night. About three o'clock in the afternoon, while he was sitting with the prisoner, a minister came into the room in which they were. The prisoner had, heretofore, been rather boisterous, but she now became more calm and collected. In about an hour from this time she began to say that on the previous night her brother William came home and began to make a kind of disturbance, whereupon she went up stairs into her own room, and her father and bro ther followed her, and got upon her bed to beat her. She, however, got up, and stood in her own defence, took a stick and struck her brother with it and then she throttled him. After having done that she throttled her father, who fell upon her brother. The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday next. The unfortunate woman during the examination seemed to take some interest in the proceedings and to know well what was being done, as it was ob served that she frequently nodded assent to the evi dence of the police-officers. On being asked by the magistrates, however, as to whether she had any questions to put to the witnesses, she invariably, answered, "No; I don't remember anything about it." FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 11. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Richard S. Newbold as Consul at Trinidad, for the United States of America. WHITEHALL, APRIL 11. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Duncan Stewart to the Charge and Office of Third Minister of the United Parish of Inverness and Bona, in the Presbytery and County of Inverness, vacant by the death of the Rev. Hugh Mackenzie. BOARD OF 'MADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 13. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister to the Argentine Confedera tion, inclosing translation of a Decree of the President of that Confederation abrogating the laws of the 19th July, 1856, and the 29th July, 1858, respectively, imposing diffe rential duties upon merchandise brought into any of the provinces of the Argentine Confederation, from within the Capes, at the mouth of the River Plato. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. County •f Ayr—Graham Somervell, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. City of Edinburgh—The Lord Cowan, the Hon. Bou verie Francis Primrose, Sir John Wlsteill, G.C.8., Sir W. Johnston, Sir John Melville, Professor James Miller, Robert Chambers, Esq., David Mure, Esq., Archibald T. Boyle, Esq., David Anderson, Esq., William J. Duncan, Esq., George Young, Esq., George Eliza Russell, Esq., Alex. Hill, Esq., and Thomas Ranken, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants. Cheshire.-22d Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers — Thomas Horatio Marshall, Esq., to be Captain ; Wm. S. Bradburne, Gent., to be Lieutenant. 23d Company—John Bolton Littledale, Esq., to be Captain. 24th Company—C. H. Hitchen, Esq., to be Captain ; F. W. Jackson, Gent., to be Lieutenant; T. F. Linnell, Gent., to be Ensign. 25th Company—A. Lyon, Esq., to be Captain; A. M. Gardiner, Gent., to be Lieutenant; R. K. Gardiner, Gent., to be Ensign. 26th Company—T. W. Tatton, Esq., to be Cap tain; G. Peel, Gent., to be Lieutenant; F. Hampson, Gent., to be Ensign. 27th Company—E. H. Greg , Eeq., to be Ca p tain; J. R a ilton, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; E. C. Hoppe, Gent., to be Ensign. Worcestershire.-13th Company of Worcestershire Rifle Corps—Harry M'Leod, Esq., Lieutenant in her Majesty's army, to be Captain ; J. A. Macnaught, Gent., to be Lieu tenant; T. L. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign. 14th Company —John Parker, Esq., to be Captain. 15th Company—R. Bourne, Esq., late Captain in•her Majesty's army, to be Lieutenant ; C. Gardiner, Gent., to be Ensign. 16th Com pany—P. W. Bennitt, Esq., to be Captain. Lanark.-Ist Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)-- William Coulborn, Gent., to be Supernumerary Lieute nant. 52d Lanark shire Rifle Volunteers (Hamilton) — The Rev. Thomas Struthers to be Honorary Chaplain ; Walter Walker Lennox, Esq., to be Honorary Assistant- Surgeon. 80th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (Glasgow)— Robert M'Gavin, jun., Esq., to be Captain ; John Adam Skelly M'Gavin, Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Quigley, Gent., to be Ensign. County of Nottingham.—Southern Regiment of Not tinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet John Wright to Lieutenant, vice Lowe, resigned ; John Chaworth Mus ters, Esq., to be Cornet, vice Francis Bradshaw the younger, promoted; Thomas Bromley, Esq., to be Cornet, vioe Wright, promoted. Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet William Knight Hamilton Ramsay White to be Lieutenant, vice Baring, resigned ; Alfred Brodhurst, Gent., to be Cornet, vice White, promoted. Tower Hamlets.--Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers (No. 2.)—James Scott Walker, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel. To be Ciptains—Joseph D'Aguilar Samuda, Esq., Clif ford Wigram, Esq., John Holt, Esq., Edward Hegely Byas, Esq., William Waring Gwillim, sq. To be Lieu tenants—Charles Hampden Wigram, Gent., Ashley Will mott Barrett, Gent., Joseph Lloyd, jun., Sent., Russell Gole, Gent., Charles William Laws, Gent. To be Ensigns —Thomas Burt, Gent., George Pecke Meeson, Gent., Hugh Moody Robertson, Gent.; Alfred Thomas Pitchford, Gent., William Charles Secretan, Edward Stillard. To be Surgeon—Thomas Gray, M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeon —WilliaM Thomas Garrett Woodforde, M.D. Lancashire.-15th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers— Philip Frederic Tinne, Esq., to be Captain Commandant; Richard Watt, Esq., to be Captain; Robert M'Connell, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; John Mewburn, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; John Park Robinson, ent., to be Second Lieutenant. 56th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers— Richard Husband, Esq., to be Captain; Jeseph Beckton, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Charles Mercier, Gent., to.be En sign. 61st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Ensign Robert Hyde Barton, to be Lieutenant; Clarence Brazil, Gent., to be Ensign ; Richard Carver Coup, Gent., to be Ensign. Sus3ex.-7th Sussex Rifle Volunteers—Lieutenant Manaton Pipon, to be Captain; Ensign Sir John Henry Polly, Bart., to be Lieutenant. Berwick-upon-Tweed.—lst Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed Artillery Volunteers—Alexander Kirkwood, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon. Ist Corps Berwick-upon-Tweed Rifle Volunteers—Robert Ramsay, jun., - Esq., to be Captain; Henry Lindsay Christison, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Robert Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign. Northuinberland.—lst Corps Northumberland Rifle Voluntlers—Oaptair. Edward Potter, to be Major. BANKRUPTS. William Evans Prichard, licensed victualler, Borough, to surrender, April 21, at eleven, and May 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Pyke, tailor, Edgeware-road, Middlesex, April 28, at half-past twelve, and May 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joseph Edward Morris, grocer, Bristol, April 23, at eleven, and May 21, at elev en , a t • the Bristol District Court. John Williams, chemist, Horsely Heath, Tipton, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Innocent, grocer, Covent-garden, April 25, at half-past twelve and May 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Turner, grocer, Rotherhithe, April 23, at half past one, and May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Nicholas Male Grose, wine merchant, Wadebridge, Corn wall, April 25 and May 30, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Joseph Balmforth Booth, draper, Elland, Yorkshire, April 30 at eleven, and May 21 at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. George Royle, flint glass manufacturer, Sutton, Lanca• shire, April 24 and May 15 at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis. trict Court. Eliza Eastwood, fruiterer, Manchester, April 26 and May 17 at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Matthias 'Edwatd Bowra, manufacturer of patent beds, Birmingham, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. John Ashby, builder, Carlisle-street, Soho-squar e , Apri 26, at twelve, and May 21, at one, a t th e Court of Bank. ruptcy. Charles Frank Boyceilivery stable keeper, Epsom, Apri' 26, at eleven, and May 24, at two, at the Court of Bank. ruptcy. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. James Barton, farmer, Rowantree Hall, Dumfriesshire. William Begg, typefounder, Glasgow. William Davie, carter, Duntocher, Dumbartonshire. Alexander Milne and Co., jewellers, Edinburgh. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria , cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 11th da) of April, 1860 : • ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued 428,389,310 X 28,389,340) BANKING D Proprietors' Capi- R es ta l l X 14,553,000 Public Depqpits (in- 3,2G0,497 cluding Mcche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis" missioncrs of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 5,878,135 Other Deposits 14,570,717 Eleven Day and other Bills 705,829 X 38,908,178 hi, B Dated April 12,1860. Government Debt .£11,( 15,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,909 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,914,319 Silver Bullion .... - $28,389,310 EPARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weig-htAn nuity) •... £9,728,943 Other Securities .. 23,531,388 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 722,762 £ 3 8,908,178 .1011 ALL, Chief Cashier. COUNTRY MARKETS. s LIVERPOOL-AntiL 13. A fair attendance to-day, and wheat a tolerably ready sale at Id to 2d per cental advance on the extreme rates of last week. There was a general improvement on all articles at market, and altogether a healthy tone. • RIPON--Arno 12. There was only a moderate supply of grain to-day, and a Fair business done at late prices. WAKEFIELD—Arnm 13. A moderate supply of grain. Wheat generally was firm at an advance on last week's prices, and a good sale was experienced' for best red at is to 2s more money. Other sorts also higher. Barley steady. Beans, oats, and shel ling rather dearer. EXETER-APRIL 13. With a tolerable attendance, the business to-day was firm at the following prices : Wheat, white.. 68 3d to 6s 6d Barley.. 4s Cd to 58 Oil I Ditto red 58 3d to 5s 6d Oats . . 3s Od to 3s 3 I Flour, fine, 348 to 355; seconds, 32s to 33s per sack. CATTLE. The attendance was good, and 10 market was moderately supplied with fat stock. - A small supply of pork carcases, at previous rates. Fat beef,p score, 10s6d to lls Ewes, per lb .. •.6 id to 7tl Perk carcases, do Os Od to lOs I `tethers, do. .7dto 7+ I Sheep, per lb. Od to ild Fat calves d 0.... 5d to sid Rough - fat; 4jd per lb: BRISTOL SUGAR-APRIL 13. A. fair business this week, but at rather irregular prices• Sales— 300 hhds West India at 40s to 41s 6d•; 4,000 boxes Havana at 28s Gd to 29s for Nos. 111 to 12; 8,000 bags of Mauritius landed, at 435.; 2,500 bags old low Pernams in store at 38s ; and 2,000 baskets Java to arrive, price not known. Refiners' produce commands a steady sale. Rum still in improved demand, and a fair amount of business has been done this week, chiefly is Demeraras, at about 2s per proof gallon. • • RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE /i EEK. Miles Opened Receipts. Railways. 1860. 1859. 1860. 1859. -....- --...---.. A A Ballymena and Portrush... 35 35 - -- Bedale and Leyburn - - Belfast and Ballymena Belfast and County Down Birkd., Lane., & Ches. Juno Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Ches.&Holyhead(withMold, - Cockermouth & Workington ' l3l 8 231 220 Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Deeside Dublin & Belfast Junction . Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 404 404 1,950 1, 595 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 1,077 960 East Anglian E.COunties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 489 27,046 23,46 7 East Kent - 356 - E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) - 111 105 - --•• • Edinburgh and Glas,gow Edinburgh:Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,389 3,070- Forth & Clyde Junction ... 294 294 • 255 291 Furness Glasgow & South-Western 1834 1834 • 7,914 7,292 - Great Northern Great North of Scotland 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 226 226 6,955 • 6,438 Great Western Hull and Holdemess - - inverness & Aberdeen Juno Irish South-Eastern Killarney Junction. Lancaster and Carlisle (in. Kendal and Windermere) 100 1 - - Lanc. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 2 289 36,970 30,9 50 Limerick and Foynes Llanelly London & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond: Brighton, & S. Coast. 2234 1904 17,965 12,424 L'derry and Enniskillen Lond. Tilbury, & Southen d. . 45 45 960 953 Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh. 179 1731 11,835 10,324 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 91 1,273 898 Maryport and Carlisle Midland Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 177 177 4,643 4,607 Monkland 52 1,429 1 ,501 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,145 2,2 51 Newcastle and Carlisle Newport,Aberg~& Herefor North British (in. Dalkeith) 154 144 5,464 4,925 North Devon North-Eastern North London North Staffordshire North-Western - - N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 14 - - - Oxford, Worn, & Wolver Peebles St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 2,014 2,01 7 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 1,797 1,726 Shrewsbury and Chester - 48 48 8,115 2,90 9 Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South,,Devon South-Eastern South Wales S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,827 2,755 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster . 19 19 C 39 468 Vale of Neath Warrington and Stockport - - Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail Whitehaven Junction Whitehaven & Furness Jun W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Antwerp and Rotterdam Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction - 257. ''''', Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish DM 1081 3,002 2, 4 * 6 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lombardo-Venetian - Lyons and Geneva Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 310 284 13,492 7,2511 Maria Antonia Northern of France Norwegian Trunk ' 44 44 - --- Paris, Lyons, & Mcditerrn Paris and Orleans ' 922 922 47,818 4937° Paris and Strasburg • . - -- Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse Southern of France W. and N.W. of France..: FOREIGN MAIL PAC In the followingtable E signifies that lei by evening mails from London, and M :ET LIST. DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of of Mails. Despatoh. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton April —,M , Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles AprillB, B Bahamas and Havana via New York April 14, E Liverpool.. Canada, &c. (by Canadn..pckt ) April—, .E Liverpool.. Cage of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena May 5,A Devonport China, Penang - , and Singa pore, via Southampton April2o ,M'Sonthamp. Ditto, via Marseilles April26, E , Gibraltar, via Southampton April— ,M Southamp. Honduras and Blewfields Aprill7, 31 Southamp. India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton April2o, M Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles '.. April26, Z India (Bombay), via South ampton ... ..... . ......... April—, II Southamp. Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon. Brazile,BuenosAy reat and F. Island s May 9, RI Southamp. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Aprill7 ,M Southamp. Malta, Egypt, and . Aden, via Southampton • • April—,3l Southamp. Ditto, Via Marseilles AprillB , E Mexico and Havana Newfoundland April24, E Liverpool.. United States and British N America (by British packet) . Aprill4, E Liverpool.. Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe West.lndia, California, Tene- April 23 E Liverpool.. zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &o. ,Aprill7,M Southanip. tiers are dee/into/WI by morning mile. NOG Asti due- overdo• May * April April 1/ [ Mar 3 April 1 ye April '- o rdUe pr il 14 Ap . 2 01 i g April 1 April overd; MAY 6 'April 11 &Id OVer _ Aprlll% lAPI4II B ! ov erdo° lAOII 4 [AMERTISIIMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills "for the Cure of Dropsical Affections. -The causes of dropsy are very vai i _ °lll4 Ir is often engende re d by th e mor bid stat e of the When the circulation is sluggish, impoverished, or iloP u l the first thing to be done to e ff e t a cure i s to corre ct the , 'it. prayed humours of the blood and g i ve t one t o th e ei 001 _,,, 0 1 , This is effectually accompli s h e d by a course o f Holler' s , Pills. They are a gentle but mos t e ff ec ti ve aper i en t sad P rifler. They speedily put the w h o l e sys t em i n t o order, n d give the patient more strength and sounder health than P e r haps he ever enjoyed before at any period of his life. Di rer tine for the use of Holloway's Pills accompany e ,011 b". BIRTHS. FURNISS.—On the 12th inst. at at 37, Porcheiter - eq, ll l Hyde park, the wife of Thom as S. Furniss, ter-at-law, of a daughter. HAmmeca —On the 13th inst., at Sudbury , Harrel ', t he wife of James T. Hammack, Esq., of a daughter. HOHAN.—On the 12th inst., at Friern Watch, Whetstone' Mrs. E. Homan, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. W• HORLOCK—SAWARD.—On the 13th inst., Darrell t Horlock, Esq. of Limpsfield, Surr e y, to Alice, the ei de° daughter of Esq., Saward, Esq., of Chatham•plec e * BLompfELD—SMITH.—On the 12th inst., Arthur Williams" the third surviving son of the late C. J. Bl om tleld, Bishop of London, to Caroli ne H arr i e t, thi r d daughter° C. C. Smith Esq., of Bury St. Edmund's. • DEA T HS. FORSTER.—On the 9th inst. at at 16, Groat Queen- street, Westminster, John Forste r , Esq., of Hanch Hall/ L ich. field, aged 74. LIVESAY.—On the Bth inst., suddenly, at Great CoUeBl3- street, Camden town, Dr. Salter Livesan R- 141 ' PRATT.—On th e 12th inst. , Mr. Charles Pratt, 1 , K nigi " bridge-terrace. Timx j. SMITH.—On the 12th inst , at 5, Blandford-equar e • Smith, Esq., formerly M.P. for the city of Norio aged 77. o* WESTMACOTT.—On the .11th lust. , at 1, Gerd° ll-- Bed- Henry Seymour W es tM aco tt, Es q., of John-etreett ford-row, solicitor, aged 51. 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