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THE COLONIES AND INDIA. SIR GEORGE GREY'S PROCEEDINGS AT THE CAPE. Extract of Despatch from Governor Sir G. Grey to the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, dated Cape Town, Aug. 7, 1857. (Received 00. 16, 1857. Answered, No. 250, Oct. 21, 1857, page 12.) I have the honour to state that I yesterday re ceived, by a special messenger, letters dated 29th June and Bth July, from the Bombay government to the following purport : That the British power in India had never been so seriously menaced as it was at the present moment ; that the whole of the Bengal army was either in open mutiny. or had been disarmed to prevent their mutinying. That the Bombay government still received urgent calls for further aid, and was anxiously watching events in the adjoining territory of the Nizam, among whose troops a mutinous spirit had already displayed itself ; and that if this spirit should become general in the Nizam's territory the whole eastern frontier of the Bombay presidency would require to be protected against any sudden inroad. By another letter from Lord Elphinstone, dated 29th June, I was informed that Sir H. Barnard's force, then besieging Delhi, could not exceed 2,400 men, of which only GO were trained artillerymen. The rebels were daily receiving large reinforce ments, whole regiments and brigades were mutiny ing, and were marching to Delhi, carrying with them their arms and any mosey which they could plunder from the public chests on their way. The mutineers were said to be very strong in artillery, and to have 120 heavy guns mounted and admi rably served, and to be in every respect well sup plied with ordnance stores and ammunition. In Bombay itself serious elements of disturbance had just been detected ; at Sattarah a plot had been discovered for seducing the sepoys from their allegiance, massacreing the European inhabitants, and for placing the adopted son of the deposed Rajah upon the throne. Another letter from Lord Elphinstone, dated Bth July, informed me that a very bloody and incon conclusive action had been f )ught at Delhi on the 23d of June, and that we had lost a great number of officers; that our force was daily becoming weaker, whilst the rebels were constantly increasing in strength and boldness. That Sir John Lawrence began to think he would be obliged to abandon Peshawur, and all the country beyond the Indus, and the state of affairs generally continued to grow more unsatisfactory. You will have heardthe above circumstances before this reaches you, but it was necessary that I should detail them ma justification of the measures I have adopted, and of the respon sibilities which I have incurred. Under these circumstances the Bombay Govern ment sent down a special messenger to me, Capt. Jenkins, of the Indian Navy, with the ste a m trans ports the England and the Madras, and urgently requested me to send, without an instant's delay, two infantry regiments to Bombay, and a force of artillery to Calcutta, together with draught horses, and any supplies of specie which could possibly be 'spared. The Bombay Government stated this assistance to be absolutely necessary, and urgently premed me to send every farther aid that could possibly be spared to the Government of Bengal, which must be placed in a position of the most imminent peril. I have therefore directed that all vessels arriving here with troops for China shall proceed direct to Calcutta instead of to Singapore. At this season of the year it only takes four days longer to reach Cal cutta than Singapore. The voyage from Calcutta to Singapore can performed in about days ; thus, if the troops are not required at Calcutta, their voyage will only be lengthened about nine days ; whilst, if the safety of our Indian empire is threatened, their arrival at Calcutta 10 or 12 days earlier than if they went round by Singapore, may prove to be a matter of the most vital consequence. I have also directed that the coaling of the steam transports arriving here with troops for China should be proceeded wi'h day and night, so that not one hour's delay will take place at the Cape of Good Hope. These ar rangements have been communicated to the Bight Hon. the Governor-General of India, and to Ljrd Agin. The inhabitants of Cape Town have in this emer gency most nobly offered with their Volunteer Corps to perform gratuitously the whole garrison duty of this place, which, from the number of Kaffir prisoners here, will be heavy ; and I have conse quently been able to spare for service in India every man serving in this portion of South Africa. I have therefore detained the company of Royal Artillery which arrived on. the 3d inst. in the Ocean Wave, under the command of Major Messurier, for the purpose of relieving Capt. Hardy's company of the same corps, and have also detained Capt. Hardy's company, which was to have returned to England. Half of this latter company was quar tered in Cape Town, forming part of the garrison of this place ; and I have directed Capt. Sir Wm. Wiseman to embark on board her Majesty's steam ship Penelope Major Messurier's company of Royal Artillery, and the half of Capt. Hardy's company, which was in Cape Town, with Capt. Travers of the Royal Artillery, and 50 excellent draught horses (thus forming a force of 207 non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery, with nine officers, together with their proper complement of horses), and to proceed without any delay direct with this force to Calcutta. I have also taken the sum of 60,0001. in specie out of the colonial treasury, being all the specie that we had, and have paid it over as a loan into the military chest, directing the senior commisa riat officer to ship this sum of specie on board the Penelope, to be paid over at Calcutta to the order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India. The Penelope will sail for Calcutta to-morrow or the next day. The 89th Regiment having been concenirated, one half as the garrison at Cape Town, and the other half at the Buffalo Mouth, for the purpose of proceeding to New Zealand, I was able to put my Land upon this regiment at an hour's notice, and have, as you will find from the enclosed correspon dence, directed that the Ocean Wave should be chartered to take 200 men of the 89th Regiment to Bombay, whilst the remainder of the same regi ment will be able to find accommodation on board the England. The 89th embarks to-day, and pro ceeds without delay for Bombay. From Sir Charles Yorke's letter to Sir James Jackson of the 4th of June, 1857, it appears that the 95th Regiment, which was to relieve the 89'.b, may be expected to arrive here hourly. I will then send that regiment on to Bombay, allowing no longer detention here than is requisite for complet ing their supplies. In case of any difficulty arising on this subject, I hale detained fur the present the steamer Madras on to Bombay. The BUth and 95th, together with the reinforcements which have been furnished from the Mauritius, will, apparently sufficiently increase the European force in the ' Bombay presidency. I have, however, written to Sir James Jackson requesting him to make every exertion to spare another regiment from this command ; if we can with any safety accomplish this, such regiment shall be immediately sent on to Calcutta. To enable us• to do this, I have taken uponmyself t!e responsibility of authorising our local mounted border force to be increased by 200 men, which will entail an additional charge of at least 20,0001. par annum upon the colonial chest, raising the sum which the colony pay for their own frontier force to 60,000 i, per annum. In the emergency of the moment I have been corn - pelted to take this step without the authority of the colonial parliament, which has only just been 'Prorogued ; but I feel confident that the loyalty of the people of this colony is so ereat, and that such is their gratitude for the aid which Great Britain has afforded to them through so many years of adversity, that a strong public feeling would be raised against me if I hesitated at the present mrment to take all suchst,ps as the colonial parlia ment would feel it was consistent with their honour t rat the Governor of the Colony should take to show their attachment to their sovereign, and their desire by every means in their power to evince their gratitude to her M•sjesty, and their anxiety in an important cris's to contribute to their utmost ability to st cure the safety of the empire. I am, afraid her .Majesty's government may think that I have incurred too heavy a responsibility in directing all these movements, but I leg to point ' out, that any error which I have in tins re,pect made can be remedied in a few weeks, whilst, not only. is the safety of our whole Indian empire now tat stake, bet the present is a crisis of great political , aignitieance. that it .British empi re i s so vas t, an d s o unwieldy, alt imp! taut that the whole world should tee it 'Tr a4ll( ' t • il but that it overgrown sty strtng_.3, _ possesses 4 -4 . poweis of l a u c t i ll 'a va s it mtich energy, vitality, and and that if an its extremities as at its centre, alt parts oPfor . t t io n of it is seriously en dangered,.can, without communi cating with the central eannultaneously stir them selves to meet the emergency, a s if each part were the head and centre of action the whole body, so that the whole weight and fort© of the empire can at once be brought to bear from rce every part upon the menaced point. ; If this is done, the strength and safety of th e whole of her .Majeety's d om i n i ons are gr becomeeatly increased, and their varied popul a ti ons animated by common sentiments arid_ by a common pride in the greatness and I.tte(zigth of the' empire of which they form a part the effect of which can hardly be exaggerated. For instance, there is not one of the gentlemen in this part of the country who will now in his turn abandon his bed to sleep for the night in the guard-house, and to walk his beat as sentry, who will not think that he has made some sacrifice for her Majesty's honour, and for the safety of even a distant part of her empire, and who will not henceforth regard any persons who assail the interests of the Queen, or her possessions, very much in the light of personal antagonists. In fact, all here now feel that th• 4 are useful members of a great body eerporate, in which they have that personal interest which arises from having made some sacrifices to promote the common good of the whole. Such a feeling per vading the empire must immeasurably increase its strength, unity, and stability ; I trust, therefore, that her Majesty's government will, upon every ground, bear me out in what I have done. It will be necessary that her Majesty's govern ment should, if they approve of the arrangements I have made, procure the sanction of her Majesty's advisers for the responsibility I have incurred in directing that the troops intended for China should I be sent direct to Calcutta. _ _ _ _ _ That they should also obtain the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty for my having sent her Ma jesty's steamer Penelope with troops to Calcutta, thus taking her from this station, and delaying her return to England, which has been ordered. I have done this in the absence of the admiral, Sir Fred. Grey, who is at present on the west coast, the loss of whose advice and assistance at such a moment has been very unfortunate for me. The sanction of the Secretary for War must also be obtainel to my having sent the 89th Regiment to Bombay, instead of New Zealand, and to my detaching the 95th Regiment from this command, as well as any other regiment which I may send on to Bengal, as also to the fact of my having sent the above-stated detachment of Royal Artillery to the Bengal presidency. I shall not fail to keep you fully informed of any other steps which it may be in my power to take to aid the Government of India in the present emergency, and I have now enclosed copies of all communications which have been by my directions addres-ed to the Governments of Bengal and Bom bay, sad the several naval and military authorities. I Leg to bring particularly to notice the assistance which I have received from Captain Sir William Wiseman, Bart., R N., the senior naval officer here, and from olonel Ferryman, of the 89th Re giment, in carrying out with the greatest prompti tude the various arrangements detailed in this despatch. LORD ELPHINSTONE'S ACCOUNT OF INDIA. IN JUNE, 1857. To the Officer administering the Government of the Mauritius. Honourable Sir, —We have the honour to enclose for your information copy of a despatch addressed by us to his Excellency the Governor and Com mander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. The accompanying summaries of Indian news, prepared for circulation in England, will put you in possession of the principal facts connected with the alarming crisis through which our Indian Em pire is now passing. Should you be able t© spare a regiment from the force at the Mauritius, a service of the very greatest importance would be performed if that regiment were immediately placed on board the Pottinger, and despatched to Bombay. In the event of your being ab:e to place a regi ment at the disposal of the Government of Bom bay, we shall esteem it an additional favour if you would assist Captain Jenkins, of the Indian Navy, the officer who is the bearer of this letter, in pro ceeding to the Cape with as little delay as may be practicable, in order that he may prefer an applica tion to the Government of that colony for the de spatch of troops to Caloutta.—Wo have, Sze., (Signed) ELPHINSTONE. J. R. LITNISDEN. A. MALET. Bombay Castle, June 29, 1857. To his Excellency Sir Geo Grey, K. 0.8., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope. On the 10th May a mutiny broke out among the native troops of the Bengal army at Meerut, an im portant station under the Government of the North-Western Provinces of India. Several Euro peans were murdered. The mutiny immediately extended to Delhi, where the lives of many officers, civil and military, and of several ladies, were sacri ficed. The mutineers, on gaining possession of the city of Delhi, proclaimed a member of the old im perial family as king, and called on their country men to co-operate in the annihilation of British power in India. The evil example exhibited at Meerut and Delhi has been followed throughout the whole of North ern India. From Calcutta to the Punjab there is hardly a station in which mutiny has nut broken out, or in which it has not been found necessary to disarm the native troops. At several stations many officers and other European inhabitants have been murdered by the mutineers. The armies of Madras and Bombay have, up to the present time, remained firm in their allegiance. Tti e accompanying copies of summaries of Indian news prepared for circulation in England will place your Excellency in possession of the principal events in this extraordinary movement, the most momen tous in the annals of our Indian empire. The os tensible cause of the mutiny, your Excellency will observe, was the introduction of the new cartridges for the Enfield rifles, which, as being prei ared in some degree with tallow, were regarded as offen sive to the religious feelings of the native troops. A sentiment through the exertions of evil agents appears to have been engendered that the intro duction of these cartridges was designed as an in sult to the Hindoo and Mahometan religions, and as the "first indication of a policy havi ng for its object the destruction of these religions. It would be out of place now to speculate bow far other motives have conduced to the mutinous spirit so widely and so violently exhibited. It will be suf ficient to r..gard the actual facts alone, and to state that British ascendancy in India has never received so serious a menace. Your Excellency will immediately understand, with nearly the whole of the Bengal army either in open mutiny or disarmed in order to prevent them from mutinying, the presence of strong reinforce ments of European troops is an absolute necessity. The government of Bombay has reason to feel a just confidence in the fidelity of its native army ; it has stood film, and we believe it will continue to stand firm, but it is recruited in a great part from the same provinces m the Bengal army, and with the evil example of that army before them it would be of very doubtful policy to trust implicitly to troops surrounded by such temptations to revolt as they are unquestionably exposed to. This govern ment, out of the eight guropean regiments which garrison its stations, inclusive of those in S3inde awl of Aden, has in the present emergency des patched four regiments to Bengal and the Punjab, and tha greater part of another to places subordi nate to the government of the North-Western Pro vinces. It has still received urgent calls for fur ther aid, and it has to watch events in the adjoin ing territory of his higlince.s the Nizam, among whose troops a mutinous spirit has already dis played itself. If this spirit should become general in the Nizam's territory, the whole eastern frontier of this presidency would require to be protected against any sudden inroad. In these conjectures it has occurred to us that your Excellency might be might be able, consistently with proper regard to the interests committed to your charge, to spare at least one of her Majtsty's regiments now stationed at the Cape for duty in this presidency. This would be an important ac cession of strength, while, if a larger rei n f orcemen t cm be afforded us, it might enable this government to render further assistance to the government of the North-Western Provinces, and a f eling of con fidence would be inspired that the British govern ment was bringing all its resources to bear on the present et isis. In the earnest hope that your Ex cellency may be able to comply with this request to the extent at the very least of one regiment of infantry, the steamer Pottinger has been despatch:d and the steamer Chusan will follow for its convey ance to Bombay. We, however, hope that your Excellency may have it in your power to despatch at this cris . s a much larger force (comprising artillery, is much needed) for the relief of India, and that you will te able to find tonnage, and possibly steam '"nage, at the Cape. We have already had the honour o f po i nting out to yuur E xce ll ency th at t h e proportion o f E uropean troops i n t hi s presidency is less by one.half than its usual amount in times of perfect tranquillity. `Vera four regiments of in fantry and three companies of artillery sent to Bombay, our ordinary peace establishment would only be completed. Lcoking, however, to the more r , ; of other parrs of the empire, and,breei.sny , n g ex i gen c if s awarenG g ang es is t the ha t for the next four or five month s the o line by which troors can best be conveyed wood only eYe a (! k t . o the chief seats of the revolt, your Excellency to send two regiments of infantry t Bombay ; any other troop, whether infantry or artillery, which can be spared the Cape colony, We think should be despatched to Calcutta. We have no hesitation in assuring your Excellency that whatever amount of aid you are in a position afford will be most gratefully acknowledged by the Hon. Court of Directors and by the Government of India. In explanation of the fact of this application being addressed to your Excellency by this Government, we beg to state that the telegrapbic communica tions are all interrupted, and communication by post is uncertain, and much valuable time would therefore he lost in awaiting the result of a refer ence to the, Government of India.—We have, &e., (Signed) ELPHINSTONE. J. R. LIMISDEN. A. MALET. Bombay' Castle, June 29, 1857. FIE N, LONDON, TUESDM' EVEiNING, ANITNRY 12, 18584 THE FUT. URE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. (Prom. ae Times.) In all great discussions upon the affairs of India the main axgament against the institution of a simple form of government for that country has been sought cued found in the dangerous amount of patronage wit h which a direot administration of so vast a depend, eucy would invest the Crown and its servants. In connection, too, with this line cf reasoning lies another consideration—that of the course which taus patronage has hitherto taken, and the channels i nto which it might be diverted. Up to the pre=ent, time it may certainly be said that India has been the field of the middle classes especially, and that the service of the Company provided this. ;section of society with opportunities which few but aristocratic familie3 could find in the service of the Crown. In England the chief offices of administration and the principal posts in the army fell mainly to .the favourites of birth or fortune. In India either the civil or military profession might be pursued with. encouraging prospects of success, apart from any hereditary advantage?. Promotion at home depended very materially on rank and wealth, whereas in the East it appeared attainable by merit alone. If, then, the Government of India is to be so far asslinilatedto that of our other depen dencies as to bring the patronage it involves under the control of the Administration at home, what is to become of this field, which the middle classes have so long enjoyed, and in which, it may be honestly added, they have always displaye I virtues and energies of the true popular stamp ? The im portance of this question is beyond a doubt, but its difficulties, we hope, will not be insurmountable. We do not believe that a mere modification in the directing or controlling power could ever mate rially affect the machinery by which India would be ultimately governed. The Indian service has acquired a character more from its own inci dents than from the position of the patrons who dispensed its places. Compared with other vices, it involved long expatriation, separation from all home connections, and exposure to a climate which had really some inconveniences, and was credited with more. It is true that to a certain extent these conditions prevailed in other colonies also, but in our smaller dependencies the more im mediate and personal identification of every Euro pean with the governing body furnished a little solace, besides which the duty was only taken for a short period, the distance from home was not great, and return comparatively easy. How com pletely, indeed, the position of an officer in India was determined by the character of the service itself may be seen iu the transformation which a Queen's Regiment usually underwent when ordered out to that country. A battalion destined for an Indian station was no lcnger considered by aristocratic triflers as offering an p igible resort, and after a year or two of exchange and retirements its officers would probably'rephseq niich the same class as ' those of a native fegimeilt. ' A titled idler would shirk not merely the Indian service, but service in India, under whatever masters .i and the field was left open to leirfortunate competitors, not because a commercial council kept the keys of the preserve, but because its attractions were not strong enough La- those who had the privilege of choice. It is obvious that these conditions must survive any con stitutional changes at home, and that they will 1 remain in full force whether the Government of India is double or single. Auother question, however, of especial perti nence remains to be asked. What is this Indian patronage, on which arguments are so anxiously raised. It consisted in times past of a certain number of appointments in the Civil Service, and cf a certain number of commissions in the armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. But the first appointments in the Civil Service of India are thrown open to competition, and may therefore be put out of the question, as removed from the reach of any patrons whatever, and the power of promotion will, of course, rest with the local Governments. As to the military services the Army of Bengal, which about equalled in magni tude those of the other two Presidencies together, has ceased to exist, our last telegram having just announced its final annihilation by the mutiny of the c•nly two regiments hitherto preserving a noun nal allegiance. Of the Army of Bombay a portion has succumbed to the epidemic of treason, the Madras army alone having remained generally faithful. The deductions, therefore, already made, from the aggregate of divisible patronage are enor mous, and this bugbear of former times appears reduced to proportions of comparative insignifi cance. True, native regiments must be levied again and provided again with officers ; but now that the purely auxiliary functions of such corps are tho roughly understood there is no fear of any revival of a " Bengal Army." It is not altogether correct to regard the Indiin service as a purely popular service. It was un- doubtedly popular in this sense—that it g as mainly filled from the ranks of the people as distinguish able from the circles of the aristocracy, but it was not a service freely open to all comers. It was just as close, after its own fashion, as the Queen's ser vice. The authorities of Leadenhall- street dispensed their favours exactly like the authorities of the Horse Guards. Interest was required in oue case precisely as in the other. On both sides it was patronage, pure and simple, the only difference being that each set of patrons was connected with its particular set of clients, and that the dealings of the Directors lay with the middle classes mor.s especially. There was this great advantage in the Indian service—that it was a genuine profession ; fairly remunerated, so that a man might live by his work, arid administered on principles which offered a plain recompense for exertion and merit. These were the features which made it really a middle class service, and commended it naturally to those who had neither opulency nor nobility to rely upon in default of energy and application. When the career had been once entered the distinctions were striking enough, but, as far as concern©d a first introduction, a lad without interest or connection had not a whit more chance of obtaining a nomi nation to Haileybury or a Cornetcy in the Bengal Cavalry than of getting a clerkship in the Treasury or a commission in the Grenadier Guards. The most desirable object in the impending re forms would be to popularize both services together, but, as far as service in India goes, there is no reason to suppose, whatever may be the constitution or administration of the Indian Army, that it will be sought by any other class of men than those whom its conditions have hitherto naturally attracted. The sphere will always be remote, the duty iu many respects arduous, and the obligations considerable. A roan selecting India as the field of his career must labour at Indian languages, endure an Indian climate, and accept an [ndian exile, whatever may be the form or denomination taken by the Govern ment under which he serves. These conditions are no more likely than formerly to prove agreeable to young gentlemen with pockets full of money or pedigrees full of coronets. What distinguished the Queen's Army from the Company's Army was not merely the source of patronage, but the scene of duty, the principle of promotion, and the rate of pay. Of these incidents the first must remain un changeable, and the last two unlikely to be changed, so that the result, according to all probable calcu lations, would be the same as before. Indian service is too much of a reality to be looked upon as a pastime, and tasks the labourer too severely to widhold his hire. These conditions, however, of fair work and fair wage are exactly such as will always suit a middle class, and nut snit an aristocracy. Such considerations convey a satisfactory assur ance that the general administration of India is not likely to pass into fresh hands, but the recent crisis has left us with little option as to our course of proceeding. It is superfluous to inquire who shall give commissions in the Bengal Army, for the Bengal array exists no longer. Nobody doubts that its '74 Regiments furnished occupation for some 1,500 good officers drawn from the middle class of the British population ; but, as its men have deserted in a body, after doing their best to murder these officers and the;r families, the in terests of the middle classes themselves may we:l be appealed to against the restoration of so destruc tive a machine. The question has been decided altogether irrespectively of patronage. The power of the sword in India must no longer be committAl to fanatical IlinclooF. This principle is proved to be a c'indition not of this or that system of policy, but of any Government whatever. We must hold India by our strength and by the good affection of the people, not by the sufferance of the Sepoy army. The change may involve an abolition or a transfer of patronage, but it is one which, with the alternative before us, cannot be refused. 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Baker, having been taken up by the East India Company for the conveyance of reinforcements to India, to the num ber of 1,150 officers and men of all ranks, has been inspected at Gravesend by Col. Eden, the com mandant of Chatham garrison, accompanied by the officers of his staff. The steamer being now ready to receive the troops on board, the following offi cers and reinforcements will leave the Indian depots at Chatham, and embark this day at Custotr-house Quay, Gravesend :—Ensign R. Y. Stokes, and 10 men of the Bth (The King's); Lieut. G. C. Bartho lomew and 20 non-coramissioned offic, rs and men of the 10th Foot ; 35 men of all ranks of the 10th Re giment ; 27 rank and file of the 20th Regt. ; 32 non commissioned officers and privates of the 23d Fusi liers ; Ensign J. C. Thomas and 33 men of all ranks of the 24th Regt. ; 16 men of the 29th Regt. ; 8 men of the 32d Regt. ; 22 rank and file of the 35th (Royal Sussex); Capt. R. H. Gordon, 42d Royal Highlander?, and 46 men of all ranks of that corps; 31 men of the 53d Regt. ; 11 men of the 64th Refit.; 30 nen-commissioned officers and men of the 70th Regt. ; Captain F. W. Foster and 14 men of the 78th Highlanders ; Lieut. W. B. Robertson, 79th Highlanders, and 24 men of that corp s ; 10 pr i vates of the 82d. Regt. ; Ensign H. S. Jones and 10 men of the 84th Regt. ; 15 men of the 90th Light Infan. try; and 26 men of all ranks of the 93d Highlanders. The following reinforcements belonging to the In dian depot battalion at Colchester are also ordered to embark in the Jason:—Lieut. E. R. Sim mons and 135 non-commissioned officers and men of the Sri Fusiliers, Ist battalion ; Lt. A. Watson, 34th Regt., together with 25 men of that corps ; 14 men of the 37th Regt. ; 40 non-commissioned officers and men of the 38th Regiment ; 10 men of the 54th Regiment ; 65 non-commissioned officers and men of the 88th (Connaught Rangers) ; Lieutenant Robert Kyle Little and 45 men of all ranks of the 97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment ; Ensign P. L. C. Phillips and 105 non-commissioned officers and men of the 21 battalion Rifle Brigade ; and 50 men of all ranks of the 3d battalion Rifle Brigade. The Jason proceeds direct to Calcutta. The United Service steamer has also been taken up by the East India Company for the conveyance of 509 officers and troops for Kurracliee and Bombay. The Gann et screw steam-sloop, recently launched from Pembroke Dockyard, is in the hands of Mr. Martyn, Assistant Master-Attendant of Devonport, by whom, when jury-rigged, she will be navigated round to that port, and immediately prepared for the pennant. The Gannet is a handsome vessel, and pierced for 11 guns. The following are her chief dimensions;--Length between perpendiculars, 151 ft. ; ditto of keel for tonnage, 131 ft. 3iu. ; ex treme breadth, 29ft. - lin. ; breadth for tonnage, 28ft. 9in.; ditto, moulded, 28ft. Sin. ; depth of hold, 15ft. 10in.; burden, 277 tons. The Pembroke Dockyard Battalion has been dis banded, in compliance with the orders received last week to that Effect. The men have been allowed to retain their clothing, and the adjutants have been placed on half-pay. EVIL RESULTS OF THE PRIZE CATTLE SYSTEAL The following paper has been published by Mr. F. J. Gant, assistant-surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, late staff surgeon to her Majesty's mili tary hospital, Crimea and Scutari : " It must be admitted by every one that the mainte nance of health is a question of higher interest than the mere removal of disease. Prevention is better than curs and therefore the Hygienic art of preserving health surpasses the appliances of medicine and surgery. But the resources of Hygiene are not equally obviou4 to all ordinary ebiervers. Certain bodily wants when ill supplied are soon discovered. Tee air we breathe may contaminate, but we can often smell and thereby avoid an impure atmosphere. Our clothing may be insufficient, but the wintry wind will warn us of tuis. A bilious headache instinctively prompts more active (nerd:id, while fatigue suggests the necessity of repose. Air, temperature, exercise, and sleep, are positive Hygienic requirements, which severally proclaim their own demand when defective, and thus the tide of life flows smoothly on, each bodily want being wisely suggested by an appropriate and almost unerring instinctive feel ing. But it is otherwise with food. True it is that we eat when hungry, but this sensation dues not prove an infallible guide in our choicenf food, still less a criterion of its nutritive quality. Hence, therefore, science has been directed to this question, and the best method of reariog cattle used for food has received especial atten- 1 tion. For this purpose the Smithfield Cattle Clob was originally instituted in the year 1798, and it was v ith the view of ascertaining how far this intention had bees fulfilled by upwards of 50 years' experience that' the writer lately visited the prize animals and others exhibited at the Baker-street Bazaar, and took n .tes of his observations. He first observed the cattle, whe her Devons, Herefords, or short-horns ; but he could detect no external sign of disease except in two Devon cow , , cla s 4, Nos. 32 and 33, prize 51., each of which wee suffering from prolapsus vagir.as. One of thein looked very ill, and laid her head and neck flat on the ground like a greyhound. I pointed out these animals to a man who was drawing water, and I asked him if their condition was one of common occurrence. Ile said, I know nothing of them beasties in p'sicler, but it's the ease with many on 'em, I knows that.' " I passed on to the pigi. A pen of three, belonging to H.R.let. the Prince Consort, happened to be placed in a e b d re u a p the more easily, but favourable light for observation, and I particularly noticed their condition. They lay helplessly on their Bides, against each other's endeavouringa pr propped their respiration was loud , suffocating, and at l ong inter vals. Then you heard a shor t catching snore, which shook the whole b od y of the ani mal, and passed with the backs,ides with a isi f their noses motion of a wave over its fat taut face, which felt cold. I thought how much the heart under such circumstances must be labouring to propel the blood through the lungs and throughout the body. The gold medal pigs of Mr. Morland were in a similar condition, if anything worse, for they snored and gasped for breath, their mouths being opened as well as their nostrils dilated, at each inspira tion. From a pig we only expect a grunt, but not a snore. These animals, only 12 months and 10 days old, were marked improved Carleon breed.' They, with their f e ll o ws just mentioned, of 11 months and 23 days, had early come to grief. Three pigs of the black breed were in a similar state, at 7 months 3 weeks and 5 days, yet snob animals, the judges hiehly commend.' " Of the sheep, I noticed more particularly those of the Duke of Richmond. A pen of three short-woolled Southdowns of one year old seemed to have rather heavy heads. One, more especially, looked crestfallen. " Throughout the exhibition one circumsta nce parti cularly arrested my attention. It was the size of the animals compared with their respective ages. The bullocks averaged from two to three years ; the pigs and sheep were about one year old. When I contrasted the enormous bulk of each animal with the short period in which so enuch fat or flesh had been produced, I certainly indulged in a physiological reflection on the high-pressure work against time which certain internal organs, as the s tomach . , liver, heart, arid lungs, must have undergone at ouch a very early age. I, therefore, resolved to follow up these animals to their several des tinations, and to inspect their condition afier death. And here I must record my acknowledgments to Messrs. Jeffery, King, Gorton, Sack, Sinkler, and Smith, of Hampstead, for having courteously admitted me into their slaughter-houses. This was necessary, in order that I night identify those animals which I had selected for examination. These were the gold and silver prize bullocks, heifers, and sheep which renia.ned in London. I witnessed thedeath of many of these animals,. and at once removed the heart, lunge, liver, &c., of each for further examination. I then made dissections of the organs mentioned, and procured faithful drawings of both their visible and microscopic appearances. I spared neither time, trouble, nor expense in my pursuit of the facts, and subjoined are the resalts :--- Si efeea ,—, Fat wether sheep, short.woolled &birth downs, one year old ; the Duke of Richmond, exhibitor and breeder. No. 1. The heart weighs 10ioz. ; . its cx ternal surface is very soft, greasy, and of a dirty brown ish yellow colour, here and there mottled with yellow spots of fat imbedded in the substance of the heart. On its anterior surface (left ventricle) is a large opaque patch of a stone grey colour. These external appear ances o )ntra-t remarkably with the clear, bright reddish colour, and firm, crimp consistence of healthy hearts of s h e ep, four years ad. On opecing the two ventricular cavities, their internal surface and substance were equally soft, greasy, and yellow throughout—an appearance due to the infusion of fat between and into the muscular fibres of which the heart should chiefly consist. This substitution of fat for muscle is proved to have ensued by the microscope. For, when thus examined, the mus cular fibres no longer presented. the characteristic cross markings (state of anatoniists) . but the fibrillw within the fibres were entirely broken up, and replaced by bright globu_es of oily fat. The healtby structure of this heart had, therefore, thoroughly degenerated by its conversion into fat. _ ___ • " No. 2 was a fat wether sheep, shoe-woolled, one year old. The heart was in a similar condition, but onjy certain portions of its substance had been converted was thickly studded with large dark spots beneath its et.ritoTnhael liver These spots are the extremities of weighed 21b. 100., and its surface thint intohe hepatic f veins gorged with blood, and this hepatic reagesii.in was due t r the feeble contraction of the diseased heart during life. N o . 3 was another fat wether sheep, of very long woDlled breed, one year old; Lord Berners. The heart weighed 10ioz., and was partly converted into fat, but NAB so than that of Nn, 1 , the sheep of the Duke of Richmond. Under the microscope the muscular fibre wire found in the first stage of degeneration id° fc.t • Toe I.vtr weighed 21b. 2ez., was of a dark purple c Jou, and showed tnarkedmongestion of the hepatic veins... The lunge were flabby, and did not crepitate with air on pressure between the fingers. - Many nodules were seep, each of the size and shape of a kidney bean, imbedded in the substance of either lung. These lamps contained numerous worms (filaria) in various stages of development. Numerous small hard tubercles were also scattered o the surface of the lunge, some grey and transparent, others consisting of a chalky matter, one of the latter having actually ruptured the pleura (enveloping mem brane:of the lungs). I selected this animal for slaughter and he appeared the fattest of the pet, but his breathing, was distressed. "No. 4 was a fat wether sheep, long and short, woolled, cross-bred, one year old ; Mr. John Overman. The heart, lunge, and liver were in a similar conditi on . "Pies.--Pigs of any breed above 12 and under 18 months old, improved Chilton breed ; Mr. G. Mor land. The heart weighed 15oz. Vrachms. The substance of the left ventricle was much thicker than usual in hypertrophia. The cavity of this ventricle was very small, and of insufficient size to accommodate the free return of blood from the lungs. Thence the supply of blood throughout the body must have been defective, and the health of this animal must, therefore, have been seriously impaired. The livergave proof of an obstructed circulation, being of a dark livid colour, while the hepatic veins of the left lobe more especially were congested. Their bloated extremities were easily seen on the surface of the liver, and they presented the appearance of nu• merons oblong livid spots, each of which wassurrounded by a white circle, which marked the situation of the empty portal veins. Here and there blood had actually escaped from the overloaded hepatic vessels. " HORNED CATTLE —Davou heifer, not exceeding four years old ; his Royal Highness the Prince Consort exhibitor. The heart weighed 61h. 13ea. The substance of ty..th ventricles had undergone complete degeneration into fat. This, under the microscope, consisted of bright shining globules within the muscular fibres, the fibrillce of which had entirely disappeired. In the base of one papillary muscle (in the left ventricl-) I observed that the muscular fibres were actually broken up, and that many large fat cells had replaced them. Yet it is on the strength of these papillary muscles that the tension of the mitral valve depends during the contraction of the ventricle and therefore the rupture of one such musole would produce sudden death. " Devon ox, above three years oli ; the Earl of Lei cester, exhibitor and breeder. The heart weighed 61b. 6uz. Tne muscular fibres of the left ventricle were con verted into fat, which in other respects bad the appear ances last described. " Short-horned ox, above three years old, the best in any of the classes ;' Mr. Edward Wortley exhibitor and breeder. The heart weighed 71b. 13oz. The left ventricle bad in this animal also undergone conversion into fat, but more so in certain portions of its substance. One spot near the apex of the ventricle was particularly yellow, soft, and greasy. Here the musouler fibres had given way, and a blunt probe could be readily intro duced through the substance of the ventricle, almost into its cavity. Fortunately, the thin lining membrane (endoccerdiune) had not been ruptured, or the animal would have died instantly. This would have happened at any moment, on the slightest exertion. Nevertheless, so highly did Mr. Smith, of Hampstead, value his prize, that he charged half a guinea for this monstrous patho logical specimen " EXTRA STOCK.—The best beast, a Devon ox ; his Royal Highness the Prince Consort exhibitor. In this specimen the heart weighed 711'. 15oz. ; ps tioni of its substance were healthy. The muscular fibres of the left ventricle were here and there partially converted into fat. The intestines, within about a foot of the ter minltion of the large bowel was a patty-like mass, one inch and a half thick, and about one foot long, and which partially surrounded the intestine. Such, then, are the chief results of my examinations, limited as they un avoidably have been to certain viscera only. Under the present system of rearing and feeding, one disease is of most frequent occurrence—namely, conversion of the heart into fat. lam supported in this opinion by the invaluable testi cony of Professor Quekett, of the Royal College of Surgeons, who re-examined the hearts in question, and confirmed my observations. I need scarcely advocate the special importance of this result, for no one can dispute the fatal tendency of a disease by which the structure of an organ most essential to life has been degenerated into fat. The stomach may, indeed, prepare food for the production of blood, and the lungs and kidneys may purify it of excrementitious matter, but these departments of the blood-factory are only subsidiary to the heart, whose special duty it is to propel the vital fluid to the most dietant recesses of the body that every part may he nourished and renovated. Yet I found the great central organ more than any other damaged. In the sheep, particularly, the heart had lost its contractile and propelling power, and was converted into a flabby, inert lump of fat. This substitution had, moreover, ensued not through the mere accumulation of fat around the heart, whereby its contractile movements would be mechanically impeded. Such an accumulation had, indeed, taken place in the bullocks end in the Devon heifer of the Prince Consort's more especially. Nor did the substitution of fat referred to imply the mere interstitial deposition of that substance between the muscular fibres of which the heart should chiefly consist, but their actual conversion into fat. This material may itself be regarded as a superfluous' food with which the animal had boon gorged. It was first deposited'in all loose parts of the body, these being most adapted for its accumulation—beneath the ski'', and around the kidney, stomach, intestines, and heart. At length, such localities being o►erloaded, the fat invaded the muscles themselves, by passing in between the fibres. Thus it produced the streaked appearance of meat, a condition which, within due limits, in no way interferes with the health of the animal, nor impairs the nutritive quality of its flesh for food. On the contrary, fat itself is a necessary constituent of the moat nutritious food ; and by no provision can a due proportion of this ingredient be secured so effectu ally as when it is thus intermixed with the substance of the muscles themselves. Thus each mluthful of meat contains a wholesome and agreeable proportion of fat, bat beyond these limits an animal cannot be fattened without impairing its own health and also its nutritive value as human food. The two questions, of rearing cattle, and their dietetic value, must, therefore, alike be referred to their condition as discovered after death. "Here it is that my pathological observations open up a twofold inquiry of great interest and importance. " Let an animal be fed beyond the limits compatible with health, and the superfluous fat is no longer confined to the interstices of muscular fibres, but actually invades and eventually supersedes them. The fibres then contain fat instead of the fibrillce (known to anat )mists), in which reside the contractile power of muscle, and its nutritive value of human food. We therefore say that such meat no longer retains its healthy structure and nutritive quality, but has actually degenerated into fat, although still presenting the semblance of ordinary muscle, and thereby deceiving both buyer and seller. " We should therefore expect in vain to replenish our own muscles by the use of such food, nor should animals thus overfed be regarded as prize specimens of rearing and feeding. The heart, being converted into fat, no longer retains its contrectile power, but beats feebly and irregularly. The blood, therefore, now moves onward in a slow and feeble current. Hence the panting breath losanese due to stagnation of blood in the lungs, while the skin and extremities are cold. Hence the stupid, heavy-headed expression of a congested brain, and the blood-stained appearance of meat after deatb. The slightest exertion of an animal under such circumstances might suddenly prove fatal. Were a man, in this con dition, to present himeeelf at an insurance office, it would refuse to insure his life at any premium. Yet, un der similar cireums: epees, a sheep is a warded gold and sil ver medals, and its feeder a prize of 201. We should not, therefore, rest satisfied with heaping fat on an animal, nor be content if he dies well,' with fat symmetrically distributed over the back and loins, and around his in. ternal organs. I would observ e well, during life, the excretions, and see if their condition gave proof of over feeding, by the presence of undigested food in the foace4, er by heavy urine, loaded with solid constituents. It so I should consider that the stomach and kidneys were overworked. Nor would I neglect the lees perceptible evidence afforded by the skin, the re- piratiou, with the state of the brain as indicated by the general expression of the animal, and the mode of carrying its head. Tnen, after death, I would pursue my inquiry further, and see whether my opinion of the animal formed during life was corroborated or reversed by the appearance of its inter nal organs, tee condition of the heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys more especially. All this kind of knowledge is required by physicians and sur geons in their estimate of health and disease, and it ie equally necessary to settle the question at issue. In stead, therefore, of pursuing the present system of rearing cattle, much 9.3 it may teat the qualities o f f oo d , and o ther matters of m i nor importance, let breeders, feeders, exhibitors, and prize judges alike visit the slaughter houses ; let them do this with a due knowledge of diseased appearances, and let them thus discover that sy e itera of rearing which is compatible with the health of cattle, an 1 which produces the largest amount of the most nutritious food for man. Under the present system the public have no guarantee, and are not insured the be-t, if indeed the cheapest, food. The bulky withers of a fat bullock are no criterion of health, for his flat tubular back may conceal the revolting ravages of disease. All this can alone be disclosed by an inspection of the animal's interior after death. The flesh of animals which has been produced by organs themselves diseased is itself also necessarily deteriorated, and ought not to be regarded as prime samples of human food. These facts will be best anderetood by pathologists, but they also come home to the understandings, and certainly to the stomachs of the people." THE ANNESLEY POACHING CASE—On Saturday John Draper was brought before Lord Belper and the county bench of magistrates, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham, charged with the wilful murder of George Winfield, at Annesley-wood (the particulars of which have already appeared). John Gelsthorpe, James Gelsthorpe, Wm. Atkinson, Francis Hardy, Wm. Thomlinson, James Beardall, and Joseph Burton, Draper's accomplices, were, with the latter, committed to take their trial on the capital charge. 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IMPORTANT Csurios against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations :—The Vice-Chanel for , Sir William Page Wood, granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating «Du Barret; Revalonta Arabiga Food. BANK RETURNS. 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 26th day of Dec., 1857 : - Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt Pomfret,and Co. Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Z. D. Hunt 18,625 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswa,de Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogge, and Co 26,002 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 8,211 Basingstoke and Odiharnßank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co. ... 30,349 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, and Co 9,186 OO Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-R. M. and G. Tubb 14,163 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham --Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 18,748 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham-J. L. Moilliet and Sons 5,223 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 5.990 Boston Bank, Boston-Clavpons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston-T. Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and Co 28,415 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 24,471 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Lloyds & Co. 17,090 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 37,458 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Co. Burlington and Driffield Bank ; Burlington- Harding Smith, and Co 8,066 Bury St. on- Harding, Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Worlledge and Co l, 869 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock &Co 12,858 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters 42,019 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons 18,146 Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Costa and Son 2,393 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 83,610 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 41,017 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 5,358 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 17,279 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co 49,648 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co 6,460 Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co. 8,323 Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 30,566 Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co 6,780 Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham, and Co 16,254 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co 50,470 Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse &Co 67,719 Devonport Bank, Devonport- Hodge and Co 7,191 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-R. and H. Williams 46,371 Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter, and Co 84,630 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co 48,325 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortferd Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 82,885 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 23,372 Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co 5,605 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs Knight .. 10,314 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. 5,263 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon.. 11,044 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0... 23,743 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 sank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Ross - Morgan and Co 15,733 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. 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Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and Co 9,062 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co. 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Walters 6,429 Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 22,626 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. 23,742 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co 4,825 Rochdale *Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. 2,078 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 6,185 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 11,227 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 8,465 Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & C 0.....— 9 .595 Rosa Old Bank, lieredfordsbire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and Noith Essex Bank, gat'. *lfrou Walden—Gibsons and Co. . 11,261 'Salop Bank Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Ilearbor) , egh Old Bank, Scarborough—Wood all and Co 11,187 airewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury sad Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocks, Ey. tons, and C 0.... •-- .......... Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—ldaddison and Foam SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSAL US.-MONDAY. A good attendance, but very little betting. 4 to 1 was offered on the field for the Two)Thousand. 6to 1 was taken once about Brother to Marchioness, but was afterwards currently offered. The Derby betting presented no prominent feature. Clydesdale was backed for upwards of 3001. at 12 to 1, and his stable com panion, Sedbury, was supported at 18 to 1. The other transactions were unimportant. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 25 to 1 agst Jean du Quesne (taken) 25 to 1 agst The Colonel (taken) 25 to 1 agst Weathercock (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Clydesdale (offered) 6to I:agst Brother to Marchioness (take 13 tot) _DERRY. 12 to 1 agst Clydesdale (taken) (11 to 1 taken once to 751) 18 to 1 agst Sedbury (taken) 20 to 1 agat Ditto (take 22 to 1) 20 to 1 ag•t Kelpie (offered) 25 to 1 agat Lringrange (taken) 25 to 1 agst Tne Ancient Briton (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cock-a-doodle doo (taken) 40 to 1 agst Ethiopian (taken) 40 to 1 agst Brother to Mary Copp (taken) SALE OF BLOOD STOCK. The following horses were sold by auction by Messrs; Tattersall yesterday (Monday) : Guineas. Oakball, 4 years old, by Melbourne out of Maid of -- Lyne Tt phon, 6 years old, by the Hydra out of Blue Bell 80 Ltd° Davie (foaled 1849), by Young Priam out of Fair Rosamond 6B Lady Florence, 6 years old, by Sotierlty out of Julia 50 Bay colt, 4 years old, by Faugh-a-Ball ag h, dam by Gladiator 26 Perseverance, 3 years old, by Joe Lovell out of Fgret 20 Stormy Petrel, 4 years old, by Peppermint out of M ainbrace Venison, 6 years old, by Robert de Gorham out of Antelope l5 Patience, 3 years old, by Sir Isaac out of Antelope 5 MEV REFORM.-At Tattersall's, yesterday, Admiral Roue read several proposed measures for the better regulation of racing affairs. The contemplated alterations iu the existing laws of the Turf were listened to with marked attentioc by the subscribers to the room, and those alterations scented to be in accordance with the wishes of all persons present. Oue of the most important changes iu the present rules will be relative to the covering of bets. It is said that several measures have recently been adopted by the Jockey Club ; amongst them is Lord Derby's motion relative to rt. p. bets, and it has also been decided that the winning horses at Shrewsbury are entitled to be handicapped at all meet logs where the power o: the Jockey Club is recognised. OtniDLE STEEPLIOIIASES.—These steeplechases are appointed to take place on Wednesday and Thursday, February the 3d and 4th. Country Markets. CHELMSFORD-JAL 8. There was a fiiisnp;lyof Wheat it our market to-day. Beat wheats realised 2s and inferior is more Baer e y best barleys also is dearer. All other kinds firm, at termer rates, except beans, which were ls cheaper, and sales dull. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. s. I. qr.sl 55 Oats, per qr 24 29 new.... 44 55 P eas , Partridge 40 43 red, old 43 1,0 I White 38 42 new.... 43 49 Boili ng 39 44 Barley 34 40 Dun 38 40 Chevalier 35 41 I Beans, Tiek 36 38 Grinding ...... 0 33 Harrow ticks 36 40 Malt 7 3 0 73 I Mazagan 33 36 Chevalier 72 73 1 Ditto, new... 33 35 Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received in the port of London, from the following ports, from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2, both inclusive. 6 .... a ; ;1* c if 4 Colchester Harwich — 960 Leigh Malden COLCHESTER —JAL 9. A fair supply of wheat, and last week's pric es maintained. Malting barley met a krisk sale, st advance. fo6lsiotwo 4:—Whe at,oats, eans, white, Ms to 565; red, 46s to to-d a y weres2s; barley, as 3 Ittazagan, 36s to 386; middle and small, 388 to 44s white, 44s to 46s ; grey, 40 a to 445, ; pease were well ,1 per qr. KIRKCALDY—J43, 8 . Wheat. Barley. jßeans. First sos Od I 3QB O,i 253 Od Os Od Second 46s 6d I 28s Od 223 Od f Os Od Third 32s Od 228 Od I 19s Ocl I Os Od COAL MAR Prices of Coals per ton a s. d. s d. Bebside's Hartley 15 6 Northumberland 17 0 Holywell l6 6 Plummer lB 0 Walker Primrose l2 6 Haswell 23 6 Whitworth l6 0 Derweutwater Hartley .14 6 Ships at market, 31 I Sold, 20. FT. —JAN. 11. tho close of the market LOCAL SHARE MARKRTJ. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11. STOCK EXOITANGE.—In the Liverpool Stock Exchange there was again an active business doing to-day. South Eastern, 224 4—East Lancashire, 923—Great Luxem• bourg Constit., B—Trunks, 13i --Midlands, 94—Loudon and North Westerns, 98i 99—Sheffields, 44—Lancaster and Carlisle, thirds, 9 p—Caledonians, 44g. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 11. STOOK tßOHANGll.—Business in the market generally dull, but prices must be looked upon as without change. Great Western, Stour Valley, Eq—Birmingam and Derby, 67 Worcester and Birmingham Canals, 20—Shropshire - Unions, 48i—Birmingham Gas, '57, 9k. MANCHESTER, JAN. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE—There was a steady market, with a moderate business doing. Grand Trunk of Canada, 13 —Sheffields, 41$— Dovers, 22 5-16$ —London and North- Western ' N—Canades, new, a p. Great Western, 59 Eastern Counties, 121—Midlands, 944—Leeds, 94g. THE EXETER-HALL SERVICES.---Yesterday evening tho second of the sew series of Nonconformist services designed for the benefit of the working classes was held at Exeter-hall, the preacher being the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B., minister of Surrey Chapel (Rowland Hill's), Blackfriars-road. The hall was crowded to oveiflowing, and some hundreds were obliged to go away after vainly attempting to gain adini.sion. The sermon next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Geo. Macdonald, M.A., minister of Hinde-street (Wesleyan) Chapel. NOVEL IIf2ORTATION.—Among the cargo of the Dane steamer, discharging in the Southampton docks on Saturday, from the Cape of Good Hope, ware several cases, addressed to Dr. Schwarz, Germany. The con tents being unknown, they were taken to the "sight floor" for examination by the Customs' officers, when they were found to contain various specimens of natural history. One case was filled with human bones, and in another case were four tins, each containing the head of a negro, preserved in brandy in a jar closely secured in the tin. Tee whole were in the most perfect condition. PUBLIC TRIBUTE TO MR. LILWALL.—A rranietneu LE are in progress it, carry into effect a proposition made early in last spring, to.present Mr. Litwall with a sub stantial tribute of respect and gratitude on the part of those who have witnessed, and those who have profited by, his untiring devotion to the early closing movement, 'Mr. Lilwall commenced his career of gratuitous .service in this good cause in 1838, and has been fcr a long series of years its acknowledged leader. He was also one of the originators, and has been the leader of all public efforts on behalf of the general half holiday movement. A. committee has been formed, with the sanction of the Earls of Shaiteebury and Harrowby, the Bishops of Oxford and Chichester, Lord Ebury, and other friends whose names have been long identified with these benevolent objects, to which committee the Rev. Canon Champneys, Rev. Dr. Hamilton, Robert Baxter, Esq., and William Tarn, Esq., are the honorary secretaries. A public meeting in support of this object will shortly be held, at which the Earl of Shaftesbury has consented to take the chair. BIRTHS. FENlvicx---Oh the 10th inst.; at 33, Rutland-gate, Hyde. park, the wife of C. R. Fenwiok, Esq., of a daughter. MILLER—On the 10th inst., at Burlington-gardens, the wife of William Miller, Esq., of the Bank of England, of a son.. the 10th inst., at the Palace, itasihdt Dra' stone Will the wife of Captain ahon, 14th (King's) Light goons, of a daughter. WHITBREAD -- On the Bth inst., at 9, Eaton-place west, Lady Isabella Whitbread, of a son. 1 Dept ENGI Th its in cord' the 2 TrE repor Bu of the meat them find t public being, The of wh state estime Was re It is Urals topoli time 1 noPOI3 aecom The the co treat Railw the as India! not be exPen Apr and J applie plied peat N.l Cant mark, celpt notice To th Get Credit above and I may 1 Re India Tli react 13th MARRIAGES. KEENE—Elms—On the 9th inst., at St. George's Blooms. bury, Samuel Wolfe Keene, of Woburn-place ' Russell • squ are, to Susan, daughter of Wm. Ellis, of Taunton, Somersetshire. SIMMONS— HOLDSWORTH—On the 11th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, John Edward, youngest son of Mr. him moiee, of Newbury, Berke, to Clarissa, eldest daughter of Mr. Holdsworth, of Dorset-place, Kennington, Surrey. DEATHS. ELLIS —On the 10th inst., Charles Ellis, Esq., 9, Church. road, Brixton, and 17, Harp-lane, Tower-street, city, aged ss. ETETTS — On the 9th inst., at Tackleppark, Oxon, Wis. Evetts, Esq. FOWLER—On the 10th inst., at the Vicarage, the 11ev. Robert Hodgson Fowler, vicar of Rollestone, Notts, aged about CO. GRIMSDALE -On the 9th init., Samuel Grimadsle, Esq„ of Clapham-common, and Sun-street, Bishopagate, aged 71. SLADE— On the 10th inst., William Slade, Esq., of Wal cot-place, Lambeth, and Haleteads, Yorkshire, and De puty-Lieut. of Surrey, aged 77. WINOIIILSEA—On the Bth inst.,; at Haverhipm Priory', the Earl of Winchilses, aged 67. LONDON : Printed and Published by MUII,DO YOUNC. of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at Th 4 Sun Office, N( . 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cowl of Middlesex, Tuesday. January 12, 1858. Capp , Bow STec: Hon, matt4 - Th , after ?* Inl UMW Which can be this rs capita unlimi people Tan City of fort o author duchy tracts of the 1e v7d, propor Inhabi hence( line at Import So r the 'es emus' vernm should there provis The part b