The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

Lessee, Mr. JR,/ On Easter Monday will ROUTE. Messrs. C. M pendale, Mrs. C. 359 cup on Thursday on board the screw To coneludPivile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard, and she went OF koYidmoaze into Plymouth Sound, where she saluted the flag. The sailing frigate Constance, 50, at Devonport, is to be lengthened 40 feet and fitted with a screw. The lower yards of the screw steamship Aboukir, 90, were sent down on Thursday. Steam was got up on Thursday onboard the Espoir, 5, and she went outside Plymouth Sound on trial for several hours. The crew of the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry Broadhead, were paid wage . s at Ply mouth on Thursday by Admiral Superintendent Sir Thomas Pasley, K.C.8., and they obtained leave of absence. A letter has been received at Plymouth from the screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. John B. E. Frere. It is dated Naples, March 13, and states that she the 10th. Malta on the 7 th, and ar rived at Naples on 10th. During the passage she sprang a leak, an d had four feet water in the h old. As the repairs cannot be accomplished at Malta, she will have to come home. The l ea kage is said to be increased, if not caused, by the working of the machinery, in consequence of which she will return under canvas only, and may be expected shortly at Plymouth. The Castor, 36, sailing frigate, was towed on Thurs day afternoon by two steamers from Chatham har bour to Pinope Reach, were she anchored for the night. She was to have left yesterday for Green hithe to take up her position at the moorings pre pared for her in the Thames, where she will be stationed for a time to serve as the receiving-ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers. She has her main deck guns on board, consisting of 18.32 pounders, each of 56 cwt., and Oft. bin. long. The Galatea, 26, screw frigate, 800 horse-power (nominal), has been undocked at Chatham, and will proceed to Sheerness to join the steam reserve at that port. The paddle-wheel surveying vessel Bann, James S. Wells, master, discharged her powder in Ply mouth Sound on Thursday, and went into Hamoaze to have defects made good. Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master-Commander Frederic Sturdee, having un dergone an entire renovation of her engiaes and machinery in the river, off Woolwich dockyard, and a thorough inspection of her boilers, is ordered to steam down the river on a trial of her speed, and verification of her precise consumption of fuel under a supply of ordinary steam alone. Their Lord ships have signified their desire that special care shall be taken to notify minutely every circum stance relative to the abovenamed particulars, and that a report may be promptly forwarded thereof to the Board of Admiralty foi their consi deration. The order further adds that the Rhada manthus immediately after her trial will be fitted, at the cost of Government, with the patent improved apparatus of the Hon. John \\Tethered, a member of the United States Congress, for the supply of combined or ordinary and superheated steam mixed, and which, it is stated, cannot fail, as proved by previous experiments, to increase the power of the engines, and also economise the consumption of fuel from 30 to 50 per cent. The mode adopted in carrying out the system is to attach another stead pipe to the boiler for conveying the steam to be superheated to pipes, or other contrivances placed in any convenient form near the fire, or in the uptake near the chimney of the boiler, or in a separate furnace; the superheated steam being added to the ordinary steam at or before its en trance into the cylinder. In its passage through the superheating apparatus, that portion of the steam is raised by the waste heat to a temperature of 500 deg. or 600 deg. Fahrenheit. The heat thus arrested is conveyed to and utilised in the cylinder by its action on the other portion of steam from the boiler, which is more or less saturated, according to circumstances. The combined steam is issued ist the cylinder at from 300 deg. to 450 deg. Fahren heit, instead of at the low temperature at which steam is generally employed. The effect of using the two kinds of steam has already proved the fact that the superheated steam yields a portion of its excess of temperature to the ordinary steam, con verting the vesicular water, which it always con tains, into steam, and expanding it several hun dred-fold; while, at the same time, the ordinary steam yields la portion of its excess of moisture, converting the steam gas into a highly rarified elastic vapour—in other words, into pure steam at a high temperature. Repeated endeavours have been made to employ steam simply dried or super heated, all of which have been partially abandoned, as, owing to the high degree of temperature neces sary, the lubricating materials have dried up, and the packing and rubbing parts of the machinery have been destroyed, and the temperature of the steam in the cylinder has been found to be beyond the control of the engineer. It is asserted that Mr. Wethered's improvement, now about to be adopted by the Admiralty, arose from the above named difficulty. A further discharge of 75 mechanics and labourers will take place at Chatham dockyard this afternoon, including 20 shipwrights, 40 labourers, and 15 smiths, joiners, sawyers, and other mechanics. In consequence of the great extent to which the esta blishment at Chatham was recently increased, there ere still about 600 mechanics and labourers to be discharged before the number of workmen in the dockyard has been reduced to that ordered by the Admiralty for the present year. QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY. The following officers' deaths have been officially reported to the Admiralty during the past quarter : Admiral.—john Wight. Vice-Admirals.—Philip Browne, Geo. E. Watts, Joseph Digby, James A. Murray, and Robert R. Car re. Rear-Admiral.—Richard Devonshire. Captains.—William Moorsom, C. 8., S. C. Umfre ville, J. R. Dalton, J. Banks, J. Watson, F. Le Hunte, W. Kirby, and D. J. Woodruff. Commanders.—G. F. Burgess, C. G. Grylls, L. Lambert, T. C. Sherwin, J. G. Wigley, R. Lloyd, J. Pasley, H. G. Massie, W. B. Chamberlain, John Bulford, I). Bond, I'. Levell, H. Conn, C. Gran tham' W. Strong, B. R. Owen, M. Black, H. W. Dodd, and A. Karlev. Lieutenants.—J. F. Guyon, W. D. Harris, E. C. Chaplin ' G. B. Cooper, G. L. Bridges, A. C. Adams, C. Kirkwood, N. Webb, W. C. Burbidge, D. Hen derson, R. Hussey, T. Dav ies (1824), E. J. Hop kins, and G. W. Wilkinson. blasters.—F. B. Youel, T. I). Nicholson, J. C addy, I. Font, J. Crear, and H. Babb. Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.—James Scott, M.D. Surgeons. —T Ayling, J. Wilson, M.D. (1798), J. Coulth re d, M . Price, and F. Sharp Assistant-S urgeon.—John Nl' Corm i.ek. Paymasters.—G. G. Nels on , C . E. Colman, T. Ullock, T. Bastin, T. Wats on , L . K ennedy, H. B. H. Long, and W. Cotsell. Naval Instructor.—Alfred Turmine. Second Master.—J. IL Perry. ROYAL MARlNES.—Lieutenant -General —John Wright, I.H. Majors.—W. Macdonald and Robert Webb. Captain.—H. Sprat t. First Lieutenant. —J. Sawyers. THE ARMY. A large draught of troops will leave the camp at Colchester in May for India and China. The men have gone through a preliminary course of rifle instruction and are now waiting orders to e mbark. The draught will be drawn from the following regiments :-Ist battalion Ist Royals, 1 sergeant, 3 drummers, and 60 rank and file ; Ist bat talion 6th Regiment, 4 sergeants and 59 rank and file ; 54th, 80 rank and file ; 56th, 1 drum mer and 139 rank and file; 66th, 4 sergeants and 35 rank and file ; and 88th, 1 ser geant, 1 drummer, and 188 rank and file ; Ist bat talion sth Regiment, 129 rank and file; 34th, 75 rank and file; 37th, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, and 120 rank and file; 38th, 1 sergeant, 2 drummers, and 65 rank and file ; 44th, 90 rank and file ; and 97th, 80 rank and file ; making a grand total of 12 sergeants, 8 drummers, and 1,119 rank and file. The draught of 90 rank and file from the 44th, to gether with three officers, are actually under orders for China, and instructions for them to leave Col chester are expected daily. The strength of the force at present in the camp is as follows :-9th battalion-2 field officers, 9 captains, 16 subalterns, 7 staffsergeants, 40 sergeants, 20 drummers, and 1,12 e 7 a rankptailo oe and file ; 10th battalion-2 field officers, ser geants,23 subalterns, 6 s t a ff serg eants, 52 ser drummers, and 1,505 rank and Ale; in 64 6 officers and l men. Some 17 men of the 44th, , 22 of the GOti have served 10 year' trul 33 of the Ist Royals, who after joining India, their depots in the are about to receive their dischar ge joining camp. In cone quence of the great det increase which has itcently taken place in the , el:la:rents of Royal Engineers ttt headquarters, n am—which, ex clusive number 500 of the' usual companies, men—orders rlave been given for t°i,wleeafohrmaition of offi which three divisions, or depot companies will be under the sole charge of sepu at : One of these divisions has been already former rs. Lan consisting placed under the command of Capt. *Gt. the depot company consisting of 100 ineng.i ley' second company 'l'7lll be formed on the 15th inst. and placed under ;the charge of Capt. E. 0. Hew e tt , who will join heatil-quarters on that date for that purpose. The reixtaming portion of the detach ment Will still be wader the charge of the Adjutant of Royal Engineers. Nearly the whole of the re cruits who have recently joined this branch of the service are skilled mechanics and handicraftsmeil) including draughtsmen, photographers, surveyors, and engravers. Capt. Bruce aNd Brevet-Major Lukin have been appointed to command the 9th and 10th batteries, newly formed and added to the depot at Woolwich, 1 to contain the corps of clerks , orde rlies, officers' ser vants and others employed belonging to the garri son, of which the new batteries will be exclusively composed. The organisation having been fuk carried out and the staff appointments filled, t new batteries will receive their first month's *pay this morning. We have to record the demise of Colonel F. C. Irwin, K.H., formerly of the 63d Foot, and many years commandant of the troops in Western Aus tralia, which occurred at Cheltenham a few days since, at an advanced age. The deceased officer entered the army on the 25th of March, 1808, and served in the Peninsula from April, 1809, to Febru ary, 1814, including the capture of Oporto, battles of Talavera and Fuentes D'Onor, siege and storm of Cuidad Rodrigo, siege of Badajoz and capture of the castle by escalade on the 7th of April, 1812, battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid and the Retiro, battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, besides various affairs and skirmishes on the advance and retreat of the army. He also served the Kandyan campaigns in 1817 and 1818 in Ceylon. He was gazetted [commandant of the troops in Western Australia in 1839, where he remained until he re , tired from the army in 1855. He has received the war medal and nine clasps for his valuable services. The outer walls intended to form the new wings in course of construction at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, which were commenced in October last by Mr. Myers, the contractor, have progressed rapidly, and have already reached the height of sft above the plinth. Yesterday an order was received from the commanding Royal Engineer that on account of the walls being faced with red bricks, which was pronounced objectionable, the work must be removed and commenced anew. The bricklayers have been accordingly dismissed until their services shall be again required, and the deci sion has been obtained as to the appropriate colour of the facings, hitherto given universally in favour of red bricks. The expense of the alteration is cal culated at upwards of £l,OOO, which will be borne by Government. .. a .. STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN COMHISSION. (From Colburn's United Smite Magazine.) (Corrected to March 27.) With the dates of Commission of the Officers in Command. Aboukir, 90, so, Capt D Curry, 1846, Channel Fleet Acorn, 12, Com R earse, 1806, East Indies Actaeon, surv-v, Corn J Ward) 1858, East Indies Adventure, se storeship, Cora Lacy, 1856, East Indies Agamemnon, 91, Sc, Capt T Hope, 1852, Mediterranean Ajax, 60, sc Capt J M'Neill Boyd, 1846, Coast Guard Alacrity, 4, sc, Com J Baird, 1857, Mediterranean Alecto, st-v, Com H Raby, V C, 1855, Coast of Africa Alert, 17, Sc, Com W Pearse, 1855, Pacific Algerine, so gunboat, Lieut-Com W Arthur, 1854, East Indies Algiers, 91, sc, Capt G O'Callaghan, 1846, Channel Fleet Amethyst, 26, Capt S Grenfell, 1853, Pacific Amphion, 36, sc, Capt T Cochran, 1857, Mediterranean Archer, 13, so, Capt R Courteney, 1859, Coast of Africa Ardent, 3, st-vl, Com J Parish, 1857, S E Coast of America Argus, 6, at-A, Corn H Ingram, 1856, Mediterranean Ariadsi4 '26, sc; Capt E Vansittart, 1856, Channel Fleet ArrogStit, 47, sc, Commodore W Edmonstone, 1853, As cension Asia, 84, Capt G Gordon, 1846, Portsmouth Assistance, store-ship, Cora C Balfour, East Indies, 1859 Assurance, 4, sc, Com C Aynsley, 1856, Mediterranean Atalanta, 16, Cora T Pasley, 1855 N America and W Indies Atholl, 4, Corn E Wilson, 1845, Greenock Banshee, 2, st-vl, Coin C Campbell, 1858, Mediterranean Banterer, ac, gunboat, Lieut-Com, East Indies Beagle, 4, se, Cora E Hay, 1858, East Indies Black Eagle, at yacht, Mast-Com, J. Petley, 1844, parti cular service Blenheim, 60, sc, Capt F Scott, C B, 1848, Coast Guard Boscawen, 70, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. Grey, K C B, Capt R Powell, C B, 1855, Cape of Good Hope Bouncer, 2, sc, gimboat, Lieut-Com A Owen, 1852, E Indies Brisk, 16, se, Capt A D'llorsey, 1857, Cape of Good Hope Brilliant, Corn G Gardner, 18t8, Naval Reserve training ship Britannia, training-ship, Capt R Harris, 1849, Portsmouth Brune, st-v, Lieut-Com E Lodder, 1854, Coast of Africa Buffalo, sc, Mast-Com A Brown, 1854, particular service Bustard, 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com F. Hallowes, 1856, East Indies Buzzard, 6, st-v, Com F Peel, 1855, S E Coast of America I Cadmus, 21, se, Capt II S Hillyar, CB, 1854, Mediter ranean. Cesar, 90, sc, Capt T Mason, 1849, Mediterranean. Calypso, 18, Capt F Montresor, 1851, Pacific Cambrian, 40, Capt J. M'Clevcrty, C B, 1848, East Indies Cambridge, gun-ship, Capt A Jerningham, 1851, Devon- 1 pprt Camilla, 16, Coin G. Colville, 1855, East Indies Caradoc, 2, st-v, Lieut-Com C Buckle, 1847, Mediter ranean Caster, Coin J. Palmer, 1855, Naval Reserve Training Ship Centaur, 6, st-v, Coni E D'o D'A Alpin, 1853, East Indies Centurion, 80, sc, Capt H Rogers, CB, 1854, Channel Fleet Chesapeake, 51, se, Vice-Admiral J. Hope, CB, Capt G Wines, 1856, East Indies. Clio, 22, sc, Capt T Miller, 1855, Pacific Clown, sc gunboat, Lie-Com W Lee, 1855, 1842, East Indies. Cockchafer, 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com H Holder, 1854, Devonport Conqueror, 101, sc, Capt E Sotheby, C B, 1852, Devonport Cordelia, 11, sc, Corn C Vernon, 1855, Australia Cornwallis, 60, sc, Capt G Randolph, C B, 1854, Coast Guard Cossack, 20, Sc, Capt It Moorman, 1857, North America and West Indies Cressy, 80, sc, Capt the Hon C Elliot, C B, 1841, Mediter ranean Crocodile, 8, rec ship, Corn IV Greet, 1854, off the Tower Cruiser, 17, sc, Com J Bythesea, 1856, East Indies CuMberland, 70, Capt C Schomberg, 1851, Sheerness Curacoa„ 31, sc, Capt A . Phillimore, 1855, S.E coast of America Cyclops, 6, st v, Capt W Pullen, 1856, East Indies Dasher, 2, at v, Cora P De Saumarez, 1845, particular service Dauntless, 31, se, Capt L Heath, C B, 1854, Coast Guard Dee, 4, troop ship, Mast Com T Pullen, 1814, particular service Diadem, 32, se, Capt J Cockburn, 1850, Channel Fleet Donegal, 101, sc, Capt H Broadhead, 1846, Channel Fleet Doris, 32, so, Capt E Heathcote, 18.52, Mediterranean Drake, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com A Blane, 1856, East Indies Eagle, 50, Capt E Tatham, 1854, Coast Guard Edgar, 21, sc, Rear-Admiral J Erskine, Capt J Baton, 1856, Channel Fleet Edinburgh, 58, so, Capt E D'Eyncourt, 1849, Coast Guard Elk, 12, Cora H Campion 1855, Australia Emerald, 51, sc, Rear-Admiral'Sir A Milne, K.C.B, Capt A Cumming, ISSI, North America and "West Indies Encounter, 14, sc., Capty Dew, 1858, East Indies Esk ; 20, sc, Sir J Le M M'Clure, C.B; 1850, East Indies Euryalus, 51, sc, Capt J Tartleton, C.B, 1852, Portsmouth Excellent, 46, g-s, Capt R Hewlett, C.B, 1850, Portsmouth Exmouth, 90, so, Capt J Stopford, 1841, Mediterranean Fairy, so yt, tender to Victoria and Albert yacht, Ports mouth Falcon, 17, sc, Com A Fitzroy, 1857, Coast of Africa Fawn, 17, sc, Corn R Cater, 1858, Australia Ferret, 8, Com W Fisher, 1856, particular service Firebrand, 6, st-v, Com J Bruce, 1855, particular service Firefly, 4, st-v, Com F Skeid t 1804, Woolwich Firm, so gunboat, Lieut-Com W Boulton, 1851, E Indies Fisgard, 49, Commodore the Hon JDrummond, CB, Wool wich Flamer, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com H Bingham, 185 1 , E Indies Flying Fish, 6, sc, Cora W Hope, 1854, Channel Fleet Forestez, 2, so gunboat, Lieut •Com A Innes, 1853, E Indies Formidable, 84, Capt R Watson, CB, 1842, Sheerness Forte, 51, sc, CaptE Turner, 1857, Sheerness Forward, 2, so, Lieut-Com C Robson, 1851, South America Furious, st-v, Capt 0 Jones, 1855, East Indies Fury, 6, st-v, Com J Wilson (act), East Indies Ganges, 84, Rear-Admiral It Baynes, CB, Capt J Pafford, Ga l n B n sB el, P l a l c , i Co flc ru E. Lambert, 1854, Medit erranean Gladiator, 6, st-v, Corn H llickley, 1858, N America and o l r V ,„( l rri n , di 6 e , s st- v Com B Pim, 1808, N America and W I Ur g r lp ". t o r p , p 2 e , r ec, , Licut-C om A Helby, 1849, Pacific Greyhound, 9 1 a 7 c Growler, 2, sc o gunboat, Lieut-Com J Tucker, 1855, E I Cora F Sullivan, Sheerness Hannibal, 91, sc, Rear Medi terranean Ad G Mundy, CB, Capt M Conolly, gunboat, Lieut-Com II Crozier, 1854, Hardy, 2, so gunboat, Lieut L -Cum A Bogle, 1655, E Indies 1858, 1 , 91, 1855, Naval Reserve Hastings, 64, Sc, Com (1 C roal, 1851, E Indies Training Ship, Liverpool Haughty, 2, so gunboat, Lieut-Co , Fairholme,o 1851, E I Coast Guard Havock, 2, se gunboat, Lieut-Com C H a wke, 60,. se, Capt W Crispin 18521816,a eir Islands Herald, sury yes, Capt H Denham Hermes, 6, st-v, Com W Gordon, '854, CalseevoonGood H o p. Cart G Seymour, B, 1844, c se s ' t ship, Master-Corn J Loano, 1846, it ° s rt t Indies i l i f e e s r p o, er 9 , l s , Hibernia, roc ship, Rcar-Admiral II Codrington, C B B, Capt W Heath (acting), Highflyer, 21, so, J _ East Indies Capt F. Warden, C B, 1845, Malta Himalaya, so storeship, Capt Scccombe, 1859, particular service Hogue, 60, so, Capt R Macdonald, articul Hydra, 6, st-v, Com R. Hamilton p 1854, C o 1858 oast guar Clay s service Icarus, 11, sc, Com N Salm on, V , , North America and West Indies Illustrious, 72, Coin H Harston, 1845, Portsmouth Imaum, 72, Commod H Dunlop , C B, Cora H Grant, 1815, rec ship, Jamaica Impregnable, 104, Vice-Admiral Si r B Reynolds, K C B, Capt W Stewart, C B, 1854, Dave n p ort Imperieuse, 51, sc, Rear-Admiral L Jones, C B, Capt R Maguire, 1854, East Indies. Hall, C B, 1850, North America and West Indies Indus, 78, Rear-Admiral Sir H Stewart , K C B, Capt W Industry, st-v, 2, storeship, Master-Com G. Hodges, 1841, particular service Inflexiole, 6, st-v, Cora El Brooker, 1856, East Indies Intrepid, 6, se,- Com J Marryat, 1855, Mediterranean Iris, 26,*Commodore W Loring, C B, Australia Jackal, 4, st-v, Lieut-Com J Simpson (6), 1854, particular service James Watt, 91, se, Capt E Codd, 1851, Mediterranean Janus, so gunboat, Liout-Com H Knevitt, 1855, E Indies Jasper, 1, sc gunveseel, , speut•Com `•W Pym, 1819, West Indies • • _ • _ . _ .....,...,_ .. . _ Kestrel, se gunboat, Lieyt-Corn C Robinson (actinr,), East Indies .• y Lapwing, 4, sc, Corn M Reilly; 1856, Mediterranean Leopard, 18, st-v, Rear-Admiral Sir S Lushington, K C B, Capt F Wainwright, 1856, 8 E Coast of America Leven, 1, sc gunvessel, Lieut-Com J Hudson, 1854, East Indies Liffey, 51, Sc, Capt H Preedy, C B, 1855, Mediterranean Locust, 3, st-v, Lieut-Com J Field, 1846, particular service London, 90, se, Capt H Chads, 1848, Mediterranean ezmar, atoreship, Capt. Lynx, 4, so, Lieut-Com H Berkeley, 1854, Cet of Africa i Duda 9, se, Coin R Oldfleld, 1855 .Cape of Good Hope . R White, 18,56, Rio Janeiro 44 3 44, Capt W Burnett, C It, 1854, Anemia. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING- APRIL"' '7, -1860: aim." amt. ^".• •a_ Z' Magiciennr.e, 16, st-v, Capt J Commerell, 1859, E Indies Majestic, 'BO, se Capt W Mends, CB, 1852, Coast Guard Marlbor oug h, 131, sc, Vice-Admiral A. Fanshawe, CB, Cart the Right Hon. Lord F Kerr, 1852, Mediterranean Mar s, 80, sc, Capt J Strange, 1854, Channel Fleet Medina, 4, st-vl, Capt T Spratt, CB, 1855, Mediterranean Medusa, 4, st-vl, Com W Bowden, 1851, Coast of Africa Mepe;ra, 6, sc, Com J Hunt, 1856, P or t smou th Me':pomene, 50, se, Capt C. Ewart, 1855, Channel Fleet P....Lersey, 40, Sc, Capt H Caldwell, CB, 18.53, Channel Fleet Mohawk, 4, so, Corn P M'Dougal, 1856, Mediterranean Monarch, ;84, se, Vice-Admiral E Harvey, Capt H Har• vey, 1852, Sheerness Monkey, st-tug, Sec Mae G. Syndercombe (acting), Wool wich Mutine, 17, sc, Corn W Graham, 1858, Pacific Naiad, 42, store-ship, Mas-Com W Dillon, 1843, Callao Nautilus, 6, Lieut-Com W Grant, 1852, apprentice-ship Neptune, 91, sc, Capt F Campbell, 1857, Mediterranean Nereus, 42, store depot, Mas- Com J Barlow, 1853, Valparaiso Niger, 44, se, Capt P Cracroft, 1854, Australia Nile, 90, se, Capt E Barnard, 1859, Devonport Nimrod, 6, sc, Com R Wynniatt, 1859, East Indies Oberon, 3, st-v, Lieut -Com F Paget, 1852, S C of America Odin, 16, st-v, Capt Lord J Hay, CB, 1854, East Indies Opossum, 2, sc, gunboat, Lieut-Com G Bevan (acting), East Indies Orion, 91, se, Capt J Frere, 1854, Mediterranean Osborne, st-v, Mast-Com G Bower, 1842, particular service Pearl, 21, sc, Capt J Borlase, CB, 1855, East Indies Pelorus, 21, sc, Capt F Seymour, 1854, Au s t ra li a Pembroke, 60, Capt E Charlewood, 1855, Coast Guard Perseverance, 2, tr-sh, Com E Power, 1850, particular ser vice Persian, 12, Com E Hardinge, 1856, Cape of Good Hope Pioneer, 6, so, Corn H Reilly, 1858, East Indies Plumper, 9, screw, Capt G Richards, 1854, Pacific Pluto, 4, st-v, Lieut-Com C Simpson, 1848, Coast of Africa Porcupine, 3, st-v, Capt H Otter, 1854, Devonport Princess Charlotte, 104, Mast-Cora H Thomsett, 1854, llong Kong F rometheus, 5, 'st-v, Lieut-Com T Hollingworth, 1855, Coast of Africa Pylades, screw, 21, Capt M de Courcy, 1852, Pacific Quail, sc gunboat, Lt-Com N Osborn, 1856, Mediterranean Queen, 86, so, Capt C Hillyer, 1852, Channel Fleet Racer, 11, screw, Com the Hon T Pakenham, 1856, North America and West Indies Racoon, 21, sc, Capt A Paynter, 1854, Mediterranean Recruit, 6, st-v, Corn D Spain, 1856, Mediterranean Itenard, 4, sc, Com J Goodenough, 1858, East Indies Renown, 91, sc Com A Forbes, 1846, Mediterranean Retribution, 28 , st-v, Commodore H Edgell, C.B, E Indies Rhadamanthus, 4, st-v, Mae Com F Sturdee, 1845, parti cular service Ringdove, 4, sc, Corn R Craigie, 1856, East Indies Roebuck, 6, sc, Com F Marten, 1854, East Indies Rolla, 6, Lt-Com C Nelson, 1854, apprentice brig Royal Adelaide, 104, Rr-Ad Sir T Pasley, Bt, Capt W Williams, 1841, Devonport Royal Albert, 121, so, Rr-Ad Sir C Fremantle, K.C.B, Capt H Lacon, 1856, Channel Fleet Russell, 60, sc, Capt G Wodehouse ' 1854, Coast Guard St Jean d'Acre, 101, so, Capt T Thompson, 1847, Mediter. St Vincent, 102, Rr-Ad the Hon G Grey, Capt T Wilson, 1853, Portsmouth Sampson, 6, st-v, Capt G Hand, 1852, East Indies Sanspareil, 70, so, Rr-Ad C Talbot, Capt A Wilmot, C.B, 1854, Queenstown Saracen, 4, Mas-Com 'W Stanton, 1852, East Indies Satellite, sc, 21, Capt J Prevost, 1856, Pacific Saturn, 72, Capt G Ramsay, C.B, 1843, Pembroke Scourge, 6, cc, Com W Jones, 1854, Mediterranean Scout, 21, so, Capt J Corbett, 1857, East Indies Scylla, 21, sc, Capt R Lambert, 1855, Mediterranean Seagull, 2, se gunboat, Lt-Com W Chimme, particular ser. Sharpshooter, 8, sc, Lt-Corn C Gibbons, 1848, C of Africa Sidon, 22, st• v, Capt R Crawford, 1856, Cape of G Hope Simoom, 8, se, Com J Cooke, 1852, particular servico Siren, 16, Com 0 Balfour, 1856, S.E. Coast of America Skipjack, 2, so gunboat, Lt-Com J. Murray, 1848,W Indies Slaney, 2, so gunboat, Lt-Com H. Leet, 1855, E Indies Snake, 4, sc, Com H Harvey, 1857, East Indies Snap, 2, se gun-boat, Lieut-Com IV Butler, 1855, E Indies Sparrowhawk, 4, cc, Com J Byng, 1856, E Indies Sphinx, 6, st-ves, Corn G Day, V C, 1855, E Indies Spitfire, 5, st-ves, Lt-Cora W Chapman, 1859, Cof Africa Spy, 3, Lt-Com J Hanmer, 1848 , S E oast of America Starling, sc gun-boat, Lt-Com J Whitshed, 1854, E Indies Staunch, 2, sc gun-boat, Lt-Cora E Pollard, 1855, E Indies Styx, 6, st -yes, Com C Vesey, 1854, N America and W Ind S s u u p rp p n ly s , e s , t4r,-ssch,, Com o l ra f or o d rn E W C e ß e a i 1 1 , 1 i l s B t , o s n 7: C lB o s a t s , t l o V f o A o l f w r i c e a h Tartarus, 4, st, Cora A Mansell, 1855, Mediterranean Termagant, 25, sc, Capt R Hall 1855, S E Coast of America Terrible, 21, st-ves Capt F Glasse, C 8,1846, Mediterranean Terror, 16, Capt F Hutton, 1844, Bermuda Topaze, 51, se, Capt the Hon J Spencer, 1854, Pacific Tortoise, 12, store-ship Ascension Trafalgar, 91, cc, Capt E Fanshawe, 1845, Channel Fleet Tribune, 30, so, Capt G Hornby, 1846, Pacific Triton, 3, st-ves, Lt-Com R Burton, 1849, Coast of Africa Urgent, sc troop-ship, Comll Hire, 1854, particular service Valorous, 16, st-v ' Capt W Aldham, CB, 1853, W Indies Victor Emmanuel, 91, cc, CaptW Clifford, C B, 1847, Med Victoria and Albert, 2, st yt, Capt the Hon J Denman, 1841, Portsmouth Victory, 101, Vice Admiral II Bruce ; Capt R Coote, 1854, Portsmouth Viper, 4, sc, Com W Hewett, 1858, Portsmouth Virago, 6, st-v, Com M Dunn, 1856, particular service Vixen, 6, st-v, Com L Lambert, 1858, Pacific Vulcan, 6, sc troop ship, Corn A Strode, particular service Vulture, 6, st -v, Capt G Parker, Mediterranean Watchful, 2, 8 C g-bt st, Lt-Com F Inglefield, 1857, E Indies Wurzel, 2, sc gun-bt, Lt-Com W Howorth,lBs6, E Indies Wellesley, 72, Capt Supr G Goldsmith, CB, 1842, Chatham Wellington, 72, Capt It Robinson, 1840, Devonport Woodcock, 2, se gun-boat, Lt-Com G Bosanquet, 1855, E Indies article ? If there is truth, as assuredly there is, in the relfttions traced between price and consumption, it follows necessarily and directly that the heavy duty upon insurance discourages the practice of insuring, and that a premium is thus placed by legislative enactment upon culpable imprudence.— Times. TTLE IXQUISITIoN IN TILE PAPAL STATES. The Monitore di Bologna, in a recent number, contains the following remarkable article, and still more remarkable document annexed to the same, relating to the present legislation and authority of the Inquisition in the Papal States. The article is from the pen of the Chevalier Achille Genneralli ; the decree is simply the written law, publicly affixed in all places of general resort, under which the towns of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and the surrounding villages and districts have, during the hat 19 years, been made to yield obedience to the harassing and vexatious system of prying and spying into the most minute domestic affairs, as practised by the Inquisition : "If Europe only knew, as well as we do, the true character of the Government of the Court of Rome in the unhappy provinces subjected to its sceptre, it would be much less difficult for those provinces to obtain that emancipation to which every people has a right when the power oppressing it is based on an unchangeable and incorrigible immorality. Not the least of the iniquities now dominant in the Papal States is the Holy Office, or Inquisition, which actually exerts its malignant action in all its ful ness, and in such a way that its legislative and executive autocracy is placed above the other powers of the State. If any one, looking to the mildness of modern manners and to the progress which has been made in civilisation, should feel in clined to doubt the existence of the Inquisition in the Papal States, he need only examine the docu ment which follow on these words. It may be read in print—nay,provinces it is actually the li v i ng l aw i n th e oflrbine and Pesaro, an d i n th ose pbor dering thereupon ; and in order that no one may forget that the law is inviolable, not only are copies of it to be publicly seen in the vestries and in the churches, but likewise in the taverns and in the shops ; and woe to him who should attempt to tear them down. If this document had not been a revela tion for Europe we believe that Europe would have received with less stupefaction the intelligence of the manner in which the child Mortara was torn from his parents. In the decree of the Inquisition which we have before us there are passages puerile and ridiculous, and which would call forth laughter in the whole civilised world ; such are the prohibitions to offer incense to the devil,' to enter with him into tacit agreements in order to find treasures,' and other similar matters ; nn which points, however, one may be permitted to ask the Father Inquisitors of the Holy Roman Office if we are still living in times when the ignorance of the public may be so confidently reckoned on ; and one may further ask the Court of Rome why there should in these days be a Holy Office at all, and one represented by men of such superhuman imbecility ? But, far worse than this, we have the vile work of the spy and the informer transformed into a duty of conscience, with the penalty of excommunication launched against all who fail to inform against offenders ; to receive heretics is declared an action punishable by the sacred tribunal; the contact with Jews is pro hibited under the heaviest denunciations ! And these laws are in force in 1860. But this is not enough. This decree contains an exhortation for the purpose of encouraging self accusation, and pro mises mercy to those who shall accuse themselves. The legislator, however, has taken good care that the promise shall not be invoked as a right by those to wiorn it was addressed, and he therefore made a very simple reservation. He declared that a simi lar mercy should be practised only when the bonus vie who might feel inclined to accuse himself to his reverence ' had not been anticipated in his accusa tion either in that or in some other tribunal of the Inquisition."llus, as the Holy Office has for its foundation secrecy, the Father Inquisitor, who might wish to apply a little of the torture, or the bastinado, or fasting, or imprisonment (even per petual imprisonment) to some unfortunate being, politically suspected, would be at ample liberty to do so, by merely asserting that the person spon taneously informing against himself had been al ready informed against in some other branch of the Inquisition. Ilis word would suffice, and his decrees, in consequence, would more than suffice. In this way traps awe laid for the weakminded by the reve rend instruments of the Court of Rome ; but we have reason to believe that the persons so weak minded are few in number, and that those who seek to ensnare them have been mistaken in their calcu lation. " Meanwhile it will not appear extraordinary if we address to these Father Inquisitors a single ques tion. Amongst the documents which relate to the Papal Government, and will shortly be given to the world, we have found several from which we know that certain, inquisitors, vicars, and bishops, by a trait of peculiar compassion, have revealed the revelations thus obtained to the director-general of police in Rome, who thought it right, in order to add compassion to compassion, to imprison all those informed against and their adherents, to commence trials in order to procure the condemnation of a prodigious number of persons accused, many of whom, after a long term of years, are still waiting the completion of their appointed punishment. We have discovered letters from the head of the Roman police (he is at the present day an archbishop and a cardinal) suggesting to the compassionate vicars of the Holy-office the questions which they ought to put to the persons making spontaneous revelations, in order to discover, not sins, but political conspi racies and attempts to raise up Italy from its abject state. What explanations will the reverend fathers give of these facts ? A friend of ours possesses a letter of the Cardinal Bishop Castiglioni (who was subsequently Pope of Pius the V II I I o y See. re I . ) , eddsn it he informs addressed oano o t r he s r legate made by th e p a t r i o t s, reveals to h i m theirchl'irm of a dtfPlloi p a e l political secretse:adding, ' these things I have not learned by means of the confessional, but in another way. If one must exclude the suspicion of the confessional, that implies that it is not for the very reverend fathers, clothed with inviolable secresy ! " Meanwhile, as the document which we now offer to our readers contains likewise an exhor tation, we too would address an exhortation to the reverend fathers ; and it is to the effect, that the time of a self-satisfied ignorance has passed away; that the priesthood only covers itself with ridicule when it gives such warnings as those in the following law, when it requires the denuncia tion of heretics, and endeavours to brand all those who are not Catholics as if they positively were not human beings ! The massacre of St. Bartholomew belongs to a bygone age, and the inquisitors may reserve their work for the epoch at which some new world shall be discovered. " For the present, it suffices to exhibit for the in dignation and scorn of civilised Europe the follow ing document, which fitly represents the immora lity and the barbarism in which the temporal and spiritual rulers of the Papal States still endeavour to keep their subjects plunged : "'DECREE. i 4 ". We, Fra Filippo Bertolotti of the Order of Preachers, Master in Sacred Theology in tho cities and dioceses of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and in the districts and pace adjacent, Inquisitor- General of the Holy Apostolic See, especially dele gated to watch against heretical pravity : " We desiring, as is required by the duty of this holy office entrusted to us, that the Catholic faith (without which, as the Apostle St. Paul writes to the Hebrews, it is impossible to please God) should be preserved in this our jurisdiction immaculate and pure from all heretical contagion; and it being evident to us by experience that many through malice, others through disobedience, and others through ignorance, have not fulfilled the absolute obligation under which they lie to denounce to the Holy Office the offences relating to • the same, and that there arise thence the most serious inconveni ences and errors, not only against gOod morals, but also expressly against the Catholic faith ; we, there fore, to whom there should be especially at heart the glory of God, the full preservation andincrease of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls, in order to obviate all disorders, by the apostolic authority granted unto us, command, in virtue of holy obedience, and, under the penalty of excom munication, in addition to the other penalties de nounced by the sacred . canons, decrees, constitu tions, and bulls of the supreme pontiffs, by the tenor of the present edict—all and every person of whatever state, rank, condition, or dignity, whe ther ecclesiastical or secular, that within a month, ten days of which are, assigned for the first, ten for the second, and ten for the third peremptory term, they shall reveal or legally notify to us, or to our vicars, or the respective ordinaries of the places, all and each of those persms .respecting whom they know, or may have obtained, or shall obtain notice : ," That they are heretics, or suspected or taxed heresy,with th o a r y abettors, or receivers, or defenders of heretics, or hav e a dh ere d or d o adhere to the rites of the Jews, or of the Mahometans, or of the Catholic faith have apostatised from the holy " ' Who have committed or commit acts from which there may be inferred an express or tacit agreement with the devil, by practising incanta tions, •magic, sorcery, offering unto the same in cense or prayers in order to find treasures, or 'other unwarrantable ends, by invoking him or promising unto him obedience, or doing other things in which his name or works play a part : " Who have occupied, or occupy themselves in making experiments of necromancy, or of any kind of magic, with the abuse of the sacraments, or of the sacramental vessels, or of things sacred or blessed : " Who, not being priests, with sacrilegious audacity have usurped or shall usurp the right to celebrate the holy mass, or have presumed t o ad minister the sacrament of penitence to the faithful of Jesus Christ : " Who have abused or may abuse the sacrament of penitence, or the place of the same, contrary to the apostolical decrees and constitutions : "' Who have held or may hold secret conven tides or meetings in prejudice or scorn of, or con trary to, the holy Catholic religion : " ' Who have made use of, or may make use of, heretical blasphemies against blessed God, the most Holy Virgin Mary, or against the saints, or have committed or may commit any act of contempt or of offence against the holy images; who, notwith standing the solemn vows made on their entrance into any religious order approved of by the Church, and, after having taken holy orders, have contracted and contract, or may attempt to con tract, matrimony : ‘" Who, during the life of the first wife shall take a second, or during the life of the first husband shall take a second, or shall have attempted or at tempt to do the same : " Who have impeded or may impede in any way the office of the Holy Inquisition, or who in any way shall have acted in contravention of the bull of Pius V., which commences " Si di protegendis :" " Who may have composed satires or diffused writings against the supreme Pontiff, the sacred college, superiors, ecclesiastics, or against the regu lar orders, or who may have composed or published writings in any manner whatsoever, in which is any abuse or profanation of sacred words : " Who, without the required license, shall keep in their possession writings or printed papers con taining heresies, or books of heretics that treat, ex profess°, against religion, or who shall read them, or print them, or cause them to be printed, or who shall introduce or diffuse them under any pretext or colour whatever : " ' Who, without necessity or license, shall have eaten or given to eat meat, eggs, or dishes made with milk on forbidden days, in contempt of the precepts of the Holy Church : " Who shall have induced any Christian to em brace the Jewish faith, or any other sect contrary to the holy Catholic religion, or shall have prevented in any way the Jews or the Turks from being bap tised. It is also declared that, in the statement of cases specified by us as requiring to be revealed to the Holy Office, there are not excluded the other cases belonging to its jurisdiction, comprised in the sacred canons, decrees, constitutions, and bulls of the supreme Pontiffs. Still less is the present edict to be understood as cancelling any other canonical apostolic provisions, or any other edicts which shall have emanated from the ordinary authorities or from the inquisitors;an d it isfurtherdeclared that thosewho shall not denounce the guilty, as commanded by the present edict, shall not be able to obtain absolution from the excommunication laid upon them until they shall have, as required above, with due legal form, revealed the guilty individuals : " ' And even should the term of the month as signed, as above, elapse, there will always remain the obligation to reveal and to denounce, under the same penalties, until the person in possession of the information shall have effectually revealed and de ) neunced the guilty. And in order that the present edict, with its commands, both general and special, may become known unto all, we order and command that it be affixed in the churches belonging both to the secular and regular clergy. And in order that no one may affect ignorance of the present orders and evade obeying them, we enjoin on printers, booksellers, custom-house officers, excise officers, porters, landlords, innkeepers, and shopkeepers, all respectively, that they shall keep fixed up a copy of the present edict in their respective printing-houses, hookselling establishments, eustom-houses, town gates, taverns, inns, and shops, and that, too, in a public place, where it may be seen and read by all. " ' EXHORTATIONS. " The principal, nay the only object of the tri bunal of the Holy Office being, as has been said from the commencement, the glory of God, the ad vancement of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls : we, therefore, after having commanded and ordered as above, do now paternally exhort all those who know themselves to be guilty of some crime relating to the Holy Office to present them selves before us and our vicars, or before the ordi nary authority of the place, spontaneously, before being anticipated or denounced by others ; and to confess with all sincerity and integrity their errors and their failings, assuring them that, provided they have not been with the due legal forms previously accused before some other ecclesiastical tribunal, they will, be received with bowels of charity, and treated with the singular mercy peculiar to this holy tribunal ; aad will then, without any expense and without any public penance and punishment, be absolved and let go. " SPECIAL ORDERS. " In compliance with the orders specially given to us relative to the printing, the introduction, the sale, and the diffusion , of perverse and prohibitive books, and having a special interest that, in the cities and places of this our jurisdiction, there shall be preserved that purity of faith which, through the grace of the Highest, presently exists here, we order and expressly command that no one shall dare to print, to introduce, to sell, and to publish books within And without the cities or other places subject to us without these being subject to the re vision of this Holy Office, and of those whose duty it is to superintend the same, under the penalties established in the sacred canons, in the general and and particular decrees of the supreme holy congre gation, and in the apostolical constitutions with that view enacted and promulgated, and, in parti cular, in those of Clement VIII. and Gregory XV. Moreover, in compliance with the orders, decrees, edicts of the supreme holy tribunal of the Holy Office of Rome, as well as withthe constitutions and with the papal bulls, respectively published and promulgated in reference to the Jews, especially in what regards intimacy with the same; we order and command that no one shall dare to transgress the orders and injunctions specified in the same, under the penalties therein expressed and threat. ened.—Given at the Holy Office of Pesaro, on this 15th day of September 1841. (Signed) " FR. FILIPPO BERTOLOTTI, Inquisitor-General. " ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor- General of the Holy Office.'" THE BIBLE PRINTING _PATENT. The decision of the conirni!,tee against the continuance of this patent was stated at the time. The report published on Saturday states that the Select Committee on the Queen's Printers' Patent, appointed on the motion of Mr. dlaines, have agreed to the following resolutions : 1. That exclusive privileges of printing or publishing the Holy Scriptures are wrong in principle, and are shown by experience to be opposed to the public interest. 2. That until the abolition of the Scptch Bible printing monopoly, the price of Bibles in Scotland and England was, through the operation of the monopolies is both coun tries very high ; and that, in consequence of that abolition the price was suddenly reduced about one-half, and the cir culation of Bibles immensely increased. 3. That the patents does not appear to have been granted fur the purpose of ensuring the accurate printing of the Bible; that it contains no injunction to accuracy, and pro vides no penalty for inaccuracy; and that, in point of fact, the Bibles printed by the Queen's Printers and the Uni versities contained many errors, until public discussion, and the inquiries of the Select Committee of 1831, led to in creased care in the printing. 4. That whilst the Bible is now published at a remark ably low price, and with - great accuracy, the cheapness and accuracy have not been the effects of the restrictions on printing, but of the competition between the Queen's Printers and the Universities, and of the free competition , in Scotland in printin g the Bible, combined with the great public attention given to the subject for the last 30 years. 5. That perfect freedom of competition would be likely to produce and maintain the greatest attainable cheapness, as well as the utmost beauty and attractiveness of typography and binding. 6. That, under the free printing, there would be the fol lowing guarantees for the accuracy of the sacred text, namely : lit. The vigilance of the Christian public. 2d. The watchful care of the clergy and ministers of all Chris ion bodies. 3d. The special attention of religious societies stablished for the purpose of circulating the Bible. 4th. The continual criticism of the press. sth. The knowledge which booksellers must acquire of the merits of different editions. 6th. The interest of the printers and publishers of the Bible, who would suffer a heavy penalty for inaccu racy by finding their editions unsaleable. 7th. The efforts of the present patentees and the Universities to sustain their reputation, together with the stereotype plates and other advantages which they possess. 7. That the patent is unjust, in prohibiting the importa tion of Scotch Bibles into England, while English Bibles are perinirted to be imported into Scotland. 8. That the patent creates a monopoly much more ex tensive and stringent than the patentees have ventured to enforce ;it gi ves an exclusive right to print " all and sin- ' gular Bibles and New Testa ments w hatsoever in the English tongue, or in any other tongue whatsoever, and any translation, with notes or without notes, and also to prevent the introduction of Bibles printed in any other part of the kingdom into Englr.nd and 'Vales; but the patentees have not exercised their legal right of preventing the introduction of Bibles from Scotland, nor of interfering with the publication of the Bible in other languages or translations, or accompanied with notes or references, but have practically restricte d themselve s to the issue o f the Bible, without note or comment, and in the authoriscd version. 9. That the committee recommend that the patent of the Queen's Printers, so far as relates to the printing of Bibles and N O W Testaments, be not renewed, and that no exclusive privilege of printing the sacred volume be allowed hence forth to exist, THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCE. The close of last week brought us to quarter-day —a fact which it may seem somewhat unnecessary to record. We have a motive, however, for doing so. On that day there was due to Government from certain taxpayers of the kingdom the sum of £300,000, or thereabouts, and the same amount will be levied in each of the three succeeding quar ters of the year. Altogether. something like £1,300,000 will thus find its way into the Exche quer as a contribution to the revenue, and, as the amount is considerable and the principle of the tax quite unique, we ask for the attention of the public while we examine its bearings. This seems the very time for reductions and readjustments. Silk duties, wine duties, Customs' duties of all kinds have been doomed to extinction, and we shall be much sur prised if we cannot make out a case against the im post of which we are speaking—the duty on fire insurance. Thousands of our readers will have found in their letter-boxes during the last few days a cer tain obliging reminder from their insurance offices, and whici► adopts this method of intimating that, unless a specified sum be paid within 15 days, the guarantee desirable against fire will cease and de termine. The offices, however, are wise in their generation. They are at the pains of analysing their demands, and of discriminating in the very terms of their notice between their own dues and the exac tions of Government. The premium, or payment required for the purpose of insurance, is so much —tie Government duty on the transaction is so much more, The first point, therefore, for conside ration is the proportion between these two consti tuent parts of the sum—the next is the general character of the tax itself. On the former of these heads, the case presents, as few will deny, a very startling aspect. The Government duty exactly trebles, in ordinary in stances, the original demand. The premium com monly . required by insurance-offices is ls. Gd. per cent. That is the consideration for which they will guarantee an insurer against loss by fire, Supposing that no particular or unusual risk attend the trans action, the offices will insure any property to the ex tent of £lOO in value for the payment of eighteen pence per annum. On the back of this, however, comes the Government tax, and that tax is 3s. per annum, so that the whole amount claimed by the insurance-office becomes 4s. Gd. Compare this with other taxes, and the impost will be - found almost prohibitory. Even brandy was never made three times as dear as it need be. We have been taking, too, a mere unit of measurement—the singl e £lOO ;_ buimultiply it; and see how the figures run up. It is no great thing to insure for £2,000. What with stock in the case of a tradesman, and ordinary pro perty in the case of independent householders, nothing is easier than to find this amount of obliga tion incurred. Be it remembered that the reckoning must include every article in the house from top to bottom—not only the furniture, the plate, and the wine, but the wearing apparel of every member of the family, and all, in short, which a fire would con sume. Now, as far as the necessary charge goes, an insurance office would take the whole risk for £1 10s. per annum, whereas the duty levied by Govern ment actually swells the demand to £4 10s. The insurer is thus taxed £3 upon 30s.—a proportion perfectly enormous. Let us now consider the character of the tax it self. Of course in some sense it is a direct tax, and also in some sense a tax upon property, but we ven ture to say that. never yet was a property tax so levied. Mr. Bright proposed the other day to place a tax upon property. His scheme did not find much favour with the p u bli c , b u t its pri nc ipl es were a t least more reasonable than those of the insurance dirty. He would have taxed all property alike, wah taine out allowing imprudence to bring a right of exemp• tion ; but he would not have treated a tradesman's duty no until its owne:anel a property,merely for or levied his tax upon goods ob stock as c J ni or the purposes of sale. In the insurance whatever is taken of property in his house isietsontoot secure eall ed it u against ponfo ra th p e e n risk , with a st r o c of fire. A man with e rn . uninsured, whereas £5,000 worth of plate or fur nitureii providedis h e choose neighbour, must, pay 15s. yearly to Government, trade worth £5OO, ntnent, besides is. Gd. to the Insurance-ofiiee, if he wished to be guaran teed against ruinous loss. Th e tax •t 1 levied, not upon property, but upou the zt fo o r f e, is e curing it. If a in . ln choos es to run the risk se curing it. beggared, Government will encourage him in his recklessness by exempting him from a tax ; if he is too cautious to incur this peril, he must p ay for his wisdom. I t is in vain to ar gue that the de lay 3 does not really operate in this manner, and that the amount is too small to deter anybody from in suring his goods. Ihe duty turns a payment o f £1 into £3, and it would be preposterous to sup pose that the latter obligati on would be accept e d as if a reduction of £2OO per freely as the former. not bring it into cent. upon the cost of a thing will more common use, what become s of all the . budget.' is specula tions on which . Mr. Gladstone founds his budget? What is the good of cheap silk or cheap claret un less- cheapness means increased custom in the EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF AN IMPOSTOR. (From the Glasgow Morning Journal.) Henry Thornton Hay is at present incarcerated in the North Prison of Glasgow, undergoing six months' imprisonment for uttering forged orders for provisions on more than one shopkeeper in Cow caddens. He is about 35 years of age, middle-size in height, speaks with a slight English accent, and is a most plausible fellow. There is reason to be lieve that he is a poor English curate's son, and one of those who are a grief to their parents. He re ceived a tolerably good education, but was never in Cambridge University, and therefore we may with out hesitation throw his tragic love story out of sight as the "baseless fabric of a vision." He did enlist, under the name of Thomas Watkins, and went with the regiment to the West Indies, where he deserted, and entered the 3d West India Regi ment. He was recaptured, punished, and permitted ' to join the 71st Regiment, which came to Glasgow in 1847, and heliv is the first time that he appeared in public in the western metropolis. He seems always to have had a forte for preaching; and in Glasgow he first attracted notice as a preacher of the Gospel. It may be in the remembrance of a num ber of our readers that about thirteen years ago, a deserter was found preaching in Greenhead Quoad Sacra Church, and that after the forenoon service he was marched off to the barracks a prisoner. That man was Thornton Hay. In the end of 1847, the pulpit of Greenhead Church was vacant, and ac -cordingly Hay having ingratiated himself with a female manager of the church, who kept the keys— through life he seems to have readily captivated the fair sex—he preached four consecutive Sabbaths under the name of the Rev. Mr. Bertram ; but whe ther " with acceptance" or not we cannot say. Having been at that time absent from his regiment five days, two sergeants from the 71st Foot waited upon him until he left the pulpit, when they con veyed him to durance vile in the barracks, where at that time his wife resided. He was tried by court martial, and sentenced to a period of imprisonment, his former desertion being also brought up against him. After his discharge from the army, he re turned to Glasgow and obtained a situation at the Theatre Royal, where he continued for four months. He now sought and gained employment in a cooperage as journeyman, where he continued for a few months, and next transferred his coopering services to Kilsyth. After a sojourn of a few months there, he re turned to Glasgow, and resumed coopering and something else. He procured an introduction to one or two Free Church ministers, told his wonder ful tale, and on Hogmanay, 1854, being invited to a church sdiree, he sat upon the platform with the other guests and speakers, and delivered an address. He then regularly attended a Free Church in the city, pretended great holiness of life, counterfeited the Christian character, and made a profession which paled the greaterlights around him. By this pseudo sanctity he imposed upon many, chiefly the " weaker vessels ; ' and the consequences were wounded feel ings, destroyed prospects, and illegitimate children. To show the cool audacity of the scoundrel, we may state that on one occasion he invited two respect able women, to whom he was at the same time pay ing his addresses, to his lodgings to tea, and then introduced the one to the other as his sweetheart ! He likewise went so far as to take a house in Port land-street, and had it furnished by one of the rela tions of the person he was about to marry. Hap pily he was discovered in time, and had to b ea t a hasty retreat. H e nex t t urne d up near London, and palmed himself off in a Roman Catholic family as a greatly persecuted poor Roman Catholic priest. Here he lived for some six weeks, but discovering that the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese was about to visit his dupes, he decamped. Of course he repaired to London, and under the garb and pro fession of a clergyman from Scotland, he succeeded in defrauding several people out of considerable sums, for which he was duly sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Being discharged from gaol in August, 1856, he succeeded by some means in raising as much money as carried him to Glasgow again. Here he arrived as a pretended agent of the London Missionary , Society, just returned from India. In this charac ter he traversed the city and neighbourhood, addressing meetings here and there; but although his speeches were quite barren of new facts, and indeed disappointed the most unsuspecting, still, by his great holiness of life and uprightness of cha racter, he insinuated himself most astonishingly into the confidence of many good people. He had, therefore, no difficulty in getting a loan of money, especially as he was just expect ing his annual salary from the Missionary So ciety, along with his travelling expenses. By these means he made a pretty large haul in Glas gow ; he had now, however, uninterrupted suc cess. In the east end of the city there is a large Sabbath class, composed of about 100 young men and women. To one of the young men of that class, of his own name, he got introduced ; and by his plausible speeches, his ministerial appear ance, and frankness of manner, completely de ceived him. He was in due course invited to the adult class. The scoundrel was more successful in that quarter than he ought to have been. He got introduced to one of the young women; who belongs to a most respectable family resid ing on the south s id e o f th e r i ver, and - she ac cepted him as an acknowledged suitor, his saintly , appearance much aiding his purpose. In Decem ber, 1856, he was introduced by Miss to her minister, a highly respectable U. P. clergyman on the south side of the .river. About that time their congregational soirée was to be held, and " the missionary" was announced as a speaker. The speech was delivered, but the general feeling in regard. to " the missionary" was, that the Lon don Missionary Society had not much to brag of in him. Having been invited to dine by the worthy minister, it was wound up by the guest obtaining the loan of £3. About the same time he got £.,5 from the manager of a mill near Rutherglen-bridge. Having strong suspicions, the United Presbyterian minister made a few inqui ries, which resulted in the discovery that there was no such agent of the London Missionary Society as Thornton Hay, and that doubtless he was an impostor. Information was accordingly conveyed to the police, but " the missionary " suc ceeded in getting off to Liverpool. He was not again heard of by the Glasgow authorities until about the middle of 1857, and until he had passed through many remarkable vicissitudes of fortune. At the beginning of that year, on his arrival in Liverpool, he gained the good opinion of several of the Established Church clergy there, who opened to him their pulpits; and by this means he was enabled to fleece a number of people to the tune of upwards of £lOO. • He next repaired to Edinburgh ; and here he came out as a clergyman of the Angli- I can Church, " taking a survey of the state of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.".. lire do not know under what name he then passed, and although we are not certain, yet it is very pro bable that he ran out of cash here also, and required a loan or two. He preached at the castle to the soldiers, and in other places in Edinburgh. He subsequently repaired to London, and in coming back to Liverpool he scraped acquaintance with a Glasgow gentleman. Desirous of making capital of this acquaintanceship, he came to Glasgow ; but was baulked thii time, and had to make a hasty journey to Edinburgh, where he did not remain long. Passing through Haddington, he sought out and imposed upon some of the descendants of the great Scripture commentator of that town, ob taining money which conveyed him to Sunderland. Here he succeeded, by delivering a forged letter from a friend in Glasgow, in getting £5 from a female member of the Society of Friends; but her husband at once detected the forgery, and, getting a policeman, they caught the fell ow a t t h e railway station as he was about to start for New castle. When he saw he was detected, he hurriedly tore up into a hundred pieces two letters that he had upon him, strewing the station with the frag ments. These were all carefully gathered up mid put together, when it was found that they purported to be letters of introduction from two U.P. mini sters in Glasgow to a U.P. minister in Newcastle, written in high-flown language, such as " The bearer is an e s t eeme d b ro th er, and a great acquisi tion to the cause of dissent in England." Unfortu nately, by some flaw in the evidence, he was ac quitted at Sunderland ; but the authorities at Had dington were in waiting to receive him, and thither he was taken and sentenced to five weeks' impri sonment. As soon as his term of incarceration at Haddington was ever he was brought to Glasgow, and before the sheriff and a jury he was convicted of obtaining money under false pretences, and lodged in the North - prison for six months. Dur ing the year 1859, and after he came out of prison, he returned to his employment as a cooper; and towards the end of the year got again into trouble by forging his employer's name to some orders for provisions on various dealers in Cowcaddens. For that offence he was sentenced to six months' im prisonment, and at present he is undergoing that punishment. He will shortly be liberated. SOUTH AUSTRALIA .—The dates from,South Aus tralia by the present mail are to Adelaide, Feb. 18. Business continued dull. The revenue of the colony for the year end ing Dee. 31, 1859, amounted to £505,870, showing a net in crease upon the year of £51,039. The pastoral districts had suffered severely through the dry season, and the mortality among the cattle had been considerable. Respecting the progress of mining, the South Australian Advertiser of Feb. 18 remarks :—" The mineral wealth of the colony con tinues to afford proofs of its extreme richness." Burra Burra shares have advanced to £l5B. Copper remained firm and in demand, at XlOO per ton. Drafts on;Londou at 60 days' eight at 1 per cent. Vern, DIL.GUTHRIE AND THE SLAVE TRADE An American paper, the Presbyterian, which pro fesses to be a religious journal of the highest ortho doxy, has attacked Dr. Guthrie's speech delivered lately at the meeting in Edinburgh, sympathising with Dr. Cheever. The rev, doctor has written an indignant rejoinder, in which he stigmatises maul of the charges in the Presbyterian as "untrue and contemptible." He proceeds to rebut some of the statements which he is accused of making : " You state that I spoke of the American eagle as polluted with blood.' Now, that may or may not be the case ; but I never used these words, nor said, indeed, a word, good or bad, about your eagle. You state also that I wished the next negro insurrection to succeed,' though they might have to fight to the l knees in the blood of the white ma n .' How can deny that ? for in your article are not the offensive words, fight to the knees in the blood of the white man' set within inverted commas, the usual sign of a quotation and the pledge of accuracy ? Alas for the credit of inverted commas and certain religious newspapers ! There is not a word of truth in your statement. The wronged and down-trodden negro may or may not be justified in doing for his personal what your own fathers did for their national liberty; though a man, he is black , and notwithstanding that an old-fashioned book called the Bible, says that God made of one blood all the families of the earth, he may no more have rights than the cow ho is sold with; yet I never used the words, nor spoke of blood, either on black men's knees or on American eagles. You say I Ws! bloodthirsty.' A horrid charge to bring against any minister of the Gospel. 'lf you mean, by aPPIt ing this abusive language to me, that I delight in t e shedding of human blood, or would have recourse to arms rather than suffer any wrong, I deny you r charge, and appeal for my veracity to those who know me, and know how I abhor the cruelties in separable from war. Perhaps you mean something else. Perhaps you mean that I would regard the slaves, if they had a fair prospect of success, as jus tified in rising to recover their freedom, and as a lag' resource, meeting arms with arms in the battle for liberty. If so, I plead guilty to the charge ; g_Riltlf W I must add, as w ere our W a ll ace an d your ash: ington. Washington and his compatriots tholighb not liberty only, but independence even worth fight" ing for. In the days of the struggle which you yearly commemorate ministers preached up resistance; pulpits, as well as drums, sounded to arms. you laud the men who did the fight, and were ready te, fight to the knees in the blood of the white man, merely for the right to tax themselves ' and have you the assurance to hold sip your hands in horror at the bare idea of poor Africans, ground to the dust , doing the samh to save themselves, their wives, their, children, from bleeding under th e b ru t a l l as h, an d being sold like cattle to the highest bidder ? Thong'' a violent termination to slavery is not one that any reflecting and right-thinking man would wish, tho system, as one of cruelty, of immorality, of robbell and of murder, is accursed both of God and man. iv; is the plague-spot of your state ; the plague-spot 01 your churches; and should its end, which God for" bid, be one of violence, on the heads of those vib e are not straining every nerve to brin; it to speedy and bloodless termination, will lie 'the guilt of all the fearful crimes that shall accOo l pany its dying struggles. When these comet and the slaves are fighting for their rights, your disasters may recall the fearful words of Jefferson , What attribute of Jehovah would allow him to take part with us ?' " COUNTItY MAIUC.ETS. MANCHESTER—APRIL 5. We had a thin attendance of buyers this morning, all a , prices for wheat and flour were at no advance upon tll quotations of Thursday last, with very little doing. Oir, and oatmeal brought fully former rate s , an d W ere i n s t e st? request. Beans and Indian corn were in fair request without alteration in price. RIPON--APRIL 5. There was a fair supply of grain to-day. F arm ers asYe a high prices, which checked sales, and the whole offeredsfr not sold. Other articles firm. WAKEFIELD—APRIL 5. A fair supply of grain. Wheat was firm, at last icee_ilj prices, and a fair business done in best re d. Oth er artilP continue firm. Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, n", Kent, white, old, 48s to 51s ; ne w , 48 s t o 51 s; ditto j _ l 7, old, 42s to 44s ; Ifew, 42s to 44s ; Lincolnshire an d Or shire white, new, 45s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445. EXETER—APRIL 5. The business to-day was firm at the following price. •, 1 Wheat, white Os 3d to Os 6d Barley. 4s Od to 6 0 I Ditto red 5s 34 to 5s 6d Oats Flour, fine, 34s to 355; seconds, 32s to 33s per sack. CATTLE. telf The attendance was good, and the market was modera supplied with fat stock. Trade dull, at prices tend lo ° downwards. A small supply of pork carcases, at previous rates. 1 Fat beef,p score,9s6d to 10 s 6d E wes , per l b ....cid t o 7 i Pork carcases, do 9s Od to lOs Wethers, do_ ... 7d ti 71 4 Sheep, per lb. Rough fat, 4101 per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—APRIL 5. et The market still assumes a very quiet tone, and rattj lower prices have b e e n su b m itt e d to in the few sales effee during the present week. Refiners' produce, "though in plentiful supply, is offered sufficiently for the reclu l e , meats of the trade, and pric e s are on l y with difficulty 8 4t ported. Rum has been in i m p rove d d eman d, an d a ' amount of business has been done this week, chiefly Domeraras, at 2s per proof gallon. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. in the following table E signifies that letters are del by evening mails from London, and M by morning DESTINATIONS. Despatch h jesportavh. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon,' via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Dittb, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, and P. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N America (by British packet) Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &O. ISouthamp. Aprill2,3l AprillB, El. 'April 14, E Liverpool Aprilll, E Liverpool Hay 5, E Devonport Aprll2),M Southamp. Aprillo, E Aprill2 ,ISouthamp. Aprill7, M Southamp. 'April2o , M Southamp. Aprillo, E M Southamp. AprillB, E April 9, M Southamp. April—, M Seuthamp. Aprill2 ,M Southamp. Aprillo , E Southamp. (Liverpool.. April 7, E April .7,E Liverpool.. Apri.lll,ElSouthamp. April 23 E !Liverpool.. Aprill7, Southamp. if APP . if AP A r il lo Apra ji 1 0 Apro ori , vp April 0 April 31011 ApP Apriji ril T., pril ji ,pe 111 0 S [ADVE RTISEMENT.]-31r. Benson, L u d ga t e -hill, ha° mO" published a new illustrated pamphlet en watches (free by ho r a; for two stamp s ) . I t should be read by all who area"-je buying a watch, as it contains prices and important NW: 10 tion as to—What watch to buy ! where to buy it I and h" WM it! b d Dltfl; [ AD VERTISEMENT.]-11olloway's Pills.—Distur-e gestion, Bilious Disorders.—The piercing winds, altere a d to with bright genial day s , are sa d enem i es to com f o rt n f o, health, Look to the li ver an d s t omac h , keep their luu o ct ell e renar, and a long t ra i n o f a il ments w i ll b e avoided;, cer though this prese n t spr i ng b e as capricious as its preu e sors. When digestio n i s i mpa i re d , or well-mar k e d sY or toms show a disordered liver, let Holloway's Pills b e , stantly procured, and if these be taken according to t ,, 11 ' of° structions the patient will soon be himself again, an d owl' serious attacks will be repelled. A. course of these in e O" able Pills will thoroughly clear the head, elevate the 0P .0 01 and restore the usual energ y ; i n f ac t th ey w ill co nfer iv' on mind and body. .--,----•-..----....--.-- 0 1111 Ri clock P' ll 11 t - NT'S' Mr, J. ARG per o , t i ded t —0 18 1 0 ,..! TRE 4 l ion Th in iehlc;-: N O 1:1 'l°ll' e l eizan gt , go_ors or , Is th e b e l ' i Derfeetl oaly b 371 _ _ varriam: Nut Con, 1 1 :1? W ing a - I uabl e C Agit for 3T ttp t , e ntB re wed. 0 3E Pi' P amphl qtRTA. Ized bwrihosiq Ur U. + of Bro t e r , indie, ''c, lvit IleBB t any h" out p a i u t " Pimples, the who and p n tolls and witl ..aved on th ROYAL Found TUT! ounded 182 Which are is an helpless of h l aittee to eni e rnedi I Dstients ea tire urnstan e c t i ttetunds alor rof in- t er as in ( ,Fontributt 9... Nichol( fl ond and CI a c i° „ t e, and 146.7 a, Llov( 4 ((J ams, a it°! t a D n d ts Po., i i, ,_______ EXTR/ z 4l l e e r% t AGreat 13 ;Nine DIE ), dse( tq.:tse flor /LC 1 ,)?, thu s I t6l, " NEIN rRYf s,„` l tY, Nei ri el i,...ergy, A q,. •••bistrus Vc,1'121.11 fin d 1 es s 111 1 4,.d E Iph lifemor. che ayster ALTS TC 11; Aotho 11,:). order tl r Et.fll forty c 3 f ittreq p s "ford: BIRTHS. ABBOTT.—On the 3d inst., at Meavy, Devon, th e n f of the Rev. J. Abb o tt , M . A ., rector of that pa rish, - son. roc il FULLER.—On the 4th i ns t., a t 119 , Gloucester Hyde-park, th e w if e o f Thomas Fuller, Esq., of a da " ter, stillborn. TERNAN.—At the Priory, South Stoke, near Bath, the of Captain Ternan, H.M.'s Bengal Army, of a sou* MARRIAGES. t di g BROWNE—VALLE-CesA-NovA.—On Tuesday last 94„„. of British Chapel, Nice, Esther Jane Browne, dang b D i Ty Peter Browne, Esq., for many years British Secret s 110' Legation at Copenhagen, to the Marquis della Casa-Nova. bait ELLIoT—CAun.L.--On the 20th Feb., a t P oona h, Dl o pi G. W. Elliott, Esq., C.S., 'Judge of D a rwar, to t fo r Mary, daughter of C. S. Cahill, Esq., of Kensington, merly of Riveraton, co. Clare, J.P. DEATHS. A „diet Aummv.— On the Ist inst., at Kensington, Lady aged 31. r et CREIGHTON.—On the 31 s t ult , at 38, a t Cambridg e- lAt" Hyde-park, Mrs. Harriet Cre . i hton d aug hter of th°. ttio Admiral Sir Ri c h ar d Onslow gßart., an d wido w late Captai n C re i g h ton. * the EDGELL.—On th e 2d inst East-hill, near Frolne' Rev. Edw ar d Edgell, prebendary . of Wells, &c. lo w PARISH.—On the 2d inst., at his country seat, near burg, Richard Parish, Esq., aged tifl. .100 SHIRREFP.—On the 13th Feb., at Rio de Janeiro, tiftli Hamilton Shirreff, R.N. of H.M.S. Mai la g a r e Z) son of C. J. Shirreff, Esq., of 7, Lincoln's-inn fte. Barnes, Surrey, aged 26. STITTELY.--On the sth inst., at 6, Cambridge -terrace ' gent's-park , at.DO 11)v 11?' LONDON : Printed and Published by X r - - of No. 112, Stra n d, P r i n t er , a t The Sun Officet oot or 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e Middlesex, Saturday, April 7, 1860.:.