The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY)• The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice, that on Tuesday . he would ask the Archbishop of Canterbury when the Go vernment intended to introduce a bill for the better regula tion of Glebe-houses ? The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Leeds, in favour of Manhood Suffrage and Parliamentary Reform. Lord CAMPBELL' introduced two bills relative to jurisprudence and the law respecting vindictive indict ments for perjury. The bills were severally read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that on Mon day next he should introduce a bill to amend the law of debtor and creditor, and to consolidate the Winding-up Acts. THE ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS. The Marquis of EXETER brought up the answer of her Majesty to the address voted last night in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The noble lord then read her Majesty's answer, in which her Majesty thanked their lord ships for their dutiful address, and informed the house that her Majesty should rely upon their most cordial efforts in furthering the measures that may be brought under their consideration. THE TAKING OF DELHI Earl GRANVILLEsaid he was anxious to make an ex planation of a statement he had made respecting Sir J. Lawrence and the taking of Delhi, by which that distin guished officer felt himself aggrieved. He had stated, as a proof of Lord Canning's firmness at a critical junc ture, that hearing that negotiations were being entered into with the insurgents, he had at once put a stop to them, notwithstanding they had received the approval of Sir J. Lawrence. It now appeared that the negotiations were not with the insurgents generally, but with the King of Delhi, and that there was an express stipulation that no insur gent was to be dealt with who had taken part in the murder of Europeans. He begged further to say that he had not the slightest intention to depreciate the efforts of Sir John Lawrence in order to raise those of Lord Canning FREE IMMIGRATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the free negroes of Jamaica, complaining of the haste with which a bill had been Fassed through the house touching the labour of coolies. The Earl of CARNARVON said the bill in question had not yet been received in this country, but as soon as it was, he trusted he should be in a position to give a full an swer to the noble and learned lord. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Mr. FITZROY, the following resolu tion was agreed to :—" That the 159th standing order be suspended, and that no private bill be read the first time until Wednesday next." A great number of private bills were brought in.' INDIAN FINANCE. Lord STANLEY gave gave notice that on Monday, the 14th, he should call the attention of the house to the state ol Indian finance. BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT LAW. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that on the 15th instant, he would bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to bankrupts and insolvents. THE TOWER OF LONDON. Mr. T. DUN.COMBE gave notice that he would ask a question as to whether the land of the Tower of London could not be applied to better purposes than the present. THE MILITARY AT MALTA. Sir A. AGNEW asked the Secretary of State for War whether a garrison order had been issued at Malta to the effect that all guards and sentries are to pre sent arms to and salute the Host whenever it may pass their respective posts. 'Whether her Majesty's Government have sanctioned that order, or were prepared to allow a similar one to be enforced in any British depen dency. Whether Captain Sheffield, of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers had been placed under arrest for declining, as a Protestant, to comply with this order ? Col. PEEL said that there were no orders with reference to troops stationed at Malta, except those issued by Lord Hill in 1837, of which he had not heard any complaint. PORT AND HARBOUR OF GALWAY. Lord DUNKELLIN asked the First Lord of the Ad miralty whether he had any objection to lay on the table of the house a copy of the instructions given to the com missioners appointed last October, by the Irish Govern ment, to visit and inspect the port and harbour of Galway ; and a copy of the report presented by the commissioners on the condition and wants of the harbour ; and to state what steps, if any, her Majesty's Government have taken, or propose to take, in consequence thereof ? Sir J. PAKINGTON had received a report on the sub ject, and three gentlemen were appointed to inquire into the matter, and would lay it on the table. The report was very favourable to the facilities of the port. MILITIA FORCE. Col. NORTH asked the Secretary for War if there was any truth in the rumour that it was in contemplation by her Majesty's Government to reduce 10,000 of the present embodied militia force ? General PEEL said that would in a great measure de pend on the number of troops that would return from India. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented, praying that means should be adopted to secure the better observance of the Spanish treaty in reference to the slavetrade—That the franchise be extended to every male person of 21 years of age—For vote by ballot, and for Triennial Parliaments. NEW WRIT. • _ _ Sir W. JOLIFFE moved for a writ to elect a member for the University of Dublin, in the room of Mr. George Alex. Hamilton, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead. - POOR RATES, Ste: ASSESSMENT. Mr. WILSON asked the President ' of the Poor Law Board whether it was his intention to introduce a bill in the present session for the purpose of subjecting properties in the occupation of the Govern ment and other public bodies to assessment for the poor and other local rates, in pursuance of the recom mendation of the committee of the last session ; and, if so, at what time he will be able to lay such bill upon the table? Mr. SOTHERON-ESTCOURT said that the subject had received the attention of the Government during the recess, and that a statement would be made to the house in reference to it. GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA. Mr. HADFIELD drew the attention of the house to the neglect of the facilities that existed in India for the supply of cotton to this country. The manufacturers in this coun try paid £10,000,000 more for that article than its actual value, or the price at which it could be supplied by our dependencies. That neglect was owing to the want of proper roads in India, and the means necessary for irrigat mg the land. Lord STANLEY—The house, I am sure, will not desire that I should go now into details upon the question of the cotton supply and the progress of public works. I shall have the opportunity of alluding to that subject ten days hence, since it is one which is naturally connected with the question of finance. For the present I will say that I agree with the hon. member both as to the possibility and as to the importance of greatly increasing the supply of cotton from India. (Hear.) It has been estimated that the difference between a good and a scanty supply of cotton in this country is about equal to the difference between a war in come tax and no income tax at all. It is therefore a Matter to which no English Minister and no member of this horse can be indifferent. I agree with the hon. member also that the most important means which the Government have in their power for the purpose of promoting the cotton supply from India is to facilitate communication between different parts of the country. I believe that if we can supply means of transit from the in terior to the coast it will be found that any other difficulties which may be supposed to be in the way of carrying on the cultivation of the articlewill rapidlydiminish. The Govern ment is fully convinced that, even in the present condition of Indian finance --and that this condition is very serious I need scarcely tell this house—it is their duty not to discon tinue expenditure on public works. Caution and discrimi- nation will be needed; but if wewere to discontinue all out lay on public works until a deficit should become a surplus, that would not be the way to bring the finances of India into a flourishing condition. Itis a common mistake to pup pose that there has been no expenditure on public works. For a considerable number of years there has been an average expenditure of £2,000,000 on public works. I do not, of course, claim credit for the whole of those works as being of a reproductive character. It is difficult to state exactly to what extent they are reproductive, but probably I should be within the mark if I assumed that of the 6 2,000,000 a year expended on public works in India pre view to the outbreak of the mutiny one-hall at least was for works of that character. During the two years of the mutiny there has necessarily been a diminution of expen diture ;. but that diminution has not gone so far as mi g ht b e suppos ed, the outlay having amounted to £ 3 ,000,000, a great portion of which has been hear.) expendede) We upon works of a reprodu c tive character. (Bear,are at pres en t, perhaps, in a more unfavourable position in one respect--I do not mean in reference to finance—than any former time; because we are now incurrin g all expenditure which belon gs to a large system of works un d er t a ken without receiving any portion of that profit which can only begin to arrive when the works shall be completed. I came down to - night not I speak the refore from prepared to go into this subjec-7 and _ n d num bers, that rec ollection ; but I think I may say, in round the length of railroad sanctioned in India Is 10 ab nf u e t s 3 , and oo that the amount actually under constructio n miles, while the quantity finished and opened does not ex ceed 500 miles. We have, therefore, a heavy outlay to bear with a comparatively small return. But lam co nfident that when those lines of communication shall be completed the traffic will increase to such a degree in the districts through which th e y pass aswill soon make them amply remunerative. (Hear.) I shall be prepared to enter more at length into this subject ten days hence. In the meantime, perhaps, I may state that we have at this moment in contemplation a plan which will greatly increase the amount of skilled engineering labour at the disposal of the Government. Another class of public works on which some labour has been bestowed is that of irrigation. In the course of last autumn the Indian Government for the first time took the step of giving a guarantee, as in the case of railways, for carrying on works of irrigation. Considerable difficul ties were anticipated—and I do not say that some of those difficulties may not yet arise—as to the negotiations which may have to take place between the companies and those who are to be benefited by the works. But whatever those 'difficulties might be, I felt that the experiment was ono which ought to be tried, and a guarantee of a million ster ling, therefore, was given for that purpose. (Hear, hear.) I can only assure the house that there is no p or ti on of the b us i ne ss of the Indian Administration to which I and the members of the present Government fitfacb so much ha e sto that of pressing on earnestly and expediti- P rta" • works of a reproductive character. (Hear, _ously pu blic hear.) Guarantees to the extent of something like Z37,000,00Q have been given to railroads and to other cow; parries of that description, and we have felt that in the present state of the money market it was not expedient indefinitely to increase the number of those guarantees ; because between the time when the interest upon under takings of that kind becomes payable and the time at which they bring back any return a considerable interval must elapse. We have thought it, therefore, more desirable to press forward with the utmost speed the works that are already actually in progress than to begin new ones - to any great extent and to give fresh guarantees. (Hear, - hear.) Mr. BRIGHT—I have listened to the observations of the noble lord with very great pleasure. I think that he has given a very fair answer to the question of my hon. friend the member for Sheffield. But there is one point which has not been referred to which I think bears very importantly upon the question raised. I fully admit the necessity that there is for establishing roads, or railroads, or some means of communication in various parts of India, but I can con ceive it quite possible that the roads should be as good in India as in any part of England and yet that there should be very little improvement in the cultivation of the soil or in the production of the land. We have had a case of this description near home. In no part of the:United Kingdom are the roads better than in Ireland ; at the same time we know that from causes of a different character the agriculture of Ireland was about as bad us possible. We may have, therefore, in India any number of roads that English capitalists may like to make, under the guarantee of the Government, and still we may have very poor cultivation and very little production frem the soil. I believe, therefore, that unless something be done—in Southern India especially, in the province of Madras—to improve the tenure of land and to give greater security both to the cultivators and to the owners of the soil, little good will result from guarantees to railway companies. (Hear, hear.) I have been very sorry to observe, from private letters and from the public newspapers, that the Govern ment of Madras have been following the example of the Government of Bombay in a manner which I conceive to be little short of official insanity. The Government of Mad ras have issued a commission, called an Enam Commission, for the purpose of ascertaining the titles to land in that province; but I think that anybody who has been concerned with Indian affairs during the last two years must have observed how complete was the unanimity of opinion with respect to the absolute folly and injustice of a similar commission in Bombay. It has been said, indeed, that this commission in Madras is not exactly the same as that in Bombay. Unfortunately, it has the same name, and I fear that it will produce the same results. If I understand it a right, it is intended to examine into the title deeds and rights of possession of proprietors of land whose rights have not been disputed for half a century ; and the mode in which the inquiry will be carried on judging from what took place in Bombay—is such that if it were attempted in regard to the property of the landed gentry in England it would change this country in a week from a condition of tranquillity to one of absolute revolt. (Hear, hear.) lam speaking from a statement which has been made to me by a gentleman of very high character, and of great information in India, and I believe that I express the sentiments of most gentlemen in this country who are acquainted with the state of affairs in India. The noble lord in his new Go vernor of Madras has made an appointment which I think is calculated to gain the confidence of the house and of the friends of India, for I am disposed to think that the gentle man who is going out there is as well qualified, probably, as anybody who could have been chosen for the high office which he is about to fill. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, I don't care what is the character of the man, or how just and pure may be the motives of the noble lord in ap pointin,g him to that office—if he goes to Madras and is to carry out a system so severe, so relentless, so utterly unjust as has been adopted in Bombay, then, I say, whatever troubles may happen in Madras, the noble lord and those who are associated with him will be responsible for them. It can't be of the slightest consequence to the Government whether half a score or half a hundred men hold land upon titles which, of whatever nature, have not been questioned for half a century ; but it is very important that that ex pression in the proclamation which appeared to guarantee to the people of India their rights of property should not be merely a statement upon paper, but should be felt_to be a truth by all the natives of India. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord, I am sure, will know that I am not making these observations for the purpose of detracting from his merits as the Governor of India in this country. I beg that he will use his own strong sense and just feeling to wards the people of India, and that he will not allow the officialism of that country, the red-tapism, the old-Indianism —so to speak—to over-rule him in a matter of this nature. If he does, I believe that he will have next year, or the year after, to repent that he did not act with regard to India upon the only principle which could be applied to land in this country. I think that the fair thing would have been to appoint a commission, not to inquire into the titles to these estates, but generally into the whole tenure of land in India, as was done with respect to the practice of torture some time ago. If a commis sion were appointed to inquire into the whole question of the tenure of land, especially in the province of Madras, with its population of more than 20,000,000, and in which the land, owing to the mode in which it is held, has no saleable value, and to gain all the information upon that subject which was to be had, I think it very probable that the noble lord might be able to introduce some legis lation which would give to the land, and the industry of the people, and the climate of India a fair chance of pro ducing all that they could produce, and to the manufac turers of this country all the benefits that could result from their connexion with a country capable of producing so abundantly as we know that India can produce. (Hear, hear.) I don't ask for an answer now. I merely throw out these observations as suggestions, and 10 days hence, I hope, we shall hear from the noble lord that a commission will be appointed to inquire into this subject of the tenure of land, which I do not hesitate to say is the first and fore most question to which the noble lord should direct his attention. (Hear.) Lord STANLEY—At the time when the appointment of Sir C. Trevelyan to the Governorship of Madras was determined on, I wrote to Lord Harris to request that he would suspend all operations with regard to the Enam Commission until the arrival of his successor at Madras. The object of the commission is not to disturb the old titles, but, on the contrary, to confirm them, and to give a Par liamentary title to a great mass of property the validity of the title to which is disputed. Colonel SYKES said,. there was literally not one man in a hundred in this country who understood the subject alluded to by the honourable member for Birmingham. It was not the right to land, but the right of an individual to pay a Government tax that had to be inquired into. When the subject should be introduced at a future period he should be prepared to discuss it. With regard to the production of cotton in India, the honourable and gal lant gentleman said that it might be produced there to any extent that the manufacturers of Manchester might require. The manufacturers of this country, if they wished to obtain sufficient cotton from India, should make it worth the while of the cultivators in India to produce cotton rather than sugar or indigo, and, as he had frequently told them during the last 20 years, they should send out agents to India to obtain cotton. The imports from India to this country were £23,000,000, while our exports to India were only £12,000,000 or £13,000,000 ; and why 2 Because the people of India did not want our woollens, our hardwares, our stationery or our glass ware. For a long series of years the balance of trade had been paid by us in bullion to India. With regard to public works in India, three magnificent works were in progress at this moment. First, there was the pier at Madras. Next, there were the works which would this year supply Bombay with water. Bombay had been without water during the last 100 years. (Hear, and laughter.) Lastly, there was a work going on which would complete the line of communication with Central Asia. Then, with regard to roads, hon. gentlemen appeared to be not aware of the fact that during eight months of the year all India was a road. Roads in India were not of so much importance as they were in this country. As soon as tran quillity was restored in India there could be no doubt that the progress which had been interrupted by the mutiny would be resumed. Sir J. ELPHINSTONE corroborated the remarks of the hon. and gallant colonel as to the cultivation of cotton in India, and stated that, until better means of conveying cot ton from the interior of India to the coast were provided, it was hopeless to expect the manufacturers of this country to procure much cotton from India, because it had to be dragged by bullocks great distances along the roads, whereby it was much soiled. After a few remarks from Mr. J. EWART, as to the necessity of greater irrigation in India before the supply of cotton could be expected to be much increased, The motion was agreed to. OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER. Mr. WALPOLE obtained leave to bring in a bill to re peal certain Acts and parts of Acts which relate to the ob servance of the 30th of January and other days. The house then adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES. The following notices were given last night in he House of Commons : Lord Stanley—East India—Motion on Indian finance. (Monday, Feb. 14.) Mr. Secretary Walpole--Lunatics—Two bills for amend ing the laws relating to lunatics in county and private asylums. (Monday, Feb. 14.) Lord John Russell—Bankruptcy and Insolvency—Bill to amend the laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency. (Tuesday, Feb. 15.) Mr. Alcock—Turnpike Tolls and Bridges—That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to issue a royal commission to inquire into and report as to the best means of abolishing the tolls on the turnpike roads and bridges in England and Wales. (Tuesday, Feb. 15.) Viscount Melgund—Education—That the annual vote of money for education in Great Britain be henceforth divided into two votes ; one vote to be taken for England and an other for Scotland. (Thursday, Feb. 17.) the and present whether e t t e ab s l i i t s e hm , Mr. Thomas Buncombe—Tower of London—Address for ?.commission to inquire into the expediency of continuing i a o n n d s of and t h e propertyT ow Tower ; belonging together t th all er d wi lu tl r l is th di e ct l to it, cannot, by salbe converted e or otherwise, to purposes of service. greater utility, with advantage to the public Mr. Att (Friday, Feb. 18 ) __. orney _ oe • and amend thleer—Criminal Laws—Bills to consoli date England and Ireland, statutes relating to the Criminal law of both countries. (Friday, dt o apply the same statutes to Mr. Secretary Wag' Feb. l 18.) atten tion of the house to certain urch Rates—To call which have been laid on thePatlres relative to church-rates Ma jesty's command, and to submit measureaof the house by her that subject. (Friday, Feb. 18.) to the house on Mr, Secretary Walpole—Beerhouses, &c.—Bill f or th e f ur th e r regulation of beerhouses, and for p derly conduct in other p laces of püblic resort. (Friday, Feb. 13.) Sir Arthur Elton —Church Rates —To move resolution s with reference t o the abolition of church ratev • (Early day.) General for Ireland—Procedure Jr. Attorney-( lr eland) e of the Court , —Bill to amend the proceduc of Chancery in Ireland. (Early day.) Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland—Registry of Deeds (Ireland) —Bill to improve the office of registry of deeds in reland. (Early day.) Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland—Leasing . _ and Im proving Lands (Ireland) —Bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to powers of leasing and improving lands in Ireland. (Early day.) Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland—Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) —Bill to consolidate and amend the laws affecting the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland. (Early day.) A marriage was celebrated in Leicester, the other day, under rather singular circumstances. The bride was a widow, and the bricigegroom a widower. The son of the bride acted as " father," and " gave away," his mother, while the daughter of the bridegroom officiated as brides =Md.—Stamford Mercury, .SHE K SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1859. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's screw steam transport Perseve rance, Commander E. R. Power, embarks at Ports mouth this day the undermentioned officers and men of the 2d Battalion, 23d Royal Welsh Fusi liers for Malta :—Major Gubbins, Brevet Majors F. Vane and J. Duff; Captain S. C. Millett ; Lieuts. G. Packe and J. K. S. Henderson ; Ensigns S. W. R. Sadler, H. M. Molyneux, G. G. Liddell, and G. Wildes ; Assistant-Surgeon R. W. Berkeley ; 344 men, seven soldiers' wives, 12 soldiers' children. Her Majesty's screw steam transport Urgent, Com mander J. W. D. M'Donald, will embark the head quarters on the`9th inst. Eighty-one men of the Depot Ist Battalion, Rifle Brigade, will proceed from Winchester to New castle-upon-Tyne on the 9th inst. and join head quarters there. The paddlewheel steamship Hecla, 6, Commander E. D. 0. Aplin, from Ascension, Dec. 30; Sierra Leone, Jan. 11 ; and Teneriffe, Jan. 23, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Thursday afternoon, as reported in The Sun of yesterday. The coast was healthy when she left. The Triton, from Ascension, arrived at Sierra Leone, Jan. 10. The Viper, 4, and Heron, 12, were on the South Coast. The Pluto, 4, had sailed from the South Coast for St. Helena, where she would remain a short time to recruit the health of her crew. In the Bights were the Sharpshooter, 8 ; Hydra, 6 ; and Conflict 8. The Ardent was on her way from the Bights to the South Coast. The Medusa proceeds from Ascension to the Bights. The Conflict relieved the Hecla on the 15th of De cember as senior ship on the southern division. . Commodore Chas. Wise was to leave Ascension in the Vesuvius for Sierra Leone on the arrival of the January mail. The Heels, exchanged signals Jan. 20, in lat. 37.23 N., long. 14.9 W., with an English bark showing the third distinguishing pendant 3,240, from Cardiff, steering south-west for Manilla. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Amazon left, Teneriffe on January 23 for Mogador. The Hecla experienced strong winds from north to north-west after leaving Teneriffe. She was commissioned in Plymouth, Oct. 22, 1855, and has been ever since employed in the suppression of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa. The screw steamship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Roch fort Maguire, will be paid off at Plymouth on the 15th inst. The officers are enjoined to be careful in returning stores, as through negligence on board other ships recently paid off much damage has L occurred. _ _ _ The sailing frigate Pique, 40, Capt. Sir F. W. E. Nicolson, was towed into Hamoaze on Thursday, to be paid off. The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com mander Montagu B. Dunn, steamed alongside the coal depot Lavinia, in Plymouth Sound, on Thurs day. The paddle-wheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. James F. B. Wainwright, was docked at Keyham, on Thursday. She has no defects. The Windsor Castle, 112, was lashed to the jetty at Devonport on Thursday, in order to try her machinery. The gunboats Spider and Grappler are to be commissioned at Plymouth. It is not improbable that the Howard, being more forward, will take the place of one of them. The troop transport Ramilies sailed again from Plymouth on Thursday for the East Indies. Letters dated Greytown, January 1, have been received at Plymouth from the Caesar, 90, Captain Charles Frederick, which ship, with the Diadem, 32, Capt. W. Moorsom, had been lying outside the harbour, three miles from the shore, from the 11th of Dec., during which time rain had fallen nearly every day, accompanied by a heavy sea. On New Year's-day a report prevailed that Walker had escaped from the States and was coming to Greytown. Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Supply, under repairs, on return from the shipment of antiquities, from Halicarnassus, in Boudroun-bay, was yesterday undocked at Woolwich, and reshipped her boilers. The paddlewheel steamvessel Banshee, lately on a surveying commission in the north, was yesterday docked at Woolwich, to be overhauled and repaired. Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Curacoa, 31, Capt. T. H. Mason, sailed from Spithead for Ply mouth to embark Lord Lyons and suite on Thurs day evening. At 3 p.m. yesterday, 20 miles off Durlstone Head, she came in contact with the schooner Fleta, of Shoreham, from Shoreham for Cardiff, in ballast*. The Fleta received considerable damage ; she arrived at Portsmouth yesterday. Capt. Field, of the Fleta, reports that his vessel was closehauled on the starboard tack, heading south, wind W.S.W. The Curacoa sent a boat to offer assistance if needed, and afterwards proceeded on her voyage to Devonport. Her Majesty's steam-yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, was removed from her harbour moorings at Portsmouth yesterday to the Steam Basin, to undergo her annual overhaul and renovation. Her Majesty's screw steam yacht Fairy, having completed the repairs to her hull in No. I,dock, at Portsmouth, was yesterday at high water removed from the dock, and towed round to the steam basin to receive her boilers and machinery. - lier Majesty's screw steam-sloop Swallow, 9, Commander C. L. Waddilove, arrived at Spithead from the Mediterranean yesterday . morning. She sailed from Malta Jan. 12, passed Gibraltar on the 20th. On the 19th of Jan., in lat. 36 10, long. 2 26, spoke the Josephine, of Shields. On the 20th, in lat. 36 4, long. 56, spoke the brig Asseuro. On the 27th, in lat. 38 11, long ,16 3, the barque Chanti cleer. Her supernumeraries were landed by her Majesty's steamer Pigmy, and she afterwards sailed for Chatham to be paid off. Her Majesty's steam transport Dee, Master Coro pander T. Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Woolwich, with machinery, &c. THE ARMY. The following general orders were yesterday issued at head quarters, Woolwich, in reference to promotions and removals ordered to take place in the corps of Royal Artillery : " Her Majesty has been pleased to approve the following , promotions viz., Lieutenant-General Alexander Cavalie Mercer, to be Colonel Comman dant, vice Brough, deceased ; Second Captain W. Lambert Yonge, from the supernumerary list, to be Second Captain, vice Dames, placed on the super numerary list. Her Majesty has also been pleased to approve the undermentioned officers of the Royal Artillery receiving from the grant for distinguished services the allowances stated against their names —viz., Major-General R. Hardinge, K.H., £lOO per annum ; Major-General W. C. Anderson, £5O per annum. The grants will commence from the 16th of January, 1859." The following field-batteries of the Royal Artil lery are to be held in readiness to embark for India, according to details which will be published here after, viz., No. 5, Captain C. W. Elgee's, at present at Northampton; M, Major Field's, at Limerick; N, Major Hawkins', at Devonport; Z, Major Mil man's, at Devonport ; No. 12, Captain Green's, at Shorncliffe ; R, Major Thompson's, at Aldershott : Li, Captain Pigeon's, at Hilsea ; No. 12, Captain Saiinders', at Aldershott; No.l, Major Brockley's, at Ballincolig ; 0, Captain Meeking's, at Longford; No. 10, Major Yelverton's, at Leith; No. 11, Capt. J. L. Elgee's, at Christchurch. The following com• panics are to be held in readiness to take over the equipment, guns, stores, and horses of the above named companies, and be formed into new field batteries, numbered as under :—Lieutenant-Colonel Morris' Company, 7th battalion, from Sheerness to Northfieet, to form No. 17 battery; Capt. Vernon's Company, 3d battalion, from Alderney to Linierick, to form No. 18 battery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dixon's Company, 9th battalion,at Devonport, to form No. 19 battery ; Captain Woolridge's Company, sth battalion, from Guernsey to Dublin, to form No. 20 battery; Major Clifford's Company, Ist battalion, from Dover to Shorncliffe, to form No. 21 battery ; Captain Travers' Company, 4th battalion, from Portsmouth to Aldershott, to form No 22 battery ; Major Adye's Company, 3d battalion, from Ports mouth to Hilsea, to form No. 23 battery ; Captain Green's Company, Bth battalion, from Portsmouth to Aldershott, to form No. 24 battery ; Major Len nox's Company, Ist battalion, from Guernsey to Ballincolig, to form No. 25 battery ; Capt. Forbes's Company, Ist battalion, from Sheerness to Long ford, to form No. 2 6 battery ; Lieutenant-Colonel D'Aguilar's Company, 6th battalion, from Liver pool to Christchurch, to form No. 28 battery. Col. Wilford,R.A., delivered a lecture on gunnery on Thursday evening last, in the Royal Artillery . Regimental School at Woolwich, to the non-com missioned officers and gunners of the corps, on which occasion a number of the officers of the gar rison were present. The lecturer congratulated his hearers on the formation of a regular school of gun nery at Shoeburyness, where a systematic teaching of gunnery would be matured, and said that every company of Artilleryshould be a school of gunnery under its own officers,while instruction of a higher character was given, and that the strictest attention should be given to every detail of the service. [ADVERTISEMEN T .] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills, unequalled for th e Cure of Scrofula.—For more than half a century it has been contended that this loathsome disease is incurable though it has been admitted that there are medi cines which may mitigate its _severity, and - put off the dreadful doom for a time. Such arguments were very true until the discovery of Holloway's admirable Ointment and Pills. These peerless remedies, as it has been incontestably , proved, have effected thousands of complete cures of scro fula with and ease. The Pills are composed of vegetable substances of rare virtue, and the Ointment pos sesses powerful healing properties. They act in unison upon the system, purify the blood, correct the secretions, and eradicate the deadly taint. 11161•Mii; THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The following is the quarterly return of the Mar riages, Births, and Deaths registered in the divi sions, counties, and districts of England, published by the authority . of the Registrar-General : " General Register-office, Somerset-house, Feb. 1. " This return comprises the births and deaths re gistered by 2,107 registrars in the districts of Eng land during the autumn quarter that ended Dec. 31, 1858 ; and the marriages in 12,332 churches or chapels, about 4,043 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 630 superintendent. registrar's offices, in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, 1858. " The returns present an unfavourable aspect of the country. The marriages are below the average; and the deaths in the quarter are much above the average number. On this account, and on account of the increase of population, it has never before happened that so many deaths were registered in any autumn quarter as were registered in the last three months of the year 1858. The birth rate was slightly above the average of the season. " The returns of the year 1858 show an excess of mortality in the six cold months, while the morta lity in spring and. summer was below the average. 1858 was an unhealthy year ; and the birth rate was slightly below the average. • the fatal neglect of the sanitary arrangements which are required in every district, and are indis pensable in densely-peopled cities. These 100,620 deaths may be called unnatural deaths, of which about 69,730 happened in the large town districts, and 30,890 in the rest of the kingdom. This is a sad reckoning, but it is an under-statement of the facts.* " The Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council, having under the Public Health Act the power to institute local sanitary inquiries, the registrars of every sub-district in the kingdom have been re quested to give immediate information of any reigning epidemic, and to insert in their notes nu merical statements of the deaths from certain lead ing zymotic diseases. After some revision their returns have been printed in the form of notes (pp. 30-48), suggesting inquiries which will no doubt be zealously prosecuted by Mr. Simon the able health officer of the Board. . "It will be observed that different diseases have prevailed in different localities, each group of popu lation all over the country sufering more or less from its local disease, or enjoying unusual exemp tion. The excess of the mortality is most frequently referred to scarlatina and to the epidemic of diph theria, which began on the southern coast, and has during the year spread over the North Midland and the northern counties. Some districts exhibit no inerease of mortality. Thus in North Devon, amonr , 105,692 people, only 465 deaths took place in three months, and the mortality was at the annual rate of only 18 in 1,000. In the 63 healthy districts the mortality of the quarter was at the rate of 19 in 1,000 annually. In Glendale 39 in 14,348 people died in the quarter, and the morta lity was generally low in the surrounding districts of Northumberland. The Morpeth district is an exception, or rather the Bedlington sub-district of Morpeth ; for there 96 of the deaths occurred, leav ing only 40 as the deaths in Morpeth itself. In Bedlington 15 persons died of fever ; diarrheea, bronchitis, and diphtheria prevailed. The mortality in Bedlington progressively rose from 23 in 1,000 in the year 1856t0 27 to 1,000 in 1857, and to 35 in 1,000 in the year 1858, according to the calculation of Mr. Woodman, the clerk to the Board of Health. ' From this it appears,' he adds, that at Bedlington the death-rate is steadily increasing year by year ; that the poison from filth and cesspools, and the want of water, are increasing, and producing their certain results.' Bedlington neglects sanitary mea sures, and sits tranquilly over its cesspools, which send up disease among the inhabitants. Morpeth has main sewers as well as a water supply ; fever has nearly disappeared, and cholera has been averted, although yet much remains to be done to complete the sanitary defences of the place, " The mortality in many of the towns has been excessively high, and this has been notably the case in Brighton, Reading, Windsor, Great Yarmouth, Melksham, Exeter, Plymouth, and the other towns of South Devon ; Bath and the towns of Somerset shire ; Bristol, Gloucester, and Cheltenham ; New castle-under-Lyne and the Pottery Districts ; Wolverhampton and Dudley ; Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon ; Leicester, Lincoln, Notting ham, and Derby; Liverpool, Manchester, and the manufacturing towns of Lancashire ; Keighley, Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds. In Sheffield 1,021 persons died in 92 days, out of a population amount ing in 1851 to 103,626. Certain sanitary works have been carried out in Lancaster, and only 178 persons died there in the same time, out of a population of 34,660. Multiplying the deaths and the population of Lancaster by three, it is seen that the deaths were in the proportion of 534 to 103,980, while in Sheffield the deaths were 1,021 to 103,626. Can nothing be done to render the sanitary arrange ments of Sheffield at least as satisfactory as those of Lancaster ? "Upon examining all the facts, it is evident that the excessive mortality of the year 1858 may be traced, partly to the pressure in the early part of the year on the poor in the manufacturing districts, partly to the extreme cold of November, partly to defective supplies of pure water, and partly to the prevalence of the epidemic of diphtheria. " We must not shut our eyes to the fact that one great nuisance perpetually increases as the popula tion increases, and that no effectual provision has yet been made for getting rid of it from human dwell ings. It is referred to several times in the notes of the registrars in towns which have been most heavily afflicted. To take one instance—the deaths (386) exceeded the births (375) in St. Peter's, Brighton ; the registrar enumerates the prevailing zymotic diseases, and then observes : " The inhabitants of this sub-district are chiefly artisans, mechanics, and the labouring poor. In many of their dwellings a very insufficient supply of water has been available to them, owing to the dryness of the weather in the first portion of the quarter, the water in the wells in use having been very low. There is no effectual drainage attached to their dwellings, and the cesspool system is in general use.' " Our towns have not had the advantage gene- rally of being led by such enlightened and energetic men as the late Dean of Ely, and have consequently, notwithstanding some efforts, left the greatest nui sance of all still subsisting: Yet the removal of this nuisance is the one thing needful; in sanitary reform it is the root of the matter.' "Liebig, the great agricultural chemist of Europe, has recently reminded us of English guano a sub stitute for foreign supplies. 'I am firmly of opinion,' he says, ' that if England wishes to remain an agri cultural country she must use as manure the night soil and similar residues produced in large cities.' Now England is a great agricultural country, and she will remain a great agricultural country to the end of time. And before the supplies of Peruvian guano fail in our imports, she must bring the article which may be called English guano into the field. It is poison alike in the cesspool of large cities and in the middens of cottages in the country; it is manure in the soil. The land requires it ; the houses must get rid of it. " Byron, to Justify his plain speaking, quotes a sentence from Voltaire : La pudeur s'est eitfuite des c - ccurs, et s'est refugiee sur les levres.' Without pleading guilty to this charge, it must be admitted that while the cesspool nuisance has been in creasing every year in all the cities of Europe, from St. Petersburg to Paris, from Vienna and Venice to London and Liverpool, it suggests ideas so disagreeable that it is rarely mentioned. The time has, however, come when the thing must be met. It cannot be evaded. Scientific research has traced the propagation of typhoid fever to this source. It is the great nidus of the cholera poison. The very aggravated disease, diphtheria, which in fests this country, first assumed the epidemic form in France. And every traveller knows that if the perfumery of France is exquisite ; if her cuisine is the despair of English gourmands, if her arts are admirable, if her society is charming, her cabi nets are everywhere detestable. They give an Englishman literally mal ala gorge. And French guano was apparently the slime on which the diphtheria—whether it is a new or old form of disease—whether it is a parasitic or a simple zy motic malady--assumed its epidemic character. In England it has unhappily found a congenial home; and all over the continent it spreads under still more favourable conditions. In Munich, whence Liebig warns England of her danger, adorned as as the Bavarian capital is with a Glyptothek, a Pinacethek and other wonders of Bavarian art, delicate ladies are persecuted in the hotels by am moniacal emanations. "Science has demonstrated that_ fermenting human extrement is a poison in and near human dwellings ; and chemistry has shown that the same elements in other states become grasses, grain, fruits, and flowers, by the natural magic of the earth. Why, then, it may be asked, have none of the enlightened despotisms of the continent emptied the cesspools of their subjects by absolute decrees ? - Why have they not conferred this boon on the na tive agriculture which they so assiduously protect ? Neither want of knowledge, nor probably of good will, has paralysed administrative action, but rather want of power. Despotism is only almighty in its powers of doing mischief. It can set the.world in flames, •it can shed torrents of blood, but it cannot regenerate nations. It cannot purify the people it has subjugated; otherwise a few lines in the first Code Napoleon might have abolished French cess pools, and have directed the French guano to be deposited every day in the French soil, and by such a law have conferred more benefit on France than she derives from 9-10ths of the articles in that famous digest. " Ancient legislation did not shrink from plainly dealing with the most indelicate matters where human life was at stake, and where the physical purity of mankind was concerned. Thus in the laws which we have been taught were delivered by Divine inspiration the following passage is found.: —' Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad : And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon ; and it shall be, camp° sederis thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee : For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee ; therefore shall thy camp be holy : that Ile see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.' (Deuteronomy, xxiii 12t1 13th, 14th.) •, 1, "This is, mutatis mutandis, the true sanitary theory; all these matters, all dung, and all dirt, must be immediately placed under the soil, which is; the best of all disinfectants ; and modern inven- If the ages and the mortality of the population of Eng land had been the same as the ages and the mortality of the 63 healthy districts, the annual death-rate of England would not exceed 17•55 in 1,000 living. By applying this rate to the population of town and country the above num bers are obtained. " MARRIAGES. " 38,628 weddings were celebrated in the quarter that ended Sept. 30; consequently 77,256 persons were married. The numbers were below the num bers of the married in the corresponding quarters of 1857 and 1856. The decrease since 1856 is ob servable in London and in the divisions south of the Thames. The marriages in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the northern division were nearly stationary ; in the Welsh division they decreased. " BIRTHS. " The births of 158,007 children were registered in the quarter that ended on Dec. 31st ; so the births were at the annual rate of 3.198 per cent., or •017 over the average of the quarter, but below the rates of the corresponding quarters of the two previous years. " 655,627 births were registeaed in the year 185 S, and the birth-rate was 3.358. " INCREASE OF POPULATION. " As 158,00-7 births and 118,663 deaths were registered, the natural increase of the population was 39,344, or 428 souls daily. The probable natural increase of population of the United King dom was 642 daily. " 7,973, or, allowing for the numbers of undis tinguished origin, about 9,516 English emigrants —lO3 daily—sailed from the chief ports of the United Kingdom in the last three months of the year 1858; namely, 2,834 to the United States, 6,392 to the Australian colonies, 289 to other places.t " The natural increase of the population of Eng land in the whole year was 205,609, or 563 daily. " 113,972 emigrants sailed Irom the ports of the United Kingdom in the year 1858. Of the number about 45,736 were of English origin; on an average 125 English men and women left our shores daily. " PRICES, THE WEATHER, AND PAUPERISM. " The funds rose and the prices of wheat con tinued to fall in the year 1858. Wheat was sold at 41s. 9d. a quarter on an average during the last 13 weeks of the year; and the prices in the 13 corre sponding weeks of 1856 and 1857 were 635. 4d. and 525. The fall was 34 per cent. in two years. Beef, by tho carcase was 5 2-Bd., s ad., and. 5 2-Bd. per lb. in the same seasons at Leadenhall and Newgate markets; mutton, 5 6-Bd., 5 6-Bd., "and 5 4-Bd. The average prices of beef were stationary; but the ave rage prices of the higher qualities fell from 6ad. to 60.; the prices of the lower qualities rose from 31d. to 4d. Again, the prices of the best mutton by the carcase was 61d. at the beginning and the end of the period; but the price of the inferior mutton fell a 2d. in the pound. Potatoes, which are so impor tant an article of food, were sold at the rate of 100 s., 1405., and 87s. 6d. a ton at the waterside market, Southwark, in the three last quarters of the years 1856-7-8. Potatoes have been 37 per cent. cheaper than they were in the corresponding weeks of 1857, and 12 per cent. cheaper than they were in 1856. " The weather in the last quarter was peculiar and had considerable effect on the mortality. The average temperature of the three months at Green wich was 43.2 deg., differing little (0.2 deg.) from the average of the corresponding months of 87 years. But November was very cold ; the mean temperature was 39.6 deg., and on the 24th of No vember the lowest temperature recorded was at many stations below 20 deg.-that is, 12 deg. below the freezing point of water. The mean tempera ture has been lower in only 12 out of 87 Novem bers. October and December Were above the average temperature of those months. October and November were dry ; December moist. The fall of rain was deficient in each month; for the fall was only 3.1 in., and the deficiency in the quarter amounted to 4.5 in. The rainfall was in the four last years 1855-58 respectively 23.5 in., 21.5 in., 21.41 u., and 17.2 in. The 17.2 in. of rain in 1858 was the lowest rainfall since,lB4o; in that year the rainfall was 16.4 in. The effect of this deficiency on the wells and the water supply of the people generally must be borne in mind, for when the springs fail stagnant water is sometimes drunk and employed for domestic use. The Poor Law Board has favoured the Regis trar-General with returns which are of great interest, and throw much light on the condition of the people. They require little explanation. We learn from them that on an average during the quarter that ended on December the 31st last 115,751 in-door paupers and 710,904 out-doOr paupers were relieved under the Poor Law ; or, 826,655 persons in the aggregate were in the re ceipt of relief. The average number of out-door paupers in the last 13 weeks of the years 1856, 1857, and 1858 were 720,009, 736,814, and 710,904. The number in the 13 weeks of the last year is less than the numbers in the corresponding weeks of the two preceding years. In the year 1857 there were on an average 4.49 in-door and out•door paupers to 100 of the p o pulation • in 1858 the proportion was nearly the same ( 4.51 ). The average numbers, after corrections for places making no returns, Were 869,027 and 882,498. The first quarter of 1858 was a season of evident distress, and the paupers then receiving relief amounted on a weekly average to nearly a million (974,017). The distress continued in spring, but diminished as summer advanced. " England thus, under her system of Poor Laws, bestows on one in 22 of her population, taking one day with another, relief to the extent of about 4d. a-day, making in the aggregate about £6,000,000 a-year. This is perhaps not more than 2 per cent. on the income of all classes. " Some foreign writers occasionally speak of England as a country eaten up' by pauperism ; they do not seem to be aware of the fact that in other countries-as in Ireland formerly-the ab sence of a legally ordained system of relief implies aggravation, and not absence of distress. It would be equally correct to look upon England as a coun try of wealthy ratepayers overflowing with Chris tian charity. " STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTII. " 118,663 deaths were registered in the three months that ended on Dec. 31. After correcting for increase of population, this implies that the mortality was at the annual rate of 2.402 per cent. l t h y a n o f 2 t 4 h in e l u , a o l o l o e . 1. in town districts o r rather The I m o t r a e was at the rate of 28 in 1,000 living ; in the dis tricts of the country, of villages, and of small towns the mortality was at the rate of 21 in 1,000 living. Upon taking the four quarters, of which the returns are now complete, the result is that the deaths of 450,018 persons were registered in the year 1858, and the annual mortality was at the rate of 23 in 1,000 ; in the large town districts the annual rate was 25 or more ; in the other districts 21 in 1,000 died. • " The population of England is only enumerated every 10 years, and the difficulty arising from our ignorance of the exact population of the several parts of the country is now sensibly felt. It is nearly eight years since the census was taken ; and the growth of the population of the whole country has undergone considerable fluctuations during this important period. Particular towns are necessarily exposed to greater fluctuations than the whole kingdom; as they arepeopled partly by indigenous inhabitants and partly by emigrants from the coun try. If we assume that the town population, which in the aggregate, amounted to 8,247,017 in 1851, increased at the rate which prevailed in the previous 10 years (1841-51) up to 1858, the numbers would amount in the middle of that year to 9,471,204 ; and the mortality in the year would be at the rate of 25 in 1,000. This may be taken as an under-esti mate of the mortality of the towns ; as 21 in 1,000 is rather an over-estimate of the mortality in the country. . " The population of England and Wales in the middle of 1858 probably did not exceed 19,576,950 t; and, at the rates of comparatively healthy districts, the deaths in the year should not have exceeded 349,398 ; the actual deaths amounted to 450,018, and the excess of 100,620 deaths is due chiefly to * Tho Scotch returns have not yet been received. Irish births and deaths are not registered. The excess of births over deaths in England and Wales is raised 50 Rer cent., to represent approximat e ly th e ex cess in the Unite Kingdom. t From a return which the Registrar-General has been favoured by the Emigration Commissioners, the number re turned as of English origin was 7,973, while the birthplace of 3,360 was not distinguished. In the above statement a proportional number of these have been added to those re turned as of English ori6in. t This result is obtained by assuming that the popula tion. has increased in the towns and in the country at the same rates since 1851 as in the 10 previous years (1841-51); by taking the excess of births registered over deaths in the whole country the population is 19,523,000, tion can readily find the mechanism for effecting the purpose, in ways involving less than the Mosaic labour, and quite inoffensive to the refined sensi bility of modern civilisation. The air of our cities will then be sweet ; our rivers will flow unpolluted; the foliage of trees and delicate odours of flowers will caress the senses in the country, in the cottage, and in the mansion. " In England, one of the most free countries of the world, this might perhaps be immediately effected, with the consent of the people, expressed by their representatives, in an enactment somewhat to this effect Seeing that English guano is a fertilising manure in the soil, and is a loathsome, shameful, and poisonous nuisance in or near dwelling-houses, be it enacted, that the retention of any such manure in cesspools, in privies, in middens, or in any other form whatsoever, in or near a dwelling-house, shall render the owner or occupier of the place in which it is found liable to a fine not exceeding shillings a day.' If the 'municipal and parish authorities have the necessary powers to facilitate the working of the measure intrusted to the police for execution, it would speedily effect a revolution in the sanitary condition of England. " ' For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp,'—thy cities and thy fields,—' therefore shall thy camp be holy : that He see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee ;' nor be .hold again 100,000 of thy children perish in any year to come for national violations of ?Lis laws." POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Feb. 4. LAMBETH.--THE CASE OF JANE NEWELL, THE BALLET DANCER.---A respectable tradesman in Regent-street attended before the Hon. G. C.Nor ton, with Jane Newell and her mother, and requested permission to make a short statement respecting the young woman and her mother. His request having been complied with, the applicant said, that at the earnest solicitation of a number of gentle men, customers of his, and who humanely felt for the unfortunate position in which the young woman Jane Newell was placed, after the unfortu nate expose of her conduct on her examination at this court, and the temptations to which she was exposed, he (the applicant) had interested himself in her behalf, as well as that of her unfortunate mother. On first visiting them at their lodgings, 21, Stangate-street, Westminster-road, he found them in a wretched condition, with scarcely a bit of furniture in the place, and that which they called a bed did not deserve the name, but consisted of a bundle of rags, and he felt it necessary at once to apply a sum of money which the benevolent gen tlemen, on whose behalf he was acting, and who had placed it at his disposal—or he should say a part of it—to their immediate wants. He (the ap plicant) thought it but proper to mention that these " sufferings were endured amidst a number of the most liberal but dishonouaable offers made to Miss Newell for her society, and to her mother for her consent, but all such offers were treated with con tempt, and no less than 37 letters containing them were thrown into the fire. This circumstance was to him (the applicant) an indication of reformation, and finding that as high a sum as £lO had been offered by persons for her consent to meet certain parties, and that such offers were treated with contempt, while 10s. received in charity would have been a perfect godsend, determined him in his course ; and, having relieved them, he requested that all future letters that came might be forwarded unopened to him. This was done,- and he then held in his hand as many as 20, of a very miscellaneous and singular character. These letters, as his worship would perceive, con tained all sorts of offers, the majority of them of a dishonourable character ; but one, as his worship would perceive, contained a promise of marriage, but the gallant candidate for matrimony seemed to change his mind on account of the prevarication of Miss Newell in her evidence, and there was an end to that. Finding a perfect desire on the part of Miss Newell to obtain her livelihood by a course of honest industry, and not by immorality and lazi ness, he (applicant) had determined on testing ler sincerity, and to do this had caused a number of ladies to call on her and her mother, and the ac counts which he received from them were most satis factory, so much so that, with her consent, he had determined to bind her to a business, by which she could in a short time procure a good living. The applicant here handed to the magistrate the bundle of letters he referred to for his worship's perusal, and the following are selected as moderate speci mens : " A gentleman who saw Miss Newell in the court on Tuesday, and who admires her very much, would like to meet her in any place she will name. If Miss N. can stop out all night a few pounds will be quite at - her service. The writer will call -at the post-office in Churton-street, Pimlico, for an answer to-morrow. Address, C. M., Post office, Churton-street, Pimlico.—Jan. 19, 1859." _ _ " Esse2c, Jan. 23, 1859. "Miss Jane,—Your unfortunate case has met with a cha ritable feeling with some young people, who have placed a few shillings in my hands for your use. I have not time to call at your house to-day ; if you will meet me at the Royal Exchange this day (Monday), at 11 o'clock, I shall be happy to give it you. If you have your handkerchief in your hand, I shallhe able to know you —I am your well wisher, " )ITm. THOMAS." The following is from Mrs. Ellis, the woman to whose brothel Jane Newell had been taken by Smith, the proprietor of the Adelaide Gallery : " Miss Newell,—After the ruin you have brought upon me by the lies you told, I am obliged to remove in a few days to Belgrave-square, at great expense, and you will, I hope, to save another police case, return my clothes by the bearer or send them by your mother, the poor woman you have so much degraded. " MRs. Emus. " 5, Somerset-terrace, St. George's-road, Pimlico." Mr. Norton—Belgrave-square, indeed ! Why, she will be a neighbour of mine. (Laughter.) The applicant here informed the magistrate that amongst the persons by wham Miss Newell was importuned was the Mr. Smith, of the Adelaide Gallery, whose presence in court on the investiga tion of the case drew such a just reproof from his worship. Waghorn, one of the summoning officers, said that from the inquiries he had made, he had ascertained that the young woman and her mother had con ducted themselves properly from the investigation up to the present time. From the number of gentle men calling at their house—some of them in their carriages—they were obliged to leave their residence in Stangate-street, change their names, and go and live elsewhere, so that he had some difficulty in finding them out. Mr. Norton thought that looked well and in a reformatory direction. The applicant agreed in this opinion, and said it was his impression that Miss Newell was perfectly sincere in her determination to get her living by a moral and industrious course, and that her mother had not been aware, up to the time of her leaving her home, that her daughter had been guilty of any impropriety of conduct. Mr. Norton said there were some circumstances in the case which led to that belief, yet the contra dictions between her statements and those of her daughter were very suspicious. A person who had known Mrs. Newell for some years gave her an excellent character; and it was ultimately arranged that the daughter should be put to the business mentioned. ; that £5 out of £7 subscribed, and left to be appropriated as his wor ship thought fit, should be appropriated to her use, and, together with a sum at the gentleman's dis posal who was the applicant, paid to her in weekly sums, and that the remaining £2 be paid over to the mother. Mr. Norton complimented the applicant for his exti emely kind and humane interference in the case, and observed that there was a good result from the case, and that was, a more liberal scale of remuneration to the class of persons .to whom the young woman belonged bythe proprietors of theatres. The miserable pittance given to those young people was not enough to support them, and they were driven by necessity to fall into the temptations held out to them. He felt, however, bound to say that there was one excellent exception to the reprehen sible practice in the person of Mr. Charles Kean. The applicant observed that there was another evil encouraged at the theatres, and that was, ad mitting persons called gentlemen behind the scenes, as the consequence was that not a single female could go on or come off the stage without being insulted. Here the matter dropped. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-FEB. 4, The market was quiet most of the day, and prices about stationary. Berwicks, 93 931—Leeds Northern, 48 48f Eastern Counties, 121 7-16— Midland, 102 k 1-Chester and Holyheads, 48 I Caledonians, 85f 5/—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96—London. and North-Westerns, 95ki— East Lancashire, 95 sl—Dutch _Rhenish, 5k 5 dis.— Grand Trunk of Canada, 8 5-16—Great Western, 561 — Great Western of Canada, 16k 161—Dovers, 22 1-16 k -North British, 62k—York and North Midland, 771 8. B lILMINGIIANI—FEn. 4. This market was doing more business in railway shares than of late, but quotations generally were lower. The transactions to-day were as follows .—London and North- Westerns were dealt in at 95 —Birmingham Banking Co.'s shares at 27i —Midlands closed at 101—and Great Wes terns at 55f. • . MANCHESTER—FEB. 4. Thong was not much business doing, and prices a shade lower. Leeds, 953—Dowers, 22 1-16--Eastern Counties, 12i —East Lancashire, 951 Grand Trunks, Bi—. Nor th Western Pref., 14 15-16--Sheffields, 3 7—Londons, )4g Midland, 1011. , S COTCH TURNPIKE TRUSTS.---ii blue-book, pub lished recently, by order of Parliament, shows that the gr oss total income of the Scotch turnpik e t rusts i n the - year ended Whitsunday, 1856, amounted to £255,531; and the total expenditure to £252,817; the total debits were £2,377,846, and the total countervailing assets £149,298, •Fuss,—The idle inan's business,--Anch. EXTRAORDINARY MATCH AGAINST TIME IN CALIFORNIA. Early in March last a match was made between certain parties in this city, of whom the celebrated rider Jack Powers was one, that he would make 150 miles over the Union Course in eight consecu tive hours. The stakes were 2,000 dollars a side, 1,000 dollars forfeit. A great deal might be said as to the relative merits of this feat, which is un precedented in the annals of the Turf. In brief,. this is summed as follows :—That the distance of 250 miles in 10 consecutive hours is said to have been done by the English jockey, Mr. Spolling ford, and that Mr. Osbaldistone has certainly ac complished 250 miles in 10 hours. It should be ' remembered, however, that these feats were effected with the best blooded stock of England, whereas that of Mr. Powers is by the native mustang stock of California, not crossed with any other 'breed. Thus, had the - whole eight hours been occupied in, this race, there could have been no comparison wit h the above instances, as the animals used were en tirely dissimilar in breed and reputation. Bu t when we take into consideration the fact that this distance was accomplished in 6 hours 43 minutes, all comparison ceases, and the fact stands un rivalled in the sporting calendar. The race, which has been the great theme of conversation during the paSt ten days, took place, as ad vertised, over. the Union Course. About 30 0 persons collected, and all arrangements having been completed, Powers got off at nine o'clock. H e rode easily, and with his body bent forward, after the manner of a Californian " vaquera." His weigh t is about 150 pounds, and that of the saddle and accoutrements about 40 more. The saddles us ed were of the Californian make, tapadillas, machil los, &c. He used 24 horses in the race, most of whic h belonged to himself. The few miles were done with horses tendered him by various rancheros, who were anxious to have their horses perform part of the play. These, of course, wer e the most splendid animals the countrl could produce. A great number of native Califor nians were on the ground, who mani fested the greatest pride in the triumph of the California stock. The first 60 miles were done id 2 hours and 30 minutes. Powers dismounted 72 times during the match. The furthest any ell e horse was ridden at a time was four miles, and the least distance one mile. He ran at top speed the whole distance. On taking a new horse he woul d spring from the saddle, run a few steps to strete', his legs, and immediately vault into the saddle eL the animal which awaited him. Attendants sometimes made the rounds with him, tender ing him drink and receiving his orders. About the 130th mile a little " shenanigan." W as a perpetrated for the benefit of those beh ind the curtain. Powers up to that tu ne had ridden without difficulty, and sat in his saddle like a monument. He now began to spit blo at and was taken with a sudden weakness in bloat abdomen, which seemed to communicate itself w 1 ", ; the legs. Doubters now began to bet agai n ' s . Powers, which was all that was desired, and consi derable sums were put up by those who consider e "' the game as over. The only blood-vessel which We s ruptured was a small sheep's. bladder, which wa filled with the sanguinary fluid ! ! The entire al . '" tance (150 miles) was accomplished in six hoa r° and forty-three minutes, the rider coming in P er t , fectly -fresh, and making an extra mile in t i n minutes and twenty-eight seconds, to display D i !: condition. Tremendous cheers were given as mounted the judge's stand and addressed the throng who pressed around to hear him. He publiq offered to bet 5,000 dollars that he would ride Ova miles in two hours ; and another, that he W° l / 1 1 , accomplish the 150 miles in five hours with Engl ie ' or American stock, to which there was no response. The average time of the race is within a fined° of 23 miles an hour. Powers does not hesitate W assert that he can make much better time than til ° , above. He is a spare•built man, with full sunburn; face, heavy hair and whiskers, and a keen eye. party with whom Powers is associated realise,' 10,000 dollars by the transaction. Patrons of the Turf count this as the greatest race of the kind 011 record. — Californian paper. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—FEB. 4. We had only a small attendance of millers and dealers our corn exchange this morning, and the demand for be wheat and flour was quite on a retail scale, without, ho w' ever, any alteration in value. Indian corn had a fair ill; quiry, and mixed and yellow descriptions advanced ldt att". white 2d per cental on the quotations of this day se'nflig_,,,' Oats and oatmeal steady at previous rates. Egyptian b eams the turn dearer. Peas and barley without alteration. WAKEFIELD—FEB. 4. There was but a slow demand for wheat, and thoug h prices were nominally the same as last week there W 5 1 difficulty in - obtaining them. The finer qualities of bar ley were rather dearer. Beans were also dearer. Averages for the week : Wheat 2,019 qrs., at 40s 8-d 8ar1ey......... 204 „ 34s 51d Oats — ), —s Od Rye •— 3) -s Od Beans 4l „ 43s Od Peas EXETER—FEB. 4. An average attendance. Many of the samples were ° , l° of condition, and no improvement in prices. oa Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 4d Barley. .. 3s 9d to 0 a I Ditto red 5s Od to 5s 3d Oats 2s 6d 0 „ 2 0 . Flour, fine, 29s to 30s ; seconds, 28s to 29s per sack' k CATTLE—The market was poorly supplied with et° c 1 but a good attendance of farmers. Pork carcases a toler able supply. Fat beef,p score,9s6d to 10s6d Pork carcases, do 7s6d to 8s Od Lambs, per lb. Od to Od . Rough fat Elves, per lb .... 6( 1 0 to pd Wcthers d 0.... • • G 0.7 d Fat calves, d0....6 i l 44d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—FEB. 4. In West India descriptions the transactions are. l ll„ limited this week, on accoun t o f t h e poor asser t m ent ; 8,000 mats Mauritius and 1,600 boxes yellow Wile nahs have been dispo s ed o f a t p r i ces b ar ely supporting previous currency. Th e re fi ne d m a r ket continues fiat, 9 1 1 , 0 to effect sales of importance rather lower prices wouldlo4 to be submitted to. Rum steady, but the demand is scarce? . so active as of lat e ; p r i ces , h owever , a r e firmly suppotc' COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at :ET--FED. 4. the close of the market.) Walls End. s. d. Hastings Hartley... 14 6 Haswell Gas. l3 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....14 9 Walker Primrose 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 12 0 Buddle's West Hartleyl4 9 Holywell 14 9 Wylam l4 6 Bell's Primrose ..12 6 Davison's West Hart ley 14 9 Lambert's West Hart- s• 5. Hetton....•.. .. . 118 0 .. 0 • 10 Tees . 16 Heugh Hall l4 6 Whitworth • . 21 0 Nixon's Merthyr..... 0 Powell's Duffryn Steam 21 6 16 Byron Riddell 16 Eden l6 " 0 Northumberland l5 0 North Hartlepoel 14 9 South Hartlepool. Kelloe l7 A "West Kelloe 9 Framwellgate . • 1 ' 6 Denison l6 Braddyll's Hetton.... •." iA 3 Trimdon. ThornleY. • 16 l6 Benson.... Hartlepool... l7 9 Haswell ... .17 9 27—Sold, 102. ley 14 9 Walls End Acorn Close 16 0 Russell's Hatton 16 9 Cassop l6 9 Carway and: Duffryn Malting Coal .21 6 West Hatton... 16 9 Ships at market, • DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY STATION BY F lll ,, s t —On Sunday eveni ng , a b ou t 11 o ' c l oc k, th e goo ds stat: at Keith, on the G rea t N or th o f S co tl an d R a il w ay, "- discovered to bo on fire, and before assistance could be r en ; dered the whole building was burned to the ground., large quantity of goods, including two barrels of nap as also the account books were destroyed. rumours are abroad respecting the origin of the fire' Banbury Guardian. BIRTHS.' BAKM—On the 2d inst., at llammersmith, the wife of 11' Baker, Esq., of a daughter. ELLISON.—On the 3d inst., at 46, Milner square, Wirt . ton, the wife of Thomas Ellison, Esq., barristet-at-lart of a son and daughter. FLEMING.—On the 4th inst ., at Crouch-end, the is7=-a of 8 Mr. B. Fleming, of 12, ell-street, Cripplegato, 04, daughter. KELLY.—On the 4th inst., in Dover-street, Lady g° ll / / the wife of the Attorney-General, of a daughter. , NIBBEf.—On the 3 d inst., at 50, Oxford-terrace, Hyd e) park, the wife of Thomas Nisbet, Esq., Capt. Ist (King ' g '' Dragoon Guards, of a son. MARRIAGES. HORNE—CLEAVELAND.—On the 3d inst., at the e s c hurch of Lymington, Colonel A r th ur H orne, 13th ,g 0 Infantry, second son of Sir Wm. Home, to Emma Dicker, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Cleavelai l Madras N.I. RowE—WATsoN.—On the 3d i ns t . , at S t. P ancras Chu te ; _S, the Rev. John Rowe, M.A . , o f Tr i n i ty College, C 6,1, bridge, to Harriet, third d aug h ter of Thos. Watson, 81'1.' of Fitzroy-square. DEATHS. ANNESLEY.—On the 2d inst. at Cheltenham Charles App nesley, Esq., M.D., late Surgeon Royal Scots Ore , " aged 75. BunicE.—On the 27th ult., at Dublin, the Dowager Laaj i Burke, wid ow o f C o l one l Si r J o h n B ur k e , B ar t., a nd tP" daughter of the late Right Hon. John Calcraft. BURTON.—On the 4th inst., at his residence, 25 ter -place , , Glouce°- Portman-square, Thomas Stackhouse Burt °l4 q. Eurs.—On the 3d inst., at Cheltenham, Major Ellis, I# of the 18th Hussars. GOSBELL.—On the 3d inst., at South Hackney, Ebene z er Gosbell, Esq., aged 57. Sco tt HENDERSON.—On the 3d inst., at Edinburgh, Wm. Henderson, Esq., W.S. NASH.—On the 2d inst., at Francis-terrace, Kentish-to y( Thomas Nash, Esq., late of the Admiralty, aged 71• LONDON : Printed and Published by MUILDO Yol 7l4 g t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county ° Middlesex, Saturday, February 5, 1859.