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TEE NEW INDIA BILL, Foyernmen' The following is an abstract of the of India Bill (No. 2) : A. Bill to T ast ransfer the Company to e f Majesty the Queen. Whereas by an act of the session holden in the ' 16th and 17th years of her Majesty, chap. 95 "to provide for the government of India , " the terri tories in the possession and under the government of the Eist India Company were continued under such government, in trust for her Majesty, until parliament should otherwise provide, subject to the provisions of that act and of other acts of parlia ment, and the property and rights in the said act referred to are held by the said company in trust for her Majesty for the purpose of the said government, and whereas it is expedient that the said territories should be governed by and in the name of her Ma jesty ; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com mons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authorit y of the same, as follows ; that is to say, B.A.NSFER. OF THE VOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO HE R gAJESTY. I. Territories under the government of the East Ildia Company to be vested in her Majesty. IT India to be governed by and in the name of her iisjesty. 111. Secretary of St ate to exerci s e powers now excrcised.by the company or Boar d of Control. Four principal Secretaries and four Under Secretaries of State may sit in the House of Co n ' mons. V. Seat of President of Board of Control in the House of Commons not v acated by his appoint ment to the Secretaryship of State. VI. Salaries of one Secretary of State and his mn d e r secretaries to be paid out of the revenue of India. VII. Until appointment of Secretary of State, PresAent of Board of Control to act. COUNCIL OF INDIA. VIII. For the purposes of this act a council shall be established, to consist of eighteen members, and to be styled the Coincil of India; and henceforth the council in India DOW bearing that name shall be styled the Council of the Governor-General of India. IX. The thirteen persons hereinafter name.), shitil, be members of the said council from the com mencement of this act, and such persons and their successors respectively are hereinafter designated as the first member of the council, the second mem ber of the council, and so on progressively in the order in which such persons are hereinbefore named, and the remaining members hereinafter designated as the fourteenth, fifkeentb, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth members respectively, shall be elected as hereinafter mentioned, as soon as conveniently may be after the commencement of this act. X. Upon every vacancy in any of the offices of the nine members of the council first named in this act, and their successors, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by warrant under her Royal sign manual, to appoint some other person to such office, quali fied as hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) : the first member to be a person who has been ten years at least in such civil service of the government of India in the north-western provinces, or in terri tories under the direct authority of the Governor- General in council ; the second member to be a person who has been ten years at least in such civil service in the lower provinces of Bengal ; the third and fourth members respectively to be persons who have been ten years at least in such civil service is the Madras and Bombay presidencies respectively. The fifth member to be a person who has been ten years at least in India in the service of the govern meutof India, and who during five years at least of such period has served as political agent or resident in any of the native states. The sixth member to be a person who has served for five years at least in her Majesty's army in India. And the seventh, eighth, and ninth members respectively to be per sons who have served ten years at least in the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies respectively. XI. Every vacancy in any of the offices of the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth members of the council shall be supplied by persons to be elected as hereinafter mentioned from among per sons who have been ten years at least in India, in the service of her Majesty or of the government of India in any department, whether legal, civil, naval, or military, or who have been fifteen years at least resident in India ; and the persons qualified to vote in the election of such members shall be— an proprietors of one thousand pounds or upwards in the capital stock of the East India Company ; all proprietors of capital stock or paid up capital in any company incorporated by act of Parliament for making any railway or other public work in India to the amount of two thousand pounds or upwards : all persons who have been ten years at least iu India as commissioned officers in the military ser vice of her Majesty, or in the military or naval ser vice.of the East India Company, or as civil servants of the East India Company, or in the civil service of her Majesty : provided always, that no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of any such member as aforesaid unless he have been qualified as aforesaid for six months before the election, and be resident in the United Kingdom, and be regis tered according to the regulations hereinafter men tioned. _ _ XII. The fourteenth member of the council shalt be from time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Par liament for the city of London. The fifteenth mem ber of the council shall be from time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the city of Man chester. The sixteenth member of the council shall be from time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Liverpool. The seventeenth member of the council shall be from time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the city of Glasgow : And the eighteenth mem ber of the council shall be from time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Belfast : And no person shall be elected such four teenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, or eigh teenth member unless he shall have been during five years at least engaged in the commerce between India and the United Kingdom, or in the manu facture of goods for exportation to India, or have been ten years at least resident in India : For the election of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth members of the coun cil, warrants shall be forthwith, af. er the com mencement of this act, and from time to time thereafter, as occasion may require, issued by one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to the returning officers to whom writs for the election of members to serve in Parliament for the said cities and boroughs respectively are by law required to be issued • and such elections of members of the council shall be conducted and had in like manner as elections of members to serve in Parliament, and the return to such warrants shall be made to the Secretary of State ; and all laws concerning the expenses of such last-mentioned elections and otherwise in relation to such elections, so far as the same are appliosblo, shall extend to the elections of such members of the council. XIII. Six of the first members of the council appointed by and elected under this act shall go out of office at the expiration of two years from the commencement of this act, and six others of such first members shall go out of office at the expiration of four years from such commencement, and the remaining six of such members shall go out of office at the expiration of six years from such commence lA. The members to go out of office at the ex- Piutiou of such two years, and four years shall in . Q° 468 t 4l e use be three of th e n i ne mem b ers fi rs t na med his act, and three members from among the members memberse relecte last named in this act, and the fir.t members dnitt3tender this act, and such nine first-named shall determine by ballot among themselves w s hich of their number shall be the three memberyse to g o office of at the expira tion of such two ar s a n d f our years respectively, and such four last-mentioned members embers and first elected members shall deter m i ne among me themselves ber which of their number shall b e the three to go out of office at the expi ra ti on of such two Years respectively ; and the Secretary of State shall preside at the taking of every such ballot as afore said.. XIV. Every parsed appointed or elected to fill lk "nteancY occasioned by the expiration of the term —:e o f a membe r of the council shall be ap sovaimi, from or e t x h p e u t a e t r l omnof andsix years, to be t such appointed or electedevery person whose office has b ecome the place of a mem berby the expiration of h i re void otherwise than appointed or elected for th of °Toe, shall be term : And-every person - eea s i„, a , a o Ta w e l, v o f u such re-appointment or re- election t wouldexpir ati on -e e who but f f i, l member of the council by Pointed term of office, shill be capable of being act or elected to supply the vacancy occasions by stub. aspiration. ouncil. XV. Council to make regulations as to elections of 10th, 110, 12th, and 13th members of . c XVI: Committee of Council to determine ques tions at elections. XVII, If upon the occasion of an election of a person to supply any vacanc y among the tent h, ele oath, twelfth and thirteenth mem bers of the Co. mil, any registered voter be desirous of voting THE SUN, _ LONDON, , TUESDAY EVENING, by letter of attorney, he shall be at liberty so to 1 . so, p r ovided that such a letter o f attorne y express the Ramo or names of the candidate or candidates for whom such registered voter is desirous of vo%. ing, and be executed within ten days next bef, ore such election ; and no such letter of attorne.v . , shall be subject to any stamp duty. XVIII. It shall be lawful for her MaY)sty to re move any member of Council from his office upon an address of both Houses of Parliament ; and if Parliament be not sitting, it shall be lawful for the Council, with the approval of her Majesty, to sus pend any member of the Council for criminal or disgraceful conduct ; and a statement of the fact of such suspension and of the grounds thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within four teen days after the next meeting thereof ; and un less both Houses of Parliament, within thirty days after such meeting thereof, address her Majesty for the reversal of such suspension, the member so suspended shall cease to be a member of the Conn .. cu. XIX. Members of the Council not to sit in the House of Commons. XX. There shall be paid to each member of the Council the yearly salary of 1,0001. Clauses from XXI. to XXIV. (both inclusive) provide for re -arrangement of the home adminis tration, reduction of establishment, superannua tion, &c. DIITIES AND FROCTsDITRE OF THE COUNCIL. XXV. The Council shall, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and subject to the provisions of this Act, conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of India and the correspondence with India in the public department, but every order or communica tion sent to India shall be signed by one of the p r icipal Secretaries of State ; and save as expressly provided by this act, every order in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of India under this act shall be signed by such Secretary of State, and all dispatches from governments and presidencies in India, and other dispatches from India, which if this act had not been passed should have been addressed to the Court of Directors or to their secret committee, shall be addressed to such Secretary of State. XXVI. The Secretary of State to divide the council into committees, and to regulate the transaction of business. XXVII. Secretary of State, president. XXVIII. Meetings of the council shall be con vened and held when the Secretary of State shall from time to time direct ; and upon requisition in writing by six or more of the members of the council, one of their secretaries or assistant secre taries shall convene a meeting of such council, giving three days' notice in writing thereof to the Secretary of State and each member of the council. XXIX. The questions at any meeting of the council at which the Secretary of State is not pre sent shall be determined by the votes of the majority of the members present, and in case of an equally of votes, the Vice-President shall have a second or casting vote ; but at any meeting of the council tie which the Secretary of State is present, if there be a difference of opinion on any question, except as to the validity of elections or returns of members, or as to such appointments and admissions to services as by this act are authorised to be made by the council, the determination of the Secretary of State shall be final ; and all acts done at any meeting of the council in the absence of the Score tary of State shall, except as to such elections and returns, appointments and admissions to service as aforesaid, require his sanction or approval in writing ; and in case of difference of opinion on any question decided at any meeting, the Secretary of State may require that his opiinon, and the rea sons for the same, be entered in the minutes of the proceedings, and any member of the council who may have been present at the meeting may require that his opinion, and any reasons for the same that . he may have stated as the meeting, be entered in like manner. XXX. The Tice President, and such two other members of the council as the,Secretary of State may from time to time in this behalf appoint, shall be a secret committee of council for the purposes of this act ; and any such member so appointed may at any time be removed by the Secretary of State. XXXI. Every order or communication proposed to be sent to India, and every order proposed to be made in the United Kingdom, in the publicdepatt went by the Secretary of State, shall, unless the same has been submitted to a meeting of the coun cil, be placed in the council-room for the perusal of all members of the council dining seven days be fore the sending or making thereof ; except in the cases hereinafter provided ; and it shall be lawful for any member of the council to record in a mi nute book, to be kept for that purpose, his opinion with respect to each such order or communication, and a copy of every opinion so recorded shall be sent forthwith to the Secretary of State. XXXII. Secretary of State acting against the opinions of the majority to record hie - reasone. XXXIII. Provided, that where it appears to the Secretary of State that the despatch of any order or communication, or the making of any order in the public department is urgently re quired, notice thereof shall be given to every mem ber of the council ; but the communication may be sent or order given notwithstanding the same may not have been submitted to a meeting of the coun cil or deposited for seven days as aforesaid, the urgent reasons for sending or making the same being recorded by the Secretary of State. XXXIT. Orders now sent through secret com mittee to be communicated to the secret committee of council. XXI'. Secret despatches from India only to be communicated to the secret committee. APPOINTMENTS AND PATRONAGE. XXX.Vi. The appointments of Governor Gene ral of India, fourth ordinary member of the council of the Governor General of India, and governors of presidencies in India, now made by the Court of Directors with the approbation of her Majesty, and the appointments of advocate general for the several presidencies now made with the approbation of the commissioners for the affairs of India, shall be made by her Majesty by warrant under her Royal sign manual ; the appointments of the ordi nary members of the Council of the Governor General of India, except the fourth ordinary mem ber, and the appointments of lieutenant governors of provinces or territories, shall be made by the Governor General of Il o d f i a a nt , hd s e u ts b he j ev e e cir arpa t ip o opirn th etsm e ide a en p nt p cs r ieo o si t b h a e ti m on em of be h r e s r of M co aj u e n st c y il shall be made by the governors of such respective presidencies, subject to the like approbation ; and ail such appointments shall be subject to the quali fications now by law affecting such offices respec tively. XXXVII. Appointments now made in India to be continued to be made there. XXXVIII. All powers of appointing cadets, military and naval, and all other powers of appoint ing and admitting to service not herein otherwise expressly provided for, which would or might have been exercised by the Court of Directors of the said company if this act had not been passed, shall be vested in her Majesty : provided that names of such persons as may from time to time be recom wended by the council, under resolutions made at their meetings, for appointments or admissions to service, shall be submitted to her Majesty by the Secretary of State ; provided also, that appoint ments of persons becoming entitled thereto as men tioned in sec. 41 of the said act of the 16th and 17th years of her Majesty may be made by any committee of the council as the Secretary of State shall direct. XXXIX. All powers of making regulations in relation to the appointments and admissions to ser vice and other matters connected therewith, and of altering or revoking such regulations, which if this act had not been passed might have been exercised by the court of directors or commissioners for the aflairs of India, may be exercised at meetings of the council, subject to the approbation of her Majesty, and all regulations in force at the time of the com mencement of this act in relation to the matters aforesaid shall remain in force, subject nevertheless to alteration or revocation by the council as afore said. _ XL. Removal of officers by her Majesty. XLI. Real and personal property of the corn pally to vest in her Majesty for the purposes of the government of India. XLII. Powers of sale and purchase, and con tracting. XLIII. Dividend of the company, and existing and future debts and liabilities and expenses, charged on the revenues of India. Clauses XLIV. to LII. provide for the transfer of revenues, cash account at the B ink, &c. LIII. Audit of accounts in England. LIV. Accounts to be annually laid before Parlia rivnt. LV. Commissioners to proceed to India to inquire into the finances and accounts. LVI. Indian military ant naval forces to remain under existing conditions and service. LVII. New provisions may be made for persons ivA . van ci ts of o hereafter entering her Majesty's Indiln forces. LVIII. Servants of the company to be deemed LI.X. B-iar o f her in force. All orders of ' the Court of Directors or ait L e X ete • t e s es t se e r of appointments and functions of pewert: B.IXIX. D rt ride for the - ' LTa. : , ciames L aile control ilsouva le d. ferenee of arran gement ? the eo e ti,„ e trans existinguva a 1 of some COMMENCEMENT OF Ti m A CT l A XX. This act shall commence a nd : take t e elf t on th© day next af t e r the p assin g thereof`' LX"XL TihS act &tall be proclaimed in the Ser oral presidencies and government of India as r oon as conveniently may be after such act has been received by the Governor-General of India ; and until such proclamation be made, all acts, matters, and things done, ordered, directed, or authorised in India, in the name of the East India Company or otherwise in relation to the government of India, I shall be as valid and effectual as if this act had not been passed. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Her Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief leaves town this (Tuesday) morning, at 8 o'clock, for Aldershot, to inspect the tro_lps in camp and the permanent barracks, which have already been occupied by the infantry and field batteries. The following General Order was issued by the Major-General Commanding the Forces in Ceylon, on the departure of the Head-quarter Division of her Majesty's 37th Regiment from that colony in October last for service in India : " Head-quarters, Colombo, 22d Oct., 1857. "1. The Major-General Commanding the Forces desires to express his satisfaction at the excellent order in which the Head-quarter Division of the 37th Regiment embarked for India ; the soldier like appearance of the men, and their steadiness and sobriety on the occasion reflect the highest credit upon the corps. " 2. The Major-General begs Colonel Skelly and the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the 37th Regiment, to accept his sincere farewell, with his best wishes for their health, welfare, and future distinction. " J. R. BRUNKER, Colonel, D. A. G." The two-company depot of the 86th Royal County Down Regiment, under the command of Captain H. W. Wehnan, is ordered to proceed from Chatham on Thursday, and embark at the dockyard for Cork, for the purpose of joining the depot battalion at Buttevant. The Director-General of the Medical Department of the Army has directed the following changes to be made in the staff of medical officers attached to head-quarters, Chatham ; Assistant Surgeon Scott, 73d Regiment, to embark for the Cape of Good Hope, to join the service companies of his corps ; Assistant-Surgeon Slatter, 61st Regiment, and Staff Assistant-Surgeon Slate, to embark at Graves end in the Abeona, in charge of troops proceeding to Calcutta. Assistant-Surgeon Millar, 4th Foot, to proceed to Newport ; Assistant-Surgeon Long, Bth Foot, to Kinsale ; Assistant-Surgeon Long staff, 10th Foot, to Mullingar ; Assisiant-Surgeon Macintyre, 11th Foot, to Hull ' • Assistant-Surgeon Grey, 13th Light Infantry, to Winchester ; and Assistant-Surgeon Bennett, 14th Regiment, to Nam. Orders have been received for the following draughts to proceed from Perth to Gravesend today there to embark on board the steamship Abeoua, for conveyance to Calcutta :—viz., 26 men of the 42d Royal Highlanders from Perth, 11 men of the 93d Highlanders from Aberdeen, and some of the 79th Highlanders from Stirling. Lieutenant Shuttlewor:h, 42d Royal Highlanders, to proceed in charge. The Engineers' and general building depart ments at Woolwich are at present actively engaged in clearing the ground and making preparations for the immediate erection of various institutions ordered to be constructed according to the estimates voted for that purpose. The site of the Old Kent Waterworks in the vicinity of the Royal Marine Barracks, as well as the residence and grounds of General Ashtnrre, late Colonel-Commandant of ' the Royal Marines, has been cleared and laid out for the erection of a Marine and Naval Hospital, on a scale suitable to the increasing requirements of the garrison. The spot in Mill lane adjoining the Common, some months ago de , signed and pronounced by the Engineer Depart• ment as suitable for building a garrison church, is ordered to be levelled and laid out for that pur pose. The locality affording sufficient space for the depot and official departments of the Royal Engineers, the necessary es' ablishments belonging to that corps, and which are at present carried on in various parts of the garrison, are ordered to be built thereon. The Soldiers' nstitute, under the direction of Mr. Ingerstein, the Rev. Mr. AA worth, vicar of Plumstead, and the Philanthropic f Committee of Woolwich, who have generously contributed the pecuniary means of setting the establishment on a working scale, was yesterday morning opened to subscribers. From the pub licity already given by the public press, various contributions of most useful books have been re- ceived by the committee. The house from its po sition near the Royal Marine, Artillery, and Mi litia quarters, as well as from the distribution of its numerous chambers, fitted up as refreshment, reading, and writing rooms, &c., and affording cheap and seasonable means of amusement for the recreation of the soldier, for whom it is intended as a second home, will, it is considered, render ' its success little short of rt positive certainty. Major-General Sir W. F. Williams returned to Woolwich on S3turday, and resumed the command of the garrison yesterday morning. The whole of the division of Vie Royal Marine Light Infantry assembled at Woolwich Common yesterday morning in command of Lieut.-Col. H. Fleming, and went through a series of battalion movements and field drills. The St. Vincent, 104, has stripped to her lower masts, and awaits the turn over to the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, which will take up her moorings off Hard way. The rear-admiral superintendent's flag of the Portsmouth Dockyard flies at the mizen of the Excellent, gunnery ship (pro tem). The corvette which we stated would be built in No. 6 dock, at Portsmouth, will be called the Rinaldo, screw, 17 guns. When completed she will be " floated," not launched. Iler Majesty's store transp , rt Rhatlamanthus, Master- Commander Sturdee, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday evening laden with steam boilers, &c., for transship. ment for her Majesty's steamship Coromandel in China. The Imperieuse, 51, screw, will be taken into the steam basin dock at Portsmouth as soon as the Duke of Wel lington, 131, screw, hauls out. THE CONDITION OF IRE NAVY. (Front the Morning Herald.) The condition of our navy on the return of the Conservative party to power must be very interest ing to our readers. The circumstances under which that party again forms the government of the country are most remarkably coincident with those under which Sir Robert Peel succeeded Lord John Russell in 1841. It will not be forgotten that for some time previously the government had been en gaged in various squabbles with foreign powers. The Syrian difficulties had scarcely subsided ; our relations with France wore most unsatisfactory ; with America we were on the verge of quarrelling, and with China we were at open war. Singul4rly enough, Lord Derby has just such another le gacy left him ; but happily the navy at this mo ment is not comparatively in the same dis gracefully weak condition as it was in 1841, yet it must be confessed that it is a source of con siderable uneasiness to its best friends that nearly one-third of the efficient forces of the navy is concentrated on one station—China ; leaving only about 28,000 officers, seamen, marines, and boys, in the Mediterranean, West Indies, orth America, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Africa, Brazils ' Pacific ; and for the coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, the transport service, the receiving ships, depot ships, training ships, and home ports. Fortunately, the ships that are on foreign sta tions are fully and efficiently manned; but in con sequence of the most unwise reductions last year, at the cry of economy and retrenchment . , we find ourselves engaged in another China war with only peace forces and half-manned ships at home. We doubt not that if any real danger threatened the peace of Europe we should have plenty of men for the fleet ; but it must be confessed that at the present moment we have scanty resources ; for our test men have been sent adlifr, our most intelligent lads hive been allowed to quit the service, and all vacancies have latterly been filled by the most in ferior classes. The following lists are made up to March 1 : THE FLEET OF THE LINE. SCREW SFIIPS OF THE LINE. Guns. Mon. H. p. Station. Marlborough . Duke of Wellington 131 523 700 Portsmouth. Royal Albert l2l 1000 500 Mediterranean. Royal George lO2 370 400 Sheerness. Conqueror Princess Royal 11 snuibal Renown Exmouth Nile Cressy Centurion ilrun4widc SO 750 400 West Indies. Scuisparcil The Marlborough is fitting et Portsmou , h to relieve the Rind Albert in the Medi' erfanean, Ad miral Fanshawe succe ling Admiral Lord Lyons. The Duke of Well ingt in, Royal Cc , rle and Nile, ar e le ships ; and HannibA - Exinouth, and Cressy are steam guard ships at their respective port s, the officers commanding being in charge of the steam ordinaries. But all these latter are sea-going s'it', with only part complements. The following arc screw coast-guird ships ;distributed at the various ports of England, Ireland, and Scotland. These may be truly called an effuJtive home service force. ' WJAhin the last few weeks many old 50-gun sailing tr;t4BAes,have been sent t o th e or di n a r ies, and their lue.eem' " r u 11) ..z:LI by the above screw ships—all of them old sailing two-deckers converted into screw ships with efficient armaments. Guns. Men. 11-p. Station. Blenheim 6O 348 450 Portlaid, Ajax Edinburgh Hogue 6O 348 450 Greenock. Cornwallis 6O 348 201 Humber. Hawke 6O 348 200 Coast of Ireland. Hastings 6O 348 200 Liverpool. Russell 6O 348 200 Falmouth. Pembroke .CO 348 200 Harwich. With the former list, we have a total of 23 sea going screw ships. SCREW FRIGATES. Guns. Men. H.-p. Station, Shannon 5l 560 600 China. Chesapeake Euryalus Diadem ..... Arrogant Tribune Curacoa 3l 340 350 Portsmouth. These seven frigates are of the most powerful classes, and perhaps the smallest is equal to the 74-gun sailing ship of the last war. The Arrogant is the first screw frigate designed for the navy, and the Diadem is the last production of the dockyards. The latter is a model vessel, of immense tonnage, immense power, and mighty armament. SCREW FLOATING BATTERY. Terror, 16 guns, 60 men, 200 horse-power, Bermuda. SCREW CORVETTES. 'Ships. Guns. Men. H.-p. Station. Racoon Pylades Pelorus Highflyer Satellite Tartar Pearl Esk 2O 240 250 China. Niger „,* l4 180 400 Chi na . The Niger is the oldest of this class, and the Ra coon the youngest. There is, however, no com parison between the two, for the latter is equal in force to three of the old Niger. SCREW SLOOPS. Ships, Guns. Men. H.-p. Station. Cruizer Hornet Harrier Alert Wasp - l3 165 100 Brazils. Cordelia ...... Desperate 8 165 400 Mediterranean. Conflict 8 165 400 Coast of Africa. Ariel Curlew Swallow 9 100 60 Mediterranean. Lyra Plumper Sharpshooter 8 90 202 Coast of Africa. Teazer Fairy — 120 Royal Yacht Tender. SCREW GUN VESSELS. Nimrod . 6 110 180 China. Roebuck .... ..... 6 110 180 China. Surprise Cormorant Assurance Sparrowhawk 4 90 200 China. Mohawk 4 90 200 China. Coquette... 4 9d 200 Mediterranean. Vigilant 4 90 210 Mediterranean. Osprey Wanderer Lapwing SCREW GUN BOATS. Bustard Haughty 2 37 60 China. Forester .... Opossum 2 37 60 China. Plover 2 37 60 China. Staunch Starling Forward 2 37 60 China. Skipjack 3 37 60 West Indies. Onyx ... . Nettle 2 20 Bermuda, tender. Redwing 2 20 Devonport, tender. Lark Stork .... Traveller 2 60 Portsmouth, tender, Bullfinch 2 60 Portsmouth, tender, Lively 2 60 Sheerress, tender. Biter Badger . 2 60 Kingstown, t. (e.g.', Erne Louisa 2 60 Leith, tender (e.g.: Gest awk Snap Saudfly Ruby Spanker Magpie Dapper Hind Magnet Leveret Shamrock Seagull Dove Leven Slaney 1 40 80 China Algerine Lee 1 40 80 China Firm Banterer 1 37 60 China Clown 1 37 40 China. Kestrel Drake 1 37 40 China. Janus Watchful, Woodcock. 1 37 40 China. Lynx - ' 4 510 ' Cape. Viper - 80 Africa. Jaseur ... 1 41 80 West Indies. Jasper 1 41 80 West Indies. Fifteen of the above are tenders to the coal guard service ships at their respective stations. SCREW TROOP AND STORE SHIPS. Acorn Himalaya Adventure Assistance Megnra Simoom Vulcan Urgent Hesper Buffalo 2 40 60 Coast of Africa. Sup ply Industry 2 53 80 Particular Service. The above, it will be seen, compose the principal forces of the Royal navy-129 screw ships. The following is— THE STEAM PADDLE FORCE. FRIGATES, COEYETTES, &C. Ships. Guns. Men. 11.-p. Station. Penelope l6 300 650 Cape. Retribution Leopard Magicienne l6 220 400 China. Furious Valorous l6 220 400 Devouport. Samson Cyclops Fury 6 16 5 515 Chi na . Inflexible 6 1 6 5 378 China. Vesuvius 6 2)3 280 C oas t o f Af r i ca . Centaur Vulture Hermes Hecate 6 135 240 Coast of Afr i ca. Hecla Trident ....... Virago 6 165 300 Brazils. Vixen lO5 6 220 Pacific. Devastation 6 160 400 West Indies. Medina ....... Tartarus Porcup,ne 3 67 132 Hebrides (our.) Basilisk . 6 165 400 West Indies. Buzzard 6 I ' s 300 West Indies. Styx 6 16 5 280 W es t I n di es . Recruit Weser Dasher 2 6 9 100 Channel Islands. Locust 3 55 100 Sheerness. Otter Alban 4 5 5 100 Fitting. Alecto Medusi 4 100 312 Coast of Africa. Merlin Ardent 3 100 200 Coast of Africa. Firefly 5 80 220 Coast of Africa. Pluto Antelope 3 65 260 Coast of Africa. Myrmidon Sp Vire Bloodhound Caradoc Harpy 1 50 200 Mediterranean. Jackal 1 50 150 Fisheries. Bruno 2 80 Cof Africa, tender. Pigmy 3 37 100 Portsmouth, tender. S. rightly Fire Queen.,. •, 28 120 Portsmouth, tender. Advico Lizard — 47 150 Sheerness, tender. Wildfire Fearless Asp — 50 Pembroke, tender. Lightning Advice 24 180 Queenstown, tender, Coromandel , 5 _ China, tender. Rhadama.nthus 4 69 220 Storeship. Dee Kite — 170 13er .1. uda, tug. Red polo - 21 170 Gibraltar, tug. Hearty Vict. & Albert 2 Elfin — Osborne 2 Black Eagle 2 Vivid 1 Emperor — YACHTS. 13S 600 Royal yacht. Royal yacht, tender. Admiralty, Portsth. Admiralty, Woolwh, Admiralty, Woolwh, Japan. 80 430 36 250 27 160 THE SAILING FLEET. That part of our navy now composed of mere sailing ships is regarded as the least powerful and effective portion of it. These ships, it may be said, are being merely worn out, and used on foreign stations in order to keep the more effective screw ships available at home. TWO DECRERs. Guns. Calcutta Ganges ......... 84 M0narch................. . 84 Indus ...................... 78 Boscawen.. .............. 70 ,Camber;and ...... 70 FRIGATES. Men. Station. 720 China. 720 Pacific. 750 , Pacific. 650 West Indies. 650 C:►pe. 650 Brazils. Nankin .... Eagle (50) l6 Cambrian Sybil Piqu© ............. 40 Castor 36 500 123 375 350 :350 330 China. Milford(eoastguard, China. China. China. Cape. CORVETTES. Amethyst ...... Iris 230 230 230 153 240 China. Australia. Pacific. Chios. Pacific. ALTRI Actreon Ilavauttah Calypso Ilenild„ 1 121 Australia (sure.) SLoors, &e. Arachne Atalanta l6 130 West Indies. Camilla Di 130 Chin-a-. 12 130 China, 12 DO China. Comus l4 130 Chinn;; Racehorse Sappho Persian Childers Heron 12 120 Coast of Africa. ~_ _ Spy 3 65 Brazils. FLAG, ORDINARY, STATIONARY SHIPS, &C. Royal William Waterloo l2O 222 Sheerness, Victory Hibernia (104) Princess Charlotte (104) 12 Impregnable Cambridge 7l Excellent 131 4SO 221 487 (;92 Ma ta. China, floating brcks. Devonport Devnpt., gnry. ship. Portsmouth, gnry, Wellesley 73 Implacable (72) 2O 11l strious (72) ...... 20 Imaum (72) lO Belleisle (72) Melville (72) ...... 6 Mindon (72) 337 50 131 82 245 219 Chatham. Devonport, training. ;srrioul raining Jamaica. China, hospital. China, hospital. China, hospital. Woolwich. Pembroke. Fisgard - Saturn - TENDERS Pi ttern Bramble Adelaide Cockatrice Netley Nautilus Sylph Sealark Rolla M.reury Ceres Fanny Hart Wizard Gipsey STORK SIIIPS. 6 Tortoise Madagascar 8 C 9 Nereus Naiad Athol Crocodile nutas, he. Alligator Sapphire Seriugapatam Pyramus Weymouth China. Australia. Cape. Pacille. West Indies. De ,, onport, training. Devonport. Portsmouth. Portsmouth, training. Channel Islands. Channel Islands. Portsmouth. Sheerness. Queens own. Queenstown. Ascension. Rio. Pacific, Pacific. Greenock. Thames. China, powder. Trincomalee. Cape, coal. Halifax. Bermuda. The above are the actual forces of the British navy in commission —effective, sea going, sta tionary, and otherwise. Since tire break-up of the late Sir Robert Peel's Government, iu 1847, the screw ship has superseded, not only the old sailing man-of-war, but the paddle-wheel vessel, and now the real strength of. the British fleet is the nutnb:!r of thiree-deckers—such as the Duke of Wellington, Marlborough, Royal Sovereign ; two-deckers—such as the Conquerer and St. Jean d'Acre ; frigates— such as Shannon, Imperieus?, Diadem ; and cor vettee, gun vessels, and gun boats—such as Racoon, Nimroi, Slangy, &c. propesled by powerful screw machinery. In the lists above (numerated will be remarked the Blenheim, Ajax, Hogue, and the Arrogant. These were the pioneers of the screw steam fleet. The former three were the first experiments, being old 74 sailing ships converted into screws, and the last-named was the first frigate designed to be pro pelled by screw machinery. Her speed and quali cations as a powerful frigate have now been sur passed by our modern screw frigates, but for her tonnage and power she stills holds a good position in the list. It must be a source of sincere gratifi cation to the new Secretary to the Admiralty, the Right Hon. T. L. Corry, to see the ships above mentioned converted and designed under his secre taryship, and at his earnest desire, 10 years since, figuring so prominently as they still do in the effec tive forces of the British navy. TILE NIGHTINGALE FUND. We have been requested to publish the following correspondence : "30, Old Burington-street. March 23. "Dear Mr. Herbert,—l have been for some time hesitating as to the course I ought to take with regard to the large fund which is called by my name, and which was so generously placed in my bands for the purpose of being applied to a most useful and beneficent object. "Aftr allowing a time to elapse fully sufficient for forming a judgment I find my health so much impaired, and I am, consequently, so unequal to begin a work which, to be properly performed, will require great ex ertion and unceasing attention, that I feel it incumbent upon me and due to the contributors to beg you to com municate to the trustees and council my inability to undertake the task. " This communication is very painful to make, for I hoped, by my exertions in the work proposed to me, to mark my deep sense of the confidence reposed in me, and I looked forward to the attainment of an object which has always been nearest to My hear•. " Bat I strongly feel that its realisation ought not to be indefinitely pose poned, nor a large sum intended for a benevolent purpose to be allowed to lie useless, because I am incapacitated by illness from undertaking its ap plication. " I must therefore, under these c'rcumstinces, ask you and the council to consider in what way the ejects contemplated by the contributors may now best be effected.—l remain, c'e it Mr. Herbert, " Most faithfully and gratefully yours, " FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, " The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P." " 49, Balgrave-square, March 26. " Dear Mies Nightingale, — Immediately on the re ceipt of your letter I summoned a meeting of the council and the trustees of the Nightingale Fund, at which meeting your letter resigning your tript was read. " I need not tell you with how much sorrow that let ter was received. . . . ,4 We we- e, however, unanimous in the hops that, for the reasons I am about to state, you will take further time before you come to any final decision on the suject of your letter. " The object of the contributors to the fund was two fold. They wished to see established some organisation for the training of hospital nurses. They wished to supply a great and acknowledged deficiency in our medi cal system whether civil or military, and they knew that they could intrust the task to no one so experienced or co capable as yourself. " But they wished likewise to mark in a manner per sonal to yourself their sense of the services rendered to the country by you and by those who acted with you ; and tkey felt that they could offer yon no proof of this respect more gratifying than the proposal of a fresh task to be undertaken and fresh work to be done. "They were aware that you among others were as sisting in furthering great changes in the sanitary and medical organisatiou of the artily ; and till that task was accomplished, they were quite content to postpone the commencement of whatever plans you might originate or adopt for the objects to whieh the Nightingale Fund was to be devoted. " We have seen some of the results of the 'abours on behalf of the army to which you have contributed. We trust that a short time will witness their sunpletion, and that you will have the gratification of seeing the fruits which they will bear. When this time arrives we can not but trust that with diminished labour you will regain your health, and that without undue fatigue or exertion you will be enabled to give a general superintendence to the plans you may devise for the application of the fund. " In thestrieanwpile the money, though unapplied, is not idle. It is well invested, and therefore increasing by the accumulation of interest, and the delay will be partly compensated by the enlarged means which will ultimately be at your disposal. " Should, however, our anticipations be too sanguine, and should your health not be sufficiently restored to enable you personally to undertake the government of any institution that may be founded, still we should earnestly desire to act upon plans deviser! by you and to adopt the organisation which, order happier circum stances, you would yourself' have created. " We - are satisfied that, next to your personal supe rintendence, the contributors would most desire that your mind and intention should animate the work, even though its execution should Lill upon other,. " I am, theref desired by my colleagues to ex press their earnest hope that you wil, postpone your final decision until further time shall enable you to judge what degree of superintendence you will be en abltd to bestow on the work which is identified with your name, and which we still earnestly hope will derive its organisation from your hands.—Play believe me, moat faitbf ul y yours, " SIDNEY HERBERT. " MOS Florence Nightingale." " 30, 0:d Burlington-street, March 27. " Dear Mr. Herbert,—lt would indeed be impossible for me t refuse a proposal which expresses so kindly the generous confidence of the c•:uocil and trustees, and which leaves open to me the opportunity—if, umxpec tedly to myself, my health should make it pos..ible—cf attempting to forward the oljnts most interesting to "I believe that you will be willin to assure the coun cil and trustees that I will work if I can, and when I can. It is a great relief t ) one to. have yaw. assurance that they are aware that hitherto it has been impossildl for me to do anything in this work, and that they will be so for some time to come,—bow long it is not in my power to say. The fear that I might appear to neglect a trust committed to me weighed heavily on my mind, and the great uncertainty as to my ever being able to fulfil it induced me to rtquest that I might be allowed to relinqui,h it. "But I beg to leave the matter entirely in your hands as proposed by you ; and I have only to repeat my thanks to y.,u and the council for the hesrtf-lt plea,ure afforded me by your confidence and good wishes. "I beg that you 'xi] . believe me, dear Mr; Herbert, " Ever most fiithfully yours, " FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. "The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P." TESTIMONIAL TO.- LORD FORESTER. A splendid testimonial was on Saturday last presented to Lord Forrester on his marriage by the member 4 of ho Bel voir Hunt, as a mark of their esteem, and as FOlllB acknowledgment of tho sport shown during the 27 yearn he huntLd with the Belvoir hounds, DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. - - X s. d. £ s. d. Commercial .......... 51. pr cent. Stock. Stock. - Do. Preference ~ Stock If - East and West India.. 6/. pr cent. Stock. 119% Grand Surry D. & Canal 4/. par cent. 100 0 0 00 0 0 - I to. Loan Notes .. .. ff 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Do. 5 per cent. Pref. 51. pr cent. 25 0 0 5 0 0 - London .• •• • • •... •• If Stock. stock. 104 St. Katharine ........ 4%1. per cot. _Rock. ~ 96 Southampton ........ 4 per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70NN Victoria •• .. .• 5/. Os per c. 20 0 0 20 0 0 90% Ditto New •• •• •• •• ff 20 0 0 14 0 0 - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ a. d. Albion .... • • ...... 71. per c. 500 0 0 50 0 0 - Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 14s. 6d. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17N Ditto Marine . .... - 61. p.c.& ba. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45 3 4 Athenoemn. - .......• - 1 0 0 al - Atlas Argus Life ........... 41. per cent. .00 0 0 25 0 0 - nritish Commercial .. 71. 103. 50 0 0 5 • 6 - Church of England .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 20 0 3% City of London .. •• .. 5/. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Clericl.Med.& Gcn.Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - County ....._ ........ 4/. per share 100 0 0 10 0 0 87% Crown .............. 1/ 18s. .50 0 0 5 0 • - Eagle . Equity and Law...... 5% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 is - European Life l/. 20 0 n all - Family Endowment •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - General 6 per cent b 0 0 all -- Globe .. • . 51. per cent Stock all 894 Greshrun:Life . - - 47 5 4 Do- Do. - 20 0 0 50 0 ~ - Guardian ............ N. per cent 100 0 •• 10 0 0 55 Imperial Fire... •..... 121. per cent 500 0 . 30 0 0 '363 Imperial Life - 210 0 1834 Indemnity Marine.... 5 p. ct. &bs. 100 0 0 13 0 0 1324 Law Fire ............ 2s &2s bons 1 00 0 0 210 0 - Law Lite............. 29/. per sh 100 0 0 12 10 e 64 Legal and General Life is. per share 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London London & l'rov. Law • • 3s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Marine... • • Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%, per cent 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Minerva •• - • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 4 0 0 - Monarch .. •• .• - New Equitable - Pelican . ..... •• - - - Phcenix - - 173 Profesetona Life...... 5/. per cent 6 5 0 010 0 - Provident Liie - Rock Life.... •• Royal Exchange ...... Bp.c. & be. Stock. all 274 Sun Fire ...... 6% p. c & bs. - t 1 ---. Ditto Life ... I/ 14s. - United Kingdom .... 4/. & bonus. 20 0 0 510 . - Universal Life ... ..... 5/. & bonus. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life •....... 51. & bonus. - 5 0 0 6% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- -- £ a. d. £ a. d. tustralasia........... 201. per cent. 40- 0 0 all 84% Bank ot Egypt ...... - 25 0 0 18 15 0 21 3 7 4 Bank of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 CO 0 0 47% British North American 9 per cent. 50 0 0 all 58 Ch Bk. Ind. Aug & Ch. 4 , per cent. - 20 0 0 6 0 0 - City ........ Colonial ..... . ~ . - Commercial of London. 11. p. c. & hi.' 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Bug • Scot. St Aust. Ch. 4 . per cent. 20 0 0 all 1 7 % Lond•Cnar. Bk. of Aus. Cl. per cent. 20 0 0 18% ~ Do. New ll i 20 0 0 „ .-- London and County Lon. & Eastn Bnkg. C. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 - London Joint-Stock Londn and Westminstr 18 per cent. ,100 0 0 20 0 0 45 Nat. Provincial of Eng. 16 pc.& bs 'lOO 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New tf 20 0 0 10 0 0 21% Ditto ditto Nand:vv.:l Bank ....•• 5 I.per cent. 50 0 0 22 113 0 - New 'oath Wales - Oriental Bank Corpora. 101. per cent. 25 0 0 f t 33% Ottoman Bank - 20 0 0 15 0 0 17% Provincial of Ireland Bl.p. alas. 100 0 0 25 0 0 62 ' Ditto, New....... -a/. per cent. 10 0 0 all - lonian 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 all - South Australia - i Union of Australia.. • 21/. per cent. 25 0 0 all 4G 11. - 2 10 0 - I [Onion of liarribure• •.. - 15 0 0 2, 0 0 - Union of Hamburg • • .. Union of London...—. Unity Niutual ........ Western Bank or Londn. 15Z. per cent.' 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 3, 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank of Scotland 7/. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 193110 British Linen Company 8/. per cent 100 0 0 100 0 0 217 /0s Caledonian Bank - •• . 81. per cent 10 0 0 2 10 0 31 16s City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 Si 12s Clydesdale Bank ...• 53 /. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13 Os C .minercial Bank 7l. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 225110 Eastern Bank- .• •• - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 11 , 2s Ediab. & Glasgow.. .• 33(1. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 1 o , os National Bank •• .• •• 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 144 10 North of Seotland Bank 51.peocent 20 0 0 2 10 0 51 12s Royal Bank of Scott: 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1421 s Union Bank of Scot. • 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 90/ Os Western Bank- - • . - 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 .0 0 -1 0 -Mance Fire and Li's.. 8%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17/ Os British Guarantee 4l. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 I/ 5s Caledonian Fire Insur . 10.. pet cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of tiiasgow Lite tit. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 4/ Os Co'onial Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 71 lOs Edinburgh Life Insur. U. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 261155 Eng. & Scot, Law Life 5/oar cent. 50 0 0 3 b 0 4/ Os Life Assoc. of icatland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 0 61 15s National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 1/ 19 s North British Insur 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 39/ Os Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/ 15s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ 15s Scottish Union Insrne. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 li 143 Standard Life ...... -5/. per cent 50 k, 0 7 0 0 2 4 / Os GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COAIPANIEN. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ e. d. British 77. per cent 20 0 0 all - Brighton Provincial•• •• •• •• •• •• 5l . per cent. 20 0 0 - - City of London .. .• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 150 0 , 100 Equitable.. • • •• • 2/. 50 0 0 all 42} European .... . •• .• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 - - Groat Central •• •• s/. per cent 10 0 0 - 11% Imperial .. • • lO/. per cent 10 0 0 - - Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 6 27% Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0 0 - Do. Continental I stCap. 31. ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 50 Do. Do. 2d Cap. 41. Its. 00 0 0 41 0 0 60 Do. Do. 3d Cap. 4/. 105. 50 0 0 43 10 0 - Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Indepenilent ........: 51. 10 0 0 all - London Pail. Preferen. 10. per cent. 25 0 0 - - Phomix . •• Ratcliff..... - Surrey Consumers United General .• - • 16s 01 per sh. 50 0 0 - -- Westminster Chartered 7 per cent. 50 0 0 - II Ditto, New - 50 0 0 10 0 0 13 Western A ... •• .• 10 0 0 all - Ditto B - MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. (1. I Acadian Charcoal Iron •• 10 0 0 2 0 0 -- African Steam Ship .• .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Assam " 0 „.. ...., 61. eer cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Auction Mart • • • • • . •• t t.i 1 per cent 50 0 0 - _ Australian Aericulturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 2510 Australian Trust •• • Si. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -'' • Austraoa.n Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all - Anglo-Mexican Mint ll. 10s. le 0 0 all - British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 t Canada ..• •• .• - • • •• it per cent 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bond , 51. pet cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 8 per cent bds 5/.per cent. • Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. •• 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 p c. bds 1874 'I/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock WO 0 0 - Crystal ralaCO • 2/. per cent. 5 0 1 . 0 all 1 5 4 Ditto Prelerence • 71p. cent. 5 0 0 - 5 0 0 4% Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3%/. per cent - - - Electric Telegraph . 6/. per cent. Stock 00 0 - Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. Equitable fleversionry 51 Eng.Bclris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - 5 0 0 all 1% - per cent. 100 u 0 1 r o o Ditto New -- Gen. Ravers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11. 00.'0 0 0 0 0 .. •• 22 0 10 0 0 - •• Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Li m. ) - 45 0 0 all - Gen•SteamNavigation Kt/. per et. & 15 0 0 14 0 - , .... 1 London Gen. O mn i bus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 3% Hudson's Bay.. 5/. per cent. Stock Stock - Hungerford .....• •• .• 21. ss. 00 0 0 all - Lon. Ne, &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 5/, per cent. 1,, 0 all - Ilea. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 5 0 0 4 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 5/. per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 62. 1 0 0 all - North of Europe, Stm. ' g/• per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 ii - Priee'sPatentCand. Co -2) 0 0 all - Peel River.Lami&Min. - 5 0 0 all 2 Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 79 Ditto New - 50 0 0 .0 0 0 16, , 0 Reversionary Int. Soc. 43x1. pr cent 100 0 r. all - Ditto New - Royal Vail Steam ,, 4liart. 100 0 0 0 0 (oz% Scottish Aus. Invest 15/. per cent. 1 0 0 all 1 3a South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 n all 35 1 0 Trust and Loan Comp. PA., pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 - Vaa Diemen's Land 10s. ,00 0 0 i 28 10 0 10% per cant. Bonds_ .... 6 per coot - i - - 6 'll g Oolchester Elarwich 5l/ 3001802 220 Leigh Si a ld on 11318,190,— 367 73 420 CHELMSFORD—MAROH 26. There was an inactive trade in grain to-day, and prices of wheat receded is per qr. from last week's quotations. Spring corn of all sorts not HO much in request, and the prices unaltered. Wheat., white, old, per a. qr. 43 new 43 old 40 new 38 Barley 34 Chevalier 38 Grinding 23 Malt 70 Chevalier 72 red, s. s. s. 49 Oats, per qr .24 29 149 Peas, Partridge 40 43 44 White 38 42 44 Boiling 39 44 40 Dun 38 40 44 Beans, Tiek 3 6 38 132 Harrow ticks 36 40 731 Mazagan 32 35 73 Ditto, new 32 34 lECIRKCALDY—MARcIi 27. We had poor supplies of grain to-day of all kinds. Sales quick, and prices of barley and oats is per quarter higher than the rates of last week ; wheat sold slowly, at barely late prices. -- • - _ . _ Wheat. Barley. t Oats. I Beans. I First Second 24s j 228 Od Os 011 Third 36s Oil -MAIWEI 29. the close of the market Welleend, Bto. s. d. i lfletton l6 - 9 I La,m bton l6 3 ilosforth l3 6 Rraddyll . l5 6 Toes l6 9 south Hetton l6 Riddell l3 6 ,tussell's Hetton. 15 6 Keno°. 15 6 Northumberland " l3 6 item t's l6 6 South Durham „.,,,14 0 Elden Main l4 9 ;t, 79 ; sold 52. MA itCti 30, 1868. 1S 185 Pacific. PRIC'S OF SHARES. Fror, the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVE KIN LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2G, 1858. CANALS. Names of Companies. Nunes ot Companies. Dividend per Annum Price. 281 121. 10s, V. 16s. X s. d. 100 all gDividend l Price. M Ante:m.l Aslitn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.... Derby .. • ... GrandJunetn Do., 6 pr.Ct.l Grand ',Jn ion Kennt & AND Leeds &Livrp Leicester Leicstr &Nth Lough borogb Macclesfield. Neath 0xf0rd...... 93 74. p. et.l 40 4/. I 100 11 /. 100 6/. 153. 100 21. pr. et. 10 6/. pr. ct. hOO 7s. 66 40 63. 'OO 25/. 00 51. 83 11.53. 143 701 100 2/. 10s. 100 16/. 100 Name of Company. Berlin East London Do. 4 perCeut. Pref. 1)o. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction •• Do. New • • • • • • Kent .. •• Lambeth . • .... • • • • .. Now River Company .. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex • • • • .. Do. D 0....... Peak Forest.( 93 !Regent's.... 190 Rochdale.... Stftrd &Wore 51 ;Stonrbridg... (Severn and — 1 Wye Rail. j 6 , Warwick & 1 Birming. j !Warwick & j 1 12 Napton.. Worcitr & 51 Birming. Wilts & Brlo 105 WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. 5/. per cnt. 6i.per cnt. 4/. per cent. 5!. per cent. C. per cat. SI. per cnt 41. per cent. BRIDG Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. Erungerfard• • • • • • • • • • Southwark .......• Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo .. • • • • Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxha11.......... •• lOs per centl 11. 12s. Od. 11. Bs. Od. 28s. Amount of Share. s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 a 0 15 1 8 Amount of Share. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Paid. I 8. 1 THE WRECK OP THE AVA. (From the Ceylon Observer of March. 1.) We did not feel ourselves on Friday in possession of sufficient information to justify the issue of an extra announcitee the loss of the Ave. It was well we held our hand, for it turns out that the Ceylon Times was in correct in stating that the vessel was wreckea in broad daylight. The accident occurred between 8 and 9 p.m., but ties does not much mend the matter. The vessel bad surely no business so near the shore, whether by day or night. A fine ship and an immense amount of valu able property have been lost, and but for the fact that the vessel was a screw and not a paddle steamer it ap pears probable that she would have gone headlong to the bottom with her freight of some 200 human beings. We have not only to deplore the loss of the - Ava, one of the finest vessels in the Indian Seas, but she carried the shaft for the Alma, which vessel waits at Eden, and will now have to wait a long time. Besides a valuable cargo of indigo teed silk, the Ave carried treasure to tt e amount of 450,0001. in 500 boxes -of which only 152 had been saved up to the date of accounts received on Saturday. There was little chance of saving any of the mails, a n d the vessel was broken in halves amidships. The wreck occurred on one of the Pigeon Islands, about 12 miles north from Trincomalee. A correspondent of the Exr miner thus notices the Pigeon Islands : " Pigeon Island, so called from the numbers of that bird frequenting it, is about two miles off shore, 15 from Fort Fee erich, aed six from Nalavelly. It is not dis cernible from the former spot, owing to a neck of land which intervenes. It rises from 12 to 15 feet above the sa, and can be discerned plainly for miles. How the Ava got there appears to me totally inexplicable, as Pigeon Island does not lie in a direct course to Trinco malee ; and had the A va not intended to seek this port she should have left Pigeon Island some miles to the I west." The letters received from our Trincomalee correspon dents, en Saturday evening, are as follows : " 12 Midnight, F•b. 17. " The Ave is lying a total wreck on one of the Piglloll Islands, having htruck on a rock off one of them last night betwee❑ 8 and 9 ; her bows are completely under water, her poop high up in the air, there is no chance of saving ner ; the mails will also be lost, rhere is a large quantity of specie, silk, and indigo on board. She had 70 I,t-class passengers, 25 of whom were ladies, and some 40 officers, many of them wounded, 19 children, and a number of European servants. lam happy to say no lives have been lost, which I believe is mainly attri butable to the exertions of Captain Ha-well, late COM 'Dander of the Himalaya, by whose coil and calm direc- tions much good was effected. Just before he struck the ( aptain (Curton) who had charge of the deck at the time, had determined to keep her off the land four points, when a passenger entered into conversation with him, And More he could give the necessary directions she went completely over the rock." Another letter states : " Though much pressed for time I will try and send you a few further particulars of the lost Ava, as she is now a total wreck with her back broken, which occurred' 19 hours after she struck—a fearful loss to the Peninsu lar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, especially when it is kn,,w that a new main ehaft for the Alma was on board, which it is very doubtful can ever, if recovered, be made use of. No lives have been lost, which is the only satisfactory item i❑ the whole affair. All the pas• eager. havd lost everything they bad on board, and very few saved more clothes than they had on them At the time ; they have lost a great deal of money, jewellery, &c. Out of the 500 boxes of specie, each e staining 5,000 rupees, only 152 have been saved, or, put it in round ❑umbers, out of a quarter of a million of inon.y, 250,000/ , 75,0001. only has been saved at pre sent. A. great deal of the remainder will, of course, be .aved if proper measures are taken promptly, so that the moment the calms commence, about the middle of nest month, divi❑g may begin. The best plan would, i u La y o pi ci iiin, be for a gun-boat of the squadron to be sent down at once, with divers, dresses, &c,, several of which there are au Commodore Watsou's ship. There is also a large quantity of indigo and bilk, not a package of which has yet come on shore ; they will all come to gether, no doubt, the momtnt the foremast falls, as that will, it is supposed, split up her decks. It would be well worth the mabter of the Manchester's consideration to come round here and pick up passengers and take them on to Galle." Country Markets. COLCHESTER- MARCH 27. A short supply of wheat, with a slow sale, at is per qr, reduction. Malting barleys in good demand, and last week's rates maintained. Beans rather dearer, and peas It s before. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 46c to 50.; red, 42s to 4Gs; barley, 36s to 43s ; oats, 24s to 28s ; beano, tiazagan, 31s to 36s ; middle and small, 36s to 40s ; peas, white, 40s to 42s ; grey, %Os to 42e. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c, in the port of London, from the following pi March 22 to March 27, both inclusive. ~ receives )rts, Irma Price COAL AA IMIC Prices of Coals per ton a s. d. ratified Moor l3 0 l'aufteld Moor Butos 13 0 Bebside's Hartley l4 9 Davison's West Hartley 15 0 Haswell Gas • 13 0 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 15 0 Lougridge's Wet Hartley 14 9 North Percy Hartley l3 0 , Walker Primrose ...12 3 Bell's Primrose l2 0 Wylam Walls;nd, &c Haswell l6 9 Ships at mark( LOCAL &HARR MARKBTII. LIVERPOOL—MAnas 29. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market has been weak to-day, with very little business doing, but recovered at the close. Chester and Holyheaas, 181 '2 ---Birkenheads, 6"9i 70,1-- Berwieks, 238 York and North Midland, 37 *— London and North Western, 911 91--Dovers, 20 201 —Sheffieltis, 36i I—Midlands, 93 2—North British, 131 — Groat Western 58 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88 13 —Eastern Counties, 11 :I—Grand Trunk of Canada, 12 1-1 - Great Western of Canada, 191 4—Caledonians, 431 —Dutch Rhenish, 33 I—East Lancashire; 87 8 -- Leeds Northern, 231 BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market was very dull to-clap, an i thelprices of shares were lower. Lentions, 95—South St.iffords, 101 I—Midlands, 96, 1 -,—Birmingham Canals, 92 —Birmingham and Derbys, 63. kfANCHESTER 4 MARIH 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a quiet business doing to-day, and prices were tending downwards. Londons, i-14!'—Dovers, 20'1—Trunks, I?—Midlands, 951—Union Plate Glass 2(3—Bilkeullead Stock, 704—Lee3s, 88 — Sheffielits, 37. BIRTIIS. ALDERTON —On the 27th inst., at 14, Paddington-green, the wife of W. J. Aidei ton, Esq., of a daughter. BAKER—On tho 27th inst , at 28. Leinster-gardens, Hyde p Lrk, the wife of Adolphus Baker. Esq., of a son. EDGAR-- 1 0n the 28th inst., at the Limes, Clapham-cow moo, the wife of Mr. Wm. Edgar, jun., of a eon. Noitcm—Or. the 27th inst., at 66, Regent-street, the wife f Mr. E. Norchi, of a daughter. STOUGHTON —On the• 28th inst., at 5, Grosvenor - plac e s Hyde-park, Mrs. Charles William Stoughton, of a sou. MARRIAGES. COLLINGWOOD —MATTREWS —On the 27th inst., in London , Mr. Riolvird Collingwood, youngest son of the late Mr. J. If. Collingwood of Grantham, to Eliza M. Matthews► of Kingsland. DEATH S. CO3PER—Ou the 27th inst., at Henley-on-Tharne James Cooper, Esq., aged 99, late of Upper Deal, Ken s, t. CURRIE—On the 25th inst., at Linthill, Roxburghshire, Win. Currie, Esq., aged 79. E :t cl "C a u g l e z d en B4 -;treet, Mayfair, Cll B, - , \ x L , L s E t N e — ph O en tl %h i e . 27th just at Shertnanbury-park, Sus- DICK—On the 20th inst. Qqintin Dick, Esq., aged 81. FINNIss—On the 3d Jam , at Finnissbrook, near Adelaide, Suuth Australia, Anne Frances, wifo of Boyle Travers Finuiss, Esq., late Colonial Secretary. HowEs —On the .48th inst., Mr. B. Howes, late of Fleet street, aged 66. SmALLwoon---On the 21st inst., at Ashby-de-la-Zouch) Thoims Smallwood, Esq., of 207,,Euston-road, London, aged 77. LOSDoN Printed and Published by 111111tDO You of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No' 119, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the couni of Middlesex, Tuesday, March 30, 1558. tni (1: NV, ] 1 'F —shed 1 bas be ettreln, anneal the de of grad 5 1 . Os 17s 100. 7s. Od Paid Price. 1 Vies ease have Pren both Cori Wido Place, loans N.l Assui of gra Thos. 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