The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

- A PAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The A.dmiralty have instructed Lieutenant Com mander Boys to use increased exertions in raising volunteers, particularly seamen, who are very scarce at present. Artificers and stokers are coming in freely, and there is a party of nearly 20 (including some A.B.'s) now on board the Athol], 4, receiving ship, at Greenock, who will be sent off to London this week. Captain Lord Frederick K e rr, of the Marlborough, has written to Lieu tenant Boys expressing his high satisfaction with the fine drafts of volunteers sent to that ship from this port. Orders have been received for the collection of the coast-guard volunteers, in readiness for the arrival of the Hogue, which is expected early next month. The Admiralty have required to be informed in how short a time the ships in the steam reserve at Devonport could be got ready for sea. At the same time a return has been called for of the number of continuous and non-continuous service men serv ing on board ships in the home ports. The Dapper, gun-boat tender to the Hastings, sailed front Devonport cn Monday evening for Sheerness. The Intrepid, 6, screw steam sloop, in the steam reserve at Devonport, took a trial trip outside the breakwater on Tuesday. Vice Admiral Sir Bar rington Reynolds, K. C. 8., commands in chief ; Rear Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley, the captain of the steam reserve, and a party of ladies, proceeded in the vessel on her trial, returning in the evening. The following depots, attached to the battalions of infantry at Chatham ' have been ordered to be held in readiness to embark at Gravesend for Cork for the purpose of occupying the barracks at Butte vant, which have been vacated by the troops pre viously quartered there, viz. :—the 18th Royal Irish, under the command of Capt. G. W. Stac poole ; the 27th Enniskillens, under the command of J. V. O'Donnell, with Capt. J. S. Manly, Lieut. W. S. C. Pinwill, Ensign R. Hamilton, and En sign F. A. Campbell • the Bth Royal County Down, in charge of Capt. H. W. P. Welman and Ensign G. S. Jackson. The depot of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers will also proceed from Canterbury to Buttevar.t. _ _ Col. H. Sandham, Director of the Royal Engineer Establishment, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, has received orders to hold in readiness 56 non-com missioned officers and privates of the Royal Sappers and Miners to proceed forthwith to British Nortl Ameriea,:where they are to be employed on the boundary expedition under the command of Capt. J. Summerfield Hawkins and Lieut. James Hamilton Wilson, R.E. The expedition will leave Chatham on the 2d of April. During yesterday and the previous day nearly 200 recruits arrived at Chatham for the purpose of joining the Indian depots at that garrison. Owing to the continued influx of volunteers and recruits, the garrison of Chatham is more crowded with troop than for several years past, and there are nearly 5,000 men ready to embark for India. The following is a list of the officers attached to the United States' steam frigate Niagara, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday :—Capt. W. L. Hudson, Lieutenants J. H. No r th, J. D . T e d d, J. Guest, W. A. Webb, E. Y. M'Cauley, and B. Gherardi, Surgeon D. S. Green, Purser J. C. Eldredge, Lieut. W. S. Boyd, Passed Assistant- Surgeon F. M. Gunnell, Assistant-Surgeon W. G. Hay, Chief Engineer J. Follansbee, Purser E. Willard, and Boatswain R. Dixon. Orders have been received at Chatham garrison for the immediate erection of a number of huts, which are to be built outside of Fort Pitt, on the rising ground between the new burial ground and the fort. The huts are for the convalescent invalid troops, and are to accommodate 500 men. Eitiact from a letter from her Majesty's ship Leopard, 86, paddle, Capt. Wa;nwright, dated off St. Juan do Nicaragua (Grey Town), Feb. 16 : " We scarcely know what to do to pass the time away off this very dismal place, so we have got up a first-rate theatrical company, and on Feb. 3 Shakapeare's ' Richard lII.' and the farce of the ' White Sergeant' were produced. It was consi dered a rich treat by all who witnessed it. The next performance takes place on the 24th, when &Asher and Crasher,' and Box and Cox' will be-enacted. We are expecting orders by next mail to leave for England." ROYAL MAE.INEs ...The following promotion and appointment has taken place in the corps, dated 13th instant.—Second Lieutenant Henry Thomas Stanes Davis, of the Plymouth Division, to be first lieutenant, vice Rose, resigned and ap pointed to the Chatham division. A commission, dated 13th inst., will be laid before the Queen, ap pointing Gentleman Cadet Thomas Martin Hope Whale to be a second lieutenant, and appointed to the Plymouth division. Second Lieutenant Whale has been granted one month's leave of absence, which will expire on the 22d proximo. Capt. R. C. Spalding, and the party under his command recruiting at Derby, have been ordered to rejoin their divisional head-quarters at Woolwich. The following officers joined head-quarters on the 20th inst., from leave of absence—First Lieutenants Harrington and Morris. (Prom a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday.) WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 24. BREVET. To t he Colonels in the Army—Lieutenant-Colonels the on. Adrian Hope, 93d Foot ; William Fasten Par nell, 90th Foot. To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Majors Giles Keane, 86th root ; William Payne, 53d Foot ; Archibald Alison, Unattached ; James Peter Robertson, Military Train ; Edward W. D. Lowe, 32d Foot ; Richard Herbert Gall, 14th Light Dragoons; George Bryan Millman, sth Foot; John Christopher Guise, 90th Foot ; Ne ville Hill Shute, 64th Foot. To be Majors—Captains Alex. Cunningham Robertson, Sth Foot ; George Cornwall, 93d Foot ; Chas. Scuda more Longden, Royal Artillery ; William Alexander Middleton, Royal Artillery ; Gnome Alexander Lockhart, 78th Foot ; Henry Frederick Saunders, 70th Foot ; Thos. Lightfoot, 84th Foot ; Frederic Arthur Willis, 84th Foot ; James Francis E. Travers, Royal Artillery ; Geo. Robert Hopkins, 53d Foot ; John Robert Wilton, 60th Foot; Charles E. Mans field, 33d Foot ; Erskine S. Francis George Dawson, 93,1 Foot; Garnet Joseph Woleley, 90th Foot ; Cor nelius Charles Rolleeton, 84th Foot ; Bendyshe Walton, 63d Foot ; Alfred Bassano, 32d Foot ; George Newton Pendell, 53d Foot ; Sir David Baird, Bart., 98th Foot ; William Rudman, 32d Foot ; Samuel H i ll Lawrence, 32d Foot ; David O'Brien, 84th Foot ; William Henry Petty Meara, sth Foot; Henry Andrew Sarel, 17th Light Dragoons ' • John Edmon atoune, 32d Foot; Wilbraham Oates Lennox, Royal Engineers ; Charles Marshall Foster, 32d Foot ; Robert Henry Drury Lowe, 2d Foot; John Robert son Turnbull, 13th Foot. To be Colonel—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Eyre, 0.8., Bengal Artillery. To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Brevet:Major C. Apthorp, Bengal N. 1.; Thomas Simpson, Bengal N. 1.; George James Montgomery, Bengal N.I. ; George Henry Robertson, B om b ay N . I . ; Townshend James W. Hungerford, Bengal Artillery ; Henry Hamilton Maxwell, Bengal Artillery ; Major Michael Galwey, Ist Madras Fusiliers ; Brevet Majors John Hall Smyth, Bengal Artillery ; William Oh:lert; Bengal Artillery ; Frederick Freeman Remmington, Bengal Artillery ; George Wade Guy Green, Bengal 2.1 Fu pliers ; George Bourceier, Bengal Artillery. To be Majors—Captains Sutherland George Gordon Orr, Madras N. 1.; Edward Henry Simpson, Bombay Light Cavalry ; John William Carnegie, Bengal N. 1.; David Scott Doc4son, Bengal N. 1.; Loused& Barrow, Madras Light Cavalry; Thomas Fonrness Wilson, Bengal N.I. ; Henry Dinning, Bengal N.I, ; James Met• calfe, Bengal N. 1.; Matthew Francis Kernble, Bengal ; Henry Lloyd Evans, Bombay N.I. ; Henry Hammond, Bengal Artillery ; John Joseph Lawrie, Bombay N.I. ; John Dobree Woolcombe, Bombay Artillery ; Richard Charles German, Bengal N.I. ; Edward Long Grant, Madras Fusiliers ; James Gray Campbell Fraser, Madras Fusiliers ; John W 1 iam Sanders, Bengal N. 1.; Herbert Bruce, B o mbay Euro peanßegiment ; Thomas Theophilus Boileaux Bengal Light Cavalry ; Richard John Edgell, Bengal N.I. ; Edward Oakes ' Bengal N.I. ; William Arden Crotn melin, Bengal Engineers ; Thomas Augustus Carey, Bengal N.I. ; Robert Patrick Anderson, Bengal N.I. ; Henry La Geyt Bruce, Bengal Artillery ; Arthur Davies Dickens Bengal N.I. - George S. Macbean ; Bengal N.I. ; Charles Harris Blunt, Bengal Artillery ; Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal N.I. • Dighton Mac , , naghten Proben, Bengal Light Cav alry ; Job n Curl bam Anderson, Madras Engineers • William g Temple Hughes, Bengal N I ; - George ' Nicholas Hardinge, Bengal N.I. • • The,,Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointments to the Most Honour- Order of the Bath To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Sioond 'Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Moat ircnourable Order, viz.:—Colonel Sydney John major -general Division of tho iers of the said lonel Thomas na , D etitt i ra. v i i oup e t i oh o eig u 47i o eßl ft iti h e e Moat Honour. , on ;13 Berkely, ;ti . . (i Colonel the Hon Adrian Hope, ' ‘ ,Zei Lanier* % Re lu gnienti Colonel William Paston Purnell, 90 th Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Sebastian Leith gl a ,Ter ; Regiment. I Her Majesty his also been graciously pleased to mak , andordain a special statute of the said Most Honour. able Order for appointing the following officers in the service of her Majesty and of the East India amp pany to be Extra Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order, viz. : Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Crawford, Royal Artillery; Lisat.-Colonel E. B. Sale, 82d Regiment ; Lieut.• Cotton, serving with the local rank of ---, in the East' Indiee. T o be an Extri Member of the Military D td Claes, or Knights Commande Sesta' S tviet.44 onourible Order, viz. ;—Colt To be Ordi -. nal Army. . *tubers of the Military i Third Clue, able Order , vi t....4,loourie.of...thie.eaid Guy, 6th Regiment ; eP ISI Brigade ; Colonel Davux ' Robert,_; Colonel Charles Aseheton Pi kg:4: Regiment ; Colonel ArchibaTTL?k,u,g: LO DON, TIITYRSDA VEN I NO, MARCH 25, 18581 broken doivn man, and therefote cannot be put on the active list of commanders. First bring as officer to death's door by neglect, and then refuse promotion because he is unfit for service. Ad mirably ingenious—exquisitely cruel! But a motion on the subject of Mr. Roberts is among the Parlia mentary notices. The Admiralty are in a mess, and something must be done. At once all about his un fitness for active employment is ignored. He is ap pointed in succession to two arduous situations, as Master Attendant of Haulbowline and Portsmouth Victualling-yard. But the work is too much for him : nevertheless, with his old indomitable spirit, even after he can no longer walk, he is wheeled about in a chair. At length the end approaches. He has got neither promotion nor money's worth. His wife will have nothing. He writes to the Ad miralty for some compensation for all the money he spsnt on his famous pontoons. The Admiralty demand vouchers and proofs. Vouchers and proofs, indeed, from the man who had landed 25,000 men on an enemy's coast, and had got nothing ! Si monumentum quceris, circumspice. Once more, from his deatqbed, he makes a last ap peal. That appeal is forwarded by his widow, for the same day on which he wrote it he died. The Admiralty are inexorable : she is entitled to no compensation, and an annuity of 501. as a master's widow is all tint the wife of Robert Wilson Roberts has received from a grateful country. Such is the history, as related by Mr. Cayley in these column!, of this humble but neglected hero. We have waited some days to see if it would elicit contradiction or reply. None has reached us. We may assume, therefore, that the statement is sub stantially true. Assure lly, "no words of sorrow or of anger need be added to awaken the regret and indignation" of every Englishman who hears the tale. The press has now done its duty by proclaim ing to the world that gross injustice which the responsible Ministers of the Crown have dared to perpetrate in the name of the country. But it re mains for the House of Commons to grant fitting redress. (From, the Daily News.) In the seaman's burial ground of Plymouth are three rude stones from the walls of Sebastopol. Above them rises a simple cross, with this inscrip tion :—" Robert Wilson Roberts, R.N., ob. 10th December, 1857. Mat 38." These few words, and the device of compasses and and square, are all the public records of that man's history. And yet he has a history—well authenticated and worthy to be remembered. It was the autumn of 1854. Peremptory orders had arrived from England to make a descent on the Crimean coast. If the descent was to be made the I roeps would have to be landed, and that rapidly, in the face of the enemy. The thing at first sight seemed impossible. The shipwrights at Constantinople considered three months to be the very shortest time within which the flat-bottomed boats neces sary for landing the English force could be con structed. What was to be done ? Was the enterprise to be delayed for months or altogether abandoned, whilst our men lay "eating their hearts in idleness till they sickened and died in the swamps of Varna?" Amongst the admirals and generals all was per plexity. But there was one man who had foreseen the problem and had already solved it. That man was one Robert Wilson Roberts, a master in the Navy, then of her Majesty's steamer Cyclops. Ru mours of his existence soon reached the com manders. They sent for him, and he at once told them that if he might have his own way the requi site number of fiat-bottomed landing boats should be ready as soon as the other general equipments were completed. The idea seemed preposterous enough—without materials to accomplish in seven days what with materials would occupy the ship wrights of Constantinople for three months. But Mr. Roberts was no red-tapist--he was a genuine English seaman with a practical genius. True he had neither timber wherewith to construct the boats, nor time to put the pieces together. But the long caiques of the country were to be had in any number. They would supply sufficient fliatage. " Put them together," said he, " cover them with wooden platforms sufficiently wide, and you will have a collection of landing rafts safe and capacious —not only more manageable than flats, but' con structed at an infinitely smaller cost, and within a much shorter time." Such was the theory. " But," said the great men in command, "is this practi cable ?—will these rafts do !" " Here is one ?" said the seaman, "as an experiment.'' " Then have you the materials for the planking ?" they con tinued. " I foresaw the emergency," said Ro berts, " and I have already got deals of the pro per length and thickness for that purpose." The sagacious man, had, in short, provided every thing—purchased everything ; all this, however, be it remembered, he had done at his own per sonal risk, by bribes and earnest money, after in vain urging Admiral Boxer and others to aid him. " Only /give me," he said, " hands, money and authority, and I shall be ready in a week." " If you do it," said Sir George Brown, " you de serve the thanks of the whole army." He did do It; but how 1 Working night and day, with heat and hand—heart and soul in the effort—here, there, and everywhere—with his shirt sleeves up to his shoulders—marking timber, sawing plank, driving , bolts—with a motley crew of ship carpenters, com mon soldiers, Turks, Greeks, and Armenians— stimulating this man by praise, that man by bribes, another by threats—all by his example—thus did this remarkable man accomplish that, to attempt which seemed to others madness. In the words of Mr.k4eorge John Cayley, whose eloquent narrative we follow throughout : "He had declared war with impossibility ; and how he wrestled with his in cubus enemy, drenched in sweat and choked in dust, under a broiling sun in the • arsenal on the Golden Horn—made the men who saw him mar vel." Lord Lyons came down to see. It was the third day of the gigantic task, and not one pontoon was finished. The Admiral shook his head. But Mr. Eoberts replied : "If I attempted to finish one at a time I should certainly fail. lam getting the several parts ready for the whole, and that done I shall put them together all at once." On the fifth day Lord Lyons said, " Well, Roberts, I am quite satisfied now, I see you know what you are about, and will get through it. I'll now join the Admiral." Within the seven days the last nail was in. But the struggle had been deadly. Several of the men died of the exertion, and Roberts himself was car ried on board his ship insensible, and remained so fur some hours. His constitution had indeed re ceived a shock from which it never really recovered; but for the time he got better. Be superintended the landing of the troops, and his pontoons an swered to perfection. So ended the first act. On the 17th of October, 1854, in the sea at tack on Sebastopol, Roberts towed the Belle rophon into the thickest of the action. His ship, the Cyclops, was the only towing vessel that fought her own guns. He was the first in and the last out of the fray. " Too much praise," said Admiral Lyons to Roberts, "cannot be given to you for your management of the Cyclops in this attack." It was indeed a gallant business, however unsuccessful. The officers deserved pro motion, and they got it. All lieutenants engaged became commanders, all commanders of steamers became post-captains and C.B.'s. But what of Roberts ? He was only a master. True, by an order in council of the 19th May, 1846, it had been declared that "in the event of any particularly distinguished service," the Admiralty might pro mote masters of two years' service to the rank of commander without the ordinary two years as lieu tenant. True, Lord Lyons wrote to him, "I really don't know what we should have done without you." Nevertheless—incredible as it may seem— this Master, who had literally made the Crimean expedition possible, got—nothing. Sir C. Wood and Sir Maurice Berkeley—the brother-in-law of Admiral Grey and the persecutor of the naval sur geons—would rather kill a master than consent to plats him among the commanders. Happily this was not the feeling of the Generals and Admirals in the Black Sea. They knew the merits of poor Roberts better than a jobbing Whig or au insolent and selfish aristocrat. "How is it," asked the gallant Lord Raglan, "among all the promotions that have come out there is no mention of Roberts, who really did more for us than anybody ?" "I am quite dis tressed," wrote Admiral Lyons, " not to see Roberies's name in the late list of Black Sea promo tions,. Lord Raglan, Sir G. Brown, and I wrote as strongly as possible in his favour, and I do so again this very post." It was all in 'rain. Come what might Sir C. Wood and Sir Maurice Berkelly would have no Master a Commander. What mat tered it to them that a man of practical genius like Roberts had spent his own hard-earned sav ings, had toiled himself to death in the public ser vice, and was then breaking his heart under their neglect and official tyranny? But human endur ance has its limits. The Cyclops broke down, and was sent to Malta. So was her gallant Master. Writing to his wife on Jan. 7, 1855, Roberts says : —" was completely knocked up from over fa tigue. On the 7th December, I wrote to Sir E. Lyons, telling him, in very plain terms, that I felt myself an ill-used man, and asked him point blank to get me made a Commander." He is appointed Master-Attendant at Malta ; but it will not do. In March he is in hospital. In May he writes, " I Since the condemnation of John Barwick, for the cannot write much ; a leaning post ion is so pain- murder of his sweetheart, Maria Blackmore, at ful. My disease, which was not understood at Linton, in the North of Devon, the wretched cul first, turns out to be dropsy in the chest. I hope prit has evinced great penitence for his crime, and soon for news from England about my promotion." appears to be perfectly resigned to his fa'e. Great Vain dream I His name, indeed, had beau men- hopes are, however, entertained th,t a conamuta tioned in the House of Commons. Admiral Ber- tion of sentence will be obtained, and memorials to keley had been asked whether Roberts had received the Secretary of State have been numerously signed promotion for his distinguished services. The by magistrates and others in the county of Devon. Admiral replied that "he had been promoted." The High Sheriff, also, Sir E. M. Elton has The house cheered. The Admiral and other officers signified his concurrence in the prayer of the at Malta congratulated Roberts on his promotion. memorial in the following letter : But it was all a mistake. He had, indeed, been " Wid worthy-court, March 22 1858. promoted to the rank of Master, eight years before, "Dear Sir,—ln the course cf my ofEci d duties as and Sir James Graham had appointed him Master Sheriff I was in attendance in the court during the tri,l of the Cyclops, and as such Roberts had dene that „S the miserable culprit, John Barwick, and I paid the for which the House of Commons wished to reward greatest attention to the case. In my oan mind Lo him. B u t Si r M aur i ce Berkeley would not have it doubt exists upon the propriety of the seete nc r, and that With something lik e a li e on hi s li ps h e t oo k hi s a more righteous jati ge never presided up on th e b enc h. stand between this poor Master and the gratitude '• Ido nut advocate by any means the abolition cf capital punishments. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to ot his country. Months p ass ; promotion te e innocent;' yet before this terrible measure of punish wit) hurriea to 1;ne,1855, comes. Over exertion . and blasted hopes are doing a eat is it.flic•.ed upon the uthoppy youth I trust 1 may heartbrok en aea l der their work. At length he reaches Haslar Hospital leJ permitted to hope f a further consideration of the lon the 30th of June, in a dying state. His sentence. bedside. She finds her husband "The fatal act was committed without premeditation ; ; always dwelling she says, a. „ inativa l e ri m ous- " Sometimes better passion, acting upon a weak mind, induced him to use a the treatment h e ha‘ deadly instrument, which, as it appeared in evidence, Ia November, ats 4s - --,lleet for his services ." --- falling upon any other part of the body than the jugular pital a confirmed ine; e iarrts, leaves ntaea R- vein and common carotid artery, would not have pro , prescription," says the do e t o l ,. l , l4 'ree wa y dated much mischief. Commander's commission and ! cs , his read 14„ consid- r the Royal die this to be to which a case tranquillity for at least a year. The re,st a * . na - ` `.mane ell e • The thin it — might not improperly be extended, and I wish impossible. Sir Charles Wood with his ow n hj u l d. u 'at tkr alotfabeidded to the pray.:r of the petiti o ners, so • writes to Roberts, ertq saying that he is obvionaly a .1 iii..miaht ration of the sentence to penal servitude " made C f thends f • • sa y e o justice. for aLDWARD MARWOOD ELTON. EAST INDIA HOUSE. The following is a more extended account of the proceedings than we were enabled to give in our impression of yesterday : ' Yesterday the usual quarterly C our t o f Proprie tors of East India Stock was held at the East India House—Mr. Ross Mangles in the chair. The minutes of the last extraordinary Court having been read and confirmed, The CHAIRMAN laid before the Court the Par liamentary papers connected with the Government of India, laid before the Legislature since the last regular quarterly Court. SIR JAMES C. MELVILL. Mr. HELPS then rose and said that he bad great pleasure in moving that the thanks of the Court of Proprietors should be presented to their late secre tary, Sir James C. Melvill, for the admirable man ner in which he had for a lengthened number of years performed the duties of his office. It would, he considered, be doing an injustice to the subject of his motion were he to enter upon any arguments to prove that they ought to pay Sir James Melvill that compliment. (Cheers.) They had all been witnesses of the very able manner in which Sir James had conducted himself, and had seen how [hat in every case, and in every capacity, he had proved himself ono of the most competent officers i c was possible for any company to possess. (Cheers.) He had over exhibited towards the Court of Pro prietors an amount of courtesy which must have recommended him to every gentleman connected with the Court. Sir James Melvill had been their faithful servant for upwards of half a century, and although under existing circumstances he (Mr. Helps) did not anticipate so long a tenure of office by the worthy gentleman who had been appointed his successor, yet he would say that if at the end of his term of office he carried with him into pri vate life the same amount of general rest.%cc and confidence, he might indeed consider himself fortu nate. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Helps concluded by mov "That thi s C our t o f i their high s e n se o f n r g o the p rie to following rs desir i e e s t o o l u e t x i o p n r e P the distinguished ability, the unexampled zeal and energy, and the sterling integrity with which Sir J. C. Melvill, K.C.8., the late secretary, has served the East India Company during the term of 50 years ; and the deep regret which they feel at the loss of his invaluable services ; and that the chairman be requested to convey to Sir J. Melvill their cordial thanks for the admirable manner in which he has for so long a period performed his duties." 'the Cola was Odinited," amr there not 'heiri.4 a quorum of proprietors present, the proceedings were abruptly brought to a close. ASSIZE ILYELLIGBNCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—Lewes, March 24. (Before Mr. Justice Erie.) Charles Rooke, a tradesman, of Lewes, surren dered to take his trial for felony, iu having wilfully and maliciously thrown a stone at a train upon the Brighton and South Coast Railway, and thereby endangered the safety of the passengers. Mr. Creasy conducted the prosecutien. Serjeant Parry was specially retained, with Mr. Roupell, for the prisoner. This case created a good deal of interest in the town of Lewe., as it arose out of a religious disturb ance that took place in Nov. laf,t. It wi ti be remem bered that a young lady, nam:rd Scebell. daughter of the Rev. J. Scobell, of Leeve.=, had secede! from the Protestant and become a convert to the Roman Catholic religion, and she went to reside at an establishment attached to that religion at East Grinstead, known by the title of the Sisters of Mercy. She died in that establishment in the month of November last, and at her request her body was conveyed ter Lewes to be buried in the family vault, and the Rev. Mr. Neale, a Roman Catholic clergymen, who was the principal of the establishment at Eest Grinstead, accompanied by a number of the Sisters of Mercy, all attired in rheir conventual costume, came with the body, it being the intention of Mr. Neale to inter it with the ceremonials of the Roman Catholic Church. Upon the townspeople of Lewes, however, seeing the procession that was formed, great excitement was occasioned, and when the body was taken to the church of All Saints, Mr. Scohell, the father of the young lady, and another clergy man, were iu attendance, prepared to read the burial service of the Church of England, and upon Mr. Neale at tempting to insist upon performing the c , remony according to the forms of the Rumen Catholic reli gion, a scene of g; eat disturbance and viaince en sued, and in order to escape perseeal injury Mr. Neale was compelled to make his escape as well as he could ; but it appeared that when be left Lewes he intimated his intention of returning on the fol lowing day and performing the ceremony. He accc r tingly did come again to Lewes on the next afternoon, and endeavoured to obtain the keys of the church from the sexton, and the fact of his visit becoming known, a crowd speedily assembled, and Mr. Neale was hooted at and pelted at with stones, and eventually the police were compelled to escort him to the railway station, and he and one of the Sisters of Mercy who accompan , ed him were placed in a second-class carriage. The crowd that a-sena blcl was very meth excited, and just as the train was about to start it was alleged that the prisoner threw a stone at Mr. Neale, whose head was out of the window of the carriage in a defiant manner, but it missed him and struck the carriage, and it was for this act that the present prosecution was preferred by the railway authorities. Mr. Creasy, in opening the case to the jury, said that the railway company had nothing whatever to do with the circumstances that preceded the act imputed to the prisoner, and the only object they had in view was to protect the passengers travelling by the railway from being endaugere ; by acts of this description. He said there had no doubt been a great deal of excitement in the tewn prior to the commission of the offence, but he only felt it right to mention that fact in order that the jury might understand under what cu cumstancee the act was committed by the prisoner, and that th-y might be the better able to ascertain the intent he had in view. Mr. LEwisr, in seconding the motion, said that duriug his connection with the Court of Proprie tors, he had had many opportunities of personal intercourse with their late secretary, and he could most sincerely say that he never left his presence without carrying with him that information in rela tion to Indian affairs which he had been desirous to obtain. There were c om bi ne d i n Si r J. Melvill the greatest ability, the greatest impartiality, and the most thorough knowledge of everything con nected with the government oflndia. (Cheers.) He had, in fact, been to a great c l pgree i n himself the Court of Directors. (Hear.) His great experience in the affairs of India rendered it almost unneces sary there should be a Court of Directors at all. I aide/ d, so great was the influence which Sir James Melvin exercised at the Board, that Sir C. Forbes used to call him the director-general—(a laugh)— and so great had b een hi s ability, so eminent his respectability of character, and so conspicuous his high sense of honour, that the government of India, so long as he had continued their secretary, might have been conducted as well without the Court of Directors as with it. (Cheers.) Mr. CRAWSHAY, in supporting the motion, said it was u n necessary for hi m to en l arge upon t h e merits of Sir J. Melvill, as they bad been already acknowledged, not only there, but also in Parlia ment, and had been subscribed by all the most eminent statesmen and by the leading men of every party in England. Whe n th e p e titi on of the Compa n y was presented in the House of L the Duke of Argyll, if he (Mr. Craw shay) remembered rightly, expressed a wish that whatever might he the changes introduced into the Government of India, he hoped that they would be able to retain the services of the two eminent,gen tlemen by whom that petition had been drawn up, viz., Sir J. Melvill and Mr. Mill. The merits and ability of those gentlemen had been made the sub jects of frequent encomia. That being the case, he (Mr. Crawshay) was astonished that Government had overlooked the lesson to be derived from it. Was the East India C Anpany, as a body, so effete as it was rept esrinted to be, when there were to be four.d among its servants men of that description I (Hear.) He was convinced that neither of those gentlemen, no matter how great their ability, would have attained to the same stanifard of emi nence had they been engaged in the service of the Crown. (Hear.) The East India Company had made it a rule to discover, reward, and encourage genius, and in no one i ns t ance had their discrimi nation been more si4nally manifested than in the case of Sir J. Melvill. That eminent public ser vant had been, in fact, the Secretary of State for India ; his experience of the government of India extended over a period of 50 years, and he would in the pages of history go down to posterity as one of the most eminent statesmen it had been the good fortune of any country to have produced. (Hear.) Mr. JONES, as one of the most troublesome mem bers of the Court of Preprieto-s, could not allow the motion to pass without expressing his concur rence in it. He had not bad the pleasure of per sonal intercou rse w ith Sir J. Melvill, but he had, in correiponde :ce with him, obtained a most mas terly exposition of the affairs of India. He had, too, caref u lly p eruse d Si r J ames ' s ev i dence before the House of Commons, and be. was bound to s a y that had h e b een an indifft rent iud,.e between the Company and the Board of Control, he would from that e v id ence h ave had no difficulty in decid ing that the go v ernme nt of I n di a was conducted with far mor e a bility in Leadenh a ll- street than in Cannon-row. He was glad to see that if they had lost the serv i ces o f th e f a th er , t h ey had obtained the 3b 0 oi feu presence owat of theirftb the board.son ,his (M r . J ones ' s) old The CHAIRMAN said he had great sa ti s f action and gratification in putting to the C our t the motion for that Vote of thanks to their late secretary which he so welland so eminently deserved. The Court of ro Directors accepted with pleasure suc h a vote com ing from the proprietors, and not with l ess p l easure on account of the dash of bi tters cast into th e h ad draught told by them t he t w ha ° t r t Sir PJ. pri etor, Mr. L ew i n, who self the Court of Directors, and th a t h e had done the whole of th e bu s iness of the 18 members of the Court of Dir e ct ors . He was ready t o acknowledge Melvin h id b een in him the vast services of the late secretary, and to ex press the deepest gratitude of the Court of Direc tors for the assistance and support which they had ever receiv, d fr o m Sir J. Melvin. Th ey had already by a vote of their own body acknowledged those services in the warmest terms. I Serjeant Parry, at the close of the case for the prosecution, submi ted that therd was no evidence to support the charge. The Act of Parliament under which the indictment was framed was a highly penal one, and clearly was only intende to apply to the case where the intent to cause injury to the passengers was made out in a satisfactory manner. In the present case he contended that if any intent at all was made out it was an intent to assault Mr. Neale, and that, taking into consideration the posi tion of the train at the time, it was idle to suppose that a missile such as that a hich had been produced could in any manner hive affected its sAfety. Mr. Justice Erle, in sumwiug up, called the at tention of the jury to the precise terms of the statute, and told them that before they would be justified in convicting the prisoner th-y must be satisfied that he had th,) intention at all events, of doing some serious bodily injury to the pas sengers in the train ; and if this was not mule out they ought to acquit him. He then said that the conduct of Mr. Neale in putting his head out of the carriage window wa.s certainly very injudicious, and if they should tuink the stone was merely thrown with the intention to as sault him he was of opinion the present charge could not be supported. Tile jury alm.ist immediately said they were all agreed thatithe prisoner was Not Guilty. There was a burst of applause wh,ri the verdict was delivered, which was, however, checked by the officers. Mr. Justice Erie said he thought people ought to understand that nothing was more calculated to make a court of justice a public nuisance than that applause or the contrary should be permitted at anything that took place in it. There was another indictment against the pri soner for a misdemeanour, in having attempted to commit the offence of which he was accused in the former indictment. Mr. Creaqy said that this charge rested entirely upon the same evidence, and, as ail the facts had been hid before the jury, he thought he was not called upon to proceed with the second indictment after the decision they had come to. The railway company,teve in as ;atedo,nlhyadobnjeocft in feeling whatever in the matter, and their only object in in in the matter was the protection of th e public. t b h e e mlualdtter, before - The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the pi ironer was ordered to be discharged lam custody. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Iitard 24. MANSION-HOUSE.—Jacob Mountenoy and Charles Oliver were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with being in unlawful possession of two 5/. Bank of England notes, under circumstances detailed in the following evidence : Michael haydon, the detective officer, said— About 11 o'clock this morning I was on duty with Spittle, another officer, at the Bank of England. I saw the prisoner Mountenoy standing at the south entrance of the Bank; in company with a young man, looking up the yard. I entered the hall of the Bank, and saw the prisoner Oliver stanuing at the counter whore gold is exchanged for notes. I received a communication from Spittle, and upon seeing Oliver receive ten sovereigns from one of the clerks I told him I was an officer, and asked him where he obtained the two Si. notes which he had just changed. He replied that he had got them from his master, Mr. Jones., a barber, at 45, Fleet-street. While we were speaking in the pas sage leading to the hall Mountenoy cane in, and saw Oliver speaking to Spittle and myself, but passed us without recognising him. We went into the hall, and Spittle followed and spoke to him. I said to Oliver, "I saw quit young man waiting outside ; do you know him ?" He replied, " Yes, that's the matt that gave tree the notes to change." I asked him if that was Mr. Jones, and he replied, "No, his name is Jacob noun enoy." I remarked to him, " Why, you telcl me you iiad them from Mr. Jones." He replied, " Well, the fact is, be had them from Mr. Jones, and he gave them to me." Mountenoy was then brought back by Spittle, when I told Lim what Oliver had said about receiving the notes from him. Mountenoy said he had given the notes to Oliver to get change for. Upon my questioning him, .he said he found them in his shop yesterday afternt on, between four and five o'clock. I ask, d him why he had sent them to be changed with a wrong name and address on them. He told me that the name and address was on the back when he found them. I asked him if he had made any attempt to find the owner, by inquiring at theaddress. He told me he had not. Mountenoy said his sbrop was in Newmarket, Gravel-lane. He afterwards told me that it was in his shop, in Upper East Smithfield, that he found the notes. The resolution was put and carried by acclama tion. THE NEW EAST INDIA. BILL. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to Capt. Shea, stated that he had nut been informed what were the pro visions of the hill to be introduced into the iluue of Commons on Friday next, fur the better govern ment of India. John Spittle, the &elective officer, said about half-past ten o'clock this morning I was standing at the front of the Bank of England, when I saw Mountenoy and another young man. Shortly afterwards I entered the hall, and saw Oliver stand ing at the coun7er. 1. heard one of the clerks ask hint what number in Fleet-street Mr. Jones lived I at. H: made some .eply, upon which the clerk " Tont is not. right, it is 95." Moutttenoy enter ed the hall, and. passt d Haydon, Oliver, and myself in the pa sFatge . I f o ll owe d him int% the hall, and asked him if he knew the young man he had just pass: - ,d. in the passage. He told me he did. I asked him if he knew what he came to the Bank for ? and he said ho did liot. I toll hina that Oliver 'had hr-ught twe 5/. Bank of England notes to be .changed, and asked him if he knew anything about them. He replied that he did not. I took him. to. Haydon, and afterwards hew d him say that :he gave the notes to Oliver, and that he found them at his shop, facing St. Ka tharine's Docks, yestt rdav aftern .on be ween four and five o'clock. I have m 4(le:ncpyrie. at No. 9.5 Fleet-street, which is the Ohl Bell Tavetn, but cannot find a person of the name of Jobe-, there. Mounten.y, in a curer to the charge, said--I picked up the notes yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clacE it I first thought they were bitb ofpapet, but afterwards discovered them to be notes. I met Oliver this morning, and asked him to get them changed. I did not much like trot; - ing him alone, so I and my friend waiched all the way there. Oliver said—Mounfenny a‘ked me to get the notes changed for him, and as I had nothing to do, I went to the Bank. The prisoners were remanded. BOW-STREET.—A yowl , ' man named Godfrey Knowles, a privat- in the Coldstream Guards, was brought up on remAlid o❑ a charge of attempting to murder Charles Hammerton, a sergeant in the same regiment. Late on the night of the 23d of February, Knowles, who had been several days abseor, re turned to barracks somewh2.t the worse for liquor. He took off his boots and began throwing them about the room, to the disturbance of the other men, who were in bed. H-arainerton, beii,g ser geant of the guard, remonstrated with the prisoner. who however persiStod, and on being threatened with confinement in tile guard-room, said that he did Lot care ; he could go to t to guard-room. H bad had seven yt ars, and be would have 20 lot Hammertoe. The latter got up, and desired tvo men to dress and assist him to t Ike the prisoner to t e guard-room. Defendant then went to his kit, from which, no doubt, he took the rizor which he aft er wards made use of. He hit the room, as it to go to the guard-room, but after a few minutes re turned, and, taking the sergeant unaware, at tacked him and slashed him across his breast, neck, and face, inflicting a series of severe wounds upon him. Hamm , rton struggle 1 with him, threw him on the bed, and went to the further end of the room to ask assistance from one of the men. It was then for the fist time pet ceivoil Ih ,t the serea was wounded, for though the men hot seen the prisoner strike at him, they did not know that he had any weapon in his hand. He was anout to le new the at ack on the sergeant, when the lit er escaped by a window which had been open,-(1 for him by James Pemberton, we of the priva!e-. Pembet ton then went up to the orisouer and , Td -red him to "stand." He said with an o tth that he would cut Pemberton's throat to P , -mb rton cowed him by brandishing a musket over his ileatl, and he was then seized by a corporal and two of the men. An open razor was then taken from his hand. When removed to the guard-room he said, "I am not at all sorry for what I tiave done." Hammert , tn, who was fainting from loss of blood, was conveyed to the military hospital, where he rem tined until Monday evening. Th- prisoner was brought to this court on the 24th February, and remanded from time to time till yesterday. Mr. James Wardrop, surgeon to the Grern.dier Guards, now attended, and said that he saw Hato merton when first brought to the h spital. He was then in a very dangerous state. He was now auth ciently recovered to leave the hospital, and there was no longer any danger, but wou d pro , ably be some time before he would recover his strength. Hammerton, who is a fine manly-looking fellow, with a handsome countenance and sulderly eariug, and who wears a Crimean medal with four class s. c unfirmed the previous evidence as to the circum stances of the attack. He had n ver quarrel', d with the prisoner, who had nor, as tar as he knew, any previous malice, and certainly so cause for it. The prisoner said he had no recollection of what had occurred. The sergeant was a fellow-towns man of his and the very last man whom he would wish to injure. He supposed it " was the drink as done it." Mr. Henry offnalitted him on the capital charge of attempt to murder. WESTMINSTER.—James Ford was finally examined, charged with stealing a valuable Skye terrier, the property of Mrs. Rob Arts, ot Brotupton-equare. The circumstances of the case have been before detailed. It will be remembered tiiat ataiut flue weeks ag' Mrs. Robaits, accolepaniud by the dog, was in the neighbourhood of tier owo house, wren prisoner threw something s eft, resembling putty, to the animal, which was in a minute after war Is missed. Subsequeutly, throu4h t`ie ageney of a man named Fanner, offers were made o restore lhe dog, which was dead, for a sovereign, and Mrs Robarts, accornpinied by her servant, went to Newton-street, Holeeorn, to identify the dog, and there gave the prisoner, who had possession of it into custody, the other man escaping, as it was alleged, through the negligeuca f tee p lice. On the prisoner being placed iu the dock the police-setge-ant of the E devis oil, in explanation of the imputation thrown upon the police, sa d—T at Mrs. Robauts, her servant, Farinet, aeid the, pri soner, all came veleintauily to the st it on with a cab. As he understood the matter it was a dispute between the lady and ttte prisoner *belie the rec.- very of a dog, and hi did uo , e know until subse queeitly that the accused was stewing ihe iiog. No ()tier person was char g ed before hut', ~,,, did he see the second man spoken ot at all. He had in quired of the different men who were cowing into the station at the time for duty, but none of thtin knew anything of the circumstances. Ribarts rep, , at,cl, tha', seeing two or three policemen tone her, she pointed to the prisoner', companion, and said, " Tuat is the man who stole my dog—take him." Mr. - Paynter. said it was obvious that there must have been some misunderstanding &Kit the thing, which was very natural in the exc►teme❑t of ►he moment. Inspector Cummings intimated that Farmer knew every dog stealer in London, and might have wished the other man to escape. Farmer, who admitted that he knew al , nost all the "dog men," stat , d that he interested himself at the request of Mrs. Rol:mils', tot ndeavour to recover her dog, and went with tier ;is desert tied. In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Payn er, wanes, set a value of 5/. upon the dog when alive. Prisoner pretended that he picked up the d• g dead iu the street the morning he was given into custody. Mr. Paynter said that that was a very unlikely story. There could not be the slig , lest doubt, horn the evidence, that he was the man who stole the dog, and be was deterininsd to wake what he could of afterwards. There were very few offences of a mtue serious character than dog- steaLng ; rt was an , of fence cotnrnitt d for the t,urpose of extorting money frow the prs , ns toll)ed by ying upon theirkindly feelings. Dogs were si °len to which great value was attached by their possessors, and I rge su ins of money, perh,ps infinitely beyond their intrinsic worth, extorted for their retoration. Many persons might lose their watches, or have their hou.es broken into, and think less of either than losing a favourite dog. As prisoner, however, had not b,en previously convicted, he would give h m an oppor tunity of paying a fine. He then ordered hint to pay 51., the valu, of the d g, and 10/. p nalty. He was cominlited in det..ult for three months. LAMBETH.—THE PHOTOGRAI HIC NUISANCE Thomas Goose, late a constable belonging to the L division of police, attended before tee Hon. G. C. Norton, Li discharge of his bail, to meet rw.. charges, the or e for the o?.structing as a "tout" to a photographic shop the public highway in the Westtni,saer-road, and the other for assaulting a young married female. The Inspe, , tor of the Police informed the magi strate that since the adjournmen of the coarge for obstructing the highway, against the defendant on Stturday last, he li d wai rcl on the photog , aphi,t‘ in the Westmins er-roal, of whom there wa-re urn less than nine, and put the question io all whet , e, tuey were agreeable ro close places, a , .d di-- cOntinue taking likenesses on the dun, ay, and only three out a f the nine w ulrl c ent to d • so. The others said that Sunday wai their rest day, that in fac, they made quite en .0 4h on tho day t pay the who!e of their expen, , es, and the reason iheY g 3" for its being their most lucrative day was thtr the labouring or servant class, who were their la , st customers, appeared on that day in ttieir smartestclothr_s, clothtts, and in tho,e they wished their likenesses taken. Mr. Norton remarked that the consequences of their persisting in such a course, and creating such a nuisance on the Sabbath day, wttuldb , ) Ihe carry ing of some stringent legislative enactment to put down such practrceA, pat ticul a-iy on the Sunday. Harriet' Burnes, a young wariied temalt-t, said that on that day week she was going past Astie Thyatre, in conver , ation with a "door-keep i.e., a " tout," whom she was altoo, to _,. c , , m _ pauy to his "gallery" to have her likeness other talien,i, when the defendant came from the the street, seizes her by the shot il der , , ana s s id lt e nt o g i ~ her routni so violently as to hurt her very much, and her imp!es , ion at the titue was that he was in liquor. In cross-examination by Mr ss ck it 114 , leclgtd pared for the d,friniaut, Gw Y" e ' w l "' aP had given Goose a black e iwlavui'lli r that she was acquainted with "tout," who a ir n ici d u l e v , h d o was charged but denied that she had s b j e c:o . :urt on that day wtek, with that offence at an present care by to ptefet the Mr. Norton 0 1 ' "g' Gl'' se's tin 1 37' p d H er s e lt n i d oll ant o p pel ~ 0 r .1 15 IH , p in the penalty of Mr. Ble police ~ r the was served that the ctnduct of the fort he most obstruction, improper, and convicted him ,t s. and expenses for the assault, fiat t - rnify named and 5 8 . sonanionses were ruction, with expenses. projections on therKe also heard against two of the were fined les. ea p.ti,t e v r , b ul y de an n :t stickin gw N it a i t l l , s i , k f e o u r tsses. Th o e n y t Mr. Norton directed n th ' x f• i p w Te B. to keep a sharp look out, with a view of putting down so serious a nuisance as that complained of. I HEALTH OF LONDON DURTNO THE WEIL (Prom the Report of the Registrar Gencral.) The deaths regis ered in I,:ndon decreased from 1,487 in th,i previous week to 1,431 in the week that ended last Saturday (March 2(1). The decrease is not great, and the mortality is still unusually high ; for though the weather has been bright and genial during the week its effect is not immediately seen, to its full extent, in the shortening of the long list of deaths. In the ten years 1848-57 the average number of deaths in the week corresp, nding with last week was 1,198 ; but, as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population, they can only be compared with the average, after the litter is raised proportionally to the increase—a correc tion which will wake it 1,318. Hence it appears that 113 p-rsons died la-it week, who would have survived if a mortality not higher than the average rate had ruled. _ _ On comparikg the facts of the last two weeks it will be seen that of the five classes of disease, only that which cow prist-s " local diseases" exhibit any important variation of numbers. Diseases of the organs of circulation decreased from 67 fatal cases in the preceding week to 49 last week; those of the respiratory organs from 366 to 333 ; those of the organs (f digestion from 58 to 45. And under the second of the.e heid.4 the decrease appears to crave been chiefly in the deaths from asthma ; for the resp, ctive numbers in the two weeks were from bronchi is 207 and 192, from pneumonia 112 and 111, :ind from asthma 26 and 14. The corrected , verage of t.rottchitis in corresponding weeks is [39. The present. zwurn exhibits a considerable in rease in the mortality of whooping-cough, for in three previous weeks the deaths from it were suceesstvely b 3, 52, 69, and last week they were 83. Last week the btrths of 1,026 boys and 934 girls, in 1,960 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848- 57, the average number was 1,639. Country Markets. EDINBURC4II HAY AND STRAW MARKET MARIA' 23. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 7s Od to 94 6d per kemple of 16 stoney tron ; wheat do., $s 0,1 to 9s Od ; barley do., 'ls o,i to 8 ud. Hay from lOd to 12d. THE SUN, Colonel J. A. Ewart, 93d Regiment ; Lient.-Oolonel C. H. Gordon, depot battalion, late 93rd Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel H. Hamilton, 78th Regiment ; Lieut.- Colonel C. Campbell M'lntyre, 78th Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel G. W. P. Bingham, 64th Regiment; Lieut.-Colonel Edward W. D. Lowe, 32d Regiment ; Major F. C. Maude, Royal Artillery ; Major F. A. Willis, 84th Regiment ; Colonel R. Napier, Bengal Engineers ; Colonel C. S. Stewart, let Bombay European Regiment ; Lient.-Colonel R. A. Master, 7th Regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry ; Lieut.-Col. H. M. Durand, Bengal Engineers • Lieut.-Colonel J. Brind, Bengal Artillery ; Lieut. - Colonel F. Turner, Bengal Artillery ; Major J. Brasyer, Unattached, Bengal Army ; Superintending-Surgeon J. C. Brown, Bengal Artillery. 3vlsmoiANDum.—faieut.-Colonel W. Case, 32d Regi ment, and Major R. Barnstoo, 90th Regiment, would have been recommended for the dignity of Companion of the Order of the Bath, had they survived, THE LATE MASTER ROBERTS, R.N. HIGHLAND SuCILTY. The anniversary of the battle of Alexandria was celebrated by the members of this society by dining together at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Monday. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the day, the meeting was presided over by The Chisholm, supported by between 90 and 100 gentlemen, amongst whom we observed the Marquis of Westmeath, Lord H. Gordon, Gen. M'Neill, Gen. M`Lean, Gen. de la Motte, Sir. J. Grant, Col. Grove, Sir Digby Neave, Sir G. Hal kett, Major Macdonald, Capt. Forbes, R.A,, Capt. Pounder, Capt. Westley, Major Adair, the Hon. Major Grant, Dr. Colquhoun, Mr. De Jersey, Mr. Macelister, of Glenbar, Rev. C. M'Kenzie, Rev. J. Macbeth, Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. J. F. Camp bell of Islay, Mr. F. W. Caldwell, and Mr. J. Stone, who was accompanied by twelve officers in the Brazilian navy—viz., Capt. de Almedia Portu gal ; Major Stockmeyer ; Copts. F. Fonceca, Mon taurey, Pinheiro, Pereira de Cunha, Barros, San toz, and D. Fonceca ; Lieuts. Peixoto and Gama ; and Capt. Carneiro da Rocha. The health of "The Queen," of "The Prince of Wales, Duke of Rothesay an d Lord of the Isles," with the rest of the Royal Family, having been drunk, a special bumper was dedicated to "Tire health of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Chief of the Highland Society." " The Army and Navy " was next given, the Chairman reminding the company that the society always met to celebrate the anniversary of one glorious campaign, in which the Highlanders espe c;ally distinguished themselves, and that all eyes were now bent and all attention directed to the proceedings of a gallant officer at the head of our army in India, who, with the assistance of truly British troops, no matter what part of the country they carne from, would, he doubted not, soon re store peace and tranquillity to those distant pos sessions. He could not forget the services of the navy, which had ever been foremost in acts of gal lantry, and which had been recently brought into closer connection with the army than was formerly the case. The sailor had been looked upon as a somewhat amphibious animal, neither fish nor alligator—(lauehter)—and whilst it was always known that they could fight well by sea, the naval brigade had recently proved they were equally effi cacious on land. (Laughter.) General M'NEILL having acknowledged the com pliment, The CHAIRMAN gave the "Indian Army and General De la Motto," who, he reminded the com pany, was an old Indian officer who had crossed the Desert with Sir David Baird to join the immortal Abercrombie in Egypt. General DE LA MOTTE replied, and expressed his confidence that the Anglu-Indian army wou'd always do its du' y so as to meet with the approba tion of their countrymen. The CHAIRMAN said they were that evening ho noured by tee company of several visitors, among whom were a number of officers in the Braziliau navy, whom he heartily welcomed amomgA them, and he was sure the company present would be glad to drink to the " Brazilian Navy." The toast having been responded to with High land he yours, Capt. DE A. PORTTGAL said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I did not know when I entered this room that I should have the honour of returning thanks for the toast of "The Brazilian Navy," which has been so kindly drunk by this honourable company. Gentlemen, it gives us pleasur e t o fi n d our 5 - rv i ce so well looked upon by the British nation, and peculiar pleasure to find ourselves so well received by a society of Highlanders. Gentlemen, our na tion, our service, has great reason to be grateful to the Scottish people, because we cannot help recol lecting that the implement which organised the Brazilian navy was a Scotchman. (Cheers.) It was Lord Cochrane that taught us how to manage our navy and how to discharge our duty. We do not attempt to do more ; but it is our utmost en deavour to copy the example which that distin• guished British officer and noble Scotchman set us. (Applause.) I very much regret that the Brazilian Minister at present in this country is not present this evening, as I am sure he would have much better acknowledged the compliment which you have paid to the Brazilian navy, and through them the Brazilian nation, than I have done. I have, however, to request you will accept my thanks, and those of my colleagues, for the honour you have done us. (Cheers.) The " Memory of the officers and men who fell at Alexandria, and in other climes," having been drunk in solemn silence, the Chairman gave the healthy of those gallant men who, having taken part in the campaign in India, were still preserv e d to their coun t ry, f or which the Marquis of We3t meath briefly and appropriately expres-ed his ac knowledgments. The health of the Chairman, of the Ladies, and various other toasts, were drunk ; th e Q ueen ' s piper, the band of the Royal Caledonian Asylum, Mr. George Genge, and some gentlemen in the company, tending by their exertions to enliven the proceedings, and when our reporter left the ladies from the gallery had just been introduced into the body of the room, and dancing commenced with the Highland fling, in which it was evident the ladies were not quite so practised as their military parteers. We s'.aould not omit to state that, amongst the ;oasts, one was specially drunk to the success of ;he Caledonim Asylum for the education and main tenaoce of the en of 11.:ghland parents be longing to the army, navy, or marine services, which was originally established through the lust; u mentality of this society—the Chairman reminding the company that the jubilee festival would take place on the 7th of ' , lay, and inviting every gen tleman present to meet him on that occasion, ac companied by as many friends as could be induced to lend their aid in supporting such a truly national and valuable institution. THE MURDER IN itoRPH DEVON. DELHI PRIZE MONEY Mr. HELPS remarked that Mr. Baillie had offi cially st.ted that the question of the prize money of Delhi aaes:i~lunder the consideration of Go - vernment, and he had seen it st a t e d that the cir cumstances of the property capt ure d i n that city were different from those of properiy captured in the cities of enemies generally, inasmuch as they only recovered that t‘hieh had been their own be fore. That might be the case widi respect to Go verem nt stores, but surely not as regaide I the property of the reb,ls. He wished, too, to know if there was any reluctance to grant IL.norary distinc tions for the Indian camp a i gn. The CHAIRMAN stated, in reply, that Lord Can ning had, in granting the soldiers engaged before Delhi six months' Llama, g one to the lull extent of hi s pow , r . Th e C our t of Directors had, however g , ranted them six month s addition albatia—(hear)— and her Majesty's Government surrendered them in prize all the property found in the city not being Government stores, or belonging to those who had remained loyal to British rule. A medal, too, be was happy to say, Would be granted to the troo, s, wiill a distincti ve clasp for Delhi, for Luck now, and for service i n the field under Havelock. THE LATE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE, The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question from M r . Lewin, stated that h er Majesty had granted a ba ronetcy to !lie son of Sir Hear) Lawrence, with re mai tider t his broth er , and the Court of Directois 1,0001 . p er annum, i n suc ciierlte,iroldne,dfotro t a h - o e te su t i l7hi ort of th e di gn it y. QUARTER AND MUTILATION. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to Mr. Crawshay, said he did not believe that the trcops had refused quarter to the sepoys. As to what Sir Henry Raw- Janson had stated in the House of Commons, that they had captured no prisoners of war, it should be remembered that they had no cavali y to pursue fugitives, and the sepoys were much lighter on foot than to Mr. Lewin, that afte r th e most strict investiga ttion, t h h the e re ßritish h a dn i o n t fa b t e r infantry mutilation. mutilation. ' *H e a l so st ate d , i n reply discovered a single ca s e o f was confirmed by Sir F. C urrie. This statement, which gave general satisfaction, Mr. JONES was proceeding to call the attention DUD E . the Court to the subjt.et of the annexation of Oude, when, on the moti on of an h on . proprietor, EDINBURGH MEAL-MARCH 23. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 36e 6d and a. DALKEITH MEAL IiARKET—MARna 22. There were in the market to-day 5 bags of oatmeal. 0 o )arleyineal, and 0 pot barley . Sales ready. )atuleal; per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial arleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od --a d Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.. Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od a Od Cd DUBLIN. MARCH 23. White wheat, 27b 01 to 293 Od red ditto, 244 Od to 26s 61 ditto new, s 0 i ; barley, ma lti ng , 13 3 to 17s 6d; grind ing, —s to --s ; oa.s, old, lls to 14s tid; ditto, new, --1 Oct to —s , oatmeal, 13s to 153 Od; bere, new, 14a to 15s Od , rapes d, 23s od'to 25s Od per brl ; a' flour, 141 6d to 19s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 33s Od to 35s Od per 180 lbs. COAL VARK Hl' Prices of Coals per ton ai :. MARCH 24. the close of the market Viallsend, au. - s. d. ranfield Moor l3 0 Canfield Moor Butes 13 0 Bebside's Hartley l4 9 dates's West Hartley 12 fi Hastings Hartley 14 6 Uongrittge's Wst Hartley 14 9 Bell's Primrose l2 tltl'pool West Hartley 14 0 Ilsend, &c s ei. (lawmen 16 ( Eden Alain l4 C Keiper Grain() l6 Ships at mark( Powell's Duffryn Steam 21 6 Cassop .15 6 deuo Hall .14 6 rietton 13radclyll l5 9 La.m bton l6 0 losforth l3 3 Wayne's Merthyr 20 0 Whitworth l4 3 .corn Close l4 9 itowAL Tees l6 6 ,t, 73 ; sold 34. LOCAL SBA RE MA RKETIi. LIVERPOOL-24ARca 24. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market bas been heavy to-day, with very hale business doing. Leeds Northern, 23i 411 — Chester and Rolybeaos, 19A —Birkenheads, 70 to ;01— Grelt Western 58 9—Lancashire and Yorkshire, b 9 4 a —Sbeffields, .I—Midlands, 97 4—North British, 13 a - Berwicks, 221 3—York and North Midland, 31 Loudon and North Westt-rn, 956 i—Lovers, 20 / X istoi n Countzei, 11S 11 16—Grand Trunk of Canada, 11 -- Great Western of Canada, 194 —Dutch Rhenish, 31 3 d.—East Lancashire, 83 : 1 1—Caledonians, 431 4. 3IRMINGIIA It, MARCH 21. STOCK EXCHAN6R. —This market was very dull to-day, and prices of abates closed the same as last evening. Birmingham an , l Stour Valleys, SA—Great Westerne, 59 --South Stafford 4, 10.—Btrmingham Banking Com. pany, 29. MANCHESTER, MARCH 24 STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was a fair business doing ho-day, and prices were a shade lower. Leeds, 898— , Ditto, new, d.—East Lancashire, 88i—Sheffields, 38i —Great Western of Canada, new, 2 d —Eastern Coun ties, lli—Midlands, 9/6 Trunks, 11i—Devers, 20 1 5 -1 6—Norfolk, 60,3. [ A D VcEe longer / t which I h S eSIhE remainhN T a .9 been T e i inattentive givenei nn intelligent e i v l b l convincingr te respectable personalpublicee t abe e e rid . e7 e i : e t F o n i f t t t y h p e olti o portion Thousand of , ndividuals, as to the extraordinary cures . ffected by Messrs. Du Barry's Revalenta Arabi ca F oo d , i n various stages of the undermentione maladies, and after medicine had utterly foiled, or had, in many cases aggravated the original symp toms :-- dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irre gularity, obstructions, acidity, cramps, spasms, fits, heart. burn, diarrhoea, nervousness, biliousness, affections of the liver and kidneys, flatulency, distension, palpitation of the heart, nervous headache, deafness, noises in the head and ears giddiness, pains between the shoulders, and in almost every part of the b dy, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, eruptions ou the.skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, impurities, poverty of blood, consumption (if not beyond human aid); dropsy, rheumatism, gout, influenza, grippe, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough, asthma, tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blush. ing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, de lusions, 1, ss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head,, exhaus. tion, melancholy, groundless fear, indecision, wretchedness, thoughts of self-destruction, &. Amongst those who have joined in this magnificent testimonial of gratitr.d• are such men as the R ght Hon. Lord Stuart de Decies, the Venerable Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross ; Major-General King; Captain Parker Bingham, R.N., &c„ &c. - The catalogue likewise includes th e n ames o f h un d re ds of ladies, who, with a noble resolution, overcoming for humanity's sake their natural repugnance to publicity, have come forward to de. scribe their long-continued sufferings under the anguish of disease, and the misery of fruitless medicine-taking, and their final delivery from all this wret hedness by the use of the light and agreeable Revalenta Food. In numbers of in stances it has been the salvation of women in pregnancy, and of delicate nurses and infants ; and th e d ura ti on o f c h r onic diseases, which it has effectually overcome (after all other methods of cure had been used in vain) was in some cases, upwards of sixty years. If we 4.- signatd the discovery of this food as the greatest the human species, physical blessing which the good fortune and ingenuity of an individua have yet conferred upon we feel that we are speaking quite within bounds ; and we can only express our hopes, for the sake of society at large, that the use of this inestimable preparation may become as universal as its capacities forgood are certain and inexhaustible. Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated Pr.i• fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A lire; Dr. Shorland; Dr, Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; . Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart; Major Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable per sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full instruc tions, In canisters, Ilb. 2s, 9d.; 4s. tid.; 51b. lls. ; 121 b 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free en re ceipt of Post-office order parry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Cautioi! against the fear. ful dangers of spurious imitations .—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wo ,, d granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, fo r i m it a ti ng "ps Barry's Revaleuta Arabica Food." BIRTHS. JA,cou—On the Vd inst., at 2, Artillery-place, Finsbury. square, Mrs. E. Jacob, of a son. MONTRESSOR—On the 15th inst., at the Lawn, Widmer, the wife of Captain F. B. Montressor, R.N., of • daugh ter. SOIVERBY—On the 2lst inst., at the Grange, Warley, near Halifax, the wife of J. E. Sowerby, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. COX - TRAVERS —On the 23d •inst., at St. Margaret's, Westtniuster, William Travers Co; Esq., to Josephine Ellen, the yonagest daughter of Major Travers, Ports• mouth. RIISSELL—Lorits—Oa the 24th inst., at St. Georges, Hanover.scluzue, Mr. James Russell, of Clapham-road, to Hannah Loyns, late of Beecles, Suffolk. DEATHS, ASHTON—Oo the 22d inst., a' 13, Ring•street, Holborn. su"denlY, Richard Ashton, late of Lloyd's Coffee house, aged 67. AUSTIN 0i) the 21st inst., Mr. John Austin, II ° " 1 " Y. los•+, [ldle, ay, aged 64. DANGERFIELD- On the 10th inst. at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the R ev . R. G. Dangerfiebl, age d 34. GOODCHEAP —On the 22d inst , at 24, CL i swe ll-street, Mr. Joseph Gouticheap, age,' 33. IBOTSON —On th e 2 d inst., at Wraysbury, Richard not. s,,n, Esq., ages CO RANFURLY— On the 21st inst., at Dungannon-park, the Earl of Ranfully, agsd 71. WALKER—On the 9th inst., at Orchard House, Teign , mouth, Devon, Edward Daring Walker, Esq., M.D. YORKE—On the 21st inst., the Rev. Philip Wynne Yorke, for 46 years sector of South Shoebury, Essex, aged 70. LONDON P r i n ted and Pub lished by IfURDO YO UHL ,tr of No. 112, Sand, Printer, at The S un Offi ce , N 7. Hz, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the county` Of midd , o „„, ThuildaYs March 25, 185 g. 1 I An froi US] ma: Thr 1 place loan Assu of gr I Issue the t goini Ince] spect 'sited (mill Thon Jacol Josep vinu, John Benit Thi be ha Of its In 1 divisil and tl Defer terms LO: The Is tee Lave, Tot idiom P lished has be policie Currie anima the dt of gra Empo If os Th( XraY. Poi take out i Th 4 flat io TVI nYe , Its Its 1 0 oil Its Th Sit Of thi Isaan, No;