The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

frbirri Übition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALLS'—(This, Evening.) No betting worthy of quotation, the members having left for Chester. _ Blink Bonny was struck out of the Chester Cup at 9 a.m. this (Monday) morning; Leamington, Honeytree, Bridescake, and Red Eagle out of all their Chester en gagements at the sane time. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—{This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. _ SUFFERINGS AT CA.WNPORE. In reply to a question by the Earl of SHAFTEsBIIRT, asking whether there would be any objection to produce a oertain document to which reference had been made as " not received," The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said he thought the words "not received" had been written in India. He thought no good whatever would result from placing ac counts of individual suffering at Cawnpore before the public; on the contrary, he thought fur ther debate would only create feelings inconsistent with good go vernment and good legislation. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he should persevere until 1104 document was produced. The Earl of ELLENBOROITH said he was uncer tain whether the documents alluded to were really in existence. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the following bills were read a second time :—Aberdare water, Merthyr Tydvil Water, Selkirk and Gateshead Railway, Folke stone Water, Ely Valley Railway, and Liskeard and Lore 'Union Canal Companies. GAME LAWS. A. noble lord asked whether there was any intention on the part of the Government to amend the Game Laws. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the subject not having been considered by the Government he could give no definite answer to the question. THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Viscount CLIFFORD asked the noble and learned lord on the woolsack, whether any further steps were to be taken to expedite causes in the Court of Chancery. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the question of the noble viscount was so generally worded, that be had been precluded from directing his inquiries to any particular branch of the C iurt of Chan cery. He, however, complained of the delays that took place, more particularly before the chief clerks at Chambers, but be must say that all the infor mation he had been abla to collect did not confirm the noble lord's complaint. He found that instead of the business being conducted in a very dilatory and unsatisfactory manner, the contrary was the case, as be found that the chief clerks pursued and transacted their business in as expeditious a manner as possible. If the noble lord would point out any particular branch in which delay was unnecessar i ly caused, he would institute an iinmedate and searching inquiry. (LEFT SITTTN6.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—Crhis Evening.) The SPEAKEIL took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed :--Birmingham Canal Navigation, Brantford Gas, and Garngad Road. The following bills were further considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Cornwall Railway, Eastern Counties Railway, London and South Western Railway, Plymouth Great Western Docks, Stokes Bay Railway and Pier, and Trent Navigation. HAINAULT FOREST (ALLOTMENT OF COM MONS) BILL. Mr. HAMILTON nominated the following Select Committee on Hainault Forest (Allotment of Commons) Bill :—Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Whitmore. Mr. Crawford, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Ww. Baresford, and Mr. Jas. Wilson ; and five members to be added by the Committee of Selection—five to be the quorum. IRISH REVENUE POLICE. Mr. F. RUSSELL moved for copies of a memorial from the officers of the late Irish Revenue Police to the Lords of the Treasury, presented on the 23d day of March last to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the accompanying statement of the present and of the proposed retiring allowances ; and of the Treasury minute made thereon.—Agreed to. WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND. Mr. BRADY gave notice that he should to-morrow put a question to the Lord-Advocate relative to the Western Bank of Scotland. THE INDIAN PRE S S. Mr. MAGUIRE gave notice that be should tomor row present a petition from the Madras Presidency rela tive to the Press Act. APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRATES FOR THE BOROUGH OF CANTERBURY. Mr. JOHN LOCKE (Southwark) gave notice that he should on Friday call the attention of the house to the resent appointment of justices of the peace for the bo rough of Canterbury. MERCANTILE LAW OF CANADA. Mr. VANCE asked the Attorney-General if his at tention had been called to the present state of the mer cantile law of Canada, which sanctions preferential assignments of debtors' effects, without affording any means of redress to the general body of their creditor? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was unable to afford any information on the subject. It was one EX elusively within the cognisance of the Canadian Legis lature. The Attorney-General for Engl .nd had no means of taking the final step towards redressing any such grievance as that alluded to. SANDHURST AND WOOLWICH. Mr. LYGON asked Viscount Palmerston whether the minutes relative to the recent alterations at Sand burst and Woolwich were submitted to, and sanctioned by, the late Government or not. (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON said his noble friend Lord Panmure showed him the draft of a regulation to form the new arrangements referred to, and, generally speak ing, it seemed to him (Lord Palmerston) to be very right and proper. It ievolved two material points. One was that young men who wished to become competitors for examination in the scientific branches. instead of regis tering their names at the office of the Secretary of State for War, were to register them at the Commander. in-Chief's. The other was that competitors for com missions in scientific branches should be from Sandhurst instead of those educated elsewhere, which was sug gested with a view of improving the education at Sandhurst, with the understanding that if the change was objected to competitors should be taken one half from Sandhurst, and one half from elsewhere. With re gard to the part of the question omitted, whether the minute bore any minute of his (Lord Palmerston) in his own handwriting, be was unable then to give an answer, but be had no doubt his right hon. friend the Secretary ter War (General Peal) could best answer the question. (Hear, bear ) EXCHEQUER BONDS (2.000,0007.) BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the second reading sf th El b 11. Sir G. C. LEWIS said it had been reported that her Majesty's late Government left the finances of the coun try in a disordered and unsatisfactory state, and bequeathed an inheritance of difficulties to their successors. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however , in his financial statement cave no sanction to such re port, and he (Sir G. Lewis) c a ll e d th e attention of th e house to the state of the fina n c es , w h en her Majesty's late Government quitted o ffi ce, which h e said w a s on the whole as satisfactory as the house ought to have anti cipated from the statement he submitted to the house at the beginning cf last session. He then estimated the expenditure at 65,474,0307., but the actual expenditure was 70,378,0001, being an Excess of 4,904 0001. The revenue returned 1,416,0001. more than the estimated expenditure, and 3,741,000/. cf debt here paid off, reduc ing the excess over expenditure to about 2,000,0001. (Hear, bear.) After entering into the figures of the respective estimates of himself and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. gentleman said that what he objected to in the present scheme of finance was that there was no attempt mane for paying off the 2,000,060/. of Exchequer-bonds, in all or in part, as a postponement for a sinking fund, as much as if no obligations had existed for paying off that debt. It appeared to him that the arrangement made by the right hon. gentleman with reference to his allowing the alte ration in the income-tax taking effect this year, had violated an important principle in not redeeming the Exchequer-bonds without giving substantial or effec tive relief to the tax-payers. If the right hon. gentleman intended to follow out that principle, and get rid of the income-tax in 1860, the question was how tbey were to raise an equivalent sum if there was not an excess of revenue at that period, and the amount that would be lost by the cessation of the in come-tax. He contended that the house ought not to be called upon to come to any distinct pledge that an income-tax, or any other tax should male at any particular period, but that it ought to be left for consideration, when the period for its abolition arose, and he refuse d to allow his procedure cf judgment to be intsrf-red with by any such declaration, and be hoped the house would join with him in resist ing to to held to any test of th e sor t th a t the ri g ht hon, ge n tl eman the Cbancell er c f th e E xc b e quer had ende avou red to imp ose on t h em. T he con tinued in crease o exp enditure rendered necessary b y the votes of the house in roving and ex ' ending our national defen ces , render ed a re mission o f t axa ti on im possible, and he thought the house sheen pause before they pledged themselves un ee co totle try caused the remi s sion cf a t ax. Th e demands made on h the indiae b • o utbreak was a Arcing point in favou r o f u y nforeseen ex taxation a sanctionxio of panditure, and an argument for h ing any prospective engagements as to thi n e ° future years. Mr. GLADSTONE could not blame the right hon. geniteman for bringing the question before the house, b ut he thought he should have first given notice of his in tention to do so. This was not a question relying on rumour, but on figures, and he was bound to state that he considered the finances of the country were not in a satisfactory state. jun ung-Drcf•J NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) were in spected by Major-General the Earl of Cardigan on Thursday at the Leeds barracks in the presence of Lieut.-Colonel Knox, the commander, and the other officers of the regiment. It is scarcely two months since the formation of this regiment com menced, yet, with the exception of about half-a dozen soldiers, the full cotnplement has already been raised. About 530 men mustered on parade, and the Earl of Cardigan expressed himself well satisfied with their soldierlike bearing and the ge neral discipline of the regiment. After the inspec tion his lordship examined the internal arrange ments of the barracks, which also met with his ap probation. The following officers proceeded from Chatham garrison on Saturday to Hythe for the purpose of undergoing a course of instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle at the School of Musketry previously to joining the service companies of their respective regiments in India—Captain A. J. 0. Rutherfurd, 70th Regiment ; Captain W. J. Anderson, 32d Regiment ; Lieut. R. A. Eyre, 533 Regiment, and Ensign J. T. H. Butt, 75th Regiment. A party of non-commissioned officers and men also left the garrison on Saturday for the purpose of being put through a course of rifle instruction under Colonel C. C. Hay. In accordance with the orders of the Duke of i Cambridge a number of officers, selected from the i 15th, 30th, 47th, 67th, '76th, 96th, asd 99th Regi ments, have arrived at Chatham and joined the battalions of infantry, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the military system carried out by the officers and troops of the various branches of the service at that garrison. On Saturday morning the entire battalion of Royall Marine Light Infantry, now at head-quar ters, Chatham, were assembled in their barrack square for the purpose of having read the* sentence of a district court-martial on Private H. Cartlidge, of that corps, who was tried on several charges of desertion, making away with his necessaries, break ing away from the escort, and insubordinate lan guage. The prisoner, who bears a very bad cha racter, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Fort Clarence military prison. Lieut. Charles W. Sergison, of the 93d High landers, who fell at the attack on the Bagum's Palace, Lucknow, on March 10, entered the army in March, 1855. He carried the colours of his re giment for four months in the Crimea, and fought most gallantly at the relief of the Residency at Lucknow, and at the Secunderabagh, taking a mus ket and fighting as a private soldier. Had ho been spared, he would have attained his 24th year in June. He was the eldest son of Mr. William Ser gison, of Leamington, Warwickshire. In the 12 months from April 1, 1857, to March 31, 1858, the Bristol recruiting district has fur nished to the East India Company's service no fewer than 5,448 effective men. As many as 6,721 volunteered, but there ware rejected on medical examination 1,273, or about 17 per cent. of the en tire number. Recruiting has at the same time been actively carried on in the district for the artillery, the military train corps, and the several regiments of the Queen's regular army. On Thursday 202 men of the 2d battalion of the 20th Regiment arrived in Clonmel under the com mand of Major Ord from Kingsbridge terminus, to which they were marched on arriving from Liver pool. The battalion, when complete, will number 1,000 men, who will remain at Gomel until pro perly drilled and proficient in the Miuie rifle ex ercise. A Dublin paper says,— " We are glad to announce that all idea of abandon ing the camp at the Curragh of Kildare, or even reducing the troops stationed there, has been abandoned. Alder• shot is no longer in high favour, althonzh its conveni ence as an English camp station, for the visits of the Royal Family and the military authorities, will still keep a large number of troops there. Tire great natural ad vantages of the Curragh, as a review and training ground, as well as for the health of the troops, have induced the authorities to decide upon an increase cf force, and upwards of 7,000 men are already in camp. There will be during the ensuing summer military evolutions on an extensive scale, and constant training and prac tice for the troops. Heretofore the men were quartered in wooden houses, but latterly some brick buildingm have been erected, and the camp at the Curragh now presents all the appearance of a permanent military es tabl shment." The Wellesley, 72, guardship in orclinaryat Chat ham was re-commissioned onSaturday by Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8., having been paid off the previous day. The Goliath, 80, screw steamer, is ordered to pro ceed from Chatham to Pinop-reach, where she will remain until her services are required. The freight ship Goodwill, George Commander, has commenced shipping stores at Chatham for Sheerneaa Docks ard. The Marlborough, 131, Captain LordF. H. Kerr, flag of Vice• Admiral A. Fanshawe, C.B. ' might go to Spithead next week if she had men. She enters them very slowly indeed. The Arrogant, 47, Capt. L. G. Heath, C. 8., went to Spithead on Friday and anchored. She will leave to morrow for her cruising ground. The frigate Sybille, 40, Commodore Elliott, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday, brought home Cap+. seymour, late of the Tortoise, and about 70 invalids and superannuated seamen and marines from the China squadron, including Lieut. W. C. Andrew=, Camilla, Second Maser J. H. Blackford, of the James ; Paymaster A. W. Chitnmo, Cruiser; J. E. Kerr, clerk and engineer; T. Lovering, E- , k ; Dr. Christie, Simoom, Cape of Good Hope; W. Todner, engineer; and H. P. Brenen, clerk, Merlin ; D. Irvine, mate, Tortoise ; and H. Ball, assistant-surgeon, from Ascension. Ten deaths occurred among the seamen and ma rines of the Sybille on the passage home—namely, 5 between Singapore and the Cape, and 5 be,ween Ascension and Plymouth. The Sybille will have been in commission five years on the 23d inst. She has been on the China, Japan, and Indian stations, and was present and assisted at the capture of Can ton on the 29th of December. No officers have died since she was commissioned, but about 20 deaths have occurred among the men, principally from dysentery and the effects of climate. When in commission her First-Lieutenant, Curiae, was pro moted to the rank of Commander, and Mr. Web ber, mate, has been made lieutenant. The Sybille has on board two large Chinese b - ass guns, one of whicifweighs 20 tons ; they were captured in Wong- Tong fort at Canton, and are intended for presen tation to her Majesty. THE GUN-BOATS AT HASLAR. TO THE EDITOR 017 THE SUN. SlR,—From the commencement of the " shed buildings at Hadar, designed for the purpose of preserving the screw gunboats, I have watched the progress of getting them up in place ; and having attended also at a time when the facility of lower ing them was supposed to be effective, I do not he sitate to state that a more inefftctive and costly contrivance wag never exhibited—it can only be likened to the man who built a large boat in his cellar and then found no space large enough for the blat's egress. Toe late First Lord of the Ad miralty in his place in Parliament stated he was assured that 30 boats could be launched or lowered from their resting-place in a month ! Why, sir, should not 30 boats be lowered in a day It is in contemplation to continue the shed building on the north side of the creek. Then, in the name of com mon sense, let such shed or cover be built in line with the creek ; let blocks be placed on au inclined plane, so that a powerful engine could haul them up in place on a cradle, and I vouch for it that the screw gunboat's crew—or say 40 men from the guardahips or dockyard—would with counter tackle and purchases lower the boats within a few minutes into the c ree k. Th e who l e affa i r i s no thi ng more than the c ommon calculation of an ordinary schol b oy, and would be in effect the plan pursued in ee' cutting our l argest thre d ^kersin halves, and lowering th e a f ter bodyt-othe extent required in lengthening, such as the Duke o of Wellington, Marlborough, or P r i nce be borne in e r n a g n these d i t shou ldaftr mind that bodies, a weight of a t l east 1 repre sented, whereas the largestgu'iibooo tons was b at . would not ex oinf Wales,l lowering ex ceed 300 tons ; the principl e Make what comment on these facts you ''thg n t i h a e y please . for the benefit of the public purse.-- .I have the hoLour to be, Sir, your humble servant, BLUE JACKET. Portsmouth, May 1, 1858. DEATH OF THE DEAN OF YOBS.—We regret to an no unce the demise of the Very Rev. Sir William Cock: burn t Dean of York, who expired on Friday afternoon at Kelston, Someraetshire, of which parish he was rector, at an advanced age. The late dean was third son of Sir James Cockburn, eighth baronet by his Fecond wife, Augusta Anna, daughter of the Very Rev. Francis Ayseoogh, D.D., Dean of Bristol, and preceptor to George 111., and brother of the- late Admiral Sir G Cockburn, Bart., G.C.8., and of Gen. Sir James Cock burn, Bart., G.C.B. He was e located at St. John's College, Cambridge, and obtained a fellowship of that college ' • he graduated as B.A . in 1795, when he was 12th Wrangler, M.A. in 1798, and was made a D.D. in 1823. The reverend deceased was Christian Advocate to the University of Cambridge in 1803, and was in 1822 appointed Dean of York, and in 1832 appointed rector of Kelston. He married first, in 1805, Miss Peel, second daughter of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and sister of the late statesman ' • and secondly, in 1830 (his fi rst wife having died i n 1826) Miss Pearce, daughter of Colonel Pearce, of Harley-ball, Cambridgeshire. The late dean Succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother, Admiral Sir Geo rge Cockburn, in 1853. Failing issue, the baronetcy de th e _ L ord up on hi s nep h ew , Si r Al exan d er Cockburn,- Chief Justice of the Common Plum THE SUN, LONDON, AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY EVENING• The North Star steamer, of the Vanderbilt line, Captain R. L. Tinkelpaugh, from New York for Bremen, arrived in the river this afternoon, with advicee to the 17th ult. She brings four packages of specie (value not stated), and about 200 passen gers for this port, Havre, and Bremen. The Royal mail steamship America, with the mails of the 3d ult. from Liverpool, arrived out at New York on the morning of the 16th. Both Houses of Congress had agreed to finally adjourn on the 7th of June. In the Senate on the 15th ult. a resolution was offered, which was laid over, that Congress reassemble on the Ist of Nov. A call was made on the Secretary of War for infor mation respecting the Utah army contracts. Mr. Houston gave notice of his intention to call up on the following Monday his resolution relative to a protectorate over Mexico. The Pacific Railroad Bill was then discussed till the adjournment. In the House the Committee on the Kansas votes was announced. It is the same as previously published with the exception that the name of Mr. Howard, of Michigan, is substituted for that of Mr. Gid dings. A River and Harbour Appropriation Bill. involving an expenditure of 51,500,000 mainly to continue works already in progress, was reported by the Committee on Commerce. The Bill includes appropriations for improvements at Hellgate, Dia mond Reef, and the Hudson River. The Legislature was hard at work on the 16th on the Supply and Appropriation Bills. The Broad way Railroad Bill was killed off in the Senate by a vote of 18 to 13. The Legislature would probably adjourn on the afternoon of the 17th. The 16th was private Bill day in Congress, and nothing of general interest occurred in either House. The Kansas Conference Committee had as yet done nothing, owing to the illness of Mr. Stephens. An important general order had been recently , issued from the head-quarters of the army respect ing the forces detailed for Utah. Major-General Persifer F. Smith has been assigned to the com mand of the forces operating against the Mormons, superseding General Johnston, who will be placed in command of a brigade. General Harney was also ordered to Utah. The reinforcements and supplies were to be pushed forward as rapidly as practicable. The remains of the late Colonel Benton were in terred at St. Louis on the 16th ult. Business was generally suspended, the houses and stores draped in mourning, and the streets crowded with spec tators. The hearse was followed to the Bellefon taine Cemetery by the most imposing procession ever formed in St. Louis. It consisted of the rela tions and friends of the family, all the military com panies of the city, the 7th Regiment of the United States' Infantry, under the command of Colonel Morrison, the judges of the courts, the members of the bar, the members of the city government, a large majority of the benevolent societies of the city, the Turners' Association, and an immense concourse of citizens in carriages and on foot. The cortege was 45 minutes passing a given point. On the previous day the body lay in state in the Mer cantile Library Hall, and it was estimated that 25,000 persons visited the hall during the day to gaze upon the features of the deceased Senator. A gentleman whohad arrived in New York direct from New Orleans, via the Missis i.dpi river and Memphis, gave a deplorable account of the destruc tion of property by the flood in that river. He stated that the river had pretty much, with few exceptions, covered the country on both sides of it all the way from the mouth of Lake Providence to Memphis—a distance of several hundred miles. People were seen in the upper stories of the houses, while the lower rooms were filled with water. Cattle were standing half submerged, while dogs were resting on logs. In villages people were pass ing in boats, and moving their effects to places of greater.safety. Even deer had been dislodged from their coverts, and were seen swimming in the Mis sissippi. One fine specimen was taken while swim ming, across the river in front of the bow of the boat. This flood is said to be without precedent since the year 1844, and at many points it is said to be greater than that. The extent of its damage and destruction of property cannot probably la.) known until the inundation has partially subsided, communication with many points having been in terrupted or entirely cut off. The steam frigate Susquehanna arrived at New York on the evening of the 15th from Kingston, Jamaica, which port she left on the 7th ult. She had been absent about two years, during which time she visited the Mediterranean, took part in the Atlantic telegraph expedition, an.d had latterly been stationed on the coast on Central America, watching the Filibusters. While lying in the har bour of Greytown, on the 19th of March, the yellow fever broke out among her crew. She immediately put to sea, intending to visit Pensacola ' but her destination was subsequently changed for Jamaica, being short of coal and medical stores. Before her arrival at Kingston the disease had become epi _ _ demic, and on reaching that port she bad . 155 cases. Of the whole number 17 had died, among them Lieutenant Queen, of the Marine Corps. Six officers and 56 of the crew were landed at Kings ton, and placed in the hospital there. Great praise was given the English naval and medical officers of Kingston for their prompt and efficient efforts to relieve the sick. 21 cases of yellow fever from the Susquehanna were sent to the Marine Hospital at New York on the morning of the 16th ult., and immediately after the health officer sent her to the lower quarantine anchorage, to ride out her qua rantine probation of 30 days. Her officers and crew, except so many as wore necessary to remain on board as shipkeepers, were ordered to leave the ship and take quarters on the quarantine grounds, Where they would remain until all danger had passed that they would be attacked with yellow fever. Several of the sick died on the 16 di, but tte remaining cases were doing well. No efforts were spared by the officers at quarantine to provide for the unfortunates. A. force of metropolitan police was furnished to -assist the health officer while the crew of the Susquehanna were detained at quaran tine. Some details had been received at New York of the late Indian massacre ip British Honduras. When the Indians took the town of Beccalaw they killed 104 persons, and took 40 prisoners. Rausoln amounting to $4,000 was offered for the rele7se of the latter, but it was refused, and the entire num ber-30 women and 10 men—were brought out and put to death, after the persons of the women bad been violated by the Indian soldiers. News from Maracaibo, Venezuela, is to the Ist ult. On the 21st of March the opponents of Monagas overthrew the existing Government at that place, and proclaimed ex-Governor Serrano provisional President of the Liberaeing Assembly. The revolu tion was effected without bloodshed. The general sentiment of the 'province was favourable to the elevation of General Pasz as the executive head of the republic. The removal fiom office of all the employes of the late Government had been decreed, and persons who speculated in the public funds during the rule of Menages were to be rigorously , excluded from appointitnts under the new admi nistration. The Mono gols family had taken refuge with the French legation, whither they had taken half a million of dollar's; and it was i-aid that the French Minister was about to marry the ex-Presi dent's daughter. The Provisional Government, however, demanded the surrender of Monagas and his accomplice, and they were delivered up and placed in confinement, to ba dealt with according as their offences may be judged. From a published statement it appears that of the Custom-hoase re ceipts at Porto Cabello the Monagas family regu larly bagged 76 per cent. The ex-President was near defeating the ends of the patriots by means of early information given him by a traitor named Gavara. Caracas was brilliantly illuminated for seven days after Menages resigned, during which time the great number of foreign sags floating from private residences added much to the effect of the scone. As the streets were crowded night and day during the week, the ladies, native and foreign, when promenading appeared without their skirt dis tenders—a circumstance that is mentioned with no little satisfaction. The tendency of prices in the New York stock market on the 16th ult. was downward, from the opening to the close. A very moderate amount of business was transacted, and most of the operations were on time. At the first board Virginia Stale -Sixes declined per cent., Canton Company i e Ni caragua Transit 1, New York Central Vailroad f, Hudson River Railroad 1, Harlem 1, Reading 11, Michigan Southern (01(1)11, do. Preferred li, Pana ma 2, Galena and Chicago 1, Cleveland Toledo 1, Chicago and Rock Island 2. Dulness hid been the characteri s ti c. o f t h e stock-market for severa l d a y s . At the second board quite an improvement was t r vr e aa al inlc Bondsse d, wh a per e i w t re cree u p it r .l e ;o t w t ye lower iv e Pennsylvania mark e market. lllinoi sc o Cal ad e n New York Central ; Erie, ; Hudson Ri ver Railroad, ; MilWairie and Mii Mississippi, ; Reading, I • Michigan Southern, Old, ; ditto, Preferred, Panama, ; Galena and Chicago, ; ch r i c e ag ' o ; an dt: Island, 1. After the board the tendency was up ward, and the market closed very firm. The market for breadstuffs was less active, and under the foreign news prices were dull, without change, however, of moment in qnotati ons .Th e quotations t rls'' cloning:--Su sales footed up ab 5,000t06, within the range of thi following perfine State, 4 doh sc. to 4 do's. 15c. ; extra Stat© , 4 dol.?, 25c. t 4 dole. 30c ; Western and C A, 4 MONDAY E V ENING, Ohio superfine, 4 dole. sc. to 4 dole. 20c. ; extra Ohio and Western , 4 dols. to 4 dols. 800. ; Cana dian superfine and extra, 4 dols. 25c. to 5 dols. 50c. ; Baltimore, Alexandria, and George own, 4 dols. 50c. to 4 dole. 85c.; S,euthern fancy and extra, 4 dole. 50c. to 4 dols. 85c ; Southern fancy and extra, 4 dole. 20c. to 6 dole. 35c. ; choice extra family and bakers' brands, 6 dols. 50c. to 7 dole. 75c.; rye flour, 3 dols. to 3 dols. 75c.; corn meal, 3 dole. 20c. to 3 dole. 75c. Canadian was un changed, Southern brands were steady, with sales of about 700 or 800 bbls., within the range of the above quotations. Rye flour.-S call sales were made at quotations. Corn meal was steady, with sales of about 100 bbls. at our figures. Wheat was more active, but at rather easier rates. The sales embraced about 10 or 12,000 bushels, included in which were about 7 or 8,000 bushels Chicago spring at 98c. ; 600 ditto Southern Indiana red at 1 dol. 45c., and red Southern at 1 dol. 12c. Corn was firmer and more active. The sales embraced about 40 or 50,000 bushels, including white at 73c. to 78e., the latter figure for Devereaux, and yellow at 77c. to 79c., with a small lot at 80c. Rye. -Sales of sor 6,000 bushels Jersey and Northern were made at 69c to 70c. Oats were steady and in good demand, with sales of State and Western at 48c., and 51c. for State and Jersey. Barley was dull ; sales of a few hundred bushels were made at 62c., and 1,000 do. barley malt at 80c. Beef was active, and the sales included about 600 to 700 barrels, including country prime at 7 dols. 50c. to 8 dole. ; country mess, 10 dole. to 11 dole ; repacked Western, at 12 dols. to 13 dole. 500., and extra do., 14 dols. to 14 dole. 50c. ; prime mess was 18 dole. 15c. to 23 dols. ; beef hams were dull, with small sales at 16 dols. to 18 dole. ; bacon was steady with sales of 100 hhds., at Bc. to 91c. ; included in the sales were 50 hhds. smoked sides, at 10c. Cut meats were in fair demand, with sales of 300 packages, including shoulders, at Cie. to 6ic., and hams at 91c. to Sic. Lard was firm, with sales of 300 and 400 bl?. tierces at lOic. to 11c. with some kegs at 12c. Butter and cheese unchanged. The sales of coffee embraced the cargo of the Spartan, consisting of about 4,000 bags of Rio, at 91c., four months ; 100 do., at 10c. to 10 3 / 4 c. Sugars were sold to the extent of 890 to 900 lids., including chiefly Cuba muscovado at about 6c. to 6ic. to 7c. ; New Orleans at p. t. ; and 160 hhd. of Porto Rico at 61c. to 71c. Sales of 200 casks of rice were made at 31e. to 4c. The sales of cotton embraced about 800 bales, without quotable change in prices. Sellers were net pressing the market, while purchasers entered it sparingly, and it closed with a quiet spirit. Of asbes about 50 brie. pots sold at 6c. ; pearls were nominal. Buyers of wool entered the market less freely than in the previous week, at the beginning par ticularly so. The succeeding days there had been a little more activity, and a fair average business was done. The sales were mostly domestic wools, com prising the usual qualities of pulled, at prices vary ing from 24c. to 31c., of which about 60,0001 b. to 65,0001 b. changed hands. Sales of 30,0001 b. full blood merino were reported at 37c. to 38c., and 25,00016. low and medium fleeces at 28c. to 32c. Of California 12,0001 b. washed and unwashed on terms not made public, and 1,6001 b. of the same at 11c. to 23c. Freights were heavy, and engageme nts ver y li g h t. To Liverpool some 500 to 1,000 barrels flour were engaged at ls. ; 1,600 barrels resin, at Is. 100. No grain or cotton was reported. Rates to London were quiet. To Glas g ow 1,600 bates resin were engaged, part at 3s. per 3101 b., and the remainder at P. T. There was nothing new to the continent. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 16. Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania State Fives, 86i ; Reading Railroad, 221 ; Morris Canal, 47 ; Long Islind Railroad, 11A ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 44. Flour is unchanged. Wheat dull, an i quotations barely maintained-red, $1 4c. to $1 10c. Yellow corn has declined Ic. ; sales of 25,000 bushels at 69c. to 72c. Whisky steady at 22c. MOBILE, APRIL 15. The sales of cotton to-day were 1,500 bales. Prices are unchanged, but the market is quite buoyant. CHARLESTON, APRIL 15. The sales of cotton to-day were 200 ba!ei, and for the week 7,soobales. Good middling to middling fair, 12a to 122 c. SAVANNAH, APRIL 15. The lower grades of cotton have declined c. to ic. BALTIMORE, APRIL 16. Flour St 25c. to $437Ac. Wheat quiet. Corn declining ; mixed and white, 63c. to 67c. ; Gsc. to 69c. Provisions an advancing tendency. CINCINNATI, APIUL IG. Meis pork advanced ; sales 2,500 barrels at $l7, the market cloning with more buyers tha❑ sellers at this rate. Lard, in barrels, active ; sales 3,000 barrels at I.oe. Bacon and bulk meats held higher. THE ►SOULAGES COLLOCTION. A Parliamentary paper on the subject of the famous Soulages Collection tis published on Fri day, on the motion of Lord 'Elcho, M e P. The nature ard extent of this collection (already exhi bited in London) is well known to the public. It includes enamels of all sorts, medals, glass speci mens, bronzes, decorative furniture, majolica, en a•nelled ear,hen and stone ware, and other articles of vertu, all pronounced by artists and connoisseurs to be of the most valuab and interesting charac ter, and well worthy of ing a national collec tion.kn It appears that at hOe beginning of the year 1857 74 persons, representing manufacturing and 1 other interests, and desirous of promoting "art education" -in England by securing the Sou lages Collection for the public, guaranteed (by sub scription) a sum of 24,8001., and effected its pur chase, and that then, ou behalf of these subscribers, an offer was made to the Department of Science and Art, to sell the collection to the Government for the sum of 13,5601. (being the cost price), but with the expenses of importation, insurance, and interest. Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks, M.P., Mr. M. Uzielli, and Mr. H. Cole were the managers of the undertaking for purchasing the collection of M.. Soulages, and the list of subscribers to the guarantee fund includes Mr. E. Marjoribanks, 1,0001. ; E trl Granville, 5001. ; Lord Ashburton, 1,000/. • the late Mr. B. Minto n , of Stoke, 1,0001. ; Mr. E. Wood, of - Burslem, 1,0001. ; Mr. H. T. Hope, of Deepdene, Dorking, 1,0001. ; M. Uzielli, 4000/. ; Mr. A A. Barker, 5001. ; Holland and Sons, 5001. ; the two Delarues, 500/. ; Mr. Dudley C. M t rjoribanks, M.P., 500/. ; Mr. Sydney Smirke, 20U1 ; John ston and Je Ines, 5001. ; the Duke of Hamilton, 5001 ; the Society of Arts, 5001. ; Sir H. Meux, 500/. ; Mr. Titus Salt, of Bradford, 1,0001. ; and the Marquis of Hertfurd, 1,0001., besides several , subscribers for smaller sums, ranging from 1001. to 300/. A memorial at the same time addressed to the Treasury by Messrs. P. Graham, J. G. Grace, J. Jackson, and E. Bond, recommending the purchase, and a select committee of the Royal Institute of British Architects drew up a paper warmly urging the same step, and denouncing the neglect to purchase as "au irreparat'le loss of a great opportunity to improve our manufactures, to enlarge the sphere of artlapplieation, to increase our commerce and instruct the pnblic mind." Mr. Cowper, then the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, also submitted the offer to the favour a bl e cons ideration of the Lords of the Treasury, stating that the total cost would be but 14,3751. (including carriage); and numerous letters ware sent up to to the Chancellor of the e xchequer from the Society of Woodcarvers, the Sheffield Sceool of Art, the Silk Manufacturers of Spitalfields, and elsewhere, tie Staffordshire Potteries, and several societies of artisans, lc., all to the same effect. What might have been the result of these urgent appeals to Government had the late Minis try remained in office it were va'n to speculate ; sufficient to say that the neiv Administration under the Earl of Derby have just intimated their refusal to incur the expense of purchasing the collection, through the medium of a letter from Sir 0. E. Trevelyan to the Committee of Council on Educa tion, which we subjoin :—" Treasury Chambers, April sth. Sir,—With reference to the letter from your department of the 18th of February last, recommending the purchase of the collection of Italian Ornamental Art formed by M. Soulage', I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of 'her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the infor mation of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, that my Lords are not prepared to submit t o Parliament the proposed vote of 14,1751. for the purchase in question. I am, &c., C. E. TREVELYAN. The Vice-President •of the Cotn tniitee of Council on Education." Accordingly, the Soul Iges Collection remains in the hands of the private purchasers by subscription, and its fate remains to be seen. A letter from Berne of the 26th in th 3 Nouvel liste of Vaud says :—" The Government had ad dressed to the federal authority a voluminous me morial in which it made itself the organ of the nu• merons remonstrances mixed by the measures adopted by the federal authorities to secure the execution of the federal decree of the 15th February relative to sending into the interior a certain category of refugees, and particularly those he longing to the Italian Benevolent Sicieiy. This memorial having been communicated to the Federal Commissioners, was ref orted on by them, and .the Federal Council, at a special meeting con voked for the purpose, has just come to a decision that there are Lot any grounds for paying any at tention to the application of tiie Council of Ge• neva, and that the previous re3olutions must be carried into execution." MAY 3, 1858. THE MURDER AT IPSWICH. In The Sun of Saturdaa we gave a 'brief narra tive of the murder of Emma Studd, the wife of Henry Rolfe Studd, a baker, residing in St. Mary Elms. An inquest was held on Friday before the borough coroner (Mr. S. B. Jackaman). Henry Rolfe Studd, the husband of the unfortu nate woman, said—l carry on business as a baker in St. Mary-at-Thems in this town. My bake-office does not adjoin the house ; it is about 300 yards from it. My cottage contains one room on the ground-floor, a backbouse in the rear, and two up stair rooms. My family consisted of my late wife (the deceased), who was 47 years old, and seven children, the youngest of whom is named Charles, whose age is five years. Four of my youngest children lived at home ; the eldest is named Emily; she is 14 years old • then there is Eleanor, who is 12 years old, and Henry of the age of eight. These were the general inmates of my house. The bake office, which is detached from the house, is situated in the Curriers' Arms-lane, at the back of the St. Edmund's Head beershop. The Coroner (to witness)—On what terms did you and your wife (the deceased) live 7 Witness—We have sometimes had words, but we did not live on particularly bad terms. She was as sisting me in my bake-office yesterday, as she was accustomed to do when my trade required her ser vices. Nothing unpleasant occurred between us on that occasion ; she was assisting there for about an hour. I am generally engaged all day in my bake-house. Sometimes I bake three times a-day, sometimes twice, but always once a day. For the past three weeks I have taken all my meals at the bake-office ; that has been the case since I removed from the house which adjoined my bake-office. During the period mentioned I have occasionally left home as early as 3 o'clock, to work for another person. I have generally gone to my bake-office between 5 and 7 o'clock of a morning, leaving there at between 5 and 10 at night. During yesterday nothing transpired between myself and wife to induce me to sleep at the bake-office. If I have not gone borne from the office my wife has not been in the habit of askiug me questions as to my reasons for not doing so. About 20 minutes before 6 o'clock this morning my wife (the deceased) came down to the office for kindling as usual. I looked at my watch when she came. She did not speak, neither did I. She saw me. She took the firing, and went away. I did not go to sleep any more. A few minutes after the deceasel had left my daughter Eleanor came running into the bake-office, saying, "Father, dear father, come home directly, fir mother has fallen down and is dying." I was not undressed except my shoes. I immediately put them on and went home. I there saw the deceased lying on the floor of the lower room, my daughter Emily sup porting her and bathing her temples. Blood was flowing from her held, and she appeared to be dying. I spoke to the deceased, but she seemed perfectly insensible. I then said, " Good God, child, your mother did not do this 7" I then ran out for Mrs. Hazel!, a neighbour, and be g ged her to come in. I next ran for Mr. Mills, the sur geon ; then to my wife's sister (Mrs. Last), the place where I drank tea last night. Mrs. Last returned with me. On my return the deceased appeared to be nearly dead. Shortly before 7 o'clock she expired. Coroner—Have you any reason to suspect any one person as being the perpetrator of - Vie act ? Witness—l am very well satisfied in my own mind as to the person. Coroner—Who is the person to whom you allude? Witness—Ebenezer Cherrington (the accused). Coroner—Who is Ebenezer Cherrington ; Witness—He calls himself a baker ; he need to work at the trade. When a lad he worked for me in the office ; but be has not done so for the last three years. Emily Studd, 14 years of age, and daughter the murdered woman, deposed,—l am an out-door apprentice to a milliner, and reside at the house of my father. My father and mother elept in one bed room ; myself, sister, and two brothers occupied another room. My parents have lived on pretty good term. Three weeks ago we removed to the cottage where we are now living, up to which time my father always slept at home, and, excepting five nights during the past three weeks, he had slept at home. I know Ebenezer Cheering ton (the accused). About three years ago he used to live in the same house with us and assist father in his business. I think he lived with us for about a year. I have not seen him at our house sincethenuetil aboutsix weeks ago. At that time we lived in a cottage adjoining the bake-office. When I came to dinner I found the accused there. He was in the keeping-room with my mother (the deceased), and I think my two brothers were present. The accused was ai.tting before the fire. I did not speak to Lien nor he to me. He re mained in the house, and I believe slept there for three days. He dined at the same table with my mother (the deceased), two brothers, and myself. He slept in the keeping-room down stairs. I tlijnk father oame home that night and slept with mother as u u.il. My father saw Cherrington in the house. My father came home between nine and te❑ at night and directly went upstairs to bed, he fol lowing my mother there. I heard no words pass between them. I was then upstairs. I am not aware that any misunderstanding took place be tween father and mother. My father left the house between six and :Leven on the following morning to go to the bake-office. The accused was in the house when I left my work and went home to meals. The next night my father came home and slept as be fore, the ac .u-ed sleeping blow. The accused re mained the next day following. My father saw him there, but they did not speak to each other. On the third day when 1 came home to dinner the ac cused was there, as usual. On that night my father did not come home, but my mother slept Upstairs and the accused in the keeping-room below. When I came down stairs in the morning I found the accused there, but on my return to dinner ho was gone. I did not see him again until fortnight since, when I found him with my brothers on the occasion of my going home to dinner. He stopped all night, sleeping as before on the floor in the keeping-room. I cannot say whether or not father came home on that night, and I do not remember whether the accused stayed more than that night. Coroner—When did you next see him again ? Witness—l think I did not see him again till this week. He dined there on Monday last. I believe he slept in the lower room that night, and on Tuesday and Wednesday as well. He took his meals with us, but my father's meals were sent to him at the bake-office. I have heard my father tell ther he would not have Cherrington (the accused) there. Mother replied that she did not wish him to be there. Yesterday, at dinner time, the accused came. Mather (the deceased) said to him, " Yon may walk out again, for I will not have you here:" H e said he would be there, and sat down at the dinner table. Mother then said to hire, "You shall not have anything here." We had finished dinner when he came iu. I then got up and went away, leaving the accused sitting alone at the table. When I 'returned for tea at' 5 o'clock the accused was not there. Coronet—Did your mother (the deceased) say anything on your return to tea ? Witness—Yes ; she said, " 1 would not let him (Cherrington) have any dinner, neither will I have him here." She seemed positive, but did not tell me the reason why. I believe she wished him not to be there. She did not appear afraid of him. Last night, at about 20 minutes to 11, as my mother (lie deceased) was at supper, the accused came in. He went up to the fireplace and attempted to seize the poker, but my moiher got up and prevented his doing so. He appeared to be rather the worse ,for . liquor. Mother put on her shawl, saying she. would go for a policeman. The accused followed mother out. She returned about 12 o'clock. On her return we locked the door and went up stairs, and soon after the accused burst open the back door , came up stairs, and went into mother's room. I was there with her. Neither of us was undressed. She said to him, she would not have him there, and that if he did not leave she would send for a policeman. He placed his back against the bedroom door, saying he would not leave. He held up a large stick-and said he would break her head if she attempted to go down. (A large stick was here produced. It was said to talon; to the husband of the murdered woman, and it was also st a t e d th a t it was i u the room when the accused entered it.) The Coroner (to wi'ness)—What else did he say ? You must state it, as it is vet y important. Witness—He swore, saying, " I'll murder you before the morning ; you shall not go Out of this room alive." He seemed to be in a passion. We remained till about hal-past 5 this morning, my mother (the deceased) with.myself, standing by the side of tire bed, the aCCIISf d standing with his hack against the door. All this time he was swearing and threatening both of us. Mother kept telling him she would not have him there. Neither of us lay down all that night. At half-past 5 the accused opened the bedroom door and went down stars. Mother (the deceased) went down soon after , and went to the bake-offi. e for s• me kindling. I c ould hear the accused walking about the keeping-room down stairs. In a short time mother retur ned, and when at the fireplace, r s it heard her scream and groan. I then ran_ down Nl stairs. The accused was not thenth L e t . o n her y preparing for a fire,l mo her was lying upon the floor, with d a to head and blood flowing from the spokewo . un ensi l ble She her, but she appeared to be clu insensible. wounded at the did not speak. I saw she had been duced) was standing by the m. back acid Idi left side of her .e e ad ef . t A ke po d k e t e r r. (poron- examining I found it to be bent. lam quite sure that Cherrington (the accused) inflicted the blows. Mr. W. P. Mill,surge,in, described the wounds, z.D.1 2 . a1d th , -y h case t wornl,t's _ . . The accused, who was brought into the room in custody, appeared to be suffering from exhaustion. Police-constable Bullenthorpe said,—l appre hended the accused at his mother's houso at Wal ton. I found him in bed upstairs. He had his trousers and wais coat on. I was in uniform. I said to him "You must consider yourself in my custody." I did not tell him on what charge. The accused then said to me, "Is she dead I" I replied, " I don't know." I then took him into custody, and on our way to Walton Angel he said, " I suppose it is all up with me now." I the❑ handed him over to the custody of Superintendent Mason. Some further having been given. The jury, after they had consulted for a few minutes returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the accu,ed. - The prisoner was then commit'a to take his trial on the charge at the next assizes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--clay 1. MARYLEBONE —A. SERVANT ASSAULTED BY HER MISTRESS. —Mrs. Jane Gower, residing at 24, Douro-cottages, St. John's- wood, was charged on a summons which had been served upon her by Osborne, the officer, with the following assault on Elizabeth Walsden ' her servant : Mr. G. Keene attended for the defendant. Complainant deposed that, on Wednesday last, while engaged in washing a glass in warm water, defendant came into the kitchen, and after taking from her the said glass, drew from the boi'er a j ug of hot water, which she threw in her (complainant's) face. Sh© also thrust her violently out of ihe house, flinging her bonnet and shawl over the gate, ac companying the act with the expression, " You —, you shan't come in here again." Mr. Keene—How long have you been in this lady's service ? Complainant—About seven months. Mr. Keene—Were you scalded at all Complainant—Yes, and I felt it very much at the time. Mr. Keene—You have no marks to show that you were hurt, I believe ? Complainant—No sir. _ _ Tvro witno-s were called in support of the charge, and they gave evident." as to their having seen emit- Plaitymeo dress quite wet after th e assau lt b y de- Mr. Keene, on the part of his client, denied the throwing of the water, and alleged that if her (corn plainan i's) dress had been wetted as stated, it must have been owing ton small quantity of wate r go i ng over her when the glass was taken from her, as she had acted in contravention of orders repeatedl given to her, b: putting it into hot water ; he (Mr. .e,ene) further said that defendant had used no more violence than was requisite to eject hoc ser vant, and as to the language alleged to have been uttered, the statem , nt wai entirely false. Mr. Long—Have you any witnesses to call, Mr. Keane? Mr. Koene—l have not, sir. Mr. Lung was satisfied that an assault had been committed, and fined dtlendt.nt 20s. and costs. W 0 RS TRE ET. —A ss AULT BY A MENDI CANT.—Francis IVlulharen, a desp _rate-looking man, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with asking alms in the puhlic street, and violently assaulting Miss Jana S tville, a young lady resiOing with her parents in G. eenwool-row, Well-street, Hackney. Miss Saville, who evin , s;ed considet able excite ment when the prisoner was placed at the front of the dock, stated that on the previous morning, whi e passing through Mare-street, Hackney, in company with her mother, a beggar suddenly conirouted them, and abruptly asked for pecuniary relief. Witness observed, " I am very sorry, but tve have not any change." This remark was repeated by her mother, upon which the man seiz-d her by the shoulder with oee hand, and struck her with the other three times in the face. The alarm experi enced at the conduct of the beggar, independent of the pain resulting from the blows he inflic•ed, was extreme, and a police constable opportunely coming up, the offender was taken into custody. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did the prisoner use any threats ? Miss Saville—When he held my shoulder he said, "I am starving—money I must and will have." The young lady's rnoth:!r having corroborated the evidence, and spoken of the terror she laboured under from the time the prisoner first accosted them until he was taken in charge, Mr. D'Eyncourt heard the testimony of some officers relative to the fellow's constant practice of using throats to enforc 3 his ends when an "appeal" fail d, and then sent him for one mouth, with hard labour, to the House of Correction. SOUTH WARIC.—A Row AT A WAKE. —Jere miah Collins, a smart-looking Irishman, waa charged with cJeamitting au assault on Bridget Hogan, under the following circumstances : Tile compliient, who exhibited a black eye, and seemed to have suffered severely from the injuries inflicted on her, stated that she lived in Tothill comt, Bermondsey-street. The prisoner resided in the sltue house, and had all along well c,nducted himself until the previous evening. There was a " a wake" in the house, and after sitting round the corpse, witness was about to - Like a di op of gin, when the prisoner came up to her in an abrupt manner, and capsised it, at the same thee throwing her down. A general row ensued, wh , ,n chairs and tabs e, as well as the corpse, was upset, and in the meee the prisoner kicked her, and struck her in the face, and she really believed he would have murdered her hid not the police entered the house and secured him. Mr. Comb,) (to the prisoner)—What have you to say in answer to the charge ? Prisoner—Faith, yer nonour, nothing at all. Wo hal a wee drop of the cratur, and when that's in the wit's out. (Laughter.) Mr. Cotnhe—But you are charged with assault ing this female. What have you to say to that ? Prisoner—Bless your honour wurtchip, no hing at all. I love her too much. She is my huudreth cousin. Mr. Combo—That will not do. Look at this woman. She has a black .ye and cut in the face, which she says you inflicted? Prisoner—Well, your wurtch:p. It's all for love. We were at the wake, and some one pat the lights out, and upset tho corpse. By accident I fell over it, and in struggling as I thought to get away from it the complainant came in the way, but I did not mean to hurt her. Mr. 03mbe told him that when be went to a wake again he must behave himself better. He should not conualt him to prison this time, but he must pay 40s. and the cost of the s uminons. HORRIBLE CRUEL riEs ON SOAR D AN .AMERICAr PAOKET-SHIP. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. Henry Wilson, the chief mate of the American packet-ship Excelsior, at anchor in the Mersey, bound for New York, was brought before the county magistrates t:;-day, on a warrant, charged with having committed a series of terrible barbari tif s on his crew and passengers. Indeed the conduct of the first and second mates was so violent that four of the crew,' named William Barker, Lewis Rammond, Francis Jerme, and John Miller, jumped overboard on Thursday night, shortly after twelve o'clock, but were picked up by the steam tug Great Conquest, and landed in a very exhausted state. A warrant was' also issued against the second mate, but on the officers proceeding on board to execute it it was found that he had absconded. Three of the crew who jumped overboard were examined, and their evidence went to show that they had shipped, with others, on Monday last, and half an hour afterwards the first and second mates knocked them down and jumped on them. This conduct was repeated daily, the mates follow ing the m round tha deck with pistols in their hands, threatening to have their lives. The passengers were iu a state of the greatest alarm, and many of them were afraid to proceed in the ship. The first mate said half of the crew were enough to work the ship, and he would "do" forthe remainder of them befoea they got to New York. He had placed them in irons on several occasions. Inspector ll , ,rnP of the detective force, who went on hoard by desire of the magistrates, stated that he had se , :m. 13 of the crew on hoard, 11 of whom had black eyes and cut lips. They all com plained of the savage treatment experienced by the crow, who were marked all over the b idy. The passengers confirmed the crew's statement, end complained that they had 1.43,n subjec'ed to similar treatment, one of them being put iu iruns because he refused to roll a cask. The magistrates said it was a most barbarous case, and they would •meet it with the he viest punishment they could award, viz , a flue of 51., or two months' riaprisonmeut, in each case. The prisoner scorn e d astonished at the leniency of the sentence inflicted. NEWSPAPERS.--A voluminous correspondence between the Boial Lltiland Revenue, and various proprietors of newrpapers on the subject of the registration of news papers and of securities on the publication thereof, since Juno, 1855, was published yesterday. Only one case of prosecuti,:n fora leged violation of the laws relating to registratirn and security is mentioned in this return—it is that of a Mr. John Heap, the printer of the Bury Times. :ets. ROCHESTER— MAT 1. Trade firmer to-dqy than for some time past, with about an average supply of all descriptions of grain. For tine samples of English wheat an advance of is to 2s per qr. was readily obtained. Flour a trifle dearer, but the trade closed dull. Oats firm, and beans and peas as before. NORWICH--MAY 1. This day's market was very well attended, and a limited supply of grain of all sorts. Wheat met with a fair sale, at is over previous rates. In barley little doing. Flour 6d per sack dearer. CHELMSFORD —APRIL 30. The late decline in prices has had the effect of diminish ing the supplies to the markets of the district this week, and this has produced some animation, and a slight re action to-day. The farmers demanded higher rates for wheat, and for good qualities l s advance was submitted to by the millers. Barley heavy. Wheat, white, old ,per s. s. B. B. qr.4i 48 Oats, per qr 24 34 new.... 43 48 Peas, Partridge 41 45 red, old 40 44 White 40 42 new.... 39 4 t Boiling 4O 46 Barley 34 40 Dun 41 43 Chevalier 3B 44 Beans, Tisk 36 38 Grinding 23 32 Harrow ticks 36 40 Walt 70 73 Mazagan 33 36 Chevalier. 72 73 Ditto, knew 33 36 NOTTINGHAM-MAT 1. There was an good attendance this morning, and the demand for wheat and flour was firm, at an advance of 1 per qr asked, and in some instances submitted to, but generally trade was rather dull. DM QUARTER. PER QUARTER Wheat, red (old) 47s to —sl Barley, grinding ... —s to3ss Ditto (now) Ditto, white —s to —s' Peas Ditto (old) Barley, malting ... 4s2— to EiFlour, per sack DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—APRIL 29. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferfo, 2.30 Wheat 4?s 01 398 94d 32. 61 787 Oats 3ls Cd 27s 4d 126 Barley 36s ea 328 3il 2t.s f d 50 Peas & beans 42s Od . 40s 2d HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—APRIL al. WHEAT. I BARLEY I OATS. I BC C% IL First soa Od 38s 9d 33s Od , % 453 Od Second 403 103 I 353 7d ) 30s ld 141 s lld Mini 3 53 Od I 31s Od I 27s Od I 38s 01 Total quantity of wheat in market, 662 qrs., 507 Bola ~ barley „ 231 qrs., 185 so i oats li 270 qrs., 265 40tit 11l ft beans ID 86 qrs., 67 sold AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. 11 9 t Wheat, 2/. 010 - . 3-12ths 1 Barley, ll. 15 7 18-12ths Oats, ... 1L 10 1 9-12ths I Beans, 2/. 111 10-12 tbs DUBLIN-APRIL 30. There was a small attendance and a dull market to-day for all kinds of grain, and Tuesday's currencies unaltered, except for oats, which in some cases were about 3d dearer. Indian corn dull, and no change in price. White wheat, 27s 01 to 29s Od; red ditto, 24s Od to 26s Gd ditto new, s 01; barley, malting, 14s to 18s 01; grind ing, to —s ; oa,s, old, 133 61 to 15s; ditto, new, —1 to —s 0 : 1; oatmeal, 13s Gd to 15s Gd; bore, new, —s to —3 Od ; rapes, d, —s Od to s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 14s 6d to 19s 01 per cwt.; Indian corn, 153 01 to 37a Od ter 4cso lbs. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Receipts. opened. NAME OF RAILWAY. - 1857. Is , 8. 1857. _-------. BRITISH. X 4 - Aberdeen ....•• ....•• •• -•• .. ..... - - 65 Belfast and Ballymena ....... ...... 1,213 1,309 17 Belfast and County D0wn............ _ - 32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,672 2,561 265 y - - I Bolton, Blackburn,and West York .... 118 I Bristol and Exeter • • .... •..... ••• • .. 5.899 6,336 19 8 % - ' Ca10d0n1an............. ............ 12,121 12,419 9 4 k 4 Chester and H01yhead............... 5,372 5,419 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ...... 227 169 20 Cork and Bandon .. • • .............. 308 252 56 Dublin and Behest I unction ........ 1,168 1,387 63 Dublin and Drogheda- •• .. ......... 1,485 1,715 40 1 A, Dublin and Kingstown •............. 1,541 1,293 171 ,( Dundee and Arbroath .............. 555 585 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction. 1,045 1,0 65 35 Dundalk and Enniskillen.... •••••• .• 388 471 6751 East Angilan.....• •• -..-•• - •• ... 1,003 1,033 93 East Lancashire •• .................. 5,896 6,260 • 489 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •• • 1 26,656 24,425 Eastern Union ••• • • • •.-.•• .. •• ... 3 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ............. 5,663 5,529 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.... .• 3,363 3,387 6 Exeter and Creditors.. •............. - - 22 Furness Railway •• • •• .. •• .... •• - - 183% Glasgow, and South-Western........ , 4,466 6,459 293 Great Northern. •••• 203 % Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 7,885 7,546 463 Great Western .................... 28,068 28,440 25 5 Irish South Eastern •••••••••• • • •• •• 312 288 90 Lancaster and Carlisle •••••• • • .. 286 % Lancashire and Yorkshire 22,181 24,813 - Leeds Northern .. • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• •• - - 16 1 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• - ••••• 647 Loudon and North Western .... 54,079 60,853 5 % London and Blactwall.. •........... 1,377 1,348 183 3 ,E London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 13,609 14,178 289 % London and South We5tern.........14,3A 14,060 GO Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 772 691 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 17 3 51 Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire 9 , 940 10, 228 9 1 % Manchester and South Junctio- .... 844 848 28 Maryport and Carlisle •..........• .. 843 977 667 Midland ...... .• -- . ..... ........ 31,346 31,500 177 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 3,802 3,954 52 Monklands •• •• • • • • •• •• •• •- • • •• •• •• - - 7 8 Newcastle ar.d Car1i51e.............. - - 149 North British ...................... 4,926 4,829 233 North Staffordshire •• •• ............ 6,030 1, 577 47 North-Western ••••••.••••• •• •• •• •• 827 750 50 Scottish Central •• •• •• •• •••••••• •• . • 2 , 82 6 2,7 81 32 141 Scottish Midland •• •• •• •• •••••• •• • • - - 29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... „. 1,584 1,81 0 4854 Shrewsbury and Chester •• •• •• •• •• •• 2,733 2,90 30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • 924 91 3 57 South Devon ••••• • • - •.. •• •• •• •• •• •• 2,566 2,649 301% South Eastern•• •• •• •• -•••••••• •• •• 16,691 17,657 171 South Wales ...... -•• • • .......... 6,596 6,642 108% South York., Doncaster, and Goole - 2,585 2,460 53 Taft' Vale •• •• •• .. •• •• •• •• - • •... 4,141 4,555 33 Ulster. ....................„ ...... 1,327 1,543 77 Waterford rnd Limerick •• - ........ 1,131 1,055 27 Went Cornwall ...... -... .. ....... 683 616 12% Whitehaven Junction ... • .... 410 472 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - -S7 FOREIGN: ICB Dutch Rhenish .... • • ......•• •• •• •• - -- - Lyons and Mediterranean •• •••• - •• - -• Monterean and Troyes •• .. - 63 Namur and Liege .. •• .............. - - 539 Northern of France •••••• •• ........ 40,521 38,812 .- Orleans and Central .. - - Paris and Lyons ....- - - _ „ - - - Paris and Rouen..• .• • • • • • • •• •• •• •• - -- 911 Paris and Strasburgh ..........., .. 37,507 35,47 6 - alien 5110 E1avre............... .. - -- 621 W e , l and North-West of France .... - -- A DVE s.TISEMENT. _l SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES"' POWERFUL TELESCOPES -- OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPEOTIO CLASSES. —S. and R. Solonsons, opticians, 39, Albemarle' street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and et' traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the ctistances. These Telescopes posseSS such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half incheS, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moonos Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countcnauce three-and-a-half Mile° distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist" coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A vain' able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pa' pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Count* ? scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. The! are invaluable fo: shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Operas Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advaitage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengtbaned and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—an d they do not require the frequent change, to the clan' geious effects of further powerful assistance. Person" can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send• ing ono of the glasses out ot their spectacles in a letter, an d stating the distance from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles 11 stating their age. Deafness.—Now Discovery.—The Chinni° Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafue,s, entirely different from all °there, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prob ably can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, 30 not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct lyet church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation 0 , singing noises in the ears is entirelv removed, and it afford. all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39. Abe' tnarle-street. Piccadilly—Opposite the York Hotel. W, BIRTHS. CHESNEY—On the 30th ult., at Paekolet, county Dowls the wife of Major-General Chesney, of a BOIL MACDONALD—On the 29th ult., at 6 C a d ogan - place, the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald, of Clanronald, of a son. TOLLEMACHE—On the 30th ult., the wife of Arthur Lionel Tolletuache, of a daughter. WALToN—On the 30th ult., at the Paragon, Blackheath , Mrs. William Walton, of a son. MARRIAGES. BAYNE — GERIVEIN —On the 26th ult., at Munster, row sin, Peter Bayne, Big , editor of the " Witness," t ° , Clotild a , the eldest daughter of the late Major-Genera l Gerwein, Commander of Brigade in the Prussian Ser vice. SMITH— -BABB —On the 30th ult., at St. Andrew's Sol' horn, Mr. Win. Smith, of Celbridge-place, Westbonres park, to Elizabeth Jano, younger daughter of William Babb, Esq., of Holborn. DEA T S. BROOKS —On the 27th ult., at the Vicarage, Nottingbauh Edward Bickersteth Brooks, youngest son of the Ret• J. W. Brooks, vicar of St. Mary's, aged 15. DAwsoN— On the 30th ult., at Buixton-hill, Mr. Nail's' niel Dawson, aged 59. FRIEND—On the 30th ult., after a few days' illness, John Percy, elde3t son of John B. Friend, Esq., of 30, Susses' square, Hyde-park, aged 4 years. PHILIP —On the Ist inst., at Maberly-cottage, Richmon d ' road, Dalston, the Rev. Robert Philip, of Maher l r chap], Thal's-pond, aged 67. SiDwELL—Oa the 30th ult., at Ramslade, Barks, Riolora Sidwell. Esq. VINE—On the nOth ult., W. C. Vine, Esq., late of O a Tithe Commission, LONDON : Printed and Published by M 111GDO Y of No. 114 Strand, Printer, at 27:4 San Olio', 14° ' 1:12, Strand, in the Precinct. of 0, 6„y, ;; , ~c g rati of IsitiddiNex, Monday, MAy 3, an( at:dad tlo Ey 5.