The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-17 00:00:00

UNITEBSITT INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 14. In a Convocation held this day at 10 o'clock, Mr. n. Smith, of Balliol, was appointed as Moderator in the Mathematical School. The Rev. John Wiebrington Peers, M.A.,Ca therine College, and the Rev. Thomas Leah, .A., Queen's College, Cambridge, were admitted ad turas-N. In a Convocation held immediately afterwards the following Degrees were conferred : MASTERS OF ARTS. Robert H. B. Marsham Merton. Wyndham L. Williams, and Rev. Richard C Brasenose. John D. Middleton ' Corpus. Richard Rowley (Student), Christ Church. Alexander Wallace, Trinity. Thomas Marshall, St. John's. Rey. Walter H. Tribe, Wadham. Thomas Roberts and Rey. George Steele, Wor cester. BACHELORS OF ART. Reginald C. Glanville, Newton. Alain T. Craig, Wadham. INCORPORATION 8.A., ST. MARY HALL. James J. Pickford, Trinity College, Dublin. In a Convocation held at 2 p.m. w hich was very num erously attended, a number of votes connected with tha expenses of the New Museum were put to the house. Divisions were taken upon all the votes but two, the entire result bein g that four were re jected, and 11 carr ied. On the fi rs t vote, granting 2001. annually for the next five years to the Pro fessors of Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, and Pathology, for the maintenance and improvement of their collection, the numbers were—Placet, 45 ; Non Placet, 54. On the second vote, assigning 701. a-year to an assistant to the Reader in Experi mental Philosophy, after a conversation, in which Professor Walker, the Principal of Brasenose, the Rector of Exeter, and the Master of Balliol took part, the division was--Placet, 45 ; Non Placet, 40. The third vote, allowing a fee IA 31. on all pupils attending the Reader's Practical Class, was rejected, the numbers being—Placet, 41 ; Non Placet, 48. The fourth vote, allowing 7W. a-year for an assistant to the Professor of Chymistry, was carried by 52 votes against 39. The fifth vote, granting the Professor 5001. for an outfit of chymical apparatus, arc., was thrown out, there being in favour of it 42, and against it 51 votes. The sixth vote, allowing 180/. a year for five years to the Professor for the annual expenses of his apparatus, was carried, the votes being—Placet, 49 ; Non Placet, 40. The seventh vote, which raised the same question of fees already determined by vote three, but in con nexion with Chymistry instead of Experimental Philosophy, was (like vote three) rejected by 49 votes to 39. The eighth vote, allowing 2001. to the Professor of Astronomy fur an observatory, and the ninth, allowing 1001. to the Regius Professor of Mediciae for apparatus, were carried—the former by 58 votes to 31, and the latter by 59 votes to 33. The last vote, requiring the Professors to render an annual account of all sums expended by them from University funds, was carried unanimously. On the first clause of the second decree, granting 7571. Is. 4d. on account of building expenses be yond the contract, there was no division. The second, third, and fourth clauses, voting sums for the levelling, &c., of the ground, and the enclosing it with an iron fence, and for fitting up the depart ments of the six Professors, were carried by majorities respectively of 19, 5, and 23. The last clause, assigning 2551. for the erec`ion of a gallery round the main tower, was rejected by 50 votes against 30. The proceeding then closed. The Rev. C. P. Chretien, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, has been appointed Examiner in English History and Literature at the ensuing middle-class examination, in the place of the Rev. R. W. Church, late Fellow of Oriel, whoie health does not allow him to act. Besides the names already published, it has been deter mined to appoint three additional examiners. The Rev. J. E. Sewell, of New College, and the Rev. G. Rawlinson, of Exeter College, have been added to the committee for communicating with the examiners. MAY 16. The following gentlemen have been appointed by the Delegates additional Examiners under the scheme for the examination of persons not mem bers of the University :—Rev. G. S. Ward, M.A., Tutor of Magdalen-hall ; Rev. J. Barmby, M.A., Irdlow of Magdalen Cullege ; and Mr. C. Parker, M. A. , Fellow of University College. The University Sermons were this day preached, in the morning by the Rev. H. L. Mausel, of St. John's, Bampton Lecturer ; and in the afternoon by the Rev. W. Harrison, of Brasenoss College. Notice has been given that the election for Da►nies at Magdalen College, hitherto held during the Long Vacation, will not take place under the new Statutes till Michaelmas Term. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14. The Vice-Chancellor met the members of the Senate in the Art School to-day, for the purpose of considering the changes proposed by the Council as to the payment of University officers, and the fees to be taken on proceeding to degrees. Professor Selwyn objected to a stipend of 1501. per annum to the Public Orator in lieu of the fees now paid ; but Mr. Clark, the Orator, said he en tirely agreed in the proposed scheme. It is also proposed by the Council that the salaries of the Registrary, the Esquire Bedells, Proctors, Moderators, and Pro-Proctors should be paid as fixed sums out of the common chest, in stead of by fees, as at present. Mr. G. Williams ' of King's, thought the sum of 2501. for each Proctor too small a sum, consider ing the duties they had to discharge, as well as the sum of 2001. per annum for each Bedell. Dr. Leaping well observed that if 2001. was deemed sufficient for an Esquire Bedell, 2501. ought to be enough for a Proctor, the office being only for one year, and the holder of it generally a Fellow of his College, and with a living in per spective. The duties of the Yeoman Bedell having become extinct, the office, as well as that of school-keeper, is proposed to be abolished, and two University marshals appointed instead. Professor Selwyn objected to the abolition of the schoolkeeper ; the clause was supported by Mr. C. C. Babington, of St. John's. On the proposed new scale of fees for degrees to be paid to the University-chest, as well as the fee of 30s. to be paid by every undergraduate before being examined at the previous examination, Mr. Emery, of Corpus, thought they might be placed a trifle higher. The University would now be called upon to meet a variety of charges, and be did not see the way it could be effected, and he advised a moderate increase upon the scale recommended by the Council, as being no real hardship ou the payer, and as being, if adopted, of vital importance to the University. Mr. Raby, of St. John's, took the same view, and thought it wrong to hesitate about a small sum on One side or the Ether. The Master of St. John's said it . would much assist the deliberation of the Councilright. f t the Senate would intimate what they thoughtri It being proposed to charge 201. ro r t e h ' es e oUfnDiveDr sity-chest to all who proceed to the decrees and LL.D., Professor Selwyn most energetically contended for a sum of 10 guineas instead * held u . p a scale, elaborately drawn, showing ' the ine equality in . the charge as compared with other de grees, which created some amusement. He insisted though it Was st ated that the same de g rees at Ox ford paid the sum of 401., that it would prevent poor men from proceeding to the degree of D.D., and so operate as an injustice. He was replied to by the Master of St. John's, Mi. C.C. Babington, and Mr. Campion, of Queen's. The scheme proposes to confer degrees upon mem bers of the University in their absence, which will be a great convenience to those absent in the colo nies. DUR RANI. The statute, dated September 28, 1857, for electing annually two members of the senate, one by Convocation and one by the Fellows, to be ap proved by Convocation, having prescribed that " the time and mode of election shall be settled by the Warden and Senate," The Warden and Senate, under the powers so given, have made the following regulations : ELECTION OF ♦ MEMBER OF SENATE BY C NVOCATION. 1. The election shall take place annually at the Convocation holden on the last Tuesday in Easter term. 2. The name of each candidate shall Le sent in, ty himself or by some other member cf Convoca tion, to the Warden, twenty-one days at least before the day of eke ion. 3. The Warden shall cause the names of candi dates tr) be placed ott the door of the Convocation house fifteen days at least before the day of election. 4. In case there shall be no more than one can didate the Warden shall declare him elected, at the Convocation aforesaid. ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF SENATE BY THE FEL LOWS OF THE UNIVERSITY, TO BE APPROVED BY CONVOCATION. - 1. The election shall take place annually w ithi n the Castle, at 11 o'clock in the morning of the l as t Tuesday in Easter term, the senior fellow present being in the chair, and having an original and a casting vote. 2. The votes of the fellows shall be tendered in ps3.i son. The name of each candidate shall be sent ix, by himself or by some fellow of the university, to the Warden, 21 days at least before the day of elec tion. 4. The Warden shall cause the names of the can didates to be placed on the door of the Convoca tion-house 15 days at least before the day of elec tion. 5. The name of the person elected by the fellows shall be sent in by the senior fellow present to the Warden and Senate ; and the Warden shall sub mit it for approval to the Convocation holden the same day. 6. In case the person elected by the fellows is not approved by Convocation, it shall be left to the Warden to appoint another day of election, provided always that such day shall not be later than the first Convocation in the following Michael mas term. 7. The Pemberton fellow shall have a 'Cote at the election of a member of senate by the fellows. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE; Orders have been receivedat Chatham by the officer in command of the depot of the 24th Regiment, directing 120 men of that regiment to proceed to Dover, in charge of Capt. W. B. C. Goodison, for the purpose of joining the 2d battalion, which is now being raised. The steamship Pacific, 1,500 tons, Capt. W. C. Thompson, having been chartered by the Govern ment for conveyance of troops between England and Ireland, arrived at Bristol from Kingstown on Sunday week, and disembarked the Royal North Gloucester Militia (who proceed to Cirencester to be disembodied), consisting of Col. Kingscote, Cap tains Sir J. M. Steele, Jones, Edison, and Fisher, Lieuts. Hunte, Viscount Andover, Daniel, Born ford, Hunt, and Luthbury ; Assistant-Surgeon Striven, wife, and child, and one female servant ; 540 rank and file, 48 soldiers' wives, and 48 chil dren. The Pacific returned to Kingstown, and ar rived again at Bristol on Thursday last with the Ist Royal Surrey Militia, consisting of Col. Sumner Major Scott, Capts. Penrhyn, Calvert, Barron, Platt, Forbes, Sumner, Pepys; Lieuts. Whitmore. Peter•, Medley, Bayne, Carleton, (Ste. ; one lady and child, four servants, 691 rank and file, 43 wo men, and 33 children. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt. Eyres, C. 8., flagship for Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard, was taken out of harbour on Friday to try her engines since her last commission as flagship of the Commander in-Chief of the Baltic fleet. Admiral Sir G. Sey mour, K.C.8., Flag-Captain Seymour, C. 8., aide de-camp to the Queen; Capt. the Hon. G. F. Hast ings, C. 8., Captain Eyres, Commander Erskine, Mr. M*rdoch, inspector of machinery ; Mr. Tonkin, R.N., Second Master-Attendant of Ports mouth dockyard ; Mr. R. C. Allen, Master, R.N., and other officers were on board. The object of the cruise was to test the working of the engines, which did their work, as formerly, very well. By letters from the south-east coast of America station we learn that the Cumberland, 70, Captain Dickson, flag of Vice-Admiral Wallis, had struck upon a rock on the 15th of March, in the River Plate, when going down for a short cruise. Luckily the water was smooth, and she got off again with out material damage, but sustained enough to necessitate her return to England to be docked and repaired. She may be expected to arrive about the end of June. The ship was in the full charge of a pilot at the time of the catastrophe, and the Admi ral was not on board, having some time before shifted his flag to the Virago steam sloop. Admiral Wallis had promoted Mr. James Ray, senior clerk iu the Secretary's office on board the Cumberland, to the rank of Paymaster and Purser, vice Evers field, of the Madagascar, deceased. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam Navigation Company's screw ship City of Manchester, 2,109 tons, Capt. James Kennedy, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday afternoon, from Liverpool, to prepare for embarkation, this day, of the following troops : For Gibraltar Brevet Lieut.-Col. Willes, Brevet Lieut.-Col. Lowndes, Captains Lloyd, Fuller, Fielden, Phillips, Battis combe, Black, Waldy, Grant, Dowglasse, and Good win ; Lieutr. Grahame, Harness, Kelson, Pro tberoe, Wolseley, James, Ball, and Adcock ; En signs Neale, Harrison, Robinson, Morland, Butler, Rowarth, Gdird, Moriarty, Lowndes, Ensign and Adjutant Kitchener, Surgeon Hyde, Assistant-Sur geon Kerr, Paymaster O'Connor, Quartermaster Haden, 39 staff sergeants and sergeants, 16 drum mers, 812 rank and file of the 2d Battalion of the 6th Poet ; Ensign Taite, wife, and servant ; Ensign Tibbetts, and Surgeon Atkinson of the 31st Foot ; 2 officers, 98 men, 6 wives and 9 children of the Royal Engineers for Algoa Bay ; Lieut.-Colonel FreeEe, R. A., wife, 6 children, and 2 servants. From Gibraltar she will embark about 36 officers, 871 men of the 2d Battalion of the 31st Foot, with their families, for Algoa Bay, bringing thence 2 officer., 104 of the Royal Engineers, 14 wives, 36 children, and the Reserve Battalion of the 12th Foot—about 18 officers, 439 men, 5 officers' wives, 7 children, 22 soldiers' wives, and 55 children for Portsmouth. The City of Manchester was officially inspected on Saturday alongside Portsmouth Dock yard by Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K. C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the South West District, Lieut.-Col. Wright, Assistant-Quar termaster-General, and Rear-Admiral the Hon. George grey, Superintendent of the dockyard ; Captain Eyres, C. 8., of the Duke of Wellington, and Captain the Hon. G. F. Hastings, C.B , of the Hannibal, also visited her. She will leave to morrow. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Urgent, Com mander M'Donald arrived at Portsmouth on Satur day from the Mediterranean with the following pas sengers and troops :—From Malta—Lady Montagu St , pford and 3 children, Mrs. Logan and 3 children, Mrs. White and 1 child, Mrs. H. Jones and 2 chil dren, Mrs. Collings, Miss Tudor, Miss Richards, Miss Millar, Mrs. Quinton and 3 children ; Ensign Bainbridge, of the 21st Regiment, on leave ; Major and Mrs. Pearson, 32 naval invalid 4, 2 officers, 20 men, 3 wives, and 5 children of the Royal Artillery; 2 sergeants of the Royal Engineers ; 17 men, I wife and 2 children of the 14th Foot ; Lieut. Cooke (in charge) and 14 men of the 21st R ; Assistant- Surgeon Irwin (in medical charge) of the 28th Foot; 4 men el the 31st Foot, 2 of the 28th, 8 of the 57th, and one wife ; 22 o f th e 2d B a tt a li on Ist Royals, 5 wives, and 6 children ; 2 men of the 48th. From Gibraltar—Mrs. General Williams; 4 children, and 2 servants ; Mrs. Admiral Elliot, 5 children, and 3 servants ; Mrs. M'Efferty ; Mrs. Clauben, and 2 children ; Mrs. Richardson ; Mrs. Oxley ; Mrs. Thorpe, and 2 children ; Mr. and Mrs. Wills, and 5 children ; Mrs. Adams, Mr. Dixon ; Mr. Dun widdie ; Mr. M`Killop and 4 children ; Capt. Hay, 92d Regt. ; Lieut. Campbell, 48th, on leave, &c. She went alongside Portsmouth harbour on Satur day afternoon about 5 o'clock, and, by the attention of Messrs. Rickman and Moore, principal Custom house officers, the passengers' baggage was speedily passed and cleared, and the trains thereby saved for London. 'Eh° sloop Racehorse, 14, Commander Arthur Wilmshurst, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning, left Hongkong January 6th, Singapore 27r1f, Cape of Good Hope March 16th, and St. Helena 27th. She spoke on the line the ship Somnoth, of Greenock, from Rangoon, and sighted her again on Friday entering Falmouth Harbour. The Racehorse was commissioned Nov. 28, 1853, and has been chiefly employed in the Chinese rivers, and protecting shipping, dm Forty invalids from the fleet in China have coma in her. Her Majesty's steam-ship Tulcau, Commander John' Seacombe, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Malta and Gibraltar, w,hich she left on the 4th and 10th inst. respectively, bringing the following passengers :—Commander Nelson, R.N.; the Rev. M r . Hi n d, chaplain RN., to join the Cambridge ; Lieut.-Colonel Butler, of the 48th ; Capt. Stewart, of the 48th ; Lieut. Tbackeray, 48th ; Lieut. Mills, of the 57th ; Mrs. and Miss Beckwith, Mrs. Johnson and two children, Miss O'Reilly, Miss Parkes ' • Mrs. Steuart, child, and servant ; the Misses Inglefield (4) and two servants; Mrs. Nebs, Mrs. Ains and child ; and 500 tons of obsolete stores from Malta. From Gibraltar-33 of the Royal Artillery, 9 wives and 10 children. The Vulcan made the passage out in 10 days and ua were r,al 23 hours, and home in 11 d ays 6 hours, including s t o ppage e a a tG d ib w ra it lt h arZ hours. and The the Buffs ive highly p leased desire to make them comfortable by the commander and officers. She will go along s id e P ortsmouth harbour to -day to disembark. J. Woolley, LL.D., Admiralty in spectorchools, has completed his half-yearly for apprenticesat .0 - inspection of the school . Chatham Tile R of v' s inspec and the improvetuent dockyard, and ho expressed his entire satisfaction with the state of the school made by the pupils. ,tt allina and Charles Richards controller of the . vi , m t. Th . T. The Lords of the Admiralty have . appointed Mr. transport services of the navy, v,ce .1. r. cis. Grant, F.R.S , retired. Her Majesty's birthday was celeb rated at 'Chat ham on Saturday in the usual man ner. The encampment for the troops b longing to . tin ht battalion of infantry at Caatharn garrt,on, under the command of Colonel H. Jervis, was completed on Saturday, and the whole of the ten's pitched on the site selected to the rear of Fort Amherst, inside the Spur battery. The &pots selected to occupy the tents are the officers and men of the 24th Regiment, the officers and men of the 30th (Royal Sussex) Regiment, and the officers and men of the 53d Regiment, ample accommodation having been p r o v id e d f or th e men a tt ac h e d to th o se corps. The 13th company of Royal Sappers and Miners, THE SUN, LONDON, MOND'AX E V ENING, MAY 17, 1858. under the command of Capt. M. S. Whitmore, were inspected at Brompton Barracks on Friday . by Col. H. Sandham, commanding the Royal En gineers. They will leave Chatham this day and embark at Portsmouth, on board the City of Man chester steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope, where they relieve the 15th company, ordered home. Lieut. F. W. B. Clements and Lieut. C. Crawford, R.E., also embark with the 12th company. Sir L. Loraine and Mr. W. N. Tufnell, mates, R.N., passed their examination for lieutenants, and received certificates at the Royal Naval College last week. Lieut. W. A. Smyth has been appointed to the Ariel, and Mr. A. Price is appointed secretary to Admiral Sir B. Reynolds, commander-in-chief at Devonport. for rewarding the boats' crewg. That society has also offered to station a lifeboat in the locality, if the inhabitants will co-operate with it in the un dertaking." Government. That peril now impends, but the remedy is in Lord Derby's hands. Lords Palmer ston and Russell head a new coalition in order to obtain office, but the country support the present Ministry. Their policy has been eminently success ful, and has gained them many friends. Were this new cabal to succeed in thrusting the Government out, they could not remain in long themselves , . Their divisions are healed, the strife is merely suspended. Of courseliberal professions are tendered for the pur pose of obtaining support, but the experience of the last few years shows how pledges are violated and engagements the most solemn set at nought. In this emergency, were Lord Derby to retire without a dissolution, he would leave the country without a government. His assailants can only combine for factious purposes—they do not possess the elements of a powerful Cabinet. The public are waiting for the opportunity to sweep away this scattered band of intriguing politicians. Unable to direct affairs with credit and success they coalesce in order to prevent others from carrying out a bold, a wise, and a progressive policy. _ The popularity of Ministers and the progress made during the last three monthEkin wholesome legislation have induced the member for Loudon and the member for Tiverton to lay aside their animosities and biter jealousy. The old rivalry is not however, extinguished, it is only smothers i Hence their great object is to avoid a dissolution. Lords Palmerston and Russell know better than we can tell them that at the next general election the old Whig party will be broken up. The bare mention of an appeal to the people makes them shudder. Yet this is the abyss towards whiei they are hastening. Should success crown their intrigue it will be to them but the forerunner of disaster. The members of the House of Commons have a duty to perform ; and if they fail, by an appeal to the nation will the balance be restored. The elec tors are already preparing for the struggle. Lprd Derby has but to give the word, and the majority which he requires will be obtained. Let those who have any doubt upon the subject whisper " dissolution" in the ears of any of the Cambridge House confederates, and mark the effect it will pro duce. They would not make wry faces, and de nounce such a constitutional appeal, if they did not feel convinced that for them and their coalition it means nothing better than total annihilation. TESTIMONIAL TO TI Ig LATE FIRST. COM MISSIONEB OF PUBLIC WORKS. Mr. Butler, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, has recently handed the following memorial to Sir Benjamin Hall "To THE RIGHT HON. SIR BENJAMIN HALL, BART., M.P. LATE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF HER MAJESTY'S WORKS, 47;0.. " Sir,—We, the undersigned owners of property within the borough of the Tower Hamlets, take the present opportunity of expressing our thanks to you for having originated and matured many great improvements in the Royal Parks of the metropolis, but more especially in the Victoria Park, in which large masses of the indus trial c'asses of the people resident in the eastern parts of London are so deeply interested. " We are also much indebted to you for having, after many years' delay by your predecessors in the office you so recently filled—a delay which operated to the serious loss and inconvenience of the rate payers—caused the important line of communica tion from Shoreditch to the Docks to be opened for public use. We feel that it has not been usual for gentlemen holding high official positions to identify themselves by constant personal inspection of, and take so deep an interest in, the improvements of the eastern parts of the metropolis, and we therefore desire to express to you our respectful opinion that the duties of the office of Chief Commissioner of Works, &c., were performed by you with great zeal, energy, and ability, and in a manner greatly to the advantage of the public. " It is also a source of gratification to us to ob serve that, in the disposition of your patronage of gatekeepers and other offices in the public parks, you have selected as worthy objects of your consi deration those who have claims upon the public service, and who bear the marks of their valour in the late wars. " We wish also to acknowledge the courtesy and attention we have invariably received from you. It is true that you may not always have conformed to the application we may have made to you, but we have always felt that you have decided imparti ally, and with a view to the public good. "We have the honour to remain, Sir, • "Your very faithful and obedient servants." [Here follow the signatures.] Sir Benjamin Hall's reply was as follows : " Great Stanhope-street, May 13, 1858. " Dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter containing a memorial from certain owners of property and others within the Tower Hamlets, and request that you will be so good as to convey my thanks to the mem-rialists for the ex pression of their favourable opinion in relation to the matters to which they refer. "I certainly was most anxious during the short pe'iod that I held the office of First Commissioner of Pubic Works to improve the parks, to render them still greater objects of attraction, and bene ficially to expend the moneys voted by Parliament. With regard to the:appointments made during my tenure of the office, I considered it to be my d ity in the distribution of the little patronage at my dis posal to select persons who really had some claim on the public service, and bythe appointment of whom merit might be acknowledged, and a stimulus offered to others to deserve reward. "As you allude to the subject, I may mention that in two years, ending January, 1858, I ap pointed 57 men who had served in the late wars to places as park keepers, park constables, and other somewhat similar offices, a•lmitting those only who could produce with their discharge the most unex ceptionable references from their commanding offi• cers ; and these 57 gallant fellows wear upon their breasts 49 Crimean medals, six Indian medals, one Caffre war med ►l, one China medal, one Baltic me lal, four medals for distinguished services on the held, nine good conduct medals, one French good conduct and long service medal, one French war medal, and one Sardinian medal. They have also 139 clasps declaratory of the action in which they have been engaged ; three of them wear the legion of honour, and three others have that most noble of all distinctions, the Victoria Cross, making a total of 219 marks of honour possessed by these 57 men. _ _ _ " Of those who bad won the Victoria Cross, one has the China medal, the Fren c h war metal, and the Crimean medal with three clasps, and he now occupies a new lodge at Holyrood-place. Another has the Ghuznee men al, and the Crimean medal with three clasps, and he lives at the new lodge at the Marble Arch. The third has the Crimean medal with 2 clasps, and is Chevalier of the Legion of Honour ; he also occupies a lodge which has recently been built in the long walk of the Regent's Park. Thq conduct of these men has been most admirable, and ',I am happy to think that I have had it in my power thus to bestow places on persons who hare so nobly discharged their duty to their Queen and their country. With the renewal of my thanks to the memorialists, and to yourself for the friendly expressions contained in your letter, I remain yours sincerely, " B. HALL. " C. S. Butler, Esq., M. P." THE LATE SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE REGENT'S CANAL. LATEST PARTICULARS. Yesterday (Sunday) a great number of persons of both sexes crowded round the spot where the body of the unfortunate man (John Turner) was dis covered, on the evening of Monday last, by a barge man while pausing along the Regent's Canal, Vic toria Park, and Mr. Russell, the dock-keeper had considerable difficulty in keeping the curious visi tors out of danger. The police of the district, through the instruc tions of Mr. Superintendent Howie, were most ac tively engaged throughout the whole of Saturday in making every possible inquiry respecting the deceased, and Sheridan, an queer of the K division, has succeeded in tracing the deceased to the house of his brother-in-law, near the Edinburgh Castle public-house, Stepney, at which place he called on Wednesday night, the sth inst , between eight and nine o'clock, being 48 hours later than the time mentioned by one of the witnesses examined at the coroner's inquest on Thursday afternoon last. The same constable has also ascertained that the de ceased borrowed 7s. from Mr. W. Bryant, his late employer, residing in Prince's-square, Ratcliff highway, on the night he left home, and that he (the deceased) was drinking in front of the bar of a public-house, a short distance from the canal, a few hours afterwards. The several persons who saw the deceased on the occasion referred to will be examined at the ad journed inquest, this afternoon, which may in all probability throw some light upon the present mysterious state of the case. Mr. Vaughan, summoning officer of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, received orders from Mr. Field, the foreman of the jury empanneled on view of the mutilated remains of the deceased on Satur day, to proceed to the Home-office, to obtain th• authority of the Sem wary of State for the at tendance of Dr. Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, but, in consequence of the drawing-room in honour of her Majesty's birthday, no business was transacted, and the officer returned. The body of the unfortunate man still remains in the charge of the landlord of the Hosford Arms public-house, adjoining the canal, and from the time deceased has been taken out of the water, and the previous condition of the body, there seems some doubt as to whether a satisfactory medical examination can be made. Yesterday afternoon, at one o'clock, Mr. Wm. Baker, the Coroner for East Middlesex, received the following communication from the Home-office : " Mr. Waddingt , in presents his compliments to Mr. Baker, and is directed by Mr. Secretary Wal pole, to acknowledge the receipt of his letter of the 14th inst., in which he requests that Dr. Taylor be authorised to aVend in the case of the inquest on a man named John Turner, and to state in re ply, that Dr. Taylor's assistance would be given iu a ease which required the best scientific and che mical evidence that could ba procure 1, but as such evidence is very expensive, the Secretary of State would not feel justified in sanctioning such assist ance where o'her medical testimony might be, as in this instance, equally available. —Whitehall, May 15, 1858." A copy of this letter was forwarded by the learned coroner to Mr. Vaughan, the summoning officer in charge of the case, and on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock the jury bad a private meeting for the pur pose of taking into consideration the reply from the Secretary of State, and after a long discussion, the gentlemen empanneled to investigate the death, resolved, unanimously, that thsy would have the evidence of Dr. Taylor, notwithstanding the parsi monious conduct of the officials of the Home-office. Mr. Seffings, the surgeon, who has been consulted by several medical gentlemen of the district, still adheres to the opinion he first expressed at the in quest that the deceased has been murdered, and the clothes after wards buttoned up over the injuries he described. He states th%t it would be utterly im possible :for the wounds to be inflicted by a.barge passing against the bDdy without cutting the coat, waistcoat, neckerchief, shirt, ac., which are quite uninjured. The incision in the ne3k must have been cut by a sharp-edged illSti umpnt, and groat violence must have been exerci ed in the infliction of the injuries. _ _ Late last night the police were still busily engaged in the case, which has excited unusual interest. WRECK ON THE IRISH COAST, WITH LOSS OF ELEVEN LIVES. A correspondent writing from Dundalk, thus re f, rs to a lamentable wreck, with the loss of 11 lives : "It is my sad duty to record one of the most dis tressing shipwrecks, attonded with loss of life, which has ever occurred in our bay. During the recent heavy gale which visited the Irish coast, the barque Mary Stoddart got embayed in Dun dalk bay, and dragged both her anchors. She went on shore on the south, where she lay broad side on to the sea, which made a complete breach over her.• On learning the news I took a car, and proceeded to the Black Rock, on the o pposite side of the town, where I could clea rl y see her crew clinging to the rigging. It w as blowi ng at the time a complete gale of wind fr om the S.E., t o which our bay is all open, with a heavy sea running, I musterel two boat crews of hardy willing fellows, to attempt the rescue of the poor men. I took charge of one of them myself, and both boats pro ceeded out in the teeth of Ili heavy a gale as ever blew on this coact. The boats were only common open yawls, each manned by six men. They man fully pulled through the heavy breakers for nearly three miles, and within a short distance of the un fortunate men ; but, to our great grief we were compelled to put hack, as the sea was now actually running mountains high, and both crews were com pletely prostrated and exhausted, and were hardly able to keep the boats from filling. Capt. Joseph Kelly, of the steamer Pride of Erin, also manned and commanded another yawl ; but like us, he was obliged to return unsuccessful to the shore. By this time a steamer's lifeboat arrived on the spot ; but she was of no more service than an ordinary boat, and was compelled to return to the shore. We all now returned to town almost broken. hearted, compelled to leave the poor fellows to spend an awful night in the cold icy rigging. A meeting of the inhabitants was immediately con vened; and three of the most expesienced master mariners nobly volunteered to take command of three more ships' lifeb Ats, with a picked crew each. Capt. Kelly again readily consented to tike off one of the boats. The boa's pulled out of our river through as heavy a sea as ever men contended with. Two of the boats succeeded in getting nearly alongside the ship, when poor Cept. Kelly's boat was overwhelmed with a heavy sea, and went down stern foremost; Capt. Hind's boat b.-ing nearly 50 yards off, pulled up from the wreck, dashed through the foaming breakers, and succeeded in picking up all Kelly's men, but the noble min hinasslf had sunk to rise no more, exclaiming as he went, Lord have mercy on me ! Farewell, boys ; take care of your selves.' A braver man never breathed ; he had on many previous ocsasions risked his life t) save a fellow creature. Three of his crew soon died in the boat from cold and exhaustion. One left a widow an d six orphans, a second his widowed mother, sister, and two little children, and a third an aged father, mother, and two sisters. Capt. Kelly was unmarried, but has left a widowed mother to la ment the lsss of an affectionate son. The other boat r•. turned to the shore, and was compelled to leave again, unaided, the shipwrecked crew to their fate. Tue nsw lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at Drogheda, which is about ten miles off, was about to be sent for the next morning, when to our joy we perceived that a boat, c im manded by Mr. R. Shankey, of the coast-guard, had left the norli side of the bay, and was strug gling nobly with the foaming, waves to gain the ill fated barque, which was now on her beam-ends, her mainm as t h av i ng b en cu t away , an d h er un h app y on ' (yew still i n the riggin g . The biat succeeded on the first trip i n shore t h a o k irl i ea t7t :ma g n onr fl ye ' f7odocod dead fur the crew, tah c n r r e ea t e v l , dv alive, n not were r broughte s. ofthem havin g Lei At, again commanded by th e brave Shankey, re turned c n her ere Ind t o h f mercy and sue :ended in taking off four more of the last to leave h . s ill f. tea e crew, the master being vessel. Seven of his crew had perished on boars the every attention was paid t o t barque. Onshore he Shipwrecked Fish ermen and Mariners Society. It should be stated that ten boats, including Shankey's, had put off during this long interval wit h the view of rescuingl the unfortunate crew, and that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has presented its silver medal to each of the masters who took charge of the 1)3,3.4, and 501. in aid of the local subscriptions now rasing for providing for the families of the drowned, and MONTENEGRO. (From the Daily News.) A tall, stalwart, fierce-looking gentleman, in the Albanian costume, accompanied by a Hussar in most gorgeous braiding, made his appearance more than a year ago on the boulevards of Paris. A deep scar across his cheek showed him to have been fami liar with close conflict. On inquiry this personage was found to be Danielo, Prince of Montenegro. This potentate was the most arrant of political coquettes. There was no Court to which he had not vowed fidelity, and from he had not derived succour, or at least encouragement. He was for a long time at Vienna, and made use of the patron age of Austria to accomplish the revolution by virtue of which he reigns—the revolution which allowed him to avoid taking ecclesiastical orders, and to govern as Prince, not as Bishop or Yladika. Ho was then Russian, but, to do him justice, gave DO trouble during the war, when ho might have done serious mischief. For this conduct he came, no doubt, to seek a reward in Paris. Should the Levant be divided, as it is asserted and feared, between two alliances, the English, Austrian, and Turkish on one side, the French and Russian on the other,—.this latter bond will have an immense advantage over its rival. France and Russia aro governed by rich, irresponsib!e, and pro digal rulers who have the habit of paying and pen sioning their friends, including even those of the rank of princes. England has abandoned this prac tice even in the far East. Austria, the most parsi monious of empires, knows the use of the sabre, not that of coin, and Turkey claims more the right to rob than the duty to pay. No one can doubt to which of these two alliances a paltry power in the Levant would be inclined to lean. The inevitable character, in fact, of their ten dencies is a great argument against petty princes, and against all rulers who are not above the neces sities and nym,nneFs of mere personal greed, and who do not participate in that feeling of dignity and pride which arises from the consciousuess of their ruling and representing a nation. Take the Prince of Servia, for example ; he would not sell his Principality for a bribe, nor put on either Aus trian or Russian livery ; because he knows and feels that the spirit and attachment of his own peo ple are his best support. It is otherwise with Montenegro, and the circum stances which have raised the chief of 100,000 souls into an independent Prince are, we must confess, to be regretted. But Montenegro, as a military po sition, is so important, that no great power would now willingly sea it acquired by another. It con stitutes in itself a mountain fortress, formidable from its position, and for its 20,000 well-armed fighting met), who, it will be recollected, defeated and destroyed an army of 30,000 Turks in 1796. It is at once the point of junction and of sepa ration between. Albania and Bosnia. The Prince of Montenegro is from position the natural master of Cattaro, the most magni ficient harbour in the Adriatic. Austria jealously guards this harbour for the time ; but it is not the less a natural dependency of Montenegro. Austria, therefore, though cmlsenting at the present moment to the humbling of the Montenegrins, could no more desire to see them actually conquered by the Turks, than to see them reduced nuclei Russian suzerainty or French influence. It being thus the interest of all the Powers that Montenegro should remain independent, indepen dent no doubt it will be. The Turks themselves have achieved a feat in shipping and conveying a large army from the B , sphorus to the Dalmatian coast, and landing it there fro - ahand well provided, instead of sending it by an exhausting and expen sive march accoss Rommelia. This precedent will greatly acid to Turkish force in those western regions, and prove powerful to deter Bosnians or Albanians from insurrectionary movements. And this, probably, is what Turkey chiefly proposed to itself by the expedition. It would be more difficult to explain what good the French Government proposes to itself by its valiant declaration in the Moniteur on behalf of the Montenegrins. Perhaps the Court of the Tuileries, feeling that in retroceding on the Danubian question it is playing no very glo rious part, seeks to recover a portion of its lost credit in the smaller matter of Montenegro. But to set Prince Danielo ever so upright upon his rocky throne, must appear to every one, and especially to Frenchmen, a somewhat insigmfi caet result of the Crimean victories. The French Republicans and Orleanists are already sneering at the ignominious retreat of the Emperor before Austria and Turkey, and no petty triumph on the Lake of Scutari will be likely to be taken as a set off for total defeat upon the Danube. Toe proverb, or the translation of a proverb, that took birth about the year 1840, cannot be for gotten. It was then said that the expression of "May France protect you," " Que lax France vows protege," meant " Que le Diable remporte," " The Deuce take you." And in truth the realisation of the proverb, which so darna4l,ed the lustre of Louis Phil pp's rule aid throne, has taken place so often of late milder Napoleon the Third, that the French begin once more to repeat it App aren tly nothing more is needed than for the Moniteur to come out one month with a flaming assertion and resolve, in order to be sure that the next the Emperor will shrink from the magnanimous declaration, and his Ministers sneak out of it, ere the ink of their first vaunt is well dry. French government promise?, magniloquent at first, become at last infinitesimally small. They were to tree Italy one day ; they end by garrison ing Rome for the Pope. The Emperor was then to liberate Poland; when of a sudden Poland dwindled down to the Danubian Principalities, which were assuredly to be saved. Now, the inclination seems to be to waive the question of the Principalities, and to substitute in their place the little rock of Montenegro. Even that may one of these days appear too vast, and the sympathies of the Moniteur be concentrated upon and satisfied with Dumas's island of Monte Christ°. ME. CARDWELL'S MOTION. (Front the Morning Herald ) Discord and confusion reign in the ranks of the cabal. Mr. Smith's disclosures, the debates on Fri day, and the strong reactian in Lord Ellenborough's favour, have materially damaged that which once promised to be a vary pretty cause. Moreover, the real character and object of the' conspiracy have been fully disclosed, and many of those who felt an inclination to support Mr. Cardwell's motion are oppressed by strange misgivings on the subject. Public opinion sets strongly in favour of Ministers, and their chance of obtaining a glorious triumph, even iu a House of Commons elected at the bidding of the member for Tiverton, improves day by d sy. The Opposition chiefs never for a moment doubted that with Lord/Shaftesbury's aid, a large majority would be secured iu the Upper House. Yet a ma jority of 25 of those present ou the occasion reduced to 10, by the liberal use made by the Whigs of their proxies, have declared in favour of Lord Derby. The course pursued by Lord Shaftesbury has mate rially shaken his influence. Although he professes to be a Conservative, the public cannot forget that he is ndarly Mated to Lord Palmerston, and that he has been of late one of his most devoted adherents. In a certain portion of the religious world Lerd Shaftesbury's reputation stood high, bat hie share in the Sunday movement at Cam bridge Hon's() has created surprise and even indig nat:Dn amongst many of his former friends and admirers. Whether Lord Shaftesbury was or was not present at the meeting at Cambridge House on Sunday can be of little cons: quence. We are not in the confidence of these politicians, and we do not therefore pretend to decide that point. The Pal merston organ on Monday last announced that such an assembly had taken place at Cambridge House on the previous Sunday, and that an as ssault upon Ministers was to be delivered. On the evening of the day on which this announcement appeared Lord Shaftesbury came forward as the champion of the Opposition. He thus virtually became the approver and the abettor of this Sun day movement. Many persons imagined that there must be some mistake iu the matter, and that Lord Shaftesbury would not on any account whatever sanction by his advocacy a movement commenced under such circumstances and upon the most sacred day of the seven. But the weekly organ of the Opposition yesterday repeated the statement in conclusive terms. "On Sunday afternoon," says the Observer, " a meeting of most of the members of the late C ibinet was hell at Lord Palmerston's, when the position of affairs was fully discussed," &c." And to this intrigue to reinstate a Cabinet scouted from power only three months ago Lord Shaftesbury lz-nt his influence and support. Deeply do we regret that une generally respectei should so far have forgotten himself, and thus have sh ken confidence in our public L.aders. On being invited to undertake the direction of affairs, Lord Derby explained to her Majesty the state of parties, requested our gracious Sovereign to reflect over the matter, and evinced no anxiety for office. Lord Derby did not, however, hesitate to accept its onerous responsibilities when con vinced that so doing he should best serve his Queen and country. The noble earl was aware that in a House of Commons constituted like the present he must be exposed to the risk of a defeat whenevtr hostile and jarring sec!ions chose to combine for the .purpose of beaming and perplexing the THE STATE PROSECUTIONS. Since the termination of the trial of Simon Ber nard for cmispiring to assassinate the Emperor of the Freach, and the abandonment of the other charges against him by the Attorney-General, it is understood that cbmmunications have taken place on behalf of Mr. Allsop with the Government, with the view to ascertain w h e th er i t was intended to proceed with the capital, or any other charge against that gentleman. It will be recollected that the charge agiinst Mr. Allsop was precisely the same as that which was made against M. Ber nard, namely, th a t h e, b e i ng a British subject, fe loniously conspired to procure, and was accessory before the fact, to a murder committed out of the Queen's dominions, and the evidence would have been precisely the same as that which was adduced in the case of M. Bernard. So far at Mr. All sop was concerned, no l ega l . difficulty would h ave ar i sen re l at i ng t o t h e offence having been committed by a British subject, as he was- undoubtedly an Englishman ; but a more serious objeJtion would still have existed, and which would also have been raised on behalf of M. Bernard, if he had been convicted, which was that the murder in question having been cnnmitted by foreigners, the statute under which the indictor-nt - vas preferred would not apply. All these matters have, it is under-tood, been urged up In the attention of the Government and their legal advisers, and it is believed that the result has been that it is not intended to put Mr. Allsop upon his trial. After the long inquiry, and the pains that were taken, even to the extent of sending for a witness from Brussels during the progress of the trial of M. Be rt ar d, to lay before the jury the whole of the facts, upon which a conviction was sought for, and the jury, after bearing the whole of the evidence, having, upon the merits, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty," it would have been very unusual course to have gone on with a second indictment of precisely the same kind, an d sup ported by precisely the same evidence, particularly when the same g ra ve questions of law existed in the case of Mr. Allsop, as in that of M. Bernard, and this, no doubt, influenced the legal . advisers of the Clown in the deciiiou which it understood has been arrived at that no further proceedings will be taken in the matter. --Dispatch, LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - - X a. d. 4 a. d. Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 190/0s British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 217/0s Caledonian Bank ..... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 I6s City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 lii 5s Clydesdale Bank •• - 5%1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12‘15s Commercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 225110 Eastern Bank.. •• •• - 61. par cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 111 is Edinb. & Glasgow.... 34 1. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 98/ 5s National Bank ...... 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 184 5s Northof Scotland Bank 5/.percent 20 0 0 210 OSi lOs Royal Bank of Scotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1431 s Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85/ Os Western 8ank........ 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - / 0 Alliance Firs and Lice.. 8% 1. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 16110 s British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 I/ 7s Caledonian Fire insur . 10/. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Life.. 61. percent. 25 0 0 2 0 031 lOs Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. 80 0 0 3 0 081 Os Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 261 Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life bloer cent. 60 0 0 3 6 041 Os Life Assoc. of Scotland G/.per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 011 Os National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 11 19 s North British Timm... 7L per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 37/10s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 15s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 021 12s St a ndard Life •• -•• • • 51. per cent 50 0 0 7 0 030 O s S c ottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 13/14s MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ....---. --. ---.--_ - £ s. d. £ s. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 20 0 0 10 0 0 lea .......... 64 percent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. - Australian Agriculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 30 1 4 Assam n en Mart........ 2141 per cent 50 0 0 _ Australian Trust •• .. 81. pr cent. 100 0 25 0 0 A us tralian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 0 all - _ Anglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10s. 10 0 0 all - British Am , :rican Land 51. per cent. 50 0 0 40 0 0 Canada ... •• •• •••• •• 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 137 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. pet cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 --- Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 6p C. bds 1876 6/. per sent. Stock 100 0 0 - Crystal Palace . 2/. per cent. 50 0 all 1% Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 334 I. per cent - - Electric Telegraph .. 61. per cent. Stock. 100 0 0 107% Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 50 0 all 1% Eng.&lris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent. 100 0 0 150 0 0 - Date New .... •• •• - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5!. p c and 11. 100 0 0 00 0 0 - Gen.SteamNavigatio n 10/ . per ct. & 2155 0 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 0 0 0 14 all - 0 0 London Gen. Omnib us 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 3 Hudson's 8ay........ 5/. per cent. Stock Stock - Hungerford .......... 21. 53. 100 0 0 all - Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 5/, per cent. 15 0 ti all - Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp.. - 25 0 0 5 0 0 - N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 51. per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all % North of Europe, Stm. 81. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 - Price's Patent Capd. Co - 29 0 0 all - Peel River.Land&Min. - 5 0 0 all 2 Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 79 Ditto New ...... •- 50 0 0 10 0 0 17% • • Reversionary Int. Soc. 4% 1. pr cent 100 0 0 all - Ditto New .... •• •• 1% /. pr cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam.... 41 p. share. 100 0 0 6e 0 0 59 Scottish Aus. Invest. 15/. per cent. 1 0 0 all , I% South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all - Trust and Loan Comp. 7%. pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 - Va a Diemen's Land.. 10s. 100 0 0 28 10 0 15% i 6 per cent. Bonds .... 6 per cent - - 771 i Country Markets, LIVERPOOL, MAY 14. To-day's market was of the quiet character usual for sows weeks of late. Wheat was considered to be about li per bushel, and flour 6d per sack and barrel, easier in price than on our last market day. Indian corn' also dull, and the value hardly supported. The fine weather the coun . try is now favoured with quite checks any speculative tendency. PRICES OF SHARES. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1858. CANALS. Names of Companies. Ashtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.... Derby .. •... GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union Kennt & Ave Leeds &Livrp Leicester Leicstr &Nth Loughborogh Macclesfield. Neath 0xf0rd...... Li Dividend' per m 'Annum. 98 71. p. ct. 40 4/: 100 111. 100 6/. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 6/. pr.ct. 100 7s. .6d 40 6s. 100 251. 100 51. 83 11.55. 143 701. 100 2/. 105. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin ..... • . 11;ast London... Do 4 per Cent. Pref. ' Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction ...... DO. New •• •• •• Kent ....•• .......... Lambeth ..... New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex .. Do. Do, .. •• • • Name of Company. Hu ngerford .... •• .... Southwark ...... •• .. Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo .. ... Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall ............ Name of Company Commercial •• • • •• •• • • Do. Preference East arid West India.. Grand Surry D. & Canal Do. Load Notes .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• •• • ••• •• •• St. Katharine ........ Southampton ........ Victoria .. •• .. •• •• •• Ditto New •• •• •• •• GAS-LIGH Name of Company. British rrovincial •• .. Brighton •• •• •• •• •• •• City of London ...... Equitab1e............ European .... . • • .. Great Central ........ Imperial ............ Ditto New Ditto Debentures.. Do. Continental Ist Cap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Endepen , lent ......... Londov. Parl. Preferen. Phcanix . •• • •• •• .. Rateliff ........ Surrey Consumers .... United General ...... Westminster Chartered Ditto, New • • • • Western A Ditto B Name of Company. Albion •• •• • • • • • • • • • • ttllianze Brit. and For. Ditto Marine ....... athenaeum .......... !atlas A.rgus Life Mritish Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London .. •• Gcn.Life County Crown • • • • • • • • •• • • • • Eagle.. Equity and Law...... European Life Family Endowment Globe • •• •• •... Gresham Life Do. Do.. Guardian Imperial Fire... • • .... Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire • . Law Legal and General Life London London & prov. Law • died. & Gen. Life Hinerva . • • .• • Nionarch . • • • • • • • New Equitable Pelican .... • • • • • • •• •• Phoenix Profeasiona Life . • .... Provident Lite........ Rock Life............ Royal Exchange ...... Sun Fire •••••• Ditto Life ..... United Xingdom .... Universal Life Victoria Life • • Name of Company. Bank of Egypt Bank of London British North American Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. City Colonial Commercial of London. Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. Do. New .. London and County Lon. & Eastn. Bnkg. C. London Joint-Stock Gonda and Westminatr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New Ditto ditto Natio•inl Bank New ',oath Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New..... .... 10n1an................ South Australia • • -... Union of Australia.... Ditto .............. Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Mutual .. ...... Western Bank or Londn Price.! Names of Companies. !Peak Forest. Regent's • • • • Rochdale.. • • Stftrd &Work Stonrbridge.. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & 1 Birming. Warwick & Napton...s Worcstr Birming. Wilts & Brk' Dividend per Annum 51. Os. 17s. 41. 281. 121. lOs 1/. 16s. 10s. 7s. Od. Paid. £ s. d 100 all 4 B. d. Paid. I Price. Paid. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. il. p.c. & bs. 158.0 d. & bs 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. IL per share 1/, 18s. ss. 5% per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent 121. per cent 143. 51. p. et. &bs. 2s & 28 bons 241. per sh. 4s. per share 18s. & bs. I per cent 5L per cent. 51. per cent. 6 % per cent p. et. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 12% per c. 7s. 8 p. c. & bs. 5% p.c & bs U. 14s. 41. & bonus. 51. & bonus. 51. & onus. £ s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 J 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 1 00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 e 5 0 0 Stock. £ a. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 al 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 all 4 0 0 47 5 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 to 0 0 0 10 0 an 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Paid. Z 8. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 8 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 all 20 - 6 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 WATER-WORKS. Dividend per ♦nnum. 5/. per cnt. 61. per cnt. 4/. per cent. 51. per cent. 4/. per cnt. 51. per cnt. 1;4% pe7cent. BRIDGE Dividend per Annum. lOs per cent. •• • • I 11. 12s. Od. U. Ss. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 6/. pr „ z.lent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4141. per cnt. 4 per cent. 5/. Os per c. [T AND CO] Dividend per Annum. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 6!. per cent. 8!. per cent. 10/. per cent. N. ss. 4/. 15s. 4/. 10s. 6/. per cent. 534 per cnt. 51. 81. per cent. 165 Od per sh. 7 per cent. Amount Share. £ s. d. 10 0 0 stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. Z s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount Share. 4 s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 X s. d. Stock. too "6 0 too 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 50 " 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 101 1 13% OOMP. Amount of Share. s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 Z s. d. all 160 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 52 0 0 16 0 0 all 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 'RANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price. 201. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. Si. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. 4c. per cent. 51. per cent. 141. per cent. 6!. per cent. 28 per cent. 18'. per cent. 16pc.&bs 6l.per cent. 20'. per cent., 101. per cent. b?. p. cticbs. SI. per cent. W. per cent. 101. per cent. 211. per cent. 151. per cent.) '2O 0 0 LOO 0 0 IINT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. BANKS. Amount of Share. X s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 1100 0 0 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 • • 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 1 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 YORE—Mar 15. There was rather a slow sale, and in some instances A decline was submitted to, but generally wheat sold at last week's rates—superior white, 48s ; red, 445. In barley 0 0 change. Oats and beans maintained the full prices of last weak. CHELMSFORD—MIT 15. The farmer 3 demanded former rates for wheat to•dal' The trade firm. Wheat, white old,per s. s. qr. 43 48 new 43 48 old 40 44 new 39 4 t Barley 34 40 Chevalier 38 44 Grinding 23 32 Malt 70 73 Chevalier 72 73 Oats, per qr. H. s• 24 3! Peas, Partridge 41 4 0 White 40 42 Boiling 4O 46 Dun 41 43 Beans, Tiek 16 3 8 Harrow ticks 36 90 Mazagan . 33 3 6 Ditto, n0w...33 36 red, OXFORD-MAY 15. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, but the demand was slow, and prices barely maintained at last week's cur rainy. Beans more plentiful, at full prices. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTO Wheat, red (old) 42s to 46s Barley, grinding ... ---s t 039 Ditto (new) Ditto, white --s to —s Peas Ditto (old) Barley, malting ... 30e to 34i Flour, per sack ROCHESTER—MAY 15. Trade slow to-day, with a good average supply of 1 111 descriptions of grain. For fine samples of English whe t there was a decline of is to 2s on last week's rates. Earle,' limited in demand. AVERAGE PRICES. Wheat, wLite 42s to 50s red. 4os to 46s Barley, grinding 28s to 32s Beans 40s to 41s Oats 23s to 27s Peas 42s to 44s EXETER-MAY 14. CORN.—Wheat, 53 Gd to 5s 9d ; barley, 4s to 4s 33 grinding do., Ok Od. to Os Od. Oats, 2s 6d to 2s 93 ' Beans, Os Oto 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to 00s Od. FLOUR.—Fine, 31s Od to 32s Od ; seconds, 29s Od to Qv Od per sack. got CATTLE. —There was a fair supply of bullocks. , beef, from Os Od to 10s Od per score • inferior, 7s to 8 0 Pe,: score ; fat calves, 5d to 52d per lb ; barrenners, i O s Od to ul Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 181. Us ; butches calves, Od to 7cl per lb., rearing calves —s to s O 'Y( sheep, ewes and lambs, 21. 5s to 21. 15s per coupl e . °west; to 60 ; wethers, 7d —d; lambs, 7'd to 0 per lb. PI:, large size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —s P • slips, b . to —5 ; suckers, —s to —s. Rou g h fat, 4ia per i Pork carcases from 7s 6d to 8s 6d per score. DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—MAT 13. Qrs. B es t. C urren t. In ferf o i 150 Wheat 45s 61 39s 31-d 32s 6 25s o s 6j 655 Oats 3os Od 27a Si! 143 Barley 3ss 6d 3os 6d & 22 Peas beans 43s Od . 39s 10t t d 36' "" HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—MAT 14. WHEAT. BARLBY: OATS. I 314'11 6,1 First 47s Od 36 s Od 32 s Od 459 3 i Second 4ls 9d 34s 2d 129 s 9d 142 n j Third 3ss Od 308 Od 1 27 s Od 1 42s v j Total quantity of wheat in market, 282 qrs., 278 elj IP ~ barley „ 79 qrs., 79 0 oats ,; 219 qrs., 213 500 0 beans ft 73 qrs., 6 3 ii° PER IMPERIAL QUART 12 0° 0 Wheat, '2/. AVERAGES 1 9 5-12ths 1 Barley, _IL 14 ER. 2 10 - --„, 0 Oats, ... 11. 9 9 2-12ths 1 Beans, 21. 2 3 84 P P DUBLIN—MAY 14. 2 6' Wnite wheat, 27s 01 to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to, j, 6d; ditto new, s Od ; barley, malting, 14s to 18s Od; ing, —a to —s ; oat's, old, 15s to 16s 6d; ditto, nevi, „A to —s 01 ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 16s Od; bore, new, —s 4J Od ; rapeseed, —s Od to s Od per brl ; bakers' floury . 0 t 61 to 19s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 35s 01 to 37, 6d 440 lbE. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK• Miles opened. 1858. NAME OF RAILWAY. BILITIEIR. Aberdeen • • • • • • • • • • Belfast and Ballymena • • • • • • • ~ • • • • • • Belfast and County Down • • • • • • • • • • .. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, slid West York .... •Bristol and Exeter • • .... ••.. .. •• • • .. 26 118 198% 94 434, 20 Cheater and Holyhead..... • • • • • Cork. Blackrodk, and Passage Cork and Bandon .. •• .............. Dublin and Belfast J unction ........ Dublin and Drogheda ...... ......... Dublin and Kingstown. • • • • • • • • • • .• Dundee and Arbroath ............. . Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enni5ki11en............ East Lancashire •. •• ....... Eastern Counties and Norfolk. Ea5ternUni0n................ ...} Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... •••••• Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... Exeter and Crediton.. • • ....•• •• • •• Furness Railway •• • •• •• •• 183% 283 203% 465 25% 90 286% Glasgow. and South-Western........ Great Northern. •.. ...... • • • • • • • • • • Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western •• •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• Irish South Eastern •.......... 16& 647 514 183% 28934 17334 • 934 28 667 177 Lancaster and Carlisle .• •• Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ..... Leeds Northern ...• •• •• •• •••••• •• Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... London and North Western ......... London and Blackw all .............. Lor don, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South We5tern......... Londonderry and Enniskillen •....... Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield,lnd Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction...... Maryport and Carlisle Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Newcastle and Car1i51e........... North British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• . North-Western •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union .. •• •• ...• •• •• •• •• south Devon .•• •• •• South Eastern.. •• ............ South Wales o . South York., Doncaster, and Goole Taff Vale •• •• •• •• •••••••• .••••• •• Ulster• •••• •• •••••••• •••• '7 I Waterford and Limerick North Staffordshire •• • • ........ 301( 171 1083 k 12)4 682 West Cornwall ...... ....... Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. Receil 185 . I,ICB 5,010 6,197 12,2: , 5 5,217 6,661 23,026 7,230 28,147 6,126 23,460 59,285 1,420 13,715 14,868 739 9,65 0 844 30,12 2 4,300 4,91 0 6,194 932 3,077 165 . !; FOZEIGN: Dutch Rhenish •••• • • .• •• •• •• •• •• Lyons and Mediterranean .......... Montereau and Troyes .......• •• •• Namur and Liege ..,, • .. • • • • • • •• Northern of France ................ Orleans and Central .. Paris and Lyons .... •• •• .• •....... Paris and Rouen. • • •• e• •• •... •• •• •• Parts and Strasburgh .......... Rouen and Havre............... W est and North-West of France .... 2,605 38,187 :36,. • 0' Nsw THEATIII3.—The erection of a new theatr e, fibs destroyed o a i r et e setof informed, ryethde b yp afi i v s ri el i t ot o nw b oT e i ee m aar m tsr e ea, d g i o a w. t e h l y Ti t ehcceohmanmeeej w p n e w e a h i c o: ! il O l P theatre 7..1 be of very large dimenyhsions, and will presen t sole ; new and improved features in construction and arrs s o ment. The building will be from the designs of be architect, Mr. Arthur Taylor.—lllustrated New of World. Od d TRS CROPS IN CAMBRIDGE.—The wheat an d B rio crops are thriving as 1 linking well, the latter apPlnpli to lose its blue and frost-bitten colour, and no dou bt e 9. requires a few warm days for its natural gree l ' a til Meadow crops in this district are materially in3l 3f L o to during the last fortnight : cutheto.nMost of the p o t a to 8 " - • 0 4 n frost fera by bly th r e et s a e r v d e e r d e tb‘ other bvoe gro u nd gartl gard en have produce b is consi derably —Cambridge Independent. BIRTHS. e Os ERCK—On the 12th i ns t., a t 44, Notting-hill-01 11° " wife of Josiah E rc k , E sq., of a son. s/ifs the KNIGHT—On the 12th inst., a t B a tt ersea , S u rrey, - of John K n i g ht, o f a d aug ht er. 'oho0" STONR—On the 15th inst., at Blackheath, Mrs. Stone, of of a daughter. /i r . . WHITE—On the Bth inst., at Grantham, the wife ° f R. A. White, solicitor, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. e r g s ' g. FOOTMAN—RANSOME—On the 12th inst., at Seis„ „ fo °t . rat's, Ipswich, Henry, eldest son of the late Jou — IP" man, Esq., to Kate, eldest daughter of J. fillerl Vaa l" some, Esq. t St. tl O GRENFELL—GRENFELL—On the 13th inst., a . 0 a. Church, Liverpool, Pascoe Da Pre Grenfell, J. B " ;Of" S fel eldest son of Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, Esq. , f lop to Sophia, second daughter of Vice-Admira l "" of the Brazilian Service. DEATHS. Job s APPLETON—On the 13th inst., at Brompton-s4" re ' Appleton, Esq., aged 70. art , V' BELL—On the 15th inst., at 263, Oxford-stre et, , Bell, aged 58. DixoN—On he 13th inst., at the Rectory, Nitta, 1914 Wight, the Rev. Richard Dizon,A.Bl F• 13 " 5 " years rector of at •es, DANIEL—On the th 13th pal lust , Howe Courte nei D 1 0 0" Esq., formerly 7th Dragoon. Guards, at Cheltell aged 59. n str e „, lIAIGH—On Thursday, the 13th inat ,in Efalf-ig° l3 , 'IO -. Plccadillv, Elizabeth Charlotte relict of the 0 " Haigh, Esq., of Grainsby Hall:Lincolnshire• ,Fran le f• STRONG—On the 10th inst., at 51, Pall - m all Strong, M.D., late of Calcutta, aged 74. LONDON: Printed and Published by AWED° °L"--- ' OP of No. 112, Strand, Print at SUM co 112, Strand, in the Precinct er, 7714 of the Savoy, in the of Aiddloaex, Monday, May 17, 1858. Price 93% 191) 1053 2 Paid. Paid. Price. Price. Price. 51% 363 19% 137% Price. 0 1 ' 21. 0 6 29 29$ 23,449 65;: 1, 31 " 13,, 1 45 : 4,11, 19. (349 1 d , 9 ' - 91 9 3 4, 0 4,. 1 X oi. e i twin, Amu or v. ACCII roil( tre hu t' ode •., Po ta 41t