The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

211 E NAVY. An inquiry was commenced at Portsmouth on Saturday relative to the disturbance on board her Majesty's ship Edgar during the past week at Spithead. It is understood that proceedings will be resumed this morning. The screw gun-vessel Torch, 5, recently com pleted at Chatham, has proceeded on a trial trip for the purpose of testing her engines and machinery, under the direction of Mr. T. Baker, chief engineer, and inspector of machinery at Chatham dockyard, and the officers connected with the master ship wright's department. The course taken was round the Nore, to about five miles below the Nore light. The machinery was found to work exceedingly satisfactory and smoothly, the speed attained under a moderate pressure being ten knots an hour. The Torch returned into Chatham harbour at the termination of the trip, and will take up her place with the steam reserve. The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M. Bruce, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday at 7 30 a.m., from Jersey, w ith Royal Artillery from Jersey, under the command of Major M'Crea. They were disembarked at the dockyard, and were marched into quarters at the Gunwharf Barracks. The fol lowing officers and troops of the Royal Artillery afterwards embarked on board the Firebrand, which sailed for Plymouth during the afternoon : Major Adye, in command; Capts. Vernon and Stocker ; Lieuts. M'Laughlin, Cuming, Webber Lewis, Goodenough, and Deshon ; 11 sergeants, 11 corporals, 199 gunners, 4 trumpeters, 81 women, and 50 children. Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master-Commander Sturdee, having undergone a thorough overhaul of machinery and boilers at Woolwich, will leave the river this morning for Portsmouth on her first trial trip, in preparation for being fitted with the Hon. John Wethered's improved apparatus for superheating and mixing steam. After a prolonged trial of Mr. Wethered's original method on board the Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, and the steam storeship Dee, the Board of Admiralty has ordered the apparatus, under its improved system, to be fitted on board the sister ship Rhadamanthus. The Rhadamanthus has embarked 100 novices and 40 supernumerary seamen for the fleet, from the receiving-ship Fis gard at Woolwich, and will perform the present trip with a light draught of water—namely, 14 feet. The second trip will be performed laden with boilers and machinery and a draught of 16ft. Tin. of water, to ascertain the precise rate of speed and consumption o r fuel in shallow and deep water, im mediately afte r which she will be fitted with the apparatus, under the supervision and direction of Mr. Wethered, and at the cost of the Admiralty, estimated at about £9OO. A large number of shipwrights, caulkers, pain ter, &e., were on Saturday discharged from the shipwright's department in Woolwich dockyard, and about 600 artificers and labourers left the Royal carriage and laboratory departments of the. Arsenal. On account of the reduction ordered to be effected in the two latter named departments of the Royal Arsenal a much greater number had been furnished with notices of dismissal, but numbers of them, considered the most persevering and Efficient, and belonging to the various branches required, were transferred to the service of the superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories. Parties of shipwrights at Chatham Dockyard have commenced converting and preparing the tim bers for three of the new - serow steamers ordered to be constructed at that establishment—viz., the Royal Oak, 91, the Belvedere, 91, and the Rein deer, 17. A further discharge of GO shipwrights, smiths, j oin..3r, and sawyers took place at Chatham Dock yard on Saturday afternoon. The detachments of the 9th Lancers stationed at Taunton and Trowbridge, and consisting of 5 offi cers, 125 men, and 111 horses, are under orders to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Dor chester. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—John L. Palmer, surg., additional, to the Chesapeake ; Robert Atkinson, assist.-surg., to the Jackal; Arthur B. Johnson, assist-surg., acting, to the Cornwallis ; W. H. Thompson, paymaster, to the Jackal; Peter Greet ram, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for charge of machinery of the Dart ; Thos.Spence, acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the Supply ; Horace H. Small, acting third-class assist-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernumerary. THE ARMY. The following General Order has been issued from the Horse Guards : " Her Majesty having been pleased to command 1 that officers of artillery, cavalry, and military train shall discontine the use of peaks to their forage caps, and also that officers of :cavalry and military train shall wear gold lace stripes, as in full dress, in lieu of the els% stripes, on the undress trousers, with the addition of leather booting, the same is hereby promulgated for information and guidance; and general officers and officers commanding the regi ments concerned are enjoined to enforce adherence to this regulation from the Ist May next. It is to be understood that the leather bootings are to be worn on all mounted duties. . " This order does not apply to the Household Cavalry. " By command, " W. F. FORSTER, Deputy-Adjt.-General." The following circular from the War-office has been issued by the Secretary of State for War : " With reference to article 3, page 68, of the Medical Regulations t h e Army, in which it is laid down that all rep airs ol to hospitals shall be exe cuted under the dire ct ion et of the purveyor Mr. Sec retary Herbert has m is i r n e e a d ul t a h t a io t n u s n h t a i l l l f b u e rtlie orders the operation f e th r sus pended, and that the o fo l lowing shall be substituted for it " Repairsrs of an ordinary character to hospitals, from the immediate non-execution of which no arise, will b e in convenience to the sick is likel y ginee De r to hitherto existing. in exe cuted by the Royal En accordance with the regulations "In the case, however , of the principalmreedi4l officer considering that the necessity of an of an incidental nature is ur g ent, and t h at no delay palr ought to be permitted to occur in its execution, the purveyor is empowered to communicate at once with the engineer, triennial contractor, or with his agent, and to order the necessary work to be performed. "In the event of unreasonable delay occurring in the carrying out of this order, the purveyor is further empowered to order the execution of the work through any other source which may be at hand. " The purveyor when thus ordering the execu tion of a work by the engineer or contractor will simultaneously report his having done so to the commanding Royal Engineer of the district, with the grounds of the urgency of the case. The com manding Royal Engineer will take the necessary steps for causing the work to be inspected, and it will be measured, paid for, and brought to account by the Royal Engineer department in the usual manner; " The purveyor will similarly report to the com manding Royal Engineer, should he find it neces sary on account of delay on the part of the con tractor to order the work of other tradesmen, in order that the commanding Royal Engineer may take the necessary steps to charge the contractor with any extra cost which may be involved in so doin 4 t C ommanding Royal Engineers will communi cate to the present triennial contractors the powers hereby granted to purveyors, and will make the necessary provisions in future terms of contract. The followin " B. HAWES." gGeneral Order, relating to a so ciety established for pensioners purpose of providing si tuations for all oners of good character dis charged from her Majesty'sisud f naval and military forces, has lately be en Guards :Lora the Adjutant- General's-office, Hors e Guards, lighness the March l 22. " Sir,—l am directed " Horse by hi s Royal ocuorm:atten_ General Commanding•in-Chief to call y zd tion, and that of the officers under your m o m y to the Army and Na v y P ensioners Employme n t Society, which has lately been reconstituted, under ni the management of a committee of officers repre senting every branch of the service. " His Royal Highness considers the objects of the society to be excellent, and that its results can not fail to exercise a beneficial influence both on the present soldiers and those classes from which they are recruited. The support which her most gracious Majesty has given to the institution since its formation will be an additional recommendation to all yfho have the interests of her serf ice at heart, and his Royal Highness will be glad to secure for the society that co-operation on the part of yourself and the officers under your command which will so materially contribute to its success, by the occa sional transmission of the enclosed form of return. " The officer commanding - Regimcnt." Cul. Francklyn, C. 8., 4th Brigade, Field Artil lery, with a draught of 250 rank and file, is under orders to leave head-quarters, Woolwich, to-mor row, for Gosport, to commence the formation of the 15th Brigade, some time in contemplation. The B battery of Royal Artillery, at present quartered at Ipswich, under the command of Capt. Paget, is about to leave that town for Woolwich. It is stated that two or three troops of the 10th Hussars will succeed the battery at Ipswich. The further progress of the new wings in course I of erection at the Royal Military Academy, Wool wich, which has been temporarily suspended by order of the Royal Engineer department, by reason of the red brick facings having been opposed, has been ordered to take place on the original plan ob jected to. On Friday evening a great amateur performance by the officers of Chatham garrison took place in the Royal Marine Theatre, in aid of the Garrison Compassionate Institute. The troops comprising the entire garrison at Chatham have been granted two days' holiday and release from all drills and parades, by order of Major-General Eyre, in consideration of the exceed ingly satisfactory manner in which they acquitted themselves on the occasion of the review of the gar rison by his Royal Highness the Dake of Cam bridge, who expressed himself in the highest degree satisfied at the result of his inspection, and the highly efficient state of the garrison. THE BISHOP OF LONDON ON CBU.RCH .EXTEXBION IN LaYDO.Y. ADDRESS TO THE LAITY OF LONDON. The Bishop of London has addressed the follow ing pastoral letter to the laity of the metropolitan diocess " London-house, April, 1860. " Dear Brethren,—l desire to bring under your notice the claims of the London Diocesan Church Building Society. lam aware that the very name of church building is almost apt at the present time to excite a prejudice with many, since, in their im patience to find new ways of curing old evils, many have begun to think that the old-established reme dies are useless. You are not to understand from its name that this society confines itself to the erec tion of the material house of God, though this, doubtless, is its main object. It might more ap propriately be designated a parochial extension society. It strives in every way to extend cad strengthen our parochial system, and a little consi deration ought to convince us that without such extension, of which the building of new churches is a necessary and integral part, we cannot bring spi ritual privileges within the reach of the masses of our people. " The diocess of London contains, as nearly as can be calculated, 2,500,000 inhabitants. It is divided into 433 parishes or parochial districts, and these are served by 855 clergy. Making full allowance for that portion of our population which is connected with some body of Christians other than the Estab lished Church, and considering the provision which such bodies have made for the instruction and pas toral superintendence of their own members, I maintain that there is still a vast amount of spiritual destitution—that is to say, a vast amount of souls in this metropolis beyond the reach of religious ordi nances, with no place supplied in which they may worship God, and no efficient arrangements made far their religious instruction in health and their consolation in sickness or on the approach of death. "An arithmetical calculation of the relative pro portinns of churches, clergy, and people in the diocess by - ilo means gives an accurate view of the magnitude of this evil. It is inseparable from the arrangements of our ancient parochial system that there must be among us great inequalities. Many parishes are adequately, or more than adequately supplied, but the superfluities of one district cannot by any ar rangement be made properly to minister to the de ficiencieS ofanother. The clergy of country parishes can be of no use to distant town populations, and in London itself the districts which are inhabited by the rich are many of them separated by miles from those parishes with an overwhelming popula tion which have come to be inhabited almost exclu sively by the poor. Again, while there is compara tively no great difficulty in providing new churches in what are considered the richer districts, where the clergy arc almost sure of a sufficient mainte nance, there is, on the other hand, no possibility, without the greatest efforts, of procuring either churches, or endowments, or clergy for very poor places. It is especially to the wants of such places I would now most earnestly beg your attention. There are in this diocese three parishes, with po pulations exceeding 35,000, four with between 30,000 and 35,000, five with between 25,000 and 30,000, six with between 20,000 and 25,000, 16 with between 15,000 and 20,000, and 32 with between 10,000 and 15,000. Now, whatever diversity of opi nion exists among us as to the desirableness of not carrying the subdivision of old parishes too far, there is, I believe,but one opinion that such parishes as I have now mentioned ought to be subdivided. The parochial principle is lost when we come to suchmultitudes. They cannot meet together in one house of God, nor be subjected to one efficient sys tem of pastoral superintendence or visitation. Moreover, the subdivision of overgrown into ma nageable districts always leads to the multiplica tion of schools, and diffuses more widely the advan tages derived from district visiting, from provident societies, dispensaries, and all other subsidiary pa rochial arrangements which every active clergyman strives to attach to the ministrations of his church. " I am perfectly aware how much must be done, by efforts of a directly missionary kind, before large neglected parishes can be brought into such a state as to be ready to receive the full benefits of parochial subdivision. We rejoice at the efforts which are being made in the present day to facilitate such missionary work. The society for which I plead, supplying missionary curates as a temporary expe dient to districts in process of formation, is not be hind other societies in recognising and endeavour ing to increase such agency. But temporary ex pedients, to be fully blessed, must be directed towards some permanent organisation for which they are preparatory, and to which they are expected at last to give way. I feel myself therefore justi fied in pleading that no other effort, however im portant, ought to be allowed to interfere with our great work of parochial extension. The poor of London have a strong claim upon the rich to pro vide them with those blessings of regularly esta blished permanent religious ordinances which all who know the value of the Gospel of Christ so much prize. All who receive any portion of their income from the rent o f h ouses i n h a bi te d b y t h e poor , or o f the grou n d on w hi c h suc h houses are bu i lt, are , e specially bound, in God's sight, to do what they can to provide for the spiritual wants of their tenants. All the rich, who derive from the labour of the poor so large an amount of the enjoyments country b y t a h tt e e of life,_ are bound to back some portion of this claimudiu of t h e and d r t e h r or poor tenant to gtoptae lsobuls of the poor. In the a ha c v le e r a gy c m hu a r u ch placed an d s schools s n a his Ought m h i . nistrations of a a llo to wedby his landlord or employer. consi der that the poor of London are, many of them a ttracted from their count r y h omes and induced to , settle in the densely-populated districts of the me tropolis by the presence of the rich, for whom they labour, and whose dependents they are as truly, while living unseen in their distant squalid homes in, narrow streets or neglected suburbs, as if they were the inhabitants of pleasant cottages, cluster ing round their employer's park ? I would sug gest that those who live in districtsweilslit of p supplied with Church ordinances should pay a v a s or a l inspection h wit to themselves the )() neglectedr what m ea means parishes,and t consider adopted to make one district and aLnoondtheornwphiicola is in need. At the office of the _ maycesaabe Church h y obtained dg upon So the important ciety all information sub ject of the present inadequate prov is ion for supply ing the spiritual necessities of the me t r opolis, and the mode in which new works, to remedy th e exist ing' evil may most effectively be undertaken. I beg to urge those who are not acquainted with the society to read its papers and personally to consult its officers, that they may understand how great and pressing is its work. The sums contributed to this society during the past year have been as follows : Lendowners' subscriptions Annual subscriptions • Donations . . Donations for specified objects .... Collections in churches £2,330 0 0 288 14 6 693 2 0 976 5 5 584 1 5 £4,872 3 4 " This sum is, of course, a very inadequate ex pression of what is really doing among us, as many noble examples are continually occurring of muni ficent donations to individual objects not contri buted through the Diocesan Society. But no amount of separate private exertion can dispense with the necessity for a central fund. The great majority of the schemes of parochial extension set on foot by private munificence still require some addition from a public source, Without the encouragement which the grants from such a fund afford, it is found prac• tically that subscriptions languish, and there . are districts so poor and neglected and with so little claim, except from their potrerty, upon any of the rich, that little tail be hoped from them unless such a society as ours undertakes the whole direction of the schemes intended to benefit them. The present state of the society's funds entirely precludes the possibility of its undertaking any extensive works of this description on its own responsibility. The whole aggregate of what is done falls very short of what ought to be done, and I am justified in urging all seriously to consider before God what are their duties in this matter. " Since I came to the see of London I have con secrated 29 now churches, whereby a new parochial organisation has been supplied capable of reaching the wants of at most 90,000 persons ; but, accord ing to the Registrar-General's calculation, the popu lation of the diocess has meanwhile increased by 140,000. Allowing, for argument's sake, that the Dissenters and Roman Catholics have been as active in this matter as ourselves, and that we should be justified in considering their efforts, it will be found that we have but kept pace with the increase of population, without applying any remedy for the fearful aggregate of neglect accumulated during past years. " Lastly, it is often urged that churches will do little good without faithful men to minister in them. This is most true; but, as good parochial arrange 9ents are at best powerless instruments without the right men, the best men must be powerless without proper parochial arrangements. The difficulty of finding an adequate supply of fit men, whose hearts are touched and guided by the Holy Spirit of God, can be no reason for hesitating to contribute out of our abundance to strengthen their hands when they are found, or prepare the way for their ministra tions. It only reminds us that we ought to add to our charity our hearty prayers that, while we are using all secondary means, God will be graciously pleased to supply the primary means, and Himself prepare and send forth fit labourers to give life and spiritual energy to the outward machinery by which we seek to advance His kingdom. " Commending this important society to your special Christian consideration, " I am, Dear Brethren, " Your faithful servant in the Lord, " A. C. LONDON." TEE POST-OFFICE. The following is a continuation of the abstract of the report of the Postmaster-General, the first portion of which appeared in our columns of Friday FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POST. The new postal convention with Portugal, re ferred to in the last report, was ratified by the Cortes, and came into operation in July last. A new convention, with similar results, has been entered into with Nicaragua; and the reduced rates of postage it includes have been extended to the Mosquito territory. A like convention also has been concluded, though not yet ratified, with New Granada. A new convention has been agreed to also with Uruguay ; but up to the date of the latest accounts from Monte Video no steps had been taken for giving effect to it in the Republic. The negotiations for a new convention with the several states of the German Postal Union have only been partially successful. The charge for postage upon paid letters, exchanged with most of the states, has indeed been reduced from Bd. the half ounce to Gd. ; but letters to a few of the states are still charged at the old rate, as those states would not agree to the redaction. With none of the states, moreover, is there yet any book post or any reduc tion of transit rates. Imperfect, however, as has been our success with regard to the German Postal Union, this case is much more satisfactory than that of the United States, in the convention with which there has been no progress whatever. The nego tiations for a postal convention with the Nether ' land Post office have been suspended, and it has been determined to proceed no further in the matter until the Dutch legislature has repealed the heavy stamp duty now levied on newspapers from the United Kingdom. The long delay to which the mails from London to Hamburg were subjected at Hanover led to a correspondence with the Hano verian Government, with a view to its removal, and the object so much desired has at length been at tained. The British Post-office at Constantinople having proved insufficient, and in other respects ill . adapted for its purpose, a piece of land in the neigh . bourhood of the British consular buildings was pur chased, and a new office erected. • A British Post-office has been established at Cairo; - and a corps of janissaries has been organised to ac • company the Indian and Australian mails in their transit through Egypt There is now a book post between this country and Egypt, and on the Ist of April there will be one with Sweden. The chief articles of a contract have been agreed to with the Anglo-Luso- Brazilian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance of an ad ditional mail, monthly, to Lisbon and the Brazils. A packet agent has been appointed at Nagasaki (Japan), and the correspondence for Japan is for warded to Shanghai, for transmission to Nagasaki by the best means that offer. According to the last accounts received, steam vessels are frequently de patched between these two ports. Sir Samuel Cunard having liberally offered to allow his packets, without any additional payment, to call at Queenstown (Cork), to land and embark mails, on the voyage to and from Boston, the offer was accepted, and the arrangement has been in ope ration about four months •, but a return which has been made of the length of the voyages on this plan, as compared with their previous length, makes it doubtful whether, except to Ireland, the alteration is of any value ; the time gained at one end of the voyage being, as respects letters from Great Britain and the Continent, apparently neu tralised by loss at the other end. At the request of the Postmaster-General of Canada this arrange ment was extended, he December last, to the pac kets under contract to the Canadian Government, which convey mails every week between the British Isles, Canada, and the United States; and, notwith standing the doubt which experience has thrown on the benefit of the arrangement, the plan will soon. be extended also to the Cunard packets between Liverpool and New York, with a view, before ulti mately deciding on its continuance, to give the arrangement a full trial, and in the meanwhile - to prevent the inconvenience arising from the want of uniformity in the days of despatch and in the cir culation of the letters. A contract has been cc a eluded for giving an additional mail, once a fort night, to the United States and Canada, by means of packets to ply alternately between Galway and Boston and Galway and New York. The French Government having given its consent to the re-arrangement and acceleration of the mails between London and Paris, referred to in the lasrt report, this important improvement will come into operation on the Ist of May. By this alteration, instead of the present day mail, which ie of little value, an effective day mail will be established, tee start from each capital early in the morning and to arrive the same evening in time for a delivery in London or Paris, and for a despatch to the coun try; and the night mail will arrive much earlier than at present, so as to admit of the letters being sent out by an early delivery, or forwarded by the morning mails, to places beyond. Our share of the costs of this improvement will be more than £9,000 a year, but the number of letters sent to and through France fully warrants the additional expense. As a step towards this important altera tion, and to afford relief in the London Circulation office, an acceleration has already been made in the night mail from London to Dover, by means of which the mail, while leaving London a quarter oil an'hour later than formerly, reaches Dover a quar ter of an hour earlier; and what is yet more im portant, keeps its appointed time, even at the higher speed, with much greater regularity. The train, indeed, conveying this mail is now the fastest, and most regular mail train in the kingdom. Although the distane..e is 88 miles, it makes only one stoppage on the -way, and complete the journey in two hours. ny, hasbeae nnd The exp ec t a ti on h e ld ou t i n th e last report of a great improve men t h the Australian packet ser vice, owing to it s h a ' w i ng b een t ra nsf er red to the Peninsular r e o a r l i m e e s i d t a ; l a Steam nd the packet n Navigation ow C oftenot Com pany, - pa arrives at its exact time ; occasionally, indeed, before. By the joint c .peration of the telegraph and receivedpack ets, ifi this newson theee country .o f a r occasion nAodf Adelaide, l t a h i e d last mai mail Melbourne,was and Sydney, each in forty days. By what must in pi irt have been an oversight, no transit charge was I lately made on newspapers passing through Eg; Hit ; and thus for one penny, a sum which barely pl ty s the expense of collection, co nveyance, and de' Livery in the British Isles (if , indeed, it accomplis le even this), a newspaper has been carried by cos tly packets some twelve thou sand miles, been con :T.eyed through a foreign coun try, and delivered in the heart of a great continent ; to the convenience a nd benefit, no doubt, of the com p ar atis ely few P cr sons who send newspapers to India, Chita, or Australia, or reee'.ve them there from, but t( )the miu • ry of the public at whose ex • d e the 8e rvice is ins interne . Partly to remedy pense this evil the predec( -ors of the present Postmas ter-General took measi ires for establishing a tran sit rate of tine penny on newspapers to India, Australia, and. all other places eastward Suez when of Alexandria, when sent eiet Sou a arnpton and previously those forwarded via M havi n g arseilles sit rate through France, been subjec' tea to a tra n ccon eutwa 'with that which, um' 4 ,er the pxvf4ent Y THE RELIGIO US DisSENIoNs IN ST. GRORGES-INTHE-EAST. The gross revenu3 properly appertaining to the year 1859, adjusted with reference to the balances due to and from the colonies and foreign countries, w as £3,299,825; being an increase of £498,886 on the adjusted gross revenue of 1858. This in crease is equal to nearly 61 per cent. as compared with an increase of 2 per cent. in the previous year, and with an average of about 41- per cent. in the last four years. The great increase in the busi ness of the department during the year which has produced this large increase of revenue is no doubt mainly attributable to the activity which has pre vailed in all branches of trade and commerce, but also in a certain degree to the general election last spring, which alone produced an amount of corre spondence estimated in postage at £20,000. The actual expenditure for 1859 was £1,926,903, and the expenditur,e properly appertaining to the year (partly estimated) was £1,853,953. The in crease of expenditure properly appertaining , to the being rath er more than 4* per yearcent w.,aass 83,3 c £ ompar 9 e 9 d with three per cent. in 1858, and with rather more than four per cent., the average of the last four years. The increase of £54,000 in pensions, ffirs ce &: , p c 4ly i t spartly for an increased for poundage on money orders and postage stamps (which increases with f s o a r la ce rie of s 430 officers, increasing business), partly for annual increments of salaries and wages, an d is partly owing to the fact that the account for 1859 comprises 53 weeks. The increase under the head " Miscellaneous" is attributable to the increase in the official postage of the department—an increase which is common also to the revenue. The cost of conveyance, weight for weight, at the present rates paid by the Post office—chiefly to railway companies—is now more than fourfold what it was when penny postage was first established, and when most of the letters were carried by mail coaches. It had been shown at that time by Mr. Rowland Hill that the average cost of conveying an inland letter did not exceed 1-36 d., and that of a newspaper 1-6 d. But now, calculat ing on the same principle, the average cost of con veying a letter is 4-d., and that of a newspaper (of the present average weight of 21 oz.), ltd. To the revenue accounted for by the Post-office, and proper to the year 1859, is to be added the produce of the impressed stamp on newspapers, £148,249 ; and to the expenditure the cost of stationery (which is defrayed by the Stationery-office), £28,642 ; and such portion of the cost of the packets (hitherto defrayed by the Admiralty, and partly incurred for other than postal purposes), £444,519 ; which may fairly be placed to the debit of the Post-office ; there is also to be deducted from the expendi ture part of the annual payment to the Holyhead Railway Company, £1,838,953—a payment agreed upon chiefly to assist in the construction of the line, and to promote passenger communication be tween England and Ireland. The net revenue, viz., the difference between the gross revenue properly appertaining to the year and the expenditure, was £1,135,960. About a million of the net revenue—that is, nearly the whole of it, is derived from inland letters, each of which on an average yields a profit of about id., while the average postage is about 10. It is believed that newspapers and books yield no profit, even if they do not en tail a considerable loss; for while the average charge, taking newspapers and books together, is less than for letters, the expense is greater, since from their larger bulk and weight newspapers and books give more trouble in sorting, are heavier in conveyance, and are a greater burden to the letter carriers. Again, it is thou ht that the great mag nitude of some of the mails (chiefly caused by news papers and books), and the idea (although his lord ship considers such idea erroneous) that the book post deprive railway companies of traffic in parcels, have a material effect in augmenting the sums awarded by arbitrators for railway service. As regards communication with distant places, expe rience proves that, within moderate limits, the number of letters is not much affected by the rate of postage ; frequency, regularity, and speed of com munication, appearing to have a far greater in fluence. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HaIf-crown Day, Saturday, Apri l l4.—Admissions on payment, 1,587 ; ditto by seison tickets, 2,753, WOW viSitOre, 4,304 The'allegation current on Friday regarding the discount houses seems to have been confirmed. A correspondent observes " The report is of a charac ter so extremely silly that every one is Wondering how it could find its way into the columns of The Times." Nevertheless, there is now no doubt as to its correctness. That credence should have been refused to it is natural, because anything more ridi culous or more censurable could hardly be found in commercial records. The firms in question feel ag grieved that the Bank of England—an establish ment in the same way of business with themselves, only on a very superior scale—will not supply them with means whenever they have gone beyond their own resources. The matter being precisely as if a 1 butcher with inadequate capital were to undertake contracts for provisioning the army, and ou finding 1 himself unable to complete them should insist that the regular contractors, with whom in his vanity he had attempted to compete, should then accept his liabilities and allow him a profit for the privilege. Whatever ought be thought of such a claim, it was open to them to urge it by all recognised modes. They could appeal to the law courts if they con sidered they had legal rights, or to public opinion if they rested their case solely on its moral merits. All parties were ready for the discussion, and a judg ment could soon have been arrived at, because, apart from the question whether bankers are to be allowed the freedom conceded to all other traders, or are to be compelled against their judgment to discount for customers whom they would rather avoid, a short recapitulation of the events of 1857, and especially of the circumstances connecte4with the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, as well as of the revelations in the subsequent winding up of failed houses, would rapidly have enabled the public to decide whether the title of the existing discount establishments to favour is so strong and exceptional that it should be allowed to override every ordinary commercial principle. But it appears that to appeal either to law or reason—the only course usually considered open in England—was not deemed desirable. For some time past, when ever, from political or other causes, there has been any little inconvenience in the money market such as the majority of respectable men would endeavour by all legitimate means to smooth or mitigate, a certain set have occupied themselves in pretending that some dreadful pressure was coming on, and that all that was taking place, and all that was to be dreaded, could be traced to the determination of the Bank to discount for the public instead of for the bill brokers. These matters, however, although they have repeatedly led to temporary perplexity, have been too small to be worthy of much notice. It became necessary to attempt something on a grander scale, and the results of the effort were yesterday brought to public cognisance. The discount houses, by realisations in one form or another, are affirmed to have scraped together a certain amount of bank-notes some people say £2,000,000 or £3,000,000 —and to have locked them up. This is usually thought to be about the worst use to which bank-notes can be put, but they had an ob ject, and that object must have been to produce inconvenience either to the Bank or the com mercial dommunity, or both, or the more amiable one of giving a turn to other capitalists by temporarily withdrawing from competition from them, and enabling them, for a little while at least, to get 5 per cent., or perhaps more. Which is the true interpretation ? The first harmonizes with previous demonstrations, but is morally disagree able ; the second has a philanthropic character, but is not flattering as regards financial sagacity. Per haps, supposing a design to produce embarrassment to be admitted, it will be urged that the end was beneficent, since it was to enable the discount houses to resume a sway they may consider essen tial to the mercantile stability of Great Britain. But there is no greater evil in commerce than the liability to sudden and needless disturbances ; and are we to hold that the end justifies the means, and that we may do evil that good may come ? The people who have been frightened, and who have had to pay 5 per cent., instead of 3, will hardly for the moment appreciate that plea. Moreover, thi opinions and customs of society are against such proceedings, and, where they have assumed an ex treme form, they have even come under judicial re probation. About two years back there was a case in New York State of a man who collected a great number of notes of a particular bank with the view of presenting them all at once, so as' to bring the concern into clifliculty. lie had been assisted by others, and had incautiously mentioned that fact. The directors thereupon prosecuted him for conspi racy, and he was found guilty and sentenced. This shows the sensitiveness of public feeling on such points, and, without assuming that in the present case there has been any combination or any pur pose of specifii: • injury, the warning may be ac cepted that it "a I dangerous to.begin a contest with establishments. of public credit with any weapons other than thosta of law and argument. It is to be acknowledged_ that any individual firm has a right to exercise suer eme command over its own property, even though oti ers may be ruined by sudden caprices in connection la ith it, and it must be inferred that in what haskist been witnessed there has been no reprehensible concert. If Messrs. A or B, for in stance, like at :any time to lock up a million or two of notes, when. :notes are worth 5 per cent., or even to burn them,, .no one, unless it be a relative, can have a right to interfere. All that can be hoped is that the next individual house that may feel dis posed to measure its resources against those of the Bank of Englai id will bide its time, and lay its plans so as to d o the work effectually. The world at the present jut +cture cannot afford to be constantly excited by fear from some inscrutable operations, only to find at last that there is no mischief any where, and the t nothing has taken place beyond the fact of an 'eminent discount firm having placed its notes to frmetify4n its iron safe. It is true that the moment when the community were likely to be inconvenienced by an unprecedented pressure from the quarterly revenue payments, was not altogether inopportune ft xr commencing the struggle, but the failure has bet rn not the less complete, and it is evi dent that the final effort must be deferred until the occurrence of actual war, or some other calamity when the Gos•ernment and the country, rather than see the Bank 'tf England and every commercial in terest crushed,, may, perhaps, insist that each dis count house sh all be first served upon its own terms, and that the r sgular bankers and the public shall then come in 84 the market rate.—Times' City Ar ticle. A FEARFUL SCENE. On Friday afternoon, when a vast concourse of persons was assembled on the racecourse at Aberga venny an accident occurred which created a most painful interest. The grand stand is close to the bank of the River Usk, the waters of which were at this time swoll en and rapid from the recent storms. At Abergavemiy is a joint counties pauper lunatic asylum, in which are about 800 patients, and on this afternoon a. large number of the female lunatics were brought on t to walk by the side of the river opposite to the racecourse, and from which they would see something of the sport going on on the other side. Suddenly one of the patients—a fine middle-aged 'woman—saw among the crowd on the opposite bank her husband, who is a confectioner at Newport, rind was hawking his wares among the people. With a wild scream she ran down the bank and -precipitated herself into the foaming torrent, and a ttention was drawn to her just as the horses were about to start for the Club Stakes. A scene of terror ensued such as cannot be described. The lunatics ocn the bank clung to each other and filled the air v rith their shrieks. The poor woman was carried rapidly down the stream, and battled wildly with it a rapid waters, yelling for aid when her head came above water. The assembled crowd deserted the reieing to rush to the river's bank, and shoxted with evismay and excitement as each plunge seemed to be tl ie last the victim would give. A man threw off his o verclothing and dashed straight to wards her amid tremendous cheers, but when he reached the mil idle of the stream the strength of the current bore him away for some distance. In vain he turned and tried to ascend ; he, too, became visibly exhausted, and it now seemed imminent that two human beings must perish untimely in the sight of a frantic crowd, who were utterly powerless to save them. The man, however, managed to gain the side and held on to some overhanging bushes, while the body of the woman, who had ceased struggling, and was now supposed to bo dead, floated towards him. At this juncture she sank, and the man, with a last effort, drved after her. The brief space - when they wore submerged appeared an age, but the brave fellow had grasped the drowning woman's hair, and pulled her in towards the shore. The bank was steep, but they w ere both got out more dead than alive. A ringing cheer, such as one seldom hears, broke from the spectators on the Grand Stand on the opposite bank, and most of them, with true English imperturbability, returned to the spot in time to witness the fin ish of the race, in which, sin gular enough, five out of the six horses and rid ers had met with accidents more or less severe. Th e u sual restoratives were applied to the persons thus a l mos t miraculowly saved from death, and they both recovered in a short time. A collection was made for the heroic fellow, and was most liberally responded to. Nearly £l 5 was contribut e d b y th ose on the Grand Stand, a nd Lord Tredegar, who was acting as judge, undertook to. levy contributi o n s from his party and the gentry m carri ages , maki ng g over A2Q in Yesterday the services at St. George's-in-the-East were more pacific than on Easter Sunday, although there were not more than a dozen policemen to keep order. It was evident that a large number of persons who sympathised w ith the rector were in attendance;. so numerous indeed were they that they completely overpowered those who attempted to interrupt the service by saying the responses in opposition to the choir. The Second Commandment, and other portions of the service which referred to graven images, were coughed and jeered at, but no serious interruption was offered to the prayers. The Rev. Fredk. G. Lee, S.C.L., of Oxford, who preached, encountered a good deal of opposition, in consequence of the character of his sermon. He selected for his text the 25th and 26th verses of the 11th chapter of St. John's Gospel . ,—" I am the re surrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whoso ever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." In the course of his sermon he alluded in somewhat severe terms to the proceedings in that church dur ing the past 10 months. He had doubts in his own mind, and letters which he had received, and which the rector of that parish had received, from conscien tious Dissenters from the Church of England, con firmed these doubts, as to the • principles which had actuated those persons who had caused the interrup tions there. His rev. friend the rector had had to contend against many difficulties. He had been set aside apparently by the authorities that be. The civil authorities did not seem to countenance him ; the ecclesiastical authorities also seemed to throw him overboard. But would any or all of those men who now scouted those opinions, and attempted to put down those ideas which seemed to be so repug nant to public feeling, act so when they came to ap ply their minds to the text which he had selected, and which unmistakeably told them they had to ac count to a higher Being for every act they did in the world? For while Christ said, "I am the resurrec tion and the life, and he that believeth in me though he were dead shall live," that was grounded upon the hope of our faith in Christ, and on His power to save. He held that the authorities had not done their duty in respect of this matter, and he defied any judge to say that the rector, an unpro tected man, had not been attempted to be hunted down and persecuted by a desperate and unprin cipled mob. These personal allusions called forth repeated hissings and other noises. At 20 minutes before 7 the gates were thrown open for the evening service. A dense crowd had assembled in Cannon-street, and in a few minutes the church was completely filled. The galleries were chiefly filled by boys and girls, while in the body of the church there were fewer roughs than on any previous occasion. As soon as the rector and his choristers emerged from the vestry-room there was much hissing and howling, and this was re newed when the rector appeared at the reading desk for the purpose of proceeding with the service. He went on without much further interruption until he came to the Belief, when he turned his back upon the congregation, for which he was greeted with loud groans, which completely drowned his voice. The Rev. F, G. Lee was again the preacher. He selected for his text the 24th chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, 29th verse—" Abide with us, for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent." He adverted at some length to the progress which the Church had made during the past 40 years, and urged upon all present the duty of helping forward that great movement. Every now and then he was loudly hissed, but the sermon, notwithstanding the immense number of people who were present, was listened to with more than ordinary attention. At the close of the service there were the same tumultuous proceedings as before. People rushed towards the altar, but did not make their wit: within the rails. They sung the Doxology after the rector and clergy, and retired, and it was some time before the few police who were in attendance succeeded in clearing the chancel. The altar was decorated with flowers as on the preceding Sunday, but the corona was not lighte d. Le country, is sufficient to pay for the transit through Egypt also. In toneeepeenee, hi:467er, of a subse quent offer on behalf of the Australian colonies to pay the cost of transit in a single sum, instead of a higher, postage being demanded, newspapers to Australia are again forwarded via Southampton and Alexandria at the former rate of one penny. One evil attending all special privileges is the difficulty of drawing a line of distinction. A few years ago even a high legal officer declared his inability to define a newspaper; and how can it be expected that a power which was wanting in him can be possessed by the crowd of persons, many of them having but little education, engaged in the business of the Post-office ? Yet unless a broad line of de marcation be drawn, not only the department but the public have difficulty in recognising it. The Postmaster-General comments at some length on what he considers the evils resulting from special privileges with regard to newspapers, and expresses his belief that the true policy seems to consist in establishing rates of postage as low as, by good and economical arrangements, they can be made, and then to admit of no exceptions. When a postage stamp has been substituted for the present newspaper stamp, newspapers will, like books, be liable to detention when the mails are heavy, but even as respects books the power of de tention is rarely used, while with regard to news papers it has never been employed, and there is no intention of exercising it. The new arrangement, moreover, will not give rise to any necessity for using labels as distinguished from impressed stamps ; for although there will no longer be any peculiar im pressed stamp for newspapers, it will be open to all publishers of newspapers and news-agents, as it - is to the public generally, to send to Somerset-house newspaper covers to receive an ordinary postage impressed stamp ; the only difference being that in stead of having to send a great mass of paper a comparatively small quantity will suffice. Agents who send many newspapers abroad have long taken advantage of this privilege ; the peculiar news paper stamp not having for several years been of any avail except as regards inland postage. Nor will the circumstance that more obliteration will be necessary to give rise to any delay in for warding newspapers, or to any abridgment of the time for posting them, since the difficulty will be surmounted, when requisite, by additional force. Reverting to the charge of a transit rate of ld. on newspapers passing through Egypt, the predictions that this additional penny would greatly reduce the number of newspapers thus forwarded have not borne the test of experience. As already stated, the additional charge in the case of newspapers sent to Australia has been withdrawn; but on newspapers to India it has since the beginning of the year been regularly levied ; and the result shows that no material diminution has taken place in the number. In the last quarter of 1859 the news papers sent to India were, in round numbers, 276,000 ; and in the first quarter of 1860, 258,000 ; the first number yielded a postage of £1,150, and the second a postage of £2,150, or nearly double. It has now been formally announced to the West Indian Colonial Governments that on the Ist May next (with a proviso that in Jamaica the period m ay, if desired, be postponed to the Ist June) this department will cease to charge itself with the management of the West Indian posts, and that from that day the Colonial Governments must themselves undertake their control. A similar announcement has been made in the case of Hong Kong. After the Ist May therefore, or ut latest the Ist June, the British Post-office will no longer have the dime tion of any colonial post-offices except those at the military stations of Gibraltar and Malta. The means of complete registration from the place of posting to that of delivery have been ex tended to letters addressed to Victoria (Australia) and to New Zealand. To most of the colonies letters must now either be sent prepaid, or on their arrival will be sub jected to a higher charge; and it is hoped that in a short tune compulsory prepayment, to the extent of one rate, will in this class of letters, be made general. Arrangements have been made with the Postmast er -G enera l of the United States for forwarding the British correspondence for San Francisco, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia by the overland mail on all occasions when its arrival would thereby be expe dited. This arrangement, however, is limited to letters, owing to the necessity of keeping down the weight upon this line of conveyance. Arrangements are making for forwarding addi tional mails to Bermuda by way of the United States. A contract has been made with the Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to run a steamer twice a month between Malta and Corfu. The arrangement for sorting letters on board ship have been extended to the mails forwarded by the Cunard mail packets, and to those sent by the packets maintained by the Canadian Govern ment, which latter contain most of the Canadian correspondence, and part of that with the United. States ; though of the last-mentioned correspon dence much still arrives in this country unsorted. In cases where the sorting has been effected on board ship the London correspondence is frequently ie the hands of the letter-carriers within half an hour of its arrival, and within the same time the bags for the large provincial towns are on their way to the railway stations. By the Aet just passed the duty of entering into contracts for the mail packet service, and of superintending the execution of these contracts, will shortly be transferred from the Admiralty to he Post-office. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. .b.rscotlNT _HOUSES. CA.UTION TO BROKERS. George John West, a broker, carrying on bug-. nest at No. 3, Lambeth-road, near St. George's Cr thedral, appeared at the Lambeth Police-court le , answer an information and summons taken out against him by a poor woman named Twiler, and. charging him that he, being a broker employed in levying a distress for rent, did unlawfully charge a greater amount for costs and charges than the 100 permitted: From the statement of the complainant, the wife of a labouring man, who has six small children, and who had not been many weeks confined of the infant she had in her arms, it appears that she had rented the same apartment for three years, and that during that time arrears of los. 9d. became due to the landlord. On the 22d of last month, to her great surprise, the defendant, accompanied by his man, made his appearance, and from his look and man ner, she said, " I hope, Mr. West, you are not going to avenge yourself upon me for my appearing as a witness against your son." And he replied, Oh, no; certainly not." (The witness here explained that about 18 months ago she appeared as a witness against the son of West, the defendant, on a charge of felony at this court and at the session, and th at on seeing him come to seize upon her goods, her first impression was that she being a witness in the former case had something to do with it). Defendant—Not in the slightest. Mr. Norton (to the complainant)—Well, go on with your statement. Complainant—Well, sir, my husband had been Qui of work, and I had not a shilling, so that I did not know what to do, so Mr. West took the inven tory, and left his man from about ten in the morn ing to about six in the evening. I went to the landlord, who said he did not wish to distress me by taking my few things, and that he would be satisfied to let the 15s. 9d. stand over, and to receive it as I could pay, but that I must pay the expense of the broker. A neighbour kindly lent me two gowns to pledge for ss. 6d., which I understooi. to be the expenses, and offered it to Mr. West. Ile refused it, and said his charge was 7s. 6d. I bad no earthly means of getting the other two shillings. so I again went to the landlord, and he gave ma two shillings. I then offered him the 7s. 6d.,, but he refused to take it out of the hands of met' wretch as he called me, and said I must put it into the hands of the landlord. I did put it into the l landlord's hands, and he paid it to Mr. West. - afterwards called on Mr. West, and said II had heard he took too much. His reply was, 4' did not take a-- farthing from you. I supposo you have been to the police court, but I don't care a for Mr. Norton or -Mr. Elliott, or any one I wish to mention, sir, that Mr. West ,00k away the key of my door, and I have not been able to get it from him since. The defendant cross-examined the witness about matters connected with the case of his son, and, other things which had no relevancy to the proceoilinge , and amongst the questions put was, whether the witness had not expressed her gratitude to is im for his conduct, when she emphatically replied, 6 Most certainly not, but I did to the landlord." The defendant next called his man in possession, but he did not assist him, and his defence w as that he had received nothing from the complainant, and what the landlord chose to give him had nothing to do with her. Mr. Norton observed that the overcharge of 2s. was clearly made out, and notwithstanding tine de nial of the defendant, he (Mr. Norton) could not help thinking that the affair of his son aria coin lainant being a witness against him had re great deal to do with the present case, as the whorte pro ceeding on the part of the defendant was hart h and cruel, as well as illegal, and he must therefocre paY treble the amount of the overcharge as well, as the cost of the summons, and half a crown to thin com plainant for her loss of time. . The defendant paid the 10s. 6d. I else. COUNTRY MARKETS: NORTHAMPTON—A? RIL 14. At this corn-market wheat was in less supply, but-with & very tolerable sale, at fully the rates of this day st en-, night, prices ranging from 48s to 52s for white, and 46s to 51s for red. There was a good business passing in,larlert malting 37s to 445, grinding 30s to 35s per qr. Oats la fair sale, the turn in seller's favour, quoted at 2411 to 3 0 . per 24 stone. Beans, old, 38s to 40s •, peas, 38a to 440. Rye, —s to —s ; malt, 6 8 s to 7 2 s ; flour, 33s to, 270 Pet sack. NORWICH—Aram 14. At our market to-day there was a limited supply of wheat, and the demand being brisk, prices were very well main' tallied, and in some instances 2s more money was taken. There was oy' a small supply of barle, and little doinfo but late rates nl were obtained. Flour adv y anced 641 to le per sack. White wheat. 46s to 40s I Red wheat 408 t o 450 Malting barley.... 42 s to 46s I Chevalier barley 34s to 40 0 Distilling do.. ....25s io 27s I Oats. 24s to 2 80 Flour, 29s 6d to 32s per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—Aram 14. There was a moderate supply of wheat, and, with is fair demand in the trade, white moved off at 47s to s ° ° / red, 44s to 46s per 36 stone. Thera was a small show barley to-day; malting, 378 to 425; grinding, 308 to 3-41:. per 30 stone. Oats at 228 to 28s for new;_ old oats, --tr. —s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—novr, to 40s ; old, —8 to —s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —8 r; 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 898 • red r" 468 to 6 08 quarter. YORK—Arum 14. To-day's market was scantily supplied with wheat, btit fair condition, and most all descriptions sold steada an advance of 2s on•the rates of last week. Beans " the same as last week. Oats firm. Baxley a very O show, and dear. ;6 0 Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 3 6 s per qr.; flour, Ms per sack. • STAMFOR] A limited supply of all kv ruled fail at an improveme )—APRIL 14. Ite i ids of grain, and the' roar ao a of is to 2s. Berms 'l`.- a shade higher. Wheat 44s to 485 2,15 to Oats.. -Le l White do 49s to Ms I Beans 4t26 t 0 4,6 Barley 32s to 448 Ditto, old to 4' DUBLIN—APRIL 13. The market to-day was rather thinly supplied with ? Lo t and sold at fully last week's prices; in foreign little 6 ,1, ot Barley, oats, beans, and peas in fair request, with , lit" no alteration in value. s. d. s. d. 'Wheat, white 31 0 to 33 6 Do., red 3O 6 to 32 0 Do., new - 0 Barley Oats Do., black ll 6 to 12 6 e. I. °' 0 Do., new — fl/to'o B er e Rapeseed Oatmeal l4 0 to Bakers' flour Indian corn FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIS3: In the following table E signifies that letters are de01 01 7,, by evening mails from London, and M by morning Mal." by evening mails from London, and M by morning n3 10_ , ,, il DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of 411 0 , of Mails. Despatch. ......../ Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton gs9 ° May 12, M Southamp. ass i Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New fe bpi 0 York April—, E Liverpool Al 'ril. Canada, &c. (by Canada. pckt ) AprillB, E Liverpool.. b s Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- Wl sion, and St. Helena May 5, E Devonpor t 4 China, Penang, and Singa- 4 11 6 AP l t il I pore, via Southampton Apr 1120,M SouthamP. Li , ,Itl Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton April2o ,M iontham IN . 110 Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, ri' via Southampton Apri l2o, M SouthamlL trpfil's4 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- Al it I f ampton April 27, M Southany. 0 Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, , *f o al and F. Islands May 9,M Southamp. .or Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Apri l l7 ,M Seuthamp. .`" A O Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via )41 0 S out h amp t on April2C ,M Sonthamp. of Ditto, via Marseilles tha. ...... . Meliico and Havana Neffoundland April24, E Liverpoo • • 4 15 United States and British N y; America (by British packet) April —, E Liveipool• • Ditto (by U. S. packet) A.pril23 It Liverp ._ April 18,E SoutharoP• lef (JO West Coast of Africa, Ma- ool.• deira, and Teneriffe West India, California, Ilene-l i zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey- p town, New Granada, &c Apriltlaarar% BIRTHS. ° I ld AIRD.—On the 13th inst., at Belsize - roa d, St. wood, Mrs. Alex. Aird, of a son. BOYD.—On the 12th inst., at 3 5 , Cleveland-squar e, ,ht er. park, the wife of E. Lennox Boyd , Esq ., of a re, ITARGREAVES.—On the 14th inst., at 6 , Cleveland -sel of Hyde-park, the wife of Henry Hargreaves, 6(l'' daughter. _ d oe MARRIAGES. f o rbo w ' BURGES—Bnowx.—On the 12th inst., at W' , 13 0 Stoke, George Burges, Esq., of Montague - o f ston-square, to Susanna Mary, eldest. daughter Brown, Esq., of Winterbourne Stoke , Wilts. wripis REVELL—KnaLIN.—On the 12th inst at Illi s py Brompton, Charles Sumner Revel, Esq ., to 11;01v" daughter of the late John Kimlin, Esq., of 14 ' place, Brompton. DEATHS. . 0 _CO' HOME.—On the 12th inst., at Weston, Bath) 01 . 1-1. John Home, H.M.'s Indian Army. • caot el LYDE.—On the Ist inst at Alexandria , the Rev. ' Lytle, aged 36. ) , vs, elo olf MACDONNELL.—On the 11th inst., at Edgehill) G. Macdonnell, Esq., aged 49 . oa t A MORTON.—On the 12th inst., at Malvern) Jagies 011 1 Esq., aged 77. 110 PRICE --On the 13th ingt , at Coln St. Daun ts Gloucestershire, Rev ' . W. Price, aged I 1, 7 . 6 of * WACE.—On the 13th the inst., at Ealing, 11Ir. t . F. Ivrocet 61, Westbourne-grove, aged 45. v SO ► LONDON : Printed and Published by DCURDO IC ° 11 g , of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Sun Ofricell"',l o Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 1/11-. Aiiddlcaor i Monday, April 16, 1860. TEE SOCIAL, EVIL. Another of those singular midnight gatherings which have recently attracted so much notice from the peculiar circumstances attending them was held at an early hour on Saturday morning, at St. James's Restaurant, Regent•street, and the attendance of the class for which the meetings were specially ori ginated was unusually large, there being upwards of 300 females present. Representatives of all con ditions and of every grade were there, from the costly-attired and jewel-decked habituee of Regent street and the Haymarket, flaunting in the pride of successful vice, to the humble frequenter of the less aristocratic regions of the East-end. There appeared to be less of that levity of demeanour which on simi lar occasions has characterised a portion of the at tendants, and 'which was inevitably to be expected in the course of a movement bearing so essentially the character of an experiment ' • but, on the contrary —and it is a creditable feature to note—the majority listened to the speakers with an air of interested attention, in some cases even with scarcely concealed emotion, which could only lead to the belief that the interest and feeling excited were of a genuine nature, and calculated to be pro ductive, sooner or later, of favourable results. The meeting was convened for one a.m., and an hour or so previously tickets and invitations were distributed at the adjacent cafés in the Haymarket and the vicinity, and every facility was afforded to those females desirous of being present. Many of the young women and girls, either from diffidence or from some other feeling, appeared to falter on arriving at the entrance, and to be,desirous of turning back, but in every instance the courteous entreaties of gentle men connected with the committee, who were sta tioned at the doors, were successful in overcoming their scruples. Great anxiety was manifested on the part of several gentlemen coming under the denomi nation of " swells" to obtain admission, and in one case a guinea was offered to a doorkeeper for that purpose, it need not be added, unsuccessfully. Tea and other refreshments, which were liberally provided, having been partaken of, the Rev. Henry Madgin, of Tonbridge Chapel, Euston-road, offered up a prayer specially adapted to the occasion ; after which a hymn, the words of which were printed on cards distributed at the meeting, was sung, the whole audience joining in it apparently with great fervour. The Rev. Mr. GOODIIART, M.A., of Chelsea, then delivered an appropriate address, pointing out the way in which those who were desirous of relin quishing• their present pursuits could again become respectable members of society, which was listened to very attentively. Addresses pertinent to the occasion were also delivered by other clergymen, and the meeting quietly and decorously dispersed shortly before three o'clock. It is satisfactory to know that the meeting was productive of the same favourable results as had been attained at those held previously, several females being induced to follow the course indicated by the committee • and the successs which has hitherto attended ;heir efforts is an omen which may well justify the gentlemen engaged in the movement in continuing their exertions for the moral improvement of a class by whom it is so much needed. FROGS FOR FOOD IN AMERICA.—An enterprising citizen of New Jersey has prepared ponds for the purpose of raising frogs for the table. There these amphibious voca lists arc advanced from the tadpole degree to the maturity of froghood, when they are subjected to a rap on the head, which effectually retards their growth and impairs their musical powers. The posterior limbs are then divested of their natural covering and sent to market, where they readily command a dollar per 100 at wholesale. Frogs-are becoming a common article of food.—Prairie Farmer. 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