The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

21IE NAVY. Steam was got up on Thursday on board the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard, and she went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, where she saluted the flag. The sailing frigate Constance, 50, at Devonport, is to be lengthened 40 feet and fitted with a screw. The lower yards of the screw steamship Aboukir, 90, were sent down on Thursday. Steam was got up on Thursday onboard the Espoir, 5, and she went outside Plymouth Sound on trial for several hours. The crew of the screw steamship Donegal, 101,1 Capt. Henry Broadhead, were paid wages at Ply mouth on Thursday by Admiral Superintendent Sir Thomas Pasley, K.C.8., and they obtained leave of absence. A letter has been received at Plymouth from the screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. John B. E. Frere. It is dated Naples, March 13, and• states that she left Malta on the ith, and arrived at Naples on the 10th. During the passage she sprang a leak, and had four feet water in the hold. As the repairs cannot be accomplished at Malta, she will have to come home. The leakage is said to be increased, ' if not caused, by the working of the machinery, in consequence of which she will return under canvas only, and may be expected shortly at Plymouth. The Castor, 36, sailing frigate, was towed on Thurs day afternoon by two steamers from Chatham har bour to Pinope Reach, were she anchored for the night. She was to have left yesterday for Green hithe to take up her position at the moorings pre pared for her in the Thames, where she will be stationed for a time to serve as the receiving-ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers. She has her main deck guns on board, consisting of 18-32 pounders, each of 56 cwt., and 9ft. 6in. long. The Galatea, 26, screw frigate, 800 horse-power (nominal), has been un do c k e d at Chatham, and will proceed to Sheerness to join the steam reserve at that port. The paddle-wheel surveying vessel Bann, James S. Wells, master, discharged her powder in Ply mouth Sound on Thursday, and went into Hamoaze to have defects made good. Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master-Commander Frederic Sturdee, having un dergone an entire renovation of her engines and machinery in the river, off Woolwich dockyard, an d a thorough inspection of her boilers, is ordered to steam down the river on a trial of her speed, and a verification of her precise consumption of fuel under a supply of ordinary steam alone. Their Lord ships have signified their desire that special care shall be taken to notify minutely every circum stance relative to the abovenamed particulars, and that a report may be promptly forwarded thereof to the Board of Admiralty foi their consi deration. The order further adds that the Rhada manthus immediately after her trial will be fitted, at the cost of Government, with the patent improved apparatus of the Hon. John Wethered, a member of the United States Congress, for the supply of combined or ordinary and superheated steam mixed, and which, it is stated, cannot fail, as proved by previous experiments, to increase the power of the engines, and also economise the consumption of fuel from 30 to 50 per cent. The mode adopted in carrying out the system is to attach another steam pipe to the boiler for conveying the steam to be superheated to pipes, or other contrivances placed in any convenient form near the fire, or in the uptake near the chimney of the boiler, or in a separate furnace ; the superheated steam being added to the ordinary steam at or before its en trance into the cylinder. In its passage through the superheating apparatus, that portion of the steam is raised by the waste heat to a temperature of 500 deg. or 600 deg. Fahrenheit. The heat thus arrested is conveyed to and utilised in the cylinder by its action on the other portion of steam from the boiler, which is more or less saturated, according to circumstances. The combined steam is issued in the cylinder at from 300 deg. to 450 deg. Fahren heit, instead of at the low temperature at which steam is generally employed. The effect of using the two kinds of steam has already proved the fact that the superheated steam yields a portion of its excess of temperature to the ordinary steam, con verting the vesicular water, which it always con tains, into steam, and expanding it several hun dred-fold ; while, at the same time, the ordinary steam yields a portion of its excess of moisture, converting the steam gas into a highly rarified elastic vapour—in other words, into pure steam at a high temperature. Repeated endeavours have been made to employ steam simply dried or super heated, all of which have been partially abandoned, as, owing to the high degree of temperature neces sary, the lubricating materials have dried up, and the packing and rubbing parts of the machinery have been destroyed, and the temperature of the steam in the cylinder has been found to be beyond the control of the engineer. It is asserted that . Mr. Wethered's improvement, now about to be adopted by the Admiralty, arose from the above named difficulty. A further discharge of 75 mechanics and labourers will take place at Chatham dockyard this afternoon, including 20 shipwrights, 40 labourers, and 15 smiths, joiners, sawyers, and other mechanics. In consequence of the great extent to which the esta blishment at Chatham was recently increased, there sre still about 600 mechanics and labourers to be discharged before the number of workmen in the dockyard has been reduced to that ordered by the Admiralty for the present year. QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY. The following officers' deaths have been officially reported to the Admiralty during the past quarter : Admiral.—John Wight. Vice-Admirals.—Philip Browne, Geo. E. Watts, Joseph Digby, James A. Murray, and Robert It, Car re. Rear-Admiral.—Richard Devonshire. Captains.—William Moorsom, C. 8., S. C. Umfre ville, J. R. Dalton, J. Banks, J. Watson, F. Lo Hunte, W. Kirby, and D. J. Woodruff. Commanders.—G. F. Burgess, C. G. Grylls, L. Lambert, T. C. Sherwin, J. G. Wigley, R. Lloyd, J. Pasley, H. G. Massie, W. B. Chamberlain, John Bulford, D . Bond, T. Levell, H. Conn, C. Gran than', W. Stron , r, 13. R. Owen, M. Black, H. W. Dodd, and A. larlev. Lieutenants.—J. F. Guyon, W. I), Harris, E. C. Chaplin, G. B. Cooper, G. L. Bridges A. C. Adams, C. Kirkwood, N. Webb, W. C. Burbidge, D. Hen derson, Hussey, T kins, and G . T. Day ies (1824), E. J . H op- Masters.—WWilkinson. F. B. - Youel, T. D. Nicholson, J. Caddy, J. Font, J. Crear, and 11. Babb. Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.—James Scott, Surgeons.—T. Ayling, J. 'Wilson, M.D. (1798), J. Coulthrecl, M. Price, an d F. Sharp. Assistant-Surgeon.—Johni‘Peormielc. Paymasters.—G. 0. Nelson, C. E. Colman, T, Ifflock, T. Bastin, T. Watson, L. Kenn e d y , u B }L Long, and W. Cotsell. Naval Instructor.—Allred Turmine. Second Master.—J. H. Perry. ROYAL MARlNEs.—Lieutenaut-General—John Wright, K.H. 3fajoi:s.-11 - 7". Macdonald and Robert Webb. ( 1 9tain.-1-1. Spratt. First Lieutenant.—T. Sawyers. THE ARMY. A large draught of troops will leave the camp at Colchester in May for India and China. The men have gone through a preliminary course of rifle instruction, and are now waiting orders to embark. The draught will be drawn from the following regiments :-Ist battalion Ist Royals, 1 sergeant, 3 drummers, and 60 rank and file ; Ist bat talion 6th Regiment, 4 sergeants and 59 rank mid file; 54th, 80 rank and File; 56th, 1 drum mer and 139 rank and file ; 66th, 4 sergeants and 35 rank and file ; a•nd 88th, 1 ser geant, 1 drummer, and 188 rank and file ; Ist bat talion sth Regiment, 129 rank and file; 34th, 75 rank and file ; 37th, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, and 120 . rank an d fil e; 38 t h, 1 sergean t, 2 d rummers , and 65 ra n k an d fil e ; 44t h , 9 0 ran k an d fil e; an d 9 7th, 80 rank and file ; making a grand total of 12 sergeants, 8 drummers, and 1,119 rank and file. The gether draught of 90 rank and file from the 44th, to withathfre officers, are actually under orders for China, chaster are expe cte d instructions for them to leave Col presex.ecrad da ily. force at The strength of the battalion 2 field officers, camp is as follows :-9th cers, 9 captains, 7 staff sergeants, 40 ; 16 subalterns, i s o e t rge b ant s , 20 drummers, and 1,127 rank and file batta l ion-2 field officers, 10 captains, 23 subalterns, _ staff sergeants, 52 ser d 1,505 rank and file ; in geants, 17 drummers t all, 2,836 officers and men. Some Ist t 7 men of th e 44th, 22 of the 66 th, and 33 of the have served 10 years in India, ar e ahouto?:oals , who their discharge after joining their depots rieneetihve camp. • e In consequence of the great increase which ha s recently taken place in the detachments of Royal Engineers at headquarters, Chatham—which, ex clusive of the usual companies, now number 500 men—orders have been given for the formation of three divisions, or depot companies, each of whi c h will be under the sole charge of separate officers. One of these divisions has been already formed and placed under the command of Capt. G. Langley, the depot company consisting . of 100 men. A second company will be formed on the 15th inst., and placed under the charge of Capt. E. 0. Hewett, who willjoin head-quarters on that date for that purpose. The remaining portion of the detach ment will still be under the charge of the Adjutant of Royal Engineers. Nearly the whole of the re cruits who have recently joined this branch of the service are skilled mechanics and handicraftsmen, including draughtsmen, photographers, surveyors, and engravers. Capt. Bruce aid Brevet-Major Lukin have been appointed to command the 9th and 10th batteries, newly formed and added to the depot at Woolwich, to contain the corps of clerks, orderlies, officers' ser vants, and others employed belonging to the garri son, of which the new batteries will be exclusively composed. The organisation having been fully carried out and the staff appointments filled, the new batteries will receive their first month's pay this morning. We have to record the demise of Colonel F. C. Irwin, K.H., formerly of the 63d Foot, and many years commandant of the troops in Western Aus tralia, which occurred at Cheltenham a few days since, at an advanced age. The deceased officer entered the army on the 25th of March, 1808, and served in the Peninsula from April, 1809, to Febru ary, 1814, including the capture of Oporto, battles of Talavera and Fuentes D'Onor, siege and storm of Cuidad Rodrigo, siege of Badajoz and capture of the castle by escalade on the 7th of April, 1812, battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid and the Retiro, battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, besides various affairs and skirmishes on the advance and retreat of the army. He also served the Kandyan campaigns in 1817 and 1818 in Ceylon. He was gazetted :commandant of the troops in Western Australia in 1839, where he remained until he re tired from the army in 1855. He has received the war medal and nine clasps for his valuable services. The outer walls intenaeo to form the new wings in course of construction at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, which were commenced in October last by Mr. Myers, the contractor, have progressed rapidly, and have already reached the height of sft above the plinth. Yesterday an order was received from the commanding Royal Engineer that on account of the walls being faced with red bricks, which was pronounced objectionable, the work must be removed and commenced anew. The bricklayers have been accordingly dismissed until their services shall be again required, and the deci sion has been obtained as to the appropriate colour of the facings, hitherto given universally in favour of red bricks. The expense of the alteration is cal culated at upwards of £l,OOO, which will be borne by Government. STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN COMMISSION. (From Colburn' s United Service Magazine.) (Corrected to March 27.) With the dates of Commission of the Officers in Command. Aboukir, 90, sc, Capt D Curry, 1846, Channel Fleet Acorn, 12, Corn R Vearso, 1856, East Indies Actaeon, sure-v, Corn J Ward (b) 1858, East Indies adventure, so storeship, Corn E Lacy, 1856, East Indies Agamemnon, 91, Sc, Capt T Hope, 1852, Mediterranean Ajax, 60, sc Capt J eill Boyd, 1846, Coast Guard Alacrity, 4, sc, Com J Baird, 1857, Mediterranean Alecto, st-v, Com H Raby, V C, 1855, Coast of Africa Alert, 17, ac, Corn W Pearse, 1855, Pacific Algerine, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com W Arthur, 1854, East Indies Algiers, 91, so, Capt G O'Callaghan, 1846, Channel Fleet Amethyst, 26, Capt S Grenfell, 1853, Pacific Amphion, 36, sc, Capt T Cochran, 1857, Mediterranean Archer, 13, so, Capt R Courteney, 1859, Coast of Africa Ardent, 3, st-vl, Corn J Parish, 1857, S E Coast of America Argus, 6, st-vl, Com H Ingram, 1856, Mediterranean Ariadne, 26, sc, Capt E Vansittart, 1856, Channel Fleet Arrogant, 47, sc, Commodore W Edmonstone, 1853, As cension Asia, 84, Capt G Gordon, 1846, Portsmouth Assistance, store-ship, Corn C Balfour, East Indies, 1859 Assurance, 4, sc, Corn C Aynsley, 1856, Mediterranean Atalanta, 16, Com T Pasley, 1855, N America and W Indies Atholl, 4, Corn E Wilson, 1845, Greenock Banshee, 2, st-vl, Corn C Campbell, 1858, Mediterranean Banterer, ac, gunboat, Lieut. Corn, East Indies Beagle, 4, sc, Com E Hay, 1858, East Indies Black Eagle, st yacht, Mast-Com, J. Petley, 1844, parti cular service Blenheim, 60, sc, Capt F Scott, C B, 1848, Coast Guard Boscawen, 70, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. Grey, K C B, Capt R Powell, C B, 1855, Cape of Good Hope Bouncer, 2, so, gunboat, Lieut-Com A Owen, 1852, E Indies Brisk, 16, sc, Capt A D'Horsey, 1857, Cape of Good Hope Brilliant, Corn G Gardner, 1848, Naval Reserve training ship Britannia, training-ship, Capt R Harris ' 1819, Portsmouth Brune, st-v, Lieut-Com E Lodder, 1851, Coast of Africa Buffalo, so, Mast-Corn A Brown, 1854, particular service Bustard, 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com F. Hallowes, 1856, East Indies Buzzard, 6, st-v, Corn F Peel, 1855, S E Coast of America Cadmus, 21, so, Capt II S Hillyar, C B, 1854, Mediter ranean. Caesar, 90, sc, Capt T Mason, 1849, Mediterranean, Calypso, 18, Capt F Montresor, 1851, Pacific Cambrian, 40, Capt J. M'Cleverty, C B, 1848, East Indies Cambridge, gun-ship, Capt A Jerningham, 1351, Devon psrt Camilla, 16, Corn G. Colville, 18:55, East Indies Caradoc, 2, st-v, Lieut-Cora C Buckle, 1847, Mediter ranean Castor, Com J. Palmer, 1855, Naval Reserve Training Ship Centaur, 6, st-v, Corn E D'o D'A Alpin, 1853, East Indies Centurion, SO, so, Capt H Rogers, CB, 1854, Channel Fleet Chesapeake, 51, se, Vice-Admiral J. Hope, CB, Capt G Willes, 1856, East Indies, Clio, 22, so, Capt T Miller, 1855, Pacific Clown, so gunboat, Lieut-Corn W Lee, 1855, 1842, East Indies. Cockchafer, 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com H Holder, 1854, Devonport Conqueror, 101, so, Capt E Sotheby, C B, 1852, Devonport Cordelia, 11, sc, Com C Vernon, 1855, Australia Cornwallis, 60, so, Capt G Randolph, C B, 1851, Coast Guard Cossack, 20, so, Capt R Moorman, 1857, North America and West Indies Cressy, 80, so, Capt the Hon C Elliot, C B, 1811, Mediter ranean Crocodile, 8, rec ship, Corn IV Greet, 1854, off tho Tower Cruiser, 17, sc, Corn J Bythesea, 1856, East Indies Cumberland, 70, Capt C Schomberg, 1851, Sheerness Curacoa, 31, so, Cap; A Phillimore, 1855, S.E coast of America Cyclops, 6, st v, Capt W Pullen, 1856, East Indies Dasher, 2, st v, Corn P De Saumarez, 1815, particular service Dauntless, 31, cc, Capt L Heath, C B, 1854, Coa s t G uar d Ike, 4, troop ship, M as t Cora T Pullen, 1814, particular service Diadem, 32, so, Capt j Cockburn, 1850, Channel Fleet Donegal, 101, so, Capt H Broadhead, 1846, Channel Fleet Doris, 32, so Capt E Heatheote, 1852, Mediterranean Drake, so gunboat, Lieut-Com A Blanc, 1856, East Indies Eagle, 50, Capt E Tatham, 1854, Coast Guard Edgar, 21, so, Rear-Admiral J E rs ki ne , C a pt J K a t on, _ 185 G, Channel Fleet Edinbrirgh, 58, Sc, Capt E D'Eyncourt, 1849, Coast Guard Elk, 12, Coln H ampion, 1855, Australia Emerald, 5!, sc, Rear-Admiral Sir A Milne, K.C.B, Capt A Cumming, 1551, North America and West Indies Encounter, 14, sc., Capt It Dew, 1858, East Indies Esk, 20, sc, Sir J Le M M'Clure, C.B, 1850, East Indies Euryalns, 51, sc, Capt J Tartleton ' C.B, 1852, Portsmouth Excellent, 46, g-s, Capt R Hewlett, C.B, 1850, Portsmouth Exmouth, 90, sc, Capt J Stopford, 1811, Mediterranean Fairy, sc yt, tender to Victoria and Albert yacht, Ports mouth Falcon, 17, sc, Com A Fitzroy, 1857, Coast of Africa Fawn, 17, ac, Corn It Cater, 1858, Australia Ferret, 8, Cora W Fisher, 1856, particular service Firebra n d, 6, st-v, Com J Bruce, 18:55, particular service Firefly, 4, st-v, Corn F Skeid, 18:51, Woolwich Firm, so gunboat, Lieut-Com ,W Boulton, 1854, E Indies Fisgard, 49, Commodore the Hon J Drummond, CB, Wool wich Flamer, sc gunboat, Lieut. Com H Bingham, 1851, E Indies Flying Fish, 6, so, Cora W Hope, 1854, Channel Fleet Foresters, 2, so gun b oat, Lieut Corn A Inner, 1853, E Indies Formidable, 84, Capt It Watson, CB, 1842, Sheerness Forte, 51, so, Capt E Turnor, 1857, Sheerness F F ur orw io a u rd s, , a 2 tlv sc , c , L ap itu o t-Lo n ra es C , I R Bs o s bso E n a , s l t B i s n l d , ie S s outh America Fury, 6, st-v, Corn J Wilson (act), East Indies GalBsB, nges, 84, Rear-Ad m i ra l R Bayles, CB, Capt J F u lf or d, ia o c Gannet,Com E. Lambert, 1854, Mediterranean Gada W Indies' at-v, Com 11 ilickley, 1858, N A mer i ca an d Gorgon, 6, st-c, Com B Pim, 1808, N America and W I Grappler, 2, so, Lieut-Corn A. trelby, 1819, Pacific; Grasshopper, sc gunb oa t, L ieut-Com J Tucker, 1855 E I Greyhound, 17, so, Corn F Sullivan, Sheerness , Growler, 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Cora H Crozier, 1854, Medi terranean 18 Hannibal, 91, sc rr,anean Rear-Ad G Mundy, CB , Capt Mnoll Co y, 58, Medite H H a a s r t d i 3 11 ', g 2 s s 6 c o, gu s n e o c a t o , m L Lieut- u C c o k m ra A f t 8 i 0 8 g 5 1e 5 , , INBasvsa, l s d e i i e . v s e Training Ship, Liverpool 2, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com C Broad, 1851, E Indies Ilavock, 2, Crispin . , 1852, Coast G uar d k B, 1844, Devonport 1851, Cape of G oo d H o Hesper, se st ship, G Seymour, - Master-Comd T r a Loane,l ssco,gcunapbtoaltv, Lieut-Com C Fairhol me , 18 51, E I Hawke, 60, Herald, sury ves, Capt II Dennam, 1816, Feej ee I s l ands Hermes, 6, at-v, Corn W Gordon, e p Hero, 91, sc, Capt nc 1816, odrin g E to a n st , l c ndi ß es , Capt F. Warden, C B, 1 845 , Hibernia, roc ship, Rear t" fr), East Indies Hightlyer, 21, sc, Capt W Heat ombe, In3hl (acting), Himalaya, sc storeship, Capt J ,ecc 1859, particular service Hogue, 60, sc, Capt R Macdonald, 1854, Coastguard Icarus, 11, sc, Com N Salmon, V 0, 1 Hydra, 6, st-v, Corn It. Hamilton, parstiecer North Americalar service and WeSt Indies Illustrious, 72, Corm H Harston, 1845, Portsmouth Lumina, 72, Commod H Dunlop, C B, Corn II Grant, 1815, rec ship, Jamaica Impregnable, 104, Vice-Admiral Sir B Reynolds, K C B, Capt W Stewart, C B, 1854, Devonport Imperieuse, 51, sc, Rear-Admiral L Jones, C B, Capt R Maguire, 1851, East Indies. Indus, 78, Itear••Admiral Sir H Stewart, K C B, Capt W Hall, C B, 1850, North America and West Indies Industry, st-v, 2, storsship, Master-Ccm G. Hodges, 1841, _ particular service Inflexible, 6, st-v, Corn G Brooker, 1856, East Indies Intrepid, 6, so, Corn J Marryat, 1855, Mediterranean Iris, 26, Commodore W Loring, C B, Australia Jackal, 4, st-v, Lieut-Com J Simpson (6), 1854, particular service ja Jamesinis,lsVo a g t u t, n 9 b l o , a s t e a u p t t_ c E O ri C i o d Hk l n B o s v l i , t Mn l e B d s i t s e , rrEanea Indies Jasper, 1, sc gunvesse l , Lieut• Cora W Pym, 1849, West Indies Kestrel, sc gunboat, Lieut-Com C Robinson (acting), East Indies Lapwing, 4, se, Coin M Reilly, 1855, M e dit erranean Leopard, 18, st- v , R ear -Admiral Sir S Lushington, K C B, Capt Waiawlight, 1856, $ B Coast of America Leven, 1, sc gunvessel, Lieut-Com J Hudson, 18.51, East Indies Liffey, 51, sc, Capt Pteedy, CB, 1855, Mediterranean Locust, 3, st-v, Lieut-Cora J Field, 1846, particular service London, 90, so, Capt Chads, 1848, Mediterranean Lynx, 4, se, Lieut-Coin II Berkeley 1851, Ost of Af r i ci Lyra, 9, sc, Corn H Oldfield, 1855, Cape of Go o d H ope 7.lada , ^ascar, storeship, Capt it - hite, 1856, Rio Jazwiro - 51aA ° der, 44, Capt IV Burnett,B, 1864, ABCOll*iOA IBEI ',SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY "EVEN ~.~ Slagiciennne, 16, st-v, Capt J Commerell, 1859, E Indies Majestic, 80, se Capt W Mends, CB, 1852, Coast Guard Marlborough, 131, sc, Vice-Admiral A. Fanshawe, CB, Capt the Right Hon. Lord F Kerr, 1852, Mediterranean Mars, 80, se, Capt J Strange, 1854, Channel Fleet Medina, 4, st-vl, Capt T Spratt, CB, 1855, Mediterraneah Medusa, 4, st-vl, Corn W Bowden, 1851, Coast ofaildrica Megeera, 6, sc, Com J Hunt, 1856, Portsmouth Melpomene, 50, sc, Capt C. Ewart, 1855, Channel Fleet Mersey, 40, se, Capt H Caldwell, CB, 1853, Channel Fleet Mohawk, 4 sc, Corn P M'Dougal, 1856, Mediterranean Monarch, 'B4, cc, Tice-Admiral E Harvey, Capt H Har• vey, 1852, Sheerness Monkey, st-tug, Sec Mas G. Syndercombe (acting), Wool wich Mutine, 17, se, Corn W Graham, 1858, Pacific Naiad, 42, store-ship, Mas-Com W Dillon, 1843, Callao Nautilus, 6, Lieut-Com W Grant, 1852, apprentice-ship Neptune, 91, sc, Capt F Campbell, 1857, Mediterranean Nereus, 42, store depot, Mas-Com J Barlow, 1853, Valparaiso Niger, 44, sc, Capt P Cracroft, 1854, Australia Nile, 90, so, Capt E Barnard, 1859, Devonport Nimrod, 6, sc, Corn R Wynniatt, 1859, East Indies Oberon, 3, et-v, Lieut -Com F Paget, 1852, SC of America Odin, 16, st-v, Capt Lord J Hay, CB, 1854, East Indies Opossum, 2, sc, gunboat, Lieut-Com G Bevan (acting), East Indies Orion, 91, cc, Capt J Frere, 1854, Mediterranean Osborne, st-v, Mast-Com G Bower, 1842, particular service Pearl, 21, sc, Capt J Borlase, CB, 1855, East Indies Pelorus, 21, sc, Capt F Seymour, 1854, Australia Pembroke, 60, Capt E Charlewood, 1855, Coast Guard Perseverance, 2, tr-sh, Com E Power, 1850, particular ser vice Persian, 12, Corn E llardinge, 1856, Cape of Good Hope Pioneer, 6, sc, Corn II Reilly, 1858, East Indies Plumper, 9, screw, Capt G Richards, 1854, Pacific Pluto, 4, st-v, Lieut-Com C Simpson, 1818, Coast of Africa Porcupine, 3, st-v, Capt H Otter, 1851, Devonport Princess Charlotte, 104, Mast-Corn H Thomsett, 1854, Hong Ken.- ' F rometheus, 5, st-v, Lieut-Com T Hollingworth, 1855, Coast of Africa Pylades, screw, 21, Capt M de Courcy, 1852, Pacific Quail, se gunboat, Lt-Corn N Osborn, 1856, Mediterranean Queen, 86, sc, Capt C Hillyer, 1852, Channel Fleet Racer, 11, screw, Com the Hon T Pakenham, 1856, North America and West Indies Racoon, 21, so, Capt A Paynter, 1851, Mediterranean Recruit, 6, st-v, Cora D Spain, 1856, Mediterranean Renard, 4, cc, Corn J Goodenough, 1858, East Indies Renown, 91, so, Corn A Forbes, 1846, Mediterranean Retribution, 28 st-v, Commodore H Edgell, C.B, E Indies Rhadamanthus, 4, st-v, Mas Cons F Sturdee, 1815, parti cular service Ringdove, 4, sc, Corn R Craigic, 1356, East Indies Roebuck, 6, se, Corn F Marten, 1851, East Indies Rolla, 6, Lt-Com C Nelson, 1854, apprentice brig Royal Adelaide, 104, Rr-Ad Sir T Paslcy, Bt, Capt W Williams, 1841, Devonport Royal Albert, 121, cc, Rr-Ad Sir C Fremantle, K.C.B, Capt H Lacon, 1856, Channel Fleet Russell, 60, cc, Capt G Wodehouse, 1854, Coast Guard St Jean d'Acre, 101, sc, Capt T Thompson, 1847, Mediter. St Vincent, 102, Rr-Ad the Hon G Grey, Capt T Wilson, 1853, Portsmouth Sampson, 6, st-v, Capt G Hand, 18.52, East Indies Sanspareil, 70, sc, Rr-Ad C Talbot, Capt A Wilmot, C.B, 1854, Queenstown Saracen, 4, Mas-Com W Stanton, 1852, East Indies Satellite, sc, 21, Capt J Prevost, 1856, Pacific Saturn, 72, Capt U Ramsay, C.B, 1843, Pembroke Scourge, 6, sc, Corn W Jones, 1854, Mediterranean Scout, 21, sc, Capt J Corbett, 1857, East Indies Scylla, 21, sc, Capt R Lambert, 1855, Mediterranean Seagull, 2, sc gunboat, Lt-Com W Chimme, particular ser. Sharpshooter, 8, sc, Lt-Com C Gibbons, 1848, C of Africa Sidon, 22, st- v, Capt R Crawford, 1856, Cape of G Hope Simoom, 8, sc, Corn J Cooke, 1852, particular service Siren, 16, Corn G Balfour, 1856, S.E. Coast of America Skipjack, 2, sc gunboat, Lt-Com J. Murray, 1848,W Indies Slaney, 2, sc gunboat, Lt-Com H. Led, 1855, E Indies Snake ' 4, cc, Corn H Harvey, 1857, East Indies Snap, 2, sc gun-boat, Lieut-Corn W Butler, 1855, E Indies Sparrowhawk, 4, sc, Com J Byng ' 1856, E Indies Sphinx, 6, st-ves, Corn G Day, VC, 1855, E Indies Spitfire, 5, st-ves, Lt-Com W Chapman, 1859, C' of Africa Spy, 3, Lt-Com J Hanmer, 1848, S E oast of America Starling, se gun-boat, Lt-Com J Whitshed, 1854, E Ladies Staunch, 2, sc gun-boat, Lt-Com E Pollard, 1855, B Indies Styx, 6, st -yes, Corn C Vesey, 1854, N America and W Ind Supply, str-sh, Mast-Com W Balliston, 1854, Woolwich Surprise, 4, cc, Cora Lord E Cecil, 1857, Coast of Africa Tartarus, 4, st, Cora A Mansell, 1855, Mediterranean Termagant, 25, cc, Capt R Hall 1855, S E Coast of America Terrible, 21, st-ves Capt F Glasse, C 8,1816, Mediterranean Terror, 16, Capt F Hutton, 1844, Bermuda Topaze, 51, sc, Capt the Hon J Spencer, 1854, Pacific Tortoise, 12, store-sltip Ascension Trafalgar, 91, sc, Capt E Fanshawe, 1845, Channel Fleet Tribune, 30, sc, Capt G Hornby, 1846, Pacific Triton, 3, st-ves, Lt-Com R Burton, 1849, Coast of Africa Urgent, se troop-ship, ComH Hire, 1854, particular service Valorous, 16, st-v ' Capt W Aldham, CB, 1853, W Indi es Victor Emmanuel, 91, sc, CaptW Clifford, C B, 1847, Med Victoria and Albert, 2, st yt, Capt the Hon J Denman, 1841, Portsmouth Victory, 101, Vice Admiral H Bruce ; Capt R Cooto, 1854, Portsmouth - Viper, 4, sc, Corn W Hewett, 1858, Portsmouth Virago, 6, st-v, Corn M Dunn, 1856, particular service Vixen, 6, st-v, Com L Lambert, 1858, Pacific Vulcan, 6, sc troop ship, Com A Strode, particular service Vulture, 6, st .v, Capt G Parker, Mediterranean \ - 1 111 . 1 i : Te a : il c zie h nesi f lg, u et2y l ( is 2 7o , 27 B " e 2c: g nac - p_ b abt t pts s 7t u t ru , apLtr-tg- Robinson,oCGmoonllrdvls,mill : w l , e oc f i r e tßh l 188 18 45 5 26 7, E Indies E C Chatham 1840, Devonport Woodcock,'2, sc gun-boat, Lt-Com G Bosanquet, 1855, E Indies THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCE. The close of last week brought us to quarter-day —a fact which it may seem somewhat unnecessary to record. We have a motivc,however, for doing so. On that day there was due to Government from certain taxpayers of the kingdom the sum of £300,000, or thereabouts, and the same amount will be levied in each of the three succeeding quar ters of the year. Altogether. something like £1,300,000 will thus find its way into the Exche quer as a contribution to the revenue, and, as the amount is considerable and the principle of the tax quite unique, we ask for the attention of the public while we examine its bearings. This seems the very time for reductions and readjustments. Silk duties, wine duties, Customs' duties of all kinds have been doomed to extinction, and we shall be much sur prised if we cannot make out a case against the im post of which we are speaking —the duty on fire insurance. Thousands of our readers will have found in their letter-boxes during the last few days a cer tain obliging reminder from their insurance offices, and whic a adopts this method of intimating that, unless a specified sum be paid within 15 days, the guarantee desirable against fire will cease and de termine. The offices, however, are wise in their generation. They are at the pains of analysing their demands, and of discriminating in the very terms of their notice between their own dues and the exac tions of Government. The premium, or payment required for the purpose of insurance, is so much —the Government duty on the transaction is so much more, The first point, therefore, for conside ration is the proportion between these two consti tuent parts of the sum—the next is the general character of the tax itself. On the former of these heads, the case presents, as few will deny, a very startling aspect. The Government duty exactly trebles, in ordinary in stances, the original demand. The premium com monly required by insurance-offices is ls. 6d. per cent. That is the consideration for which they will guarantee an insurer against loss by fire, Supposing that no particular or unusual risk attend the trans action, the offices will insure any property to the ex tent of £lOO in value for the payment of eighteen pence per annum. On the back of this, however, comes the Government tax, and that tax is 35. per annum, so that the whole amount claimed by the insurance-office becomes 43. 6d. Compare this with other taxes, and the impost will be found almost prohibitory. Even brandy was never made three times as dear as it need be. We have been taking, too, a mere unit of measurement—the single £lOO ; but multiply it, and see how the figures run up. It is no great thing to insure for £2,000. What with stock in the case of a tradesman, and ordinary pro perty in the case of independent householders, nothing is easier than to find this amount of obliga tion incurred. Be it remembered that.the reckoning must include every article in the house from top to bottom—not only the furniture, the plate, and the wine, but the wearing apparel of every member of the family, and all, in short, which a fire would con sume. Now, as far as the necessary charge goes, an insurance office would take the whole risk for £1 lOs. per annum, whereas the duty levied by Govern ment Let u perfectlys actuallyenormous. ewr Ines consider ss l s the demand to £4 lOs. The insurer is thus taxed £3 upon 3Os.—a proportion self. Of course in sdomeretsheenscehaitraicstaerd direct etthteatax andit alaeltsloixeidnu.pso.Aoninaresernigse a tax upon property, but we'ven tare to say that h n t ever yet was a property tax so with the favour least more k i i s o s e ee scheme e t m h e e otherdid notd a fi y n t d o place uch property. public,proposed th butan thoseits principles insurance e a e t duty. He wouldito reasonableimprudence eetnaxed all property alike, with erty, would o r not le c v e h i a t e o s d . stock ti u oo t en allowing k; a shupt ri; a right of exemp• e b h i t ' i i r n e t g ated a tradesman s purposes of: ax upon . goods ob wognuoirsawnicsehewshtaoteeveeernries of taken t propertyi k ob tained merelyfor the ale. In the insurance no of fire. A man with £5,000 worth of u d n u t ty il owner plate or fur niture in his house is not called upon for a penny, Provided he choose to remain uninsured, h w ereas his neighbour, with a stock in trade worth £5OO, must pay 15s. yearly to Government, besides 78. cd . to the Insuranceoffice, if he wished to be guaran teed against ruinous loss. The tax, therefore, i s levied, not upon property, but upoi the act of s e . curing it. If a man chooses to run the risk of being beggared, Government will encourage him i n his recklessness by exempting him from a tax ; if he is too cautious to incur this peril, he must pay for his wisdom. It is in vain to argue that the de lay does nut really operate in this manner, and that the amount is too small to deter anybody from in suring his goods. The duty turns a payment £1 into 13, and it would be preposterojis to sup-. pose that the latter obligation would be accepted as freely as the former, if a reduction of £2OO per cent. upon the cost of a thing will not bring it into more common use, what becomes of all the specula tions on which Mr. Gladstone founds his budget . What is the good of cheap silk or cheap claret un less cheapness means increased custom in the article ? If there is truth, as assuredly there is, in the relations traced between price and consumption, it follows necessarily and directly that the heavy duty upon insurance discourages the practice of insuring, and that a premium is thus placed by legislative enactment upon culpable imprudence.— Times. TILE INQUISITION IN THE PAPAL STATES. The .3lonitore di Bologna, in a recent number, contains the following remarkable article, and still more remarkable document annexed to the same, relating to the present legislation and authority of the Inquisition in the Papal States. The article is from the pen of the Chevalier Achille Genneralli ; the decree is simply the written law, publicly affixed in all places of general resort, under which the towns of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and the surrounding villages and districts have, during the last 19 years, been made to yield obedience to the harassing and vexatious system of prying and spying into the most minute domestic affairs, as practised by the Inquisition : " If Europe only knew, as well as we do, the true character of the Government of the Court of Rome in the unhappy provinces subjected to its sceptie, it would be much less difficult for those provinces to obtain that emancipation to which every people has a right when the power oppressing it is based on an unchangeable and incorrigible immorality. N o t th e least of the iniquities now dominant in the Papal States is the Holy Office, or Inquisition, which actually exerts its malignant action in all its fish ness, and in such a way that its legislative and executive autocracy is placed above the other powers of the State. If any one, looking to the miliness of modern manners and to the progress which has been made in civilisation, should feel in clined to doubt the existence of the Inquisition in the Papal States, he need only examine the docu ment which follow on these words. It may be read in print—nay, it is actually the living law in the provinces of Urbirse and Pesaro, and in those bor dering thereupon; and in order that no one may forget that the law is inviolable, not only are copies of it to be publicly seen in the vestries and in the churches, but likewise in the taverns and in the shops ; and woe to him who should attempt to tear them down. If this document had not been a revela tion for Europe we believe that Europe would have received with less stupefaction the intelligence of the manner in which the child Mortara was torn from his parents. " In the decree of the Inquisition which we have civilised nin e vc f die o n r iws e s ehe u di t s eowh t h towhi e ie r od e nd ;I ft ed r vs e uic oh a s fran, are the puerile and ridiculous, passages hsht ee,.prohibitionslaughterwi th him i m n t i the e t toowthaoo offerliet similara:gr e Hb m eo e pl n inye t ra s mit tt i i eot n rmt se o ad; r n d t, eon f fi o ask whicht c e thifindfe Fatherwpt points, i e n a atsaru,er Inquisitors however, ei n sv idet livingor o ,r st onehioe in mt ti h m aey es when the ignorance of the public may be so confidently reckoned on ; and one may further ask beth the C aH ou ol r y t o o f Rffieoemact why all there e should e s i e n n t t e h d e shey menays of such Superhumantransformed imbecility ? But, f ar worse than i n t f h o i r s i , ner we th intoevilelv a dorkutoy of ftheeonsspeLnaened, with the penalty of excommunication launched against all who fail to inform against offenders ; to receive heretics is declared an action punishable by the sacred tribunal; the contact with Jews is enougd h. under This decree e re heaviest denunciations ! A n d these law s are in forceoeoinntaliBn6ao. an exhortationßat isthis f not or the purpose of encouraging self accusation, and pro mises merly to those who shall accuse themselves. The legislator,. howev er , h as ta k en goo d care that the promise shall not be invoked as a right by those to wkom it was addressed, and he therefore made a l v a e r r3; simple ner reservation. mercy should ould bepraeti H aed e doenclylarmeldenthathteabsoinmuis rir who might feel inclined to accuse himself to his reverence had not been anticipated in his accusa tion either in that or in some other tribunal of the Inquisition.' Thus, as the Holy Office has for its foundation secrecy, the Father Inquisitor, who might wish to apply a little of the torture, or the bastinado, or fasting, or imprisonment (even per petual imprisonment) to some unfortunate being, politically suspected, would be at ample liberty to do so, by merely asserting that the person spon taneously informing against himself had been al ' ready informed against in some other branch of the Inquisition. His word would suffice, and his decrees, in consequence, would more than suffice. In this way traps are laid for the weakminded by the reve rend instruments of the Court of Rome; but we have reason to believe that the persons so weak minded are few in number, and that those who seek to ensnare them have been mistaken in their calcu lation. " Meanwhile it will not appear extraordinary if we address to these Father Inquisitors a single ques tion. Amongst the documents which relate to the Papal Government, and will shortly be given to the world, we have found several from which we know that certain inquisitors, vicars, and bishops, by a trait of peculiar compassion, have revealed the revelations thus obtained to the director-general of police in Rome, who thought it right, in order to add compassion to compassion, to imprison all those informed against and their adherents, to commence trials in order to procure the condemnation of a prodigious number of persons accused, many of whom, after a long term of years, are still waiting the completion of their appointed punishment. We have discovered letters from the head of the Roman police (he is at the present day an archbishop and a cardinal) suggesting to the compassionate vicars of the Holy-office the questions which they ought to put to the persons making spontaneous revelations, in order to discover, not sins, but political conspi racies and attempts to raise up Italy from its abject state. What explanations will the reverend fathers give of these facts ? A friend of ours possesses a letter of the Cardinal Bishop Castiglioni (who was subsequently Pope Pius VIII.), addressed to another cardinal, a legate of the Holy See. In it he informs him of attempts made by the patriots, reveals to him their political secrets,7adding, these things I have not learned by means of the confessional, but in another way.' If one must exclude the suspicion of the confessional, that implies that it is not for the very reverend fathers, clothed with inviolable secrecy ! " Meanwhile, as the document which we now offer to our readers contains likewise an exhor tation, we too would address an exhortation to the reverend fathers ; and it is to the effect, that the time of a self-satisfied ignorance has passed away; that the priesthood only covers itself with ridicule when it gives such Warnings as those in the following law, when it requires the denuncia tion of heretics, and endeassours to brand all those who are not Catholics as if they positively were not human beings ? The massacre of St. Bartholomew belongs to a bygone age, and the inquisitors may reserve their work for the epoch at which some new world shall be discovered. " For the present, it suffices to exhibit for the in dignation and scorn of civilised Europe the follow ing document, which fitly represents the immora lity and the barbarism in which the temporal and spiritual rulers of the Papal States still endeavour to keep their subjects plunged : : " ' bEeIiEE. " We, Fra Filippo Bertolotti of the Order of Preachers, Master in Sacred Theology in the cities and dioceses of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and in the districts an d pl aces adjacent, Inquisitor- General of the Holy Apostolic See, especially dele gated to watch against heretical pravity : " We desiring, as is required by the duty of this holy office entrusted to us, that the Catholic faith (without which, as the Apostle St. Paul writes to the Hebrews, it is imp oss ibl e t o p l ease G o d) s h ou ld be preserved in this our jurisdiction immaculate and pure from all heretical contagion; and it being evident to us by experience that many through malice, others through disobedience, and others through ignorance, ha re not fulfilled the absolute obligation under which they lie to denounce to the Holy Office the offences relating to the same, and that there arise thence the most serious inconveni ences and errors, not only against good morals, but also expressly against the Catholic faith ; we, there fore, to whom there should be especially at heart the glory of God, the full preservation and increase of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls, in order to obviate all disorders, by the apostolic authority granted unto us, command, in virtue of holy obedience, and under the penalty of excom munication, in addition to the other penalties de nounced by the sacred canons, decrees, constitu tions, and bulls of the supreme pontiffs, by the tenor of the present edict—all and every person of whatever state, rank, candition, or dignity, c u l whe ther ecclesiastic a l or sear, that withi n a month, ten days of which are o,,signed for the first, ten for the second, and ten for the third peremptory term, they shall reveal or legally notify to us, or to our vicars, or the respective ordinaries of the places, all and each of those persons respecting whom they know, or may have obtained, or shall obtain notice: " ' That they are heretics, or suspected or taxed with heresy, or abettors, or receivers, or defenders of heretics, or h ave adhered or do adhere to the rites of the Jews, or of the Mahometans, or of the Gentiles, or may have apostatised from the holy Catholic faith : " Who have committed or commit acts from which there may be inferred an express or tacit 2,9,Teement with the devil, by practising incanta tions, magic, sorcery, offering unto the same in cea.se or prayers ia order to find treasures, or other NG' APRIL' 7, 1860.7 unwarrantable ends, by invoking him or promising unto him obedience, or doing other things in which his name or works play a part : " ' Who have occupied, or occupy themselves in making experiments of necromancy, or of any kind of magic, with the abuse of the sacraments, or of the sacramental vessels, or of things sacred or blessed : ' Who, not being priests, with sacrilegious audacity have usurped or shall usurp the right to celebrate the holy mass, or have presumed to ad minister the sacrament of penitence to the faithful of Jesus Christ : " Who have abused or may abuse the sacrament of penitence, or the place of the same, contrary to the apostolical decrees and constitutions : " Who have held or may hold secret conven tides or meetings in prejudice or scorn of, or con trary to, the holy Catholic religion : " ' Who have made use of, or may make use of, heretical blasphemies against blessed God, the most Holy Virgin Mary, or against the saints, or have committed or may commit any act of contempt or of offence against the holy images; who, notwith standing the solemn vows made on their entrance into any religious order approved of by the Church, and, after having taken holy orders, have contracted and contract, or may attempt to con tract, matrimony : " Who, during the life of the first wife shall take a second, or during the life of the first husband shall take a second, or shall have attempted or at tempt to do the same : " Who have impeded or may impede in any way the office of the Holy Inquisition, or who in any way shall have acted in contravention of the bull of Pius V., which commences " Si di protegendis :" " Who may have composed satires or diffused writings against the supreme Pontif, the sacred college, superiors, ecclesiastics, or against the regu lar orders, or who may have composed or published writings in any manner whatsoever, in which is any abuse or profanation of sacred words : " Who, without the required license, shall keep in their possession writings or printed papers con taining heresies, or books of heretics that treat, ex preesgo, against religion, or who shall read them, or print them, or cause them to be printed, or who shall introduce or diffuse them under any pretext or colour whatever : " Who, without necessity or license, shall have eaten or given to eat meat, eggs, or dishes made with milk on forbidden days, in contempt of the precepts of the Holy Church :-- "' Who shall have induced any Christian to em brace the Jewish faith, or any other sect contrary to the holy Catholic religion, or shall have prevented in any way the Jews or the Turks from being bap tised. It is also declared that, in the statement of cases specified by us as requiring to be revealed to the Holy Office, there are not excluded the other cases belonging to its jurisdiction, comprised in the sacred canons, decrees, constitutions, and bulls of the supreme Pontiffs. Still less is tho present edict to be understood as cancelling any . other canonical apostolic provisions, or any other edicts Which thall have emanated from the ordinary authorities or from the inquisitors;and it isfurtherdeclared that those who shall not denounce the guilty, as commanded by the present edict, shall not be able to obtain absolution from the excommunication laid upon them until they shall have, as required above, with due legal form, revealed the guilty individuals : " ' And even should the term of the month as signed, as above, elapse, there will always remain the obligation to reveal and to denounce, under the same penalties, until the person in possession of the information shall have effectually revealed and de nounced the guilty. And in order that the present edict, with its commands, both general and special, may become known unto all, we order and command that it be affixed in the churches belonging both to the secular and regular clergy. And in order that no one may affect ignorance of the present orders and evade obeying them, we enjoin on printers, booksellers, custom-house officers, excise officers, porters, landlords, innkeepers, and shopkeepers, all respectively, that they shall keep fixed up a copy of the present edict in their respective printing-houses, bookselling establishments, custom-houses, town gates, taverns, inns, and shops, and that, too, in a public place, where it may be seen and read by all. " EXHORTATIONS. " The principal, nay the only object of the tri bunal of the Holy Office being, as has been said from the commencement, the glory of God, the ad vancement of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls : we, therefore, after having commanded and ordered as above, do now paternally exhort all those who know themselves to be guilty of some crime relating to the Holy Office to present them. selves before us and our vicars, or before the ordi nary authority of the place, spontaneously, before being anticipated or denounced by others ; an d t o confess with all sincerity and integrity their errors and their failings, assuring them that, provided they have not been with the due legal forms previously accused before some other ecclesiastical tribunal, they will be received with bowels of charity, and treated with the singular mercy peculiar to this holy tribunal; aad will then, without any expense and without any public penance and punishment, be absolved and let go. " SPECIAL ORDERS. " In compliance with the orders specially given to us relative to the printing, the introduction, the sale, and the diffusion of perverse and prohibitive books, and having a special interest that, in the cities and places of this our jurisdiction, there shall be preserved that purity of faith which, through the grace of the Highest, presently exists here, we order and expressly command that no one shall dare to print, to introduce, to sell, and to publish books within and without the cities or other places subject to us without these being subject to the re vision of this Holy Office, and of those whose duty it is to superintend the same, under the penalties established in the sacred canons, in the general and and particular decrees of the supreme holy congre gation, and in the apostolical constitutions with that view enacted and promulgated, and, in parti cular, in those of Clement VIII. and Gregory XV. Moreover, in compliance with the orders, decrees, edicts of the supreme holy tribunal of the Holy Office of Rome, as well as with the constitutions and with the papal bulls, respectively published and promulgated in reference to the Jews, especially in what regards intimacy with the same ; we order and command that no one shall dare to transgress the orders and injunctions specified in the same, under the penalties therein expressed and threat ened.—Given at the Holy Office of Pesaro, on this 15th day of September, 1841. (Signed) " FL FILIPPO BERTOLOTTI, Inquisitor-General. " ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor- General of the Holy Office.'" THE BIBLE PRINTING PATENT. The decision of the committee against the continuance of this patent was stated at the time. The report published on Saturday states that the Select Committee on the Queen's Printers' Patent, appointed on the motion of Mr. Baines, have agreed to the following resolutions :- 1. That exclusive privileges of printing or publishing the Holy Scriptures are wrong in principle, and are shown by experience to be opposed to the public interest. 2. That until the abolition of the Scotch Bible printing monopoly, the price of Bibles in Scotland and England was, through the operation of the monopolies ix both coun tries very high ; and that, in consequence of that abolition the price was suddenly reduced about one-half, and the dr. culation of Bibles immensely increased. 3. That the patents does not appear to have been granted for the purpose of ensuring the accurate printing of the Bible; that it contains no injunction to accuracy, and pro vides no penalty for inaccuracy; and that ) in point of fact, the Bibles printed by the Queen's Printers and the Uni versities contained many errors, until public discussion, arid the inquiries of the Select Oomtnittee of 1831, led to in. , creased care in the printing. 4. That whilst the Bible is no* pitbilehtti at a remark ably low price, and with great accuracy, the cheapness and accuracy hays hot been the effects of the restrictions on printing, but of the competition between the Queen's Printers and the Universities, and of the free competition in Scotland in p r i n ti ng the Bible, combined with the great public attention given to the subject for the last 30 years. 6. That perfect freedom of competition would be likely to produce and maintain the greatest attainoble cheapness, as well as the utmost beauty and attractiveness of typography and binding. 6. That, under the free printing, tilde Woilid be the fol lowing guaranVes for the accuracy of the sacred text, namely : Ist. The vigilance of the Christian public. 2d. The watchful care of the clergy and ministers of all Chris inn bodies. 3d. The special attention of religious societies stablished for the purpose of circulating the Bible. 4th. The continual criticism of the press. sth. The knowledge which booksellers must acquire of the merits of different editions. 6th. The interest of the printers and publishers of the Bible, who would suffer a heavy penalty for inaccu racy by finding their editions unsaleable. 7th. The efforts of the present patentees and the Universities to sustain their reputation, together with the stereotype plates and other advantages which they possess. 7. That the patent is unjust, in prohibiting the importa tion of Scotch Bibles into England, while English Bibles are permitted to be imported into Scotland. 8. That the patent creates a monopoly much more ex. tensive and stringent than the patentees have ventured to enforce ; it gives an exclusive right to print " all and sin gular Bibles and New Testaments Whatsoever in the English tongue, or in any other tongue whatsoever, and any translation, with notes or without notes, and also to prevent the introduction of Bibles printed in any other part of the kingdom into England and Wales ; b ut the patentees have not exercised their legal right of preventing the introduction of Bibles from Scotland, nor of interfering with tho publication of the Bible in other languages or translations, or accompanied with notes or references, but havq practically restricted themselves to the issue of the Bible, without note or comment, and in the authorised version. 9. That the committee recommend that the patent of the Queen's Printers, so far as relates to the printing of Bibles and New Testaments, bo not renewed, an d that no exclusive privilege of printing the sacred volume be allowed hence forth to exist, Ll._ EXTRAORDINARY _HISTORY OF AN IMPOSTOR. (From the Glasgow Morning Journal.) Henry Thornton Hay is at present incarcerated in the North Prison of Glasgow, undergoing six months' imprisonment for uttering forged orders for provisions on more than one shopkeeper in Cow caddens. He is about 35 years of age, middlesize in height, speaks with a slight English accent, and is a most plausible fellow. There is reason to be lieve that he is a poor English curate's son, and one of those who are a grief to their parents. He re ceived a tolerably good education, but was never in Cambridge University, and therefore we may with out hesitation throw his tragic love story out of sight as the "baseless fabric of a vision." Ho did enlist, under the name of Thomas Watkins, and went with the regiment to the West Indies, where he deserted, and entered the 3d West India Regi ment. He was recaptured, punished, and permitted to join the 71st Regiment, which came to Glasgow in 1847, and here is the first time that he appeared in public in the western metropolis. He seems always to have had a forte for preaching; and in Glasgow he first attracted notice as a preacher of the Gospel. It may be in the remembrance of a num ber of our readers that about thirteen years age, a deserter was found preaching in Greenhead Quoad Sacra Church, and that after the forenoon service he was marched off to the barracks a prisoner. That man was Thornton Hay. In the end of 1847, the pulpit of Greenhead Church was vacant, and ac cordingly Hay having ingratiated himself with a female manager of the church, who kept the keys— through life he seems to have readily captivated the fair sex—he preached four consecutive Sabbaths under the name of the Rev. Mr. Bertram ; but whe ther " with acceptance" or not we cannot say. Having been at that time absent from his regiment five days, two sergeants from the 71st Foot waited upon him until he left the pulpit, when they con veyed him to durance vile in the barracks, where at that time his wife resided. He w a s t r i e d by court martial, and sentenced to a period of imprisonment, his former desertion being also brought up against him. After his discharge from the army, he re turned to Glasgow and obtained a situation at the Theatre Royal, where he continued for four months. He now sought and gained employment in a cooperage as journeyman, where he continued for a few months, and next transferred his coopering services to Kilsyth. After a sojourn of a few months there, he re turned to Glasgow, and resumed coopering and something else. He procured an introduction to one 3r two Free Church ministers, told his wonder ful tale, and on Hogmanay, 1854, being invited to a church soirée, he sat upon the platform with the other guests and speakers, and delivered an address. He then regularly attended a Free Church in the city, pretended great holiness of life, counterfeited the Christian character, and made a profession which paled the greaterlights around him. By this pseudo sanctity he imposed upon many, chiefly the " weaker Vessels ; ' and the consequences were wounded feel ings, destroyed prospeets,and illegitimate children. To show the cool audacity of the scoundrel, we may state that on one occasion he invited two respect able women, to whom he was at the same time pay ing his addresses, to his lodgings to tea, and then introduced the one to the other as his sweetheart ! He likewise went so far as to take a house in Port land-street, and had it furnished by one of the rela tions of the person ho was about to marry. Hap pily he was discovered in time, and had to beat a hasty retreat. He next turned up near London, and palmed himself off in a Roman Catholic family as a greatly persecuted poor Roman Catholic priest. Here ho lived for some six weeks, but discovering that the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese was about to visit his dupes, he decamped. Of course he repaired to London, and under the garb and pro fession of a clergyman from Scotland, he succeeded in defrauding several people out of considerable sums, for which he was duly sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Being discharged from gaol in August, 1856, he succeeded by some means in raising as much money as carried him to Glasgow again. Here he arrived as a pretended agent of the London Missionary Society, just returned from India. In this characs ter he traversed the city and neighbourhood, addressing meetings here and there; but although his speeches were quite barren of new facts, and indeed disappointed the most unsuspecting, still, by his great holiness of life and uprightness of cha racter, he insinuated himself most astonishingly into the confidence of many good people. He had, therefore, no difficulty in getting a loan of money, especially as he was just expect ing his annual salary from the .Missionary So ciety, along with his travelling expenses. By these means he made a pretty large haul in Glas gow ; he had now, however, uninterrupted suc cess. In the east end of the city there is a large Sabbath class, composed of about 100 young men and women. To one of the young men of that class, of his own name, he 'got introduced ; and by his plausible speeches, his ministerial appear ance, and frankness of manner, completely de ceived him. He was in due course invited to the adult class. The scoundrel was more successful in that quarter than he ought to have been. He got introduced to one of the young women, who belongs to a most respectable family resid ing on the south side of the river, and she ac cepted him as an acknowledged suitor, his saintly appearance much aiding his purpose. In Decem ber, 1856, he was introduced by Miss --ees to her minister, a highly respectable U. P. clergyman on the south side of the river. About that time their congregational soiree was to be held, and " the missionary" was announced as a speaker. The speech was delivered, but the general feeling in regard to " the missionary" was, that the Lon don Missionary Society had not much to brag of in him. Having been invited to dine by the worthy minister, it was wound up by the guest obtaining the loan of £3. About the same time he got £5 from the manager of a mill near Ruthergien-bridge. Having strong suspicions, the United Presbyterian minister made a few inqui ries, which resulted in the discovery that there was no such agent of the London Missionary Society as Thornton Hay, and that doubtless he was an impostor. Information was accordingly conveyed to the police, but " the missionary " suc ceeded in getting off to Liverpool. He was not again heard of by the Glasgow authorities until about the middle of 1857, and until he had passed through many remarkable vicissitudes of fortune. At the beginning of that year, on his arrival in Liverpool, lie gained the good opinion of several of the Rt;tablished Church clergy there, who opened to him their pulpits; and by this means he was enabled to fleece a number of people to the tune of upwards of £lOO. He next repaired to Edinburgh ; and here he came out as a clergyman of the Angli can Church, " taking a survey of the state of the Episcopal Church in Scotland." We do not know under what name he then passed, and although we are not certain, yet it is very pro bable that he ran out of cash here also, and required a loan or two. lie preached at the castle to the soldiers, and in other places in Edinburgh. He subsequently repaired to London, and in coming back to Liverpool he scraped acquaintance with a Glasgow gentleman. Desirous of making capital of this acquaintanceship, he came to Glasgow ; but was beulked this time, and had to make a hasty journey to Edinburgh, where he did not remain long. Passing through Haddington, he sought out and imposed upon some of the descendants of the great Scripture commentator of that town, ob taining money which conveyed him to Sunderland. Here he succeeded, by delivering a forged letter from a friend in Glasgow, in getting £5 from a female member of the Society of Friends; but her husband at °bee detected the forgery, and, getting a policeman, they caught the fellow at th e eallwey etatien its he was about to start for New castle. When he saw he was detected, he hurriedly tore up into a hundred pieces two letters that he had upon him, strewing the station with the frag trietits. These were all carefully gathered up and put together, when it Was found that they purported to be letters of introduction from two U.P. mini sters in Glasgow to a U.P. minister in Newcastle, written in high-flown language, such as " The hearer is ail esteemed brother, fled a great acquisi tion to the cause of dissent in England." Unfortu nately, by some flaw in the evidence, he was ac quitted at Sunderland; but the authorities at Had dington were in waiting to receive him, and thither he was taken and sentenced to five weeks' impri sonment. As soon as his term of incarceration at Itaddington was ever he was • brought to Glasgow, and before the sheriff and a jury he was convicted of obtaining money under false pretences, and lodged in the N or th pr i son f or s i x mon ths. Dur ing the year 1859, and after he came out of prison, he returned to his employment as a cooper; and towards the end of the year got again into l trouble by forging his employer's name to some orders for provisions on various dealers in Cowcaddens.. For that offence h e was sen t enc ed to six months' im prisonment, and at present he is undergoing that punishment. He will shortly be liberated. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The dates from South Aus tralia by the present mail are to Adelaide, Feb. 18. Business continued dull. The revenue of the colony for the year end ing Dec. 31, 1859, amounted to £505,870; showing a net in crease upon the year of £51,039. The pastoral districts had suffered severely through the dry season, and the mortality among the cattle had been considerable. Respecting the progress of mining, the South Australian Advertiser of Feb. 18 remarks : —" The mineral wealth of the colony con tinues to afford proofs of its extreme richness." Burnt Burno shares have advanced to £l5B. Copper remained firm ,au4 in demand, at £lOO per ton. Drafts en.Londeu at 60 days' z, $ h at 1 per cent. pren2, DR. Gr72'HRIE AND THE SLAVE TRADE An American paper, the Presbyterian, which pro fesses to be a religious journal of the highest ortho doxy, has attacked Dr. Guthrie's speech delivered lately at the meeting in Edinburgh, sympathising with Dr. Cheever. The rev. doctor has written an indignant rejoinder, in which he stigmatises many of the charges in the Presbyterian as " untrue and contemptible." He proceeds to rebut some of the statements which he is accused of making : " You state that I ' spoke of the American eagle as polluted with blood.' Now, that may or may not be the case ; but I never used these words, nor said, indeed, a word, good or bad, about your eagle. You* state also that I wished the next negro insurrectiod to succeed, though they might have to fight to the knees in the blood of the white man.' How can I deny that ? for in your, article are not the offensive words, fight to the knees in the blood of the white man' set within inverted commas, the usual sign of a quotation and the pledge of accuracy ? Alas .for the credit of inverted commas and certain religious newspapers ! There is not a word of truth in your statement. The wronged and down-trodc'ea negro may or may not be justified in doing for his personal what your own fathers did for their national liberty; though a man, he is black, and notwithstanding that an old-fashioned book called the Bible, says that God made of one blood all the families of the earth, he may no more have rights than the cow he is sold with; yet I never used the words, nor spoke of blood, either on black men's knees or on American eagles. You say I was ' bloodthirsty.' A horrid charge to bring against any minister of the Gospel. If you mean, by apply ing this abusive language to me, that I delight in the shedding of human blood, or would have recourse to arms rather than suffer any wrong, I deny your charge, and appeal for my veracity to those who know me, and know how I abhor the cruelties in separable from war. Perhaps you mean something else. Perhaps you mean that I would regard the slaves, if they had a fair prospect of success, as jus tified in rising to recover their freedom, and as a last resource, meeting arms with arms in the battle for liberty. If so, I plead guilty to the charge; guilty, I must add, as were our Wallace and your Wash ington. Washington and his compatriots thought not liberty only, but independence even worth fight ing for. In the days of the struggle which you yearly commemorate ministers preached up resistance; pulpits, as well as drums, sounded to arms. You laud the men who did the fight, and were ready to fight to the knees in tho blood of the white man,' merely for the right to tax themselves, and have you the assurance to hold up your hands in horror at the bare idea of poor Africans, ground to the dust, doing the same to save themselves, their wives, their children, from bleeding under the brutal lash, and being sold like cattle to the highest bidder ? Though a violent termination to slavery is not one that any reflecting and right-thinking man would wish, the system, as one of cruelty, of immorality, of robbery, and of murder, is accursed both of God and man. It is the plague•spot of your state ; the plague-spot of your churches; and should its end, which God for bid, be one of violence, on the heads of those who are not straining every nerve to bring it to a speedy and bloodless termination, will lie the guilt of all the fearful crimes that shall accom pany its dying struggles. When these come, and the slaves are fighting for their rights, your disasters may recall the fearful words of Jefferson, What attribute of Jehovah would allow him to take part with us P' " CO U .P 1 TR Y 111 A RICETS. MANCHESTER-Arßu. 5. We had a thin attendance of buyers this morning, and prices for wheat and flour were at no advance upon the quotations of Thursday last, with very little doing. Oats and oatmeal brought fully former rates, and were in steady request. Beans and Indian corn were in fair request, without alteration in price. RTPONm-Aritir, 5. There was a fair supply of grain to-day. Farmers asked high prices, which checked sales, and the whole offered was not sold. Other articles firm. WAKEFIELD—APRIL 5. A fair supply of grain. Wheat was firm, at last week's prices, and a fair business done in best red. Other articles continuo firm. Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, white, old, 48s to ols ; new, 48s to 51s; ditto, red, old, 42s to 445; now, 42s to 445; Lincolnshire and York shire white, new, 45s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445. EXETER—APRIL 5. The business to-day was firm at the following prices :-- Wheat, white .. fis 3d to Gs 6d I Barley.. 4s Od to Os Od Ditto red Os 3d to Os 6d Oats . . . 3s Od to 3s 31 Flour, fine, 34s to 355; seconds, 32s to 33s per sack. CATTLE. The attendance was good, and they market was moderately supplied with fat stock. Trade dull, at prices tending downwards. A small supply of pork carcases, at previous rates. Fat beef,p score,9s6d to lOs6d Ewes, per lb ....61d to 71 Perk carcases, do 9s Od to lOs Wethers, d 0...... 7d to 71 4 Sheep, per lb. Rough fat, 41d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-APRIL 5. The market still assumes a very quiet tone, and rather lower prices have been submitted to in the few sales effected during the present week. Refiners' produce, though not in plentiful supply, is offered sufficiently for the require ments of the trade, and prices are only with difficulty sup ported. Rum has been in improved demand, and a fair amount of business has been done this week, chiefly in Demeraras, at 2s per proof gallon. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. En the following:table E signifies that letters are despatched by eYening mails from London, and 31 by morning mails. DESTINATIONS. Despatch , of Mails. W . Matt due. Port of Despatch. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Canada, &c. (by Cfmadn. pckt )F Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewtields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, , via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles • India (Bombay), via South- I ampton Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Halts, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N America (by British packet): Ditto (by U. S. packet) ...:! West Coast of Africa, Ma-I deira, and Teneriffe West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, Aprill2,3l AprillB, E Southamp. 'Aprilll,E Aprilll, E Liverpool.. Liverpool.. May 5, E Devonport April2),3l April 0, E April t,M Aprill7, April2o, M Aprillo, 'Southamp. M outhamp. Southamp. 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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.--Disturbed nation, Bilious Disorders.—The piercing winds, alternating with bright genial days, are sad enemies to comfort and to health, Look to the liver and stomach, keep their function ; re; - ular, and a long train of ailments will be avoided ; even though this present spring* be as capricious as its predeces' saes. When digestion is impaired, or well-marked spu' toms show a disordered liver, let Holloway's Pills be in' stantly procured, and if these be taken according to the in' structions the patient will soon be himself again, and mots serious attacks will be repelled. A course of these inestim able Pills will thoroughly clear the head, elevate the spiral • and restore the usual energy; in fact they will confer hea lth on mind and body. BIRTHS. ABBOTT.—On the 3d inst., at Meavy, Devon, the 1° of the Rev. J. Abbott, M.A., rector of that parish, a a son. FULLER.—On the 4th inst., at 119, Gloucester-terr acer Hyde park, the wife of Thomas Fuller, Esq., of a daugh ter, stillborn. TER/CAN.—At the Priory, South Stoke, near Bath, the wif e ' of Captain Tertian, H.M.'s Bengal Army, of a son. MAILRIA'GES. BROWNE—VALLn-CitsA-NovA.—On Tuesday last, ' at ih°, British Chapel, Nice , Esthe r Jan e Browne, d aug hter e' s P e ter Browne, Esq., for many years British Secretary'fi Legation at Copenhagen, to the Marquis della Iril ue. Casa-Nova. ELLIOT—CAnn.L. — On the 20th Feb., at roonah, Bombay' G. W. Elliott, Esq, C.S., Judge of Darwar, to FaVY . Mary, daughter of C. S. Cahill, Esq., of Kensingte h,ler. rnerly of Riverston, co. Clare, J.P. AUDLEY.— On the lsti DEATHS.t K inst., „at ensington, Lady aged 31. CREIGELTON.-0a the 31st ult. at 38, Cambridge-stree‘ Hyde-park, Mrs. Harriet C d ht , r of the leg reighton, aug Admiral Sir Richard Onslow, Bart., and widow ef t late Captain Creighton. the EDGELL.—On the 2d inst at East-hill, near Froroe, Rev. Edward Edgell, prebendary of Wells, Sze• PARISH.—On the 2d inst., at his country seat, near 1 ' burg, Richard Parish, Esq., aged plot SHIRREOn the 13th Feb:, at Rio do Janeiro, fol. Audley , ' Hamilton Shirreff, R.N., of H.M.S. Madagiten 7 and son of C. J. Shirreff, Esq., of 7, Lincoln.'s-inn-ue," Barnes, Surrey, aged 26. 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