The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-05 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER MOTEMENT. The following are additional regulations as to the arrival of officers of Volunteer Corps at St. James's Palace upon Wednesday next : " Lord Chamberlain's-office, March 3. " In order to facilitate the arrangement of the very great number of officers who will attend her Majesty's Court upon the 7th inst., and to e re the nable them so to form that they may pass befo Queen according to the priority of c ounties and companies established in t he Army List, it is re quested that the officers of each county may, as far as possible, reach St. James's Palace together, and at the following different hours. i " All the Artillery and Engineer officers and Mounted Rifles to reach the Palace between 12 and half-past 12. (The doors will be opened at 12, in stead of half-past 12, aspreviously announced.) " Officers of the Rifle Corps in the following counties — No. 1 Devonshire 2 Middlesex I No, 3 Lancashire 4 Surrey, and *the S Helens Rifles to reach the Palace between half-past 12 and o'clock. Officers of Rifle Corps in— No. 16 Dorsetshire 17 Norfolk 18 Staffordshire 19 Berkshire 20 Glocestershire 21 Brecknockshire 22 Suffolk 23 Stirlingshire 21 Bucks 25 Lanarkshire No. 5 Pembrokeshire 6 Derbyshire 7 Oxfordshire 8 Cheshire 9 Wiltshire 10 Sussex 11 Edinburgh (city) 12 Essex 13 Northumberland 14 Renfrewsbire 15 Northamptonshire to reach the Palace betwi o'clock. - ;en one and half-past one Officers of Ri ifle Corps in— No. 56 Haverfordwest 57 Haddington 58 Isle of Wight 59 Ayrshire 60 Dumfries 61 Elgin 62 Argyll 63 Cardigan 64 Durham 65 Wigton 66 Buteshire 67 Yorkshire (North Riding) 68 Cumberland 69 Herefordshire 70 Dumbarton 71 Huntingdon 72 Carnarvon 73 Montgomery 74 Orkney 75 Carmarthen 76 Caithness 77 Kirkcudbright 78 Westmoreland 79 Fife 80 Bedfordshire 81 Newcastle-on-Tyne 82 Linlithgow 83 Selkirk and Rutland Radnorshire Clackmannanshire alf-past 1 and 2 o'clock. EY, Lord Chamberlain." No. 26 Kent 27 Glamorganshire 28 Nottinghamshire 29 Merionethshire 30 Yorkshire (West Riding)" 31 Leicester sbire 32 Midlothian 33 Aberdeenshire 34 Roxburghshire 35 Cinque Ports 36 Monmouthire 37 Cornwall 38 Ross-shire 39 Worcestershire 40 Inverness- shire 41 Waiwickshire 42 Lincolnshire 43 Denbighshire 44 Hampshire 45 Somersetshire 46 Forfar 47 Cambridgeshire 48 Shropshire 49 London 50 Yorkshire (East Riding) .51 Hertfordshire 52 Perthshire 53 Berwickshire 54 Sutherland 55 lincardineshire to reach the Palace betweeu " SYD 2HE NAVY. The Hero, 91, screw, Capt. G. H. Seymour, C.B which had sailed on Friday from Spithead to join the Channel fleet, put back to that anchorage on Saturday morning, with the loss of her fore yard, which had been carried away in a heavy squall from the W.S.W. off St. Catharine's at 5 a.m. the same day. The broken yard was towed ashore by the Comet steamtug, and the irons, &c., landed at the dockyard at noon. By 3 p.m. the new yard had been fitted with the irons, leathered, and launched into the water off the King's Stairs, in readiness for towing off to the ship. The Hero again sailed from Spitbead at 7 a.m. yesterday, but brought up in St. Helen's Roads, the weather look ing wild and unsettled, with a strong breeze from the westward. The Euryalus, 51, screw, Capt. Tarleton, C. 8., steamed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday from Spithead, and berthed alongside the Bellerophon hulk, to await orders from the Admiralty. From the very defective state of the ship's hull, her en gines, and boilers, it is very probable that her offi cers and crew will be turned over to another vessel, rumour says either the Bacchante or Shannon. The crew of the screw steamship Brunswick, 80, Capt. Ommanney, at Plymouth, were paid off on Friday. The Marines, Marine Artillery, and sea men belonging to Portsmouth, took passage in the steam tender Avon, G. Day, second master com manding, which sailed the same afternoon. On Saturday the Brunswick was towed to her moor ings in ilamoaze. The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. Cock burn, at Devonport, has been supplied with a new figurehead. The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Sotheby, in Plymouth Sound, was swung, and had her compasses adjusted on Friday. On Saturday her crew were inspected by Captain Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cambridge. Her Majesty's screw yacht Fairy was undocked . from No. 1 dock at Portsmouth on Saturday. The Fire Queen, paddle, Master Commander Paul, was afterwards placed in the same dock. The steam gunboat Torch, which has been built for the Admiralty by private contract, arrived at Chatham on Saturday to be surveyed. Ten Armstrong guns, recently received, are now lying at the gun wharf, Devonport. The following appointments were made on Fri• day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Jones, to be inspecting commander in the Coastguard, vice Crewe-Read, whose term of service has expired ; C. J. Polkinghorne, master, to the Nile ; G. R. Deigh ton, paymaster, to the Victor Emmanuel ; W. Hink man, paymaster, secretary to Rear-Admiral Bruce at Portsmouth; H. Perry, paymaster; E. R. Key, assistant paymaster; A. L. Evcrsfield, assistant paymaster; and T. A. W. Smyth, clerk, to be sec retary's clerk at Portsmouth ; D. M'Farlane, pro moted to be acting first class assistant engineer in the Mohawk ; G. Deans, promoted to be first class assistant engineer in the Ca sar; M. Barker, pro. 'noted to be second class assistant engineer in the Beagle ; J. H. Vickery, promoted to b second class assistant engineer in the Princess Charlotte; J. Scott, promoted to be second class assistant engi neer in the Valorous ; G. Thompson, promoted to be second class assistant engineer in the Mars ; 0. Ti. Loxdale, promoted to be second class assistant engineer in the Topaze ; T. Ball, promoted to be second class assistant engineer in the St. Jean d'Acre ; F. Wheeler, promoted to be second class assistant engineer in the Gladiator; and T. G. Pun nett, acting third class assist an t eng i neer , t o th e Fisgard, for service in the Vivid. THE ARMY. Major-General Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Lieut.- Governor of Portsmouth, and commanding the South-Western District, will, at the end of the pre sent month, succeed Lieut.-G&neral Sir George A. Wetherall, K.C.8., K.H., at the Horse Guards, as Adjutant-General of the Forces. Brevet Lieut.-Colonel James Conolly, Brigade- Major, South-Western District,proceeds to Canada as Assistant-Adjutant - General . Lieut. and Capt. W. F. E. Seymo - tr, of the Cold stream Guards (son of Admiral Sir Geo. Seymour, K.C.8.), is appointed A.D.C. on the Staff of Major.Generat Sir J. Y. Scarlett, vice Brevet- Lieut.-Col. H. G. A. Luard, appointed Inspector of Volunteer Corps. We understand the command of the South- Western District has been offered to Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., now commanding the Ist Infantry Brigade at Aldershott. The pay and allowances of the military and naval chiefs at Portsmouth present the following disproportionate figures during the periods of com mands of Major-Gen. Scarlett and Admiral W. Bowles : $ 31ilitary Commander— s. d. 4 Pay as Major-General Commanding .... 691 19 7 Allowance as resident Lieut.-Governor .. 173 7 6 " Temporary":allowanee (as tablemoney) 200 0 0 Total Naval Commander— X s• d• Pay as Admiral Commanding-in .Chief 1,825 0 0 Allowance for table money • 1,825 0 0 .Tetal D v i ie ff e er .A eneniay . our of Naval Commander £1,851. 12 11 12,555 pe uua r lr al Bruce's pay and allowance will be Bwles's, the annum £365 less than Admiral rat commana u in n a t e l r l i e cen rank. The future Gene ral district is also liable to the loss a the £2oo id marked " temporary." Major-General Bloomfield will this day assume the command of the second Infantry 13rimde of the division at Dublin, vice General Co- Cotwo u o n a yn,gliam, 0.13., wil) proceeds to India. 97th Regiment, will succeed to the command a o n f d tl o w f Colchester garrison. Major Ducane, Royal Engineers, now on duty at plymouth, has received instructions to proceed to the West Indies. A Board of officers has been ordered to assembl e at the Horse Guar ds for the purpose of inq u i r i ng into the mode of letting the canteens at the various barracks, and into the canteen system generally, with the view of several alterations and improve ments some time in contemplation by the autho rities being made in that department. The mem bers of the Board, of which Col. the Hon. A. Gol den, C. 8., Deputy Quartermaster-G.eneral, is ap- Teinted the president, will meet for the first time this morning, and will examine the witnesses who lutve been summoned to attend from the principal ------------- ------ garrison towns. T he Board is to report Ole result 1 of the inquiry to the Government with all possible despatch. The hired troopship Nugget, Capt. Bona, sailer'. of from Woolwich on Sat urda y evenin g , in 1 ow fo a s t ea mtug, for Gravesend, having on boar d - the l lowing troops : — Lieut. Wa rburton, Royal. Engl.- neers, three sergeants, six corporals, and 30 :privates belonging to Capt. Mairis's Sixth Company ;Nod a e tachment of the 6 5 th Foot (2d Yorkshire rth Riding), consisting of one officer and 167 rank and file, to make up deficiencies in those corps now sta- ' tioned in Auckland, New Zealand ; and Captain Queade, five officers, and 111 men belonging to the Ist battalion 12th Foot (the East Suffolk), for Sydney. Staff Assist.-Surg. Grace is in medical charge of the whole. The embarkation of the troops, and the inspection and verification of the ship's qualifications for the voyage were superin tended by Capt. Freeth, Deputy Assist.- Quarter master General Royal Artillery. The Nugget, although of small burden, has the reputation of being an admirable sea vessel, is well ventilated, and fitted with much comfort. The left wing of the City of Dublin Royal Militia left Plymouth on Friday in the British and Irl9ll Company's steamship Lady Eglintoun, Captain Bishop, for Dublin, where the regiment will be dis ied. . CAVALRY COLONELS. A writer in a contemporary says : Sir H. Stracey is reported to have put the fol lowing question to the Secretary of State for War in the House of Commons,—" Whether general officers appointed to regiments of cavalry will in future be obliged to repay the difference of £1,675, although the prices of commissions in infantry and cavalry have been equalised." As your columns are open to the exposure of every species of jobbery, I trust you will permit them to become the medium of explaining the practice to which that gentleman alludes, one which : although apparently collateral to, is as immediately destructive of the good of the service, or the efficiency of the English cavalry it self, as any of those enumerated in the able letter of the Secretary for War to the Lords of the Trea sury, or your own comments on the subject. When a lieutenant-colonel of cavalry has com pleted his six years in the rank of field officer, be comes weary of its monotony, or is ordered on fo reign service, he casts about for a mode by which he may attain a triple result—first, to regain the money he may have expended on his promotion ; secondly, how to effect it without selling out; and thirdly, how not only to retain his rank and _reim burse himself, but how to form all those expedients to the best future advantage. He finds out some poor aged lieutenant-colonel of infantry desirous of realising the price of his commission, £4,500. He then informs the officers of his regiment that he is willing to exchange to the half-pay of infantry, provided they will make up the sum of £lO,OOO or £12,000, as the case may be; if they consent, all the excess above £4,500 is put into his own pocket, probably from 17,000 to £B,OOO. Our lieutenant colonel of cavalry having thus accomplished the first two of his meditated projects now quietly vegetates on half-pay, enjoying the " otium cum dignitate." In the usual course of promotion he becomes an ef fective major general, and aspires to be colonel of a regiment of dragoons, worth £1,300 a year. Ac cordingly, after having enjoyed the £7,000 or £B,OOO for years on half-pay, he applies to be installed as colonel of a regiment on paying to Government the paltry sum of £1,670. This, however, if I understand Sir 11. Stracey's question correctly, does not satisfy his cupidity ; for he hopes, under recent regula tions, to be restored by paying next to nothing. But let that pass. The object of my letter is to ex pose the injustice of his obtaining a regiment un der any circumstances. When the retirements have been accorded to seeing foreign service, wounds, or ill health, they may perhaps be defended with a show of reason ; but the reverse of this has been so repeatedly the case, that instances have been known when a double compact has been entered into, in which the major purchasing the lieutenant-coloneley of cavalry has pledged himself at the expiration of 12 months to re-enact the same, or sell out; which has been done. Can it be matter of wonder that this arm of the national service, so prostituted to private vanity and ambition, interest and cupidity, should degenerate into utter inefficiency, under a job More worthy of a Government contractor than the dignity of a great nation ? It is by practices such as these that officers who have expended all their little patrimony on the pur chase of their commissions, and the best part of their lives on foreign service, are disgusted when they see opulence and ease take precedence of merit and actual service. "BOW NOT TO DO .17:" A brief statement of the circumstances under which the new artillery has been despatched to China—or rather to the Red Ste, for the Armstrong guns have not reached the Indian Ocean yet—will justify iu some measure the suspicion of those who believe that all is not right yet at the War-office and the other departments charged with the admi nistration of the forces of Great Britain, and that a very successful attempt would be made to rival the confusion and chaos of the arrangements at the outset of the Crimean war if we were again plunged into a contest with any European Power. Whether that be so or not, here is the story :—lt was desir able to send the Armstrong batteries as soon as possible to the East. Arrangements accordingly were made by which the Himalaya was render ed disposable for the conveyance of the force to Alex andria, where other arrangements were cunningly devised for their conveyance by railway to Cairo, and thence to Suez. Fearful of the consequences of too great rapidity of transit, however, on the guns or on the troops, the authorities lighted upon the notable expedient of neutralising the speed of the Himalaya during the western portion of the route by employing the famous old steam barge of her Majesty's Indian navy, the Berenice, built at Glasgow in 1835, of 664 tons burden, and 230 horse power, which has been known to go eight knots under favourable circumstances, to go round to Suez to take the artillery on board. By letters received from Cairo, dated Feb. 16, it appears that one bat tery R.A. sailed in that remarkable craft from Suez on the previous day. Thus it would appear that part of the artillery force has been very nearly three weeks in Egypt, and the rest is still there ; and if our ally, the Emperor of the French, were not the most magnanimous of men, he certainly might have asked for explanations of the delay. Perhaps he views with pity the weakness of our system, which struggles with the carriage of a few guns as if it were engaged in marching a grand army into Italy. But that is not all. The Berenice, which was to have carried the 14th Dragoons from Bombay to Suez, had never apparently the least intention of doing anything of the kind, and had no notion of doing duty as a troopship. On being inspected it was found she had no cooking-coppers for the men's food, no tubs, no plates, dishes, or buckets , no bed ding for the sick. And the artillery officers were actually obliged to fit her out with these articles as well as they could, and to furnish her even with quarter galleries at Suez. The officer in command had received no instructions to provide anything of the sort ; and, as h e k new th e playful coyness the authorities evince in regard to any advances made er to rs o i n n c t u h r e t i r h o r w i s n k . r e But p u o t n t s h i b e il ship ity, is he at wisseaelyt d by eel o i ffi ned c last, and we wish her and her c a rgo a pleasant, and —if it were not mockery, we would say—a speedy voyage. Her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons were at the latest accounts not waiting at Suez, where v they were expected to be—on the contrary, they were at Bombay, and it was said that tenders had just been issued for their transport p r a o s u s nd g it the s imCtapee. Meanwhile Milward's battery is passing very agreeably, no doubt, in the harb our o f Alex andria, on boar d the floating hotel which the au thorities have found for them on board H.M . S . Himalaya — a mo de of lodging them which is, how ever, not very economical. But with a liberal P ar . liament, and the ungrudging liberality of the esti mates, what signifies a few pound ? One may ask if this delay could n ot have been avoided, and if Great Britain, with her enormous resources in ship ping, could not find better accommodation for her troops, and make more judicious endeavours to al leviate some of the horrid discomforts of a Red Sea passage in February.— rift and Nary Gazette. EDINBURGH ANNUITY-TAX BILL.— The Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh have resolved, by 31 to 18, to petition against and oppose the Lord-Advocate's Annuity tax Bill. Mr. Black, ItLP., has addressed a letter to the citizens of Edinburgh, recommending them t) give their support to the Lord-Advocate's Bill, at least, in the event of obtaining a guarantee for the cessation of the tax in fifteen years. His own Bill of last year, which he has been called upon by several parties to re introduce, he says there is little hoe of carrying without - several years' agitation; while the nicaswe of his colleague has every prospect of immediate success if assented to by the inhabitants. The Lord-Ad vocate's measure would terminate the tax much earlier than Mr. Black's, and would to some extent at once lessen the burden on the ratepayers; and the circumstances are favourable to obtaining the diminution of the clerical establishment, there being three present or prospective vacancies in the eighteen charges at present, The eppo. sition of the ratepayers to the Bill rests mainly on these grounds,— that it provides not merely for the present support but for the permanent en (etowt ment of th e c i ty c l ergy ; th a t it gives the inhabitants no x se . , thernsiburden, aid such as was proposed in former bills to lessen and that it involves a heavy burden for the pre sent, gives no guarantee for the cessation of the tax in la years, the bill proposing to continue the assessment till a certain capital sum be provided. With certain modifica tions, quite consi s t en t with itf! * main scope, ' the measure would in all probability be _received mo re f avoura bly, and it is understood that the Nord Advocate is willing to some ex tent to modify the bill. THE' SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1860. THEN. BILL. The following is a copy of the Bill introduced by Lord John Russell, on Thursday, "further to amend the laws relating to the representation of the people in England and Wales" : Whereas it is expedient to make further provi sion for the due representation of the people in Parliament, be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : I. Every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy within any county, or riding, parts, or division of a county, in England or Wales, except within the limits of a city or borough which shall return a member or members to serve in Parliament, or of a place sharing in the election for such city or borough, as owner or tenant, any house, warehouse, counting house, shop, or other building, being either sepa rately or jointly with any land within such county, riding, parts, or division (except within such limits as aforesaid) occupied therewith by him as owner, or occupied by him therewith as tenant under 1 the same landlord, of the clear yearly value of not less than £lO shall, if duly registered, be en titled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for such county, riding . , parts, or division ; provided always that no such person shall be so registered in any year unless he have resided for six calendar months next pre vious to the last day of July in such year within such county, riding, parts, or division. 11. The provisions hereinafter mentioned with reference to the right :to vote in the election of a member or members t.) servo in Parliament for a city or borough, in respect of the occupation of pre , mises in such city or borough, and to be registered in respect of such right—that is to say, the provi sions now in force as to the time of such occupa tion, as to being rated, claiming to be rated, and payment of rates, and as to successive and joint occupation, shall be applicable to the right to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire conferred by_this Act, and to be registered in re spect of such right, as if such provisions were re enacted, mutatis inutandis, with reference thereto. 111. The occupation of premises within a city or borough which shall return a member or members to serve in Parliament, or within a place sharing in the election for such city or borough of the clear yearly value of not less than £6, shall confer a right to vote in the election of such member or members, in like manner as such right is now conferred in re spect of the occupation of premises of the clear yearly value of not less than £lO ; and all provi sions now in force concerning such right in respect of such occupation shall, save as herein otherwise provided, be applicable to the right hereby con ferred, as if £6 were mentioned in section 27 of the Act of the session holden in tha 2d and 3d years of King William IV., cap. 45, and were mentioned or referred to in all other the provisions concern ing such right, instead of £lO. IV. No person shall be entitled under this Act to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire for any county, or riding, parts, or division of a county, or under the said Act of the 2d and 3d years of King William IV. and this Act, to vote in the election of a member or members for any city or borough, in respect of his occupatioi, jointly with any land, or any building other than a dwell ing house in which he himself resides, unless such building separately be of the clear yearly value of not less than £5 in a county or than £3 in a city or borough, although the same, jointly with the land occupied therewith, be of the clear yearly value of not less than £lO or £6, as the case may require. V. Sections 24 and 25 of the said Act of King William IV., disentitling persons in the cases therein mentioned to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire in respect of their estates and interests as freeholders, copyholders, or cus tomary tenants, or tenants in ancient demesne, or as such lessees or assignees, or as such tenants and occupiers as in the said Act mentioned, shall not be applicable in the case of any building and land oc cupied therewith, where, by reason of the foregoing enactment, the occupier shall not be entitled to vote for any city or borough in respect thereof. VI. So much of sections 27, 28, and 29 of the said Act of the 2d and 3d years of King William IV., and so much of an Act of the session holden in the 11th and 12th years of her Majesty, cap. 90, and of an Act of the session holden in the 14th and 15th years of her Majesty, cap. 14, as requires as a con dition of the registration in any year of any such occupier of premises as therein mentioned, or of his title to vote in the election for any city or borough, that he shall have paid, on or before the 20th day of July in such year, all the assessed taxes which have become payable from him as therein men tioned, shall be repealed. VII. Each of the boroughs mentioned in the schedule (A) to this Act shall, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return one member and no more to serve in Parliament. VIII. The parishes of Chelsea and Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, shall, for the purposes of this act, together form a borough, to be called the borough of Chelsea, and such borough shall, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return two members to serve in Parliament. IX. Each of the places mentioned in the schedule (B) to this act shall, for the purposes of this act, be a borough, and shall, as such borough, include the places and be comprised within the boundaries of such borough as such boundaries shall be settled and described in an act to be passed for that pur pose in this present session of Parliament, which act when passed shall be deemed and taken to be part of this act as if the same were incorporated here with ; and each of the said boroughs named in the said schedule (B) shall, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return one member to serve in Parliament; and if no act to settle and de scribe the boundaries of the said boroughs be passed before the Ist day of June, 1860, then, until Parlia ment otherwise provide, each such borough shall comprise places and include such boundaries as are specified and described in connexion with the name of such respective borough in the said schedule. X. In all future Parliaments the West Riding of the county of York shall return four knights of the shire instead of two to serve in Parliament. XI. In all future Parliaments the county, riding, parts, and each of the divisions of counties men tioned in the schedule (C) to this act shall respec• tively return three knights of the shire instead of two to serve in Parliament. XII. In all future Parliaments each of the boroughs mentioned in the schedule (I)) to this act shall return three members instead of two to serve in Parliament. XIII. In all future Parliaments the University of London shall return one member to servo in Parliament. XIV. Every person, not subject to any legal in capacity, on whom the degree of Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine, or Doctor of Medicine shall have been conferred by the University of London, or who shall be a Bachelor of Arts in such University of not less than three years' standing, shall be entitled to vote in the election of any member to serve in Parlia ment for the said University. XV. The Sheriff for the time being of the county in which each of the boroughs constituted by this Act is situate shall, within two months after the passing of this Act, and in every subsequent year in the month of March, by writing under his hand, to be delivered to the Clerk of the Peace of the county within one week, and to be by such Clerk of the Peace filed and preserved with the records of his office, appoint for such respective borough a fit person, being resident therein, to be, and such person so appointed shall accordingly be, the re turning officer for such respective borough until the appointment to be made in the succeeding March ; and the provisions contained in section 11 of the said Act of the 2d and 3d years of King William IV., providing for the death or incapacity of any person appointed as returning officer for any borough, as therein mentioned, and exempting any so appointed from serving again in the same (ace, and disqualifying certain persons from being so appointed, and persons so appointed from being id appointedgranted to churchwardens a hu case ny rch beo wa fr borough, au rd egh e he ns o , charter er r shalle overseers, fextel i extend and a n d incorporation epv being li cable to and for the appointment of returning offi cers for the boroughs constituted to the returning off icers to heap b p y ei t i b it is Act, edfe and same under this enactment, and to the case of a charter of incorporation being granted to any borough constituted by this Act ; rnd for the pm-poses of this provision the borough of Staly bridge shall be deemed to be situate in the county of Chester. XVI. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London shall be the returning officer for Such Uni versity, and the wait for any election of a member to serve in Parliament for such University shall be directed to such Vice-Chancellor. XVII. The Vice Chancellor of the University of London shall proceed to election, in pursuance of any writ to be dirt eted to him as liereinbefore mentioned, within three days after the receipt of such writ, giving three char days' notice of the day and place of election, exclusive of the day of s p u r c o l e i la e m le a ct t i i o o n n c a e n r d ti t fy lie day the o s am f election, l ' ie,togeth a c n i t . l N s v ha ith ll after sueh writ, according to the directions thereof. XVIII. At every contested election of a member to serve in Parliament for the University of London the polling shall commence at 8 o'clock in the morn ing of the day next following the day fixed for the election, and may continue for not more than three days, Christmas-day, and Good Friday being ex cluded; but no poll shall be kept opefl later than 4 o'clock in the afternoon. XIX. At every such election of a member for the University of London the Vice-Chancellor shall ap point the polling place, and also shall have power to appoint two or more Pro-Vice-Chancellors, any one of whom may receive the votes and decide upon all questions during the absence of such Vice-Chan cellor; and such Vice-Chancellor shall have power to appoint poll clerks and other officers, by one or more of whom the votes shall be entered in the poll book or such number of poll books as shall be judged necessary by such ViCe•Chancellor ; and such `Vice-Chancellor shall, not later than 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the day next following the close of the poll, openly declare the state of the poll, and make proclamation of the member chosen. XX. Every person on whom, under the provi sions herein before contained, a right of voting at any election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for any county, riding, parts. or division of a county, or of a member or members to serve in Parliament for any city or borough, is conferred, shall, subject to the conditions affecting such right, be entitled to vote at any election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in Parlia ment for such pounty, riding, parts, or division, or of a member or members to serve in Parliament for such city or borough, which takes place after the last day of November, 1860, and, subject to the conditions affecting his right to be registered in any year, shall be entitled to be registered in any register of voters to be formed for such county, riding, parts, or division, or for such city or borough in or after the year 1860. XXI. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year 1860, notwithstanding the continu ance of this present Parliament, for or in respect of the boroughs constituted by this Act, in like man ner as if they respectively were boroughs now re turning members to serve in Parliament. XXII. No person shall be registered in the re spective registers of voters to be formed during this present Parliament for the counties and divisions of counties in which the boroughs constituted by this Act may be respectively situate who would not be entitled to be so registered in case the same were now boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament. XXIII. Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights of persons whose names are on any register of voters in force at the time of the passing of this Act to vote at any election which takes place be fore the Ist day of December, 1860. XXIV. In case a dissolution of this present Parliament take place before the day at and from which tho registers of voters to be first made for the boroughs constituted by this Act begin to be in force, the writs for the election of mem bers to serve in Parliament for such rospective boroughs shall not be issued until such registers begin to be in force. XXV. The provisions of ',the said Act of the second and third years of King William IV., relat ing to construction thereof, shall be applicable to the enactments hereinbefore contained; and all other the provisions of the said Act, and of any Act amending the same, now in force, and not hereby repealed, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the enactments hereinbefore contained, shall be constrned with such enactments as one Act. XXVI. In the precept of the town clerk and notice by the overseers, of which forms (numbered 1 and 2) are given in schedule B to the Act of the session holden in the 6th and 7th years of her Ma jesty, cap. 18, the clear yearly value of £6' shall be substituted for the ' clear yearly value of £lo,' and in the said notice the words and assessed taxes' shall be omitted; and, at the end of the headings of the lists numbered 3 and 4 in the same schedule add and of an Act passed in the 23d year of her Majesty, entitled [insert the title of this Act.]' XXVII. The provisions of the said Act of the 6th and 7th years of her Majesty, as amended by this Act, shall be applicable for the registration of per sons entitled to vote, and to the rights of voting under this Act, and to the proceedings in elections to be had in pursuance of this Act, in like manner as such provisions are now applicable for the regis tration of persons entitled to vote, to rights of voting, and to proceedings in the election of mem bers to serve in Parliament. XXVIII. All laws, statutes, usages, provisions, and penalties now in force respecting the election of members to serve in Parliament fur England and Wales, except so far as the same are hereby repealed or are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be and remain in full force, and shall apply as well to the election of members to serve in Par liament in pursurnce of this Act as to other elec tions of members to serve in Parliament. XXIX. All writs to be issued for the election of member to serve in Parliament, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices con sequent upon such writs, shall be framed and ex pressed in such manner and form as may be neces sary for the carrying this act into effect. XXX. If any person duly elected a member of the House of Commons in any future Parliament hold at the time of his being elected any office the acceptance of which after his election would have made void his seat, his acceptance, while he con tinues such member of any other office, upon or immediately before his resignation of the office holden at the time of his elction, or upon or im mediately before the revocation or avoidance of his appointment to the office so holden, shall not, nor shall any like change only of office from time to time, make void his seat in Parliament, unless the office so accepted be an office the holder of which is incapable of being elected a member of the House of Commons. SCHEDULES. SCREDULE (A). Boroughs now returning two members which are to return in future Parliaments one member each. Guildford. Ripon. Marlborough. Hertford. Maldon. Richmond. Devizes. Tewkesbury. Wells. Marlow. Knaresborough. Evesham. Dorchester Andover. Ilarwich. Bodinin Ludlow Totnes. Chippenham. Ly.nington. Thetford. Hunting - don. Leominster. Honiten. Cirencester. SCHEDULE (B). Places to be boroughs to return one member each. Birkenhed.—Cheshire—The extra-parochial eha pelry of Birkenhead, the several townships of Claughton, Trantnere and Oxton, and so much of the township of Higher Bebbington as lies to the eastward of the road leading from Higher Tran mere to Lower Bebbington. Burnley.—Lancashire —The district within the improvement boundary, as fixed by the Act passed in the session holden in the 9th and 10th years of her Majesty, chapter 119 (Local and Personal), section 98. Staleybridge.—Cheshire and Lancashire—The dis• trict within the police boundary of the town of Staleybridge, as fixed by an Act passed is the 9th year of King George IV., chapter 26 (Local and Personal). SCHEDULE (C). County, Riding, Parts, and Divisions of Counties now returning two Knights of the Shire which are to return in future Parliaments three Knights of the Shire each. Lancashire, Southern Divi sion Lancashire, Northern Divi sion Middlesex Kent, Western Division Devonshire, Southern Divi- sion. Staffordshire, Southern Divi sion. Yorkshire, North Riding Lincolnshire, Parts of Lind- Bey Essex, Southern Division Somersetsb i re, Eastern Di v sion Norfolk, Western Division Cornwall, Western Division Essex, Northern Division SCHEDULE (D). Boroughs now returning two members which are to return in future Parliaments three Members each. Manchester. Liverpool, Birmingham. Leeds. The Clarence, East Indiaman (one of Mr. R. Green's fleet), Caltt. 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Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimcs and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, Raises, Blanchard, and Co. ; at Souqa coupton, 11=411 awl Spy, DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT BURRADON. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. One of the most fearful explosions which for some years past has been recorded occurred on Fri- day afternoon last at the coal pit at Burradon, near Killingworth, six miles north-east of Newcastle-on- Tyne. To understand the nature of this terrible acci dent, it will be necessary to give some description of the Camperdown or Burradon coal mine. From the downcast shaft runs " a way" or tram-road, in a north-easterly direction, for about 300 yards ; at the extremity of this way the workings branch off to the right and left. On the right, at a sharp angle, commences a sharp, steep incline, on which is a self-acting railway ; the length of the incline is about 500 yards to the plane where several ways meet, and in the neighbourhood of which the prin cipal workings lie. On the left, from the starting point before indicated, is a long and crooked way, upwards of a mile in extent, which curves round to the east, and by an oblique series of workings joins the extrerregasterly point of the pit, into which the workings beyond the plane at the top of the in cline open. In the workings beyond the plane, at the end of the incline, between 70 and 80 men were employed, and in the long way between 30 and 40. The current of air passed down the long way to the north, round towards the eastern side, and across over the long way into the up-cast shaft. The gas appears to have formed in the " whole" or solid workings near the head of the incline. The presence of gas in this part of the pit had been known for some time, and had caused some anxiety amongst the men. Some of them had remained at home from fear of an accident, and about six weeks ' age part of the men working thereabouts had beeu turned back by the deputies and viewer. At about half-past one on Friday, in the afternoon, a slight explosion was observed, the exact locality of which is not yet ascertained, but it is• believed to have taken place in the " straight up flat," in the " whole" or unbroken coal. Whether any serious damage arose from this beyond injury to the per sons in close contiguity, is not known ; no such terrible results followed as those which were pro duced by a second explosion which occured within 10 minutes ,afterwards. Two lads, hewers, named Allen, were alarmed by the concussion of the first explosion, and ran down the incline towards the point at which it joins the principal air way, and took shelter in a cabin where the lamps, &c., are kept. Here they were spoken to by the " back overman," William Alderson, who, thinking that the danger was past, urged them to return; but they refused, and the overman left to press the same request upon the men engaged further up to the east of the incline. In this way he met another boy named Urwin run ning, and in vain persuaded him to return—the boy's life was saved. Scarcely had he left Urwin when the second explosion took place, and one of the Aliens was struck by a stone driven along by the force of the tremendous blast in the roadway, which' destroyed the machinery and waggons with which it came in contact. The death of Alderson and the rest of the employed beyond the top of the incline must have been instantaneous. Some of the men in the " longway" felt the explo sion and took to their heels, warning others as they came ; others appear not to have been conscious of anything unusual, and only sought escape when warned by the deputy-overman. The whole of these fortunately escaped. The following is an ac curate statement of their names : Stephen Taylor, Robert Green, Thomas Reid, Thomas Pratt, William Rice, John Waugh, Thos. Drysdale, Wm. Frier, Peter Martin, Thomas Smith, Jeremiah Barnes, "Jack" (name not known), John Oliver, Mordack M'Nab, James Forster and son, William Brown, Richard Alderson, James Heron, Michael Kennedy, John Robert Dixon, Benjamin Swinburne, Robert Golightly, Matthew Golightly, George Neal, William Johnson, jun., Robert Cal vert, Thomas M'Quin, Luke Beadlen, Richard Alderson, and two boys named Allen. Most of these persons escaped without sustaining any injury, many of them neither felt nor heard the explosion, but some were slightly injured. John Frier was knocked down twice, and one of the Beadlens sustained some slight contusions. Meanwhile the shock had been felt at the down cast shaft, and a little boy, who had noticed it, ran and alarmed the residents in the neighbouring cot tages. The deputies and overmen, who were not down in the pit, fottwith commenced making efforts to rescue those who were known to be there. They met some of the men escaping from the " cross-cut," or long air-way; but, persevering as far as the " after-damp" and sulphurous vapour would permit, penetrated nearly to the plane at the top of the incline. To do this they had to take in with them " brattice," or thin planks of wood, to stop up certain openings, and so to force the cur rent of fresh air from the pit shaft to accompany them. The first body found was a lad named Za chariah Beadlen, who was found at the top of the incline. Jn all directions were found broken lamp% fragments of clothing, parts of boots and shoes, in dicative of the force of the terrific explosion. Up to five o'clock this morning, 16 bodies only had been recovered. Most of these were so dreadfully burned and bruised as to be recognised with diffi culty ; few had any remnants of clothing of any kind remaining. Each of the corpses presented a dreadful spectacle, but were sent up the pit shaft covered in blankets. • The following is a list of the persons believed to be lost, including those whose bodies have been re covered, viz.:—George Maddox, leaves a wife and six children ; John Maddox, jun., nephew of the above, leaves a wife and three or four children ; Thomas Maddox, James Maddox, and John Maddox, brothers, single men, and nephews of the above ; Edward Dryden, a wife and three children ; John Carr, a wife and seven children ' • Thomas Lawson, single; Wm. Wilkie, a wife and four or five chip dren ; Thomas. Wilkie, son of the above, putter, single; James Brown, a wife and two child ren ; Thos. ilkinson, a wife and family ; Thos. Thomp son, a wife and two children ; Wm. Turner, a wife and one or two children; Wm. Urwin, a wife and four children; Thos. Beadlen,single, and Zechariah Beadlen, single, brothers ; Thos. Dawson, single : R o bert Soulsby, a wife and th ree or f our Children ; Wm. Donelly, a wife and family ; Joseph Vought, single; David Addy, David Addy, jun., and John Addy—father and two sons ; Robert Leitham, nephew of David Addy, wife and large family— his first day in the pit ; John M'Williams, a wife and three children ; John Fittes, single ; Robert Kyle, single ; Amor, married ' • Ralph Heron, widower; John Pease, a wife and two children; John Pease, son of the above ; John Thrift, single ; Alfred Allen, single; John Carr, single; George Fisher, a wife and three children ; Martin Sankey, married three months ago; Matthew Mordue, sin gle; Win. Nichol, single; David Phillips, single, and Thomas Phillips, single—brothers; Matthew Hepplewhite, single • James Nichol, s i ng l e; A n d rew Messer, single.; Matthew" Cleghorn, single, his first day at the pit; Moses Thompson, boy; Jas. Brown, his first day in the pit; Jacob Weatherley, boy; Thomas Grey, boy; Wm. Cook, boy; Thomas Go lightly and Ritson Golightly, boys, brothers ; Joseph Musgrave, boy; John Marshall and Thomas Marshall, brothers, sons of a widow ; William Al derson, back overman, wife and five children; Benjamin Nicholson and John Dewery, deputy overmen, both leave large families ; Henry Johnson, putter; Isaac Johnson, single; Hethe rington, boy ; Isaac Wilson, single ; John Jervis, single; John Frier, single; Geo. Shotton, a wife and two children; John Gallon, putter ; Doxford, putter ; Geo. Thrift, putter ; John Cope land, boy ; Smith, single ; Geo. Schimpf, a wife and two or three children ; Edward Thompson, boy; Geo. Whips, wife and family. Two wastemen, named Thos. Friar and Robert Jefferson, who went down the pit to assist in re covering the bodies, have not been seen since about nine o'clock in the evening, and it is supposed that they are lost. The overman, Mr. Weatherley, shortly after parting with them tried a trap door leading into the waste, in the hope of being able to approach the bodies by that route; but the noxi ous gas was overpowering, and he was obliged to shut the door quickly to save his life. He thinks the two men must have supposed he entered the waste, and that in attempting to follow him they were suffocated. While trying this door a little lad of 12 or 14 came up crying bitterly for his pony. Mr. Weatherley told him not to venture inside the door, but he fears his warnings were disre garded for he has seen nothing of the poor boy since, and is unable to hear that lie has been brought to bank. This list of names conveys to the mind of the stranger no true idea of the mi ser y which the eala ,. mit s has produced in every house in Burradon and Camperdown. The character of many of these men was deserving of the highest esteem, and we write with a perfect knowledge of them, when w e say that some of theta would have adorned any sphere of life in which they might have • been placed by their social and domestic virtues, their morality and l piety. George Maddox — up o n whose family this calamity has fallen with especial scverity—was a man of sincere religious earnestness, and an active labourer in the Sunday school of the village, w h ere i n he had taught for 11 yea;s with sp the excep tionarkly of one single Sunday. tfe was in his family circle tenderly affectionate, and fu• 23 years never left his house without kissing the whole of hi 3 family. Sober, just, and unpretendin g , 1 gained the respect of all who lqeNtr him. Ile was an active niemhet• of the Provisional Committeeof the Miners' and was usually eg g e d Provident Association, to preside at the delegate meetings of miners on the subject. The secretary of the Miners' Provident Associa tion, Wm. Urwin, is also amongst those who have been struck down. With great natural ability, he conducted the correspondence in a most unexcep tionable manner, and manifested a comprehension of actuarial data and arithmetical calculation which. was astonishing. He was a prudent and cautious adviser of his fellow-men, and the editor of this journal feels it no condescension to speak of 'Wm. Urwin as his friend, and as a faithful fellow-labourer in a project intended to provide for the distressing sequels of calamities like the one we to-day record. His private character was as virtuous as his philan thropic efforts were pure. We could name a dozen more of these Burradon pitmen of equal respectabi lity and moral virtue—prominent among whom we should name Dewery and Alderson, to whom everybody within their circle of acquaintance was deeply attached. Projects of many kinds for the intellectual improvement of the locality had met with warm support from many of the :deceased, and steps were in progress among the men to raise a public hall for their own use. Without exaggeration we may say that such an excellent set of men could rarely be found to gether in any circle of society, and hence the fright ful calamity which has occurred is not only to be deplored for the agony it has produced and the misery which will result to the persons immediately affected by it, but it is also deeply to be lamented on account of the public loss occasioned by the pit men at large. The causes of the accident were not discovered at seven o'clock this morning, but it seems that a small quantity of gas in one of the workings exploded at first, and the ignited gas formed a stream along the top of the cavernous passages, and became connected with a larger volume of explosive vapour in one of the large chambers formed in the mine, by the re moval of the " broken" coal. It will be the duty of the coroner and jury to investigate these matters, assisted by the Government inspector, and the public will look for a searching investigation of the circumstances which have produced such a pi ofound sensation in the whole of the district. In concluding this notice, we may point to the fact that public benevolence is urgently required to alleviate the distress arising from this wholesale destruction of the fatlkers of families, and remind our readers and the public that a subscription list lies at our office, where the smallest contributions will be gratefully received. Subscription lists will also lie at the Tarious banks in this town, and at Mr. Franklin's, Central Sta tion. Mr. John Bowes and partners have opened a subscription list for the relief of the sufferers from this awful catastrophe with the handsome sum of Xso.—Newcastle Chromcle. 2 1 1URDE11 AT SHEFFIELD. A non-unionist saw grinder, named James Linley, died at Sheffield on Wednesday from injuries re ceived by being shot in the head in August last, and the inquiry by Mr. Badger, coroner, into the circumstances attending his death was brought to a close yesterday. On the evening of the Ist of August last Linley, whose life had been attempted on three previous occasions, went to the Crown Inn, Scotland-street, and sat drinking for some time in a " snug," the window of which looked into a back yard communicating with Scotland-street by a pas sage. At 10 o'clock the only persons left in the snug were Linley and three other men, the last persons who had gone away being a bailiff, named Richard Brown, and his wife, who lived near. In less than five minutes after they left Linley was shot in the left temple, evidently by some one who had shot from the back yard. The ball, IN hich ap peared from the wound to be a very small one, lodged behind the left eye, and could not be ex tracted, but after some weeks Linley recovered suffi ciently to be able to resume work. At first the crime was supposed to be a trade outrage, the previ ous attempt on Linley's life having been attributed to trades union disputes. But a few days afterwards, Brown, who is unconnected with the Sheffield trades, was apprehended on suspicion, the supposed motive in his case being jealousy. In his house were found two pistols, one a very small one and the other several sizes larger. A brown hat was also found there. A woman living in the yard behind the Crown saw a man wearing such a hat run towards Scotland-street, immediately the pis tol had been fired ; and another woman, named Dewsnap, at the same time saw a man, whom she swore was Brown, run out of the passage, and cross Scotland-street, towards where Brown lived. The latter witness did not come well out of the exami nation to which she was subjected. It being impos sible to extract the ball in order to fit it into the pistols, Brown was remanded at large. Yesterday he appeared before the coroner, and the women re peated their evidence, Dewsnap adding that Brown's brothel had uffered her money to pay oho oould not swear to Brown shortly , after she gave evidence before the magistrates in August, and before the Bench had come to any decision. From the evi dence of the medical men it appeared that death had resulted from the injury caused by the ball. But the ball having now been extracted a gun• smith was called, and he expressed a decided opi nion that.it could not have been fired out of either of the pistols found at Brown's house, being too large for one and too small for the other. Under these circumstances the jury returned a verdict of Murder against some person or personsunknown." COUNTRY MARIBTS. NORWICH-MARCH 3. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was larger; the condition of most of the samples being rather improved there was a better demand, and prices unaltered. White wheat 46s to 49s 1 Red wheat 406 to 4Se Slatting barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier barley 34s to 406 Distilling do.. ....25s to 27s Oats.. 246 to 26. Flour, 29s 6d to 303 per sack from the miller. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. A private letter from Madrid of the 26th of February gives some particulars of the state of feel ing there. The writer says : " You will have known by this of the rupture of the peace negotiations, and that the Spanish army is preparing to move--against Tangier according to some, against Fez according to others. Mulev- Abbas, attended by the Moorish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed- el-Ketif, conferred with O'Don nell on the 23d, but failed to persuade the Spanish General to lower his conditions of peace. These conditions, we hear, were 200,000,000 of reals (£2,000,000 sterling), with the guarantee of the proceeds of the Customs of a maritime town ; the possession and perpetual dominion of the whole of the conquered country, Tetuan included ; liberty for the Spaniards to practise their religious rites and ceremonies in the country, and to have ambassadors at the Imperial Court of Morocco. " I must say, though a Spaniard, that moderate men and men of sense here deem these conuitions exorbitant. It is to be observed that those who affirm that peace should not be made without the conquest of Tangiers are the two extreme political parties— Carlists and the wild Democrats. These are the men who shout the loudest for the continua tion of the war, for their hopes depend much on the occurrence of some great calamity. In quiet times they have hardly a chance of seizing power ; their best and only opportunity is in the storm. The Progresistas, who support O'Donnell, are anxious for peace; the Vicalvarists desire only what O'Donnell desires ; the Conservatives wish for peace, and all who are engaged in commerce and in agriculture, the taxpayers and the functionaries, join in the same prayer. " O'Donnell could not imagine that on such ter rible conditions the Moors would accept peace. He cannot have forgotten the words he uttered in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in October last. Ile said that' Spain did not desire conquests on the African soil ; that she did not seek for poli tical and territorial compensation ; and that what she wanted was only to avenge the affront offered to the Spanish flag by the undisciplined tribes of Anghera.' At the same time the Spanish Govern ment gave the English Minister a written assur ance that we were not going to make any conquests, and that, whatever might be the result of the war, the O'Donnell Cabinet promised to abandon, when peace was signed, the places occupied during the war. "Now, I do not mean to charge the O'Donnell Cabinet with perfidy. I believe that in October last year they did not think of conquests, and that what the Spanish Parliament said, it said in good faith, and that what was promised to Mr. Buchanan was really meant to be carried out. But circum stances have changed since then ; the situation of O'Donnell is no longer the same : it it very critical, and it is that situation which may force him and the Cabinet to fail in their own solemn declarations, in the declarations of Parliament, and the obliga tions contracted with England. "I will just say a few words on the state of affairs. It is notorious that O'Donnell undertook the war for personal reasons and to please the Queen, who from religious reasons was most enthu siastic for it, and her Majesty was led to believe that she was predestined to carry out successfully the famous testament attributed to the first Isabella. For his part, O'Donnell, though caring very little for the first Isabella or her supposed testament, calculated that a successful campaign in Africa would consolidate his power as Minister in Spain, which, from various reasons, was rather shaky. In place of maki ng himself thoroughly acquainted with the vulnerable points of the empire in mari time towns, in place of assembling the army and the squadron on the coasts of Andalusia, and fall ing unexpectedly with a division on one point, or of bombarding Mogador, or some other marl• time town, badly prepared from the uncer tainty of the movements of the Spanish army, he suddenly called to mind that the 19th of November was the Queen's Saint'sNith day, and ordered E c h ague to proceed with the h undefendedvanguarde s er t an ot o h , andecoast, announce take p b o y ss t e e s l s e r g on i o p f h t_h to e the Queen, on her holy festival, those old walls were occupied. On Nov. 25th the Moors fell on the Spanish unexpectedly, and O'Ditohnntehlel, whole hearing of thoef the fact, crossed the strait with army except the third corps. What has passed since then ? Why all the army was heaped together in the confined space between Ceuta and Sierra Bul lones ; we have had to sustain 50 sanguinary com bats without real utility, and cholera decimated our ranks until we routed, on Feb. 4th, the camp of Muley Abbas, and on the 6th entered Tetuan, hav ing spent in these operations 500 millions of reals (X 5,000,000 sterling), and lost near 15,000 men. From fault to fault, from error to error, O'Donnell finds himself at Tetuan in the imperious necessity of satisfying the opinion of official Spain, excited by the Cabinet and its agents, not to speak of the national desire of the country s whichf o r some sh e e o h tE a p s ezean tion for the immense sacrifices have asked on what conditions forced, Moors , make. le to Spain would make pea ce. of his promises to England, andO'D ohninselolw, own, words in Parliament, ' has demanded the owfhroelaeis,ofantdheeereteanitiqi.uered territory, 200 millions of andory, commercial com pensations which own words and the stipulations public have as yet no exact knowledge of is between and the strict account the country . will ill call Governme nt, upon him to render, if after having spent 00,000,000 reels and 15,000 men, it is to remain contented with Ceuta and its approaches. If he made peace without conquest O'Donnell would fall from power, scouted by all Spain ; and this explains why he preferred continuing the war, and trust ing to future Success for the solution of his present difficulties. As a Spaniard, I lament that my country is involved in a war sanguinary, ste rile, and without any advantage to her, and only for purposes which are not of public interest. LORD MACAULAY'S MEMORY.—The late Lord Macaulay's memory was perfectly astounding. At a friend's house net very many mouths ago he was quoting in rapid succession long passages from the ballads of the northern counties of England. On being asked by one of the party where he had obtaincd such stores of poetic lore, he replied that he had spent a great part of one of his long vacations while at Cambridge in the north of England, and had taken that opportunity of traversing Cumberland and Northum berland on foot, entering the cottages of the poor people, and sitting down in their chimney corners to chat, and that he made it a point not to leave a cottage without extracting: from each good woman some story or legend, in prose or in poetry, which he carefully recorded day by day. H e added, that he did not know where this store of folk-lore now was, but added that it would probably turn up among his papers some. day or other. We trust that his executors will, now remember the hint, and do their best to exhume (40 byiVq treasure.—Once a Week, CAMBRIDGE—MAucu 3. There was a limited supply of wheat, and, with a rather steady demand in the trade, white moved off at 44s to 49e red, 438 to 47s per 36 stone. There was a small show of barley to-day ; malting, 36s to 40s ; grinding, 28s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats at 21s to 28s for new ; old oats, —s to —s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale —new, 40a to 43s ; old, —s to —s per 33 stone; peas, 40s to —s par 36 stone. YORK—MAncm 3. To-day's market was moderately supplied with wheat, in improved condition, and all descriptions sold readily at last week's rates. Barley and beans unchanged. Malt, 63s to 70s per qr.; rye, 32$ per qr.; flour, 33a to 35s per sack. GLOUCESTER.-.MARCH 3. At our market there was rather a fair attendance, with a firm business doing. Ehglish white wheat, 45s to 475, red, 43s to 46s per qr. Foreign, 46s to OOs per qr. In barley, oats, and beans no alteration. DERBY-MARCH 3. At our market yesterday wheat held at no advance on the prices of last week, with a limited show. Barley was a ready sale. Oats and beans quite as dear. LEICESTER-MARCH 3. There was a middling supply of wheat to-day, a fair attendance, and trade firm. White wheat, 47s to 620 —red, 42s to 48s per 36 stone; a very fair inquiry for this barley, grinding, 30s to 335; malting,'37s to 435 per qr.; oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 62s to new 42s to 46s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 33;1 Seconds, 31s } Thirds, 29s per 20 stone. NOTTINGHA: .M-11Ancli 3. There was a good suppl] the condition of which was slow, at late prices. Oats sea White wheat, new, 453 to 54s Red do. 42s to 49s Old white sos to 56s Red do. 44s to 50s Barley, malting 38s to 44s Super. flour, 35s to 39s ; fi of wheat on offer to-day, tolerably good. Trade ruloi rce, with a fair demand. Barley, grinding 2ss to $O, Oats, old, 24s to 27. New do 23s to 280 Beans. 42s to 4s' Beans, new 41. to 44. ao, 315 to 33s per 20 Maur. DUBLIN—Minca 2. At our market to-day there was again little doing, bit currencies were fully supported, A. small supply of every description of grain. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. il. Wheat, white.. 28 6to 30 6 Do., new ..... —oto • Do., red 27 oto 28 6 Bere Do., new .... 0 to 0 I Rapeseed Barley Oats Do., black ll 6to 12 6 Indian corn .. 32 6t. 35 • FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following . table E signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails._ Next DESTINATIONS. .E:I Liverpool. • Mar. 7 Southamp. Mar. 11 Southampton March 5 Australia and Mauritius, vial DofesP3laailteBl.l 1 16 I , verpool.. Mar. 15 Canada, &c. (by c!. Bahamas y li o it r t k o , v a i a n Marseilles dil ava . ad nv i. a . F . Nc . 1 ce . t . ,, ; 31 31 m aa a r rr ... 1 7_ 9 : : ' Mar. 12,M China, Penang Cast e n, ° a i n C rrt. Helena ffonpa ' Ascen sion, pore, via Sout'ha a m n pton lMar. —3l Southamp. Mar. 3 , Mar. 10', E 1 Mar. 14 Ditto, Gibraltar, vi v a ir S ar o s u e t i h li a e m s ptou ..IMar. 3 , M;Southamp. overdue Honduras and Blewfields ....,Mar. 17, MlSouthamp. Mar. 16 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon,i via Southampton ..........;Mar. —, 3I Southamp. Mar. S Ditto, via Marseilles ...... Mar. 10, E Mar. 14 India (Bombay), via South-1 ampton .................... Mar. l 12, 311Southamp. April 10 Ditto, via Marseilles !Mar. —, F., afar. 5 Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, I and P. Islands Mar. 9, Mi Southamp. Mar. 5 Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Mar. 7, M Southamp. Mar. 11 Malta, Egypt, and Ades, via Southampton Mar. —, 31 Southamp. overdue Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland ,Mar. 24N Liverpool.. United States and British N 1 Despatch Mthret. -- America (by British packet) Mar. 10, E Liverpool.. Mar. 7 Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma dcira, and Teneriffe Mar. 23 B Liverpool.. 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Do WSON.—Ou the Ist inst., at Wokingham, the:wife of J. Dowson, Esq., of the Royal Staff College, of a son. GORDON.—On the 2d inst., at Adelaide-road, the wife of Chas. Gordon, Esq., of a daughter. MORTON.—On the Ist inst., at Tatterford Rectory, Nor folk, the wife of the Rev. Edward Howard Morton, of a son. MARRIAGES. CHARLEWOOD. — TRUSCOTT.—On. the Ist inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, C a pt a i n E. P. Charlewood, R.N., to Sarah Truscott, n i ece o f t h e l ats Rear-Admiral W. W. Henderson. GOODLIFFE—JENKINS.—On the Ist inst., at All Saints' Church, Huntingdon, Mr. John Goodliffe, second son of Mr. Goodliffe, of Woodwalton, to Elizabeth, only daugh ter of Mr. John Jenkins, brewer, of Huntingdon. DEATHS. CARRE.—On the Ist inst., at Caverse Carre, suddenly, Vice-Admiral Robert Riddell Carre, of Caverse Carre, aged 79. HAmturoN.—On the 23d ult., at Bath, the Right Hon. Lady Jane Hamilton, relict of Archd. 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