The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

2HE NAVY. Rear-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, K.C.8., hoisted his flag on board the Royal Albert, 121, Captain Lacon, in Plymouth Sound, on Monday. The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. E. R. Bar nard, at Devonport, was placed in No. 3 dock, Key ham, on Monday. She will be out of the han ds of the ipwrights about the 9th of March. Rear- Admiral Milne is daily expected to join her. The Emerald, in Plymouth Sound, was to hoist the flag of Admiral Milnes yesterday , and will sail to the West Indies as temporary flagship, on the 12th of February. She is being fitted out up har bour at present. The Perseverance screw, Commander E. R. Power, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, from the Channel Islands, where she has been employed in the relief of troops. The Pigmy, paddle steamer, Master-Commander Johnstone, sailed from Portsmouth yester day for Devonport. The Queen, 86, screw, Capt. Hillyar, at Ports mouth, bent sails yesterday, and will shortly pro ceed out of harbour to Spithead. In the steam-basin at Portsmouth are the Vic toria, 121, screw, and Duncan, 101, screw, receiv ing their machinery. The Princess Royal, 91, screw ; Hornet, 17, screw ; Ariel, 9, screw ; with the Bee steam tender and a gunboat under repairs, and preparing for service. The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander Bruce, repairing damages. The Excellent (late Queen Charlotte), fitting out as gunnery ship at the port, and the Bacchante, 51, screw, fitting out by the riggers for the steam re serve. In the two docks connected with the basin are the Immortalite, 51, screw, and the Megvera, screw, troopship. The Arcona, 26, screw (Prussian frigate), Capt. Sundewald, at Spithead, is taking out her powder and shell, prior to going into harbour. Admiralty instructions were yesterday received by Commodore the Hon. James Drummond, Super intendent of W oolwich Dockyard, requiring the whole of the Ist and 2d class naval recruits, at pre sent on board the receiving ship Fisgard, to be transmitted to Portsmouth for distribution in the various ships belonging to the fleet. The steam storeship Dee, Master Commander Pullen, from Portsmouth on Sunday last, was yes terday taken into basin at Woolwich to recommence shipping a ,cargo of steam boilers and machinery for her return voyage. A ball will shortly be exhibited at Mount Wise, Devonport, for the purpose of denoting Greenwich time daily at 1 p.m. The following appointments were.made yesterday ac the Admiralty:—Lieut. C. J. Carey to the Queen; Lieut. H. F. Nicholson to the Cambridge ; Lieut. J. H. Hatchard to the Impregnable ; Lieut. E. J. Jermain to the Excellent; Lieut. J. Shortt to the Melpomene; Lieut. R. Wilcox to the Hawke; Lieut. It. Sterne to the Argus ; G. H. Newbury, third-class assistant engineer, to the Fisgard, for service in the Firefly; R. Spiers, acting third-class assistant engi neer, to the Industry; R. S. Crompton and N. F. S. Digby, midshipmen, to the Emerald; A. J. O'Rooke, naval cadet, to the Cadmus ; and A. Thomas, mas ter's assistant, to the Cumberland. THE ARMY. The Government having granted permission for the erection of the memorial to the officers, non commissioned officers, and men of the Royal Engi neers who fell in the Crimea during the Russian war, at the entrance to Brompton barracks, Chatham, where the head-quarters of the Royal Engineers are stationed, the necessary works for raising the monument have been commenced. The site of the memorial will be on the piece of ground at the eastern entrance to the barracks, and the memorial itself is intended to be one of the finest erections of the kind raised in this coun try, several thousand pounds having been sub scribed for a monument which shall be no less an honour to the brave men to whose memory it will be raised than worthy of the corps to which they belonged. The designs which have been prepared are very costly and elaborate, and include a lofty centre:arch with smaller openings at the sides, the whole surrounded by a large vase. The names of every officer, non-commissioned officer, and man of the Royal Engineers, who fell in the Crimea will be inscribed on the memorial. The contractors for the erection of the monument are busily engaged in fell ing the trees which cover the proposed site. Admiralty orders were received at Chatham yes terday, directing the bounty now paid to recruits in the Royal Marine Light Infantry to be reduced from Lo to £4, with a free kit as before. This has been decided upon in consequence of the several divisions being up to their full strength. Recruiting, however, is still to be proceeded with. Sergeant E. Connors, of the Ist battalion of the 10th Foot, was on Saturday last presented by the officers of his regiment with a very handsome silver watch and chain, with the following inscription:— " Presented to Sergeant E. Connors, Ist battalion of the 10th Foot, by the officers of the regiment as a mark of their esteem for his good and gallant con duct during a period of 22 years in the regiment." The sergeant served throughout the Sutlej and Pun jaub campaigns and Indian mutiny, and was twice severely wounded. He wears four medals and three clasps. It is stated that the Government propose to erect a cavalry barrack at Colchester, and that the site will be the parade ground on the military road. Col. Bloomfield, commandant of the camp at Col chester, has been promoted to a command in Dublin, and will accordingly relinquish the appointment which he at present holds. The force in camp is now about 2,600 meu. Mr. R. S. Frazer, who superintended the opera tions of the floating factory the Chasseur, in the Crimea, who has been subsequently engaged in the Machinery Department of Woolwich Arsenal, and whose services in the first-named establishment ob tained the approval of the highest authorities at the War Department, was yesterday promoted to the post of Manager of the Royal Gun Factories at Woolwich, under - the direction of Mr. J. Anderson. THE DEAD OF 18,59. - Literature began the funeral procession of the months with the almost simultaneous obsequies of Hallam in England and of Prescott in America. These accomplished historians, who won their first golden spurs at almost the same moment, died within the same week; and by a curious coinci dence this double loss which letters were called to sustain in January was matched at the close of the year by the equally contemporaneous decease of Thomas De Quincey and of Washington Irving. Another conspicuous name within the restricted circle of the highest literary culture of our times must be chronicled with these—that of Sir James Stephen, Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, and who had long exercised a sort of consultative supervision over the education of the heir of the British throne. The world of politics has almost literally closed over the tomb of a great statesman whose doctrines had ruled the councils of Ecrope for nearly 40 years. There is something worthy of the Tragic Muse of Greece in the c l ose which awaited the fatally brilliant career of Prince Metternich. His every success had been a seeming victory over the instincts of the race, over the laws of progress, over the rights of men. And never had man been more seemingly successful than he, alike in Court and Cabinet. Talent, personal beauty, power, fame, wealth, had all been lavished upon the diplomatist whose skill had shaken down, as it was fancied, the whole fabric of the French Revolution. He had long passed the ordinary limits of human life, had seen one after another his great contempo raries fall around him, and was reserved himself to witness at last the utter downfall of the groat system he had founded, the uprising of the Revolution, and even the returning ghost of the Emperor he had chained so strongly down upon the rock in the Indian Sea. The last sun on which he looked shone down upon the battle-field of Magenta. But the triumph which France and freedom won over the deathbed of Metternich was not unalloyed. The death of Alexis de Toequeville robbed both of a loyal and gifted champion, who has left behind him but few in any land fully worthy to wear his mantle. In our own oountrv• the ranks of our public men have been loss sternly swept. Two diplomatists of re spectablee ran k—Mr. Rush, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. - Mason, of Yireinia—have been taken from us, and three senators have fallen, two of whom. Messrs. Geyer and Ha'e gan had retired from political life. The death of the third, Mr. Broderick, of California, is not likely, we aniv hop e to be soon paralleled in our annals, t o Nvl iieh it has ' given one sad and san guinary lesson les One m ost able and faithful plulanthroleist has been removed from his labours in the person if More ce M ann, who loved o i lea the i cause of educ Fike a .'estalozzi, a n d Howard. Our ,t grow s upon our ,mndi it Hike wea might eaten 4 its Arnost indefinitely were N s ;: n t, L O at tempt to in elln ia it all the si m pl y eminent persons whom the lest _ ti - els • Year four d in th e busy front of life, but of who n t:ne year which 3 esterday dawned will have no more report to give to men. Two crowns hay r .hOt 'II taken, one from the " fore head villanous of the hated Ferdinand of , Naples, one frc Cie lowly brow of the gentle Stephanie of Pi xe,`11.2, al. The cruel Yeh went to his bloody ae co r int in far India, and the sweet voice of one of the world's sweetest singers, Madame Bosio, was fi .oze a into silence among the snows of St. Petersbur g. BUST and prosperou s as life has been, death us been busy and prospered too, and the Old Year 's annual lesson lies before us to-day in a shape n 7 ore striking , i f not solemn, than it always w ears t o our too hasty and heedless eyes.— New York Ti e ,es, TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. The well-known large, square blue-book is just out, containing the usual annual statement of the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom with foreign countries and British possessions in the year 1858, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty. The following is a synopsis of these statistics, carefully compild from the abstract tables of the book before us : The grand total value of the imports of goods and merchandise in 1858 (which, unless otherwise stated, is always the year referred to) was 164,583,83 g and that of the exports 139,7g2,779/, making a gross total trade, on the part of the Bri tish empire, of 304,366,6111. The trade of 1857 and 1856 was larger, in the ratio of 334,018,7421 and 311,764,5071. In 1855 the imports end exports to gether stood at the sum total of 260,234,1501; and in 1854 at 268,210,1481. 125,970,3321 worth of goods came from foreign countries, and 38,613,5001 from British possessions abroad. Of the 139,782,779/ of exports, 116,608,7561 represented the produce of the United Kingdom, and 23,174,0231. that of foreign and colonial coun tries, re-exported. The imports are thus classified according to coun tries :—From Russia, 11,000,0001 to 12,000,0001; from Pru55ia,4,107,5091; from the Hanseatic cities, 4,319,0651; Holland, 6,265,2571; Belgium, 3,060,5851; France, 13,271,8901; Portugal, 1,079,7781; Spain, 2,258, 9 88/. ; Cuba and Porto Rico, 3,798,778/.1 the Two Sicilies, 1,656,2531; Turkey , Molda via, andWallachia, about 4,000,0001; Egypt, 6,026,1914 the United States and California, 34,258,4981; Bra zil, 2,275,4971; Buenos Ayres, 1,194,9771; Chili, 1,900,3221; Peru, 4,822,2531; China (Hongkong inc1u5ive),:7,073,509/ ; and Africa (West Coast), 1,563,085/. From the colonies the imports stand as follows : From Canada, 2,663,0341; New Brunswick, 1,102,1111; West Indies, 4,890,4881; British Guiana 1,451,341/ ;New South Wales, 1,930,1471; Victoria, 2,110,277/. ; British East Indies, or India proper, 14,989,0391; Ceylon, 1,679,852/. • Mauritius, 1,534,9521; Cape of Good Hope, 1,669,920/. In every other case the imports are under a million. The exports from England to foreign parts may thus be stated:—To Russia, 2,724,6091; Prussia, 1,956,1991; Hanover, 1,640,1891; the Hanse Towns, 9,031,8771; Holland, 5,473,3121; Belgium, 1,815,2574 France, 4,863,1311; Portugal, 1,432,2381; Spain, 2,071,2191; Cuba, 1,797,2191; Sardinia, 1,174,5801; the Two Sicilies, 1,569,1661; the Austrian territo ries, 1,298,1991; (our imports from Austria are under a million) ; Turkey, 4,255,6121; Egypt, 1,985,8291; United States, 13,994,8151, and Califor nia, 426,6331; Brazil, 3,984,9171; Buenos Ayres, 1,008,8191; Chili, 1,117,580; Peru, 1,163,1551; and China (exclusive of Hongkong), 1,730,778/. To Canada were exported 1,737,751/ ; the West Indies, 1,792,323 ; New South Wales, 2,919,5441; Victoria, 5,417,6011; Hong Kong, 1,145,6691; In dia, 16,782,3861; and the Cape of Good Hope, 1,602,6121. The imports above specified represent the computed, and the exports the declared, real value of the goods. The imported articles included 2,325,4391 b of beads and bugles of glass, 1,156,476 cwt of sul phur, 2,055,5961 b of bristles, 10,338,4041 b of cocoa and 60,697,2651 b of coffee, about 10,000,000 qrs of wheat and other grain, nearly 4,000,000 cwt of flour, 9,235,198 cwt of raw cotton, 1,283,905 cwt of flax, 3,790,2621 b of goats' hair or wool, 1,638,360 cwt. of hemp, 3,958,9401 b of tanned, &c., hides; 3,637,178 pairs of gloves, 775,183 pairs of boots, shoes, and goloshes • 484,988 cwt of nitre, 778, 230 cwt of palm oil, 1,721,953 cwt of potatoes (an immense increase), 3,692,023 cwt of rice (not in husk), 8,155,2561 b of raw and waste. silk, 3,764,894 sheep and lamb skins, 1,241,370 goatskins,l2,3s7,soBlb of pepper,1,064,663 gallons of brandy, 130,173 gallons only of Geneva or Hollands gin, 7,311,219 gallons of rum, 9,010,769 cwt of raw sugar, 75,432,5351 b of tea, 59,643,7801 b of tobacco, and 2,573,9251 b of cigars and snuff, 5,791,636 gallons of wine, 22,673,046 hoops, and 126,738,7231 b of sheep and lambs' wool (including alpaca and llama wool). 3,458 horses, 89,001 oxen, bulls, and cows, and 184,482 sheep were added to the live stock of the country. The gross amount of Customs duty received at all ports of the kingdom was 24,155,8521. The exported produce of the United Kingdom in 1858 included 1,618,28Jewt of soda, 1,559,8951 of apparel and slops (old and new), 8,840,6471 b of gunpowder, 3,068,5951 b stearine candles, 1,116,313 cwt of cement, 6,292,190 tons of coal, 1,517,308,665 yards of white or plain calicoes, and 785,666,473 yards of printed or dyed calicoes (cotton goods), 7,277,370 yards of cambrics and muslins (plain , and 3,952,534 yards of printed ditto, 7,335,580 yards of fustians, velvets, &c., 2,598 463 yards of cotton and linen mixed, 498,133 dos pair stockings, 200,916,902 lb of cotton twist and yarn, 3,162,832/ haberdashery and millinery, 663,400 cwt of hardware and cut lery, 121,215 dozen hats of all kinds, 187,2701 of jewelry, 6,364,8581 b of wrought leather (exclusive of saddlery and harness), 32,047,492 linen yarn, 110,986,886 yards of plain linen goods, 5,008,075 yards of printed ditto, and 1,711,437 yards of cam bric and lawn, 3,629,339 yards of sailcloth, 3,176,1311 b of linen thread for sewing, and 4,517,7301 b of cotton thread for same purpose; 1,097,2781 of steam-engines, 2,502,0741 of other machinery, 6,515,333 gallons of linseed oil, 592,719 tons of salt, 490,0781 b of silk stuffs and ribands, and about 700,00010 f fringes and mixed silks ; 1,325,311 gallons of British spirits, 1,351,151/ of tin plates, 13,455,9841 b of sheep's wool, 76,584,532 yards of mixed woollen stuffs, carpets, blankets, &c., 565,709 pieces of woollen cloths of all kinds, and 2,349,908 pieces of worsted stuffs. The total value of the gold imported was 22,793,126/, and that of the silver, 6,700,0651; the quantity of the former (coin and bullion) was 5,941,1690 z, and that of the latter 25,296,4890 z, 3,285,0420 z of gold (value 12,567,0401) were ex ported. The export of silver was 26,564,4280 z, value 7,061,8361. 37,751 registered vessels, of 5,609,623 tons, and employing 288,345 seamen, belonged to the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands and British pos sessions in 1858. Of these, 35,512 were sailing ships, and 2,239 steamers. In England some 168,603 seamen are employed as crews, in Scotland 32,862, and in Ireland 14,289, making a total for the United Kingdom of 215,754 seamen. 51,970 British vessels of 12,891,405 tons, and 45,573 foreigners, of 9,418,576 tons, entered and cleared from and to foreign countries and British possessions in the year 1858. (Fi•om the Times.) A whole nation of shopkeepers must needs have a heavy ledger, and if the reader will turn to another column of our impression this morning he will see one of the largest Christmas accounts ever made up. The figures express nothing less than the entire amount of British trade—export and import—all we bought, and all we sold. What we gained by it is matter of further deduction, but there, at any rate, arc our books completely posted up for the year 1858. We did a good stroke of business in that year—not quite so much, appa rently, as in 1857, but more in reality, for it was done on better principles. According to this latest calculation, we bought goods to the amount of £160,000,000, and sold goods to the amount of £140,000,000. The commodities in which we deal are miscellaneous, but the two comprehensive items of mines and manufactures will account for almost all. We produce two great articles of raw material— coal and iron, and in such quantities indeed, that the annual value of the yield is fully double that of all the gold of California. By the aid of these materials we work up others,—cotton in particular, but also wool, leather, and metals. The labour of our hands turns them into calicoes, hardware, machinery, saddlery, and such like productions, for all of which we find ready markets abroad. But for getting through all this work we require two things—stuffs to work with and food to live upon. So we send abroad and buy enormous quantities of cotton, flax, hemp, wool, hides, and s ilk ; and almost equal quantities of corn, flour, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, spirits, and wine. To these g t s h u es a e r' in 1858 we added nearly 30 0,000 live cattle,e m principallyorci of our . sheep.lt is plain, therefore, w e live hands. We can supply any people with coal or calicoes, raw iron or wrought iron, so cheaply that they could never find a better market, and we can deal with them in return either for raw materials or articles of food so liberally that they will get an excellent bargain. Next to the description of the business, the most important point is that of our customers, and here the account 'present some very striking features. The United States are, beyond all comparison, the largest customers with whom we have any dealings, but they do not buy of us half as much as they sell. Germany, on the other hand, takes from us, through the llanse Towns, twice as much as she sends, while Spain and Turkey keep the balance pretty even. India also is a most important customer to us, for the account between the two countries is not only very large-1;30,000,000 and upwards both ways together—but is somewhat in our favour. From the Chinese, of course, we buy immense stocks of tea and silk, whereas at present we sell them next to nothing. Russia, again, is more of a seller than a buye r , w hi ch is not extraordinary, cons i der in g how m uc h we w she act ua ll y needs of h s t of ours .pr b o u d t ucand there is how littleanother example whi c h is of more Nothing can be plainer than muchstricted. thati'mportan d ee r t n h g a s n w a it ll h . France are unnaturally . our ea do not go to France for so re e W r really ll ourselves want, though we do take /13,000 0 as w , 00 worth from her, but when it comes to the turn of Frenchmen to be buyers the figures are less satisfactory • still. They literally only deal with us to the amount of £4,000,000 or £5,000,000, whereas Holland does more than this, and Brazil nearly as much. Evidently there is something wrong here. France has a population of above 35,000,000; England of nearly 30,000,000. The two countries thus peopled lie close to each other, separated only by a few miles of sea. They produce respectively arti cles of peculiar importance to each other's welfare. We cannot send to market what France sends, nor can France send what we send. We cannot pretend to grow the vine, nor can we buy anywhere wines of that particular quality which France produces in profusion. On the other hand, if Frenchmen would come to us for coal and iron, they would save themselves an infinite amount of money. Can any body believe, in short, that the people of South America have greater need of British markets than the people of France ? Look at our cutlery. We could put knives and scissors in the house of every Frenchman far better than he now gets, and at a cheaper price; we could lesson by a heavy figure per mile the cost of laying down those railways on which the French Emperor wisely counts for the improvemement of French trade, and we could re duce their working expenses in like proportion by the means of cheap coal. As for ourselves, there are countless articles which we should be glad to re ceive from the other side of the Channel—articles which everybody who goes to France becomes de sirous of purchasing, and of which those who stay at home never conceive an idea. Would it not be a thousand times better if each country manufactured for itself only what it could best manufacture, and then made an exchange of commodities ? We say nothing about the present balance of trade. Of course, we would rather see Frenchmen come to our market as freely as we go to theirs, but we should not complain if our imports from France reached to £30,000,000 instead of £13,000,000, provided only there was a fair free dom of intercourse between the two countries. We do not wish for any forced reciprocity or any arti ficial establishment of a commercial equilibrium. The best way is to let such dealings find their own level. If we have more need of French goods than the French have of English goods, so be it. If the balance is against us there, it will be in our favour somewhere else where the conditions happen to be reversed. What we produce we profess to produce of such a quality and at such a price that it will command a market if no barriers are put in its way. We are sure that we can live by our work as far as its real value and saleability are concerned. We ask for no protection, but simply for a fair field. This, of course, is merely the theory of the case. At present we cannot expect to see it put into prac tice, either in France or elsewhere, for it will require years to develope the principles which the Emperor has laid down. This, however, is the true doctrine and the ideal by which we should be guided. Pro tection and self-sufficiency are pure economical delu sion. No civilised country can be self-sufficient. Even where population and territory attain such enor mous limits as in the case of the Chinese external commerce is all but a necessity. The Chinese are prodigiously the gainers by selling us tea, and they would increase their advantages if they would deal with us for clothing. It is sheer absurdity for any nation to confine itself to articles of its own pro duce in any particular department of manufac ture when it can obtain those articles better from some other nation, and thus apply itself to some branches of industry in which it can naturally excel. All this, too, we say on grounds of economy alone; but how much might be added on grounds of international friendship ? How many quarrels might be avoided, how much animosity might be extinguished, by the conviction that one State was so inextricably connected with the other by this reciprocity of dependence as to make rupture next to impossible ? When the trade between England and France rises to £40,000,000 annually instead of £17,000,000 the alliance will be effectual indeed. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESD Y EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1860, INDIAN SECURITIE ". The transactions in Indian securities continue on a large scale, and the financial reports by each mail, instead of being unheeded, as in former years, attract more attention than the advices from any other country. The public, however, have not yet acquired that familiarity with the topic which would enable them to understand without reference or explanation the various details referred to in the successive telegrams, and a short outline of the movements of the past year will be of service. At the commencement of 1859 the Government of India was urged by the mercantile community to publish some definite statement, analogous to the Home Budget, of its probable require ments for the coming year—namely, from May, ,1859, to May, 1860. Accordingly, by a special Gazette, dated the 21st of February, 1869, notice was given that a 5 per cent. loan would be opened, payable half in cash and half in 5 per cent. paper, and that the then open 5 per cent. loan, payable half in cash and half in 4 per cent. paper, would be closed; that the issue of Treasury or Exchequer bills bearing 41 per cent. per annum would be continued; that the amount of money to be raised by loan in the Indian markets for the period in question was 5 crorcs of rupees, £5,000,000 sterling. When this was ob tained the 5 per cent. loan would be closed, but it was mentioned that the sum to be received for Ex chequer bills was not counted as part of the £5,000,000. In the autumn the financial position improved so much that the Government, under date Sept. 30, addressed a despatch to Sir Charles Wood, in which, after giving a statement of ways and means for 1859-60 and 1860-61, they counter manded a remittance of silver of £1,250,000 that had been promised from England. In that despatch their revised estimate of cash to be raised by loans in India for 1859-60 is as follows : From 5 per cent. loan, cash £300,000 5 1 do. do 2,500,000 Exchequer-bills, do 400,000 £3,200,000 This statement materially differs from that of February, as the total requirement is made less by £1,800,000, and the amount to be raised by Exche quer-bills is, for the first time, brought into the account. The Government estimate an issue of these bills in 1859-60 of £2,500,000, of which they calculate on repaying £2,100,000, as the holders have the option of claiming the amount in 12 or 3 months. But there are symptoms that the result will be yet more satisfactory, and that this new security will greatly facilitate all future arrange ments. The general opinion in India is described to be much in its favour. From the first it was believed that the Government would both issue and keep afloat a far larger amount than they had assumed to be probable, and experience has strengthened that impression. The bills carry interest daily at a rate equal to 41 per cent., and ►hen they have been out 12 months they are receiv• able in payment of Customs and all other revenue duties. But the Government were naturally so uncertain as to the success of the experiment that in the estimate of February last no results from it were taken into account. On the recommendation of the Chambers of Commerce, they now publish in the Calcutta official Gazette a quarterly statement of the sums paid into the open loans. On the 9th of November the figures were given for the first two quarters of the current year—namely, from the Ist of May to the 31st of October, and the totals were as follows : Cash paid into 51 per cent. loan £1,321,000 For Exchequer-bills 2,099,000 £3,420,000 The return is defective in an important particular, since it does not state the amount of Exchequer bills that. had been repaid, but it shows that whereas the estimate of the 30th of September puts down £2,800,000 as the sum to be raised from the ordinary loan in the year, nearly half had been re ceived in six months, when the prospects of Indian finance were considered discouraging, and that the new security in the shape of Exchequer or Trea sury bills had become so popular that nearly £2,100,000 had been issued in half a year, against an estimated issue of £,2,500,000 in the whole year. The impression is, moreover, that a large amount of this issue is found to float, and will con tinue to float. The Goverament,in their September despatch, estimated it at only £400,000, but the Bank of Englaad alone holds £500,000, as shown by its last published return. Finally, it is to be remarked that the latest. Calcutta journals, as well as the commercial letters, mention that wince the publication of the Gazette statement large amounts of cash and 5 per cent. paper were being paid in for-the 51, per cent. loan, and that it was conse quently expected to be shortly closed. This con summation, which will perhaps be hastened by the increased Customs' duties on the great importation of cotton goods, &e., is desirable since the terms are bad for the Government—one-half being re ceivable in 5 per cent. paper, which was at a dis count, and the principal not being redecinaVe until 1879.—Times [ADvxnnsßßENT.]—Erps's (lloniceopathie Chemist) Cocoa.—This esteemed preparation is sold by the prin cipal grocers at Is. Gd. per lb., in 11b., Alb., and ilb packets. • Each packet is labelled " James Epp:., Ilousu3o - chemist, London." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—IfoIIOway's Pills.—Suffocating Fogs. —lmpurity of the Air. As the blood in its healthy state sus-' tains and renovates every part of the living system, so, when it is impoverished or impure (as it must of necessity be whilst country fogs prevail, and the density of the atmosphere pre. vents the deleterious gases rising above our heads), it has a precisely contrary effect. It is manifest that no medicine which does not reach the circulation can exterminate disease. These wonderful Pills operate directly, powerfully, and beneficially on the blood, venous and arterial ; they re move all the mephitic vapours absorbed from the atmosphere, they relax the air-cells of the lungs, affording a larger supply of oxygen, and they expel disease, and prolong existence. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE IVEEK. (From the Report of lite Registrar-General.) The deaths registered in London, which were 1,281 in the first week of the year, rose to 1,344 in the week that ended last Saturday. In the 10 years 1850-59, the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,213; but asthe deaths in the present return occurred in a popula tion which has increased, they should be compared with the average raised in proportion to the in crease, namely, with 1,334. The comparison shows that the actual number exceeds, but only in a slight amount, the number estimated for the second week of the year. The deaths from small-pox again rose last week to 41, of which 8 occurred to persons between the ages of 20 and 40 years. Three were recorded in the sub-district of St. John, Marylebone, 5 in that of St Giles South. There were 62 from scarlatina, and 5 of these occurred in Kensington-town sub district. Diphtheria is returned in 7 cases. Six deaths, which occurred to children, are referred to remittent fever, two of which took place In the workhouse at Greenwich. Bronchitis rose from 159 in the previous week to 188 last week ; and in the same time pneumonia from 98 to 120. Ex clusive of phthtsis and hooping-cough, diseases of the organs of respiration were fatal to 346 persons, whilst the corrected average for corresponding weeks is 310. Nine nonagenarians, of whom the two eldest were 95 and 98 years, died in the week ; also a centenarian (a woman) whose age is attested by the baptisinal register of St. Olave, Southwark. She lived the greater part of her life in Peckham, and died there. A man, aged 72 years, died in the workhouse, Mile-end New-town, from effusion on the brain, accelerated by want of'necessaries. Of bricklayers 3 died in the week, of bricklayers' wives 4, of bricklayers' children 9 ; of carpenters 6 died, of carpenters' wives 5, of carpenters' children 19, of masons 1 died, of masons' children 1 ; of painters 10 died, of painters' wives 2, of painters' children 11 ; of plasterers' wives 1 died, of plas terers' children 8. Last week the births of 985 boys and 953 girls, in all 1,938 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1850-9 the average number was 1,645. METROPOLITAN WATERS DURING DECEMBER, 1859. The analyses by Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S., of the waters used in London for domestic supply, show that these waters varied in purity considerably during the month, according to the amount of rain which fell. Those samples which according to the table contain the greatest amount of foreign matter were turbid not withstanding the filtration to which they aro understood to be subjected, and were taken after rain. It is a good precaution therefore to have a household filter. For the sake of compari son the composition of Loch Katrine water is given, and likewise that of a well at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, which was used by the military when they were attacked by cholera. Distilled Water Total impurity Organic Im. per gallon. purity. grs. or deg. grs. or deg. , . 0.0 0.0 Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glasgow Military Well, Newcastle THAMES COMPANIES Chelsea Southwark' Lambeth Grand Junction ... West Middlesex OTHER COMPANIES. New River East London Kent 1741 20S0 19'60 1 , 14 2.00 1.76 I'6B 2'32 23 •88 22 . 56 22'52 21*12 2724 The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 214 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which 0 . 8 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.032 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on four days of the week. The barometer rose to 30.21 in. on Sunday, the highest reading in the week, and it fell to the lowest, 29.85 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 37.2 deg., which is 2.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years, as determined by Mr. Glaisher. The thermometer attained its highest point in the shade, 46 deg., on three days, S un d ay , Th urs d a y, and Saturday ; and it fell to its lowest, 30.3 deg., on Monday. It was below the freezing point of water on three days of the week. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 1.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 93. The mean tempera ture of the water of the Thames was 40.4 deg. The general direction of the wind was south-west in the beginning of the week ; afterwards it was scuth-east. The whole amount of rain measured was only 7-100th of an inch, which fell on Friday. There were fogs on three days. THE SOVEREIGN HOUSES OF EUROPE /..V 1859. We read in the Supplement of the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung of Jan. 3 : " The following changes having taken place in the sovereign houses of Europe during the year just terminated : " DEAD.—Sixteen of their members have died, seven of whom were princes and nine princesses. " The seven princes are the King of Sweden and the King of the Two Sicilies, the Prince of Reuss- Greiz, the Archduke John of Austria, the Mar grave William of Baden, the Count Christian of Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weissenfeld, and a Prince of Mecklenbnrg-Schwerin shortly after his birth. " The nine princesses are the Queen of Portugal, who was a Princess of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen by birth; the Grand Duchess Dowager of Saxe Weimar, being a Russian grand duchess by birth ; the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who was a Saxon princess ; the Princess Louise of Windischgraetz, a sister to the Grand Duke of ; the Princess Lcetiti a u Mecklenburgra t , idow . of the Schwerin Count of Pepoli ; a Prince as of Sicily, 13 years of age ; and a Princess of Saxe- Weimar, 8 years of age; two Countesses of Lippe- Biesterfeld-Weissenfeld. " Only two cardinals have died, the Cardinal Du Pont and the Cardinal Falconieri. " BIRTIIS.—TweIve princes and three princesses have been born. The twelve princes are sons of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Sch wer i n but who died shortly after his birth ; of the Hereditary Princes of Belgium, Saxe-Meiningen, Schaum burg-Lippe, the Duke of Montpensier Prince Michael of Russia, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Prince Oscar of Sweden, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Prince George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Prince Hermann, of Saxe-Weimar. 6 ' The three princesses are daughters of the Queen of Spain, the Hereditary Prince 'of Reuss- Schleiz, and Prince Frederick of Holstein-Sonder burg-Glucksburg. " MARRIAGES.—OnIy four marriages have taken place, viz. :-1. The marriage of the Prince Royal, now King of the Two Sicilies, with the Princess Mary of Bavaria; 2, the marriage of the Prince Napoleon of France (son of Prince Jerome) with the Princess Clotilda of Sardinia ; 3, the marriage of Prince George of Saxony, the King's son, with the Princess Mary-Anne of Portugal; and 4, the marriage of the Prince Louis Napoleon Gregory Bonaparte, son of the Prince Charles of Canino and uncle of Lucien, with the Princess Christina Ruspoli. " Among the 48 sovereigns now reigning (includ ing the Emperor of Brazil, the Prince of Monaco, two Queens, and the three sovereigns de jure but not de filth) of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena), the oldest is the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose age is 84 years and , P ; months. Four sove reigns are upwards of 70, viz., the King of Wurtem berg, the Landgrave of Hesse-Homberg, and the Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and Reuss-Schleiz. Five are between 60 and 70, nine between 50 and 60, nine between 30 and 40, six between 20 and 30, and lastly three are not yet 20 years old. These last, the youngest among the actual sovereigns, are the Prince of Lichtenstein, who has turned his 19th year • the Prince of Reuss-Greiz, who is 13 years 9 months ; and the Duke of Parma, who is only 121. Both of these are under the guardianship of their mothers. The average of these sovereigns is 45 years 9 months, and among them there are 20 who have passed that age. " The sovereign who has reigned longest is the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, having been on the throne nearly 73 years. After him come the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and the Prince of Schaumburg Rudolstadt, who have reigned respectively 56 years and 52 years 9 months, including the years of their minority. Among the others, three have reigned between 40 and 50, ten between 20 and 30, fourteen between 10 and 20 years. The remaining 18 only began to reign within the last 10 years, and among them there are four, viz., the King of Sweden, the King of the Two Sicilies, the Grand Duke of Tus cany (Whose father has abdicated), and the Prince of Reuss-Greiz, who only assumed the reigns of government during the year just ended. " six sovereigns are not married or have not yet been. These are, besides the Pope, the Dukes of Brunswick and Parma, the Princes of Lichten stein and Reuss Greiz, and the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. Among the others there are nine who aro widowers, viz., the Kings of Sardinia, Belgium, and Portugal, the Grand Duke of Tus cany, and the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Kcethen. One sovereign is divorced, the Prince of Schwan burg-Sonderhausen, TWQ pontfae,ted mor ganatic marriages, the King of Denmark and the Elector of Hesse Cassel ; and one sovereign, the Grand Turk, lives in polygamy. " Among the 31 wives of the other Phristian siwerPipS Pg4larbr married, the oldest are the Grand . Pnehess of . geeklenburgh-Strelitz and the Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe, each of whom is more than 60. The youngest is the Queen of the Two Sicilies, w,ho is only 18. Twenty-five sovereigns have sons, one (the Em peror of Brazil) has a daughter, 15 have brothers, three have collateral relatives for their heirs pre sumptive. To these sovereigns we must add three, those of Brunswick, Anhalt-Bernburg, and Hesse- Homburg, whose successions,after their deaths, will pass over to another line ; and one sovereign, the Pope, whose successor is not chosen till after his death. "The oldest of the 44 hereditary princes or pre sumptive heirs are those of Modena and of the Elec torate of Hessia, who are upwards of 70. The others are between 60 and 70. One is upwards of 50 ; three are between 40 and 50 ; seven between 30 and 40 ; eight between 20 and 30 ; and 11 between 10 and 20. The youngest is still, as he was last year, the Pereditary Prince of Austria. Seven teen of them are married, one is'betrothed, and 13 have children. The oldest hereditary princess is that of Electoral Hessia, who is 70 ; the youngest is that of Saxe-Meiningen, who is only 20." INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS A meeting, consisting principally of private ship builders and the shipbuilding officers of her Ma jesty's dockyards, was held last evening at the house of the Society of Arts, John-street, A. delphi, London, for the purpose of establishing an Institution of Naval Architects. This institution has, it appears, been in course of formation for several months past, during which period it has obtained the support of many eminent persons. Sir John Pakington, while First Lord of the Admiralty, was one of the first to afford it the weight of his influence by accepting a vice-presidentship, and with him are associated the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Hardwicke, Sir F. Baring, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Lord Clarence Paget, and Mr. H. T. L. Corry, all of whom have likewise accepted vice-presidentships. With these noblemen and gentlemen are also associated as vice-presidents several professional and scientific gentlemen, including Messrs. Watts and Lloyd, of the Surveyor of the Navy's Department of the Ad miralty; Mr. Abethell, master shipwright of Ports mouth Dockyard ; Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead; Mr. Scott Russell, the Rev. Dr. Woolley and the Rev. Canon Moseley (the two latter gentlemen being the authors of valuable writings on the theory of naval architecture), and Mr. John Penn, the eminent marine engineer. The managing council of the institution consists exclusively of professional gentlemen, and comprises the master shipwrights of all her Majesty's dockyards and several of their assistants, Messrs. Martin andßitchie, the principal surveyors of Lloyd's Shipping Register-office ; Mr. John White, of Cowes ; Mr. J. R. Napier, of Glas gow ; Mr. Grantham, of Liverpool, and some others. Mr. J. D'Aguilar Samuda, shipbuilder, of Millwall, has been nominated treasurer. With the council are connected Mr. Joseph Maudslay, the eminent marine engineer, and Mr. J. Macgregor, of the Temple ; and to these names were last evening added those of Sir W. Armstrong, Captain E. P. Halsted, MN., and Captains Sullivan and Walker, of the Board of Trade, who will be invited to become associates of the council. A resolu tion was unanimously adopted, requesting his Grace the Duke of Northumberland to accep t the o ffi ce of president of the in s titution. Mr. E. J. Reed, the naval editor of the Mechanics' Maga zine, and the author of a paper on the " Ships of the Royal Na v y," rea d a t th e S oc iety of Arts i n December, 1858, who has acted as the organising honorary secretary of the institution, was unani mously elected secretary. An explanatory state ment of the design and the prospects of the new institution was made to the meeting by the secre tary. According to this statement the objects of the Institution of Naval Architects are wholly com prised under three heads:—First, fhe bringing together of those results of experience which so many shipbuilders, marine engineers, naval o ffi cers, yachtsmen, and others are acquiring quite indepen dently of each other in various parts of the coun try, a nd which, though almost valueless while un connected, will doubtless tend much to improve our navies when brought together in the printed transactions of the institution. Secondly, the carry ing out by the collective agency of the institution of such experimental and other inquiries as may be deemed essential to the promotion of the science and art of ship-building, but are of too great mag nitude for private persons to undertake individually. Thirdly, the examination of new inventions, and the investigation of those jprofessional questions which often arise and are left undecided because no public body to which professional reference can be made now exists. The means by which it is pro posed that the first of these objects shall be effected consists of the reading and discussion of papers at perio.lical meetings of the institution, the exhibi tion of drawings and models, the publication of re ports of the proceedings of the institution, and the establishment of a professional library and museum. The means by which the second object is to be effected will, of necessity, vary with the nature of the inquiries to be instituted. The objects embraced under the third head will be carried out either by the council or by special committees appointed by it. The council of the institution will meet again on the 30th of January. STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Last night the usual meeting of the Statistical Society was held at their rooms, St. James's-square, Colonel Sykes in the chair. `Zr. L. LEVI read a paper " On the past, present, and future condition of the leading branches of the revenue of the United Kingdom." After setting forth the importance of the subject, and dealing at great length with the various items of the public revenue, Professor Levi thus`summed up the results at which he arrived :-1. That having regard to the vast increase in the resources of the United King dom, the amount of taxation could not be con sidered as a hindrance to the development of national wealth. 2. That a considerable approach had been made towards equality in the distribution of taxation amongst the various classes of the com munity. 3. That it did not seem to be expedient to alter the present mode of raising the revenue by a mixed system of direct and indirect taxation. 4. That the customs duties should be levied on as few articles as possible. 5. That the remaining duties on raw materials and manufactured goods should be abolished. 6. That it was desirable to realise as speedily as possible the contem plated reduction in the tea and sugar duties. 7. That the wine duties should be considerably reduced. 8. That the paper duty should be abolished. 9. That the duties on fire tind marine insurance should be regarded as toles on prudence, and that the duty on licenses should be remitted. 10. That the property and income tax should be partially capitalised • that a reductio n should be made in the rate levie d schedule D, and that operatives in the receipt of high wages should be included in the income tax. It would be impossible to enter minutely into the mass of figures which the learned professor dealt with, but the following will give an idea of the result of his calculations. The population of 29,000,000 was distributed as follows ;--The upper class, one million, paid £22,500,000 in taxes, or £22 per head ; the middle class, nine millions, paid £33,000,000, or £3 13s. per head ; the working class, eighteen millions, paid £18,300,000, or £1 per head ; leaving one million of poor dependent on parochial relief, who paid no taxes. The average of the whole was £2lss. per head. The income of the upper class was X 180,000,000 ; of the middle class, £270,000,000; of the working class, L 150,000,000, or £600,000,000 for the whole. The distribution of taxation was given as follows :—Customs—Tea and sugar, £11,000,200; tobacco, £5,500,000; wine and spirits, £4,300,000 ; other articles, £4,000,000. Excise — Spirits and malt, £15,000,000; licenses, £1,500,000 ; paper, £1,300,000; carriages and horses, £1,000,000. Stamps, £8,000,000 ; taxes, £3,000,000 ; income tax, £7,000,003 ; poor rates, £6,000,000 ; local rates, £6,000,000 ; making a total of £73,800,000. Of this total £25,500,000 were supposed to be paid by the upper class, £32,900,000 by the middle class, and £18,300,000 by the working class. It came out very curiously that each class contri buted about 12 per cent. of their income to the revenue—the upper class £22 per head, the middle class £3 135., and the working class £l. The pre sent income from the customs was £22,300,000; from the excise, £13,300,000; stamps, taxes, post-office, and income-tax [the last £6,600,000] £19,100,000; making a total of £60,700,000. The prospective revenue in 1857, when it was assumed the popula tion would be 32 millions, was £63,400,000, the re venue at present derived from raw materials, manu factured goods, imported cheese and butter, and the excise duty on paper being omitted in the prospec tive revenue, on the supposition that they would be abolished. Professor Levi stated that, though based on positive data, his estimates could only be re garded as approximate results. A brief discussion ensued, in which Mr. Danson, Dr. Guy, aid Sir F. Goldsmid took part, after which a yule of thanks was passed to Professor Levi for his paper. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emigrant vessel Tiered of the Morning, 1,345 tuns, Captain G. Rudslph, balonging to Messrs, 'Wilson and Chambers, of Liverpool, which sailed from Birkenhead on the 2d of Augtmt, arrived 44 Mclhourne, Victoria, on Nov. 5, with 45 Iti AgrAc..4 couples, 5 single men, 279 single women, 26 child. 'Alm between the ages of 1 and 12, and 10 infants, making a total of 418 souls, equal to 395 statute adults, under the charge of Surgeon - Superintendent Horatio C os t ertou. Three births but no deaths occurred during the voyage. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY. Owing to a general meeting of the members of the rooms taking place to-day, according to previous announcement, to make preliminary arrangements for the better regulation of the subscription rooms, &c., we anticipated some move ment as regards betting that would remove the monotony that has prevailed for some time ; such, however. was not the case. although a good muster was present. Inquiries about the weights for the Chester Cup at present seem to take precedence of any other topic, and more inclination ever now to invest upon that event is exhibited than upon any other, but large bookmakers seem to adhere to their de termination of not commencing operations until the handicap has been publicly adjudicated upon. We may, however, men tion that 50 to 1 would have been taken to money about either Longrange, Herne, Satellite, or Traducer, while 1,000 to 15 could have been obtained about Aston ; 4 to 1 was offered on the field for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, not a wager, how ever, was laid upon that event ; 1,000 to 20 was taken about Cramond for the Derby, and that price would have been taken to money about Lanchester ; in other respects the following few quotations will suffice : TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst The Wizard (offered) sto 1 agst Umpire (offered) 6to 1 agst Lupullus (take 13 to 2) DERBY. 17 to 2 agst Umpire (offered) 40 to 1 agst Lanchester (take 50 to 1 freely) 50 to 1 agst Cramond (taken) CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Longrange (wanted) 50 to 1 agst Herne (waited) 50 to 1 agst Satellite (wanted) 50 to 1 agst Traducer (wanted) 66 to 1 agst Aston (offered) AQUATICS. LONDON ROWING CLUB. This great metropolitan club has, during the past few months, commenced a new course of action, which we doubt not, must eventually make the club greater even than ft is at the present time. It may be remembered that in 1855 this association was established by a few spirited gentle men, who, bewailing the great falling-off in rowing, wished to see the noble and healthy art flourishing as prosper ously as it had done in previous years. The club had no sooner been formed than it became great, and at every regatta they put in for they carried off all the prominent prizes. As usual, this year the went to Henley, where their successes, although not so numerous, yeas greater, perhaps, than they had ever been before. In 1858 they had, for the first time, suffered a defeat, the University of Cambridge having carried off the Grand Challenge Cup, the symbol of the eight-oared championship of the world, and the London Rowing Club had used every means to wrest the laurels from the valiant Cantabs. On the first day at Henley, last year they had to contend against the Oxford University Boat Club, whom they de feated, after a {terrific race, which was to be followed by a still greater one next day, when the London Rowing Club had to row against the holders, the Cambridge University Boat Club. Again the Londoners were successful; but so dearly-bought was their victory, that the heads of the club determined not to allow the young and rising members to give up their rowing during the winter months, and it was ultimately resolved that those who could spare the time should go to Putney weekly to row, in order that they might at any time be ready for victory ; and for the general promotion of rowing, as well as to make the junior members attain that brilliant position which their predecessors had attained as champions of the world. Mr. Balfour, the vice president, has, in the most handsome and liberal manner, come forward and announced his intention of giving prizes for pair -oared rowing, open to all gentlemen amateurs, stfb ject to restrictions of the committee. This body has, after mature consideration, barred those who have contenited in the Universitp matches at Putney, or for the Grand Chal• lenge Cup, Steward's Challenge Cup, and Pair-oared Goblets at Henley. The race will therefore be strictly confined to juniors ; and besides the club.members mustering strongly, the Kingston, West London, and other rowing clubs will in all probability send their representatices, and make a fine race of it. The day of rowing will be April 25th, and the course Putney to Hammersmith. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, JAN. 16. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plar_lations have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a French imperial decree, regulati ng as follow s th e a d m i ss i on or ex portation of certain foreign merchandise at the undermen tioned custom-houses : Art. 1. The Custom-houses of Thionville (railway sta tion) and of Apach (Moselle) - are opened for the importa tion, Ist, of goods paying duty at the rate of more than 20 francs per 100 kilos., o r designated by name in the Bth Article of the Law of the 27th March, 1817 ; 2d, of large undressed skins, dry and of Eur o p e an o r i g i n , a t th e ra t e o f 5 francs per 100 kilos. ; 3d, of wool in mass; 4th, hemp and flax yarn; sth, machines and mechanical apparatus. The Custom-house at Thionville (station) is also opened for the importation and exportation of grain and meal, and to the importation and transit of books in the French lan guage. The Custom-house of Apach is opened for the importa tion and transit of books in foreign and dead languages. From the 3lst December last the Custom-house of E'- range (Moselle) is closed against the importation of mer chandise paying a duty of more than 20 franca per 100 kilos., or specially designated by Art. 8 of the Law of thd 27th March, 1817, and for operations of transit. The Custom-house at Sierck is closed from the same date against the importation of machinery and mechanical appa ratus, the importation of flax or hemp yarns, and the admis sion of books in foreign or dead languages. From the same period the privilege of importing by the Custom-house of Sierck, Ist, merchandise paying more than 20 francs per 100 kilos., or specially named by the Law of the 27th March, 1817 ; 2d, wool in mass ; 3d, raw hides, dry and of European origin, at the rate of 5 franca per 100 kilos. ; and, 4th, the privilege of transit through the same Custom-house of goods, whether prohibited or not, will be limited to operations effected by the Moselle. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Jew. 17. 66th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Edward Wells Bell to be Colonel, vice General Richard Blunt, deceased. WAR•OFFICE, PALL -MALL, JAN. 17. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Commissariat Clerk Richard Stephenson Price to be Deputy Assistant-Com missary -General. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Worcester—Sir Charles Hastings, lint., M.D., to be Deputy Lieutenant. 3d Worcester Rifle Volunteers—Alfred Talbot, Esq., to be Captain; John Dixon, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Alfred Brinton, Esq., to be Ensirn. County of Kent—Thr, Earl of Brecknock to be Deputy Lieutenant. East Kent Regiment of Militia—Thomas Dennis, Gent., to be Ensign, vicO Tanner, promoted. Kent Militig Regiment of Artillery—The Hon. Ro bert /rlarskare to be Second Lieutenant, vice Strother, promoter;, 4tl). Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—Walter Roden, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Samuel Lewis, jun., Gent., to be Ensign. 4th Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers —James Bourne, Esq., l a t e M a j or i n the Royal L ancas hire Militia Artillery Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel C o mmandan e t o ! James Walt er , E sq., to b e Major. T o b e Captains—Goo. G ushby, Melly,Esq., Thos. Arthur Esq., B ar t on W r i g l ey, Esq., H enr y Hugh Hornby, Esq., Charles Backhouse Robinson, E sq., S amue l H aywar d Turner, Esq., James Pitcairn Campbell, Esq., and Charles Langton,ieute be First Li eu t enan t s —E us t ac e Greg, late Lieutenant in her To Majesty's 3d Buffs, Joseph Drinkwater, Gent., Alex. Gardner, Gent., Peter Bourne Sparrow, Gent., Wm. Radcliffe, G n . e t , and Jas. Poole, Gent. Gent., Henan, Corbot Lowe, Gent., Thomas u rk n e " George SinclairTo be Second Robinson,Lliets-iTar slbleorltt,Bju* Lancashire Rifle Volunteers —John Ist Company of _ Gent., and Caleb Charles otheram, Gent. Lord Howard, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Robertson, pro moted. 25th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Alex. M'Neile, Captain on half-pay in her Majesty's Madras Army, to be Captain ; Cherie:. Lee Campbell, Gent., t o b e Lieutenant ; Robert Horsefall, Gent., to be Ensign. 6th Division of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—To be Cap tains—Horatio Simon. Samuel, Esq. ; Francis Philip Rickards, Esq. ; William Spencer Sawyer, Esq. ; James Knowles, Esq. ; David Bleackley, Esq. ; John Pearce, Esq. ; Samuel Henry Hindo, Esq. To be Lieutenants— Robert Bridgford, Gent. ; John Bagshaw, Gent. ; Hugh Fleming, Gent.; George Hartley Goldsmith, Gent. ; Richard Papa Ford, Gent. ; Francis Henry Glover, jun., Gent. ; Herbert Philips, Gent. To be Eusrms—Andrew Stirling, Gent. ; Robert May, Gent. ; Thomas Walker Nel son, Gent. • Wm. Borlase Willock, G en t. ; R o b er t Bell house, Gent. ; John Howarth Ashton, Gent. ; Albert L. Dickins, Gent. To be Surgeon—Anthony Beaufort Bra bazon, Esq., M.D. To be Assistant-Surgeon—Robert Manners Mann, Gent. 10th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers —Peter Allen, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Surgeon. 15th Division of Lanc as hi re Rifle Volunteers—To be Captains—Robert Gordon Hamilton, Esq.; Richmond H. Tucker, Esq.; Francis James Eaton, Esq. To be Lieute nants—Richard Rankin Heap, Gent.; Thomas Stanley Rogerson, Gent.; Alfred Middleton, Gent. T o b e E nsigns —Allan Stanley Clare, Gent.; Thos. Alex. Bentley, Gent. 16th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Alfred King, jun., Gent., to be Li eu t enant; George Butler Hen shall, Gent., to be Ensign. sth Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—Alfred Crosby rope, Gent., to be Honorary Surgeon. 6th Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—David Barbour McCulloch, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; Isham Henry Edward Gill, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Ist Company of Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—En sign Fawcus to be Lieutenant, vice Fenwick, resigned ; Mr. Edward Shotton to be Ensign, vice Fawcus, pr( moted. 2d Company of Northumberland Rifle Volunteers—John Fenwick, Esq., to be Captain; Mr. Alexander Shannon Stevenson to be Lieutenant; Mr. John Twizell to be Ensign. 2 Company of Northumberland Artillery Volunteers — Emanuel Young, Esq. to be Captain. 2d Comp an y o f Berks' Rifle Volunteers—Lieutenant the Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville Hore Ruthven to be Cap tain ; Ensign Samuel Thomas George Evans to bo Lieu tenant, vice Ruthven, promoted ; Ramsay Hamilton Couper to be Ensign, vice Evans, promoted. Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers—Charles James Newbery, Esq., M.A., to be Captain •, Charles Twemlow Royds, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Oswald Smith, Esq., to be Ensign ; Frederick Whitmore Holland, Esq., 8.A., to be Captain ; Edmund Bouinois, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; John Begot & ' riven Esq., to be Ensign ; Henry Salusbury Hughes, Esq., to be Captain ; John Armin° Willis, Esq., to be Lieutenant; Robert Augustus Bayford, Esq., to be Ensign. Cornwall Volunteer Cerps-2d Company Artillery—Wm. Thomas Alexander Pattison to be Surgeon. Rh Company Rifles—John Kempthorne to be Captain ; William Goat wych Gard to be Lieutenant ; John Peter, the younger, to be Ensign. Ist Company Artillery—Henry Marley to be Surgeon. East York Rifle Volunteers, 3d Company—Philip Salt marshe, Esq., to be Captain; Eric William Clark, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Carter, Esq., to be Ensign. sth Regiment of West York Militia—Major William de Cardonnel Elmsall, late Royal Dragoons, to be Major. MEMORANDUM.—Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the rosignation of the Commission held by Lieut. Henry Broomhead in this regiment. BANKRUPTS. George Clarke, carpenter, Brixton-hill, to surrender Jan. 26 and Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Russell Grover, licensed victualler, Hand-court, Holborn, Jan. 27 at half-past 12, and Feb. 24, at 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Peck, brass cock founder, Birmingham, Jan. 27 and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Charles Pavia, merchant, Lime-street, City, Jan. 31 and Feb. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George White, grocer, Birmingham, Jan. 30, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Philip Andrew, brewer, Swansea, Jan. 31 and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. George Dixon, William Dixon, and Joseph Dixon, steel rollers, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, Jan. 28, and March 3, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Andrew Gibb, farmer, Balass, Cupar-Fife. Alexander Neilson, grain merchant, Bellshill, Lanark shire. Thomas Aitken, currier, Dundee. Charles Stewart, manufacturer, Milnhaugh, near Perth. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL—JAN. 17. The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise since this day week have been light. From foreign ports there have been reported 13,278 quarters of wheat, 689 quarters of barley, 2,915 quarters of beans, 1,200 quarters of peas, 11,345 qr. of Indian corn, 7,138 sacks and 1,580 barrels of flour. The exports in the same time comprise 844 qrs of wheat, 590 qrs of oats, 505 qrs of peas, 1,461 qrs of Indian corn, 1,246 sacks and 260 barrels of flour. The trade has been depressed during the week, and prices were easier. This morning we had frost. We had a moderate attendance at market this morning, and wheat met a limited consump tive remand at no improvement in our quotations of last Tuesday. Flour was offered at 6d per sack and barrel lower. Oats and oatmeal a slow sale, and both were 6d to Is per load decline. Barley and peas were unchanged; but beans declined 6d per qr. The amount of business transacted in Indian corn was better, but at rather lows! quotations. BRISTOL-JAN. 17. At the market to-day there was a fair attendance, and wheat had only a retail inquiry, at the prices of last week. Oats and barley in favour of buyers. SHEFFIELD -JAL 17, The attendance at our corn exchangew as moderate to day. We are well supplied with wheat, in which a small business was done, at last Tuesday's prices. Barley, also, at late quotations, though inferior barley was rather easier to buy. flour and other articles were unchanged. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l7s Od to 17s 6d White ,1 )1 • ..18s Od to 191 611 New red I, 1 , ...17s Od to 17s 6d New white ~ 7) ...18s Od to 19s 6d Beans ~ » ...16s 6d to 20s Od Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr 333 Od to 358 Od Malting ditto, ~ 37s Od to 42s 01 Oats 22s Od to 23s Od Millers' prices for flour—ls 6d, is Bd, and is 10d per 141 b. LEEDS-JAN. 17. The transactions in wheat and barley are without muoh change in value from last week, but confined to fine dry qualities. Oats and other articles remain unaltered. Averages for the week : Wheat 3,107 qrs., at .45s 8!d Peas .... 32 „ 39s Od Beans Barley.... 1,696 „ 39s 10}d Oats 248 ~ 23s lid Rye 7l ~ 3ls 100. Arrivals this week : Wheat 4,501 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans 937 Linseed 330 Flour NEWCASTLE -UNDER LYNE--lA.N. 16. I fair show of wheat at market, which meta slow de mand ; but we make no alteration upon the full rate/ of last week, except in a few instances where a shade more money was obtained. Malting barley in middling supply', at late rates; grinding descriptions meet a fair demand. Oats aid beans at late rates. Wheat, red .40s to 46s I Oats . 248 to 280 White do .47s to 523 Bean* to 520 Barley .33s to 44s Peso s ,,. . 4 8s to NORWICH CATTLE-JAN. 14. Our market to •day exhibited a good show of store cattle, comprising Scots, shorthorns, Devons, and Irish. A fair clearance was effected, although there was not a numeroup attendance. At the close about one• fourth of the stock re mained unsold. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns 4s Od to 4s M ; Irish, 31 6d to 4s ; Devons , 4s 6d to 64 shorthorns, (estimated weight whr! fat). Fat beasts a very good show, at 86 Od to 8s 6d per etoas• A firm sale. Sheep—There were good supplies of sheep in the per' Fat sheep, 8s 6d to 9s Od per stone, and well sold. Pigs—A poor supply. Store pigs 255 to 30s; fat pork, 6s Od to 6s 6d per stone. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E signifies that lettere are despatehei by evening mails from London, and It by morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Mail of Mails. Despatch. due. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. 11, E Southamp. Feb. 9 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 18, Bahamas and Havana via New York Jan. 20. Liverpool.. Jan.l9 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Jan. 18 , Liverpool.. Jan. 14 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton Jan. 20, M(Southarap. Jan. 10 Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via an d S B o i u e t w b fi a e md s t! .. .. Jan. 20, s S o o u u t t k h am am p p : Jan. 16 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 20,3 Soutkanip. Jan. 0, Ditto, via Marseill es J an. 28 , J an. S r India (Bombay), via South ampton Jan. 27, 11 Southamp. Jan. 25 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 16 Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Malts, Egypt , a nd Aden, via jan.2o, M Setithainp, Jan, 16 Vigo, and Oporto Jan. 17, M onthamp. , verde@ Southampton Jan. 18, E Jan. —. M 'cuthamp. Newfoundland Jan. 28, E iverpool.. United States and British N nex Di i t co to, a i n - i d a America (by British packet) Jan 1 0 . B ivorpool.. as. 10 Ditto (by V. S. packet) Jan. IoE outhaaip. Havana a llea Granada, , at G o r . ey .: Jan. West Coast o a a n s d t T o e f ue A ri f ff r e ica, Ma" Jan. 23 E iverpool.. Feb. 10 W I n dia, California, Vale- N C e h w i 11 '' —, 31,Southamp. Jan. 16 tozvrnla., !Southamp. —Among th e numerous ex t raor di na r/ cu NTi medicine effected by D u B arry ' s deliciona he[arAletsphwvietßshtoTolurinstEg RevalentaArabica food indigestion (dysper sia) flatuency, constipation, nervous, bilious and liver com plaints, cough, as th ma, consumption, and debility the follow• ing are not the least remarkable : Cure 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib• bereen." Cure 3,906. " Thirty years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's ex• cellent revalenta arabica food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Clunbury, Shropshire, Dec. 22, 1856.—Gentle men,—Many years' sufferings of chronic rheumatism• and complication of nervous diseases that made me miserable, for which the most approved remedies had been tried in vain, have been removed by Dia Barry's revalenta arabica food. I am, &c., James Chapman. In tins, at is. 6d. ; 11b., 3e. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265, The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post. office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly Alobis, 60, Graceehurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 'l5O, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopagats• street ; 85, Tottenham - court-road . Also at Dublin. Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Rairaes and Ce. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Rohner!, ;Blanchard, and Co.; at South ampton. Randall and Son. BIRTHS. CHICHESTER.--On the 15th inst., at 8, Great Cumber. land-street, the Hon. Mrs. Frederick Chichester, of • daughter. Fu.EmE.—On the 13th inst., at the Hotel du Louvre, BA* logne-sur-bier, the Lady Isabella Freme, of a daughter. Monnis.—On the 16th inst., at Wollaston House, Nor thamptonshire, the wife of Mowbray Morris, Esq., of a daughter. YOUNGER.—On the 17th inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Edwd. Younger, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. GEARY —NrcnoLsoN. —On the 16th inst., at Christ Church, Blackfriars, London, Captain Geary, R.N., te Sophia Isabella, widow of the late John Nicholson, Esq., of Brigg, Lincolnshire. Sna.w—FULLARTON.—On the 12th inst., at 7, Castle terrace, Edinburgh, Patrick Shaw, Esq., Advocate, to Susannah, the youngest daughter of the late w Miens Fullerton, Esq., of Sk, Id s, Ayrshire. DE A TR 8. ARBUYIINOTT.—On the 10th inst., the Viscount Arbutho nott. AYRE.—On the 15th inst., at Hull, Joseph Ayro, M.D., aged 79. FORLONG.—On the 15th ult., suddenly, at Toronto, Upper- Canada, Lieutenant-Colonel Forlong, late of the 43d Light Infantry. GILRES.—On the 16th inst., Benjamin Robert Gilkes, of Barnclose, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, aged 76.. JOHNSON.—On the 17th inst., at 5, Cadogan -place, Geo. Johnson, Esq., of Llanrhyd, Ruthier, North Wales, aged 64. ROXBY.—On the 14th inst., at Clapham-rise, the Rev. Henry Roxby Roxby, LL.B., of Blackwood, E.R., co. York, vicar of St Olave's, Old Jewry, and rector of St. Martin's Pomeroy, London. LONDON : Printed and Published by M URDO YOUNO r of No. 112, Strand, Printess at The 'Sun OMce, No. 1 12 : &mild, in the Preeinot of the Savoy, in the county 01 Middlesex, Wednesday; January 18, 180,