The Sun. — London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND M The Racoon, 21, Cap , . Poynter, is having her defects repaired at Spithead. The Ma , lbrougb, 131, Captain the Right Hon. Lo:d F. H. Kerr, flag of Vice-Admiral A. Fan ahawe, C. 8., progresses very well with her rigging, notwithstanding the inclement weother. Site his entered more than half her crew. The establishment of a soldiers' institute at Woolwich having been recenlyiproposfA by Major- Gen. Sir W. F. Williams, at a generAl meeting of the officers of the garrison, the undertaking, under military direction, was abandoned for want of a sufficient number of patrons, and tlearrangewentP, although somewhat advanced, wet e not completed. A few weeks ago Fome gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood reso l ve d on carrying out the Gene rals proposition, and at once established a cnnmit tee of their own body, appointing the Rev. Wm. Ackworth, vicar of Plurnstead, their treasurer, Mr. W. Angerstein, vcretaiy, and the L - indon and County Bank to receive contributions. The house, No. 31, Francis-street, fronting the Royal Marine barracks, engaged for the purpose, hiving b-en guaranteed by the committee for a stipulated term, has been placed in requisite order, and fitted throughout with suitaVe accommodation for read ing, obtaining refreshment on the most reasonable terms, and of indulging in various amusements es far as the limits of the establi , hinent will admit. A retired non-commissioned officer of the Artillery has been appointed to superintend the arrange-1 ments, and already numbers of names are entered as subscribers. The advantages of such an institu tion in the garrison town of Woolwich are mani fold, and particularly to the unmarrie.l soldier, who has had hitherto no place but the public-house where he could enjoy the privilege of A visit from his friends.and relatives. The paddlewheel steam vessel Banshe'-, in Wool wich-basin, was yesterday put under a trial of her machinery after - repairs, and is ordered to be placed in the steam reserve. Her Majesty's steamsloop Prome beus, at Woo'wich, having undergone thorough repairs, is ordered to be brought forward for co.eunis)ien. MALTA, MARCH 3. Her Alljesty's slip Vulcan leaves for England to-blorrow triGrning. She lauded the 2d battalion 2d Queen's Royals at Fort Ilanoel. Maj , sty's ships-of-war in port are the fol lowing :—Liners---Royal Albert (bearing the flag of Adiniral Lord Lyons), Conqueror, Princess Royal, and Centurion; Frigates.—Vulture, Swal low, and Vulcan; Gun-ve- , sels—C >queice, Wan derer, and Vigilant; Steamers—Medina, Tartarus, Harpy, Ca-adoc, and Hearty ; rectiring slip, Hi (b arisg the fig of Re .r-Admiral Sir M. Stopford); and Lransport Dr. igence. ROYAL ARTILLERY —The Regiment of Royal Artillery, which consists of 10 troops of Horse Artillery, awl 14 bi,tt rlicns (each cor taining eight companies) of the Field Batteries and Foot Artil lery, is at present thus distributed :—At head quarters, Woolwich-4 troops of Horse Artillery, commanded by Majo..s Ward, New , on, Arbu. I:not, and C pt. Johnston ; 13 companie, of Foot Ai t,l lery, cJuintanded by Lieut. Cols. Hamley an' Majtirs Captains Strange, and C ar th ew, bap F ins Free, Freed, Smyth, Thompson, Fishe r , T a l ot, , Cox, and Romer. At Sheer n"ss and Shoeburyness-6 compaTii,s, com mended b t y Major Show, Capt 4. Glanville, Blosse, Wcolsey, Green, and WrAgge. At A,dect,ho..— Major Brandliug's troop of Horse Art Rely, and two companies, commanded by Capts. E'gea and You. At Deironport-3 coinpr4lits, commanded by Lieat.-Col. Dixon, Majors Reilly aid Hawkins. At Shornaffe-3 companies, commanded by Major Hoste, Captains Du Plat and Bent. At Alderney —2 companies, commanded by Captains -Vernon and Childs. At Guernsey -2 companies, coin mand.ed by Major Lennox and Captain Robinson. Portsmouth-2 companies, commanded by —Copts dye and Captain Travers. At Pembroke n Banv,tt, company. At :Liverpool— Lieut.-C o l e a b s i• At Leeds— Major Franklin e " co mpany. s company. At Weedon—Capt. I V l ilwar,t's younh u ,b a Z i attY• At Hurst Castle—Cap comp an tain p a Crawford' s Com ny- At L e i Major Leslie's conspany.3( AAt Nottingham—CaptainSaunders company, Att tbampton—Captain ' company. At Dover—,Mor es Elgee's At Christchurch —Captain. dpi Clifford 's company. Chester—Major Hasting's cotop a „ y. coMnY• At 7 companies, commanded b Majors Milnaathoelai'7kti: and Boothby, Capts. Colclougb, Colunab, and Mercer ; also the C troop of Horßseo;vitilie On foreign service troops Artill o ery, 23 companies of the Field Batteries, and FoateArtillery. West Indies-5 companies. Chitia. to y. British America-4 companies. •sa.pe G oad Flo r , c oroPhnic. s . o-ropanies. Gibraltar -6 panics. The comp 13 Corfu -3 corn w' ne chapel at %,;111,,rilY. completed, and. will utt z t I) te o l e , k 2 y oo ard is nearly pidrsons. THE CAMP AT COLGRETER. Reet it. to arrive in considerable /lumber% at t 1 --"e31.1.1'1"1° camp, which ,is crowded, although - i - c {'pe%ter drafts left fur India last week :-1 sergeaut antn2% privates, 34th Regiment ; Ensig n F orb s and 10 privates, 37th Regiment; 9 priv a t es , 38 th Regi_ meet; 1 privates, 54th Regiment ; 23 p r i vates and officer, Ist battalion 60th Rifles ' • Lieut. Hill and 60 privates, 9 7th Regiment; and 23 orivates, 3d battalion. Rifle Brigade; iu all, 163 officers and men. The Austrian Gazette states that a rumour was current in the diplomatic circles of Vienna that Prinqe Pemidoff, who has been residing for some time past in that capital, will be the future repre twatatfre of Ruesia to the court of Tuscany. The Royal Marine Light Infantry being above its required numbers, orders were yesterday received at bead quarters, . Chatham, for the standard for recruits to be raised to 5 feet 6i inches, with 32 inches round the chest. Col. H. W. Parke, commandant of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, has re ceived orders to hold in readiness Lieut. P. H. Reel and 33 non-commissioned officers and men of the division for service on board the Pembroke, 60, now being fitted for the Coastguard service. It is the intention of the authorities at the War office to have the whole of the officers and men be longing to the field equipment corps of the Royal Engineers now statiolied at Bronipton-barraoks, Chatham, re move d ti Aldershot, where they will be formed into one battalion. The troops belong ing to that branch of the service will proceed from Chatham to Aldershot early in the ensuingmontb. Yesterday morning a detachment of the 19th R egiment, numbering 350 men, left Chatham garrison for Exeter, where they will form i the second bat talion of that regiment, which s now being raised. The depot battalion at Parsonstown Ireland, which has lately consisted of the 62d, 63d, and 76th depots, is to be further augmented by two or more depots. The depot of the 49th Regiment, consisting of six officers, eight sergean. s, three drummers, and 151 rank and file, arrived at Parsonstown on Fri day last. The following officers are attached to the depot—viz., Captains Fitzgerald and Young, Lieu tenants Mackay and Sprat, Ensigns Rogers and Christian. The depot of the 26th Cameionians is daily expected at Parsonstown. The Right Hon. F. W. Lord Aylmer, C. 8., died on Friday last. Hislordship was born Oct. 17, 1777, and entered the navy Nov. 4, 1790. He served asa lieutenant in the Swiftsure, 74, under Nelson at the Nile, and the subsequent operations on the coast o f Italy in 1799, a n d i n th e e xpedition to Egypt in 1801; was captain of the Narcissus, 32, and cap. tured two French privateers of force, and com manded a detachment of seamen and marines landed to Co-operate with the patriots between • S an t ona and Santander in 1810, on which occasi on h e h a d several severe conflicts with the enemy's troops. He was captain of the Severn, 50, at Algiers, which was his last employment, for which he was nomi . nated C.B. The insignia of a K.F.M. were also conferred upon him in con.siileration of his having conveyed to Naples the whole of the emancipated Italian slaves and 359,000 dollars which the Dry of Algiers had been compelled to return to the King of the Two Sicilies. He was appointed Naval A.D.C. to William IV., Aug. 4, 1830. By his death a pension of 1501. falls to the bestowal of the First Lord of the Admiralty, the eonfrrring of which will cause a promotion upon the Flag-list, and give Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., his flag on the active list. This promotion also causes an Aide-de-Campship to the Queen to revert to the nomination of the Admiralty. The non-commissioned officers of the Royal Ma rine Artillery have just presented Sergeant James Souter, lately discharged from that corps, after holding the office of Senior Liboratory Sergeant for many years, with a superior English timepiece, t , as a t iken of th e h ig h esteem in which he was held by his brother o ffi cers for th e mmy and upright conduct which ever marked his career as a soldier, anti the generous, un var yi ng exert i ons to impart instruction in his late office to all who sought it, both in the hours of public service and in his own private time." Colour-Sergeant J. F. Cane, of the same corps, made the presentation iu a soldietly speech, which was acknowledged in appropriwe terms by the recipient. Admiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.8., proceeded to Osborne yesterday in the teitia tender Sprightly, to pay his respects to her Mjesty. The Blenheim, 60, Capt. F. Scott, C. 8., is com plete in her rigging, and will leave the dock in a few days. NTELLIGENCE. T LIET Se NI LON DOW WEDNESDAY EWEN K , MARCH 10, 181,58' stable, went to the house of the defendant, and being both in plain cloti es at the time they were at once admitted. At that time there were 1.0 men there drinking and smoking, and as many as six mugs of beer _before them. Witness and his com panion were also served with the beer they called for, and they stopped there as long as an hour, during which time there were as many as 28 per sons came in and went out, all of whom had been served with beer and gin. He counted as many as nine pots of beer brought from a cask in a back room, and about five pints of gin, and for the former sd. per pot wasi charged, and for the latter, 5d • a guar tern. Mr. Elliott—What time was this ? Witness—Between eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon, your worship ; during church hours. Mr. Elliott (to the defendant)—Well, what have you g 1 to say to this charge—this wholesale charge of selling exciseable liquoas without a licence ? Defendant—l cannot say that 4 am not guilty, your worship, but these officers were in disguise, and got in by using a false name. An inspector of police here informed the magis trate that from information which had reached the force, there was every reason to believe that the prisoner had for some time past carried on an ex tensive sale of beer and spirits, and that the per sons assembled there. wore persons of not reputable character. Indeed the person whose name was said to be used by the constables as a means of getting into the house was a returned transport. The person alluded to by the inspector here came forward, and begged to be heard by the magic rate. He said it was true that he hail "got into trouble," and was out on leave ; but since his retnrn he bad used every means in his power to get an honest living. His friends bad enabled him to get into a beer-house, bat the police did everything to annoy him. The last act of their annoyance was to use his name to get into the house of the defendant ; and singe that time he was continually taunted by the defendant's friends and neighbours with sending the police to his house for the purpose of injuring him, when, in p o i n t o f f ac t, h e h a d noth i ng whatever to do with it. The defendant said he was out of employment and in bad health, and the persons who came to his house were friends, who did so with a view of benefiting him. Mr. Ellett remarked that it was quite evident h© had carried on his illicit trade to a considerable extent.; and for that offence he might have con victed him in a penalty of 20/. ; however, as it was his first known offence, be should mitigate that sum to 51., add that sum he must pay, or in default be committed to prison for one month. WANDSWORTEE—THE CURIOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY BY LODGERS.—Jams Page, and his wife, 4 Anne Page, were brought before Mr. Ingham, on remand, charged with being concerned in stealing money from a box kept in the bedroom of their landlord, Henry Mason, a gardener, of No. 1, Point Pleasant, Wandsworth. In this case the prosecutor had missed 21. from the money -box on the 18th of Feb. last, which in duced hint to• mark some more and place it in the box on Sunday, the 28th tilt. When his wife went to chapel in the evening she looked him in a cup board near the bedroom door. He saw the female prisoner enter his room, take away the money-box and then return it. Ste afterwards came up again and dropped something into the box, which was no doubt the money she had taken out, upon dis covering it marked... Tho male prisoner was down stain., but, it was - not clearly shown that he was a pirticipator. When the box. was opened, three halfpence were missetl, :which tamed out to be un marked money. , • The prisoners denied the z.obbny, and Mr. Ingham discharged the husband, and sen tenced the wife to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. THAMES.—INGRATIT UDE AND ROBBERY. m. Sorry, a boy, aged 12 years, was brought b e f ore Mr. S4fe, on remand, char ge d with stealing a sil ver watch, value 5/. 4 the pr , perty of John Morgan Slowsen, a biker, in Whitechapel. It appeared that :he prosecutor, a humane man, was passing along a street 'Far his own home; a f:w days ago, whn the prisoner accostei him, and solicited alms. The baker relieved him, and hear ing he was in want of a home, took Lim to his own house, and shielded him from the inclemency of the weather by-allowing him to sleep on the shav ings in Lis bakehouse. On the lola wing morning the baker provided the boy with a broom, and re commended him to select a street crossing, and. pick up what halfpence he could. The baker also promised the boy, if he behaved well and was in dustrious, he would do something more for him. The prisoner was provided with a shel•er and bread nightly fur a week. One night the baker left the prisoner in the bakehouse for a short time, while he went out upon an errand, and upon his return the boy was gone, and a watch he had left sus pended to a nail was missing. The police were informed of the robbery, and a City of London policeman traced the prisoner, and found the watch in possession of a potman, to whom it had been sold for 6s. The watch was produced and identified. Mr Selfe condemned the conduct of the party who had purchased it of a boy so much below its value. The mother of the prisoner said, her son was a very bad boy, and -she bad put him into a reforma tory at Whftectrapel, and paid 2s: Gd. per week for him ; hut he :had twice escaped from it, and given her much trouble. Mr. Self said the prisoner was not only a bad boy, but a very ungrateful one ; and he should stip his career of wicketruesi fo - r a long time, and send hitu first to a prisin; . aul afterwards to a reformatory school, from which he could not escape. A more ungrateful lad than -the prisoner he had never met with. He convicted him of larceny, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour, and at the expiration of his imprisouttent to b 3 act.tinei in a r:foL.L.t)ry s hGol to be htrt afL,r named for four years, MARCH 9. County of Stafford (Northern Division)—The Right Hon. Charles Bowyer Adderley, Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council for Education. County of Leicester (Northern Division)—The Right Hofl. John James Robert Manners, commonly called Lord John Mariners, Chief Commissioner of Works and build ings. County of Buckingham—The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, of Hughendon Manor, in the said county of Buckingham, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer. WAR , OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 9. 15th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase —Captain John Head Drought, from half-pay, 93d Foot ; Captain Hon. Hedworth J. Liddell, from half-pay, 41st Foot ; Captain Richard Young, from Adjutant of a Depot Battalion ; Captain Henry W. Paget Butler, from half pay, 3d Foot; Lieutenant W. H. Eliot. from 72 , 1 Foot; Lieutenant 4ttilio Scheberras, from 70th Foot; Lieu tenant J. W. S. Moffatt, from 96th Foot; Lieutenant Hugh Mackenzie, from 73d Foot. 16th Foot—To be Captains, without purehase.—Lienten ant and Adjutant George Barch.trd ; Captain James Hunter, from half-pay 70th Foot ; Captain Alfred. Ingilby Garnett, from half-pay 38th Foot ; Captain Ed ward George Main waring, from the Cape Mounted Rifle Regiment; Lieutenant Horace Ximenes, from the Bth Foot ; Lieutenant Edward O'Callaghan, from the 51st Foot; Lieutenant William Price Hill, from the 24th Foot; Lieutenant John W. Helyar, from the 36th Foot. 17th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel H. D. Crofton, from half-pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel. To be Majors, with out purchase—Captain and Brevet-Major Alexander McKinstry ; Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel John George Rawstorne, from the 91st Foot. To be Captains, without purchase—Capt. W. D. Thompson, from 2d Foot, vice McKinstry ; Lieut. Cecil M.:Pherson ; Capt. Henry Fitz Gerald, from half-pay unattachel ; Capt. F. A. Davidson, from 2d Foot ; Lieut. N. B. Walton, from 94th Foot ; Lieut. G. A. McNair, from 70th Foot; Lieut. John Hunter, from 78th Foot ; Lieut. W. T. Stuart, from 36th Foot. 13th Foot- Brevet-Colonel John Grattan, C. 8., from half pay 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. To be Majors, without purchase—Major William A. Armstrong, from half-pay unattached ; Captain Edmond W. Sargent. To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant R. Hoey Jex-Blake, vice Sargent ; Captain Frederick Ham mersley, from half-pay as Paymaster Ist Dragoon Guards; Captain Thomas Aldridge, from 60th Foot; 1 ieutenant T. 11. Stoddard, from 74th Foot ; Lieut. A. N. Adams, from 76th Foot; Lieutenant W. Thomas M`Grigor, from 70th Foot; Lieutenant John Inman, from 67th Foot ; Lieutenant W. D. Chapman, from 5 ;th Foot; Lieut. Alfred Macdonald; from 36th Foot. 19th Foot—To be Lieut.-Col.—Lieut -Col. Robert War den, from half-pay Unattached. To be Majors, without. purchase —Brevet Lieut.-Col. Lumley Graham, from half pay Unattached ; Brevet-Majorßobert Bates. from 4 ith Foot. To be Captains, without purchase—Capt. J. D. Cochrane, from half-pay Unattached; Captain G. L. D. Amiel, from half-pay 7th Foot ; Lieut. John R. Stuart, from 86th Foot; Lieut. Philip D. Vigors, from 11th Foot; Lieut. W. S. Arnold, from 67th Foot. Lieut. John Anderson, from 51st Foot; Lieut. E. F. Foster. from 81st Foot. BREVET. Captain Jrbn Hasa Drought, lah Foot, to ba Major in the Army. Dated 10th January. Brevet-Major John Head Drought, 15th Foot, to he Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Dated 11th Nov., 1851, Captain James Hunter, 16th Foot, to be Major iu the Army. lilted 28th June, 1838. Brevet-Major James Hunter, 16th Foot, to be Lieu ten9nt-Colonel in the Army ; Dated 11th November, 185 i. Captain Frederick Haminersley, 18th Foot, to b e Major in the Army. Dated 11th November, 1851. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. cOth, or Stirlingshire, &c., Borderers Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—James Hollis, Esq., to be Paymaster from sth December, 1857. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Henry L'Estrange Saunders, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Shirley, resigned. 24:1Soinerset Regiment of Militia—Henry Lumeden, Esq. to be Captain, vice Dampier, resigned. sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia Andrew Dillon Browne, Gent., to be Ensign. Warwickshire Militia, 2 I Regiment—Major Frederick Granville to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, vice Sir Thomas G. Skipwith, Bart., resigned ; Captain Erasmus Gulton to bs Major, vice Granville, promoted ; Lieute nant George Duncombe Perkins to be Captain, vice Eras mus Garton, prom , ted ; Ensign Erasmus ff. Vaughton to be Lieutenant, vice Perkins, promoted; James Taylor Hyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Erasmus H. Vaughton, promoted. Royal Noah Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Lieute nant Charles Hawkins Fisher to be Captain, vice Keene, resigned; Ensign William Sevens Perry Keene to ba Lieutenant, vice Fisher, promoted. West York Rifle RegiMent of Militia—Henry Shirley, Gent., to bs Assistant• Surgeon, vice Charles Muscroft resigned. . . kinfORANDIIM. —The Commission, dated 25th January, 1833, of Mr. Lawrence William Toulmin as Ensign in the West York Rifle Regiment of Militia, has been cancelled. Her Majesty has 43eeu pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Ensign E !ward W. M'a✓reary, in t he 3d Regt. (Light Infantry) of West York Militia. [Tho following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 19th February last.] West York' Rifle Regiment of Militia—Caleraft Neeld Wyld, Gent., to be Ensign. NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF -NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant• General of the Navy Admiralty, Somerset-house, March 8, 1858. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri bution of the unclaimed shares of the award for salvage services rendered to the brig Forester, by certain of the officers and crews of her Majesty's ship Fisgard and the Monkey tender, on the 12th Nov. , 1855, will conamenc3 on Thursday, the 11th Mulch, 1853, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the ." Accountant-General of the 'Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house." Agents and other 'persons holding powers of attorne prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virge of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor, serving in the above named ship s , are re quested to present the same at this office. Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who t l na may desire to receive his share from the Coll ec t or o f C hR e 0 Inland Revenue within time United Kingdom, to o intimate the same by letterto be addressed in w hi c h "On s Prize Busi ness, to the Secretary of the Admi ra l tY' letter his own place of residen ce i 3 to be precisely st a t e d, it as well as the place of the nearest Collector o f C ustoms vrhoonna would be con ven i en t to or of Inland R a e h_ v a e r n o u o e, ,. fm p r i o .4ize money, Thu of shares due e to an individ ua l i n T re h c o eiv fo o ll s o such share each class • From the London Gazette of La st Ni ht WHITEHALL, MARCH 6. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing tbe Right HOD. Edward, Earl of Ellob borough, G. C. 8., to be her Majesty's Commissioner for the affairs of India. The Queen has also bum pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing the Right Hon. T. H. Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt to be Poor Law Com missioner for England. WHITEHALL, MARCH 8. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Sir J. S Pakington, Bart. ; Vice-Admi ral W. F. Martin; Viee-Astmiral the Hon. 'Sir R. S. Dundas, K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral A. Milne; Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C.B ; and A. G. Percy, Esq. (commonly called Lord Loraine), to be her Majesty's Oom missioners for executin x the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, an t territories thereunto be longi g. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ' granting the dignity of a Baro net of the said United Kingdom under Richard John Griffith, Esq., of Munster Grillagh, in the county of Lon donderry, and Pencraig, in the county of Anglesey, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. WHITEHALL, MARCH 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Charles Bowyer Adderley to be President of the General Board of Health. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 6. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Colonel Robert Richardson Robert sOis, Unattached, formerly of the 7th Dragoon Guards, Colonel John Francis Glencairn Campbell, of the 91st Regiment, Colonel Charles Henry Somerset, of the 72 d Regiment, and Colonel Frederick George Augustus Pinck ney, of the 73d Regiment, to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Cl•ss, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Ba h. DO WNING-STREET, MARCH 1. • The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that letters patent be passed under the Great Seal, granting and declaring that the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Medicine, and Doctor of Medicine, already granted or con ferred, or hereafter to be granted or conferred, by the Senate of the University of Sydney, in the colony of New South Wales, shalt be recognised as Academic distinctions and rewards of merit, and be entitled to rank, precedence, and consideration in the United Kingdom, and in the Colonies and Possessions of the Crown throughout the world, as fully as if the said degrees had been granted by any University of the United Kingdom. CROWN OFFICE, MARCH 6. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of King's Lynn—The Right Hon. Edward H. Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. MARCH 8. Borough of Belfast—Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Esq., of No. 79, Eaton-place, in the county of Middlesex, her Ma jesty's Solicitor-General. City of Chichester--The Hon. Henry George Charles Gordon Lennox, commonly called Lord Henry George Charles Gordon Lennox, of Portland-place, in the county of Middlesex, one of the Commissioners for executing the Mae of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord Treasurer of Ireland. County of Wilts (Northern Division)--The Right Hon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt, of Estcourt, in the county of Gloucester, President of th e P oor L aw B ear d. County of Oxford—rho Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, President of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations. County of Suffolk (Eastern Division)—Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Knight, Her Majesty's Attorney-General. ANNULIR ECLIPSE OF THE Sti.V, 1858. MARCH 15. The following suggestions for observation of the eclipse are not offered as by any means complete, but as presenting grounds for consideration which may tend to direct observers in deciding on the employment of the means which they may possess : 1.-OBSERVATIONS NOT REQUIRING INSTRUMENTS. 1. As the eclipse advances, it is desirable to ob tain some notion or measure of the degree of dark ness. 2. At what distance from the eye can a book or paper, exhibiting type of different sizes, he read ? 3. Hold up a lighted candle nearly between the sun and your eye. At b ow man y sun-breadths ' dis tance from the sun can the flame be seen ? 4. If you are in an elevated position, remark the changes of colour and appearance of the surround ing objects in the landscape? 5. If you see spots of light formed by the inter secting shadows of the boughs of trees, remark whe ther they exhibit the luneform of the sun. 6. When the annulus is formed, you will probably observe it with a darkened glass; but yo u are particularly requested to devote one instant (as early as possible) to the verificat i on of this point— namely, When the annular sun is viewed with the naked eye, does it appear an anuulus or a fully illu minated disc ? --OPTICAL,IL ASTRONOMICA L, An SOLAR- PHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS, REQUIRING THE USE OF INSTRU MENTS. 7. As the eclipse advan ces , es ti mate (on the image seen in the . telescope) th e comparat i ve intensity of the sun's light near the centre of his disc and near his limb. 8. For the more critical observations, it is desi rable that the power of your telescope should be so low as to give you an easy view of the whole breadth of the sun. 9. Remark irregularities on the moon's limb. 10. As the cusps become very sharp, remark whether they are irregular. For this, and for all the observations near the annular phase, it is necessary that you be provided either with a graduated pris matic shade, or with a succession of shades of dif ferent intensity, and that you instantly select the shade which is most agreeable to your eye. 11. Rsmark whether the sun's light extends be yond the intersection of the limbs of sun and moon, so as to make the moon's limb visible beyond that intersection. For this purpose the bright parts of the sun must be put out of the field of view, and the shade muss be withdrawn. 12, As the annuallrity approaches and is formed, remark whether Baily's beads and strings are form.d ; whether first farmed at points corre,-pond rig to large inequalities of the moon's limb ; whe ther they surround the moon ; how they form and break. Only an instant can be given to this obser vation. It is of the utmost importance to be assured thatyour vision at the instant immediately preced ing, especially of the moon's iuequal ties, is very dia, loot. 13. Remark, as one of the most important obser vations of the eclipse, whether any rel flames are seen on the sun's limb. For this purpose you must withdraw the shade, if you are on the annular track, the instant af er formation of the annulus ;. if y.. 0 are not ou the annular track, as soon as th e eye can heir the sun. Ou the annular track the whole line (oust be rapidly scrutinised; and when the ring breaks, the still-illuminated part must ba put out of the fiAd, and the moon's dark limb must be sur veyed. At places not on the annular back, this plan (namely, to exclude the illuminated portion of the disc from the field, and to .urvey the moon's dArk limb) must he followed throughout. It seems not itnprob .bl.t h the best chance of seeing red flames will be obtained at places not on the annular track. 14. At the breaking up of the arnulus, look for Body's beads as before. 15. Do not attempt any record during or near the annulari'y, Endeavour to impress observations on your memory as well as you can. If you have on assistaut seated at your table with a chrono meter and writing materials, you may give him signals for the register of time, but you must con ueit the phenomena with the time afterwards. 16. A good sextint obs: rver may obtain valuable observations fur correction of the lunar tables, by measuring th. intervals between the points of thl blight cusps. The observations will require gre It nerve, and will be difficult, but where most diffi cult they will bo most valuable. 17. It ,eenis doubtful whether any valid photo graphic record can be made, on account of the ex treme ra ility of the change of appearances. Thus, in the neighbourhood of London the line of cusps will change from the vertical to the horizontal posi tion in about three minutes of t me. 18. If you have a doubly refracting prism it will be de3iratde to make observations on the polarisa tion of the light from the sun's limb. For this pur pose, when the lune is narrow, place the prism Po :.a to si:parati the two images tiansversrly to the limb, and remark which image is brighter. Turn the prism 180 deg. tound the visutl ray, and re peat t'ie ob.ervtion. Remark carefully the posi tions of the prism. The prism miy be used with the naked eye er with the telescopy, aveotding to the amount of its angular separation of images. 111. -METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 19. For change in intenity of solar radiation, observations with the actinometer or the black bulb thermometer should be kept up during the eclipse. The latter are moat tiustworthy when the bulb is inclosed in an exhausted glass sphere. 20. The barometer should be repeatedly observed. 21. Tne thermometer shou'd b) frequently ob served, and the general feelings of cold should be noted. 22. OSservations of humidity are very impor tant. They should be mada by the use either of atniell's dew-point instrument or of the wet-bu;b thermometer. March 8. G. B. AIRY. THE SPY SYSTEM IN PARIS. The following is from a letter published in the Glasgow Daily Mail of Monday : " Sir,—M-y I ask the publicity of your columns for a brief account of some incidents which have happened in Paris, where I have been residing for nearly seven years ? "I was sauntering yesterday afternoon with a friend in the Champs Elysees. The aspect of this noble promenade was sadly changed. The benches on which the Parisians usually sit in t: ie sun were all de , ierted. Laungers of all nations mike the Champs Elysees ordinarily a sort of living -end mov ing etnnological museum but paterday the mst notable figures were a number of new and sinister faces, some of whom might have been taken for miserable, and some of them for genteel beg?ats. I observed them trying to overhear the conversa tion of myself and my friend, which happened to be only about the Frerio taste in horses and equip ages. Leoking at a shabby little individual, I said to my friend, but not loud en ugh to be heard, That is a spy ;' and my friend exclaimed, Wit z:t a v 11. nous face While we were looking at him, he came up to me, and addressing me in Italian, oba , quiously begged a few oholi,' or small coins. Turninz to my friend, I sail in French, ' I be'ieve he is a beggar.' Whin I put my lif.nd to my pocket to give him an alms, the spy 3d me by the left arm and told me th at I wis an Italian, and he wa s an 'lnspettore.' I said, So I thought.' Se told me he desired a little conversation with me, and that I mast .so with Lim to the commissary of police. My friend, believing I was talking with a beggar, was looking at the caiTiiges, when I called out to him, lam arrested I' The inspector' said my friend must come as well. On our way to the office of the commissary, the excited little in spector told me I spoke Italian, and was au Italian, and that it was useless for me to deny it. The inspector then commenced a formal interrogation. ' What is your name?' I gave hint my card. You are an Italian. You understlnd Italian. What are you doing in Paris ?" I will ans ser that ques tion to Monsieur the Commissary.' Ah ! well, you refuse to tell what you are ISeeing me arrested, and held by the arm, several elderlygentlemen and ladies darted at me looks of terror anl horror. In the office of the commissary the inspector said he could not believe my card, because myself and my friend were walking with an ' air suspect,' or in a auspicious manner. Moreover, I knew he belonged to the police. This correct guess seemed to have given him great offence. Now, to avoid - detecting spies is difficula, for they display what they are by the insolent gleams of conscious power always dart ing from their eyes. The secretary of the commis sary, fortunately for me, answered he was sure, and would answer for it, that I was not an Italian, but au Englishman long re3ident in the neighbourhOod ; but he turned to my friend, and said, And you, sir, of what nation are you ?' The suddenness of to answer s e w tro e ar r .s ct f ha o lre3nhaisbmaoift oyAolmuoencsaine, the ques,tion taking my friend aback, I was obliged u n l l :b i e s e a p ß ar us elo ' n ia .' n2 Lo l o ih k e - ImganaY L t uhelkilillysteadfaztly, said, ''Oh ! there are so Walt s well known, ,and happened)nttbetoo btacialytso,luiau cbhor wise I companion was not an arahodu should I h g e ll i t e ve l er for roe this inoide days and night„t a j" -is ort m lnent, and and tuist oo k 3,1E4 beaansey conspirat,, r 2 ,- iliahlandear Plorrena'lln fROBBERIES OF PLAitiA. i w -.-. of the Rev. F. Fiirhter, sZ n d l i - f„ --L " - — wh - i t,_ A great°g°T:lBa' church, on Sunday lart, 8 0 , 0 , e -l' " r "d, rZr ' ' e family house and F tole a quantity of til i' v e o r r a :p as bre ' ke ' ill vi t e o le t t Iffy. and art:c!es of value.forks, j„`, - ,; . and jiwellery bas al , o been etolre f. om the c 4„ P l\ l T "t' SW , .ger, jeweller, iligh-Areet, Stourbridge. ^ 1 --r. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. HOPEFUL STAKES. sto 1 on the field (off) DONCASTER HANDICAP. 7to 2 agst GAmmoner (taken and off) sto 1 agst Gammon (off) TWO THOUSAND. 9to 1 agst Lord of Lorn (taken and off) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 100 to 8 agat Zayder Zee (taken and off) 20 to 1 agst Garnish (take',2s to 1) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agat Think Bonny (off) 40 to 1 agst Gammon (taken and off) 50 to 1 agst Duleatnara (off) 66 to 1 agat (off) DERBY. 11 to 1 on the field (off) 20 to 1 agat Sedbury (taken) GREAT NORTHERN. 13 to 1 agst Vidette (off) HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TIE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar General.) The returns for 13e, week (which ended Satur day, March 6) show a considerable increase of mortality, an effect which the remarkable coldness of the weather on several days could hardly fail to produce. The deaths in London, which were about 1,280 weekly in the latter half of February, rose last week to 1,353, of which 694 were deaths of men and boys, 659 those of women and girls. In Ihe ten y ears 1843-57 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,175, but as the deaths of last week occurred in increased population, it is necessary to compare them with the avenge, when the latter has been raised in proportion to the increase, a correction which will make it 1,293. Hence it appeals th it the deaths now returned are 60 in excess of the number which wiuld have occurred under the average rate of mortality. The births of last week exceed the deaths in the same periods by 291. Of the five classes into which the causes of death are distributed, only one, namely, "local diseases," is found to produce the excess above mentioned ; and amongst local die ases the increase is due to those which affect the organs of respiration. Under this last head, comprising chiefly bronchitis and pneumonia, 395 deaths are classed, which the cor rected average is not more than 283. The only corresponding weeks in which nearly equal or greiter numbers under this head are found, are those of 1853 and 1855, when during or immediately after low temperature of the air the deaths from pulmonary diseases were 388 and 433, Bronchitis was fatal last week in 243 cases (the average being 140) ; pneumonia in 123 cases (the average being 96). Influenza was specified as the cause of death in only 4 cases ; fatal cases of whooping-cough rose to 59. From pthisis (or con sumption) 146 persons died ; its mortality was not aggravated by the cold, for the number was exac' ly the same as that of the previous week, and is scarcely equal to the average. In the sub-district of LlatibAb Church (2d part?, two children died of whooping-cough in a family at 3, Neville-street ; and ou the Ist and 3d inst. two children of typhus in a family at 50, Park-street. Four children have died since the 25th ult. of mea sles in the workhouse at Norwood, besides onefi orn chicken -pox, and one from pyernia. Five children died of measles in the sub-district of Poplar ; seven of whooping-seugh in St. Paul, St. Geot ge-in-tbe- East: "Diphtheria" is returned in seven instances One person died of destitution. Last week the births of 869 bays and 775 girls, in all 1,644 children, were registered in London. In thet n corresponding weeks of the yearslB4B-57 the average number was 1,670. Dr. R. D. Thomson, of St. Thomas's Hospital, has found the composition of the waters supplio by the principal metropolitan water companies during the month of Fehruary as follows, in grains per imperial gallon : Total Organic) Impurity. Impurity. grP. gra. Chelsea 'o 'OO ... 0'52 West Middlesex ...•• X 9 ' oo 19'15 ... 1'35 G. - at. :I J auction ...... Lambeth Southwark New River Plunastead Kent All the sp ec i mens of water were derived from the main water pipes, with the following exceptions: —The Lambeth water was obtained from the service pipe of a house at Champion Hill. The Plurastead water was procured direct from the works, alter being softened by Dr. Clark's process. The water is derived from a well sunk in the chalk, which now yields 11 millions of gallons of water (Lily. As sent from the works, it is much softer than any other London company's water. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mein height of the barometer in the week was 22.69 in. on Sunday (the 28th ult.); the lowest was 28'88 in., and occurred on Saturday. `the mean tern peralure of the air in the week was 31.5 deg., which is 8 5 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (es determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week, and it has been la: low the average on every day with the exception of February 13, dining the whole period from Feb. 6 to March 6. Last week the extent of this de pression was m re than 10 deg. on M on d ay, Tues day,- and Wednesday. The highest point attained by the thermometer was 43 d-g. on Thursday ; the lowest was 25.3 deg. on Sued ‘y. The mean daily Liege of temperature wasll.l deg. ; on Wednesd a y the range was 6.5 deg. ;on th e rllowing day it was 17.1 deg. The diference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 6 de4. The ineen temperature of the water of the Thames was 35.2 deg., nearly 4 deg. higher than that of the air. The mean degree of humidity of tte air was 79 ; on Thursday the humidity was only 64. On six d.ys the wind blew from a north-easterly point. The rain or melted snow measured was 0.45 in., most of which fell on Wednesday. Snow fell on four days ; on Wednesday it fell to the depth of 5 inches. Companies. j A DVE AMU:INET. j-- SIGHT AND REARING -- SPECTACLES-. POWERED'. TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —S, anti B. Solomon% opticians, 3D, Atbemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. The Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenar.ce three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing a p b o l w e ei l is e a w e l co p r in d v in eo v e a k l valu able, t- Gla:s, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and ' red, very The Rs2aTll, Exhibition,pow erfu l ,19 1 a 8 is 5 t i e . o - at A -p known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advs,ntagti Uerivcd from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened acd cery aged persons aro onabk d to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can see with tlioie lenses of a mach less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan mots effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can ba suited at the moat remote part of the world by send ing ono of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and ,tuDine-rzcnepoit4ibeulel,,,b. he awinhue . ; ~ . , Produced stating the distinco from the eye they can read small print church awl a: with it, and those who have not made use of rpectacics by stating r their age. Deafness.—Now Discovery.—The Otrinic i ustrumre,uata for,,x , a d 'a e o a r f c n i i o n ,.. a s ri e 'y n t p il o o w i erfulsll , fi n:lly a, - i n o v t ei e t: .B .d . ~, e 6' a Ceding of the kind that has been, or prot ably burp,,,,i n __. , , y different Being of the same colour as the skin, is . i en a y bles: v e p a o f s p it e e n t o h n se x to i li .ll . o d t i e s i i . i w ne . lv a , Illartlt s a tZ i e ' f, a.n :„ :' , l l' i c i e i t a . rB P oiassiebni entire',, r e t,hve unpleasant- sensation di coula re b ur ( ivcd, and it atlarch _Qoeired.-33. Aao. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING. Those turfites who went on a wild-goose chase to Liverpool last week gainedlittleby theirexperience, for, despite the frost and snow, they repeated the same expedition to Doncaster yesterday, and their pursuit of sport under difficulties was attended by disappointment. The races are postponed until Friday and Saturday next, and report states that the Thirek meeting and the Brixworth ,Steeple chases will also be put off until the weather be comes more propitious. On reaching Peterborouh the fact of the Don caster mee'ing being postponed was announced to those persons who had left London by the 9.15 a.m. express train, and much dissatisfaction was expressed because the race officials had not sent through the proper quarter to London an account of the state of the ground and the impracticability of holding the meeting. The announcement mi g ht just as well h ave been made on Monday night as on Tuesday morning. We traversed a portion of the course, and in parts the snow was many inches deep. The day was clear and sunny, and a rapid thaw seemed to have set in . but the air was frosty, and no prospect was presented of a favourable change in the weather. Although in accordance with the conditions the meeting is formally postponed from day to day, yet a probability. exists that the sport will not take place at all this week. Indeed, we believe that the race committee met on Monday to take into con sideration t f abandoning the meeting altogether, but they could not, of course, carry out their inten tions. Many horses that have arrived to fulfil their engagements have been sent home again, and the visitors returned to town by the afternoon trains. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 9. GUILDHALL.—Fraucis O'Reily was charged with assaulting his wife. In this ClBO the wife complained that the prisoner commenced ill-using her within a month after her marriage, and his brutality for a long time was huch that she was at length obliged to leave him. On Monday week last she had been seeking him, and when she returned she found him at home drunk, and upon asking her for money he struck her on the heal, and knocked her down three times and there lett her. On Tauriday he watched her from her work, and on arriving in Chancery-lane he gave her such a violent blow between the eyes that on being taken to a surgeon's she fainted from loss of blood, and was afterwards conveyed to the hospital where she was attended to. She said she worked at the sewing machine, and had been obliged, for some time, to keep her husband, who was a costermouger, but be did not bring her home any money. On Saturday last the prisoner ha I threatened her life, and said be would kill her at once, as ho did not mind hanging for it. She was afraid to live with him, and asked for a divorce. Sir George Carroll said he understood the pri soner was charged here, about 18 months ago, with annoying the complainant's parents, and thst they strongly opposed her wish to marry the prisoner, and notwithstanding that - , and the magistrate's re commendation, she had linked herself for life with the prisoner, and this was the fruits of her dis obedience. However, the priaon e . h a d b lhaved with great cruelty to her, and he, th ere f ore, com mitted him for two months, with h ar d l abour, and required him to give security i n 201. to keep the peace for a further term of four months. The prisoner was then removed. SOUTHWARK.—T_HE UNEMPLOYED LABOUR- ERS.—During the afternoon about a hundred hard working men having the appearance of " navvies" entered the court to ask his worship's advice and ass stance to procure food for their families. One of them, who stated his name to be Patrick Leary, stepped forward and said he had been chosen sooke,mau for the others. They had all been turned out of work through the inclemency of the weather, and the consequence was that their wives and families were almost starving. He stated that he lived in St. John's, Southwark, and had•been to the relieving officers for a trifli ng asaistance until he got work, b u t they refused hi m any, and - told him to come before the . board on ThurSclay with his family. Mr. Burchatn asked him if th e relieving officer did not - offer to receive them fir() the w or kh ouse. Applicant . replied that he did, bi tt then their w little as a tr IT ing homes waosu„,„l,,dtabnecebrutkiteint he got pg into work.. All he . w ante d i Cornelius Ryan then came forward, and said he - 194 S out of Vf 0r k , and belonged to the same pAriih. H e had a wife and four children, and on his going to the relieving officers they refused to asiist him ) but gav e hi m an order for the wo r k ouse. Mr. Burcham tol,d both applicants that the re lieving officer 1:a,(1 performed his duty, aid no fault could be found wail him. 'Wily not ent er tbe I workhouse with their la.atilies? Ryan said that they had both their little homes, which would then be broke n up, and they would never Le able to get together again. All they wanted was, a little out-door re.liet until they ob tained work. Mr. Burcham asked them whether they went to the relieving officers al one ? Ryan replied in th e negative. The whole of themproceeded ther e together. Mr. Burcharn toldthem they had done wrong. That looked very winch like intimidation, and must not be allowed. lie Considered that they had no right to complain, m the parish officers had con formed to the law. Another man, who said be belonged to St. Saviours, said be b a d broken f i fteen hundred weight ofstone, but they refused to givnhim more work or relief. Mr. Burcham mired him if the officer had not offered to take them all into the workhowe ? Applicant replied in the affirmative ; but ho did not want to go there. The weather might alter in the course of a few days, when they could obtain employmen t. • Burcham told him the relieving officers had exercised their di,cretion in acting as they had tte'and if them se l ves and families were in want, e n ymust enter th e workhouse. Ha should, how evt-r advise them not to go about in such largo bodies, as such proceedings were likely to attract the attention of the police. The men thanked his wore Lip, and left the court. L A:M BETH. --SALE or EXCISEABLE LIQUORS WITHOUT A LICENSE. --William Hilkins, a person living at a private house 18,e Mr. Elliott to Elizabeth-place, Waterloo-road, appeared 'befor a , swer a summons, Wit!' out against him by order of the Commissi9ners of P o lic e , and charging him with selling cert a i n exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk on the premises, without being duly licensed so to do. Police-c im.tAble 49 L deposed that on Sunday, the 28th of last month, at about half-past eleven in the forenoon, he, accompanied by another eon- MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—LINCOLN, MARcir 9. CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.) Ann Sharp, 21, domestic servant, stood indicted with having wilfully murdered her female illegiti mate child, at Pinchbeck Fen, on the 28th Nov. last. She was also charged with the same offence upon the coroner's inquisition. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. W. ; W: Adams, H. M.P., a p peare d f or t h e pro secution Stephens was as s i gne d b y t h e C oart counsel for the prisoner, she being undefended. Mr. Adams, after briefly 1151 rating the facts of the case to the jury, called Mrs. Sirnson, in whose service the prisoner was at the time of her confine ment. WI; ness deposed that on the 28th of Nov.' last she found a child in the prisoner's box with a list garter tied tightly round its neck, and that the prisoner said it was hers. It appeared to have been strangled. Dr. Morris was sent for. Prisoner wanted the child to be buried and nothing said about it. She (the prisoner) told witness the child bad cried. Ann Wyers, another witness, corroborated this evidence, but did not recollect hearing prisoner tell Mrs. Simson the child had cried, but the prisoner told her Ehe had tied the garter r oun d t h e child ' s neck because it was alive. The jury, after having been locked up for some time, returned into the court with a verdict 'of manslaughter against the prisoner. Sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. MANSION-HOUSE.--Messrs. Ellis and Fick ling, sbipbrokers and emigration agenis, of 132, Leadenhall-street, appeared before the Lard Mayor and Mr. Alderman Wire, on a summons obtained against them byFrederick Pearce, for a breach of the 51st section of the Passengers' Act, 1855. Frederick Pearce, the complainant, deposed that in the mrnth of October be went to defendants' office, and paid 1201. for the passages of himself, wife, son, and daughter to Melbourne, in the Wind s. r. The vessel quitted dock on th e 2d of Novem ber, and put to sea ou the sth, having 29 passengers on board. complainantOn the Ist of De cem b er th e vessel was wrecked in broad daylight, on th e i s l an d o f Buena Vista, complainant losin g hi s c l o th es, money, and everything, escaping to the shore only in his shirt and trousers, and then having 30 miles to walk, over the mountains, to Port S a l R ey, an d being for warded to Southampton by the British Vice- Consul. Since his arrival in England he had been unable to see the owners; but he had repeatedly applied to the captain and the defendants for sus tenance-money and a passage out by another ship, but without elfeoe When he paid his p lssage money he received no contract-ticket, but only a -receipt. Oe cross-examination, the witne s stated that he and about 20 othe r p assengers messed with the cap tain, and were all cabin passengers, while there were four or passengers who messed by themselves, and he admitted that be had the full space provided by act of Parliament. Mr. Bodkin, at some length, contended that the rot be s us t a i ne d , i nasmuc h as th e act provided that th e c.m t ract ti c k e t s h ou ld.b e give case n couldt o cabin passengers in a passenger ship, because she did not carry more than 30 ptssengers, and had ben passed, after inspection, as a nen-pas senger ship by p v a i - s i s t e e n d g the ers o ship u board. before she sailed , and passed her as . Captain WestbrJoke, R N., assistant-emigration the erni gra ' i en agen t. H o ca ll e offier of th e P ort of London, who deposed that ho a non-pas senger ship, as she had only six steerage l. Wm. Gold, captain of the Windsor, also deposed that he to o k out altogether 28 or 29 passengers, of whom o n l y s i x were s eerage passengers, who were duly prov i d e d with contract tickets. On completing a prima facie case, an order was taken by consent, for payment forthwith to com plainant, by defendant s , of 1201., the amount of hes passage m oney, and 5/. ss. costs, it being under sto id that the case should be argued as speedily as poerible before a judge in chambers; that mean while, defendants should make arrangements for maintaining complainant and the other passengers ; and that the decision of the judge should be hell to apply equa ly to the case of the other passengers as well as to the present complainant. SUPPOSED • I i_VIANTICI DE. Yesterday Mr. Wakley held two inquiries at Camden-town, the first at the Devonshire Arms, Hartland-terrace ; and the second at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, into the circumstances attending the deaths of two newly-born female children. In the cwe held at the Ele. Irint and Castle, it appeared that the deceased's remains were dis covered in a perfectly naked condi , ion on a dust hr.ap, at the back of 27, Bill-place, Som-rs-t twit. The body was that of a very fine child,. weighing nearly nine pounds, and being of the full growth. Tl e medical testimony of Mr. W. T. Coster, senior surgeon at the Sr. Pancras Workhouse, clearly proved that the poor littleci eature had lived, and breathed freely. The right jtw was broken, and the appearance of the internal organs .showed strong evidence of the child having been killed by suffocation. The coroner briefly summed up, comnien Ling upon the painful charawer of such cases, and the jury recorded a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." In th • investigation held atthe Devonshire Arms, a the deceased's remains were found env e lop e d i n piece of brown paper, in the front garden of 2, Clarence-road, Kentish Town, and the body was a 1,43 that of a well-developed healthy-loAing child. Mr. Coster, in his evidence, said that the post mortem examination resulted in his coming to the conclusion than the child bad breathed ; but he cruld not positively state whether it had had sepa rate existence from the mother, or what was the precise cause of death. r:fice-constable Woodbridge, 306 S, who found the body, produced the brown paper in which the body had been wrapped, as also a slip of paper with c rtain initials thereon, which led the coroner to remark that this might"be the means of identifying the guilty party or parties concerned a: a future peri.id. Upon the suggestion of the coroner the jury re tuned' an open verdict, thereby leaving the matter open for further investigation. The inquiry had hardly closed, when, through the initials on the slip of paper alluded to, the de ceased's mother, a )oung woman residing in the neighbourhood, was t race d, an d the coroner at once ordered her arrest. AD - tiOY AND HORSE DROV7NED IN THU REGENT'S CANAL. —Yesterday, a long inquiry took place at the Elephant and Castle, King's-re , ad, Camden Town, More Mr. Wakley, coroner for West Middlesex, on view of the body of John F.sher, eged 13, who was drowned in the Regent's Canal, under circumstances of a very singular and me'anchnly nature. It r.opearA from the evidence that the father of the deceased was a boatman employed by th,e Rage t',l Canal Co m p an y, an d th e d eceas ed was in the habit, under the - directions of his father, of taking the hor , ea to water. About ono o'clock on the morning of the 27th ultimo, the deceased left Cooper's %Wart, Great Colbge-street, Cam:len Town, to take a horse to the stables, which are close to the banks of the canal. The boy did not return. The horse was discovered the next morning, bu t t th e b o d y o f t h e d ecease d was not BANK RUPTCIES ANNULLED. found until /aid Sunday. The coroner observed, that he James Rassell, soap manua turer 81. coneidered the dec ease d t oo young to h ave a c harge of a James .Fiass3ll and William Thoinas rist Springford, soap horse on a dark night, along the hank of the canal—to manufacturers, Bristol. say the leapt, it was i mpru d en ' . Th e f a th er sa id th e l a d BANKRUPTS. Irld teen bet ween f our , td five years in t h e emp l oy o f _ Lewis Garrath, licensed victualler, Hart-street, Blooms the c,rnpiny, an d was well experierced i n hi s wo r k ;h o btiry, to surrender March 19, at twelve, and April 17, at had upon i n)ree of fernier occasions taken horses to eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. .thomas Powell, brags founder, Birmingham, March 22 water, and to the stables. In answer t , questi .ns from . • al. April 12, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. bad made every the Coroner, the police said that WAY inquiry connected with_the distressing occurrence, and 25 and Reeves, licensed victualler, Birmingham, March from such had no reason to suppose that the poor lad District April 15, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham bad been id-used or had come to his death by unfair C. , means. The jury expressed thernselste satisfied , i ln d 1 George at eleven, Shaw, irompastet, Leeds, March 25 and April 22, i even, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds. returutd a verdict of accidental death,' - Alexander flouliston, confectioner, Patli-terrace, Re , 1 Fourth class ........ Eighth class ...,. ........ ~. ...... Ninth class ..... ............. X s. d 10 19 9 116 7 1 4 5 gent's Park, March 22 and April 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Turner, maltster, Warsop, Nottinghamshire, March 27 and May 1, at ten, at the Council-hall, Slit ffield. Owen Roberts, draper, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, March 30 and April 2- , at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Joseph Du n ton , cattle dealer, Hodd esd on, Hertf o rdshire, March A), at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Riohard Duffy, market gardener, Claines, Worcester, March 25, and April 15, at half-past eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Alfred Jomes Hemming, licensed victualler, Birming ham, March 2 and April 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Joseph Callow, ribbon manufacturer, C oven t r y, M a rsh 26, and April 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Thomas Wood, licensed victualer, Darlaston, March 20, and April 10, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Edmund Gwyer, shipowner,' Bristol March 22, and April zO, at eleven, at th e Brist;l District Court. Abraham Hill and Thomas Hill, stone merchants, Hea ton Quarries, Br afford, March 21, at half-past twelve, and April 20, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Francis Noble, jun., linen draper, Brigho use , H a lif ax , March 30, at half-past eleven, and pril 26, at eleven,. at the Leeds District Court. Joseph Whitworth and Benjamin Whitworth, blanket manufacturers, Dewsburpmoor, Yorkshire, March 19 an d April 23, at eleven, at the Lecds District onrt. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Caldwell, farmer,Carletonmains, Ayrshire. David Cuthbert, manufacturer, Arbroath. George Ross, merchant, Leith. James Grant, shoemaker, Glasgow. Donald M`Calman, house painter, Glasgow. William Armstrong, farmer, Penlaw, Dumfries-shire. John Morris, cattle and potato dealer, Sunnybrae, Auchterarder. William Hately, Crow rig, Hatton, Berwickshire. DESTRUCTIVE GALE ON THE NORTH- BAST coAsr. The whole range of the east and northeast coast was visited early on Monday morning by one of the heaviest gales troth the north-west that has been experienced for some time. It commenced shortly after' reidrught, and gr dually increased in violence until three o'clock, when it blew with the force of almost a hurricane, accompanied by heavy falls of snow and hail. A sad list of casualties has been reported at Lloyd's. In the vicinity of Cromer, off the coast and inland, the gale appears to have been most destruc tive in its - consequences. Iu the little port of Wells the roofs and chimneys of several of the warehouses and other buildings were blown off. During the height of the storm the schooner Jane, belonging to Ipswich, was driven ashore a' Mundt sley, a few miles to the northward of Haisbro' l and unhappily to relate, every soul belonging to ber perished. The ship speedily went to p eces. A large fleet of disibled vessels, Eame with masts and spars or bul warks carried away, or with loss of ancho s and c'iains,,rati or were assisted into Harwich, Lowe stoft, and Yarmouth. There five ve,s ds were lost in collisions. Some five wiles off the Dudgeon, the snow faling heavily, toe schooner Yana, Captain Bree , 4y, of Exeter, came in e; , r,tact wi h the Iron master screw s , ember, from London to Middlebro', and the former shortly sank. The crew succeeded iu sticking to the boats, and wet e picked up by the steamer. The schooner was on a voyage to the River Plate. Another colli-ion took place off Has• bro', between the schooner Qtrcksilver, of Sunder land, and the brig Jaue, of the saline port. The schooner lost both masts. Eler crew providentially reached the Jane. It is supposed that she shortly afterwards foundered. The Quicksilver was bound to the Thames, coal laden. The third mishap befel the brig Stag, Captain Doxford, bound to London from the Tyne. Near Southwold she carne in col lision with a brig, and speedily filled. This crew were' also happily preserved. • They got on board the vessel which came foul with them, and were , landed near Lowestoft. • Very heavy weather was also experienced beyond Flamborough Head, towards the Tyne. Country Markets LIVERPOOL, MARCH 9. A limited attendarca today, and more demand for wheat, and the rates of Tuesday were fully maintained. Flour dull, without any chan ge i n va l ue . O a t s s teady. o.ltmeal moro inquiry, and 6d per load dearer. Barley stiff, and beans 6d to Is per qr. higher. Indian corn in fair inquiry, at is over late rates-----Black Sea and mixed American making 35s ; white offered for delivery in a law days at 31s 6d. 'LEEDS—AIAItai 9. The wind still prevails from the east, and no supplies have reached us but millers supply their immediate wants from what is on hand, and we note prices fully equal to Friday. Fine b4rley inquired for, but only the best sorts find purchasers. Beans are steady, and other articles un changed. Averages for the week : Wheal:, 45s lad. Oats, 21a Old [Peas, —a OJ. Barley, 35s 5d Beans, :39s d !Bye, —a Od. ATE WCASTLE —MARCEL 9. Farmers' wheat in small supply, with a quick rale, rind and Saturday's prices readily obtained. South country and foreign not quite so brisk, but former prices supported. Beans and peas quiet. Flour unaltered. Barley sills at full prices. Oats steady, at late rates ; good sorts scarce. NORWICH CATTLE—MAncIT 6. There was a tolerable show of store cattle to-day, and some of the lots in superior condition. Only a limited business was done. Fat beasts, 7s to 7s 6d ; prime, 8s Od per stone ; being about same as last week. Sheep, 363 to 4Us per head, and good store pigs Iss to 255. Fat pork, 6s to 6s 6d ; prime, cs 6d per stone of 141bs. COURSE OF EXCRANGE.—Tms DAY. ,mstertlarn 11 14% Gibraltar _•.- • • Ditto, three months 11 17 Leghorn .. •• •...., 29 67% Rotterdam 11 17 Genoa Antwerp •••..••••• .• •• 25 32% Milan •• ••• • • • Brussels 25 32% Venice.. Ramburgh •• •• •• •• •••• 13 6% Naples •• •• ........ 42% Altona •... •• •• •• •• •• •• Palermo • • ••, „. 124% Paris.. ...... • • ... 25 15 Messina ~ • Do. three months . 25 40 Llsbor' • •••• Marseilles • ••• •••• •• 4.1 25.40 Oporto .• •••••• ~ • • • • • Bourde.lux . ....... Rio Janeiro ..... •• •• • • Frankfort-on- I ,lalne •• .. 118% Buenos Ayres ... . . • Berlin •• New York ,60 dart' sigh Vienna.. •• 40 •• •• •••• •• 10 31 Philadelphia •• • ... fricste......., ......... 10 32 PRICES or IDLLION. FEB oz:_ Petersburg 31% Foreign Gold In WS X 3 17 9 0 Niadrid .............. 48% Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 Cadiz ••••••• •• • • .• .. 49% Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 P.a.rcolona New Dollars 0 0 0 ..... . .• Silver in bare .. ••••• 0 0 0 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —We have read win much pleasure Pu Barry's report on the cure of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatu lency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthmd, Consumption, and Debility, Nrithout medi cine, by Du Barry's Food. The following are a few extracts which appear to merit the attention of many :- Cure No. 47,121.—" Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage Wal tham-cross, Herts ; a cure of e x t reme nervousness, indiges tion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous f anc i es. " Cure N o. 48,314.—" Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool; a cure of ten years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irritability." 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'Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Caution against the fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10 th March, 1854, against Alfred 'Hooper Nevill, for imitating " Du, Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." BIRTHS. ABBOTT—On the 7th inst., at West-hill, Wandsworth, the wife of F. G. Abbott, Esq., of a eon. BE Gl B a K ua L h E t T e. — r On the 7th inst., M rs . G eorge B er kl ey , o f a KBNN2Y—On the Bth inst., at Queen's-terrace, Bayswater, the wife of Charles Lamb Kenney, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. OLDFIELD— ; IIOOKR --On the 9th inst., at the Congrega tional City-road, Samuel Oldfleld, Esq., of Hull, to Mary Frances, eldest daughter of Thos. James Rooke, Esq., of Highbury. STEWART —III g NEILL—On the Bth inst., at St. John's .Epibcopal Church, Edinburgh, Lieutenant D. Stewart, R.N., eldest son of John Lorne Stewart, Esq., of Coll, to Margaret Feroozl, only surviving child of the Right Hon. Sir John 161`.Neill, G.C.8., and Lady DEATHS. EgETT—On the Bth inst., Mr. aged 7 B l r . ett, sen., of Hol bCLAoßr K n - a o r n s , tahned6Et nienbsiteYad: Henry s , of congesti on o f t h e l ungs Ages the be1.,v0,1 wife of J. P. Clark, E sq. , of Finzt;sk, f v ' erness . s bire, aged 65 . -road, o ts London,CßANE—On the Bth i ns t., at Catnbtrwell, Lie ut. B. H. Crane, of th e Indian Navy, sged 37. CROEER—On the 3d inst , at his seat B all y nagarde, co. Limerick, J o h n Croket:, Esq., aged 75. DEACON—On the 6th inst., at Newcaitla-on-Tyne, Mr. T. Deacon, sen., aged 66. FRANKS—On the 4th inst., J. lin Franks, Esq., surgeon, of 4, Addphi-terrace, u truly wthy most man, of amiable dispositi o n, ver y charitable, and oi deservedly is spc cted. GuAy—O n the 9th inst., at Stoke Newington, Donald Gray, jun., the. so n of Mr. Donald Gray , Gro..t Tower street, age 23. UNDE RIIILL —On the Bth U n d e rhill, aged 85 inst., at Chatham place, Hack ney, Mr. S. G. LONDON: Printed and Published by Li tiltilo o f N. ) , 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Odic, U 2, Swazi, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c onvty litidlesex: Viredneeiah March.lo, 1858.