The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

TIE SUN, L 0 NITO N, MONDAY V Ellf‘l INr o, APRIL ......----.............................., -- _ - --- - ~.------. .A • \ .NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. arrived on Friday in Plymouth Sound, where she PER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO DER,SIIO7. ........._.....—. , was visited offi cia lly in the afternoon, by the --- se -- e A general inspection and review of the troops l Danish Consul, Mr. T. W. Fox, jun., and his wife. 0 Her maiesty , s firsts. nide visit to the . camp this i belonging to the corps of Royal Engineers together , Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and Mr. 4- dey evening, after one the East India Company sSappers and with morning with Sir John Pakington at the Admi season terminated on Sa tour e d a ys for witnessing the Miners, now at their head-quarters, Brompton be W en . G. plotiindtienrAaensdietalN,nltr..SAur.geßon. Assistant-Surgeons of the most unfavourable t hat con-id have . befallen Barracks, Chatham, took place on Saturday by Lieut.-General Sir d. A. Wetherall,K.C.B., K. 11., *volutions of the troops we believe, intended to lathy. ere en at Aldershot. It was, ion with e e sham battle on a Adjutant-General, and Col. J. W. Gordon, C. 8., Indus. hays marked this occas •Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Royal Engineers. haliver. be contested The whole of the companies of Royal Engineers and scale of unusual magnitude, and :to 'tut one with the most persistent obstinacy, the East India Company's detachments were formed the idea was abandoneta; and the in the barrack-square shortly before 12 o'clock in cause 01: another • tineuish d off with very little to dis ~, .it from heavy marching order, and received Gen. Wethei all day pa day barometrical vicissit;ide s save those . who was attended by his aide-de-camp, Cul. Sand other dayela - 0 • ham, director of the Royal. Engineers,. and the which check.er the monotonous existence of as the • s whispered by those supposed to be principal officers of the garrison, with the usual I honours. The entire corps then broke into open camp. It we. well informe es i fee such matters that the reason for i columns of companies, and marched past, after the non-perfot alta, nce of the sham fight was that her N vhich they performed a few other evolutions. Gen. would not stand fire, Wetherell and Col. Gordon afterwards proceeded • n euect the men's kits and accoutrements, after Majesty's charge'r and this made a tour of the spacious barracks , may certainly have' been one of the causes which led t w o h l i sth e y being departed visiting th e libraries, school rooms, and large model to this portion of n e s t p ro g ramme t that the room, formerly used as a chapel for the troops. The from. We are inclined, kowever, to suspect main obstacle to the rev:it3Vvarious objects connected with warfare stored was the weather, and General spent some time in the examination of the vwaithin thisbuildiug ; the numerous articles brought when that is really unproritio.us at Aldershot it re l.: I,y the corps from the Crimea and the Baltic at -1 • huts. quires no ghost to account for any alloration of a raregements which keeps the men soithie ts.telr tracted much attention. At 2 o'clock the troops On Saturday the weathe r was were re-formed in the barrack-square in review such ha s s :e o p p t u ac t r t s s s h r e h order, and, each man having been supplied with fight out of all question. The wind vast extent of common with a violence that almost . several rounds of blank cartridge, the entire corps, and the clouds of I headed by their band, marched to the Great Lines attained the dignity of a gale, deist itswept before It were a phenomenon in for the purpose of going through the evolutions of a really quiteuseless attempting to field-day, under the direction of Lieut.-Col. A. P. their -way. It The troops, to the number of about simooms, but when G. Ross. de cribs the densityis ftliese o f these got invorved in them he 1,200 men, having been formed into line, General once the Pelietsl:lervisto see or hear anything that WetheraD, attesecled by Col. H. Eyre, commandant was unablehAl within a few feet of him, and not of Chatham garriscist, Col. H. Sandham, Col. J. W. took place oven. only was certsean to lose his way, but almost ran Gordon, C. 8., DeputyeAdjutant-General, and a the risk of bet ag literally suffocated. Probably, of numerous staff, rode on to the ground, when the i ts k i n d, f e w more curious spectacles could be wit- battalions were put by Lieut.-Col. Ross through a d than the solemn, angry look at a distance of variety of manceuvres which lasted nearly two nesse the dark massive banks of dust that hung- over the hours, at th e. e termi thenation of which of ththe r ey fire eview a greater part of Aldersh ot-common, and which now general salut At conclusion and then were urged up into the air to a height ap- Lieut.-Gen. Wetherell was en at an elegant tertained brepast the offi in - p a rently of some 150 feet or s o. With the ground cots of the Royal Engineers on which the soldiers would have to manoeuvre in their mess-room, which was attended by about 100 such a state of agitation, it was not at all difficult officers, including Col. H. Eyre, commandant, Col. to account for the field-day being postponed and H. Sandham, Eo H. W. Parke, command artillery practice being substitrited in its stead. aut of the Royal 'Marines, Capt. G. Goldsmith, The firing was ordered to take place in the long C. 8., superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, and valley, which, being tolerably green and well shel- nearly all the heads of departments and command tered from the wind, was about the only ground ing officers connected with Chatham garrion. Be near the camp where the dust was not absolutely fore returning to the Horse Guards General We blinding. The batteries ordered out were the I therall inspected the 12th company of Royal troop of Horse Attillery, with two field batteries ; Engineers, who were under orders to embark for the F and No. 5. They were ordered to parade at the Cape of Good Hope. the east end of the v alley, and soon after 9 o'clock In consequence of a notification which was re were all in their places. The target was erected at ceived late on Friday evening last at Woolwich, the west end of the valley, towards Caesar's Camp, that H. R. H. the General Commanding-in-Chief at a distance o f a bout 1,000 yards from the guns. intended to inspect the garrison on Saturday, the The batteries remained for a considerable time in whole of the troops were Common, in m d arching their positions, for it was half past 11 before her order at an early hour on tl i e r e william un e e d r ra t w h n e Majesty was observed approaching then alley in a command of Major- rt en S pony chaise, of which only occasionalglipses could up tille c r o y lu o in n u t s h : e n r a i v e i h n t g be got in the tot nado of dust with which it was en- comeinteignoußsLoc. y u a t.-Col. Maude, C.B , and three veloped. Following her Majesty's carriage was his and need b Royal Highness Prince Albert and a large staff of field ba i tterie t s h left y . u a l H e r o . - d e e i s fauns e y f R i n e alArtillery,commau . ded b Col. Theinfantrybrigade cons Y istin Light Infantr , the Oxford Re • ut of Militia, and ast ent egiment of Mill-- officers, all of whom, like the Prince, were in of Teesda h e,o t n l. e f Roal Artillery two ' battalion g s dress uniform. The royal party having taken up of one at a Jodi e their position under a hill on the south side of the of Royal .a.ridie E K Y R ' * P. 'valley, between the guns and the target, the pro- me ceediuos were commenced by the evolutions of a tia, was commanded by Col. Brown, Royal Marine small ° detachment of the newly-formed corps of Light Infantry. Two troops of the Military Train, mounted engineers. This detachment on Saturday under the command of Major Solis, were posted in was called " the Lasso Train," though for what rea- rear of the line. His Royal Highness, having been son it was so distinguished it would be difficult to received on arrival with a Royal salute, proceeded say. Each man bad a stout rope of 20 feet long fns- to inspect the line, after which the troops marched toned to the side of his saddle, and with a running past in quick time in open column. The Royal noose at one end, so as to be easily fastened to any Horse Artillery ranked by threes at a trot, and object he might wish to drag away. The value of then trotted past by-troops. His Royal Highness this corps for taking guns or advancing them unseen having ord-red Col. Brown to form the brigade by the enemy was attempted to be shown on Sa- into contiguous quarter-distance columns on the turday, and two or three engineers, fastening their top of the Common facing the Royal Artillery bar ropes or lassos to a gun, the 12 pieces of the two ranks, thou assumed the command, and ordered the field batteries were moved down the valley at the Horse Artillery to the front, which rapidly ad rate of somefiveor six milesan hour. This evolution, vanced and opened fire, under cover of which the however, is so far from being peculiar to the new two battalions of Royal Marines and the Oxford corps, that it can be performed by Artillerymen, Militia deployed into line, and a field battery was or, indeed, by any men at all with a horse and a placed on each flank, the battalion of Royal Artil rope, and the display, therefore, was met with no lery and the East Kent Militia, with a field battery, little private ridicule among officers of all ranks. for ,n i n g the reserve. The Horse Artillery were,„ The mounted Engineers were too few to cover the then ordered to retire through the line, for which , advance of the guns, and, of course, too few to pro- purpose the battalions were wheeled back into open ' tect them, and if their numbers were doubled it is co lumns of com p anies, and the line being re-formed certain they could perform neither duty so well as advanced, supported by the field batteries on the the Artillerymen themselves. What makes the in- flanks. The line was then halted and changed vention of such a lasso troop still more absurd and direction, the one-eighth of a circle to the rig ht, needless is that the artillery horses are expressly on the ti frd company of the 2d battalion. The provided with all the requisite iu tho way of has- line was now ordered to retire in direct echelon of ness for dragging the guns wherever they may battalions from the left, covered by the Horse Ar choose, while the "lasso" being only fastened to tillery, which had been advanced rapidly through a common saddle, the girths inustbe drawn so tight the intervals of the battalions. A second line was to enable the horse to pull at all that the animal formed, consisting of one battalion of Royal Artil must be injured by the strain. In short, the "lasso !cry, a field battery, and the East Kent Militia, troop" can only do very ill what the Artillerymen through which the first line retired byopen columns have always done very well, and the feats of this of companies from the right of battalions; the peculiar corps in this matter are only likely to equal Horse Artillery retired by the flanks. Tile second these of a nautical branch of her Majesty's service line was ordered to advance, supported by three whose equestrian performances are more talked of field batteries, the first line being formed in con than seen. Their invention, in fact, only reminds tiguous quarter-distance columns in rear of the the spectator of tire clever archit at in Lapu ta who centre. The whole of the troops were then f,rmed discovered how to build houses from the chimneys into one line of contiguous quarter-distance downwards—a mode of proceeding which, theugli columns, the Horse Artillery on the right, in it must have been ingenious in the last degree, has, column of troops, the field - batte ries on the left in nevertheless, not been adopted even to the present column of batteries. The line was ordered to ad day. vance in direct echelon from the left, change front After the departure of the lasso train the ball a quarter circle to the right, form line on right practice with Horse Artillery and field batteries battalion, which manoeuvre was executed with commenced. Of this very little need be said. It steadiness and precision, and brought the troops on both the foot and horse batteries had shown equal their original ground. Major-General Sir W. F. skill in hitting almost everything but the mark, we Williams then re-assumed the command, officers should have set the failure down to the weather, aed colours were ordered to the front, and the which was certainly in the highest degree unfa- day's proceedings w,re closed with a Royal salute. vourable. As, however the Horse Artillery fired His Royal Highness expressed himself much infinitely better than the batteries, it is fair to con- satisfied with the discipline and general good order elude that the practi ce on the part of the latter was of the garrison, The troops were then marched only practice, and that they will require a great to their respective quarters. more of it to make them perfect. Tile range for In The Sun of Saturday it was stated that the field guns was about 1,100 yards, and at this Calour-Sergeant Bond , 70 t h, was branded with the fair distance, though the guns had been most care- letter "D." It appears, however, that in con fully laid, two-thirds of the shots fell so wide of the s mark as to excite surprise. The first guns nearly all not t u m en a c r e of h marked with is former ~D.g ood character, he was ~ struck too low, and afterwards too great an °lov a - The te:ght ships Rochester. Heather, master, tion was given, and the balls went w i de over the and the Hope, Dyer, maste r, have hauled up to target, tearing up the hills and scatterieg the dust Chatham dockyard, and have commenced shipping like water. The Horse Artillery then advanced, and war stores for Devonport and Sheerness. at a shorter range, as they were of course lighter Three 60 horse-power gunboats—the Quail, guns, their practice was really excellent. It was Clinker, and Porpoise—were forwarded to Wool not alone that the shots actually struck the with on Saturday for Deptford, to be transferred target, but nearly every ball pitched within a few to the west for reserve. feet of it. After this shrapnel shells and canister Her Majesty's steam store transport Rhadaman shot were fired, and a sufficient illustration was thus, Master-Commander Sturdee, from the west, afforded o f the d e vastating effects of each missile was received into basin at Woolwich on Saturday, when use d against m en by the way in which after to ship boilers and steam gear for her Majesty's the balls scattered they ploughed the ground in ships Lion and Orlando. every direction , tearing up the earth as if it had The Pembroke, 60 guns, screw steamship, Cap been a s h ee t of wa t er . E ve n upon the ground the tain Edward P. Charlewood, left Sheerness on effect of th e shr a p ne l shells was something quite Saturday for Coastguard service at Harwich. awful to witness. The practice only lasted some The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam guard- hip of half an hour or so, and after the marching past of ordi nar y , Ca p tain Eiward P. Halsted, was put the batteries her Majesty returned to the Pavilion. out of No. 1 dry dock at Sheerness on Saturday, In the afternoon the men paraded within their and will in a few days be ready to receive her crew, lines, and her Majesty, before taking her departure when she will be taken to her harbour moorings as drove slowly through the camp. The royal party euardship of the steam squad r on of reserve. started to town from Farnborough soon after fiv e fi ° The new screw steam frigate Emerald , 51 (rune, o'clock. Messrs. Scott, Beattie, and Godson, of is being fitted for the pendant in No. 3 dry °doCie the South-Western Company, were in charge of the at Sheerness. . • Royal train. When Admiral Chad's squadron left Spithead on The tremendous fire which we mentioned in our Thursday morning they had orders to proceed last notice of the camp as raging in the fir plantar. under canvass only. During the day the wind was lions near Woking on Friday continued, as we an- aft. The sciew steamship Renown, 91, Captain ticipated, to burn throughout the whole of Friday Arthur Forbes, proved the fastest. The screw night and during Saturday. Some idea of the ex- steam frigate Curegoa, 31, Capt. Thos. H. Mason, tent of th's great confl igration may be firmel when kept nearly in a line with her. The screw steam we say that it has destroyed plantations on an ex- ship Diadem ' 32, Capt. Wm. Moorsom, was some tent of no less th an 5,000 or 6,000 acres. The tract distance astern ; and the screw steam corvette Ra over which it has spread extends from the village coon, 22, Capt. J. A. Poynter, was " nowhere." of Piebright over the steep picturesque eminences This squ tdron with the Brunswick, 80, Hogue, known as the Matche t hills and towards the Frine- GO, brig Nautilus, gunboat Lapwing, and Danish ley ridges. It seems to have commenced near Pir- brig Omen, 12, are at anchor in Plymouth Sound. bright, on a lonely road through a largo fir planta- Th e screw steam s hi p B runsw i c k, 80, Capt. E. tint,, and which leads from the GuilcLord-road. ' Ommaney, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday even- From the fact of its having evidently commenced ing. She left Colon March 3, arrived at Port Royal here ou the wayside, it seems as probable as not i ou the 13th, l e f t on the 1 7 t b , arr i ve d a t H avann ah that its origin was aeciden i al. It commenced lon the 24th, and sailed therefrom on the 27th. aim tag the furze and gorse and heaps of pine coils 1 At Colon ware the paddlewheel steam frigate Leo- 1 that lay about. Fed by these inflammable materials pard, 18, .Captain James F. B. Wainwright, and it seem to have spread rapidly, advancing simul- the United States' corvette Jamestown, and steam taneouslyalong the old Guildford-road, and towards ship Fulton. At Port Royal were the receiving the Mitchet bills. The views to be got from these , ship Itnaum, 72, Commander H. J. Grant, the steep heights into the country below were pic- j Leopat d, the paddlewheel steam sloop Buzzard, 6, turesque beyond description, and the little galena F. Peel, and the lene paddlewheel steam and shady dales that lay between the ridges were , sleep Basilisk, 6, Commander J. A. Phayre. • exceedingly beau,iful. Now nothing can exceed Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, in the paddlewheel the d eso l a t e an d weird-like aspect of the whole steam sloop Devastation, 6, Commander C. Wake, Scene. All except the largest trees have been c n- 1 78, Cept. John Slimed, and the scorched and Misted appearance AC Joinpauied by the flagship Indus , C. D. Hay, was expected daily in Port Royal. The of these only makes the de: oration still more Pacldl el ' e I e 1 steam sloop Styx , 6 , Commander C . Striking in its tensive range appearance. Too whole of the ex- Vesey, was at Havannele accompanied by tho gun many hucre of the Mitchet h e ights a.: ear like as b iat Jasp ir, Lieut. Pym. She took, on the323sl of Which contrasts of c h arcoa l, th e black look of March, a valuable priz i, seppoied to be a Slav: r, hills and plantations to sadly with the rich green which hal several thousand doll its on b , aid. The tense silence, too th to be aen around. The in-' Styx left Havennah again on the 24th fur a ale over which of hill and pervades u the great extent cruise. After leaving the Gulf of Florida not the least mournful w 1 31st of ich the fire has raged is the Brunswick experienced on tie . features. Not the sound of a . I,* of i, E , • many imp a ssive March a very heavy gale, with the wind from a living creature, or oven the rustling not the stir of all points of the compass and occesional c alms. painful, and, breaks a stillness that is actually• of a leaf It was accompanied by thunder and intense p_ place of a thick, blooming plautation. - in lightning,- torrents of rain, and large . hai, Is redolent stones. The storm commenced a , . 5 end continued with the scent of wild flowers, there difficultnth t e until half-past 6 p.m., when it gradually followed smell of burning wood. It is, in fact,track . to the north-west. The Brunswick was imagine anything more mournful and desolate, . a commtssioned on the Ist of January, 1856, and The fire was still burning actively on Saturday has been employed on the Home, Mediterranean, • evening, but the wind had chang ed and the flames , and West India Stations, on the last of which she 0 Were being turned back ov er the tract the y hid was for some time engaged watching the proceed already devastated, so that it was likely to go out nags of Walker's Fillibu t ' expedition. Smidth, 29 for want of fuel during Saturday night or iu the His Danish, Majesty's days from - Santa Cane, for COpenhagen, _ brig Onion, 12, Captain curse of yesterday. MILITIA. On Tuesday Lieutenant Wyatt, of the Tower Hamlets Militia, died suddenly at the Curragh Camp, of apoplexy. The Forfar Artillery Militia, a detachment of which corps is at present in charge of the barracks in Kilkenny, on Wednesday received an order of readiness to leave Limerick at short notice for Dublin. The Forfarshire Regiment has given several volunteers, non-commissioned officers and men, to Major Boothby's troop of Artillery in Limerick. _ _ An Irish provincial paper says,—" It is pro posed to give each subaltern of Militia regiments about to be disembodied au allowance equal to six months' pay ; an allowance equal to one year's pay will be given to surgeons and assistant-surgeons from the day of disembodiment inclusive ; and paymasters will be continued on pay for three months, and receive a gratuity of three months' pay on rendering their final pay list. The case of regimental captains and adjutants has not yet been brought under the notice of the Secretary for War." EXPLORATIONS OF THE AMOOR RIVER IN NORTHERN ASIA. THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF MR. COLLINS, 'UNITED STATES' COMMERCIAL AGENT TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT. _ _ ------- WASHINGTON, April 17, 1858. The report calhd for by Mr. Scott, of California, a few days since, in relation to the explorations of Major P. M'D. Collins on the Amoor River, will be submittal to the house in a few days. It was sent to the State D-apartment to-day, together with two maps—one on the Amoor River, and the other showing the relative position of Northern Asia and our Pacific coast. - The Amoor, it will be recollected, is a river se cond only to the Mississippi, which flows from the centre of Northern Asia into the Paolo Ocean not far north of Japan. The report will give a general view of the interior commerce of Russia prepara- tory to the grand development of her Asiatic cora- merce and policy. Mr. Collins obtained the appointment of com mercial agent from President Pierce, for the pur pose of making the exploration of the Amoor and. testing the practicability of its navigation. In order to do this he was compelled to proceed by way of St. Petersburg, to obtain the permission of the Russian Government to enter the Amoor country. To have attempted its exploration from the sea, without the assistance of steam, and alone, would. have been worse than folly ; therefore the neces sity of entering Russia by way of the Baltic. This, of course, rendered the land journey across both Europe and Asia necessary ; nor was this without policy or aim—it was to witness that great inland trade [of Russia concentrating at Nij ue Norgorod in Europe and Kyachta in Asia, and to trace this line of commerce from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean. If the Amoor could be ascended by steamers this vast country could be opened to American com merce, and the very heart of Northern Asia made accessible to our merchants. Having obtained the appoititnrept, he proceeded early in the spring of 1856, via England and Den mark, to Croustadt and St. Petersburg. Owing to want' circumstances, Mr. Collins was detained in St. Petersburg and Moscow until after the corona tion of the present Emperor ; it was not till after that event that he could obtain the necessary for mal permission to prosecute his voyage. It was now too late to cross the two continents in order to reach the Amoor before winter would set in ; he consequently remained in Moscow until winter fairy set in, and the roads were rendered good by a sufficient coating of snow. His detention was not without its benefits, be cause it gave him an opportunity to become familiar with the vast interior trade of Russia ; the wealth of its great cities and the internal resout ces of a vast Empire ; all of which was regularly communicated to the Department of State, and in the meantime to make himself familiar with the Slavonic language. Mr. Collins passed oVerland from St. Petersburg to the headwaters of the Amor, where he awaited the approach of spring, and than in a small boat, with ou-s and five Cossack soldiers furni-hed him by General Mouravieff, the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, proceeded down the three rivers Ingadah, Schilkah, and Amour, to the ocean, a distance by water of some 2,500 miles. As he proceeded entirely under the au-tpices ef the Russian Government, he had every facility granted him in obtaining information and for exploration. Start ing from Moscow in mid winter, Mr. Collins had the rare opportunity of testing all the terrors of a Russo-Siberian winter upon au A.inerican constitu tion. along the Amoor, and more than that the naviga tion of that river from the sea to the interior pro vinces of Siberia through which alone she has an approach to the Pacific, is of itself a sufficient ar gument for the acquisition by Russia. But aside from this, the Amoor, for ages in the hands of Tar tars or the Chinese—who, like the dog in the man ger, will neither use it themselves norlet any other nation use it—justifies Ru3sia now in its acqusition as we wet° in the acquisition of the Missiisippi, by Jefferson—peaceably if we could, forcibly if we must. _ . The whole Amoor basin is as necessaryto Russia in the development of that country, and to her quiet intercourse into the heart of Siberia, as the Mississippi valley was to us in 1803. Jr is not only most desirable to Russia, but equally so to progress and civilisation ; for with the possession of this river, the Tartar power will be completely hemmed in and approachable on all sides. _ _ _ and there to let the Court decide. It was a most abominable act, and if the law would have per mitted 1, it he should have sent him for trial as an accessory before the fact. There was, however, the absence of intention. It was the duty of every per son to prevent a breach of the peace ; and when an officer of the peace, who had been connected with the police for the last 15 or 16 years, took no steps to prevent such an act-, but assisted, he thought it a most sharoaful proceeding. Mr. Solomon said, from the instructions he had received, he really believed, if his worship would hear the witnesses he should produce, an entirely different impression would be entertained. Mr. Traill would not recommend such a course, but Sambrook still pressing, he was ordered into the dock, the magistrate intimating that if the evi dence produced were unfavourable to him he should commit him for trial. The former witnesses were then cross-examined, but their testimony remained unshaken. Witnesses for the defence were also heard, but nothing of importance was elicited. Mr. Boustrel, the chief clerk, then announced, after the usual caution, the committal of both pri soners to Newgate for trial. Applications for btil were put in, but in the c Ise of Sallia a refusal was given. On the part of Hambrook two sureties :n 251. each would be re ceived. Since Major Collins' visit to Irkontsk and the Amoor, a company, called the " Company of the Amoor," has been organised in St. Petersburg, and received the sanction of the Emperor, with a capital of four millions of francs, to be in creased to twelve millions, for the purpose of " encouraging and developing the commercial and industrial activity of the valley of the Amoor, to open trade through the Pacific ports with foreign countries, to trade with the Indians, to build and maintain steamers and sailing vessels, establish factories magazines, &c. This shows at once the waking up of Russia to the importanci of the reannexation of the Amon-. It must be remembered that Russia once held e Amoor, and only suspended her claims there in the face of great difficulties, to be renewed at a more propitious season. This time has now arrived, and she is pushing the task with vigour. And to what power but Russia does the world owe the succ.ssful beating back of the Great Moguls who devastated Europe for centuries with fire and sword ? Take the vast extent of country over which Russia now holds sway, and it is one of the most remarkable in his tory ; in control. pre-eminent, in extent far surpass ing that of Rome in her palmiest days. Russia alone has been able to control the Tartar race, and has whippal them into something like civilisation, and from marauding hordes trained them to the plough and the loom. It is to Russia alone that civilisation owes the fact that you can now travel from S'. Pe tersburg to Kamschatka quite as secure as in any other portion of the globe; and needing, perhaps, less precaution than over the same extent of terri tory on any other part of the earth's surface. After leaving the Amoor in the fall of 1857, Mr. Collins visited Japan, Kamschatka, and the Sand wich Islands, and returned to liVashiugton by way of San Francisco, California. Mr. Superintendent Evans, as also the father of Sellis, said the coroner had no objection if his wor ship thought proper to admit the boy to bail. Mr. Traill said, for himself, he would so agree ; but he held the coroner's warrant of committal un endorsed, his consent would therefore be of no avail. Hambrook's sureties were then taken, and Sellis removed to a cell. THAMES. —CAPTURE OF TWO NOTORIOUS SHOP LIFTERS. —Two vulgar-looking women, Charlotte Coleman, a masculine-looking creature, and Ann Reynolds, were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing 104 yards of printed cotton, the property of some liuendraper unknown. Copping, a detective officer, No. 379 K, said that on Friday night ho was in Raven-row, Mile-end, in company with two other officers, and saw the prisoners approaching him. He knew them to be notorious th►eves, who had been repeatedly con victed for robbing linendrapers' shops, and he said to them, " What have you got under your sha - vls: let me see ?" They appeared thunderstruck, and said they had nothing, and did not know what he meant. He put his hand under Reynolds's shawl, and took from her a piece of cotton print, measur ing 52 yards. The other prisoner, Coleman, shifted about, and then dropped on the ground from under Tier shawl another piece of cotton print of a dif ferent pattern, also measuring 52 yards. He asked the prisoners where they obtained the property, and the reply was, " what is that to you?" He then took them into custody. The prisoner Coleman said a woman asked her to carry the print from Mile-End-gate to \Yid , echapel Church. Mr. Yardley.—Who is the woman, and where does she live The Prisoner.---I am sure I don't know. Mr. Yardley.—l suppose you want a rem And, Copping, to find out the owners of the property. Copping.—l do, sir. Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoners until Tues. day. Major Collins now proceeded in a sleigh post-horses by way of Vlademir, Nijne Norgorod, Kazan, crossing the Ural Mountains at Ecatherine burg, and thus on by Omsk, Tomok, and Kramoy ankte Irkoutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia, 4,000 miles east of St. Petersburg. Spending some time at Irkoutsk, and being hospitably entertained by Gen. IVlouravieff, Mr. Collins then visited the cities of Kyachta and Mai-mat-Tschin. These places are, by treaty between Russia and China, the only points where commerce can be conducted by the people of the two empires. They are situ ated about 350 miles south-east of Irkoutsk, and 1,000 miles north-east of Pekin, on the frontiers of Mongolia and Siberia. Mr. Collins had the rare opportunity of witness ing the. opening of the great fair at the full or " white moon," in February. Grand feasts and entertainments were given in honour of the occasion ; the town of Mai-mat- Tschin was filled wi . h feasting, and illuminated with lanterns at night. The trade concentrated here is very important, said to be 20,000,000 of dollars annually. After finding its way ou the backs of camels and by bul locks from Pekin, it is taken up by the Russian rn( rchants in the winter on sledges, and in the sum mer by the rivers and waggouS, and find- its way across Siberia to the foot of the Ural mountains, crossing which it concentrates at the great fair of Nijne Norgorod, where th© commerce of 1856 summed up to 300,000,000 of silver roubles. Upon the approach of spring Mr. Collins crossed the Staunvey mountains, and fell upon the tread waters of the Amoor. Navigation not yet being opened he made a full exploration of the gold and silver country of Nerchinsk, the mines of which are worked by the convicts from European Russia. The country is very rich in silver and gold. Returning from t (e tour, he awaited at Chetah the bre 'king of the Ice in the Ingodab, whence he proceeded on his downward course to the sea. The country along the Amoor is fully described, much of wh . e'r is suss p'ible of farming and grazing. But the great problem as to its navigability is fully solved. Mr. Collins states, without hesitation, that steamers can ascend from the sea to Chetah, a dis tance of 2,600 miles, which great fact opens up Siberia to our Pacific commerce throng I the Amoor. This fact, hitherto unknown and not even guessed at, presents a new field for commerce, the ultimate limits of which can hardly be grasped by the most comprehensive mind. Maegolia, Manchooria, Northern China, all the Tartari-s, Thibet, and Siberia, will a population of twenty to thirty millions, are approached by this river, and a new route to the Indies opened. The discovery of the north-western passage sinks into utter nothingness in comparison with the utility and practic ability of this route. One most astonishing fact is elicited, which is, that Irkoet.k, the capital of Eastern Siberia, can be approaeln d with only about three hundred miles of land carriage. Mr. Collins is the first foreigner that has ever descended the Amoor, the second American that has ever crosed the Ural Mountains, and the first that has crossed the mountains dividing the waters of the Pacifie from those of the Frozen Ocean. tie speaks in the highest terms of the Russian officers and people up nu his long jeurney, having been treated with kindness and hospitality. At Kyacirta, where he was invited to a pubic dinner, the health of President Bu.hanan was i tive , n as a regular toast, which was drunk standing, with all the bonouis. Mr. Birciarran is very popular in Russia, and Ivs election was hail d with delight Oil oughoot the empir. As he war also our M:n's er at St. Peters burg,_ and ir , gotiated the last commercial treaty between the two countries, ho is known to many personally. By way of Hakocladi, Jap qr, up tilt ough the sea of J :Tan to the S'raitr or Tartary and into the mouth of the Ainoor, the navigation presents no unusual difficulties ; steam is wanted at the mouth of the Amoor to tow vee-els to and from sea, the M mo is o s r is ei si r stop at De s a t v n e e s a s ! , l a s at a t p h p e n i , r a i o c u li g o t f h t e h A u e prraf'olarsai also 1 gce p atn o w r t po a ro g od e. Castries for a pitliout,,swapheerr%trlgieoyorcacna iuto the Arno )r, and thus an' icipate his vess e l a t c a i n e d d "b'aytesr;a3yll(olf Keezey, wakAig the mouth of the river. That vast and valuable extent of country lying DR. BERNARD AND THE STATE TRIAL. From 8 o'clock until near midnight on Saturday evening there was a large muster of people at the Cafe Chantant, in Leicester-square, it having been publicly announced, as well in a conspicuous part of one of the morning papers of that day as by a placard outside the cafe, that Dr. Bernard, ac companied by Mr. Edwin James, his counsel, would make their appearance in the course of the evening. On the previous night Mr. James and a friend had strolled into this place of public enter tainment in a casual way as they were passing through the square. They had hardly entered the building when the well-known person of the popular advocate was recognized by several of the company. He was introduced to the proprietor, a Frenchman, who expressed himself as flattered by the visit and showed his guest some civilities. A few of the people present, and these chiefly French, approached Mr. James and tendered him their con gratulations for the successful efforts he had made en behalf of their compatriot during the recent State trial. These he politely acknowledged, and expressed his admiration of the French nation. By this time the name of the distinguished visitor had spread through the room, and thence witil his departure he became an object of general interest. Diving his stay, whether by chance or design, iheMarsellaise Hymn was sung by the professional vocalists present with great enthusiasm. For tles benefit of some of our readers it may be desirable to describe the plies known as the Cafe Chantant. The name not inaptly designates its character, and its precise locality does much to supply what is wanting, to the mind of a Londoner at least. It is not a place where a man in search of an evening's recreation may expect to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, or the Prince Consort ; but it is nevertheless a nighily place of resort, with others of a kindred type now scattered over the metropolis, to considerable num bers of people of different conditions in life and of both sexes. In a large, lofty, and well-lighted apartment, furnished in the French fashion with mirrors, settees, and an almost endless number of small marble tables, the vigi , ois, some hundreds in number, spend their evenitigs in au atmophere of tobacco smoke, drinking coffee, consuming mutton chops and Welsh rarebits, with potations of pale ale, brandy, or gin. Some good music on the piano forte, a respec7aele orchestra, and a corps of pro. fessional vocalists, the greater part of them la ties, lend additional attractions to the place, which is not without an air of decorum. Unlike Coger's hall, or "Discussion Forum"—now known to fame —no debating, political or otherwise, goes forward. [t is frequented as much by English as by French people, and is not so much a haunt of political re fugees as other places in its vicinity. At the Cafe Chantant, then, of all places, the public were informed that Mr. Edwin James and Dr. Bernard were to present themselves on Satur day evening, and there "the friends of liberty"— so the announcement went—were to give them an ovation. At 8 o'clock, the hour they wee ee pected, there we re comparatively few people in the room. Among these, two or three men, having all the unmistakeable marks of the refugee class, were distributing handbills invoking "eternal glory on the 12 jurymen"—naming th e m—" w h o u ph e ld the honour and independence of Old England ;" on Mr. Jaines who had vindicated the dignity of the English law, and " lasting shame on the promoters of the Conspiracy Bill." Thi s d ocument , couc h e d in indifferent English, pu r p or t e d t o emana t e f rom a " universal printing establishment" in Holborn. As the evening advanped the audience gradually increased, until at length between 200 and 300 persons were present. They were, however, dis appointed, for neither Mr. James nor Dr. Bernard made their appearance in the course of the even ing. At whose instance the announcement was made that they were to attend does not appear ; but that it was not Dr. Bernard's—still less, per haps, at Mr. James's—is certain from the fact of the former leaving expre,sed great displeasure when he was informed of the matter, adding that he was not a Nana Sahib or a hippopotamus tear any one should presume to exhibit. him for money, and that he had no ambition foe a niche iu the Walthalla of Madame Tu , saud. Within the last few days a fact has come out ex tremely creditable, we think, to the jury by whom Bernard was tried. A committee, of whom Mr. Nicholay, Mr.,E T. Smith, of Drury-lane theatre, Mr. Beales, of Piccadilly, and others, are members, has been embodied a t M r , W y ld' s newsrooin , i u Leicester-square, at which for the last few years Bernard has boon a constant visitor, for the purpose of arranging a banquet at the Free masons' Tavern in the beginning of May to the jury and the cout i s e l and soli c itors engaged on the trial for the defence. The jury were a, , lcecl if they would be disposed to receive such a token of public approbation ; they met together to consider tee matter, and the result is that they have respect fully declined the intended ovation. They have stated, through their f re Ilan, ti at on the occasion in question they sought to discharge the important duty which devolved upon them to the best of their ability, and that for the manner in which thoy per formed that duty they have the testimony of their own consciences, than which they desire no higher ra ward. DEATH OF A VETERAN.—The Fall irk Herald report, the death of a veteran—David Richardson, of the 21st Fusiliers—' o who hal the honour of teaching Sir Colin Campbell the use cf the sword." The Tribunal of C.)rrec;.ional PAM° of B;ifort (Haut ltidn) last month condemned a we.aver named Jenny t , three days' imprisonment and 16f. fine, for havi , g in a.publi^•.house spread the fake news that the Rnperof was about to retire to a fortress and proclaim the re public, in order to pr,vent raatmfacturere from com pelling their me❑ to work fourteen hour a-day. Three days back, be appealed to the Imperial Court of Colmar against the condemnation, and, as he had done before the tribunal, he solemnly denied that ho had used the language ascribed to him, protested that he was not an enemy of the Emperor, and represented him4elf to he an indu4strious workman. The court, however, confirmed the former judgment. WATER-WORKS. 1 - ] Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid Price Annum. Share. 1 - - - - 1 £ s. d. £ s. d. Berlin .. ••• .. ....... 5/. per cnt. 10 0 0 100 - East London - Do 4 per Cent. Pref 4/. per cent. 25 0 0 - 25 - Do. 5 per Cent. Pref 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 - 27 -, Grand Junction .... • • C. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 71 Do. New ••• • • • - 25 0 0 - - Kent - 100 0 0 - - Lambeth Si. per cnt. 100 0 0 - - New River Company Southwark & Vauxhall - 100 0 0 - 92 West Middlesex •• • • - 61 0 0 ' - 105 Do. Do, ... •• • 1 141. per cent. 5 I 8 - - BRIDGES. • Dividend Amount I Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- - £ s. d. £ B. d. flungerford -..•• • • • • •••• 25 0 0 -6% Southwark .....• •• • • .... 100 0 0 - - Ditto New of 7% p.c. 103 per cent. 50 0 0 - - Waterloo ....... .... • • .... 100 0 0 - - Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. 12s. Od. 60 0 0 - 29 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Rs. Od. 40 0 0 - 24% Vauxhall .......... • • 28s. 70 10 3 - 17% DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company . per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ,- £ s. d. £ s. d. Commercial .• •• •• ..•• 51. pr cent. Stock. Stock. - Do. Preference If Stock. ~ - East and West India.. 61. pr cent. Stock. 118% II Gland Aurry D. & Canal 41. per cent. 100 0 0 iOO 0 0 64 ' Do. Loan Notes .. • • If 100 0 0 00 0 0 - Do. 5 per cent. Pref. 51. pr cent. 25 0 0 6 0 0 - London .•••-• • • • • • • ~ Stock. Stock. 103% St. Katharine -.... .. 4%1. per ent. Stock. ~ - Southampton ........ 4 per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6p% Victoria .. •• .. •..... 5/. Os per c. 20 0 0 20 0 0 - Ditto New ••••• • • • •• 20 0 0 14 0 0 , - - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- - - £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion .... ••.... .. .. 71. per c. 500 0 0 50 0 0 - L Allian;,E, Bri:. and For. 71. 14s. 6d. 100 0 0 11 0 0 16% Ditto Marine ... .... ;1. p.c. & be. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Athenaeum. .... ••• • • • - 10 0 al - Atlas . krgus Life ......... • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - British Commercial .. 7/. 10s. 50 0 0 5 ) o - Church of England .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - City of London .. •• .. 51. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - CiericlAed.B:. Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 1 00 0 0 10 0 0 - County .... -• • ...... IL per share 100 0 0 10 0 0 86 1 / 2 Crown ......•• •..... 1/ 18s. 50 0 0 5 0 - _ Eagle .. - Equity and Law-- 5% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - European Life l/. 20 0 0 all - Family Endowment •• V. per cent. 100 0 0 4 0 0 General - . Globe ....... si. per cent Stock. all 92 Gresham Life - - 47 5 4 Do. Do.. • - 20 0 0 50 0 0 7. Guardian e Imperial Fire... • • Imperial Life .. •• 14s. 100 0 0 210 0 1956 LI Indemnity Marine.... 5i .p. et. &bs. 100 0 0 13 0 0 1375¢ i. Law Fire ............ 2s &2S bons 1 0 0 0 0 210 0 - Law Lite.• ••• ........ 2; t. per sh 100 0 0 12 10 0 3 7 7 8 a Legal and General Life 4s. per share 50 0 0 2 0 0 5 % London ...... 1/. 25 0 0 12 10 0 39 London & Prov. Law • • 3s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 Marine ..... .... • • .... 18s. & bs. iOO 0 0 20 0 0 8452 ) Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4% per cent 50 0 0 2 0 0 - e Minerva ............ 51. per cent. 20 0 0 4 0 0 - Monarch .• ••••• • .. . . 51. per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 - a New Equitable - Pelican ... • • ....•• 5/ p. et. C'-- - - Phoenix • • - - 170 g Professiona Life •• • • ~. 5/. per cent 6 5 0 010 0 - Provident Lire 12% per c. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - 10 Rock Life.... ••.. • • - e Royal Exchange Sun Fire .......• - IP - le Ditto Life ..... 1/ 14s. - i - United Kingdom .... 41. A bonus. 20 0 0 510 0 - a Universal Life .• • ..... 5/ & bonus. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - )37 Victoria Life • • ...... 51. & bonus - 5 0 0 - A. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. I , Dividend Amount a_ Name of Company. per of Paid. Price le Annum. Share. --,--- , -.- st £ s. d. £ s. d. , a tustralasia........... 101. per cent. 40 0 0 all 801 '" Bank of Egypt - 25 0 0 5018 1 0 5 0 0 - 211 y Rank of London ...... .......Si. per cent. 100 0 0 t ,i .tritish North American 9 per cent 50 0 0 all 56 Ch Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. 4 per cent 20 . 0 0 6 0 0 l'' City . 100 0 0 50 0 0 - 581 st. Colonial .... . , „ „,, 100 0 0 25 0 0 - „ Commercial Oflondon. 71. p. c. & be. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - It, . Eng Scot & Aust. Ch. 4 , . per cent.) 20 0 0 all 177 Lai Lond.char.Bk. of Aus. 5/. per cent. ,20 0 0 /I 19 s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 ,0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 ,1 20 0 0 20 0 0 IV. per cent.' 50 0 0 per cent. 100 0 0 28 per cent. 50 0 0 18 . per cent. 100 0 0 16pc.&bs 100 0 0 I 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 Do. New .. London and County .. Lon & Eastn Bokg. C. London doint•Stock..• f.ondn and Westiningr gat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New .. • . • • • • Ditto ditto Natio , 44l Bank .... • • New outil Wales Orientai Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Frovinclal of Ireland Ditto, New.•... lonian. south Australia Union of Australia.... Union of Hamburg.... Union of London.... Unity Mutual .... •• •• Western Bank Londn. 5/.per cent. 20', per cent. 10/. per cent.l p. ct.&bs. Si. per cent. 5!.. per cent. 101. per cent. 111. per cent. 15/. per cent. LIST OF SCOTTISH CO Name of Company. sank of Scotland .... British Linen Company Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank .... C mmercial Bank .. Eastern 8ank........ Eclinb. as Glasgow.... National Bank North of Scotland Bank Royal Bank of 8 cotl. Union Bank of Scot. Western Bank • . alliance Fire and British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur City of Glasgow Lite.. Colonial Life ......... Edinburgh Life Insur. Eng. & Scot, Law Life Life Assoc. of Scotland National Fire and Life North British Insur... Northern Assurance Co. Scottish Provincial .... Scottish Union Insrnc. Standard Life ...... • • Dividend per Annum. 15 0 0 50 0 0 [OO 0 0 [OO 0 0 s. d. 100 C 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 5110 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 . 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 . 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Z s. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Price. 80N 21% Price. 2 10 0 10 +1 0 10 0 0 0000 10 0 0 190/0s 21740 s Si 16s 8/ 51 12115 s 225/10 114 bs 98/ 5s 184 5s Si 108 1431 s 854 Os 16110 s I/ 7s 251 Os 3/ lOs 6/ Os 261 Os I/ 19 s 37110 s 121 12 1301 Os POLICif INTELLIGENCE.-April 24. MANSION-HOUSE.—ALLEGED FORGERY.—At the conclusion of the business the Rev. George Radcliffe was brought from Salisbury, in the cus tody of an officer, upon the charge of having forged a transfer of stock to the amount of 1,0281. Gs. 3d. on the Bank of England, standing in the name of George Radcliffe and Robert Raxworthy. Mr. Freshfield said he felt great pain in stating that the prisoner was a clergyman of the Church of England, and rector of St. Edward's, Salisbury, and that he had forged a certificate, stating that Mr. R•+xworti;y was dead, and thus got into his hands the stock. M. Fre6hfield said he should be obliged to require a remand, and would only pro duce evidence to justify it. GUILDHALL. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A B•Y• —CUarles Pullin() ' a lad about 14 years of ago, was placed a t th e b ar , before Alderman Hale, charged with stealing 60 pieces of challies, value 501., the property of his employers. George Russell, a City detective officer, said, yes terday afternoon, in consequence of information I received, I went to the warehouse of Messrs. Jor dan and Co., 26, Noble-stieet, where the prisoner is employed. I there saw the prisoner, and told him I was a detective, and that he was the party who had been stealing the goods which had b.-.en missed from the warehouse, and giving them to a man to pledge. I had this mar, whose name is Willis, called in, and told the prisoner lie was the man to whom he had given the goods to pledge, and I asked Willis if such was the case, and he replied it was. I then told the prisoner I must take him into custody on the charge of stealiug 60 pieces of challies, 10 pieces Wore Christmas, and 50 pieces since. I then took him to the station, and he said One of the duplicates relating to the property was in his coat pocket in the warehouse. When the charge was read over to him he said he was guilty. Alderman Hale—What is the ,value of the GO pieces Russ .311 -About 501., air. Alderman dale—This is a very wholesala rob bery for a lad like the prisoner to be engaged in. Russell—l &mad a duplicate in the prisoner's coat for a watch, and another for three pieces of eh:lilies pledged on tie 17111 of April at Messrs. Pickford and Roberts's, in the Old Kent-road. I also found in the same coat-pocket a sealed paper parcel containing six new neck-tie. There was another neck-tie loose in the pocket. I showed them all to the prisoner, and asked him how he became possessed of them, and he said, "They are the governor's ; I teok them this afternoon." I wish for a remand, sir ; but as the man Willis is here, 1 hope, sir, you will caution him to be careful in letting me know where he has pledged the goods. Edward Willis was then called to the front of the magistrate's [table, and ordered to enter into his own recognisances in 401. to appear at the next hearing. The prisoner was then remanded. WESTMINSTER. —SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST THE WIFE OF' A TRADESMAN. —EmiIy Hodges, a young, well-the-sod, and childlike woman, was placed at the b ir, charged with obtaining money under false pretences. From the evidence of Mr. Sowerby, pawnbroker, of Grosvenor-row, Pimlico, it appeared that the prisoner, who is the wife of a jeweller, residing in St. Julie's, Clerkenwell, pledged a gold locket at the house of the prosecutor, on the 9th March, stating that it was good gold, and obtained 4s. on it. On March 22, April 9, and April 23, she again appeared, on each occasion stating that she had brought the same locket, which she said had been redeemed. Oa the fourth visit the pawnbroker bad considerable suspicions, on account of her having been there so many times, and on looking over his things he found that he had four lockets in his pos session. They were all exactly like each other, and hitherto he had not doubted the truth of her repre sentation. On each occasion she gave a different name, and it could not be remembered she had done so. It might also follow that differaet assis ' tants in the shop might have returned the locket, so that pro ecutor wt uld not be able to ay whether he bad three loekets in his posses sion, or whether she had tenderer the same one each time. On her deceit being discovered she re fused to give an account of herself and rushed out of the shop. W tness caught her, when she scratched his face. Presuming the lockets to be gold they would each be worth 103. Witness assayed the lockets and found them to be spurious. Prisoner was given into custody. * Mr . Archibald Douglass, n, Sloane-street, Chel sea, working jeweller, had assayed the lockets, and said there not above three grains of pure gold in each ; altogether they were not worth more than is. 6d. The value of the articles if pure gold would be about half-a-eminea in the trade. aNeate, conducted the prosecu tion, said there was a regular system of fraud of this kiwi being carried on iu London, and if the wore remanded h e cou ld b r i ng forward several other pawnbrokers who ha-1 been similarly duped. The husband of prisoner was in the habit of making these things at Clerkenwell. t, fro m ulil be e be3ihlrope.Ad would said it was quite evident tha appearancethe extr eme yout hf u l appearance of the prisoner, she was th e d ope o f some person , whom it was to priced evidence b t by her o The case w as , th ere f o re, remanded till Friday next. remand side. her there was sufficient GREEN wit - IEL —THE LATE MANSLAUGHTER BY A 13 °Y.—COMMITTAL OF THE YOUTH AND AN INSPECTOR OF THE THANIES POLICE. —Wm. S,l.liS, a lad 12 yea rs o f ago, of respectable parents, re,id ing at N o. 1 . 0 , Wy n forditerrace, Rotherhithe, was brdught up en remand before Mr. Trail, chargerl with causing the death of another la d named John m Tho as B u il, n about the same age , while fighting in Welli ng t on s t ree t ; and Henry John Hambrooir, an inspeAor of the Thames police, was placed iu the dock charged with beiig an accessory. Mr. Supt , rintendent Evans attended to watch the case on the part of the Thanes plilice, and Mr. S ilemon appeared for Hambr,:ok ; the father of S•llis was pre s ent for his son. A melical cerificate of the cause of death was read, and seva i a l w iqi es4 cs, the particulars of whose evidence have airearly appt are 1, were examined. Jam is 1 1 :ancis and James Bowle swore that Ham brook was tie person who offered the fa'al sugges tion to " hit him under the ear." Mr. Solomon, on the part of Hambrook, begged the magistrate to tike a merciful consideration of the case ; and after stating his unfortunate position pen ion entreated to the effect that he had many years in the and in niines dailypolice exf;m, ion N o v f as a no w upon sick leave him to hear some witnesses in his behalf. Mr. Trail' said there was no necessity for it. He intended to bind him over to appear at the sessions S 5 S. PEICAS OF SHARES. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1858. CANALS. Names of Companies. Dividend ) A per la Annum. Price.t Names of Companies. Dividend Per Annum. Ashtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.. • • Derby .. • • • • GrandJunetn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Jnioll Kennt & Ava Leeds &Livrp Leicester Eeiestr &Nth LoughLorogh Macclesfield. Nea.th •. •• •• Oxford.. •• •• 93 71. p. ct. 40 4/. 100 11/. 100 6/. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 100 7s. 6d 40 6s. (00 251. 00 51. 83 11.55. 143 701 100 21. 10s. 100 161. 100 Peak Forest. Regeht's • • • • Rochdale.... Stff rd &Wore Stoarbridgc. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & Birming. Warwick & Napton.. Worcstr & Binning. Wilts & Brks 51. Os. 17s. 281. 121. IN 11. 16s. Is. Od. 7t. per cent. 81. per cent Si. per cent 51. per cent. 531. p cent 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 3 34 1 . p cent., 63 per cent.' 51. per cent Si. per cent. /. per cent. 71. per cent. 8 /. pr cent. 41. por cent. I OL. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 5/oer cent. Si.per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per coat. 734/. prccnt. 51. per cent. [T AND CO. Dividend per Annum. 71. per cent 51. per cent. 2/. per cent. • 21. 61. per cent. per cent IN. per cent. 31. ss. 41. 15s. 41. 10s. 6e. per cent. 5% per cnt 5/. 8/. per cent. IGs Od per sh 7 col* cent. [ISCELLAN Dividend per Annum, EOUS. &mount of Share. rer cent. Pi/per cent Si. pr cent 11. 10s. 51. per cen. it. per cent 51. pet cent . si.per cent. Gl. per cent. 41. per cent. Gl. per cent 21. per cent. 71 cr. cent. 34/. per ceni 1 61. per cent. 51per cent 51. p c and 1/ IN. per ct. & 121. per cent 5/. per cent. 2/. ss. 51, per cent. 51. per cent. U. gi. per cent. 71. per cent pr cent 4; 2 /. pr cent. p. share. 151. per cent. 71. per cent. pr cent. 10s. 6 per cont. GAS-LIGE:I' Name of Company. British Provincial Brighton •• ........., City of London • •• Equitable •• European .... ••• •• 1-rest Central Imperial Ditto New Ditto Dehentures.. Do. Continental Ist Cap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 30 Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap independent i,ondou Part Preferen. IThcenix . •• .. •• •• •... ftateliff. ...• . Surrey Consumers .... United General ...... Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... •• Western A . Ditto B Name of Compahy. Acadian Charcoal Iron African Steam Ship .. Assam tea .. .. Auctien Mart• Australian A.;riculturt Australian Trust .• Austrailan Royal Mail Anglo-Mexican Mint British American Land Canada ... • • .... •• • Do. 5 per cent Bon• Ditto, 5 per cent bds Ditto, 6 p C. bds 187 Ditto, lt'‘ 6 6 P e e r . e b e ti n s t lB; 6 4 Crystal palace D itt o Preference CityC..rriyg • o d f t, Franco Bonds Telegraph • 11:ng. Smelt. .&Iris. Mag. T. Co. Etquitable Reversionry Date New ,Sen. Revers. & Invest. Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) Gen.SteamNavigation London Gen. Omnibus Hudson's Bay •• •• • • •• Hungerford •• Ne. &Na. Mauso. London Reversionary Mex. & S. American Nat. Discount Comp N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb Nor. Bri. Australasian North of Europe, Stm. erice'sPateutCand. Co feel River. Land &Min. Pen. & Oriental Steam Ditto New . Reversionary Int. Soc. Ditto New : Royal Mail Steam. Scottish Aug. Invest. South Australian Land Trust and Loan Comp. Vag. -Diemen's Land.. b per cent. ii ends .... 'ARIES' PRICES. Amou a t of Share. Paid. 5 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 ' 50 0 0 11 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 £ a. d . all 150 0 0 12 10 G 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 52 0 0 16 0 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 .£ 8. d. 2 0 0 ]0 0 0 20 0 0 19 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 32 10 0 100 9 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 all 5 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 0 22 10 0 00 1, 0 all 14 0 all Stock 5 0 0 MO 0 0 all 17 10 0 10 0 0 all '2O 0 0 df 0 0 5 u 0 28 10 0 COMP. Amonnt of Share. s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 s. d. 10 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 00 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 Stock 5 0 0 50 0 0 tOO 0 0 50 0 0 00 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 4 0 0 Stock 'OO 0 0 10 0 0 I 5 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 2:► 0 0 5 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 Racing Fixtures for 1858. Chester . 4 TAvistock Bath ll Harpenden l4 Epsom lB Manchester 26 Ascot Hampton Winchester lB Chelmsford .22 Newcastle-on-Tyne Abingdon Shrewsbury 29 bury 29 Y. Liverpool l4 Nottingham 2O Stamford Marlborough 23 Goodwcod 27 Newt,ll 9 Beverley Summer 16 Bibury Club • 16 Stockbridge l7 Hereford Ipswich 1 I Pontefract 0 liham 2 Newmarket July 6 Worcester Summer 8 AUG UST. York . IS Radcliffe 23 Egham 24 Hereford 26 Stockton 26 Lichfield 3O Great Yarmouth Ripen... Belford North Staffordshire 3 Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Wolverhampton Reading .ll SEPTEMBER. Monmouth 23 Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket F 0 28 Walsall 29 Nortballerton 3O Derby Cardiff Warwick Doncaster 14 Leicester 22 OCTI Chester Autumn 5 Richmond 7 Wrexham , 7 Newmarket S 0 l.l NONE'. Worcester Autumn 2 Liverpool Autumn IBER. Royal Caledonian Hunt and Kelso 19 Newmarket H 25 MBER. I Shrewsbury Autumn ...11 Irish Racing Fixtures for 1858. JUNE. Curragh 22 I Tramors 29 Bellowitows JULY. 7 Wicklow 27 Down Royal Oorp 2O I A.uGusr. Heath of Maryboro'...... $ Galway 17 Roscommon _- 10 lon SEPTEMBER. B.ilkee Curragh 7 Johnstown 2s denkinstown Park 2l OCTOBER. Curragh 12 I Limerick Down Royal Corp l9 I MARCH _2l Northampton 23 Ponteland 29 Coventry 25 Thirbk Spring 30 Croxton Park 26 Country Markets. ROCHESTER— APRIL 24. At this corn exchange, with only a very limited supply of wheat on offer, trade was exceedingly fiat, and a decline of 2s to 3s per quarter on all kinds of wheat had to be sub mitted to, holders of home-grown parcels finding it difficult to effect sales even at that redaction. The dull reports from the other markets operated against millers speculat ing to any extent, and buyers merely purchased to satisfy immediate wants. Foreign moved off very slowly, the value of the article receding about 3s per qr. There was scarcely any inquiry for flour, which was almost entirely neglected. The demand for barley was less active, but prime samples were fully as dear as at last week's market. Oats held firm at former quotations, and in other kinds of spring corn there was no quotable alteration. The fol lowing were the prices quoted at the of the market White wheat, 42s to 46s : fine, 489 ; red, 40s to 41s ; fine, 40 ; foreign, 40s to 48 ; malting barley, 34s to 40s ; ing barley, 28s to 32s ; oats, 23s to 27s ; beans, 40s to 445 • peas, 42s to 44s ; The several local markets held during tl . l O week have been but moderately sapplied with grain, is which a dull trade was effected at a decline of 2s to 3s per quarter. NORWICH-APRIL 24. The weather has been splendid during the week, but 111 few seasonable showers are now wanted. The market! of the week have exhibited the decline which was noted 1 1, ' this exchange on Saturday last, and at Mark-lane on MOW day ; but the decline has not exceeded is to 2s per quarter . Here to-day, as at Chelmsford ye s t er d e y, th ere was a s ligl4 rally for all descriptions of quality. Barley, which wo ll again in diminished supply, also maintained late price! ; and flour was without alteration in value. Little pa ssing in other articles. Latest averages :—Wheat, 2,9864 gob' 445 4d; barley, 1,069 qrs., 38s 10d, LEICESTER—APRIL 24. At our corn market to-day wheat was in fair suPPIII and the trade ruled more active, at the full prices of 1 0 ; week, fine white samples making 5Js, and red 4 6a p er quarter. Barley a small show, and almost unsaleabl.e• Oats scarce, and is per quarter dearer. Beans were 111 request, at an advance of is per 38 stone. YORK—A rir, 24. At our corn market there was a moderate show of who* which met with a dull sale a t b a r e ly the prices of 10 f P week, fine white samples making 48s per quart er , 13 10 , 1 1' almost neglected. Oats sold readily at last wee k' s I''' . Beaus made fully late quotations. NOTTINGHAM—APRIL 24. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was limited, lol a there was a fair attendance of farmers. The trade ruli tolerably firm, and the rates of last week were made ; fine , hit• samples realised 50s, red of superior quality selling at 47s per quarter. There was not much barley on offer:, and the trade was dull, without a teration in price, off he best quality making 40s per quarter. Oats were in Oa d supply, and quite as dear as last week. Beans firm, ell in good request. GRANTHAM—APRIL 24. At our exchange hall to-day wheat was in email WI and fully as dear as the previous week. Th era wa s little doing in barley at unaltered prices. Oats were to 2s, and beans is per quarter dearer. OXFORD—APRIL 24. 'O ll A small attendance of farmer s a t m ar ket to-day, corresponding supply of wheat, for which the demand slow, and last week's prices were barely realised. 16 „ r . generally stated that holders of wheat i n thi s neiglaa°l, hood are few and far between Barley was a dull alto"; at prices from 32s to 365. Oats were much inquired f_ . „ f °4 and buyers bad to submit to a rise of from is to 2 8 quarter. Beans were plentiful, and sold well at frota to 44e per quarter. Not a single sample of peas of sal l c , scription in the market. Seconds flour, 33s per Or b . Hay, 3/ 3s to 3/ 15s per ton. The reports from the ileig9o homing towns are, that wheat has declined from is to per quarter. Other articles remain about the same. DUBLIN-APRIL 23 1 6° White wheat, 27s Od to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Oct to, j. 6d. ditto new, s Od; barley, malting, 14s tolBs Od; grin .. A ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 13s 6cl to 15s; ditto, new, to —s Od; oatmeal, 13s 6d to 15s 6d; bere, new, to io Od ; rapeseed, —s Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 0 Od to 19s Od per cwt; Indian corn , 15 s Od to 37 s Oa 490 lbri, DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—AiRIL 22. fo r Qrs. B es t. C urren t. Inf° l ol 351 Wheat 45s Od 3Ba 2d 575 Oats 303 ed 27s 3d 165 Barley 36 s 9d 3 43 Nil 2 76 oj 40 Peas & beans 45s Od 42s 8d HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—APRIL 23 ' WHEAT. 1 BARLEY I OATS. I 09° 01 First sos Od 38s 9d 31s 6d Os 4S Second 4os lid I 35s 2d /29s ld 142 61 Third 3ss Od I 32s 6d I .6s 9d I 39 3 j Total quantity of wheat in market, 234338 qrs.,v 2: . : 01 1 1: ~ It barley „ 208 qrs., 20 8 ..,.,. id oats P P ~ VP PP beans /I - qrs., AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. „ 1 ott° Wheat, '../. 011 9-12th s I B ar l e y, ...11. 15 2 1 -v 4t17 0 Oats. ... 11. 9 1 7-12th s I B eans , 21. 2 4 10:0 BIRTHS. DOWNES—On the 14th inst., at Cambridge House, tb wife of Wm. Downes, Esq., of a daughter. A d, JAXES—On the 24th inst., at No. 4 , Guildford -0 g South Lambeth, the wife of Mr. Edwin James, °' daughter. NArrEtt---On the 19th inst., at No. 22, Green.strq Grosvenor-square, the Hon. Mrs. William Napier, of daughter. - of SMITH- On the 26th Feb. last, at Cape Town, Cag e , , Good Hope, the wife of Wm. Tasker Smith, 06 "' Mixed Commission, of a son. Sli w Y i T fe ll— of O L u ie th u e t.. 2 C 2 o l n i s l t Sm i n y t L h o , w B e r e n S n e m l A o r u t r i t e r r y e t t o t i b : daughter. MARRIAGES. PEARCE —SYMONDS—On the Bth i ns t., a t S t. Mary` dalene Church, Oxf or d, by th e R ev, J. Ley, Fre-001 Pearce, Esq., of Kington Langley', Wilt s , to . 0 Louisa, youngest d a u g ht er o f Mr. G. Symonds. 0 0 -- SMITHHITCHINGS—O n the 22d inst., at Vfo r g - Church, by th e R ev. Henry Hutchinson Sviinv i tle , r sisted by th e R ev . E . J. Hitching Henry brother of the William, second son o f O c t av i us Smith, V°`;l o. of Thames Bank, Westminster, and Achranich, A r yisf shire, to Harriet Cooke, eldest daughter of the late James Hitchings, vicar of Wargrave. 3 .11 h IS BAYLEY—LITCHFIELD —On the 22d inst., at the P rA' church, Twickenham, by the Rev. Mr. Salmon,l o4 , 0 0 ; rick Charles, eldest son of Charles Bayley, t oe Peckham-rye, Surrey, to Anna Miles Scott, 9°lgoll' daughter of Dr. Litchfield, of A ugusta Villa, Tw* ham. • DEATHS, 6 0. ' ABERCROMBIE -- On the 22d inst., at his resida an" n e A paiP Norland ' -square Notting-hill, after a lingering 41" ful illness, Colonel William Aber cr ombie, reti re Bengal Engineers, in his 46th year. . S LOD DEN—On the 13th inst., at his residence, 5, i s te ° ti,1.1-place, Margate, Slodden, Esq. , " a Glaston, Rutlandshire, in the 75th year of his ag.tistif Tow.:SEND —On the 2] s t in s t.. aged 57, Richard •'" . 6o l° ' Townsend, of Doctors'-commons, and late of SPr''' „ ' Norwood, Surrey. A )& 6 1; \VROUGHTON—On the 20th inst., at Vassall-roaqtx' nington, S. Thomas Wroughton, Esq., late of '- Customs. -oe ci LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO yOuk 0, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sum 01.6°° ;( 1°I/ 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savor. in of 41iddlesex, Monday, April 24, 1848. Price. Alt© freshmen and Ligb N B' Evening Illustrati 38 .; 'tai of Oust; 201, Reg to 3 ; — Tlcui X .ull. um / AD ba nd; fo ducted b Valentin greatest CrientEs Traviata Ind is to at the " larket. RO . Proles! 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