The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-26 00:00:00

2HE NAVY. The launch of the Frederick William, screw' 86, took place at Portsmouth Dockyard on Saturday, under the superintendence of Mr. Abethell, the mas ter-builder, and was attended with perfect success. The ceremony of naming the vessel was performed by the Countess of Bernstorff, the wife of the Prus sian ambassador. A large number of people were present, and among them were the Count and Coun tess of Bernstorff, Vice-Admiral Sir R. D. Dundas ; Vice-Admiral Bruce, commander-in-chief at the port; Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Grey, super intendent of the dockyard ; the Prussian Consul, Mr. L. A. Vandenbergh ; and many military and naval officers and ladies. The band of her Majesty's ship Victory was in attendance. The iron pigs of ballast which played so unobtrusive but important a part in the proceedings have marked upon them :—" Victoria, Novem ber 12, 1859 ;" " Duncan, December 13, 1859 ;" " Prince of Wales, January 25, 1860 ;" " Frederick William, March 24, 1860 ;" the whole of which vessels, on the dates indicated, they have assisted in launching from Portsmouth dock yard, and which represent an aggregate of tonnage, 15,036 ; horse-power (nominal) of engines, 3,100 ; and 439 guns. Admiralty instructipns have been received at Chatham dockyard for a considerable reduction to be made in the number of hands employed at that establishment, the order applying to those men who were hired during the last year. In accordance with the order, the whole of the hired ship wrights who were entered to be employed in break ing up the old ships directed to be taken to pieces received a notification on Saturday last that their services were no longer required, and they were accordingly discharged that afternoon. Notice was also at the same time given that 40 hired ship wrights, with a proportionate number of the mechanics belonging to other trades, would be dis charged on Saturday next, and a similar number on each Saturday after, until the number of ship wrights and other persons employed at Chatham dockyard has been reduced to that authorised for the next financial year. The sailing ship Collingwood, 80, at Chatham, has been removed from that port to Sheerness, where she is to be lengthened and otherwise altered, and converted into a screw steamer of 80 guns. The Bacchante, 51, screw, at Portsmouth, has landed her propeller at the dockyard, for the purpose of having its leading corners cut off, preparatory to another trial at the measured mile in Stoke's Bay. The screw steamship Hero, 91, Capt. Seymour, steamed from Plymouth Sound on Friday into Hamoaze, to have defects made good, and to be fitted for the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Commandant Le V. de Lavassire do Lavergne, of the steam vessel Le Corse, 2, now at Plymouth watching French fishing boats, called on Port Ad miral Sir .B. Reynolds, K.C.8., Admiralty-house, Mount Wise, on Friday. The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Sotheby, C. 8., from Portland, which arrived at Plymouth under canvas on Friday, will discharge her powder in the Sound, and go into Hamoaze to refit. She is reported to be ,very leaky when under steam. Her Majesty's ship Greyhound put into Harwich in the course of last week. She sailed again on Thursday. The military store steam transport Lord Pan mure, H. T. Moore, commander, having been fitted with a new screw propeller, and having had her defects occasioned by the recent gale made good, was on Saturday undocked and hauled alongside the gun-wharf in Woolwich Arsenal, in prepara tion for shipping Armstrong guns and other war stores for Milford, Pembroke, Cork, and Dublin. In the Military and Naval Intelligence in 7 lie Sum of Friday, the name of Lieut. H. T. Boger, ap pointed to her Majesty's ship Excellent, was erro neously printed Rogers. The following appointments were made on Satur -i ' day at the Admiralty :—J. H. Ryan, master, to the Wellington, for the Orlando ; Wm. E. Fitzgerald, midshipman, to the Trafalgar ; G. Bellamy, assist.- surgeon, to Bermuda Hospital ; G. B. Beale, assist.- surgeon, confirmed, to the Herald ; J. C. Grigg, acting assist-surgeon, to the Hydra ; and Thos. 0, Joynson, assist.-paymaster, to the Wellington. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards, at one o'clock on Thursday next. Lieut.-Col. J. G. H. Gascoigne, of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, will em bark to-day for China, to take the command of the Royal Marines serving with the squadron under Admiral Hope. Lieut. Hamilton, Royal Engineers, and a detach ment of artificers belonging to the corps under his command, having complete a course of instruction in the machinery department of the Royal gun factories, in Woolwich Arsenal, under the superin tendence of Mr. Anderson, are about to take pas sage for the Mauritius, in charge of various cases of ,steam machinery, circular saws, turning and boring lathes, and other instruments, intended for building operations in that island. Lieut. Hamilton and his party having rendered themselves profi cient in the department, they will erect, repair, and work the whole of the machinery without assist ance. The Volunteer Artillery Corps belonging to the carriage department of Woolwich Arsenal gave a concert on Saturday in the lecture-hall of the Lite rary and Scientific Institution at Woolwich, to promote the funds of the band committee. The hall was well filled with members of the corps and their friends, to the number of about 600 persons. The concert was under the special patronage of the Commandant ; Sir T. M. Wilson, Deputy-Lieute nant of the county ; Sir William Armstrong, Mr. Anderson, Superintendent of the Royal gun fac tories; Alderman Salomons and Mr. Angerstein, the borough members, &c. The 4th company, commanded by Colonel . Thorold, were last week supplied with the Enfield rifle, by order of the War Department, and at the request of the Commandant they have been granted permission once a week to perform a course of rifle practice in the racket-court. Every avilable spot in the Ar senal was on Saturday crowded with squads, under the instruction of the drill sergeants, all of whom display the most laudable willingness, and devote greater portion of each Saturday afternoon (the usual holiday) to the volunteer movement. The lat battalion Rifle Brigade, under the com mand of Lord Alexander Russell, consisting of four field-officers, eight captains, 18 subalterns, and four staff, 48 serg eants , 2 1 d rummers, 781 rank and file, 38 women, and 53 child ren , w ill marc h out of Ports mouth garrison to - morrow morning, and leaysbthe Landport Station for Ald ers h ott at '8 a.m. The Ist battalion, by their discipli.le and good conduct since they have been stationed at Portsmouth, will carry with them the esteem and b est wishes of the in habitants. The Ist battalion 11 t h Foot (North Devon), consisting of 30 officers, 817 non-commis sioned officers and men, 60 women, and 74 children , will leave Aldershott Camp on the arrival o f th e ' Rifles, and proceed by the return special train to Portsmouth. The West Suffolk Regiment of Militia will as. semble at Bury St. Edmunds on Monday, the 30th of April, for 27 day's training. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, 4•c, A commissionership of audit has become vacant in consequence of the death of Mr. Charles Ross; salary,. £1,200. War Office: There are several vacancies in the War Office, for which a competitive examination is about to be held. Mr. Henry Wil liam Reynolds has been appointed assistant-clerk, commissariat service, at the Gold' Coast, and passed his examination. Customs : Mr. Joseph Robinson, 2d class tidewaiter and boatnain at Newhaven, has been promoted to the first class. Inland Revenue Department—Excise Branch : Mr. Thos. Dowling, second clerk Liverpool collection, has been ap pointed first clerk, and Mr. J. Rowlands, third clerk, has been appointed second clerk, Liverpool collec tion. Mr. David Thomson, officer of Queensferry second division, Linlithgow collection, has been ap pointed to Blairgowrie division, Dundee. Mr. E. Matthews, officer of Hinckley second ride, Leicester collection, has been appointed to Queensferry second division, Linlithgow collection. Mr. Patrick Egan, officer of Southam second ride, Coventry col lection, has been appointed to Auchtermuchty first division, Perth collection. Mr. James Carpenter, officer of Worcester third divi sion, Worcester collection, has been appointed to Derby third di v i s i on, N ott i ngham tollec lion. Mr. Charles J. Crosby, officer of Derby third division Nottingham collection , has been ap pointed to Worrcreesater.etlurd division, Worcester col lection. Mr. thirty-second Oatthew Fowle, officer of Glasgow has been appointed t o 0:::°d., Glasgow collection, Mr. John Campbell, Officer of Oban Oban district. district, has been appointed to anlivision, Oban Glasgow thirty second division, Glasgow collection. Mr. William hecrman, officer of ha w s e been fourth div . • Lichfield collection, has been appointed to division, ringtoil division, Hants collection. Mr. John ~14, Will cox, : cox, officer of Storrington division, Hants collec tion, has been appointed to Wednesbury fourth division, Lichfield collection. St. Lucia. —The treasurership of St. Lucia has become vacant by the death of the Hon. R. G. M`Hugh ; also the , comptrollership of customs and navigation laws.— Vivi/ .F. ervice Gazette. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: NORTH BRITISH. The half-yearly meeting of this company took place at Edinburgh on Thursday, Mr. Sprot in the chair. ---- The report was held as read. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port, and congratulated the shareholders on the steady increase of their traffic, which had enabled the directors to recommend a dividend of 3 per cent., the largest dividend that had been paid for several years. Looking to the increased mileage they would have to provide for on the Border. Union line, the directors had turned their atten tion to various improvements in their depots for construction of plant on the most approved prin ciples. Notwithstanding the long and severe winter, the contracts for the Border Union Railway were making satisfactory progress. The directors now asked approval of the amalgamation with the North British, of the Peebles and Jedburgh com panies. The capital of the former was £70,000 ordinary stock, on which 41 per cent. was proposed to be guaranteed, and £2,700 preference stock on which 5 per cent. would be paid. The Jedburgh capital was £30,580, on which a dividend at 4 per cent. was proposed. He thought they bad offered these companies a fair dividend, and also that their own shareholders would be benefited by the agree ment. Colonel KINLOCII seconded the motion, remark ing that, in his opinion, the line ought never to have paid a 3 per cent. dividend till the present time, but he was satisfied that that was now a le gitimate dividend. The report was adopted ; dividends of 5 per cent. on preference, and 3 per cent. on ordinary stock were then declared. The preliminary agree ment with the promoters of the Galashiels, Inner leithen, and Peebles line was sanctioned. Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Ronald were re-electe d directors, and a vacancy was left open ; Mr. Wilson and Mr. Irving were re-elected directors to represent the Border Union shareholders, and a resolution was passed' authorising the directors to exercise the borrowing powers conferred by the Border Union Act, to the extent of £165,000. The meeting was then made special to consider the Peebles and Jedburgh Amalgamation Bill, which was approved, and the meeting was ad journed till Wednesday, April 18, for the consider don of the other bills on their list. CALEDONIAN AND DUMBARTONSHIRE The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Glasgow ; Mr. J. Baird in the chair. The report stated that the revenue account showed an increase in the receipts of £748 over the corresponding period. The total receipts for the half-year amounted to £7,625 and the working expenses to £2,930. The available balance for dividend was £4,873, out -of which the board recommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of £4 7s. 6d. per cent. per an num, leaving a balance of £724. The total expen diture on capital account amounted to £259,265. Resolutions were passed adoping the report, declaring the dividend, and re electing the retiring directors. VALE OF NEATH. The report of the directors states that the revenue account showed that while there had been some in crease under the head of passengers and coal there had been a falling off under the head. of iron ore, traffic, and general merchandise. The directors looked forward with confidence to the fulfilment of the hopes they had ever expressed with respect to the increase of trade at Swansea when both docks were in full oireration. The reduction in the receipts from merchandise traffic was attri butable partly tq the competition of the nar row gauge Hales, and partly to the defec tive arrangements of the great lines with which ttat railway was in communication. The directors had closed the contract for the main tenance of the permanent way, and had resolved to employ the necessary labour under the superin tendence of their own officers. The manager's report stated that the maintenance of the permanent way by the officers of the company and a staff of their own had more than realised his expectations, and that a considerable saving might hereafter be ex. petted under this head. Mr. Harrison, C.E., in his report strongly urged upon the directors the desi rability of steps being taken to complete the Briton Ferry Docks, as he believed a considerable increase of traffic would be secured by the additional accom modation the company could then offer to freighters. The committee of investigation, at the conclusion of their report, stated that they had great satisfaction in drawing the attention of the shareholders to the correctness with which the accounts had been kept, as evidenced by the fact that out of 70,000 vouchers not one was even mis laid. The revenue accounts showed the receipts for the half year ending Dec. 31, 1859, to have been £42,278, and the working expenses £25,275, inte rest on loans £8,683, and £440 for the Aberdare Valley guarantee, making a total of £34,398 ; leaving a balance of £7,879, which the committee of investigation recommended should be placed to the credit of the suspense account, and in this re commendation the directors entirely coincided. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. The report of the direetors of this company states that the receipts on capital account during the half year ending Jan. 31 last amounted to £175,523, making the total receipts to that date £5,160,267. The expenditure on construction account was £4,902,104. The half year's traffic and rents amounted to £207,503, the workings ex penses and renewals to £125,284, and the net revenue to £82,218. The _ surplus from the last half year amounted to £8,168, making £90,386. From this was deducted £30,063 for in terest on loans, £5,780 for payment on account of Desjardins and Flamboro' accidents, £1,186 on account of bad debts, and £12,045. for half year's interest not received on Detroit and Milwaukie loan, leaving an available balance of £41,311 ; out of which the directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, which wovid absorb £31,693 and leave a balance of £9,618. In the present accounts there - was no charge for interest on the balance of the loan from the Govern ment of Canada, the Goyz:rnment of Canada having = consented not to call upon the company for 0 , 2 payment of interest for three years from the Ist of July, 1859, before which time it was hoped that the company might be enabled to complete the arrange ment made in 1857 for paying off the entire debt; and when that was done a settlement of the whole account between the Government and the company would be made, including the payments in previous years towa?ds the sinking fund. The traffic during the last half year, as compared with that of the corresponding peri od, showed a decrease of £3,480. The working expenses, &e., showed an increase of £4,591 over the corresponding period, caused prin cipally by the working of the Sarnia branch of 51 miles in length. The cost per mile per train had been reduced from 4s. 2d. to 3s. 10/d., which was the lowest rate at which the trains had been 'worked since the opening of the line. During the six years the line had been open bad debts to the amount of £7,118 had been incurred, and it was proposed to write them off by six half-yearly instalments of £1,186 each. The disastrous and impolitic com petition of American lines among themselves during the last three years had forced upon the company rates which were not fairly remune rative. The traffic accruing to the Great Western of Canada from the Detroit and Mil waukie line during the past half-year amounted to £18,493. It was to that extent a 'clear ' addition to the receipt s of the Great Western B ail_ way, without involvin g an extra train, was a prospect of a much larger businew-- 11 P`ze there as hereafter. The critical financial position of tte Detroit and proprietors be a Milwaukie Company had induced the directors to recommend e a n t d a t e ha a t pp a r c o o a m eh m in i . t g the of pow meeting for h 13- t e_purpose of investigating the affo: irs of the Great Western Railway of Canada, with all requisite authority. DUTCII.IIIIENISH. The receipts for lite fortnight ending the 29th of February, 1860, amounted to £5,227, and for th e corresponding period of last year to £4,327, sho w _ ing an increase of £9OO. The receipts since the commen'•ement of the present book year on the Ist of May, including the above, amounted to £132,713, showing an increase over the corresponding period of last year of £1,918. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £2,474, or 47.33 per cent upon the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to £2,329, or 53.82. per cent., showing an increase of expenses amounting to £145. The working expenses from the Ist of May, 1859, to the 29th of February last, amounted to £53,101, or 40 per cent. of the receipts. The working ex penses for the year 1858-9 were 42.40 per cent. SCINDE. The report of the directors states that the agent and chief engineer feel assured of having the entire line opened for traffic about the expiration of the present year. More than 50,000 tons of materials and machinery conveyed in 100 ships had been landed at Kurrachee for the Seinde Railway with out accident or loss in the harbour. The commerce of the port amounted for the past year to £2,584,800, s howing an i ncrease o f ln per cent. on the previous year, which was almost entirely owing to the in creased i mportations from England direct and from Bombay, • According lo the estimate of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH. 26, MO. Mr. Brunton, the entire expense of the Scinde line, with the additional works necessary, would be under £1,400,000. Although the extent of the line was not more than 114 miles in length, the termini were necessarily applicable to a traffic carried over .700 miles—viz., from Mooltan to Keamaree. The average cost of the railway would be about £lO,OOO per mile. The capital account showed that £1,239,683 had been received to the 31st of December, and £895,128 expended, leaving a balance of £5,200 in hand, and £339,355 with the'Secretary of State for India in Council. The report respecting the Indus steam flotilla states that the six towing steamers and 25 cargo barges arrived at Kurrachee in November last, with the necessary artisans and appliances, and the eight remaining cargo barges left some time ago the port of Liverpool for Kurrachee. The passen ger steamer drew only 22 inches, with a speed of 13 miles an hour, and had space for 500 men ; the towing steamer drew 17 inches, and towed at the rate of 84 miles an hour four barges, carrying to gether 450 tons. There was every hope of seeing at no distant period the entire flotilla of 53 vessels in active operation on the Indus. The native craft on that river had been increased during the past year by 3,625 boats and by 19,790 tons. The capital account showed an expenditure of £165,870. BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. The first section of thii company's line from Umrolee, on the north bank of the Taptee river, to Unklesur, near the south bank of the Nerbudda river, was opened at eight o'clock in the morning of the 7th ult. by a royal salute from the Castle of Surat. The first train, containing between 500 and 600 European and native gentry resident in the district, performed the distance, about 30 miles, in an hour and a quarter, the road being in excellent condition. The bridges, more or less extensive, were all of iron, each girder having been fully tested previous to its being sent from England. The peculiarity of the bridges on this line consisted in their being made on one and the same plan, as originally designed by the consulting engi neer, Colonel Kennedy. The spans were uniformly of 60 feet each, the piers and abutments were formed of cast iron screw piles firmly braced toge ther, and the superstructure of triangular girders, The bridge now in course of copstruction fo r car rying the railway over the Taptee river was about one-third of a mile in length, while that construct ing'over the Nerbudda river was about two-thirds of a mile in length, of which rather more than one fourth was completed. The visitors crossed the river Nerbudda in boats to a pavilion erected for the purpose, where a grand entertainment waspre pared, at which Mr. Lane, the general manager, presided. Various toasts were given and responded to, after which the visitors recrossed the r i ver , an d the train started at 4 45 p.m. for Umrolee, where it arrived in the course of two hours. It appeared that the proceedings throughout were of a very satis factory character. lower than piece goods, because it is in an earlier ' stage of manufacture, is raised to 10 per cent. The same reason would apply to grey cloth, as compared with the bleached, dyed, and printed ar tide. But existing contracts now afloat will be admitted at the old duty. Thus we have a tariff imposing one single uniform ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. on all dutiable articles except beer, wine, and spirits, which remain unaffected. The total gain to the state by this modification of the tariff is £351,700. The standing orders were suspended to allow of the bill being at once passed through council, and it came into operation on the 20th February. IL—Trades License Bill.—The license duty pro posed is extremely moderate, but it is meant to be passed for ever. It consists of three rates :-Ist, two shillings a year on artisans, including weavers, leather workers, and small traders, but excluding the agricultural menial classes in village commu nities who are attached to them, and are generally paid in grains. 2d, eight shillings a year on retail shopkeepers and small manufacturers, who work for local retail sale ; and 3d, one pound on whole sale traders, bankers, manufacturers, and profes sional men. These rates will be uniform, and apply to all of each class without any discrimina tion as to incomes or extent of business. The licenses are to be taken out each year. Thus a complete register of trades will be formed, and act as a, check against evasion under the income tax. Tax.—The tax will apply to all incomes above the limit of £2O a year. From that sum to £5O the rate will be two per cent. On all incomes above £5O the rate will be four per eent., of which three will be paid to the public treasury, and one be appropriated to strictly local purposes. In the appropriation of the latter, municipalities, where they exist, will have a voice as in the United States. There will be four schedules—No. 1 will include income derived from real property ; No. 2, income from trades and professions ; No. 3, income from the public funds ; and No. 4, income from public salaries. There will be no exemption what ever. The case of the Zemindars who are subject to periodical revisions of settlement, will be met by levying the tax on one-half the rental which they pay to Government. At present it is 66 per cent., one-half of which represents the net income of the Zemindar. But the same standard will obviously not apply to estates under the per petual settlement. The several provisions of the bill for assessing profits are_ the same.as in England, by voluntary returns made to the commissioners to their satisfaction. But to meet the peculiarities of special districts or cities, Government will be at liberty to adopt any other mode of assessment, through's, punchayet for instance, or by levying a lump sum on a certain city or community. IV.—Tobacco Tax.-- Home-grown tobacco will be taxed at a rate corresponding as nearly as possible with the import duty, that is, sixpence a pound on the raw, and a shilling on the manufactured article. There will he difficulty in levying such a tax, but when an English Minister makes such an excuse he his told that he holds office for the purpose of over coming difficulties. Such are the new taxes. They are equitable and just to all alike; they infringe no principle of wise legislation; they offer no impediment, on the con trary, they remove hindrances to future develop ment. They may involve opposition—even risk and danger—but it is our duty to incur these that we may remove a greater evil, the deranged state of the finances. As to reduction. There is much room for improvement and re-arrangement, but none for re duction of the civil expenditure. As in England, that must risb with increasing prosperity. But a great reduction can be made in the military departments, not in the pay and emoluments of either officers or men, but in the numerical strength, by a better dis tribution of forces, and by contracting commissariat and military expenditure. The native army must be reduced to the smallest possible minimum, the country held by European forces, and by a police somewhat of the character of the Irish constabulary to perform all civil and quasi-military duties. The deficit is 91- millions, and will be 61 next year. What the new taxes will yield India happily affords no data from which to f - orm an idea. But, however sanguine we may be as to their result, large military reductions will be necessary until we come to the expenditure of 1856-57. In the conclusion of his speech Mr. Wilson declared against an imperial guarantee for the Indian debt. He urged the necessity for administrative changes, so that the finance department should control the revenue, and that the local governments should be tied down by annual estimates for each branch of expenditure. What is wanted is central control and local responsibility. For the present there will be no necessity for a loan. The cash balance in the Indian treasuries is £15.000,000, and in England £4,600,000, -the highest point which it has reached for many years. Until the new taxes become fruitful and the reduc tions are carried out, this will be found sufficient. Mr. Wilson sat down, promising to hear and weigh all objections in detail, but declaring the crisis too serious for argument and discussion. The time for energetic action has come. He gave notice of a bill to extend to the whole of India a system of well secured convertible paper note currency, to be in troduced either on the 25th inst., or on the 3d of March. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to allow of an expression of opinion frem all classes and all quar ters as to Mr. Wilson's financial measures. There can be no doubt that they will be passed in all their entireness. We believe them to be equal to the difficulty which they have been brought for ward to remove. Though a four per cent. income tax will fall heavily on the public, we believe the public will willingly bear it. There may be oppo sition on the part of the native land and fund holders, and the organ of the former has already begun to grumble ; the license tax may be difficult of collection from the artisans, and the 2 per cent. income tax may be met by passive resistance in the shape of fraud on the part of the natives, We have throughout disapproved of the tobacco tax, which we look upon as oppressive. But we have as much confidence in Mr. Wilson's " executive ability and power to give effect" to his measures, as admiration of the wisdom which has planned them. We believe that the new taxes will yield far more than he an ticipates ; that even without reduction they will extinguish the deficit, and render it possible within the next five years for us to look upon an income tax as no more a permanent impost than it is in England. If Mr. Wilson is able, without universal opposition from the natives, to carry his measures into effect, he will, indeed, justify the opinion which sent him out to India as even some thing more than her Chancellor of the Exchequer. BO4IRD OF TRADE RETURNS. The Board of Trade returns for the month of Feb ruary were issued on Saturday. We subjoin a state ment of the total declared value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures during the month and two months of the last three years : _ _ For the month. 1858 1859 1860 For two months. .... £14,510,016 19,207,566 20,088,437 The aggregate shipments in February were larger by X 1,107,797, or 11 per cent., than in Feb ruary, 1859, and larger by £3,433,524, or 47 per cent., than in February, 1858. Those for the two months of the present year were larger by £880,871, or 41 per cent., than in 1859, and larger by £5,578,421, or 38 per cent., than in 1858. . .. . _ Examining the Chief items of these exports, * we arrive at the subjoined general figures for the month, viz. Month of February. 1858. 1859. 1860. Apparel and slops £115,281 £159,648 £152,365 Beer fond ale Books 27,914 36,131 39,494 Butter Coals and culm 203,972 50;998 181,674 46,166 178,118 Cottons Cotton yarn Counterpanes and small wares Earthenware and porce- 17,796 lain.... Furniture 80,855 17,074 20,929 33,095 94,996 17,174 21,508 Glass, common bottles.. Haberdashery and mil- linery Hard wares and cutltry 188,699 Leather, unwrought 14,391 Ditto, wrought 90,085 Sachllery and harness 17,986 Linens (cloths of all kinds and cambries) 268,175 Linen yarn Machinery, steam en gines Ditto, other sorts 130,160 Iron, pig Ditto, bar, bolt, and rod 124,372 Ditto, railway of all kinds Ditto, cast • 58,773 Ditto, wrought 140,146 Copper, unwrought Ditto, sheets and nails 122,710 Lead Tin, unwrought Tin-plates 80,502 Silk manufactures (silk only) Other articles (of silk only) Silk, thrown 18,022 Ditto, twist and yarn Spitits (British) Wool Woollens (cloths, &c.).. 178,048 Ditto (mixed stuffs, . flannels, &c.) ... 220,973 Worsted tuffs, 195,535 Woollen and worsted yarns 327,114 254,898 30, 950 93,88 20,85 25,259 110,323 16,770 29,661 369,532 288,255 36,591 121,410 321,672 159,038 21;567 43,336 129,412 46,244 160,495 381,697 162,692 158,402 60,433 189,627 68,870 98,524 31,430 20,096 107,726 56,721 120,087 36,108 169,699 194,564 36,022 227,697 78,492 135,743 23,152 17,103 121,181 27,520 66,338 57,82' 32,063 53,155 17,275 11,420 32,530 233,471 34,211 24,063 15,218 22,065 90,247 304,432 328,063 351,822 358,606 413,394 163,749 274,898 The principal increase is in cottons (including yarn), woollens, and worsteds, linens, haberdashery, hardwares, and cutlery, beer and ale, earthenware, and leather manufactures. The export of iron shows a moderate increase. There is scarcely an item of importance on the unfavourable side. The annexed shows the quantities of the chief articles , of food taken for consumption during the month : Month of February. 1858. 1859. 1860. Cocoa Coffee Wheat qrs. 263,55 4 3 226,239 53,087 Flour cwts. 309,172 216,966 125,263 Butter cwts. 26,094 26,195 39,848 Rico cwts. 127,149 121,982 116,745 Cheese cwts. 23,503 24,114 21,580 Eggs No. 8,486,200 9,407,000 9,919,400 Pepper lbs. 322,561 319,790 276,382 Rum gals. 301,740 288,748 383,349 Brandy gals. 86,050 90,561 8,406 Sugar, unrefined,cwts. 680,976 619,741 606,882 Tea lbs. 5,433,387 5,939,113 6,582,106 Wines ..gals. 503,365 604,762 161,924 There is an increase in coffee, eggs, and rum, but a considerable decrease in wines and brandy, the operations in which were paralysed by the expec tation of Mr. Gladstone's financial scheme. The consumption figures relating to sugar and pepper are likewise below the average. The quantity of foreign bread-stuffs required was small. 7HZ INDIAN BUDGET. WEI have now received the full report of Mr. Wilson's Budget speech, delivered in the Legisla tive Council of India, on Feb. 18. It occupies 24 closely printed columns of the Friend of India, and occupied three hours in delivery. The leading men of all classes in Calcutta, merchants, civil and mili tary officers, Bengalees, Parsees, and others crowded the Chamber to hear it. The following outline of Mr. Wilson's statment is from the Friend of India : After an introduction, in which he referred to his own appointment, to the bill previously intro duced by Mr. Harrington, and now abandoned, and to the events of the rebellion, and the financial disorder to which it had given rise, Mr. Wilson pledged himself to lay before the Council " without suppression on the one hand, and without exaggera tion on the other, the exact state of the financial position." Government itself suffers most from secrecy or uncertainty. Though India has no re presentative assembly, and it may be idle to specu late on the time when it will have such an institu tion, there is an enlightened public opinion, a free press, and free discussion,—all necessary elements of a prosperous social structure ; by frankness will the sympathies add aid of the public best be en listed. The final estimate of the• income and expendi ture of 1859-60 shows a deficit in India and England of £9,290,11E9, or nearly three millions more than the accounts sent home by the govern ment of India in September last. This discrepancy is owing to a mistake in the military expendi ture of Bombay of £600,000, and in the c ommis sariat of Madras of £300,000 ; while the estimated receipts from proposed taxes to the extent of three fourthg of a million proved a failure, there was an unexpected increase in the Public Works Depart ment, the railway account was wrong byX833,000, and the Home charges showed an increase of £640,000 ; the whole amounting to upwards of three millions. The September statement was issued in good faith, but such error's as these are a proof of the necessity for an immediate and radical change of the system which originated them. The actual deficit of 9 millions arises thus : Income D 7,706,209- Charges (including stores from England)., 41,770,008 Deficit in India ..... Deduct railway returns Add deficit in England t . £3,783,6,507,060920 Total deficit If we deduct from this the Million allowed for compensation, a decrease in the military charges of 1+ mtilion, and an increase of income from the salt duties of £410,000, the estimated deficit , of next year, 1860-61, will be 61 millions. If to these two deficits we add those of 1857.58 and 1858-59, we have a total deficiency of 37 millions, which with interest will give 40 millions sterling as the cost to India of her rebellion. The total India debt at the present moment is £97,851,807, of which 20i millions is in London, and the annual charge of interest is £4,461,029. We must not lull ourselves into composure by the fact that there hav e b een financial difficulties before, and that they have been surmounted by no extra ordinaiy sacrifices, The deficit of Lord Amherst's time, owing to the Nepaul and Mahratta wars, was only three millions. Lord W. Ilentinck, after the Burmese war, had to cope with a deficit of five Pttas, amounting to only £14,000,000. When Sir R. eel revolutionised English finance in 1842 : the had to meet a difficulty of little more than 10 millions, the accumulation of six years. We have -to deal with a deficit of upwards of 37 millions, the fruit of only- four years, with a present lack of 9+ and a prospective want of GI millions. - Deficit has been the almost - normal state of In dian finance. In the 26 years since 1834, when the trading ffinctions of the company teased, there was a surplus for only seven years, the remaining 19 exhibited large deficiencies. Of the 59 years of the present century, there •werc Only 15 in which large additions were hot made to the debt. We cannot be content to continue in this state. And this is not the only source of uneasiness as to our re venue. ;The five millions a year derived *Om the sale of opium are insecure. It is not wise for a ' great empire to rely for more than half its income on the land, r and so to run the risk of op pressing the people and impoverishing the ex chequer. But bad as is our condition there is, no ground for despair. Everything points to a prosperottt future. Nowhere can be found a riclitr soil, a finer climate a more docile and i n dtt s t r i ous popu l at i on than in India. Her 'capabilities for development are immense; her railways have proved a great success. 'nth increase of her :Jommerce since 1834 is astound ing it has non from 13 to 60 millions sterling. Her internal prosperity has been equally great. The sales of estates in defkult, which in 1834.5 re presented an annual rent of £95,650, were in 1858-9 only £1,449. Arrears of land revenue have almost ceased to exist. The labouring and cultivating classes have shared in the general prosperity. Wages have risen in the last few years in many eases threefold. This anomaly of the absence of sympathy between the finances and the commerce of India must be removed. All must contribute their share. Expenditure must be reduced, but recourse must be had to new sources of taxation. At present the whole amount of taxes paid by I n di a is £9,027,973 a year, per rThileand eiws £2 3s. proposed hY for the land revenue is rent, and China pays for Opium With a population of 132,292,000, India is taxed only ls. 4d. a head, while in England the rate last year's tariff nr. Wilson were fourfold. 1. Customs..4f has by last Checked the ro l in tnno lo r I mp ort, o :cllid bent i n found that the increaSe Ttalisit duties on arti oonf d o u o t r i t e a s io b . yield. the expected increase of NT ' • u; that yield OM% bncetorth the rate is to be 10 per cent. cl'es passing front native states to British l'eryltbirt-t and vice Vern, ' amountiug, as in lab A's'e catch wool, to 10 per cent. export ,hi 3 per cent, import, are abolished; native producers win thus be encou raged. On the principle that an‘export duty should not be levied on articles in which India hailiDete with other nations in neutral tnarkets, tea, coffee, jute, hemp, hides, flax, and wool will p ass out free, and maps and prints, like books, be admitted free. The total annual loss will be £82,000. But as India is the only country which produces salt petre, and any increased duty will fall ultimately on the consumer, that article is charged £5 lOs a ton. The duty on manufactured tobacco is raised to is. a pound, and en the raw article to a pound. Cotton t*kt, which TFas rated a 6 per cent. or THE NdrIONAL GALLERY. The choice collection of pictures formed, :ter the most part within the last 20 years, by M. Edmond Beaueousin at Paris, has been recently purchased for the National Gallery for the sum of £9,200. The condition of taking a whole collection generally supposes a considerable elimination, but in this in stance, otit of 46 pictures, 11 only have been con sidered superfluous. The addition of 35 cpecimens, folloWing upon those purchased at the NOrthtrick sales, will tax the ingenuity of the authorities at the National Gallery to exhibit the new acquisitions satisfactorily, It appears that, to meet the present necessity ; a screen is to be placed in the west room of the Gallery in Trafalgar-square, low enough not to obstruct the distant view of large pictures on the wake, but affording stifficient superficial extent to accommodate some of the smaller works already in the Gallery. By this arrangement—which must be regarded as temporary only, and which may even serve to hasten the , decision of the question respecting a new National Gallery—the recently purchased pictures can occupy fitting plaCeS on the walls. The work of placing them and of making the requisite preparatory changes will of necessity be gradual, there being only two days in the week (Thursday and Friday) when such operations are practioable. As yet, the portion of the Beaucousm collection which is exhibited to public view consists of the following pictures :—A "Portrait of a Man," Mabase ; the " Death of the Virgin," by M ar tinby Schou I this excellent specimen of a rare master was formerly in the Gallery of the King of Hol land ; an "Allegory of Venus, Cupid, and Time," by Angelo Bronzino, probably the artist's master- Fiece ; it was painted, acco•rding to Vasari, for rancis I. of Prance, and about 30 years since it appears to hate been In the Gallery at Althorp ; "The Virgin and Child St. Catherine, and 6t.;(ohn the Daptist l " by Titian; fl,..ii•therllr in the sacristy of the Church of the Escurial, and subsequently in the Coestelt. "collebtion; tWo, figtam life size, " E . l.liniliS h and u chxne," by NHS Itotdime ; a Magdalen reading, by Roger Van der We deft ie yonnget whole-length portrait of 6 k lady . , by BrOnzino. Among th e works th a t are t o are two portraits, head size, by Roger Van der Weyden the yoitinket, ot ii4thself, and Wife; ;_Virgn and Nile, liy Cana eta t.onegiiano , a striati ;f it e i id,fdt, teristic specimen, once in the possession of Mr. Coninghatn; four *ell-known oC4iullo Itomancis, "froth the Orleans Gallery, and OM hate been more 'than once engrafted; a small Mazzolino, formerly in the Fon thill Gallery ; " The Virgin and Child with Saints,'" half figures, by Francia ' • a portrait o f A r i os t o , pro b a bl y t h at mentioned by Ridolti, by Titian, (Sze. .T,BE GREAT TASMANIA.—Two more o f tne sol, diets who returned from India in the Great Tasmania died on Thursday. The first was Patrick Leary, one of, those who were sent to the workhouse, and the second William Osborne, who is said to have enlisted and to have passed the usual medical examination. The latter was found dead in bed at his lodgings ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, March 24 (Before the Chief Baron and a Common Jury.) MYERS V. WALLETT. Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Field were for the plaintiff; Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. Wills repre sented the defendant. The litigant parties are the celebrated equestrian clowns, the plaintiff being known to the public as " Jim Myers," and the defendant as the " Queen's jester" and Shakesperian clown. The action was brought to recover a band carriage, which de fendant had seized, with a number of articles stowed away inside, and damage for the loss sus tained by reason of its non-possession. The de fendant pleaded not guilty, and that the property in question was his own. The plaintiff being about to perform at Birming ham, published an advertisement in the Birming ham Journal to that effect, on the Bth of October, 1859. The band carriage had been seized while plaintiff was absent at Birmingham, and, it soon transpired that defendant had seized it, and the present action was the result. For the defence Mr. Ramplin was called, who proved that he and " Jim" were cronies of an an cient date, having first became acquainted in Ame rica. It appeared that Ramplin had made an agreement to sell to Myers two horses for £5O. One, called the " Birgey" horse, was described as " while and blue," whilst the other, which was known by the name of " 'Tem," was a brown. In the center of the agreement for the sale of the horses were the words " and one band car," the de fendant alleging those words were inserted, and done so without his knowledge, and were a fraud upon him, he having hired the van from Ramplin, in whom the property of the van was, Ramplin having simply " loaned" it to Myers. This, how ever, was entirely repudiated by Myers, and it ap peared from some letters put in, written by Ram- On to Myers, he says," You are the only man that ever took any interest to do me good ;" and it was contended for Myers, it would hardly be likely that he, who had befriended bim in more impor tant matters, would defraud him in the matter of the band car. The jury ultimately found for the plaintiff the -value of the car, .£l9. OXFORD CIgeIIiT.—HEREFORD, March 24 CRoWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) CHARGE OF CHILD lIIIADER. Charlotte Dailey, aged 18, was charged with the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, at Ledbury, on the 18th December. Mr. Powell prosecuted. Prisoner was defended by Mr. Matthews, by request of the Judge. It appeared from the evidence that • the prisoner had been for several short periods an inmate of the Ledbury Workhouse in the three months preceding the commission of the alleged offence, and on Tues day, the sth December, being pregnant, she again became an inmate, remaining in the house until the birth of her child, which ile place on the 18th December. A woman namedA!resdee heard her express a hope that the child would not live, but it was a fine healthy infant, and came on well. Os the Tuesday night prisoner had her child in bed in a ward where some other women were sleeping, and in the night they were awakened by a noise Proceeding from the child, not natural cries, but riz more resembling sneezing , or coughing. One of tire woiaell, named Anne Davies, cared to get up for a light, anal ;_rtqtred what was the . mat ter. Prisoner answered, «t\ er mind, :7 the child is quiet now." About half an hour fterwar d ds p quiet calledout that the child was dean, and 7 thee the other women procured a light they fowl- 41 , 1 infant was indeed dead. It was lying on ~._ e mother's arm, and there was blood on its face and clothes, as well as upon the night-dress of the pri soner. Upon a surgical post mortem examination being made, Mr. Adams found the nose flattened and the mouth partially open. There were woollen fibres on the lips, as though something had been thrust into the child's mouth, and there was no thing to account for death but the supposition that it was caused. by the exclusion of the air from the lungs by mechanical means. Mr, Tanner, another medical man, concurred in the opinion of Mr. Adams that there was nothing **tonally to account for death, which resulted from aspity±2a, or stkffocation. n eross-examination, the medical witnesses both salt the appearances were consistent with death by suffocatioil rithont violence. Mr. Matthews, for the defence, contended that there nothing to show an intention to murder the child, as the expression deposed to was natural before the child was born ; but when the birth took place prisoner behaved affectionately to the infant, and said she anticipated comfort from it. The Jury, acting on the suggestion of the Judge, acquitted the prisoner. UNNATURAL OFFENCE.--William Hobby, 18, labourer, was indicted for committing an unnatural offence at Llanwarne, on the Bth September last. Mr. Pritchard. prosecuted; Mr. Cooke Evans de fended the prisoner. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and sentence of death recorded against him. The business of the assizes terminated at one o'clock p.m. 'The civil business had terminated on the previous evening. POLTUB INTELLIGENCE.—March 21. LAMBETH.-THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF IOBBEILY, &C., IN ADDINGTON-SQUARE.—Charlotte Elizabeth Beaumont, late a servant of all-work in _ _ the family of Mr Lombard, a gentleman of pro perty, residing at 19, Addington-square, Camber well, and who has been in custody since the 19th instant on two separate charges, the one with steal nearly £6O, the property of her master, and the other with inducing her master's niece, a young woman nineteen years of age, and who, it is said, is entitled to considerable property, to leave the house of her uncle for improper purposes. It will be recollected that the prisoner and her young mistress left the house of her master on the night of Saturday, the 11th of last month, and though every effort had been made to trace them nothing was heard of their residence until the morning of the 9th instant, when they were found at a coffee-shop in Long-acre, the young woman in a frightful state of illness, and the prisoner with a large box, containing silk dresses and fashionable wearing apparel, of the value, of £3O, packed up ready to be taken away. Ac cording to the disclosures made by the prisoner they had left home with the intention of leading a "gay" life at the West-end, and that the first week they visited Weston's, in Holborn, and other places, where they had been in the habit of picking up gentlemen, and in fact led a life of perfect profligacy, from the effects of which the prosecutor's niece is at present a severe sufferer. On the prisoner being put to the bar ; Mr. Beard, who attended for the prosecution, said that such was the present state of suffering of the young lady, that it Would be some weeks before she could attend to give her evidence, and as he under stood the prisoner would plead 'guilty to a part of the charge, it was not the wish of Mr. Lombard to prosecute the matter further, but to leave the case in his worship's hands, to dispose of it in what way he might deem proper. Mr. Lombard was .here sworn, and said that on the 4th or sth of last month he handed the prisoner, who was at the time his servant, Ll ls. 2d. to pay to the gas collector, and half-a-crown to pay to another account. Mrs. Lombard had also given her 7s. 6d. to pay for some soap, and all these sums she had applied to her own use. On the night she absconded from his house he missed £55 in gold, but could not take it on himself to say that she actually took that. Sergeant Bell, the officer who had the case in hand, gave a short history of the case, as far as it came under his notice. Mr. Newingham, a medical gentleman, said he was in attendance on Miss Badman, who was at present suffering under so severe an attack of rheu matism as to be scarcely able to move, and it would be some weeks before she would be able to attend. The prisoner pleaded guilty to taking the smaller sums, but declared that it was Miss Amelia who took the 55 sovereigns. Mr.. Beard wished to say, on the part of tire pro secutor, that he had received a good character with the prisoner, and it was not his wish to press the case severely against her. Mr. Norton said lie was sorry he could not take a favourable view of the case, for, according to the prisoner's own showing, she had, before leaving her master's house, carried on a course of profligacy which was not often heard of, and that she received gentlemen for improper purposes with the know ledge of her young mistress, who, he feared, had become too willing a victim to her designs. It was also clear that if she did not steal the 55 sovereigns herself she was a party to the stealing and its sub sequent appropriation ; and, under all the circum stances, he did not see he could do less than give her the utmost which the law allowed him to give, and that was, six months' hard labour at Wands worth House of Correction. The dresses were ordered to be given up to Mr. Lombard. WORSHIP-STREET.—ANOTHER EXTRAORDI NARY CASE IN BASTARDY.—WiIIiam Hughes, a gentlemanly person of middle age, was charged upon a summons, granted by Mr. D'Eyncourt, with liability of support for three children born out of wedlock. Mr. Venn, for the complainant, a very lady-like person, but manifestly past the " May of life," stated the facts, and the case appeared to excite an unusual interest in a most inconveniently crowded court. The lady said—l am single, and have borne Mr. Hughes four children, one, born in October, 1858, died when fifteen months old ; three are living— Annie, born on Oat. 30, 1852; William, on Feb. 17, 1854 ; and Martin on July 30, 1855. He was introduced to me by a lady friend of mine, when I was residing in Brunswick-square, about January, 1851. He visited me continually, and I believed he was a single man. He was a clerk, and I passed by the name of " Sutton." Six months after our acquaintance I removed to Shrubland-road, Dalston. The first and second children were born there. De fendant afterwards became a commercial traveller. I went with bim upon his journeys, and when he was in town he slept at my house. In all, I have received about £lBO from him. He appeared very fond of the children, and the letters I produce were written by him. Numerous letters were here put in, and all tended to show that the parties were manifestly in correspondence as man and wife, inquiries about the " kids" were frequent in them, and a strong expres sion of affection breathed through all. Witness continued—l ever felt assured that he believed himself the father of my children, and he constantly evinced the fondest affection for them, making remarks upon the similarity of their coun tenances to ours. In March, 1859, I found he was a married man, and received nothing for their sup port afterwards. Crossa-examined—When Mr. Hughes first had an interview with me I was in the family•way by Dr. Coventy. He is now dead, and the child is in the hands of his friends, at Essex Villas, Cheltenham. Eight or ten months after my acquaintance with Mr. Hughes, Dr. Coventy returned from abroad, but I swear that I had not any intercourse with him after I knew defendant, who always gave me money to defray the expenses of the births, and he was aware of my previous connexion with Dr. Coventy. I admit that I had one child previous to an acquaintance with the doctor. The mother of the complainant was called to sub stantiate the evidence of het: daughter, and created by her honest simplicity of speech considerable amusement. She said.—This gentleman always appeared to think the children his own, and I re member that, when the first one was coming, be be sought me to let him know. Consequently I did, and when I told him the sex be exclaimed, " Oh, ain't I glad I've got a daughter." He used to nurse the children, play at cock-horse, drink gin and water, and smoke his pipe with me. (Much laugh ter.) Little Billy was born about seven o'clock in the morning, and Mr. Hughes was ferocious over him. I have changed several £5 notes that he has sent my daughter. I admit that she had two children by other persons ; one by Dr. Coventy, and the second by a gentleman who went abroad. But I swear that I saw nothing in her conduct after her acquaintance with defendant that was blameable. The defence set up was that the complainant had no claim in consequence of her extensive connexion, but Mr. D'Eyncourt thought the case fully proved, and ordered the usual half-crown pe l rw s. e c e o k st fo s. r each of the three children (pretty little things, playing about the court), together with £ 3 4 e t n o t res a is n t d diseas Pills e [A DVERTISE MENT.]—HoIIoway's in Cure All.—No season tests human strength Otin more than the spring, hence the many afflictions hat opp ressing h whole families at this time. Every ono, con dition of body, should always in the spring w tak e e v w hat ever cool ingee efixatednitlaials ailments e m nt o s stfavourable t ime H o f ll o o r w th ay ei ,s r and purifying medicine, and all suffering from skin di , s r e e a . ses F w or ill rough, uneven skin, and the deepest mang e"- --t. The nothing equa ls -- ulcer yield alike to its power of alway s sub ointme— or depraved blood Holloway 's• nant-leoldnb stituting wholesome and f purl beneficial. action over eves, ." fying pills, b y deansw : and stimulating, exercise the same internal organ. From the combined use of ointment ad p Lils, the body regains tone [ADVERTISEMENT.] and vigour. ._ we hays read vritri :uu_c , h . pleasure Du Barry's (b., -snetssia), Report on the cure of Indigestion Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and diver Complaints, Cough, Asth ma, Consumption, and Debility, , without medicine, by Dt Barry's Food. The following are a few extracts whiah appear to merit the attention of many :—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth. Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham-cross, Herts : a cure of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 48,314.—Mi5s Elizabeth Yeo man, Gateacre near Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 54,812.—Mi5s Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of re covery. Cure No. 51,514. —Baron do Polentz, Prefect of Langenau, of many years' horrible sufferings of the nerves, and of an obstinate liver comp laint, for which the German spas had been tried in vain for years. Cure No. 48,721.—General Baron do Zaluskowski, of many years fearful disorders of the digestive functions. En tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., Se. 9 d. ; 51b., 125 .; 121 b. 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London Fortnum,' Mason, and Co., 18 2 , Piccadilly; Alibis, 60 Graceehurch-strect ; 4, Cheapsitin ; 03, and 150, 0.r,f0 , T. street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate. street ; 85, Tottenham -court-road. Also at Dublin. Bewley 'and Draper; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co. ; _at South ampton, Randall and Sou. SHOCKING DB-4TII. An inquest was held at Stamford on Monday evening, on the body of Miss E. Pulley, aged 63, who was found the same morning burnt to death in her own residence.. It appears that the deceased, who lived by herself in a house in High-street, St. Martin's, and was a regular attendant at church, did not make her appearance on Sunday, and as she had not been seen since the previous Wednes day, and no smoke had issued for a few days from either of the chimneys of her house, fears were en tertained that something serious had happened to her. On an entry being made a fearful sight was presented. The body of the unfor tunate lady was on the floor, with the head near the fire grate, a black _and charred mass, resembling in appearance a burnt log of wood. Her - clothes, which were all burnt to tinder, lay:on the floor around. The right hand and arm to the elbow were burnt nearly to a cinder. The materials for kindling a fire were laid in the grate, and a candlestick (the candle burnt to the socket) was standing near the grate by the side of the corpse, from which it is supposed that the un fortunate deceased came downstairs on Thursday morning, and was going to light the fire, when she fell down in a fit, her clothes caught the flame, and she was burnt to death. Search was made to ascertain if there had been any robbery or violence,but nothing was discovered to lead to a suspicion that any property had been stolen. On looking over the drawers and boxes of the deceased several vouchers and documents of different matters were found, several trinkets, many valuable books, and an un used cheque for £5OO. The deceased, who, although eccentric and penurious, was very charitable, lived in the house all alone, not having bad a domestic for many years. She had neither bell nor knocker to the door, having had them taken off on account of beinc , frequently pestered with beggars ; and it was often difficult for persons to get access to her on business. She died without leaving a will, and her property, about £l5O a year, will go to a rela tive at Putney. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally burnt to death." COUIVTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON—MARcH 24. At this corn-market wheat was in middling supply, with a tolerable trade, at about the rates of this day se'n night, prices ranging from 44s to 47s for old, and 40s to 46s for new. There was a slow business passing in barley, malting 36s to 40s, grinding 28s to 32s per qr. Oats in limited show, with a languid sale, quoted at 25s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 47s to 50s; new, 43s to 465. Rye, —e to ; malt, 68s to 70s ; flour, 33a to 36a per sack. NORWICH—MARcst 24. At our market to-day there was a limited supply of wheat, and the demand being still brisk, prices were fully main tained, and in some instances is to 2s more money. There was only a small supply of barley, but higher rates were obtained. White wheat 46s to 49s I Red wheat 40s to 45g Malting barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier barley 34s to 40s Distilling . do .. ....25s tO 27s I Oats.. 24s to 28s Flour, 29s 6d to 31s per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE-MARCH 24. There was again a fair supply of wheat, and, with a steady demand in the trade, white moved off at 44s to 490 ; red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. There was a small show of barley to-day; malting, 36s to 40s; grinding, 28s te 31s per 30 stone. Oats at 26e to 28s for new ; old oats, —s te —s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—new, 405 to 43s ; old, —s to —s per 38 stone ; peas, 405 to —s per 36'stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s; red, 46s to Os per quarter. YORK—MARcx 24. To-day's market was moderately supplied with wheat, in improved condition, and all descriptions sold readily at is to 2s over last week's rates. Beans about the same as last week. Oats firm. Barley a tolerable show. Malt, 68s to 70s per qr.; rye, 32s per qr.; flour, 33s to 35s per 20st. DUBLIN— The market was steady for quotations. -141Ancn 24. everything at last Tuesday's s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 28 6 to 30 6 Do., red 27 0 to 28 6 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black ll 6 to 12 6 8. d. o. d. Do., new — 0 to 9 Bere Rapeseed Oatmeal l3 6 to 15 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table E - signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and 31 by morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of due DWI of Mails. Despatch. . ....---- Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton V . , Aprill2 31 Southamp. Aprillo Ditto, via Marseilles April l B, B A p ril 4 Bahamas and Havana via New Y or k Aprill3,E Liverpool.. April 12 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Mar. 28, E Liverpool.. overdue Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena April 5, E s Devonport April 3 China, Penang - , and Singa= pore, via Southampton April 4, M,Southamp. April:3 Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton.. Mar. 27 ,M Southamp. Mar. 2 5 Honduras and Blewfields .... Aprill7, M Southamp. April 11 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton April 4, 32 Southamp. April 3 Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 26, E Mar. 2 5 India (Bombay), via South ampton Mar. 27. M Southamp. Mar. 25 Ditto, via Marseilles April 3,lil Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands April 9, 31 Southamp. April 5 Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Mar. 27, M Seuthamp. April 1 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 27, M Southimp. Mar. 25 Ditto. via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfbundland Mar. 30,E Liverpool.. United States and British N America (by British packet) Mar. 24, E Liverpool.. Mar. 29 Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe Mar. 23 B Liverpool.. April 10 West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town. New pranada. &c. ,April 2,31 Southamp. April 1 !April 1 A BLONDIN IN GLASGOW.—On Saturday placards were posted throughout the city of Glasgow announcing that, by the permission of the Lord Provost, " the world ' renowned Signor Duvalli," from London, who had created a great sensationby his crossing the rivers Tyne and Thames a la Blondin, " would make his terrific ascent and descent on a rope 600 feet long over the river Clyde." Great mul titudes assembled to witness the feat, and it being appre - hended that the suspension bridge might prove too weak for the extraordinary strain upon it, the police had to clear it. Signor Duvalli, however, did not appear; but the crowds seemed loth to be defrauded of the wonderful sight, and did not disperse till near five o'clock. It turned out that the Provost had withdrawn his permission for the performance of the feat.—Daily Courant. The sale at the Hotel des Ventes of the late M. Pierard's fine collection of pictures has terminated, the prices having been in general high. " Animals in the open country," by Ommeg - ank, brought 8,200 fr. ; " Alady dress ing," Terburg, 5,3001 r. ; " The indisposition," Steen,s,Bsofr. ; " The village wineshop," David Teniers 14,100 fr. " View in Norway," Ruysdael, 12600 fr. ; " Fleet under sail," Vanderveldo, 14,500 fr. ; " Cascades of Tivoli," Joseph Vernet, 5,000 fr. ; " The lady with the fan," Rubens, 13,700 fr. • " The falcon chase," Wouver mans, 18,800 fr. ; " A halt of horsemen," by the same, 25,700fi•. ; " Landscape," Hobbema, 6,000 fr. ; " Portrait of Gerard Dow," by himself, 37,000 fr. (for the museum of Rotterdam) ; " The dismounted cuirassier," Karl Dujuv din, 17,000 fr. ; an d " Th e hurdy-gurdy oyer," Ostade, 25,0001 r. Th e t o t a l amoun t rece i ve d for t he two days' sale (103 pictures) was 395,920 fr. THE REFORM BILL.—A meeting of magistrates has been held at Leeds to take into consideration the point whether the whole of the West Riding should form one constituency, as proposed by the intended Reform Bill, or should be divided into two separate districts, each returning two members to Parliament. The Hon. Edwin Lascelles, who was in the chair, proposed the following resolution :-- " That inasmuch as the probable number of electors in the West Riding by the proposed Reform Bill will amount to 65,000, such a number is far too large to form one entire constituency, and that the Riding should therefore be sepa' rated into two divisions, each returning two members to Parliament, such divisions to be called the northern and southern divisions of the West Riding, and such divisions to consist, as nearly as circumstances will allow, of an equal number of the entire electors at present on the regis ter, which is 40,600." The resolution was agreed to. An amendment, deprecating the discussion of political ques tions by magistrates, was rejected, and a deputation was appointed to wait upon Lord I. Russell and inform him of the.opinions of the meeting. BIRTHS. BARRETT.-At Abbot Oak, Russland, Lancashire, the wife of the Rev. Tuffnell S. Barrett, of a son. BARNARD.—On the 24th inst., at Cheam, Surrey, the wife of Mr. Francis Barnard, of a daughter. KENNEDY.—On the 23d inst., Lady Nigel Kennedy, of daughter. WATSON.—On the 23d inst., at 59, Burton-crescent, Mil' Jacob Watson, of a son. MARRIAGES. EDYE—DENNY.—On the 22d inst., at Tralee Church, Coo mander Adolphus George Edye. R.N., eldest son of Iv • Edye, Esq., of Penlee, Stoke Devonport, to Bessie, til! eldest daughter of W. Denny, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenav' of co. Kerry, Ireland. RAINY—HINGSTON.—On the 22d inst., at St. GooTge.;s l Hanover-square, George Rainy, Esq., of Rassy, N.D.; to Isabella, widow of the late Rev. G. C. Hingston, rector ot 9ueenstown, co. Cork. DEATHS, BATEL—On the 22d inst., at Ramsay, 1.M., Thomas, /WA son of the late Lieut.. Colonel Bates, late 21st Light Dry goons, aged 57. BLACK.—On the 23d inst., at Queen Anne-street, Caven dish-square, Jane, widow of Lieut.-Col. P a trick Blaci 4 aged 75. CUPPAGE.—On the 21st inst., at Cheltqnham, Capt. M ani Cuppage, R.N. LAMB.—On the 21st inst., at Beauport, Sir Charles lk.tonta lieu Lamb, Bart., aged 75. LONG.—On the 19th inst., at Charlton Sings, near Light tenham, Colonel William Long, late 7 1st Infantry. 's - R 1 NNIE.—On the 22d inst., at 32, York-terrace, Rege nt park, George Rennie, Esq., late Governor of the Fal Kl"' LONDON : Printed and 'Published by IkrURDO YOl/14°,,t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NO. 1 17 °i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 0010/ Middleeez, Monday, March 26, 1860. cha 0 for 60, T Teetsupp of Se tion inset —of Instil ••." Dent Six. ' REG nett'i jpl and I of VA beaut ter, bJ manw Majos Mr. MINI the in anti (1 PRA RAL( I F only 1 Spittle. Sold amok* hearinj EYE •r in 11 Hair tke onl bottles, (this si dudes £2 4s. flowers Depot, irtereha KE , time to Disease tion is a during ING'S 1 averting alike foi Preps and 10s. St. Paul IMPOR SIR,— senges ti bare affi able to s be very 1 Ts Hr Just Pu Pli VIT. v m I3PERif. 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