The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

THE WE ST INDIA MAIL. The Royal mail steam-ship Avon, Captain R. S. Norton, arrived at Southampton last night, bringing the mails from Mexico and the West Indies. At Tampico and Vera Cruz there had been some severe gales. The weather at Bermuda was very bad, a gale having coot menced on the I:th, and continued to the 23d. The Avon left on the following day (after the arrival of the outward-bound packet, the Thames), and made the run from Bermuda in sixteen days. Her latest dates are— Tampico, Feb. 25; Honduras, Feb. 26; Carthagena, reb. 27; Chagres, Feb. 27; Vera Cruz, March 2; De merara, March 5; Trinidad, March 7; La Guayra, March 7; Havannah, March 10; Jamaica, March 11; Barbadoes, March 13; Grenada, March 14; St. Thomas, March 17; and Bermuda, March 24. She brings home fifty-five passengers, besides a very valuable cargo, consisting of 2,014,085 dollars (49,481 of which are from Vera Cruz, on account of the Mexican dividends), 1,000 dollars in gold dust, 10,000/. worth of pearls, 2811 b. .ez. of platina, 146/. 15s. in British coin, 38 serons of indigo, and 91 ditto of cochineal, besides other minor packages. The following ships of war were lying at Vera Cruz: — Her Majesty's sloop Rose; the United States squadron, under the command of Commodore Connor, consisting 01 the Falmouth, 22 guns; John Adams, 22 guns; St. Mary, 22 guns; and Porpoise brig, 16 guns; also the French corvette Ls. Perouse, 18 guns; the Spanish brig Patinta, 18 guns; the Mexican squadron Montezuma and Guade loupe steamers, of 7 guns each; two brigs of 16 guns; and five schooners of 5 guns. At Havannah, the Spanish ship, Sovereigna, 74 guns ; and French brig Griffon, 10 guns ; at Nassau, ber Ma jesty's ship Thunder, surveying vessel; and at Ber muda, her Majesty's ship Endymion. Her Mitfesty's ship's Vindictive, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austin, and Eurydice, arrived at St. Thomas's on the,2lst of February from Martinique, and sailed the same afternoon for Jamaica. The Vin dictive was expected at Havannah on the 19th ult., on her way to Bermuda. Her Majesty's frigate America was at Mazatlan, west coast of Mexico, on the 10th February. She was to sail, however, in two days for Valparaiso and England with upwards of 2,000,000 dollars on board. Her Ma jesty's brig Frolic was also at Mazatlan, and the Talbot at Saint Blas. The American squadron, consisting of two frigates, three sloops, and two store-ships, under the command of Commodore Heat, was also at Mazatlan ; and several other American vessels of war were daily expected. The Avon exchanged colours, on the 4th of April, with the Wellereden, homeward bound ; on the Bth, with the Caroline, of Poole, outward bound ; and on the same day with the Duncan, also outward bound. The Company's steamer Medway had left Havannah for Vera Cruz, the Tweed had gone to the Windward Islands, the Forth was at Carthagena, the Severn at Jamaica,. the Thames at Bermuda, and the City of Glas gow and Reindeer at Grenada. MEXICO. Mexico, when the Avon left, was quiet but uneasy. and it was generally expected that the Federalists would shortly assume the reins of Govimment. The Mexican Government still refused to recognlk „ Mr. Slidell, the American Minister, who continued to yside at Julapa. Several more American ships of war 'Are expected at. Vera Cruz, and it teas surmised that on their arrival the coast 'would be declared in a state of blockade. There was a ;report current in Mexico that 3,000 of the United States troops had marched to the Rio Grande. The Americans who were cruising off Matemoras had forcibly taken off two Mexican pilots, and forced them to navi gate their ships. The Mexican steamer Guadeloupe had landed 300 troops at Tampico from Vera Cruz. She had likewise on board several guns for the batteries, but as the weather was tempestuous she was unable to get over the bar, and was consequently obliged to return to Vera Cruz without landing the guns. Santa Anna was still at Havannah. JAMAICA. The accounts of the crops are most favourable. A memorial of the planters, merchants, and inhabi tants of the island to the English Government, praying for a reduction of the duty payable in England on the importation of West India spirits, has been sent home by the Avon. The inhabitants were anticipating the formation of the promised railways. The traffic on the Kingston Railway continued to improve. From the thirteenth report of the Planters' Bank it appears the directors have declared a dividend of 5 per cent., and added nearly 2,0001. to the reserved fund, which now amounts to 11,283 L 19s. 10d. On the sth ult. the shock of an earthquake had been felt in thu southern part of the island. It had not, how ever, caused any damege. Lieut. 13. Young, R.N., of the Persian, had been sen tenced by Court-martial to be dismissed his ship, and put at the bottom of the list of lieutenants, for drunken ness, The Court-martial was held on board the Imsum. The arrival of the Canopus was hourly e:Teeted, when the Avon left. EXCHANGES ON LONDON.—Planters' Bank, 30 days, 1i per cent. pin. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ; 90 days, per cent. pm. Jamaica Bank, 30 days, 11 per cent. pm. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ; 90 days, per cent. pm. Colonial Bank, 30 days, 1 per cent. pm. ;60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ; 90 days, per cent. pm. DISSOLUTION OF RAILWAY • COMPANIES. The railway public is indebted to Mr. Labouchere, for extracting from Sir Robert Peel an intimation of the course by which he proposes to place them in possession of the general outline of the plan proposed by the Go vernment for enabling a majority of scripholders to ob tain a dissolution of the Companies by petition. • The more that this matter is canvassed, the stronger the ?pinion becomes that the Government scheme is totally inadequat e t o meet t h e cr i s i s, and that it will be diffi cult,if not in many i nstances i mpossible, to carry it out in practice. Not that there is much weight given to the difficulties that have been started against the right of scripholder s to sign. the petitions, because the previous sale of railway scrip has been legalised to complete registration who 0 0mn decision of the Courts of Law. The allottee s have sold their scrips have di vested themselves of their interest fr in the companies, but they have not been relievedsignoraththeir responsibility. The parties entitled to the scrips,petitions are the immediate holders of is held t aonl'aideraa sufficient for that purpose possession of the scrip warrant. It is necessary, however, to a line between signing petitions to dissolve, and votiwn meetings that may be called to consider such a I% a r t p e "n .f. y To obtain a dissolution of any company, it seem s to s be required by the Government plan that a majority in value of scripholders must exhibit their signatures to a petitiovi to Parliament, praying the House to interfere. The - number of signatures is of no importance. Unless they represent a majority in value, the petition will not be sufficient to stay the progress of the Bill. Should scripholders imagine that they could increase their influ ence by giving 100 shares to as many porters, they will find themselves mistaken. The 100 porters would still represent nothing more than their single author. If he was the holder of 100 sharee, they would be so and nothing more. Their signatures would be worth just that amount of value, and nothing would be gained by such a device. It would be requisite, nevertheless, to guard against splitting of scrips in the event of meet ings being sanctioned. In that event there would appear to be difficulties to be encountere d at tending the working of the Ministerial scheme that are almost insuperable.. But we have already said that the plan itself is now looked upon as totally • insufficient, and that the prevailing opinion is to adopt the couverse of it as the proper remedy. We cannot say that the reference by the Premier to the Railway Department of the BoarA of Trade is calculated to in spire confidence for the efficiency of the measure. There has been something onsinous and disastrous in the past proceedings of that unfortunate tribunal, with respect to railways. Everybody looked upon it as defunct, and its resuscitation at the present moment looks as if Sir Robert Peel merely used it for the nonce, to get rid, for a time, of one of his pressing d ifficulties. The heavier descrip tions of shares have fully maintained to-day the alight improvement we noticed yesterday. There is no new feature i n E ng li s h S cr i pt i . Th e pr i nc i pa l attract i on i n Foreig n Shares has been the meeting of the shareholders in the Dutch Rhenish line, which is understood to have passed off satisfactorily. Independently of a detail of the prospects and merits of the line, which were pre sented in a copious report by the directors to the meet ing, the leading results are that the shares are ordered in to bs registered, a call_ of U. per sh are is to be an nounced, and a dividend is alluded to of 9 2s. 6d. per share, `‘. to be paid in th e course o f a fe , City article. months.— Chronicle, TUE LATE FATAL OCCURAENCE AT THE MILE ENw•OATE.--Yesterday all inquest, which was twice ad journed, was resumed and concluded at the London Hospital, before Mr. Baker, on the body of James Eastmead Bradley, aged twenty, the son of the 'collector of tolls at the Mile-end gate, who died in the above institution on Sanday morning from injuries received the day previous by the wheels of a cart passing over his body. After a long discussion relating to the tickets and the mode of collecting tolls on the road, the jury, among whom a great difference of opinion pre vailed, were locked up. After four hours' deliberation, twelve of the fourteen jurymen returned a verdict that the de ceased came by his death by the wheels of a loaded cart Passing over his body, but, by what means he was forced under the said cart there se as no satisfactory evidence before them, Two of the jury nnere for a verdict of manslaughter against Hoff. SUDDENDEITH IN THE STREET. Last evening Dir. Bedford held an inquest at the Two Chairmen. Dart mouth-street, Westminster, on the body of John M'lnnes, aged fifty two. The deceased was a discharged soldier, and obtained a precariouslivelhood by hawking prints at public houses. Oa Wednesday evening he left home, apparently quite well, and about twelve o'clock he was f o u n d by a police-constable of the B di v i s i on , on the steps of a door in (was Area George-street, Westminster, in a senseless state. He conveyed immediately on a stretcher to the Westminster ii:l,ospital, where Mr. Sibley, the house-surgeon, pronounced t e e ' c al_be quite extinct, ant was further discovered that he T from long-54144 di ease of the heart. Verdict— , A llitUnsi OM. C OURT CIRCULAR. "Witareson, THUBSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walker.. a the pleasure grounds this morning. Her Ma jesty. and her Royal Consort visited the aviary, and after war,ls returned to the Castle in a pony carriage. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their usual exercise to-day in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back in the forenoon, attended by Colonel H. Seymour. Prince Albert drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton this afternoon, attended by the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Grey and H. Seymour on horseback. The Marchioness of Douro, the Hun. Misses Murray and Napier followed in a pony landau and four. There was no addition to the royal dinner circle this evening. Her Ro)al Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, attended by Captain Taylor and the Baron de Reitzenstein, went to Kew, yesterday. in an open carriae.e and four, and visited their Royal Hignesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Her Majesty's royal charities to the aged and poor at this season of the year, were distributed on Monday and Tuesday last, to upwards of 950 persons, five shillings each. The royal gate alms were also paid to 168 persons, each person rec. lying thirteen shillings, being at the rate of sixpence per week consolidated into one pay ment. This ancient charity was in by-gone days paid at the gate of the Palace, at Whitehall, hence its appella tion, which has been retained. Yesterday being the anniversary of the Maundy, the royal bounty was distributed in the interior of White hall chapel with the customary ceremonials. The Yeoman of the Guard attended in their Corona tion uniform under the command of an Usher. The Clergy of the Chapel Royal were also in attend • ance; also the Gentlemen in Waiting, accompanied by the boys, under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Elmore, who has succeeded to the care of them, vice William Hawes, Esq., lately deceased. The usual anthems were given between the distribu tion of each class of alms with much pathos and effect. " Hide not thou thy face." " Call to remembrance." " 0 Lord, grant the Queen a long life." " Who is this who cometh from Edom?" There were in attendance the Rev. Dr. Sleath, the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Rev. Dr. Dakins, the Rev. Clarke Haden, and other clergymen ; Messrs. Hobbs, Sale, Horncastle, and other gentlemen of the choir. The Sub-Almoner, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church, and Principal of King's-college, officiated for the first time since his appointment, and the whole ar rangements were conducted by Joseph Hanby, Esq., the Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry, under the immediate direction of the Lord Archbishop of York, the Lord High Almoner. The Bishop of London held a Confirmation yesterday, in the Chapel Royal St. James's, of the juvenile nobi bility. Between forty and fifty of the young Nobility and Gentry were confirmed. Die French Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign-office, yesterday. The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Termini had their first meeting yesterday, at the office of the Woods And Forests. There were present Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, and Sir F. Smith. The Chairman of the Customs and the Deputy Chair man had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday. The Right Hon. T. Franklyn Lewis had aim; an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Solicitor-General had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Duke of Buocleuch left town yesterday for his seat, Boughton House, Nortbamptonshi►e. The Duke of Wellington has left town for his seat at Strathfieldsaye. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday fer his seat, Dray ton Manor, Staffordshire. The Earl of Ellenborough left town yesterday for his seat, Southam House, Cheltenham. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI TUTION. Dr. Ryan, this week, has been delivering a course of lectures on the " Ancient Elements." On Thursday the subject was Water: not the stale every-day repetition of the oxygen and hydrogen experiments, but a sound and philosophical disquisition-- First, " On the con ditions and physical uses of water;" secondly, "On its chemical characteristics;" and thirdly, " On its sources, impurities, and methods of purification." The Doctor was extremely happy in his illustrations of the influence of water in its three states or conditions, in equalising and changing the temperature of our common atmos phere. Thus, he explained the liberation of heat during the condensation and freezing of water, pro ducing the well-known increase of heat during a fall of snow, and the habitability of the Arcti3 regions during winter, only close to the open sea, where the freezing of leagues of water allow the conversion of latent into sensible heat. The doctor also dwelt very pointedly upon the influence of the waters of the ocean in modi fying the extremes of heat and cold ; thus the winds blowing from the poles, in passing over the surface of the 'ea, receive a certain amount of heat, the cooled water then falls, and warmer portions rise to the surface, again to give increments or warmth to the cold air. Nor is this all ; the cold, deep currents, flow to the equator, while the upper strata of water take a direction to the poles, thus establishing an equalising agency. Our limits will not permit us to follow Dr. Ryan through his lecture, which, we may state, in conclusion, wils distin guished by his usual perspicuity and simple elegance of style. DUTCH MAIL, THE HAGUE, APRIL 7.—The Second Chamber of the States , General, in its evening sitting on the 6th of April, adopted, by a majority of 40 to 15, the project of law for prolonging the road from Bois le Dues to Culenborg. The Journal d' Commerce d' Anvers makes the follow ing reflections on the memorial presented to the Bel gium Government by the Conimittee of Commerce and Manufactures of Liege. This memorial, which is signed by two merchants, is an important and well considered work. It points out the basis on which Belgium and Holland ought to act. We do not assent to them all, but we acknowledge that nothing has been written on the subject more substantial, and more calculated to' enlighten the Government. The number of passengers conv-yed by the Rhenish railway in the month of March, from the several sta tions in Holland, was 26,328. The receipt was 30,8141. for passengers ; and 8,2531. for goods. THE HAGUE, APRIL 7. —On Saturday last there was a meeting at Rotterdam, of the members of the . Royal Netherlands' Yacht Club, at which his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands presided. At this sit ting the prizes and rewards were determired, which will be given to the various description of vessels, in the matches which will take place at Rotterdam, on the 10th of June, and at Amsterdam, on the 10th of September. The Prince of Orange and Prince Alexander were pre• sent at this sitting. His Royal Highness gave a grand dinner to a considerable number of members of the Yacht Club, on which occasion many loyal toasts were given. —Dutch Papers, April 8. BRUSSELS, APRIL 7.—The official part of the Moni fc.iu Beige of this date publishes the convention between lils Majesty the King of the Belgians and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, for regulating the right of their res pective otetxeeiht s ha u ne b rg je ep e oo ts; with respect to the inheritance of pr oper y by the subjects of either power in the domi nionsonTthhee 21st of the-Marcehr.lB46 The Archbishop ratifications pointed ApostolicNet:f,lS2on took place at Berlin ' a :N i l ar Brussels,za no, veryap his prelate was at Turin at the shortly in this city. end of last mouth y. M. Ricci, who at present holds that office, will set out for Austria, after having received his audience of leave from his Majesty, and having l a 7 n . interview with his successor.—Brussel s Papers, A HAMBURGH BORSEITHALLE, APRIL 7. Austrian 5 per Cents .... • • ... ... Bills. Money. Bank Shares ...... • • • • ... ...... . :: ••: 16( 1 3 14 Anglo-Russian Loan • • • • • • 107% _ Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. CertiflcatQ. 10114 _ Ditto Ist series Inscription •• • • 10214 liDietwto,4llopa and Co., 3d and 4 th series.. 9G Ditto, in Certificate •• . ...... ......... 96 • Cent., iitrl7 .. II ep . e . ... and . 0 e . .. .::: : : : __ Ditto _ 16% Spanish Ditto 3 per Cent .• •• • ..... •• .• •• ; 21iii S P' t r ii e r g e w 5 Anglo- P or t ug uese Loan, 2% per Ce nt • • 6-9 per Cent. .. . -. Dutch Actual Debt, 2 % pe r Cent • • • • • Ditto 3 per Cent. • • • • •• • • • • _ A ng l o -Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .•• . . . .... Polish New 4 per Cent. Lo an, 18441. .. 5 5 6 l ..... National Bank Shares• • • • • • • • • • • • " • • AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Aran. ..2.15-16 5 per Cent. metauieues• •——.••• • • " • • • iII 10 75 3 1 4 per Cent. diditttete:: :: :: : .... ::: ...... : ... .. .. :::: Loan, 1834 .• .. • • Ditto, 1839 ••••• • •• • • —Allgemeine Zeitunz. April 5 . E l3 s a tth sg az h y ar 's es Lo . an • .%. :: :: :: :: .: :: :: :: ... :: :: 1-572 EXTRAORDINARY EXCAVATION IN THE CITY.—In the course of a few days an excavation, ordered by the Commis sioners of Sewers at Guildhall, will be completed in tke City, that was commenced about four months ago, and which ex tends from Whitefriars Dock to Fleet-street, opposite Craven court. The whole length was tunnelled under the houses, which was an operation of considerable difficulty, and it was expected that the whole would not have been executed without some serious accident, but fortunately none has oc curred. The sewer is constructed at a depth of about twenty three feet from the surface. During the excavation the workmen discovered a vault, which was found to be about eighty feet long, reaching almost from Fleet-street to the Thames, nine feet wide, and seven feet deep; it was built of the most durable material, and the pavement of it was formed of Roman bricks of a beautiful red colour. On Tues day last two human skulls, with the thigh bones and part of a human chest, were discovered. SODA. —When this article was "protected" by a duty its sale was unimpee tent. A first-rate grocer in, a town like Leicester, for instance, would think two cwt. a large order to give a traveller at one time. Now, however, that the article is entirely exempted from duty, the same grocer or ders ten tons' weight instead of two cwt. When it was pro posed to take the duty off, the manufacturers of the article, like the landed in terest with corn, petitioned against its re moval, and predicted their own ruin in consequence. So great, however, h. is been the demand for the article, that it is exported to ne. trly every part of Europe and to Arne. rice, as well as to of tr colonies.—Leicester Chronicle. COAL AT PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—The search for this indispensable articl e ors fuel has this week proved successful. We have seen a good specimen. of coal already procured in that neighbourhood; a nd there is, therefore, every prospect of success, and eor"uently profit to the speculators,— Alanu sun, ';', 4 ‘ V. 7 ' t '; I v a if N, FRIDAY EVEN N 5 A PH.IL 10 / rt-46. , A trb ti LATEST PRICES ,OF SIIARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- N ANAL INTELLIGENCE: PANIES' STUCK. THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON FOR 1845. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—By a return, moved for in the House of Commons by Commodore Sir C. Napier, or the weights, draught of water, &c., of the , experi mental squadron, on the second and itird cruise, similar to the return' of the first cruise ; the greatest inclina tion of each ship when carryincr sail, and the gieatest number of degrees each ship rolled, and the npmber, of spars sprung and carried away during the cruises ; their defects on returning into port, and the expense of Making the, defects goods," we are put in possession of some very important facts relating to the above par ticulars. THE LONDON GAZETTF, (rus EVENING.) From etc official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TIIURSDAY, APRIL 9. XOINT-STOCIS SAN .5. WHITEHALL, Aram 9, 1846. .. - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, fur granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Major-General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, of Alliwaul, on the Sutlej, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. Notice is hereby given, that we, the undersigned, being three of the Lords Commissioners of Her Ma jesty's Treasury, have, in ousuance of the execution of the powers vested in us by an Act, passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for the general regu lation of the Customs," appointed the port of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, to be a port for the importa tion of tobacco. With regard to the expense of making good the de fects of each ship, the return gives the following as the amount : The St. Vincent, 120, incurred fur defects made good at Devonport, on the 20th of September, 1843, 125/. Its. 2d. For defects made good at the same port, on the 10th of October following, 4s. Other defects, of a numerous and expensive character, are also repot tr d in the return as defects at Portsmouth, 13th Of No vember, 1845, but which are not yet taken in hand, consequently no amount is furnished. Total amount reported, 125/. 16s. 2d. _ _ Given under our hands, at the Treasury-chambers, Whitehall, this 31st day of March, 1846. ____ The Trafalgar, 120, new ship, her first commission, cost, for defects, at Devonport, on the 20th of Septem ber, 1845, 1041. 7s. 4,1.; for defects made good at the same port on the 10th of October following, 143/. 185. 10d. Total, 2481. 6s. 2d. WILLIAM CRIPPS. RALPH NEVILLE. S. T. CARNEGIE. Office of the Poor-law Commissioners, Somerset House, April 7. 1846. In pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Par liament held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 76, inti tnlel "An Act for the amendment and better adminis tration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales ": e to, feTst October re g mf u ob e l e e l or n ,w , i1 1 n8 1 g 0 4,5 , 6, for i d .:sl fe s4. e s t B. s d , 9. D , T. d e o I t • t o ti n o, p ,l o 4o r Bi t il ,. o t n i hoe t s l . l 3 e sld 2 s .t 0 20th The Albion, 90, for defects repaired at Devonport on the 20th of September, 1845 : 251/. 19s. 5d.; ditto, I 1 t h of October followbag, 20/. 11:.; ditto, 3d of December following, 513/. 2s. Bd. 'Total, 7851. 131. Id. The Rodney, 92, for defects repaired at Devonport, 20th December, 1845, 236/. 19s. 11d.; ditto, 10th of Oc tober following, 28/. ss. Bd. Long list f defects re ported on the 3d of December, but which were not made good at Devonport, consequently no amount; is affixed. Defects on the 10th of December, 1845, made good at Portsmouth, 947/. 18s. 2d. Total, 1,213/. 3s. 9d. The Vanguard, 80, defects at Davenport. 20th Sep tember, 1845, 411/. 19s. 10d.; ditto, at Portsmouth, 13th of October following, 2,006/. 15s. 7d.; ditto, at Devon port, 3d of December following, 4831 7s. 3d. Total, 2,9021. 2s. Bd. The Superb, 80, defects at Devonport, 20th of Sept., 1845, 54/. 19s. 7d. ; ditto, at Portsmouth, on the Ist of October following, 1,253/. 19s. 7d. ; ditto, at Devon port, on the 10th of the same month, 70/. 14s. 11d. Long list of defects reported at Devonport on the 3d of December,. not made good there. Defects at Ports mouth, on the 10th of the same month, 1,1011. 9s. 33. Total, 2,4811 3s. 4d. The Canopus, 84, defects at Devonport, 20th Sep tember, 1845, 127/. Is. 6d. ; ditto, at same port, 10th October following. 301. 7s. 11d. ; ditto, at the same port, 3d December following, 936/. 10s. 4d. Total, 1,093/. 19s. 9d. The Daring, 12, for defects at Devonport, on the 20th of September, 1845, 18s. 6d. ; ditto, at the same port on the 3d of December following, long list not made good at that port ; ditto, on the 10th of December, at Portsmouth, 402/. 16s. Ild. Total, 403/. 15s. sd. The Rattler, screw steam-sloop, for defects made good at Portsmouth, on the 24th of September, 1845, 227/. ss. ; ditto, at Devonport, 10th of October follow ing, 44/. 2s. 2d. ; ditto, at Portsmouth, 3d of November following, 1,600/. 15s. Total, 1,672/. 2s. 2d. Each list of defects is signed by the captain arsd car penter of each ship, and the cost. of repairing them signed by the Master-Attendant, Master-Shipwright, and Storekeeper of the respective duck-yards at which they were made good ; comment, therefore, is unne cessary. The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, Commander-in-Chief of the squadron, was built on the lines furnished by the late Sir W. Rule ; the Trafalgar, 120, Captain W. F. Martin, was built by Mr. 0. Laing, Mater-Shipwright of Woolwich Dockyard, at that yard, in 1841 ; the Queen, 110, Captain Sir B. Walker, was built on the plan furnished by Sir W. Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, at Portsmouth Dockyard, in 1839 • the Rodney, 92, Captain E. Collier, was built on the plans furnished by the late Sir R. Seppings, Surveyor of the Navy, at Pembroke Dockyard, in 1833; the Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, was built on the plans of Sir W. Symonds, at Devonport Dockyard, in 1842; the Vanguard, 80, Captain G. W. Willes, and the Superb, 80, Captain , . A. L. Corry, were also built by Sir W. Symonds (the for mer at Pembroke Dockyard in 1836, and the latter at the same yard in 1842) ; the Canopus, 84, Captain F. Moresby, is of French construction, and was captured at the battle of the Nile ; the Rattler, screw propelled sloop, was built by the Surveyor of the Navy, at Sheer- ness, in 1843 ; and the Daring, 12, Commander Schom berg, was built by Mr. White, of Cowes, in 1844. The Rochester and Falmouth dockyard lighters ar rived yesterday with stores from the Eastern yards. The Nautilus, 10, Lieut.-Commander J. J. M'Donell, arrived from her cruizing ground off the Sussex coast this morning to obtain supplies. The Blenheim transport, Lieut. E. War 3, agent, sailed o.is morning for Deptford. The Ferret, 8, Commander George Sprigg, arrived this morning from Sheerness, and sailed this evening for Plymouth. The 'Emerald tender sailed to-day for Plymouth with supernumeraries. The St. Vincent, 120, Captain R. Grant, Knight, the flag- ship of Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart., was removed to• day from th:- ba in, and brought alongside the jetty to make room for the Oriental mail-steamer, which came from Southampton yesterday, to be docked, and was taken in on her removal. This is to give notice, that the Poor-law Commis sioners have appointed John Thomas Graves, of th(- Inner-temple, Esq. Barrister-at• Law, to be an Assis tant Rommissioner of Poor-lave ; and that the said John Thomas Graves, on the 7th day of April instant, took the oath required by the said Act before the Hon. Mr. Justice Creswell, one of the Judges of her Ma jesty's Court of Common Pleas, at his chambers, in Rolls'-gardens, Chancery-lane. By order of the Board, EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. Office of the Poor-law Commissioners, Somerset-h-house, April 7, 1846. In pursuance of an Act passed in the:session of Par liament held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 79, in tituled, An Act for the amendment and better admt administratied of the laws relating to the poor in Eng land and Wales." This is to give notice, that the Poor-law Commis sioners have appointed John Ball, of No. 85. Stephen's-green, Dublin, Esq., barrister-at-law, to be an Assistant Commissioner of Poor-laws fur a period of six months from the second day of April instant ; and that the said Jolyz Ball, on the 3d day of Apr il instant, took the oath required by the said Act before the Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell, one of the Judges of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at his chambers in Rolls' -gardens, Chancery-lane. By order of the Board, EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. Office of the Poor-law Commissioners, Somerset House, April 7. This is to notify that, in pursuance of an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the first and second years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland," the Poor-law Commissioners have directed John Ball, Esq., Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, to carry the provisions of the said Act into execution. By order of the Board, EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. ADMIRALZY, APRIL 7. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Quar termaster C. Miller to be Captain, vice Dwyer, trans ferred to the Artillery Companies of the Corps ; First Lieutenant H. Bremer to be Csptain, vice Logan, trans ferred to the Artillery Companies of the Corps ; Second Lieutenant H. G. J. Davies to be First Lieutenant, vice Miller, promoted ; Second Lieutenant R. V. Allen to be First Lieutenant, vice Bremer, promoted. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. G. C. Reiman, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; A. W. Beetham, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, April 7. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire.. F. R. Haggitt, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, April 6 Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxford. Col. H. Dawkins, R. B. Marsham, Esq., J. S. Phil lips, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants, March 27. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant S. W. Gardiner to be Captain, vice Lampet, who retires, April 2. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Forfar. W. B. Gardyne, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Dalgairns to be Deputy Lieu tenant, March 27. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham. Durham Militia—J. R. Bowlby, Gent., to be Lieu tenant, March 23. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Bate. The Lord Rossmore to be Deputy Lieutenant; the Right Hon. J. S. Wortley to be Deputy Lieute nant ; Lieutenant Colonel C. Stuart to be Deputy Lientenant ; A. Fullerton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; R. WlCirdy, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; W. lelar shalljEsq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; D. Salmond, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; A. Sharp, Esq., to be De puty-Lieutenant ; C. V. Stuart, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu tenant, March 7 ; N. Jamieson, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant, March 17. WHITEHALL, APRIL 8. The Childers, 12, Commander J. C. Pittman, was re moved from the basin this morning, and taken alongside her hulk the Topaz. The Experimental steam• squadron at Spithead exer cised their crews in gunnery (target practice) this af ternoon. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Montague Ganrga Smith, of Hemel Hempstead, in the county of Hertford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. We regret to announce the death of Captain Charles Burrough Strong, R.N. (1819), which took place yester day, under very melancholy and distressing circum stances; the gallant deceased having ruptured a blood vessel. Captain Strong was Midshipman of the Irresis tible, in Bridport's action, and of the Colossus, off Cape St. Vincent. Served in her boats at two bombardments of Cadiz, and in several actions with Cadiz flotilla in 1797. Acting Lieutenant of the Genereux, at the sur render of Malta, and of Genoa, and capture of the French frigate Diane, in 1800. Was Lieutenant of the Pearl at the defence of Porto Ferrajo, and capture of the French frigate Carriere in 1801, and in command of ber boats at the capture of a convoy in the Piombino Chad nel, and on other occasions. Was Lieutenant of the Irareortaiite and Clyde, during the frequent actions with the French flotillas and batteries, and wounded. In 1807 he commanded the boats cutting out a vessel under the pier -bead at Fecamp ; was senior Lieutenant of the Clyde at Flushing; constantly in action with the gun boats; was commander of the Bustard co-operating wiih the Spanish patriots in 1811-12, when he was wounded; and covered the landing and retreat of General Donkin at Dania. His commissions bear date—Lieutenant, Feb. 25, 1801; Commander, March 14, 1811; Captain, Aug. -12, 1819. Captain Strong received pecuniary reward -for his brilliant services from the Patriotic I' and, and has been residing at Southsea for some years. A better officer, or one more deeply respected, the country never boasted. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Joseph Whalley and Charles Whalley, nurserymen, Liverpool. James Reding and William Nicol Judd, printers, Horse-shoe-court, Ludgate-hill. BANKRUPTS. Edward Foley, licensed victualler, Stoke Newington green, to surrender April 24, at half-past one, end May 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Dimmock and Bur hey, Size-lane. Robert Weatherhogand Richard Weatherhog, farmers, Stone, Kent, April 17, at two, and May 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Tripp, Adelaide-place, London-bri3ge ; Hayward, Dart fork, Kent. Henry Charles Langley, apothecary, Suffolk-place, Hackney-road, April 21, at one, and May 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-stree; Wheatley, Walbrook. Thomas Matthews, draper, Aldgate High-street, April 23 at twelve, and May 21 at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman street •, Sole and Turner, Aldermanbury. William Davey, coal merchant, St. Austell, Cornwall, April 29 and May 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District' Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Cummings and Son, Bodmin ; Smiths, outhampton-buildings, London ; Stogdon, Exeter. $ Thomas Rickards, watchmaker, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, April 27, and May 22, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Husband a.r d Wyatt, Gray's Inn-square, London. James Boulton Oram, brewer, Birmingham, April 22 and May 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Bart leet, Birmingham. Marthalllingwortb, William Smith, and John Wright, worsted. spinners, Bradford, Yorkshire, April 21 and May 14, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young; official assignee, Leeds ; Wells, Bradford ; Courtenay, Leeds. Charles Henry Cartwright, grocer, Warrington, Lan cashire, April 27, and May 19, at twelve, at the District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Messrs. Sharpe, Field, And Jackson, Bedford-row; Rowe. Lord , street, Liverpool.. Henry Roe, jeweller, Liverpool, April 28, and May 26, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London wall ; Dodge, LiverpooL John Knight, mercer, Preston, April 21 and May 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Reed and Langford, Friday-street, heapside, London; Sale, Worthington; Shipman, Manchester. OF GAR. The average pri ce PRICE of Brown o SU r Muscovado Sugar, the produce of the British possessions in America, computed from the returns made in the week ending April 7, 1846, is 358. 5 3 / 4 d. per cwt. ENGLAND. ight's Gazette.) 7th and Bth of Victoria, oap. 32, for le 4th day of April, 1846. 'ARTDIENT. Government debt .. 11,eas000 Other securities .. • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,460,445 Sllver bullion • • • • 1,721,535 X 27,181,980 :. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. /EPARTUENT. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 13,136,440 Other securities • • 22,058,631 Notes Gold and silver coin. • 643,541 £43,155,027 . MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. .NGE.--(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar ...... • • .. Leghorn 30 75 Genoa .. ... • .......... 26 15 Milan .. • Venice .. •• Naples 399( Palermo, per 0z....—. 119% Lisbon 62!3 Oporto 523¢ Rio Janeiro .• ...... 24 Bahia Buenos Ayres .. • • • • New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • • .. PRICES OF BULLION. PEE OZ. Foreign Gold In tan.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Cain .. 3 17 5 New Doubloons . 0 0 0 New Dollars ••.. • 0 4 9% wyorlll 95r5 • .0 0 4111ji LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Shire. d. s. d Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 158 British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 a 0 221 Commercial Bank .. • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 161 National Bank. ..... 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 92 Western Bank 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 73 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.. • . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 137 i, Eastern Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 11 Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per Bert. 5 0 0 6'", City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 13 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 11% blur. Co. of Scetlnd.• 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9N North British Incur 5%1. pr cent. 260 0 0 10 0 0 28 Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18% Edin. &Glass , . Railway 11.105. perc. 80 0 0 50 0 0 72 Ditto, 1 Shares 7s.6d. p. s. 12 10 0 AU paid. 17% Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 16iA Glasalv & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70;i Glasgw&Greenckltall. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19 Glsgw & Garnkirk Bail. M. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40% Dundee& Arbrothltall. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 59 Standard LifeAssarnce. 61 per cent. 150 0 0 210 0 9 1 171/.II.TMU—Vb r OIC:kr-S Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. , Annum. Share. s, d. East London...• • • Grand Junction .. • • _ _ 90 Kent • • • • • • • • 21. 10s Vauxhall •• ••••• • • . • 5/. per cent. West Middlesex .•• • .. 5/. ss. pr cnt. s, d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 CALN.A.X.S. zi Names of Dividend s of Dividend Companies. A per , Price. Per Price. Names Companies. cis co Annum. Annum. X Ashtn & Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 72 Monrnonthsh 100 81. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. 70 Mntgotnrysh 100 51. 98 Barnsley 160 12/. 180 , Macelesfield. 100 i - 38 Basingstoke 100 - - Neath ••• . • . 100 17/. 340 llrknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 12/. - Cromford 100 14/. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 68 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's •• • • 33 11. bs. 25 Derby 100 Gt. 73 Rochdale ..• • 85 4/. 77 EllsmracCbs 133' 41. 65 Shropshire • • 125 81. - Erewash Forth & Clyd 100; 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJunctn 100 71. 95 Stffrd &W ore 140 281. 300 Grand Union 100: Id. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh. 172 13381. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 20]. 290 Glstr & Brkly 00 - Strtfrdcn Av 79 11.10 s. - Grantham • • 150 121. 100 Severn and} 26 IL Bs. 32 lluddersfleld. 57 - Wye Rail. Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. - Trnt& Mr-1 50 301. - Lancaster - sev, sh. Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 520 Thams&Med 19 - - Leicester .. 140 101. 105 Worestr &/ 78 21. 44 Leicstr&Nth 83 4/. 60 Binning. Loughborogh 142 70/. 850 Wilts & Mks 67 I/. 11 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. TUESDAY.—Sir John Rennie, president, in the chair. The conversation upon the Estuary of the River Severn being renewed, led to an interesting discussion upon the River Clyde, and the capability of improve meats of that river, which will be continued at the next meeting. The paper read was a short notice by Mr. G. Bu chanan, explanatory of a plan al,cl sections of the Mid- Lothian coal-fields. The coal field treated of is that by which the city of Edinburgh has long been supplied, and it was stated to be still very far from being exhausted, but that a very large portion of the coal seams were rendered useless, on ac2ount of the vast volume of water which, percolating through the old working pervaded the freestone strata above the coal, and poured down in such quantities that the pumping engines were barely sufficient to keep open the present workings ; it therefore became the object of the proprietors to obtain an extensive system of drain age throughout the coal-field. Mr. Middle, of New castle, was requestad to draw up a report on the subject, from which it appeared that the great difficulty to be encountered arose from the circumstance that an open water communication ex i ste d t h roug hout the district, end pumping-engine plac e d i n an y a o ne spot would draw the water from every p ar t aroun d, which would render it an operation involving great labour and expense, which ought to be borne equally by all the mine proprie tors. The paper then described the situation of the great dyke by which the coal was intersected and thrown eighty fathoms upwards; the north-east boundary, where the seams are standing on edge ; and then gave the dd.- ferent seams of coal and their q ualities. These were: Splint coal, 3 feet thick, good quality; rough coal, 3 feet thick, good quality; bufie coal, 4 feet thick, inferior qua lity, not much worked; diamond coal, 4 feet thick, wilt• able when found; jewel coal, 4 feet thick, most valuable: At the monthly ballot for members, the following can didates were elected:—William :Fronde, John Taylor, jun., and Edward Woods, as members; Charles Frods ham, J. B. Huntington, and the Rev. S. J. Rigaud, as associates. The following paper was announced to be read at the meeting of April 21:— No. 737. On the combustion of fuel under - steam= boilers, with a description of Bodmer's fire grate. By J. G. Bodmer, M. Inst. C.E. WIGAN ELECTION COMMITTEE. Several witnesses, principally publicans, were examined and cross-examined yesterday, but nothing was elicited by which a direct agency could be proved. The Committee then u nanimously decided that the Hon. James Lindsay had been duly elected a burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Wigan. The Committee then adjourned. The resolution will be reported to the House at its meeting after the Easter recess. 1846.—The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz.:— FOR GOVERNORS. John Benjamin Heath, Esq , Governor. William R. Robinson, Esq., Deputy-Governor. FOR DlREcrom, Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. John H ors l ey Palmer, Esq William Cotton, Esq. Jam es Pattison, E sq , . Bonamy Dobree, Esq. Sir .rohn Henry Pelly, B Chas. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. Christopher Pears e, ° l l y a, ,'js a it ul la es tth P i r as ese9e° W it e ' Esq, gu i. elin, Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. T H h e John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. David Powell, Esq. ' William Little, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid Bart. James Malcolmson, E.q. Thom as Chas. Smith, Esq. Governor will be Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Wm. 'Thompson, Esq., Ald. Esq. - April, and for Di- Thome s Tooke, James Morris, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq. Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq. Francis Wilson, E sq . io,vueLndoary,atnhde 14th of rectors on Wednesday, the 15th of Al nil, from ten o'clock in e t l i e ie ct the forenoon till four o'clock in the at ternoon. he T ld h a e t A letter from St Petersburgh of the 22d ult., says that Sir Moses Munteuiore had been twice received by the Em- B in a n nl f t or on G his audiences had not been without some good re sults, as it is affirmed that his Impeded Majesty has ordered the suspension for four years of the ukase which ordained that the Israelites dwelling on the w *stern frontiers of the empire should remove to the central or southern provinces of Russia. AN OUT-AND. OUT DISSENTER... -- The Gloucester Chronicle states that Mr. James Hart, a farmer, of Elton, took a lad in his employ be fore the ma gi: drates, and preferred a complaint against him for going to e (lurch instead of the Wesleyan chapel. The magistrates, h( twever, declared that the lad had jw't as m uch right to go to his parish church as his master bad to frequent the WesU :yan chapel, and dis missed the complaint, mulcting the rei aster in the expenses. Mr. Hart, it is said, has since disielt4 ed the boy from his service. Name of Company. Dividend I Amount ptr of A~inum. Shure. Paid. Price x s. d. X s• d• Australasia ••••• • • • • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 26% Britsh North American Si. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44% 5611.. perper cceenntt.. Commercial of London. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0' 0 22 Ltaidn and Westminstr Colonial.. 0 20 0 0 26% London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0 ' •4 8!4 Ditto, of Ireland • • Si . B/ per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 4_ 1 4 Ditto, New.- ... •• • 8/. per cent . 10 0 0 10 0 0 . 171 :2 100100 0 0 0 25 0 0 16 National of Ireland .. 51 . per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. l'rovncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 :35 0 0 35% Ditto, New. •••• • • • • 5/. per c en t. 20 0 0 100 0 Union of Australia •• • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 I -------- XNEVITELANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Pric3 Annum. Share. -- ---- - gs. d. X B. d. Albion klliance grit. and For. G per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19 Ditto Marine.- • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6'.i Atlas .••••••• • • • • • • • 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 ° 16 % Grltish Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7% Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 6 % County 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ilrown .............. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle • 65. 50 0 0 b 0 0 % Economic Life. • ...... r 5 per et.,} 100 0 0 0 250 0 0 t & 30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law .. .... European Life ...... 3 , per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2% 52u 51. per ceLt. 20 0 0 3 0 0 61. per cent. Stock. - 138 Guardian Imperial Fire ••.• • • • • 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 e 240 Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 8 0 17 Indemnity Marine. .. • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29 Law Life •••••. • • • • • • I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life , - 50.0 0 2 0 0 6 London Fire ... . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 1 5 % London Ship Marine .. ••• .. . Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct . 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life... .• . 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life ...... .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. 2s. Phcenlx .. .. ...... •• • • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 205 Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 4s. Provident Life .. -.. • • 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life 4s. b 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - lBO Sun Fire - - 210 Ditto Life . I/. 6s. - - as Universal Life DOMICIL Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. 1 ..1. s. d. •X s. d. Commercial .... - East and West India 6l. pr cent. I Stock. - 140 East Country - 21 Lyndon bl. pr cent. f Stock. - 115 St Katharine ........ I 5 per cent. I Stock. - 104% Southampton •• • • Commercial .... East and West India , East Country • • . Lyndon .. St Katharine . • • • • • • • Southampton • • • • • . •• THE TERRIBLE STEAM-FRIGATE. We were persuaded that it needed only a view of Mr. Lang's Terrible side by side with the Surveyor's steam frigate Retribution, also of 800-horse power, to convince the most prejudiced that, beyond all compariSon, the Terrible is the rr.an•of--war steamer. This has been ad mitted by those who have thought and written differently; and we are sure it will also be admitted, whenever the trial takes place, that the Terrible is the stiffest, has the best stowage, will meet a head-sea better, and in the essential qualities of a fighting ship is far superior to her competitor. We will say nothing about speed, for the Retribution has the same horse power, although of 200 tons less burden. In the trip round to Ports mouth, the performances of the Terrible were most satisfactory, and the experiments which were tried dis proved many statements which have been advanced with much confidence. She left Greenhithe on Svsnday even ing, and anchored at the Swin Light. She Iveighed the next day, and from the Downs, against a In wad sea and wind W.S.W., she steamed to Spithead in little. more than 14 hours. In this work she used only two of her boilers— those next the engines—only one-half her pow er, the en gines making nine and often nine-and-a-half revolutions —against a gale of _wind which kept a great .cumber of vessels in the Downs. Thus has the advan Cage been shown of her four separate boilers, saving half the quan tity of coals. She can steam %hit one, two, tb ree, and when requiring extraordinary speed, with the whole four; so that even 400 tons of coals would last hew twenty days, if she had not an opportunity of using her sails, which, however, she could spread with very great ad vantage on her three masts, before the wind, using no coals. We believe Sir Charles Napier asserted in the House of Commons that "the Terrible was the best steamer we have, but she could not fire a stern gun ;" and the Gallant Commodore has never ackn.wledged his error. Ott Monday morning the experiment of firing the guns was made. Every one was tried, the bow and stern guns o❑ the main deck in a line with the keel charged with 161135. of powder and ahotted, the bow and stern at an elevation of 1} degrees. On this occa sion the concussion produced not a scratch or a shake anywhere, not even a pane of glass in the cabins, or in any part of the vessel was cracked. We have no doubt that the forthcoming trials will prove the Terrible to be, what we have always asserted, not a perfect ship, in every respect, but the most perfect and the finest steam man-of-war ii the British, or any other royal navy, and that the architect who designed this ship is well qualified to improve on her lines in another. SHEERNESS, WEDNESDAY.—In consideration of the services of his brother, the gallant Lieutenant Walter Y. Beale, of her Majesty's 10th Foot, who was killed at the battle of Sobraon, Mr. Robert B. Beale, the gunnery mate of the Trafalgar, 120, the flag-ship at this port, has been promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Lieu tenant. His commission arrived on Sunday, and was received with the most gratifying welcome by all on board the Trafalgar. Mr. Beale passed for a Lieutenant in 1843. He served as a midshipman on board the Princess Charlotte, the flag-ship of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, during all the operations on the coast of S, ria, including the capture of St. Jean D'Acre. The Horatio, 44, progresses favourably with her con version to a steani guard-ship. She has been found in excellent condition, her timbers and plankings being per fectly sound ; her topsider, which had been stripped for the formation of new and fewer ports, are re-planked, rnd her decks are now being opened for the reception of her engines and boilers. The Tribune, tender to tho Blazer steam surveying vessel, having completed her refit, has returned to her station at Harwich. The Tribune, a new 26-gun frigate of the Vestal class, BANK OF (From this la to Account, pursuant to the Act 7 the Week ending on Saturday, th, ISSUE DEP. X. Notes issued ........ 27,181,980 1 £27,1 81 . 980 Dated the 9th day of April, 1846 D.. BANKING • £. Proprietors' capital . • 14,553,000 Rest •••• • • • . 3,799,508 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners, of National Debt, Sav - ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) . • 7,074,026 Other deposits • • • • • • 16,763,047 Seven day and other bills • 90,446 43,155,027 Dated the 9th day of April, 1846, COURSE OF EXCH.I Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9 Ditto, at sight •• .... 12 G .- Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 10 26 15 Liamburgh —ALB. 13 15% Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 85 Ditto, 3 26 10 Marseilles ............ 26 IS Bourdeaux . ....... 26 15 Frankfort on Main®.... 122% Petersburgb, 3 U 5...... Berlin ....... , Vienna, effee.flo .... 10 11 Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 11 y, Madrid • • ...... 36 OlullZ • • •• . .. 36% Bilbao.. • • • ....... Barcelona .........• •• ~•, ....... i ordered to be laid down here. She is to be of precisely the same dimensions as the Alarm, recently launched at this dock) ard, - and as the Diamond, now building here, \those dimension's :have been previously given. The Brilliant, 2: Captain R. Watson, C.D., is board,titkiog her guns on ;oard, and will haul out of the basin next week. She still wants from fifty to sixty hands to complete her &implement. Some fifteen or sixteen, whom orapto.in Watson had clothed f rom h ea d to foot, had the loisSe ingratitude to cut and run the other day while on shore on a few days' leave. The following is the armament' 4 the Brilliant, viz.:—On the main deck, six 68-pounders and ten long 32-pounders ; on the Spar deck, time 32-pounder carronades and two 56-pounders, 83 cwt. each (on pivots), one of which is fitted on the forecastle, the other abaft the wizen mast. Orders have been received here for the Warspite, 50, Captain Provo I'. Wallis, arrived at Plymouth from the Mediterranean, to be paid off into ordinary ut Chatham, 4bere she will be surveyed, and, if found tit, will be re fitted for commission. Tho ‘Vorcester, Chichester, anti Conquestador, 50-gun frigates, continue their fittings for commission. The Cornwall is ready, but it is thought will not be commissioned at preent. Iu harbour— Trafalgar, 120, ; Ocean, 80, Raven, and Wildfire and African Etearn-misels. THE ROYAL ARTILLERY. Woomvicu, APRIL 9.—Tlie non-commissioned offi cers and men appointed to form the 10th battalion of Royal Artillery, assembled at two o'clock, P.M., to-dly cn the ground, mounting parade in heavy marching order, in the presence of Major-General Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.B , Deputy Adjutant-General of Artillery ; Colonel Turner, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Bastard, Lieutenant -Colonel Gordon, Lieutenant-Colonel Mach ley, and Li eutenant - Colonel Strangways, the latter having the command of the battalion. Brigade-Major Cuppage and the captains appointed to each of the eight companies, Captain Grant, fat company ; Captain Mit chell, 2d company ; Captain Beresford, 31 company Second Captain Dickson, in the absence of Cap tain Crawford, 4th company ; C a p ta i n St. George, sth company ; Captain Nedham, Gth company ; rain Fraser, 7th company ; and Captain Warde, Bth company, were present, to inspect the kit of the men, which was done on the barrack field, and they were then marched to the quarters assigned to them, and will commence messing together for the first time to-day. At ten minutes before nine o'clock, A.M., 1 sergeant, 2 corporals, and 70 privates of the Royal Marines, left Roff's Wharf, for Blackwall, under the command of Lieutenant for a pas sage to Gravesend, en route to Chatham, to make room in the barracks at Woolwich for the men of the 10th battalion. ENROLLED rEzisioNEns.—Two companies have been formed from the pensioners of the Royal Navy and Marines, to be added to the two companies of the Wool. with division, under Captain Forbes, and they are to be called out on the 11th of next month for drill, previous to the assembling of the whole of the pensioners in the London district, for review in Elyde-park iu the latter part of May next. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS • LIVERPOOL, Aram IL Sroca EXCHANGE -The Share market still continues dull, 1 ut greater confidence is manifested by holders of in good cum panl in consequence of the facilities expected to be givt.n. by Liii Government for the winding - up or doubtful schemes., Tile . gtdes 11113 -Ambergate,Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Janetl(.4i, 1% dis.- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, p ,-,111) ming ham anti Gloucester, Halves (7 1 ,i 31-,Boston, Siunibrd, anti Birmingham, 5i dis.-Buniagliamshire, I dig.-Caledutiian, 3 -Chester and Birkenhead, 17-Derby and Crewe, 1 p.-Dundee and Pe t:t h, Grand Junction, 212-Great EaStern and 'Western, .1% dis.-Great IVesleru. Quarters, It p.-Great North and South \Vales and Worcester, I Is. dis.-Goole, and Doncaster d;s.--lind deraliell and Manchester, a ells.-IlurLtersflehl and sliettleld, p. -Leeds and Phirsk, d dis.- Liverpool and Bury, - 6% p.-Llvelpucl. and:Leeds Direct, h di.s. - Liverpool, Ormskirk,:and: Preston, its. Gd. P. -London and Birmingham, Quarters, 25%-,London - and Brigh ton, 62-London and South-Western, 76 -Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Extensions, 1M p.-Manchester andDirmingham, Quarters (It), 7 P.- Manchester and Leeds Extensions, I,y p. -Midland Stock, 144-. .. N .forthanibcriand and Lancaster, 245. dis.-North Staffurd,lnre, 2 P.-North Union (A), 205-North Wdstern, 2s. Gd. -Prest(in Elul Wyre, Halves (is), 6.. 6;1. p.--SheffMd and Lincoln, us. (id. d!s.- Ics S o l o ;e it t 3 fi i ;l li t 2sa a .s i Gt i ed d r.,, M ,d I, a , 4 ,a C h p.-Ditto ester . 9:1 a I lids. i 1 0 7 1 5 1 . 10 n, Gs. 3.1.-p-.1-)loito°;kNitenvrl p. -Newry and Warzenrolnt, 14 p.--Duleh Rhenish S.Toca ExcuaxnE3.-lAiN'hVisi,ift'SrlaCic4-AlicigrllLeilead,. Cheshire, % Chorley, - and Liverpool, 1 5., 1 -16 d:s.- Boston, Stamford, and 111nr.ingliam, dis.- Chester and Manches ter Direct, 275. ells.- Clitheroe Junction, 1 1 ,5 die. Cornwall rind Devon Cent ml, 1 1 4 Aliz. - Derby and Crewe, 114 ,p.-Eastern Counties, York Extensor, % p. -Last Lincolnshire, Sr. - Ercwash p.- Fleetwood, Prefton, mid West Itldlng Junction, °' (in - Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 115.64.. dies.-Grand Jr:odic'', 213. - Grunt Union, 170. c. Euddcrsteld arid 21apelicster Railway and Canal, ilis. -Huddersfield and Slictlicid .Junctlon, 3% p. - Lancashire and North Yorkiiiire, ills. 3d. dis.-Leeds, DewsimiT, aria Manchester, 2 p.-Leeds and Y.irk, 1 ills. c, Liverpool and Bury, 6% P.-Livernoul, Grinskirk, and Preston, 140. p.-Liverpoul, War wick, lancl.ester, and :..tocliport, Ca.-Ditto, Quarters, _us. p.- London and Manchester (Itim.), London, (latent, Chel tenham, &c., % dis.- London and York, I dis. c.-Manchester, Bux ton, Mattock, and Midland, par-Manchester and Illrtning,hain, 7:**.i -Ditto, Quarters (A), 7 p.-Ditto, ditto (II), 7% c. P.--Ditto, ditto (0), 6% p.-Manchester and Bury Atmospheric, 11 dis.-Man chaster and Leeds, Quarters, 8 p.-Ditto, Fifths, 8 p. -Ditto, Extension. 1 3 4 p. -31inichester and Southampton, % dis.-Nor thumberland and Lancashire, 20s. dis.-North Staffordshire, 2 p.- Preston and Wyre, 34. -Preston and Wyre 17,xteusion, 14 die.- Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, l i g dis.-Sheffield and Manches ter, Quarters (No. 3), 3-16 p.-Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 21s. Dd. dis.-South Eastern and Dover, 325.-Ditto, Halves, No. 4, Its. dis.-Welsh Midland, dis. -West Riding Union, 1 5-16 p.- Jamaica, 26% p. 1)u iin ;11Id sa P. STOCK EXCHANGE._ Th L o EE sa D Ie S s , are - East ern C oun ti es, 21—Ditto, York Extension, 10s. Gd. p. —Y ork and North Midland, Extens i on, APR— 16%Grimsby and Sheffield Extensions, 17s. 6.l.dis.—Hud • dersfield and Manchester, 17s. Gd. clis.—Badderstleld and Sheffield, 3% p. — Leeds and Bradford, 25j). —Leeds and Dewsbury, 3 p.-- Ditto, New Br anches, ss. P.— Leeds and Thirsk, 5% dis.—New castle and Berwick, .7% p.—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 7s. Gd. p.— Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 414 dis. e.-- London and York, 245. dis , —Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 235. Northern, 265. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 13s. p.—West Riding Union, 31. os.—.afnbergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 275. 6d. dis.—Armagh. Coleraine, and Porttush, 15s. dis.— Buckinghamshire (late liugby), 18s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 258. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 25.'6.1. p.—Manchester and Southampton, 11x. dig.--Northam berland and Lancashire Junction, 225. dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 0. —North Western, 31. dis.—Welsh Midlands, 255. dis.—York and Carlisle, 31s. dis. _ . _ ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. The annual meeting of this Company was held yester day, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- street. Andrew Colville, Esq., was called to the chair, the President of the Company having died recently. There was a more than usually large attendance of proprietors upon the occasion. The SECRETARY then read the report of the directors for the past year, which congratulated the proprietors that for the past year their expectations, notwithstand ing it was a year of great depression, had not only been realised, but considerably surpassed. That the accounts of the Company for the past year, as compared with the year 1844, exhibited the gratifying fact of considerable augmentation ; for instance, each item under the head for freight and passage money, outward, homeward, and international, showed an increase, which, in the aggre gate, amounted, upon freight, to cover 5,3581., and upon passage money to over 16,4491.—making a total upon these two items of over 21,8001. The report concluded by an expression of satisfaction of the good conduct of the officers of the Company, and by declaring a divi dead of 3 per cent. per share, or at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the paid.up capital for the half-year up to last December. The statement of the account of the Company's re. ceipts and disbursements for the past year was then handed about, by which it appeared that the total dis bursements amounted to 274,5881. ss. 5d., which left a surplus of 111,880/. 15s. 11d. Mr. STEWART congratulated the meeting upon the prosperous state of their affairs, and said he considered that the thanks of the Company were due to the directors for the admirable manner in which they had conducted their affairs, particularly when he reminded the meeting that now they had a very large sum to their credit, while, in the year 1842, they were considerably in debt to the shipping account. He hoped they would ere long have the gratification to have a dividend of 7 per cent. declared, instead of s.—(Hear.) He thought that he, in common with all the other shareholders, was called upon to express his warmest approval of the manner in which their affairs had been administered by the di rectors.—(Hear, hear.) The report was then unanimously adopted, the vote of thanks to the Chairman and directors passed by accla mation, Captain Sheppard elected as chairman, in the room of Mr. Irving, deceased ; the auditors re-elected, and the meeting separated. STATIONS of the ON THE FIR: (From the Unita BRITISH ARMY ST OF APRIL. 1 Service Journal.) Where two places are mentiol which the depot of th, aed, the last-named is that at regiment is stationed. 41st, Mullingar 42d, Malta, Isle of Wight- Reserve batt., Malta 43d, Halifax, Dover 44th, Dublin 45th, Cape of Good Hope, Isle of Wight 46th, Canad 2, Newry 47th. Dublin 486, Jamaica, Kilkenny 49th, Athlone 50th, Bengal, Chatham 51st, Van Dietnan's Land, Chatham 52d, Quebec, Brecon 53t1, Bengal, Chatham 546, gibraltar, Fennoy 55th, Devon port 56th, Bury, Lancashire 57th, Madras, Chatham 58th, N. S. \Yalu, Chatham 59th, Dublin 60th (Ist batt.), Bombay, Chatham Ditto (2d !Att.), Canada, Paisley 61st, Bengal, Chatham 62d, Bengal, Chatham • 63d, Madras, Chatham 64th, Dublin 65th, Chatham 66th, Gibraltar, Clare Castle 67th, Limerick 68th, Chester 69th, Leeds 70th, Dublin 71st, Antigua, Isle of Wight • -Reserve batt., Canada 72d, Gibraltar, Nenagh 73d, M. Video, Spike Island 74th, Portsmouth 75th, Birr 76th, Manchester 77th, Jamaica, Templemore 78th, Bombay, Chatham 79th, Gibraltar, Belturbet 80th, Bengal, Chatham 81st, Canada, Jersey 82d, Canada, Kinsale 83d, Limerick 84th, Madras, Chatham 85th, St. Vincent, Cork 86th, Bombay, Chatham 87th, Aberdeen 88th, Malta, Boyle 89th, Canada, Hull 90th, Ceylon, Weedon 91st, Cape of Good Hope, Isle of Wight-Reserve batt., Cape of Good Hope 92d, Edinburgh • 93d, Canada, Newbridge 94th, Aden, Chatham 95th, Ceylon, Tralee 96th, N. S. Wales, Chatham 97th, Corfu, Isle of Wight- Reserve batt., Corfu 98th, Bengal, Chatham 99th, N. S. Wales, Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist batt.), Corfu, Dover Do. (2d batt.), lialifax, N.S., Isle of Wight-Reserve batt., Halifax, N.S. COLONIAL CORPS. Ist West India Regiment, Jamaica 2d Do., Nassau 3d Do., Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. Ceylon Rifle Reg., Ceylon Royal Canadian Rifle Regi ment, Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen,Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Vet. Comps., Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta St. Helena Regiment, St. Helena. CAVALRY. Ist Life Guards, Hyde-park 2d, Windsor Royal Horse Guards, Re ' getit's-park Ist Dragoon Guards, Exeter 2d, Dublin 3d, Ballincollig 4th, Edinburgh • sth, Nottingham , 6th, Manchester 7th, Cape of Good Rope, Maidstone Ist. Dragoons, Dundalk 2d,.Dublin 3d Light Dragoons, Bengal, Maidstone 4th, Hounslow 6th, Birmingham 7th Hussars, Ipswich Bth Hussars,'Longf'ard 9th Lancers, Bengal, Maid stone 10th Ilussars, York 11th Hussars, Newbridge. 12th Lancers, Coventry 13th Light Dragoons, Cahir 14th do. Bombay, Maidstone 15th Hussars, Madras, Maid stone 16th Lancers, Bengal, Maid stone 17th Lancers, Nottingham INFANTRY. Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.), St. George's Barracks Do. (2d batt.) Wellington Barracks Do. (3d batt.), Windsor Coldstream G uards (Ist batt.), St. John's-wood Do. (2d batt.), Winchester Scotch Fusilier Guards (Ist batt.), Portman-street Bar. Do. (2d batt.), the Tower Ist Foot (Ist batt.), Barba : does, Dublin . Do. (2d batt.), Glasgow 2d, Chichester 3d, Gosport 4th, Madras, Chatham sth, Enniskillen 6th, Athlone 7th, St. Vincent, Naas Bth, Portsmouth 9th, Bengal, Chatham 10th, Bengal, Chatham llth, N. S. Wales, Chatham 12th, Mauritius, Isle of Wight 13th, Walmer 14th, Canada, Plymouth 15th, Ceylon, Waterford 16th, Gibraltar, Buttevant 17th, Bombay, Chatham 18th, Bengal, Chatham 19th, West Indies, Carlow 20th, Bermuda, Isle of Wight -Reserve batt., Bermuda 21st, Madras, Chatham 22d, Bombay, Chatham 23d, Canada, Isle of Wight- Reserve batt., Canada 24th, Cork 25th, Madras, Chatham 26th, Belfast 27th, Cape of Good Hope, Guernsey 28th, Bombay, Chatham 29tb,-Bengal, Chatham 30th, Castlebar 31st, Bengal,:Chatham 32d, Fermoy • 33d, N. Brunswick, Clonmel 34th, lonian Islands, Cashel 36th, Mauritius, Charles Fort 36th, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 37th, Newport, South Wales 38th, JaMaica, Londonderry 39th, Bengal, Chatham 40th, Canterbury ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Allow me, through the medium of your exten sively circulated paper, to protest against the imposition —for I can call it nothing else—of demanding money from parties wishing to see over St. Paul's Cathedral, and which ought to be open free to the public. Only let the party once enter within the door of that sacred temple, when he is at once addressed by a gentianndr. no doubt brought op in .Brasenose C il °ljeg L 6d. or minds 2d. ; well, that is paid ; `hen th ere is for some to see the chapel : after looking a bo ut e s i ie a s n to soar a little surrounding time, the party naturally enough ‘t‘i,_ who demands higher ; he meets with another gen 1 Is. 6d. more : he walks up to the galle r y 'the dome, and wishes to enter within the ball beneath d he o i fvflaegsahi , n an tl d ies i e s. m 6d o . d i e s r a n g S ai h n y d lo e c m lt a s n n d i e u d st ; the cross ; but have their poun after this he must pay 2d. to ace the clock. N o w, Mr. Editor, ought such things so to be ? I huTmhbelynissuebrmtioitnt o h f ey the shouldaboyne would obl ige, o Sir, yours o b e diently, A STRANGER. lIULL, APRIL I. STOCK ETCHANGE.—The intentions of Government, as expressed by Sir R. Peel and Earl Dalhousie, have given an impetus to inquiry for scrip; to which the markets latterly have been unaccustomed. Buyers, however, generally seem indisposed to give the prices de manded by scripholders, which, in many instances, are equal to the full of what may reasonably be expected to be the balance of the deposits returned, should the company be compelled to dissolve. The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3—North British, Carlisle, Ms.—Chelmsford and Bury, Ss.—East Coast, 21s.—Glits gow' Dumfries, and Carlisle, Os.—Grand Union, 1133.—Great North and South Wales, Ss. 6il.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 235. 9d, — Liverpool and Leeds, 2%—London and Manchester (Rem.), l !‘, North Staffordshire, 41. 2s.—West Riding Union, 31. ft—Yorksitire and Glasgow Union, 18s. SIIEFFIELD, Aratt.'9. STOCY EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, 314 Ditto, Railway and Dock, 2!4—Liverpool, Orinskirk, and Preston, 21. its. td.—North Western, I/. YUEN, Arau, 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), Ss. Gd. - Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, IL 19s. Gd.-Newcastle and Berwick, IG%-.North British, Carlisle Extension, 11. 125.-Welsh Midland, 1 %-York and North Midland Extension, 31 -Ditto, New (Bast atU West Riding), 8. HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 9. STOCK LXCHANGE.-The sales are-Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 29-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3 dis.-Hulders field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 29-Ditto ditto, 1.55. dis. - Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 3 p.-Leeds and Bradford, 44 -Leeds, Devrsbury, and Manchester, 3 p.-I.:elt and Thirsk, 53 dls.-Newcastle and Berwick, 7% p.- Grand Union ; 12s. td.-Ilud deNtleld, Hallfa.x, and Bradford Union, 3-Laneushire, Yorkshire, and Norilx Eastern, 1 --Leeds and Liverpool Direct., 2%:-Manches ter, Huddersfield; and Great Grimsby, 2.02.-North Western, 3s. dis, -Shrewsbury and Hereford, 215.-Welsh Midlands, 285.-York and Carlisle, 31s. dis.-London and York, I !t-Glasgow and Dumfries, %e-West Biding Union, 9s. 1 :111:STOL, Arsii. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— this ol and 1.1 ter, Ne , v, —Birmingham and Gloucester, 12434.—Caledonian, 7.-511(114nd, New, 29!4—Suutli"Devon, 3132—Ta1l Vale, New, 1%. ..... EIJINI.IOItGii, AI'I U L 7 STOCK EXCIIANGE.-Tlie Bala are-Aberdeen, 21. 2s. GJ..-Aber. doen, Banff, and 'Elgin, 1/. 10s.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. Gs.- Arbroath and Forfar, 271.-Ditto, half Shares, 15/. ]os.-Armagh and I'ortrush,los.-Ayr and Galloway, 1/. 95.-Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir, it. 10s.-Bantishire, his. Gd.-Belfast and County Down, 21. -British and Irish Union, I/. 155.60.-Caledonian, ex new, 6/. - Ditto, New, H. N.-Caledonian Extension, H. Gs.- Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. I Os.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 1/. 155.-Carn wath and West Linton, I/. Is. Gd.-Chelmstbrfl and Bury, 155.- Clydesdale Junction, 121.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 1/. 7s. Ga.- Deeelde Railway, 41.-Direct Northern, 11. Bs. Gd.-Dublin and Emits killen, 31. 103.-Dundee and Arbroath, :AL-Ditto, New, 'ln.-Dun dee and Forfar Junction, 1/. 165.-Dundee and Perth, 101.-Ditto, Kinross Exten.slon, 21.- Eastern Counties Extension, 1/.-Ea.st Indian Railway, 75.-East of Fife, 1/. 55.,-East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 1/. Bs.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 721.-Ditta, Half Shares, 13!.-Ditto, Quarters, 171. 10s. -Ditto, ditto, New, 151.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 18s.'-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 11. 3s. Gd.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 161. 10s.-Ditte, Preference, 19 7 .-Edinburgh and Northern, H. Bs-Ditto, Newport, 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 9s. Gd. -Edinburgh and Peebles, 1/. Is.- Edinburgh and Perth, 21. is. 6d.- Edinburgh, Portobello, and INlusselburgh, 11. 10s.-Forth and Clyde Junction, H. 111.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70/. 10s.-Dit'o' New Stock, 241.-Ditto,.Qiiartcr :hares, 171. 10s.-Glasgow Belfast Union, 11. 25.-Glasgow, DumirLs, and Carlisle, M.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, ILl4s.- Glasgow and Garnkirk, 401. 10s.-Glasgow Gene ral Terminus, 9/. W.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 155.-Glasgow harbour Grand Junction, 1/. 10s.- Glasgow Barbour Mineral, 11. 15s.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and An:roast:ft, 1!. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, end Les mallagow, 11. 155.-Granton Junction, I 9s.- Great County Down, 11. IN.-Great North of seofland, 1/. 125.-Great North and South Wales, Bs. M.-Inverness and Elgin, 175.-Lanark and Lothians, I/. 155.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, I/. Ss.-- London and Houns low, IL - London and Manchester (Ra.qrick), 2/. 155.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 11. 2n. 6d.-London and York, I/. 10s.- Ditto, Half Sharcs, V.-Midland and Eastern counties, 11. Bs.-Moray shire, 2/. -Newcastle and Berwick, 161. 10s.-.Newry and London derry, 11. 75.-North British, 24/. 10s.-Ditto, halves, 8/.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 11. 12s.- Ditto, Extension to Dalkelth, 51. 155.-.lforth Wales Mineral, 13 , . -Ditto, New, 3/. W.-Perth and Crieff Direct, I/. 12s. Gd. -Perth and Inverness, 1/. 45.-Scottish Central, IX-Ditto, New, 51.- Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc tion, 11. Gs -Scottish Grand Junction, 11.-Scottish Midiand, 6!. -Scottish Southern, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s. -Sh,ewsbury, Oswestry, ani Chester, 1!. 17s. Gd.-South .M;dland, 1/. 155,•-Stirling aria Dunfermline, 11. Ss. lid..-Stirling and M d;and, 2/. 45.-Strathern Junction, If. 2s. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction, 55.-Teen and Dove Valley, 155.-Wishaw and Cohness, 47/. 7s. Cd. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The quarterly ge neral meeting was held yesterday afterncon at the rooms of the institution in King William-street, when the chair was taken by Dir. John Labouchere. A petition to the !louse of Commons, in opposition to the Charitable Trusts Bill, was read and agreed to, as the principles were considered lsoth needless and vexatious. So stringent were the regulations, that it'ivas stated, should the Bill pass, one of the metropo litan hospitals would be closed. The report stated that time had been received during the past quarter in heard the _Dreadnought, as patients, 17 from her Majesty's ships, 555 *from British and foreign vessels, and remaining en board on the let of January, 178. There were on board 162 sick, 1 convalescent, and 3 fit for duty; whilst the number of out patients, from Jan. 1. to March 31, was 313. The balance of cash in and was 4664 15s. Bd., and the funds were in a very prosperous condition. It was also announced that the num ber of patients who had received the benefits of the institu tion since its establishment was 57, 787. • THE QUARTERLY RECEIPTS AT THE LIA - LEPOCL CUSTOM-lIOUSE.—We have again at this port a decreasing quarterly revenue, arising principally from the reductions in raw'materials and articles of consumption in this district. The gross revenue of the corresponding quarter of last year, viz., the three months ending the sth of April, 1845, amounted to 928,9731. To the 4th of April this year, up to which date the return is made up, the receipts are only 793,4241, thus showing a deficit of 165,519/.--Liverpoo/ Standard. INSANITY IN CANADA.—From the census returns of the United States, it appears that the number of tho insane and idiotic in Canada is greater in proportion to the popula tion than in the United States. The population of Milted Canada is 1,199,604; the number of iesano and idiotic is 2,376, or Ito 504. The total popelation•of the United States is 17,069,453,. and the number of the insane and idiotic is The following shows . t he number of the 1 1 ,e, 7 51 ,..4 tn 5 i insane ia " U l p t p o er 97 2 7 ;id Lower Canada,' in proportion to their population :—Lower Canada, with a population of 693,549, has 478. male idiots, and 473 females--total 950; 156 male lunatics, and 152 females—total 308. Upper Canada, with a population of 506,055, has 221 male idiots, bud 178 females—total 399; 241 male lunatic s , an d 478 females.— t L o o t Canada Itwill s the be three perceived gr th e a a t t er t the thannumber ainsane; of di while o tic n in Upper Canada the number of insane by far exceeds the idiotic; this is attempted to be explained by the different origin of the population. The inhabitants of Lower Canada are nearly all of French origin —those of Upper Canada British.. • INCREASE AND DIMINUTION ,OF SALARIES (PUBLIC OFFlCES).—According to a return just issued by order of the House of Commons, it appears that in the year 1845 there was an increase in the various public offices or departments of 2,267 persons employed. Of these, 2,035 were engaged in the Post-office department of the United Kingdom, and 102 in the Customs. In various offices or departments; however, in the same year, there was a diminution in the number of individuals engaged of 463 ;:of these, 396 were in the. E xcise, and 49 at Chelsea Hospital. The total increase in sala ries, emoluments, retired allowances, and expenses during the year, wa5.129,8791, and the total diminution of expen diture resulting from the reductions in others of the public offices amounted to 67,754/, leaving a balance of about 62,125/. increase of expenditure during the year 1845. THE WEITIIEB.—DEPLORABLE OCCURRENCE.—From Sunday until Monday the weather was exceedingly inclement —cold and stormy, with incessant rain. Sunday . was one of the harshest days we remember for a long time. At half-past two o'clock on that day, whilst the sea was rolling mountains high, twe young gentlemen, John and Zachariah Dawson Williams, sons of our much respected fellow-citizen, Mr. Williams, of Clifton-teraee, MonkstoWrit and Stafford-street, in this city, were walking t al e o re ng he shore a little beyond Bullock Harbour, admiv,rhaige h_ as . e • 1 ficent appearance of the sea, when a huge n :_ y r. ,I .ac i.q ui ti r . l 4l . and carried off the younger of those gentle re m t e to s t r, . es l in e l 1 , 1 Dawson Williams, who, we deepla,lr::tgt himself b.) I el in gi g watery grave. 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She was, no doubt, assassinated at the last festival of the Carnival, since which time the theatre has been closed. The perpe• tration of this crime is attributed to jealousy. The name of .the victim has not trauspired." The Austrian Censorship has placed the whole stock of a Leipzie bookseller under sequestration, and forbidden the Viennese bookiellers to purchase any part of the same. ThC cause of this extreme measure is a pamphlet issued from the 'shop of the above publisher, and circulated clandestinely in Hungary, containing, as it alleged, seditious language.— Augsburg Gazette.