The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

. uth, ha vir ig •we bar itY ionte Vi de° ° I) ienos the 45 a r n . 1° setory, se e o ,fr artywas co sbe9 o f poll* France. the 73d Bas a b ou t the...,0 n the sam th e ' e i r to Toops ei ll t the 73d B 7eded to their regime a regl go of Dlr.e' :en here, tb interests tr:L.ol,‘ i c h the PIT n the lino .P. r bd intside PartYo'o4 ling, in A " c iria l der that tm E O TO Is %‘ •TATI CIS. O4 ESE' , forbler IV nava l fo.i r h v e i 1 he cl Conf edars ered el le° e sef l t:. v i.f o inetshe city ' 1 2 1 1;f 0 be we ~,e n fideCce . be g uld ti o I, declarsrt , ro pti a nd■ - flrly ice , t io r and vi 11,1$ 1 un ited lel so the c° b s ter. I sla t *, tbs t „ i d sho , ' 10 . ,« riots ,ble rep s Apr, Ideration' fold th e , ll : l ;ch ndepeol'w ty, beepe' faltery IPof to the ftu c . 0 1 0 00 of 5°,,,c01 depen" — b ye; e °ward s i e b net , owns ,r all. r • rto sk L DE A. ' lar' 3 Part OtticlY f his 3asr/ llt' 'l3ll e blockek,ot 00 taii ~ the WI, a% t ceedingfo,lot t,4 .i, he disafeli'l h‘..B y and 4", dr() nit to the c ° o / 01 ~otl commanders 000 0 them Dee t l ' e tbi stir then wbo,:fio,* en lits of the P IP u bell ;nee. edvt,,,, 'Aei rag institat , e Gover.3o,, 0. 4 41 o f w ar Of t ii 0 ,4 ! 'tl impossible to ~Yfi itti 1 preseace °tiP bar erritory ec' D er or. .„,ei! rna that the ar7,00, Aar ttinot be lio'fr,, Vol] the Frite s bi: !f t that no eucooe "eel that of OA ~, kit ;Jug of thi t h oe s ect moment e 0 cor eie affairs ef 1° r ek 3lio"tOt tlitn a r. of the ;loci r 1 )irit of coot` Ai duct. It ':`00 pe i invitatio ~4,,4, tut .tsoraeoreo. ,t !ace • ga d Pe,fitt h a l l our and j,11t,„9" f ration. ,P. or ernand3. de, Ilto of A stattibe t, ,thiti e righte!, t o i 4 n , destruct., I ates. , isf,,s, kg ad &strees of, rj wri enticed ",.ri°•iorfir# Pr ter., 0 ? , 11 o e excet•itt°',„#.o7l at to y hostile_. t nver. fl„ ments 0 0 1 .7; ' Ito/ ieveres la 1?,•,41,A Ito an d in) a4.,%.0.4 laci lace in its sLoiat4r, Th r be their ,7„,,if ot ig n StUlateS ",,; , the ces, old t" tihr, rhtl are the re'es-o; igoi ", iolidatios ef o:u Ittitilli fe i l jt i ernis •ti i :s of the ° l os i l l 111 /Pi 4 comp t lete 4 i o entals 1 1 % F ,,,. eat of: ece ntive ConiederatiPll:::: ''' illi t.:' he legal et',, ~t 1 l_g its free te!'r ii i' o yr s, be 4 d the Orl e „ o f 4 /Ya re Assexhi) pf defelleg, brthe ' ' ;."( llonou.r. fo rs " 4 ] ;1 Oribe, w, r y l o, rAi ,of spresentetloothoroi zla e well-kaa thil LITERATURE. sT ER REVIEW W . l.xxxvin Cou.idering our precarious, or, perhaps, we should our doubtful position at the present moment, as far :its the contin ua ti on o f p eace i s concerne d—looking, at t he o belligerent attitude aisumul by a certain class of and beholding Cr‘e strife now raging in the Sei kh territories—a more telivitoua ju.'tore could risieely h ave b een selected for the pu bli cai :on o f t ho se 1 1: l u iries into th e " social , moral , and intellectual con wen e i n pr the army," which constitute the opening paper t his numb er o f th e W es t m i ns ter Review. Nothing is of .s uch vital and supreme importance to a great nation_ 7 the inculcation of a healthy tone into the system of its trotective force, and, consequently, nothing is so incum ut urlen th e L eg i s l a t ure as t o su ppress .anythtng con rue've to th e d emora li sat i on of i ts s t an di ng arm i es . I n emote ages this truth was acknowledged, and upon it Evenrected the stern bulk of the Npartan commonwealth. ir when the ancestral barbariens were exposed to the mor a l e of other predatory hordes, a certain rugged e , le was deemed requisite for the perpetuation, and 11 . " fir preservation of their power ; a nwrale founded u pon activity, upon a development of muscular energy— tt)ll,ls oneness of feeling—upon a continuous subjection o—and upon that peculiar valour which k t s6ai ns a man under the most severe privations. , as civilisation advanced, more refinement and 1.. Y . 133 ,1 133 t - try were instilled into the military as well 1!s "t the i nte ll ectua l and po li t i ca l codes.. And, as civili sation ever strivss to extract an increase of advantage i t , --111 whatever is submitted to its influence, the hitherto sad cohorts, which were maintained by consular ll imperial Rome as the safeguards of its authority, "ere rend ere d su b serv i en t t o t h e i n t e rests of its ern. p 1 l e rs• In this manner, during the intervals of rec ce, tt , the swo r d was th r own aside fos the mattock ; and to v eterans, whose courage in battle had incited them dou ble spolia:i o n of their enemies, rendered themselves of em ; i tille benefit to their country by strewing it with the 7,Q l lishments of their industry—a policy which that wat nor, the Emperor Napoleon, did not regard uoe °ally of i nitation. With reference to these par 111ars, our own tro pi are utterly beneath comparison; l ide the legions of France and Italy they are as gaudy ones. Instead of their peaceful exertions being de. e :.`" 4 to the adornment or improvement of our cities, or s'itw rural dtstricts, they are restricted to pipeclay and "'Paper. Upon this miserable fact we cannot do uter than transcribe a few sentences from our re live,: "surely the British soldier has ne claim to take a higher Itt than the eR )man 1 and yet look at the Roman works the roads which 'Tullio to this day the Thames em • 4 kt:l:lent s than which Britain cannot even now boast a use imporant work—these, and other works equally great -re perf orme d, too , l et i t be recollected, by men under Zs, and constantly liable to emprise—almost con ,u,tlY in fact, engaged in actual warfare. What works laid such soldiers as these have performed in thirty years unbroken peace? Or, to come to times and to a people prer to us, look at that magnificent Gallic work, the i ne :te du Simplon, executed during a fiercer war, and sub -` to all the rigours of an Alpine climate. But it is use to multiply instances which are familiar to every well -71:terson. Why, also, should not the British soldier be 'P'°.Yed in useful public works—roads, canals, and bridges, ittstance?" inculcating by the manner of their jurisdiction a 's=everance in their idle and useless habits, the military t tl iorities of Great Britain have been most culpable ; 'ila, by abandoning the soldiery to inaction, they ve Placed incitements to viciousness, and opportunities r „,.Sile cultivation of debauchery in the way of an igno -74 and na urally dissolute class of men. It is agains ts i gnorance, and against this dissoluteness of the ;Rltsh army that the present strictures in the tstminster Review are especially directed. Yet, agree tg " we undoubtedly do in the generality of the tee'sfri• , views upon the subject, we must take leave to ' t °test against the acerbity and almost rancourous ill - L ,l u re which pervades the article. Conscious of the 'then ce of very great abuses, the writer directs atten na to th em i n tones of passionate indignation, insomuch 411 4 at he occasionally descends to a viruleece of scorn, quite . / N°alpatibl e with the office of a Public Censor. us while inveighing against the gross and murky 45 irl ut'ance of the " privates," and sometimes indeed of officers themselves, he attaches this stigma of in torn a Petency to the mass of brevet majors and colonels, 4 -I h u even higher tip in the scale of promotion: and again, trdi" taunting the army for its immorality, he gene- Se e the imputation of licentiousness ; he brands al l one sweeping accusation the whole military este dl Ment. Granted that a vast number of our so tti defend e rs—gr an t e d eve n that a huge majority tied ern —are worthy of reprobation as a most vicious fro unprincipled class —( and we are compelled, alasll lo 7 l all rational experience to acquiesce in the justice of bey o a deduction)—still, it is beyond all precedent—it is 4 . 4 114 all human candour to implicate, as equally, vile, 4 )en uf undoubted honour, men of undoubted purity, i te of undoubted acquirements, men, in fine, of un- Peachable and elevated character, and men there are this desc r i p ti on i n t h e B r i t i s h arm y. Of soldiers the ranks what does the reviewer remark ? Why, Is:— "No no rot ei tion 1 .1;, ected woman can pass them, of whatever con gress audible that is not rudely stared in the face, with some e remark to create a blush; and the embarass tigiome_ntlnto which ' she is thrown mostly gives rise to a repeti ,,..nett some standing j o k e o f t h e b arrac k s ' an d it s conse quent chorus of a horse-laugh.' We have seen it often, and with deep indignation." We would und er t a k e to vouch that th i s latter assert i on : Merely a very wid e s t retc h o f t h at very e l ast i c art i c l e , 1 e imagination; or if the writer r ea lly has "seen it L ' i tell," it has been simply like Hamlet, "in my mind's f ustian Horatio!" Altogethcr, we cannot but regard the for egoing p ara graph as little better than cant—as a very 'ustian effort after effect—as a mere straining after a host in .rbid species of humanity. It is nothing tint irrate ~4 °' sip—balderdash, in short; and, but that other por tcms of the disquisition are really of a high order of ' 4 r etit, would t en d t o d e t er i ora t e th e con t r ib u tor as one 1 :!erlY unworthy of joining in the corps of the West minster _Review. We have said that the paper has pot.- rug of high merit, and this we could undertake to de tOnatrate did our columns permit ; a reference, however, t o the article itself, will be an ample corro- Jittion of the remark, while at the present momentous i'i s 4l 6 its perusal cannot but prove interesting even to i r most phlegmatic. Some of the recommendations .rorporated in the review demand the deepest con. ; a eration, as likely to produce, by trial, a very de cided improvement in the organisation of our m ilitary. Among these we would particularise. the about the most feasible and the most judicious, r4lProposal that our raw recruits—drawn gene -011"Y from the lowest dregs of the population— th°,l2hl be submitted to a system of rational tuition, that , ‘ e i tr faculties for observation and reflection should 0 - muergo a wholesome culture, whereby they would be -B:nie more opened to an appreciation of their position as ac me beings; while their bodies should be drilled by s uccession of more bracing and invigorating ma 444,,usres than are witnessed now-a-days in the li th'ggish discipline of the barrack-yards. For ° officers, nothing can be more requisite than a of°toligh course of instruction in the mysteries 01 military tactics—a nitessity which is now est entirely overlooked. Fredericks, and Cromwells, .. `tb Diarlboroughs, and Masseuse were not fostered in the ; t rietis of such scenes as Arthur's, or in the atmosphere 0 fribbles and sentimental young ladies. A great re ,:ganisation is demanded among our sold.ery, from the '' tf f officer downwards to the sutlerithat reorganisation 4161 be arranged with all decorum if the authorities will e „ s d ; -' o ot upon the matter ; otherwise , public opi nion will t ; se the change to its accomplishment, as it ultimately t ss all other neglected abuses. Before relinquishing i: e subject of this first article, we must utter our fullest sn detonation of the subjoined paragraph h:very We see France armed to the teeth, and increasing h; armaments with unparalleled rapidity and energy—half C: Population are frantic for an English war, to avenge her O'er defeats. • * * We see, again, America, pr ospect by a reckless President, intoxicated with the an y of irritating England on the Oregon or other question which should give him a O tetext for the annexation' of the Canadas to the republic. ez the other side we see the dark and insidious barbarian. ar, whose hatred of all liberal principles and of the gene ral diffusion of intelligence renders England peculiarly odious him, crouching like a wolf to seize the first favourable c hance for blotting out England, as he has done Poland, t h r s 43 l the map of Europe. We see, moreover, the Pope, si vassal and semi-vassal—Austria and Prussia—and his spiritual serfs in the Peninsula, in Belgium, in Germany, and in deed throughout Christendom, gloating with all the ani t,,°,itY of theological hate to renew their autos upon the he 1e and the infidel in Smithfield. We even see Ireland, itself it P.illtegral portion of the British empire, in a state of general Knirection, under the dictation of one who inspires, till it ha tred almost instinctive, an unrelenting and interminable of the " Saxon race.' And, in addition to all this, v e 8 % the unexampled fruits of our national industry, menu. tt•cturing ingenuity, and commercial enterprise, exposed to big, cupidity of the world, and holding out the most ravish , t o , Prospects of plunder that can lure the foreign bandit on „superhuman heroism I' " b,, l h i 'aQ are most vicious sentiments most viciously ex les3c6 ; they are to us a strange anomaly in the "t nin,ter Review —they are vicious, as searching afterthe i• ci , ernent of a feeling of p anic. Besides ate rch th e y form an accumulation of very novel h istorical a s ceveries. For example, it is something really bo ld to r "1 51 ) , that Nicholas the First " blotted Poland from t he ti. of Europe!" and as to the announcement that or 'ulsia with its " orthodox" monarch is the semi-vassal the sovereign Pontiff ; it is one for which we confess dllselv es totally unprepared. The insinuation about otinell and the stirring up of Irish bile against-the t i n ".lzo rat" is surely too obsolete, so long subsequent ti„"ae "Liberator ' s" exit from the Richmond Peniten tn• Far is it from our intention to lull one single a - g'ish mind into a delusive confidence ; nevertheless, l i e must reprobate such unchallenged and gratui tous s bei s upon a peaceful authority like that of the Papal ei t 'as, with a revival of the old bugbear cry of shg e 7ging with all the animo ity of theological hate to renew r ' autos' upon tie heretic and the infidel in Smith tit " h !!" -a sentence whicii contains the very quintessence °h all and illiberality. With this observation we t o ~4 , L1 conclude our notice of the " Social, Mural, and In a." etuel C on diti on of the Army." Mr. Thornton t'-'utit, a s t h e author o f the Foster-Brother," is die -47 0 with much spirit in a paper on historical romance; f ew the writer of Whitehall come off eithout some Philosophic stripes. The " Lire of Dalton" is a pa,sage e s ti t il"sophic biography, most instructiv as an example. Unitedg'llt analysis of " The Medical Police of the str Kingdom" is striking the iron while it is hot, and rr, s i nX some heavy sbelge-hammer blows to boot. A ge gistration of La: dod Property" will command T° th e general they " perusal and will amply repay curiosity. mall e survey of a Possibly take an opportunity of referring shortly, s l at arid terse series of thoughts. And with a Z 'et e ncyclopaedia respecting the "Affairs of New 40 1 8.1ftnd" the catalogue of ' contents is completed. The ti aw rr la all essential particulars is valuable and well- 3 part f . - l . k r FELAZ AND PART ENUS. 3 Vols. qy Mrs. Gore _ PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the T ae an? Pr0, ,, -"r7 nf Me 7 7, —, C:,,r,mts.) COURT CIRCULAR. .A,,r.(1);,, , all ii.ns o• ligt,t iit-rature, fssisionalsi novels are proverbially the most monotonous, the mos: unanimated, and the most flimsy. For these very rea sons, it is something peculiarly worthy of commenda tion, when a fiction of this description, though bearing about it all the general characteristics of its class, car ries with it a prominence of conception, and force 0' imeginetien, settieieot to form fel- itself a certain pr, ' portion 4,f individuality. To this commendation th, three volumes before us are fully entitled ; they consti Lute a tale of no inconsiderable interest—they sparkle with much vivacity of observation—they contain an agreeable and ingenious diversity of character. In awarding these laudatory expressions, however, to " Peers and Parvenus," we are compelled to compro mise their full application. A perception of the clever ness which glitters over the surface of each chapter cannot blind our eyes to the numerous blemishes, over sights, and discrepancies which militate very powerfully against the merits of an otherwise excellent production. In one particular (no unimportant one, be it observed) — namely. in the diction with which Mrs. Gore has clothed her imaginings—there is a most intolerable carelessness, or a most egregious indifference to elegance ; a failing not only derogatory to authorcraft, but liable to deterio rate the very ideas which the language embodies. Thus the pages are swarming with such superfluous and un musical coinages as the following :—" Indispensability," " inseparability," " justifiability," " aggrandization," " customerless, " irreproachability," " artificiality," all of which, though literary foibles only in themselves, are surely better avoided. Occasionally, also, Mrs. Gore .employs expressions of singular coarseness, the more singular, perhaps, from the usual refinement of her imagery ; thus, for example (vol. iii p. 91), we hear of " Herbert Davenport hitting upon a new raw, through whiCh it was easy to inflict tortures upon his rival." Turning, however, from these lesser tarnishes; let us particuierise the more successful features of the novel. It has some piquant touches of sarcasm, as when Lady Ursu'a Weinwright exclaims, " What man's consistency is to be relied upon I The creatures have enough to do to keep t'leir word to their constituents." Many of the minor personages in the story are sketched, likewise, with ge • uine humour, ex. gr. the subjoined mention of Prater Parmenter :—" P. P. was sitting at an ancient bureau, covered with ragged, rusty, black leather, and sur mounted by a rusty black teaboard, sipping small tea, also purporting to be black, and dippins , into it sippits of bread and butter, purporting to be brown." The pen-and-ink portrait of Sir Robert Dashwood is no less happy :—" An exceedir gly narrative old gentleman, who would lend his ears to the longest story, tobave the satisfaction of repeating it in his turn. Circumstantial as a legal conveyance, as an auditor he was full of clues dons as, when a narrator, of expletives." Or again, Sir Robert's nephew :—" Young Dashwood was as rash and rapid as old Dashwood was deliberate. He had been up in a balloon, down in a, diving-bell, and was the ori ginal deviser of the aerial carriage. Everything he did, said, wore, ate, or drank, was done, said, worn, eaten, and drunk on the newest and most approved principle. The most minute action of his life might have affordee natter for a patent." Of main characters we can speak in terms of still more decided praise : some of these are admirably delineated. The Hillingdons—callous worldly, selfish. and unprincipled ; the Clutterbucka— showy, ambitious, and extravagant upstarts ; the Cor bets, quiet and homely in their simplicity—are each re presentatives of a genus familiar to.hundreds of readers. Jervis Cleve, however, is the mo,t delicately-coneeived and elaborately-drawn character in the work—Jervis Cleve, in short, is the hero—Jervis Cleve, to speak plainly, is an original and beautiful creation, and in his fortunes is centred the principal charm of the fiction.. The child of a day-labourer, the protege of a flue lady, the inmate of a charly-sehool. Jervis gradually elevates himself by his genius and his fascina tion of form and manner, int) the very beau ideal of a hero of romance ; and, nevertheless, the gradation is managed most artistically—nothing is strained in the portraiture of his elevation. Of course there is, after the approved fashion of novel and melo-dramatic writers, a villain ; the one, in this instance, is a Colonel Cleve land, the most improbable and ill conceived personage in the book. And as if to consummate the absurdity of the character, this man, who is introduced to the reader as a most elegant and accomplished roué, at the denoue ment changes abruptly into a swaggering, cut-and-thrust bully, larding his conversation with cant phrases and. vulgar pronunciation. It is in the conclusion of this novel that Mrs. Gore's chief failure consists ; the third volume is miserably disproportioned to its predeces-ors. Indeed the two first volumes are admirable, the last in excusably bad. Poetical justice is put entirely at de fiance ; the wishes and expectations of the reader are every way disappointed ; the vicious characters are crowned with success, the virtuous or amiable consigned t', irreparable woe and despondency. Vol. 111. should never have been published ; Mrs. Gore should have burnt the manuscrir t, and re-written the termination of her story as she could have written it in a moment of better inspiration. We are thus decided in our con demnation from the pleasure we experienced in a perusal of the first and second volumes, and the utter dissatis faction with which we closed their successor. " Peers and Parvenus" e ill, , notwithstanding, become popular for the many charming pictures which it contains— descriptions of the creme de la creme in the London drawing-rooms ; of the alumni amongst the excavations and eruptions of Vesuvius ; of the Parvenus in the rustic haunts of England ; and the Peers amidst the variable society of Naples. REDN LSDA 1, MARCH lb. The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members : Shrewsbury and Birmingham—Mr. W. 0. Gore, Mr. Clive, Mr. R. The Queen h .1(i a Court and Privy Council yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. • The Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Commander-in-Chief, the First Lord of the Trea sury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colo nial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Trade, the Postmastet General, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Ste yard, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. The Right Hon. Charles Viscount Canning, Chid Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. Scott, and Mr. Collins. Midland (Erewash Valley Extension)—Mr. Hudson and Mr. Mundy. North of Norfolk—Marquis of Douro and Mr B. Smith. Midland (Erewash Valley Branches)—Mr. Hudson and Mr. Mundy. Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Railways—Mr. Hudson and Mr. Benbow. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. The following resollitions were reported from this Committee:- 1. That, in the ease of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dews bury. Leeds, and Bradford Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to pro ceed with their Bill, with the exception of the clauses giving power to the Company to sell or lease their undertaking. 2. That, in the ease of the West London Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be per mitted to proceed with their Bill on depositing in the Private Bill office a copy of the missing sheet of the plans and sections, being a duplicate of that deposited with the clerks of the peace. 3. That, in the case of the Buckinghamshire Railivay (Tring to Banbury) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed,with : That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on correct ing the errors in the note on the cross sections deposited in the Pri vate Bill-office. 4. That, in the case of the Worcester and Porth Dynllaen Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on inserting pro visions therein rendering It compulsory on the Great Western Rail way Company to contribute the amount of subscription stated in their declaration, under their common seal. That the Committees on this and the preceding Bills do examine, in the first place, how far snail orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill. 5. That, in the case of the Macclesfield and Lichfield Railway petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 6. That, in the case of the North Wales Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with s—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 7. That, in the case of the Ailhallows . Tithes petition, the standing order ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 8. That in the case of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amendments and Branches (No. 6) petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 9. That, in the case of thd Lancashire Waterworks petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 10. That, in the case of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Rail way petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 11. That, in the case of the Northumberland and Lancashire Rail way petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 12. That, in the case of the Shrewsbury and Herefordshire Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. First, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth resolutions agreed to. —Report to lie on the table. The lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At th 3 Court, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Gordon, G.C.8., her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Austria, was presented to the Queen at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, had an audi ence o f the Queen. The Bishop of Calcutta had en audience of the Queen, to submit to her Majesty the ground plan and,the per spective view of the Cathedral of St. Paul's, Calcutta, erecting by Colonel Forbes, of the Engineers. The Duke of Buccleuch and Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen. The Court was attended by the Marquis of London-, derry, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, and the Lord and Groom in Waiting. His Royal Highness' Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Sir Edward Bowater. The Royal Family were taken their usual exercise yes terday in the royal garden. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the Baroness de Cetto, his Excellency the Netherlands' Minister and Mademoiselle Dedel, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Charles Wellesley, the Hon.'and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, and Captain the Hon. James P. Murray. The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance during dinner at the palace, and performed the following pieces : Medley Overture Pot pourri Walzer —Themis Fest Klan,e.e Labitzky. Cori—La Jarita Rossini. Polka—Norfolk Labitzky. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing in a carriage yesterday. A deputation, consisting of the Marquis of Bread albar the Earl of Eglintoun, Lord Kinnaird, Mr. W. Forbes, M P., Mr. R. D..nnistoun, M.P., Captain Dal rymple, M.P., Mr. W. Baillie, M.P., Mr. A. Smollett, M.P., Mr. Lockhart, M.P.. Mr. Anderson, of the Glas gow Union Bank ; Mr. Smith. of the Western Bank ; Nhl the City Bof ow Bank ;mn Milne, Brock, k, t s u g eClydesdaleßank ane, ; Mr. Salmond, of of the Dundee Glasgow, Messrs. Bain and Messrs. Smith and M'Neil, of B Brown,a n Edinburgh,k; t of .e Glasgow,L o h ardd an interview Provost a n d of with Sir Robert Peel yes terday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. A deputation from the North American Colonial As sociation had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yester day. The deputation consisted of Mr. Dowie (Chair man), Mr. Gillespie, Mr. Carter, Mr. John Masterman, M.P., and Mr. David Barclay, M.P. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Ely, Hereford, Llandaff, Norwich, Oxford, and Rochester, the Judge of the Pre rogative Court, the Earl of Bessborough, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Dean of Westminster. The Duke of Wellington gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers yesterday at Apsley-house. A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. Vabraham, Mr. Jervis, M P., Mr. Tolemache, M.P., Mr. P. Davies Cooke, Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Brittain, and Mr. Hicklin, had an interview yesterday with Sir R. Peel. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. MONDAY, MARCH 23. Great Grimsby, Louth, Herneastle, Lincoln, and' idland Junction, Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Extension. Edinburgh, Lidth, and Grant= Amendment. Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. - - Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways. Furness and Windermere. PARLIAMEN TAR Y DI VISIONS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY. MARCH 17. CUSTOMS AND CORN IMPORTATION. Question put, "That Hides or pieces thereof tawed, curried, var nished, japanned, enamelled, Muscovy ur Russia Hides, or pieces thereof, tanned, coloured shaved, or otherwise dressed, and Hides, or pieces thereof, in any way dressed, not otherwise enumerated,' stand part of the Resolution." The House divided : SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK RACES-WEDNESDAY. Match ; 100 soy& One mile and a half, over four hurdles. Mr. Lambden's Chance, llst 121 b (olliver) 1 Mr. Clifton's Pedlar, 12st 21b 5t04 on Chance. Won easy. The Debdal Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added by the Stewards,;, for hunters, 12st each. Two miles. (6 Subs.) Mr. E. Ilycle.Clarke's Leo. aged, list 71b (Capt. Brooks) 1 Mr. Mylton!s 4 b q, by Volney, out of Saturnia 2 Mr. IL de Rode's Pullaway, list 71b 3 Mr. Clifton's Puff-and-Dart, aged, 11st 71b Mr. Sanders's Princess, list 71b, came to the post, but would not start. 6' agst Leo. Won cleverly by half a length. .Match; 1,000 soya. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. O'Brien's Needful, Est 21b (Wintringhara) 1 Mr. Clifton's Nottingham, Bst 71b 6t04 on Needful. Woa in a trot. Nottingham broke down. THE OREGON TERRITORY.—Knight's Weekly Volume. No. LXXXIX. A clear, candid, and comprehensive description of those territories on the western coast of North America known by the geographical name of Oregon, was very greatly wanted, both on account of their growing im portance and in consequence of the friendship at pre sent subsisting between Great Britain and the United States being just now at jeopardy solely on the score of that segment of the Western Hemisphere. This de sired description is fully realised in the little volume before us, for it possesses a title to those very requisites, perspicuity, candour, and comprehensiveness. We re turn our acknowledgments to the Rev. Mr. Nicolay for having satisfied a justifiable curiosity ; he has treated the subject in a manner precisely suitable, and without any loftier pretensions than that of stating facts with as much tetseness as is compatible with clearness. And while we can never cease to deprecate that atrocious spirit of avarice which would plunge nations into war fare for the mere purpose of individual agrandisement, we cannot, especially atter a perusal of this book, but acknowledge that a country so fertile in its resources and so advantageously situated for the interests of its possessors, is no ♦ery contemptible or ♦aluless tempta tion. To no kingdom, however, could this plea form a sufficient palliation for the commencement of a gigantic and sanguinary contest ; and how much the m :re doe. this observation apply to nations so blended together in all their social, political, and moral relations as England and America I No language can •be strong enough to reprobate those who would embroil such countries in such a struggle for such unprincipled and mercenary motives ! It would be a spectacle of civil war upon a grand scale ; it would be an antagonism of the same tongue, of the same religion, of the same political sym pathies. Before hostilities, however, are further dreamt of, let all brawlers for national honour pause and medi tate ; there is a moral to be drawn even from the fable of the two peasants who fought for the mule while a neighbour availed himself of the opportunity to appro priate the animal to his own uses. It appears that the natural productions of Oregon are various—an abund ance of furs, profitable whale fisheries, wool, hides, tim ber, tallow, and cattle of different descriptions ; to which must be added wheat, barley, Indian corn, apples, and minerals, such as iron, lead, tin, and copper. The herds of wild horses alone might be rendered a source of extraordinary wealth, scattered over the plains in bands of from 3,000 to 4,000. For the exportation of these the ports are most advantageously situated ; and, altogether the Oregon territories, though no El .Dorado, may in future times become the seat of vast commercial enterprise. The Warrick Handicap of 15 Errs. each ; 10 ft, and 5 only if declared :AD .added. Twan ilea (Ten_ Sabs—Lato _of whom paid.) Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Templeman) 1 Mr. Raworth's Kilgram, 5 yrs, 7st 51b 2 Lord Brooke's Roebuck, 4 yrs, 7st ... • . Mr. Scott's Mosque, aged, Bst Mr. Death's Subduer, 6 yrs, 7st 81b, Mr. E. Peel's Jack Sheppard, aged, Tat, and Mr. Foster's Isabella, 3 yrs, sst, also ran. Betting -2 to lon the field, 3to 1 agst Subduer (t), 4to 1 aget Godfrey (taken freely), 4 to 1 agst Mosque (t), 4 to 1 agst Isabella, and 5 to 1 agst Jack Sheppard. Godfr e y challenged Kilgram at the distance, eefeated him without an effort, and won easily by half a length ; Roebuck, who made nearly all the running, was a bad third. The Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 50 added, for 3 yrs old, 7st ; and 4 yrs, 9st ; winner of Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger, 101bs extra; those that never won allowed 21bs. One mile. 9 Subs. Mr A. W. Hill' s B ur l esque , 3 yra Mr. Maugham' s Ch erry B ounce , 3 prs Mr. Meiklam's bc by Touchsteve, out of Laura, 3 yrs 3 Sir R. Pigott's cby Colwick, o ut of Peeress, 3 yrs ...... 4 Mr. W. Scott's Highfield, 3 yrs 7 to 4 on Burlesque; 5 to 2 agst Highfield ; and 4 to 1 agst C. erry Bounce. Burlesque made all the running, and won in a canter. Handicap Hurdle Race for a cup of 501. Two miles over five hurdles. Gentlemen riders. Lord Glamis' Belshazzar, aged, 1 Ist 81b (Owner) 1 Mr. J. Wilson's Mantrap, list 61b 2 The following also started :—Lord Guernsay's na Eagle, list 51b—Mr. E. Welch's Slasher, lOst 41b—Mr. R. Clifton's Pedlar, list 111b—Mr. Lambden's Chance, and Mr. Rolt's Argus, 11 st. The ot her match was off by consent, and the Farmers' race not run when our acccount left. The town full, aud the meeting a good one. BETTING AT THE BEDFORD HOTEL, TUESDAY NIGHT. _ _ NORTHAMPTOWSHIRR STAKES.-300 to 25 agst Needful (t), 300 to 25 and 900 to 100 apt his winning this race and his match for 1,000/. CHESTER CUP.--17 to 1 agst Sweetmeat (16 to 1 was taken on the course, and after the Trial Stakes, 10 to 1 was taken freely), 600 to 20 agst Arthur (t), 35 to 1 agst Whinstone (t). On the course, 25 to 1 was taken about Hope, 1,000 to 30 about Mermaid, 1,000 to 25 agst Billy Purvis, and 40 to 1 agst Arthur. CITY OF LONDON PENSION SOCIETY. The anniversary festival of this Institution was held last evening at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate.street, the most noble the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T. T. in the chair. g x entlemen sat down to an placed upon the tabl e i n x o that admirable style for which Messrs. Bathe and e A c Il i dinner, el oe k which ab out was l7o Breache are so celebrated. The gallery was filled by ladies, and the champagne, which circulated briskly at the dinner-table, was not confined to the body of the room, for the fair auditors in the gallery had likewise an opportunity of judging of the excellency of the champagne furnished at the London Tavern. The band of the Fusileer guards was in attendance, and performed several popular airs during the course of the evening. The vocal ar r a ngements were under th e di rec ti on o f M r. J . Bru ton, who wasassisted by Messr s . G enge , T urner, S por l e, and Farquharson Smith. The veteran Toole officiated as toast-master. The cloth having been withdrawn, the usual loyal Cte Navy and Army," took occa s ion to allude to th e bloody t oas ts were drank w;th all the h o n ours . I n p ro p os i r . g the in which ou r t roops were now engage d in India, and in the course of which they had, as usual, Noble ar f f a " r e i covered themselves with glory. Ile further said, that it m ust be a source o f great satisfaction to know that the war in which we were at present engaged in that coun try was To toast w one of a purely defensive nature.—[This allu sion to the gallant deeds of our troops on the banks of the Sutlej was received with enthusiastic applause.]— The toast having been drank with all the honours, The Crlarnmarr rose to propose the toast of the even ing, Prosperity. to the Ci ty o f L on d on Pen on Suciety, and may it flourish for ever."---(Loud cheers.) The Chat itv which they were there met to support was characterised by that which was the peculiar character istic of charity proprly so called—it was universal. — (Cheers.) It was only limited by the extent of its means of doing good. All who were in distress were eligible to receive its benefits without distinction of sect or country. It was, however, more especially appro priated to the relief of distressed artizens, manufac turers, and tradesmen, who had preserved a good char acter through life, by allowing them in their old age, pensions, the amount of which was settled by the board of directors ; and also by allowing pensions to the deserving widows of such persons. None were admitted to the benefits of the society who were under the ago of 60, unless they were labouring under a total incapacity o f earning a livelihood. The funds of the society were devoted to the relief of persons who had become dis tressed, not from their own imprudence, but from causes over which they could have had no control ; and the strictest inquiry was in stituted into the merits of each particular case. The pensions were conferred only on persons who had been reduced to distress by the decay of their natural powers, or by the vicissitudes of trade. At the present time, when such great changes were going on in trade, such a society was particularly deserving of support ; for however much those changes might benefit the com munity at large, yet it was not possible to introduce any . changes in trade without this being accom panied by cases of individual distress which could not but open a wide field for the exertions ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI TUTIO N. Within these few days there has been an addition to the ordinary features of this establishment. This attract tion is some opaque microscopic portraits of a number of the most distinguisheneaders of the Seikhs, all but one of whom were opposed to our troops in the late battles of the Sutlej. The portraits have been selected from the work of a lady of eminent artistical talent, who was resident in the Punjaub a number of years, and her portraits are considered to be striking likenesses. Those men appear favoured by nature, being well formed and athletic, and do not indicate, either by the peculiar construction of the face,. or by the expression of the eye, that great feeling of ferocity and cruelty which is stated to be a leading characteristic amongst them. On the cofitrary, the majority had handsome features, no scowl or overhanging brow, but presenting a clear openness of countenance, and beautifully formed features. The instrument by which these interesting pictures are exhibited is the well-known opaque microscope, in vented by Mr. Longbottom, and brought before the piddle with great success at the Polytechnic Institution. It is intended, we understand, that there shall be given a series of portraits of all the public characters engaged in the present struggle—our own bravo countryman the late Sir Robert Sale, Lady Sale, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Hugh Gough, and other distinguished individual!. The directors, for the spirited way-with which this splendid institution is conducted, well merit the public approbation and support. THN ASSlM.—Considerable inconvenience has been felt, and in many instances grievous injury inflicted 'upon suiters and witnessei, by reason of the short time allowed by the judges for the transaction of public business in the dif ferent assize towns—b , tween the closing of the Courts in ine bailiwick sad the opening of them in another. It is abso lutely and. legally neus , ary, wirien once the days are named, and the precepts sealed, that the commission for the county.eity, or town, should he opened on the very day stated, without any reference to the quantity of business— crown or civil—undisposed of at the previous place of sit ting. This is an evil of such magnitude. that it is to be hoped means will be taken to pre:ent its recurrence here after. —D üblin Evening Mail.—[The same evil has for years past prevailed in England. It is to lie hoped that the 'executive will provide a speedy remedy for it in both coun tries.—En. STATE OF TEIE GAS MAlNS.—There are hundreds of service pipes that are completely decayed, and from which more gas escapes than is used in the houses they supply, and which, working its way into the sewers, finds vent at the gratings, and produces the annoying smell so common in • the streets of Loudon, whilst no trace of it is discovered (until the ground be opened) where it actually escapes. The joints of the cast• iron pipes are generally defective, and instances have been known of the ends of the pipe and out lets being left open —,,lorrespondent of ihe Builder. Sir George Hastings, Viscount Strathellan and son, arrived in town on Monday afternoon, passengers by the General Steam Navigation Company's steant-ship ClaVelacep from Edinburgh, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EyENING. MARCH 19, 1846. of this socloty.—(Cheers.) The class of individuals to which 11 ,, alluded had given their best exertions to bene fit society, end it was the duty Of society to relieve them in their distress, and that relief would be afforded as far as their funds would admit by this society. 'Unfor tunately the.society had been subject to great fluctuations. At one period they had had as many as 500 pensioners on their books. At present they had 52 on their list. Of these 22 were above eighty years of age, 15 were upwards of seventy, and 15 were upwards of sixty. Relief was afforded to all, as far as the funds would go, without distinction of religion or country. Wherever they found distress there they held out the relieving hand, and this charity was what all charities ought to be, universal.—(Cheers.) The toast was then drank with three time three, after which Mr. Bruton sang an admirable original comic song, which being encored, he, after the manner of comic vocalists, sung another song equally good with the first. On the health of the Secretary, Mr. H. F. Richard son, being drank, that gentleman gave a detailed history of the society from its first formation in 1818 up to the present time, and read a list of the subscriptions, which amounted in the whole to upwards of 9001., and various other toasts were drunk and responded to, and the com pany separated at about half-past eleven o'clock. IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, MARCH 16.—The weekly meeting of the Assails tion was held this day; Mr. Mitchell in the chair. The CHAIRMAN having briefly addressed the meeting, the Secretary read the following letter from Mr. O'Connell " London, March 14, 1846. "My dear Ray,—l have been so hurried to-day, that I had net time to send a commentary- upon the remaining clauses of the coercion ukase. I regret it the more as there mixes with the horrors of some of its enactments something exceed ingly ludicrous and provokingly absurd. There is one thing very peculiar; namely, that it is the first enactment against tee-totallers, and places on the same footing the beastly drinkers of whisky with the virtuous and abstemious friends of tee- totalism. In fact, under this Act, a man may be transported seven years for presuming to drink a :cup of coffee in any house but his own. But I shall reserve for the next day of meeting further commentary. " My great object in writing this hurried line is to conjure the independent Members of Parliament to come to London as speedily es possible. The.presence of every Irish Member friendly,to constitutional liberty is essentially required by the exigence of the times. "There is one consolation—that the atrocious add ludicrous Coercion Bill carries with it a most unanswerable argument in favour of the protection of a domestic Parliament. " Believe me to be faithfully yours, " T. M. Ray, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONNELL. Mr. Gaarrax, M.P., having moved the insertion of the letter in the minutes, expressed his determination of pro ceeding immediately to London for the purpose of opposing the Coercion Bill. It had been his determination not to enter the House of Commons so long as the Irish Arms Act remained on the statute-book, but the urgent necessity of re sisting the proposed despotic enactment obliged him to alter his resolution. In conclusion, the Hon. Gentleman handed in 1001. from the Repealers of New York. Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting, a resolu tion (moved by Mr. Grattan) directing the committee of the Association to prepare a report on the extent of crime in Ire land against the next day of meeting, was adopted. The rent for the week was then announced to be 2401.95. 2d. The meeting then adjourned. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.—CIonineI, March 13. SOUTH TIPPERARY. Thomas Fenissy, murder of his servant, Patrick Crotty, was put on his trial yesterday, and the case has oc cupied the greater part of two days. Judge BALL left it to the jury to say whether the homi cide amounted to deliberate murder, or presented the more mitigated character of manslaughter. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. MAJORITY-AYES, 130. Acland, T. D. Feilden, William Morris, David .Ig'Jenny, H. A. Ferguson, Colonel Neville, Ralph alJam, W. Fitzroy, Henry O'Brien, J. Baine, Walter Fitzroy, Lord C. Ord, William Baring, F. T. Fleetwood, Sir P. Osborne, Ralph Barnard, E. G. Forster, Matthew ' Paget, Colonel Berkeley, Craven Gore, Robert Peel, iir Robert Berkeley, Captain Goulburn, Henry Peel, Jonathan Blewitt, Reginald Graham, Sir J. Pechell, Captain Bodkin, W. 11. Grey, Sir G. Pennant, Colonel Botfield, Beriah Grosvenor, Lord R. Plumridge, Captain Bowl e. Admiral Hall, Sir Benjamin Price, Sir R. itowring, Dr. Hamilton, Lord C. Protheroe, Edward Bright, John Hamner, Sir J. Rawdon, Colonel Bretherton, J. Hatton, Captain Russell, LL•rd John Browne, W. Hayter, W. G. Russell, Lord E. Bruce, Lord E. Heathcoat, John Scrope, G. P. Bruges, W. H. Herbert, Sidney Seymour, Lord Buller, Charles Hill, Lord Marcus Sheridan, R. B. Busfeild, W. Hindley, Charles Smith, Benjamin Cardwell. Edward Hobhouse, Sir J. Smyth, Sir H. Carnegie, Captain Hogg, J. W. Somers, 3.„P. Chapman, B. Hope, G. W. Stausfield, W. R. Childers, J. W. Howard, P. IL Stuart, Henry Clay, Sir W. James, Sir W. Strati, Edward Clerk Sir George Jocelyn, Viscount Tancred, H. ;W. Cochrane, A. Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Thesiger, Sir F. Cockburn, sir G. Kelly, James Thornely, T. Collett, John Labouchere, Henry Trelawny, J. S. Crawford, W. 8. Langston, J. H. Trench, Sir F. Dalrymple, Captain Layard, Captain Turner, Edmund Dashwood, G. H. Loch, James Villiers, Charles Dennistoun, John Lockhart, A. E. Villiers, Viscount Dickinson, F. F. Macaulay, T. B. Warburton, Henry Duke, Sir J. M'Carthy, Alex. Wawn, J T. Duncan, Lord' M`Geachy, F. A. Wood, Charles Duncan, George 31'Neill, Duncan Wood, Colonel T. Duncombe, T. Mahon, Lord Wortley, J. S. Pundits, Admiral Marshall, William Wyse, Thomas Easthope, Sir John Martin, John Yorke, H. R. Ebrington, Lord Martin, C. W.' Elphinstone, H. Masterman, John TELLESS. Escott, Bickham Meynell, Captain Young, John Etwall, Ralph Mitchell, T. A. Cripps, William Ewart, William Molesworth, Sir W. MINORITY—NOES, 74. Acton, Colonel Frewen, C. H. Neeld, Joseph Allix, J. P. Fuller, A. E. Newdegate, N. Arkwright. G. Gardner, J. D. Newport, Viscount Astell, William Gooch, E. S. O'Brien, A. S. Bateson, Thomas Goring, Charles Palmer, G. Benett, John Granby, Marquis of Plumptre, J. P. Bennett, Philip Grogan, E. ' Rashleigh, W. Bentinek, Lord G. Raiford, Sir Henry Repton, G. W. Benthick, Lord H. Halsey, T. P. Rolleston, Colonel Berestord, Major Harris, Hon. Capt. Scott, F. Borthwick, Peter Henley, J. W. Seyrsaer, IL K. Brooke, Lord Hildyard, T. B. Shaw, F. Bruce, C. L. C. Hlnde, J. 11. Sibthorp, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Hope. Sir T. Stanley, Z. Clayton, R. R. Hudson. G. Thompson, Ald.' Clifton, J. T. Hurst, R. H. Trollope, Sir J. Colvile, C. R. Inglis, Sir R. Tumor, C. Compton, H. C. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Waddington, H. S. Dick, Q. Knightley, Sir C. Walsh, Sir J. H. Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord G. H. Wodehouse, E. Douglas, Sir H. Li fell, Hon. H. T. Worcester, Marquis Farnham, E. B. Manners, Lord C. W no, Sir W. Filmer, Sir E. Maunsell, T. B. Yorke, E. T. Finch, George Maxwell, Hon. J. P. TELLERS. Floyer, John Miles, Philip W. S. Lawson, Andrew Forbes, William Miles, William Tyrrell, Sir J. RAILWAY SR aR . E MARKETS. MANCHESTER, MAIICII IS. &men EXIMAN4II6.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 23( p. c.— Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 15s. dis.— Chester and Manchester Direct, 1% dis.—Chuniet and Blythe, % dis.—Clitheroe Junction, % dis. -Derby and Crewe, 3 p.—Direct Northern, % dis.—Eastern Counties, 21-- Ditto, York Extension, 11 16 p. —Eoinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 9 p.—Ditto, New Quar ters, 5% p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1-16 p.—Grand Union, 6s. Gd. die.—Great “rirnsby and Sheffield, 1 4 p.--Hudders geld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 21—Ditto, ditto, 3% p.— Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 83( p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, %dia.—Leeds anf Thirsk, % dis.—Liverpool and Bury, New, 2 7-16 p.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 5-16 dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pi eston, % p. —Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport, 3-16 p.—London and 31anchester (Remington's), 1% dis. —London and Windsor, % dis.—London and York,l p.- -Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% p. —Manchester and Birmingham, 77 Ditto, Quarters (C), 6% p.— Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 3, 16 p. —North Staffordshire, 3 11-16 p.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (11), 1 p. —Preston and Wyre Extension, 3-16 dis —Rugby and Huntingdon, % dis.—Shetlield and Linoolnshire Junction, 1% p.— shrewsbury and Herefordshire, % dis. Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % die. —South Eastern and Dover, Halves (No. 4), 5-16 p. —West Riding Union, % p. LEEDS, Mi.xca IS. Blocs ElcßAtess.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds Exten sions, 3p. —York and North Midland, East and West Riding, ti% East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 3% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Its. p.—Ditto, Extensions, 10s. dis. - Huddersfl ld and Manchester, 4 1 4 p. —Huddersfield and Sheffield, S p. —Leeds and Thirsk, 7s. 6d. dis.—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 2 %-ox ' ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 12% cash—London and York, 3% —Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 225. 6d. dis. -West Riding Union, 4/.l43.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 16s. dis.—Cll - Junction. Its. 6d. dis.— Grand Union, Bs. Gd. dis.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Is. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, aid Mid ' land, 325. 6d. p.—Northumberland a n d Lancashire Junction, 20s. dis.—North Staffordshire, 31. 14s. p.—North Western, 15s. p.—South Midlands, 22e. 6d. p.—Welsh Midlands, 245. HUDDERSFIELD, Manna 18. STOCE EXCHANGE.—The sales areLEastern Counties, York Ex tension, 255.- Huddersfield, and Sheffield Junction, 17% —Leeds and Pradford, 50% —Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 6 34 p.—Lynn and Dereham, 8% —Clitheroe Junction, 12s. dia.—Huddersfield, Hialfax, and Bradford Union, 41. Is. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 51. 16s. -Direct Northern, 11. 19s. HULL, MAacH 18. STocx EXCEANGE.—The sales are -Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, % dis. - North British, Carlisle, 48s. 6d.—Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, 335. 6d.- East Coast, 15s. 6d.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 265. 9d.—Lir.coln and Wainfieet, 40s.—North Staffordshire, 51.17x.--West Riding Union, 41. 163. 6d. SHEFFIELD, MARCH 18. STOCK EXCLIANGE. — The sales are—London and Croydon, 21— Sheffield and Manchester, 117—Grimsby and Sheffield Quarter Shares, I%—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction. 2% —alio field and Lincolnshire, 2% —West Riding Union, 4%. YORK, STOCK E zeibiNas.—The sales are—Grand union (Nottingham to Lynn), 19s. —Great North of England, New, 14—Leicester and Bedford, 15s. 6d.—London and York, 3%—Newcastle an d Be,rwick, 19 —North British, 26% —Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 21. 6s. 6d.— West Riding Union, 41. 14s. 6d.—York and North Midland Exten sion, New (nun and West Rg),Mas 9%. BRISTO:., ai 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Bristol and Exeter, 84 Ditto, New, 9% —Bristol and South Wales Junction, 2 1-16—Cale donian, 10%—Ditto, New, 2 13.16—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 13(—Loudon and Birmingham, Quarters, 2634. GLASGOW, MASCH 17. STOCE EXCHANGE. —The sales 'are—Airdrie and Coatbridge, 4 British and Irish Union, 475. 6d.--Caledenian and Ayrshire Junc tion, 361.—Cornwall and Central Devon, 245. —Direct Northern 445. —East Indian Railway, 12s. 6d. —Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbar ton, 17s. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, -- Glasgow and Belfast Union, 34s.—Glasgsw, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 355. 6d.— Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 435. 6d.—Glasgow and Dundee Junc tion, 335. —Great Indian Peninsular, 6s. 6d.—lnverness and Elgin, 20s.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 41s. 6d.—Lanark and Lothians, 445.—Lesmahagow, 415.—London, Bristol, and South Wales, Perth and Inverness, 313. 6d.—Seettish Central, 141.—Scottish Southern, 36x.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 2713..6d. Stirling and Dunfermline, 345. The Warsaw Courier states that by order of the authorities a Te Deunt was chanted in the cathedral of that city, "as a thanksgiving to God for permitting the Poles to retain the happiness of living under the Russian domination." CORN RENTS.—Corn rents will soon likely become the method of paying the rents of arable farms. It is the case already on some of the properties in this country, and we understand that the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Mackenzie of Sea forth his proposed to her tenantry to receive so much corn per acre at the fiar prices on an average of three years for existing leases; and on new leases at the prices are annually struck for these kinds of grain respectively.—Ross-shire Ad re, tiser. SPECIAL PUBLIC NOTICE.—At precisely ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, March 24, 1846, the entire range of E. Moses and Sens' newipremises—Minories and Aldgate, City—will open for the transaction of business —E. Moses and Sons, tailors, drapers, clothiers, hosiers, hatters, and general outfitters, March 16, 1846. BERLIN, MARCH 10 —Sir Moses and Lady Montifiore have arrived in this ci'y on their way to St. Petersburgh, whither they are proceeding in order to supplicate the Em peror of Russia to mitigate the severe laws against the Jews in his dominions. Sir M.)ses and his lady have met with the most flattenng reception here. The cel •hrated navigator Otto de Kotzebue, son of the dramatic writer, died at Revel on the 15th ult., aged 58. He had been three times round the world, making several mportant discoveries; but in 1839 retired from service, and lived in his family circle at Kan, in Esthonia. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—The American Govern ment must be in earnest about the Oregon question, for we have just heard that General Tom Thumb has received an order to return im mediately to his country to take the command of the Yankee army. —Punch. _ _ Nlr. G. P. Elliott, of the Western Circuit, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Henry, at the Lambeth Police-court, on the promotion of the latter to Bow-street, vice Mr. Twyford. Wo understand that Mr. Grove, of the Greenwich Police-court, has ten wetAli resigtiation,--Timac COUNTY OF KILDARE.-SATURDAY. TRILL FOE THE MURDER OF DONNELLY, TIIE CRIPPLE. —This case, which excited so much attention throughout this county, was called on at the sitting of the Court. The prisoner, James Quigley, a low, smooth-faced, rather ill-looking young man, was put to the bar, and indicted in the usual form for the wilful murder of Patrick Donnelly, at Caragh, on the 24th of September last. The principal evidence for the Crown was that of an ap prover, named Francis Reilly, who deposed that on the night of the murder, he and the prisoner were going to rob a Scotchman, who was travelling in a gig, when the cripple and two women came up to where they were standing, near a gravel pit ; a scuffle ensued, when the prisoner drew a pistol and shot the cripple dead. On cross-examination this witness stated that he could not form the remotest idea of the number of outrages, robberies, and crimes he had been engaged in. Could not go within twenty of the number. Mr. GORMAN—TeII me within five times of how often you were tried.—Oh, I was seldom caught, you know ; I generally pat in another in my place, and that was my business to the castle; Ir.y conscience smote me when the man was mur dered, and I went out and committed a highway robbery next night. I was afraid I would be hanged, and then my conscience smote me, so I said I would save it and my neck together. I thought as much of my neck, if not more, than I did of my conscience. Mr. GoalwAsr—On your oath, do you think there is as great a villian as yourself breathing the breath of life at this moment ? Witness—l don't think there is. After the examination of other witnesses, the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. CHIEF Jusrica.—ls . there any other charge against this man ? Gaoler—Yes, my Lord, he is under sentence of fifteen years' transportation for the robbery at Blanchardstown. CHIEF JUSTICE—I am very much delighted to hear it, as it will prevent him from troubling this country for that time. RYDE. (From the Hampshire Independent.) The specimen of clerical intolerance, which we pub „liels-below.frons our correspondent, is one of those cases which bring disgrace, iutead of credit, upon the " Church by law established"—the Church, which is so fond of calling itself the Church of all the people, when all the people are called upon to contribute to its luxuries; but which invariably proves itself to be only a sect, when sectarian purposes are to be served. The present case is one, too, in which all the natural, as well as social, feelings are outraged. Such exhibitions are as unwise as they are intolerant and unjust, and are only calculated to cover with contempt and obloquy a system which would vainly call itself national, whilst it is, in fact, the reflection of every petty obloquy and every local abuse. The Church ought to be relieved by its rulers and superiors from such suicidal wrong. REFUSAL OF A CLERGYMAN TO INTER THE BODY OF A DISSENTING MINISTER.—The following particu lars of one of the most atrocious specimens of clerical intolerance that have recently occurred, are supplied by a correspondent, of whose entire accuracy we &reassured: —The late Rev. T. S. Guyer, as a minister of the Gospel, laboured faithfully in this town for more than c 2 h B y ose ea u rs in . st A ee b d ou as t t t w h e e ly p e l y ac e e ars of si i n n e t e er t m he er la t te fo M r a r n . Guyer infant daughter that died, and she was buried there. About four years since another daughter died; she was twelve years old. She was buried by the present Minister at Binsteed without objection. Accordingly Mr. Guyer long since fixed on Binstead as the place where he and his family should be buried. Those who attended his ministry know that he has often spoken most touchingly of the spot where the babe and the daughter rest, expect ing his dust would mingle with theirs. A few days before he died he "gave commandment concerning his bones, and requested to be buried at Binsteed. Arrangements were made accordingly, and notice was given to that effect on Sabbath evening last. On Monday, the un• dertaker, who is a deacon of the Independent Church at Ryde, applied to Mr. Hewett in the usual way for leave of interment, but was refused, he assigning as the reason that the late Mr. Guyer was a Dissenting Minister, and that he had preached against the Church of England ; assuring the applicant that no consideration (for many sere urged) would induce him to alter his decision. That if the family wished, he would raise no obstacle to their moving the ashes of the children, to facilitate which the Reverend Gentleman offered to forego his his fees. At the request of the widow and family it was then arranged that the remains of our beloved Minister should be interred in a vault to be prepared in the chapel where he had so long laboured. These are the facts and circumstances. I leave the Successor of the Apostles in the hands of the friends of the Church as by Law Established. FUNERAL OF THE Ray. T. S. GUYER.—On Friday (yesterday) the remains of the Rev. gentleman, amid a vast concourse of spectators, were borne to their rest ing place, and deposited in a vault prepared for them at the foot of the pulpit, of which for 28 years he had been the ornament. The mourners, in great numbers, assembled at ten o'clock, wearing flowing hatbands, and proceeded at eleven o'clock to meet the corpse, which they followed in procession. The ministers of Independent Chapels supported the pall, and after the family followed the ministers of the county, next the members, 'congregation, and other friends. Tickets had been preciously issued to the occupiers of seats in the chapel, without which no one was admitted till after the procession had entered. The Rev. T. Cousins, of Portsea, officiated at the interment, and the Rev. T. Bieney, of London, pronounced the funeral , oration. which, by its powerful and effective eloquence, created an intense and thrilling sensation. The Rev. T. Adkins, of Southamp.on, preached the funeral ser mon in the evening. The shops were generally closed, and every demonstration of love an d respect for the Binsteed , a memory n o o m f n t a h t e i n. departe dlt h a wasd been e e e n v . n t c h e e d every d b y y mg r cl questss of the reverend gentleman that he should be buried alongside his children in th e g round at _ but the rector, the Rev. Phili p Hewett, on the ch th e e r nor claim his fees for the removal in due form of the re mains of the children, should it be desired by the g ion r f that t o ed u ri n ms d seenntt, therMe,r.buGtuyw peremptorilyeor would l wd refuseda s,,ffae rhno op ministernrmi s andinn impediment tea of fa mily. A deep feeling of regret pervades the whole town (and more especially among the members of the Established Church), that such an uncalled-for attempt to taint the memory of such a man as the deceased, should emanate from a minister of the Church of Eng land. It has created a generous expression of sympathy for the widow and family, whose feelings have been so unnecessarily outraged. The following letter of condo lence has been numerously signed by members of the Established Church : " The undersigned members of the Protestant Church of .England, having long known the exemplary deport ment of the late Rev. Thomas S. Guyer, as a minister of the gospel, feel ourselves more especially called upon, under present circumstances, to unite in testifying our d en respect for his memory, and our sincere sympathy with his bereaved family. " Hyde, March 11, 1846." DEATH OF JOHN LANOAN.—On Tuesday Mr. John Langan, more familiarly styled and better known as " Jack Langan," the waging, breathed his last at the house of Mrs. Lewis, Five-lane ends, near Nestor), Cheshire. Ms death will 132 lamented by a larger circle of friends. acquaintances, and admirers, than many moving in the higher ranks of life can boast of possessing. Jack passed through many vicissitudes of fortune, and at length realised for himself a very handsome independence. Though he was never fortunate enough to be the victor in any contest of note, yet he stood for many years second only to one in the ring.--Liverpool Courier. A large. quantity of potatoes are being sent from Ciotti% to Ireland. NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. . PORTSMOUTH, Mancrs, 18. TITE RETRIEUTION.—TRIAL OF STEAMING.—" The Re tribution, steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, the Cyclops, steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, and the Scourge, steam bomb-sloop, Commander Caffin, got underway, on Saturday morning, from Spithead, and proceeded to Cowes to accom pany the Fairy, Royal yacht tender, which was in waiting there on her gejesty the Queen, to convey her to the Gosport station, en route to London. The Royal standard was hoisted on board the Fairy, on her Majesty's embarkation, a few minutes after nine ; and the other steamers lay to await ing the Fairy to pass them ; when a signal was observed on board the yacht, directing all power to put on compatible with the safety of the engines. The four vessels were now pretty well abreast of each other, and it was a fair start. The station of the Royal yacht was on the beam of the Retri bution, distant but a few yards, which ship the Queen, who was on deck, seemed to view with great interest. The Royal yacht proved that she had the legs of the others soon, and passed on ; while Cyclops dropped so rapidly that she was soon nowhere. The prettiest race imaginable was now between Retribution and Scourge; and for five miles, with all the power they could get on, a biscuit could be pitched from one to the other; or, to borrow a phrase of the turf, a sheet might have covered them. At length the acquiritive force of the Retribution, from her greater weight, seemed to pre. wail, and it was thought by those looking on that she might have crossed the bows of the Scourge. The Retribution is 1,641 tons burden, and of 800 horse power. The Scourge is 1,124 tons burden, and 420-horse power. The Cyclops is of nearly the same tonnage as the Scourge, but only of 320- horse power." Of the Retribution and her stability the Portsmouth paper says " Admiral Sir C. Ogle was much pleased with the state of the ship as far as respects her disci pline, arrangement, and cleanliness. What report he can give of the unfitness or capability of the ship we know not ; but we find that when he desired the guns of one broadside to be run out, the ship heeled over so much, that her guess warp boom was in the water ; and when she assisted in es. corting her Majesty from Osborne House to Spithead, in rounding the Bellerophon, the effect of the wind on the colours with which she was decorated had such an influence on her, that she inclined over six degrees." DEATH OF THE SENIOR CAPTAIN ON TILE NAVY LIST. — A few days since, in announcing the promotion of his son, we alluded to the illness of Captain John Clavell. We regret to state that this gallant officer died at Greenwich Hospital on the 11th instant, at the advanced age of seventy. He was the senior captain o f th e N avy List, the date ofhis.corn miss'on being February 4, 1800 ; and although hawing n preface or appendices to hi s C h r i s ti an an d surname, his career in hard times was nevertheless distinguished, and his brilliant services were officially acknowledged; and if he did not re ceive those honours which are the just and appropriate re ward of ,the brave and the skilful officer, he fairly earned and richly deserved them. He was midshipman of the Victory, at Toulon, in 1793, when Sir G. Cockburn was lieutenant of that ship, served on shore under Nelson at the siege and taking of Bastia and Calvi, in 1795; in Hotham's second ac tion, in the July of that year, insthe action off Cape St. Vin cent, in February, 1797, in command of the jolly-boat of the Victory, with six men, captured two transports laden with powder. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in July, 1797, and was senior of Lord Collingwood's ship, the Royal Sovereign, at the battle of Trafalgar, in which be was wounded. His services were officially commended, and he was promoted to the rank of commander. his commission bearing date the day after the battle. He subsequently com manded the Weazel brig, in which ship he engaged for several hours, and captured, a Spanish privateer pierced for 20 guns. He also took part in numerous actions in the Adriatic, and on one occasion was again wounded. He was appointed, in 1837, to the superintendent ship of Chat ham Dockyard, and on the expiration of his term of ser vice there was appointed to Greenwich Hospital. Captain Clavell received pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund for his services. THE COAST GUARD.—lnstances having recently occurred in which the allowances granted to the widows of officers of the Coast Guard service, for the maintenance of their children, until they should attain the age of 15 years, had been paid after the children had respectively attained that age; and it appearing that certificates of the ministers and church wardens, in accordance with the form prescribed by the order of November, 1837, bad been produced by the parties in each case; the revenue authorities, with the view of preventing any similar irregularity, have directed that new forms of certificate and declaration be substituted for those required by the order above referred to, and transmitted to the col lectors and comptrollers of the several ports of the United Kingdom for their government; and those officers have been directed to keep a record of the allowances granted for the support of the children of officers, showing the ages of the respective parties, with the dates when the allowance will cease and have reference thereto, in every case previously to making any payment claimed on account thereof; and directions have further been given that on the grant of any similar allowance in future the dates of the births of the children be communicated to the Comptroller-General of the Coast Guard, in order to enable him to check any payments which may be improperly made. Her Majesty's brig Snake put back to St. Helen's yester day morning, in consequence of the heavy gale of wind which prevailed on Monday. After setting up the rigging, Commander Brown put to sea again this morning, the wind being fair at E.N.E. The Carysfort, 26, took shelter in Weymouth roads. The orders for her Majesty's ship Warspite to be paid off at Plymouth have this day been countermanded, and she is to be put in commission at this port. She is hourly ex pected, and has on board a number of military invalids from Afalta and Gibraltar. The officers and crew of the Rodney having cleared the Bellerophon of all her stores and provisions, she has been transferred to the officers of the dockyard. For the extra service of fitting out and dismantling the Bellerophon, the following allowance is made to the crew of the Rodney, agree ably to the Queen's regulations ;—Lieutenants of the navy, captains of marines, and masters, 3s. a day; other officers, ranking with lieutenants of the navy, and lieutenants of ma rines, 2s. 6d. a day ; mates, and officers ranking with them, 2s. a day; warrant officers, and subordinate officers, is. 6d. a day; first class petty officers, sergeants of marines, and all artificers, I.s. 3d. a day ; second class petty officers, corporals of marines, seamen, and others, ls. a day; private marines and landsmen, 9d. a day; boys, Bd. a day. The time occu pied has been twelve days. The Electra has a few defects to make good, and will be ready to be paid, and proceed to aea by Saturday. Her armament is to be changed, and she is to carry 32-pounders. The guns and carriages will be shipped at Spithead. The destination of the Electra is not known. Commander Alexander Murray, late of the Rodney, is ap pointed tolhe Favourite, 18, at Plymouth. The Monkey, steam tug vessel, on her passage from Wool wich to Cork , put into this harbour on Monday, during a gale of wind, and was to have proceeded this day ; but a report being made to the Commander-in-Chief of her unfit ness to encounter a gale, and her general debility, a survey has been held, and the officers of the dockyard have pro nounced the Monkey to be no longer adapted for sea duty. Mr. Bryant, the master, and his crew will be turned over to another vessel. The Netley returned to Plymouth this day. A vessel arrived at Spithead on Monday from the River, with convicts on board for New South Wales. This morn ing some cases of small-pox have appeared among the pas sengers, and she has been ordered to the Quarantine-ground, to wait a few dam to see if any new cases occur. Disastrous accounts have been received from her Majesty's ship Fox, .42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart. It appears that on her passage to Bombay, she got on some rocks in the Gulf of Persia, and sustained so much damage that it was with difficulty she got to Bombay. She was caught in a hurricane, but had about thirteen fathoms water ; this suddenly shoaled to 3% fathoms, and her anchors were let down ; she drove on the rocks, and before she could be cleared, her guns were thrown over to lighten her; all the false keel, great part of the stem, and the dead wood, is car ried away, and her injuries are described as being much more serious than those of her Majesty's ship Pique, when she got on the rocks on the coast of North America. Toe Fox is in dock at Bombay, and is estimated to cost 5,0001. to repair, and make her fit for sea. Commander Smith, late of the Siren, and Lieutenant W. E. Triscott, formerly acting flag-lieutenant to Admirals Sir C. Rowley and Sir C. Ogle, have this week been promoted. Her Majesty's ship President, 50, with the flag of Rear. Admiral Dacres, was at Rio Janeiro on the 19th January, all well. She had had a very good passage of five weeks from Madeira. The President, after completing water and provisions, was to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope , with all speed. Tfie North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart.; the Racehorse, 18, Commander Hay ; and the Hon. East India Company's sloop Elphinstone, were at Auckland, New Zea land, on the 22d of November. The Hazard, 18, Commauder Egerton, had left Auckland for China, to conmuinicate with the C o mmauder-in-Chi4f, Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, on her way to England to be paid oft: • • - The Wanderer, Commander Sommerville, and harlequin , Commander Curry, have n earl y completed their rigging, at P or t s mouth; and the Childers , Commander Pittman, is also beginning to make a show, having her lower rigging over and tops and caps on. They have not yet received their guns, but it is still said they will only have 12 32-pounders each, instead of 16 carrouades. THE JANus, STEAM-SLOOP.--The workmen have not yet commenced the repairs of the damage done to the engine of the Janus at the last trial. If any more of the public money is to be spent on her, it is said that to make good her defects she will have to be taken to Woolwich, as they cannot be re paired at Portsmouth . . COmmander Caffin, will be The Scourge,bomb-stearn-sloop, sometime under the hands of the dockyard at Portsmouth. It is said her cathead and bilboards require some' alteration. SHEERNESS, MARCH 17.—The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, 14,18 at Maiatlan on the 6th of January, collecting freight, of which she had on board specie to the amount of 1,000,000 dollars , a nd was t o sail for Valparaiso about the middle of February, where she would most pro bably transfer her specie to another vesssel. The Heels steam-sloop, Commander John Duffill, arrived at Constantinople on the 18th of February, with dispatches for the Embassy. The Athol troop-ship, Master-Commander J. Pearse, ar rived at Port Royal,, Jamaica, on the Bth of February, from Barbadoes, where she had transferred the troops affected with small-pox intended for that island, to a separate vessel, bringing on Major Vaughan and Captain Glasgow's com panies of Royal Artillery for Jamaica. The Blenheim troop-ship sailed from Jamaica or the 25th January, with the head-quarters of the 77th Regiment, under the command of Col. Wilson, for Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Virago steam-sloop, Commander G. G. Otway, in con sequence of the intelligence from India, has been placed at the disposal of the Consul-General at Alexandria. The Brilliant, 20, Capt. R. B. Watson, C. 8., progresses favourably with her rigging and manning ; Lieut. Wm H. Bridge has been appointed first lieutenant. I t w i ll be re membered that this officer was lieutenant of the Cormorant s team-sloop at Valparaiso, and was di smissed his ship by court-martial for refusing to shak e h ands with the Vice • Consul at Islay. The Speedy cutter, Lieut.-Commander George Spong, haring bean found very defective, has been paid off into ordinary. The Speedwell has been undocked, and continues her fit tings in the Camber. The Goodwill lighter has replaced her in dock, to have her bottom repaired. The Cornwall, 50, is under the shears, to be masted. The Conquestador, 50, will be undocked in the course of next week, to be masted, when the Worcester, SU, will be hauled in to be fitted. . The Trafalgar, 120, flag-ship, Capt. J. N. Nott, is ordered to be got ready for sea, and take on board six months' stores and provision. She is now all ataunt in the harbour, but requires considerable repairs. Since her last cruise she has lost upwards of 100 men by desertion. The Avenger steam-frigate, and Inflexible steam-sloop, are ready for the penant at Devonport. The Favourite, 18, is ordered to be commissioned at that port by Commander Alexander Murray. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.—0 n Sunday letters were received from the Lords of the Admiralty, expressing great satisfac tion at the manner in which the Calcutta had been got ready, and ordering her to be restored to her original position, and also directing that the men should have extra pay for the time that they kad been employed. She was removed from the Sound and towed up the harbour to-day, the weather yesterday being too bad. THE ARMY r , It is reported in military circles th he effacers 'Of the Guards intend to erect a cenotaph to •413WOrysof the late i Major Somerset, who was sl a i n n- sorthe late battles - 1n India. The white trousers, as an article of summer dress, will no longer be worn, and on the Ist of May licit the soldiers will,. for the first time, appear in an article of a darker texture, more serviceable and less liable to be soiled. - r Several sergeants in the household troops' hay. received - commissions in the regiments of militia about to.be called out for training. ••r f,•.; The sth Dragoon Guards, serving for some tim e b ac k a t Nottingham. proceed to York, there to relieve the 10th Hus sars, who will embark in a few days, at Gravesend, for India. The 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons are under orders for Ire land • as are the 92d Highlanders. The 17th Lancers, lately stationed at Brighton, are ex pected to be ordered to Ireland in a short time. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS. EIGHTY LIVES LOST. The following are the' particulars, so far as they are at present known, of the loss of two vessels, the Ida, 550 tons (British barqu e ), an d t h e J o h n Minturn (American vessel), the wrecks of which were reported at Lloyd's on Monday The Ida was commissioned by Government for the con veyance of stores to Canada, and left the River on the 18th of last December for Portsmouth, where she took in the stores, and finally sailed for St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 4th of January. There were on board, besides the crew (18 in number, including the master, Captain William Chamber), 38 passengers, male and female. After her de parture nothing was heard of her until Monday last, when the intelligence of her fate was received. A letter, stated to be written by Mr. Sherwood, the British Consul at Port land, thus describes her loss :—" On the 2Gth of January, being in lat. 44 N., long. 52 30 W., the barque broached to, while scudding before a severe gale from S.S.E., and was thrown on her beam ends. Orders were given to cut ay ay the foremast, but before they had time to do so the barque righted, full of water. The captain then ordered the long boat to be got under the lee, the other boat having been lost. The passengers immediately rushed into her promiscuously, followed by the captain and crew, to the number of 45. The painter parted, and the beat dropped astern. The land bore N.N.E., distant about 30 leagues by observation. The boat got about two cables length from the vessel, when she ship ped a sea, filled, and all in her perished. The -mate, nine men, and one young woman remained on the wreck, in the the tops, from Monday morning until Friday morning, when they were taken off by the schooner Three Sisters, cf Eden, when they were landed much frozen, and in destitute circum stances, the mate being the only one able to travel." The Ida was not registered at Lloyd's, and the inquiries made to ascertain who were her owners, andt:to know the names of the passengers, have not been successful. The fate of the John Minturn and her crew and passen gers, amounting to fifty in number, was of a most deplorable character. The ill-fated ship, a newly built vessel, more than 5,000 tons burden, was bound to New York, having, besides a number of cabin and steerage passengers, several ship wrecked seamen, who had been picked up on the voyage. Up to Saturday, the 14th ult., the weather was most favouratle for the voyage, and they were within three days' sail of her destination. Soon after sunset on that day, however, there came on a stiff breeze from the eastward, which, as the even ing advanced, greatly increased. The ship stood N.N.E. till twelve o'clock, by which period the wind had increased to a gale. Tier course was then altered to the south, and was kept till daybreak. When the shore was discovered, it ap peared to the leeward, about two miles distant. The tem pestuous weather in the meantime had increased considerably. Every sail was torn almost to ribbons by the violence of the wind, and the ship rendered unmanageable. On the land being perceived, every nerve was exerted to keep her off, but unfortunately it was impracticable, as the gale blew direct on to the coast, and gradually drifted her inwards, and at half past nine o'clock she struck with tremendous force. The succeeding wave raised her, and dashed her with violence on the rocks, when she broke but did not separate. The horror and; confusion at the moment of her striking were terrific, and when the worst was known every effort (says one of the survivors, a seaman named King) was made to preserve the lives of those on board, numbering fifty- one, including passengers. The masts were cut away to ease her, but with little effect, as she continued to strike fearfully. The yawl was then cut loose from the stern davits, but the surf ran so high that before she could be got round she swamped, and became useless. The captain, with his wife, sen, (laugh-. ter, servant, and cabin passengers, took refuge in the poop cabin, the only place whero they could be sheltered from the violence of the sea, which was pouring over them in all direc tions. By great exertion the long-boat was cast adrift, and launched over the bows. Five of the crew and a steerage passenger, a Portuguese, jumped into her, and a long coil of liue was stowed in her stern sheets, by which it was intended to carry a hawser ashore, and she was then shoved off. On approaching the land, the men found that it was impossible, to tow the line through the breakers, in consequence of the great pressure on the boat. They resolved on cutting it away, that being the only chance of reaching the shore. All hope, was now lost of saving those on the wreck. Their sufferings are described as being truly frightful. Being exposed to the full 'violence of the sea, and a piercing cold wind, ice soon formed over the surface of their drenched clothing. In this state they remained until noon, when those who were alive, for some had already sunk from their awful suf fering, went forward to the forecastle, where they lashed themselves to prevent the sea from washing them from the wreck. It is supposed that the captain, his mate, and the pilot remained in the poop, for they were not seen after wards; and in the course of an hour the ship parted amid ships, and the after part drifted away into the sea. The re maining portion of the wreck then floated considerably in. shore. In the latter part of the day another portion of the wreck separated, which carried away the half of those who were lashed to the forecastle, all of whom instantly perished. The rest lived a few hours afterwards, till by the combined effects tif the intense frost, and the surf beating over them, they gradually sunk and expired. Between eleven and twelve o'clock-at night a boat was put off to rescue these who were clinging to other pieces of the wreck, consisting of two mates, two of the crew, and four of the steerage passengers ; and after almost instlrmountable difficulties they were preserved, although, as may be readily conceived, reduced to the last stage of exhaustion. In the wreck of the forecastle sixteen bodies were found lying in a cluster round the slump of the foremast, and it seemed as if the unfortunate creatures had huddled themselves together for warmth. Among them could be recognised the captain's wife, his children, and a female steerage passenger, with an infant at her breast, and so firmly grasped that they could not be separated. Owing to the quantity of ice that co vered the wreck the task of removing the bodies that night was given up, in consequence of the extreme danger attend ing it. On the following morning, at daybreak, they were brought ashore, when the beach was lined by the inhabit ants of the neighbouring villages. Aniongst them were a desperate gang of wreckers, who plundered every body that was washed up from the other pieces of wreck. Several of the passengers were known to have had a large amount of money about them. Up to the last accounts, thirty-two bodies were found. The ship had entirely gone to pieces, a portion of her bottom only remairing, which w as embedded in the sand by the weight of the pig iron which formed par t of her cargo. She was only partially insured. EXPERIMENTS WITH LIFE-PRESERVING APPARATUS AT Woorwmn.— On Thursday last Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, lint., R.N., clerk of the Ordnance, Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, com mandant of Royal Engineers at Woolwich, Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun, and Captain Palliser, of the Royal Artillery, assembled at the Royal Ar senal to , witness experiments to illustrate a simple mode of sav ing the lives of persons when shipwrecked on the sea coasts, of a plan submitted by Captain Jerningham, commanding the coast guard at Yarmouth, a station which has afforded him an oppor tunity of .witnessing in many cases the complication and ineffi ciency of the plans adopted at present. The experiments on Thursday were made from a 5U inch brass mortar, by tiring an anchor, weighing 341b5., made on a similar principle to Porter's anchor, with the exception of its wanting the small projecting part to give it the first holding quality, and the two flukes moving on the pivot independent of each other, for the pur pose of both being enabled to lie close to the shank when placed in the mortar. On being fired, the flukes open during the flight of the anchor, and are secured by a spring in their extended position. When fired into the Thames it required the united strength of seven teen men to drag home the anchor. The experiments were resumed On Tuesday, in the Marshes at Woolwich, in the presence of Lieu tenant-Colenel-Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieu tenant-Colonel Claimer, Assistant Director-General of Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, Royal Engineers ; and Captain Palliser, of the Proof Department at the Royal Arsenal. The object of the o c f oi t l h ig rangee te ropes for service in severe wea experiments ve tna mo. s T u u r e e s y in d a e nta, , as an t d o a th sc e erttin theength of th e e s r t m ode The range of the two-inch rope, and found to be 180 yards, carrying a anchor was when it alighted Its holding power was so great that it required the united strength of twe lve athletic artillerymen to drag It home. The ceiling o f a rope upon a wooden roller attached to a hand barrow,which occupied exactly three minutes in winding up, an sered remarkably well, and appeared greatly superior to the arrangement of a rope adjusted by a wooden rack, which is far mor e cumbersome, and requires a greater number of hands to work it. The rope used by Captain Jerningham is known by the designation of " manilla." one and a half inch thick where attached to the shot, and possesses great advantages over the hide leather previously used ; as when dry and lying fhr some time untamed, the latter becomes liable to break when fired. Twelve rounds were fired on Tuesday with the manilla, which answered the purpose effectually. hi UICIDE.—S mattuitY, MARCH 16.—Yesterday after noon, between twelve and one o'clock, another awfbl and melan choly case of suicide occurred in this town, Mr. Alexander Frost, postmaster, having cut his throat with a razor. It is supposed that a deficiency in his accounts relative to the Post-office department, with the anticipation of being shortly removed from his situation, led him to commit the rash act by which he has left his wife a widow, and four very young children fatherless and wholly unprovided for. This afternoon an inquest was held at the Angel Inn, before William Dawman, Gent., coroner of the borough, when A verdict of " Tem porary insanity" was returned.—Bury Post. A mistake has been made in the papers which an nounced the arrival of Joseph Buonaparte, ex-King of * Spain, from America, that individual having died in Italy about two years ago. THE TARIFF.—The butter merchants at Brew's Quay, yesterday, received intimation, through the bone'ing officer of her Majesty's Customs, that Government were prepared at once to re move the duty of 10s. per cwt. from foreign butters, provided they would guarantee the amount, should the measure new before Parlia ment not become law. The immediate effect was, that Dutch butter fell from 130 s. to 128 a., this, added to the ss. per cent., reduces the article altogether 13s. per cwt. This reduction does not appear to have affected the price of English fresh batter. BODY FOUND IN THE THAMES —Yesterday the body of a man was found in the Thames near Bermondsey, which appeared to be that of a sailor, and had evidently been in the water ten or twelve days. The body now lies at the Bermondsey workhouse, to await the Coroner's inquest, WOODEN PlvEmErr.—The City Commission Of Cowers decided on Tuesdao, by forty votes to one, that Newgate street should be paved with granite, and that the strec t should be closed for that purpose for three weeks, the dissentient being Mr. Eagleton, of Newgate-street. Two years ago the votes in the same body were forty to one against stone, and in favour of wood, that one being Sir Peter Laurie. _ _ - INJURY TO AN ORGAN.—The new organ of St. (Mare's, Southwark, now in course of completion, was on Sunday last da maged by some evilly disposed person, who must have gained ad mission into the interior by a false key. The action or the great organ key-beard was tampered with and injured. The new pipes pinched together at the top, and In one case rent down, the trot _counterbalance of the bellows torn up (an act requiring very consi derable force to perpetrate), and the valve of the pedal bellows very much damaged. The organ was the first instrument in England constructed on the principle ore double-double gamut, having a 32- feet diapason throughout the grand n'anual key-board. It has been two year Tin the course of perfecting, under the design of Dr. Gaunt lett, the organist, and had been lately placed in Mr. 11111's hands for completion. A first trial was made on Sunday of certain stops, and daring the morning service the instrnment was in good and perfect order, but at the evening service the mischief perpetrated was so great as almost to occasion an impossibility of playing upon it. The extent of this malicious mutilatlen was fully discovered on the worlmen assembling on Monday, but how admission Ivan procured into the interior is yet a mystery. It is evident that some know ledge of the mechanism of an organ must have been poisessed by the perpetrator, as all his exertions were directed to those pbrtions of the instrument which could suffer most from violence. Too MUCH TROUBLE.—'I he newspnimr reports from the Western circuit state that at Winchester, the week before last, three soldiers were indicted for assaulting a woman named Lucy Edmonds, and robbing her of half-a-crown, her property. The first witness proved that the prosecutrix was a married woman. Where upon Mr. Justice Erie said, that " as the money in the indictment was stated to be the property of Lucy Edmonds, and it turned out that she was a married woman, the prisoners must be acquitted, be cause a married woman eouldnot have half a-crown of her own." Now this may seem a very hard case ; and it may appear a very easy matter for the Legislature to pass an enactment rendering the speci fication of the person actually robbed sufficient, in a case of felony, for the validity of an indictment. But this change in the law is net called for ; that's, there is no serious danger of an insurrection or a revolution from its not being adopted : why, therefore, Should Minis ters take the trouble to effect it ?—Punch. :Wetter froth Rome - mentions the death, in that city, nntro 4th, of Cardinal Mangelli, aged 84. 1