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DIV ). ...., ~,,,-, ►,..47, , ..',..%.' 3" io, , Ort, ~ • -.•-i, . t/- c2,,_.,. ,_ ) THE AUSTRALIAN FREEHOLD GOLD MINE.—Tbe Committee of Management have the pleasure of informing their co-adventurers that the remainder of their staff sailed from Gravesend on the 6th instant, for Sydney, in the Gipsy Queen, to join their Engineer, Mr. Sherwood, who had previously left Bristol, with his selected artisans and miners, in the barque Surrey, for the same destination. Their duly appointed Agents in the Colony have full instructions to make all necessary arrangements, in order that, on the arrival of the two vessels, immediate mining operations may be commenced on the Company's Freehold• Estate at Bathurst, which is mentioned in all the latest dispatches as abounding with the precious metal. By order, WILLIAM PULSFORD, Secretary, tion and Civic degred4tion ; and Feet, Cceurdacier, and Crassous to ten years' imprisonment and civic degredation. Tne Court ordered that the execution of the four persons condemned to death shall take place publicly in the town of Beziers. These men, on hearing sentence of death were dreadfully affected. Choumac exclaimed, " I will appeal !" Vidal and Pages stamped on the flour, and, putting their hands to their heads, cried, " Oh, what a stain for our families !" N ° .18,582.1 LONDON ONDAY r M • , . I •a . - 7 AP RIL 12, 1852. [PRICE SD. Dated April 8, 1852. Offices, 39, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street. EXCISE INFORMATIONS. - - ALARM IN THE TRADE.---A very curious question was brought before the sheriff-sUbstitute hens on Friday week, whereby hangs a tale, in which the town of Crieff has acted a very prominent part. It is said that information has lately been lodged with the Excise that a distillery concern in that quarter, which had become bankrupt a few years ago, had been largely iuvolvEet in the purchase and sale of smuggled whisky ; and eo syetematically , hnd.the tradti beep carried 'on that regular entries if the illicit transactions were made in the books of the concerts.: A summons was accordingly serval upon the trust ee , at the instan c e of th e Excise, for the . production .of the books in court, on Friday ; when the agent in the sequestration attended and pleeded that the books formed part of the bankrupt's estate, which was per eoaally vested in the trustee, and could pet be sum. warily demanded. As proceedings in Excise are conductiA un d er B r i t i s h l aw, t h e intervention of a jury yeas necessary to determine the point hi question, and Friday last was appointed for the purpose. In the meantime - the rumour got abroad that legal evi dence of a long-continued and extensive illicit traffic in whisky with individuals not only ,in Crieff, but with several towns in this and the enjoining counties, was: contained in, the bankrupt's books, end a panic took place in the former place, as in tense as if some fatal epideniic had broken- out. The subject engrossed public talk for some days, and the office'of the law egcut in Which the innocent cause of all this consternadoik . wa,s, deposited ,became the centre of interest to all who- had berlitrenseetiona with the bankrupt. At an early hoar nti.Thnisday; morning last It was dh.:ocivered that the Office referred to . had been broken into and the mrptcF .411Oti carried off! This, it appeara; had not been a dificuit work to achieve, nalle offioe was on the ground floor, at;the baCk . of a h66:e aking - which - thitewai' ii . thorougb. faro4-asuicfPnn.a-precoinitifn the same Clay by tho procurator fiscal, an old woman who lives in a neigh bouring -houeti sail that being aw likened in the coarse of the night, she happened to look out, end by the light of the moon observed four men with a lighted candle leaving the premises with books tinder their arms. The intelligence rapidly spread, and it was soon apparent that a great weight had been taken off the minds of the lieges, and the relieved feelings of the community got vent in mirth and music, a band perambulating the streets in honour of the victory over informers and excisemen. Here the mysterious affair rests for the present, so far as we can learn, or until clairvoyance discovers if the tell-tale documents are still in existence, or where screted.—Perth courier. STEAM to INDIA via the CAPE. GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY'S Monthly Line of Iron Stramers, with her Majesty's Mails, to the Cape, Mauritius, Point de Galle, Madras, and Calcutta (touching at Bt,Vincent's and it t ts;on). TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH AND PARISH OF LEOMINSTER.. Gentler:4en,.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. ' tars and pursers of her Majesty's navy has been signed by the proper authorities. The details thereof have not yet been made public. * The Duke of Northumberland, accompanied by several members of .the new Board of Admiraly, will viait, the various dockyards during the present week. Mr. M.P., th e secretary, Colonel Green, the Chief S'afr Director or, of departed from you an official visit to Ports - Works;, and Mr. H. J. Grant, have Ports mod ou Commath an d ui d D e e r v s o n h P ep ° la rt e . rd MiCormick , (1841) died on . Sunday, the 28th nit„ at lii IV Ross, Weifigd, Ire land. lie served i n man ' .. Is of the globe during actions. He was l ast em e yed i n . the St. George, the, late war, 120, and was superseded : no that ship at his own and was eng - , c 1 in many hlrd - fought request. .- t... , ,r, Lieutenant And rew Rob* 'Dunlap (1842) died a few days since. He passeCieven years of his pro fet•sional career on the West coast of Africa, where he was present at the capture of 34 slavers. Alto gether, _he served 15 years in tropical climates. While in the Eclair he was one of the first. attacked with fever, and althoughberrecovered, his constitu tion received shock, t h e eff e cts of whic h wer e n ever removed. His last enfp l o her Majesty a steamer A.61 - 1* n, on the coast of of Ire land, hi 1847, during the fine in that part of the United Kingdom. The brig Isabella, of Whitby, . Grainger, master, bound for Rochester, .g g f, oh - shore at the Sheerness Middle Ground on the B ,tlvirist. at nine A.M., having at the time all her canvas and topgallant studding sails, ;Shortly after, veering round upon tide, she let, go her anchor. The hands were ordered to the pumps, and she remained ashore until eleven A.M., , Strikiog , „ . `spread, including topmast , avily. Whilst getting in her anchor she :: ,',"., . ~,-,: - 4 , b ! , l t, shortly afterwaids,-floj.tid . !,;• - .4'l* ', Pil on her voyage. — TlirriatilSrier" 51..• afTetb ititattief; - of 'Whitby, faden with a cargo of coal for London, ran on shore on the morning of the 9:h inst. on the Black Tail Sand, a little below the beacon. Some hands belong ing to the smacks in the vicinity were employed to lighten her, and a portion of her cargo having been thrown overboard she got off at high water yesterday, 'and proceeded on her voyage to London. As a caution to the masters of vessels trading to this port, we would strongly advise them not to at tempt to pass on the north side of the Sheerness Mid dle Ground buoy (which lies nearly midway between the Great and Little Nore) before half flood, or after half ebb tide, especially wnen the sea runs high, un less their ships are light. On the south side of the :Nliddle Ground there is from 20 to 28 feet water, while on the north side, at low water, there is only from 13 to 17 feet water. went .round from E. to S.W., which I think was enough to lose any ship." . I beg to remain your obedient servitnt, Portsmouth, April 7. G. H. G. THE INSURGENTS OF BEZIERS, A court-martial assembled at Montpellier on the 18th ult. to try the chiefs, fourteen in number, of the insurrection at Beziers, department of the Herault, in Dscern*last. The names and occupations of the accused were—Peret, a distiller; Coutelou, plasterer ; Salk:Lie:cooper; Faret, shoemaker; Coeurdaci er' con tra,ctor t;or public works; Marine, landowner ; eras sous, agent c?e remplacernent, militaire; Laurent, street. sweeper ; Vidal, gardener ; Cadelard, stone ichtter ; Pages, tanner; Oalibert, alias Le Coat, far mer; Buyer, pavour; Salvsn, cooper. In the body of the court were-'`a quentity of muskets, scythes, poignards, pitchforks, pistols, swords, hammers, sticks, axes, &c., &c., together with some clothes stained with blood a n d diet. The indictment, which was very long, set forth the following facts :—The news of the coup (rebut at Paris reached Beziers on tha 3d De cember, and was announced to the population by pla cards of the authorities. It caused considerable agi tation. Some men known to belong to the secret so cieties, which for sometime before had existed in dif ferent parta.ofthe department, went to cafes and pub lic houses; and 'there beid exciting language, calcula ted to inflame the passions of the people. The sub-pre fect and other authorities took measures for preserving order; the troops were ordered to be kept in their barracks ready to act; and a detachment of 25 men of the 12th Regiment were sent to the sub-prefecture. The neat day, at an early hour in the morning, the agitation became more menacing ; men in arms appeared in the streets, and a meeting of the chiefs of the revolutionary party was held at the house of Peret. Presently a column of about 6,000 men, armed with muskets, scythes, clubs, pistols, kitchen spits, cutlasses fixed on sticks, and all sorts of weapons, marched to the sub-Mlttettlre. They uttered fierce cries and .brandished %.heir weapons. The Mayor, who had been up the greater part of - the night, en seeing the column pass, hurried to the Hotel de Ville, where he found every one asleep. lelecauseddefenbive measures to be taken, and their hastened to the sub prefecture. The aub•prefect had also been up all night, and had received alarming news from the adjacent villages, especially from Villeneuve. He had just before sent off some gendarmes to the latter place to assist the Mayor in quelling an armed insur rection which had just commenced. IVhilst the Mayor was still in conversation with the sub•prefect a slip of paper was brought to the latter, containing the following words : " In the name of the Sovereign People, in the name of the violated Constitution, ITnde Candidate who asked for your sup port on Liberal Principles has withdrawn, I lose no time in soliciting your Suffrages. You are aware that on a former occasion I gave way, rather than a c t a:t o se u to w i l d l an n g o e t r, as b e y be dividing it s. adherents . and t e h x e P re ' f e o r t e h l e trust lLiberal r t a h l rt. my present conduct to any selfish motives, or to any views of inerelypersonal auibiVon. sly claims are such as,'whether I succeed or fail, my supporters cannot be ashamed of. Early convinced that the principles of Free Trade were founded on . truth and reaso n , I i ncorporated them with my political creed long before .they ieoeised the saretion of the Legislature ; and at present, when they are attested by the most conclusive evidence, I own that to call upon the country to retrace its steps—to tax the poor for the rieb—anci to Create artificial scarcity in this over peopled country for the imagined interest of a particular class, does app?ar to me an Infatuation that the blindest disregard to the most obvious facts can account for, but not sit all excuse.• • • Any attempt, under whatever pretext, to impose a tax on corn, shall therefore meet my determined and inflexible 0,-positiort. The hideous and disgusting scenes of corruption which recent in quiries have disclosed furnish; in my 'opinion: the suppoi - terd of the Ballot with an argument that is unanswerable. What can be wore shocking to every man in whose soul every spark of probity and honour is not extinguished, than the means which it appears are re gularly employed in many places to obtain a seat in the great council of the nation ? To such means I never will have ret; muse -- if the.;cons,quence be a perpetual exclusion from the -House of Commons—to that exclu sion I will submit, for 1 was early taught to lirefer the consciousness of integrity to the most dazzling prospects of ambition. But to the liberal and independent Electors of Leominst..r r Ott' an opportu nity of asserting their right; and Of returning to Parl ameat a faith ful and fairly chosen Representative. As I hope on Tuesday or .Wednesday to have an opportunity of explaining my sentiments to, you, I will not enter into any detailed statement of them. I was the-advocate of Law Reform, and .espe cially of Reform in the Coati: of Chancery, long before such opinions were as popular as they are 'at piesent • lam as anxious for the re moval of Ecclesiastical Abuses, and for a better distribution of the Revenues of the Church, as 1 -was whoa I last addressed you. Upon the question of Maynooth my-opinions have undergone.a. consider able . alteration. No man clings more tenaciously than Ido to the great principles of toleration ; no man would more shrink from speaking with disrespect of the creed of the Ildmi.n 'Catholics. fo make the Roman Catholic citizens, those to whtmi I most look tip have sacrificed all that could - tempt human ambition ; I trust I should imitate their example: - But .1 do not wish to see them . . We lye glad • to state - that - the officers and ships' companies of the ship; andlveaSols at Spithead have followedi i -the example set by the Commander-in- Chief, the Admiral- Superintendent, and the ships in harbour, and have all subscribed a day's • pay towards the relief of the widows, - orphans, and distressed relatives of the unfortunate persons • lost by the melancholy wreak of the J.3irkenhad. A committee will be immediately formed, we hear. COnsisting of Admiral Sit . Thomas'Briggt; Rear-Adruiral.U. Pres cott, Captain 'Chads,•and other - officers, to considerthe best manner of carrying . out the philanthropic inten tion or the subscribers. A large sum will, nO doubt, be realised, which will.be distributed in a somewhat similar way. to that adopted for the relief of the dis tressed parsons who lost husbands and relations in the late Avenger. . - •• • At Devonport the following general memorandum was issued by the Commander-in-Chief, -Admiral Sir John Ommanney, . " Impregnable, in Hamoaza, April 9, 1852. '• The distress that mint - be • clased to umny of the families of the unfortunate - sufferers in the.ilirkenheld is a subjnt that e4eaot be viewed with indifference, but mast create a sympathetic feeling; for therL, and n desire to-relieve their sufferiuge, so far as pecuniary 'aid can effectiVe. - ' These sentiments are: in perfect accordance with the ideas of Commodore Seymour, who with myself is desirops of . contributing . one, day's pay. towards any fund that may be established for. that purpose. "In bringing the circumstance to the notice of the re spective captainsamicommanders of. her Majesty's ships at this port„ I hopo they will-ascertain from the officers and crews under their command whether they may re• sptctively wish to make a siiniLlr contribution. (Signed), " J. A. ODEMA.NNEY, Admiral. " To the - rOpintivU - CaPtains and Comuianders, &C." The QUEEN of the SOUTH, of 1,800 tons, Geo. Hy'e, Com mander, will leave the East India Docks on the 100, and Plymouth of t the 15th of June. ~ The LADY JOCELYN, of 1,800 tons, Nathaniel Stewart, Com mander, will leave the East India Docks on the 10th, and Plymouth on t he.l bth of July, These ships are divided into water-tight and flre-proof compart ments ; they will carry experienced surgeons, and h Ave for passen gers every comfort and convenience. The cabins are ftirnished, and passengers will be provided with beds, linen, &C. For terms of passaze, apply at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Royal Exchange-buildings ; for freight, to Balfour, Laming, and Owen, 157, Fenchurch-street. N.B. The Company estimate that the pas sage to the C ape will occupy on the average 30, to Mauritius 42, to Ceylon 50, to Madras 64, and to Calcutta 62 days. PLYMOUTH', Arm. 6.—ln conversation with 9e wral of the passengers,. per Propontis, from the Cape of Good Hope, I have been informed that the general iuipression is, that the melancholy accident resulted from a variation of the compass, for the Bir kenhead" was presumed to be steering at least three mileS outside the rock on which she struck. That part of the.coast on which the Birkenhead was lost was first surveyed in 1818, by Commander Wolker, of the Dispatch store ship, who carefully .examioed the coast clitring 14 trips along , the S.E. Oast of the Cape colony, and inane a chronometric survey and chart from the Cape of. Good Hope to Algoa Bay. Captain Walks: gave his name to Walker ,B iy, and lalso gave its name of Point Danger to that projection of the land, in consequence of the reef extending so far off. The same coast has been since surveyed by Admiral ,Owen with a surv e yi ng s hi p . Th e coast i s well known, and the awful disaster must have arisen from deviations of compass, occasioned by the local attraction of the iron ship, which were in all proba bility erroneously corrected on Professor Airey's principles. The loss of this steamer has created a deep sensation in the community here, many of whom are related to fife unfortunate officers and crew. Shipping Gazette. • and NATION AL LOAN ,A.NCE COMPANIES LONDON. EQUITABLE FIRE i FV,ND LIFE INSUR 26, CORNIIII. DIRE( LAMIE MUER. *gyp, A. B. Bennett, Esq. tenugh Croft. Esq. tJ. Elliotson , M.D. F.R.B.r f*Geo. Fuller, Esq. *Ralph Gough, Esq. tWilliam Kennaway, Esq. fair Arnold J. Knight, M.D. *Sir A. W. Hillary, Bart. 4 , 31. C. Maher, Esq. * Fire. t Life. ts Both. • EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital, 500,0001. (incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) The rAlaitable Fire Office, by a constant analysis of ita own experience, from time to time, adopts such rates of premium as the nature of the risk justifies; and with this *view an annual investi gation is made into each class of risk, and a return of fifty per cent.' of the net excess, made to all classes of Insurers whose policies have .been in force_ for three years. Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent. without the Average Clause. Losses are made good without deduction or discount. 'NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. Capital £500,008., NEW LIFE TABLES. On the Withdrawal Table the assured is entitled, Ly oltribm en .4lorsement, to receive an immediate advance of one-half the amount zr the paid - annual premiums. without security or dePostt Of the policy ; or half-premium for the whole continuance of life. On surrender one-half of the annual payments will be returned. Life Annuities grahted, also Deferred and Contingent Annuities. The terms of the Society are peculiarly favourable. The present annual income of the Society from premiums exceeds 70,0001; the amount covered by the policies of the Society is up wards of 2,250,0001.; and the reserve profit applicable to future bonus to the assured, amounts to 95,5024 14s. Od. Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained, on applies 'bon at the Office, er to any of its Agents. W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary. L y, Esq., Chairman. *Jonn Moss, Esq. t*John Rawson, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. t*Edmond S. Symes, Esq. t*Clement Taber, Esq. tJoseph Thompson, Esq. t * Augustus Vigne, Esq. (Samuel Walker, Esq. more than eft/ens—and recent events have satisfied me that to contribute to the support of Maynooth is to contri bute to thb • 'dissemination of Lowrance, and to the sup portpf tyyanny over the rtlinas of the Sqpie,..alA ex.er deed by those who - haVe pbstiffrifely it4ka - pas'sionutetriesisted every attempt made by Government to enlighten and improve the people. I will only add that I am for the Abolition of. Church Rates; the present gate of our law upon that subject is scandalous to a civi lised people. In my opinion the Revenues of the church—properly distributed—are abundantly sufficient to repair and maintain .ur sacred edifices, without a tax which irritates a laxge and valuable portion of the community. ~~r` •We m 11 '3 16 0 0 ar tinit Mr; seliffi`-wbo has been lon g serving as clerk in the royal yacht Victoria and Alberi, has attained his longi-merited promotion to the rank of paymaster. Commander Henry Downes died on the 3d instant, aged 62. ' Lieutenant George H. Godden . died. *on the 3d instant, aged 27. • Paymaster Edward B. Robins, late of the Cormo rant steam sloop, died on the•sth instant, at South sea, from the effects of illness tontracted in a tropical climate. Stafford, March lb, 1851. JOHN GEORGE PHLLLIMORE. EXHIBITION 1851.-JURY REPORTS. THE REPORTS of the JURORS nn the Sub jects in the 30 ClasseS into whiCh the Exhibition was divided, will be issued in two editions, one in large type, forming 2 vols. super-royal Bvo. ' of about 1,000 pages each, price Two Guineas ; and the other in small type, double columns, forming 1 vol. super-royal Bvo., of about 1,000 pages, price Ogle Guinea. Both editions will be uniform in size with the Official Descriptive and Illustrated Cata logue. As only a limited number of each edition will be printed for sale, and the work will not be reprinted, subscribers are requested to send in their names, with a remittance of 10s. on account of the 1 vol. edition, and 20s. on account of the 2 vol. edition. The balance to be paid on publication, about Hay, SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers. W.M. CLONES and SONS, Printers. Official Catalogue •Office. Tudor-street, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars. SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CLERKS, STATION-MASTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS, BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS. .MMES LIFE ASSURANCEand GUARANTEE COMPANY. . JL 32, Ludgate hill, London. GUARANTEE FOR FIDELITY OF TRUST. PROFITS DIVIDED. 'RATES—From 7s. 6d. per cent. upwards. No charge for Stamps. An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As 'mance and Guarantee are combined. LIFFr ASSURANCE. Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud. Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment, to keep up the payments, Clerk—Tobias E. Palmer (1848) bas been ap pointed from the •Jackal steam-tender, to be clerk in charge of the Bloodhound •steam-tender, coast of Africa. Fairy screw-tender yacht, and the Elfin digpatch boat, will be taken into dock this day,. to have their bottoms looked at. " You, its representative, are summoned to give up your powers, on account of the violation of Art. 51 of that Constitution, which declares that the President forfeits his powor if he dissolves the Assembly—and it appears from the dispatch placarded on the 3d that he has done that. WORKING IWAN'S MEMORIAL TO THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL. T LIE BIRKENHEAD. Hecate, 6,•steam-sloop, Commander Hand, was on Saturday dispatched from . Devonport to cruise in the chops of the Channel, to relieve the homewai'd-bound ships detained by the continued easterly winds. Jackal steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Bedding field, was at Lagos on the 19th February, as also the Penelope steam-frigate, Commodore Bruce. Magiciennre steam-frigate, Captain Rimsay, in command of the steam • reserve at. Devonport, went into the Channel on Saturday on a trial cruise. On leaving the harbour she saluted the flag of the Com mander-in-Chief, whiChWas returned by the Impreg nable flag-ship. Simoom steam troop-ship, Captain Kingcome, got up steam on Friday afternoon, and went into Ports mouth ,harbour, going alongside the Malabar, coal tucomplete her fuel. She is preparing to take detachments to Halifax and Quebec ; from the latter place she will bring back a regiment. Victory, flag-ship at Portsmouth, having received new chocks for her mooring bridles, was taken back to her moorings, off Common-hard on Friday evening. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 11.—The Retribution, 28, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, embarked Mr. SW-. ford, the Secretary to the Admiralty, and Colonel Green, the Admiralty Engineer, yesterday morning, and left with them for Plymouth. The Vulcan steam troop-ship, Master Commander Penn, was taken into the steam basin yesterday to have her defects repaired. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlD,—The committee appointed at the public meeting held on the 7th of August, 1850, at the Whittington Club-room, to collect subscriptions from the working classes for a memorial to the late Sir Robert Peel, have closed their labours ; and the auditors harit.g, on the 6th inst., examined ail the accounts, and certified their accuracy, it may be satisfactory to your readers to know the result. Now Heady, price 25., by post, 2s .6d., THE JESUI IN -IDIA. By she Rev. W. STRICKLAND, Missionary kp. Containing an Account of the Early History of the Catholic Mission of Madura in South India, and of its re-establishment in 1818, describing the mortality amongst the Missioners, their severe privations, their losses and successes ; some account of their present prospects, and future hopes. Dedi cated aad recommended to the perusal of all subscribers to foreign Missions. With a Frontispiece, representing the Missionary Cos tume in India. and with a heart full Naval Gazette-) (from l t i s witht e Portsmout h sorrowful feelings TimeT im e s and of sympathy for those bereft of friends and kindred by the dread stroke of fate that we take up our pen to comment upon the rueful and app a li ng l oss attend ing the wreck of H.M.S. Birkenhead. F a i n wou ld we shun the task, but the service look to us for some in formation, and we h a ve gone to some t rou bl e an d ex pense in the endeavour to show a desire to fully meet testify. the T ir he wi losses,s h 0 ply f as th o e ur sh su ip pp i l s em ac e e n u t ra w te il l l y m d circumstan tially detailed in the morning papers, therefore it is unnecessary we should recspitulate those details. But we are in posses ion of da'a touching the cha racter of the Birkenhead which the daily journalists are not, and can assist in doing that which the me tropolitan press has token but a partial view of in at tempting to establish, viz.,—a cause for the happen ing of the harrowing disaster. Most of our brethren journalists have, with more or less precipitancy, placed the blame on the Master Commanding (Mr. Salmond), and attach the cause of the catas trophe to his supposed hugging of the shore to save time and distance in the discharge of his important duty. We do not believe such to have been his cul pability. We know the Birkenhead to have ever been a most dangerous vessel to steer, in consequence of which vital fault she had been very nearly lost on more than one occasion previously. We know from the best of evideuce personal acquaintance— that her compasses would not act under the com monest circumstances, sod were always, or nearly always, in error ; we know the Birkenhead has been swung round the entire circle at Shithead three times, and her compasses have never showed the shadow, even, of a movement! We know, further, that on another occasion, whilst at sea, so utterly impossible was ft for the Masieroilketrikate - the 'ship owing to' the attraction of the iron upon the compasses, that the Master was compelled for safety to take them up into the mizen top to endeavour to steer the ship by them ! H. R. SHERIDAN. TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY ASSURANCE COMPANY. Every descriptioß of Fire Assurance. Profits Divided Agents Wanted. H. B. SHERIDAN. Including the subscriptions begun at the Belvidere Hotel, Pentonville, there has been received the sum of 1,737/. Os. 6d., chiefly in penny subscriptions ; and that amount has been paid into the Bank of England, to be invested in the Three per Cent. Consols, in the names of three trustees ; and in the course of the next month the committee will decide in what manner that sum shall be employed, so es to confer the greatest possible benefit on the working classes. The committee have already decided that the yearly interest of the fund shall be applied to educational purposes, under the title of the " Working Man's Memorial to the late Sir Robert Peel ; and they will spare no endeavours to render its application judicious. It appears, on examination, that these subscriptions have been received from upwards of 350 towns and villages ; while in other towns the subscription that was commenced for this fund became sufficient in amount to establish a local memorial, which the com mittee in every case encouraged. 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WOOLWICH, APRIL 10 —Tne Intrepid, screw steam vessel, Commander M'Clintock, and the Pioneer, screw steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Osborne, were taken out of the basin to-day, and are now at moorings in the stream, in readiness to leave with the Assistance, Captain Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., and the Resolute, Captain Kellett, C. 8., when they are com pleted, which they will be in a day or two, and they still expect to be able to leave Greenhithe on Thurs day next. the 15th inst., as originally named, on their euterorising voyage. The Lords of the Admiralty intend paying a visit of inspection to the vessels of the Arctic Expedition at Greenhithe, on Thursday next, previous to their departure for sea. Captain Sir Edward B-Icher, Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, R.N., second secretary at the Admiralty; Colonel Colquhoun, R.A., inspector, of the Royal Carriage Department; and Captain Washington, R.N., were present on the wharf wall at the landing place in the afternoon, with a number of officers, to witness Mr. Hay, the lecturer on chemistry, instruct ing the bombardiers of the Royal Marine Artillery attached to the expedition, in the model of discharging gunpowder under water by means of the galvanic bat tery. The explosive charges consisted of half a pound of gunpowder in ten canisters, which were sufficient when discharged in the bottom of the river to show the principle and uses to which the galvanic battery can be applied when explosions by means of gunpowder are found necessary in the Arctic regions. Mir. George Shepherd, C.E., has received instruc tions from the Admiralty to examine and get repaired all the gas apparatus connected with the balloons for distributing messages in the Arctic regiono, and also to supply a number of new balloons, and the means of infl4ting th em w ith gas , t o b e use d by the present expedition. The balloons are made on this occasion to float on the water, should they come down at 5 , ,,a. room to fill i n . . . The messages are to be printed on satin of various colours and on papers of all colours, and about half a these 8 Ilion of them will be printed on both sides, leaving Captain in writing the latitude and longitude of the 'yeas l at the time they are sent up. Some of Expedition. messagescoi may be met with by the parties under which will be rlo h n e , engaged in the Behring Straits dispatched from the Resolute : following is a copy of the messages "Dispatched vr _o_t ! llett, in l a t. N ., l ong. s w hi . p R T e a so s l i u r te da c hariptai by a ballo on f rom h er M a j esty ' s v isions left at 411 hn• (On the other aide.) Pro to winter at or Steering for A new feature is to betinoterho e diFe l d n to - the vessels of intending sup;fpestelition, Mr. in th e • • i tv ' , f • Ito fool. d ir oil as fumel,eaaansd, guns, with a view to en able the several of his Captain Sr Edward the Arcticsand Greener having been ordereds h m a e r a p o t o o n kill whales and other large. fish of regions, for the purpose of us i ng such parts as are fit to . . I killing birds or the enterprising voyagers to obt • deer, will enable with the addition of Mime rifles .. for hes " previous expeditions. resources hitherto unavailable by any of the obtain of hugeLondon fiam e suddenly rising high into the air and lig htin g EXTENSIVE FIRE.—On Saturday night at a late hour the inhabitants of the City and ea st were greatly alarmed in consequence tible from of the river Thames. This being distinctly peree up both p, sides end of sheets of the various metropolitan bridges, no time was lost in_Fiviu he rge the necessary intelligence to the engine-stations. was raging at Mill-wall, Poplar. The f i remen having arriv ed at that point they found that the disaster had occurred i n the extensive premises of Messrs. Cassell and Co., pitch, tar, varnish, and patent camphine manufacturers. The engines were set to work from a good supply of water. The origin of the fire is not precisely known, but from the fact of some miscreant having cut the hus:l of one ~1 the engines while it was being set to work, strong t.Fpieio i euteitained that the s ame par ty h a d some hand in ki n dli ng the tire. Tireloss is very considerable, and unfortunately the firm was sot irared• TUE , COAST OF AFRICA.. By letters from the above squadron to the 19th ult. we are informed. that Counnod ! re Bice has entered into treaty with every native chief in the Bight of Benin for the abolition of th 4 slave trade, protection of missionaries, &c. The blockade is entirely withdrawn, except at Whydah, and there it will not last long, as Commander Forbes, of the Phi lomel, has gone to Abomey - to treat with the King of Dahomey. The capture of Lagos broughieabout those happy results. The chiefs, who six months ago would have killed any English officer who had the misfor tune to be thrown in their power, now hail us as their best friends, swear the slave trade shall never be renewed in their territories, and desire nothing but merchant ships for legal traffic. Commander Forbes, additional of the Penelope steam-frigate (Commodore Bruce's ship), is very be riomly ill with dysentery at *Abbeokuta ; great doubts are entertained of his, recovery. The Harlequin, 12, Commander Wilmot, is sickly in consequence of her boats having been employed in the rivers. The sickness is not of a fatal character. She has gone to the southward to refresh her crew. An English merchant at Accra has, it is alleged,. been sent to Sierra Leone to be tried for slave dealing. Captain Lyster, of the Penelope, has quite reco vered from the wounds received at Lagos. The Wasp, 14, Commander Crozier, arrived at. Sierra Leone on the 10th of Alarch from Ascension, and Cominander Crozier was. invalided home on the 13. h. Mr. Bonham, the Commodore's flagslieute nant, is appointed acting commander of the Wasp ;* and Mr. Bruce, mate, acting flag-lieutenant. Mr. De Kantzon, mate of the Volcano, is appointed to the Wolverine. Mr. Wright, clerk of the Philomel, to the Water witch, as acting paymaster and purser, vice Cum ming, returned to England. Assistant-Surgeon 'James Henry, from the Pene lope, to the Dolphin.. • . Second Master Robinson, of the Myrmidon, to the Tortoise, vice Green, to the Myrmidon. • Assistant-Surgeon Govett, of the Penelope, to the Myrmidon, vice Mangle, to the Tortoise. The Wolverine, 12, Commander Falcon, will be the next vessel home from the Coast of Africa squadron. Faemou•rn, APRIL 9.—The Augusta Schneider, a very fine new bar*, of 420 tons, which sailed from this port yesterday for Australia, has taken out to that colony the first expedition of the Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Company, comprising, with officials, miners, women and children, not less than 130 persons. Besides these passengers, the Augusta Schneider has loaded a large quantity of effective mining materials and machinery, and a considerable amount in gold specie, all under the charge of Mr. W. H. Ritchie. Three of the directors of the company (Messrs. Rich, Horncastle, and Hanson) made a special visit to the Augusta Schneider prior to her departure, which has taken place _under favourable auspices of wind and weather. SHEERNESS, APRIL 10.--4eF Majesty ' s paddle wheel steam-frigate Cyclops,. .6, chief engineer Mr. William Chillcott, has been removed from the dry dock to the west side of the fitting basin, underneath the sheers. See was taken into dock on the 20th of January, and has consequently required nearly eleven weeks' work on her to make good her defects. Iler Majesty's paddle-wheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Mr. John E. Petley, master, passed by here on Thursday evening, en route to Portsmouth, for the purpose of attending on the First Lord of the Admi ralty, who pays an official visit to that port next week. Her- Majesty's screw-steam-frigate Horatio, 24, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, will proceed, on Thhrsday next, on an experimental cruise, in order to try her machinery to the fullest extent, and the efficiency of her screw propeller. The officers and I crew , hulked on board the St. Lawrence during the I time she has been in the dock, were turned over to her on Saturday. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Avon, 3, Mr. Alfred Veitch second master, tender to the Im pregnable, flsg-ship at Devonport, made her number on Friday morning, and proceeded on her voyage to the westward. Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Anaphion, 34, andl ar'ertMur:jeedatty" yesterday chief engineer Mr. Gearge Etcock, is complete in her rig. She was removed yesterday from the fitting basin to the dry dock recently occupied • by the Cy at nine Cy clops, for the purpose of having her bottom cleaned. MT. W. S. • in the steam-vessel Myrtle, Bourchier master, left port for Chethain supersedeA.M., on service for the dockyard, the flagt ship Devonport, Roland Wilson, of her Majesty's ship Ini Tbe R Bv. Pregnabl e, s n e ss D oa k yard. "•ti r W. Kirby as w ch il a l pl i :in a of f w Sh d e a,y r navy on the Ist of June Kirby entered her Majesty i s the post from which i1e e,.1812, and was appointed to of which hey as faithful]; about to retire (the duties performed) on the 30th of 0 v r d e r e y r . are inform s .d of her Majesty's the timber nd Council ct ve , ,huilli„,guirt:,,,allit.B4:l;na.lrbee,rwoef un d t i. a ! tw: rep 'lrs will occupy a considerablii pe• i.. 1 We nave bee's miormed that eo, of remuner a hng ,the MUMS' r e lative to the new plan With :such facts as these (for they are facts, and have all been duly reporte d to t h e proper au thoriti es at the time) starin g us i n t h e f ace , and many more which we could add uce i n suppor t o f our reason [See the letter of " G. H. G.," an d a paragraph quoted from the Shi pp i ng G azet t e , i n an other column] for believing there was something wrong with the ship more than with her commander, we are inclined to put a very mitigated construction upon the reports of others as to the apparent want of discretion on the commander's _ part in the matter of the route steered. and -- It is impossible to describe the sensation this their s crew occasioned re cli we belonged.n f m a n i n y this h e melancholy event has which nearly all the dock yard has been the c r e heartrending nn port, d it nh t g o e numerous have lrh b t information by widows and orphans. exhibitions of grief, applications for The Port-Admir a l render all the information have evinced the utmostalla Admiral-Superintendent anxiety and readiness to occa sioned by this unlooked-for in their power, and to alle viateability lies the distress occa as far as in head was an iron steam-vessel, of 1,400 tons, built by Laird, of Birkenhead, for calamity. The Birken head not carry her c t o o als - or a steam frigate, but so far from being enabled a good reputation,Wh. was consequently converted carry i a battery of guns, she which character she never en joyedsailed h a nd this port he r a last appointmentsn saitl.l apportioned sof many complement January, into a troop-ship, i n 2d in her can testify. She Reetrriebcßu officers who have she victualled as her own Birkenhead intelligence °f t c h° a n d the o n h w e l i i n i. which 131. day troop service complement 129 persons, her ranked among the most As a navigator Mr. at o in y otn a a l i ns N ste a t v mu y s. . hfriin H gl i tt s nen, latter aanndd skilful of the Masters greatlythenMaster-CommanderMr.been respected in the ser vice.to a sister of W. Bunnett, ii, but recently married Portsea. Mrs. Sairoo n d is residingcl-, of the Bank, Hard, grief we will not attempt t Tat Gosport. Her r t o In engineer, Mr. W. Wyndham trude upon. The chief , and the assistant-engi neers, were also known ta M a ny of the officers who -. many in this quarter. were drowned were well known to the officers of the garris on Rolt, of the 1 2 th Lancers, wa g here. Cornet s th e son of P eter R olt, Esq., the contractor , who has become the borough of Woolwich, and a candidate for all feel d loss he has sustained. eeply for the Although no amount of pecuniary benevolence can compensate for the los s society sustained by this frightful aacidec a t nd the country has the noble spirit manifested by t h e ' yet we rejoice at distin guished in the service, in their desire gallant and re so manifested to alleviate by their spontaneously poignant distress which is the purses some of the natural such a large bereavement. O n We .consequence of day the dire news was Officd.nesday, the very Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, officially confirmed, Commander-in-Chief at thi s "r.C.M.G., the and his views were roost port, proposed, rtt, C. 8., that mIY by Rear-Admiral -Superintendent prescott, espoused they, together with the ca p tains, c fn' esco ers, and ships' companies of her Maje st y 's shi p s and Spit head and in Portsmouth harbour, should in at stration,of their deep regret at the loss of in Birken head,demon- subscribe one day s pay towards thethe relief of the widows and pay of the pecuniary marines who perished on that melancholyseamen and We are proud to add this call has been occasion. acknowledged by a ll the officers and most readily fleet at this port, in a most eager and crews of the spontaneous manner, and we hope the " good int ent ', here, but that every in habitant of this P will not stop will contribute their m ite also towardsor port, at least, the same s object. you an extract f rom a letter I TO TAE EDITOR Or TUE rOnTSMOUTH TIMES AND NAV AL GAZETTE. i t will tend to were much out, the lat e di sastrous loss of her Majesty's ship Birkenhead: thharvBoeiwr ,—I beg b r e e e l e g i e g i t h v o t e dsoenfnrdtohme t e h a e u C s e a P e e i as and the at mosp h ere surcharged with electricity . Other iro n ships in tho the " weather a i t s h s e u e p b p e o i s n e g d v t e h r a y t u t tse e c t o ti n: d p , asses bay (Table Bay) experienced a great variation in their compasses. The captain of the mail steamer says his THE CRYSTAL PALACE. ls a ae fe e w w b a rl e n ; h e o o m u r p s l , i s some e o n t h S o a u t s u a r n d d a s y Another recepti on of the public in th e C r y s t a l Pa o; of n d persons agai vv n, e f e r scattered through its vast and desolate aisles. Whe ther influenced by the sanguine hope of preserving the fabric, or by the regretful expectation of its speedy removal, thd same unflagging spiritpf -admi ration seemed universally to prevail. The chances of an unfavourable issue to the natural desire to re tain so brilliant a memorial of those triumphal scenes which have so lately been the all-absorbing topic, invest these later visits with melancholy anticipations of a possible farewell. So thoroughly is the display of 1851 associated in every mind with the building itself, that the acres of vacant flooring suggest, even to the most unimaginative, the recollection of what has been and is now past. Whether the fame of the Crystal Palace is to rest upon that recollection, or upon the realization of Sir Joseph Paxton's winter garden, will in a shorttimebe finally h de u ci n cl e e h d al - le a n t g a e l d l events, its applicability to the purpose of a sheltered promenade has been tested success ; and although attempts to disparage may have given it the name of the great glass greenhouse in Hyde•park, it by no means follows that such a re treat would not be moat agreeable du r i n g the preva lence of the bitter east winds with which this metro polis is so favoured. Next to the genial temperature which prevails in the Crystal Palace, nothing more forcibly strikes the observer than the completeness and simplicity of the arrangements for drainage and ventilation. Although their ingenuity has been fully detailed, it may not be out of place to remark that they are comprehended at a glance, now that the con tents of the building have been removed. Perhaps it may partially be attributed to the absence of obstruc tions to sight, and greatly to the paucity of attrac tions, which before lured observation from less inviting subjects. It certainly now presents a very different scene. The transept is clear, excepting a solitary fountain, a refreshment counter, and a few seats and tables at the northern end. To some of the doors at the principal entrance were affixed bills, announcing a sale, to commence on the 26th instant, of several powerful boilers and the steam-pipes which supplied the motive power to the machinery. From one of the pillars on the right, where the transept is intercepted by the nave, hung the original and very pleasing and interesting water-colour drawing of Mr. Louis Haghe, which is to he published on the Ist of May next, representing the transept and the principal re freshment court, with the magnificent trees, which eves now are budding, and were when taken, in full foliage. The picture was greatly admired, and cer tainly forms one of the prettiest of the views of the Exhibition. Underneath was one of the views of the building, as proposed to be altered for a winter gar den, according to the plan of Sir J. Paxton, and to which we have before referred. From another pillar, and immediately opposite, depended a set of drawings of the interior of the Exhibition, by Baxter's oil printing process; and here, too, crowds of the visi tors lingered to congratulate themselves on having seen _the reality which in these drawings ilea truthfully delineated. In one corner, ranged in rows, were the watering-pots used for laying the dust; and in another, an array of brooms and buckets, companions in idleness of the 350 flagstaffs, all of which miscel laneous propertiee, including the flags of all nations, will assuredly be applied by new owners to household purposes, unless a fever to possess relics of the Ex hibitionamongst a discerning public. tell-tale turnstiles marked f or th e There are spreads twen ty ra t p e i l d i pass which th o usands and t ens o f to pounds, in shillin gs , have been so eagerly atchuisnoodmnealagnds oc cheerfully paid. Paid. Mr. W. T. Best performed, upon the organ, selections from Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Grano, Bach, and Mozart, between the hours of three and five,: commencing with portions of the Messiah, and concluding with the grand Hallelujah chorus. During that time the company promenaded in the nave, ascended into the galleries; snapped out the different sections from memory, looked curiously at the ma ze o f p i pes expose d to v i ew in the machinery department, and, in fact, follo we d the bent of their different humours ; and as the declining rays of an unclouded sun shone unim peded through the transept roof, gradually and silently withdrew. the building, receiv e d the tit With respect to the means now bei p n e gt i a o k n e s ti to both toar rHesotutshese o s f en r t a e r n l c i e am o e ftit,lying demolition, in an immense number of signatures. At three o'clock a general meeting of the committee took place in the large room near the south entrance, and resolutions were unanimously adopted to organise district com mittees and get up public meetings in various parts of London, so that the metropolitan public generally may have an opportunity of expressing their views and opinions upon the subject. Meetings with this object will take place in the course of next week, and on Monday the 19th there will be a general public meet ing of the people of London. For the country the annexed form of petition has been suggested, and a great many already circulated in various towns, cities, and boroughs : " TO THE HONOURAELE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRI TAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, " The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the borough of --, " Showeth,—That your petitioners have heard with great regret of the intention to take down the Crystal Palace in Hyde park; that they regard that structure as the object of the world's admiration, and they believe it to be capable of being adapted to many purposes of public utility and enjoyment. " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Ho nourable House to take such measures as will ensure the preservation of the said palace, and its dedication to the use of the public. " And your petitioners will ever pray." The Commissioners have addressed the following reply to a memorial of the local committee of War rington on the subject of the appropriation of the surplus funds of the Exhibition : " Palace of Virestaiinster, April 30852. - - . _ '' Sir,—l am directed by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial signed by yourself on behalf of the War rington Local Committee, praying that the sums sub scribed to the Exhibition fund by the various provincial towns may be appropriated to public objf as connected with the progress of art, science, and education in the town from which subscriptions have been raised; and in particular that the sum of 1501. remitted to the Com missioners for the borough of Warrington may be ap propriated to the building fund of the Warrington Mu seum and Library. to you, for the information of the Warringtonc by " The Commissioners direct me, in reply, to transmit mittee, the accompanying copy of a report addressedof the them to her Majesty on the subject of the dispoeusld b more surplus funds in their hands; especially call the attention ofanthde " efer to the an passages in that report in which they r . e _ that all nouncement originally put forwarde_boYe:n M subscriptions must be absolute and al fi by and ' in which teas ynitnwittee to the they express their opinion that I or local cha e applied to purposes of a limited, P... r to the surplus that the s ur t t i 3alu_ , s should not b r a eel themselves to . rawer; and they do not therefore applicatiobencomply containedn the memorial. likely 37 t'" , 111- mi7tte W e understand that it is the surplus fund will be appropriated to ' the erection of a building in - or near Lot,don for the purpose of a museum or picture gallery,' I am directed to acquaint you that t h ere mittee, h aa r t e t s a p e e y ct to the s tatement advanced b th zja, ban no declaration on the part of the Com;nis. A. BOWRING. sidoers to justify such an opinion; that the enclosed re port is tannedotnnlyst n n e o n o u t ra h e er n re r p el o a r t t in o g n the subject of its i disposal has been made by the C om missioners.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, " EDGA R " Benjamin Pierpont, Esq., 8,;c2, 1,q1;11 . 1il Order of K.C. of er .cond in coma:and an The eenima_r- 6 ~ commander Powell, their conduct against the pirate on the Aiff wage chilarrbijoeillgthyr,caedr,leii,ihoi t i ; ce, thea)ns a c i ra :e c te t i c i tto ) c t, ' : o ! di v a l ; r " Deliberated in the public streets, this 4th December, 1851. " TUE PEOPLE." the sub-prefect's first impression was that this do cument had been seized by the police ; but, on leaving his room to, make inquiries found a dep u t a ti on of three men waiting for him. He asked them what they wanted ? and they said, " We are the delegates of the people, and you must resign at this very moment yourfunct f i r o o n m s to us, and withdraw." " I hold my powers re gular government," said the sub- prefect, " aandi will not give them up to a deputatio n of the imeute." "Do you count on your soldiers ?" said one of the deputation. " Well, if you do, I tell you they will not fire. They know as well as we do that the Con stitution has been violated, and that the people have , regained possession of their rights. Therefore all re sistance is impossible. We are ten thousand in number, ready to march." "If I only had tw o men," said the sub-prefect, " I would not hesitate to get myself killed with them sooner than do what you want ; and I ask you, if you were in my place, would you do otherwise ?" One of the men, who seemed much affected, remarked, "No ; and, in short, I should n o t be so rry to shelter you with my body from a bullet." The sub-prefect then sent to the barracks for an additional force, and called the detach ment at the sub-prefecture to arms. Shortly after a detachment of soldiers arrived, and with the others prepared for resistance. Some minutes later the co lumn of insurgents appeared, and the soldiers pre sented their muskets. The insurgents cried, " VITC la ligne!" They were headed by some of the pri soners. Summonses were made in the usual form to the insurgents to disperse in the name of the law, bat they responded by a discharge of musketry. The troops returned the fire. Eight of the insurgents were killed, 16 wounded, And the others took t, throwirg aside their arms, and abandoning their vic tims. Meanwhile other bands committed gross ex cesses in different parts of the town ; and one of these band shot at and attacked with scythes two gentle men named Bernard and Vernhes—the former a landed proprietor, the latter registrar of the Tribunal. Bernard was so dreadfully injured that he died on the spot, and M. Vernhes still lies in a dangerous state. Some of the insurgents threatened a female, who keeps a tobacconist's shop with death, and others cried in patois, " To the lantern with her ! To the lantern !" Meanwhile the troops turned out, and attacked the insurgents with great vigour. Attempts were made to form barricades, but they were pre vented ; and after a short resistance, all the insurgents were dispersed, and order was re-established. The prisoners who had distinguished themselves in the fray, or were known as chiefs of the revolutionary party, were subsequently captured. The number of witnesses called for the prosecution was very great. They established all the important facts stated in the indictment, and disclosed others of deep interest. It was proved that secret societies existed at Beziers and in the neighbourhood, and that the persons who were received into them had to take an oath to obey their chiefs implicitly, and bound themselves to put to death any members who should betray the secrets of the society, or refuse to obey the instructions of their officers. The obligations of the oatb, administered by order of the central committees, were that all the means and energy of the members should be directed to the establishment of a democratic social Republic, but out of those societies there sprung up others, in which the members were organised with a view to pillage, and with an understanding that, in the event of a conflict, the working claeses should fall indiscri minately upon and massacre every man above their own class, whatever might be his politics or his posi tion. The murder of M. Bernard, and the dreadful wounds inflicted upon M. Vernhes, could only be ascribed to the men composing these societies, conviction several of the witnesses declared their convicthiey that these gentlemen were attacked, were personally obnoxious, but because the3 r in the the class of the bourgeoisie. It transpired not becausew were of a re course of the trial that several parsons a i soa ppear in the ceived a friendly warning not the insurgents streets during the commotion, person not had resolved to fire upon every working man. That wear ing a blouse or the dress o was aoved by the fact that pillage was intended i e n y surgents were pro vided to th place . a considerable numberoftneth vided with bags, in whichgiven by some cruelty of the insuregwenitt; the booty. The accounts given nesses of the ferocity an horrifying. They were were in h icting death, but when towards their victims s uer not satisfied with M. .llernard and bil• ern es were lying on the imploring mercy, ground and the wretches again fired upon them, a nd , ed one of them boasted a f ter th e conflict that be bad shown his patrioti sm b y p l unge ins his p itchfork into the very b ones of his victim. agreed• All the witn e sses describing M. Peret as of the democratic party at the c h ie f Beziers, and it d that wasp r.ove _rising was determined upon, and from a w ' b i c e orders were issued to the different chiefs and officers of the se cret societies to call out their men and proceed to a fi xe d l p ace of rendezvous. Most of the witnesses for the prosecution, however, expressed an opinion that M. Peret was opposed to massacre and pillage, and regretted the excesses which the insurgents had committed. For the defence, several witnesses were called f For the purpose of proving en alibi in favour of some of the prisoners, but the at tempt failed, and four of the witnesses prevaricated to such an extent that the president of the court-martial ordered them to be taken into custody with a view to a prosecution for perjury. When the evidence had closed, however, the president had these persons brought before him, and informed them that although they bad exposed themselves by their false testimony to the penalty of imprisonment for life with hard labour, he was disposed to take their ignorance into consideration, and, to suppose that they had been guilty from a feeling of humanity towards the prisoners. He would, therefore, order their dis charge frog custody, leaving them to the justice of God and their remorse of conscience. After the pleadings of the different advocates for the defence, and the reply of the commissioner of the Government, the president, on the 29'11 ult., the trial having occupied 11 days, ordered the court to be cleared, and the deliberation commenced on the ques tions, one hundred in number, brought forward by the prosecution. The deliberation having closed, the fourteen prisoners were brought forward to bear their sentences. They were all declared guilty Cllomae Vidal, Cedelard, and Pages were condemned t death ; Peret, Coutelou, Galtbert, and B oyer lace • fortified I sentenced to transportation in a forti w A na l3 potta- Sallelea, Manne, and Salvo to simPl° A complete list of the Tames of the, persons and places from which subscriptions have been received, and of the azimut subscribed at each place, has bc•on prepared ; and should there be funds sufficient, this list will be published, so as to satisfy every le übscriber that his mite has been received, and will be applied for the objects intended. I remain your obedient servant, JOSEPH HumE, Chairman of the Committee Bryanatone-square, April 10. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. The opening trip . of the season of this club is to take place on Saturday, toe 24th inst., when the commodore, James Goodson, E q., will heist his flag on board his yacht, the Avalon, cif Blackwell, at four o'clock and accompanied by the vice and rear commodores in the War Hawk and Mouse, will proceed to the new club house, at Erith. The first match of the season is to t a k e place on Saturday , the 29th of M ay next, and i s f or small-class vessels ( not exceeding ten tons) only; th e course is from Erith to the Lower Hope Point and back, and the prizes are 20 guineas for the first yacht, and 5 guineas for the second. A steam-boat will be engaged by the club for the accommodation of the members and their friends. The second match of the season w as f o obi n rlul will for the large e lass vessels only, and the c ourse f rom Erith to Southen d andv back; the prizes but it s be w e be 4 r: guineas eon d . T fo h r e the fi i r s s t n o yacht, t3, et anddefi definitively v g e nea s fixed, be either the middle or end of June. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. Th e usual monthly meeti ng o f this distinguished club was held on Wednesday eveni ng , at the Piazza Hotel, Covent -garden. For the fir s t f ew m i nutes the chair was taken by Mr. Green, who:was quickly succeeded by Lord Alfred Paget, upon whom the main business of the even ing . devolved. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, it was determined that the second and last match of the season should take place on Saturday, June 12, entries to close on the even ing of the 2d. T he secretary then read a communica tion from the Russian Consul, announcing the great regatta of St. Petersburgh for June 27, in which royal yachts of all nations are invited to contend for a prize of 850 gs., the race to extend from Cronstadt round the Neva Island. Th e l etter was express i ve of the warmes t desire for the St. Petersburgh Imperial Yacht Club that gentlemen of the Royal Thames Yacht Club would ho nour them by entering the lists. The distance to be sailed is 160 nautical miles. Lard .Alfred Paget pro posed that the annual donation of 51. be subscribed by the club to the Ship w recked Mariners' Society, proposal which it is almost unnecessary to -say met the hearty concurrence of the club. Mr. George Russell was then appointed agent for the Royal Thames Yacht Club at the Isle of Man. Captain Wheeler announced that the Ruby had been chartered to accompany the races of this club, as affording, from her s ize, superior accom modation to members and visitors. G . entli.meu stewards having been appointed for the receipt of tickets and other duties on board the steam-boat, several members were elected, and others proposed for ballot at the next meeting. DESERTION OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.—On Saturday, at the Brentford Police-court, John Keeley, an elderly and r espectable-looking man, valet and courier to Colcnel Caulfield, of St. James's-street, was charged by Mr. Lewis, vestry clerk and overseer of the parish of Isleworth, with having deserted his wife, and left her chargeable to the parish. It was stated that the defendant, who had been courier to many of the nobility, and who was now in the re. ceipt cf as much as 2001. per annum, had deserted his wife while she was on a sick bed. That he had not contributed anything towards her support for many years, but she bad obtained a precariou+ living by going out nursing. The de fendant now refused to allow the poor woman a far i thint and said that she was well able to make her own livel'hl. The chairman said the defendant richly deserved po o l]: _ ment, and as lie refused to make his wife any allnots,yttn, a : a " should commit him to prison under the Vagra Act• rogue and vagabond. al Wail sfeant- LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The M ils ers a e n 3 d - at a large freight of manufae ship Asia, Judkius, commander, sailedithostryuonsur s a l e 12.40 p.m. to-day, for New York, with re t w steam-map City of 'large number of passengers. e T s h •1 :d from the Mersey tkis Glasgow, Wylie commander, Ai: afternoon for Philadelphia, with . The Pacific Mail steam. s t t e e r a da y from the Clyde. She will be Steam tured goods and 70 passe:g e e :4 Bogota, Hall commander, Zgediuroa,_ eve .named places, The Royal ail and 'Valparaiso ;:and will take out ship Company's new day next for the Pacific, calling at arrived at this port ye e s s S b tone commander, with advices from Madeira,dispatched R?on. I steam-ship Niagarlb th ult., Boston to mails for n o the 31st, and tele- New York to the from New York - graphic accounts . , /la Halifax, to the Ist each of the grap , be ex pected to arrive at this port on Monday inst ' ma) a United States'mail (this ay) The United steam-ship Pacific, Nye with advices from New car nander , be loo k e d for Wed nesday morning next. atGnx.arin ROADS AND BRIDGES.—On Saturday the 38th report of the Commissioners on Highland Roads and Bridges (presented to Parliament) was printed, extend ing to 30 p4g Q6 , T .the coun ties whole of the assessments on ties of Scotland for the year 1851 amounted to 4,048/. 45. sd. only, showing a decrea s e of 65 51. below Woo of 1850, and 1,7464 below those of 1848.