The Sun. — London, England, 1852-04-28 00:00:00

`the time when tho Reform Bill passed no alteration had taken place in the franchise. Twenty years had elapsed since the passing of that Bill, and they still had the s aaoe 501. franchise in counties; and the sarna 101. franceise in towns. 'There had, therefore, been no alteration of or tampering with the franchise. A strange proposition had, however, been made to that House with reference to the extension of the franchise which had not hitherto been noticed. He alluded to the proposition made by the Secretary for the Home Department with reference to the militia franchise.—(Cheers. and anteater on the Opposition side, and cries of " Oh r from the Ministerial benches.) Hon. Gentlemen might well cry " OIL" — (Laughter.) That proposition was made oe a, Friday evening, nod so anxious was the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Walpole) that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Rusteli should hear it, that he (Sir B. Hall) was informed that 3 the Right lion. Gentletnae actually called the Noble Lord back into the House that he might hear the pro nosedhe alteratioa.—(Flear, beer, and a laugh.) The Noble Lord did come back, and was certainty astounded to hear the proposition that people of the class men tioned should be placed upon the electoral list. Now, what was the class of persons which the Government had proposed to enfranchise, and what was the class of per sona whom his Hon. Frierel ear. King) pop place upon the electoral list? Hes , would take the case of two persons claiming the right of voting before the Re vising Barrister. One might b e a man of high I and , lofty demeanour. who had served his country in the enin• sule, and who wore on his breast decorations won by his gallantry, but, because he claimed a vote in respect of a tenement worth 481. a year, the Berrister would say, " If you had all the glory of the Duke of Welling ton, and all- the honours of Lord Nelson. and occupy a tenement of 481. a year, you ere not worthy to be p l ace d upon the register, according to the present l aw ," This was the class of persons who would be enfranchised by the Bill which his Honourable Friend asked leave to introduce. But what was the class of per sons who would have been placed upon the register under the recent proposition of the Government? They might be told of "after-dinner jakaa” but the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Ur. Walpole) was delibe rately submitted to the House, and he did not suppose that Lord Derby would condescend to treat with such levity a question of this . importance, or that he would make a fool of the House of Parliament—(A laugh)—by putting forth such a proposition, if he did not intend to carry it out. Well, another person claiming a vote might be a loutish clown —perhaps a feeder of pies in a farm yard; a person 'somewhat similar to the George Seacoal who was tutored by Dogberry. Indeed, he might per haps be accosted in the language of Dogberry—" Come hither, neighbour Seacoal; God hash blessed you with a good name; to be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature;" for a vote for a county, according to the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, came by nature.—(A laugh.) If such a man was asked for his qualification, be might say that he had received 61., that he put on a red coat for some three weeks its each year, that he was 5 feet 2 inches high, and that he was, therefore, entitled to be placed on the register.—(Cries of " Divide!") All he (Sir B. Hall) could say was, that if the Government intended to abide by a recent statement of the Noble Earl (Lord Derby), that it was his intention there should be no reform, the House and the country ought to un derstand their intentions clearly and distinctly. If, on the other hand, the Right Hon. Gentleman( Mr. Disraeli) meant to enfranchise the working classes, let him say so at once, and he (Sir Benjamiue Hall) would be very glad to see a Bill for that purpose laid on the table.—(Divide, divide.) Mr. L. KING, in reply, observed that it had been said the measure he proposed would introduce a very great constitutional change. It would, however, do an act of simple justice, by giving to the inhabitants of certain localities the right of voting possessed by per sons occupying property of the same value in other lo calities; and so far ha thought it was desirable that a constitutional change should take place. It had been also said that the object of his measure was merely to secure representation to property; but what he contended for was, that if property was repre sented in one locality it should be represented fairly in another. A division (for which the House had for some time been extremely impatient) then took place, when there appeared— For the motion .. . 149 Against it . 202 Majority against the motion —53 Leave was then given to Sir W. P. WOOD to bring in a Bill to extend the pr ov i s i ons of the Trustees Act, 1850. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman explained what were the defects which he wished to remedy, re lating (we believe) chiefly to cases in which infants and married women are concerned. COLONEL OUTRAM. Mr. ANSTEY rose to bring before the House a sub ject on which he had given notice of two motions, one for the production of the papers relating to Colonel Oat ram's case, and the other for an instruction to the Com mittee on Indian Territories to examine Colonel Outram teaching the alleged corruption of the Bombay Govern 112.!ent• The Hon. and Learned Member was proceeding speak upon the first motion, which was for " copies of th • ii( „.° Papers and correspondence concerning the inves . ir"°?a made by Colonel Outran], C. 8., into the exist s,: of corrupt relations between the Guicowar or hi s exist ed and certain officers of the Bombay Government; and 418 0 concerning the removal of the seed officer from his post of Resident at Baroda," when thMr. H. BAILLIE interrupted him by observing that e Papers h e h a d more t h an once as k ed for had arrived y:the last mail, and were under consideration. Mr. ANSTEY said he would, however, press his mo ti"a • Re had nothing to do with the way in which the production of the documents might affect the pecuniary interests of Colonel Outram; he made his motion in the interest of the natives of India, and the service of India, and this country, the honour of which was involved. The Only result of an attempt to stifle inquiry into what yet remained to be known of this case, the main facts of which were notorious, could be, not the evasion of shame and disgrace, but the impunity of the offender. He was thee proceeding to enter upon the history of the case, and referring to former charges of a similar kind in 1 834; but An SON. MEMBER rose, and took notice that there were tot 40 Members present. The SPEAKER counted, and, finding that there were 41111 Y 34, adjourned the H ouse , a t a Quarter before Ei g ht o'clock, until the next (this) day. bh -r • M. T. Smith paired against the Militia Bill with Sir E. Kerrison. The Hon. G. H. Cavendish paired against the Militia Bill with Mr. W. Patten, for. Sir G. Dashwood paired against the second reading of the Militia Bill with Mr. G. Berkeley. MR. L. ICING'S MOTION Mr. Alderman Copeland, till half-past nine, for, with Sir E. Gooch, Bart., against. Mr. Gray for, Lord Barrington against. Mr. Alderman Sidney fnr, sir , H Fl )pe against. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION 6 51 i (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) • Sir,—On Monday the 26th, the debate on the Militia Bill was brought to a close, without any event of merk except the ULM. eivision. O n Friday the talk of the litoLise was that the Ministers were to be in a minority ; On Monday that they were to have a ma - jority of 25 ; and they finally carried the second readin g by 315 aget 165. The study of the Division List ...c . Presents rdo very remarkable interences, except the ''' . ger ` er al cue of the difficulty of dislodging the lion when he hag he•ei; le ' The el oinQ LT :. Teen, on tho i4rouretary objected to the Volunteer rifle. wnhde that they were a force which would be forthconai, when they be forthcoming were wanted, but would not ing instance of the un,,na,were not wanted. An amus rent: aon of legal acumen to mili tary questions. When this was finished, a scene occurred highly cha racteristic of the Tory R„ torat , g, to brin ° g n. i n a lto legaliza al ex o p rn en in se of the Candida ' 11 [ the the Leave was asked a th t e p 7i t v o ic n g e , i a n t of ale to each voter at a County te , '''c' on Election on his arrival at the voting-place. v e en- ou may laugh ; but a • • there- is not a wore, or thia that was not '• borne out by what 7 wa l ? stated by the promoters. their idea The Bill purported to le,a In `Lreesonable refreshment ;" and it was stated by County„Menabers, that of " reasonable refreshment was a 'ticket on a public house for the amount of helf-a-crown, which they de clared had been tried and found. sing economy upon ..'t, .3 Only th at their previous practice. The InLs t,r. ; , half-3•CCOWTI is the price of two gallons of ale; -whiCh . . you, as well as any Member of Parliament, ar e auto . from y our own knowledge to suPplY • And the strange result was, that the m onstrous pro- Position to introduce such a Bin, was carried by 58 course the a gainst 19, which is more than 3 to 1. Of a 4 4.., which this Tories were there, and those who ought to have been be vexed questions e. Were not. I think I see the interesi:, with specimen of English progress o . n the vexed .:., be received in a.. connected with the mode of voting, will this moment is at ,st foreign Countries where the subject ` - ' 4 u 41'...., . under agitation. Two gallons of strong. at start ing, beer to be l eg i s l at i vely provided to the • + n g , by way of cl ear ing his intellect for the discharge of his solemn duties ! Of course it cannot be long before the same delicate attention must be txknded to the borough voter. And even now, it is tii St OPossibe to expect an Election Committee to look with v ~ se verity on a pra c ti ce w hi c h t h e H ouse o f C ommon s b„ a vote o f 5 8 against 19 has virtually declared to be lawful and right. If a Bill had been proposed, to authorize every voter to take his neighbour's wife, it is protium thic the Rouse would have stopped it on the ground of being unlawful and wrong. It has not stopped the two F allow of ale, and therefore the inference is that it was ' 4 wfal end right. Only consider what thi s may come to. You have two thousand voters at Bradford, many of whom come to the poll from distances which in summer weather may ', W arrant a man's being dry. The end is intended to be, that the drunkenness which is in four thousand gallons of a le, is to be mad e i n t o a di sposable fund by Act of v liaruent, for the be ne fit o f suc h as chute to take ad ,,lientage of i t, an d the candidate is to be made to pnay. 1 il have heard i n B ra df or d o f " head-:honey;" 'and V ll , ow her e are four thousand half-crowns, which are 5001., e er. The f act may be that there telY to be made into an Act of Parliament fund for - .,,, 11414 r who would ta k e i t. Y ou k now b est how that () aid be. But however it might be, where is the policy O f thus creating a fund by Act of Parliament for the en "urrigeinent of willing? In the Navy, though the pantity of intoxicating drinks of any kind is strictly , I mited, there is great - difficu in preventing one man fro nt . • • • uriniaing an othee' , allowance• and there are or used to be, a setof - ' drink up all the ! .: a i n life was to men, whose interne- ~ small beer their companions left ois pniate and h 17,, u will have cse,Wefn,t, by . the name lath ed ' 0 parlientary" B wipers estab of " swipers." 11940 you you in Bradforl, ic r the benefit of tho beer- V SUN, There are things which may be treate,cl with jest at an' cad, ari at the otiaTr. It th ere i 3 any mn v not 'ic'u se 3lY e whare the Tory Re.storation ash d o v d c o r e y s • g Q is carrying us, I should ba quite ready to except him from tho.right of suffraga on the ground of mental in capacity. The thing is done; wo have t, :t the tail - of the storm which has passed over Europe. We are prostrated .before the power our fathers shook off forty years ago. The Tory is in the avtin, looltiog as pleasant as he knows how, and yet unablo to restrain certain untimely outbreaks of ancient inclinations. We have it all to do over again; , and the sooner we begin the better. On Tuesday Mr. Locke King made his motion for ns,imilatin,(_g County Election: to those in h ! oroughs. Good motions have always their use; though :after the vote of the preceding night on County refreshments, the chance of any prewnt eaccess was like planting a pine. apple at Melville Island. The reason urged for continu ing the elections for two (lays, might give rise to curious inquiry. It was, that the county is of larger extent than the 1-Airough. In what way does this crette a ne-• cossity, in these days of rail wa ys, f o r keeping the poll open two days? b might in the days of our fore iat.hors, when the c h ances were two t o one for the voter at:clting fast in a slou4b. Tee motion was finally nega tived by 202 against 149. We got th© . .Tory Reform Bill on Monday night. We could not expect another on Tuesday: I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, 28th April, 1852. PARLIA.IVIENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Bills were reported as not having standing orders dispensed with : — Ennis and Fergus Improvement. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The undernamed Bills were reported as having standing orders dispensed with : West Middlesex Waterworks. Shropshire Union Railways and C mai (Branch Railways, &c.) f COUNTY ELECTIONS. Government has achieved another triumph. The for- I I mid.:bie Mr. Locke King, vv:e) beat Lard John Russell - I lest year by two to one, nod drove him thereby several (lees from power, has this year been beaten by Lord John Manners and Mr. Disraeli in a division of 202 to 149. The haajoeity last yeae was 48 ftg'ttitlAt the Mids. ters; it ii this year 53 'tig?..inst Mr_ Locke King. emit be denied any longer that Cee neastitutioe is safer faun rash changes - in the hands of a Derby than of a Rus'sell? But the truth inust be spoken. Like moist other mortal 1 triumphs, the one befOre us fades under sCrudny. Why is Mr. Locke King beaten this 1-ar,, after having made a Ministerial crisis last year? The man is the same, the measure is the same, the Whigs are the sarpe, the Coniervaeives are the same, . and there is no very striking novelty in the condition of. the people at large. All the difference bet ,eeen the division this year and last year is, that on February 20, 1851, the Cettservatives•not being in power, bat having imbibed 'an itilinenso draught of encouragement from their small 'minority on Mr. Distat:lt's recent motion, left Lord John Russell to light his own battle will his own re fraeory followers.. Tau had . no objection :to see tae 1'46 - lister in it minority, even in what they believed to be a good cause. 'Leis year the case, or rather the sleet. dents of the case are quite different. The cause 'of . the C6nstitution, as they deem it, happens to be ,their own cause as well; so they are all at their pasts. More than a hunircd acid fifty. gentlemen who last, year connived by the;r I absence 'at e proposal to swami), as theY - ' think it, the cotinty •th constituencies, ha e this year rushed. to their rescue. Last year they regarded with complacency the . presp,.cts of some hundred thousand 101. householders returning the eo.called county Members. This year they are once mere true to the Claanios voters. The victory, therefore, wiliA we have trumpeted - with all due firmality, consists in the trifling little fact that the gentlemen now in 'office*and their friends will do for the sake 'Of themselves what they would not do for their country; that before they take the trouble to vote they ask what interest they have themselves iu the question, and.be the cause ever so bad, if it answers their purpose that it should gain a temporary triumph, they wilt even let it so prosper. It is surely unnecessary to observe that such coeduet is factious and dishonest;- still less necessary to ,obserie' that all parties now-a-lays are guilty of it. Whirr or Conservative, it matters not, pe , ple will not do their duty unless it answers their purpose to do it. There is, perhaps, much greater agreement on tho motion discus;sed last night than would appear at first sight. It is advocated by nobody as an insulatt>d measure, and condemned by nobody on its own merits Tee gentleman who makes it his annual cheva de bata . die Would associate it with other raeastires Limed. snry to its beneficißl operation, while there is probably not ono of his oppoßents who does•not think that the county 10/. householders would ba a very respectable addition' to the constituency. That rate of holding in the rural districts generally indicates a much higher level of character and position than in a large town, for in most villages and small country towns a 104, house- holder is a man of some little property, or of great in dustry, or of superior education. This is evident front the much smaller proportion of houses rated at that amount in rural districts than in large boroughs. The rural 101. householder is usually more fixed, better known, and altogether under stronger pledges for his good behavionr than the man who pays that rent in a large town; and though village shop keepers, tradesmen, carriers, and hucksters are not always very devoted to the aristocracy or the Church, they will stand a favourable comparison is these respects with the prosperous classes of our manufacturing towns. Taking, therefore, Mr. Locke King's clients on their own merits, it is scarcely possible to deny their very strong claims, not merely on the justice of the Legislature, but even on the sympathy of the agricultural interest. But it is not for a moment imagined, either by Mr. Locke King or his opponents on this question, that were the county constituencies to be augmented by the addition of this class, they would or should be left with no, further alteration.. All parties would then agree on the necessity of extracting from the county constituencies towns of more than eight or ten thousand inhabitants, and giving them representatives . either singly or in groups, according to their importance. This would be necessary in order to prevent one or two towns from returning the so-called county Members. For Members of their own, too, these towns would be well content to lose their therein the wider constituency of the county. Thus it is that though, as a _ matter of convenience, and for the subdivision of political labour, Mr. Locke King moves the enfranchitemeint of the county 101 householders, and nothing more, that is not,, and cannot be discussed as an insulated Measure. The debate, such as it was, consisted chiefly of annr sions to the political topics of the day, apperently with a view to call out the opposite pages. Neither of theta, however, seemed very anx i ous for CloSe qnarters, and the occupants of the Treasury bench were evidently well content with a silent victory. Mr. Hume reminded them of their " militia franchise," arid challenged them to stand up and say how far they would go in that direc tion. Lord John Russell left no sore unprobed. He began by taunting Government with the little pressure it applied to the business of the session. Seeing the Solicitor-General opposite, he reminded him of some passages in his Harwich speech on the necessity of deciding our commercial policy at once, and on the ruinous effects of free trade. He then touched successively Lord John Manners, Sir John Pakington, and oar old friend Mr. G. F. Young, evidently in the hope that they wouli afford him a little sport. As the topics of allusion had nothing what() --- to do with the measure before the House, and as any debate that could have arisen out of his remarks must have been of the most episodical character, their wis dom at that particular moment is at least questionable. The victims of the sport, however, refused to show fight, and, with the exception of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, maintained a judicious silence, even though Sir Benjamin Hall brought his heavy artillery to bear on the foe. Both sides contented themselves with throwing out hints of what they would do, if events only favoured their generous designs. But for the trifling difficulty that whatever is pro posed by one sib will be infallibly opposed by the other, we • might congratulate the coun try on the vast quantity of popular measures an nounced for perforusence at the earliest opportunity, in cluding, of course, the complete enfranchisement of la bout by Mr. Disraeli. That gentlemen, however, we greatly fear, will neither bo allowed to enfranchise labour himself, nor will he allow anybody else to do it if he can possibly prevent it. Much the same may be said of various suggestive intimations thrown out in tho course of the debate. But is it not high time that our re presentatives should be sent back to their constituents when they can do nothing but bid for popularity? The speeches last night were little more than hustings ad dresses, as will probably now bo the ease every night of the session. This cannot be regarded as a normal and healthy condition of the Legislators; nor can it be pro longed without impairing its credit. This session is already lost to business and wasted on faction, and we doubt whether it will bear any other crop than idle quarrels and electioneering promises.—Tines. AMERICAN PIRACY.—LEA AND PERRINS'S WOE. cEszansinitE SaucE.—The proprietors of the far-famed Worcestershire Sauce, which is now consumed in all quarters of the globe, as a relish which no other provocative of the p alate can supply, have had occasion to prosecute a store keeper in New York, named Raphael, for counterfeiting their labels and selling his mixture as the genuine sauce. The case was tried at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the city and county of New York, on the dth of March. It was proved by a person who had been in partnership with Raphael that he compounded a sauce of his own, which he put into bottles in which the Worces tershire Sauce had once been, or into others made some what in imitation of them, and that the labels co closely imitated the originals, even down to copying the names of Lea and Perrins, that purchasers could scarcely fail to be de ceived. Messrs. Duncan and Son, grocers, of New York, who are th e so l e agents f or genu i ne W orces tershire Sauce in America, gave evidence of the immense sale which the sauce had in that country, and pointed out the particulars in which some bottles which had been purchased at the prisoner's store, under the United States Hotel, differed from the true ones. The prisoner's counsel made ataappeal to the preju dices of the jury against British manufacturers, and after they had consulted for some couple of hours they found a verdict of acquittal—having evidently among them some who had a spite against the Britishers, and probably thought that Mr. Raphael was only a laudable exemplification of Yankee cleverness.— Worcester Herald, April 24, 1R52. Intelligence has been received from Adelaide, South Australia, to the 10th January, being several days later than that already published. The discovery of gold in the colony had turned out to be a fabrication. The Govern ment Commissioners had a second time proceeded withiMr...G. M. Stephen, the party by whom the reward had been claimed, to the spot indicated, and upon testing the soil were unable to procure the smallest portion of metal. Upon a previous trial every spadeful had been found to yield gold, and the Commissioners in their report subsequently assert that pieces must have been introduced on that occasion for the purposes of deception. With regard to the 'general state of the country, it appears that the disorganization caused by the departure of the inhabitants to Sydney and Port Phillip had been much exaggerated. Out of a population -of 67,000 the total emigration was not more than 5,000, and it is as-` serted that much of the prevailing commercial panic was to be attributed to the natural collapse of the worthless mining and building speculations which had been carried on for the past year or two. The success of the Burra Burra, and the discovery of the Kapunda mine, caused 250,000/. to be squandered in delusive companies, and now that the fancy for these had been destroyed, and a slight pressure had arisen for the demand for coin in. the neighbouring colonies, the inevitable results could no longer be averted. Already, however, there were symptoms of re action. The market price of Burra3 Burra shares, instead of being 60 or 80, was 100, and so far from the works having pfet e d o rnearly so, o 1 been aba n d one d, th ey are represen t e d as i n f u ll opera ti on , with no sympto m o f p ause or di scourag e m ent. " A corn and hay ha rves t," it i s a dd e d, " o f unprece d en t e d a b un d ance o ashnidpm if, shipments," owing it is h I : e r f l o o r w e , .. The w secured. whil e th e prom i se o f f ru i t was never so f a i r t al e so so s m ai e cil l , o:a ‘ t areconi gto length ened drought of the previous summer, the clip -does not quite reach the • better condition,weight of that of the previous season, it is in andmuch 7'l7nes. more carefully got up than ever:. The re week reports of - state during th e past of trade in the pro v inces show little alteration. A, healthy business gene rallßank rat e of y prev a il s , to which the reduction in the discount will i mpartadditional change in th e weather also, firmness. A so cause increased activity. „Awthenever it shall takeplace will well maintained, a l t h ough the Manchester prices ha ve ' been been scarcely equal to those of number . of transactions has light, with a full supply of orde i r ast . week. Stocks continue ham ;Accounts describe a favourablelid hand. The Birmirg- States, as well as a satisfactory home etrade.rand from the United shows a remarkable diminution, even as Pauperism still diminished returns of the corresponding periodec'ofpared with the There has been little variation at Nottingham, last year. the backward ness of the season, both here and in America, tending to delay many of the usu al purchases. The woollen markets h a ve been dull, but notwithstanding the long -conti nu ed complaints, the export c f cloth this year has exceeded the first four months of 1851. In the Irish linen trade there has been no important change, although the indications have been towards ihttnes, A IVIE R, [CAN NEWS. LIvER.POOL, TUESDAY.—The British and North American Royal Nail steam- ship Canadt has just arrived in our harbour. AS she sailed from Boston on the ' 14th instant, the news received by her is • brought down four d ,, ys' later in date than any pre rect,ived. Ti:t Canada made the usual fort. call It on the 16;h inst., to land and receive the mails end passengers connected with the NOrth American - colonies. Sh'e brings 23 passengers to this country. A fresh arrival froM California brought 1,000,000 delis. In gold dust to New York, and dates to March 17. Sacramento city was inundated, caused by a freshet.. Ditmar;le'done not extensive. A flood was expected. Business in California had been somewhat interrupted by the rains, but was improving. Tils Canada passed the America on the 16th inst. ' outwards to B oston. ANOTHER FIitGLITFUE J STEAII-BOAT DISAS . TEIt—ONE ITUNDRED LOSI‘. L,Extso•r o x. APRIL 9,—T ho 3teahw Sa bpuad f orAiOnnett . Bluffs, eTpluled her boi l ers at thhi place tacitly. She h a d on bOard, besida . other pa..- seogers, Is. large numb er of ktarm'in immig,irsets. All the officers of tb.3 beat were killed except the first clerk and mate. -About 100 hies are'ouppctied to have been lost. The boat is a tOt a l wreck; her boilers h ave b een i n we several years. . . GREAT FIRE AT SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH, API I / 1 , 1 L it, fire was discovered at five O'cicck this (Sunday) rsornin,,, in Larnar's cotton press 5 1203s,:apd the wind being high, tin il'imes spread with great rapidity.- - at Tthh:csvbhiaPr3f,4:nndP licorldlnn°ontdbaeurde Limes warehoise Contained sevaral presses and from 4,060 to 5,000. balcs of cotton, which were entirely con , slimed; ~ . . The . form , .4r was mea'rly consumed with a large quantity Of' cotton on blfird.- Thc Isabella also sustqined much . injury.' I..aniar's shed and were aground presses coot 59,000 dollars. DlStltOrl Only for 20,000 dolls. Messrs. Allen end Ball lost 10,009 bales of cotton—in mi s 6 a v b e e d l . 1 a w iti 1.6 d. ' • ' . . G. W. Gar and CO. lost 800 halm. MeLz4ri. E. 'Aiolyneux, A. Low and Co., William Bat tersby, and seven other firms lost different ,quuntitie 3 of cotton. They were. P..? 1 insured. Lamar's goods and papers in an iron safe were er tirPly destroyed. Ile also lost a horse valued at 1,500 dollint. The total loss is estimated at 300,000 dollars. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Commercial matters Were favourably reported. Money• easy. Stocks and securities in good demand. Little had been doing in bre a dstuffs, prices receding: Western Canal flour 4 dont?. 5 0c."t0 4 dolls. 62fe., barely supported; Geaneire prime wheat, 1 doll. 8 cents. to 10 cents. per 601 b.; southern wheat, 98e. to 1 doll. per 60th.; Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66c. per bushel. Cotton quiet, business moderate, and prices steady. New Orleans and Mobile, middling fair to fair, 9ie. to 91c. per lb.; Uplands, Bic. to Bic. Excess receipts, 500,000 bales. Freights unchanged. Provisions firm. New mess pork, 171. Exchange on Loncidn 109 to 1091. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE 'DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S LEVEE.—The following officers attended his Grace's levee yesterday:.-- , Captains Sir E. Stanhope, W. Carleton, H. J. Douglas, J. J. Onslow, R. B. Watson, E. H. Delafosse, W. Lor ing, H. Dundas, A. Farquhar; Commanders H. Harvey, Trollope,P.Craycroft, R. Ll o yd ; W. G ree t, R. B. J. B. West, C. Gay ton, H. B. M ason, W. Morris, G. rhouse, M. S m yth e , W. B. R ML j u iel t nl h et e re r ,n f t o n r . dtps,. R. .De B. j o vie u sr, r a e ut y e: Noah‘, W. H. Hooper. DEVONPORT, TUESDAY,—The Britomart, Commander Hesseltine, was towed into the Sound yesterday by the Confiance steamer, and will sail in a few days for the coast of Africa. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The oarapson steam fri gate, that had been tent to the back of the, island to look for the Queen, returned 'about two o'clock yesterday, and remakled at St. Helen's till dark, when she came up to Spithead. • This morning the Queen, 116, Captain C. Wise, with the flag of Admiral Sir William Parker flying, in com pany with the Hercules, made her appearance off Ball' bridge Ledge, the wind being light and baffling. The Avon steam-vessel, having her steam up, went down to her, and having,•spoko the Queen proceeded on for Ply mouth. The Sanapson was also ordered down to her, and as Soon as she could get up her steam went to her. The Sprightly also, after putting Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs on board the Rodney,„ went out to the Queen. The Sampson having taken the Queen in tow she auchored at Spithead soon after twelve o'clock, having previously saluted the flag of Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs with 17 guns, which was returned with a like number by the Victory. Rear-Admiral Prescott, in the afternoon, proceeded to Spithead in the Portsmouth yacht, and paid his respects to Sir Wm. Parker. The gallant Admiral Sir William Parker, attended by Captain Wise and flag-lieutenant, landed ut the Dock yard at about fo ur o ' c lock, and proceeded to the resi dence of Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, the latter being the senior officer. Miss Parker, the Admiral's young est daughter, also landed, the two others remaining on board. The Queen has been 20 days from the Rock, the last ten of which she has b een knocking about the Chan nel, in company with t h e Hercules, against easterly winds. On Friday an d Saturday last she was opsails, in a strong g under close-reefed maintale from the east. ,we th h e o u pe on to ex see acahin, We hear the Q ueen has some defects, particularly about her rudd er , a ; hi • ch will occasion her being docked. hlfer, she ation requires much to be don© to •r captain, officers, end crew turned over to the N at Plymouth. ePtuue at Portsmouth, or to the St. George The Queen sae , frigate, which ves se l of the Retribution, Steam the Channel r e li eei ' i" supposed to bo at the Chops of The reason t h e n r c ; the homeward-bound trade. that the Ceylon, , w rercales has returned from Malta is, such good condic ea examined, was found to be in ceiviag-ship. 1011 , that she remains there as ra- The Encouat • er, et , taken into th e an 'am-corvette, Captain Gordon, was examined, gin dock to have her screw-shaft The Eurydice, 25 sea-stores in the d , is receiving her anchors and heavy will be Ip ekad basin at Portsmouth, and We are s commissioned shcnat sorry to - , y. scientific and talentedrort that John Fincham, Esq., the hogdockyard, has, from master-builder of Portsmouth res i geat i oe, an ? ill7healtb, been obliged to tender count accepted the t that the Admiralty have on that ac able and faithful Aeraille. Mr. Fincham has been a most 50 Y ears ' W ithout v" of the Crown for upwards of tlao top of his p rete interest, he has worked his way to ledge and perseveraansi°a.bY his superior practical know of his scientific atta' ce; and we have now a specimen tainly the finest, shiltiments in that superior, and cer- i gent, now lyin g ea p, of her class in the navy, the Arro regret that so f ew 4 " King's -stairs. We only have to signed and built b vessels are in the naval service de- The Sprightly ate y e this clever and practical builder. Master-Commanding Mr. George Allen, Acting- Briggs this morninog, took out Admiral Sir Thomas Charles Graham, to inspect the Rodney, 92, Captain C. 8., of the E xe c et 11 3 ., at Spithead. Captain Chads, Chief, and exercise ,t, accompanied the Commander-in- Tee Rodney s be d the ehip's company in gunnery. on. Thur.de.y, r ill sat ' Paid advance to-morrovr, and sail The Sprightly Present contemplated. , after I . board © the Rodney, leaving the Port-Admiral on Qamen, and attend wentUpon Rear-Admiral Sir William about four o'clock, broughtaccompanied into harbour this afternoon, , who most hospitably ertlpanied by Sir Thomas Briggs, Ad miral at his o ffi c i al ree_ mansion his gallant brother -- oli io • n this evening. APp o , WOOLWICH', Aan t a t , 2 "'NT/KENT . 7...._ the Winchester, 50, At Carpenter Richard Bate to Portsmo u th.tea saat Assistant-Engineers of °Tawas, Serving in the Magioienne, the Third Class—John Sear, gate, of 400•horso power, 16, Paddlewheel steam-fri man, serving in the Panel at Devonport; R. H. Slee frigate, of 650-horse p ewer ° Pe. 16, paddlewheel steam- Cothe M ast of Africa station ; and a : lag - ship, on the West in cgmra irorrectereat ea "ries J. Sargeant, serving power—to be Assistant-En g i n tu n troop-ship, of 350-horse The Comte d'Aquila, eeeow er s of the Second Class. dor of his Majesty the King of flied by the Ambassa- Deptford Dockyard, Gree nw , c te Two Sicilios, visited quently Woolwich Docky ar d , f z io * ... n e Hospital, and subse at the latter naval port by Commodore "a and was received Flag-Lieutenant E. K. Gore, and Henry Eden, the departments, who accompanied e c . reral of the heads of to the Agamemnon, 90, now re ' a u d nim during his visit afterwards to witness the Nvorkin Y for launching, and mers, the saw-mills, and the va . „ 1 1 , ,, 0f Nasmyth's ham- Comte d'Aquila then went afloat i n convict-shiP• The herobae to visit the Fisgard fig..ahr' the Commodore's isited the Royal Albert, 120, auPd; theon again landing construction and repair of stcatn-enea factory for the on his return to town. The l ag t t n n e i s, before leaving Marner-Commander Henry William Allen, steam-vessel or ders to attend the Comte d'Aquila tomorrow'fl, is under to the flag-ship at Sheerness, and, according on a visit arrangements, the Comte will proceed to present by Kent Railway to--Gravesend, c o Gravesend, and thee the North in the Light ning to Sheerness. The Vivid, Dover mail packet, e a Went down the river . at eig h t o'clock A. Ptain Smithett, .M speed, after being refitted with now boilers •, t, and o try her board Captain Smithett , for m er commander of to Ban shee-mail packet When on the Holyhead station, with several` gentlemen end Mr. Triekett, assistant chief enginee 'Woolwich dockyard. to the the measured mile at Long Reach, tee On arriving at Vivid made Ch i ions down and three runs up, and on the average ' . 60 six runs her 'speed was found to be 14,71 of the hour; her engines, of 160-horse po wer, b.l° knots J, per and Son, making 35;a" revolutions per m'riaml Penn draught of water was 7 feet 1 inch fk.nee , minute. The .ftru and 7 f eet 6 inches aft, about n'l average of three inches more than her catenated immersion, wh i ch vms occasioned by tak in round to Dover a large quantity of spare gear and other articles, to be ready for use should they be re quired. When these are put on shore and the' n e f commences her regular dunes, it is expected ''''''''' she will make a speed of 15 knots per hour on the average—tke same speed - she accemplished when first - employed in 1848. .-: ' . ". . MENAI STILAITA N A VIGATION.—It is the intention of Government to propose that a sum of 4,0001. be voted in the prevent year on account of the Dienai Straite navigation. GOVERNMENT STEAME RS. f Some merchants and shipowners .connected' with , . Mexico and the West Indies have petitioned the Chen . , eellor of the Exchequer upon the delays of the Wen ' India mails. ' Now, with all duo deference to the very. irespect a bl e fi rms w h ose names we find appended to this petition, they eppear to us among the most unreasonable of her .Majesty's subjects. Why, the very result :they treat as a grievance would be looked Upon, by, the British Admiralty as a most signal triumph. Is it possible that there are steamships in existence which contrive to per form this long voyage, Red yet to be only sixteen days' oeerdue at the time of their arrival i n port! Admiral Berkeley will poeh-pooh such an achievement. "My Lords" will consider it as beyond the pessihilities of wood and iron. A set of ungrateful malcontents! If one of her Majesty's steam-frigates were put upon the work she ' might be looked fir about six weeks after the arrival of the ordinary liners. Nor, if' the six weeks were enlarged into two . mouths, • should we be seriously alarmed for the safety of the passengers end crew. We should picture, them to our. minds . 'as engaged in the healthy cecupation of , pumping in the middle of the Atlantic, with no griev ance in p,articular to complain of,. except want of water and previsieee, and a gen-eel uneertainty as to the re mote contlegmac'es of t'acir earthly career. Only sixteen days overdue, - and yo! . , these heartless complains! The apparition of any transport or steam-ship of-war at so early a date in any of our por t s — we b eg ,pardon, near any of our ports—would fill the deeizyard people with the justeat alarm. They would never be brought to be lieve that the ship had really arrived at her port of des tination, and completed the return voyage. The 'enteral suggestions that would arise to any one's mind would be, that the Government ship had ,been baffi.d in her out ward voyage, and after two or three leaks, and two or three breaks down, had been conapelled to put back. It is too bad to find the Royal Med Company performing their journeys with such astounding accuracy, and yet , exposed to the murmurs and complaints of mere shere going merchants, who are clearly unacquainted with the vicissitudes and uncertainties of a sea ate. How is it, ' with the recollections of the service between Eugland and the Cape during the last fear months present to their minds, that they can have the face to gait,' ut terance t 3 the following complain . ? "So imperfectly is the service performed, that the duplicate correspon deuce has during the last 24 in,onths been performed by another company, with two exceptions only, many days in anticipation of the It)yal Mail Cernpaby,, whose ves sels have invariably arrived after their due date, in the last instance sixteen cloys." There is a pretty specimen of human gratitude! If our worthy friends who have signed the petition had only been for six months in the hands of the Admiralty they would have known how to appreciate punctuality when they met with a display e that rarest of all qualities where a public Board is con. cersed. There is the Conflict, now—an excellent Government boat. What a lovely voyage she has made from Bahia! She only overstayed her time a mon th, an d yet t h at i s called, in the Admiralty language, rather better than a good average passage. To be sure, she blew up once and broke . down ' too in the co urse o f t h e passage; but then accidents will happen, an d mac hi nery wasn ' t made to last for ever, or what would become of the en gine makers? And then she was towed into port by another Government ship; bat then that is the usual way in which Governmcnt steamers arrive in port. W as there not the famous case of the Vulcan the oth er d ay, which was bringing home dispatches from the Cape, but overstayed her time two months, or some trifle of th a t sort, which was taken in tow by another Government steamer, which was taken in tow by a third, as her en gines, too, had broken down? A tow is all fair; but tow and tow is too bad. Indeed, if we wished to put the West India merchants to the blush, we need but reca pitulate to them the history of our ccmmunications with the Cape during the last six months. But we need not go to the wide Atlantic, and to the long sea passage between England and the Cape. It was only the other day that a crack steam - frigate—the Horatio—one of our great pillars of defence — a chief ship among Admiral Berkeley's invulnerabies—ventured upon the daring feat of making a trip from Sheerness to Southend. Wood and iron could not stand so terrible a strain. Lang before our gallant defenders had reached the Essex coast the machinery gave way, and the great defence of the Thames was adrift upon i ts waters. If our ships sail and steam so well, how will they fight? We will venture to assert that if a French squadron were to be signalled in sight they would put to sea without water, like the Brit.innia—without powder even to make a signal of distress, like a steamer which shall be name less—and with balls too big to enter any of the cannon, as was the case the other day on the batteries at Malta —when the alarm was given. Lot us by all means get out the Chelsea pensioners! —Times. PARLIAMENTAR Y DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedinqs of the House of' Commons.) TUESDAY. APRIL 27. COUNTY FRANCHISE. Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make the Franchise and the Procedure at Elections in the Counties in England and Wales the same as in the Boroughs, by giving the right of voting to all oc cupiers of tenements of the annual value of ten pounds; by limiting the time of taking the Poll to one day; and by limiting the time of proceeding to Election to eight days." The House divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 149. Adair, Hugh E. Fordyce. A. D. Pinney, William Adair, R. Staff to Forster, M. Ponsonby, C. F. Aglionby, U. A. Fortescue, Chichester Price, Sir R. Alcock, Thomas Fox, W. J. Rawdon, Colonel Anstey, T. C. Geach, Charles Ricardo, John L. Bailey, Crawshay Gibson, T. M. Ricardo, Osman Baines, M. T Glyn, G. C. Rice, E. R. Bass, M. T. Greene, John Rich, Henry Bell, Jacob Grenfell, Charles W. Romilly, Colonel Berkeley, C. L. G: Grosvenor, Lord R. Russell, F. C. Bernal, Ralph Hall, Sir B. Sadleir, John Blackstone, W. Hardcastle, J. A. Salwey, Colonel Bright, John Harris, Richard Scholedeld, William Brotherton, J. Hastie, Alexander Scobell, Captain Banbury, E. H. Hayter, W. G. Scully, Vincent Carter, J. B. Headiam, T. E. Seymour, H. D. Caulfeild, J. M. Henry, Alexander Shafto, R. D. Clay, James Heywood, James Smith, Vernon Clay, Sir W. Heyworth, Lawrence Smith, J. A. Clements, Charles Ilindley Charles Somerville, Sir W. Clifford, Henry M. Hobhouse, T. B. Staunton, Sir G. Cobden, Richard Hodges, T. L. Strickland, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir A. Hutt, William Strutt, E. Cogan, W. 11. Jackson, William Stewart, Admiral Colebrooke, Sir T. Keating, Robert Stuart, Lord D. Collins, W. Keogh, William Tancred, 11. W. Cowan, Charles Langston, J. H. Tenison, E. K. Crowder, R. B. Lennard, T.B. Torment, R. J. Davie, Sir 11. Lewis, G. C. Thicknesse, R. A. Dawes, Edward Littleton, E. R. Thompson, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Loveden, Pryse Thompson, George D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lnshington, C. Thornely, Thomas Divett, Edward M`Gregor, John Towushend, Captain Douglas, Sir C. Mangles, R. D. Tufnell, H. Drummond, Henry Marsh 11, J. G. Villiers, Charles Duff, G. S. Martin, John Vivian, J. H. Duff, James Melgund, Viscount Wakley, Thomas Duke, Sir James Milligan, Robert Wall, C. B. Duncan, Viscount Mines, R. M. Walmsley, Sir J. Duncan, George Mitchell, T. A. Watkins, Colonel Duncombe, T.. Moncreiff, James Westhead, J. 8., Ellice, Edward Morris, David Willcox, Brodie Ellis, John Mowatt, Francis Williams, John Elliot, J. E. Norreys, Lord Williams, W. Evans, Sir De Lacy Norreys, Sir D. Wood, Sir W. P. Evans, John O'Flaherty, Anthony Wyld, James Evans, William Parker, John _ Wyvill, Marmaduke Evart, William Pechell, Sir G. Fergus, John Perfect, Robert TELLERS. Ferguson, Colonel Pigott, Francis King, P. J. Foley, John H. Pllkingten, James litimt,,, 3. MAJORITY-NOES, 202. Adderley, C. B. Edwards, Henry March, Earl of Arbathnott, Hon. 11. Egerton, Sir P. Masterman, John Arkwright, George Egerton, W. T. Maunsell, T. P. Bagot, William Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Bailey, Joseph Farnham, E. B. Miles, P. W. Baillie, H. J. Farrer, James Miles, W. Baird James Fellowes, E. Moody, C. A. Baldock, E. H. Filmer, Sir E. Morgan, 0. Bankes, G. c o k, n J. W. Mostyn, E. M. Baring, Henry B. F F i lo tz ;e a r t , r J i h Mundy, William Barrow, W. H. Forbes, William Naas, Lord Benbow, John Forester, G. C. Napier, Joseph Bennet, Philip Fox, S. W. L. Neeld, John Beresford, William Freestun, Colonel Neeid, Joseph Bernard, Viscount Frewea, C. H. Newport, Viscount Blair, Stephen Fuller, A. E. Noel, Gerald J. Blandford, Marquis Gallwey, Sir W. P. O'Brien, Sir Luclu.s Boldero, George H. Galway, Viscount Ossulston, Lord Booker, T. W. Gaskell, J. M. Packe, C. W. Booth. Sir R. G. Gilpin, Colonel Pakington, Sir J. Bowles, Admiral Gladstone, W. E. Palmerston, Vis. Bramston, T. W. Goddard, A. L. Patten J. W. Bridges, Sir B. Goulburn, Henry Peel, Sir Robert Brisco, M. Grogan, Edward Plowden, W. H. Brooke, Lord * Gwyn, [Towel Prime, Richard Bruce, C. L. C. Hale, R. B. Pusey, Philip Buck, L. W. Halford, Sir Henry Repton, G. W. Buller, Sir Y. Hall, Colonel Richards, Richard Bunbury, W. Hallewell, E. G. Rushout, Captain Burghley, Lord Hamilton, G. A. • Russell, Lord J. Burrell, Sir C. Hamilton, J. H. Sandars, Joseph Burroughes, H. Hamilton, Lord C. Scott, Francis Campbell, Sir A. Harris, Captain Seymour, Lord Cardwell, Edward Ilatehell, John Shelburne, Earl of Carew, W. H. Pole Hayes, Sir E. Sibthora, Colonel Castlereagh, Vise. Heathcote, Sir G. J. Somerton, Viscount Cavendish, W. G. Heneage, G. 11. W. Sotheron, T. U. S. Cayley, E. S. Henley, J. W. Spooner, Richard Chandos, Marquis Herbert, Henry A. Stafford, Augustin! Charteris, Francis Herbert, Sydney Start, H. G. Child, Smith Herries, J.C. Tennent, Sir J. Childers, J. W. Hervey, Lord A. Thesiger, Sir F. Christopher, R. A. Hildyard, T. B. Thompson, Alderman Christy, Samuel Hill, Lord E. Tollemache, John Clerk, Sir G. Hogg, Sir J. W. Trollopo, Sir J. Clive, R. H. Hope, Sir J. Tyler, Sir G. Clive, IL B. Hotham, Lord Tyrell, Sir J. Cochrane, A. D. Hughes, W. B. Vane, Lord 11. Cocks, T. S. Johnstone, Sir J. Verner, Sir W. Coke, Hon. E. K. Johnstone, James Vesey, Thomas Coles, H. B. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Vivian, J. E . Collins, Thomas Kelly, Sir F. VySe, R. H. Corry, Henry Knox, Colonel Waddington, H. S. Cotton, W. H. Knox, W. S. Walpole, Spencer Davies, D. A. Langton, W. H. Vi- egg-Prosser, F. Deedes, W. Legh, G. C. Welby, G. E. Denison, Edmund Lennox, Lord A. Wellesley, Lord C. Disraeli, B. Leslie, C. P. West, F. R. Dod, J. W. Lewisham, Viscount Whiteside, James Douro, Marquis of Lindsay, Colonel Williams, T. P. Drax, J. S. W. Lockhart, A. E. Wood, Sir CharleS Drumlanrig, Viscount Lockhart, W. Wortley, J. S. • Drummond, Henry Long, W. Wynn, H. W. Duckworth, Sir J. Lopes, Sir Ralph Yorke, E. T. Duncombe, A.i Lowther, Colonel Duncombe, 0. Lygon, General TELLERS. Duncombe, W. E. Macnaghten, Sir E. Bateson, Thomas Dunne, Colonel Mahon, Viscount Lennox, Lord li. U. Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord J. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun tess of Desert, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Lord Polwarth, Lord Colville, and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour, ho nourod the Lyceum Theatre with their presence last evening. His Royal Highneas Prince Albert rode cut ou horse. buck yesterday foreruon, attended by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Royal Family took their accustomed pony and walking exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.- Colonel F. H. Seymour, went yesterday afternoon to the Zoological Society of London, in Hanover-square. Lord Polwarth has relieved Earl Talbot in his duties as Lord in Waiting to her Arjesty. Her Royal Highness the Ducher,a of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Countess d'Aquila yesterday at Mivart's Hotel. A. deputation, consisting of Dr. Renton and Dr. Alex ander Wood (from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh), Dr. Coombe and Dr. Gardiner (from the I ':2Yal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh), and Dr. vv tson (from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow), had an interview with Mr. Secretary Wal- P , o c l, - , yesterday, at the Hemo•office. The deputation was A dcputati•P had also ortig parried and introduced by Sir William Gibson . for Lanarkshire. Lo c kil ar i , M.P. for Edinburgh, and Mr. William C. an n o t n from the National Institute of Medicine terd a --. •-•,. i, deputation with Mr. Secretary Walpole yes- Charles, M. Bennett, M • m.p.,/x(rl:tisTagutation consisted of Mr. James Wyld, Bird, John I.Vebster, m our riel Clifton (chairman), Dr. G.orge Fuller, Thomas Martin, Dr. essrs. G. J. Squibb, John Pro pert, James •H. r Robert Dunn. a Bowling, Henry Atwell, and slr. Philip Bennett, Mx , had Earl of Derby yesterday, ' at -1; an interview with the Downing street. is official residence in Mr. Deedes, M.P., had an interview °eller of the Exchequer, at hi s cm, with the Ch a n- Downing-street, yesterday. ial reside nce i n A deputation from the New Zealand r. sisthig of Earl Talbot, Mr. Aghonbym's, m PanY, con. M.P., Mr. Mangles, M.P., Mr. Monsell, ma, , M Irr. Hatt, Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. G. P. Young, m.p.: t . l • John ° Baron de Goldsmid, Mr. 13oulcott, Mr. Currie, Mr. Gow en P. Lvall, and Mr. Filcher (directors), and Mr. Rat.: rington (secretar; ), had interview with Sir J o h n Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation consisting of Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Ad. &dr, M.P., Mr. John Ilutt, Mr. H. Sewell, and Mr. Zealand, bed alio an inter- Fox, on the subject of Ne w view with Sir John Pakington, at the Colonial-office, yesterday. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Grrg' , on, Si! James Duke, Mr. Colvin, Mr. Entwisile, and I'JT r. Dallas, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. 17. Ilenley yester day, at the Board of Trade. The Countess of Derby will give a f,f,l-dress assembly, at the official reeitlence of the Noble Eerl in Downing-. street, on the 13th of May, after the state dinner given by his Lordship in honour of her Majesty's birthday, ESTIMATES FOR . CIVIL SERVICE 9. - On Monday a Parliamentary docunient was printed containing a general abstract of the grants to be proposed for civil services for 1852, compared with similar charges for 1850 and 1851. The sum required for the several services is 4,182,086/. In 1851 the sum was 3 ,948,1024, and in the preceding year 4,065,642/. The increase compared with 1850 was 116,4444, and the increase compated with 1851 was 233,9841. T 1: E y J N D N, NV E II N ES 1.) A. V EV wNI NG 1 5 APLIL RAIL WAY LOANS. The number of railway companies desirous of obtain ing loans on debentures or mortgage having consider ably increased since the late reduction of the bank rate of interest, we subjoin a corrected list for the information of capitalists:— South Wales—Loans on mortgage, bearing interest at 4 per cent. per annum, for periods not less than three, and not exceeding seven years. Leeds Northern—At ifki per cent. per annum, for three, five, or seven years, in sums of 1001. and upwardi. Glasgow and South-Western—ln sums of 5001. and upwards, for terms of not less than three years. Manchester, Buxton, and Maticek—Not exceeding, on the whole, 100,0001. The money is required for the purchase of the Cromford Canal and works, and the mortgages constitute a first charge on both undertakings. London and North-Western—Have ceased to accept money on loan at a higher rate of interest than 3i per cent., and for periods of five or seven years. North British—Receive tenders for the renewal of a portion of their debentures which fall due on the 15th of May, 1852. No sum received under 500/. Shrewsbury and Chester—• For a limited amount, to replace mortgages as they fall in. Briitol and Exeter—Are ready to either pay off im• mediately, in cash, any debentures which beer interest at 5 or 4f per cent., or to grant perpetual Preference Four per Cunt. Stock in exchange for them, alloi , ing forthwith, in either case, to the holders, the difference of interest. Cork and Bandon—On debentures, in sums of not less than 1001, for fivo or seven years, bearing i n . terest at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly. Caledonian—On debentures, in sums of 2001. and upwards, at 4 per cent. per annum, for term of years. The directors of the West Flanders Railway are also in the markot for additional capital, to complete their line, of which the first portion is open from Bruges to Courtrai, and is yielding an annual r e t urn of 4,0004 or 5,000/. This, together with a guarantee of the Belgian Government to the extent of 16,000/, is pledged to pay 5i per cent. upon 280,000/., the amount for which parties are prepared to undertake the completion of the works on the extension of the line and branches in accordance with the convention concluded between the Belgian Go vernment and this company on the sth of March last. The sum required is proposed to be raised in '28,000 preference shares of 2501. or 101. each, bearing 5f per cent. interest, secured by the above guarantee. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET. On Monday a special meeting of this company was held at the London Tavern. _ Mr. Commissioner FANE took the chair, and said that the object of the meeting was to consider the propriety of the measure now before Parliament, and for the car rying out of which a certain majority must sanction this Bill before it could pass the House of Lords. This Bill had been read a first time in the House of Lords, and its object was to substitute a better and cheaper line between Newmarket and Bdry. Sir JOHN SHELLEY, Bart., objected to being made a party to making the new line for the benefit of the ori ginal shareholders, and should protest against the reso. lutions now proposed for adoption. The CHAIANAN then put the resolution for the ap proval of the Bill now before Parliament. Mr. ANDERSON seconded the motion. On a show of hands there appeared 18 for the motion and 24 against it. The CHAIRMAN called for a poll. Sir W. CARDEN, Mr. TYRRELL, and others objected to the poll. The CHAIRMAN said that question must be settled by Parliament. They had only to pursue the legal course. After some delay the result of the poll was as fol lows;—Proxies for, 1,424; proxies against, 0; votes present, 693 for; 74 against, subject to a protest of 370 on the part of Mr. George Tyrrell. There were more than four-fifths in favour of the resolution. The meeting then adjourned. GREAT NORTHERN AND AMBEIWITEe—We men tioned in our last that the London and North- Western and the Great Northern having entered into an arrangement between themselves not to treat with the Ambergato Railway, and yet within about 48 hours that the Great Northern settled with the Ambergase the terms given in ours of the 10th. We have been assured that the proposition came in a letter from the Great Northern. With respect to the above mentioned terms, we understand they are open for modi fication until Tuesday next, and that the Great Northern have since consented to make them the same as the London and North Western , t hat is four per cent. from the Ist of July next.—Berapath's journal. ST. ANDREWS AND QUEBEC., --This company con cluded a contract on Thursday for making the section from St. Andrews to Woodstock (80 miles), with Messrs. King, Sykes, and Brookfield, o f Sheffield. Tho con. tractors are to proceed immediately to the works.._ Railway Times. MORAYSHIRE.--WO learn that Provost Grant, of Elgin, on behalf of the Morayshire Railway Comp an y, has taken off, on the Earl of Seafield's land, a lar ge f use the other day, at the terminus, foot of Moss-street, for an inn, collarege , stabling, and other accoretnodations The railway works p roceed apace in the most satisfac tory manner. —Ferree Gazette. SOITTIPEASTERN AND READING, GUILDFOR D , AND R E IGATE. —The Comm ittee in re p ortin g p r oved tl' .0 pre amble of the Bi ll fur merging the latter in the former company, state that the Committee considered it ju s t and r ight that the secu rities in the shepe of p er p e tual annu ities to be given to the shareholders in th o Guildford, and Reigate should take precedence evading, ing preference shares in the South- eastern, inasm u ch °eis‘- they ere to be in substituien or an ann ual rent as payable by the South-chst ern, aad . now Len rent, so lona , as payable, is a prior charge to the pnyt.. o r dividend on pr eference share s. payment of interest GRAN • T Fog,PunLic Worms A.ND There was Printed on Monday a P ar li amentary paper, allow ing that for the year 1852-53 th e grant required for public works and buildings is 621,2311. In the preceding year the sum Toted was 508,6531., and in 1850 587,5041. L I FR' ._ , MA JEST Y'S THEATRE. . i CELEBRATION OF sH AR ,..---, , ee.reßk , e, BIRTH- A!nirgat elle eeble ..I,cd dietieguiShed comper e , 1 . DAY AT STRATFORD-ON-AV-ON. honoceetle the perforzirenens at her rYlaje r s c t el y' ; e lrk T i h ti ca t t i r a e l , - ,lin t e ' l r ,) i r d t .: . - 4 ,y i I n a a s r t d b , ei t u n g:h e e v vi, t w er n e,:r e e e e j e e r i j r r ie e e ted e l iei4,e aa y di. e n i n h e t re with. their presence e eve rday oveeieg we teloeeeet;--His Grace the Delos of Wellineton, the lat that tint leeeelro. the Fateo, where gratifying h Me.:eilleeess '6f Deere aad Lai Charles Welletleye I !limber of theadmirers'or the let'r!..ftera.l3ie-- p r r h e e s i d the eveningn ts' i i p in of - ; l b ug landlord tunaa the Countess do Flaheutt and ?etedrenoiAte de Fleheulte Iseiebere, partook of the ;there/ cOlorin g the Cocottes of Harringtoo end Lady Jane SteMeur (r:lfir.,:. G. A L e i h n fi r e re ld? ; 11 3 - e ct l, rli i i i , r.:de sL r t c... h , e : p b . l n e t ! Staohope Me. PeWeaex Bruce and tee Mistes.B:une. His II py,, t i Highness the Prince of Neelee also honoured' the temperate but good .old•fethTiobrieedc choanirvynivaianlihtyavinnogt the theatre with hie presence en this cccasion. Her unworthy of siren eeeelebtation. -/Cjoity'st bex 'wee occupied by eh„ Berl Inc C , untees prepared "the Qivou,”--" rkike,Alh2ft arid the rest of of Jersey, the Ceutitfess of. Besborongle Lady Isle fleet?- the Royal FAktei49"—" Englseili Ler religious, political, tins Villiers, Lady Pemsonley, end party. Amecest and social iosiitutionr," ati ef 'which *ere JoYally and the general company we also remarked the IClarquia' of enthusiastically responded- to, then rcse . and addressed Clauticarde, the Earl of Shelburne, the Marquis of the meeting to the following effect:— Exeter, bis Excellency the French - Minister. end In the annals of Ecgle:h ' history —in the archives of suite, his. Excellency the Sardinien Minister Lady all polished nations—in the ' vocab u l ary of the world ' s Talbot de Malahide, Viicorret Dapplin, Viscount gretit—in the mighty ecroll of time, there is one name Eenseute a se ie Viscount Enfkld, Lord Gordon, thellon. which, abbveAnd 4eyond all °there, etands pre-ettninently A. D. Will oug hby, t h e li on . G. S. SnaythP, Lerd , Adol- node, pre--emiuently glorion'. A 212 me tirit, for power of phi 4 Fezelarence, Sir George Wombwell', Bart., Sir utterance, profuedity of knew:edge, grandeur of concep- George Bowles, Sir Wthiam Alm 3y, Bart., Sir John thy- lion, end sublimity of thought, has no parallel in the re ieyelrleits. ri . ad Ladv Bayley; the Hight Hon. the &ere- cerds of either ancient or theilcen times. A name that, for ~rftrY at War, Sir lielpri Howard, Bart., T:T.P., Lady two eenturit;s :led a belc has been the pioneer of civilize ,' son, and Miss Howard. and piirty, Mrs. Stewart, Mr. ti:ln, the b uoligh tof t h-s nations, a pertion of the everlasting k. Wheeler, Mr. George Hudson, UP., Mrs. find- heart of nature hereof. A narn:? that as far transcends Mitchell, Miss Iludson; Mrs. and Miss Robert, Mr, the name§ of king, and ' - princes, heroes and victors, as ", i ...."'",.,e 11 . M.P., Mi,s Trafford Souihwell, Miss Treff Ad. the ineerruptible soul d o es the fr,pile shell in which :te tt r; t n :l e Mr. C. W. Pecke, IMP; and Mrs. Packe it, is eocasrd. A name that has shed a bistro upon M r: ins. a l a n e d . A.aelirs; C. i c i t r r r r y t e. Baldwin Mr.Er: r lat ct . o .P n , ,r e r l e r ia ? v t l a te r y t : Il e i l : P p .. , , the earth IA Liolv she remain, undiminished' by time or distance, a hen the proudest monuments of art Mr: end ,'.fro, Henry Dixon Nfr, Hebert do Burgh, and science, and commerce are forgotten. A Lieut.-Gener a l Sir Alexander w' o'o*(lklad Wo,,d tp - iM3 which, in the palne.es of the rich, the halls fore, and Miss Woodford; Mr, Henry Singleton, ale of Isernine e the bive . s of ledestisse William Itese, Colonel We • Mr. Thistlothse ~ I.t'• o P r. el e 3 e! zt: e c Mr. and Mrs. Badd, the peer, Is " familiar in dour mouths as household A u l t r ' sr e .' fl.ig r h . na G G " .and the cottages of Emily Irvine, , wordry, M.P., Miss worde." , A name, at the shrine, and in the presence of the reejesty of which, our Garricke and Kembles, our Beto , ttons and Cooked', our. Kraus and Meereedies have .knelt doWn in deep end silent admiration. A name, the , re faience of which shall eutvive "the wreck of matter and the crush of %twirls," end be heard Mingling with the eternal !vatic of Abe spierre, When - , . , •- -" The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn templeS, the greatrglobe itself, - Yea all whichit inheeit, shell dissolve, And, like the baseless. fabric of a vision, Leave not a rack behind." l ' s !" - ti i say. gerrtlercen, at this time, end in this place, ,Ic 2 f , the nanao--ehe time-honoured, world-worshipped, ever ao-he, remembered name to.whioll I allude, is that of cho "immortal Willi am Sh a k spere ?"—(Loud cheer s .) ith-t William Shakspere V 711(); two - buerlred and sixty afiars e•go. was not o n ly" un k nown to f ortune an d to f ame ," but was d r i ven f ort h p rom this h employmentave th e ho honour r the.to London pro,,,po.seel; G .pe lo r be mit Th m e e a on-Avon, by the persecutipg'aPirit of a vindictive jue lice of the peace, to iirld,"sbe' good town of Stratford :ter and refuge in menial Theatre.—(Ch eers .) • And hero, in aubinittine. the toast - that it is no part of which I shall shortly s ou ) y m o y ur ne ti t m e t intention to make any consider able e w n e g r t e h I m y i n ovencliinclined dpersonalspOopa lc i l s n o cu e n hc e s h t i s o l i n f eh a d e embody ing:s feelings. Curhee e3r demand upon ttle, l a n t cie t e n d Y , c m u e l n t itess toI shonld overcome,ha v e as so to encounter,eftor afford : if any mp - thie encou ragementdeiffidi- to persevere in the prosecution of what may not inaptly he termed an almost hopeless task. When so much has been said, and well said, too, upon both the man and his writings—when the spirit of con troversy has broken up every field of inquiry, every inch of ground in which the analytical ploughshare might for the hundredth time be inserted —when cri ticism has laid bare, even to the minutest detail, the construction and qualities, the very marrow, so to speak, cf that vast dramatic genius which, as a German writer has said, " seems to gather strength like an Alpine avalanche, at every period of its des cent,"-eurben erudition and research seem to have discovered every latent beauty, to have explained away whatever seemed paradoxical, to have brought every subordinate and undeveloped character into no tice, to have surrounded every once-obscure passage with a biles of illustration—in short, when almost all that could be done or said to honour the memory and throw a light upon the character and genius of the great Bard, , has been done and said, it would be a work of supererogation and an act of folly on my part, more especially at this time, to push the discussion of the subject beyond that wide and legitimate boundary, to which it has already extended. All, there for:, that I can with propriety do, is to give a brief and general assent to those well-known, sound and graceful opinions and eulogies, which I need not quote, formed and bestowed by the ablest literary authorities. And this much, at least, I think, is due from me, es involving no greater exercise of mind or speech than is common to the majority of men; and still more so, be cause, as Ben Jonson says,—" I love the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry, as much as any"—because, also, I believe him to have possessed one of, those bright, far-seeing, catholic and god-like souls, which are rarely born into the world, and when they do come, are sent, not merely to mould the character of a dawning literature, and give breath, free dom, and vitality to the universal heart, but to show how near the finite can approach the infinite, the man-made approximate to the man-Maker. Every age has its crops of books as of men, and time covers both with dark nesr. Time dwarfs a nation to the stature of a man— puts a literature into a volume, a man and a book, until one great name, one word of power, becomes to us the only remaining symbol of departed greatness. In this sense Greece had its blind . Homer—ltaly its fiery Dante —Spain its mock-heroic Cervantes—England its Shaks pere, and later on, sublime John Milton; ail men of ex e I ted,enlarged and wonderful genius, not quite equal, and yet scarcely inferior to the Stratford peasant. To uses the voice of the past, the oracle of bygone days, how vast a word of power is the name of Shakapere! In that great, calm, placid, lake-like nature of his, undisturbed by dark, stormful gusts of passion, bow gigantic and distinct a knowledge lies—what massive yet finished 1 thoughts are imaged—what exquisite and varied portraits delineated—what penetrating and sublime truths re flected. From out that capacious, yet delicately formed heart of his, which, like an lEolian harp, is tuned to music by the lightest wind, the softest breath of nature, does there not rise a kind of universal psalm ' not unfit to make itself heard among t h ese sa cred ones poured forth by the impassioned soul of o the sweet singer of Israel!" Turn to any on e o f big dramas, products of nature, deep as nature's self,— and whist is it but a large bay window through which we catch a glimpse of the immortal spirit of the m an —through which are revealed to us flashes of wit, an down from beaven.—(Hear, h ear .) d corruscations of wisdom, like lightning splendours sent because he does not parade his faith an anti - patriot, True it is, some h ave called Shaka p ere a 'sceptic, and patriotism before the e y e, like other men— because ingeniously co ncealing himself beneath the a man who came not, as gossamer-like folds of a most artistic skill, he throws his whole soul into the one grand and peaceful sphere himself of his worship. For my own part I recognise a done, w e 'll ° tuoccohsnpafleaimcktesonfa;nd experiences, prejudices kind of sacredness in the incarnation ofaludchaaecsipairreitd—ogin. but to develops the hidden forces of hu manity—toin cathedral tones, the d iaonddieof opinions, nature, e sing , se, and interpret the me t htahetei dog matically i i hl s y s s i v / i tsi sym pathy existing between the visible and invisible un aw i n v i e dl r d se m l e (Cheers.) Which of us is not prepared to echo the beau setmakeitnhinthet tiful sentiment of Washington Irving, when he visited Shakspere." Which of us, go mightier have seen the dust of can refuse to subscribe togthe gloriousonw pic ture :s e t o f f o r a d ni — a ' n ' , I t and "The pen isleaking this ords a o u f g ß u s u t hv p e i c r - , measure of his influence, Can we wonder that than the sword!" —(Cheers.) the nations of Europe and the cities of America —that Asia and Africa, should send their potentates an d princes, their men o f l etters an d th e ir their men of we a l t h , somebodies and their nobodies, to behold the birth- l ac and the p e and the death-place, the dwel ling grave of hi m w h ose electric pen , like the shuck from a galvanic batter uc , 'ke ned the strong pulse of th e world? Well mie y ht q th l e aesthetic Thomas Carlyle inquire, " which Englishman ever made in thi land of ours? which million of Englishmenevould we not give up rather than Shakespeare?" Suppose no w th e question were put t o us ," Which will you surrender, you English people, your Indian empire, or your Shakes pere ?" Would not the answer be. " Indian empire, or no Indian empire, give us Shakspere—the former must leave us some day, the latter never!"—(Cheers.) Think of this, m en o f W arw i c kshire, who have met to honour of this, the memory of the illustrious dead—think that no Royal re membering,pro- clamation, as it has been remarked, . selling of railway shares Act of Parliament, or other worldly endeavour, brought this noble spirit to our earth—remembering that the greatest intellect the world has yet seen, once lived and toiled in this humble town of Strat ford—think of this, I say, you who would pay tribute to the colossal, Titian-like grandeur of the man whom Sir Thomas Lucy caused to be whipped, as a rogue and vagabond, and then acknowledge that " King Shakspere" i s a conqueror to who se sovere ignty we may ail submit, and the latchet of w h ose s h oe s an Alex ander, or a Caesar, even clad in imperial purple, would have been proud and honoured to unloose— " Crowns have their compass, length of days their date , Triumphs their tombs, felicity her fate, Of more than earth, can ea r th make none pari4er e e„ But knowledge makes the man moat like his Baseer. G e ntlemen, I beg to give you—" The immortal memory of William Shakspere."—(Loud cheers.) o ccasion were Several speeches highly suitable to Oa, for which delivered by the Chairman and other speak re e we cannot find space. ere e The Mayor The other toasts of the evening, ---. wSheridan Knowles and Corporation of Stratford " fEngland"— The Vicar and the Dramatic Writersee9embers of the comity"— ani the Clergy"—" Th e e British Stage"—" The w ar . " David Garrick and th Chuirman"—" The Visitors" wiekshire Lasses"—" The _ t, „ ecc. &e. — Leamington . The idos Leamington —" The Press"—" Courier. __.-0•............."....'"1M11MM111M1N,11•• I _ ROYAL ITALIAN ®p A. Their Royal fliebnestes the Di:eke:so of C . trubridge and the Priecess ?Lary honoured the perfoeme., - 6 sHit the Royal Dalian Opera with theiepreEence labs evening. Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by the La , iies Elizabeth arelTiatherine Grey Egerton. 'Lord William Pau:et and Captain Clifford were in attends.see upon the royal party. Atheng ;ho fashionable company bonne ring the theatre With their presecc, we remarked his Excel lency the Sardiniun Miois!er, the Duke end Duchess of Montrose, and the Ladies Graham, the Marquis 'ef Northampton. the Mat quis of Douro, M.P., the Earl and , Courre:es of CheaterfiAd, the Couutess of Glengail, and Lady Margaret liutler, Countess of Melmeibtity, the Ccuotess . Craven, the , Countess of. Tinto and the Ladles Harriet and Charlotte Elho'; tend Lady Eqzi- Lob Ron:idly; the Count and Countess de Murelia, Visa. and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount Cranbourne, Visot. Exmouth, Viscount Templetown, Lord and Lady Cerington and the Honourable Lady Williams Wine, Lord Broughton -and the Honourable Miss Hobhouse, and the Lady Jane flay, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Arthur Hay, Lady William Powlett and Miss Doyle, Lady Suffield, Baron de Steonberg, Lady Ashworth and Mis s A s h wor th, L a dy Cosmo Russell and th© Hon. Mrs. A. Callaghau, Hon. John Fortescae, M.P., Hon. E. S. Russell, M.P., Hon. Harry Grey, Lady Rose Lovell and Lady Henrietta Somerset, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage, Sir John and Lady Campbell, Sir Robert Peel, Sir William Abdy, Mr. H. Bingham Baring, M.P., Colonel Brown low Knox, M.P., Colonel Steele, Major Gage, Captain Meyrick, Captain Hotham, Captain de Bathe, Miss Burdett Coutts, Dr. Quin, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Scott, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Ardedeckne, Mr. R„ Gorden, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. L. Clay ton, Mr. Balfour, Captain Johnson, Colonel Tyrrwhite, the. Misses Majoribanks, Captain the lion. Claude Lyon, Sir Robert and Lady Carden and the Misses Carden, Mr. R. Holford and Miss Hollord, Colonel Bright, Capt. Stopheason, Colonel Crombio, &c. WELLlNGTON inu,,tratingte G N Campaigns Wellington S. T T he E D E iorama bids fair to rival in attraction its celebrated predecessor, " The Overland Route." A series of most interesting scenes is delineated with admirable artistic skill, and the lucid comments of the lecturer, Mr. Stocqueler, com plete the pleasure afforded by this entertaining and in structive exhibition. The most signal triumphs of the eminent artists engaged, Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, Absolon, and Alfred Corbould, are the Cathedral of Burgos, the passage of the Douro, the &hi of Busaco, the triumphal entry into Madrid, and the exquisite night scenes of the chapel of Ciudad Rodrigo, and of the Adour, near Bayonne. The int eres t attached to the brilliant career of Wellington, the excel lent selection of its salient features, and the exquisite skill with which so many memorable scenes are presented to the spectator, must render this diorama one of unrivalled popularity. Yesterday the curtains were closed rather prematurely on ore or two occasions, just as the eye was becoming familiarised to the beauty of the prospect, and Mr. Stocqueler erroneously informed us that the Duke was born at Dangan Castle, instead of in Grafton street, in Dublin City. These are the only motes we could detect in ono of the most delightful entertain meats we have ever assisted at. Let none of our Lon don friends—denizens or visitors, omit the inspection of the " Campaigns of %Vela gton," at the Gallery of Illus tration, or they will lose one of the most genuine treats of the season. MR. G. F. YOUNG'S STATISTICS. TO THE EDITuR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE Sir,—lu a letter to one of your contemporaries Ms. Young repeats his assertion (§ 2) that the entries of wheat and flour for home consumption during the last year were 6,369 742 quarters, and he refers in proof to the Trade and Navigation return for the twelve months ending sth January, 1852. I have consulted that re turn, and find that the entries for home consump tion,: during the year 1851, of wheat and fl cur. were : Wheat Ditto Flour, 5,365,179 cwt., at 3} per qr 1,532.908 „ 5,369,742 qrs. Mr. Young has thus overstated the entries by exactly one million of quarters ! And yet he is considered by his party as the supremo authority in statistics, and but for his health be would no doubt by this time have given to the public Board of Trade returns the figures of which might not lcss have puzzled the Free-traders than delighted the Protectionists. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, AN EXAMINER OF PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS. COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN. One of those dreadful explosions by which so many lives are constantly destroyed in coal-mines took place on Friday afternoon last, at Pemberton,' near Wigan, Lancashire. The colliery it, one belonging to the exe cutors of the late Mr. John Daglieb, and is called the Norley-hall Estate. The shafts are about 160 yards deep, and the workings to the east extend as far as 750 yards. It was at the extremity of these workings where the explosion occurred. About 60 workpeople had descended in the morning, but at noon nearly half of them had left, leaving the boys and a few men to load ' and get out the coal which had been hewn. About half past three o'clock in the afternoon some of these boys, but it is not known which, are believed to have fired the gas, which accumulated in great quantities in the mine, and a terrific explosion followed. Mr. Twiss the manager of the mines, was near the mouth of the pit, and took a large body of colliers to search the workings for the dead and injured, with as little delay as possible. After encoun tering great obstruction from the sulphur or after damp, they brought out during the evening the bodies of three_ u persons who had been killed, and a great number of others in a state of great suffering from burns. ptd an to yesterday ten of the sufferers had died altogethe r, eight others were in a state which l eft but little hope of recovery. The names of the dead are:—Peter Lsadbeater, aged 33 ; Thomas Hitches, aged 15 ; Edward 14; John Lowe, aged 11 ; Thomas s Greenall, aged nrs d t, aged 13; Ah Robert Roby, aged 1 2 ; Joseph Hitchen, ego 11; James Willi am Atherton, aged 13 ; Wit iGiarmeellnalaiy, to a n g , e a d s; ge l al3. The names of the injured are: —James Atherton, who is much burnt an d is ne the point of death; James Hitchen, aged 40 (f a th er of the and in a F e rn- , two boys above-mentioned as dead ) , also on the point o f ah il u li--- rßsmtdeath; John Topping, aged 10, da ngerously burnt; Adam Winnard, aged 10 , dangerously burnt;ohaFairhurst, William Derbishire, aged 16 , dangerouslyburnt; Thomas mond, aged 10, dangerously burnt; j e also been sli g htl y aged 21, nearly burnt to death; James Leadbeater, aged 28, bruised by tbo force of the explosion, dan gerous state. Two other persons have injured. The rn e dintqüill e t st e co n m an m al en answerce from the commenced on on Monday, b at w Secretaasrya d of jou S ta te had been rec e i ve d . The evidence we n t to sh that the mine had be en examinedow re ported in a state o f safety in the morn i ng and where men had to wor k . Itat all the faces of th e coal is of a nature highly appears, howe ver, t h at the coal and a great qua n ti ty of bituminous, with a b e d o f cannel, The men ar e gas ordinarily esc a p es f rom the workings. are liable to fi ne for allowingsupplied any one ex ce p t t h e under lookers to unl oc k them. How person c ou ld remove the top fromany of the b oys or ot h er the flame to th e explosive a l amp so as to expose gas supposed that thi s h ad been doneis not kno wn , b u t it i s the falling eart h at the etr near to the °, goaf," or x which th e coa l h ad b een emity of the w o r ki ngs f r om taken, In these places the gas generally accumulates and lights in th e i r v i c inity i wt should be managed ,11 care. Six men were killed by fire thisin • mine on the 6th of January last by a similar explosion of fire damp. --- LONDON SOCIETY FOR TIIE BLIND.—On Monday the annual meeting of the promoters of this charity took place at the Hanover-square Rooms. The Right Rev. Bishop Carr in the chair (the Earl of Shaftesbury being obliged to leave the room on public business elsewhere). from a report w hi c h was read and adopted, It appeared, that the income of the society d ur i ng the past year had exceeded that o f the previous yea r b y 30 0/. ; but extraordinary circumstances had entailed upon the charity additional expenses, and, therefore, the money in hand was reduced to a lower sum than might otherwise have been expected. The receipts for the year had amounted to 1,6131., but owing to the expenses alluded to, the balance remaining din hand was only Kt., and it was, th ere f ore, hoped that the benevolent public wo uld continue their exerti ons i n f avour o f s o charitable a cause. Ar'----rair.24.—Cotton-market ateady this focd:faele..raPrgeci::::testttoYinn selbexaps improved GLA.sGoW, d e s c ec r ti e p d t io ann IViert:ers:sche'owalitlhe fair npdara severalti' vely suppliesth ebetterstili limited, but on a change ofeo•aril'i prospect large shipments ru t a h r e ke w t. eek T , h a e ndait demand I. trim. America, to that ere long we a bett er assortment in this better tone pervades the trade. Pig-iron—Our market for pig -iroa during the week has been quiet, with little busince:i doing, but without any material change in price. 'l'o-day mixed numbers are held at 365.; Ao. 1, 3€3. Od. to 3rs. ; No. I, Gartsherrie, 38s. 3d. cash against bill of lading. The i:eioand has been almost entirely for shipping parcels, principally for America. Bar-iron is g sh e 3 t i h i er ha a ve .. quoted Si. for ordinary, Lind z,l„ 7.5.61 for special brands, ltitis 4 pr cent. for cash. A SMART LAD.--A boy from the country was recently taken into a gentleman's family. One evening , after having been c a ll e d up to the drawing-room, he came down into the kitchen, laughing immoderately. " What's th e mat ter ?" cried the cook. "Why, clang it !" said he, " there are twelve on 'em up there, who couldn't anuff the candle, and they had to ripg for me to do Al" [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A. Lieutenant of Dragoons cured of Rh eumat i sm by Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — This offic er , w h o i s i n t h e Dutch army, states that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured him of rheumatism, which ap peared to be incurable, as neither sea bathing, vapour baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure remedies , did him any, good, and the treatment of the doctor, after several months trial, Was without success. At this j unc ture he commence d takin g these pills, and rubbing the o intment into the complaining parts twice a day, which effectu all y cured him in the course of six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Beis-de-Due. — Sold by all Drug gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Loudon. ~~: