The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

Railway and Other Companies. PENINSUAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVI GATION. The annual general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Leadenhall-street ; Mr. P. D. Hadow, the deputy-chairman, presided. Mr. C. W. HOWELL, the secretary, read the re port, which stated that the company stood possessed on Sept. 30 last of stock in ships, less the amount deducted for depreciation, £3,043,164; also of lease hold and freehold property in England and docks and premises at Calcutta, Bombay, Hongkong, Singapore, and other stations, £259,090 ; stock of coals, naval and victualling stores, am ounting to £473,856 ; also cash at bankers, investments, bills receivable, balances in agents' hands, and debts due to . the company, £368,181, making the total assets £4,144,290. The capital received from proprietors at that date amounted to £2,300,000, on debentures to £626,500, and in anticipation of the ninth and tenth instalments £34,605; total capital £2,961,105. The liabilities of the company in bills payable and otherwise amounted to £724,171, making the total capital and liabilities £3,685,276, showing a surplus of £159,015. The revenue account showed that the gross receipts or income of the company, from freight, passage-money, postal service contracts, and other sources, amounted for the 12 months ending Sept. 30 last to £2,243,076. The expendi ture and charges on revenue, including interest on debentures, with the reserve for insurance, and out lay for wear and tear, and renewal of ships, for the same period, amounted to £2,094,493, leaving a net profit of £148,583. From this was deducted £77,000 for dividend of 3i per cent. for the half year ending March 31, and £67,500 for the half year's dividend now recommended at 3 per cent., leaving a balance of £4,083. The annual premium of 5 per cent. on the estimated value of the float ing property of the company, covering ordinary sea risks and credited to the proprietors' under writing account for the year ending Sept. 30, 1866, was £llO,OOO. From this was deducted value of steamship Jeddo, wrecked on the Choul Bader Reef in February last (less depreciation) £52,200 ; also damage to the company's property at Calcutta by the cycicne in October, 1864, £770 ; leaving a balance of £56,030, out of which it was proposed to pay the proprietors at the rate of 2 per cent., leav bg £363 for the reserve fund, which would then amount to £450,015. The tabular statement of the company's fleet showed that there were 10 ships— five screw and five paddlewheel—on the Mediter ranean service ; seven screw on the Calcutta and Suez line ; 18 screw on the Bombay and Suez and Bombay and China lines ; four screw on the Ceylon and Sydney line, and two paddle and five screw on the Hong Kong and Shanghai, China Coast, and Japan lines, making together 46 ships, aggregate tonnage 74,341 tons and 16,580 horse-power. There were five ships under repair of an aggregate tonnage of 8,928 tons and 2,300 -horse power. These, together with steam-tugs, transport, store, and Coal ships, amounted in the aggregate to 99,963 tons Customs' measurement, and to 19,655-horse power. The Surat, after performing a complete voyage on the Southampton and Mediterranean lines, during which she steamed 8,858 miles, at an average rate of 11 knots per hour, was despatched to Calcutta, via the Cape, on the 7th ult., for ser vice between that place and Suez. The Avoca, Malacca, and Sunda had likewise been finished, and sent to the East. The Avoca made the passage from Southampton to Bombay in 65 days, the Malacca in 55 days, and the Sunda in 58 days. The Geelong, left Southampton for Bombay on the 9th June, and arrived out on 30th July in 51 days. All those voyages were made under easy steam. The Candia, Nubia, and Delta were again in active service, each having received new boilers and a thorough repair and refit. The first brought to Suez, two days within the contract time, the Calcutta and China mails, delivered on the 27th ult. The Granada had been sold to one of the princes cf Japan on advan tageous terms. The number of vessels under ex temive repair had of late been unusually large. This had arisen from the circumstance that many of the cornuany's ships were built about the same time and ily for new boilers and a general refit came round at nearly the same period. Several of the finest ships—among them the Pera, the Simla, the Chi::a, the Ceylon, the Nubia, the Candia, the Nepaul, the Benares, the Erneu, the Salsette, and the Delta—had now undergone a complete renewal, and come had still to be laid up for tile same Fir- The repa:rs and renewals of the last nine of the 1) pose t ships earns into the accounts f,..r the financial year, and the consequence was that the amount ex pended in that way had exceeded the total of that spent in repairs and renewals, together with the sum set apart for depreciation in former years, when the repairs had been of the average amount. For the year 1865 the cost of repairs stood at £294,459, and the atnount set apart for depreciation was £115,000, making together £4 0 9,459. In the ac counts for the present year the amount expended in repairs and renewals alone had reached the unusual sum of £439,400, but as the vessels repaired and renewed during this awl the Preceding year had been rendered in many respects as good as new, the directors had not co nsid ered it necessary to charge' any reserve for depreciation against the revenue of the last financial yea r. The Board looking bt forward to to the possibility tha t the com p an y nii invited to submit tenders for new services, they con sequently petitioned her Majesty in Council for a supplemental charter, authorising an ad.lition of £1,000,000 to the present capital of the comp any , by the creation and issue of 20,009 new shares of £5O each. The directors greatly regretted the loss by death of two members of the Board in the last half-year, Mr. Plowden and Capt. Nairne, who had discharged their duties with great assiduity. The vacancies, in accordance with the deed of settlement, were filled up by the appointment of Mr. E. Thornton, C. 8., and Mr. G. C. L'Estrange, sub ject to the approval of the proprietors. The Board proposed, prior to the half-yearly meeting next June, to nominate Mr. 11. Bayley, now one of the assistant managers, to the post of director. The Indian and China mail contracts taken in 1853 and 18b4 were terminable by the Government or the company on 12 months' notice, and the existing Australian contract, which commenced in February last, was terminable in like manner on two years' notice. Those contracts comprised the whole of the mail services now worked by the company. Ihe Parlia mentary Committee of 1866, after a most searching inquiry, recorded their " opinion that the services under the several contracts to which reference had been made had been weliperformed," and the direc tors felt warranted in stating that the facts and evi dence submitted to them could have led to no other conclusion. The subject was now under the consi deration of the several departments of the Govern ment. The directors had completed their arrange ments for a trial of extra voyages between Bombay and Suez; the first steamer would leave Bombay on ;Tan. 19, and Suez about Feb. 5, in correspondence with the steamers to leave Southampton on the 20th, and Marseilles on the 28th January. A service four times a month would then be temporarily estab lished. In the face of the existingstagnation of trade with the Ea s t, the directors congratulated the pro prietors on the fact that they were enabled to recom mend a divid end of 3 per cent. for the last half-year, mak in , with 31 p er g cent. declared in June last and 21 per cent. from the underwriting account, a total of 9 per cent. for the ye ar. The amounts now avail able would be—for divid.l-id 3 . p et cent., and under .;:ount 2'; per cent., togethe r 51 per cent., oI meome-tax, payable in one warrant on Fri- writing ac day, 28th inst The CEIAIIIMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed re g ret that Mr. Anderson, the was unable to attend in his place that day ence o f ill ne ss. It was an interestin g meeting in respect of its being 25 years since the first annual niceting of the cAnpany was held in St. Mary-axe, when the company had a much smaller undertaking than at present. It bad been carried out from the commencement with prudence in every way, and with due enterprise. The founders of the undertaking would, he trusted, bealways held in grateful remembrance. The company had been of vast importance to the country by extending com merce to the East. his worthy friend the secre tary, had compiled an account of the progress of the inc , company up to the present time, for which he de served the thanks of the proprietors. It showed how the Government had assisted them in the un dertaking, and the parsimonious conduct of the authorities. They never had a tender accepted by the Government through favour to the company, but because it was lowest, except in one or two cases when another company tendered for contracts and came to an untimely end. They owed nothing to the Government for their support ; all the company had obtained had been fairly earned and fairly won. The capital account was now larger than ever it was before, owing to the call on the new shares, but the money had been judiciously expended on property abroad and would be remunerative to the company. The ships that had been renewed were now as good as new ships, the company's fleet was in a perfect state of efficiency, and he could say that commanders and officers were able and efficient in every respect. The new capital they proposed to get power to raise would not be lightly expended. They would only expend what was requisite for the purposes of the company. When they got the supplemental charter they would call up £5 a share, and Le might mention that the ratio of the new share capital to the old would be as 2to 5. The business of the company had suffered to some extent from the late panic and the commercial crisis, but he was gad to say that re cent advices from the East showed that things there were improving. The experimental service had long been thought of by this company. The experi mental line from Suez to Bombay had been pro posed to the Government 18 months ago, but owing to official delays the matter had been allowed to remain in abeyance. They were, however, going to put the vessels on the route to see how the ser vice would be conducted with advantage in case it should be adopted. He then adverted to the Par liamentary Committee on Communications with the East, before whom many rash statements were made, being the reverse of accurate, and those were completely refuted by the excellent secretary, who had compiled facts and figures in support of his statements. Their company had come out of that searching investigation with credit, and it was acknowledged by the committee that the service by the company was well performed. Their establish ment in Bombay had been enlarged for the repair of ships, and was of considerable value to them. The motion for the adoption of the report having been seconded, Mr. GLIDDON called attention to the compara tively small sum paid by the Government for the con veyance of the mails, which he stated was at the rate of id. per ton per mile, being the same rate as that paid for the conveyance of coals on the railways. The Secretary said that according to measurement it was little more than id. a ton per mile. Mr. JONES suggested that greater facilities might be afforded to second-class passengers in their ships, or that a separate service might be organised by the company for that purpose ; at the same time he thought the present very efficient service of the company and speed of the ships could not be per formed at less expense. He referred to the excellent conduct of Capt. Hector in one of the company's ships during a typhoon, which proved they had not only able commanders but efficient crews. A discussion ensued, and after explanations by the Chairman, the report was unanimously adopted. A dividend of 3 per cent. for the past half year was declared, together with a payment of 2i per cent., for the year ending Sept. 30 last, out of the under writing account, making together 5i per cent., pay able on the 28th inst. On the motion of the Chairman, Mr. E. Thorn ton, C. 8., and Mr. G. C. L'Estrange were unani mously elected directors of the company. Oa the motion of Dr. Evans, seconded by the Chairman, the best thanks of the meeting were unanimously tendered to Mr. Howell, the secretary, for the important facts ho had compiled in respect of the public services performed by the company. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. WATERLOO BRIDGE. The half yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern ; Mr. Ander son in the chair. Mr. POWELL, the secretary, read the report, which stated the receipts for the half year ending August 23 last amounted to £11,475, and for the corres ponding period of the preceding year to £11,394, showing an increase of £Bl. At the last general meeting the directors stated that after paying the current charges and a dividend of 4s. Bd. in the pound there remained a balance of £4,923. The Board now reported that after paying the current disbursements and providing for the interest on the company's bonds, and paying a dividend of 4s. Bd. in the pound, there would remain a balance of £5,314. Mr. BIRD moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. TURNER. Mr. PARSONS wished to know what the average balance at the bankers was, as he was of opinion that if the company could keep down that balance a little more it would be much better. The CHAIRMAN said that, after paying all charges here remained a sum of £5,400. The average ba- Lance at the bankers was £6,000. There was £52 for the half year's interest. _ _ The adoption of the report was carried unani mously, the report of the auditors was read and con firmed, and the retiring directors and auditors re elected. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions, stated that no proposition for purchasing the bridge had been made to the directors. Since the committee of the House of Commons, which sat in 1864, nothing had taken place ; and it was not their intention to offer the bridge for sale, because it was very un likely they would obtain the value of it. The proceedings concluded with thanks to the chairman. JOINT-STOCK DISCOUNT (LIMITED). Mr. R. P. HARDIN G , the official liquidator, in a s t a tement of the aff a i rs of this Co e in p p l a a n i y n; that—" It to the 30th of Novembe r last, x brought up vlue of the li and b e i n g still impossible to st a t e the actual h securities, secur ities which are held agai nst the o n account of the debts, I have thow,hZh it ia desirableties to include in this statement a classified list of stating their nominal val ues . Suchsuno minal values are very mu ch more than the amountsat which these securities were estim ated when taken by the company, and of the total—viz. £1,662,516175. 2d., £630,869 ss. s d. is the nominal val ue of those which are held against s undr y debts, and in re s p ec t of the bills receivable in hand and overdue, included in the preceding total of £937,560 9s. 6d. A first dividend of 6s. Bd. in the pound will be forthwith paid out of the cash and proceedsof Exchequer-bills to the creditors of the company, whose debts have been proved and allowed, and if the call be properly responded to I expect to be in a position to pay a further considerable dividend early next year." This statement of affairs shows that there is in cash and Exchequer-bills £350,971, leaving £705,575 to be provided by the realization of assets and securi ties, and from the remaining capital unpaid. The assets consist of lease of premises, &c., £2,670; sundry debtors, £587,533 ; bills receivable in hand £28,000 ; bills overdue, £322,025 ; total, £937,560. The railway securities consist of £289,413 in deben tures and mortgage bonds, £297,260 Lloyd's bonds, £90,000 acceptances, £206,200 preference shares, £196,160 ordinary shares, shares in public com panies, bill guarantees, &c., £583,483, together, £1,662,517. The capital remaining unpaid amounted to £B34,39l—making the total £3,437,141. - MADRAS. The traffic receipts on this company's south-west line for the quarter ending 30th of September last amounted to £93,929 against £89,381 for the corre sponding three months.of last year, the mileage re maining the same. On the north-west line the re ceipts for the quarter have been £15,431, against £13,139 on 142 miles and 92 miles open respectively. The two limes together show an increase on the quarter of 50 miles on 81 per cent. in the length of way.open, and £6,813 or 6 per cent. in receipts. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. '"` The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 7th of November amounted for local passen2;crs to £6,446 ; for foreign passengers to £4,432; for emigrants to £278; for mails, &c., to £1,048 ; for local freight and live stock to £13,907; for foreign freight and live stock to £3,2B7—total £29,398, against £28,857 for the cor responding week of last year, showing an increase of £541. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £570,270, and for the same period last year to £563,992, showing an in crease of £6,278. TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1866. Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday the 28th company of Royal Engineers, the order for the departure of which for Ireland was received at Chatham on Wednesday, was in spected on the general parade ground at Chatham barracks by Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K. C. B. , and in the afternoon left head-quarters, Brompton barracks, and proceeded at 4 10 p.m. by special train on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway to Holyhead, via Kensington. They were to embark at an early hour this morning for Dublin, whence they will be despatched by special train to Cork. The strength of the company numbered 96 men of all ranks, with two officers. Yesterday Lieutenant W. Wilmot, and a de tachment of 25 non-commissioned officeis and men of the Royal Marines, left ;head-quarters, Chatham, and embarked on board the paddle wheel steamer Virago, 6, 220-horse power, Com mander Bingham, ordered for special service in Ire land. A detachment of 25 non-commissioned officers and men left head quarters at the same time to join the Liverpool, 35, 600 horse power, Capt. J. Sec combe. On Wednesday evening the officers of the Chat ham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry enter tained Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., late Com mandant of the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, at a farewell dinner at the head quarters of the division, on the occasion of his re linquishing the command of the division on his attaining General's rank, and receiving the appoint ment of Inspector-General of the Corps of Royal Marines. The attendance of officers on the occa sion was exceedingly numerous, and included not only those at head quarters, but a number of officers serving away from Chatham. Col. G. Lambrick, aide-de-camp to the Queen, the Commandant of the division, presided, and among the officers pre sent were Lieut.-Gen. A. B. Stransham, late In spector-General of the Royal Marines ; Col. W. S. Aslett, Second Commandant at Chatham ; Col. W. F. Foote, Second Commandant at Woolwich ; Lieut.-Col. G. B. Rodney, Assist. Adjutant-Gen., together with several of the principal officers of the garrison. Her Majesty's armour plated 26 gun iron screw steamship Northumberland, 6,621 tons, and 1,350 horse power, Staff-Commander It. B. Batt, at pre sent in charge, is ordered to be hauled out of the Victoria Dock on the 22d inst., and to proceed to Sheerness, to be navigated thence to Devonport. The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan- Inure, Mr. Spriddle commander, yesterday com pleted shipping a cargo of war stores at Woolwich for Devonport, consisting of Palliser and other shot and shell, wrought iron gun carriages and slides, small arms' chests, &c., and will sail on Saturday morning by the early tide, after filling in her ma gazine at Purfleet. The Right Hon. G. J. Gosehen, M.P., on Education. Last evening the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen pre sided at the distribution of Society of Arts prizes to the successful students at the Halifax Mechanics' Institution. There was a large attendance. The Chairman said he doubted whether the progress of mechanics' institutions had been sufficiently rapid and general to enable the promoters to point to them as a feather in their cap, and show how rapidly the country was progressing in education. That edu cation had been progressing there was no doubt, but not at that rate to which Englishmen were accustomed in everything else. While our com mercial wealth advanced from million to million, education laboured forward so elowly as almost to appear that we were either standing still or going back. Compare a sudden speech on the budget with a speech on popular education. One was a history of triumphs achieved, and the other was a chronicle of an advance by inches, with constant and most serious checks. Commerce, finance, and manulae- ture all knew how to burst through every obstacle, no difficulty was able to block their course, but the course of popular education seemed always to be blocked, enormous difficulties stared its friends in the face at every step,and there did not seem to be that energy to remove them that Englishmen showed in every other department of life. If that was so, it was clear there was something deeper than the radical difficulties with which legislators and administrators had to contend with ; perhaps they might be con nected with the prejudices of the people, and deeply cherished traditions and habits which the country could not easily get rid of. But before he inquired further as to those difficulties he would ask whether it was true, as the critics said, that all classes of this country were behindhand in appreciating intel lectual pleasures. With immense modifications that assertion could not be denied, but he thought that those critics missed a point of our national character of which we were exceedingly proud, and which had led to immense results—the possession of animal spirits. England could not be England if she ceased to possess in the fullest measure high animal spirits. That it was which made us such a robust nation ; but it might, on the other hand, make it more difficult to advance in in tellectual tastes as other nations which had not those characteristics. (Hear, hear.) In our public schools, in the universities, and in Parliament itself, there could be no question as to the rank assigned everywhere to high animal spirits. The " jolly fel lows" ruled the day, and they were not the enemies, but more or less the rivals, of science and education wherever their dominion extended. They had this danger about them, that they might lead mental work to be considered unfashionable. At the pub lic schools the " jolly fellows" used opprobrious epithets towards those who worked too hard ; they were the swells in the society of boys ; and they exercised a similar influence at the universities. They had, however, this advantage—they were pro tections against pedantry, and took all the nonsense out of prigs; though, ou the other hand, they might exercise too absolute a dominion, and show consi derable vigour in putting down any literary or in tellectual insurrection. In the army and navy one gloried in finding that characteristic in its fullest force ; it was an element of great national strength, but as elsewhere there was this danger, that the that ev en m ili tary study It would be a ma t ter of `°jolly f e ll ows " m i g h t pooh pooh sc i ence, an d d ecree greatshod ul r b e g e r e u t u f a i f s h m i o i n l i a t b a t r e y . opinion should become cold or hostile to those who thatvbieeltieevrieedus brainsandnations as strong e' : o a n s u . couj A a p g p e la m u a se.) made arms He alluded to those characteristics not to depreciate them but because he thou g ht h e saw i n them a cause of some of the difficulties we had to contend • against in developing our intellectual tastes. The difficulties thet beset- popular education among the working classes in the first rudiments of knowledge were of course of a different kind, though there might even there be something, in a few respects, a little akin to the f ee ling he had described. The difficulties they met on the very surface were so numerous and serious that they need not look beyond them to account for the slow progress the country was mak ing in popular education. As to the cause of those difficulties, there had been blue books on blue books, and inquiry after inquiry, to ~ get at the facts, b u t the upshot was that we could not arrive at any ge neral agreement of principlenay, s ; the principles were all so hoplessly conflicting that unless one side or the other would give way there was no hope of anything beyond a dead lock. Some men argued that education was of such national importance that the State. must take it in hand, the other side maintained that would destroy voluntary effort. One side said there were plenty of schools but the poor would not send their children to them, and there must therefore be some compulsion ; but it was re plied that if that was done the State would inter fere with parental authority. Another party held that the religious difficulty was the great. difficulty, and that to have a national and thorough system of education we must get over that difficulty, and have secular instruction, and better secular instruc tion than nothing at all. The reply was that if we wished to Christianise the country we must stick to denominational education. Then there were:complex difficulties about building schools, getting children to come when the schools were built, and then, when the children and the schools were obtained, getting the clergy, managers, and parents to work harmoniously together. His own impression was that the chief difficulty was that of getting the chil dren to go to school at all, because in that part of the question there were three formidable questions to deal with—the apathy of parents who could afford to send children, the competition of the labour mar ket, and the poverty of those who could not afford to part with school pence. He thought the last was the least serious. The amount of pence per child was not more than 2d. per week, for the Government returns showed that in the schools under inspection the cost per child per annum was not more than £1 65., or 6d. per week, towards which 2d. was contri buted by the parent, 2d. by voluntary contribution, and 2d. by the Government grant. In some cases the inspectors reported that 2d. a week might be a burden on the parents where, for instance, a man was oat of work ; but it was disgraceful where the children of working men who were in good wages and full work were kept from school because those people would not pay 2d. a week. In the pauper districts of large towns 2d. might be a serious item, but, supposing there were 3f millions of children belonging to the working classes of an age to go to school, and supposing 500,000 were so pau perised that they could not afford to pay 2d. a week, what would it amount to? Why, £225,000, or one thirty-third of the 7} millions paid by the ratepayers under the system of the poor laws; and at that cost the ratepayers would make a good invest ment to relieve themselves of that immense burden. The competition of the labour market was a much more serious difficulty, because of its greater temp tations, for there was not the mere sacrifice of school pence, but the question of what a child could earn. Take the case of a man with three children, between six and twelve years old, and who could earn toge ther 4s. a week. Now that 4s. and the 6d. a week school pence made a vast difference in the comforts of a working man, therefore the temptation was great, and it might require some pressure to get children to school. But who was to employ it? Employers must rise above their own interests if it was to be done by them, for it was often to their advantage to have cheap infant labour in the place of adult labour. The Factory Act afforded the principle on which children might be made to go to school, and he was not sure whether some further progress would not be necessary in that direction. He thought the difficulty could only be solved by further progress in the direction that had been sanc tioned and admitted as a principle by that act. But, after all, the difficulty that was more serious than any other was the positive apathy of a number of parents to send children to school, even if their edu cation was paid for. He thought that the evil was so great that it could only be dealt with by a law that was even worse than the Factory Act. That act prevented people from doing something, but in the case of apathy people must be compelled to do something. On that branch of the subject Mr. Bruce, late Vice-President of the Board of Education, had recently given some statistics respecting an inves tigation made in Manchester to ascertain the state of education in that city. A canvass was made of 7,650 families, comprising 11,000 children ; of that number 4,500 were at school, 760 at work, and 5,750 neither at work nor at school—of that 5,750 three-fifths were absent on account of the poverty of their parents, and two-fifths from the apathy of their parents. It was said that in London there Were 150,000 " missing children." That was denied; but taking the estimate at 80,000, it was painful to think there should be so many whose future was denied them simply by the apathy and carelessness of their parents. Many of the ministers of religion believed it to be necessary to come to some kind of compulsory system, for they conceived by that means only could neglected children be reached. But there was another difficulty, which no one speaking on the subject of popular education could avoid touching, the denominational difficulty aril ing out of the conscience clause. On that subject the position of the State seemed to be this : the effect of that clause was limited to parishes in which the population was too small to be able to support two schools, and the State said—We cannot expend the money of the taxpayers on two schools which cannot be filled, and we must support one or none at all ; but as the money is contributed by all without dis tinction of religion, we cannot consent to give the whole of the grant to a Church of England school, unless that school undertakes that the children of Dissenters shall not be excluded by the enforce ment of doctrines to which their parents objected. There was a great deal of misunderstanding on that bclergymen were called u s u po jc n e t t I o.- teach was not tna t truew hich that they did not believe, or upon which they differed from others ; they were to have full power to teach the dogmas of the Church of England, and the only point was that, if Dissen ters could not get their children into any other school, they were to have access to the secular edu cation of that. That was the difficulty which had caused so much heart-burning, and under which schools remained unbuilt and children untaught. The view taken by the bulk of the clergy was natural and clear enough. They could not undertake, as a matter of bargain, to promise not to teach the doc trines of the Church of England to all children ; they could not admit that religion could be severed from education ; nor \ could they admit that any in struction could be given under their authority and at their schools apart from the formularies, doctrines, and books of the Church of England. That was a logical and conscientious view ; and so it might also be said of the opposite view. Hence parties came to a dead lock. Many of the clergy asked that the clause should not be enforced upon them, and they would not be intolerant, but in a matter of such vital interest were they justified in trusting any body ? Could they trust to the discretion of a body of men, however reasonable, but amongst whom from the nature of their high vocation fervent en thusiasm and ardour were a greater virtue than dis cretion ? (Applause.) He would readily admit that education in its highest form could never be severed, from religion, but supposing that higher form of education could- not be given, were the Dissenters' children not to be taught to read, to write, to sum, and needle-work ? He did not think that could be contended for one moment. Let denomi national schools be continued as far as possible, they were the schools to which he himself would best wish to give support ; but where there could not be two schools in a village the people should not be deprived of secular know ledge because they could not get the other; the latter might be the more valuable, but don't let it be said that the Dissenters should have nothing be cause they could not take all. (Applause.) He thought that religious instruction could be given without encountering theological or controversial difficulties, and that it would be a great calamity to the country and to the Church if the clergy were to stand upon a theoretical non possumus, and with draw from the work of education. He acknow ledged their great services, though he believed that the monopoly they had long claimed in education would not be much longer allowed. England, how ever, did not wish for secular education, and if the country should be driven to it, the responsibility would rest with those whose uncompromising ten dencies declared that, as a matter of conscience they could not undertake not to press their doctrine on those whose parents did not want it. (Hdar, hear.) But the general difficulty was not confined to small parishes ; it occurred in every department from the university to the most remote infant school, and under that conflict education and religion suffered, and the great danger was that unless some com promise was effected the result would be what all would deplore that education would cease to be re ligious, and religion would cease to be educational. (Applause.) The State could not be a party to the oppression of the conscience clause, or to ignorance; it must distribute its funds with an impartial hand. But apart from the question of funds he had doubts - whether the community had not a right to insist that every child should receive a minimum amount of instruction to enable it to support itself after wards, and be a guarantee that it should not fall upon the parish and become a burden to society at large. He did not stand up as an advocate of compulsory education, but he thought that if the principle was to be rejected it should be rejected on deliberate conviction, and not on a general vague, traditional notion that it was unsuited to the habits of the country. Compulsory education need only be a system which required that every child should receive a minimum amount of instruction, and treat the neglect of a child as a breach of the la w. There might be a choice of schools; denominational insti tutions might exist wherever they could, and educa tion might be vivified by voluntary effort, but let there be some machinery that should reach those who could not otherwise be got at, and which volun tary effort was unable to perform ; that was the kind of compulsory education which he thought might do. To make education compulsory upon parents would only be a natural consequence upon the law which made the maintenance of children compulsory on the community. He did not think that compulsory education would dispense entirely with voluntary effort, or deprive schools of the in terest that voluntary effort awakened in them. Only a portion of the school children need fall upon the rate, and for the others there still might be the assistance of the State, voluntary contributions, and school pence. He liked a menzoria technica for figures, and his memoria technica for education would be that the most judicious course was to ex pend what would not exceed half of that which was so deplorably costly under our poor-laws. (Ap plause.) Other gentlemen addressed the meeting, whieh was brought to a close at a late hour. Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also present Sir Francis Outram, Bart., the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., W. H. Haden ; Esq., Sir E. Perrott, Bart., Admiral M‘Hardy, Admiral Gordon, George Lyall, Esq., Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., Captain Egerton, R.N., Admiral Ryder, Captain De St. Croix, Colonel Palmer, Captain Ward, RN., Inspector of Lifeboats to the Institution; and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, a reward of £25 was voted to the crew of the Binning- ham, No. 2 lifeboat of the institution, stationed at Caister, Norfolk, for putting off, on the 30th ult., in reply to sig nals of distress, to the assistance of the schooner Corona tion, of London, which was found to be lying fast on the Inner Barber Sand, in the midst of the breakers. The lifeboat was unable to approach the vessel nearer thin within sixty or seventy yards ; she was, however, the means, after staying by the vessel for two hours, of saving the crew of four men, and bringing them safely ashore. Tho sum of £23 was likwise granted to pay the ex penses of the Becton lifeboat of the institution in putting off during a heavy gale of wind from the N.N.E. to the as sistance of the schooner Swann, of Goole, which was driven ashore by the gale at Walcot, Oastend, on the 17th ult. The lifeboat was fortunately the means of saving the crew of four men, who were in the rigging. Seven pounds wese also granted to pay the expenses of the lifeboat of the institution stationed at Portrush, for putting off, on the 11th ult., during a strong gale of wind from the N.W., to the assistance of the barque Coriven, of Londonderry, which had come in collision with the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Portrush. The lifeboat placed some of her men on board the Coriven, as the barque's crew were thoroughly exhausted, who wore thus enabled to render efficient service to the vessel. The life boat afterwards, on their entreaty, brought the crew of six men of the Margaret Caldwell safely ashore. A reward of £7 10s. was likewise granted to pay the ex penses of the lifeboat of the institution stationed at Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, in saving, in conjunction with the steamer Auld Rookie, after great difficulty, the crew, con sisting of five men, of the schooner Tay, of Dundee, which went ashore a few days ago, during stormy weather, on the Gan Sands. It appeared that the hazy weather deceived the master as to his position, and in attempting to change his course the vessel missed stays and went ashore. A reward of £32 was also voted to pay the expenses of the old lifeboat stationed at Mundesley, in putting off, on the 16th ult., during a gale from the E.N.E., to the assist ance of the crews of four small sloops which were observed to be in distress off Mundesley, and saving, in four trips, the lives of nine men and two women from the vessels on the above occasion. A reward of £6 was also voted to the crew of the lifeboat of the institution stationed at Thurso, N. 8., for putting off during heavy weather to the assistance of the schooner Anaconda, of Lerwick, which was observed to have her sails split. The lifeboat was fortunately the means of - saving the crew of five men. Rewards, amounting to £l5l 6s.,were voted to the crews of the lifeboats of the institution stationed at Broughty Ferry, Burnham, geeenstowe, R dear, New Brighton, Tyneruoutli, Berwick-on-Tweed, Winchelsea, Palling, llasborough, Yarmouth, Eastbourne, North Deal, Widmer, Arklow, and Appledore, for various services to shipwrecked vessels and their crews during the past month. The silver medal of the institution, and a copy of the vote on parchment, were voted to Mr. William Rowlands, cox swain of the Holyhead lifeboat, in testimony of his long and gallant services in assisting to save, in the present and former lifeboats of the station, a large number of lives from shipwreck. The silver medal of the institution, a copy of the vote on parchment, and £2, were also ordered to be presented to Watkin Lewis, Aborystwith, in admiration of his laudable conduct in wading into the sea on two different occasions, at the risk of his life, and saving 7 persons from perish ing, one of them being his own father. A reward of .£5 was also granted to some Winterton beach men for putting off in a yawl and bringing ashore three men belonging to a wrecked ship on the 31st October. A reward was also voted to Evan Evans in acknowledg ment of his laudable conduct in wading into the surf, at the peril of his life, and saving from an inevitable death a fisherman who had been capsized from his boat in Aberyst with Bay, and was found insensible in the sea, his companion having unhappily perished on the occasion. A reward of £1 15s. was also voted to four men for put ting off in a boat and saving three out of four man who had been capsized from their fishing boat off Greencastle, near Londonderry. A reward of £9 was also voted to a boat's crow for their laudable and persevering exertions in saving 7 men from the brig Jane, of Sunderland, three men from the brig Lan caster, of West Hartlepool, and five mon from the schooner Victory, of Ipswich, which during a storm had stranded off Bridlington Quay. Various other rewards were also granted for saving life from wrecks on our coast. The meeting ordered £1,500 of the funded capital of the institution to be sold out to assist to defray the very heavy payments, amounting to £4,570, about to be made on its lifeboat establishments. It was re ported that during the current year the society had expended X 29,650 on its 172 lifeboat stations; and that in the same period it had contributed to the saving of 831 livos from various wrecks, for which services it had granted £2,020 as rewards. The people of Gloucester had, through Messrs. E. L. Kendall, S. R. T. Mayer, and V. S. Morwood, forwarded to the society a contribution of £450 to defray the cost of a lifeboat to be named after their city. A contribution of £5O had been received from the Ryde Amateur Musical Society, beiug the proceeds of a concert given on the 13th September last. The officers and crew of H.M.S. Pylades had also for warded a donation of £5 Bs. to the institution, being part proceeds of the balance of an accident fund on board that vessel. A remittance of £350 had likewise been received by the institution from Nottingham towards the cost of a lifeboat to be named the Robin Hood of Nottingham, after the volunteer corps of that town. Legacies had been received during the past month from the late Samuel Travis, Esq., of Cheltenham, £lOO ; the late Wm. Pearson Esq., of York, £lB ; the late John Graham Gilbert, Esq., of York-hill, in aid of the Glasgow branch, mpo ; and the late Mrs. Mary Ann Story, of Ken sington, £5OO to pay the cost of a lifeboat. The sum of £6 7s, had also been received from the Rev. E. S. Corrie, of Maplestead ; £1 7s. of that amount had been collected by the late Master E. B. Cords, who had for many years past, under the same " Invalid Boy," made a collec tion for the institution, and the £5 was the amount of his legacy to the society. New lifeboats had been sent during the past month to Polkerris, Cornwall ; Mundesley, Norfolk ; Chapman's Pool, Dorset ; and Ilfracombe, Devon. The railway com panies had, as usual, kindly given the boats a free convey ance to their destinations. Lifeboat demonstrations had taken place with the boats at Rochdale, Fowey, S wanage, and Ilfracombe. The thanks of the Institution were voted to Mr. Alex ander Munro, G. B. M. Beatson, Esq., Dr. L. Estrange, and P. H. Hume, Esq., on their retiring from the office of hon. secretary at the Banff, Fraserburgb, Arklow, and Dunbar branches of the institution. A communication was read from Mr. E. P. BonneSsen, of Copenhagen, stating that he had built a lifeboat on the plan of the institution. The boat was found to answer the pur pose of the locality very well. ... Lifeboat societies were also proposed to be formed on the plan of the institution at Schevenengen, Holland, and in Nova Scotia. The committee expressed their deep regret at the lamented deaths of the late W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S., and Captain Thomas Heard, R.N., who had for many years past most zealously co-operated with the committee. A vote of con dolence was passed to the families of the deceased gentle- It Was reported that Sir Thomas Tobin, of Ballineolig, Cork, was making an effort to collect penny subscriptions to pay the cost of a lifeboat. Reports were read from the inspector and the assistant inspector of lifeboats on their recent visits to different life boat stations on the coast. The proceedings then terminated. SPIRIr OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—On Monday evening Mr. Moncreiff, Lord Advocate of Scotland in the late Government, addressed his constituents at Edinburgh, and made a moderate speech in favour of Reform. A Whig of the old school who remembers 1832 is not likely to be throWn into revolutionary ferment by the loss of office. His principles are too firmly fixed for him to adopt the teachings of an extreme school, however logical their principles and energetic their eloquence ; he is too. old a campaigner to look upon the defeat of a single Session otherwise than a natural incident in the fortune of war. He has faith in Whig principles, and, as the nece , ,sary con sequence of their truth, believes doubtless in the speedy return of the Whigs to office. We could not have a better exponent of the opinions held by the shrewdest and most practical, and consequently the most temperate, section of the Liberal party, by men who have been concerned in the business of the country for years, -who know its wants, un derstand the duties, the merits, and the defects of Parliament, and who have been accustomed to bring their principles to the test of experiment under the responsibility of office. Mr. Moncreiff pays a natural tribute to the brilliancy and courage with which the Government fought the battle of the late Session, and the dignity and the spirit with which they surrendered office after their defeat. 'We have no wish to deny these merits. The fight of last Session was too long and fierce for any impartial person to deny to either side the qualities of bril liancy and courage. There were pitched battles in which the heavy array of statisticians was supported by the gallant charges of oratorical champions ; there were skirmishes in which the light partisans of either party exchanged shots with more or less effect; there were sudden attacks, surprises, and ambuscades. In short, if ever there was a Ses sion to which could be applied metaphorically the language of warfare, it was that of 1866. But we cannot think that such contentious prowess is the most praiseworthy quality of a Government. We are not surprised to find that Mr. Moncreiff, with his Scottish good sense, does not venture to extol the prudence, the skill, or the conciliatory demeanour of the late Government. They undoubtedly deserve just the praise he gives them. With new leaders they challenged a new House of Commons ; they forced on what they knew to be unpopular, not only with their opponents, but with a large part even of the most docile of their followers. They opened the campaign in which Mr. Moncreiff tells us that they so distinguished themselves; and, though they may have quitted office with dignity and spirit, there would-have been more dignity in retaining it amid the respect and goodwill of the House of Commons. These things, however, belong to the past ; and the question for the Whig Member for Edinburgh now is what are the prospects of the Reform cause and the party in the State which has supported it. Mr. Moncreiff justly estimates the obstacles which hin der an easy settlement. He says, "It was not the Opposition, but the deadweight which defeated them last session." It was not, in his opinion, the Conservative oratory of Mr. Disraeli, or Lord Cran borne, or Sir Hugh Cairns which threw out the Ministry ; it was not the secession of a part of the Liberal party, but it was the secret antipathy to a change which pervaded the whole . House, encourag ing the Tories to oppose the bill, and relaxing the energies of those who should have defended it. There is no doubt that this is very near the truth. " The alteration of the electoral franchise," says Mr. Moncreiff, "is an inconvenience both to the representatives and the constituencies ; they must not leave out of consideration this fact, that every member of the House of Commons knew that the existing franchise, at all events, was good enough to send him there." The existing electors and the existing boroughs have also more to lose than to gain by a change in the electoral system. This, if not the chief, is undoubt edly one of the chief obstacles to the passing of a Reform Bill. The political and public Conservatism of the nation is reinforced and more than doubled in strength by what may be called the local and per sonal Conservatism which prompts each man whose, seat is endangered, each place whose electoral privi lege is invaded, to make, openly or secretly,comtnon cause with the opponents of the measure. Those who are Liberal enough on all other questions hesi tate when it is a question of sweeping away their own traditional rights. They believe that they can do justice to the country, th salve their conscience by saying to themselves that they are as good mem bers, or that they return as good members, as come from the largest constituencies, and, with the best intentions towards a Liberal Ministry and the Libe ral cause, they would rather on the whole that a Reform Bill should be quietly got rid of. It would be absurd to suppose that the lapse of a few months has extinguished these feelings and removed the • " dead weight" of w hi c h th e Lord Advocate speaks. However, the llouse of Commons is an assembly which has never been wanting in the highest quali ties of patriotism. Its legislation during our time has been conspicuous by the effort to do justice to the great majority of the community without re gard to the interests of the class from which its own members are chiefly taken. The representatives of the smaller boroughs may be influenced by a desire to retain the seats which they now possess, and they cannot but be moved by the urgent remonstrances of those who sent them to Parliament, and who whether Whigs or Tories, insist that their members shall uphold their local rights. But, when the voice of the country and the acknowledgment of both the great parties in the State proclaim that the long pending question ought to be settled, local and individual opposition is not likely to be carried further. POST.—The speech which Mr. H. B. Sheridan delivered to his constituents at Dudley on Tuesday last appears to have closely resembled all the other speeches which have been made upon similar occa sions by Liberal members of Parliament during the present recess ; and any notice it may attract will probably be due to the fact of its being a sort of representative Liberal manifesto, modelled upon the standard which it has been considered proper to adopt upon this occasion, rather than to any extra ordinary merits of its own. The usual compliments were in this instance thrown into the form of an address from Mr. Sheridan's supporters, who freely point to the existence of all the evils they can think of to justify, as we understand it, the late Ministry in its conduct as to Reform, and to show that their own member is worthy of the confidence of his con stituency. This address Mr. Sheridan frankly met by acknowledging that he deserved it all, and at at once ventured upon th e sor t o f rev i ew o f l as t ses sion and its results with which we are all by this time quite familiar, and which has, indeed, become rather monotonous. Reduced to its elements, the conclusion which bas innocently been drawn is that it is a fearful and won d er f u l thi ng th a t a P ar li am e n t with a recognised Liberal majority of 70 or more should have thrown out the Reform Bill of the Rus sell-Gladstone Administration ; and that those of the 70 who, it is assumed, abandoned all their prin ciples for the express purpose of throwing it out, are worthy of all the hard names which can be conve niently remembered. The possibility of another bill being introduced by the present Government has, too, to be contemplated, and can be met according to the taste of the speaker (for no general mot d'ordre appears to have been issued as to this), either by a promise to give it a fair and candid consideration, or by roundly asserting that it is certain not to be worth any consideration at all—two courses which, so far as the results likely to flow from them are concerned, may be considered to be pretty nearly identical. Mr. Sheridan gave us all this over again. He stated it as his opinion that the Liberal majo rity with which the Government started in life was not Liberal at all, and distinctly conveyed that a sufficient reason for the rejection of any bill what ever is to be found in the indisposition of members to meet their constituents more often than is abso lutely inevitable. The transition from the mass of mere hirelings to the select body of good shepherds was natural enough, an d M r . Sh er id an rem i n d e d his audience that he himself was one of the latter, and that he had supported the bill and everything belonging to it upon every occasion when he had the chance, and lie drew the inference that he had thereby proved the soundness of judgment of the electors of Dudley and the sincerity of his own con victions. He is not, however, prepared to say, as Mr. Bright and his followers do, that the House of Commons is a " sham," and he considers, in com mon, we are bound to say, with many others, that it really does " represent the, people who elect its members." Nevertheless, he also holds the opinion that the process of election is looked upon " as so much mockery—as a farce," and that elections are believed to be " merely auctions, at which boroughs are knocked down to the highest bidder." He con siders that the subject of Reform is divided into two parts—the change of form in electoral proceedings and the extension of the franchise to greater num bers. With reference to the first, he is °' very much in favour of the ballot" (for which favour, by the way, he gives the curious reason that it is " in conse quence of his connection with" Dudley), and thinks it hard that members of Parliament should be " abused and called Radicals" because they vote for it. The assertion that the ballot is not in its essence a political question, which has a certain amount of truth in it, nevertheless furnishes no additional argument for its adoption, and upon what grounds it can be said that secret voting is " purely Con servative," Conservatives themselves will, we ima gine, find it difficult to discover. Moreover, the establishment of such a mode of election, judging from Continental and American experience, would not appear calculated to prevent either intimidation or bribery, and its effect would most probably be only to aggravate the system by which, as 111 r. Sheridan complains, " the people's rights are bar tered and sold away" without any of the money being " distributed among" them. It is but true that a very large proportion even of the present elec tors, " who really should understand the value of the vote with which they are entrusted, have no just appreciation of its value," and " that those who, are very loud in their demand for the extension of the franchise are the first to tetray the privilege with which they are entrusted ;" and it is difficult to believe that such malpractices would be less favoured by those who would, from their circum stances, be under a greater temptation than the pre sent electors to indulge in them ; or to understand how they would be prevented by a machinery which would give greater facilities for carrying them on out of the reach of public opinion. As, therefore , Mr. Sheridan bases his plea for the extension of the franchise and the adoption of the ballot entirely upon the assumption that corruption and intimida tion would be thereby lessened, his argument must be held to be incomplete, from the absence of ail thing like proof that such an assumption is well founded. With the assertion that the nation needs such "la system of national education as should make the childre% of every one to be educated," we quite agree; and the very facts adduced by Air. Sheridan show that this is a matter of which the importance is superior in every way, even to the extension of the franchise, and without which such an extension would do more harm than good. Experience tends to produce the impression that the only means of attaining educational results such as would be worthy of the country and the times in which we live are to be found iu making education compulsory ; but whether this plan be adopted or not, it is clear that something in that direction should be attempted ,before the franchise is given to a class' even less instructed than those who now have it and who confessedly do not under stand the responsibilities it throws upon them. It is not necessary to look further than to the address which was delivered to Mr. Sheridan to perceive that the standard of education among the opera tives is anything but what it should be, and as there seems to be a great impression prevalent as to the order in which these matters should be treated, it appears necessary to insist that education should precede, and not succeed, the extension of the fran chise to those who do not possess it. Mr. Sheridan adverted to the possibility, which has already bee" whispered about, of an amendment being moved to the Address ; but he also professed himself quit e willing to accept from any party a satisfactory' mes sure of Reform. This speech, indeed, like all the rest which have been delivered by members of the Opposition party, indicates the desire to make the most of that particular question, and the anxiety d which is felt that it should, if possible, be invest ed with as much importance in the next session of Par liament as it was in the last. Events, however, fire crowding upon us at no ordinary pace, and, with the wars and rumours of wars which are looming s ° ominously in the immediate future, it is not easy t° say what relative position any question will occupy at even so early a date as that on which Parliamen t will meet. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of whe gt ; best qualities were is, secondary 2s lower. English bar of all kinds 2s per qr. down. Oats unaltered. Beans all peas is per qr. cheaper. The millers reduced the retail price of flour 3s 4d per sack. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. On our market to-day English wheat was in moderate supply, and sold slowly at a decline of fully 2 Malting Foreign barley quiet, and Is to 2s per qr. lower. , barley difficult of sale, and values the turn in buyere favour. OTinding dull, and is per qr. lower. Notwith standing short supplies of oats, the trade ruled dull at to-* per qr. reduction. Maize, 6d to is per qr. lower. B ean rather cheaper. BURY ST. EDMUNDS—WEDNESDAY. There was a fair shoW of wheat here to-day, which Iva! principally sold at a decline of from ls to 2s per qr. o n tbo prices paid last week. Thero was a good supply of boll offering freelyat is to 2s per qr. less money for all descrir thins. Oats, beans, and peas without alteration in value• MANCHESTER--T unsnAv. - • The trade since our last report has ruled exceedingly iTs active for all articles, with a general tendency towaru, lower prices. The foreign imports into Liverpool ha s i been liberal of wheat, barley, oats, and flour, m oderate beans, and scanty of Indian, corn. From Ireland the arr l ; vAs of oats have been light, and of oatmeal fair. At, ° ,l market wheat was in limited demand, and both and foreign must be quoted 2s porqr. cheaper. Flour. W. a slow trade, declined is per sack. Oats gave wayid P'lo 451 b, and oatmeal is per load. Beans and p ea s were is. per qr. lower. In Indian corn there was no material change. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, 2s Od down average, Os 3d doWn' Barley on the top, 4s 9d up average, Gs 6d d 0 0 .1 3: Oats on the top, 2s 6d down Beans on the top, is Od down average,er age Oso 8d d d Total supply and sales. Wheat 527 qrs sold 426 Barley average, IV sold 111 4 Oats 2369 qrs sold 1524 ' Beans 44 qrs sold 32 Average prices. Wheat, 60s 2d I Oats, 28s 2d Barley, 3Bs 8d 1 Beans 52s Od ; r5 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 53s 6d ; 13 %"" superfine, 52s Od; superfine, 50s 6d; fine, 49s Od. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. The business during the week has been chiefly for cra; sum ption, at about previous rates. This day's market i : fairly attended. Iu the absence of an active inquiry "Gl,e ; receded 6d per qr. of 2401 b ; flour, 6d t o i s per sa_4 barley, beans, peas, oats, and Indian corn each about 6 d r respective boll. Foreign Mail Packet List. - MAILS DUE. lustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton., D 3O . f2 ,. °. Ditto, via Marseilles Da l ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac ke t . ....... Jan.. * ' Ditto, by French packet • Doi. 23 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Deo. "13' China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Doo 21 ' Ditto, via Marseilles pea 14 traikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 14 * India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton De". V Ditto, via Marseilles • •• India (Bombay), via Southampton. Ditto, via itarseilies Dee. , Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Deo. l'' Ditto, via Marseilles Dee. E L ~ Dee. ~_v Mauritius, via Southampton• 2 DJO. 1 ' Ditto, via Marseilie+. Newfoundland ... • ..... DO. 19. Portugal • •• •• Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... ...... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet. . Dec. 11 Ditto, by United Staten packet, via Southamp ton • Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Deo• West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritlb ....Deo. Im* Vest Indies and Pacific (except Ba.haluaa and Honduras) DoC• 14 Baham:e. via New (Irk. Deo 15. 2 Cuba and Mexico 1)eC• 9 Bermuda, via Halifax Dec. 19 THE CASE OF SCUTTLING A SHIP. -A teleg rg r o was received by the City police last night from Webb , t o i detective officer, stating that he had arrived in E ngia. t be with Lionel Holdsworth, the alleged principal i'3 U p charge of scuttling the Severn, and he will be broug ht with the other prisoners at the next examination. Births. BASHFORD —On the 3d inst., at 37, Brunswick-A:031;1 Brighton, the wife of Captain C. B. Bashford, 9th ' Lancers, of a daughter. wo BLUNT—On the 6th inst., at Ivy House, Barnes, th e of F. W. Blunt, Esq., of a son. eoa' TEMPLE—On the 3d inst., at Carlton-hill, St. John' -1 the wife of T. R. S. Temple, Esq., of ace' WILKINSON —On the 6th inst , at 72, Glouncester-ter;er. Hyde-park, the wife of M. Wilkinson, of a &tug' Marriages. FIELD —WELLS —On the sth inst. at at Little Waltham' 0,3 J Field, Esq., of Blackheath, to . Catherine Mari o ' , 6e l e j it ti e daughter of Joseph Wells, Esq., of Woodhouse, Waltham, Chelmsford. it M'KENzrE —GRAY—On the sth inst., at St. Mark's, f a „ i g llt ton-terrace, C. W. B. M'Kenzie, 71st Ilighiaud orl, Infantry, to Selina Janet, daughter of the late A. of Trinidad, W.I. )1(1, 13rolia Deaths. BARLOW —On the sth inst., at Tho Grange, Hatfiela, - Ok, Essex, B. I Barlow Esq., aged 53. • 3• 11 ' ELV a Y— On the 4th . inst., at , 7, Camberwell I\ lom r-road, Elvy, Esq., aged 79. kber HARDEN—On the 4th inst , at Grandholm Cottage? deen, Alex. Hadden, Esq., aged 76. FO C" HASSALL—On the sth inst., at Richmond, Sur rc n Algernon, oldest child of R. Hassan, Esq., M.D. fo l i o PARK—On the 3d inst., in Mid-street, Fraserburg b, Park, son., Esq., shipowner, aged 65. WATSON—On the 4th inst., at Brighton, T. 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