The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being Good Friday there is no intelligence of importance to report in this department of The Sun. The following is our usual analysis of the Bank of England return : Active Circulation Increase ....£21,621,630 986,130 Bullion ... 14,362,397 Decroase ••• ••• ••• ••• 93,126 Best •.• ..• 3,889,203 Increase ••• ••• ••• ••• 15,425 Public Deposits ... 8,375,045 increase 1,550,543 Other Deposits ... ... 13,332,000 Increase 853,321 Seven Day and Other Bills ... ... 386,204 Decrease ... 11,645 Government Securities ... 10,915,483 Increase 1,000,000 Other Securities ... 21,879,302 Increase 2,487,000 Notes Unemployed 6,881,020 Decroase ... 1,037,435 It will be observed that the movements have been important, but they are chiefly occasioned by dis bursements usual at this period, and in the course of the next fortnight a very different state of affairs is likely to be revealed. Gold amounting to £160,000 was taken yester day to the Bank of England. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Puget, Bainbridge, and Co., bankers, of St. Paul's Church yard, will be held on Tuesday next, when a state ment of the affairs of the firm will be submitted by Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co. The following has been posted in the Stock Ex change :—" The committee have refused to grant the application to appoint a settling-day for trans actions in the shares of the Reese River Silver Min ing Company (Limited). It has been notified that the business of the Bank of Turkey will be carried on at their new premises, Clement's House, Clement's-lane, on and after Saturday, the 31st inst. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. GCVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, April 5 3 per Cent. Reduced B4 New 3 per Cent B4 1- 1 I New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cont. — Do. £5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account _ INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10/ per Cent., AprillB74 2111 9 Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO7l Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO l7 Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account 73 Do. Scrip, £45 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do. Account Do £ICO Bonds Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent 931 Do Scrip, £25 paid Do. 4* per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Danubian Principalities Do Account Equaclor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent... Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent 9Ol Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 9lf Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures. 90f Do. £25 paid Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Civatemala 5 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Maremmana Railway GO Mexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 l9l Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Monteviclean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada 134 Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, „ . Do. ACcuunt Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 - 1)o 3 pee Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred 37 Do Account Do Passive — Do Account 264 1 I Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account ls* i Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account 931 Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account 661 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 6B i I i Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — Do Account Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto account — Do 6 per Cent., 1864 371 61 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrifm, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Do 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes 3 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do Account THREE O'CLOCK. 4 Consols for money Do Account sq COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening Amsterdam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 2 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 521 Brussels Hantburg Paris - Short 25 221 Ditto 3 Months. 25 471- Marseilles Frankforl on the Maine 1204 Vienna,. — 10 90 Trieste — 10. 90 Petersburgh - 29-1 Berlin Madrid Cadiz ....- - 474 46 1 471 25 67, 25 67 25 70' 25 70 Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples 25 (i2i 25 62i 25 62 25 65 BANK OF ENGLAND, 1866, The following is the House-List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensu ing; --For Governors, Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq., Governor ; Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq., Deputy-Gover nor. FOR DIRECTORS. Thomas Baring, Esq. Thomas Hankey, Esq. Henry Wollaston Blake, John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, John William Birch, Esq. Esq. Travers Buxton, Esq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Stephen Cave, Esq. Esq. Edward Henry Chapman, Alfred Latham, Esq. Esq. George Lyall, Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Alexander Matheson, Esq. Esq. James Morris, Esq. * Mark Wilks Collet, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq. William Cottom, Esq. George Wards Norman, Henry Riversdale Grenfell, Esq. Esq. *Albert George Sandeman, Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. Esq. John Saunders Gilliat, Esq. Clifford Wigram, Esq. N.B. The gentlemen against whose names an aste risk is placed are now candidates for the direction. The elec tion for governor and deputy-governor will be hold at the Bank on Tuesday, the 10th April, and for directors on Wednesday, the 11th April, from 11 o'clock in the fore noon till four in the afternoon. I I 1 . frt. t rsday. Righness -esterday and her ;enbourg -Colonel 'ternoon, f Wales, rge, also nor and It out in Princess [lighness anded by Victor c Home- ties. rsday. Princess ►rding to ,m House 'ollowing will pro t at the 14 Ger nesses in yal high- •ess, and mansion road has ,n to the : way be et. The hen it is is public . ...e of the )ad, with ;turesque g drives. eries and fast suc- ir existed. a great lave dis h shrubs. ;ing pro 3W, phea" t, and on e are the Dnds, has ithneSSCS I have loft owne, in his lord s a visit to rly part of members 3 week for iy MarY ,nguevine, confined 31y better. own yeo" 3 Hotel. and the iatertain a idge. ribute to 1 of John rites thus 'reat gar idge, 21St lamenting 1 perhaps )ken lite ,cting the per mus t his rare id biogra sman-hice that clear n the pre" dowrnent e wa a man ish ; a smallest rs, he Was lodged or ted to fa those for gnorautly trued that rejoicing uthies; rts isacriflcoo rownswan wise and t of their erenee for tnic as " ever Der' estify tha t . 7t u phold re'roarkedi to see 11 „ ° ,1 V or he "'" [s solitar9 of pnblto quitting hes, as . ° ll . e P- 18 ne, si ldet it be for t deflas e " chos en ilyact°- f escriptiorl tch ;" der 010' Pr oved were tllll - sift his s ilt ''' . rit h thos e 1 1 3 1190 ;fan witb ch Nolte 11 19 12 2 12 2; 25 57i 25 571 13 IV 25 30' 25 52 25 55' 121} 11 0 29 6 9 SHARE MARKETS,—Yesterday. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Paid) Closing I Busi done ness , Price. . Brtstol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian.. Cork and Bandon Cornwall . . Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc. t.London, scrip Certi. 90 92 127 i2B 55 63 13 15 5 7 67 70 70 72 Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D.. A stock • • Do. B stock Do. 'New, is. at 25 pn Gt S, and W. of Ireland G t. Western -Original' S Val. Rail gua. ._... • - -d 118 123 39 4t 6 7 121 123 138 190 CO 92 59 CO Do. South Wales.... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 53 80 90 42 3! 3i 101 'O2 120 12 t Do. Newport Do. Hereford... Lancashire &Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do. Do. and `.7:t. John'sW'd Mid and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwici, 91 96 37 39 93 (5 121 122 92 Q 3 63 61 132 134 21 2ip I It!. 95 17 123 123 t IS 92 414 C 8 N 8 3U 100 110 Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. st Jck Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny, Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall Blum El Atlantic A 6 St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, k Cen.ln. • gu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & G odericli 6 p.c. 872-3- • Calcutta & S. E., lirn :ai e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben , ,al, gu. 5 do East Indian, gu.:s p.c. Do. J ExVnsiort Grand Trunk of Canacial Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 Cha'rge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Frit Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 6 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent 13,4 41 per cent Do Great Wcs. of Canada Do. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 50 do. pay. 1877-8 fndian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4I do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. finds. Mel. Hudson's Bay.. N It I.C'da, 6pc lst pf. bs. Scinde . • Do. Delhi Do. do .ci Do. Punjaub.... Do.lndus " COLONIAL GO PER' British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do; 1130-9 t, Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. syer cent. 15 April _ . and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1478 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. it Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal , iov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189? New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. 6. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, it pril & Oct BRITI Cam. Consol. U old, Rm Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavistk Gam.St StAubyn(G wen. Great L,xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (llelst Grenville Herod's Foot Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Niarke Valley Nlwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Vilieftl Crotty Prosper United Pr,,vidence UnyLclant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft 6 7 14 16 540 680 t I 18 20 8 9 3f 41 31 4 7 9 3 31 5 7 20 21 1 14 25 26 3i 3 38 40 44 5 4 8 4 44 2i 1,5(1 35 40 13 15 32 34 390 410 2 II 38 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 Vigra and Clogan, lira West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett ( Mogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney § 10 75 80 165 175 82i 87i 25 27/1 3 5 205 215 14 16 PREFERENCE SHAKES• Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 106 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham, 4} per Cent., 86; FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 10/ ; Bahia and San Francisco, 7 per cent., 154 Great Luxembourg, 151 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), n 6 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15k FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, Hm., 111 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 4 Cobre Copper, 14 Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., BANKS. Anglo Egyptian, lim., 121 Bank of Egypt, 311 Bank of London. 26 51 Consolidated Bank, lim., English and Swedish, lim., 141 Imperial Ottoman. 121 1 Ditto, new. 111 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 911 London and River Plate, 531 Ditto, issued at 11 pm., 13 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 221 London and County, 771 London Joint Stock, 471 Merchant Bank, lim., 25 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., 51 Oriental Banx Corporation. 52 1 Standard of British South Africa, 14 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlaiatio Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., Bombay Gas, lim., Ditto. new, 1 Ceylon Company, Ditto, A shares, 21 Commercial Union, Insurance, 61 1 Credit Fonder and blobilier of England, bi 71 Ditto, new, 01 Discount Corporation. 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.„ 41 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 213 International Contract, 4} International Financial ~ o ciety, Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 9 London Financial Association, 1 M .dras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all), 16Z 17 National Discount Company, 13 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 161-14 HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.--Her Majesty's stag hounds met on Tuesday at Stoke-common, near Slough. There was a largo meet, Lord Cork, tho master of the Royal pack, being present. The morning, after a slight fall of rain, was most propitious for hunting. A splendid run was had by the Royal pack. Another meet will take place to day at Shottesbrooke-park, near Maidenhead, the residence of Captain Robson. The Old Berkeley foxhounds also mot on Tuesday, at Denham-place, near Uxbridge, at the residence of B. 11. Way, Esq., a numerous assemblage being attracted, including the master, Viscount Malden. The company were all, as usual, superbly mounted, and fine sport was obtained. 71 72 109 110 35 37 10 11 p 123 121 14 2p 14 2p 74 76 10 12 150 152 67 70 112 114 50 5' 73 75 8 9 140 143 3 Il 100 102 51 53 POSSESSIONS. Si 60 102 103 P iP 6t 7 10 11 76 80 96 98 65 TO 100 102 101 102 102 104 29 St 88 90 65 67 55 60 59 61 50 55 45 49 42 45 30 33 70 53 108 109 1 3 / 4 2 p 1 2p 99 100 91 93 16 17 3}l 91 1?6 86 e 8 1 40 100 10: 9 93 87 89 62 64 8 , 82 99 100 98 99 i 4' l 97 99 102 104 } SI 30 1 RENT SECUR: 90 94 90 Plt 90 94 7i 80 78 102 IC4 105 107 105 107 102 IC4 90 22 1(.2 104 100 1 8 102 104 101 101 104 (C 43 112 104 100 102 93 95 90 95 87i 88i 91 95 79 81 98 100 98 100 105 107 106 107 39j 40 Vi2i 139 i 59i 1 1211 i 1 131 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 100 100 100 all 1094 71i ().Y 71 i ITIES. 921 1 2i 1} II M. 2.1.0 29i 2.14.6 2.14:01 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 4.4.5 2.11 , 7.1.6 10A7 11 3.2.0 18.18.8 35.15.8 THE SON, LONDON,!''FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1866. LITERATURE. Hidden Depths. Two vols. Edmonston and Douglas. " Veritas est major charitas" is the appropriate motto of this work. It is evidently in a spirit of charity, of the purest and noblest charity, that the writer of this eloquent and interesting work has ven tured upon a theme which, as he himself admits, is "no fit theme for a romance." "The great sin of great cities," as it has been forcibly designated by a thoughtful writer of our day, is, in fact, the subject matter of this work, and the Hiddenpepths, of which it reveals a few startling glimpses, are those abysses of misery and shame, which, like the regions they too closely resemble, are never mentioned " to ears polite." To write a work, a work of fiction, suffi ciently elegant in appearance and graceful in style, to attain admittance to the boudoir and the draw ing-room on such a theme, is a bold undertaking indeed. To the pure all things are pure, it is said, and assuredly the high purpose and Christian feel ings that had animated the writer have en abled him to tread upon delicate ground, and to touch unseemly materials in such a manner that no reader's taste can be shocked or his good feelings offended. In the outset of the work a regiment is embarking for India, with its gay Colonel and his young bride. The Colonel's sister, the gentle Ernestine Courtenay, is on board the transport ship, taking leave of her brother, when the following scene occurs : Suddenly a great noise and confusion was heard at the lower cud of the vessel. Thei o was a scuffling of feet, a clamour of voices, and an occasional volley of oaths. A struggle of some kind was evidently going on, and the captain called out angrily to know what was the matter. Ono of the ship's officers came up to him at once— "A woman, sir, who was found secreted in the hold, and refuses to go on shore." " Is she not on the War List, then ?" " No, sir, she is not a soldier's wife at all. Sergeant Dale and Private Smith say they know her for an impos tor. She tried yesterday to get herself passed among the women at the depot with false papers." "Send the jade ashore at once, then, we have no time to lose ; we must be off in five minutes." " They are trying to get hor into the boat, sir, but she won't go. She is like a wild cat, and clings to everything she can lay hold off. It took three men to get her up from the hold." " Oh, bother ! Hoist her overboard with a rope, then. Threaten her with a ducking for her pains; there aro plenty of boats to drop her into. I can't have the hands hindered at their work." The officer touched his cap and went off to obey orders. In another moment a shriek so wild and thrilling that it startled every one on board, rang through the air. A figure was seen to burst from the crowd of sailors, with streaming hair and outstretched arms, dashing them aside with a force which seemed almost superhuman. With ono bound she broke away, and leapt from the forecastle, fly ing rather than running along the deck, up to the stops to the poop, and on till she flung herself down at Colonel Courtenay's feet, and clasped his knees with power which he could not resist. She throw back her head, showing a face, once beautiful, but now distorted by an intensity of agony and passion that smote the bystanders with a sense of terrible mental pain ; her long black hair, wet with the dews of anguish that stood on her forehead, fell back in masses from her flushed face ; her dark eyes were full of wildness ; her whole frame quivered, and her dress, torn and disordered, was stained with blood, from the injuries she had received in her struggle with the men. It was a pitiable spectacle, but it was left to the tone of her wild mournful voice to convey to the bystanders a conviction of the utter misery that was desolating the soul of the unhappy girl. Her flight from the one end of the vessel to the ether had been so instantaneous that the breathless impassioned words she now spoke seemed but the prolongation of the shriek that still appeared - to echo in thoir ears. Clinging to Courtenay as if her life depended on the tenacity of her grasp ; looking at him, speaking to him only, she gasped out, " George, George, my own George, save me, save me! —don't let them send me away ; I must go with you, I will go with you ; I cannot live without you—indeed I cannot : I have tried it, and I cannot ; I must be with you —nothing shall tear me from you !" At this unexpected address, spoken loud enough to be heard by all present, a look of significant meaning passed among the officers of Colonel Courtenay's regiment, and from them to the captain and the men who stood around ; while Courtenay himself looked down onthe girl at his feet with an expression of absolute fury. "Is the woman mad or drunk !" he exclaimed,strug gling with a cruel violence to disengage himself from her convulsive grasp ; "how dare you attack me in this way ? Here, men, drag this woman off, some of you." At these words a cry more appalling than that which had startled them before burst from the poor girl's firs. She lifted up her eyes to his face, piteous with their ex pression of sorrowful dismay— " 0 George, my dear George, don't you know me ? I am Lois, your own poor Lois, that you said you would love for ever and ever. Am Iso changed ? I dare say I am, for I have cried my heart out after you pretty near ; but look, it is me myself—here is the ring you gave mo, and the locket with your own hair in it, and the bracelet— look !" And the unhappy girl strove with her trembling hands to show him the trinkets, which she thought might convince him of the identity he know too well. Courtenay literally stamped with rage and impatience, especially as he saw the smile which was appearing on the face of every man round him, to whom the scene was sufficiently intelligible. " The woman is raving mad ;" and he made another futile attempt to shako her off. "Leave hold, I tell you, or I'll have you sent to gaol for a month." The unfortunate, hapless creature is dragged away by main force, and when the vessel has sailed away with her betrayer and his bride, the miserable Lois— " One more unfortunate, weary of breath, Rashly importunate, gone to her death"— _ finds rest in a watery grave ! The scene on board ship leaves a terrible impression upon the Colonel's young sister, Ernestine ; and when she learns the sad fate of the outcast, and when a letter from the drowned woman falls into her hands, imploring that her sister may be saved from a fate similar to her own, Ernestine Courtenay, with a noble purpose, devotes herself to the fulfil ment of this wish. It is in following Ernestine in her search that some few of the horrors of the hidden depths are revealed to the reader. The fair young lady is hardly a fitting person to select for such an investigation, but she threads her way through labyrinths of sin and shame as a pity ing angel scatheless and sorrowful. The writer of this book, who has written it from the heart—from a heart burning to do good to the simple and sorrowful—deplores the system that prevails at most of the " refuges" and penitentiaries, a system that is calculated to repel rather than to encourage, to frighten rather than to reform. The author's re marks may be studied with advantage by all who have a voice in the administration of such abodes. The spirit of Christian charity which pervades the whole work commends it to the very kindest consi deration. Bank of England Returns,—Last Evening. An Account, pursuant to t: p. 32, for the week ending :he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, March 28, 1866. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. tes issued .....£28,502,750 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £28,502,750 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Tnits.—lf the working classes are deaf to the call of demagogues, they can show very good reason for their indif ference. They have business 'of their own on hand, and are performing it to some purpose. They are engaged all over the kingdom, and in almost every trade, in raising the value of their labour and reducing their working hours, and with such energy as well as success are they conduct ing these operations that scarcely a week now passes with out a report of a victory achieved or a struggle commenced. At this minute the journeymen tailors are on " strike" in London and Edinburgh, and the house carpenters and joiners in Aberdeen. The ship joiners were also "out" for a little while, but have already gained their point. It is probable, however, that the public have no adequate idea of the extent to which those trade combinations are carried, or of the results which within the last two or three years have been actually brought to pass. We gave our readers the other day some insight into the case by the aid of Trade Union Report from the Carpenters' and Joiners' So ciety, but that was only one example out of many. The operative bricklayers—another branch of the groat build ing trade—have done just as well as the carpenters, and have told their story just as frankly. The joiners, it will be remembered, triumphantly proclaimed that in 52 towns out of 94 they had obtained an advance of wages for the members of their union, and in 30 a reduction of time. The bricklayers now boast that " in 31 different towns in Eng land and Scotland the number of resident bricklayers is 2,517; the whole of these men have received and enjoyed an average advance of 3s. Gd. per week, and a reduction of two hours per week in their working time." But they are not satisfied with this bare announcement. They grapple more closely with the question, and enter into elaborate calculations to show that the success was very cheap at the money, and that nothing can be more profitable as an investment of working men's funds than a well-managed " strike." The compiler of the case on behalf of the Operative Bricklayers' Society puts his arguments very cleverly. He is addressing the " non-society men," —that is, the members of the trade who have not yet joined the union—and he well understands what propositions he has got to establish, and what presumptions to rebut. It will be expected, he intimates, that trade unionists should show some "practical fruits for all the heartbnrnings and miseries that naturally result from strikes," and this de monstration he offers with justifiable confidence in the shape of the facts above recorded. Then, however, he proceeds to prove that the cost of the proceeding was so much less than the profit as to render the bargain advantageous in the extreme. It is admitted that the process at this point of the demonstration is conducted by approximation only, but the calculation is exceedingly curious, and if it repre sents anything like the truth will be not a little striking. " This result," says the document before us, " has been obtained by 264 of the resident bricklayers, backed up by the moral influence and pecuniary aid of their society, having struck for an advance of wages and reduction of time, the average time the strike lasted for each town being two weeks and five days." In this statement is con veyed the basis of the reckoning which ensues. So much was lost in wages during the voluntary inaction of so many men for so many days ; so much has been gained, on the other hand, by a given increase of wages for the benefit of a given number of men. Ultimately, and as a net re sult, the account is thus presented : Total gain Against loss 3io 8 0 Balance in favour £19,516 6 0 This budget, it seems, the bricklayers submitted with na tural pride to Professor Fawcett, who observed, in reply, that " the facts therein contained aro most important, and show a most advanced state of things, very gratifying to all interested in the condition of the operative classes." We concur with the Professor in his esti mate of the " state of things." It really is " very ad vanced," indeed, but we wonder it did not occur to Mr. Fawcett that the class which was thus " advancing" itself to such excellent purpose could not be suffering very much from political disabilities. The secret of all this extraor dinary power is combination ; and we hope the reader noticed a little incident of the tailors' strike now pending in London as illustrating the extent to which combination has been carried. Mr. Poole, the eminent tailor of Saville row, having had a difference with his workpeople, sent off to the continent for journeymen to fill their places. But the men were too quick for him. The Operative Tailors' Association telegraphed at once to Continental agents of their own, and stopped the supply. Promptly, too, did the secretary of the society address himself to the public through our columns, and in his letter he says, " So good is the understanding now among workmen in all parts of the world that there is no fear of the result of that attempt, nor of his efforts to get his work done by outworkers, for they are thoroughly with us." Not only, therefore, are the tailors combined in England, but they can reckon on the co-operation of all the tailors in Europe. Indeed the secretary's language is still more comprehensive, for he speaks not simply of tailors, but of " workmen" generally, and if by this he means all the working classes in all trades together, we believe he is substantially right. They will all stand by (ma:, other when a chance occurs, and they have thoroughly learnt how to conduct their operations. The enormous extent of these combinations tends, of course, • to enrich the trade treasuries, while the new method of "striking" economises the application of money. Be it remembered that these struggles are mere questions of money from first to last. A strike is a trial of endurance, in which it has +.9 be seen whether the master can go longest without As profits or the men without their wages. In former times capital used commonly to beat labour, for the slender resoirees of the local trade wore soon ex hausted, and ther the men had either to resume work or starve. But now while the vast extent and unlimited affi liation of these unions provide almost inexhaustible funds, the strike is confined to the fewest possible men at one time. We have seen that 2,517 bricklayers got their wages raised by the eats of only 264 of their trade. This little band, just a tithe of the whole body, fought all the battle of the rest, and of course, if nine men go on working while only one is idle, it is easy enough for the one to be sup ported by the nire. So Mr. Poole now tells us that the very men who have left his shop have gone into other shops, and are working there on the very terms which they refuse to accept from him. That is only the usual course of operations. The majority of the society must needs work in order to support a minority in a strike which really re presents the battle of all, but as these contests aro now managed the outlay is very little, while the gains aro large. The bricklayers calculate that they have gained nearly £20,000 by an expenditure of little more than £390. The carpenters and joiners confess to an investment of some £2,000 upon their " trade privileges ;" but the return pro fit, according to their own showing, must have repaid them ten times over. There is another view, too, of the case. Supposing that it does take £l,OOO or £2,000 to secure a good advance of wages or a reduction of time in 50 or 100 towns, a society like that of the carpenters and joiners could easily pay the amount out of their reserve without troubling the members for a sixpence in contribution. If £3OO, as in the case of the bricklayers, will do the work, what may not be accomplished by a reserve of £lO,OOO ? Let us repeat once more that we are not assuming the de mands of the men to have been unjustifiable. We wish only to point out the singular success with which the work ing classes have adapted these combinations to their own particular politics, and the extraordinary power they have acquired. One inference, too, we may add in conclusion, and that is, that if Working men all through the country are thus bettering their incomes by 10 or 20 per cent., their position as householders must have been bettered too, and thus their trade unions will introduce them to the electoral franchise by an insensible operation of events. HERALD.—SmaII as is said to be the interest which the question of Parliamentary Reform excites amongst us, it seems to have just so much claim on our attention as that it renders us incapable for the moment of dwelling seriously on any foreign business, however momentous. We are, in fact, so occupied with the alternative propounded to us, whether or not we are willing to invite the working class in England to govern the country, that the rumour of im minent war between two of the Groat Powers of Europe is scarcely sufficient to disturb us. As, however, we know, from sad experience, that there has never yet been a great European war of any duration into which we have not socn been dragged as a principal party on one side or other, as we feel that dynastic considerations as well as Imperial interests, combine to render it most difficult to us to remain quiescent in such a struggle as that which may ensue be tween Austria and Prussia, we confess that we are not a little surprised at the feeling of almost indifference with which the crisis appears to be regarded on all sides. How ever earnestly we may deprecate any deviation from the strict path of neutrality in the event of such a collision ; however condemn the policy which should involve us in such a deplorable quarrel, and repent the error of our an cestors, when, by lavish expenditure of the blood and treasure of England, they built up the throne of Frederick on the ruins of Maria Theresa, we must remember that Governments are mortal, that the tendency of the day is towards popularising our representation, and popular con stituencies are generally in favour of war. The spectacle of Austria and Prussia quarrelling savagely over the spoils of Denmark, may be, perhaps, an agreeable theme for the political moralist, and may adorn a tale in the history of later days. To us it is simply disas trous. When Schleswig and Holstein, without our con sent, were wrung from Denmark, we hoped we had heard the last of it, and that the victors in this unequal war would have been able to make somehow a disposal of their conquest which should be satisfactory to themselves. It turns out, however, that while Prussia fought only half the battle her rulers had set their minds on reaping the whole of the advantage. The aggrandisement of Prussia northwards, which might disturb the balance of Germany, was not desired by Austria, which wished to see a neutral G er ,-- 02 1/1 state established in the southern part of the Danish peninsula. Tho Prussian Premier, Count Bismarck—in this point only of all his political programme supported by the general feeling of the Prussian people—set his mind from the first on the annexation of the Duchies to Prussia. From the first the Austrian Government has refused to consent to this. The compromise concluded last year at Gastoin gave to Prussia the provincial possession of the Duchy of Schleswig, while the Austrian Commander, Von Gablenx, was left to rule in Holstein. Since that time the pretensions of Prussia kayo been more and more openly and unreservedly put forward, and the Prussian rule has been spoken off in North Germany as permanent, the Austrian as temporary. The arrogance of the Prussian officials having at last reached the length of an attempt to dictate to the Austrians the conduct which they should pursue with regard to the Augustenburg pretender, the Austrians fairly took the alarm. A proposal, it is said, was made at this perilous juncture to buy their retirement at a valuation of 50 million thalers ; the Austrian Government rejected it and began to arm. So much, at least, we learn from the very circumstantial and apparently truthful statements of the German press. That regiment after regiment, and battery after battery of artillery have been forwarded in haste to the Bohemian and Galician frontier merely to protect the Jewish people of those parts from persecution, is a weak evasion on the part of the Austrian Government organs. Austria has been threatened by Prussia with extreme measures, and has, of course, a per fect right to defend her frontiers. £28,502,750 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors'Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £10,915,483 Other Securities 21,879,302 Notes 6,881,020 Gold and Silver Coin Debt, and Div Accounts) 8,375,045 Other Deposits 13,332,000 Seven Day and other bills 386,201 £40,535,452 March 29, 1866. £40,535,452 W. MILLED, Chief Cashier. ANOTIIER OF DR. JOHNSON'S HAUNTS TRANS FORMED.--The Mitre Tavern, Mitre-court, Fleet street, in the cozy corner of the coffee-room of which stood Dr. Johnson's easy chair, over which was placed a cast of Nolleken's bust of the moralist, has just been pulled down. It was hero that "Johnson of that ilk," as he called him self, in allusion to his residence in Johnson's-court opposite, during his Scottish tour, planned that tour, as he sat at supper, enjoying his port wine, "of which," says Boswell, "he sometimes drank a bottle ;" here, too, which his bio grapher calls their " old rendezvous," Johnson, Goldsmith, and Boswell frequently met at 9 o'clock to partake of that social meal. On ono occasion, Ogilvie was there expatiat ing in Johnson's company on " the great many noble pros pects of Scotland." "True, sir," replied the doctor, " I believe you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble, wild prospects, and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious, noble, wild prospects ; but, sir, lot mo tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that loads him to Lnglancl." Naval and Military Intelligence. The partially iron-cased screw frigate Bellerophon, 14, 4,270 tons, 1,000-horse power, Captain Edward Tatham, in accordance with instructions from the Admiralty, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yes terday morning, and gave her machinery a four hours' trial under full-boiler power, not over the measured mile, to ascertain the amount of indicated horse-power of the engines and the maximum num ber of their revolutions with her two funnels short ened of the extra 16 feet lengths given them tempo rarily by Mr. Penn to remedy a supposed defect in the draughts of the furnaces. It will be fresh in the memory of the reader that this course has been adopted by the Admiralty in consequence of the ob servations of Sir John Pakington and the motion of Mr. Graves on the subject in the House of Com mons. The trial of the ship's machinery was to afford, by a comparison of the maximum number of the en gines' revolutions and their indicated horse-power, a certain means of judging how far the speed of the ship might have been affected by the somewhat excep tional circumstances of lengthened funnels to her furnaces on her trial of speed over the measured mile on the 19th inst. The ship when she left Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning drew the same depth of water forward and aft, burnt the same description of hand-picked coal, and had the mine detachment of steam factory stokers in charge of the furnaces as on her trial of speed ; the conditions being thus rendered as nearly equal as possible, with the excep tion that yesterday it was plain steaming to and fro through Spithead to enable the engines to work up to their maximum strength without timing the speed of the ship, whereas on the previous occasion it was purely a trial of the ship's speed. The ship was un der way yesterday four hours, and in working out the indicator diagrams after her return to harbour the indicated horse power of the engines was found to be 6019.110, the maximum revolutions of the engines being 72. On the previous trial the indicated power of the engines was 6048, and the maximum revolutions of the engines 70.5. The lengthened funnels, therefore, may be charged with a gain of 29 horse over the short ones, but with a loss of 1.5 revolutions of the engines. This difference, however, is so trifling that its actual existence may be due more to the manner in which the calculations were made than to any variation in the working of the engines. One great fact, at all events, is fully established—that Mr. Penn's machi nery is proved to be fully equal in all respects to the anticipations expressed by him, and more than equal to the terms of his contract with the Admiralty. The character of the ship for speed when she has been brought down to her seagoing trim, therefore, now depends entirely on herself, on the suitability of her length and lines for high rates of speed—a suitability claimed for her as her due by her designer and many other persons, but denied to her by others, and on this point is concentrated the public interest in the ultimate results of the ship's trials. The Bellerophon represents the bluff spoon-bow form of ship by which Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, endeavours to combine the speed of a long ship with the handiness and manoeuvring power of a short one, and the fairest comparison that can be made by which to judge how far he will succeed in his endeavours lies in the selection of the Achilles as the competitive ship, a vessel designed with the hatchet-shaped bow of the Watts-Lang school, and in which her designers have given her length in order to secure speed. The Achilles has been tried at both light and deep draught, the Bellerophon only at light draught. The Achilles, at Maplin Sands' mile, at light draught, on the 24th of April, 1864, gave the following results :—Displacement, 7,895 tons ; area of midship section, 1,120 square feet; indicated horse-power, 5,035 ; speed, 14.358 knots. .The Bellerophon, at Stokes Bay mile, at light draught, on the 19th of March, 1865, gave the following : Displacement, 6,372 tons ; area of midship section, 1,055 square feet; indicated horse-power, 6,048; speed, 14.227 knots. The Achilles, at Stokes Bay mile, at deep draught, on March 15, 1865, gave the following :—Displacement, 9,487 tons ; area of midship section, 1,307 square feet ; indicated horse-power, 5,722 ; speed, 14.322 knots. Messrs. John Penn, senior and junior, together with Mr. Anderson, Mr. Penn's chief assistant, were on board the Bellerophon during yesterday's trial, Mr. An derson being in charge of the machinery. Mr. Ward, Chief Assistant-Engineer of Portsmouth dockyard, was the Admiralty officer superintending the trial. The paddle sloop Gladiator, 6, Capt. Aplin, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from Ply mouth, with a detachment of the 66th Regt. on board, which was subsequently disembarked at the dockyard and forwarded by South Western Railway to Aldershot, via Farnborough. The Liverpool, screw unarmoured frigate, 34 guns, 600 horse power, Capt. Seccombe, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and was berthed alongside the dockyard for repairs and refit. The hired troopship Cospatrick yesterday arrived at Woolwich from Bombay, 95 days out, bringing detachments of invalids and time-expired men from various regiments—namely, the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Ist Royals, the 10th, 44th, and 56th Infantry, 72d Highlanders, 102 d Royal Madras Fusiliers, and 108th Madras Infantry. They were in command of Capt. Martin, R.A. ; Capt. Ogilvie, R.A. ; Second Capt. Moncton, R.A. ; Lieut. Rooke, Ist Royals; Cornet Collette, 4th Dragoons ; Quar termaster M'Gee, Ist Royals ; Lieut. Knox, R.A. ; and Dr. Green, 44th Regt. The total amounted to 256 non-commissioned officers and men, 17 women, and nine children. Six deaths happened during the passage home. The launch of the improved wooden unarmoured screw corvette Reindeer, the last of that description I of vessel which, in all probability, will ever be con structed for the English navy, was effected at Cha tham dockyard shortly after noon yesterday, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The Reindeer was commenced as far back as the year 1860, just at the period when iron was begin ning to supersede wood as a material for our ves sels of war, and was intended to be constructed as one of the smaller class of corvettes, to mount 17 guns, for which description of vessel there had been for some years previously a steady demand. She was laid down and commenced under the super intendence of Mr. 0. W. Lang, the then master shipbuilder of Chatham dockyard, and was only about half-completed, when an order from the Admiralty directed all further work on board to be discontinued, the whole of the hands being at the same time withdrawn and placed on the Achilles and other ironclad ships which were just then being built as rapidly as the resources of the establishment would permit. Towards the close of last year she was surveyed by the Admiralty officials, and a deter mination arrived at to complete her as an improved corvette, to carry a few heavy guns of the most powerful description which a vessel of her class could safely mount. Plans were accordingly prepared and submitted to the Admiralty by Mr. Thornton, the present master-shipwright, under whose direc tion and superintendence the Reindeer has been completed. In order to increase her strength, and at the same time to impart additional stiffness and rigidity to the vessel, Mr. Thornton has introduced, as far as practicable, his composite system of ship building, the leading features of which a re the in troduction of iron-plated bulkheads, instead of wood, and wrought-iron deck beams, in lieu of wooden beams. Massive stringer plates worked into the vessel where necessary impart increased strength to the ship's frame, and enable her to resist the eon. cussion of her heavy guns, which in the case of vessels built on the old system which would be such as to seriously imperil the safety of the vessel. The system of fitting the bulkheads, or partitions, below the lower decks of iron, now for the first time intro duced in a wooden vessel of the Reindeer class, is one likely be largely followed in the ships of war, as the danger from fire is thereby greatly diminished, if not altogether prevented. Twelve o'clock was the time fixed for the launch, and shortlyafter that hour Miss Catherine Coote Stewart, daughter of Capt. W. Houston Stewart, C. 8., superintendent of the dock yard, was conducted to the extremity of the platform at the bow, where she performed the ceremony of " christening" the ship. The last of the supports having been knocked away, a couple of powerful hydraulic rams gave the vessel a start, and in a minute or two afterwards the corvette glided down the ways into the harbour. The following are the principal dimensions of the Reindeer :—Length between perpendiculars, 185 ft ; length of keel for tonnage, 164 ft ; extreme breadth, 33ft. 21in. ; breadth for tonnage, 33ft. ; breadth moulded, 32ft. 4in. ; depth in hold, 17ft 51in . ; burden, 950 8-94 tons. She is to be fitted within a pair of horizontal engines of 200 horse power (nominal) and will mount an armament on her weather deck of one nine-ton pivot gun, amidships, together with six 64- pounders at her broadsides, besides the smaller de scription of guns for boat and field service. An order from the Admiralty directs her to be imme diately brought forward for commission. Orders have been received at Devonport to ex pedite the preparation of several ships for active ser vice. They are stated to be the frigates Liffey 39, and Galatea 26 ; the corvettes Jason 21, and Satel lite 21 ; the sloop Peterel 11, and the gunboat Rainbow. From the size of these ships it is con cluded that they are intended for service in the Gulf and River St. Lawrence. The Liffey is in No. 4 dock at Devonport, repairing, and cannot be ready for several months. The Galatea is in Key ham-basin not yet taken in hand for repair--her boilers and tanks have been removed ; and she will be placed in No. 2 dock as soon as the blocks are ready to receive her keel. The Jason is rigged and fitting for the Steam Reserve. The Satellite is in No. 1 dock at Devonport ; the artisans have re cently been rather busy in her repairs ; she will not be ready for undocking before May, unless some extra exertions are made. Tke Peterel is repairing in No. 2 dock, at Keyham. She will probably be undocked :to-morrow (Saturday), after which she will receive her masts, &c. The Rainbow is in the first division. The screw steam frigate Doris, 32, Capt. Vesey, left Plymouth yesterday (Thursday) for North America and the West Indies. The ironcased screw steamship Lord Clyde, 24, at Devonport, is receiving her guns. Yesterday a detachment of 80 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d battalion of the 2d Royals, left Chatham Garrison, and embarked at Gravesend in the Dodo steamer, for Ireland, to aug ment the Ist battalion of the 2d Royals, at Cork. A frightful accident yesterday befel one of the labourers in the shell foundry of Woolwich Arsenal, named Alfred Church. Very slight hopes are en tertained of saving his life. Dr. Briscoe, Surgeon- Major, and Mr. Cullen, Staff-Assist.-Surgeon at the local infirmary, rendered every aid which could be bestowed, and after carefully examining his injuries, they pronounced amputation of both legs and his left arm absolutely necessary. It appears that he was sweeping the floor of the foundry, and incau tiously approached the driving band ; his clothes were caught by it, and he was whirled over the shaft about 20 times before the machinery could be stopped. Lieut. A. H. Gorges, late of the B brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, who was killed on Sunday morning last by a fall from his horse on Woolwich-common, was buried yesterday afternoon in the new cemetery at Charlton, with full military honours. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George S. Brown, to the Prince Albert ; Lieut. Richard IV. Hope, to the Barracouta ; William L. Inch, paymaster, to the Cambridge ; Alexander Robinson, paymaster, to the Duke of Wellington ; John D. Parminter, pay master, to the Bellerophon ; John P. Allen, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Reindeer; Frederick J. Newton, chief engineer, to the Belle rophon ; John D. Lamont, engineer, to the Asia, for the Cherub ; John Marwood, Andrewl Lloyd, and Joseph Minhinnick, engineers, to the Bellerophon ; John Swanson, William Sheen, Walter Brock, Thomas Muard, Robert Widdicombe, and Richard IV. Lopp, engineers, to the Princess Royal (addi tional), for disposal ; Augustus Mills, George Sul livan, James Bowman, and Hugh Thomson, first class assistant-engineers, to the Bellerophon ; Job Annable, Frederick Holden, John Plowright, Robert Wingfield, and Henry F. Strugnell, first-class assistant-engineers, to the Princess Royal (additional), for disposal ; Edward P. For rest, assistant-surgeon, to the Lion ; Michael O'Hurlstone, assistant-surgeon, to the Canopus ; Wm. J. C. Row, assistant paymaster (additional), to the Victoria; T. Backhouse, assistant-paymaster, to the Lion ; F. A. Carter, assistant-paymaster, (additional), to the Princess Charlotte; W. J. S. Cannon, assistant-paymaster, to the Achilles. Wreck of the Countess of Ripon, Indian Emigrant Ship. NOBLE CON DUCT OF THE CREW. His Excellency the Governor of Barbadoes has forwarded to the Board of Trade the following official report on the loss of the Countess of Ripon Indian emigrant ship, and the fortunate escape of 508 coolie emigrants who were on board : The ship Countese of Ripon, Capt. R. Smith Stuart, master, belonging to Messrs. John Allen and Sons, of Leadenhall-street, London, and 1,200 tons burthen, left Calcutta Nov. 5 last, bound for St. Vincent, Grenade, and Demerara with a cargo of rice, and 508 coolie emigrants. The ship called at St. Helena, and then proceeded on her voyage. On Jan. 19 observations were taken on board, and the ship was in lat, 13 11 N., long. 57 10 W. At 12 o'clock the ship was by calculation 140 miles from Barbadoes, the island bearing true west, and making a W. and by S. half S. course. At 8 o'clock that night an observation was taken by the polar star, which placed the ship in 13 1 N, having made 12 miles of southing that day. A look-out on the upper foretophead-yard for the light on the south point of the island was kept from 11 o'clock that night. Capt. Stuart thought that from the southerly course steered, and making a due allowance for cur rents, his ship was at least 20 miles to the south ward of the island ; but at 5 a.m. of the 20th she struck on a reef on the windward coast of the island and became a total wreck. This is the substance of the statement of the captain and the officers taken before the court, corroborated by the chart and log book produced. The question now for consideration is the cause of the loss of the ship. The court con sider that the utmost care was taken in the naviga tion of the ship. The observations were carefully made and recorded, and the ship's position down to 8 o'clock on the night of Jan. 19 accuratelydefined; that no northerly current existed at the time, and that the course then steered would have taken the vessel 20 miles to the southward of the island.ol,eirre therefore attribute the loss of th e vessel to a pw f t u h l e current m running v e t o p the c doarfttheiry Itime to o w f h t i l e l h e confirmed in this op inion by as o bservation taken at 8 o'clock e p v . c i i i do i G . enon ; and tvaceei nrneedof:l in re a Governor, and aaplu t:e tids. th as e x cellency showing that Hume, of 11.31.5. E. despatch to his his vessel emvleinchohnastibleeenniglahitd obfefotrheeth2eocthonien went round to the eastward the island to render assistance to the wreck, she drifted six miles to the northward whilst lying off and on near the wreck. Under these circumstances, and having cerefully considered all the evidence which has been given on this inquiry, the Court is of opinion that no blame is to be attributed to Capt. Stuart, or-to any one acting under his authority, an d that th e y are entitled to great praise for their su ccessful ex - tions in saving the lives of all on boar d, p articularly the helpless women, the sick, and the children • and we would particularly mention thetheheroic ship, h conduct o n b c o t of Mr. Geyde, the second mate cominanded the lifeboat by which means all on board were safely landed. The Court therefore re tern to Capt. Stuart his certificate of competency, The Court cannot conclude this report without re cording their opinion that this disaster would have been prevented had there been a light on the east end of the island. The position of the Countess of Ripon at the time of her approaching the land wag such that the light on the South Point could not b e seen, nor could that light be seen by any vessel ap proaching the island from the north-east. The Court desire in the strongest manner to express their opinion on this point, because it appears abso lutely certain that had not the ship been of unusual strength, and so holding together in a sea where nc% ordinary boat could approach her, or had she taken ground a very short distance to the north or south of the spot where she was wrecked, the loss of life must have been frightful." JAMAICA. (Per the Tasmania, via Southampton.) KINGSTON, Mardi. 11. The Royal Commissioners are bringing their in vestigation to a conclusion, and are requested to leave for England by the next packet. The Morning Journal says :—" The evidence of most importance during the fortnight has been re specting the extent of the so-called rebellion, and, how far Governor Eyre was justified in his assertion that the conspiracy was general throughout the island. Mr. Eyre based his opinion upon a multi tude of evidence, both oral and documentary, which he said he had received from the custodes and other gentlemen of property and influence in the country. Strange to say, his excellency, when called upon was unable to produce the documentary evidence, and had altogether forgotten from whom the oral evidence had been obtained." Among the witnesses examined as to the means employed for the suppression of the disturbances have been General O'Connor, Colonel Nelson, Lieut. Brand, and Provost-Marshal Ramsay. Mr. Ram say has been arrested on the charge of murder. The Rev. Robert Gordon has presented his excellency with an address of loyalty to the Queen from over 5,000 persons, chiefly blacks. The address depre cates the massacres at Morant Bay, and deplores the means employed for the suppression of the dis turbances. The Colonial Standard of March 1 says : "We have often had occasion to advert to the fact that the rebels in Saint Thomas in the East unreservedly proclaimed that the object of their rebellion was to exter minate the white people, and to have the land for the black. Not one, whether in the field, before the tribunal trying him, on the way to execution, or even whilst listening, with death staring him in the face, to the exhortations of a lipast:tnocdar,ned to i a c d o v n a c n e ced another reason for his revolt but that he intended 'kill veth b a u t c p k e ra rs ' en a s nd in g E et ng ' l t a h n e d b w ac h k o landshave n fr e e v e e .; and dd of o markingpportuni his dominanttiesofobserin gpatahaieencharacterfor the negro, p o e f aa th es e aionof land, find it difficult to realise the degree of excitement which may be produced in his mind by flattering that pas sion. Gordon knew this tender chord in the negro's heart well, however, and took care to make it vibrate incessantly in order to overpower every other consideration among the people who were to be seduced from their allegiance and propriety, and to be rendered willing tools of his ambition. It was only necessary for him to represent the white man as the only obstaelo standing between the negro and the coveted prize to arouse in the latter's breast an uncompro mising desire to get the obstacle out of the way. Accord ingly, every speech uttered by Gordon, whether in the House of Assembly or at public meetings, touched in a manner more or less direct on this main point ; whilst throughout his correspondence it was also kept in view. The apologists of the rebels in England have endeavoured to show that the negro suffered a variety of grievances, every one of which was sufficient to have aroused him to deeds of bloody retaliation against his supposed oppressors, but even if thosd grievances had existed, we believe all persons of experience here will go with us in saying that the negro could never have been induced to seek redress by violent means. It was necessary to connect the pos session of the land ultimately with the result of tha violence in order to drive him to adopt it. Hence was that the cry, 'kill buckra,' and get the ' back lands expressed the means by which the knot was to be cut, and the one consummation which would comprehend the ac complishment of every other purpose. " It has been alleged in England that the only men who who could have thrown any light on the cause of the re volt have been silenced by death ; and, forgetting the statement of the rebels themselves, many persons are still bent on showing that the oppressive administration of jus tice, and other fancied wrongs on the part of the whites against the negro, provoked the rising; but, fortunately, there is some evidence still left to prove the contrary. The testimony given on the trial of Alexander Taylor, con victed before the Special Commission, two days ago, of the murder of Mr. Walton, at Morant Bay, on the memorable 11th of October, is of this class. John Spence, ono of the witnesses examined for the prosecution, said—" Three weeks before the outbreak I saw the prisoner at a meeting house (M'Laren's) at Church Corner, close to Morant Bay; prisoner told me when he came out of the meeting that they wanted the back lands, and were going to kill buckra. M'Laren store the people at the meeting, and the prisoner was one of those who were sworn; they were told not to tell their father or mother the secret.' The witness then described the part which the prisoner took in the murder, and the cruel process of thrusting a stick down the unfortunate gentleman's throat to finish him. Now, Taylor, the murderer, it appears, did not live where he ' could have experienced any act of oppression at the hands of Mr. Walton. His residence was in the direction of the cottage, away altogether from the Retreat, the residence of Mr. Walton, which is on the opposite road from Morant Bay., c W o m h a m t t c t o e d u l b d u t h t a h v e e d impelled mna ohimn tottakeo t he pa b r a t rb in ar t o h ls act he the plot he had three weeks ago sworn to aid, namely, to kill buckra' and 'get the back lands free ?' " STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, March29.—To-morrow being Good Friday the market for cotton yarns and cloths has been held to-day. In shipping yarns the depres sion, which was at its greatest on Tuesday, owing to the large receipts of cotton at Liverpool, has somewhat given way to a more cheerful feeling. Some very large offers have been made to-day, but declined, because the prices offered are below the requirements of spinners. There has, however, been a fair amount of business doing—in fact, consider ably more than for the last ten days, and this branch of the market closes with an improved feeling. The home trade yarn-market continues in a drooping state, and prices are again lower as compared with Tuesday. There has been very little business going on in these yarns, and manufacturers in want of yarns show a decided disposition to wait till the holi days are over before further operations. The large arrivals of cotton appear to be holding this section of the market more decidedly in check than others. In cloth we have no improvement to quote since Tuesday, but to-day several buyers have manifested a disposition to operate. They have offered prices, sto be however, which manufactur ers would not accept, and very little business ha s resulted. The down wardexten extent n butde c y the of general prices choaotspt opinion seems priceschecked seem w to soireethat, owing owing to the supply of ill slowly to some extent. but gradual]," give way DECLINE OF HUIVTING. At the close of the present hunting season seve ral w ell-known packs of hounds willbe withdrawn f ro m the hunting field and the kennels broke n u p . The old Berkshire foxh oun d s, wh i c h have for many years afforded good sport, and co nsisting of 140 dogs, are to be s o ld at the kennel at A bi n gdon. The foxhounds of M r. T . D ra k e , Hants, are consigned Oxfordshire, are also to be • and the celebrated Vine hounds, located at the kennel at Overton, sold Pave hunted to Messrs. Tattersall for sale under the hammer. The Shropshire harriers will also be sold, and the The difficulties relative to the Quura eountrygiven up. and Cotswold packs of foxhounds are on the eve of comprising 96 running dogs, a djustment, an d in allprobability they willberetained for the ir own country next season. Many of tine hunting ie u differen ces which have sprung up among gen tlemen w h o meet the above hounds have arisen out of the c attle p la g ue, landowners and the farming in terest having protested against running the dogs h over land during the prevalence of the disease, - while o ther members of the hunt were opposed to the sus pension of hunting. The Surrey staghounds, r ,.. keo up by Mr. A. Heathcote, will soon have their last -meet. The munificent offer of the Epsom squire to present the pack to any gentleman who would hunt them in the county has not been accepted, and they will be sold, the owner relinquishing hunting for turf pursuits. hare 100 st I 20 2.04 10 100 i 100 100 100 all 100 100 190 100 100 110 100 100 1 9,1 9 16 i 1061 6