The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-29 00:00:00

ipERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Colne Valley and Hampstead Railway Bill was read a second time. The Liverpool United Gas Bill, the Great Southern and Western Railway Bill, the Kingston and Eardisley Bill, and the Carmarthen and Cardigan Branch Railway (Branches) Bill were read a third time and passed. POLLUTION OF RIVERS. The Earl of DERBY presented petitions from different persons, complaining of the pollution of the rivers of the United Kingdom. COLONIAL NAVAL DEFENCE BILL. This bill went through committee, and tho house resumed. BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (IRELAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Earl of ST. GERMANS, in moving the third read ing of this bill, briefly explained some of its principal points. The bill was read a third time and passed. ALLEGED GRIEVANCES OF INDIAN OFFICERS. Lord DONOUGIIMORE moved for different returns relating to the grievances of which the Indian offisers com plained, which were ordered. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF CO3BIONS--LAsT EVENING. The SPEAXER, took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Bolton Improvement, Bristol Joint Station, Leicester Lunatic and Improvement, Limerick Embankment and Reclamation, Liverpool Improvement, and Metropolitan District Railway Bill. - SECOND READINGS. The Ogmore Valley Railways (No. 1) Bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a number of petitions from Westminster in favour of the bill _for opening the metro politan bridges free of toll. Mr. Cox presented a number of petitions from the com positors in London in favour of the bill for the amendment of the Public House Act. Mr. ScuLLY presented petitions against the disendow ment of the Irish Church. COL VANDELEUR presented similar petitions. Mr. LOCKE presented petitions in favour of the Chemists and Druggists Dill. _ Mr. C oc eN presented petitions in favour of an inquiry into the Irish Church, and for the amendment of the law with respect to landlord and tenant. Mr. BLAKE presented petitions against the disendow ment of the Irish Church. Mr. LYGON presented similar petitions. Mr. A. Saari" presented a petition in favour of the open ing of Chelsea-bridge toll free. Mr. AYRTON presented a petition from the Tower Ham lets in favour of the Chemists and Druggists Bill. Mr. BRADY presented petitions praying that the endow ments of the Irish Church be enquired into. THE CONDITION OF THE POPULATION. Mr. BAINES moved an address for returns relative to the condition of the people in England and Wales for the years 1831 and 1864 respectively ; for the number of regis tered newspapers published in 1831 and 1864 ; number of letters delivered by the Post-office in 1839 and 1864, and number of pounds of paper which paid duty in 1831 and 1860 ; number of depositors and amount of deposits at savings banks (general and Post-office) in 1331 and 1864 ; and computed number of enrolled or certified friendly societies and number of members thereof in 1831 and 1864 ; length of line of railways open for traffic, and amount of paid-up capital of Railways in 1831 and 1864, and the total value of imports and of British and Foreign exports in 1831 and 1864; and total quantities of tea, coffee, raw sugar, wine, malt, and British and Foreign spirits consumed in 1831 and 1864.—Ordered. JUDGES' LODGINGS. Mr. D. GRIFFITH moved for a return of all sums which have been paid by the High Sheriff of each of the Counties of England and Wales for the expense of judges' lodgings at Assizes, during the last four years ; and of the sums which have been paid to the High Seeriff by the Treasury, in reimbursement of that outlay ; together with the dates of the payments by the sheriff and the repay ments by the Treasury respectively.—The return was ordered. POSTAL SYSTEM IN SCOTLAND. Sir R. ANSTRUTHER asked the Secretary to the Trea sury whether any measures were about to be taken to remedy the defects in the postal system of Fife so frequently complained of ? Mr. F. PEEL said the arrangements of the Post-office were not satisfactory in Fife, but one thing necessary to remedy the matter was that the North British Railway should run more frequently trains. This, however, they were not disposed to do, but the matter was stilli n progress and he hoped the result would be satisfactory. THE CASE OF ALEX. CASEY. Colonel VANI)ELEUR asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether any, or what, disposition had been made of the property of the late Alex. Casey, of the county Clare, forfeited to the Crown, his alleged will having been set aside by the Court of Probate in 1863 ; and whether it was true that the late Attorney-General for Ireland had recommended the reversion of the property to be left away from the wife of the deceased and to be given in fee to a stranger; and whether he had any objection to lay all the papers and memorials connected with the case upon the table of the house ? Sir R.PEEL said the property had been disposed of; the widow will receive the proceeds, and at her death it will be paid to the relatives of the deceased. THE RIVER THAMES. Colonel FRENCH asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer what decision had been come to by the Treasury on Mr. Bateman's report on the works left unfinished on the River Thames ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the views of the Treasury were embodied in a letter from the Board of Trade, and if he wished to have that letter he could do so by moving for it in the ordinary way. NAVAL ORDNANCE. Mr. fIANBURY-TRACY asked the Under Secretary of State for War, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to take advantage of the change in the Ord nance Select Committee, occasioned by the retirement of Colonel Gallwey, to associate another naval member with that committee? The Marquis of HARTINGTON said Colonel Gallwey was the only engineering officer on the committee, and it had been found necessary to fill it by the appointment of Captain King. LIICKNOW PRIZE MONEY. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD asked the Secretary of State for India whether there would be any further distribution of Lucknow prize money ; and, if so, when it is probable the distribution will take place ? Sir C. WOOD said there would be another distribution. It had in fact been advertised in India. There would be no unnecessary delay in the matter. THE DEBATE ON THE lONIAN PENSIONS. Mr. B. COCHRANE rose to make a personal explana tion. Ile said that on the occasion of his making his speech on this subject the other evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer impugned two of his statements respecting the late Duke of Newcastle. He had since received a letter which would prove that he (Mr. Cochrane) was perfectly right. The CHANCELLOR of the FQCHEQUER said that as the statements made were not made on Mr. Cochrane's own authority, his personal veracity was not impugned, and as to his having used any strong language, all he said was that the assertions of the hon. gentleman were inaccurate. Mr. ROEBUCK, in moving the adjournment of the house, said that all the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done in withdrawing the charge of want of veracity in Mr. B. Cochrane, was to impugn the conduct of a gentle man in that house. Ile was opinion that the transaction was one disgraceful to the British Government, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in particular. Ho felt that — The SPEAKER informed the hon. member that he was trangressing the rules of the house in referring to a former debate. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose, but was met with loud cries of " Oh, oh," and " Hear, hear." Mr. ROEBUCK, amidst renewed cries of "Hear, hear," " Order, order," said he hoped the Speaker would enforce the orders of the house. He had shut his mouth in sub mission to his authority, and he did hope now that the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not be allowed to reply to what he (Mr. Roebuck) had not said. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The motion for the adjournment was then withdrawn, and the subject dropped. THE POST-OFFICE. Mr. D. GRIFFITH moved foraselect committee to inquire whether the practice of appointing a peer of the realm , exclusively. to the office of Postmaster-General is one w.uchis directed or required by any legal enactment or constitutional principle, and whether the continuance of such practice is of advantage to the public service. The hon. gentleman took the opportunity of reviving the cir cumstances connected with the Post-office from a very early period. He contended that the practice of appointing none but peers to the Post-office ought to be discontinued, because their aristocratic p ostmast ers - general had ne ver been amongst those, who had improved the postal system ' • on the contrary, they had been always o pposed to chan ges of every description, and when Sir Rowland Rill's s c h eme was first made known the aristocratic postmasters were amongst those who ridiculed the plan which had led t o such beneficial results, and which had induced the cou n t ry to confer a very handsome pensionon that distinguished person. Mr. F. PEEL thought the committee proposed would be useless trouble. There was no law to prevent a commoner holding the office of Postmaster-General, but there was an act of Parliament which prevented a Postmaster-General sitting in that house. He could not see that there would be any advantage in having the person filling the office of Postmaster-General in that house, especially as the officers of the, Treasury at present in the house were quite equal to 'tile transaction of any matters of detail. The motion, after a few words from Mr. D. GRIFFITH, was withdrawn. CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT (IRELAND). A great number of petitions on this subject having been presented, _ . _ Mr. DILLWYN rose to move that, in the opinion of this house, the present position of the Irish Church Esta blishment is unsatisfactory, and calls for the early atten tion of her Majesty's Govermment. In support of the motion the hon. member repeated the old familiar argument that the Irish Church was the church of a small minority, and that nine-tenths of the inhabitants not included in her pfle were left without any religious provision at her hands. This was an unsatisfactory state of things which required the intervention of this country, for it was by the power of England that the injustice had been created and perpetu ated. He did not introduce the question as an enemy but an attached friend and supporter of the Church of England; and he believed that a reform of the Irish Establishment, so far from leading to an attack on the Church in this country was calculated to strengthen the English Estab lishment, which there could be no doubt was based upon the affectionate attachment of the people. On the other hand, the Irish Church was founded in manifest injustice ; the nepotism and corruption of the highest dignitaries of that church were perfectly appalling, and there was no solid reason whatever for its continuance. The O'DONO UGHUE seconded the motion, and called upon the Government at the outset to state the course they contemplated taking. If they were disposed to act justly he believed they would be supported by a considerable portion of the house and the people of England, and by the vast majority of the people of Ireland. Just, prompt, and vigorous action would at this particular moment have a most beneficial effect, not only on the state of Ireland, but the future prospect of the empire. Sir G. GREY unhesitatingly declared that the Govern ment did not consider it their duty to assent to the motion- If they agreed to it, it would be equally their duty at an early period to submit to Parliament a bill giving effect to the sense in which the resolution was proposed. Though the terms in which it was conceived were ambiguous,there was no mistaking the speeches by which it had been en forced, and the real question was not whether the Irish Church should be reformed, but whether she should continue to have an existence. This being the case, with equal frankness he said that the Government were not pre pared to take upon themselves the responsibility of propos ing=a measure to accomplish any such object. They be lieved that that object could not be attained without inflict ing the greatest disasters on Ireland ; that it would bo the means of exciting to the ereatest extent feelings of religious animosity there, and postpone indefinitely the period when, irrespective of politics and creeds, Irishmen would unite to promote by their own efforts the moral and social improve ment of the country. As an abstract question he admitted that the establishment of a Church that represented only a small minority was indefensible ; but the Irish Church was not a new creation ; it was an existing institution resting upon the unbroken proscription of centuries, and he thought it could not be subverted without a revolution, accompanied by all the evils and horrors of a revolution. The clergy performed their duties faithfully, unobtrusively, and zea lously, with charity, and with an earnest desire to give no offence to their neighbours. True, there were side by side with them the unendowed clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, but they repudiated the wish to possess themselves of the property of the Established Chiirch. Asa matter of mere feeling, he allowed that the majority of the Irish people, professing another faith, had a grievance, but it was not a practical grievance calling for any sweeping measure of legislation, such as that which the mover and seconder of the resolution had in view. Mr. G. HARDY agreed that the maintenance of the Pro testant Church in Ireland was a part of the compact entered into at the time of the union, and that the principles advo cated by Mr. Dillwyn, notwithstanding his profession of loyalty to the Church of England, would be as fatal to her as to the Irish Church. It was said by the opponents of the latter that she was a badge of servitude. He denied it, for the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland had perfect religious . freedom, and enjoyed religious equality in the widest sense of the word. By the Act of Union every Churchman in Ireland had a vested right to find in every parish and place a pastor, a church, and the means of grace in connec tion with his Church. The Churchmen of Ireland were not to be in a different situation from that of Churchmen in England. That, in fact, was the principle upon which the Irish Parliament, itself a Protestant institution, had given its assent to the Union. It was confirmed by the Roman Catholics themselves in 1829, and it would be un fair and unreasonable now to turn round upon the Pro testants of Ireland, and tell them that they should not be treated as Churchmen were in this country, but that an entire separation should be made between the conditions cf the two Churches. If there were abuses let them be re medied, but they had no right to take the property of the Church for the purpose of providing a remedy ; they had no right, as the resolution proposed, to violate—first, the principles of the Reformation ; secondly, the Act of Set tlement ; thirdly, the Act of Union ; and, fourthly, the settlement of 1829. Did they want to buy peace? It was not by such legislation as this ; it was not by the surren der of a great principle that peace was to be bought. Peace existed now in Ireland. Crime was never so low. Life never so safe. Property never so secure. The peasantry never so contented. And if he were told that nothing had been done by the Irish Establishment to carry out her mis sion as a Church, he said that much every way had been done by her for religion, civilisation, the health, comfort, and good of the people. ' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER concurred with Mr. Hardy in his defence of the Irish Establishment, so far as it rested upon the assertion that it did not pre sent such an amount of flagrant abuse as would justify a violent interference with its existence. Its clergy were an earnest, zealous, and devoted body of ministers, given to their sacred functions in a degree not inferior to that of the clergy of any other branch of the Christian Church. With regard to its prelates, too, there were those among them who were known to be men of great learning, the highest possible character, and the most extensive charity both in act and opinion. And the general effect of the evidence was that there was great social utility in the presence of a body of educated Christian gentlemen such as the Protes tant clergy of Ireland, and that if they were unhappily precluded from ministering to the wants of their neigh bours in the most important respects for which they were appointed, yet in their social and moral influence they ren dered valuable services to the community. All this, how ever, did not touch the essence of the question ; and the object of Mr. Hardy was to put a negative not only upon the motion, but on the proposition contained in it, that the present situation of the Irish Church was unsatisfactory. Now, although the Government were unable to agree to the motion, they were not prepared to deny the abstract truth of that part of the resolution. They could not assert that the present position of the Establishment was satisfactory. But it was another thing to interfere with the exclusive endowments of a Church which, as his right hon. friend had stated, was sanctioned by the prescription of centuries and the Act of Union. At the same time he could not admit that the claims of the past against the future were to be regarded in all cases as absolute and pa ramount. Nor could ho subscribe to the opinion that the dictum of a dead Parliament was to bind after generations, because he held it to be our duty to adapt the institutions of the country to the changing circumstances of the times. It was an anomalous state of things that the whole of the religious endowments of the Church should be devoted to the wants of an eighth of the population. This was an undoubted inconsistency ; but no one had ventured to sug gest the remedy that should be applied. The considera tion of this portion of the question raised a whole nest of political problems ; for while the vast majority of the Irish people were opposed to the maintenance of largo and libe ral endowments for a fragment of the population they repu diated anydesire to appropriate those endowments, and firmly rejected all idea of receiving a state provision for themselves. sate In these c i rcums t ances h ow, h e as k e d , could the Government substitute a satisfactory f or an admittedly unsatisfactory t ofthings. If the Admi n i s tration could see their w ay to a se ttl ement of this vexed question they ought to grapple with the difficulty and cast their responsibility and influence into the scale. But if they could not do this they ought not, by supporting the motion, to declare that th e State of the Irish Church called fo r their' , early attention. SIDE concurred w i t h Sr G. Grey that to Mr. wniTE Sir carry the motion in the sense of the speeches by which it had been supported would tend to civil confusion in Ire land, the excitement of the worst feelin, l' s, and th e genera l He argued th a t t h e disturbance of society in that a ai t c th ou ou n g try h the end owments be * Irish Church did not constitute a practical gri evance to the Roman Catholics, be longed to the establishment, the Roman Catholics24,oo hada - £30,000 a-year for the College of Maynooth, year for secular education, and, in addition, chaplains i n the army and navy, workhouses, reformatories, and pri_ sons, making a total money payment equivalent t0.£300,000 per annum. The right hon. gentleman also animadverted upon the dexterous quibbles and hypocritical mystification of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, whilst he intended voting against the motion, had made a speech in its favour, and foreshadowed what he and his friends would do when a more favourable opportunity occurred; and he declared that, on the day that the Protestant Church in Ireland was struck down, those who in that country had always sup ported the Crown and the honour of England would be come her deadly enemies, and the union would be at an end. Mr. G. DUFF, in supporting the motion, said that in the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer he saw the be ginning of the end with the Irish difficulty. Mr. COGAN recommended Mr. Dillwyn to withdraw the latter part of his resolution setting forth that the question demanded the early attention of the Government. In that case they might reasonably expect Ministers to give it their support. After some observations from Mr. POLLARD-UnctintAnT ho u the sedi a v d i and Sir F. H EYGATE, Mr. GOSCH EN moved the adjournment of the debate. The j d o e u d, rn w m h e e n n t the numbers were— F0r 221 Against it Majority —lls The debate was adjourned accordingly. The remaining busin ess h a • • d been dispose of, the house adjourned at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock. rHE it SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 186 a PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MARcH 28. CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT (IRELAND). ifotion made, " That, in the opinion of this house, the present position of the Irish Church Establishment is unsatisfactory, and calls for the early attention of her Majesty's Government." Debate arising, motion made, "That the debate be now adjourned." The house divided —Ayes, 221; Noes, 106. AYES--2.1. Adderley, C. B. Gilpin, Ci O'Donoghne, The Ayrton, A. S. Gladstone, W. E. O'Hara, C. W. Bagwell, J. Glyn, G. G. O'Loghlen, Sir C. Baines, E. Goldsmid, Sir F. O'Neill, E. Baring, Sir F. Gower, F. L. Padmore, It. Baring, T. Greene, J. Paget, C. Bathurst, Co'. H. Greenwood, J. Paget, Lord C. Beale, S. Grenfell, H. R. Pakington, Sir J. Beaumont. S. Greville, Col. F. Palmer, Sir F. Beecroft, G. S. Grey, Sir G. Palmerston, Visct. Bentinck, G. W. P. Grosvenor, Earl Patten, Col. W. Benyon, ft. Gurney, S. Peel, Sir It. Berkeley, C. P. F. Hadfield, G. Peel, F. Black, A. Hamilton, I. T. Peel, J. Blackburn, I'. Hanbury, it. Pennant, Col. Blencowe, J. G. Haud ey, J. Peto, Sir M. Bouverie, E. P. liankey, T. Pilkington, J. Bowyer, Sir G. Hardcastle, J. A. Pollard Urquhart W Brady, Dr Hardy, G. Potter, E. Bramston, T. W. Hartington,Marquis Powell, F. S. Brand, H. Hervey, Lord A H. Pritchard, J. Bridges, Sir B. W. Henderson, J. Repton, G. W. J. Bruce, Lord C. Henley, J. Ridley, Sir M. W. Buller, Sir A. W. Hennessy, J. P. Robartes, T. J. A. Buxton, C. Heygate. Sir F. Roebuck, J. A. Caird, J. Hibbert, p. T. Rogers, J. J. Cairns, Sir H. Hodgkinson, G. Rolt, J. Cardwell, E. Ho: stall, T. B. Rose, W. A. Carnegie, C. Howard, C. W. G. Russell, H. Cartwright, Col. Humphery, W. Russell, A. Castlerosse, Vist. Jolliffe, Sir W. Russell, F. W. Cave, S. King, P. J. L. Scholefleal, W. Cavendish, Lord G. Kinglake, A. W. Scourfielo, J. IL Clay, J. Kingscote, Col. Scully, V. Clifford, Co!. Kinnaird, A. F. Seely, C. Cobbold, J. C. Knatchbull, W. Selwyn, C. J. Cogan. W. H. Knatchbull-Hugesa Seymour, Danby Coke, CoL Layard, A. H. Shafto, R. D. Cole J. L. Langton, W. E.G. Shelley, Sir J. V. Collier, sir B. P. Lanigan, J. Sheridan, H. B. Corbally, M. E. Lawson, W. Smith, S. G. Cowper, W. F. Lefevre, G. J. S. Stacpoole, W. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lefroy, A. Stanley, Lord Crawford, R. W. Lennox, Lord H. G. Stanley, 0. Dalglish, It. Lever, J. 0. Stansfeld, J. Darner, S. D. Lewis, IL Steel, J. ' Dawson, R P. Lowe, R. Taylor, Col. Dering, Sir E. M'Cann, J. Taylor, P. A. Dillwyn, L. L. Macdonogh, F. Tollemache, F. J. Disraeli, B. MacEvoy, E. Torrens, It. Duff, M. E. M‘Mahon, P. Tracy, C. It. D. Duff, R. W. Maguire, J. F. Trelusis , C. H. R. Duke, Sir J. Malcolm, J. W. Turner, C. Duncombe, A. Malins, It. Vandeleur, C 1.., Dunkcllin, Lord Manners, Lord J. Vansittart, W. Dunne, Col. - Manners, Lord G. Verner, Sir W. Dunne, M. Marjoribanks, D. C. Verney, Sir H. Ed*ards, Col. Martin,J. Villiers, C. Y. Enfield, Viscount Miller, T. J. Vyse, Co , . Ennis, J. Mills, A. Waldegrave-Leslie Ewart, J. C. Mitchell, T. A. Waldron, L. Ewing, H. E. C. • Milford, W. T. Walpole, S. H. Fellowes, E. Moffatt, G. Watkin, E. W. Fenwick, E. M. Monsell, W. Wallington, .i. Fenwick, H. Moore, C. Westhead, J. 11 . ). B. Finlay, A. S. Morris, W. White, J. Fitzgerald, W. B. Mowbray, J. IL White, L. Forster, C. Mundy, IV. Whiteside, J. Forster, Sir G. Naas, Lord Williamson, Sir H. Forster, W. E. Neate, C. Wood, Sir U. Foster, W. 0. Noel, G. J. Wyld, J. Gavin, Major . North, Col. George, J. Northcote. Sir S. H. TELLERP. Gibson, T. M. O'Brien, Sir P. Goschen, G. J. Gilpin, Colonel O'Conor Don, The Gregory, W. H. NOES-106. _ Agar-Ellis, L. G. Forester, Gen. Long, K. P. Anstrullus, Sir R. Franklyn, G. W. Lowther, Captain Autrobus, E. Gard, it. S. M'Cormick, W. Archdall, Capt.M E. Getty, S. G. Mackie, J. Astell, J. H. Goddard; A. L. Montgomery, Sir G. Bass, M. T. Gore, J. R. 0. /4100-, H. Bateson, Sir T. Gore, W. It. 0. Mordaunt, Sir C. Beach, W. W. Greenall. G. Newdegate, C. Bentinck,.G. C. Griffith, C. D. Papillon, I'. 0. Beresford, W. Grogan, Sir E. Parker, Major W. Berestord. D. Hamilton, Lord C. Pease, H. Bernard, Col. Hamilton, Viscount Pevensey, Viscount Bond, J. W. Hamilton, Major Powys-Lybbe, P. L. Boyle, G. F. Hartopp, E. B. Quinn, P. Bremridge, R. Harvey, it. B. Sciater-Booth. G. Bromley. W. D. Haggard, M. Sheridan, R. B. Bruce, Sir H. Bay, Sir J. Smith, Abel Bruen, H. Hesketh, Si: T. Smollett, I'. B. Cargill, W. W. Heygate, W. U Stronge, Sir J. M. Cecil, Lord it. Holtord, It. S. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Clifton, Sir It. Holmesdale, Lord Sturt, H. G. Cole, H. Hood, Sir A, Sturt, Lt.-Col. N. Collins, T. Hotham, Lord Surtees, IL E. Courtney, Lord Ingestre, Viscount Tollemache, J. Cubitt, G. Jolliffe, H. Tottenham,Lt.-Co'. Dalkeith, Earl of Kekewich, S. T. Vance, J. Duncombe, W. E. Kendall, N. Verner, E. W. Du Pre, C. G. Kerrigbn, Sir E. Waterhouse, S. Egerton, Sir P. King, J. K. Welby, W. E. Egerton, W. Knight, F. Williams, F. M. Elphinstone, Sir J. Knox, CoL Woodd, B. T. Fane, Col. Knox, Major W . S. Wynn, C. W. W. Farquhar. Sir M. Lacon, Sir E. Ferrand, W. Langton, W. G. TELLERS. Fleming, T. W. Leslie, C. P. Floyer .0. Leslie, W. Burghley, Lord Forde, Col. Liddell, H. G. Whalley, G. IL her were sent on last week by the screw steam store ship Fox, 2, Staff Commander Thomas C. Pullen, which also conveyed engine gear for the iron screw steamship Lord Clyde, 24, building at Pembroke. Admiral Henry Meynell died at Paris on Satur day last, after a short illness. The deceased entered the navy in June, 1803. He was actively employed during the first seven years he was in the service in the Mediterranean and home stations, and he after wards sailed as lieutenant of the Theban with a con voy for the East Indies and China. He was appointed Acting Commander of the Arrogant, at Bombay, in 1813 ; and in August the same year promoted to be Commander of the Cornwallis. He subsequently in 1815 became act;ng Captain of the Newcastle, bear ing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm at St. Helena. Admiral Meynell was in the Spring of 1820 ap pointed Gentleman Usher to George IV., which, office he held until the King's death. He also held the same post for a short time in the household of Wil liam IV. ; and for some years, up to April, 1845, he was one of the Grooms in Waiting to her Majesty the Queen. He represented the borough of Lisburn in the House of Commons from 1826 until 1847. His commissions bore date as follows—Lieut., Nov. 8, 1809 ; Commander, Aug. 24, 1813 ; Captain, April 10, 1816 ; Rear-Adm;ral (reserved), April 29, 1851; Vice-Admiral, July 9, 1857 ; and Admiral, Oct. 4, 1862. Capt. Suther, who left England bythe mail packet of the 13th inst. from Southampton for Malta, to join the Royal Marine battalion in Japan, is ordered to return home. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty—Commander A. H. Alston, to be an Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Brime ; Lieut. E. C. Robinson, to the Excellent ; Sub-Lieut. John H. Brome, to the Rattlesnake ; Sub-Lieut. Henry Studdy, to the Edgar ; Alfred 0. Tottenham, midshipman, to the Hector ; Edwin 0. Hallett, second-master, to the Investigator ; Geo. C. Larken, second-master, to the Defence ; Wm. P. Haynes, second-master, to the Dee ; Thos. li;pling, assist.-surg., to the Aboukir; Henry V. Prichard, master's-assist., to the Rattlesnake ; William H. Stephens, master's-assist., to the Achilles ; Thomas Carline, assist.-engineer, to the Victoria and Albert; and J. Sharp (A), assist.-engineer, to the Orontes. The Lock-out in the Iron Trade. WOLVERHAMPTON, March 28. By arrangement with Lord Lichfield, the North Staffordshire masters have consented to meet the men to-morrow (Wednesday) at noon at the Rail way Hotel, Stoke. The meeting of the district committee of North Staffordshire did not terminate last night until 11 o'clock. Much time was occupied during the early part of the meeting in efforts to make the general body of the committee fully acquainted with the nature of arbitration. Ultimately the meeting seem to have come to the conclusion that they should not experience much difficulty in securing their own terms, or at least something approaching to them, by arbitration, after they had secured arbitrators who would be " safe men." They resolved that if necessary they would submit to arbitration. They thought, however, that they and their masters could settle matters themselves, without the necessity of arbitration, for they believed that their masters were even more anxious to resume work than they were. They had learnt, they said, that two large works were to begin at the close of the week—that the masters intended to " raise the price of iron at the preliminary meeting on Thursday next, and give the men their wages." The North Staffordshire men did not, it was said, want to have anything to do with the South Staffordshire or the North of England masters—" men who had committed the great injustice of a lock-out." They would meet their own masters only in the first place, and endea vour to come to an understanding without arbitra tion. It was arranged that the full sense of the whole of North Staffordshire should be expressed to the masters, and that the men should be represented by three persons from every one of the nine local committees. These, it was resolved, should meet to-day in Tunstall to draw up a state ment setting forth the whole case of the men from their own point of view. In selecting so many men to take part in the negotiations the committee acted upon the suggestion of the Earl of Lichfield. If the interview should not result in an adjustment of the difficulty, and arbitration has to take place, then the committee expressed a unanimous determination that before they consented to any kind of arbitra tion the lock-out must cease throughout South Stafford and also the North of England, that " in justice," as they phrased it, " must be done away with before they would meet any one else if they could not settle it with their masters." If the masters would not give way to that extent, then the strike, it was said, would be sure to go on. The Brierly-hill Executive, however, still continue to keep the subject of emigration before their mem bers. But they encourage them to select the British colonies and not the States of America for their new home. NEWCASTLE, March 28. Great satisfaction was expressed throughout the district this morning with the arrangement that was come to by the meeting at Darlington, and espe cially with the good feeling exhibited by masters and men in arriving at a settlement. trade and keep its current steady rather than brisk. There is no great falling off in the work of the manufacturers, yet a little slackness is com plained of. Prices are steady, those of goods as well as those of yarns and wools. NOTTINGHAM, 28th.—At our Exchange-hall to day there was again only a limited attendance. The demand for lace yarns was inactive. Spinners were anxious to sell, butbuyers were unwilling to operate, and prices were irregular—somewhat lower than last week. In hosiery yarns there was not much doing, and prices had a downward tendency. The demand for brown nets was very flat, and prices were in fa vour of the buyer. ROCHDALE, 25th.—The flannel trade continues to wear a quiet aspect. Manufacturers keep tolerably well employed, but the actual demand is not quite equal to the present rate of production. The attend ance of buyers to-day was below an average, and the same may be said as to the amount of their purchases. The Yorkshire goods trade is alike quiet, and in it but a small amount of business was done to-day. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, March 24.—Orders have been received from the Admiralty to make a series of trials of the ironclads in the Mediterranean, to determine the most economical application of their steam power at given rates of speed. The Royal Oak, 35, and the Resistance, 16, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Smart, in the Victoria, 101, left port yesterday morning, to commence operations, and will remain out two or three days. The other ironclad ship on this station, the Enterprise, 4, is at present away, having left on Tuesday, to convey Col. Herman, her Majesty's Consul-General, and Mrs. Herman, to Tripoli. On her return she will take part in the trials of speed already commenced with the other armour-plated vessels. The alarm which prevailed at Athens has subside 3, and a telegram received here on Tuesday says that all apprehensions of any serious outbreak are for the present at an end. There are now at the Piraeus the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. R. Coote, senior officer ; the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse ; the Assurance, 4, Com. Woollcombe ; and the Wanderer, 4, Corn. M. C. Seymour. The Pelican, 17, Lieut.-Com. N. B. Smith, has also been despatched to reinforce the squadron at the lonian Islands and the west coast of Greece. Capt. W. Rolland has returned from England to reassume the command of the Cossack, 20, at present at Corfu. The Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. C. Foley, has discharged a portion of her guns and stores prior to leaving for England on Saturday, to be put out of commission. She will take home a large num ber of military and naval invalids, besides women and children. Rear-Admiral Yelverton is to return to the Mediterranean in the Caledonia ironclad. The Rev. F. Gutteres, chaplain to the Resistance, received a telegram last week, by which he was informed that he had been appointed to the Narcissus, and that he was to proceed at once to England, via Marseilles, to take up his commission. He accordingly left by the first mail steamer. Two addresses, I am informed, have been signed by a very large number of the English clergy - , and will be presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to the Lords of the Admiralty. Their object is to express their indignation at the treatment Mr. Gutteres has received from his late captain, and to pray that steps may be taken to prevent any mem ber of their body from being subjected to similar treatment. There is also reason to believe that the Bishop of Ely will take an early opportunity of bringing the case before the Upper Houk. The Prince and Princess Hohenlohe Langenburg arrived the day before yesterday in the Euxine from Gib raltar. The Shannon, 35, screw wooden frigate, 2,657 tons, and 600 horse power, Capt. Oliver J. Jones, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from North American and West India station, and exchanged the usual honorary salutes with the flagship of Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., the Port Admiral and Com mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. She sailed from Port Royal on Feb. 25 last, and sighted Bermuda on March 16, bringing to England as passengers Capt. Arthur, a military officer, and a few naval supernumeraries. The ship is ordered to be inspected at Spithead this morning, and will afterwards go into Portsmouth harbour to dismantle and pay out of commission. Instructions have been received at Chatham dock , yard, directing the ironclad frigate Lord Warden, 24, 4,067 tons, 1,00 horse power, to be launched on May 23 next, orders having previously been given for the Bellerophon, ironclad frigate, also building at Chatham, to be launched, or rather floated out of dock on April 27. It had been originally proposed that both the ironclad ships should be launched on the same day, and with that view every effort has been for some time made to have them completed. The graving dock, however, in which the Bellero phon is under construction being required for the commencement of the new ironclad frigate Hercules, it was decided not to delay the launch of the Belle rophon until the Lord Warden was ready. Imme diately after the launch of the Lord Warden, one of the improved class of Amazon wooden frigates, from the design of Mr. E. J. Reed, the chief con structor of the Navy, will be commenced on the same slip. The Bellerophon, after shipping the heavy portions of her machinery, boilers, and iron lower masts, will be placed in No. 4 dock, at Chat ham, on the 22d of May, and the Lord Warden will be floated into No 3 dock on the 24th of June, and both frigates immediately got ready for sea. A party of riggers will shortly leave Devonport for Pembroke, to return with the new screw steam sloop Amazon, 4, building there. Jury masts for STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, March 28.—The market for ship ping yarns is again very quiet and depressed, and to make sales producers would have to take at least ld. per lb. less than on this day week, and even at this decline only a very limited business would be practicable. This branch of the market closes with very considerable depression, and prices still tend downwards. The market for home-trade yarns is quite as dull as that for export spinnings, and not withstanding the comparatively low range of prices prevailing, buyers seem to have no confidence in the depression having reached nearly its lowest point. The distrust - which prevails is very marked. The prices asked to-day are fully id. per lb. below those of last Friday, and yet even at these low rates exceedingly little business has been possible. In the cloth market this has been one of the gloomiest days we have known this year. Although the stocks in the hands'of manufacturers are light, and the makers of cloth have, many of them, very considerable contracts to complete, prices are rapidly declining. The advices by the Canada steamship from America have given a wide-spread impression here that the struggle is near its termi nation, and no one seems to have any confidence in operations at present prices, though there is great doubt in the minds of many people whether, the first effects arising from the collapse of the American war over, we should not have a rally in cotton goods to something above present rates. We have no failures, and yet the air seems filled with rumours of a very disturbing character, and perhaps it is nearly as much to these as to the nature of the American ad vices that we owe the present unwillingness of mer chants to operate and the want of confidence which prevails. Printers and madapollams-are quoted 6d. per piece lower than last Tuesday, shirting's 3d. to 6d. (and in some cases 9d.) lower, jaconnots 3d. to 4d. lower, and long-cloths and T-cloths 3d. per piece lower. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-market :—" We have a drooping market since last Tuesday, and the late American advices have added still more to the depression. To day buyers abstain altogether from operations, or only offer very reduced rates. We close with but a small business, and at very irregular prices." LEEDS, 28th.—There has been a limited attend ance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morning, and the business done has been considerably below an average. The goods purchased were of a miscellane ous character, but included quite as much ordinary plain as light fancy goods. The coldness of the weather is put forward as the reason for the inac tivity in the market ; but there are other combining causes to the same end, such as the approach of a very eventful crisis in American affairs, the near ness of the time for the Chancellor of the Exche quer to produce his Budget, and general anticipation of a Parliamentary election through out the United Kingdom in the course of the ensuing summer. All these circumstances tend to check speculation and enterprise in SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—No European country of late years has advanced more rapidly than Spain, and no country seems so little disposed to make the best use of its progress. The revenue of the Peninsular Kingdom shows an elasticity rarely met with on the Conti nent ; its commerce increases every year ; its rail way system, tardily introduced, has been developed with a rapidity almost great enough to make up for past delays • but with all this progress there has been little financial improvement. The income of the nation increases, but as it increases the expen diture is raised in an almost equal degree. The Minister of Finance finds himself every year in re ceipt of more money, but there is always some new want by which the surplus is absorbed. It matters not who is at the Treasury—a man of reaction, of moderation, or of progress—no thought of unful filled obligations and unpaid creditors ever visits him. It would seem as if the long history of forced conversions and of deferred payments had been wiped out of the Spanish annals, and that no clamorous creditor defrauded of his rights had ever been heard to protest against the injustice he had suffered. The Financial Minister brings forth his Budget with a supreme indifference to these noisy representations, and leaves to some far distant suc cessor the task of meeting liabilities which are constantly increasing. There is something almost sublime in the way a Spanish Minister ignores the claims of the unhappy bondholders. The Financial Minister of no other nation could assume such a grave indifference. When a French financier has to deal with a deficiency, he diverts our attention by the multiplicity of his details and the range of his accounts ' • an Italian would be indignant against the maladministration which had occasioned the difficulty ; and the friends of Turkey gloze over the fatal trick of borrowing which acts on the Ottoman Empire like fire-water on the Red Indians. A Spanish Minister of Finance does none of these things. He is perfectly well-bred, forbears to notice what may be wanting, and it must be allowed that, setting aside this little pecu liarity, the Minister has not a very bad tale to tell. His income is almost always sufficient to meet his expenditure, and if part of his receipts be derived from temporary sources it is also true that much of his expenditure is on objects which will soon be ful filled. Last week the Minister of Finance published his Budget to the Cortes. The ordinary income of the kingdom for the financial year from the Ist of July next to the 30th June, 1866, was estimated at £21,842,000, and the ordinary expenditure during the same time at £21,397,000. Ten years ago the income was little over 17 millions, and the increase has been tolerably steady throughout the interval. The land tax has produced a greater return every year, but the Customs and Stamps and the tobacco monopoly have been the most fruitful sources of the increase. The ordinary revenue is, moreover, only a portion of what is raised by the State. Besides it, the extraordinary income and the provincial and municipal taxation must be taken into account. The extraordinary income for the coming year is esti mated at £5,537,000. This sum is raised by the sales of the conventual and national property, and the proceeds are supposed to be devoted to such works as railways, roads, and harbours, in making which extraordinary resources may properly be em ployed. The amount thus expended is liable to great variations, but it has increased, as the Spa niards themselves have begun to look upon the sales of ecclesiastical property as irreversible transactions. The provincial expenditure has been raised, princi pally through the great productiveness of the taxes devoted to its service, from about a million, in 1854, to £1,700,000; and the municipal budget, which was £750,000 ten years since, has been nearly doubled. The income of the State has been increased in every department through the growing prosperity of its inhabitants. In 1848 the first railway was opened in Spain, its length being under 20 miles, and it was not till 1851 that 30 miles more were added. By 1858 the number of miles open was 533, and in 1861 the number was very nearly 1,500, and there are now about 2,500 miles in actual working. But the progress of Spain is most apparent in the increasing value of its imports and exports. In 1843 the total commerce both ways amounted to £8,160,000 ; ten years later, in 1853, the im ports were £7,340,003, and the exports were £8,357,000 ; and in 1860, the last year for which we have an authentic return, the imports- were £14,833,000, and the exports were £10,982,000. We know, however, that these last sums have been considerably increased in the four years which have since elapsed. The commercial treaty with France, contrary to the expectation of its authors, has very much augmented the importation of Spanish wine into England, the actual quantity brought into this country having increased nearly 50 per cent. in four years ; and what is perhaps more remarkable, France has also become a large importer of Spanish wines. A creditor of Spain who sees such a flatter ing picture of the progress of the nation unrolled before his eyes may reasonably complain that amid all the prosperity of the kingdom he alone receives no benefit from it. The national income increases, but so does the expenditure ' • meanwhile no step is taken to diminish the Consolidated Debt, and the Passive Debt becomes greater every year. The unpaid interest accumulates, and the difficulty of making any satisfactory settlement of its arrears of course increases simultaneously. Even setting aside these claims which are not pretended to be met, the annual charge for interest in the Budget of the Finance Minister is increasing. In 1858 it was £2,545,900.; on the Ist of January, 1862, it had grown to £3,018,000. The annual charge for the Deferred Debt, foreign and domestic, has mounted in the same interval from £791,800 to £992,000 ; and the capital of the Passive Debt, which is now about £11,600,000, is augmented annually. The explanation of this increase of debt happening simultaneously with an increase in prosperity is not difficult to discover. Spain has freed herself from one incubus, but has voluntarily succumbed to another. Before the French Revolution the terri tory of his Most Catholic Majesty was the Paradise of monks and priests. No nation harboured a greater number of idle ecclesiastics, and nowhere were the foundations which supported Ahem so richly en dowed. The income of a Spanish Bishop cast into the shade the revenues of our own episcopal and archi episcopal sees. The number of secular and regular clergy in 1768 was 209,988, or about one in 43 of the whole estimated population. Of their total wealth we can only form a very imperfect estimate, but Spain has been living on it for many years. Now everything is changed. The total number of clergy in Spain at the last Census was 39,885, ex clusive of about 13,000 monks, and these are shorn of their ancient revenues. Spain is even more severe upon monks and nuns than heretic England, for the number permitted to reside within the limits of the kingdom is rigidly fixed. But if one idle company has been disbanded, another, perhaps more expen sive, has been created. Spam was content, thirty years back; with an army of 65,000, but it is now raised to 120,000. The actual war Budget last year was £4,349,000. The passion for military glory has revived, and notions have been entertained of re- , covering the old possessions of the Monarchy. An increased army has been accompanied, as might be expected, with anincrease of correlative expenses. It is not easy to see against what enemy the Peninsula requires to be guarded, but an ordinance of 1858 authorised the expenditure of £7,8§1,000 on fortifi cations, much of which has since been laid out, and this large sum is independent of forts and batteries for the defence of Cadiz and of the Isla Gaditana. In the same way a law of 1859 authorised the ex penditure of £4,500,000 on the Spanish navy, to be spread over eight years, and the complete project of the Minister of Marine required an outlay of £8,132,000. The income acquired by the develop ment of Spanish resources, which the creditor of Spain not unnaturally desires may be turned to his advantage; has been spent in the augmentation of the warlike force of the kingdom. It is perhaps not altogether hopeless to ask when this passion for ar maments and defences will stop. No enemy threatens Spain, and the seizure of Cuba, which was at one time possible, may now be considered altogether out of the question. On the other hand, the Ministers' of Spain have shown a remarkable frankness in receding from untenable positions. When the Mexican expedition changed its character the .forces of the Queen of Spain were withdrawn from the enterprise, and it was only the other day that the intervention in San Domingo was abandoned on the discovery that no considerable party in the island soughtthe Spanish alliance. The Ministers who have had . the courage to take such an unpopular step might venture on another not altogether dissimilar. If they would bring back the army to its old footing and give up the schemes on which they now waste the revenues of the kingdom, they would be left with such a surplus that they could immediately make terms with their creditors, and remit some of the taxes which still press on the Spanish people. The retrenchment is not only possible but easy, the honour of Spain would be redeemed, and the pro gress of her people - would be insured. POST.--If Gen. Sherman really is, as the Federals and their partisans pretend, a greater master of the sword than the Confederate chiefs who are opposed to him, he certainly is not so great a master of the pen as Gen. Wade Hampton, with whom he has re cently had a literary passage of arms. In this en counter, in which the Federal commander was the assailant and aggressor in a twofold sense, he has been very roughly handled, and has come off second best. We gather from the correspondence of these two officers that the Southerners, whose houses are being burnt and their country laid waste by the Federal troops, have very naturally shot some of the soldiers engaged in this work of wanton destruc tion. If a foreign enemy were to invade England, and burn and destroy all the property on his march, not forgetting to insult and outrage the women he might meet with, we can readily imagine what the owners of that property and the husbands and bro thers of those women would do, and English human nature, or indeed any sort of human nature, has the same feelings in America, even though transplanted for generations, as it would have in Europe. The idea, however, that the brave Federal marauders should be shot down by the householders they had made homeless, and the husbands whose wives they had outraged, does not appear to harmonise at all with Gen. Sherman's notions of what he was en titled to expect. Are not these brave fellows the benefactors of their country . , and indeed of the whole human race, to which they are striving . to render the inestimable service of restoring the Union by devastating half of its territories and extermi nating the inhabitants ? Such deeds as theirs de served a far different fate from that which seems to have overtaken some of them. Accordingly, Gen. Sherman applies himself to the task of reforming this sad state of affairs by a very characteristic method. He writes a note to General Wade Hamp ton, in which he sets out with reciting that, it having been officially reported to him that his forag ing parties are " murdered after capture, and labelled Death to all foragers'"—instances of which he specifies—he has ordered a similar number of _Con federate prisoners in his hands " to be disposed of in like manner." He adds that he holds 1,000 pri soners, captured in various ways, " and can stand it as long as you," but suggests that Gen. Wade Hampton should give notice to the people that every life taken by them will result in the death of one of the Confederates. Gen. Sherman then enters into an abstruse disquisition on the rights of belligerents, which recalls the famous lectures of Captain Wilkes upon international war. Of course, he writes, the Confederates cannot question his right of forage—a right which, as it is practically forbidden in the pre sent case, appears to consist in burning houses, de stroying property generally, and insulting women. It is one of the rights of war old as history. The Goths, we may add, and the Vandals, and the Huns, no doubt exercised this sort of right most punctili ously. No end of precedents could be cited in favour of it from the very earliest ages. And the beauty of it is that the further you carry back your researches, the stronger and more decisive will your precedents become. By the time the anthropologists are over taken we shall have got at precedents in which can nibalism will have to be added to mere arson, rape, and murder. But the manner of exercising this right —says Gen. Sherman with oracular emphasis, as if he were announcing some great discovery or original principle—varies with circumstances; and then immediately adds, with odd incoherence, " and if the civil authorities will supply my re quisitions I will forbid all foraging." This mo dest proposal, however, is nob likely to be com plied with—one notable reason being that he can find no civil authorities to apply to. He seems to have expected that they should have come out to welcome him with open arms ; but, as they are not courteous enough to .do that, he has to levy contri bntions directly on the people. He has "no doubt that this (the foraging) is the occasion of much misbehaviour on the part of our men." This is a candid admission ; but no doubt the facts it con fesses, without attempting to avoid them, were too notorious to be traversed or denied. The note ends with a formal expression of regret for the bitter feel ings engendered by the war, and the usual attempt to throw the blame on the enemy. Gen. Sherman repeats that he only asserts his right to forage, and he expresses his resolution to protect his foragers to the extent of life for life. General Wade Hampton's reply is crushing and conclusive. He quotes Gen. Sherman's statement that several of his foraging parties had been " murdered," and that he had ordered an equal number of Confederate prisoners to be " disposed of in the same way," which he points out can only mean that he has ordered the " murder" of the latter. " You characterise your order in proper terms," writes General Hampton, " for the public voice, even in your own country, where it seldom dares express itself in vindication of truth, honour, or justice, will surely agree with you in pronouncing you guilty of murder, if your order is carried out." But if it is carried out, the Confederate General gives his correspondent clearly to understand that for every Southern prisoner thus " murdered" he will cause a couple of Federal pri soners to be put to death, " giving preference, in all cases, to any officers he may have in his hands." General Hampton denies all knowledge of the mur der of any foragers whatever. He never gave any orders for the execution of prisoners. Nor does he believe that any of Sherman's soldiers have been killed, " except under circumstances in which it was perfectly legitimate and proper to kill them." It is a part of the system of the " thieves," writes the General, whom Sherman calls " foragers," to " fire the dwellings of those citizens whom they have robbed. To check this inhuman system, which is justly execrated by every civi lised nation, I have directed my men to shoot' down all of your men who are caught burning houses. General Hampton does not deny the right to forage, but protests against the particu lar mode of . its exercise. " There is a right older than this, and one more inalienable—the right that every man has to defend his home and to protect those who are dependent upon him ; and from my heart I wish that every old man and boy in my country who can fire a gun would shoot down, as he would a wild beast, the men who are desolating their land, burning their houses, and insulting their women." General Hampton next proceeds to still graver charges against the invaders of his country— " crimes," he says, which are " too black to be men tioned." He asserts that the city of Columbia " was fired into without a word of warning." The dwell ing -houses of citizens have been first robbed and then set on fire. These things have been permitted, if not expressly ordered, by the invader. And the indignant writer asks if these are among the rights of war which General Sherman is so careful to define, and so eager to insist upon. Not only was Columbia fired into, but " the whole city was laid in ruins, thousands of helpless old men, women, and children being leftto perish of starvationand exposure.. Your line of march can be traced by the lurid light of burning houses, and in more than one household there is an agony far more bitter than that of death. The Indian scalped his victim regardless of sex or age, but with all his barbarities he always respected the persons of his female captives. Your soldiers, more savage than the Indian, insult those whose natural protectors are absent." General Hampton concludes with a request that he may be informed whenever any of his countrymen are " disposed of" or " murdered," in order that he may know what action to take in the matter, and an intimation that fifty-six Federal prisoners are being held as hostages for the twenty-seven Southerners threatened with execution. If the Confederates should succeed in giving as good an account of General Sherman, in a military sense, as General Hampton has already given of him in a literary one, his career will soon come to an untimely end. Nothing can be more unfortunate than this sort of retaliation, which is not a proceeding which can be restricted to one side. If the Federals have a suffi cient number of prisoners, they will probably retort with a threat that if two of their men are " disposed of " in the manner indicated, for every single Con federate they will immediately " dispose of " three or four more Confederates in retaliation. If they have not prisoners enough, then perhaps they may take out their revenge in an increase of arson and devastation. More towns will be bombarded and burnt that would otherwise be left untouched. It is to be hoped that General Sherman will reconsider his resolution, and not initiate a war of absolute extermination merely because some of his foragers or marauders have been shot. ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills. Confidential Advice.—To all persons who suffer from bilious headaches, disordered stomach, biliousness or flatulency, these pills are most strongly recommended as the safest, best, and quickest mode of obtaining ease, without weakening or irritating the nervous system. Holloway's pills are espe cially useful in clearing away any excess of bile, which usually produces fever unless remedial measures be adopted without delay. In asthma, bronchitis, and congestion of the lungs they may be relied upon for r emoving all dan ger; and by purifying and regulating.the circulation, they effectually prevent relapses. By rinsing the liver to a fair secretion of the bile, and quickly carrying it off from the system, these pills ward off low spirits, listlessness, and those distressing feelings often called nervousness." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DUNDEE AND PERTH. The half-yearly meeting was held at Dundee on Saturday ; Sir P. M. Threipland in the chair. The report stated that the Scottish Central had paid over £11,620 as the amount of the guaranteed dividends for the half-year on this company's stock, being at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum on the original, and 5 per annum on the preference stock. The directors recommended the conversion of the shares into consolidated stock, corresponding to the different classes of shares. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that after the 31st of July next the dividend on the ordinary stock would be at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, and the company would also have the right to half of any surplus profits that might arise on their line. He trusted that through the amalgamation of the Caledonian and Scottish Central and the continued improvement of trade in Dundee the line would before long earn surplus profits over and above the guarantee. The motion was seconded by Mr. Kay and unani mously adopted. COLEFORD, MONMOUTH, AND USK. The half-yearly meeting was held at the King's Head, Newport ; Mr. Relph in the chair. The report stated that the Great Western Com pany had duly paid the preference charges and rents, and the balance was sufficient to pay a divi dend at a rate of 24 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital. The report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent, per annum was declared for the half-year. Whipping at Felice Stations. A Parliamentary return, issued yesterday, makes known a correspondence which has passed between Sir Richard Mayne and the magistrates of Barnet, relative to the whipping of juvenile offenders at the Barnet station-house. It seems that two boys under the age of 16, were sentenced to be whipped, and to avoid their being sent to prison, the inspector at Barnet was asked to carry out the sentence at the station. This he refused to do, and the boys were, consequently, sent ten miles to St. Albans to be flogged at the prison. Sir R• Mayne states that in 1850 and in 1857 similar ap plications were made by magistrates in other dis tricts, and in each case he pointed out various strong objection to the infliction of such a punishment by the police, and the discontent that would be caused amongst them if they were required to inflict it. The Barnet magistrates were not satisfied, and requested that instructions might be given to carry into effect in future similar orders. Sir R. Mayne replies that he does not think the police can comply "unless pre cautions are taken by the magistrate to guard against any abuse of the power proposed to be given, andthat the sentence should not beinflicted if, from the state of health of the prisoner or other causes, dangerous consequences might ensue. For these purposes some persons should attend on the part of the magistrates to see that the punishment is duly inflicted accord ing to the sentence, and a competent medical man, appointed by the magistrates, be present during the punishment. I understand that when the punishment of whipping is inflicted in a prison, such proper pre cautions are always taken. I have also to observe that I cannot allow the police station to be used for in flicting the punishment ; there are not only police constables residing there, but women and children, who ought not to be shocked by such scenes." From a special report of the police superintendent in the case, it seems that the magistrates requested the police to whip the boys in the station yard, " which," says the superintendent, " is immediately under the windows of the station, where the inspector's wife and children reside, also a married constable and his family and six single men. Each boy was t° receive 12 stripes on the naked back with a birch. The petty sessions court was within the liberty of St. Albans, where the whipping is done in the yard of the gaol under the direction of a surgeon ; and the expense of conveying a prisoner there from Bar net—which was a part of the magistrate's case--is only Bs. 6d. COUNTRY MARKETS BRIS T OL-T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a very small attendance. Wheat and Indian corn is per qr. dearer. Barley firm, at is per qr. advance. Oats scarce, and inquired after at la advance. Beans, peas, and maize is up in price. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade, and considerable activity in the demand. Wheat was in active request at id per 100 lb. advance on the week. Oats were more inquired for, and may be quoted at id per 451 b. dealer. Oatmeal the same. In barley, beans, and peas last week's extreme quotations were made. Indian corn was held for 8d per cj y, more money. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. ---- - ---- - -------• There was a full average attendance, and business rather buoyant. A fair show of wheat, and a large business WO done at a further advance of is per qr. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. busheis 158 Od to 1 6 0 " White do do l7s Od 18s Od New red do do l5B Od 3 6 s 64 New white do do !is 6d 17s id Beans do do l5B td 1 60 6d Peas, per qr. Grinding bit ley, per qr 3os Od 328 Cd Malting barley, ( o 32s Od 3SB Od Oats, do 2ls Od 278 Od Flour...as 5d to is 9d per 141 b. LEEDS—TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a fair attendance of th o e town and country trade, and a st e ady di s po s ition evinced t buy. Wheat met with a good demand, and sold at is ad vance. Fine barley sold freely. Oats and beans firol• The average prices for the week ending March 27 were • Wheat, 39s 3ild per qr. ; barley, 31s 2;c1; and oats, 21s lOid. MONMOUTHSHIRE—MONDAY. The local markets of this county have been fairly iat tended by both buyers and sellers for the past six or s even days, and a considerable business was transacted. 53 The following are the average quotations :—Wheal, d 5s to 58 6d per bushel ; barley, 38 ld to 387 d .; oats, 1s " to 2s 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 1 8 ' Ditto, via Marseilles April 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet April 6. Ditto, by British packet . Mar. 21 ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... April 23 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou, hampton.. April 4. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 29 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— April 4 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. - 9 . Ditto, via Marseilles ~,,,,,,,,,,,,Mar. 2 3 . . Mauritius, via Southampton April 1 I. Ditto, via Marseil e 4~. „ Newfoundland April 1 2 * Portugal •••• •• • .....April 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ............. United States and British North America, by Ilri- mar. 29 tish packet ........ ____ Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- tin Ditto, via Curk '' *' gat 31. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via LondonderrY• • - ..ii ' ,2. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe AP West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, gar. 3 1 . and Mexico APIL 6' AP-- Bahamas, via New - York. Apr it 12. Bermuda, ditto . iar . 31. ... Cuba and Mexico Births. CHARRINGTON.—On the 27th inst at Great Gearlee, 13,arr ing-side, Essex, the wife of Spencer Charringten, of a son. Du CRoz.—On the 27th inst., at Tho Grange, gingstoltel on-Tees, the wife of F. A. Du Croz, Esq ., of a daugb MoNsoN.—On the 27th inst., at Kirby Underdale Rectorl• York, the Hon. Mrs. T. Monson, of a d a ughter. STERNER.— On the 25th inst at 33, Myddelton-00' Mrs. Sterner, of a son. Marriages. „„ e DAVIES—STARK.—On the 25th inst., si at Barnsbu r Y John Owen Davies, of No. 1 , York-place, Barnng.. third son of the late John Davies , Esq., Bank of f land, to Emmelar Maria Starr, yo un g est daughter 0 B. Starr, Esq., of Farringdon-road, Holborn. T REYNOLDS—HARRISON.-011 the 25th inst a t St. Norwood, James Alfred Reynolds, Esq., inst., 29, Gsf°lob; hall-chambers, to Mary Jane, eldest daughter 0,1 Harrison, Esq., of Eastbourne Lodge, Wcst and 22, Coleman-street, City. Deaths. MATox.—On the 27 th inst., at Maddington Mano r rfou Sof Wilts, Leonard Pitt Maton, Esq., aged 46. Poor.E.—On the 26 th inst., at Avenue Hous e, Upper 019'r ton, John Poole, Esq., aed 68. , i - i q eidi PASSENGER.—On the 27th inst., at Belthurst, Li ta r -g Robert il S O n TURNER.—On the 27th inst., at Shrewton, Wilts, V W PTaussnaenerg,elE-,sciE7a.,gleadtes3o.f Union-st., Southwark.ara -ra 'or 0. W rixrNsoN.—On the 23d inst., at Gravesend, "tii Wilkinson, half-pay, R.A., aged 84. ___—...--- 1; 01. London : Printed and Publi.hed byWILLIA.3IAND, Z, 112, of No. 11`2, Strand, ranter, at THE SU N Ofnce of Strand, in the Precinct of t he Savoy, in the couat Middlesex.— V% ednesday, March 29, 1801 Sir J Ch Willi Bai Jam( Nath Mi W. 1: Ho Jam( an( J. M F. 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