The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The whole of the available officers and men of the Royal Engineers not employed in the other depart ments of military engineering at headquarters, Chatham, have been engaged for several weeks past on the Royal Engineer field-works, in engineering operations on a large scale, including the construc tion of batteries, the erection of stockades, the for mation of parallels, magazines, chambers, flying bridges, and other works required to be undertaken with an army when on active service in the field. The scene of the operations is at the back of the casemated barracks at St. Mary's, including the whole extent of the lower line of fortifications, stretching down to the Medway, which forms the base of the operations. On Saturday, the working party commenced the formation of the second parallel, having previously completed the first line of works. In order to facilitate the conveyance of materials to and from the stores at Brompton bar racks, a bridge has been thrown across the trenches surrounding the garrison, the work having been accomplished by Sappers of the Royal Engineers. An extensive portion of the builaings near the north gun-shed at Brompton barracks has been devoted to instructing the officers and men in sand model ling, and in the formation of the various kinds of batteries and earthworks on Vauban's theory. The works now in progress at Chatham are, it is under stood, in connection with some military and engi neering operations of unusual magnitude, during the present summer, and in which the whole of the available military force of the district will take part. The following detachments :embarked yesterday morning, at Gravesend, on board the hired trans port Achilles, to reinforce the respective corps serv ing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—viz., two officers and 65 non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment, and six sappers of the Royal Engineers, from Chatham ; 13 non-commissioned officers and gunners of the 3d Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, from Warley ; 73 non-commissioned officers and men, and one officer of the 2d battalion, 17th, from Mullingar ; and 12 men of various corps—total, 168 men of all ranks, together with the following officers :—Capt. J. Wil kinson, and Ensign H. B. Le Mottee, 15th Regt. ; Capt. J. D. Travers, 17th Regt. ; and Staff-Surg. C. Martin, in medical charge. The enrolled pensioners of the Woolwich division, the total number of whom amounts to 426 of all ranks, Major Tench, late 15th Hussars, staff-officer in command, having undergone their customary eight days' drill, paraded on Saturday on Woolwich common, and were inspected, by order of the War Department, by Lleut.-Col. Ord, sth Brigade Royal Artillery. The greater number of the men of this corps still capable of good service in cases of emer gency are stated to belong to the local division of Royal Marines, and others are men belonging to the Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, and the Mili tary Train, who have fulfilled their period of 25 years' service, and now receive pensions and are employed in various positions of emolument in the Royal Arsenal and dockyard. Their movements during the inspection were those of well-disciplined soldiers, and their marching past was admirable. The inspecting officer said he felt pleasure in being able to make a very favourable report to head quarters. There were absent four sick, six without leave, and three with leave. The pensioners and men of the Army Reserve force of the Deptford district, numbering 160, under the command of Major Richmond, were in spected on the previous Saturday, in a similar manner by Lieut.-Col. Ord, who, after seeing the men perform the usual field• movements, told them that he should have the satisfaction of reporting most favourably of them to the War-office. A very serious accident occurred on Friday last to Mr. Call, a cadet of the A division, Royal Mi litary Academy, Woolwich, during the performance of his riding drill. The horse on which he was mounted had made three successive leaps, and when brought up to the bar a fourth time he shied and threw his rider. Mr. Call's thigh was fractured, and he is now in the Cadets' infirmary, under the care of Dr. Little. He is progressing favourably. The Endymion, 22, new screw frigate, un armoured, 2,486 tons, 500 horse-power, was on Fri day taken to the measured mile off Malpin Sands for the contractor's trial of her engines, which have just been completed. They consist of a pair of horizontal air-pump trunk engines. She was in charge of Commander Partridge, of the Sheerness Steam Reserve, Mr. W. W. Williamson, inspector of machinery afloat ; Mr. G. Blaxland, chief engi neer, and Mr. Mitchell, assistant master shipwright of Sheerness Dockyard, were likewise present ; Mr. Brock, from Messrs. Napier, and Sons, of Glasgow, the makers of the engines, attended on their behalf. Six runs were made on the measured mile, but after 1 the first three it was found that owing to hot bear ings in the engines the trial could not be carried out successfully. The first three runs gave an average of 12i knots to the hour, but taking the average of the whole six runs the result was only 11.672 knots. Two runs were also made at half-boiler power with an average Of 9.788 knots. The engines gave a maximum of 66 and a mean of 61.5 revolutions to the minute. The draught of water forward was 14ft. 3in. ; aft, 18ft. Sin. The wind was in the east with a force of two to three. The ship is fitted with a Griffiths' propeller, the diameter of which is 18ft., the pitch 21ft., length Mt 6in., and the immersion of the upper edge lft. Gin. The trial was, in con sequence, not considered satisfactory, and will be repeated in the course of a few days. THE VOLUNiEERS. The regulations and prize list of the forthcoming gathering on Wimbledon-common have just been issued by the National Rifle Association, and while the regulations have received such improvements as e xperience has shown to be necessary in regard to sights, ammunition, and " ties," the prize list has been so dr awn out as to give greater encourage ment than has hitherto b bodygiven to the weapon in the hands of the great long Enfield. Th e camp of Volunteers—the open on Saturday, the 7th of July, and the shootingwill commence on of importance the 9th. The first prize is the 14 Queen's," and this will be fired for under the re gulations of last year. The prize I s £2 50, and is shot for in two stages. The first stage is op en to two effi c i en t Volunteers of every company of a Volun teer regiment in the kingdom, the entrance fee for each competitor being £l. There is generally a sharp competition for the honour of representing the regiment at Wimbledon, and the entrance fee ispaid by the corps where a corps desires to maintain its character as a practical body. This stage is shot with the long England, at 200, 500, and 600 yards, and the highest 30 receive £5 each, a badge, and stonall-bore rifle, value £2O, and the highe st a silver medal in addition; the second 30 having the m one y al the badge. These 60, fo r ming the " Queen's Sixty"for the year, shoot up the second stage for the g reat being prize with the small-bore rifle, the ranges g 8()°, 9(10 , and 1,000 yards, and the winner receives the gold e n o ledal of the Association. The next prize is the St. the St. George,,, Corps f ge'sehallenge vase, presented by n to one selected man the p ro fit o f th e Associa tion,•ope ta both shan of each com p an y, an d this has two stages, given are numerous ot for with th e E n fi e ld. The prizes the distinctions to be won in this and valuable, and contest are only p " given razes for to those in the ‘; Q ueen 7 a. ,, T izes Willhe riflemen for the encourag ement of the ~ Enfield" deserve especial m ention. Sir lam Martio has g iven a £5O challeng e cu p , wit h £ 5 O add ed , and divided into sev en p rizes to be shot for by m arks_ men" of 1865 on l y ,- with seven shots at 6 0 0 yards,rks . the entrance fee be in g ss. The director of the London and South Western Company have given a 2,50 prize, with £25 added by the Association, for volley fi r i ng by ten men from each battalion, the entrance fee of the ten being £2 10s. Mr. Bass, M.P., gives £5O in 13 Prizes, for competitidn among efficient Volun teers who have never won a prize at Wimble don or at a county association meeting , the com petition is at 500 yards, five shots, and the entrance fee is ss. The " Alexandra" prize is an all-comers prize, restricted to the rifles of bona fide Government pattern, as used by the rank and file of Volunteer corps. The prizes amount in value to 1500—Viz.) value £250, at 200 yardrislatlnh, e d fi t fh Windmillr s oer t , for 45 prizes, at 500 yards, the entrance fee being range. There is a second . stage . prize c f £5 O each samef or competition among the winners which no entrance fee is exacted. fhe entrance eo fee7o of bond fide Governme nt p attern. prize is an all-comers', but restricts T l h l e o v lo al n u g e E is n i fi 3 e oo, lds d e r n a t ' ; prizes, and at the and divided the samseamasethraen'g'eAs,letxhae being ss. each range . There is a second stage cup of £25 value for competition among the winne rs o f the first stage. The Earl of Ducie has given £25, to be shot for with the Enfield under peculiar and trying circumstances. The competitor is allowed five minutes, and after every shot he has to run round a post 50 yards distant, carrying with him his rifle, ammunition, and everything he uses. The entrance fee is 2s. 6d., and, unlike most other prizes, the competitors are allowed to enter as often as they like. There is a similar prize for any muzzle-loader to be loaded with the powder fla s k. The short five grooved Enfield is encouraged by prizes amounting to £3O, and restricted to efficient Volunteers armed with that weapon, and an entrance of ss. The sum of £5O, divided into 13 prizes, is given for the en couragement of efficient members of Volunteer Ar tillery corps, being restricted to the regulation carbines, and the entrance fee is also ss. One series of prizes will be very welcome to Volunteers and visitors to Wimbledon —viz., the institution of carton prizes, on the Swiss principle, at 6d. a shot for rifles of Government pattern, at 200, 500, and 600 yards. This is the first time the 6d. has been recognised at Wimbledon, and it is further recognised by the sighting shots in the Queen's being reduced to the same price. There will be shilling Swiss carton targets for any rifles, and at the same distances. One of the chief prizes open to any rifle is the " Al bert," in which the large sum of £620 is given in upwards of 60 prizes—namely, 15 at 200 yards, and the same at 500, 600, and 80 0 , with prizes for highest aggregate scores at combined ranges. In the competition for these prizes the " fancy, and expensive mechanical bullets are disqualified. The entrance fee is £1 each range, or £3 10s. the four. There is a second stage prize of £lOO, to be shot for at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, without entrance fee, by the winners in the first stage, and with any am munition. This is, of course, only a bare outline of the attractions to the meeting, to which it is be lieved not only Volunteers from all parts of the country will flock, but many foreign marksmen, and among them the Belgian riflemen, to whom the Volunteers, and Englishmen generally, will give a cordial welcome in return for the kindness shown during the last two years at Brussels to the repre sentatives of the English Volunteer regiments. It may be mention e d th a t th e N at i onal Rifl e Assoc i a- I ton, in consideration of there being no county as sociation in Middlesex, has reduced the annual sub scription to efficient Volunteers of the county to 10s. Membership of the Association gives many privileges, and it is expected that many Volunteers will avail themselves of this reduction. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is announced to take the chair at the " May meeting" of this Asso ciation to-morrow at Willis's Rooms. The Duke 'of Cambridge has consented, at the request of the commanding officers of the metro politan Volunteer regiments, to hold a Volunteer review in Hyde Park on Saturday, the 2d of June. The force is to be in position in the park shortly after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Those corps only will be allowed to attend whose presence there shall be sanctioned by the War-office, and this sanc tion must be applied for early. The 19th Middle sex, which is commanded by Colonel Hughes, M.P., and is - principally composed of members of the Working Men's College, passed a very satisfactory inspection the other evening before Colonel Wright, the Deputy Inspector-General. Colonel M'Murdo was also present and subsequently expressed his admiration of the manner in which this smart corps had mustered and drilled. The muster was highly commended by the inspecting officer, for there were upwards of two-thirds of the enrolled strength pre sent. The members of the Finsbury Rifles have just completed a very trying competition for the honour of representing the regiment at the coming Wimbledon meeting, and the following have won the right to shoot for the Queen's prize as the first eight, and to be as well the representatives for the St. George's challenge vase competition :—Colour- Sergeant White, Private Pride, Captain Heslop, Corporal Yokes, Corporal Janowsky, Colour-Ser geant Smith, Sergeant Pratterton, and Corporal Harling. The order in which the representatives are placed shows the position they have won in the firing. The first two, besides winning the right to shoot for the Queen's and St. George's attendedalso for the Middlesex medal competition. Yesterday the review of the Volunteer Corps who responded to the request of the Cambridgeshire and Essex Regiments to join them in a field-day at Cambridge took place there. The review had been announced to commence at noon, but it was close upon that hour before the Inns of Court Corps reached Cambridge. Immediately on their ar -1 rival, however, they marched off to the review ground, where the forces were paraded into two brigades as under :—ln the first brigade were the first Huntingdonshire light horse, the 3d Cambridge (University) Ilifles, the Ist and 2d. Administrative Battalion Cambridge shire Volunteers, and the 23d Middlesex (Inns of Court). In the Second Brigade were the 3d Ad ministrative Battalion, Essex ; Ist Administrative Battalion, Beds; Ist Administrative Battalion, Herts ; Ist Huntingdonshire ; sth, 7th, and 23d Norfolk ; and 2d Administrative Battalion, Herts. In all there were present about 2,300, who were sup plied with 15 rounds of ammunition per man. The .21st Middlesex, or Civil Service, had promised their attendance, but some trifling difference in the corps prevented their presence. Colonel Erskine com manded as Inspector-General, supported by Lieut.- Colonel Ellis, Inspector of the District. The Brigade- Majors were-1, Captain Turner, of the South Middlesex ; 2, Captain Jones, of the 7th Middlesex Administrative Battalion. Captain Bax, Adjutant, of the 3d Middlesex, was attached to the Staff. The University Corps was under the command of Vis count Royston, and the Cambridgeshire 2d Ad ministrative Battalion under that of Major Barlow. The first brigade was under the command of Col. Sargent, C. 8., and the second under Earl Colonel Cowper, K.G. The University corps was attended by their chaplain, the Rev. J. W.- Taylor, of St. Peter's College. About a quarter-past 1 the review commenced, and at this time the grand stand was crowded withladies, among whom were the Countess of ITardwicke, Ladies Osborne and Lady Adeane. The several corps first received the Inspector-Gene ral in line of contiguous columns, then marched past, and at f luarter-distance. The usual evolutions of a field day then commenced with the Duke of corps advancing at the Manchester's full charge in attack. Next there was skirmishing, and nt of f ea retreats,yalrcavalry n t latterhesquares, sautptapcokrtsedbyb, by cavalry, receipt retirements and all the cavalry, open file and volley firing, These s we o re manoeuvres incidental to a field day. performed generally with success, and at the conclusion, the troops being ranged in square, the Inspector-General said he was much gratified with what had taken place. The 2d Huntingdonshire were not alert enough in clearing the line for cavalry, which was a great defect in skirmishing, and the Ist Hertfordshire made a mistake in the echelon move pay had to e o x n p t r o e stsh hisa n h e i x g t h t time they They should they are together. He miration of the Duke of Manchester's corps. Pass ing on with Lord Royston to the Camloridg etTni- versity Corps, whose half-yearly periodical inspec tion day it was, Col. Erskine said he had been much pleased with their appearance. The various corps then marched off the ground. [An vEurisxxxx.r.l Holloway's Pills. fl atulency, bili ous disorders, liver - Ind nervousness,—lndigestion, and general debility are all evils that may be easily and speedily su bdued by th ese i nest i ma bl e p ill s, which are at s ubdued by and m os t e ffi cacious medicines ever ye t disco vered. They d o not merely get rid for the time of the particular disease, but exerc i se so powerful, beneficial, 1 and lasting an influence upon the whole system as to pro tect it from a recurrence of the same affliction. They im part tone to the stomach, restore the appetite, give strength and flesh, and make the patient feel himself quite a new man. Being composed of vegetable extracts without the admixture of any mineral substance whatever, these pills are as safe As they are efficacious. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WATERFORD AND KILKENNY: The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. C. R. Cole man in the chair. 1 Mr. Williams, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the works of the Kilkenny Junc tion Railway, though nearly finished to Marybo rough, had not progressed much during the half year, but they had been recommenced, and were expected to be finished in a few months. The benefits of this extension could not be properly felt until its completion to the Dublin and Cork line, when a new traffic, never before reached, would be developed. The directors had endeavoured to promote a further extension of the system to the north by the forma tion of a line from Maryborough toMullingar, a dis tance of 36 miles, and a bill for this great object was now progressing through Parliament. This exten sion, when made, would at once make the investment of the company remunerative, as a large share of the traffic from Galway, Ca,stlebar, Sligo, Londonderry, Belfast, and the intermediate towns and dis tricts would be brought over the Waterford and Kilkenny line to South Wales. The working agreement with the Waterford and Limerick Com pany having expired on the 28th of January last, the directors had deemed it expedient to renew the working for a term determinable at any time upon a six months' notice. The receipts for the half year ending the 25th of March last amounted to £10,704, and working expenses to £5,378, leaving a balance of £5,327, against £5,303 for the corre sponding half of last year. The directors recom mended that a dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum be paid on the preference stock of the company for the half-year, leaving a balance of £177. Mr. DELAHUNTY, in moving the adoption of the report, said he believed that in a few months the junction of the extension line with the Great Southern and Western would be completed, which would make a great difference in the receipts on their line. He was certain that the increase would be followed by something better. Since the last meeting they had taken steps to complete the line, and he was happy to say that it was on the eve of completion. The connection with the Midland Great Western Railway at Mullingar was a step which was being promoted. After a few observations the report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per an num on the preference stock for the half-year de clared, payable on the 2d of June next. On the motion for the re-election of Mr. C. Whetham, Mr. THORNTON moved that Mr. Adams be elected in the place of Mr. Whetham. After much discussion, Mr. Whetham was re elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman ter minated the proceedings. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1866. grant the small amount of credit asked for by the company. At the first, prudent men may feel un willing to increase the liabilities of the Government ; but when the proposition is examined, and the in calculable benefits the road will confer on the na tion are considered, very few, if any, will oppose this measure. For instance, the Minnesota rail roads will reach Crow Wing during the present summer. From this point to the North Bend of the Missouri the distance is two hundred and eighty miles, and the amount of stock asked to be gua ranteed to build this part of the road is seven millions of dollars, the interest on which would be $420,000. As navigation by small steamers on the Upper Missouri and the Yellow Stone reaches nearly up to the richest mining districts of Mon tana, for this trifling sum that wonderful region would be brought into direct connection with the rest of the Union. The gold product of Montana, during the last year, only the third since the dis covery of the precious metals there, was $16,000,000. Open this communication and the amount will be increased tenfold within five years. The economy, not to say the imperative necessity, of the road be comes at once evident. The amount that will be required to meet the pledges of the Government will be very small at first, and will not increase as fast as the revenues and benefits of the road will accrue to the nation. The amount, when the entire line is completed from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound, will be very little more than three millions per year, for the reimbursement of which the lands and property of the company will furnish the most abundant security. According to the Philadelphia Press, it may be regarded as settled that the projected new trunk railroad through Pennsylvania has received its quietus for at least a considerable period. The Atlantic and Great Western Company and the Pennsylvanian Railroad Company have come to terms with each other. The Great Western Com pany have leased the Philadelphia and Erie Road, and stipulate to lay a third rail for a narrow track from a point eleven miles west of Corry to Cincin nati, and eventually on to the farthest point to be reached by that line. Until this third rail shall be laid goods will be transhipped at Corry. These stipulations have been forwarded to England for approval by the capitalists there interested in the Great Western. This gives them a new route to Philadelphia by the Catawissa and the Reading roads, and by the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central to New York. The Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States to inspect the work on the Union Pacific Railroad, Major-General S. R. Cur tis, Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Simpson, Topographical Engineers, U. S. A., and Major Wm. M. White, of Connecticut, met at Omaha on the 16th ult., and in company with invited guests had an excursion to the end of the completed line. Eight months ago but four or five miles of track had been laid down, and no machine shops or other buildings had been erected. To-day 64 miles of track is in running order—substantial machine shops and depots have been erected at Omaha, and the line is progressing at the rate of one mile in every twenty-four hours, and November next will witness 200 miles of the road finished and in running order. EASTERN BENGAL. The report of the directors states that the gross receipts for the half-year ending 31st Dec. last amounted to £57,266, the working expenses to £32,249, and the net receipts to £25,017, against gross receipts of £46,732 for the corresponding half of 1864, £25,080 for working expenses, and £21,652 for net receipts. The total number of passengers conveyed during the half-year was 583,896, against 539,700 for the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of 44,196. The goods traffic amounted to 44,341 tons, against 31,663 tons, showing an in crease of 12,678 tons. The receipts per train mile were 7s. lid. against 7s. old. for the corresponding half of 1864. The receipts per mile open amounted to £521 against £425 for the same half of 1864. The general traffic showed an increase of 22i per cent. over that of the corresponding half of 1864, and the merchandise traffic an increase over the corresponding period last year of 52.3 per cent. The comparative failure of the jute crop of the late season, and a temporary scarcity of grain, had to a considerable extent depressed both the goods and passenger traffic, and seriously affected the revenue of the railway for the last half-year. This loss of expected revenue had, however, been in a great mea sure compensated for the steady increase of all other products and articles of merchandise, showing a healthy state, and that the general traffic had con siderably expanded during the period in question. The receipts during the first 13 weeks of the present half-year, compared with those of the same period in last year, showed an improvement of about £1,600, derived entirely from permanent sources of traffic. The steamer chartered by the agent to meet the public requirements in the Decca district had continued to do good service to the public and the Government, while it had proved remunerative to the company. It would have been Still more so if there had not been the failure of the crop of jute, which was generally largely exported from the Dacca district. The railway had been benefited to a large thela l equantity extent by the of goods,steam only as noa smallportion o pro portionf of the passengers, brought by it to the rail way at Kooshtea would have found their way there without it. The traffic arrangement entered into with the River Steamer Company (limited) for keep ing up a bi-monthly communication between the Kooshtea terminus and the district of Assam was working most satisfactorily, and to the mutual ad vantage of both companies. The extension line to Goalundo had been definitively fixed on under the sanction of Government, after a further inspection and survey made by Mr. Leslie, the chief engineer for the extension. The line finally determined on was more northerly and direct than that first suggested in the survey of 1864. It would be a cheaper line to construct, and would pass through a more populous and productive district. Some of the cylinders for the construction of the principal bridge over the Goroaie on the extension line, along with the requisite ma chinery for rutting them in position, were now on their way to India, and the remainder would be de spatched with all expedition. The capital account showed that £1,574,301 had been expended, leaving a balance of £158,857. CAPE TOWN. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, 63 miles open, amounted for the month of March to £2,440 for the conveyance of 31,951 passengers, and to £1,269 for 2,412 tons of goods; total, £3,709. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. In July, 1864, Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway. The charter specifies that the road shall begin "at a point on Lake Superior in the State of Wisconsin or Minnesota ; thence run westerly by the most eligible rail road route, within the territory of the United States, on a line north of the forty -fifth degree of latitude, to some point on Puget's Sound, with a branch, via the Columbia River, to a point at or near Portland in the State of Oregon." The right of way is granted through the public lands, and the privilege to take timber and other materials from those lands used in building the road. " Twenty alternate sections of public land per mile on each side of said road" are granted to the com pany to aid in its construction. At the time the charter was passed scarcely anybody supposed that anything would ever be done under the charter. But within the last few months this charter has passed into the bands of a company of New Eng land capitalists and railway managers—some of the most wealthy and energetic men of the nation. This company is now before Cong Tess with a bill, asking the nation to guarantee the interest on its stock, at six per cent. for twenty years, as fast as 20 miles are completed, to be paid semi-annually, for twenty, twenty-five, fifty, and thirty thousand dollars per mile, according to the difficulties to be overcome in different sections of the road. The lands on the south side of the road are set apart as secu rity to the Government for the money advanced. The wonderful mineral developments of Montana and Idaho, the fact that almost the entire belt of country through which it passes is valuable for agri cultural purposes, and will sustain a large popula tion, and the certainty that both the northern and central roads, when completed, will not be able to do half the business that will press upon them, and, besides that, the revenues sure to be derived from the settlement of the country through which it k all prove that the t ith o i n n t a ho ve s r t y oo sh , short time more than p p a a y s s _ e t s h ein wouldt er e w s United States Government ought to be. willing to Devonport Election. The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the representation of the borough caused by the unseating of Mr. W. Ferrand and Mr. John Flem ing on petition took place yesterday at the hustings erected in front of the Town-hall. Mr. R. C. SMITH, the mayor, as returning officer, presided. The four candidates were accompanied on the hustings by a very large number of their friends. The crowd in front of the hustings was very great. There was much excitement, but order was maintained. Mr. Ferrand, lately unseated for the borough, was pre sent. Mr. J. BEER, the chairman of the Conservative party, nominated the Hon. C. R. Abbott as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament. This was seconded by Dr. Row. Mr. J. C. TIIIERENS nominated Mr. Raikes, and was seconded by Mr. JoLL. Mr. J. W. W. RYDER, the chairman of the Libe ral party, nominated Lord Eliot as a fit and proper person to represent the borough of D evonport in Parliament. This was seconded by Mr. SNELL. Mr. R. J. LAITY nominated Mr. Montague Cham bers, Q.C. ; and was seconded by Mr. JOSEPH MAY. The Hon. Mr. REGINALD ABBOTT first addressed the assembly: He first referred to the unseat int, of Messrs. Ferrand and Fleming for bribery, after which he made some observations re specting the Reform Bill. He said the Govern ment had brought forward a Reform Bill founded on statistics applying to constituencies at present existing, and they had brought in a bill applied to constituencies about to be created, and when it was proposed that they should know what the new con stituencies were to be, and that they should know what the Redistribution Bill was to be this was re fused, and the Government endeavoured to stand out against the demands of the House of Commons. The Government now felt that they had been de feated, censured, and condemned, and they had been pleased to bring forward a Reform Bill which they endeavoured to force upon the House of Commons in the same way as it was endeavoured to force a verdict out of a starved jury. He was opposed to the Reform Bill of the Government, but was in favour of an educational franchise. He thought the uniform £7 franchise was objectionable, because in some places it would admit too many people to it, while in other places it would not admit enough. The present bill seemed to him to be a re fusal on the part of the Government to recognise intelligence, and therefore he was opposed to it. He was also opposed to the Permissive Bill and to the ballot, as he believed that the ballot would lead to greater evils than at present existed, and he could not support the Permissive Bill, for although he had the greatest respect for men working in the tempe rance cause by moral influence, he thought that the coercive system, such as the Permissive Bill was, was violent, arbitrary, and contrary to our English liberty. The Conservative party had always sup ported the public service, add had seen that the navy and army were both properly treated, but that could not be said of the Liberals, and he, therefore, hoped that the electors would return him and his honourable colleague to represent their interests in Parliament by a triumphant majority. Mr. CECIL RAISES asked what vas the liberal idea of reform ? It was to disfranchise dockyard labourers. What was the liberal idea of the public services ? It was to deny the sailor's widow her mite, and to hag g l e w ith th e ve t e ran for his small pen sion. What was their idea with regard to liberty of conscience ? It was to use their pressure and their influence contrary to the voice of the electors of any borough. What was their idea of purity of election? It was to introduce illegal practices into the borough, and then to brand them as being corrupt. And in the face of these facts he would ask them how could they vote for the Liberals ? With regard to the Re form Bill introduced by Government, it was unjust, and he should vote against it, and especially the 16th clause. In answer to the Liberals, he said the Earl of Derby passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill, and the Tory Sir Robert Peel repealed the corn laws; the Tories also repealed the property qualification for members of Parliament. He should give a ge neral support to the Government of Earl Derby and Mr. Disraeli. Lord ELIOT'S address was brief, and consisted only of a denial of the charge brought against him that his father was a Conservative, and had neglected his tenantry. He was prepared to give his support to the Liberal Government, and although he was in favour of the Reform Bill he should strenuously op pose the 16th clause of the Bill. Mr. MONTAGU CHAMBERS denied that the Tories had carried the Catholic Emancipation Bill. The Liberals had carried it, and it was the Liberals who introduced free-trade, the blessings of which they now enjoyed. The Tories did not abolish the corn laws, but they did in their Reform Bill of 1859 in troduce a clause disfranchising dockyards men. Whilst M.P. for Greenwich he had opposed such a proposition, and would oppose it in the present Bill. He was a ballot man, and had been so for a great number of years, and if elected to Parliament would support the ballot. The show of hands was in favour of the Conser vative candidates. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—We have expressed an opinion that the first breach of the peace of Europe is not likely to come from the side of Prussia. The menacing atti tude of Austria, the promptitude with which she has prepared for war, the enormous army she is capable of bringing into the field, might well cause Prussia to pause before driving matters to extremity. Prussia has, moreover, shown unmistakable symp toms that all is not well in her internal affairs. The people, whom the Government has done everything in its power to disgust, appear at last to be really and effectively disgusted. A brave nation, never slow to draw the sword at any reasonable provoca tion, is ready to do everything in its power to pre vent the outbreak of war. The people, who have somehow contrived amid the wreck of their other liberties to preserve the right of public meeting, are exercising that privilege in a manner which must be exceedingly embarrassing to Count Bismark and his master. The King evidently despairs of obtain ing from his Legislature the support upon which he at one time counted. He has been coquetting with universal suffrage—the last and most desperate re source in the present day of those who want to do a great wrong and veil it under the pretence of po pular assent. All sorts of Liberal schemes are in agitation, assemblings of Diets, of Parliaments, of Congresses, everything, in fact, except the down right measure of commencing the war which Prus sia but a little while ago was so ready and anxious to provoke. It seemed strange that a Government which has so openly and ostentatiously relied on the army alone for its support should suddenly be seized with a desire to refer matters to that very civilian element upon which it has so long been trampling. But it now appears that _there is something more at stake than had hitherto been supposed. In estimating the chances of peace or war, we seem to have attached too little weight to the fact that the army of Prussia is.rather what we in England should call a militia than a regular force. It serves only for a short period, and when it has to be called out a great number of its soldiers must leave the pursuits of civil life. This does not perhaps interfere much with the efficiency of the army in a cause with which their opinion coincides, but it is a very important matter indeed when the army is called upon to fight for an object which is unpopular. The Prussian army has so unhesitatingly supported the Government in its conflict with the Assembly that we are surprised to find it showing the least indisposition to follow wherever Count Bismark chooses to lead it. So it seems to be, however. The promises made in order to render popular the military reforms introduced by the Government against the will of the Parlia ment and the people have not been fulfilled. Every body knew that the standing army was to be enor mously increased, but the infliction was borne with on the ground that the necessity for calling out the militia, properly so called, would in the same degree be diminished. The Government, by an act of pre rogative and in defiance of the Legislature, has raised the Prussian army in time of peace to 210,000, instead of 130,000. The only excuse for such a mea sure could be found in its entire success ; but the army is so little adequate for the emergency the Go vernment has provoked that the whole of the militia is called out on the very first alarm of war. The Assembly will be able to point to this fact in the coming session as decisive of the controversy between the Government and itself. We are informed by the same authority from which we extract these state ments—the Cologne. Gazette—that disturbances have occurred in all parts of the country, and that in some cases the military are required in order to check the tumult. This is an evil prospect at the commencement of a struggle which promises to tax the resources of the country to their very utmost, even if it be carried on with the full assent of the people and with all the support which popular en thusiasm can place at the disposal of the Govern ment. We are somewhat surprised that the Prussian Government themselves should have over looked this formidable difficulty in their way. They at least should have known the reed on which they leant when they supposed that an army so ready to support them in their quarrel with the Assembly was to be relied on for the purposes of foreign war. But it is not wonderful that under such circum stances Prussia should declare her willingness to enter into the Congress, though we confess that this appears to us a very unpromising proceeding. No general war ever breaks out in Europe without be ing preceded by a proposal emanating from some quarter or other to refer all matters in dispute to a Congress. Everybody always professes his readi ness to embark in it, but nobody will undertake to abide by its decisions. It is an admirable means for gaining titne, and for investing extrava gant and overbearing proposals with a spurious and delusive semblance of moderation ; but it is the most unlikely way in the world to solve any serious and envenomed difficulty. If, indeed, the Congress were prepared, as is said to have been suggested by the Emperor of Russia, to enforce by arms its decisions against dissenting members, a machine would be provided ready to the hands of an ambitious Power which might work results so disastrous to the liber ties of Europe as the Amphictyonic Council under the presidency of Philip of Macedon did to the liber ties of ancient Greece. But though the decisions of a Congress might possibly be suggested by justice, its execution of them would infallibly be dictated by policy, and we should probably not have long to wait before we witnessed as gross an abuse of the power of carrying out the general decree as that which Austria and Prussia had exhibited when they undertook to act as the agents of the Ger manic Confederation in the case of Denmark. A Congress is often an excellent means of giving effect to rights which have been previously established by an appeal to arms. It can reduce into form and give permanence to the well-ascertained results of victory and defeat. But when countries carry their preparations for war to such lengths as Prussia, Austria, and Italy have now done, they must-look for the adjustment of their rights and the settlement of their quarrel to an agency more efficient than that of an European Congress. They can, if they please, draw back from the extreme pretensions they have put forward, and assume again the tone of modera tion they have discarded ; but we shall require much stronger evidence than anything which has yet come to our hands before we believe that Austria, for in stance, will submit her right to Venetia to an Euro pean Congress, or that Italy, after having given Garibaldi a command and called on the Revolu tionary party to aid her, can undo all these things and wait patiently for the tardy decision of a con clave of diplomatists. We sincerely hope we are mistaken, but it would seem as if all parties had been careful to close against themselves this loophole of escape. An intimation from the Emperor of the French that he is iu earnest opposed to war, and will take a definite and intelligible course imme diately against the first aggressor on its breaking out, would have more effect than the deliberations of any Europeon Congress. We have no doubt that he possessed the power, had he chosen to use it, to prevent the storm. It may be a question whether it has not now acquired dimensions which even his skill is unable to subdue. THE 66 EXAMINER" ON COAL AND DEBT.—We are asked by Mr. Gladstone to profess a new article of faith and a new moral obligation. The national debt was due and owing any day the last two years as much as now ; indeed it was much more so, for since then, out of surplus, we have paid off a good many millions. If there was any obligation on the national conscience to pay off only on taxes for the necessaries of life, we should, of course, have heard of it before now. Moral duties are not matters of caprice or accident, and it would be a libel upon the Ministers and the Legislature of the country to affect to believe that all this time they have been accomplices in a roguish evasion of a plain duty. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not say anything of the kind. The obligation to borrow the savings of the working classes to pay off £24,000,000 due to the freeholders arises from the supposed dis covery of a new article of geological faith, namely, that our coal mines are burning out, and that we are, therefore, come within sight of the end of our commercial pre-eminence. A new revelation has come upon us, and the book of Lamentations, by the Prophet Jevons, is added to our canon of political scripture. We have read that book with care ; not only from a sense of the importance of the subject to which it relates, but from the surpris ing and, as we think, perilous inferences judicially drawn from it ; and we do not hesitate to say that we think its spirit unhealthy, its logic unsound, and its deductions at variance with all the teachings of industrial history, and with all that is ennobling and elevating in the social history of man. We do not question the honesty of the Professor or the I pains he has taken to collect and to group facts in illustration of his theory, but we deny that the facts sustain the theory, and we think the theory is founded in essential misconception of the facts. He would have us believe that the industrial features of a country like this are dependent mainly on mineral matter,—we believe that the annals of our commerce and civilisation prove it to be much more dependent on the national mind. The greatness of England, he tells us, is bound up in the cheapness of iron and coal, and dependent on their proximity, when they are found, to each other. That large fortunes have been made by this proximity, we of course do not deny, and that i large numbers of persons have been for genera tions employed in iron smelting every one knows ; but true it is that the manufacturing or the com mercial grandeur of England began with these, or rests on these alone? Let us narrow the question a little and try to get out of this loose, vague, in determinate language of the alarmists. In reply to Mr. Horsman and other opponents of the Treaty of Commerce with France, who would have put a tax on the export of coal as one device for limiting its too rapid consumption, Mr. Vivian said that the mines of South Wales &one would keep our national fires going, at their present rate, for at least 500 years. Mr. Hull, who may be regarded as the High Priest of our fire worshippers, scoffs at this version of the mat ters, and propounds, instead, his dictum that below 4,000 feet we can never go for coal; that the present rate of consumption must continue to increase in a geometric ratio, and that therefore in 1961 we shall want 2,670 millions of tons instead of 86,000,000, which is all we require now ; and inasmuch as the total amount of coal within 4,000 feet of the surface is 86,000 millions of tons, before the end of the com ing century we shall be fairly burnt out. Now, in the first place, there is not a particle of evidence produced, or produceable, as to the maximum depth at which all mines can be worked. Some geolo gists think we could go deeper, and some think not so deep ; and our own opinion is like Byron's guess at the author of Junius, that it can be fixed to no one particular at all. Averages are proverbially unre liable in estimating speculative and inventive facts, where half the data are never known to us, and never_can be ; and mining incidents and accidents are certainly no exceptions to the rule. Professor Jevons shrinks from endorsing the 4,000 feet theory, and stops short at 2,500 ; but why there precisely, rather than anywhere else, he does - not tell us. All we can gather from him on the subject is that when we get to that depth a complete supply of foreign coals will come in from Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The possibility and probability of such foreign sup ply is one of the most sensible things in the Profes sor's book. We send coal to Australia, to India, even to Hong Kong ; yet we are startled at the sup position that it may one day suit us to import it, like timber or rice, from the comparatively adjacent States of America. Who will undertake to say what the price of coal on the banks of the Potomac will be five years after American coal-fields begin to be thoroughly opened? Or what underwriter of stand ing-at Lloyd's would guarantee the figure at which freight will be charged from Philadelphia to Liver pool or London ? The available supplies in America, as is well known, are enormously greater than those in any other country in the world except, perhaps, China, whose resources in this respect are still unexplored : and yet we hear inquirers and learned men discuss the question as if this alone of all articles of export could never be come for us one of import. And now with re gard to the monstrous chimera of the geome tric ratio of consumption. A contributor to the Times has, in a few wise and weighty sentences, dis pelled summarily this strange hallucination. He says The consumption for household purposes is assumed to be a ton for each unit of the population—say 29,000,000 of tons a year; and the theory we are considering involves that the consumption of coal for household purposes shall be, in 1961, 576,000,000 of tons, and that as the country will be neither hotter nor colder, and coals will afford the same warmth to each person, the corresponding population of the British isles will be also 576,000,000! It seems ludicrous to argue gravely against absurdity like this, and yet this is the corner stone of the whole argument, for considerably more than one third of our entire consumption is confessedly for domestic use. Of course, when pushed to the literal rendering of their own vaticinations, these seers of evil flinch from their own dogma, and tell us gravely that they didnot mean quite that, but something else, al though what the something else may be they do not tell ; and for the best of all possible reasons, namely, that they do not and cannot know. A like illustra tion may be drawn from the consumption for loco motive engines. Railways have come into existence within the last few years throughout the United Kingdom, and the quantity of fuel consumed in their working has increased at the general rate assigned, but it would manifestly be absurd to say that the mileage of railways could go on increasing for the next 100 years at the same rate, or anything like it ; and without this, what becomes of the geometric rate of progression ? The great case, however, is no doubt the augmented absorption of coal in the iron trade. Eighteen millions of tons are now annually used in making four and a half millions of tons of pig-iron. If the increase continues, at anything like the recent rate of expansion, the alarmists • foretell that, in 1961, the quantity of coal con sumed for this purpose will be 472,000,000 tons, which would produce twenty-four times the present make of pig-iron.. Now, if there be any one the gullet of whose credulity is wide enough to swallow this piece of apoca lyptic arithmetic, he must gulp with it a propor tionate expansion of other manufactures beyond the limits of any prosaic estimate ; because pig-iron, inevitable though it may be in these gigantic dimen sions, must after all be made use of somehow, in order to pay the makers and keep the furnaces alight. Not wishing to be considered lunatics, we simply take leave to note that we don't believe one word of the story. But if it be true, or half true, then in the name of common sense and fair dealing let us adjourn the paying off of the National Debt until we shall have got into this promised land of unbounded production and unlimited profit, where the nursery fable will at length be realised of the pigs lying about in all directions, seeming to say— who'll have us ? A trifle of 800 million pounds sterling will be nothing to our lucky grandchildren, whose garden of gold will be entered by such iron gates. What will signify to them the weight of coals from Pennsylvania or Hongkong, or the satellities of Jupiter if that should become necessary ? Seri ously speaking, we mu st, with all respect for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the hon. member for Westminster, recur to the economic principles in which we were brought up. One of these was that to tax the industry of the country to pay off debt was pro tanto to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. Fortune Telling Extraordinary. At the Morthy Tydfil Police-court, on Saturday last, Mary Mullins was charged before Mr. J. C. Fowler, the sti pendiary magistrate, with having stolen £BO, the property of Thomas Francis Thomas. The charge was also made against the prisoner of having obtained the said sum by false pretences. Under the Vagrant Act the prisoner was charged with having received 2s. Gd. from Margaret Thomas for telling her fortune. Mr. J. hews appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Cliff ton, of Bristol, for the defence. The case, during the past week or two, had excited con siderable curiosity in the town, and the court was conse quently crowded. Mrs. Thomas, the princip a l w it ness , i s the wife of an assistant-surgeon in good circumstances, and has evidently received a superior education. She was well dressed, and her handsome features and richly-braided hair were a remarkable contrast with the freckled sunburnt face and gaudy garb of the gipsy in the dock, who is about the same age as Mrs. Thomas, 21. The substance of tho evidence is as follows : Margaret Thomas, wife of prosecutor, living in Church street, Merthy, said--The .prisoner called at our house several times selling clothes pegs, but never said anything about telling my fortune till Friday, April 27. About one o'clock that day she said, "If you will give me half-a crown I will read your planet and tell you many things." I gave her the half-crown. She put a piece of paper in my hand, and she said she would have to work in some circles and to open something under ground to raise the spirit. She said she would have to go away to open the circles, and would return at four o'clock. She went away, and returned at that time, when she said she was bound to have £4O, to put £lO on each circle. There were four circles. I was told by her to wrap the money up in some thing good, and I wrapped it in a piece of blue silk. She took it with her, and said, on leaving, she would call on the following morning (Saturday). She called before I was up, and I did not see her that day. On the Monday another woman called on me—a very sallow-complexioned woman —who said her daughter (the prisoner) had been called away to Rhyinney. She said her daughter would call at 7. I said she must call sooner, as I wanted the money. Pri soner called that evening at 7. She said she would bring back the £4O if I would double it. She brought back the money wrapped up in the blue silk, and made me take an oath on the Bible, swearing that, so help me God, I would get the £BO by the following Monday. She called that day about 1 o'clock, but I had not the money then, and she said she was bound to have it, and I need not make any excuse whatever, for I could get it if I liked. She asked me if I could not change a cheque, and I said I could not without its being known to my husband. "Put your name to it," she said, and no one will know; I will work it so that no one knows." As I had not the money then, she arranged to call again at 4 o'clock. She came as appointed, and I had then only £3O, and she said that would not do, and if I was afraid of my - husband she would go homo and open the circles so that ho would not know. She went away and called again at 8 the same evening, when I had the £BO which she said she wanted to put on the circles. The £BO consisted of gold and silver and notes, which I handed to her, and have not had it returned. Mr. Plews—Was there anything said by her about your having a fortune? Witness—She said I was to have a for tune through my father, and she would work to get it by the 14th May. I was also told by her that my husband's relations would bo kinder to me after I had the money. Mr. Fowler—When was the last time you saw her ? Witness—Monday evening, and I never saw her again till yesterday. Mr. Fowler—The money has not been recovered ? Mr. Superintendent Wrenn—No, sir, none of it. Mr. Plews—What did she ;ay Would happen if you did v..-' not let her have the money ? Witness—She said, "BP God, if you don't get it you won't be worth that," pointing to a flannel petticoat. Mr. H. Wren, superintendent of Gitmorganshire con stabulary, said he knew prisoner to be one of the numerous gipsy tribe of the Lovells scattered over the midland coun ties, and on. Wednesday last he wont down to Dudley in Worcestershire, and found her and an old woman in cuitody. He charged her with stealing the £BO, and she denied it, but admitted having received 2s. 6d. for telling Mrs. Thomas's fortune. Mr. Clinton, on behalf of the prisoner, wished to reserve the defence, but as the prisoner pleaded guilty when the charge was read over to her, his worship, Mr. Fowler, at once said that the case against the prisoner was clear, and as it came within hi s j ur i s di c ti on h e cou ld di s pose of it. He commented upon the prisoner, who by her wily speech had worked upon the nervousness and credulity of a young lady, and said that so far as his experience was concerned few cases of the kind by member's of the prisoner's tribe had been brought before him. The prisoner wassentenced to six calendar months' hard labour in Cardiff Gaol. Prisoner left the dock with a baby in her arms in an unconcerned manner, and winked to some one she recog nised in the court. CO UN TRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON-MAY 19. New white wheat, 49s to 52s ; new red, 44s to 49s ; old white, 48s to 535; old red, 46s to 50s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Pea° , 36s to 40s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD-MAY 18. There was a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, and prices remain as last week. Spring corn in good re quest at late rates. %Thee, old white....44s 52s Peas, Partridge 36s 39 ° new 4zs 51s White ...As 34 3 old red 3is 45s B.Aling 37a 41 ° new 35s 45s Dun... ...36S 4 00 Barley.... 2ss 338 dit , o, new....- - e - 7,' thevalier 38a 42s Beans, Tick, 01d......358 4 0 0 Grind.ng ' , Bs 34s new.... 353 39s Malt sBa Oa Harrow ticks.3Bs 420 Chevalier 60s 62s Oats 2.8 26s new....36s 400 Mazagan . 34s :-.80 GRANTHAM-MAY 19. Old white wheat, 52s to 545; old red, 49s to 525; new white, 49s to 52s ; new red, 44s to 47s per 36 stone. Bar" ley for malting, 36s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 385 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 2 1 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 51s; new, 44s to 46s per 38stone• Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER-MAY 19. The limited supplies of wheat, and unsatisfactory ac counts of the growing crop, appear to completely counter act all depressing influences, and it was very difficult to buy any quantity of wheat to-day at last week's prices• Good samples of red wheat in several instances made lg per qr. more money. Beans and peas scarce, and again dearer. Wheat, white les Ns Beans, Mazagan......378 410 red 428 50s Middle and 5ma11...34s 409 Barley .... 348 43s Peas, white. 38s 'it Oati grey —360 4mw ABERDEEN-MAY 18. Little doing in the market to-day, and prices unaltered. White wheat 40s Od 0 1) d d to 45s 4 4 5 5 5 s 0 0 d d j t Red wheat Potato oats 25s Od to 25 s 61 Common oats 24s Od to 24s 6d 40th 1/ bushe l. Bere 30s Od to 31s Od t AV lb bushel* 32s Od to 32s Barley _62lb 11 bushel. .(.4) Oatmeal 19s 6d to 20e Od"4 boll of 280Ib Flour, fine 36s Od to 37s Od sack of 2801 b. KIRKCALDY—MAY 19. Small supplies of all kinds of grain. Sales slow. Wheat is, barley and oats 6d per qr. cheaper. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— 44s Od ; 348 Od 28s Od wand. 458 6,1 I 35s 61 298 Od Turd 478 61 378 Od 308 6d COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. g . d. Walls End Hetton ... 18 6 Elolywell Main l7 0 Walls End Haswell... 18 6 Kepler Grange l7 Kelloe South Hetton Hastings Hartley l l 7B 3N. Staffordshire ...... 17 3 Ships at market, 28; sold, 27. 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptea..— June 19 Ditto, via Marseilles June 13 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet. ..... Juno 4 ' Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Elope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 25. China, Penang, and Singapore, via So u th am pt on June 4. Ditto, via Marseilles May 23 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton May 29. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 3 Ditto, via Marseilles ... May India (Bombay), via Southampton May 29 Ditto, via tiarseiiles .. May 23 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 21 '. -Ditto, via Marseilles m a y 23. Ilauritius,via Southampton Ditto, via Marseille 3. June 7. Newfoundland Portug - al ..... •••••June 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet m a y 31 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry —MaY 25 „ . : West Coast of Africa, M a d e i ra, and Tederiffe ~ June lv West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) MO 29 ' Cuba and Mexico..... ,May 29' May 31. Bahamas, via New York. Juneßermuda, via Halif ax B. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION OF PRISONERE' -j° return has be en pu bli s h ed which shows the religious dr nomination of prisoners committed during 1865 to the f ° lowing prisons : —Th e H ouse o f C orrect i on T o thill-fie ldo; o House of Correction, Coldbatli-fields ; House of Defeeti°tsi Clerkenweli ; and the City Prison, Holloway. Th e t f of number of perso ns comm itt e d was 26,643, and 1 8 7 99 ; them are desc r ib e d as b e l ong i ng to the Church df ng land, 7,239 to the Roman Catholic body, and 408 to - other denominations. +,, of [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the f ear f u l annual mor ta.- , be 6 ~ o 4 o young children and delicate persons of all ages arrested, if. instead of flying blindly to pills and med 7„„ in which, though app arently relieving the patient, basior, reality no other t en d ency than that of increasing dew i er and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study d, to inc ease the vital forc e by i m p art i ng new an d pure l ?' 0 00 upon which the har mon i ous d eve l opmen t o f th e whole t r v e , depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's in its lids' and Infauts' Food, the Revalenta Arabica, 911d 0:1 1 thousands of cures annually. It yields three times 9 ° fpt easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat. ~n " pr. children it is the best substitute tor human Mil l ' Oil Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Wors e d . ' o ir Children—the best authority on such matters —ln hi ga , able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable ealY do o stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its conIP ° : 0 00" is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Fonde of aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and n lll°r 1 1 10 13 potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle l e er is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder , T AO fore, that under its influence many children affect ed hi iti atrophy (wasting away of the body), an d ma rkeg de' at est have completely recovered. I have gi ven it w ith the g r 0:11 advantage in such cases ; and s r far as I may judge l r e rl , own experience, practice fully carries out what to e. , from a knowledge of its composition, led us to antic l o 24 ll), In tins, lib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 220 ; „do ol 10s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, 14° : e ptiSS also Phillips, tea dealers; 8, King William-street ; 11 ts' at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishop s od+ street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3 30, s _, 9 6, 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-rosuciese Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, .Notting-hill; Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terra ce :or John's-wood. London; and all respectable grocers an' mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. • IVO ALLEN—On the 20th inst., at Stoke Newington, t h e of Joseph Allen, Esq., of adaughter. yoit' COLES —On the 21st inst., at 41, Queen Anne-streo4.o4l don, the wife of Major R. C. oles, Ist (R 0 Y 81 ) 14761 of a son. V et.' EL!,NBURY —On the 19th inst., at The Avenue, Lowey so. mg, Surrey, th e w if e o f e x p e l H an b ur y, Ea+ , e i , a dy --- PETREOn the 19th inst., at Coptfold Hall, th e Petre, of a son. Marriages. BEST—JoiEs—On the 19th inst., " at Camden Ch tl 4 e r ham, Richard W. Best, Esq., son of Col. Best , his EKa landers, to Mary Anna Mara, eldest daughter of t 100 cellency the late Major R. S. W. Jones, 2d W e° Regiment, Lieut.-Governor Gold Coast. hel iSt6 FARR—FAR/lAN—On the 19th inst.; at St- Steil-00 of North Bow, Edward Farr, Esq., of Pilleth, Ita d Scp to Emma, youngest daughter of Frank Farliari, Old Ford, Middlesex. Deaths. ist st itu oter a : f „, CorAmroux—On the 20th n D. D. Colqoh oun , E sq ., o f 7," the Wa Y rw ca i ge - c n kVill"' - °al hill, W. 111 ' Low—On the 19th inst., at 47, St. George's-square' 13i. _ice, _ David Low, Esq., aged 68. ~„s b urif LINDO—On the 19th inst., at 11, South-street, -1-- _ Moses Da Costa Lindo, Esq., aged 82. MORRIS—On the 19th inst., at The Lawn, Su ° Wm. Morris, B.A. late of Gonville and Caius tf° Cambridge, aged 29. Cogg er MILLS—On the 20th inst., at Hamlet House. Little hall. T. Mills, Esq., of Aldgate, London, a ged 4 8 - co s: SHEA—On the 19th inst at 31, Connaught-quar' Shea, Esq., late Commander 11.0.5., aged 80. • gr. O ff ' Sutton, , ilegoi ScuLLum—On the 20th inst., at Clarence Vill a " Wm. Sculum, of Hastings, aed 73. . 111 7 j ‘ WooLN - Eit l On tke 21st inst., at The Grove, SP e-n 113 Woolner, of 79, Mar1L1e,aged83..,.....,,, ...,-,5,0 1475i London: Printed and Pub - Fished by WILLIA3I 0111A,' No l°fri of No. 112, Strand, Punter, at TabTab SUN 0 -o ;ti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy', In the Middlesea,—Tu.sday, May 22, 1806.