The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-15 00:00:00

AMERICA. :QUEENSTOWN, Saturday Morning. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Persia, from New York the 3d inst., has arrived. The funeral of the late President Lincoln had reached Chicago, and was about to proceed to Springfield Cemetery, where the body is to be in terred. _ _ Accounts respecting Mr. Seward and his son continue to be favourable. A Washington despatch of April 29 says " Notice has been given by our Consul-General in Canada that all the criminals connected with the murder of Mr. Lincoln must be surrendered to the United States' authorities. This has a meaning." The mystery as to the disposal of Booth's body has not been cleared up. It is stated that not half a dozen persons in all are:acquainted with the truth of the matter. The Washington Star of the 29th ult. furnishes the following additional details of Booth's movements subsequent to the assassina tion " There no longer remains any doubt that Booth fractured his leg when he sprang from the Presi dent's box upon the stage. It being one of the small bones, it is not probable that he discovered the extent of the injury until the next day. On the night of the assassination the confederates of Booth were actively engaged in measures to divert pursuit from the right direction, and a number of horses were turned loose, with no other object than to convey the idea that the ~ ,,a asins were still in the city. The report of Booth's being seen in Penn sylvania was also started by his friends, it is be lieved ; but all such canards were neglected, the detectives steadily and surely tracing the murderer in all his wanderings through Maryland. Early on Saturday morning the detectives and military were sent across the Eastern Branch, others following in quick succession, until Prince George's, Charles, and St. Mary's counties were fully enveloped. Colonel Ludington, chief quartermaster of this department, was called on to furnish horses, and at one time there was not left at headquarters a single waggon or available horse. The first reliable information concerning Booth was obtained on Saturday morning at Surratt's tavern, about ten miles from the city, on the road to Bryantown. The military called at this place, but failed to get any de finite statement until the detectives came up. The tavern is owned by Mrs. Suratt, and leased to the old man who keeps it. Upon a close examination he stated that Mrs. Suratt had been there on Friday afternoon, and left word that two men would arrive during the night, who were to be generously pro vided for. She also directed that two carbines sus pended by a string between the plastering of a par tition should be given them. Booth and Harrold arrived as expected, and remained until some time Saturday forenoon; but on leaving Booth declined to take a carbine, stating that he was too lame to carry it. Harrold, however, took one, and the two set out for the lower counties. Upon reaching the neighbour of Bryantown, near Port Tobacco, Booth's leg became too painful to proceed further, and the services of Dr. Mudd, of that vicinity, were called into requisition. After the fracture had been dressed and Booth had left the detectives arrested Mudd, who denied all knowledge of the character of his patient. The boot, however, which had been cut off from Booth's foot, the inflammation rendering it impossible to draw it off, was found, and in it was written with ink J. Wilkes,' the word Booth evi dently having been scratched out with a knife. Why any portion of the name was left is a mystery, unless a sudden alarm hurried off the party before the completion of the erasure. The next place Booth and Harrold were heard from was at the house of a Dr. Coxe. The latter upon being questioned denied having seen any such parties, but said that three paroled rebel soldieh had applied there for accom modation and had been sent away. Coxe's servants all asserted that the two men had staid there over night, that their master had entertained them in the most hospitable manner, and on their departure next morning gave each a quantity of whisky. The detec tives next came upon the fugitives near the Sachiar Swamp, in Charles County. There they found a dila pidated shantly occupied by an old coloured woman, who stated that on that morning two men, one of them with a crutch, had come out of the woods and asked for something to eat, offering to pay any sum for it. She being afraid of them told them she had nothing; that there were no white people around there, and that they could get nothing to eat in that vicinity. The lame man then inquired the direction to the great swamp, which she gave, and the two went off. The shanty stands in a small clearing, surrounded on all sides by dense pine woods, with the exception of one side, bounded by the swamp. The Bth Illinois Cavalry and a regiment of coloured troops were im mediately sent through the swamp in every direc tion, searching every thicket, but without finding any trace of the assassins, the latter having evi dently secreted themselves in the pine woods and made their escape while the swamp was being scoured. On Sunday afternoon Booth and Harrold crossed the Potomac at Swan Point, a short distance below Matthias Point, and passing Port Royal en route to Louisa Court-house, were captured (as previously described) at Garrett's place. Facts have come to light which show conclusively that Booth and hisac complices had, before carrying their plans into exe cution, decided upon the routes to be taken in making their escape. Maps, understood to be in the possession of the Government, and which are known to have belonged to these parties, bear distinct marks of the routes laid out by them. Booth and Harrold were to escape to Rebeldom and seek Jef ferson Davis's protection, who was finally to assist them in leaving the country. Harrold, in conver sation with an acquaintance of his who resides in Maryland, some time previous to the murder of Pre sident Lincoln, made a remark to the effect that there was no extradition treaty between the United States and Spain, a remark that excited no special attention at the time, but in the light of subse quent events it would appear that Booth and himself contemplated shelter somewhere in the Spanish dominions. Surprise has been expressed that Booth selected such a shallow-pated blab mouth as Harrold as his nearest accomplice in so terrible a plot. This mystery, we think, may be explained in this way :—Harrold, a young man of idle, vagabond habits, was a good shot and a capital boatman, spending much of his time in gunning and fishing excursions in the lower counties of Maryland, acquiring in this way a thorough knowledge of the country, especially its by-paths, forests, swamps, and creeks, sought only by the hunter and fisher. On the outbreak of the rebellion this knowledge made his services valuable in the capacity of guide for blockade-runners, and there is no doubt that he has been actively engaged in that business through out the war. Doubtless he was recommended to Booth as a suitable guide in his flight, and that the ac quaintance between them was formed in that way, But for the injury received by Booth in jumping to tilestage, by which he was crippled, it is possible that the well arranged plan of escape might have succeeded. But the outraged flag of our country, trampled upon by Booth in his exit from the box, would s eem to have been endowed with powers of volition, sei z i ng him by the spur and causing him to fall crippled o n the stage, whereby his flight was intercepted and his few days of C ain - like existence made days of a gony i ntense. It is believed that had he not been immediately captured death would have ensued from mortification of his broken leg--uncared for as it necessarily was and in constant use. Traces at points of his route indicated that he attempted to obliterate the tell-tale marks of his crutch in the earth, whereby his route might be traced,ot u and that the he hopped on one leg at other points, n crutch, to the same end." g A letter written by Booth to his mother, dated on the morning of the 14th of April, the day of assassi nation, has fallen into the hands of the Government authorities. It is directed to " Mrs. M. A. Booth, No. 28, East Nineteenth-street, N.Y.," and bears a Washington, D. C., Post-office stamp, dated April 14. It bears the appearance of having been written in considerable haste, and is all contained on one side of half a sheet of note paper : "April 14, 2 a.m. " Dearest Mother,—l know you expect a letter from me, and am sure you will hardly forgive me. But indeed I have had nothing to write about. Everything is dull—that is, has been till last night (the illumination). Everything w" TitE SUS, LONDON, MONDAY' EVEM bright and splendid. More so in my oyes if it had been a display in a nobler cause. But so goes the work. Might makes right. I only drop you these few lines to let you know lam well, and to say I have not heard from you. Ex cuse brevity; am in haste. Had one from R With best love to you all, I am, your affectionate son, ever, " JOHN." Mr. John S. Clarke, an actor, brother-in-law of Booth, has been arrested, on what grounds bas not been stated. The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes a report of the murder of Corbett, the man who shot Booth, but the statement appears to be untrue. A plot to burn Philadelphia has been discovered. The Washington Star says "The circumstances under which the plot to burn Philadelphia was discovered here are about as fol lows :—On Friday evening last Sergeant A. P. M'Kenny, at the Sixth-street wharf, discovered two suspicious-looking individuals lurking about in the dark, who, upon seeing they were watched, made off. On Saturday evening these two men again made their appearance at the wharf, when Sergeant M'Kenny informed his commanding officer of the fact, who instructed him to watch them closely. The sergeant, seeing the two men in conversation, got close enough to hear one of them inquiring of the other, 'Do you think they will meet to-night ?" The reply was not heard, and the men again started off, but were followed by Sergeant M'Kenny, who overtook them on a vacant lot on Four-and-a-Half street, when one of the men, seeing that they were followed, drew a pistol and fired at the sergeant, the ball taking effect in his right breast near the nipple. Fortunately Sergeant M'Kenny had at the time a package of letters in his pocket, through which the ball passed, thus deadening the force of the ball and preventing its making a serious wound. The ser geant being alone concluded to lie still, although not dangerously wounded, and the fellows believing that they had killed him immediately ran off and made their escape. Sergeant M'Kenny upon regaining his feet discovered a letter upon the ground, which the man who fired the shot pulled out of his pocket with the weapon. Upon returning to his quarters Sergeant M'Kenny discovered that this letter was of some importance, and it was accordingly sent to Col. Ingraham. The letter revealed the fact that there was a deliberately planned plot on foot to burn Philadelphia, in which a large number of conspira tors were to take part, and contained a request urging, certain parties, supposed to be the two men alluded to above, to be in Philadelphia on the 10th of April, as an attempt to destroy the city would be made on the Ist day of May, when the final blow would be struck, and the torch not lowered until the city was in ashes, and their pockets filled with treasure. Col. Ingraham, after reading the letter, immediately despatched officers to the railroad sta tion, when it was ascertained that two men answer ing the description of those who had assaulted the sergeant had taken passage on the train which left the depot a few minutes before. Information of the discovery of the plot was then telegraphed to Gen. Cadwallader at Philadelphia, and early on Sunday evening, Capt. Potts, chief of the military detectives, and the patrols attached to Col. Ingra ham's office, were despatched to Philadelphia with such details of the plot as had come to the know ledge of the authorities here. Facts are within knowledge of the authorities here which go to show that there are some 800 conspirators banded together for the purpose of burning Philadelphia and other Northern cities. The affair is now undergoing in vestigation." The Washington Republican, in alluding to the search which has been and is now being made in the capital, has the following :—" The investigation in this city has developed facts of the most astounding character. The official record will eventually show this. These developments, resulting from a partial search only, show what would be brought to light by unroofing and unearthing, if necessary, every house in the district of Columbia. Seek for double parti tions, false walls, secret apartments, under-cellars where the great State prisoners were to be kept se creted in chains after being kidnapped. That it is in evidence that President Lincoln, Vice-President Hamlin, the members of the Cabinet, Gen. Grant, Chief Justice Chase, and Speaker Colfax were marked as the victims of certain rebel conspirators and assassins, there is little doubt ; that the plot originated with the chief political rebels in Rich mond, was planned in detail in Canada, and was to be executed in this city, there is no doubt; that secret meetings were held at the residences of Seces sionists in this city to further the execution of this fiendish plot is well known." The President has issued the following order, removing restrictions on trade in the Southern States : " Executive Chamber, Washington, April 29. t' Executive Order.—Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing in the insurrec tionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is hereby ordered-Ist. That all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse be discon tinued in such part of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi River as shall be embraced within the lines of the national military occupation, excepting only such restrictions as are imposed by the late Acts of Congress and regulations in pursuance thereof prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President, and excepting also from the effect of this order the follow ing articles contraband of war—to wit, arms, ammunition, and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured, grey uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators and instruments for operating telegraphic lines. 2d. All existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above-named be and the same are hereby revoked, and that no military or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein under proper authority pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. " ANDREW JOHNSON." A Washington letter of the 2d inst. contains the following General Bragg's Military. Commission is now engaged in the examination of a case which, as the decision will furnish a precedent to be followed in the treatment of many neutral friends of the country, is regarded with con siderable interest. It appears that in the autumn of 1862 seven Scotchmen, lithographic printers by trade, were en gaged by an agent of the Confederate Government to print Confederate notes and bonds. They entered Wilmington late in 1862 and proceeded to Columbia, South Carolina, where they engaged in their trade. When Gen. Sherman approached Columbia the men in question left that city and proceeded to Richmond, where they worked at their trade until the Ist of March. Finding that the Confederate cause was sinking they determined to leave the South, and ac cordingly came to Maryland, crossing the Potomac near Port Tobacco. About the middle of March they started from Port Tobacco for the purpose of coming to this city. While en route they were arrested by the mounted patrol and - brought here. On Saturday they were arraigned before the above military court for violation of the laws and customs of war, in having run the blockade, engaged in the service of the Government, and again running the blockade by entering the Federal lines without permission. Their coun sel claimed for•them the benefit of an order from the late President, of date March 14, requiring all persons who have been engaged in blockade running to leave the country within 12 days from its publication. The prisoners were arrested before the 12 days had expired. The decision of the court will not be announced for several days." Nothing certain appears to be known regarding Mr. Davis. The New Orleans Delta of the 18th ult. quotes a report which states :-- "That Jeff. Davis, accompanied by a bodyguard com posed of Texas cavalry, crossed the Mississippi river in launches at Tunica Bend on last Sunday night, and moved rapidly forward towards the Atchefalaya river, having en tirely escaped the observation of our naval forces. As Davis loft Richmond on the evening of the 2d he has had plenty of time to reach the point indicated. Should this report prove well founded the question of what to do with him,' had he fallen into the hands of our Government, will be happily got rid of." The Richmond Whig of the 28th ult says : " The telegram from New Orleans on the 16th mentioned by us yesterday, that Davis had reached the Mississippi River at Tunica Bend, and crossed without attracting the observation of the United States' navy, meets with more credit at the North than it deserves. Davis certainly was not near the Mississippi on the 16th inst. He, as we have before stated upon positive authority, set out from Greens borough on the 14th inst., but in what exact direction we have been unable to learn. Some of his followers declared their route to be to the trans-Mississippi, and this would i seem to be the only one promising him a chance of escape, unless by previous agreement he had a blockade-runner waiting for him somewhere on the Atlantic coast. If he set out for the trans-Mississippi ho probably went direct to Abbeville, South Carolina, and thence struck out for the Mississippi river, through the northern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. By adopting this line of march he might hope to avoid Chen. Wilson's forces, now resting on their arms at Macon, Georgia, though he could not with out relays of horses, which the exhausted country is not likely to afford, hope to reach the Mississippi in less than three weeks. Were we to hazard a guess as to his where abouts, we should sayhe was somewhere in North-Western Georgia, though of course it would be the merest guess, based upon the solitary fact that he was at Greensborougb. on the 14th, and that his people said they were going to Texas." Referring to the reports that Jefferson Davis has converted the specie of the Richmond banks to his personal use the New York Daily News says : _ " It is a very un-American meanness to insult a fallen foe. Mrs. Davis was obliged to sell her household plate in order to raise the sum necessary to defray the expenses of her family on their departure from Richmond. We know this to be a fact ; we have it from the lips of a gentleman whose truth we will vouch for, who knew the purchaser and saw the purchase money paid. Whatever may bo the political errors of Mr. Davis it is contemptible to impeach his honesty in pecuniary matters." The surrender of General Dick Taylor was ex pected. General Kirby Smith is also stated to have proposed surrender. The Confederate ram Webb, said to be the last in America, has been destroyed after passing New Orleans. The following details are given :-- " At 9 o'clock this evening the famous rebel ram Webb ran out of the Red River, passing all our gunboats and iron clads here, and descended the Mississippi with lightning speed. When first discovered she had no light, emitted no smoke, and looked like a huge mass moving on the water. She was fired on by the Manhattan, when she immediately showed signs of life and shot past the Manhattan, who signalled to the fleet. The La Fayette then started in pursuit of her. The officers of the Manhattan estimate the speed of the Webb at 25 miles an hour when passing them. The steamer Saratoga, from New Orleans, met the Webb at Tunica Bend at 945 o'clock. She then attempted to run down the Saratoga, but was unsuccessful. The steamer Dolphin met her 50 miles above New Orleans, at half-past 6 o'clock on the morning of the 24th ult. She was then going along without doing any damage to boats of any kind. The Webb passed New Orleans at broad day at a rapid rate, displaying the stars and stripes, but after passing hoisted the rebel flag; when a few miles above Fort St. Philip, her condensers got out of order, and she was de serted and blown up. As far as known she had inflicted no damage, saving cutting the telegraph line. A portion of her crew arrived in New Orleans. The remainder left for parts unknown." A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives the following estimate of the Confederate sick and wounded in the Richmond hospitals for a space of 25 months : " From files of the Confederate States' Medical and Surgi cal Journal, published here, some few statistics can be gathered, andas they were in every instance collated in the Surgeon-General's office, the information is official as far as it goes, the only drawback being that it is neither very re cent nor very new to the North. First is a paragraph covering the whole area of the rebellion for the years 1861 and 1862. The whole number of cases exhibited in the field reports during 1861 and 1862 was 848,555; of which 16,220 died and 90,455 were discharged from service. There were admitted in hospitals for the same period 447,689 cases ; of which 19,359 died and 6,485 were discharged. The brunt of the war having always been in Virginia, official informa tion of the rebel armies operating in the State is not only interesting but invaluable. It makes but little difference that the subjoined statistics cover a period so far back as from September, 1862, to December, 1863. We have not had in the North accurate information on on any of these points. It is proper to remark that these statistics cover all hospital cases as well as from disease as wounds, and do not include casualties fatal on the field. Synopsis of the consolidated reports of the hospitals in the Department of Virginia from September, 1862, to December, 1863, inclusive, by Surgeon W. A. Canington, medical director :—Total number admitted, 293,163 ; total number transferred, 127,530; total number returned to duty, 98,340 (from the total returned to duty must be de ducted 2,465 prisonerti returned to quarters, leaving 95,875) ; total number furloughed, 39,665 ; total number discharged, 4,441; total number deserted, 4,416 (from the total dis charged the service must be deducted 1,364 prisoners dis charged and sent home on parole, leaving 2,807) ; total number died, 10,248 ; total number in hospital January 1, 1864, 8,495. Adding up the number accounted for (re turned to duty, furloughed, died, deserted, discharged, and on hand), and adding 9,134, the number transferred to hospitals out of the state, we have the true number of cases treated in the Virginia hospitals from September 1862, to December, 1863 inclusive, 174,767, giving the grand ratio of mortality 5.36 per centum. The largest number under treatment at any one time was in January, 1863, 18,876. The smallest population occurred in October, 1863, 7,841." The Memphis Bulletin gives the following par ticulars of the loss of the Sultana :-- "The steamer Sultana, Captain Mason, arrived from Now Orleans last night, the 26th, with about 2,200 people on board, 1,961 of whom wore exchanged Federal prisoners from Vicksburg, the balance being refugee and regular passengers from various points along the river, proceeding toward St. Louis. Sho left the coal pile about 1 o'clock this morning, and had made some eight or ten miles, when an explosion of ono of her boilers occurred. The boat, with its mass of living freight, took fire in the vicinity of the engines, and in a short time she was burned to the water, and now lies on a sandbank near Fogleman's Landing, nothing visible but her charred remains and jacketaff standing erect. The scene following the explosion was heartrending and terrible in the extreme. Hundreds of people were blown into the air, and descending into the water, some dead, some with broken limbs, some scalded, were borne under by the resistless current of the great river never to rise again. The survivors represent the screams as agonising beyond precedent. Some clung to frail pieces of the wreck, as drowning men cling to straws, and sustained themselves for a few moments, but finally became exhausted and sunk. Only the best swimmers, aided by fragments of the wreck, were enabled to reach the woods, and there take refuge, until rescued by boats sent from the landing here to their assistance. There were about 15 women and children aboard, and as near as can bo ascertained not more than two or three had been found at the hour when this account was written. Some of the wretched people were borne by the current as far down as the levee at this city, and this was the first intimation the officers of the boats in port received of the terrible disaster. A yawl was immediately sent out from the Marble City, and in a few minutes several persons were picked out of the water and brought ashore. Two were afterwards found clinging to the wheel, and they were also saved. Upon being brought to a realisation of the calamity, the officers of the boats in port, under notification of Capt. Senior, of the River Guard, steamed up, and in a short time were at the burning steamer, where hundreds of people were picked up and brought to this landing, arriving about daylight. They were met by a number of citizens and ladies, who supplied them with abundance of dry clothing from the Quartermaster's Department, and from various stores. At this time it is impossible to give a cor rect statement of the cause of the accident and number or names of the lost and saved. Everything is in the greatest confusion. Mr. Rawberry, the first mate, was on the watch and standing in the pilot-house with Capt. Geo. Cayton, who was at the wheel at the time of the explosion. He only remembers the shock, that he was blown into the air, and was afterwards taken from the water. He saw the lower deck in flames, and knows no more. He can give no idea of the cause of the accident, and says the boat was going at ordinary speed, and all seemed well at the moment the ex plosion occurred; that the second engineer, a sober, reliable man named Clemens, was at the engines, and that nothing more than common was in progress. Capt. Cayton was also hurled into the wreck among the broken boilers and rub bish, sustaining slight injuries. He immediately jumped overboard with a door, by which he was enabled to reach the Arkansas shore, three miles below, whore, striking a sapling, he seized and clung to it until saved. Clemens, the engineer, was badly burnt and scalded, and can hardly re cover. Mr. John Fogleman, residing on the Arkansas side, on being aroused by the noise, and seeing the burning steamer, hastily constructed a rude raft, and in this way was the means of saving 100 lives. In the woods, among the drift of the wreck, the officers of the Rose Hambledon found a family Bible, containing the records of a family named Spike, of Assumption parish, Louisiana. The names recorded are Samuel D. Spike and Elethia Spike, married October 31, 1837. The record shows there were 12 in the family. It was subsequently learned that the father, mother, three daughters, two brothers, and a niece were lost. This family had $17,000 in gold, all of which was lost. The steamer Bostona, No. 2, Capt. Watson, was coming down stream from Cincinnati when the explosion occurred, and rendered valuable assistance, savingmanylives. The Poca hontas, Silver Spray, Marble City, the gunboat Essex, Rose Hambleton, and others, also rendered much service. At the time of the explosion Capt. Mason had retired from watch and was in bed. Ho was afterwards seen throwing shutters and doors to the assistance of people in the water, and here all traces of him vanished. Clerks Gamble and Stratton are also missing." The following statement from Senator Snowe, of Arkansas, a passenger in the Sultana, has been pub lished : " On the morning of the 27th, about 3 o'clock, I was awakened by a sensible tremor or shudder. Not anticipat ing such terrible consequences, I arose and deliberately dressed. Just before finishing dressing I became aware of a large volume of steam driven through the cabin by the wind. I opened the door of my stateroom, and in an instant realised the horror of the fact that the boiler had exploded, killing and scalding many ; that the pilot-house and at least one third of the cabin roof had fallen to the boiler deck, and the boat was on fire, with a fresh breeze carrying the flames with lightning-like rapidity through the balance of the cabin toward the ladies' saloon. I stepped back to avoid the heat, and denuded myself of my dress, except my vest and pants, and rushed to the rear of the boat, which was in the channel, and much nearer the Tennessee than the Ar kansas side. I looked over toward the Tennessee side with the view of leaping, but found it a sea of heads so close to gether that it wax impossible to leap without killing one or j mere. I determined to try the Arkansas shore, which was about three-quarters of a mile distant. I passed over se veral bodies of dead men, killed and trampled in the mad rush which must have occurred some time prior to sly ad vent on that part of the boat. I found the same sea of heads on this side ; but found that the fidmes had driven them from the vicinity of the wheel-house. Prior to my leap I saw several husbands fasten life-preservers to their wives and children, and throw them overboard into the struggling mass below. I struck out for the Arkansas shore, and reached a log lodged in 15 feet of water, among over flowed cotton wood lands, at 3.30 o'clock by my watch, which had not ceased to run. After four hours of exposure, I was rescued by the steamer Silver Spray. The boat contained 1,175 souls. The density with which they were packed had awakened my curiosity, and I looked over, with the clerk, his certificates and books, before retiring. This num ber included 85 hands employed on the boat. There were some females, besides a few children. The bulk of the pas sengers were returned prisoners from Andersonville, which place they left on the 7th Feb. A.mong them were the remnant at that point oi,prisoners captured at Chicamauga and Gettysburg. They numbered altogether 1,960 men and 36 officers. A large number of horses wore on the boat, which providentially fell unresisting victims to the flames. Had they broken loose the fate of the swimmers would have been determined. As near as can be ascertained with out other data than observation, between two and three hundred reached the bank, while about an equal number floated down the stream on doors and furniture. A dense mass, estimated at about 500, took refuge on the bow of the boat, while the flames were driven aft by the wind. A moments afterwards the wheel-houses, loosened by con cussion and flames, fell off outward, and the boat turned up-stream, reversing the flames. The largest part of the number then must have perished, as they had no material at hand to throw over to sustain themselves, except a few bales of hay, which were immediately seized on the turn ing of the boat. Gang-planks were thrown overboard, but sunk at once under their living freight, and rose too far out of reach. A yawl-boat was landed bottom up from the hurricane deck upon the heads of those below, and afforded support for a few in that condition. Ehe whole time before the boat was an entire sheet of flame could not have ex ceeded 20 minutes. I was not more than one-third of the distance to shore when I observed the fast. The prisoners represented nearly every State in the Union, even Texas, and the calamity will be as widely felt as a battle of no in considerable proportions." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA. The report of the directors states that in the course of the past year 32i miles of the Nagpoor line from Mulkapoor to Sheagaum was opened Tor traffic. The Thull Ghat incline, 9k miles, was also completed before the close of the half-year, the goods traffic having beenworked overit from the27th of Decem ber. The company's lines now extend continuously across the Syhadree range from Bombay, in a north easterly direction, via the Thull Ghat to Sheagaum, in the Nagpoor territory, and in a south-easterly direction via the Bhore Ghat to Sholapoor. The average number of miles worked over was 565, as compared with 542 in the corresponding half of 1863, being an increase of 23 miles. The total re ceipts amounted to £313,175 for the past half-year, against £207,871 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £105,304, of which £71,130 was for goods, and £31,939 for passengers. The receipts not brought into the revenue statement applied to meet cartage charges at the Ghats and in Bombay amounted to £39,913, against £36,648, showing an increase of £3,265. While the length of the line worked over was in last half-year ex- tended only 4.18 per cent., the increase in the receipts was equal to 44.40 per cent. of those for the corresponding half of the previous year. Of the total receipts 10.41 per cent. arose from the carriage of the company's own materials, against 7.15 per cent. in the corresponding half of 1863. The Bombay Go vernment had authorised the rates for passengers to. be increased as follows, as from the Ist of December, , 1864, viz. :—The first-class from 12 to 15 pies per mile, the second-class from 6 to 8 pies per mile, and the third-class from 2to 3 pies per mile. The ad vanced rates were not, however, to be regarded as a settlement of this question, which would be dealt with as further experience might dictate. The work ing expenses amounted to £229,462, against £149,173 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an in crease of £80,288. But including the cartage charges at ,the Ghats and in Bombay the total expenses amounted to £269,375, or 73.26 per cent., against £185,821, or 7116 per cent., showing an increase of £83,554. The working expenses of the half-year were materially enhanced by the continued rise in the price of labour in Bombay, by the high price of fuel, and by the issue for maintenance of the line of 31,835 teak sleepers, at a cost of £12,685, chiefly required to replace those of jungle woods, which had been used in construction. The directors look forward with confidence to a diminution in the ratio of expenses to receipts in future half years. The net profit of the half-year carried to the credit of the company's interest account with the Govern ment was £83,713, against £58,697 in the corre sponding half of the previous year. Considerable progress had been made upon the several contracts. Upon the Nagpoor line it was expected that the whole of the main line works would be completed for laying the permanent way within six months from the date of the report ; upon the Jubbulpoor line, that the 78 miles from Rhosawul to Kundwah, would be ready by the end of the year ; that the next contract in the same direction, " Hurdah to Sohagpoor," would require for completion till May, 1867. Of the south-east line the construction of the first section, beyond Sholapoor to Kulbargah, 701 miles, had been just let to Messrs. Adamson and Clowder, who conducted the works on the Bhore Ghat. The remaining section from Kulburgah to the junction with the Madras Railway, at Raichoor, would be let without any delay so soon as the plans were completed. It had been determined with the sanction of the Secretary of State for India to pro , ceed at once to lay down the second line of rails be tween Celli= and Kussarah, at the foot of the Thull Ghat, 411 miles, the line having been constructed as a double line upon the Ghat, and from Bombay to Callan. When this further portion was doubled, the railway would be a double line for 84k miles from Bombay to Egutpoorah at the top of the Thull Ghat incline. The capital account to the 31st of December last showed that £12,249,384, had been received, and £11,489,846 expended, leaving a ba lance of £759,538. The' interest account showed that £3,163,283 had been paid and payable by the Government to the 31st of December last ; and that £793,167, had been repaid out of net revenue, leaving £2,370,111 chargeable against half-surplus profits over 5 per cent. WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION. A special meeting of this company was held at Whitehaven on Thursday ; Mr W. Furness presided. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution, ap proving a bill to enable the company to make branches and other works, and to extend their rail way from Millom to join the Furness Railway at Dalton, and to raise•additional capital to the amount of £130,000. Powers were also taken to enter into traffic arrangements with the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Company. Mr. CAMERON seconded the motion, which - was unanimously agreed to, and the proceedings termi nated. WHITEHAVEN, CLEATOR, AND EGRE. MONT. A special meeting of this company was held at Whitehaven on Thursday, Mr. A. B. Steward inthe chair, for the purpose of considering a bill now before Parliament to empower the company to make branches and other works, to extend their lino to Bigrigg Moor, and to raise additional capital. The CHAIRMAN pointed out the desirability of making the proposed line to accommodate the traffic from the iron o re pit s now a t work in the neigh bourhood. A consid era bl e q uantity of .ore was now being raised, and mo r e was ex pected to be raised. Mr. H. JEFFERSON seconded the motio n approving the bill, and it was agreed to. TENBURY AND BEWDLEY. A special meeting of this comp-any wa s held on Wednesday ; Sir E. Blount in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution authorising the directors to create and issue I neferenve shares to the amount of £20,000 at inter( st of £1 10s. per cent. per annum, to take priority all other shares of the company. This resolution was carried tin Animously, as also was another resolution authorii ,ing the directors to issue and dispose of the unissu a ed reserve and for- 0, MAY 15, 11436. felted ordinary shares of the tqmpany upon such terms as they may think fit. Mr. BARBER then moved that 100 of the reserved or unissued ordinary shares of the company be offered to Lord Northwick, Sir E. Blount, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Ba i ugham, five of the directors, in recognition of their services. Mr. Barber men tioned that the directors had up to this time received no compensation for the trouble they had under taken, and that they had, in the discharge of their duties as directors, attended 66 meetings. Mr. CRANSTOUN seconded the resolution. Colonel LOWE moved as an amendment that the offer be postponed until the railway was in a more flourishing condition. Only two votes, however, were given for the amendment, and the original resolution was carried. SOUTH EASTERN. The gross traffic receipts on this company's lines for the four weeks ending April 22 amounted to £90,001, less £2,453 paid for collecting and deliver ing goods, &C.; leaving £87,548. To this was added £2,758 for rents and sundries, and £3,837 for steam packet service, making the total receipts £94,140. The expenditure included rates, taxes, tolls, Govern ment duty, and expenses of steam packet service amounted to £48,398, leaving tenet sum of £45,742. The total receipts for 11 weeks and 4 days, ending as above, amounted to £235,394, and the expendi ture to £138,267, leaving a net sum of £97,127. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic Beceipts on this company's lines amounted for the week ending the 29th of April to £57,317, and for the corresponding week last year to £53,827, showing an increase of £3,490. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £904,983 on 658 miles of old lines, and to £29,747 on 70 miles of new line, against £833,147 for the corresponding period of last year on the old lines, and to £27,907 on the new line, showing an increase of £71,836 on the old lines, and of £1,840 on the new line—together, £73,676. The Irish International Exhibition, DUBLIN, MAY 13. The Exhibition palace was completely lit up for the first time last night, and devoted to one of the objects which it was designed to serve as a perma nent institution. It was one of the two nights re served by the committee on which season-tickets would not be available without an additional charge. The Irish Academy of Music was established a few years ago under the highest patronage. The amateur theatricals and other entertainments in aid of the funds of this excellent institution are the most fashionable and attractive in this city. Dur ing the twelve or thirteen years of its existence it has effected much by encouraging the cultivation of a taste for music, having trained many distinguished artists, and woxi for itself no inconsiderable reputa tion, without any assistance from Government — an example of self-reliance and self-support parti cularly deserving of encouragement in Ireland, and therefore having most appropriately gained the first place among all the institutions which are to avail themselves of the Exhibition palace for their appear ance before the public. PerhapS no other object could have brought together under the same roof such an immense and brilliant assemblage of rank and fashion, and certainly nothing could be finer than the effect produced. The company began to arrive shortly after 9 o'clock and continued to pfur in until after midnight. The Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wodehouse, accompanied by all the members of the viceregal household, ar rived about half-past 11 o'clock, and were received by the Duke of Leinster, the Lord Mayor, Lord Southwell, Mr. F. W. Brady, the stewards, &c. In the first quadrille in which their Excellencies danced were the Marchioness of Drogheda, the Earl and Countess of Charlemont, the Earl of Granard, the Hon. H. Leeson, &c. The dancing was kept up with unflagging spirit till 4 o'clock. I resume my notice of the art treasures of the Exhi bition. The German school of painting is largely and well represented. There is a very creditable display from Saxony, of which four of the most interesting works have been contributed by the King from the Royal Gallery of Dresden. That which attracts the greatest attention, from its vigorous treatment, is the picture by H. Pluddemann representing the Em peror Frederick Barbarossa calming the quarrel be tween the Princes and the Papal Legates at the meeting of the Imperial Diet in Besancon, 1157. The Legates claimed homage for the Pope, alleging that Burgundy, then newly acquired by the Empire, was a fief of the Roman See. The haughty demean our of the Legates in putting forward the arro gant pretensions of their master so enraged the Princes that they drew their swords and threatened to slay them on the spot, when the Emperor rose and interposed his authority to quell the tumult and prevent bloodshed. The life and action which the artist has given to his figures and the admirable manner in which he has expressed the different emo tions and feelings that influence the several actors in the scene are deserving of high praise. Another picture by the same artist is equally good. It repre sents the Emperor Henry IV., surnamed the Lion, doing penance in the Court of the Castle of Canossa January, 1077. The Monarch, clad in a monk's frock, stands barefooted on the stone steps of one of the castle doors ; the crown, sceptre, and other in signia of royalty lie near him. His arms are folded across his breast, his head bent down, and his features express offended pride mingled with a feeling of re ligious obedience to the authority of the Pope. The time is night, and by the light of the moon Pope Hildebrand and the Empress watch the effect of the penance from one of the towers. The King of Saxony also sends a clever picture by C. G. Peschel, repre senting the angel appearing to the Patriarch Jacob on his way to the promised land. The patriarch and his family and attendants mounted on camels are progressing slowly through the desert when the celestial vision arrests their attention. The expres sion of surprise and religious faith and gladness which appears in the countenance of Jacob is well contrasted with the curiosity of the younger mem bers of his train. The procession of angels coming down from heaven and sweeping up again in a graceful curve is remarkable for its skilful grouping, great variety, and the success*with which the idea of bodies floating lightly in the air is conveyed. The other contributions of the King of Saxony are a " Landscape in Spring with Bridal Procession," by L. A. Richter; and " Children with Barrow of Hay," by Lasche, a cleverly painted landscape, and a charming and naturalpictureof a group of happy children—not all happy, however, for one poor little thing, appa rently excluded from the general fun, is sobbing bitterly, and dragging her doll after her in a listless manner, highly characteristic. By H. Hoffman there is a powerfully conceived and finely painted picture of " Othello and Desdemona" at the moment when the jealous Moor draws aside the bedcurtains with intent to kill his sleeping wife. There is a fine con trast between the pale moonlight that streams into the apartment and the warm glow cast by a lamp on the face, bosom, and arms of Desdemona. Othello, as with one knee on a velvet stool and a dagger clenched in his right hand he gazes intently on his wife, with a combined feeling of love, hatred, and revenge—wondering and lamenting that one so fair, so gentle, and so winning could have been so false, is a highly impressive figure. The drawing shows great freedom and power, and the colouring is Titianesque in its richness, harmony, and force. " Domestic Medicine," by Bathke, a Bavarian artist, is one of those perfectly natural portrayals of do mestic incidents that attract general admiration by their absolute truth and unforced humour. " The Important Question," by C. Lasch (Dusseldorf ) is another exquisite specimen of the same class. A well-to-do comfortable farmer is endeavouring to induce a fair young widow to renounce her weeds. He is leaning on a table, and, with meerschaum in hand, awaits her answer. The attitude and expres sion of the woman, who pursues her knitting quietly and with downcast eyes ponders over the proposal, to which it is evident she has not lent an unwilling ear, are depicted with a skill that indicates the pos session of a delicate vein of humour, and the most careful observation of nature. It would be impos sible to tell the story in words more clearly thanthe artist has told it to the eye. I must not omit to no tice a really fine landscape and cattle piece by Van Spry, which, in the grouping and forms of the cattle and in the power with which sunlight is depicted, reminds one of Cuyp. The Exhibition contains a considerable number of Belgian pictures, but the majority of them do not call for a detailed description. There is a very fine Bossuet ; a charming little picture by Debloch of a girl and boy praying, purchased by the Prince of Wales ; two fine lake scenes—Loch Lonmond and Ben Lomond, in Scotland, and Lake Wallenstadt, Switzerland—by Roffiaen, and several other land scapes, which are remarkable for their truth to na ture. The pictures contributed from Italy are few, and do not possess any striking merit. Of the 18 Norwegian works, two by Tideman arrest the atten tion and admiration. of the visitors by their vigour, simplicity, and truthfulness. One, entitled " The Hangianian," represents a gathering of Norwegian sectaries for worship ; the other, " Grandfather's Bridal Crown," represents an aged matron display ing her wedding ornaments to her grandchildren. The Art department is under the direction of Mr. 11. Doyle, who has discharged a difficult duty alike to the satisfaction of exhibitors and the public. ARCHBISHOP MANNING. VARIOUS OPINIONS •AS TO HIS NOMINATION. THE SATURDAY REVIEW.—To Protestants Dr. Manning's appointment cannot be otherwise than welcome. He may not have much of the national character with which he was born left about him. now. But Protestants may at least assume that, however he may choose to conduct himself towards them, at any rate he will understand them. He has passed through every phase of religion that exists in the Anglican Church, and therefore he knows by experience something of the temper and prejudices of mind that attach to each. He will commit no great blunders through ignorance or misconstruc tion. And as our chief desire and interest is to live nt peace with the Roman Catholics, leaving our rival claims over the allegiance of souls to the calm arbitrement of time, we can desire no better quali fication for a Roman Catholic ruler than the caution and prudence which are likely to distinguish the archiepiscopate of Dr. Manning. THE SPECTATOR.—Dr. Manning had a wide spread reputation as a religious writer before he left the English Church. Quite without the genius and wide imaginative insight of Dr. Newman, quite without Dr. Newman's power of surprising each individual conscience and intellect with the feeling that its workings had been intuitively seen and analyzed, the quondam Archdeacon of Chichester had yet an influence and popularity of his own suit able to the thinner and less complex volume of his religious thought. Dr. Newman, like all men of large genius, raised far more question ings than he could satisfy. Over all the as pects of human life his intellectual imagina tion ranged at will ; and no man ever had a greater power of so touching the keys of thought and feeling as to produce the mood of mind most in harmony with his own faith. This was not, as Mr. Kingsley thought it, a kind of Jesuitical craft, but the natural effect of a wild intellect, itself turned to harmony with deep religious emotions. Granted a specific mode of faith, and his far-ranging imagina tion would stray into the regions most dissonant with it, only to track the path winding through the desert of scepticism by which the wandering under standing might yet be brought back to its home. There are no more delicately-traced pictures of the actual forms of human perplexity and frailty, of doubt, difficulty, and sin, of the various attitudes of the human mind in relation to faith or the want of faith, in the English language, than Dr. Newman's. We speak of him and his writings, however, only for the sake of the contrast with Dr. Manning's. Dr. Newman stirred human nature too deeply and too widely to give that peculiar sensation called re ligious comfort to ordinary minds. As you may find at last a rest upon the sea - which no sheltered valley will give,—the rest of abandoning yourself to the grandeur of a power so mighty and so various in its form of solemnity, its darkness and lustre, its calm and storm, that instead of trying to compre hend it you acquiesce in its comprehending you, and feel once more as an infant (if it could be conscious) would feel cradled in the arms of a universe of which it knows and can control nothing,—so there were minds that at length gained from Dr. New man's wonderful and varied delineations of the human character in its relation to faith a sort of confidence in his power to lead and comprehend them intellectually which was wholly devoid of any clear insight into the grounds of the leader's own trust. But if there were many who were fascinated by this sort of wide intellectual environment, and trusted themselves to the currents of a great thinker's mind as the traveller trusts himself to the sea, there were more perhaps who felt it perplexing and alarming, who found the echoes of their own thoughts too subtle and exciting, the vistas of doubt too dreary, of faith too mysterious, of feeling too delicately-shaded to give their minds the security and tranquillity of a sure anchorage. It was quite otherwise with Dr. Manning. Refined, definite, precise, never opening up widely-divergent lines of thought, keeping to a narrow line, and carrying a single clue to a clear conclusion, Dr. Manning was what may be called a comfortable preacher—to the intellect at least, of his followers. We do not mean that he soothed the conscience to sleep. On the contrary, his thin, clear accents were .always ad dressed to sting it into sharper and more definite activity. But intellectually he stirred up no deep waters. To innocent persons who gave themselves up as religious devotees to a strict attendance on the Church, to frequent communions, and to reli gious charities, his discourses were at once awaken ing and re-assuring. They struck a chord well accustomed to be struck, which sent a deep vibration through the mind, and they engraved deeper and ever deeper the same monotonous answers. The function of the human will in relation to faith, the value of ordinances, the spiritual nourishment of the Eucharist, these were the themes on which, with a certain delicate tenuity of touch but a persistency that made up in constancy and emphasis what it wanted in breadth, Dr. Manning insisted in all his discourses. Even to this day, though Dr. Manning is now a renegade, numbers of pious persons in the Anglican communion find those thin, delicately traced, emphatic sermons, these sermons clear in their drift ; narrow in their scope, positive and even ecstatic in their assurances, their most comfortable reading, though they wonder how " so good a man could leave the Church of his baptism." THE WEEKLY REGISTER.—JoyfuIIy to-day we are enabled to announce that the widowhood of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church and Pro vince of Westminster has terminated. In ac cordance with the certain intimation we gave several weeks ago, the official announcement has now arrived that the choice of the Holy See has fallen upon the Right Reverend Monsignore Man ning, D.D., Protonorary Apostolic, Provost of the Metropolitan Chapter of Westminster, and Superior of the Rev. Fathers Oblates of St. Charles Bor romeo, St. Mary of the Angels, Bayswater. It is said, but we cannot vouch for the fact, that his grace is to receive consecration from the hands of the Holy Father in Person, and that he will shortly proceed to Rome for that purpose. Thus, then, in answer to the prayers of the Catholics in England, Almighty God has in his mercy been pleased to assuage our affliction for the irreparable loss of our great and holy Cardinal Archbishop deceased, and to give us in his place the successor we could most have desired, whose elevation to the Metropolitan dignity is the seal and ratification of our hopes for the salvation of our dear native land. The conver sion to the Faith of Dr. Manning, the Anglican Archdeacon of Chichester, was the first-fruits of the restoration of the English hierarchy, and his subsequent work has so far had upon it the visible blessing of Heaven, that he has been the means of bringing into the Church a greater number of souls than any other missioner now living. His converts are indeed said to have been mostly from the supe rior ranks of society, so that he has earned amongst some the title of " Apostle of the higher classes." But if this be so we can testify from personal ob servation that the labours of Archbishop Manning have not been wanting to the poor. In every work of Catholic charity and benevolence he has ever been foremost, and those who frequent (as we do) the Church of St. Mary of the Angels know how its impressive services and soul-awakening sermons are thronged by the poor, and with what rapt at tention they are enchained. We offer our humble and heartfelt thanks to the Supreme Authority which has sent this learnedpriest and great preacher of penance and of justice to rule over us in spiritual things, and we salute him with all dutiful joy and affection ; and pray God that his archiepis copate may be long and happy. THE TABLET.—The metropolitan see of West ' minster is no longer vacant, and the new archbishop, appointed by his Holiness Pope Pius IX., is the Right Rev. Mgr. Henry Edward Manning, D.D. Provost of Westminster, domestic prelate of his Holiness, Protonorary Apostolic and Superior of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Charles, in the diocese of Westminster. The nomination was made by the Holy Father ou the 30th ult., after many prayers had been said, and many masses offered up to obtain the Divine assistance in the momen tous choice, and the news has been known in Eng land since the beginning of the week. We are suffi ciently familiar with the Catholic press to be aware that the appointment of a new bishop is generally considered as affording a Catholic editor an oppor tunity of reassuring the Holy See, by a decided ex pression of editorial approbation, and of comforting the flock by the announcement, upon editorial au thority, that a better choice could not possibly be made. But we have never attained this sublime view of the editorial mission, and have always held to the old Catholic and Conservative doctrine, that when a ruler or a superior is appointed by a compe tent authority he is to be accepted and reverenced within the sphere of his commission as one whose claims are founded on a right divine. It hap pens, indeed, that the new archbishop:is known as a holy priest, zealous and devout, endowed with more than ordinary power both to con vince the reason and to move the will of men. And it is right and natural that Protestants as well as Catholics should appreciate and recogilis° these qualifications. But for us Catholics who be lieve that the prayers of the successor of St. Peter and of the faithful are powerful to obtain light and inspiration for the government of the Church and the appointment of its rulers, the highest recom mendation to our allegiance that a canonically in stituted bishop can bring is, that he is an apostle who comes because he has been sent to us by God.; And our Protestant readers must not be surprised the appointment of a Catholic archbishop is no t deemed by a Catholic layman a fit occasion for offer ing to the new dignitary such complimentary con gratulations, and such flattering testimonies, as 3 newly made 'Minister or Chancellor properly expects and receives from his colleagues at the bar or in Parliament. Such language would accord ill with the circumstances or with the spirit in which the net archbishop undertakes the heavy burden laid upon him, and enters on the thorny path which he is called to tread. Truly an arduous task, a difficult situation in trying times ! The burthen of the first Archbishop of Westminster was not light"; that of his successor will be heavier still ; and the most meet and becoming tribute which we can offer is a prayer that he may be plentifully assisted with strength and light and grace from on high, and $ hope that he may receive from all his spiritual sub jects that loyal obedience and that generous support which it is his right to expect and their duty to render. COUNTRY MARKETS NORWICH—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was tolerably good to-day, and for good fresh thrashed qualities full rates were realised, o ther sorts were not so ready a sale. Little passing in barley! oats, beans, and peas at former quotations. There h av e been frequent and occasionally heavy showers during IL' week, which have done much good to the young and grOVP ing crops. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 44s to 46s • red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 38s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (veig, i lt , 7o ; ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 26s to 269 6d per sack. runs ditto NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. We had a moderate show of wheat to-day, and sarePle ° met a ready sale at recent currencies. The supply of 19 0 : ley was limited, and the demand proved firm, at little or alteration in prices. Oats rather over late rates. Old white wheat, 42s to 47s ; old red, 40s to 44s ; ne white, 42s to 47s ; new red, 40s to 44s per 36 stone. P a ' . ley, new malting, 27s •to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 265 28s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 30s; new 22s to 258 ; old foreign, 24s to 26s per stone. Dea n* old, 40s to 43s ; new, 37s to 40s per 38 stone. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. nd a The market was pretty well supplied with wheat, the 'attendance was tolerable. Business was firm at 1.;: t rates. There was not much barley showing, and tho be; sorts commanded late rates ; inferior the turn easier. , t ' o t were in small supply, and there was a good demand prices the turn in favour of the seller. Old white wheat, 41s to 478 ; old red, 37s to 41$ ; , 1 .1 . °/1 white, 41s to 458 ; new red, 37s to 41 s p er 36 s t o ne. PyiP ley, malting, 31s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 29s per e, stone. Oats, old, 24s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 AO ' Beans, old, 398 to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. The show of wheat was seasonable, and the condition the samples varied. The demand was fair, and late ral e supported. The show of barley was small, and the trN, ' moderate at about previous rates. There was a thin nigi u ' ling of oats, which commanded rather more money. ..,p r New white wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 39s to 4 25 ,,,r, 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 30s to 32s per qr ; 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 24s per '24 sto Beans, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s qr. Flour, 28s per sack of 2801 b. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—The annual re" port of the administration of this central repository for examples of science and art states that the general condi tion of the pictures and drawings is most satisfacte r P Mr. Rodgrave, the Inspector-Genoral 01 Art, is able to re port that the national collection of water-colour painting ° gradually increases in importance. Several purchases hav been made in the past year, and the collection has been riched by the gifts of water-colour paintings from the 1 03 ' . T. Raven, Mr. R. Sasso, jun., and the Rev. J. Sheepshan ks' A further development of the system of loans has take n place in this class of art through the liberality Of 311 ' Walter, M.P., who has sent a collection of 57 picturos the old masters, principally of the Dutch school. 11111°1 have been exhibited together in one of the rooms contign eu4 ; to the Sheepshanks Gallery. But in the new galleries t whole water-colour collection will be arranged chrone leV cally ; it will form a most interesting and instructive kir torical series. A number of valuable additions have 1) 0° 0 made to the arts collections. The principal purchases of tl / ' year have been ft Spanish "retable," or alter-piece, a 170r f of great size and importance, of the date of the first ha l ' , the 15th century, originally in a church at Valencia, n ° destroyed ; a casket in coloured enamel, the work of Limousin ; a missal-case in gold, ornamented with tran'i lucid enamel, said to have been formerly the property f Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I.; a candlestiel' - f Henry 11. ware ; the Syon cope, a remarkable examPle I t o early English needlework; and a collecti on of obj et , illustrative of Spanish work in the 15th and 16th centari Among the gifts of the year should be mentioned a Gelletre tion of ;articles, such as w a t c h es , nee dl ewor k, wearing N t parel, &c., illustrative of the manners and tastes of the li e , and 18th centuries, presented by the Rev. R. Br °° ; o The regular collection of objects on loan continues al to be well supported. Many valuable and interesting ° jects have been contributed by Mr. Gladstone, 3S.F , others. Considerable progress has been made in the s r ; rangement for the systematic interchange of reprodu cti° d , of works of art with foreign Governments. An u nclerst an i 0 ing has been come to with the trustees of the Br it o Museum in relation to the purchase of works of art ; 01° 410 which belong to classical epochs are to be considered as especial province of the British Museum. The nece-sio works which have been going on at South Kensing ton n- caused some inconvenience to visitors, but this is ' l O avoidable while the new buildings are in progress ; -t l D o present rate of proceeding about eight more years aril ü b. required to carry out the plan of buildings which was s l id mitted to the select committee in 1860. Attention is th e to the approaching loan exhibition of miniatures, an",,,,g , exhibition (likely to be annual) of stained glass and lish mosaics. The visitors to the Art Library ha v° „ l. o cl creased in number. All the collections have been illar r° ,:e in the course of the year. The responsibility for the ligb`lito and custody of the museum at night increases wit growth ; the organisation and arrangements for pre v°ll :bie. accidents and remedying them are as complete as Pn ss i no o The cost for the consumption of gas for the museum in is a shilling a minute. The attendance of the Pub li n e o; Easter week (1864) was 27,518; Whitsun-week, 16 V" his Christmas week, 35,984 ; the whole year, 653,0 69 . pt number much exceeded that of any previous year, exc e pt that of 1862, the Exhibition year, and 1863, when 01011:to ding presents of the Princess of Wales were shown, an tracted 229,425 persons in 17 days. The inner e irc ' i j9 metropolitan railways will have a station within 200 ryo ° of the museum, to which there will probably be a C° passage of communication. Birth, f Ve tv • CIIADS.—On the 11th inst., at Colchester, the wife 0 ,- „alr tenant-Colonel W. J. Chads, 64th Regiment, of a °— ter. FANE.—On the 12th inst ,at Fulbeck, the wife °"• ° 1 f - Colonel Francis Fano, 25th Regt., prematurely' daughter. co' LICHFIELD.—On the 12th inst., at Shu borough, the - tess of Lichfield, of a daughter. g 4 h 14 ° RoLT.—On the 10th inst , at Limpsfi ld, SurreY: of the Rev. H. G. Rolt,. of a son. ° Marriages. ton e ; HINCKLEY—INGE.—On the 11th inst at St. Ch il l to Ifir; Lichfield, Arthur Hinckley, Esq., inst. Stowe 7 4 130 riette, daughter of the late Rev Charles Ingo, " Hill, Leicestershire. WATICLNS—MORGAN.—On the 11th inst., at J.A.,-b7 t he Admiral T. V. Watkins, to Georgians Eli za li t ore youngest surviving daughter of the late Thomas Esq., Llangadock, Carmarthenshire. Deaths. JOSt iee BEDDALL.—On the 12th inst ,at hi s residence: 70. Finchingfield, Essex, Thomas Beddall, Esq., l'g e 00 0 CRISP.—On the 12th inst., John Wiseman C ris ' ', Meadow, Norwich, aged 63. Car ii4l CURTIS.—On the 9th inst., at Stepney, Mr. G eorg e aged 68. n e org GORDON.—On the 10th inst., at Scarboroug h, ' Gordon, LL.D., aged 38. stiE 5 GosTLING.—On the 10th inst., Willi am Gostling: Lansdown-place, Bath, aged 66. „a 5'3 TYLEE.—On the Bth inst., at; Rome, Major- 0011e late of the Indian Army, aged 58. vr kNO' London : Printed and Published by jo Of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Viz Sum the Strand, in the Precinct of the Sayoy , ti le Middle Monday, May 15, 1605. `\