The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

Railway and Other Companies. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at Euston station; Mr. R. Moon in the chair. Mr. Reay, the secretary, having read the notice of adjournment, The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit was for making a railway from the Merthyr, Tre degar, and Abergavenny Railway, near the Bryn mawr station thereof to Blaenavon. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which authorised the London and North-Western Railway Company to subscribe £25,000 for making a branch to the ironworks and to enter into working and traffic arrangements. A formal resolution approving the bill was car ried unanimously. The CHAIR3IAN moved a formal resolution ap proving a bill far authorising arrangements between the North-Western and Charing-crossßailwayCom pany, and the London and North-Western Railway Company, and the South-Eastern Railway Com pany, and for other purposes. Mr. BROWN-WESTHEAD seconded the motion. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which conferred powers of working and using the line when completed on the London and North-Western and on the South-Eastern Railway Companies, and it provided that if, in any year, there should be a deficiency in the net receipts, the two latter compa nies should subscribe a sufficient sum to make up the net receipts to £40,000 ; and in case there should be any further deficiency it must be made up by the London and North-Western Railway Com pany. The CHAIRMAN said it was very desirable that there should be a railway communication between the London and North-Western system of lines and those of the South-Eastern Railway Company. They believed that it would be of great importance to both companies. They guaranteed between them that the net receipts should be £40,000 a year, and it appeared that other parties would be willing to find the money for the construction of the line. Looking at the traffic on metropolitan lines it was probable the railway would pay its own way and be a success. The Solicitor, la reply to questions by Mr. C. BELL, stated that there were no other agreements between the companies than those mentioned in the bill. The share capital authorised was £990,000, and the borrowing powers were £330,000. The two companies were to subscribe sums not exceeding 120,000, each to make up the guarantee of £40,000 a year. There was no engineering difficulty in the construction of the line, and it was believed that the estimates for lands and works were sufficient. The Secretary read the agreement between the two companies, from which it appeared that the shares of the new company were to be offered in the first instance to the shareholders of the South- Eastern and London and North-Western Railway Companies. A formal resolution approving the bill was car tied unanimously. The meeting was then made special, to consider the propriety of raising £1,118,000 by the issue of ordinary stock in the company to that amount rate able among the shareholders. The new capital was required for the purpose of carrying out the powers of acts passed in 1865—viz., £BO,OOO for the Lon don and North-Western (additional powers, Eng land) Act, 1865; £lOO,OOO for the London and North-Western (additional powers, Wales) Act, 1865 ; £lOO,OOO for the Leeds New Station Act, 1865 ; £BO,OOO for the Lancashire Union Railway Act, 1865 ; £B,OOO for the Preston and Wyre Rail way Act, 1865 ; and £30,000 for the Wrexham and Minera Railway Act, 1865. The CHAIRMAN said there had been some mis apprehension in respect to the issue of the stock. The shareholders have the option of paying up the money on the 30th inst. or any time between that date and the Ist of August. A circular would be issued to the shareholders on the 14th inst. stat ing the terms. The concern was in first-rate con dition, and there was nothing whatever to affect the value of their stock. The fires that had recently taken place at Liverpool were fully covered by the insurance fund, and the directors would take care that the new capital should be expended on produc tive works that would yield as good a dividend as they were now paying. Ile concluded by moving a formal resolution authorising the directors to raise £1,118,000, as they might deem most expedient for the interests of the company. Mr. BROWN-WESTHEAD seconded the motion, which, after a short discussion, was unanimously carried, and the proceedings terminated. MIDLAND. An adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held yesterday iu the Derby Station ; Mr. %Y. H. Hutchinson presided. The CHAIRMAN said the first bill he had to submit was a bill for granting to the Great Northern Rail way Company running powers over a portion of the Newton and Compstall Branch Railway of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway . Company, and for authorising the said two com panies and the Midland Railway Company to exe cute certain works, and for authorising the Great Northern Railway Company and the Midland Rail way Company to become joint owners with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, of that company's Godley and Woodley Branch Railway, and for transferring to the said three companies the powers of the Chester and West Cheshire Junction Railway Company. The Mid land Company's share of the capital for this pro posed purchase was £OO,OOO, with power to borrow £30,000. Mr. BEALE having read the marginal notes, A formal resolution approving the bill was carried unanimo us l y . The CHAIP3IAN said the next was a bill for autho rising the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway Comp any t o raise further moneys, and for making provision with respect to a eT lease, is sale,railw railway amalgamation of the un d ertaking . co mmenced at Hampste a d b y a junction on with the Midland Company's new line from Bedford to Lon don, and terminated near Tottenham, on the Great Eastern Railway. By an agreement with the Great Eastern Company the Midland Company was ac corded running powers from Tottenham to the Vi e _ toria Docks, on the river Thames. They had also running powers over the London and Blackwall Railway, and were to have the use of the new sta tion in Bishopsgate-street, the Midland allowing the Great Eastern to use the station M Euston-road as their western terminus. The bill authorized the creation of £lOO,OOO, one-third of which was to be supplied by the Midland Company. A motion approving the bill was adopted. The following bills were also approved :—A bill for authorizing the Chester and West Cheshire Junction Ra ilway atCh Company to make extensions of their railwayester, and to the river Dee and to Nestop respectively,and to raise further moneys —a bill to confer further powers upon the Hemel Hempstead and Lo n d on to North-Western Rail way Company ; a bill authorize the Newport extend their railway t P o agli the el N ß o a r il th w a a m y p C to o n mpa an -n d y to Peterborough line ofthe an London and North-Western, tt:le Leicest er an d a th llitehin line of the Midland, Bedford and Not thampton Railway, the authorized Th e meeting was then adjourned until Tuesday next. DEVON AND CORNWALL. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, Westminster-chambers ; Mr. T. C. Ifainlyn in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of the following bills: A bill for authorising the London and South Western Raiiway to make and maintain the Brentford curve and the Kew-bridge curve, and other works, and for authorising arrangements between them and other companies, and for the increase of their capital; and a bill for authorising the Central Cornwall Railway Company to run over divers railways, and for authorising arrangements between them and other railway companies. The CH4I - R3LIN then moved resolutions approving the bills, which were carried, and the proceedings terminated. CI ANNOCK CHASE AND cvoLvEan AMPTON. A Wharncliffc meeting of this cowl any was held yesterday at the offices, Great Gem- !( -street, West minster, for the purpose of considering a bill to enable the company to extend their railway to Hed nesford and to the South Staffordshire Railway. The bill was approved, and the proceedings ter minated. TENDRIN G HUNDRED. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company approved the Thorpe and Great Clacton Bill. The extension line of the Tendring Hundred, now in progress, was expected to be completed to Kirby-cross this month, and to Walton-on-the-Naze by the end of July. MOLD AND DENBIGH. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the offices, Westminster-chambers; Mr. A. Roberts in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to enable the Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway Company to make branch railways -and a deviation, and to alter their authorised railway. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bill, which was carried, and the proceed ings terminated. SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the offices, Westminster-chambers ; Mr. A. Billson in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to authorize the company to deviate from and alter parts of their authorized works, and to make new branch and junction railways ; and to participate in the owner ship of the Wellington and Drayton Railway ; and also the heads of a bill to amalgamate the Shrews bury and Potteries Junction Railway with the Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company. Formal resolutions approving the bills were car ried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Monday, at Westminster-chambers ; Mr. Mo catta in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to enable the company to make certain railways, and also certain deviations and alterations in their author ized line ; and also of a bill to amalgamate the Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company, and the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Rail way Company. Formal resolutions approving the bills were car. ried, and the proceedings terminated, CENTRAL WALES. On Monday a Wharncliffe meeting of this com pany was held at the offices, Westminster-chambers; Mr. R. G. Price in the chair. The Secretary read the heads of the following bills, viz. :—A bill for making a railway from the Taff Vale Railway at Aberdare to the Neath and Brecon Railway at Capel, Coelbren, and a branch to the Vale of Neath Railway; a bill to authorize the construction of railways between Presteign, Clun, and the Craven Arms, and for other purposes relat ing to the undertaking ; and a bill to change the names of the Pembroke and Tenby Railway Com pany, and to enable them to extend their railway to Carmarthen and to Alilford Haven, and to lease their undertaking. The CHAIRMAN moved formal resolutions approv ing the bills, which were carried nern con., and the proceedings terminated. CENTRAL WALES EXTENSION. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Monday at the offices, Westminster-chambers— Mr. C. F. Maitland in the chair. The Secretary read the heads of the following bills :—A bill to enable the Vale of Towy Railway Company to lease their undertaking to the Knighton Railway Company, the Central Wales Railway Company, and the Central Wales Extension Rail way Company ; or to the two first-mentioned rail way companies jointly; and a bill for making a rail way from the Taff Vale Railway at Aberdare to the Neath and Brecon Railway at Capel Coelbren; and a branch to the Vale of Neath Railway. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bills, which was carried ; and the meeting separated. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending May 15 amounted, on 507 miles, to £18,812, against £15,653 on 450 miles in the cor responding week last year, showing an increase of £3,159. The total receipts from Jan. 1 to the above date amounted to £117,632, against £222,146 for the same period last year,showing an increase of £95,486. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending May 19 amounted for local passengers to £2,038; for foreign passengers to £2,632 ; for emigrants to £826 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £12,807 ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,595—t0ta1, £23,804, against £25,252 for the corresponding week of last year, showing a decrease of £1,387. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £188,367, and for the same period last year to £479,625, showing an increase of £8,742. PUNJAB. The traffic receipts on this line from the Ist of January to the 15th of April last amounted to 363,607 r., being a weekly average of 24,240 r. The receipts for the last week to which the returns were made up amounted to 30,914 r. RAILWAY BILLS. In Lord Iledesdale's Committee, on Tuesday, the following bills were passed :—The Bristol and Exeter (additional powers), to raise £125,000 by shares and £41,500 by loan ; the South Yorkshire (to raise £150,000 by shares and £50,000 by loan) ; and the Wrexham and Minera (transfer). The Presteign, Clun, and Bishop's Castle was adjourned. In the Standing Orders Committee the Macclesfield, Knutsford, and Warrington Bill, to raise £400,000 by shares and £133,000 by loan, was passed. In the General Committee of the louse of Com mons the following bills were passed :—The Stour bridge ; the North British and Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton (Amalgamation); the North British (St. Margaret's Diversion), to raise Z 40,000 by shares and £13,000 by loan ; the North British (New Works, &c.), to raise additional sums of £160,000 by . share s and £53,300 b y l oan ; the North British Strling, &c., Bra nc h es) ; the Brynmawr and Blaen avon, to raise £50,000 by shares and £16,600 by loan ; the Devon Valley and North British (Arrange.. ments), to raise £20,000 b y shares, to enable the North British to subscribe £60,000; the New Rom ney, to raise £85,000 by shares and £28,300 by loan; the Bedford and Northampton and the Longton, Adderley Green, and Bucknall, to raise £60,000 by shares and £20,000 by loan. In seven other committees the following bills were heard and adjourned :—The South Eastern and Lon don, Chatham, and Dover (London, Lewes,. and Brighton) Bill; the Midland (Ashby and Nuneaton, &c.) ; the Midland (Branches, &c.) and London and North Western and Midland Counties Coal Fields; the Pembroke and Tenby, the Swansea and Clydach, and the Swansea Vale ; the Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction and the Ogmore Valley (No. 1.) ; the Caledonian and Scottish North East ern, the Caledonian (Corstorphine Junction), and the Caledonian (Lanarkshire, &c., Branches). GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. The half yearly meeting of this company was held on T ues d ay, at the office, Surrey-street, Strand , . Mr. Anderson in the chair. Mr. ROGERS, the secretary, read th e re p or t, w hi c h stated that the net receipts for the past half year had been £36,122, or an increase of £991 over those of the corresponding half of 1864, while the expen diture had been £893 less. The works of the canal were in good order. Th e committee had purchased the wharf property on the Paddington embankment for £12,000. To meet the existing and threatened competition by railway companies, and with the view of the entire or partial conversion of the canals ' between London and Birmingham into a mineral and goods railway, they had instructed the engineer to make a survey, which would be completed in about a month. The profits for the half year, after paying interest on the preference stock and working expenses, amounted to £26,513, which, added to the balance in hand, made a total of £32,755, from which the committee recommended a dividend of £2 ss. per share, free of income tax, leaving a ba lance of £7,264. The CHAIRMAN, congratulating the shareholders on the sound condition of the undertaking, moved the adoption of the report and dividend, which hav ing been agreed to, a vote of thanks to the chair man concluded the proceedings. Naval and Miltary Intelligence. We understand that Capt. H. W. Hire, of her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, has submitted to the Admiralty a plan for utilising the present " bridges" on the upper deck of troop and other pas senger screw steamvessels as " lifeboats." The screw now having superseded paddlewheels in these ves sels, the old paddlebox lifeboat is lost as a means of saving life at sea, or of landing quickly any large body of troops. It is with a view to meet this de ficiency that the plan now proposed as the joint de sign of himself and Mr. John White, shipbuilder, of Cowes, has been so far matured. A boat is to be built for the Orontes which will also serve as a bridge. It will be 10ft in width and 50ft long, the breadth of the ship, and it will be constructed on Lamb and White's patent. When launched from the ship and filled to the gunwale with water, it will, by means of air cases, be able to carry 150 men, each man carrying with him 20 pounds of food or stores. There can be no doubt as to the fitness of Lamb and White's patent in the construction of such a boat, and the most important point after wards remaining for consideration is the mode pro posed forgetting the boat in and out of the ship from its bridge position, above the level of the hammock nettings, to its boat position, afloat on the water alongside the ship, and back again from boat to bridge. This is accomplished in the following manner:—The boatis mounted athwart the ship's deck as a "bridge" on a platform which is nothing more or less than a set of launching ways, the keel of the boat fitting in a groove, and the bilges of the boat resting on the side "ways." These ways are pivoted in the centre on stout stanchions, and their ends are held in position over the ship's hammock netting on each side by screw stanchions. The ship's bulwarks next these screw stanchions are cut into a large pore on each side rather wider than the boat, and when open throw outwards. If the boat has to be lowered, the screw stanchions are lowered on the side re quired, the port opened, and the boat on its ways lowered down until the lower end of the ways rest on the ship's side over her waterway. The striking up then of an ordinary dogshore releases the boat, and sends her off and afloat alongside the ship. In getting her in again two threefold tackles, from davits fixed at each end of the ways, lift one end of the boat on the lower end of the inclined ways ; another tackle from their further end hauls the boat into its seat ; the ways and boat are then swayed into posi tion again, screw stanchions are set up and fasten ings made good, and the whole has now become a bridge again. The boat is thus got in and out of the ship without any purchase from her masts and yards. The platform of the bridge is formed with i dTa nehrdea properly-fitted tloie onf ntl yoanopb appears objectionable caatrri planking sdontotahbbelee laid sthhiep v feature vorhoebe when the aubsglheg boat's eewsitseeids weight t t nt hw oacfflo a not r ahs t e boat and its ways when in position on board a steam ship as her bridge. This, however, Capt. Hire will have to deal with ; and if the scheme can be carried into practical effect a very considerable addition will be made to the troop-landing powers of our screw troop steamships and to the life-savingpowers of all our screw steamships at sea. The Royal Sovereign, 5, turret-ship, Capt. Herbert, has landed her gun from her after-turret at Ports mouth, and made ready for the firing test at her after turret from thelo-inch rifled gun now on board the iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. E. Tatham, also lying at Portsmouth. No day has yet been named definitely for the experiment, although, of course, all kinds of rumours are current both as to time and conditions, but the steel shot have been received at Portsmouth dock - yard, the 10-inch gun is mounted on board the Bellerophon, the gun has been dis mounted and landed from the after turret of the Royal Sovereign, and both ships have but now to go 1 out of Portsmouth harbourto make the experiment. The Pearl, unarmoured screw corvette, 1,469 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. J. F. Ross, fitting out at Portsmouth for service in China, received yesterday bronze and silver coin to the amount of about $500,000 for conveyance to Hongkong. The Pearl is complete for sea. The large floating shears in Chatham harbour, which have been employed for some weeks past in lifting the engines, machinery, and iron masts on board the armour-clad frigate Northumberland, in • Victoria-docks, were yesterday towed back to Chat ham dockyard, their ser %ices being no longer required. The old line-ef-battle sailing ship Belleisle, for merly used as an hospital ship in Chatham harbour, ; has, on the application of the committee of the Sea [ men's Hospital Society, been lent by the Admiralty to be used as an hospital for seamen arriving at the port of London suffering from cholera. The Belle isle has been towed round from Chatham by the Medusa, paddle wheel steamer, Ma3ter- Commander Potter, but during the passage up the Thames was run aground. She was got off during the following tide without having sustained any but trifling in juries. The hired transport Queen of the Clippers, J. Hitchens, commander, and the Ariel, T. Winter, commander, are now at the Royal Arsenal pier, Woolwich, taking in cargoes of hutting materials for military accommodation in the Island of Bermuda. The former ship will carry 220 tons, consisting of iron beams, girders, planking, &c., and the latter will ship a similar cargo, amounting to about 800 tons, and will be ready for sea in a few days. The Italian ram vessel Affondatore has left Mill wall, having been completed for sea. She is now at Greenhithe, it is stated, swinging for the adjust ment of her compasses, and her convoy, the Prin cipessa Clotilda, has gone down from Woolwich to Gravesend to await her arrival there, in readiness to proceed to Naples, their present destination. The Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief, visited Aldershot Camp on Mon day, and reviewed the troops at the station. His Royal Highness, accompanied by Major-General Lord George Paget, Inspector-General of Cavalry, and Lieut.-General Sir Hope Grant, Quartermaster- General, arrived at Farnborough by the 8 o'clock train from London, and immediately proceeded to Cove Common, where the infantry were drawn up in quarter distance column by brigades, The march ing past of the division being dispensed with, field manoeuvres commenced, lasting without intermission for nearly two hours. At the conclusion the regi ments were ordered home, and marched past his Royal Highness in op m column of companies. The Duke then proceeded - to Elmoor, where the cavalry brigade was formed up. No time was lost by an inspection or marching past ; but the regiments im mediately proceeded to manoeuvre by the new pivot drill, at which they were employed for about an hour and a half. After this they were dismissed to their quarters. On Monday Majo :-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., in command of the troops in the Chatham district, commenced h is half-yearly inspection of the corps of Royal Engineers, at head-quarters. The inspection was commenced at 10 o'clock by Major- Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, attended by his staff, in specting the barrack buildings, halls of instruction, , lecture rooms, schools, t aces, and other portions of the Royal Engineer establishment, accompanied by the officials at head-quad. .tors. In this duty he was occupied until the afternt ion. The entire force at head-quarters numbers 9 5, non-commissioned offi cers and men, together upwards of 100 officers, including the 7th, 11th, 21st, 22d, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th comp ani es The garrison hole of the companies t o o rd a e s r s s em is b s l u e ed in di r r e e v c i t e e h review orderte lv't a the inner lines for the customary inspection and id-day manoeuvres ; but the heavy rain which fell 414,r, ing the afternoon THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE I, ISM interfered with this portion of the intended arrange ments. Yesterday Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole re sumed and completed the inspection, and intimated his satisfaction with the efficient state of the corps. In consequence of the Ist Battalion of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regiment being considerably be low its proper strength an order has been received at Chatham garrison directing 23 men of the 2d Battalion of the 2d Royals to proceed to Cork to join the service companies of the Ist Battalion. The 2d Battalion of the Ist Royals and the Ist Batta lion of the sth Fusileers are also both below their proper complement, and an order has been received at Chatham from the Horse Guards directing volun teering to be opened for both those regiments from the depot of the Ist Battalion of the 10th Regt. Yesterday the 11th company of Royal Engineers left headquarters, Brornpton-barracks, and pro ceeded from Chatham by railway to Dover for the purpose of being employed on the engineering works connected with the defences on that part of the coast. The 7th company of Royal Engineers also left Chatham garrison at 4.30 yesterday morning, and marched to the Isle of Grain for the purpose of occupying the casemated barracks just completed within the fortifications erected at the entrance to the Medway, for the better protection of Chatham harbour and dockyard. The annual military games and athletic sports by the infantry troops of the line at Chatham garrison took place yesterday afternoon on Chatham lines, under the patronage of Major-Gen. Sir R. Wal pole, K.C.8., in the presence of an unusually large concourse of spectators. The sports consisted of throwing the hammer, putting the stone, high and wide jumping, foot races over a course of a mile and under, hurdle races for both officers and men, flat races, and other games and sports, the entries for each race being very numerous. A sum of nearly £3O was distributed in prizes, which were given in sums varying from £1 ls. downwards. All the races and games were exceedingly well con tested, and the sports gave the utmost satisfaction to the numerous spectators present. The bands of the several corps attended and played appropriate selections of music between the games. An order has been received at Woolwich f rom the War Department for the manufacture of 5,000,000 cartridges for the supply of Schneider's breechloading carbines, 20,000 of which are ordered to be issued to the army for immediate use, and a number of them are to be tested at the Arsenal butt in the Plumstead-marsh. A naval court-martial assembled on Tuesday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of Lieut. E. F. Keppel and Mr. J. P. Snell, officers serving on board her Majesty's ship Pearl, Capt. Ross. The charges against Lieut. Kep pel were, his having been drunk on May 27, and of having, on or about March 27, caused a boat to be lowered, and being in the gangway with intent to leave the ship in the said boat without having obtained permission from Capt. Ross. The Court comprised Capt. E. Tatham (Bellerophon), presi dent ; Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, A.D.C. (Vic tory), Capt. M. Connolly (Pallas), Capt. J. Sec combe (Liverpool), Capt. Hire (Orontes), and Capt. Herbert (Royal Sovereign). Capt. Ross (Pearl) prosecuted; and Mr. E. Hoskins sat as officiating judge advocate; Mr. R. %V. Ford, solicitor, of Ports mouth, was present as prisoner's friend. After hear ing the evidence the Court ordered " That Lieut. Keppel be dismissed her Majesty's service." The Court then proceeced to try Mr. Snell, master of her Majesty's ship Pearl, on the charge of being drunk. Captain Ross prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded guilty. He laid before the Court certifi cates he had received since he entered the service. He obtained full numbers at college, for which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty favourably noticed his name. He also produced an extra cer tificate as pilot from the Board of Trade. The Court, after deliberating an hour, sentenced the prisoner—in consideration of the position he ob tained at college, and the excellence of his certifi cates —to be only dismissed his ship, and placed at the bottom of the list of masters. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander G. H. Clarke (now employed as naval agent in contract mail service) to the Royal George, additional, for service as trans port agent at Kingstown, vice Lieut. E. H. Blake ; Staff Commander George L. Carr to the Indus, for service in tenders ; Lieut. Hugh Davis, Lieut. Chas. E. D. Willcox, Lieut. Frederick Hammond, and Lieut. Francis Romilly to the Lord Clyde ; Lieut. Edward C. Royse to the Pearl ; Francis B. Hen wood, master, to the Pembroke; W. F. Parsons, master to the President ; S. W. Browne, master, to the Pearl ; S. J. A.PBean, assist.-surg., additional, to the Ganges; J. W. Arnott, assist.-surg., to the Wizard ; Dr. W. INPMahon, assist.-surg., to the St. George ; C. Strickland, assist.-surg., additional, to the Bristol ; N. T. Conolly, assist.-surg., to the Supply ; E. W. Thomas, engineer, and J. F. Hat ' tersley, first-class assistant-engineer, to the Cale donia, for the Pigeon. The Public Health. The following is the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, June 4. In the week that ended on Saturday, June 2, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,380 ; the deaths resistered, 3,314. The annual rate of mor tality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,111 boys and 1,025 girls, in all 2,136 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 1,922. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,540. It was the 22d week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week was, with a correction for increase of population, 1,195. The mortality is still very high. It is in excess of the estimated amount by 345. In the last six weeks the weekly number of deaths from whooping-cough has ranged from 97 to 117. Last week it was 185, the corrected average for the end of May being 53. Of the 105 cases, 12 occurred in Pancras, 6 in Islington, 10 in the Shoreditch dis trict, 10 in Lambeth. There were 63 fatal cases of measles, 59 of typhus, 48 of scarlatina, 24 of small pox, 19 of diarrhoea. Six children died of measles in Westminster, and 6 in Islington. The following two deaths from cholera were regis tered :—On May 28, at 58, North-street, Walworth, the sou of a labourer, aged 10 months, died of " Asiatic cholera (one day)." On May 31, at 3, Charles-street, Bethnal-green, the son of a ware houseman, aged 5 years, died of " choleraic diar rhoea" (24 hours) ; convulsion (6 hours). A blacksmith, aged 47 years, died of " melanosis of the lung" (6 months). The following five deaths were caused by car riage accidents in the streets :—The widow of a bootmaker, aged 70 years, knocked down by a brougham horse in Elizabeth -street, Pimlico ; died on May 17, after five days' illness. The daughter of a carriage trimmer, aged 7 years, run over by a cart ; died on May 25 in the Middlesex Hospital. The daughter of a shoemaker, aged 3 years, run over by a cart ; died on May 22 in Abbey-lane, Hampstead. The son of a ship joiner, aged 6 years, run over by two vans. Manslaughter ; died on May 21 in Grove-road, Bethnal-green. A coal car man, aged 55 years, jammed between a cart and a wall at Deptford ; di e d after six days' illness in Guy's Hospital. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 24 in Dublin ; 26 in Bristol, 26 in Birmingham, 41 in Liverpool, 33 in Manchester, 23 in Salford, 30 in Sheffield, 30 in Leeds, 15 in Hull, 26 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 34 in Glasgow. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.633 in. The atmospheric pressure rose to 29.81 on 'Wed nesday, and fell to 29 . 51 in. on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 56.2 deg., which is very near the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest temperature in the shade was 75 deg. on Saturday ; the highest in the sun 104 deg. on Mon day and Friday. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.2 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 72, complete saturation being represented by 100. On four days of the week the humidity was only 62 or 64. Rain fell to the amount of 1.80 in., of which o.Boin. fell early on Sunday, and the remainder, equal to lin., on Thursday and Friday. On the latter day the rain-fall at Birmingham amounted to 1/in., but there was scarcely any north of that town. King's College Hospital. The 27th anniversary festival of this charity was held yesterday evening at Willis's Rooms, Sir W. Ferguson, Bart., in the chair. There were between 150 and 200 guests present. The report circulated in the room pointed out that the hospital was in the centre of a district containing 400,000 inhabitants, and that it received patients from all parts of Lon don and the suburbs. Last year relief was given to 1,900 in-patients, 35,792 out-patients and 733 poor married women at their own homes. No London hospital afforded to its patients a greater quantity of space, air, and light, or more perfect ventila tion. Ten beds were set apart under the auspices of Miss Nightingale, at the charge of the Nightingale fund, for the reception of poor mar ried women, of whom 168 were confined in the hospital during 1865. By these means midwife nurses were specially trained. There was a ward for sick children called the " Pantia Ralli" ward founded recentlyby a gift of £6,000 from Mr. Peter P. Rani, the Greek merchant, in memory of his late father. The entire cost of conducting the hos pital could not be put down at less than £B,OOO per annum, while the committee had only annual sub scriptions to the amount of about £2,200. Between the toasts vocal music was given by Mr. Winn, Mr. Coates, Miss Dalmaine, and Miss Randal. The loyal and patriotic toasts were given by the chair man, and Major-Gen. Sir J. Garvock acknowledged the toast of the army. In giving " Pros erity to King's College Hospital" the chairmanade an earnest appeal on behalf of the institution, and cha ritable institutions generally, referring incidentally to his 40 years' professional experience of them. Since its foundation he said 700,000 applicants had appeared at the doors of King's College Hospital, and of the 40,000 persons who applied every year 2,000 were admitted. After dwelling upon the ad vantages of the hospital as a charity, the chairman enlarged upon its educational character, remarking that it was one of the only two hospitals in London devoted from its opening to educational purposes, and that the present number of pupils was 140, while the total number educated was 1,300. The facilities offered for the training of nurses was also commented upon as one of its important and inte resting features. Subscriptions exceeding £2,500 were announced. The Earl of Dartthouth and Mr. Justice Keating were amongst the speakers during the concluding portion of the proceedings. It was hoped that £B,OOO would have been subscribed dur ing the evening, that sum being required to place the charity in a healthy financial position. Austria, Prussia, and the Duchies. The Wiener Abendpost, the official journal of Vienna, publishes in its edition of Tuesday evening the following article : " The declaration formerly made by Austria at the last sitting of the Germanic Diet hands over to the Confederation the further dealing with the Schleswig-Holstein question, so far as Austria was in a position to exercise in respect of that question a direct and determinate influence. The motives which induced this step of the Austrian Government are well known ; those motives are based upon the conviction, fully established by events, that an un derstanding with Prussia for a definitive arrange ment in accordance with German rights and with those of the Duchies is impossible. If we look for ward to the consequences of this act of the Austrian Government, we find that the Cabinet of Vienna has not departed from the original and undoubtedly legitimately principle of Austro-Prussia action, and that the terms agreed upbn by both Powers are based upon an admission of the German right of re cognition. Austria assigns as her legal basis of action the Treaty of Vienna, and she is far from contesting, even with respect to the definitive settle ment of the affairs of the Duchies, the importance of the provisional arrangements of the Treaty of Gastein. The convocation of the Estates of Hol stein is a proof of that disposition. The position of affairs stood thus : —The peace of Vienna gay . e to the two great Germen Powers the right of disposing of the Duchies, but certainly not of doing so con trary to law and right. The essential points of the arrangement may be stated briefly—that the trea ties confer upon Austria and Prussia the right of seeing that right be done. The first-mentioned right could, perhaps, when we remember the assis tance afforded by Pussia to the deliverance of the Duchies, the position of that Power in the north of Germany, as well as her political necessities, be subjected to certain restrictions, but to ignore it altogether is what neither Austria nor Prussia could do without repudiating the object of their common action against Denmark, without substituting in the Duchies a mere arbitary domi nation in place of that which has been driven ou by the triumphal march of the German armies to the frontiers of Jutland, nor without inflicting a suicidal blow upon the fundamental conditions of the exist ence of the Germanic Confederation. Any natural and impartial interpretation of the treaties must lead to the conclusion that the Schleswig-Holstein dispute ought to be referred to the decision of the Diet. If the rights of the Duchies had been from the beginning established beyond doubt, and if, especially, Austria and Prussia had been able to agree upon a definitive settlement of the question upon the bases of those rights, there would have been no necessity for an appeal to the assistance of the Confederation in order to arrive at an arrangement based upon the disposing right conferred upon the two great Powers by the Treaty of Vienna. But all the efforts of Austria directed towards obtaining the concurrence of Prussia to an arrangement which all the rest of Germany recognised as right and law ful were unavailing. What, then, was more natural than that Austria should transfer her free action to Federal right—a right which had the claim of prio rity, and which could not disturb the agreements entered into between Austria and Prussia ? What, therefore, could be more natural than to leave the further prosecution of the business to the decision of the Diet ? As to Prussia, she appears less entitled to dispute the action of Austria, because her position in respect of this question rests mainly upon her connection with the Confederation. It is a fact that during the long course of years in which Prussia has taken an active part in the Schleswig-Holstein question she has done so in her character of a member of the Confederation, and not as a great European Power. She entered upon a conflict with Denmark in order to give effect to a decree of Fede ral execution before the contest had assumed the gravity of war. She now raises pretensions over the Duchies of which it is impossible to permit her to constitute herself the sole judge. If momentary advantages do not constitute the fundamental prin ciples of her policy, if she has preserved, despite her system of military conventions, separate alliances, and dallyings with foreign Powers, one remnant of fidelity to Federal right, she will submit to the de cision of the Diet as Austria has determined to sub mit herself. It is not her rivalry with Austria—a rivalry which has been the occasion of more than one complication—which can now determine the course she should pursue. Austria, indeed, without at all attacking the right of Prussia and without prejudging the ultimate decision of the Diet, retires individually from the conflict, and thus opens a new path for the maintenance of peace. If Prussia should refuse to follow that path such refusal will be directed against the Confederation. By rejecting the deci sions of the Diet she breaks the links which unite Germany. Is it possible that people in Prussia can be alive to the consequence to which the next pro ceedings of the Bismarck Cabinet may lead ? Let us hope that those proceedings may be dictated by really German sentiments, freed from all passion— from that belief in the destiny of the Prussian Monarchy which has for too long a time exercised a dominating influence upon the policy of the Cabinet of Berlin." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The events which have attended the abandonment of the Conference show that the pro spects of its success would have been faint indeed. Though Austria alone proclaimed her reservations beforehand, and so disposed of the attempt, yet it seems almost evident that not only Italy, but Prus sia too, entertained similar resolutions of foregoing nothing. Unless, indeed, the Government of Berlin were determined to keep the Danish Duchies at all hazards, it would have no ground of complaint against the present proceedings of Austria in referring that question to the decision of the Germanic Bund, inasmuch as that, beyond all doubt, is the tribunal to which the jurisdiction pertains. It is true that as the case stands at present Austria is under a private engagement with Prussia to reject the authority of the Bund, and settle the question by 'special arrange ment, and that is the weak point of the Austrian cause. Still, however, the Convention of Gastein, by which this understanding was established, repre sented only a provisional or temporary agreement, and left the ultimate settlement of the question still in suspense. The termination of the understanding even if it had not been provoked by the insolent de monstrations of Prussia in the Duchies, could hardly be equivalent to the violation of a treaty. It would merely place the contracting parties in the positions occupied before the convention, and that, indeed, is the - view on which the Prussian Government imme diately acted. Before the Convention of Gastein, Austria and Prussia jointly occupied both Duchies. After the agreement, Austria alone occupied Hol stein, and Prussia Schleswig ; and as the agreement was terminated by the resolution of Austria to dis solve her private partnership with Prussia and refer the whole case to the Bund, Prussia now claims the right to share the occupation of Holstein as before. This in itself is not unreasonable, but itmerely shifts the difficulty from one point to another. The pre sent policy of Austria is just as irreconcilable with the joint occupation of the Duchies as with their par tition, and the title of Prussia to occupy the Duchies at all forms the new question before Germany. It is as well to remember at this conjuncture how the conflicting claims arose and were constituted. The Germanic Bund, or Confederation of German States, decrees " execution" against the King of Denmark as Duke of Holstein, and marched a Federal army into his Duchy. Had the operations which ensued been conducted by these forces only, and under this authority, the whole affair would have borne a legal aspect according to European law. We might have doubted whether the Duke of Holstein had really provoked such treatment, or whether the Confederation had been honest in its pretensions, but the Diet or Federal Assembly was undoubtedly competent to coerce or chastise a re fractory member of the body, such as the Duke of Holstein was assumed to be. If, therefore, the Federal troops, directed by Federal authority, had first occupied Holstein and then directed the right of succession in that Duchy, there would have been no overt illegality in the proceeding. But such a proceeding did not suit the views of Prussia. She anticipated, with good reason, that the Diet would assign to some independent Prince—probably the Duke of Augustenburg the Principality torn from Denmark, whereas she had long coveted the territory for herself. She therefore thrust herself rudely between the combatants, ejected the Federal army, and took the work of " execution" into her own hands. Austria, jealous of her pretensions, and apprehensive of the consequences, demanded to share in the expedition, and the Duchies—Schles wig as well as Holstein—were conquered by the combined armies of these two great Powers. The conquest was followed, first by the joint occupation of the whole territory, and then, in pursuance of the arrangement at Gastein, by the allotment of Holstein to Austria and Schleswig to Prussia till a final settlement could be agreed upon. These proceedings, however, were all in defiance of German law. The combined expedition of Aus tria and Prussia into the Duchies was wrong ; the joint occupation of the Duchies was wrong ; the private Convention of Gastein between the wrong doers was wrong ; and it is only now, in forsaking that Convention, that Austria is right. Austria now, in acting with the Confederation for Federal purposes, is in her proper path, and P russ i a i s j us t as liable to a decree of Federal " execution" as Den mark was some time ago. She has not, indeed, a single claim to advance, and it will have been seen that she has confined her complaints to the " arma ments" of other Powers, and her pretensions to vague and obscure assertions of " legitimate" interests and expectations. But these pretensions have no foun dation whatever. They only mean, plainly inter preted, that the Duchies were wrested from Den mark mainly by Prussian arms and at the cost of Prussian blood ; that the actual position of Prussia in Northern Germany points her out as the proper successor to Denmark ; and that the Prussian Go vernment intends to support by might the small amount of right which could thus be constituted. But the Prussian army had never any business in the Duchies at all. If any Power whatever had any grievance against Denmark, it was not Prussia, but the Germanic Confederation. The Prussian inva sion of Denmark was actually in violation of law,and no lawful claims can be founded on its results. The aggrandizement, again, of Prussia on the coasts of the Baltic is a proposal to which Austria and the other German States may fairly take exception. Austria thinks her rival strong enough already ; the others have found her insolent enough and domi neering enough, and have no desire to see her territory extended or her power increased. It is instructive to see how the great tempest is rolling round to this point_ the point where the first wrong was done. It is all for Holstein that Silesia is menaced. The armies of Austria were drawn into Bohemia by the proceedings of Prussia in Holstein, and by nothing else. The Middle States of Germany are collecting their forces to aid in settling the Holstein question. Prussia knew all this perfectly while she was complaining of gratui tous and offensive armaments. She herself had not armed, but she was not, therefore, innocent. She treated the Duchies, both in word and deed, as her own, and it seems as if she would now have to fight for them at last. But it is terrible-to think how this storm may spread. Italy, though not declining to attend the Conference, made no secret of her designs upon Venetia, to be asserted in any event and at all hazards. But in the rear of Italy stands France, and in the rear of Austria stands Russia, already committed, in common opinion, to some interest in the fray. It is even said that the designs of Italy against the Adriatic provinces of Austria have sug gested some political concert between the Emperor and the Sultan ; nor dees anybody seem to doubt, indeed, that the war which begins upon the Baltic may extend to the Black Sea. All this is for terri • tory. If the Austrian condition of forbidding, in any case, the territorial aggrandizement of any litigant Power had been admitted, the Conference would simply have been superfluous, for on that presumption there would have been nothing for either Prussia or Italy to fight about. The neutral Powers, of course, discerned the inevitable conclu sion. • If Prussia would forego her intentions of annexing the Duchies, and Italy her hopes of acquiring Venetia, there would be no need for States to meet in Conference. If Austria would not allow of the annexation or give up her Italian pro vince, the Conference could make no approach to an arrangement. So the appeal is left either to pri vate negotiation or to the sword. DAILY NEWS.—The condition of the freedmen in the Southern States is the subject of much discus sion and of great divergences of opinion in the American press. Mixed up as the question is with the political quarrels of the hour, it is almost im possible to arrive at definite and trustworthy infor mation about it. On the one hand, the President and his friends try to represent it in the most favour able light, and to prove that Congress, in its care for their welfare, is doing more harm than good. On the other hand, the advocates of negro suffrage —among whom we may reckon many of the old and honoured names of the anti-slavery party —repre sent it in the darkest colours, and ask for stronger measures of protection than the constitution em powers Congress to provide. Each of the parties has its theory, and interprets the facts in accordance with it. The President's theory is that the South is the true friend of the negro, and that the true wis dom is to leave his status to be determined and his condition to be fixed by his former masters. His policy proceeds on the assumption that a people who went to war for slavery, who tried to build a new social and political fabric with negro slavery as its chief corner stone, are not only ready to accept their disappointment and defeat, but to do justice to the race they had thus hoped to wrong. The theory of Congress is that they who have freed the negro are bound to protect him, and that having given him the rights of manhood, they should secure those rights against infringement. The policy which this theory suggests is that which is represented by the present Freedmen's Bureau, by the Civil Rights Bill, and by the proposed Constitution al Amendment. It proceeds on the conviction that the best friends of the negro are those who have given him his liberty and elevate him from the condition of a chattel to the status of a man, and that to leave him unpro tected and helpless in the hands of his former masters would be to give him back to as much of the reality of slavery as is consistent with the semblance of freedom. Looked at in the light of those irrecon cileable theories, the most indisputable facts are read in opposite ways. The President and his friends charge the violence which so frequently happens to the account of the very measure which Congress has taken to provide against it. It is the injudicious interference of the Freedmen's Bureau, we are told, which excites the anger of the Southern ~at population against its wards, and leads to so many outrages against their freedom, their property, and even their persons. Let them alone, and they would be gentle enough. On the other hand, every act of high-handed violence that is attempted con firms Congress and the Northern majority in their conviction of the need of protective measures. While one side quotes the many favourable reports to show the friendly tone of Southern society, the other quotes them to prove the excellent disposition of the freedmen towards their work, and the ad mirable working of the Freedmen's Bureau. Mean while it is hardly possible to discover what is the real disposition of the mass of Southern people, or the actual condition of the great body of the freed men. We are, however, promised an inquiry into this. The President has had a commission hostile to the Freedmen's Bureau inquiring into its work ing, and exposing some irregularities in its ad ministration • and now a joint committee of Con gress is likely to be appointed to take evidence on it, and to report in full at a future day. It is not in the least to be expected that the two races will adjust their new relations without difficulty on the one side and suffering on the other. All the world knows what the " mean whites" of the South are. Constituting, as they do, a majority of the Southern pop u l a tion, and coming, as they now must, into direct contact, and even competition, with the freedmen, it is abso lutely certain that they will not at once lay down their pride of race, or learn to tolerate with dignity the equality of the negro with them. The least civilised part of the American population, celebrated alike for their pride and their poverty, their violence and their idleness, they are not likely to allow the despised race of former slaves to stand on any equa lity with them without the protests characterieticof them. We cannot but think that General Grant's desire for the increase of the permanent Federal army arises in part from the conviction that it will .not be safe for a long time yet to leave the freedmen unprotected. They have publicly complained that they are frequently told, " When the Yankees leave you had better leave with them, or you will wish you had." And one of the latest reports from the South mentions that in the State of Virginia, a freedman who was merely importuning a whitewall for wages due to him was shot by the man on the spot, and that on his trial by a white jury the mur derer was acquitted. But all this tendency to vio lence is miserably increased by the present state of politics. The Southerners feel that they have a friend in the President, and that he may possibly succeed in thwarting the efforts of Congress to tie their hands. A lingering hope still exists that some . substitute for slavery is even yet possible. Already, efforts are often made to enforce " vagran t laws," which are mere relics of slave legislation ; and were the Freedmen's Bureau withdrawn, and the Civil Rights Bill declared unconstitutio na l (as a Southern judge has already ventured to declare it), such laws would be at once in action as would make the freed man only free in name. This is the real issue be tween Congress and the President. Mr. Johnson's policy is responsible in great degree for the unsettle ment of the relations of the two classes in the South. It fosters illusive hopes on one side, and renders beneficent legislation almost impossible on the other. And if the great work of emancipation should re ceive a serious check, and its completion be delayed, history will hold President Johnson responsible for the calamity. COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBURY.-T UESDAY. The Bath and West of England Agricultural ahoy , thinned the attendance at the corn exchange this morning. A short supply of wheat was offered of various q uality', and more money was asked by holders in consequence of the warlike character of foreign news. Business, however, was limited, at rather more money than last week. In barley there was nothing doing, but oats, peas, and beans ruled firm, at previous quotations. For flour a moderate inquiry prevailed, at 33; 35; and 378 per sack. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 42s ; oats, 22s to 328 ; beans, 4 03 to 525; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tare; from Gs to 7 ° 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, 12 d per 81b loaf. Flour, 34s to 38s per sack. HULL.—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there were few buyers, and very little business was done. No material change can be made) in quotations. Barley supply equal to the demand. Th e market for linseed was firmer English old white wheat, 50s to 54s ; old red, 44s to 48. q. Barley, English, 36s to 375. Oats, Russian, 24s to 250. Beans, new English, 43s to 445. Peas, English blue, 4 03 to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. NE WCAS TLE- ON- T YNE—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small supply of wheat . from the growers, and a mo d era t e quan tit y coas t w ise, but a good arrival from abroad. A much better demand NvO experienced, and a largo business was done in both English and foreign, at an advance o f f u ll y is per qr on Satur d a y's rates. Barley, beans, and peas were unchanged. Malt was firm. Oats wero more inquired after at late priceS• Flour was from Gd to is per sack dearer. MONMOUTHSHIRE —TUESDAY. The following are the average quotations: —Wheat, red, 5s 6d to 5s 9d per bushel ; inf er i or ditt o , 5 s Od to 55.3c 1 ,,; white, 6s to 6s 3d ; malting b ar l e y, 38 s t o 42 s per qr ; grin' ing ditto, 27s to 325; beans, 44s ; white oats, 24s 6d to 265 i black ditto, 23s Gd to 24s 6d. LYNN—TUESDAY. The supply of wh ea t was rather limited, and there Nylo a firm demand evinced at the full rates of last weep' The supply of barley was short and the demand middling') at late rates. New wheat, 42s to 46s ; new red, 41s to 44s ; old wh i P; 51s to 53s ; o ld red, 48s to 51s per 36 s t one . Barley malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 33s to 355. Oats, new, 24s to 26s p er 24 stone. Beans, sm a ll, 43 s t o 465. rea9' 36s to 40s per 28 stone. Foreign Mail racket List. Australia and New Z ea l an d , via Southamptoa JUII 9 19 MAILS DUE. Ditto, via Ma rse ill es June 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet July 4 * Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—June 19. Ditto, via Marseilles June 1 3 . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton__June 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. June 13. Ditto, via Marseilles June 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 13. Ditto, via Marseilles June 2 3 • %writing, via Southampton June 1 3 Ditto, via Marseillel, June 7. Newfoundland ••. June 7 . Portugal . ~.,.July 4 ' Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish It Usti packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp .. ton .. Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..June 8 . West Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerifre .„ June 11• West Indies and Paeiflo (except Bahamas and Honduras) June 13 Cuba and Mexico ,June z 8• Bahamas, via New York. Bermuda, vla Halifax iu u l n y e 4.28 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway' s Pill s Conscientiou s Conviction.—No investment of money can be so profitabil as that which ensures g oo d h ea l t h . It has been establisllso beyond dispute that Holloway's pills, which cost but trifle, will successfully wrestle with and overthrow disellt In all the many forms in which dyspepsia or irdigestioni,.. presents itself, it may be thoroughly removed by these,t h rifying and gentle a po r iti ve pill s, ass i ste d b y a diet siut . ve must be simple in quality and mo d era t e i n quan tity. L ° ; indisposition, resulting from defective appetite or in 3 P e d fect assimilation, yields to this efficient treatment ; s. l3 d nausea., disagreeable tastes in the mouth, headache, it the annoying collection of phlegm which plagues the __, (l 4; speptic in the morning, will bo banish e d b y these b a ls am and strengthening pills. Births. Botre—wOn ofth e A 3 . l E st . Bulo y.,td, at Eci W s e ., ll 9 B 2 h d ot G H o o rd u o se n , Hi La g n i Lana of a daughter. BAILEY —On the 4th inst., at 3, John-street Berk eley square, the wife of C. B a il ey , jun., ' Esq., of a claughte r ",, DUFF—On the 4th i ns t., a t 4, Queen's-gate-gardens, t,, ff_ wife of Mountst ewar t E. G ran t D uff, M.P., of a daug hter ; fATADDILOVE—On the sth inst., the wife of C. Wad dii°V Esq., of 25, D evons hi re -t errace , Hyde-park, of a son. Marriages. rCt COTTON—FLETCHER—On the 2d inst., at St. Ma eldest o li n Bryanston-square, the Hon. R. W. S. 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