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• Western the expense of laying it, £20,550, which would go to the credit of the outlay in laying The Imperial Russian screw frigate Askold and that rail ; and he thought it was an earnest of the corvette Variag, from the Pacific fo r the Baltic, what the New York Central and Michigan Cell arrived at the Motherbank , o ff R y de, Isle of Wight, tral Companies would do in promoting t he y e sterday afternoon, and on anchoring exchanged th rou gh-traffic over the new rail. They had carried honorary national salutes with the Victory in Ports- £39,634 traffic over the narrow gauge since the Ist m outh harbour, the flagship of Port -Admiral and ofganuary. The car-ferry-boat could convey trucks Naval Commander - in - Chief S ir Thomas Sabine weighing 280 tons with facility from rail to rail, as a Pasley, K.C.8., and with the King's Bastion battery continuation of the railway, and had capacity for car rying on the largest probable amount of traffic. Her of Portsmouth garrison. er enabled her to convey 240 cars per day of 12 The screw steamship Caledonia, 30, Capt. the Po urs and '221 cars had been taken across by her in Hon. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flay of Reer-Admiral 12 hours. The third rail and the car-ferry-boat had Hastiogs R. Yelverton, from Ireland, arrived in been constructed within the estimated cost, and Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. might be considered a success. Since the Ist of One colour-sergeant and 17 privates Royal erines, Woolwich Division, yesterday joined her January to the 24th of March, 1865, amounted to M .£63,862 ; from the Ist of January to the 23d of Mejeety's ship Chanticleer, rece ntl y commissioned in the dockyard by Commander W. W. S. Bridges, Ma rch, 1866, to £lOO, i 21, the largest they ever had previously ; and from the I st of January to the 22d for ser ;ice- in the Pacific. She has received the whole of her sea stores , and the offisers and crew of March, 1 8 67, to £ 108,693, so that it was £ 45,000 _ more than in 1865, and £3,000 more than in 1866. h a ve Pll joined. She is exp ected to take her de p ar ture in a few days. Th ere was every probability of developing a pas - Yesterday morning a court-martial assembled on senger traffic along the new route, as they could now board her Majesty's ship Formidable, flagship of convey goods from Chicago to New York in six days Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., instead of in eight or nine days as formerly. The Commander-in -Chief at the Nore, to try Mr. Alfred gross receipts on the company's lines for the past h Charles Harris, lieutenant of her Maje st y' s ship h a lf-year amounted to £ 331 , 513 , against £ 387 , 039 Royalist, for being drunk on duty on the 22d of in the correspo ndin g h a lf of the preced in g y ear, 3./laroli last. The Court consisted of Capt. the Hon. which was the largest traffic the railway ever had, Arthur Cochrane, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland showing a decrease of £55,525, but as compared (President) ; Capt. Donald AN,. Mackenzie, of her with the corresponding periods of 1865, 1864, and 1863, being £312,720, £301,634, and £309,304 re- Meiesty's ship Formidable ; Capt . Ste p hen S. L. s pectively, there was an increase in the receipts of Crofton, of the Naval Bar r a ck ; Commander W. L. Partridge, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland, and the past half-year. As to the loss or diminution of \ Commander James P. Thurburn, of her Majesty's traffic in the half-year ending the 31st of January, ship Wellesley. Mr. H. Knight, of the firm of 1867, of £ 55,525, as compared with the same half Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Admiralty solicitors, ending the 31st of January, 1866, it amounted to Rochester, was the Deputy Judge-Advocate. It 19 per cent. of the gross receipts, while on the appeared from the report to the Admiralty made Michigan Southern and New York Central the de by Commander Hamilton E. J. Earle, in command crease amounted to 20 per cent. each, and on of the Royalist, that the ship at the time the offence another American line to 37 per cent., so that the was committed was on her passage home from the diminution of traffic during that period was less on West Indies, and that at the time when the prisoner the Great Western of Canada than on other lines. not drunk the weather was very threatening. The The falling off in the conveyance of live stock co .snander thought the offence could not have was very considerable, but now the traffic was been committed under more aggravated circum- again returning to them. The loss on American stances, except, perhaps, before going into acti Ai. currency was £48,228, against £73,316 for The prisoner pleaded guilty, throwing himself on the the corresponding half in January, 1866. The mercy of the Court, and urged in extenuation that conversion of American currency averaged the night on which the offence was committed was 142 during the past half-year, while the average very wet, and he was relieved from duty for a few price of gold was 142 k, showing that their interests minutes while he went below to get a cup of tea. had been well attended to. From January, 1862, to He put some spirits into the tea, and when he got 1 January, 1867, the company had lost by conversion on deck it told upon him, as he had previously `butof American currency, in the aggregate, £532,000, they boped that the charge for conversion would suffered from low fever . Ver y favourable certifi- cates of character were read, extending over nearly iin future continue to decrease. They hoped that ten years' service. Capt. Phillimore gave the pri- I losses from fire would also be much less ; there was soner a good character, stating that he had served' now remaining £11,136 to be charged against the under him in her Majesty's ship Curaeoa for nearly three next half-years for losses by fire. The three years, during which time he had always found i directors had taken steps to prevent such losses in 1 future. They bad insured in three Canadian offices him an active and zealous officer, very correct in his co nduct. On one occasion he displayed great cou- to the amount of $184,000, and in eight English rage and gallantry in jumping overboard at sea, and offices to the amount of $503,000, making together endeavoured to save the life . of a man who had $687,000, at a cost of $14,487 per annum. The fallen overboard, although at the time he was on the engineer had estimated the cost of maintenance and sick list. Taking these circumstances into considera- renewals at £35,000, but in the past half-year they tion, the Court adjudged the prisoner to forfeit two amounted to £3i1,682, being £4,682 in excess of his years' seniority and to be severely reprimanded. estimate. The directors rather encouraged an error A naval court-martial, the first held for many on the right side in keeping up the road in perfect years past at Woolwich, will assemble this morning condition. (Hear.) During the 11 half-years in on board the flagship Fisgard, off Woolwich dock- which the exte n s ive renewals of the line were being yard, for the trial of Richard WeatleerleY, Quarter- made the cost of maintenance averaged £18,524, master on board her Majesty's troopship Dee, and the cost of renewals £30,193, making the Master Commander George Raymond, on charges average cost £48,717 for each half-year. In the of desertion after having appropriated to his own past half-year the expenditure amounted, as he had use the proceeds of a Post-office order, stolen from before stated, to £39,862, which was £9,000 less one of the ship's company. than in 11 half-years. The maintenance and re- The hired transport Star of India, Capt. Hollo- newals of way averaged about £277 per mile per way, arrived at Plymouth on T uesda y from Bom- annum, which was much les s than on some of the bay, with a part of the 51 st L i g ht Infantr y on 1 principal lines in England. The arrangements with board, and detachments of time-expired men and the Commercial Bank of Canada had been nearly invalids from the Royal Horse Artillery, 3d Dra- concluded, all claims against the Great Western goon Guards, Royal Artillery, 4th, 33d, 95th, Company had been withdrawn ; the Detroit and 103 d, and 106th Regiments, amounting to 259 men, 1 Milwaukie Railway Company bad agreed to set women, and children, the whole under command of 1 aside a sinking fund of $lOO,OOO a year to redeem Capt. C. Kyrie Chatfield, 51st Li g ht Infantry. I the claims of the bank on that company. In the The Star of India left for Portsmouth yesterday to \ meantime it was agreed to issue bonds so as to satisfy disembark the troops. The following officers o f that and other claims against the company. Having the 51st Light Infantry accompanied the troops ; described in detail the arrangements with the Com -Ensigns Wynne, Turnbull and Rutbven, and ' mercial Bank for the settlement of their c laim on ' , s Own Regiment, on medi- the Detroit and Milwaukie Railway, lie said that Ensign Irving, 4 th King cal certificate. Four deaths occurred during the 'in future the Commercial Bank would be an voyage among the invalids. The Star of India left ally to the Great Western in that matter, and Bombay on the 24th of December, 1866, experienced a friend instead of an enemy. Tho Detroit very bad weather during her passage, and encoun- and Milwaukie Railway in the past 6; years had tered a fearful cyclone on the 18th and 19th of received from traffic on the line $7,524.552, and January in the Indian Ocean, in lat. 18 16 S., and expended in working $1,541,369, 1eaving52,983,195 . long. 67 40 E., in which she lost her bulwarks, two to meet interest and other claims. The gross receipts of her boats, and nearly all her live stock. The for the past year amounted, on the Detroit and Mil barometer fell during the cyclone to 28 20. No waukie line, to £340,935, and the working expenses casualties occurred on board beyond a few hurts I to £210,443, leaving a net revenue of £130,492, of from falls and concussions. which £78,753 was absorbed in the payment of in- The depot of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, under terest, leaving £51,741 net. When the claim of the the command of Capt. Garnett, has arrived at the Commercial Bank was settled the affairs of the De camp at Colchester from Canterbury. In accord- troit Company would be placed on a sound footing, ante with instructions from the Horse Guards the the operation of the third rail would be to develope depot of the 2d battalion of the 6th Regiment is the through traffic, and considering that the divi -1 beld in readiness to proceed t o Edinbur g h to j oin the dend for the past year averaged 4 per cent., he t service companies on t h e ir arrival from Jamaica.hought they might look hopefully to the future. Brevet-Major Edinonstone and Captain Clery, 32d iHe then alluded to a deputation from the Grand R e giment, are under orders to j oin the de p ot at Trunk Company, and hoped it would result in a Colchester, and Capts. Priest l ey and Metcalfe are Peaceful and harmonious working of the two col:lva held in readiness to proceed to the service companies. rues for the benefit of the proprietors of each company. Staff-Surg. R. Wolsey is ordered from Dublin to Mr. lions seconded the motion for the adoption Colchester to assume the medical charge of the Bth of the report, and the declaration of a dividend at Depot Battalion, vice Sorg.-Major J. Burke, who is the rate of 31 per cent. per annum for the past half acting as principal medical officer. Staff Assist.- year, free of income tax, payable on the Ist May. Surg. Jay has been attached to the Bth Depot Bat- Mr. SWINTARD, the general manager, in reply to talion for duty. a question, stated that the third rail made the com pany's line available to 12,000 cars of the American lines, and would secure to shippers a continuous route from the west to the seaboard without any in termediate transhipment. Mr. N EWMARCII was glad to hear that the whole railway policy of Canada was likely to be altered. At present it was a policy of extreme antagonism. The Grand Trunk Company were disposed to act liberally and fairly towards the Great Western of Canada, and he trusted that some good would re sult from a conference on the subject between the two boards. The two traffic managers were also in London, and he trusted that every facility would be given to bring matters to a satisfactory conclu sion. The Great Western Company had a capital of £5,000,000, and the Grand Trunk a capital of £15,000,000, all consisting of British capital. It was therefore of vast importance to all concerned that the best possible return should be secured on that capital to both companies by friendly and har monious traffic arrangement. He did not propose any fusion or amalgamation of the two companies, but that they should remain distinct companies as to capital and so forth. He thought it possible for them to make such an agreement as would work beneficially for both companies, and enable them to interchange and forward traffic where necessary, thereby saving the present waste that was now going : on, and enable both to reduce expenditure. They should avoid in future all injurious competition, and work for the benefit of themselves and the public. The confederation of the provinces in British North America was no longer a project, but an accom plished fact. The Imperial Parliament would assist them to complete railway communication, and there fore the time had arrived when the Great Western and Grand Trunk Companies should consider how they could best promote the interests of the proprietors, by altering the present state of things. Mr. VieeesotsNeesupposed that the Grand Trunk Company wanted the use of the Great Western rolling stock, as they had not enough to work their own line. If the Great Western allowed their roll ing stock to go over the Grank Trunk, they must take care to get it back again, or it would be kept for the benefit of the latter company. The CHAIRMAN said be was glad to hear the friendly feeling expressed by Mr. Newmarch on be half of the Grand Trunk Company, and could only say that the Great Western Company were desirous of working in harmony. He begged to remind Mr. Newmarch that on the 9th March, 1866, an agree ment for that purpose was come to in Canada, and signed at Montreal by Mr. Brydges and Mr. Swin yard, the general managers of both compani e s, for harmonious working at equal rates and so forth ; but that agreement was thrown over by the Board in London, and so the matter stool ever since. 24x. &Lula/az thought that as the 11 - lazagera and - - Naval and Military Intelligence. ---~ - RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. ----- o-- GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. Alderman Dakin in the chair. Mr. B. BAKv.r, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an ab stract of which has appealed in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of there port, said the receipts on capital account during the past half-year amounted to £73,702, which was derived from the call on the new shares, making the total receipts to the 31st of January last £5,342,384. The total expenditure amounted to £5,341,253, in cluding £137,689 expended during the past half year. He thought the auditors had taken a wise course in their observations on the accounts. They showed that the total amount raised on shares was £3,458,795, leaving a margin of share capital to raise of £1,842,570; and that £1,209,900 had been raise 1 on mortgage bonds, leaving a margin of £1,440,785 unexercised, so that there were further powers to raise a very large amount if it should ever be necessary, and it was evident that the powers to raise money on shares and bonds had not been ex ceeded in any respect. Although power to raise so large au amount of capital still remained, the direc tors had no intention of calling up money for the future, unless to provide for carrying increased traffic, but not for extensions or branches, and thus they intended to keep the capital account as far as possible closed. (Hear, hear.) The only outlay of capital upon extensions was for the Petrolia branch, on which the directors were authorised in May, 1862. to expend £lO,OOO, and in respect of which they had paid only £10,038 in the past half-year for a line to the oil district of five miles in length, including land, rails, and buildings. They believed that it was a very profitable outlay. 'the line was opened on the 17th of January last, and during the first month it was open the traffic on it amounted to £l,OOO. There was also a timber traffic on this short line. The laying of the third rail and the establishment of the ear-ferryboat had enabled them to keep their through traffic. The proprietors had voted £150,000 for, laying down the third rail to accommodate the narrow gauge carriages and wag gons of the American lines. The third line was opened on the Ist of January Les , , and £145,817 had been expended upon it. The engineer, Mr. Ttficl, hail estimated the cost of it at £153,083, but sonic additional sidings would be required. He thought it greatly to the credit of the engineer that the expenditure had been, and would be, within the estimate. The American companies interested in the third rail had agreed to illy to :the great Boards of both companies were now in London, there 1 was nothing whatever to prevent them dealing with the whole question and in a proper manner. Colonel EVELYN said the whole thing lay in a nutshell ; the Grand Trunk were deficient of rolling stock, and the line was in such bad order that a verdict of manslaughter had been given against the manager in Canada. It was not to the advantage of the Great IVestern to reduce the fares, or to send their rolling stock over such a line as the Grand Trunk. The motion for the adoption of the report and declaration of the dividend was then carried unani mously. After some observations by Mr. GODFREY as to having a more detailed statement of accounts, the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, and to Mr. Swinyard, the general manager. EAST LONDON. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, to consider the Crystal Palace and East London High Level Junc tion Bill—Mr. Hawes in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that no extension of this company's line was proposed in the bill, but it was to sanction arrangements with another company who proposed to make a railway a mile and a quar ter in length, which would give the East London Company direct access to the Crystal Palace and South London lines. The new line was to be worked at 50 per cent. of the gross receipts by the East London Company. The Secretary having read the beads of the bill, Mr. WILMOT KNIGHT inquired what had been the result of the dispute with the Brighton Company, which had issued in filing an injunction bill in Chancery by the East London Company. The CHAIRMAN said the question was undecided, and the matter stool over till the hearing. They had not had any dispute with the Brighton Com pany. Mr. KNIGHT replied that if there was no dispute it was strange that Chancery proceedings had been instituted. (Hear, hear.) The resolution approving the bill was then car ried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. METROPOLITAN. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday, at the London Tavern, for considering a bill for granting further powers to the company—Mr. J. Parson in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which authorised the Metropolitan Railway Company to raise £lOO,OOO with the usual borrowing powers, to make a junction with the St. John's Wood Rail way, and to convert debentures into debenture stock. The CnAnni_v_s; said the last thing in the bill was, perhaps, the most important to the shareholders — that of converting the debentures of the company into debenture stock. In the autumn of last year they required money ou debenture or debenture stock, but on consulting the solicitor of the com pany it was found that they could not give a higher rate of interest on debenture stock than 4:3- per cent. per annum. One of the objects of the present bill was to remove that restriction. Lord Redesdale said they must not pay more than 5 per cent., as if sensible men would give more than they were com pelled as interest for the money they required. The Great Western had no such restriction put on them, and he hoped they would be permitted to create de benture stock at a rate of interest which it would be reasonable to pay. _ _ _ __ Several questions were asked as to the position of the company's undertaking, which were fully replied to by the chairman. A resolution approving the bill was carried una nimously, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. GREAT NORTHERN. This company's extension from Lincoln to Hon ington is, subject to the approval of the Govern ment inspector, to be opened for traffic on Friday. PEB,NAIIBIJCO. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this corn pany was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. R. Beu son in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, and said that no new point had been taken for the prosecution of the company's claim for the guarantee, as the Brazilian Chambers did not meet until June. lle might, however, state that the Baron de liana had consented to act for the company in respect to that matter, and the directors hoped that what was asked for would be conceded. Since the last meeting of the company suggestions had come to the directors that the line should be lengthened, so as to come direct into the harbour of Recife ; and though nothing had been done in the matter, yet the suggestion showed the high value placed upon the line by the people and the Government of Brazil. The great want was rolling-stock, and this want would have to be met, for if it were met he believed the traffic of the line would meet the obligation of the Government and ply the shareholders 7 per cent. With respect to the traffic, notwithstanding the war and the great floods, this had shown an increase, and the falling off in the estimates was owing to the floods destroying the sugar crop ; but still there had been an increase of traffic without any increase of expenses. He read the report of the engineer, show ing that the line was in good condition, and con cluded by moving the adoption of the report, and that a dividend at the rate of 3/ per cent. per annum be declared. Lord GORT seconded the motion. A long conversation upon various points ensued ; the motion was carried, and the proceedings termi nated. RAILWAY BILLS. In the House of Commons Committee yesterday, in group 3, the following bills were again proceeded with and adjourned :—llfracombe, Devon and Somerset and Bristol and Exeter Companies ; and Somerset ; and the Devon and Somerset (Ex tension). Devon Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting• \VOL VERHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening. The quarterly assemblies of the ironmasters of this district commenced iu this town this afternoon. There was only a moderate attendance generally, but of buyers the proportion was very small, and they contented themselves with making inquiries, the actual engagements entered into being on a very moderate scale. The best that can be said i 3, that the trade is not in a worse state than it was three months ago—in some respects it is a shade better, the demand for certain descriptions of unfinished iron having slightly increased ; but prices remain almost ruinously low, and the power of production is so much in excess of what is needed, or is likely to be for awhile, that there is little prospect of any improvement in that respect. So mischievious is the effect of this upon the trade that firma who are in a tolerably good position pecuniarily would not accept orders offered at current prices were it not on account of their anxiety not to sever old connections. It was mentioned yesterday that the demand for iron for the United States market has slackened of late ; a stimulus was given to it a few weeks ago by reason of the anticipation that the new Tariff Bill might become law. The market for pig iron, the make of this dis trict, is reported firmer, and the commodity is said to be oversold ; the price of Staffordshire " pig" is now so low that it is not at this moment in com petition in the market with the product of the North. We quote best hot blast, all mine, Staffordshire, £3 10s ; cold-blast, £4 53. to .£4 103. per ton. The Shropshire iron trade is inactive ; in North Staffordshire there is rather more doing ; at Clough hall Works they are tolerably well engaged. Allusion has been made to the low price of iron as it has prevailed of lite ; prices were lower in 1843, never since that time—but wages and other costs and charges are no of fully 15 per cent. higher than they were at that period. This was also manufacturers' and merchants' quarter-day, but it was a very slack affair ; trade was so dull all through the last quarter that in many instances ni - gaulactuora' acA:iouitti were THE SUN,- -LONUON, THUIiSDA..Y EVENIING, APEIL 11 _ 1867 small they thought them not worth fetching on this occasion ; others had none at all, and it was computed that the amount due in the aggregate was not more than three-fifths of au average. Reform Bill, proceeded to animadvert upon the conduct of the Opposition in introducing Mr. Coleridge's instruction, which he characterised as being a wolf in sheep's cliithing. When Mr. Glad stone found that his followers declined to support him in pressing that instruction, to use a pugilistic expression, he " went down to avoid punishment." (blear, and laughter.) The right hon. gentleman found that his conduct had not only disgusted a great number of his followers, but that if he forced Lord Derby to go to the country on the issue he had raised the electors also would have been disgusted. The question to be discussed in the House of Com mons to-morrow related to the borough franchise, and was whether it was justifiable on the part of the Government to ask those whom they were about to admit to the franchise to show their fitness to exercise that privilege by residing two years in their houses and by paying the poor rates. Iler Majesty's Opposition, on the other hand, proposed to abolish the £lO rental franchise, and to drop down upon a £5 ratal franchise, without any restriction whatever, except a short term of residence. He b.dieved that the country would be likely to accept the proposal of the Government as the more satisfactory of the two schemes for settling this great constitutional question. If her Majesty's Government shrank from carrying out what he considered to be the vital and important principles of the bill, be should not be doing his duty to his constituents if he supported them in the relinquishment of those principles. (Hear, hear.) But he felt that no Government sin gle handedcould pass a Reform Bill. Sacrifices must be made ou all hands in order to settle a question which had thrown out so many successive Adminis trations, and which had placed the country in a po sition somewhat of danger. He trusted that all parties would see the necessity for laying aside their mutual animosities and particular interests in order to unite in passing a measure which would so greatly conduce to the peace and prosperity of these domi nions. (Cheers.) Several other toasts having been drunk, the com pany separated at a late hour. Mr. F. Toole officiated as toastmaster. COMMERCIAL INTEL LIGF,NCE. The panic of last year has not yet subsided. The price of most securities, if not lower, is at about the same price as on that memorable day when Lombard-street was blocked up by that eager, anxious crowd of lookers-on of so many ruined or disappointed speculators. It was like an army in full retreat before a successful foe, throwing away both arms and spoils, and that class of persons that had grown up, called di rectors and trustees, numbering 12,500, could not find a general capable of a rally ; on the contrary, did they not one and all join their- dupes in the universal flight. The oldest City men did not see how to stay a torrent which had acquired an unprecedented violence. During three long weeks panic was the only order of the day ; some of the banks saw many of their oldest customers with drawing their accounts and carrying them to the Bank of England. The Lord Chancellor was pe titioned to suspend the Bank Act to allow a further issue of notes. Some idea can be gathered of the extent of this memorable panic from Mr. Watkin's speech in the House of Commons, where, for our instruction, he has told us :—That simul taneously with the Act of 1862 there had been • an enormous amount of speculation, and a series of circumstances unparalleled in the history of speculation and commerce in this country since the South Sea scheme in 1725. At present there were 2,2oo;joint-stock companies of various kinds, with a capital of not less than £1,000,000,00 0 ; there were probably 750,000 interested as shareholders ; and directors and trustees numbering 12,500. The extent of the operations of the Act was shown from their having been registered under its pro visions, in 1863, 807 projects ; in 1864, 953 ; in 1865 995 ; and in 1866, 745 ; representing a capital of £706,000,000. Of these companies, 27 were financial associations, with a total capital of £40,000,000, of which £9,500,000 was paid ; 17 were insurance companies, with £11,600,000 of capital, and £1,100,000 paid up ; 54 were banks. with £90,000,000 capital and £17,500,000 paid up ; and 6 were discount companies—another form of banking with £10,100,000 capital, and £2,200,000 paid up. On the other side of the account the failure of these speculations was repre sented by £42,000,000 of nominal capital, but really by a great deal more. Overend, Gurney, and Co. was one of those failures, and they, with a nominal capital of £5,000,000, had liabilities to the extent of £24,000,000. The petition being granted to the Bank of England, to authorize that establishment to make a further issue of notes, it thought proper to raise the accommodation to 10 per cent. ; this increased the losses of those who had bills to discount, and it had the effect of driving almost the best managed firms to despair. Produce, as well as Stock Exchange Securities, both became unsaleable ; but the gold of the country began to flow back into the reserve, and the bullion held by the Bank increased in the same proportion as the extra issue of notes. The high rate of 10 per cent. prevented any demand for speculative purposes. In the produce markets purchases were only made . for immediate consumption. On the Stock Ex ! change there was a general stagnation in busi ness ; those who were in want of money to pay off liabilities were obliged to submit to heavy sacri fices ; the hands of the jobbers were soon filled ; and those who were obliged to sell were forced to accept the lowest quotation. The necessity of liquidation is still as great now as it was last year, which explains why the panic is still raging, and why prices are still so much depressed. There is not a jobber that can hesitate to sell any amount of stock to any willing purchaser at the highest price of the day ; he may, by exception, require that the business done be not marked upon the official list ; but, before the end of the account, he is sure to be able to buy in any over stock he may have sold. The number of sellers will be greater than that of buyers, so long as the neces sity of liquidation exists. When will that liquida tion be at an end ? Nobody can tell. If we are to believe Mr. Watkin in the House of Commons, from 1863 to 1866 2,200 limited companies were created. As on the Stock Exchange official list there are only 899 registered, including consols and every other item, it is impossible to say how many calls are made each week on account of the ' 1,301 non-registered. There must of necessity still remain a great want of money to meet such calls. The majority of those new limited compa nies can inspire but little or no confidence ; and no kind of advance can be expected on deposit of such securities. The holders to meet calls are, therefore, compelled to sell their best property, which still commands a price ; and that is the reason why the panic continues, and it must still continue for some time. The present low price paid for discounts and for accommodation, 3 to 2 per cent., shows the extreme anxiety and want of confidence. Money can be raised easily at 3 per cent. upon first class securities ; but no per tentage will tempt any advance upon second and third class. That explains how the stock of bullion at the Bank of England and at the Bank of France is every week on the increase ; many prefer keeping their money on deposit than running the risk of an investment. The stock of bullion will, in all probability, go on increasing here until the amount surpasses that held by the sister coun try. We may still expect to see prices lower before the ebb tide of speculation returns, when, like that natural element, it will flow slowly at first, gain strength as it rises, and in time flow again out of its limits, causing the same ruin and disappointment to those who again may trust their fortune, at extravagantly high premiums, to its deceptive waters.— Westminster Gazette. FADYERTISEMENT.—F unc ti o naI Disorders. — Who would be well mu s t see that every o.gan of the body dues its duty fully and fairly, which every one may certainly in sure by occasionally resorting to these Pills, or by taking a course of them, according to the printed directions folded round each box. Stomach, liver, kidney, and bowels are all reached ly their purifying and corrective powers, and any departure from their natural action is strenuously re sisted, and order and regularity enforced. Health may al ways be preserved by attentive obedience to Holloway's directions, and by using his medicine as advised by them. All obstructions will by this means be removed, the blood will be purified, and its free and faultless circulation inourod. New . Zealand. The following is a copy of a despatch from Go vernor Sir George Grey, K.C.8., addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon : '• Government House, \Veliington, Jan. S. "My Lord,—l have this morning returned to this place, a few hours before the Panama steamer sails with the English mail. "2. I consequently have no time to make a lengthened report to you, but I am sure you will be happy to hear that this country continues tran quil, and is rapidly improving in every respect. "3. On my recent journey I have passed through the North Island, traversing its central and most accessible districts, portions of which had not been visited by any European for several years. " 4. I was every where received with joy and re joicings by the native population, even in those dis tricts where the losses of men during the war had been large ; but these men had all fallen in places remote from their own territory, where they had gone to join their fellow -countrymen who were in arms against us, and their surviving relations ad mitted in the most frank and unreserved manner that we were not to blame for the large loss of life which had taken place. " 5. I consider the native population to be now in a better state than I have ever previously known it. The natives express the greatest anxiety that Europeans should settle among them. They cheer fully conform to the views and wishes of the Go vernment upon all matters ; indeed, they appear to desire to be directed and to be shown what they should do to render practicable a rapid amalgama tion between the Europeans and themselves. " 6. I met everywhere in districts which had been regarded as unsafe the utmost respect, and I was treated with a kindness so attentive and considerate that it was quite touching. "7. I feel sure that the European population, finding from my journey that they can again safely traverse the interior of the country, will begin to spread into all parts of it, developing the great re sources of valuable districts which are now but little known, and the advance of this Northern Island in wealth and population will be conse quently henceforth very rapid. " In this advance in wealth and prosperity the whoarertgeunistie satisfied velandho h ld t er a s t , native population, rgelyshare; and I fee Neevv resources to be any drain Zealand, now ceasing i of n upon th Great B r it a i n , w ill i n time be re garded as one of the mo s t t ranqu il and valuable portions of the empi re . --I have, &c., " G. GREY. " The Right lion. the Earl of Carnarvon, &e." Greenwich Conservative Assoc"ation. The. annual dinner of this asssociation was held Last evening at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, when the chair was occupied by Thomas Wilson. About 350 members of the association sat down to dinner, among whom were Lord Holinesdale, M.P., and Mr. W. Hart Dyke, M.P. (the county members), Mr. J. Fleming (late M.P. for Devonport), Hon. and Rev. Henry Legge, Rev. Dr. Sketchley, Rev. Dr. Morgan, Mr. C. Lewis, Capt. Scott, Capt. Drummond, Capt. Hughes, Sir James Elphinstone, Sir J. H. Maxwell, Colonel Thorold, Dr. Carr, Admiral Burton, and others. . Mr. Jon: YOUNG, in proposing " Success to the Borough of Greenwich Conservative Association," said that it had been instituted in July, 1865, on the occasion of the defeat of Sir J. Maxwell, the Conservative candidate, and in the short time that had elapsed since that period - the number of its mem bers had increased to upwards of 1,500, a large pro portion of whom consisted of the elite of the working classes. According to the favourite taunt of their enemies, Coneervatism meant obstructive opposition to rational progress, but in reality the Conservatives were desirous that every progress should be made that was consistent with the preservation of the Throne, the hereditary peerage, the representative character of the House of Commons, and the Church. It was these institutions that were attacked by Mr. Bright wth ability and eloquence. His efforts were seconded by men like Mr. Goldwin Smith and Pro fessor Rogers, and it was to meet these assaults upon the Constitution that this association had bee n es_ tab L E WIS, in proposing th e h ea l t h o f e ci . 3liisrl. ld lARLEs the county members, called upon them to resist every attempt to make the Conservative Government yield an inch upon way on upon n the q uestion taonviofl pointtheco of the unty bill.franchise. The Lord HOLMESDALE, in r ady given responding waoy ae the y fenough h t e R o as e t hoped, with the la st speaker, th at e t r h e e w G o o u v ld ern h m e e n n e t would iv Conservative party had a ! e f fn o oer r ez t the ti p yl f r oa p rn o d s t e h he o eu f ft to ou c je t e a dl t d i n t a that y further grou n d. It passing t there session i must not, however , be forgotten that with re g ar d to ins d order to this great politica l q uestion there were other p arties besides themse l v es upon the . chess-board, and th e y secure must r e g t i v h e e Re formpassing Bill, and thus settle this great question, which had for so long a t ime impeded all other public busi ness. (Hear.) llebelie ved it to be of such p rominent importance that s uch a measure should be passed way upon this o r f points, a that if it were necessary to give away a few pounds in the county franchise, he should say perish those few pounds rather than the measure should not pass. In doing so he did not think that he should be be. traying his party or his Principles, nor did he think that he should have reason to blush for the course he had pursued when he met them on a future occasion. He trusted that the necessity might not arise for franchise beyond the amount lowering the coun t y proposed in the Government bill ; but if necessary he hoped that the Government would exercise a wise discretion,and would give way upon that onepoint in order to carry the rest, rather than by an obstinate adherence to one figure to shipwreck the whole of the bill. (Hear.) The Liberal party, following up their conduct of 1835 and 1859, had lately intro duced an instruction which had taxed the keenest heads in the House of Commons to make anything of ; it was of so easy, convenient, and elastic a character that it might mean anything or nothing; it might scarcely affect- the kill, or it might com pletely undermine and destroy it. That instruction had been brought forward for the purpose of oust ing the Conservative Government, and of shelving the question of Reform for another twelvemonth. (Hear.) But no sooner was it announced that the Government intended to stand out against that in struction than the great Liberal party split up into the discordant sections of which it. was composed. (Hear, and laughter.) Instead of bringing for ward the instruction the Liberal party had igno miniously retreated. Their adversaries had been more completely and bitterly humiliated than the most vindictive Conservative could desire. The last two sessions had shown a great party discredited, its strength thrown away, and its overwhelming majority split into atoms in consequence of the misconduct of its leaders. He drew hope from what had passed, because he believed that the firmer the front of the Conservative party the more their ad versaries would yield. He was happy to say that there was a sufficient number of men upon the Op position side of the House who preferred the good of their country to that of their party to enable her Majesty's Government to carry through successfully this important measure. lie had no doubt that after the circular that had gone out last night a large majority of the house would assist the Go vernment to pass the bill. (Hear, and a laugh.) The bill might now almost he regarded as an accom plished fact, and at the end of the session it would be found that the Conservative party—which had been characterised as consisting of the enemies of all progress, of those who desired to delay the en franchisement of their fellow -subjects, of those who feared the working men—had passed a bill which in wise Conservative Liberalism went far beyond any scheme which had ever been submitted to the House of Commons. (Cheers ) Mr. W. DYKE, after touching upon the untoward circumstances under which Lord Derby had taken office, and which had colapol/od Lila to brims is a SPIRIT OF T: 'HE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Whatever may be the result of the pro secution commenced against Col. Nelson and Lieut. Brand, the charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England has vindicated one vital principle of Eng lish justice. Martial law, it has often been said, is the suspension of all law, and the high authority of the Duke of Wellington is cited in support of this ambiguous doctrine. There is a sense in which such a proposition cannot be contradicted, for in a state of war the will of the general is practically supreme. The execution of an enemy or rebel, taken in arms, by order of a court-martial, is, in the words of Sir J. Mackintosh, " only a more regular and convenient mode of exercising the right to kill in war." It may be justified, like the refusal of quarter, by reasons of military necessity, but it would be au abuse of language to call it a lawful act. It has been sup- posed, however, that martial law, in a far more specific sense, mAy be proAaiined by virtue of the royal prerogative in cases of emergency, and that, haying been proclaimed, it overrides and supersedes the action of civil tribunals. It was against theories of this kind, which received an apparent sanction from Mr. I)israeli's reply to Mr. Mill last session, that Chief Justice Cockburn's luminous exposition of the law was chiefly directed. The first question being whether the so-called court-martial which tried Gordon had any legal jurisdiction, it was necessary to examine the grounds upon which that jurisdiction might be claimed. Now, it might be claimed either under a commission from the Crown giving autho rity to the - Governor, or under some legislative enactment. If claimed under a commission from the Crown, it might be supported by one of two arguments—either that Jamaica is, for that pur pose, a Crown colony and subject to the absolute reign of the Sovereign, or that, being a settlement and entitled to the same rights and privileges as Great Britain, it is nevertheless liable to be placed under martial law. With respect to the former argument, it may be enough to say that, after a review of Jamaica history, it was dismissed by the Chief Justice as wholly untenable. The island was, indeed, first acquired by conquest and cession, and thus became prima facie a Crown colony ; but it was shortly afterwards evacuated by the Spanish population and resettled from England under special proclamation by Charles 11., thereby assuming the character of colony formed by occupation. If there was ever any doubt of this, it was set at rest not offices. The onus lay on the opponents of Sir Colman O'Loghlen's bill to show that such a para mount necessity existed formaking Roman Catholics ineligible for the post of Lord Lieutenant in a country where the great bulk of the population is Roman Catholic, and this they failed to do. Being little more than a puppet, it was impossible to prove that an Irish viceroy could be otherwise than harm less, whether he went to church or chapel ; but, nevertheles , , the flimsy argument that because he would be the shadow of the Queen he must neces- only by the establishment of representative Govern nient nearly two centuries ago, but, far more con elusively, by an act passed in the i eign of George 111., which confirmed to the inhabitants of Jamaica the privileges of British subjects. The validity of martial Law in Jamaica, therefore, depends on the same considerations as its validity in any part of the United Kingdom. If it can be proclaimed there, except under a local act, it may also be proclaimed here ; and if its proclamation can be there autho rised by a local act without the consent of the Im perial Parliament, then an immunity from arbitrary jurisdiction is not, as it has hitherto been held to be, the birthright of English colonists no less than of native Englishmen. The opinion of the Lord Chief Justice is decisive against the existence of any pre rogative enabling the Sovereign to declare martial law. He takes all the alleged precedents, one by one, and shows elaborately that no such position can be founded upon them. The earlier annals of Eng lish history are full of illegal proclamations and san guinary reprisals, but nothing like a judicial recog nition of martial law can be found in them. The phrase does not appear to have been ever used until the time of the Tudors, and then appears to h ive been used rather to strike terror than with the deli berate purpose of establishing courts-martial for the trial of civilians. The wholesale executions which followed the insurrection of Wat Tyler were covered by an act of indemnity ; the butchery of prisoners after sonie of the battles in the Wars of the Roses was a cruel exercise of warlike rights, as they were understood in those days. At all events, since the Petition of Right there is no instance of martial law being proclaimed in England, though many insurrections have severely tested the forbear ance of the Government. Even in Ireland, which the advocates of prerogative have been wont to re gard as their chief stronghold, Acts of Indemnity have generally, if not invariably, been passed to cover the excesses of " Martial Law." Had Wolfe Pone not anticipated the intervention of the civil power by cutting his own throat, the issue which has now arisen might have been decided 70 years ago ; as it was, the Executive did not venture to proceed further without statutory authority. In short, the inference which the Chief Justice draws from the whole course of Englisii jurisprudence and legisla tion is that martial law is not so much the suspen sion as the negation of all law, and warrants nothing which could not be lawfully done without a recourse to it. While he points out the popular error which confounds it with military law as now administered under the Mutiny Act, and formerly under Ordi nances and Articles of War, he defends military law itself against the charge of being an arbitrary system, governed by no fixed principles or rules of procedure. Still more emphatically does he protest against the notion that martial law differs from military law in being more capricious, more shadowy, and more de pendent on the conscience and discretion of the tribunals constituted under it. Upon the whole, he arrives at the conclusion that martial law is a mere figment, that no power but Parliament can suspend the common law rights of civilians, and that even soldiers are not amenable in time of peace to so despotic a jurisdiction as that of courts-martial has been described. The only plea which can avail a military officer who has put a British subject to death is a plea which would equally avail a police officer or even a private citizen. It is the plea, not of martial law, but of necessity. There are cases in which an individual may take the law into his own hands in self-defence; there are cases in which, for the protection of society, all loyal subjects, and still more those who may be specially charged with the maintenance cf order, may execute the higher law of public safety ; but there is no case in which a mockery of justice can be rendered valid uy a pro clamation of Martial Law. It would be superfluous to enter upon the detailed application of these prin ciples to the act passed by the Jamaica Legislature under colour of which Mr. Gordon was arrested and tried. However elastic may be the prerogative of declaring Martial Law--assuming the existence of such a prerogative—it would be absurd to attribute an equal elasticity to a statutable proclamation of martial law in a certain district therein defined. The illegality of Gordon's arrest has scarcely been questioned among competent lawyers, and Mr. Eyre himself confessed from the first that he relied on an act of indemnity. There would, in fact, have been more room for doubt had not proclamation of martial law been issued, for the exclusion of King ston from the county of Surrey for this purpose rather tended to negative any presumption of necessity. His arrest, then, being illegal, it follows that his trial must have been equally illegal, and the Lord Chief Justice did not scruple to denounce the policy which took him out of the jurisdiction of lawful tribunals which might have acquitted him, and sent him before an unlawful tribunal from which a conviction was confidently expected. We forbear to prejudice the case against Colonel Nelson and Lieutenant Brand by adverting to any later state of the proceedings. It is the duty of a judge, in directing the grand j ury to di scuss , by anticipa tion, many topics on which public comment would be premature and improper. The law is one thing ; the facts are another. We accept this authoritative confirmation of Constitutional principles from the bench with unqualified satisfaction. The facts are for the grand jury ; and we have too much respect for the safeguards of English law to encroach upon their functions. POST.—In a not very numerous house it has been decided by nearly the smallest of majorities that the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shall not be open to Roman Catholics. That this decision should have been pronounced is, we think, a matter for re gret. The office of Viceroy of Ireland—an office, by the way, which cannot possibly survive many years —is of course in the nomination of the Crown, and it would be always in the power of the Government to appoint whom they pleased, notwithstanding the removal of the existing disqualification. When the champions of Protestantism spoke of the perils which would arise if a Roman Catholic was appointed as representative of the Sovereign, they overlooked the fact that the person so appointed would be simply the nominee of the Cabinet at IVhitehall, and liable to removal at a moment's notice. The question was one which was alone capable of being argued on sentimental grounds, and it has unfortunately hap pened that in obedience to a sentimental lifring antipathy path o y f to anything which appears to be an the great principle of Protestant supremacy, an op portunity has been lost of placing Roman Catholics and Protestants on the same footing asregards eligi bility for every office under the Crown in the sister country. Her Majesty's Government evinced their willingness to assent to that clause in Sir C. O'Logh len's bill which throwsopeu the office of Lord Chan cellor of Ireland to Roman Catholics, but declined to pursue the same liberal course in reference to the similar provision regarding the office of Viceroy. For this apparent inconsistency we seek in vain for o the n e in an explanation, and assuredly do not find f the laboured speech of the Chancellor Ex chequer. If difference of religion ought in this country to be a ground for incapacitating an indi vidual for office, then we ought to revert to fhe laws which were in force before the passing of the celebrated act for the relief of Roman Catholics. If, however, it is expedient that all citizens should be regarded with equal favour, independently of differences of religious persuasion, it is obvious that nothing short of paramount necessity can justify the exclusion of persons on each grounds from particular sarily profess the same creed, had weight with a majority of the house of Commons, and the Roman Catholic subjects of her Majesty were in effect told that not one of their number could be entrusted to fill one of the most honourable though not the most responsible offices in the State. Mr. Gladstone Effectually disposed of Mr. Disraeli's feeble justifica tion for drawing a dystinction between the office of Lord Lieutenant and every other office under the Crown in Ireland, by pointing out that the Chancel lor of the Exchequer never ventured to contend that any peril would accrue to the constitution by the pro posed change. Mr. Whalley, Mr. Newdegate, and Mr. Vance naturally saw in a removal of the existing disability the first step towards the repeal of the Act of Settlement, by which the Throne is limited exclu sively to Protestants. But then it must be recol lected that those gentlemen would willingly exclude Roman Catholics from all great offices of trust and power, and would doubtless see with pleas.tre the repeal of the Act of 1829. In every indulgence afforded to their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects they see a covert attack on the Protestant Establish ment of this country. They would have negatived every clause in Sir Colman O'Loghlen's bill if they believed that a majority would have followed them into the lobby. With their opposition, which may be said to be rather instinctive than rational, we have no fault ,to find. They are at least consistent. But what we fail to comprehend is the process of reasoning by which the chief of the Conservative party and many Liberal members came to the con clusion that it was advisable to afford a Roman Catholic an opportunity or becoming Lord High Chancellor of Ireland but not Lord Lieutenant. To our minds the former, having inter alia the power of appointinr , justices of the peace, mero motu can exer cise much greater personal influence in Ireland than the latter, who acts under the advice of his Privy Council, and is obliged to obey the orders of the Home Secretary. The various Secretaries of State may be Roman Catholics ; why, therefore, it may be asked, should not also an official who is obliged to act in conformity with their wishes ? The truth is that Mr. Disraeli could not reply to this argument ; as Mr. Gladstone remarked, " his wheels drave heavily" whilst endeavouring to maintain a position which his reason disavowed, and he was obliged in effect to justify the course he recommended to the house on sentimental grounds, which, if sentiment was allowed to have any weight in such a discus sion, should have turned the balance the other way. It has often been urged, and with much truth, that Roman Catholics have no substantial grievance in the circumstance of being excluded from the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. They have been reproached with converting a molehill into a mountain, and of appealing to sentiment and not to reason when they have demanded the repeal of an almost unsubstantial disqualification. It reduces itself, therefore, to a question of sentiment on both sides. The Irish Roman Catholics protest that their feelings are outraged by a law which declares that none of their creed are worthy to occupy Dub lin Castle, to hold levees and drawing rooms, give balls, and to execute the behests of the English Cabinet. On the other hand, the Protestants re gard with alarm the prospect of the personal repre sentative of a Protestant Sovereign going to mass. What, said Mr. Vance, would become of the eccle siastical staff of the Lord Lieutenaat, which it seems includes a dean, sub-dean, and 36 chaplains, if he were a Roman Catholic ? Would the Castle chapel be converted into a Roman Catholic place of wor ship ? These arguments, if they are worth anything. would Equally apply to the office of Lord Mayor of London. The fact that the chief magistrate of the City must have his chaplain, and must attend on certain occasions at St. Paul's, did not prevent the corporation electing a Hebrew gentleman last year. A canny Scotch member suggested that the Vice roy, with his whole bitch of deans and chaplains, ought to be swept away on economical grounds, and this was the only suggestion which seemed to re commend itself to both parties in the house. The real point at issue was, as Mr. Gladstone forcibly observed, whether different principles should be air plied in Ireland from those which rule in England and Scotland. We think not ; and we agree with him in considering that " we should apply the same principles—namely, that in as far as may be con' sistent with the unity of the empire we should con sult, in framing our laws for each country, the cha racter, dispositions, and convictions of the p eo ple of that country." COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH—TunDAT. Our corn exchange was well supplied with wheat to" day. Farmers asked more money, but factors and miller o would not give it, and a slow sale at last week's prices wi ll the result. Barley slow, and other sorts as before. HULL-TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng lish wheat, which met a slow sale. In foreign nothing doing. Oats, beans, and peas no change. Linseed is t° 2s per lower. English white wheat, 58s to 665; red, 54s to 635; Dan t ' . sic and Konigsberg, 65s to 68s • Baltic red, 60s to 620; Danish and Hamburg, 58s to 60 ' s ; Russian, 57s to 6 95 * Barley, English, 36s to 495; grinding, Mediterranea n, 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s • Russian, 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 4 " to 445. Peas, English blue, 42- to 44s 0d ; foreign white' 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. SALISBURV—T UESDAY. The attendance of farmers, millers, and dealers to-8 0 /: and the quantity of grain shown was short. Wheat had: downward tendency. Barley easier to buy. Oats, beall" and peas unchanged. The following are the quotations :--Wheat realised W:4 56s to 64s ; barley, 37s to 51s; oats, 24s to 32s ; beans, to 58s; and peas, 40s to 52s per qr. Tares, from 5..; 7.6 d per bushel ; Best bread, 15d ; household ditto, 13 per 81b loaf. Flour, 45s to 49s per sack. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TuEsnAv. Since the advent of more spring-like weather tho to markets have been better attended. Home-grown wile% shows a downward tendency, Foreign wheat declined 1 to 2s per qr. Fine barley at previous quotations, and irr ; ferior rather lower. English and foreigu oats at previoll rates. Beans without change. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, p t, 6 8d to 7s Gd per bushel ' • white, 7s 6d to 8s Od ; infers d' 66 Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 46s to 52s per qr ; gr in o rio ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 44s to 50s ; white oats , m' to 28s 6d ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. a, s. d. s. x 9 Holywell Main l6 0 Hetton Lyons ........ lu 6 Lambert's W.Hartley 16 3 South Hetton West Hartley Wrylam l7 0 Heugh Hall l6 6 Eden Main Wallsend Haswell lB 6 East Hartlepool ...... 1- Q 6 Walls End Hetton Ships at market, 36—sold. 21. BRITISH 'VESSELS OF WAR.—From a r etort s : a which has just been published, it appears that on the I of March, 20 English vessels of war, of £34,617 tone, g i n ; a complement of 5,313 officers and men were in the gel terranean ; 29 vessels of 34,827 tons, and a compleme nt , ° 5,488 men in North America and the West Indies ; 9 Y es n eels of 7,647 tons and 1,115 men on the south-east coast 't America; 7 vessels of 7,590 tons and 1,275 men at the Ea6f Indies; 3 vessels of 3,708 tons and 446 men at the W e i ! ) , Good Hope ; 19 vessels of 15,179 tons and 1,1.94 men on ' a West Coast of Africa station ; 14 vessels of 19,342 toes ai3 d . 3,321 men in the Pacific; 40 vessels of 30 , 246 tone and 4,628 men on the China station ; 6 vessels of 6,793 tone 10 1,367 men in Australia ; and 1 surveying vessel wall men detached in the Straits of Magellan. Births. th e BURN—On the 10th inst., at 7, Angel-terrace, Briztovi.tos., wife of George E. Burn, of Doctors'-commons, soli ° of a daughter. cost is PARTRIDGE—On the 10th inst., at The Limes, Peoge-park, the wife of W. J. Part r id ge , Esq., of s 6 5 . 0 , WARD—On the 10th inst., at Barnes-common, Mrs. r• Ward, of a daughter. Marriages. o f KLISSER— SAMUEL—On the 9th inst., Mr. C. L. Klisse%lo, Amsterdam, and Adelaide, South Australia, to daughter of Mrs. M. Samuel, 4, Gower-street. r d KING—ASIIBY—Ou the 9th inst., at the Chum', --hot' Botolph, Aldgate, Martha Hannah Anne. eldest dat'g.,l",o, of Mr. D. King, of Mitre-street, Aldgate, to John 17 1 ."' i r. third son of Mr. J. T. Ashby, of Elm-terrace, tfacloe,'D, P R IOR—BItYANT—On the 10th inst., at the parish ch‘l'i,-pci Redgrave, Suffolk, Edward Prior, late of Clijus(ki Japan, to Emily, eldest daughter of J o h n Bryant, m The Grove, Redgrave, Suffolk. Deaths. • 7 , To rtw Cox—On the 28th ult., at Castlestone, St. Peter's, -- -vcrilk ampton, John Co; M.A., some 35 years curate of grave and Hannington, aged 64. DAvIES—On the sth inst., at Bednall Vicarage, built shire, the Rev. Matthew Davies, aged 77. 00' HARRISON—On the Ist inst., at Audley House, San Isle of Wight, James Harrison, Esq., aged 76. 0 3 0 RIPON —On the 9th inst., at Putney - heath, Sarah 44' Louisa, Countess Dowager of Ripon, aged 74. . crr yS. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDf: 0 9 ; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, " o ,* Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coull Iliddlesez.4—Thursday, April 11, 1867.