The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-02 00:00:00

Establishment of a European College at Pekin. SHANGHAI, March 9. Subjoined is the ti nnslation of a memorial ad dressed by the members of the Tsong-li-yeti- men (Council for the School of Languages) to the Em peror of China, proycsing the establishment of a European College at Pekin : "PEKIN, Jar. 28, 1867. We have had the honour previously to address to your Majesty a report, in which we stated the necessity of introducing into China the study of the mathematical sciences and of astronomy, pointing out also the facilities it would be advisable to offer to those persons who should enter into their pursuit. Your Majesty has deigned to approve our recom- rnendations. " We have therefore considered that as the ma thematical sciences serve as the basis for the con struction of all kinds of machines, it wou!d be ad visable to join to the already existing classes of the school of languages of the Tsong-li-ya-men a special class for their tuition, and to admit thereto, after an examination of their fitness, Chinese and Mant chou doctors of letters (ku-jen) and bachelors of the five classes (pa kong), as well as civil functionaries of the fifth rank and below, furnished with diplomas, as licentiates of letters (tsin-che) obtained at exami nations. The classes should be taught by European professors. We only await your Majesty's authori sation to lay before you the regulations we propose to establish. Your Majesty has deigned to invite us to do this the fifth day of the 11th moon. "In proposing to your Majesty to favour the study of the mathematical science, the Tsong-li-ya men is not impelled by a sentiment of blind admi ration for knowledge of this kind possessed by the Europeans, nor by an extravagant love for novelty. The reason is, that in reality the construction of machines for warlike and industrial purposes, so important in our days, is based entirely upon the sciences. China wishes to construct her steamboats for herself ; but to enable her to do so European masters must initiate her iu the principles of the mathematical sciences and point out the course to pursue. It would be a mistake and a fruitless ex penditure of labour and money to hope that the Chinese cculd attend such a result by their imagina tion alone. " We have seriously reflected upon the subject before presenting to your Majesty this present me morial. We know that persons more accustomed to debate than to reflect will say that we are con- cerning ourselves with matters of only moderate utility; that we wish to set aside the ancient Chinese modes to follow foreign practices ; and that it is contrary to Chinese dignity to allow ourselves to be instructed by European masters. Those who speak thus show that they know little of what is passing in the world. " Up to the present time China has tried to be powerful by her own resources, but it is clear now that Chinese genius has produced all it is able to produce, and that intelligent persons do not conceal from themselves that, in order to walk alone in future, it must first resolve to receive from Euro peans those sciences and arts in which it is deficient. This fact has long been perceived by able men such as Ly-hong-tchang and Tso-tsang-tang, who have not ceased to repeat and to lay stress upon it in their reports to your Majesty. " Last year Ly-hong-tehang established a large machine factory at Shanghai, and requested that persons from the capital might be sent there. More recently Tso-tsang-tang asked leave to establish at Fokien workshops and schools in which European masters might teach the sciences, in order that the Chinese might subsequently be in possession of all the knowledge indispensable to the construction of steamships. Clearly, therefore, it is urgent that we should instruct ourselves in all these sciences, and this opinion is not confined to the undersigned. " Some will say that it would be more advanta geous to continue the practice hitherto pursued. Why riot hire steamships and purchase from Europeans the amu s they manufacture ? Is this not more simple? Should we not then have all we require without em barrassing ourselves with expenses and useless trouble ? Those who will argue iu this manner are no doubt the people who believe that cannons and muskets are the only things China ought to take from Europe, and this is a serious mistake. But even were such the case, and had the course hitherto pursued bee❑ at the same time practical and easy, it is not the less demonstrated that we should always remain dependent upon foreigners for these articles, and that we should have to resign ourselves never to be acquainted with their manufacture. Further, ac quaintance with this manufacture of arms and ma chines, while placing us in a position to produce them for ourselves, does not deprive us of the op portunity of pursuing our ancient course, and of profiting by the industry of others. We should then, however, do so with a knowledge of the subject. it appears to us useless to demonstrate whether knowledge is preferable to ignorance. " It would also be a serious mistake to imagine that China abandons her ancient knowledge to adopt that of foreigners. The Europeans admit that they have borrowed from China— or at any rate from the East--the notions upon which their sciences are now adays based. With their spirit of research and con stant application they have increased these notions, drawn from them all the profit possible, and have finally discarded antiquated theories in favour of those more modern and exact. The root is Chinese, but the tree that has been developed is European. This is the case with arithmetic and astronomy, and perhaps also with other sciences. If China had nentinued to cultivate the sciences she would not now be reduced to have recourse to the experience of other nations. Clearly this would be far preferable. " But is the idea of having recourse to the science of the Europeans and of requesting lessons from them new? Did not the Emperor Kang-hi, with his vast intelligence, recognise this necessity by ad mitting many among them to the mathematical tri bunal and treating them like Chinese functionaries? Recent generations ought not to set aside, as they i have done, the science of numbers since our philo sophers themselves have placed it at the head of human knowledge. " 'ln ancient times,' says the books, warriors and agriculturists were acquainted with astronomy, which was forgotten afterwards through a pro hibition of the Emperor. Kang-hi, our sacred ancestor, caused it to revive. Literates gave them selves up to its study with ardour, and published numerous books. It was said then : Whatever is unknown is a cause of disgrace to the literates. And is it not in fact disgraceful for a man who makes a display of science to look up at the sky without knowing anything of the millions of stars . he sees shining above him ? Even if the school we desire to establish should never exist, literate per sons would not, we hope, be willing long to remain iu their present ignorance. If they were not desi rous of recommencing these forgotten studies, they would have all the stronger reason for so doing in presence of the sacrifice the State is now willing to make.' "To those who may say that China humiliates herself in seeking instruction from foreigners, we shall reply that if' one thing in particular can make a nation blush, it is to be ignorant of that which others know. " What immense ' progress have not Eu ro p eans made during the last fifty years in the const ruction • of eteamshi pS --to cite only a single fact -.incessantly seeking After better combination.-,, and vieing with J each oth er i n l a b our an d e fforts ? Even span has Pent to Europe officers intended to se,k instruction in the various sciences there taught. Thus, without speaking of European nations, each of which seeks to raise itself above the others by knowledge and civilisation, Japan has not wished to remain in the rear. That country also desires to take its place among the strong, while China al,ne, continuing obstinate in her indifference and her ancient cus toms, would condemn herself to stand aloof from the general activity. This is a true reason of dis grace.. If we do not feel humiliation in being inferior to others, but only in taking others as our instruc tors, without considering that, by the desire of equalling, we may perhaps attain the glory of sur passing them, it naturally results that we shall never know anything, and shall have the eternal humiliation of inferiority. " We foresee, also, that it will be said :—The cons'ruction of machines is the task of labourers. ' Why teach these things to literate persons? We shall reply that in the ancient book "fcheou-li' there is a chapter upon carpentry, which literate persons have read with interest during many ages, and for which they have a great esteem. Why is this? Because, if the workman must execute the manual labour in any construction, it is the literate person who ought to know the natural law, the principle upon which that construction is based. It is by this knowledge that he may render the labour of the workman use ful, by directing and applying it with discernment. It is these natural laws that we are desirous should be known, and it is by them that the literate person will point out to the artisan the full benefit he may extract from any given process. Why suppose us desirous that literate persons or people plainly edu cated should become workmen ? Nothing need be studied but that which can be applied, and with the object of applying it according to the necessities of the age. Whatever further may be the interpretations unenergetic persons may attach to this measure, by which they are not affected, it is indispensable that it should be carried out with full desire to put it iu execution ; and we have only proposed it to your Majesty after mature reflection. Although we are still but at the commencement of our enterprise, we are aware that in order to interest literate persons therein and engage them to study with ardour, it will be necessary to promist?, them certain advan tages and show them the utility they will derive from their studies by the employment those who shall dis tinguish themselves will obtain. " We therefore submit to your Majesty's approval the following code of regulations in six articles, trusting it may meet with your high approbation. " Lastly, we beg to suggest that as the han-lin (academicians) of the three classes, possessing a high degree of literary education and accustomed to grave and arduous studies, are now but little em ployed in the administration, it would be well to invite them to study the mathematical sciences, in which they would make rapid progress. We respectfully await the time when your Ma jesty and her Majesty the Empress shall deign to acquaint us what is thought of our proposals." The code of regulations is appended. It refers to the terms of admission to the new college, the treat ment of the students, their rate of enrolment, &c. Underneath the memorial is to be found the Em peror's signature, with the words " The proceeding is approved. " Respect this. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. - GREAT EASTERN. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, to consider three bills now before Parliament—Mr. C. H. Turner in the chair. Mr. J. B. Owen, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said, before he proceeded with the business for which the meeting had been convened, he wished to make a few observations. In the first place, it would have given him the greatest possible de light to have seen that large room filled with Great Eastern shareholders, to hear the refutation of a statement that had been circulated by persons who were no friends of the company. He had received several letters from shareholders, making inquiries as to the truth of statements that had been made in a pamphlet issued to the proprietors by an alleged committee of shareholders. He wished to know whether the author or authors of that pamphlet were in the room, and, if so, where they got the false statements respecting the affairs of the com pany? There were difficulties enough to contend with in managing the affairs of that large company without having to correct erroneous statements by self-elected committees or other persons. One of the false statements in the pamphlet was to the effect that the directors were seeking power to raise additional capital for steamboats. That was totally untrue, and very unfair to the directors ; all the power sought for in the bill was to 'enable the com pany to run the steamboats to two additional ports, ! • in order to develope the goods and cattle traffic ; but there was no power sought for spending money on steamboats. Another untrue statement iu the pamphlet was to the effect that the prozont board had done nothing for the company during the 15 r months they were in office. Some gentlemen of Mr. Ware's committee came to the station at Shoreditch, had an interview with the directors on the affairs of the company, and up to a certain point had infor mation given them quite sufficient for any section of the shareholders to know. The directors had therefore declined to give further information, un less it was made known to all the shareholders in the company. (Hear, hear.) The present directors had done the very best they could for the company since they came into office. He had put an end to fictitious accounts, and with the aid of his colleagues they had kept the company so far out of Chancery as to prevent the appointment of a receiver. He had laboured for three years to bring about an equitable arrangement with the Great Northern Company to enable the Great Eastern to get into the manufacturing districts. The details of an arrangement with that company which he hoped would be satisfactory, were now being pre pared. He believed the company had pretty well developed the traffic in their own disttict, and they must look elsewhere for an increase. He trusted be fore long the Great Eastern would not only be able to pay all their preference dividends, but that there would be a margin for dividend to the ordinary shareholders. Under the old agreement with the Great Northern the company were to pay £60,000 a year to get into the northern d istricts, subject to certain restrictions. No one valued peace more than he did, but he did not desire to obtain it at any price. (Hear, hear.) He had told the Great Northern Board that the policy of the Great Eastern was to go northwards, and they were determined to carry out that policy. Now, under the old agree ment they could only get to Doncaster, and for which they would have to pay the Great Northern I I £60,000 a year. But, under the new arrangement ' which the present directors had recently made with the Great Northern Company, the Great Eastern would have to pay 1:10,000 the first year, instead of £60,000, as contemplated by the old agreement ; £15,000 for the second year, £2,),000 for the third year, and £25,000 a year for the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh years ; and they were to become half owners of the lines over which their trains would run to the north when they paid the Great Northern £60,000 a year. Ile believed by that arrangement the directors had saved the company the expendi ture of £1,000,000. Under the old agreement the Great Northern could fix the rates and fares to Don caster, and they were otherwise fettered in various ways ; but under the new agreement thereo o were r equal rates, and the company could go ' the Lancashire and Yorkshire and other lines in the manufacturing districts. Another matter of importance was, that, under the new agree ment, the Great Northern were confined in their extensions to King's Lynn. The London and Cambridge traffic was to be equally divided between the two companies. Formerly the Great Eastern paid £16,800 a year to the Great Northern ! for the liitchin and Shepreth line, over which the Cambridge traffic of that company was carried; but now the Cambridge traffic would he carried by both companies, and divided bet Ween them. He thought those arrangements showed that the new directors had done something for the Great Eastern Company. They had substituted a payment of £16,800 a year for the Ilitehin and Shepreth line for £lO,OOO a year to get to Doncaster. If the com pany bad fair play the price of the ordinary stock in the market would now be at 40, instead of 28. If the working expenses on their line were reduced to 50 per cent. of the receipts, as he hoped they would be, instead of being 56 per cent., there would be a saving of £BO,OOO a year. If the temporary loans had been got rid of, there would have been a saving of £35,000 in interest. The expenses were being reduced, and they would have had a dividend of 1 per cent. on the ordinary stock. He had no doubt of the ultimate success-of the. Great Eastern undertaking. He then refuted other statements in the pamphlet of the alleged comMittec.‘, ; and alluded to a paragraph i n a m orning paper `)bleb stated that THE SUN, LON the general manager of the Great Eastern had £3,000 a year, the deputy manager £l,OOO a year, the secretary £2,000 a year, and resident engineer, £1,500 a year. The salaries paid were about half those amounts, and any further increase would de- pend on the prosperity of the company. He hoped the shareholders would disregard all unauthorised statements in future, and continue their confidence in the present board. He wished, for the benefit of the company, that Mr. Laing had succeeded in financial matters, but as to himself he saw his way tolerably clear for carrying the undertaking through _ _ its difficulties. They would now proceed with the - - business of the meeting. Mr. BAXTER, solicitor, reads the heads of the first bill, which was for the purpose of enabling the company to separate the undertaking of the Metro politan Extensions from the general undertaking as to capital and revenu2. The bill extended the time 'or the purchase of land and completion of works. [t also gave the preference shareholders voting powers to the extent of one vote for every £5OO stock held by them in the company. In the event of the Metropolitan Extensions becoming a sepa rate undertaking it would be called the Great Eastern Metropolitan Undertaking. The Great Eastern directors would have the management of both undertakings, but the capital and revenue of the two undertakings would be kept perfectly distinct. The ordinary shares of the Metropolitan Extensions might be divided into deferred and pre- 'erred shares, similar to those of the Great Northern Railway. The money already expended by the Great Eastern Company on the Metropolitan Ex tensions would be represented by shares in that undertaking. Under the East London Railway Act the East London Company had power to make a railway under the Great Eastern Extension Line from Shoreditch to Liverpool-street by paying half the cost. The titne for the purchase of laud was extended two years, and for the completion of works three years. Every portion of the debenture stock of the Great Eastern Company would in future have the same rights. Mr. BRISTOW doubted the chance of floating the Metropolitan Extensions as a separate undertaking. Mr. MAUDE thought the power of voting in right of preference shares might be some check in future on expenditure for extensions. Mr. C. LEGG wished to know how the Great Eastern were to get back the £600,000 they had already expended on the Metropolitan Extensions. Mr. CHRISTIE thought it a wide course for the directors to promote the bill, as it would enable them to relieve the Great Eastern Company from the difficulty of raising the new capital for the extension lines. Mr. Serjeant SPINES remarked that the bill gave the company permissive powers to separate the two undertakings if deemed expedient, which, if sanc tioned by Parliament, could be done at some future meeting of the company specially convened for the purpose. Mr. LEGG, of Leeds, said he considered they would have had a good property were it not for the action of an unprincipled set of men. Ile thought it very injurious to ladies, trustees, and other per sons holding stock in the company, to have false statements circulated among them from time to time, tending to mislead them by depreciating the value of their property. He was glad the directors had proxies intrusted to them representing two mil lions of stock, to check adverse proceedings, and to enable them to carry out an honest and wise policy for the benefit of the company. He hoped the di rectors would abstain in future from giving any particular information to sections of shareholders which was not given to all. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to questions, said the present directors had inherited difficulties from their predecessors which they had to deal with as they could, so as to produce the least loss to the com pany. Four of the directors, of which he was one, raised £300,000 to meet the first difficulty of the company when they came into office. The whole of that sum had been paid off with the exception of £46,000. The Metropolitan Extensions land claims arnounte.l to £1,900,000, of which £500,000 would be returned by the sale of surplus lands. The East London Company would pay half the cost of the land and works from Shoreditch to the intended station at Liverpool-street. If everything came to the Worst, all that the present company could DC debited with in respect of those extensions would be about £7511,000. By the plan proposed the com pany would be enabled to get rid of liabilities in respect to the extensions, and get back the £350,000 paid for land and £230,000 for works, making to gether £600,000. They had not paid Mr. Laing up to the present time any part of the £5,000 which he was to receive for his financial services. Mr. LAING, in seconding the motion for the ap proval of the bill, said if the proprietors repented of the bargain with him for his services they could say so, and he would cancel the arrangement, leaving them with perfect good humour. If they were satis fied to let the matter remain as it was he would do his best for them. A financial bill was being pre pared for Parliament, and when it came before the proprietors he would give them full explanation of the exact state of their affairs in reference to that matter. He had not succeeded in raising the money for them, and he believed that no one could, under the circumstances. They had a large concern that had cost £26,000,000, their receipts were about £2,000,000 a year, and the expenses were about half of it, leaving £1,000,000, which represented about £20,000,000 ; their liabilities were not half that amount, and there was, of course, ample secu rity to cover all their liabilities. The resolution approving the bill was then carried. The CHAIRMAN contended that the position of the company was now much better than it was nine m onr; 'The h e s u a In fA N f a c s t a , t d h t e b y k eb n e e x w t the i ll w b o e rs t ( . had t la ( 1 ) er.) sub mit was to authorise the company to run their steamboats to two other ports besides those of Ant werp and Rotterdam. During the cattle plague last year the cattle traffic was stopped at the ports men tioned, but if they could have run from Harwich to the two other ports they could have secured a great portion of that traffic. The steamboats should have a fair portion of that traffic. The steamboats should have a fair trial ; if they did not pay they would abandon them. The goods traffic had increased by £12,000 last year, and were it not for the stoppage of the cattle traffic they would have had better re- turns. The bill was unanimously approved. The next bill was promoted by the Norwich Board of Health, and sanctioned the construction of a road to the company's station and a bridge over the line at Norwich. The Great Eastern was authorised to subscribe £5,000 towards the road, and a certain level crossing would be got rid of. A resolution approving the bill was carried. The meeting was then made special, and after some discussion the consideration of agreements for working the Meths and Eye and the Tendring Hundred Railways for ten years was adjourned, with a view to obtain certain modifications in these agreements. A formal, resolution for converting £130,000 of Eastern Union preference stock, that had been re deemed by the company, into Great Eastern pre , ference stock of like amount, was agreed to. Mr. RIGLEY stated that he, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Chadwick resided in Manchester, and had joined the committee of shareholders with a view to assist the directors iu improving the property of the company. They were surprised when they saw the pamphlet alluded to by the chairman, and distinctly repudiated all connexion with it. (llear.)' rho proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman for the way iu which he had con ducted the business of the meeting. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER Yesterday morning a new scale of fares for daily passengers came into operation on the company's Metropolitan Extension line. The fares have been increased in some cases 50 per cent. Numbers of the passengers were quite surprised at the sudden and unexpected rise, which caused general diSsatis faction. There has been no rise in the charge for season tickets, and if passengers wish to save the extra charge it appears they can do so by becoming season ticket-holders, A new station was opened MN, THURS UA V E v ENING, MAY 2, 1867. on the line, called the Battersea-park and York road station. TEIGN VALLEY. A special meeting of this company was held at Newton on Monday. Sir L. Palk, M.P., presid e d. The CHAIRMAN said that the share capital now subscribed was £20,320, while the amount autho rised was £•15,000, and of preference capital £30,000, with borrowing powers for an additional £79,000. Ile strongly urged shareholders to take up preference stock, so that the undertaking could b..! completed without further delay. A revised statement of the accounts mould be ready in the course of a month or six weeks. Mr. C. Langley was elected auditor. Cape Colonies, Orange River to Delago Bay, 45 ; Delago Bay, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, and Red Sea, 82 ; &c. The smallest return is from Aden to Kurrachee, including the Persian Gulf, where the casualties repotted have only amounted to 2. Total loss of ships and steamers, 2,234 ; construc tive loss, 270 ; great damage, 1,295 ; minor damage, 4,416 ; raised after sinking, 52 not damaged or results unknown, 2,320 ; grand total, 10,587. Official Report. THE WRECK OF THE EARL OF DUBLIN. To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade. My Lords,—l have held an official inquiry into the wreck of the Earl of Dublin steamship, assisted by Cap tain Harris and Commander Roche, RN., as Nautical As sors, and have the honour to report: —That the Earl of Dublin was a paddlewheel steamer, built at Port Glasgow is the year 1837, her framework being of iron. She was registered at Dublin, her gross tonnage being 618, and her registered 431 tons, and she was propelled by two engines of 300 horse power. She was owned by the Dublin and Glasgow Company. This was her first voyage on the station be tween Dublin and Glasgow, and she was commanded by Mr. William Stokes, who holds a certificate of service, and was manned by a crew of 26, all told. The Earl of Dub- lin left Glasgow on her return voyage on the afternoon of the 21st of March, having on board about 13 chief and 20 deck passengers, and a general cargo, consisting of bale goods, sugar, and iron, the latter of which was stowed upon the fore part of the deck. At 8 p.m. she passed the Cumbrae Light, and a course was shaped down the Chan nel towards Corewell Point. Tho master appears to have been on deck till a little after midnight, when he went below, having been relieved by the Chief Mate. Shortly afterwards the lights, both at Portp ttrick and the Cope land Islands, were visible, and the distance was c mputed at about six miles from the former and nine miles from the latter light. Of this fact the Master was made aware. The Master, before he went below, gave the course S. by VT. W. nothing to westward, leaving directions to have the lights reported to him when seen,with their bearings,and any alteration in the wind or weather. At 2 o'clock A.M. the Copeland Islands were passed at a compu'ed distance of six miles, Donaghadee red light being in sight. The weather at this time is described as cloudy, but not thick, and blowing strong. About a quarter or twenty minutes after 2 o'clock, the sea getting heavier, the Mate altered the course from S. by W. W. to S., but did not call the Master till 3 o'clock A.M., when he says that he lost sight of the Copeland Light bearing N.N.W. The Master shortly afterwards came on deck, and sent a hand aloft to look out for the South Rock Light. At this time it was snowing heavily, and blowing a whole gale at S.E., with a heavy sea. In about a quarter of en hour after, the look-out aloft shouted out "land" or "breakers right ahead." The helm was promptly put hard a-starboard, and the engines " stopped" and " re versed ;" but before the latter order could be carried out, the vessel struck upon the rocks about half a mile to the westward of Burial Island. A communication with the shore having been established by means of a rope, the pas sengert and crew were all safely lauded in their own life boat by 8 o'clock the same morning. Some portion of the cargo was saved on that and the following days, and the vessel eventually broke in two, and became a total wreck. Such is the brief narrative of the loss of this valuable ship. If the evidence of the mate with respect to the courses steered and bearings of the lights is to be relied on, there are only two modes of accounting for the loss of this ship-- either there must have been a great derangement of the compasses, or a very insufficient allowance for the force of the wind and sea and set of the tide. It is obvious that shortly after midnight, if the cross bearings of Portpatrick and the Copeland Lights were accurately taken, the vessel was in a proper position, and the course S. by W. W. should have carried the ship clear, under ordinary circumstances, of all the dangers on the Irish coast. At the time of taking these bearings, however, it was high water, a spring tide ; consequently, from that time till the vessel struck she had a hard gale and heavy sea on the port bow, together with a strong spring ebb, all tending to sot the ship towards the Irish coast. This only could be obviated by the greatest attention to the bearings and distance from the lights, and the weather was such as to render it very difficult to compute the distance from them with any degree of accuracy. It must, moreover, be noticed, that no cross-bearings were taken of the Copeland and Denaghadee lights, though both were ♦isible at the same time ; nor was any lead used to verify tho distance from the land. To these circumstances chiefly, in my opinion, aided by my Nautical Assessors, is to be attributed the loss of the ship, without having recourse to any subtle theory of magnetism. In fact., had the compasses been in error to so great an extent as has been assumed, it must have been apparent long before the ship arrived off Port patrick. The mate in his evidence distinctly states that there was no reason to doubt their accuracy, and it is only after the ship is lost, in accounting for the disaster, that he assumes that they must have been in error. It is pos sible that, although the error was unsuspected, and, there fore, unobserved, that the iron stowed on deck, as the mato deposes, within fifteen or twenty feet of the bridge compass, might have affected it je some de ,, r,,e_ This circumstance, added to the fact that this new iron ship was on her first laden voyage, and for the first time with her head pointing to the southward, rendered a greater degree of vigilance necessary in the navigation of the ship. When the master left the deck at midnight the position of the ship might be at that moment perfectly safe ; yet looking at the state of the weather, the set of the tide, and the possibility of derangement in his steering compass, ho would have evinced more prudence had he continued on deck. On leaving the deck, however, he gave orders to the mate to report to him when lights were seen, and their bearings, or any change in the wea ther. Tho mate, who had sailed under his connnand for four years, omitted to do so, and when the master was called it was too late to avert the calamity. Taking into account all the circumstances of the case as laid before me in the evidence, and bearing in m'nd the iniportant fact of the mate having omitted to call the master as directed, and looking at the long service and experience of Mr. Stokes, extending over a period of 29 years in the same employ, the court thought a reprimand would satisfy the ends of justice, and at the same time meet the merits of the case.—l have, dc., J. W. O'DONNELL, Chief Magistrate, dc. The Great Bank Robbei y at Melbourne , (From theßullionist.) As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we suppose we ought to be greatly gratified at the close ness with which colonial and other communities copy English or Anglicised institutions. In spite of sneers at the nation of shopkeepers, and go-ahead decla rations that we are behind the time, we may not un fairly boast of setting the fashion in all things monetary. Not only our virtues but our vices, not only our excellences and adornments, but our blots and blemishes, are imitated and reproduced, as completely as if beyond entire conformity to our model the force of nature could not go. Our columns have abundantly testified to the naturalisation, in India, America, and Australia, of the grand English invention of a periodical panic, with its accessories and concomi tants of awful smashes, grave scandals, and extra ordinary disclosures. Meetings of, deluded share holders and indignant creditors have become quite as much en regle among our foreign commercial rivals and in our most mercantile dependencies as ever they have been here, and by the last Australian mail we have a sensation story of a bank robbery, which throws all antecedent occurrences of the kind into the shade. Confidential clerks, fraudu, lent managers, dishonest directors, and insane speculators have done great things in the way of spoliation, but then they have wrought with the smooth and polished tools of the outwardly estima ble forger or swindler, and not with the coarse and vulgar expedient of the rough and ready rubber, who forcibly " steals, takes, and carries away " another's property in as inartistic a fashion as if he were Bill Sykes or Bob the Cracksman himself. But the singularity of the latest novelty in the way of com mercial delinquency is that while it resembles rather the unskilled and commonplace than the refined and respectable in its manner, it exceeds even the most remarkable instances of breach of trust in the value of its subject matter. It took Redpath and Pul linger many years of elaborate artifice to make up an aggregate misappropriation of a quarter of a minion, while Windsor in America, Lamirande in France, and a host of others in England were but hucksters and petty chapmen in the same peculiar department of industry. 11Iany years ago London was startled by the news that £40,000 worth of bank notes had been abstracted from a house in Lombard street, and until now that memorable event has remained par excellence, " the great bank robbery," compared with which sundry successful burglaries in quest of watches, jewellery, and bullion have been treated almost as unconsidered trifles. In Mel bourne, however, just before the mail left for Eng land, the discovery had been made that eight hun dred thousand pounds worth of good commercial bills had been abstracted from the strong box of the Branch Oriental Bank, and for a few days it seemed as if scarcely any hopes of tracing the thieves or recovering the property could be entertained. For tunately this distressing uncertainty did not last i very long. A clue w furnished by the extraordi7 nary conduct of the actual depredator, which was fortunately so effectually followed up, that by the same despatch which informs us of the robbery, we learn that the robber had been arrested, and the proceeds of his villany restored to the rightful owners. Considering how much mischief any well grounded apprehension of insecurity as to the safe keeping of negotiable instruments in banking estab lishments would do, it is satisfactory to find that the crime on which we are now commenting is not of a nature particularly likely to be repeate.l. Ott the 28th of January the bills in question were safe in a ►wooden box, which again was enclosed in a heavy tin box, and this yat again was deposited in the or dinary way in the bank safe. On the next day the safe and its enclosures appeared to have bren undisturbe.l, but shortly afterwards it was ascertained--tirst, that a portion, and ultimately, that the whole, of the " paper" had been abstracted. Outward in dication of violence there was none—a circumstance which, we think, must have suggested that the robbery had been committed by some of the bank's employes. But neither the police nor the bank board were able to hit upon the offender. As we have known happen nearer home, the two were working at cross purposes, and thus the secret which both were anxious to keep leaked out, and was mentioned in the morning papers. About the same time an ana granimatic advertisement was inserted in what an swers to the mysterious second column, in which the movements of some and the misfortunes of others of the bank officials were fortold in a language which the cognoscenti could readily understand. Falconer was to remain, Anderson was to be shipped off instead, Cargill was to be a felo de se, Trail to go mad, Skinner to wind up. The copy of this singu lar advertisement was inspected, and found. to be in the writing of a bank clerk, who was identified as having brought it to the office, and some days afterwards an anonymous notice, made up of printed matter cut from some periodical, was pushed under the door of the detective police office, telling them where to "look for bills." The police went to the place, and, what is more singular, they went away again before they had made their search exhaustive. But all's well that ends well. The search was resumed, nearly the whole of the bills were found. Dickson, the clerk, confessed to hav ing removed them from a malevolent desire to cause his employers temporary inconvenience, and the preliminary steps for bringing this worthy to con dign punishment had been taken at the time the last advices left for England. We have said that even this startling occurrence is not likely to diminish the sense of security with which mercantile men are accustomed to leave their paper in the keeping of our banking estab lishments. We express this opinion, partly because we know that our bank clerks are, as a body, too respectable to imitate Dicksou's example, and partly also, because their opportunities of committing similar robberies, or of disposing of their proceeds, are very few and far between. In conclusion, we must say a word on the pride with which the Oriental Bank may henceforth point to one incident in this strange story. A full week elapsed between the abstraction and restoration of the contents of the big-box, during which all manner of alarming rumours were, of course, in circulation. But during the whole of this time the bills that matured were regularly paid without being pro duced, the parties liable being perfectly satisfied with copies made out from the bank's bill-book, and accompanied by the bank's indemnity. Thus an act of felony, which might have had serious con sequences, has occasioned no greater inconvenience than a little temporary excitement and apprehen sion, for which the contemporary proofs of unlimited confidence are more than sufficient compensation. The occurrence, however, has become historical, and will henceforth rank as one of the most singular and sensational incidents ever recorded in the annals of banking. DR. NEWMAN AND THE " WEEKLY REGISTER." d w r ,e es s s ho t u o la D t r i . ihlk, to New man All cannot vh b o ut s f i g ee n l ed gra tl t i e e f u a l d , ' qmother column a sentence out of h armony Mr. Ward for pointing out in a letter which we give in with the purport of the address, which was simply to repinnaie an unwarrantable attack made by the Roman correspondent of the Weekly Register on Dr. Newman, and to convey to him an ex pression of deep and earnest sympathy. This address, so numerously signed, shows how alive the English Catholic laity are to the good fame of a man who has done so much service to the Church in England, but they are still more sensitive as to any slur on their profound loyalty towards th© Pope. Hence they will read with unmixed in dignation the offensive and preposterous charge which the Guardian newspaper has ventured to make against their allegiance to the Holy See, by likening the Catholic noblemen and gentlemen who have signed the address to Dr. Newman to those Barons of the middle ages who resisted the interposition of the Popes in the matter of inves titures. It says that the principle of the opposi tion is the same, though it touches now not on temporal interests, but on the liberty of opinion, a nd it regards the address to Dr. Newman as a protest on behalf of liberty of opinion against tho encroachments of Papal authority. In the name of the Catholics who signed this address with no such purpose in their mind, and whose allegiance to the Pope is as dear to them as their lives, we indignantly repudiate this gross perversion of the purport of the address. But if the Guardian misrepresents so many of the Catholic nobility and gentry, it is even still more offensive in its remarks on Dr. Newman himself, for it broadly lays to his charge that he has re tracted in his later writings some of the prin ciples he maintained in his earlier works, espe cially in regard to the Papal authority and the cultus of the Blessed Virgin. Such a charge is a repetition in more stated terms of the imputations of unorthodoxy advanced by the Roman correspondent of the Weekly Register. For such an offence the Guardian will, we feel confident, draw down on itself a more prompt rebuke and a more indignant refutation than were so deservedly visited on the writer in the Weekly Register.—Westminster Gazette. Old Hall House, near Ware, April 24, 1867. Sin,—A week has now passed since I forwarded to Mr. Monsell the letter which you were kind enough to insert in your last number, and I have as yet received no answer from that gentleman. The Tablet declined to insert my letter, on the ground that the, address could not possibly bear such an interpretation as I had suggested, and that it was unfair, therefore, towards Mr. Monsell to insert the letter. I may take for granted, then, I suppose, that Mr. Monsell's silence may be re garded as an emphatic disavowal of that inter pretation. I hope, however, that Catholics will not think me obtrusive if I write again on the sub ject, because I am in the really singular position of finding myself unable to sign the address, while yet I concur with every opinion which (as I be lieve) the great majority of subscribers intended to express by it. What they intended to express seems to me quite obvious. They intended to visit with just animadversion a most indefensible attack, and to assure that eminent person who was its object that their respect and gratitude towards him have not been in the slightest degree lessened thereby. The attack was certainly most indefensible, apart from all theological questions whatever. Let me illustrate its nature by a contrast. Let me sup pose the writer to have mentioned this or that proposition occurring in some work of Father New luau's, and to have added, with due deference to ecclesiastical authority, that it seemed to him at variance with this or that decision or practice of the Church. This would have been manly and straightforward. But what course has he in fact pursued? He has cited no proposition of Father Newman's ; he has appealed to no decision of the Church. On the contrary, he has indulged in vague and random declamation ; he has made a most invidious, unauthorized, and impertinent use of names the most illustrious ; he has sent over to England a mass of indefinite gossip, for which no one is responsible ; and, lastly (as I cannot but think), has given an essentially erroneous state ment of fiefs. Without impugning for a moment his good intentions, he has, in fact, chosen that means of attack which tends to do Father New man the greatest possible injury, and, on the other hand, to give him the least possible opportunity of s.✓ legitimate defence. Even if my great personal affection for Father Newman did not make me feel the cruelty of this—even if my sense of justice were not violently outraged thereby—a mere selfish desire of security would lead me to reprobate it. For what Catholic writer in the world is safe from such stabs inflicted in the dark The great body of English Catholics is justlyin dignant. Had such weapons been used against any one whatever, the thing would have been de plorable enough. But against whom have they been in fact employed? Against one of our most distinguished names ; against one to whom many Catholics owe a debt of gratitude which they can never possibly repay ; against one, we may add, who is himself peculiarly fair and generous in deal ing with individual opponents. Catholic laymen then hastened to express both their reprobation of the attack and their sense of Father Newman, s claim to most opposite treatment ; and they signed, almost as a matter of course, the address put before them, appearing, as it did, to state this and this alone. Still, the more I reflect on the sentence to which I objected in my letter to Mr. Monsell, the more I find myself unable to give it any sense which can justify subscription. The address assures Father Newman that " every blow which touches him inflicts a wound on the whole Catholic Church in this country." Now, I wish most respectfully to ask Mr. Monsell and other promoters of the ad dress, what is the nature of that " blow " to which they refer ? I can only think of two interpretations which would even be suggested by the Roman letter. The first of these is that which I men tioned in my letter to Mr. Monsell—the alleged " inhibition" of Father Newman's mission at Ox ford. Of course, I can well understand an humble address of laymen to the Holy Father, assuring him of their profound attachment and obedience, and entreating him at the same time (for certain reasons assi..ned) not hastily to decide on such a measure. But there is not one Catholic in Eng land who would sign an address to Father Newin in, saying nakedly in so many words, "if the Pope inhibits you from going to Oxford, he will inflict a wound on the whole Catholic Church in Eng land." This explanation of the address, then, must be put on one side. The only other " bloW" suggested by the Roman correspondent is the less favourable view of Father Newman's theology, which that writer alleges to prevail in certain Roman quarters. If this be the "blow" referred to, the address assures Father Newman that any less favourable view of his theo logical opinions " would inflict a wound on the whole Catholic Church in England." But this it can only do (as is evident), if it is not only a less favourable, but also a mistaken view% On such a construction, then, the promoters of the address summon us Catholic laymen to pub lish a dogmatic decision on the due theological appreciation of certain writings. Now, lam as certain as I can be of anything which I do not actually know, that not one gentleman in twenty who signed the address dreams of this. The sub scribers desire, as I have said, to express their un abated respect and gratitude to Father Newman, and their reprobation of the attack made on him . ; but nothing (I believe) could be further from their mind than the thought of giving] expression, di rect or indirect, to any theological opinion what ever. It may, perhaps, be said that at least the sentence only refers to a criticism of the same kind with that which gave occasion to the address. But I cannot imagine such a criticism being called " a blow ;', and still less can I fancy anyone thinking that it will " inflict a wound on the whole Catholic Church in England." I conclude, therefore, as I began. I sympathize entirely with what I believe. to be intended, but I cannot sign the address. 1 could most gladly sign the first and the third sent ences, but I can only imagine two senses for the second ; and in either of these two senses it is absolutely intolerable (and would be so considered by almost all the subscribers) that a body of us laymen should append our names to it.—l remain , sir, faithfully yours, W. G. WARD. TENDRING HUNDRED. Captain Tyler, inspecting officer of the Board of Trade, had passed the last section of this company's extension to Walton-on -the-Naze. The section now about to be opened for traffic extended from Kirby Cross to Walton-on-the-Naze. A line to Walton-on-the-Naze was first projected in the autumn of 1858. The new section, in common with the other parts of the Teudring Hundred under taking, would be worked by the Great Eastern Company. STA 7 IS7ICS OF SHIPWRECK& The statistical committee appointed by the com mittee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's have pub lished their first analysis of the wrecks and casual ties reported in " Lloyd's List" for the year 1866. The object of the tabular statements contained in this report is to furnish the public with as compre hensive and careful a register of losses and casual ties as can be obtained, together with all avail- able information relating to each accident. The committee have allowed an intervalof three months from the close of the year to elapse before publish ing their analysis, in order that greater accuracy may be secured than was possible at the time the reports were made; but, even with this allowance, the figures furnished in the tables can only be re garded as giving a rough approximation to the real state of the facts, whether in regard to the loss of life that has taken place or the number of vessels lost by shipwreck or other disaster. The hon. secre tary, Mr. 11. Jeula, states " that the returns relating to lives lost are at present most imperfect, the actual number being, in all probability, greatly in excess of that given in the various tables." From the summary for the entire year we learn that as many as 11,711 casualties are reported to have happened to 10,587 vessels, of which 1,029 were steam vessels and 9,558 sailing vessels. The casualties are classified, and the list shows that 98 vessels, 3 only being steamers, were missing ; that 311 vessels-4 steamers and 337 ships —were abandoned ; and that of these 274 ships and 3 steamers were recovered, while 1 steamer and 63 ships were altogether lost. There were during the year no fewer than 1,958 collisions, which resulted in the foundering of 169 ships and 29 steamers, and in greater or less injury to 1,125 ships and 143 steamers, the results of the other collisions being either that no damage was done, or that the nature of the injury was not re ported. The number of vessels sunk, owing to causes other than collisions, was 530, viz., 497 ships and 53 steamers. The number of vessels stranded was 3,381, of which only 301 were steamers and 3,080 ships. Of these 1,473 ships and 199 steamers were got off, 1,128 ships and 52 steamers could not be got off, while the fate of the remainder-479 ships and 50 steamers—was not reported. Under the head of "capture" we find 33 ships and three steamers mentioned, while 18 ships are reported to have been seized by pirates. Of 173 vessels stated to have been burnt or on fire, 143 were ships and 30 steamers. Under the heading " dismasted or dis abled," 261 ships and eight steamers are mentioned; " jetsam of cargo under deck" gives a total of 141 ships and five steamers, while for " jetsam of deck load or washing overboard" the figures include 172 ships and 15 steamers ; 1,17! ships and 28 steamers are reported as " leaky ;" 726 ships and 17 steamers lost anchors or chains ; and 191 steamers sustained damage to their machinery or ran short of coals. tinder the somewhat general head of " mutiny, sickness, casualty to crew, or refusing duty," 324 ships and 25 steamers are reported, but how many n (N. 'in ao. or,. no +clan ry and bow many under another is not stated, though there is a wide diffe rence between mutiny and sickness. There were 1,973 ships and 75 steamers reported under the head of " damaged, loss of sails, bulwarks, &c.," and 39 ships and one steamer a pp e ar to have been water logged. The gross total of lo sses is reported as having reached the lar g e numb er of 2 ,231—.2,119 ships and 115 ste amers ; unde r the head " con structive loss" —whatev er t his may be —are 263 ships and 354 steamer s suffered minor ; -"jury ; 44 ships and 8 steame rs were raised after having shipssusta n d d 7 great damage 4,062 been sunk ; while 1,874 sustained steamers;l,l96 ship s an d 99 steamers ships and 446 steamers were either not damaged, or the re sults were unknown. In the cases of 1,875 ships and 71 steamers, the whole of the cargoes were lost ; the cargoes of 639 ships and 50 steamers were only partially lost ; those of 62 sa. ; pa and 5 steamers were all saved ; 86 cargoes were forwarded, 20 became heated, 117 shifted, and 254 were other wise damaged. Salvage services are reported to have been rendered to 1,264 ships and 116 steamers. With reference to the number of lives lost during the year, although the report states that the figures do not represent the total, the public will learn with deep regret that so many as 2,644 human beings are reported to have perished by disasters at sea during the last twelve months. Of these, 411 lost their lives in the first quarter, from January to March ; in the next quarter the sacrifice of life swelled to 989 ; in the third quarter the number of persons drowned was 543 s and iu the last three months of the year there was a total loss of 701 lives. The returns for the half years show that 1,400 lives were lost in the first six months, and 1,241 persons perished in the next half year. The results to ships during the two half years were as follows :—Total loss, 1,037 and 1,197; constructive loss, 148 aud 122; great damage, 644 and 651 ; minor damage, 2,459- and 1,957 ; raised after sinking, 28 and 21; not damaged, or results unknown, 1,139 and 1,181. T h e results to cargo for the half years were —All lost, 894 and 1,052 ; part lost, 345 and 341; all saved, 41 and 26; forwarded, 45 and 41 ; heated, 15 and 5 ; shifted, 79 and 38 ; otherwise damaged, 132 and 122 ; salvage services, 759 and 621. I f we take the monthly re turns we find some curious figures in reference to the destruction of human life. A much larger number of persons were sacrificed in May, when the number was 831, while in January and February the respec tive loss was 221 and 89. The figures are as follow —Jan., 221; Feb. AU ; March, 101 ; April, 58 ; May, 831; June, 100 ; July, 47 ; Aug., 271 ; Sept., 225 ; Oct., 311 ; Nov., 198 ; Dec., 187. A table is fur nished, showing the number of casualties posted iu Lloyd's loss book for each mouth during the ten years from 1857 to 1866, inclusive; but the return does not include a large number of coasting vessels of foreign countries and British colonies, except when reported by telegraph. The losses for the several years are thus given :—.1857, 3,218 ; 1858, 3,171 ; 1858, 3,758; 1860, 3,539 ; 1861, 3,672 ; 1862, 3,652 ; 1863, 3,906 ; 1864, 3,298 ; 1865, 2,817 ; 1866, 3,370. In addition to these statistics the com mittee publish a summary of wrecks and casualties consisting of 20 cl"selrinted pages of fig ur e s, the returns being arranged in y- four divisions, and divided into 31 geographical sections. From these tables we learn that the number of wrecks and casualties re ported as having taken place on the coasts of the British Islands during the past year was 2,356 ; the Baltic and Gulf of Bothnia, 645 ; Dunkirk and Gib raltar, including the Azores, 866 ; Mediterranean, Blaek sea, and Sea of Azoff, 891 ; the Scaw to Dun kirk, inclusive, 308; Kurrachee to Calcutta, inclusive, 359 ; Australia, New G u inea, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 316; River Plate and Brazils to French Guiana, 302 ; Jamaica, St. Domingo, Cuba, and other West Indian islands, 491 ; United States, from Alatamoras to Bruns w i c k, 860; British North Ame rica, 511; Siam to Korea 214; White Sea, Norway, 7 Faroe Islands, Sweden, outside Baltic to Copenhagen and Great and Little Belts, 233 ; Africa, Straits of , , Gibraltar to Orange River, including islands, 78 00 UN T.IIY MAiiiKET S. HULL.--TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair supply of Eng lish wheat, which sold at last week's prices, although the farmers asked higher rates. Foreign firm, but not much in demand. Barley, beaus, and peas fully as dear, while oats were scarce and much in request—being saleable at is per qr more money. In the linseed market business Was done at full prices. English white wheat, 65s to 70s; red, 628 to 65s ; Dant sic a n d K on i gs b erg, 63s to 72s ; Baltic red, 60s to 64s ; Danish and Hamburg, 603 to 638 ; Russian, 578 to 5 98 . Barley, English, 36s to 495; grinding, Mediterranean , 32 t 4 0 46 4 85 5 4 4 t t to o s o . 3 4 25 :P 5 s ' e ; 6. a d s s . , , B i E n eOa d n an i g n ts i7 English s l Ev u t n e o , gE 44 4 l7 2 sg s h - 1 o ' i t s d o sh 8 1) 4 . s e 4 2 r B t6 : B o r f t . l 6° ?• 28 f o 8; rsie;oi6r,enlilg';:lB4lB, LYNN—TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at market to-d 8 3:1 with a. firm trarlo. at last week's rates !etched 6d to Is more tianie. Deans and oats unaltere in value. Now wheat, 66s to 688 ; now red, 60$ to 65s ; old white, —s to —s ; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, new', 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 42s to 465. Pea g f 37s to 41s per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE--TvEsDAY. There has been a very favourable change in the weather during the last few days, and agricultural operations havo progressed most satisfactorily. Home-grown wheat has been in fair request at previous quotations. Foreign wheat at about previous rates, with the usual businebs. Malting barley rather heavy. Grinding unaltered. Oats were is fair supply, and prices rather in favour of sellers. Beans a slow trade. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, red, 78 6d to 8s Od per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s 6d ; inferior, 6s (Id to Cs 6d ; malting barley, 44s to 48s white r ; grind ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 43s to 45s ; oats, 260 to 27s Od ; black ditto, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. SALISBURY.—T UESDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat was limited, but of average quality. An advance in price was a sked, but not generally acceded to. Barley met with increased inquiry, and last week's figures were paid for the best samples. Beans and peas iu limited demand, but priceo ruled firm. Oats were unaltered in value. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 62s to 72s ; barley, 32s to 47s ; oats, 24s to 33s ; beans, 444 to 58s; and peas, 40s to 488 per qr. Tares, from 5.i 6d to 7 6d per bushel ; Best bread, lad ; household ditto, 1 4 ' 1 * per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s. d. s . d• Holy well Main l6 6 Walls End Hetton ... 19 6 Northutuberl'd Main l5 0 East Hartlepool 13radyell's Hetton lB 3 Hartlepool West Hartley Buddle's W. Hartley. 17 3 ships at market, 39—sold, 31. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton. ~May 2 /. Ditto, via Marseilles ..... .4. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pisucet 5 Ditto, by French packet May 2 ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and it. Helena Stay —• China. Penang. and Singapore. via Bou,hampton Iday 3 Ditto. via Marseilles. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southacapton ..... Stay 3 . India, via South =Oen Ditto, viz Hartsell es .. rAnvEnTisnmENT.l HolloWay's Pills. —lndigestion. -- How much thought has been bestowed and what ponder one volumes written upon this plague of every household! • which is safely and certainly dispensed by a course of thi s purifying, soothing, and tonic medicin e , with o ut fear , O . relapse. It acts directly on the stom a ch, li ver , an d b o wels' more indirectly, though not less effectively, on the brain, nerves, vessels, and glands, and .so commands ord er throughout the entire s yst em . D yspeps i a can no w 11, ," longer be the bugbe ar o f th e pu bli c s i nce Holloway's Pil'S are fully competent to subdue the most chronic and dis tressing cases of impaired digestion, and to restore the miserable sufferer to health, strength, and cheerfulnes e • Sold at Professor Holloway's establishment. 244, Strant and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilise world. Births. COCKBURN—On the 30th ult., at 18, Essex Villas, liensieg ton, the wife of Wm. Y. Cockburn, Esq., of a son. NORTON On the Ist inst., at Tollington-park, the wife °` Robert S. Norton, Esq., of a son. Pamtny—On the Ist inst., at 35, Finsbury-place, B. ° " the wife of Dr. Palfrey, of a daughter. Marriages. RoGEns —DEANE--On the 30th ult., at Iver, Buckingham shire, Edward, son of the late Rev. John Rogers, of Vl ° Home, Shropshire, to Ada, eldest daugl;ter of Sir Thos' Deane, Monkstown, county Dublin. WEBSTER - MONTAGU —On the 23d ult., at St. George% Hanover-square, Capt. P. C. G. Webster, late Bth 111 r. sars, to Frances Horatio, daughter of the late Itcv• Montagu, M.A., formerly Lieutenant Royal Navy , sun °f M. Montagu, Esq., of Little Bookharn, and grandson ° the Hon. H. Hobart, M.P., of Intwood Hall, Norfolk. Deaths. COLEMAN.—On the 26th ult., at Camden-town, Mr. Sawn ° en Coleman, late of the New liummums, Covent-gard, aged 73. DAWSON—On the 29th ult., at Battersea, Mrs. Dawolll aged 61. HUSET—On the 80th ult., Hubert John Husey, Esq. HANSLER—On the 28th ult., in the Albany, Piccadilly, Pir John Jacob Hanger, the first Knight made by the Queen, J.P., F.R.S., Deputy-Lieuteuaut, &c., aged 80. STEWART—On the 27th ult., at Bath, Thos . D. Stevrart" Esq., Captain Royal Navy, aged 72. VERNON—On the 29th ult., at 13, Bolton-street, the 11°13' . Catherine Vernon, aged 85. -L----___ London: Printed and Published bTIFLEIA-11 ANDIIEn of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N O. 11 ,i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cenn t Y - XidaleliOL-111V2daY: May 2, 1867.