The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-07 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWt.. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpocl this week has been active, tthd ful'er prices have bren obtained, although the arrivals are large. Sales, 34,580 bales; stuck, 444,370 bales; against 322,990 bales at this time last year. From Man( heater the trade accounts to-(lay are much better, but from the woollen districts still rather flat. The Bank ( f England statement for the week to the 31st ult., is favourable as regards the indications of brisker trade, both the advances on securities and the active circulation showing a gratifying increase, though part may certainly be due to loans on Stock or Exchequer bills- The bullion was less in amount. and it is said the steamer which leaves Liverpool today for America, takes out g. Id. A comparison with the previous week gives the following result : Notes I>sucd Decrease ... Rest Increase ..• ••• Public Deposits ... ••• Increase ..• Other Deposits ... ••• Decrease Seven Day and other Bills Decrease ••• Government Securities ... Other Securities Increase ... Notes ••• ... ••• Decrease ... Bullion ... Decrease ... Active Circulation Increase ... ... 28,407,105 175,080 3,866,087 2,843 ... 7,830,202 264,508 ... 9,287,878 ". 29.242 1,066,369 SOO 16,195 ... No alteration. .. 11,278,918 ... 663,996 ... 10,461,195 ... 492,155 ... 15,197,684 125,107 ... 17,945,910 ... 317,075 The intelligence from flamburgh, received yesterday, has not been confirmed by any later arrival, and most parties are in anxious suspense, though hopes, of an amicable arrangement are yet entertained and it is remarked that the fact of the Danish ulti matum being rejected would probably bo know n here as soon as in Germany, if only for the guidance of shipowners. Until some official notice is given, there fore, it is not unfair to entertain hope. There is another affair, however, that hangs over the Money Market, viz., the German Emperor question, and whether the proffered dignity be accepted or rejected, there is, in the view of some parties, trouble to be apprehended. Consols have accordingly been heavy at 911 to 92A for transfer on Tuesday, and at 92 to 924 for next account. The jobbers are already reading for the settle ment, but this being a Jewish holiday, there can be no absolute conclusion formed as to whether Bulls or Bears are most out. Con3ols now aro flat at 91i j . Tho revenue returns ,would have had a fa vourable effect but for the counteracting political news. Special transfers are being made in the securities Upon which the dividends are payable next week. The New Three-and-Quarter per Cents. have been 911 to f ; and the Three per Cents. 90* to *, both ex. div. Bank Stock has been at 191*. Bxcbequer-bills have realised 455. to 485.; and India Bonds 5 7 5. to 58 s. prem. The Foreign Market has been flat, in unison with Con sols. Mexican have declined to 29k Grenada are Isl, and Equador 31. Venezuela 27. Brazil Bonds ex-div. have been quoted 78i to 79i. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 28 to k, and Spanish Three per Cents. 30*. Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents. have been 491 to 50k. In Railway Shares very little is doing and the quota. tions generally are rather drooping, though no importan change is observable. ONE CLOSING Pulers OF isitlTlSti FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRicEs Bank Stock & per Cents Reduced A , 1n5...... .. 9)% 5 7, 3 4 sot% I per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 91 92 1 ,! 91 3 / 4 91% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Aren5........ 9 1% % 1 4 1A1 91 % Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8 7-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 Ditto ;2.0 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B 3 /4 VA Isdia Bond,, 1,0001. Ditto ander 1,0001. . ....... Consols for Account 92 92% 91 3 / 4 92 91% Exchequer Bills. l%d. & 2d. 1,0001. June 45 48 p 4$ p 5001. June Small. June 4B p 48 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. UNE oi.vo.li. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds ... 78% 79% xd 79% xd Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 39 Ch•lian Bonds 6 per Cent.... •••••11 •••,. Ditto 3 per Cent — 53 Equador Bonds Grenada Bolds, 1 per Cent., lB i.f 18 1 ,4 Ditto Deferred 3% 3 5 4 kexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 30% 29% Ditto, Account ...... ..... . Portuguese 5 per Cents. 75 74 74 Ditto,4 per Cent 28% 28% Ditto, Account . 23 28 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 ,4 per Cent 27 27 Ditto Deferred DividenCs on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 50 1 4 49% 49 3 4 Ditto, Account ...... 77% 77: , / t PEICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARE.,.. AT ONE O'CLOCK.. PRICES. Aberdeen ' 50 ... .. 17% ..... ... .... 17 3 4 Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2 % ... .. ... ...... ...... % Ayrshire and Galloway 7% — Belfast & County Down 20%...••• —, Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 5 - Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, cr with a guaran. 20 Do,withoutguaraotee 20 • Binning, \Volverh'ton. and Dudley, calls duly ti, or with guarantee 10 .. ... ... ......••••• - o. withoutguarantee 10 - Birm ing., W olverh'pton, and St)ur Valley 131. 145... ••• • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 10 ..... Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. Ditto, Thirds ... 27% Buckinghamshire ... 161. 4e. Caledonian IDo. Quarters ......... 121 4 %i s ...... ........ Do. New 10/. Pref lO ..... 11A, . ..... ...... Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Cheater and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 Clarence _ __ Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 - Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 35 Dundalk & Enniskillen 22tA Last Anglia, 25/.. L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 181., E. & 11. 18 Do., 3/. 10s. E Counties 2O Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. . _ Ditio,Extension,s per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2-61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Ditto, 1 4 Shares Do. New Fa)tern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3 1 4 Do., Class B (L & B.) 22 1 ,E — Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent............ 21 ,4 East Lancashire ......... 25 ..... 171 Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6IA — Do., 6 per Cent. pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 4 — Last Lincolnsh re ...... 25 Edinburgh and ulaagow 50 ........ Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. ••• Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Nmport l5 ..... Exist & Doren 23 — Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. lilasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 41a8govr,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 par • DO . .,Preference Consul. Great Northern . Do., ! ) . 2 A. Deferred ... 12 1 %...... D0., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... 7% ...... Do. Extension 2% — 99 ••• Ghat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ......231 ..... Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 301......... 30 -...... ..... Ditto. New,ls/ l4 .. .. Great Western 100 Ditto, % Shares ...... 50 ...... 7 0 .... ...... Ditto, IA Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ....- 2 _ 0 ...... -7 3 s, • ........ ••• u ~.Ditto, New 171 171 15 ... .• 12 /4 nit and Selby - ...... Ditto Half Shares - , Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — I-l ine/tater and Carlisle... 50 ...... .... ...... ~ Ditto, Thirds - .Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 . Ditto, ditto - ......... • - Ditto, % Shares - Do. Quarter Shares-. 17% - Do. Fifths.... ....... -.. 10 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Thirds l5 ..... •.. ........ Do. New, Gua.6 per ct lO Do. Livers. and Bury 46 Ditto (Hedderafield and Shelf.) Do.(Wakefield,Ponte tract, and Goole) ... 50 - Do.(y Ri ding Union) 9 ..... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. ,4 Shares (A.).„. 9% Leeds and B radford....., 60 Leeds and Thirek ~....„ bo .. ....... • ..• Ditto, New ..... .---• 40 - •••.•••• ...... Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% _ •• ••• Do., Pref. guar., 1843 6 •••••• Liverpool,. Crosby and Southport . ...... ..... .. 5 , 4 z ...... ...... London &81ackwa11...... 12% ...... Extenu , " - 25 ... - ~x tensioll.•••• ••• - L.ondon, Brighton, and DSouth Coast ......... 50 ..... 38 ..... ........ n•Guara n t. 5 p er ct- 9 •••••• 9 t/2 ..... . ..... Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 ••• ............ Ditto, ditto...-. 1852 50 Ditt0...... , New Si.,W gnar. 6 per ce n t. Load IPon and Gre enw i c h 12/15 s 4d — ......... •••-• tto, Preference .20 -41 4 0 11 and N. Woatern 100 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1849 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 ...... 11% Ditto, Fifths ......• .. 2 ... • • • Do. 40/•Shares(L.M.) 30 ....• Do. 101. ( DI. & 13.) C. 1 ..... Lon t. &S. W i stern ...... 50 -.... 36% D. New 50/. ... ..... 42 1 ,4.. .. Do. New 401. 24 Ditto, Thirds 161.135.4d.... Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. cu. Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls Londonderryak , lerain 6 30 Londonderry and Ennis- kill n Manchester,Buaton.and Mat.ock 4% ..... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire lOO Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 . — ••••••......••• Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Do. %/ A Shares (No. 3) 12% Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Gt.Grirasbv 45 Ditto, py ... 15 ...••• - ••••••• eeeeeee • Ditto ditt Ditto ditto _ _ :o ......... Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 17%. ••• Grimsby Dock 22% — Do. Manchester and Lincoln union..... 41.25. — ,idland ........ ...... —IOO Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., T.Ol. Shares .. 25 ... Do. Birm., and Derbyloo D( ~ Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... Ditto, Brist. & Glocatr. 40 Uittn ditto .....18/.128.6d — . ......... . ... De.,ErewashVal.,P ref. 50 - Ditto, Leicest.ts Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish ......... .......... 47 1 A. -.— • ....,,... Middlesbro' and Itedear, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle 100 ...... Do. Quarters 25 ...... Newmarket ...... ..... • 20 • - •...., •••...... 1)o. Extension .........21. 12s — ... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpomt, and Itostrevor Norfolk ...... ...... ..... ....100 - •••••• • .•• •• Do. New 20/. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,0 c. 5 — Do. Lowestoft(4 per ct) 20 ... Ditto (6 per CO . . Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North British ....... ... 25 ...... .. • , Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12% — Ditto, Quarters Ditto Extension. Ditto, Thirds ........ 8 1 ,,, North Staffordshire 17% 13% Sorth ,Wales . 3% North-Western ...., ll Iji Oxford, Worcester, and _ _ Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 1 2 14 — ........ ...... Royston and Hitchin ...g 3 1 / 2 - ....... Scottish Central ...... 25 Scott;sh Midland Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Rim Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and lierefd. 2 S hrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) lB Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ..»•• Ditto Oswestry ... .. 18% Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Shropshire Union South Devon 5O ...... ... ...... .. Do. Preference - •••• •••• •• •I South Staffordshire 7% — South EaStern Do., No. 1 .. 28 Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 - Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales 33 - ••• .......••• South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole ......0 .. Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. lO Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 6 Taw Yale Extension ..• 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... Vale of Neath ... .. 6 Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . .... .. Waterford and Limerick 47% — • Waterid,Wxfrd,Wichlw, and Dublin - . ••••••• ••••I Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. Do. do. de; ... 12 1 4 — ..... West Cornwall 11( hitehaven & Furness 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 12 W ilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth ...... . Cork, Newcastle, and Berwick....... ... 25 .. 23 1 4 21 Do. Newcastle ERten.:2o Do. G.N.E.Preference d 7 —. York an,' North Alilland 50 Ditto, Preference I Fast and W est Rid ing Extension .. 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anvlo Italian (late Ita lim and Austrian). ... 5 Boulogne and Amien5... 20 Central of France (Or- Vierzon) Demerara ..... Dutch Rhenish ..... 7 V t ... .. East Indian' 314 Great Indian Peninsular s—. Louvain la Sambre ... 7% — Luxembourg ....• 7 Ditto Madrid and Valentia 2 ...... Namur and Liege 20 ... 8 ex. int .... Northern of Frame-- 13 — Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 — ........... Paris and Lyons Do. Do. E. - ........... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen 2O ..... Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ..• Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes Tourney, Jurbise, La. - den, and Hassell ...... 2) West ..... Ditto JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 25 - .• . ......... Commercial of London 202 j London Joint Stock 10 London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 ...... Ditto New... .............. 10 National of Ireland 22%....•• ••• Provincial of Ireland ... 25 DAto,Nevi... .. .• ..... 10 Union of Australia Ditt0,New.............. 2► ,4 ...... . Union of L0nd0n..„..... 10 ...... Union of Madrid 40 MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 14 Australian... Barrossa Range Min. Co. 28s. Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... British Iron .... . l2 ...... Brazilian Imperial Do. St. John Del Rey 15 X. Notes i55ued......... 28,407,105 £28,407,105 Dated the sth day of April, 184! oariztxxx T. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria. cap. 32,fbr the Week ending on Saturday, the 31st day of March, 1849. 155113 DEPAIATMENT. Government debt • • 11,015,101 Other securities •• • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 14,0113,536 Silver bullion • • • • • • 323,569 26,4 )7,105 M. MaIESUALL, Chief Caahler. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 14,072,844 Other securities •• • • 11,278,918 Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 10,461,195 Gold and silver coin.. 750,579 1 19 S 360 If. MARSHALL, Chief C 6 , ashi 3, er s . 36. BANKING DI 14,553,000 P R r e o s p t rie . tors: . 3,1166,057 Public deposits (in siading Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 7,830,202 Other deposits .. .. • • 9,287,878 Seven day and other bills •••• • • • • •• • • 1,066,369 X 3 6,603,556 Dated the sth day of April. 18t Her INTELLIGENCE.—WORCXBT; 4.-- There is no new feature to note in our et since our last report. Rea ll y fine and g ood h ops are Very a nd these being the onl y sorts in q uire d butfor ,a little scarce, b u siness is doing, thoug h holders are fir m , and s indifferent about se llin g at all at the present low mete:: which are as follows:—Neu' Worcester's, 48s. to 635. , choice 685.; 1846 '5 , 355. to 405., choice 445.; old olds, 15s. to 365. Worcester Journal. THE COURT.--It is rumoured in the Court circles that her Majesty will have two state balls and two grand c oncerts this season at Buckingham Palace, early in the en•uing month, and in June. The contract for constructing the new iron steam boat intended to ply on lake Windermere, has been taken by Messrs. M'Connochie and Claude, of Liverpool. The vessel is to be afloat in ten weeks. Her length of keel is to be 76 feet, and beam 11 feet 6 inches. She is to hare tubular boilers, and engines of 20• horse power. —Carlisle Journal. THE PLANET VENUS.—The beautiful planet Venus, which has shown with so much splendour for the last two months in the south-west and west, was at its greatest brilliancy yesterday, the 6th instant. Its brightness will now decline, and by the end of the month it will have approached so near to the sun that it will only be per ceptible in the twilight. Its appearance through a tele • scope is now similar to that of the moon when several days old; but, in a few weeks, it will be like the moot} when first seen after its change. 11 1 ,, 2 4 363/4 MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED). THE NEW MO MTHLY., • The ninth chapter of " Soapev Sponge I s Sport i ng Tour"—th Meet, the Find, and the Finish, leaves off with anything but a " finish." The grand trial of strength and skill has commenced, and we have Mr. Sospey Sponge and his crafty rivals in the most anxious moment of the hunt. As yet our hero has completely baffled the kind intentions of his enemies, and notwithstanding the little sympathy which the character of Mr. Sponge inspires, we cannot now re frain from being interested in his career, and from a love of fair play, we feel anxious that he should conquer in his single-handed struggle with so many opponents. Dudley Costello contributes some amus ing, but withal distressing, revelations concerning the cunning deceptions of the " Beggars of London." " A Visit to the lonian Isles in the Summer of 1848," describes Corfu as a Republic without republican independence, and a colony without colonial advan• tages. " The New Zealand Cookery Book" contains a multitude of receipts for cannibal cookery— " Frenchman fricaseed"—" Devilled Lawyer"— " Roasted Englishman"—and others equally ridicu lous and equally revolting. " Chapters on Australia," " The Western World," " Revolutionary Italy," and some amusing fictions, fill up the remaining pages of an interesting number of the New Monthly. AINSWORTH. " Crichton" draws to its conclusion, and, like a skilful dramatist, Mr. Ainsworth has rendered the conclusion of his work peculiarly interesting. In this number the unnatural Catharine de Medicis reveals to Crichton the secret plot which threatens the life of King Henry, and in which she, his mother, is a prime agent, and in which Crichton is to be chief assassin. We leave the gallant Scot in the utmost perplexity, anxious to save the King, but bound by a solemn oath not to reveal the terrible secret imparted to him. "Le Jardin de la Mort at Boulogne," by Mrs. White, is a beautiful and tender reminiscence of the cemetery at Boulogne. Many will recognise this description of " graves larded all with sweet flowers, lying amidst the dark green cypress trees. Some so wrapped up in foliage that the gray stone scarce shows through, but there is one space, where no flowers bloom, marked by a solitary column, on which we read—' Here lie the bodies of eighty-two of the unfortunate persons wrecked on the coast of Boulogne, in the, ,English convict-ship Am phitrite, the 31st August, 1833.' Mrs. White also noticed the grave of, some ladies who had perished in the shipwreck of the Conqueror in 1843, but she looked in vain for the name of one of the sufferers on that melancholy occasion, Miss Turton, who has been truly apostrophised as " The Angel of the Storm." Mrs. White thus feelingly relates her beautiful and heart-touching history : " We looked in rain for the grave of one more of these victims. She who like one already beatified, had borne up against the terrors of the storm—passing from group to group of her fellow•sufferers—breathing hope to one, religion to another—folding like Charity the trembling children in her robes—rousing fresh courage in the sailors, and with fair hands assisting to repair the storm-torn canvass. She who in that sublime moment—greater than the great Czar himself (for she conquered self ), beating down the fears of her sex, in order to animate'the hopes of others! had she no monument—no graven stone to show where, in a woman's foim, so much high courage and endurance slumbered? Alas, no! we threaded the close graves—read one by one the names and epitaphs—visited the guardian's cottage, and turned over all the entries in his dismal ledger that came under the initial we required. ^ Miss Turton's name was not amongst them. The English Consul then occurred to us, and through a friend, his intimate acquaintance, we learned the following par ticulars. She had been taken to India by her friends to avoid a marriage which displeased them, and upon which she was resolved. Extremely beautiful and ac complished, numerous offers of the most advantageous kind awaited her, but to the mortification of her family, only to be rejected. She had plighted her faith, and given her affections to another, and with the force of character so sublimely exhibited in the last scene of her life, she refused the temptations which Eastern wealth and ambition offered her, and in other ways so convinced her family of the uselessness of detaining her from Eng land against her will, that they consented to her return. Here, then, was the secret of her courage—her con tempt of fear; hence the lofty struggle against death, which set at nought the power of the tempest, and buoyed her frailness with a giant's strength. Love, stronger than death, upheld her. And while this dragged her back to the overwhelming seas, waved her onward to the shores—so slightly separated from him for whom the peril was encountered. All know how she perished, and with the rest of her fellow-sufferers was laid beneath the roses in the Cimetiire de Boulogne. In consequence, however, of the application of her lover for the body—an application, seconded by a requisition from the grand father of the unfortunate young lady, the Consul con ceived himself authorised to order her disinterment, and her grave is therefore in England." NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. Must of thti inenahers of the Board of Admiralty have left town for the Easter holidays, and only Lord John Hay, Captain Milne, the Honoure.ble W. Cowper, Mr. Ward, and Captain Eden, the private secretary, are in town. The First Lord has proceeded to Hampshire, Admiral Dundee to Somersetshire, Captain Berkeley to Wales. Commander James Pickard (June, 1814) died at his residence, Stoke, Devonport, on the 4th instant. This officer entered the navy in, 17Q6,-and from that time until 1814 (with the exception of ten days' leave) was never absent from duty in sea-going ships. Serving nearly nine years as midshipman and lieutenant with one captain, Sir Richard Keats, bang wade a lieute nant from the Superb by Lord Nelson ; afterwards with Sir Thomas Louis in the Catiepus, and lastly as first-lieutenant of the Tenedos, Captain (the present ad miral) Hyde Parker, on the coast of America during the war, from which ship he was promoted to the rank of commander. He was engaged in action in the Cano hip pus at the battle of St. Domingo, 1806, in the sa me sh ip at forcing o of the the T passage urkish sciofuathdreoln)abr,dinagnelles and the destruction he lieutenant of the Naiad, when engaged w it t hth re e ; F se re c n on ch d flotilla before Boulogne, in the presence of Napoleon Bonaparte, when they were beaten back ; served with the army in Egypt, 1807, at the siege of Rosetta, under Brigadier the Hon. Sir W. Stewart and Captain Hallo well, of her Majesty's ship Tigre (late Sir Benjamin 11. Carew), by the latter of whom he was appointed to the command of the gun-boats on the lakes of Aboukir and darietis. In the performance of the above services, he was present at and engaged in the capture and destruc tion of six line of-battle ships, five frigates, one prasm, 20 privateers, and a considerable number of merchant vessels. The several officers under whom be served bear sufficient testimony to his merits ; but like many others, from want of sufficient interest at the Admiralty, he was never further tested, his oft-repeated applica- tions for employment being of no avail. Commanders Otter and Smith have taken up their Commissions, at Portsmouth, appointing them to the Comet, steam-vessel, for surveying service. Orders have been received at Woolwich for the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-Comman der Cook, to be in readiness, on the 13th instant, to convey a Board of Admiralty to Sheerness and Chatham. APPOINTMENTS.— Surgeon—Dr. Edward H. Derri man (1845) to the Plumper, screw• sloop, at Portsmouth, vice Pritchard. Assistant Surgeon—Francis Anderson, to the Southampton, 50, flag-ship, at the Cape. PRIZE MONEY FOR THE CAPTURE OF SLAYERS.--. Mr. Chippendale has given notice to Captain Mansell and the officers and crew formerly of the Actaeon, 26,.that a distribution of the net proceeds of the Esperanza, cap tured on the 26th December, 1845, will be made at the office of the agent, No. 10, John-street, Adeiphi, on the 13th of April, 1848, and that the same will be recalled every Tuesday and Friday, for three months to come:— Captain, 681. 19s. 2d.; first class , 161. 9 s. ld.• second, 9155. 5d.; third, 41 . 12 s. B d.; f ou rth, 31. Is. 91.; fifth, IL 10s. 10d. ; sixth, 1/. Os. 7d.; seventh, 10s. 3d. SALVAGE.—Ommanney, Son, and Co., have given no tice to Lieutenant Craig, and the officers and crew late of the Volcano, steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean, that an account of a sum of money received in lieu of sal vage for services rendered by The Volcano to the barque Niagara, on the 22d July, 1848, will be delivered into the registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the 15th instant. Leander, 50, will be undocked at Portsmouth this day. The Cleopatra, 26, has been taken up opposite Chat ham Dockyard, for the purpose of being prepared for commission. She has her masts in and will soon be ready. Captain Peel will not command her, as stated. The Castor, 36, ordered to be brought forward for commission at Chatham, as we have before stated, is to be sent to Sheerness, to be taken .into deck (there not being one vacant at Chatham) to be coppered to the load-line, and have her bottom cleaned, after which she will return to Chatham to be rigged, &c. She will be docked at Sheerness about the 15th inst., when the Am phion' screw frigate, is taken out. The Sparrow, 6, ketch, has been commissioned for sur veying service at Portsmouth, by the master, Mr. Hoskyns, for COnunander Fraser. The Mastiff, 2, surveying vessel at Woolwich, is not to be further employed. She is to be stripped, her stores are to be returned, and her masts are to be taken out. The second master in charge is to be paid off. The Blenheim, 60, screw-steam guard ship, Captain H. Austin, C. 8., will not be completed by the engineers at Portsmouth before the end of the month. The Arrogant, 46, screw - friga te, Ca ptain Robert Fitzroy, is not yet complete at Portsmouth, and the time is postponed. She will be out of the hands of the engineers on the I 1 tb, will be ready to go out of harbour on the 12th, and will be ready to sail from Spit head on the 15th inst. The Amphion, 36, screw-frigate, will be undocked at Sheerness on the 15th instant, and will be completed in about a fortnight after that period. The Termagant, screw-frigate, will be completed at Portsmouth by the engineers, as a first-class advanced steamer, by the 21st inst. The Gladiator, steam-frigat", will be completed at Woolwich, in machinery and hull on the 14th. to pro ceed to Devonport to be brought forward as a first-class advanced steam-vessel. The Plumper, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Nolloth, is ordered to have a new screw cast for her; she will be in the hands of the engineers and shipwrights at Ports mouth for a month. The Reynard, 10, screw-sloop, Commander Cracroft, at Pm t,mouth, is also to have a new screw, and will have her deft cts made good by the end of the month. The Colßcebine steam-vessel was commissioned at Chatham on Thursday afternoon by Commander Short land. She is to have a complement of 70 men, and to be fitted for surveying service. The convict-ships at Woolwich are to be moored off the Arsenal, and the marine guard is ordered to be withdrawn. Vincent, 120, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Captain Dacres, has strained severely during her passage from Gibraltar, and will require an extensive survey on arrival at Portsmouth, for which port she is preparing to depart. The unfortunate man drowned is named John Goodband, of Plymouth, A. 8.; he fell from the maintop sail yard while reefing in a heavy gale nine days after leaving the Rock. Her Majesty's schooner Lark, 2, Lieutenant-Comman der Charles O. B. Hall, put back this morning with loss of topmast, carried away yesterday morning in a heavy gale from the south-west, the Lizard bearing north-east ten miles distant. The Lark will probably be repaired in the Sound, and proceed again as quickly as may be with her dispatches for the coast of Africa. Her Majesty's steam-gun vessel Rifleman, Lieutenant. Commander Stephen S. L. Crofton, came in yesterday from Sheerness, to wait orders for her destination. She expects to be sent to Sou h America. Her Majesty's brig Peterel, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Creser, was towed out of Hamoaze on 'Wednes day, by her Majesty's steam-tug Confiance, Mr. William Martin, Master. 'I ha Peterel sailed same day for Fal mouth, and the Confiance proceeded to Pembroke with jury gear for her Majesty's steam-sloop Buzzard. THE DERELICT GALLIOT HERMANNA.—Her Ma jesty's revenue cutter Arrow, Lieutenant Lindon, which arrived on Tuesday evening from Dartmouth, spoke on Tuesday afterncon, at half-past two o'clock, the Dove, Brizhaus trawl-sloop, Captain John Purchase, and another commanded by Mr. Richard Foreman, having alongside the masts, spars, rigging and gear of the aban doned galliot Hermanna. The two sloops were at anchor to the eastward of the Start, preparing to take the wreck on board, as the easterly wind was too strong to admit of their towing it to Brixham. They fell in with the rigging at eight o'clock on Monday evening, the 2d inst. Wind W.S.W., smart breeze. THE SPORTING RE VIEW. " Brought Down at Bay" and " The Steeple-chase —and the Grey wins !" are the illustrations for the new number of the Sporting Review. How " the Grey" won is thus told in the letter-press, but it is far more effectively shown in the engraving—the anxiety depicted in the countenances cf the rival horses (if the term be admissible) is admirable : " Our chase is decided, as it has been run all through quite on the improved system. We left them at the last awkward fence, with two down, ono all out of it, and the professional promising, perhaps, to land in safety. This, with quite a monopoly of fortune's favour, he achieved; and, knowing the worth of such a pull at such a time, goes on again with a full sail, you may be sure. Indeed, by the time our friend the Captain has scrambled out, and set himself right again, it looks very doubtful as to his ever catching him, or ever finishing in a decent place, despite' the bit of flat' roped in for a race. Still no race is won till it's over, and thereis no knowing what may be done by going to wo r k with a good heart. The Captain seems to feel this, and is at his horse with a vigour that means reaching him and nothing else. The b,,yr too (the horse in advance) is certainly not as supe rior in pace as he is in fencing; but his jockey is quite still on him yet, while there is a terrible shaking and hustling behind him. He gains the last row of hurdles well in front, but dwells sadly in jumping them; and, by the Lord Harry, they'll catch him now. St—, at-1 it's a race now, if you like. Crack, crack!—and the Captain and the striped jacket are grinding and grin ning away like mad. They have caught him within two strides of the post, and once caught him they have beat him. Crack, crack! go the whips again; and it's all over—and the grey wins As we always told you he would." MISCELLANEOUS. The editor of the Metropolitan h a s contributed tol that magazine a long article on " Women as they are," in which he, avowedly, throws no light upon the mysteries of that perplexing subject. We hardly think the article in question will increase its writer's popularity with the ladies. Among the articles in the Metropolitan, is one by Lieutenant- Colonel Hort, entitled " My White Charger; or the Horse that cost me 2001.; lost me 70,0001.; drove me from society ; eventually deprived me of all my friends ; and, finally, compelled me to quit the service." A charger even more remarkable than " the wondrous Horse of Brass on which the Tartar King did ride." The Farmer's Magazine contains portraits of " Senator, a short-horned Bull," and " The hero, winner of the Emperor's Plate at Ascot, 1847 and 1848."—One of the most interest ing contributions to Sharpe's very interesting London Journal is the diary (imaginary, of course) of Mary Powell, afterwards Mrs. Milton. The style is admirable, and the deception complete. In some casual observations of the future Mrs. Milton, we recognise the little sympathy felt by the country maiden for her poet-lover, and augur little happi ness for their married life—for, as the Duchess de Praslin has so beautifully said, " sympathy is the marriage of souls." Sharpe's Magazine maintains the high character it has recently attaineo.—The People's Journal contains its customary admixture of the duke and the stile—short stories, giving a useful lesson in an agreeable manner, &c. &c. The engravings are, some of them, not distinguished for clearness. — Le Follet, as usual, affords some admirable specimens of the beauties of fashion. One of the plates in this number represents a fair lady in bridal attire, as beautiful as brides are always supposed to be.—The Family Herald con tains an amazing amount of useful and interesting maxims and pieces of instruction—some original and others collected from almost as various sources as the materials of Mr. Macaulay's history. If the editor would make all his original contributors in poetry and fiction perform their parts as admirably as he per forms his, the Family Herald would be a most valu able publication. As it is, we doubt not many a good lesson is here learned that in other guise would be unpalateable.—The Repertory of In ventions and the Patent Journal contain much interesting information on the subject of new inven tions, a subject al wa y s i n t eres ti ng t o th e mec h an i ca l or scientific reader.—The Colonial Church Chronicle its u a s n t d om th a e ry C v h a u r / iTt h y af of E ce i u an s d ai .3 l, l l a u g s a e z fu in l e re fo ad rn:ishe; has articl es on B om b ay, Prince Rupert ' s Land &c. c Lovz AT FIRST SIGIIT.—A young swain of Shef field, named Joseph Toph am, a dealer in c a l ves , & e ., so visitedde desperately e E t p a w t e o l y r t h tn A l l o a v r e k ewti with h n th e Thu r sday, 29th ult., and fell landlord's daughter, th a t same to he proposed, was accepted, and boug ht the ebhyringt u forbid d morning, rl e eotiabh pair hs night. It was the intention oft a h r a ent e : n m ids e rthen hare the indissoluble knot tied the follo wing a o t abaurupttae'd and more trifiingdi ffi culty''w calculatingas inter posed p banns. Nothing dau n t ed, how ever , the gay rio persisted in his suit , and b y a n indomitable persever ance succeeded in accomp lishin g his object, and was married, by licence, at Haxey Church, on Saturday morning, the 31st. ult. C HESTE R AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.--TrafiC for the week ended Ap ri l I, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 8671. 14s. 2d. ; parcels, 39/. 9s. 9d ; goo ds a nd cattle , 2461 . e xclusive of toll from Shrewsbur y and Chester Com. 105. 101; steam-boats, 118 /. 23.8 d. Total. 1,2711. 175.5 d. i pang, and payment for cOnveyanee of mils. THE RIVER NESS. THE EARL OF ITARDWICKE AND HER MAJESTY'S SHlP letter VfroEmNG:nlosffic C:le—r'Ornheboftlwhienrg is aesnty's extr act ship V o e f n r ! s O m n n t n h r e e t geance, 84, at Genoa. The whole affair is eminently characteristic of the Noble Earl who has lately sue • in h t h e March Moleh e her f Genoa, Majesty's it ceeded to the command, and is well worthy of being made intention of the gallant captain, the Earl f Hardwicke, public: — w 6 a ‘ to have sailed that day for Spezzia, but the wind being right in, and blowing fresh, could not start her. Next morning (Friday) s b b e i being g lr e t hne unnsoored,, pilot came on board, wind being much lighter than usual off the land. The pilot did not wish to start the ship, but the captain being very anxious to proceed in the execution of his orders, said, must go.' She then weighed and made all possible sail before th e w i nd right out of the har bour. On opening the Molehead a tremendous heavy swell setting in, wind gradually going down, in fact, nearly a calm, ship lost steerage way, and driving right for the North east Molehead, let go the best bower, but not bringing her up, let.go small bower, and veered away upon both ; ship then brought up in a very dangerous position. Laid out a kedge with four hawsers right an end, intending to try, if possible, to warp her out. The French steamer Tonnerre, sent on board and offered her services. Lord Hardwicke politely thanked them, but in case he should want her he would send, and begged the captain to light his fires. The United States screw steamer Princeston also offered services and boats (quite calm). At 9.30 the wind set in with a light breeze from the southward, the sails being loose at the time, furled them, hove up small bower, and hove short on best bower, setting taut the hawser at the same time; the pilot wished the captain to drop into his old berth, but the latter was determined on getting out. And now was displayed the finest piece of seamanship I ever witnessed. Braced the yards sharp up on port tack, sail loosers aloft, ready to let fall, weighed the best bower, hauling taut the kedge (noose), ship falling round off, set the jib and driver and the courses. Being then close to the rocks, but deep water alongside, made all plain sail, ship closing the rocks, and not feeling the sail. The pilot wished to throw all aback, braces all manned; but at this moment his Lordship, who was watching her_veery narrowly, in the coolest manner possible, said, ' , 6 ll L s gathering way, and is all right.' Her Majesty sh ip n Vengeance at this moment passed the rocksin l es s u tha n four yards off. The people who were` lo oking i dli n g on them, the Point ran back, afraid of the s h iph. Nothina . but the naturally concluding she rous i•*ieub firmness and decision of his Lordship saved her Majes ty's ship this day from being a.total wreck. After get ting out we proceeded in execution of our orders." The Vengeance, we are happy to hear, is now quite:free from fever, and we trust this ship will no longer suffer, having been so well cleaned out down to the kelson at Malta. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Leander, 50, new fri gate on the design of Mr. Blake, late master - shipwright of this dockyard, will be commissioned in a few days at this port by Captain Charles Eden, private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Lieutenant T. Davies, Acting Commander, arrived this morning from Jersey and Guernsey, whence she brought the depots of the 16th and 54th Regiments, the latter being from Jersey. The ships and vessels in the old basin will be removed next week for the purpose of clearing out that receptacle. Yesterday being the last day . of the financial year, it was expected several commissions for vessels would have been issued last night. The expectations of the service were, however, not realised. IN PORT AND FITTING. In Commission—The Blenheim, 60, steam guardship, Captain Horatio Austin, C. 8.; the Arrogant, 46, Cap. tain R. Fitzroy, fitting for sea; the Sparrow, 6, survey ing vessel, Commander Fraser; and the Rolla, 6, exer cise brig for the naval apprentices. Steamers The Stromboli, Corn. Lord Aurelius Beauclerk; Reynard, Commander P. Cracroft ; Plumper, Commander Nolloth; Cornet surveying vessel, Commander Otter; and Poly phemus, Commander Crawford; the royal tender Fairy, Mr. Welch, master in charge; the Fire Queen, Mr. Allen master commanding; the Myrtle, Mr. Balliston, acting-master, commanding; the Bee, instruction ves sel for the students at the Royal Naval College; and the tug Echo, Mr. Harding, pilot and master; also the Portsmouth and Fanny, sailing yachts, tenders of the two Admirals. At Spithead—Tho Superb, 80, Captain Purcell. in the Steam-basin—The Ajax guardship, and the Termagant, Dauntless, and Retribution, first-class fri gates; the royal yachl. Victoria and Albert; the sloops Phoenix and Cormorant; and the Urgent and Sprightly packets. In the Ship-basin—The Collingwood, 80; the Pem broke, 72; the Defence, 72, converted into a convict depot; and the Sparrow ketch. In Dock—The Princess Charlotte, 104; the Vindic tive, Grampus, and Leander 50-gun frigates; the Devas tation steam-sloop; and the iron gun-boat Bloodhound. On the Stocks—The Royal Frederick, 110; the Prince of Wales, 110; the Princess Royal, 90; the Argus and Furious steam-sloops. Wind, S.E. by E , fresh breezes and fine, with flying clouds of fog seawards. PLitatotaii, Ar>3lL 5. 7 -Her Majesty's ship St. The bed of the river has presented an extraordinary scene during the week. A few weeks ago the Ness rolled in immense flood, sweeping over its banks, and flooding the town. No one living had ever seen it in such ma jesty, but now wo have come to the reverse of the pic ture. No one living ever before saw the channel of the Ness so dry. The ferry-boat can hardly find water enough to float it; and the little boys wade from bank to bank, the stream hardly reaching their ankles. The smallness of the eurrent is occasioned in this way:— When Loch Ness had subsided, after the floods, to its usual level, a considerable body of water still found its way into the channel of the river through the broken bank of the Canal at Dochgarroch, and the loch was thus gradually brought down until it fell several feet below the lowest part of the weir, and the river was fed by the breach alone. The piles having been driven, and the earthwork partially deposited at that place, the water that now runs down the channel of the river is only that small portion which percolates through the new gravel and amongst the stones beneath the weir. On Monday the level of the loch was more than two feet below the lowest part of the weir, and as we have had fine dry weather for some time past, it will be some time before the loch rises so as to pour its surplus into the river in the usual way. The river, as it passes through the town, is now little more than a succession of shallow pools, in which the ducks delight themselves, connected by a small thread of running water; and the long gravel banks and stoney shallows, bleached white in the sun, where the river swept along grand and deep, present an extraordinary and not altogether pleasing sight. Early last week, as the river rapidly fell, the ferry-boat was re moved to what was the " black stream," opposite Ness House, where long stages have been erected on both sides to form quays for the boat. But boys and girls may be seen at all times crossing at the foot of Ness Bank, and at the head of Douglas-row. Men and women too, not unfrequently cast their shoes and stockings and take to the stream. The lowness of the current has presented a favourable opportunity for removing the ruins of the old bridge, and Mr. Bain (the contractor for the gaol) has had a large number of men employed removing the stones to the side, where they can be of service at a future time. Nothing, however, has yet been resolved upon as to a new bridge ; and Mr. Bain has only an arrangement with the town for the removal of the stones. Large masses of the centre arches had adhered together, but under the hammers of the labourers they are fast dis appearing. The old bridge having been built for the most part of small stones, the destruction has been cora plete, and many of the stones have been carried down a very long way. From the position of the stones of the small southern arch, Mr. Bain is of opinion that it first gave way ; the whole force of tho current having been directed against its foundations next the street, undermined it, and caused it to spring. This opinion corroborates the account of the fall of the bridge given by us at the time. The workmen have also been busy during the week preparing the foundations for the new breast wall of the roadway to be formed pa st " Tolmie Castle," in place of t h e wall and road carried off by the flood. Mr. Bain has obtained this contract, and will soon carry it through. The Gas Company have also taken advantage of the smallness of the river, and their workmen are now busily engaged cutting a bed across the channel at the foot of Ness Bank, for a line of pipes, and the pipes are now stretched across, upon trestles, and will soon be rendered water-tight and ready for laying down. These various operations all taking place in the bed of the river, and with the ferry-boat plying from side to side, the boys and girls wading and paddling about, and the crowds of interested spectators, of both sexes looking on at all hours of the day, give a new, strange, bustling, and agreeable aspect to the scene. The present generation have seen what none before them ever saw—the Ness, within a few months in its highest and then in its smallest stream. In the course of the operations for replacing the breast-wall at the foot of Bridge-streer, the workmen have come upon a flight of stone steps, about six feet broad, leading down to the bed of the river. On the other side of the stream, exactly opposite these steps, the fall of the bridge disclosed what had been an ancient gateway, also leading to the river. It consists of two narrow towers, with handsome projecting Gothic corbels, leaving a passage of about six feet in width, defended by a gate, the marks of which appear. The corbel on the west side has been roughly cut away, apparently to ad mit the pump of some unusually large body. The discovery of this gateway on one side of the stream, and the stone stair on the other aide, has set conjecture to work. Some suppose that the communication across the river was by boat, or by a bridge of boats, and others conceive that there was a raised ford. The remains are evidently older than the date of the wooden bridge, which fell in 1664. They are not unlike the work of the religious orders before the reformation. The low state of the water has laid bare several of the piles of the wooden bridge, and they are eight or ten yards farther down the river. The stone bridge had been erected on the site of the original ford or ferry, the towers on the west side being used as an abutment for the bridge; and the stairs on the cast side being covered up when the roadway was formed.—lnverstes s Courier. GOING A-HEAD.—In the town of Ashburton there are two public clocks, which differ in time generally some twenty or thirty minutes. The old adage, " Two of a trade never agree," is shown in the practice of the o rival horologists who superintend these clocks—the church clock being kept by Mr. John Horton, who keeps his time according to the old coach pace of former days, and the old shambles clock by Mr. James Conney bear, who is determined, spite of the non-commencement of the Ahburton Railway, that the peoplo of hat ancient borough s shall at least have railway time ` —Western Times: Loss OV TUB STEAD-SHIP FORT . li.—An investi gationthe loss of the into the circumstances attend in g steam-ship Forth, on the ..Aiyrarnrlsungeselfw, was held at as composed Southampton on Saturday. 111 of the following gentlemen, who e constituted an inquiry committee of the company; --Captain Shep herd, ~ of the East lndia Company. an E lder Brother of T rinity house, Cha i rma n ; Captain Mangles , a managing director, Vice- Chairman; Captain Nelson, an Elder Brother of Trinity house; Captain Barton, R.N. the company's superinten dent at Southampton; Captain E. N. Chappell, R.N., secretary of the company; Captain Wish, R.N., auditor of the company; likewise the commanders of three of the company's ships in port, Lieutenant P. Hast, R.N., of the Avon (the senior officer and commodore of the com pany's fleet); Captain William Allan, of the Dee; and Captain W. Vincent, of the Severn. The whole tenour of the evidence (to which a patient and careful hearing of four hours was given by the committee) demonstrated that the loss of this fine steamer arose from—l, an error in the reckoning; which, however, ought to have been counteracted by different observations and attention to the sounding lead; 2, a violation of the company's regu lations in regard to frequent soundings, as before alluded to; and, 3, by the taking from his post of one of the look out mon. As the most explicit instructions on these heads are laid down in the company's volume of regula tions published for the information and guidance of their officers, the resolution arrived at, after deliberation, was, that a laxity of discipline in relation to the duties of the navigation of the ship caused . her position to be wrongly computed, and her total destruction consequently fol lowed. The decision arrived at by the Committee was —that it would be their painful duty to recommend to the Court of Directors the dismissal of Captain Sturdee and the chief officer from the company's service; that the second officer should be reduced to the grade of third officer for one voyage, and that the third officer should be reduced to the grade of fourth officer for one year. Cnosscilotortnr Cnuica.—A stained-glass chancel window has this week been put in Crosscannonby Church, by the liberality of the parishioners. It con sists of three lancets; on the centre one, the Crucifixion, and St. John and the Virgin at the foot of the cross; on the left lancet, St. Peter; and on the right, the saint to whom the church is dedicated. The ground of the centre lancet is blue; the side outs ruby. The remainder of the window is filled with flowered quatre-foils, en closed in circles. It was executed by Messrs. Scott, of Carlisle, and is one of the richest they have made. The colours are crimson, ruby, blue, green, orange, yellow, and purple.,--Carlisle Journal. HULL BANKRUPTCY COURT, WEDNESDAY.—Before Mr. Commissioner Ayrton.—lte John Stringer, o draper, adjourned final examination from the 31st of January. At this examination the bankrupt produced a list of his creditors, as ordered by the Court, but not having given them in before the time fixed, there had been no time to ascertain whether they were correct. His Honour, under these circumstances, adjourned the examination sine die, but extended his protectionh .foroa montb.—Re Thomas Carlitt, of Hull, grocer, owaasicead-f assignees and proof of debti. The m juurned for the bankrupt to annul t e_fisete.tinlhere will be no business on Wednesday next.—Hull Packet. " I,Tsw."---The North Star, steamer, SOMETHING brought a novel importation last week—an extensive and_ oth er early vegetables, from t h e London of new p otatoes, London mark et, for Mr. Burns, fruiterer, Church street. The importation seemed to be fully appreciated, a nd the potatoe s, t hou g h costly, were 80911bcought up.— inversta 'gorier. NORTH. AMERICAN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. have much pleasure in forwarding the en closed memorandum, and in authorising you to state that it has been; both graciously and favourably re ceived by Sir John Henry Pelly. I am well aware that the columns of The:Sun:have not uufrequently been used to convey sentiments in op position to the Hudson's;Bay Company, but the highly favourable notice, you have considered it your'duty to take of the project brought forward for,a!British Colonial Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, con vinces me that, in a question of such vast importance, no recollection of any past differences will be allowed to bias your judgment of present proceedings, and I have no doubt, therefore, you will give full publicity to the memorandum I now forward. I cannot permit this opportunity to pass without recording my grateful thanks for the warm support this railway project has received at your hands; but I must not dwell on this subject, lest it should seem that it was the vanity of the author you have gratified, and not his labours that had been encouraged. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most obedient servant, ROBERT CARMICHAEL SAIYTH. Junior United Service Club, March 30, 1849. Major R. Carmichael-Smith presents his respectful compliments to Sir John Henry Pelly, and in sub mitting to his favourable consideration the accom panying Memorandum, begs at the same time to be permitted to return his sincere thanks for the kindness and attention with which he has been received at the Hudson's Bay House. Major R. Carmichael ,Smyth is fully impressed with the vast importance of the subjects on which he has had the honour to be allowed to communicate with Sir John Henry Pelly, but he is also equally aware of his own humble position, as regards either commercial or political matters ; and he cannot, therefore, but feel the more grateful to those who, forgetting this circumstance, are willing to consider only, whether the project he has brought forward is a practical one, and whether it may not be the means, under Providence, of adding to the happiness and to the glory of the industrious, intelligent people of this great empire. J. U. S. Club, Charles-street, Haymarket, 27th March, 1849. " MEMORANDUM FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF SIR JOHN HENRY PELLY, BART., IN HIS CAPACITY AS GOVERNOR OF THE HON. HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. "It is not proposed in this Memorandum to trespass upon the valuable time of Sir John Henry Pella by any attempt to enumerate the various important results that, as a matter of course, would follow the accomplishment of the long wished-for junction of the Atlantic and Pa cific Oceans; neither is it contemplated to dwell, even for a moment, on the many beneficial consequences that would naturally arise to the British Empire, should it be ascertained, after a careful survey of the ground, that a line of connexion, or practicable communication even of a secondary nature, could be made throughout our North American colonies and the Hudson's Bay territory. "It is highly necessary that all these matters should be frequently brought under the notice of the public, and although there are many points upon which more de- tailed information might be given, yet it would indeed be mere idleness and waste of words to attempt to say anything on such subjects to one who has so long and so ably conducted the affairs, directed the energies, and guided the destiny of a great and powerful company; and who must have been consulted, and have taken part in the discussions and treaties that have been entered into about the Oregon question, and it stands recorded by a cele brated writer on colonial matters, that' but for the Ilud son's Bay Company England would have been shut out from the Pacific.' " This Memorandum, therefore, will, as:far as it regards the Governor, assume a knowledge in a general way, and, to a certain extent (that is to say, as far as the wants of the servants and of the services of the Hudson's Bay Company have up to this moment required), of the degree of practicability of the several routes across the Rocky Mountains. But as the project now brought for ward is one arising from the peculiar circumstances of the present day,—from the great strides of practical science,—from the many improvements afforded by lo comotive power for rapid communication and easy tra velling, as well as from numerous other causes;—it is probable that the country of which we are now treating may not have been examined, mach less surveyed, nor even perhaps looked at in a casual way, with a view to a permanent thorough fare for the commerce of the Colonies to the Pacific ; still less, perhaps, has the thought of a railway ever en tered into the mind of those who, no doubt accustomed to every hardship, have spent their lives in trading with the Indians, and in hunting through wild districts to pro cure the furs which serve for the comfort and ornament of those who are fortunate enough to live in the posses sion of every luxury. "It is believed, that not until the very last moment did the Hudson's Bay Company contemplate resigning any portion of the Oregon, north of the Columbia ; and that river was therefore considered as the natural outlet for New Caledonia. " Having thus touched upon all the preliminary points connected with the proposed undertaking, and brought the prf ject under the immediate notice of the Governor of the Hudson's 11:y Company ; the great question of the practicability, or otherwise, of a railway communi cation through the territories over which be presides stands out prominently to view, the solving of which is of course of the utmost importance to all those who, from any cause whatsoever, wish for a safe, a rapid, and a national communication with the Pacific Ocean, through our North American provinces. " Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Caandas are at this moment most anxious and zealous in the cause ; and it is humbly and respectfully submitted to Sir John Henry Pelly, that the moment bus arrived when be can materially assist in the endeavours about to be made for a great national move to the West; and when the pres sure of population on subsistence in this country, toge ther with the anxious desire of all to improve the con dition of society by affording to every man wholesome and permanent employment, will enable him to open out the valuable territory of the Hudson's Bay Company. " The object, then, of this Memorandum is to solicit the good ogices of Sir John Henry Pelly, and to request that he will use the influence his high position must naturally give him to bring this matter under the favour able consideration of the Colonial Minister, urging the importance of exploring and surveying parties being sent out, as soon as the season would permit, to the seve ral points upon the proposed Line that he may consider necessary ; and of fixing upon some spot on the right bank of Frax2r's River, or any other point that may appear more desirable, as a proper site for a Terminus for the Pacific. " A scientific and talented young officer, ono of the Royal Engineer corps, whose mind has been engaged in co nsidering the manifold important results that would follow a perfect and rapid communication through the North American provinces, has already pointed to the Rocky Mountains ; and it is not believed that there would be any great difficulty in reaching some of the passes through them from the Atlantic,—but the coun try between those mountains and the Pacific is of such a nature, that, although the direct distance is compara tively short, a careful survey could alone decide the point as to the practicability of descent, by railway, for commercial purposes, to the waters of that ocean. " ROBERT CARMICHAL SMYTH, " Author of the Letter lately published on'this sub ject to the Author of the Clockmaker.' " J. U. S. Club, Charles-street, Haymarket, March 27, 1849." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentle men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and ber Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service yester- day, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial office for the Governors of the North American Colonies. It is understood that an effort is to be made to gain admission for reporters to the meetings of the guardians of the Lincoln union; and that, should the request be refused, one or two guardians who deem that the public have a property in the knowledge of the transactions of the board, will become voluntary servants of the public in reporting the proceedings. That a great deal of the long•maintained prejudice against the poor-law has arisen from the secrecy with which the proceedings are shrouded cannot be doubted. Mystery is repugnant to the minds of the people of this country; and that which is not done openly in the face of all, seldom obtains the credit of being honestly and rightly done. Nothing is so conservative of institutions as openness; and there is nothing so revolutionary in its tendencies as unnecessary secrecy.—Stamford Mercury. GLASGOW.—THE WEATHER.—Seed - time , o f All th seasons of the year, is regarded by the husbandaissonnwhias the most anxious solicitude. So far as the m : already gone, it has on the whole been round u re n aa dt very the seed has been deposited in the g promising circumstances. The nal,i'with a brilliant sun dtoaltsh3e.eftulelxPtiele- r u i s e h n e c r e e d d i inn 1849;by o n a o r t m the n most o g si n d pi abundance of mois ture, copious and rersneunnt month was shine. Since then we have of rain. Yesterday forenoon was drenching showers t u t)! r u e a , l sc c a h rc a e r scarcely characteristics y ti 71. v o i f n a t g v h e e p : s e s s e s d o season , dry and ,unny, but ere night f all the torrents of rain that hfefllhanddtiedprialuoctr„verdt=.,ofasthAe p•r`itlinscier)twaeinrsgilloarvye potent virtues, it would be unwise to complain of them on the mere score of persmtil discomfort.—North British N qua y a l i S t a y lN o G f Mail. s wa T er 1 0 1 vrE flowingN ESs. —The smallness sm l a ' l fi ln E ess S o A f L ji l e ° channel of the Ness has completely spoiled the salmon fishing in the meantime. The season opened splendidly for the rod, but the net has never been hauled, and now both rod and net must " bide their time." It is a puzzle to know where the fish have gone to, since the favourite streams and pools have been converted into dry land. — Inverness Courier. PROLIFIC EwEs.—A few days ago six Leicester ewes, the property of Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, of The College, lilac:Alvah', produced 18 lamb& YE PRELATE-LORDS OF ENGLAND. [AFTER CAMPBELL.] (From the Western Times.) Ye prelate-lords of England ! That guard your holy sees; Whose might has matched a thousand years The battle and the breeze ! Your mitred heads unite again Tomatcha to the notherfoel And sweep deep The oppressor at a blow; While controversy rages long, And the storm of wrong doth blow. The spirit of the Holy Word The flag of truth shall wave ! The Church it is your field of fame, And blest shall be your grave: Like Luther, and like holy Knox, Your kindred hearts shall glow, As ye sweep to the deep Th' oppressor at a blow. While controversy rages long, • And the stormy tempests blow. The Bible needs no bulwark, No Roman turrets steep, Its temple is the contrite heart, Its God is on the deep; With thunders from its living page It quells the fools below, As the roar on the SHORE, Where the storm-of wrong doth blow. Now Puaeyism rages long, And the storm of wrong doth blow. The torch of faith that lights the world Shall light it till it burn; 'Till prelate-troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye righteous ministers! The applauding song shall flow, To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; When fiery bigots rule no more, And the storm has ceased to blow. London, April 2, 1849. H. W. H. The corporate determination to wear official dresses on the occasion of Prince Albert's visit is provoking a good deal of contention in the city. From the printed statement of one of the body, it seems that the livery is to be a scarlet cloak, with some sort of trimmings which there is a difficulty in procuring. Some of the body avow their intention not to be made to render them selves ridiculous by distinctions which all the great and thoroughly Conservative corporations of the country have cast aside—Liverpool for instance. People of the old school, who would have everything done as it was fifty years ago, accuse of disloyalty those who so honour their rulers and representatives that they are desirous of preventing them from being made a laughing-stock by their appearance in public in dresses pronounced only - - fit for stage-struck heroes; and these argue that those • are the moat loyal who by sober means contribute most to the substantial good of their fellow-creatures around them, setting examples of simple habits of dress, and 2 cultivating a love of men for their just acts. Shows and pageantry, in this earnest and thought-stirring age, are pronounced the mere offspring of vanity, provocative of disquiet, and of a feeling near akin to contempt.—Stara- ford Mercury. • GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.—. The traffic on this line into Mallow is stated to be rem ' peatedly increasing. On last evening three coaches --? were rtquired to bring the passengers for this city. With the exception of a few breaks, the permanent way from this to Mallow is almost entirely laid down. When bringing up for lost time, engines sometimes travel on •• the line as fast as 50 miles an hour.— Cork Examiner. ACCIDENT TO LORD COSMO RUSSELL, A.D.C.— • Lord Cosmo Russell had a severe fall while hunting with the Garrison Stag Hounds yesterday,var the eight mile- stone on the Ashbourne-road, and we regret to learn fractured his collar bone. He fortunately was not other wise injured, but the accident is not likely to be at tended with more than a temporary inconvenience.— Irish Paper. THE DAVIS' STRAITS Fisuanr.—The last ship from this port for the Davis' Straits Fishery, the Prince of Wales, Captain Lee, will leave the Humber this day (Thursday) for her destination. This vessel, as well as the rest of the fishing ships that have gone forth, has been furnished with dispatches for Captain Sir James Ross and Sir John Franklin, from private friends.— ' Hull Yacht. PROPOSED RAILWAY TO GALWAY.—(From a Cor respondent.)—On Thursday a meeting of the gentry and inhabitants of Galway was held in the Court-house, the High Sheriff presiding, when the following, amongst otter resolutions, was adopted.—" That we have heard with intense satisfaction and delight that her Majesty's Government have come to the determination of saving, by the construction of a road to Galway, and by other modes of employment, the remnant of the population, which have survived four successive years of famine in this province, and on that account we tender our warmest thanks to Lord John Russell and her Majesty's Go vernment." ROYAL LYCEUM.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and a numerous suite, honoured this favourite house with their presence last Saturday. The following were also present during the week :—The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Adeliz t Howard, Duchess Dowager of Cleveland, Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Morley, Lady Joddrell, the Ladies I)es VOMIX, Lord Shelburne, Mar quis of Stafford, Marchioness of Con)ngham, Lord G. Lennex, Sir E. Bowater, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lord and Lady E. Bruce, Lady Howard, Lady Mansfield, Lord Brownlow Cecil, Earl of Ellesmere, Lord William Lennox, Lord A. Lennox, Earl of Strath more, Earl of Jersey, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, Lady F. Somerset, Lord William Clinton, Lord Lennox, Lady Webster, Earl of Belfast, Sir Bellingham Graham, Lord A. Paget, Lord Tenterden, Sir William Montague, Sir W. W. Wynn. Mrs. Mounijoy Martin, Mrs. Standish Standish, Sir G. Talbot, Hon. Mr. Ram sey, Hon. Mr. Cavendish, Hon. E. Byng. Mr. Quintin Dick, M. I'.. Captain Phibbs, Captain de Bathe, Captain Loch, &c. &c. TUE RAILWAY RETURN TICKETS.—It is bruited about that the Great We stern Railway Company intend to resume the return-ticket system forthrvith, being now feelingly alive to the fact that the present plan does not pay so well as that. We hear, however, that the tickets will be only available fur the day on which they are issued, without reference to distance. In that case the measure will not benefit " through passengers, " or very little, although it will the local t ra ffi c ; and this, we believe, will accomplish the object of the com pany, which is to restore the local traffic. The great falling off has arisen mainly in this branch, and it is easily accounted for. When the farmers and others could go to and from market for a couple of shillings or so, they preferred the rail; but now that one-third has been added to the fares, it is far cheaper for three or four to go together in a vehicle by the road; nor is there any loss of time, taking into consideration the delay which occurs in waiting for trains. We happen to know that the abrogation of the return-ticket system has operated in this manner to a very considerable extent in this locality, owing to the circuitousness of the railways. The traffic between Gloucester, Tewkesbury, and Stroud, and Stroud, Cheltenham, and Cirencester, for instance, has been largely diverted. We hope, however, that if return tickets should again be issued, the public will have all the benefit they have heretofore derived from the system.—Gloucester Journal. CAPTAIN STANLEY'S SURVEYING EXPEDITION.— Advices have been received from Captain Owen Stanley, of her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, dated October 27, 1848, Evan's Bay, Cape York, stating he had completely succeeded in making a detailed trigonometrical survey of the passage between the inner edge of the Barrier reef arid the mainland of Australia, from the Gould Is lands to the Prince of Wales's Islands,lupon the scale of half an inch to the mile; the distance from the Gould Islands to the Prince of Wales's is about 700 miles in a direct line. In carrying out this survey, the boats and two smaller vessels connected with the expedition tra versed nearly twelve thousand miles, and upwards of 25,000 soundings were laid down. During the whole of the operations, no accident fortunately occurred, either to the ships, boats, officers, or men employed, though, at times, exposed to difficulties and dangers owing to the heavy gales which spring up suddenly in those regions, by which the boats were frequently caught in situ ations where they bad some trouble in gaining shelter. They were also fortunate in not coming into serious col lision with the natives, though on one occasion, at Cape Melville, they were inclined to be troublesome ; but the party on shore was sufficiently strong to keep them at a distance, without the necessity of resorting to harsher measures. There is good reason for hoping that this survey will be most useful, particularly when steam navigation is established, as a narrow channel is now sounded between the reefs and the main as minutely as any part of the coast of England, and steamers will thus merely have to steer from island to island, as they come in sight, with perfectly smooth water, and secure an chorage, in the event of very thick weathu7ning d ark ' nights. We also understand that the i respective branches. On the return__ of geologists have made considerable col th e n c e a u s o h n ip s i t n o t s h 3 e ,d ir . re paratory to an expedition_ to is New ney, she and the smaller vesselswiil Gu vanes . o a w r h e i c fi h t , will —Literary Gazette. occupy the greater part of th having of late become e roads In the neigh- We understand that on the on t a n c r c n o p u i t o f the . p e ra v c e t r i y ce f r o e. f running toot races up usi Carl isle the roa ds, at anu resolved nu merous meeting last, part in similar proceedings on • to prosecute all parties who dfi r i h ton, o n to i tau o ttr f ureru C dss at a hey r oe l any of the roads. Ala. BRAINE'S Susrmssios.—Notice was given yesterday of the proposed payment of a further instal ment, on Tuesday next, of 10s. in the pound, on the es tate of Mr. George T. Braine. The former payment, - which was made in November, was ss. in the pound, so that alter the one now announced only ss. will , remain due. This balance, it is confidently e x p ected, will be discharged aith interest in full on the entire debt, within twelve months from the date et Mr. Braille's suspension. RoTAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONB.—At a Court of Examiners, held on Wednesday last, Mr. John Cooper Forster, M. 8., London, of Wellington-street, London bridge, was unanimously reco mm ended to the council for tto fellowship of the honourable college. PEoLIFIC EWE.—Mr. John Savage, of Hanging bank, near Bolton, Westmoreland, has a ewe of the Leicester breed, which has brought him nineteen lambs in seven years—two in 1843, two in 1844, three in 1845, two in 1848, three in 1847, three in 1848, and on Tues day morning last she brought forth four one, strong, and healthy lambs—one tup, and three ginitners, all Of Which together with their mother, arc likely to do we Carlisle Journal. A FAcT FOR THE PROTECTIOISTS.The clothing trade is better now at Trowbridge, Bradford, and Melks ham than it has been for some years, and the factory at Holt, which has been shut up for SQLIIO time, i again in full wpac,—ffilti independist. 43 11% 124 19% 12',7ii 771 1, , , 1 16 1 , 52 414 1,1 23 1 A 16( 24 17 7 42 8% fi 1 !,‘ .... 8% ... 8 x.i .... 11 1 ,4 ••••• 31/2 11% ;