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T.: _ • justice to Scotland or Ireland in this matter, but justice to England must not be lost sight of, and he hoped, .therefore, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would put a stop to the' proposed expenditure for the large scale s urvey. ..Mr. ELLIS, jun., said Scotland for the last six years had been made the victim of experiments in this matter but the one-inch scale would be found the most econo mical And the most useful, and he called upon the house to adopt it. Mr. GLADSTONE said the manner in which this subject had been treated was little creditable to our ad ministratfve system, but the Government had done no thing yet that could be binding in point of expense, and it was now quite open to the house to determine the final result, and fix the scale upon which the survey should be made. There was one of two courses open to the h o use—eit her they ought to go onwards beyond the sit-inch s cale, or go back to the one-inch scale ; but if they conceded the former to Scotland, depend upon it the same demand would be made for England and Ire land. The LORD ADVOCATE supported the 25-inch scale, because be thought it the best adapted for all practical purposes. Mr. DUNLOP entreated the house not to prejudge this question, but to wait until they had the materials before them for deciding upon it. Mr. BAILLIE urged the necessity for arriving at a final conclusion on this question. After a few words from C tpt. BOLDERO, Lord SEYMOUR, gave notice that on the second re solution in the report which relates to the scientific de partment of the Ordnance, ho should move that it be re duced by 53,0001., and the decision on that motion might be taken as a decision upon the question of whether a large or small scale should be adopted. Mr. MONSELL pressed the noble lord not to reduce the estimate, as it in no way pledged the house as to the scale to be adopted. Mr. ELLICE, sen., on the other band, hoped the noble lord would adhere to his notice. The subject then dropped, and the report was re seived. THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. On the motion that the Speaker leave the chair to go ' into committee of supply, Sir J. PAKINGTON observed that, as no ethersuitable opportunity appeared to offer for calling attention to the state of the Colonial Department, he now rose for the pur pose of doing so ; and he must say that, in his opinion, the extraordinary state of the Colonial Department, and the state of the public business in connection with it, appeared , to him to be extremely unusual, unsatisfactory, and hardly decorous. A noble lord in the other House of Parliament ' had pat a question upon the subject, the reply to which . was so unsatisfactory that he (Sir J. Pakington) felt it to be his duty to renew the inquiry of the Gove . rnment. When the first question had been put to the Government, the reply was that Lord John Russell would not be so long away as was supposed, but he begged to remind the noble lord at the head of the Government that neither the noble lord who had made the inquiry in the first instance, nor himself, had entertained any supposition on the subject ; but that, finding the Colonial Department without any satisfactory Minister, they wished to know how long that state of things was li kelyl to continue. He had been given to understand that Lord J. Russell was only to settle the general principle of the treaty, and that he was not to remain at Vienna until the details of it were finally arranged. This appeared to him to be unsatisfactory, as he understood that the general principle of the treaty had been already laid down. Ho had been always of opinion that the worst things for an ambassador to settle were the details of a treaty ; and It seemed to him that the noble lord, feeling the responsibility of two duties, was about to return to England, to* attend to the duties of the Colonial office, before he had settled the special business upon which he had been sent to ienna. He (Sir J. Pakington) be lieved that there never was a moment when it was of more importance that there should be a responsible Minister at Vienna ; at the same time, he did not believe there was any precedent for the course which had been adopted in sending a Minister of the Crown, holding another important office, to act as a Minieter Plenipotentiary. It was true that Lord Castlereagh had gone to Vienna, but be was at the same time Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and the busi ness which he had gone to transact was intimately con nected with the office which he held. He did not believe that there was any instance on record of a department of so mach importance as the Colonial-office being left with out even an Under Secretary to answer questions in the house. He was quite aware that the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department had inti mated that he would give attention to colonial affairs ; but, without wishing to disparage the right hon. gentle ' man's abilities, he ventured to state that it was perfectly impossible for any ono person to conduct the affairs of two such departments as the Colonial-office and the Home• office. The state of our colonial empire at this enoment was such as to require the whole attention of a responsible Minister. They had heard that Moshesh, one of the most powerful chiefs of South Africa, had given cause to the Government for uneasiness with respect to his conduct, and they had also heard that there was cause of uneasiness not only with regard to the Katliis, but also with respect to the Fingoes, a tribe which had hitherto been dis tinguished for their loyalty and devotion to the British Crowr. It was probable that those warlike tribes had heard of the position in which this country stood in refe rence to Russia, and that the intelligence might, in some degree, account for their recent movements. In the colony of Victoria, also, acts of insurrection had occurred. Blood had been shed, and there had be?n a struggle between the mixed population and her Majesty's troops, which hid, uowever, been subdued, by the rigour and decision of Sir Charles Hotham, the governor of the colony. It was use less, however, to deny that the state of the colony was very critical. The Convict Prevention Bill was also exciting Tscat attention on the pert of the colonists of Victoria. here was another pressing question which required the attention of a Colonial Minister, and which he hoped was not to be hung up until the return of Lord John Russell— he alluded to the bills for granting constitutions to the colonies. (Hear.) The colonies had performed their part of the contract with reference to these bills, and it was only right and just that the Crown should now proceed with the bills at once. There was moreover scat cely a day that passed that did not bring despatches to the Colonial-office from some of the colonies. These , 'eepatches involved questions of local interest—questions of individual right and justice which it was absolutely necessary that the Government should be in a condition to par immediate attention to. The people of Newfoundland lied made complaints against their governor, and it was very much to bo regretted that the Colonial Minister was not prepared to inquire into the case. When the people of this country - found that the im portant duties of the Colonial-office were neglected, as be had shown them to have been, they would bo greatly dis satisfied ; but what would be the feelings of the colonies themselves? (Hear.) Would they not feel that the prac tical suspension on the part of the Government of attention to their affairs was very disrespectful to them ? He had reason to believe that such was the light in which some of the moat important of our colonies viewed the matter. Almost every one of our colonies had shown an earnest de sire to give assistance to this country iu the efforts which she was making to resist the aggressions of Russia, and he hoped that the noble lord at the head of the Government would give them some assurance, more satisfactory than had been given in the other douse of Parliament, that their affairs would be attended to by the Government.. It was true that they had been told, in the other House of Parliament, that Lord J. Russell hoped to be able to return to this country before Easter; but that statement was made in a very vague manner, and, considering the nego tiations in which the noble lord was engaged, it was very improbable that he would be able to return to this country so early as Easter. But, even if he should, the delay which had been already occasioned by his absence would be one that ought not to have been permitted. Unless the noble viscount at the head of the Government could give the house some more distinct assurance than had been already given, it would become the duty of Parliament to inter fere in the matter. Viscount PALMERSTON—Sir, I must entirely deny the assumption upon which the right hon, baronet hes founded his observations, viz., the assumption that colo nial matters are neglected, and that a slight has been placed upon the important colonies of this country. The right hon. baronet says that there should be somebody in Parlia ment responsible for what is done or not done with regard • to the colonies. Sir, there are several persons responsible. My right hon. friend (Sir G. Grey) and myself are respon -2'lde ; and, if the right hon. baronet, or any other member of this house, thinks fit to bring forward any charge against the Government with respect to the management of colo nial affairs, we are perfectly ready to stand here in our places and justify the course which has been pursued with respect to the colonies. The right hon. baronet expresses a very natural curiosity to know what is the particular course which my noble friend has been instructed to pur sue with regard to the negotiations at Vienna. He wishes to know what he is to insist upon, and how long he is to insist upon it—what he is to be satisfied with, and when he is to come home ; but I am sorry to say that I am not able, consistently with my public duty, to gratify the very natural curiosity of the right hon. baronet. Sir J. PAKINGTON—I made no such inquiries. Viscount PALMERSTON—WeII, something very like them. I can only say that my noble friend will act in con formity with the instructions which he bas received, and that we do not anticipate that his stay at Vienna will be so protracted as the right hon. baronet expects it to be. (Hear.) Bnt, sir, the way in which this question has been - treated would lead one to think that there never had been a ease before in which a public department had been vacant for some time. Now, the right hon. baronet himself in stanced a case in which a Secretary of State was for a very long period abs en t f rom th e coun try—th a t o f th e Secre ryship for Fo re i gn Aff a i rs , w hi c h was h e ld b y L or d Cas tlereagh And he was absent at Vienna and after war d s Paris. And cannot the right hon. baronet recollect the period when o ) til w in t d e i n vidual held almost all the offices of State?—(hear I think, the end of from the middle of November till, December or the beginning of January, there really was not el, responsible for the conduct of almost all the import:lr o r e . 0d . and. l amin ho ea. I think there was such a period Pee that that period is fresh in the memory of the right hen. bar obee e he l deny that any inconvenience has been stistained absence of soy noble friend. I den have been at all neglected. Y that the co l on i a l by the Any decision trar a as ffai r s have taken will be taken upon the responsibility of any ri ght hon. friend, a nd if necessary, with the concu rrence of his eolleagues ; and we stand here as respo nsible as if my noble pl a ce, perfectly rea dyteto answe r , if any friend were in his matter relating to the managemen f h colonie s shall be questioned by the right hon. baronet or any other p erson in this house. (Hear.) Mr. ADDERLEY said the right hon. baronet (Sir Pakington) had not preferied any charge . against the Government with respect to the management of the colonies, but he did charge the Governm ent with not having appointed some ono w hose sole du ty it sho uld be to attend to the duties of the Colonial-o ffi ce, the absence of the Colonial Secretary at Vienna. The right hon. baronet had shown that this was a most important and critical period with regards to our colonies, and that now, above all other times, was it important that their complaints should be attended to. He (Hr. Adderley) be lieved that the riots which had taken place in Victoria would not have occurred if a liberal constitution had been granted to that colony with all possible expedition, and he entertained a similar opinion with regard to the Cape of _ Good Hope. Canada had contributed most liberally to ''the Patriotic Fund, and yet no thanks had been given to teem by the Government. But the Emperor of the French : had expressed his gratitude to the Canadians for the sum :Sella they had transmitted for the relief of the sick and te'ee-wounclicl French soldiers in the Crimea. Canada had Ahead 1,0 raise and support a body of volunteers to aid the , 410 4ie4141DY ctilAea. 1 4 110 1 101 104 Yet „ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1855, lb. of biscuit, 1 oz of coffee, 1i oz. of sugar, 2 oz. of rice, and 1-32 parts of a gallon f rum. Oa tho total amount of the different items in the esti mates being proposed, Sir F. BARING observed that this was tho first time that the estimates had been arranged under the new sys tem, and that it might perhaps be the most convenient opportunity to make a few remarks upon the manner in which that system had been carried out. He had always been of opinion that all payments by the Treasury, as far as they related directly to military affairs, should be trans ferred to the War Department ; but he saw no other rea son why matters of finance, banking, and other business of that kind, should be thrown upon the War-office. He very much doubted the policy of handing over the whole of those matters to the War-office which might be transacted with greater ease in the Treasury. Again, with respect to the great mass of colonial expenditure, which appeared to be transferred to the War-office, he feared that its trans action would completely overwhelm that department; and that if the war continued for two or three years more, it would be impossible to get through it without great con fusion. He would like to see a commission appointed, which would provide that while a proper check was re served to the Treasury, the other departments should not be overwhelmed with work which it was impossible for it was well known that some of their contracts were car- ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. tied out in the worst possible manner ; as, for instance, : • the clothing sent to the Crimea, and the provisions sup plied to the navy. The most respectable houses in the country would not send tenders to the Government, be cause they knew they would be outbid by persons who only dealt in inferior articles. Tea had been mentioned by an hon. member, but it would be about the worst thing the Government could do to go into the market and ask for a tender for a supply of that article. The price would im mediately run up, and the Government would have to ac cept a tender at an increased rate. It would be much bet ter to go to a respectable house, which he believed would not only undertake to supply a good article, but agree to furnish it to those for whose consumption it was intended. Mr. WILSON said the observations he made bad no re ference whatever to the army in the East. There was a great difference between an army in the field, subject to uncertainty and rapid and constant movements, and an army in a settled community. He alluded to our various commissariat establishments all over the world—at Ber muda, the Cape of Good Hope, and other places—where the troops were stationary, and where there were persons on whose good faith they bad perfect reliance, and who wore amenable to the law. It did not require very much consideration to see that feeding the army in the East by contract would be a most inefficient and unsatisfactory mode of proceeding. The contract system, like every other system, was defective in some points; but he asked what the country would think of their allowing the officers of the commissariat and other departments to deal with pri vate individuals without the chock of publicity? (Hear.) Viscount EBRINGTON complained of the bad quality of the clothing which had been furnished to the troops. This was attributable to taking the lowest tender, without reference to the quality, and having persons to inspect the goods who knew nothing of the duties they were called upon to discharge. He wished also to impress upon the Government the great importance of supplying the troops with vegetables, and this whether they had salt or fresh meat. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Seusnunr, MARCH 12. Mary Anm _Yapper and James Napper, who were con victed on Saturday of manslaughter, were sentenced— James Napper to eighteen months' imprisonment, and Mary Ann Napper to six months. James Andrews, James Pl'UlttZ, William, Dougherty, and Robert Andrews, who were privates in the Royal Artillery, were indicted for feloniously shooting at John _Fowler, with intent to murder him, at Devizes, on the 6th of September last. Mr. Arney was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Russell watched the case on the part of the Board of Ordnance. _ _ It appeared that the prisoners were quartered at De vizes. On the night of the 6th of September last there had been a disturbance at a public-house there, kept by a man named Paradise, between some of the soldiers and some people, and one of the soldiers struck a man with his sword. In consequence of this the police were called in, and two of the soldiers were apprehended. This caused great excitement and dissatisfaction amongst the soldiers, and a row took place. Shortly after this, some of the police attempted to apprehend Pruntz, one of the prisoners, :it the Nag's Head public house. A violent row took place, and the police were beat out by the sol diers ; and as bey also went out a,t the same time, the landlord (Willis) shut the door to keep theta out, but one of them (Dougherty) being billeted there she showed the rest the way in by a back door, and amongst them were the other three prisoners. Tney were in a very excited state, and demanded to have their swords, which were in a room up stairs. Willis endeavoured to pre vent this, and persuaded them to be. quiet. A man in the house ran up stairs and locked the door of the roam, but the soldiers went up stairs and burst the panel of the ' door in, and got their swords. Amongst the men do ing this were J. Andrews, Dougherty, and Pruntz. They then came down stairs with their swords, and went out into the streets. A mob of people were collected, whom the soldiers immediately attacked. A fight took place, but eventually the soldiers were driven hack into the backyard of the inn. Stones were thrown on both sides. At that time Lieut. Walker, of the troop, came with a bombardier named Grey, and succeeded in getting their swords from them, and all for a time got quiet ; I but on his leaving the soldiers again became very excited and violent, and swore they would have their carbines. Grey attempted to prevent this, but Janses Andrews and Pruntz went up stairs and brought down a carbine. It was loaded, and James Andrews said, 11'11 go and deliver my marble," and he went out and fired on the people. He came in again, and Pruntz loaded the car bine again, and Dougherty carried it outside, when James Andrews fired it. Immediately on this, some one in the crowd said that a man was shot, and it sub sequently appeared that a tailor, named Fowler, had been abet through the neck, and his life was in danger for some time. After this, the three men—James An drews, Dougherty, and Pruntz—went out again, and fired on the people several times. After the first shot was fired, James Andrews said that he had given some of them something, and that he would give them some • more. After they had gone out the third time, the guard came, and the prisoners were taken into custody. The prisoners, in their defence, complained of the.con duct of the police, and said they were the first aggressors. The learned judge baying summed up, The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prisoners ware sentenced —Andrews to transportation for life, and the other two to 14 years' transportation. them to dischaTge. Mr. WILLIAMS said the estimate now proposed would complete the war estimates for the present year, which amounted to nearly 40,000,0001. Ho would like to have seen the estimates referred to a committee of the house, as it seemed to him that the house was voting the money without any inquiry. (Hear.) Ho believed it would be far better to consolidate all the payments connected with the war, and to make ono person responsible for them. He had hoped that the charges for the transport had all been done with. Ho had hoped that the charges for the transport had all been done with, but now h found au item of 282,0001. for transport service in the present esti mate. Ho considered that all these charges ought to be consolidated, so that the house might be able to discuss them at the same time, and with reference to each other. Mr. WILSON said that the various duties which the commissariat officers abroad had to discharge belonged to various branches of the Government. They were duties of a financial and executive character, and the way in which their accounts wera adjusted was that the accounts were referred to the audit office, which separated them all, and charged to each department the portion which fairly belonged to it. There was a curious element in the commissariat service called the commissariat chest fund, which contained a floating sum of 1,2,;0,000/. This sum was still managed by the Treasury, and the War and Naval Department wore responsible for the portion which they had of the fund. The Treasury was responsible that this fund should merely meet advances, and that all pay ments made out of it should be refunded as soon as pos sible by the particular service on account of which the advances were made. Lord LOVAINE thought it was a bad system to appoint civilians to the commissariat department. In the East India Company they selected men from among the ranks of the army, who were better qualified for the discharge of the duties than civilians. Mr. ROCHE said it was not the fault of • the contract system that the goods supplied were inferior, but that of the inspector. To accept any than the lowest tender would involve the Executive in the greatest difficulties, and expose them to the gravest suspicions. Captain BOLDERO said that the navvies had remon strated against being deprived of their beer, and that the Government had accordingly fitted out three vessels with beer for their use. If civilians were to have it, he saw no reason why the troops should not also enjoy their favourite beverage. He wished to kuow why the supply for the army had been stopped ? Mr. WILSON said that the reason why the Government had not supplied the troops with beer was, that it was not a part of the regulations. The object of the Government in sending out beer, tea, &c., was to allow the men to pur chase tbem at the lowest possible price. _ Lord SEYMOUR said, the separation of the depart ments had taken six months to effect, and that it had not been acoomplished in a satisfactory manner. He was nut prepared to say what the best arrangement would have been, but he thought that the Treasury had transferred all the difficulties of the Commissariat Department to the War Department. This confusion was not, however, fairly chargeable upon the House of Commons, but upon the Treasury, which had effected the transfer in so inade quate and unsatisfactory a manner. The Commissariat Department had been assailed more than any other, and yet he believed it was the only department in which pro motion went by merit only, and not by interest. With regard to the charge of 282,0001. for land and iuland trans port service, to which the hon. member for Lambeth had referred, the charge had nothing whatever to do with the transport of troops by ships, it being intended to cover the expenses connected with moving men and material from place to place on shore. The present item included a sum of 50,0001. for the railway from Balaklava to the camp be fore Sebastopol. He did not want to go through the de tails of the vote, but there was one point to which he must refer, and that was the rations issued. It was generally understood that those rations were principally salt beef, and he thought that the Government ought to turn its most serious attention to the question whether other ra tions could not be issued in lieu of salt beef, and that it ought to strive as far as possible that vegetables should be issued with the rations. Mr. STAFFORD was of opinion that the answers of the hon. gentleman the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Wilson) to the statements of his hon. and gallant friend (Captain Boldero) were most unsatisfactory. A general denial was by no means sufficient. His hon. and gallant friend had made, as be had a right to make, complaints of the manner in which the commissariat was administered ; and though his hon. and gallant friend had not been allowed to quote the evidence given before the committee, and had been stopped in doing so, the facts themselves were unfortu nately only too notorious. Were those statements true, or were they not ? The answers of the hen. gentleman, he re peated, would not be sufficient for the people of this coun try, who felt so deep an interest in everything concerning the welfare of tho army. What had the answer of the Se cretary to the Treasury (Mr. Wilson) amounted to ? Why, merely to this—that Mr. Commissary Filder, having already made promises which be bad not fulfilled, the Government had confidence that he would still fulfil them. But the statement of his honourable and gallant friend would go forth to the country, and would be eagerly perused. The treatment of the soldiers wounded in the Crimea who arrived here was disgraceful to the Govern ment. On the voyage, those poor fellows had, to his certain knowledge, nothing better to eat than pork, salt pork—not only salt pork, but even salt pork quite rancid. (Hoar.) Yes, and biscuits so rotten that they were full of maggots, and which, to be eaten at all, ought, like those of the crew of Columbus, to be eaten i n th e d ar k. (H ear .) Well, but there was another grievance —a shameful griev ance. Why were not those poor men paid when they ar rived here ? Why did they not receive the arrears of their pay which were honestly due to them ? Was it not cruel to deprive a poor fellow who, having lost an arm or a leg in fighting the battles of his country, arrived on our shores of the means of paying his fare to the place in which his relatives resided ? (Hear, hoar.) And this, too, when the money was due to him. The excuse sot up by the officials for this cruel treatment was, that the accounts had not yet arrived from the Crimea; but those accounts were in a state of the most hopeless confusion. Was this the man ner in which, by our miserable system of routine, our gal lant soldiers were to be treated ? Would they permit such a system to go on in the War-office ? He had personally complained of this, anti would continue to do so until the injustice was remedied. The hon. gentleman also called attention to the state of the hospitals in the East, and es pecially respecting that about to be established at Smyrna. Last December he had asked the authorities at the War office to establish an hospital at Smyrna, because the cli• mate during the winter mouths was favourable to pulmo nary complaints, but his suggestions were overruled ; and now that the hot weather was about to set in, and that the climate there would bo insalubrious in a high degree, we were about to have an hospital. (Hear, hear.) Colonel PEE L deprecated those repeated statements re-' specting matters which were now under consideration be fore a committee upstairs—a committee specially apptinted to inquire into and report upon the state of the army be fore Sebastopol. That committee was most earnestly en gaged in the inquiry, and would, he felt persuaded, have a most searching and thorough investigation. Until the committee had concluded its labours, he would advise hie hon. friend and others to forbear making those statements which inculpated absent persons to the house. Mr. Stafford had only called the attention of the Go vernment to evils of a most urgent and pressing character. Mr. M. MILNE'S quite agreed with his hon. friend the member for Northamptonshire (Mr. Stafford), and thought the committee would prove an evil rather than a benefit if it were to have the effect of stopping the mouths of hon members who had a perfect right to-make such statements to the house. (Hear, let a-.) The vote was then agreed to. A vote of 42,1201. was proposed to defray the charges of half-pay, pensions, and allowances. Aveed to. The CHAIRMAN then reports 1 the resolutions. The house resumed. The house went into committee pro forma on the Militia (Ireland) Bill, anti added a clause. The Intramurial Burials (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Purchasers Protection against Judgments Bill passed through committee. The Lunacy Regulation Act Amendment Bill passed through committee. PRICE'S DISA.BILITIEi REMOVAL BILL. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask whether the vote of 600,0001., which was taken for the commissariat ex penses of the year 1851-55, included the expenses of the whole of that period, as, although that year was a year of war, the amount exceeded but by very little that voted for former years? That was one point which had to be ex plained. It certainly appeared to him that when the house wes discussing an estimate, which when voted would com prise a sum of nearly 40,000,0001., it ought clearly to un derstand the machinery by which it was to be distributed. The house did not know, though they were voting mil lions, that the articles to be supplied with the sums voted would ever reach their destination. It was very difficult, he knew, to discuss the question of transport, but still he thought the hon. gentleman the Under Secretary for War ought to tell them by what means the various stor es t o b e sent out were to reach their destination. Could the hon. gentleman show that they would ever reach their destina tion ? It was useless to send stores at all, unless their transport was dealt with in the same manner as any marl of common sense would deal with it. It appeared from leto experience that, though 21,000 tons of provisions and thousands of tons of fuel had been sent out to the Crimea, the soldiers had had to eat their provisions raw, and a large quantity of the stores had never been distributed at all. The hon. gentleman ought at least to show that something had been done to prevent a recurrence of those terrific blunders. When the goods were pnt on board the trans ports, some one ought to be put with them to be respon sible for their safe delivery. As it was it was mere chance if the stores ever reached their destination. All those cir cuneetances to which he had adverted seemed to point to a want of arrangement in detail. Mr. F. PEEL said he believed that the difficultietewhich had been experienced in regard to the transport of stores were confined exclusively to land transport. The trans port of stores by sea was managed by the Admiralty, and they had established a transport board to attend exclu sively to that business. He (Hr. Peel) believed such mat ters would be much facilitated by their mduct being wholly undertaken by one department of Government. Mr. WILSON said with regard to the question of the hon. gentleman opposite (Sir H. Willoughby) whether the 600,0e0!. voted for 1834-55 included the whole expenses of the commissariat for that year, he (Mr. Wilson) had been asked the same question last year, and had then replied Mat it was impossible to form any accurate estimate as to. the commissariat expenses, and that the Government therefore, take, as nearly as possible, the usual vote for those expenses, leaving it to the vote of credit of 3,000,00)/. to supply every deficiency that might be found iu the amount voted. This year the Government had had a better oppor tunity of estimating the probable expenses of the Commis sariat Department, and therefore proposed to take a vote for a sum equal to its estimated expenditure. He would add that the commissariat accounts would still be audited, as formerly, by the Audit Board. Mr. LAING said that the house ought, in order to be able to enter into any useful discussion upon the estimates, to have an analysis, showing how, and to whom, the same were to be distributed. One of the sums to be voted was a million, or more, for rations for the army. Those rations principally consisted of salt beef. Now, the estimates showed the amount of rations to be supplied to different military stations, but did not show the number of men at each to whom they were to be distributed. The house ought also to know the particular items on which the money was ex pended, and nothing would be easier than to give an ana lysis of such items. lie would also call attention to the question of many of those articles being supplied by pri vate contract. Many of the largest shippers provisioned their vessele by private contract, and it was found most beneficial to all parties. The majority of emigrant vessels were also provisioned in the same way; and economy and a better supply was almost universally the result. He did not wish to dogmatise upon the p 'int, for it was a very dif ficult one, but it certainly was oneworthyof investigation, and he thought that, after the transport estimates hadbeen voted, it would be as well to have the matter thoroughly considered by a committee of practical melt upstairs. With regard to the rations of salt beef which had been supplied to the troops in the Crimea, he did hope that some different arrangement would be come to with regard to rations. He also suggested that tea should occasionally be substituted fur coffee, as the former would be found not only a great luxury, but also in casesof diarrheee possessed of medicinal qualities. He would also suggest that vegetables should be supplied to the troops as often as possible. They might be , sent out compressed and dried. Some such packages had been received in the Crimea, and he had heard from a friend lately returned from the camp that they were much relish ed, and esteemed a great luxury. He would also suggest whether oranges might not be supplied. They might easily be furnished, and would be found great comforts. Sir J. BAILEY asked whether auy explanation had been given to the house why the army had for so long a time been rationed almost exclusiselyon salt meat? Anyamount of fresh provisions might have readily, with the means of transport we possessed, been obtained from Europe, Asia Minor, and other ports. Mr. WILSON said ample arrangements were made for a fresh supply of provisoes from the coast of Asia Minor, and why it should have failed so much of late he was un able to state; but he saw from accounts in the public pa pers that the difficulty of transport was very great, and the difficulty of feeding cattle far greater. It also appeared that cattle had died in considerable numbers. With re gard to the contract system there could be but one opinion, that in every possible shape and form in which that sys tem could be brought to bear it should be adopted. Com petition by open contracts was supported by all their ex perience, whether the end to be attained was economy or efficiency. He admitted the principle most fully, and as far as it could be carried out. At the commissariat sta tions throughout the world nothing was purchased by pri vate contract or bargain, but everything by public con tract ; and so rigid were the rules of the service, that when the accounts were sent in to the Audit Board they had to be accompanied by the advertisements in the newspapers, to show that the transactions were made public, and also the tenders themselves, to prove that the lowest tender had been accepted. Howi the principle could be extended further by rationing the army 'at so much per head he was not prepared to say; that was a most important point, and it was one well worthy the consideration of the Go vernment. Mr. PEACOCKE said it appeared that the troops sel dom received a ration of fresh meat ; but, if ho were cor rectly informed, preserved meat to any extent might be supplied to them at a price only 2d. or 3d. above the cost of salt meat. He did not think, considering the services on which they were engaged, that the house would grudge that additional expense. Col. DUNNE•said the same recklessness and waste which characterised the distribution of the relief fund during the famine in Ireland marked the expedition to the East, and the consequences were the came iu both instances. In Ireland, the destruction of 2,000,000 of people ; and in the East, the destruction of an army. In each case the blame rested with the commissariat. The Government were now about to organise a land transport corps ; but he could not understand why, with the examples to bo found in former campaigns of the necessity of such a corps, they should have omitted forming it before the expedition started for the East. Lord SEYMOUR thought the observations of the Se cretary to the Treasury required some further explanation. lie understood him to say the contract system was the best system, and would bo universally adopted by our army abroad. Now, it might be very excellent in this country, where there was a large mercantile community, but it would fail at Constantinople, at Varna, and in Asia Miner. (Hear, boar.) If they made a contract with an Armenian, or a Jew, he might break it almost immediately after wards, and they could not subject him to any penalties. Ile, therefore, wished to know whether, in the purchases made in the East, the commissariat service was required to proceed by contract., because, if so, the sooner the matter was inquired into the better. Mr. RICARDO very much doubted whether the con tract system was the best even in this country. There was added to most of the proposals of public companies for tenders an important proviso, that the parties did not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender. The same P l N's 49NY.91 1 4, WaS 40t 191191Yed 1?)r 4hQ Qgyoniment, and The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for leave to intro duce a bill to relieve W. P. Price, Esq., 31. P., from any disability he may have incurred by reason of a contract for sending wooden houses to the army in the Crimea. Mr. PELLA.TT wished to knew whether any precedents existed for interfering with the law, imperative as it was laid down, in relation to persons taking Government con tracts while holding a seat in that house? The SOLICITOR-GENERA L .replied there would be no difficulty in finding numerous instances in which the house had interfered in the case of persons who had incurred penalties under the act. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. SMOKE ABATEMENT BILL. On the motion of Mr. WILKINSON, returns were or dered of the number of prosecutions in the metropolitan police-courts under the Smoke Abatement Act, 1853, stat ing the grounds of such prosecutions, and the amount of fines imposed in consequence thereof ; of the mode in which the amount of such fines had been applied; and of the ex penses attending such prosecutions. METROPOLITAN LOCAL MANAGEMENT. Sir B. HALL postponed his bill for the better local ma nagement of the metropolis till Friday. The house then adjourned at 11 o'clock till this day. ARMY BEFORE SgBASTOPOL COM- 111ITTICE. ,7 (Continued from our first edition of yesterday.) C.)lonel Wilson, Grenadier Guards, in continuation, said—The bread supplied to the troops was very fair. After encamping before Sebastopol the troops were sup plied with green coffee, but with no apparatus whatever for roasting or preparing it. They preferred tea to any thing else. The French system of cookery was far supe rior to our method. The food supplied.to the men when engaged in the trenches was salt pork and rum. They generally cooked their meat before they went out, and eat it cold. They rarely had any vegetables—but they sometimes had rice—officers as well as men. Sometimes the comrades of the men at work in the trenches prepared food for them against their retnrn ; but if they did not, of course they bad to cook it themselves. Trench and picket duty fell very heavily, and he did not suppose in many cases that a man could get more than from three to five hours' sleep. out of the twenty-four. The Commissary at Varna refused some potatoes to a serjeant of his regiment, because the returns he pre sented were not properly made out. He approved very highly of the French ambulance system, of which he had had practical experience ; it was far preferable to ours, as it was not so cumbrous or inconvenient. The French knapsacks were lighter than ours. No adequate provi sion was made for the speedy removal of the wounded from the battle field, and be had heard of men lying a whole night on the field of Inkerman. At one time the clothing of the Guards was so bad that one could scarcely have told they were soldiers. No supplies of clothing or boots were issued to the troops while he was there. He was not aware whether there were any supplies in Ba laklava harbour at that time. As an instance of the privations in this respect to which officers and men were subjected, he might mention that, from the 14th Sep tember, when he landed in the Crimea, to the 26th Nov., when ho reached Constantinople, be bad no change of clothes. He had no change of linen, and was never led to expect any. Tie thought much of the sickness which prevailed arose from the want of a proper supply of fresh meat. Before he came away he did not think more than 20 men bad their knapsacks, and those landed subse quently with them on their backs. By Mr. Bahl--Several individual efforts were made by officers to obtain their baggage from on board the vessels in which they had come, but without effect. Captain Blakeley stated that lie arrived at Gallipoli before the troops. There was no commissary there when the troops arrived, and no preparations whatever were made for them. They had tents, and were tolerably well supplied with food. Occasionally the rations ran short ; for instance, the commissary would supply 770 rations fur 800 men, but that arose from his not knowing the strength of the regiment. It was the duty of the quartermaster to inform the commissary of the strength of the regiment. • When he went to the Crimea he found the men ragged and half starved. At this stage of the proceedings the room was cleared for discussion, and the committee soon afterwards ad. journed, it being nearly four, until to-morrow. Among the deaths of the week has been that of the distinguished water-colour painter, Mr. Copley Fielding. lie Ras in WO Ot1:1 year. been given to that generous proposition, and he believed that, in the end, after having been referred from ono public department to another, it would be rejected. The colonies of Great Britain were never more loyal than at this mo ment, and it was of the utmost importance not to act as if wo slighted them, for a suspicion that we did so might change their loyalty and affection into alienation and hatred. Sir G. GREYsaid the question under discussion appeared to be whether such great public inconvenience had oc curred from the arrangements that had taken place during the temporary absence of Lord John Russell at Vienna, as to call for the interference of the house. He was per fectly ready to state that he felt himself utterly unable to conduct permanently the duties of the Colonial-office as well as those of the Home-office. (Hear.) He should re joice most sincerely if he were relieved from the responsi bility which had been thrown upon him for a short time by the absence of his noble friend at Vienna. But when hii noble friend intimated his willingness, at the request of the noble lord at the head of the Government, to accept the seals of the Colonial Department, it certainly appeared to him (Sir G. Grey) that that acceptance was, under the circumstances in which the noble lord (Lord J. Russen) was then placed, not an insult, but a cause of great satis faction to the colonies. Although by the acceptance of office he (Sir G. Grey) felt that an additional responsibility would be thrown upon him, yet he also felt that it was his duty as a public man not to shrink from giving any assist ance which might be required, and which he thought might be conducive to the interests of the colonies. When the right hon. gentleman said that the whole colonial business of the office was at a stand-still, he must take leave to con tradict that statement altogether, and say he did not be lieve that, during the short interval which had already elapsed, any particular inconvenience had taken place. Ho b would now proceed to deal with the sp ecific statements made the right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Pakin g ton) as to the four points on which inconvenience was said to have arisen. The first was with regard to the Cape. From letters which he had received from apprehend overnor of that colony, there was too much reason to app that the peace which had been established between the colony and the Kaffirs was one that could not be looked upon as permanent unless measures were taken to consolidate the security of the country. Yesterday week despatches arrived from the Cape, stating that the governor, from information he hail received, was about to set out for the frontier. The in telligence was of a conflicting, although of an alarming, character; but it was impossible to deny the state of that colony was a critical one, and that prompt measures were necessary. The despatch in-question however, asked for no assistance f rom home, and it staled, that in no case would the governor be necessitated to send to this country for any additional force. The Government had given this despatch their careful consideration, and had taken, with out any delay, the measures they thought necessary ilk order to strengthen the hands of the governor. He (Sir G. Grey) did not know what his noble friend (Lord J.Russell) might have done if he had been here, but he did not be lieve that noble lord would have acted otherwise than the Government had thought proper to act. The next point to which the right hon. gentleman had adverted was as as to the state of Victoria. What information had they with regard to that colony ? Not one single word had reached the home Government from the governor with re gard to the disturbances referred to. It might have been a very serious tumult; but, judging from the public prints, he found that it had been suppressed in 20 minutes, and he trusted the accounts the Government might yet receive would show that nothing to justify the use of the term "insurrection" had taken plats, and that perfect peace and tranquillity had been restored. With regard to New foundland, he might state that he had himself settled the question which had been referred to, before he gave up the seals of tke Colonial-office, six weeks ago. He believed there was one question pending with respect to an appli cation made on the part of the Assembly in Newfoundland to remove the governor of that colony, who was appointed by the right hon. gentleman opposite (Sir J. Pakington) ; and he felt bound to say, with every respect for the right hon. gentleman, that he did not think the removal of a governor was a question in which the Colonial Secretary ought to enter into private communication with any pri vate gentleman coming from the colony. Ho was not aware there was any question now pending which required, the decision of the Government. With regard to the con stitutional bills, he admitted that if he had continued in office, lie should, by this time, have been able to submit to the house a measure founded upon those bills. The right hon. gentleman had said, that he wrote a despatch upon the subject more than two years ago, and yet the bills were still in the hands of the Colonial-office, and that such delay was likely to lead to much inconvenience end dissa tisfaction. What was the delay with which the right hon. gentleman charged the Colonial Department ? He (Sir G. Grey) fennel these three bills waiting for the decision of the Government in the month of Juno last. One of them had been received in May, three weeks or a month before he took the seals of the Colonial-office. They required a careful investigation, and were, therefore, referred to the legal advisers of the Crown, who did not make their report until sometime after the prorogation of Parliament. It would hardly have been satisfactory to the coloniesto have had the bills dealt with at the end of the session in a hasty and superficial manner, and it was impossible, without the assent of Parliament, for the Crown to give its assent to those acts. When he was writing to the governors of these colonies, it occurred to him (Sir George Grey) that the course adopted by the colonies was a most inconvenient one, and he had taken occasion, in answering a despatch from the governor of Van Diemen's Land, to suggest a mode by which the inconvenience might be avoided. The view which he took was immediately aelcpted by the Legislative Council, and the bill sent home was one that might be submitted at once for the assent of the Crown, and might at once become law. He must re mind hon. gentlemen that it was very easy to introduce a bill into the house, but it Was not so easy to insure full at tention to a bill, when every night was of importance to enable the Government to pass the estimates, which were so necessary for the prosecution of the war. He had al ready stated that he had fully communicated with his noble friend (Lord J. Russell), when lie (Sir G. Grey) held the seals of the Colonial Department, with regard to these bills. The subject was one which the noble lord had given great ' attention to, and he did not think any delay would arise from their being pestponetl until his noble friend's return. He could not defend the present arrangement as a per manent cue, and nobody would more rejoice than he should in being relieved from the responsibility which was now thrown upon his hands. Mr. LO WE said that, from what the right lion. baronet the member for Droitwich (Sir J. Pakington) had stated in reference to the question of the constitution of the Austra lian colonies, he thought it might be inferred that that right hon. gentleman had entered into a species of con tract with those colonies, and had given the Louse to un derstand that the measures to come before it were the re , suit of such contract, and that their deliberations were to be swayed by it. As he was most anxious that that con tract with the colonial legislature should not be carried out —as he was anxious to remove the prejudice and impale sion which had been created by the right hon. gentleman, and as this was a subject with which he (Mr. Lowe) was necessarily familiar, - he would trespass on the house for a short time while he explained the nature of that contract. In 1350, it was the pleasure of the house, contrary to his own opinion, to delegate to the Australian colonies the powers of constituting an assembly, and framing their own constitutions. Though ho objected to that he did not think the matter would have come to the Present, he mutest say, most disastrous state, had it not been for the right hon. gentleman the member for Droitwich. In 1852, the right hon. gentleman addressed a despatch to the Governor of the Australian colonies, stating there was an impression in favour of an upper house of legislature being nominated by the Crown. The right hon. baronet expressed that opinion, and he (Mr. Lowe) regretted to say further, that he so far misunderstood the Act of 18.0, and mistook his duty as Colonial Minister, as actually to add to that expression of opinion that, if the colonies would consent to appoint such nominated houses of legislature, the right hon. gentleman would give them up the dominion over their waste lands. Now, he asked the house, what possible interest had we except in seeing that those people governed themselves iu the manner which would best suit their own local in terests ? What good would this country derive, supposing the right lion. geneleinan should succeed in fixing upon the colonists a nbroinal upper legislature, by the bribery of those waste lands ? As knowing something of the colonies, he, for one, protested against the House of Commons or the Government being bound in any way by what was done by the right hon. gentleman. What the right hon. member did was against the policy of the Act of Parliament,, and against the duty of his office, and ought not iaany way to bind them. He would beg the right hon. gentleman, who held fora time the seals of the Colonial-office (Sir G. Grey) to avoid the example that Ida predecessor had set him, and in all things to deal with these questions in a spirit of the utmost purity. Let the right hon. gentleman look at the question merely as one of the will of the colo nists, and if he was satisfied that will hail been sufficiently expressed by the vote of the Legislature, let him carry it out. Under the inducement of the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Pakington) these colonies had sent home long bids, by which they had given themselves various powers which they had not hitherto possessed ; they had dealt with the most minute questions of royal prerogative, they had given full retiring salaries to public officers, and they had given pledges and guarantees of a very dangerous nature to per sons who were now in the occupation of 50 or 60 millions of acres of waste lands. He entreated the house that they would not be persuaded by clamour, or by any declara tions of persons sent here by the colonies, so far as to for get their duty—as the Imperial Parliament of this empire to consent to pass in a lump 70 . or 80 clauses in the acts set before them, Merely because they had passed before the Colonial Legislature. He begged the right hon. gen tleman (Sir G. Grey) to avoid contracts with the govei n ments of our colonies. What he gave, let him give freely. He (Mr. Lowe) had ventured to speak in a tone of admo nition to the right hon. gentleman, ,but his own local ex perience of the subject must be his excuse. Bet he must say that, unless they acted with great circumspection in this matter, they would only be sowing the seeds of endless confusion, and promoting bickerings and disturb ances, or they must be ready to surrender their colonial empire for ever. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he should take another occa sion to show that the hon. gentleman who had just sat down had formed an entirely erroneously opinion, and had completely misunderstood his intention and his acts upon the occasion to which reference had been made. Mr. J. MACGREGOR dial not think that the negotia tions at Vienna would be brought to an end so soon as the Government seemed to expect ; and this country and the colonies might well be dissatisfied with the state of things which Lord J. Rusiell's absence would produce in the Colonial-office. The colonies would feel that their affairs had been entrusted to the irresponsible management of a few clerks in the Colonial-office, and they would, no doubt, come to the conclusion that they ought to insist on their independence of the British Crown Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE strongly protested against. the ticket of leave system ; but hoped that the system of transportation would not be resorted to again, for it had been condemned by reason and experience. Previous night theimprovements Mr into thesch The subject then dropped ; and EWART having stated in greater detail than on a The house resolvedTHE CORM" Leon recently l which have itself at in Eton, introduced Mr. PEEL, in submit't''S to committee of supply upon A.RIA n TESTIMATES. the estimates to the committee. said that they were aboutin timed as large as those of last year, for instead of being 600,0001, they were this year 2,400,000/. That iticreaee e p a ro e v ni ii p i i l u oy g ed fo i o n d tfhoer-' construction ar u of the rail- I c E e o b ° s ti w Y e ° r e e c engage:? 4uued b i Y n the war with Russia. About 325 there. The wagesthe Crimea e in m was completed, they could b e wee; use fully way from Balaklava to the camp would be about 50,0001. if they should be employed for the whole of the year. lVhenemthpeloryaeidlwiany other services. These .estimates would provideand of about United Kingdom. The ration • 65,000 militia in the fors which for the food of 40,000 regular soldiers served out to the army in the Crimea, was as follows :—To was being at present, and had , been some time past, oglz.oohlier in; slab alb, of Olt seat, 0 4' 1.1 of fresh MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-LINCOLN, MARCH 12. Henry Smith, boatman, 22, was indicted for a rape. Eliza Molson said —I am a married woman, 39 years of age, and have been the mother of seven children. I live about five miles from Boston, and on the banks of the Witham. I had been to market on Saturday, the 13th of last January, and left Boston, on ray return home, at about six. Three farmers accompanied me as far as Anthi ny Gowt, and then left me. I was walking along the footpath by the river side, and had got about three quarters of a mile from the Gowt when a man met me. I gave him the path. As he passed me he said, " Who the -- are you ?" I kept on. He turned back, took hold of my bonnet, and pushed me down. I raid, " What are you going to do with me ? I did not interfere with you." He made use of some indecent language, and pulled me about. I screamed and he filled my mouth with gravel. I got it out, and screamed again. He then put his hand over my mouth. We struggled on the gravel. He got me to the water's edge, and swore that he would either drown me or violate me. I said, "Let me go home to my husband and bairns." I was then taken sick, and I tried to get away, but he held me by the hair and throat, and effected his purpose despite my resistance. I knew the prisoner well, but I told him I did not. I was afraid to say so. Mrs. 'Watson, who lives under the same roof as the prosecutrix and her husband, said—The prosecutrix came home much distressed, her hair dishevelled, her bonnet crushed, her cap destroyed, and her dress soiled. She made a complaint to me, and mentioned the man's name. The constable stated that, although the prosecutrix had accurately described the prisoner to him, yet she did not mention his name. The prisoner's cap was found near the spot. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was drunk upon the Saturday night in question, and far from the scene of outrage. He wished to call his sister to prove the bad character of the prosecutrix, but was told that he could not pursue such a course. The jury immediately found him guilty. The prisoner said he was not satisfied with his case. Ile should postpone it to the next assizes and be defended. Mr. Justice Coleridge sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years. The business of these assizes terminated shortly after. Mr. Justice Coleridge rose at half-past eleven o'clock, and Mr. Baron Alderson, who had been trying prisoners in the civil court, at about twelve. POLICE INTELLIGE.ArCE. CLERKENWELL.—THE BrsnoP or LONDON ON THE RIGHT OF PERFORMING THE BURIAL SERVICE OVER ROMAN CATHOLICS. —Humphrey Lynch and John Shea, Irish residents of Vine-street, Holborn, appeared on re mand before Mr. Corrie, for riotous conduct in the graveyard of Trinity Church, Gray's-inn-road, and for assaulting the sexton and his assistants whilst in the execution of their duty. The defendants accompanied the funeral of a child to the above graveyard, known amongst the Irish as " the Blue Lion-yard," from its contiguity to a tavern in the neighbourhood, on Sunday, the 4th inst. When the Rev. Dr. Worthington presented himself to read the usual burial service over the body, the father objected ; hu; the reverend doctor persisting a niel6e took place, during which the clergyman's book was knocked from his hands, and he was hustled about. The defendants then seized " the pickaxe and spade," and commenced covering the coffin with the earth. The sexton and his assistants, in trying to recover their implements, were assaulted, and then the defendants were given into custody. The case was adjourned to enable Dr. Worthington to carry out the suggestion made by the magistrate, that the Bishop of London should be asked to allow of the non-interference of the clergy with the religious scruples of any one objecting to the Church of England burial service. When the case was called on, Mr. Corrio, addressing Dr. Worthington, said—Well, doctor, have you communicated with the Bishop of London ? Dr. Worthington—According to your worship's desire I have had an interview with his lordship, and he most distinctly told me that on no pretence whatever was it possible to abstain from performing the burial-service over all - persons buried at the usual consecrated grounds. And, further, that it was imperative o❑ me to pre serve the proper respect to religious observance, and to exclude all improper persons not connected with the ceremonial. It is really necessary that such a proceed ing should be adopted, for it cannot be endured that a drunken and disorderly number of persons should act so unseemly a part. I should have thought that the pre sence of the corpse would restrain them. lam also sur prised that the clergy of the parties should urge them to re.-ist in the case. Mr. Corrie—There is a misunderstanding with refe rence to the latter fact. I have questioned the Rev. Dr. IWAtiliffe, of the Rosamon-street Chapel, and other clergymen of the same persuasion, since the last hearing of this case, and in every instance they told me that they did not encourage the conduct complained of against the defendants. They explained that in cases where they were not allowed to pray over the members of their own Church they performed the service at the houses of the deceased, and then told the friends to civilly ask the clergyman who wanted to read prayers to abstain, for his services were not required ; but if the proceeding was per evered in, then the parties were to retire to a dis tance, so as not to join in a service that was repugnant to their religious principles. Dr. Worthington—l am very glad to believe that such is the case, for I have too great a respect 12r the clergy of every denomination of Christians to iniagine that they would urge their flocks to such unseemly be haviour at any religious service, more especially that office which should be so solemn. It is quite necessary that the right of the Church should be upheld ; and I may state that, in furtherance of that object, on Sunday last, in the churchyard of St. Andrew, where the service was dispensed with so as not to annoy any religious scruples, it was indiscriminately resumed. In two cases of Irish funerals it was no t o bj ec t e d t o ; b u t i n a third one a body of police had to be calle I in to eject the riot ous parties. Several witnes•ses were called by the defendants to show that the sexton and his assistants were the parties who caused the riot, by trying to get away the imple ments. The witnesses on either sido could not ray who knocked the Prayer-book from Dr. Worthington's hands. Mr. Corrie, in adjudicating on the case, said—l ad journed thi s case t o h ear if th e Bi s h o p of London: would sanction the clergy from interfering with the religious prejudices of th e l arge num b er o f I r i s h Roman Catholics who live in this district. The answer of the bishop shows that he considers it imperative that the service should in every ease lie performed. In that decision I am bound to concur, and I must protect the parties concerned from insult and grass outrage. The defendants aro ignorant men, and I do not think I should be right in inflicting a heavy punishment en them. They and their friends at the same time must remember that their conduct is not sanctioned by their own priests, and that they must ab stain from such proceedings in future. The defendants must pay a fine of ss. each, but if I see them again fur the same offence, I will inflict on them a very severe punishment. The defendants, after thanking his worship for his leniency, promised not to interfere in such proceedings in fikture, BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act Seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the th day of March, 1855 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 12,42E5 Aylsham Bank, Aylshaan—G. and T. Copeman 4,712 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 29,39 S Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Iloa-ge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Eiedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 36,816 3ewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Dicester— IL M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham— •Att woods, Spooner, and Co 23,574 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 10,409 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. 6.932 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 70,333 Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gcc and Co 14,947 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L. Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Milea, and Co 39,196 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 26,001 Bath City Bank, Bath- -G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co .. 87,937 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and. Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. lirecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Drilileld Bank, Burlington — Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge— Mortlock & Co. Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Costs and Son. Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans Sr Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co ' Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster --Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington--Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and C• Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter' and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, tinder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford--S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead —Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co.._ Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Lia,ndovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-- Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. 32,306 9,710 13,215 21,954 73,895 35,599 11,277 65,449 28,592 12,637 3,834 18,218 49,880 32,618 22,494 8,380 16,254 34,309 47,646 6,322 19,265 64,775 6,501 9,071 10,989 89,354 26,754 Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Ahergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and. Co New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and C Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, llaverfordwest—J. and W. Walters. .. Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. .................... ........................... Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson .......................... Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Song Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin ani S o /tie J 343211, Ryik t eitt. I; rottiket ail O w; gat 9,800 9,908 74,686 84,666 9,895 47,502 99,143 55,590 46,80$ 20,108 21,424 8,205 12,122 6,561 5,040 8,420 30,219 34,175 17,255 22,f64 20,780 54,760 5,736 23,868 33,628 21,043 21,969 70,288 16,766 25,150 8,914 20,739 37,865 8,982 5,447 52,792 37,155 30,090 28,124 9,440 98,383 21,480 6,777 3,578 37,105 13;129 14,331 2,786 8,152 18,206 30,216 13,196 25,010 51,110 22,385 18,461 49,011 75,710 9,784 8,448 24,947 11,952 29,400 10,869 $3,898 8,095 10,800 47,281 11,064 7,923 12,870 30,355 29,652 6,995 4,776 8,877 13,585 0,166 An. COUNTRIES. CHELMSFORD—MARCH 9. , There was a little more animation in the wheal day than last week, but the transactions effecter limited, at our last quotations. Spring O ra teration, and but little doing. Wkeat, white, old, per s. s. qr. 55 SO Oats, per qr ...... new 55 SO Peas Partridge.. old 51 73 ' White......" new 51 73 Boiling ...". Barley 9 7 3. Dun ....... .. Chevalier 29 37 Beans, Tick ..... ... Grinding 23 . 0 Darrow ' Malt 68 72 Mazsgal l '' Chevalier ..... 7O 74 Ditto, gat red, COLCHESTER— MARCH 3.0. The wheat trade has exhibited more &MO° week's prices are easily o bt a ined. Barley ices sale at very full prices. Beans and peas are material change in value. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, whit t° , red, 61s to 70s ; barley, 30s to 34s ; oats, 2.53 Mazagan, 36s to 38s ; middle and smell, 40 0 white, 44s to 466 ; grey, :36s to 40i. Official Statemen t of the Quantities of Corn, t y in the port of London, from the fellovjg the 4th to the I Oth March, both inclusive. 7'3 4 el i 4 Colchester Harwich .., 87(` 30 1085, Leigh ~ Malden I 319 , 80 c ..1 7174 ( 5.211 - - KIRKCALDY—M.4Og 10 11 i We had a fair supply of oats to-day, butpii and barley. Sales more free than last vrneib#o wo can hardly quote any change in prices , in favour of sellers. ,„ LA i Wheat. i 1 "' Barley. it First Second 33s Od 2. 7 l Od Third EBs Od. 1 29s Od 1 235 12 " he close of o°l woad' S. d Davison's West Hartley 17 6 Howard's West Hartley Efaswell ..... •;;".. Kepier Grsn. Lainbton ............... .... „,.. Peusher ....... ..... Plummer ... Stewart's ... Whit well ........... Eleugh •" (South Fees ............. Whitworth 'Cowpen . •••••"‘,,,, ICarr's Me.rthit SEABORNE MAMAS ,tOl Netherton 17 1 Tanfield Moor l6 C - Canfield Moor Butos 16 C I Walker Primrose l5 Grey's West Hartley l6 9 Lawson l5 6 Riddell l7 0 Wharn cliff° l7 E ion Main 18 Wallsend, &c. Hettou 2O 0 (N signifies that the mails are sent from t .. . 11° ) ' •.,y the night—and M by the moming--despatu'l:,/ :)ay when made u , in General Post- Office, London.* tmerica(byllrit.pack)N Unerim kby United Sts packet) .. ....N tincrica (by U. State.. packet) ..........N Australia (via South ampton) .......... Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good, Hope) ............N africa (West Coast)...N N tlexandria..........M iahamas ....... M Belgium .......... Brazil , Buenos Ayres M flape of Good Hope , Jelic of Good Hope .. N ;ape de Verds lcylon (see In lie) leylun .;nannel Isles ........N Chins . Constantinople ...... .. Constantinople I :iont. of Europe M N Egypt (see India) Franco ........ M , 4ibraltar .......... M I Reece (see India) Ireytown M dFuriburgh davannah M dolland .......... /k 1 Elondurat India (vlaSouthampt.)lM India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ......M t.very Friday .. .1. • •... • • 13d of the month -1 9, 24, & 30 of in. , tth & 20th of mon. 117th of the month . )41 :9th of the month.. ,9th of the montii.•l 1) 0161 DO/e: D0 11 . "' Soot( 9th of the month Aon Ps 170, of mont , ;Once a month.... 6,13,18,23,6;28 Win I 'ioth of rwice daily .. •• ' rwice daily.... • • :1,7,17,20,27 of rt '2nd & 17th of mon• ;Tuesday & Friday 12nd of the mouth Daily.. . • ;17th of the month. & 20th of moll. 9th& 25 th of month) 1 7, 17, & 27 of mon Twice daily .... •• 17,9, 17,& 27 of m., 19th of the month 23d of month •• •• L)of ti Dov er .."' oov ,, ;•• 3 „ a t12 4 4out , ' Dour voOr' DoVaq • [IOU r Lisbon ...... .. „ ... Iladeira .. .. .. ...... N sladeira .... •....... =." Visits (see India) Mauritius (see India) I, f , tritlllB .......... ri 114th of the month _ ; _&o 6 :' Mexico ............M;Jnel of the month. EIS; r.. 1, LI 4 ,,, e , s ..._.. ........N iStblsth2sthormon..WiDald /sou 5,n v tlrsnada ......N'2l Sc 17 th of month , ar tous New Zealand ..........IBY private Ship .. Apver_ Capal Mates ........Nlstlllslll2sthoflllon'l"„,itbsSto Peninsula ...........Ml Tth 1 ith27thofinoll. ,, ',;o o lll 2oni ..............N ill ~ .4, 27th of mou.'4,-0!.:, Port Natal ..........N By private ship... D u ce, Sicily •.............1c still 5t13 25 thofiriOn , i ~,e r . ~ Tuscany .............N;ith I , t h2hthofmon. n o r 4renczucla ..... ..31 12d B6l 4.h ofaiontbv"' Van Diemen's L;nd (see , Au.itralia) .. ~...... West Indies ........M 2d1./c 17th o i monthiet liN cer ;8.18, & 28 of mom --- a l e • When any of these drtes fall o i a Sunda/14t0n,, sliatehed on the following day, with the 0 30 `;010 8 Southampton), and the Malta, both of 10 10 preceding day. Zit of ogaf4 en eleetit es of great the compli( I your confl I have tt 1t are117,1855, rr vNION Z r.)—Prize: t •er7 Sub: n ,Prize, an Im sz. r T ftirtY Illust Y for del " Ic riPllon clue Alit Strand, b IRECTI 'o4lc Drepa Stock , I'M i reit 't the graut H ed by , 1 4 429 ead ; ; ' M•rerul; 71 • - Shafteaba Southwark ; fah HUGH, Bank, 27 co.I 3, , q deli t ueittea of Interest n 4. Payai b ... 11 44d in av - ` l4 r9 bariken F and Porn 101stA L (1 Item, tio MESTIN, ty 40 RSD so ; SL LATT, b.... o tPhan chi 17.,,e100ted las ' ots at Chu SAflin g 'e d ay Of 114, to s will e r tion, win See an , \ ',warders warded Chu ~.u n rarded • —4l gee] 410 4 els ; W es uttier. LIF E Op PROFIT With joitc.r.,_x the fSi . Zned in u,; raw, --"" in man 1 w1 , 4 1 1 , fro% 4 14 8 14 Paid by Itof 2_ l4 Y be ofthe l WOll 44 NN E I 1 , Princ by Sp ec ALEX Il atei of only, DAYable hi t kp h OTNIA. *oral by anntial imputed 1 Policies—' Whole Pree l i am for R e _ minder of Li fe. 11. 1 1 $ e. d 1I 3 6• , . . a6 lB 4 1 11 \ 6 -5 0 4 1,-"io „ tEI sPec) , ondor ~:rvices a Cottages f ,••Look-hol w i t h Pri a Ci -11 Offi W ce lc I n • an. g Jo a Boat -h( to g el apeC indatiOr everY ce recil 4eer °ni ~ 10 and 4 ai 455 , both cla: office tsfthel n Services ` b°l3l lllli \ Ss] Admi tkitz!alaiaj, ... 1 , '..• k , Gallo %SI% ... 30,0( I te LS L . 4 1 Ztlih t : rude fi lot Zolts t r reserve ',:•1 t e °I contra ktionia. th ey ma , L 'Rl,►t a tfor a n ,. ,' kN7,4 6. Isa7 L , e Xeln ' ple; 111 S t lii ti , Wthi — where Nlitr„ r ant to t kOf m„. - niatt of e t:trellt marl Ititz„th.nat is fotn L 1144 I I k tll l37g . the 1 'll:Produced t "RI 4,b ( 01 taken A .. e t t ir i ,_ ocided. Nu! ottraeerecael, k t : l . St th e ' vja m t ' ll let ti/e vis cor k k lOilti °l. o r . Ctiston %445 ° h , !the r k§ y it Ol aflY be see tWc.l o i i verPool i N kt o ! teit7eri l : Ou:the day c , 00%7 will be h 7 14 t snst be a ' I lithe e l : a n t v l a It A. as t a l C v e O e little k U , IV b ßi u ro t rß t e h Yn e n t i r mikr an : l ioß e n t E i j o n n E : h ef ieSe:ethee4 : t r.t ier' O '' , 4 ,,,,, , . , *":" '.11 ,4, P z ,h, t'h' ,, ° m, l / 4earorpl,r t ' h ain eiiiA..i., 'lv' i,i . 7a .-'. :.Kl 4 : ,i : i. ec" - ' e v'4 7 :: i r: e ga t. ' ay wasTherethanlCHELMSFORD-MAucil 9. .mited, at our last quotations. Spring corn Es t ft of great si rst,„_,. compficat oration, and but little doing. ~, . Zs ' ar tef j x ? .. N .)-_ Pri °N zehe Vleat, white, old, per s. s. - ~% -- **u Your confide red, n ol e (71 €l-1: '' 55 5 5 1 5 7 88 3 0° Peso,Oat - W per3r b ritqlrld. ' "gl.e.: ''''''''''''' 11 new 51 73 Boiling ......' , lb, ....„._, Barley 97 3, k t Of a p ri ; e al Subset Chevalier Grinding ffalt 68 72 Ma2aP ro Al 3 og, , Pr Those, -....A., Chevalier ..... ''''' 70 74 Ditto , 11 • . 41% ~art3' Illustra 2 2 3 9 3 .0 7 Beano,") vTiunac.rk.r.:.,..w...n..ii....:.::,,,,, , tam , an impr .. - --sq fer (.1 it -- , 0e,„,, „ e v Pubn closes COLCHESTER- MARCEL 10. 0 1 petit , The wheat trade has exhibited more firni _hoc. Asst. O zand. Mud week's prices are easily obtained. Barley los_ ,7, sale at very full prices. Beans and peas Are "• - f 1 I t material change in value. .. to, 1 ,. .1,,,, 'RECTO. Prices to-day were as follow :-Wheat, * */ „.', 1 5t0 3() , ',', ,t7; f l C are prepare, red, 61s to 70s ; barley, 30s to 34s ; oats, 2t). 3 or ~.. Stock, under Ilazagan, 36s to 38s ; middle and small, 40 to , 'llgranted h - -Y th, • . .„ _ white, 44s to 4lis ; grey, 36s to 40i. _ 4,4gue Head 'fa, '' • 1 , trand; 77, ! . , l ohaftesbary Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn) pot i . ' south', ark ;- f in the port of London, from the foli"ing ,qh,,,,,_ HUGH. I the 4th to the 10th March, both inclusive. 1 --"uoll Bank, 27th t , ii '! 1 1 0 . t- • BAI 4 : . ° V. 4 ~• !1 ‘ 11°. 3, P a' i:-- 1 P i ........., ,skttfr m ,, Este i---i ----- 11 , • 44 ) : 4 -v- S desiro Colchester - , ..!:. i,. Nt-i.:::bedattis.keeixn, Harwich - 1 -- i - - 319 ' • ktst6o4;terest Dial Leigh - 45 ~.et • '• • 'is Payable Du. •- - , ° and Mallon 674 k( 5.,11 -- -- P' KIRKCALDY-NitiliCrE 10. 11 o f • and P E. but os .ol ' ' ' ems We had a fair supply of oats to-day, 1 , sic ~ and barley. Sa 6 l B e s s m od oro i fr 3 e . e ls th o a d n la i st : e.' o lol l sl4 wo can hardly quote any change in prices' (lat , in favour of sellers. 1 . ,Ailit a ,., _ Ham-corn Wheat. 1 Barley. Firstl Ca la I ; ot h,, i s it , i rt ec tr E it E TlNG , 72s Ott I 34s lid I 3 4 ed I • I, t i t ify 1 0 PEL LA S T D T t Y E ! Second Third ESs Od. 1 29s Od 1 2 35 • e • fade sleeted last ........-...-,....................•'''''''''''''__-- Vs ; t4 oil ,the et diur e 11 011 0 I r'l k it tri l;° ,: i Lla t : try d a: 3: er o il f l r i b; _ . COAL MARKET.--M &Is l Prices of Coal per ton at the close of 0° - p, ''• l it: lit aokfliars ad) '' •!, '' Pimp s. d. Wali fe '''' • • fora% li urc sa k i ?led ; Davison's West Hartley 17 6 Haswell ....... „'... ~."' , !•01,1 011 B oeleys ;al Howard's West Hartley liepier Gra n 2 ;" .... '''''''''' " 1 t.4 , 4 : 11, a Westn Netherton 17 t Lambton ...... ' . '...'''''.!, 6 tiler. Tanfield Moor l6 C Polisher ....'" „., ,Y, 14 Tanfie'd Moor Butos 16 6 Plummer •• ''' „....'' 1 ; L IFE A , tl44 , , „,,, ail A unis i _re quired Walker Primrose l5 ij Stewart' S ''''''' ...''''. l ,' Grey's West Hartley l6 9 Whitwell ...." ''' ~'')' Lawson • 15 6 Heugh 113 11 •'' ''' .•••'''. l " kl O 4 Riddell t4Nit tb4l.444- eZ a Of Wi th th e N th le l Wham cliff° Elan Main ) iwill. l).llbr.,_. n Many a Wallsend, &c. 1 11 7 7 8 1 0 ( So u teest Whitworthhl. . e 1 . l . o . . 0 : '" "' "' ::: : ~,,,, :::. ,: .: ,' II i f, , Hetton . a -.. a aellllMlatel _______ -.,......) SZt 4_ .... , t' 4 Paid by ti SEABORNE MAMAS w rit ' , V be obt t o. anY of the As .4 1 • CBA.RLE 0 ,- ~ y the night-and 31 by the moming--deoPa- - ' (N Zignlfics that the mails are sent from the ~‘ 20 0 CCoarwPr'seniett'll't4....::'''''''' te ia ) - k A EST ~, ift/ i I ' 7 ,f° NNIA ') ln aY o w e b n: n ra in l aa po e st u2 Illr' t' 11 1 Office, London.* 1,15# ; 40 1v -4 ::, ' 4 ;' ' 4,4zttuna, r 'Ne.. I ' O P f : r eel en COUNTRIES!. --... _ .....„..."4. , ', ,41' q.4.,-d by Special tmerica(byltrit.pack)N , '.very Friday ..._ overe 11/' 0 \I --. : 111, - . er D/ rnito r 41 41 a na b de l Z e. e r r a at 1. ~iii...' c„Nt k , rnericP. tby United Ste packet) .. .... ....N .........• liif enr- ty l 're I tates ttncrica (by U. State:- O D 1 ' packet) ..........N kustralia (via • South- Fee or , ampton) ..........M " " " t-4° 0 ,4 0 tlp h tta'''Al'lNT 1 Ditto (via Marseilles) /i .. Doti „ •4 <)„,,,,,_ _A Ditto (via Cape of Good, „, e ~ ,,,,,i - cred b, h. Hope) ............N fti 'I / Ok twil eci annually. • • ifriea (West Coast)...N lidi of the month .. Mi.' : 101 l ‘) ttli k t ..... Pli O t n ed ly, fo r r e( ilesandria .......... Is t 4,9, '24, & 30 of in. D0T.;p,,,,,j, I ' li cies-the tlexandria..........M Ith & 20th of mon. ••••0 11 ,0'7" r klit tliii, titi4:ll4ll:,:ripili,rvvidaicre4r....lezetra:'iltsl3ll 11ahamas ........... M 117th of the month ••". o °, t " .. 0 0 , y ) , Belgium .......... ..Nil , allY • • • • .. • • • • • • D ° : - ,41 0 li ?I : " Brazil ...... .. ...... Di ,9th of the month.. 71 , - , o t tli olti. 4 t, ) 4 'lit . I Buenos Ayre5........ M,9Lb of the month.. A , ' 0 . 1 It i kk IVllO le !:ape of Good Hope ..N ' Val i° st P remium 0 1e 4t 'Jape of Good Hope .. F. late de Verds .... ...I'. i 9th of the month Soo ° :cylon (see India) • 1 . # \* of Life, ..cylun .. .. .. .. ...... IN ; O s , 4 -", ~100 Pi si kl I ------ ;iiannei i51e5...... „Is I Mon ~Wed.,3cFrF• 4 ° l 'oo 1 - , t China ldhi. ...... • • • • • • • • • • l'' , 0 2‘ nc f.' e l a 7t ni T' o ' n f t n h ' °..n.L. Sop 0 .. . ''l ; , l I I I ' I 221 4 d i Ir' Constantinople ...... • ,8,13,18,23,&28 ui la 1 701. 0 ,41 194 . t. - 0 Constantinople ........11La X 'iOth of nun' , " 4 "'`,,,r .." • ' l3 4 :iont. of Europe M & N, f wice daily ...• ,• ' D'' Egypt (see India) I Franco ........ M ta. ~.. ! fwice daily.... • • 0° „1 1 ;t0P , 4ibraltar .. ........ :ti 14, 7,17, 20, 27 of rt: 3 0 " ,A. I Ireece (see India) 1 Ireytown .......... 31 2nd & 17th of men - - . - J os.': .1 . uILTI-L-,, .i.do or I I lit akmburgh ..........N ;Tuesday & Friday 1/ 0- otlf ,fil . pars i -- -c-cco davannah ..........mi2nd of the mouth soots t , , ,,_: . ,i , , % L itt' l e o he specifi, dolland ...........A1 1 Daily.. .. • • ...... 1) 0 /0r, •' • Honduras . ,... . . 31117th of the month. 5 4) ,,, ut 4tP ',, India (vlaSouthampt.)3lllth & 20th of mon. P t ' "of o '. ' I ttli Ih z c'. l , 7 4 iz. '— India (via Marseilles)Ml9th& 25th of month Dov er .,... 1 . ilin g a - r ;•-ages for lonian Isles (see India)'7, 17, &27 of mon Doc 0 0. 1 , (k k eas,l 3 , ooklious t Ireland ~......M &lq Twice daily ...• • • 11 '„ U o ''' I 4 1111,1 1 0 k a n w r i ,_ t h Priv3 'lZling Zl4'.l,sondon, Lisbon ..............M 17, 9, 17, & 27 of rn. So. t ta (1 1 ,1Ing a ~;-', lle o for iladeira ............31 1 9th of the month Sl err ol! , .I,ioltig a .`,,ip' l,l Watt Madeira ............ N 123,1 of month • • • • (4 •• Malta (see India) 1 _.„... , t il, ,,,,:in g a n a_Engine.h Malta ............ _is ,8, IS, & 28 of mon. Dove' • 4 , Nao,,, * Boat. Yiauritium (see India) 1 0 ,,,0 , ‘ to 7.1 , ..1. t11 ° present -, . - Point I, f , tritlllB .......... Nll4th of the month 0tt , ... Mextee ........„ ..m;Jnri of the month. f_let i r ..,,,: \ 4l ktl iDeCi 2.,. -61 - 3 . 101 19 NewNzl e l ', ' v '' e* z tl e r . l e . i n a - a n ri l iti:: ....: ....... •.. ....11 1 :i . i ; j 2 s 3 d t y b & i p s r l77 , t 2 a ll .s t o t e h f:m n i n p oi ° l . ;:h . 9'it y. ,.. ~ t ol a f. .l ?' , , ' l ot , i '410 85 5. both d v Papal States •. • • .....N 15thl5t1125thottnon. DO•- r . , ...ogi neer ome a e - , s l Peninsula ...........M iTthlith27thofirion.,S °u „ t b ' '.'', Peru ......, .. „ ~..N ill ck 27th of m0u.'! . . 0 :0. ~„3 Part Natal .......... NBy private ship.• • t i' - it ••• . . a, T "• CON SicUy .... „„.. ~ „ic itiii , stl32.sthohno i n oef_„ 4 " t• ' N nuint of the Co Tuscany ........ .... NT ; ith I,t h2:ithounon•l-L - t bs.. • Venezuela ...........3112d & 14.11 ofasontb-**-- , t - Serves, Q, Van Diemen's Land (see , Australia) .. ~...... ; _ ;idisor tl o , 1 1 1,,, Uptu rn : ." , I N t t i 4 18810] West Indies .. ...... M 2d & 17th oi month Le.- --- . f t 1. It NI, A l l Admiral slif r. t ' I ,k kii ' REREB t he 9, tr 4,,, 1 4:0 When any of these dates fall oa a Sandal, toe.l , ri r ,, 4 % ,at One spatched on the following day, with the 0 30 1010 ' ° ltto h a 'nay be SontnamPton), and the Malta, both of whiot' ' a / *I. • her Ma sae preceding day. .., • . Gallo r.......... -------- j a 1 , ,_ ~.. --"........--°>.l°'6 .; ~, , ,‘ : fir e. e zi . , be ra • ad 3o : : WIND AND ft!' EATII-E- 8 0' yel. 1 0 1 4 ...._...---. 1 ,- o r T50 1.1.91 ': dI C 40 1 / 4 il't 2.4ed if !_reserve 1 .5 ‘*l).':(t'll,,,7llltaini'ReirilnTthil, WIND AND IVEATBEB g05 91 `,0 SO 4 10 Stations. Course of Wind. „ t o Greenwich W rani Lothbury Holyhead ~.,...... S.W Clotta "- t is .: Liverpool Dublin W.N.W Rain. ; Leicester S.W. Nottinghani Derby S.W C1 011 00,..1s Leamington S.S.E... Fiu e- -' , lO ,Y g i Manchester Carlisle ... ... ...... Clouc i l . Lancaster Whitehaven Maryport . ;.', Stoke-on-Trent ... W CIotOP ' ''' Sheffield S.E. Southampton N.W tros. t. t ied. Portsmouth R a i: i Poole Winclffield..— ..... S.E. Yarmouth S.W Sli._„ ,je Lowestoft S.W sow' 7 , Leads Cambridge S.W. Ipswich . W.S.W.W. SW. S l3°. -- . ' IPSWICII Hague S.E. Bristol W.N.W.... Yi 136. 0 NZ 4 1 , 2 , 4 Plymouth Exeter ...... ...... 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The very idea of such ILI' ' X rire e e itud a ii, respondent of Cambridge Press. „... v t It4t t ktend eru i , -.TF3._, 1 seeme=enerm-A-.... . d o er in , 2f. os. . BIBTIII4 li ` 1 , 4 4 4 : • bio; di On the sth inst., at Oir Fo A ss BO - L°ll°' jj- ,Il likl k's tt ",v lIIPII Menzies. II" me. 2 1 On the 10th inst., at C A m p rt A er U b G e — ri i:u°lls6 , 0 wife of John Sheridan, Esq. with . Syr — , edite Prs ril• " b MARB` . rols : J o k N u , I r„,bY On the 10th inst., at St. Jeln °B'- tfoti ge ifr sbs ,‘ % it) d.of uri n' Treadaway, Esq., of Washingto,.° 0 . l'i. S -I Qeut e°r°ll grove, to Emily, ldest daughter 0 1 ' 41 44; 02,_teze r el • ' - " Li ltv ezl of Stranraer-place, Mai la Vale' Al \t s : t4rit °t4l3 l) ' v' ' ti ko t t 61 1 tar i ' O ell D D /.g Pi . 0 0 , 6 , uiterou„ rd''.olP - sif k k . 440 rdi On the 11th inst., at St. Leon a , tili - 0 0. f 0 V I % Bl' 6' Harriet Paget, daughter of C 4 I '1 ,116 0 0, .1 ) 1 1 / 41444 11 -.- b P 0 mouth, K.G., and relict of Gene • f or t% 4-•%1 01110, m Paget, G.C.B. Derkel e ctie° kb 444 *15 t4 : 14 1 4r7 Bite' On the 11th inst., at 57, -upper s of Da 0 01 1, , L 4p, :cnho l i square, Richard Wm. Perry, (1 " co n 1 ,k4:lla4ect tree, Herts, aged 69. ar i c -11/ 11, boo m §,,:L l Zer t i gecuc e f 4 l' On the 11th inst., at Deno' a pjs. I. -. et ,Iltu re , Vaizey, Esq., of Gray's-inn r `g? va in 0° t ' so lg ) ki t : , Yr'stts i Vi t 4 eo 6 On the 11th inst., Mr. B d ° : ° ,,, J 6! peni bot . r), h Eil to nl i ,rt Wood-street, Cheapside ege T ay lor, °f ~ so sr' 14. 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