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On 10 t e h A :cUlli f the as a iswer, n this v ago, put of trt in before atedly of the ied in tr the 1, a nd th of how• giTing case , what aintin r Mr• the take it had titody , ail ,o not on osal of d, Bea len the 3atedif t, coo' ld alto° uffered , h they ereoo. of ►b° er with ied tbe l terot , ) vim" length into the case, ord-ud the bill to be dismissed agsiiist all the d:!..-reknts, cr,sts, except and as to hits, the biil must be eistuist.ed, bw. without The Court then proceeded to hear petitions. QUEEN'S BENCll.—crius DAY.) WILMA MS V. THE C - ‘EPORATION or EXETER. In this cause a rule 11:d been uotained, calling upon the corporation, who are c - nservat...irs of the Quay at Exeter, to show cause why a mandamus should not is , ue to try if applicant shou:d be reimbursed by 'an annuity for being deprived of his office as wharfinger of Tops ham, near Exeter. It appeared that the duties of the office had fallen off. and the Commissioners had thought it proper to dispense with the services of the plaintiff. The rule was argth.d at some length this morning. Mr. ROGERS and Mr. CROWDER were heard at Consi. derable length in opposition to the rule, on the ground that the plaintiff was not a corporate officer, and that when the dues fell off and wt re let by auction, the corporation were fully and legally entitled to dismiss the p'aintilif without curnpenslfion. Mr. WATSON, on the other hand, contended that the plaintiff, being appointed by the Corporation, with the use%l formalities, that ho was appointed as coroner and bailiff of the river, and authorised to wear a badge of office; that he was a corporate officer, and entitled to the usual compensation nutter the Act of Parliament. At the conclusion of the argument the Cuurt granted the rule for a mandamus. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) FISHWICK V. BILLINGS. This case was tried in the Salford Hundred Court, on the 29. h Oct. last, and a verdict given fur the plaintiff, for 49/. odd. Mr. MARTIN, Q C., now moved for a rule ealiing on the plaintiff to show cause why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and the im proper rejection of evidence. The action was in trespass for seizing, taking, and carrying away a quantity of corn, hay, and manure, and converting and disposing of them to the defendant's own use. The pleas were, first, not guilty; and secondly, a traverse to the plaintiff's property in the goods. The pleadings in the Salford Court are carried on in precisely the same way as in any of the superior courts at Westminster. The plaintiff had occupied a farm called the Cross Hall Farm, under Lord Derby, and in November, 1848, he was two years' rent in arrear. In that month the bailiff of Lord Derby distrained all the goods upon the farm for the rent in arrear; and on the day on which the distress was made the plaintiff entered into an agreement with his landlord, rtqaesting the latter to forbear selling the goods until the follow ing February, to enable him to discharge the rent, and the landlord agreeing at the same time to the goods remaining in the plaintiff's possession at his own proper costs until February, when he was to abandon them, together with the premises, to his landlord. In the January following the plaintiff applied to Lord Derby's agent for permission to sell the goods, and it would appear from the evidence that the agent said he might sell all the stock upon the farm, except the goods in question, which were some hay, corn, and manure; and accordingly, in the month of January, the plaintiff sold a portion of the goods, and before February had arrived he had left the farm. It "41 proposed, on the part of the defendant, at the trial to put in evidence the agreement in question, but the Judge rej ected $e it on the ground of its being unsaanaped. (Mr. Martin) moved also for the rule on the ground that trespass was not maintainable, and that the remedy should have been by trover. The COURT granted the rule on both points. costs. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) ADAMSON V. LONG. Mr. Sergeant BYLES applied for a rule to show cause why alt award in this case should not be set aside, on the ground of a mi s t a k e on t h e par t o f t h e ar bi t r a tor, and of the award not being certain or final. This was an action in trespass with respect to some land at Rich- Mond, and was referred by consent. The first issue was not guilty. It was agreed between the parties, and the nature of the agreement was communicated to the ar bitrator, that the tresspass should be admitted, but the arbitrator found a verdict on that issue for the defendant. The declaration described the abuttals of the close or land which was the subject-matter of the action; but, as it did not appear from the evidence of the witnesses ex amined before the arbitrator that the whole of it be longed to the plaintiff, he had made a mistake in point of law in assuming that ho could not, upon the issue in question, say the defendant was guilty of trespass, modo et forma. The COURT granted a rule nisi to sot aside the award, Ott the ground of the alleged mistake of the arbitrator; but as to the want of certainty or finality of the award, the rule was not gran:ed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FamAy. CirEsran CuP.-50 to 1 agst Peep-o'-day Bay (taken), 50 to 1 agst Sir Richard (taken), 50 to I agst Melody (taken), 50 to 1 agst Cossack (taken), 50 to 1 agst Vesta (taken), 50 to 1 agst Whim colt (:aken), 1,000 to 10 agst Horn of Chase (taken). Each of the above have plenty of backers at the quoted prices. DERBY.-18 to 1 agst The Italian. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Earl Fitzhardinge's hds., Mon., Cockleford Inn; Tues., Peivsdown; Wed., Sudeicy Castle; Thurs., Withington Village • Sat., Broadway-11. F. 11. hds., Tues., Bonithon; Fri., Kennel-10i. Mr. Newton Fellowes's lids, Tues., Knowstone Vil lage; Fri., Allswear Bridge-102. West Norfolk harrs., Mon., Mr. Paul's, PentneYl Thurs., Bradenham Green. Pllopton kds , Mon., Lowestoft; Thurs , Burgh St. eter--11. Eamont harrs , Mon Pack Horse, Plumpto n; W e d., Mehnerby Hall; Sat., Newton-10i. Dumfriesshire hds., Tucs., Kitunount ; Fri., Dalton Village-10i. Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., Kennel, Dornister; Fri., Buncombe Hall-101. Mr. S. Lowndes's lids., Mon., Grand Entrance, Wo burn; Wed., Salden Windmill; Sat., Lidlington-11. h t d D on ra c ke om ' m s lids., on Tues., Waddesden Town; Thurs., Sat., Souldern Gate-102. Mr. Brand's hd,+., Mon., Bendish; Wed., Hatfield, Woodside; Fri., Silsoe —loi. Puckeridge hds., Mon., Thorley; Wed., Peverils; Set Cumbelow-102. Mr. Furse's hds., Mon., Winkley Wood; Wed., Bur- Obgton; Fri., Buckland Filleigh-10. Mr. Trela l o wney's lids., Tues., Lee Mill Bridge ; Fri. I vy brid ge — Cleveland lids., Mon., Roseberry; Thurs., Skelton Park-10i . Blackdown lids., Tues., Wellington Pillar; Fri.,S taple Dulverton harrs., Mon., Kingsbrompton Village; Fri., Red Deer, Oakford— 10i. s_Nordi, Devon Hunt, Mon., Weir Marsh ; Wed., Heasely Mile ; S at., Way Town, Cleaves-104. C imbridgeshire lids., Mon., Klaby'; Hut; Wed., War den Village; Fri., S tow F ox - 10 2 . 4 , d er Hi ggha h - Pack harts., Mon Knowtchley ; Fri., tilthid. Morpethy harrs., Tues., Co c kle P a rk T ower; F r i., al Village -10. Tiudale lids., Mon., Matfen Piers; Thurs , Cocklaw Tower; Sat., ifesleyside-101. Durham County lids., Mon., Newbiggen; Wed., Hare tad founds ds, Durham-road; Fri., Embleton. , V -tut Farm's W arts ., M on ., I ps d en Fi e ld ; Th urs., Sheep 'P' Sat. Stokenchureh. Sir. Phillips's hds., Tues., Tctsworth ; Fri., Stad haropton. York and Ainsty lids., Mon., Blue Bridge; Tues., Skip )3r idg':'; Thurs., Pill Moor, Brafferton; Sat., Naburn. Captain harts., 'rues., Borrowby Cross-lane, Crosby ; Fri., Yafforth-11. Sinniogton lids., Tues., Sinniogton; Fri., Riccal Bridge. Ilar worth lids., Tucs., Enter Common; Sat., Oak Tree Villag e -102 . Bedale lids., Mon., Pi4khill; Wed., Scotton Village; Fri., Catterick Bridge-102. Duke of Cleveland's hds., Tues., Wakerfield; Thurs., Winstone Bridge; Sat., Welworth Castle-102. THE THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS. NOTTINGHAM, FRIDAY. Late on Thursday night Major-General Thorne, Commander of the North-Eastern District, ar rived in this town, and on the following morning had an interview with Lieu'enant-Colonel Arthur, at the barracks, for about two heurs, after which the men, offieere' servants, and prisoners were ordered out on parade, and after an inspection by the General they were formed into a square, when the gallant officer read a communication from the Commander-in-Chief, but previous to its being read the reporter was requested to leave the barrack-yard, therefore we are unable to lay the official document before our readers. On inquiry after wards the reporter was informed, that the whole of the officers, nen commissioned officers, and men now lying at Nottingham Barracks were to prepare to march on Monday next, but it was not stated at the time where they were going to. Major-General Thorne also ex- Pressed his regret that the men should have brought such a disgrace on so fine a regiment, but hoped they w ould soon regain the high character they formerly It is expected they will be relieved by the troops at Sheffield, where head quarters will lie during the time the regiment remains in this neighbourhood. There is no doubt Nottingham will again be head-quarters when the usual military changes take place. The sen tences upon Knox, Butterworth, and Ball, tried by the general c 'arts martial, have not yet arrived, but are expected early in the ensuing week . Tux AacartnicbletrE, The Lord G c ' vv i h O a N l S.—Slß * JOHN FRAIiKLIN. - 7 James Ross, in his narratievr, , s ha p sa elt b e a n rr s iv o ed hig a h t ly H o u e l I, b) f • r S om ir her voyage this year. g B o h n e e ' h oyer ro t ught no intelligence, however. not ha e i e r. 'llaffin's Bay. The whaler Abram h o as r the l west . side of a ft . r o n azz o ve b d y fr m otn r. Davis's Straits. The communication Saunders, commanding her Majesty's ship e North Star, in his last dispatch of July 19, and which was vras sent by a boat front the Lady Jane, wh a l er, wrecked a Itn d iseculattelo pieces by th e ice, has reach e d the Adrri4alfy. "June i u e t 10, Monday, midng. nig'it," a snd states that th e ship la. 73 40 N., lu 56 W. — al l well, and hopes of making Lancaster Sound without delay. Yesterday morning her i\lejety ('teen Atnelie, with their K )yal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, Duke and Duchess d'Aumsle, accompanied by La Cotwesse d'Aegelet, General le Comte d'Houdetoi, and several distinguished persons of their s u i te , h onoured ,with a visit th e E x po s ition des Produits d e l'l n d ustrie. ."aneaise, under the direction of M. Sallandrouza d'La itt () mai; and examined the collection with a vi s ibl e in erest, remaining there for some hours. Letters from Strasburg state that the first snow f or t this se ason commence d f a lli ng i n t h e V osges and in ' 12140)4 'urest iu large googlies QU Saturday lest. TIE SUN, BIGHT OF HINDOO SUCCESSION. We have been reqtwsted to give publicity to the following documents:— To the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and the Court of Directors of the EAst India Company. Honourable Sirs,—l respectfully beg leave to transmit to you for your information, translation of a Mshratta address, together with a statement on the right of succe-ssion by Hiudon Princes, which I have written.and sent to the native Princes and Chiefs of India, in consequence of the unprecedented proceed ings which have been adopted tovfards my late and present Sovereigns, Pertaub Shean and Shahoo Maharaj, Rajas ot Sattara. I have the honour to remain, Honourable Sirs, Your most obedient humble servant, RuNoo BAPOJEB, Vakeel of his Highness Shahoo Maharaj Chuttraputtee, Itaja of Sattara, now at Benares. 9, Blandford place, Regent's•park, Nov. 8, 184.9. Translation of a Mahra:ta Address cent by liaogo Bap jee to the Princes and Chirfs of India. From Ru w ago Bipoje,, Pruh'io, — vak , _•el of his High ness Shanoo Mahar4j, Raja of Sattara, Who is now re siding in the holy city of 13enares written on the 17th September, A.D. 1849, in Lyndon, the capital of England : Oa the 25th September, 1819, a treaty was entered into, on the one part by the East India Company, and on the other part by the Sirkar of his Highness Pertaub Singh Maharaj Chuttraputtee, of Sattara, and the said treaty was in fall force and operation. In the year 1836 the Bombay Government, in order to appro priate to itself the territory of Sattara, commenced all sorts of plots and intrigues, by raising false and unfounded repo; is against his Highness the Baja aforesaid, but withheld from his High ness copies of all evidence taken secretly against him, and denied him justice. Ultimately, on the s:h of September, 1839, the same Government removed him trom the th:one of Sattara, tanished him t 3 Benares, seized his private property, reducing him to much straits for his expenses, infltcted on him all sorts of distress and injury, and kept him a prisoner. Meanwhile, the Government formed a new treaty on the 4th September, 1839, with his younger brother, Appa Sahib Maharai (retaining in force the first article of the former treaty), and placed Appa Sahib on the throne. In this the second treaty, no mention is made of the false accusa tions against the former Raja, and in a proclamation issued at the time it is distinctly stated that the English Government had no intenion whatever of taking the country, or of increasing its own possessions by this measure. Whereas the same Government has now taken the territory into their ow❑ hands. Having experienced this injustice at the hands of the said Government, his Highness Pertaub Sing Maharaj Chuttraputtee deputed me to bring his cause before the Honourable East India Company, and the Right Ho nourable the Board of Control, in England, where this humble individual, supported by several influential friends, endeavoured to obtain justice, but without the least effect. The answer always has been, " We have not taken the Raja's couutry, but have transferred it to his young.r brother." They thus put us off with such like false pretences. This Government pretends to be for the benefit of the people of Llls, but I will now proceed to show how far ibis assertion is correct. Eventually the case was submitted to Parliament, and at last the whole of the docouments appertaining to it, that had been laid before the Government in India, were printed, and became accessible to the Rajah's friends. By these it appeared that false papers, with forged seals, together with a paper of hints from the Governor of Bombay to the Resident at Sattara, how to ensnare the Raja and to obtain proofs of the Raja's criminality, had bsen received, and been accepted as evidence; be sides which money was offered in the shape of rewards and bribes to induce bad and wicked subjects of his Highness to come forward as witnesses against him; and in order to prevent their being punished, measures were taken to protect them. There seems abundant proof, in the documents alluded to, to show that all this was for the purpose of taking the Raja's country. Ap plication was tieing made to Parliament for the purpose of obtaining an impartial committee of inquiry when his Highness died. Then the real object of these intrigues became apparent. The father of both the Rajas, Pertaub Singh and Appa Sahib, was likewise the paternal uncle of Balla Sahib Senaputty, who was consequently their first cousin. The son of Bella Sahib, Trimbukjee Raji, therefore, is equally related to both Rajas ; and according to the treaty is their heir and successor. For this reason his Highness Pertaub Singh, on the 10th of October, 1845, adopted the said Trimbuls'ee as his son, in conformity with the practice of the Hindoo law, under the name of Shahoo Maharaj, and conferred on him, as his heir and successor, all the rights of the Raja of Setters. In con formity with the forms of friendship, due information of this event was conveyed in a letter to the agent of the Governor-General at Benares, through whom it was transmitted to the Right Howse:treble the Governor ? General, and by him to the Court of Directors in England. This document was subsequently printed by order of Parliament two years afterwards. The Raja Pertaub Singh departed this life on the 14th October, 1847, and in the following year, on the sth April, 1846, his brother, and successor, Appa Sahib, also died, Oa this occasion two General Courts of Proprietors of East India Stock was held in the months of July and December, when it was mooted that the nephew of the two late R-jas, adopted by Raja Pertaub Singh, should be recognised as heir to the Raja. The chairman of the Court, of Directors stated to the Court of Proprietors that the directors had received no information trom the Governor-General of India or the subject to enable them to come to a decision, but that the directors, on the arrival of such inform ition, would be prepared to take the matter into their favourable consi deration. This was, however, a mere trick to deceive the Court of Proprietors and the public. For it after wards appeared that on the 30th of August, the Go vernor-General had communicated his sentiments and advice to the Court of Directors, recommending that no adoption should be recognised, and that the Sitters territory should be resumed by the British Government. Accordingly, on the 24th January, 1849, the Court of Directors sent an order to the Governor- General to attach the territory of Sattara to the British dominions. On the 12th of May, 1849, the Bombay Government, in conformity with the above instructions, issued a proclamation, stating falsely, and in violation of existing treaties, that there being no heir to the late Raja, the territory had lapsed to the British Govern ment. Now what is the very wording of the treaty? In the treaty of the 25th September, 1819, it is written that the territory assigned to the Raja is to descend, in perpetuity to his Furzumdum (sone), Warisan (heirs), and Kyain Mookaum (successors in perpetuity.) The East India Company's Government, professing to be the friend, the supporter, and the adviser of the Raja, thus solemnly pledged itself to continue for ever, in consideration of the ant'quity of the family, this do minion to the house of Sattara ; but now, in violation of this most sacred pledge, it proclaims itself. Lord . paramount over all the sovereigns of India ; and vir tue of such title has appropriated to itself the said ter ritory, because the adoption did not receive the sanction of the Lord paramount. Did the Lord paramount reject the adoption when made ? No—he said not one word against it. This East Italia Company entered India originally as merchants. On the seal affixed to their treaty they style themselves the devoted servants of the Mussulman risng of Delhi; but now they proclaim themselves lords paramount over all the sovereign princes of India. They have disregarded the compact entered into by themselves with the ancient house of Sattara, and appropriated its dominions in violation of the same, as lords paramount. But this treaty is in strict accordance with the treaties they have entered into with the several other princes of India- The Governor-General (Lard Dalhousie), supported by sundry of the East India directors, having abandoned the usual practice and form of adhering to treaties, has resolved for the future not to recognise the right of adoption to any Hindoo prince, but on all similar occa sions to annex the territory of such princes to the Bri tish dominions. Dia is the manner in which they have acted towards the Sattara family, and they have openly declared they will act so on all similar occasions. This declaration is probably not known to your High- ness ; it behoves you, therefore, to look into your treaty, and immediately to address the Governor-General, to know if you are to understand whether by the treaty, according to which your heir is entitled to succeed, you are to be permitted to c xercise the right of adoption in conformity with the law and custom of the llindoos, or whether such law is to be violated and to be hencefor ward set at naught. In this inquiry there is no treason nor conspiracy. It is the ordinary course that every prince is bound to adopt for his own and his family's security. In case you should doubt the statement above made, I have caused extracts from the papers laid before the English Parliament to be translated, and I send them herewit'. Though I am the Vakeel of his Highness the Raja of Sattara, do not imagine I address you now on his part or in that capa c ity. If i t b : comes you to regard your own character a n d ass i st us, well and goo d ; i f not, i t must be left as a matter not of choice. But lam a Hindoo, and I address you, whether Hindoo or Mussul man, with a view to :iour own advantage, to prevent the future violation of treaties, and th e ru i n of your families. Yon, as an ally of the British Government, are b oun d to adhere to the treaty you have entered into, any you are entitl.ll to inquire whether they also mi•an to adhere to it in le! ter and spirit. My wish is to forewarn you, cnd to prevent your big ruined. Lot:lc to your rights as a Hindoo, and r( quire their r(cogni;ion, tut without any breach of loyalty or good faith. I am in the midst of difficulties, and a foreigner in a strange land, and have been induced to address you from my own condition and despair. Do not rej et this appeal, but let me entreat you to send an answer to it. It i. now two years since the Rijn of Sattara (Fed, bui. nothing has Lei.,n paid to his fyn,ily, not even to discharge his funeral expenses. He was confined with out having committed any crime, and now the Govern ment roinses to reci , gnist• the adoption of his son, and starves his family. To justify this cruelty they main tain that the, late Rajah left abundance of money, which is wholly false. But this is the manner in which the R :jm's family has Ipea treated, and in which the Ea st India company have acted, when they have the power of doing so with impunity. Every heart has its necropolis, filled with the grave stones of the loled kud entorgotten.—Lliza . Cook's Journal. LONDON SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER .24 1849. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. (From the Cos fu Extraordinary Gazette.) NOVEMBER 10.—The following is the speech of his Excellency the Lord high Commissioner of the united states of the lonian Islands to the Legislative Assembly, on the 10th of November, 1819 : Mr President and Gentlemen,—l rejoice to see the lonian Parliament resume its fur , ctions, after an inte-val marked by events as painful as they were unanticipated. When last I met you here I looked forward, in common with yourselves, to the peaceful consumma tion of those labours to which the first months of the session had been devoted; and though I was not empowered to signify the assent of my Itoyal Mistress to the constitutional changes introduced by my pre decessor, and recently submitted for her considera tion, I knew enough of her Majesty's sentiments, and those of her constitutional adviser, to assure you that there was no unwillingness on their part to entertain those changes in a large and liberal spirit, and to assent to such modifications of the Chart of 1817 as would render it more conformable to the pres&nt political condition of the lonian people. I in vited you to regard the alterations about to be made, as "a new social coinvact between the protecting and the protected pov, er ;' to repay them by good faith, and by a cheerful recognition of that political order of things whence are derived the rights that you now exercise, and so far as the lonian Legislature and the great majority of the lonian people are concerned, I have had no reason to doubt their concurrence in these principles. Of my own desire to act in the spirit which I incul cated I can give no better proof than the fact, that my first step upon my return from the islands, in July last, was to recommend to the Senate an amnesty for the prisoners then awaiting their trial for the attack upon the towns of Argustoli and Lixuri in September, 1848 ; which attack has been pronounced to be an act of high treason by a recent decision of the Supreme Council of Justice. That amnesty was called incom plete by those whose object it is to misrepresent every act of the Government, because it did not compre head those persons who had taken refuge in Greece in order to escape the inquiry to which their conduct had exposed them. But, with the concurrence of the Senate, I addressed at the same time a letter to her Majesty's Minister at Athens, requesting him to in form the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs that, with the exception of one or two of the leaders of that con spiracy, the existence of which has been denied, but which is now demonstrated by the condemnation of nine of those who took part in it, the Government was prepared to extend the amnesty to all such refugees as might wish to take advantage of it upon a simple engagement to lead a peaceable life upon their return to Cephalonia. It is not my fault, or that of the Senate, if subsequent events had made it impossible to carry this offer into execution. I released at the same time Messrs. Zervit and Livada, from PaxO, where they had been ordered to reside under the powers of the High Police Act, by Lord Seaton, in the hope that this additional proof of the desire of the Government to bury the past in oblivion, would not be without effect upon the feelings of a generous people. What was the return made for these conces sions ? The amnesty was published on the Ist of August. On the 26th of the same month a fresh insurrection broke out, which, notwithstanding the most unremitting exertions on my own part, and on that of the gallant officers in command of her Ma jesty's forces, was not finally suppressed until the 15th of October. Of this insurrection I shall speak without exagge ration and without reserve, and I speak now with information that I did not possess when my first pro clamations were issued. It partook of a political and of a local character. The words of liberty and na tionality were used to cloak designs of personal vengeance and universal plunder. The Greek flag was carried before the horde of assassins that deso lated the districts of Leo and Catoleo; and in places where the influence of the Church had been abused, as it was at Scala, by the Priest Nodaro, the Cross and the Holy Trinity were invoked to stimulate the peasantry to deeds at which humanity shudders. That the conspirators were bound together by secret oaths, and that there were many " sworn men" in parts of the island apparently uncontaminated ; that the movement had been long contemplated and pre pared for by the large importations of gunpowder from Patras into Lixuri ; that it was, in fact, a con tinuation of the treasonable attempt of September, 1848, with the same objects and many of the same actors, the refugees, who returned from Greece in May, 1849, having been amongst its most active promoters ; and that a few days, or even hours, of impunity might have carried the flame into districts which were most active in its suppression as soon as the supremacy of the law was indicated by the de cisive measures of the Government, are facts for the truth of•which I appeal to the depositions of the rebel leaders themselves, which it is my intention to lay before you, and to the testimony of the Cephalonian members, who best know the misery endured by every father of a family who was residing upon his estates with his wife and children in the last days of August and September, and the horrible threats to which he wa, subjected. The instant proclamation of martial law, and the prompt action of the troops, whose conduct her Majesty has justly characterised as " admirab!e," effectually checked that coarse and brutal intimidation which, at one time, threatened to be the only power remaining in Cephalonia. The bright example of the heads of the Church, the firmness of the local authorities, and the exertions of many of the Signori, and of the Contadini themselves, have since done much to efface the stain inflicted upon the island by the outrages perpetrated at the commencement of the insurrection. But, if I should be accused hereafter, as indeed I am already, of having punished with too much severity the authors of those outrages, my jus tification will be very simple. I had to deal not with an ordinary political insurrection, in which I should have seen the wisdom, as I should have rejoiced in the opportunity, of marking the first moment of suc cess by a large measure of grace, but the congregated reflection of the community—robbers murderers, outlaws—put forward by abler heads to play a desperate game, and placing them selves by their own crimes beyond the pale of pardon. Was I, the representative of the Queen of England, to permit these men to lord it over peaceful villages, and to force loyal and well-disposed Contadini into rebellion, by threats to burn their houses, to pour boiling oil upon fathers who withheld their sons, and to perpetrate the most horrible atroci ties upon the wives and daughters of those who re fused to join them ? Was Ito allow the Signori of Livato and Icosimia, to be exterminated as the Me taxa family had been at Valtes and Scala ? Was I not bound to give protection to the peaceable and well affected ? Could I give it with soft words ? And when the ruffians who had brought these calamities upon their country fell into the hands of the Govern ment which they had defied, and of which they had refused to believe the power, could I, in justice to society itself, extend to them a mercy which they had never shown, during the short period of their own impunity ? The atrocious calumnies to which I have been sub jected in consequence of my conduct during these unhappy disturbances force me to enter into details that would otherwise be unsuitable to the present oz casion. _The total number of ca pit a l pun i s h ments i n fli cted inCephalonia between the 26th of August and the proclamation of the amnesty on the 26th of October, was 21, in which are included Theodore Vlacco, the priest Nodaro, and the o th er l ea d ers an d sub-leaders 9 of the conspiracy who have taken part in every crime committed between the 26th of September, 1848, and the massacre of the Cavaliere Nicole Metaxa, with his four unoffending servants, in August, 1849, at Scala. Which of these men was I to pardon ? Vlacco, who killed with his own hand, and in cold blood —not in battle—Captain Parker, in May, 1849 ; the Cavaliere Metaxa, and Baldo, the Primate of Troja nata ?—or Nodaro, named by his own countrymen, Papa 'Asti, the apostle of assassination ?—or Cara lambo Dracato, and Panagin Siliverdi, two of the men who murdered Signor Constantino Metaxa, by firing a musket ball through each allele, and leaving him to die in lingering tortures ?—er Anastasio Dracato, who pursued the wife (now the widow) of that unfortunate gentleman into a vineyard, and brutally outraged her, after threatening to kill her child in case of resistance ? Yet these are the offences to which I am told that I ought to have extended a generous clemency. These are the crimes, for punish ing which I arn denounced as the enemy of the Hel lenic race, and of the Greek religion. But were these twenty-one criminals condemned without proper opportunities of defending them selves? I have directed a full report of the trial of Theodore Vlacco to be laid before you, and I affirm here, in the face of Europe, that, in every other case, the same forms were observed, and the same oppor tunities of defence afforded. Vlacco called no wit nesses, but in some cases eight and ten witnesses for the defence were examined. Most of the trials lasted a whole day ; many were adjourned becalm the pri soner wished to produce further evidence. Each cDurt was attended by a sworn interpreter, and pre sided over by an officer of known experience. As an additional precaution, Dr. Rivelli, the A lvocate Fiscal of Cephalonia, was present, by my directions, during the whole of the proceedings at Si..,i and St. Gerasimo, and Dr. Tornmasi at &ale, in order that the officers presiding might be enabled to consult them, if necessary. Not a doubt has been raised by either of these gentlemen as to the perfect equity of the sentences passed. I have myself read the whole of the evidence in every case of capital punishment, as well as in those in which the sentence of death was commuted into imprisonment, with or without other penalties ; and I can vouch, not only for the earnest desire evinced to spare life, where a reasonable ground for clemency could be found, but for the fact that not one man suffered for the single offence of bearing arms against the Queen or firing upon the 1 Queen's troops, though these are acts which are dealt with as high treason by the laws of' every civilized leo =unity. All were proved upon the clearest evi dence to have bsen guilty of assassinations, robberies of money, plate, or bonds, incendiarisro, attacks upon female honour—crimes for which they might have been made amenable to the ordinary courts of justice, had not the restoration of order depended upon the promptitude of their punishment. I state these facts for the vindication of my own character and the satisfaction of my own conscience, not because I am responsible to the Legislative Assembly for the exercise of powers confided to me by the constitution, as her Majesty's representative, in cases where the public safety is endangered. For my conduct in the administration of those powers, so far as it was known to her Majesty at the time when Earl Grey's dispatch was written, I have been honoured with the approbation of' my Sovereign. I received the unanimous thanks of the lonian Senate upon my last return from Ar gostoli, with the expression of its entire concurrence in the policy which I had adopted, and in which I have had the comfort of its cordial co-operation. I have received the thanks of the Municipal Council of Cephalonia, which, as the legitimate repress ntative of that island, has demanded and obtained permissi , n from the Senate to mark its sense of my conduct, and of that of the gallant officer in command of her Majesty's troops, and of the Resident, by a public testimonial. I have been honoured with addresses from various districts of Cephalonia, signed, withjut distinction of party, by the most influential citizens; and I have received throughout the most frank and valuable support from the archbishop, the head of that Greek Church which I am accused of per secuting. I have now directed papers to be laid before you that will put you in possession of all that is or can be known of the causes and character of the late insurrection. It has been said that martial law was proclaimed unnecessarily and administered with wanton severity, that the agriculture and commerce of the island were crippled by an embargo for which there was no sufficient reason, and which the result failed to justify. I, on the contrary, am convinced that the measures taken were just because they were necessary, that they averted great calamities, and that, in the opinion of those who know Cephalonia best, life could not have been protected, the rights of property maintained, and order ultimately restored by a policy less stringent than that which I adoptod. I have also directed certain papers respecting secret societies to be laid before you which were alluded to in my message to the Senate of the 9th of October. I am aware of the difficulty of legislating noon this subject, but I feel sure that you will agree with me as to the danger of allowing societies to be formed in these islands, placed as they are under the safeguard of Great Britain, composed of natives and foreigners bound together by secret oaths, having secret funds, secret agents, and a secret correspondence, and openly justifying this mysterious organization upon the plea that it is not intended to disturb the tranquillity of these states, but to work political changes amongst their neighbours, with which the Queen of England cannot interfere, because, as a Christian Princess, she has no right to throw her shield over infidels. These foolish rhapsodies disturb the minds of the young and inexperienced. Turkey is just as much under the protection of European treaties as Christian Greece, which owes to treaties her own political existence; and the lonians, who claimed the privi leges of British subjects in every port with which they have commercial relations, are bound to respect the engagements contracted by the Sovereign whose flag affords them protection. As to those foreigners who abuse the hospitality which has been accorded to them here, to the utmost of your limited powers, by taking part in such associations, I need hardly re mind them again that the condition on which they obtain the right of residence, is an abstinence from all interferende in lonian affairs, whether foreign or domestic. So long as they abide by this rule they have nothing to fear from the Government. When they violate it, they must not complain of the conse quences. I have learnt with regret from her Majesty's Mi nister at Athens that a passage in my message to the Senate of October 9th has been regarded as personally offensive, by a neighbouring Sovereign. I deeply lament it; as it has always been my wish to pay his Majesty the King of Greece the respect due to his exalted situation ; nor do I think that the words used warrant the inference drawn from them. The fact that a letter making a personal allusion to his Majesty, in connexion with the " Grand Fratellanza," was found amongst the papers of Signor Valiano, and is now in my possession, is unquestionable ; but I adverted to it simply as a proof of the boldness of these men, " who presumed to hint that their designs had royal countenance, and that plans which good faith and common sense alike repudiated, were not unfa vourably viewed by a neighbouring sovereign." I entirely disclaim in this any personal imputation, and I am happy to have so early an opportunity of expressing my regret that the passage should have been so interpreted. I turn now from subjects which I ought not to have been called upon to discuss at a moment when the protecting Sovereign was endeavouring to secure the affections of the lonian people by a large measure of constitutional change, and I will advert at once to those questions which are the cause of the present extraordinary session. Two difficulties have arisen in dealing with the're solutions of the lonian Legislature transmitted to England on the 10,h of May last by Lord Seaton— the one technical, the other substantial. For the technical difficulties you are yourselves in some mea sure responsible. The responsibility of the substantial difficulties rests with my predecessor; but it is not extraordinary that in so large and complicated a task as that of endeavouring to engraft a new constitution upon an old one, and amidst the frequent changes suggested in the course of a somewhat hurried nego tiation, Lord Seaton should not have been fortunate enough at once and upon every point to satisfy the just scruples of her Majesty's responsible advisers. To him must always belong the merit of having traced out the scheme that will form the basis of the future charter of these islands. To you is, I trust, reserved the honour of perfecting it, by that calm revision of all doubtful points which the importance of the sub ject requires. The technical difficulties that have rendered it im possible for her Majesty's Ministers to submit the resolutions of the B,h of May for her Majesty's rati fication, were communicated to me by Earl Grey in a dispatch which reached me on the 6th of August. By this it appears that the change made by the Ist article of the resolution of May 8, in article 2, sec. 2, chap. 2, of the chart of 1817, which deter mines the mode of electing the Senate, being unac companied by any provision for re-enacting the forms in which the powers of the Lord High Com missioner are to be exercised in cases where a veto is reserved to him, it has virtually annulled other arti cles of the constitution which there was no intention of altering. The law officers of the Crown in England are of opinion that, as the chart now stands, the ap pointment of the Regents, like that of the Senators, must be made from the body of the Legislative As sembly itself, by the direct nomination of her Ma jesty's representative. Other articles, which ought to have been expunged, because at variance with the new provisions proposed fur increasing the number of members, throwing open the elections, and doing away with the intervention of the Primary Council, have been retained; and Earl Grey accordingly found himself compelled to acquaint me that, with such proofs before him " that a measure involving most difficult constitutional questions could hardly be said to have received such deliberate consideration on behalf of the Crown, and in the interest of the lonian people at large, as to permit her Majesty's advisers to recommend it for the Royal assent, with the confidence which is requisite on an occasion of such great importance, her Majesty's Government found itself under the necessity of referring the resolutions to me for a further opinion, and report before they could proceed to advise her Majesty further." Desiring to obviate the grave inconvenience that must result from any long delay in her Majesty's decision at the present advanced period of the quinquennium, I lost no time, upon the receipt of Earl Grey's dispatch, in putting myself into communication with his Highness the President of the Senate, the President of the Legislative Assembly, and the Attorney- General, and I invited these gentlemen to undertake with me a revision of the resolutions of the Bth of May, and of the chart of 1817, in order to correct the errors pointed out, and to ascertain whether there were any discrepancies still remaining that might give rise to further discussion. The result of our joint labours will be laid before you by your President in the shape of a revised copy of your own resolutions, and I shall leave to him the task of explaining the character and causes of the changes made in them. The Legislative Assembly will understand that, in undertaking this revision there has been no inten tion of encroaching upon its functions-, my sole object, and that of the gentlemen who have co operated with me, having been to remove clerical and technical errors" that might delay indefinitely her Majesty's decision upon matters of graver im portanee. The revised resolutions have no legal existence until they receive your sanction, but they are a necessary preliminary to the next communica tions that I shall have to make to you, and, as such, invite you to consider and adopt them. The Assembly will then find itself in a position to deal with those substantial questions respecting which I expect to receive the final decision of her Majesty in a week or ten days at latest. Respecting these, I shall only say at present, that when the ratifica tion of the original resolutions was delayed, for the reasons which I have stated, I was commanded by Earl Grey to assure the lonian Parliament and people, "that her Majesty's Government entirely adheres to the desire and intention to give a more popular form to the lonian Legislature, and to abandon the system of nomination to seats in the Assembly, through the medium of the Primary Council." I have since received a dispatch from his Lordship, stating that he has laid before the Queen the address of the Assembly, praying for her Majesty's assent to the establishment of vote by ballot as a part of the constitution of the lonian states; and that her Majesty is graciously pleased to command me to acquaint you that, inclusive of the question respecting the ballot, the entire subject of the comprehensive reform in the constitutional system of the states, for which it was the object of the resolutions of May last to provide, is at this moment engaging the anxious consideration of her Majesty's advisers; and that the Assembly may rest assured, that in regard to the ballot, as well as every "other particular, her Majesty's decision will be determined solely by her solicitude fur the welfare of the lonian people, and that she will freely give her assent to every measure which she may be satisfied will prove conducive to that great object." Perhaps the most important of the reforms now in progress is that which has excited least notice, probably because it has not yet been brought into full (operation—l mean the control vested in the Legislative Assembly by the resolutions of the 22d of May, 1848, over the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure of the country. Differences have existed upon this subject between the Senate and the Legis lative Assembly which I am anxious to see terminated, and I believe that the best mode of terminating them, considering the advanced period of the financial year and the important business to be transacted during the present session, will be for me to state publicly thht it was the intention of her Majesty's Government, in assenting to this change, to place the control over the national finances as fully and u nreserve dl y in the hands of the Legis lative Assembly as it would be in England or in France; and that if in this respect the little expe rience that I have acquired in her Majesty's service at home can be of any use I will pledge myself to prepare, before the close of the quinquennium, such a statement of the expenditure fur the next two years as will enable the Senate to present to you a budget, upon every item of which a vote may be taken. There is one other subject to which I wish to call your attention, because a Bill providing for it might be advantageously introduced during the pre sent session. The trade of Corfu has been for some years rapidly increasing. Its geographical position renders this island peculiarly suitable as an entrepot for manufac tured goods and colonial produce intended for the neighbouring continent. Some branches of trade have already taken this direction, as is proved by the in crease in the value of the goods deposited in the Go vernment stores from 56,689/. in 1834 to 160,8961. in 1848 ; and I have little doubt that many others will fol low, if, to its natural advantages —a port easy of access—within two days' sail of Prevess, Patras, the Morea, Brindisi, and Ancona, and possessing a regu lar steam communication with Trieste, Malta, and Marseilles—were added such financial regulations as would encourage capitalists to avail themselves of them. I propose, therefore, the removal of the ad valorem duty of one per cent. on transhipment, and on the exportation of goods from the Porto-Franco, which is at once impolitic and unproductive. It im pedes the operations of the merchant, and yields little to the revenue, the largest amount produced by this duty being 1,3961., for which a full equivalent will be found in the increase of port dues and store rent, should merchants be induced by this judicious sacrifice to avail themselves of those facilities and that security which the vicinity of the continent and the presence of the British flag will give here to com mercial enterprise. Gentlemen, I leave you now to begin the labours of a session, which, for good or for evil, will be a memorable one in the history of these islands. Great changes are about to be consummated. An old constitution, which, whatever be its/defects, has given peace and security for thirty years to those who lived under it, is destined to assume a more popular form by the modification of some of its fundamental principles. Time must show whether the provisions of the new system can be made to assimilate with those of the old, and to produce harmony amidst the component parts of the Government. Much will depend upon your own prudence. On the part of my Royal mistress, I can assure you that nothing will be wanting to give the new system a fair trial. The Queen of England has no wish to throw her shield over anything that can be shown to be an abuse. She stands exempt from local and personal passions. She has no interest here but the common interest—no desire but to see you a contented and prosperous people, demonstrating by your example the possibility of combining a large increase of popular power with a respect for order and law. With those who mean to use that power fur its legitimate end, I foresee no difficulties, because I know no object of internal amelioration or social improvement in which, as her Majesty's representative, it would not be my duty to co operate with the most liberal men that the system of free elections can produce. The sole condition of that co-operation is the recog nition of rights on the part of her Majesty, derived from treaties, and from your own consent, which are not to be violated with impunity. Those who dispute these rights openly or insidiously, need expect from me no encouragement and no concessions. All who admit them frankly and loyally as the keystone of the institutions under which they live, are, in my mind, equally entitled to the countenance and favour of the Crown. What depends upon me I will do with strict impartiality, looking to the future rather than the past, and taking care, so far as my powers extend, that the Government be composed of the most emi nent men that these islands can produce. But it is little that I can do without your assistance, for it is upon your own moderation and good sense in the Synclite of your respective islands, as subsequently in the Legislature and the Senate, that the result of this great experiment must depend. By authority, J. FIZ ASE Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner. At the termination of the Lord High Commissioner's speech the most illustrious the President arose, and addressed his Excellency as follows : My Lord,—lnterpreter of the sentiments of the Legislative Assembly, I feel it a duty to express the great eatisfaction with which the Chamber finds itself occe again in official relations with your Excellency before the termination of the Parliament. Your Excellency's speech presents for the consider ation of the Assembly matters of the highest interest, more particularly as regards public tranquillity, with out which it has ever been my opinion, as I have on various oceasions stated, that no species of liberty can be usefully or permanently acquired. The Assembly, I am certain, will give its most serious attention to all the points alluded to in your Excellency's speech, and you will be requested, my Lord, to appoint a day on which it may please you to listen to its address. Reserving to the Legislative Assembly the rights belonging to it, I limit myself to attesting the entire devotion of the lonian people to her Most Gracious Majesty the goeen, our protector, and the sentiments of our profound respect for your Excellency. Vivat Regina. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sllt,—l am glad to find the sugg e stions contained in my letter of the 12th inst., inserted in your valuable paper, have been acted on, and that a very liberal subscription was made in many commer cial rooms, on Thanksgiving day, to the funds of our Orphan School. Let me now suggest, through the same medium, that the subscription be continued until every traveller has added his name to the list. The " Cholera Thanksgiving Fund" will ,then be of no trifling amount when presented in one sum at our anniversary dinner, and every traveller will have had an opportunity of expressing publicly his thanks for preservation from that disease that has made so many desolate. I am, Sir, &c., AN OLD COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Three letters have recently appeared in your columns from, I suppose, the same correspondent who " believes sabbatical observances prohibited to Chris tians ;" and he therein refers four times to Colossians, chap. 2, verse 16, for his opinion ; and he has also translated that verse from the original Greek. Now, the sabbaths mentioned there are the sabbaths which were appointed by the Jewish ceremonial law, as may be evidently seen by a perusal of the verse referred to and the context. He may read Leviticus, chapter 23. The ceremonial law was abolished by Christ and the moral law established; and I deem it a strong argument for the observance of the moral law, by which the original institution of the Sabbath is re cognised, that the words referred to by your corre 9pcmdent speak of ordinances only, and not at all of the moral law, leaving untouched, the Sabbath, which was instituted when creation was finished. I am, Sir, &c., Chelsea, Nov. 23 ; 1849. G. H. Po aTSMOUTII SAILORS' IiOM E.--The following donations have been presented to the committee ap pointed for the management of the Portsmouth Sailors' Home, for the advancement of that institution:—Ad miral Lord Colville, 51.; Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, 5 guineas; Commander Otter, 101.; John Per cival, Esq., 101; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Best, 10 guineas; Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, R. A., 5 guineas; Lieut. Maynard. R.N., 1 guinea; Dr. Anderson, Elaslar Hospital, IL; Vice-Admiral the Hon. D. Bouverie, Si.; John Watson, Esq., 5 guineas; Snooks, Esq., 101., besides a host of minor subscriptions. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial- Ace from the Governor of Sierra Leone. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Vice Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., has not yet given up the superintendentship of Devonport Dock yard, as reported, no successor to him having yet been officially appointed, although it is well understood that Lord John Hay, C.B , M.P., will have the vacancy. Lieutenant Richard Studdert (1837), who, since his first entry into the navy in 1824, has been twenty two years in actual service afloat, and whose last em ployment was as first lieutenant of the Daring, 12, under Captain Matson, in the experimental brig trials and in the West Indies under that gallant officer, and also under Captain Peel, has been promoted to the rank of commander. The promotions for the Arctic searching expedition of Sir James Ross and Captain Bird have not yet keen made, but will most likely be announced on Monday, when the ships are paid off. The more speedily they are bestowed, the more graciously will be the appreciation of the hard service performed ; and the more liberal in number they are, we are quite sure the more satisfaction will the public feel that a public debt has been duly and faithfully discharged. IRON VESSELS.—The Admiralty have issued orders to all the dockyards that, in future, iron vessels alongside or in proximity to vcssels that are coppered, shall be removed, in consequence of the galvanic action likely to arise. Commander Thomas Smith, on the retired list of 1816, died on the 14th instant at Brighton ' aged 70. He entered the navy in J an , 1724 , as first-class volunteer, on board the Brunswick, 74, Captain Juhn Harvey. After sharing as midshipman in Lord Howe 's action, he removed, in the following July, to the Robust, 74, Captain Edward Thoraborough, stationed in the Channel, where he next, in the course of 1797.8, joined the Intrepid, 64, Captain Robert Parker, and Royal Sovereign, 100, flag-ship of Sir Allan Gardner and Sir Henry Harvey, to the latter of whom he became flag-lieutenant sth Sept., 1800, the date of his first commission. In 1802-3 he served with Captain George Wolfe in the Galatea and Aigle frigates ; in August of the latter year he was nomi nated flag-lieutenant to Sir Thomas Graves in the Foudroyant, 80 ; and in 1804-5 he was appointed to the Atlas, 98, Captain William Johnstone Hope, and Orpheus, 32, Captains H enr y Hill an d Th omas B r i ggs. In the Orpheus he visited the West Indies. He was subsequently employed at Spithead in the Royal William, Captain Hon. Courtenay Boyle. He was placed on the junior list of retired commanders 26th Nov., 1830; and on the senior 8:h March, 1845. The Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, K.H., en tered 32 men on Wednesday. She is progressing in her fittings, and has more than 300 of her full com plement already. The Contest, 12, is having her anchors and chains put on board, booms stowed, &c., at Portsmouth, and will no doubt be commissioned early next week. The Rochester, lighter (Sudwicks master), arrived at Devonport on Thursday with stores from Chatham ; and the Sinbad, lighter (Follett master), arrived with stores from Woolwich. The Victoria and Albert, Royal yacht, had her masts taken out at Portsmouth on Thursday, in the new steam basin. A party of engineers are at work on board, preparatory to having her boilers taken out. She is to be supplied with new, being the third set since she was launched. The Sidon, steam frigate, is progressing at Ports mouth with all dispatch; her topmasts are fitted. Her two after boilers were tried on Thursday and appeared to answer; and it is supposed they will produce a sufficient supply of steam to work the engine at its maximum speed. The Fearless, surveying steam-tender, arrived at Portsmouth, from Sheerness, on Thursday, and having coaled, proceeded on to Plymouth, yesterday evening, with some men from the Indefatigable. The Desperate, screw-sloop, at Woolwich, will be taken out of dock this day. The apprentices of the Deptford Dockyard gave a concert, on Tuesday last, to the officers of that esta blishment and the victualling department. Sir Juhn Hill was so much gratified with the entertainment and the progress the young men had made in their singing class, that he gave them a holiday on Thursday- PORTSMOUH, FRIDAY.—The Royal yacht Fairy, Captain the Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, embarked the Court at the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, to-day, at half-past twelve, for Cowes. Her Majesty not having be en ex p ec t e d before one, some derangement of the ceremonies of reception occurred. The royal salutes, &c., by the fleet were fired, and the royal standard (denoting the arrival at the place) was hoisted on the turret at Osborne at forty.. two minutes past one P.M. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22 —The Pandora, 6, Lieute nant-Commander James Wood, after arrival from Portsmouth, went into Barnpool on Tuesday to dis charge her powder, and up Hamoaze yesterday to be paid ofT. The Scourge, from Portimouth, arrived on Tues day with seamen for the Indefatigable, and sailed the sAme day for Lisbon. The Serp , nt sailed on Sunday for the East Indies, touching at Rio Janeiro. The Hound is manned. She will take in her guns to-day, preparatory to sailing For the coast of Africa, touching at Madeira. The Express packet, from Falmouth, went up har bour yesterday to refit. The masts of the Albion, 90, were sent to the dock yard on Tuesday to be examined and stored. Dockyard.—Superannuations on Monday :—Mr. J. Clark, leading man of painters, 341. per annum; Cies Popham, station man, 30/. ; Charles Sel.len, shipwright, 241.; Benjamin Radcliffe, blacksmith, 221. Within the last week orders have been receivtd from the Lords of the Admiralty that all riggers here after admitted into the dockyard are to produce cer tificates of ten years' service in her Majesty's Royal navy, to hold the rank of petty officers, and to possess the good conduct badge. This new order, taken in conjunction with a former order, not annulled, will, it is supposed, have the effect of almost entirely shut ting such seamen out of the dockyard service. The previous order rules that no rigger is to be admitted into the yard who is above 35 years of age. Wind, south east ; light. PLymouTll, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate Con stance, 50, Captain W. G. Courtenay, forty days from Rio, was boarded at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, thirty miles off the land between Plymouth and the Start, by Hyde's pilot-boat Jane and Eliza beth, which received dispatches for Port-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage. Before boarding the frigate she was under top gallant sails and flying jib; she after wards hoisted her three royals and steered east to east by north bound to Spithead. The wind was south east and so light that the pilot-boat did not return here until six o'clock last evening. A collision occurred off this port on _Wednesday morning between an English schooner and a foreign brig. Robert Menzies, aged 18, of Tunbridge-street, New• road, London, son of the superintending engineer of Lloyd's Austrian steamers at Trieste, passenger in the latter vessel, has furnished the following particu lars :—The brig Concordia, of 250 tons, Captain Duminico Passette, belonging to Ancona, and sailing under the colours of the Roman states, left London with a cargo of saltpetre, skins, herrings, &c., on Saturday last, the 18th inst., bound to 'Trieste. At half-past twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning, night rather dark, wind easterly, brig 30 miles south-west of the Start lighthouse, under topgallant sails, steer ing fair way down Channel at the rate of eight knots, mate's watch on deck, and a crowd of vessels near, she was run into by the schooner Queen of the West, of Salcombe, 119 tons register, Captain Edward Quick, from St. Michael's, with oranges for London, first voyage. The schooner was coming up Channel, under topgallant sails, and striking the brig on her starboard-bow, damaged her bulwarks and ad forward. Menzies, who was below, hearing the noise, came suddenly on deck, jumped on the starboard bulwarks, which giving way under his feet, he sprang to the larboard rigging of the schooner and remained on board. Luigi Maroni, an Italian schooner, left the brig's helm and followed Menzies. The two vessels separated. The schooner, which had lost her jibboom and cutwater, reached Salcombe at 9 o'clock the same morning, got supplied with a tem porary boom, and on Thursday resumed her voyage to London. The brig, considerably damaged, has got into Falmouth. Menzies and the Italian sailor, who arrived here last evening in a Salcombe smack, will be forwarded to Falmouth to-day, by Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Co., Vice-Consuls for Rome. This is the second misadventure of young Menzies in his efforts to reach the Mediterranean. In August last, when passenger in the ship Hero, of London, bound to Trieste, she grounded on the Goodwin Sands, and he was thrice washed off the deck ; twice he reco vered the vessel ; the third time he swam to a buoy, on which he remained alone four hours, when he was picked off by a Ramsgate boat. Wind S.W.; thick weather. APPOINTMENT. Woor.wictr, Nov. 23.—Cgptain—James Hope, C.B. (1838), to the Terrible, steam frigate, at Woolwich. PIInMOTION. Lieutenant--Richard Studdert (1837) to the rank of Commander. The Terrible steam-frigate was inspected and reported ready for the pendant in the early pat t of the week. This fine vessel was commissioned to-day by Captain James Hope, CB., and it is expected the gallant officer will twist his pendant to-morrow (Saturday). A very great anxiety has for some time existed for the commissioning of the Terrible, and many fine able seamen held back from other offers when they understood that Captain Hope was to command her. She will have a crew of 300 men, and will soon complete that number and be ready for sea the moment her services are required. This gallant officer is the son of the late distinguished Rear-Admiral Sir George Hope, &C.D., and is well known to the service as one of its bolt officers. His last service, it will be remembered, was in command of the Firebrand, steam frigate, on the south-east cost of America, where he obtained the decoration of C.B. for his gallantry at the affair at Point Oblegado, in forcing the passage of the Parana, Captain Hope having, under a heavy fire, proceeded in his gig and cut the chain which moored a large number of vessels across the river, and forced the barrier. With so good a ship, and with so popular a captain, no doubt she will be well, if not expeditiously manned. The Minx steam-vessel, fitted with a disc engine of ten-horse power, is to be tried down the river to morrow, and received 3 cwt. of coke on board this afternoon preparatory for the trial. The Hermes steam-sloop, 6 guns, and 220-horse power, had her steam up to-day in the basin to try her engines. An organ has been put up in the chapel over the saw-mills at Woolwich Dockyard, and that place of worship is well attended every Sunday. The whole of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines attend the Dockyard Chapel regularly. The organ is a very excellent one although it only cost 601. CHATHAM, Nov. 23.—The Horatio screw steam guardship will not be put out of dock until the 30th instant, at which time the Tiger steamship will also be ready to be put out of the first dock, where she has been built; both ships will then be navigated to the river Thames, to have their engines, &e., put on board by the contractors ; and the Magicienne steam-sloop will, about that time, be out of the hands of the con tractors, and be ready to be navigated to this port to be brought forward for service at sea. The Aid naval lighter has arrived from Portsmouth with stores for this yard, leaving the Master (Small man) sick in Hasler Hospital. Yesterday afternoon a serious accident, which is likely to prove fatal, occurred to a sailor named George Medhurst, who, with others of the crew, was engaged in the hold of the vessel, bringing the stores to hand for unloading, while the labourers of the yard were heaving up iron by the crane on to the wharf. A pig of iron being hoisted up came in contact with the combings of the hatchway, by which means the pig-iron slipped, and it fell upon the head of Medhurst, who was below, inflicting very serious injury; the poor fellow was removed upon a stretcher to Melville Hospital in a most woeful condition. The Cressy, 80 guns, building, is fast progressing towards completion. Her figure-head, carved by Mr. Hellier, of Portsmouth, has arrived, and it will shortly be put up in its place. Detachments, consisting of 14 men of the sth Regiment of Foot, and four men of the 12th Foot, in charge of Lieutenant H. A. Norris, of the 12th, and Mr. Robert Allan, second-class staff surg eon , arr i ve d at Fort Pitt yesterday, from the Mauritius. Captain Shaw, of the Royal Artillery, also came home with the above. Upon medical inspection of the detach ments 9 men of the sth and 1 man of the 12th Regi ment were taken into hospital. On the passage home Private John Keine ' of the sth, was drowned. A detachment of the 97th Regiment, 2d battalion, con• sisting of 3 sergeants and 12 rank and file, also arrived from Jamaica, in c h arge o f Captain V. An gelo, of the 3d West India Regiment, as invalids, with Staff Assistant-Surgeon Jenkins. One man of the name of Murphy, 97th, died on the passage; 8 men of the 97th, on b e i ng me di ca ll y inspected, were ordered into hospital, and Staff Assistant-Surgeori Kingdom, from St. Helena, also joined the same day the medical establishment', at Fort Pitt. A detach ment of the 7th Foot, from Newport, also arrived as invalids, to be pen4ioned off for length of service. RAIL WAY RETURNS itaiLwar TEAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— RttEl C A d • Week Last a,, 4 ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E t. r.).:.. 4 •••-•-- - - ----- X £ Yov. 17 Aberdeen .......... ••••• • • • • • •.• .• 671 362 18 Amiens and Boulogne. .... -••- • • • • 1,200 1,634 17 Belfast and Ballymena ••••-•• • • • • • • 401 1;9 18 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 720 687 18 Bolton, Blackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y. 421 226 18 Bristol and Exeter ••..-••-• • • • • • .. 3,145 - 11 Ca1ed0nian.......... •• • •••••• • • • • • • 6,012 4,671 18 Chester and Holyhead ...... •• .. 1,282 1,12€ 15 Dublin and Drogheda ••• • • • •.••• • • .. 818 673 20 Dublin and Kingstown ••• • .. • 604 655 17 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen 944 932 18 East Anglian. 17 Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• . • ... •• •• 3,459 3 402 17 Edinburgh and Perth • ........... 2,489 2,003 18 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13.9 .8 13 125 11 East Lancashire .. • •••• • • • • 2,719 1,586 16 Eastern Union-- -•.-••.• • • • • • • • • 1,572 1,227 17 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 2,715 2,408 17 Glasgow and Greenock• ••• • • ... .. .. 931 864 17 Great Northern and E. L. •.••• • •• •• 2,787 - 17 Great Southern and Western .....• .. 3,665 3.137 18 Great Western, &e....•.•••. ........ 16,401 17,615 18 Lancashire and Yorksb ire .... - - 11,500 10,128 11 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••• • • • .. - Leeds and Thirsk •...•.••• • • • • • • • •• - - 18 1 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. • • • t'o 72 17 1 Londonderry and Enniskillen 135 136 15 London and North Western, &c. 36,274 38,217 18 London and Blac',wall 421 561 17 London and Brighton ......... ••• . • • 8,575 7,6 , 3 18 London and South Western . 18 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire /,' 6 i 2,739 14 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham- - 20,75 19,691 18 Midland Great Western ( trish) 17 Monklands•-• .......... . .., 18 North British - ...... • • ...... 17 Paris and Rouen . .......... •••• • • • • 6,150 5 , 334 17 Rouen and H avre ...... ••• • - 11 Scottish Central ............. •.. • 91 8 918 17 Scottish - Mielan 1 ....... ........; „, 341 l3 Shrewsbury and Chester -••-- •• - 1,302 I,lb -244 3 18 Shropshire Union . 1 i South Eastern and Branches ...• 11 South Dev0n........ . •..... •• .• •• • • 1,325 1.213 17 Taff Vale •• •• .• .• -••••••• • • • •• • • •714 7 , ,7 - Waterford and Limerick......• • • - 311 11 Wnitchaven Junction Is I ork and Newcastle . • ....• 18 York and North NI idland .-..•• • • •• 5,989 7,019 NEW BILLS.—It appears that notices of application to Parlium nt in the ensuing session have been given for 60 railway Bills. There are five notices for new lines, , Banger to Carnarvon, Brentford to Southall and Piunsr, Forest of Dean Central, Cambridge to the Roy ston and Hitchin Railway at Sbepreth, and from the North Staffordshire, at Macclesfield. to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire branch at Whalley-bridge. The notices. for amalgamations are the Caledonion and Edinburgh and Glasgow; the Scottish Central with the London and North Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, Caledonian, and Edinburgh and Glasgow Companies; and the Edinburgh and Bathgate wih the Edinburgh and Glasgow. The proposed leases are the Chester and Holyhead to the London and North-Western; the Dun dee, Pertb, and Aberdeen Junction, the Dalidee and Arbroath, and Dundee and New tyle, to the Caledonian Company; and the Scottish Central to the London and North-Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Companies. The York, Newcastle, and Berwick have given notice to make new arrangements for the purchase of the Great North of England Railway, and the York and North Midland have given notice for raising money and for altering terms of issue of Hull and Selby purchase shares. 'The other notices chiefly refer to deviations and abandonment of authorised lines, extension of time for the purchase of land and completion of works, power to make arrange ments with other companies, and to raise further capital to pay off liabilitit s and to complete works. TUE CITY AMICABLE ASSEMBLY.—The first ball for the season took place at the London Tavern, last night, the 23d inst., and was very numerously and fashionably attended; Adams's band was in attendance. PEMBROKE ROYAL DOCKYARD.— The Saturn guard-ship at this port is being prepared to receive the crew and stores of the Royal Sovereign yacht. The vessel will speedily be docked and taken to pieces, in accordance to orders received to that effect. It is also intended to break up the Vatne (formerly the Dragol). now used as a marine hospital. This step is rendered necessary, not only on account of her rotten condition, but likewise from the tact that in her present situation she would obstruct the firing from the Martello towers, the construction of which is rapidly advancing. Av, ry large armament has been ordered for the Valerian steam-frigate, now being built at Petotiroke. On the upper deck she will carry one 68-pounder of 95 cat.; one 10-inch gun of 85 cwt.; and four 32 pounders of 56 owt. each. Mr. Rubinson hai been appointed Captain in the Royal Dockyard Battalion, vice Moody, removed to Woolwich. Captain Bonniweil has been promoted to be Major, and Lieutenant A. Pike to be Captain. COMBAT wrrn A TIGER.—BATAYIA, SEPT. 29.-- From the Residency, Rembang, a communication has been received of a rare instance of the intrepidity of a native, which has been crowned with an extraordinarily fortunate result. This native, named Wiro Dipo, went at nine o'clock in the morning of the Ist of August to the forest situated near the I)essa Dagen, intending to search for Areen leaves to make mats of, and he had provided himself with a hatchet fit to cut grass and light wood. Shortly after his entrance into the forest he dis covered, at a short distance behind him, a tiger of the largest kind, ready to spring upon him. Without awaiting the leap, Wiro Dipo himself attacked the mon ster, and gave it some wounds with his light weapon, which caused the tiger to tall down roaring, dragging his assailant down with him; but the last succeeded in raising himself, and in giving a number of blows to the tiger, who fealty expired under them. Wiro Dipo came without any wound out of this battle, and it is believed that this nearly inexplicable circumstance may be a:crLed to the rapidity and intrepidity with which Wiro Dipo anticipated the leap of the tiger, and to the fear which this must have caused to the tiger, the timorous as well as cruel nature of this kind of animal b. ing sufli.:iently known. The skin of this tiger was measured afterwards, and it was then found that its length from the nose to the beginning of the tail was 5 feet 2 inches, and including the tail, 8 feet 5i inches. THE MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—TO show the genial character and mildness of the last and present season, we may mention that the fine cream coloured rosa Devoniensis wig budded, on the 18th of June, on s stem of the rosa Bengaiensis,in a garden in one of our suburbs, and that now, in the middle of November, it has not only become a large shoot, but is in full bloom, with two beautiful sad well- formed roses on ft.—lnver ness Courier. Thu foot-postman between Cockerniouth and Grey outhen pulled a sound perfect mushroom on Wednes day, the 21st instant, in a fi,,ld near to Brigham, in the occupation of Mr. Isaac Banks, of *eysouthen, which measured four inches in circumference, ani is a some what unusual production at this lime of the ear,—Car. lisle Journal. To ,rti• s 63 ()Er 8, per hes; per 10d; per 10d; 14d ars 4lbs lb to litto, 3d; Calf [ides. Half- lover per lover 1 per 100; 1 1 per nd. n this days ppeal ;land. John. Old sae- ,Y•) cas e '