The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

fourtt Utation SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE NEW LOAN. The value of £1 annuity, payable half-yearly for 1 30 years, at 4 per cent. compound interest, is 17 - 38. The annuity at this price pays 5.753 per cent. during the 30 years, consequently the income tax is charged on 5.753 instead of £4, which is the real income, the difference of 1153 per annum being the amount which should be put aside and improved to redeem the principal.* Therefore deducting -01777, the proportion of tax overcharged, £1 per annum becomes an an nuity of £48223, the value of which is 17 . 07. And the value of 14s. 6d. per annum i 5............ £l2 7 6 Add 3 per cent. interest on the instalments from 14th April to the several periods of pay ment . 0 18 3 £l3 5 9 And the price at which GOVOTI3IIIOIIt has sup plied the contractors with £lOO Consols 2100 0 0 * £1:753, improved half-yearly at 4 per cent. compound interest, will at the end of 30 years amount to R.lOO. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.) The LOUD CEEANCELLOR took his seat on the wool ,sack at five o'clock. The Earl of HARRINGTON presented several peti tions, some praying for the closing of public houses on Sundays, and others praying for the introduction of the Maine Liquor Law into this country. Lord LONDESBOROUGH presented a petition from the guardians of the poo: of the Beverley union, in Yorkshire, praying for an extension of powers to guardians of the poor to enable them to afford out-door relief. MESSAGE FRO3I THE COMMONS. Messengers from the Commons requested that their lordships would give permission for the examination of Lord Monteagle before the select committee on the re moval of the pnnr. The LORD CHANCELLOR replied that an answer would be sera by a messenger of their own. Lord CAMPBELL gave notice that he should on a future occasion ask a question of the Commander-in- Chief with ref:rence to the rule of military di?cipline which precluded e•oldiers from being present in an assize town during the time of the sitting of the judges. He saw no good reason why their p resence on su:l occasions should be prohibited. He had been frequently applied to when presiding at assizes for per mission to allow soldiers to appear in town during the sitting of the court, and he had invariably given per mission, and even admitted them into court, and he always found them amongst the best behaved of the audience. The LORD CHANCELLOR entirely concurred in the observations of the noble and learned lord. When he was on circuit on one occasion the military attended the court, and a more orderly or attentive audience he never witnessed. THE CONVENTION WITH SARDINIA BILL. Lord WODEROUSE said, in the absence of the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he begged to move the second reading of this bill. The bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.) The house met at 4 o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Bangor Markets and Public Institutions ; Belfast and County Down Railway ; Colchester Stour Valley. Sud bury, and Halstead Railway ; Grand Junction Water ; Great Northern Railway (Increase of Capital) ; Lan caster Water and Gas ; South Wales Mineral Railway ; Southwark and Vauxhall Water ; Vale of Neath Rail way ; Woolwich Equitable Gas. The following bills were ordered to be considered : Jedburgh Railway ; Llynvi Valley and Bridgend Rail ways; Newcastle-under-Lyme Gas; Oldham Gas and Water. The following bills were read a second time :—Eng land and Ireland Improved Communication ; Liverpool Port ; New River Company and Trustees of the River Lee ; Southampton Paving Trust Saint Pancras. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented—by Mr. MUNTZ, from Bir mingham, praying that the Nuisance Bill may not be allowed to pass, till a clause was introduced to prevent any one carrying on a trade that was considered a nui sanca to discontinue such trade, until it was proved to be a nuisance ; by Mr. M. GIBSON, from the proprietor of the Manchester Examine)., praying that the News paper Stamp Bill be pawed ; also a petition from 46,000 inhabitants of Manchester, praying for the re peal of the Beer Bill ; by Mr. Grim:mm.43, from Oxford, in favour of No. 1 bill, relating to Stamp Duties. FRENCH INDEMNITY FUND. Mr. BOWYER asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the suns of 23,7071. 104. 10,1., which, by cer tain Parliamentary returns, was stated to have been paid to Monsieur Ladebat, a French subject, out of the " French Indemnity Fund," hal ever, and when, been returned to that fund ; and, if so, whether her Majesty's Government bad any objection to lay upon the table of the house a return showing the application thereof? Mr. WILSON said the sum alluded to was never re paid. FOREIGN HOPS. Mr.FULLER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention had been called to a great imposi tion now going on in packing foreign hops in English pockets ; whether the Commissioners of the Inland Re venue had had their attention called to it ; and whether any proceedings were to he taken against the parties who had perpetrated this fraud'- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, the practice alluded to had not been carried to any great extent, and the attention of the excise authorities had been called to it. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. Mr. KUNTZ asked the Government it it was true, as stated in the papers, that orders had been given to spare the town of Sebastopol ? Lord PALMERSTON replied that no orders had been given except to take the town of Sebastopol as speedily as possible. (Laughter.) In reply to Mr. H. BAILLIE, Mr. MONSELL said the mortar fusees sent out to Sebastopol were not in a satisfactory state at first, but Col. Ward states that he has discovered a new mode of cutting them, and they now answer well. RELIGIOUS EQUALITY IN AUSTRALIA. Mr. DUFFY rose to ask the Under Secretary for the Colonies whether her Majesty's Governmenthad directed any departure to be made from the system of religious equality which had hitherto been established in the co lonies of Australia : And whether the Royal assent had been withheld from a bill which passed the Legislative Council of Victoria in November last, entitled "An act to enable the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the United Church of England and Ireland, in Victoria, to provide for the regulation of the affairs of the said Church I" The hon. member then proceeded to enter into a state ment of the question when Mr. GLADSTONE rose to order. The SPEAKER said the hon. gentleman was clearly out of order. Mr. DUFFY then said he should content himself with simply putting the question now. Mr. BALL said he Wa3 not aware that any such de parture hal been made, and with regard to the bill elluded to he had not yet seen it. LORD DUNDONA.LD'S PLAN. In reply to Captain SCOBELL, Lord PALMERSTON said that a plan had been submitted to the Government for shortening the time of attacks on fortresses ; professional men had given it. as their opinion that great difficulties lay in the way of carrying out that plan, but at present ho could not enter into the details. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then I ; rose for the purpose of making his fina,.scial statement. He began by apo lo g isin g for having postponed the 1 budget until the present time, and explained the reasons of the Government for having done so. He went on to refer to the revenue of the past year, as left by his prede. cesso r (Ir. Gladstone.) lie congratulated his ri g ht honourable a friend on the nicety with which he made his estimate for the y ear just ex viredsum act t ua lle estimate being 59,496,00 a, and the He would nett had been 59,496,100/. (Laughter.) for the ensuixnt proceed to the estimate of expenditure penditure fo r l f,t, y , e Z r ' He might unit state that the ex -1854— the last ymerancial year ending the Ist of April, the expenditure 65,103,9621. The estimate year for °f th t e l , 'e peace was 51,108,0001., and just expired had been the present year might be made setawih a tolerably e b, for ot a t Proach to the truth, illag ethnallitary much been voted. First of all, on estimates had on the pre ceeoCusasovenisnoglidated Fund would arise 27,0741., which was B e o unfu "ed debt there vious year. The other charges on the were also somewhat reduced in numerous transfers made last session, of the amoun t only to 1 , 750,0001 . Th e charge for the would arm y, which had b een alread y voted, was 1{3,211 000/' a for the navy 16,653,000/., and ordnance 7,808,0001., bli, he proposed to take a vote of credit in aid of the military service of the year, amounting to three millions' making a total of 50,175,00 C/., and he further in cluded the estimates of two instalments on the Sardinian loan, which he took at one million, enabling him thus to estimate the whole with tolerable acc u r acy at 80,899,561/. He begg ed, however, to state that the ch arge on the Funded Debt included additional expense for th e i nterest on the l oan contracted that day , and which now awaited the confirmation of tha house. The house might, perhap,,, ima g ine that SO reillion S would be far too high for the requirements of the year, but they : moat not be t ,- -- lauguine ou this point, inasmuch as the expenditure of the past year would afford them evidence to the contrary. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the financial income, which the ensuing year would produce—estimat ing the customs at 20,600,0001., which sum included that portion of the tea duty which would have been abandoned if the act proposed at the beginning of the year had come into operation, it would be 63,339,0061. He also included in his present estimate one million for ways and means bills arising from the sale of stock belonging to savings' banks, and he further pro- posed to guard against any contingencies that might arise during the year by asking for a vote of 4,194,0061., which would thus bring his estimate to 86,339,0001. New he Thad already stated that the revenue arising for the existing taxes, would amount to 63,339,0001.,and he had, therefore,'to provide for the service of the ensuing year a deficit of about 23 millions. (Hear, hear.) The question conse quently arose for the consideration of the house how this deficit was to be provided for, and it now became his duty to state the ways and means by which he proposed to make good that deficiency. (Hear, hear.) It had been proposed at different times that the entire expenditure for war purposes sbolld be borne by taxes levied within the year, and that it was by no means proper to liquidate it by loans which 4hould fall as a burden at a subsequent period. Wow the experience of this country had shown the fella,/ of this attractive theory, inasmuch as it had been found impossible so to raise the taxation of the country to a point which would be adequate to meet the emergency. (Hear, hear.) Having tone into a long argument in support of this point. the right hon. gentietnan went on to say that her Mejesty's Government bad determined upon negotiating a loan, to furnish them with the means of carrying on the war. Before going, however, into an explanation of ,he loan to which he had referred, the right hon. gentle man entered into a lengthy review of the progressive increase of the national debt, and the different means of obtaining money on loan, which had been adopted by different ministers, and next observed that the Govern ment, instead of imposing a perpetual burden upon the country, proposed t) render it incumbent on the Government at the end of the year folio ring, the signature of a treaty of peace to set aside one million annually until the who'a amount of the debt it was proposed to contract should be repaid ; and in that manner a legal obligation would be imposed upon them to provide an instalment of that amount per annum for the reduction of the debt. (Hear, hear.) In asking this loan, however, he was very glad to say he had negot'ated such a portion of it ae could be obtained on terminable annuities recognising the value of the prim ciple that The nation ought to bind itself to an annual reduction of the loan, principal, and interest. (Hear, bear.) In order to make up the surplus of 5,300,000/. which would be required for the service of the country, he proposed some additions on the present taxation of the country. He proposed, in the first place, an addi tional duty on sugar of 3s. per cwt., according to qua lity, which would produce 1,300,0001. He also proposed an increase of hi. per lb. on coffee, which would produce 150,000/.; and to increase the duty on tea to ls. 9d., which would bring in 750,000/., making a tctal addi tion to the revenue from those sources of 2,100,000/. With regard to the stamp duties, as they bad undergone very careful revision, it was not his intention to propose any alteration in them, except so far as related to bankers' cheques, on which he contemplated imposing a duty of a penny, which would bring in 200,000/. Corn ing next to the Excise, the only duty with respect to which he should propose any alteration would be upon spirits, and he should assimilate the duty on Scotch epirits to that at present existing on English. (Loud cheers.) The duty on English spirits was now 7s. 101 per gallon, and on Scotch 65., and he pro posed to equalise them. (Hear.) The duty on Irish spirits was at present 45., but he did not propose, on account of the circumstances of the country, and the encouragement it would give to illicit distillatitn, to equalise it. (Loud laughter, and hear, hear.) He in tended, however, to raise it—(continued larighter)— and he estimated the result of this increase at one million. (Hear hear, hear.) However, he proposed to derive some farther income by an addition to the direct taxes of the country, which had really been heavier in proportion to the indirect taxes ; hut it was not thought desirable to levy a larger sum by indirect taxation, and less by (Erect. He tl er• fore eo-ed to obtain 3,300,000 by indirect taxation, The oily kind of direct taxes at present in exiete..ce ch he did not deem it advisable to touch were the hoc e-tax and income-iesx, and her Majesty's Government. n...a therefore come to the conclusion that the best way of increasing the income derived by direct taxation would be by imposing an increased per centage on the income-tax, which was one that reached the largest cumber of persons in its operation, and be-ides would obviate the necessity of imposing any new tax. He toerefore proposed to obtain the remaining two millions by imposing an additional one per cent. on the income tax, one million of which would be received within the year. He would ask also to be enabled to take on necessity an issue of 3 millions of Exchequer-bills, and this would make, as he had stated, the sum he had mentioned. Hear, hear.) He feared that it had been necessary to trouble the house at Very considerable length. He submitted his plans to. the house, feeling that they would receive their most attentive consideration. Before he concluded the house would wish to know something with respect to the loan which had been concluded. By the mode which the Government bad adopted they wiTild receive 100/ for 1001. of stock. He had every reason to believe that the public would be satisfied with the manner in which the loan bad been contracted. The right hon. gentleman then resumed his seat by placing in the hands of the chairman resolutions confirmatory of the loan this day contracted. [LEFT BITTING.] OFFICIAL DESPATCHES Ti EOL FIELD MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN. (FIROM TINS EVENING'S GAZETTE.) WAR DEPARTMENT, APRIL 20. Lord Panmure has this day received two despatches and their enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad dressed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Rag lan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, April 3, 1854. My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit to your Lord ship a letter of this date, ft om Dr. Hall, enclosing a weekly return of the sick of the Army, up to the 31st ultimo. Your Lordship will see, with satisfaction, that the general health of the Army continues steadily to improve. I hare also to submit to your lord4hip, with reference to your despatch, No. 22, of the 26th February, the copy of a letter from the same officer, on the question of accom modation for wounded men, on the event of any sudden emergency occnrring. As the whips referred to by Dr. Hall are constantly on passage, and might all be so at the time they might ho wanted for the wounded, I proposed to Sir Edmund Lyons to have some sailing vessels got ready for their reception, and accordingly, with his sanction, the following trans ports are under preparation ;—Orient, Sir George Pollock, St. Hilder, William Jackson, and Poictiers ;—and it is calculated that they will hold from 100 to 150 men each —I have, kc., RAGLAN. The Lord Paumura, &c. Enclosure 1. Bef t or:e weekystate of sick to Sebastopol, April 3. My Lord,—ln transmitting h the 31st March I have the honour to state, and I am sure it will ba pleasing to your Lo tship to learn, th a t th t , e general health of the Army continues steadily to improve ; and although fevers and bowel complaints continue topre vail, they are both assuming a milder character, and the latter are of much less frequent occurrence. During the present week the admissions to strength have been in the ratio of 3,93 per cent., and the deaths to strength 0 38 per cent. Last week, the admissions to strength were 4.35 per cent., and the deaths 0.52 per cent. ; which makes a de crease of 139 in the admissions, and 43 in the deaths during the week. Fever continues to prevail in some particular regiments more than in others ; but I am in hope change of locality will correct this. The comforts. of the men are greatly improved in every respect, and it is evinced by their cheerfulness and more healthy appearance. The rations are good and abundant, the men are well clothed, and due attention is paid to the sanitary condition of the different camps. The supply of water is ample at present, and means are being adopted to insure it in future, by constructing new tanks, cleaning out those that Indeed, so f e already exist, ara s he the ggin g a fresh wells. physical wants of the mon are con acenryn e a d r , m l y a c m an o r f e o so p n i n a i b in y e t x h p e e f c o t r t c o e b i is a t w l h w e e n l m p r p o l N o i y .l e e d d o a n s active service in the field. The hospitals are on a respectable footing, not crowded, and amply provided with all that is necessary for the comfort and welfare of the sick ; and if the casualties of war do not fill our hospitals, we may fait ly look forward to haves. diminished sick list in future. Mounded But should the chances of war unfortunately produce ounded, I calculate we shall be able to accommodate e re- arely t h ru or s e t ,wainl ldbarrangementssufficient are e e being reception of between 530 and GOO on board ship, w a f l n o ti r t c s h t . h_ l Ciu e I hTa.ove;ilelcd-eNotata:!_haaul 1...0rd Raglan, G.Cj.B. for o in u a r d .p HALL, Inspector-General of Hospitals. - Sir,—With reft:43reenlceeEretn:Slti:scriteif,2l3ba.k)illo: ; 1 1 for ttaohries t W i f ige e t 7 de. havee accommodation rm men ma na ht ohavcc i a u so o n thi intoomulguneomi --- ; ei t i f : f c . , state. for the information a l alfcri accommodationdc n 23 , 15. ief, that in at a ldit n io e n the lregimental establish- manta of tho ,250 af0971 170 pets to 09cupy i l thig ° ' (l-- ".Y . from of the itre THE SUN S LONDON / , FRIDAY_ EVENING S APRIL 20, 1865 huts in rear- of the 3d Division, at present in posses sion of the 14th and 39th Regiments, which would afford comfortable accommodation for 480 ; and as these huts are built on dry, elevated, clean ground, with water not very distant, I calculate thirty more of the huts might be given over in case of any very great emer gency, and the troops put under canvas, which would afford room for 480 more. At the Sanitarium at Bala klava I calculate on accommodation for 200 wounded, in addition to the convalescents there at present, when the huts now in course of erection are completed. From the crowded state of the general hospitals at Scu tari, the length of time they have been occupied, and the amount of fever that has prevailed in them of late, I am most unwilling to send wounded men there if I can possi bly avoid it ; but should necessity compel us to resort to that measure, the Melbourne Brandon Sydney lOO Australian Severn -620 Steamers are already fitted as hospital ships, 'and would be capable of transporting, with ease and thanfort, 620 wounded. The hospital establishments at Smyrna, Abydos, and Gallipoli are full ; and as typhoid fever is reported to have made its appearance in the hospital at Smyrna, it would not be desirable to send wounded men there during its continuance. If compelled to form another hospital establishment out of the Crimea, I should suggest, from what I have heard, that Sinope be selected. I speak from hearsay, for I have never been there myself. but perhaps the Commander-in- Chief might be pleased to have it surveyed by some com petent person, and a report made of its capabilities. Our accommodation for wounded, taking minimum numbers, will therefore stand thus : Rerimental hospitals New huts occupied by 14th and 39th Re giments 4BO to 96J Sanitarium at Balaklava 250 to 300 930 530 Additional 1,460 On board transports 2,080 I have, &e., (Signed) T HALL, Inspector-General of Hospitals. To Major-General It. Airey, Quartermaster-Ueneral. Before Sebastopol, April 7. My Loral,—Some interchange of troops has taken place sines I addressed your lordship on the 31st ultimo. Battalions and considerable convoys have entered the town, and other bodies of troops have been seen to leave the north side. The garrison has teen constantly engaged in adding to the works, and particularly in connecting the rifle pits in the itumedi ,to front of our right attack ; and, as we have pushed forward, the fire upon our advance has occaQioned more loss, I deeply regret to say, than we have sustained since the sortie of the 23d March. Lieutenant Bainbrigge, of the Royal Engineers, was, I lament to have,to add, killed on the morning of the 4th April. whilst in the execution of his duty, by the bursting of a shell. He was a young officer of much promise, and though he had not long been here, he had acquired the esteem and good opinion of his brother officers, and his loss is greatly deplored by all. I inclose the return of casualties up to the sth inst. I have, &c., RAGLAN. The Lord Panmure, &c., &c. Enclosura 1. A RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM THE 30TH MARCH TO THE IsT APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. 30th Regiment of Foot-2 rank and file, wounded. 34th Foot —1 rank and file, wounded 38th Foot 1 rank and file, wounded 49th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 55th Foot-3 rank and file, wounded 77th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded 97th Foot--1 rank and file, killed ; 1 sergeant, 1 rank and file, wounded Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 rank and file, wounded Royal Sappers and Miners— 2 rank and file, wounded Total-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 serjeant, 14 rank and file, wounded. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adj utant-General. Enclosure 2. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM 30TH MARCH, TO lsr APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. KILLED. MARCH 30. 97th Regiment of Foot. Private Michael Moore. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 3. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM THE 30Ta MARCH, TO IsT APRIL, 1855, INCLU SIVE. WOUNDED. MARCH 30. 34th Regiment of Foot. Private Patrick Flanagan, slightly. 38th Regiment of Foot. Private John Carroll. severely. 9th Regiment of Foot. Private Wil ti nil Bird, severely. 77th Regiment of Foot. Private George H n ntlay, Private Henry Malcolm, slightly. MARCH 31. 30th R.gituent of Foot. Private Bernard Grimes, slightly. 97th Regiment of Foot. Serjeant Robert Tr ise, Private JAmes Milton. slightly. Ist Bat 4 alion Rifle Brigade. Private John Connolly, slightly. Royal Sappers an • Miners. Lance Corporal Richard Bridgman, slightly. Private Wm. Ralph, severely. APRIL 1. 30th Regiment of Foot. Corporal Wm. Laird, slightly. 55th Regiment of Foot. Private Stephen Hac•ger, dangerously Private George Dawson, dangerously Private John Drawry. ;lightly. J. B. BUCK NALL E3TCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 4. RETURN OF C 4SIAITIES FROM THE 2n TO STH OF APRIL, INCLUSIVE. 7th Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 8 rank and file, wounded. 17th Foot-2 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file, wounded. 18th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 4 rank and file wounded. 19th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 23th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 30th Foot-1 rank and file, killed 34th Foot-1 officer, 1 sergeant, 5 rank and file, wounded 41st Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 49th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 57;th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded 57th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 62d Foot-1 rank and file, killed 68th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded 77th Foot-4 rank and file, wounded 83th Foot-3 rank and file, wounded 90th Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file, wounded 97th Foot-1 sergeant, wounded. 2d Battalion Rifle Rrigade- 1 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file. wounded. Royal Artillery-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 rank and file, wounded. Royal Engineers-1 officer, killed ; 1 officer, wounded. Royal Sappers and Miners-1 rank and file, killed; 1 rank and file, wounded. Total-1! officer, 10 rank and file, killed ; 3 officers, 2 serjeauts, 40 rank and file, wounded. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adj utant-General. Enclosure 5. NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED FROM 2D TO THE STH APRIL, 1853, INCLUSIVE. KILLED. Amur, 4. Royal Engineers. Lieutenant E. Beinbrigge. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 6, NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED FROA THE 2D TO THE STH APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. WOUNDED. APRIL 4. Royal Engineers. Captain L. J. A. Annit, severely APRIL 5. 7th Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant L. J. F. Jones, slightly 34th Regiment of Foot. Captain H. E. Bale, severely J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 7. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED FROM 2D TO srrt APRIL, INCLUSIVE. KILLED. Arita. 3. 00th Regiment of Foot. Private William Cook. Royal Sappers and Miners. Private Robert Russell. APRIL 4. 13th Regiment of Foot. Private Alexander Flynn. 30th Regiment of Foot. Private Patrick Ganly. 62d Regiment of Foot. Private John Noonan. APRIL 5. 7th Regiment of Foot. Private James Stokes. 17th Regiment of Foot. Corporal Henry Burton. Private Richard Byrnes. 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade. Private J. McCarthy. Royal Artillery. Gunner and Driver James Denison. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant•G3neral. Enclosure 8. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON - COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM THE ?p TO STH APRIL, INCLUSIVE. WOUNDED. APRIL 2. 41st Regiment of Foot. C John Valentine, dangerously, (lino dead. 55tit 14011110114 r9a4i Private Stephen Finger, dangerously, since dead. 57th Regiment of Foot. Private John Murray, severely. 88th Regiment of Foot. Private Donald Munro, slightly Private James Lyseght, severely APRIL 3. 18th Regiment of Foot. Private Thomas McHale, severely 34th Regiment of Foot. Serjeant John Gridley, dangerously Private John Morris severely Private Thomas Burns, slightly 90th Regiment of Foot. Private Thomas Geoghan, dangerously (since dead) Royal Sappers and Miners. Private Thomas M'Neil, severely APRIL 4. 18th Regiment of Foot. Corporal John Ryan, severely Pt ivate George Storey, mortally Private Harry Griffiths, slightly 19th Regiment of Foot. Private Andrew Dregan, slightly 28th Regiment of Foot. Private James Boyd, slightly. 49th Regiment of Foot. Private Michael Clerk, slightly. 55th Regiment of Foot. Private James Baddington, slightly. 68th Regiment of Foot. Private Patrick Le.llev, Battalion Rifle Brigade. Corporal Robert Ellis, dangerously. April 5. 7th Regiment of Foot. Corporal Edward Finnegan, severely Corporal Cornelius Marrirrti, dangerously Corporal Stephen Stanuard, slightly Private Wdliatn Stevens, severely Private John Carney. dangerously Private Peter Williamson, severely Private A , .thony Lawyer, severely Private Micheel McGarry, slightly 17th Regiment of Foot. Private George Guest, slightly Private Thomas Winterberry, slightly 34th Regiment of Foot. Private Hugh Campbell, severely Private Christopher Noland, severely Corporal Joseph Wharton slightly 77th Regiment of Foot. Private James Meince, dangerously Private Michael Hoolahan, dangerously Private John Murray, severely Private Thomas Jones, severely 88th Regiment of Foot. Corporal John Downie, slightly 90th Regiment of Foot. , Private M chael Thornton, severely. 97th Regimeut of Foot. Serjeant Peter Morrin, severely. 2d Battalion Itiflo Brigade. Private Samuel Hill, dangerously. Royal Artillery. Gunner and Driver Thomas Balkwell, J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 9. RETURN OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL BRIGADE ON 4TH APRIL, 1855. WOUNDED. James Brown, L. S., Queen, loss of right arm and wound of left side of neck. Morris Flynn, Ord., Queen, contusion of breast. Total wounded-2. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON. Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. The Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan, Commander-in-Chief. RETURN OF CASUALTIES IN THR NAVAL BRIGADE ON THE 7TH APRIL, 1855. WOUNDED, Trevor Dunning, A. 8., Diamond, contused thigh. Total wounded-1. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. The Military Secretary to H. E, Lord Raglan, Commander-in-Chief, THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 26. The Queen has been graciously pleaserl to appoint James H. Skene, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Constanti nople, to be her Majoaty's Consul at Aleppo. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 9. - - The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ar nold Burrowes Keinball, Esq., Captain in the Service of the Honourable East ludia Company, to be her Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Buenos Ayres, enclosing copy of a decree of the Buenos Ayrian Government compelling foreign vessels to obtain the Visa of the Buenos Ayrian Consul at their port of clearance. BO ARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Flantati ,ns have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Palermo, reporting that the Board of Health of that port had given free pra tique to vessels from the 'United Kingdom. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 13th April instant.] COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia Sergoani Alexander fluteheon to be Quartermaster, Feb. 26. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia—George Travis Rad cliffe, Esq. to be Captain ; Richard Il bort Phillips, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Josiah hice, lieut., to be Lieute❑ant, April 16. Dutnft ies, Roxburgh, and Selkirkshire Noako, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Scott, retired, April 12. Stillingshire, &c., or 90th Regiment of Militia -Alex. Orr, Gent., to he Assistant• Surgeon. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia — Arthur Burton, Gent., to be Ensign, Api il 11. Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. - Ensign James Stewart promoted to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Kensington Lowther, retired, April 13. 2d Regiment of the Royal burley Militia.—Frederick Rhodes Hazel], Gent., to be Ensign. April 11. 3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. Francis Binney, Gent., to be Ensign, April 14. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Robert Harrington, Esq., to be Major ; Cyrus Plaistow Tra [and, Esq., to be Cap tain, March 12 ; George Augustus Alston, Esq., to be Captain, March 13 ; Thomas Donald, Esq., to be Captain, March 14; Augustus Frederick Lindley, Esq., to be Cap tain, vice Pearson, resigned, March 15 ; John Rowaud, Gent., to ba Lieutenant, March 13 ; James Begg, Gent., to be Ensign, April 12 ; Andrew Smith, Gent., to be En sign, April 13. Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peebleshires Militia Artillery.—James Grant Suttie, Gent., younger, to be Captain, vice Park, resigned, April 14. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid dlesex Militia. —Ensign George Lane to bo Lieutenant, ♦ice lienbosv, appointed to 48th Regiment, April 12. • Eastern Regiment of Suffolk Militia Artillery Corps. — William Leathes, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice Dakins, promoted, April 17 ; Thomas Moore McLeroth, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 17 ; John Mea dows Theobald, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 18. Lancashire Hussars—Francis Arthur Farrell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 14. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the Gth April instant.] 7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Brevet- Major Henry Hawker Arnaud, late Captain 34th Regi ment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be Captain, April 4. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of Rifle Militia—Ensign William Houstoun to be Lieute nant, vice J. G. E. Cameron, resigned, April 16. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Aberdenshire Royal Regiment of Militia—Thomas Innes, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 27. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry Phillips, corn dealer, Bethnal Green-road. BANKRUPTS. George Jessop, builder, Cliftonville Hove, Sussex, to surrender, May 4, at twelve, and June 1, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London; Kennett, Brighton. Joseph Brooks, wheelwright, Bucking, Essex, April 28, at half-past eleven, and June 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildlaall-eham berm • Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row. William FiTch, stationer, Old Fi-h-street-hill, May 8 at eleven, and May 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Brisley, Pancras lane, Cheapside. William Gittun, draper, Isleham, Cambridgeshire , May 2, at two, and M a y 29, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Sole. Turner, and Turner, Ablermanbury ; Miller, Son, and Bugg , Norwich. Richard John Orgies, victualler, Shoreditch, April 27, and July 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assignee, Ba. inghall-street ; Symes, Tees , dale, and Sandilands, Fenchurch-street. George Greenfield, builder, Upper Holloway, May 1, at half past two, and May 29, at twelve, at the Court of Rink ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghad-street; Sea man, Pancras-lane, Cheapside. George Hargrave Morgan, builder, Hereford, May 4 and 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gwillim, Hereford; Suckling, Birmingham. William Morgan, potato dealer, Bristol, May 1, and 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Harris, Bri,tol. William Partridge the elder, builder, Birmingham, May 2, and 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece, Birmingham. _ . Joseph Prescott, teadealer, Liverpool, May 3, and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Loundes, Robinson, and Bateson, Liverpool. Edward Lawrence Kyle, licensed victualler, Reading, May 2, at one, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Nichols and Clarke, Lilicoln's-inn ; Smith, Reading. James Stevenson, provision dealer, Liverpool, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Evans and Sons, Liverpool. Edwin Adolphus Lock, draper, Curry Rivell, Somerset shire, 2d and 31st May, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Slade and Vining, Yeovil; Terrell, Exeter. Louisa Browett, innkeeper, Bradford, April 30, at eleven, and Juno 4, at half-past twelve, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Blackburn, Leeds. 'Names 'Woolley, coach builder, Manchester, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Manchester; Cobbett and Wheeler, Manchester. David Norbury, butcher, Alderley, Cheshire, April 30 and May 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, offieial assignee, Manchester; Hardman, Manchester. George Hawke, dealer in hardware, Polrnan (and not roinuan, giciTertioad in lalt Tuocines Va.ovc), con. wall, April 26 and May 31, at one, at the Exeter District I Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy , Ply mouth. Frederick William Lister, jewel case manufacturer, Great Queen street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Southamp ton-row, Russell-square, April 27, at half-past twelve, and June 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. N icholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Leverson, Saint Helen's-place. John Moseley, saddler, Macclesfield, May 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Manchester. Thomas Holder, silk throwster, Macclesfield, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester district Court. Huila mann, official assignee, Manchester; Parroutt, Colville, and May, Macclesfield. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS John Orr, Johnstone, grocer, Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, April 30. Joseph Rich, Edinburgh, tobacconist, Lyon's Rooms, May 1. Malcolm M`Call, Oban, hotel-keeper, MTherson's Hotel, Dunoon, May 3. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act ' the Week ending on Saturd ?,NGLAND, fth and ath Victoria, cap 32, for ty the 14th day of April, 1855. IITMENT. Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,9 A 4,900 Gold coin and bullion 14 : 351.365 - £24,351.365 IIARSIIA.LI4, Chief Cashier 55 Government securities (includg.Dead Weight .thnuity) ..... 13.672,713 Other securities...... 13 2'6 o.ls Ntes •• . .. • • ...... 7,94 535 Gold and silver coin.. L 71,237 £35,573,603 NIAESLIA.LL, Chief ,hbiut ISSUE DEP, Notes !ssued ........ 28,351,365 £28,351,36) Dated the 19th day of April, 151 BANS LNG DE: Proprietors' capital 14,653,000 Rest ........ 3,123 446 Pu'dic deposits &in cluding It xelle,,uer, Cominissioners of N ,ebt, gay. Ing's Ranks, and Dividend Accounts) 2,720,64 n ►ther depo+i•+ ...... :4,233.796 Seven Day and other tills ........ . 947,721 £35,578.603 Oated the 19th day of April, 1 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com puted from the returns made in the week ending the 17th April, 1855, is 21s 3id per hundredweight exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im on thereof into Great Britain. COURSE OF EXC . Imsterdam .... 11 19 Ditto, three months .. 12 Rotterdam 12 Antwerp 50 Brumls 25 t.O ANGE.— This DAY. Otbra tar .. •• •• •• •• L. gt•orn •• .•• 30 25 Genoa .•.•.•..•• ...... 25 575? 591 an Naples ..•...•...••••.. 4 :% Palermo •........... 131 Messina ... ... 131 31 Lisbon ... . 53 1 ,E I Oporto •• 53 1 1. ltio Janeiro ..... . •• Buenos Ayres.... • • .... New York, GU days' sight Philadelphia • i I =burgh ••••• • .• • • 13 9 Altona • • • • . • • • •• • • • • • • Paris ........ 25 27% Ditto, three months .. '25 5214 narsell.as ........ 25 55 Bourde tux .• • .... ankfort. on -V. aine 119% Berlin — Vienna •• .. l2 43 Trieste • • • • .. l2 44 Petersburg .. , 3.5% Madrid ... 49; Cadiz . • • • • • Barcelona .. Seville • •• •• •• • • ••• • . PRICES OF BULL ICN, PER OZ. Foreign (101 l in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coln .• 0 0 0 Nlex!ean Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Sliver iu bars . 0 5 0% ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM MITTEE. (Continued from our first edition.) SirC. Trevelyan then went on to state that the commis sariat department being under his direction, if the late Government defended themselves by blaming that de partment, he supposed he would be liable to censure. Persons acquainted with the resources of Turkey as bearing upon the commissariat department were not employed by the Government to furnish information with respect to that country, but they were not in his opinion required. There was n , t, he maintained, any failure in the commissariat department, which could command all the necessary food and means of transport; but the evils which arose were attributable in his opi nion to the mal-administration of some other branch of the service. _ _ The witness was next examined relative to the alleged incompetency of the Treasury clerks who were sent out to do duty as commissary officers ; on which point he denied the truth of the statement by General Sir De Lacy Evans, that they had had no field experience. Returning to the subject .1 the commissariat arrange ments, be denied the truth of the assertion that there was any deficiency of store-houses ; affirming, on the contrary, that various depots had been ,established at Constantinople, Varna, and Malt', and on all occasions the result of stock-taking disclosed no scarcity of sup plies in those store-a. There was a depot for live cattle at Constantinople, and therefore the want of fresh meat in the camp was to be attributed not to the commis sariat, but to those who had the management of the sea transport. Sir Ci arles then read a report fr. m Com missary General Filder, to the effect that up to the period of the hurricane, on the 14th November, the army was exceedingly well supplied with food and that fresh meat was served out every other day. Some of the difficulties which were described to have exi,-b-d he ascribed to the 'act that: the official relation ship between Lord Raglan and Mr. Filder was not so close as that which gtqterally subsisted between the Duke of Wellington an l his chief comtnissarlei. Tois he ioftrred from the tenour f a letter from Lord Raglan to Mr. Filder, inquiring what provision the latter had male fur the army. Reference being made to evidence taken on a previous day, respecting the advniabdty of sending out preserved vegetables, the witness stated that these articles bad been sent out iu large quantities, and bad arrived in the Cfilsea. The committee adjourned until Monday. rAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENTE. This evening mails for the troops in the Piraeus (Greeci), Turkey, and the Crimea, the medical staff, and sick and wounded in the hospitals at Scutari and Smyrna, and the fleet and transport service employed in the Black Sea, will be' made up and despatched via Mar seilles. Letters must be prepaid. Mails will also be ms.de np for the above-mentioned places, Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian Islands, to be despatched this morning via Southampton. Letters for soldiers, sailors, marines, and persons employed in transports, forwarded by this conveyance, will be liable to a postage of ld. if paid in advance, or 2d. on delivery. The Adelaide steam-transport, No. 138, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Malta, last from Ply mouth, with military invalids, whom she went into har bour to land in the afternoon ; these consisted of soldiers from the various regiments engaged in the Crimea, as fully reported in The Sun of Wednesday. The Britannia, 120, is being fitted as a floating hospital for sick and wounded from the East. The Hastings, 60, Captain Caffin, is swinging for the adjustment of her compasses in Portsmouth harbour. This ship and her sister the Pembroke, 60, Captain Seymour, have not above 300 men each, out of 600 each, as men are not allowed to volunteer for them. At the last pinch they will have r to be filled up by compulsory draughts from sailing ships. The steam blockship Cornwallis, 60, Captain Wel lesley, went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Wednesday. She is to be fitted with a larger fan, and some improvements are to be made in her machinery. The transport Chalmers, No. 63, Captain Smith, from Depftord, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday to embark troops for the Crimea. The transport ship Kent arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, outward bound. Two sergeant, 190 men, and four women left the pri sons in Milbay, Plymouth, yesterday morning, and went on board the Royal George, 102,in Hamoaze, preparatory to sailing for France. These prisoners are chiefly Poles, and were among those taken at Bomarsund. The Garrison Serjeant-M.ijor was despatched from Plymouth on Wednesday to Exeter with the route of the 15th Hussars. They are to march to Plymouth, via Ashburton, to embark immediately for the Crimea. The ship Mangerton, Capt Smith, from London, ar rived at Plymouth on Wednesday, to embark Govern ment emigrants for Sydney. The head-quarters of the 96th Regiment, numbering 280 men, which landed at Gravesend, from Bengal, on Thursday last, arrived at the North Wall, Dublin, from Liverpool, at half-dast 10 o'clock, a.m., on Wednesday. The detachment was in the higheht state of discipline, and their appearance evidently gratified the command ing officer. Seven women accompanied the detachment. On Tuesday evening the following soldiers, who have been invalided from their respective corps, at present eery in the Crimea, arrived in Dublin :—John Caldwell, 17th Regiment ; Martin Noon, 88:11 ; Peter Claim, 20th ; William M'Gorman, 49:11 ; Patrick Leonar 88th ; John Whitfield, 88th ; William Barley, 3d ; John Quinlan, 33d ; Luke Connell, 41st ; and John O'Connor, 41st. The Duke of Cornwall having been obli g ed to put into Kingstown, owing to a scarcity of water, seve ral of their companions went on shore at that place. Commander Edmund F. N. V. Wasey, and Comman der E imund A. Glynn, have been appointed Inspector- Commanders in the Coast Guard. Lieutenant Weble E. Stone has been appointed to the Childers; Master George Aldricks to the Hecate; Second Master J. E. Scudamore to the Pembroke ; and Naval- Instructors Rev. D. E. Domville, to the Pembroke, and Rev. R. N. JaCkson to the Hastings. The Thunder, the first floating battery built by Mare and Co., Blackwall, was towed to Woolwich, on Wednes day, by the Widgeon and another steamer, and imme diately brought under the sheers to be masted. The Thunder presents a formidable appearance, the woos work being of massive timbers, put together in the strongest manner, cased with plates of iron of consider able thickness, which are expected to be ball proof. The Thunder will carry 16 guns of large calibre, and her stern and bow being both round she will not be liable to be so much injured by shot striking her as if she had been built on the usual construction. The Dapper, gun-boat, left Woolwich on Thursday, to join the ships for the Baltic. Several companies of the Royal Artillery have orders to hold themselves in readiness for immediate embarka tion for the Crimea. Orders have been forwarded from the Horse Guard 3 to various cavalry depots to hold in readiness for imme diate embarkation as many efficient mounted men aq may be available, to reinforce the regiments serving in the Crimea. In the list of appointments in The Sun of Tuesday, the name of Mr. J. It. Horniman, appointed Assistant- Clerk to the Impregnable, wag erroneously printed Romans SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (Front the Times of this day.) A successful ovation may mean a great deal, and it may mean nothing at all. It w ould be unwise. to build much upon what, after all, is the voice of a multitude, proverbially fickle. So we shall not describe what Lon don has witnessed this week in words of the same gravity that we should give, for example, to the pacification of Europe. But, on the other hand, there can be no occa siert for any writer to deny the fact as if it were worth denying. In plain matter of fact, the reception given by the people of London to the French Emperor and Empress is not a mere repetition of that given to Louis Philippe. Whatever the feeling, sir the pretence of feel ing, or the aheence of feeling that may be alleged, no body with the use of his eyes can dispute that the metro polis has greeted Napoleon 111. and his Consort with an enthusiasm bordering on extravagance. Our fellow citizens gathered from the suburbs, selected some point on the various r rutes taken by the Imperial visitors, and stood patiently for hours just to catch a glimpse of the man who has restored order and prosperity to France, become our Ally, and entered heartily with us into the arduous task of keeping Russia within bounds. They wished to see the man who has done this, so to speak, with his own hand,—the man who actually governs a great nation by no means easy to be governed. They wished also to see the lady whom they somehow regal.] with a romantic interest, as one who owes her elevation, not merely to birth or the advantage of for tune, but her beauty, goodness, and wit. Mere Royal alliances were never popular in this country, and about the greatest crime a Minister could commit in the eyes of the people would be a Royal marriage in which the heart am put out of the question. Nepoleon 11. de rives more real greatness from his union with the object of his affection than if he bad married a daughter of the beuee of Austria on the faith of a portrait or a diplomatic report. These may. perhaps, be thought no very suffi cient reasons Sir a grand ovation ; and the Londoners may be set down as a crowd of gaping spectacle-hunters, ready to go any where to look at an Emperor, and just now in crowds, simply because this week is poeitively the last as well as the first of the exhibition. Be it se. Let the thing be as vulgar as it may, nevertheless the fact remains that the spectacle of this week is net a mere repetiti , n of that of 1845. The scene at the Royal Italian Opera last night speaks for the feeling of those who can afford to pay a hundred guineas for a box, or ten, and eve a fifteen guineas, for a stall ticket. No one can deny that something more than curiosity prompted many of that numsrous but very select body of spectators. It wee something m o re than the knowledge that they saw before thein what Erielaed and France had wished in vain to see for five several centuries. The British people may or may not be under a mist ke or a deluei , e, hut they certainly saw in that group a picture of amity and friendly union that may lest as long as the previous rei g n of jealousy rind distrust. Every street through which the friendly caval cade passed yesterday to the city, and afterwards to Crivent-garden, was hung with the national flags of the Allies, so as to form a vista not unlike that in Henry the Seventh's or St. George's Chapel. The same story was told by the illuminations last night, and, though it may be urged that people always like an opportunity of decorating and lighting up their houses, and that just now there happens to be rather fewer opportunities than usual, we must beg to observe that we have never seen the like before on such an occasion, unless it were the very remarkable rejoicing at the visit of the three allied Sovereigns in 1814. But it is not our present purpose to argue for any one particular significance to be given to congratulations which Heaven itself has countenance] with its miles, and which may, perhaps, express a vele , superficial feeling, and a too transient blessing. We only think it bad philosophy, as well as bad taste, to dis parage this brilliant reception as a matter of course, and a " vain repetition." This is simply not the fact. ( From the Morning Herald of this day. ) The enthusiasm manifested towards the Emperor and Empress of the French has hitherto experienced no dimi nution. Yesterday all the approaches which marked the Imperial visit to the city were crowded with throngs of earnest and expectant spectators. London had turned out for a holiday. A. glimpse at, the Empress who, whatever may be said to the contrary of John Bull's gallantry, constituted not the least interesting personage in the spectacle, was thought by thousands of our wea ther-beaten countrymen and countrywomen worth some few miles of rail ; some few hours of standing in the dry and dusty streets ; some few hundred thumps and ahoy ings, which fa. , l to the lot of all thorough-paced .sight seers in this empire. Her Majesty seemed to feel and uoderstaod this, for she made her frequent acknowledg ments with wonderful ease, affability, and good-nature. As the carriage rolled on which contained her and her Royal Consort, we could see her bowing her thanks to the sooty and dusty urchins who crowded the church yards in the line of road, or clustered on the lamp posts, highly delighted to be able to return home and say they had beheld her whose reputation has spread, fir beauty, grace, and kindliness, far beyend the limits of that em pire in the rule of which she hag been associated. For n'neteen persons whose first query will be made in re lerea !e to toe Emperor, ninety and nine will have in quired anent the Repress. The geod folkain Seven-d als and Drury lane, utterly ignorati, and careless of diplo macy, indifferent to our doings at Sebastopol, except so ter as they-would be glad to see " the Rooshiane" well drubbed, were discussing con amore, in our own herr ing, the white chip bonnet and white feathers, which nodded and moved as they cleared their throats for an English hurrah, or pressed forward, regard less of carabiniers, policemen, carri.iges, an carts. All this must be familiar enough to Napoleon 111. He has not passed so many years in this country as n-it to know oar stational peculiarities. He is not so Too rat,t of the nature of E, glishinen as not to be aware that our homage is rendered to practical objects which mainly remind us of our own homes, and are connected with our homely feelings. Our own gracious Sovereign must come in for her share in this respect. She has made us understand and value the rule of a female ; she has not merely continued but enlivened the traditional belief which has attached so much that is glorious in our annals with female Sovereigns. We like net un married kings or unmarried clergy. Even in our rulers we desire to see an image of that home and that house hold with which so much is connected that concerns the honour, the safety, and the prosperity of this nation. It is the presence of the Empress on this occasien which has brought out the enthusiasm of the population of this country ; and by making her a participator in this visit, Napoleon has not only shown his prudence and the knowledge he possesses of the national character, but has put himselt before the crowd in the only light in which they could, or cared to, understand him. Of course we intend no disparagement to the Em peror himself or the higher purport of his visit by these remarks. In a political point of view, and as a guarantee of amity between the two nations, that visit is of ines timable worth. It is a pledge for that peace by which not we only, but all Europe--it is not too much to say the whole world—must be eventually benefited. But then these advantages are patent to men of thought and reflection. It is not for the wise or the politic that the benefits of this visit are intended. They had no doubts of the Emperor's intentions ; they had sufficient proof of his cordial support from circumstances not so obvious to the people. Their belief was not shaken by those ordi nary prejudices which find a facile receptacle in ordinary minds. But it is far different with the great masses of their uneducated countrymen. Could they believe that the ruler of the French nation, one bearing also the name of him whom their fathers regarded as the incarnation of all that was hostile and terrible to this country, could be a warm friend to England I Could they do otherwise than consider him as a Frenchman, as an enemy, as a man in all his interests, his feelings, and his sympathies totally different to themselves? It is in this light, then, that we regafel the visit of the Empress as one of the most important consequences of this august presence. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon 1., or eeiy other personage who Lae taken hold of our imagination by the splendour of his victories, or the greatness of h;s name, comes near to ourselves, and loses something of the distant and the terrible, when he is seen as a husband or a father, as being in his dearest relations exactly like ourselves. Napoleon 111. 'eight have put out a great many manifestoes and proctols, he might gave exhausted half the rhetoric of his very rhe torical nation, before he could have hoped to have pro duced half the impression which he has produced by bringing the Empress amongst us. Nor is the fact that the Empress herself traces her a elescent to the sister kingdom, and has been educatedsin England, without its effect. Let us hope that this is not the only instance of such visits. Let us hope that the time has cone when Sove reigns as well as their subjects may view each others' kingdoms without fear and without suspicions. The period is past for both when true patriotism was con sidered violated by such visits. Long since has the notion beeeti exploded that a desire to see and profit by the improvements of foreign countries was a necessary n.em a tion of being discontented with one's own. Cer tain y, after such a sight as was witiies.e l yesterd ,y, the people of this country will find it hard to persuade themselves that Napoleon 111. or the Empress Eugenie can ever be their enemy. We shall all be lotbe to ima gine that they who have trusted themselves so frankly to oar hospitality can ever be among the number of its willing violaters. It is a great thing to have removed generally from the winds of Englishmen the persuasion that nothing could render us the faithful allies of the French. It is still more to have itop'anted in the minds of those whose prejudices linger the longest the convic tion that a French rifler can be as dear to us as our own welcomed by a Iraq majority of the people of this na tion with an enthusiasm and respect not less than what they are accustomed to pay to their own Sovereign. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, April --The market continues quite 9. firm, and, as the orders placed during the last few weeks have been-considerable in amount, and will find employ ment for many of the mills for some time ftrward, there is not much pressure to sell, either in cloth of yarn. The fabrics suited to the Eastern markets are not in much request, and rather easier to buy. Some of the American houses are doing rather more business. NOTTINGHAM, April 19.—There has been a further improvement in the lace trade this week. It is princi pally for the home market (the genial weather having operated favourably); the improvement is alf-x) of a more healthy character than has latterly prevailed in this branch of the trade. The jobbinoales having ceased, what is now doing is in every respect in the legitimate way of business. Foreign orders come in tardily. The hosiery trade has decidedly improved, both home and American buyers acting with increased spirit ; the la. bour market is consequently more active. The prices of silk materials have not rallied much from the lowest point which they reached a fortnight ago ; nominal quo tations of is. 6d. per lb. have sinco then been mentioned. In hosiery common materials, on the other hand, remain *MD WOA PS inquiry. i .TORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S —YESTEBDAT. The fluctuations in the bett:ng on the Two wbich Tbousa:itSl were of a character somewhat similar to those ccni - ly occurred at York. St. Hubert dropped batjj 5 to 2, laid toabout 1501., and was again passed bf •"'" tb , of the Isles, who was backed at 7 to 4 and 2 to 1 ; taker of the latter odds to 251. was desirous of ) inc l. ' in; his investment to 103/. Polyclore receded to 9 t' llo —Claret was backed at 12, 11, and 10 to 1 ; 18 1 was taken to a pqny about Kingstown. CHESTER CUP. o 094 S.l , thian was backei for 501. at 12 t , ) 1 ; Nevi „ e d t, in st - ong dernan , i—fcom 25 to 1 lie quickly &avail : w et I,ojo to 60, taken. 2,000 to 40 a5,.1500 to 11, " taken about nuscovite. THE DERBY. hor o St. Hubert aid Dirk Ha:teraick were the 01 1 'i / 0 oto ba"ked. 10 to 1 !Atli taken about the former t° 5001. of which was invested in one bet; and 12 t° bioked to 2001. about the latter. CLOSING PRICES. TEE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 2 to 1 agst Lord of the Idea (taken) sto 2 agst St. Hubert (taken) 9 tu 1 agsr 1 3 ,,!yd.1re (taken) 10 to 1 agst Oaret (taken) 18 to 1 agst liir.g,tuo.n (taken) CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Scythian (taken) 16 - 0 1 agst Neville (taken) 50 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken) 1 THE DERBY. 10 ti 1 agAt St. Hobert (taken and offere d) 12 to 1 agst ark Hat.teraick (taken) 0, Nonce. —The morn will be open on Saturday ve MALTON RACES. YESTERDAY. Talton Handicap. Gamelad Freddy ............... .• Six ran. Two•yr•old Stakes. walked "4. Sister to Broughton Bird3all Handicap Patience F All ny Fern F.,ur ran. Hunt Cup. Sa,mpeon Sr He' ry Four ran. Amateur Stake=. ....'":1 Victory Phoebus Three ran. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS. —Cinamon Ally Coa x ` Lave paid forfeit. 2 ,3 cafeit• ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.—Miss Eva pap. , , COUNTRY WARILETS. DERBY SMITHFIELD.— 9.ntir , 17 ' Our market was well supplied with fat beasts tn f b P ei , quality generally was good and the attendanc e °of d i large, with a brisk demand, without any alteration ° f ot k The supply of sheep was again numerous. The n„ 1 / 16 0 11 41 pigs was about the average. Fat and store calve" to rd i j The following were the uotations :—Beef , 6 4 ., d 00,10 mutton, 6;d to 7,(1 ; lamb, Ud to Od ; veal, 61 ' ; - 3,v1 1 lb. ; pigs, Os 3d to 9s Od per score ; rough fat, 4L IP , per 111 b.; hides, 3(1 to 4j,d per lb; calf - sk ins ' per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—ArsiL 1S• i stl l 7o Wheat on the top 3s down, and the averag• Wa 0 116 ,0 Barley on the top is down, and average lOd down' • Oe' the top 2s 4d down. and the average 6d doign' on the top 2s Od dow'n, and the average id up. , q2 O Total Supply and Sales. sold ,u4l _ 4 4 0 Wheat 709 qrs Barley 1(.:89 qrs sold „ ta , " - 4 0 Oats 1192 qrs sold "'" 01 64 Beans 253 qrs sold 8i , Top of Wheat .............................61 LP' Okf Barley.. . Oats • • 44i lb 3 i t ' Beans 6B lb NEWARK—Arum 17. , A good attendance and r plentiful supply of gri ti descriptions. Wheat a heavy sale at late pri e°Ø . 0 Wheat, white 72s to 74s red 68s to 708; b eri Nur 30; to 31s, grinding 28s to 30s; oats, '24st. 3( 06 v io l 4 24s to 28s ; beans, 428 to 448; malt, 68s to 7 01 ; to 425; tares ; 60; to 64s por qr. - ,- 1.4 0 110 0/ There was an average BOSTON—APRIL attendance at B. marlte i to t be 11 4 only a scanty supply of all kiwis of grain. x.r i 0010 trade business was extremely limited, and Pir l,, ce, pep' noted 6d to Is per qr. lower than on th is Spring corn was the turn cheaper. Prices :--Wheat, red, 64s Od to 68s Od; Ou' to 72s Oil extra. 75s Od. Barley, 274 Oil t 0 22s to 28s. Beans, 41s Oil to 45s Od. Yea s ' per qr. OAP .._. •----..... " ...lb e n e st I" LIRRRALITY OP A. PROTESTANT Nol ol A ilt(' t he of Ltetowel ha , . ma le a grant to the ntln i - /W .- t4tion Convent, in Li.,towel, of the land On beiii convent es erected.—Tralee Chronicle. hale oil 1 AtiVtIRTISMV.ENT.)—.S.Ltny thousand cures _, 0010 effected without medicine, by Du Barry's Delie,°,tip. leuta kratr.ca Food, of indigestion ( iy , pepsia), o ° ll ll; o l nervous, biii ms, anti liver complaints, paralyel° , quote a few:—Cure No. 52,612.—Fr0m tbe 0 04 Countess of Castlestuart.—" Ross!;revor, Couut i l g ore Ireland, 9th December, 185-I.—The Dowager q er iSi i i Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of ell io tsi i ii manity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Ite/t t o (ri d Kea Food has cured tier, after all medicine! bed of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and 1111 00 011 V many years' standing. This Food deserves the, bieV of all sufferers, and may be considered it,'" 50%,4 1 . ,/ Inquiries will be cheerfully answered." ti a ra Or 7 Of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lo tit frog Decies.--‘ I have derived considerable hel.l e , OA," Barry's Revalents Arabica Food, and consicluesPioo yourselves and the public to authorise the r 18 36.1, these lines. —Stuar t de Decies." Cure No , 32 ' orl .1 the Venerable Archdeacon of Rcss.- “Three 9 _..„,v sivo nervousness, with pains in my neck and left se ;iltl neral debility, which rendered my life very 111,1„riegi° been radically removed by Du Barry's health-re"; Coopill —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereell• d A 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, ner vossuel e ee fle with cramps, spasms and nausea, h1t v ,?..„,1 ill . A ° ; tually removed by Du Barry's delicious -r"'""i„ fr ooi short time.—Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlingrcheell Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty Yealli,.„ //i ti ght_j f .:gong from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma , '2 . .".0 Viiii nation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the st°lloo 4 eic. , #4 mitings, have been removed by Du Barry's,.,. .401 —Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, near Diss, . I ` , °'" gt,o° No. 3,9o6.—Thirteen years' cough, indigestioll;o 0 Pd' ral debility have been removed by , Du Ba l l, ...-Poie Food.—James Potter, *thol-street, Pell.': Oil r tern, suitably packed for all climates, and with 120 4 p tions —llb., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., lle• ; 101 1 /( super-refined, 11b., Os. ; 21b., lle. ; 51b., 2 2° ';•pt p sis The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage free, on re c t o ( office order. Barry du Barry and Co., ',., 1 114. 41, street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co• P er 411 her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; also at 68, `l t 3 s 3 Sli g o Gra.cechurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; .0 j ' _ ...0 1 Oxford-street ; 55, Charing-cross ; 4, ChiloP 6l 54, Upperßaker-street. MARRIRD • 0 , 4 4 On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryangl de o ; . Count de Lalaing, to Julia Anna Maria, eld, T el $.l. the late T.. Gowan Vibart, Esq., of the P" Service. fO r let On the 17th inst., at Welchpool, Edward b of Dulwich...common, to Mary, youngest dn il g - 'cli late Robert Wilding, Esq. • both di On the I:th inst., at St. Mary's, Albrig , 0. 14 0 t Smith, Madras /truly, to Mary Harriet, eldo v or; 4 1 1 the late John Stanley, Esq., of Newport, Sh rt Wel, On the 18th inst., at St. Mary Abbott's, o f K i s the Rev. John E. Scott Monerieff 8.A.. len to OW Moncrieff, , of Foes a w a y, Perthshirei. Sarah, only surviving c hild o f th e late J. Fag., 63d Regt. Ihngal N.I. 00.70, V/ On the 19th inmt., at tile Friends' Meeting 0;0' ham, John Taylor, of the Stock Exchange, 13.00', rye i son of Joseph Taylor, of Middlesboroli t ot Mary Jane, third d aug ht er of the late V l7l ' Peckham-rye. f el DIED w ief' f f i g On the 17th inst., at Beaconsfield, John Cb 11/P da l A for 31 years Coroner for the cointy of Beck4'oo On the 13th inst., at 15, Dover-street, - 1 -' 1 0 Elias Champion, aged 72. 1 ~'' 37 ° 1 : On the sth inst., at Portstewart, the - I . o '4; Creishton, aged 69. . CSP,IP On the Bth inst , at St. Pierre, near Calalt ta ,.- II ? Bever, only son of the late Edward Bever , - 1 " 13 mer, Bucks. r ena prj' 01 On the 9th inst., at the Rectory House, Cr A O' the Rev. James Noel Pigott, aged 69. it rati" On the 13th inst., at Lawton Rectory , " - b il/ Rev. T. F. Whittington. M.A. ,_ it 0 A , , On the 13tli inst. at Glenlee Lodge, Co e ,l. ' 1 " Ar tenant-Gor. John 'Woulfe, of the Hon. -''' P 0 , 0 0, 0 ). Arm, aed . On the 15th 73 inst., Mr. James Pigott, of ,c.l aged 72. .. i . fl ooll s l e ( n the 17th inst., at Blackheath, Johno" .— 0 1 01. Esq., formerly of Peckham, aged 76. L o hireli On the 16th inst., at Todenham, Gloces,, (of ' Gilbert Malcolm, incumbent of the p arrs aged aged 79. A „ r ape , elit ) i ' I LONDON' : Printed and Pnblishod by 11 '600 of No. 1 12 , Strand, Printer, at 271 e Slot of 1 Rawl, in the Preelnet of the Ofirle ill 4/41 1 1far i bl,giOn *PHI 1 0 i VW ..... 1 ••••••:5 BIRTHS. OF A SON. ,Ork v• le 0 Or the 17th inst., in Eaton-aquare, Mrs. .',_°". ilf e 1, On the 19th inst., at 71, E atou - squa re, t he f. 1 1. O. Higgins, Esq. tli On the 17th inst., at Guildford, the wife a ~ Y W. Herringham. o, i ' On the 13th inst., at Porth y felin, floiyhe' t fr , Halter. f Or g j On the 16th inst., at Woolwich, the wife ° 0 07 rows, R. A. Dir . ' On the 4th of Feb., at Valparaiso, Chili , Powditch, Caldara. Alf Co' ' OF A DAUGFTER. ttO On the 15th inst., at Stockwell, the wife of 3° ,;i4 fi` Esq., Alderman. th e On the 17th inst., at lA, Titchfield-torraoP / James Haig, Esq., of Lincoln's ion. _.7