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# 4 v . „row' tor, A> r) -14 SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. WINCHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIENNIAL STAKES. Bracken HAMPSHIRE STAKES Ethel wolf Lucy Banks filly ..walked over Five ran. GRANGE PARK STAKES. Pyrrha Blue Mantle Five ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. Pirroia Gay Seven ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Sinczstnwn ...................................... Joe Miller ...................................... 2 ran. Won in a canter. IMPERIAL PARLIAAIENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(TIIIS EVENING.) The LOUD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THIRD READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE , the following bills were severally read a third time and passed :—Dun dalk and Blackrock Railway ; Gloucester Water and Local - Board of Health ; London and Blackwall Rail way; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Lincoln Branch) ; Livesay's Estate ; Nottingham and Newham Road ; Warrington Water ; Glasgow Water ; Ayr Harbour ; and Exmouth and Exeter Railway. SECOND READINGS. The following bills were read a second time :—Car 'earthen and Cardigan Railway ; London and South- Western Railway; and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Railway. Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in favour of the abolition of church rates ; also a petition, numerously signed, from the county of Denbigh, in favour of the juris fiction of County Courts. The noble lord took the opportunity of condemning the system under which so large an amount of fees was charged in those courts. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented some netitions from various parts of the metropolis against trading on the Lord's Day. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a petition in favour of administrative reform. UNION CONTIGUOUS lIENEFICES IN CITIES AND TOWNS BILL. This bill passed through committee. INFANTS MARRIAGES BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR this bill was read a third time and paßeed. CARNEGIE'S RESTITUTION BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read ing of this bill, the object of which was to remove the attainder against the peerage of Southesk, which had existed since the year 1715. The bill was read a second time. ASSIZES AND SESSIONS BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read ing of this bill. It was for the purpose of having ses sions for the trial of offenders held more frequently than was now the case under the present system, and there by prevent the expense, inconvenience, and sometimes great injustice of detaining such persons in prison for sever.►l months before trial. The noble and learned lord having stated the details of the measure, moved that it be read a second time. Lord BROUGHAM highly approved of the bill. Ile viewed it not only as an instalment, but a very con siderable instalment, of the benefits of the resolutions he moved the other night. By the latest returns it appeared that of 28,000 persons brought to trial, 6,200, atter a long period of confinement, were either acquitted or discharged for want of evidence. This was a mon strous system to those persons, and he hailed with great satisfaction the measure now proposed, which would no doubt remedy this evil in our criminal procedure. Lord CAMPBELL said, on the part of himself and his learned colleagues, they would do anything in their power to favour this measure. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. The Lords' amendments to , the following bills were considered , :—Glasgow and South Western Railway ; Great Northern Railway (increase of capital by the pro moters) ; International Lifa Assurance Society ; New castle-upon-Tyne Improvements ; Newton in Mocker. field Improvement ; South Wales Railway (Consolida tion). The fallowing► bilis were r 3ad a third time and passed :—lpstones Mineral Branch Railway ; London and Brassington Road ; Wished' Port ; East of Fife Rail way. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time :—Barrow Harbour ; Furness Rail way : Westminster Terminus Railway (Clapham to Nor wood). The Southampton Paving Trnst (Saint Pancras) Bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented (several) by Mr. T. Dun corn he, from Clerkenwell and other places in the metro polis for the repeal of the Sunday Beer Act, and against the Sunday Trading Bill ; by Mt. Roebuck from Shef field, for administrative reform ; by Mr. Scholefleld, from the Senate of the Univer s ity of Cambridge, against the Cambridge University Reform Bill ; by Mr. Swift, several petitions from places in Ireland in favour of the Tenants' Compensation Bill ; by Mr. Fox, 17 Petitions from Oldham, praying for the extension of the Beer Act to the whole of Sunday; by Lord Echo, from a place in Scotland, praying for the appointment of a Secretary of State for Scotland ' • by Mr. Headlam, f rom th e Chamber of L'ommerce, Newcastle-on-Ty ne , in favour of the Limited Liability in PartnerThips Bill ; by Mr. C. Bruce (several), from places in Scotland against the Lord Advocate's Education Bill. PARTNERSHIP AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. HORSMAN gave nntice that on the second real ing of the above bill, fixed for this evening, he should move that it be referred to a select committee. VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT. THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on the 31 July lie would move a resolution— ." That this house, deeply lamenting the sufferings of our army in the Crimea during the winter cam paign last year, and considering, in accord ance with the committee, that the conduct of every member of the Government engaged in the management of the war was the first and chief cause of those sufferings, this House does hereby censure the conduct of every member of the Cabinet." (Lmd cries of " hear.") SAVINGS' BANKS IN IRELAND. Mr. D. O'CONNELL asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it was the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment to take into consideration the claims and sufferings of the Tralee Savings Bank depositors, with a view of bringing in and passing a meaiure this session, or early next session, for their relief ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the hon. member was not, perhaps, aware the subject bad been already investigated by a committee of the house, and he was not able to hold out any hope of further inquiry. In reply to Mr. VANCE, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid the same answer would apply to the depositors in the Cuffe street Savings Bank, Dublin. VENTILATION OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Lord ROBERT CECIL wished to ask the Chief Commissioner of Works whether any precautions were taken to ventilate the house, by the opening of doors and windows, during the intervals of its session : whether it was tree that Mr. G. Gurney, to whom the ventilation of the house was committed last year, was habitually absent from the house, and left the care of its ventilation entirely to the subordinates who mismanaged it last yearwhii . the r the Government wou l d object to placing the ventilation, like the kitchen and the library, under the care of a committee to be nominated every session ? Sir. W. MOLESWORTH replied, that with respect to the first question, he was informed the doors and windows of both houses were kept open durin g the time the houses were not sitting, weather permitting ; that the ventilation arrangements were kept in action at all times, day and night, and Men were constantly on the spot to say whether the ventilating apparatus worked properly. As regarded the second ques tion, Mr. Gurney, so far from being habitually absent from the house, wan present every night till a t least 10 o'clo c k, an d rec eived reports of -the workin g of the apparatus every half hour, and that be resided c l ose to the ho use . With regar d t o the third question, lie did not think- it would improve the ventilation of the house —which he believed to be extremely good—under he care of a committee. (Hear.) PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE ARMY. Mr- STANLEY asked the Secretary for War if the Commander.in-Chief had ordered a further inquiry into the conduct of the superior officers and others concerned in the late practical jokes and sham duel between officers i of the cavalry depot at Canterbury, and if that inquiry . _ would be madeliy taking evidence on oath, or only by I , voluntary eviden c e, a s in the former inquiry ; also if 1 there was any objection to produce a copy of a letter, 1 written to the Under Secretary for War by Mr. Stanley 1 on the 16th or Intli day of May, informing him that the evidence of Captain Fitzwygrarn was important, and expressing a hope that no officer concerned would be or dered abroad, as he was informed was the case, with the reply ? Mr. PEEL said, there being nothing to implicate the superior officers in the transactions referred to, no ulterior proceedings were contemplated. Mr. STANLEY gave notice that he would bring for ward the question again on the motion for the house going into committee. (Hear, hear.) THE HANGO MASSACRE. COlonel HARCOURT asked, whether the Admiralty had received any official intelligence that Lieutenant Geneste, Dr. Easton, and Mr. Sullivan, of her Majesty's ship Cossack, were still alive, and prisoners in Russia ? Admiral BERKELEY said no further information had reached the Admiralty on this subject than what was contained in the 'despatches of Admiral Dundas already published. Colonel HARCOURT said be must beg permission of the house to read a letter from the nearest relative of Lieutenant Geneste on this transaction. The hon. and gallant member then read the letter, which requested him to ask the Government whether the authorities in the fleet had demanded the bodies of those who were so cruelly massacred at Hango, in order that they might not be left to the brutality of their savage murderers ? Admiral BERKELEY repeated his former answer. He believed, however, no such claim had been made. He should take that opportunity to remark that he was one of those who had been a long time in office. He could bear the attacks that public men were open to ; but he could not pass over id silence a statement in the Daily News the day before yesterday, which in the most cruel and cold-blooded manner pointed to himself as almost the cause of that deplorable affair, and the statement went to say that the writer hoped when the friends and relations of the deceased met the gallant admiral they would treat him according to his merits. (Hear, hear.) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS IN PRISONS. Mr. KINNAIRD rose to ask the Secretary for the Home Department whether he had any objection to produce the recent correspondence respecting the arrange ments for the religious instruction given by the Roman Catholic chaplains in the prisons of Pentonvil:e and Brixton ? Sir G. GREY said he had no objection to produce the correspondence in question. In reply to Mr. SPOOSER, ' Sir G. GREY stated he was not aware of any chap lains to those prisons being paid except the chaplains belonging to the Established Church. THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. DISRAELI asked the noble lord at the head of the Government whether he had any objection, on Mon day next, to state te the hotiSe the course he intended to pursue with regard to the public-business? He found at the present moment there were no less than 79 orders of the day upon the paper ; and he thought, therefore, it would be very convenient, to the house if the ' noble lord could on Monday at least shadow ' forth the course he intended to pursue at this advanced period of the session. (A laugh.) Lord PALMERSTON replied that he could almost answer the question now. Thera were many measures ; which he should think it his duty to press to a conclu sion ; hut there were others which he did not care any. thing about. (Laughter.) Mr. HADFIELD said he had given notice of his intention to call the attention of the Government to the state of public business, but the right hon. gentleman op. posite had anticipated him. It was most important under the circumstances to ascertain what course the Govern ment intended to pursue. He wished, therefore, to ask the noble lord at the head of the Government whether he would take into consideration such business as there was not the slightest chance of disposing of this session, and thereby reduce the orders to some reasonable dimen sions, as the session was so near its ordinary period of termination ? MR. LAYARD AND COLONEL DA.CRES. On the motion that the house at its rising adjourn until Monday, Sir DE LACY EVANS said he rose for the purpose of making some explanations relative to a few remarks which had fallen from the hon. member for Aylesbury, in the course of the debate last week, and which expressions hai reference to a gallant officer of the artillery, now in the Crimea. The hon. member had doubtless no intention of reflecting in any way upon that officer, but what be had said had led to an inference of that kind. (Hear, hear.) He (Sir De Lacy Evans) might therefore take the oppor• tunity of saying that when in the East he had felt it to be his duty to report that gallant officer to the Commander-in-Chief for his distinguished services in three successive actions, and also after his return home to England he had laid before'the Commanderin- Chief his opinion of those.officers who had particularly , distinguished themselves under his particular observa tion, and with regard to Colonel Dacres, he had stated that in his opinion that officer was the most able:ener getic, and popular officer in that arm of the British Forces. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LAYARD took the opportunity of removing any impression of the kind alluded to which his words might have created, and also offered a few words of explanation as to what he had stated, and the a ithority upon which his anecdote was based, NATIONAL EDUCATION. Sir J. PAKINGTON said his Education Bill was one of the adjourned orders which had already .been referred to ; and to-night bad been fired for its further discussion. But he was anticipated by a notice of motion for a debate on the motion before the house ; and he could not refrait from saying that this practice, which had become so frequent of late, was a great abuse of the forms of the house, and one cause of the great delay in public business which had jest been complained of ; and he could not help hoping that the house would revert to a sounder prac tice. He wished to ask no favour of the noble lord at the head of the Government. As an o pp onen t h e h a l no right to do so, and he begged to state therefore that the question he was about to pat to the noble lord was based upon public considerations alone. It was not conducive to the proper estate of the public that bills of this nature should ba left in the con dition in which whey at present stood. Any person who asserted that the present state of education was satisfac• tory must be prepared to maintain that a large body of official men, clergymen, and others were leagued together in a conspiracy to mislead the country on this question. (Hear, hear.) Sir John then referred to the three bills introduced on the. question, and submitted it was necessary, if Government really was in earnest on this question, to Cow some progress to be made with these bills, and tale decision of Parliament ascertained, that might remit in one bill being compiled from them for introd:ettion in the next session of Parliament. Mre - HADFIELD thought the speech of the right hon,- baronet might be considered the funeral sermon of liis bill. He considered the subject of educating the people of England was too vast a question for him to undertake to settle, and wits of opinion that he had done great mischief to the called of education by the intro duction of his bill. He charged the right honourable baronet with having misled the house with regard to the state of education in this country, and con , tended that placing the education of the people under the inspection of Government ought not to be permitted. Lord J. RUSSELL said the right hon. baronet oppo site was not in fault, nor did he think the Government or the house were in fault, that the right hon. baronet's bill had not been pressed forward, and a decisibn come to on it, because there had been topics of overwhelming interest brought before them. What ever the right hon. baronet might think of the motion of the hon. member for Aylesbury, there could he no question but it was one of very great interest to the country. (Hear.) The right lion, baronet only asked that his bill, aid the °tiler two bills now before the house should pass their second readings, in order that they might be sent before a select committee. That being the course he (Lord J. Russell) did not think the right hon. baronet could expect the Government to appoint an early day for the consideration of his bill, there being so many measures of pressing importance requiring the attention of the house in Order that they might be sent in time to the upper house. At the same time, he thought there might be a day four d before the atten dance of hon. members was lately to be rather thin when this question might be further discussed. (Hear, hear.) He thought it was important to hon. mem bers who were in favour of the voluntary principle, who had not yet taken part in this debate, that an op portunity should be given them to state their sentiments and feelings on this question ; because - they were, in fact, the most.powerful opponents not only to the right hon. baronet's bill, but others on this question. (Hear.) The voluntary efforts of individuals had gained a great deal, but they were not sufficient for the effectual edu cation of the people. He wa , likewise of opinion that the measures adopts i by the Beard of the Committee of Privy Council for E incetion hail done much for edu cation, but they were unable to completely remove the ignbrance that pervaded a large portion of the people. (Hear.) He thought the tight hon. barn, bad exagge rated this case, because he (Lord J. Russell) was far from thinking that the voluntary efforts of individuals, combined with the grants of money by that house for the purposes of education, hod produced no great impression on the ignorance that formerly prevailed. (Hear.) He likewise thought that the education now gi sen—pre•education—was of the most substantial and valuable character ; hut he did not call that pre-educa tion.which vino given by the Government on certain principles, and limited to certain branches of knowledee. On the contrary, he celled that pre-education given by parents to their children who attended the soh eols the parents most approved of, and obtained that k ind of religious teachiug the parents wished. In that respect he considered the education of this country superior to that of the continental nations. (Hear, hear.) He was also of opinion that while; they preserved ail that was valuable in their education they might extend it by adopting a system of rating. (Hear.) On so important and grave . a question he thought it would be sufficient this year if the house came to a de cision on the principle, and in the fallowing year decide how that principle should be carried out. After some discussion, the motion was agreed to. THE SICK AND' WOUNDED FROM THE CRII i IEA. Mr. STAFFORD rose to call the a tt en ti on o f th e house to the arrangements made for payment of the returnedmen fro m the Crimea. It was sa i d that the reason certain documents necessa necessary beforehand notbeen w p e a r i e d n w o a t s fo t r h t a li t - , coming. Surely, this was 'notthe fault o the men ; and he hoped that eolne member of the Government would give him some assurance thee, this state of things should THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 22 1855 not again occur; for nothing could he a better stimulus to recruiting than the certainty by men that they would be properly locked after by the Government on their return to this cuuutry. (Hear, hear.) Mr. F. PEEL said he was sorry that any soldier should be kept out of his pay, but the reply to the ques tion of the honourable gentleman opposite was the same that he (Mr. Peel) had given several times before to similar inquiries. The only answer was that Government did not know what the amount payable to these men really was until they bad obtained proper returns ; and it would not do, in the absence of these returns, to trust to the word of mouth of the men themselves. (Hear.) THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. Mr. W. S. LINDSAY then rose for the purpose of calling the attention of the house, according to notice, to the state of the transport service. He bad no wish, he, said, to impede the progress of public business, but on that question statements affecting his personal honour and veracity had been made, and he therefore felt bound to defend himself from them. (Hear, hear.) [LEFT SPEAKING.] THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 21. With reference to the blockade of the Gulf of Finland already established on the 28th of April last, and duly no tified in the Supplement of the Gazette of the 18th of May last, it is hereby further notified that the Right Honour able the Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty an official communication from Rear-Admiral the Honourable R. S. Dundas, commanding her Majesty's ships in the Baltic, and acting in the name, and on behalf of her Majesty, and of her Ally, his Imperial Majesty the Em peror of the French, from on board her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington, at anchor off Tolboukin Lighthouse, bearing east 16 miles, dated the 28th of May. announcing that ou the 27th of May, all the ports, creeks, and inlets in the said Gulf of Finland (including especially the port of Cronstadt), were strictly blockaded by a competent force. And it is hereby notified that the blockade of all the said ports, creeks, and inlets will be strictly main tained by the naval forces of her Majesty, and of his Im perial Majesty the Emperor of the French, until further notice. It is hereby further notified that this, notification is not in any manner, or for any pu'rpose whatover to be con sidered as superseding, impairing, or altering the notifica tion relating to the said blockade of the Gulf of Finland, heretofore published in the Supplement to the London Gazette of the 18th of May last, but that it is issued only for the further and fuller information of all persons in terested therein. WHITEHALL, JUNE 22. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Neil Mackinnon to the church and parish of Creich, in the pres bytery of Dornoch, and county of Sutherland, vacant by the deprivation of the Rev. John Gunn. MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, LONDON, JUNE 21. The Lords.of her Majesty's Committee of Privy Council for Trade have appointed the under-mentioned gentleman to act as juror fur the Paris Universal Exhibition : Division 1, Class 20—R. S. Butterfield, in room of Samuel Smith, resigned. WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 22. Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Captain J. M. Hogg to be Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase. vice Lord F. A. Gordon, who retires ; Lieutenant H. Wyndham to be Captain, by purchase, vice HOgg, promoted ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant R. W. Grosvenor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wyndham. 4th Dragoon Guards—Wm. Bruce Armstrong, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Fisher. promoted. 6th Dragoons—Troop Sergeant-Major William Motile to to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Evans, who resigns. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Lord Frederick John Fitz Roy to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Conroy, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant Honourable John B. J. Dormer to be Lieutenant and Cavtain, by pur chase, vice Munro, who retires. Scots Fusilier Guards—Brevet-Colonel the Honourable E. B. Wilbraham, from haf-pay Unattached, to be Cap tain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Tyrwhitt, who ex changes; Lieutenant and Captain A. W. H.lltleyrick to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Wil braham, who retires ' • Ensign and Lieutenant F. Lambton to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Meyriek. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign Arthur Kershaw, f rom the 26th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brown, promoted. - sth Foot—John Barnett Barker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Moore, promoted. 17th Foot—To be Captains, by purchase—Lieut. R. Smyth, vice Brinckman, who retires ; Lieut. J. B. H. Boyd, vice Cradock, who retires, 18th Foot—Major J. C. Kennedy to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Reignolds, who retires upon full pay • Brevet• Major A. N. Campbell to be Major, without purchase, vice Kennedy ; Lieut. G. W. Stacpoole to be Captain, without purchase, vi c e C am pb e ll ; E ns i gn R. Isaac Adamson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Stacpoole. 30th Foot.—Lieutenant John Forbes to be Adjutant, vice Walker, promoted in the 3d Foot. 31st Foot.—Lieutenant H. K. J. Waldron ' from the 2d West India Regiment, to b e Li eu t enan t, without purchase. To be Ensigns without purchase.—Ensign H. R. Cromar tie, from the 12th Foot; Lieutenant John James Robin son, from the Queen's Royal Rifles Antrim Militia ; Staf ford Church Mathews, Gent. ; Arthur Trefusis Jones, Gent. ; Arthur Jebb, Gent. PAlFoot—Lieutenant W. A. Birtwhistle to be Captain, without purchase, vice King, deceased ; Ensign C. M. Foster to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Birt whistle. 46th Foot—Frederick Concher, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Fords, promoted. 51st Foot—Actin,; Assistant-Surgeon . George Thomas Bourke to be Assistant-Surgeon. 63d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Henry Crisp, M. 8., from the 64th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Robert Lewins, M.D., who retires upon half pay. 72d Foot.—Major J. W. Gaisford to be Lieutenant-Co lonel, without purchase ; Captain J. Mackenzie to be Ma jor, without purchase, vice Gaisford. To be Captains, without purchase—Lieutenant C. F. Hunter, vice Mac kenzie ; Lieutenants J. Atkinson, W. D. 0. Day, and H. B. Coathnpe. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En sign M. de la Poer Beresford, vice Hunter ; Ensign S. D. Burges, vice Atkinson ; Ensign W. H. Campion, vice Hay; Ensign E. Brownlow, vice Coathnpe ; Ensigns R. St. John and C. M. Stockwell.. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieutenant Charles Stewart Murray, from the E liuburgh Militia; Lieutenant John Pennefather, from the 2d Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia; Ensign James Robert Kildahl, from the Wexford Militia ; Ensign John Price Mackinnon, from the 3d King's Own Staf ford Militia. 82d Foot—Lieutenant George Porter, from the sth Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice East, promoted. _ 94th Foot—The name of the Assistant Surgeon appointed on the Ist June, iu the Gazette of the sth instant, is Joseph Watts, and not William Joseph Watts as pre viously stated. _ _ 93tli Foot—Thomas Francis Lloyd, Gent., to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Mills, promoted. Rifle Brigatle 2 Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Hill, from the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bradford, who exchanges ; Ensign W. H. Eccles to be Lieutenant, without purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Montague John Guest, Gent., vice Eccles; George Augustus Curzon, Gent. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign C. F. Holt to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Waldron, appointed to the 31st Foot. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Bradford from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Hill, who exchanges. • LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. Lieutenant Frederick C. Herbert, of the Royal Navy, to be Naval Assistant to the Director-General of the Laud Transport Corps, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a Captain in that corps, his appointment to bear date the Ist Feb., 1835 ; Quartermaster of Brigade John Jones to be Regimental Quartermaster, vice Hudson, promoted. STAFF. Captain Stonebouse George Bunbury, Unattached, to be Staff-Captain to the Depot of the Medical'Staff Corps. HOSPITAL STAFF. Augustus Pigott, Gent , to be Purveyor to the Forces. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel Thomas Scott Reignolds, retired, full pay 18th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only. The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Company's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign, during the period of their being placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, at Chaham, for Field Instruction in the art of Sapping and Mining :—Charles Henry Luard ; Joseph Bonus ; John Birney ; George Swinton ; Charles Neave Judge ; Charles Augustus Goodfellow; Charles Hancock; Brownlow .Hugh Mathew ; George Scott Hills ; Colonel John Subzberger and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Funck to have the temporary rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in the British army, and C tptain John Baum gartner temporary rank of Major while serving in the Foreign Legion ; Captain Thomas F urness Wilson of the 13th Regim e nt Bengal Native Inf a ntry, a tt ac h e d' to the Tut kish troops, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey while so employed ; Edward Gilborne, Esq., appointed to serve with the Irregular Cavalry in Turkey, to have the local rank of Staff-Surgeon of the First Class while so employed. The undermentioned officers having been permitted to retire upon the Full-pay List of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers under the provisions of the Royal War rant for the Ordnance Department, dated 3d November, 1854, clause 19 and 20, to be promoted to a step of hono rary rank, in accordance with the regulations established by the said Warrant, viz. : TO BE MAJOR-GENERALE. Royal Artillery.—Colonel James Archibald Chalmer. Royal Engiueers.—Colonel Anthony Emmett;Colonel Marcus Aatonius W a t ers . C apta i n the Honourable E. S. Plunkett, of the 95th Foot, attached- to the Turkish Con tingent, to have the local rank of Major in Turkey while so employed. The undermentioned officers and gentlemen having been selected for service with the Turkish Contingent, to have local rank while so employed : To have the local rank of Major—Captain Payn, 53d Foot. To have the local rani; of Captain—John Godwin, Esq., late Lieutenant, 4Gth Foot; Frederick Bent, Esq., late Lieutenant, 58th Foot ; John Redman Ord, Esq. ; Charles A. Hartley, Esq. ; Philip John Doyne, Esq. MEIfOEA NOUN. —The Commission, as Major in Turkey, of Brevet-Major Stokes, Chief Engineer of the Turkish Contingent, to bear date 27th March, 1855. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Roof' ewshiro Regiment of Militia—Captain H. J. Jaun cey, late G2d Regiment, to be Adjutant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Pembroke—Robert Pavin_Davies, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant . . . Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Mortimer Dettmar, Gent., to be Ensign, vice T. Warry, promoted. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—Ensign Nado lig Ximenes Gwynno to be Lieutenant, vice Hardy, ap pointed to the 97th Foot; Elliot Grasett Thomas, Gen , ., to be Ensign. Renfrewshi re Regiment of Militia—Duncan Macfarlan to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bell, promoted. Ist Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Sir Henry Orlando Robert Chamberlain, Bart., to be Lieutenant, vice Lind le.*Y, promoted to be Captain in the 2d Royal Lancashire Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieut. William Marten Kennard to be Captain, vice Christian William M`Neill, resigned ; Edward Kelly Obbard to be Ensign, vice James Duke Hill, promoted ; Frederick B!enkarn to be Ensign, vioe.Auguatua Charles Twentyman, promoted. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Rear-Admiral Freemantle, the successor to the late Rear-Admiral Boxer as Superintendent-in•Cfhief of Trans port Service in the East, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday to hoist his flag. The Perseverance steam-transport left Spithead at Sunrise yesterday morning for the East. The sailing transport Julia was measured and surveyed on Wednesday evening at Cowes by Lieut. Perks, R.N., and•she was towed to Portsmouth harbour yesterday to await embarcation orders. The Camperdown old three decker, 104, used as a berthing bulk for the crews of ships fitting out or refitting in Portsmouth harbour, was towed thence to the Motherbank yesterday afternoon by the port tugs, and moored there for the accommodation of the crew of her Majesty's gunnery-instruction ship Ex cellent, while she is fumigated, &c., having some infec tious fever on board. The Mary Davidson sailed from Spithead last night for the Black Sea; laden with vie tualling stores for the depots there, shipped at the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport. The Myrmidon, , 4, Lieutenant- Commander Maunsell, fitting out at Portsmouth for the Coast of Africa station, will be undocked this morning. Mr. G. H. L. Wise, paymaster of her Majesty's ship Cossack, left Dantsic on the morning of the 18th of June with despatches from Vice Admiral Dundas, off Cron stadt, and delivered them on Wednesday evening at the Admiralty. The fleet was to move down the Gulf on the 14th. The following appointments had been made, conse quent on the late melancholy occurrence at Hango : Mate G. Key to be acting lieutenant, vice Geneste, and appointed to the Cossack, but exchanged immedi ately with Lieutenant his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, who is now third of the Cossack. ..... Assistant• Surgeon G. Duncan, M.D., of :the Duke of Wellington, to be acting-surgeon of the Cossack, vice Easton. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Commander Charles Richardson Johnson, to command the Transit ; Commander J. Murray, to the Coastguard, vice Johnson ; James a a Simmons, Paymaster to the Transit ; James H. Wallis, Assistant Clerk to the Transit. Sir Charles Wood held a levee yesterday itt the Admi ralty. Orders have reached Sheerness to prepare for receiv ing the Transit iron screw steam•storeship from Wool -wich. She is to be got ready for sea with all possible despatch. The mortar vessel Sinbad, having received consider. able damage at sea, has been taken to Sheerness in pilot ch arge. - The Calcutta, 84 guns, Captain James J. Stopford, has landed a, number of her carronades to make room for a further supply of ammunition, shell, shot, provi sions, Am for the fleet. Draughts of the Scots Greys and Bth (Royal Irish) Hussars embarked on Wednesday morning at Kings town, en board the Assistance transpor', to join their respective corps in the Crimea. The North-wall, Dublin, presented on Wednesday a scene of unusual excitement as the Ariel steamer arrived at 12 o'clock, having on board 75 rank and file and 10 officers of the 42d Highlanders, also a detachment of the 79th Highland Regiment, comprising 80 men and two officer , . The lame steamer also brought a detachment of the 33d Highlanders, comprising 60 men and eight officers. These fine troops were formed into line on the quay, after disembarking, amid a scene of bustle and excite ment which increased as the gallant fellows formed in column and marched along the quays towards their quarters at the Royal Bairacks. A detachment of troops, comprising 207 rank and file of th 4 72d Regiment, proceeded from Dublin on Wed nesday to Kingstown, and 'embarked on board the screw steamship Assistance. After the troops had embarked the ship was hauled off to her moorings, where she was to remain until orders had been given for her sailing direct for the Crimea. In addition to the regiments of the Line and Militia_ under orders t o em b ar k for the fortresses in the Mediter ranean, it is intended to increase the reserve companies of the Household Brigade and Line regiments serving in the Crimea, which are stationed as depots in the lonian Isla,nds and Malta. The reserve of the Guards will be inerca,sed by 500, and those of the Line regiments by 80 bayonets, and it is stated that a third battlion is to be raised and attached to the Ist Royal Regiment of Foot. SKETCHES OP THE IRISH BAR ; WITH °THE,' LITERARY AND POLITICAL ESSAYS. BY WILLIAM HENRY CURRAN, ESQ. 2 VOLS.—Mr. Curran's Sketches have many claims On our attention. The author's name awakeni expecta tions of brilliancy and lively thought, and the contents of the work show that the first of the family did not carry with him all his intellectual wealth to the giave, We acceot these sparkling essays as characteristic of the time and country in which they were written. The " Conversations with Chief Justice Bushe"—a charming collection of curious anecdote—are vivid and full of inte rest, and are now printed for the first time. Mr. Cur ran's .own recollections of celebrated persons are just as striking as those of Chief Justice Basile. The two volumes have genuine talent, and exhibit many of the hest traits of Irish intelleot—A thenceuni. let Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia — Acting Quartermaster William Shea to,be Ensign. 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En sign Cave Rumfrey to be Lieutenant, vice Lane, resigned. Kent Militia Regiment ,)f Artillery— Henry Montague Smith, late Lieutenant of the Bengal Artillery, to be Cap tain, vice Northey, resigned. East Kent Regiment of Mounted Rifles— The Reverend John Merland Rice to be Honorary Chaplain. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—Henry Hope Nettlefold, Gent., to ba Assistant- Surgeon. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— James Alexander Pope, Gent., to be Ensign. 3.1 Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— John Brophey, Gent., late 63d Fcot, to be Lieutenant, vice Fitzgerald, resigned. 76th or Highland Light Infantry Regiment of Militia— George Graham Ramsay, Gent., to be Ensign. 3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—James Goody, Gent., to be Ensign. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Lieutenant James Peters to be Cap tain, vice Aitken, resigned ; Ensign James William Knox to be Lieutenant, vice Peters, promoted Ensign William Henry Mordaunt to be Lieutenant, vice Fouler, resigned. BANKRUPTS. William Watson, hotel keeper, York-terrace, Regent's park, Middlesex, to surrender July 3, at two, and August 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Lambert, Whitmore, and Hampton, John-street, Bedford-row. John Durrant, victualler, High Holborn, Middlesex, June 29, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Dum mock and Barbey, Cannon-street, City. William Aaron Rogers, licensed victualler, Sutton, Surrey, July 2, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Howard, Nicholas-lane, city. Charles Viner, wholesale ironmonger, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, June 29, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 9, at twelve, at the Conzt of B an k ru pt c y. B e ll, o ffi c i a l assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Hubbard, Bucklers bury. _ William Batley, engineer, Northampton, July 2, at one, and Aug. 13, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Lewis, Wood, and. Street, Gray's-inn. Fanny Littlewood and Sarah Littlewood, licozsed vic tuallers, Manchester, July 5 and 26, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hernaman, otlicial assignee, Man chester; Wilson, Manchester. Joseph Hamden, bricklayer, Webb-street, Southwark, June 29, and Aug. 9, a t twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assigned, Coleman-street-buildings ; Brady and Son, Staple-inn. Richard Bartlam, grocer, Wolverhampton, July 4 and 23, at half-past ten, at' the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram and Knight, Bennett's-hill, Birmingham. John Parker Marsh, wool broker, late of Salvador House, Bishopsgate-street, June 28 at eleven, and August 9 at half-put twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, BAsinghall-street ; Harris, Moorgate-st. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Thomsou, family linen merchant, Edinburgh, July 2, at one, in Rokvells and Lyon's Rooms, Edinburgh. Henry Laing, merchant, Glasgow, July 2, at twalve, in the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. BANK OF : An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturda: ISSUE DEP4 Notes Issued ........ 31,350,395 4313,50,395 Dated the 21st day of Jane, 185, BANKING DE Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .... .. 3,123,055 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- NGL A. ND. 'th and Bth Victoria, cap, 32, for r the 16th day of June, 1855. ,RTZ4ENT. Government debt .... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 17,350,395 Silver bu11i0n........ - 231,350,395 [. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier, pAILTNENT. Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .......... 12,681,068 Other securities...... 12,399,704 Notes .... ......... 11,8 ,4,•t00 Gold and silver coin.. 710,321 ing's Banks. and Dividend Aec,onnts) 5,586,754 Other deposits ...... 13,307,714 Seven Day and other Sills ........ .. 1,034,770 £37,605,293 £37,603,293 :. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 2lst diy of Jane, I AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending June 19, 1865, exclusive of the Duties of C istom' pq,'d or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British Possessions in America 2ls. lid. Mauritius If East Indies 225. The average price of the three foregoing descriptions of Sugar, computed as above, is 225. lid. per cwt. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tars DAY. Amsterdam 11 17% Gibraltar . Ditto, three months .. 11 19% Leghorn •• .......... 29 85 Rotterdam •• •••• •• •• •• 11 19 yy Genoa .......... •• •• •• 25 45 Antwerp •• •• •• .• •• •• •• 35 Milan " •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Brussels •• •• •• •• •• •••• 25 35 Venice•• •• •6 •••• •• •• e• ilambargh ••• •• •• •• •• 13 7 Naples • • •kr 44% Altona •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• Palermo •••• Paris ........ 25 15 Messina ... ... 132 Ditto, thre months .. 25 35 Lisbon Marseilles 25 37% Oporto .• • • •••• •• 53 14 Bourdea.ux ...• ........ I nto Janeiro ..... .•• Frankfort - on 'Maine •• 118% Buenos Ayre5.......... Berlin I New York,6o days' sight Vienna.... .• •• 12 25 I Philadelphia .. Trieste .•.•••..••• • • • • • 12 27 a PRICES OF BIILIICii, PER oz. Petersburg 35% ,'Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid .........., .... 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 cult, „......... .... 50% ! Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 11% New Dollars 0 0 0 Barcelona. Seville •• ! Silver in bars .. 4 0 5 1% TRANSMISSION OF STAMPED NEWSPAPERS TO BRIT MT COLONIES AND FOREIGN COUNTPIES. General Post-office, June, 1855. On and fr•otn the 30111 instant, the period allowed for posting newspapers inten•led f r transmission by post be yond the limits of the United Kingdom, will be extended from 7 to 15 (lays after the data of publication ; but, be fore any newspapers can be so forwarded, it is requisite that the proprietor, or printer, shall have registered it at the General Post-office, London, for transmission abroad. The following table shows the rates of postage which will be chargeable in this country, on and from the same date, upon newspapers sent beyond the limits of the United Kingdom, These rates must in all cases be prepaid, otherwise the newspapers cannot be sent. TABLE OF RATES. Africa (West Coast) 1d Algeira Free Australia, South Australia, Western Austrian dominions, via France Austrian dominions, via Belgium Azores ld Baltic, H.M. Fleet in id Baden, via France id Baden, via Belgium Bavaria, via France Bavaria, via Belgium Free Modena, via Belgium Free Moldavia, via France ld Moldavia, via Belgium Free Monte Video • ld Naples, via Belgium Free Naples, via France ld Naples, by French Me diterranean Packet 21 Nassau, via Belgium Free Nassau, via France id New Brunswick, via United States 2d 'New Brunswick, via Halifax .. ld Newfoundland New Granada Free New South Wales._ ld Nova Scotia Nova Scotia, via Belgium Belgium, via France Belgrade, via Belgium Free Belgrade, via France l4 Belize, Honduras Bermuda ld B ack Sea, H.M. Fleet in 2d Black Sea Fleet, by transports British Guiana Bolivia ld Brazil Bremen, via France Bremen, via Belgium Free Brunswick, via France 14 Bruns wick, via Belgium- Free Buenos Ayres ld California, via Chagres California, via U. S ta tea 24 Canada, via do. 24 Canada, via Canadian Packet ld Canary Islands Cape de Verde l4 Ceylon, via Marseilles 3d Ceylon, via S'hampton ld Chili ld China, via S'hampton ld China, via Marseilles 34 Countries beyond Sea, via France Cuba l4 Cuba, via United States 24 Cnracoa E. In dies, via Marseilles 34 E.lndies,viaS'hampton 1 Ecuador Egypt, via Marseilles 3d Egypt, via S'hampton ld Egypt, by Fiench Me diterranean Packet 24 Falkland Islands France Free Frankfort, via France ld Frankfort, via Belgium Free Gibraltar .. Gibraltar, via France 24 Greece, via France and Anstrie, Greece, by French Me diterranean Packet 2d Greece, via Belgium, per oz. Greytown Hamburgh, via France ld Hamburgb, via Bel gium Hanover, via France l4 Hanover, via Belgium Free Hesse, via France ld Hesse, via Belgium Free Holland Holland, via France Hong Kong, via Mar seilles Hong Kong, via South ampton lonian Islands, via _ _ United State; 2d Oldenburg, via France ld Oblenburg, vin.Belgium Free Oregon, via Cbagres , 2d Oregon, via United States Papal States, via _ France ld Papal States, by French _ _ lilediterranei'mPacket 2d Parma, via France Parma, via Belgium Free Peru Free Poland, via France Poland, via Belgium Fi ee Placentia, via France ld Placentia, via Belgium Free Portugal . Portugal, via France 2d Prince Edward Island, via Halifax lcl Prince Edward Island, via United states Prussia, via Belgium Free Prussia, xia France Reuss, via France ld Reuss, via Belgium Russia, via France - id Russia, via Belgium St. Thomas ld Sandwich Islands, via California Sardinia, via France ld Sardinia, by French _ _ Mediterranean Packet 2d Saxe Altenburgh, via France ll Saxe Altenburgh, via Belgium Saxe Coburg Gotha, via Franco - Saxe Coburg Gotha, via Belgium Saxe Meiningen, via France '. id Saxe Meiningen, via Belgium Saxe 'Weimar, via _ _ France ld Saxe _Weimar, via Belgium Saxony, via France Saxony, via Belgium Free SchaumburgLippe, via France v • Schaumburg Lippe, via Belgium . Schwartzburg Rudol stailt, via France Schwartzburg Rudol stadt, via Belgium Free Schwartzburg Sonder• Belgium, pet 0z.... lid lonian Islands, via Mar seilles lonian Islands, via France id lonian Islands, via Southampton ... . Java, via Holland 2(l Java, via Marseilles Java, via Southampton id Lippe Detmold, via _ _ hausen ' via France la Schwartzburg Sunder hausen, via Belgium Free Scutari, via France... ld Scutari, by French Ale _ diterranean Packet 2A Sicily, via France ld Sicily, by French Me diterranean Packet 2d Sicily, via Belgium Flee Sierra Leone Spain,viaSouthampton id Spain, via France 2A Switzerland, via France ld Switzerland, via Bel gium Free Syria, by French Medi- _ _ . , France ld Lippe Detmold, via Belgium Lubeck, via France Lubeck, via Belgium Free Madeira Majorca Malta, via Marseilles 3d Malta, via Southamp ton 'ld Malta, by French Me- _ _ ✓ terranean Packet 2(l Tunis Turkey, by direct Packet 1(1 Turkey* via Belgium ld Turkey, via France id Turkey, by French Me diterranean Packet—, 2d Tuscany, via France id Tuscany, via Belgium Free Tuscany, by French Me- diterranean Packet 2d Mauritius, via Mar seilles Mauritius, via South ampton Meeklen burgh Strelitz, via France id Meckleaburgh Strelitz, via Belgium Mecklenburgh Schwe- diterran©au Packet 2(1 United States ld Van Diemen's Land Venezuela Victoria Wallachia, via France Id Wallachia, via Belgium Free West Indies, British ld West Indies, Foreign 'ld Western Coast of South rin, via France ld Mocklenburgh Schwe rin, via Belgium Mediterranean, via Marseilles Mediterranean, via Southampton id Mediterranean, by French Mediterra nean Packet Mexico id Mexico, via United States • Minorca Modena, via France America (Peru ex cepted) ld WurtemburgviaFrance ld Wurtemburg, via Bel gium Free White Sea, H.M. Fleet in ld White Sea Fleet, via Christiania 2d * On newspapers forwarded to the following places in Turkey, &c., via Belgium and Prussia, a foreign rate of postage of one penny halfpenny per half-ounce must be paid instead of a rate of one penny per paper, viz : Beyrout Ibraili Samsoun Botuschany Jassy Serest Bucharest Larnaca Smyrna Cauea My telene Tenedos I Constantinople Mostar I Tchestne Dardanelles Rhodes Trebiond Galatz Rustchuk Tultcha Gallipoli Salonica i Varna On newspapers forwarded to any of the above places by private ship a pcstage of ono penny each must he paid in advance, except in the case of new-papers for the British squadron in the White Sea, forwarded by pri vate ship to Christiania, upon which twopence must be paid. Newspapers intended for transmission abroad must be posted in conformity with the regulations which ap ply to newspapers transmitted within the Ur.ited King dom (Instructions No. 44, 1355), otherwise they cannot be forwarded. It is suggested that every newspaper registered at the General Post-office for transmission abroad should have a notice to that effect conspicuously printed upon it. ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. TRANSMISSION OF PERIODICAL PUB LICATIONS BY POST WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM. The following Post-office notice has been issued : "General Post Office, June, 1855. " On and from the 30th inst. all periodical publica tions, including newspapers, which shall be published in the United Kingdom at intervals not exceeding 31 days, and which shall bear a stamp or stamps denoting the stamp duty, of the kind hitherto confined chiefly to news papers, may be transmitted and re-transmitted through the post within the United Kingdom free from postage, under the following regulations, viz.:— " 1. They will be subject to the same restrictions, with regard to the number of sheets and superficial extent, as are now applicable to newspapers properly so called. These restrictions are shown in the following table : Amount of Stamps Maximum Number Maximum superfi impressed on the of sheets. cial extent of Publication. Letter-press on one side. One penny ......... Two Three-halfpence Three Twopence Four 4591 "No publication, or portion thereof, will be allowed to pass through the post unless it bear at least a stamp of the value of one penny. "2. The title and date of the publication must be printed at the top of every page. " 3. The publication must he folded in such a manner that the whole of the stamp or stamps denoting the full duty shall be exposed to view, and be distinctly visible on the outside. "4. It must not ba printed on pasteboard or card boar), or on two or more thcknesses of paper pasted together, nor must any pasteboard, cardboard, or such pasLeti paper be sent with it a 4 a back or cover thereto or otherwise. " 5. It must be posted within 15 days from the date of publication. " 6 It must either have no cover or a cover open at the ends. "7. It must contaln no enclosure. _ _ " 8. It must have no writing or other mark thereon, but the name a n d a dd r ess of th person to whom it is sent, nor anything on the cover but such name and ad drers, the printed title of the publication, and printed name and address of the publisher or vendor who sends it. " 9. If the publication be addressed to any person within the free delivery of the place where it is posted, it will be liable to a postage of one penny, which must be prepaid by affixing a postage stamp. " The free delivery of London, so far as applies to this rule, extends to such places only as are within three miles of the General Post office. 10. If an y of the above regulations are disregarded, the publication will be detained for examination till the next wail. " If it is found that the irregularity consists merely in not folding the paper so as to expose the stamp or stamps, a postage of one penny will be charged in addition to any other postage to which the publication, if properly folded, would have been liable; In' ease?! any other irregularity the publication will be dealt with in accordance with the regulations applicable to the book pot. •a 11. It is suggested that every publication should have a notice to purchasers conspicuoußlypr'nteil, point ing out the net essay of exposing the stamp or staves to view, whe:. ever the publication is sent through the post. _ _ " 12. Un•tamped publications, or stamped publica tions whir • have been issued more than fifteen days, can be warded within the United Kingdom and to most c ,he colonies under the regulations of the book post " .3. Newspapers and other periodicals published in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and the Isle of Man, will be subjeot to the same regulations as those which are published in other parts of the United Kingdom. " 14. The regulations under which stamped news papers may be sent through the post to foreiln coun tries and British colonies will form -the subject of a separate notice." BOWL IND lIrLL, Secretary. MR. HENRY DRUMMOND AND THE MIDDLO CLASSES. Mr. Henry Drummond is the spoiled child of the House of Commons ; and it is not very creditable to the taste of the house that it spoils such a bantling by ap plauding his impertinences. What with his religious mysticism and his buffoonery, Mr. Drummond might be imagined to be the issue of a marriage contracted by the late Jack Reeve and Johanna Southcote; while the gusto with which he retails scandalous gossip would seem to indicate that he is a lineal deseendant of the Mr. Tattle of Congreve's "Love for Love." On Monday evening Mr. Drummond, with his usual lack of logic, defended the monopoly of office possessed by the oligarchy and its retainers on the ground of some frauds detected a year or two ago among the venders of coffee and other groce ries. Because some tradesmen were proved to have adulterated the commodities they sold, he assumed that the whole of our middle classes, " from being a nation of shopkeepers, have become a nation of rogues ;" and went on to infer that none of them could be trusted with the management of public business. Were we as dis posed to indulge in inconsequential exaggerations as Mr. Drummond, it would be easy to retaliate and charge the whole of the oligarchy With, the faults of the hon. member for Rochester and others of his class ; but we quarrel with oligarchical exclusiveness not because of the questionable morality of some of the class. We op pose it, because by limiting the range of selection of pub lic servants, it prevents the nation from availing itself of the aggregate of national talent in the management of public business. Mr. Drummond's sweeping attack on the middle classes for dishonesty is not, however, entirely destitute. of a plausible foundation. Recent occurrences would seem to show, not indeed that we have become a nation of rogues, but that the irreproachable integrity which was supposed to be characteristic of our mercantile classes, and which—as the source of their credit in all the markets of the world—has been the main cause of our national prosperity, is becoming lowered in its tone. The systematic adulteration of food and drinks to which Mr. Drummond alluded is not confined to the small traders of the suburbs, but is brought home to some who, in virtue of their wealth, maintain an influen tial position in the community. • Nor can it be said that their reception in general society has been in the least affected by the exposure they have under gone. It is not our practice to prejudge legal in quiries by pronouncing an opinion on cases about to undergo a scrutiny in courts of law ; we, therefore, abstain at present from comment on the recent bank failure. For the same reason the only remark we now offer on the awkward stories about forged dock war rants, which have recently been obtruded on public at tention, is that we hope the unaccountable scruples of the City Solicitor, as to instituting legal proceedings regarding them, may be got over. In the interest of public morals it is necessary that the subject should be thoroughly probed. But while we abstain from pro nouncing an opinion on any personal accusation at -the present stage of the investigation, we are entitled to say it is with deep regret we find it admitted that indivi duals who have had forged dock warrants placed in their hands as securities, have compromised and hushed up the matter on a prospect being held out to them of recovering the money advanced. If any cabman de tected in uttering a bad half-crown were to allege that indeed he knew it to be bad, but that having taken it unawares, he thought to save himself from loss by pas sing it off upon a customer, would any magistrate listen to his plea ? Now, we confess that the person who allows the forger of a dock warrant to escape, on ob taining indemnity, appears to us to differ from our sup posititious cabman only on account of the greater magni tude and mischief of the fraud at which he connives. And it is with regret that we hear such a practice so frequently spoken of in an apologetic tone as pardonable in men threatened with extensive. losses. What is that probity worth that is not proof against the prospect of loss ? And how long will that credit which is the ani mating principle of English industrial enterprise—the main-spring of our national greatness, survive if such a lax code of morality is allowed to prevail ? The penal laws are more especially of use : to deter the weak- and wavering of the respectable classes from lapsing into crime. The bulk of the offenders who figure in our courts of justice belong unfortunately to a class who have been trained to violate the laws , --with whom crime is a profession. They embrace it with a full knowledge of the risks they incur, as a soldier enlists with a knowledge that he may any day be called upon to confront inevitable death. For them the penalties of the law are almost entirely stripped of their terrors, and habitual guilt has in many cases paralysed their moral will. To guard society against these banded enemies, who lurk within its confines, something else than mere penal law is required ; something which the best heads and hearts of tho civilised world have for more than a century been labouring to discover or invent—hitherto, alas, with very indifferent success. But upon those whose moral nature is not entirely corrupted, wo may , reasonably hope that punishment will exercise a refor mative influence, and that the example of their chastise ment will deter many weak and wavering as themselves from yielding to temptation as they have dome It is mistaken mercy—it is treason to society—to shield de linquents of previously respectable standing, out of pity for their fall, or regard for the feelings of their con nexisns. Such tampering with the law promotes lax moral opinions and practice. It has justly been remarked by Montesquieu that in absolute monarchy what is called the principle of honour may to a great extent serve as a substitute for virtue, but sound and severe moral princi ples are indispensable in a popular government. When a free people, he maintains, become more corrupt than their government, their downfall as a nation is near at hand. Thera are symptoms at this Moment among our selves which indicate that no time is to be lost in avert ing a dangerous lapse from a high and severe tone of mo rality among our industrial classes—that is, among the great bulk of the community.— Lally Nears. THE BANKRUPTCY OF STRAHAN CO. 'Ja i SEABORNE MAILS. _ (N signifies that the mails are sent lions ey the night—and M by the morning-61°P' uF Day vrtica ra Evle o n tnGeecn,etraolndPoonst.; Every Friday • • .. •• .. re .• ; 13d of the month .. 1;4, 9, 24, & 30 0 (11 ' 4th & 20th of mon. ;17th of the Moe' Daily ..... . •• •• 9 9th 00l the month Ith 9th of th 3 month Hon ~Wed.,&FrlL ! ?,1 & 17th nf !Once a month • • • • j8,13,18,23,5cas of I4th S.; 20th of mon.' Irevice daily ..... 1 1 Twice daily • • • • • • , 4, 7, 17, 20, 27 dm f2rici & 17th of ulon'i iTuesday Sz. Fridfql i2n4 of the Mo nti ' • 17th of the moutn 9 •l 14th & 20th °f1u ... 0 .1 19th& 25th of 113 0 . t . "l 17, 17, & 27 of Mon . 'Twice (laity' •• 7, 17, & °Cu., Monti/ , 123 d 01 month •• •• ,9th of the 8, ig t & 28 Of ra°l/ 14th of the m0nti ) 1,..,._ v,„sopton '2n.l of the Month. ,rf_t., 15th 15tb2Iithof Mon. i.uut;flipten '2d& 17th of moral, ,Irarioto port, By private st. ip .p sth 1 Stb 2 thofm- on!Do_ I t hl7 th 27 thofirion.l!„ Ittoo ee RI Pr 27th ntoo.!_t a , fly private ship • .. Istlllsthil thotmoi 1 2 5 d u 4,lslt7htli2stohionaltnonotni iD is:lttortiptOmi ver joy , 1 shl 110"1 :JO I I outhrapt___on COUNTRIES kmerica(byllrit.pack)N kmerica, kby United Sts. packet) ..........N kmerica (by U. Stated packet) cknstralla (via South- 1 arnpton) Ditto (via NI amines) NI Ditto (via Cape of Goed Rope) ............N tflica (West Coast) .. N i klexandria N 13ahamas ...........N Belgium ............N Brazil .............• 31 Buenos Ayres Cape of Good Hope N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N Channel Isles ........N China . Constantinople Constantinople Cont. of Europe N Egypt (see India) France ........ Et! N qibraltar 31 greece (see India) Greytown .......... M Hamburgh ..........N Havannah .......... NI Holland .... Honduras —lll India (viaSoutliampt.)M India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ........ M & N Lisbon.- wadetra Wadeira Malta (see India) .N Mauritius (see India) Wauritius Mexico •• •• •. •• •• ••31, Naples . • •••• •• •... • •IN New Granada ' New Zea1and...... .... Papal States ...... •• N Peninsula • • •• .• •• ••M Peru ............•.M Port Natal •• •• •• ••••NI Tuscany Venezuela Van Diernen's Land (se , Australia) Wost Indies .... •• ••N '2rlSs 17thot rnonti Cure c . [AnvER frol o dys . TISEMENT.I---Fifty years indescribable agonuy n.o, lent Pepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, eonstipatio ; T o o beenY, spasms, sickness 'at the stomach, and vomiting:_bica Foo I removed by Du Barry'S exc,ellent Revalenta .%T.',„it. r iiN,,,,°;,:,3,9o6.—Thirteen years cough, indigestion, and gc;;0, —Maria Jolly, Worthani Ling, near Piss, li.ri!,e, di ''''"'tY have been removed by Du Barry's cxcel]entr,.',. valent a Arabic% F od.--Jatnes Porter, Athol-strect, POP, !iaered 'a IS ay From the Dowa'r,er°Countess of Castlestuart. Cure 52,615'..i Rosstrevor; County' f Down Ireland, 9th December, to The D owa ger Conntess of uasbie,tuaii, i.e. ~. es . interest of sufferine• humanity, to state that Du Barij,c, ,I 1 ~..cellerit Revalenta *Arabia. Food has cured her, s'_`;oos nedicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great 0`„"food ess and irritability of many years standing. Tl' l co y 1) 0 deserves n ~ the confidence of all sufferers, and MAY „ad. 01:. , 5; C fo h r( ci i p li s i i i.e d neg e . ; c; real blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfullY si o 'r b. ,4. T in canisters, 11b. 9d,; 21b. 4s. 61; 51b. Ils. ;fp,. parr! _ t u e 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of Post -office 0 ,„."' IS l' p i Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street, Loudon ; o.;"trand; 4.eeadillY; 60, Gracedsurcb-street ; 330, sod 4 s ° 0, m c all; 7, ring-cross; jesptorepreneit.hi,lll3ca; ak4lne9rde,esl3tur.iestehotowlistra la840::orls5000t:: Pall-mali-East ; omb-street ; 13, King •William-street, CitY 67 Sb. t; , 132, New Bond-street ; ''codui.• street ; 21, Coekepur-street • 95 F. -ringdon-stre° „Ae. Paul's Churchyard ; 6, Edwa ' rd-arejeli; Poi ttiOu tg-- Talk of Robin Hood and Little John in Sherwood Forest, of Rob Roy in the Highlands, and of their dingy imitators in the metropolis described by Dickens and Ainsworth, we believe there to be a perpetual succession of the class. Perhaps the same man passes from one form into another—developing, accerding to the changes of society, from a forest.r to a. mountaineer, thence to a highwayman, thence to an instructor of pi i pkpockes and receiver of their day's work in St. Gi , es's. The last stage before us is very splendid, —a gilded butterfly corn pared with the shabby chrysalis and the worm. Only think of a select society of gentlemen, high in the fashionable, and even the,religious world, living in mag nificent style for years and years on the dep .sits of a number of confiding, and even admiring . , noblemen and gentlemen. They have had good houses, costly furni ture, splendid establishments, sumptuous entertainments, and the best of company to the very last, with the full consciousness that they were doing it all out of the money of some score, or rather some hundreds, of people who felt it an honour to put their money into the hands of such men. The aristocratic adventurers of the Captain Macheath school, who would never stop any thing less than a gentleman, .were not so nice in their ideas or so select in the class of their victims. Howthe gay coterie must have laughed in their private meetings at the Earl of This or the Marquis of That, and the scores of Right llonourables, and the.substantial coun try gentleman, and the excellent gentlewoman, and the religious societies, and the respectable of every rank, who were throwing their money into the till, never to see it again ! Is there no Gil Blas to write an ac count of this bandits' cave. The clergy, who are always imitators of what is good and great, and have an instinct in favour of the substantial and abid ing, have thrown the savings of their rectories into the bank. Almost anybody who happened, by the sale of a property or the death of a relative, to be burdened with au odd fifty thousand pounds he did not know what to do with, felt immensely obliged to those kind gentle men, Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates for relieving him of the troublesome charge. Why, it is the m erest chance in the world they have not gone on i n definitely,_ right into the next century ; for there are all sorts of stories afloat of people who were on the point of . i when another twenty thousand or seventy thousand i u n P t n o , t a ll! bank. They have been so long in the business, a ways so respectable. People remembered them i aud, they were cricketers, and all that sorb of no doubt thigh less able latterly to bat and to su bstantial every they wee becoming more and more tb ' e time the whole year—nobody knew how rich. All much al the crossing. firm was not collectively worth a t th ng, and they knew it. As they sweeper opposite their door ; an . arm, they knew that walked out of their Bank arin t j e n ether. he was worth all of them put to n then:selves lono. on a People who have been bleu dour and b lan iruptcy get narrow ledge between spu tmatter no what you do rather unscrupulous. It ca with a man's money w hen you are really living upon it. It would only be an id le superstition to resp ec t th e form when you are devouring the substance So, not only common deposits,but securities—viz., Dutch h bonds, Italian rail way shares, and every guilders. Danis form of paper in which prudent clergymen and judi cious capeA '' lists cou l d invest their savings, have passed into the strong room of 217, 213, Strand, to pass out of it nobody knows where. There is much virtue in lock and key.. There may be everything under it, there may be n othing ; and at the aforesaid number in the Strand the latter seems to have been the case. We suppose there was an unusual influx of wealth in the last week —a sort of flickering in the socket. The partners found, „ di 1- 0.4 it is said, a good round sum in the till. So they wrote girity" c i • h by to their particular friends, to certain favoured deposi-Printd and Publis e 000 0 , 11 tors, to give them a hint ; and when some three-fourths LONDODT : 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun 00 oasp or so had been sacrificed to friendship, or perhaps to of 14 : o. . the Precinct of the Savoy IP make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, they Strand, in vriday, Jun " p, 065• left the remainder to the public, just al the genteel high! • Alici4i4geli BIRTS S. , °WI G OF A SON. iv iro 0 , sne. is 1 .v Wentworth andal ouoen o unnhni n ettewow .ts daughter t oaa. e fluHd 2 gt O hh J.. Milton,tetoßhe Er. inst . , at 1:3 - pp e r Clay -0 0 $ tont Jacomb, jun., Esq. •, , On the 20th inst at 3 Abercromby-14:01% iteber street, Glasgow, the wife of Robert 6 woe o fAlbe ri Esq. the On the ,Bth inst., at Mitcham, Surrefo Nv.torortb• Tipple, Rig , surgeon. -st reet' On the 19th inst., ate 4, Sutherlana road, Mrs. F. A. Sheppd. god OF A DATIGFITO. i ik, WO. On the 15th inst., at Catfield, l' rel ' ° glc, the fly de-P,,,, o .inet On the 20th inst., at 3, Somer's-pisce,,f ijincoi. wife ca u tso r tr r s a i s y h , pe ei : : ::" re , 6 0 1, Deea co p, r 0 , bCauol wife‘ n i st John hh e o r ee . h - a n2i t O6B oifo o. the wife of Captain Spoor, 6th ItnYel e 'g r a• y the 0 tb ° MA.RR I B D. whitehl, C, worth Fitzwilliam, only 'daughter Hilton• 13, CO' at the Chapel 1t09e,,.1* 0 3116 1 1 Ifir t a . o°n i3_ the t.h e 1 2 2 1 t s h t iinnaoPssa3rfttoiln..L,r'dlotc,afldrtt3o,baSiin:ttille. George',C‘is ::;:li:eft°,ri;net l i a l ir:13 ;0 .1.145;: Ittth or On the 20th inst., at GreaeErt'nlMl:clilu'lnvinegbrenri°tO°l:,-I:;..veelj:Jacieellrlo.el, Tower, R.N., to Augusta Fredericka 11'; e8 jeciw" youngest daughter of the late Frederic• J. Be ll Bishop of St. David's. grief rff t i r oeaßfn io. the fch behgi ri s 70 family ra. O ee n t, th a e ge. 2 l o 6 t 6 h . 'DI E D. o p• . sentillWelY Mr. Frederick Wilson, late of Ilanway-stred inst., a 7, Grove- terr a t and et ihe 1# iiir , inst., accidentally drowned by w-,:fibt--„ boat during a squall of wind, in Chelsea,' o p Pil; George Pegg, aged 20, second son of WilliaM x ttraeitiv P i l l a y ee and ne f a ri r en B d lans"' e ll ' golf , ell' _ On the 16th inst., in London, James Brovill-of Sic Esq., Coroner and Town Clerk of the borougP of mond, Yorkshire, aped 51 se r g e ,n ea On the '2oth ' ' .... • inst. Alr. 1' ithani Calvervrell. a load,Blackfriars.' ' Surrey, and formerly of 13r0 , On the 15th inst. at 111idwayplaco, 58. -Util e ' to the inOr hitho, the Rev. John Kingsford, so 85. 30 0 ,, On the 11th inst., at Mescnich: Cochen-un'tb;3; gill:, ri:ssia,, whilst bathing, drowned in each otb el oh I' Bowes, aged 12i, Versey, 10, and Albert, 0.1816 o'l t liree youngest sons of the late- Peter Nugent Ve P Kinsale, co, Cork. Lon er read' -- 1 11.••••••••••••••••••••• wayman of the old school used to present his victim With a guinea out of his own purse, for luck, t o carry h i m to the next town. Really the thing has been d one in such grand style, and it is of so little importance whether it is Sir John Smith or Sir R , )bert Jones who gives a good dinner, that we could almost admire the biiilianci °f and orphans, and wards, the fraud. But, unfortunately, as usual, there is 5 crowd of little as wards a 'great deposiOrs. Widowg compose the bulk of the sufferers. It is said a good deal of the prize money due to our poor sailors has gone to and, among others, thewidow of Ad bolster up the credit and the hospitalities of the fl r°4 and small people of all sorts, uli lost his • ' • savings. Is it possible to exaggerate the crimf? of such a career ? What is it to rob, ay, to rob and o ce, murder half-a-dozen people, put them out of pain at and dispose of their bodies where nobody will know anything about them, compared with the act of scatter: ing ruin over hundreds of quiet, respectabl, and virtuous households, the scene of sacred econot* 'rat Boxer has and the sweet charities of domestic life ? 11 _, ° ,1 become governesses l ! how many young many girls will go portionless ! how many young lam e _ tralia, or behind counters, instead of is College or the Guards, in consequence of this bankruptcy l flow 1133°1 hearts will be broken, how many constitutions uncle :- mined by trudging and drudging, that have bithe! o_. known nothing worse than a headache after an evell t l Z party or the shaking of an ill-hung carriage' dealWha Out the perpetrators deserve, could we really crime 1 Unfortunately, f the penalties in proportion to the real malignancy o the men go to itur only scandal, lately betrayed in high commercial o'l'23_ll tern. Absit omen. We trust we are on the ore . 1 . .7 greater mishap than the ruin of a few hundred faniiin° this is not the only blot, __. :—liraes. COUNTRY 41AlargrAg• 9s few9d fatto li.:131 7 0 3 4 db ; large attendance D-g -------4.--__ de an d ° There was a plentiful supply of fat beasts to. ' ,-lt ItßY of SbMiuyTerns,FtlhEeLD.—JaNg 19. as Sheep some preceding markets, and several lots leflu :u'ir. per plyandinguest. of lambs small, considering the demand, and sbuld pigs, 9s f 60 t ° " ; lb. mutton, 6d to aw34;ere the quotations :•---Bee 6 d te l a p er per lb. . , an , I EDINBURGH pricesup. Oth peGdrBeßprdseAlretr lb loote:::11;1015:61;vbila;:831:315::: :'(. 1 3412t5 1 6 0 6: l a s . I t 'll9: lB' P'4l o 4Pait n ill. last .w week's ht quotations. k ------- 14,11 co, The supply of all kinds of grain 1 " t a decline brisk Wheat on the top same as last Marke t, versge 2d is 1d the a ,„ Aos o, up Barley on the top 641 up, and down. Oats on the top Bd, and the aversige ls zu " Beans on the top 2s, and the a verage 7 d u°Wl3 ‘ Total Supply and Salo. sold 106 0 (lro Wheat lO7O cirg '''' . '' . ''''''' sold 361 01 Barley 6" cirs '''''''''' sold 649 clul Oats rs 1213 qrS ''''''''''''''' sold 124 Beans 175 qrs ............... 881 pd Top of Wheat ........... .. 6 61113 AO 0J ••• •••••••••••• • goi lb - , • 5 si - Barley ............ ..••••••••• 54 •b 363 Oats .... ........ 4 and the aversge 4 . ~ 6,1 Beans .... ................. ' 67 ilb uvi . ................ -- ..... NEWARK—Jusit 20. r 0 o f all to 31s ; beans, 48: to rOg ; of grain. Wheat on the advance. , riot . kinlAld 7 . 8 good attendance of farmers , 48: n t e a a r t e , s w, s h B i st e t 0826sotsop8e6rscirr.ed 764 to 795; D voating I: to 360, Vilv, grinding 36: to'3Bs; oats, 245 t. 3- , . pea, 45a 26s —__- BOSTON—AiI 20. wh i, finegi and liberal lOW samples of ed supply of all descriptions of ~aiD• %Alas °. ore 2s p 5 r A sp , i r: l o.(g i 3 w c2o i_ s t rn:p w ei aßhrseetqaa Beaus, s m, week's a e 4n t sy w cjo i .u t a h of tt r oa e ti I:toirlcict:stps3s.,l)nwtd:tee. er 7 b lo 2 :: :o t e e e9 or s,l, is,:,,:su:tsrapo'..pt; : sti r 0 0 a r o 0_ f of le to 9 money than on this da sien'nenri°l3t-.3 For all ilesor l P r ted. to 78,3 o irs :—Wheat, red, 705 Od to 755 Od ; virll,l,, bd. 0 .41 , extra. 81s Od. Barley, 345 0(.1 to 3 7;,, od to 9 Per qr. ---------- , pit.offi.ce 0 841°1°1'61 ,atch., WbeL rr ,„ w est du e 1 1 por t Eir iset - DisP /•"50 - ti LiverpoOl 11 .10 4 LilerP°°l 9OUtll4nWt°' 44 10 ° DS°ollVterha "2"P'W.I: ,01,1 ne ° 6 alf" plyraOn tb DoVer •• coP ior dis So u to o al P Sou , itt Dover Ja n 16 SoutbseaCto„ jarkeroja souttl,"l„,' rtsitrellc v a rlotts too southeril 1 g lit ,1.00 1 .... 'loll ;v , hit oPt pn ptc ,6 l i ,sott er•••" . ir of o tonl poi . ,3° ' 1 5 ., e d0 soda'poveraitiopior.'l Lbo ° : I •• Dodo' 'ow Sout hsl2l ;. Dover ' o .%ptoll sout h ' th •• ~D O ve !VI I I • ° .o'l Iver.• •• !DO ea d :.• : , sou th.-- nto o !sou thall'i 'Liven ° ." Dover " ! J oe 16 i Po' l l 6 i po e Jone .. 1 00 I joe Id