The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-02 00:00:00

~•••••• 1:05 1/ 1 S "... i n of deservi'l e r m itinues o g i L ov ed to„histrs ctillt a nd aco st ; tiai ko: Astis o' l he Cgebot °t,i, I n _ . . 4 giel 1 gew; i ' e d Great 51)5, tbo t b, Ire ty- r o .j f s tat' o f this ivor la r iolis trio ta boi ) I '' here W dr or; • moor fe wri t. , ho w of e of eau ty e fie at) el' tur go 9 ' vd 110 OS C bOIP e r ro the aze y g ei t o, jo lc h of tb°,,,,Jaf: t .es,,t sty le°) e Y MA 11 KET aND CONMBROLA r, TNT f:I.LINRYCE. CITY Two O'CLOCK. d atelaihye,caott,on ma r k et at Liverpool Surat are 0. Per lb 41 ' Prices of American and . I at 8 000 yesterday elo-e b • clearer. The saes were es , imate( . peculatio s ale ' 0,000 of which . ' Wer ' e for export, and 3,000 on l am ), comprising 500 Pernam and Maran -1 f lat to Bd. ; 6d. to 6d. ; 200 Egyptian at 6 • _ is, Surat at 31d. to 4 2 d. ; and 60 Sea Islands at s ' A t o is. ld. per lb. Accounts from Mad r id state that a new loan was S an Probable, and that i n the meantime the Bank of Fernando had agreed to issue notes, redeem- There able , L aa early as possible by the Government. _ ten the v. -as Yesterday afternoon a downward t ti ! eY in the quotations for bills of uponexchange 'le leadi e , • • 12 ., ( , ) 3 was taken at 25 421 to 4 i i, Amsterdam d a b. _ ~ cities of the Continent.. Paris, 90 at T rieste lt° 12 (4, Ramburgh at 13 7i to 12 11 to 48. at i n iu 8, and .tne Great Central Railway Company intends l'alsin extra capital to the amount of a millicT terest bonds of 280 francs each, to be re- Yeats front _5OO francs by annual drawings in 99 t.unathdanuary, 1860, each bond to bear in- The .... e . rate of about Si. 7s• per annum. a ve ry lungfisht Stock Market has been steady, with marksed business doing. Consols have been a_d 88-a to f 4 for transfer, and 88i to A 1 ° ,veount, though at present 881 t• Bank Stock it a r a_ b.ebti firm at 210 to 211 k. Exchequer Bills m 1, 4 ,5. to 'T s . , 0 'Oni • and the and India Bonds ss. to 12s. pre Ata xia . . um is at par to k premium, Por 7 is at 16 34 5. and tl y , __ No Securities rule exceedingly quiet, _ l i'v•ari T at u i° rk il ish il t p r o i n ce d a s i a s re ncA i, n t f o i 7 m 3 tortance gene t e L e i r e,e,nts. 87- 1. Spanish 3 per Ce a n n t d e. ll ; Russian th e ha "' l e Novi' Deferred 18, and the Certificates ceve been weaker Viz., 31 to 4/.. Dutch 4 per „__ 13 !! 1 • are marked' 9U} to 901, The South Amen v'tu_Stocks are nominal. The folio stocks . wing are the nominal prices of foreign cm. 2.rda Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61; . p er , e ll to 9n - 'i ; Peruvian, 68 to 70; ditto Three 41 to 43,) 47 to 49 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,_ o ditto 43 ; Russian. Five per Cents., 98 to I-u 9O Bpka. Pour -and-a-Half per Cents., 88 ber d 4 / 1 Nov? Deferred, 17i to 1811 ditto to Thr i ee ; ditt o ; its ., 3 51 to 361; ditto Certificates, 4 to 4 2 There ksive, 31 to 4i. of th e i s very little alteration in the quotations_ bea v i • nglish Railway of the h0 1 ,,1, i lloo are rather heavy. The business doing, n. Shares, but some Catia,;!'r) continues limited. The Indian and 10E4;41 undertakings are still in favour, t Minesu Ines& is observable. ery s t., are dull, the Joint -Stock Banks firm, and va• Palace maintained previous values. thr i ,, .44 FUNDS THIS DAY. —CLOSING PRICES. ( Prom the Oficial Lia. / u_oeco ....u....u..c.e..d...an....ni;itia; * :: *** ::: .1 44 1 z a ts 4t e 11 , tit a „ Ilt • Consol s . 1-t m , A rsr cont. Annuities Annuities bittZititie% E xp li re i l i t e b s Jan. , l see - lowsbitt. 30 ;ears, Expir e 10th Oct., 1859 0 _ P, O ears, Expir e sth April, 188 il6 3-16 Ibi„_ Ms. 41lku *** 1- ; 5 , n 4r a , raider unto....****************** - - - 13rstlitin:"A-essuat, 10 . 6; * :), , ,I;; ********* 881 3 icte.. . *********** i p par ~'"(111ex bil l *** '• 410 00 8 , 2tcl. . izo r,.._ ......................... -- 4 7 , ........................................ 4 7. / . ` ll 4she cine ; ... ... .... . ....................... . 4 . Dit to • ends 1 858, 3i per Cent, 991 periP,ltlq OF 1;59, „ lt, Nu 11 0 _, . OREIGN FUNDS hi:tstellia4 Bonds :11 per Cent Tki 1..8 DAY. 5. 1 , 8 2' 1 301, 1 , 18, 1,1 Per,Cent B7l A, ‘wi N ewt '', Per Cent 36 i _mol e.,_ .eterred, 3 per Cent lB 171 41 tkiel l tolaralttee Cert. of Coup • not fun 42 4. 4i Ditto fo, 'l, 6 per cent bitt o fit'opge Accou n t 731 24 3; 11 73 bllt e ~.')lvil . „'. . ... .. ........ h ilzeb" — q a B on the above pavanie in 1- --01111±T. '' tO 4 iZat' e , 2i per Cent. 12 Gull— !,;!, , 11z. Certifieates ... TH.li-Lv ?3,:!nto:s .. . 881 nto, Aia . 3, . . .i c . c . 0 .. u .. 0 .. t . .......... ....... 881 i Tin , iness done 210 113 87 i A A 878 31- Ak. ._ (TILIS D AY . ) -'' -11%71"—ILLIGE JYC E . --.2.-- C E R V. 4 111 I 0 C OURT OF CHAN °tin tsealie-rPOrated Society for Prom f Churches d 011 a ',Btillldiug, and Repairing ° Pet v. Coles. I' ' upon the tont.2l,e Lerci Chancellor, the Enlar a g o e- . (I;4o,llt'a eollllßel t address the Couit,.h cots. 11) a„,,nti dinnlissedthis appeal with Appeal without blitto k ° eler e th Lord Justices of ca_lin affirmed tlie re ,,..-- 13IIIIIINQUAell R AILWAY V. I Th e toN j ORIN . Cl{ .--JUDGME I , e NT iud:, Yment of their erdehips t„,,,est!ee Turner gave I SPOTTISWOODE AND ho reported t e k tdehi 8 onaY in this case, which came before th ' ls t i'l ' -.'" a PPeal from the Master, w ~ the for t Skittiewood Major Anisinck woe . liable, ,and the t e 'r to reua e and their deposit' . tilt, e a te r to b ear j to the allottees constructing a iloa, trout tirroi'negineer,, it, 1545, for ioiii thence to tallwniPleYreent qf"' ex that had been incurred in Af t ‘ o 'f: and tright!'llate to Oxford, and r a Usti ee f i n:: at 0 , 4 :!* Mr ' s Turner statedlcle.rable length with both ; to be that - bear ttliviroode his clear opinion liable to that th!„.elcPenses and kajor wereAins inck herparties, and the case, Lord The "ignaster baPualiY with the conclusion. 01)-`4014 justiceeolne to a right in b e d a nd the 'knight Bruce c a __„l moti s/1144d, but 4 ordered both the IT" - Without costs. oncurred ill . t o h n is s 4111.1/111111/4$ /i „.„11131417S COURT. of the ' gave ihldl"`"TE.--.IIIDGMENT.—The the in Was fileTtgltent to day on thi s case in defendant . br4o„Qe4et for(3trht4 Purpose of compelling thee ich he had ti,.4ghilly ‘,,,,,., produce of 'certain coals w in g to the Master of gintift ~,,v'tN lrein under hand h e. lo . n g n that coals ( h a l e be% irti"4l:::ohdopour being clearly of opinito _ro_ under takolatd of jerlY taken by the defendan efounwt to be , • 1310 and di r "e Plaintiff, ordered the ac letiffun ,_ected the defendant to t' ‘0 the pay the costs to the Viertreely on COltbj7,,A., (I.E. , mar kniittcioatell llZite,?winlt 10%Illiwahtt wt heat rivasi,ontislealLisilteoss"-ri',B,ngdwayas. excepeehrehivehreyr teiive/4:lV4eer trade wasfnsoutPPsoY'active mostaa on Monday t o wn re with, firm, e r and (IrtiAti f thelate import! f foreign wheat have been . I kinds. %Ild :0% stile. There ow-asaLod inquiry for al t tarb„Da,„reels egoeld a bove 's Monday's rates. request on 4 ,,ine r t was in t inipply and moderate b e tok place. 4 e vat t, le:Zs. In the valu e of malt no change d° quite as 414 ea ti' P e as, and flour were steady, an endaY. tiu, AIMITALS TIM WEEK. 1414 ;Nat. Harley. I matt. toritt,,,.. 'l°2° 1,0.0 • i 1,720 ..... I --. .. 6 )16 0 ) 650 t ( 34, 130RolIGH nor. well 41140 vntlicet • week's prices are tted is Steady, and last Erie. 4 kind WRITECHAPEL. 11 quotations .14-4ef, 3. - :, ef naeat sold steadily, at fa- 4,1; iamb, t e 6 4 4d to ls 4d • mutton, 3s 4d to Nit fla 4s 4d to 4 s 4d al i1,,,--,, veal, 3s 84 to 4a 8d ; pork, 3s J the carcase. Oath. rlonr, 750 3,060 i 12,770 490 racks Zz o "IPPING—(Tars DAY.) 'tt 44 Y 2 . INr* this ..t noon, al i f n i 11 and weather day fine clear weather. a3r E.S.E. Arrived—Holstein, a r k; 4 4 4'N UT 4%14, k et tnati ° r,Th il • - -ICelson from Bremen, for New c' W D' -. .. 4 t0b 'Jo. do. ; Neptune, do., for Galveston ; l i .-/„ 1 4 0. t trg. for St. Croix ; Mathlda, Altona, for bt l4 P t 144 tbe' A pril 3 0.—Wind, E.N.E. er,'L Ab e ', C Wind N E Arrived—Mersey, from syl ou • A • • oto t 8,. nnandaie, do., for Rio Janeiro ; °ll , HA' ew ea for St. 14 4, may Thomas. sr h ere . .--The Restless, from Rouen to Lon -41; she w Y e li s i te b rc e . i le y p , a l i e r a e k d y . , with two feet of water Sailed— (RY Fp,„, ---- . / kJ uzliAß/NE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) ~— ba/kJIId ArrivedN•E' 1, GRAVEF3END, WednesdaY, fresh, and '-'-'• ; tide, two hours' flood ; weather I t Arri ve i John 10.2 a.m. D .. • Ills ' ' MaY 1---G Robinson from Ghent ; . etor•Yeri tosto VI° '. Hercules, Memel ' d. 4 kty l v 4 ,,' .4 41 , 0 ; 1 , Railway, Sines , -'4IIXI. ''''' JklaY 2e -Ins, from Guernsey; Gustave, Bor- Fiziii e....., , ra ll'Yal George, for Constantinople. l'iri4d, ptsted It• ; atrollg. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.54 a.m. for 1,114'1°11. ungel le*; May I— Vimiera, from Sydney, litio4l4M---Ind. gqiv ; 4 .At . 141 'a (s.a.), from Southampton, for Wool edh4t, or, 4:Q, , • Porcupine, from westward, for eastw , ar_ , llond41"44:1, or St. Michael's ; Carlton, ship, I , O *J t ,L 1* it ' fr ° ,l l the river, for wtward. ti le 8' ight tbiA niorn'n a barque was observed on shore ll Sand. I,aistan has been. Bent off. dß ie "'".................--.................... I'''''' t lt a l t °P G'31,1).--- The quotation of gold at Paris is 4 - Nli ali ,Par (aeoording ) the •a}t tariff), ~r (I k,,i, i "lint price ot 3/. 17s. 10 1 , I. ounce £,r Ltand per which, at the ~" Patin' 4iv e B a exchangeof 25.17 ; and, the exchange 47fie,_. - 4 1 4 , j-,,..n at short being 25 20, it follows that - 11 • S L " 9 2 Per cent. dearer in London than in 4,<.1 Yad vices froi II burg the price of gold is 11'4171.elolifilt.rk, which ' : at the English Mint price of Re of ‘., , •per soundnce for standard gold, gives an exn b -"On ..".°!, the exchange at Hamburg o •er 4 t fihorc bei ng , l`).o it follows that gold is 041 (.41 (1 14:tic ' t. e (1 ) ,,, h re r in London than in Hamburg. The 1 3 ) (46-41 Y ' f - - " a nge at New York on London for bills at zietw e 4 inis,ht IS, 110 i percent., and, e t n li g e par of exchange ~ . : , .e i ' 't ik:., inogland and America b isl 109 23-40 per 1 , 417 14 ft 7u ws that the exchange nominally 0 . 67 per p re tha t ej'el:°ur of ,an ; and, after making allowance 14114 of tranaport and difference of interest, the rorq ate laves profit on the importation of gold United St4teit. 25 St. 20 St it 2s 20 20 10 10 10 St. 25 10 5 20 20 20 100 20 20 20 6 20 Sli R, CJ 11 Et VS. .;THIS DAY.) .RAILWAYS. L' Li.vvzt !maxim° Pric ,, this *so.lfne+a iann thli day. 19 - •.t,enteen Ambg. Nottng. Bosh and Eastn. Junct.. Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh & Cheshire Junet...... Do. Chesil. & Birk. , £5O and 225 Coin. Do., £20... &Tyn3origina £25 (issd. at £45 Bristol and Exeter... lalodonian Carmarthen and Car digan ... li/ester csz Holyheao 7ork and Bandon . lork, Rack, & Pas ICornwall . 'rid!' Junction wubliil&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth dtAb. ,, ' teen Junction ast Anglian 'astern Counties... astern Union, A Stock .......•••••• B Stock Do., New A. ast Lancashire (linburgb & Mastro ‘, 'Minh. and Peebles .din. PAL & Dund 'nth & Clyde Jun ;"urness ...... -4).; - 14i -13 i 15 16 9 8d 88 - 90 58i - 59 12 - 13 7 - 9 4 - 3 5i - 6 it - 1.5 ll - 30 - 32 20 - 22 71 51 50 2d par 18 20 'o. Extension.. ' flasgow &S. .vest,:. .reat. Northern )0., A. Stock n,., B. Stock et. Sth. &West.(lre. ) .rent Western Stour Val. Rai: Gua. Stk rish South-Eastern Lnca.ster & Carlisle Do., Thirds 'o. New Thirds..... - .4neash.andVorksh )).' Wst. Riding Un. .iv.Crsby.&Southpt 'ondon & Blackwal ond. Bright & S.Cst ,ond. and N. West>: . 'o. Fifths 00.10/.5h.,M&8.. C )o. Eighths .onclon andS. Westn t Do., .Csu. Do., £4O ;,ndndrrydr Coleraine I.ndndrry.& Ennisk. Aanch.S l ) cc. k Lind> Do. k Shares, No. l ht., Man. & Lin. Un. Midland ;o. &Derb; Midid. G. West. (Ire. ) I >O. Half Shares Vewcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrf t ''every & Enniskilleb ewry Warrenpoint And Rostrevor. Norfolk; 67 - 69 - 891 72 i 4 23 - 1:/5 92 1-+4 62i - 634 58 - 60 65 - 70 5 - 7 5 - 7 75 - 753 7j 97 93 96i 97 ld 3ci id 1 794 104 94 t 9A 84 221 - 23 7 - 8 CTi - PS 10 - 42 11 - 9 li - 2 47 - 46 Vortlin.Connties Un north British.., North Devon, No. 00., No. 2 27 28 , 0., 1 A Deferred .. Do., B Guarant , •(•d i N.Eastern—Berwie , i)o. do. Extension .. -- ... 70 71 74 74 44 4 121 13 47i 48:5 48 50 3 d par 5i 4i 6 64 d ar IDo.do. Purcli Do. Led Do. York North London IDo. New .£lO N.&S.Wstrn.,Hanal stead, and City Jn North Stafforclshirt North Western I N. & S. Westrn. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. )xford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 'ortsmouth 24 - 26 ttisi-t Central ~ iSc 'Web Midland 98 - 100 63 - 65 44 46 12 3 59 60 27 - 28 5 - 3 3 - 1 tir iropshire Union ..401101 Devon I So aO. Eastern s;outh Wales Yrksh. dz Riv. Dui A'taines, Wok. SzW4 -;tockton Darli. ,St,(..!kton liartlely Taff vale Do. £lO shares - 38 ~. ''' Do. Pref., No. 1 1 Prunes Raven Doe , and lt,ilway Vale o , Neatll.... Waterf 1. & \Vaterfor:l&Linier , - West Cornwall . . West End of London and Crystal Palace.. IWest London Winabledn &Croydon; - - IFS 3 ; 1 - 7 - 8 git : 6i. FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rott , rdan. Belgian Eastn. Jun, Bezi era tOGraissessa , Bombay, Baroda, and Central I udi Seri] Central of Italy Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c. Do. Ey',ension .. Do. 4l p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Pb. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadAA is Do. St. Lawrence El Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '62 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran • Gt. Indian Peninmla guar. 5 per cent. Do. NTew 5 per cent Do. Extensions rest Luxembourt Constituted Shares Do. Obligations. Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without opt , on Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per crnt. Lake Coust. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 P.C. pref Lyons and Geneva ... Lyons (It Mediterran. Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (wit? interest) Do. (ox interest)._ Northern of France. D 0.20/. Slis.late Char teroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22y. dur. 88 yrs. front 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy. B. di. ems. Shs. NorwegianfirunkPre: Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds ..... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rou , n... ParisCaen &Cherbrg. Ronon and Havre Loyal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meueci.. Do. 54 p. cent. Pref., Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5} per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland WiJsbaden Zealand JOINT-STOI ustran,4lb. British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American iChartd, Bank of Asn. Chrtd. liuk. of India, Australia, & Chinn Colonial , Commercial of Lola Knglish n rl A.ustralian Chart... fond. Chart. bk. Oil Australia i Ditto New Loudon and County London Joint Stock Loud. & 'Wes tminstei National Provincia' of England Do. New National of Irelaud Now South Wales ()riental Bank of Corpomtiou. 'rrovineial of Irelaw; Do. New ............. Royal Australn.Bkg. gold hap Co 1:;onth Australia (Union ' ' . Ne ............. 1 111,11011 of 1011d94‘... - 74 2 - 21 -,23 - - 34} - 311 6 - 7 234 - 241 21. - 2gr, oi Si 15 - 16 48 50 88 90 is 2 ":1 1) par - • AP :9 n 2g - 2i, 13 - 1 8 1 96 - 98 ' 97 - 99 100 -• 102 95 97 191 - 201 99 -- 100 at. 2 - Zip P 1 - ip 2 p 4 6 lj - 2i 54 - 6 :34 :34k 12i - 13 - RA 23 - 23ip 44 - 46 39 - 41 pro 22 par 1p 2 lid 7i 8 11 - ... - 3i 4 d E . 6 PI igi = iii BANKS. 79 - 81 I'd = ?..**, l I gd -•l7¢ 20 21 d iP ••• -- ••• 33 - 35 3S - 40 •es ""'" 1.. 66 - 68 7i 8 •w all .00 .L 1! 00 THE SUN, LONDON, VirEDNESD" b I ttiU 4‘. '4IR4 CHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHESTER CUP. SCYTHIAN . MORTIMER NEVILLE , 3 Twenty-seven ran. Won by a neck. SKELTER Comfort .......... 1 Fourteen ran. LATEST BETTING. CHESTER CUP. 6 to 1 agst Noisy (taken) 6 to 1 agst Scythian (taken) 10 to 1 agst Neville (taken) 10 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken) 12 to 1 agbt Gamekeeper (taken) 14 to 1 agst Joe Miller (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mortimer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Arthur Welle , ley (taken) 25 to 1 agst Ireland's Eye (taken). 25 to 1 agst Escape (taken) 66 to 1 agst Seducer (taken) 66 to 1 agst Braxey (taken) DERBY. 6to 1 apt St. Hubert 6to 1 agst Lord of the Isles 10 to 1 agst Grwculus Esuriens 33 to 1 agst Rylstone OAKS. 15 to 1 agst Morgan la, Faye (taken) ourth SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. The following bills were read a third time and passed ;—lnverury and Old Meldrurn Railway ; Surbi ton Iniprovement. The following bills were ordered to be considered and read a third time :—Cornwall Railway ; Executor and Trustee Society ; Folkestone Improvement ; Glas gow Water ; Newcastle-upon• Tyne Improvements ; Plymouth Great Western Docks ; Saint George's Har bour; Ulster Itailway. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. C. BRUCE, a new writ was ordered' for Renfrew in the place of• Col. Mure, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Sir J. Trollope, from Lin coln, praying for the closing of all public-houses on the Sabbath ; by Mr. Hadfield, from Independent ministers in Lancashire, against grants fur any religious denomi nations ; also, a petition in favour of education on the voluntary principle ; by Lord H. Vane, two petitions from Darlington, for the abolition of church rates ; by Mr. Walpole, from the Switch Presbyterian Church, London-wall, against the Marriage Bill. EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL. . . On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, Sir J. PAKINGTON rose and said he had not in tended to offer ar.y observations on this stage of the bill, but be believed the object of the bill was very much misunder,tood, and he therefore hoped he might ask the favourable attention of the house to a measure which it might be thought presumptuous in him to hring in, but which he had at all events introduced with singleness of purpose. His great object was to provide extended and religious education to the population of this country on the most com plete system of toleration with regard to the great principle of liberty of conscience. The machinery of the bill would be conducted by grants of public money, to be expended by local boards duly responsible to this house. He had to make one earnest appeal to the house to give their vote for the bill on those great prin• ciples without respect to matters of detail, which could be only fitly discussed at a subsequent stage of the bill. All the existing schools in this kingdom were connected either with the Church of England or the great denomi national bodies of the country. The population bad during the last halfcentury increased wonderfully ; but it was undeniable that the Church bad failed to keep pace with their religious instruction, and if the dissenting denominations had not stepped in that population would be in a far worse state of igno rance than unfortunately they now were. (Hear.) He did not think it necessary now to detain the house further than to move that the bill be read a second time. Mr. HENLEY rose to move an amendment that the bill be read a second time this day six months. It was because he felt most deeply that if the house were to affirm this bill, the result would be not only that it would not extend education at all, but most of all that it would not extend religious education. (Hear, hear.) ,He believed the question they had now to decide was whether they should foster the great principle of volun tary education in this country—(hear)—or by an experi ment ot, this sort throw back indefinitely the progress already h; :de by that system. The bill would, moreover, be attended with an enormously increased amount of taxation. (Hear, hear.) He thought there ,was one evil at the root of this question, which was not sufficiently kept in view. He did not think that was education which merely taught, a person to read and write, to do some suing in arithmetic, to tell the reign ing sovereigns of the world, or the geographical position of various countries. What he regarded as education was a system that would reach the heart ; that would teach a person to know and do his duty to God and man, and thereby be enabled to go through life as a good Christian, and a good citizen. (Hear, hear.) He be lieved that, comparing the people of this country, in re spect to education and morality, with any other people in the world, short as had been our means, they would be found at least equal if not superior to most other na ions. He believed there never was a time when they could look with greater satisfaction to the state of our institu tions than the present. He did not deny that there was much ignorance and crime that he could wish to see re moved ; but he believed that, do what we would, there would be always some crime and some ignorance, and he also 'oelieved that this bill would not be effectual in removing either crime or ignorance. The first point in which he differed from his right hon. friend was as to the number of children attending schools. By the census it appeared that there were 2,140,000 children attending day schools, and about 2,400,000 attending Sunday schools. Mr. Horace Mann said there ought to be 3,000,000 of children attending school ? The real ques tion was, why were not those children attending school ? He believed it was not for want of schools. (l-lear.) Mr. Mann had omitted one important element in his calculations, and that was owing to the great distance at which many of them lived from school. The next difficulty was the indifference of the parents. How was his right hon. friend to deal with that? It could not be done by compulsory means, and therefore they should be still in the same position. (Hear.) The next point was as to the poverty of the parents, and he believed as to that the bill could afford no remedy, ex cept that it proposed to make the schools free. So far good. If the bill proposed to make the new schools free, it might do some good ; but if the bill proposed to make the existing schools free also, it would stamp pau perism on the whole population of this country. (Hear, hear.) His right hon. friend had on a former occasion adduced Austria as being one of the be-t-educated countries in the world ; but he (Mr. Henley) maintained that, although education in Austria was entirely corn pulsory, the number of children who could be brought to attend schools in that empire was not equal to those attending schools under the voluntary system in this ! country. (Hear.) He came now to the quality of the education proposed to be given by this bill. His right hon. friend had omitted in his speech all notice what ever of Sunday-school teaching, which was a most valu able element in the education of the people, and without which we should be in a much worse state than we were at present. His right hon. friend had referred to Austria as being one of the best-educated countries in Europe ; but it appeared front a statement published by Mr. Kiy, that while in England, in 1846, the number of persons convicted was 60,000, in Austria, with a popu lation of 33,000,000, the number of detected crimes—he begged the house to observe the word—was '419,492. Mr. Kay's work referred to 1837-8, as wellas 1846, and the dif ference between those years was trifling. It appeared then that the whole population, excepting Hungary, which was not included, was 23,652,000. The total number re ceiving education was 2,338,985, which gave a propor tion of the whole population of one in 10 and a fraction ; while in our own country the nu:nber gave one in 8 and a fraction. With regard to crime, the number of crimi nals was 29,492, or as nearly as possible one in 800 in the population. As to morality, the number of births was in the whole Austrian empire, in 1846, 976.495, while the number of illegitimate births was about one in every nine and a fraction. (Hear, hear.) His right honourable friend had also referred to America, as affording a good illustration of the benefits of national education ; but he (Mr. Henley) believed the house would not much value any national system of education which did not also include a religious education. (Hear, hear.) He knew his right hon. friend condemned the religious system set up in America. (Hear, hear, from Sir J. takington.) His right hon. friend cried " hear, hear," but lie would remind him that the American na tional schools were originally set up to teach a religious education, but had gradually slipped down to be a purely secular system. (Blear, hear.) The right hon. gentle man (Mr. Henley) then referred to the evidence of Mr. Baines before the Manchester and Salford Committee, of which his right hon. friend (Sir J. Pakington) was a member. Mr. Eaines stated that he wished to speak with great respect of the American schools as to their secular cl , aracter ; but he felt bound to add that they were not what they were origi nally intended to be, as originally they were intended to give a religious education, whereas the teaching cf religion was almost altogether banished from them. (hI ti e nto a ebb r ete , ,ra h Aol elifarocr. of ) erorrpge A lytn,mii n eo e enn t ni rnt, r ae ,tA w st i mah t ineeder present e s : aee b: eah f nna d td r d tcyhos t ent l : e mus let s eoe a mfd m e com ead teaching g to r e b a e t a lm in the American schools tended to loosen all definite ideas of Christianity in the winds of the people. (Hear, 583 i 124 3i 63 2i 75 i i 97 974 4 6l 7$ 15 80 79i i 68/- 8 48,i 27 701 10 12i 12 + 59k 24 31 4 121 2a 11. 2 4O 39; v.ENING, MAY 2, 1855; hear.) He (Mr. Henley) believed a great In e crer ' , se bad taken place in the educatio n of the people oL ,is coun try ; for it appeared by official returns the r ,umber of children receiving edu ca ti on was, in 1818, one in 1 7 in 1830, it was one in 11 ; while, in 1 851 , it was one in 81. (Hear, hear.) H e b e lieved, t'e s en, if this bill was passed it would, instead of advancing rapidly in the right direction the, education of the people, tend to retard and arrest; it. Having referred to foreign countries, he should no w allude to the state of our own country- The three chi of sources of illustration he should refer to were crime, Irunkennesa, and larceny. With regard to drunkenness eit appeared by returns that in 1841, when the population amounted to 15,900,000, in that year in all the town s of Eng land with above 10,000 inhabitants, the whole number of persons charged with drunkenness were 7:1',268. In 1851, when the population was 17,900,000, or an in crease of 13 per cent., the number of cases of drunken ness was 70,000. With regard to cases of la nceny and other criminals the effects were equally favourable. On the ground of morality, the number of illegitimate births in 1845 was one in 7 and a small fraction ; while in 1352 it was G and a large fraction. The decrease was not large, still it showed the steps were all in the right direction ; end it must also be borne in mind that there had been a great relaxation in the severity of our criminal law during the last twenty years. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman next referred to our army, who had borne the extremity of sickness and privation with but one thought, that of doing their duty— (hear)—and he could not think that the system which produced such fruits could he a bad system. (Hear.) He objected to this bill because it would be a tax upon real property. It would entail a burden of 2,000,0001. and over ; and, besides that, for every shil ling that would be expended otC.:, of that source, the Go vernment would have to contribute an equal amount. If 2,000,0001. more were to be raised by Government it must be done by increased taxation, and that must be done, as the fairest means, by an increased income tax, which would entail another half of the burden on real property ; or, in other words, real property would have to pay 3,000,0001. out of the 4,000,0001. contemplated by the bill. (Hear, hear.) He believed also this bill would cause greater heart-burnings than at present existed with re-peat to church rates, and that was an other reason why he objected to it. The right hon. gen tleman then entered into an analysis of the various de tails and machinery of the bill, and he contended that though the bill professed to give a religious instruction it would do so in came only, and not in reality ; and that, in point of fact, as far as regarded relit ions educa tion the bill would be wholly inoperative. (Hear, hear.) After some further criticisms on the bill, the right hon. gentleman concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time that day six months. (Hear.) Mr. R. PHILLIMORE, in seconding the amend ment, gave the right hon. baronet who had brought for ward the motion on national education credit for being actuated by no party or selfish motive ; on the contrary, he bad had, doubtless, to contend with a great number of party difficulties. Ho (Mr. Phillimore) trusted the right hon. gentleman would not on that account con sider any remarks he might have to make in op posing the motion as being of a personal nature. The ground on which he (Mr. Phillimore) opposed the scheme proposed by the right hon. baronet, was that he considered it was fraught with all that mischief which had been so eloquently pointed out by the hon. member for Buckinghamshire. He conscientiously believed that the effect of the measure would be to disestablish the Church of England as the recognised medium of reli gious education. (Hear, hear.) The only way in which the right honourable gentleman proposed to provide for religious teaching was by the reading of the Scriptures in the schools ; and this experiment had been found to be a complete failure in America. For these reasons, in addition to the arguments of the hon. member for Buckinghamshire, he should give his most strenuous opposition to the measure of the right hon. baronet in every stage of its progress. Mr. MILES lamented that his hon. friend the mem ber for Oxfordshire should have differed from the right lion, baronet who had brought forward the motion be fore the house ; but he thought that the distinctions which were drawn by the hon. member for Oxfordshire were essentially fallacious. If he (Mr. Miles) did not think the bill before the house was founded upon a religious basis no power on earth could have induced him to sup port it ; for he could not but admit the denominational system in this country had produced great effects as regarded education ; and after what the hon. member for Oxfordshire bad said on drawing his deductions from the years 1818, 1833, and 1851, it must be at once more than evident that the denominational sys• tem alone had unquestionably produced a great and immense addition to the education of the people. (Hear.) He thought that this accession, however great, was not sufficient to the wants of the people, and that it was necessary to adopt some other plan by which , education might he still further extended. The only question was, were these efforts now made sufficient for the educational requirements of the country ? If so, it was not by any means advisable to intermeddle with these voluntary exertions. If not, and if the coun try lacked facilities of education, it became the duty of the house seriously to consider how it could afford it, without infrineing to any extent upon the existing schools. (Hear, hear.) This he be lieved to be exactly the principle on which the right hon. baronet had founded his measure. (Hear, hear.) The hoc. member then proceedei to reply to the argu ments contained in the speech of the hon. member for Oxfordshire. He observed that it struck him, whilst that honourable getitleinae was referring t► the sta tistics of education iii Austria as being in advance of this country, that there was less criminality ar_d inure in,,rality in this country than was the case in Austria. Coining next to the principle of the measure pro posed by the right lion. member for Droitwich, he re marked that it was quite absurd to talk of mere secular teaching ; and inasmuch as he believed that the best means of meeting the educational requirements of the present day were to be found in the right hon. baronet's measure, it should have his most cordial and entire support. He ►maintained that if we took Biblical education as the foundation of the system, that in due time they should have the whole of the population im bued with the principles of religious education ; and he firmly believed, not Withstanding all that bad been stated to the contrary, that little by little the measure would be found to operate beneficially without leaving the country a prey to those terrors which the imagination of the hon. member for Oxfordshire had conjured up. Did the hon. member suppose, because they adopted that system, all other schools were bound to be put down, or did he suppose that the sixpenny rate would be levied all over the country ? He (Mr. Miles) never heard of anything so preposterous. Again, if the hon. gentleman called to mind the large amounts which crime and pauperism in this country cost us annually, he would perhaps be less earnest in his opposition to a scheme which had f,,r its object the diminution by legitimate means of these prolific sources of national expenditure. Passing on to refer to the two other educational schemes before the house, (those of Lord J. Russell and Mr. M. Gibson) he expressed a hope that the bill before the house would not be condemned ; but lie trusted that all the bills would be sent to the consideration of a com mittee upstairs, a committee composed of men who had given attention to the subject, aid he was. not without hope that, after a short discussion, and : after a careful examination of the different clauses, i❑ each an amalgamation might be effected, or at all events that out of them some comprehensive bill which Might Meet with generil support might be constructed. (Hear.) Mr. DILLWYN (a ❑ew member) opposed the motion on the ground that in parishes where religious creeds were nearly balanced it would give rise to a sectarian dissension of a most disagreeable character, whilst in places where the majority of the inhabitants. were Churchmen or Dissenters the minority would go with out any education whatever. Mr. BYNG, in the course of an animated address, said that he should give the measure of the right hon. baronet his cordial support reserving for a future opportunity any opposition he might entertain to some of its details. H e gave his support to it as an important step towards sup plying those educational wants and omissions which were now beginning to be so generally recognised. (Hear, hear.) . Mr. ADDERLEY suggested the adjournment of the debate. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that considering that her Majesty's Ministers were necessarily absent he Guvernment for an early dirastscyinia would consent to the adjournment of the house. H e should, therefore, place the motion for re suming the debate on the paper for to-morrow ; it a ii n i d to w b a r s in o g rd i e t r f e o d rw t a o r b d. o not, however, in the hope of bringing it on then, but in order that he might make some uas sni doM i arrangement nir.wmhiac with chaLrtonred y :Ttao t a h osk e , After a few words from Mr. Cowpan, The debate was adjourned accordingly. SPIRITS (IRELAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL. committed.pA iarr ,Thiswas Keogh,b a i s ll ,afterread a Lordt sshei3coeurrntridde iv L b L e , t a t , e r r et o u n r i n )u u b 'a li s c GREENWICH ITOSPtslimTncoAen received by Feb. 25, was conveyed, and of the toirledO withet? rtee t hda h : e oldif m raett o hre t eso i o fso n efGv o res f eruea S cnli i ls r wu : tc: iyisßmao payments, trp Ei gaahl l d E 1854, or private account ; and of the name of the ship or treasure the s ame. v ca e p ss t e a l in in o w r hoffiicheetrhceotaii CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DUTIES. On the motion of Mr. MACARTNEY a re t urn was ordered of all duties paid upon spi r i ts, tea, sugar, and coffee, in London, Liverpool, Bristol, null, Glasgow, Leith, Dublin, Belfast, and Cork, for 14 clays previous and up to six o'clock on the 20th day of April, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer placed his resolutions for imposing additional duties on those several articles, such return to set forth the quantities, with the amount of duties paid by each party, and the date of every such payment ; a,n l similo.r ..„ returns fur the corresponding periods in the years 185., and 1804. Some other business on th e paper having been dis posed of, the house adjourned shortly before 6 o'clock. ARMY" B FORE SEBASTOPOL CO3l - TTER-(TH IS DAY.) The committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. Mr. Grant, late Comptroller of the Victualling and Transport Departments, was the first witness called, and was examined by Lord Seymour. He stated that he had held the latter of the above-men tioned offices until the formation of the transport board, having retained it up to that time since the year 1851. He had been in the service of the admiralty for 40 years. He then proceeded to point out the mode in which tenders were received and examined by the vic tualling department. When the tenders were opened i IA the board- room , th e samples sent in were n. spected, and the best were selected without any consideration as to the lowness of the terms proposed, the quality of the goods being taken as the criterion of preference. After the samples had been selected they were sealed up by the proper officers and were afterwards conirared with the bulk. It was not the duty of any particular person to examine the salt provisions. The mode was to examine one or two casks, and if found to be sweet the whole cargo was retained ; but if it was discovered on inspection of one or two casks that the contents were in the slightest de gree tainted, the whole was condemned and rejected. Of all the supplies forwarded by the victualling depart. ment to the army in the Crimea, he had never received a single complaint. If a complaint had been made to any person in authority at home, he must have heard of it. This remark applied to the provisions. Tne first supply of port wine sent out, however, was complained of. The quantity consisted of 100 dozens. Mr. Layard—Can you state to the committee what quantities of provisions you sent out to the Crimea? The witness replied that he could, and proceeded to read an account of the various items of the provisions supplied to the army since the 26th April, 1854. The principal of them were :—Sait beef 4,000,000 lbs., salt pork 5,000,000 lbs., roasted coffee 216,000 lbs., raw coffee 2,139 lbs., sugar 1,250,000 lbs., rice 7,000 lbs., port wine 2,400 dozens, brandy 971 gallons, sago 6,732 lbs., oatmeal 1,4:14 lbs., Scotch barley 16,479 lbs., preserved beef 470 tons, dried ♦egetables 1,650,000 lbs., lemon juice 46,943 lbs. By Lord Seymour—The port wine he referred to as having been complained of was landed, he believed, at Varna. The medical officers found fault with it, and it was returned home. He at once sent down to the Cap tain Superintendent at Deptford, who reported to him in reply that the wine was good. That officer had the sole control and authority in purchasing wine, and be stated in the report in question that the hun dred dozens complained of was "sound and fruity," and he could not account for the cause of its condemnation. No wine was purchases!, until a sample of it had been submitted to Dr. And•sew Smith. The amount paid for the wine was not less than 255. without the "drawback." As much as 403 per dozen had been paid for it, but then it should be remem bered that the wine was good and old. Before the ship ment of any supplies proper care was taken to ascertain that the quantity agreed with the sample and contract. The master of the vessel required a receipt for the goods and & certificate that they had been put on board, both of which documents were transmitted to the Admiralty, and afterwards to him (witness). Since the war it had been found requisite to appoint a store-receiver at Ply mouth and Deptford, and those officers were responsible for all tho expenditure relative to the contracts for pro visions. He constantly kept the Minister for War in formed what contracts had been entered into, and what skips were employed to carry them to the East. The witness then went on to state, in reply to a question from Lord Seymour, that when the goods had been shipped and the receipts had been forwarded to the Ad miralty by the master of the vessel as ha had described, the Admiralty considered that their duty regarding the shipment of those goods was at an end ; but they took care not to pay the freight until they had received an official intimation that the goods had been delivered safely, and in good condition. The master of the vessel was responsible for the security of the goods whilst they were under his care. Some time might elapse before the consignee informed the Admiralty that he had received the goods sent out, and in the meanwhile the Admiralty would remain in perfect ignorance whether they had been received or not at their destination. By Captain Gladstone—The coffee sent out in a raw state was at the request of Commissary-General Filder, who told him that it was intended as a kind of extra ra tion for the troops, and that it might be necessary to convey it into the interior of the country. Several coffee mills were also sent out at the same time. Only one supply of preserved meats had been sent out to the Crimea. Captain Gladstone—How was that ? Witness—After the experience which the Government had had of preserved meats, and the roguery to which it had been subjected by some contractors, they thought it advisable to introduce a very stringent regulation in the contract, which was that no goods should be held to be received until they were delivered in the Crimea. The Government required that a person should be sent out with the goods on the part of the contractor, and if on examinng the casks at their destination the contents were found to be in the slightest degree tainted or un wholesome they should be condemned, and the whole cargo rejected. Accordingly no con tractor could be found to receive this regulation in the contract. By Mr. Layard—He did not think it was possible for any person to have access to his samples for tenders after they were sent in so as to be enabled to change them. Mr. Layard—Are you aware that an impression has got about amongst the public, to the effect that these samples have been tampered with in some way or other ? Witness—l cannot say that lam aware of any such impression. At all events there are to my knowledge no grounds whatever for it. Examination continued.—So far as he knew, none of the samples had ever been tampered with or changed after they were sent in. The witness afterwards stated, in reply to Mr. Drum mond, that the articles sent to the Crimea were of the very best description, including the forage and hay. This Drought his examination to a close. Sir Hew itoss was next called, and was examined by the Chairman. He stated that he was Lieutenant- General of the Ordnance, and had performed the duties previously discharged by Lord Raglan as Master-General of the Ordnance since his lordship had been absent in the East. He was appointed on the Gth May. The whole of the engineers and artillery were under his management. By Mr. Layard—He was the only artillery officer at the Board,. though the board bad the directio❑ of the artillery. He had received no orders or instructions from Lord Raglan since he had been in the Crimea. No change had been introduced into the organi:ation of the artillery since the Peninsular war. The only complaint that had been made to him in connection with the artil. lery was, that some of the fasces bad been found Ineffective. In reply to General Peel, the witness said that the Master-General of the Ordnance was always a military man. Nearly the whole of the powers of Master- General were confided t,) him ; and the absence of Lord Raglan did not at all affect the exercise of his functions. By the Chairman—With regard to the gunpowder used by the artillery, he thought the board ought to be acquainted with its manuf ac t ure an d properties ; but it was not their duty to inspect that portion of the depart ments ; that was left to a committee of officers specially appointed for the purpose. By Lord Seymour—The artillery were very well taken care of in the Crimea ; in fact, much better than was the case with the rest of the troops, because their supplies were furnished by the Ordnance. By Mr. Lay.,rd—lle thought the siege train sent out was properly manned and fully efficient—indeed men were sent out witli it when necessary. He had no doubt the wen were much overworked. Sir Thomas Hastings, Comptroller of Stores, was next called, and was examined by Lord Seymour. It was his duty to superintend under the Board of Ordnance the fitting out of ship s w i th naval ordnance, as well as supplying the or d nance wants of the army. The case of supplying great-coats and boots and shoes to the troops also devolved upon his department. In the course of la-t summer he made application to the board for the purchase of warm clothing for the army, and he made all the necessary arrangements for procuring it. The committse adjourned about four o'clock until to morrow. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM FIELD MARSHAL LORD .RAGLAN. ( From a supplement to Tuesda'y's Gazette.) WAR DEPARTMENT, MAY 2. Lord Panmure has this day received two despatches and their enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, April 17. My Lord,—l have the honour to transmit for your lordship's information a letter from the Inspector- General of Hospitals expressing his satisfaction in being able to report that the sanitary condition of the army continues gradually to improve and the mortality from disease to diminish.—l have, &c., The Lord Panmure, &c. RAGLAN. Enclosure. Before Sebastopol ) April 17, 1355. My Lord,—lt is satisfactory to be able to say that the sanitary condition of the army continues gradually to improve, and the mortality from disease to decrease. T.ast week the ratio of admissions to strength was 3.95 per cent. ; this week it has been 3.52. Last week the ratio of deaths to strength was 0 . 35 ; this week it has been 0 . 33. This decrease may appear small to your lordship, but it must be borne in mind that 106 of the admissions, and 13 of the deaths, were the result of accidents in the trenches ; besides which three officers and 30 men were killed who have not been included in the above state ment of casualties. Fevers and bowel complaints dontinue to be'the pre vailing diseases amongst the troops, but in both there has been an evident decrease of admissions as well as deaths. In the 79th Regiment, however, there has been an increase of 19 cases of Lever during the week, and the mortality from the same disease has exceeded that of the preceding week by two. Last week the deaths from fever were 7, this week they have been 9. It is in con templation to move the regiment a short distance from where it is at present encamped, as far, I ands rstand, as the defen ce o f t h e post will admit of, atni I think good will result f rom i t ; but if it coti'd be moved up to the ground wh ere t h e (i3d Regiment is stationed still greater advantaLres mi-dit be expected. In the 93 , 1 Highlanders the fever cases have become .e milder, and th e mortality from that cause has decreased from 4, which it was last week, to 1. In the 41st and 95th Reg-mints, the two regi ment', which were sufferingmo,s,yeefk ; rolninthe 41st from fever, other in;i... tality has decreased during the , 5 to 2, and in the 95th frointSto 3. There has been a decrease in a ll t t n he bn or y d e in tn ar n y n f t o in r e m t s q p n f bowel complaints; butregret fatal cases of cholera, one in the Artillery, and the other in the 7th Fusiliers. Th ese were. both brought up from the trenches, and both died after a few hours illness. No other cases h a ve .occurred, and, from the general diminution of b o wel affections, I trust they will prove accidental. The cavalry continue to enjoy good health, and I only one casualty, out of a force of 1880 men, has oc curred during the week. The mortality in the General Hospital, at Bala klava, has also been small, and the result of the Convalescent Hospital, on the Castle Hill, has been most satisfactory. We have huts there all ready , for the reception of 280 patients, and I pur pose reserving them for wounded men, as I am of opinion they would recover sooner in such a locality than in either camp, or th e G enera l H osp i ta l a t S cutar i . Be sides the hospital buts at the Sanitarium, the following ships have been fitted out for the reception of wounded, viz. :-- Hut accommodation St Hilda, fitted for. Wm. Jackson „ Orient 100 Poicti ers IP The hut s i n the " rear of the Third Division will 100 accommodate 1,000, but say that 30 of them vre appropriated for hospital purposes, that would ive room o And the c g alculationfr is, that at l east 500 could be 480 received into the different regimental hospitals 500 The rations o f th e men are abundant and goo 6 51 I, d, and fresh bread has been issued three days this week. The supplies for the hospitals are also ample. Great attention is paid to the cleanliness of the diffe rent camps, and they are in a creditable condition. The men have received their new clothing, and the sheep skin coats, &c., are betng, collected and stored for future issue if required.—l have, &c. J. HALL, Insctor-General of To Field-M ars h a l Lord R pe aglan, G.C.8., Hospitals. Cuumanding-in-Cnief. Before Sebastopol, April 17. My Lord,—The fire of both the French and English armies has been continued upon Sebastopol since I ad dressed your lordship on the 14th instant, and though suprrior to that of the enemy, it has not produced that permanent effect which might have been anticipated from its constancy, power, and accuracy. The guns of the Russians have been turned upon some of our advanced works in vast numbers, and in one par ticular instance the injury sustained by a battery was so great that the unremitting exertions of Captains Henry and Walcot, and the gallantry and determination of the artillerymen under their orders alone enabled them to keep up their fire and to maintain themselves in it. In another battery yesterday a shell burst close to the magazine, which in consequence exploded, killing. I am much concerned to say, one man, wounding two most severely, and seven in a less degree. Both the batteries I have mentioned have been re paired and restcred to their original condition. I inclose the list of casualties that have arisen between the 13th and 15th inst. I have to lament the loss of two young and promising officers who had only lately joined the army, Lieutenant Preston, of the 88th Regiment, and Lieutenant Mitchell, of the Artillery ; and I regret to add that two others have been severely wounded, Captain Green, of the East India Company's Service, who has been employed throughout the siege as an assistant engineer, with great credit to himself and every advantage to the service, and Captain Donovan, of the 33d, who had most zealously served from the com mencement of the campaign. The French blew up several small mines in front of the Bastion du Malt after sunset on Sunday evening, with a view to establish a parallel on the spot. This operation greatly alarmed the enemy, who at once com menced a heavy fire of cannon and musketry in every direction from that part of the town, which they kept up for a considerable time. It occasioned no harm on our left attack, upon which a part of it was directed, and I hope did little injury to our allies. Several hundreds of the Russian cavalry and a small body of Cossacks appeared on the low range of heights in front of Balaklava this morning, and remained about an.hour, when they retired, the greater portion by the bridge of Tractea. The object of this movement was probably a reconnaissance.—l have, &c., The Lord Panmure, &c. RAGLAN. Enclosure 1. RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM THE 13TH TO THE 15TH APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. 4th Regiment of Foot-6 rank and file, wounded. 7th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 9th Fuot-2 rank and file, killed; 3 rank and file, wounded. 14th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 23d Foot —1 rank and file, wounded. 30th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 33d Foot-1 officer, 3 rank and file, wou n d e d. 34th Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 rank and file, wounded, 39th Foot -2 rank and file, wounded. 41st Foot --2 rank ani file, wounded. 47th Foot -1 rank and file, wounded. 49th Foot-4 rank and file, wounded. 50th Foot -1 serjeant, 1 rank and file, killed ; 1 serjeant, 1 rank and file, wounded. 55th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded. 62d Foot-6 rank and filo, wounded. 88th Foot---1 officer, killed ; 1 serjeant, 3 rank and file, wounded. 89th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 90th Foot-2 rank and file, wounded. 97th Foot-1 rank and file, killed ; 2 rank and file, wounded. 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 rank and file, killed ; 1 rank and file, wounded. Royal Artillery -1 officer, 2 serjeants, 5 rank and file, killed 7 1 officer, 1 serjeant, 31 rank and file, wounna ed. Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners--2 rank and file, killed; 2 officers, 1 rank and file, wounded. Total-2 officers, 3 serjeants, 13 rank and file, killed ; 4 officers, 3 serjeants, 76 rank and file, wounded. J. B. BUCK NALL ESTCO Adi‘,tant-General. Enclosure 2. NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HA VE SEEN KILLED FROM Elrn TO THE 15riz APRIL 1855, INCLUSIVE. , KILLED. APRIL 14. 88th Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant H. B. Preston Royal Artillery. Lieutenant R. A. Mitchell J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Entlosure 3. NOMINAL RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED FRONT THE 13TH TO THE 15TH APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. WOUNDED. APRIL 13. Royal Engineers. Lieutenant C. Graham, slightly APRIL 14. Royal Artillery. Assistant-Surgeon R. W. Cockerill, slightly Royal Engineers. Captain and Assistant• Engineer H. Green, H.E.I.C. Ser vice, severely APRIL 15. 33d Regiment of Foot. Captain E. W. Donovan, severely. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. 4. NOMINAL RETURN Encl osure OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM 13TH TO 15TH APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. KILLED. APRIL 13. 50th Regiment of Foot. Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomas Clifford Private Thomas M'Namara Royal Artillery. Serjeant Alexander Jamieson Royal Sappers and Miners. Private Joseph McAsh APRIL 14. 9th Regiment o Private Michae ß l Sheady f Foot. Private William Toby Royal Artillery. Serjeant John Sutherland Gunner James Birch Corporal William Boyd Gunner James Lawley Gunner Henry McQuillan Gunner George Jones APRIL 15. 34th Re g iment of Foot. Private Michael Byrne 97th Regiment of Foot. Private James Knight 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade. Corporal Thomas Smith Royal Sappers and Miners. Private John Lethbridge J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, djuta,nt-General. E 5. NOMINAL RETURN nclosure OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM THE 13TH TO 15TH APRIL, 1855, INCLUSIVE. WOUNDED. APRIL 13. 30th Regiment of Foot. Private Patrick Connell, slightly 49th Regiment of Foot. Private James Allan, dangerously 50th Regiment of Foot. Serjeant Thomas O'Brien, slightly Private Michael Judge, slightly 5 ith Regiment of Foot. Private Thomas Burke, severely 62d Regiment of Foot. Private Johp Collier, severely . Private James Ratty, slightly 97th :Regiment of Foot. Private Wm. M•Loughlin, slightly Royal Artilltry. Gunner George Warner, severely Acting Bombardiers -- James Lloyd, severely Alexander Adams, slightly Alfred Brown, slightly -,! Gunner William Sinclair. l t air sii,,, sse h v t e ly rely Gunner William Gunner Thomas Martin, slightly W,Tmo i i h i e lll::::N_ Gunner Thomas Tear, severely Arm!, 4. 4th Regiment of Foot. Lance-Serjeant John Culligan, slightly Lanee•Serjeant George Clarkson, slightl y Private William Campbell, slightly - Private Private William Thomas Jones, Turne v severely slightly angerously Private Edwin Draper, severely m W eil i l l Private Martin Hagerty severely Private Josqh N. ; 4 - ' -- v erely pp Private rriivvaatt: of Foot. 9th Regß e : i l l i 1 1: n t a tt h u , o f f s F lilg i : o h t o tl . y Thomas I n ent of Foot. 55th Re • "ligh"y :iine 88th Re . eehan, slightly Private Til C a rter, clangormly Serjeant Wm. Hopkins, slightly Private John Cullinane, severely 89th Regiment of Foot. Private Alexander Bell, slightly 'Royal Artillery. Gunner John Young, severely Gunner Thomas Holden, slightly Gunner Henry Langley, severely Gunner John Hutton, slightly Gunner John OF:apple, severely Gunner John Taggett, slightly Gunner John Spence, slightly Gunner George Harper, slightly Gunner Richard Wright, severely Gunner Thomas Jordon, slightly Gunner George Parkinson, slightly Gunner Edward Ivies, severely Gunner Thomas Craig, severely Bombardier Matthew Cowdy, dangerously Canner James Robert, slightly Gunner James Sharp, slightly Gunner Jame., Stewart, severely Gunner Georg e Stewa, t, slightly Serjeant Angus Clarke, slightly Gunner 'William Dick, slightly Royal Sappers and Alinors. Private William Small, severely APRIL 15. 7th Regiment of Foot. Private Richard Bowman, slightly 14th Regiment of Foot. Corporal William Ryland, slightly 33d Regiment of Foot. slightly7 lightly lightly 34th Regiment of Foot. LPraPrivatevcaeteC oprDaniel Private Peter Young, severely 39th Regiment of Foot. William i r e l L DFowler, Larkin, Corporal Daniel Kenelly, severely . Private Alfred Ridewood, slightly 41st Regiment of Foot. Private John Craig, severely Private Christopher Fergussan, slightly 47th Regiment of Foot. Private James White, slightly 49th Regiment of Foot. Private Patrick Prendergast, severely Private William Burchall, severely Private James Farrell, slightly • 6 2d Regi men t of Foot. Private M. Crowe, slightly Private William Harrison, slightly. Private Joseph Bunting, slightly. Private Thomas M 'K enna, slightly. Privat e 88th as of Fo o t. 90 Regiment Nel son, dangerously. Regiment of Foot. Private Joseph Turner severely Private John Nowlan, severely 97th R,eginient of Foot. Private John Franklin. da ngerously 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade. Henry Wright, slightly Royal Artillery. Corporal Francis West, severely Bombardier Robert Geaves, s li g h tly Gunner Joseph Davidson, slightly Gunner William Deal, slightly J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 6. RETURN - OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL BRIGADE BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, ON THE 14TH APRIL, 1855. KILED. Jesse Nicholls, L.S., L Leander. John Johns, A. 8., Leander. Thomas Butcher, A. 8., Leander. WOUNDED. Patrick Flynn, Ord. Leander, severe l y Joseph Hugh es , Ord., London, se vere l y . Michael Lansen, Leader, severely. Herbert Walsh, A. 8., Leander, slightly Ed. Broughton, A. 8., Queen, slightly Charles Taylor, A. 8., Wasp, slightly George Carter, Ord., Wasp, slightly CONTUSED. John Linnington, A. 8., Leander, slightly W. Hayward, coxswain cutter, Rodney, slightly W. Branchley, Ord., Wasp, slightly Total-3 killed ; 7 wounded ; 3 contused ;13 casualties. (Signed) STEPHEN LUSHINGTON. Cata Comm andi Naval The Military S ecr etar p in y to H. E. Lord Raglan, Brigade. Commander-in -Chief. A RETURN - OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL BRIGADE, BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, ON THE 15TH APRIL, 1855. KILLED. John Trino, A. 8., Queen WOUNDED. John Reenan, A. 8., Leander ' severely William Ash, rapt. fore-top, Queen, slightly CONTUSED. Edward Malian], A. 8., Queen, severely William Davis, Ord., Q ueen , lightly William Hooper, Arm., Queen, slightly Edward Smith, Ord., London, slightly APRIL 11. WOUNDED. William Cudlip, A. 8., Leander, slightly Total-1 killed; 2 wounded; 4 contused. 7 casualties, April 15 ; 1 wounded, April 11. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, Captain Commandine, Naval The Military S ecr etary to H.E. Loreßaglanßrigade. , Commander-in-Chief. A. RETURN OF CASUALTIES IN THE ROYAL NAVAL BRIGADE, BEFORE SEBASTOPOL ON THE 16Th APRIL, 1555. KILLED. John I'Coolifor 1, Ord., Wasp Jonn., alias Charles, Green, Ord., Leander WOUNDED. James Childs, Ord., Podne.y, dangerously James Woodgate, L.S., Queen, slightly Samuel Williams, A.B , Leander, slightly William Turner, Ord., Leander, slightly Daniel APCarthy, A. 13., Queen, slightly William Gadden, Ord, Lean er, slightly George Hendon. L.S., Leander, slightly Total-2 killed ; 7 wounded. 9 casualties. (Signed) STEPHEN LIISHINGTON,. Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. The Military Secret a ry t o H. E . Lord Raglan, . • Commander-in-Chief. WEST INDIA MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, 11.30 A.M. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato, Captain Woolley, has just arrived with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails. STATE OF TRADE. ( Front the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, May I.—Our market is feeling the influence of several causes which tend to render buyers very cautious in their operations. The weather is ungenial, corn is rising in price, and the aspect of the war is dis couraging, while the advices just received from India are unfavourable. At Bombay, piece-goods were ex ceedingly dull, at a further decline ; and, though the value of yarns was pretty steady, !hardly anything was done in them. A very favourable rate of ex change increased the disposition of the sellers of cloth and twist to offtr greater advantages than before to buyers, who, however, still kept aloof from business. At the same time cotton wool was being taken more freely, at full prices, but the 'supply was increasing. From Calcutta it is reported that, a!though the lighter 40- inch shirtings had been . sold to a large 'extent, the market was exceedingly depressed, and in all goods and yarns a further subsidence of value had taken place. The rate of exchange had, however, again im proved, a circumstance which was inducing holders to lower their terms for imports. ROCHDALE, April 30.—The demand for flannels con tinue steady, with little or no change in prices. We have had rather more inquiry for wool, and more busi ness transacted, but the rates are much the same as the preceding week. HALIFAX, April 28.—The aspect of trade in onr Piece Hall has not changed since our last report. Yarns and wools a'so remain pretty much in the same position. HUDDERSFIELD, May, I.—Little business has been done in the cloth market to-day. The rise in the price of corn in the London market yesterday, and the uncer tain state of eastern affairs, have evidently had their influence on the trade, and an indisposition to do buss ness has been the result. COURT CIRCULAR. —,--4.----- . Lord Dufferin has succeeded Lord de Tabley as Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. e ll e . h il an al e l :l . A deputation on the subject of the Metropolitan Cattle•market bad an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-offic. The deputation consisted with the right hon. baronet, tat had Obbard, H. De Jersey, G. Atchison, and R. Hicks, w ith of Mr. H. Taylioerb ( a e d h a n I n : a n interview e v s w sra tth . j th . the Town Cierk, the Rernembrancer, the Solicitor, an d yesterday. Mr. Rowland 11.11" r official residence in Downing-street. of th i : L o t holeirMi,6 Architect.neitevExchequeramgw Meetings of the Cathedral Commissioners No. 1, New-street, Spring gardens, Were held at yesterday. The commissioners present°ll Monda y and Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Archbi,_ Were the Mar queArch- of Blandford, Al,p , the Bishopll° of York, the Bishop of Oxford, the Mal. John Patteson, Rev. , and R„ . R. M. 'Villi ers • Canon Selwyn, and Mr. l - )r. Wordsworth, ' the Rev. Despatcht.B were . lienry Kinfzscote . day to the Uover se►,t horn the C''Olonial(osffiecretary). nors ( f the West India leiandege yes ter- The Countess Waien ska hasTs issued cards fur a grand assembly, at the residence of the French Embassy, on Wednesday, the ' ) .ltli inst. The Cot tens Collozedo will have an assembly this tbe residence et the Austrian Legation. Tire Duke of RoxburL-li has left the Clarendon for Brighton, dEaarul:goillnaltpCer:aifiaceil;.ttt4hB3eo''fBEthnunilstikmilohlav't.at;iesa:faemlyildyelimvearnesdioonf in The Earl and Countess of Kintore have arrived at the Clareudon, from Brighton. The Earl of Shrewsbury is making a tour in Italy His lordship is expected to return to England shortly. Lady Lyndhurst has issued cards for a ball on Mon day next, at the family residence in George -street. LAUNCH OF THE CONQUEHOL — Yesterday afternoon the line-ufbattle ship Conqueror was launched from her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport. The launch took place at four o'clock, 9 I all I 171 a. 20 50 50 10(1 100 20 50 20 25 all all 14 all 18a i 4,1 43 i