The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

THE SU N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1856, RENEWED SEARCH FOR THE FRANKLIN PRICE OP WHEAT. (From the Derbyshire Courier.) The price of wheat has suffered a heavy decline during the last few months. The average for the first week in August was 77s 10d a quarter, while that for the week ending Nov. 22 last w as 63s 3d a quarter, being a fall of 14s. 7d. a quarter in four months. Good wheat was bought on Saturday last at Bs. a bushel (645. a qr.) and inferior at 565. and 58s. The payments of the agriculturists at this time of the year have a tendency to promote freer sales and lower the price, but this cause has only a temporary, and not very powerful, influence. Thus, last year, the price of wheat, which was 765. 6d. at the beginning of October, had risen to 82s. by the last week in November. More active and extensive causes must operate to effect a con siderable decline. Among the causes at present operative in the direction of lower prices of grain must be reckoned the large importations from America. These importations are, gdoubtless, greatly facilitated by the opening of the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada. This gigantic under taking, which is now completed, connects the great corn-growing regions of the North-Western States of America, Wisconsin, and Michigan, with the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic, extending from Toronto nearly to Quebec, a distance of 850 miles. The whole expenditure of the company up to June 30 was, we are told, no less than 8,693,080/. There can be no doubt that this great under taking has been and will be productive of a power ful influence on the cheap supply of grain from the north-west of America, and therefore on English prices. As little doubt can exist that the prosperity of the Canadian provinces will be extensively pro moted by this great national highway ; and that with increased prosperity will come an enormous increase in the quantity of wheat consumed in the Can adas. The fact of a whole nation being placed in a con dition to consume better food, and more of it, is sometimes not sufficiently taken into calculation in estimating the probable effects on prices of au improved system of locomotion. At this time there is perhaps no British colony manifesting a more rapid development of its mae nificent capabilities than Canada. It will soon open a very wide mouth for the consumption of its own food. A letter headed " Corn Averages and Gold," from Mr. C. M.. Willich, whose statistical researches are so well known and appreciated, has just ap peared in the London papers. It contains much useful information on tho subject to which it relates, and opens out other causes which operate powerfully on the preseut and future price of wheat in this country. It appears, he says, that the average import t,tion of wheat (Tuciwling flour) into England, during the last ten years, bas been 41 millions of quarters annually. In 1854 we imported 5,586,218 quarters. Yet the average of wheat that year was 725. ld. a quarter ! We paid no less than 20,133,6601. for our supply of foreign food. This letter supplies a clue to the reason of this high price with enormous importation. Mr. Willich appends a table of the supply of goll obtained in California and Australia since 1848, by which it appears that 105,950,7051. has been added in the eight years ending with 1855 to the quantity of gold previously existing in the world. "For the present year," he adds, " there is every probability that the produce will much exceed any former year." The supply of wheat may be large. Its price depends in a great measure on the supply of money also. The continued drain of silver to the East will, Mr. Willich observes, render the adoption of a gold standard in France necessary. Of this there can be no doubt. Unless France reduces the weight of her silver coinage, the foreign drain, exporta tion being profitable, must continue. Were the drain of silver to the East put a stop to, and the consequent drain of gold from this country checked, we should see but one reason 'why the price of wheat should not speedily recover, nor why wages should not rise in full proportion, as they ought to do. That reason is, that the arbitrary restriction of the circulating medium by making the Bank Note convertible into gold at a fixed rate instead of at the market price of the commodity, must ever exert a pernicious influence ou the productive in dustry of the nation. One hundred millions of gold have counteracted the evil tendency of Peel's Bill. But they have not corrected, and cannot correct, a bad financial principle. Sooner or later the country will, in spite of Australia and California, suffer for the ob stinate perversity with which it clings to its absurd and dishonest Money Laws. FIRE AT EARN WORTH PAPER MILLS. About 20 minutes to four o'clock on Thursday morn ing a fire was discovered by the watchman on duty in the extensive paper works of Messrs. John and Thomas Bonsor Crompton, Farnwortb, near Holton. It origi nated in the centre of the top room, in a four-storey building in front of the works. The building was 18 windows in length, and from six to seven yards wide. The first floor was occupied as a finishing room, and contained five hydraulic presses, and a considerable quantity of paper. The second and third storeys were used as rag stores ; and the fourth, where the fire broke out was a place where females were employed cutting the rags into small pieces. As might be supposed, these rags burned with great fury, and, from the first, there was little hope of saving the building in which the fire originated. The works not being insured, Messrs. Cromp ton keep three fire engines, and a number of their men are trained as an effective fire brigade, and everything was therefore done immediately to check the progress of the raging element. Au engine from the will of Mr. Thomas Barnes, M.P. (Prestolee), and another from the paper works of Mr. Roger Crompton ' of Elersley, were a l so speedily on the s p o t, an d th ere being a plentiful supply of water from the river Croal on one side, and the reservoirs on the other, the works wets providentially saved from destruction. The reflection of the fire had been observed in Bolton, and when a messenger arrived for the corporation engines Mr. Superintendent Beech and the fire brigade were in readiness to start with two engines ; the Etna engine of Messrs. Orinrod and Hard castle, and their firemen, were also ready, and gallope at full speed to the works, which they reached a little before seven e'slock. They also rendered effectual a d in confining the fire to the range of buildings in whi:ts it originated. At the:end of the building named there was a clock tower, with a bell at the top, and this wee destroyed, the clock face indicating that, it was stopped at 4.20. From this tower the fire spread to another rag loft, forming the angle of the centre building. it was four storeys high,and about eight windows in length, and here also, from the combustible nature of the mate rials, the fire defied every effort to subdue it. At length the roof and the floors fell in, and the whole range of rag loft s l ay a mass of burning ruins. Adjoining tb building there is a machine shed, containing three valuable paper machines, and a portion of th e bur n i ng material., tanin, upon the roof about one-half of in ratedas de s t roye d , b ut the machines are very little j . a 24 -horse Bene.4 th •the firstoiamed rag store there is engine, which a dj o i ns th e mac hi ne room, and a portion of flooring the wall s an d rocf faking through the upon in,t,t ,considerabl e d amage i s d one, but fortu nately it will. any portion of the works, as they have water-power to supply its place. Ttie fire was got suunbddeurLb.oult seven o'clock, and at eivi4t it was entirel wa n s the finishing rooms, o n the there lower storey all considerable o .t eantity of paper, but it was nearly from rea h . s nt out. Pc fire was prevented itunately tte pal,wr c ing the w7..rehouse and also the brown ~were considerable stock % fi nishing room, where there are a great number at b a j dB P:Per- in these mills there The damage, there will be no steippsge of tritTloyed, and, for, unately, it is thought, will. be about to adopt are not insured, i n conoeci ;x c u e t of tAhleesLr;.bCperuemapiutonni every precaut io required ; their custom being that Messrs. against lire. Another account state Powerful fire- Crompton keep on their premises e a 3 and thee as a nge, as well eng ines, named the Ruyal and the Mi force-pump, worked by a water. eh, ; immediately brought into play, and, under th e were superintendence of Mr. Rideout, rendered ,great see able: in preventing the spread of the flames to the a I. :v iee buildings. It is not known how the fire originated • and the damage is estimated at from 5 ,000/. to 6,0 00 1 Work will 'De resumed in a few days.— i v anchwei. uardialr, LIVERPOOL, Dc. 12.—The clipper-ship Gipsey Bride ailed hence tc-Jay for Melbourne, with 300 passengers ; 'ad a larr , e cargo. PUBLIC' INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—The pull c , ncorne for the year ended the 31st of March, 1856, amounted to 705521451. a!!aitn-t 64,091,571/. in 1 855, and the expenditure to 93,149, 3101. against 70,236,8171. in 1855. Thus th ere wasexcelsof expenditure over income in 1855-56 c f 22 597,1651., and anexceons ( slf 6 ,145,246/. in 'th e y ear 1854-55. The Cu 185 5.56) yielded 35,635 5" 1 552/. ; the Exei: e, 210 3811. '"amps, 7,063,610/ ; a.sessed and lane tax ,,, , 3.1:36 the in come tax, 15,1594581. (against 10,922,267/ the ; Year ended the 31 st of March, 1855) ; the Po c st.o e ; 2;767,2011.; and Crown lands, 421,7151. The duties on spirits and wines remain very , tationary ; those on malt, hose"ffee, toba cco, snuff, and sugar rave increased. Th e house tax yields 72F 'B9/., and land 1,157,5251 The ex penditure i n 18 7 5- 56 included 2,863,3531. for col• lecting the revenue, 28,112,8251. for the public debt, 1,695,052/. f or t h e civil rrovernment, 3,192 ,420/. f law and justice, 366,443/. f.,r diplomatic salaries, 47,461,1881. for the army, navy, and ordnance (aOainst 28,321,7071. i n the preceding ear), an d 4,200.000/ for the vote of credit (war with Russia) Ti„ army cost the coon 17,395,0591., the navy 19,654,585/ , and the ordnan. oy c 10,411,5 141 . The civil list privy PurFe, the salaries of the Royal household, and the pa3.uient4 of the Queen's • tradespeople include the Burn total of 371,800/ , and the allowances to the several branches of th.i Royal family 151,7881. Ki ng Leopold (pays int., the exchequer 33,500/, out of bis pension of 50 ' OOl., after makisg annuities and pen-, sundry deductions for the discharg,, moue to the eAabliLbint.nt pf the late p i i iice66 chariot", EXPEDITION. On Wednesday evening a meeting of Arctic navigators was held at the Russell Institution, Great Coram-street, for the purpose of considering the propriety of undertaking a new search for Sir J. Franklin and the missing expedi tion under his command, information recently received in this country having been deemed sufficient to warrant such an undertaking. There was a very numerous attendance. Among those present were Capt. Sherard Osborn, Lieut. Pim, Professor Creasy, Dr. McCormick, Capt. Inglefield, ➢r. Hodgkin, Mr. Barrow, Dr. King, Mr. Findley, Mr. Seymour, Dr. Seaman, &c. Mr. Bishop, member of the council of the College of Sur geons, occupied the chair, in the absence of Sir R. I. Mur chison, and in opening the proceedings briefly adverted to the strong desire manifested, even at this remote period of time, to ascertain whether any further traces of the unfor tunate expedition under the command of Sir J. Franklin could be discovered. Information had been recently re ceived in this country, from which it was believed that the exact spot had not been ascertained where the Erebus and Terror had been blocked in the ice. Upon that point the meeting would be addressed by Dr. King, who had visited the Great Fish River; after which solve of the eminent Arctic navigators present would, doubtless, state their opi nions. (Hear.) Dr. KING observed that up to the present moment four expeditions had been despatched in search of the missing ships—two by sea and two by land, namely, by land through Russia in the first case, and over the territories of the Hudson's Bay Company in the other; and by sea, by way of Behring,'s Straits, and subsequently through Barrow's Straits. In coming to any determination with respect to the course of future operations, it was worthy of remark that in the one case navigators would have the current with them, and against them in the other. He deeply regretted that Lieutenant Pim had been refused permission by the Emperor of Russia to continue his researches by way of Kamschatka, and though that refusal was alleged to be from a desire to avoid risk, there was reason to believe that it had arisen from political motives solely. In speaking of the Behring's Straits expedition he could not eulogise too highly the names of Sir R. M'Clure, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. M'Cormick, Sir E. Belcher, and Captain Sherard Osborn. The next expedition, namely, that of Sir John C. Ross, in conjunction with a land journey by Sir J. Rich ardson, was conducted upon an excellent principle, but it failed in consequence of the expeditions being too distant from each other. If the Great Fish River had been fol lowed instead of the Copper Mine River, the results would have been certain, as has been proved by the subsequent discovery of traces at the Fish River. But between the discovery of the first wintering quarters of Sir J. Franklin on Beechey Island and the discovery of the cache on the banks of the Great Fish River, four years had elapsed, and what had Franklin been doing during those four year? He was either starved to death, or had been attacked by the Esquimaux and carried into slavery with his compa nions. In either case some traces must have been left, and ho firmly believed that by following up the Great Fish River traces would be found. So convinced. of this were both Lieutenant Pim and himself, that on the preceding day they had forwarded a memorial to the Board of Ad miralty offering to organise a new expedition, which he felt satisfied would succeed in settling the question for ever. The memorial to which he referred was as follows : " 17, Saville-row, Dec. 8, 1856. "My Lords,—That season of the year is rapidly ap proaching when the icy fetters of the Arctic regions are loosened, and the Polar Sea is open to a further search for the remains of the Franklin expedition. Gigantic exer tions have been already made, but in all these vast efforts there has been a want of comprehensiveness, which has since been proved could only result in utter failure. It is needless to call your lordships' attention to facts in support of this view of the case, inasmuch as they are indelibly placed on record, and your lor. !ships are cognisant of them. " But traces have been found—death traces, it is to he deplored—of the gallant Sir J. Franklin and his noble band—traces that point to the whereabouts of the missing ships which sailed with so much glory to carry out the sci entific survey propounded by your lordships. Since these traces have been found your lordships have taken no steps towards a full and comprehensive search, and until your lordships shall follow up these traces to the uttermost, we venture respectfully to state our opinion that a stain is stampeu on our national honour. We, therefore, implore your lordships to take into your consideration a compre hensive plan, which we now lay before you, and which we maintain contains within itself elements of success, such as have not been before brought under your lordships' no tice. We propose to make a combined effort by sea and by land—by sea, through Barrow's Strait and down Peel's Sound ; by land, across the continent of America and down Great Fish River—meeting at the magnetic pale. Vpon the sea expedition it is proposed to use a sm ill screw steamer, and upon the land journey bank canoes. "In the first effort made for the recovery of Sir J. Franklin your lordships adopted the principle we are now advocating of a combi ne d e ff ort by sea and land, but the scheme unappily failed in the details. The route selected for the journey of the land party was far too distant from that of the sea expedition for human effort to effect a junction ; and the unhappy band of adventurers in search of whom these expeditions were despatched, met their death with succour on either aide of them. Our land party on the contrary would in the Great Fish River be compa ratively near to the sea expedition, and more certain of effecting a junction. " We contend that it is essential that the plan of search should embrace a ladd as well as a sea party, seeing that previous land parties by themselves, and previous sea par ties by themselves, have invariably failed. The desirable ness of such a combination of search as we propose must at once be apparent to your lordships, for it may be conveni ent for the land party to take passage home with the sea party, and vice versa, and with this end we consider that the two parties should comprise the fewest possible men. We would merely allude, in support of our proposal, to the successful surveys made by our forefathers—Davis, Baffin, Behring, and Hudson. " We are net surprised that the First Lord of the Trea sury should ignore the plan of search suggested by the Royal Geographical Society. inasmuch as that plan merely contemplates another search in precisely the same man ner as a host of sea searches have been already made, un supported by land journeys, and affords no better pros pect of success than was attained by the plans which im mediately preceded it, and which resulted in the total loss of live of her Majesty's ships, one of which (the Resolute), has since been recovered by a miracle, and is now upon its return to this country. " The precise time of starting upon the land journey will be towards the end of February; that of the sea expedition will be the end of June. By these means your lordships will not be hurried; and it is for that reason we have thus early addressed you. Most of the expeditions that have been despatched have been hurried at the last moment,and to this, we apprehend, is to be attributed in great measure their failure. " The precise time when both the sea and land parties will reach their respective wintering grounds, the precise fittings which each service will require, and the precise sum which each will cost, are well known to your lordships, and therefore need not be repeated. For these services we place ourselves at the disposal of your lordships. We are tried servants intimately acquainted with the services we undertake to conduct. We are friends bound together in zeal and honesty of purpose ; and we are confident in each other, and earnest in our endeavour to press forward in all prudence to our rendezvous. In conclusion, we would state to your lordships that we are convinced that, in order to be successful, the united service, both by sea and by land, should be under the conduct of government. It was on a government errand, propounded by government, that Sir John Franklin sailed ; and to the care of the Govern ment his honoured remains P,houlti be committed.—We have the honour to be, my Lords, your lordship's most faithful servants, " RICIAARD KING, M.D. " RADFORD PIM, Lieutenant, R.N." Both Lieut. Pim and himself were anxious that every facility should be afforded for au investigation of the plan here laid down, not only by those who bad taken an active part in previous searching expeditions, but by all Who, either by aeientido or geographical knowledge, might be supv.ised competent to form a correct judgment of the F.obabilities of success. He was happy to say that in consequence of the new light thrown upon the question, the opinion was almost universal that by a land and sea expedition they would at length succeed in discovering the fate of the missing ships, and perhaps even of rescuing some of the survivors. (Hear.) That such might be the case was the opinion of Captain Austin, Captain Richards, Captain Inglefield, Captain Sherard Osborn, Dr. Hooker, and Dr. Armstrong, all Polar men ; and in farther confir mation of that opinion, he would read a letter from Admi ral Sir S. Bsau:ort to Lieut. Pim. It was as follows : " The one great object which should override all other con siderations, and on which I shall take my stand, is the still existing chance of rescuing from slavery the remnant of those noble fellows, and the payment of that debt which all civilised nations tacitly contract with those whom they send forth on enterprises of danger. Now, it will not be denied that a half of the whole force of the expedition is yet to be accounted for, nor that it is probable when the ships were abandoned that different parties took different routes. Nor, again, if they threw themselves on different parts of the long north shore of America, that the despatch of a single Hudson's Bay messenger, to the mouth of the Great Fish River, can by any perversion of language be called an effective and adequate search for our missing countrymen ; nor will it be denied that if their boats were Wrecked, burned, or pillaged, their crews had no possible means of further retreat, and must then have thrown them selves es on the mercy of the natives, who, if they spared ca .iinhli"B. would assuredly extort from them some work , return, and would as sure l y wa t c h th a t th ey did not es p w h en w e reflect o n the ch a rms of repo se an d safety a f ter shipwreck and boatwreck, and on the comfort of a full stom a c h , after va i n l y s if t i ng t h e san d s f or perri winkles, or again; on thef , strilktY with w hi c h sailors adapt themselves in many of our voyagers, and especi a lly i n K ane ' s a d m i ra bl e very incredulous person who doubts that at this moment seve ral forgotten country men areso: l our aband one d an d a l mos t huts, swallowing mor se l s of froez,,tocrig themselves in sn ow and at the same time chewing the bitter cud s o ea f l t o h r walrus ' of gratitude, want of faith, and want of honour." country's want let ter was from a man of the highest possible n a u u u th r.;T t This this subject. He (Dr. K.) had always guarded himiseylfufrPo°H expressing any opinion upon the 'natter, but in his own m mind he thought it possible that there might be some an virors. Sir F. Beaufort was peifectly right in thinkinc, that the Esciaimaux would not let them escape. If the; got hold of a doctor or a blacksmith, he (Mr. King) was sure they would not, for they knew too well the value of such men. If, therefore, they had fallen into . the hands of the Esquimaux, and had convinced their captors th a tih ey were of utility, there was not the slightest reason to de spair that they welt) still alive. (Hear, hear.) The object of the meeting was to invite discussion. He stuck him self up as a target to be fired at, and would be most happy to hear any kind of opposition, though he should certainly claim the privilege of replying to any objections which might be raised. With respect to the Hudson Bay Com pany's expedition to the Great Fish River, nobody knew better than Sir F. Beaufourt, who had been for half a century the hydrographer of the Admiralty, whether that could be called a search. He (Dr. King) denied that there was any evidence whatever that Captain Hudson, of the Hudson Bay Company, had ever reached the mouth of the Great Fish River. There never was a greater traveller than Thomas Simpson, but what did he discover at Mon treal Island ? He said, "On the 16th we directed our course with flags flying to Montreal Island, at which place we found a deposit among the rocks in a cache, which con tained two bags of pemmican, a quantity of chocolate, and various other things." If these things had not been washed away by the tide, nothing on earth would convince him (Dr. King) that the bodies of the 40 men who were said to have died near that spot could have been washed away without any record remaining behind. He believed him self that Sir George Back had never reached the Polar Sea 1 by the great outlet of the Fish River, but that he had gone to some other point, and had never visited the cache discovered by Simpson. The question now to be con sidered was, whether the search, being confined to a limited area, it ought not to be pursued, and all doubts as to the fate of Sir .1. Franklin and of the crews of the missing ships set al rest. He believed that the plan submitted to the Admiralty by himself and Lieutenant Pim contained elements of success such as no other plan had ever combined. All that was wanted was confidence in each other, and he solicited the co-operation of the meet ing, because ho believed that the expedition now projected would set the question at rest for ever. (Hear, hear.) Lieutenant Pim said he had attended the meeting with feelings of sincere gratification, because he considered it a step in the right direction. The motive was to encourage inquiry, sift every particle of evidence, and, send every one away with a truthful impression of the present state of this painfully interesting national question. After the clear and distinct manner in which Dr. King had opened the subject, it was needless for him to enter into minute details. He took his stand on the broad ground that 138 public servants were lost in the Polar region, that many efforts had been made to find them, that by the merest accident a clue to their whereabouts had been at last ob tained by them, and not till then all further efforts had been abandoned. (Hear, hear.) Every one knew that they had obtained traces of Franklin, for which they had paid 10,0001. Those traces pointed to a circumscribed space within which the ships themselves would probably be found, for it must be borne in mind that a search had been made in every other direction, and every Arctic ex plorer agreed that this spot could be easily approached by several routes. Why, then, did they hesitate ? They hid offered a reward for a trace of Franklin ; they had paid 10,0001. for that trace ; their experience in the Polar seas attested that the trace could be followed to a successful issue with less than the usual risk, and, strange to say, they stopped short when the object was within their grasp. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion they ought to settle all doubt about the missing expedition. Surely national hon our called for it, independently of the extreme impoli4 of destroying the confidence of future navigators 'in the beneficent care of their countrymen at home. His own feelings in connection with this subject were these : Being a sailor he knew the habits of sailors, and he did not hesitate to say that he had always entertained a strong can viction that some of our unfortunate countrymen might, be still alive, and in slavery to the Esquimau'. They knew that Dr. Kane, the intrepid and distinguished American traveller, had been on the point of throwing himself on the mercy of the natives, when he providentially escaped from his icy prison ; and they also knew that Lease and Simp son had orders in case of necessity to winter with these people. His had been no common service in the arctic le gions. Ile had suffered the extremes of cold, hunger, and thirst, and from experience he could ,place himself in the position of our lost sailors. He felt that if their fellow-countrymen would stretch out a helping hand, some of them might yet be restored to their friends. His opinion was not singular, but was participated in' by many of the most eminent men in the country. (Hear.), He entirely agreed with Dr. King that an unsupported expedi tion, by way of Barrow's Straits, must fail; that an unsup ported expedition down the Great Fish River must fail ; but that a combined effort by both those routes contained within itself elements of success such as had not hitherto been tried. Dr. King had read the memorial which they had conjointly submitted to the Admiralty. He need pnly repeat that he (Lieutenant Pim) had the utmost confi nc e that Dr. King would use every possible exertion to r ach the magnetic pole, and he believed that Dr. King ha the fullest confidence that he (Lieut. Pim) would meet him there. He felt convinced that the search would b 4 at- tended with success ; and if that' could restore onl3i one of those poor fellows to his country, they would be amply rewarded for every hardship and difficulty they would have to encounter. (Cheers.) Mr. FINDLEY wished to call the attention of the meeting to a geographical question with reference to this subject. By the position of the missing ships indicated on the map, it would seem that they must have reached Victoria Land, and it was alleged that they had gone throughPeePs Sound; but Lieut. Brown had found that the Sound was filled with ice to the very bottom, and had never been open at all The coast of Parry Sound had been clearly defined by Idr. Wynniat ; and if Sir J. Franklin's ships had really reached the spot indicated, without going through Peel's Sound, he was entitled to the merit of discovering the North-Went Passage, as the precursor of Sir R. M'Clure. • Mr. Al`Cortmicir having addressed the meeting, Dr. SEAMAN, naturalist and historian of the voyage of the Herald in search of the Franklin expedition to Beh ring's Strait, considered that it was highly desirable 'that there should be another expedition and viewed with satis faction the present plan. Many of the public were pos sessed of sufficient Arctic knowledge to criticise the plan, but others would inquire what were the antecedents of its principal promoters. It was sufficient to say that both Dr. King and Lieut Pim were experienced Arctio travellers. Dr. King had accompanied Sir G. Back down to Great Fish River in search of Sir John Ross's party, any in the memorable expedition had collected such vast stores of in formation that he was entitled to the gratitude of the whole scientific world. When anxiety was first felt with respect to the fate of Franklin, Dr. King had suggested a plan, which, had it been at once adopted, would probably have ensured the safety of most, if not all, of the missing expedition, as the search would have been conducted on the very spot where it had been shown that part at least of the expedition had perished. It was melancholy to think that this plan had been rejected. It had bees urged upon the Admiralty again and again in vain, until facts had at length come to light which had completely borne out his view. Lieutenant Pim and himself were shipmates in the first search after Franklin, by Behring's Straits during three seasons, under Captain Kellett ; he had performed a most arduous journey from Kot zebue to Norton Sound and back; and when it was considered that the northern shores of Asia should also be searched, he was only prevented from carrying it out by the refusal of the Russian Government, the alleged reason for that refusal by the Emperor of Russia being the great danger which he would have to incur. Subsequently, how ver, it transpired that the Emperor of Russia was influ enced by political motives, considering Mr. Pim as a spy sent to investigate the mysteries of Siberia. When the last Arctic expedition was fitted out Mr. Pim joined the Reso lute, and had the good fortune to find Capt. M'Clure's party, thus becoming the link which connected the eastern with the western discoveries. Such were the men who now presented a plan for a renewed search for traces of the fate of Sir J. Franklin and his party. Therefore, if there were no other means of judging the merits of that plan than from their antecedents, it woul i still be entitled to re spectful consideration. Lieut. BROWN thought that the great error in all the searching expeditions arose from not paying a due regard to Franklin's instructions. By those instructions they would find that he was positively directed to proceed to Lancaster Sound, and then to the south-west. At that time the whole of Barrow's Strait was left as it was in 1819, and Victoria Land itself was supposed to be sea. Franklin en deavoured to carry out his instructions, and consequently had reached Beechey Island. He probably next endeavoured to make Cape Walker, andit was upon that point that the great diversity of opinion had arisen. It was supposed that because he could not make Cape Walker, he would go up Wellington Channel. He would never have left Beechey Island without leaving some record of where he was bound. He (Mr. Brown) did not think that Sir John ever went to the north of Barrow's Strait, but that, being unable to reach Cape Walker, he had endeavoured to get to the west of it by taking the line of the ice, had got entangled in it, and had been unable to retrace his steps. He thought that Frank lin, having abandoned his ships, went across the ice to King William and Montreal Islands ; and there never was a greater fallacy than to suppose that he went to Welling ton Channel, though it was not impossible that some of his men might have gone there. It was quite possible, in his opinion, that some of them might still be living among the Esquimaux. An expedition going through Lancaster Sound, which was open to the whalers five seasons out of ten, would probably clear up the whole question. Dr. KING observed, in reply to a question, that there was not the slightest fear of the safety of a land party sledging. There were ample means of forming caches, and the lakes afforded so abundant a supply of fish that two fishermen would be quite able to lay in a store for 150 men ; and as the fish froze almost immediately they came out of the water, they would keep for years. Then, again, a couple of Indian hunters would supply all the game they required. It was his opinion, therefore, that as little incumbrance should be taken as possible, which was also the idea of the late ,Sir J. Ross. Mr. • M'Colimrcii said he only wanted to show the advan tage o f having a ship to fall back upon. Dr. KING then proceeded to notice the various points raised .in the discussion in detail, observing that he had very falint hopes of finding any of the survivors of the ill fated ex pedition ; but there could be little doubt that such records `would be obtained as would set the question at rest for ever, 'collie, if there was the remotest chance of rescuing any of our co untrymen, it was our bounden duty to do as. Some further discussion ensued, and a resolution approv in of the projected expedition was agreed to. A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and the proNcedingetepuirosted. • EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MILITARY COLLEGE, A. DDISCOMBE. Yesterday the half-yearly examination of the gentlemen cadets of the East India Company took place at the college at Addiscombe, near Croydon, and the attendance of visi tors was unusually numerous for this season of the year. The chairman (Col. Sykes, F.R.S.), the deputy chairman (R. D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.), and a large body of directors, arrived at the college shortly before eleven. The chairman took his seat at eleven o'clock, supported by the members of the deputation; when the cadets were examined by Sir Fred. Smith, the public examiner, as to their proficiency in their various studies of mathematics, fortification, &c., and their answers to difficult questions elicited great approbation. The examinations as to Hin dustani, drawing, French, and Latin had taken place pre viously by the public examiners, in the presence of the different professors, and the prizes awarded. There were 36 cadets brought forward. Of this number three were reported by the public examiner (Major-Gen. Sir F. Smith, K.H.) to be qualified for the engineers, viz.: --J. Herschel, R. C. Daubuz, and H. Macaween. Eleven were reserved for further examination for the Engineers, viz. :—I. P. Westmorland, A. C. Padday, T. F. Dowden, 0. B. C. St. John, A. Le Messurier, D. H. Trail, A. H. Bagge, W. Coningham, W. Merriman, F. Robertson, and J. Moxon aegrotat. Thirteen were reported qualified for the Artillery, viz. T. Hume, T. H. Moore, 3. N. Martin, T. Ryan, A. Wynch, G. M. W. Sotheby, J. H. Knox, F. W. Burney, W. O'Brien, A. Walker, H. Girar dot, W. J. Cottam, and A. D. Butter.• Nine for the In fantry, viz. :—H. A. &taw, H. L. Marsh, C. F. James, G. Dukinfield, A. Younghusband, A. Shaw, E. W. Shaw, H. B. Edwards, E. Raikes, and David Graham. After the report of the public examiner and inspector of studies had been read by Mr. G. Cochrane, of the cadet department, the following distribution of prizes took place : CLASS I. Julius Moxon (First good conduct)—The Sword. John Herschel—ThePollock Medal—First mathematics, first military surveying, second Hindustani and chemistry. Isaac Westmorland—First fortification and first Hin dustani. Robert C. Danbuz—Second mathematics, second forti fication, second military surveying, and second good con duct. Thos. F. Dowden—First military drawing. Oliver B. St. John—French and Latin. Geo. M. W. Sotheby—Second military drawing and first civil drawing. Arthur D. Butter—Second civil drawing. Hastings Macsween (Extra prize)—Gunnery, striking the flagstaff. CLASS 11. Keith Jopp—Mathematics, military drawing, military surveying, civil drawing, and third good conduct. Henry Thuillier—Fortification. Alexander Baillie—Hindustani and French. Robert Robinson—Latin. Alexander Cumming--Fourth good conduct. CLASS 111. Lewis Conway Gordon—Fortification and Hindustani. Joseph Brandreth—Military drawing and military sur , veying. James Browne—French, Latin, and mathematics. Charles Mant —Civil drawing. THE POLLOCK MEDAL. The Chairman, in presenting the Pollock gold medal to Gentleman Cadet Herschel, said—Mr. Herschel, the inha bitants of Calcutta established, as a token of their high sense of the great and successful military services and pri vate worth of General Sir George Pollock, C. 8., this me dal to be presented to the cadet ranking highest in the ,tale of general merit and professional acquirements, and, therefore, worthy to receive this mark of distinction. It will be the means, I trust, of stimulating you to tread in the steps of that distinguished officer, with whose presence we are this day honoured ; and you will doubtless use every endeavour to maintain the reputation of the name you bear. THE SWORD FOR GOOD CONDUCT. Gentleman Cadet Moron, who had gained this prize by his general good conduct during the term, was pre vented, by severe indisposition, from receiving it in person. It was presented to his father, with the expres sion of the chairman's regret at the cause of his son's ab sence. FORTIFICATION DEPARTMENT. After the cadets' dinner, the chairman and company in spected the models in the sand modelling hall, where the attack of Valenciennes, under the command of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, was explained by Cadet Daubeny. Three of the advanced works situated on the left b%nk of the Moselle, for the protection of Cob lentz, were described by Cadet Herschel; and a new design, invented by Lieutenant Cook, professor of fortifi cation at this college, for a first-class citadel, with a cir cular tower, was explained by Cadet Padday. All the above models were constructed on the scale of one-eighth of an inch to a foot. There were also a four-gun battery and a direct double sap, on a scale of an inch to a foot, and the model of a very heavy battery, the " Creek bat tery," at Sebastopol, on the scale of half an inch to a foot; together with a design for a tower for sea coast defence, which were briefly explained by Cadet St. John. AU these models were beautifully executed and well described. MILITARY DRAWINGS EXECUTES BY THE GENTLBMBN CADETS OF THE FIRST CLASS. Mr. Dowden (Ist prize)—Part of the island of Hong Kong. Mr. Sotheby (2d prize)—Balaklava. Messrs. Padday, Westmoreland, Bagge, and Le Mes surier—Parts of the island of Hong Kong. Messrs. St. John and Girardot—Mequinenza. Messrs. Burney and H. Shaw—Balaklava. Messrs. Ryan and Merriman—Sebastopol. Mr. Hume—Tarragona. SECOND CLASS. Messrs. Jopp (prize) and Stewart—Superior drawings from models. F•URTH CLASS. Mr. Brandreth (prize)—Volcanic Mountains. Also several promising subjects in this and the junior classes. CIVIL DRAWINGS. The exhibition of drawings by the gentlemen cadets was exceedingly pleasing, and certainly an improvement upon those of former years. Indeed, some of the works were of great beauty, and full of artistic feeling. There has also been a considerable advance in the photographic depart ment. Amongst the portraits exhibited were Sir W. F. Williams of Kars, and his aide-de-camp, Col. Teesdale; also Major-General Sir F. Smith, K.H., and several of the professors, besides views of the front and back of the man sion, and two beautiful specimens of the out-going term, containing the likenesses of 37 of the gentlemen cadets in each picture. There were also several separate portraits of the cadets, the printing of which has more the appear ance of mezzotint engraving than photography. First Prize—Mr. Sotheby. An artistic sketch in pencil and tinting of Windermere Lake, and a highly-finished landscape in water-colours. Second Prize—Mr. Butter. Two exquisitely finished pictures from "Macbeth." Third Prize—Mr. Jopp. A highly-finished figure draw ing. The landscapes by the Messrs. Padday, Domien, Qirardot, Jas. Coningham, &c., were much admired, as also were two figure subjects by the Messrs. H. Shaw and 0. St. John. This department, which is under the direction of Pro fessor Petley, excited the warmest admiration, and the dis play of pictures was considered to be very superior to that of any former occasion. After the business of the day had been disposed of, the chairman, deputy chairman, and visitors proceeded to the mansion of Col. Abbot, where a splendid collation was pro vided, which having been disposed of, the company broke up at 5 o'clock, most of them returning to town by train. 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In our obituary of yesterday we announced the death of Lieut.-General Francis Miles Milman, which took place at his town residence, Berkeley-square, on Tuesday last. The gallant General entered the army in 1800, in the Coldstream Guards, and saw much service up to the peace. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General C. Crawford, in 1808, and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, and was attached to the same General's staff in the retreat of General Sir John Moore to Corunna, and was engaged on the heights of Lugo and at the victory of Corunna. He subsequently joined the Coldstream Guards at Lisbon, and was with them at the capture of Oporto, and took part in the battle of Talavera, where he was most severely wounded and saved from being burnt on the field of battle by a pri vate soldier of the Guards. The deceased General was made prisoner in the hospital of Talavera and detained in France until 1814. The gallant general ultimately rose to the com mand of the Coldstream Guards. He was appointed colonel in cbief of the 82d Regiment (the Prince of Wales's Volun teers) in Nov., 1850. His commissions bore date as follows: —Lieutenant, Dec. 3, 1800; captain, April 28, 1804; lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 25, 1813 ; colonel, July 22, 1830; major-general, Nov. 23, 1811 ; and lieutenant-general, Dec. 11, 1851. By the death of the gallant officar another regi ment becomes vacant, making no less than four at the dis posal of the Duke of Cambridge, viz., the 12th Laacers, the 55th, 74th, and 82d Regiments. • It is intended to send a certain number of regiments to Chatham garrison every year for the purpose of enabling the officers and men to undergo a course of instruction un der the director of the Royal Engineers' establishment in pontooning, the construction of temporary bridges, as well as all descriptions of fascines and gabions, and the throw ing up of earth batteries and intrenchments necessary to defend a camp, previously to their embarkation for foreign service. With this view arrangements will be made at Chatham for receiving about three regiments, each of about 1,000 strong, at one time, and as soon as those have under gone the required course of instruction, which will occupy a few months, they will be relieved by other regiments. Her Majesty's steam yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, was taken into the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, to bo refitted for her Majesty's service. The steam vessel Dasher was commissioned at Ports mouth yesterday by Commander E. G. flora for service on the Channel Islands fisheries. His Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Pluto, having been commissioned by Lieutenant-Commander Wm. Swinburn (1848), late First Lieutenant of the Leander, and subse quently in command of the screw steam gunboat Jackdaw, was yesterday morning hauled out of Woolwich basin and moored in ordinary, to facilitate the reception of her sea stock, and to enter the remainder of her crew, two-thirds of whom are engaged. She is ordered to be ready for sea on the 18th inst. Her destination is the west coast of Africa. The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Trident, one of the Government line of packets engaged in carrying the mails in the Mediterranean until that service was abolished, hav ing been refitted at Woolwich, is under orders to proceed to the west coast of Africa. Commander Francis A. Close, having been appointed to the Trident, is engaging hands, the complement being nearly complete, and is waiting orders for sea. She was yesterday morning taken into, No. 1 dock at Woolwich. The gunboat Growler and the police floating station Royalist were yesterday morning undocked at Woolwich. The steam yacht which arrived at Woolwich in Novem ber to be masted and fitted for service, and which was built for the Emperor of Japan by Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, has been supplied with a couple of engines of 60-horse power, which were yesterday subjected to their first trial in the inner basin at Woolwich. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, lieu tenant on board her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-frigate Magicienne, 16, Captain Nicholas Vansittart, has left that ship in consequence of the receipt of a telegraphic despatch communicated through the Ambassador at Con stantinople. The Prinae's departure was caused by the severe and subsequent fatal illness of his father the Prince of Leiningen. Prince Ernest was much esteemed on board —his seniority as lieutenant dates April 2, 1855 ; he joined the frigate May 29, 1856. Letters received at Plymouth from the Magicienne, dated Oct. 15, state that she was then going to the Isle of Serpents. The new 80-gun ship Meeanee was towed down from Chatham yesterday by the steam-vessels Lizard and Adder and moored at the docking moorings off Sheerness yard. She is to be taken into No. 2 dry dock for the purpose of being fitted as a screw line of battle ship. Her Majesty's frigate Lucifer a:rived at Liverpool yes terday from Portsmouth, for the purpose of taking away the fittings of the various transports which have been taken up from the former port. The mail steam-ship Ireland, Captain Perry, which left Dartmouth at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, for the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies, put back to Plymouth Sound yesterday (Friday) morning at 9 o'clock, The new steam sawmills and the great storehouse at Pembroke are rapidly being erected, and will soon receive their roofs. The new building for oakum, as well as the new foundry, will prove valuable additions to the dock - yard. The dry dock is receiving still greater length to meet the increased size of our men-of-war. Farther church accopimodation is much needed at Pembroke, where at the dockyard church there are only sittings for about 230 men, not one-fourth of the number now in garrison. The following appointments were made at the Admi ralty yesterday : Captain L. G. Health, to the Melampus. Captain H. A. Story, to the Eagle. Captain James Willcox, to the Hawke. Lieutenant—Charles Forbes has been appointed to the command of the Bloodhound. Midshipman—W. D. M. Dolben to the Indus, for disposal. Acting Assistant-Surgeon—F. L. W. White to the Sphinx, W. H. Lloyd to the Impregnable, E. M Morgan to the V►ctory. Naval Aide-de-Camp—Captain George St, V. King to be Naval Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RET URNS. Miles Receipts. opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1856. 1856. 1855. -...--- -- . Raman. .£ £ 11 5 Aberdeen .• .............. ••. . . .... 3,332 3,133 37% Belfast and Ballymena .............. 1,025 759 17 Belfast and County Down .........• .. - - 33 1 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,135 1,731 264 1 Bolton, Blackburn,and West York .... - - 5,351 5,472 117 Bristol and Exeter • • .... 12 475 10,540 198% Caledonian... . 4 , 9'4 4,8 4 4 94 ) 4 Chester and Holyhead... .. -•••• • • •• •' 152 156 6 36 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• • • 298 295 20 Cork and Bandon .. • • ............ .. 56 Dublin and Belfast 1 unction •• •• •• •• 14119 1 4' 6 4 2 544 1 63 Dublin and Drogheda•• •••••• • •• ** ' 1, 12 984 7 %Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • •••• '• - 4 74 430 16% Dundee and Arbroath •••••••• • • • •• bolt 973 963 31 Dundee, Ferth, and Aberdeen Jane.... 4 3 5 400 36 Dundalk and Enniskillen•• •••• • • . • $62 840 67 / 4 East Anglian.... ••••••• • • • • • • .".: ;; •,, 5,603 5,195 93 East Lancashire •••• • • • • r •.: :i ; ..... 1 20,585 20,083 417 Eastern Counties and No tot .. _. •• •• •• • 5.223 5,000 Eastern Union • • • • - • •,;• ...... „..... 5,380 5,271 142 Edinburgh and Glasgnod • 128 Edinburgh, Perth. a • • • - - . D . . in . . 1 . d . e . . e ... .. .. . 6,161 5,622 6 Exeter and Crediton.. 22 Furness Ba llwaY - western........ and South -183% G lasgow . . . ...... .......... 23,789 25,864 283 Great Northern. and...W..e5..te.r.n..(.1r..e.1an.. d) 6,063 6,614 203% Great Southern .„ 24,210 22,649 388 Great Wester n__2l6 279 25% Irish SouthEasct•e•rniis.;........... :: ....:::: 5,309 5 222 90 Lancaster and ar 28614 Lancas hire and Yorkshire..• • ...... ,„ 21,558 20,051 - Leeds Northern . 164 Liverpool, Crosby, and South .. - - 637 London and North Western ......... 56,347 56,078 5% London and 81actica11.......... •. .. 1,189 1098 183% London. Brighton, and South Coast.. 10,931 10 ,543 . 267 London and South Western. • ....... 11,601 12,614 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • .... • . 630 628 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 173% Manchester, Sheffiel4,4nd Lincolnshire 8,854 9,535 934 Manchester and South Junction...... 687 648 28 Maryport and Carlisle .........„, .. 907 881 498% Midland .... •••••••.• .• • • • • ..... 23.4) 27,111 126% Midland Great Western (Irish) .... , . 3,21 4 3,209 52 Monklands • • • • • • • • .. • • .. • . • ... „ .. - 78% Newcastle and Car1i51e.............._ 4 - ; :62 1 6 4 , 5 6 2 74 1 149 North British • • .................... 233 North Staffordshire .• • • ........... 7 47 North-Western .................... 87% icottish Central • • ............._ .... l5B 840 ___ 2 1 :6 5 - 6 ,6 3 . 1 2 1 :2 2 - 9 4 7 2 32 Scottish Midland ............: ... 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... 48 Shrewsbury and Chester ........... 30 Shropshire Union .. • 821 848 57% South Devon .•• ••• • .. •..„ .......... _,_ _ 289 South Eastern• • .............. 2 117 2, 318 ...... 15,309 ' • 171% South Wales ....... .... .... .. 5 1 ::74 4 10 _2 12: 6 6,366 , 15'3'5 97 South . e.:.. Doncaster ....: :..:: :: :,.. and : ::: ..G .. oo : . I . e: .. .. 36 ins TafT te V r r . d. 77 Waterford PM Limerick ....... • 4 2 1 :•436522643. l! 27% West Cornwall ...... .. . ••• ••• • • 1 , 014 1,344 12 Whitehaven Junction .... ' ' • 635 4tf2 ••••••••••• 383 313 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - - 7011EIGN. 109 . Dutch Rhenish - .......... 328 Lyons and Mediterranean "•• •• • • 1,965 1,304 63 Montereau and Troy es .. - - - Namur and Liege ...... •• •••••••••• - - 445 Northern of France .... •'• •• •• ••• - - ... ........... 37,863 41,981 _ Orleans and Centr a l 59 Paris and Lyons .... • .... • • • • •• •• - - - Paris and Rouen. .....:• •• •• • • • • •• •' - - - Paris and Strasbureh •.• •• •• •• --- I - - _. Rouen and Hay ~.. •••• •••••• ~. •• - ........ Western of Fra nce ... • • • - .- -- ••. We (Glasgow Daily Mail) understand that Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has expressed his intention of delivering, about Easter, hie inaugural address as Lord Rector to the students of Glasgow University. How TO BURT A WARRlOR.—Charles Jackman, of the 23d Foot (the Duke's Own), on furlough, left Aldershot Camp on the 2d inst., travelling by the Great Western Railway. On the train stopping for refreshment at Swindon he was taken insensible from one of the car• riagep, and died after a few minutes. An inquest was held on the 3d. On the sth be was conveyed in a cart to the churchyard at the New Town. Among the guests at the Queen's Royal Hotel chanced to be a clergyman ; and thus, though the unshrouded corpse was not admit ted within the church, the funeral service was read over the grave of a survivor from Sebastopol, the clasp and medal for which he wore. Those decorations are saved for relatives, THE DOUBLE MURDER AT BOLTON. The'adjourned inquest on the bodies of Luke White and Ei,zAheth his wife, who were IJund murdered in their house at Bolton-upon-Dearne, near Wartb, yester day week, was held at the Cross Daggers public house, yesterday. From inquiries made by our correspondent beforehand, it was ascertained that the police had no clue to any persons for the dreadful crime. Every effort bad been made to discover the whereabouts of the offenders, but the efforts have so far failed. Mr. D. Astwood, superintendent of the Doncaster po ice, gave evidence to the effect that every effort had already been made to discover the offender, but without success. He also made some further statements which it would be gnwise at present to make public. The Coroner then addressed a few observations to the jury, and concluded, by asking the constable of the vi lage several questions relative to the suspicion which had been said to attach to him, and they were very satisfac torily cleared up. After a little further cocversation the the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or perros unknown." --The deceased persons were highly respec'ed in the neighbourhood, and in addition to a reward of 100/ offered by government, the principal inhabitants have increased the sum to 1551., for the conviction ui the murderers. From the London Gazette of Last Night WHITEHALL, DEC. 10. The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Col. the Hon. Wm. Lygon Pakenham, C. 8., her Majesty's royal licence and permission that he may accept and wear the Cross of a Commander of the Second Class of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, which the King of Sardinia hath been pleased to confer upon him, in testimony of his approbation of his distinguished services before the enemy during the late war, WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, DEC. 12. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Troop Serjeaat-Major William Don to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Still, promoted; Cornet William Don to be Adjutant, vice Gil leland, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Montague Dettmar to be Captain, vice Wetherall, who retires; William Chaine, Gent., late Lieutenant, Antrim Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Dettmar, promoted. let Regiment of Foot—Captain Henry Smyth Bawtree, from the 87th Foot, to be Captain, vice Todd, who ex• changes. 4th Foot - Lieutenant John W. Laurie to be Instructor of Musketry. 7th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William John Frampton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Foster, promoted. 19th Foot—Ensign William Henry Moffatt to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Sackville H. M. Eaton, who retires ; Arthur Westbrooke Burton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Moffatt. 26th Foot—Ensign Edward Kempson to be Lieuteaant, without purchase, vice Hogarth, deceased. 29th Foot—Ensign Kenrick Verulam Bacon, from the 42d Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, in succession to Lieutenant O'Loglin, cieceased. 36th Foot—Capt , .in Joshua Canliffe Ingham, from the 57th Foot, to be Captain, vice Marshall, who exchanges ; Gentleman Cadet Arthur Francis Kelsey, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hawkes, promoted. 42d Foot—Kenrick Verulam Bacon, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Fife Allan, who retires ; Gentle man Cadet George Thomas Carus Moore, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bacon, appointed to tho 29th Foot. 44th Foot—Lieut. Joseph Logan to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Streatfield, who retires. 46th Foot—Ensign Wm. Abbott has been permitted to resign his Commission. • 48th Foot—Ensign Cornwallis Wade Browne to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Pennington, who retires ; Robt. Yallop Stokes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne. _ _ _ 49th Foot—Lieut. Clifford W. Chaplin to be Instructor of Musketry. 53.1 Foot—Ensign Richard Annesley Eyre to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Drought, deceased. 57th Foot—Capt. G. R. J. Marshall, from the 36th Foot, to be Captain, vice Ingham, who exchanges. 58th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Cooper to be Captain, by purchase, vice Petley, who retires ; Ensign Wm. Russell Russell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cooper ; Henry John Wyn ward, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Russell. _ _ 65th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Herbert Suckling, from the 31st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Turner, pro moted, without purchase, to an Unattached Company. 77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Randle Jackson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mant, promoted. Blth Foot—Captain James A. Ruddell Todd, from the Ist Foot, to be Captain, vice Bawtree, who exchanges. 90th Foot—Assist.-Surgeon Win. Bradshaw, from the Staff, to be Assist.-Surgeon, vice Reid, who exchanges. Ist West India Regiment—Thomas George Mawe, Gent., to be Ensigo, without purchase, vice Hemsworth, whose appointment on the 14th Nov., 1856, has been cancelled. 3d West laJim Regiment—Charles Masterman Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gun, de ceased. St. Helena segi►nent—Wm. Russell Nash, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rainier, promoted. DEPOT BATTALION. Lieutenant-Colonel Calledon Richard Egerton, from half-pay, 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Alves, retired upon full-pay, Paymaster John Peter Hall, from the 14th Foot, to be Paymaster. ROSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon Douglas Arthur Reid, M.D., from the 90th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bradshaw, who exchanges. , Acting Assistant-Surgeon Harvey Rowe has ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for his services. BREVET. The undermentioned officer having completed three years' actual service on Nov. 2-4 1856, in the rank of Lieu tenant-Colonel, to be promoted to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854. Lieutenant-Colonel David Elliot Mackirdy, 69th Foot. COM XIISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Kincardine—To be Deputy• Lieutenants : Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart. ; Robert Burnett, jun., Esq.; Alexander Walker Mac Tier, Esq. ; Alexander Baird, Esq.; and Hercules Scott, jun., Esq. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Thomas Coningsby Norbury Norbury, late Captain in the Gth Dragoon Guards, to be Cap.ain, vice Blayney, deceased. Ist or Royal Bast Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Charles Francis Simms, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Frede rick, resigned. The Essex Rifles—Ensign Arthur James Fenn to be Lieutenant, vice Drage, removed to the Line ; Robert Ed wardes, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fenn, promoted. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7 th a a d Sth Victoria, cap. 32. for the Week ending on Saturday the 6th day of Dec., 1856. 18917 E DEPAB,TDISWT. . Notes 19,110 d Goverunent debt .... 11,015,10(. Other oecuritie3.. •• •• 3,459,9( 1 0 Gold coin and bullion 9,871,620 Silver bu11i0n.. ...... £2-4,346,520. I £ 24 ,346,520 MARitIALL, Chief Cashier ;r. ►856. ,PARTMENT. Dated the llth day of Deccmbe BANKING DC Proprietors'capital .• 14,553,000 Rest ...... • • • • •• 3,215,7 6 Public deposit E (in cluding Exchequer, Comnitssi oner s of National Debt, Bay ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,870,702 Other deposits 4,:ven Day and other Bills.. •• • • •• • •• 860,002 Governmentsecuritles (inoludg.Dead Weigh t Annuity)" •• • •• • • 1 0,610,867 Other securities...—. 17,3;9 , 715 Notes ...„. „•• • •• 5,151,380 Gold and Myer coin.. 614,678 .£33,796,640 Dated the 11th day of December, 133,796,610 S. MARSHALL, Chief Castai., AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dee. 9, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : e. d. From the British Possessions in America 36 Muscovado, the produce of the M•turitius... . Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 3B 9:i Average of the above three descriptions 36 11 BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. William Denny Ruck, cheesemonger, Topping's-wharf, Tooley-street. BANKRI7PTS. Robert Yellowley Barnes, floor-cloth manufacturer, City-road, Dec. 29, at half-past eleven, and Jau. vB, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Norton, Son, and Elam, New-street, Bishopsgate. Frederic Treen Hunt, warehouseman, Watling-street, City, to surrender Dec. 23, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Blakel-y, Lincoln's inn-fields. Charles Pearson, shipowner, Camberwell, Dec. 20, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Curt of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman•street buildings ; Messrs. Lawrence, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Alfred Charles Ayres, surgeon and apothecary, Rams gate, J4lO. 6, at one, and Jan. 27, at half-past one, a t the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Nias, Coptball court. Henry Mopsey, ironmonger, Castle-street, Falcon square, Jan. 13, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Smith, Wilmington-square. Samuel George Kidd, seed crusher, Kingston -upon-Hull, Jan. 7, and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Holden and Son, Hull. George Mountford, grocer, Worcester, Dec. 31 and lan. Bittleston,l4 District Court. off i c i a l ass i g nee, Birmingham ; R ea, W orcester; at half f-past l ten, at the Birmingham E. and H. Wright, Birmingham. John Parr, woollen draper, Wolverhampton, Dec. 31 and Jan. 14, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, offi cial assi gnee , Birmingham ; Turner, Wolverhampton; Knight, Birmingham. Thomas Bale, builder, Kidderminster, Jan. 2 and 23, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bit tleston, Birmingham ; Saunders and Son, Kidderminster ; Knight, Birmingham. Benjamin Richards, sailtnaker, Newport, Monmouth shire, Dec. 23, and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Richardson, Bristol. Major Kirkup, brick manufacturer, Jarrow, Durham, Dec. 19, , at half-past eleven, and Jan. 23, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker , official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hoyle, Newcastle upon-Tyne. William Fletcher Roberts, apothecary, Moreton-in- Marsh, Gloucestershire, Dec. 29 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman. official assignee, Bristol ; Tilaley, Moreton-in-Marsh ; Britten and Sons, Bristol. John Bowden, brewer, Victoria-grove, Brorapton, Dec. 27, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alclermanbury; Pawle, New-inn, Strand. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Jamei Adam, grocer, Coupar-Angus, Perth. Smith and Adams, general merchants, Brora, Suther landshire. Wm. Brodie James, watchmaker, Golspie, Sutherland shire. William 31`Cue, grain merchant, Glasgow. Country Market. LIVERPOOL-DEC. 12. There was only a moderate attendance this morning, and an indisposition was shown for business in wheat and flour unless a concession in price was made. Holders were firm. In some cases a decline of ld to 2d per bushel upon wheat was submitted to, to sell ex ship. Flour and Indian corn no worse in value. Oats and oatmeal steady. Barley, beans, and peas supported late rates. WAKEFIELD—DEc. 12. There was not a large attendance. Wheat being limited in sale, prices gave way about 2s per qr. on the rates of last Friday. Common barley also lather cheaper, but fine samples firm. Oats, beans, and shelling rather easier to buy. CHELMSFORD-DEC. 12. Our trade to-day was very dull, but last week's prices were unaltered. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. 7 •. 16 ,, qr. 72 78 I Oats, per qr ....... 24 3u5 new....— I Pe as , Partridge 43 4 red, old 64 70 1 White 41 48 new....— Boiling 42 49 Barley 44 50 Dun 41 44 Chevalier 35 50 Beans, Tisk 44 48 Grinding .. ........ 40 43, Harrow ticks 40 41 Halt 72 76 1 Mazagan. .40 44 Chevalier 74 78 —hagan Ditto, ne EXETER—DEc. 12. CORN.—Wheat, 6s 0— to 8s ; barley, 45 bd to 5s 9d; grinding do., 0? Od. to Os Od. Oats, 2s 10d to 35 2 a. Beans, Os Od to 0 Od. Peas, OOs Od to OOs Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 44s Od to 48s Od ; seconds, 42s Od to 441 Od per sack. CATTLE. —The supply was moderate. Best beef sold at from Os 03 to lOs Gd per score ; inferior. 8s 6d per score ; fat calves, 66d to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to Os Od. per score ; cows and calve , , 121. to 181. ks ; butchero calves, 6id to 7d per lb., rearm calves —a to a ea, c , h ; sheep, ewes and lambs, 01. O s t o 01. O s p er coup l e; ewes . ?r to 6d; wetbers, 6d 6id ; lambs, —to Od per lb. Fig 4 large size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —a ; slips, to —a ; suckers, —s to —s. Rough fat, 4ia per lb. Pork carcases from 9s 6d to 10s 6cl per score. BRISTOL SUGAR-DEC. 12. The only transactions reported for this week are a WI second-hand parcels of Havannahs, Manillas, and Maur" tius, for which very full prices have been paid. Only one sugar arrival to notice, viz., the Maria, from Demerara, the samples of which are not yet ready for market. Be. fibers' produce in steady request at rather higher prices. In rum sales are limited to a parcel of Berbice at 2s B<l Pe r gallon. COAL MARE erioes of Coal per ton at o. d.l :ET.—DEC. 12. the close of the Mad. I Wallsend, ko. 0. 1 * Raton ° Russell's Hetton 19 fi Hartlepool Hetton ...... • 19 Kelloe 19 0 Lam bton ................... 19 3 0 19 0 Leverson ................•. 17 Wallsend, &c Ships at market... 7 I Sold . 7 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAT. msterdam ............ 11 14 Ditto, three months .. 11 1714 Rotterdam ............ 11 17W A.ntwerp .............. 25 35 Gibraltar .............. . t z Leghorn ..... ..... .... 2 9 '„" Genoa ..............•• 25 8v Milan ................ ''' arusseli ....•• ........ 25 35 Venice .• • • •• •••• •• ••••• Elamburgh ............ 13 714 Altona .• • • •• •• •• •• •• •• Paris•• •• •• ••• •• •• •• 25 30 Naples ••••.... ..... • 13 04 Palermo ...• ..... ••• ° • . 1304 Messina ....... • his Ditto, three months .. 25 67% Marseilles 25 70 Bourdeaux •• .. • • Lisbon ..•• •• '• 6 14 Oporto.• -•••••• •• •• . 4. . Rio Janeiro ..... .•• •• •' ..... F r ankfort-on- 'Stain° •• .. 11934 Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Buenos Ayres.... •• .• •0 New York,6o days' sight .... Vienna .. •• .... 10 41 Philadelphia ......•• • o z . trie5te........•• •• .. 10 42 ?awn or BIILLION, 9 Petersburg ............ 3734 Foreign Gold In BArs £,,3 to 0 Madrid .........., ~.. 49 Portugal Gold Coin •• 5 1 I Cadiz .........•• ..., .. 49 Mexican Dollais...• 0 0 0, T3Arcolona ........ ~.. New Dollars ....•• ,"., 5 1% itivi110—•............ Silver in bars ...... . LOCAL SHARE MARKETS• LIVERPOOL, DEc. 12. 9 141 g +VOWS EXCHANGE.—The Stock Exchange to'cl, s „lots, quiet, and prices were a shade lower, except Caler ° V)i which were 31g—south Eastern, 22j -A—Midlan u, , -- 10i Lancashire and Yorkshire, 97i i—North Brig s ",;tien, —Great Western of Canada, 24A s—Eastern "%telt —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolns, Rhenish, p.—Royal Bank, 405. BIRMINGHAM, D. 12. BTOUPC EMC :LANGS.—The business to-dal Wag limi tern. and prices the turn lower. Londoeand North Viesinoes. were done at 1051—South Staffords, 3.l6—Great IT tern Stour Valleys, 62i. MANCHESTER, DEC. 11 n uieto TOO EXCHANGE.—The market to -day 05 %,„; 221 with the prices unchanged. Midlands, Dlr-'g,asl —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 378 so d 6913 __L o ndon Lancashire, 21 13-16—Great Western, North Western, 105 i. SEABORNE MAILS. 4 11 [When the date for making up a mail falls on a Sun da y , the 4o remains open until the day following; .acept in the ease of the 1 0 1, nail, via Southampton, which, on such occasions , la made OP evenlig previous. . _ evenifig previous.] Fos Fitort , ,, ________-------------• , a , 11 0 Ma de up at Whence By what When B. , : st ,j, des the Vessel. expected ...-• -----._ —.--- ____ ---- —.-- 70,17 th•& South- ,-, a m tc p h tu ed n . tamino . A l h 6nv Lisbon. • • • • • i 34 27th of the Indus 21) t t h h o 4 Spain ..... . month. Gibralw • • Post Office• P a I Dec. 14 bre' Gibraltar •• 1 meta ••" • • 4th & 20th 4th and . to Egypt .••• : • at of the South- of .01 0 Ceylon • • mon th. ampton India • • •• '' Mauritius month. r viaCeyl on) China ...... 4th of ItiP Oa r en ang .. • • M the South- ........ Jan. A -•• ' . Singapore .. month. ampton Australia(viai _ Ne i t the Cape) .. m Dec. 12 ..} South- Euro- s ylieo ampton pean Dec. Cape of Good Hope M ..... Mauritius .. E Jan. 5.. „ Dart - W.S. Jan. ~, „ %al °i Ceylon .... mouth Lindsay India ...... Lisbon Madeira .. • CapedeVerds I Til l el Brazil - Jan. 12 11 lan * 9 .• • • } Tamar BuenosAyres 1 ampton Falkland Is lands West Indies . 1 (except Ha vana and let ahl. IWO A. Honduras). 2d and 17th who. R ea Venezu -la - Atralo M of the the Grey Town ampton month. month* New Granada Chili Peru —. . . California • • 16th of gal" ' Honduras 1, South- Atrato the, lens • / Dec. 17 .. ampton montu• .b• assau .. 54 . • - . • Mexico ... •2 At Jan. 2.... amp South ton ..... . . Jan. I .. Havana • • • • 6 raitidA" Madeira .. • • Ply- Niger J a n, , Teneriffe .• i E Dec. 23 •• 1 mouth W C.ofAfrica giag aras British North / Liver- E uropa DeC• - 15 America .. E Every Fri. pool United Stab-s g ie Oa United States i Dec. 9 and Liver- npz 9 I Ericsson •-•—• I liritiihNorth E alternate Poo l America United States South- Fulton Do e. 13 into British North FYI Dec. 17 .• } ti mpton Antw America .. Liver- g. Arne' Jatt. 7 &W 1 Canada •... 1 E Dec. 23 •• 3 p•ol ' rlcan m Morning. E—Eveh ln g• _............ . _ Ago _ ------ --'-'—'—'.--_ It is stated in Berlin that the Neuchatel quls' tion wilt not be referred to the new Paris Conte' rences, but to the representatives of the Power! residant in London, who signed there the protocot of the 24th 1852, Prussia, it is said, wool(' prefer the Emperor Emp of the French as arbiter t 0 Lord Palinersto____n. --....-7- - ---_ BIRTH/tr. Or AWM 1.• 0 0 On the 12th inst. , at 4, Oxford-square, Hyde-par+ , - wife of Alfred Bourne, Esq. X... On the 11th inst. , th e wife of the Rev. Professor al° 48, Margaret•street, Cavendish•square. OF A DAUGHT ER. ' On the 11th inst., at P utne y , the wife of Edwarci Jenkyns, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Laura -place, Clapton, i re ' B ell° Smith. MARRIED. 1)* I ' On the 11th inst., at St. Faller/0 Church, Mt. i s. .1,.. Brown, of Adel.,ide-road, Haverstock-hil, to glee .'"' Stansby, of Queen's -road west, ai l, to. is, an On the 11th inst., at Old Alresford Church, . I ' 9 h ,n- Lieut .-Colonel G. FL S. Willis, th Regt., to V„ rd oe• gelina, eldest daughter of the ' late George Goulk.:6oo. Esq., of Brickendon Bury, Herts, and niece of Sir Morgan, Bart., of Tredegar. D I osias Rogers of On th e 12th inst., J Woodford 13°13%gqi: o f Stanley Souse, Forest-hill, for 4 1 years in the England. t Col, On the 11th inst., Basil Burchell. f IV ' at Hans-place, Chelsea, Lie * ' On the 11th inst., at Netting-hill, Martha, relic o r o f Gi\estiam, Esq., and mother of Mr. Greshaul, ° licit° ' Castle-street, Holborn, aged 91. „ ir yoist . On the 10th inst., George Lindsay Esq., fo r , n ,g — - .., of Lloyd's, and Laurence Pountney-lane, age ° ' ger' On the 12th inst., the wife of Mn C. de ICeyser, g o tel, Blackfriars, aged 5 6 . Wilkinson' l3•A' On the 9th inst at Forest-hll, J. 8.5 •r'r' On the 9th inst . ., , at Bedford-ipl ace , Old ICent-road, , C. EL Hackett, of 8, Savage-gardens, aged 69. ...----" _.---- „,, f riklar LONDON : Printed and Pu blished by MURDO I" - go. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ottoe o f cof 112 , Strand, in the PreciDec giber Savoy, in the c ' of Middlesex, Satur,biy, Dece 13, 1:356,