The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

BAIVQUET TO HER MAJES2I'S MINISTERS. Last evening the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained her Majesty's Ministers on a scale of great magnificence in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House. Nearly 300 guests had the honour of re eeiving invitations to the banquet, and among the company were his Excellency the Turkish Ambas sador, Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, his Excel lency the Belgian Minister, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto, his Excel lency the Italian Minister, his Excellency the Greek Minister and Madlle. Tricoupi, his Excel lency the Portuguese Minister and, the Countess Lavradio, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade and Mrs. Milner Gibson, Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lady Grey, the Post master-General, Right Hon. President of the Poor law Board, Right Hon. Secretary of State for Ireland and Mrs. Cardwell, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Bredalbane, the Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Ducie, Earl and Countess of Caithness, Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord C. Russell and Miss R usse ll, Viscount and Viscountess Sidney, Viscount and Viscountess Bury, Viscount and Vis countess Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount Eversley, - Viscount Falkland and the Duchess of St. Albans, Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse, Right Hon. Lord Proby, Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Henley,' M.P., and Lady Henley, Right Hon. Lord and Lady Ashburton, Right Hon. Lord Cranworth, Lord Fermoy, M.P., Right Hon. Lord Ebury, Right Hon. Lord and Lady Lyveden, Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Right Hon. Rob. Lowe, M.P., Right Hon. Wm. Hutt, M.P., and Miss Hutt, the Attorney-General and Lady Bethell, the Solicitor-General, Right Hon. the Lord Advocate, Hon. H. Brand, M.P., Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. G. Waldegrave and Countess of Rothes, Hon. G. S. F. Elliott, Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Ponsonby, Right Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Goodenough and Lady Hayter, Right Hon. Sir D. Dundas, Right Hon. Fred. Pee], M.P., Right Hon. T. L. Headlam, M.P., Sir F. Rogers, Bart., Sir F. Currie, Bart., Sir John Ramsden, Bart., M.P., Sir W. Dunbar, Bart., M.P., Sir H. Barron, Bart., Major-General Sir It Davie, Bart., M.P., Sir A. Buller, Bart., M.P., Sir James Matheson, Bart., M.P., and Lady Matheson, Sir C. Locock, Bart., Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., M.P., Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas, K.C.8., Sir Benj. Hawes, Major General Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.8., Sir Joseph 011iffe, Sir J. and Lady Paxton, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. 11. Baring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring, Colonel French, M.P., Mr. A. Matheson, M.P., and Mrs. Mathe son, Mr. S. Gregson, M.P., and Mrs. Murray, Mr. T. Bass, M.P., Mr. John Dent, M.P., Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks, M.P., and Mrs. Marjoribanks, Mr. Thomson Hankey, M.P., and Miss Dallas, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., Col. Sykes, M.P,, Mr. Tite, M.P , Mr. A. Coning ham, M.P., and Mrs. Coningham, Mr. J. T. Norris, M.P., Mr. R. W. Crawford, H P., Mr. G. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. J. St. Aubyn, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, Baron Rothschild, M.P., Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P., Sir J. Carmichael, Bart., Major-General Dupuis, R.A., Col. Brewster, Captain Eden, R.N., Captain Frederick,,R.N., Colonel and Mrs. Faulkner, Col. Fremont, Captain and Mrs. Gossett, Mr. W. M. Thackeray, Mr. Maclise, R.A., Mr. Murton, Major and Mrs. Gage, Mr. Mougham, Mr. W. T. Delane, Mr. Mowbray Morris, Mr. Herbert Stack, Mr. and Mrs. Tayloe, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Fraser, Mr. M. J. Barry, Mr. and Mrs. John Humphery, Mr. and Mrs. William Humphery, Miss Glare, Mr. Lewis and Miss Cubitt, Mr. Wm. Gladstone, Dr. Evans, Dr. Jackson, Dr. Costello, Capt. Fall* Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowring, Mr. T. Baines, Mr. J. P. Gas siott, Mr. Yorke, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and their Ladies, Chairmen of Corporation Committees, &c. The dinner, which comprised every delicacy of the season, was provided by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, and gave the greatest satisfaction. While the viands were being discussed the band of the Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr. Godfrey, played an admirable selection of airs, and the musical arrangements were confided to Mr. J. L. Hatton, assisted by Miss Poole, Miss Clara Hamilton, Mr. Young, and Master Lcc. After grace was chanted, and the loving cup sent round, The Lard MAvon gave the health of her Majesty the Queen, It was not necessary for him to say another word, but he should not satisfy his mind, and the company would not be satisfied with him, if he did not briefly allude to the position which her Majesty occupied, not merely among the po tentates of the earth, but in the deep-rooted affec tion of her numerous subjects. (Cheers.) He gave them the health of their gracious Sovereign " The Queen." The toast having been duly honoured, The LORD MAY on. proposed the health of i‘ The Royal Family." (Cheers.) In giving that toast, he might say, in a few words, that the illustrious person who stood in such close proximity to the Throne showed his worthiness to be beloved by the English people. • His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had given proofs that he was worthy of the line' ge from which he had sprung ; and with regard to all the members of the royal family, the English people had reason to rejoice and be proud of them. (Applause.) The LoRD MAYOR said the next toast which he should have the honour of asking the company to drink was " The Army, the Navy, and the Volun teers." (Cheers.) At the commencement of the present century this country was unhappily at war with all the world, and they had mainly to depend on the navy. How well the navy in those days performed their duty would be found in those an nals in which were recorded the victories of the Nile and Trafalgar. If they had not been pos sessed of that navy—if those victories had not been won, what their position then might be no one could tell. The navy did its work so well that it left but little to be done ; but the military part of the national defences had nobly vindicated the honour of the country. After enjoying half a cen tury of peace, it was thought that danger threat ened from abroad, and the slightest intimation of danger exhibited the spirit of the country in the formation of the Volunteers. (Cheers.) He asked the company to honour " The Army," " The Navy," and "The Volunteers," and with the toast he associated the names of the Duke of Somerset, Major-General Sir H. Davie, and Lord Bury. (Applause.) The Duke of SOMERSET, in responding on behalf of the navy, said it must always be a source of gra- ' tification to that gallant profession to receive . a mark of respect and approbation from their fellow-coun trymen, especially when it came from eo distin guished an assembly as that which he had the honour to address, At present our navy was only required to guard our commerce throughout the world. It was f u lly a bl e t o d o so. B u t diff erent cir eutatanees might arise, and it would be most un wise to reduce That titr our naval stren g th. (H ear , h ear .) ength would never be used for aggressive purp oses ex i t t , but it wou ld b e a guarantee of peace. He therefo reh the city of L on d on wou ld a l ways b e wil the st ling ren to gth of the as it had don e i n ti mes p as t, e u ßritish navy . (Ch eers. ) Major-Gen. Sir Viscount BURY DaviE replied for the army. The LORD mAyreoitpoled for th e vo l un t eers . ill:idre now to propose the h e alth of some dieti n al:tw partaking done us the honour of gentlemen who have of the city's hos pitality on this occasion. I h urth t s a said disti n g u i s h e d gent l em en who have done hon nur circum stances--in t the toast includes others who , from variou s stances--in some cases, I am sorry t o say, from e ill health—have been prevented from doing so, as they had intended. I am to propose to you " The Health of her Majesty's Ministers." (Loud chee rs .) Her Majesty's Ministers have to undergo never_ ceasing mental toil, involving great anxieties. The numerous, vast, and widely-scattered territories which constitute the British Empire. continually subject to ever-varying incidents, necessitate most serious deliberation ; our foreign relations, now in- 1 eluding every Government on the face of the globe, require the most constant vigilance in order to secure the maintenance of peace, the honour of our country, and the preservation of that foreign in fluence to which, from her high position among the nations of the earth, our country is so justly entitled. (Cheers.) The ever-varying exigencies of our home population demand that attention to their wants which, when given, tends to strengthen the bonds of society, discouraging and resisting those influences which might lead to social de rangement. All these most important duties im pose on her Majesty's Ministers an amount of mental exertion which no ordinary mina is well capable of sustaining. (Cheers.) The country at large and the citizens of London are duly sensible of all this, and, regardless of all party preferences, they gladly do honour to the men who, endowed with great capacity and prepared by education for the performance of these important functions, have been intrusted with their adminstration. (Cheers.) So long as the concerns of this great empire can be carried on in that spirit, her Majesty's Ministers, of whatever party they be, may be quite sure of finding a hearty welcome in the city of London. 1 (Loud cheers.) The toast was received with great applause, and drunk with all the honours. Lord PALMERSTON rose to respond, and was re ceived with general and enthusiastic cheering. He said—My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleagues present, and not less, I assure you, on behalf of those who, by various circumstances be yond their control, have been prevented attending this hospitable banquet, I beg to ieturn you our most cordial thanks for the honour you have done us in thus receiving the toast which you, my Lord Mayor, have proposed, and you, gentlemen, have so warmly responded to. I assure you that nothing can give more heartfelt satisfaction to those who are engaged in what your lordship has justly remarked as being the labours and toils and—l will hardly admit to that extent—the anxieties of public life—nothing can be a greater solace to them than meeting in happier hours of social ease the citizens of this great metropolis of the commercial empire. It is gratifying to me to feel that those who do us the honour of inviting us to their board are in one respect faithful organs of the nation of which they are the ornament—that they do, as you stated just now, my Lord Mayor, receive without distinction of party those who, placed in arduous public situa tions, are performing to the best of their ability and judgment the duties which their Sovereign and the country have imposed on them. (Hear, hear.) It is also most agreeable to see, as I now do on this fes tive occasion, the faces of honoured friends of long standing, who for many years have been associates in our public labours, as they are now on the festive occasion on which we are assembled. It is truly satisfactory to those who stand in the position we occupy to be able to congratulate you, as I think we may, on the internal condition of the country. (Hear, hear.) After seasons the most inclement, which in former times might have produced famine or a financial crisis, my right hon. friend the Chan celler of the Exchequer has been able to propose to Parliament and to the country a surplus of revenue over expected expenditure, which enabled him to propose large remissions of the burthens of the people—(hear)—without diminishing in the slight est degree those military and naval means of defence the diminution of which in the present state of the world would be a betrayal of the important trust confided to us. (Cheers.) But it is a great proof of the solidity of the country—it is indeed a great proof of the productive nature of the national in dustry, that in spite of all those unfortunate cir cumstances of climate, and notwithstanding the large reductions made last year, my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Ex chequer has been able to present to the nation so favourable a prospect as he had the pleasure and the privilege of submitting only two days ago. (Hear, hear.) This is indeed encouraging not only ' with a view to our internal condition but with regard to our external relations. (Hear, hear.) The func tion of England is to endeavour, by the influence which she justly possesses, to maintain the peace of the world. (Hear, hear.) She has no ambitious objects to gratify—she has no aggressive policy— no warlike propensities. (Cheers.) We wish not only to enjoy ourselves the blessings of peace, but we desire by the legitimate exercise of our influence with other countries to secure for the rest of the world those blessings which we so much prize and value ourselves. (Hear, hear.) I need not, I am sure, remark that the influence which this country can exercise by sage and prudent counsels with other nations must necessarily depend on its own internal and defensive strength, and that unless we are able to boast that she is secure from foreign attack, and that she possesses within herself the means of repelling hostilities, come from what quarter they may, our counsels might bear an appear ance of timidity—we might seem to be discouraging war because we were afraid of the recoil on our selves, and our persuasions would naturally have proportionately less influence and weight. The state of the world at present is such that the useful influence of the country may, perhaps, be as well exercised as it has ever been in former times. There are at present questions pending in different parts of the Continent, which, if judiciously made use of by those who are desirous of disturbing the peace of the world, would furnish grounds for half a-dozen respectable wars. (Laughter.) There is not one of those disputed questions such that it might not be amicably and honour ably settled without any appeal to arms, and I sin cerely trust that the wisdom, the good sense, and the good feeling of the rulers of the nations, and the leaders of parties, may bring about that happy consummation. (Hear, hear.) I trust that the clouds which now lour over some carts of the Conti nent may be dissipated and dispersed. (Hear, hear.) I trust that the glorious consumma tion of the unity of Italy may be accomplished without any check or discouragement. (Cheers.) I am confident that to no other consummation do the feelings and wishes of the people of this coun try point with greater intensity than to the accom plishment of that objeet. (Cheers.) I can only say that the influence of England, as it is exercised by her Majesty's Ministers, will be directed to the maintenance of peace ; and whatever may be the aspect of affairs in some quarters of the world, I trust that the year 1861 will pass away as a year of peace—that the apprehensions at one time enter tained, as to the spring and summer being disturbed by the clang of arms and stained by the effusion of blood, may be disappointed, and that we shall arrive at the termination of the year with that happiness which universal peace confers, and enjoying that prosperity which the security for industry must afford. (Cheers.) The noble viscount again ex pressed his acknowledgments to the Lord Mayor and the company for the cordiality with which the toast of her Majesty's Ministers hed,beea received, and he resumed his seat amid enthusiastic applause. ' Scotch Song—" Jack o' Hazeldean," by Miss Poole. The LORD MAYOR proposed, in complimentary terms, the health of " The Foreign Ministers," associating with the toast the name of M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador. (Cheers.) _ . . . . M. Musußus, the Turkish Ambassador (who spoke in French), said—My Lord Mayor and Gen tlemen, I return you my thanks in the name of the diplomatic body for the toast which the Lord Mayor has done us the honour to propose, and for the cor dial manner in which you have received it. On the occasion of this brilliant assemblage, at which the First Magistrate of the City of London displays his hospitality towards the Ministers of her Majesty the Queen, and when I am called on to speak in the name of my colleagues, there would naturally be expected from me a view of the pre sent state .of international affairs, Bnt from the very fact that those affairs are now in a state of complication, I am compelled to confine myself to assuring you, gentlemen, that the corps dt:plo matique is unanimous in one essential point to which I am sure you yourselves attach the highest importance. Indeed their sincere desire -- -a desir e i nsp i red i n f act b y t h e very o bj ec t o f their mission, and I may say by their instructions is to see moderation universally prevail, peace maintained, And the world bayed from the evils of a general disturbance. Happily these desires of the corps diplomatique are in conformity with their endeavours. Confiding in the wisdom of the Go vernments, and relying upon the aid of your Mini sters, whose constant efforts are all directed towards that grand object, we confidently hope that we shall soon see dissipated those murky clouds which now obscure the political horizon ; that we shall emerge from opr difficulties without any real danger; and that Divine Providence, always pro pitious towards those who entertain loyal inten tions, will aid us in securing the accomplishment of the wish which is generally entertained amongst us. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR—The city of London is this evening honoured by the presence of several mem bers of the House of Lords. We in the city of London who cling to our ancient institutions rejoice in preserving without any great disturbance the important elements of the Government of our country. lam happy to believe, and I have no doubt my fellow-citizens concur with me in think ing, that the House of Lords is one of the great bulwarks of the liberties of our country. (Cheers.) We feel that we Englishmen may boast of the happy balancing elements of our constitution, and among those great balancing elements we trust the House of Lords will ever be, as it always has been, occasionally the support of the Crown, if that sup port should ever be necessary—occasionally the support of the people, if it should so happen that the other two branches of the Legislature meditate any aggression. In these days, however, we have no aggression to apprehend. We may congratulate ourselves that in consequence of what has taken place in past times we are in a condition of internal peace and tranquillity, and in order that this tran quillity and peace may never be disturbed, we sincerely hope that each of the three great branches of the Legislature will always continue to hold that place which our constitution has assigned to them. (Cheers.) We have several eminent peers present with us to-night. Among them we have one of the most distinguished of men—the Lord Chancellor — (cheers)—whom I am happy to see in good health, which I hope he may long continue to enjoy. I propose " the health of the Lord Chancellor and the House of Lords." (Loud cheers.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said,— My Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gentleman,—Rather unexpectedly I am called upon to aoknowledge this toast, but I must confess that it gives me great pleasure to find that in the city of London you do not yet wish to get rid of the House of Lords; and I must say that I believe that, without a second branch of the Legislature occassionally to moderate the effer vescence of the Commons, there might be a little danger to your tranquillity and to your liberty. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the House of Lords, with all its faults, I believe deserves the eulogy pronounced upon it by the Lord Mayor. It has frequently stood up in defence of the liberties of the country, and never will be wanting to do so when the occasion may require. (Cheers.) There have been prc posals for reforming the House of Lords. Some would have Peers for life, some would get rid of the Bishops, and some would get rid of the Law Lords—(a laugh)—but upon the whole I believe that we tolerably fulfil the purpose which the con stitution intended for us. I believe there may be some advantage in a general representation of the nation without a local constituency, and that there shoull be a rallying place for enlightened public opinion when the fervour of particular bodies might lead the nation astray. (Cheers.) We have in this country no such odious division as that into noble and roturier. The Peerage is recruited from the middle ranks of the people, of which I am myself an example (cheers), and the grandson of a duke without degradation becomes plain Mr. Howard. (Cheers.) I hope we deserve the approbation of our fellow citizens. You may at times lament that we do not entirely agree with the sentiments you entertain. lam myself, although presiding on the woolsack, sometimes snubbed. (A laugh.) I have now under my charge a great measure in which you, the commercial citizens of London, take a lively interest, and on which your illustrious repre sentative, Lord John Russell, has bestowed great care and pains. That measure is now in a critical situation ; I hope it is in no real peril, and I do trust that, seeing that that measure has the approbation of the City of London and the approval of the Lower House of Parliament, it will receive the sanction of the House .of Lords, and before long become the law of the land. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR begged to propose the health of the " House of Commons." (Cheers.) They were honoured that evening with the presence of one of the most distinguished gentlemen of whom that council was composed, and he should associate his name with the toast, " The House of Commons and the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer." (Great applause.) Whatever could be said on this subject would be said so well by the right hon. gentleman that he (the Lord Mayor) felt he could not better discharge the duty devolving on him than by simply offering for their hearty recep tion " The House of Commons and the Chancellor of the Exchequer." (Cheers.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, whose rising was a signal for renewed cheers, said,—My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen—.l rise, by your kind permission, to return thanks for that which, after the speech of my noble and learned friend the Lord Chancellor, I may, without impropriety, call the effervescent part of the constitution. (Laughter.) But there is no case, I believe, in which, upon the %hole, so remarkable a harmony has been main tained between what is the effervescent and what is not the effervescent, as in the instance of the two Houses of the British Parliament. Whatever be their faults, and whatever be their merits, and I am far from claiming for either of them absolute per fection, two things may at least be said of them, that their reciprocal relations have been governed with a singular felicity upon almost every occasion, and that both of them have been eminently in har mony with the character of the nation to which they belong. (Hear.) If any friendly rivalry sub sists between them, I do not know of which it may be said, that it is not thoroughly and peculiarly English. If, indeed, we look to the test of experi ence, perhaps it is true that to reproduce an insti tution like the House of Lords, in another country, is more difficult than to imitate the House of Com mons. I apprehend that each civilised nation has its own functions to fulfil, and that we who re joice in our national institutions may have much to learn from others. But something has been reserved for England to do on behalf of others ; and I trust that in these days we may say that England has done something for the world in conferring upon it the pattern of a popular Legislative Assembly. (Hear.) That problem, which it has been so difficult in all times to solve —the means of bringing a free representation of the wishes and feelings of the community at large into harmony with fixed laws, and ;with ancient and monarchical institutions—has, I trust, reached its solution among us. Never, I think, was there a time when, old as the British Constitution is, it might truly be said that it possessed more of the strength and vigour of youth. It is with no slight satisfaction that we feel that other nations, as they enter upon the path of freedom, seem to makb it the first condition of progress in that career that they should attempt to create for themselves what resembles the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) And, my lor3, among the distinguished men who sit at this table, and who act at the Court of the Queen as the representative of foreign Sovereigns, I rejoice to think how many there are who repre sent countries in which, within our memory, insti tutions similar to our own Parliament have been created for the purpose of meeting the popular wants and feelings, and in which free representa tion, instead of proving to be a source of danger to .permanent and fixed authority, has been discovered to be the very secret of national strength and , vigour. (Cheers.) These are the truths which we see acknowledged in the practice of nations whose conduct I trust will, before many generations, per haps before many years have elapsed, be imitated by the whole of the civilised world. Under these circumstances I heartily rejoice, if indeed I niay venture to say so without presumption, in appear. ing to return thanks on the part of the 11011130 of Commons here within this hall, before your lord ship, the representative of the corporation of Lon don, a body itself drawing its existence from a period when the House of Commons sprang into existence—(hear, hear)—and a body which has always acted in • singular harmony with the po pular branch of the British Legislature. (Hear.) Long may its strength continue, and long may the House of Commons continue to represent, as it still does, the character of the English people, answering to its wishes and wants, and providing the means of supplying them, exercising the first and greatest among all the powers of the State, but still mind ful as it is, and ever has been mindful, that it exists under the shadow of the Crown, and _that it owes to the prerogative of the Crown and the other branch of the Legislature the very means and position by which alone it can fulfil the purposes of its own existence. (Cheers.) Viscount PALMERSTON—My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I beg your permission to propose a toast to which I am sure you will drink with great satisfaction, although I must confess it will be for the third time this evening that the toast will have been proposed to you. I beg to propose the health of our worthy chief magistrate the Lord Mayor. (Cheers.) It will be for the third time that toast has been proposed, because the Lord Mayor has already in two toasts which have been proposed in cluded himself. (A laugh) The Lord Mayor began by proposing to you the navy. If lam not much mistaken, the Lord Mayor in early life was a member of that honourable profession. (Cheers.) The Lord Mayor has just proposed the House of Commons, of which he is a most worthy and useful member; but I am persuaded' that you will not the less on that account join in drinking his health in dividually, and in his own person. (Cheers.) He occupies a most distinguished post—a post of which it may be said, as he said of ours, that it is one of labour, of toil, and of anxiety. You know how well he discharges its important functions—(cheers) —to the satisfaction of the city, and to his own honour and credit. (Cheers.) I need not say that we who are the guests at this splendid board must feel peculiarly grateful to him for that which cer tainly never was exceeded, if ever it was equalled, the cordiality and the splendour of the banquet. (Ldud cheers.) I beg therefore to propose to you the health of the Lord Mayor, not as a member of the navy, nor as a member of the House of Com mons, but as chief magistrate of the city of London. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. The remaining toasts were, The Members for the City," (acknowledged by Mr. Crawford) ; " The Lady Mayoress," proposed in a most graceful man ner by Lord Granville; " The Attorney-General and the Bar of England," and " The Magistrates of the City of London." The company afterwards partook of tea and coffee, and took their departure at half-past 11 o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1861. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset will hold a levee this after• noon at the Admiralty. By a file of the Bermuda Royal Gazette, received at Plymouth, we learn that the Delta, from Halifax, with his Excellency Col. St. George Ord, R.E., the newly appointed Governor, and his secretary, Mr. H. F. Plow, Col. Munro, 39th Regiment, and family, and Lieut. Hore, 39th Regiment„ arrived at the island on the 14th ult. The paddle steam sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander W. C. F. Wilson, from Plymouth and Madeira, arrived on the 13th. She was followed on the 16th by the screw steam corvette Desperate, Commander J. F;Ross. The Desperate unfortunately got among the rocks to the westward of the island during thick weather. She was, however, soon got off, without sustaining much injury. The steam gunboat Jasper, Com mander W. Pym, which arrived from Santa Cruz on the 7th of March, was expected to sail shortly for Eu gland. When the Princess Royal, 91, returned from her experimental trip outside Plymouth breakwater on Tuesday, and grounded on the Winter shoal in the Sound, as reported by telegraph in The Sun of yes terday, there was a merchant brigantine at anchor on the south-cast of the red buoy which marks the shoal. It is now stated that the Princess Royal should have kept to the westward under the stern of the brigantine, to pass between the red buoy of the Winter and the white buoy of the Asia shoal, which is close to St. Nicholas Island. Instead of pursuing tkis course, she went to the eastward of and ahead of the brigantine, as if she were going directly into Catwater. Her helm was then put hard a-starboard, and an attempt made- to hoist the jib, the wind being from the eastward ; this attempt, however, failed. In consequence of the smartness of the breeze the jih fouled the back ropes or jibs guys, and the sail could only be hoisted half-way, and thus prevented the head of the ship from paying off. By this time she was right before the wind, and, having steam up and a tug attached to her starboard quarter, she ran right upon the shoal, her bow rising, according to the estimate of different spectators, from one to four feet above the line of floatation, and pointing a little to the northward of west. The tug at the moment of striking car ried away the towing ropes with a crash, and was sent with considerable force right ahead of the ship. This occurred at about three o'clock. Every pre caution appears to have been adopted at once ; top gallant masts were struck, the flying jibboom sent in, and a boat to take soundings was placed under the bow. A pinnace from the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry Broadhead, inside the breakwater, arrived promptly with an anchor, which was dropped astern of the Princess Royal, made fast, and hove as taut as possible to prevent the action of the tide flowing into Hamoaze, which, however, caught her starboard quarter and cast her bow about north-west. This movement was after wards counteracted by her own steam power, and her stern was brought end on to the wind to reduce the risk of injury to her fore foot. The steam tenders Avon, Confiance, Pike, and Zephyr were soon in attendance, and shortly after four o'clock three of them were fastened to her quarters, and assisted the efforts of the ship's engines to back her off. All the crew then mustered on the quarter deck, and towards five o'clock, steam having been kept up unceasingly, she was floated into deep water, and was taken up Hamoaze. While on the rock some pieces of her false keel came up along side. Fortunately, the tide was low when she grounded, and although the wind was strong there eras little or no sea in the Sound, and the weather was very fine. The Winter shoal is one-third of a mile to the eastward of Drake's Island, and about half a mile from Plymouth Citadel. The Princess Royal draws 23 feet 1 inch forward, and 23 feet 6 inches. aft. There was about 19 feet of water where she struck. Commander Thompson, the Queen's Harbour-master, is absent on leave. The Princess Royal was in charge of Mr. Graham, master of the flagship Impregnable, and Mr. Hoyle, pilot, and master of the cutter Tavy, stationed in the Sound. At the present moment several ships of war are in the Admiralty anchorage ground, and the other parts of the Sound are crowded with merchant vessels, notwithstanding which it is pro posed to subtract some of the most valuable por tions for the erection of a fort, the foundation of which alone will require about four acres. The Henry Fernie, hired sailing transport, pre paring to receive troops for Auckland, New Zealand, at Portsmouth, was yesterday officially inspected by the Government authorities, and was so highly commended by them that she deserves some special mention. The ship is the property of Messrs. Fernie Brother[, of Liverpool ; St. John's-built, of 1,549 55-100 tons' register, and, if we except her short run home to Liverpool from St. John's, is now about to commence her first voyage. She is fitted aloft with double top-sail yards and with wire-standing rigging on deck. She is fitted " Boston fashion ;" her aft deck-house, in which is sleeping accommo dation for 21 Acers (military), with main saloon, Src., are all fitted 1 7ith every convenience and even luxury that can be exl ;_ected on board ship. Before the mainmast are the ship's officers' cabins, cook houses, &c., and Dr. Normandy's patent distilling apparatus, by which every 20 hours 800 gallons of the eea-water the ship floats in is transforoied into a be r in purer e a a n t d in m st o a r n e o p eo le , pleasant drinking on shore. inkingw iae evie atzthattneane seven boats, four of which are fitted withKynaston's patent disengaging hooks. In addition to the com monly fitted ships' pumps, she is also fitted with Win stanley and Kelly's patent syphon pumps, which, by the aid 'of 10 men, easily discharge 12,000 gal lons of water in an hour. They can also be con verted either into a fire-engine, or, instead of throwing water out of the ship, can throw it in with equal rapidity. The main troop deck is 170 ft. long from the forecastle partition to its after part ; 36ft. in width, and 7ft. in height from the deck to the under part of the upper deck beams. The women's-quarters at the after part of the deck contain sleeping accommodation for 41, and their admirable ventilation was warmly com• mended by the inspecting officers. Indeed, perhaps no ship ever presented a better specimen of a model troop deck than does the - main deck of the Henry Fernie. The ventilation is admirable throughout. Admiralty pattern windsails throw an immense volume of air down the hatchways, while air shafts land patent ventilators of all kinds keep her decks swept by a constant current of fresh air, and to assist even this amount of ventilation when necessary patent ventilating machines for extracting the foul air from between decks, and pumping down a supply of fresh, are stationed down below. On the main deck there are 44 messes, with berths for swinging the hammocks of 437 men. The leiNver deck has a less portion devoted to the use of the troops, owing to the number she takes out being less than she could accommodate. It is partitioned off at 90 feet length, has 32 mess tables-30 for men of ten each, and two for women of 10 each, and has the neces sary hammock accommodation for the men. This, like the main deck, is well-lighted, as well-venti lated, and of equal height from deck to beam. At the close of the inspection of the fittings of the ship the officers, medical and naval, who officially sur veyed her declared that, in their opinion, she was the most perfect troopship that had, within their knowledge, ever been surveyed at Portsmouth. The ship was fitted out at Liverpool under the superinten dence of Commander Leycester, R.N., Admiralty agent at that port. The ship will embark her troops this morning, and will then proceed to Queenstown, where she will take in the remainder before finally sailing for New Zealand. A powerful steamtug, which towed the ship to Portsmouth from Liverpool, is detained by Mr. Fernie at the former port, and will tow the ship to Queenstown should the winds prove at all adverse. The following are the principal dimensions of this fine vessel :—Length between perpendiculars, 200 feet ; breadth to outside plank, 39ft. lin. ; depth from tonnage deck to ceil ing at midships, 20ft. Sin. ; depth from upper deck to ceiling at midships, 27ft. gin. The Henry Fernie, like most merchant clipper vessels, has not an ounce of superfluous weight outside her stem, and this with the bold spring of her decks forward must render her a very easy ship in a seaway. The Melbourne, screw, hospital ship, Captain Henry B. Benson, landed her military invalids alongside Portsmouth yard yesterday morning, whence they were conveyed to the railway station and left by train for Chatham at 9 a.m. The Mel bourne's antecedents as a steam transport have not been of the highest quality, but her services in China, her passage home, and the state in which she arrived at Spithead, all reflect the highest credit on her energetic commander. She was fitted out in January, 1850, on the plan of . Dr. Mapleton, the Inspector-General of Hospitals. Since she was opened as a hospital in the north of China, on the 20th of July last, she has had upwards of 400 patients on board. After the final attack on the Peiho forts she received 60 sick and wounded on board in one batch. The ship's main deck consti tuted the hospital, and presented a free communi cation fore and aft. The ventilation was spoken of by the medical officers on board as being exceed ingly good, the side scuttles of the ship, as in the Mauritius, greatly aiding the ventilation through the hatchways and deck bonnets. The ship, from the period of her departure from England until her return, has been in medical charge of Staff-Surg. H. C. Martin, of whose care and kindness the in valids who came home in her spoke in terms of high praise. The ship returns fittings and stores, and pays out of the service. The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gun nery ship, at Portsmouth, 'yesterday steamed out of harbour and practised with her heavy breech-loading guns outside the Warner Light. The old Excellent, Portsmouth gunnery ship, has had her copper stripped off, and will be broken up in No. 9 dock, at Portsmouth. This ship was built at Portsmouth in 1810, after the Victory, and was named the Boyne, which name was changed to Ex cellent on her being the gunnery ship, as has now been done by the present gunnery ship—the late Queen Charlotte. Her Majesty's troopship Megrera, Commander Henderson, having again returned from Gibraltar with the 2d division of the sth brigade, Garrison Artillery, arrived at Woolwich yesterday at 2 p.m., from Plymouth. The War Department transport Baltic arrived alongside the gun wharf at Chatham yesterday, and commenced unloading the shell and other Govern ment stores brought from Woolwich. During the day she landed 800 of the elongated 40 pound shells for the Armstrong guns, all of which arrived packed in wooden cases, as well as a large number of car riages for the 68 pounder and other guns, from the factory at Woolwich, together with other naval and military stores. Yesterday the steam floating battery Thunderbolt, 16, 200 horse power, fitting at Chatham, for the Thames, commenced shipping her water tanks, which arrived from Deptford in the Government transport Elizabeth. The steam floating battery Etna, 16, which is also fitting at Chatham for ser vice near the entrance to the Thames, had three large anchors, each of 46 cwt., put on board yester day, together with other stores. As soon as the large iron cables have been put on board from Sheerness dockyard the Etna will be ready to pro ceed to her station in the Thames, but the Thunder bolt will not be ready to steam out of Chatham har bour for several days. Both batteries have shipped 800 solid 68 pounder shot from the gun wharf, and as soon as they are ready to leave the harbour they will drop down to the magazine at Upper Castle, where they will take in their live shells and powder. The moorings for the two batteries are being laid down in close proximity to the batteries at Coal house Point and Shornmeade, where they are to be stationed during the time those forts are being re constructed. The line-of-battle ship Bombay, 81, converting at Chatham dockyard from a sailing vessel to a screw steamer, and now nearly completed, is or dered to be furnished with the following powerful arma ment, viz..--14 68-pounders, each of 65 cwt.; 24 guns each of 56 cwt., and 91 feet in length ; 30 of 50 cwt. each, and 9 feet in length, 12 of 42 cwt. each, and 8 feet in length, and 1 68-pounder swivel gun of 95 cwt., and 10 feet in length. The iron mail-clad steam frigate Resistance, 22, recently constructed for the Government by Messrs. Westwood, Bailie, and Campbell, is to have her armament supplied from Chatham, consisting of four of the 40-pounder Armstrong guns, and 18 68- pounders each of 95 cwt., and 10 feet in length. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Adolphus Andrews, third class assistant-engineer to the Fisgard, as super numerary; Thomas Udall, third-class assistant engineer to the Wye; the Rev. Thomas Davis, chaplain, to the Cornwallis; the Rev. David Carson, chaplain to the Pembroke ; Charles G. Burney, paymaster, advanced to second class; John M. Sweetman, paymaster, advanced to third class ; W. E. Kelly, paymaster to the Royal Ade laide, iu lieu of a clerk; Henry T. Reed, paymaster to the Hornet ; Thomas H. Stote, paymaster to the Dauntless, in lieu of a clerk; John H. Mooney, assistant-paymaster to the Ajax, and John Hasler, assistant-paymaster to the Impregnable. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills Cure All.—No season tests human strength, to resist disease, more than, the spring, hence the many afflictions oppressing whole families at this time. Everyone, what ever the condition o f b o dy, s h ou ld a l wa y s in the spring take some cooling and puritying medicine ; and all suffer ing front skin diseases will find this the most favourable time for their cure. For external ailments nothing equals Holloway's Ointment. The rough uneven skin, and the deepest malignant looking ulcer, yield alike to its power of always substituting wholesome for depraved blood. Ilol loway's purifying Pills by cleansing and stimulating exer cise, have the sam e benefi c ial action over every internal organ. From the combined use of Ointment and Pills the body retains tone and vigour, THE ARMY. Two batteries of Artillery', 400 strong, have arrived at Great Yarmouth from Woolwich. The officers accompanying the d etachment are Major Field, Lieut. Magendie, Lieut. Howlett, Lieut Dad son, Lieut. Davie, and Dr. -Evans. The troops occupy the barracks at Southdcrwn. Yesterday Major-General R. R umley, the Inspec tor-General of Infantry, completed his inspection of the battalion of infantry at Chatham garrison. The three batteries of the 10th Brigade of Royal Artillery, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Bur rews, stationed at Fort Moncton and Haslar, near Gosport, were officially inspected yesterday by Lord W. Panlet, C. 8., commanding the south-west dis trict. At the close of the proceeding his lordship, addressing the men, said that the conduct of the men belonging to the batteries of the 10th Brigade stationed at Gosport was not quite so bad as that of the men of the batteries stationed at Portsmouth. He had no doubt all the crimes were committed by a few bad men, but he looked to the well-conducted men to check the others, and sustain the high cha racter the Royal Artillery generally bore. He had no fault otherwise to find with the batteries. Their appearance was most soldierlike, and he hoped their general character would improve—in fact, he was determined that it should. The 3d Buffs, under the command of Lieut.-Col. George J. Ambrose, landed on Tuesday morning at Portsmouth Dockyard, and marching to the Land port station, left by special train at 10 a.m. for Dover, by the South Coast and South-Eastern Railways. LAW 111 7 7 ELLI9ENCE.-April 17. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell.) GRAY V. GRAY. The petitioner in this case, Mary Louisa Gray, prayed for a dissolution of her marriage with Richard Thomas Clement Gray, on the ground of adultery coupled with bigamy. The respondent did not appear. • The cause was heard by his lordship on the 17th of January last, and a decree nisi was pronounced for the dissolution of the marriage with costs. On the 20th of March the Queen's Proctor, by direction of the Attorney-General, ap plied to the Court under the 23d and 24th Vic., cap. 144, for leave to intervene. Leave was granted, and the Queen's Proctor thereupon filed a plea and prayed that the petition might be dismissed, and the petitioner or the respondent condemned in the costs. Dr. Wambey, on behalf of the petitioner, moved fer leave to take the petition off the file. The Attorney-General (with whom was Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks), said that this being the first case which had been brought before the Court under the new act, he thought it his duty to attend to resist the petitioner's application. It was difficult to express any decided opinion with respect to a novel kind of practice like the pre sent ; but, looking to the analogous practice in the Court of Chancery, in caselo where decrees nisi were to be set aside, the application ought not to be enter tained. That technical question, however, was very immaterial. The Que, , ?.l. , 's Proctor having re ceived information, from whit he felt it to be his duty to intervene after the cis cree nisi was pro nounced, obtained leave to do so. He then placed the following pleas upon the files .of the Court : " That the said petitioner has been :ae ting in collusion with the respondent Richard Thomas ClelYient Gray, for the purpose of obtaining a divorce contrary to the justice of the case. " That divers material facts respecting the conduct of the said petitioner and the respondent have n ot been brought before the Court. " That at the time when the said petitioner prevoknited her said petition for dissolution of her marriage, she was and had been for some years previously habitually coul milting adultery with Thomas Kendall, an omnibus pro prietor. " That from the autumn of the year 1850 down to the middle of the year 1862 the said petitioner was in the con stant habit of meeting the said Thomas Kendall at the Red Cow Tavern, Dalston, in the county of Middlesex, and of there committing adultery with him. " That from the time mentioned in the preceding Para graph to the month of December, 1856, the said petitioner lived in divers places in the said neighbourhood, and was there constantly visited by the said Thomas Kendall, and had on divers such occasions committed adultery with the said Thomas Kendall. " That from December, 1856, to March, 1859, the said petitioner lived and cohabited as his wife with the said Thomas Kendall, at Radnor •terrace, King Henry's-walk, Ball's-pond-road, in the county of Middlesex. " That, from the month of March, 1859, to the present ' time the same petitioner haslivedaud cohabited as his wife with the said Thomas Kendall, at a house situate at Tyssen terrace, Dalston-lane, Hackney, in the county of Middlesex." It was, he submitted, important to the highest inte rests of justice that parties should not be permitted after they had proceeded so far as to obtain a de cree nisi, to withdraw their case from the further consideration of the Court, and to obliterate all trace of it by removing the petition from the file. The Court and the public had an interest in having the suit finally determined. The Court having been induced to pronounce an improper decree, it was under an obligation to set it aside. It was impossible that the object of the Legislature could be attained if the moment the Attorney-General intervened for the purpose of preventing the highest contempt of Court being permitted—namely, the obtaining a decree by an imposition on the Court, the petitioner was allowed to defeat justice by withdrawing his petition. This extraordinary application was made solely in consequence of the intervention of the At torney-General. He hoped the Court would not accede to it, but would hear the evidence by which the Queen's Proctor proposed to prove his allega tions, and would then finally determine the case in the ordinary course. Dr. Wambey Contended that the only object which the Queen's Proctor could have in interven ing would be fully attained if this application were granted and the petition were withdrawn. He was unable to understand how the public in terest could be effected, or how the public morality could be in any way benefitted by an exposure of all the facts tending to prove collusion ' if collusion existed. He could not c once i ve w h y the petitioner should be debarred from withdrawing the petition. The Judge-Ordinary —I am of opinion that I ought not to grant this application. I think that the interest of the public is concerned largely in the matter, and that it is important, in the interest of the public and in the interest of morality, if a woman comes forward presenting shamelessly her sham case—a case not founded on truth, but on collusion with her husband—that her conduct should be fully exposed, and thati the disgrace which be longs to such a transaction • should be thoroughly understood. I think, moreover, that the Attorney- General having directed the Queen's Proctor to in tervene under the authority of the statute, it is not competent to the party, after that intervention, to seek to defeat the object of the proceeding taken under the authority of the Legislature for the purpose of evading the consequences of her mis conduct by withdrawing the petition. I think, further, that one consequence of this proceeding, which the statute contemplated, could not be at tained if the petitioner were allowed to withdraw her petition. It is in the breast of the Court, if it should think that a case of fraud and collusion has been established, to fix the costs upon the husband, at all .events, if not upon the wife. That conse quence would be evaded if the party to a collusive suit were to be allowed to withdraw the petition. On all these grounds I shall hear the evidence which the Attorney-General ptoposes to adduce, and shall let the case proceed to its legitimate de termination in accordance with the directions of the Legislature. The Attorney-General asked his lordship to re serve the question of the costs of the present appli cation. . . The Judge-Ordinary—l am not in a condition to deal with that question now. I have nothing before me at present to affect the respondent. DRUMMOND, COMMONLY CALLED VISCOUNTESS FORTH V. DRUMMOND, COMMONLY CALLED VISCOUNT FORTH. The Attorney-General, with whom was Dr. Spinks, said he had an ex parte application to make in another case of great importance, which was on the paper for to-morrow. The petition was pre sented by. Harriett M. Drummond, commonly called Viscountess Forth, against her husband, Viscount Forth, for a dissolution of marriage, 'and the Queen's Proctor had intervened in the suit. It was deemed most essential that Lady Forth should he present at the hearing, for the purpose of being examined to prove the allegations of the Queen's Proctor. A affidavit had been filed and made by a clerk to the Queen's Proctor, who stated that Lady Forth was now residing with her mother at Hampstead ; that he attended at her residence on the 15th and 16th inst. for the purpose of serving her with a subpoena to attend at the hearing ; that he had inquired for her, and had stated for what purpose he wished to see her, but the persons in the house denied that they had any knowledge where she was to be found, and that he fully be lieved that she was endeavouring to evade the ser vice of the subpoena. The present application was for an order that Lady Forth should attend at the hearing for the purpose of being examined. His lordship made the order. PEARCE V. PEARCE AND FRENCH. The husband in this case had obtained a decree of dissolution on the ground of his wife's adul tery, and an application had been made by Dr. Spinks on behalf of the petitioner for an order ra specting the property put into settlement at the time of the marriage. The property was settled upon the husband for life, then upon the wife for life, 111 the event of her surviving him, and then upon the children of the marriage. His Lordship said he had given a great deal of consideration to the question of what order he ought to make, and he had come to the conclusion that it should be one to this effect :—That from and after the death of the petitioner the property comprised in the settlement should be applied by the trustees, in the event of the respondent surviving the peti tioner, to the benefit of the children of the marriage as if the respondent were then dead. ANECDOTES OF THE CENSUS. (From the Edinburgh Witness.) A number of anecdotes and incidents connected with the census are finding their way into the papers. According to the Dunfermline Press, a_ military gentleman in that vicinity could not by any possibility get his domestics to disclose their ages until he threatened to put down all the young women at forty. The threat had the desired effect. Memory was suddenly recalled ; the girls were none of them above twenty. The Glasgow Herald states that on Monday after noon when an enumerator, within a district not far from the suburbs of Glasgow, had nearly finished the business of collecting the householders 'schedules, he came to the registrar and informed him that be had fallen in with rather a curious case, upon which he thought he would be the better of some advice. " The case is this," said hei—" When I called at a certain house I found there were two in it who, on the evening of the 7th, had positively not been ill the house, and yet they were certainly not in any other house. Pray, how am Ito act in this matter?" The registrar felt equally puzzled with the enume rator, and could lend him no assistance till a further explanation was made. The fact was that early on Monday morning the worthy lady of the house had given birth to a couple of beautiful, stout, healthy boys, and had expressed a wish that their names should be enrolled as members of the family. The Falkirk Herald vouches for the following : —An enumerator tells us that, in his district, an olc,l gentleman, whose authenticity is indisputable, has witnessed in one family the sixth generation. Another man had his age and that of his wife set down as 604 and 601 respectively, instead of 64 and 61. An elderly spinster, when asked for her age, which ,she had left blank in the schedule, ordered the enumerator to be gone out of her house for a blackguard. A Fife paper states that one irate female sent one of the enumerators to the right about face, characterim!ng him as having "a pretty stock of impudence to ask ony decent woman's okipation." The following is reported by the Angus papers under the head " Brechin :"—As one of the enume rators was going his rounds the other day he called upon an old worvan for the purpose of leaving a schedule; but no sooner had he shown himself at the door than he was somewhat startled by the following exclamation :—" Gae awa,' gae awa' ; you needna come to me for mair siller for the kirk, for I hae nave to myseP." The Greenock Advertiser states that during last week, the enumerator of a poor district in one of the burgh parishesdistributed his schedules among the householders, intimating that he would return for them on Monday morning. On calling upon that day, however, he was considerably astonished to find that fourteen of the houses were shut np• their occupants having in the interim decamped with bag and baggage, under the idea that the,' were about to be saddled with a tax ! COUNTRY MABEETS, NEWARK-APRIL 17. The trade in wheat was inactive, but rates advanced is for the beet descriptions. A limited supply at market. Oats scarce, and met a steady sale. Barley in small supply, at late rates. Beans, with a fair demand, sold at is higher in value. Peas as before. White wheat, new, 65s to 708 Red do. 6os to 78s Old white 6ss to 70s R t d do. 50s to 608 B ar :ey, malting.— 38s to 44s Peas,.... IBarley, grinding 30s to 3 28 Oats, old, . 3os to 3 49 New do 26s to 300 Beans. 40s to 44 0 1 1 Beans. new 38s to 450 44s to 555. HULL—Ar liff, 16. A motterate supply of English wheat to-day, which sold well at ale prices of last week for fine samples ; inferior Botts a little cheaper. Barley at fully former prices ; the demand chiefly for grinding. Oats were in scarce supplP but uncha.ved in price. Beans is per qr dearer. Peas la good demanc. l , at late rates. Wheat.... WO white per qr. ... 65s Od to 68s Od_ . ow. red Neva white • • ~ New r..sd _,... Dantzie, Konb , ac. old white 63s Od to 68s Od Dutch, 13cigian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg red 6os Od to 62s Od St. p e t ers b n ,7 and Riga, old s2s Od to 555 Oa_ . Barley.... English malti.'ig 3Bs Od to 44s Oa Grinding Saal and Oderbr.uck Holstein and Danish .. 38s Od to 408 Od Grinding .. 32s Od to 348 Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 14 Friesland and Dutch OBl4O to osl Swedish and Danish osl4 to 08140 Beans ....English, old, per qr 5OB Od to 55s OA New pigeon 44s Od to 45s _ .Ott New tick. Egyptian 410 s s o 0 0 do Od t o t t t 0 0 0 4 4 403 Od Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring. -s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 nu Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 % Rape cakes 6 6 oto 610 o B ones BRISTOL SUGAR-ApRIL 17. Tho only sugars offering in the private market this woolg have been those per the Era, from Demerara, which wars all sold at very full prices to 6d per cwt. advance, and the market closes very firm. The only parcel of rum remain" ing in first hands (113 puncheons per the above vessel) hoS been taken this week at current rates. COAL MARK] dpi toes of Coal per Ton at +.T—APRIL 17. the dose of the market i a. u* "a. d. Benton's "West Hartleyls 9 Byass's - Bebside West Hartley ...16 9 Walker Primrose 12 9 Craghead Hartley-- 15 9 Lambert's West Hart- _ _ Walls End. South Hetton 1 8 ~9 Hartlepool.... lB " Heugh Hall 16 9 Cassop ..,,.... .17 6 Brrddyll's Hetton 17 ,?, Framwellgate 16 Russel's Hetton 17 ' 7 Harton. Byron ....16 9 Belmont ..17 (, Thorpe .. ~17 li Trimdon Thornley m , 14 6 Shincliffe Eden , 79 ; sold, 32. 1166 6, Thy 16 6 Haswell Gas. lB 9 Tanfield Moor 13 3 Tan&ld Moor Butes-13 3 Wylau: l6 6 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 Walls End. Aeon). Clove ..16 9 Ships at market THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. • • Do. Brazil and Cape Verds Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. Cuba and Mexico .. April 29. Canada, &c. (via L'derry) .. April 17. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. May 3 China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) April 18. Do (via Marseilles) April 28. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. April 1 8 . India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) April 18., Do. (via Marseilles) April 28. 1 India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. April 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. April 1 9 . Lisbon .. April 21. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. A pr il 18. Do. (via Marseilles) April 19 , Vigo, and Oporto .. April 2 1 ' United States, California, &o. .. April 11' Western Coast of Attica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Overdue West Indies and Pacific, Carthsgena, Cuba, &c. April 29. • • • • • • April 18. (via Marseilles) m a y 13. .. may 4. BIRTHS. ADAM.—On the 16th inst., at 56, Eccleston.'square, t he wife of W. P. Adam, Esq., M.P., of a son. FERGUSON.—On the 16th inst., at 7, Eaton-place, g re. Ferguson, of Raith, of a daughter. LAKE. --On the 14th inst ,in the castle-yard, Dublin, t he wife of Colonel H. Atwell Lake, C. 8., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BLACKETT—CORBET.—On the 17th ilia at St. Janis 6? ~,e 4 Piccadilly, Captain Blackett, Coldstream Guards', ;, t Georgiana Frances Corbet, youngest daughter of the Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart , of Acton Reynald Su r " . `" ' shire. CHURSTON—NEWMAN.—On the 16th inst., at Marol le t Devon, the Right Hon. Lord Cliurston, to Car Aloe, t second daughter of the late Sir Robert Wm. Ne wr , i l a n Bart., and sister of the present Sir Lydstone New er Bart., of Mamhead. DEATHS. Bran.—At Bruges, Belgium, Lieut.-Col. Christopher C° Bird, aged 91. BA L S 0 1 i s t ! i o L c L k . H - 2 11 1, Lancashire, ca l s 6 h th ire i , n a s g t e , d ß 6 i l. c o Richard Bashall, Esq.' - GRANT.—On the 17th inst., at his residence in Hertford- i shire, Henry John Grant, Esq., o f Wormley BurY llerts, aged 82. JAMES. —On the 12th inst., at Tottenham' Thomas Janie* Esq., for many years the head of the late firm of Moor e, James, and Co., Cheapside, aged 77. OSBORNE.—On the 15th inst., at Hampstead, the Lord Sydney Godolphin Osborne, aged 72. . , LONDON : Printed and Published by WEIRDO YOUNG , 0f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE Sox Office, No. 112,Strauch in the Precinct of the Savoy, irt the County of MildiesO r. Th u rsday, April 18, 1861. th Clbe ' ai of bF to In