The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

KEW GARDENS. Ina report on these gardens appended to the Civil Service Estimates (I.), which is dated 31st December, 1855, Sir William Hooker observes : " Of the general conduct of this mass of visitors, varying in number according to the season and the weather, sometimes amounting to 12,000 in a day, I have in former reports expressed great satisfac tion, and especially of that of the middling and lower classes, who come generally in family parties, and whose dress and demeanour are creditable and praiseworthy ; and though improprieties are now and then committed by persons of these ranks, I have generally remarked that grosser misconduct, rudeness, pilfering, ac., are committed by people apparently of better education and a higher grade." Sir William thus describes the area thrown open to the parties whose conduct he comments upon in the above extract " During the 15 years that I have had the charge of the Royal Gardens of Kew, there is not one to which I can point with more satisfaction than that which is past, on account of the benefits which the public in general have derived from them both in healthful recreation and instruction. Nor can this be wondered at, seeing that, by the gracious permission of her Majesty, the pleasure grounds are open during the summer months as well as the Botanic Gardens. The whole area consists of nearly 400 acres, ornamentally planted, yearly increasing in attraction and beauty ; it is stored with the choicest trees and plants that can be procured, either for decoration or use ;and likewise contains a museum, in which are exhibited the products of the various vegetable tribes from all parts of the orld." Sir William Hooker has made judicious and suc cessful efforts to induce the visitors of Kew Gar dens to combine instruction with amusement. With reference to this subject ho says in his re port : tc Happily botany is not now what it was a century, or even half a century, ago—a dry study, mainly employed to determine the names or a few medical virtues of plants. A desiro on my part, as director, to popularise the science, and to render it generally available, has been approved and encouraged by the several First Commis sioners in a way which cannot fail to be of ser vice to all classes of society. If proof were want ing, no better could be given than the rapid sale of a " Guide to the Royal Botanic Garden,' illus trated with 80 wood-cuts (price 6d.), which has gone through thirteen editions(each of 2,500 copies) in the short space of eight years. Indeed the very peasant who never read a book on the subject may here see attached to the plant itself the name ver nacular and scientific, of the more useful kinds, ,while the child from school may acclaim an impres sion of the form and aspect of many plants whose names ho had learnt in books." The great and steady increase in the annual number of visitors to these gardens since 1841 is very remarkable. In 1841 the number of visitors during the year was 9,174 ; in 1855 it was 318,818. The increase has been steadily progressive with two exceptions. The yearly number of' visitors which from 179,627, in 1850, rose to 327,900 in 1851, declined in 1852 to 231,210. And the number fell to 318,818, in 1855, from 339,164 in 1854. The cause of the apparent diminution in 1b52 is ob vious ; in 1351 (the year of the Great Exhibition) the number of visitors was swollen by the influx of foreigners. Of the real decline in 1855 Sir Wm. Hooker observes : " The diminution is capable of easy explanation by the singularly unfavourable weather which pre vailed during the spring and early summer mantle. The number of visitors from January to July, in clusive, was 41,844 less than in the corresponding months of 1.854 ; but during the months of August and September the number in 1855 was 13,272 in excess over the same months in 1854 ; notwith standing the attractions of the Great Exhibition at Paris, which must have drawn numbers away from their ordinary avocations in the neighbourhood of London. Let it be remembered that the visits of the middle and working classes—according to Sir William Hooker the best-conducted of the visitors —to the gardens must be principally made on the Sundays. Yet an agitation is now on foot to exclude these classes from the gardens on that the only day they can visit them. This was admitted by the Sabbatarian deputation which lately vicaited upon Sir Benjamin Hall. The advocates of a coercive Judaical celebration of the Sabbath are so cock-a-hoop with their victory on Sir Joshua Walmsloy's motion for opening the British Museum and National Gallery on Sunday, that they are bent on an aggressive movement to have Kew Gar dens and Hampton-court Palace and grounds closed on that day. SAVAGE AFFAIR IN GLASGOW. A most brutal case of " pounding" or smashing took place here at a late hour on Saturday night. It appears that an Irish hawker named Patrick Ward, and his wife, reside in a room in Commer cial-court, 106, Gallowgate, which is sublet to them by Anthony Hannay, a tailor, who occupies the other part of the house. Ward and his wife went out in the course of Saturday evening, and he re turned about half-past ten without her, and went into his own room. The woman also returnedi SO6lll thereafter, but en trying to obtain entrance, she found that her husband had locked the door, by which she was denied admittance, upon which she retired to the room of a neighbour named Mrs. Macara, on the other side of the lobby. Hannay and his wife, who were out marketing, had left here their two male children ; one aged three years, and the other an infant of a year old. The woman employed herself in nursing this infant until her husband should be pleased to admit her ; but he suddenly emerged from his room, came into Ma cara's apartment, and dragged his wife by the hair of the head, and the infant which she carried along with her, into his own room. Here the fellow locked the door behind him, and, seizing the child from his wife, he chucked it violently under his " oxter." He was next observed (for it happened that his window was overlooked by another on the opposite side of the court) to seize the tongs and brutally beat the woman with them about the head until she was dashed to the floor, when he kicked her and jumped upon her body. While the fellow was continuing his savage assault, he appears, from the cries, to have become aware that he was ob served from the opposite window, upon which he struck out the light. Meanwhile the court had become completely alarmed, and the police having been called to the spot, accompanied by Hannay and his wife, who had now returned, the door was burst open, and the savage was seen to administer a finishing stroke to the woman, who had struggled up in the interval, and who was now rendered to tally insensible. In the paroxysm of his fury, the fellow had dashed Hannay's infant from him, and it was picked up in a corner of the room with its skull fractured, it is believed. The child is not expected to recover, and the woman is dangerously wounded. Ward was disarm*l of the tongs, of which he had made such brutal use, and taken to the police-office. Ward was brought before the sitting magistrate at the Central Police Court, on Monday, and remitted to the Sheriff.—Glasgow Saturday Post. FATAL AFFRAY WITH TEL" ,STUDENTS AT SOUTH CA hOLINA COLLEGE, U.S. The Wilmington Commercial gives an account of some serious disturbances which occurred in Co lumbia, South Carolima, on Feb. 17. Three stu dents of the college were walking round the city at 9 o'clock p.m., intending to murder the chief of police. This gentleman, hearing a noise in the street, came to the spot, when one of the students punched him in the abdomen with his club ; the policeman, thinking he had been stabbed, imme diately struck the student with his bludgeon, split ting his skull dreadfully. This being done, he com manded his fellow policemen to assist in conveying him to the guard-house. As soon as he was lodged there the cry of " Colleg e " was ra i se d b y t h e stu dents, and in less than two minutes 160 students were present, all armed with pistols, bowie knives, swords, hatchets, and clubs. After cutting all the eruard-house doors and windows into fragments, they rushed in upon the chief, each student giving him a wound with a knife, bludgeon, or sword, and threw him out of th e sewn, Ztorey window on to the brick pavement. Next morning the students and several of the citizens had a desperate en counter in the street with pistols, swords, and knives. Several of the students were carried to their various homes, dreadfully cut and bruised. The students had syvorn to kill th e p o li ce man, and they broke into the 'guard-house, where he had been put for safety, and pulled him out in front of it, where they were each giving him a blow with their clubs, and some of them cutting him with bowie knives. The few citizens that were present rushed upon them,and they had a dreadful fight. The alarm belt was rung to summon the military companies, and in a short time five military companies were present, including the artillery, clearing the side walk. One of the students died after the fight, and others aro not expected to survive. On the 20th the students despatched messengers to Charles ton to buy ammunition ; they also procured rifles from a neighbouring town, and in addition broke open the municipal armoury and took tho weapons therein. On the 21st the governor demanded the arms from the students, telling them if they did not surrender he would fire upon them. This being done they gave up their arms, and the dis turbance was finally quelled. The ,Chief of police s said to have died of his wounds. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following is a letter, dated Malta, March 12 : " Much activity still prevails, not only in the military but in the naval departments at Malta. " Additions to the Malta reserve continue dropping in from England, and proportionate draughts of drilled soldiers are sent away eastward. Within the last few days as many as 1,800, in addition to the 3,200 which left in the last week of February are left, and ethers are preparing to follow. These have been replaced by 1,060 of the let Regiment of the Anglo-Italian Legion from Genoa, and some 2,000 more are shortly looked for. " The St. Jean d'Acre ' steam-ship of the line, has already left for the eastward, and the others of her class are being refitted with all possible despatch to resume their station in the Black Sea. Nor are our gallant allies behind hand in this particular, for on the sth inst. a noble fleet of five ships of the line and four frigates was seen passing Malta, steering eastward, and by this date must have reached the Dardanelles, through which most of the steam-frigates and nearly all the lighter craft and screw-steam gun-boats of the British fleet have al ready passed on their way to the scene of operations. "Her Majesty's steam-transport Assistance arrived on the 2d from Gibraltar and Valencia ; she left for Con stantinople on the following day, conveying 14 oillcera and 273 non-commissioned officers and privates of vari ous regiments, draughts from the Malta reserve. The Cumberland steam-transport arrived from Woolwich and Gibraltar on the 4th with warlike stores. "The Northumberland steam-transport arrived from Gravesend, Plymouth, and Gibraltar on the sth, and left for Constantinople on the 7th. "The Madagascar steam-transport arrived from Bar celona on the 7th, with mules, and left for Constanti nople the 11th. Her Majesty's steamer Thais arrived from Liverpool and Cadiz on the Bth, and left for Constantinople on the 9th. " The Peninsula steam-transport arrived from London with medical stores on the Bth ; she left for Constanti nople and Balaklava on the 9th. " The Black Prince steam-transport arrived from Lon don with stores on the 10th, and left for Balaklava on the 11th. " The General Codrington steam-transport arrived from Deptford aid Gibraltar on the 10th, with railway plant, and left for Balaklava on the 11th. "The Thalia screw-steamer, from London, with a cargo of Government stores for the East, arrived on the 12th, on which day the Great Britain left for Genoa. "The Tynemouth steam-tranTort arrived on the 28th of February from Constantinople, and left on the 3d of March for Balaklava, conveying,lB officers and 682 lion-commissioned officers and privates of various regi ments, taken from the Malta reserve. "The Imperador steam-transport left on the 27th of Feb. for the Crimea. " The Colombo, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, in the transport service, left for Constantinople on the 27th. —" The Indiana steam-transport left for the Crimea on the 28th, conveying 36 oflicersand 906 non-commissioned officers and privates of various regiments, taken from the Malta reserve. " The Armenian steam-transport left on the 27th of Feb. for England. " The Mary Ann, Minden, and Sultan, sailing-trans ports, arrived from Constantinople on the 2d, the first two left for London on the 4th, and thelast followed on the sth. " The Black Sea steam-transport arrived on the 3d from Constantinople, and on the same day the Alice Jackson steam-transport, also from Constantinople. "The Trent steam-transport arrived on the 4th from Constantinople, with Ordnance stores, and having in tow her Majesty's screw steam-floatiug battery: the Meteor, also from Constantinople ; both left for England this morning. "The Arthur Gordon steam-transport arrived on the Bth from Constantinople. " The Baalbec steam-transport, with Russian guns and other trophies of war, arrived from Balaklava on the 10th; and left for England on the 11th. " Her Majesty's steam-frigate Odin arrived from Ka zateh on the 28th of Feb. " Her Majesty's steam gun-beat Beagle left for the Crimea on the 4th, but meeting with damage to her machinery in a gale of wind put back on the 6th ; made a second attempt at getting away en the 9th, but re turned to port after a few hours. " Her Majesty's steam gun-boat Viper left on the sth for the Crimea. "The Highflyer, screw steam-frigate, left for Coestan tinniele on the 11th. "His Netherlands Majestys frigate Ds Ruyter, Capt. Stavenisse de Brauw, arrived from Alexandria on the Bth, bound for Genoa. The captain, on the evening of the 19th, while dressing for a ball at the Palace, was struck down by an apoplectic fit and continues in a very precarious state, which detains the vessel in port. " The Sully, French steam transport, arrived from Constantinople on the 28th Feb., bringing 155 military invalids, and left on the following day for Port Vendres. " The Isabella Croll steam transport in the French f ervice, arrived from Kamiesh on the 2d March, having on board 214 military invalids, and left on the 4th for Pert Vendres. "The Calypso, English steamer in the French trans port service, arrived from Constantinople on the 3d, bringing 84 military invalids, and left for Port Vendres on the 4th, which day the Windsor steam transport, in the same service, also arrived from Constantinople with 40 invalids, and having in tow the disabled Sardinian steamer Conte di Cavour, bringing 188 French military invalids—which two vessels left for Toulon on the sth. "The Napoleon 111., English steamer in the French transport service, arrived from Constantinople on the sth, and left fur Port Vendres on the 6th. " The English steamer Nicolai 1., in the French trans port service, arrived from Constantinople on the sth, bringing 101 military invalids. " The Tantallan, English steamer in the French trans port service, arrived from London and Gibraltar with previsions on the Bth, and left for Kamiesh on the 9th. " The Empress, English steamer in the same service, arrived from Constantinople on the Bth, bringing 115 military invalids, and left on the 10th for Port Vendres. " The City of London steam-transport arrived from Genoa on the let March, and left for Leghorn on the 6tb. " The Ottoman Government steamer Chebahar arrived on the 28th February from Constantinople, bringing 611 officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Tunisian Contingent, and left on the 3d of March for Tunis. The Minos, Tunisian Government steamer, ar rived from Constantinople on the 28th of Feb., bringing General Muhamed Secusi, and 387 officers, non-com missioned officers, and privates of the same contingent, and left for Tunis on the sth of March. These 1,000 men, scarcely numbering a dozen officers, are, it is said, with the exception of a few too ill to be removed from the hospitals of the East, all that remain of the contin• gent, originally 10,000 strong. "The Ottoman Government steamer Esseri Heri ar rived froze Tripoli on the Bth, having on board his Ex cellency Osney Bey and suite. "The Vectis Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail steamer, arrived on the 3d from Marseilles. The Alma mail steamer, belonging to the same company, arrived on the 3d from Southampton and Gibraltar. "Her Majesty's mail steamer Triton arrived from Corfu on the Bth. "The cutter yacht Sparrow Hawk returned fvora the Crimea and Constantinople on the let inet., and left far Portsmouth on the Bth. " The Araxes screw steamer arrived on the 2d from Alexandria, and left for Liverpool on the 3d. " The Bosphorus screw steamer, from Constantinople, arrived on the 3d, and left for Liverpool on the 4th, on which day the British Queen screw steamer arrived from Constantinople and Smyrna. "The Melita screw steamer, from Liverpool and Gib raltar, arrived on the sth. She left for the East on the 7th. " The ship Siam, Capt. Wilton, from Constantinople, bound for Calcutta, put into Malta on the 7th, having 11 of her crew suffering from typhus fever, contracted from convoying to Constantinople from Kamiesh 300 French military invalids, 10 of whom died during the passage. "Two courts-martial have taken place in the fleet. They wore held on hoard her Majesty's ship Princess Royal, Capt. Jones, who presided on each occasion. The first case was that of Lieut. Bloxam, of her Majesty's ship Sphinx, for leaving his ship while under arrest. The charge being proved, he was dismissed the service. The seem(' was on Mr. Blake, boatswain of her Majesty's ship St. Jean d'Acre, for drunkenness. The charge was proved, but from the handsome certificates produced, and high character given him by Captain King and the offi• cers of the ship, he was only reduced front the first class to second." General Baren Smola, of the Imperial Royal Austrian Artillery, accompanied by Col. T. Wurmb, of the Impe rial Royal Austrian Engineers, and Capt. A. Wissiak, of the Imperial Royal Austrian navy, visited the flag-ship of the Baltic fleet at Spithead yesterday, and other objects of interest at Portsmouth. Rear• Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.C.8., received the visitors oa board the Duke of Wellington, and accompanied them in his steam tender, which landed them at the dockyard, where the authorities also paid them every respect. On leaving the Duke of Wellington a salute of 10 guns was fired in honour of the Enron. The Andee, steam-transport No. 100, arrived at Ports mouth yesterday morning from the East with invalids (last from Plymouth), and went into harbour to land them at the dockyard. The Coquette, 4, screw despatch can vessel, Commander Risk, went into Portsmouth harbour• on Monday evening. The Rhadamanthus steam tender went into Portsmouth harbour on Monday evening, to disembark machinery for the Pioneer steam despatch gun-boat and the Fox steam-transport. The steam-vessels Conflict, Archer, and Cruiser went from Eamoaze into Plymouth Sound on Monday. The screw steam-ship Orion, 91, Capt. J. E. Erskine, left Plymouth on Monday with those men belonging to the Algiers whose leave bad expired. The ship Wellesley, from Calcutta Nov. 15, and Cape of Good Hope Jan. 12, was off Plymouth on Monday. She has a number of passengers, among whom are, from the Cape, Capt. Bates, 45th Regt., Military Secretary to his Excellency Governor Sir G. Grey ; and Capt. Mont gomery, of the filet Rifles. Spoke, Feb. 3, in lat. 7 S., long. 15 W.; the Sumatra, from Coring& for Belfast ; Feb 7, in lat. IN. , long. 22 W., the City of Eiinburgh, from the Clyde for Calcutta ; March 4, in lat. 51 N., long. 13 W., the Magician, of Bristol ; and March 9, in lat. 50.30 N., long. 11 W., the Thebes, from Shanghai. The Thunder floating battery, Capt. G. G. Randolph, has been put out of Ye. 1 dry dock, Sheerness, her fit ments and improvements being completed. She has, with the Trusty floating battery, Capt. F. A. Campbell, been berthed at h.irbour moorings. The Horatio, 8, screw steam-frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., left Sheerness yesterday on a trial rip of her machinery. The Porcupine, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander G. M. Balfour, has completed her refitting. THE SUN, LO DON, WEDNESDAY EvENINa s MARCH 19. i 656. She has taken on board her stores, and is under orders to leave Sheerness. . - . The Eurotas, 12, mortar - ship, is receiving her mortars and mortar-beds on board, each mortar exceeding five tons weight. The Victor, 6, screw steam gus-vessel, Commander T. R. Algernon De Horsey, now fitting in the basin, Sheer ness, has had a very satisfactory trial of her machinery iu the basin ; 51 revolutions were obtained, and she is to proceed on a trial trip in a few days. The Scylla, 20 guns, new screw steam-corvette, now being built at Sheerness, will shortly be ready to be launched. The frames for another vessel of the same class are being prepared to be laid down on the same slip. Vessels of this class are built substantially for the purpose of carrying a heavy armament on their upper deck. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 18. without effect ; and as the applicants were too poor to incur the expense, they wished to know what course they were to pursue ? MANSION-HOUSE.—An application was made to Sir R. W. Carden on the sth inst., the particular circum stances connected with which are calculated to excite strong public sympathy, and will probably command the attention of those whose interposition may be effective in checking the shocking evil which it exposed. A man of respectable appearance named Thomas Evans, who resides at John street, Parker's-row, Ber mondsey, said he had received information that morning that his daughter, who was about 16 years of age, had been inveigled on board a steam-vessel which had started a few hours before for Hamburg, and that, taking into consideration the character of those with whom the un fortunate girl had been seen, no doubt could be enter tained that she would fall a victim to the confederacy of procureases who traffic between the seaport towns of England and the continent if the most speedy inter ference were not resorted to. Sir. Arnold intimated that the ordinary mode under such circumstances was to apply to the parish autho rities. The male applicant observed that the deceased lady was the cousin of a viscountess, and the whole of her connexions were of the highest respectability. He thought it was not right that the deceased should be buried by the parish while she had sons possessing such wealth, and he wished to inquire whether they could not be compelled by law to decently inter the remains of their deceased parent ? Mr. Arnold observed that he was reluctant to give opinions relating to matters over which he had no juris diction, but he was nut aware of the existence of any such law. The gun-boats Violet and Goldfinch have filled their ammunition stores with powder, shot, and shell, in pre paration for lengthened service, and sailed yesterday morning from Woolwich, to test the qualities of their engines and machinery, after which they are to proceed to Greenhithe to be swung. A new gun-boat,named the Roebuck, is to be launched on Saturday at Messrs. Scott Russell's. Lieut. W. Arthur has hoisted his pennant as com mander of the gun-boat Manly ; and Lieut. G. J. Row ley, of the Magnet ; both vessels have commenced their preparations for sea at Deptford. The schooner Junction is to sail from Woolwich to day with guns, mortar-beds, and gun carriages, &a., for Portsmouth. The shipment of Ordnance materials from the Low moor, Liverpool, and Scotch foundries to the War Dt.- partment at Woolwich will shortly be suspended, as the contracts for the season are fast drawing to a termina tion. Large numbers of mortars and heavy guns of every description, with many 68 and 32-pounders, to supply the fleet of gun-boats, have passed through the proof de partment there. The new system of firing the proof singly has been ordered to be entered as a permanent re gulation. Mr. Gottlieb, late storekeeper of Woolwich Dockyard, in addition to his full pay of active service, has been granted 10C/. per annum as an equivalent for free quar ters. The newly-created post of accountant in the Store keeper's-office at the Dockyard, Woolwich, was filled up on Satnrday, from Portsmouth, at a fixed salary of 5001_ per annum. A first-class clerk in the same department, with a salary commencing at 3151. and annually increas ing 1.5/. up to 4501., was likewise appointed at the same time from Portsmouth. IRELAND. Sir R. W. Carden expressed the utmost readiness to render all the assistance which a London magistrate could give in such a case, and immediately sent for two officers of skill and experience, to whom he gave in structions to telegraph to Hamburg, in order that the vessel in which the girl was stated to have sailed might, on its arrival, be searched and the girl be protected. The statement of the father was to the following effect : —His daughter Susannah, accompanied by a famale acquaintance, was the day bsfore, as they were going to their work, met at the corner of Fenchurch street by a Belgian Jewess, who appeared to be known to the latter, and who, in a very friendly manner, asked them to go with her to tee two or three young girls like themselves, who resided in Lambert-street, Leman street, Goodman's-fields. They consented, and accom panied their inviter in a cab to a house situate as de , scribed, where they were introduced to two young wo men in a room on the second floor. The appearance of the place and of the women was not satisfactory to Su sannah Evans, who expressed much anxiety to get away, but was prevailed upon by the Belgian Jewess to stay to dinner, while the new acquaintances informed her that they were going the next day to Hamburg te get into splendid situations, in which they would be enabled to live in style, wear gold watches and other jewellery, and supply their parents with the luxuries as well as the necessaries of life. The more desirous she was to go - horn• the more they pressed her to stay, and at last she was prevailed upon to go to bed, after having in vain at tempted to leave the house. In the morning, a an early hour, there was a bustle in the house, and off 'she was hurried in a cab with the two girls to whom she had been newly introduced and deposited on board a steamer which lay near St. Catherine's-wharf. These circumstances the applicant said he had been informed of by the young girl with whom his daughter had been walking when she was accosted by the Belgian Jewess, and who had contrived to escape from the house in which his daughter had been detained. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. THE TIPPERARY BANK. The selection of Mr. M'Dowell, F.T.C.D., to fill the office of official manager was quite a surprise, no less to the expectants of the prize than to the public generally, and grave insinuations were freely hinted against the fitness of the learned gentleman to discharge duties apparently so incompatible with those of a tutor of the University. Nevertheless, the appointment is believed to be one of the best that could have been made out of the batch of can didates submitted te Ma,ster Murphy. Mr. M'Dowell is said by those intimately acquainted with him to possess all the requisite qualifications for his new office, and it is urged that he has been already en gaged in winding up the affairs of a public company under nearly similar circumstances to those which brought the Tipperary Bank under the guardian ship of the Court of Chancery. Subjoined is a sketch of the proceedings yesterday iu the Master's omce "In accordance with the intimation which he gave a the close of the proceedings on Saturday, Master Murphy this day announced his decision as to the gentleman whom ho had selected out of the list of candidates for the office of official manager to wind up the affairs of the Tipperary Bank. It will be seen by the following order which the Master has made in the matter that he has nominated Mr. M`Dowell, F.T.C.D , to the office, Mr. J. D. Meldon t be his solicitor, and Messrs. Gibson and Adair to be the solicitors having the carriage of the proceedings. " 'I cannot adopt the suggestion of appointing far the present only an at interim manager. The various pro ceedings at law now pending render such a course, in my judgment, most inexpedient. I must, therefore, appoint an official manager, and in the present stage of the proceedings I see no sufficient reason for ap pointing more than ono. Ie reference to this appoint• ment, considering the policy of the acts of Parlia• meet, the peculiar circumstances of the case, and the character and competency of the other candidates, I cannot feel justified in appointing as official manager any person who has been proposed solely or in effect and substantially on behalf of creditors. If I could, there would be no difficulty whatever in selecting for the office one gentleman, admittedly of the highest ste ton and character, Mr. Le Tcuche. From what trans pired at the hearing of the case, his appointment would be likely to lead to much difficulty and embarrassment, ae, in the progress of the ease, if any party were to ap ply is me to place the investigation of this company's affairs with the Bank of Ireland in other hands, I could not well refuse such an application, if supported by a considerable number of the contributories. After the most mature consideration, I have satisfied myself that I ought, if possible, to select a gentleman proposed by, and enjoying the confidence of, band fide contributories of character and property, who admit their liabilities, and are willing to answer their just obligations to the utmost—and who, moreover, is wholly independent in interest, business, or other relatione, and as regards local association and otherwise of any class of persons interested—who is not engagedsolely, or in conjunction with others, in any banking or other mercantile busi ness or employment—who is perfectly competent to per form the duties of the office in point of knowledge, expe moms, and ability—who is also, as all the candidates are, of assured position and high character, and who, in addition to these qualifications, can devote his undi vided attention for a sufficient portion of his time to the discharge of the duties of the office. It appears to me that Mr. M`Dawell is, under all the circumstances, the most eligible candidate. I have ascertained, from the letters or certificates transmitted to me by him, that there is, so far as the regulations of the College are con cerned, no objection to his holding the office. I cannot avoid stating that Mr. Commissioner Longfield's moat valuable testimony to Mr. M`Dowell's character, ac quirements, and peculiar fitness for this office, the nature, duties, and responsibility of which no one can understand better than Mr. Longfield, has necessarily influenced me very much in making my selection of Mr. M`Dowell. I approve Mr. Meldonaseolicitorfor the offi cial manager ; ether gentlemen named are equally, and some of them, perhaps, more eminent than he is in other departments of their profetedon ; but Mr. Meldon's great experience and extensive practice in bankruptcy and general mercantile business fit him peculiarly to die. charge promptly and efficiently the duty of solicitor to the official manager is this case. I therefore appoint Mr. M`Dowell official manager, and I approve Mr. Mel don as his solicitor. From what occurred at the hear ing of this case in the Rolls Court, and upon every ground, I hope that Messrs. Gibson and Adair will act as solicitors for the carriage of the proceedings. " Mr. Jefers Of the firm of Barrington and Jeffers) said he understood the Master to state on Saturday that those who were engaged for creditors or shareholders in the bank should have a voice in the selection of the solicitor who is to have the carriage of the proceedings. " The Master said he did not mean to have it under stood that this would be the course adopted in making the appointment, but that, out of the names of solicitors sent in by the candidates for the office of official mana ger, he would be able to select a solicitor who should have the carriage of the proceedings. And he thought Mr. Gibson a very proper person for the office. "It was stated that Mr. Gibson had been employed as solicitor fur Mr. John Sadleir. " Mr. Gibson said it was true he had been named as solicitor on the record to defend Mr. Sadleir in an ac tion in reference to the Carlow election ; that was the only case in which he had been employed for Mr. Sad leir, and ho did not know who suggested his name in that instance. "The Master asked Mr. Gibson if he would accept the office of solicitor to have the carriage of proceedings in this case. " Mr. Gibson replied that he would ; but at the same time he would wish to have another solicitor named conjointly with him. He mentioned the name of Mr. Adair for the purpose. "The Master agreed to this course, and appointed Messrs. Gibson and Adair to the office, observing that there would be more to be done than was perhaps sup posed. The following commanders have been appointed to command steam despatch and gun vessels : Cammanier H. C. Majendia, to the Alacrity ; Com mander W. Jones, to the Assuranc,...; Com. H. J. Bloomfield, to the Osprey ; Corn. W. Armytage, to the Vigilant. B. S. Owen and R. D. R. Farquharson have been appointed midshipmen to the Vesuvius and the the Retribution. Smith (572) and Monger, the detective officer, were the men directed by Sir It. W. Carden to make arrangements to meet the exigencies of the case, and to bring back the girl. to her parents under any circum stances ; and the former, upon representing the particu lars of the transaction at the office of the Steam Naviga tion Company, to which the vessel in which the girl bad sailed belonged, was most readily offered a passage and supplied with ad the information they possessed as to the apparently sanctioeed practices of the Hamburg procurers. Upon arriving at Hamburg Smith found that the girl was detained by authorities in consequence of the telegraphic message, but he found also that the Belgian procuress vas determined to make every effort to secure her prey notwithstanding the interposition of the police, and that she had actually assured the officials that the young woman had accompanied her from Eng land under a regular engagement to receive the visits of gentlemen. In order, ale ), to increase the exer tions of the police, with whom she appeared to be on very good terms, she charged the poor girl with bay ing robbed her parents of al., and referred to a letter found in her pocket, but not at all liable to any construc tion of the kind as evidence of her dishonesty. 'When Smith endeavoured to convince the Hamburg police that such a ebarge was a wicked misrepresentation, ho found them very incredulous, but he succeeded perfectly in the object of his mission, and safely placed the girl on board this steamer, which was about to return. The young woman, who was by this timely interposition of the London magistrate saved from destruction, com plained much of the attempts of a person who, she was told, was the doctor appointed to examine all the fresh female arrivals under engagements to the base wretch by whom she had been forced on board ; and Smith soon 'miled that there were several new importations, and that the system, ferocious as it was, most extensively prevailed. He determined to bring back to Sir R. W. Carden all the information he could collect, and certainly the description he gave of the condition of several poor English girls, who were detained by the procuresses and panders on the pretext of debt, who are anxious to re turn to their parents, was calculated, as the alderman said, to fill any one's heart with compassionate anguish. He accordingly waited upon Col. Hodges, the British Consul, and stated the circumstances under which he had visited Hamburg, and the particulars of which ho had been an eyewitness there, and soon learnt that the con sul was perfectly aware that the atrocious traffic had been carried on for some time, and constantly lamented the deplorable condition of the poor girls who were in duced to leave their homes to be plunged into such abo mination. He represented that the authorities in Lon don, by whom he had been sent to inquire into the facts and to snatch one victim. at any rate, from the conta mination which had awaited so many, were anxiously expecting the interposition of the Englis Consul ; and Colonel Hodges replied that nothing would give him higher gratification than the power of checking so monstrous an evil, but that the immediate interfer ence of Lord Clarendon world, in his opinion, be neces sary before much good could be effected in the way of counteraction, and that it would be advisable to present a memorial to that Minister for an inquiry into the case. The Vice-Consul added his testimony to that of his su perior, and mentioned several heart-rending cases, pre senting new pictures of the horrors of the prostitution thus apparently sanctioned. The two officers waited upon Sir R. W. Carden to make their report, and were accompanied by Susannah Evans, and her father and mother, who he tears ex pressed their gratitude to the Alderman for the service which had been done for them, and, they hoped, for the community. The young woman detailed, but in an almost unintelligible manner, the scenes she had wit nessed. The Belgian Jewess had, she stated, been generally accompanied by two ill-looking men, whom she had seen in Lambert-street on the day which she spent in the house there, and who had sailed to Ham burg in the vessel with her, and constantly watched her steps. Sir R. W. Carden said the officers had done their duty with the skill and propriety which he expected to see exercised by them upon all occasions. He rejoiced that the application had bees made to him, and con gratulated the father and mother of the girl who had so narrowly escaped upon the complete success which had attended the exertions made to prevent a most serious calamity. He had no doubt at all that measures would speedily be taken to put an end, at all events to give an important check to, a traffic the most cruel and revolt ing that could be imagined. GUILDHALL.—Henry Sheen, Mary Ann Delap, and Elizabeth ~ryas were charged with being concerned with two men, named Flynn and Geary (who were await ing their trial for that offence), with breaking the win dow of Mr. Walter's shop in Aldersgate-street, on the 27th of February last, and stealing therefrom gold and silver watches and jewelery to the amount of about 1001. The evidence against the prisoners merely weat to show that they were in the vicinity of Mr. Walter's shop at the time of the robbery. Alderman Sidney said there was nothing to criminate the prisoners, and they were therefore discharged. BOW-STREET.—A post-office letter-carrier, named James waa charged with stealing a money letter. The prisoner bad been detected in the usual manner, by means of a test letter containing marked money and postage stamps, which he should in due course have de. livered. Having abstracted the letter, he spent the money in drink, and was apprehended the same night in a state of intoxication. The marked stamps were found upon him. He was committed for trial. A labourer named John Burn, who for 20 years past Lai worked at the British Museum, fur Messrs. Baker and Son, contractors, was charged, on remand, with attempting to steal a portion of the bell of the old Mu seum clock. It seems that the bell, which was kept in the store room, was Nrfectly whole and sound up to the sth inst., when it was found to have been broken. A. watch was constantly kept by Sergeant Williamson, of the detective force, until Monday, the 10th inst. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the sergeant, being in an adjoining room, heard the sound of a heavy blow on the bell, and on hurrying to the spot caught, the prisoner, who was trying to escape by the window. He was very drunk. The lower portion of the bell had been again broken, and a heavy sledge-hammer lay beside it. It was represented by Mr. Lewis, for the defence, the this was an net of drunken wantonness on the pars of the prisoner, who had not intended to carry away the fragments of the bell. Mr. Lewis suggested that., had that been his purpose, he would hardly have u se d so noisy a weapon as a sledge-hammer, nor would he have pr: ceeiled to get of the window without his booty. He ('sir. Lewis) trusted the magistrate would treat the case as one of wilful damage, and not destroy the good cha racter the prisoner had maintained 20 years by commit ting- him for attempted felony. Mr. Henry, believing that ajury would probably take the view of the case suggested by Mr. Lewis, convicted the prisoner under the Wilful Damage Act, and inflicted a penalty of 51., or in default one month's imprisonment. On hearing the sentence the prisoner, who had not previously spoken a word, exclaimed, with an oath, that he did not break the bell. He was then removed. WESTMINSTER. --George Edinonson, Thomas Ven tuin, and John Abbott were charged with burqlariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. West, 10, Manor•street, Chelsea, and stealing therein a quan tity of wearing apparel and other property, valued be wren 401. and 501. The prisoners were remanded til Saturday. A young man and woman, respectably attired, who de,cribel thenvolves as man and wife, entreated the magistrate's advice in the fallowing matter : They stated that the young woman's mother, who had been maintained by them for the last two months, died on Sunday morning, when, as her two sons were per sons in very affluent circumstances, application was made to them to bury the deceased, but, unfortunately From the London Gazette of Last Night. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 13. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Drawing-Rooms at St. James's-palace, on tile following days, at two o'clock :—Thursday, 101,h April next, Tues day, 29th April next. LOUD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Ithaca 13. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold. Levees, at St. James's-palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Wednesday, 16th April next, Wednesday, 7th May next. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARcH 15. r This day had audience of her Majesty :—Jas. Buchanan, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, to deliver his letter of recall :—To which he was introduced by Viscount Pal merston, G.C.8., acting fur the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the lion. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 17. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel Solomon as Consul at St. Helena for the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 15. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Scott, Esq., to be Lieut.-Governor of the District of Natal iu South Africa. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John Stone, Esq., to be Stipendisry Magistrate for the Western DiF trict of the County of St. George, in the Island of Trinidad. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 17. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Naples, stat ing that the exportation of the undermentioned articles is permitted at the following rates of duty:— From the 4th instant to the 31st May next, biscuit and maccaroni, on paying ono ducat per cautar export duty; and, from the 4th inst. to the 30th April, 1557, lupines, on payment of 50 grains per cantar, and beaus SO grains per cantar, export duty. WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCH 18. sth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Wrn. Love lace Walton to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Grey, K.C.8., deceased. WAR DEPARTMENT, MARcH 18. Royal R,ogitnent of Artillery—Lieutenant John Stirling Stirling to be Second Captain, vice Harding, retired upon half-pay. The undermentioned Gentlemen to be Lieute nants with temporary rank : —Alexander Doull, Robert Emmett Cane, Archibald Hamilton Bell, Francis Sedleir Stoney, John Watts Brassington, George Budd, John Haughton, Henry Rogers Tevers, Robert Lloyd, James Colquhoen, Thomas Clarke, William Gedeffroy Brancker, Donald Roderick Cameron, William Henry Noble, George O'Connor, Richard Newton Young, Francis Hume Dodg , son, Joseph Haythorne Eiger. 21st Foot.—Lieutenant-Culonel the Hon. J. L. Browne, from a Depot Battalion, to be Lieutonant-Celonel, vice Lord West, who exchanges. PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION. Brevet-Colonel C. R. S. Lord West, C.B , from the 21s1 Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Browne, who ex changes. LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. TO B Z LIEUTENANTS. Serjeant-Major Ralph Norman, fiona the Mounted Staff Corps. Thomas Fletcher Gent. Farrier-Major William Addy, from sth Dragoon Guards. Sorjoaut miles 011erton , frorn 4 3oth Foot. Serjeant-lilajor J. Watson, from Foot. Serjeant Susitis, from Ride Brigade. Quartermaster-Serjeant William Sykes, from 55th Foot. Serjeant J. Smith, from 66th Foot. Serjeant George Douelly, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant John Murphy, from Artillery. Serjeant John Mackenzie, from Royal Artillery. Alfred Lander, Gent. • Cornet J. Milne. Cornet G. James. Cornet G. Edwards. Cornet W. Magee Cornet J. Bleazby. Cornet J. Bridge. TO DE CORNETS. Serjeant George Hall, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant James Pettigrew, from Royal Artillery. Troop Serjeant-Major Malley, Land Transport Corps. Colour-Ssrjeant J. Faulkner, from Royal Sappers and Miners. Sorjeant John Landry, from Royal Sappers and Miners. Serjeant H. Macleod, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant W. M'lntosh, from Royal Artillery. Colour•Serjeaat James Spry, from Royal Sappers and Miners. Colour-Serjeant John Sweeney, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant John Wilson, Royal Artillery. Serjeant Henry Adams, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant George Alexander, from Royal Artillery. Troop Serjeant-Major William Henry Waters, Land Transport Corps. Regimental Serjeant-Major William Matthews, from lst Dragoons. Serjeant George Ramsay, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant Thomas Ritchie, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant George Tasker, from Royal Artillery. Serjeant William Shackelton, from Royal Artillery. Colour-Serjeant Wm. Armstrong, from 49th Foot. Colour-Serjeant Richard Collins, from 56th Foot. Regimental Serjeant-Major William Thompson, Land Transport Corps. Serjeant Charles Sutton, from 31st Foot. Colour-Serje,ant Joseph Clarke, from 33d Foot. Colour-Serjeant Michael Stapleton, from 4th Foot. Quartermaster-Serjeant Roleert Davies, from Bl,d Foot. Quartermaster-Serjeant John Packwood, from Cold stream Guards. Quartermaster-Serjeant Michael M`Cain, from 49th Foot. Serjeant Win. Jefferies Peters, from 68th Foot. Colour-Serjeant Thomas Smith, from. Ist Foot. Serjeant John Baird, from 41st Foot. Serjeant Robert Stewart, from let Foot. Serjeant Joseph Palmer, late 76th Foot. Serjeant-Major John Briggs, from 9th Foot. Regimental Serjeant-Major William Ross, from Ist Dragoon Guards. Serjeant-Major Isaac Cummin, from 93th Foot. Quartermaster-Serjeant Andrew Munro, Laad Transport Corps. Regimental Serjsant-Major Malachi Powell, Land Transport Corps. erjeaut William Lowe Shaw., from 28th Foot. Paymaster-Serjeant Alex. M'Donald, from 79th Foot. Colour-Serjeant Mowbray Skeates, from Rifle Brigade. Donat M`Mation, Gent. Colour-Serjeant George Wohlmann, from Royal Sappers and Miners. Colour-Serjeant Cornelius Godfrey, from Royal Sappers and Miners. _ _ _ Stair Serjeant-Major Alexander Baird, Land Transport Corps. P.iter Burrower, Gent. Ernest Lewis, Gent. TO BE REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTERS. Quartermaster-Serjeant William Todd, Land Transport Corps. Quartermaster-Serjeant George Blake, Land Transport Corps. Paymaster-Serj cant Abraham Anderson, Land Transport Corps. Quartermaster-Seljeant Theophilue Greonway, from 21st Fort. _ _ Troop Serjeant-Major James Winter, Land Transport Corps. Colour-Serjeant William Lambert, from Royal Sappers and Miners. Paymaster-Serjeant Alfred Allen, Land Transport Corps. Serjeant Thoma 3 Barstow, from 33,1 Foot. Paymaster-Serjeant J. Garnon, from 39th Foot. Paymaster-Serjeant Patrick Francis Foley, from 31st Foot. Daniel Deacon, Gent. Thomas Huddlestone, Gent. Company-Serjeant J. Stratford, from Royal Artillery. Company-Serjeant J. Copeland, from Royal Artillery. THE MILITIA. The Royal South Glocester Regiment of Militia was on Monday called upon to give volunteers to the regular army. The proceedings were superintended by Colonel Horeford, Rifle Brigade, a distinguished officer. 153 men offered, of whom 12 were rejected. This regiment has given a large number of volunteers to the line since 1352, and at all times shown a willingness to volunteer. The present strength is about 400 of all ranks. They have been six months at Aldershott. IIEALTII OF LONDON DURING Tab WEEK. ( From the Report of the Re,gidretr-General. ) The deaths registered in London rose from 1,029 and 1,082 in the two previous weeks to 1,118 in the week that ended last Saturday. If the rate of mortality bad been the same last week as it was, taking the afer3.ge, in the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1846.55, it would have produced 1,296 deaths, which is more by 178 than the number actually returned. These results show that the public health is comparatively good, though the cold weather has had some effect in raising the mortality ; and it probably accords with common experience that influenza and other catarrhal complaints prevail at this time to an extent greater than cart be die covered is the returns of deaths. Of the 1,118 deaths 563 were those of males, mail 555 of females. From diseases of the respiratory organs the deaths in the preceding week were 191 ; last week they were 223, of which 101 were caused by bronchitis, 92. by pneumonia, 9 by asthma, the remainder by laryngitis, pleurisy, and " disease" of the lungs." Phthisie was fatal in the two weeks in 129 and 148 cases ; influenza last week in 2, croup in 7, hooping-cough in 47 cases. Forty-five persons died of typhus and common fever ; 18 of those in the East districts, where fever, especially in Whitechapel north, appears to be prevalent. Of 10 deaths recorded in the sub-district mentioned 6 were from " febris," 4 of which occurred in the Whitechapel Workhouse. Of 9 deaths in the sub-district of Ratliff 1 was from hooping cough, 1 from measles, and 3 from scarlatina. The widow of a farmer, aged 56 years, died in St. Luke's Workhouse of "fever and destitution." Four children died of measles in Poplar ; three of these in the workhouse. Eight deaths from typhus occurred in the Loudon Fever Hospital. The body of a mau who had died of typhus in Capland-street, Marylebone, was kept without burial for a fortnight, in consequence of the poverty of his relatives. Two women had arrived at the age of 93 years, one at 95 years, and one is stated to have been 104 years old. These four aged persons were all widows. The centena rian died at 3, Hutchison-street, Aldgate, on the 10th of March ; she was a native of Prussia, but had been in this country several years. Mr. Spencer, the registrar, adds that she enjoyed good health and the use of her faculties to the last, and that her son, the informant of the death, stated that he himself was 66 years of age, and the youngest son of a large family. Last week the births of 932 boys and 812 girls, in all 1,744 children, were regibtered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-56 the average number was 1,582. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwicb, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'965 in. The highest reading was 30 . 20 in. at the beginning of the week. The mean temperature was 36.3 deg., which is 4'6 deg. lower than the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week, and on Saturday the defect was B'4 deg. On that day the highest reading was only 33 deg. ; the lowest 27 9 deg. ; and the mean, 33.1 deg. The lowest in the week was 26.5 deg. on Wednesday. The mean dew-point temperature was 29'5 deg., and the difference between this and the mean temperature of the air was 6'B deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 41.8 deg. On the last five days the wind blew from the east and north-east. On Thursday it blew, when strong. est, with a pressure of 61b. on the square foot. There was no rain in the week. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 15. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases .. l9B Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 49 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liter, and other Organs 223 of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus ' &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations Premature Birth and Debility Atrophy Old Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 37 Causes not specified 33 30 44 DEATHS FROM ALL CAT3BES Population Deaths in corre- Deat! a Enumerated. aponding week in the 1851. of 1855. Week. West Districts - 376,427 North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts 1,425 1,118 563 555 Totals Males Females. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females.. Total .. 932 812 1,744 [ADVERTISEMENT.] gIOUT AN, Ir SPECTACLES, POWERFIIL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE Glasses. —Messrs. 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TO BE ADJUTANTS, Company-Scrjeant.J.ll.Ritcliell,from Royal Artillery. Serjeaut J. Hesketh, from Royal Artillery. Serjeaut J. Mitchell, from Royal Artillery. Serj - eant J. Kyle, from Royal Artillery. MEMOBANDU3I.-11or Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the designation of Quartermaster of Brigade, in the Land Transport Corps, being changed to that of Lieutenant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Glamorgan—Edward Priest Richards, Esq., to he Deputy Lieutenant. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Ensign Harry Waller to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas, appointed to the 7th Foot. Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery— Edward Alfred Webster, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militia — Henry Dunlop, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ferrier, ap pointed to an Ensigncy in the 4th Foot; Arthur Wool frig Bridge, Gent., to . 00 Ensign, vice Anderson, appointed to the 95th Foot. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia — John Bayly, Esq., the younger (late Captain in the 3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia), to be Captain, vice Atkinson, resigned ; Henry Bradley, G en t., to be Ensign. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En sign John Irby Iles to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, ap pointed to the 82d Regiment ; Sussex Newton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Iles, promoted. The Royal Ayrski re Rifles—Capt. Murray Fraser Furers, Captain half-pay, Royal Artillery, to be Captain, vice Fyfe, appointed to a Commission in the 28th Regiment ; Ensign Blair Fullerton to be Lieu tenant, vice Chevalier, appointed to a Commission in the 65th Regiment; Ar thur Prinsep, Gent., to be Ensign. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. George Brown and William Ruby, stone merchants, Bankside. BANKRUPTS. Ann Sophia Polo, pawnbroker, Great Suffolk-street, Southwark, to surrender, April 1, at half-past eleven, and April 29, at half-past twelve, at the Conrt of Rankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Laurance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Je wry- cham bora. • ' Charles Ford, tailor, late of 5, Great Marlborough-street, March 29 and May 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Marshall, Sion College-gardens, London-wall.l John Mat Jones, tailor and draper, Birmingham, March 29 and April 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleeton, official assignee, Birmingham ; Webb, Birmingham. Frederick Cook, machine maker, Oldham, April 1 and 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Maecheiter ; Brooks and Marshall, Ash ton-under-Lyne. Morton Muir and John Whitcomb, carpet manufac turers, Kidderminster, March `.'9 and April 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; I3oycot, Kidderminster ; Mot teram and Knight, Birmingham. Charles Bowen, tailor, Cullum-street, City, March 27, at twelve, and April 24 at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street, buildings; Hick, Old Jewry-chambers. Peter Jackson, druggist, Deansgate, Manchester, Aptil 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Heath, Man che st er. Livian Benson Pearce, lime and cement merchant, York road, King's-cress, Middlesex, March 27, and April ‘Z, 7 , at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Alciermanbuty ; Keighly, Basingball•street. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Angus Sutherland, farmer, Danbru, Latheron, Caith ness•shire. George Macfarlane, jun., commission agent, Glasgow. Hugh Divine and Co., potters, Glasgow. Dunk]. MThail and Co., cotton spinners, Glasgow. John Watson, butcher, Edinburgh. Macintyro antl•Mackay, wholesale stationers, Glasgow• THE SLIGO ELEOTION. Mr. J. P. Somers has addressed the following letter to the Express, in reply to some comments upon the singular speech delivered by the defeated candidate at the late contest for Sligo : "Sir,—My attention has this day been called to an article in your journal of the 10th inst., in which you are pleased to say that I made one of the most egotistical speeches ever delivered on the hustings. If I have been egotistical, it has been forced upon me. My character has been most unjustly assailed by some of the leading mem bers of the Conservative party in this town. It has been publicly and privately stated that I bartered my petition against the return of Mr. Sadleir for the consi deration of an annuity of 3001. ; and was I to suffer such an allegation to pass unnoticed ? I was compelled, in my own vindication, to call upon my accusers publicly to state upon what grounds they rested that imputation. I called upon them to point to one solitary act in my public or private life which rendered me unworthy to represent my native borough. There was no reply. I re ceived the cordial, the unanimous support of the Con ser►ative party at the last two elections. I felt that I had a claim upon that support during the existence of this Parliament, in consideration of my endeavours to preserve the integrity and independence of the borough. They adhered to me when I was strong, they deserted me when I was weak. They were the first to make the late contest a sectarian one; they threw down the gaunt • let. " With respect to your observations about my allusion to Lord Palmerston, they are altogether incorrect. I cer tainly did say that I thought my independent support of the party of which he is now the leader for the last 19 years gave me some claim upon the Government, and that I should endeavour to tura any little influence which I might possess towards the improvement of the harbour, and to further the general prosperity of the town. Be yond this I presume not to exercise any influence. It is true that I have been honoured by the support of Lord Palmerston for the last 19 yeari, knit during that long period I never obtained an official favour at his handA. If every hustings' speech were to undergo the severe cri ticisin to which some unguarded expressions which felt from me have been subjected by you, I fear thers are few candidates whose speeches could escape censure. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient !servant, " J. P. SOMERS. " Sligo, March 12," [AnYeensemsx - rd—The salutary effect of Du Barry's deli (dons Revalenta Ara'oica Food in removing Indigestion (Dys pepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility with out Medicine, is admirably displayed by the following letters: " Ridliugton Rectory, Norfolk, June 10, 1850. No. 4,208. — Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. J. W. FLIVELL." " Bury, Lancashire, Aug. 17, 1851. Gentlemen,--Fora considerable time I hays suffered severely from a violent pain in my left side, extreme flatulency, accompanied by an intolerable sensation of heart burn, and other disagreeable symptoms of dyspepsia. Various remedies, alleged infallible, were tried in vain, and for a long time I was never twenty-four hours without violent pain ; indeed I was unfitted for the performance of my daily duties. I was induced to try your food. In less than an hour I found relief, and my recovery was very rapid. The duties which previously had been an intolerable burden became a delight ful exercise, and I have since accomplished more labour with less fatigue than I ever expected to be able to perform. I have never had a re turn of my complaint. —I remain, &c., D.TIIOMAS." In canisters, slbs. 121b5., 225, The 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order, Barry du Barry and. Co., 77, Regent-street, Loudon ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60, Grace church-street; 33J and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Cornhill • 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-Crof34; 54, Hppor or 7 droot; 63 and 150, Word-fit:wt., Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—IffaIIea 18. Wheat met with only a limited retail demand, at an advance of Ed to 4d per 701bs on the prices of Tuesday for fine qualities, but only ld to 2d per 701bs on inferior. Flour difficult to move, though offered on former terms. Oats and oatmeal ld per 451bs and 6d per load dearer, but with a slow sale. No alteration in barley, beans, and peas. Indian corn, is per qr. lower, prime northern yel low being obtainable at 323 6d, mixed 325, and white 33s per qr. IPSWICH-MARCH 18. A fair supply of wheat to-day, but little disposition is evinced to buy at prices about 2s in advance of this day week. Moderate supplies of barley, and. readily sold at an advance of is per qr. Beans and peas command late rates. PER QUARTER. PER QIIARTEF Wheat, red (old) 69s to 73...\ Barley, grinding 36s to 38s Ditto (new) Ditto, white 72s to 76sPeas Ditto (old) Ba.rley,.malting ... 40s to 4.3410ur, per sack AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING BURCH 15, 1856. Wheat Oats Peas Barley Bears HULL-MARCH 18. A moderate attendance to-day cf farmers, who brought a fair supply of wheat, the condition of which was good. High demands checked business, but in what was dono to 3s advance upon last week's currency was paid ; an irregular market on the whole. Foreign inquired for, chiefly for export. BArloy is dearer. Beans is dearer. Oats for seed fetch full prices. Linseed unaltered ; the stock here is much reduced. A good demand for cakes, at advanced quotations, and best makes rather scarce. Bones rather easier. 8 5 I 5. 8. Wheat, English, red 68 to 72 Peas, grey and black to Ditto white 72 to 7. l Linseed, Black SOa... 60 to 65 Dantzic and Konigs- (Ditto Pctersburgh ... 58 to 60 berg 7O to 75 Ditto Riga and Arch- Pomeranianandllam- angel - burgh Danish, Holstein, and Memel 54 to 56 Friesland 65 to 70 Per Ton. Russian and Odessa 60 to 61,Lins. c., Hull 103 to 11/ 756 d Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesian.' Ditto Russian 26 to 30 1 I Rape cakes —s Od to 130 s Od Earley, malting Ditto grinding 35 to 38IDitto foreign Beaus Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel. 40 to 441 Rye Meal CGITESE OF EXCHANGE.- YESTERDAY. mstettam ........... 12 t% Gibraltar ...... •• •• •• • • Ditto, threw months .. 12 2 3 4 Leghorn Rotterdam ............ 12 _2% Genoa .... k 05 Antwerp .............. 25 70 Milan ...... • • ...... • Brussels .... • ......... 25 70 Veniel • • .... • tiamburgh .• .• •••••e • • 13 12 Naples •• • • ......... •• • 43% Altana .. • • Palermo .... Faris. . Ditto, three months .. 25 85 Lisbon .. Nfareihos ............. 25 85 ; Oporto .............. • • Boardeaux ...• I Rio .laneiro ..... .• • .... -- Frankfort-on Maine •• .. 121 Buenos Ayres ... ................ Now York ,80 days' sight Vienna .......... 10 32 Philadelphia .... ...... Triesto.• •• •• .• •• •• .• •• 10 3; PRICES OF LIILIICI4. PER OZ. Vetershurg ............ 30 i Foreign Gold in BRFS £3 17 9 Madrid .........., .... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 ... •• • • 50 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 Barcelona •••••• • • • • •• New Dollars . ..... 0 0 0 .teviLle.. ••..••• • •• • • •.• Silver in bars ••.• •• 0 5 0% SEABORNE MAILS. (.tr signinee that the mails are Seat from the General Post ogle. y the night—and Ai by the morning-4espatels.) Daywhan made tiP From what Whom 0017NTRIE0. in General Post- port due is Office, London.* Dispatched. Eng* ed. A.merica(byErit.pack)N Every Friday •• • • Liverpool Mar. 14 America (by United Sts. packet) ••• • • ••• •• • • Liverpool ..• America (by U. States packet) .. • •" ••• • ••• Southampton Mar. 21 Australia (via South ampton) . • Southampton Ditto (via Marseilles) N •• •••• •• •• • Dover Ditto (via Cape of Good! Hope) .• •• •• •• •• ••N ....... ••• Uncertain Africa (West Ccauit)..N,23d of the month.. Plymouth 'Mar. 6 Alexandria • • •• •• • • NS, 9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover •• •• • • ..81, 4 th & 20th of mon. Southampton Bahamas ...........Mrl7th of the month Southampton Belgium Dover .... any Brazil of the month.. Southampton Mar. 16. Buenoti Ayres of the month.. Southampton Mar. 16 Cape of Good Hope ..N Various ports Uncertsl o Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verde 9th of the month Southampton Ceylon (see Inclia) Cey10n.............. NI Channel Islos ..Mon.,Wed.,&Fril. Southampton ,Ta.Th.Sitt Chili.... • • • • 2,1 & 17th of month Southampton' Ch i na .„ • .......... Once a month.... 'Mar. 20 Constantinople 8,13,18,23.&2801ir Dover Constantinople 4th SD 20th of men. Southampton Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily 'Dover TwiceditilY Egypt (see India) Franco ........ DI & N Twice Dover Tiviesdao.l Gibraltar 7, 17. 20, 27 - am Southampton Greece (sea India) Groytown • 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton tiamburgh .. • • .• • ...N,Tucsday & Friday London ..... a ammis h of the month Southampton April 1. Holland • • •• •• •• ••M Daily• •••••. • • • • • Dover ....• .• Daily Uonduras 17to tithe month. Southampton 16thotmon India (vlaSouthampt.)M 4th .lc 20th of mon. Plymouth .. 4 & 20 m India (via Marsoilles)Dl 9th& 2bth of month Dover ......I 17, & 27 of mon Doyen...." lonian Isles (see India) 7, Ireland & N Twice daily Hol; head Lisbon Di 7,0, 17, & 27 of m. Southampion'March 16 madeira xll9th of the month Southampton azaloira •... 23 d of month • • .. Liverpool ... Maas (see India) Malta ............ ...N ; 8 . 18. & 28 Of mon. Dover 4, 20 mop Mauritius (see India) Maur i t i us lath of the month, , L u do , and of the month. Southampton April 1 Napies...... ........Nlstbllithabthofmon.. Dover ...... Now Granada ......D1 193& 17th of month Southampton, New Zealand 113 y private stip .. Various port , Uncertain Papal smog sthiMll23thofmon. Dover ...... Peninsula 7thl7th27thofnion. southempion Peru ..... ........ 2d & 27th of men. Southampton Port Natal ..........N By private ship... Various portayncertain sthlsth2sthofmon, Dover ......' 52115th2 5 thefmon. Dover ...... 2d& :7th ofratontl. Southampton 1 &idly T • r u ercz n u Y els van Diemea's Land (re. Australia) Near „i v " . 2d& 17th 0: monWilouthlunptonll & 16 WO Whenany of these dates fall on a Sunday, the mails will ye de• snatched on the following day. with tho exceptien of the In , /ir• (I ° ..cutharopton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched ti a preceding day. SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Daiwa 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the market has been quiet to-day, and prices have been rather lower tbs o yesterday. Loudon and North-Western, 1001 Ditto, 1 new Owes, 13s. 9d. d.—Mauchester, Sheffield* and Lincoln, 261—Midlands, 71 A A—Great Western' Birmingham Guaranteed, 73i—Dutch Rhenish, p. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 831 ;—South Eastern, 205 I pit. MANCHESTER, MARcat 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of tho market was quiet to-day, and the prices wore steady. Blackburn, 6 7.16 East Lancashire, 18i—Leods, 83I—Sheffields, 26#—Ditto' 6/. Pref., 7.16 p.—Dovers, 20I—Eastern Counties, 9 9 -16 —Midlands, 71g—Cheshire Junction, 17g. BIRNINGE.LII, MARCH 18. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market has been doing a very brisk business to-day, and prices were generally higher• Birmingham and Derby's, 42A—Shrewsbury and Birminr ham Pref., 0; 10. LEEDS, MARCU 18. STOCK EXCRANSK.—MidIands, 714—Shenklds, Leeds, 83i—North Eastern, Berwicks, 194—Think* new thirds, 245. pm. DUBLIN, MARCH 17. STOCK EXOL%NGB.—Three per Cent. Consols. 914 Ditto for Account, Bth of April, 92a --New Three per Cent. Stock, (shut), 92 a—Ditto, for Account, Bth April , 921—Bank Stock, 2211—Grand Canal Co., 37i—Britisb, and Irish Steam, 32a—Hibernian Bank, 31#—Midlan d Great Western and Royal Canal, 494 Dahlia and Wicklow, 54—Great Southern and Western, 54—Ditto , for account, 52A—Ditto, 4 per cent. Prof., 18i. BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 15th inst., Lady Elizabeth Romilly. On the 15th inst., the wife of Alfred J. Hbrwood, ES On the 16th inst., at Tttrnford, Mrs. Alfred Willough or A DAUGHTNI4 On the 17th inst., at 16, Old Burlington-street, the wife of Edward Dalton, Esq. On the 18th inst., at Blackheath-hill, the wife of Henri Davis Benwell, Esq. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Charles Bar nard, Esq., of Forest-hill and Gray's-inn, to Susanna Tadoaan, eldest daughter of Edwin Baker, Esq., of Frier bury, near Rochester. Oa the 15th inst., at St. Vedast Church, Foster-lane , Allred Lane, Esq., of Maddox-street, Regent-street, t° Mary Jane, eldest daughter of the late John Treaey, Eeq•i of Gutter-lane, Cheapside. DIED, On the 17th inst., at 4, Eaton Villas, Acacia-road, St' John's-wood, John Mitchell Woollett, Esq., aged 75. On the ISth inst., T. B. Herring, Esq., of Finch's'', aged 73. At Paris, Marianne, wife of Walter Long, Esq., kr.r , of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire. On the 18th inst., at Field Cottage, Lorrimore-roa d . Walworth, Edward Cahill, Esq., Chief Admiralty Cler k ' of her Majesty's Dockyard, Chatham. On the 17th inst., Mr. John Ridge, of 28, King-streets Holborn, aged 69. On the 16th inst., at Edinburgh, the Hon. Augus ta Mackenzie, fifth daughter of the late Lord Seaforth._. 011 the 16th inst., at his residence in the Strand, w ra* P. Philippe.i Esq., aged 80. ht On the 12th inst., at his seat, Hedsor, Bucks, the Big h t Hon. Lord Boston, aged 79. LONDON: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus Office, No. 11 2; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count' ° I Wednoodsy. March 19, 1860. GR and BRI 23d, at 7 P.m., an( and ss. Paddinzt L" issited on available On Goc tion of th as on weo Genera TICKET a lt b y ,e t T : fo i : k r ( r oTe h , diate day! log Tuesd Express to retu.n Day tic uston ° ME ETI on WED Northamt Thursday, First class. The Re Trains. General Return ' and IBs. 14 arch, by return on THE Life Ass ties, issuer D -IL Brea A. 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