The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

raoTT - zY :Iv , AI .'.EKE T AND COM NIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'OLooK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very quietly, without any decline in prices. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales, comprising 4,000 American (500 taken for export) ; 200 Egyp tian, 61d. to 70. ; 600 Surat, 4,4 d. to sd. ; and 50 Sea Islands, ls. to 2s. 7d. per lb. There was a Steady feeling in the Railway Share Market, and prices were much the same as on Monday. Accounts from Vienna state that the fluctuatiors in Stocks on the Bourse, and the foreign rates of exchanges, have created au unusual amount of speculation amongst all classes of the community, Which, it is feared, will result in failures and mone tary embarrassments, even though the peace confe rences have a favourable issue. On the other hand should the result be for war, and Austria expected to take part, the financial crisis which would fol low would approach that which occurred after the revolution of 1843. The exchange on London, Which had fallen to 10.3 at the close of last week, rose to 10.8 on Monday, and on Paris from 1191 to 1201, showing that the influx of foreign money was checked, and that capitalists wore becoming alarmed at the extent of the speculation being carried on. Shares of the New Bank of Credit which had risen to 365 in the previous week, Were quoted at 330 ; and the Austrian Railways fell 3 florins to 266. _ _ _ By telegraph from Madrid it is stated that the first issue of 70,000 shares by the Credit Mobilier Company had all been taken up ; and that Senor Salamanca had ceded the Railway of Almanza to the Grand Central Railway Company of Prance. Senor Santa Cruz, the Minister of Fi nance, has presented a new measure for the regu lation of the customs tariff. From Constantinople it is announced that the Minister of Finance is engaged in remedying the evils which havo resulted from the recent commer cial and financial difficulties. The prohibition of the export of grain and other cereals is maintained in the Euxine and the Sea of Marmora, up to the Dardanelles. The demand for money in Lombard-street and at the Bank of England is exceedingly active, and rather fuller rates have in several cases to be paid for accommodation. Besides the amount required at the Stock Exchange for the Consols settle /tent provisiOn has also to be made for the -Anetalth ents due to-morrow on the New Loan and a ' 3 " ending of Exchequer Bills. On the former 25 Per cent: has to be paid, and on the latter 20 per cent. The arrangement of the account has passed off s atisfactory, but owing to the scarcity of money t he " contango " is still heavy. Much confidence la felt in the favourable issue of the Conferences at Paris, and an advance of to I per cent, has oc curred in the quotations. For money Consols hare itilproved to 921 , and for account to 9211 1. The Scrip is 1t premium, being a slight enhance /lieut. The New Three per Cents. have been specially transferred at 92i, and the Reduced An nuities at 914. Exchequer Bills are firmer, viz., 41 6 discount to Is. premium. The Bonds are 9 g4. 9. The Foreign Market is very dull, and the prices are generally beavf. Turkish 6 por Cents. are Z Per cent. lower, viz., 96 to 961, and the 4 per C l Guaranteed are marked 10 0 . Spanish Bo nd s h ave risen to 43i, and the New Deferred t o 24 g . 43 'ussian Small Bonds have been dealt in at 92k. rornvi a , n Active Bonds have receded t o 791 to 79 g. Mexican Stock is 20 to 20k. Equador New Colima 41,4ated are 14i, Brazilian 5 per Cents. 100 4 , and - Lintel ) . 4 per Cents. 95. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign "tocks :—G-renada Deferred Bonds, 6/ 7 ; Mexi ea Bonds, 20k ; Peruvian, 7 9 81 ; ditto 3 per ,-ents., 5G 58 •, Portuguese 4 per Cents., 4 7 49 ; ' ll , 'wink 5 per Cents., 101 103 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 2 94 ; Spanish S per Cents., 43 ; ditto De 'erred, 24 4 ; ditto Certificates, 41 51 ; ditto l'ap ß i ve, 7 4. Railway Shares are mostly depressed, notwith- Standing the favourable movement in the Funds. LI some cases, the reaction is fully 10s. per share. Caledonian, however, are an exception, being Foreign and Colonial lines are weaker. In Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares there is no change requiring special notice. B RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. : -CLOSING PRICES. x• pr y m (As Official Lie. gt,..7n ,, done. 3 .. Shut 91 Por - C , nt. Re&f:eed Annuities 1,41 1 , Pr Cent Consols Annnitios 914 $ 22 yr 3 per Cont. Annuities r, India Bonds, £lOOO ~.,,n 9 2 11 ,_sols ?or Account ~,,l' Ditto Scrip 4 4i:he:p ier Scrip Adchegner Bills, 24d. in 000 Xtitlo ld 1 p , 4tuall bitto Bonds, 185 S, 3 per Cent 9Bi i bltto, 1359 ... - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DIY. l hasilion Bonds, 5 per Cent. - ' l, ln.tlor Boml ' — ...Ditto New Consolidated .. Ith Kezie.:44, l'erusla n Bonds 4.; per Cent Ditto 3 1,,,r C00t..... 56} 41 18sio n Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1522, t 5t.... a d Ditto 4 A per Cent ~, Ditto Small ° Phlii,,, i1t,,,,1e,;:', per tent Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive 111.61 r - t%ll Bonds 6pa cent (l6 ~ Ditto A ccount Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. r .ivvien , lot on tt, eove Lortio, tixteli Exchange, 2 t i per Cont., 12 Gull— bitto 4 per Cont. Certificates ..........•.. 95 THREE O'CLOCK. 92 A 92, 5 tn sea.. money Ditto Account 'lt is stated that a nertiatinn has been opened with 100 t he General Screw Steaei Company by the purchasers of IP° large t heir eig t shins for four smaller ones to complete t he contemplated fleet—namely, the Harbinger , 848 ,Or., t ors; the Cape of Gnod Hope, 583 tons; the Bosphorus, 2 0 44 5 tons ; and the Propontis, 483 tons. Owing to the lengthened prevalence of easterly winch', great number of vessels from India, China, and Aus tralia aro supposed to be detained in the Cbanuel. It is therefore thought that the Admiralty should send out a s teamer either from Plymouth or Falmouth to their relief. BANKRUPTCY OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.—At t he Court of Bankruptcy yesterday Messrs. Strahan, 4111 , and Bates passed their last examination. The Droceadings were then adjourned, no date being fixed r oe the hearing of certificates ;- but it was intimated that If Mr. Bates should obtain a pardon from the Crown he can apply to the Court in the ordinary manner. THE ROBBERY AND ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT MURDER WALIVORTH.—Lucy Constable, the Young woman W he has been in custody for sometime on a charge of Maiming herself by wounding her throat and left hand, Was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police court Yesterday before Mr. Elliott for further examination. She was again remanded. EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF THE NEW AMERICAN MINIS- Liverpool, March 11. The newly-appointed American Minister to the British Court, Mr. Dallas, is e xpected to arrive in Liverpool by the United States /nail stearr-,hip Atlantic, due to-morrow from New York. Mr. Hawthorn, the American Consul at this port, this 44 3 , secured a elite of apartments for the use of the Am baeeador, at the Adelphi Hotel. TEE MONSTER GUN.—The boring of 'this huge gun, Which is being constructed at the Mersey Steel and Iron C ompany's forge, Liverpool, is all but completed, and the piece itself will be entirely finished in about a month. It will then be subjected to the hydraulic test, and after wards tried with a charge of powder and ball on the sea 'bore at Waterloo, about five miles from Liverpool. -,NEW YORK.—THe commercial advice s from New ork this week describe no material alteration, but, n otwithstanding an increase of ease in the money-mar k,iQt, most descriptions of securities had exp erienced a .I‘ght decline. Erie Railway was quoted 581 ; Panama, 104 ; 'Reading,' 92i ; and Illinois Central Bonds, 87k. ins;" to the late' severe wea th er, ' all departments of ttness were very backward. It had n ow, however, become fine. although the coast and river navigation :vas Still obstructed by ice. The present steamer, hay sailed from Boston, has brought no specie, but it wag thought that at least 100.0001. would be se nt b y the Atlantic,' which may he expected on Thursday, and that a like amount would follow by the Asia. The latlure had beau announced. of Messrs. W. and S. Rich •ardstin, hemp dealers and rope manufacturers, and heir liabilities were understood to he rather heavy. Colonel Horatio Shirley, C. 8., of the 88th Regiment, it is said, succeed the late Colonel Clarke in the nennnand of the South Wales district. During the last J ew months of the siege of Sebastopol Colonel Shirley Znimanded the second brigade of the Light Division, was the General in command at the successful a ttack en the Quarries on the 7th ofJune. ROW TO* AVOID SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. —At a meeting Wednesday night in Edinburgh_Professor Macdonald St- A.ndrews in the chair—Mr. A. J. Ellis announced 11 , 1 the audience.that if they wished to avoid sleepless should lie with their heads to the north, not " 11 any accoutio lie.with'their heads to the west ! ! Secret. By 1 Blackett. Ay narrated, portion is of of the style ptions of tho 7 idently with iergy of one indred to his The hero, and one who . The ladies ►bel does not Ilthough the not claim so ne Madeline fying in her iful a charac it is probable gal and likely approach but ►n. She► came coking to the her worship mate to the . She was im itly beset and 6ce of mind by fter h er union ost to us for one goal for )ass from the s to the rest , Lure like hers' like Herbert mad harassed Her death h the skies of ad supposed. husband put then the for-, During her eline had suf- . with excess. b often happy, fancies when such a nature tate like this. !fleets its own' has a bloom, ► heavens that is brightened )ass us make ie very winds our path.' ► course and not cultivate round her and g could have port struggle, tble ' and even dd. have been e retreat into ire are enough world to fall atures adding' however, the' ler life became er. She had r and consum heart incor >reserved from Fast spirit and tt hangs over )p import, and Vile other per mlated to add riptions of the Dine enters for the narrative. )tfail to please and interested eat variety in re us, and the als to fascinate and sparkling wely scenery, e to create for rite n. Longman, tans. tures and dis h) New World, com fragments work that may hands of both acceptable pre- maintains the re is much roa n will not ever t nation. The ;elligent, there lain under the . Plainly for and so forcibly .ay over (what arr England :, Miss Porter's icularly to its of time, crime !'" in defiance of ienna, guaran i, Russia wag 1, without an - The two fol re very appro- to thee, Nu), iaw should fall !" SOLDIER. ND THE ON. so earnest ad- Education we v the attention s, has been do lectures, than contemporary, le, and a more livered in the the Sussex Ey ourso, listened brilliant and lecture speech with a well rofession. He tanco which had audience would community had attending these faculty could not from him, they hysiological facts gentlemen want , of the labouring led them %%hese Le miserable, un ricken poor ; nor med of the largo , able death under letter acqVainted the audience con after a hard day's ;d, at any time of k and dying, his 1 that the medical very tolerable ex uding their even• he case ? In three of the profilksion a member of the ght he felt proud his right hand ht that he might ad been delivered ledical faculty of e. Why had these e forward—otter :re, on the truths th liberal minds misery on which I—they had come ran, to expound which they (the t to the human aware than these rally. understood ,dic....11 attendance ;onsult the physi coesequently the incomes of md—whether in places whore he stranger—these End support the tter than cure." ght to omit this le would rattle members of the but say was the fore his visit to perfect strangers ctions to them, hey came volun avours to benefit -ould detain the sincere thanks toy had been so to of these dis ly -expressed ap- , ,t Nice, on Sa s;cond son of TY. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) ' ILAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day - RAILWAYS. . A.ubg. Nottug. Bost and Eastri. Janet all BAfast & j al' Birming. Wolverh s Stour Valley ..... La,ucsl.. Ches Lire Janet al) )o. Chesh. & Birk. 450 and .E 25 Cone 19 Do., all Olyth &Tynsorigius. 425 (issd. at :.;45 100 iristel and Exeter 100 rialedonian . 81a. Cann. and Cardigna all 'hoster & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon.. all lurk, Black, as Pm: 18 Jornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B 1i CrieT junction 45 Dub:in&BelfastJune. all Dun. P. & Ab'r. Jnc. 'lOO East Ausllan all Eastern Counties.. 100 Fast. Union. A. Oti IU , . B. Stoo# R' to., New A .., 10 East Kent 100 t‘last Lancashire 100 'Ainburgli& Glasgov all Edinb. and Peebles 100 •Ain.Prth &Dunde , 9 Forth & Clyde Jeri:. all Furness all Do. Extension 100 e lasgow & lg. west. , . , all Great N. of Scotlnd 100 Great Northern 100 D o., ock A. Stock 1 1 00 De., B. St., „ 1)0 Gt. Bth. &West.are- ', 100 Groat Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Qua. Stk.. all Irish South-Efts :ern. all Ll.ncaster & Carlis; 1.0 Do., Thirds 8 Do. Now Thirds (00 Laneash.a.ndYork,4 - • i Do., Wst. Riding rrn all Llrsby.&Southrt all London & Illackwal 100 Lond. Bright & S'. CA. 100 Lond. and N. West!. 1 .6 00. Fifths Sis Do.101.15h..1&& 3 0 2 Do. Eighths ..... '• 1 London andS. West;;, all Do.„ £5O all Do., Le all ,LndndrrykColerain• all Lnandrr".& Enntal , I.a) Manch.glief.& Lin& , :2s. Do., 'Mao. k Lin. TN 1 Metropolitan 100 Wand 100 " ., o. Birmng. hD er h • all 'Mild. G. West. am. all 1)0. TUB 4.hares ill 'ewcastlo & Carlist 1 all . wpt.Aberg. &Ile g 'tewry & Enniskillo• All Newr)' Warrenpoin` and Roatrovor 1.)0 ! , forfolk .. 3., Northn.GOttntios trn 100 North British ._ Nth Devon Rail. & 100 Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock.. all i to., B Stook all Do., s i B Guar...aeo, - 100 N. Ea.terri—Borwic' 211 Do. do. Extenpion _ 15 Do.do. G.N. B. ?web a!) De. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London ..... 3t is N.&S.Wstrn.,Bamy - stead, and City in 17i North Staffordsliir al North Western all 'T. &S. Westra. J tra I 7 i - ar.oit,t,m, ilirieck.l, ~ .n4 Leicester.. 1)0 Ox, 'or,'., & Wolv. 8 PortAraooth 100 5, 'ottisli Ce 'Aral „. 1.0.: Se,ottishMidiand... '.OO iAropshire lhi , n a:; South Devon . I 0 Sontl. Eastern 100 mouth Wales. 1.,.. I...Yrksh. & Riv. Dui Do 16 qtnine ,, ,Wok. hWol , 1, 1 Stockton & Darn 1.11 , 'zto , kton. Hartlen' IXI Taff Vale 1 : 10 Do.. Pref., No. T ,, ames Hay. TIAT, R. trlyerstone & Lance all Vale of death.,.... ... all Watcrfd. & Kilkenn: Vv - ate r for] all West Cornwall all West End of Lonacm A nd Crystal Palace all Do. d........ 3 Do. B ,West London sal iWitnhledn & Ciro:pion 25i -26 i 4 - 41 ... *"."" Si - 8i 15 - 14 14i •- ;5 9 -- 8 87 8 9 sOi - CO 12 - 13 3 2 d 7i - 8i 124 13! - 9i 32 34 22 24 71 - 73 56 - 48 91 - 25 - 26 85 - 87 6 - 7 92 - 93 77 - 79 111 121 103 105 61 62 72 - 15 Ai - 74 A 7 83i - 84 7 i 7 99 - 100 991 - 10 44 per id part 92i 936 - H 694 - 70 IL - 43 11 13 - 53 3A 3T(' 20 .- 31 751 76i 6 4/ 151, 151 5! b 3 88 90 fib di,. 9j - 10. 24 - 25 - 106 74 76 46 48 12A 13i1 66A - 6741 70 - - 72 4 - 2' . - • 4 86 , •1, ..'. 18 -- 19 -- 6 - 4 FOREIGN. 41, k.Kwor, CO M I 10 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '6 4 l 0 Ardennes 4 . sielgian F.aytn. June 14 Beaters to Gra ea. ti rininbay, ia,an Central India.S.:ri all Do. Li 4 1 Pomerara It 11 Patch 13,1-.Eni,411.... till Eastern of Franco .16 13 1)o. se•cr ...... ... .1( 111 East Indian, g. sp. • 'tfl 15 Do. T",e.mwin , 00 all D0.41p.c.8nd5., 157 20 16 Gee ong Me Thou le guar. 5 per c nt. . 10 .t.l Do., Lon. allot., de 1!) 221110). 'Mot Cana da A. J. I 5 1 Do. 9 .1 Do. Cert of Doben. eon. into Stk. an De. Cora p. 6p. e., do 4 at. Central of /ran all at. Indian Peninsnl 14 Great Lux, tnbortz Constituted Share' mil 'Do. Obligations... 11. Do.re-is.'orftd.Sh all qt.lti'eatern of Cana , ' a Fihare 5A Do. New ...;1 Do. DU., payable's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62. p.'56. .. all Do. do., '76, p. '60.. all Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton Ec Toront - , all Do. 6 per cent. 17 Lake Const. 3t Basl all Lieges and Turnhout all Lucoa Fist. sp. c.p 16 Lyons and fiend', 14 Lyons & noditorrno all hiadrae, guar. 4 ,p.e Ai 10 Do. Now 1. 0., Bp. e ?0 5 Po. 44 p. c. Exton 3U all filaria Antonia ~. 10 all Do; do. Now iii) all Namur dc Liege(titi interest) . Do. (ex interest) Northern of France 00.20/.511s Do. 201. 3 p. e lide (finy.l3.4z Anis. Sim NorwegianTrunk.Pro Paris and Ly0n5...... Ditto Ronde Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati.. Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Meuse... Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c Do Southern of Franoo St. Andtow's and Quebec (A). West Flanders Do 5A ner c. Prof., W. it N. W. of Franc I West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand q 0 all l 6 all 20 all 20 all LO I all [0 I all SO 1 all :0 all 5 all 4 all .c) 1 all * I %II 0 I t 6 4 1 .! LO 411 .),0 [8 D I all 6 all 0 11 100 50 10 41 SO N.ll M 5 -- 3h 2i 1 RS 3£AI 11 - 13 214 - 22 21 ... 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Month Australia Union of Australia 1,1, Do. lidw: IQ Union of E .. ondon „,I ...- -- , . . 96 62 - Gt ld par 2tl par 62 64 15i -16 A 16 - 17 4 - par 2p li -- i(I .« -- .4 • . v "' . , ; X . .) 41 - 43 .. ""' ... .. -.•- ••• 38 - 40 71 - 73 7i -- 8i Business done this day St it. St. St. St. 1.0 a. st. .00 26 ;(1 511 5 i 0 20 .00 50 ;0 all 15 all .0 all 5 I LOO 50 15 11,11 15 all • 1.4 IA fr T RP, st n N., LON 001 k, WEDN ESDA Y EV ENING; M - ABC - 11 ----- 12. - 1856. A. 36).) 3 , tr,IXSI) tcKNTAL'.. DESTRUCTION OF COVENT-GARDEN carpenters' shop. He fitted some piping from the painting room to the six benches in that shop. A valve at the back of the stage must he turned On• before gas cart be supplied to the painting room or carpenters' shop, and when it is required his 'assistants or some of his men turn it on. The large cocks are never turned on by any but the gasmen. He had not had the chan delier down since the m!ddle of the last season, and then it was only to dust it. Ti ere are about 800 burners iu it, but they were not all fish-tail burners, and they were all in thorough repe;r. Tao witness here , explained the mode in which the chandelier was fixed. The gas for the chaiicielier was regulated by a dial-plate in the prompt box. It . the gas was turned full on some of the burne,74 would nht go• higher than an inch and a half. The heat from it would warm the ceiling,- but it would be impossible for the ceil ing to take fire from it. The chandelier was fleet lit at about a quarter to 12 on Monday morning, and was never turned off till the fire took place. It had been turned down, but sot put out. The burners were lit with‘a long bamboo rod, with three feet of wire at the eed. The men satu rated the cotton ball at the end of the wire with spirts of wine. They place the ball in the spirit bottle which they carry with them. The ball was always brought hack after it bad been used at the chandelier. At a quarter to five he was speaking to Mr. Anderson with his back to the green-room, and as he was giving orders which battens were to be left burning he saw the fire through , the cracks of the shop. Mr. Anderson exclaimed, " Hush," and then he looked up and said "Good God, the house is on fire, get out for your lives." He (witness) then ran to the gas regulators and very gently turned the whole of the gas off. It was totally impossiblefor the lights or gas from the chandelier to have caused she fire. The draught was too great to allow any gas to remain. He could not form any opinion as to the origin of the fire. By a Jnror—He bad known the chandelier to have been alight for a whole fortnight during the decoration of the house. Mr. Henry Sloman, the machinist and carpenter of the establishment, was last on the premises about half past 11 on Tuesday night. He had not been in the carpenters' shop since Friday last, whee he went to see if it had been properly cleared up. The centre of the floor was quite clear.• There was a large quantity of wood and properties at the sides, but not heaped about the shop. It did not occur to him that anything but the escapeof gas caused the fire. The escape of gas was very great, so great indeed that he had frequently called the attention of the authorities, the gasthen and firemen, to the circumstance, and he had frequently said that if the ' escape of gas was not seen to the theatre would be burnt down. Since the gas had been supplied by the London Gas Company the pressure had been three times as much as it used to be. He was certain there was not sufficient wood to fill half a cart lying about the carpenters' shop. By a Juror- -He thought the gas must have exploded, and therefore caused the fire. There had not been a light in the carpenters' shop - since Christmas. At this point the inquiry was adjourned until Satur day next at three o'clock. THEATZE. L,..1112;, 3wiLwiao, C axing ycat rd ay Hiisiams this iay. C. or2;)an OFTICIA.L INQUIRY. Th: following appeared in our late edition last 'Toulon 1 ., N. Vl'wt. .W • E. Un. E. C.... night : 64 -- 96 94 - 18 This afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Bedfori, the coroner for Westminster, and a jury, assembled at the Piazza Hotel, Covent-garden, to inquirc., into the cir cumstances attending the tqtal destruction of Covent garden Theatre, by fire, oa the morning of Wednesday last. . 11 - 13 Count. ;31doulan 41 ... 4i Amongst those present we observed—Superiatendent Braidwood, of the Fire Brigade ; Mr. White, of the County Fire Office ; Superintendent Durkin and Inepee tor Dodd ; C. J. Carttar, the Coroner for West Kent ; most of the officers of the establishment, Mr. Anderson, the Wieird, and nearly every one connected with the management of the Theatre. The preliminaries having been gone through, The Coroner said he did not think it was necessary the jury should be troubled with viewing the premises. The present inquiry was rather unusual, it was not touching the death of any person ; but it was to ascer tain the cause of the late destruction, by fire, of Covent• garden Theatre. The churchwardens of the parish were extremely anxious to have an inquiry in the late con flagration, and from the opportunities that had been offered to him, he had determined to make a thorough and searching investigation. The public were entitled to have an inquiry openly and in a public room, espe cially as the most intense interest existed in the minds of every person in the land, from the highest down to the very lowest. The Ant witness called wee James Castles, fireman to Covent-garden Theatre. He was employed by Mr. Robertson, as agent to the proprietors. His duty was to attend to the general safety of the theatre. There were four firemen engaged in the duty, each having an equal share of duty over the whole of the premises. He was in the theatre a few minutes after one on Monday until after the fire took place. The time that he supposed the fire occurred was between 4 and 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, as near as he could tell. Ile never left the theatre during the whole time. Between 4 and 5, on the morning of the fire, he was passing up to the flies where the ma chinery was, and returned to the stage, where it was desirable that the fireman should be, in consequence of the number of smokers, and then entered into a csn versation with Mr. Bryanstone and Mr. Palmer, the foremen of the gas department, and asked him what " battens " or border lights he would have left alight, imagining that the people would go to work to remove the fitting. He had just spoke one word when he clasped his hauls, and said "Oh, my God, the theatre is on Ere." At that time be saw a glimmering light through the floor of the carpenters' shop. At this time no fire had fallen. He thee met Butler, another fireman, and told him the house was on fire, and they both rushed up to the carpenters' shop. When they got to the door a gust of black smoke struck them which issued from the shop. A plan of the theatre was here put in. Examination continued—The smoke rushed out of the door, which was open ; it was so dense that Butler called to hint to go on his bands and knees to endeavour to get at the fire cock in the shop, and ho supposed that they got about midway, but he then get so g►ddy he was obliged to return, but not before seeing that the fire was on the left side of the shop. As soon as he got to the door he fell, but got up and ran to the fire cocks at the end-of the floor which was on fire. The fire mains were charged for that phone, but he was unable to find it. He remained there until he heard some one call him. He went to the flies and cut two or three rapes from the windlasses, thinking they would stop the fire. He there saw Mr. Lawrence acid other firemen on the stage at work at the fire-cocks. The engines were playing ache:, be left the building. There was a role for the firesosn : it was to the effect that ona of the men was to go round the boil sing every hour. Throe men were on duty at night, aul ens during the day. It was the duty of each to make the rounds as ordered. Ha hal pa'se'l from the front of the theatre to the stage fre quently that day, and he had not smelt anything like fire or gas in the carpenters' shop. lie had frequently smelt gas, but not mare than (night be expected from wear and tear. The fire le oke out by the side of the carpenters' workshop. He did not think it could be horning elsewhere. The "flies" were cennected the carpenters' shop by a staircese. When he first went to the "flies" he was about twenty felt from the car penters' shop. He thought the theatre was set on fire. The smoke was not like wood smoke, and the time that the fire broke out, when they were all engaged getting the people out, favoured the euppesitios. It was merely his impression that the fire had been wilfully Made. There were some gas fittings in the carpenters' shop, but they bad not been used since Chri.teras. The gas was turned off from the pipes in question in the car penters' shop. Any person could turn the cock with a key. If the gas escaped from these pipes it would have gone up the shaft of the chandelier, which was sus pended from the roof through the carpenters' shop. The ehandelier could not be t ►ken into the shop, as it was a flx'ure. The shaft was an open one, and like a large fun►el. The draught, for the escape of gas, was Ye] y great. The chandelier was suspended by nun girders, which rested horizontally on the timber supports, which were made fast to the floor of the shop, which was the roof of the theatre. The supports could be seen by any person in the carpenters' shop. The distance from the chandelier to the fleet- of the carpenters' shop was between 14 and 15 feet, and about 10 or 11 from the gas when alight. He never knew the heat from the chandelier to warm the floor of the carpenters' shop. There were flues in the walls of the buildings, which formed the boundaries of the car centers' shop, and on the night in question there wire several of the flues in use. There were about seventy flues in the house, and daring the whole of the time he had been on the establishment, and that extended over some years. he never knew more than two or three to take fire. The smoke he bad mentioned in the former part of his evidence smelt like fumes of charcoal, not like burning wood. By Mr. Clerk— There was no charcoal used in td e car penters' shop, and until the fire broke out be never smelt anything burning. The reason he and his fellow servarte were on the stage was to prevent accidents arising from the vi-itors smoking. The carpenters' shop he felt so certain was quite secure that he did not think it requisite to visit it every hour. It was the duty of the firemen to visit every part of the theatre every hour. During the performance their duty was to look alter the safety of the theatre generally. There were tell-tale. which would inform the proprietors whether they did their duty or not, but it was not expected that they (the firetnee) should pull them every hour until the perfor• 'nevus Were over. . By a Juror—He was in the lobbies of the boxes (lur ing the night of the bat.-masque. He was within 20 or 30 feet of the place where the fire broke out, but lie smelt nothing. He was perfectly sober during the whole of the night. By Mr. Solomon—There hal not bean any one at work in the carpenters' shop to his Is nowledge during that day. A plan was here shown to the witness, and he marked the place where be first saw the fire break out. By Mr. Lawrence-s-lie hail never seen the iron of the chandelier heated. Wi:liam Butler, another fireman of the theatre, stated he went on duty on the night previous to the tire, at pine o'clock, and remained so till the fire was discovered. He was on the stage when the alarm wise given. He sew nothing of the fire until he entered the carpenters shop with Castles. The smoke was so dense it was impossible to get at the fire cocks under the cistern. He had not been higher than the t flies on Tuesday night, and at twelve o'clock there was no fire that he could discover. At three o'clock on the morning of the fire ho met Mr. Sloman's brother on the first fly and, from him he learned the hour cf the morning. After Mr. Slornan left him he (wittels) proceeded up stairs and found everything in the top flies was perfectly safe, and nothing like fire was perceptible. On re turning down stairs he entered the flies at the promp side, and crossed to the 0. P. side, and then he returned to the ball-room to prevent the gentlemen from smoking, and remained there until the alarm. Castles came to him, and said there was something " wrong up-stairs," and they immediately ran iip-stairs to the carpenters' shop. There was a heap of wood in the shop floor on fire, as much as would half fill a cart., The fire had spread considerably, and the floor in one part bad fallen through. The flooring of the shop was very thick and strong. There was no thing on fire below the carpenters' shop when the alarm was first given. He did not think the fire Was occasioned by the gas, as if such had been the case the flooring would have been on fire underneath, instead of _ the top, as was the case when the fire was first disco ♦ered. There was a considerable quantity of loose stuff lying about the carpenters' shop. Any person could enter the shop, as it was open. The gas Was first fitted in the carpenters' shop to bring oat the pantomime, but it had been shut off since, and no gas had been used in the shop Since Christmas. On Tuesday morning he was up ha the shop with a lantern, but it was enclosed with glass, and was termed a safety lamp. By the Foreman—lf there had been fire smoldering in the carpenters' shop ho thought he must have smelt it. When he entered the ahop he did not imell any. thing extraordinary about the smoke; it was just like the ordinary smoke. James Bryanstone, sea., fireman, stated he was in the theatre the whole of the night of the fire, and never d left it for .a moment. Shortly before 5 o'clock he saw fire fall from the roof of the theatre. He immediately ran to the carpenters' shop to turn the water on, but the smoke was so great that it was impossible to get to it. He got into the shop about a yard, but he could not proceed any further. He could see a heap of wood, as much as would fill half a cart. He was not in the ro3in when Castles gave his evidence. He could not form any idea how the fire occurred. By a Juror- The wood he saw on fire was about 1(3 feet from the door. The bits of wood were thrown where they were in clearing the carpenters' shop. Dur ing the performance the firemen go over the house to examine it. After the performance was over, it st as their duty to go over the house every hour. He did not think the fire was occasioned by the heat from the chandelier ; for when M. Jullien bad the theatre there were 12 additional ones hung around the large one, and no accident occurred. The burners of the chande lier had not been enlarged. The heap of burning wood was about 30 feet from the opening of the cbandelier. John Drake Palmer, gas-fitter—He was employed by the proprietors as general manager of thegas-fittings of the , theatre. The last time he did anything to the fittings Vie to erect thole that had been spoken Omit in the ct. Woo Yk. New. Borw. Y. & N )11. 103 - 105 Eagte . 12i 1 231 - 2.44 105 - 110 'eto d; Co. 2 i 91. 7 - 92 P -t" 55 - 67 I:j2 - 131 - 7 i 31 - 84 - SG BAIL k 112 116 112 116 82 86 9 - 2 96 98 - 166 Va - ••• 95 -10) 70 - 80 I 2 - AZKET NEW2,—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. 6r3 - 70 A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale in to•day's market. The demand for all kinds was not to say brisk, yet Monday's advance in the quotations was well supported. Foreign wheat, the supply of which was but moderate, moved off freely at very full prices. Floating cargoes realised fully late currencies. The barley trade was firm, and the finest malting parcels were held for more money. • Malt ruled dull, at late rates. The oat trade was in active, but beans and peas were very firm. We had a good demand fur flour, and fine country marks were the turn dearer. 115 - 117 - 109 101 -- 103 9i - 10 - 6A' 93 - P 5 3 - 5 8A - 86 98 • 10. Wheat. 660 ARRIVAL/ THIS WBBIL Barley. I Malt. I Oats. Floor. 490 290 420 —brli i 2 ' 410 1 aka Irish •• •• roreign I ; 2,310 '1 10; 10t 17 10 104 70 73 19 20 lo 141 —14 a I a 33 - 135 I - Boßoyal' nor. The demand for all kinds of hops is very inactive, at last week's currency. WHITECITAPEL. Thef, from 33 01 to 4a 2J ; mutton, 3; to 43 4cl; veal, 43 Od to ris 01; pork, 3s 4d to 4381 per Sibs. Trade steady. .. -- ••• COLONIAL. TEA. —Tho market has been quiet. Common sound coirr ' ou is in demand at si 1 to Od, with very few sellers ; but other sorts are (sparingly dealt in, at h.;rely previous rates. SUGAR.—The market having been abundantly supplied both with colonial and foreign, importers have been anxious to realise. The trade for home consumption has been de pressed, and the demand is of quite a limited character. For West India descriptions prices have receded Gd per cwt on last week's rates. Foreign has also declined Gd to Is per cwt; there are large sales advertised for the present, week. In the refined market there is less demand for home consumption ; but prices have been firmly sup- • ported, and crushed still in demand for exportation. • COFFEE.-1 fair demand. has existed for clean Native Ceylon at 51s to 528 per cwt.,. unclean 49a 0 , 1 to 50s Gd, but there aro but few parcels offering. Plantation has also realised full rates. Jamaica and Mucha are both scarce and much wanted. CoooA.—Much dullness has been exhibited in this arti cle, and prices have given way. Trinidad red brought tss to 5 is, grey 41s Gd to 453 par cwt. RICE.—The market has been very inactive, the imp y far exceeding the demand. The deliveries still continue heavy. TALLOW.— The market is quiet, and only a few public sales are announced. Fine P.Y C. on the spot is 57s to 5 7 s Gd ; April, 52a 91 to 534; last tore© months, 51s 3d to 51s 0,1. Australian beef, good quality, 4Ss 6,1 to 49s ; mutton, 528 6.1 to 533; South American, 51s to; sa; and home-melted 51s 6d per cat. • •• ••• 'I : i. .as ...... s` L'3 -134 91 - 96 1 - 4 - I • • •• 99 -101 90 - If 2 5 - 5i •e '''. ' 6 1 ..... id s~ ~. i~ 221 - f 6 - OS - 1 - 3p - ~#~ •• 3 - 5 -- 2 2 - 23 - 25 IP - 69 33 21 20 • 22 14 —l6 1{ —2; 1 • id - I -I 12 - 14 - 10 - `2l - 8 2i - 31 3 - 3i 2i - 3 4 - 4i 3i - 4 * - i A- i THE isIAIIYLEBONE AND FINCHLEY TURN:I'IXE ROAD ,, EX IVZSION ACT, 1350 —To the Cre ditor, rn the Tolle of the 31arytet,oi,e and Fin ehley Roads.— .NoTicE IS llst;ErtiGt\sN, That, in pursuance of the a.',ov , -frientloned A , A, a Ciduposit.on or Cmn;isitioni wit he paid by the Coininissiom,rs of tit , ncti - op , lis Turnpike Roads North if the 1 iI'ITLICS to such Cre ditor or Creditors on the said Tolls as shall 1. , 0 witling to accept the smallest Composition for his, her, or their security or securities ; and the said Creditors are hereby required each to transmit to the said CominisAoler,, at their Cflice, N 0.22, W‘titehall•pla-te, on or before Twelve o'clock at noon, on erid ty, the Ott Oay of April next, a pr r posal in writing, seated arid address , : d to the Said Comni!ssioners, with the words Atnrytelione end Finch ey-roads —Proposal ter Contrksiti,n," written on the ont,ide, in which proposal shut! tie maul the lowa rate pzr centuin wt,ich sacti creditor will accept and take for the sum, or sums, which-he or .she may have due and owing on the said foils, or for some pan. (inputs thereof. ily order of the Connnisaloriers of the lletropas Turnpike Roads north of the Thames. GEORGE LARALMOICDIERE, ChlcfClerk. 22, WhitehaV-place, 12t7 March. 1836. ic, 3 :440, tc, 11, 4.$ SUN OFFICE," Six o'clock WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE. Little Charley Odiharn Jurnpaway ... Thirteen ran. SELLING RACE. Assayer Speculator Eight ran. SCURRY HANDICAP. Little Tom Twa Shon Catti HUNTERS' STAKES Twa Shon Cita Decamp came in first but was disqualified LATEST BETTING.-1 r. 31. STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 30 agst Forest Queen 4to 1 agst any other 7to 4 agst Forest Queen and Odiham coupled Odiham is expected shortly. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.) The &TAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. The following bills were read a second time :—Aber deen, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh Railway, and Dee side and Alford Valley Railway. ABERDEEN AND SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION, &c., BILL. _ _ On the motion of Mr. THOMPSON, the order for the second reading of the Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Junction and Dundee and Arbroath Railway Companies Bill was discharged, that the bill might he withdrawn. THE ROYAL NAVY. Sir F. BARING presented a petition from the guar dians of the poor of Yortsea, complaining that workhouse boys were refaced admiision to the R.,yal navy whilst they were admitted into the army. The hon. baronet stated that after the recess he should call the attention of the house to the sulject. THE POLICE BILL. In answer to a question from Sir F. BARING, Sir G.•GREY said he would give the house and the country every opportunity of considering this measure as amende3, and therefore it was that be proposed the committal of the bill, p 2.0 forniz, on Friday. COMMISSION - MIS OF SUPPLY (SCOTLIND) This bill w:ls read a secoNi REFORMATORY 5CH.001.13 (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion for the second rea,dir , g of this bill, Mr. MAGUIRE, on the part of the Irish Roman Catholics in Scotland, norultering about 250;000, who, he said, were not represented in that house by Scotch or English members, obk.cted to this bill on the ground that no provision was male in it far providing religious instruction for Roman Catholic children by the priests of that Church. The hon. gentleman complained of the manner in which vagrant Raman Catholic children were treated in houses of refuge in Scotland, with a view to compel them to adopt the Presbyterian religion, and which be said would be carried out to a much larger extent in reformatory schools if established in that country. He condemned the abominable proselytising system carried on there, and which was a curse to any land. The Government gave free tolerance to idolatry and paganism in India, and why should not the same freedom of religion be practised in reformatory schools 2 Re wanted the Government to .a.lopt the principle, that in all the reformatory schools throughout the clom certain hours should he set apart for the religious instruction of Roman Catholic children by their own priests. Roman Catholics had a right to the same pri vileges that were granted to the more favoured denomi •nations of the kingdom. The priests of that church were as anxious for the maintenance of gco i order and peace in the country as the rnini:ters of any religious persuasion, and in order to inculcate those princip'es on the children belonging to that church it was necessary they should have free access to them. In committee he should be prepared with an amendment to carry out his views. Mr. BOWYER concurred in the reason Ale demands of the bon. member for Dupgarvon, and expreFse I him self opposed to a inixcd system of education. Religious instruction could only be effectually carried out by the children of difft , renp religious persuasions being in• structed in separate classes, and that applied e:pfxially to Roman Catholics. Mr. DRUMMOND regretted the speech of the hon. member for Dungarvon had not been delivered in the Papal States, Pruse.ia, or France, rather than in that house. L. was all very well fr.r the hon. gentleman to condemn proselytism, but he (.Ir. Drummond) believed ihere wa; not a place in which a Roman Catholic priest eould poke his nose that he did not do so for the Jove of making niiiichief. He did not consider there was so much harm in Roman Catholic children being taught by Presbyterian rniakters to hate the religion of their fathers as the hoc. inembtr appeared to think. It wns a notorious fact that the members of the Roman Ca thsolie Church Were the nioi,t ignorant of any, :tint he Coil thinned the mode of teaching alopted by them as objec tionable. He had no faith in reformatory echoole. Sir"G. GREY, after alluding to the powers of the bill, sail there was a peovision in the bill to remove a child confined in an institution to another where he might receive religiims instruction according to the de nomination to which be belonged, and which he thought answer od the purpose the hon. member had in view, and he hoped therefore he tv.lultl net move the amendments referred to by' him in committee. Mr. ADDERLEY considered the views of the hon. member for Dungarvon with refeiemce to t':ie queston most reasonable. He lupe , ' Iriah members would not peril the bill by presidrig these objections. Mr. A. BLACK also agreed in the principle laid down by the hon. member f Dun,/,arvaii. If R mita Catholic countries did not give that religious toleration they ought, let this country set them a „nil example. Mr. KENNEDY addressed the house In favour of the lion. member's proposition. The LORD ADVOCATE was of opinion that a bill of this kind ought not to be used with a view to proselytism. He reminded the house that they were dealing with Scotland, and he thought the hence should not thwart the object they had in view. They were not dealing with this as' a Goverament question, but one relying on the voluntary benevolence of the public of Scotland. With regard to giving power to Roman Catholic Iniest.; to enter these school , he could not give his consent that it should be by Parliamentary enactments without the consent of the supporters of the schools. To the question of removal of children from the Scotch schools to any other in England he saw no objection, but he thought it required further considerat . in. Mr. LIDDELL agreed in much that had been said by the hon. member for Dangarvan. He referred to a reformatory school in the north of England with which he aas connected, and said that one of the rules per mitted the attendance of ministers of religion of all deno minations to give religious instruction to the children, but with the exception of a Roman Catholic priest claiming that right on one occasion, no other minister had interefered with the religious instruction given in that school by the clergymen of the Church of England. Mr. KINNAIRD suggested that the difficulty might be got over by the wealthy members of the Roman Catholic religion establishing a reformatory school in Scotland for the reception of children of that persuasion. Sir S. NORT&COTE was opinion that to make re formatory schools of benefit to the country there should be a uniformity of religious teaching within their walls. He was greatly opposed to the mixed system of educa tion. _ _ . After some further discussion, in which Mr. A. }ladle, the lion. Mr. Scott, and Mr. Dunlop took part, Th 4 bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed pro forma to-morrow. MUNICIPAL REFORM (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion for the second reading Of this bill, Mr. EWART repeated the statements he made on introducing it to the house, and the remedies he pro posed. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the measure. The Royal burgles now s)ug,ht to be made elective were places thought too insignificant to be constituted burghs under the Scotch Municipal Reform Act. Mr. G. ANDERSON supported the second reading. He asked the Lord-Advocate to allow the bill to be rsal a second time, rep. r ring his objection to it in com mittee. Mr. DUNLOP raid the burghs really existed but were self elected, and it was that which the present bitl proposed to deal with and make them elective by the rate payers. He supported the second re ading.. The LORD ADVOCATE said that if this bill were withdrawn he would take into consideration the (po tion, and endeavour to devise this ECESIOI 3 a bill fur the better management and good of these burghi. Tte bill was then withdrawn. BANKRUPTCY (SCOIL iND) BILL. The LORD ADVOCATE moved the second reading of this bill, which was a consolidation of the bau,ilupt law of that country, and its assimilation to the English bankrupt laws. The bill, after a short discussion, was read a second 9,4 ::::: 931 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon, E. ; strong breeze and fine. PO7.T,SUOUTH, March 11.—Winti. E.—Off the poit London, from New York. FALMOUTH, March 11.—Wind E.. strong.—Arrived— Thaws, from Demerara. Sailed—Amasis, for New York. LOWESTOFT, March 11.—Wind E. by N.—Arrived— Pero Lancelot, from Dunkirk, for Sunderland, with fore mast sprung, and other damage, having been ran into whilst at anchor by the Quebec Packet, of Shields. TEIGNMOUTH, March 11.—The :. 4 .arah, of London, from Loith to Corfu, drove from her anchors, and went on shore near Vie earn - ice of the harbour; where she heat heavily on the rocks ; her masts have gone over her side ; crew saved. DARTMOUTH', March I.?.—Wind E.—Arrived.—Tatn bi;o, fe:mi Trinidad de Cuba. ; OFF PENZANCE.—Heroes of Alma, from Whampoa ; Helen Douglas, Calcutta. CARDIFF, March 11.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Grace Longstag. for Para.; Isaac Bell, Now York. • S«' :NSF,', 11.—Wind S.E.—Sailid—Florence Nightingale. for C:)quitnba. • SCILLY, March 10.—Wind E., frosb.—Arrived—Mar chioness of Broadalbane, from Borhice ; Altoado, New Orleans, for Havre. Off the port—Four Brothers, from Batavia, for Rotterdam ; St. Louis, Calcutta ; Scandia, EL) Janeiro, for Hamburg. CORK, March 10.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Juliana, fur Barbadoes. ABERDEEN, March 10.—Wind W. to N.--Arrived— Martin Luther, from Callao. (PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) LmutrooL, Wodnesday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrivod—Thessalia,( s.), from Constantiuople. Sailed—Sultan, for 'New Orleans. DUBLIN, March 11. Wind W Sailed—Jenny Lind, for Barbvioes. QUEEN3TOWN, March 10. Wind E. Arrirod—Albina, from Seviilo; Cassiope, Mauritius. Sailed—Windsor Castle, for Sucz. iT SUBMARTNE AND BRIM4II TELIGRAPTI.) IGRAVEstxn, Wednesday, 10.12 a.m. Wind E , and strong; tide four hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, March 12—Alma, from Stromstad. Sailed -Crichton, for Constantinople; Eliza Hart, Lsun eeston ; Seur Pruse, Stettin ; Flora, Amsterdam. , DEA.L, Wednesday, 9.37 a.m. Wind E.N.E., fresh. Passed—Busy Bee, schooner, from St. Michael's, for London ; Susannah, from Hamburg, for Valparaiso ; Nep tanns, from Havre, for Skiev ; Nord Jernen, from New castle, for Lisbon; Newton, from Sunderland, for Valpa raiso. The Screamer, for London, sailed in tow. Anchored—Robert, 'barque, from Ragusa, for London. A lad named James Mosoly, belonging to the schooner Compass, of Ipswich, landed here last evening from the ship Bacchante, of Liverpool (from Sunderland for Cal cutta) having got on board of her while in collision ab o ut 18 miles N.E. of the Humber. The fate of the schooner unknown.' THE WRECIC OF THE iOSEPHINE WILLIS.—DOVER, March 10.—The divers' vessels engaged in raising sal vage from the sunken wreck of the ship Josephine Willis, which were compelled to put. in here last week for shelter, in consequence of the boisterous easterly gales, have again put out, to renew the operations of the divers. Upwards of 176 sovereigns, belonging to one of the cabin passengers, were got out of the cabin in the early part of the week ; also a sextant and many valuable articles. A proposition has been made to the owners of the Josephine Wills to raise her by means of chains. LYONS.—We scarcely know to what source to attri ' bute the extraor•linary exertions made by the manufac turers of this place, as well as of Paris, to produce so great an extent of novelty as is observable iu every de scription of materials intended for the spring fashions. A praiseworthy emulation between the two cities—the expectation of a brilliant season in London, by reason of the entre of the Princess Royal—a certain event in Paris, and the prospects of a permanent and prosperous p • e e and its inauguration, have each and all been as signedw as the reasons. But one thing is certain, an eccentricity, if not an extravagance, of style will mark the costume of 1856. Amongst the dresses is ono to be termed a rayure trontpe Neil, and is to appear simul taneously in London and Paris, while others are equally marvels of exaggerated magnificence. The agents for the London houses of the Messrs. Jay have been very large purchasers, having secured the crgme de la craze of the best ateliers. 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MCiean; Stockt. & Dariingt Do ltWi i PM PM 101. i 71 9434 1 41 1004 liN}7.k. 31a 145 4 1081 8 1 pm 2h 65i i 351 I VACCINATION DILL. Oa the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. BA-P.IIOW übjicted to the Litt, and. asked the Government to postpone the s e c on d rea di ng o f i t t ill After the recess, to give the country a n opportunity of considering it. It contained many objectionable provi sions. Mr. MITCHELL also objected to the bill, and com plained that it should have been put down on the paper, having understood it was now to be posip med. He looked upon this as a measure for slaughtering the in nocents, detcriorating_the human race, and the propoga. tion of the small-pox. Vaccivatiou was no security against small-pox. The bill was ultimately pcstponed till after the recess. ASSAULTS ON WOMEN AND CIILDREN. DILLWYN moved for leave to bring iu a bill to amend the act 16 and 17 Vic., c. 30, f , r the better pre vention and punishment of aggravatcd assaults upoa women and children. In 1853 an act was passed subeti tuing six months' imprisonment and sureties for 51. fine and two months' imprisonment under a previous act. An amendment was proposed that corporeal punish ment should be inflicted on the ruffians who attacked helpless women and children. That amendment was lost, on the ground principally of expediency—that as attempt should be made of uniting these cases with a long imprisonment. Experience had shown that the act had not worked as was expected. The returns showed that in the metropolitan disiricts alone 877 convictions had taken place in two years, being more than one a day. In 1354 the number was 353, and in 1853, 320, which diminution, lie thought, was more attributable to accidental circumstances than any falling off in the crime. The number who bad been sentenced to six months' im prisonment was 184, and he knew that in many eases wives had withheld proceedings against their husband, knowing they• wire the sufferer if they were sentenced to six months' imprisonment. He proposed to repeal the act except the second clause, and be pro posed to reduce the punishment to not more than two months imprisonment, nor less than 14 days, and that he should 1.• once whip; eI. The hon. geotleman then adverted to the arguments that had been used against corporeal punishment, and said that be be lieved that punishment could not brutalise or de grade a man who would lift his band against a defence less woman or child. On the whole, he thought this would not be a punishment against the spirit of the age, as some suppose' ; and in conclusion he said legislation respected property more than the person. The flogging should be compulsory on conviction, and if that was known, he thought it would deter the frequent nom• mitial of these offences. Mr. BARROW wished to see a better system of punishment introduced with reference to those cases, but he doubted if the remedy now proposed would have the desired effect. After some further discussion, the bill was brought in and read a first time. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, The house adjourned at 25 minutes to four o'clock. ILEA LTH OF LONDON DURING TH.& WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The total number of deaths registered in London, which had been 1,029 iu the previous week, rose to 1,052 in the week that ended last Saturday. The rate of mortality nov prevailing is considerably less than has been generally experienced in the begin ning of March, for the rate (taking the average) which prevailed at this period in the last ten years would have produced in the present increased population 1,252 deaths. The difference is 170 in favour of last week. The present return includes the deaths of 570 males and 512 females. To the sifnaotic or epi demic class of diseases 205 deaths are referred, being a greater number than is found in any of the other classes into which the causes of death are divided. The tubercular class, including phthisis, has 192 deaths assigned to it ; the class of pul monary- diseases, principally bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthina,,l9l ; diseases of the nervous system, 125 ; diseases of the digestive organs, 56 ; of the heart and other organs of circulation, 52. Of par ticular diseases phthisis was the most fatal, and numbered 129 deaths.. Hooping-cough, which was fatal in 53 cases, appears to be the most prevalent of the epidemics ; scarlatina caused 24 deaths, typhus 52. Of 10 deaths returned by the Registrar of St. Mary, Paddington, four were from scarla tina, two from measles, and one from hooping cough, leaving only three not caused by diseases of the epidemic character. Four deaths are returned hole the sub-district of Christchurch, Marylebone, all by epidemics—viz., 2 by measles, 1 by scarla tina, Iby fever. •There were 2 deaths from infin enza,,and catarrhal affections have been common lately, though not often attended with the fatal results which alone place them in the registers. 15 deaths occurred from small-pox ; 3of these in the Smallpox Hospital. 7 infants died in conse queue!: of malformation of some plrt of the body. 15 women died of fever or other disease incidental to chill-bearing. A. man, aged 65 years, died on the Bth of February in the workhouse Mile-end New-town from want. A death from cholera is reported ; it occurred after an illness of a very short duration. The par ticulars are as follow :—At 11, Half-moon-street, Bishopsgato, on the 7th of ,March, a journeyman blacksmith, aged 48 years, " cholera (10 hours)." The house (adds the registrar) is drained and ten tilated, and there is no apparent circumstance to account for the di:in!tse. Two women died in the week at the age of 94 years. Last week the births of 994 boys and 931 girls, —iu all 1,925 childreu,—were registered in Lon don. In the ten corresponding weeks of the ) ears 1840 55, the average number was 1,589. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the read ings of the barometer were high • the mean of every day was above 30 inches, and the mean of the week was 30.265 inches. The highest readin. , occurred at the beginning of the week, and was 3049 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 38.3. deg., which is 1.6 below the average of the same .week in 33 years (as determined by Mr. Glashier). The mean temperature was below the If varacio on every day after Monday ; and on Saturday the l extent of depression waa 4.6 deg. The highest temperature occurred on Sunday and Saturday, and was 46 deg. ; the lowest eceurred also on Saturday, and was 26 deg., 0r..6 deg. below freezing point. On the same day the lowest reading of a thermometer on the grass was 17 dog. The mean dew-point temperature was 34.3 deg. ; and the difference he tween this and the Mean temperature .of the air was 4 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Themes was 43.5 deg., and higher by 5 (Zeg. than the mean temperature of the air. The wind blew generally from the north-east. A little - raiu fell on two days, hut too small in amount to be measured by the-gauge. MORTALITY IN 'rue, METROPOLIS. NUMBED. OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 8 Zymotie Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases €f the Brain. Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 52 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respirat!on l9l Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &e. Chilerbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones. and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformalions 7 Premature Birth and Debility 3l Atrophy . 33 Old Age Sudder l3 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 43 Causes not specified MUTES BROM ALL CASES Population Deatlal in corn- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week ill the , labl. of IWRS. Weel . West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts..... 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts 1,377 Totals Males Females BIRTHS IN TILE WEEK. 1,082 570 512 Males Females Total HAYMARKET THEATRIL—The respected treasurer of this theatre, Mr. ♦Vilde, has announced his benefit for to-morrow evening. The entertainments consiat of the Evil Census, A Lover by Proxy, and Gritnshaw, Bag thaw, and Bradshaw—a series of attractive pieces, in which the entire force of the house,will appear. LYCEUM TREATRE.—An entertainment of a very mul tifarious kind was given at this theatre last night, for the benefit of Mr. Hingston, the treasurer of Mr. Ander son during the connection of that gentleman with the late Covent-garden Theatre. The bill was comprised of divers odds and ends—tragedy, farce, ballet, Grecian statues, concert singing, and speech inakitig, being interweaved in one long list. The attendance at the outq3t of the evening was cons'derable, and, during the time we were in tt e house, the performances appeared to give unlimited satisfaction. One of Mr. Hingston's titles to fame is the invention of " the Green bonnet," which Mr. Charles Mathews turns to so much vomit account in the " Great Gun Trick." Those who are interested in the literature of the dead walls of the me- tropolis may be pleased to learn that to Mr. Hingstou are they indebted for the ingenicus puffs, preliminary, collateral, and allusive, which they have Irons time to time read apropos to Mr. Anderion.and his doings as a wilittrA And a plaiyigert 0 110 0 1 20 58/ 9 12i 9 1 I 91 I. 33 i