The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-21 00:00:00

141. E OVA Vr. The screw steam gunvesgel Philomel, 5, Com mander L. Wildman, having had some defects made good, left Plymouth on Monday evening for the West Coast of Africa. It was at the time blovt-ing very strongly from S.S.E., and it having veered towards the west, she put back to the Sound on Tuesday morning. The steam gunvessel Surprise, 6, and gunboat Spider, 3, having been thoroughly repaired, are ap pointed to be removed to-day from No. 1 dock in Keyham steamyard, when the gunboats Nightin gale, Hyena, and Gleaner will be placed in it. The screw steamship Gibraltar, 101, is now re ceiving her propeller under the shears in Keyham steamyard. Her Majesty's gunboat Assurance, Commander Aynsley, left Malta on the 15th inst., with a mail for Corfu. Capt. Douglas Curry, of the screw steamship .Aboukir, 90, at Plymouth, has been appointed Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling yard and the Naval Hospital at Plymouth, in suc cession to Capt. Henry Lyster, who has resigned in consequence of ill-health. Capt. H. Lyster, is to receive the good service pension vacant by the promotion of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, C.B. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Henry Carsdale to the Princess Royal ; William Ironmonger and Richard H. Jenkyn, second-glass assist-engineers, to the Nile, for service in the Nimble ; Robert W. Watson, second-class assist. -engineer, to the Indus, for charge of the Charon ; Daniel Ferguson, third class assist.-engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Nimble; George Alexander, acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the Emerald ; Henry Vatcher, acting third-class assist -engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Orlando; Edward Heming, master's assistant, to the Nimble; John Kiddie, assist.-pay master, to the Ganges; Robt. H. Hansell, assist-pay master, to the Hannibal; H. F. Roe, assist.-pay master, to the Marlborough ; W. E. P. Saer, assist.- paymaster, to the Mars ; and Fredk. B. Williams, assist-paymaster, to the Renown. THE ARMY. On Monday last the whole of the sth Dragoon Guards, stationed at Brighton were drawn up on parade in the ,Cavalry Riding-school, Preston barracks, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Somerset J. G. Caltborpe, to receive the fare well address of their late gallant colonel, Sir Thos. M'Mahon, C. 8., who addressed the regiment nearly as follows : " Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the sth Dragoon Guards, it is with a heavy heart I enter this Riding-school, and I fear I shall leave it with a much heavier one, because, when I leave this school I shall be no longer entitled to wear the uniform in which I now stand before you. It is somewhat more than 30 years since I received ray first lesson in military riding in this very school, and it is somewhat singular that within those old walls, which appear quite familiar to me, I should end my military career. It has always been my good fortune on the successive occasions of the half-yearly inspections of the sth Dragoon Guards, during the six years 1,. have had the hono ur t o command the regiment, - to receive the commenda tions of the Inspecting-General of Cavalry on the very satisfactory and effective condition of the corps; and on its recent inspection by the General Commanding-in-Chief his Royal Highness was gra ciously pleased to speak in high terms of the corps. Gratifying and flattering as all this approbation from such high quarters must have been to me, I cannot, nor do not, presume to think it was by my sole efforts attained—indeed, my chief object is reverting to it is to take this opportunity of inti mating to the corps how deeply I am indebted to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, for their ready and valuable aid, at all times, in camp or in quarters, to maintain in all its fullness and efficiency, the exalted name and fame of the corps, and for which I now tender you my grateful and heartfelt thanks. Bright as has been the career of the regiment, equally so, it can confidently be pre dicted, will be its onward career under the com mand of Lieut.-Colonel Calthorpe. who has the confidence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and also General. the Hon. Sir Jam es Yorke Sca;lett, wbo had the honour of commanding the regiment for many years. I yield up to my successor the command of the corps, and with it the highest honour which I have ever attained, and of which any officer may justly be proud. I part with it, not only with feelings of the strongest regard and attachment, but with the most sanguine hopes for its continued prosperity, glory, and renown. Before taking my final farewell, I must deliver a message from Lady M'Mahon, who desires through me to express her admiration of the corps, and, be fore leaving, her intention to regale the regiment with a dinner, on any day that may be convenient to Lieut.-Col. Calthorpe. Although leaving the corps, I trust I shall never l ose s i ght of it, an d, in bidding you farewell, I wish you all the success and prosperity this world can afford." During the delivery of this address the gallant officer was visibly affected. Lieut.-Col. the Hon. S. J. G. Calthorpe returned thanks on behalf of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men for the kind and affectionate manner in which Sir Thomas had addressed them, and had only to request a con tinuance of that cordial co-operation and support to which Sir Thomas had alluded. He felt confident that they would aid him in every way in their power to maintain the high suite of efficiency on which the corps had been so justly complimented by their late commanding officer, and in conclusion he begged to thank Lady M'Mahon for her kindness to the regiment on this and many other occasions. The 2d company of Royal Engineers, which arrived at head-quarters, Chatham, a few days since from Gibraltar, where it had been stationed several years, has been inspected by Major-General Eyre at Brompton barracks, when a high encomium was passed on the officers and men for their gene ral appear Ince. The 32d company of Royal Engineers, which has been placed under orders to proceed to St. Helena, to be employed in the erection of addi tional defences at that island, has received orders to hold itself in readiness to embark at Gravesend on board the Maida, which has been chartered to convey the company to St. Helena. The 32d com pany numbers 80 non-commissioned officers and sappers, but on its arrival at St. Helena its strength will be raised to 100 men by the detachment of Royal Engineers now at that island. The officers who go out with the company are Capt. D. A. Frazer, and Lieut. C. A. Lyon Campbell. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. We are now supplied with the estimate of the probable expense of our land force during the ensuing year. £14,606,751 is the sum in ques tion. Of this the sum actually required for the effective services is £12,423,943, the remainder going in the shape of half-pay, pensions, superan nuation allowance, &c. The total number of men to be voted is 146,044, a few hundreds less than were required last year. Treating the estimates in the same way that we treated those relating to the navy, we subjoin the following table, showing the principal heads into which the expenditure on the effective services is divided. is order that the relation between the li7 votes and those of last year may be readily per ceved, we print all items which are less than those corresponding to them in the former estimate in italics; LDo., and Forces, pay and allowances .. miscellaneous charges .. • • Embodied Mili t i a 'Vol unteer Corps .„ •• • • Departme n t s of the Secretary of State for War and of the General Commanding in Chief .. 'Manufacturing establishments, military renters' barrack barrack masters, lodging money, ,A ce • • • • • • • • • • 398,695 Wages of Cittificers, labourers, %c, 860,477 Clothing and ne.. Bsu i es • • • • • • 525,416 Provisions, forage, 1 -ftl and light, barrack fur niture, bedding, &c. • • .. Warlike stores for l an d an d sea .erviee Fortifications .. Civil buildings .. Barracks _Educational and scientific branches .. L 4,780,000 648,096 nil. 133,276 201,833 .. 1,456,834 .. 2,200,581 158,185 • 179,407 • • 690,159 261,014 Total effective services • • ..£l2 , 4939 Although the greater number o f the votesshow 43 1 au increase, yet the saving effected on the othersis great enough to reduce the total estimate of 14 millions odd £185,795 below that of 1860-61. Our attention is due at the outset to the men who will compose our army during the ensuing year. Of the total number, 146,044-7,388 are officers, 81,891 non-commissioned officers, and 126.765 rank and file. In this enumeration her Majesty's British forces in the East I dies, not required to be voted, are not taken in o account. Were these added the total number w ld amount to 212,773. Disregarding this, how2ler, and re ferring simply to the forces to be voted, we find that the Horse Artillery numbers 1,516 of all ranks ; the Life Guards and Horse Guards, 1,314 ; and the Cavalry of the Line, 10,796. In the In fantry we find that the Royal Artillery numbers 19,731 ; the Royal Engineers, 4,535 ; the Military Train, 1,909; the Foot Guards, 6,073 ; the Infantry of the Line, 88,168; the Army Hospital Corps, 1,C92 ; the Commissariat Staff Corps, 559 ; the West India Regiments, 3,422; and the Colonial Corps, 5,563. The Staff consists of 162 officers, belonging to the General Staff, exclu sive of officers on regimental full pay, 198 to the Commissariat Staff, 437 to the Medical Staff, 238 to he Staff of Depot Battalions (112 non-commissioned officers being included in this number), 97 to the Staff of Recruiting Districts (including 62 non commissioned officers), and 90 commissioned chap lains. The total number of horses in the cavalry and infantry 153 13,642. The vote for the pay and money allowances to the Land Forces is £43,299 in excess of that for the financial year nearly over. The vote may be divided into the following heads :—For staff pay and allowances, £326,898 ; for regimental pay and allowances, £4,310,844 ; for money allowances in the nature of pay, £269,855. These sums, added together, would amount to £4,907,597, but from this is to be subtracted £127,597 for the pay, &C., of men wanting to complete the establishment, the remainer being the amount of the vote. The first of these items is subdivisable as follows :—For the General Staff, £93,777 ;'for the Commissariat Staff, £53,062; for the Medical Staff, £105,031 ; for the Miscellaneous and Contingencies, £75,028. Elabo rate tables are appended to the estimate, showing the:detailed expenditure of the regimental pay, but it is not necessary for us to notice them. We may mention that £69,200 of the total amount is good conduct pay. The details of the vote for miscellaneous charges, which show an increase of £27,811 over the vote for last year, are too voluminous for description here. We may, however, mention some of the items. For the pay of the staff of the depot batta lion, £41,337 is set down ; for the expenses of re cruiting, £82,894; for the purchase of horses, £59,466; for hospital expenses, £71,104; for the administration of martial litw, £310,733 ; for the movement of troops, £lBO,OOO. It will be observed that the vote for the embo died militia is nil, The total vote of last year— £32o,ooo—is therefore saved. The £133,276 to be voted for the volunteer corps, though comparatively small in amount, is particularly interesting in its details. It is amusing to observe that the Yeo manry Cavalry have the lion's share of this vote, £91,311 odd being devoted to that branch of the volunteer service, £41.964 to other volunteer corps. More than half of the last-named sum, £27,375 that is, is devoted to the pay and forage allowance of 150 adjutants of rifle volunteer corps at 10s. a day—the contingent allowances to the same, at the rate of £4 per company per annum, amount to £4,200. An increase of £5,609 is :shown in the vote for the departments of the Secretary of State for War. A large portion of this increase is due to the item " advertisements for all services, travelling expen ses, and contingencies." The vote for manufactur ing establishments, &c., is greater than that of last year by 24,690; on the vote wages to artificers, &c., £4,787 is however saved. The vote for clothing and necessaries is in excess of the vote for last year by £201,416 ; that for provisions, forage, &c., by £178,457 ; and that for warlike stores by £112,493. The remaining votes, however, show considerable savings. In the vote for fortifications £437,170 is saved ; in that for civil building, £27,093 ; in that for barracks, £17,448 ; and in that for educational and scientific branches, £16,533. The large vote for warlike stores is made in the following way : For the purchase and repair of small arm5,£524,732; iron ordnance, shot, shell, &c., £424,383 ; gun powder, and for saltpetre, charcoal. sulphur, and barrels used in the gunpowder factory, £144,687; machinery, £35,859; timber, £131,224; camp equi page, £52,193; miscellaneous stores, £790,539; for the purchase and repair of stores provided on the spot, and for the carriage of arms and other stores at the several stations at home and abroad,£lo,soo; materials for packing, freight, and carriage of arms and stores, and other miscellaneous expenses, £49,004; building and repair of vessels and boats, the supply ofsails, &c., and charge of hired vessels for conveyance of stores to and from stations at home, £17,460; experiments, £20,000; total, £2,200,581. MEDITERRANEAN TELEGRAPII. The English screw steamer William Corry, Capt. Donaldson, arrived at Malta on the 16th inst. from Otranto, having successfully completed the subma rine line of telegraph between Otranto and Sic!ari, at the north end of the Island of Corfu. The ope ration of paying out the cable was commenced from Otranto at 7 30 p.m. on Jan. 27th. During the ' night there was a fresh breeze, with a heavy swell. A large amount of slack was paid out, in conse quence of the unexpected depth of water met with. The island of Fano was sighted at 5 30 a.m. on the 28th, at which time the whole of the cable then available had been paid out, the ship being then 18 miles from Sidari. According to the charts the ship was in about 100 fathoms water, but on buoying the end of the cable with 160 fathoms of chain the buoy disappeared. Soundings were imme diately taken, and the depth ascertained to be 420 fathoms. The weather being bad and the ship short of provisions, she bore up at 5 30 p.m. for Corfu, and left again on the 29th at 5 p.m. On the follow ing day the whole of the ground was thoroughly surveyed, the depth of water being everywhere much greater than was anticipated. On the 31st dredging for the cable was commenced, but without success. Nothing could be done from the Ist of February to the sth on account of continual bad weather. On the 6th inst., at 510 p.m., the cable was hooked, and raised to within 80 fathoms of the surface, when the chain parted and the cable was lost. On the following day, the 7th inst., the cable was again hooked at 9 30 a.m., and safely brought up, when additional cable was immediately spliced on, and paying out was commenced at 11 30. About 12 miles of cable was paid out, and the end buoyed five miles from:Sidari in 30 fathoms' water; and on the following day, the Bth inst., the shore end was laid, and the whole line completed at 5 p.m. The cable was afterwards tested in the most satisfactory manner. The William Corry then proceeded to Corfu, and left again for Otranto on the following day. The same night a gale of wind commenced blowing with such violence from the south-east that the ship could not make head against it. During the night, the following day, and the next the gale continued with unabated fury, the ship slowly drifting before it, and at 5 20 a.m. on the 12th inst. she ran on shore nine miles north of Otranto on a sandy beach. Means were immediately adopted to lighten the ship, and a telegram was despatched to Admiral Martin, at Corfu, soliciting assistance. Her Majesty's steam corvette Scourge, Commander Jones, was sent a few hours after the receipt of the message, and arrived at Otranto on the following morning, the 13th inst. After great exertion the ship was got off at 6 p.m., without having sustained the least injury, the wind having blown off shore a few hours subsequent to her striking. She left for Malta on the morn ing of the 14th, when the Scourge returned to Corfu. The William Corry had also th e port ana of A narrow escape on ofruthne ning ashore in entering. 11th inst., the wind blowing on rounding the island of Sase withn ashe h s such ch would viol e n n o c t e w that en r etoitha e terrific e r way, rifi c a s n e d a l f a j y r hopelessly o driftingfhalf an b h r o o n a d r . side on Th e and the ship then slowly wore round, and again jib and forestaysail were set with great difficulty, and out to face the gale. The operation of laying th the cable was conducted by M r . S amu el Cann ing, engi neer to Messrs. Glasse, Elliott, and Co., and great credit is due to him for the energy he displayed during these trying events. Mr. Andrews, engineer and general superintendent, was also present on behalf of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company, and rendered efficient assistance. The land line at Otranto, connecting the cable end with that town, is completed, and the line will shortly be opened for traffic. Steps will be takes during the summer months to repair both the Malta and Corfu and the Malta and Cagliari lines. It is expected that the Malta and Alexandria cables will be out at the end of April or beginning of May, and her Ma jesty's n e ship Medina, Captain Spratt, C. 8., is at pre sentgaged completing the soundings along the proposed route. rillE WYK"; LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1861. `LONDON AND THE NEW THEOLOG oc en u T tt h hi ye e li name publisheds tv of f th B the manifesto prelatesan is ife h s o t p of owho againstLondonhave the signedsta nd opinions s thethird i forth in "Essays and Reviews." Those upon whom the views taken by the seven essayists have come as asurprs 14 yearsisewillbe s i g no Dr. terestedin h that as long a Tait discerned , the the character of the present theological crisis, n from the pulpit of St. M ary ' s, Oxford, prefigured its general features. When most men's minds were full of the consequences to be apprehended from the principles set forth in the " Tracts for the Times," Dr. Tait publicly told his University that that commotion, great as it appeared, was local, accidental, transitory, and obscured a far more im portant movement, the signs of which might even then be descried. A " shaking of all opinions" was about to follow that reaction from Tractarianism, which was one of the effects of the publication of Mr. Newman's essay; and the practical question, the preacher said, was what ought to be done to guide the mihds of younger students. The great object, he pointed out, was "to direct attention to some intelligible, enligh4ened, and well-grounded Protestant system, which might recall men's minds to the simplicity of the Gospel, and enable them to take their stand on the theology of the New Testa ment, amid the ruins of that baseless traditional teaching which was crumbling around them." The chief purpose of the discourses referred to— which were published in 1846, as " Suggestions Offered to the Theological Student under present difficulties"—was declared to be " to show the spirit in which speculative error ought to be met," and it may be of service amid present perturbations to glance at the opinions which the Bishop formed on this very practical question at a time when his thoughts were far from the distractions of high official station. Dr. Tait at once placed his finger on the speculations of German divines as the source of the dangers to be feared, and pointed out that they would arise in the field of Biblical criticism. His language on this point, read in the light of the event, is remarkable. Having expressed a doubt whether they, the teachers of the University, were prepared, as they ought to be, to meet the approach ing forms of doubt, he said : " It is sure to come upon us now-a-days in a new and subtle form, often arming itself with its most formidable weapons from the very storehouse of the sacred books. And is it not certain that there are many questions connected with the authenticity and authority of these books on which we, in this coun try, with all our vaunted learning, are not as yet prepared with the requisite information and thought to enable us to vindicate the truth? Is it not too true that the great majority of serious men feel themselves quite taken, as it were, by surprise, when such difficulties are forced upon their notice? And if the watchmen of Israel have not looked their danger steadily in the face, how can they be prepared to meet it ?" They were, he said, encouraging studies in secu lar literature, e.g., discussions of the credibility of the early Roman history, which were sure in time to suggest to all minds that the freedom of inquiry which they engender might sooner or later be ap plied to the sacred books; but they were taking little pains to provide themselves with that know ledge which was necessary to prevent those studies from being perverted. " The difficulties that threaten to come upon us, are then to be met, not surely by closing our eyes to the danger, and looking with suspicion upon thoie who would prepare themselves to meet it ; not surely by lagging behind our age, and allowing our minds to be engrossed with the refutation of errors that have already had their day; but by seri ously applying ourselves to those many and very severe studies which are absolutely indispensable as the discipline that is to train us for the coming warfare. . . . It would be ruinous to put off accus toming ourselves to these investigations till the ne cessity becomes urgent—to neglect to train our troops till the enemy is at our gates. Many years must be given to the diligent study of the language and history of the Bible, if we would be ready' really to defend it when infidelity assails. In his third discourse Dr. Tait described in almost touching language the trials of the thoughtful Christian as he for the first time turns to the critical study of the Bible, and remarks the combination of human with divine elements in its composition : " When the simple lessons which we learned in childhood are first examined by us with a critic's eye, who shall explain the strange feelings that spring up within ? In self-eonfiden t and thoughtless minds, nay, perhaps in all, there will be at first a burst of that enthusiasm with which youth and vigour scarcely ever fail to welcome an emancipation from controlling power. If this feeling continues, the danger is imminent, and the soul must suffer grievous loss. . . . While the mind is in this perplexed state, it will look almost with envy on the contented acquiescence of the uninstructed poor, who have never dreamed of any difficulties, and whose faith reposes happily on those detached por tions of the authorised English version of the Scrip tures with which they happen to be familiar, as affording for all their needs a full and satisfying supply from God's living oracles." Dr. Tait having in these and other passages of similar significance, but more detail, pointed out the dangers of the critical study of the Bible, notices the question why a pursuit so dangerous should be persevered in, God, he replies, has made it indis pensable. We may wish that He had so ordered man's mind that no doubts could ever arise in it, that the very sight of the Bible should cause a con viction of its truth and authority to flash on every mind, that there had been no verse in it at all diffi cult in structure or meaning ; but, whatever we may wish, this has not been God's plan. "He has given the revelation of his will in such a form as requires the aid of man's other light of reason to make it plain. Nay, He has even ordained, that as an un derstanding of His truth is not forced upon us by the mere letter of His word, the mode in which we exert ourselves to obtain an insight into its mean ing shall be to many of us the trial of our faith." The very fact that difficulties are found to attach to the critical study of the sacred writings is assigned by Dr, Tait as a reason for encouraging it; for, he observes that, speaking humanly, there is scarcely anything more likely to spread doubt and unbelief among us than the existence of a general suspicion that many difficulties are involved in the critical study of the Bible, which no one has the courage or ability to grapple with. " Wherever a general suspicion is engendered that something is amiss in our system of religion, which from policy or cowardice we are anxious to conceal, there hidden infidelity will make rapid progress, and many a man of honest mind will in secret be tortured by anxiety, having no leisure to examine for himself difficulties he had heard of, and be distressed by a painful suspicion that those who ought to examine for him are deliberately or unwittingly banded together to mislead." The passage which follows is exceedingly applicable to the present time : "And here it seems well to remark that the cri tical study of the Bible is more than ever necessary to be encouraged now, from the particular circum stances of our own age and country. Whatever may be thought of the honesty or policy of endea vouring to conceal difficulties and stifle inquiry for merly, the days when such methods of propping up the truth of God were possible, arc at an end. Or —not to speak harshly of the well-meant conduct of good men in former times—for us in this country the days when the minds of the mass of men could be directed, as if they were children, and with drawn from all dangerous speculations to those thoughts which their superiors in education consi dered to be edifying, have passed away. The old times with their mingled good and evil—the old ideas of the paternal duty of Government both in Church and State to lead the mass of men as it were blindfold, and to shut up knowledge within the privileged caste of those who were thought likely to make a good use of it, have passed. We may look back on the retiring scene, and while its less pleasing features are softened by the effect of dis tance as it fades from our view, we may long to recall it—some may even wish, in their day dreams, that they had lived four hundred years ago ; but, whether it were good or whether it were evil, the old state of things can never be brought back. It is in our generation, and amid the men of our own generation—amid their thoughts, bad as well as good, their que stionings and d energetic doubting ie shallows im a p n a d tnceof disputations, as well as c h o a n s e p e l a a l o m e e d n t t h a e n s do scene hatredofooofr all responsibilitiesformalism and i God t is vain to think we can do any good amongst them attemptingb c z parted state o t o f s t o e o a i c e h t y th , a e n m d who It is certain that every man in this racters and circumstances require.nota s e . t i t r e i n r c i o p w l e n s aa , can read, either knows already, orlms s y country learn any day as he reads, what those difficulties with respect to the Bible are on which infidels insist ; and it must be well also that he should know their refu tation —or, better still, that be should feel that con• fklence which is inspired by a persuasion that good and learned men have candidly met these difficul ties, grappled with them fairly, and vindicated the truth. Nor can this service be said to have been performed for us by the able writers on evidences of the last age; for since their time infidelity has much changed the grounds of its attack. Its objec tions are much more connected now than in former times with a minute critical examination of the sacred books—and therefore it is in the field of criticism that it must be met and overthrown." In treating of the spirit in which speculative error should be met—a topic to which the first dis course is especially devoted—Dr. Tait selects the Gospel according to St. John as a model. Adopting the view of early writers—that certain errors of his time were before the apostle's mind, and that the desire of combating them very much deter mined the point of view from which he surveyed the history and recalled the discourses of his Master— he proceeds to exhibit the characteristic of his polemic. St. John was, before all his brethren, the Apostle of love, and unless controversy be carried on in the spirit of love, it is essentially unchristian. Error may, indeed, appear to be rooted out by the sword, "or without such harshness may be borne down by the mere weight of a stern authority, which seeks to overwhelm at once an erring brother and his doctrine. Speaking generally, however, such a mode of warfare will ensure no lasting vic tory. It may induce a few to do violence to their con victions, and thus gain for the winning cause the aid of some treacherous waiters upon fortune." But usually error checked by force alone will spring up at last only the more vigorously. St. John's example is a protest not against all persecution merely, but against all bitterness or violence even of speaking or writing against those who are in error. This love, however, so far from being inconsistent with earnestness, can never be present without depth and intensity of zeal for truth. St. John's love was well suited to reclaim, because it must have enabled him to enter into his erring brother's difficulties and peculiar temptations, and thus must have conciliated at the very moment that it opposed. Dr. Tait then notices more directly the Gnosticism of the age in which St. John lived. The Apostle wrote to dispel error arising from the blending of Christianity with the strange transcendental philo sophy of the East. " But mark," says the preacher, " the mode which he adopts to combat it," and then he proceeds to show how St. John recognised and fully allowed the existence of a true Divine gnosis, such as that for which the Eastern philosophy was seeking by merely human means. It was by dwell ing upon and encouraging men to follow after the true Christian gnosis that St. John sought to sup ply those wants of the mind which were leading men into heresy. He did not seek to chain men's minds down when they wished to soar. He knew that as truth is certainly more to be loved than error, so every error into which men fall is only attractive because it bears some resemblance to a truth, and therefore the 'only way to stop men's rash pursuit of error is to set before them the true light. No heresy ever yet gained any adherents which had not some features of truth to recommend it to men's better nature ; and the attempt to over throw error by mere protests and negation, if it affects men at all, will but make them infidels or heretics. Thus no one can hope to free his brethren from religious error unless he is able to understand and appreciate those feelings by which they have been led astray. " And when these feelings are discovered, it is vain to seek to cure them by mere thwarting. Christ's religion is no dry, unnatural system, which cannot be embraced by our minds till they have been forced into some formal mould contrary to their whole nature. It is in vain to say that the Gnosticism of the apostolic age was nothing but unmixed error and folly of human wisdom. Like any other heresy, it reflected the shadow of many great truths ; and whenever the Apostle can discover any truth glittering from amidst the mass of error, he turns to it eagerly, and strives to purge it from the dross which overlays it. "Had St. John met his Gnostic antagonists by mere protest and denial, he might have encouraged a materialising system, almost worse than the errors he was opposing." Yet, in all this there was no compromise; the truth was at all times steadfastly maintained. This summary presentation of opinions on a question of the day, formed in times calmer than our own, may have its uses, when men are tempted by the prevailing excitement Ito employ weapons which, under circumstances favourable to reflec tion, they would condemn.—Daily News. ILEJITEr OF LOINT.DON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The weekly returns exhibit a continued im provement in the public health. The deaths in London were 1,328 in the week that ended last Saturday, having declined to that number from 1,459 in the previous week. The average number for the corresponding weeks of 10 years 1851-60, when corrected for increase of population, is 1,345 ; and it will be seen that the actual number for last week is less than the calculated amount, but does not materially differ from it. The deaths caused by pulmonary diseases in the week, not including phthisis or whooping-cough, were 291, while the corrected average is 306. The most fatal in this class was bronchitis, and the deaths from it amounted to 168, and were exactly equal to the average. Bronchitis is fatal chiefly to old persons ; pneumonia, which is fatal principally to the young, numbered hut half as many deaths as bronchitis. Phthisis carried off 145 persons, 78 of whom died in the period of 20-40 y ears. Whooping cough, of which 88 died, is at the present time causing more than the usual mortality, a remark that also applies to croup, which was fatal in 20 cases. There were eight deaths from syphilis. Three widows and two men died at the age of 90 years and upwards ; among the former was the widow of a carpenter, who died at the age (as stated) of 102 years, at 19, Bedford•square Mile-end, Old town. A woman died from a fishbone, which had lodged in her stomach twelve days previously, and caused inflammation and hemorrhage. Two sons of a mattress-maker, aged respectively three and two years, died on consecutive days at 54, Warwick street, Borough-road, from " poison, probably arsenic ; no evidence now taken" (Inquest ; post mort Last week the births of 889 boys and 963 girls, in all 1,792 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-60 the average number was 1,747. METROPOLITAN WATERS, JANUARY, 1861. The London waters exhibit, according to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S., a larger average amount of impurity than usual, dependent upon the thaw, which has tended to bring down much organic matter from the land. The Thames at high water at London-bridge con tained much organic matter, both in solution and suspension, but was unusually free from sea water; the impurity per gallon being 2480, the organic im purity 3 . 60, and the mechanical impurity 4.73, of which 1.96 was organic, and 2 . 77 inorganic matter. In solution this water contained •668 grains of ammonia, which is equivalent to 1.88 grains of car bonate of ammonia per gallon, or nearly 30 times more than the quantity found in Thames water above Teddington Lock, a difference due to intermixture with much sewage. _ _ Total impurity Organicim per gallon. purity. f - , , rs. ordeg. grs. or deg. 0.0 0.0 Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glasgow Manchester Water Supply 4.32 Thames Water at London-bridge 24.80 THAMES COMPANIES. Chelsea Grand Junction West Middlesex Southwark Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. New River East London Kent The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 3 . 10 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which •96 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.697 in. The barometrical readings fell from 30.13 in. on Sunday to 29.45 in; on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 37.6 deg., which is 0.7 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was 7 deg. and 8 deg. below the average on Monday and Tuesday ; and it was 6 deg. and 9 deg. above it on Friday and Satur day. On four nights the thermometer in the shade fell below the freezing point of water. The lowest point was 24.4 deg. on Tuesday. The highest poiat was 53.3 deg., and occurred on Saturday. The range in the week was 28.9 deg. The mean daily range was 12.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 3'5 deg. The mean degree of humidity was 89, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind was in the north-east on the first two days; afterwards it blew generally from the south-west. The rain fall was 0 . 22 in. Snow fell on Monday and Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air on Saturday was 17 deg. higher than that of Tues day. 2212 2244 20134 2 2 / 2 20.88 212 120 2.00: I'B4 224 ANOTBER FATAL _RAILWAY ACCI DENT. Yesterday morning an inquest was held by Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, at the Feathers Inn, Morstham, S urre y, t o ascerta i n the cause of the death of a man named Daniel Sheehan, a signal man of the South Eastern Railway Company, who lost his life under the circumstances detailed in the following evidence. The jury having viewed the body, the coroner called-- John Macgregor—l am station-master at Merst ham station, on the South Eastern Railway. I knew the deceased Daniel Sheehan, who was 45 years of age. He has been employed under me for two years and a half as a porter, and then signal man at the north or London end of the Meratham tunnel. On Saturday evening, the 16th inst., about half-past six, I was standing on the station or up side of the line, a short distance from the station, when I observed a white light moving on the line, as if carried by some person, and coming in my di rection towards the station from the tunnel. After I noticed the light I observed a train coming down and I saw as the train passed along the white light to be as on the right or off side of the down train. The train came on and passed me without stopping, it being a goods train? At the same time the tidal passenger train passed up as I stood where I have described, and after that had passed, and the two trains were approaching each other, I suddenly missed the white light. It was from 300 to 400 yards distant when I first saw it. I heard the whistle of , the tidal train sound very sharply after it had passed me, and then immediately I missed the light. At this time the two trains were about passing each other. The up tidal train passed on, and, missing the white light, I feared something had happened, and I went up the line, but the signalman at the station preceded me. Ho went about 250 yards down, and then he turned the red light on. I called out, " What's the matter ?" He answered, " Run for a doctor. Dan is knocked down by the train," I at once got a light, and on going to the spot found the deceased lying on the near side of the upline, his head up towards London. He breathed twice and then died. I did not see any blood about him. I think the steam and smoke from the down-train obscured the light of the up-train, and probably his attention was called off by the down-train passing. The light disappeared immediately on the sound of the whistle, and I infer that the tidal train was at that time close upon the deceased. He generally passed through the tunnel on leaving duty at four o'clock in the afternoon, and left the line at the sta tion, coming that way to report if necessary. By the Coroner—ls there any regulation as to the part of the line on which any one connected with it should walk ? Witness—As a rule, they would walk on that side so as to face the train coming towards them. I should think the tidal train was going about 30 miles an hour, and the space of ground from where I stood to where the light disappeared would have been traversed by that train in about half a minute. He was found to have sustained many bruises on the left side in the region of the heart, and, in my opinion, he must have tried to step on one side, but did not do so quite clear of the buffer beam, which I think struck him. His lamp was extinguished, and was lying about three or four yards from him. There are two indented marks on the left side of the lamp, and being carried on the left side, no doubt the buffer beam struck the lamp and deceased on that side. The deceased was a sober steady man. Considering the time that elapsed between the train passing and the whistling, I do not think the engine•driver could possibly have prevented the occurrence, and I fully believe it to have been purely accidental. By a Juror—The deceased could have left the line at the London end of the tunnel, there being a ladder there for the purpose of the men leaving the line. The deceased was not obliged to come through the tunnel, but it was a nearer way than by the road. There are places in the tunnel where any one can stand out of the way if a train was coming, or they should sit down in the six-foot way, where is sufficient room for a man to sit safely when two trains are passing. John Newman, the signalman who relieved the deceased on his going off duty, proved that the de ceased left him at six o'clock to go home, when the deceased was quite sober. The deceased preferred going through the tunnel, because it was shorter. He said just before he went away, "Let's see, there are no more up-trains at present." He (witness) said, the Brighton train has just gone up; but the boat train• from Folkestone was in London at seven o'clock last night, but I had not noticed by the book what time she would come that night. I meant to imply that the train might be expected about the same time that evening. Deceased then looked at the book and said the train left Red Hill at 6.31. There are orders, if passing up and (lows the line, to go on that side which would meet the train. The tidal train was signalled from Merst ham at 6.37, which was noted down as usual. The engine-driver proved that he suddenly saw a light a few yards in front of the train just as 4, goods train was passing down, and that it was quite impossible for him to prevent the accident. The learned Coroner observed that the deceased did not appear to have taken the ordinary precau tion of traversing the line, so as to meet the train ; and doubtless the accident was the result of his own want of caution in the matter, especially as he knew the tidal up-train was about due at that time. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death FLINTS IN TILE DRIFT. A meeting of the Ethnological Society was held on Thursday evening for the purpose of dis cussing the subject of the flint implements found associated with the bones of extinct animals in the " drift." Many archaeologists and geologists were specially invited to take ;part in the discussion, among whom were Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. Owen, Prof. Quekett, Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Mr. Pengelly, Mr. Pettigrew, Mr. Planche, Mr. Savory, Dr. Lee, the Rev. J. Ridgway, Admiral Fitzroy, &c. Mr. Botfi e ld, M . P ., the President of the Archaeological Association, took the chair, Mr. Crawfurd, the President o f th e E t h no l og i cal Society, being on his right h an d, an d Si r R o d er i ck Alurchison on his left. The discussion was opened by Mr. Pettigrew, who explained how the subject was originally brought into consideration in this country by the presentation to the Archaeological Association, in 1848, of a number of flint implements found in the drift near Amiens by M. Boucher de Perthes. Those implements, and a larger collection of others, contributed by Dr. Hunt, Mr. Mackie, and Mr. Christie, were displayed on the tables. Mr. Wright said that he considered the flint imple ments exhibited were intended for the chase or for domestic use, and not for the purposes of war. Mr. Evans explained the exact position of the stratum of gravel from which he had extracted some of these implements. It was a stratum of coarse fresh water gravel, lying on chalk, and containing fossil bones of extinct animals, among which was the en tire skeleton of an extinct species of rhinoceros. Overlaying the gravel was a stratum of sa n dy m a r l, containing shells of existing species, and above that was a thin stratum of brick earth. The flint imple ments were extracted at a distance vary ing from 20 to 30 feet from the surface, and he felt convinced that the gravel in which th e y were f oun d h a d no t' been disturbed. The same opinion was formed by every one who had visited the spot, and there seemed to be no doubt /whatever that the gravel and the flint implements were deposited at the same time. It was possible that the animals supposed to have become extinct before man was created might have continued to exist to more recent periods than had been supposed, otherwise it would appear that the implements were fashioned by a race of men that had also becoine extinct. Sir R. Murchison confirmed Mr. Evans's view of the great antiquity of the stratum of gravel in which the implements were found, and observed that, without the presence of fossil bones of extinct animals, the surface of the country proved that there must have been an enor mous lapse of time since the gravel was deposited. The possibility of the continuance of species of ani mals supposed to have become extinct was, he said, rendered probable from the fact that there were now living in a f ores t in Poland animals which had previously been considered extinct. In the sub sequent discussion, i n which Admiral Fitzroy, Mr. Christie, Mr. Pengelly, and other gentlemen took part, it was stated that flint implements of the same character as those on the table had been found in various parts of the world, and that they were still used by many savage tribes. Mr. Botfield, in con cluding the proceedings of the meeting, remarked on the circumstance that no bones of man had been discovered accompanying the flint implements, and he expressed his assurance that the cause of reli gion would have nothing to fear but everything to hope from scientific inquiry. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry. 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There must be some thing sound as well as something popular about so very enduring a belief as that which prevails con cerning the relative assessments of property and income. Mr. Gladstone, indeed, is of another way of thinking. He stated distinctly at one point of his speech that, though people certainly did object to the system of taxing fixed and precarious in comes at the same rate, he, for his part, had always considered that " sentiment" to be " not supported by reason." But, though he thus closed with the question, he did not argue it. He never advanced beyond the proposition, and fairly exposed himself to Mr. Hubbard's remark, that he had left the merits of the case out of view. So tenderly, indeed, did he speak of the opposite persuasion, and so anxiously did he appeal to the authorities recorded on his own side, that it is hard to avoid doubting the absolute nature of his convictions. In fact, at different times he has himself both said and done enough for Mn Hubbard's clients to show that, if he did not recognise the force of their ar guments, he at least felt the hardship of their case. When it is maintained on grounds of abstract rea soning that an income of £5OO derived precariously from daily toil is, for purposes of just taxation, identical with an income of the same amount spon taneously flowing from an inexhaustible source, the assertion at once clashes with our instinctive ideas of right. We seem to feel the contrary. We seem to understand, as if by involuntary conviction, that the two positions are certainly not identical, and that they are not assumed to be so in any ordi nary transaction of life. If a man earning a certain average income by the sweat of his brow is held by financiers to be exactly as rich, as fortunate, and as taxable as a man deriving the same in come without exertion, from permanent and inde pendent property, we naturally observe to our selves that such an estimate is strictly limited to this one occasion. The tax-collector may take this view, but nobody else does. No tradesman, no capitalist, no landlord, no father of a family would pretend to rank Mr. A., the working man, with Mr. 8., the man of independence, or to say that the circumstances of the former were as good as those of the latter. Everybody would admit, without the least hesitation, that there was all the difference in the world between their two positions. Take analogous occasions of contribution, and this difference would be expressly recognized. Mr. A. would never be expected to give so large a sub scription as Mr. 8., or to make so large an allow ance, or to be so free with his money, in any case, or for any purpose whatever. The explanation, too, would be perfectly obvious. One of the two men would be always sure of the s ame me ans, . health or sickness, manhood or old age, and at his death it would still be his to transmit to his chil dren. The means of the other would certainly last no longer than his strength, and might not last be yond the hour, so that in common prudence only a portion of his income should be held available for expenditure, while the rest was saved. All this appears so profoundly reasonable that few would choose to gainsay the conclusion ; and yet all that Mr. Hubbard urged was, that if this view of the case was taken by everybody else, and in every other transaction of life, it ought to be taken also by Chancellors of the Exchequer in imposing an Income Tax. Mr. Gladstone threw the weight of his reply, not upon a disproof of the alleged wrong, but upon a disparagement of the suggested remedy. He re capitulated the difficulties notoriously in the way of any reconstruction of the Income Tax. He endeavoured to obliterate the broad governing dis tinction between permanent and precarious incomes by showing that the line was crossed and recrossed from each side of the barrier till the demarcation became invisible. There was many a business worth 25 years' purchase—that is to say, as good as any real property. There might be many a case of property not half so valuable, so that in effecting the proposed transfer of burdens you might actually be relieving the strong at the ex pense of the weak. You cannot take off in one quarter without putting on in another. If you lift 33 per cent. from Schedule D, you must drop it upon Schedule A, and then Schedule A will have to be heard. Are small fundholders to bear the bur den from which great merchants or bankers or cotton lords are to be relieved ? Go to work how you will, you will find when you come to a read justment that you are leaving inequalities as glaring as thuse which you are endeavouring to remedy, and the general sense of injustice will have been aggravated by your partial and imperfect reform. This is what has been discovered whenever the attempt has been made, and it has been made often enough to teach us the truth. So thinks Mr. Gladstone in the matter, and we do not deny the force of his words. Yet, as Mr. Hubbard's arguments chime in with our very instincts of moral right, and the truth cannot be on both sides of the question, there must be fallacy somewhere. Is Mr. Gladstone right in saying that you cannot draw the dividing line with anything like justice, or that you cannot, without an aggra vation of existing inequalities, form two great classes of taxpayers, one of which shall pay less than the other ? It would be a hard case to prove. The mere fact that distinctive characteristics may blend and disappear at the point of contact proves nothing. The colours of the rainbow fade into each other in this way, but that does not show that violet is the same as orange, or green the same as red. No doubt, certain examples could be found of incomes which, nominally precarious, would be more eligible than property nominally permanent; but does that prove that property on the whole, and in the vast majority of cases, is not more valu able than income ? Might not we take Schedule D altogether, and assume, in comparing it with Schedule A altogether, that the in comes returned under the latt er could bear taxation better than those under the former ? 'Would not this be a just conclusion in the main, notwithstanding a few exceptional cases to the contrary ? Again, what is the real value of the argument founded on the supposed aggravation of injustice which would follow an imperfect reform ? if out of 1,000 persons aggrieved, 900 can be relieved while 100 are left without relief, is the case of the unre lieved really worse than before ? Of course, the " inequalities of the Income Tax" can never be wholly removed. We know that full well. We are quite aware that if Mr. Hubbard could do all that he proposes much would remain to be done still before the incidence of the tax could be ren dered anything like equitable. But is it reasonable to hold that because all cannot be done nothing should be done, or to argue that injustice is some thing less than injustice because it is made univer sal, instead of being, as it might be, only partial ? All that Mr. Gladstone described as sure to remain even after Mr. Hubbard's reform may be true enough, but is that all half so flagrant as what Mr. Hubbard showed to exist at present? These occur to us as the leading points of the question, and we must needs add that the acts as well as words of our successive financiers—Mr. Gladstone among the rest—seem to prove that they felt the force of the doctrine which Mr. Hubbard advocated. It was because the Income Tax was so sweepingly unjust that it was always declared— we now know to what effect—to be " temporary only." Twice has a differential rating been actually proposed, and what did Mr. Gladstone himself say and do a few years back? He said that the tax did bear too hardly on precarious incomes, and not hardly enough, in proportion, upon permanent property ; and he proposed that a certain amount, not exceeding one-sixth, might be deducted from incomes before they were taxed, on the assumption .that it was the allotment for savings. But, except ing that he chose to prescribe the form in which the saving must be made—viz., by life insurance only, he was acting in this on Mr. Hubbard's own principle. He dictated the method of proceeding, and he withdrew one-sixth only of the income from taxation, instead of two-sixths, as proposed by Mr. Hubbard ; but he not recognise the force of circumstances, if not of argument ? Perhaps the wrong is not quite so shadowy nor e t n h ue e af n r remedy peace, d to y quite so impracticable as he conc ei v es; and we are sure that the inquiry is oppo t r s t a u c n ot e inrat e i nou g enough no andthat i t n h e t he Income twentiethT ax hasye ar o risen, t. in more than twice its original yield, while the whole produce of direct taxation ex ceeds ee cent . that t o h f at th o e f Customs, and is already 25 per t. above the Excise.—Times. _772 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Heart's action.—The slightest irregularity in the heart's function is felt throyghout the entire system ; any obstruc tion to the regular impulse of that organ mustibe removed without delay, or the whole circulation becomes disordered ; palpitation comes on, to be succeeded by dangerous faint ness. In a multitude of cases these symptoms arise from a stomach disordered by flatulency, and are cured by rubbing Holloway's Ointment over the pit of the stomach and right side, and occasionally, likewise, over the heart and chest. It speedily relieves the harassing throbbin Holloway' s Pill s should be taken at the same time to move any a ccumulation from! the aliments canal and to matter from stomach carry off any 110xious , liver, Wwei .o I awl kicluep, g: palsatioren: -FIRE NEARS E THEATRE. Last night, about seven o'clock, mhilst the per formances were going on in Astley's Royal Amphi theatre, Westminstcr-road, Lambeth, a cry was raised from the outside that the interior of the establishment was on fire, Fortunately the noise did not reach the audience in the theatre • if it had, it . is quite probable that a f e a r f u l l oss Of life would have ensued. From personal observation, made on the spot, it would seem that immediately facing the Royal Amphitheatre stood a large building, used as an hotel, termed the Victoria Tavern. This building contained 14 dormitories, each partitioned off, but they adjoined the New Inn and several other buildings running into the York-road. It appears that a female had entered the house, and from what had been seen by others in the place, it was sus pected that she had wilfully set fire to the pre mises, and she was accordingly taken into custody and locked up in the police-station. The powerful engine of Messrs. Hodges, the eminent distillers of Lambeth, was soon in attend ance, as well as numerous others of the London brigade, but in the course of a few minutes, and before s ufficient time had elapsed to set an engine to work, the fire had taken possession of the whole of the hotel, threatening destruction to some of the houses in the Westminster-road, as well as the livery stables in the York-road. Plenty of water having been procured from the main, the engines were forthwith called into full operation, notwithstanding which the work of devastation continued, and floor after floor of the building continued to fall a prey to the fury of the fire, and at length the whole establishment was burned out and several of the adjoining premises were severely damaged. The total loss is very considerable. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK-FEB. 20. The trade in wheat was fair, and late rates were for the most part realised, with a steady sale. An increased shoal of barley, but trade dull. Oats a steady sale, at late rates. Beans scarce, and in request. Peas very littl e c h ange d. , White wheat , new, 58s to 76s Barley, grinding.. 32s to 35s Red do. sos to 70s Oats, old, .. 32s t 0378 Old white sBs to 76s New do 23s to 29s Red do sos to 70s Beans. 56s to 58s Barley, malting 38s to 44s Beans, new 38s to 43$ Peas, ... : 40s to 50s. SHEFFIELD-FEB. 19. The supply of wheat was small in bulk. There was an average attendance. Good sorts of wheat realised former prices. Good oats in demand. Flour and other articles unchanged. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...24s Od to 28s Od White 11 ) 1 ...25s Od to 28s Od New red . 9 )1 ...20s Od to 22s Od New white ) 1 » ...225 Od to 26s Od Beans 11 11 ...16s Od to 22s 6d Peas, per qr s4s Od to 55s Od Grinding barley, per qr. 338 Od to 35a Od Malting ditto, „ 3ss Od to 43s Oil Oats 2ss 6d to 34s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 28 sd, and 2s 8d per 141 b. HULL-FEB. 19. A small supply of English wheat to-day, which sold at about the prices of last week. Foreign sold in retail at fully late rates. Barley was somewhat easier. Beans and peas progressed slowly, at former quotations. Oats were neglected. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 66s Od to 69s Od Old red New white .. 1 , New red .... , Dantzic Konb , &c. old white 62s Od to 66s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg red 6os Od to 62s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old s2s Od to 55s Od Barley.... English mating 4ls Od to 42s Od Grinding 34s Od to 36s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3Bs Od to 40s Od Grinding 32s Od to 34s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at Os 14d to 14id Friesland and Dutch 06141d to 0315 d Swedish andpanish osl4d to osl4id Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick 43s Od to 44s Od Egyptian Peas .. Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Spring. —B Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (11u19 £lo 10 0 to £lO 15 0 Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5 0 oto 6 0 0 Bones 5 0 oto 6 0 0 COAL MAR) (Prices of Coal per Ton at .ET—FEB. 20. the close of the market Walls End. s. d. Tanileld Moor 16 3 Wylam Holywell 18 0 Haswell Gas. l4 0 d. Hedley 19 6 Framwellgate 2O 0 Harton l9 6 Locomotive Coke. 25 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting , 16; sold, 16. Walls End. Killingworth E . ... . ..17 6 Ships at market THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South- ' ampton) Do. Fvia Marseilles) Feb Mar . 8 . 1 15 . . Brazil and Cape Verds . . .. Mar. 6. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &Cs. Feb. —. Cuba and Mexico .. . . .. Feb. 28 Canada., & c. (via L'derry) Feb. 20. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. March 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Feb. 18. Do (via Marseilles) Feb. 27. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Feb. 18. lndia(Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Feb. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 27. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. ~ Feb. 26. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Feb. 20. Lisbon .. . • • • • .. Feb. 21. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Feb. 18. Do. . (via Marseilles) . Feb. 20. Vigo, and Oporto .. .. Feb. 21. United States, California, &c. Feb. 20. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. 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The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbin, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 160, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate tsetrae.cdealt; Berast;ty Petty,l 16, F .w ins o b od, ury an P d av c e o m .,. en K t in ; g P .w hi n llip am s a - n s d tree Ce t: City ; at 127 High Holb orn ; and all grocers. BRHS. BLEIVITT.—On th e 19th I nst., T at Pinner, Mrs. W. Blewitt, of twins. DEERING.—On the 15th inst., at Winchester, the wife of Major Deering, of a daughter. RUSSELL —On the 19th inst., at Brompton, th e w ife of C. Russell, Esq., b arrister, of a son. MARRIAGES. COH EN .— VOOLF.—O n the 20th inst., Levi Cohen, Esq., son of the late Lewis Cohen, Esq., of San Francisco, Ca lifornia, to Bloom, eldest daughter of Benjamin Woolf, Esq., of 14, Bedford-square. TR OMPSON—ARMITAGE.—On the 20th inst., at Chelten ham, Bt.-Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, 14th Light Dra goons, to Susanna, second daughter of Edward Armitage, Esq., of Fernley, Yorkshire, and Fernley Lodge, Chel tenham. DEATHS. BE-ULT.—On the 18th inst., at his residence, Broxbourne, Herts, Charles James Beart, Esq., R.N., aged 65. BUTT.—On the 18th inst., Wm. Henry Lucas Butt, Esq., of Stanborough House, Halwell, Devon, aged 40. CONGLETON.—On the 16th inst., at Paris, the Dowager Lady Congleton, aged 79. CRAMBERLAYNE.—On the 14th inst., at Berkeley Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Captain John Chamberlayne, R.N., last surviving son of Admiral Charles Chamber layne, of Maugersbury, Gloucestershire. MAILSDEN.—On the 15th inst., the Rev. Wm. Marsden, 13. D., vicar of Eccles, Lancashire, aged 91. SuELToN.--On the 20th inst., at Lincoln Villa, Carlton hill, St. John's-wood, William Skelton, Edq., aged 55. 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