The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

THE NAVY. A Malta Correspondent writes from Valletta, ;March 31, as follows : " Her Majesty's gunboat Alacrity, Commander J. K. E. Baird, returned to Malta on the 24th inst. from the Piraeus, and the Scourge corvette, Commander W. G. Jones, on the 29th, from Corfu. The Hannibal, 91, Capt. A. Farquhar, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral G. 1 : Mundy, left port on the 28th inst. for Beyrout, and the James Watt, 91, Captain E. Codd, took her departure on the same day for Corfu. These ships would have left a few days earlier, but were detained by the bad state of the weather. Advices have been received from Beyrout, announcing the arrival there of her Majesty's ship Queen, 86; Capt. C. F. Hillyar, and it was expected she would be joined by two or three other ships shortly. The Hannibal took up with her the following officers belonging to ships at present in those waters—namely, Lieut. G. P. Nettleton, Lieut. M. B. Medlycott, Lieut. W. J. Walker, and Mr. A. Kinsman. A French man-of-war, the steam frigate Zenobie, Capt.De voulx (carryingthe flag of Rear-Admiral Touchard), arrived here on the 28th inst., bound for the East, from Toul On entering port the usual salutes were exchanged. "Her Majesty's surveying vessel Firefly, Commander A. L. Mansell, left on the 29th inst. for Tripoli. com plete the soundings between Malta and that part s a i rt th ofthe coast of Barbary commence d by the Medina, Capt. Spratt, C. 8., which vessel is now employed, as stated in a former letter, taking soundings b e tween Alexandria,and Tripoli, cable, which is to unit e M a lt a preliminary' to the electric reception and Alexandria, being laid. Preparations for th e ti • of the cable are being rapidly made here. A l an di ng - place on the south - east of the island, in St. G eorge ' s Creek (M a i r oceo), has been determined upon, and a cable house i s being built on the spot. There will be about six miles of land line,which will be raised on the newly-invented patent iron tripods, instead of on wooden poles, as in the case of the Corfu and Sicily lines. Messrs. Ford and Laws, telegraph engineers, in the employment of the Govern ment, are here superintending the operations. Mr. Ford leaves to-day for Alexandria, to make arrangements for landing the cable there, and to erect the land line, intelli gence having been received by telegraph from England, of the death of Mr. Gisborue, who was to have performed this part of the work. Her Majesty's corvette Scourge was to have left for Tripoli on the 7th inst., with telegraph stores, but, owing to some unavoidable circumstances, her depar ture has been postponed for another week. The sable is expected from England about the end of April. " The Alacrity gunboat is to leave shortly for Beyrout ; the Liffey frigate, for Palermo, to relieve the Amphion frigate ; and the Cressy line-of-battle ship, for Gibraltar. The crew of the last-Lamed vessel has been very sickly of late, and it is considered a cruise may do them good. " The Egyptian frigate Voyageur de la Mer came in to day from England. She has on board, besides her own crew, the crew of another Egyptian frigate which is being fitted with screw machinery in one of the dockyards at home. The captain of the Voyageur de la Merits seriously ill, as well as several of the men, and they are to be landed here for medical treatment. Some 13 deaths occurred among the crew during the voyage. " The following are her Majesty's ships now in port : Neptune, 90 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral W. Fan shawe Martin, the Commander-in-Chief) ; Hibernia, re ceiving ship (flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.); Cressy, 80 ; Liffey, 51; Scourge, 6 ; Alacrity, 4 ; Mohawk, 4; Quail, 2; and tug Hearty. " It is rumoured that the Mediterranean fleet is about to be reinforced by the Aboukir, 90 ; Donegal, 101; Hero, 91; and Ariadne, 26. "By her Majesty's corvette Scourge I have received a letter from Corfu of the 26th inst., announcing the arrival there that morning of Lord Elgin and suite, from Alexan dria, on board of her Majesty's frigate Terrible. His lord ship was to continue his route to England, via Trieste and Vienna, on the following day. Her Majesty's ships at Corfu on the 26th inst. were :—Coesar, 90, Capt. T. Mason (bear ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sydney Dacres) ; Algiers, 91, Capt. G. O'Callaghan; Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Hope ; Terrible, 21, Capt. H. H. Glasse, C. 8.; Assurance, 4, Com mander C. Aynsley. " The English steamer, due on the 30th ult. from Alex andria, has only just arrived. Her delay was occasioned by the Bombay mail being a couple of days late. It was ex pected the mail by the English steamer would have reached London before that by the French steamer. As it is, the mail by the French steamer will be first. " Her Majesty's frigate Amphion, Capt. Cochrane, ar rived yesterday from Palermo and Messina ; and the Turkish corvette Ismir, Capt. Hassien, came in on the same day from Beyrout, Cyprus, and Rhodes, having on board 291 Druses, who have been exiled to Tripoli (Barbary). The corvette leaves at noon to-day for her destination. H.M.S. Cressy will leave to-morrow for Gibraltar." The Glasgow, 51, screw frigate, was yesterday removed from her position, and placed in No. ' dock at Portsmouth. She will merely have her launching gear removed prior to being nndocked. The Cockatrice, 4, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Com mander R. M. Gilson, has landed her long 8-inch gun at Portsmouth dockyard. She has not yet re ceived her final orders, but as conveyance is ordered to be provided for the gun to Malta, it is presumed the vessel will follow. The Octavia, 51, screw, is receiving her first coat of paint in dock at Portsmouth. She is ordered to be floated out on the 11th inst., when she will be placed in the steam basin to receive her machinery. The Cracker gunboat steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to test her machinery. The Grinder gunboat arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday from the westward. In the notice of Sir W. Armstrong's contract for the erection of hydraulic capstans and cranes in Portsmouth dockyard, which appeared in The Sun yesterday, reference was made to a length of 2,160 feet of piping which would be applied only to the working of two capstans. This is all the result that will be gained at present, but it is ultimately in tended to apply power from the same pipes to the working of two additional capstans and five steam cranes. The late China war has furnished the Govern ment with some valuable statistics on the cost of sea transport. At one period during our war with the Celestial Empire there were employed no less than 63,861 tons of sailing shipping, and 12,447 tons of steam shipping ; the former averaging •225. 6d. per ton per month, and the latter 355. The above does not, however, represent the actual pay of this fleet of sailing vessels and steamers, the tonnage given being their registered tonnage, whereas they were paid by their gross tonnage, which may be taken, as adding one-third to the amount of pay given by their registered tonnage. As an instance of how fortunes are at times made by a lucky owner of a ship on the outbreak of a war, an old lumbering North American built ship, owned by an English house,left Cardiff in January, 1860, with 1,000 tons of coal on board, for Shang hai. On arriving at her port of destination she was immediately engaged by the British autho rities to convey her freight to the North, for the use of the fleet, at £1,500 per month. She sailed for the North, and in due course got rid of 600 tons to the various men-of-war off the Peiho. With the remaining 400 tons as ballast, she was started off to Japan to fill up and _return to the fleet, which she did, and, after again discharging 800 tons, retained the 400 tons left, as before, for ballast, took in some old stores as additional ballast, and sailed from the North for Hong Kong to pay off. The last news of this lucky vessel received from China was to the effect that in January last she was seen to dis charge 50 tons of the Welsh coal shipped on board her at Cardiff 12 months previously on board a steam transport bound to England. Possibly by this time she may have cleared out the whole o her cargo. Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Sturdee, yesterday commenced shipping in Woolwich basin a cargo of boilers and steam gear for the Black Prince, at Glasgow. The gunboat Hind, 3, tender to the screw steam coastguard ship Russell, 60, from Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday evening with a detach ment of Marines, and proceeded up Hamoaze, where she was placed alongside the coal depot. The crew of the paddlewheel steam sloop Buz zard, 6, w ere paid off at Devonport on Th urs d ay. the am sloop w ill be piked in the third di v i s i on o f meam ordinary. All tho vessels of the first division of the steam ordinary at Devonport are to have their defects made good and be for the pennant n placed in an e ffi c i en t state, rea d y required. The gunboat Speedy 4 :at Keyhana stea placed in No. 1 dock w yesterday, as overhauled, and tuya have her valves reaired before p ordinary, being transferred t o t h e first division of th e steam The screwsteam gunvesselLyazt was appointed to , he removed yesterday afternoon from from Ike ham basin. She is not, in a good p bably he ptacod aside for future orders, nd will pro - Capt. E. G. Fanshawe, late of the Trafalga r a the newiy-appointed Superintendent of Dockyard, having arrived in England from Lionam will, according to present arrangements, comm ence his duties at Chatham dockyard this day. Capt. G. .Goldsmith, C. 8., the late Superintendent, whose period of five years' service expired on the 20th ult., will remain at the dockyard some days longer to assist Captain Fanshawe in his duties. The ;Etna, 16, floating battery, 200 lorse power, having been towed up from the steam reserve ordi nary at Chatham, and placed along the sheer hulk opposite Chatham dockyard, commenced shipping her armament yesterday, the guns being sent on board from the gun wharf. Her armament will be the same an the floating battery Thunderbolt, viz., 16 68-pounders, each of 95cwt. The Thunderbolt, having completed her armament, has been removed from the sheer hulk, and is now lashed alongside the Hussar target ship, in Chatham harbour, in readiness to be towed round to the entrance to the Thames, where the iEtna and Thunderbolt are both to be stationed. The Admiralty transport Aid, in No. 2 dock at Chatham, has had the whole of her copper stripped off and a considerable portion of her planking re moved, in order that she may undergo a thorough repair. Several of her timbers are found to be very old and decayed. Although she is some what strained, she has not received such severe in juries as was at first feared from her running ashore on the Sussex coast. THE ARMY. After the' Commander-in-Chief had inspected the 53d Regiment at Devonport on Wednesday his Royal „Highness said—" I am well pleased with your appearance to-day, as also your drill, both officers and men. My gallant friend, Lord Clyde, has given me a most excellent account of your bravery, &c., while in India, and I am glad to hear that your conduct while in this command has been very good, notwithstanding the many temptations you have experienced since your arrival, all of you, having money in your pockets." In order to afford the well-conducted and well drilled soldiers of the line composing the garrison of Chatham greater opportunities than are at pre sent afforded them for outdoor games and recrea tions during the fine season of the year Major- Gen. Eyre has just issued a garrison order, autho rising the commanding officers of the several batta lions of infantry under his command to grant those troops who for perfection in drill or conduct are deserving of such consideration an additional afternoon's holiday in each week, exclusive of Saturday. Major-Gen. Eyre, in issuing the above order, observes :—" In granting this in dulgence it must be well understood by the men that all such exemption from parades, drills &e., is to give them an opportunity of engaging themselves either in manly games and recreations or in some profitable and creditable manner, and not to enable them to frequent publichouses, or even to go into the town. Men seen in town on these occasions before evening meal, or abusing the indulgence in any manner, are to be reported to their commanding officers, who will make them at tend all drills or parades for the rest of the season." Commanding officers are to use their discretion in granting the same indulgence to any well con ducted young soldiers who are painstaking and attentive at their drills, and who, therefore, deserve encouragement. Since the removal of the Tipperary Artillery from Sheerness the authorities at the Horse Guards have considerably strengthened that garrison by the transfer from Woolwich of several additional bat teres of Royal Artillery, in order to form a depot brigade of Artillery, with the usual staff. The fol lowing batteries have accordingly proceeded from Woolwich, and are now doing duty at Sheerness— viz., No. 1 battery, under the command of Captain C. P. Roberts ; No. 2 battery, commanded by Captain H. Cardew ; and No. 4 battery, commanded by Cap tain C. H. Hutchinson. The entire force of Royal Artillery now in garrison at Sheerness consist of one complete field battery and three batteries of garri son artillery, numbering 18 officers, 134 non-com missioned officers, 730 gunners, and 87 horses, the whole under the command of Col. W. R. Nedham. ANCBOR AND CABLE CONTRACTS FOR THE NAVY. Captain Trotman, in a letter to a contemporary, says :—On the 28th of November last I addressed the Commissioners on Dockyard and Naval Ex penditure as follows : "I respectfully transmit the annexed statement relative to the prices paid for anchors; also to request that I may be permitted an opportunity to substantiate the same, and make known other matters to her Majesty's Royal Commissioners." The statement referred to embodied the following facts, viz. : " That anchor contracts have not been subjected to the test of public competition for at least a quar ter of a century, or since the introduction of Nasmyth's steam hammer, by which invention the cost of anchor manufacture is reduced fully one-half. "That the official scale of prices paid under con tract dated 1841 is 140 per cent. in excess of the published price-lists of the most eminent anchor makers of the day—specification, proofs, and tests identically the same." I would now beg reference to the said Commis sioners' report and questions ; also to the answers of Mr. James R. Clark, chief clerk in the depart ment of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy (page 399) : " (Question).—ls it an usual thing that contracts should run for a period from 1841 t o 1861— say 20 years ?----No ; it is unusual. " (Question).—Has there been any public compe tition advertised upon the subject of anchors during that time ?—No competition since 1840. " (Question).—A statement has been made that 17 anchors from 20 cwt., increasing 5 cwt. each, up to 5 tons weight, can be supplied for £1,428, as against £3,434 17s. 6d. paid by the Admiralty. Has any such statement been brought before your de partment P—No. "(Question).—You adhere to the opinion that it is not desirable to disturb a contract which has existed since 1841 P—l do, for the important reason that the anchors supplied are as efficient and secure as they can possibly be. And there is another rea son why this contract has been continued a much longer period than usual—namely, that its execu• tion required a large outlay of capital. Tenders were tried at that period. " (Question).—That is 20 years ago ?—Yes, and until very recently there never has been any question about it ; but the Board of Admiralty have investi gated the whole subject very fully in the last twelve months, and they have arrived at the conclusion that it would not be adviseable to disturb present arrangements for obtaining anchors, so strong and so efficient as those supplied to the navy." Doubtless her Majesty's Royal Commissioners considered my evidence unnecessary after this, as I received no intimation or acknowledgment of my letter and the accompanying statement ; else I might have re f erred them to official letters and documents in my possession, to the discussions in Parliament, returns made, &c., on the subject of prices paid f or anchors, and so repeatedly brought u n I d t e r wll b noticee rememberedo of the authorities that in by th m e ye ar yself 1852 a professional com m i ttee of six distinguished naval officers, 'with whom were associated Mr. Dun can Dunbar, chairman o f th e General Ship owner s' So ciety, and five other gentlemen, members of Lloyd's Committee, presided over by Admiral the Hon. Sir M. Stopford, K.C.8.&c., wer e appo i nted by the Board of Admiralty " to investigate and determine by a series of practical proofs and tests the relative merits of different descriptions of anchors." Their decision was unanimous and unequivocal—that " the established anchor of the navy"• was the worst of all, and' Trotman's" the best of the seven com peting anchors brought under their notice, and sub jected by them to the severest ordeal, the most powerful and varied tests. The Admiralty, acting upon this officially recorded judgment of their own Anchor Committee, at once discarded the " con demned anchor" from her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and it was replaced with mine (Trot man's) ; so also from the state yacht Osborne and tha Admiralty yacht Black Eagle; but for the Royal Navy it is yet a reserved speciality. Surely there ought to be some strong and very cogent reasons why so anomalous a state of things should continue longer ? It is said the execution of the contract entered into in 1841 " requirel a large outlay of capital ;" most assuredly a large amount of official assurance was expended thus to impose upon the Commissioners' credulity. Why, sir, the cost and erection of a steam hammer, by which a savin g in labour of from 400 to 500 per cen t. i s e ff ecte d , repays itself in six months; thenacroomupglhe,tien.exper sive crane, fire •hearths, and a doz en sledge hand hammers, and your anchor shop is For this the principle of public competition is complacently repudiated, a snug contract of twenty years' standing is to be perpetuated, and the "foul anchor" (condemned in 1853 as the worst of seven competing plans by a professional committee of • I naval officers, the high es t an d a blest in the se rv i ce , and s Pecially nominated by the Admiralty them.. THE BUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,' APRIL 0, 1861. selves) is, it appears, still to be imposed on officers commanding her Majesty's ships, and their demands I for improved anchors ignored. The supply of anchors and cables for the navy is of no insignificant amount, as will be seen by refer ence to Parliamentary papers giving detailed par ticulars of the receipt and expenditure for the navy service for the year ending 31st Mareh, 1856—viz., for anchors, £51,553 Bs. 6d.; cables, £49,268 9s. 6d. ; and the following year, 1857, anchors, £44,856 12s. 6d. ; cables, £57,261 133.—the whole a virtual monopoly of one favoured firm of contractors. • Vote 10 of the Navy Estimates provides for the supply of anchors and cables for the Royal Navy. It will shortly come before the House of Commons in Supply, when it is to be hoped something more than mere official equivocation will be vouchsafed this " foul anchor" scandal. 211 E FORTIFICATIONS AT PLV AIOUTII. After inspecting the sites for the proposed bat teries at Bovisand and Staddon, on Thursday after noon, the Duke of Cambridge went in the steam tender Avon from the eastern to the western side of Plymouth Sound. His Royal Highness sur veyed Cawsand Bay and Picklecombe Point, and re mained for some time under Redding Point, Mount Edgecumbe. The Avon then skirted the shores of Drake's Island, and approached Stonehouse Point, where the Duke landed, but subsequently re-em barked in the Port Admiral's barge for conveyance to Mount Wise, off which he again joined the tender ! And then went through Hamoaze to Salt ash, where horses were in attendance to convey the Commander in-Chief to the Bull Point Powder Works, and to various inland objects of defence. Much activity .has been recently exhibited by the Government engineszlrs in the vicinity of Ply mouth and Devonport, and: through rho advertise ments which they have issued eome indication has at length been given of the Carection of the fortifications. Hitherto the surveys have been so extensive that no one could speak decisively of the course of the works; indeed, it is now apparent that many of the original plans have been abandoned. Some of them were given up in consequence of the heavy claims by the owners of land lying in the line of the proposed chain of forts. Tregantle Fort, about four miles west of Devon port dockyard, inspected by the Duke on Wednes day, is fast approaching completion by the con tractors, Messrs. Kirk and Parry. It is erected on high ground bordering the English Channel, and while it commands a considerable portion of the shores of Whitesand Bay cn the south, is equally protective on the east of the national shipping in the estuary of Hamoaze, and the public arsenals on its eastern boundary. About one mile north of Tregantle is Screasden Fort, which is, like it, of considerable dimensions, and will be of great assistance in preventing the approach from the westward of an enemy who might land at Fowey. Screasden will be also very useful in defending the Government property in Hamoaze, especially the Devonport arsenal, Keyham steam-yard, and the Bull Point Powder Works, near the Royal Albert-bridge. Screasden commands, on the east, St. John's Lake, and, on the north, St. German's River, two valuable branches of Hamoaze. The fortress is progressing rapidly by the contractor, Mr. F. Roach, of Ply mouth. Tregantle and Screasden, both in the county of Cornwall, are the only forts which are positively constructing. Several strong works near Saltash are under consideration. There is also some expectation of the erection of a fort at St. Budeaux, on the Devonshire side of Hamoaze, where about 120 acres of land may be required from Mr. W. E. Elliott, from whom it was originally intended to take 160 acres. St. Budeaux is immediately north of the eastern but tresses of the Royal Albert railway bridge. Saltash forms its western or Cornish support. A fort to the east of St. Budeaux will probably be constructed at Burraton farm. It is understood to be the intention of the engi neers to rear at Tor, still further to the east of St. Budeaux, a citadel something like Tregantle, mounting 100 guns, and possessing accommodation for nearly 1,000 men. On the eastward of Tor Captain Ducane, R.E., has been under the necessity of altering the line of defence. This officer, in compliance with the design of the Government, intended to have either taken possession of or obtained control over Mount View, the property of Mr. W. E. Rendle ; Thornhill, belonging to Mr. Whiteford, town clerk of Ply mouth; Compton Leigh, a count r y res id ence j us t built by Mr, Luscombe the mayor, and other pro perties in the vicinity; but the estimated cost was so great that the Board of Ordnance was con strained to go further north from the town to ' Little Efford, an estate belonging to Mr. G. W. Soltau. St. Budeaux, as already stated, lies on the eastern margin of Hamoaze, and Little Efford on the north western side of the estuary of Cat water. Complete control will be obtained by the Government of a belt of land half a mile wide, stretching from the west to the east, and including the pro tective works just commenced. The present differ ence between the value of this land for building and for pasture purposes will be paid to the owners, and hereafter, if required, its pasture value only will be given. • This belt will, however, be cleared at once of all buildings, sheds, and trees, including the woods at Manadon, and, where necessary, the ine qualities of the ground will be made good, so that the range of the guns will be so far permanently free from obstruction. Crossing Catwater and landing at Hoe, the visitor hereafter will find a very great change. For the purpose of facilitating the erec tion of fortresses in the vicinity, and of establishing a suitable approach to them when built, a military road will be carried through this retired village, its principal farmstead will be razed, and the small episcopal church of St. Anne's probably destroyed. The Rev. H. Birley has received 14 d a y s ' no ti ce to give possession of the Parsonage-h ouse an d sc h oo l s. Similar notices have been served on Lady Rogers Lord Morley, Colonel Har r i s , an d t h e R ev. H. Bul: tee!. The road just referred to will lead to Staddon Heights and Bovisand. From the latter place the Queen's Harbour Maker, Commander Thompson, has removed, as in front of his residence, on the water's edge, a double battery of 36 guns is to be erected to command the eastern approach to the ' Sound. A similar battery of 36 gu ns i n H axo case - 1 mates is to be built on the rocks on the south-east l of Drake's Island, commanding the anchorage. Tenders for the construction of this battery were sent in on the 19th of February. Several addi tional guns are to be mounted on Staddon Point and on Staddon Heights. Some of these will face to the eastward, to prevent the approach of an enemy landing at Torbay or in the river Yealm. The War Department is receiving tenders for " Staddon Heights, consisting of a battery at Stad don Point, two small batteries, an escarp, Brownhill Battery, Staddon Fort, and Fort Turnchape!.” The most costly expenditure will, however, take place just inside Plymouth Breakwater. Here, if we are correctly informed, an artificial foundation, extending to three or four acres, is to be built in the sea, for the purpose of sustaining a fortress mounting 90 guns and possessing barrack accom modation for 1,000 men, and, in order to avoid the use of floating hulks, an extensive store for supply ing war steamers with fuel. The military engineers took 'soundings early in February. The fort will present an angle to the south, and show one range of guns towards the western, the other towards the eastern entrance of the harbour. The embrasures will be as high as the lantern on the Breakwater Lighthouse. It is stated that the foundation is to be composed of blocks of stone fastened together and weighing not less than 30 tons each. There will be a channel between the new fort and the break- water. Some objections have been raised in the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce to the contem- plated diminution of valuable anchorage ground in the Sound, while the water space outside the break water is comparatively of no use. The answer given is, that unless protected from the sea by the break water, the guns in the new fort would be ineffective in heavy weather, besides which the rubble founda tion of the breakwater would not bear the concus sion of heavy ordnance supposing it were necessary to use a portion of the existing foundation for the new works, and further that a coal depot outside would be less valuable for shipping. The Government would probably find it economi cal to establish commodious landing places at once under Plymouth Hoe, at Fisher's Nose (Citadel Point), Cawsand Bay, Turnchapel, &c. A perma nent convenience would be thus obtained, and it is very possible that the construction of these steps would tend to decrease the cost of erecting the vari ous water-side defences. In connection with the superior forts referred to there will he many auxiliary works, some of which are around Cawsand and Mount Edgecumbe. Close to the water's edge a battery is to be constructed under the recently erected fort at Pick lecornbe Point and another in Sand way-valley below the old fort on Maker-heights. A platform for one gun is spoken of on Clay-piece, a meadow. between the old fort and Cawsand, and it is also said that the houses occupied by the coastguard men at. Crane-cove are to be removed for defence purposes, and that on the site of Coombe Farm, between Forder and Rame, several guns are to be placed. A double tier will be mounted on Wilderness-point, Mount Edgecumbe, to command the entrance to Ha►noaze. The works on the lines round Devonport, commenced many years since, and then suspended, have recently been renewed and will shortly be completed. At the Plymouth citadel the old embrasureshave been removed and the guns and bombs taken away. The ramparts have been excavated to a consieerable depth. Concrete foundations have been thrown in to receive heavy blocks of granite, which make sub stantial platforms for the reception of traversing Armstrong guns. Similar alterations have taken place at the telegraph signal redoubt, Mount Wise, on which three 10-inch traversing guns will be worked in what is termed a barbette battery. Im provements are also making in the battery near the major-general's residence. So desirous are the en gineers of securing what is now considered neces sary, that although the foundation of a covered turf battery west of the telegraph station is in some parts rock it has been removed to give place to concrete. The Government report contemplated the entire cost of the fortifications round Plymouth at £1,740,000, or £BO,OOO a year for 22 years. Tre gantle was to mount 60 guns and have barrack ac commodation for 450 men; Screasden, 35 guns and 300' men ; and Stadden-point, 60 guns and 300 men. Barracks are proposed on Maker-heights for 1,120 men. The report calculates that, in case of attack, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, the popula tion of which exceeds 100,000 souls, would contri bute 10,000 fighting men for the defence. BER PAYESTPS IMPERIAL AND INDIAN ARMIES. (From the Army and Navy Gazette.) The measures for the consolidation of the Indian with the Imperial forces of her Majesty have so nearly approached accomplishment, that we may venture to give their main features in a substantially complete form. We have from the beginning. made the public promptly acquainted with each successive stage of the process of amalgamation ; we have com municated every separate decision almost as soon as it was arrived at; and in the present instance our business is not so much to inform our readers of new details to any considerable extent as to place before them, in one general view, and as succinctly as we are able, the new system by which the Queen's army, both in Europe, in the colonies, and in India, is to he regulated, together with the steps resolved on to provide for existing incumbents, and for the transi flail:try period which must elapse before all officers will hays entered the military profession under the same conditions as regards service, privileges, and emoluments, The former portion of our task is by far the more simple ; and it will not take us long to describe the principles and rules by which the army of the Queen will be governed, after a suffi cient time has elapsed to terminate the claims of those who, having been hitherto serving under the Indian regulations, are about to be made a consti tuent part of the Imperial forces. In future, every officer to be commissioned and every soldier to be enlist :41 will belong to the general army, and will be available for service in any 'part of the empire to which the requirements of the State may call him, and in the rotation hitherto usual among the troops of the Lino. In the great majority of the regiments what is called the pur chase system will prevail as at present ; but in three regiments of cavalry and nine of infantry, which are to be formed upon the remains of the local Indian European corps, the promotion will be regulated pretty much on the plan of the Company's service—namely, pure seniority in all but the higher ranks. In addition to this army for general service, and the native colonial regiments now in existence for the defence of Malta, Ceylon, the West Indies, &c., there will be in India a number of irregular corps, composed of natives, but officered from the Indian Staff, of which six members will be em ployed in superintending the efficiency of each irregular corps. This Indian Staff will in itself form a list of officers who will volunteer to serve in it. Their qualification will consist in their be longing to a regiment serving in India, in their having previously passed two years in that country, and in their proving their fitness by means of an examination. We may obviate alarm by at once stating that the nature of this examination will be settled, not schoolmaster fashion, but by the head of the department in which it is proposed to employ the candidate; that it is intended to be practical, and having reference only to those subjects of which a knowledge is essential to the efficient discharge of the duties to he under taken. The Staff list will be ever varying in its dimensions, and promotions in it will be regulated only by length of service. The qualifying terms are, for the rank of captain, 12 years' service, of which 4 must be in the Staff Corps ; for Major, 20 years' service, of which 6 must be in the Staff Corps ; for lieut.-colonel, 26 years' service, of which 8 must be in the Staff Corps. Five years' service in the last-named rank will give a right to the rank of colonel, a, i c rw hich the officer's promotion is regu lated by his army seniority, The rurely military Staff—the Adjutant-General's and Quartermaster- General's Departments, the Brigade Majors, and personal Staff—will be filled either by the Line as at present, or by the Staff Corps, but in every other department the Indian Staff will be composed solely of officers who have given up their regiments to join the Indian Staff Corps. Every military officer in India will therefore belong to and serve with either the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, one of her Majesty's regiments of Cavalry or Infantry of the Line, or to the Staff Corps. Exchanges between these several services will be permitted under pretty much the same rules by which they are now regu lated between one Queen's regiment and another. This, then, will be shortly and simply the position of the united army as soon as the complications terminate which must more or less exist during the period in which two military establishments, hitherto regulated by widely different systems, are c o sl ,ee ch being weld e d i n t o one b o dy. But a con s id era bl e ti me must e l a p se b e f ore th a t transitionary period can be brought to a close, and, so far ste the exi s ti ng gener ation of officers is con cerned, the arran gemen t s t o b e made—pendente lite, we may say —are of greater and more im mediate interest tha n th ose w hi c h w ill u lti ma t e l y conic into operati on . W e s h a ll en d eavour, t h en, a 4 briefly as is compatibl e w i t h c l earness , t o indicate b their character and prob a bl e • caring upon the ser v believe it may b e roug hl y assume d th a t th e wholeh c of the officers o f th e 'at army are now em ployed either upon the Staff or with their regiments, those whose corps disappeared during the mutiny being nearly all engaged on Staff service. The rights of those officers are very rigidly and com prehensively preserved in Mr. Henley's clause in t'of Parliament passed last year, prohibiting enlistment of Europeans for local service. This proviso the Government appears ready to carry ou t thethe fully, fairly, and unreservedly. Every officer now on the local Indian establishment, either on tile Staff or with a regiment, or holding a nomination to a cadetship, will be offered the following alter nativese-1. He may become a member of the new Staff Corps, without undergoing an examination. 2. He can retain his office • (if he is now on the Staff) without joining the Staff Corps, his military promotion being regulated by the vacancies which arise in his regiment, even though that regiment existed only nominally and on paper. 3. He may volunteer to be transferred in his rank to a regi ment of the Line, under conditions which we shall presently specify in speaking of exchanges. It is but reasonable to conclude that the great body of the officers will accept the first or second of these alternatives. The- Staff' Corps will no doubt he se lected by those who are so junior of their rank in their present regiments that their prospect of regi- mental promotion is not so good as it would be under the Staff Corps regulations, which insure to them an increase of rank after a certain term of service. On the other hand, those who occupy a high place in their grade in a regiment will prefer the contingencies of regimental promotion, if in the ordinary course these contingencies may be expected to give them increased position in a shorter time than the period bringing promotion to the members of the Staff Corps. With respect to the option of volunteering into the Line, we have little doubt that the local officers will avail themselves of it, at least in sufficient numbers to fill the nine new regi ments about to he created, as well as to supply the vacancies which may be placed at their disposal in the old royal regiments by half•pay retirements and transfers therefrom to the Staff Corps. The conditions underwhich local officers will be allowed to exchange or :be transferred to the Line we may summarise thus : Theymust be under the substantive rank of major. In exchanges there must not be more than seven years' disparity of age between the officers. An officer having the brevet rank of major or lieut.-colonel can exchange only with another pos- ses equivalent brevet rank. As n at present, an officer exchanging must enter his new regiment as the junior of his rank. Upon one point the ultimate decision of the autho rities has not yet been arrived at, there bein g , we nntiPrgtsin t l diffirriltiAQ in thA way of carrying out the original recommendation. This was that an officer either transferred or exchanging to a pur chasing regiment of the Line should be permitted to sell his commission under the same regulations as an officer originally in the Line, who — had not purchased—that is to say, that he might, after three years, receive at the rate of £lOO for every year of his military service until the regulation value of his commission should be reached, and after 20 years that he should become entitltd to the full regulation price of his commission. The exchanging office: will, however, retain all the advantages from the Indian "Funds" to which he has contributed, as long as he may choose to be a subscribing member to these funds. His local service will count in el-fry reepect as Line service as regards his claims to half :pacy or full pay retirement. He will ) in fact, step into the position of an officer of the Line, with, pos sibly, the exception we have named, and one other —his widow and children will not be eligible at his decease for the pensions granted under the War office regulations, it being considered that the object of these pensions will be met by the Indian funds, in which the officer has acquired an interest. The officer of the Line exchanging into the local service will, like him with whom he exchanges, be allowed to count his former service ; and, should he have spent 10 years in India, will acquire a right to the Indian retirements, just as if he had been originally a Company's officer, and his widow and children are eligible for pensions from the War-office equally as if he had not changed his regiment. We now come to speak of the senior officers of both armies, whose position cannot properly be said to be regimental ; and the question arises, how is the amalgamation to be carried out so that a Just consideration of their claims shall be observed ? It appears that the vacancies on the general officers' list of the Imperial army have not so rapid an effect as those of the Indian army upon the promotion from the rank of colonel to that of major-general. Thus, in the former we have some 22 colonels com missioned on the 20th June, 1854, who are still serving in the same rank; while in the Indian army the 25th colonel promoted in the following brevet (the 28th of November, 1854) has become a major-general. It was at first proposed that the colonels of the two services should be formed into one list, according to their army seniority, and that the senior should succeed to the first vacancy, whether it arose on the Imperial or the Indian list of generals. The effect of would in the first instance be beneficial to the colonels now at the head of the list in the Imperial service, but it is now settled that future vacancies on the generals' list will be filled up by a colonel of the particular army, Imperial or Indian, in which they arise, until all the colonels commissioned as such before the Ist of April, 1861, shall have become major-generals. When these two separate lists shall have been ex hausted, promotion to the generals' list will he given to the senior of the united list of colonels, which will be headed by the officer attaining that rank after the Ist of April, 1861. It happens that in each the nurnlyir of t tlective colonels eligisie fur promotion is about equal to the total i'stAhlishnlent of the generals of that service. Thus in the Line there are about 20 qualiff d colonels to succeed to 260 generals, and in the Indian army a little more than 220 to succeed 220 generals. In the amalga mated armies we shall thus start with 480 colonels to take the place of 480 generals. It is intended, as in the case of the colonels, so also in that of the lieutenant-colonels, majors, and captains that ulti mately promotion should go to the senior of the united armies upon the occurrence of each death among tlie generals. But, with regard to the bestowal of regiments, each general officer is to be named only to a regiment of the particular branch of the service to which he himself belonged before the amalgamation. With respect to the Artillery and Engineers, the arrangement is simple; until the present incum bents are exhausted, a list will be kept of the Royal Artillery and Engineers, and of the si►rilar arms of the service belonging to Bengal, Bombay, and Madras. Promotion will go in each list according to the vacancies arising in it, but when the last subaltern now serving in any one of them is pro moted the step will go to the senior of the whole Artillery or Engineer service, and all future ap pointments will be to the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers respectively. In like manner, it was at first projected that as regards the medical service of India the officers now on the list of each presidency should receive their promotion as vacancies might present themselves on their parti cular lists, the new appointments being to the post of assistant-surgeon on the staff of the army generally ; but this point is undetermined, and it is probable that a distinct commission will have to consider the future position of the medical servjce of India in connexion with the new military ar•• rangements. The Indian Funds, the Military or Orphan and Medical Retiring Funds are to be abolished. As soon as existing interests terminate no newly-ap pointed officers will be allowed to subscribe to them ; but those now contributing, or having a right to contribute, will have all their privileges preserved, the Government receiving the subscriptions, and making the disbursements after the same rate and 'manner as if there had been no amalgamation. Such are the principal features by which this great sOheme will be regulated, both as regards its formation and permanent maintenance. In the for mer, it appears to us every fair consideration has been shown to those interested ; while in the latter, we look forward with confidence to a system which will have a most wholesome effect in stimulating the enterprise and spirit of the middle classes of this country, will provide adequately for the service of India, and will powerfully strengthen, both in point of numbers and efficiency, the military resources of i the empire. PL I.F.F IND I) , FE DAN tIN THE YEL VER7OY CASE. It is a duello between Madame Innocence and Major Mephistopheles. Madame Innocence has told her story first. Days ago, in the first act of the piece, theie had arisen a hum, a rustle, a stretching of necks, as a small figure was seen ascending into the awful pillory or pulpit reserved for witnesses. S tra w-coloared hair, almost golden, and folded back after that seductive French fashion—soft and tender eyes--a small round face, almost " babyish" in shape, and size, and tinted with a delicate pink, yet with a tint of suffering and faint lines of pain. Such as have travelled so far as an Eternal City, detect a likeness to the famous Cenci picture. Hark ! All her simple story, detailed by the golden-haired lady—in so musical a voice—so gra phically, yet so sadly, that we all (junior barris terial element) there and then enrol ourselves as her knights, and are prepared to do something frantic on the first opportunity. Letters? That thick octavo volume contains all those documents, printed and set out for the common use of counsel. Such tenderness, such wit—emch gracetul womanly style—such playful dallying with his subj ects Privately, we class them with Lady Mary's or the ingenious French lady's; hut we m.ty be biassed. Those more touching passages, where she pleads against that desertion which she has an instinct is overshadowing, wring our very hearts.. We think it no shame that rough impetuous Brightside read ing them aloud, should have that huskiness in his throat, that unusual break in his voice; or that gentle hearted Rhadamanthus-in-Chief, high in his green pavilion, should be obstreperously busy with his handkerchief. Elderly barriste r i a l e l ement, past such things now, show signs of weakness and shake heads mournfully, It is very sad. We are all verging upon dotage. The golden-haired lady in the box is fast turning us into fools. . . . A few days interval —for this dramatic performance has spread itself over a span of nearly 12 days—and 'Major Mephis topheles has appeared in the witness box to tell his story. A haughty supercilious fighting man, beard ing the hostile population who hem him in on all sides, with a defiant scowl. Unclean humanity in the galleries hunger and thirst to have him away. Al ready they have fallen on some luckless vi,ight out side, whom they have mistaken for Mephistopheles, and are hurrying him to a muddy bath in the river, when he is rescued. Mephistopheles is driven to bay, and will brave it out. He owns to everything with a strange coolness, unfolds his schemes in a hard icy voice,andproclaims candidly that Madame Innocence was a poor common creature, of the earth, earthy, and on the whole, no better than she should be. Our ears tingle as we hear him. We are inclined—still the ju nior barristerial element, by this time infatuated—to cast lots who shall wait for him outside. B ut there is retribution ac hand, for Little Sergeant, crackling, detonating all over, is now at his throat. What strange feats he performs with that hapless officer! 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POLICE 12V TELLIGENCE.-April 5 GUILDHALL.—Elizabeth Smith, a woman of about 40 years of age, who represented that she was living with a cab proprietor named Gilbert, and a foreigner whose real name is Edward Segers, but who appears to have been trading for nefarious purposes under the name of Segers and Co., Reii and Co., and other aliases, were charged with con spiring together, and with other persons not yet in custody, to obtain goods by means of false pre tences to a very considerable amount, with intent to cheat and defraud a number of foreign firms in almost every branch of trade and manufactures. Mr. Laxton, barrister-at-law, conducted the pro secution, and Mr. Wavell, inspector of Stubbs'.4 tirade Protection Society, a tended to wa*ch the case on behalf of various French and English com• mercial firms, who, it was stated, bad been vic timized by the prisoner Segers and his gang to the extent of about £20,000. Mr. Laxton said he did not propose to offer any further evidence against the female prisoner at present, and be thought it not unlikely but that he should have on a future occasion to ask for her dis charge, as Mr. Cozzi, the prosecutor, was of opinion that she was only a tool in the hands of Segers and others; and, although she might have been cog. nizant to some extent of the frauds which were being perpetrated by them, it might be more conducive to the interests of justice that the charge should not be pressed against her. He therefore proposed to allow the case to stand over, particularly as it would be necessary to produce witnesses and d cu. mentary testimrny from Paris to complete the evidence against * S‘-gert;, and in the meantime he would outer upon one of many other charges, for obtaining another case of straw hats, value £ll6, of M. Peter Tory-Cadet, a straw-bonnet manufac turer, of Nice, in France; and on the next exami nation he would open a third charge against Segers, of obtaining a quantity of wino, value £5OO. of Mr. Bernstein, of Hamburg, under false and fraudulent pit tEnces. Mr. John Ulric am an. import( r of foreign .goods, and carry on lau-,ine,a at 2, Hart street, Wood ..treet, I am the London correspon• dent to Mr. P. Tory-Cadet, of Nice. I produce a letter which X r , ctived from hi:, firm bout a month ago. Ignetiue Poflaky said---I am eequeinted with the handwriting of the prisoner Segers, I have known him by that name for the last 18 months. He for merly had an office at 38, St. Mary Axe, where he carried on business under the name of Edward Segers and Co, as general merchants and importers, but I never saw any signs of business going on upon any of the occasions that I have been thi , re. Shoe) then 1 received a from him ad d reeees from Lime -street, file letter produced by the last witness, dated the 28th of January, is in the hand writing of the prisoner Segers, and the tint port of it is that he was in the receipt of a letter from M. P. Tory-Cadet, dated the 24th of Jan., and considered the prices for certain goods named were too high, but that if M. Tory-Cettlet would accept the terms he (Segers) proposed, subject to adiscount of 10 per cent., he would tale a quantity equal to the value of £ll6. The letter also urged expedition is the exe cution of the order, as trade was too dull to admit, of doing a brilliant business, and that any unneces sary delay in forwarding the goods might lose him a good market. The letter produced dated the 9th of Feb. is in English, and in the prisoner Segers's handwriting; it is the order for the delivery of the goods by Messrs Horne and Co., of Moorgate street, to Charles Reil and Co.'s agent. I believe that since Segers has been in London he has obtained goods of various foreign houses to tae amount of not less than ,20,000 ; and had it not been for the information and assistance derived from Stubb's Trade Protection Institution, the prisoner Segers would not have been arrested, as he was, for claims amounting to nearly £l,OOO, and consequently would not have been furthcomieg to answer the criminal charges which are. about to be proved against him. Mr. Horace Horne said—The order of the 9th of Feb. was presented at our office in Moorgate-street on the same day. It was an order for the delivery of a case of straw hats, marked "P. T. 72," which had been previously consigned to us, and it was ad dressed to " Charles Reil and Co." Charles Harper, porter to a Mr. Steer, proved that he obtained the goods on the order produced, which he received from his employer. Mr. H. Steer said,--I am a lece manufacturer and . commission agent, carrying on business at 64 and 65, Breachstreet, Cho ipside. About the 9i o or loch of February last I received three samples 01 straw hats from Mr. Leopard, of 9, Walbrook, a person with whom I am in the habit of dealing largely. He wished me, as he frequently does in other mat ters, to ascertain what they were worth. I there fore took them to all the leading houses in the trade, but as the quality varied I told Mr. Leopard that I must see the bulk, and afterwards went with him in a cab to Whitecrose street Pinson, where we saw the prisoner Segers. They spoke together for some time in a foreign language which I did not understand, and Segars then gave Mr. Leopard an order the delivery of the goods, which the latter gave me on leaving the prison. I think I heard the prisoner S 5 rhe was a member of the firm of Charles Reil and Co., but I know it was said in his presence, at all events. I told them I knew nothing about the value of such goods, but I would try and ascer tain it. Mr. Leopard, before leaving, give Segers two sovereigns, and Segers told me that he wanted to part with the goods to enatee him to get out of prison. The else contained 60 straw bonnets, and I agreed to give £23 4s, for them. Sir F. G. Moon—Did it not strike you as some what extraordinary that he should be soiling 1:116 worth of goods for £23 4s. Mr. Steer—Not at all, sir ; for I had offered them to the whole of the trade, and only three houses were inclined to buy them. As soon as I received the goods I went. to Whitceross•street Prison end paid Segers. ihr • them, deducting the £2 Mr. Leo pard had given him I advanced him £1 and £1 4s. for carriee's charges, &c. I actually gave £25 17s. for the goods, as I had to pay Mr. Leopard 13. e. for hie commieeion. Sir F. G. Moon —Did you buy these goods on commission or upon your own account ? Mr. Steer—Upon my own account, sir, and I sold theta again' at a profit of £3• 3s. Segers gave me a reetipt, in the name of Charles Reil and Co. Mr. Leopard is a general merchant. The straw hats produced by Mr. Goodyear, of St. Paul's-church yard, are the same I sold to him for £29. Mr. Frederick Goodyear, straw hat warehouse man, and wholesale milliner, of Watling-street and St. Paul's-churchyard, said—l bmight the straw bonnets produced. They are called capotes. There are only 50 left, the remainder having been made up into bonnets, in which shape they have been sold, or are still in stock. Sir F. G. Moon--e Did you know that the whole sale trade value of them was £ll6 when you bought them for £29 ? Mr. Goodyear--Certainly not, sir. I did not see the original invoice, and as they are not a market able article, I gave as much as they were worth. John Nye, the landlord of the house, 12, St. An drew's-road, proved that letters and parcels fre quently arrived for Charles Reil and Co., but no person of that name lived there, and the prisoner Segers never carri e d on b us i ness t h ere of any ki nd. Th prisoner Smith lived there and used to take all letters to Segers in prison, but the parcels were sent away, there being no money to pay the car riage. Bull, the officer. said he had succeeded in stop ping another parcel of goods, which were now at the Bricklayers' Arms Railway station, and some idea might be formed of the value of them from the fact that the conveyance charges upon tiler amounted to £l5, an d f rom i nqu i r i e s he had ma e, he had ascertained that since Segers had been in prison he had obtained between £4,000 and £5,000 worth of goods of different kinds, consisting of iron safes, charcoal, straw bonnets, champagne, &c.—in fact nothing seemed to have come amiss to him. Mr. Wavell, from Stubb's Trade Protection office, stated that within the last six weeks they had received no less than 25 or 30 applica tions from bankers, merchants, and general commer cial firms in Paris and from all parts of the Conti nent for information with regard to the prisoner Segers. Some of these E ppl lea ti ons were front per sons who had already been victimised . to a very serious extent, and others from persons who were about to forward large quantities of valuable goods upon the orders of Charles Reil and Co., and who, by a timely warning of the character of the fictitious firm, were saved from heavy losses. Sir F. G. Moon said there was no doubt that this was only the ( Telling of a m os t ex t ens i ve con spiracy, and he trusted the press, with their usual rourtev, would render all the assistance in their power in furthering the ends of justice, by giving the utmost publicity possible to the case. The magistrates were at all times glad to acknowledge services offered in support of the public good, and he, for one, was pleased that he had the opportunity of doing so in the present. case. He alluded to Stubbs' s Trade Protection Institution, through whose instrumentality one of the most dangerous eangs of swindlers was about to be broken up, and he thou.ght the commercial world were greatly in debted to the gentlemen connected with that esta blishment for the valuable aid and information they had afforded in this matter. The prisoner Segers said he had sent to instruct counsel to appear for him, but he gentleman he wished to engage was out of town, and in his absence he would abstain from cross-examining witnesses, and would not therefore object to the remand. Permission having been given to the female pri soner to put in bail, if she could get two respectable householders to become sureties in £2O each for her, both prisoners were remanded for a week. .EXECUTIO a OF THE .DUND.RT MN?" DERERS. Yesterday morning Matthew Wedmore sod Charles Wedmore suffered the extreme penalty ei the law in f ron t o f t h e County Gaol, a t Taunton; for the murd er o f S ara h W aterman, the aunt o fth_ two culprits. Th e c i rcumstances under which these two men obt a i ne d entrance to the cottage inhabited by the murd ere d woman and her husband, and the chain of evid ence w hi c h connected them w i t h the crime, will be too clearly remembered to need rep s ' tition. Both the prisoners rose at an early hour, and were alternately visited by the rev, chaplain ; theV i ; tened with apparent earnestness to his exhortations, and were evidently prepared to meet their fat e• before eight o'clock the under-sher 7 arrived at the gaol, and, accompanied by 3 1; W. Oakley, the governor, an d other officials of t prison, proceeded to the cells. The execution 4 (Calcraft) pinioned them in the separate cells, an they bore themselves with great composure during the awful ceremony. As the prison clock etr u il e , eight the chapel bell gave warning to the miser a 4 , B men that their hour had come. They met for 1;: d. . first time since their sentence in the passage leads ing to the scaffold, and at once shook hands s ' o bade one another good bye. The solemn processl°.o then moved towards the drop, the rev, che1 31 . ., 11 1 0 reading the burial service, the, wretched culP7 9 l fervently joining in the reponses; they mounte d the scaffold with a calm and firm step, a pparee,ti c indifferent to the execration and cries with W 13 1 ,4 their appearance was received. The unhappY me n both shook hands with the governor and chaplaty, and fervently thanked them for the kindness ei li v bit , d towards them, but neither of them said 911 4. thing up to the last moment as to the crime which they were about to suffer. Calcraft s peedly„ adjusted the rop es , an d w i t hi n a f ew moments all; frightful crime was expi a t e d. Af ter h anging 1 4 : usu,ll time th e bodi €s were cut d own , and buried the course of the d a y withi n t h e p rec i ncts of the prison. The crowd that attended was immense. COUNTRY MARKETS'. LIVERPOOL—APRIL 5. There was a fair attendance of the town and coltl i o Irate at this murninz's market, and of buyers from 5 interior. We hwl but little business doing, and N o wheat and flour easier to buy. Oats ard oatmeal wer e limited sale, at rather u n d e r p rev i ous currencies. Bathefit beans, and peas were unchanged in value or demand. Indian corn limited inquiry, and mixed was freely 00" at 37s per 4801 b, yellow 38s, and 38s Cd to 39s for white' WAKEFIELD—APRIL 5 'l llB , h The supplies of grain here t o -d a y were very goo d er e wheat trade rather quiet, and fo r goo d descriptions 'to was a retail demand, at no adva n c e on th e former 143 ts. Thrley, with an milt, tive demand, at is under late 9. 1 . 9 floes. In beans, oats, and shelling little change. Averages for the week Wheat 1,03 qrs., at 61s Bid Oats — 8ar1ey......... 696 Peas .... 15 Beans 37 Rye — 408 2d 43s Od 42s !SO .. EXETER—APRIL 5. 50 Wheat, white.. 7s 6d to 8s 6d Barley.. 4s Od to 6i Ditto new .7s Od to 8s Od I Oats ... 3s Oa us 09 Flour, fine, 47s to —s; seconds, 45s to —s p er sack. CATTLE. ta There was a good supply of cattle, with a dull sales about last week's currencies. d Fat beef,p score, 1 sto 11s3d Ewes, per lb ..........d to 71 Pork carcases,do 10s Od to 11s W e thers, do._ ........d to Sheep, per lb. Od to —d F a t ca l ves, d 0 ....,....d too Rough fat, 4id per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—APRIL 5. drOf We; have again had a very quiet market f o r raw stitiis without any quotable change in values. Refined goo" moderate sale at late currencies. ET—APRIL 5 the close of the market a, Walls End. 6 South nett on •.. i s 3 Fran wzalgate Eden 11 g Thorpe •• • Hartlepool..... 18 6 Kelloe .ll $ Heugh Hall 16 6 Thornley Cassop Stewart's 18 0 Wharneliffe Haswell • lB t, 61; sold, 36. COAL MARK . Prieee of Coal per Ton at 8. d. Davison's West Hart ley —.l7 6 Canvey and Duffryn Maltitig •'_4 0 Bell's Primrose ......13 0 West Hartley Lambert's West Hart ley 17 3 walker Primrose 12 0 Hartlepool West Hart • ley ....16 6 Howard's West Hart ley 17 6, Ships at mark, THE MA I MAILS DUE. Australia ' Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) • . • • . Do. Brazil and Cape Verds Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &a. .• ~ Cuba and Mexico .. OVer clile. Canada, &c. (via L'derry) Cape of Go o d Hope, &c. MaY; g 'bine., Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) API" V. Do (via Marseilles) April io. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. • • . APil India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) APr.'„' Do. (via Marieilles) April 10 , !mita (Bombay). (via Southampton) Ari,„ B , Do. (via Marseilles) Over" ! _4 tisbon 1 1 ' Apt." ,o, nalta, Egypt, and Men (via So u th amp t on ) .. April Do. (via Marseilles) .. Overd, Vigo, and Oport o .. April 1 7 nited Staten, California, &c. weatern Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe April, 1 3, West Indies an d P ac ific. Carthagena, Cuba, &o. AO' April 1 8, (via Marseilles) Ap APri l l - ‘ ril 1" I THE PAINTERS' STRIKE IN LIVERPOOL.--Th citigli toa few of the men have consent e d t o resume wor k a t the to rate of wages, the general body still refuse to accept masters' terms. ° [ADVERTISEMENT.]—We have read with muc h P-ems Du Barry's Report on the cure of diseases Nt ithout 83 „'„/.. eine by Da Berry's R ova lenta Arabica Food. The fo"; 0 0 ing are a few extracts which app ar to merit the atten d of many :—Cure No. 47,121—" Miss Elizabeth J a cobs', Nazing Vicarage, Waltham-cro ss , H ar t s : a cure of cad treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits' ~- A 0 nervous fancies." Cure No. 52,612—Th e Dowager Con.Bw-cl of Castlestuart, of many yea rs nervous irritability, bilet.:: e a indigestion. Cure 54,812—Miss Virginia Zeguers, of consumption, after her medical adviser had aband ° : B o, all hopes of recovery. Cure 180—Of W. B. Re e do 181, Fleet-street, London, of " Twenty-five Y°7' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and ,debiellso Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggran t mfo ti perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disaPP_tn F and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's B ost which, at a few pence per day, saves tie times its c other remedies, removing effectually, n..thout purgin constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) n ervous, bilious. __sf t . liver complaints and all their c onseq uences. CertntB,., No. 36,418. We find it the saf es t rem edy. Andrew i t , MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of OP O I rious and injurious imitations offered under a varierim false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 ags'f,a Alfred Hroper Nevill and his agents ; and the p r een:c m , that Nevill has a patent for Ara....ica Food and that , Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly foJ r . „ 4 No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du We, and Co., 77, Regent-street, in fullcontheseal and wrapP 4 Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins f r'jyr 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s 6d. ; bib. lls.; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. 1 4f 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on I ' o w ° ' g of nt Post-officeorder ion enb4t Holborns : 4oF bolo4rr?St.Strand Barry nruc pa: tildhnaaned D vca me; pudoms4a:aiß.:9: Pavement eant ri 6ga: ,6apnonhd,ad William-sue B C C I dii Phillips ap 7 onh 9 b i r b e i t t tea-dealers; etaoiartr, street i i.es r a;t a ari c etße. e rea c lst2t h ;t; : y 3r,pc3Helalot6i-tgas,ytn:Fd( fi s, CRAUFURD.—On the sth inst., at Normandy -house, rta t i# -, t io berwell-green, toe wife of Cliff or d C rau f ur d , Ewa India-office, of a son. 4 . Se . HAYTER.—On the sth i ns t., a t 72, Gl oucester - s trof%,terf cleston-square, the wif e o f Willi am G oo d enoug h. Esq., of a son. MORRIS —On the 4th inst, at Rix, Ti ver t on; the Wif ° Colonel, Morris, R.A., of a daughter. MAtt.ttlA(iS, va c% BAIRD—SANDPORD.—On the 4th inst., at St. Gee -`19' Paddington, the Rev. J. S. Baird, M, A* , to Loui oll ,Adt Gerald, daughter of the late Sir Daniell Keyte San" D.C.L., Oxon. air It HILL—SKIPPER.—On the 4th big., at St. °V 1011 Bloomsbury, John S. Hill, Esq., son of the late • VI Esq ,of Portland-place, and nephew of Sir James Fags ALP., to Julia, eldest daughter of Charles Skipper , of Russell-square, and Blake Hall, Wanstead, Essel" I) AT H n bellt CAMPBELL.—On the 3d inst., in London, J. R. Cam e Esq., of 1, Osborne-villas, Cheltenham. GIuedCLUTTERBUCK —On the 3d inst., at Newark-park. cestershire, Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq., Deputy - Lieu t. J.P., of Giouce3tershire and Wiltshire, aged 67. it , CUMBERS —On the 4th inst., at Wandsworth, 8. W. , James Cumbers, late of the Bank of England, aged 6° . POWKES.-012 the sth inst., at 15, Paternoster .row, Ch A. Fowkes, aged 35. MILNE.—On the al inst., at 29, • St. Jame , s's..place, Al es• Milne, Esq., C. 8., aged 81. Lives.—On the 4th inst., at Kilburn Priory, John Lia/ Esq., formerly of Madras, aged 70. 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