The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

Itik . ti• t-4; I 4 lit) SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. NEWMARKET R4CES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CRAVEN STAKES. A.F. Napoleon 111. Fisherman .... Tyre._ Druid . Won by a head. BENNINGTON STAKES. D.M, Three ran. RIDDLESWORTH STAKES. Anemone beat Armiger. SWEEPSTAKES £5O SOPS. c by Bolingbroke br to Folly o' Day Lawn Saucebox.. Four ran. £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Thirteen ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS—{Thus Evening.) The LoiD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. TORTURE IN INDIA. The Earl of ALBEMARLE rose, pursuant to notice, to present a petition from certain inhabitants of the Presidency of Madras, complaining of the infliction of torture by the ()Moen of the Government ; attribut ing the practice to weight in the assessment of the Government revenue ; and praying for protection ; also, —that by a report lately laid on the table it is proved to the entire conviction of the house that tor ture, or the infliction of pain, for the purpose of confession or extortion, has long been practised, and still continues to be practised, by the native officers of Government, in the realisation of the public revenues and the administration of criminal law, to a greater or less extent, throughout all the twenty provinces con stituting "the Government of Madras ; that the aforesaid torture, although clandestine and unauthorised, has been for many years known and admitted by the constituted authoiities at home and in India, as shown by the public records ; that this house views th e aforesaid practice of torture, affecting so many millions of her Majesty's subjects, whether as an instrument for the realisation of the public revenue, or the administration of criminal Jaw, or for any other purpose whatsoever, as repugnant to natural justice, abhorrent from humanity, and highly disgraceful to the character of this nation ; that this house hereby pledges itself to use the most effectual mea sures within its power for the annihilation of the odious and baiblroug - -practice of torture within the above-mentioned Government and Presidency of Ma dras." The noble earl then entered at some length into the various horrid means which the Government officers employed to collect the revenue, and ex plained the pain inflicted upon the unfortunate beings who were sentenced to undergo the in fliction of torture. Iu some cases the torture was so strongly employed that death shortly afterwards followed. Indeed it was upon record that death had followed torture for the non-payment of revenue. Amongst the many tortures inflicted he would mention some of them—for instance, exposure in the sun in cer tain postures, with weights placed on the back ; tying the victim by the hair of the head to the tail of a donkey, and dragging him, thus attached, a great distance along the ground ; severe beating with cudgels, tearing the flesh with iron pincers, forcing thorns under the nails, tearing women's breasts with bamboo pincers, pulling out the mustachios, inserting cayenne pepper in the eyes and nostrils, and other similar barbarities. The noble lord then quoted a number of ca=es from a report that had been made to their lordships' house to show the univer sal belief in the minds of the natives of India was, that the infliction of torture was sanctioned and carried on with the full concurrence of the British Govern ment. That - torture was constantly resorted to was well known, and admitted by every official from the highest to the very lowest, and he thought that it was evidence of connivance that it should be so dif ficult to obtain an adequate punishment, when the infliction of it wits proved before European officers. Dismissal from office bad followed conviction in some cases, but that was not sufficient punishment, as he thought the Lord-Chief. Jnstice would agree with him for parties fuund guilty of such atrocious acts of cruelty. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER. Mr. TOTTENHAM took the oaths and his seat for New ROSS. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition praying for an alteration of the law with respec t t o t h e property of married women. FISHERY HARBOURS. Mr. E. ELLICE moved for a return of sums of money advanced on public account since Jan., 1846, fur building, adding to, or otherwise impro v i ng an d main taining fishery harbours in Ireland ; and also a similar return relative to Scotland.—Agreed to. CANAL TRAFFIC. Mr. U. BROWN asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, whether he intended bringing in a bill for the better regulation of railway and canal traffic ? And whether he intended bringing in any bill for the better prevention of accidents on railways, by a more defined responsibility of railway officials ? • Mr. LOWE said it was not the intention to bring on either of the subjects. HAY FOR THE CRIMEA. Mr. W. WILLIAMS asked the Under Secretary for War, whether complaints had been received that hay sent to the Crimea hid been of bad quality and in a damaged state ; and, if so, whether he would lay on the table of the house the information received on the sub ject ? - Mr: F. PEEL—No such complaints have been received. FOREIGN TROOPS. Colonel DUNNE asked the Under Secretary for the War Department, why a return of the pay and allow ances of the foreign troops in the British service, ordered some time since, had not been laid on the table of the house ? Mr. F. PEEL—The return was presented to the house two or three days ago. ST. JAMES'S-PARK. Viscount RA.YNIIAM asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, pending any altera tion in St. James's-park, the privilege and great conve nience of passing thro'igh the park in cabs would be con ceded to the public. Sir B. HALL said he stated the course he intended to propose a few evenings ago. Those alterations he in tended to state to the house on Friday next. His hon. friend the Secretary of State was t.)O ill to attend to answer the question of the kon. member, but on the evening mentioned, he had no doubt he would receive every information he required. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. - VERNON asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce a bill for the purpose of enabling the Govern. ment or the trustees of the National Gallery to purchase entire collections of pictures, with the view of sell*, such portions of such collections as it may he undesir able or unnecessary to retain in the Gallery ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a bill was in, preparation, and would shortly be intro duced. RECRUITING IN AMERICA. Mr. BAILLIE begged to ask the noble viscount when the papers relative to recruiting in America would belaid on the table. On the answer be received would depend whether he would bring on the motion that stood on the paper in his name this evening. Lord PALMERSTON said the documents that must necessarily form the groundwork of the answer to be given had but a short time ago been received. They contained a good deal of detail, and although Lord Cla rendon was occupied i n buQiness of great importance be still transacted the duties of his office as far as he could consistently with theduties to which be was then engaged. The answer to be given to Mr. Dallas requir to be most carefully framed, in order not to envenom a d dictus sion which be thought had already gone too far. Lord Cla- rendon, he had no doubt, would very shortly return to this country, and, under those circumstances, he thought that next week be' should be able to submit the whole correspondence to the house. (Hear, hear,) Mr. BAILLIE said under those circumstances he should postpone bringing forward his motion to a future day. _ _ under which it had been made having reference to the disturbed state of that colony. Sir J. PAKINGTON called attention to the omis sion from the colonial estimates of the salary of the Bishop of New Zealand. On the appointment of the right reverend gentleman to that office it was ar ranged that he should be paid a salary of 6001. a-year. Good faith had not been kept with the right rev, prelate, and he was now left without an income either from this con ntry or New Zealand, and had been deprived of his 6001. per annum since 1853. After a desultory discussion, in the course of which Mr. HADFIELD and other hon. members took part, Mr. LABOUCHERE condemned the introduction of extraneous subjects in discussing the estimates. He was of opinion Bishop Selwyn had no further claim on this country.for the continuance of his salary, and he doubted if the rev. prelate had been placed in a wrong positionl in consequence of its withdrawal. From what he knew of New Zealand, the inhabitants of that colony were in a position to amply compensate him in return for the great advantages and benefits he had conferred on the inhabitants of that colony. He passed a lengthened eulogium on this ex emplary, zealous, and pious conduct of the right rev. prelate. Lord J. MANNERS contended there was a distinct promise on the part of this country to continue the salary to the Bishop of New Zealand. It was a deliberate act on the part of the Government to grant this sum, and with out the solicitation of Bishop Selwyn. . . . Lord J. RUSSELL said this Was not a violation of faith as was supposed by those who bad adddressed the house. At the appointment of the bishop he was informed that the salary was not to be considered a permanent one, and it was during the time the right hon. member for Droitwich was Secretary for the Colonies that, tinder certain circumstances, the-amount was omitted from the votes, and had not been renewed, in cmsequence of a pledge given to the house on a former occasion. Sir 3. PAKINGTON defended his conduct at the period referred to, and said that he bad no idea that in anything he said or did at the time referred to he was consenting to the withdrawal of the grant in question. (LEFT SITTING.) TIIE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY. [A part of the following appeared in our impression of Saturday :—] Major-General Sir Richard Airey was the next witness called, and examined by Col. Tulloch—l understand that upon the Bth of November you issued orders to Lord Lucan to provide shelter for his horses, and on the 12th you renewed those orders ?—I think it was about those dates. I presume that when an order is issued, emanating from so high an authority, it is understood that the officer to whom it is addressed has the means of obey ing it 7—Certainly, to a great extent. When you issued such an order I presume you knew or had the means of knowing what number of men Lord Lucan was likely to have available for the purpose of providing shelter—what number were employed upon the indispensable duties of the camp—and, in fact, whe ther it was practicable for his Lordship to carry the order into execution —When Lord Raglan desired me to convey those orders to Lord Lucan the cavalry had just got on to their new ground, and as we had written to Constantinople and were expecting to receive materials for the shelter of the horses a letter was sent to the of commandin the cavalry to make such preparations as he could for their shelter meanwhile. To my mind, it was quite evident that the only preparations which the cavalry could make were in tracing the ground, turning to account such labour and such intrenching tools as they had at their disposal, excavating a little, and getting the ground level, ■o as to be prepared for the uprights and wood we expected every day from Constantinople. At that time bad the ultimate sited the cavalry camp been fixed upon 7—No. Then, of course, the men could neither have been digging the ground nor preparieg uprights 7—When I say the cavalry were not established upon their ultimate ground the Board should understand that it was not at all sure that it might not have been their ultimate Iv a tion. The fact is, lam placed here in rather a peculiar position. I was in close conference with the Commander in -Chief, and knew everything that was going on between him and the Commanders-in-Chief of the allied armies. There were various transactions between those persona which it would not be convenient to mention here. I will only say that their conferences were continual. There was a particular reason, which I won't now state, why the cavalry were upon the ground to which Col. Tunnel) is now alluding. It appears that Lord Lucan was written to an 4 desired to make temporary shelter as well as be could for his h4ses. Probably it might have been in tended only to suggest that the earth should be embanked a little, and some temporary protection provided in this way. At this time, I repeat, it was by no means certain whether or not the cavalry would have to remain on the plateau ; it depended on a variety of contingencies connected with the reinforcements both of the French and Turkish army. But bow was Lord Lucan to make temporary shelter before the wood arrived 1 What was he to do without materials ?—He might perhaps have embanked the earth, intrenched the ground, and have thrown up such tem porary shelter as he best could. {Wag it not more especially your province to know whether Lord Lucan's men had or had not a sufficient quantity of intrenching tools to enable them to work ? Certainly, it was my province to know, and certainly I did know that they were very badly off for intrenching tools of all descriptions. The reasons were very apparent. We were at that time engaged in breaking ground for a siege of enormous magnitude, fior which we were not well prepared, and it was with the utmost difficulty that we got the engineers to spare us the tools for the regi ments. The regulations, it should be known, afforl a very limited allowance ; I think the allowance is five pickaxes for a whole regiment, but I believe I have Issued as many as 46 pickaxes to one battalion of the army in the course of sor 6 weeks. The trenching tools of the English army are notoriously bad. Then, again, the English soldier does not pay for these tools, unless be is found in the act of wantonly destroying them, and the consequence is that he uses them prover bially ill. All the regiments in the army were, until a very la`e period indeed, extremely badly off for intrench ing tools. if Lord Lucan had no materials and no intrenching tools, how could he provide shelter as you directed ? You mistake when you suppose that the cavalry had no intrenching tools. They were very badly off for them, but I did not say they had none. _ _ _ It having been stated to Sir John M`Neil and my self, in the evidence of Col. Gordon, that Lord Lucan had been ordered to make temporary stables on the Bth and 12th of Nov., had we not goo I reason to point ont that there was "a want of prompitude or ingenuity" when we found those stables were only completed in the middle of Feb., or three months after the issue of the order ? Lord Lucan objected to the question. It was not within the province of the witness to pronounce a gene ral opinion of that nature. This was the business of the Board—not of the witnesses. Col. Tulloch looked upon this question as a most im portant one, both for the Board, the commissioners, and the country, and pressed for permission to put it. The Judge-Advocate announced that no decision would be given upon the point by the Board until their next meeting. The Court then, at 4 o'clock, adjourned until Monday LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) _ „ LONDON, April 14. —Wind this day at noon, NE.; strong breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, April 13.—Arrived—H.M.S. Hydra, from the Cape of Good Hope; H.M.S. Spas rowhawk, Chatham ; H.M.Str. Europas, Sheerness; H.M.S.'s Rhadamanthus, Porcupine, Lizard, the two latter with two mortar vessels in tow, LI M. gun-boats Lively Erne, Delight, and Mac kerel, eastward ; British Lion, Calcutta, for Havre ; Tar tar (s. tug), Liverpdol, with two mortar-boats in tow ; H.M.S. Megaera, Malta; H.M.Str. Prometheus, with two mortar-beats in tow. Sailed—Great Tasmania, for Mo bile. CARDIFF, April 12.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed—Alexan drine and Charles Oak, for New York. SWANSEA, April 13.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Lady Prica, from Cuha. CLYDE, April H.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Boadicea, from Matanzas. Sailed—Alma, for Sydney. ME ELICTRIO. TELEGRAPH:I SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—Alliance, (s.), from Havre; Britanni a , Dub lin ; John a nd Isabella, Sunderland; Ro.aman, Jersey ; Duke of Gloater, Nawport. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind East. Arrived —V oca li s t from St. John's, N.B. ; Villa de Equa, Brindisi; Confucius, Bremen. Sailed—Gleaner, for Antwerp ; Venus, Harlingen ; Volga, Gibraltar ; Ada, Newfoundland ; John Clement, Messina ; Elizabeth, Rotterdam ; Success, Jamaica ; Wm. Thomas, Newfoundland. ( 0T SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.59 a.m. Wind E. ; tide, first hour's ebb, cloudy. Arrived, April 13—American Congress, from New Yo rk; Inger Marie, Randers ; Comer, Athens ; Ocean Bride, Havre ; St. Jago, Porto Cabello ; Mi nerva , M aur iti u s ; Susan, Nassau ; Gipsey Queen, Alicante. Arrived, Ap r il 14. —F yenoor d, f rom R o tt er d am ; L y k- Icps Prove, Praestow • Alb er t us , H am b urg; Atl as, Fried richstadt ; Heinrich' Bremen ; Wohlfahrt, Memel ; Leonne, Gravelines. Sailed.—Cl yde Royal Sovereign, ' for S ydney • Moorest, Port Philip ; Melbourne. air D. L. EVANS said he should also postpone his amendment on the subject until the evening on which the hon. member brought forward his motion. FALL OF KARS. ROOFS FOR CAN—ADIL. Mr, WHITESIDE gave notice that on an early day. &nada from th;T;nrimthe°al,l he should move—" That this house, while expressing , its admiration of the Turkish soldiers and the conduct thousand men a ß re ic t h o ar b d e sent to C known to be of the BMA' army at Kars, also feels it its duty to ex- Eyre. press its conviction that the capitulation of that for- rA LetDYERTISEMENT.] Only be Roberts's celebrated ointment, tress was owing to the want of foresight on the part of Friend,'' is confidently tuentalled the " Poor Man's valued.—Dr. r to the public as an her Majesty Majesty's Government." failing remedy for wounds of recommendedevery scor SUPPLY. cure of ulcerated sore legs, if of twent y y yeeseriYtion, a certain but a i r c s standing, cuts, Oreehailbndlaiinnfls'amed eyes, sore heads, can- The house then went in committee of supply, those afflict' The following votes were agreed to : p bu ini rn p s le , s so in ald t s h , e b f ru ac i e s , es s eruptions, and 4,050/. for the various establishments is Bermuda, humours dc., and is a specific for eruptions cemu that i somelimes folio** vaccination. SoldAinntipsoltnsg, 7,375/. for the support of ecclesiastical establishments in the North A.meriean provinces. at ls, lid. and 2s. 9d. each.—Also his " Pilula3 4.7131. for the Indian Department in Canada. phulm," confirmed by more than forty years' experience t ere. , The next vote was for 24,7281., for the discharge of without exception, ono of the best alterative medicin e o , b e e r the salaries, 140,2 of the governors and others of the compounded for purifying the blood and assisting nat e u s re e in colonies. all her operations ; hence they are useful in scrofula, scorbutic Mr. WILLIAMS objected to many of the items in complaints, glandular swellings, particularly those of the this vote as being too much for the duties performed, and neck, &c. They form a mild and superior family aperient inbred that the vote be reduced by 3,5001. for the gover- that ma y be taken at all time s without confineme nt or change nor of Jamaica, and 1,800/, that of the governor of of diet. Sold in boxes, at Is. I.d they 2s. 9d., 4s. and 225. each.—Sold wholesale by proprietors Beach and Western Australia. Mr. LABOUCHERE defended the vote. The co- ' Barnicott at their dispensary Bridport •• by the London houses ; _retail by- all respectable medicine - - ' vendors in the lonial estimates had been reduced one-half since 18 50 - United Kingdom. Observe.—No medicine sold under the Lord J. RUSSELL supported the vote for Jamaica, above names can possibly be genuine, unless " Beach and find said he thought it would be unwise to make any al- Barnicott, - late Dr. Roberts, Bridport." is engraved and orations in it considering the peculiar circumstances printed oa the stamp gazed to each box. TTIE'" T SITN, LONDON, MON ( tiA.Y EV_ENI - NG, APRIL 14, 11356. TILE POST I lON OF THE GuVERNME.NT. (From the Morning Post of this day.) The Government, since peace has been pro claimed, have been defeated twice, and are now underlying a challenge to combat a l'ovtrance, from one of the subordinate members of the ex tinct Cabinet of Lord Derby. Parliament and its factions, conceiving that the country is brought safely into the haven where it should be, consider that they are now at liberty, and that now is the proper time, to throw into the sea the pilot who managed the business for them in the storm. We wish to do every one, even an opponent, justice, and it is only just to say for the large party who , occupy the Opposition benches, that their political conduct throughout the late war has been of a much higher character than that which has here tofore been exhibited by Parliamentary parties in a like position. We have, thank Heaven, had had none of that open advocacy of the cause of the enemies of the country, for the sake of discomfiting the Ministry, which distinguished the Opposition in the days of the Peninsular War. Nor have we been scandalised in this our day by avowed exulta tion, on the part of the politicians out of office, at failures resulting from the operations of adminis trators in office. It is but just to give Mr. Disraeli and those who act with him credit for this. They have been generally discreet, and some times for bearing, and we will not attempt to diminish aught of the honour which may accrue to them therefrom by stopping to inquire for ourselves, or suggest to others, how much of this discretion and forbearance might be attributable to the consciousness of want of cohesion in their own party or of inability. We will not stay to discuss the probability of this ; how ever interesting and attractive its consideration may be, it is a mere matter of party politics, and the present state of public affairs is too critical to spend time upon its entertainment. It is evident that combinations of parties or fac tions in the House of Commons are possible, by which, at any moment, the existing Government can be put in a minority, and from them that it must be evident to every one who has watched with care the temper of Parliament since the proclama tion of peace, that not only has some such combi nation been put on foot, but that it has been i 1- ready put into active movement, and been brought, on more than one occasion, to bear upon the policy and conduct of the representative body. It in fluenced the treatment of the nomination of the Select Committee upon Local Charges upon Ship ing, and carried the motion of Mr. Cowan against the Government on the militia question. Some such kind of combination—a combination of the many Derbyites, the few Peelites, and the scat tered Radicals may possibly, whenever it comes on, enable Mr. Baillie to count for his motion upon America, more Ayes than Noes. Houses of Com mons, as they have been constituted since the Re form Bill, have ever been full of caprice, and the very Abbots of Unreason, nor do they seem to be capable of attaching themselves to any Minister, however able t however, successful, or however po pular, for more than two or three years. The Re formed Parliaments have ever been restless and greedy of change, and the excitement of party strife ; and it is quite on the cards that, now that they feel themselves safely landed out of the great struggle in the East, they may join a Mr. Baillie, or a Mr. Anybody else who will constitute himself a lever for the occasion, to have a heave at the Statesman who has landed them, for no better rea son than that they want a new play and a fresh set of actors on the stage. We trust they will have more consideration and more true sense of the present position of the coun try and its public men. We cannot conceive any thing more untoward than a defeat of the Govern ment of Lord Palmerston in the present juncture. It could scarcely be expected that Lord Palmer ston, governing through a Parliament elected before the war, and called together under the in fluence of his political opponents, would yield his position without an appeal to the country; it would not be just to the country that he should do so, and a general election at this moment, with Europe, though declaredly at peace, unsettled from east to west and from north to south, would be only one degree less hazardous and harmful than an abrupt change of Councillors and of Councils. COMPARATIVE CABINETS. (From the Press.) No divining wand is needed to fortell the catastrophe of a Cabinet beaten twice in one week. Peace being proclaimed, the weakness of the Ministry becomes palp able to all. The progress of events has brought Go vernment into a position which may be described as status quo ante " Coalition." Whoever examines the list of the Russell Cabinet, as it stood in 1860, will find that in representative tone and official aptitude it was con , iderably superior to the Ministry over which Lord Palmerston presides. The country, however, was not satisfied with the old Whig families, and it expired of exhaustion. The present Ministry has now no longer the factitious support of a continental war to divert scrutiny from its pretensions, and to lull the dissatisfaction with its debility. If Lord John Russell, with his united " great Whig party," was not able to administer affairs, how can a patchwork connec tion strive against the pressure of the House of Commons recovering with peace its right of free inquiry ? The present Government is manifestly weak, both col lectively and individually. As a Cabinet, it represents no policy ; as a Ministry, it has little special ruling ta lent. Its Premier has passed the period when the mind can adjust itself to urgent calls for vigorous effort. Mr. Disraeli happily reminded the noble viscount of the am biguity of a career in which many years were spent under the tutelage of Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh. When Lord Palmerston was young he was a dubious Liberal in his speeches, and a zealous Tory in his votes ; when he is aged he is a Premier of a " Liberal" con nection, which suspects him of being " an old Tory" in false colours. Though fatally facile with his pen and speech, Lord John Russell was at least zealous as an administrator ; but the conduct of Lord Palmerston in the Home-office shows bow little the country can ex pect from him on education, administrative reform, or the amendment of the law. Whether from the levity of his character, or a peculiar incapacity for discerning poli tical principles, Lord Palmerston has never shown that moral vision inherent in a great ruling nature. He was never the chosen leader of a Parliamentary party, and accident alone precipitated him into the Premiership. The age demands energetic application of sound princi ples. Force and freshness are necessary for the treat ment of the social problems that press for solution ; but in so conventional a character as that of Lord Palmer. ston it would be vain to look for profound ideas. To coquet with opposites, and to embrace nothing heartily, has been the inherent vice of his flashy system of poli tics, at once unstable and unsound. Next to the Premiership the office of Lord Chancellor is the most important, and in that post the Russell Cabinet had the superiority. Nobody ever hinted that Lord Cottenham was a failure on the woolsack, and he had great weight with the profssion, while, ai a law reformer, he did not fall shorter of expectation than the present keeper of the Great Seal. In the secretarial departments of administration the Russell Cabinet, weak as it was, again had the advantage. As to the Foreign office, we shall allow the friends of the Earl of Clarendon and of Viscount Palmerston to decide which was best suited for the post. In both Cabinets Sir G. Grey filled he office of Home Secretary, and of late there have been some manifestations that the lively but not powerful baro net has not so ready an access to the ear of the house as in former times, but his efficiency has been impaired by his want of stamina. In the Colonial-office it would be absurd to dwell on the degree of intellectual difference between Earl Grey and ➢lr. La bouchere, The first had a philosophical intellect, though spoiled by its propensity to crotchets ; but originality wag never imputed to the present Secretary for the Colonies. Take, again, the financial department, and we are cer• tain (that the colleagues of Sir C. Lewis will admit that Sir C. Wood had more aptitude for the post. In saying that we do not at all compliment Sir C. Wood ; big trail.- ing was more official than that of his predecessor, and his early experience as private secretary to Earl Grey gave him familiarity with " the City." But it is in " the eternal city," and in philosophical dissertations on its archxology, that Sir C. Lewis finds his chief speciality. He is, without question, an emi*'uit scholar; but his greatest friends, like his literary critics, will admit that he has not as much weight in politics as in letters. Colleges may applaud his learning, but capitalists will dispute his budgets. Lord Minto, as a Lord Privy Seal, was not so reticent in speech as Lord Harrowby ; yet we cannot forget that in the Maynooth Commission, over which Lord Bar rowby presided, portions of the evidence were prema turely disclosed to the Court of Rome, and, though Lord Harrowby is an incarnate cycloparlia in variety of know ledge, in a long Parliamentary career his lordship has never shown eminent talent for affairs. Like his ac complished father, Lord Harrowby belongs to "the waverers," the political interest in our domestic poli tics which the Premier most cultivates. Lord Minto, a least, was head of the Elliotts, and kept all the Scotch cousins quiet, besides pos,essing what Sir James Graham would call " a short cut" to Wo burn Abbey. We incline, also, to think that Sir Francis Baring, as First Lord of the Admi ralty, was more popular with the Navy than Sir Charles Wood. Lord Broughton (Sir J. C. Hob house) was a weak Minister for India ; his successor, Mr. Vernon Smith, is a highly respectable gentleman, with many good personal qualities, but we not perceive his distinctive faculties for dealing with that mighty Oriental problem, which requires more attention than is given to it by the dilettanti Whigs of our time. The same relative inferiority is manifest in the subor dinate parts of the two Cabinets. Mr. Baines left his place at the Poor-Law Board from failing health, and he is one of the Ministerial supernumeraries ; but we cannot forget that his office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was held (under the Russell Minis try) by Lord Campbell, with abilities great as his energy and experience. The President of the Board of Trade was Mr. Labouchere, who had important connections ; and the office is now occupied by Lord Stanley of Alderley, more qualified as an electioneering ally than an economical administrator. The Postmas ter-General of the Russell Cabinet was the Mar quis of Clanricarde ; his successor is the Duke of Ar gyll, to whose merits as a statesmen justice alone could Le retidere'l in one of his Grad's long lectures. In the materials of such a Cabinet we do n. - it see "the men" fit for giving to the country "the measures" upon whi :13 it ha , set its heart. A Wh4.l. Cabinet, with two statesmen like Lord John Russell and Earl Greyexclud ed from it, is a political anomaly. Tn. Ministry, there fore, is neither a party °shine', nor is it ( what was called in the last oentury)a "broad-bottomed Administration." It has no hold upon large and powerful classes of the community. The Peelitos on one flank, and the politi cians of Manchester on the other, keep aloof from it, and it has only lived for the last few months upon " the chapter of accidents." Without a policy, distrusted by its nominal followers, such an Administration cannot stand. The lath-and-plaster edifice, with its varnished stucco, must crumble before the first shook. THE SUPPLEMENTARY SITTINGS OF THE CONFERENCE. (From the Illustrated London News.) For nearly forty years it was a matter of reproach against British statesmen and the British people that they habitually and systematically disregarded foreign politics. The revolutions and insurrections of 1848, and the war which ultimately grew out of them—and which has just been brought to a sudden, if not a satisfactory, conclusion—awakened them both somewhat rudely to a sense of their mistake. It was a misfortune to this coun try, no less than to the world, that there was only one or at most two English statesmen in the year 1853, who knew the true relationships of the Continental States towards each other, and towards this country ; or who had studied politics, not alone with reference to the narrow arena of the British Isles, but with reference to the equilibrium of all Europe, and to the general in terests of the civilised world. Are the people and their statesmen wider awake or better informed at the present moment ? Is the Peace of Paris—signed, but not yet ratified—worthy of the efforts that have been made to obtain it ? And have the Plenipotentiaries, or the Po- tentates who pulled the strings of their deliberations, looked even five years before them ? They have done much for the passing day and its longings for repose ; have they given a thought to the morrow and to the troubles with which it is heaving? _ _ _ Let us consider for a moment I . ;:rhat the war has settled, and what the Peace has left unsettled, that we may be the better enabled to judge both of the War and of the Peace ; and of the state of affairs which has been inau gurated by the Cori:rences. At Paris, "all has gone on merry as a marriage bell." The Russians have shown themselves humble ; the Allies—England alone excepted —have been all smiles and sunshine towards the foe ; an heir has been born to the house of Bonaparte amid the congratulations of diplomacy; the disput3 with Turkey bas been adjusted to the apparent satisfaction of all con cerned ; the price of diamonds has risen twenty per cent. in Paris, to the immense delight of the smug jewellers of the Palais Royal and the Boulevard des Italiens ; Paris has given itself a holiday ; Prussia has hugged herself in the pleasant delusion that even she has dune something towards the restoration of the Peace which she prizes ; and the great Czar of all the Russias— sharing the general satisfaction—has announced to his people that the objects of the-war are accomplished;— that, the rights of the Christians in Turkey being secured, he has sheathed his sword, and made terms with his opponents upon whom be has thus imposed his own views and his own course of policy. England and Austria have acquiesced in considering the war a purely Turkish one ; Turkey, of course, had no call to consider it anything else ; and Europe, by the intermediation of all who took part in the Con ferences, has narrowed the subject to this one issue. On this one issue Peace has been proclaimed. France, Rus sia, and Prussia are happy; Turkey is not very much dissatisfied ; Austria is somewhat bewildered ; Great Britain thinks she ought to be happy, but has a mis giving that, somehow or other, things are not so plea sant or so right as her good friends and allies endeavour to persuade her they are ; while gallant little Sardinia boldly proclaims her dissatisfaction, and treats the Peace as of little value and of problematical permanency. Perhaps Lord Palmerston and Lord Clarendon share the opinions of Count Cavour in this matter ; but on this point the public has no means of judging. All that it ' knows is the Conferences are yet sitting, and that the postscript of their deliberations, like that of a lady's letter, may perhaps turn out to be more important than the body of their note. To heal a quarrel is a grand and a beneficent work ; but to patch up a difference or a dispute for a day, with out heeding whether it may break out with increased virulence to-morrow or the day after, is a work that merits little praise, either for its wisdom or its benevo• lence. We do not assert that the Peace which has just been concluded is unsatisfactory, for as yet we do not know its terms. The French and the British Govern ments have both proclaimed it to be honourable to all parties and humiliating to. none ; and the public must await the authoritative and official promulgation of the treaty before it can deliver its verdict upon the contract to which it has become a party. Yet it is impossible to deny that there is an uneasy feeling in the public mind of this country;—tbat the pacification is considered to be too sudden and premature to augur a long continu ance ;—that having had it in our power to clothe the Angel of Peace with new garments, white and unsul lied, we have dressed her up in rags and patches ; that we have put out a fire in the forecastle, and taken haveno heed of the leak in the hold ;—th a t we been so anxious to bestow mercy and display generosity to a de feated foe, that we have forgotten or neglected to do jus tile to our friends—that we have driven the robber from the door of Turkey, hut have refused to take him into custody; and that in accepting Sardinia for an ally we have tacitly accepted responsibilities towards that Power, and towards the Italy of which she is the hope and the representative, which we have failed to meet except with empty promises and idle sympathies. This instinctive feeling on the part of the public may be right or it may be wrong ; but it would be foolish to deny that it exists, or that it will continue to exist, until the tongues of our diplomatists and statesmen are unloos ened, and the true state of the case made patent to the whole world. Whilst continuing to hope that the Peace mly de serve all the favour with which the French have greeted it, we cannot shut our eyes against the deep signifi cance of the remonstrances which Sardinia has made cn the affairs of Italy ; and on the unexpected complica tions which may thence result in the international rela• tions of those who were lately allies or foe'. France, for Napoleonic purpose=, may have views with regard to Rome with which Protestant England may possibly sympathise, and against which Greek Russia may have nothing to allege ; hut against which Austria may feel herself bound to protest; even if her protest should take the form of forty thousand men at Ancona. The designs of Sardinia upon Lombardy and Venice, while highly agreeable to the Italians in those provinces and else where, may perhaps not be in any degree disagreeable to the Emperor of Russia, who can have no great amount of good towards his good friend Francis Joseph. great Britain may in like manner be well disposed to punish King Bomba ; but if it be a portion of his pun ishment, as it must, if this country have anything to do with it, to insist upon some degree of constitu tional freedom for the unhappy Sicilians, who de serve it ; and for the equally ill-governed but less unhappy N(apolitans, who seem to have no great desire for freedom—we do not well see how the Emperor of the French can be a party to the chastisement. We say nothing of Poland, Hungary, or Germany. In Italy alone there are ample materials for the disquietude of all Europe, even though the Peace of Paris may, as regards Turkey, be all that the friends of Turkey can desire, It is a mistake to suppose that the War was merely a Turkish one ; and that no other or higher interests were involved in it than those of the Ottoman Empire. It is possible that all these things have been conidered ; and that at the sapplementary sittings of the Conferences, which are likely to continue for several days, the affairs both of the Scandinavian and the Italian peninsulas are receiving the earnest attention which they merit, if the Peace is to be as stable as it is said to be honourable. In the mean time let it be noted, as a sign how the wind blows, that, in proportion as Russia shows herself in clined to curry favour with France, Austria endeavours to attach herself more strongly to Great Britain. It is well no doubt to boll° when there is occasion for re joicing, but the British people in this case are not likely to hollo very loudly till they are quite certain that they are " out of the wood." Nava. and Military Intelligence. The review of the fleet at Spithead by the Queen is ordered to take place on the 23d inst. (St. George's-day). Her Majesty will arrive at Gisport from London at 11, and will leave on her return at 5. The following naval aides-de-camp are summoned to attend her Majesty on the occasion :—Admiral Sir W. Park€r (first and princi pal), G,C.8., Cornmatider-in-Chief at Devonport ; Capt. Sir B. Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain the Marquis Townsend ; Capt. Lord G. Paulet, C.B. ; Capt. Lord E. Russell, C.B. ; Capt. H. J. Codrington, C. 8., of H.M.S. Algiers ; Capt. Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., of H.M.S. Excellent ; Commodore the Hon. F. T. Pel ham, C. 8., Captain of the Fleet ; Capt. G. Elliott, of H.M.S. James Watt ; Captain Robert Smart, K.H., Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard. To-morrow evening the Lords of the Admiralty will arrive at Ports mouth, and on Wednesday morning will order the fleet through the evolutions intended to be per formed on the 231. The following ships.and vessels were at the anchorage yesterday : Guns., Duke of Wellington, screw Royal George, screw Conqueror, screw lOl Exmouth, screw Nile, screw ... . ...... 91 Guns. Trusty, sctrew Meteor . . Glat ton, screw A Forth, screw mortar ship 12 Enrotas . Rattler Orion James Watt, screw 9l Cxsar, screw 9l Algiers, screw Rodney, sailing ship Majestic, screw sl Cressy, screw Colossus, screw - 'EI Brunswick, screw Bl Sanspareil, screw Hawke, screw Russell, screw • 6O Edinburgh, screw Hastings, screw,; Hogue, screw Ajax, screw Arrogant, screw _ _ 47 Conflict, 'crew Horatio, screw Centaur, paddle Dragon, paddle Merlin, paddle Basilisk, paddle Bulldog, paddle Goigon, paddle Driver, paddle 11 eels, paddle Geyser, paddle Mohawk.. Hydra Coquette Intrepid Sparrowhawk Belleisle Mmander . , sailing ship 44 Retribution, paddle 22 Vesuvius Sealark . Esk, screw 2l Pearl, screw corvette Cossack, screw 2l Cruizer, screw l7 Magicienne, paddle Thunder, screw Rolla Lightning, paddle Alban, paddle Otter Lizard Porcupine, paddle And about GO gunboats. The Eurolas ' Sparrowhawk, Lizard, P orcu pi ne , an d the gunboats,, Lively, Erns, Delight, and Mackerel ar rived on Saturday from the eastward ; the Prometheus arrived in the night from the Thames ; and the Sham rock, B)uncer, Drake, and the Traveller gun-boats yes terday. A vast number of excursionists visited Portsmouth yes terday by the South-Western and South Coast. Railways. The following notice has been published by the Purt Admiral : " NOTICE. " ET COMMAND OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. " Steamers, sailing-vessels, and boats are not to attempt to cross the line of the ships of war aboat to be reviewed on the 23d inst., nor on any account to pass bet wean the columns; nor are they to occupy any part of the man-of war channel between Spithead and St. Helen's during the evolutions. " Steamers are to keep to leeward of the columns or ships in the order of sailing, as their smoke might prevent signals being quickly noticed, thereby causing accident. " Vessels are not on any account to pass to windward of the Royal Yacht if it can he possibly avoided. " Masters of vessels must be aware that the evolutions of so large a number of men-of-war require a considerable apace, and they are therefore to steer accordingly, and not close in to interrupt the evolutions. They themselves will alone be answerable should any accident occur. " GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, " Vice-Admiral, and Commander-in-Chiet. "Victory, in Portsmouth harbour. April 9, 1856." Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Megaira, 6, Com mander John 0. Johnson, arrived at Spithead at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Black Sea, Malta, and Gibraltar. She brought home two naval invalids, 30 seamen from the Pride of the Sea, two from the Enterprise, and two from the Red Rover, lost in the Black Sea. The Megwra has been five years in commis , ion ; she left Spithead on her last voyage on the 27th of April, 1854 ; since then she has been employed exclusively in the Black Sea, and has been, generally speaking, a re markably healthy vessel. She made the greater part of the passage home under canvas, her machinery, boilers, sc., .being in a very defective state, bat she will serve very well for the accommodation of the privileged at the forthcoming review, being a capacious vessel of 1,400 tons. The London, 90, Captain W. H. Jervis, was towed by the Confiance and Zephyr from Hamoaze into Ply mouth Sound on Saturday. She is appointed to sail to-day for Spithead, and will probably be accompanied by the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Tulture, 6, Captain F. H. Glasse. The copper of the Calcutta, 84, Captain W. K. Hall, having been examined and repaired, she was taken out of the basin dock at Devonport on Saturday. Her crew got up lower yards and topmasts, and pointed topgal lantmasts the same day. The crew of the screw steam-ship Centurion, 81, Cap tain W. J. Williams, at Keyham, bent sails on Saturday. She will be taken out of dock to-day, and will go into Plymouth Sound to-morrow. The Widgeon and 1143rtle paddle-wheel steam-vessels arrived at Sheerness on Saturday, each having a new mortar vessel in tow, from the river Thames. The new mortar vessels Nos. 46 and 47, built by Messrs. Harvey, of Ipswich, now fitting at Sheerness, are ordered to be hastened, to enable them to be eot ready for joining the squadron at Spithead. Considerable improvements are being made at Sheer ness to make the workshops complete in every respect for She preparation of steam-engine machinery similar to that formerly executed at the Woolwich factory. Two wooden mortar vessels, 4 . 0 s . 53 and 54, of much more formidable dimensions than those hitherto brought to Woolwich, were on Friday Se wed up from the factory of Messrs. Briggs, of Sunderland, by the Eagle tug-boat, and were forwarded thence on the following day to Sheerness, to he masted and rigged for service. The 18- inch mortar, landed at Woolwich Arsenal a few days ago from Liverpool, is to be despatched to-day to Shoebury• ness, to be submitted to a series of experiments, it being the intention of the authorities of the proof department to put the Nova Sc Ala iron of which the mortar is cast to a thorough test. The steam-tug Monkey, 130-horse power, Second- Master G. Syndercorube, arrived at Woolwich on Satur day morning from Sheerness, bringino. 70 supernume raries of the fleet. These were immediately distributed on board the gun-boats Procris, Spanker, Grappler, and Thrasher, which soon afterwards left for Greenhithe. These vessels are all stored and equipped for three months' service, and are to join the squadron at Ports mouth. The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Kite, 3, 170 horsepower, having undergone thorough repairs, is again in perfect service order. She has been commissioned by Second Master Alfred Joseph Veitch temporarily, and is to pro ceed to Portsmouth. Her Majesty's freight ship Emma Eugenie Captain M'Clelland, arr i ve d at the new pier off Woolwich arsenal on Friday evening, with No. 3 company sth battalion of the Royal Artillery under the command of Capt. Hill and Lieut. Strange. They were medically attended by Staff - Assistant-Surgeon J. A. Laing, and consisted of 56 non-commissioned officers and gunners, 12 women, and 1! children. The Emma Eugenie likewise brought home seven invalids of the 36th and 16th regiments, who pro ceeded on Saturday to Fort Pitt barracks at Chatham under the command of Capt. Hill and Dr. Laing. She sailed from Jamaica on the Bth of Feb., and experienced heavy gales for some days at the commencement of her voyage, the wind veering from the south-west to north east, occasioning heavy squalls, which continued until the lflth. She arrived on the 29th of March at Kinsale, and sailed on the sth of April for Woolwich. No casu alties occurred during the voyage, with the exception of the death of one woman from consumption. One birth likewise took place. The steamer Antelope was on Saturday morning paid off at Woolwich Dockyard. Two more gun boats will be launched by Mr. J. Laird frost his Birkenhead building yard on Saturday next. The following appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty : —John Pooley, to be assistant-pay master to the Sanspareil ; A. Whiffin, to be assistant paymaster to the Hawke ; T. J. T. Wood, to he assist ant-paymaster to the Osprey ; F. Woods, to be assistant paymaster to the Alacrity. On Saturday last an inspection of the several depots under orders ter embarkation to join _the heard-quarters of their respective regiments, took place at Chatham, by Col, Jervis, commandant of the provisional battalion. The depots of the following regiments appeared on the parade-ground—viz., the sth Northumberland Fusiliers, under the command of Capt, W. Lyons ; the 12th Regi ment, the depot of which is under the command of Brevet- Major F. G. Hawley ' • the 26th Cameronians, und er th e command of Capt. W. Mosso ; the 37th ft, giweet, under the command of Lieut. Armstrong ;end the 40th and 45th Regiments, in charge of Capt. J. Goff. Toe men ae ptared in their new uniform and were in heavy marching order. The sth Fusiliers will embark for the Mauritiu the 37th Regiment for Ceylon, and the 45th for the Cape if Good Hope. On Saturday afternoon the whole of the troops belong. ing to the Royal Engineers' esabltehment at Chatham, underthe direction of Col. Sandham, R.E., were engaged in siege operations of a highly interesting character. The experimentelook place at thepraetising ground connected with the Royal Engineers, near the Casemate Barracks, St. Mary's, and were conducted wish the view of show ing in what manner masses of troops can defend them selves when opposed to an enemy in the field. Excava tions had been made, and earthworks thrown up by the troops belonging to the Royal Sappers and Miners to illustrate the various modes of defence when engaged in an open or enemy's country. Several excavations had also been made for the purpose of showing the lite lity and advantage of rifle-pits: During the siege opera tions some mines, which had been prepared to illustrate the practical working of the experiments, were fired in a successful manner, the foroe of the explosions scatterin g the earthworks and the balks of timber with which they had been covered. The troops belonging' to the Sappers and Miners engaged in the siege works were under the direction of Captain Fitzroy Somerset, R E. The following circular memorandum has been issued by the Horse Guards, dated April 7 : "As boys authorised to be enlisted for the caval. y and infrantry of the line are entitled to a free kit,' under the provisions of the royal warrant of the 22d of January last, it is to be understood tl.at' the bounty of 21. 25., formerly allowed for their equipment, with necessaries is disooutinued." MILITIA. The Galway Militia, about 500 strong, under the com• mand of Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Clanearty, embarked at Liverpool on Saturday for Galway in the screw steam ship Andes, which, after di- , eint.arkirig Them at Dublin, will proceed to Vie Crimes to bring home troops. The Alps also sailed for the Crimea from Liverpool on Sa turday. IMPROVEMENTS IN FIELD GUNS. Oil Saturday some interesting experiments were tried at Manchester with a new riled brass field piece, the in vention of Mr. Whitworth, the well-known machine maker. The casting of the metal bad taken place at Woolwich, and was of the dimensions ordinarily used for 24-pounder howitzer , , having what is termed a polygonal spiral bore of 4 inches. Iron shot were used of a form termed polygonal colloidal, the length of 321 b. balls be ing 11 inches, and that of 48-pounders being 164 inches. The experiments were made by men of the Royal Artil lery force, stationed at Manchester, under the direction of Col. Griffin and Capt. Campbell. • Lieut.-G,n. Sir H. Smith was on the ground, during the greater part of the time ; and Mr. Westley Richards, who has been super intending experiments at the works of - Mr. Whitworth for some time past, gave his assistance. A large party of Manchester gentlemen were present, by invitation of Mr. Whitworth, including Mr. W. Fairbairn, C.E. The following were the extraordinary results of the experiments : Charge of Weight Angle of Powder. of Ball. Elevation. Range. Experiment 1... 2oz 321 b '45 deg 423 yards 2... 3oz 321 b 45 deg 621 yards 3... 3oz 321 b 45 deg 617 yards 4... 3ez 481 b 45 deg 420 yards f t 5_ soz 481 b 45 deg 735 y ar d s 6 ... 6 oz 481 b 20 deg 600 yards 7... 7oz 481 b 20 deg 687 yards It will be seen that the heaviest charge of powder for a 4816 shot, fired at an angle of 45 degrees, was only fiv e ounces, and that the distance at which the ball struck the ground was 735 yards, and the extent of the prac tising ground would not admit with safety of any in. crease of charge. Some ricochet practice followed afterwards, the re sults of which appeared to be highly satisfactory to the scientific gentlemen present. The muzzle of the gun in these experiments had an elevation of only two and three degrees. The last experiment was at two deg rees elevation, w ith a 481 b shot, having a charge of 4oz of powder, and the shot first grazed the earth at a distance of 83 yards, and never rose to a height of more than three to four feet. POLICE INTELLIGENC CLERKENWELL. THE ILLEGAL TRAITIO IN YOIINO WOMEN FROM RAMRURGH.—A respectably dressed young woman, of the name of Johanna Duver ger, was placed at the b ar b e f ore M r . C orr i e, c h arge d with stealing four calico shirts, the property of Mr. F. A. Bauer, a professor of mus i c , res idi ng a t N o. 6 , Fea therstone -buildings, Holborn. Mr. Parry, instructed by Mr. Shaen, thesolicitor of the Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women, attended for the de fence. The prisoner in this case is a native of Hamburgh, whence she came in August last from the house of her parents, who are respectable tradespeople, to take the position of general servant in the house of, as she be lieved, a Mrs. Bauer, of No. 6, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn. The place had been procured . for her through a servants' office in Hamburgh, kept by a Mr. and Mrs. Lutseus. She came extremely well provided with clothes, and with various little articles of personal ornament. When she came to the place she found that her mistress had been a Mrs. Bauer, but had married again, a man named Kratsman, and was keeping a lodging-house, having a grown-up son (the prosecutor) living with them. The wages she was to receive was 6s. per month. From the time of the prisoner's arrival she has never received any wages at all, and whenever she has asked for them her mistress has told her to go out in the streets and see gentlemen, and get money from them. This has several times been done, and the girl has, when thus sent out, passed the evening at the house of a German acquaint ance, and she declared that she bas never had inspropar connection with any one. From time to time Kratsmati has sent her to pawn a number of her personal orna ments, including a brooch, a pair of ear-rings, a ring; it gold locket, a silver yencil-case, &c., and she bas handed the money thus obtained to Mrs, Kratsman. Soon after she came, the step-son, Mr. Bauer, sail he would teach her English if she would sleep with him, but this she always refused to do. He has at various times up to a fortnight ago repeated these solicitations. About six weeks ago a gentleman, with his wif; and family, came to lodge in the house, and very soon after wards t he prisoner spoke to the lady's private maid, and also to the lady's daughter, begging to be relieved from her position, and at different times mentioned the fact 3 - above detailed, almost all of which were known to the lady prior to Friday last. On that morning the prisoner came down about seven o'clock, as usual, and went into the front parlaur to clean the room. The prosecutor was there, and as soon as he saw her he began abusing her fit having complained of him to the lodgers, and for having written against him home to her mother ; and he ultimately struck her with his fist and with his open hand on her face. The lady and her daughter both heard the scuffle, and the girl rushed up stairs to them for protection, with the marks of the blow distinctly on her face. The maid servant also heard the scuffle, and saw the mark of the blow. From that time the lady kindly took the girl under her protection, and on the afternoon mentioned the circamstanses of the case to her husband, who at once put it into Mr. Shaen's hands ; and he on behalf of the Associate Institution for Im proving the Laws for the Protection of Women took the matter up. On Saturday Mr. Shaen took out a sum mons against Mr. Bauer for the assault, and the case was heard before Mr. Corrie on Tuesday, when, after a ram bling defence, in which Mr. Bauer cross-examined the prisoner and the witnesses at great length, the magis trate suggested that the case should stand over gene rally to give Mr. Shaen the opportunity of making fur ther inquiries as to the girl, it being alleged that her complaints had already been inquirsd into, and found to be unfounded by the Hamburgh court, Mr. &men als3 static g that they would in the meantime take charge of the girl. On Thursday, as this gentleman and his family were leaving their lodgings the girl was given in charge by Mr. Bauer and Mr. Kratsman, on a charge of stealing and pawning shirts. She was taken off to the station-house, where she was kept all night. Before she went, however, an offer was made to her to withdraw the charge of robbery, if she would withdraw the charge against Mr. Bauer, which she declined to do. The case was gone into on Friday, and then adjourned until Saturday, when the first witness called was— It. A. Bauer, who stated that he was a professor of music. The prisoner was in his father's service up to Friday week. There were a good many shirts of his missing, and from information received he went to the shop of Mr. Ward, a pawnbroker, in Holborn, and saw four shirts, pawned at different times, which be identi fied as his property. He had never sent her to pawn a single shirt at any time. Cross-examined by Mr. Parry—lt was not until after the charge of assault had been preferred against me that I made a search, and ascertained that the prisoner had stolen my shirts. I do not know how many times a week I have seat her to the pawnbroker's. Not so many as 30 or 40. I may have sent her two or three times with shirts. Ido not know whether Mrs. Brats man ever sent her to pawn shirts. The prisoner's wages were to be 3/. 124. a•year. Ido not consider that too much for a young woman aged 21. I was charged at, this court on Tuesday with slapping her in the face. She also charged me with taking i►zdecent liberties with her. I do not know that when the girl has asked for her wages she has not received them. She was to stop in our service for 12 months, to repay us the money we advanced for her passage over. lam a processor of music, and have fetched things from the pawnbroker's which I have sent the prisoner to pawn. Mrs. Emily Schiel identified two of the shirts pro duced as her property. She never gave the prisoner or any other person li"erty to pawn them. She had never sent the prisoner at all f.r her. Cross-examined by Mr. Rory—Fier husband waq con victed a stunt time since fur forgery, and was sentenced to penal servitude. An a4.4stant to Mr. Ward, the pawnbroker, produced the shirts, but said be should not like to swear wh o pawned them, for the man ued to fetch things pawned by the prisoner, and the prisoner has redeemed good pawned by the prosecutor. Mr. Corrie said he would discharge the prisoner, and in . so doing he could not help saying that the lady ha i be haved very kindly in the matter, and in a way that was to be expected from an English gentlewoman. [A DVF.RTIRRIERNT.] SIGHT AND }TRADING. SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES, —Messrs. S, and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Hotel. By leer Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye. piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all sizes; with increasing powers accordingly ; while their vary ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discover more than the above and the Georgian *with his 6 satellites, ke.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invonted, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,tho size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and t our i s t s . O pera, race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons aro enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu pation-- can see with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness ' entirely different from all others, to surpass any thine of the kind that has been, or p ro bably ever man be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per , eeptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the Assistance that possibly could be desired.-10, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe —opposite the York Hotel. [Anveitrisemeer.]—lf to those who remove the greatest amount of human misery and promote in the greatest degree the sum of human happiness, the highest meed of praise and gratitude is due, it would be hard to point to any man so eminently deserving of that meed as Mr. Du Barry, the dis coverer of the now celebrated Revalenta Arabica Food, The good effected by others, whether patriots, politicians, or what not, may be problematical, may be probable ; it is at all events matter of hypothesis. The good done by Mr. Du Barry is tangible, undoubted, unquestioned, and unquestionable. Also of 50 thousand of his countrymen —men of title and rank, and men of lowliness and obscurity; men of learning and men of simplicity; ministers of the gospel and men of the camp and the armament, have in their several styles and forms, for warded to him their ardent expressions of thankfulness for rescue from pain and disease. In the following disorders, the e ffi cac y of this Food has been found unvarying and unrivalled: --dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irregula rity, obstructions, acidity, cramps, spaems,fits, heartbsrn, diar rhaa, nervousness, biliousness, affections of the liver and kid neys, flatulency, distention, palpitation of the heart, nervous headache, deafness, noises iu the head and ears, giddiness, pains between the shoulders and in almost every part of the body, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, eruptions on the skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, impurities, poverty of blood, consumption (if not beyond human aid), dropsy, rheumatism, gout, influenza, grippe, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough, asthma, tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietude, sleeplessness, involun tary blushing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, delusions, loss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head, ex haustions, melancholy, groundless fear, indecision, wretched ness, thoughts of self-destruction, &c. We shall here refer to a few cases of cure. Cure 32,836. —Three years' excessive nerveusuese with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radi cally removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. Arm, STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen. Cure 52,612. Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, Dec. 9, 1 854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the inte rest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability of many years' standing.. The Food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be considered a real bless ing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered. In canisters, 51bs. lls.; 121b5., 225, The 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co , P u rveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; a l so at 60, Grace % church-street; 333 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Cernhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-cress; 54, Upper Baker-street; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. COllltr, - Markel', IiADDINGTON CORN MARKET—APRIL 11 ' WORAT. 1 BARLRY OATS. First 7 Bs Od. 450 Od 32s Od Second 73s 7d / 418 74 / 29s 6d 1 41 Third 6 78 6d 36 s Od / 26s 6d 14 0 Total quantity o f wheat in market, barley ~ oats beans .. 409 qrs. : 41 ,, 366 qrs. , ' 2 1 1 350 qrs. 3„ 19 141 qrs., 10 PP PP AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL MURIEL Wheat, 31. 13 7 8-12ths j Barley, ...21. 1 7 6 1 Oats, ... 11. 9 6 1-12ths 1 Beans, .....21. 4 0 11" DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Ap 10 , Qrs. Best. Current. I n fo' 266 Wheat 76s 6(.1 ON Od 902 Oats 32s 4d ON Od 2 31 296 Barley 44s Od oos Od L 65 Peas & beans 47s Od oos Od ABERDEEN-APNIL 11. Potato oats 9 5s Od to 26s Od / betY Common oats —s Od to 25s Od o °lb° P er Bere 3s Od to 35s 6d Barleys3lba 35s Od to 35s 6d 1 Wheat, red (spring)sBs Od to C4s Oct 1-621bs white 6ss Od to TOs Od " Oatmeal 19s Od to 20s Od per boll. Flour 55s Od to 56s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. „ 0, Beef, per lb rid to 8d Butter, p lb. Nod to P, I' Mutton, per lb 6d to 8d Eggs, p doz. Os 5d to ;:, Veal, per 1b.......6d to Os 9d Hens, p pair 3s Od to: Pork, per 5t...5s 3d to 5 3 6d Chi c k ens, d o. 2 s Od t o - Salmon, per lb Os to Os Ducks, do., 2s Oct t 025 Grouse, per brace Os-to-Os Ducklings,do Os Od t4-)° 1 Tallow, p stone, 3s9d to 4s Oct T ur k eys , eac h4 s Od to 6 4 ~ Potatoes, pr peck, 6d to 7d G eese , v do., Os Od ta Rabbits, each 9d to 10d. t 0 Butter for exportation (p r es en t cure ) per cw t.-430d -° --cl t i Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen . RETAIL PRICES. + Flour, 141 b —s Od to 3s Od Barleyflonr,l4lb.oll '° 1 Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, os Beremeal ....Os Od to is 10d , per ib 2d t ° Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s I'd Sid ' s, ........................ 4-113. 10af...8d. 2-Ib. 10af...4d, Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. to 4a 6d. DUBLIN-ArRIL 8. The market to-day was again extremely dull for el description of grain except prime wheat, which was scarce and wanted. In a few instances a trifling Au was realised on this article, but we co not alter our , currency from Tuesday. Indi an corn scarce ly aslaall! White wheat, 383 Od to 42s ; red ditto, 358 Od to 39i barley, 148 Od to 19s Od ; oats, lie Od to 14s Od ; rs . P b so —8 Od to —s Od per brl ; oatm e al, I4 s Oct t o 15 s Oct . a l aour, 215 Od to 27s Oct per cwt; Indi an corn , 30 s 0 to .- per 480 lbs. MRABORNE Lgnlfiee titat the mail* are 3efit. trom the General root .:5' the night—and Ai by the morning--lespatch.) Day air. in -I t..: •.r er t ,-,,, w! . d ,, lf v NT i l ..)0i; RI Sk_ - 4:. in slentra , 1'0m:- - Por - Office, Loudon- 1 otevten. - : !. ° 1 .... 1 2 ------- -_----- - -- ---„ - , dmerlea(byllrit.paeli'•N Every Friday• -• • Liverpool . AP ro Inserter, (by United Sts. packet) ...... • ... N ' •'• •• •• •-•- - I Liverpoo& • America (by U. StaNr ' packet) ..........li '' ~, ••• • - Bouths.mpt- Instralia (via South- ampton) ..........M •••••• ~..•• • • Southa mpton Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of (Good ' Ulo lv ' • Plymouth .• AI Erica Hope) est o a p I r i ) . ( West a. .. .. ... o . 11: . 5 . 1 ..) .: ... 2 -1% 11 4 0, 0 2 f 4 t , h i '''''''''''''''''''''''' !Dover .... Alexandria ..........xt ,4th & 20th of mon.lsouthamptonl Bahamas.„ „.. „ „hi ,17th of the men LI. !Senthamptcrlt A Belgium .......... ..N Dail9 • • • • • • • • •• • • Dover ..... it h 'i g lo Brazil ... ......... PA ;, 9th of the month.. Southamptm,; AP' it ii Buenos yi11 ti .......M1 9 th of the month .. Southampton 'API' l tO Cape of po • lope ..15 Various port VP Cape of (loot Hope .. Ic. 1 Cape do Verdi - .2. 1 9th of the month Southampton. Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............E Chsiniel Isles .. . ..N Hon.,Wed.,&FriLlSouthamptoi, 1 . 11. ~ Chili _ ...., ~,, ~,, ~. To 2d & 17th of monthlsouthampto , A 0 China .... ..- Once a month.... AP' Constantinople ...... N 8,13,18,29,/t2Bofn. Dover .....• Constantinople .... „ „ 4th & 20th of mon.,Southamptor L io dft Cont. of Europe M& s Twice daily •• .. • • Dover .... • •1 . -" . it, Egypt (see India) France ........ 91 fir, !Twice daily.— Dover .... - I T WICr !' Gibraltar .. .... ....1,114, 7, 17. 20, 27 Om Southampton Greece (see India) Gre'town .......... lid :2nd & 17th of mon. Boathamptur Hamburgh ......„ _ N !Tuesday & Friday!London ... •• !_, ~. f 2nd of the month Soiathamptof. 414 8 • 7 0 flavannah .......... 34 Holland ............ DI Daily •• •• • • • • •• • • Dover ..... • • 0 ,.. 4 12,1", mi i 4th ' , G 20th of mon. Plymouth •• , 4 '' ' : Honduras ... . . . .. . .2, 4 17th t the month. Southampton 1•1-0 , , 19th& 25 th of month Dover .... - • 1 17, &27 of mon Dover.... •• , or India (viaSouthampt. di '• India (via MarSeilles)2l lonian Isles (see India)lL [rdand ...., ....3 / & li 'Twice daily'• • • • • • riots head , , .111, t is Li5b0n..............34 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. Southamptoi,APg'" Madeira ............k1 9th of the month B ou th amp t o " Madeira .........„ , 1 .,- 23d of month •• . . Liverpool ..• Malta (see India) ge 01 dill to ........ ~, „ ~„.,, 9 , 18 . Rt 28 of mon. Dover , -,.. • 4, Mauritius (see India) manr , t4 „, .. , , .. __ ___-. 14th of the month _ A li Mexico ...............lii2nel of the month. : Southampt. I , AP" N . , ,,,,, , , ~ .. , ~.........N 4 thl B th 2 sthormon.lDover .... • • _ 4l -I & 17th of month Southampto _ New (arcuate ......:, 2 New Zea1and... ....... ~....... , B 7 private slip • • Various por. 1. 10 o_, States ._ ...... N ith I s th2sthofmon. Dover .... .13 private ship... Various port' !u n 1,747 18 7 a ...:.,.....,, r thl.7tl,27thonnon.,9oitthampror p3ru ~............!. VI 4. 27th 01 mon.lftutha-npt“ .„, P ,- .1 Natal ..........1< 8 &I T ~............3 ithl s tll2sthorman, Dover .... , T oeany ~, „ .. „ „ ..i.„ 51h 15th25 thofmon. Dover • • • • • • , *l 6 V mezueli ~... „..,. t: id& 1 7th obnonti, ioutharoptv . - Van Diemen's I,:u d (go. I Australia) ........... 1 1 0 Wel, Triding ~ ... ~ ,„ 1 , id 4 17th 01 rnoni - ` &aithamottv I .., When Any of these ::al spitched on the followln Southampton), and the h preceding tei fall on a Sunday, th e ma ll !' I 'II g day. wltk the exceptien of the ti Faits, both of which will be despitCP SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The market has been dull w and prices are unchanged. Lancashire and Yorkshil 4,--Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 29 ri lands, 741 i—London :pal North-Western, 101 111 North B r iti s h, Ba—S ou th E astern, 21i i—Great 11`" of Canada, 26k. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 12. STOOK EXCHANGE.—This market w as doing a a business to-day, and pric es were stea d y . Midlands done at 73 i 74I—L on d on and North Westerns eirip 1011—Bristol and Birmingbams, 136—Oxford and caster Prof., 7j—old Birmingham Canals, 92. DUBLIN, APRIL 12. I / STOCK EXCHANGE . — Throe per C en t. C onso ls, 91y Ditto for Account, Bth o f M a y, 93 2k—Di tto, for 1111, count, Bth of April , 0 New 3 per Cent. Stock, I 'co, --Ditto, for Account, Bth of April, o—New 3 Per ti i Reduced, 94—Hib ern i an B an k, 31—R oyal B an k, i Great Southern and Western, 52} 52—Dublin and )3 ,.. e Junction, 441--Ditto, for Account, 444—Dilbl im Wicklow, si. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointments an d otr difli oient Remedies for Seorbotic Affections.—Mr. F OP Ker, druggist, of Manchester, states, in a letter to. ,e fessor Holloway, that a gentleman with whom be id ill! quainted suffered dreadfully from an eruption face. His chin had become so much i n fl a me swollen that to shave w as i mposs ibl e ; b ut by thelV; cation of Holloway' s ointment, and t a ki ng Hollo / 0 4 pills at the same time, a perfect cure has been effl , and it is g ra tifyi ng t o state t h at every vestige %#) scorbutic erupti on h as en ti re l y di sappeared.—So ld b f i x medicine vendors, at P ro f essor Holloway's Est:ll/S ments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lanet. dic f, York ; by A. Stampa, Consta n ti no pl e ; A. Gui I Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. - POLICE EXPENSES AND THE CONSOLIDATED The following important passage occurs in the quo r f ":11t1 report of C a pt a i n G . Bl ack, chief constable for presented at the quarter sessions held for that cone ot sl Friday :—"I have to inform the Court that the voti, missioners of her Majesty's Treasury have n o w obje c k bo to pay any exp enses t h at may b e incurred prior to s ri g committal of a prisoner for trial at the assizes, ulO gi nt ei, of sums to b e re p a id f rom t h e consolidated fun d for 0 / ground that n o suc h c h arge i s a d m i ss ib le i n the aceyi 1 minal prosecutions. Those expenses consist almos t co e elusively of the p o li ce c h arges f or the apprehension, noif veyance, lod g i ng , an d ma i ntenance of prisoners tl their arrest and during remand. The actual expen dl "loj will, therefore, have to fall in a great measure uP °ll rates of the c ouh t y ." Ai LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUl f of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er, at Th. Sus (Moe, No. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the *Ma Middlesex, itconday, April 14, 1856. UN Nol ltISSION• t dilly, ou Burlingto: R 0 N The )401.110W. Grace the D nor at half-r Will be prey Society's off, MAIS Assurance terms. MET G street. Wate Rt. lin. Ppen l ienrY Peter Life Maul N.% The 33 P CC NM. SUN Policies et P OUR-FIFI according to The Prem are lower th are f ly u l pr addition to I Premiums. Policy star Prospectu! London, or c IMPEI FALI Capital, 1,( Charles Ma•. • •_ Portland W. J. Parr, Wilbraham liotiourablE Charles Ba street ; Lieut.-Colo Richard B 1 Director 4 7 . P. Bull, and Arli: Richard place, 81, George Ha Mark-lau Renry Lud William Ma Wood, S O. H. 11. - - field Hou James Stu Cottage, Colonel G Director of Major•Ge 14, St. Jar Coutts Barela The Impc Liability ut building a 1 Louvre, Ru Parliame: gallery at l cupied by ti respect one selected in As invest ly suet M tel in Lc least highly America ut doub ration two for accomm its superior Xature. A Bill giN Site in Traf Bons° of Ci An instal 1 3 1ete recrist the site's° Shareholde Count of ex] Applicat addressed t 1 . Shorter'E kills, and ( hall ; but r of 11. for ea and CO., 54 Lomb: Deposit Nvf per Share r event of the Call will be cite have b, Prospect' Obtained of Offices, 4 40 the Pro' Gentlemi quest you 1 stock of tE accept the fie, to pay execute thi In the even Deposit m: the Allots: APP( L TICAL ( bEMY. 131 i T ne h d e b a! da T:n et e a s i n d:f , Dynamic Thnrs( and Mai Friday marks. Satun Mond; • Thee written Tuesd position Wedc tnistry, marks. Thurs Geology Frida marks. Satur metrica nients, or Lam The at 10 o'clock until 5, fixed fc Eve! receiv ether tory t (in ad exami All Collei when goons bodill the pl BIRTHS. 01 A SON. vi-/J 6l On the 12th inst., a t 84, W ei tb ourne - par k Villas, park, the wife of %V. H. P. Goore, Esq. On the sth February, at Moultan, i n th e Panjaub, r the wife of Sir Edward Campbell, Bart., Captain 0 60th Rifles—twins. Of A DAUGHTIL o , On the 11th inst., at Langley-park the Marehiones obnilos. , On the 10th inst., a t Rid lington, the wife of the -rug/ '— John W. Flavell. MARRIED: 11 0 On the 10th i nst., at St. Ma-k's, Kennington, v I c ' es t Robinson, Esq., of Bennington, to Juliana, th e yowl daughter of the Rev. Dr. Barber, of South Lambeth- L . O , On the 10th i nst., at St. Botolph ' s, Bishoppg ate.wit°lo. Mr. John Martin, of the Old Artille r y G roun d , silk 110-TiV, flcturer, t o M ary Ann Day, the only daughter o f Mr. Davis, of Spitalfields. DIED. On the 12th inst., at 25, Park-road, Stoke Newingt oll Archibald Hudson, Esq., aged 36. On the 11th inst., at Greenham Lodge, ifajor-Geee Guy Carleton Coffin, R.A., aged 74. ath On the 12th inst., Betsy, wife of Mr. Walter Teen. 176, Strand. On the 12th inst., at New Broad-street, Isabella wife of Mr. R. Stapleton, and only daughter of the i', l l Mr. William Clarke, bookseller, 21, Fi nc h-l ane, C or nbl aged 36. On the 12th inst., at 3C, Bloomfield-terra ce Paddingill Mrs. Mari a nne Russell Shackell, w id ow of the late Mr. 4 Shackell, of Tokenhouse-yard, London, solicitor, a ged 1 ?, On the 10th inst., at Percy C o tt age, H ave rstock-111' Charles Mogridgo, aged 36. On the 11th inst., at Forest-hill, Mrs. Gardener, aged