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calculated to increase the number of thosewho agreed with his hon. friend, and to be against all national education ; for in dealing with this question the Government had in volved itself in a series of difficulties and inconsistencies. life did not see how this bill could come out of the dis cussion which it would have in that house and in Scot land. The Government start by saying in the bill that education must be religious, and they go on to say that no test of fitness in masters to teach religion should be required. (Hear.) If there was to be no test of this fit ness, he wanted to know what religion was the master to teach; and if he was to teach religion of all men he was the very one who ought to be subject to some test with regard to his religious teaching. Again, to make the inconsistency , complete, notwithstanding all they were constantly hear ing in that house, and especially from the noble lord (.1. Russell), the noble lord had repeated the other day at the British and Foreign School Society, that you cannot and ought not to separate secular from religious education ; there was a provision in the bill that there should be secu ar instruction at one hour in the schools and religious in struction at another. If that was done in good faith you had adopted the principle of separating religious and secu lar instruction. If so why not avow it, and say that it could be done ; and if it was adopted, he could promise that you would revive the hopes of the country, and pre vent his hon. friend the member for Rochdale from making converts to his opinions in opposition to all national educa tion, and you would conciliate one -thi r d of the peopleof Scotland, who, as voluntaries, were opposed to this bill, and the mass of the people of England and Scotland, who now trusted to sectarian education,would be with you; for he would vouch for it, that in all meetings held on the subject, the mass of the people would give opinions favour able to the pri nc i p l e . L e t th ere he one sy st e m . n But as long as you sa id one thi n g at the Britis h Fo r e i gn School Society, an d ano ther thing i n this bill you would be at a dead lock ; an d while you stealthily inserted a clause in th e bill to evade the principle on which you pro fess to act, and thus played fast and loose with the ques tion, you would weaken yourselves in the promotion of education, and give encouragement to the party of his hon. friend the member for Rochdale. He (Mr. Cobden) would maintain the Government could do nothing for educa tion until you separated secular and religious teach ing. The right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Napier) said why not set up on a better footing all the parochial schools- in Scotland as they are now constituted, and give grants, to other sectarian. schools ? Now, he put it to the right hon. gentleman if he did not believe that to be im ,. -practicable, for the right hon. gentleman well knew that r- ' there were religious parties in this country as earnest and conscientious as the church itself, who renounce state grants and would not pay rates for the purposes of religions endowment, who would not receive endowments for religious pur ?oses, and would not send their children to endowed schools, or where there were endowed teachers. The cen sus showed that there were many of the same opinion in Scotland. How was it in Ireland ? Would the right hon. gentleman support a system by which Roman Catholics should be allowed to teach their religion in schools, and the Protestants to teach their religion in their schools ? No ; and the right lion. gentleman knew that there had been an attempt to escape from that dilemma, and an at tempt to separate religious and secular teaching by adopt ing those extracts from the Scriptures which both parties could. read. He (Mr. Cobden; said that all you could do for national education would fail unless you met the reli gions objection as it hail besn met in America, in Prussia, and elsewhere, by separatiaig religious and secularteachine. Do not let him. (Mr. Cobden) be called a secularist, or let it be sail that he did not recognise the value of religious teaching as much as any one ; out if you did notallow the separation of religious and secular teaching and instruction as had.been done in other countries, it was of no use pot tering over the question, for you would be at a dead-lock, • and could not advance another step. You might pass this bill, but it would cause another explosion in Scot land. Ho saw by the declaration signed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, himself a voluntary, that no vo luntary will accept the bill unless you abrogate the 36th clause and the 27th clause, and that no voluntary will place a child in the schools or send them to any teacher. If you exclude one-third of the population of Scotland the bill could not be operative. But not only did he (Mr. Cobden) say that you could separate secular and religious teaching, and cite your own clause to prove it, but he could show that it had been done in America, where there was originally one church and one set of schools, where the catechism was taught, for every one, but in process of time, and as dissent increased, it was found necessary to relax the system and avoid teaching the Catechism where it caused an obstacle to secular teaching, and it was found necessary also to exclude the authorised version of the Bible as used in the church from the schools. The hon. - member for Elgin had quoted an opinion of Mr. Tremen heere, and no doubt Mr. Tremenheere had found some eccentric person in America who stated that vital Chris tianity was perishing under the present system in that coals try. But was that the opinion in America, or was it the opinion of an intelligent Swede who had been recently - travelling in that country, or was it the opinion of the de putation of the Congregationalists who went to America and reported on tho state of religion, and stated that there were two millions of communicants there, and that there lad been no such pi:ogress in_evanelical zeligionesince the time of the Apoitles as had taken place there. Compare the religious feeling of England and America as evidenced in the attendance in churches, the observance of the Sab bath, and the respect paid to ministers of religion, and lie would venture to say that the state of reli gion in America was not second to that of Eng land. Why could not what had been done in America be done in England ? Why could not the experiment be tried in Scotland ? He was told that you could not sepa rate secular and religious education in England, for if you did no one would send their children to the schools. .But he wanted to have that question discussed. in that house. Who would tell him that you could not have that separate teaching—for in practice you did have separate teaching—for religious teaching was mostly car ried on by the clergy and other teaching by the masters of schools. As regarded Scotland, was there any country in which there was less necessity for calling the masters to help the divine, who had always had his share of the reli gious teaching of the country ? and 12 years ago, when there was a di sru pti on o f th e c h urch, and 500 clrgymen left it, their places were soon filled again Ho said that Scotland might try the experiment whether the schoolmas ter could not be separated from religious teaching. Would any one have supposed from listening to the debate that night that its object was to improve the secular education of Scotland, but would they not rather have thought that it was a question between the old and the new churches of Scotland ? With regard to the clauses of the bill, there was one which he was glad to see, that which went to improve the status of the schoolmasters. There never would be proper secular teaching till there was a better class of mas ters, and that could not be until you paid them better, and placed them more in the condition of the middle classes of society. On looking to the Census, he found that there were I,OJO mas t ers, and the average of their salaries was 461., and they were to have a garden and house of only two room; besides a kitchen. That showed what the notion of a schoolmaster was fifty years ago. A salary of 46?.. to a schoolmaster gave him about halt what a butler gets, and until they were better paid you had no right to expect a better class of masters. As to the clauses generally, as he intended to vote for the second reading of the bill, solely with the view of dis cussing the clauses, he would not now go further into the discussion of them. He voted for the second read ing also because the majority of Scotch members on his side of the house were going to do so, and they ought to know best what their country required, and because he thought that education in Scotland, whatever it may for merly have been, was now defective. It was the opinion of Mr. Horace Mann that there were a million of children in England not at school, who ought to be there, and in Scot land the same state of things apparently prevailed. The country had had lately examples of the necessity of giving - working people a better education. Was it-not necessary - that working people should be placed in a position better to appreciate their social relations, and even their own in terests, and that they should be so informed that they could carry out the more refined portion of our manufac tories ? Mr. Whitworth had published an account of the state of this matter in America, and there it appeared in a far more satisfactory condition. England ought not to allow this to be so. If the Americans built a vessel which made the voyage from there to this country in two days less'than our vessels, we should immediately set ourselves to work and tax our ingenuity to the highest to equal or Surpass that vess e l. Britwheh America obtained a better educated and better conditioned set of workpeople, Eng land was content to leave her in the enjoyment of her su . . periority. A better education would enable men to under stand and appreciate their own position and that of em ployers; to see what capital could and what it could not do for them. The house might depend upen this, that if the schoolmaster were left to do his part, and were enabled to do it well, the clergyman would ba able to perform his task and perform it satisfactorily. It was, therefore, be cause he believed that by separating them, the interests of both would best be promoted, that he had therefore voted and should continue to vote for the separation of religious and seculer education. (Hear, hear.) Mr. F. SCOTT, who was interr u pt e d th roug h ou t hi s observati ons by calls for a division, objected to the separa tion of the religious and secular elements of education. Bel belie ve d such a course was not adapted to produce eitheri a good citi zen or a goo d Ch r i st i an. It was because second e e 11 a ttempted to d o thi s th a t h e s h ou ld oppose t h e reading • The LORD ADVOCATE said that he could not but feel that the vote to which the house might come would be of g reater "' s equence than the acceptance or rejection of this bill, inasmuch as it wou ld i nvolve the question of the possibility of a system of nati ona l education in Scotland. The rules u n d er which a system of national education must be framed for Scotland were clear and distinct. The na tional system must either be both religious and secular, or secular as distinguished leinational. On the subject eaenart from religious or deno from religious education, there was system of secular as apart observations of the hon. memberwfoaa no needthe West Riding (Mr. to follow the b e o . f Cobden), because in Scotland thatrs The people of Scotland w ou ld not 15:aavtaerait7aathiemHPaosuasie was again s t i pass its au , ; ( l lte th a. e feeling Commons, he believed, would not wo aside !, h T ea h r e . o ) of the country generally t . That point, therefore, might be th ro there was the denominational system. In Scotland that had been tried and proved, and it had been found wanting. (Hear, bear.) In the first place, denominations must be found willing to take up the matter. But even if that were satisfactorily arranged, the system made edu ca ti on depend on the will, the position, the feeling, perhaps even the caprice, of the denominations in which the trust was placed. The consequence was—it had always been found so —as it . was found in England so was it found in Scotland —hut while the country was subsidising denominations a great mass of ignorance was growing up. If that were the case, there was only the system followed by t his bil l to be adopted. In regard to this the Government had been met by a variety of arguments, some of which had been told that hich were hardly to be expected. He (the Lord Advocate) he ought to have commenced this discussion l by giving statistics. Th e hon. member for Rochdale (i r- Miall) had especially insisted upon this point. He (the ri Lord with Advo cate) thought th a t a t th e p rese nt time he mi g ht the greatest safety take it f or granted that the facts of this case were sufficiently patent without going into statistics. What was it to him that a few more or a few less attended school in one corner of the kingdom or another, so long as he knew, and the house knew, that the general state of education was defective. It was mere trifling to expect a reference to statistics. Why, the hon. member for Roch dale himself, after saying he had no information, put his finger upon the gist of the whole matter when he pointed to the poverty and crime existing in some of the large Scottish towns. But the hon. member said these mi serable beings want food and clothing. Granted, but they wanted education also. If the hon. gentleman's argu ment were worth anything, a man ought not to be clothed if he could not be fad, to. and ought not be fed if he could not be elothdd. (Hear, hear.) Then the Government : were to gdfoA-ft ote day-to-clay -Soh-4 nothing because they could not do all. (Cheers.) There must be a beginning. He admitted that Government could not do everything, but they at least could do a part, and being able to do it ought to do it. (Cheers.) If the hon. - member, if any „ -~~. hon. member, chose to bring in any sanitary measure, he promised not to meet him by saying " Oh, you have not g educated the p eo pl e ." (Hear, hear.)WY matter to be discussed on the question of the h relativeoughrt thet rights of this or that man to the government of schools ? The hon. member for Dublin seemed much to misconceive the bill. It was not adapted to a country of mixed religionists, but to a country where the system was uniform. The measure had now been before the country two months, and he (the Lord Advocate) admitted that it had met with a variety of opposition on a variety of grounds. One man opposed because religion was excluded, another because it was included in the bill. He had read a pamphlet signed " T. C. Colquhoun," written with the purpose of proving that the measure was a mere copy of the American system ; the hon. member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobden) held up that system as a model, and said Government had not followed it closely enough. (Hear, hear.) Even Dr. Muir and Lord Dunfermline had agreed in opposing the bill. Yet with all this there was a large amount of support in Scotland ; not from the free church, as had been in sinuated, but from the moderate and philanthropic men of all denominations. He had presented a petition from the town council of Glasgow in favour of this bill, which con tained more members of the Established Church than any other town council in Scotland. He had also presented a petition signed by upwards of a hundred of the first men in Glasgow, all of whom were members of the Established Church. This petition had been exhibited at the Ex change, and within a short time had received these signa tures. What was the reason of this? Why the men of Glasgow saw the evil of ignorance increasing from day to day under their eyes, and they found that the time for squabbling had gone by, and that of honest co operation was at hand. (Cheers.) He would now ad vert shortly to the provisions of the bill itself. It proposed to deal, in the first place, with the parochial schools. It Proposed to double the salaries of the schoolmasters, to give them 501. instead of 341. for a maximum, and 251. for a minimum. It also provided for an educational survey in Scotland, which had never yet been attempted, the result of which was to be reported to Parliament. Hon. gentle men complained that this was a final measure. It was never intended to be so. It provided for obtaining infor mation for future legislation, and in the meantime it legis lated so far as the present information justified. Not only so, but the bill had a third clause which he thought was important. They wished to establish reformatory schools, but that hon. gentlemen opposite proposed to put an end to by voting against the reading of the bill. Let them con sider on what ground it was that these provisions, which were considered beneficial, were to be sacrificed on the second reading of this bill. The objections were two fold, and singularly inconsistent. Ono was that it was proposed to do away with the test which limited the choice of the schoolmaster to those who were of the established church ; and the other was that they were dealing with a religions question, and leaving power in the hands of the ecclesiastics. With regard to the last of these objections, it was not necessary for him to speak. He did not speak of individuals, but ho knew well that among the volun tary party in Scotland he had many good friends. He had only to name one, than whom a more kind, worthy, and stout-hearted liberal never breathed ; he meant Mr. Adam Bl mk, who had boon the leader of the voluntary party for many years, and he came boldly forward and said that however he might wish to see this bill modified is certain particulars, still he was too good a friend to his country to think of opposing it. (Hear.) But the real reason why they proposed to sacrifice this bill was that it proposed to take the exclusive power out of the hands of the Established Church. (Hear, hear.) There was no other reason. It was not because there was not sufficient security for religion. Security for religion could be given without making the members of the established Church exclusively eligible to the office of schoolmaster. They (the opposition) did not like any security but one, and that was a security that secured a monopoly to themselves. If they were ready to surrender limiting the right of choice to a particular class he was ready to meet them. He was not wedded to any particular mode of carrying out his views, but this he saw that unless the test was dune away with it was utterly impossible to carry a measure of education. He had been attacked for not quoting statistics. Now, the religious census had disclosed a state of things, which he for one did not expect. Look at the position of the Church of Scot land. The Dissenters in Scotland belonged nearly to the same denomination as the established Church. One set of them went off in 1730 on the ground of patronage, and the other in 1843 on the question of the interference of the courts. The majority of the people did not belong to the established church, but no one could be a master of a paro chial school who (lid not belong to the Established Church. Now, if they were to pay Government money for maintain ing these schools, Parliament must consider the ground on which these schools were established. Take the five north ern counties, and it would be found that 6,000 belonged to the Established Church, and 41,000 to the Free Church. Was it possible that they could with the slightest success keep a national system where the parties were in the pro portion of 6 to 41; those who made up the 6 being eligible, and those who ma d e up t h e 41 being not eligible. But they told him that these were exceptionable cases. They were most unfortunate exceptions. Take thelarge counties, where there was a million and a half of people, making one half of the populati on , an d th ere again the persons not belonging to the Established Church were in a large majority. It might be said that he wished to attack the Church of Scotland. He was quite sure that by sweeping away these subjects of contention he was doing a most friendly act to the Church of Scotland. He now came to the superintendence of the church. He stated in introducing the bill that he did not consider this question of superintendence of the same im portance as that of the test. He did not know, if the mat ter of the test had been given up, that he should have con sidered the superintendence of so much importance, but he felt it necessary to make a few observations, in conse quence of the remarks of the hon. member for Perthshire. It seemed to be supposed that the preamble of this bill was a slight on the Church of Scotland, and that the ob servations that he had made in bringing in the bill were intended as a slight. No doubt his former speech was a little highly-coloured, but, on the other hand, when he felt that in the General Assembly the preamble of the bill was stated to be a foul calumny, he thought it due to him self to say a few words in explanation. His observations did not apply to those who had taken them so much amiss. He was speaking of that period of the history of the Church of Scotland when those gentlemen had little to do with swaying it, of the time when other men were at its head —such men as Andrew Thomson and Thomas Chalmers, and others who raised the Church of Scotland to what she was twelve years ago, the cheapest and most hard working church establishment in the world. He did not say it arose from neglect, but from 1800 to 1825, the parochial schools had been going down ye ar by y ear, an d he believed th a t i n 1825 there had been no period in the history of Scotland for 150 years when they were at so low a standard. About 1830 or 1835 there be gan a revival. The unfortunate disruption happened in 1843, the free church went out and carried on their educa tion, and those who rema i ne d behind carried on theirs, and that very reason now prevented the superintendence being efficient. The schoolmasters who were tried for offences succeeded sometimes on a point of law, but more often the presbytery rather allowed an inefficient school master to go on than engage in an uncertain and expensive law snit. In this state of the law whole parishes had been neglected. In 1799 the General Assembly made an order on the presbyters to send up general reports on the state of the schools, but that order had been systematically dis obeyed. He was therefore justified in saying that the superintendence of the presbyteries had not been effective, and that it was well to take away the superintendence from this general body, and place it in a local body, the minister of the parish and the heritors. Now, he admitted that there was some force in the observations which had been made with regard to taking security for religion. He had felt ever since the bill was introduced that theoreti cally it was difficult to say that the schoolmaster should teach religion without there being some security for his character. It was said that the plan was not sufficiently popular, and that it was not sufficiently religious. To meet the first objection, he proposed that the provosts, or delegates of the town councils of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and Aberdeen should ex officio be members of a general board for deciding on the qualification of school masters. To meet the second objection, he proposed that the principals of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glas gow, two delegates from the Universities of St. An drew's and Aberdeen, and that the principals of the Free Church College and the United Presbyterian College should also be cx officio members of the same board ; and he thought the presence of so many ecclesiastics would afford sufficient security for the religious character of the school master. He should not like to see, as one of the ultimate results of the measure, a system of normal training estab lished which would send the master out with a certificate of both moral and religious character. It was impossible to include that object in this bill, but he had no doubt that an approximation to its attainment would be made by the board. His hon. friend the member for the West Riding complained that it had not been stated what the religion was to be. It was unnecessary to say what reli gion was to be taught in Scotland. If he were wrong on that point the whole bill was misclrawn ; it had no foun dation and no meaning, unless the people of Scotland were agreed that the teaching should be that of the Presbyte rian faith. With regard to the remarks of the hon. mem ber for Montrose on the dismissal o f mas t ers , an d o th er matters of that kind, he begged to say that so far he was perfectly willing to modify the bill. With respect to the position of the Roman Catholic] church, he wished to ob serve that the 36th clause had been very much misunder stood. When it was contemplated to set up a national system, and to impose a national rate in support of it, it was quite plain that many would have have to pay the rate who could not take advantage of the educa tion. He had not supposed at first that the Episcopalians came under that category as well as Roman Catholics but it now appeared that they did. Now, without enter. ing into fine polemical distinctions, he admitted that i would be impOssible to call on these parties to pay the rate, and not in some shape or other give them good and substantial assistance in their own education. (Cheers.) , localities. That H idea poorer f assistancelllwiagghtthwaetfi h u e n gi de v r en th i e n denominational clause, a c u lau h s e e, eo h td ow d ev aa e y r, h at ad y n re o e t en m t et w wi as . e a r n h d y th th e e re m or a e . asking Roman Privy Council grant, th e G overnmen t, while , th th fa a v t oll e r ith ; chinery of the denominati ona l c l ause , or by that of the Catholics and Episcopalians to subscribe to the national rate, didwonuoldt know r t a h i a d t he had work.themin a t n h y ei t rhingmore to say. ea (liea felt that a great res p ons ibilit y res t e d upon hi m ; b u t h e also f e lt, th a t by wa lki ng e i t h er to the right hand or to r'h li r e He the left, he should hav e r a i se d up t wo opponen t s f or one that h e had conciliated. If he had taken the advice of the Established Church, he would have had all the rest of Scotland against him ; if he had taken the advice of the Secularists, he would have had both the Established and the Free Church against him, and a very large majority in that house. If hon, gentlemen could show him a better plan, l e t th em do so ; but if they could not, let them sup portnor ojt him e o and i n (Loud ch eers .) d m oi i n se g ry h . is best t o rescue hi s country from ig- Mr. BOWYER rose amid th e mar k e d i mpat i ence of the house. He was understood to state that he repre sented the views of the Roman Catholics of Scotland on g e e e n e; j vbn o ii t y tl il e , I, v d trh , heeget u ahr ir n edgr d ht e toh r t see ydo t fnw h et e ciute m il odm ini give i u nev t e one r id s a tnhy o ye f ethoinsnech7nastaionny. advTahnetya atshkatthnentvertrnhins i aw n si e ss l uh u ie. d ad i n n et g oe the Roman C a th o l ics, and he might say the ofEp" iscopali ideans too, would no t b e overlooked ? (Loud cries Div.") ! . not be The LORD - ADVOCATE replied th a t if it pos sible to make them better, at all event s they would not made worse. (Hear, hear.) The house then divided, when the numbers were-- For the second reading 184 Against it 193 Majority against the Government ...... -9 The bill was accordingly rejected. The announcement of the numbers was received with loud and continued cheering by the Opposition. MANNING THE NA VY (BOUNTIES). the Heine. went into committee pro forma. RAILWAY AND CANAL TRAFFIC REGULATION BILL. Mr. CARDWELL moved that this bill be read a third time. Mr. I. BUTT objected to reading s third time and pas- THE . SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1854. sing, at one o'clock: in the morning, a bill which the house had not yet had an opportunity of deliberately considering. (Cheers.) The bill' in its present state was not the bill which the house hac 1 allowed the President of the Board of Trade to bring in. New clauses had been thrown in which had not yet undergo no discussion, and the bill altogether was a compromise , )ut of the house between the railway directors and the BE mill of Trade. He concluded by mov ing the adjournment of the!debate. Mr. WALPOLE considered the hon. and learned mem ber for Yonghal misunderstood the nature and effect of the measure, which had been originally introduced for the purpose of giving railway directors necessary powers as to the transmission of goods, and a proper tribunal in refer ence to any question with reference to the same. The bill was not framed so as to interfere with the railway com panies unnecessarily, or in any way to trespass on private interest, but merely to give requisite facilities to such companies as to the transmission of goods, and to put a stop to any undue preference or influences. For this rea son he supported the bill, which he thought ought to pass. After a few words from Mr. HETWOOD, Lord J. RUSSELL said, his right hon. friend the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, when he introduced this bill, tried to make it comformable to the wishes, and, as to the time of its discussion, agreeable to the convenience of all parties, and now the hon. and learned member for Youghal asked that the consideration of the third reading of it might be adjourned at the last moment. The time of the house at the present period of the session was of so much importance, and much of the business to be transacted of so pressing a nature, that he trusted the house would not be induced to delay the passing of this measure on the present occasion, but would consent to the third reading of it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. F. SCOTT thought the bill ought to have the most careful consideration, and, although he believed it to have been framed with the very best intentions, still he feared it would fall very far short of the object contemplated. Mr. MALINS considered it exceedingly improper to discuss these kind of bills at that hour of the morning (a quarter past 1 o'clock). Considering the great importance of the measure, however, to the railway interests and to the public generally, he hoped that his hon. and learned friend would withdraw his motion as to the adjournment, and allow the bill to pass. Mr. LOCKE hoped that the hon, member for Youghal would not be prevailed on to withdraw his motion for ad journment. He had never before seen a question of such great importance discussed so lightly or with so little con sideration. LAW INTELLIGENCE,—May 12. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Mr. D. WADDINGTON supported the adjournment. Mr. JAMES M`GREGOR thought the fight hon. gen tleman ought to consent to a postponement, were it only out of consideration for the interests of his own bill. Mr. CARDWELL felt he had no volition in the matter, as he had been acting merely as the servant of the public throughout the whole progress of the measure. The pres sure of public business forbade delay, and the immediate passing of the bill was also required by the state of private business, and he must therefore call on the house—and especially those who desired to see some protection for the public enacted—to support him in pressing it forward. Mr. PETO pointed out that this was a very different bill from that originally introduced. Sufficient time, he contended, had not been allowed for its consideration, and it would ill become the house to insist on passing it at half-past 1 in the' morning. The house then divided ; the numbers were : For the adjournment ... lB Against it Majority against _ _ On the question that the bill be now read a third time, Mr. H. BROWN moved the adjournment of the House, on the ground that the bill, as amended, had not been re. printed. Mr. MA.LINS, though he had voted in the previous division in favour of the adjournment, deprecated factious opposition as an attempt to defeat all' legislation whatever. Finally, the motion for adjournment was withdrawn, and the bill was read a third time and passed. The Registration of Births (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. The Witnesses Bill was road a third time and passed. The House adjourned at a few minutes before 2 o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—MAY 12. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Order for Second Reading read : Motion made, and ques tion proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question :"—The house divided—Ayes, 184 ; Noes, 193. AyES-184. mr fi . ll j ie . s, o B 3 s b t o l r O n l e b ,s ; L w o i r n d ne A rs lfr e e x d t , ra b . y C T h .Y . an f ic . lee ( r l , o 2 s y u r b s s , ., 7st llb (including 3lb extra) (Carrol) 1 Mr. Croft's Yewtick, 2 yrs, 7st 31b (including 51b extra) (Charlton) 2 Mr. Reynard's Mrs. Rigby, 2 yrs, 6st Blb (Wells) 3 Capt. Lane's Alas, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (Bartholomew) 4 Betting-2 to lon Lord Alfred, 4to 1 agst Alas. Alas started with the lead, but after the first hundred yards, Lord Alfred went to the front, and carried on the running to the distance, where he was headed byYewtiek, but in the finishing effort was won by half a length. A length and a half between the second and third. MATCH, 50 soars., p.p. Once round. Mr. Arran's The Uncleared, 3 yrs, 7st 41b, agst Mr. Preston's West wood (b h), 5 yrs, Oat, off by consent. EATON STAKES of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added, for three and four-yr-olds ; three-yr-olds, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 121 b. Certain penalties and allowances. Grosvener Course. (8 subs.) Lord Chesterfield's Typee by Touchstone, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Saxon's Barrel, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Betting-3 to lon Typee. Barrel made the running to the T.Y.C. post, where he was passed by Typee, who won by a neck, with " plentity in hand." A HANDICAP STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added ; the second to receive 10 sovs. out of the stakes ; cer tain penalties. Seven furlengs. (16 subs.) Lord Clifden's Anteverta, by Malcolm, 4 yrs, 7at (Charlton) 1 Lord Wilton's Orson, 3 yrs, Est 21b (Ashmall) 2 Mr. Bloss's Mirabeau, 3 yrs, sst 61b ' (J StegE.lles) 3 The following also ran—Red Lion, Romeo, Jupiter, Monimia, Miss Sellon. Betting-7 to 4 agst Mirabeau, 4to 1 agst Orson, 4 to 1 agst Anteverta. Anteverta made the running, Jupiter and Romeo lying second and third to the Dee side of the course where Romeo took second place and Monimia third. In this order they ran to the distance, where Orson took second place, followed by Mirabeau. Anteverta, however, undisturbed i n h er l ea d, ga ll opped on and won easily y a length. Same distance between second and third. Romeo and Monimia, close together, were the next,two. The others beaten off. The CHESHIRE STAKES of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, with 60 added ; extra weight for winners. The second to save his stake. From the Castle Pole, once round and in (about a mile and 3 furlongs). 28 subs, 7 of whom pay 5 says each. Lord Eglinton's Vanderdecken, by Bay Middleton, 4yrs, 7st slb (including 51b extra) ... (Waddington) 1 mir J.Boswell's Annie Sutherland, 4yrs, 7st (Charlton) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley s Mishap, 3 yrs, sst (Fordham) 3 The following also ran—Cobnut, Lancashire Lass, Jacqueline, Pantornine, and Georgy. Betting-6 to 4 apt Vanderdecken, 7to 2 agst Mis hap, 5 to 1 agst Jacqueline. Vanderdecken started with the lead, but was soon passed by Pantomime and Mis hap, who made the running alternately to the Castle Pole turn, where Vanderdecken again took his colours to the front, followed by Mishap and Annie Sutherland. The latter took second place at the stand, but failed in her effort to reach Vanderdecken, who won easily by a length. Half a length between the second and third. LADIES' PURSE of 50/. for three-year-olds and upwards. Option selling weights, &c. Once round and a dis• tance. (9 subs.) Mr. Shepherdson's Pastrycook, 4 yrs (501.) 7st 11Ib Adderley, C. Fox, W. , Mostyn, E. Anderson, Sir J. Freestun, Col. . Muntz, G. ; ' Atherton, W. Gardner, R. `liaises, Rt. Hon. M. Gibson, M. Murroagh, J. Baird, J. • Gladstone, W. Norreys, Lord Ball, J. Glyn, G. Norreys, Sir D. Bass. M. Goderich, Viscount O'Brien, P. Beamish, F. Goodman, Sir G. O'Brien, Sir T. Berkeley, G. Gower, F. O'Connell, D. Biggs, W. Graham, Sir J. Oliveira, B. Blacke• t, J. F. B. Greene, ''apt. John Osborne, R. Bonham-Carter, J. Gregson, Samuel Otwey, A. Ilouverie, Hon. E. P. Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Paget, Lord A. Bowyer, G. Grey, R. Palmerston, Viscount Boyle, Lt.-Col. Hall, Sir Benjamin i'echell, Sir G. Brady, J. llankey, T. Phillimore, J. G. L'rockiehurst. J. Hastie, Alex. Phamore, R. J. Brockman, E. D. Hastie, A rchd. Phinn, T. Brotherton, J. Herbert, S. Price W. Brown, H. Hervey, Lord A. Ricardo, 0. Bruce, H. A. lleywood, J. Rice, E. Buckley, Gen. Higgins, 0. 0. Richardson, J. Byng, G. H.C. Handley, C. Roche, E. Cardwell. E. Horsma ~ E. Russell, Lord J. Chambers, T. 'Howard, Hon. C. Sadlelr, John Cheetham, John Hughes, W. Sawle, C. Cobbett, J. M. Hume, J. Seholefleld, W. Cobden, R. Hutt, W. Scobell. Capt. G. • Cockb,rn, Sir A. J. E. Ingham, R. Scully, F. Collin, W. Johnstone, J. Scully, V. Colvde, C. R. Johnstone, Sir J. Seymour, W. Cowan, C. Keogh, W. Smith, J. A. Craufurd, E. 11. J. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. Dairyinple, Viscoant King, P. Smollett, A. Dashwood, Sir U. 11. Kinnaird, A. Stafford, Marquis Davie, Sir H. R. F. Laing, S. Strutt, E. Divett, E. Langston, J. H. Stuart, Lord D. Drumlanrig, Via. Langton, H. G. Sullivan, Michael Drummond, H. Layard, A. H. Talbot, C. Duff, G. Lemon, Sir C. Thicknesse, R. Duff, J. Lindsay, W Thompson, G. Duncan, G. Locke, J. Thornel v, T. Dunlop, A. Lowe, R. Thornhill, W. Elcho, Lord Luce T. Train, G. Ellice, E. Macaulay, T. B. Vivian, H. H. Elliot, J. E. M'Cann, J. Vivian, J. H. Euston, Earl MacGregor, J. Walmsley, Sir J. Ewart, W. McTaggart, Sir J. Walter, J. Fagan, W. Mangles, R. Warner, E. Feilden, E. Marjoribanks, D. Whitbread, S. Fergus. J. Marshall, W. Wickham, H. Ferguson, Lt.-Col. Massey, W. Wilkinson, W. Ferguson, Sir R. Matheson, A. Williams, W. Ferguson, J. Matheson, SirJ. Wilson, J. Fitzgerald,Lt,G.Slr J Milligan, R. Winnington, Sir T. Fitz Gerald, J. Mills, T. Wortley, J. S. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Milner, W. Wyvill, M. Fitzwilliam, Fon. C. Michell, Dr. W. Young, Sir J. Fitzwilliam, Hon. G. Moffatt, G. Foley, J. blionck, Viscount Forster, C. Moncrieff, J Forster J. Monsell, W. Fox, R. Morris, D. TELLERS. Tiayter, W. Mulgrave, Earl of NOES-193. Acland, Sir T. Forster, Sir G. Mundy, W. Alexander, J. Franklin G. Naas, Lord Annesley, Earl of Frewen C. Napier, J. Arbuthnott, Lt.-G. H. Galwey, Sir W. Neeld, John Archdall, M. Galway, Viscount Newdegate, C. Arkwright, G. George, J. Oakes, J. Bailey, Sir J. Gladstone, Capt. J. Pack*, C. Bailey, C. Graham, Lord M. Palk, L. Balllie, H. Greaves, E. Palmer, Robert Ball, E. Greenall, Gilbert Pit 11 , . tt. A. Baldock, E. Greene, Thomas Pennant, Col. E. Bankes, Rt. Hon. G. Grogan, E , 'ward Per c y, J. Barnes, T. Gwyn, Howel Pete, S. Barrington, Vist. Hadfield, George Pilkington, J. Barrow, W. Halford, Sir Henry Pritchard, J. Itateson, Capt. T. Hall, Colonel John Repton, G. Beach ill' M. Hamilton, G. A. Robertson, P. Bective, Earl Hamilton James, 11. Rolt, P. Bell, J. Harcourt, Col. F. Sandal's, G. Benfinck, Lord 11. Hayes, Sir E. Scott, F. Bentinck, G. Henley, J. Seymour, H. Beresford, Rt. !In. W. Herbert, H. Shirley, E. Blair, Lieut -Col. J. H. Heyworth, L. lit bthorp, Col. Hoiden), Lt.-Col. H. Q. H 1 . orsfal'r V. smijth, si r W . Booker, T. W:' Hotham, Lord Smith, W. Booth, Sir Rt. Gore Hudson, G. Somerset, Capt. E. Bruce, C. L. C. Hume, W. Sotheron, T. Bu ler, .- , ir J. Irton. S. Spooner, R. Burrell, Sir C. M. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stafford, A. Butt, G. M. Jones, Capt. T. Stanhope, J. Butt, I. J ones , D . Starkie, Le G. Cairns, H. Kendall, N. Sturt, H. Campbell, Sir A. I. Kennedy, T. Swift, R. Carnac, Sir J. R. King, J. Tas tor, Lt.-Col. T. Caoey, E. S. Knatchbull, W. Thesiger. Sir. F. Cecil, Lord Knightley, R. Tollemache, J. Child, Smith Knox, Lt.-Col. B. W. Tomline, G. Christopher, Robt A. Knox, W. S. Trollope, Sir J. Christy, Samuel Langton, W. H. P. G. Tudway, It Clinton, Lord C. P. P. Lennox, Lord A. F. Tyler, Sir G. Clive, R. Lennox. Lord H. G. Vance, J. Cocks, T. S. Liddell, H. G. Vane, Lord A. Codrington, Sir C. W. Lindsay Lt.-Col. J. Vansittart, G. Compton, FL C. Lisburne, Earl Vyse, Capt R, Conolly, T. Lockhart, A. E. Waddington, H. Crossley, F. Lockhart, W. Walcott, Rear-Ad. Davies, D. A. S. Long, W. Wa:pole. S. Davison, R. Lovalne, Lord Walsh, Sir J. Deedes W. Lowther, Capt. 11. Welby, Sir G. Dod, J. W. Lucas, F. West, F. Duncombe, Hon. A. Macartney, G. Whitmore, N. Duncombe, Hon. 0. Mackie, J. Wigram, Loftus T. Dundas, G. MacGregor Jas. Williams, T. Dunne, Lt.-Col F. Maguire, J. F. Wise, A. Du Pre, C. Malins, R. WoJid, B. East, Sir J. Manners, Lord G. Wyndham, Lt.-Gen. Egerton, Sir P. March, Earl of Wyndham, H. Egerton, W. Mertz, Sir H. Wynn, Capt. It. Egerton E. Miall, E. Wynn, Sir W Emlyn, Vis. Miles, W. Wynne, W. Farnham, E. Montgomery, H. Yorke, E. Farrer, J. Montgomery, Sir G. Fellowes. E. Moody, C. Floyer, J. Moore, G. Follett, B. Mowbray, J. Forbes, W. MaLlings, J. (A.shmall) 1 Mr. Johnsonßridekirk, 3 yrs (501.) fist 71b (Kendall) 2 Mr. Reynard's Cestria, 3 yrs (501.) 6st 51b, (Wells) 3 The following also ran :—Westwood, Royal George, Jupiter. Betting-7 to 4 each agst Pastrycook and Bridekirk. Won by half a length. Same between second and third. Westwood a bad fourth. MATCH. 100 sovs. eaeh, h-ft, 6st. each. Mile and a half. Mr. R. Noke's Birdlime Girl, 3 yrs Mr. Foulkes's Little Queen, aged Betting—At starting 6 to 4 was laii on Birdlime Girl, but whi?e running 5 to 4 was laid on little Queen ; she however fell near the Dee Bridge turn, and her rival won by a quarter of a mile. LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 3to 1 agst Autocrat. sto 1 agst King Tom. 13 to 2 agst Dervish. 25 to 1 agst The Trapper. 30 to 1 agst Ostrogoth. 40 to 1 agst Bracken. The weather was delightfully favourable throughout, and the meeting was characterised by excellent sport. The receipts at the grand stand amounted to 2,2231. TELLZMI. Stirling, W. Dalkei Lb, Earl [ADVERTISE. T.]—Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race course, Opera, and P erspective Glasses,to know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great im portanco to the army, navy, and others. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle -street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. --These telescopes pos sess such extraordinary powers that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same tele scope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 12 to 14 miles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.— The Royal Exhibition, 1851. -- Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1i mile distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera-houses, country asce nery, and ships are c l ear ly se en a t 12 t o 14 m il es . They are invaluable for s h oo tin g , d eer - s t a lki ng , y ac hti ng, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power ; an object can be clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles distant. Newly-invented Spectacles ; immediately 01(33 are placed before extremely imperfect vision, every object becomes clear and distinct ; the most aged, de fective eight is brought to its youthful, natural, and ori ginal stat e . Deafness —New Discovery—The Organic Vi brator, an extraordinary powerful, small, newly-invented i nstrument, fo r D eafness entirely different from all others, to surpas s anything of bably ever can be, produced. - Being of the same colour as th e skin, is the not kindperceptible th at h ; a it s been,enab enables sr deaf - persons t o hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords a ll th e assist ance that possibly could be desired.--39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe, opposite the York Hotel, LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 10. THE TIMES ASSURANCE COMPANY V. SWANN. i MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIA- In this case an action had been brought by the Times MENT. Assurance Company against the defendant, who had for- City of Lichfield—Henry Manners, Baron Waterpark, merly been one of the company's local agents, to recover' of Waterpark, in Ireland, and Doveridge Hall, in the a sum of money lad and received by the defendant to county of Derby, in the room of Thomas George Anson the plaintiffs' use. The cause had been referred to an (commonly called Viscount Anson), now Earl of Lichfield, arbitrator, who foind a verdict for the plaintiffs for 1741., called up to the House of Peers. and that the defendant had b een di sm i sse d f or suff i c i ent MAY 11. cause, and retained the mon e y w ith ou t t h e consent of I Town and Port of H as ti ngs —F re d er i c k N or th, o f Haat the company. He also rais e d severa l po i nts of law for ings, Esq., in the roo m o f M usgrave B risco , E sq ., w h o has the decision of this court, the chi e f o f w hi c h was, whether , accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty' s Chilt ern Hundreds. the company, which h a d b een comp l ete l y registered Hdre under the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110, could maintain the present action against the defendant, who was a shareholder of the company. Mr. Sergeant Shee (with whom was Mr. Keane), in support of the company's right to maintain the action, relied on the express terms of the act to that effect. Mr. Metcalfe, on the part of the defendant, contended that the right of the company to sue at law was confined to calls, and that their remedy in this case was in the Court of Chancery. The Court, however, decided that, as the company had been a corporation, it could sue the d e f en d ant in i ts corporate capacity, and that express terms had been introduced in order to obviate any doubts which might arise. Judgment for the plaintiffs. CHESTER RACES. FRIDAY. The Second Year of the THIRD TRIENNIAL PRODUCE STAKES of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 30 added, for 3-yrs olds ; colts, Bat 91b; filli es , B st 51b . Certain allowances. From the Castle-pole, one round and i n . (10 su b s. ) Mr. E. R. Clark's Punch-box, by Napier, Bst 31b artholomew) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Stiletto Bst 91b (Temp] 2 Mr. Worthington' s J u li (B em et, Bst 21b (Wells) 3 Betting-5 to 4 aget Punch-box, 7 to 4 agst Stil e tt o . Punch-box took the lead with Stiletto second. At the lower turn Stiletto took close order, but after a good set-to was beaten by half a length. About two lengths betwedn second and third. GRAND STAND Cup, of 200 sovs in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; the second to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Certain penalties. Once round and a distance. (47 subs.) Lord Chesterfield's Typee, by Touchstone, 4 y rs , 7st 216 (Ashman) 1 Mr. Barber's Domino, 3 yrs, Est 41b (West) 2 Mr. Thompson's Syvagee, 3 yrs, sst 61b (J. Gill) 3 Mr. Cornish's Captain Cornish, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib (Dixon) 4 The following also ran—The General, Corin, Little Princess, Abs, Middlesborough, and brother to An dante. Betting-2 to 1 acist Typee, 5 to 2 agst Domino, 5 to 1 agst Alas. The first attempt to get off was prevented by Syvagee's breaking away. On drawing together again a good start was effected. Alter the first hun dred yards Syvagee rushed to the front, closely followed by Domino and Alas. At the Railway Bridge turn, Alas went ahead, with Domino second, a position which he held to the T.Y.C. post, where he took up the run ning, but in rounding the turn into the straight, he took a wide stretch, and Typee, lying close to the rails, then came up, and in a few strides further was in full pos session of the lead, which she held the remainder of the distance, winning very cleverly by a length ; two lengths between second and third, and a length between third and fourth ; Middlesborough was fifth. The WIRRAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 30 added, for two and three-yr-olds ; two-yr-old colts, Est 121 b ; fillies, Est 81b ; three-yr-old colts, 9st ; MAY 12. Borough of Devonport—Sir Thomas Erskine Perry, of No. 36, Eaton-place, in the county of Middlesex, Knight, in the room of the Right Honourable Henry Tuffnell, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead. I Wilson and S. J. Newman, S &atford, Middlesex, naptha manufacturers—W. Arkell and W. Jackson, Chelten ham, Gloucershire, coachmak ers—J. Towers,. J. Coaton, and W. Lacey, Leicester, manufacturers of - hosiery—S. Smith and J. Brooks, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton ma nufacturers—J. Bateman, J. Pi ice, E. Knight, and H. Schofield, Oxclose, Derbyshire, coal masters, so far as re gards J. Bateman—J. Nicholson and J. Raynor, jun., Kingston-upon-Hull, booksellers—J. Edden and R. D. Commans, Bath, chemists—J. Humphris and D. J. Hum phris, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, builders—D. Lewis and M. Varndell, Slough, Buckinghamshire, chemists- J. Stanley and T. Lambert, Longton, Staffordshire, manu facturers of earthenware—T. Brooks and T. H. Brooks, Bennet's-hill, Doct ors '- commo as, l ace manufacturers—J. Bradbury and S. Bradbury, Langton, Staffordshire, malt sters—R. Reynolds and R. Naylor, Sunderland, wine mer chants—C. Jopp and J. jun., Edinburgh, civil engineers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John William Deana, tea &Paler, Edinburgh. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 82, for the Week ending on Saturday the 6th day of May, 1854. ISSUE DEP.UtTMENT. Notes issued ........ 25,874,730 Ciovernment debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.- 2,984,900 45101 d coin and bullion 11,874,730 SLiver - £25,874,730 j £25,874,731 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier Dated the 1 ith day of May, 1854. mum SELLING STAKES AND GALANTHUS FILLY, DECISION OF THE STEWARDS. The following announcement was posted to-day in front of the weighing-room : "The stewards are of opinion that Mr. J. Osborne entered the Galanthus filly verbally, winner to be sold for 301., and that Mr. Topham, jun., who took the no mination, subsequently recollected that the filly was entered to be sold for that sum, therefore the Galanthus filly is entitled to receive the stakes. (Signed) " CLIFDEN. " Rous, for Mr. Greville." THE CUP RACE.—Before we left Chester we were glad to find that Salter, who was picked up in a state of in sensibility after Dr. O'Toole fell with him, was suffi ciently recovered to be able to leave the infirmary and to return home. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1854. MAY. Newmarket S S l6 I Royston 23 Lothians and Edinburghl6 1 Tavistock 23 Plymouth 17 North Herts 23 Shrewsbury' 18 Liverpool Hunt Spring ..24 Lewes l9 Harpenden 26 Bath 23 Epsom 30 rApvERrientENT.J—A most interesting recovery from a vast corn. placation of diseases, without the aid of medicine, is recorded in the following letter : " 13ridehuse, , "Grateful for th e b enefit I have derived f Frimley rom D 3d u Barr pr y's lBs4. Re va. lenta Arabica Food, I feel it my duty to express to you my unfeigned thanks for the invariable kindness I have met with at your hands. My case is an extraordinary one, and as it may benefit other suf ferers I think it but right to place its details at your disposal. I have suffered these 33 years continually from diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangements, deafness, singing in the ears, consti pation, debility, shortness of breath and cough, and during that period taken so much medicine that i can safely say I have laid out upwards of a thousand pounds at the chemist's and doctor's. I have actually worn out two medical men during my ailments without find. ing any improvement in my health. Indeed I was in utter despair, and never expected to get over it, when I was fortunate enough to become acquainted with your Revalenta Arabica, which, Heaven be praised, restored me to a state of health which I long since despaired of attaining. My lungs, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my hearing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquain tances.-1 am, respectfully, "'Lofts ROBERTS, Wood Me chant." In canisters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full instrue• Lions-1 lb., 2s 9d ; 2 h., 4s 6d ; 5 lb., I lx; 12 lb., 22s ; super re fined, 5 lb., 225; 10 lb , 333, The in lb and 12 lb. carriage free, on receipt of Yost-office order. Larry, Du harry, and Co., 77, Regent• street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 63, Oxforthatreet ; 60, Gracechurcli-street ; 49, IthoP s Sate-street 4 Clteaps4e ; 330 and 431. Strand. WAR-OFFICE, MAY P. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Owen Lewis Cope Williams, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires, May 12. 3rd Dragoon Guards— Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Robert Marshall Allen, to be Surgeon, vice Mapleton, who exchanges, May 12. 7th Light Dragoons—Robert Stanley Williams Bulkeley, Gent., to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Brisco, promoted, May 12. loth Light Dragoons—William Mayne, Gent., to be Cor net, by purchase, vice Richmond, promoted, May 12. 13th Light Dragoons—Thomas John Towers, Gent., to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Legrew, appointed to the Staff of the Army servinc , in the East of Europ e , M a y 12. 2d Regiment of Foot—Brevet-Major Thomas Addison to be Major, without purchase, vice Holdsworth, who retires, upon half-pay ; Lieutenant John Charles Weir to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Addison; Ensign Herbert Belfield to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Weir ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Pye Phillipps, from the Royal Military College, to be En s i gn , without purchase, vice Belfield, May 12. 12th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Ricketts, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mackey, promoted on the Staff, May 12. 49th Foot—Charles Edgar Gibson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M acne ill, appo i n t e d to t h e 53d Foot , May 12. 55th Foot—John George Echalaz, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice the Honourable A. E. Harris, appointed to the 4341 Foot, May 12. 91st Foot—Lieutenant William George Conway Gordon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stanton, who retires, May 12. 97th Foot—George Berthon Preston, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Warburton, who retires, May 12. 98th Foot—Major Edmu n d H aw th orne to be Lieut.- Colonel, by purchase, vice Roberts, who retires ; Captain Francis Peyton to be Major, by purchase, vi ce H a yth orne ; Lieut. William Croker t o be Captain, by purchase, vice Peyton ' • Ensign Augustus F re d er i c R aper t o b e Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Croker, May 12. 2d West India Regi men t—Frederick John Brinckman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vincent, promoted, May 12. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon Henry Mapleton, M.D., from the 3rd Dragoon Guards, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Allen, who exchanges ; Henry Hunter Raymond, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Ricketts, appointed to the 12th Foot, May 12. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Charles Pietors, from Adju tant of a Recruiting District, to be Captain, without pur chase, May 12. MEMORANDA.—The exchange between Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Francis Maxwell, of the 34th Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas R. Brown, of the 82d Foot, as stated iu the Gazette of the 30th December, 1853, has been cancelled, May 12. Assistant-Surgeon William Legge Reid, M.D., of the 3d Light Dragoons, has bewn permitted to resign his commission, May 12. The Christian names of Lieutenant Baumgartner, of the 83d Foot, are Thomas Mowbray. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 11. Ordnance Medical Department--Temporary Assistant. Surgeon Essex Bowen to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 25. ERRATUM IN GAZETTE OF 9TH INST.—Royal Regiment of Artillery—For First Lieutenant W. A. P. Willie, &c., read First Lieutenant W. A. P. Wyllie, &c. ADMIRALTY, MAY 8. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Charles Hope Clarendon to be First Lieutenant, vice Freeland, deceased. May 9—First Lieutenant John Horndon Parry to be Adjutant, vice Mansell, promoted. THE MILITIA.. The following commissions have been signed : Cornet James Davidson to he lieutentant, vice Morley, in the Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieutenant Thomas Robert Andrew to be captain, vice Captain Henry Stone, resigned, in the Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia. Second Lieutenant John Leslie to be first lieutenant, vice Murray, resigned, in the Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery. William Samuel Deacon, gent., to be second lieutenant, vice Leslie, promoted, in ditto. Michael James M'Corrnack, M.D., to be assistant-sur geon in the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia. Arthur Francis Bingham Wright to be ensign in the Dorset Regiment of Militia. Ensign John Stevens Cosens Stevens to be lieutenant, vice Dampier, promoted into the 2d Somerset Regiment of Militia, in the Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia. Vincent John Reynolds, gent., to be ensign, vice Stevens, promoted, in do. Spencer Cosby Price, Esq., late 72d Highlanders, to be Westpt aill,vice lf!ines, who r e ti res , i n th e 2d R eg i ment of Fork Militia. Arthur Maude, Esq., to be captain in the sth Regiment of West York Militia. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, the 2d inst. : Robert Stansfield, Esq., late 19th Foot, to be major in the 6th Regiment of West York Militia.] BANKRUPTS. Edward Arthur Weeks and Alfred William George We ks, horticultural builders, Kings'-road Chelsea, to sur render May 23 at one and June 29 at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy . . Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Fesenmeyer, Berlford-row. Frederick Scotson, hotel-keeper, Maiden-lane, Strand, May 23 at half-past one, and June 29 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Van Sandau and Cumming, Cheapside. William Thomas Lambert, patent medicine vendor, Jermyn-street, Saint James's, May 20, at two, and June 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, London. William Henry Elkington, brickmaker, King's Heath, Worcestershire, May 22 and June 19, at ten, at the Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hodgson, Birmingham. Gowen Clifford, builder, Strood, May 18, at twelve, and June 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Nicholls and Doyle, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn ;or Morgan, Maidstone. John Thomas Shayler, skin dyer, St. John- street-road Clerkenwell, May 18, at eleven, and June 21, at twelve at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee' Basinghall-street ; Fesenmeyer, Bedford-row. Josias Steer, builder, Plymouth, May 22 and June 12, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Edmonds and Sons, Plymouth ; Stogdon, Exeter. Joseph Green and Michael Green, boot and shoe manu facturers, Liverpool, May 25, and June 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liver pool ; Dodge, Liverpool. George Crickmer, saddler and harness maker, Lowestoft, May 20, at twelve, and June 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nichol-,on, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Burkitt, London-wall. Richard Fairbourn, grocer, Preston, May 26, and June 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Manchester; Cooper and Sons, Man chester; Winstanley and Charnley, Preston. Richard Brevitt, ironmonger, Coventry, May 23, and June 15, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court, Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Dawes, Coventry, Motteram and Knight, Birmingham. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. J. Wood, Dover-road, Surrey, tea dealer—J. Vincent, Macclesfield-street South, City-road, smith—A. U. B. Moakin, Red Cross-street, Cripplegate, ironmonger —J. Paterson, Green-street, Leicester-square, baker—T. G. F. Holt, Church-street, Newington, druggist—J. Knox, Harriett-place, Camberwell, commission agent —J . C. Roeder, Underwood-place, City-road, baker—G. F. White, Tyers-street, Lambeth, potato dealer—J. Crocker, Goodge street, Tottenham-court-road, and Chenias-mews, Bedford square, greengrocer—J. Taylor, Fish-street-hill, City, poulterer— W. Blundell, Hanover-cottages, St. John's wood, surgeon dentist—W. J. Hughes, Sloane•street, Chelsea, civil engineer —W. T. Plumb, Wellington-place, New Peckham, baker—E. Po Nth, York-place, Portman square, wine merchant. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. Wm. Henry Dee, Cambridge, plumber-Ist div. of 2s. 7id., May 17, and subsequent Wednesday, at Edward's, Sambrook-court. George Mordey Mowbray, Hove, Sussex, builder—let div. of 25., May 17, and subsequent Wednesday, at Lee's, Moorgate-streot. Joshua Greaves, Fish -street-hill, City, leather seller -sth and final div. of 2d., May 17, and subsequent Wed nesday, at Lee's, Moorgate-street. Wm. Richard Carter, Ingrain-court, Fenchurch-street, wine merchant-Ist div. of 10id., May 17, and subsequent Wednesday, at Lee's, Moorgate-street. Henry Purcell, Dudley, 'Worcestershire hosier-Ist div. of 75., any Thursd a y , a t Whitmore's Birmingham. Henry Griffith s , Birmingham, tailor—let div. of 3s. 4id., any Thursday, at Whitmore's, Birmingham. Howard James a n d Th omas James, Rushall Mills, Staffordshire, millers -Ist div. of 2s. lid., any Thursday, at Whitmore's, Birmingham. John Todd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne distiller-Ist div. of 9id., May 20, an d any subsequent Saturday, at Wakley's, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. John Tate, Darlington, Durham, iron merchant—let and final di v . o f I s. 3d., May 20, and any subsequent Saturday, at Wakley's, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. Juno 5. T. W . Thame Greenwich, ironmonger—June 5. W. F. Hart, Brighton and Worthing, Sussex, tailor —Juno 5. C. Druko, Garlick-hill, City, drysalter — June 5. J. Sivyer, Stratford, Essex, g r o cer- June 13. J. Fr a t er , Manchester, brewer—June 6. W. Shuttle worth, Bradford, Yorkshire, snuff manufacturer. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting. June 5. H. Groom, Bray Mills, Berkshire, miller—June 2. J. Rogers, Orchard-street, Paddington, mason —June 1. J. Carter, Gloucester, scrivenor—June 3. J. Flint, Shef field, s h oe manufacturer —Juno 5. E. Cottrill, Redditch, Worcester, dealer—June 2. T. G. Crofts, Leicester, draper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Rs Cooper and T. Blaffg, Friday-street, Cheapside, warehousemen—W. Pulling and T. J. Pulling, Hereford, wino merch an t s —J . Jameson and T. G. Cant, Penrith, Cum berland, solicitors—R. Maplesden and W. C Inge, Wing ham, Kent, m ill ers— A. Broady and G. Swindin, Ingbirch worth and Thurlstone Yorkshire, farmers — J. B. Cornforth, and, J. Chantrey, Macclesfield, Cheshire, pawnbrokers—D. Wilcockson and I. Wilcockson, Preston, Lancashire, tea dealers —A. Lacey and G. F. Lacey, Nottingham, tailors W. John son and T. Johnson, Ra i n hill , Lancashire, watt tool manufacturers— T. Grundy, T. Heywood, and J. Grundy, Preston, Lancashire, machinemlkers, so far as regards T. Heywood —J. Rogerson and G. Hardey, New castle-upon-Tyne, innkeepers—W. Morris and T. Vincent, Birmingham, basket makers—W. Lynn and J. Gadsby, Godraanobester, Huntingdonshire, sheep jobbers ... W. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest :....... ...... 3,201,864 Government securities (I ncl udg. Dead Weight Annuity) . • ... 12,566,607 Other securities...... 14,749,4 .0 des ........ • • • • • 3.90 ),430 Gold and silver coin .. 7,13,349 Public deposits Lin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 2,338,822 Other deposits 10,683,531 Seven Day and other 8i115........ . 1,164,631 431,949,846 £31,949,84, :.311SRSIIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 11th day of May, 185 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price o•f Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 9th day of May, 1854, is 24i. Bid. per hundredweight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS'. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WE EIS. Miles opened, 1853. NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISH. Belfast and Ballymena .............. Belfast and County Down.. • •..... Birkenhead, Lancashire, eat' Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York . Bristol and Exeter • • •• • Ca1ed0nian............. ........ 7 Edinburgh and Glasgow . •••••• • • 5 Chester and Holyhead. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • Cork and Bandon ........ .......... Dublin and Belfast Junction ••..• • • • Dublin and Drogheda •... • .• • • •• • • Dublin and Kingstown .... ••• . • Dundee and Arbroath • ••• .. • • Dundee, Perth, and A berde.ai Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen . • • • •• • • East Anglian.... • • • • - • • • • • • • • • East Lancashire .......... • Eastern Counties and NorfoLk.. • • • • Eastern Union • • . . • . • • • • j Edinburgh, Perth, end Du ndee • • • • • • Exeter and Credit0n......... • ....... Furness ltailway ........ Glasgow, and South-Western...... Great Northern and E. L.. ••• • •• Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western ..... ......... Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle.... • ... Lancashire and Y0rk5hir e .............. Leeds Northern ............ ........ Liverpool, Crosby, and Sou' tt 'port.... London and North Western .• ..... London and Blackwell"— ...... London, Brighton, and Souttl I Coast.. London and South Western. Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Li/ oinshire Manchester and Routh Junct is Maryport and Carlisle •• • • Midland Great Western (Irish 1 ...... Monklands .... • • • • ........ Newcastle and Carlisle.. North British ............... ........ North Staffordshire .. • ........ North-Western ••..• • • • ...., .... •• . Scottish Central •••• • • • .• •• . 7 Scottish Midland •• •• • • Shrewsbury and Birminghar s ••• • .. Shrewsbury and Chester .... ........ Shropshire Union .......... ........ South Devon.... •• .. . •••• •• •• • • .... Sonti , Eastern ........ South Wales ...... ••• • • South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. Taff Vale .... ...• •......... Waterford and Limerick .............. West Cornwall ...... Whitchaven Junction ... ••• . . • •• .• York and Newcastle, and B ei 11 elek & York and North Midland & Leeds 26 tis;‘, 19 1 4 8914 g 4 34 95' 61% 6 161 i 34434 95 171 283% 188 319% 2514 90 260 141 613Y4 1734 253% 16751 94, 28 493% £1,627 730 248 1,610 288 t 4 162% 848 4,647 14,169 3,886 186 797 1,078 1,0.57 728 4,925 17,589 2,435 111 758 4,394 16,767 5,302 19,466 190 5,028 18,456 392 52,166 1, i 6 11,181 12,110 452 7,180 '6lO 697 22,977 2,923 979 2,654 3,704 2,782 725 2,192 7t•7 3,025 13,576 2,977 1,754 3,166 443% 577 240 FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish Lyons and Mediterranean .. • • Montereau and Troyes .......... •• Namur and Liege Northern of France •••• • • ••• •••• • . •• Orleans and Central* ..... ........ Paris and Lyons .... •. •... Paris and Rouen. .......... -...... Paris and Strasburgh ••.• •• • • Rouen and ...... .• •• Western of France 27.223 991 6,otig 1854. 1,790 253 2,173 810 5,315 885 1,566 23,876 24 381 1 , 5,662 8,137 19,021 3,218 5,525 15,665 The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or• eans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Na rites. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. FORT OF SWINEM: UNDE. BERLIN, April 29.—The hill si t uated near the village of Osternoshhafen, known by the )name of " Siebenfichten berg," with seven large fir trees on its top, which appears to vessels arriving before the port of Swinemunde, from N.E. to N., and from N.W., in a distance of 2 to 2i leagues, and forms one of the marks of the port of Swine munde, is to be levelled in the cou.rs e of the month of July of this year. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 12. ENTERED INWARDS. —The Harsielding, from Cadiz ; Bengalen, Rotterdam • Edwin Fox, Calcutta and C a p e o f Good Hope ; Lina, lirolgast ; Difia lin, Trinidad; Penin sular, Cadiz ; Seeblomston, Bandholm ; Owen Glendower, Bombay and Cannanore ; Armas, Whampoa ; Patrician, Callao. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADMG.—The Berhampore, for Sydney; Sovereign of the Seas, Sydney; Jenny Lind, Mauritius; Jacobine Marie, Cope•nhagen ; B r i s t o l B e ll e, Boston ; Agincourt an d indso r, Calcutta ; Fulmer, Alexandria ; St. Esprit, Geelong ; ;Eiromleys and Florence, Barbadoes • Land o' Cakes, Melbourne ; Ch erus k er, Syd ney, N.S.W._; Forerunner, Afri ca . CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.--The MerCUritlS, for Sydney; Norfolk, Valparaiso; Equator, Dunkirk; Ren. sins, Dantzic ; Missionary, Hobart• Town ; Glaphyra, St. Kitt's ' • Pacific, Nassau ; Ne s t or , .E' or tl an d B ay an d Ma dras ; Vanguard, Bombay; American Eagle, New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Matilda Wattenback, from Liverpool to Melbourne, March 9, lat. 27 S , long. 31 W. The Atlantic (s.), from Liverpool, May 7, lat. 51 N., long. 27 W. The Thor (Russian barque), from Maulmain, April 19, lat. 41 N. long. 44 W. The Phs:llata (ship), standing N.W., April 25,1 at. 46N., long. 42 W. The Lively (brig), bound W., April 28, lat. 50 N., long. 32 W. The Araminta (ship), May 2, lat. 43 N., long 13 W. The Lady Sale, for Rio Janeiro, March 19, lat. 12 S , long. 34 W. The Tornado, from New York to Liverpool, April 20, lat. 40, long. 69. The Londerzylland, London to Rio Janeiro, lat. 1 N., long. 20 W. The Treasure, from Mauritius to Falmouth, lat. 2 N., long. 21 W. The Golden Age (clipper), with emigrants, steering southward, lat. 3 N.,long. 22 W. The Major Wolf, rom Copenhagen to St. Thomas, lat. 25 N., long. 40 W. The Bombay (French baque), standing S., March 21, lat. 9 S., long. 26 W. The Favourite, from Buenos to Liverpool, Ap r il 26, l a t. 38 N. long. 36 W. The New York Packet, April 30, lat. 45 N., long. 33 W. The A ctaeon (barque) and Telegraph (brig), same day. The Belmont, from Demerara to London, lat. 23 N., long. 61 W. The Frederick, from Manilla to Hamburg, Feb. 23, lat. 30 S., long. 46 E. The Olinda, from Madras to London, Feb. 28, lat. 32 S., long. 34 E. The Bornea, from Mauritius to Greenock, March 28, lat. 2 S., long. 19 W. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam 11 IN Gibraltar „ Ditto, three months .. 11 153 '.eghorn 3n 52% swan 25_5 . 2% „ ........ 11 • 15% Genoa .............. Rotterdain Antwerp ................ 17% Brussels .............. 25 17% Venice ................ Hamburgh .. •••••• 13 5 Naples .........• • • •... 415 i Palermo 24 97% Messina „ „ ........ 128% Ditto, throe months .. 25 30 Lisbon 53% M arse ill es . •• • 25 30 Oporto 53% Bourdeaux •• Rio Janeiro ....... ••.. Frankfort-on-Maine ...• 118% Buenos Ayres .......... Berlin •••••••• • • • • • • • • , New York, 60 days' sight Vienna • • Trieste .. ..... .. •• •• .• •• 13 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Petersburgh........ •• •• 34 Foreign Gold i n B ars £3 17 9 •••• .. • ......... 50% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 ..... 50% Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 1 Barcelona...... New Dollars ...... 00 0 Seville •• • • ........ Silver in bars ...... 0 6 M 1 .lIRDER 111 LIV ERPOOL. —Another sad instance of death, resulting from the free use of the knife, occurred in Liverpool, about twelve o'clock on Thursday night, in Preston•street. It appears that a French seaman, named Kelly, who has been for several years engaged in the American liners, was on the night in question at a pub lic-house in Dale-street, when an Italian seaman, named Hominato Tabbachi Antonia, came into the house, in com pany with a female. He appeared to be in liquor, and commenced quarrelling with Kelly and some militiamen who were in the house. Kelly, to avoid a quarrel, left the company when the Italian immediately followed him, and stabbed him in the right breast, killing him on the spot. The weapon which gave the wound was a dagger manufactured at Sheffield, having a blade about four Inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, with a silver guard. Qn the blade is the following inscription I ---" without rc:L~on, nor =!,,:ltho mu without honour." An inquest was held on the body before Philip Finch Curry, Esq., and after hearing some evidence, was adjourned until this day (Saturday). • - COUNTRY MARKETS. #.•=0..M... LIVERPOOL, MAY 12. / , r . 1 There was a good att en d ance o f coun t r y mi I-' heft dealers this morn i ng, and a fair business done. 1471 to 2d per b us h e l, and flour 6d to 9d per barrel, d ear er 4 on Tuesday. No change remarked in Indian COo 1 , °a oatmeal, beans, or peas. WAKEFIELD—MAY 12. The arrival of wheat reported this week is Ir. tr, of late, and cons i s t s c hi efly of foreign ; of other gi supply is very short. Fine fresh wheat generallyT cr off at last week's rates. In barley little doing.. steady. In oats and shelling no alteration. EXETER —MAY 12. O° CORN.—In our m ar k e t w h ea t may be quote d f roi G 1 5 to 10s 9d. Malting barley, 4s 9d to 5s Od ; grinding d. of Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 6d t o 3 s Sd . B eans, O s 0d t 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to OOs Od. CATTLE.—Prime beef, 10 s 6d per score ; cows an d 0901, 141. to 171. ; butchers' calves, 44d to 5d per lb., r, .7 4; calves OOs to Os each. Sheep, 66d to 7d. Lambs, 7 4 4 Od per lb. Sto re hogs, !arge size, OOs to 00s each; 51 'fb, OOs to 00s ; Xis to OOs. R oug h f a t, sid p 31. Pork carcases from Os Od. to 108 Od per score. INVERNESS.—MAY 9. CORN.—Wheat, whit e , p er qr., 74 s Od to 76 s Od. Alf) ley, chevalier, 35 s Od t o 36 s O i l ; di tto, common, 34 s v" 35s Pd. Oats, 34s Od to 37s Od. MEAL.—Oatineal, per imp. boll 29s Od to 30s Od dit od . second, 00s Od to Os Od ; barleymeal, 17s Od to Da' peasemeal, 17s Od to Os Od ; bran, per stone, Os 7d to 01,"' Ist flour, per 2801 b, 54 s Od t o 56 s Od ; 2d ditto, 470 no 49s Od ; oatme a l, b es t, per s t . o f 141 b imperia l ! b!„. oj to 3s Od • ditto second, Os Od t o O s Od ; b ar l eymea l to is 10d; peasemeal, is 10d to Os Od ; Ist flour, 2s 9d _ 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. BRISTOL SUGAR—MAY 12. The alteration in the sugar duties has quite unE zit! the mark e t. Tile transactions s i nce our l as t are limi ;d'" s,oo' mats of Mauriti us , 1,000 b oxes yellow Hays! 1 „'" and about 300 casks New Barbadoes, at prices whi cb i,; • 6d to Od p er cen t. aga i ns t t h e importer. Refiners' pre sparingly deAlt in. COAL MAR. Prices of Coal per ton at t' s. Burnhope l6 6 Chester Main 18 01 Hasti ng's Hartley 2O 01 Holywell 18 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 2O 01 Longridge's Wst Hartley2o 3 Itedheugh Main 16 0 , Taufield Moor lg Taufield Moor Butes 18 0 Walker Primrose . l6 6 Willington Hartley 9 0 0 Wylam 19 3 &c. 4,356 221 996 1,350 1,107 3,012 110 914 4,706 17,5 , 3 6,413 2!,359 274 5,992 18,5 U 417 54,410 1,472 11,946 13,472 480 7,012 775 24,148 2.970 1 138 2,759 4153 3,155 919 1,994 682 2,213 15,425 4,399 1,487 3,384 28,060 1,279 7,482 1,457 1,981 28,300 31,215 13,142 7,929 21,628 3,h 06 5,813 Gosforth , -- 18 9 Harton lB 6 Johnson lB 3 Bell's Primrose 16 G Eden Main 19 6, SEABORNE MAILS. • When any of these dates fall ol a Sunday, the mails will ii" 2 despatched on the following day, with the exception of the India vi Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched tbe day preceding. [ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S PILLS FOR TII% CURE OF LIVER COMPLAINTS, INDIGESTION, AND DISOI DERED STOMACH.—Mr. Richard Haynes, of her Majesty 's Dockyard at Plymouth, for several years had not hai the enjoyment of a day's good health, constantly sufferin. from indigestion and liver complaint. He had the bei medical advice from both army and navy surgeons, bu the disease yielded not to their treatment, and variou 0 other remedies were tried with a like result. At last b 0 began to use Holloway's pills, and this fine medicine by 0 so strengthened the tone of his stomach and invigorate a his constitution, that he is most perfectly cured, and Cl ►- joys the best of health.—Sold by all druggists, and : Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strati( London. MISERIES OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.—The committt ie on the subject of emigrant ships, appointed on the m tion of Mr. John O'Connell, have made their first repot comprising the evidence of several witnesses. One of them, Mr. D. Finch, gives an account, of which the ft ,1 lowing is a summary :—" I went from Liverpool to' Quebec last autumn in the Fingal, of the Blackwell ; she was lost coming back. We had 200 passenge trO out to America, and 1,100 tons of railway iron ; t Ito ship was only 900 tons register. Ten days after • s'e left the cholera broke out, and we had thirty-sev en deaths from it—l rather think forty-one. There was no medical man on board. The captain attended to the sick as well as he could, upon the whole, but be did not consider himself bound to look after the health. of the passengers, and he refused, to my knowledge, to attend to passengers when they were in bad health. I heard the sailors refuse to throw some bodies olrer board ; they were af! aid of touching them, and I consider they objected because they were not priid. In one case the body was not sewn up in canvas bef ore it was thrown overboard ; the captain said, We are not bound to do it ; it is only according to courte ty.' Throughout the voyage, the passengers —men, women, and children, the sick and the healthy —were all in• discriminately mixed together. I saw two or three in the same berth, and there were seven who had no be rtb• There was no separation of the sexes, nothing to pre rent their being together night or day. There were sixt y or eighty young women on board. There was no gee rard• ess. The boards of the berths were not sufficitmtly fixed, and after we had been about 10 days at sea, they were all broken down by the working of the vt!asel, owing to the cargo shifting ; they were not put up s e gain. A great many lay or had their beds on the floor. There were two temporary water closets, but they were soon down. First, the doors were knocked away, and there were no means of concealing the person there. They were for men and women indiscriminately ; there were no other water-closets. After they were destroyed there was a very bad smell below ; indeed, you could not stand below owing to want of cleanliness. I came back in an American ship which had permanent water-closets. Some of the provisions of the Fingal were not good, and we had not the proper quantity ; sugar was served out in more cases than one with only eight ounces to the pound. In the last week of the voyage the allowance of water was only two quarts a day for three persons, though we made the voyage in three weeks less than the period the act requires a ship to be provided for. The bread was deficient in quantity. We got no meat unless we paid for it." BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 10th inst., at North Audley-street, Grosvenor square, the wife of Dr. C. Stoggall. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 11th inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, the lion. Mrs. Proctor Beauchamp. MARRIED. On the 9th lust., at the parish church, Tring, forte, the Rev. W. S. Reece, of Audenshaw, Lancashire, eldest !on , of Major W. Reece, IL E.1.C.5., to Maria Louisa, third daughter of Mr. Thomas Elliman, of Tring. DIED. On the Bth inst., W. Drake, Esq., Paymaster E.N., late of the Agamemnon. On the 10th inst. Hannah, relict of the late Augustus Gostling, Esq., LL.D., of Whitton, Middlesex. On the 10th inst., at 28, Bruton-street, Harriet, widow of the late Right Hon. Charles Yorke. : Pablishel hs IIU/Z1)O YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of fAturchiy, May 13,1864. (N F igni flea that the mails ar e sen t f rom th e G eneral Post-of y tha night—and Mby the morning —despatch.) Day when made ul From wti.. Who Mt COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port dun IS Office, London.. THspatch ei t Engla dd. •••••' America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday . Liverpool Each . America (by United Sts. packet) .......... N , May 2 Liverpool May 1 A America (by U Slates' packet) .......... N April 25.. • • Southamptoni Australia (via South ampton) .......... M May 4 ......... . SouthamptonlMay • 19 Ditto (via Marseilles) N:May 8 . Ditto (via Cape of uoodj • Hope) ...... •• • • ..N 'June 1 . Africa (West Coast) ..Nll3d of the month. Plymouth • April Alexandria... ••• NB, 9 , 24 , &30of in Dover .... Alexandria..... • & 20th of mo n . S out h amp t on •• • ) Bahamas ..... •• • . 31 17th of the mont: Southampton May 1 Belgium ...... • • ....N Dover ...... Daily Brazil .....• • ..Ml9th of the m on th .. Southampton, May 16 Buenos Ayres.... •...M :9th of the month.. Southam •0 , , May 16 Cape of Good Hone ..N jl4th 01 the meat Plyinotrit Cape of Good Hope N :14th of the month. Sontliam icon • 26 Cape de Verds N 14th of th e mouth Southampton March• Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N 14th of the month April 26 , Channel Isles ...... ..NlMon.,W e d, , & Frid Southampton Tu.T,i.gaw. Ch1ii................ M 12d & 17th of mont- Southampton, May 1 China (see India) Constantinople ......N 17,8,17,24,3E27 of m. Dover )April 36i Constantinople ........ :4th & 20th of mon Southampton „ 2 0 Cont. of Europe M& N Twice daily ...... Dover .... Twice, WV Egypt (see India) France AI & N Twice daily —. Dover ...... Twiced Gibraltar 111,4, 7, 17, 20, 27 of rn Southampton May 6 Greece (see India) Greytown .......... M,2rld & 17th of mon. Southampton May 1 Hamburgh .• N.Tuesday & Friday London .• •.. Havannah .......... m Stud of the mono Southampton Jane 1 Holland M. Daily.. Dover Daily Honduras ......... Mll7th of the month. Southampton May 16 India (viaSouthampt.)m,4th & 20th of mon. Plym , uth .. May 20 India (via Marseilles)M'Bth&24th of month Dover April 2 9 lonian Isles (see India)l7, 17, &27 of mon , Dover.. .• • • „ 2 Ireland & NlTwice daily Holyhead ~ ;Twice, tallf 9, 17, &27 of m.lSoutliampton IMay 1 Madeira 9th of the month ,SouthampionlMay 1 I Madeira ,23d of month .... I Plymouth .. April 6 %lalta (see India) Malta . .... ........N17,17,19,27, 30 of m. Dover ...... April 19 Mauritius (see India) I Mauritius ..........Nll4th of the month April ' Mexico ... .Ml2nd of the month. ``Southampton June 1 Naples . . ....... , N;bthl s th 2 sthormon.lDover kNlay 2 New Granada ......M I2d & 17th of month Southampton,May 1. New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. Various port (May ti 1 11 ' Papal States 5 thlsth2Athofinon. Dover Imay 2• Peninsula ~. ........Milthl7o2Bthofinon. Southampton . !May 6. Peru ....„ At! 2d & 27th of mon. Southampton ;May 1 Port Natal 114th of the month Plymouth Sicily . ..........N,sthlsth2sthofrnon, Dover ...... ay 2 Tuscany ...... !Ma 2 Venezuela .. & 17th otatonth Southampton Ma y 1 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) .. West Indies 25 & 17th ol month Southampton May 16 `.---MAY 12. ,he close of the market : Wallsend, &c. i 1 . . A Belmont 1 9 w Braddyll 2 0 t/ Eletton 2 i I' Kepier Grange ' Lainbton 2 0 " 0' Russell's Hetton 2 0 0 , 0 li. Stewart's 1 Whitwell 18 6 Denison Heugh Hall 0 0 o South Hartlepool ......._2 O ISouth Kelloe '2O Tees :2O 6 Whitworth Pease's West 'lB 4 Cowpen 3 Derwentwater Hartl e y. -1 10 4 Grey's West Hartley ....! ;0 Hilda Receipts. 1853. 865 4 907 20,293 ,EVE; T VP RIstEv i . !itttirday) „ ' 44118 ,`3.1. t ill 4; area, ONS' N-) EGyp here believt the restless Eastern Cori Weanescli °tithe.other 444 Eight.— LAUR Alden Tb e aba .9tLEgki tir s lier luld I ds 44' 4 to Y to, • the s, Lp hi n a es „ I) AMY rßoA sa . 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