The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

E RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN CHINA. The following letter from a naval officer, dated "Amoy, October 25th," will be read with much interest by all concerned in the great change which appears to be impending in the religious as well as the political condition of China " Being relieved at Shanghai, I left there a month since for this place, calling at the island of Japan-san, a dependency of Loochoo, to pick up the survivors of the Lady Eveline, which was wrecked there. Of 270, 240 were drowned ; the remainder we found had been treated with every kindness by the poor people of the island, who, out of their 'deep poverty', bestowed largely of every thing they had, clothes as well as food. " Of all the people I ever saw, the condition of this island is the most deplorable. They live, for the most part, upon sweet potatoes, are absolutely naked, and, practically, slaves to the higher class, who are numerous, and said to come from Loochoo. The island is capable of producing sugar, cotton, and very much more food than it does, but the excessive jealousy of Loochoo prevents any inter course or amelioration of their condition. Seeing no prospect of a ship returning there, I made them a present, on Government account, for their kind ness to our countrymen. " When I left Shanghai it was in the hands of a set of insurgents who belong to the Triad Society, but had declared for Tae-ping-wang, and I think they will be able to hold it against the Imperialists, the more certainly that so many places are rebel ling. For a month we have been doomed to watch the abortive attempts of the cowardly Imperialists to take this place, to see day after day a further destruction of the property of the unoffending and non-combatant inhabitants of the more distant vil lages or suburbs, and to speculate on the amount of misery these people will submit to before they rise en masse and drive the mandarins away. Three long months of this siege have dragged. its weary length along, and still no prospect of their taking even the nearer suburbs, though unwalled, and sometimes defended only by 500 or 1,000 men against 20,000 Imperialists. Whenever they come too near the walls of the. citadel the rebels turn out and drive them away with ease. " I can well believe that there is treason in the Imperial camp, and that they only make a show of fighting while the money lasts, and the mandarins only to save their heads, which they are quite cer tain of losing if they give up, but which they can hold for the present by reporting successes which have no existence but on paper ; and I can well believe that there is a deeper feeling than that of the desire to enrich themselves actuating the rebels, as for some time they have received only 20 cash a day to find themselves, equal to about id., and yet I am credibly informed there are fewer cases of theft since they have been in possessionof the town than there were during the mandarin rule. So badly off are they that many have been predicting that they must give in, but I feel quite assured that there is no chance of this. Indeed, I have observed since I came here that the numbers of the rebels have been increased very considerably, and we saw that they brought provisionswith them. On asking the cause of this influx, I was informed by a disin terested person that the mandarins were burning the villages around, and had promised three days' plunder to their Canton soldiers, of whom they had many, so the Amoy people were hastening ix to the defence of their houses. " Within a few days they have received rice from Formosa, which place is also in the hands of mem bers of their society, and as the mandarins cannot procure money, I think they will abandon all at tempts to take the place. Indeed, the Imperial admiral told me yesterday that he did not think they would be able to retake it. To my mind this alone would be conclusive against their doing so. " The movements here, at Shanghai, and Formosa are quite independent of that which passed through China, and have originated with the Triad, or Hea ven and Earth Society, organised many years ago for the purp,se of overthrowing the Mantchoo dy nasty. Among the papers brought byus from Nan kin was an address to members of this society from the eastern Prince of the Tae-ping dynasty, exhort ing them to come forth and drive out the Mant choos. The existence and objects of this society have been long known to the mandarins, and it has been proscribed by them, and those discovered or suspected treated from time to time with frightful barbarity; and this is now producing its natural fruits. " The focus of this society is Singapore, but its members are to be found in all parts of the south ern hemisphere, still loving China and bound to it by many ties, angry at being expatriated, coming back from time to time to see their friends, wives, and sisters, whom they are not allowed to take with them, and each time more hostile to the Mantchoos for the degradation they subject their people and, indeed, themselves to. The only women who leave China are a very few that pass through Hong Kong, and these of the lowest. There are 40,000 China men at Singapore and only a few hundred women, (and they mostly half-caste) ; no doubt a man iniOtt smuggle his wife away, but they would de stroy her family or sell them into slavery, for there are a large number of female slaves in China. " There is a marked difference between the peo ple here and at Shanghai and those at Nankin ; the former make no profession of changing their reli gion, though they state that they are willing to take their law even on that point from the peo ple of Nankin, and their liberal views seem to he the result of intercourse with Europeans rather than from understanding the true principles of civilisation ; but they all have this characteristic difference from the mandarins and their party— that they have ceased to be exclusive, and treat all Europeans with marked civility, while the man darins are, if possible, more distrustful and exclu sive than ever. No high official will acknowledge any service, no matter how great, if performed by a European ; nor will they ask a favour in a straightforward way, however much they may need it. A short time since they were very ill off for money, so the Commissioner sent a mere coolie to ine to say that they would pay me whatever I wanted if I would go to Foochow for some, and, though their continuing the siege depended upon their having it, yet they would not ask for it in a proper manner—not that in this case they would have obtained it, as we are strictly neutral. On this occasion I asked them why they did not send some of their fleet of junks ? They said there were too many pirates outside—which I believe to be the case. They are a frightful incubus on the coma try. " Each day it becomes less possible that the Mant choos can govern this country again ; their success against the many movements now in progress has not been even probable for some time past. The affections of the masses are extensively, and, I think, long alienated, and the exactions which they havehad recourse to to keep up this war arefast establishing a hostile feeling. I cannot but think that the literati and rich people are only waiting a fair prospect of a turn of tide to turn with it, then the Tae-ping dynasty would have no difficulty in establishing their government solidly and quickly. While each day's trial of strength shows the people their power, it makes, if possible, more evident the weakness, the imbecility, and venality of the man darins. Opium is openly sold in the camps and fleets of the Imperialists, • and they commonly, or some of them, go out to fight drunk with it. No doubt some of the rebels do the same, but this does not appear to be common among them. Opium was and is a luxury, and therefore never common among the poorer classes. The greater part of their fleet are pirates, hired to the captains, of which vessels they have given Buttons,' which proves their weakness and recklessness of character. There is no reasonable ground for believing that they co uld govern the country (if they agai n o b ta i ned p os session of it) upon their exclusive principles, it is impossible they can change. They Wight as at as well hope to turn the Yang-tse-kiang and cause it to run up to its source as turn the tide of op i n i on which is flowing in over China. They will have China for the Chinese when they have known bet ter things than China affords ; they long to throw off the badge of slavery, and this feeling is extend ing. A Singapore Chinaman said to me, beating his breast with vehemence, Our hearts are angry against tho mandarins.' " Many people say, or affect that, the country would be long settling down under new rule. I think very differently. The greater part of the Europeans in China are influenced by their wishes. I fancy it would suit the views of some of those engaged in trade that the Imperialists should suc ceed, and as they do not stop out long, their turn would be served during the short reign they could continue. About what would follow they do not care much to inquire. " As might be expected, there are large numbers of Chinese indifferent ; they have nothing to lose, and they are too ignorant to know that they might have anything to gain ; but there are numbers whose hearts are with the movement, and these w ould be multiplied indefinitely by the fall of Pekin. Their respect for old age, arising o u t o f th e i r an cestral worship, would continue after a change of governors ; this resolves itself into a kind of local government, which is strengthened by their respect for literature. Then they have a rudimentary teaching in self-government in their many societies, the offi ce -b eare rs of which are all electi ve ; and they have an evident sense of the necessity for re *Wing the rights of property, u shown at all , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1854, those places where they have drawn a well-marked line between public and private property. " That a nation where there are so many pirates should respect the rights of property seems strange, but so it is ; but the pirates have been mostly created by the vile conduct of the mandarins. " And, though last, not the least important rea son why I think they would settle down quietly under Tae-ping-wang, is - that there is a thorough sense of the worthlessness of joss-worship and of the deep depravity of the priests, which makes them ready to accept anything that commends itself to their minds or appears an improvement. Hitherto they were obliged by the difficulties of their language, which increase with every step, in acquiring a knowledge of it, to take their politics on trust from the literati, which gave them great powers ; but these have been falling into disrepute from the venality of the Court in selling literary honours ; and their religion they took on the same terms from the priests. This, if it was not a sense less, and, except perhaps for the purposes of go vernment, a bad religion, at least recognised a future state of rewards and punishments, and was, therefore, better than none ; but they have ceased to perceive any sense in it, and are practically without restraint. " One does not see how a people can become utterly depraved if the system they are under is constantly reverting to a future state, and thus keeps conscience ever active, though ill-in formed ; but it is a question whether, in the practical working of the system here the claims of conscience have not been satisfied by hush money—whether the priests have not ignored the future state by teaching that they (the people) were exempt from its claims by pay ment or penance. Morality they seem to compre hend ; and treat, in every place I have been, the missionary, or the ' man of the book,' with con sideration, and, where attacks have been medi tated, their houses were marked for exemption ; and, therefore, I cannot but believe that the ten commandments set forth by Tae-ping-wana as the rule of life will meet acceptance, will appeal to their understandings, and, without fail, produce moral results, if no better ; and we ' must be thankful for the day of small things.' Christendom, as a whole, has progressed no further, thou g h, indeed, it would be scandalised to be told so. There have been men among them sensible of the abounding evil, who have from time to time preached against prevailing vices, if they did not preach morality for its own sake, a morality such as was dictated by perverted and unenlightened conscience, but still valuable in its way, as testifying that all is not as it ought to be ; that the flowery land' is not the best and wisest ; as the forerunner of better, and stimulating to inquiry after ' the better way.' " One of these, a native of Chung-chow, a populous and rich city, about 20 miles from here (Amoy), on some missionaries going there, went to hear them preach, approved their doctrine, as sisted them, and even joined in preaching after his own fashion; finally he received them into his house, and seemed, if he did not understand, at least to drink in with avidity the wondrous theme as that something he long looked for, as the truth belonging to his own system which his parents had long lost; for there are some notions current in China that can only have been derived from Revelation. What made his conduct the more remarkable was that one of the missionaries was an European. This man was in disrepute, and one whom no one liked to meddle with, and on his admitting them, he said, 'lt is a strange thing for a Chinaman to do, but no one will meddle with me ; and, such was his disrepute, that some of the people took excep tion to the missionaries for associating with him, so that the Chinese servant of the English mission ary said, Why, he is like Zaccheus.' When the insurrection broke out this man favoured the views of the insurgents ; and, when the reaction took place, the mandarins took his head off. Peace be with him ! He was one of China's truest sons, and the mandarins will have to account for his death sooner than they expect. " It occurs to me that the fall of this place marks the deep hostility to the mandarin rule. Chung chow is the residence of numerous families who are connected with mandarins ; and, though a rich place, that had much to lose from change and from placing it in the hands of an oppressed and im poverished class, yet they put the place in the power of the insurgents, and they might have had it still but that they showed a disposition to squeeze these connexions of mandarins ; but they, being so numerous and rich, hired people to drive them out, and then murdered a thousand of them. The former Governor was intreated to return ; but, though he did, he was unable to re establish things. The place has remained ever since with the gates closed, in a state of practical siege, as they are in difficulties for provisions, the country people remaining hostile. The distress entailed upon the poor is intense. The whole trade of Amoy passed through Chung-chow ; and some idea of its amount may be gathered from the fact that there were 2,000 registered boats plying be tween the two places, carrying sugar, aTc., and these had, upon an average, eight persons in each. All these are thrown out of employ, besides many thousands whose labour was bestowed in the manu facture, (tc., of these products. " There are still some who talk of the good rule of the Mantchoo. I have no hesitation in saying that this is a great mistake—that whatever is good in the existing rule is not new, and whatever is new is not good.' They judge, perhaps, from pas sing through districts which abound with fertility —the result of industry and, no doubt, compara tive peace ; but this is the result of their patri archal rule which has been perpetuated by the wor ship of ancestors, and the rule of ennobling the ancestors rather than the descendants for any deed of renown ; but this is Chinese, not Mant choo, and thi s pr os p er it y i s confined to the poor and rural districts where mandarins only appear to collect land taxes. These talk of constituted authority' and 'rulers,' and say that there was no immediate outrage that should have induced the people at this time to rebel. There has been no time, I believe, for very many years that the people had anything left to learn of human woe ; and in any other country their sufferings would have been long since considered beyond human endurance. I cannot conceive how people can pass through the streets of this and other populous places, and see for themselves that the misery, which is the exception in other countries, is the rule, and yet say that the Mantchoo is a paternal Government. Can it be a good Govern went where infanticide is practised - openly as a means of delivering their children from what the parents consider worse than death—or where the humane, to save them from this, bring them up to sell them into slavery, concubinage, or worse—where the weak are oppressed, and where the rich can purchase exemption from punishments —except, in deed, where they become so rich by their extor tions or powerful by their crimes as to excite the fears or the cupidity of the Emperor ? Can that be a Government at all where the normal state is revolt and internecine war—village fighting against village,—the mandarin meanwhile folding his hands till one has been victorious, and has perpe trated some such enormity as that which took place not long since, not far from Canton, where five captives had wooden pins driven into the joints of their knees and were thus left in the sun to starve,—and then only stepping in to say th a t if he does not receive a certain sum from each village he will take them before the higher authorities ? Can that be a Government where Chap-ut-say, the pirate chief, long the terror of the coasts for his barbarities, is promoted to honour, because they cannot control him ? Some may say that it was politic, none would say that it was good. Can that be good government, under which the crimes which brought down God's judgment on the ' Cities of the Plain,' are systematised, if they are not actually, or rather the houses and procurators, the subjects of express revenue —the Emperors themselves being notoriously among the worst offenders ? " China under their rule has filled up the mea sure of her . iniquities, and she will have to pass through a fiery trial ; but out of it will come goo d . I dare not justify wrong in any one, nor do I mean to say that the insurgents are bl ame l ess, but merely state facts which show that the blame rests with their rulers because of their wickedness, their oppression and neglect of the people, which has brought them into the degraded state they are in, from which their conduct is a natural con sequence. "It is thought by many that the Imperialists will take this place. No doubt they could do so were they all honest and united ; but I verily be lieve there are members of the Triad Society among them. It was said that one of their admirals was discovered to be a member, and that he tried to drown himself, but failed, and still remains an ad miral. It is also said that they are apprehensive for Foochow, the provincial capital, and will have to leave wihouut taking Amoy. Under any cir cumstances I fully believe their influence will be impaired. If they do not take it, their incapacity will be made even more apparent ; if they do, they commit such outrages upon the unoffending that they will bring greater discredit upon themselves if their conduct will not produce a reaction. " The inland transit is becoming so insecure that the teas which formerly went to Canton are find ing an outlet at Foochow. It is much nearer to the tea districts, and when once they find their way there the probability is that they will not re turn to Canton. I think it probable that the northern insurgents may stop the inland trade proceeding to Canton in order to bring that place to terms. The Imperialists there are strong from their wealth." •1~. . ~ _. +.. ~.• POLICE -INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— Win. Anderson, who was re manded to this day, upon two charges of feloniously ut tering acceptances to two bills of exchange, one for 2,000/. and another for 2,480/., well knowing them to be forged, having been placed at the bar in custody of John Forrester, the Mansion-house officer, The Lord Mayor inquired whether there was any further charge to be made against the prisoner ? Forrester said he believed there was no person in at tendance to make a fresh charge. Mr. Lambert Van Notten Pole—My lord, it has oc curred to me since I gave my evidence upon the former occasion, that in three or four instances, when the pri soner was abroad upon business of his own, my firm permitted him to draw upqn us on the security of the documents of the goods of which he went abroad for the purchase. It did not occur to me at the time the ques tion was put to me, but it has since been brought to my recollection, that he has in three or four instances drawn upon the house against documents of goods. The Lord Mayor—Could you state within what time ? Mr. Pole—The last transaction was about the month of March last. The Lord Mayor—But to your belief such has not been the case since March last. Mr. Pole—Since March of last year. The depositions in each of the above cases having been read over by Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, and signed, the prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next sessions at the Central Criminal Court. BOW-STREET.---George Andrews , who stated that he was formerly a soldier in the 98th Regiment of Foot, was charged before Mr. Henry with stealing a military cloak at St. James's Palace, the property of Capt. John Murray, of the Grenadier Guards. William Mark, waiter to the Guards mess, stated that he saw the prisoner walking across the Ambassador's yard about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, with the cloak over his arm, which a few minutes previously witness had seen hanging over the balustrade in the hall of the Palace. Witness asked him where he was going with the cloak ? He replied, "To the Tilt Guard, by the order of Captain Alexander." Witness detained the prisoner while he inquired into the truth of this statement ; and finding that Mr. Alexander had not seen him he gave the prisoner into the custody of a policeman. Captain Murray identified the cloak, the original cost of which was 71. 7s. Witness and his brother officer, Mr. Alexander, were on guard that day, but neither of them had given the prisoner any authority to take the cloak anywhere. Captain Alexander corroborated this statement. The prisoner said that some gentleman at the Palace called to him and said, " Here, my man, take this cloak to Mr. Alexander, at the Tilt Guard," and this was what he stated to the waiter at the mess. He should know the gentleman again if he saw him. lie (prisoner) had just come up from Brighton, to try and get a pen sion, having been discharged from his regiment wounded, and he went to the Palace to try and see some of the officers. The prisoner, who was not known, was then coma. mitted for trial. LAMBETH.— William Taylor, a smart well-dressed young fellow, who described himself as a grocer, was re-examined on various charges of robbery. On Friday night last the prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Lovell, a chemist and druggist in the Walworth road, and who also has a post-office at his house, and asked for 20s. worth of postage stamps, with which he was served. He then asked for half•a-crow's worth of receipt stamps, and while in the act of getting the latter from a drawer, he started off with the postage stamps. The shopman at once gave him chase, and called out " Stop thief ;" and being lighter i❑ the heels and a better runner, he at last came up with him and secured him. He was then given into the charge of a constable, and taken to the station-house. Since his apprehension, upwards of twenty robberies of a similar description committed by him have come to light, and in some of the cases the prisoner has thrown a counterfeit sove reign on the counter in payment of the stamps and run away. The time which it took to ascertain whether the coin was counterfeit or genuine enabled the prisoner to get beyond the reach of his dupes, and by this means he was enabled to get off. The prisoner was committed for trial, Thomas Brown, alias Bell, who described himself as a commercial traveller, but known to be both a con victed thief and swindler, was again placed at the bar for further examination on a charge of having first drugged with some intoxicating, highly-spiced liquour, and then violated, a young woman named Elizabeth Marsh. A number of additional witnesses were called whose testimony very much strengthened the charge against the prisoner. Amongst the witnesses present was the clergyman of the parish of Stock, in Essex, where the prosecutrix was born, and this gentleman spoke to her highly moral character from the period of her birth, and also to the decency and propriety of her parents. He further spoke from his own knowledge of the prosecutrix being a person of delicate constitution, and suffering from an affection of the head. Edward Wright, who described himself as the keeper of the Great Western Bazaar or Servants' Registry, and also an auctioneer and house agent in the Edgware-road, was also called, and stated that he had known the pri soner for four or five months, from his being in the habit of calling at his place to sell fishing tackle and books. On Wednesday week he was at his (witness's) office, when the prosecutrix was there, and heard him tell the young woman to call on a lady in Duke-street. The prisoner sent a shilling for some bread and cheese and ale, and he (the prisone►), witness, and the young woman, partook of it. They then went to a public house in the neighbourhood, where they .had some gin, and the prisoner and the prosecutrix went away together. On the following day the prosecu trix and her sister came to his house, and asked him if 1 he knew the prisoner, and he replied that he did, and that he expected him shortly to take away a parcel he left there on the evening before. They waited there till he came, and gave him into custody. In reply to a question from Mr. Norton, Wright ad mitted that he had been tried and convicted of a con spiracy fn obtaining a sum of money from a young man, under a pretence of obtaining for him a lucrative situa tion, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. He, denied that it had been his habit to allow persons to re main in his office for the purpose of inveigling away and seducing simple country girls. Mr. Norton assured him that if be should be found to do so by the police, who should now have their eye on his Bazaar, he should find himself again in a very awk ward condition. 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The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Tuscany, having received from his Eminsnce the Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State to his Holiness Pope Pius IX., the assurance that no other or higher duties or charges are levied in the ports of the Papal States on British vessels than are payable on na tional vessels, nor on goods imported or exported in Bri tish vessels than are payable on the like goods imported or exported in national vessels, has received the commands of her Majesty to declare : 1. That no duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouse, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomina tion, levied in the name or 'for the profit of the Govern ment, public functionaries, corporations, or establishments of whatever kind, shall be imposed in British ports upon Papal vessels, from whatever port or place arriving, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels ; and that no duty, charge, restriction, or prohibi tion shall be imposed upon, nor any drawback, bounty, exemption, or allowance withheld from, goods impoi ted into or exported from British ports in Papal vessels, which shall not be equally imposed upon or withheld from such goods, when so imported or exported in national vessels. 2. That no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions of her Britannic Ma jesty of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Papal States, than are or shall be payable on the like article, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. That no other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the British dominions on the ex portation of any article to the Papal States, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like arti cle to any other foreign country ; and that no prohibition shall be imposed upon the importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Papal States into the British dominions, nor upon the exportation of any article from the British dominions to the Papal States, unless such prohibition shall extend to all other nations. 3. That Papal vessels shall be at liberty to import into British ports any article legally importable, and to export from British ports any article legally exportable, on payment of the same duties, and with a right to the same bounties and drawbacks, as are or may be payable or allowed in respect of the same articles if imported or exported in national vessels. 4. That all vessels which according to the laws of the Papal States are to be deemed Papal vessels, shall for the purposes of this declaration, be deemed Papal vessels. 5. That the foregoing stipulations shall not apply to the coasting trade, which is reserved exclusively to national vessels. 6. That if any ship of war or merchant vessel of the Papal States shall be wrecked.on the coasts, of the British dominions, such ship or vessel, or any parts thereof, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandise which shall be saved therefrom, or the produce thereof if sold, shall be faithfully restored to the owners, upon being claimed by them or by their duly authorised agents. If there are no such owners or agents on the spct, then the said ships or parts of ships, furniture, appurtenance, goods, and merchandise or the proceeds thereof if sold, as well as all papers found on board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be delivered to the Papal Consul or Vice-Consul in whose district the wreck may havetaken place, upon being claimed by him ; and such Consul, Vice-Consul, owners, or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in, the preservation of the pro perty, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel. The charge for such salvage and other expenses shall be made and set tled immediately, subject to such right of appeal on the part of the person paying the same, as may exist in the British dominions. The goods and merchandise saved from the wreck shall not be subject to duties unless cleared for consumption, in which case they shall be liable to the same duties as if they had been imported in a British ship. 7. That the foregoing concessions are granted on condi tion of a perfect and entire reciprocity in favour of British vessels in the ports of the Papal States. They shall come into operation from and after the date of the present decla ration, and shah remain in force for seven years, and fur ther until the expiration of twelve months after notice shall have been given by the British Government, or by the Papal Government, for terminating such reciprocal arrangement. In witness whereof the undersigned has signed the pre sent declaration, destined to be exchanged against a simi lar declaration on the part of his Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State, and has affixed thereto the seal of his arms. Done at Florence, the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 31st May, 1853.) DOWNING STREET, MAY 30. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieut.-General the Hon. George Cath cart, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Major- General Henry Somerset, C. 8., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourabla Order of the Bath ; and of Colonel William Eyre, Lieut.-Colonel of the 73d Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel John Michel, of the 6th Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel Charles Cooke Yar borough, of the 91st Regiment of Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel George Thomas Conolly Napier, late Lieut.-Colonel of the Regiment of Cape Mounted Riflemen ; and Lieut.-Colonel John Maxwell Perceval, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 5. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, at Stockholm, enclosing a translation of a royal edict, issued by the Government of Sweden and Norway, reducing the duties on salt and firewood, of which a copy is subjoined. (Translation.) Royal Proclamation relative to the reduction of import duties on salt and firewood : We, Oscar, &c., hereby make known that, from con siderations laid before us, we have thought fit to order : That from this day inclusive to the end of the year 1854 salt may be imported into the kingdom at a reduced duty of 18 skillings banco a ton. During the same period wood may also be imported on paying the following duties Birch wood 12 skillings a fathom. Oak and beech wood 18 „ Other kinds of wood 8 „ Stockholm, 13th December, 1853. (Signed) OSCAR. (Countersigned) PALMYSTERNA. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 6. 2(1 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Orlando Frederick Cavendish Brilgeman to be Adjutant, vice Cle ments, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Jan. 6. 7th Regiment of Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Augustus Purefoy Lockwood to be Surgeon, vice Mitchell, promoted on the Staff, Jan. 6. 9th Foot—William Claude Elliot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bell, who retires, Jan. 6. 10th Foot—Captain George Hamilton, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Chancellor, who exchanges, Jan. 6. 18th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Preston, from the 26th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Kennedy, appointed Paymaster of a Recruiting District, Jan. 6. 27th Foot--Lieutenant Walter Hamilton Twemlow, from the 31th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice O'Loghlin, who exchanges, Jan. 6. 30th Foot—Ensign Lachlan Macpherson to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Hepburn, who retires; John Simon Chandos Harcourt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Macpherson, Jan. 6. 34th Foot—LieutenantJohn William Brooke, O'Loghlin, from the 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Twemlow, who exchanges, Jan. 6. 40th Foot —Lieutenant Francis Henry Atherley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rundle, who retires ; Ensign Thomas Macpherson Bruce Gardyne, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Atherley ; J Lcob Francis Bryant, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gardyne, Jan. 6. 41st Foot—Lieutenant William Johnston, to be Adju tant, vice Barnard, promoted, Jan. 6. 52d Foot—Ensign Arthur Henley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gervis, who retires ; William Atkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henley, Jan. 6. 53rd Foot—Ensign Wale Rymer Byrne, to be Lieuten ant, without purchase, vice Grubbe, deceased, Oct. 20. 75th Foot—Captain Alexander Chancellor, from the 10th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hamilton, who exchanges, Jan. 6. 2d West India Regiment -Major Stephen John Hill, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Mends, who retires upon full pay; Captain John Miller to be Major, without purchase, vi ce Hill ; Lieutenant John Harpur to be Captain, without purchase, vice Miller ; Ensign Edward James Laughlin to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harpur ; Christopher Frederick Holt, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Laughlin, Jan. 6. Hospital Staff—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class Charles Whyte to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice Shanks, deceased Surgeon John Mitchell, M.D., from the 7th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the first class, vice Whyte, promoted ; Assistant Staff-Surgeon Patrick Sin clair Laing to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Lockwood, appointed to the 7th Fo o t ; F re d er i c k M oore Smith, Gent., to be Assistant -Surgeon to the Forces, vice Laing, promoted on the Staff ; Thomas Macdougall Bleck ley, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Lightbody, promoted ; William Henry Brice, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Roosmalecocq, deceased, Jan. 6. BREVET.—C a pt a i n George Floyd. Duckett, of the 3rd West India Regiment, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 11. MEMORANDUM.—The date of the Commission of Lieu tenant John Burke, of the 22nd Foot, to bear date 22nd February, 1853, in lieu of 15th March, 1853. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 5. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieutenant Mark ham le Fer Taylor to be First Lieutenant, vice Moody, de ceased, Dec. 2. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain Charles Fan shawo to be Captain, vice Denison, Seconded ; First Lieutenant John Marshall Grant to he Second Captain, vice Fanshawe ; Second Lieutenant Henry George Savage to be First Lieutenant, vice Grant, Dec. 17. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. JAN. 5. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants— Arthur Kennedy Rideout, vice Price, promoted ; William H en ry Wat son , v i ce Ki ng, promo t e d ; Henry Percy Tillard, vice Cairnes, promoted ; Edward Chichester Bolton, 'rice Whitehead, promoted ; Oliver Henry Atkins Nicolls, vice Jones, promoted ; Donald George Campbell Maclachlan, vice Collington promoted ; James Barton, vice J. li. Brown, promoted ; Charles James Hope Johnstone, vice Prosser, promoted ; Robert Horsley Cockerell, vice Strangways, promoted; Benjamin Humphrey, vice Harrison, promoted ; Charles Watson Wilson, vice Higgon, promoted ; Legh Delves Broughton, vice Harward, p ro moted ; George Albert Augustus Walker, vice Vibart, promoted, Dec. 21. Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants with temporary rank—The Honour able Cameron Wrottesley, vice Grantham, promoted ; Lonsdale Augustus Hale, vice Neville, promoted ; Henry William Hart Davis Dumaresq, vice Barber, promoted ; Arthur Reid Lempriere, vice Koe, promoted ; George Longley, vice G. R. Lempriere, promoted, Dec. 21. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANTS. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Lieu tenant Edward James Dyson to be Captain, vice Ogilvie, resigned, Dec. 28 ; George Crozier Cole, Gent., to be En sign ; Thomas Tropimus Hodges, Gent., to be Ensign, Dec. 27. .3d or Royal Westminster Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Captain, John James Glossop to b Major, vice Butler, resigned; Lieutenant Charles Chris topher Baynes to be Captain, vice Glossop, promoted ; Lieutenant Henry Joseph Plumridge Woodhead to be Cap tain ; Ensign James Haggard to be Lieutenant, vice Baynes, promoted ; William John Ralfs, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Woodhead, promoted, Dec. 20. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid dlesex Militia—Edward Deane Freeman, Esq., late 3rd Dragoon Guards, to be CaiStain, Dec. 20. Northamptonshire Militia—Lieutenant Herbert Staples Smith to be Captain, vice Captain Hansel, who retires re taining his rank ; the Honourable Thomas Lyttleton Powis to be a Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Herbert Staples Smith, promoted, Dec. 31. Ist Regiment, Derbyshire Militia—Lieutenant Charles Thorold to be Captain, vice Hunter resigned. Hampshire Militia Artillery—Lieutenant Robert Man eel, late Captain 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hooper, resigned, Dec. 30. let Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—John Basker vyle, Glegg, Esq., late Lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, Dec. 20. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 27th May.] The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— John Wilson Fox, Esq., late Captain in the 12th Lancers, to be Captain, vice Nicholson, resigned, May 10. REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th Geo. 4. c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United King lom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of October, 1853, amounted to the sum of three million two hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-three pounds eleven shillings and eleven pence ; The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of eight hundered and eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty-five pounds seventeen shillings and eleven pence, being one-fourth part of the said surplus of three million two hundred and forty seven thousand four hundred and twenty-three pounds eleven shillings and eleven pence, will be applied under the provisions of the said Act, between the 6th day of January, 1854, and the sth day of April, 1854, to the following purposes, viz:— To be applied towards the reduction of the National Debt £811,855 17 11 Add Interest, receivable on account of Donations and Bequests to be applied to the purchase of Stock.. 3,951 13 10 2815,807 11 9 National Debt Office, Jan. 4, 1854. JAS. HIGHAM, Assistant-Comptroller , WHITEHALL, DEC. 22. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Bebb, of No, 12, Argyll-street, Gentleman, to be a London Commis. sioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM HOUSE, JAN. 6. ENTERED INWARDS.—The T. J. Rogers, from Magaqua davec ; Point, Demerara ; Isabella, Riga ; Keepsake, Montreal ; Princess Royal, Salonica ; Maria Burriss, Cey lon ; Susan, Alexandria ; Gwain Maid, Cephalonia ; Mar gery, Leghorn ; Republic, New York ; Jeannette Philip pine, Amsterdam ; Storm King, Buenos Ayres ; Curlew, St. John's, Newfoundland ; East Indian, Calcutta ; Wil helm Gustaf, Alexandria. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Halkett, for Hamburg - Concord, Melbourne ; Sylph, Algo a B ay ; Emma, Sidney ; Alida, Antwerp; Oak, Dunkirk; Queen of the Wave, Madras. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO --The Johanna, for Antwerp ; Governor Macdonald, Bathurst, R.G.; F ec k a Jantina, Catherina, and Fortuna, Antwerp ; Brunette, Rio Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6. The Robert Kelly, from New York to Liverpool was towed into Holyhead last night, much damaged, having been in contact with the Countess of Elgin, from Bombay for this port, which also received considerable damage. The James, on the rocks near Holyhead, has sunk, and is likely to become a total wreck. The Blandon, from Prince Edward's Island, parted her cables, and was run on the hard in the new harbour of Holyhead. _ . The Emperor of Liverpool, was spoken by the Llewellyn (s), 20 miles E.S.E. of the Kish light, at six p.m. yester day, with loss of bowsprit, cutwater, and foretopmast. HARTLEPOOL, Jan. 4.—Thr 'e laden brigs and one light schoooner have run ashore near this port. There has been a great deal of damage done, in consequence of the har bour being blocked up with wind-bound and light colliers. A brig has been stranded near Seaton Carew three miles S.W. of this port, and a light schooner near West Hartle pool. SHIELDS, Jan. s.—The vessels stranded on the rocks have become total wrecks ; stores are being saved. The Anns and the Eurata (barque), of Hull, are very much da maged, and likely to become wrecks. The Harmony and Ann and Elizabeth (brigs) are aground on the Scarp Low Light. The Amphitrite (brig) has been totally wrecked on the rocks. HARWICH, Jan. 4.—lt blew a strong gale all last night from S.E., with much snow. Sereral vessels drove from their anchors, and sustained damage. The Mary Lloyd (schooner), of Port Madric, drove athwart hawse of the Skulda (barque), of Tonsberg, during the gale, losing main mast, bowsprit, rigging, stancheons, bulwarks, &c. The latter received sundry damage. The Countess, of Ipswich, drove ashore in Mill Bay, and remains. Jan. s.—The Jonge Heinrich, Danzig to Nantes, drove on shore last night in Mill Bay, and remains, leaky. DARTMOUTH, Jan. 6.—The Loyalist, from New York to London, was wrecked on the 17th December; crew taken off the wreck on the 21st, by the Princeton, of New York, from Quebec, which transferred master, mate, and four men to the Brooking, from Zante to London, which arrived here last night. _ TYNEMOffTE, Jan. s.—The Harmony (brig), and Eliza beth Ann (brig), ran ashore, east of Clifford's Fort, during the gale yesterday, but are comparatively safe. A small Scotch schooner, supposed to be the Eliza, from Kirkwall, in attempting the harbour, struck on the rocks And cap sized ; crew drowned. LOWESTOFF, Jan. 4.—lt is reported that 40 or 50 vessels are ashore between Yarmouth and Cromer. The Sir Alexander WlCenzie (brig), of and for Shields, from Lon don, drove from her anchors in South Roads, and went ashore to the southward of the harbour, but probably will not take much damage. BELFAST, Jan. 6.—The Yorkshireman (s.) for this port, was stranded on the rocks north of Donaghadee, on the night of Jan. 4, and is a total wreck. WARKWORTH, Jan. s.—The Science (brig), of Guernsey, from London to Coquet Roads, during a heavy gale, yes terday drove into this port nearly full of water ; crew saved. The Elizabeth Adnett, of and from London, for Shields, came ashore to the south of this place ; crew saved. The Commerce, of Portsmouth, drifted from her anchors in Coquet Roads, and came ashore at the same place and time. CHARLESTON, Jan. 4.—The Heir, of Madryn, from Ply mouth, which came into the outer harbour, Dec. 31, to discharge ballast, parted from her moorings on the night of Jan. 2, and was driven here in high water, when she became a total wreck. YARNIOUTII, Jan. 4.—lt blew a most violent gale last night and this morning from E.S.E., but it has now some what abated. The Abraham (brig), of Portsmouth, went ashore at Gorleston this morning, and broke up—crew drowned. The Eliza (brig) of London, Conolly, went ashore at Hopton this afternoon, with loss of both anchors and chains—crew saved. The Groose (sloop), of Wey- mouth, came ashore near the Wellington Pier—crew saved. The Johanna (barque, not brig, as before reported), of Gefle, was brought into the harbour this afternoon, with loss of anchors and chain ; in coming in she damaged her rudder and stern against the north pier. A foreign brig, and the barque Edward Kennedy, of Newcastle, . both laden, and bound to this port, rode out the gale in the Roads. NEW YORK, Dec. I.—The Saxony, hence to Antwerp, went on shore on the Upper Middle, in going down the bay yesterday. A steam tug is alongside, and she will probably get off next tide. The accounts received here to-day from Shields, Sunder. land, Ne wcastle, Hartlepool, and Whitby, report the loss of many coasting vessels and other maritime casualities. Many vessels which lat,dy put to sea have put back for ehelter, whilst of the inward bound vessels there is a large fleet in the Channel coming up. WHITEHALL, DEC. 30. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Bridgman, of the city of Chester, Gentleman, to be a Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery in England. BANKRUPTS. Charles Raymond Smith, statuary, Gloucester-place, New-road, to surrender, Jan. 13, at two, and Feb. 11, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.i Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Taylor and Collisson, Great James-street. Joseph Raynes, laceman, Nottingham, Jan. 17, at half past one, and Feb. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside. John Tilbury, jun., coachmaker, Gloucester-place, New road, Jan. 19, at one, and Feb. 14, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane ; Bicknell and Bicknell, Connaught-terrace. George Wren Le Grand, grocer, Lambeth-walk, Jan. 17, at one, and Feb. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-Court ; Weir and Smith, Basinghall-street. James Evans and George Davey, ironmasters, Glamor gan, Jan. 18, and Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Llewellyn and Randall, Neath, Glamorgan ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol. Thomas Wilkinson, coal merchant, Eaton-square, Jan. 17, at two, and Feb.ll, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-c our t ; Law rence, Plew sand Boyer, Old Jewry Chambers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. M. Lovell, Holmes-terrace, Kentish-town, furnishing ironmonger —M. Miller, Westmoreland-buildings, Bartho lomew-close, eating-house keeper—C. Manning, Whitcomb street, Haymarket, green grocer—J. Francis, Lower Chap man-street, St. George's East, draper's assistant— B. Blun den, Atkinson-place, Brixton; tailor—R. Hustler, York place, Adelphi, student-at-law—C. Bristow, Bromley, Middlesex, baker—C. Burfoot, Egham, Surrey, labourer— T. B. Johnson, Tower-dock, Tower-hill, assistant to an auctioneer —W. M. Harding, Sidney-street, Fulham-road, commission agent. DIVIDENDS Jan. 31. A. August, NOIZOh, ironmonger —Jan. 31. J. Toovey, Watford, Hertfordshire, innkeeper—Jan. 28. J. P. Sandie, North Ockendon, Essex, cattle dealer—Jan. 28. H. Wood, Cheltenham, Cloucestershire, draper Jan. 28. J. Collins, Middle-yard, Lincoln's-inn-fields, wheel wright—Jan. 28. W. Brunskill, Paternoster-row, City, and Battersea, Surrey, ribbon manufacturer—Jan. 28. W. M•Kay, Upper Kennington lane, Lambeth, draper—Jan. 27. G. Dexter, Egham, Surrey, corn-dealer—Jan. 27. J. Peres, Scarbro'-street, Goodman's-fields, tailor—Jan. 27. T. Arnold, Elmore, Gloucestershire, timber dealer—Jan. 27. E. W. Reilly, Bath and Bathampton, Somersetshire, livery-stable keeper—Jan. 28. J. Spittlehouse, Sheffield, Yorkshire, joiner —Jan. 27. J. Bairstow, Halifax, York shire, worsted stuff manufacturer—Jan. 28, J. Wild, Sheffield, Yorkshire, ivory dealer. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. Jan. 27. J. Roberts, Blackwall, Middlesex, wood mer chant—Jan. 27. C. Geal, East-row, Kensal New-town, grocer—Feb. 1. J. Phillips, Bristol, hatter—Jan. 27. T. Barraclough, Halifax, Yorkshire, woollen spinner. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. James Holdsworth and John Holdsworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire, iron merchant—J. B. Pope, G. Pearson, and J. Woodhouse, Altofts and J. Whitwood, Yorkshire, coal masters, sa far as regards J. Woodhouse—M. Spedding, M. Sheard, G. Sheard, and J. Fox, see., Batley, Yorkshire, manufacturers—E.Edward s , sen., E.Edwards, jun., an d S. Edwards, Abchurch-lane,Ciey, tea-dealers, so far as regards E. Edwards, sen.—E. M ar ti neau and J.R.Croskey, South ampton and Threadneedle-street, City—G. Molineux, sen., T.Whitfield,T.Dicker,G.Molineux, jun., and G.Whitfield, Lewes, East Grimstend, Eastbourne, and Tunbridge Wells, Sussex and Kent, bankers, so far as regards T. Dicker—G. N. Hunter and J. C. Sharpe, Cork-street, tailors—T. Greening, N. Greening, and J. Greening, Warringt on , Lancashire, wirework ers , so f ar as regards T. Greening— F. A. Habnel and C. Ellis, Newton Heath and Manches ter, manufacturing chemists—J. Sutton and C. Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, mercers—W. Chapman and W. Lowe, Sheffield, Yorkshire, engravers—C. E. Boond, IV. S. Gregson, and H. F. Bud ge , s o far as regar d s H . F . Budge—R. Reynold s , R. Naylor, and J. Crossby, Sunder land, Durham, brewers, so far as regards J. Crossby—E. Jones, G. Paton, and F. W. Nash, Liverpool and Pernam buco—lV. Still, Chelsham, Surrey, and C. Still, Horsell, Surrey, cattle salesman—J. Williams and C. L. Wurtzburg, Noble-street, City, commission agents—S. Burrow s an d T. Hardy, Ip sw i c h , plumbers —W.Bucknill and J. Prowse, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, surgeons—A. Matthey, E. Oates, G. C. Oates, and J. J. Matthey, Messina, Sicily, merchants, so far as regar d s A . M att h ey —E . Oates, C. Oates, and J. J. Matthey, Messina Sicily, merchants, so far as regards J. J. Matthey—G. W. Basham and J. Clark, Oxford-street, oil merchant—W. Harvey, J. Harvey, and J. Tysoe, Salford, Lancashire, cotton spinners, so far as regards J. Tysoe— R. H. Cunliffe, J. M. M`Nabb, E. M`Nagaten, J. Browne, J. Oliphant, J. M. Douglas, J. Hamilton, and J. Rand, general wood cutters, so far as regards R. H. Cunliffe, J. M. M`Nabb, E. M`N ag ht en, J. R an d , and J. Browne— S. H. Mitchell and B. Williamson, Little Queen-street, Holborn, and Hayes-lane, Southwark, general provision merchants—John Lucas, James Lucas, L. Lucas, and T. Lucas, Knuzden Brook, Lancashire, (lye-wood grinders— R. Ferrell and T. Higgins, Princes-street, Hanover-square, naval and military tailors—S. S. Deakin and J. B. Deakin, Sheffield, Yorkshire, merchants—R. E. Payne, E. Eddi. son, R. L. Ford, and W. North, Leeds, Yorkshire, attor neys -at-law, so far as regards W. North—J. J. Wells and J Jeffs, Coventry, Warwickshire, haberdashers—A. Till man and J. Freeth, Corsham, Wiltshire, farmers— James Palmer, John Palmer, and G. Palmer, Liverpool tanners, so far as regards James Palmer —S. Arrow smith and W. Isdell, Manchester, fustian manufacturers —E. Hunt and W. Hunt, Ipswich, Suffolk, book sellers—W. Jackson, B. H. Jackson, and B. G. Jackson, Leicester, drapers, as far as regards W. Jackson J. Holdsworth and J. Hill, Halifax, Yorkshire, ironfounders —J. T. Fisher and H. C. Fisher, Torquay, Devonshire, chemists—J. Woodley and D. Walker, jun., Kineton, Warwickshire, clock makers—T. F. Shillam and Susannah Joachim Shillam, Great Dover-street, Southwark, shirt collar makers—J. G. Frith, J. Sands, IV. Wallace, and J. Viney, jun., Austinfriars, City, so far as regards W. Wal lace and J. Viney, jun.—H. Osborn, H. D. Osborn, and W. Banks, King's-mews, Gray's-inn, dealers in horses, so far as regards H. D. Osborn—W. Webster and G. T. Cloutt, Battle, Sussex, brickmakers—A. Sykes, G. C. Schwabe, B. Butler, and G. S. Spreckley, Shanghai, China, merchants, so far as regards G. S. Spreckley—P. Buchanan, I. Buchanan, R. W. Harris, J. Young, J. Law, and R. Leekie, Liverpool, Hamilton and Montreal, Canada, and New York, so far as regards J. Young and J. Law. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Walker, Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire, grocer, Jan. 13, at the Star Hotel, Haddington. William Hunter, Glasgow, commission merchant, Jan. 17, at the Waverly Tavern, Glasgow. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 31st day of December, 1853. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued 29,180,080 £29,180,080 Dated the sth day of Jan., 185 X Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 15,180,080 Silver bu11i0n........ £29,180,080 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. :PARTMENT. Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .. ..... 15,044,330 Other securities 17,576,123 Notes Gold and silver coin £41,395,492 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. BANKING DE' Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .. • -3, 218,826 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 11,409,933 Other deposh s . ..... 11,041,049 seven Day and other Bills .. :........... 1,172,684 £41,395,492 Dated the sth day of Jan., 1854, BEARDS COMING INTO FASHION.—We are enabled to prophecy that beards are coming back again. Civilised chins shall again repose in the shadow of perennial pilo soty ; and the barber, no longer condemned to reap the barren crop of a stubble &id, shall be restored to his pristine dignity as the artistic cultivator of man's dis tinguishing appendage. Already the martial moustache, the haughty imperial, and the daily expanding whiskers, like accredited heralds, proclaim the approaching advent of the monarch, Beard ; the centuries of his banishment are drawing to their destined close, and the hour and the man are at hand to re-establish his ancient reign.— Rowland onthe Bair. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Adelaide, from Liverpool to Valparaiso, south o. Rio Janeiro, Sept. 21. The Cromwell, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, Dec. 23, lat. 48 N. long. 19 W. The Oriental Queen, from London to Mauritius, Dec. 19, in lat. 50, long. 6. The Marie, from Newcastle to New York, same day, The Royal Victoria (ship), from Shields to New Orleans, Dec. 28, in lat. 47 N., long. 11 W. The Grave, from Callao to Cork, N0v.,29, in lat. 25 N., long. 40 W. The Thomas Hart, from Mauritius, Dec. 7, in lat. 32 N., long. 41 W. T - he Albert Gallatan, from New York to London, with jury bowsprit and foretopmast, 29th, in lat. 49 N., long. 17 W. The Vigo, from Callao to Cork, Nov,. 12, in lat. 6 N. long. 16 N. The Annison, from Calcutta to London, Oct. 11, in lat. 30 S., long. 38 E. The Belle Creole, Nov. 15, lat. 2 N., long. 23 W. The Inconstant, from Liverpool, 16th, in lat. 3 N., long. 23 W. The William Hammond, from London to Adelaide, 19th, in lat. 5 . N., long. 25 W. The Titania, of Liverpool, Dec. 8, in lat. 40 N., long. 36 W. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles opened, NAME OF RAILWAY.. Receipts. 1853. --- -- 1852. 1853. BRITISH. -- 72 Aberdeen ...........• •. •• .. ..... £1,427 1,606 37 3 4 Belfast and Ballymena .............. 583 748 17 Belfast and County D0wn............ 167 388 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,679 2,129 - Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .... - - 854 Bristol and Exeter •................. 4,917 6,235 189 4 Ca1ed0nian............. .......... } 13,054 14,189 894, Edinburgh and Glasgow •• •••• 91, % Chester and Holyhead.- ---.. • • - 3,517 3,847 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • •• 180 142 20 Cork and Bandon .................. 182 - 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ........ 856 BRO 62 Dublin and Drogheda• • .• .. ......... 886 992 6 Dublin and Kingstown .. ........ 1,007 931 16% 1 Dundee and Arbroath .............. 498 474 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 783 - 19 i Dundalk and Enni5ki11en............ 173 175 68 I East Anglian-...., -•• --•- .• 712 740 81%i East Lancashire ............ ... . 4,135 4.614 322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ........ 16,294 17,0 , 3 95 Eastern Union - .... - - .... -- - - 2,013 2,069 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 2,113 2,492 6 Exeter and Crediton.. .• -- •• ...• •• 125 17 19 Furness Railway - • •••••• •• •• 29 273 17114 Glasgow, and South-Western........ 4,754 4,877 283 Great Northern and E. L........-. 15,528 21,489 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,124 4,493 819% Great Western .. ... .... .. .. .. 13,815 17,576 2514 Irish South Eastern .• • • • • •• - •• - •• 159 122 90 Lancaster and Carlisle • . • ... - •• • • • . 4,791 - 260 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 17,819 18,125 - Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • ............ - 181 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• .. 305 286 5 i 3% London and North Western .•....... 46,250 47,382 514 London and Blackwall. 173 1 4 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 9,975 10,531 253 4 London and South Western. -...• • • 9,852 10,021 4i Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 323 386 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 1673( Manchester, Sheffield , and Lincolnshire 7,596 7,756 9}6 Manchester and South Junction...-. 6:37 648 28 Maryport and Carlisle - ............ 637 610 498% Midland -•• • •• .. .. •• ••• • • ••• • • • 23,643 25,5:8 126 Midland Greet Western (Irish) .....• 1,811 2,031 37 Monklands •• - .................... 787 950 7814 Newcastle and Car1i51e.........• .... 2,320 2,664 149 North British •• -••.••••• •• • • .••• - 3,976 4,771 - North Staffordshire - ............ - - 47 North-Western ....... ,• ..... 725 1,062 50 Scottish Central ................., I 2,694 2,612 32 Scottish Midland .............. 2914 Shrewsbury and Birmingham • ..... - - 47 Shrewsbury and Chester •.........., 1,515 1,733 29 Shropshire Union - .. .• •• •• - -.. •• 65 : 707 58 South Devon - - .... . ...... .... .... 2,109 2,202 288 4 gout) Eastern • ... .. .. -.•••.... •• - 15,077 15,595 131 South Wales .. •• .. -•• .• ••• • 2,336 3,411 77 South York., Doncaster, a nd Goole • . 1,325 1,751 2,314 2,530 36 Ulster . 965 1,111 68 Waterford and Limerick • • - • • • • •• • • 463 710 25 West Cornwall •• .. • • • •• •• • • ••• • ' • 486 534 12 Whitehaven Junction ...............538 265 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds 22,856 25,989 FOREIGN. 571 4 Dutch Rhenish . •• ••••••• • " •• •• 1,135 1,423 183% Lyons and Mediterranean •....... ~, 6,466 7,308 63 Montereau end Troyes .............. 7 63 Namur and Liege .................. 1,15 1,52192 443% Northern of France ••• • • • .......... 23,645 25,019 577 Orleans and Central* .. ..... ........ 20,527 30,205 240 Paris and Lyons .... ...... ........ 11,505 13,892 84 Paris and Rouen. •• •• .. --••• • •• • , 6,647 7,331 392 Paris and Strasburgh ...• ......., .. 14,264 17,643 59 ROllOll and Havre •• .• •• 66 Western of France . • ...... .. ~, , „. ,• , .... 3 ,503 3,962 +I , The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or. cans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes. THE CONVICT CUMIINC.--Two petitions—the one from the magistrates, and the other from a, number of respectable inhabitants of Leith— were forwarded to the Home-office on Saturday last, with reference to the case of William Cumming, who now lies in Edinburgh gaol, under sentence of death for the murder of his wife. These petitions represent that evidence favourable to the pri soner bas been discovered since the trial, and upon this ground they pray for a respite—Scotsmaa. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-llolloway ' s Pills, an Effectual Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism.- -Extract of a letter from Mr. W. Moon, at Messrs. G o l w i n ' s, auc tioneers, Winchester, dated April 8, 1852. To Professor Holloway.—Sir,—l beg to inform you that for years I was a sufferer from chronic rheumatism, and often laid uy for weeks together, unaole to move. I was attended by the most eminent surgeons here, but obtained no relief ; and was iuduced to go into our county hospital. The medical treatment there, however, being of no avail, I left, and conunenced using your pills, which, I am happy to say, in a short time effected a perfect cure, and enabled me to resume my employment.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 241, Strand, London, CJ tizqlleii-t;u v g-0-.Jsci COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL —JAN. 6. A good attendance of the town and country trade and millers from a distance, and, notwithstanding the high prices asked, a very large business was done in wheat and flour at an advance of 10d per 701b5., and 2a to 3s per bar rel. Oats ld to 2d per 451b5., and oatmeal 2s per load, dearer. Barley 3d to 4d per 601135., and beans is per qr., higher. Indian corn in good demand, and 2s per qr. more money freely paid. WAKEFIELD—JAN. 6. The weather preventing the millers westward from re• moving their purchases, causes our market to be of a some what broken character, and factors demand from 4s to 5a per qr. more money for new wheat, and 3s to 4s for old, which, on the business done, has been generally paid. Barley Is to 2s dearer. Beans is, oats id per stogie, and shelling is per load, higher. DERBY SMITHFIELD—JAR. 3. There was but a limited supply of fat beasts to-day, but the demand was good, and most of the animals sold. The number of sheep good. Fat pigs were scarce. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to bid ; mutton, 7d to 70 ; lamb, Od to Od ; veal, 6d to 60 per lb. ; pigs, 10s to Os Od per score ; rough fat, 5s 9d to Os Od per 141 b. ; hides, 24d to 3d per lb ; calf-skins, 34d to 4d per lb. BOSTON—JAN. 4. Prices :—Wheat, red, 72s Od to 79s Od ; white, 79s Od to 82s Od extra. 81s Oct. Barley, 34s Od to 41s Od. Oats, 23s to 295. Beans, 37s Od to 48s Od. Peas, 543 Od to 561 per •qr. EXETER --.TAN. 6. CATTLE.—Prime beef, lOs 6d per score ; cows and calves, 101. 00s to 12/. ; butchers' cal ves , 6d to Od per lb., rearing calves 00s to 00s each. Sheep, 6d to 6.1 d. Lambs, cm. to Od per lb. Store hogs, large size, 35s to 50s each; slips, 22s to 24s ; small, 16s to 18s. Rough fat, 4id'per lb. Pork carcases from 9s Od to lOs Od per score. ' CORN.—In our market wheat may be quoted from lOs 3d to lls Od. Malting barley, 4s 9d to 5s 3d ; grinding. do., 4 0 3d to 5s Od. Oats, 25s Od to 27s Od. Beans, 52s Od to 560 per qr. Prices of Flour to-day— Fine, 63s to 64s ; seconds, 610 to 62s per sack. BRISTOL SUGAR—JAN. 6. The tone of the market has been better, and there is all increasing disposition to do business ; but the stocks in first hands are so limited in extent, that operations hail been materially checked. Prices have ruled fully is per cwt above the recent quotations. A brisk demand for refiners' produce, but as manufacturers exhibit a ilisposi' tion to make sales at the present prices, the transactione absolutely closed have only been limited, and in several of them is to is 6d per cwt more has been obtained. COAL MARKET.—JAR. 6. i Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the markets:-- s. d.I Wallsend, ke. Davison's West Hartley 26 e l • N. ( 1, , , Hasting's Hartley 26 6 L um l ey ............. v ..34 Holywell . 2B 0 Stewart's 35 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 26 o,Hartlepool a 35 ° Walker Primrose . 26 0' Heugh Hall 34 0 , West Hartley 26 6 K e ll oe 35 1 Wylam . 26 6 South Hartlepool ' 35 0 Tees i 35 Hodley 33 6 Pease's West .. Wallsend, &c. LawsOn . 33 OiSt. Helen's Tees .32 ° Riddell 14 01Woodhouse Clo - s; ''''' Edon Main ..34 6 1 Cannel V 30 „ A Belmont 3 Watney'sAnthr ite. : ' 38 1 ! n „ Braddyll 35 Opwaen Cae Gnrwen 38 v Hatton 35 (`Perkins' Anthracite 36 „ Lam bton 35 6,2lorgan's Stone ' 3B Ships at market 49 I Sold 3B. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been dull and heall all day, and closed at a slight decline on yesterday's quot" tions :—Caledonian, 251 26 ; Eastern Counties, 12i ; Lan,: cashire and Yorkshire, 644 4 ; L on d on and North-We ' erns closed at 1011 ; Ditto (fifth shares), par ; Manchester , Sheffield, and Lincoln, 204 ; Midland, 60 I; south Eas ern and Dover, 17 BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—To-day there have been very 0 1 dealings in shares, but prices have rather a downward ttirn . London and North-Westerns closed at 102 24, and lb Chester and Sheffields at 20. LEEDS, JAN. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railway share market thanife o no indication of recovery from its depression. This morn' ing business has been very limited in extent, .and tr heavier stocks h ave s till f art h er rece d e d in price. 'The lowing are the clo s i ng t ransac ti ons : —L ancas hi re a i d Y o rIV shires64i 4 ; North-Westerns 84. MANCHESTER, JAN. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices are rather lower, With a limited business. Dovers, 17 ; Sheffields, 20i1 ; 3 1 . 1 " lands, 60i ; Leeds, 64/1 4; Caledonians, 26; East Lane shire, 15i ; North Union A, 250 ; Leeds Fifths, d. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam •• 11 14% Gibraltar ............ Ditto, three months .. 11 16 3( Leghorn 30 0 ,,% 7 Rotterdam •• •• 11 16 y 6 Genoa 25 b• Antwerp 25 20 .Milanl3russels .. 25 20 ' Venice . ......•• •• •• -- Altona .•.• • • .4. •• •• •• !Palermo •• •••••• •• 12 15 5' Paris .• • . 25 5 {Messina 126 ,1 Ditto, three months .. 25 32% ' Lisbon .... • • ..:25 35 (Oporto ......... .. . 53 "' Boordcaux ..........., Rio Janeiro ............ Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118 N 'Buenos Ay res-- -- Berlin .- ............ New York, 60 days' sight -- Vienna 1 1 50 Philadelphia .......... Trieste ............ •• .. 11 54 PRICES OF BULLION, FBB 01. 37% Foreign Gold in Bars .43 17 Madrid 50% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 ~Ot l Cadiz ........ .......... 50% Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 Barcelona.. Seville .• ••••••••• • • • •• Silver In bars •• • ... b 5 • SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-og ic' by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] Day when made up From what Wile!' COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port due 1 1 , Office, Loudon.* Dispatched. EM4llO'„ America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday Liverpool Each ) 10 America (by United Sts. packet) .... •. • ...N Jan. 15 „ Liverpool Arrived America (by U. States, packet) .... • • N'Jan. 17 .. ........ Sokithampto. Australia (via South-I ampton) M Jan. 20 . • Southonpto,. Feb. 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) N J an. 8 .. Ditto (via Cape of Good; Hops) ...... • ... ..N,Feb. 4 Africa (West Coast) ..N9.3d of the month ..iPlymouth ;Om 2 ! Alexandria.......... Nib, 9, 24, &30of m . D over• JCL 1 , Alexandria .... 31,4 th & 20th of mon. S out h ampton 'Jan. n Bahamas 17th of the month Southampton 'Jaw v Belgium ............N :Daily.. :Dover Daily Brazil ........., ..519th of the month.. Southampton:Jan. 1 6 Buenos Ayres of the month.. Southampton Jan. 1 0 Cape of Good Hope ..N,l4th of the month Plymouth .. Arrived Cape of Good Hope ..Nll4th of the month. Southamptow Cape de Verds ~N '9th of the month.. Plymouth !Jan. 1 6 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N 14th of the month Plymouth .. I oat' Channel Isles .. N Mon ~Wed.,&Fr i d. Southampton TtLTII.. Chili.. 51,2 d & 17th of monthlSouthamptorlJan. 16 China (see India) . Constantinople .... ..N17,8,17,24,&27 of m. Dover ...... ,Tan. 10 Constantinople 14th & 20th of mon:Southampton Jan. 20 ~ Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily Dover Twiced o / Egypt (see India) France ........ 5f & NlTwice daily Dover I TwiceciAlif Gibraltar .... • ... ..M'4, 7, 17, 20, 27 ofm. Southampton Jan. 16 Greece (see India) Greytown ..........M,2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton l Jan. 16 Harnburgh ........ N Tuesday & Friday London I Havannah ..........:ti 2nd of the month Southampton Feb. 1 Holland ........ M, Dai1y............ Dover ... .. Daily Honduras . ..... 51,17 th of the mouth. Southampton Jan. 10 India (viaSouthampt.)lW4th & 20th of mon. Southampton 'Jim 21 India (via Marseilles)sl Bth& 24th of month Dover ......I lonian Isles (see India)l, 17, & 27 of mon D0ver...... Ireland & N;Twice daily Holyhead .. {Twicedall Lisbon 9, 17, & 27 of m. Southampton : lan. 16 Madeira 9th of the month Southampton Jan. 1 6 Madeira N 23d of month .... Plymouth .. 'Dec. 28 Malta (see India) Malta 30 of m. Dover ...... . Jan. 10 Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........Nll4th of the month Plymouth Mexico of the month.. Southampton Feb. 1 Naples • • • • • ... N sth 15th25 th o f mon. Dover 'Jan. I 2 New Granada ......Ml2d & 17th of month 'Southampton Jan, 16 New Zea1and......., .By private skip Various ports.l.lncertai o Papal States s thlsth2sthohnon. Dover .• J an . 12 Peninsula .... Mfrth lith2Sthottnon. Southampton Jan. 16 Yeru Ml7d & 27th of mon. Southampton Jan. 16 Part Natal ..........Nll4th of the month Plymouth Sicily •• •• • • ..57,5thl5th25thofmon,IDover ...... Jan, 12 Tuscany _ sthlsth2sthofmon.lDover jam 12 Venezuela ..... 31,2 d & 17th of monthlSouthamptou Jan. 1 6 Van Diemen's Latin Nei Australia) ..... West Indies ... . • M 2,1 Ps 17th o. monthlSouthampton i Jan. 16 4 When any of these dates 1a:1 On h Sunday, the malls will dispatched on the foltowinr , day with the exceptien of the I n dia V 1 ta, both of which will be dispatched t. 1 3" T:o ay uth p a r m ec p e t d o i n n ) g „ and the Mal preceding. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 6th inst., at Albion-lodge, Stamford-hill, Mn' Watson. On the 6th inst., the wife of Robert Hesketh, Esq., ° I 95, Wimpole-street. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 3d inst., the wife of Wm. Fielder Croome, Esc!' of Eagendon-house, Gloucestershire. On the 4th inst., at St. Giles's, Oxford, the wife of Jau Morrell, jun., Esq. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at Childwall Church, th e Rev. Witt' Taylor, rec t or o f Swynnerton, Staffordshire, to Fannit daughter of John Marriott, Esq., Eton-lodge, Liverpool. On the 3d iust., at Bonnytoun, Linlith gows hi re,Wyv illo Thomson, Esq., of Bonsyde, LL.D., Profes sor o f N e ,tura4 History Queen's University, Ireland, to J ane , eldestdaughter of Adam Dawson, Esq., of Bonnytoun. DIED. On the 4th inst., at Swainston, Isle of Wight, Sir Rich'' Godin Simeon, Bart., aged 70. On the 2d inst., at 28, Upper Temple-street, Dublin, the Rey. John Sweeny, rector of Clenish, county Fermanagh' affed 72. "On the 2d inst., at Bath, Margaret, widow of the 1 5t° John Osborne, Esq., of Melchet-park, Rants, aged 88. 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