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ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors ha ftatton to the Treatment and Cure of the Impuissant and Sexual knochondriscs, Translated from 'he German of Dr. PICKFORD. Tavrhich Is added, an EiSAY en SEXUAL DERP.ITY, b- the Editor. 'Dr. Pickford 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contrlbutions to German medical literature This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the noo-medl eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall Jetect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his ewer to correct • —London Medical Gazette, May AO, lesl. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa thisers,' and Medical Frlands,'are mercilessly exposed ; and If this book COnld and its way into the hands of those who stiffer fr , m the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of lose importance, thou,th it is that which the quacks most prize— Much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the metrical system of treating Sperraatorrhcea, and to place the treat. Ment upon a mote rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—MedVal Circular, June 16, 1852, London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. FACTS PLAINLY STATED.—Every one ad mits the amount of care and expense necessary for the maintenance of a fashionable and complete wardrobe. The economy 14 Price the astonishing variety, and the artis tic skill observed in the Productions of E. 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Just Published, 60th dition, price 2s. 6d.. or free by post for forty. two stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a n Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions os Marriage, with its Disqualifications and Impeilments, tracing th e i r origin to the effects of solitary habits, youthful excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance. N ervous Debility, Local Weakness, ,permatorrhma, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. illustrated by '0 coloured Engrav ings, on the Anatomy of the Reproductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. ay SAMUEL LVMERT icr) 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, D 'ctor of Medicine, Niatricuisted kiember of the University of Cdin itrith, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society f.icentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London. Sac., &c The essential object of this treatise Is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from c •rtain habits, irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists Its perusal is particularly re 'ommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the ealth, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, and has long directed attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free Their treatment has unfortunately keen too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant em pities, who, with their pirated publications, Assumed fcreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, Inflict grid an those who are indueld Ta....f.ith in Ahat i r Dreten. sauuk:— (htrimit , ....olV-...ating -front aueb.maßiniaucs. may cull be avoided i sufferers from these maladies were to ascot tarn if their medical adviser be a member of the London College of Physicians, • urgeons, or A pothecaries' Hall, as any one possessing either of these qualifications usually appends it to his name, and thus the legally qualified practitioner can at once be distinguished. At home for aensultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from slx till Fight. All letters must contain the fee of li. SELF-PRESERVATION may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, rreneh, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39,CIrnhill ; Storie. Titchhatne:street, Haymarket; or free ay poet for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi lenet..l7 isgoraln-soukas THE RIFLE-MUSKET. It was stated in the House of Commons, a few nights ago, that the troops goi ng t o th e E ast are to be armed with two descriptions of weapon—the Mini 6 rifle, and the rifle-musket. We believe only a comparatively small number of our soldiers will carry the Mini 6 rifle, which is, in point of range and efficiency, well adapted to cope with the various improved systems of fire-arms introduced all over Europe, although its mechanism is somewhat too complicated, and its ball too heavy for the requirements of the service. The Mini 6 gun is rifled, the ball is cylindro-conical, with a hollow at the hinder end, next the charge. In the ordinary rifles the balls are forced down into the barrel and made to enter the rifled grooves by means of two or three taps of a hammer. In the Minie rifle the ball requires no forcing; it is thrust down with the ramrod in the ordinary way after the charge, and in the act of firing the hollow end is, by the force of the explosion, expanded or driven out so as to enter the grooves of the barrel, and this, with the elongated form given to the projectile, enables it to carry a much greater distance with much greater accu racy than the ordinary musket. The Minierifle will hit the mark with much greater precision at a distance of 600 yards than the common musket will at 300 yards, and a range of 1,000 or 1,100 yards has been attained with nearly as great accuracy. Nay, it has even been asserted by Capt. Minie, that he will undertake to hit a man at the distance of 1,420 yards three time out of five shots ; a distance, he it remarked, of more than three-quarters of a mile. We give the assertion for what practical men may deem its worth, but we know that respecting this, and the German zundnadelgezvehr, or needle-gun, very apocryphal stories have been circulated the latter being announced to carry and kill 1,700 or 1,800 yards, an English mile ! Our own private opinion is that no rifle or needle-gun yet invented is of any value or efficiency beycnd 1,200 yards—that to at tain even this range the elevation of the fire-arm must be so great as to destroy entirely all accu racy of aim, and leave the fate of the projectile en tirely to chance, as towards the end of its flight at this great range and high elevation it comes to the ground almost entirely by the force of gravitation. The effi cient range of the Mini 6 rifle and the needle gun will be found to be little beyond 800 yards, but at this dis tance, nearly half a mile, an expert marksman is almost sure of his man ; and when we state that beyond 200 yards the old regulation musket was of little value, the vast advance that has been made in the range and power of small arms will be at once acknowledged. The other weapon which has been served out to the troops is the rifle musket, manufactured at the Govern ment establishment at Enfield. It appears that, in the beginning of 1852, the Government ordered 28,000 rifle muskets of the Belgian Minie pattern for the British work men, a n considerable the Birmingham delay army, bt but i n consequence of the disputes that took place manufacturersoceurred i n and their completing w o t r b l ee order, and this gave the military authorities time to make further inquiries and investigations. When Lord Hardinge was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance, heopened the competition to the leading British gunmakers, who, however, were unable the weapon submitted by the Government establish , merit at Enfield. We may state, in the first instance, that the old regulation musket, bayonet, and scabbard e' 111 b. 1 loz., the Minl6 rifl e we i g h s 101 b. 131 b., thweEe's field rifle musket weighs 911). 71viz. Sixty rounds of am munition for the old musket weighed 51b. 7' oz, , for the Mini 6 rifle 61b. 120 z., and for the Enfield rifle 511). 31oz • so that in this respect the advantage to the soldier "'lb wei g ht saved. The Enfield musket carries is ee • a cyiln dro-conical ball, having a small hollow a t th e b ase like the Mini 6 ball, but it requires no iron cup to expand it. This projectile is the invention of Mr. Pritchett, of the Poultry, and is a simplification of Captain Mini6' s pro jectile, and, by making the projectile longer, the danger of its being blown through and rendered use less by the force of the explosion, which it was the object of the iron cup to guard against, is done away with. The advantages of Mr. Pritchett's ball are said to be its simplicity and economy, as no cup is required; it secures more uniform loading, sure and uniform expansion, and less danger from the accidental separation of the cup from the projectile. These are the whole of the advan tages obtained, for we find from the description of this weapon, just published by Captain Jervis, of the Royal Artillery, that " The accuracy of the shoot ing has been so far improved with this Enfield rifle musket, that at a distance of three hundred yards a good marksman can generally hit a bull's-eye of twelve inches diameter." We confess unless there is some great mistake here, we cannot see the wonderful advan tages that have been gained by the substitution of the , Enfield for the Minie rifle, We are now sending the flower of our army into active service, armed with z weapon whioh, although ponegoing greater acou, 1~~ z~r z r~ !N I r 'Ar P. "'", II Ifr ~,~ ~ , /6 2 • , ' 4 4 6 , 4 `A. 0 111, , • S' :., !- tecir % . ...) . 0 8. 4 11Tht , " , I v - FA • • tr 1,;.• 4. 't • . 4 ' ; %••• , • ~,•;• I , sr - • i •••• •.\ • • • . :„-•tc• - • 1 • ; ~„ '":4,kfiRAP P ,4' •Cia1k,.7 . '14,, ,- A l / 4 • '4141i7; r:- DIE 4. " -* 4' - ' 4"411111)- .11 ; 14/ 614 41111k12)-40LT C ri ',ex>/( 1 LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1854. racy, has no greater range than the old musket. We are about to range them side by side with the French troops, all of whom are armed with the Mini 6 rifle, where the inequality will be more glaring, and we are about to oppose them to troops, who, it has just been ascertained, are armed with the deadly needle-gun, and who can, if well drilled in its use, pick off our officers and men with the greatest safety to themselves, at twice the distance to which their own weapons will carry. We fear we can dis cover the source of this egregious and most culpable blunder in a passage in Capt. Jervis's little treatise. He says when the merits of the rifle in use among the Chasseurs de • Vincennes and of the Prussian needle-gun had been ascertained, the public cried out loudly that our troops should be equally well-arrned,i n different as to which of these two weapons should be selected ; but this was, what no man entAsted with the charge of a public de partment could listen to. When the percussion cap had been substituted 'or the flint, it was merely an alteration of the lock, at a trifling expense. Alere, however, was a change which involv e d an ou tl a y o f near l y h a lf a million sterling, without reckoning the dead loss arising from the consequent uselessness of either the muskets in use or the enormous quantity in store. The Government, it appears, did not like to cast aside the old muskets, and, if our information be true, those in store, amounting to a great many thousands, are now being converted into rifles, and the weight of the piece thereby lessened, while the heavy ounce ball, and the large charge of powder, is still retained, and the range, with if course more accuracy, retained at 300 yards! We believe this is a. case in which, from mo tives of false economy, or from respect to the old Duke's predilection for the large bore and heavy ball of the old " Brown Bess," or perhaps from some • little stickling for old habits and conventiona lities, or still more unworthy motives of jobbery, a great mistake has been committed. The great bulk of the GOrman, French, Belgian, and, as it now appears, the Russian and Turkish, troops are armed with the modern improved weapons, and we are sending out troops to cope with tjrpi armed with an inefficient adaptation of the old mu • d, after voting millions of money to raise, recruit, an d - the finest soldiers in the world, we are able to say th . e have economised our old fire arms and saved a few hundred thcusand pounds, while with a refinement of cruelty we place them under disadvantages which no couiie or determination can successfully compete with. We hope the committee upon small arms, which has just been appointed by the House of Commons, will inquire fully into this matter. Let the officials of the Enfield factory and the officers of the Board of Ordnance be called upon to explain what are the real advantages we have gained by this Enfield. Prtichett rifle, of which the public have now heard for the first time.— Observer. Elec- Popula- Ele c- Popula tors. tion. _ tors. tion. - -- Chippenham. 300 6,283 Kiddermnstr 495 18,462 Malmesbury. 309 6,998 Poole Abingdon ..- 312 5,954 Shaftesbury 509 9,404 Christchurch 313 7,475 Peterboro' 5lB 8,672 Westbury.... 314 7,029 Bridport 524 7,566 Helston Lymington 338 5,282 Melton .... .... 539 7,661 Liskeard 343 6,204 Leominster._ 551 5,214 Wycombe Woodstock... 347 7,983 Stamford Buckingham. 349 8,069 St. Ives Tavistock .... 349 8,086 Guildford Horsham 350 5,947 Weymouth .. 679 9,458 Ripoa 353 6,080 Hertford 685 6,605 Petersfield.... 353 5,550 Warrington 7Ol 23,363 Marlow 354 6,523 Newport, Isle Cockernaouth 355 7,275 of Wight.. 707 8,047 Eye 356 7,531 Gateshead ... 711 25,568 Thirsk :457 5,319 Windsor 712 9,596 Launceston .. 361 6,005 Lewes 713 9,533 Bodmin Droitwich Tewkesbury 370 5,878 Lichfield 836 6,573 Devizes . 373 6,554 Maldon Kendal 382 11,829 Wakefield.... 850 22,057 Tamworth 3 ,52 8,655 Hythe 856 13,164 Frome.., 383 10,148 Gt. Grimsby 861 12,263 Huntington 390 6,291 Tynemouth.. 883 29,170 Bewdley 390 7,318 Dudley 912 37,962 Morpeth 415 10,012 S. Shields.... 925 28,974 Wareham Wallingford. 428 8,064 Bury Dorchester... 432 6,394 W a l sa ll Cirencester... 434 6,096 Rochdale .._• 1,160 29,195 Clitheroe ..... 448 11,479 Huddersfield 1,364 30,880 Ludlow Whitby 454 10,989 Monmouth Tiverton 461 11,144 district .... 1,676 26,512 Banbury..2: 4 491 8,715 Cheltenham .. 2,400 ,35,051., L.,-.--------2,: - -•-,.. . ' ______ TWO MEMBERS EACH. Elec.,- Popula- Elec- Popula,- tors. tion. tors. tion. --- Truro 607 10,733 Beverley...... 1,405 10,058 Salisbury . Pontefract 684 11,515 Gloucester ... 1,621 17,572 Bridgewater 6BB 10,317 Cricklade .... 1,647 35,503 Wigan . - ... Warwick Bury St. Ed- Nfaidstone mund's .... 749 31,900 Stoke-on- Barnstaple... 771 11,371 Trent Grantham.... 774 10,873 Ipswich ...„ 1,838 32,914. Berwick 7Bl 15,091 Shoreham ... 1,865 30,553 Winchester .788 14,701 Canterbury.. 1,874 18,398 Taunton 790 14,176 Oldham Newark 867 11,330 Sunderland.. 1,973 67,394 Scarborough 895 12,915 Cambridge... 1,984 27,815 Wenlock 905 20,588 Dover 2,064 22,244 Penryn and Northamp- Falmouth.. 907 13,292 ton Bedford Sandwich Boston .. . Hereford Macclesfield 1,058 39,048 Plymouth . .... 2,482 52,221 Hastings 1,090 17,011 Exete r ......... 2,501 40 , 688 Newcastle- Chester... ... 2,524 27,766 under-Ly ne 1,090 10 , 569 E. Retford... 2,710 46,054 Carlisle Durham Lynn Halifax Stafford Yarmouth Blackburn Colchester Rochester .... 1,269 14,938 Coventry.. Stroud Stockport .... 1,341 53,835 Nottingham Lincoln Lancaster Reading 1,399 21,456 Norwich 5,390 68,195 PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. The transport of some 2,000 horses to the Mediter ranean is the greatest difficulty that is likely to arise in connexion with the undertaking of sending our army to co-operate in the defence of Turkey. Our military autho rities have comparatively little experience to guide them in a matter of the kind, and we would suggest that persons conversant with the horse trade between Aus tralia and India, might do good service by coming for ward and showing how the shies engaged in this service should be fitted up. A good deal of misapprehengien exists with reference to the regiments that are to form the second division of the expeditionary force: These have not yet been posi tively named, but it is quite certain that they will be taken regularly as they stand , upon the roster. The order to be in readin ess f or foreign service has been addressed to more regiments than will be included in the second division, and that.order must not be con sidered as involving any certa:nty that the corps re ceiving it will form part of the British contingent. • PORTSMOUTH, MAnca 5. The victualling of the ship at Spithead for six months' foreign service - was completed yesterday. There are now at this rendezvols to-day the following ships, the complements of which we give, as nearly as we can arrive at them without consulting the ships' books Horse- Princess Royal, Captain Lord Gills. Tons. Crew. Power. Clarence Paget, flag of Vim. Admiral Sir Charles Napie r, K.C. 8., Sze Prince Regent, Captain Int ton, flag of Rear-A:difinal Corry lO Edinburgh, Captain Hewlett, 2,613 821 flag of Rear-Admiral Chads, C.B 53 1,772 660 450 Royal George, Captain Cod rington, C.B l 2l 2,616 1,100 400 St. Jean D'Acre. Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel lOl 3,600 900 650 Bescawen, Captain Glanville 70 2,212 620 Hogue, Captain W. Ramsay 60 1,750 660 450 Imperieuse, Captain Watson, C B 5l 2,347 530 360 Arrogant, Captain Yelverton 47 1,872 450 360 Amphion, Captain A. C. Key 34 1,474 320 300 Tribune, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie 3O 1,570 300 300 Dauntless, Captain Ryder 33 1,490 300 580 Leopard, Captain Giffard .. 18 1,412 280 560 Valorous, Captain C. H. M Buckle l6 1,255 220 400 Dragon, Captain Willcox Bulldog, Captain W. C. Hall 6 1,123 160 500 Frolic, Commander Nolloth. 16 511 120 They have each been ordered (this day) to draw charts for the Baltic. Every day will add to this force, which will eventually include the three deckers, Duke of Wellington. 131 ; St. George, 121 ; Waterloo, 120; Neptune, 120 ; Caesar,9l ; Nile, 91 ; Jam es att, 91 ; Algiers, 91 ; Monarch, 84 ; Ganges, 84 ; C re s s y, 81; Majestic, 81 ; Blenheim, 60 ; Ajax, 60 ; Euryalus, 51 ; Fox, 42 ; Pique, 40 ; and numerous others. Sir Charles Napier will, we believe, •command personally 20 sail of the line, and /0 sail of French. There will be about 50 sail of smaller ships, the wr E a n r g ti l n i h a n an French and it is Rwheaicrh-Awdimllibraelsapapnodrtcioonmemdotdoore re ported a squadron of sailing-sloops or brigs is to be com missioned to cruise off the Scotch coast to prevent pri vateering. Rear-Admiral Corry will shift his flag to morrow from the Prince Regent, 9 0 , to the Neptune, 120, an order having been received yesterday, appoint ing Captain Hutton to the Neptune, and Captain Smith, C. 8., from the Neptune, to he Prince Regent. Capt. Hutton takes with him Commander Bunce, Lieutenant Brandretb, hnd 50 of the Prince Regent's crew. When the change of officers and slips was made known on board the Prince Regent yesterday, the whole ship's company, who really love their admiral and captain, and are devotedly attached to their matchless ship, wanted to follow the admiral, as one man, into the Neptune, and when told that only 50 would be allowed to be draughted by the Admiralty, their countenances betokened the. sin cerest dejection. Subsequently all the petty officers went aft on the quarter-deck and respectfully requested that the Admiralty might be memorialisedfor their removal with their admiral and captain. The Neptune will be some time getting ready. She has lower yards and topmasts up and topgallant masts pointed, but has only 150 men on her books besides her draught of Royal Marines. We expect, therefore, that Rear-Admiral Chads will be the first despatched with a "flying squadron " of frigates towards the Baltic, that Sir Charles Napier will glow, and that Rear-Admiral Corry 'coin bring up the rear. Captain Hay, of the Victory, has declined the flag captaincy to Sir Charles Napier. The Prince Regent, the St. Jean d'Acre, the Amphion, and the Odin were paid wages down to the 31st of January yesterday. The Imperieuse, Tribune, and Valoro us w ill b e pa id to , morrow; leiving 40/Iy-the Arrogant (whose pay-books have not yet been landed) of Admiral_Carly's division to be paid. The Blenheim, 60, Captain the Hon. F. J. Pelham, has re-adjusted her compasses and will be ready to join the fleet to-morrow. The Caesar, 91, Captain Robb, is rattling down her rigging. The Odin, 16, Captain F. Scott, is repairing b o ile rs i n th e steam basin. The fleet are daily exercised in gunnery, reefing, furling, &c. Mr. Parratt, of the Treasury brought down last night from London a small tubular collapsing boat, upon the principle of his admiral life-raft, which he has this .day taken off to the St. Jean d'Acre for the Hon. H. Keppell. The 23d, 42d, and 791 Regiments are pre paring for active service. The two latter corps will be augmented by volunteers from the 72d and 79th depots, 31 volunteers from the 11th Foot, 32 from the 65th, and'62 from the 35th embarked from this dockyard at 6 o'chick this morning, in the Foyle, British and Irish Steam packet Company's vessel, to join the let battalion of the Royals at Plymouth. The Foyle embarks the 93d depot at Plymouth to-morrow, for the Isle of Wight. The depot of the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade will be'conveyed to the Isle of Wight to-morrow in her Majesty's steam-tender Sprightly, The Cruiser, 14, Commander G. H. Douglas, will join the Baltic fleet. SO UTHAMPTON, MARCH 4. The Government have chartered the following ships, belonging to the Gen era l Screw Steam Shipping Com pany for the transport service :—The Golden Fleece, 2,500 tons, 400-horse power ; the Jason, 2,500 tons, 400-horse power ; Prince, 2,7.50 tons, 400-horse power ; the Harbinger, 916 tons, 18 0-horse power ; and the Cape of Good Hope, 800 tons, 120-horse power. The last steamer will leave the London Docks on Wednes day for Constantinople, taking out a large cargo and a number of passengers, and will also convey 120 officers and men to Malta. The Golden Fleece, under the com mand of Captain Stewart, sailed from Greenhithe this (Saturday) morning, in excellent order, for Leith, whence, having embarked the 4th Regiment, she will proceed to Devonport for further orders. The Har binger, now on her voyage from Australia, is expected to reach Southampton towards the close of this month or the beginning of April. The Jason and Prince, two of the finest screw-steamers in the world, are being rapidly got ready for sea at 131ackwall. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4. Commodore Seymour hoisted his burgee, red at the main, as Captain of the Fleet, on board the screw steam ship Duke of Wellington, 131, to-day. This magnificent vesssel was placed in the Queen's -dock at Keyham this morning, in the presence of thousands of spectators, numbers of whom kept thronging into the yard and on board throughout the day, highly gratified at ha v i ng so convenient an opportunity of surveying her huge bulk and examining her entire economy. The artisans of the yard commenced their duties immediately, and, in order to expedite her fitment, they will continue working, both outside and inside, all day on Sunday. Admiral Berkeley and Captain Sir Baldwin Walker inspected her yester day. They ordered her to be in the Sound again on Thursday, if possible. The Admiral and Sir Baldwin left by express train this morning for London. Commodore H. B. Martin hoisted his broad pendant this morning on board the hulk Bellona, on his appoint ment to the command of the screw steamship Nile, 91. , The screw steam-ship Royal George, 121 Captain H. F. Codrington, left the Sound at noon to-day, steaming, with Royal yards across, against a strong easterly breeze, for Spithead. Major Montgomery arrived here, by South Devon Railway, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, in command of the first detachment of the Ist battalion of First Royals. It comprised above 330 men, who left N ewport, Mon mouthshire en Friday, slept at Bristol, and came on by the Bristol and Exeter Railway. A.t the station they were received by Captain Wetherall, Major of Bri gade, and, being preceded by their own I .iand, marched at once to the Citadel, where they occupy the quarters just vacated by the 93d Highlanders. At, 7 o'clock this evening the second detachment arrived at th e station ; it numbers about 250, and came from Carmarl,hen, having slept on Thursday and Friday at Newport. The remain der of the battalion, quartered at Pembroke , is expected here early next week. The 20th of M arch is now spoken of as the probable date for their embi .rkation from Plymouth. MARCH 5. Two steam men-of-war passed up Chai mel near the Bolt Head about 8 o'clock this morning. The first was a paddle-wheel barque-rigged ship showing a white ensign; the second was a screw with painted port';. Her three topgallant -masts were struck, and she an is vered a signal from the barque. Both were under sti 3am only, the wind blowing strong from the eastward. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4. The new screw steam-ship Kangaroo arr rved from the Clyde last night, and this raorning went i nto the Wel lington-dock, where she will be fitted and made ready for the speedy embarkation of the 77th R,‘ invent, which remains at Preston until her fittings are c onipleted. DEPTFOR) D, MARCH 4. Captain A. Milne, oue of the Lords of the Admiralty, paid an official visit to Deptford Dock : nad victualling yards on Tuesday last, and was accompan 'Led by Capt.- Superintendent G. B. Martin, C. 8., duri ,ng his inspec tion of the sailjug transport vessels woorei 4 the 'Anna/ . where they are taking on board oats and hay for the horses that have baen taken up to be conveyed to the Mediterranean. Nine of the transport vessels have arrived at Deptford for the conveyance of horses, the Allipore, the John Masterman, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Her Majesty, the Palmerston, the City of Carlisle, the Pyrenees, the Mer cier, and the Resolute, and workmen have been actively employed in fitting mangers on board of each of them while the oats and hay were being put on board. Eight naval officers of the rank of lieutenant have been ap pointed as agents for transports—Henry P. Dicken (1815), Thomas James (1821), Thomas Atkinson Butler (1827), St. Ledger: Aldworth (1S31), Richard Hoops (1840), James Yule (1826), Delbeeuf B. Bedford (1830), and John S. Keatley (1828). Lieutenant Thomas A. Butler, Senior Lieutenant of the first division of horse transport vessels, hoisted his pendant to-day on board the Pyrenees, and the Monkey steam-vessel, Second Master Syndercombe, was waiting to tow her down to 'Woolwich, where the horses are to ,2 put on board in the basin, but she was not ready till a late hour, and as the tide did not then suit, she will be taken down and into the basin at Woolwich on Monday. Four of the other vessels will be ready to be towed to Woolwich in two or three days, and the horses will be swung on board by the aid of the shears. The Egmont storeship completed taking on board stores, and left Deptford for Malta on Tuesday last with supplies for the use of the troops on that station. Quartermaster Oliphant and Serjeant-Major Weare, of the Royal Horse Artillery, have attended daily at Deptford during the present week to inspect the pro vender put on board the transports for the horses. Butchers have again commenced killing cattle for the purpose of being salted at the west end of the victual ling yard, for the use of the navy, and-about 100 head• of cattle have been killed and salted - during the present week. SUNDAY, March 5. Lord Raglan is expected to arrive at Woolwich at 11 o'clock a.m. to-morrow, for the purpose of inspecting the Royal Artillery now ready for embarkation, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is also expected to be present with a number of distinguished officers. Major C. Dickson, of the 10th battalion, proceeds to the East on the staff of Lord Raglan, as interpreter, Major Dickson having a most perfect knowledge of the Turkish language, and having ac t e d as i n t erpreter to Ibrahim Pasha when he visited this country. DUBLIN, MARCH 4. The 46th Regiment, at present stationed in Kilkenny, has been placed under orders for service in the East. On Wednesday last a communication was received by the commanding-officer of the 46th applying for 15 volun teers from that corps for the 33d, then on the point of embarking for the seat of war. Immediately upon its transpiring that volunteers were required the orderly room was beset by crowds of applicants for the honour of joining the Eastern expedition, and the most enthusi astic eagerness for the much-coveted position of forming one of the 15 was manifested almost universally by the privates of this gallant corps. Fifteen fine young fel lows were selected from the crowd of applicants, and a few hours afterwards they were inspected by Colonel Williams, K.H., and proceeded to Dublin by rail, taking their departure amid the warm cheering of their former comrades. The head-quarters of the 27th Regiment will leave Enniskillen for Dublin on the 6th, and may be expected to arrive here on the 9th. ROYAL ARTILLERY. The troop of Royal Horse Artillery under the corn mand of Captain Levinge received an entire new battery, consisting of four six-pounder brass guns and two twelve-pounder brass howitzers, made on the most approved construction and mounted on new gun-carriages. These field pieces of ordnance, with their ammunition waggons, with every neces sary article for field service were brought up from the grand depot on Thursday to the east orißoyal Horse Ar tillery square of the barracks, and are all ready packed for immediate: embarkation. Three entire new field batteries, each consisting of four 9-pounder brais guns and two 24-pounder brass howitzers, were brought up .from the grand depot on the same day to the barracks, and they are at present in the gun-park at the west end of the barracks, all packed and ready for immediate em barkation. The other two batteries under orders for foreign service will only take out horses with them, as the one is to be supplied with a Turkish field-battery on arrival in the East, and the other will be converted into a small-arm brigade and be supplied with Minie rifles. Captain Swinton's company, 11th battalion, recently returned from Dover to head-quarters ; Captain J. Turner's company, 11th battalion, recently returned from Eastbourne to Woolwich ; Captain Wodehouse's company, 11th battalion, at Woolwich ; and Captain Maude's troop of Royal Horse Artillery, at prese n t sta tioned.s,t DUblin, are' to be 'broiigtt'forifrard ter service in the East on the departure of the troop and batteries 'at present under orders for foreign service. GENERAL ORDER. Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, March 2. His Lordship, the Master-General, has appointed the following officers to be adjutants, provisionally, under the regulations contained in the General Order of Feb ruary 5, 1826 : Second Captain E. B. Hamley to the sth battalion, vice Cannon, promoted. Second Captain E. E. R. Dyneley to the 12th battalion, vice Rogers, promoted. In consequence of the above the undermentioned offi cers are posted as follows : Second Captain P. F. Miller to the 2d battalion, vice Hamley. Second Captain H. T. Fitzhugh to the 12th battalion, vice Dyneley. HENRY PALLISER, Lieut.-Colonel, Assistant-Adjutant-General. The horses of two batteries are to be sent over from Ireland for service in Captain Swinton's 3d company, 11th battalion, and Captain J. Turner's 4th company, 11th battalion. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SHEERNESS, MARCH 4. The Driver, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander the Hon. A. Cochrane, has this day been taken into No. 3 dry dock, to be examined, and for the pur pose of cleaning her bottom, clearing feed pipes, &c. This being done she will be ready for sea in a few days. Orders have been received here for the Monarch, 84 guns, Captain John E. Erskine, to leav e on Th urs d ay next for the Downs. All hands employed upon her are working long extra hours to insure her departure on that day. Lieutenant H. St. John Mildmay has taken up his commission and joined this ship. The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Capt. James Hope, C. 8., is ordered to be out of the dockyard on the 25th instant, and will be ready to sail within seven days afterwards. Lieutenant Edwin A. Percher, 9th of November, 1846, has taken up his commission and joined this ship. A number of very smart A.B.'s have volunteered for her, and ordinary s eamen an d lands men are coming forward freely for entry. This ship has what wardroom officers call a popular commander, and what the blue-jackets call a first-rate sailor. The conse quence is, a great number of blue-jackets, who formerly served under him, are again entering the same ship. She was masted yesterday, tops sent over the mastheads, and the standing rigging is being fitted. The greatest activity prevails among the blue-jackets, the marine artillery, and Royal Marines, the last being engaged conveying the standing rigging, &c., from the stores r ea dy, f or th e use of the former. lier screw propeller was lowered into its bearings yesterday, and on Thursday next a trial will take place to prove the strength of her boilers, &c. Lieutenant Charles G. G. Perceval, promoted from the Fury paddle-wheel steam-sloop, serving in the Medi terranean, and Lieutenant Thomas H. Downs, of the 2d of March, 1838, from the Coast-guard station at Aln mouth (Alnwick) have taken up their commissions and joined the Cressy, 80 guns, Captain Richard L. Warren. Her compasses will be adjusted by Mr. John C. Barlow, Master of the Waterloo, immediately after which she will be inspected by the port officers and leave for the Downs. The late 120 gun-ship Howe, which was taken into dry dock here in October, 1850, was being taken to pieces (by Admiralty order) last week, by which another spacious dry dock, capable of receiving a first-rate man of-war, armed, manned, and victualled, with six months' stores of every description on board, is available for any emergency. A number of schooners, varying from 100 to 150 tons loading burden, have been hired as transports, for the conveyance of provisions, stores, ammunition, &c., for the use of the Baltic fleet, part of which are now engaged bringing provisions from Deptford to the victualling stores at this yard. The Retorm, of London, Robert, Rex, master, and the Wharfinger, of London, J. Harris, master, have arrived here, completed their discharge, and sailed again for Deptford. Each vessel has been supplied by the dockyard authorities with sufficient pig iron ballast to enable them to discharge their cargoes of provisions, &c., and return from the fleet in fair ballast trim, when occasion may require them to proceed after the fleet, on their departure from the Downs. The schooner Boyne, of London, William Stone, mas ter, is now discharging victualling stores here for the same purpose. The Hart, sailing tender to the Waterloo, under charge of Eugene C. Batty, returned from Dover this day with volunteers from general service, among whom are several mechanics for armourers and carpenters' crews. All the volunteers are drilled daily on board the Waterloo, in bending, reefing, furling, and unbending sails ; also at the gun, small arm, and cutlass exercise, while the boys are engaged knotting, splicing, &c. Arrangements have been entered into with the Ad miralty for the electric telegraph being laid down from this yard to Deptford and Woolwich, by which, on the' shortest notice, ammunition from the latter, and provi sions from the former, can be immediately shipped, and proceed, wherever directed by telegraph, front the Thames, In addition to this, it will be rendered available for commuMcations from the Admiralty, Horse Ciu344,e, [PRICE SD. &c., to the port and fort officers in command here. The submarine part of the line will cross at King's Ferry. An increased number of workmen are set on to for ward the completion of the new artillery barracks being built in this garrison, in order, if required, to give bar rack accommodation to from four to five companies of Marine artillery, who will then be in readiness for draughting into any of our screw steam-ships of war re quiring their services afloat. In consequence of the increase of business now being tr Ln sacted in the different offices in the dockyard, a number of extra clerks are to be entered, to be employed as writers and copying clerks. The present clerks, writers, measurers, &c., are frequently engaged day and night in ,order to prevent delay in the routine of the service. WOOLWICH, MARCH 4. APPOINTMENTS. Commander Frederick A. Egerton (1852) to the Bag caw en, 70, at Portsmouth, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West India station. Lieutenant Robert M. Sandon (1843) to be agent in charge of mails in a contract steam-vessel. Surgeon Daniel Ritchie (1546) to be surgeon-superin tendent of the Ramilies, hired convict ship. Clerk William H. Chapman (1848), from the Hogue. 60, screw steam-ship, to the Conflict, 8, screw steam sloop, at Portsmouth. Acting clerk James Inglis, to the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. Clerk's-Assistants—F. L. R. Bedwell, to the St. George, 121, at Devonport ; W. H. Allen, to the Royal William, 120, at Devonport. Assistant-engineer George Wynhall, of the third class, to the Archer, 14, screw-corvette, at Woolwich. THE BALTIC FLEETS. We shall doubtless before many days have the French fleet to join the English at Spithead. We only wish the Emperor Napoleon may pay a visit on such an occasion, there is not an Englishman but would give him a welcome, and show to him how much they appreciate his high-minded and dignified conduct throughout a treacherous attempt on the part of Russia to sow feel ings of distrust between us. We say there is not a right-thinking man but would hail his Majesty as a sincere friend—his actions have proved that he is so, for the peace of the world has been secured by his mag nanimous bearing—even at a time wh en i nsu lt an d abuse were unsparingly heaped upon him by a rancorous and bitterly hostile portion of the English press.— Morning Herald. THE REFORM BILL. The following are the Boroughs of England as proposed by the Reform Bill, arranged according to the number of their electors : ONE MEMBER EACH. EIGHT OF THE NINE BOROUGHS TO HAVE THREE MEMBERS. Electors. Population. Bradford Wolverhampton 3,587 ... 119,748 Sheffield Leeds Birmingham 7,936 ... 232,841 Bristol Manchester 13,921 ... 316,213 Liverpool THREE NE W BOROUGHS WITH ONE MEMBER EACH. Population. Birkenhead Burnley Staleybridge METROPOLIS AND ITS BOROUGHS. Electors. Population. Greenwich 6,308 ... 105,784 Southwark 9,458 ... 172,863 Lambeth Marylebone Finsbury London (4 Mem.) 20,727 ... 127,869 Tower Hamlets 23,534 ... 539,111 Westminster Kensington (new) — ... 176,542 The following towns, containing between 5,000 and 20,000 inhabitants. would remain unenfranchisod, except as included in the county franchise : TOWNS ABOVE 5,000 POPULATION UNREPRE- Pop. Radcliffe 5,002 Selby 5,009 Teignmouth 5,013 Biugley Dewsbury 5,033 Wellingbro' 5,061 Exmouth 5,123 Kettering Oldbury 5,141 Woodbridge 5,161 Caine 5,195 Leigh 5,206 Hitehin 5,258 131.11opStort- Pop. Midhurst 7,021 Deal Redruth Chesterfield 7,101 Ryde 7,147 Prescot Gosport Middlesbro' 7,431 Gainsbro' Spalding Stour bridge 7,847 Torquay Burton-on- ford 5,280 Hindley 5,285 Knareshro' 5,36 I. Worthing Andover Nantwich Whittlesey 5,472 Orin skirk Brixham 5,627 Halstead Maryport Middleton 5,740 Dartford 5,763 TOWNS ABOVE Trent 7,934 Runcorn Tredegar Sheerness Wilton Brentford 8,870 Leek Margate 9,107 Richmond (Surrey)... 9,065 Penzmice ... 9,214 Hartlepool.. 9,503 Stockton 9,803 lON UNREPRE- Pop. Mansfield 10,012 Hyde 10,051 Belper 10,082 Trowbridge 10,157 Croydon 10,260 Louth Congleton 10,520 tratford,„ 10,086 Pop. Doncaster.. 12,052 Heywood... 12,194 Keighley... 13,050 Barnsley ... 13,437 St. Helens. 14,866 Leamington 15,692 Gravesend.. 16,633 SENTED. Pop. 5,775 5,837 Bideford . Workington SaffronWal- den .. 5,911 Yeovil Chelmsford 6,033 Sudbury Worksop Hinckley Haslingden 6,154 Ely 6,176 Alnwick Kingston on-Thames 6,279 Rugby 6,317 Rotherham 6,325 Ulverstone 6,433 Tranmore 6,5191 Camborne 6,54 71 Newbury Lowestoft 6,s'so Colne 6,644 Penrith 6,668 Folkestone St. Albans 7,000 DarwenOver 7,020 10,000 POPULA.I SENTED. Tunbrid go Pop. Wells .... 10,587 Wisbeach.. 10,594 Luton ...... 10,648 Loughbro'.. 10,900 Darlington. 11,228 Ramsgate.. 11,838 Wedneabry 11,914 /f/ 7e ( )(,z c-6 THE LATE INDICTMENT AGAINST MAJOR BERESFORD. A public meeting having been held at Derby, repro ' bating the conduct of Mr. Coppock and several others who, it was alleged, had corruptly withdrawn the indict ment against Major Beresford, Mr. Coppock has written a letter to the editor of the Derby Reporter, in which he states the grounds upon which the indictment was aban doned. The following are extracts : At the last election for the borough of Derby a Libe ral candidate lost his return and a Tory member was elected, in consequence of gross and notorious bribery. I was selected to conduct the proceedings which became necessary to restore to the Liberal party the seat which had been filched from there. After some months of labour those proceedings terminated by the complete ex posure of an organised system of bribery, in which Major Beresford and the electioneering management of the Tory Government were implicated, by the unseating of the Tory member elected through that bribery, by the restoration of the seat to the Liberal candidates by the declaration that the charges against Mr. Bass were frivolous and vexatious, and by the conviction of the in strument by which the Tory bribery had been adminis tered. Never was success more complete. There was a general feeling that the House of Com mons should order the prosecution of the parties who had been concerned in the organised system of bribery ; but as this did not seem likely to be done, I was pressed on all sides, promised support by some, and urged by many, to undertake the prosecution for public good. At a public dinner in Detliy, Mr. Bass made some strong remarks as to the propriety of bringing " W. B. and the gentlemen of the Lead Works to justice," upon which the whole meeting rose and cheered vociferously, and when I subsequently stated, as I had privately and pre viously said I should, and 'as I was authorised to do, " that if the House of Commons did not order the At torney-General to prosecute, I would bring all parties before the Central Criminal Court," I was greeted with unanimous approbation. I gave instructions for the preparation of the indict ment, and having waited until it was quite clear that the House of Commons, who had ordered the prosecu tion of a bricklayer's labourer at Chatham, would not interfere with Major Beresford and the rich men of Derby, I caused a bill to be preferred at the Central Criminal Court, being advised by counsel that it could not be removed from that court, as an act of Parliament had just passed which would prevent removals by cer tiorari from the Central Criminal Court. The grand jury found a true bill. I calculated upon an early trial, and at no very great expense. But the defendants got the case removed by certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench, where it could not possibly come on for several months. The effects of this delay were dangerous. I was as sailed by persons of both political parties, some appeal ing to compassion, pitying Major Beresford, who had been deserted by his own party, and had been grievously punished already. Others urging that bygones ought to be bygones, and that peace and quietness ought to be re stored to Derby. Some who had prompted the indict ment now disowned all participation in it--thought that public justice had been satisfied—that if it did not suc ceed our triumph would be marred ; and those who had eagerly tendered subscriptions towards the large ex penses which the trial would entail, now held tight their purse strings. I have worked long enough in party matters to know that success is the test of merit, and that all gratitude and thanks for past efforts are wiped off and effaced by one failure. I was anxious for suc cess, but not disheartened, and did not dream of any abandonment of the prosecution. Up to the 24th November I received numberless ap plications to obtain a settlement of the indictment. Of that date I received the first written overture coming direct from the defendants—the letter is now before me. It " entreats that the conspiracy trial may not come be fore the public, and begs that a termination may be put to the ill blood which had so long divided parties in Derby—pleads hard for the defendants, whose expenses had already exceeded 2,0001., begs me to be generous, to do a most pr a i se worthy act by the withdrawal of the indictment, and offers to pay any sum of money for costs." In a subsequent letter from the same p ar ty are the following expressions :—" I wish you could h e l p a settlement of this unfortunate business. All expenses would be gladly paid to get rid of their troubles." The writer of these letters was a leading partisan of Mr. Horsfall, and a most intimate friend of Messrs. Cox and Mr. Huish. Since that time not a week has passed without letters from friends of the defendants urging me to withdraw the indictment. I have the letters now in my posses sion. They are mostly marked private and confidential, and I shall not publish them. Sufficient to say that I can produce them, if the writers give permission for me to make them public. Without that permission, I am not justified in stating more than the purport of them. My own feelings uu the matter will be best shown by my written replies. To one warm liberal friend, to whom offers had been made on behalf of the defendants to pay all expenses, and who communicated those offers to me, with his own strong wish that all f ur th er exposure should be avoided, I thus wrote in December last : " I cannot under any circumstances make the consider ation for giving up th e p rosecu ti on a p ecun iary one. No sum of mon e y wou ld i n d uce me . Th e on ly consideration he would be the good of the p ar ty. here and in Der by—t he that by t desire of promotin g peace in future, a nd the be lief sufficient had been done to satisfy the past." To a leading partisan of Mr. Horsfall, who pleaded hard for a stay of the indictment, I thus wrote : "If it is possible to put an end to all further anxiety and trouble, I shall be no obstacle in the way of doing so. If there had been less vituperation and more common sense on the part of the defenders and friends of Mr. Hors fall, much of the unpleasantness that has occurred might have been avoided. To defend an indefensible seat—to charge Mr. Bass with corrupt practices— to allege conspiracy against Mr. Heyworth's friends, ware all acts of folly, and have brought their punishment. If without compromise o f c haracter, I can restore peace to Derby, and put an end to bad feelings, I will do so. I should not like to be any p a rty to the arrangement. What I have done has been from no private or personal feelings. I only wished and intended to do the best for my friends, and to punish their enemies. _ Up to the 27th of January, as my written communi cations will show, I held precisely the same tone. At that time, counsel having fully considered the case, saw many difficulties of a technical nature, as to the ad mission of statements made by the defendants— how far they would, if admitted, affect the others of them— as to the different acts of the conspiracy—as to its venue in Middlesex, and all the many obstacles in the way of legal proof, which in a case of this kind would :be kept most strictly in view. Subpoenas for the witnesses were issued and served ; some, how ever, were not to be found, but preparations went on for trial. On the Ist of February I went to Derby. I saw Mr. Moss and Mr. Madeley, with whom I had acted from the very beginning of the affair, and without whom, up to the preferring of the indictment, I had not done a single act. With the indictment they had nothing to do ; th e y never a d v i se d it, they had n ever encourage it, but, in every other matter connected with the Parlia mentary enquiry, and with the petitions, they had been my advisers, and my sole advisers. Mr. Moss had from the first acted gratuitously ; he refused to be profes sionally concerned. Mr. Madeley had worked hard and zealously, . . . I told Mr. Moss and Mr. Madeley everything that ; had been done. I explaino how matters stood , by whom 6, -__-'7 the overtures had been made for the defendants, to whom, and the n a t ure of them. To Mr. Moss, whose profes sional experien ce ena bl ed h i m to give a valuable opi nion, I discl ose d the legal difficulties, and we agreed i that f the defendants admitted that improper practices had been carried on by Mr. Horsfall's friends, the Libe ral party were free from all such practices, and all asper sions upon the friends of Mr. Bass and Mr. Hepworth were withdrawn, it might be prudent for the prose cution to be given up, rather than to risk a failure, and that it would be generous to relieve the defendants from further anxiety. The various expenses which would fall upon the Liberal party to raise, and which were unprov ded for, amounted to a large sum, and as these costs had been incurred by the misconduct of the friend of Mr. Horsfall it was deemed not unfair to accept the offer so repeatedly made on their behalf to pay them. But it was determined that the terms of arrangement, if finally agreed upon should be in writing, and nothing less should be accepted than a full admission of the guilt of the Tory party, the innocence of the Liberal party, and the unconditional withdrawal of all charges which had ever been made against the friends of Mr. Bass and Mr. Heyworth. The money clause was not deemed of im portance. It had, as long back as November last been offered by the defendants, and might be accepted. It was not asked or suggested by us, and would never have been so. One gentleman, and one gentleman only, of the Tory party held any communication with us, or with myself. He agreed to the terms, he named 1,0001. as the sum to be paid. He signed the two following memoranda, and he paid the 1,4001. The first document is as follows : " Derby, Feb. 2, 1854. " OR the part of Mr. William Thomas Cox and others, and by their authority, I admit that at the last election for the borough of Derby, most unjustifiable means were re sorted to in order to procure the return of Mr Horsfall. That no friends of Mr. Bass or Mr. Hepworth were con cerned therein, and that all assertions or statements made, Witten , or printed i n newspa pers or otherwise, charging the friends of M r . B ass or Mr. Hayworth with trick, com plicity, or participation therein, are entirely untrue. And I admit that in consequence of such bribery a petition to Parliament and various proceedings at law became neces sary, and have been carried on at . great cost, and as a con tribution towards the costs incurred, I promise, and on the part of the said William Thomas Cox and others, consent to pay to John Moss, Esq., the sum of one thousand pounds in part liquidation of bility as aforesaid. the costs, and dis c h arge o f all lie,' (Signed) " HENRY F. GISBORNE." The second document was : " Derby, February 3, 1854. "In accordance with the feeling universally expressed that the proceedings at the last general election for the borough of Derby have been sufficiently exposed for publics good, and in accordance with the general feeling that the peace and harmony of the town of Derby and of its inhabi tants should be restored, and that no public good, but much personal and private evil, would ensue from further litiga tion, it having been admitted on the part of the friends of Mr. Horsfall that the bribery on their part was unjustifiable, all charges of every kind against the friends of Messrs. Bass and Hayworth having been unconditionally and unreservedly withdrawn, and a sum of 1,0001. having been agreed to bo paid as a contribution towards the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the petition against the return of Mr. Horsfall, it is agreed that the indictment now pending against Mr. William Thomas Cox and others shall be aban doned and put an end to, so far as to all residents in the towns of Derby and Nottingham. (Signed) "JAMES COPPOCK. I left Derby on th e 3d FebHrENuaRY FRANCIS GISBORNE. ry, and returned to Lon don. No settlement or arrangement as to Major Beres ford had been made ; the indictment stood as against him, and he might have been brought to trial. It had always been thought that when Major Beresford gave Mr. George Henry Richardson Cox the " N. 8." letter he had supplied the money found upon Morgan. I was assured, and proof offered, that Major Beresford had not directly or indirectly supplied any money for Derby ; the money found upon Morgan had been supplied in Derby. I had been previously told by oneswho bad good information, that Major Beresford's complicity began and ended with the writing of the letter to Mr. Frail. On being convinced that this was the fact, I felt bound, in common fairness, to put an end to the indict ment as to Major Beresford, for although the letter might have been held by the jury, from its terms, satis factory evidence of guilty knowledge and of con spiracy for a common object with Mr. Cox, that ob ject to be carried out by Mr. Frail, as it was ultimately by Morgan ' • still if Major Beref or d h a d no t ac t ua lly done more than write one of the most indiscreet letters ever written, at the dictation of an indiscreet man, his I own self-reproach es h a d pun i s h e d hi m enough. Not i ce was accordingly given to Major Bereford's solicitors, and to the associate of the Court, that the indictment would not be prosecuted, and the following instructions given to counsel. . . . In the various proceedings which had taken place since July, 1852, the money ac tually expended amounted to, without one shilling for professio na l c h arges, 3 ,200/. The details and vouchers for this expenditure belong to those who undertook to be responsible for the costs. The public has nothing to do with this part of the business. Six individuals had subscribed 2,2001., leaving a debt for cash advanced of 1,0001. The 1,0001. received as a contribution cleared off the debt for cash advanced, and freed those who had been answerable for the expenses from so much liability, but not a fraction beyond the absolute expenditure was realised thereby. It had been agreed and con sented to on the part of Messrs. Cox, that the money found upon Morgan and which he had got from the Lead Works should go towards the cost of an action and other proceedings connected therewith, and this ended all money transactions es to the matter. Neither Mr. Moss, Mr. Madeley, nor myself, derived the slightest i.aeeeise i - benefit from any portion of the arrangement. . . A word in vindication of one who has been greatly abused by some people for the part he took in this affair. From the first moment when Mr. Flewker gave the in formation he possessed, to the present time, his conduct has been straightforward to the fullest extent. Not a statement made by hiin• has been impugned or disproved. Assailed by slander —perjury ready to be used against him—talked to and talked at, Mr. Flewker has never varied nor swerved—he has always been ready, always willing to come forward. I have felt for him under the ordeals he has gone through during this business. The acknowledgment that " no trick, complicity, or partici pation in bribery, was chargeable against any of Messrs. Bass and Heyworth's friends," gives the lie direct to those who have maligned Mr. Flewker • rnd it was in tended as an a nswer t o t h e unfounded charges and asser tions made against him. There would have been no failure of justice through any act of his, and I repeat what I said at the Derby dinner, " That the Liberal party are greatly indebted to Mr. Flewker." * * * I am, sir, your obedient servant, AMES COPPOCK. 3, Cleveland- row , S t . James's, Lon J don, February 27. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE LIGHTNING. The new United States' clipper ship Lightning, Forbes commander, arrived at Liverpool on Satur day evening, bringing advices from New York to the evening of the 18th, and from Boston to the 19th ult. The Lightning has made an extraordinary run of 13 days mean time from Boston, the shortest ever made, although she is deeply laden with upwards of 2,000 tons of cargo, mostly breadstuffs, and drawing 21 feet of water. She sailed from Boston on the 19th, with a fine N.W. wind. On the 20th at noon she was in lat. 43.5 N., long. 59.25 W.; on the 21st she had the wind N.E. and E., light, and snow storms, and was in lat. 41.30, long. 57 ; 22d, wind E.S.E., fresh, with rain and snow, ship labouring heavily, and shipping large quantities of water, in lat. 42.5, long. 54.45 ; 23d w i n d N ., strong gales and calms, lat. 42.45, long. 52.44; 24th, wind S.E., light breeze, in lat. 46.30, long. 47.45 ; 25th, wind S.E. and E.S.E., strong breeze—at 5 a.m. passed a large iceberg in lat. 49.15, long. 43.20 ; 26th, wind W.S.W. , light breeze lat. 51.5, long. 37.19 ; 27th, wind W. and W.N.W., strong breeze and fine, lat. 52.38, long. 22.45 ; 28th, wind S., heavy gales, lat. 52.30, long. 13.50, altered ship's oeurse, and made all possible sail for the north channel ; Ist of March, wind S., strong—at 8.30 a.m. Eagle Island Li g h t was sighted, and at noon she was abreast of Tory Island. From this time, and until her arrival at Liverpool, nothing but calms were experienced. ifer run from Boston Light to Eagle Island Light occupied only 10 days, which is not often excelled by our finest ocean steamers. The Lightning was built by Mr. D. M'Kay, of Boston, for James -Baines and Co.'s Black Ball line of Australian packets, anti is the first ship ever built in the United States for an English house. She is one of the largest, and certainly is the most beautiful clipper that ever entered the port. ler leading dimensions are as follows :—Length of keel 226 feet, length on deck 243 feet, breadth of beam 44 feet, depth of hold 23 feet, including 7i feet height of between decks, and registered ton nage 2,000 tons. Sne has sharper ends than any clipper ever built in the United States, and her lines are decidedly concave. Her sides swell 10 inches, her rise of floor is 20 inches at 11 feet front the keel, and her sheer is 4 feet, which is gra duated her whole length, and rises gracen'Y towards the ends. The whole height of her bulwarks is seven feet, and she has a full top gallant forecastl e ,l w hi c h extne d s t o the fore rigging, and its deck is connected with the top of al house, which is continued aft, and is 48 feet long and 19 feet wide. The leading details of her materials and fastening will show that she is well built. Her frame, all the knees in the hold, and her hooks and pointers are of selected seasoned. white oak ; and her scantling is of hard pine. The knees in the between decks are of hacmatack, the lower deck is of hard pine, and the upper deck of white pine, and her fastening varies from 11 to 1 inch iron and copper. Her ends have four tiers of uprights, which are bound to the keel and keelsons with massive oak knees, and they are almost filled with hooks and pointers. There is no political or general news of int crest to report. The New York stock-market was active and better. liNeliwciwYno'rk Central Canton Co., 28; Reading, 76/1 Panama, 1 06 ; 69i ; Erie Michigan 7 %ut ; h H er aa a Z 2 . ,, 1461 i l t i i, r ; oa N d ew York and Newhaven,lol. m on ey is in good demand, and active. In ex. chap DO alteation. / (4,