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773 L6' I Z - lii S PAl'Ekt , ~..\ ) • 5 4 j!ifiti. 'Y; , , I,C , ft th i:: . 4. " S' AtY s .'li ni ' `1 -Fi her moor .hat she will le flag of a //2 ."` i- - \\*". 4 47 ,70 , 0 :6 -2; - \--.'.1:44. - :;;;I" °1:11 • 214 4 . eak ,)! . n 17ft. to 22ft.; length 3ft. 9in., d etti trial was made in a smooth sea, *Of the wind very slight. It was perfe tort'. The Conqueror has fifth) taken n ings in the harbour. It is rumoured t b t v , ‘, -" w -7, 04 'Dx E „==. t.; ' J 4; AIM I t ,6 1.4 „, 40 3 6 - oßorn..' \ - shortly be commissioned, and carry th k‘'.2)44 4gitiq tlticiti o k " 1 4')a - Vice-Admiral. IM„,YERIAL OTTOMAN BANK. Inly.=‹ri al Ottoman Bank and its. Founders have the honour Co anaounce that they have contracted for a Loan ,itit the Ottoman Government, which is to be issued on the following terms : OTTOMAN LOAN of 150,00 1 ,000 f. (£6,000,000 Sterling, In 300,0(0 Bonds of 500 f., yielding an annual interest cf 3 f. each, payable 15f. Ist January end 15f. Ist July. The Bonds are to be paid off at 500 f. each, in 23& years, by half yearly drawings, the first of which will take place in November next. . _ Apilic;tion — s — for Bonds will be received from Saturday, 3Sth, to Thursday, 23d April, 1863. Price of Issue, 3601. per Bond, payable as under:— On Application ..2M 1100 f. or I Zi 0 oon Applicati on. , On Allotment .... 75E2 19 4 on Allotment. 10th July loof., or 3 19 4 10th September lOOl, or 319 4 10th November 601., or 2 7 7 360 f ,or .£l4 5 7 The three last instalments may be paid in advance, interest being allow d at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The Bonds bear interest t om January Ist, 1863. and the first Coupon of 15 francs will be payable on July Ist. Taking into account the amount of interest accrued, and the terms allowed for The subsequent payments, the real price of the Bond to the Subscriber is 342 t. 54c,, giving an annual interest of 816 per cent. The Bonds being repayable in 23i years, at the price of 500 f., a rrofit of 110 f. is secured, representing a supp'ementary int rest of 1•89 per cent. per annum, raising the total rate of interest to 10'65 per cent Ihe i ayment of the interest and sinking fund requires an annual sum of 12,000,e00t. To meet this charge the Turkish Government has hypothe cated the following revenues : Annual. Ist—Special Revenues, not pledged for fornne Loans, estima ed at 28,000000f. 2cl—A. First Charge on the direct T axes, , amounting to 6,000,000f. M—The bglance of the Revenue hypothe cated for the Loan of 1862, estimated by the Government at The Dividends will be payable in Paris at the Office of the Societe Generale du Credit Mc.bilier. In London, by Messrs. Glyn, tiils, and Co., on behalf of the Imperial Ottoman Hank, at the Exchange of the day. The Contractors have reserved to the Ottoman Govern ment the right of increasing the nominal amount of the Loan by a sum of fifty millions of francs capital, their decision to be made within three months. This supplementary Loan cannot be issued before Irt January, 1864, and the holders of Bonds of the present Loan will have a preferential option of subscribing to the subsequent issue, on the terms to be sub sequently announced. The proceeds of this supplementary issue will be applied, through ttle Imperial Ottoman Bank, to the withdrawal of the debased coinage now in circulation. A pplications received at the Ag enc i es o f th e I mper i al Otto man Bank, 4, Bank-buildings, London, and 15, Place Ven dome, Paris. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Agency of the Impe rial Ottoman Bank, 4, New Bank-buildings, and from Mr. G. k. Seymour, 38, Throgmorton-street. In the event of the applications exceeding the amount of the Loan the allotments will be made pro rata. Calculating the rate of exchange at 25f. the £ sterling, the Bond-, repayable at 420 e:tch, are issued at 414 85., and yield an annual interest of £1 48., or making due allowance for the interest accrued and the terms allowed for payment of the instalments at the rate of 8 76-100ths per annum. The diffe rence between the price of issue and that of repayment re presents a further interest of I 89-100ths per cent., making a total of 10 65-100ths per cent. per annum. OTTOMAN LOAN, 1863. FORM OF APPLICATION. To be forwarded to the Agents of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 4, Bank-buildin es, L ondon, after payment or the preliminary deposit to the Bankers. Having paid to Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and CO., the sum of £ , I hereby request an a l lotment of Bonds of the above Loan, and I hereby agree to accept such Bonds, or any smaler amount that may be allotted to me, and to pay the instalments thereon, as mentioned in the Prospectus of the said Loan. Signature Address in full.. Date THE EQUITABLE FURNISHING COMPANY (Limited). I ncorporated under the Joint-stock Companies Act, 1862. Capital £50,000, in 20,000 Shares of .£1 10s. each ; 10s. payable upon application, and £1 upon allotment. No further call to be made without a notice of three months. DIRECTORS. E dward Bell, Esq., 35, Kensington-square. J. W. and The A Cark, caciasq.,, Es Lar ss, khall-lane. Long -fore ; High-street, Claph am ; Sir J. A. Douglas, R.N., Doddington-grove, Kennington park. Charles Pierce, Esq., The Boundaries, Balham, Surrey. Jo Win. Haylett Royston, Esq., 1, G reat Cheyne-row, Chelsea. hn Till, Esq., Park-road., Hornsty. Mr. Thomas Offen Clark, The Pavement Clapham-common, Clapham Old Town, Managing Director. BANKERS. London and County Joint-stc:k Bank, Lombari-street, and Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. BROKER—Fredk. Everett, Esq , 17 and 18, Royal Exchange. SOLICITOR —Alexander Warrand, Esq., 61, Cheapside. SECRETARY-31r. William Carpenter, 8, Brunswick-square. AUDITORS —One to be chosen by the Shareholders. Temporary Offices—No. 6, Salisbury-street, Strand. ABRIDGED PROSPECTU This Company has been formed to meet as ong recogned want, It wi ll ena b le persons to furnish their apartment is sor houses with the money they would otherwise have to pay as rent. A married couple, occupying furnished apartments at a weekly rental of 305., or .Z7B per annum, might have similar apartments, unfurnished, at £3O per annum. The use of fur niture, therefore, costs them £4B a y ear, w h ereas the cost of furnishing would not exceed £loo—which, being provided, a saving of £4B per annum would be effected. The Equitable Furnishing Company will effe:t this saving by supplying the fUrniture, the best of its kind, at ready money prices, the party making his election to purchase at the end of a year and a half, two years, or three years. In the meantime, the furniture will be taken on hire, the hire being periodically paid. The whole of the payments will be allowed in the event of purcha e, and thus the money which would have gone as rent will have bought the furniture. The charge made by the Company will be 7i per cent. per annum on the price of the goods, if purchased at the end of 1 8 months ; of 8i percent., if at the end of two years ; and of 10 per cent, if at the end of three years. The Company will retain the ownership of all furniture until it has been paid for, so that any appropriation of it would constitute a criminal offence. Seizure for rent is the only adverse contingency to which the Company will be ex posed ; but as the deposit payable will always cover the first rent due, that risk will be small, and it is allowed for in the estimate of profits. The Directors have secured an established and first. rate furniture business, returning net profits of more than 20 per cent., with unusually commodious and admirably adapted premises. In one of the best situations at the West-end at the town, and a large stock of well- seasoned Furniture, exhibited in suites of apartments, in vailous styles. This will consti tute a very advantageous bast- , for the Company's own busi ness, and Jus ti fies the air.-ztors in anticipating for the Share holders, after liberally providing for all possible contingen cies, interest at the rate o' at least '2O per cent per annum. The following certificate will be satisfactory on this point : " Wtern Life , Paent-street. " I have gone through the several Office estimate rlia sand c.lcula bons upon which the statements in the prospectus of the Fquitable Furnishing Company are based, and I find that, after allowing considerable margin for contingencies, the probable profits as therein stated are faithfully represented. (Signed) "CifauLEs HARDING, Prospectuses may be had, and the articles of association and detailed estimates be seen, at the offices of the Company, and at the Broker's. Avplication for shares to be made in the usual into, accom- Panied by the Bankers' receipt for the depsit of 8. per S hare which will be returned in full on o all shares not allotted. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY . NOTICE. FINE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT LES FRERES ATHOS. From the Carignan Theatre, Turin. Master EDWIN SAUNDERS, the Child of Song. TILE NEAPOLITAN MINSTRELS. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, and S 1 nor Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans. The celebrated UNSWOR 11'S NEW Si UMP SPEECH, The only Negro Orator of the day. EUGENE and DULEY, with new Eccentricities. ARTHUR LLOYD, Miss SAUNDERS, and Mr. HILTON, the Comic Ventriloquist and Modern Magician, EVERY EVENING. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. TH E OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET. THIS EVENING, Auber's Grand Opera, MASANIELLO. Also, the New Cantata, by Herr Meyer Lutz, H ERNE THE MINTER," Messrs. Albert, Supported by Miss Russell Miss Miss Oesten, Mi ss T own l ey, & C.; with full band and ardi, chorus. Finish, Kimberley, & c . Conducted by Mr. Jonglunfins. Drew Dean's Flute Solos lINSWORTIL the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutehenson, and the marvellous ARTH R and BERTRAND. "These two Parisian clowns have carried the art of tumbling to apparently the highest pitch of perfection, and it is impossible even for the most staid of visitors to avoid being amused by their origin'l gambols. They elicit shouts of laughter and applause "—Times, April 7, 1883. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. • At the ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Continued s uccess ot J. LEVY, the celebrated Cornet-a- Piston ! Every Evening a Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL TROVATORE—SIos, Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. J. Levy—Messrs. norton, Tyler, King, Snelling, and Moaca. Revival of the Scotch Fantasia and Irish Quadrille, by M. Jullien. Der Preischutz, Masaniello, L'Etoile du Nord, cto. Doors open at Eight o'clock. Admission, is. Manager, Mons. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATONIICATusEum containing the Wonders t Nature and Art, alio innumerable Models, illustrating every part of the tlumiil Frame ; together with a variety of Natural Preparation., Malformations ' monstrosities, ttc. ; also the Moving Ana tomical Dying Zouavc, and other life-size figures. Open daily from 11 to 10, for Gentlemen only. Admission, One Shilling. Entrance-44 A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, London, W. Illustrated Catalogue, free by post for 12 stamps, sealed 20. I ,11 ; x p l anations throughout the day. Lecture at 4. Address nc Secretary, as above. OST E 0 EID ON' Patent, March 1. 18N, No. MO. 0 APR IF,L'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE 'MiIiA TEE PIT and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, t '', gfi, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a A l ifileeliand WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and terims L ATION - even when all others fail. Purest ma- ZdY. at half 'the usual .ost. .27, ,reissrs. GABRIEL, the old-established D' data, 1 ARLRY-STREET, CAVENDISII-SQUARE; es, 1\3,1,, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; ' W- ST BEET, BIR NI ING li A M ; and I R4, N ix. , , , , co n •-STRI, ET, LIVERPOOL. P (Inc visit oh I te Sets, 4 t o 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. Practical Trmtiiereq tided from coun t ry patients. Gabriel's gr It tli, _________________ ebnault atints free. ITii---------LA.reoTtiOU S - TRULY EF T e Dr. SCOTT% AND M ILD.— pared without any mercurial Ing e r e s, of p p re r - . i a d r e d n t i , f lY r o m E R t h e P r l e L c i L p e nt, will Scott, of Bromley, tr ..tifTer from bilious 'nil liver conipazittsinvaluable to all who spasyn9, giddiness, ilizziness of the e ' i ndigestion, wind, ( ostiveness, as a family aperient triedreeiN &o. For habitual et the blood, they Ire truly excellent ; fl kilnd as a purifier tion and grateful to the stomach, they creat e in their opera mote digestion, and strengthen the whole ne appe ite, pro- Sold by W. Lambert. 5, King William-street, crhvous system. London, and by most druggists, In boxesa s , i i ring-ss, tinteu the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure toes 1 1 i a for three p Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine ar a square S cot Package, with " William Lambert," en bu p. on the N°. 22,092. NOT ICE. AT ODDS, the New Novel, by the Author of "The Initials " and " Quits," in 2 vols., post Bvo., is now ready at all Booksellers and Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF " MARGARET MAITLAND," Now ready at all the Libraries, in 1 vol., HEART AND CROSS. By the Author of "MARGARET MAITLAND," &c. Hurst and Blackat, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ST. a" AME S' HO TE L, Corner of BERKELEY-STREE l', Piccadilly. This HOTEL will be OPENED to the public on SATUR DAY, the 2d of May next. By order, G. T. OLDFIELD, Scoretary. Dated April 17, 1863. THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of to, New Bond-street. They , are neither so low in price as t) necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy as purchasers. "In media via tutissimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 50i., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY. At 2s. ed. each Person. SOUPS. Mock Turtle, Claremont. FISH. Soles ala Maitre d'Hotel. Fried Whitings. ENTREES. Vols an Vent ala Financier. RoularJs de Bceuf. JOINTS. Stewed Beef. Roast Mutton. SWEETS. Semolina Puddings. Jam Tartlets. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for the London Dinner. THE LONDON, 191, FLEET-STREET. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting Into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas , erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the HospitaL STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. Allegiance-oath to all, under perpetual schedule tax ex penditure vote, without reference (to all churches' 2s. 6d. register by 52 Geo. 111., chap. 55), to th e hi g h contracting parties, on yearly recognition by the State illegally suspended.—Russell Gurney, Q.C., O'Mal ley, Q.C.—So stop all supplies, for universal suffrage, and Abolition of death punishment—for tax. FNGLAND Si - WALES' SUPREME-COUR T ,'— of no Church.—Yet, since 1826 usurped by Three Sects, Brazil-swiss Unitas fratrum in Scotch-synod colonies, as— in constitution scheduled' on Canada's X'union precedent, § 34, for ministers' money of Church of England and Ire land—" dominion of Wales" omitted. The Romish church of Australia and Wales' under Jus tinian Civil Spanish Calvin code, act for death -riddance of the Carib chief, as adhesive Russo-Dutch loan trustee, of its £5,000,000. its Prince Consort to soil on Quebec's quad ruple Sty-1764-66-in Russia's Canada-paper guarantee, on Clement 14's Pekin Jesuit C o l. ve t o t Partition of Poltlnd, '72-7, by Behring-str. mark of Asia's E. Cape ingress and egress agency to Prince of Wales' Cape, by Labrador's Mo ravian HeLeofminster act (on Reading and Chelsea's x-vase Cymru-ueligb-land Copanhaven xag' settlements of Ame rica, under Osnaburg-bishop of 59 G. 3, c 114, for 1-Q. Mary, pat. 15 in 1207-Latin), for Caesar Peru pa's-1557—by the King's mere-lay preacher Ackerley 1820, [on Sir T. More's 1569 precedent as Acting bar'ister, to ride circuit, as of the Knight-Cider's ft.court, Death-WILL office, through Indian Q. lady Mary March, as New Jesuit civil law Con sort to Danish Kts. of St. John, in the Caribe'an isles —of Puerto Rico Thomas's & St Croix—native 1794 expulsion to Guatemala (Texas) and Venezuela. Carib PETER BASQUE; with white Ally, prays YE I on his knees, to consider their Key)-,hold position, of your own creation—as the elect of England's Income-tax succession, by medal Badge (as was his uncle, Indian Joseph Brant, of Stamp Act 1775) mark—Toll-set by Zollverein Convention Treaty of 2d March, 1841, by order of Palmerston, BoLo, and Labouchere, for America's criminal law as scheduled to New Zealand, &c, Medal-attested by late King of P r u ss i a on Ordinance of th May, 1826, for England's colonies, at Windsor Castle, as The own sign ca churches'-Man, under Berlin 3ty toll-weight standard 5-6 W. 4, c 63, on. Prince Consort'xtent on the day of (N. South) WALES' equatorial carib christen'ng, 21 yrs past,--.----Vestibule met by DOURO, Wellington's son, when Led and paid by, police superin tendent Carter, till Lord Ashhurton Baring association in the Warspite, 74, with His flag union of England's Tower issue, Jan. 31, 1842, under the ' Admiralty red flag Com mission of Array,' 7 Geo. 4, c 38, 1826, for King's Bench in Chancery Bank", on Sheriff Perley's writ return as the fit elect by sei z i n of Lord Seaton's Criminal court badge, for trial by' Canada bills' of Soil-indictment-stamp—the Rm. word Colonies not being in the Church 'Uniformity Act, as George the Fourth and P. Albert, were Kts. of the Papist Danebrog Malta order of St. John, Jerusalem. ' Patient in suffering for Tribe, and Allies up-hand In God's hope —of return to his GASPE strand.' On this Carib event Ld. Stanley, now DERBY, said "Tis well you came over to England, as this is the headquarters of your Indian state elect.' So on his arrival in 18M Earl Grey's official Nov. letter on Pact of felony says, " Justice shall be done to your report of marine stores on premises without license." So his successor, Pakington's letter says, "No money in this office, for your constables' mileage and maintenance" Yet, money-provided [by the Police Act of 10 Geo. 4, cap. 44, to Carter in 1842. under extraordi naryexpenses in execution of orders, by HALL to Policeman Dowling, of Liverpool, in 1851] for Peter, as Charleston's Chief, State•carriage Act badge precedency. ... ._ _ . So, on refusal The "lord deputy" Ackerley, deput e d o f the 9th Geo. tit., chap. 44, sec. 1, as tee King's Commis sioner—the successor of major Cartwright. with colleague Brant, the Colony-tie of Indian Tribes on £9O a-year since 1820, by first Civil Governor Hamilton's Lt.. deputy C. H. Ackerley, R.N. came to his aid, as supreme court Stay, by 1817-19-26 acts—still 43 years unrelieved from his Treasury super alt'mare, Welsh + rota w, & s., as Governor of the marchej's X deg. Rom., as in Will. Montaqu'-te 3 Ed. rrr, suspended by I. W. in, in 1806 act, on 28 11. 8, c 3, to allot union townships as Wales, on Owen Glendower Scudamore —in Mortimer's Anglo Cymru Bridges' Ric. ii. trusteeship in Ackerley, of Holme Lacey-46. a 3, c 54, restored by 1826-43, in Luther-mixt clergy Canadian reserves—giving Lord M'ilab Bury—lndian superintendent and Quebec's 2— Bishops —£2,000 a-year each, yet refuse to support Peter Basquet, or the Stillord March'r Ambassador consul. " So , upper ten' comes last, though O'erhead the least In Carib skyl`date, when Left Scanada,'d east." He under Antipodean anomaly, as England-set in the 4-G. 4, c 96, ¢¢ 4, 28-forperpetual tax, tied to 1832 loan, on the Montague Exch equer bill s, i n R ussia ' s Canada paper, on Bank of Engla n d secur it y over il A ustralia ' s 9th March 1826, as Earth dependencies, by 1819-23 act duty by Naval lieutenants either on full or half-pay as the criminal Jury pivot of Crown colony Newfoundland Bermuda-tie, (as Saxe ? Banister'd) Deputy Commissioner, Chief Justice F. Forbes, as extended to New South Wales Supreme Court, by sec. 40. So Ackerley has spent, in this case, all his savings, £1,700, to aid & support his Indian coadjutor (all parties being dead) and he, the King's Admiral-Lt., 1820, made to carry the Holy Alliance out'ng of 1825-by Brazils, as the supreme head of all the powers of the 1815 treates by the Pope's agents, as on Pedro the First's total abdica tion through transfer and Papal seal on Exchequer deeds— by Stuart de Rothsay '2B-ia Egypt, its note man of Greece, Trinity and '37 England's J.P, its bearer of the Rod-meter at Vic's N Y_ % Ininater Abbey installation, so yet burden' d to Indian 7_ n Polish guarantee by Derby and Grey's Treasury r ibeunal of the rota adhesion—grounded on Shrewsbury's gore. P acta 1485-88 Show, of the American Indian the Hatters and furriers Guilds. So I if mist a k e for n a ron a compromise of Carib birth-right to innocent — or m has had place, for God's sake visit not the law churches claini Tidal law against any breach of the I edtinever being told that the Civil- TO P c carat t" o rl:7,:i4s special' services, therefore prays (as in Bute-Macartney itdian right of vote, by Juggling : a; f second iene o, Indian chief's life shift), —by as p it a t rtition of Po l self-interested aud n Ch i Sham China's a F P says— ......ACBETR .. - " That palters with us in a double :: Which keeps the w or d of sense, P ::' • . And breaks it to our h ope. 4emise to th e ear 13 PETER BASQUET, he NwPwarr Brantii West Consul-11 yrs wait' g . A fiscal'd-21 yrs n r , , the 'referee ad senatum' elect (on MAY All anliollivtith society, 29th August 1825, on Lord Marcus Hill's Secretaryn of Legation certificate to) C. 'Z ' Ackerley, as England itself, 1-2 Wm. 4, Ne. 54—its East Consul, th e ancient P rrepositi as Parliament Jurats to Chester. At, 5, Swallow-street. London, March 25, 1863. t ' We (Christians) could not enslave the aboriginal Red Indians, or make them useful to us in t cultivation thing of their soil, or amalgamate with them—the only Policy, could do was to exterminate them. This North, South, East, and West, has had plac e till only 350,000 remain in North America.' Yet obliged to r eserve one as the Carib Isle ADgl ° -Spanish scheduled State s oil represen tative.—See Times of 23d Marsh, 1863. II For progress to Three Papal Churches on GLENELG; s S July 1836 order-passage allowance of £ l5O for nin e p ries and £4O each—for 6 males and 6 Roman Catholic fe male teachers to the late ' 1826' George'an Public School trust, —all the colonies being now Roman Catholic, deputy'd by oath under Castlereagh's 1791 mixed union act for it c isles of the so' saving New Shoreham's Christian Club 600ietv 11 Geo. 3, cap. 55 Abolition Act, as repugnant to the common law of England—now rectified. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1863. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEAR CRACOW, April 8. It is astonishing with what persistence the Aus trian Government denies that any Austrian officers or soldiers have been killed by Russian troops. Several Austrian officers and soldiers received Rus sian bullets in their bodies. Perhaps the Govern ment means to say that they died of grief at being unable to extract them. It is quite certain that on the occasion of an Austrian officer being buried a few days ago in Cracow a great number of Poles followed the funeral procession, on the ground that he had fallen in fighting against the enemies of Poland. I also know a person who saw wounded Austrians brought to Bolechowice, a village near the frontier, about ten days ago, after a sharp con flict with a party of Cossacks, who had followed a few insurgents into Galicia. The Czas is pub lished, if not under the censorship strictly so called, at least, under the supervision of the Austrian Government (which confiscates it now and then when it does not like its articles); but yet the Czas day after day gives particulars of these encounters on Austrian territory between Austrian and Rus sian troops. Nor, in the first instance, did the Government officials think of denying their occur rence. The facts were too notorious. Even now it is not probable that any formal denial will be pub lished in Cracow, where many of the wounded men are lying. Such a publication, whatever effect it may have in Vienna, St. Petersburg, or elsewhere, could only excite contempt here. Even if Austrian officers and soldiers had not been killed, what has the Government to say to the fact of peaceable subjects having been robbed, insulted, and wounded while (nominally) under Austrian protection P The Cossacks have plundered Galician villages ; the marks of their bullets may be seen on the walls of Galician country houses; and a Galician lady, the wife of a proprietor who has an estate close to the frontier, has been shot by one of them in the foot. More than once, however, the Russians have found themselves in every sense on the wrong side of the country. Last week the pea sants of a little village in Galicia, close to the fron tier station of Michalowice, caught half a dozen Russian soldiers intent on plunder, disarmed them, beat them, and sent them back well corrected to their " post " on the other side. As the Government does nothing, these lessons froni time to time will be very useful, for the farmyards of the Galician peasant proprietors are well stocked with poultry, which the Cossack fox would like to devour, and their hillsides covered with flocks, from which the Cos sack would gladly carry off a few young lambs. The frontier is now guarded with great strictness, both on the Austrian and Russian side, but the Rus sian posts, though on the whole much stronger are further apart than they were just after the break up of Langiewicz's camp. It is easier now to pass the frontier unperceived than it was a fortnight ago; but if the insurgents meet with a Russian detach ment it is less easy than it used to be to overpower it. Indeed the Russians are in such force opposite Cracow and between Cracow and Tarnow that the next expeditions from Galicia to the Kingdom will probably cross the frontier much further to the east. If the Russians draw their troops towards Eastern Galicia I need hardly say that they will be attacked in the West. For some time to come there will be few points at which they will not be vulnerable. Proprietors continue to arrive in Cracow from the Kingdom. They have no choice but to leave their estates for the present, or join the insurrection, and run the chance of losing them altogether. If they remain they know that a price has been set upon their heads, and that the first band of peasants which chooses to arrest them may sell them to the police at the rate of five roubles a head. Even should they escape the Russian soldiers, they would be tolerably sure to fall victims to the denunciations of their own peasants. This state of things at the first glance seems but little creditable to the Polish proprietors, but it must be remembered that the " peasant" in Poland is neither a farmer nor a labourer. He holds a certain portion of land from which he cannot be ejected, and for which he is supposed (under exist ing arrangements not likely to last) to pay rent. He believes—and is encouraged in this belief by the Government—that the rent is extorted from him by the " nobles," whom the Government at the same time affects to regard, and for its own purposes does regard, as the owners of the whole estate. Let the British Government send officials into Ireland to in form the small tenant-farmers day after day and year after year that their farms belong to them in alienably, and that it is a great shame to make them pay rent, and the attitude of the peasant towards the proprietor would be infinitely more hostile in Ireland than it is at the present moment in the king dom of Poland. I hear Polish proprietors and Poles of all classes congratulating themselves on the fact that, in spite of the provocations and inducements held out by the Russian Government, the Galician massacres of 1846 are not being imitated in the Kingdom. The Polish peasant, being a degraded animal, seizes his landlord and sells him for five roubles to the police, who imprison as an insurgent everyone brought to them and denounced as such. But the Polish pea sant is only degraded to a certain point. He knows that his landlord wishes him no harm, and is not prepared to take his life in order to curry favour with the Russian officials. Robbery without, or, if absolutely necessary, with violence, is more in his line; he has gone so far as that, but has not hitherto steeped his hands in blood. However, all persons are agreed that it is dangerous, and even ridiculous to venture across the frontier, inasmuch as every one who wears a black coat is considered fair game by the peasants, and looked upon as a good five roubles' worth. Some sanguine-minded Poles still endeavour to persuade themselves and others that the peasants of the Kingdom are inclined to take part with the insurrection, though they have given up numbers of insurgents to the authorities, and while volunteering to inform the Russians as to the movements of the Polish troops have seldom been prevailed upon to communicate any intelli gence whatever to their own countrymen as to the position of the Russians. On the other hand, the labourers, farm servants, domestic servants of all kinds, and generally all who have been brought under the personal influence of the proprietors, sympathise with the insurrection, and in numerous cases have joined it. 1 fancy there has not been a single instance of a peasant-proprie tor taking part in the national movement. It is even considered a grand thing for peasant of this class to have made successful efforts to defend his landlord's house from pillage, and an honest rustic named Ukraini, who distinguished himself in this manner, has become so popular that his photograph is to be seen in all the print shops of Cracow. A French correspondent informs the Spectator that the Emperor really intends to be elected at once to the Institute, and that M. Guizot will propose his election by acclamation. This dispenses with the irksome necessity of a canvass for individual votes. The ground of claim will be the "Idees Napoleoniennes," and not the " Life of Caesar," and the Emperor will be elected by about 35 votes out of 40. The claim in itself is not an unfair one, the Emperor being, after all criticism, a very remarkable thinker, and we question if learned bodies ate injured by contact with the actual life of the nation. It is the intru sion of the Emperor by force, the smashing of locks with the sceptre which the Academy should resist, and to which yield. Eprnoeugtelldxishmen of th e same ca lib re would certainly never M. G t certainly a diensl u tyr i z obs o e t: n s agt t a t r r hi g be u ul m t: d e s n t it t to , u dt we a a eff r ie e tch t t e o i or ! bya s nthati great en e ai f ts u h s a a in creasel of numbers, or by applying the law relative to asso ciations, THE FATAL FIGHT AT HACKNEY MARSHES.—On an official i nquiry was gone into by the Commissioners of Poli ce , at the office in Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall, to investigate the circumstances con nected with the late prize fight Which took place en Easter Monday last in Hackney Marshes, and the police-officer of the district, where the contest Was carried on for an hour and a half, has been suspended from duty. AMERICA. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Saxonia, Captain Ehers, arrived off Cowes on Saturday. She left New York at 6 a.m. on the 6th inst. She brings 12 passengers for Southampton, 28 for Havre, and 103 for Hamburg. O❑ freight she has in specie 114,000 dols. for England, 13,000 for France. and 4,655 for Hamburg. Sha encoun tered severe weather the first three days of her pas sage ; in lat. 43.39 N., 'Org. 47.18 W., and saw several large icebergs. The royal mail steamship Asia, from New York on the Bth, has also arrived with 75 passengers, 150,900 dols. and £530 in specie. The following summary of news, under date New York, April 5 evening, is brought by the Saxonia : A severe gale and — snow storm prevailed on the Rappahannock yesterday. There is nothing new transpiring there. Generals Hampton and Fitz hugli Lee are said to be at Culpepper with a Confe derate force of 2,500 men. The news from Vicksburg is not encouraging. The movement on Haines Bluff proved a failure, and the Federal fleet and transports had returned to Young's Point. Gen. Grant had succeeded in plac ing,a battery of 84-pounder Parrotts beyond the levee, in a position to easily reach Vicksburg, and was about to open the bombardment on the 27th, when it was postponed in consequence of a storm. The attack on Fort Pemberton recommenced on the 27th by the gunboats Baron de Klib and Chilli cothe. The result is not known. Indications point to the abandonment of the Yazoo Pass expedition. A fleet of 12 transports, just out of the Pass, were ordered to return empty. There are 300 boats now at Young's Point. A despatch from Cairo, of the 4th, says the water still continues to pour through the cut at Lake Pro vidence. Nearly all the town is submerged. The troops have been compelled to move their encampments further up the river. The health of the troops is good ; but the " buf falo gnats" are said to be killing large numbers of the Government horses. It is now believed that all the expeditions, in cluding the one down the Yazoo Pass, have returned to Young's Point. The bulletin says that the Federal battery oppo site Vicksburg has silenced a rebel battery on the opposite shore. - A St. Louis despatch says that the Confederates have withdrawn a large part of their force from the front to the rear of Vicksburg, anticipating that the Federals will attack them via Yazoo Pass or Haine's Bluff. Yazoo City and Greenwood have been strength ened by the Confederates, who have moved their guns from the river front to the rear of Vicksburg. Daring a high wind the Confederate gunboat Vicksburg broke from her moorings, floated down the stream, and was captured by Farragut's vessel. Despatches from General Curtis, St. Louis, state that a band of Confederate guerillas captured the boats Murdock and Sam Gatty, and that Colonel King pursued the enemy, and after two engage ments completely routed them. The Federal forces succeeded in breakin g up a Confederate camp, with 600 men, n e a r W oo db ury, on the Ist inst. The Confederates were dispersed, and fled over the hills. A number were killed and wounded, 30 were captured, together with 50 horses, a number of mules, four waggons, and the rebel camp. The enemy are gathering in large force on the Tennessee river above Florence, and are building floats to cross the river, with a view probably to reinforce the army at Vicksburg. It is understood that no further efforts will be made to raise negro regiments in the free States. A mass convention of the union leagues of New Jersey will be held in Trenton on the 16th inst. No business of importance was transacted in either branch of the legislature yesterday; both houses adjourned early in the day. Gold was not very active yesterday, but was firmer, selling up to 1552, and closing at 155, bid. Stocks were generally better, with some irregularity in the movement. Exchange was about 170 at the close; money was extremely easy-5 to 6 per cent. for call loans. The following summary of news by the Asia is dated New York, the evening of the 7th April:— Considerable excitement has prevailed here since Sunday, caused by reports contained in Southern journals, that the Federals had landed in force at Seabrooks, John's Island, near Charleston, and driven in the Confederate pickets, and that the attrck by the Federal naval and military forces upon Charleston had commenced. The .nichmond Examiner, of the 2d inst., however, states thst the Federals had not l an d ed in f orce , as reported, and that nothing but skirmishing between scouting parties had occurred on Seabrooks Island. The Northern correspondents report that a Federal re giment occupied Cole's Island, nine miles from Charleston, without opp os ition. A. general attack was not expected before this week. The reported evacuation of Richmond is now denied. The Confederates have marched a large force to Washington, North Carolina, and it is supposed they have engaged the Federals under General Foster. It is rumoured that General Lee is in the She nandoah Valley. All the Federal expeditions intended to reach the rear of Vicksburg, by way of Sunflower river and Yazoo Pass, have been abandoned. The military situation in Tennessee is unchanged. The report of the committee on the conduct of the war is considered by the democratic journals as a partisan report to injure M'Clellan. The repub lican journals consider that the report shows con clusively M'Clellan's incapacity. The New York Times thinks that M'Clellan did not favour a war policy, but sympathised with the peace party, and this was the key to his extraordinary procrastina tion and inefficiency. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued strin gent orders regarding commercial intercourse with the insurrectionary States. The purchase of cotton with gold is forbidden, and military officers are forbidden to trade. The Southern journals say that the peace party were about to introduce a peace resolution which would probably pass one house of Congress before the adjournment. In Connecticut a republican governor and repub licaß state officers have been elected. Three out of the four republican nominees for Congress have been elected, and the legislature is also strongly repub lican. The democrats lose one member of Con gress. The governor's majority is 3,000, b e i ng a repub lican loss of 6,000 since last year. The British prize steamer Aries has arrived at New York. She was captured 30 miles north of Charleston. The schooner Sae has been captured off Wilmington. The British frigate Rinaldo sailed from Hampton Road on the sth inst. The following additional intelligence is to the morning of the Bth : It is officially announced from Washington that the Federal fleet of gunboat s an d i ron . c l a d s l e f t Port Royal on Wednesday last, and would reach the scene of operations at Charleston on Thursday night. A Federal officer returned from Richmond states that he witnessed in that city a bread riot, in which 3,000 women were engaged. They broke open the government stores and took what they wanted. The military were unable to check the riot. President Davis and others made conciliatory speeches, and order was restored. According to some reports the Federals are still confronting the Confederates at Fort Pemberton, but no attack has been made. A report, considered unworthy of credence, has reached New York limn New Orleans, that the Confederates had commenced to evacuate Port Hudson. General Rosncrans officially reports that Mor gan's guerillas had been encountered at Snow Hill, and defeated by General Stanley. Morgan's forces escaped with their artillery. The negro expedition has evacuated Jacksonville, Florida, and, after burning the town, returned to Port Royal. The Federal gunboats on the Tennessee river have been driven back by the Confederates. Un successful efforts were made by the Fedcrats to land at Tuseumbra. A large meeting has been held in N&w York in aid of the distress in Ireland. General M'Clellan and Archbishop Hughes addressed the meeting. A large democratic meeting has also been held at which resolutions were passed denouncing the ad ministration, declaring the war as now conducted a failure and demanding peace. The administration could not conquer the South if they would, and would not if they could. Therefore the democracy favoured peace and conciliation as the only means to restore the Union. They demand a change of measures not for separation but for restoration. Fernando Wood declared that until the confer• ences were opened it was impossible for anyone to say whether, under such circumstances the South would or would not listen to negotiations looking to reunion. Speeches were made declaring it to be insanity to suppose that the South ever could be conquered. President Lincoln is now visiting the army of the Potomac. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says : Our Government has information that powerful steam rams are now being built on the Thames and the Mersey. The probabilities now are that no action will be taken at present under the law authorising the President to grant letters of marque and reprisal, and that none will be granted except in certain contingencies not now regarded as likely to arise. The question of what diplomatic or other proceedings may be necessary to prevent the construction and sailing of vessels of war and blockade runners for the rebels is still undetermined. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, April 7, Evening. Money easy. Gold, 501 per cent. prem. Ex change on London : Bankers' Bills, 167; stocks dull; New York Centrals, 116; Illinois, 89; Erie, 76i ; United States Bonds, Five per Cents., 974 ; do. Six per Cent., 1041. Cotton quiet. Middling Uplands, 68c. to 71c. Flour dull and 10c. lower ; wheat dull ; corn declining. Provisions dull ; coffee, good inquiry; sugar and molasses quiet; crude petroleum, 20. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. ROCHE'S POINT, April 18, 8.30 p.m. The Asia has brought udvices from New York to the 7th inst. NEW YORK, April 7. It was confidently announced yesterday morning that the bombardment of Charleston had com menced, that Federal troops had landed in force on John's Island, and that after a short struggle the city had been captured. Gold declined 6 per cent. on tt.e faith of this announcement. Its truth being afterwards greatly doubted, gold rose again from 1491. to 154 This morning it was stated, on the authority of telegraphic despatches from Charleston of the 2d to the Richmond Examiner of the 3d, that no landing of Federal troops had been effected on John's Island, and that nothing had occurred but a slight skirmish between the scouts of, a Federal gunboat and the Confederate pickets. Gold in con sequence maintained itself at the higher rate. There is no news from Vicksburg, Port Hudson, or the Army of the Cumberland. The President and Mrs. Lineoln visited General Hooker, at his quarters on the Rappahannock, on Saturday, but the weather was so severe and the mud so deep that the grand review in honour of the visit was countermanded, and Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln returned to Washington. The joint Committee of both HouEes of Congress on the conduct of the war have presented their re port. It censures General M'Clellan's whole mili tary course since his appointment to the command of the Army of the Potomac, and points to him as the cause of the failure of the army to take Rich mond. General Burnside's plans for dislodging the Confederates of Fredericksburg subsequently to his defeat in December, are declared to have been thwarted by the interference of the President, who gave ear to prejudicial statements against General Burnside from subordinate officers, and counter manded his orders for an advance. The report con cludes by stating the belief of the Committee that the rebellion can be subdued only by fighting, and their confidence that the present campaign will produce decisive victories to the Federal arms, The defeat of Langiewicz and the reported close of the Polish insurrection are much regretted, not for the sake of the Poles but for the supposed dan ger cf renewed offers of mediation or intervention by France and Great Britain and the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. The President is still urged by a section of the Cabinet to issue letters of marque, but persistenly refuses, legit he should increase the difficulties of the Republic and imperil its friendly relations with the maritime Powers of Europe, _ _ The elections in Connecticut, as in Rhode Island, have resulted in the triumph of the Republican candidates. The British steamer Aries, captured on the 28th ult., while attempting to run into Bull Bay, South Carolina, has arrived at this port, on her way to Boston. She had on board a cargo of coffee, salt, and lead. A Federal prisoner released on parole reports that a mob of 3,000 women, armed with clubs and stones, assembled on Thursday, the 2d inst., and broke open the Government stores, taking away bread and clothing and whatever else they required. Mr. Jefferson Davis and other high officials addressed the crowd, and succeeded with some difficulty in persuading it to disperse. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold closes at 151 ; United States' Sixes, 1881, 1041 ; Treasury 7.30 Notes, 10 5 ; New York Cen tral Railway, 115- 4 ,- ; Erie, 77 ; Illinois Central, 89. Cotton dull ; middling uplands, 700. to 72c. Breadstuffs unchanged. Provisions very dull. Sugars firm, with fair inquiry for raw. Wednesday Morning, April 8. Postscript.—The town of Jacksonville, Florida, has been burnt by the Federal forces under Colonel Rust. General Rosecrans telegraphs to the War Depart ment, under date of the 6th, that General Stanley has defeated a Confederate or guerilla force under General Morgan, at Snowhil), capturing about 50 prisoners. At a meeting for the relief of the distress in Ire land, held last night at the Acuferny of Music, General M'Clellan was loudly called for. Ho de clared that all the energies, all the thoughts, all the means, and, if necessary, the last drop of the blood of the people, would be given to maintain the unity of the nation. At the close of his speech three cheers w ere given for "President . " George E, Clellan. The Asia takes out 150,900 dols. an d £ 537 13s. 6d. A m ERICAN MAIL.—The British North America❑ Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Muir, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston. Besides t h e mails she took out a full cargo, and had about 80 first class passengers, and 120 emigrants sent out to Palifax by Miss Burdett Coutts. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. PRICE..." -...4d. STAMPED ....sd. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, had a levee on Thursday at the Admiralty, Whitehall, at which the following officers attended : —Rear-Admiral G. G. Wellesley, C. 8., Capt. 3. E. Kason, Capt. C. H. M. Buckle, C. 8., Capt. E. Ifeatheote, Capt. H. Christian, Capt. E. D. Aplin, Capt. W. J. C. Clifford, Capt. J. F. Birch, Capt. N. E. B. Turnour, Command( r 0. M. C. Read, Caro mender D. G. Davidson. Commander S. P. Brett, Commander E C. Symons, Commander E. T. Not t, Commander T. P. Warren, Commander A. H. W. Battisct mbe, Commander A. Butler, Commander W. H. Jones, Commander A. C. F. Henage, Lieut. J. P Cheyne, Lieut. P. H. Colomb, Lieut. H. T. Gammell, Lieut. H, A. Clevering, Capt. P. Har rington, R.M., and the Rev. L. Graham, chaplain. On Saturday the Lords of the Admiralty paid an official visit to Chatham dockyard for the purpose of ascertaining the progress made in building and fitting the iron and iron-casedvessels now under con struction or preparing for sea at that establishment. The members of the Board present were Rear-Ad miral C. Eden, C. 8., Rear-Admiral C. Frederick, Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8.. Rear-Admi ral Spencer Robinson, Controller of the Navy, and Capt. A. P. Ryder, private secretary to the First Lord. The Duke of Somerset, the senior member of the Board, together with Lord Clarence Paget, the Secretary of the Admiralty, had also intended being present, but were both detained at the Admi ralty by pressing business. Their Lordships reached the dockyard shortly after 11, and were received by Captain Fanshawe, superintendent of the establishment; Commander Pope, master attendant ; Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder; Mr. Laws, principal storekeeper; Mr. Churchward, principal store receiver; Superintendent Richardson, and the other heads of departments. Imme diately on their arrival the members of the Board proceeded down the yard to the Queen's stairs, where they embarked on board the Admi ralty steam barge 'Wildfire, M. Brockman, master commander, and steamed down the harbour to Folly Point for the purpose of making an inspection of the Royal Oak, 34, 800 horse power, iron plated frigate, which is now being rapidly brought for ward for her first cruise at sea. They spent nearly fwo hours on board, during which they inspected every part of the vessel, over which they were con ducted by Capt. F. A. Campbell, who has been ap pointed to this ship. There were 500 hands em ployed about the Royal Oak in preparing her for sea. Should it become necessary this number will be in creased, in order that no delay may arise in sending this vessel to join the other ships composing the iron squadron, in order to test her sailing and steaming capabilities. Capt. Campbell will hoist his pendant on board on the 27th inst., immediately after which her officers will be appointed, while her crew, a fine body of picked men, have been for some time waiting to be sent on board from the naval barracks. Their lordships inspected every portion of this fine frigate, including the engine rooms, cabins, ward rooms, and men's berths, all of which are being completed as rapidly as circumstances will permit. From the energy with which the work is being per formed on board, there appears nothing to prevent the Royal Oak being fully equipped and in all re spects ready for sea in about a month. Her stores are on board, and she only awaits the shipment of her 100-pounder and 40-pounder Armstrongs, as well as her 68-pounder and 95cwt. smoothbore guns. From the length of time she has been lying in har bour, it is probable that she will be decked either at Chatham or Portsmouth, to clear off any accumula tions on her bottom before being despatched to sea. After completing their inspection of the Royal Oak, the Lords of the Admiralty re-embarked in the Wil dfire, and returned to the dockyard. After luncheon at the official residence of Capt. Fanshawe, in the dockyard, the members of the Board, accompanied b - all the leading officials of the establishment, pro ceeded to the Achilles. The number of bands em ployed on her is 1,2C0 of all trades, and the progress made in her construction is daily perceptible. The 20 inch teak planking, on which the armour plates will be placed, has been carried some 200 ft. on both of her broadsides. About 70 plates have been already bolted to her sides. Their lordships directed that no exertions are to be spared to have this vessel com pleted by the earliest possible day. In order to give full effect to these instructions, the whole of the hands employed on the Achilles will to-day com mence entering the yard at a few minutes before 6 in the morning and continue working till dark, with only a brief interval for meals, which arrangement will be continued during the whole of the summer. After leaving the Achilles the Lords of the Admi ralty proceeded to No. 1 shed, under which the pad dlewheel steamer Salamis, 4, 250 horse power, is building. This, it may be remarked, is the only wooden vessel in hand at Chatham Dockyard. After May 19, when she is to be launched, every hand connected with the dockyard will be employed either in the building, fitting, or repair of iron ships. Their lordships next visited the dock in which the iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, has been some time under repair. Their lordships concluded their tour of inspection by visiting the shed under which the fine 51 gun wooden frigate Belvidera is in frame. This vessel was commenced about four years since, but for the past three years not a single hand has been employed on her. The Lords of the Admiralty have, however, now decided on converting her into an armour-clad frigate of the Royal Oak class, ac cording to a plan submitted to them by Mr. Lang, master shipwright at Chatham. She will accord ingly be taken in hand immediately the workmen now employed on the Royal Oak have been released from that vessel. Owing to the slip on which the Belvidera is now lying being not sufficiently capa cious, and not furnished with the requisite machinery for building an iron-plated ship, it is intended to take that vessel to pieces and reconstruct her on No. 7 slip, the same as that on which the Royal Oak was built. This, however, will necessitate little additional expense or delay, as to adapt her for an armour-clad ship it will be necessary to cut the Belvidera asunder amidships and haul up the fore part some 40 or 50 feet, in order to _make that ad dition to her length—an operation which will beo avoided during the process of reconstructing breadth the required addition to her length and t b Their of beam will be made without d I lordships having transacted dockyard the Captain-Superintendent It o ffi . cti t he ea n y e . s s w ith before four o'clock, a few for the Admiralty shortly e r left the establishment. minutes before the workm vr steam l ine-of-battle ship Her Majesty's Conqueror (late tons, 500 Nar sc a r t e e . r 100 ), 86, John 2 ,845 C. Solfleet, horse power, from her moorings in Master la Charge was on Friday taken off Maplin Sheer ness lifirbour to the measured mile San d e for trial of her machinery, aft er b e i ng brought forward and placed in the first division o f the steam reserve some months ago. Th e vessel wa s in charge of Capt. T. P. Th ompson, of the steam reserve—Messrs. W. Rumble, inspector of machinery afloat, and G. Blaxland, chief engineer of her Maj esty ' s dockyard at Sheerness, having charge of and superintending the working of the machinery. The True results of the trial are as follovi : mean speed at full boiler power, 9 935 knots ; half boiler power, 8'126 knots per hour ; revolutions, maximum 63, mean 61 3 per minute ; vacuum, fore 241, aft. 23; draught of water, fore 23ft., aft 24ft. 9in. ; temperature en deck 58 deg., engine-room 74, stokehole, maximum, 104, mmitnunt 94. The circle was made at full boiler power, with helm port 17 deg., in 6 min. 30 sec.; revolutions, 54 per minute; the diameter of circle being 600 yards at half boiler power, with helm starboard 20 deg., in 6 min. 47 sec,, revolu tions 50 per min., diameter 400 yards. The half circle was turned at full speed in 4 min. 29 sec., and lat half speed in 3 min. 40 sec. She is fitted with Griffith's propeller, pitch 20ft., but variable from The armour-plated screw steamship Resistance, 16, Captain Chamberlain, went on Friday from Hamoaze into Pl 3 mouth Sound. She received her powder on Saturday, aria is vow ready for sea. She will probably leave to-day (Monday) Dr to-morrow (Tuesday) for Portsmouth to be docked. he screw steam gun-vessel Sparrow, 5, Com. the Hon. E. Cochrane, left Plymouth Sound, on Saturday, for her station, the West Coast of Africa. The iron-screw steam gun vessel Tien Sion, Com. Nicholas, belonging to the Emperor of China, which left Plymouth on Saturday morning for China, calling at Falmouth, returned in the afternoon to her moorings in Barn pool. The iron screw steam transport Orontes, 3, re cently built for the Admiralty by Nfessi - s. Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, was taken outside Ply mouth breakwater en Tnurkdiy to test her engines and machinery. The trial was under the supervision of Capt. Astley, C. Key, C. 8., and Mr. A. Dinnen, in spector of machinery from the guardship of steam reserve Indus, in HallloBZe ; Mr. James Steil, R.N., assistant to the chief engineer at Keyham steam yard; and Mr. James Edwards, assistant-master shipwright of Devonport Dockyard. Mr. Schoales represented the manufacturers of the machinery, Messrs. Watt and Co., of London -street, city. The weather was very fine. The Orontes, which is built entirely of iron and has her lower mast stepped, has a burden of 2,812 tons, and draws 17ft. llin. aft and 17ft. 3in. forward. The engines, direct act ing, are 500-horse power nominal, but were worked up to 2,020 horse power ; cylinders horizontal; dia meter 31in ; stroke, )6in. The screw shaft is about 110 ft. long by 13in. diameter. The screw is Grif fith's shifting ; diameter, 18ft ; pitch, 25ft. The mean speed obtained from six runs was 13.292 knots, which, when it is recollected that the ship has been in the water since the beginning of De cember, and that her bottom cannot consequently be clean, is considered very fair. The maximum num ber of revolutions is 63 per minute ; the mean num ber of revolutions at full power 64 ; the pressure is 251 b. to the square inch. There were no indications of hot bearings or of priming. The engines of the Orontes are similar to those of the Prince Regent, Sanspareil, and Barossa, by the same makers. This transport has accommodation for 1,150 troops. The trial under steam appears to confirm the anticipa tions of her good qualities for speed expressed when she was launched on Nov. 22d last at Birkenhead. She will probably be put in commission at an early period. The surviving officers and crew of the Orpheus arrived on board the Victory, at Portsmouth, on Friday evening. They arrived at Portsmouth by Southampton steampacket from the Peninsular and Oriental Mail Company's mail steamship Ellora, which arrived the same day at that port from Malta. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander H. E. G. Earle, to be an Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Commander Fletcher, whose period of service has expired ; Lieut. F. C. Law and Lieut. John Shortt, to the Valorous ; Lieut. E. B. Wadlow and Lieut. Francis Stirling, to the Exce llent ; Lieut. J. F. Lenow, to the Resistance ; Lieut. E. Drummond, to the Leander; Lieut. 0. H. Parker, to the Euryalns; A. J. Armstrong, master, to the Cumberland, for the Cossack ; Stephen Spain, master, to the Royal Adelaide ; Henry T. Ellis, master, to the Corn wallis; W. B. Shellabear, master, to the Indus, for the Orontes ; T. A. Watkins and S. A. Hamilton, midshmen, to the Victory ; G. A. J. Macdonnell, midshipman, to the Nile ; H. F. H. Hallett and G. H. R. Willis, midshipmen, to the Revenge ; Piers Warburton, nominated to a naval cadetship; E. A. M. Chaffers, assist. paymaster, to the Canopus; W. H. Whichelo, assist. paymaster, to the Hanni bal; T. Bullions, chief engineer, to the Hannibal; W. Wotton, chief engineer, to the Leander; R. W. Hultord, engineer, to the Leander ; John Etherington and William Skelton, assist.-engi neers, to the Hannibal ; William B. Cottam, J. WendoVer, and G. Fordham, assist.-engineers, to the Leander; C. F. Hulford, assist-engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Aretbusa ; J. Forster, assist. engineer, to the Indus, for the Aurora ; Charles G. T. Cater, William R. Fos, John L. Veitch, and Edwin W. G. Hilliard, masters'-assists., to the Leander; Malcolm Merrett, master's-assist., to the Lizard ; Charles G. Ansell, assist-clerk, to the Han nibal; and Charles F. Gahan, assist.-clerk, to the Canopus. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the field Marshal Command ing-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Wed nesday next, the 22d inst. The Adjutant-General, Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, has issued a circular memorandum, dated Horse Guards, April 1, in which his Royal Highness the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief directs,— " That all regiments of the infantry of the line at homo and in the colonies (with the exception of those in New Zealand, Australia, China, and Ce y lon, and the battalions under orders for India) shall be divided as follows, viz., 10 service companies, 3 field officers, 10 captains, 11 lieu tenants, 9 ensigns, 5 staff, 48 sergeants (exclusive of school master), 21 drummers and buglers, 40 corporals, and 640 privates; 2 depot companies, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 10 sergeants, 4 drummers and buglers, 10 corporals, and 110 privates. Total 800 corporals and privates. The regiments in the West Indies and Bermuda—viz., the Ist battalions of the 14th and 21st, and 39th Regiment, have an additional assistant-surgeon. Highland regiments have a pipe major and five pipers, in addition to their establish ment. The regiments in New Zealand, Australia, China, and Ceylon—viz., Ist battalion 12th Foot, 2d battalions 14th and 18th Foot, 31st, 40th, 50th, 67th, 70th, and 99th Regi ments—are to be thus distributed :-10 service companies, 3 field officers, 10 captains, 11 lieutenants, 9 ensigns, staff 6, 48 sergeants (exclusive of schoolmaster), 21 drummers and buglers, 40 corporals, and 730 privates; 2 depot com panies, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 10 sergeants, 4 drummers and buglers, 10 corporals, and 120 privates; total, 900 cerporals and privates." Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointniento, in the Civil Service• --- - ' --- to_,, b e a clerk in the WAR-OFFICE.—AIr H. Cornwa. "se f h pamersra, in the place of Commander- in-Chiers office. Beaumont, of the Chan 01'110E- 41r COLONIAL to be Chief Justice o eery bar, Mewl K.C.B. the late Sir W. Arr NI ' Tamesßeeb y,deputy accountant. Tire A DurBALTY -- r. , of the nav y, to beaccountant - general, in succession genera. Bromle y, K t o Sir Ri c hard IU. . e ~ B.—and M r Whiff en, chief clerk of tho cash account section, to be , deputy ac' countant-general. c v sToMs—Mr Richard E. w Gleado o h o ., out-door officers, H u ll — m r Al , f lora sth to 4th to 3d class, out-doorfred Corneby, from 4th officers, shall, from 2d to 1 Hull—and M r R o b er t Mar- , Hartlepool. st class, out-door officers, West INLAND P REVENUE —S tamps Boulger tamps and Tax Bran c h—M r B. A. to be extra clerk the Income-tax Department— and Mr All en to be in r a William Henry collection Mason, dropped o o c f 6 c e r g Reading, 4th division, Reading of Coventry, 4th division, Coventry collecti to be officer on—Mr Joseph er p eaoock, first. class assistant, Cork, 6th division, Cork col lection, to be officer of Reading ride, Reading collection-- Mr Peter Brenen, dropped officer, Bath, sth division, Bath collection, to be officer of Sarum, 3d division, Sarum collection—Mr John Skinner, officer, Bridgend, 2d division, Argyll collection, to be officer of Stowmarket, 3d division, Suffolk collection—Mr Joseph Hughes, officer, Ballinasloe, 2d ride, Athlone collection, to be officer of Bridgend, 2d division, Argyll collection—Mr William Thurston, officer, Chichester, Ist ride, Hants collection, to be officer of Bail sham rids, Susstx collection—Mr Patrick Murray, first class assistant, Co k, sth division, Cork collection, to be officer of Chichester, Ist ride, Hants collection —Mr Belnlejea: min Darling, officer, Wirksworth ride , Nottinghainactoion. tion, to be o ffi cer of She ffi eld, Ist ride, She ffi eld co lee B.,;sim. EAST INDlES—Lieutenant O. E. Erskine, to be a j n . mar. tent-commissioner of the third aiss in Oud professor of the Civil principal tin, 8.A., to o ffi ciate as anPdresiM J. W. Eng veering Colleg a at the Bengalat a rofessor in the Bengal J. Stephenson, B.A ,to officiate, p h• 'iv -waster in the to be e ippi Presidency—Mr C Burban k , , , hl r officiating magistrate of Calcutta —Mr W. MCe y, magistrate and collector port o to act as and collector of JollDpOr , M• R i c k e tts, C. 13., to act as ma. of Mirza pore—Mr Cf li. • ere—the Rev. D. Bellam te and collector of Joupp y gietrasuccession to ur in Mr Ho rs b ur ,g to be chapl a in of Pesha sv —the Rev. J. P. 't arris, to be chaplain of IJinTl sur,—. 1 H Civil 'Service G.fet____,_.,.....___,....____. A tenth edition is announced in Paris of Le Fils a y, G a o yer, of which 50,000 copies ate said to have been, Bold already.