The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

IMPERTA T 1 PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—Last Evening. This being Ascension Day their lordships did not as- semble. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEA.ILER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER —ANTRIM. Mr. O'NEILL took the oaths and his seat. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time :—Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown. Improvement—Cork and Yonghal Railway—Cowes and Newport Railway— Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway—Saffion Walden Railway Bill—Teign Valley Railway—Tramore Embank ment. PETITIONS. By Mr. NORRIS against the amalgamation of the metro politan city police ; Mr. HENLEY against the sale of intoxi cating liquors on the Sabbath; Mr. HEADLAM, to the same effect; Mr. WHALLEY against the Prison Ministers Bill. SIR WM. WISEMAN, R.N., AND HIS DISTANT COMMAND. Sir. F. SMITH askedth;SeCietary to the Admiralty, whether there was any truth in the report that Captain Sir William Wiseman, R.N., who was lately Vice-Presi dent of the Ordnance Select Committee, was about to be sent to a distant command. He had no desire, in asking the question, to cast any imputation on the gallant officer He confessed, however, he was surp rised that he sho u l d have ,been appointed to so distant a command, looking at the position he had recently held. Lord C. PAGET replied that Sir W. Wiseman had been offered and accepted the commodoreship on the Australian station. He was a very able and gallant officer, and he could assure his hon. and gallant friend that the Admiralty had no intention, in offering him the appointment, of shelv ing him, because, strictly speaking, he had not yet served his full time. TILE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. Mr. DAWSON asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any detailed report had been made to that department of the loss of the Anglo-Saxon steam ship from Londonderry to Quebec, on the 27th April, and whether the circumstances of that lamentable event were correctly stated in the public press; also, whether the Government had ever refused permission for the use of Daboll's fog trumpet upon Cape Race in Newfoundland ; and, if so, what were the grounds for such refusal? He desired to re mind the right hon. gentleman that three wrecks had already taken place on that coast,. Mr. M. GIBSON replied that no detailed statements or reports had yet reached the Board of Trade with respect to the wreck of the Anglo Saxon. The official pa, titulars with respect to that melancholy event would not arrive until the next mail. It appeared that last year the Associated Press of New York put forth a proposal to erect a fog signal on Cape Race, but neither the colonial authorities nor the j Rome Government deemed it well to entrust the work to the execution of foreigners. But the Board of Trade had urged upon the steam ship owners interested in the navigation of the waters off Cape Race the propriety of erecting some adequate fog signals upon that important beach. The Board of Trade had the power of erecting fog sig nals on points that appeared to required them, and of taxing ships passing for the cost of maintaining them. It appeared, however, with respect to Cape Race, that the shipowners had not cared to incur the expense of erecting the suggested light. It was usual to communicate to shipowners the intention of the Board of Trade to erect lights. It was not, however, quite certain that the fog signal specified was a good one. The United States had reported that it promised well, but they did not go the length of saying that it was sufficiently good to be erected on an important point like Cape Race. It was also under the consideration of the Trinity House. At Holyhead, on one of the adjacent hills, a grin was fired at intervals in foggy weather which could be heard at four mile' distance, and it was a gun that the Board of Trade had proposed to erect at Cape Race. The subject was, however, under the consideration of the Trinity House. Mr. DAWSON inquired if there would be an official inquiry into the causes of the disaster ? Mr. M. GIBSON could not reply to the question until the subject came officially before his department. PRISON MINISTERS BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered and agreed to, with the addition of an amendment by Mr. HENLEY, and the bill ordered to be read a third time. VOLUNTEERS BILL. The Marquis of lIARTINGTON moved the second reading of this bill, and explained its provisions. The bill was based upon the recommendation of the late Volunteer Commission. In the recent estimates, £198,000 was unanimously voted without any opposition in aid of the volunteer force, testifying that Parliament and the public considered that some additional aid ought to be given to this important service. The noble lord explained the qualifications that would be requisite in order to entitle corps to a share in the grant so voted by Parlia ment. It was proposed in the future to allow 20s. a year to each volunteer, and 10s. extra for proficiency in ball practice. This year it was proposed to allot 158. to each foot, and 20s. for each mounted rifleman. He paid a high complement to the efficiency and equipment of the volunteers, which now numbered 150,000 well trained men, who in the event of the country being in danger would corstitute an efficient body for its defence. The Govern ment claimed no credit for the present condition of the vo lunteers, as it had spontaneously risen out of the chivalrous feeling of the people. It owed most of its success to the unwearied exertions of Lord Elcho. (Hear, hear.) All the Government had done was to foster the movement, and to give it all the legitimate assistance in its power. Major EDWARDS said the bill would be generally ac ceptable to the volunteers. Col. FRENCH said he should in committee take the sense of the house as to whether Ireland should not partici pate in the grant, and have a volunteer force of its own, as in former times, when the body constituted a great support to the regular army. Sir J. SHELLEY hoped it would never be forgotten that the force was thoroughly voluntary, and trusted ne rigid unalterable rules would be forced upon them. If so, the existence of the volunteer force would be endangered. Regimental orders should, in the first instance, :emanate from the War-office, subject to the adaptation by the corps to the particular circumstances of each. He should propose a few amendments in committee. ' Colonel DUNNE supported the bill, and suggested that the proper time to enter upon a discussion of the details was when the bill was in committee. The bill was then read a second time. THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL. Upon the motion to go into committee on this bill, Mr. CRAWFORD wished to call the attention of the house to some suggestions which had been put forward by a committee, of which he was one, appointed by the corpo ration of the City of London to inquire into the subject of continuing those duties. The General Improvement Fund was by the Act of 1862 declared to remain in existence until 1872. The wine duties were but small, but the coal metage dues granted to the corporation in ancient times, and con• firmed by the charter of James 1., was 4d. a ton. Then there was another duty of 8d per ton levied under several Acts of Parliament,and a further duty of ld per ton granted for the purpose of erecting the Coal Exchange and for general improvements in the neighbourhood. By the Act of 1862 the Improvement Fund was formed for the purpose of the Thames embankment and for general improvements, and the bill then before the house proposed to continue the duties forming that fund another 10 years beyond 1872. By the Act of 1862 the 4d duty was reserved for improve.. ments in the City, such as at Holborn-hill, &c., and the other 9d was to be held at the disposal of the Metropolitan Board of Works, for the embankment of the Thames and other improvem nts. Now, there was already appropriated out of the dues for the next 10 years £2,330,000—viz., Z 1 ,000,0.:0 for the north embankment of the Thames, £ 760 ,000 for a new street from Blackfriars, and LiBo,o 0 1 :7 the south embankment of the Thames. It was clear that, unless th e d u ti es were con tinued, there could be very few other imttovements attempted out of the funds already provided. i jealousy t of state of things the City, feeling a very naturaloadous within their bo any l introduction of the Board of Works 8, proposed that the 4d duty should be continued for the pu Bank ; . making the new street from Gresham-street to th e would make i t and if the amount were nut eufficient the City the tup out of their own funds. That was not accepted, and wnitnittee reported the bill to the house in the sam e state with regard to that point. Since then the corporation had made several pro posals to the Chief Commissioner of wo to construct, out of the corporate resources, the street, W hi c h was to cost £650,000, provided Government would contribute £300,000 ou t of the 9d. duty; but the Chief Commissiener had swed that if the corpora tio n had so large a sum av an erfor improvements in the Cit y , th ere were plenty of a i o l a t la b l er places to which it could be applied. The offer of the City was , rin plain terms, to give 4350,000 for the privilege of making the Areet. If the whole expense was paid out of the 91 rate, it would stop City improvements for the next 20 years ; whereas the City offer was equal to £50,000 to ea&s of the metropoli tan boroughs to be spent in improve. —and he reminded the house there m ents—(hear, was much to be done in that way, arid in building free bridges and throwing open toll-free the present toll-paying bridges over the Thames. He had no desire to set the City against the l‘letropolitan Board of Works, and, without at all detracting from the latter, or of exaggerating the merits of the other body, he appealed to past experience, which showed that but with few City had exceptions all the public i m p rovements undertaken by the been completed within the estimates, but in no one instance had that been the case in any great works carried on by th e Metropolitan Board of Wor ks, arising , in his opinion, from the greater experience and knowledge possessed by the members of the corporation over that of the members of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The latter had been seven years engaged in the formation of a new street in the Borough, and it was yet in an incomplete state ; and in the thoroughfare from Covent-garden to St. Martin's-lane there was yet much to be done. Public interests would be ranch better served by committing the formation of this street to the City Corporation than to the Metropolitan Board of Works. He concluded by moving the recommittal of this bill, Mr. J. T. NORRIS seconded the amendmen Mr. COWPER said the amendment was on- f conside rable importance with regard to the practice that house, and he considered it was undesirable that t \ should en courage motions of the kind except upon .de', uate grounds —either that the committee to which the I . had been re ferred had not satisfactorily discharged their duties, or else that facts had come to light since they had reported. The Corporation of London and the City Commissioners of Sewers were the only opponents of the bill, and no objec tion had been taken to the committee's proceedings. He understood that the new fact to be brought before the com mittee was that the City was willing to make a present of £350,000 for the honour of building this street out of their corporate resources. Now, he had reason to complain of the ambiguity of those words. His answer to the corpra tion was that they could not do better with their money than in improving the streets and thoroughfares of the City (Hear.) He wished first to know what corporate funds they referred to, but from the day when the offer was made to the present time he had not been able to ascertain that important and interesting fact. (Hear, hear.) He believed the corporate funds referred to related to the 4d coal tax. —(hear, hear)—and that they claimed it as their own, and to spend it in this manner. After referring to the legisla tion that had taken place with reference to the 4d and the 9d taxes, the right hon. gentleman said the question was, whether the house agreed to accept the offer of the City, which was not an offer to pay money, but to receive money and to expend woney that had been confided to the Metro politan Board of Works. That, he thought, was a question that could be as well decided by a committee of the whole house, as by a select committee upstairs. If they complied with the proposition they would sanction a retrograde move ment. There had always been a distinction made between the two funds- The 4d tax was confined to City improve ments, and the 9d tax to the carrying out of the Thames embankment and metropolitan improvements, and that dis tinction was continued and maintained when Parliament decided on giving to the Metropolitan Board of Works the 9d tax for the Thames embankment, of which the new street in question formed part. The Metropolitan Board of Works had been crated sines the last Continuance Act was passed, and the whole of the 9d was intended to be spent on improvements irrespective of locality whether City or Metropolis. By this act the City was made subordinate to the Metropolis, and the City was represented at the Metropolitan Board of Works by three members of the corporation, and therefore it was impossible for the City to say they were a superior and independent body; and, being represented at the b3ard, they could not expect to have it both ways. The Metropolitan Board of Works did really represent the City as much as any other part of the metropolis, and it would be contrary to the prin ciples of local self-government and representation going with taxation, if they took away from the whole of the me tropnlis any portion of the 9d, and gave it to the City of London, which was only one district of the metropolis. He had been unable to ascertain what were the corporate re sources referred to by the corporation—and all the com mittee were able to ascertain from Mr. B. Scott was that there was a floating balance of £350,000, which the City borrowed in 1857 from the Bank of England, which had not yet been repaid, and which might be employed till the time of repayment arrived towards City improve ments ; but he never led the committee to believe that it was really available for the purpose. He hoped the house would not accede to the motion, except they were furnished with more definite information. The LORD MAYOR said the right hon. gentleman was very anxious that these great works should be carried out with something like certainty. Well, if the bill was not re committed, the right hon. gentleman might rest assured that there would be no certainty in the matter. The hon. member who had moved the re-committal of the bill had given them proofs of the mismanagement of the body to whom the right hon. gentleman was anxious to entrust the execution of the new street, in regard to the works already under their control, The Corporation felt that, if this pro posal were carried, it would prove one of the most fatal to their privileges ever brought forward. Funds raised in the City, and intended for great City improvements, had ac tually to be placed under the control of a foreign body. Could there be a more destructive measure in regard to the corporation? The right hon. gentleman had spoken of the shadowy nature of this fund of £350,000, which the corpo ration proposed to allocate as their contribution to the scheme if the execution of the work was left to them. But had the corporation of London ever entered into any pecu niary undertaking which they had failed to carry through ? And were not their estimates for public improvements in marked contrast to those of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the estimates of the one being within the mark, while those of the other body fell far short of their expendi • ture ? The expetience of the corporation with respect to the formation of large public works was much greater than that of the Board of Works, while they possessed in a pecu liar degree the knowledge requisite for the successful laying down of a new street, and, above all, the knowledge re quisite to enable them to deal with questions of compensa tion. Moreover, the corporation could promise, with per fect certainty, that the works would be completed in the time they undertook. (Hear.) If the right hon. gentleman desired to know the sources whence the contribution of the corporation was to come, his answer was, that the right hon, gentleman had no right to such information. The corpora tion of the city of London had shown that they could exe cute great public works in the most successful manner ; and if they were to guarantee under the corporate seal their readiness to undertake any work, the country might rest satisfied of its sure accomplishment. He eid not hesitate to denounce this inquiry of the right hon. gentleman as an in quisitorial attempt to pry into the resources of the corpora tion, and to assert that the bill was a direct attack upon the municipal institutions of the country. (Hear.) _ . . Mr. NORRIS could assure the house that if the bill were recommitted abundant evidence would be forth coming to show that the corporation were possessed of ample funds to make good their undertaking. One re source on which they could now count, and which was not at their disposal six months ago, was the £200,000 invested by them in the Metropolitan Railway, and the great successs which had attended that scheme fully justified 1 them in relying upon the value of that resource being still more enhanced. Then, again, the corporation were pos • sessed of lemehold and other property to the extent of about £250,000 a year in the gross ; and if from that gross revenue certain fixed charges were deducted, the corporation had an income of between £BO,OOO and £lOO,OOO a year available for the purpose of public works of acknowledged usefulness, the building of schools, and the encouragement of charities. Well, rather than suffer the intervention of this foreign body in matters which ought to be under the sole control of the corporation, the corporation were willing to divert a large portion of that income from the work of charity, and appro priate it to the formation oft he new street. Mr. DOULTON said he did not mean to argue whether the 4d. coal tax belonged to the corporation or net. Parlia ment had dealt with it, and they might therefore fairly as sume, it was not corporate property, The corporation of London now came to Parliament and objected to the juris diction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, urging that it was outside the City. If the Metropolitan Board of Works was a body outside the jurisdiction of the City, how came it that membera of the corporation had seats at that board? Nor could he understand why the corporation should make an offer of £350,000, while it was notorious that they were constantly applying to the Board of Works for petty doles to carry out metropolitan improvements. He could prove from documents which could not be contradicted that the corporation of London did not represent the commercial in terests of the City. The corporation had nothing to do with sewers, they had nothing to do with education, nothing to do with the relief of the poor—indeed, the only department which the corporation had under their management was the eating and show departments. (A. laugh.) He believed that, but for the mistake with regard to the Police Bill and the humiliating withdrawal of it, the present proposition would not be submitted to Parliament. Lord J. MANNERS said he regretted the tone of hon, members who spoke on both sides of the present question, and although he entertained a great respect for the munici pality of London, he was bound to say that the corporation had failed to make out a case before the committee ; and, in point of fact, the members of the committee representing the City voted for the preamble of the bill. (Hear, hear.) Unless, therefore, some new fact of startling importance had been discovered, he could not see the use of referring the bill back to the committee. Mr. TIT E defended the jurisdiction and the competency of the Metropolitan Board of Works to execute the proposed street, which would be a great benefit both to the metropolis and the City. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said he disapproved of the pre sent proceeding on the part of the City authorities, and he thought, instead of seeking to prevent the Metropolitan Board of Works from carrying out a great metropolitan im provement, they should devote their attention to the City proper. There were various works to be done in the City, \ such as the erection of a new meat market in West Smith field, the widening of Newgate-street, the improvement of Holborn valley, Tower-street, Thames-street, and Billings • gate market. Mr. WILLIAMS opposed the amendment, and condemned the extravagance of the corporation, which ke said spent more money in managing the City of London than was re (pared for the whole town of Liverpool, including its public debt. Mr. CRAWFORD then withdrew his amendment, and the house went into committee on the bill. Mr. COWPER proposed an amendment, to the effect that the new street out of Cannon -street should be 80 feet wide instead. Mr. CRAW FORD opposed the amendment, which would lead to no great improvement, and would cause a loss of 2,000 square yards of land, worth £lOO,OOO, After some further opposition from Sir J. Shelley, Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Cox, and Lord Fermoy, Mr. COWPER said he would withdraw his amendment until it had received further consideration. Clauses up to 7 were agreed to. On clause 8, relating to the subway under the new street, Mr. CRAWFORD moved an amendment that the sub • way should be placed under the control of the commissioners of sewers for the City of London instead of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Mr. CUNT oupporta - the amendment. The Me troiiolitan Board of Works should have power over the subway in connection with the sewers. Mr. DOULTON considered it was unadvisable to give two bodies separate control o-er c flae subway. Mr. COWPER supportertlifilause. The amendment was negatived without a division, and the clause was agreed to. Clause 9 was agreed to. On clause 10, Mr. CRA WFORD moved that the certificate handing over the new street to the City should be signed by the Chief Commissioner of Works, instead of the chairman of the board. Mr. COWPER would rather some other person was named than the Chief Commissioner of Works for signing the certificate. He thought it would be better some compe tent person should be named to join the chairman in giving the certificate. He should not oppose the amendment. After some discussion, in which Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Cox, Mr. Tite, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Alderman Salemons, Mr. J. T. Norris, and Sir John Shelley took part, the amendment was agreed to. NAMING THE NEW STREET. Mr. CRAWFORD said, it was desirable the house should insert in the clause the name of the street, and not leave it to the tender mercies of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Lately that body had, in new naming the streets, given some of them their own distinguished names. (Hear, hear.) He had no desire to see that prin ciple carried oat in naming the new street, and he proposed it should be called Mansion House-street. (Oh oh ) Sir J. SHELLEY said it was very amusing to hear the manner in which the citizens of London spoke of the Board of Works, and the horror and dread they had of that body. The hon. member (Mr. Crawford) alluded to the " tender mercies" of the Board; and the Lord Mayor had called them a " foreign body." He hoped they would give the new street some better name than the one proposed. Mr. AYRTON said there was one objection to the pro posed name, viz,, that many of the citizens would not be able to pronounce it, (Laughter.) One of the earliest writers on the City said that "what struck him as most curious in London was the enormous quantity of provisions he saw, and the wonderful powers of the citizens to eat them." (Laughter.) The Mansion House was only suggestive of that one faculty of the corporation. (Laughter.) If it was necessary to have a name connected with the City, his hon. friend (Alderman Sydney), who knew all about the corpo ration, and who informed them on a former evening how the corporation behaved in their cups—a condition for which they were most celebrated—(laughter)—might be able to give them some historic name. For instance, why not take Whittington or his cat—(laughter)—and call it Whitting ton-street or Cat-street. (Laughter.) If they could not get a historic name in the corporation, let them take one out of it, Let them identify the noble lord's with it (Lord Palmer ston), and, as he was a patron of the bill, naming the street after him would be a compliment worthy of his administra tion. (Laughter.) There were many names that could be selected; but as to Mansion House-street, why he had hoped before this to have seen the Mansion House converted into a railway station. (Hear.) The footing and stability of the corporation were like the Brahmin's description of the world. The globe, he said, " stands upon an elephant's back, and his legs on a turtle's back"—(laughter)—an that he (Mr. Ayrton) thought, was very much like the stability of the corporation of London. (Renewed laughter.) He hoped the house would negative the amendment. Lord PALMERSTON—I can only say that I hope the duty of baptising the new street will be left to the proper parties, namely, the Metropolitan Board of Works. (Laughter.) Mr. CRAWFORD then withdrew his amendment, and all the clauses having been agreed to, the bill passed through committee. The house having resumed, went into committee on THE LONDON COAL AND WINE DUTIES CON- TINUANCE BILL. On clause 2, Mr. COX proposed an amendment, the effect of which was to declare that the very first work to which the 4d fund should be devoted was the removal of Middle-row, Holborn. The Holborn Board of Works had estimated that it might be removed at a cost of £45,000 or £50,000, and that in the course of a few months. He did not con sider that the existence of Holborn-hill was anything like so great an obstruction to the traffic westward from the City as Al iddle.row, Holborn. Then, let the corporation do the graceful thing, and consent to allocate the comparatively trifling sum of £50,000 for the purpose. If they did, they could henceforward take their stand, not upon turtle, as had been suggested by an hon. friend near him, but upon Middle-row, Holborn, (Laughter.) Mr. CRAWFORD had no authority to pledge the cor poration to the doing of graceful things. (A laugh.) At the same time he felt quite sure that the corporation would be willing to recognise the removal of Middle-row as a work so adjacent to the City that it would come within the province of the bill; but there could not be a doubt as to the prior necessity of getting rid of Holborn-hill. Mr. W. WILLIAMS was understood to say that he considered the whole discussion premature. Mr. Alderman SALOMONS inquired whether Middle row was not within the limits of the borough of Finsbury ; if it was he did not doubt but that it would be a very agree able announcement for the hon. member to have to make to his constituents that he had brought about its removal. Mr. COX would be very angry with his hon. friend the member for Greenwich (Mr. Alderman Salomons) if he thought improper motives were imputed to him by his hon. friend, but the fact was that up to five minutes ago he did not know that Middle-row was in Finsbury. Mr. AYRTON thought that the money expended upon the filling up the valley at the foot of Helbom-hill would be thrown away unless Middle-row were also removed. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said that there were improve ments to be made in the eastern parts of the metropolis which had the first claim upon the corporation. Mr. CUBITT could not allow that the filling up of the Holborn valley would be of no use unless Middle-row were also removed. Mr. COWPER urged that the raising of Holborn-hill was of much more importance than the removal or widen ing of Middle-row. It was therefore treated as a primary charge on the duties, but whatever was left would be ex pended on the widening of Middle-row. The amendment was negatived without a division. The clause was then agreed to and the bill passed through com mittee. THE SUN, - LONDON, - FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 15, - 1863. THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. By the Jura, which arrived at Liverpool on Wed nesday, we have received the following additional particulars of the loss of the Anglo-Saxon : STATEMENT OF WILLIAM WMASTER, CHIEF ENGINEER. " the Anglo-Saxon left Liverpool with about 444 souls on board (comprising 48 cabin and 312 steer age passengers, with a ship's company of 85 souls) on the 16th of April, at 6 p.m. Reached Moville, near Londonderry, on the 17th. We had strong westerly winds up to the 22d, and on the 25th made field-ice; got through it safely on the 27th, expect ing to make Cape Race about noon on Monday, en gines going at a slow speed; very thick dense fog. At 11 a.m. discovered breakers ahead. Orders were received to reverse the engines full speed, and re versed them full speed. The ship then struck heavily aft. Then ordered to stop and turn ahead full speed. Did so. Gave orders to the second engineer to stand by the bilge injections, and every man to stand to his duty, which was done. Shortly after this the water came rushing into the forward stokehole, putting out fires and filling engine -room. By this time the engines were stopped, and I eased the safety-valve levers, and told the men that nothing more remained to be done, and that they had better be cool and save themselves. I then came on deck and assisted in rigging out a studdingsail boom from the ship's rail to an adjacent rock. Over this we succeeded in getting ashore, and then by mears of a basket, slung for a chair, we succeeded in getting ashore the women and children. About this time the ship began to break up. Numbers of the pas sengers and crew climbed into the rigging, leaving also a large number on deck, all of whom were drowned. The scene at this time was a dreadful one. We could give them no further assistance, and many attempted to save their lives by dropping into the water, but were swept away by the surf. The ship fell over to her port side, and broke completely up, leaving those on board to the mercy of the waves. We then despatched four of our number to find the Cape Lighthouse station. They returned with Mr. John Murphy, captain of the Associated Press newsboat ; we went with him to the telegraph station, and were there made comfortable. During our stay near the wreck we gathered sufficient wood to light a fire, and suc ceeded in getting about two ounces of bread for the children, but the arrival of Mr. Murphy provided us with sufficient shelter and food. To Mr. Murphy for his extreme kindness I, for myself and compa nions, desire to return our most sincere thanks. We shall never forget it, nor the large-hearted liberality with which he took care of us and seemed to anticipate our every inclination or want until we were received on board the Bloodhound." STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM dENKINS, PURSER. "At 11 a.m., while going very slow, saw land ahead. The ship was stopped and backed astern ; she struck forward first, then her stern fell in upon the rocks, striking heavily under the_ counter. I went up on the poop, and then to the forecastle; got a rope from the jibboom on the rocks, and tried to get out a hawser, but before we could do so her head fell off, and she came broadside on the rocks. We then got a hawser fastened to the rocks from the starboard fore gangway, and got the women and children ashore by means of a basket, also 30 or 40 men. The ship was thumping very heavily, and the water getting in forward and covering the deck. The people were washed away and smashed against the rocks. As the ship began to settle down No. 3 boat, filled with the passengers, got foul of the rigging, was upset, and all lost. The top of the saloon then floated away with a lad upon it, holding on to the capstan. Some of the people got into the rigging, but went overboard with the mast, except those in the mizen rigging, who succeeded in getting away upon a raft. Three boats on the starboard side also got away with some people in them, but I soon lost sight of them in the fog, We then succeeded in getting the women up the rocks, and when they were all safe we sent men on in both directions, north and south, to find the Cape station. While these men were away we got the remainder to go down to the wreck to save clothing and provisiocs if any could be found for the women. We found the foremast still standing, with about a dozen upon ic, but the sea was so high we could do nothing for them. The fog was still very dense. We collected some broken wood, and sent it up to make a fire for the women and children." STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT-PURSER GILBERT LITTLE, " At a quarter p , :st 11 yesterday morning, the ship going at slow speed and the fog very thick, the cry of breakers' was heard, and immediately after the ship struck. the captain tried to back her, but the vessel had slewed round, and there was a large rock right under the stern, which prevented any chance of backing and hemmed the ship in so that we could not possibly get her off. When Capt. Burgess found he could not get her clear he gave orders to get out the bow anchors, so as to steady her where she was. We were lying close in to the shore at the time, the sea running high, and a rock between the ship and the shore. We rigged a basket on a rope leading ashore, and commenced to land passengers. The bowsprit at this time was right over the land, and three men managed to get ashore by it. While the passengers were being landed on the starboard side the three port boats were being launched, and almost immediately a number of the passengers and crew got into them and hauled off. We continued getting the people on shore in the basket. At this time the captain and officers did not apprehend any danger of the ship going to pieces immediately, and we worked away at landing the people nearly an hour. The ship's forefoot was firmly fixed on the rocks, but the stern was deep in water, and although the ship rolled considerably we believed she would hold together some hours. I went below to see the con dition of the ship. Found the water up to the orlop deck forward, but no water in the bedrooms aft, and felt satisfied that the ship would last for a few hours. We had six boats altogether—three on each side. The three port boats had get off partly laden. We now lowered the aft starboard boat. It was - so difficult to get this boat clear of the ship, being on the shore side, that only five or six persons were in her. The mail officer had charge of this boat. He went off by the captain's orders and brought back one of the port boats, in order that she might take more passengers. The two boats came alongside and were quickly filled with passengers, chiefly women and children. We were still landing the people in the basket. In the meantime the water had begun to rise in the ship, and she was slowly sinking. When we had got all the ladies who were standing near into the boats, and they had put off, Captain Burgess, who was assisting me, turned away and said something, I did not understand 'A hat. That was the last I saw of him. The water was now washing over the decks. I then leaped into the boat. The chief officer, when the water was up to his knees on deck, jumped overboard, and we hauled him in. At this time the vessel was listing over so much to port that we were afraid the masts and rigging would swamp our boat. A great number of people were in the rigging at this time, and we hauled our boat off to clear the masts and rigging, and so as to pick up any persons who might get into the water. But we could not get near enough to pick up any, for the masts were coming down fast enough upon the water, the vessel having fallen almost entirely over. It was now about a quarter to 1 o'clock p.m. The three boats kept hanging round all the afternoon, picking up a few persons, and then we put off to find a landing-place. We went some 15 miles noth, but could not land, and rowed about all night, anxiously waiting for daylight. Just before dawn we spied the tug, and three such hearty cheers as we gave have not been heard for a long time in that neighborhood." STATEMENT OF MR. G. H. TEALBY, PASSENGER. " I was on th e d ec k w h en th e s hip struck. The captain was on the bridge at the time, and or dered the engines to be reversed, which was done. After a few revolutions of the screw she was brought up by a rock. After some time I got into No. 6 boat, which I helped to lower, and into which got 19 passengers and two or three of the crew. The vessel listed over so fast that we were in danger of being smashed by the falling of the hull. Searched for some time for a landing-place until after noon, when we fell in with the other boats, and after spending a ll n ight on the water, VACCINATION (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed though committee. NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND SO CIETY WINDING-Up ACT (1861) AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Mr. STANSFELD, this bill was read a third time and passed. oALMON FISUERIEfi (SCOTLAND) ACT CON TINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a second time. SALE OF MILL SITES, &c, (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. LISBURN ELECTION —WITHDRAWAL OF PETITION. On the order for the consideration of the report of the general committee of elections, Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition from Alexander M'Cann, who had sent the document purporting to be the withdrawal of the petition. He stated that he had been entrusted with the withdrawal of the petition, and prayed that he might be offered an opportunity of substantiating his allegations upon oath. After some discussion the motion was agreed to. ENGLISH CHURCH SERVICES IN WALES BILL. This bill was recommitted. On clause 1, which provided that the bill should come into operation where there were ten English inhabitants, Mr. HUNT moved the insertion of the qualification three of them should be householders. Mr. AYRTON opposed the amendment. The committee divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against Majority against Several other verbal amendments were proposed, and eventually the chairman was ordered to report progress, leaving the clause still to be disposed of. ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. RUNT obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the law relating to elections. COSTS SECURITY. Mr. BUTT obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the law relating to the giving of security for coots by plaintiffs resiling out of the jurisdiction of the court. PORT ERIN HARBOUR. Mr. M. GIBSON, in committee of the whole house, ob tained leave to bring in a bill to authorise the taking of harbour dues at Port Erin, in the Isle of Man, in order to provide a fund for the improvement of the harbour and other purposes. EXECUTION OF DECREES. Mr. BUTT obtained leave to introduce a bill to make better provision for the enforcement throughout England and Ireland of the decrees and orders of the Courts of Chancery, Probate, and Divorce. The bill, for which leave was obtained, was brought in and read a first time. The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. DEATH OF DR. RElD.—Many Edinburgh citizens will learn with regret the death of Dr. David Bos well Reid, well known by his labours in regard to ventila tion. Dr. Reid, who has been for some years in America, died at Washington on the sth of April. The death was sudden, and caused by congestion of the lungs. Dr. Reid had been appointed by the Government Medical Inspector to the Sanitary Commission, and he was about to leave Washington, to be employed in ventilating the new mili tary hospitals which have been erected in different parts of the country. Dr. Reid was a native of Edinburgh, grandson o o f u th ly e b c u el i e mm bra g ted Hugo Arnot, the historian of Edinburgh, of ventilation have and Was himself at one time an extensively-employed and successful teacher of chemistry here. His connection with tilation. of this building ,klovwarlitilation of the Houses of Parliament is but too well Re• in ventilated St. George's Hall, Liverpool—the Reid began his the late Dr. Hope, Pr c ofe the world, he said, in which his principles public is considered very successful. Dr. He was also a candidat completely carried out. The ven tilation f or of Chemistry in the University. career in Edinburgh as assistant to or th e signed. --Scoter, chair when Dr, Hope re- were eventually picked up by the Dauntless about daylight." STATEMENT OF MR. R. A, ALLEN, THIRD OFFICER. " Up to Saturday, April 25, we had experienced fair westerly weather. At 8 o'clock that evening we encountered ice about the outward edge of the Banks, and the speed was reduced. At 10 p.m. we fell in with heavier ice—the engines were stopped altogether, only a light breeze forcing the ship gently through. The fog was very thick. About 10 a.m. on Sunday the fog cleared up, and we set the foretopsail and head sails in order to force through faster. At 12 we could see clear water ahead. The ice not being so thick, we now let the engines go ahead slow, occasionally stopping as the ice got thicker. At 2 p.m. we were clear of the ice alto gether ; the engines were turned a head fall speed, and all plain sail set, the weather being fine and clear. At daybreak on Monday morning it again became very foggy. We took in all sail and slowed the engines. We got an observation the day be fore (Sunday), the position of the ship being then latitude 4654 N., and longitude 4724 W. At 10 minutes past 11 on Monday morning we saw the breakers, and in a few minutes the ship struck. According to our calculation, and judging from the course steered since taking the observation yester day, we believed the ship to be 17 miles south of Cape Race. I was on deck when she struck, and was a good deal with the captain, assisting him and taking orders. [Mr. Allen here confirms the ac count given by Mr. Little as regards the landing of the passengers in the basket, and continues] : —The captain went up the saloon deck, and I followed hlm. The ship was lying over much, and the cap tain was patting on a little buoy. I tried to get into the main rigging, but the ship went over so fast that the captain and myself were precipitated into the water, and went down together. While under water I got hold of the captain's coat, thinking it was one of the sails, and commenced hauling myself up by it, and presently I got hold of his whiskers. We came to the surface together, and when I saw it was the captain I let go of him, and got hold of a piece of wreck. The captain said to me, Now, Mr. Allen, let's strike out clear of the wreck as soon as we can.' A sea washed me against the main rigging, and I got into it, up under the maintop. The chief steward was there, Captain Hyler, the ship's cook, and two passengers, one a boy. When I got into the rigging I looked to see where the captain was. I saw him in the water, surrounded by small pieces of floating wreck, and so hemmed in that he could make no exertions to save himself. When I looked again he was gone. He must have slipped through the buoy, for that was floating. He was not seen after wards. We hailed a boat not far out, but they did not care to come to us. Slain after that the main topmast was carried away, just above the topsail yard. A portion of the saloon deck was floating near the mizenmast, and sometimes came near us. Captain Hyler succeeded in getting on it, and it then floated way, so that the rest of us could not. In a few minutes the mainmast was carried away and I fell with it. When I got into the water I struck out for the raft, and got on it, but the chief steward was drowned before he could reach it. Captain Hyler and myself hauled the ship's cook and the boy on the raft. Three or four others were on the raft before. We now cut the raft clear of the wreck, and it floated away. Towards evening the fog cleared, and we saw a man floating on the after part of the saloon-deck. We soon got near him, and, thinking our own raft might not hold out, we took the other in tow, trying to row them with a couple of oars we had picked up, but we could not make any headway. We drifted about all night, and soon after sunrise saw the steamer, but thought she was standing away from us, and despaired of being seen. I got a staff and hoisted a woman's dress upon it. They saw the signal, and came down and picked 'ls up." The following is an official list of the passengers saved from the Anglo-Saxon CABIN PASSENGERS—J. Young, wife, seven children — Miss Hope, Miss Bertram, Miss Englis, Miss Kerwood, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Kirkwood, Mr. Christien, Mr. Towers. Mr. Kirkness, Mr. Fraser, Mr. Martin, Mr, Tealy, Mr Whites, Captain Reed, Captain Hyles, Captain Cassidy, Lieutenant Simpson, Mrs Stoddard, Mrs Christien, Mrs Wright, Mrs James, and Mrs Jackson snd child. STEERAGE PASSENGERS--Mr Parker, Mr Parsons, Mr St Marie, Mr Collogan, Mr Dania, Mr Wilpolm, Mr Geo. Wood, Mr Stanley, Mr Naglies, Mr Lahn, Mr Barbour, Mr Coulter, Mr Finley, Mr yl organ, Mr Rooke, Mr Lloyd, Me Turre, Mr Gones, Mr Griffiths, Mr Churchchard, Mr Wiz...kett, Mr Burrow, Mr Nance, Mr Black, Mr Jones and wife, Mr Cooth, Mr Fleck, Mr Fergusson, Mr Callaghan, Mr Pantrie, Mr Barclay, Mr Jamieson, Mr Small, Mr Bishop, Mr Gormley, Mr Corder, Mr M‘Killary, Mr John ston, Mr Dinsmore, Mr Reid, Mr Honnell, Mr M'Kay, Mr Mustagh, Mr Garretty, Mr Christiansen, Mr Davies, Mr Tapper, Mr M'Nally, Mr Atkinson, Mr Fideles, Mr Jones, Mr Wood, Mr Dance, Mr Hall, Mr Harrison, Mr Walter, Mr Bruce, Mr Loubrier, Mr Jones, Elizabeth Waunby, Mary Ann Thomas, Mary Ann Adams, Mina Christian, Jesse E. Christian, Mary Waldron, Mary Senwick, Martha Senwick, Maggie Senwick, Ann Gormley, Jane Colton, Mary Ralston, Ann Stevens, Mr Rees and child, Mr Towns • end, Mr Damsel, Mr Cross, Mr Cronen, Mr Berry, Mr Crawford, Mrs Gauley and child, Christiana Brown, Mary Callan, Mary Callaghan, Alice Stewart, Mary Kenny, Mary M•Kenzie, Mary Reed, Jane Walker, Ellen Rijah, Sarah Smith, Kate Early, Margaret Evans, Sophia Davis and child, Eliza Gritty and two children, and two children un known. SHIP'S COMPANY—John Hoare, Ist officer—Robert Allen, 3d officer—George Scott, 4th officer—Edmund Newell, boatswain—Hugh Jones, boatswain's mate— John Allen, carpenter—William Reid, joiner—A. Gibbie, seaman—Robert Cain, seaman—W. Cape, seaman—T. Pritchard, seaman—J. Heasley, seaman—J. Redmond, seaman—J. Ellis, seaman—T. Quayle, sea man—T. Lloyd, seaman—P. Patterson, seaman—W. Ben nett, seaman—F. Hunter, seaman—T. Hannebal, seaman— T. Chapman, seaman—James Wilson, seaman—W. Edmondson, seaman—John Larkin, seaman—Thomas Phelom, seaman—John Johnston, seaman— George Taylor, seaman—James Halloran,seaman—J. Martin, seaman—W. M‘Master, first engineer—Alexander Mackie, second engi neer—James Henderson, 4th engineer —Chas. Cardell, 6th engineer—John Daw, fireman—John Williams, fireman— George Robertson, fireman—Thomas Murphy, fireman— John Murphy, fireman—John Reilly, fireman —John lavidson, fireman— Henry Norton, fireman—Thos.White, trimmer—Berry Bridge, trimmer—James Baxter, trimmer John M'Cartney, trimmer—Patrick Purcell, trimmer -John Howard, trimmer—Alfred Patton, surgeon —Wm. Jenkit s, purser—Gilbert Little, assistant - purser—Charles Barlow, s eward—John Davidson, steward—Jan Reeve, steward—George Woolam, steward—John Leah, steward— Robert Corbett, steward—W. M'Stay, steward—Ed. Emans, steward—John Huggup, steward—J. J. Carr, steward—Mrs. Parry, stewardess—Henry Weston, cook— Alfred Costello, cook—W. Hodgson, cook—John M'Der mott, cook—William Jones, butcher—William Carroll, baker—Alfred Kennedy, baker. Total saved-33 cabin, 103 steerage passengers, and 71 of the crew. The mails are all lost. The vessel is in 14 fathoms water, and is broken up. None of the cargo has been saved. The following letter has been addressed to Mr. Thomas Court, secretary to the Association of Un derwriters at Liverpool, by the owners of the ill tated ship : _ _ "Liverpool, May 13. " Dear Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry relative to the report in this day's papers that the Anglo-Saxon was ordered to call at Cape Race, we beg to give you the following explanation :—having received information from Canada shortly before her sailing to the effect that the ice in the St. Lawrence was likely to be rather late in breaking up, we deemed it prudent, although the direct sailings were not commenced this year any earlier than usual, to have full information as to the state of the ice, waiting for Captain Burgess at the various telegraphic sta tions between Cape Race and Quebec, so that he might learn whether it was safer to proceed to Quebec or to steer for Portland, and we have since heard that such information was sent down by our agents in Canada. Cape Race being the nearest station, and being in the direct track for the St. Lawrence, Captain Burgess was informed that if he found no ice in the way and could approach the Cape without running any risk, it would be desi rable to do so ; but if he could not safely do so he should proceed to some other station on the route to receive information. An erroneous idea having ap parently entered the public mind that owners of steamers in general order their captains to endea vour to make rapid passages, at all hazards, we can safely assert that such is quite contrary to fact. Enclosed you will find for your perusal an extract from the original instructions given to Captain Bur gess on his appointment as commander, which are similar to those given to all our captains, from which you will observe that the utmost care and caution are impressed upon them, and that they are specially directed rather to be a day or two longer on the voyage than run any risk whatever to make a speedy passage. These cautions are renewed every trip, and the last words spoken to Captain Burgess before sailing wero to the effect that the safety of the ship was the first thing to be attended to. —We are, &c., " ALLAN BROTHERS AND CO. " Thomas Court, Esq." In the instructions alluded to, among other stringent rules, appear the following : " When you meet with fog or ice, or when, owing to the darkness or the weather, there is any risk in proceeding, the safest course is to lay to till dr.y light or until the weather clears up. The Lad should be used frequently, and the utmost care exercised when you are in any doubt as to your position. . "It is, of course, satisfactory to us when quick and safe passages are made, but you will bear in mind that it is of far more importance to make a safe voyage, even although it should take a day or two more to do it, rather than to run any risk whatever to make a speedy passage." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMEs.—On Monday, the 27th April, began the fifth F, deral invasion of Virginia. Generals IVPDowell, M'Clellan, Pope, and Burnside have had their trial and their failure, their day of populari y, and their chill night of neglect and oblivion. It is now the turn of Gen. Joseph Hooker, and to him his hopeful country men are looking to redeem their mitilitary fame and avenge them of their enemies. In the opinion of Gen. Hooker himself they could not have chosen a more fitting man. The General has openly or covertly censured the plans of all his predecessors, and by intimating his conviction of their incompetence has insinuated his own far su perior skill. The President has taken him at his own valuation of himself, and given him the com mand of the chief army of the Republic, and the task of capturing the enemy's capital. With the first days of the early summer the army of the Potomac enters on the campaign, and we shall shortly learn whether the lofty criticisms of General Hooker on others were dictated by conscious genius or only by the restlessness of ambitious mediocrit ) - . The army which Gen. Hooker commands is supposed to num ber about 100,000 men. These, as regards the de tails of drill and discipline, are probably equal to any that the Federals have had or are likely to have. If two years are not sufficient to make an army it is not likely to be made at all. The Rappahannock was crossed, according to the most trustworthy ac counts, without any heavy loss, though one letter speaks of two regiments as having been " cut up," and there is a long list of killed and wounded offi cers. The crossing was effected near Fredericksburg at places called Port Royal and Kelly's Foid. In December Gen. Burnside crossed in the same way with equal ease, and the exploit was equally trum peted forth to the world. For a few days Europe believed that a Confederate retreat was imminent, until the news of the Battle of Fredericksturg ex plained the military plans of Gen. Lee. A Federal General has again crossed the Rappahannock, and .we must now expect the battle which to show how far the operation has been skilfully con ceived. The time must indeed be an anxious one for the Government of Washington. In spite of the alleged enthusiasm and pertinacity of the North, the President and his advisers are aware that the question ,of finding men for the vast armies neces sary to carry on the war is full of difficulties. The Northern people will speak, and vote, and march in procession, and even pay taxes for the preserva tion of the Union, but a period is arriving when to make them shoulder a rifle and fight for it is beyond the power of statesman or orator. The truth is the fighting elements which exist in every population, and which existed more largely in America than any Where else, is beginning to be exhausted, and must be replaced by a class which has no impulse towards soldiering, and can only be brought into the service by force or by the temptation of exces sive bounties. It seems to be agreed that the draught which was fixed for the let of May can not be enforced ; and that the President, to whom a moribund Crongress gave the power of conscrib ing the whole population, will no more get hir 300,000 whites than the 300.000 negroes whom the same Legislature desired him to enlist. At this crisis the old regiments are returning in mass from the war. The account our correspondent gives of these men leaving the service in disgust and re fusing to be retained in it by any amount of boun ties shows a state of things highly ominous to the Federal Government, more especially as the dis conten' seems to have taken possession of the Irish and Germans, to whom the Governmepit must look for most of the new blood which is to be transfused into the service. When we remember that these are only the first to abandon the war, and that next month the time of the nine months' men who were enlisted at such an extravagant cost last autumn will begin to expire, there is good reason to sup pose that if General Hooker fare no better than his predecessors the conquest of the South will be come hopeless in the minds of very many who still cling to it with all the tenacity of pride and ambi tion. MORNING POST.—In a large and densely-popu lated city like London there must ever be a class of adventurers and swindlers waiting for opportunities to plunder the unwary. Since the admirable act for the suppression of gambling-houses, the field of operation for this class of individuals has fortunately been much straitened. Card-sharping and skittle sharping have been the chief resorts of the limited capitalists ; but gangs of others, who have been better able to bide their time, have set themselves up as sham firms, buying goods by agency with bills of exchange drawn the one upon the other. When the time for payment arrives, the firm that has accepted the bill of exchange is sought after in vain, while, as a matter of course , t h e goo d s t h at have been obtained by fraud are found to have been disposed of at any s acr ifi ce f or cash. Among t h e many devices that have been resorted to for robbing the public, we may mention that of the loan-office swindle. A case which a pp eare d recen tly i n our columns is only one of many of the kind which it is unfortunately the province of this journal, from time to time, to chronicle. As the case in point seems to have born e unusua lly h ar d u p on th e v i ct i m , we bring it forward for the purpose of showing how necessary it is that every one in the present day should be on their guard against the tricks and rascalities that abound. A man who had succeeded in saving a sum of .£5O while exercising the profes sion of band- master in one of her Majesty's ships, was anxious to invest his hard-earned gains to the best advantage, and was caught by an advertisement which stated that a clerk was wanted in a commer cial establishment, which turned out afterwards to be a loan office, who would receive a good salary, would require to give as a security a sum of £5O. It must be admitted that the hook was baited with some skill, and, as the result proved, was readily swallowed. The advertisement having been duly answered, and a reply received, dated frcm St. James's-place, Pall-mall, an interview was fixed to take place. The victim was made to call at the " office" whore his future services were to be engaged at a weekly salary of 205., with a commission of one per cent. upon all loans transacted. Nothing in the way of detail appears to have been neglected that would have been likely to arouse feelings of distrust in the mind of any person anxious to obtain the desired sit cation. The window blinds of the office—which no doubt were got up to assume an appearance of age, like the cheap portraits of ancestors that are manufactured to order—had printed upon them the imposing title of "Loan, Discount, and Deposit B ink, established 1849." It was evidently no fault of the out ward appearance of the establishment that but little business was transacted within it, for it appeared in evidence that the applications for loans were both numerous and frequent, and it must have been almost enough to have driven the presid ing genius of the place frantic with grief to feel what a thriving business he might have been driv ing had he been in possession only of the necessary capital. The impossibility, how ever, o f transacting any business of this description without capital, strange as it may appear, i s not a l together an im possibility. In the first place, these loan offices have instituted for their alleged protection a preli minary deposit in the s h ape o f two gu i neas f rom each applicant for money, which sum of two guineas is extracted from the borrower under the name of an " enquiry fee," for the supposed purpose of enab ling the firm to ascertain what degree of faith they may place in the power of the borrower to repay the money which they may be inclined to advance. It is evident therefore that where the applications for loans of money are numerous a handsome in come may be derived by this means alone, without any necessity for an expenditure of capital, and there appears nothing to prevent this part of the business continuing to thrive until some dissatisfied appli cant should take upon himself the task of exposing the system of fraud which by such a system is car ried on. [ADVERTISEMNT.I —Holloway's Pills. Convincing Proofs.—The parsonal experience of multitudes extending over the last 30 years leaves no doubt that this:medicine sur passes all others in its Purifying and cor rec ti ve qua li t i es. When any epidemic prevails Holloway's Pills are the most proper aperient that can be prescribed, because they pain lessly remove all accumulations without d e p r i v i ng th e sufferer of healthy constitutional power. The young and delicate may take these Pills without difficulty, disgust, or danger, and they will prove the best preservatives against small -pox and all eruptive fevers, typhoid and bilious complain. . complaints. This remedy sh ou ld b e at once resor t e d t o when paps tho limbs and loins, giddiness, nausea and thirst, give warning of the approach of some worse than ordinary ailment, ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. Mr, George R. Roberts, a master baker at Wool wich, committed suicide under painful and extra ordinary circumstanceF. It appears that yesterday a young woman named Frances Eliza Paxton, for some months a servant in the house of Mr- Roberts, surrendered herself to the police on her own confes sion of having attempted to poison her mistress 011 the previous Sunday. She stated that she had been instigated to commit this act by her master, between whom and herself an improper intimacy had ex isted. The young w o m an was removed to the Woolwich police-station at noon, and subsequently Mr. Inspector Linvell had an interview with Mr. Roberts, and informed him of the charge w ade against him. He requested that he would volun' tarily attend the polic e c our t a t 3 o 'clock, in order to be present at the examination of his accuser, Pal' ton. To this request Mr. Roberts readily assented, but about one hour afterwards it was found that he had committed suicide. His body was found sa' pended to a beam in the roof of his stable. Eliza Paxton, aged 18, was placed al the bar before Mr. Traill, charged, on her own confession , wi th attempting to administer to Etizabeth Roberts a quantity of vitrol, with intent to commit to ur ; der. The only evidenc e a dd uce d was t hat given by Police Inspector J ames Linvell , the R division. He said that in the inilr eleg he went to the resid ence o f th e pr i sone r's father at No. 3, Charles-street, Woolwich, and saw the pri soner, whom he asked if it was t rue that she bad . expressed a wish to m a k e an i m p or t a nt statem ent to the police. The pri soner sa id it was, and witness cautioned her in the usual manner. ,t prisoner then said that on the previous Sun day evening her mistress was a w a y f rom home, and h er master sent her for two half-pints of beer, w hich she obtained in two separat e m ugs . On her retoilru she had her supper, and dr a nk one o f the half - p into of beer, the other being intended for her raistr eee. While the prisoner was having her supper her that ter was conversing with her, and complained , his wife kept such late hours. Her master tool bottle from a shelf and gave it to the pr i soner , sal e ing, " There, that will se ttl e h er ." The then, in the presence of her master, poured a coas t derable quantity of the liquid f rom the bottle l bt I the mug containing the beer, and afterwards W ee r to bed. The prisoner also stated that her waste had seduced her shortly aft er s h e en t er ed his 8 ser vice. Inspector Linv e ll now p ro d uce d the hn t,l is ; which was labelled " Vitriol, poison." Il e e O O stated that on re t urn i ng h ome M rs . Roberts " , about to drink the beer, but rejected it in ce ll quence of its unpl easan t taste. Sh e k e pt it 510 ", the following morning, w h en i t was h an ded to D; Stuart, who at once stated that it contained P OIO V O The prisoner was then rem an d e d, an d th e maxi atril te j directed that the beer produced sh ou ld be subject„ to analysis. Mr. Carttar, coron er f o r the dist rict ' will hold an inquiry relative to the suicide. COUNTRY MARKETS. 6. , MANCHESTER—MAY 14. f t° A limited attendance to-d a y, w ith a s l o w deco- w hile w wheat, English bei ng quo t e d a t l ast wee k' s Prices' $ American was at a reduc.ion of Id to 2d per 1001 b• trio and oatmeal were each rather firmer. Flour a 010 W AO and prices fav o u re d p urc h asers. I n di an corn ate re sa deciine. Egyptian beans as before, while English W e per qr higher. BIRMINGHAM—MAT 14. nd O m English wheat was sold at 48 s t o 6 6s f or white' - a - to 52s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 0 30 0 42s per qr ; grinding, 24s to 28s Oats, old, ` s qt' per 30 stone ; Irish, 22s to 255. Beans, 36s to 4 315,1 Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 stone. EDINBURGH GRAIN—MAY 13. ID EA good supply of farmers' wh ea t t o -d a y, which fair sale at about the prices of last week. do . ill ' ' Wheat on the top 2s Od dow n average Barley on the top Os 6d dow n average eae nt 1 v p . Oats on the top Os bd down Beans on the top 2s 6d down. ..... aavveerraagge is i d c i z ' slik e 2s 4'.'" Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 938 qrs Sold 655 tirs 8ar1ey........ 339 qrs Sold 258 cll . ° Oats - Beans l7l qrs Sold 113 cl ll 110 63; Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 44s Od ; extras , ' superfine, 39s Od ; fine, 375 Od. CORK—MAY 14. The following were the quotations this morning : v" wheat, 95 Od t o O s 0,1 ; w hi te, —s Od to — s Od , bar lelo t O , 8d to Os Od ; oats, 8s 9d to 9s 4d. ; black do., VI • 7s 3d. DERBY SMITHFIELD—MAT 12. he hli A plentiful supply of fat beasts to-day ; late pric e lor realised. The number of sheep in the pens was the g o& we have had this year, and the quality generally vl es s., Fat pigs were more pl en tif u l. F at an d s t or e calves /0 Beet 6ld to 71d Veal ........... acitolti Mutton .. 6f dto 7id Pork ....... . . s c l we' Lamb —d to —d Rough ..... 3s 9d Per Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. 19' MAILS DUE. . 464 1 1 ' Auslralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... . mo i . via Marseilles ... ..... c tu jel i. Brazil and Cape Yards, by British packet.. ..... ..: 40 , n . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. • P i lo r i. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton.:o J,' via Marseilles .. • j' iii ie IP , 11. Falkland Islands . ... goi 19. Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton m g :1 1 i l l t , via Marseilles. • • $5l il, India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles ....... • one... Portugal.... ................................ ic io ylk Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ..... se9 Is, via Marseilles ....... : yid Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. A mer i ca , t y B r it. pac ket.. • g,•- by U.S. packet. • ..)1 0 1 co, by Canadian pack et. Als9 W.C. of Africa,_ Madeira, and Teneriffe ......... :101 3 29. Bahamas, via New York ..................... gIP of ~ Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, i nc l u di ng Chili, Peru, ) 161 California. and British Columbia. . .• • • ..• , 4 ?W LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—NEW BRIGHTC" o istO LIVERPOOL, May 11.—The distress flag W BB ilgr i° at the Rock Lighthouse at half-pa s t 7 t hi s e veni ng- oc wr Mr. H. W. Eddie). The crew o f th e tu b u l ar libt -t cl v 4 Natiiinal Liteb iat Institution were at once za tis :oo lPr a the boat was under way i n a b out 2 0 m i nu tes 0" ... .,jr: t She was taken in tow by the steam-tug UniversetTeo proceeding down the R oc k Channel three o r four l33 ll o l, off from the steamer about a mile and a quarter to v: 1 7: WI of the wreck, which was on the inside of the n Or When the lifeboat l e ft th e s t eamer s h e pu lled W i o : 01LO a heavy sea t o t h e wrec k , under oars, an d PO: life'd seaworthy in the broken water on the banks. An - ott r if 4 anchored to windward of the vessel, and dropPed" - her. She pro ve d t o b e th e L evant , o f Bristol, of bound, from Barbadoes, Capt. Jones, with a ' a i ,,.. r g .° 14 0 14 tortoiseshell, rum, &c. The wind was VV. by I ‘;'btill i P t y hard, with a heavy sea on the bank, the vessel t°,o6, heavily, the tide half ebb. The lifeboat returrlot e b t shAre about 11 30 p.m., with the crew of the L ef : t trip ho o °. sisting of 10 men, on board. The disaster W 0 -0011 tl to bad management. This valuable lifeboat has pf a few months on this dangerous station at the 130 9 oncl. river Mersey, and there can oe no doubt that ia the crew of the Levant wo u ld i n a ll probability Births. IPll' °lo# BURROUGBES.—On the 12th inst, at at Hoveton 00 0. „IA folk, the lion. Mrs. Randall Btirroughea , e , ft :„, fI, CC I • BURRARD.—On the 13th inst., at Yarmouth,f;rearat 0 the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney P ti " tY daughter. ( it,' FALBOT —On the 14th inst., at 43, Cani def t - ta f t• ete lit wife of Augustus B. Talbot, Esq., of a dang - „,,,dtlin WARNER.—On the 13th inst., at The L o dge, •L'" the wife of Algernon Warner, Esq., of a son. Marriages. o, Sto re j; ro r BADER - STRONG.—On the 13th inst., at CoYdge, 0 . 0 1313 t A. Baber, Esq., of South-place, night ebri alcl 5 Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of W, ° I3W Esq., of Thornton. heath, Surrey. F. croid ( V REEVES—REEVES.- On the 14th inst., O ha ra, t ° o" Reeves, Esq., Lunsford Lodge, Etobi s Tiicoloi H. Reeves, niece of B. Murton ; Eackt " e Croydon. e Deaths. o o , 0 thn COMPTON.—On the 12th inst., at e e '" . " l1 11l rif Ren t° ...- Compton, aged 45. CLISSOLD.—On the 12th inst., at Wrentila° Ernes Til ° Suffolk, the R ev . S. Cli sso ld, a ged 7 3 . Vra- t HAMMOND.—On the 12th inst., at CrOYd °ll ' Hammond, of Lloyd s, aged 31. 01' 1 1 lace, LYALL.--On the 13th inst., at Woburn -P for t ' , n -str e , e 4.4 t ' . A square, John Lyall, Esq., aged 64. MUNDY.—On the 14th inst ,at 42, BrYa, oB l 3 " D e IN Tiew° man-square, Colonel George. Mundy, L'• ' 0 0 0 ' NIELD.—On the 13th inst., at Rochdale, Jon settiPot Esq., aged 72. , 0 .' 0 400 - PHILLIPS.—On the 13th inst .at 17. I-C lll ' ;AO° $ James's, the Rev. Wm. Spencer St. John's, Cheltenham, aged 68. Jonn at ItrightOrit WATSON.—On the 13th inst., Watson, Esq., aged 68. PhilliPs, - 000 NCR ; London : Printed and Published by WILI, Sl-6"". t 10! of No. 112, Strand, Printe r, at TUB US ' l3O ,00 otfr Strand, in the Precinct of the 3!tv0Y.14 Middlesex.—FridaY. BUY 15, 38"