The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-20 00:00:00

TEE CROLEBA., The following notification, dated April 17, has been issued by the General Board of Health, Whitehall . " Tbe General Board of Health deem it their duty to warn boards of guardians, local boards of health, parochial boards, and other local authorities against placing a false security in the present apparent disappearance of epidemic cholera. "It is of the last importance to bear in mind that a simi lar decline of the pestilence took place itt corresponding periods of its progress on both its former visitations. " The attack of 1831 was premonitory of a more severe and wide-spread outbreak in 1832. "The epidemic of 1818, which in the autumn of that year numbered nearly 1,000 victims in the metropolis, almost wholly disappeared in the spring, yet returned with. redoubled - violence in the summer, destroyed nearly 2,000 persons weekly for several weeks in succession, and pro duced, including deaths from diarrhoea, a total mortality of more than 17,000. "In like manner the outbreak of last autumn, which commenced with greater virulence than the epidemic of 1848, and destroyed in the metropolis during the first months of its course double the number of victims, has been followed by a lull which has been more complete than that of 1849. But within the last month the disease has again become mei-elective, and a gradual increase has taken place in the number of deaths, raising for this month the total deaths in England and Scotland to twice the amount of the corresponding period of 1849. The analogy of the preceding visitations therefore justifies the apprehension that the disease, instead of having ceased, is in its period of incubation, and th a t th e - ep id em ic , in its decided form and full force, is yet to come. The modifications in its chareiter which the pestilence has recently exhibited are of a nature to render it doubly necessary that the first indications of its appearance in a locality s h ou ld b e v i g il an tly watched. In the majority of the places which it has hitherto attacked is has seized its victims more suddenly, and hurried them through its fatal course with greater rapidity than on any preceding visite eion. "One stage of the disease, formerly well marked, and of the utmost value with reference totheopportnhity afforded for the application of the means of prevention,es now gene rally much shorter in duration, and often Cholera-' • - I namely, that denoted by the term, diarrlacea does still indeed exist,but that also: .Premenharer :cr ee l ~is comm only . of shorter duration, and passes more 'di rec tl y ‘eien'sl rapidly into cholera, and cholera itself into collapse. hue D ar ing its first visitation in 1831 and 1832, the attacks .318 it :Of the epidemic, with few exceptions, were confined to the ileefeeel poorer portions of the population residing in the most „xi/ iii neglected and unhealty districts. In 1848 and 1849 it was fatal to larger numbers of the middle classes inhabiting better-conditioned localities and houses. As far as the tgata: disease has yet advanced ; the proportion of the better class eer.-Tele attacked is still greater than in 1849. lit "In that year among the total num b er of persons who ;• r perished by the epidemic in the me t ropo li s 81 per cent. were labourers and artisans, and 15 per cent. were trades men vailed the proportion of deaths among labourers and arti ,e7°7:' sans has be en on l y 72 per cent , while the mortality among i .1114 tradesmen has re ac h e d 24 per .cent. In like manner in the epidemic of 1849 the proportion of the deaths of the gen fL try and professional persons to the total deaths was 2.6 . „;l ee eie per cent., but recently it has risen to 3.2 per cent. In other eee e countries the dis ease h as not spared the highest classes , s ' - an d if the safeguards against i • tare neglected, there is no reason why it should in our own. "It is further indicative of an increasing activity and . intensity in the pestilence that, while the interval between its first and second visitations was 16 years, the interval between its second and third visitations has been only four ' • years ; and that its second visitation was far more eaten sive and mortal than the first. In the absence of more . .es- efficient precautions against it, there appears no reasonable T ground for the expectation that the third will be less ex tensive and mortal than the second. " Besides the loss of life, the pecuniary loss occasioned by these local outbreaks demands attention. Irrespective of the permanent expense entailed on towns both by public rates and private contributions for the maintenance of widows, orphans, and others pauperised by the epidemic, the losses sustained by individual tradesmen, from the in terruption, and in some instances the almost total suspen sion of commerce, are most severe. In some recent in stances the sums thus lost would have sufficed to defray a very large proportion of the outlay required to place the town in a permanently safe and satisfactory sanitary con dition. It is estimated that the total cost of the visita tion of 1848 and 1849 to England and Scotland, exclusive of the cost to Ireland, could, not have been less than 2,000,0001. " From these considerations the board have learnt with great regret that since the lull in the epidemic local autho rities in numerous instances have suspended the preventive measures which they had actively commenced, under the asanneption that the visitation of cholera is over, and that therefore the occasion for farther watchfulness and effort has ceased. " While it is satisfactory to state that a great and grow ing number of local autherities now manifest en earnest desire to carry into effect every practicable means of pre vention, there are some who show the same reluctance as formerly to admit the plainest facts evidencing the near approach of an outbreak. Instead of preparing to meet the danger, they shut their eyes against it. Cases of diarrhcee. occuring in unusual intensity, in unusual numbers, and at an unusual season, they regard as of no real significance. Successive deaths, with the symptoms of malignant cholera, they call deaths from Eng lish cholera, as if changing the name altered the evil. They suppress, as far and as long as possible, the knowledge of all local forewarnings, whence a false security is maintained, which, on the outbreak of the pestilence, gives place to panic. On the arrival of one of the board's medical inspectors, who, under such circumstances, is usually sent for, he finds the union medical officers distracted with the sudden de mands made upon them—demands greater than they could possibly satisfy were they to devote day and night to the service, which indeed many of them do, to the peril and some to the loss of their own lives. Thus occupied with the treatment of cases, they are wholly unable to devise, organise, and superintend measures for preventing the spread of the pestilence among the population as yet unat tacked. Additional medical assistance has now to be sought from a distance ; properly qualified house to house visitors to perform the service of bringing the premonitory cases under immediate treatment are to be obtained ; houses of refuge are to be procured; dispensaries are to be opened— in short, the whole preventive system has to be organised, and before these arrangements can be made, which ought to have been completed befOre . a' single case of the disease occurred, the pestilence is at its height. " One consequence of this neglect of the proper period of preparation is, that in the actual presence of the epide mic, some of the most powerful predisposing causes of the disease cannot be removed without the risk of increasing the evils intended to be remedied. Cleansing operations, which at all times require caution, are then hurriedly and precipitately resorted to, and are sometimes performed in such a manner as to produce positive aggravation of the disease. In some instances cesspool matter has been dis charged even into the kennels of the streets, and the contents of foul ditches, in a state to give off poisonous exhalations on the slightest agitation, have been spread on the banks close to habitations. The board deem it necessary again to cautionlocal authorities against such a culpable mode of pro ceeding, which even in ordinary seasons would be attended with imminent danger ; but that danger is greatly in creased at an epidemic period. Though accumulations of filth may be removed with perfect safety, with the proper use of disinfecting suhetanoes, and under the superinten denceof persona of competent knowledge, yet in an epidemic season the emanations from deeomposine- animal and vege table matter acquire so much potency that, at that time, it is better to leave collections of foul lase f undisturbed, and to cover them t emporarily wita re layers of quicklime or of fresh earth. " Wherever it has not been already dome, an efficient scavenging staff should be immediately organised and kept in unremitting action. The mortality from the epidemic in towns well scavenged has in so me instances ben only one-half of that in ill-scavenged towns, both being in other respects in similarly imperfect sanitary conditions. " It is sometimes observed, as a ground for inaction, that extraordinary epidemics merely take th e p l ace ordi nary epidemics, and only destroy, in a shorter space of time, those who would have perished, probably within the year, by some form of zymotic disease. " But even if this were true, it cannot be too strongly impressed on local authorities that ordinary epidemics, which may take the place of an extraordinary epidemic, are themselves preventible, and are in great measure prevented by proper sanitary arrangements, as is seen in the comparative immunity from these diseases among the inmates of well -managed union houses and prisons, of well-regulated lodging-houses, and of im p roved dwellin gs f or th e labouring classes- If, therefore, from the favourable s t a t e of the weather, or from some unknown cause, the disease should return only with diminishes force, or should not recur at all as a general epidemic, no properly directed effort can fail to be of benefit equivalent to the expense incurred. It should not require the occur rence of an extraordinary disease, terrifying the imagina tion by the suddenness of its attack and the rapidity of its course, to call forth such efforts ; •they are called for by ordinary epidemi cs , w hi c h , though less alarming as being always present, are for that very reason far more mortal than extraordinary epidemic. "It is, however, so far from being true that an extraor dinary epidemic does not , increase the averaee mor- Wale that it sometimes swells that mortality nearly - by the whole number of pars' ens who perish by it. This was the case, to a considerable extent, in the epidemic of 1849. Out of its 72,000 victims, j _ 40,000 were added to the mortality of that year. there is no ground to y ' ho . pe thuiaj t gin a g . from past experience, enxeetrttaioknesparlaeceminadtehethapproachingsstimimilmarerl,oss of life will unless timely erevent the calamity, and it is now only that timely that the exertion can be made. It i 8 at the pre sent juncture t extraordinaryenf powers conferred by the order in Council for cleansine ci e and for the remoovraelinge external and internal •activity, vigilance, with the utmost ') nuisances ' should be genes. t and stria "Ncr should it bo forgotten that withi n the time of (le prepa „ ion which may yet beplaaleloeswiendX, in the actual onl condition of great numb ers o f y , palliatives that can be applied. there s no whoeurr towns, e i it is e local nothing epeleted. drainage, no proper water supply, no waterclo but foul cesspools, only limited b ene fit s can on be al " For this reason the board would urge o f h ea lth, whose works under th e P u bli c Health Act .• the most ad vanced, the g reat i mportance of haateninc,aoren the completio n of such o p erations as are necessary for the abolition of cesspools, and the substitution of the water closet apparatus, by laying . clown, wherever possible, espe cially in epideeele districts an d l oca liti es, i mpermeable and self -cleansing house drains, and- by providing amp l e supplies of water. H itherto, almost exclusive attention has been given to the construction of main sewers, but ex perience has shown that these alone, without systematized connexion with self -cleansing house drains and ampl e supplies of water, .are of little avail iu the prevention of . disease, but that where fou l e cipal sanitary evil, as from houseesWools have been the pin to house thc,ie have been filled up, and the water-closet substituted, th t e ., ou l t i. outbreak and spread of fever, and other forms o f zyme.a.. se, have Leen at once arrested. " At the same time that theme works are proceeded with, the damp arid miry surface in front and at the back of houses should be removed by paving. There are instances in which this single improvement has apparcut'y pro tected the inhabitants of courts and streets from the re currence of ordinar epidernicA. A flagged surface fur ther affords the moans of more effectual cleansing by the hose 'anti jet. Paving may be done in many instances without waiting for the completion of drainage works, and, where the principle has been adopted of draining from the backs of houses, instead of through them into sewers in the front streets, there will lee comparatively few in stances in which it \via be necessary, on the completion of the works, to break up the pavements, in order to put in house drains. " The board regard with satisfaction the progress made by some local hoards, in spite of much opposition and mis representation, in carrying into effect in their respective towns a combined and complete system of sanitary works at . . moderate cost. Oat of 182 cities and towns, compnaing upwards of 2,000,000 of town population under the Public Health Act, 126 have hail surveys made, the first step for effecting improved works. In 70 towns p ans for such works have been laid out, and in 13 more the main or public works have been completed. It is expo ed that in about 35 other towns similar works will be in operation in the course of another year. " The act itself, constituting the necessary authority, and conferring the requisite powers for carrying out these works, has been obtained at the average expense of 1121., that is, at little more than a 12th part of the average ex pense of a local act. " In the towns in which the works are the most ad vanced, and which may be taken as average examples of the whole, the public works of drainage have been com pleted at the average cost of - Id. per week per house. The supply of water, including the works within the house, the service pipes, sinks, watercloset and house drains, has been afforded, with principal and interest, at a rate under 2Ad. per week per house, making the total expense for the whole of these works 3id. per week per house. " Sanctions for the execution of such works, after careful examination of their efficiency, economy, and completeness, have been given to the amount of upwards of 1,000,0001.; and it ifr estimated that th ere w ill b e requ i re d for the towns already under the act the further sanction of upwards of 6,000,0001. " Though the most advanced of these works are as yet too recent for the development of their results on the public health, the diminution of sickness which has already been effected in some of the worst localities, the removal of the sense of depression, which was before so generally felt in these districts, and the cleanliness and comfort experienced by the inhabitants, justify the hope that these amendments will act, in some degree at least, as safeguards against the threatened pestilence. " Rut no external works, however perfect, can prevent the operation of the causes of disease which arise from re sidence in dwellings unfit for human habitation, such as underground kitchens and cellars, in which no families can maintain health. Nor can the most perfect external works stop the diseases caused by internal filth and overcrowd ing. The Common Lodging-houses Act, indeed, which en forces certain conditions of internal cleanliness and pre vents overcrowding, reaches the latter evils for the class of houses under its control ; but there are hundreds of thou sands of the people who live in tenemented houses, placed back to back ; each house being divided into many rooms, and each room being, in fact, the house of the entire family, in which there is a total and habitual disregard both of cleanliness and of the amount of breathing space. These dwellings are considered as private houses, and con sequenty the Common Lodginghouses Act does not touch theM. With these and other conditions favourable to the genera tion and diffusion of epidemic disease, too ,common in all our ust villages local outbreaks of the p es til ence m and preparations must be m a d e t o miti be expected,a ndto miti gate the calamity as far as may be practicable. With a v i ew t o assist local authorities in the preparation of pre ventive measures, the board has issued revised instructions, particularly with reference to the organisation of the sys tem of house-to-house visitation, and experience has shown that the saving of life in an outbreak of epidemic cholera will mainly depend ou the promptitude and efficiency with which the measure is carried into execution. "The board would call the earnest attention of boards of guardians and local boards of health to the evidence which has been adduced of the surprising and almost incredible success that in some instances has attended well-directed exertion, even under circumstances in which temporary measures only were available, and when an outbreak seemed inevitable. Recently, at Tyuemouth, where the kcal au thorities exerted themselves with extraordinary energy, no else of cholera occurred, though neighbouring towns were devastated by the pestilence. -" Within the barracks at Newcastle, where all the means at command for cleansing, for the removal of nui sances, and for the avoidance of overcrowding, were em ployed with great promptitude and energy, no case of cholera occurred, though premonitory diarrhoea, was so prevalent among the garrison, that out of 519 men, form ing its total strength, 451 suffered from this affection ; while in the town there were upwards of 1,500 deaths from cholera, and nearly 45,000 persons received relief at the public expense. "'AI a settlement in the Bahamas, in which energetic measures of cleansing were promptly effected, the mor tality from the disease scarcely reached 1 per cent. of the affected population; whereas in a neighbouring settlement, in which no measures were adopted, the mortality ranged from 12 to 20 per cent. „ . " At B tltimore, in the United States, during the epe demic of 1849, which ravaged neighbouring cities, neither money nor labour was spared to purify the town, and the cleansing operations were so energetically performed that it was admitted that the town had never before been in so clean a state. For the space of three weeks or a month premonitory diarrhce,t and other symptoms, denoting the presence of the cholera poison, were as prevalent through. out the city as in the barracks at Newcastle; yet no out break of the pestilence took place, though at the Balti more Almshouses, situted ab ou t t wo m i les from the city, and close to which a large mass of putrefying filth had, been left uncleansed, 99 deaths occurred from cholera out of a population of less than 600 souls. " These results recall the observation of a great physi cian of that country, made nearly a century ago, with re ference to another epidemic, but which is equally applicable to this To all natural evils,' says Dr. Rush, the emi nent physician of the United States,— " `the Anthor of nature has kindly prepared an anti dote. Pestilential fevers furnish no exception to this re mark. The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning and common fire. lam so satisfied of this opinion that I look for the time when our courts of law will punish cities and villages for per mitting any of the sources of malignant fevers to exist within their jurisdiction." " T. TAYLOR, , Secretary, General Board of lie- lth." -gat SOCIETY OF ARTS. ... A meeting of the members of the Society cf Arts was held at the societyie rooms, in John-street, Adelphi, last evening ; Lord Berriedale in the chair. Mr. GLYN, F.R.S., read a brief but interesting paper on "Water-meters," descriptive of the various contri vances which have from time to time been suggested for measuring and registering th e exac t quant i ty o f water supplied by every service pipe, whether to dwelling house, counting-house, or factory. and so keeping an accurate account between the consumer and the com pany. He was followed by Mr. Chadwick, of Sal ford, who produced and explained a model of a water-meter, of which be is joint patentee with Mr. Hanson, a working plumber ; but which has not yet been brought into general use. One only has been put up by way of experiment, upon the works of one of the London water companies (we be lieve the New River Company) ; and Mr. Glynn, who had an opportunity, in the course of theday, of seeing it in operation there, observed that it did not appear, when actually at work, to present the difficulties which at first sight would seem to be attached to it. Mr. Chad wick, whose attention had been called to the subject of water-meters in consequence of his official connection with the water works at Salford, where the want of an efficient instrument of this kind had been much felt, and who awarded to his co-patentee (Mr. Hanson) the full credit of having originally designed what their j o i n t labours had s i nce ma t ure d and perfected —addressed himself to certain objections which he anticipated might be made upon a cursory examination of the instrument, and then pointed out what he conceived to be its chief advantages. It v.-ould register any quantity of water which might pass through it, however small that quan tity might be, and he believed it to be the cheapest meter that could be made. A paper prepared by Mr. Fothergill and descriptive of the meter invented by Mr. Taylor, of Manchester, was then read by the secretary, while Mr. ,Fothergill himself explained the drawings in detail, and state-1 that large number of these meters had been made and that they had given universal satisfaction. Mr. SIEMENS explained the meters of his o inven tion, and the improvements which he has latel' . nade in them. Th ese i nstruments, it was stated, had :so stood the test of practical experience, and had met ith gene ral approval, and one was particularly mentio' ed as hav in,, been in use at the St. Giles's baths and washhouses, and to the mutual satisfaction of the cornzattee and the water company. Mr. YATES placed upon the table a couple of "Irani son's meters, and bore testimony to the simplicity of their construction, and to the success with which they had been worked. The descriptions given in all these cases were of course purely technical, and could not be made intelligible without the models and diagrams with which they were accompanied. The discussion occupied some time, and was not without interest. Mr. CHESTER made some very pertinent remarks on the importance of good water meters to the public, as a means of putting an end to the present most unfair system of charging at per room, in§tead of for the quan tity of water actually consumed; and of giving to the water companies an inducement, which they do not now possess, to improve the q ua lity o f t h e article which they supply. r Other speakers referred to the want of an efficient meter as an impediment in the way of making the supply of water in all cases cone us' and non-intermittent ; and while opinions appears ) differ as to the compara tive merits of the several ventions which had been specially brought before the meeting, there was a very general if not a unanimous assent to the proposition, that a meter, which should not only be accurate but reasonably economical, would be a substantial public benefit. The question of economy was put very prae tically by Mr. Wright, who suggested that while the average income of the London water companies from each service pipe was not more than 30s. per annum at the outside, and ',sill° the (rental was in many cases as low as 10s. per : .um, it could not be expected that meters, which at th 6 t'owest estimate would cost 3/. per house, besides the cost of fixing them, would be brought into anything like general use. If meters were to be provided for every house, so that every consumer might pay for the quantity of water supplied, and no more, they must look out for an instrument which might be made for 14s. or 155., and fixed- for 2s. or 3s. more. Mr. SCOTT observed upon this that meters should be t . -t uii)eonththeeenodutltaoy provided, as land was drained —at the cost, in the first i !bnn:etfa.roeiutscand,,of the owner, the tenant paying a moderate an eamn uatiuTaalnlygeandlevia"ntwagheicolui Mr. ADAMS stated the result of his experience in con nection with the construction of new waterworks at advantageous. Amsterdam. The whole cost of the works would be house, which had 0 001 but it had been foun d 200, beebeen t a o nx t- i ti o , u )p s ly to m d e o ter i s f that • ' to every possible, would cost 31. they houses, and would per . house for each of 24,000 72,000/. thus increase their expenditure At the conclusion of the conversation severalt • members were ball o t e d f or; thanks were new voted to Mr. Glynn and Mr. Fethergill, as w 'I •et as to the noble chair man, and the meeting separated. DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAlLS.—Yeaterdav ( afternoon, about three o'clock, the United States mall stearn-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, sailed from the Nieney for New York, with th e usua l mai l s f or the United States N and Canada. 147 passengers, and a full cargo. Copies of the London journals of that morning were placed on hoard ~ ;-,::r to her departure, by Messrs. Williner and Sulitti 'Liverpool, for the press and news rooms of the rn Continent. T11..E 19. COURT OF CHANCERY. The sittings in Easter term commenced at Westmin ster to-day. This court was opened at half-past one by the Lord Chancellor and the whole of the equity judges, except the Lord Justice Knight Bruce. The ceremo nial was on this occasion most laudably curtailed. The judges have hitherto bowed to the Lord Chancellor, to each other, and to the bar, seated themselves, and then, rising hastily, bowed to the Chancellor, to ePth other, and to the bar again, with some occasional attempts of those nearest to shake hands with the head of the court, and a degree of confusion in the exeunt neither dignified nor graceful. To-day there was nothing more than an appearance and a decorous departure, with a sincere wish on the, part of the profession that it is the last ex hibition of the kind that will be witnessed in the same place. THE QIIEEN V. THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY. This is a petition to stay execution on a writ of wire facial, asking that the charter of the company be can celled. The petitioners propose to memorialise the Queen for a re-hearing before the Privy Council ; and as they would suffer great detriment by the loss of their charter in the meantime, they pray a delay as a matter of favour and of justice, on the ground that one of the main reasons for the judgment of the Queen's Bench against them—that of the non-payment of the amount of subscribed capital--was sanctioned by the Board of Trade. The case was opened, and the arguments are to be continued to-day, . COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.), This was the first day of term, and the judges who took their seets on the bench for the term were Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Justice Crompton. THE QUEEN, ON THE PROSECUTION OF ALLEYNE, V. KENNEDY AND ANOTHER. Mr. James 'moved for a rule to show cause why the trial of this indictment should not be postponed till after - Michaelmas term. This was a prosecution instituted by two persons of the name of Alleyne, who were indicted, in the year 1852, for obtaining money on false pretences, and were convicted and sentenced. They were indicted for obtaining from Captain Kennedy a sum of 7,3001. by false pretences. A writ of error had been obtained in the case; as to which the Court would hear some thing in a day . or two. Captain Kennedy, who was the prosecutor in that case, left this country for India at Christmas last, on which Alleyne went to the Old. Bailey and preferred the present indictment against Captain Kennedy. This application had . therefore be come necessary, for Captain Kennedy knew nothing of the indictment, and the attorney who had acted as Cap tain Kennedy's attorney in the indictment against the Alleynes had not been able to communicate with him. Besides this general necessity for communicating with the defendant Kennedy, it was expressly stated that that defendant had in his possession letters which were material and necessary for the defence. The Court would most certainly feel that defendants who, though convicted and sentenced, had contrived to escape punish ment altogether, were not to he allowed thus to take advantage of the absence of their prosecutor to indict him, and then obtain a verdict against hiti without his being allowed the opportuniq of making a defence. Lord Campbell said that the learned counsel might take the rule. Rule granted. ADMIRALTY COURT. (Before Dr. Lushington.) Mr. Woodyer Buckton was, this morning, admitted a proctor of the Admiralty Coort. SALVAGE.—CASKS OF TALLOW. This was an action entered on behalf of the masters and crews of six fishing-smacks to obtain a salvage reward for bringing into port several casks, containing tallow, which they fell in with between Heligoland and the Dogger Bank. The property, which was of the value of 2,1041., was conveyed into Hull and Scarborough. The Crown appeared in opposition. The learned Judge decreed a sum to the boatmen equivalent to two.fifths of the value after the payment of all expenses. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. —AIfred Rickards, a respect able looking lad, 15 years of age, was charged with shooting a little boy named Edward Mountford, who sweeps a crossing in the New North-road, Hoxton. Warne, 370 N, said that about half-past six on Tues day evening he heard the report of fire-arms in the New North-road, and running to the spot found a woman supporting a boy, who on being asked what was the matter, replied, " Oh, dear, I'm the little boy who sweeps the crossing, and I've been shot." He pointed to the prisoner as having done it, and stated that seeing the prisoner, who had sometimes given him halfpence, he asked him for something, and the prisoner replied that he would give him something, but drew a pistol from his breast and shot him. The boy was exceedingly faint, and asked for water. Being carried to Mr.Coward'e, the divisional surgeon, that gentleman on having him stripped of his coat, waistcoat, and shirt, all of which were per'orated in front, found a bullet wound near the breast, and had him immediately removed to St. Bar tholomew's Hospital. The witness here produced the garments, all of which appeared to have been pe r fo r at e d by a bullet, and the shirt was stained with blood. Mr. Coward, the police surgeon, said that, upon eat• mination, be found a wound like a bullet wound upon the side of the left breast, and from the hole through the clothing he was led to conclude that the bullet was still lodged in the body, but he could not find that it had entered the chest nor ascertain the direction it had taken. Mr. Richard Fowler, a silversmith, in Dean-street, New North-road, stated that, on hearing the report of fire-arms, he ran out and saw the prisoner himself sup porting the little boy in his arms, - and before he could speak to them the prisoner said "I've shot him," or " I have done it," and handing to. witness a pistol now pro duced, he added "This is the pistol." The prisoner, he said, seemed. in great distress at what had occurred. Phillip Raymond, 421 N, took charge of the prisoner, who said that he had got another pistol. He found a percussion cap upon the nipple, but neither powder nor bullet in it. The prisoner had said that there was a bullet but no powder in the other, or that if there was powder, it was very little indeed. On searching him at the station-house a bag was found upon him containing 11 bullets, about 200 percussion caps, a bullet mould, a pistol key. a small mask, and also a bunch of keys. One of these keys, he said, opened his desk at his father's in Shaftesbury-street, where he lived, and witness proceed ing there that morning found the desk in the kitchen, and in it a powder flask and powder, another pistol, and an empty cap box. All the articles mentioned by the constable, including the three pistols, were now produced and it was subse quently stated that the prisoner had purchased them for about a guinea on Tuesday. A certificate from Mr. Hutnphreys, house-surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was produced, and the prisoner, who seemed alarmed at the situation he was placed in, but did not say anything, was remanded. CLERKENWELL.—Bernard Durkin was charged by Maria Durkin, his wife, with having brutally saulted her. It appealed from her evidence that she had been married to the prisoner two years, and their connubial happiness conbisted of the usual course of drunkenness and brutality on the part of the husband, and of long suffering and forgiveness on that of the wife. Her patience was at last exhausted. On Monday last be beat her about the head, face, and body, and kicked her violently on her loins, from the effects of which she is now suffering great pain. The prisoner, who hung down hi s h ea d, sa i d nothing. Mr. Hammill said he was a brute, and sentenced him to six months, with hard labour. CUST WI DUTIES IN AUSTRALIA.- 1 - Mr. Ewart has a notice of motion on the order-book of the House of Commons, which he is to move on the re-assembling after the recess, " to inquire of the Under-Secretary for the Colonies whether any measures are being adopted for assimilating the cust om d ut i es (or interior duties) in the different Australian colonieQ." FIRE IN OXFORD -STREET.—ESCAPE OP A FAMILY.— Shortly before three o'clock yesterday morning great excitement prevailed for the safety of the family of Mr. Mitchell, wholesale stationer, 129, Oxford -street. The police-constable on duty at the time, observing a very unusual light betwixt the shutters, and being convinced of the cause, lost no time in arous ing the inmates from their slumbers. Escape by the lower part of the house being impossible, they for tunately succeeded in reaching the roof of the ad joining buildings. The fire-engines of the brigade—about seven in number—together with the Royal Society's fire-escapes, were soon on the spot, when an abundant supply of water being procured, and prompt assistance by the passers-by rendered, the flames in less than an hour were thoroughly subdued. The greater part of the stock was destroyed, and serious damage to the household furniture and building. As to the origin of the fire nothing satisfactory could be obtained. Mr. Mitchell is insured, we understand, in the British Empire Office. Or THE Poort-taTE.;--The poor-rate in Eng land and . Wales vas thus expended in the year ending Lady-day, 1852 :-553,9781., being is. 74d. in the pound on the total poor-rates expended, in salaries of poor law. officers ;. 248,561/. 0 or B,ld. 'the pound. in the maintenance of lunatic paupers irr. asylums ; 25,8951., or about ld. in the pound, in vaccination fees ; 58,9591., or about 2d. in the pound, in registration expenses (fees to clergymen -and Yegistrvirs' ontlay)-; 12,4971., or about id. in the pound, in expenses for surveyaun— der the Yarochial Assessments .Act ;. 30,5811., about Id.' in the pound, in Parliamentary j and mu nicipal registration expenses ' and coat of jury lists ; 763,3991., or 25..21 , 1, in the pound, on in-maintenance of paupers ; 2,809,6091., or Bs. 2id; in the pound, in out relief ; ,6,9891., or about /I in the pound, in emigra tion expenses ; 30,5911., or about I d. in the pound, i n extra medical relief ; 485,6561.; or is. sd: in the pound, 'in other expenses 'immediately connected with the relief of the poor ; 62,8311., or 2fd. in the . pound, in proceed ing* at law or in equity; 60,3301., or 2/d:, in the pound, in expenses of constables and cost of proceedings before justices; 1,345,2561., or 3s. 11/d. in the pound; in pay rnenta for the county or borough , ate or police -rate ; 8,4421., or about Id. in the pound, in repairs of parish property ; 1,90a1., in expenses. under the Nuisance R. moral And Prevention Act, and also under the regulations of the General Board of Health ; and 315,703/., or 11/d. in the pound, in expenses na-coni preheaded.under any or the toregoing bead's' • ! - MTR - S 4 DAY_,ETENING, APRIL 20, 1854. PORTING rINTELT,IGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. BETTING—TUESDAY NIGHT. The oldest member of the "the ring" can scarcely re collect the general betting so remarkable for its variety of changes and fluctuations. The old adage of "up and down, like buckets in a well," has been strikingly exemplified. Insiders and outsiders, particularly with regard to. the Derby, experienced in turn to-night a marked degree of depression, and from no stable is there a whisper of , some coming dark wonder to account for it 7 it can, therefore, only be attributed to the pavement like condition of the ground, which must render the necessary work of preparation very haz ar d ous . At midnight the iluotations were asfollows : PORT STASES. At Arst odds. were laid on Weht Australian, but some investments on Sittingbourne at evens quickly altered the complexion of affairs, and 2 to 1 and sto 2 were offered again-A him. TWO THOUSAITD. At one time Ruby advanced te 5 to 2, but at the close 3 to I was freely ollfered ; 4 to 1 taken to a email sum about BOiardo.; 10,000 to 100 and 1,000 to 10 laid 'against Ruby's winning this even t and' the Derby. GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. . • 100 to 6 agst Aguilla (taken). 20 to 1 apt West Australian (taken). CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 apt Baalbec (taken). 12 to - 1 agst Marc Antony (taken to 501.) 13 to '1 agst Newminster (taken). 20 to .1 agst Duchess of Lorraine colt (taken to • • 1001.) 20 to 1 apt Star of Surrey (taken and offered). 40. to 1 apt Joe Miller (taken). - • - THE DERBY. 4to l•agst Scott's, lot (taken and offered). 5 to . 1 apt Autocrat (offered). 7 to _1 eget King Tom. Bto , 1 apt Dervish (taken and offered). \ 20 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (offered). , 33, to 1 apt Ostrogoth. -40 to 1 apt New Warrior. • ,Sato 1 apt Neville (taken). 50 to 1 apt Ruby (offered). 1000 to - 10 apt Bessus (offered). MO to 10 agst Boiardo (taken). WEDNESDAY. • SivzsiPisiAßES of 19 sois each, for 3-yr-olds, 7st ; four, Bst 81b ; five And upwards, 9st 111 b, The winner to •be sold for 150 soya if demanded, &c. Ab. M. (3 subs.) Captain Lane's 'Guy.Mannering by Bay Middleton, 3 yre, ast 114 Mr. Greville's Mandricardo, 3 yrs, 7st (Harding)... 2 Betting-5 . to 2on Guy Mannering. The favourite made all the running, and won by a length. THE tRAtIEN HANDICAP of 25 BOYS each, 10 ft, with - 200 added, for 3.yr-olds and upwards ; certain winners extra. T.Y.C. (16 subs.) Capt... Lane's Ephesus by Epirus, 6 yrs, Bst 181 b (Bartholomew) 1 Duke of Bedford's Nathan, 4 yrs, 7st 91b ...(Pettit) 2 Mr. J. M. SCanley's Orinoco, 4 yrs, Set 31b (includ ing 31b extra) • (Charlton) 0 Count Batthyany's Determination, 3 yrs, sst 11lb (Oliver, jun.) 0 The following also ran :—Nicotine, Placid, Quince, Bourgeois, and Conspiracy. Betting -7 to 2 . apt Orinoco, 4 to-1 each apt Ephe sus and Bourgeois. Won easily by three lengths. A. very fine race in with Nathan, Orinoco, and Determina tion, Nathan obtaining second place by a neck. A dead heat for third place. HANDICAP PLATE of 501. for 3 Yr-olds and upsiards, A. F. . Mr. Stevens' Lady Flora ; by the-Libel, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Wells) 1 Mr. Wigram's Legatee, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ...(S. Steggles) 2 Mr. Lister's Mysterious Lady, 3 yrs, Est 1216 (D. Hughes) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Lady Flora, who won, bard held, by three-quarters of a length. Very bad third. 'The Cots' tst STAKES of 50 cove. h ft, for 3-yr-olds; colts B'.t 71b, and fillies Bst 416 ; those by stallions or out of mares that never produced a winner allowed 31b, if both.slb. B.M. (22 subs.) Mr. Howard's Prince Arthur, by Orlando out of The Princess (3ib), Bst 41b (Wells) 1 Lord Exeter's -Miranda by Lanercost, 8-t 41b. (Norman) 2 Mr. Greville's Boer by Van Tromp (51b), Bst 21b (A. Day) 3 Mr. Greville's _ Kaffir by Alarm (31b) Bst 41b (Flatman) 4 Betting-6,t0 4 agst Prince Arthur, who won easily by three quarters of a' length ; half a length between the second and third ; good fourth. HANDICAP PLATE of 701. ; for three/ear-olds and up ward*. D - I. • Mr. E. Parr's Newbold, 3 yrs, Est (J. Quinton) 1 Mr. P. Fryer's Jack Leeming, 6 yrs, 7st 71b (Kendall) 2 Mr. A: J. Le Crag's' Apostate, 5 y rs , 7 st (P a l mer ) 3 Mr. Megson'sGeorgy, 4 yrs, 7st (Charlton) 4 - - Betting-2 to 1 agat Newbold, sto 2 agst Jack Leeming, 3 to 1 agst Gregory, 5 to 1 agat Apostate. Newbold held - the lead throughout and won by three lengths ;, the other two were beaten off a long way. Illiverte. ;100, • h ft. Mr. Newland's El Do rado reoloived forreit.frotn. Mx, Da*, jun.'s Lady J ane by : the Herb but of Fanny ; by NVliiskenr, flat . 04 each. , Singing facies were in:a- large roOjority at the settling to-day; for CoupOtat had proved a lucky coup for the fielders, to whom the results of great races are, for the most part, now-a-days, only a sore discouragement. The morning betting was chiefly on events to be de cided in the course of the.day at Catterick Bridge, but we deem it unnecessary to specify the transactions. The 'other quotations were as follow : THE TWO THOUSAND. 3 to 1 agst Ruby (taken). 25.t0 1 agst Marble Hill (taken). oaREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. (I to 4 agst Virago (taken). . . • • DERBY. • 9do 1 agst Dervish (taken and off). 1000 to 25 asst Bracken (taken): 1000 to 15agst The Trapper (taken freely). AFTERNOON BETTING. PORT STAKES. Bto '2 agst Sittingbourne. TWO THOUSAND GUINZA.S. iOO to 30 agst Ruby (taken). .4 to- 1 agst Buiardo. .to 1 agst Champagne (taken to 501). I GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 15 to 1 agst Agnilla (taken). DERBY. • sto 1 agst Autocrat (offered). ti to 1 agst King Torn (offered). 9to 1 agst Dervish (offered). 20-to 1 agst Andover (taken to 1001). 3000 to 90 agst Bracken (taken). 1000 to 15 agst Prince Arthur (taken). 3000 to 15 agat Marble Hill (taken). Another remarkably hot and dry day—clouds of dust sweeply thickly over the heath. The attendance and sport were comparatively moderate. NEWMARKET RACES —Term DAY. ENTRIEB f6r the HANDICAP PLATE of 501., for 3-yr , olds and upwards. T.Y.O Aga • El Dorado ... ........ 3 Lady Elegant Atonic Moses 3 Lady Flora • 4 Oxus ' 3 Captain Flash St. Faith Black Swan Age Petrel 4 Adeline SWeetness 4 Anteverta Jessamine 3 Speed the Plough' 4 Folly of the Day 3 MURDER IN FRANCE. A pretty young wouiiiti, Lease Mercier, aged 27, and her fath_T, aged 62, were tried a few days ago by the Court of Assizes of La Vendee for the murder of a farmer, named Rouhaud, of Poire-sur-Rellierre. Be tween the woman and this man intimate relations had long existed, and she had a child, who is now aged about four years, by him. She frequently pressed him to marry her, but he constantly refused, though he kept up his connection with her. She more than once threatened him that she would murder him if he should marry any other woman, but he paid little attention to her menaces. Her fathes , also declared that he would be avenged on him if he should abandon her. In December last it was an nounced that he intended to marry another female named Loizeau, and this greatly exasperated Louise Mercier. In s the night of the 4th of January, Rouhaud was awakened by a Noise amongst his cattle in a shed, and he got up to see what was the matter. Shortly after he had left the house he was beard to utter a loud cry. His mother hastened to him, and found him lying on the ground bathed in blood. Me had a. deep wound in the shoulder, and another in the abdomen ; the latter was mortal, and in a few seconds he expired without speak ing a word. Near him Ras found a pitchfork with one of the prongs broken, and a few yards off a straw hat. Suspicion immediately fell on the young woman Mercier, and the hat was recognised as belonging to her brother. She was arrested, and in a short time she fully confessed that, it was she who .had committed the murder. She had, she said, done it in conse quence of Rouhard's abandonment of her, and she solemnly declared that neither her father nor any other person had aided her in it, or had even been acquainted with her design. After the publication of the banns of his marriage, she had, she said, possessed herself of a knife, belonging to a butcher, named Garreau, with whom her sister was in service, and of a large pitch fork belonging to her uncle. She had then in the night of the 4th dressed herself as a man with clothes belong ing to her father and brother, and had at a late hour - gone to Rouhard's house. Having knocked' rudely at his window-shutters, she, expecting him to come out, had placed herself behind a post. In a short time he ap peared, and she had stabbed him with a pitchfork in the shoulder ; he had turned hastily round, and had wrested the pitchfork from her ; but before he could strike she had plunged her knife into his bowels. She had then taken to flight. According to the indictment the father must have assisted the girl in the perpetration of the crime, as it was not likely that she would have carried a heavy pitchfork when she was armed with a knife ; and as, besides, a neighbour of the mu r d ere d man h a d distinctly beard the footsteps of two persons, the heavy tread of a man, and the lighter one of a woman, proceed rapidly along the road just after the crime was committed. The father had, moreover, returned to his other daughter the knife which her sister had taken. But a strong circumstance was men tioned :—After the crime the second daughter, whose name was Aiin4e, had been for a moment suspected, and had in consequence been discharged from the service of the butcher. This, combined with the arrest of her sister, and with that of her father, which subsequently took place, drove her distract e d, an d sh e wen t an d drowned herself. When her dead body was brought borne her mother gave way to the must violent affliction, and, in her despair, cried that it was her husband who was responsible for all, as he had aided Louise innorn tnittingthe murder, and as She had heard him say o n hi s return that he had given Rouhaud a good stab with a pitchfork, to which Louise had answered that she had given him one with her knife. The jury, however, did not think the evidence against the man sufficient, and it acquitted him. The female was declared guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, and was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonineet, with hard labour. In the course of the trial the knife she' had used was produced—she turned her eyes from it with horror I BAILTP AY INTELLIGENCF. GREAT LUXEMBOURG. A CHILD MURDERED BY ITS FATHER.—On Tuesday morning a little girl, aged 16 months, named Bathed Goodall, was murdered by her father, John Goodall, a t the village of Milford, situated between Bdper and Duffield, about eight miles from Derby. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday at the Beehive, Milford, before Mr. Aloz:ey, when evade ce was given, to the following effect :—lt appeared that the man who committed the crime had lately been em ployed as a mechanic at Wolverton. In consequence of his dissipated and vicious habits his wife was separated from.,him. There had been frequent separations between them. The wife now lived in a small cottage at Mil ford, with her children, and her father supported them. On Monday morning she received a letter from her husband, stating his intention to visit her on Tues day. He came in pursuance of his intimation, and while his wife was in the garden, hanging out some clothes, be went up stairs and cut the child's throat with a razor. Mary Goodall, the mother of the child, deposed that she was the wife of the prisoner. They had been•married 16 years, and had three children besides the deceased. In consequence of the ill treat ment of her husband, and the fears she had of his threats she had several times left him and went to live with her father. Her husband had repeatedly told Ler that he had been tempted to cut the throats of herself and chil dren. ' Her husband arrived about nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. He asked where the children were, •and,•after some conversation, on being told that they were in bed, he said he would go .and lie down with them. The, witness ,went out, but in a few minutes, hearing a anream, tthe ran hack, and on proceeding to the bed room found the child dead on the bed. The prisoner left the house, but an alarm being raised by a neighbour, he was apprehended. A constable, who took the prisoner to the lock-up, 'deposed that when the latter arrived there he said, " The child's all right. I can't help it. The child's in heaven." The surgeon who examined the child said there was a pool of blood on the bed. The windpipe had been severed, and death must have been almost instantaneous. The evidence was read over to the prisoner, who paid great attention to it, but did not make any remark. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against him , and he was committed for trial at the next Derby assizes. MURDER OP AN INFANT IN CAMBERWELL. Last evening Mr. Carter inquired into the circumstances at tendant on the death of George Edward Sewell, an in fant of four months old, which had been drowned by its Mother. Ellen Doyle, a girl of 14 years of age, who was servant to the parents of the deceased, said they had always behaved with the utmost kindness to both their childreh. On Saturday morning last her master went out about seven o'clock, leaving at that tone in the house her mistress, the two children, his niece, a girl of about 10 years of nge, Mrs. Pursell, her rnisireas's grand mother, and witness. Witness saw her mistress take the baby from her niece, and take it int.) the garden in about a quarter of an hour after. She also saw her take it up stairs, and soon after she returned to the parlour, put her bonnet and shawl on, and went out by the street door, taking with her the key of her bedroom. In l about three-quarters of an hour afterwards witness thought she heard the cries of the baby, and went up staiis to the bedroom, but found the door locked. She then got the parlour door key, which unlocked it, and she found the baby lying on the floor dressed, with its face in a b +sin of dirty water. She screamed, and sonie persons came to her assistance. Mr. Gen. Sewell, the father of the deceased, was next called arid sworn, and stated that for 18 months past his wife had labonred under mental affliction, and had medical advice for it, but no one dreamt that she would place violent hands on her children, particularly the latter, as she appeared much attached to them. Oti Saturday morning last he got up about seven o'clock and left hOine, leaving his wife in the a.ct of dressing herself and the deceased in fant in the bed. At about nine o'clock his wife made het; appearance at his place of business in Finsbury square, and the moment he saw her be had a presenti ment that something had occurred, and asked her what was the matter. She replied, " George, prepare your self for the worst—l have destroyed the baby." She said she thought it had been much neglected, and that she had better destroy it that it might go to heaven. He asked her how she had done it, and she said she had drowned it in a pool of water. Witness, in conclusion, said he had no doubt his wife had destroyed the deceased, being at the time in an unsound state of mind. Mrs. Pursell was called, and said that before the discovery of the de ceased she had occasion to go to the water-closet in the garden, and there found a pail full of water, and water was also splashed on the floor, upon which the coroner remarked that from this circumstance it would appear that the deceased had been either drowned, or been at tempted to be drowned, there in the first instance. Mr. Clasney, a medical man who had been called in, said the death of the deceased had been caused by drowning, and the coroner having summed up, the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict of wilful mur der against Catherine Sewell. CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A BROTHER.—A case came before the borough coroner at Liverpool, on Tues day, involving a charge of murder of the most aggra vated nature against a young man named Win. Eaton, Very respectfully connected, residing in Hatfield-street. It appears that on the 14th of February last Eaton went home in a state of considerable excitement, and without an y provocation knocked down his sister, Mary Ann Eaton, a girl of 16 years of age, and afterwards jumped upon her stomach, thereby inflicting very severe injuries. The poor girl was confined to her bed for some time, and it was not expected that she would recover. On the 24th of the same month her brother came home intoxicated, and a second time knocked her down and jumped upon her. He also struck her on the belly with his fists, and declared he would have her life, but while in the act of thus maltreating the poor girl, Eaton was seized by his -brother and some of the neighbours, and his sister was taken to bed, and a in dical man sent for, who pro nounced her in a very dangerous state. The next morn ing the unfeeling wretch , went to the bed-side of his sis ter, who was suffering dreadfully from the injuries she had received, and addressed her in a tone of disgusting levity, asking her how she liked the bumps and thumps ' she bad received the night before. About a month after this, while 'she was still in - bed suffering from these injuries, Eaton went to her and struck her again, notwithstanding the helpless state she was. in; and ' in consequence of this his mother applied for a warrant against him, and he was apprehended and brought be. fore the magistrates - on Thursday last, charged with the attempted murder of hi , sister. The above facts having been deposed to Eaton was committed to take his trial on the cliarge of Attempting murder. On Monday morning the poor girl died, her statement as to the injuries she had received having been taken some hours previously. The details of - the case were not gone into on Tuesday, hay . ing . been formally opened, WWI ataijsoutrhneed.ilw)clhueetsl t ihere is little doubt that ;he result of it will be that the brother will have to I take his t r i a l on th e c apital charge , , At the hearing ' GRAND SURREY CAN A L COUPANY.—At the annual ,before th e mag i strate , Mr. Barrow, a merchant of Liver. meeting of thi s company on T i p- s ilav, the report st a t e d pO6l, s t ate d that he was execu t or un d e r the father's that the timber trade of the docks had largely benefitted will, and h a d pa id t h e pr i so ner and his brother 4201. by the increased wood-lad en ships discharged imp having been 484, againstortion of last year, the number of 'each on attai n ing their majority , and that their sister ; (the ilioeased) would have been entitled to okailar ' 287 hi the previous year. A dividend of V- per share faul on cm* of age, 1 Nra3 accordingly declared. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return in/ the week ending April 9, 1854 llB,OOl 9 7 Corresponding we e k l as t year....... ,15.593 6 4 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE' RA/LWAY.—Traffic turn for the week ending April 16, 1854 .119,646 '2 8 Corresponding week last year 18,042 15 0 SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—Traflic returT , in the week ending April 16, 1854... 2;302 0 4i Corresponding week last year 2,680 6 04 CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY .-- Traffic return for the week ending April 15, 1854 £215 9 5 Corresponding week last year 2ll 16 1 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending April 16, 1854 £4,027 18 5 Corresponding week last year 3,511 8 10 -- Increase in 1854 £sl6 9 7 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE: TO MARINERS. LIOHT.VESEIRL OFF THE FETING-PAN f3lfoALs, 'CAPE FEAR, N.C. A-light-vessel will be placed ; during the month of April •next, off the southern extremity of the Frying-pan Shoals. . -Two.lights, each produced by eight lamps and parabolic ",refiectors will be shown. f r o m thi s vesse l , at an elevation of about 40 feet above the level of the sea. This vessel has two 'masts, is about 100 feet long, 250 tons, and the top of the gunwale about ten feet from the' water-line. The hull is painted yellow . , with "Frying -pan Shoals" in large black letters on b o th s id es. Th e lower masts are painted yellow, the top masts white, with an open-work oval day mark, five feet in diameter, painted black, at an elevation of aboat 55 feet above the water-line. This vessel will be placed in nine or ten fathoms, water, at the distance of about 19 nautical miles, from Bald Head Lighthouse, and about 23 nautical mil 's from the Federal Point Lighthouse, off the southern extremity of the shoals making but in about a S.S.E. direction from Cape Fear. The following magnetic be .rings will show the approxi mate position of this vessel : From Light-vessel to Bald Head Lighthouse, N.N.W. W. From Light-vessel to Federal Point Lighthouse, N. by W. From Light-vessel to centre of outer breakers, N.N.W. W. • The southern extremity of t' , e breakers, with only ten feet of water upon them, will be about four nautical wiles inside of the position of tha vessel. A. shoal spot, with 16 feet water n it, will Dear about N.W. 4 N., distant about 2i nautical miles ; and another shoal spot, with 1-3 feet of. water on it; will bear about N. 4 E., distant nautical miles from the vessel. • The sounclingstothe Eastward of the position of this Light-vessel will be found to be in general, gradual and uniform, from 10 to about 6 fathoms before deepening, atter'crossing the outer extremity of the Shoal in the 'vi cinity of the Light-vessel ; and the soundings to the West ward gradually deepeninc , from the vici n ity o f th e vesse l , from 9 and 10 t o 15, 17, ° &e., fathoms. Sailing vessels of heavy draught should not be ran in bad weather into less than 15 to 18 fathoms water in pass ing these shoals. Steamers and small sailing vessels may be run with safety, under ordinary circumstances of wea ther, on, the line East and West, upon which the Light vessel will be placed. Notice will be given of the precise time at which this Light-vessel will be placed in her position and the lights exhibited, accompanied by correct bearings and distances, and the approximate latitude and longitude. By order of the Lighthouse Board. Wilmington, N.C., 15th March, 1854. CUSTOM-HOUSE, Arum 10. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Glornmen, from Frederick shald ; Hannah and E eanor, Charente; Yorkshire, Stettin; Rival, Terceira; Oden, Grebbestad ; Eindragt, Worcutn ; Neplinaus, Leghorn ;, Vigilant, Sannesund • Dantzic, Stat, hello; Duiveland, R o tt er d am; Icobu4, ditto • Najaski, ditto ; Carl, Stralsu n d ; Mi ne , Burgertief; 'Eglantine, Havre; Emanuel. Ch r i s ti an i a ; Eucharis Sannesund ; Nathalie Jacobin°, H o d sen d ; F rau Jantje, ' Carolinen s i e l ; 'Hilida, ditto ; Laurvig ; M a ri a , Add ena ll a ; A b a l. one, ()dense ; Maria, Randers ; Johan 'Carl, Christiania ; Wandringsmanden, ditto; Nordpolen, Sannesund; Annie Louise, Aalborg; Heurich, Praesto ; Jantina Annechina, Galatz ; Frau Peta, Rostock ; Cite, Memel ; Mathild, ditto; Odin Catherine, Sannesuud ; Flora, ditto ; Chris. tiania, ; Flora, Sarpsburg ; Ch r i s ti ans H aa b , Felmem ; Maria Elizabeth, —; Weile, Weile ; Leon, Gravelines ; Leonne, ditto ; Enrot, ditto. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The John Laird, for Swan River; Minkinka, Konigsberg; Paquita, San Sebastian and Gijon ; Rensiqa, Danzig ; Vrou Maria, Leek ; Drie Gebroeder, Sydney; Royal Lily, ditto; Vrou Johanna, Flarburg ; Wand r i gsnuan d en , Christiana, Dram, and Noss ; Woodcock, New York ; Stuart, Syd ney; Atalanta, Berbice ; Bacchanti, Teneriffe and Sierra Leone ; Mouravia, Cape Coast Castle and Fernando Po; Eliza, Lurrachee and Bombay ; Guttenberg, Gottenberg ; Thetis, Adelaide; Mary, Launceston. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Hannibal, Co penhagen ; Wm. Septimus de Septima, Antwerp ; Cash mere, New Zealand; Ryswyck, Melbourne ; Eliza, Kur raehee and Bombay ; Jane Morehouse, Antwerp ; Alfred, Stockholm ;New England, New York. A special meeting of the shareholders was held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, preparatory to the spe cial general meeting of the company, appointed to be/ held at Brussels on Friday next, for the purpose of con sidering certain propositions with respect to the 6 per cent. guaranteed half shares ; Sir W. Magnay in the' chair. The CHAIRMAN said he regretted on that occasion that he could not submit a report approved by all the direc tors, as there were differences of opinion at the hoard in respect to a proposed arrangement with the dissentient holders of the 6 per cent., shares. The majority of the board was in favour of the proposition, and he hoped the shareholders would support them in carrying out that arrangement. It would be recollected that at , th'e last meeting there were six dissentients to the financial measure then agreed upon, which was followed by litigation i n th e C ourt of Chancery. At length an alternative plan was proposed for the settlement - of the differences existing between the board of directors and the dissentient shareholders. 'The alternative plan for the,ponversion of the 6 per cent: guaranteed shares was as follows :—.60,000 shares, having paid 51. per share, - would represent a capital of 300,0001., as in the first plan ; but it was proposed that a further payment of 30s. per share should be made,on each share, amounting to 90,0001., and representing a capital of 390,0001. And that on the surrender of these shares (61. 10s. paid) there should be given to the holders two obligations of 4/. each in exchange for every share of 61. 10s. paid, or 120,000 obligations of 4/. each, representing a capital of 480,0001. This would be equivalent to a bonus in obli gations of 90,0001., which would untimately be increased by 120,0091. when all the bonds were paid off, making the entire bonus in capital 210,0001. The holders hen paid off in obligations (or bonds), would escape the risk of ordinary shareholders. The annual interest payabl.e on - 390,000/., at 6, per cent., would be 23,4001., and on the 480,000/. bonds, at sper cent. 24,0001., being 6001. a-year .more than the former. According to the first plan, it was proposed to call up no money beyond the 300,0001., and to give amultimate bonus of 150,000/. in the shape of obligations, when paid off, and a 6 per cent. prefe rence dividend, instead of a guaranteed diyidend ; while in the second or alternative plan it was proposed to call up 60s. per share, or't , o,ooo/., and to giYe an 'ultimate bonus in capital of 210;000/., at the same time. giving the 6 per cent., shareholders bonds to the amount of 480,0001.; bearing 5-per cent. interest, and on being paid off an additional sum of 120,0001. Owing to the change in the state of the money market they had been unable to obtain the advance they were promised, so that, unless they agreed to the proposition to raise the 90,0001., they would be compelled to make a call upon the constituted shares There was no doubt that, by timely aid, they would be enabled to open the line from Brussels to Namur in June next. The works on the line from Namur to Arlon had been retarded, with a view to enable rapid progress to be made on the line from Brussels to Namur. This 'arrangement would not delay the opening of the other portion of the line to Arlon, as, ou the coMpletion of the first sec tion, they could concentrate their efforts on the second section. About 50,000/. would enable them to open the line to Namur in June. Unless the necessary funds were immediately forthcoming, very advanta- , genus contracts to the company would be endangered. Mr. W. A. WILKINSON, M,P , moved AS an amend ment, to the effect, that a committee of nine share holders be appointed to investii,fate the affairs of the company, to consult with the directors t and to report the result of their investigstions to an adjourned meet ing on the 16th of May next. He hail no objection to the proposed arrangement, 'provided it received the sanction of the committee, Mr. FIELD seconded the motion. A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Andertori, Mr. .L)on, Mr. A. Moore, Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. Taunton, and other shareholders toon part, which re sulted in the re:.-_ttion of the aniendinent, and the adoption of the alternative plan proposd by the chair man, of.settling with the 6 per cent. preference share holders. ENTRIES for tho SUBSCRIPTION PLATE of 801., for 3-yr• olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs. if demanded, &c. D.M. Age Census Blue Beard 3 Sweetness Racka,pelt Georgy Cyrus 3 ENTRIES for the HANDICA each, and only 5 ft if dec Age Lady Flora 4 Georgy 4 ENTRIES for the OPTI. Age Age Little Jem 3 Lamartine 6 Lioness Speed the Plough 4 El Dorado 3 SWEEPSTAKES of 20 SOTS. bred, &c. A. F. Age Sister to Cara,eara Nervous 4 INAL SELLING STAKES. Age [Sir Harbottle (4014 4 Pebble (701.) 3 Prevarication (401.) 3 Eleven races are fixed for this day. The first at 12 ; the Buckhurst Stakes at 3.45. Filbert is likely to walk over for the Claret Stakes. Bessus has paid ft in the One Hundred Sovereign Sweepstakes. D.M. RACING FIXT AP. Newmarket Craven 17 Catteriek Bridge 19 Abergavenny 2O 'RES FOR 1854. IL. York Spring 25 Malton , 2B , M. Newmarket F S Chester Spring , 9 Lothians& Edinburgh 11 Newmarket S S l6 Shrewsbuiy . 13 1 Lothians andEdinburghlB Lewes l9 Bath 23 Liverpool Hunt Spring 24 Epsom 30 qE. Bibury 2B Stockbridge ........ 29 Ludlow 30 Winchester 3O JI Manchester Ascot Ileath. s . l3 Newcastle-on-Tyne 20 Hampton 2l Carlisle 26 ,T 1 Newmarket Worcester 4 Lancaster 6 Mansfield ll Liverpool l2 Ipswich... l3 Stourbridge l7 Stamford lB Nottingham 4.20 Goodwood 25 Ripon _ 81 AU( . Bright o n Brighton Club 4 Wolverhampton , 7 Yarmouth. , 8 . Readin g Odiham .. . '....._.,......., 9 North Staffordkihire 9 Wolverhamptota . , „4,1 .UST, Egham York Hereford 24 Eccles Chelmsford Derby 29 Plymouth Lincoln VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. IThe'Henry Reid, from London. to Launceston, March 9, lat. 21 S., long. 31 W. The Balkan, from the Mauritius to Liverpool, 20th, lat., 2 N., long. 22 W. la t. Th 27 N., e Amal long . ia, Swed Wish W ish brig, from St. Th omas ' s, April 5, 30 . The Hansa, from Brazils to Falmouth, lat. 35, N. long. 24 W. The Abbots Reading, March 23, lat. 40 long. 14. The Apropos, barque, N0..6,953, 2nd dist. pendant, lat. 40. long. 14. The Thetis, barquq, March 24, .lat. 40, long. 14. The Swordfish, April 6, lat. 47, long. 12. The Buena Vista, from Boston to Melbourne, with loss of main and mizen topgallant masts, Feb. 1, lat. 12 S., 10ng. , 32 ' The Alice Gill, from Liverpool for Montreal, lat. 48 N, long. 17 W. The Constance, for Launceston, March 3, lat. 4 N, long. 22 W. The Douglas, from St. John's, N. 8., to Londonderry, March 24, lat. 42, long. 1,1. The Star of Ralph; from Liveipool to Boston, March 28 lat. 43, long. 414. The James M`Queen, barque, steering S.S E., Feb. 9, lat. 34 S, l ong. 13 E. The We.nham, f l ow Newport to Cape Town, and the Akyab, same day. The Garrick, trom Liverpool to New. York, lat. 41 N, l ong. 45 W. March 17, The Glenroy, from Clyde to Melbourne, March 22, lat. 43 N, long. 14 W. The Constance, from Moulmein to Loudon, April 6, lat. 48 N, long, 17 W. cOUYT RY MARKRrs. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW 141AllaET--• APRIL 18. There was a l'arge supply of straw of all descriptioniig the market. The prices to-day were as follow : Oat straw, from 5s 6d to Ss Od per kemple of 16 ston es tron ; wheat do. 6s :)(1 to 83 6d ; b ar l e y d o ., 5 s Od t o 6301 Hay from lld to 13a ; new ditto, Od to Od per stone. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET-- , APRIL 18. There were in the market to-day, 14 sacks oatmeal, co b weighing 2801b s i mper i al, which sold thus :--4 at 21104' 6 at 11. 18s Od, and 4 at 1/. lOs. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET —APRIL 17. There were in the market to-day 67 bags of ()strati 2of barleym ea l, an d 1 of pot-barley. Sales dull. .Im. top price of o a t mea l i s down ; the second was I.s dor; third the same as last week. Pot barley on the top P as before. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801b s First. Second. nit imperial Barleymeal, per ditto • .s 6d a 6d Petisemeal, per ditto - Od el Flour, per ditto —s Od —s od Pot-barley, per ditto • 39a Od =s Od LEEDS —APRIL 18. The arrivals continue very insignificant. Fresh ifut • is scarce, an d p r i ces are fully Lper qr. bey on d the r 1,7, of Friday, w ith mole d eman d f or other sorts at, a improvement in price.' Barley without alteration. 0 "" and shelling rather creep up. Beans steady. DUBLIN—Anut, 18. There waq a firm market at our Corn-exchange to-dali All descripti ons o f gra i n f u ll y supported the quotation* last week. White wheat, 403 01 to 44s Od ; r6l ditto, 39s'to Od; barley, ltis 6d to 22s 6d ; oats, 14* Od to 17s Od; rapegets "Os Od to 00s Od per b r l ; oltmeal, 16s Od to' 17 s Od ; baltd AA flour, 22s Od t o 27 3 Od per cwt; ludiau corn, 44s Od to 48 4 ' per 4801 bis. COAL MARK] Prices of. Coal per ton at t' ET.—Arrith 19. ,;be close of' the market Walltend„ &c. - s. d. Bate's West Hartley l7 6 Huddle W. Hartley lB 9 Hastiug's Hartley ~ 19 0 Hartlepool West Hartley 8 ( Old Adairs Tanfield goor Butes 17 (' Walker Primrose 3 Wylam , 17 t , , .. 0 Belmont 17 6 Braddyll • l7 lietton is i f faswell . , - 1 8 6 lAunbton . • . 17 , 17 6 g Plummer ttussell's Hettou .. .. ' ... ll , , . Ott: War t' s 10 3 Walleend, &e:.. C asßop Gosfortli „l6 I South &gift.— 17 0 Harton l6 0 'pees . eee ....„ ...... i . 0 Eden Main 17 0 Derwentwiter Hartley. " Bell 17 3 RAILTV4Y SHARE MARKET'S. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 19. / STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market has been, erY sten o , to-clay, owing to the scarcity of stock for oak, w l , -, r pressure or desire on the part of the public to sell. ti c , donian, 27 ; East Lancashire, 15i ; Lancashire and Y ork' shire, 601; London and. North Western, 961 ; ; North British, 711-16 ; South Eastern !sad le over, llt MANCHESTER, APRIL 19.. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There has has been a dull mbrkoo prioes w ere we ll ma i ntained. Doveire, 171; Ri lings, 5A 3.16 d. ' • gistern 'Counti es , ; East Lear' shire 15 ; Midland, 59 ; Leeds„ 61. LEEDS, APRIL I. , ;nto if 4 STOCK EXCFIANGN.—There h as been moire actovj the share market to-day than for some days past, t sin ti y the whole pri ces manifest an' upward tendisncy. • At d first meeting eeds Ntherns were donei at • 124 North Western L s at:7s. or At the noon meeting th e eloot l i d transactions .were as follows :—South Eastern and DoL er P. 18 ; Great N o rth eras ( a ) , 9 4; Leeds Noirheins, Caedonians, 27; Midlands, 59. SEABORNE MAILS. .elef (I , l' ,igniflea tint the Mail s are sent from the deseral:Post-v by tlrs ni4ht —and ki,by the morning--de4patch ) . . . . Day, vviivn mail,. u - From ma. V ,OO in COUN : RIES. in General POiit- Port dilL,d, Office,' London.. filsostetteo ' Eligur . ...' ...—..........,.-„--.___ .....----....—,,--..................--, ,-.....--on, ‘merica(byTirlt.piek)N Every Friday ...., Liverpo4ll ' 'Ese ll ' m kmerica (by United Sts. ' • ril 25 • packet) ... • • ••N • -.. Li ve .• &P-- America (by U, States, packet) ...........N April U.. • • fa outhaulPtoh May 4 Australia (via South , ' -- 7 - 0 • - 1 ' ampton) ........, . R[' '2O ...... , FoUth aniPtoil Ditto (via Marseilles) Ni „24 .. Dove r :. irlu lt - Ditto (via cape of cioed • • ' - • I r tslli' R0pe..... • • ..' .. N.litay :11.. - ' . •,-. . . ... : 1 - tiro , Africa ( W est Coast) ..N.l3d ot the month. Plymouth ....April .°9 klexandria.......... N,B, ~. 24, &30 of 11l Dover - .... ,, ~ klexar idria.......... Al • 4th & 20th of moo.- Southampton , ~ Bahamas ..• ........ 11,17 th of the mutt Seuthansptoo May 1 Belgium ............Ni1)a11y..........'. toover ...... Daily o Brazil ........,...; •-• 31 9th of the month .. South ampton May s, Buenos Ayres .'..'•• • ..M ,9th Of the mo nth .. Southampton MAY 1 . Cape of Good Hone .. N i 14th of t h e moat Plymouth ... March "' .- ‘ Cape of Good Rope . ...N t 44th of the month. 'Southampton; , 41 ape , de Verde ..'...N 'l4th of the mow, Riymouto. .'.l2larCa ) Ceylon (see'l ni li a ) Ceylon ...............24 'l4th Of the mon wont" Plymouth ••••Ifsrolt l3, , A, ()harm& tales .........N,Mon ~Vir , ed.,&F rld go uthamptonl'u.Ti •S` r Chi1i...... •.. ...... .14.1i2d&17th of moat- Southamptoti,MAT I China (see India) Constantinople ......N 1 7 , 8 ,17,21,&27 &in Dover ....... ' April .3°,, Constantinople ........ 4th St 20th Of moo Sou thaMPlus , ' __Mg xmat. of Europe hi & N Twice daily ...... Dover ... . . ..T; 11, '" --- Egypt (see India) ' I .rtaii' France ........ SI Sc•N Twice daily...—. Dover ......Twir•••- e qibraltar ..........3114, 7, 17, 20, 27 off]) Southampton April g '' , - f . Greece (see India) Greytown .......... 21.2nd & 17th of mint. Sou th aniPton May 1 aamburgh .... • • .... N ; Tuesday & Frida, London ..... f , Hflnvannah r ... .. st 2nd of the ;W ont, Southan3pton. May ' olland ........ .. ••• M Daily.... • • .. .... Dover., ..... 'DAM' Honduras ......... M 47th of the month St ) , 1‘ eamprori , MaY 1,.., India (viaSOnthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon., Plym utif ',. ; April ' 4 ` [mita (via MarneilleslM ittli&24th of mo it,. ibiiviir ...... i . . 9 : lonian Isles (see India )' 7, 1 7, &27 of m0n1D0ver.......' ~ ___,' ar Ireland .........34 &N, Twice daily . . Li 4 b0n....... • • • •• .. 31.7, 9, 17, & 47Suuthanipion•APril Madeira .....• •.....Mi9th. of the month Soothampton Mal I ,',' li Madeira .... • ...... 23d of month .• PlyMouth ...April u . Malta (see India) Halt* .... • • .... .N 17,17,19,27, ao ofrn, nover ... .. . . ( April 2 0 Mauritius (see India) 1 VI Rilritilli .. .. , . ... N 1 40 of the ' mo n t t: P it mouth ..'March2 'Mexico .... ... .1412tof•df the month. Routbampto). May ... .N epics ..•• . .• ..N!.sthiAtll2sthorTrion ,Dover .. ,....'p mII .. 'lew .Iranada ......M j2d & 17 th of Month iSoothamptm i M ay 1 v rtg li New Ze t1and.......... MN' Ini , ate ship - PnparStates ~ . ; .. ',..i Rth I 11 4 2' thofYnon Dover ...... 'April -; Peninsula .• •.....-.• silltlil7th2Bthohnott Southampto.,' „ I 2 ' Peru .. •• .. ..M 'd & 2 7th of mon. Southampton May , Pert Natal ..........N 14th or the month •I'lymoulh .. ?Icily .............Nlsthl • - th 2 stho , mon t Dover ......'April..22 . PuQcany .. • .... .. . ;Is; Is tnl6, ~zstlioimo, Dover ....... ~ r . Venezuela .. - ....111;2d & 17th ot itonth southampton.May i Van I nemen's Lam (Re , ' An Aralia ) .... . . .. _ Woo [riffle. .. . . , 1. , '' I 7th ^ . --- " n - . !d. l '' 17th n /now' 1 5 triutharrimar, May I sv,li Del • when any 0 , theie iate- 4.iu•ioo. the - f t* tegpatche on the following • with the eteeptleil'Ol the Deli . 0 , Southampton). and the 1,1 4 1t a. b ot h of which will be Jaspatche nay preceding. [ most iqterestin recovery from s, vast c 011 2; p Jowl() 01 I,e,oes. with ou t t.e aid of medicine, is lea rded i 4 tn lot lowlcg letter ' 1 Bridgehouse, Frimley, "(Intent for the berieijt 1 nave d, rived from Du Barry's " 4 3d April, 1 854 v ' p leida A rabiea Food, I feel it my duty to exprees to you my unfebre:4,, thanks t,r the Invtriable kit alas I hay,. met wit at you he n * Ms .case i an extra ' , salary o .e, an I as it may benefit of er au [ ' f'rers I think it nut right to place its details at your disposal„' have suffered these 33 y, are con'nnally trim diseased lungs, 'P it „ - 0,1. of bio, , d, liver derangements, dearoe-s, singing in the ears c ° 7; iit p A ion, debility, shortness of breath and cough, and duritut period taken so mach n dicine that I can safety ii„y L I,• ave Li!o s y-_,, , upwards of a tradisdn t pounds at the the oist's and doctor's. + fl" actually worn ou' t wo medical men during my ailments wiiholl.-„ffoc!' ing any improvement in ins' health. Indeed .I was in utter des,Pqo and never expected t get ov -r it, when I Was fortunate enough be' becoma acquainted-with your Revaienta Arabion;' which, Heave n praised, r -stared , newt i a state et' health which 1 long since dee ~.•• IL L, of mutating. y lungs, liver, stoma :h, head,' and ears are all re! ,, , my Lear.ng perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all thy acqu a T . tanc,s —I am, respectfla,. .` JAktes IrozzaTs, Wood , . Me in''' 6" In canivter4, suitably packr-d for all climates, a td. with-Inn ' n ''' re' tions—l lb., 28 9.1; 2 h., 44 - 64 ; 5 lb.; II- ; 12 lb., ened, slb , 225; 10 lb , 335. The is lb and 12 lb. carriage free, „fr 220 ; super o gt receipt or Post-office order Parry, Du tsarry, and Co., 77, Itebic: 4 street, Lonoon; l'ortnum, AfaSOrir an 1 Co., purveyors to her Mang, : lecadilly; also "at 63, Oaftini-stre:4 ; 6.), Dracechurch-street : Bishopsga:e street ; 4, Cheaoslde 4- 230 . and 451, Strand. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —HoIIoway' s Oi ntment ' an d Pill certain remedies for Old Sores and Ulcers.—Copy of letter from Xr. John Johnson, of Tregaron, Vi r so" .. . dated December 19, 1853 :—" To Professor HollowsP- Sir,—For twelve years I was afflicted with sores on r l '- f legs and arms, which gradually broke out into ulcer° ll.. tbe wounds, and - di sa bl e d me .from folloWing any °f - active duties of life. j tried - a variety of inecloinet: and applied several liniments, without . benefit ; bu t ' friend recommended me to us e y our ointment an d Pillk 0 which c omp l etely. healed tha -wounds and restored 132 health, after every other m e a ns h a d f a il e d.."—s o ld hi all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish' ment, 244, Strand,•London. . , . BIRTHS. - OF A ISON. On the 16th inst., at Pakyns Manor, Hurstpierpoint!...th! wife of George Octavius Pollard, Esq., of 3, Lower Mi . moor-street, Portman-square. On the 17th i ns t., a t Mitcha m , Surrey, , liam Situpson,jun., Esq. the wife of OF A DAUGHTER. kive' On the 19th lest , the wife of the Hon. John C. Ers, On the 15th inst., the wife of Captain a. T. roar Hornby, R.N. M A RRIZ.D. to On the 18th inst., at the parish church, Tanbride',,,v Rev. Gorges Richard Dallis Walsh, chaplain to the Il s te ger Lady Vivian, to Helen Catherine, daughter of the, st i 3 Lieutenant-General lYliddlemore, C.B Colonel of the Regiment, and late Connander-in•Ch'i e f of H. f u in the Windward and Leeward Islands. DIR,D. m 0.1 On the 17th at Madeira, Alexander Miller, •—• •of 12, Park-street, G rosvenor-square, London. On the loth inst., on his voyage from Madeira to g i l; land, the Rev. Mark Haggard, M.A. student of co rs'• Church, second surviving son of Dr. ' Haggard, Do common% in the 30th year of his age. Ree v e' On the 16th i nst., in the 84th year of his age, the Cht Richter. ard /l assie, rector of E cc l es to n , i n the. Nan ' v es On the 17th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea Job° air : , nersley Hoop er, Esq ,of 23, Catubridge-square,'llrYSlt and 2.), hithe, alderman of London, and presid St. Bartholomew's Hospital, iu the 61th year of his )11DON: Printed and Published by 11171:1)0 YO of No. 112, ,`,:strand, Printer, at the .Sun Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n thn 1,4141449%, Tkuraday, April 20, 064. • . .). 1 PT.; ' IN a I SPA: o _-- 're k at ( rev ti on tens ....... Xrl gals Wal °ftte roa r to ti TI to t/ CC re Ten T LIB. trap, on a El With efrec end Lave Of a IS th Unfo writ: oral and 'frith 140 . taa Corr 07cfc A th.. that, 114 r., Zeta i tb . itr th - et 0