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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PlO3l TUE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOB E.—The Sugar Duties' Bill was ushered to its third reading in the House of Lords last night, with a repetition of much of the transparent sophistry with which it had been supported in its previous stages. Lord Dalhousie modestly in troduced the subject with a repetition of the chief arguments in its favour —declaring that the measure would cheapen sugar to the middle and lower classes—that the classification sys tem worked well in France, the United States, Sweden and Java—and that slave-holding Louisiana could not afford to send her sugar to this country. That the penny saved on the pound of sugar is to be returned in the income tax—that no classification which can be fairly compared with ours is, or ever has been, in successful opera tion, either in the countries referred to, or any other—and that sugar the produce of slave-labour has already entered our market for home con sumption—the Noble Lord appears to have forgotten. We I cannot be surprised at this. When it becomes necessary to make short work of facts and principles, wide views and long dates are excessively inconvenient. No man who kept, a retentive memory would be fit to preside at the Board of Trade under Sir Robert Peel. The presence of Lord Brougham gave an intere ,t to the debate, without which we should probably not have felt tempted to notice it. His Lordship gallantly volunteered a defence of the Bill; and, with his usual eccentricity, must needs do so upon ground untrodden by any one else. The fine distinction already drawn by the friends of the measure between slave-importing and merely slave-holding States, is not half fine enough for his Lordship. There is a vulgar breadth about the sophism which appears to disgust him. He sees that the work is but half done, and that clumsily; and with all the skill of a retired professor, and all the ardour of an amateur, he sets himself to finish it. Thus, as to North America :—The slave trade is abolished ; the war-captives of the inte rior of Africa are no longer saved from sacrifice or slavery at home to be sent thither—no longer torn from their kindred, and dragged through the horrors of the middle passage, to swell the field-gangs of Louisiana or Carolina. They are now born and brought up in the land of their slavery. Yet, beyond doubt, there is something to be said on the other side of the case. The field labour of the Southern States still, as of old, kills the slave before he can produce another to succeed him. Importation is still necessary. And it is effected through the agency of the Northern States ; who, employing their slaves chiefly in domestic offices, take advantage of their more easy condition to breed slaves for the destructive labour of the south. Lord Brougham completes the case previously defective, by broadly stating this fact—pushes the distinction between Cuba and Brazil and the Southern States to the extreme verge of the truth—where, in other hands, it would disappear altogether—and declares that though he must set his face against receiving sugar of the former, yet when called upon to give his sanction to our consuming that of the latter, it is " a totally different con sideration, and gives rise to different feelings, different argu ments, and leads to a different conclusion !" No doubt the young and mature negroes who are annually selected for the Southern market by the travelling dealers, chained in gangs. and driven seven or eight hundred miles to the marts where they are to be sold like cattle to the highest bidder, find the forced separation from their kindred extremely painful ; they can have no more hope of return than if they were about to cross the Atlantic ; and they undoubtedly go to sup ply a demand caused by the gradual extermination of those who have preceded them. " But he denied that this was as bad as the slave-trade of Africa. Could any man who ever heard of the horrors of a slave ship, of the rapine and murder committed for the purpose of kidnapping the unhappy slaves, and, above all, of the wholesale murders committed. on board the vessels going the middle passage—could any man put those horrors on the same footing with the intercourse between different parts of the same country ?" On the whole, we think it extremely probable that where Lord Brougham lays down his distinction, a negro would see no difference. As to " the horrors of the middle passage," in particular, it is quite time that we should begin, in the use of this phrase, to recognise the qualification so indubitably es tablished by . Mr. Macgregor Laird and others, who have practically investigated the subject. At least two thirds of these "horrors" are due solely to our attempt forcibly to suppress the traffic. It has given to it all the characteristics of a smuggling trade—thrown it entirely into the hands of the most desperate men—made its profits enor mously high—and, by placing every conceivable obstacle in the way of supplying the unhappy negroes with either air, water, or food, during their passage, has driven those engaged in the trade to look for their profit not to the ori ginal cargo, but to its miserable remnant when thinned by suffocation, starvation, and disease. None can detest slavery in every form more heartily than we do ; but we are not pre pared to admit that good intentions excuse either errors in reasoning or blunders in action. The merit of our labours on behalf of the negro race must be estimated not so much by what we feel for their sufferings, as by what we do for their diminution ; and by this standard, whatever Lord Brougham may say, neither our naval operations on the African coast, nor the recent modifications of the sugar mo nopoly, will bear a very critical examination. STANDARD. —The debate in the House of Commons last night has, we own, disappointed us. It is true that the best speeches—for those of Mr. Colquhoun and Mr. Grogan were incomparably the best—were opposed to the conclu sion which, upon most painful and deliberate considera tion, we have ourselves arrived at, and therefore we are incompetent judges of their merit. These speeches would have convinced us if anything could—but they have failed. Mr. Gladstone's speech is, however, the great occasion of our disappointment, though with the full knowledge of that able gentleman's views on Church and religious questions, which he has so candidly given to the public, the speech ought not to have disappointed any one. Wishing, however, to commend where we can one whom we moat highly respect, and whose weakness, we may remark, is rather the weakness of his position than proper .to himself, let us acknowledge that Mr. Gladstone put forward three points with fairness and with effect—the implied contract to support a college in which Roman Catholic priests might be educated, the utter fallacy of the notion that any restitution is due to Roman Catholics, and the large share which hostility to the principle of an established church has in provoking the present agitation. The failure in Mr. Gladstone's argument arises from the peculiar views which he holds on religious policy. Rejecting the exercise of reason and the appeal to private judgment in religious inquiry, he can of course see no prospect of an ad vance towards religious truth in the general advance of know ledge. Regarding Protestantism, with Mr. Palmer, of Mag dalen, as a simple negation, he assumes that whatever footing is for a moment allowed to Romanism, Romanism, as not being a simple negation, but something positive, must make good, and even make more extensive. The testimony of history is against Mr. Gladstone's notions in this respect, but a better answer is, that Protestan tism is not a simple negation—it is the Gospel, and the whole Gospel; and if we are Christians we must believe that, with the aid of enlightened inquiry and the appeal to honest judgment, the Gospel will in the end prevail over all error, though error may be for a time pro tected by ignorance or tyranny. We hope that there is nothing either ridiculous or visionary in this opinion. We do not attempt rashly to measure the proximity of the consummation, but we submit that, according to all human calculation, the extension of knowledge must be hereafter, as it has been hitherto, the means. Again, Mr. Gladstone speaks of the success of the Bill before Par liament as removing all religious objections to the general endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy (so at least we un derstand him). It would be difficult to imagine an argument more calculated to impede the progress of the measure than this. For ourselves, if we believed the present Bill likely to produce the suggested effect, we should at once renounce it. 'We do not, however, see the slightest connexion between the measure before Parliament and the threatened endow ment. What is the measure before Parliament? The State finds an institution in which are educated four hundred and forty persons, hereafter to exercise an influence over a large proportion of the people, which influence the State cannot control. These four hundred and forty persons are educated imperfectly, lodged and fed miserably, and trained in sordid habits, which, because they are sordid, are sour, and such as, by excluding them from good company and its sympathies, make of them enemies to all above them. The State gives money to provide better education, better food and lodging, and to elevate the habits of the 440. What religious scruples are comprised by this that would not be compromised as much by giving the means of instruction, frieze clothing, dry lodging, and habits of order to a still inferior class of Roman Catholics ? The question seems, indeed, to resolve itself into this—are we forbidden to render any act of kindness to our fellow citizens, if they happen to be Roman Catholics ? But we may be answered, these persons are in preparation for the Roman Catholic Church. What, we ask, is that to us ? We do not enjoin upon them to study Roman Catholic tenets, or to hold such tenets. We make no condition that every Maynooth student shall become a Roman Catholic priest. We distinctly disclaim all interference with their religious studies. There is nothing in the Bill before Parliament to prevent the trustees, professors, and students of Maynooth joining the Church of Eng land to-morrow. We give them so much money, the greater part of it to be applied to provide lodging, food, and raiment for four or five hundred of our fellow-subjects-- in this surely no religious principle is compromised—the rest to be applied, at their own discretion and upon their own responsibility, to provide the means of education. If they misapply the gift, every one sees that the sin rests with them, not with us. While we maintain the Pro testant Church in Ireland, as we trust it ever will be main tained, every aid we give to instruction will be a means to light men to its temples. The endowment of the priests would be a widely different proceeding. By that we should pay men for being Romanists, for teaching Ro manism, and for turning as many as they could from the church that we believe to be the true one. THE CONFESSION OF TAWELL. On Thursday, at the quarter sessions for the county of Bucks, held at Aylesbury, it was resolved, on the motion of T. R. Barker, Esq., after some opposition on the part of Lord Nugent, and some discussion, " That Mr. Cox, the chaplain, be sent for, and asked what con fession (if any) was made by Tawell, and under what circumstances it was made." Mr. Cox was sent for, and was ask e d by T. H. B a rker, Esq., if any, and under what ate circumstances, culprit ? a commun ication was made to hi m b y Mr. Cox replied that he had been made acquainted by letter from the visiting justices th a t such a question w ould be put to him. He thought it w as not subject fur an open court ; bu t if two or th ree wouldmagistrates adjourn and receive a confidential statement from him, he had no doubt o f satisf y in g them on the m a t ter. The question was again put to Mr. Cox, Lord Nugent protesting, against it ; and Mr. Cox declined answering further on the subject. Mr. G. PIGOTT contended that no conclusive statement had )et gone to the public ; and, as a great many dif ferent reports had found their way into papers of large circulation, be was most anxious to set the public right upon the matter. He therefore moved that Mr. Sheriff be requested to state to the magistrates anything he could respecting the confession made by the culprit. Mr. Sheriff, upon being called, stated—l sat up with the culprit, John Tawell, the whole of the night before the execution ; and, about five o'clock in the morning, I reminded him that the time was drawing near, and asked him if he had any little matters I could arrange for him, or anything I could take care of for him. He then looked up his little articles, such as silver spoons and other trifles he had in use, and put them into his box, giving me the key to take care of. He then sat down, and I said, " Mr. Tawell, I think there was some promise made me of a statement you intended leaving ?" He replied, "If I promised, I will do so ;" and he then produced a paper, which I handed to Mr. Cox. It was read over in my presence, and contained an admission of his guilt. He was then sitting down by the fire in the cell, and, leaning his head against the fire-place, he said, "Yes, lam guilty of the crime—l put the prussic acid into the porter, and I also attempted the crime in Sep tember last, not by prussic acid but by morphia." On giving the statement to Mr. Cox, Tawell requested it might not be copied, nor appear in the newspaper, THE SUN, LONDON,_ MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1845: The jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, and the " Major" was sentenced to be transported for 1U year& POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLF.RS.--Isaac Har man and William Nicholson, two ill-looking fellows, the former of whom had a severe black eye, were on Satur day placed at the bar, charged with uttering counterfeit half-sovereigns, under the following novel and peculiar circumstances : Mr. William Bryson, the son cf the proprietor of the Two Brewers, Brewer's-green, Westminster, stated that on last Tuesday evening the prisoners came into his father's house, and called for some shrub, in payment for which Harman tendered a sovereign. The change, amongst which was a half-sovereign, was placed upon the counter before them, when Nicholson observed that he had coppers enough to pay for the liquor, and that witness could give back the sovereign, as there was no necessity for Harman to change. Nicholson then put ' down fourpence-halfpenny, and witness having returned the sovereign to Harman, took up the change from the counter, which was, to all appearance, the same as he had placed there. The prisoners then went out, when witness on a sudden suspecting that something was wrong, examined the change, and found that a counter feit half-sovereign had been substituted by the fellows for the genuine one he bad originally placed on the counter. Mr. Thomas Lee, the proprietor of the Rochester Arms, Rochester-row, said, that the prisoners came in on Friday evening, and Harman, who pretended to be drunk, called for a glass of ale, and threw down a sove reign. Prosecutor gave him a half-sovereign and some silver, and was counting some copper money to complete the change, when he saw Harman take the good half sovereign up and substitute a spurious one for it. He immediately took the latter up and examined it, and, on his throwing it down upon the counter, llarman sud denly put it in his mouth and swallowed it. Prisoners tried to get away, when he hit Harman, and held them both till a constable came. On being called t.pon for their defence, Harman said, " It's worry unpolite on him to give me this here black eye, and when I gets out I'll look arter him ;" and Ni cholson said it was all wrong that had been said against him.—They were remanded till Monday. THAMES POLICE. CHARGE OF MURDER.—An Irishman, named Simon Hill, a glass-blower, who is about 29 years of age, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with the wilful murder of Jane Thrussell, in a low lodging-house, kept by a woman named Sheehan, in Blue Anchor-yard, Roesmary-lane, Whitechapel. The death of the unfortunate girl, and the circum stances under which it took place, have caused great excitement in the district. The place where the murder took place is a narrow, dirty, ill-paved alley, leading out of Rosemary-lane, which is chiefly inhabited by the lower classes of the Irish, who have made a lodgment in a great number of dilapidated tenements, few of which possess any legal owners. In the house, No. 5, Blue Anehor-yard, one of the dirtiest, and most ruinous of the Irish freeholds, the prisoner lodged, with many others, in the midst of filth and pestilence. From the evidence it ap peared that the deceased, a Yorkshire girl, who came from Newsholm, near Howden, about six months ago, lodged in the same house, and was in the receipt of an allowance of 4s. per week, which was forwarded to her monthly by her friends in the north. On Friday morn ing, about half-past ten o'clock, the prisoner came home drunk, and entered the room where Mrs. Sheehan, the landlady, and the deceased were in bed. Mrs. Sheehan asked Hill for some rent, and he refused to pay her any. They began quarrelling, and the prisoner threw various things at Sheehan, and they abused each other grossly At last the prisoner took up a chair and hurled it at the landlady ; it missed her and struck the deceased, who was lying down at the foot of the bed. She immediately exclaimed, " Oh, Simon, you have hurt me ; you have struck me on the head !" and she be gan vomiting. The prisoner immediately left the room. The deceased lingered about three hours, when she expired, and the Irish people in the house immediately laid out the corpse, and commenced the preparations for waking the body, although the girl did not belong to their country or religion. Attempts were made to con ceal the circumstances of her death, but on the same evening Inspector Donegan and police-sergeant Robert O'Brien received information which induced them to visit the h )use, and found the body of the deceased laid out in the usual way. There were six men, of whom the prisener was one, and a female in the room, and Mrs. Sheehan was lying on the bed alongside the corpse in a beastly state of intoxication. The other parties were also very drunk and noisy. Mr. Garrett, a surgeon, of the New-road, was called in, and examined the body. He had not made a post mortem examination, and could not take upon himself to speak positively as to the cause of death. As it was necessary to obtain the attendance of several other persons, the prisoner was remanded till Thursday next. HOCKER'S CONDUCT SINCE HIS CONDEMNATION After the conviction of }locker he was removed in an ex hausted state to the cell in the prison yard. He was received by the deputy governor, Mr. Wright, who had humanely di rected some tea and toast to be in readiness for him. These he partook of with much avidity, and gratefully acknow ledged the attention of the deputy governor. In the course of the evening he was visited by Mr. Davis, the ordinary, and exhorted to penitence and prayer. Kitman, one of the officers, sat up with Hocker during the night, which was passed by the wretched man in sound sleep. Yesterday morning he awoke about seven o'clock, and ate a hearty breakfast ; but although he manifested much firmness, his spirits were evidently subdued by the solemn warning of the judge to prepare to meet his Maker. In the early part of the morning he was visited by Mr. Sheriff Sydney, who had a lengthened interview with him in the presence of the deputy governor. At this meeting Hocker for the first time betrayed emotion, and he wept loud and bitterly. It is stated that his feelings were overcome on reference being made to his family, and that he made 110 allusion to the murder of the unfortunate man Delarue. The details of the interview are, however, for obvious reasous, withheld. During the day he was repeatedly visited by the Rev. Chap lain, who has supplied him with several religious books. He is represented to be quiet and respectful to the officers, and a young man of more than ordinary intelligence in conver sation. The singularly written statement which he read on his trial has been his principal occupation since his confine ment in Newgate. He has devoted several hours daily to framing his defence, which he invariably drew out in short hand characters, which were transcribed and reduced into the form in which it has been presented to the public. His father had an interview with him on Thursday, but none of his relatives saw him yesterday. From letters that have been written by the unhappy convict, and which have fallen into the Governor's hands, it appears that he has made up his mind for the worst, as he expressed his determination to "play the man." His execution, it is said, will take place on Monday, the 28th instant, and it is believed he will make a confession. THE LATE PROFESSOR DANIELL The late John Frederic Daniell, professor of che mistry in King's College, London, lecturer on che mistry and geology at the Hon. East India Company's seminary at Addiscombe, one of the examiners in the Uaiversity of London, foreign secretary of the }loyal Society, D.C.L. (Oxon.), &c., was born in Essex street, Strand, March 12, 1790. At an early age he became a pupil of Professor Brande, in whose society he made several tours, and of whom he spoke as one endeared to him by kindred pursuits and early recol lections the dky before his death. In 1816, associated with this gentleman, he started the " Journal of the Royal Institution," the first 20 volumes of which were published under their joint superintendence. He married in the fol lowing year (Sept. 4) Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Sir W. Rule, Surveyor of the Navy, and subse quently became Managing Director of the Continental Gas Company, to forward the interests of which he vi sited the principal cities of France and Germany, with Sir W. Congreve and Colonel Landmann, making those arrangements by which many of them have since been lighted. On the formation of King's College, in 1831, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry, and found himself at length in the position he was so well suited to occupy. His inaugural lecture, eminently characteristic of the Christian philosopher, gave a good earnest of the spirit in which his in structions would be conveyed. Of the extent of Professor Daniell's scientific labours some idea may be formed from the fact that, independent of his " Meteoro logical Essays," an& " Introduction to the Study of Chemical Philosophy," he communicated to various scientific periodicals upwards of forty original papers ; of these thirteen relate to meteorological subjects, nine to electricity, and the remainder to chemistry and other branches of physical science. Of their intrinsic import ance some notion may be obtained from the circumstance that he received all three of the medals in the gift of the Royal Society. In 1820 he published an account of his new hygrometer—an instrument which, for the first time, rendered regular and accurate observations • on the dryness and moisture of the air practicable. It has since been extensively employed in all climates, and has enabled hygrometry to take an exact and definite form. It still remains the only accurate instrument for making such observations. In 1828 appeared the first edition of his ".Meteorological Essays," of which he was engaged in revising proofs of the third edition at the time of his death. This work was the first synthetic at tempt to account for meteorological phenomena as a whole, the known laws of which regulate the constitution of gases and vapours. In the following year (1824) ap peared his essay on artificial climate in the " Horticul tural Transactions," the practical bearing of which on culture in general, and particularly of plants grown under shelter, is daily becoming better appreciated, and which, according to Dr. Lindley, has done more for the improvement of this art than any single circum stance besides. lie received the Society's silver medal for this paper. In 1830 and 1831 he published his new pyrometer, an instrument still the best for measuring high temperatures, such as those of fusing metals, and furnaces in general. The Royal Society deemed this an invention of such utility and importance, that they, in 1832, conferred on him the Romford medal for the most important discovery relating to heat that had been made throughout the civilised world during the three preceding years. In 1836 appeared a paper of his in the " Philosophical Transactions," describing his valuable improvement in the voltaic battery, by which he showed the means of obtaining a constant and unlimited supply of electricity. The importance of this discovery was recognised immediately throughout the previous description y e ar made . in Several whole sc i ent ifi c wor ld. I n a ppreciation of its merit the Royal Society, in 1837, honoured him with the Copley medal, for the most important scientific discovery of any anyo other r t voalfuathillee papers worl d during uri appearedng t h e in the Philosophical Transactions for the following years, and for two of these he, in 1842, received one of the Royal medals. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, wore received on OiturdaT at tine Colonial-9AM LATEST PRICES OF SHARES RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. 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Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 t DIU*, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 43 I South Devon - 50 0 0 10 0 0 21 1 / 1 " South-Eastern & Dovr U. is. 33 2 4 - 4439 • Ditto, New iss. 32/.dis - 50 0 0 80 0 1634 South Wales .• • ..... • - - 210 0 61 ' Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 210 0 23( • Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 - 1734 Trent Valley •• • • .... • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 20 Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 271 " Ditto, New - 20 0 0 80 0 15 I York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 103 i Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 5034 I Do., Scarbro' Branch - 25 0020 0 0 43 . Ditto, Selby Scrip - - 50 0 0 20 0 0 68 34 Ditto, Extension .. • • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 16/4 Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 i 1131 5 Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 40 0 6 Orleans and Vierzon • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 18 Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 11 / I Paris & Lyons(Laffitte) - 20 0 0 20 0 21 i Paris and Strasbourg • • - 20 0 0 20 0 2y ) Paris and Orleans. •• • • - 20 0020 0 0 4734 Paris and Rouen •• • • 21. 20 0 0 20 0 0 423, Rouen and llavre •• • • - 20 0 0 14 0 0 293 11% 2% 2% 47% 424 294 JOINT-STOCIC 33112#71C5. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price; Annum. Share. £ a. d. t 1. d. Australasia ......Si. per cent. 41 0 0 40 0 0 45% Britsh North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45% Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 14% Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1434 Metropolitan ... ••• • . • 25 0 0 710 0 Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 108 0 0 25 0 0 46 Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16% Nat. Provncial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 5 37% Ditto, New... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia •• • • 25 0 0 25 0 0 26X Union of London. •• • • 51. par cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1214 rNsTraANcx COMPANIES. Dividend Amount of Name of Company. per Paid. Price. Annum. share. - - - - - - - - - ---- --7 1. 1 Os. 74° 0. 0- 7 0 . 4 5 55 0 5 8 00 0 0 . d oe - 7 167 2 0 : 5 6 1. p l e ,e r r c ee en n t. t. 100 100 0 0 0 0 121 100 0 1 1 6 9: Albion • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alliance Brit. and For. 61. per cent, 100 40 0 0 0 0 Ditto Marine. • • • • • • 13e. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 1634 7s• per share 50 0 0 1 1 ° 0 ° 00 0 0 0 0 25 10 0 0 0 0 0 British Commercial • • 31. CountyCl ericl,ll . l . e . d . . &. .G . e . n . ..L . i . f e Crown...: • • • • • • • • • • Eagle ....... ..... •• • • 50 0 0 50 0 5X r 5 per ct.,/ Economic Life .• • 1 691.0.568a0..nd bs. } Eng. & Scot. Law Life 1 5/ 14 . p 3 e ° r L c bg en - t i . 50 0 0 20 0 2% European Life All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • Si. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 61. per cent. Stock. - 142 Guardian •••••• • . . . • . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 50 1 1 5% per cent. 20 0 o ~, Imperial Fire ... • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195 Imperial Life.• •••• • • • 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law Life •••••• • • • • • • IL 58. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 5% London Fire •• • • lOO. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 London Ship ••.•• • • • • 105. 25 6 0 12 10 0 16 Marine . ........... 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 20 0 3 National Loan Fund• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life ••••• • • • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2 Phoenix - - Protector Life •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Provident Life •••• • • • • 11 • 58' 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange .• • ... 5/. per cent Stock. _ 188 Sun Fire .. .... •• • ... 61. 10s. - - Ditto Life . • • • • • • • • • 1/. 6s. - - Universal Life •• • • ... 10U1. pr :tilt. 100 0 615 0 14 DOOXS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. i ----- X s. d. I• 4 ii. d. Commercial .• • • ..... 131. per cent. , Stock. Ltst and West India... 15)4 /. pr cent. ! Stock. East Country London ............. 1 4% l. pr cent. Stock. St. Katharine .i 5 per cent. Stock. Southampton • • ...... t 4/. per cent. , 50 0 0 50 0 0 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount 1 Name of Company. 1 per of I Paid. Price, Annum. Share. ----- — ' 1 ' £ s, 4. 1 . .Ic4 T.nmlnn _ ........ i $l. 100 0 0 i 230 East London..• • • • • • •• Grand Junction • • • • • • Vauxhall •••••• •• •• West 'Middlesex .. X s, d. 81. 100 0 0 31. 46 13 4 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 51. per cent. 100 0 0 4/. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividead Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- X 5. d. £ s. d• Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company 81' per cent. 100 0 0 226% Commercial Bank •. • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167% National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 15 50 0 0 % Union Bank of Scotland 7% /. pr cent. Western Bank North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent.— . 10 0 0 14 % 50 0 0 7 6 4 50 0 7 Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent. Eastern Bank ....• •• • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11 % 95 Caledonian Bank Scottish Union Ins. Co. Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 50 0 N City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cen t. -0 gl5 0 13% 1 0 0 1 1 ,4 Hercules Insurance CQ. 71. pe r cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotind Si. p er cen t . 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur 9!. p er cen t. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27 Edin. &Glasg. Railway Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. p er cen t. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Si. per cent. 20 0 - Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 65%0 0 0 181 i Ditto, Shares.. • • 4%1. per cen t. 12 10 0 All paid. 16% Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4 1 ,41. per cent. 50 0 0 All p aid. 65% Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1 5 Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cen t. 25 0 0 All pa id. 28 4141. percent. 50 0 0 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 5!. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32% CANALS. Names of ,Z" I Divi pe d i end ' Price. Companies. a . EA Annum.' ‘..8 ----- - 1 --- .-.-._- 1 Ashtn &DWI, 97 5/.55. pc' 160 Ashby-d-la-Vll3 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51 . 98 15 Barnsley ....:160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - Basingstoke.. 100 - 5 Npath ••,• • t 100 201. 365 Brknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 72 85 . , N . rCt Namesee Companies. i u . o g a hull of is e 1 .r i . 1 1 214 0 50 0 D :41 260 40 Cromford.... ilOO 181. 160 NAL Forest .78 31 . 24 Dudley 1100 41. 80 Regent's • • • • • • • • 33 IL Derby ;100 Si. 103 Rochdale .... 85 41. 55 120 Ellsmre&Chs 133' 4/. Forth & Clyd 100' 41. 105 De. r ek Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 Erewash - 1 100 321. 4 5 40 8 se Shr g P s gh t ire Co;l 1 1 5 25 0 71. 8 1 1 0 s. 123 GmndJunctn,loo, 71. 124 Stfird &Wore 140 281. 480 Grand Union'loo 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh . 1 172 13%1. 91 •• • 0 Sfetirbridge.. 145 201. 360 Glstr &Brklyi 00 - 8 Stitfid on Av 79 1/. 106. 30 Grantham 'lso 121 . 100 Severn and/ 26 1/. 85. 29 Huddersfield.' 57. - 20 Wye Rail. Kennt & Avn 39 Is. 6d. 10 Trntik Mr-1 50 301. 450 Lancaster .•• ' 47 1/. 10. 40 sdy t g 'AI. Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 570 Thares&Med 19 - 10 Leicester .. • . 1 140 10/. 110 Worcstr & i 78 41. 50 Leicstr & Nth 83' 41. 70 Irniing..) Loughborogh 142 701. 1050 - lelf Brks 67 11. 41. vipnBlie2dlu.tre.rnad. Price, r i c e ' INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. (Sir John Rennie, President, in the chair.) APRIL B.—The paper read was by Mr. J. Baldry Redman, describing the new cast-iron pier at Gravesend, just completed, from his designs, and under his super intendence. After an introductory memoir, describing the rapid growth of steam navigation, and conse quent increase of the town and demand for greater ac commodation, the paper gave an account of the mode of construction adopted, which was illustrated by drawings and a model of the work by Mr. Salter. The pier is situated in front of the Terrace gardens, in a line with Harmer-street. The length is two hundred and fifty feet, and it is supported upon twenty-two Doric columns of cast iron twenty-eight feet long, weighing nearly ten tons each. The first tier is situated at high water mark, and from thence there are three spans of fifty feet each to the pier-head, which is ninety feet long by thirty feet wide. Horizontal iron girders support the platform, and the external girders are inclosed by an entablature which also forms the parapet. At the south end are solid abutments and wing walls to support the approach, and stone offices with turrets flank the entrance. The first tier of girders is carried over the esplanade in front of the gardens, which is thus con• tinued underneath the pier; the whole area of the plat form is covered by a wrought-iron roof, boarded and slated, and supported upon coupled iron pilasters, with corrugated iron panels between, and the sides can be in closed at will by shutters. Skylights are introduced in the roof. The approach from the river is by a double flight of steps, with landings to suit all states of the tide. A powerful light is exhibited from a cast iron lighthouse surmounting the junction of the roofs at the pier -head, which is supported upon a system of iron trussing forty-three feet in span ; octagonal copper gas lamps are suspended from the apex of the roof. This structure has been designed to meet the views of the con servators of the river, so as to offer but little obstruction to the navigation, and there is a clear headway of eight feet underneath at highwater spring tides. The comfort and convenience of passengers by steamers have also been materially consulted. The paper described in detail the method adopted in getting in the foundations, which was one of the chief features of the paper, as the method was novel, viz.:—by sinking cast-iron cylinders to a depth varying from nine to foUrteen feet below the level of low-water mark of spring tides, and keeping their tops always raised above high-water mark, the ground was excavated from within them, and they were filled with solid rock to the level of low water mark, where the columns were bedded on the strong bases. The work occupied two years in its construction, and has been since Easter Monday opened to the public. A very ingenious machine was exhibited for making with perfect accuracy artificial teeth, gums, and palates. It is the invention of Mr. Tomes, who described its action and demonstrated its capabilities. A plaster-of paris cast of the gums, &c., having been obtained, a peculiar moulding composition, softened by heat, is pressed upon the cast and allowed to cool. In that situation it is then removed, and reduced to the shape of the intended teeth, and if on trial this com position model is found to fit the mouth accurately, it is placed in the faceplate of the machine, and a perfect copy is obtained by the mechanical action of the revolving cutter or tool. The machine consists of three slides ; two are placed vertically and move in two di rections, horizontally and vertically, but each is the vertical plane. Upon these slides is a plate of iron, to which is fixed the composite model and the substance in which the copy is to be produced. The two, there fore, partake of equal motion. The third slide i 3 placed horizontally, and admits of horizontal motion only, but at right angles with the motions of the perpendicular slides. Upon this slide a tracer with a blunt point is permanently fixed, and parallel with it is a revolving cutting point or drill ; by the three sliding motions, the tracer is made to pass over the surface to be copied, whilst the drill is constrained to describe an exactly similar surface in the substance placed before it, and by the rapidity of its motion, joined to the delicacy of its action, copies with accuracy the most minute projections on the cast. In the speci men exhibited, the finest filaments were accurately delineated on the ivory carving, and the machine was pronounced to be capable of adaptation to many other purposesbeyond dental carving, in which it was designed, and for which it has been entirely used by the ingenious inventor. The paper announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, April 15, was "On the peculiar feature of the atmospheric railway system," by Mr. G. Birkley, Assoc. Inst. C. E. It is expected that the meet ing will be very fully attended, and that the description ill be vary interesting. Mr. G. PIGOTT then proposed, and Dr. LEE seconded, " That a statement of the case, with the questions put to Mr. Cox, and also his refusal to answer, be sent to the Secretary of State, requesting his advice to the magis trates how to act should a similar case occur." It was also resolved that a copy of the statement of Mr. Sheriff should also be forwarded, being the only official one yet communicated. EXECUTION of THOMAS THOMAS Early on Thursday morning last the arrival of im mense crowds of people into the town of Brecon testi fied the intense excitement which every circumstance re lating to the murder of David Lewis, the Cardiganshire butter merchant, had excited ; and by ten o'clock, the hour appointed for the execution of the convict Thomas, no less than from ten thousand to fifteen thousand people had assembled opposite the scaffold, which had been erected on the bank of a small river which flows past the county gaol. Since his conviction, the extraordinary indifference and coolness of the prisoner had deserted him, and he had spent most of his time in tears and prayer. He supped heartily on Wednesday night, and retired to rest about eleven o'clock, and he slept soundly until four, when he rose and dressed himself. He ate a hearty breakfast, and attended Divine service in the chapel of the prison, after which the sacrament was administered to him. He declined seeing any of his relatives, though he said that if they had come earlier he should have wished an inter view. When Calcraft entered the condemned cell for the purpose of pinioning the wretched man, he was standing near the fire place, weeping ; and when Mr. Lasenby, the governor of the gaol, explained to him that the moment had arrived for his going► out, he re plied that " he was quite ready ;" and added, " I will go like a lamb ; I have given myself up to the Almighty." The Under-Sheriff asked him if he wished to say any thing, and he replied he wished to see the reverend chaplain who had left the room for a moment, and on his entry he asked "if a copy-book in which he had written several extracts from the Scriptures might be given by the governor to his family ;" and on the reverend gentleman assuring him that it should be done, he asked if his watch and clothes might also be given to his relatives ; when Mr. Vaughan told him he would take care they should have them, and asked him if he had anything further to say to them, or wished to say any thing outside f He replied in the negative, and then shook hands with all present, and thanked the governor and the officers for their attention to him ; he also took Mr. Vaughan by the hand, and thanked him for his kindness. While the pinioning was performing, he sobbed audibly ; and directly after the melancholy pro cession moved off, the chaplain reading the burial ser vice. The prisoner walked very firmly, and apparently took no notice of the immense crowd assembled. At the foot of the scaffold he stopped, and turning round, grasped Mr. Lazenby's hand with his pinioned hands, and said, with great emotion, " God bless you all for your kindness." He the❑ ascended the steps with a firm step, but still weeping, and Calcraft placed the rope round his neck, and tied the other end to the gallows. The chaplain then read a prayer, the prisoner's lips per ceptibly moving as if in fervent supplication. The drop fell exactly at ten o'clock, and for two or three minutes the muscles were contracted and convulsed, and then all was still, except the oscillation of the body in the wind. After hanging the usual time, the body was taken down, and buried within the prison walls, He has made a full confession, which has not yet been made public by the authorities. COMMITTAL OF A WIFE FOR THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. LINCOLN, FRlDAY.—Another of those shocking acts of poisoning has recently been brought to light at a small village called Laceby, near Grimsby, concerning which Jane Bell was yesterday committed to Lincoln Castle, for trial at the next assizes, charged with the wilful murder of her husband, Edward Bell, by administering to him a certain quantity of arsenic. The unfortunate deceased was a respectable master carter in the village, and the suddenness of his death, which took place on the 20th ult., naturally rendered a coroner's in quiry necessary. Mr. W. Meirris, one of the county coroners, opened the inquest on the body at the Wa terloo Inn in the village, and Messrs. Lappington and Keethley, two surgeons of Laceby, having dis covered, after a pos4 mortem examination, and a careful analysis of the contents of the stomach, that the de ceased had died from the effect of arsenic, coupled with other very suspicious facts, tending to fix upon the un happy woman the commission of the shocking act, she was promptly ordered into the custody of the proper authorities. The investigation was then adjourned, in order to afford time for the collection 'of further evidence respecting the tragical event, and on its being resumed it was satisfactorily ascertained that the poison had been administered in arrowroot. Additional evidence was also produced corroborative of the accused's guilt, and although certainly it was considered as almost ap proaching conclusive, still the jury entertained a doubt, and eventually recorded a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." She was accordingly liberated ; but from her previous conduct to her deceased partner, which had been spoken to at the Coroner's inquest, the authorities were induced to institute further inquiries as to the mysterious affair ; the result of which was the re-appre hension cf the wretched woman on a warrant issued by the county justices, and on Wednesday she was duly brought before Mr. R. Throld and the Rev. S. Gedge, magistrates, from Grimsby gaol for examination, charged with having administered to her husband, Ed ward Bell, a quantity of arsenic, and by means whereof he became sick and died. The wretched creature, who is far advanced in pregnancy, about five months, and who wept bitterly during the proceedings, declared at the onset of the examination her complete innocence of the awful crime imputed to her, ejaculating frequently "I am clear of my husband's death. I did not cause it." Mr. Horace Watson, a druggist, living in the village, deposed that the prisoner a short time previous to her husband's death purchased a quantity of arsenic at his shop, for the purpose, as she stated, of killing vermin, but which, for reasons alleged by her, was not used, but thrown away. Mr. W. Pearsall, a consulting chemist at Hull, clearly proved the deceased's death to have resulted from arsenic. On being called upon for her defence, she replied that she had nothing to sad•; she was as free from causing her husband's death as the unborn infant which she bore. Respecting the poison, she said that she procured it solely to destoy vermin, and not for Any other purpose. She was committed for trial at the ensuing assizes. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. .john Stack, aged 28, cabman, and James Darby, aged 24, cabman, were indicted for feloniously assaulting , Charles Green, with intent to commit a highway rob bery, &c. In a second count of the indictment the in tent was laid to be to do some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, a clerk to a highly respectable com mercial firm in the City, had been dining with some friends on the 28th of February last, and indulged freely in wise. On his way home, somewhat the worse for his libations, he entered the Blue Boar public-house in Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, and called for a glass of gin and water. While the liquor was being mixed by the landlady, the prisoner Darby came in, and im portuned the prosecutor to have a cab home, a pro posal which was refused by the prosecutor, who, however, tendered to Darby his glass to partake of. Darby did so, and asked "if he might not ask his mate in to partake." Assent being given, the prisoner Darby went to the door and called " Jack," upon which the prisoner Stack immediately presented himself and partook of the gin and water. In paying the landlady, the prosecutor exhibited a purse in a manner to be observed by both the prisoners. He left the house, and on the instant was followed by Darby, who called to Stack to follow him. From the Blue Boar the prosecutor was dogged by both the prisoners. Shortly after twelve o'clock a policeman of the name of James Clarke was on duty in Crown-street, Soho, when he observed a cab standing at the end of George-yard, Crown-street. A man was sitting on the driving-seat, and as the policeman_ approached the vehicle that man, turning his head and directing his voice up George-yard, called out, " Make haste, here's a Bobby " (the cant word for policeman). At almost the same instant an other man, who turned out to be the prisoner Stack, sprang upon the cab, and the other man (Darby), who was driving, immediately turned the horse's head round, and drove at a rapid rate towards Oxford-street. The policeman Clarke pursued and stopped them, suspecting all was not right, but having satisfied himself by their badges and the number of the cab, which he found on examination to be empty, he permitted them to proceed. Clarke then went to George yard, where he found the prosecutor, Mr. Green, lying weltering in blood, and in a perfectly senseless state. It was found that a serious and dangerous blow, from the effects of' which Mr. Grt en had not yet recovered, had been inflicted by some blunt weapon on the right side of the head, from which t he blood was still profusely flowing. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners, and they were sentenced to be severally transported for the term of 15 years. NEW COURT. Henry Pratt, aged 28, was indicted for forging and uttering an order for] the payment of ten guineas, with intent to defraud J. Barnard and others. The pri soner was further indicted on four separate counts, charging him with fraudulently obtaining valuable pro perty by means of false pretences. On being placed at the bar, the prisoner made an ap plication to the Bench, earnestly praying for a postpone ment of his trial until next sessions, in May; this request, however, the Court refused to grant. The prisoner, it will be fresh in the recollection of our readers, was lately examined before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, when the whole of the particulars of the case were fully reported. It will be unneces sary, therefore, to state further than that the prisoner, whose movements proved him to be an adept at " rais ing the wind," went to a fashionable hotel, No. 4, Albe marle-street, and represented himself as being " Major Herries," the son of the Hon. J. C. lorries. He stated that he had just arrived from India, and that his luggage was at the Golden Cross. He then signed a cheque for ten guineas, on Messrs. Barnard and Co. ; which, on being sent to the banking-house, was honoured, and the prisoner received the money. The prisoner also paid a visit to Mr. Houlston, of 154, Strand, the publisher of the Horticultural Magazine, to whom he also represented himself as the son of the lion. J. C. Harries, and stated that he had a brother in Somerset-house, who was partial to horticulture, and to whom he wished some numbers of his magazine to be sent. In his defence, the prisoner said that he signed the t t u h r e e, la a n n d d lord ofch ethqeuehowtehleinnicinulinqsutionrn: wbiutnt de clared that he was perfect l y c onscious of the fact at the eMsserd. Williams, the time, THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. Two questiors were involved in Mr. Christie's motion respecting the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge on Thursday evening; one was their system as to those whom they admit within their pale, the other their system as to those whom they exclude. Both have been negatived for a time ; but a warning has been repeated. It now amounts to an historical fact that the Reform Bill was hastened by the high-handed refusal of those in power to rectify some few proved abuses - in the same way the Universities may be assured that if they do not exert themselves to correct what is amiss within their walls, they will by-and-by be reformed with a vengeance from without. _ _ _ The wider question of the admission to Oxford and Cambridge degrees of Catholics and Dissenters we do not enter upon at present ; we propose only to notice some points of discipline and rules of practice, which, as real well-wishers of the two sister Universities, we should desire to see amended. We are not here speaking of such matters as caps and hats, or stuff and silk gowns ; indeed, we do not object to a reasonable deference to rank at college, since rank is a thing that will be, and ought to be, deferred to in after-life. We are alluding to essentials—to such vital matters as the course of study and the pecuniary outlay of students. And first, with respect to the course of study; we find from the returns of the various Professors, and more particularly from the statement of Dr. Daubeuy, that of late years the attendance upon public lec tures has so fallen off and declined that it is now almost entirely discontinued. Twenty or thirty is the maximum of an audience, while some of the professors are without so much as the humorous Dean's " dearly beloved Jonathan," and are reduced to empty walls, silence, and sinecure. All the instruction now supplied is furnished by the private or the College tutor. The effect of this is to alter the nature of the Universities, and to degrade it—to make them mere clusters of contiguous schools, instead of being what they were designed to be—comprehensive and harmonious machines on a grand scale, for giving to the minds, sent up to them in states of greater or less preparation, the last polish and perfection. Under the tutorial, as distinguished from the professional, regime— under the College as distinguished from the University education—what does a student gain more than he did at a public school ? Does he, except so far as he himself brings maturer faculties, gain so much instruction ? At school, after learning his lesson, be rehearsed it to his tutor, and was examined in it daily in public by the master. At the University he has two examinations in four years 1 We are well aware that eminent men issue from our Universities ; but they take much of their learning with them to those seats of the Muses, and they would bring yet more away if the system were improved and enlarged. With respect to the expense, we are well aware of the difficulty of sumptuary laws, and of the ease with which restrictions on the purse, or rather on credit, are evaded ; but sure we are that with the large authority of proctors, tutors, and heads of houses, much more might be done to prevent the years of a university career, which ought to be happy and useful, from being the source of ruin and misery for life. Thoughtless as young men too often are, there yet are ways of deal ing with them that might be tried with much success ; to reasonable restraint might be added friendly remon strance, an appeal to parents, an appeal to their own feelings and better judgment. The hundreds which are wasted in riot, have often been raised for the young academic by the denial of comforts at home ; to re mind him of this, to point out to him how valuable to himself at some not distant day, how productive of much more real enjoyment, what he is throwing away would be, might be tried oftener than it is, and with much success. Our pages have frequently recorded trials where young men have been sued, by those who smiled and trusted, for articles which nu jury could construe into necessaries—for items lavished by an extravagance that would be ludicrous if it were not melancholy. This evil might be easily redressed : it might be provided that no tradesman residing in or within a certain dis tance of Oxford or Cambridge should be entitled to sue for, and recover from, any undergraduate any debt of above one year's standing, or of above 51. or 101. in amount, except there were a previous written order from the tutor of the undergraduate's college, without any inquiry in Court whether the goods were necessaries or not. At present a very large majority of the students of our two leading Universities are sent to them to be prepared for admission into the Cnurch ; and of these a majority again are persons in such circumstances that 300/. or 400/. a year for four years are sums which they cannot very well afford. Still less can they afford to acquire habits of extravagance—habits which they must unlearn afterwards by a painful process. The legitimate expenses of a college career need and aught not to be heavy, even if the colleges had not been amply endowed. In a German University a mod erate yearly payment to the, tutor, the fees to the various professors, and the cost of board, are covered by a com paratively small sum. In the English Universities the tutors have their college endowments, the professors enjoy the ample lib era li ty o f the f oun ders, the colleges have space for students: why should there be a ruinous expense? Surely, with their ample means, their enor mous revenues, our Universities might afford to supply all educational wants at the lowest charge. Why should an institution by far the wealthiest not produce the most liberal programme of instruction? We do not under value classical learning; but we contend that for modern times it is not sufficient for a man to know Latin and Greek alone. Of modern languages at the present day a gentleman is expected not to be utterly ignorant; but these are things which Oxford and 'Cambridge do not profess to teach, which, in limiting their honours and degrees to other acqairements, they virtually exclude. — Times. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 11.—There has not been much animation in our sugar market this week, and prices are with difficulty supported, excepting for good and fine descriptions, which are still very scarce ; the sales since our last reach about 550 hhds. and trcs., chiefly to the re finers, who continue at full, and to them very profitable, work : the raw material declining, and the manufactured article being in good demand, in short supply, and, conse quently, enhanced in value. Very little business doing in Mauritius or Bengal. Rum. is rather mcce inquired Jlr4to( gereary, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE THE LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE NORE.—A coroner's inquest was held on Monday forenoon, at Admi ralty House, Sheerness, on view of the body of Vice-Ad miral Sir J. C. White, K.C.8., Commander in Chief at the Nore, who died very suddenly on Friday last. From the evidence of the secretary it appeared that the deceased ad miral had been complaining for several days previous, but not to excite any apprehensions of a fatal termination. On Thursday last he had so far recovered as to be able to have a party at dinner with him. On Friday fore noon, about eleven o'clock, he was seized with a return of the pain in his chest while putting his signature to some official papers brought into his room by the secretary, and expired in a few moments. Dr. Miller, the surgeon of the flagship, attributed his death to an affection of the heart, and the jury immediately returned a verdict " That the gallant officer had died from a disease of the heart." The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Martin, is painted black, and all the ships in commission and in ordinary have their colours half-mast high. DEATH OF ANOTHER FLAG OFFICER.—Admiral of the Blue Henry Raper, Esq., of South Audley-street, Gros venor. square, and of Ilmer, Bucks, has departed this life in the 78th year of his age. Although plain Admiral Ra per, the deceased was a most gallant officer, and served with great distinction, but his services must have been too an cient to be remembered in the more recent distribution of honours and additions to a name. Admiral Raper was second on the list of Admirals of the Blue. The precise date of his entry into the navy is not known, but he was midshipman of the Cambridge at the relief of Gib raltar, and was wounded in the actions off the Dogger Bank, in 1781. He was made a Lieutenant on the 22d November, 1790, and was Flag-Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte on the glorious Ist of June. He ob tained his promotion to a Commander for that service on the 4th of July, and was made a Post-Captain on the Ist of February, 1796. He commanded the Champion in the unfortunate expedition to Os tend, in 1798. He afterwards commanded L'Aimable, and in that ship, in 1799, gallantly engaged the French frigate. Syrene and the Bergare corvette. He obtained his rank of Rear-Admiral at the general promotion of the 12th August, 1819, that of Vice-Admiral on the 22d July, 1830, and Admiral on the promotion in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales on the 23d November, 1841. THE NOTORIOUS SLAVE FELUCCA —The slave fe- lucca that beat off the Growler's boat, so gallantly com manded by Lieutenant Lodwick, has escaped no less than six times from our men-of-war cruisers—once from the celebrated Waterwitch, 10, commanded by Captain (then Lieutenant) Matson ; once from a prize of the Waterwitch ; twice from the Iris, when commanded by Captain Tucker ; once from the Kite, steam-vessel ; and once from the boat of the Growler, steam-sloop. She is well known to all the men-of-war officers, and there is not a man on the coast who would not be delighted to give that account of her punishment and capture which we hope soon to record. She is a long, low, sneaking craft, with a stump of a mast not six feet above the deck, but having a yard running up at an angle of 45 degrees above 180 feet long, with a sail that propels her through the water at such a rate as to dis tance the swiftest cruiser. We have heard that she was built at Barcelona, and has a crew of between sixty or seventy of the worst description of 'men stealers. Captain Matson, we believe, captured a sister vessel to her, which for a long time had been notorious on the coast of Africa for her impunity and success. The Waterwitch came within range, and, by a well-directed shot through the slings of her im mense yard, knocked it about their ears, and thereby the slaver became entirely at her mercy. On this occasion the semi-pirate captain seized a musket and shot dead the man whom he had placed on the top of the mast to look out. The escapes of the felucca that beat off the Growler's boat have been very narrow. On one oc casion she was almost caught by a tender of the Water witch, named the Pretty Polly. This vessel was a beautiful little craft, and, on being captured, was manned from the Waterwitch, and sent into a slave dealing port, to lie in wait for this felucca. Not aware of the capture and altered character of this vessel, but deeming her to be still in the iniquitous pursuit, the felucca stood into the place within a quar ter of a mile of the Pretty Polly, and, we believe, had nearly got down her large sail, when she discovered she was in the vicinity of an enemy. She immediately, by great exertions of a numerous crew, got up her sail again, the Pretty Polly firing at her, and endeavouring to get nearer ; but, having such few hands, and the felucca being so fully manned—the wind also falling, and the felucca capable of being rowed with ease—the tender had no chance with her. When the felucca got out, and perceived her advantage over the Pretty Polly, she several times most impudently bore down on her, fired a shot, and then ran away in no time. The Waterwitch was only about fifteen miles off; and the tender made all haste to com municate with her ; but when the Waterwitch and the Pretty Polly arrived at the slave port the next morning, they found that the felucca had been in, and by force of arms had seized a cargo of slaves, and had departed. Her escapes from the Iris were almost miraculous. It is generally believed that nothing but a steamer will catch her. FRENCH AND ENGLISH NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.— We have received the following letter from a naval officer who is intimately acquainted with the French and English navies, and the state of naval architecture in both countries:— . " Le Havre, April 3,.1845 " Sir,—The naval officers of the old school, living in retirement at this port and its environs, have read with much pleasure the constant and judicious views which the Morning Herald has taken in its column, of the momentous subject of naval architecture, hitherto so unaccountably neglected in a country where the perfec tion of this art, from our insular position and its immense commercial operations, ought to be considered of paramount importance. When, Sir, we contem plate the lofty structure of a first-rate man of war, made to encounter and resist the wildest elements of heaven, we must concur in the soundness of the remark . made in this cou n t r y, th at s hi p -b u il d i ng i s a Carrzere qui exige tout ce que les connaissances humaines ont de plus ab:trait,' and the precaution and means taken by the French in selecting the best builders, fully account for the superiority their ships have ever retained, both in sailing and beauty, over our own. Indeed, so important is held the value of mari time genius and naval architecture in this country, so superior are they considered to those talents requisite to navigate or fight, that in the reign of Napo leon a Monsieur Forfait, of the building department, was intrusted with the administration of the French navy, as was also M. Charles Dupin, who about eight years ago was promoted from a seat at the French Admiralty Board to the office of Minister of Marine. Every impartiA naval man, from the last debates in the House of Commons, will see the ne cessity, if we desire to preserve our superiority over the French, and keep inviolable our shores from French invasion, of reviving the school of naval architecture, and of emancipating a science, so important to our very existence, from the trammels of political interest and of ignorant prejudice. Some of your readers, Sir, may not be acquainted with the means employed by our neighbours to obtain efficient ships. The following are the plans which the French Admiralty adopt for this important aim. When the Government want a ship built they make it known in all the naval ports ; and the ship-builders, who are a talented and well-educated class, are invited to send to the Admiralty models, perfect to the smallest minutiae, and drawings, sections, and specifications, extremely minute in their details ; these, it is understood, are referred to a committee, who examine them, and, if necessary, have the ship-builders before them, to answer any questions that may be deemed advisable. When the model most approved of is agreed to, the builder is informed that the Admiralty have chosen his model and plans, and he is directed to commence building a vessel in ex act accordance therewith, the Government furnish ing every material requisite ; and during its con - stru3tion. a Member of this Committee frequently visits the port, to verify that she accords with the model and specifications. The builder receives a present for his model, which becomes Government property, and is paid quantum meruit, which is agrt ed upon before her keel is laid, the builders having, as I understand, no yearly salary as ours have. " Thanking you, Mr. Editor, with my brother officers here, for the great interest with which the Herald has espoused the naval service, I have the honour to he, Sir, your obedient servant, "EPAULETTES." —Herald. (Abridged from the Hampshi , e Telegraph.) Her Majesty's ship Eurydice, Captai❑ George Elliot, was at Sacrificios on the 3d of March, and also two Spanish and one French vessel of war. Her Majesty's ships Illustrious, Inconstant, Spartan, Hyacinth, Persian, and Bermes steamer, were at Bermuda on the 23d of March. The Inconstant had arrived there with specie from Tampico. The Pique, 36, left Barbadoes for Demerara, on the sth of March. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Thompson, sailed from Devonport on Thursday, for the East Indies and China. The Actceon, 26, and Firebrand, steam-frigate, both on their way to the Brazils, and the Lily, 16, for the coast of Africa, were at Madeira on the 7th of March. The Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, was at St. Helena, all well, on the Ist of February. On the morning of the sth of January (says a private letter just received from her), while cruising off Cape Lopez about daylight, the signal-man at the mast-head announced a suspicious looking craft, when, the wind being light, the gig and cutter were ordered to give chase. They returned about noon, with a fine schooner of 100 tons, named the Casem. When taken the prize had 41 leaguers of water and a cargo of rice on board, and her slave deck laid. The Espoir took her prize into St. Helena, where she was condemned. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.8., is appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, vice Sir J. Chambers White, deceased. Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., is to succeed Sir 1). Milne as Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. APPOINTMENTS. Captains—H. J. Worth, to the Trafalgar ; Sir H. Leeke, to the Caledonia; Sir B. Walker, to the Queen. Lieutenants—W. M. J. E. Pasco, to command the Jackall; H. J. Dicken, from the Linnet to the Seagull; John Hay (e), and J. H. Crang, to the Grecian; A. G. Edye (additonal) to the Tartarus; B. S. Pickard, to the Melampus; H. B. Jones, to the San Josef, vice Maxwell, superseded at his own request; W. F. Feed, to be flag lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir E. I). King; E. J. B. Clarke (additional), to the Vesuvius; H. W. L. Thomas, to the Arrow, for service in the Woodlark; Wm. Crook, and C. R. Jackson, to the Queen; John Harding, to the Cyclops; C. G. Glynn, and Henry King, to the Apollo. Masters—A. B. Usborne (additional), to the Cyclops; Peter Francis, from the Linnet, to the Seagull; F. J. Kent, to the Lizard. Paymaster and rurstr—hons Fletcher, ts) Qua, Surgeon—John Park, to Espiegle; Dr. J. M‘Bain, to Mastiff ; Henry Morris, to David Malcolm, and Robert Dobie, to Ro.dcliffe, convict ships. Second Mssters—James Matthews, from Acheron, to be Acting Master of Devastation; Ezekiel Angier, to Vanguard; T. B. Wells, to Mastiff ; G. A. Water, to Dee ; E. J. H. Tucker, to Melampus; William H. Wil liams, to Jackal]. Assistant Surgeon—John Leifer, from Linnet to Sea gull; Dr. Borthwick, to Queen. Secretary—James Pinhorn, Esq., to be Secretary to Sir E. D. King. COAST GUARD.—Commander Orbell Oakes, to be In specting Commander of the Gosport district, vice Ranr sey, service expired. The Mates undernamed passed for Lieutenants at the Royal Naval College, on Tuesday .—Mr. Edmund Webber, Excellent ; E. A. Blackett, late Harlequin Charles Vesey and T. T. Hambly, late Belvidera. RO 't AL MESSENGERS. A very curious document (Sessional Papers, house of Commons, No. 93, ordered to be printed 4th March, on the motion of Mr. Warburton), has just been issued from the Vote Office. It is a "Return relative to the Expense of Royal Messengers for the years of Edward I. and 1433 ; Accounts of the Master of the Posts in the reign of Elizabeth ; Order in Council , 1626, repecting Transmission of Letters; Extracts from Rolls of Parliament respecting Statutes of Pro visors, 1306-1350 ; and Catalogue of Writs de _ _ Scrutinio Faciendo." Under Class No. I.—" Extracts from the Ward- robe Account of 28 Edw. 1., giving the total expense for that year of the Royal Messengers"—it is stated that in the year 1299-1300 (28 Edw. I.) the sum paid by the Crown for messengers, exclusive of snol, paid to messengers conveying intelligence of roya l births (which may be considered as extraordinary payments), was 148/. 44. Bd., which contained about the same weight of standard silver as would be con' tained in 3001., measured by the old standard shilling of Geo. 111. And in the Wardrobe Account, pub lished by the Royal Society of Antiquaries, we find some curious items and still more curious Iltinities• Thus, we have a fee of 2s. to a person bringing to till King " a little dog." (" I. Dimetori portanti ad Regem unum parvum canem.") There is something whimsical in the notion of a present to, or purchase by, the iron-cased and iron-hearted subduer of Wales and Scotland of a tiny lapdog. For the expenses of De Kyrkeby'travelling as far as Berwick-upon-Tvveed• and returning with the utmost expedition, we read the following item, the idiomatic and vernacular felicity of which will commend itself to the more fastidious of our readers :—" Expensis Radi ne Kyrkeby euntis usque Berwickum -super-Tweedai n et redeuntis cum summa festinatione 155." It is o b. servable that the largest of the disbursements in dila account are made to one of the Queen's messenge" (" Russell, Nuncio Regina:"), 10/.; to messengers from the Duke of Brabant, 61. 13s. 4d.; and from the King of Arragon, Si. For messengers announcing " royal births," the disbursements made, referenc e , being had to the value of money at the time referr al to, seem to have been at least as co3tly affairs as till are now. To one set of messengers (Nunciis Mo n Martini), there were issued 1001.; and to one of the Duchess of Brabant's gentlemen, 1261. 13s. 4d. ID the year 1433 (12 Henry VI.) in the statement o. the receipt and expenditure of the Crown submit tal to Parliament by Richard Cromwell, Lord Sigh Treasurer, the expense of the " Nuncii missi tat! extra regnum quam infra regnum" is estimated st 2001., which sum contained about the same weight standard silver as would be contained in 4001., paid ill the old standard shilling of George 111. This is ex; elusive of the expense of ambassadors, which wi l t 2,626/. 13s. 41. Very curious are the " Accounts 1 Thomas Randolph, Master of the Posts from Oct. 8 Elizabeth, to Sept. 30, l 3 Elizabeth." They occul, amongst tl e Records of the Court of ExchegaLe: (Pipe) in the Public Record Office, in custody of r , Right Hon. the Master of the Rolls (by stat. 1 an c. 94). Although they are signed by " Bart . ley" and " Mildmay, ' and are audited by "," 0 ; Dodington," they exhibit a rude and clumsy srl e e of allowances to provincial postmasters in quittan c o of disbursements out of her Majesty's E xc hequer account of the " Maister of the Postes," and in el s ' charge of the payments to " Thomas Meneage, Treasurer of H. Majesty's Chamber," which sc° a horrify the administrative habits of Mr. Bowie% Hill. The " somme total' of the saide paymente allowances aforesaid," is thus primatively stated "8/. " m/. ml. ml. ml. ml. Dcccxxviii/i. xzxs." (or 5, 82 195.) . 1 1 We conclude our notice of this curious paper respectfully directing Sir James Graham's attent.l.4l to an " Ordinance of Parliament passed in , (20 Ed. III.)" "No letters of aliens to be 4 spected." This ordinance should have protecte d r. a Mazzini, if it could not shield Mr. Thomas Duno lliv : from the " searching" interest, by the Horne-ofcet the contents of sealed letters a dd resse d t o certain i ll. dividuals. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. SLAVE TRADE—SLAVE VESSELS. 73 (House of Commons' Sessional Papers, 184 5 , N o. ordered to be printed February 25.) . (A.) Return showing the total number of Aftli's Negroes, landed for the purposes of Slavery on tor Islands and on the Continent of America, from the Yebe 1815 to the year 1843, both inclusive, distinguishing the number so landed in each of those years, and ai r a , number landed in each year on the territory 01 .„ e ic ilf separate State or Power, so far as the same can he, w. t 'y'l up from documents in the possession of her Mai, p e :.6 Government ; also, Cases adjudged under Slave -`'. s o. Treaties, and number of slaves emancipated in e ° , - ,b, quence at Sierra Leone, Rio de Janeiro, liar% tst Surinam, and other places respectively, from th e oil 1829 to the year 1844. (So much of the return ) relates to cases adjudged under Slave Trade Tre st a il la (B.) Return of the number of Slave Vessels arrive-, the Trans-Atlantic States since 1814 ; their name s ' td e scription (as brig, schoon e r, or s hip, &c.); names, tonnage, armament, n um b e r o f crew, on - „, n re flag; whether empty or with slaves (whose numberaryo to be stated) ; the loss by death on the voyage ; f ro m ° what part of Africa arr i ve d ; t h e l eng th o f passage 0 - date of arrival, so f a r as th ese p ar ti cu l ars are ha,l her Majesty's Government : also, the number o. o a vessels clearing from Trans-Atlantic ports for Afri es '„' t bet all vessels clearing from Trans-Atlantic ports or "i s ifo ports, and suspected of an intention of engaging in the t er ; trade, since 1814 ; their names, description, to ss ; ,"0 1 names, tonnage, armament, number of crew, ra tio to flag; whether empty or with cargo, and what cargo; what alleged destination, and date of departure. f idd The first department of Return (A) is e n od " Cases adjudged under Slave Trade Treatiet a ra number of slaves emancipated in consequence at ' 1- tO Leone, the H a vannah, Rio de Janeiro, &c., from 1891-00, 1844." It is thus classified : " Cases adjudged ( 1) :041 date, number of vessels, number of slaves emanotr: s eia remarks)." This paper comprises a series of 40 7 ° Polk in the vast majority of which sentence of condemns t he passed. The total number of slaves emancipated b). 01 1 Mixed Commission Courts, 1829-1843 inclusiv e ' , s e: 57,639. There were two cases only in which P, 0 4 cutions were commenced, but subsequently abao°s at by the captors. 331 of these cases were adjudg e piro Sierra Leone ;43 at Havannah 29 at Rio de Ja n the lat Hamburgh ;1 at Cayenne ; lat Bremen ; %OS Cape of Good Hope—in all, 408. There were 2 0 ; 0 0 brought before the Courts as to which such `-'° for, declared themselves incompetent to entertain thens'ool which no adjudications took place. (B.) This RettliaortiC the number of slave vessels arrived in the Trans - At;lB7 States. &c., gives a total of 2,313 vessels and 6a cef' slaves. Of these vessels it appeared to have been '7 l Of tained that there sailed respectively, under the 1di1565, France, 28 ; Spain, 297 ; Sweden, 2 ; Portugs, i 'Lipti Brazil, 80; America, 18; Holland, 2; Russia, 1; 9"1,- Ayres, 2; Monte Video, 5; Hamburgh, 1; Denalars" ee l The Hon. Henry T. Liddell has arrived at Fga rr4- p Hotel, from Scotland. —doe IRTHS. ~ (10 0 On the 7th inst., at B el mont, Hants, the wife 0 1 Sir James Stirling. R.N., of a daughter. Egg' , On the Bth inst., th e w ife of William Mitcalfe, - Fitzroy•square, of a daughter. lad of „ d ,' On the 15th of February, near Kamptee, the a.bco - P. Crest, Esq., 7th Madras Cavalry, of Far daughter, sti of t he On the 3d inst., at Pau, south of ance, the 10 1 1 Hon. B. Cary, of a son. j e" On the 6th inst., at Manchest e r, M r s. S. L. Behrens, 1 1 of a son. thelo • On the 9th inst., in Bedf or d-pl ace , Russell-square' of J. L. Wight, Es., of a son and daughter. Si l4lll' On the 10th inst. q , at Upper Islington, Mrs. Henry of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Denmark-hill, Mrs. George Marshall, of a son. ~ ~.. _.... ........---- 4 J• VARRIE.D. he I ?..r e ' f. li , At St. Osyth, J. R o b er t Kirby, eldest son of t fr • L. Kirby, of Cla c t on , t o Eli za b e th, e ld es t daughter ° t° Nassau, Esq., of St. Osyth. IL• On the loth inst., at Banstead, Captain Stanhope , - g o Mary, second daught er o f th e l a t e Vice-Admiral it "- James Foote, K.C.B. 1111' Of On the 11th inst., a t th e p ar i s h c h urc h of Chia, ar y ii,,i, ~., dlesex, H. Crompton B oo th, E sq ., o f Li v erpool, to ' i d _ott''' second daughter of Henry T r i m mer, Esq., of Stilt ! ' _...-*/ Green, near Kew. ---.--I DIE U. fre j On the 6th inst., at Notting-hill, Bayswater, Olivi i t 2 Aclifi gy Hall, only daughter of the l a t e M r . Hall, surgeon' ' we J . Berks, aged 28. „ i ft , On the 7th inst., at Ed m onstone House, Chelte n u 3— ' ~,, -.lla lks' Lloyd, Esq., surgeon. On the 7th inst. ,• at Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, l''''' garet Philpot. in'th, JO On the Bth inst., in the New-road, Haulm 4 t 51j James, eldest son of Mr. John Bul. On the 9th inst., at Shrewsbu r y ,) R a n dolph, the in filli 19 1/IP' only son of the Rev. Dr. Kennedy. On the 9th inst., Oliver Colt, Esq., of Rovrall agig ' op shire, aged 85. On the 10th inst., at Mount Radford, tiall 3 the wife of Edward Trapp Pilgrim, Esq., aged 8 2 . 1,0 - On the 10th inst., at Ward's Hous, Hackney', Wi l"slsl Varty, Esq., aged 76. On the 11th inst., in C b 1 Islington, anon ury- ane, f j' Butler, Esq. of Bolton's On the 11th inst., Mr. Thomas Sowter, South Mimms, Herts. --.—..---- Exeter, Doll of 1' 4 ' 6 ; 15 , 1, sz:4on Printod stnd P 3( übl; h MURDO ' -8 ~ %.;:raud, Printer. a.: The Sun Offic e, coov/ Strand, in the Precinct. of the Savoy, inAthe Middlesex, blonday, April 14 1845. V, ~_ I I I I , I li N I 11 4 , 1 11 th ) -'9l C pa l' q t to C O4 dct 1 0 ‘ P4 )