The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

Ar t we .... , r I $X $ LI U tittt or SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. Six o'cLocx. WARWICK TRIAL STAKES. 6 tot agst Nancy 4 to 1 agst ➢Masieiaa 4 to 1 agat Aaron Smith WARWICK HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Uuity 5 to 1 apt Sunrise WIDLOIIIIIHBY HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst .2Egis 4 to 1 agst Clothworker NORTHAXPTONSHIRE STAKES. 8 to 1 agst Legerdemain 8 to 1 agst St. Rosalia—taken 12 to 1 agst The Cocktail TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 6 to 5 agst Grecian 4 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt 5 to 1 agst Newminster CHESTER CUP. 9 to 1 agst Rhesus 14 to 1 agst Nancy 90 to 1 agst The Italian—taken 90 to 1 agst Wallflower 20 to 1 agst Haricot 95 to 1 ag•t The Flying Gout 95 to 1 apt The Black Doctor 36 to 1 apt }Knight of Avenel DIARY. 10 la 1 sgst Mountain Sylph colt 12 to 1 agst "Newminster DisruTED RAca AT DONCAIITZL—Captain Rous has desided in favour of Nancy.: IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition in favour of the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill. The Earl of CAWDOR presented a petition from Pembrokeshire complaining of agricultural distress. SALE OF ARSENIC BILL. The Earl of CARLISLE postponed the further consi deration of this Bill for a week, in order to enable him to consider several suggestions which had been made to him for its improvement. DESIGNS ACT EXTENSION BILL. The Earl of GRANVILLE said that a Bill on this subject had been introduced into the other House of Parliament under the auspices of the Government. When that Bill should come up, he would move to refer it to a Select Committee, on which his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) might serve, and he hoped that the Bill now before their Lordships on the same sabjeot would be referred to a Select Committee, instead of being proceeded with forthwith. Lord BROUGHAM would consent to postpone the measure of which he had given notice on the subject of the patent law, and to have the whole subject referred to a Select Committee. He believed that the adoption of such: a course would be most advsable for the interest of those inganicus persons who devoted tn. it attention to chemical discoveries and mechanical inventions. PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On du) motion of Earl GREY this Bill was read a third time and passed. REGISTRATION ASSURANCES BILL. Lord CAMPBELL, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said ithat he had been requested by her Majesty's Government to take charge of the Bill in this House, and as it was a measure totally unconnected with politics he had consented to do that.—(Hear, hear.) I❑ moving the second reading of this Bill, he felt bound to pay a compliment to the Common Law Commissioners, upon whose suggestions this measure was founded. The Noble and Learned Lord then proceeded to give the history of the laws of conveyance and of mortgage, from the Saxon times up to the present period. (LEST SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. ANCHOR ASSURANCE (No. 2) BILL. This Bill was read a second time. EAST STONEHOUSE WATERWORKS BILL. This Bill was read a second time. GENERAL REVERSIONARY AND INVEST MENT COMPANY BILL. This Bill was also read a second time. DIVORCE BILLS. Macellan's and Ileathoote's Divorce Bills were read a second time. WARKWORTH HARBOUR DOCK BILL. This Bill war; also read a second time. BUCKINGHAM'S COMPENSATION BILL. Mr. ELLIOT moved the postponement of this Bill until Monday next. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition,and begged that the Bill night be postponed, or altogether dropped, for Members had been continually brought down most unnecessarily. Mr. PLOWDEN said that under the circumstances ha should move that this Bill be read this day six months. Mr. W. PATTEN explekned that the only reason for postponing the Bill was tht illness of the Noble Lord by whom it ought to be moved. Mr. ROEBUCK wished to inquire of the Speaker whether this was a private or a public Bill? It appeared to him that the compensation contemplated by this Bill was to be granted out of the funds contributed by the in habitants of this country. If so, it was evidently a public Bill, and ought to be dealt with accordingly. The SPEAKER said that the Bill had been brought before the House some years ago, when one of his pre decessors, and as ho thought correctly, had decided that it was a private Bill. With regard to the other portions of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's inquiry, he might say that as he understood the matter, the compensation was to be given out of the funds in the hands of the East India Company. Mr. ROEBUCK then assented to the propriety of treating it as s private 8.11. Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the Bill be taken into considers ion on the Monday after Easter. Mr. CHRISIOPHER suggested that that would be Easter Monday. On the nigg,..!,ion of Sir R. INGLIS, Mr. PLOW DEN then withdrew his amendment. Ctu the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the Bill was then ordered to he read a second time on Monday. SMITHFIELD ENLARGEMENT BILL. Sir JAMES DUKE moved that the Bill be postponed till a future day. Mr. CHRIS t °PEER was surprised to hear such an anneuncement from the Hon. Baronet, and wished to know what was the int“stion of the Government with respect to this Bill in the event of the City persevering with it. Mr. CORNEWALL LE STIS said that it was deci dedly the intention of the Government to oppose the Bill. Mr. OSBORNE said that he thought the Lion. Baronet was pursuing a very injurious course to his supporters by continually postponing this Bill. He stood there to advocate the plan of the Corporaim, as the beet plan that could be adopted, but his bands were now com pletely weakened. Sir J. DUKE said that he was in the hands of the City authorities, and must abide by their decision. The Bill was then postponed. PETITIONS. Mr. TUFNELL presented apet s i t tio_n, very numerously Ea signed by the inhabi t ants of Stuneni,use, against the late Papal aggr.s.,ion. Mr. Muntz, Mr. Spooner, and several other Members presented petitions from Birmingham a nd var i ous o th er places, praying the House to resist the Papal aggres sions. Mr. REYNOLDS and Mr. B. WALL presented several rtitions from varioui places against the Ecclesiastical Xitles Bill. Members, Cowan, Mr. Henry, Mr. Roche, and several other !I! . ilbers, presented petitions, praying for the abolition of Lima paper duty.' ..... Sir W. CLAY . prescntPd a petition from the Tower NLVeleta a • Ramat the Smithfield-market R mov 1 Bill. r ' HENRY, a ... f and some other Members presented pe titions prayi ng for the abolition of the window-tax. Mr. C013131,1; / ' pktra , Airdrie a peti:ion from the inhabitants of Falkirk and prevailed stating that the grossest bribery and corruption had stated during and previous to the late election. They , been d that not less than fifty houses of entertairtcrent had openedetio for the corruption of the voters. previous to the election, and they prayed that this lion. House wou l d inst itn e tea n ;ifting inquiry into the circumstances. Mr. COBDEN algo present e d se different places n Yorkshire ad petitions from .64 st the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. R. PALMER presented a Petition f place distress; dis trict of Newbury, complaining of hgrieultur_?m. the also a petition from the butchers of a in Sussex, against the removal of Seatthfield market. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a petition against the Ee,:liaitical Titles Bill. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition in favour of the establishm'nt of county financial boards. T , '. SCULLY resented a petition fro m the county of Kildare, acmitiet thtr Ec:lestw t i ca l Titles Bill. Alderman °THOMPSON presented a pe;ition from the city of London, cowl laming of abases i:, them '..nage ms:tit of the B oar d o f e u ,t u nts and pi aying for inquiry; 40 _a petiti on f rom the cwil tn-rel.ants of the Cry , 111.1 1 NK ng ß l A .orthe'em°v ' :1 of Smithfield-market. Es prevented a octiOon from Dorset, Com plaining of th 3 Pap i i a , , r ~. ' Mr. S. CRAWFO-aij"" .... s to!) . in Ireland against th, E pretence . d petitzons from places eel. sirstical Titles Bill. INCOME-TAT. Sir petition from Nor a Sir GEORGE GREY ' Nor thumberleed Fraying for ( th u le ,,ar rep h eal of the income-tax t_ar.) levied under Schedule D.— Mr. BLAKE presented .ip ot i ti :! 'Titles llii, and n nd from Galway against Established that the Ecclesiastical the property and income of the ad Church in Ire land might be made available for the purposes of charity •nd education. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from an individual complaining of the de t enti on of certain letters at Quebec and Halifax. THE SUN, SUNDAY TRADING BILL. Mr. BARING WALL gave notice that when the Sunday Trading Bill came on for second reading he should move that it he read a second time than, day six months. CONDUCT OF nusa MEMBERS. Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of all correspondence in reference to the conduct of Thomas Young Prior, Esq. (a magistrate of the county of Galway), with his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or with the, Lords Justices, in the month of July, 1850; and also, a copy of any warrants issued by the said Thomas Young Prior, Esq., in June last, for the committal of prisoners to the Bridewell of Clifden, in the county of Galway.— Agreed to. EXPENSES OF POLICE IN LIMERICK. Mr. SCULLY also moved for a return of the number, and:the expenses of the police force in several baronies in the county of Limerick.—Agreed to. PAYMENTS DUE FROM BISHOPS TO TUE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS. Sir B. HALL moved for a return of copies of all cor respondence or communications between the Ecclesias tical Commissioners and the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of St. Asaph, Bath and Wells, and Ely, in re spect of the sums due from such Archbishop and Bishops to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , as set forth in the third and l as t re p or t of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners of England, page 54—viz., from the Archbishop of York £2,317 14 2 Bishop of St. Asaph ... 1,661 0 10 Bishop of Bath and Wells ... 3,495 0 0 Bishop of Ely ... ... 9,242 7 3 Total . £16,717 2 3 with the dates of such correspondence or communica tion, and the periods when the several sums were in all or part payable, and any minutes of the Commissioners thereon.—Agreed to. REMOVAL OF WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know what measures had been taken by the Government to carry out the recom mendations of two Committees of the House with re spect to pulling down Westminster-bridge and selecting a new site for the erection of a new bridge? Lord SEYMOUR stated that at the close of the last session a Committee was appointed to inquire into the state of the present bridge, and to consider whether an other bridge ought not to be substituted for it, and whe ther the existing site was in all respects the most desir able. On the last subject the Government received such conflicting evidence that they were satisfied they were not in possession of sufficient information to enable them to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. It was, therefore, determined that a Committee of Inquiry should be ap pointed to ascertain whether the present or any site would be most convenient for a new bridge, and in a few days he would be able to state the names of that Committee. Member for Inverness and that of his Friend his leader and his protector on the eccgsinn.—( A laugh.) He (Sir George Grey) was in the House when the Hon, Gentleman gave his notice in a clear and deliberate manner', and he heard him distinctly state that he should so submit it to the House on the 25th instant. (Hear, hear.) And now when his Noble Friend at the head of the Government asks him whether he in tends to proceed with his motion on that day, the Hon. Gentleman does not say that he is not pre pared to submit his charge to the House, but he says he will not stand in the way of that im portant business which he holds to be the im perative duty of Ministers to bring before the House.—(Hear, hear.) That was what the Honourable Gentleman said himself, but what said his leader? Why he let the real reason out; he said they were not pre pared under present circumstances to bring the question forward.—(Hear, hear.) So then the Hon. Gentleman circulated a serious charge throughout the country against noblemen and the' Government, and now it seemed it was not his intention to bring it for ward.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Nay, he might go the length of saying that he dared not bring it on,—(Oh, oh, and cheers.) Now, as it was a judicial question they were to consider, he hoped at least this was not a specimen of the spirit in which the inquiry would be opened and conducted.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK, being much interested in the wel fare of the colonies, listened to this discussion with some degree of pain.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman the Member for Inverness had, from the commencement of this transaction, expressed strong opinions with regard to the conduct of Lord Torring ton, and with greet credit to himself he had carried the matter before a Committee of the House, who had taken two years to investigate it.—(Hear, hear.) And aow the Hon. Gentleman brought a serious charge against Lhrd Torrington, and had given a formal notice of the day on which he proposed to go into it, but be cause the Noble Lord at the head of the Government considered the notice a vote of censure on his Govern ment, which, if established, would destroy the confidence of the House in the administration. The Honourable Gentleman declined to press his motion for the pre sent.—(Cries of " Hear.") The conclusion which he deduced from all this was that the Government was weak, and because of that w,eakness the interest of the country and the colonies was to be sacrificed, and a serious charged allowed to hang over the head of a Noble Lord recently presided over the destinies of England.—(Hear, hear.) Now, was it fair to delay this question?—was it fair to hold up Lord Torrington to the scorn and indignation of the country for an indefinite period under such a pretence as that which had been signed in favour of the delay ?—(Hear, hear.) The excuse put forth to justify this postpone ment was nothing less than a pretence—a sham—and as it related to a distinct criminal charge, it would be dis graceful alike to the House and the Government if those who preposed it, were not pressed to go on with it at once. But of all the persons who were wrong none were more so than the Honourable Member for Bucking hamshire—(Laughter)—who had shown he was totally unacquainted with the whole matter, and had brought forward some charge against the Colonial-office wholly unconnected with the matter in hand, and who fabricated—if he might use the expression without dishonour—an accusation which the Hon. Member for Inverness-shire never thought of.— (Laughter.) It was quite clear that this course had boen adopted for party purposes.—(Loud cheers.) Let the people of this country understand that all their great interests—colonies, finance, and other im portant matters of legislation—were all now in abeyance, in consequence of the proceedings of some twenty gen tlemen.--(Hear, hear.) Of this he thought there could be no doubt, that when a man was charged openly with a crime by a Member of the House, who said he had evidence in proof of his accusation, common justice—(Cheers)—ordinary good feeling, plain honest good faith, and fair play required that there should be no shrinking from that charge.— (Cheers.) He (Mr. Roebuck) knew little of the circumstances, but whatever might be his opinion as to the result of the charge if it came before a jury, he thought the accuser was bound as an honest man, at.d he demanded it in the name of his country— (" Hear" from the Protectionists)—that the Honour able Member who represented himself as the accuser of this man, should now make his charge, and, if he could, endeavour to justify that charge.—(Cheers.) And let no man treat this matter lightly.—(Hear, hoar.) Let every one suppose, for a moment, that this was his own case.—(Hear.) The Noble Lord was charged with no lass a crime than murder—(Hear)—he was charged with having committed that murder when he repre sented this country in Ceylon. If there were any great crimes that was one.—(Hear.) He honoured a man for bringing a great criminal to justice, but he could not say he honoured that individual who made a grievous accusation, and who afterwards, he might say skulked from it. Sir BENJAMIN HALL entirely concurred in all that had fallen from the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman ; and he would say, further, that he thought it utterly impossible for the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment to pursue any other course than that which he had adopted.—(Cheers.) It must be admitted by every impartial person that the motion of his Hon. Friend for Inverness-shire was nothing more nor less than a vote of censure on the Government, and with that hanging over his head how could the Noble Lord bring forward the financial arrangements of the Government. (Hear.) A governor of the colony and a peer of the realm, as the Hon. and Learned Member had stated, was charged with the crime of murder. He would ask why the Hon. Member gave notice of such a motion, and then allowed it to drop ? It would only be an act of fairness and justice to bring the subject before the:House of L9rds whore that Noble Lord, as well as the Noble Earl at the head of the colonial department, might meet their ac cusers man to man and anewer the charge made against them, and where they might be enabled to give a fair and legitimate account of the course of conduct they had pursued. The matter then dropped. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. MOORE resumed the debate on the second reading of this Bill. He said that the Right Ho nourable Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Home Department, in moving the second reading of this Bill, bad professed that he would clear the ground for the House to come to a proper understanding on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) So far, however, from clearing up any of the difficulties which surrounded the Bill the Right Hon. Bart. had kicked up such a dust that he had made the ground much darker and more difficult. He thought, however, that it would he conceded that the opponents of the Bill bad since that time cleared the ground of a great deal—in the first place they had cleared the ground of the Hon. Baronet himself for the space of ten days, and since the restoration of himself and his colleagues they had cleared the ground of at least three-fourths of the Bill : they had cleared it of anything which could ever have imparted any shadow of consistency to it. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government had openly avowed that the opinions of his former life were blunders and misconceptions, and that the present Bill was founded on an entire change of his opinion. They had also exposed to the public view the paltry strings that pulled the puppet of intolerance and bigotry. and shown how the same strings that pulled the puppet's head up were ready to pull it down again. He did not wish to refer to the erratic fights of indi viduals, but when he heard them accompanied with the cheers of the House of Commons he could scarcely forbear commenting upon them. He referred to the speech of the Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, and as he had heard that the Jacobins were the Gamaliels at whose feet the Hon. Baronet delighted to sit, he hoped that from that source the Hon. Member drew his matter as well as his manner. The first question for the conNideration of the House was-had there been an aggression on the part of the Pope, and if there had, had it been one of a temporal or religious character. He would at once admit that an aggression had taken place, but at the same time he assented that the adoption of such an aggression was the right of all men when they were defending that re ligion which thep believed to be trae. When he looked to the position of Ireland and this country, he could only consider that in the adoption of the course that was bang pursued the worst policy was being adopted. (LEFT SPEAKING.) LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, with the rights of sovereigns in order to render impossible the re - urrenee of what hf.sq r . errltly taken place at Eleet , ral where t)' , 2 public authority was cramped by the judicial power; and 3d, the principle of independence of the sovereign power with regard to the choice and rna p atenance in office of the ministers, whose existence will be no longer at the mercy of a fluctuating or chance majority. The com mittee, moreover, declares that it considers the publica tion of new laws as useless, and that it will be sufficient to correct or revise the federal convention and the final one of Vienna, and it is to this work of revision that its efforts will be applied." * The mails to those c French packet via Marsel "The Little England would frequently run a mile in 6' and. 1. s: y, coied he Ln u,nt to a ~tand in much less distance thqn the large engirv.s. "The engine was afterwards tried upon the Campsie Junction line, where there is an incline o, 1 in 75 for three miles, and a station upon it. She took up seven carriages and a luggage van crowded with passengers, and as she had to stop at the station upon the incline, Mr. Pa ton, the locomotive superintendent, who accompanied her, ordered a large coupled engine to follow to assist her away from the station, if necessary; but she went away with the train at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and the heavy engine could not catch her; for the result proved that the heavy engine could not ascend the incline alone at the rate of 30 miles an hour. " When the engine got to the top of the incline, where another branch line comes in and joins the main line, she took on six more carriages, making in all 14, :Ind took them into Glasgow in good style, surprising every one who witnessed it. " She is now running the express trains between Edinburgh and Glasgow, consisting of five carriages, with a consumption of only 6ilbs. of coke per mile. During the heavy gales and bad weather which prevailed in the early part of January, she was the only engine upon the line that kept time. " On the 7th of September Mr. England sent anothe r similar engine to the Liverpool and Southport line, where she took a train of ten carriages up an incline 1 in 100, stopping and starting upon it, and where there is also a sharp curve. She was delivered subject to a guarantee that she was to run a train of seven car riages at the rate of 45 miles per hour, and ascend an in cline of 1 in 100 at 25 miles an hour, with a consump tion of coke not exceeding 10Ibs. per mile. "Sho proved horself more than equal to the guarantee, and the directors paid for her when she had been in work a week, considering she was more than equal to the contract. " There is one at work upon the Dundee and Perth line, which has been working there since June, 1849, and the locomotive superintendent declares that she has not cost them sixpence in the shape of repairs during that time; that she is always ready, and runs the mail train of four carriages between Dundee and Perth daily." THE ESSEX MURDERERS. CONFESSION OF DRORY. (From the Chelmsford Chronicle.) The most exciting interest continues to prevail re specting the two criminals now under the dread sentence of death in the county prison, for whose execution on Tuesday, the 25th inst., warrants have been already re ceived; and as to the guilt of one of them, Thomas Drory, we are in a condition to remove any shadow of doubt that might have lingered in the public mind, by the statement that he has made a full and thorough ad mission of his guilt At the close of the trial, and as soon as he had been sentenced and removed from the bar, the firmness he bad shown throughout, now that the hope which seems to have buoyed him up was gone, forsook him, and his long pent up feelings found vent in tears. On reaching the gaol his strength was so prostrated that he was obliged to be led by two of the officers to the cell, on reaching which, be flung himself on his hammock, where ho lay sobbing and indulging in a paroxysm of grief for nearly an hour. He was sub sequently visited by the chaplain and the governor, and to them he made a virtual admission of his guilt; becoming soon after more calm, he requested that his hammock might be exchanged for an iron bedstead as more adapted for him to re cline on in his unhappy state—a wish which was at once complied with; but he continued restless and slept little throughout the night. He has since become calm, listens to the religious exhortations of the chaplain, the Rev. J. Hamilton, and joins in his devotions apparently with becoming feeling and a proper sense of the dreadful position in which his frightful crime has placed him. To the chaplain and the magisterial visitors of the gaol he has made, as we have stated, a complete and thorough admission of his guilt, and that his alone was the hand that committed the murder, adding that he believed throughout that because the deed was shrouded in dark ness, and its perpetration coacealed from every human eye, it would be impossible for justice to reach him, and that he had no thought of Providence, by a chain of cir stances, bringing the guilt so plainly home to him. This is the substance of his full admission; but he has, we be lieve, made no formal and detailed confession, though it is understood he has at times dropped statements tending to blacken the character of his victim, as to her pro posing to him the commission of other crimes—an as sertion to which not much credit is attached— and to the effect that he had meditated the crime, and had carried the rope about with him for the purpose some time before its commis sion ; that ho accomplished the murder by stepping behind her as they were walking, and slipping the rope over her neck; adding also that the mark on her hand was not produced by his teeth but by his finger nails. In the early part of the week it seems he had an inten tion of writing down his statement of the matter, but this idea, it is believed, he has abandoned; and the ma gistrates, considering that his unqualified admission is amply sufficient to satisfy justice and the public, and that his fresh recital of the circumstances of the crime could answer no moral or useful purpose, thought it right that he should not be pressed for the minute de tails. On Wednesday his father, whose feelings had been so dreadfully affected by the proceedings that he was compelled to hurry from the town before the close of the trial, visited him in his cell, and it is need less to say that the meeting and the parting of the grey haired father and the condemned son were of the most painful nature, and calculated to call forth the deepest commisseration for the afflicted parent, to whom she prisoner unreservedly admitted his guilt. Since he has been in prison the culprit seems to have ex hibited none of those traits of character that might have been looked for in a criminal of his cast; ho is de scribed in the gaol records as being able to read and write well, and it appears he went to school for four years at Brentwood, but his acquirements in those branches are only tolerable, and his education does not extend beyond them. It is a singular fact, to show the interest attached to all connected with the matter, that at the close of Drory's trial on Saturday night, some person in court stole and carried off the rope with which the murder was committed, and also the plan of the spot where the tragedy took place. Mrs. Chesham, the other culprit, continues to assert her innocence, and to reiterate the statements and the recriminations she made at the trial. She asserts it was the doctor poisoned her husband, and distinctly admits that she has taken off several persons by arsenic, but declares she is not guilty of the murder of her husband. There is little difference in her manner from what it was before trial; and the impression which her conduct leaves is that of an utter callousness of mind; though there are, even in her, moments when the heart appears to soften beneath the unwearied spiritual exertions of the indefatigable chaplain. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 15. STOCK EXCHANGE. —A good business has been done to-day and the market closed strong at the best prices of yesterday. The transactions were as follow ; Aberdeen, 183(4—Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 21—Bolton, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire (No. 1), 7—Caledonian ' 16 1 —Chester and Holyhead, 26— Dundee , Perth , and Aber deen Junction, 11%—East Lancashire, 18 1 ,E Edinburgh and Glasgow, 40 Great Northern, 1834 Lancashire and York shire, 6314—Ditto, Fifths, 6% dis.—Ditto 20/. F, 1 1 ,E p.— Lancaster and Carlisle, 87—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1% p. London anti North-Western, 133 Ditto, New Quarters, 6 1 4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 61/ g p.—Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire, Quarters (No. 1), 7'4 till 1853, 15% —Ditto, Preference, 12% Ditto, 6/. New Preference, %p. —Midland, 661( 2 —Ditto, Halves, 12% dia.—North British, 12—North Staffordshire, 6 dis. —North Union (A), 24114 —North-Western, 10 dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 3 4 dis. South-Eastern and Dover, 28 1 4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, unpaid-up, 11 dis.—York and North Midland, 28%—Ditto, Preference, 1 dis.— Great Southern and Western, 45. MANCHESTER, MARCH 15. &rod" EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow:—Chester and Birkenhead, 21 1 4—Caledonian, Prefer ence, 7N —East Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, B—Ditto, Preference (second issue), 5 5-16—Fleetwood, 6 9-16 dis.— Great Southern and Western, 45—London and North-West ern, 1324—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 1 4 p.—Ditto, New Quar ters, 6 n. p.—Sheffield Stock, 384—Ditto, Preference, 12 1 —North British, 11 3 4—North-Western, 9 11-16—South. Eastern and Dover, 28 9-16—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 11. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions reported to-day were as follow :—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 61. Pre ference, %p. Shrewsbury and Birmingham.(B), dis. SEABORNE MAILS: [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-office by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] When made up in From what PLACES. General Post-office port tits- When London. patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.) ' March 28 Liverpool .. March 26 America (by U.S. pkt.) N March 21 .. Liverpool .. March 16 America (by U.S. pkt.) 1.1 March 26 .. Southall/apt. April 5 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth April 3 Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. March 18 Belgium • • .. •• N Daily .. Dover .. Daily Brazil .. • 1.1 9th of the month Southampt. April 12 Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. April 12 California(viaChagres) It 17th of month Southampt. March 20 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. April 3 Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. March 20 Central America .. Mld & 17th of mon. Southampt. March 20 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th. S a Chili .. 1.1 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 France &N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedally Greece* .. .. .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. March 20 Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Holland Wednes. & Sahli'. London .. Mon.Thrr Honduras . N 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 Ireland .. X& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. Twieedally India (via Southamp.) 3.1 20th of the month Southampt. March 2t , India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover .. March 23 Mediterranean (via Southampton) •• 31 20th of the month Southampt. Marsh 28 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover .. March 23 Mexico .. M2d of the month.. Southampt. April F Madeira • • • • .. of 9th of the month Southampt. Aprll.l2 Malta* 7th,17th,19th,27th 1 D o ver March 18 & 30th of month Naples* .. • • .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover March 22 Papal States* N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. March 22 reninsular M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. April 16 Peru .. M 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover • • March 22 West Indies .. 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) DI 2d of the month Southampt. April 5 t2cl of tho month .. °unties thus mar Mes ISonthaapt. 'April 5 ked (*) are conveyed by GOOD FOR H O ARSENESS. — Mrs. Billington, the queen of all English singers, came one night to Drury-lane Theatre, to perform Mandane, in Artaxerxes, so hoarse as to render it a question whether it would be possible for her to appear before the audience. To add to her perplexity, her maid had mislaid the key of her jewel-boa,,Wbuthpaet can irsisted that her mistress m ust have g ot it with her. , have done with it ?" said the syren. "I suppose I must have swallowed it without knowing And a l ucky thing, too,' said Wewitzer, "it may perhaps serve to open your chest." ASSUMPTION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC TITLES IN NEWFOUNDLAND. In reply to Mr. B. COCHRANE, Mr. LABOUCHERE, in the absence of Mr. Hawes, stated that dispatches had been received from Newfound land conveying the information that a Roman Catholic priest had assumed the title of Bishop of Newfoundland by favour of the Holy See, and that Earl Grey had replied to it, that the individual in question had no right to use such a title. In answer to a question from Sir R. H. INGLIS, Mr. LABOUCHERE said there would be no objection to lay the dispatch on the table. METROPOLITAN BUILDING'S BILL. In answer to a question from Alderman SIDNEY, Lord SEYMOUR said that he should take the dis cussion on this Bill at as early a day as possible. AFFAIRS OF CEYLON.-VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to ask the Hon. Member for Inverness-shire whether he had made ar rangements with other Hon. Members who had notices on the paper relative to bringing forward the motion of which he had given notice on the conduct of the Government in Ceylon. Mr. BAILLIE said, in the first place, ho had to ex press his regret that he was not present on Friday night when the Noble Lord mentioned the subject. In answer to the question now put,, he must take the liberty of cbserving that the course which the Noble Lord had taken was one of which he had great reason to complain. The Noble Lord had stated that the motion was one which he should consider in the light of a vote of censure on the Government, and that therefore it was not his intention to bring forward his great financial measure until the measure was dis posed of, thus placing him (Mr. Baillie) in the invidi ous position not only of obstructing the business of the country, but also placing the motion in the light of one of confidence and no confidence in the Government, at the time when the Noble Lord was perfectly aware that there was no other party in the country ready to take office. The question was one of long standing, and though the Noble 'lord all of a sudden affected ♦irtuous indignation, he must have ex pected it for some time, and indeed it was only in con sequence of the extraordinary course in refusing to produce the evidence which had delayed the motion so long. The House must therefore admit that he was not liable to the charge of obstructing the business of the country. Ho could perfectly well understand the difficulties the Noble Lord was placed in, and his anxiety to escape from those difficulties; and that, per haps, anticipating defeat upon this motion, he did not wish to have the trouble of pre paring those measures which it was his duty to bring before the country. The Noble Lord was, however, mistaken if he thought that he (Mr. Baillie) would be made the instrument of his being allowed to escape from the duties which the public exigency called upon him to perform. The course, therefore, which he should take would be to remove his motion from the notice book, reserving to himself the leave of bringing it forward again at a time when it would not render him liable to the charge of impeding public business. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no reason to complain of the gronds on which the Hon. Member for Inverness shire had founded his motion, but he had great reason to complain of the form in which that motion had been framed. The House would be at no loss to construe the object of the Hon. Gentleman, or of those who partook of his opinions in bringing forward the motion. He did not object to the motion, but he did object to the mode by which that motion had been brought before the House. He did say that, on the present occasion, the motion cf the Hon. Member was neither more nor less than to pass a vote of censure on the Government. There were reasons why this motion should be brought on, and he could perfectly understand why a vote of censure should be obtained against the Government, e3pecially in a case in which the Secretary of State, and one the governor of one of the principal of her Majesty's colonies were concerned. What he had chiefly to com plain of was, that any member of a great party should bring a motion before this House under circumstances from which it was impossible for his opponets to meet it in a fair and candid manner.—(Hear, hear.) He, was not prepared to say what course the Government would pursue, but he complained of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. 13aillie) deferring his motion at a time when every ma terial was in his hands against Lord Torrington, a peer of the realm, when his Lrrdship was present in this country.—(Hear, hear.) It was contrary to the prac tice of a great party to bring forward such a motion as this, and then when the party who brought it forward was perfectly aware cf the influence which it must of necessity have, viz., the effect of a vote of censure upon the Government, to defer it. It seemed simply planned in wanton mischief, and he believed that the House would readily respond to his opinion, that a motion, in which the cha racter of a Noble Lord was implicated, and which changed him with gross and unnecessary cruelty, ought not to be entertained, or if entertained, ought not to be deferred to any future time for consideration.—(The Noble Lord, who had been loudly and repeatedly cheered, sat down amid loud applause.) Mr. DISRAELI said that he must remind the House and the Noble Lord that this was no new question. They should remember that it was a question which had now been two years before the House, and that a Committee had expressly declared for the publication of those paper?, which were alike necessary for the discussion of this Question and for the satisfaction of the country.— (Hear, hear.) This was a matter of the greatest public interest and importance, and yet the Noble Lord desired them to legislate, in the absence of every document, through the evidence of which alone could they come at a right decision.—(Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend the Member for :Inverness-shire had applied at the Secretary's office, and had been told that the papers for which he applied had been returned to Ceylon, being necessary to be produced on the court-martial upon Captain Watson.—(Hear, hear.) All that he could obtain were copies of the documents, every one of which ought to have been laid on the table of the House a fortnight before. Now mark this. A copy of the evidence taken before the Commis. sion could not be required by the court martial at Ceylon, because the authenticated copy of the evidence would not be admissible before the court.—(Hear, hear.) The court martial were in possession of the original evidence.—(Hear, hear.) What necessity, then, was there for sending back the copy?—(Cheers.) The reason, therefore, given by the Under-Seoretary of State for sending back the copy was not only extraordinary, but unparalleled, and under all the circumstances, to say the least of it, most unsatis fitetory.—(Hear, hear.) And yet, under all these cir cumstaeces, the House having only just received the evidence taken before a Committee which sat two years— not yet being in possession of all the documents 'l , k)nvit It d to the consideration of the Committee, and the telumu,a havi ug j ust di scovere d a strange an d susp i c i ous cir tit.s=ce with re s p ec t t o t h e evidenc.- taken by the Com .ent out to Ceylon, the first Minister gl.t up, and eunnng a tote of virtuous indignation h appesled to ti. House against whet he called d t e unfair . conduct of a Nor had the Minister been in the wou ld have heard nothing doubto e"s g poTit l* .o P n art w Y hTch (e n h tbthis complaint—(Cheers.) for the Minister would have been b een the lest man who could upon a great judicial qnes wieli t-) come to a cotciusion • f such importance as this in the absence Win 0 o f the necessary documents ; and after su ch inexplicable conduct on the part of the d4artweri t whose ,o liorLy.pwLisattacked.(Elear, hear.) He thought hi 6 11"" feeling could — h s Friend had taken that course this the ° H e c e a u s s i e on. which good sense and alike dictated, and he for one had no objection to appeal to the verdict the carcely overlook the remarkable difference that existed between country as elotßoGliris cGoßndEulertr,oaiad the arguments of the Honourable Geutlemau the GERMANY. The Journal des Desbats publishes the following as a detailed analysis of the report and the proposi tions of the Second Committee of the Conference of Dresden. That body has not yet completed its task, but it has already sent in the five following proposi tions, the adoption of which, the Journal des Debats remarks, will be a rude attack on the constitutional regime such as it is established in several German States : " 1. All the members of the Confederation engage to abrogate all the clauses introduced since 1848 into the constitutions of their country, or concerning the consti tutions of these countries, and which may be incompatible either with the Federal Constitution or with the mon archical principle. " 2. In all cases where a dispute may arise between the Sovereign and the States of his country either on the interpretation or on the application of the Constitution, the States, as well as the Sovereign, will have the right to submit the question in dispute to the Federal Diet, which will seek to interpose its good offices, or will pro nounce on the question either by itself or through an arbitral tribunal. " 3. Any general refusal to vote taxes on the part of the States will be regarded as an act of resistance of the suljects against the Government, and will be, on that respect, treated conformably to Art. 25 of the convention of Vienna of 15th May, 1820. " 4. The Sovereign Princes, united in the Confedera tion, cannot be con trol!ed or limited in any way by the States of their count,ty in the accomplishment of their duties, or in the execution of the conventions resulting from the Federal Constitution. "5. When, in the eases provided for by Arts. 25, 26, and 28 of the said convention of Vienna, the armed in tervention of the Confederation in a German sta.() shall b.) necessary, the Confederation will seek to enlighten itself as to the causes of the difference which has arisen; and, in the event of its being found to have its source in the Constitution or in the laws of the country, it will cause them to be modified." _ _ Isle committee in its report explains that the object of its first proposition is the sbrogatiou of the fundamental rights of th. people voted by the Assembly at Frankfort on the 27th Dec., 1848—that is to say, the abrogation of the principle of universal suffrage and that of all re striction to the right of veto by sovereigns. The conference, in adopting it, will virtually adopt, Ist, the abolition of the oath to the Constitution taken by the army ; 2d, the principl e of the non-inter vention of the tribunals in eases onnected THE METROPOLITAN MARKET BILL AND THE CORPORATION. The following is the report of the Markets Improve ment Committee, to whom it was referred by the Court of Common Council to watch the procedings on the Bill for providing a metropolitan market, and conveniences connected therewith, in lieu of the cattle market at Smithfield, now pending in the House of Commons:— " The copies of the Bill having been laid before us by the Remembrencer, we proceeded to consider the same, and are of opinion that the Bill is an unjust and arbi trary interference with the prescriptive rights, privileges, and immunities of the Corporation of the City of Lon don, which has been seised in fee of its ancient market from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,' and which privileges have been fully es tablished and confirmed by charters from King Edward 111., Kings Chasies I. and 11., and from other Sovereigns, and still further confirmed and acknowledged by many Acts of Parliament, and especially by an Act passed so lately as the sth and 6th of King William IV., and is in direct contravention of, and opposition to, the opinion of the judges of the land, solemnly pronounced in the House when, in answer to questions pro pofouLnodreds dby in B th l eHouse, they advised their Lordships That a new market could only be legally granted so as to pro might be called the surplus accommoda tionbeyond what the mark e t of S m ithfield can e a of ff of o rt r hw d e pa , h 'a ut n b d lic tbat the rights and interests of Smith field ought not to he affected; that the Bill would be a grievous interference, not only with the privileges of the city of London, but with the trade of its citizens gene with those having dealings in o sl r: ia a c rry il i Y ng on business in the centre of meatral gene rally, and dd cattle, more e the City, and would occasion a disruption of a branch of trade on which upwards of seven millions of money change hands annually in the sale of live stock, inde pendently of enormous amounts paid for dead meat, and would interpose greet and unnecessary difficulties to the effectual and speedy accomplishment of commercial transactions in the Elite and purchase of so important an item of the people's food; and because the Bill provides for the establishmalt of a new corporation, consist ing of five persona tominated by the Crown, under the title of Incorporated Co m mi s si oners , w h o , whilst they will be wholly irresponsible either to Parliament or to the country, will nevertheless be invested with arbitrary powers of imposing tolls and fines upon the subject, of making rules and regulations having the effect and force of law, and even of levyi ng a di s t ress w ith ou t resor t t o any of the ordinary tribunals of adjudication upon any individual incutring debts to them for tolls; and because the necessarily heavy costs of this Incorporated Comnissicn, together with the sa laries and wages of the staff of officers, and all other expenses whatsoever incurred by its aut hority, are to be defrayed by additional tolls upon meat and cattle dis posed of in the market, thereby inevitably increasing the price to the people of one of the articles which enter most largely into theft consumption. And that it is also proposed, for the purpose of carrying out this Bill, to authnrise the Incorporated Commissioners to raise a sum of 200,0001. by mortgage of the anticipated tolls to the Commissioners of Public Works, the sole security for such loan being the market tolls, dependent in amount on the success of the project, and which, in case of a failure (as at Islington) would leave the amount of a loan for a local purpose a permanent burden on the con solidated fund. That the Bill further provides that so soon as the proposed now market shall be opened, Smith field market shall be closed, and no new cattle market shall thenceforth be opened within five miles of St. Paul's Cathedral, thus establishing a monopoly in favour of the proposed new market and the parties upon whose lands such market shall be held. That the Bill having been introduced into the Home of Commons was referred to the examiner of petitions for Private Bills, who reported that the standing orders had not been complied with; and the said Bill and the report of the examiner were thereupon referred, to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Standing Orders, who, after hearing the statements for and against dispensing with the standing orders, agreed to the following resolution :--- .. Smithfield-market " That in the ease ofthe Smithfield-market Removal Bill the standing orders ought to be dispensed with. That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on inserting the notices once in the London Gazette and for three successive weeks in the newspapers; and that the Committee of Selection be instructed not to appoint the first meeting of the Committee on the Bill for an earlier day than Thursday, the Ist of May.' " The resolution was reported to the House of Com mons on Tuesday, the llth inst., and agreed to, and no progress can therefore be made with the Smithfield market Removal Bill for three weeks from the present time. " Under these circumstances your committee have deemed it expedient to be prepared with a petition against the said Bill, and they directed the Rembrancer to settle the draught of a petition in consultation with the counsel retained on behalf of the corporation, and the said draught petition having been approved by your committee they submit tha same to this court. "H. L. Taylor. " Valentine Rutter. " Richard Hicks. " W. Webster. " John Dixon. " R. C. Backnall. " William Williams, " R. Obbard. " Stephen Baker. " George Harker. " J. Josiah Millard. " T. J. Holt. " T. H. Hall. " Dated March 13, 1851; HOW ISTHE CARRUD ON? This GOVERNMENT TO BE asked with some emphasis at thepr b e y se w n h t ich Metternich juncture. `` Afler me th e d e l uge !" was th e i s a question to QUEEN' S be hesmerised men into fealty through fear. " Myself or a di sso l ut i on !" suc h i s t h e a l terna tive by which Lord Joh n R usse ll a l one can stan d . spell An appeal to the country et a moment like the present, is the foreseen calamity which " makes the Cabinet of so long life.* With the" No Popery" eicitement only dormant, and capable of being !mu re - stimulated from the hustings into "Free-trade" struggle to be foughtfier undercer esta n the most unfavourable to the advocates of progress, it may we ll b e t h a t th e Lib era l li f ei : rc with um the e es party should prefer the perpetuation of a feeble Ministry to the . precipitation of that great conflict, compared to success or failure in which t h e mere i nterests o f party arr as nothing. Before going to the country on th e i ssue o f " T axe d or Untaxed Bread," let us dispose of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Don't let the sry of "Protection" be strengthened with the roar of "No Popery." Don't ex pose the seal of the Free Trader to be " sieklied o'er" with the fanaticism of the Religions Protectionist. Let not Corn and Catholics divide the Liberal forces which they so long united. Do not hazard a return to fixed duties by exposing the weaker brethren to the anathema of relaxed principles. Even with the utmost degree of dissolution panic of which an Honourable Rouse is capable, it is impossible not to foresee more than one tempest gathering on the sky, under stress of which it seems but too probable that the already water-logged barque must finally go down. Can the Colonial-of fice weather Mr. Baillie's C e ylon motion, of which we observe notice is given for next Tuesday week, and which lowers ominons on the journals of the House awaiting " in grim repose " its red-tape prey. Escape is no doubt possible, but surely the Noble and Right Honourable rulers of th, Colonies must begin to regard Downing-street with those sentiments of natural piety with which men of feeling minds take their last look of the scenes of their greatness and their glory. It would serve no purpose to run through the many similar instances of possibly impending discomfiture: it is the very nature of such a situation as the present to stimulate attack, and enfeeble defence. Men will fight hard for glory or for life, they will but faintly struggle to prolong a state which is, after all, but a lingering death. The Whig l / 4 Ministry carrying through the session of 1851 is a spectacle which it depends on themselves to make either sublime or ridiculous. If, feeling that they are restored to office by a state necessity, they seize the opportunity of signalising their newlease of power, by well-considered and honestly-urged measures of practical reform, they may retire at its expiration with general respect. If, on the other hand, they rely on the peculiarity of the crisis, as a sufficient excuse for inaction and reserve, the consequences of the national dissatisfaction may prove permanently disastrous to their hopes of future power. Let them be wise in time.— Weekly LVews. ' LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES. Several months since we gave the working upon the Brighton line of a light locomotive called the " Little England," and expressed an opinion that such a class of engines would be found economical for light passage traffic. The correctness of our opinion is confirmed by the following report of Mr. Adie, the engineer of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, for which the " Little England" was manufactured. Speaking of this class of engine, Mr. Adie reports— " On the 3d of August last one was forwarded to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, under a guarantee that she was to work their express train betweed Edin burgh and Glasgow, consisting of seven carriages, to keep good time as per time bill, and not to consume more than 101bs. of coke per mile ; if she did that to the satisfaction of Mr. Adie, the company's engineer, they should purchase hae for 1,200/. But if the work done, or the c;msomption of coke was not satisfatory, and within the guarantee, Mr. England was to remove her, and take her back entirely at his own expense, 6 After the engine got to work, in order to test her powers accurately Mr. Adie appointed Mr. Cross, one of his assistants, to accompany her for several days, to see the coke weighed and to see the time was properly kept. He also placed one of the best engines belonging to the company; called the Sirius, to run from the opposite end, at the same hours and with a similar train, in order to compare the one with the other. " They,. worked a week, the Sirius starting the morning trip from Edinburgh, and the Little England from Glasgow. They then changed ; and the Sirius started from Glasgow and the Little England from Edinburgh, thus making a fair division of the work, and the result proved that the small engine kept better time than the larger one, so much so that the manager, Mr. Thompson, was obliged to order the driver not to run in before time for fear of an accident. Her consumption of coke was 81b. 3oz. per mile, while that of the Sirius was 291 b. lox. per mile. MARCH l7, 1851. NAVAL INTELLTGF,'N7cE. ;; t. . • 046), tne .e.xcellent, whose shell:, nava beeu tso successtedy tried in the course of the experiments ac Portsmouth, we have reported within the last fortnight, has been pro moted to the rank of captain. RETURN OF THE BIRKENHEAD, STEAM TROOP•SHIP. —The Birkenhead iron troop-transport, Master-Com mander Salmond, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, at nine o'clock, having made a most expeditious passage both out and home to and from Gibraltar, remaining at anchor there about six days. She has only been away altogether twenty days, having left Cork on the 26th ult. with a part of the 55th Regiment on board. She arrived at Gibraltar on the 2d inst., and left again on the Sth, with four companies of the 47th, a few of the 27th, and some invalids, for Portsmouth. She went into harbour on Saturday, and landed the detachment of the 27th Regiment and the invalids; and in the evening went down to Cowes to land the four companies of the 67th, who go to Parkhurst Barracks. To day the Birken head will convey the detachment of the 45th Regiment to Southampton, who go on board the Singapore steamer, and will sail for the Cape this evening. The Birken head, we understand, will convey the 13th Regiment Light Infantry (which has arrived at Winchester) to Gibraltar, to relieve the 67th, that proceeds to Antigua, relieving the 54th, that proceeds to Canada. We have before observed that the Powerful, 84, was a most comfortable ship during the whole term of her three years commission under Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C.B. Wo are glad to see further corroboration of the truth of our previous remark. The three war rant officers, Thomas Quinn, the gunner; James Wilson, the boatswain; and J. B. Gage, the carpenter; have each been presented with a valuoble silver tankard, as a testimony of their just appreciations of the correct and efficient manner in which these officers performed their several duties during their term of service in the Powerful. Captain Pandas and the officers also pre sented to the boatswain, Mr. Wilson, a very handsome telescope, for the instruction and attention he bestowed on the young gentlemen in instructing them in sea manship. Ajax, 60, screw guard-ship, Captain Quin, dropped down from Queenstown (Cove) to the outer roads to test her stern and quarter armament, to see whether the discharge of the guns would have any effect on the engine or screw, or do any damage to her stern-frame, as it was supposed the latter was weakened by the hole cut through her dead wood for the screw. She fired her heavy guns shotted and double shotted with an extra charge. In the engine-room and the screw shaft space the vibration was scarely felt, and the shock was so slight that the loose scales of white wash hanging to the beams overhead were not in the least disturbed. The trial has been satisfactory, proving that the jar or concussion on firing the guns has not the least injurious effect on either the engines or ship. Prince Regent, 90, Captain Harris, was removed from the angle dock, Portsmouth, on Saturday, and taken under the sheers in the basin, when all her masts were taken out; the mainmast only, however, is defective, but she will have a new set, as the old masts require to have the cheeks taken off to be examined. Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, arrived at Madeira March 2, and left the next day for the coast of Africa. Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen, was placed by the commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, on Saturday, at the disposal of Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, wbo, with his family, went out to the Cum berland, 70, in her. The Cumberland will sail, as we before stated, this day for Bermuda. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH l6.—The Cumberland, 70, Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., has not yet left Spithead, but is expected to sail this evening or at daylight to-morrow for the West Indies. The Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Lavie, arrived on Friday from Woolwich. She yesterday embarked packages, letters, papers, and dispatches for the Coast of Africa squadron, and sailed in the evening for Plymouth to ship the mail. The following acting-mates, &c., passed examination for lieutenants at the Royal Naval College last week:— licssrs. H. M. Miller, F. T. Thompson, W. B. Alexan ' der and C. D. Robinson; and Second-Master Mr. G. H. Obree passed for master. At the quarterly examination of officers on subjects connected with the marine steam-engine at the Royal Naval College last week Captain J. J. Stopford and Lieutenant F. J. D'Aguilar qualified for service. The following young gentlemen passed for cadetships in the Royal Marine Corps last week at the Royal Naval College:—Messrs. A. J. V. Collins, C. C. Eden, A. J. Somerville, and C. G. Fane. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAT.—Her Majesty's packet Pe terel arrivep on Thursday from Falmouth. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Vesuvius went round the Eddystone on Friday, and on her return towed the Pe terel into harbour to be paid off. The packet brig Brilliant, Captain Colbeck, from Ma de ira ; arrived at this port on Friday night, at 11 o'clock, heaving left Madeira on the 12th ult. She transhipped her mails, which were heavy, off Falmouth on board the British and Irish Company's steamer Devonshire, which arrived hero in the afternoon, when they were sent by the ordinary mail-train to London. The weather in Madeira has been very inclement during the winter. She brings some valuable articles from Madeira for the E.Lhibition. She brought a quantity of green peas, grown in Madeira; they are in as great perfection as ours would be in August. Her Majesty's brig Bonetta, 3, arrived on Saturday morning from Chatham. She will be paid advance of wages here and receive her final orders for the Brazils. APPOINTMENTS. WooLwlcH, Meaux 15.—Surgeon-Superintendent William H. B. Jones, M.D. (1837), to the Aurora hired convict-ship. Surgeon Richard Carpenter (1842), to the Penelope steam-frigate at Portsmouth. First Engineer Hugh Roberts, o the Echo steam tug vessel, of 140-horse power, at iortsmouth. Second-Engineer William Purnell, to the Echo. Master's-Assistant John M. Missing, to the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich. THE BRAZIL SQUADRON. The following is an extract of a private letter, dated January 10: — "bur squadron has lately been increased to a suffi cient number of vessels, but they are complained of as being too large for the service required of them, and, unfortunately, steamers require a great deal of engineer repairs. This has lately been the case with the Cor morant, 6, Captain Schomberg, and Conflict, 8, screw sloop, Commander Drake, thereby causing some suspen sion of their active employment. " A sad accident has befallen the Geyser steam-sloop, CoMmander Tatham, she having struck on an unknown sunken rock, between Illa Grande and the Main. striking on her starboard bilge when going a-head at full speed. She immediately made for the harbour, and could barely keep herself clear of water by applying the steam power to her pumps. She is being cleared, for the purpose of lightening her, with great expedition, and then the ex tent of her damage will be more fully developed. As it is, she must keep one wheel turning whilst at anchor, to frets herself of the water, and thus the admiral is deprived of her service for some months. The flag-ship Southampton has been capturing slave vessels—that is, by her tender, the Harpy steam-vessel, for she it is that did the business while she lay quietly at anchor. On the sth of January, having information of a vessel, reported as a slaver then beating out, she proreeded in chase and captured her about six miles off the port. The Brazilians occasionally take vessels ar riving from the coast; but the temptation of a bribe they cannot resist, and so connive at their fitting out." SHIP NEWS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.—Wind, W.—Orion, which arrived at Charente on the 6th inst., hence, struck seve ral 'times on the Ile de Re, unshipped her rudder, broke whoel, &c., and became leaky; in going up the river, between Roehefort and Charente, she ran into a sloop at anchor, and lost bowsprit, head, cutwater, &c., and re ceived damage in her bows • the sloop received but little or no damage. Helen M:Lachlan, arrived here from Ardrossan, has lost foreyard, &c., and had one man through collision with the Aristides, for Palermo, which has put back with damage. Henry Curwen, from the Mauritius for London, wa s spoken, and repo r t e d having been boarded off the Cape by a brig, supposed to be a slaver, which took some water from her. Juno, fros n Sierra Leone for this port , has arrived, and is re fitting. March 16tb.—Wind, N., light. —H asse, l oa di ng for Calcutta, in the Prince's Dock, was discovered to be on dire last evening, and immediately hauled into the South Lock, and the fire subdued after doing consider able: times,Laidmans, arrived here on apparently upon a sunken rock, during thi ck we ather, on the 6th inst., in the able 13th damagein s inst., to struck theve lat. 46, long. 26, but did not receive any damage. Ivan hoe, from New York for this port, way seen ashore on the round shoal of Nantucket on the 24th ult., with all sails set, and apparently with a list to starboard, by the Joseph Walker, arrived here. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 14.—A French barque named the Eliza, bound for California, with 210 passengers on board, was blown up by gunpowder in Rio Janeiro har bour, just before the Teviot sailed; ten persons were m i ss i ng , and twenty or thirty injured. The Aristides, for Palermo, has put back with damage, from contact with the Helen, which lost bowsprit, foreyard, kc., and one man killed. The Witch, arrived here from Cal cutta., passed some wreck in 38 N. 42 W. and 39 N., 39 W. On the night of the 9th i nst. saw a large water-spout formed of congealed ice,:which broke close to her, and completely deluq:ed her with small particles of ice. Sovriumprort, MARCH 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. United Stab's frigate, St. Lawrence, New York, and Cowes Roads; Mon trose steamer, Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Argen tina, Bahia. Off port, Bosphorus, Buenos Ayres. FALMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Diadem, Rio Janeiro; Violet, Bahia. CARDIFF, MARCH 14.- Wind N.W.—Sld. Joshua, Ha vannah ; Thomas Wright, Savannah. SWA NSEA, MAacti N.E.—Arrd. Sunbeam, (Juba. GR.AVESE ND , MARCH 16.—Wind N.W., light, fine. Ar rived—Gangev, from the Mauritius; Henry Wal ley, from Antwerp; Mary Stoddart, from Madras; Magnet, Giraffe, and Rainbow, from Rotterdam; Diana and .Rocommon, from Harlingen; Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordt; Syria, from China; Factor, from Oporto; Skud, from Lisbon; Isabella Walker, from Alexandria; Jane, from Calcutta; Carl Mauran, from China; Emilie, from Jaffa; Ann, from Boulogne; Juene Erneste, from Calais; Union, from Bordeaux; Dee, from Guernsey; Sire oe, from Bahia; Lady Louisa, Reward, Prince Al bert, John Wesley, Sprite, and Ajax, from Guernsey; ,North Star, from Ancona; Codrington, from Odessa; X. L., from Dieppe; Ypres, from Dunkirk; La Coq, frora Cherbourg; St. Leonard, from Dunkirk ; Condor, from Dieppe; John and Elizabeih, from St. Malo; Lively, from Guernsey; Hannah, from Copenhagen; Kenai, from Calais; City of London, from Dunkirk; Thames, from Hamburgh; W. Joliffe, from Havre. Sailed—Queen, and Governor Von Ewick, for "7" , ; *1 a Vivi. for nsinhurgh; plc ; Sir Edasid fur Ostend; Rhine, for An-werp; Venezae.l3, far Havre ; Albion, for Boulogno:; Fanie, for Calais ; City of Rottardarn, for Dunkirk; Antwerpen, for Ant werp; Lord John Russell, for Ilailingen; Earl of Aucl,i land and altavier, for Rottermam; Belmira, tor St. Michaels; George Doan and Dispatch, fur Cape Coat; Ganges, fur Hong-Kong; John M. Mayo, for Cardiff; Northumberland, for New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Alliance, from Liverpool for Calcutta , F eb. 7, in Ist• 3 ' long. 22. John Garrow, of Liverpool, and the Rolla, of Belfas t, on the 10th inst., in let. 51, long, 6. THE COUNTRY MARKET'S. LIVER,POOL, 15.—The trade to-day is steady, with no change in prices. MAtiorizsrea, MARCH 15.—A somewhat steadier feeling has been apparent in the trade throughout the present week, and on the whole a fair consumptive demand has been ear', rienced fora pproved marks of flour and suitable qualities et oatmeal,. without variation from the prices previously current. Coastwise and from Ireland the arrivals at Liverpool and Run corn are only to a moderate amount, but f rom abroad the im ports of wheat, beans, and flour are again tolerably extensives At our market this morning sellers exhibit ed more firmnes than for some time past, and although the a mount of businiees.s t p a a i s r s ia in b g le w o a n s bthyisy meansno odaoccurred in any article were on terms fully e q ob- extensive, se'nnight. s till the traual nsactions to those wh . h WORCESTER, MARCH 15.—The market contis of firm , with an inclination to advance in prices of good qualities English wheat, which may be quoted at 16s to 165 6d per bag for white, and 15s to 15s 6d for red. Best foreigti 0 ° 1) 1 here realize 5s tid per bushel. Malting barley in fair dem a n d an at 3s 4d to :3s 6d per bushel; distilling qualities and new old English beans are worth 4s 3d to 4s 6d per busel, and a 0 4s ; foreign, about 3s 6d per bushel. Old English noevi may be quoted at 3s 4d to 3s 6 d p er 391 b, and an d 3s to 3s 4d ; Irish, 2s 10d to 3s. Spring vetches, 4s 4d, 0_ winter, 5s to 5s 4d per bushel. Peas in f air request, and Ir T r e 4s 2d to Is for white, and 4s to 4s 6d for grey 9 . samP l l,, sd averages show the price of wheat at Wor cester to be it some per qr, and of barley 1/ 4s. The average is rather above of the neighbouring markets. wheat S was t i o n u d rb em rid a te d mataarktertinoinngFraiddavyanwcea.s r a u th ar e l r ey b i r a is ker. t, a ci n u cl ot q a u ti i o t n e s a . s much fi m rm one a y t loabsttawineeedkf,sorraittesa.s at —average, 23s 7d per quarter. Peas and beans realized former . d and the Wolverhampton market was but scantily supplee , e d in attendance of farmers was small, they being busily occup_ - heat tillage operations, taking advantage of the fine weather• ates was worth 6cl to Is per quarter more money, and higher r per perienced have been obtained but for the depression whic h was perienced in the flour trade. White wheat, 16s to 166 fild 1 a s tfariirrarrietegtu Il bag ; red, 15s to 153 6d. Foreign wheat in fair demand,. prices ot week fully maintained. Barley was than last week. Malting realized 24s to 260 per quarter. 0(-!_d. were firm, but no noticeable advance in price can be qo Le A rer. Old beans are somewhat scarce, and are Is per quarter ues Present rates of English, from lie 6d to 12s per 1961 b. ___, NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 15.—The show of wheat to-day 1 :_ small, and there was an improved feeling in the Pods; en.. samples making rather better prices, and secondary 1 S Pric es and the _ more saleable. Barley was also a smaller supPlYt of last week were fully maintained. In oats and beans no alteration. li ke GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 13.-- a trifle htS h :: At our 9 3 no. to-day the numbers were—oxen, 927; sheep, 5 15 ' I ci n t c h: de quence of the large supply of cattle at our market, an siovr i i , current a a t t ba 4 r 2 e s l! l i a n s f t er w io e r ek; r s om priLes s . pressed state of the dead market, caused sales to be ve r y t un offal. At the close of the market a great' any turned oil_ 1 s oma sold. '[he supply of sheep was considerably under thoeru average, and sales in consequence were brisker than f 5 5 0 time past. Best wethers brought 6d per lb, current t o B 3 e 4 s s t p o e x e bceivetf, per ditto. Of inferior quality nothing in the markestdwortill of notice. DALKEITH, MARCH I3.—The relative w eight per four bnisillts of the three prices of wheat were 18st llb, 17st 121 h, an d 111 b. Oats, 12st 51b, 12st 31b, and Ilst 21b- Isst 81b, and 14st 101 b. Peas and beans, lost 01b, 1 84 lv and 18st Sibs. sold sio k atg44higs Inferior. Qrs. Best. Current. 41 II 0 156 Wheat ... ...... £1 19 6 £1 17 0 '''' 0 1 4 4 1074 Oats ... 1 2 8 0 18 8 I I 106 Barley .112 3 1 5 Barley, 16st „, 91 1 13 5 : I 6 v 102 Peas and Beans 1 11 0 1 8 0 Average of wheat .. , ... 36s 44(1. ABERDEEN, Ikbotcii 14.—Gra . ild . .. —Oats 0 , 401bs per bushel; oats (new), 1556 d to 16s Od, O s per bus 20i barley, 19s 6d to 20s 6d, 521bs per bushel ; bear, 050 d t 5 ,.,, 0d,521bs per bushel; wheat 39s to 40s; oatmeal, 12s 6clto 13 7 per boll ; flour, 29s to 31s per sack. Provisions-43°1i 4d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d; veal, ctit t4 ',. . to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s to bs sd; lamb, per qr, 45 to Ltt . tallow, per stone, 3,6 d to 4s ; potatoes, er nec k ; 6d to 7 ,t' hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 8d to Od; 'hares each, ( 1d) Os Od to:0504; eggs, per doz, 6d to 8d ; cheese, to 2s 6d ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 9 ',1 t° brow per pair, 2s 6d to 3s; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d; ducks, di tt „ u c i 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os; turkeys, ditto, di u i to 10s0d; geese, ditto, 6s to 7s ; butter for exportation (P n, per cwt, 185 to 2310 d ; 14114 cure), per cwt, 70s to 725; eggs, wholesale price, per dozer'," to 5d ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, ' 6d , pork, rplecre'sione of 3s Od to 3s 6d; pork fine, small, 5s 6 . d to Os Od ; pork larg e ' 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to °!' Meal—Oatmeal, Os Od to Is 4d; barley dust, 7d 7d to le s° ; peasemeal, is 8d to is 10d 7d ; side,to 8d ; beremeal, 3a to is 4d; flour, le 8d to Is 10d; barley, per lb, Id to 2d; it/ 14110, flour, ls 4d to is sd. rerY D U BLIN, MARCH 14.—Our corn market contin ues dull for every description of grain, but we do not report I/ alteration in our quotations of Tuesday last. Wheat, vih; 21s Oct to 23s Gd ; red ditto, 198 Od to 23 s od; bar 119 Od to 14s Od ; oats, per barrl9l,.-Ks 3d to 10s 3d ; rsPr seed, 18s to 20s Od ; oatmeal, 10 s. t 0 .1.06 9d; flour, secoo' per cwt, 12s to 14s Od ; Indian corn, per 4801 b, Ws to 329' CORK, MAUCH 14. The supply of home grain during the week have been Tel trifling, the receipts amounting to onlyl—wbeat, 147 bri°l4 Igs 6d to 198 ed per brl ; barley, 128 brls, at 10s to 1 1 ° per brl ; oats, 2,45 b brls, at 8s 4d to 11s er brl. Virbeet:n. taken at late rates for mixing, but barley B and oats, the lat 7,, especially, being in great demand for seed purposes, ilibe brought high prices. These, however, are no criterionsgo, g eneral condition of the market. In foreign wheat 5000 hdot news has been done, and several parcels have changed W o g the prices of last week, while a feeling of firmness ha s O P r up amongst the trade. In barley we have nothing doing. effect same remark applies to oats, in which it is impossible to the free on on board sales. The trade in fine flours is still most retail and restrictive chara c t er . Coarse descript eres, however, continue in good demand, and sell freely.at fullllrelit( o Indian corn meets a lan g uid in qu i r y, an d the business al e of is only to a trifling extent at l as t .week's rates. The lieed this grain is decidedly i n t er f er ed with by that of low P wheats, large quantities o f w hi c h a r e o ff ering at a 011 duced figure. Barrels. Carrel l * 0 White wheat oos Od to ON O d so Od 00s d 6 Red wheat 18s Od to 18s 6d ON do 32 Barley lls Od to 00s Od 005 x,'; 0 Bere ... 0° 17 Os Od to Os Od _l4 do 54 Oats 107 Pigs 3ls Od to 35s 9d 0 05 r - Quantity sold at the Highest Priceo --- cif t oats' 0 barrels white wheat; 3 red ; 0 barley; 0 bere ; 53 igs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold las t 406, Wheat, 125. Barley, 285. Oats, 2,682. Pig s Return of Cattle sold for the week ending 31ur3 ows 8 : Pigs, 822. Sheep, 250. a 4. 13s - Coors.—flour—First 11s 6d to 12s Od; d o , 6 8 to $ e seconds, 10s 6d to lls 6d; households 9s to 10 . Od; th ir ds, w heat , per cwt. Oatmeal lOs to 10s 6d; Indian meal 76 , 71108 Per meal, 9s to lOs Od per cwt. Indian corn 71 0000 woo ton. Bran 92s 6d to 95s per ton. Hay—Farmers 3011°.;;Fgroer° 86s ; dealers 40s to 48s Od; average 46s per ton. 24s Od to 28s Od ; average 26s ; dealers S I to 55 ° (114 305 0 , bid to 6d ; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheatell b id 10d to household loaf 4id to 5d per 41b. Fresh m i re d, C, 01111 ,: 12d per lb. Eggs-3s 10d to 4s Od per hu e Noah v"„, c ," - ' Newport 16s Od; Lydney 17s; Landore 1 46 ; per ow -385 geat 13s 6d per ton. Tallow 37s Od to gag Whisky, 25 o. 55 9d per imperial ve t . 4d t° —Beef 410 to 6d; mutton 5d to 7d; b d per lb; 5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 7d to 8d ; ° sees to W e Pi % Hops 61105 to 0/ Os per cwt. B a ngor slates 3121 „/, free ton. Bark—Barbary 71 O a t o 8/0 s ; Valonis 15 114 7 er s toe; 61 Os ; Spanish 01 per t on . Fl ee ce Wool 145 to 10° jo; reu Hemp 321 to34lper ton. Fish—Scotch herrillP 21e 111 Os ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ 1 : ) Ni yellow ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton ; red pine , 31 ,:, Hideo' Market 23s to 335; salted 24s to ditto, 2/ 151 per ton; deals - , 12s to 15s per 1 "`" „if 'kW 3id to 30 per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 10‘0„, to 9/10 lOd to 13d. Guano— Peruvian, 111 1N; lehaboe, 33s per os! ,t & B p i ooar per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel. 'hits of the [A„E ------------- . St omach cured by Holloway's Pills.— wrirsEmENT.]—lndigestion and uouir_toisio Tho 6 3l P circulation Of arising frorr flatulententio and acid eructations, langour, %Via of appetite rue; t nof the stomach, flushed countenance, sense of IP t io sion and sinking after meals, dejection of spill , ha d a nd • •ts and & tee dyspepsiathe ;,§ he e and disordered stomachs ars . pas i tt blood, also frequent pains —. t . 0 (Alf , ne breast. To remove these unpleasant sensation§ ' 13;11t i s ines ces t. sary to take a few doses of Holloway is . - ' optorns unable medicine will soon palliate the most urgent sy co of restore the tone of the stomach, and pre vent a rearrest ~ the disease.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway Establishment, 244, Strand London. —As we Pr e ' REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CAPE ( I BS ea Jae dieted last week, the 3d Buffs have been placed in r . _ two toembark for the Cape of Good Hope as well as no t e d two Highlandsrs. We also understand that it is e pect_ r ~.. more regiments will be held in readiness to embark for same destination. The 13th Light Infantry' °fr t4l orders to embark for Gibraltar, have been informed the___, the event of its being found necessary to send additl.o7 troops to the Cape, they will at once proceed to that stati r United Serviee Gazette. PAS T THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—HINT TO ,_ ..), S ERVA NTS.— Don't imagine that the foreign lodgers, wpv '- return all kind of pretty thingq, will marry you before they to the Continent. - 1 : 3 1 ... ............-.***""" '"..". ---------- BIRTHS. OF A BoW. Tatham. On the 14th inst., at Highgate, Mrs. Henri, w ife of Lieu te,noanntt-hceollolntehl Heliers, Jersey, t“ . B On the 10th inst., at Bournemouth, N. Alves. the Wife (34. Edmund G. Bayley. OF A DAITONTIC EC. • the wife 11th inst•, At Lampton, near Hounslow, on the 1 of Arthur B. Pollock, Esq. d grg' Clapham William the 12th inst., at Clarence-place, William H. Scarnett. the Rev. 24ABRIXD. owlet • On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury', a„ Dawson, fourth son of Thomas Robinson, Esq., of Bang _ street, Russell-square, to Miss Sophia P. Turfrey, of Brightou • On the Bth inst., at the church of All Souls', Laughs ° '" place, Edmond Henry de S t. John Blildmay, Esq., son of t- 13. late Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart., to Louisa Josephine, "sviii°Vi of the late Clarence Rr~Kne3'' Esq.___, _____ On the 15th inst., Augustus Frederick, fifth Earl c f Alba marle. He is suc ceeded in his title and estates Lieute nant-Colonel the lion. George Keppel, late Memt,er for LY' mington, and private secretary to Lord John Rus'.oll. At Portsmouth, on the 12th inst., Lieutcr Michael Arnett, formerly of the Royal Mariner, On the 12th inst., Frances, wife of the Rev. S. WM, vica r of St. Bartholomew -the-Less, aged 70. On th Bowie, • inst., at Bentinck-terracri, Regent's,park, John J. M.D., late Assistant-Phyrsician to the floe - John for Consumption, aged 31. W if e On the 13th inst., at Tottenham, aged 51, Jane, the vii.e of Charles Soames, Esq., of White-hall, 'Tottenham. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNa° N. 112, Strand, Printer, z I The Sun Office, No. 1",, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the oeuntY e` Middlesex, Monday, March 17, 1851. Lieute nant-Colooel >~ i