The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

(From the Times.) Mr. Fitzroy has just brought before tha . House of Commons the startling principle of English law that women are of less value than Poodle dogs and Skye terriers. They do not receive the same mea sure of protection as these nobler quadrupeds. Where punishment consists in fines, of course the amount of the fine affords us a certain measure of value as to the worth of the object injured. Our ancestors, who were rather curious in such matters, arranged a sliding scale after a fashion of their own, in which the value of a life was estimated ac cording to the social position of the party who inijlat happen to be knocked on the head. Accord ing to this table , an y sporting gentleman in good circumstances might have shouldered his crossbow and given himself the relaxation of peasant shooting without any serious detriment to his fortunes. A yeoman was somewhat higher game—he cost more ; a nobleman was set at a still higher price ; but woe betide the audacious sportsman who bagged an ecclesiastic. Nothing less than the sacrifice of his whole fortune in convents and monasteries would purge away the sacred ichor from his mur derous hand. The form of English law is altered in regard to such matters, but the substance re mains the same. Let us take—as Mr. Fitzroy has done before us—the cases of donkeys, poodle dogs, and women. Under the Cruelty to Animals Act any ruffianly fellow who ill-treats a donkey may be imprisoned for three months with hard labour. Any peculator who infringes against the provisions of the Dog Stealing Act may be imprisoned with hard labour for a period of six months, or be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed ing 201. With regard to women, any man may, at his pleasure, kick, bruise, beat, knock down, and stamp upon them, and all that the magistrate can inflict by way of summary punishment is a fine of 51., or, in default, two months' imprisonment with hard labour. It would be a very material improvement in the position of women if a short clause were introduced into the Cruelty to Animals Act which should include them in the provisions of that beneficent statute. All that would be ne cessary would be, " And be it enacted that for the purposes of this act any woman or women shall be taken and held to be beeves, ewes, donkeys, cats, dogs, and not otherwise ; and that any person or persons who shall be proved to have inflicted bodily injury upon any woman or women as aforesaid, shall undergo the same penalties and punishment as though he had inflicted bodily injury upon any of the beeves, ewes, donkeys, Sze., as aforesaid." Now, Mr. Fitzroy wishes that women should at least be placed upon the same footing as the lower animals, and receive the same amount of protection from the law. He asks merely that the powers of magistrates should be extended to the infliction of a penalty of imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding 20/. This is no very great ex tension of their powers, and, surely, in the opinion of the mildest humanitarian, can scarcely be judged an inordinate punishment for the offence. For ourselves—we confess it frankly—we go much fur ther, and are rather disposed to agree with the recommendation of Mr. Phinn, the new member for Bath. The case of brutal violence to women and children is one which can only be met by cor poral chastisement. In the first place, the present form of punishment is evidently no check whatso ever upon the offence. It is seldom, indeed, that our police reports do not contain the record of some such case. They are of daily and nightly occurrence in all the courts and blind alleys of London to an appalling amount, for the police reports inform us but of an infinitely small per centage of those which actually occur. The pre sent scale of fine and imprisonment does not deter from the offence. We much question whether the extension of the magistrates' powers—which exten sion, however, we heartily recommend—will meet the difficulties of the case in any very considerable degree. Then, again, with regard to the parties to be punished, the usual argument of the humani tarians entirely breaks down. There can be no question of " degrading " a man who inflicts a course of violent and continued brutality upon a woman or a child. The truth is, the brute is so degraded already that, short of miracles, his fears constitute the only channel by which his actions can be touched. If he have any feeling left it is a feeling for himself, and the fear of the lash would operate upon his conduct in the same way that it tames the viciousness of a four-footed brute. This case is very different from that of soldiers or sailors, who in former days incurred the penalty of flogging fcr breach of martial discipline. A man may vio late martial law, and retain all the noblest feelings of humanity. You may degrade him. You may stifle the better feelings of a lad who is dull at his tasks or oversteps bounds by flogging him before his schoolfellows ; and so on with reference to si milar cases. But the ruffians whose punishment we require as a protection to those unfortunate beings who are the object of their violence show by the mere commission of the crime that there is no inch of their persons and no portion of their minds which can receive anything but benefit from as sound a flogging as a stout arm can administer It is just possible that such a penalty may cause them to realise to their own minds the true nature of their offence. To these very cogent reasons for at least making trial of corporal punishment in this most offensive class of cases we may add the absolute impossibility of dealing with them adequately in any other way. You would not hang a man—you would scarcely transport him, for giving his wife a pair of black eyes, knocking ont half her teeth, and jumping upon her, unless her life was affected. Nor, on the other hand, does it answer any purpose to consign the dastardly fellow who is guilty of such acts to imprisonment for a month or two. His offence is too small or to great to be touched by any existing punishment. If the magistrate commits him, the humanitarians will take care that he is provided with minced veal and a celestial globe to solace his temporary retirement. In point of fact he rather rejoices in the so-called punishment than otherwise. Now, we do not ask that the term of imprisonment should not be continued—let - it rather be length ened ; but, at the same time, let the man who has made so foul an abuse of his physical strength carry away with him a memorial—feel that society will make reprisals, and protect the feeble and the helpless. We ask for the establishment of corporal punishment, but only in the case where a man has shown that he has no claim to consideration as a man by acts of brutal violence against a woman or a child. PROBATE AND LBGAOT DUTIES. BRIBERT.-THE BALLOT. (From the Neekly Dispatch.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer has now an ample opportunity of developing the resources of his dexterity. Like the manager in distress, all his company of players are quarrelling about his part. Parliament assumes the attitude of a meeting of his political creditors ; and it must be confessed that he answers their demands with as much imperturbable lubricity, and fobs them off with the same successful plausibility, as Charles Mathews in _ the play of Speculation. In his main plea for being ex cused from assenting to the motions of those amateur "many friends of the hare," who volunteer budgets for him, we confess we think there is much force. If we were in his place, we are not sure that we, ourselves, should not also object to the anticipation of his financial statement by partial propositions of taxation, or remis sion of imposts relative to single articles, which leave out of view the whole area of the incidence of revenue duties. Unless he could succeed in checking this rush of one-ideaed financiers, it is obvious that, like the man , with two wives, one of whom disliked his white hair and the o th er hi s bl ac k , i f he gave all the oppor tunity ydl. depilat a ti ng f rom our fi sca l sys t em w h atever not like, he would be left as bald as a coote, with an exchequer as empty as Sibthorp's head. He has been whispering soft nothings to Polly Williams and Lucy Hume and beseech'him tonovf they both fall upon him at on ce , arry their " Ways a n d M eans " Unfortunately, h e read in the art of e dealing henot appear to be quit e so we ll with such dil e m mas as C a pt a i n Macheath—or, perhaps , xpedie ls more foolishly confident in the fertility of his e nts and the power of his blarney. He had not the cover of the exclamation-- prudenc e t o escape under me ~a together While you both t eaze To neither a word will I y. , He must needs give his reasons for object' aLcalmbeth merits, to the propositions of the members on the and Montrose ; and reasons are at all tim es ous ware, in which wise me n de al but sparingly_angvv could have excused h is p ost p onement of the disc uss i o e until the day of Pentecos t, the Greek K alends, or the Budget, whichever should happen last. But when h e so misapprehends the measure of his own capaci ty to grapple with the subject as to undertake a pitched bat tle on the spot, in defence of the exemption of real pro perty from the legacy duty, he compels us also to anti cipate the natural period of discussi on, and to examin e the grounds of his opposition to the principles of Mr. Williams's motion. We should be sorry to endorse the accusation of those who, in ecclesiastical concerns, ac cuse Mr. Gladstone of being a Jesuit. His exposure of the Government of Naples is the best answer to the im putation of Puseyite tendencies. But we are not so . satisfied that he escapes the charge of being a sort of logical smasher in 'debate—passing bad change with singular dexterity, indeed, and with unscrupulous steadi ness of face, but with a frequency perhaps encouraged by the absence of detection. It is scarcely possible to present a proposition of which the proof is plainer or iner3otent than that th e pro b a t e an d l egacy d uty was partially imposed by a house of landowners upon per sonal Property, and that realty was exempted from its ~,i i i *Peration b3e, a combinati on o f f ree h o ld ers aga i nst the rest of th e e tax t o land Why, by P a it d t is h t a in d e e t xp b r i e l s l s ; ly aeuxd tho"unity' on per le Lord gislators of the d ay passed the act levying sonalty, and rej ec t e d th at ii hiCh extended Lord L auderdale put a protest on the OUTRAGES ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN. journals of the Peers, calling fora suspension of the Personalty Act until the Realty Bill should have become law, on the very ground of the grossness of the class legis lation which adopted the one bill and rejected the other. The transaction is so barefaced in its one-sidedness, that Mr. Disraeli, himself the organ of the landed interest, acknowledged the interested inequality of the impost— and yet Mr. Gladstone stoutly denies it, and stands up in justification of the fairness of the exemptions. And how does he substantiate his justification ? Whv, by at tempting to show that the imposition of the duty on personalty is so clumsily devised, that, by means of set tlements, trusts, and so forth, a large proportion of property liable to the tax escapes and evades it ? Astonished at the hardihood of this act of passing "false and counterfeit logic resembling, or intended to resemble the current common sense of the realm," poor Mr. Wil liams involuntarily exclaims, " Why that is what I com plain of !"—whereupon the imperturbable Mr. Jenkinson of the Cabinet, who by talking of the " cosmogony of the world," can pass off " a gross of green spectales " for a good dray-horse, coolly rejoins that the evasion of the tax on personalty by settlement is evidence that the imposers were not actuated by selfishness, in exempt ing their own peculiar description of property from the operation of the impost ? Nor is his next proposition, although it be a good Brum magem imitation of sense, and sounds very like it, at all first-rate in serving its professed purpose. Indeed, for a clever man, gifted with that sort of circumspection which does not venture to aim at clear and undeniable success and conviction, but simply at that amount of plausible mystification which will present no salient points for defeat, we have seldom witnessed a more de plorable exhibition of what may not inaptly be termed casuistic suicide. Mr. Williams's motion simply is, that real property should be subjected to the same burdens of [probate and legacy duty as personal estate. The Chancellor of the Exchequer answers that it ought not ; and on what ground, think you, gentle reader ? Why, chiefly on the assertion that—real property is subjected to the duty ? Annuities, quoth he, charged on land, the proceeds of land hen sold under bequest, em bracing nine out of every ten wills, leaving land, pay legacy duty. Indeed, he had been told by some Mr. Trevor (one of your " very respectable men" and eminent practitioners typified in "Bleak House" by Mr. Vholes), and apparently he believed that 7-16ths of the legacy duty was paid from property arising out of land. Now we will not stop to inquiretoo curiously into the honesty of this representation. It is intended to pass the bad change upon the House and the public, that the term "arising out of land" is equivalent to the term "real property," whereas it is only true as referring to those leasehold or other tenures of landed property which Mr. Williams was careful to separate from the category of realty. Annuities arising out of land mean, in Mr. Gladstone's private vocabulary, simply obligations to pay money annually, secured by the guarantee of realty. Mort gages are only acknowledgments of the loan of money, for the repayment of which land is to stand responsible in the last resort. The legacy duty on annuities or mortgages secured on land is not paid by the owner of the land mortgaged, but by the legatee or the lender of the money, or the purchaser of the annuity ; and it is merely juggling with and hocus-pocussing the question, to class these instances as legacies arising out of land. It is the earner and producer of the money paid or lent alone whose commodity is in either case taxed by the state, not the proprietor of the realty over which it is secured. But two other answers remain to the proposition. Mr. Pressly, a far more eminent authority on this subject than Mr. Trevor, de clares his belief in his evidence before the Lords—that the whole legacy duty affected by that section of the proceeds of the revenue does not reach 400,0001. ; and that it cannot amount to much more is obvious from the fact that Mr. Gladstone himself does not state the case higher than to allege that settlements arising out of land constitute seven-sixteenths of the whole ; and as the en tire duty does not exceed 1,300,000/., it is clear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own data do not afford him more than a return of 600,0001. from this source, a small proportion of the nearly 6,000,0001. which Mr. Williams demonstrates can be derived from the extension of the tax to real property. It is only-our respect for facts, and our desire that Mr. Gladstone's perversion of them shall not pass current with the country, that has induced us to notice these inaccuracies ; because really the case against Mr. Gladstone is much better substan tiated by treating his assumptions as true than by exposing their inaccuracy. His own argument is the most convincing evidence of the falsehood of his conclusions, because if, under an Act which exempts realty from probate duty, seven-sixteenths of the whole tax is the produce of that which it was the intention of the legislature to exempt from its operation, that is the very best reason why the privileged portion of real property should not escape the exactions to which the rest is subjected. A Chancellor of Exche quer must indeed be hard pressed for the means of heating off a motion when he can betake himself to the jejune plea which has formed the pons asinorum of his predecessors, that realty pays a heavy stamp duty on its transfer. In that it does no more than personal property ; and if receipt and bill, personal bond, insu rance, stock and share, and other stamps on the transfer of moveable effects, were reckoned up, it would soon appear that, even of that burden, realty pays by no means in proportion to its share. Nothing also can be more puerile than the attempt to plead the burden of local taxation upon real property as a set-off against its exemption from imperial exactions. When Mr. Glad stone asserts that "of local taxation personal property knows nothing," we confess our amazement at its hardi hood. Is it the proprietor of freehold land or houses that pays the poor rate ? No—that heaviest of all local imposts is levied exclusively upon the tenant or occupier, who pays a heavy rent to the owner of the land, heavy tithe to the parson, heavy highway, police, sewage, light ing rates, to the local authorities, and a heavy rate for the relief of the poor—dues levied entirely from the person, and not at all from the property. Indeed,' the only connexion which property has with the tax is simply this—that the amount an occupier pays to his landlord is made the measure of what can be squeezed out of him for the maintenance of the parochial paupers. Nothing could well exceed the boldness of the official peroration. Only conceive the hardihood and powers of face which could sustain even a Chancellor of the Ex chequer in the attempt to plead for land exemption from legacy duty, on the ground of the injustice with which it is treated under the property and income-tax. It is the most literal fact in the prose of fiscal exaction, that, under that latter impost, a thousand pounds in money is taxed as much as a thousand a-year in land —and Mr. Gladstone urges that circumstance as a good reason for exempting land from probate duty altogether. We have thought it best to commence the examination of this subject by clearing this official rubbish out of the way. We shall take a future early opportunity to afford the public the full benefit of the admirable speech and the valuable facts contributed by Mr. Williams to the solu ".on of this infinitely important question. The Derby Election Committee has concluded a searching inquiry with a comprehensive and particular report. It has discharged all its duties, and the curtain drops with all the dramatis personce on the stage. Mr. Horsfall is unseated, and his civic crown transferred to Mr. Heyworth. With even-handed mercy, both of them have been allowed the opportunity of exculpating themselves from all knowledge of bribery. The petition against Mr. Bass has been declared frivolous and vexa tious. Thirteen recipients of bribes, three agents, the principal, Mr. Thomas Morgan, and the man that brought the money, have all been designated, and the recipients ignominiously struck from the poll. Many more would probably have shared their fate had they been necessary ; but thirteen were more than enough to give Mr. Heyworth a majority over his rival. The commit tee further report the prevalence of corrupt practices, at former elections, and recommend that parties engaged in them for the future should be punished with the' loss of their franchise. The only point in which the com mittee appears to have failed is one that is usually rather unattainable, and that is the detection of the parties that set the bribery going and supplied the sinews of war, or the " nail-heads, as they were called in this instance. Three per sons had been mentioned to the committee, but one was ill in bed, and. the other two were not to be found, it being, in fact, no such very difficult matter 'to evade a committee of the House of Commons. As Mr. Frail and the illustrious "W. B." had already received their meed of fame from another committee, it was hardly consistent with British notions of Justice to repeat their names again. But, with these exceptions, the whole story of the Derby election has been told, if not in the report, at least in the evidence. The sum Mr. Horsfall was ready to stand, the amount he set down, the figure actually drawn,—all " for legal expenses,"—and the ex act amount of the bribes in each case, are all stated with an exactness not always attainable in the Court of Bank ruptcy or Insolvent Debtors. On the whole, it may be pronounced quite a pattern report. It is a case to legis late upon. What makes it all the better is that there is nothing abnormal, monstrous, or extravagant about it ; no enormous expenditure ; hardly even a shadow of a mystery. There is a minuteness in the scale and a con cinnity in the design which seem to have adapted it ex pressly for Parliamentary use, like a neat little cause got up by lawyers for the purpose of trying a principle, di vested of superfluous issues. But does not every case of corruption admit of a like expos 4 ?—and why have we not at once a ready cure for this great public scandal ? Nobody ever doubted that it was in the power of the House of Commons to extin guish corruption, were it to set about the task in good earnest ; but there is the rub. A good committee, such as that which delivered its report yesterday morning, would probably unseat at least half the sitting members, and disqualify a respectable fraction of the borough con stituencies. Conscience still whispers "Let him that is -without sin cast the first stone ;" so no member will begin; tahned,atitfack. It is only the defeated candidate who will interfere heto preserve the purity of the representa tion and his inclic; e n x o i t . a pocketful of money, and a few zealous and clever tain an army of A n n , order utries he may as well pocket his aetelon. The petitioner has to main an ey s, remotean d prospectcounsel o ' f f t o o ra u g ns ers eat fo h r is e ri v . i v d a e l n , e v iden ce, t h a totnolry getting in himself; and happy is he if he gets off with less than 2,0001. Clearly so great a national duty as that of de p f t e i n o d a in g the British Legis latureaou aygnhdt privatenot h o a b n e d left at from the arts of co s to disappointed candidates, or to gon p o ro o c n ee t tngs of a ll. But hitherto all the legislationn e d d o, iwtei,nariare as much as the house on this delicate subject have position that it was the business of the public at large to purify the house, and not of the house itself ; ic isyyouourcanpl;acbeutt,ofornetceurnretuuern; n cl o e t as to say, an and to unseat ourselves ; that's your business, if you like dirty this because it is evident there are go a in w g ay to "denounce, to de ame,. work." We say , various methods of dealing with such a case as that of ireST. of the extended +7,7e.... , ''''. ~ f tutorial -- ..,, 1. e duty o , ".71 to reali '.. 1 ,-":-f - . ~....--- 30 0 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1853. Derby, without putting Mr. Lawrence Heyworth and his friends to the incalculable expense of a petition. A simple process in an ordinary court of law, a judicial tribunal created for the purpose, a local commission of inquiry in every case of disputed return, and even an oath put to every member, obliging him to state his be lief that no bribery had been committed to bring about his return, could not but abate the nuisance. But the House of Commons is not serious on this point, nor will it ever be till the terror of some imminent catastrophe— the ballot, perhaps—drives it to the work of self-purifi eation. That there is no real necessity for very strong mea sures, much less for so great an experiment as the ballot would undoubtedly be, we may see from the case before us. How much has been done under the existing state of the law ? First, "W. B." censured and disgraced ; then Mr. Frail in trouble and denounced ; then his agent, Mr. Morgan, caught, examined before magistrates, indicted, a true bill returned against him, and to be'put on his trial forthwith, or his bail forfeited ; then a con siderable number of persons found guilty of bribery, and requiring only the operation of the police to be forth coming ; then thirteen corrupt voters struck from the poll, and just as easily struck from the register, if the house desires ; finally, the sitting member un seated, and the petitioner put in his place. All this has been done with the existing machinery of the law, and, though it is true plenty of money has been spent in the process, and there has been treason in the camp of the member petitioned against, no one can read the evidence and the report before us without feeling that every case of a corrupt return could be investigated with the same success, if the house only wished it. It is the will alone that is wanting. But how can that will not be wanting when the facts are as everybody knows them to be ? With some few happy exceptions, every member of the Lower House knows that, since last July, he has paid to some body, on account of his election, a sum very much larger than his legal expenses could possibly amount to. Indeed, be has not ventured to ask what those legal expenses are. He shuts his eyes to the expenditure as much as the miserable creatures who confess in the evidence before us that they presented themselves at a bedroom door backwards, with their hands behind them, and received 2/. without seeing the donor. What one takes blindly the other gives blindly also. It's a case of walking backwards with one's hand behind through out the whole affair ; the candidate and his constituents walking backwards about the town, and sovereigns pas sing from one unseen hand to another. Of the whole 656 members, at least 600 know by the diminished balance at their banker's, if not by a still severer proof, that this is the real fact of the case, and coward con science accordingly unnerves them. Nay, since nothing is so bad as hypocrisy, and itself acquires a new horror when it pretends to be virtue, we cannot complain that the House of Commons refuses to manifest any extra ordinary indignation at every proved case of bribery. They that are so happy as not to be petitioned against only congratulate themselves on their good fortune, and blame not the sins, but the blunders and inexperience of the less fortunate. But this state of things cannot long endure. Something must and will be done, or we shall have the ballot, and Heaven knows what beside. We must set our House in order, or we shall lose it, and with it, most probably, no small portion of what is valuable in the British constitution.—Times of Thursday. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.) MANCHESTER, MARCH 11.—The receipts of cotton at the American ports continue to be so much larger than was expected, as to give rise to a very general persuasion in this market that existing prices cannot be maintained. Spinners are willing to take fully Ad. per lb. less than they would accept last week ; and manufacturers also are prepared to make some little concession from what they then required for most articles. Since the decline com menced, we have lost id. to Ad. per lb. in the me dium and lower counts of twist and weft—warps, pin cops, and India mule having suffered in the greatest de gree. Even printing cloths do not command quite the same prices, and 40-inch shirtings are now fully 44d., 6d., and 7Ad. per piece below the late highest rates. To day there is a more decided impression than there wa s either on Tuesday or yesterday, that a further decline must take place in the raw material. GLASGOW, MARCH 11.—The cotton market during the week has been very quiet, and the amount of business transacted rather limited. BRADFORD., MARCH 10.—Wool—The transactions in all sorts of combing wools are not large. The prices sought and held for totally preclude the spinners from buying, and the staplers act on the defensive, seeing no chance of replacing their stocks. NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 10.—That the trade of this town has increased very considerably of late years, there can be no dispute, but with the exception of a trifling extent to the United States, and a few of the States of South America, there does not appear to be any decisive increase in the amount of export to foreign countries. We have heard of some Nottingham goods that have been sent to Australia having realised large profits. The lace and hosiery trades remain much in the same condition we have recently reported them. LEICESTER, MARCH 10.—The confidence felt by many manufacturers, that the present advanced rates both of worsted and cotton will be maintained, keeps employ ment plentiful. There is a fair business doing in the ' warehouses for the season in worsted goods, and the demand for cotton hose is very extensive. SUSPECTED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner of the eastern division of Surrey, held an inquest at the King's Arms, Rotherhithe, on the body of a female unknown, who was found in the River Thames on Tuesday last, with a very extensive lacerated scalp wound, and some other serious injuries. Mr. Crutch, surgeon, of Rotherhithe, deposed that he had made an examination of the body, but could not posi tively state whether the wound on the head had been received before or after deceased was in the water. The body not being owned, and the coroner having expressed his opinion that in such a serious case further evidence ought to be obtained, the inquiry was adjourned for a week. CALIFORNIAN INDUSTRY. —Owing to the spongy, ' springy nature of the soil in the burying-ground of San Francisco, many of the corpses there interred, instead of decaying, have been converted into a substance well known to chemists by the name of adipocere--a sub stance analogous to, and intermediate between, stearine and spermaceti. In passing the ground this morning to my place of employment, I saw a person busily engaged. in collecting the adipocere from the exposed bodies. Struck by the singularity of his employment, I interro gated him as to its object, when he coolly replied, that he was gathering it to make soap. —The Panama .Herald. NEW ZEALAND.—The following is an extract from a letter dated Wellington, New Zealand, Septem ber 6, 1852 :—" We are at present in a very awkward position here. The return of a few people within the last ten days from the goldfields, where they have been very successful, and letters from others who left but a few weeks since, have created such an excitement that it is hard to say what will be the immediate consequences. I really believe that hundreds will leave. It is not only the labourer, but the mechanic and shopkeeper are also infected The auri sacra fames has even seized upon and overcome the laziness of the natives, many of whom, it is reported, are about to go to the diggins.' The next twelve months will be a most trying time ; no labour, business at a dead lock, and bread high. I po sitively believe that our new constitution will arrive when there will not be sufficient males to work it. I am not, however, in a desponding mood. I think that most of the people will return ; if successful, Cant mieux ; if otherwise, they will buckle to again, as before, satis fied that there is no good to' be got- by roaming. Per haps the land question may in the meantime be settled ; it it just now as unsettled as ever ; no arrangement yet made for selection of the supplemental orders, or for ex changing lands selected in unpurchased districts-" STRANGE AFFAIR.—NOTTINGHAM Thursday. —Con siderable sensation was created this morning in the neighbourhood of the new bath and washhouse, Notting ham, in consequence of the following tragical occurrence It appears that this morning, at about a quarter to one o'clock, a matt, named David Bain, a smith, employed at the establishment of Messrs. Cowan, left the works, a n d proceeded towards his ow n house. When near the baths he observed three men, and upon passing them he wished them " Good night." One of them returned an offen sive answer, and Bain remarked, " You .are very polite." Upon which Bain was instantly struck across the eyes and forehead by one of the fellows. A scuffle between the former and his opponent ensued, and he got away from his antagonist by knocking him down. A second ruffian then attacked Bath, and the man, after a scuffle, also shared the same fate as his accomplice. The smith then ran away towards his home, and was followed by the third fellow, who overtook him about. 30 yards distant from his companions. Bain then turned round upon the man, and said, "If you follow me, you will have something." Th e ru ffi an th en t urne d back, and Bain was not further molested. LOSS AND RECOVERY OF £I.OO.—HONESTY REWARDED. —A few days since, Charles Blasden, a cab driver, badge 1,392, took up two gentlemen at Osborne's Hotel Adel phi, and conveyed them to the terminus of the South- Western Railway. About half-an-hour afterwards he was called by a fare in Dean's-yard, Westminster, and on opening the door of the vehicle discovered a purse amongst the straw, the contents of which consisted of a cheque, drawn in favour of Mr. Arbuthnot or bearer, for 1001., and some silver ; when he had deposited his last Eire he drove with all possible dispatch to the Adelphi, for the purpose of making inquiries respecting the two gentlemen whom he had taken from that establishment. On arriving, one of them, who had returned and was in a state of great excitement, on account of his loss, asked the driver if he had seen anything of a purse ? The reply was prompt and in the affirmative ; at the same time the purse and contents were handed over to the owner, who with extreme liberality presented the driver with half-a-crown for his honesty, loss of time, and trouble. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EQUITY AND Law LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY.—The annual general meeting of this society was held at the offices, 26, Lincoln's-inn-Fields, on Friday, the 11th instant,—George Lake Russell, Esq., in the chair. It appeared, by the . report of the directors, that 4,3171. 7s. 7d. had been received for new premiums on assurances in 1852 ; that the expences of management had been diminished, while the losses by death was 2,000/. below those of the preceding year, and less by upwards of 1,6001. than the amount received for new premiums. The receipts for the year exceeded the charge by upwards of 17,0001., and the investments had increased in the same period nearly 22,0001. The retir ing directors and auditors were re-elected. li .. i ~ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, and it was attended by the following officers : Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon, K.C.H. Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Alfred Crofton. Captains—Henry Dundas (1825), Robert F. Stopford (1840), Woodford J. William (1841), John Washington (1842), William Kelly (1844), William H. Hall (1844), Thos. Sparke Thompson (1846), Chas. John Bosanquet (1846), James Wilcox (1850), an d F re d er i c k B. M on t ressor (1851). Commanders—Thos. Greene (1833), Wm. Mcllwaine (1838), Alexander Goldie (1839), Wm. M. G. Pasco (1846), Chas. R. Johnson (1847), Wm. Thomas (1849), and Wil loughby J. Lake (1851). Lieutenants—Francis Wm. Ellis (1812), Sir Henry Wil mot (1825), Colin W. Lindsay, (1837), and David Miller (1840). Master—Samuel S. Flinn (1825.) Chaplain—Rev. Pascoe G. Hill, B.A. (1850.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear- Admiral Corry, completed the re-adjustment of her com passes yesterday, and will go to Spithead to-morrow, according to present orders. The London, 90, Captain Mundy, will also go to Spit head to-morrow, according to present arrangements. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., is being expedited as much as possible by the en gineer department of this dockyard ; and it is hoped she will be out of their hands by the Ist proximo. The Neptune, 120, Captain E. H. Scott, flag of Rear- Admiral Superintendent Fanshawe, C. 8., is reported to relieve the Trafalgar, 120, in the Mediterranean, and that the Princess Charlotte, 104, in this ordinary, will be fitted to take the Neptune's place in this harbour. The Cruiser, 14, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas, left Spithead on Friday e 7ening on a cruise. The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander Welch, was docked yesterday morning to ship a new propeller. The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' brig, Lieutenant Fen wick, of the Victory, in charge, hauled over to her moorings in Blockhouse-hall yesterday morning. The Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Hosken, will be ready for sea to-morrow. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand, Captain Hyde, Parker, having coaled and had defects made good, went out of harbour yesterday, and sailed for the Mediter ranean. The Encounter, 14, screw steam-corvette, Capt. O'Cal laghan, is appointed to sail to-day for Woolwich, where she will receive new boilers. Yesterday the steam block-ship Sanspareil got masts on board and tops over the masts. The steam-vessel Avon arrived yesterday from Ports mouth. The Valorous steam-frigate, 16, Captain Buckle, went out of harbour on Friday, took her powder on board, and made a short trial of her machinery. The merchant ship John Young, from Calcutta to London, was off Plymouth on Thursday, and had on board the crew of the abandoned schooner Aim, of Greenock, Captain John Gibson. The brig Pomone, Perran, from Newcastle for Lisbon, was off the Eddystone on Tuesday. SHEERNESS, MARCH, 12. The Cyclops, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Lieutenant John Seccombe, in command pro tern., and not Mr. Harvey, as formerly reported, arrived here from Wool wich at 7 30 p.m. yesterday. The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam-transport, Master -Commander John Belam, passed here at 11 a.m. this day, from Woolwich to Chatham. The Driver, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Mr. Cor nelius Fox, master, has this day taken up his commis sion as additional master to the Horatia for duty in the Driver. The Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, Captain Charles G. E. Patey, Mr. William Roy, Naval Instructor, 2d of February, 1846 (late of the Phaeton), has taken up his appointment to this frigate. She will be ready to leave the basin in about ten days. The Melampus frigate is masted and rigged all ataunt. A novel mode was adopted to expedite the rigging of this frigate. Her mainmast and maintopma,st were com pletely rigged, also her mizenmast, and hung by the shears. The masts were then stepped, when the seamen riggers of the yard commenced their work, and, after a few hours, the topgallantmasts were on end. Her rig ging is partially sparred ready for rattling down. She will go out of the basin on Tuesday next, the 15th inst., and proceed immediately for Woolwich, in tow of the Cyclops steam-sloop. The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate was masted yes terday, and taken into the deck from which the Terrible was taken out to-day. The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander George Parker, has completed the entry of her crew within a half-a-doien blue-jackets. PEMBROKE. The James Watt, screw-steamer, of 91 guns, w ill shortly be ready for launching, and when afloat will immediately be rigged and made ready for commission. Heavy gangs of men have for some time past been most actively employed in pushing on the work of completion. Her armament will be a formidable one, and, it is said, will consist of 28 8-inch guns, and 62 32-pounders of 56cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches in length. She will also mount one pivot gun, which will be a 68-pounder, 10 feet in length. The Encounter, screw steam-sloop, 14 guns, under the command of Captain O'Callaghan, will visit from time to time the various ports in the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea. She has lately been lying at Bristol, and since then has gone on to Liverpool to pick up seamen for the Royal navy, WOOLWICH, MARCH 12. APPOINTMENTS. Master Jabez Loane (1846) to the Encounter, 14, screw steam-frigate, at Devonport, vice John Pyper, dis missed the service. Surgeon Charles Ede (1851) to the Espiegle, 12, a' Sheerness. Second Master Joseph Cutajar (1845), serving in the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich, is promoted to the rank of Master, and appointed to the Gorgon paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 320-horse power, at Portsmouth. PROMOTION. Commander Charles Wilson Riley (1838) to be Cap ain on the reserved half-pay list. MALTA, MARCH 3. The French mail-steamer Leonidas, due here on the 21st ult., only arrived late last night, having been delayed by the prevailing bad weather anp an accident to her machinery, which caused her to put into Navarino and Zante for repair, and to coal. _ On Saturday a vessel was found on the 'coast a com plete wreck, and abandoned by her crew, of whom no intelligence has been to this clay received, and of whose sad fate reasonable apprehensions are entertained. The wreck is ascertained to be the Swedish brig Apollo, laden with wheat, from Alexandria for England. She left that port on the 2d February last direct, and had on board 3,418 ardebs of wheat. - On Sunday last the English brig Washburn, Morris master, from Bristol for Constantinople, in ballast, put in here with the captain and crew (12 persons in all) of the Norwegian brig Gefion, which vessel left Constan tinople, for Queenstown, on the 25th of January. The vessel spring a leak on the 25th of Feb., in lat. 38 deg. N., long. 7 deg. 5 min. E., and, in fear of going down, was abandoned by the crew in two boats, whence they were recovered by the Washburn, as above. The Wallachia brig Combinazione has also been wrecked at Marsala, on the Bth of February. She, too, was corn-laden from Constantinople for Falmouth for orders—crew saved. Her Majesty's ucrew-steamer Simoom, with the 41st Regiment on board, arrived on Monday evening last from Cephalonia and Zante, and will be ready for sea by Wednesday next, with the head-quarters of the 76th Regiment on board for Halifax. Colonel and Mrs. Car penter, Major and Mrs. Eman and two children, Major Northey, Captains Goodwyn, Handcock, Brett, and Meredith ; Lieutenants Hunt, Alexander, Bligh, Skip with, Balguy, Richards, and Bush ; Ensigns Fitzroy and Carpenter ; 'Adjutant Bernard, Paymaster Creagh and wife, Quartermaster Elliott and family, Dr. Wilkins and family, 584 rank and file, 86 women and 54 children, of the 41st Regiment, have been disembarked from the Simoom. • • The Bengal screw steam-ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Company reached Malta on the night of the 28th ult., and proceeded to Alexandria on the morning of the 2d instant, having been delayed a day by the non arrival of the Sultan, from Marseilles3but which vessel arrived to her time, with her portion of the mails. She is a beautiful vessel, and made one of the most rapid passages from Southampton to Malta on record. The following extract from her log : " Feb. 20, left the dock buoy at 11 a.m. "Noon, 21, distance run, 300 miles—all sail set. Pi ~ 22 23 P P 264 sail set 14 h ours . ~ ~ 24 PP 282—a1l sail set. ,t " PP 272—a1l sail set. PP 24 70—arrived off Gib ra lt ar , 6 45 - p.m. ~ , 24, left Gib ra lt ar , 11 30 p.m. ~, ~ 25, distance run, 148 miles—all sail set. ~ 26 . 264—sail set 12 h ours . ~ 27 ~ 26a—fore and aft sail occa sionally. 240—n0 sail, wind nearly ahead. ~ 28 28 74. " Arriv e d o ff Malta Light, Feb 28, 8 p.m. The Rodney, 90, Captain Graham, arrived in port on the afternoon of Sunday last, having been but 15 days on her passage from Portsmouth. The Fury steam-frigate, 13 days from Plymouth, arrived here on the Ist inst., and on the day followi ng proceeded t o T r i este, where she was to take on board her Majesty's Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Lord Redcliffe, and would return to Malta in about a fort night. MCH 4. The Fren c h s t eamer Osiris, from the Levant AR , came in this morning. M. de Lavalette, French Ambassador to the Porte, is on board the Osiris, en route to Marseilles. He has ob tained 2,500/. from the Porte, the sum for which Mr. Barry was ransomed. REPRESENTATION OF BRIDGNORTIL—This borough is not likely to be without candidates for the voices of the electors. Already two have appeared, and others are talked of. The first candidate in the field was Mr. banker of B ro s e l e y, G. W. Hope, but on the appearance of an address from Mr. Pritchard, who is supposed to have conside ra bl e local i nfluence, Mr. Hope w ithd rew ; but others are announce d as l i kely to come forward. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAGHOUNDS. Her Majesty's—To-morrow, Cookham-bridge; Friday, Gerrard's-cross—at half-past eleven. Cheltenham To-morrow, Beckford-inn ; Friday, Caberly-gate--at twelve. FOXHOUNDS. Badsworth To-morrow, Owsten-park ; Thursday, Purston-bar ; Saturday, Woolley-edge —at half-past ten. Bedale—Wednesday, Busby -stoop ; Friday, Sleming ford-park—at half-past ten. Old Berkshire—To-morrow, Wet-sandford ; Friday, Kokethorpe-park—at half-part ten. Bramham Moor—Wednesday, Plumpton ; Friday, the Wild-man ; Saturday, Hutton-mill—at half-past ten. Cambridgeshire—Friday, Downing-arms —at half-past ten. Carmarthenshire—Wednesday, Narberth ; Saturday, Llangolman— at ten. Cheshire—Wednesday, Wrenbury ; Thursday, Ridley toll-bar—at half-past ten ; Saturday, Broomslands—at eleven. Cleveland—Thursday, Seamer-village —at half -pas' ten. Mr. Colyer's—To-morrow, Dartford -heath ; Thursday, Bates's-wood ; Saturday, Meopham—at half-past ten. North Devon To-morrow, Bish-mill; Saturday, Yard-down—at half-past ten. South Devon—Thursday, Afton-brook, Berry. Lord Elcho's—To-morrow, Swinton-mill-toll ; Wed nesday, Ford-bridge ; Friday, Blackadder, ; Saturday, Longridge. FTR2- 1 -To-morrow, Stonemasons'-arms ; Friday, K ligrew-hill—at eleven. - Mr. Furse's—Friday, Shutleigh—at half-past ten. Mr. Garth's—Wednesday, Clere-park ; Friday, the Bull, Swallfield—at half-past ten. Gwyrtheyrn—To-morrow, New-court, Llanwenog ; Thursday, Cribyn ; Saturday, Llaethlew—at half-past nine. Hambledon—Wednesday, Fair-oak-village ; Friday, Soberton-down—at a quarter to eleven. H. H.—To-morrow, Brookwood ; Thursday, London lodge, Stratton-park ; Saturday, Wheatley-farm, Bin stead—at a quarter to eleven. Haydon—Saturday, Langley-castle —at nine. Heythrop--Wednesday, Loughborough -gate ; Friday, Garnington-grove ; Saturday, Blenheim—at half-past ten. Hursley—Friday, Ampfield-lodge, Romsey—at a quar ter to eleven. Hurworth—To-morrow, Wellbury ; !Saturday, Low Middleton—at half-past ten. Mr. Littleton's—To-morrow, Sand Place ; Friday St. Ive—at half-past ten. Mr. W. S. Lowndes's—To-morrow, Drayton Cross Roads ; Saturday, Nash Common—at eleven. Mr. Luxton's—To-morrow, Thelbridge-cross ; Friday, Howard-wood—at half-past ten. Mr. M. Marshall—Thursday, Stapleton Brake. Monmouthshire—Friday, Rockfield. Mr. Morgan's—Thursday, Tuel Down—at half-past ten. New Forest—To-morrow, Paultons ; Saturday, Bo; derwood—at eleven. Mr. Newton's—Saturday, Broadwoodwiger—at half past ten. _ - South Oxfordshire—Friday, Wheatley. South Pembrokeshire—Friday, Narberth-bridge—at ten. Puckeridge--Wednesday, Peverils ; Saturday, Lay ston—at half-past ten. Sir Henry Seale's—To-morrow, Capton Lane End ; Friday, Mounts, near Tallapit. Shropshire—Thursday, Acton Burnell. Sinnington—To-morrow, Sinnington ; Friday, Helms ley—at ten. Somerset Subscription To-morrow, Bagborough plantation ; Friday, Brampton Ralph—at half-past ten. Somerset and Wilts—Wednesday, Lansdown ; Fri day, Postlebury—at half-past ten. Mr. L. Steere's—Thursday, Sandgate—at eleven. Surrey - Union—Wednesday, Broadwater ; Saturday, East. Clandon-village—at half-past ten. Tiverton—Wednesday, Hawkeridge; Saturday, Stamp ford Peveril—at half-past ten. Mr. Trelawny's—To-morrow, Ivybridge ; Saturday, Langdon-hall—at half-past ten. Mr. Trevor's—Wednesday, Silsoe ; Friday, Lamer— at half-past ten. United Pack—To-morrow and Thursday, Welsh-pool ; Saturday. Soudley. Vine—Wednesday, Wakefield-park ; Saturday, West Sherborne. Wheatland.—To-morrow, Wenlock ; Friday, Willey park—at half-past ten. - Mr. Wheble's—To-morrow, Yattendon ; Thursday, Stanford-street--at eleven. Wyeside—To-morrow, 4th milestone from Builth on the Hay-road ; Friday, Yedylyde Wood—at half-past ten. York and Ainsty—To-morrow, Dringhouses. SCOTCH. Duke of Buccleuch's—To-morrow, Eckford ; Thurs day, Hirsel ; Friday, Melrose-bridge ; Saturday, Haining —at half-past ten. HARRIERS. Mr. Deacon's—Wednesday, Whitchurch-down ; Fri day, Shaugh-village. High Peak—To-morrow, Paddington ; Thursday, Grange Mill ; Saturday, Pillsbury Lodge—at eleven. Captain H. Lewis's—To-morrow, Brawith ; Thursday, Sigston—at eleven. Morpeth—To-morrow, Newton Underwood ; Friday, Stannington. WestNorfolk—Wednesday, Elinhain King's Head at eleven. Mr. Okeover's—To-morrow, Ballidon ; Friday, Oncote —at eleven. Whitechurch—To-morrow, Jamaica: Friday, Balling• ton Cross. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE-MARCH 12. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Cherub, from St. Michael's ; Neptune, Guernsey ; Dania, Genoa ; Deux Sceurs, Cha rente ; Anemone, Oporto ; Cuba., Algoa Bay ; Glenmore, Odessa • Cossack, Guernsey ; Seine, Boulogne • Brougham, South Whale Fishery ; Panther , Ostend • Bordeaux, Cha rente ; Prosperitas, Moss ; Pauline , Rouen ; Wanderer, do. ; Susan, Guernsey ; Franc Cceur, Lucon ; Celerity, Caen ; Bengal, Calcutta ; St. Pierre, Gravelines ; James, Cuba ; Chieftain, Mauritius ; Don, Gothenburg ; Mary, Messina ; Walmer Castle, Calcutta ; Maid of Athens, Rodastoe ; Mincarlo, Malta ; Joseph, Guernsey ; Treaty, Rouen ; Prince Albert, Guernsey ; William Pitt, do. ; Emperor, Lacquillon ; Edith, Seville; Elizabeth, Taylor son, Berdianski ; Janvrin, Leghorn ; Steffano Opvich, Odessa ; Petrino, Barletta. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Albemarle, for Port Philip; Augusta, Lisbon ; John Heyes, Barce lona ' • Neptune, Hamburgh ; Equator, Al goa B ay ; Octa vio, Melbourne ; Walter Hood, Sydney; Lady Hilda, Barbadoes ; Marie, Havre ; Panther, Ostend ; City of Boulogne, loulogne. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. —The Diana, for Stettin ; Rhine, Hamburgh ; Laura, Stettin ; Echo, Ant werp ; Ceesar, Demerara ; Centaur, Algoa Bay; Eclipse, Madeira ; Patriota, Malaga ; Susan, Genoa ; Andalu s i a New York ; Earl of Auckland, Rotterdam ; Lord J o h n Russell, Harlingen ; Baron Osy, Antwerp ; Vesta, Gee long ; Eliza, Trinidad ; Sir Henry Hardinge, Port Philip ; Martin, Santander ; Brilliant, Copenhagen ; Pauline, Sydney; Albemarle, Port Philip ; Thames, St. Kitt's Spykje Alida, Constantinople ; C msarae, Constantinople ; City of Rotterdam, Dunkirk ; Albion, Boulogne. GRAVESEND, March 12.—Arrived —The Seine, from Boulogne ; Panther, Ostend ; Franc Coeur, Lucon ; Ben gal, Calcutta ; Emperor, Lacquillon ; Edith, Seville ; Elizabeth Taylorson, Berdianski. YouGuAL, March 11. The Telscida, of Fiume, for Eng land, is on shore in Whiting Bay, and expected to be a total loss ; the water flows over her at high tide ; crew saved. REDCAR, March 12.—The Leonidas, of and for Louden, from Sunderland, got on Redcar Rocks, March 11, and re mains. March 11—The Britannia, from London to Hartle pool, has been got off shore, and proceeded for Whitby. BRIDLINGTON, March 11 . — Arrived—The Zephyr, from Seaham, for Jersey, with broadside stove, from contact. PARIS, March 12.--The Joune Leonie, D'lsigny, Isigny to Dunkirk, got on the rocks near Blanc Nez, in a fog, pre vious to the 10th March, filled immediately, and is not expected off ; crew saved. CAGLIARI, March s.—There is an appearance to-day of a steady change in the weather, and there is every proba bility that the wind-bound vessels will be able to put to sea to-morrow or next day. , VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Maple Leaf, Dec. 6, 'lat. 25 N., long 64 W. The Helen Douglas, Calcutta to London, Jan. 20, lat. 10 N., long. 13 W. The Jane Green, Madras to London, Feb. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 27 W. The Adriana, Africa to Liverpool, March 3, lat. 47 N., long. 15 W. The Rother, Pernambuco to Queenstown, Feb. 26, lat. 44 N., long. 30 W. The Letitia, Mauritius to London, March 2, lat. 47 N., long. 25 W. _ . The Violet, March 1, let. 44 N., long. 13 W. The Briton, Singapore to London, 1at.47 N., long. 28 W. The Rappahannock, Now Orleans to Liverpool, Feb. 28, lat. 24 N., long. 83 W. The John and L uc y, N ew O r l ea ns to Liverpool, Feb. 11, lat. 24 N., long. 80 W. The Mary Holland, Valparaiso to Liverpool,..Feb. 28, lat. 49 N., long. 31 W., and supplied with provisions. The James Green, Madras to London , with rudder sprung, Feb. 28, let 471'x., long. 29 W. The Inglefield (or Ingleboro), Mauritius to Queenstown, March 3, lat. 49 N., long. 21 W. The Braken Moor, New York to London, March 5, lat. 49 N., long. 14 W. The William Gibson, Bombay to Liverpool, Feb. 26, let. 44 N., long. 30 W. The Canada (barque), from Singapore, Dec. 26., lat. 2.24 W. The Sarah Budge, of Portland, Jan. 29, let. 34 N., long. 24 W. The Jessie Mann, Liverpool to Now Orleans, 30th, lat. 24 N., long. 23 W. The Witness, of Neath, for Austr a li a , F e b . 1 8, let. 38 N., long. 23 W. The Mirzapore, London to Calcutta, 22d, lat. 41 N., long. 14 W. The Rochester, from the South Seas, Feb. 25. A large ship, No. 46, under the Union Jack, Nov. 25, let. 9 S. long. 88 E. The Bell, Dec. 14, let. 28 S. long. 50 E. The Pemberton, off Cape gt. Thomas, coast of Africa, 28th. The Tribune, Dec. 31, lat. 35 S. long. 17 E. The Mary Spencer, Jan. 17, lat. 9 S., long. 13 W. The May Queen, oringa Bay to London, March 1, lat. 44 N., long. 28 W. The Albatross, Liverpool to Melbourne, Jan. 20, lat. 13 S. long. 37 W. The Albatross (ship), Liverpool to Melbourne, Jan. 20, lat. 13 S., long. 37 W. The May Queen, Coringa to London, March 1, lat. 44 N., long. 28 W.I The Gloriosa, London to Calcutta, Feb. 22, lat. 48 N., long. 8 W. „e,l , PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 4. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. P; ice. Annum. Share. X s. d. X s. d. Australasia........... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 97 British North American 6'. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Commercial of London. 61. per cent. lco 0 0 20 0 0 Co , onial 3/. per cent, 100 0 • 25 0 0 lonian - cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Lond. Char Bk. of Aus. 211 0 0 210 0 13% London and County .. 61. per cant. 50 0 0 20 0 0 Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 • 35% London Joint Stock 6/. par cent. 50 .0 0 10 0 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cen t. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, New... .• .. 8/. per cent. 10 /1 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 Nat. Provincial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 9 Ditto, New . . • 6/. per cent. 20 0. 8 10 0 0 Oriental Bank Corpora. ,81. p. ct. & ha, 25 0 0 25 0 0 56% South Australia !fil, p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 52 Union of A ustralia • 6'. p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 0 0 79 Ditto . Union of London .... : 71. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Madrid 40 0 0 40 0 0 INSURANCE COMPANIES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Albion ...... X s. d. X a. d. ...• •• .. 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 90 Alliance Brit. and For. 71.148. Ad.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 25% Ditto Marine........ Ilk p.c.& be. 100 0 0 25 0 0 55 Anchor - ... • • ....... 6 per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 - Atlas -.. ......... ... 133.6 d. 50 0 0 5 10 0 21 Argus Life .. ..... ...• 41. per cent. 100 8 0 16 0 0 - British Commercial .. 78. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7 Cleriel.Med.&Gen.Life spr et. &be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20% County .. •.. ...... ... 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Crown ......... •• • . 14 s . 50 0 0 50 0 17% Eagle .. ......... - ss. 50 0 0 50 0 Equity and Law .. _ 44 ... . 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 is 7% European Life ...... ... 15s. *2O 0 0 All paid. 20 General ...• .. ...... .. - 50 0 „ 5% Globe W. per cent. Stock. 149% Guardian .......• - - 51. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 61 Imperial Fire .. •• . • l2/, per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 810 Imperial Life Law Fire .......• •• • • 2s & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4 4 Law Life... • • _ 4 . _ 44 ...... 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 5% London Fire ..... 1 . 08. & ba. 25 0 0 12 10 0 28% London Whip.... Marine... • • .... • ..... 158. per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 22 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 Minerva -...•• • • .. Sp. ct. & be . 20 0 0 2 0 0 6 Monarch .• ••••• • • • • • - 500 1 0 0 20s. National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Palladium Lite . Pelican .....• • • • • .. •• - - 45 Phcenix - _ • - Professional Life ••• • .. 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 173% P - ' , Went Life .... . • .. 11. bs. & bs. 100 0• 0 10 0 0 40 Rock Life- .... ••• • .. ss. 5 0 0 010 q 8% Royal Exchange • ...• • 61. p.ot. & be. stook. all 236 Sun Fire • . . 61. 10s. - - PS Ditto Life ll. 6s. -- Of '-'• United Kingdom ...• 41. p. et. &ha. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4% Universal Life Victoria Life .....• • • 51. per cent. - 4126 , 8% BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - X Hungerford.... - . ••• ' 0- s. (1. £e. d. - 12 Southwark ...... •• .• 100 0 0 - - Ditto New of 7% pc• 70s. per cent 50 0 0 -1(; Waterloo ......... •• •• - 100 0 0 - 3 8 4 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 2/. 88. Od. - 60 0 0 2414 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 21. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 12.!• 2 Vauxhall ........ Av. 21. 70 10 3 - 21 WATER-WORKS. • Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. (I. £ a. d. East London' 6l. per cnt. Stock. - 125 Grand Junction -- • • 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 69 Kent...... ...• • • .... 41. per cat. 100 0 0 - 84% Lambeth ......... - 100 0 0 - - New River Company.. 21.105. - - 60 Southwark &Vauxhall 51. per cat. 100 0 0 - 90 West Middlesex . ..... 161.0 a . pr cut. - I - 111% DOCKS: Dividend Amount Name of Company• per of Paid. Price. Annum*. Share. ----- -- £ s. d. A s. d. Commercial .. •••• ...• 41. pr cent. Stock. - - East and West India.. 6%1. pr cent. Stock. - 167% East Country 2OB. per oh. 100 0 0 - London .. • - - - Ditto Bonds - .... - - S..h - atharine - - S uthampton Victoria .......... - --• , 2 • 1 1 2 0 0 4 CANALS. xi Dividend Names of i Dividene tames of 2 Companies. M per Price. Com pan i es. 64 per A Annum. Price, as Annum. a., £ £ Ashtn& Oldh 98 71. p. ct. 140 Macclesfield • 100 21. 105. 50 Barnsley •• • • 160 Neatb .. •• •• 100 161. 13rknk&Abrg 150 51. 1234 Oxford.. •• • • 100 131. 132 Birmingham 40 41. 105 U Peak Forest. 78 W. 18a. 70 Coventry.... leo 25/. Regcnt's •• • • 33 11. Os. 16% Derby -•• •• 100, 61. 63 Rochdale.... 88 21. 42 Ellamre3c.Che 69 2% p. ct 3 , 34 Semreet Coal 150 GrandJunctir 100;3/. pr. et. 60% D0.1.k Fd St 12 Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 12 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 405 Grand Surrey 1001 2/. 105. Shrewsbury.. 125 Grand Union 100 11.105. 24 Stonrbridge„ 145 201. 290 Kennt& Avn 39 . 6s. Od. 7R t Severaancl) Lancaster . 100 ' Wy e R a il . t 2 6 IL Os. 24 Leeds&Livrp 1001 251. 550 Warwick&l 5 Leicester.... 100 51. 66 12irming. lOO 41. 40 Leicstr&Nth 88 41 . 44 % Warwick& I apton.. } 1" 31. Loughboregh 142 1 701. 510 N 28 Monmouthsh 100 worcstr & i Mntgentrysh 1003 Birminc ~• 78 31. _ Meltn3fwbry 100 Wilts & ltrks —10 s. ne e,, 10s. Od A GAB-LIGHT tNivDiaCeno4 Amount CO------IPANIES. Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. Paid. Pri ce 12 'High ............ 4 8 . • X s. d. .• Ditto Provincial.... , ---- -52 - Brighton .... •••• .. I ''' B s. 20 20 0 0 0 23= City of London ...... 51 . _ 20 0 Continental (3d Cap.) 20 0 0 16 - 61. 100 0 150 0 0 125 Great i'lqui t a C b e l Central' .: t - r . r . i I . '.::: : : • • 41. 1 0 per cent. 7 10 5 0 0 43 10 0 69 31. & bonus. 5 50 0 0 0 Imperial a ... .. • .• • 50 0 0 27 10 0 0 14.3 4 / ••••••••• Do, Parl, pr e f erence 61. per cent. 25 40 0 0 •• • 50 0 0 83.% London.... . 40 0 0 46 • •• •• .• •• 50 0 25 0 0 ° o ° o i , 2 2 - 7 4 % Phoenix ••••••• • • •• 31/. per cent.. 50 0 Ratcliff .. -•••.. •• 17 nited General .. •• • 51 . 100 0 90 0 0 1 - 11. 50 0 so o o 19% Westminster Chartered 51. Per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 39 Ditto. New .... -• 5l. per cent. '5O 0 10 0 0 714 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 4 s . Bank of Scotland 7l. p er cent . 10 0 100 o 0 1911 0 British Linen Comp 81. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 2101 0 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow tank 5/. per cent. 10 0 10 0 0 :01118 Clydesdale Bank -. 6/. per cent. 20 0 10 0 0 12 , 138 Commercial Bank Eastern Bank ...... •• 61. per cent. 25 0 10 0 0 10/ 9s E linb.& Glasgow •.. Exehange Bnk of Scot - 100 0 31 5 0 9s. eel National Bank 634 percent. 50 0 10 0 0 161 2s Northof Scotlandßank 5/.percent. 20 0 210 0 31. IQs Royalßank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 1.15110 union Bank of Scet. Western Bank ... .. i. Mance Fire and Life 834 Lpr cent. 10 0 10 0 0 211128 British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur lol.per cent. 100 0 10 0 0 251. Od Cite of Glasgow Lite 6/. per cent. 25 0 2 0 0 41. Ifi s Colonial. Life Edinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cent. 100 0 15 0 0 21110 s Eng. & Scot. Law Life bl.percent. 50 0 217 6 31. 7 8 Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 110 0 3/. 17s National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 1 0 0 ;11. I4s North British Insur. •• Si. per cent. 200 0 20 0 0 351. Os SCottishUnionlnsrac. 7 5. 3411p.epr cent. rcent 50 0 7 . 20 0 1 0 0 00 11121.111f3,5s 'standard Life •• •• .. • United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent 10 0 10 0 20s. Od * Ex Dividend. MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount ---------- per of Paid. Price, Same of Company. Annum. Shar e. 4 s. d. l. d. _ 50 0 0 20 0 0 Assam Tea • • .• .... •• 2/. ss. 50 0 0 35 aucti.n Mart •• • • • • • . 1 peiri.cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 113 35 0 0 25 al Mail 10 0 0 20 0 Australian ROY 1 meilcan Mint,. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 23% Ana' 0- T A rU ri sr l . t . n . r . 61. 153. 38 10 0 51% 5511.. per cent. 100 10 0 32 10 0 65 Australian Trust Canada33Dßritishoit. to s , . 6 p er . p . Am erican r cent . . . 1 . 3 B onds Land. od ' , 61. per cent, City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. 117% Electric Telegraph (A) 97 Ditto.. •• •• •• ••(B) 25 0 0 20 0 0 22 Equitable 25 0 0 710 0 80 Reversienr y 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 120 Ditto New ........ Gen. 50 0 0 10 0 0 ation Revers. & Inve s t . sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 102% Geu.SteamNa v i g 10 p. ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 30 Hungerfor Hudson's Bay ....., .. Stock. 220 47% d ......., V. 10s. 100 0 0 100 0 0 London Institution ... 78 15 0 Lon don Reversionary 51. per cent. 15 0 0 15 0 0 14 Rus•iell Institution.... _ Price's Patent Cand.Co. 101. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 26% Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 R)yal Mail Steam ...• 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 82 6 nab Anstrallan..... 51. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 61% Trust and Loan Comp. •1 * Upper Canada.... 20 0 0 30 0 ----_ RAIL WA Y SHARE MARKETS. - LIVERPOOL—MARcEt 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was flat all day, but very little change can be noted in prices, which have been reported as follows in the authorised list :—Aberdeen, 15 ; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (Chester and Birk enhead, 214 ; Eastern Counties, 13 13-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 784 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 17i ; Midland, 761 ; Newry and Warrenpoint, 9/; South Eastern and Dover, 23i ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshiro (6 per cent.), 15 ; Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln (101. shares), 11. MANCHESTER—MARCH 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been an average business with but little fluctuation in prices. Blackburn, 7i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 77i ; Manchester and Birmingham, C qrs., 1a prem. ; Manchester and Sheffield, ; ditto 101. prof., 11; ditto new 61. pref., 4 prem. ; South-Eastern, 23 7-Is. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There bas been a fair amount of lousiness done here to-day, and shares generally are in ad- Vallee. LEEDS—MAuciI 12. STOCK ExCIIANGE.—Wo have had but little change in the share market this morning. The market was, however, firm, and t4e prices of yesterday were maintained. Eastern Counties were done at 13 ; Leeds Northerns at 16/i ; Mid lands at 764 ; and York and North Midlands at 29/, COUNTRY MARKETS. DALKEITTI-MARCH 10. The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were 18st 61b, 18st 21b, and 17at 21b. Oats, 13st Otb, 12st 61b, and 13st 91b. Barley, 16st 41b, 150 t 71b, and 14st 121 b. Peas and beans, 19st 41b, 19st 01b, and 17st 121 b. Qrs. Best. 355 Wheat........... a 15 6 1,855 Oats .1 2 8 365 Barley.. .. .....1 18 0 67 Peas and 1;;;u5...1 18 0 Current. £2 9 0 1 0 0 1 9 3 1 15 0 8s sid. Inferior. £2 1 0 0 17 4 1 7 0 1 10 0 Average of wheat, 2/. HADDINGTOI The following are the prig to-day : N-31ABen 11. :es of grain at our market WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. " ANS A ' 56s Od 38a Od 28s Od 43s O d 47s Od 33s 3d 22s 3d 355 Od 378 Od 28s 61 18s Od 325, Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 470 qrs., 409 sold PP PP barley „ 385 qrs., 338 sold PP PP oats 918 qrs., 730 sal ff PP beans PP 238 qrs., 212 sold First... % I Second Third.. ABERDEEN—MARCH 11. The prices of grain are—Old oats, 00s Od to 0 0 s ° (1, 401bs per bushel ; new oats, °Qs Ocl to 17s (kl, 401bs per bushel ; bear, 28s Od to 28s 6d, 531bs per bushel ; barleY) OOs Od to 283 Od, 531bs per b us h e l ; w h ea t, red, 42LCkigAt° OOs Od, 621bs per bushel ; whe a t, w hit e , 48 s Od to °u s 7 1 ! 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 15s (k 1 per bou 11h . flour, 38s Od to 39s Od per sack. Provisions—Beef, Pen 5.1 to 7d ; mutton, ditto, 5(1 to 7d : veal, ditto, 4d to ~7 (1 pork, per stone, 5s Od to Os Od ; lamb, per lb, Od to u u „, i rabbits, each, 7d to 8d ; tallow, per stone, 4s Od to Os i u ` n m : potatoes, per peck, lstols 2d ; butter, per lb, 9d t° I „, i s " - tt, eggs, per doz, Os 7d to Os 9d ; hens, per pair, 33 "- ad 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto; 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks, ditto, 2s u to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditt o , O s Od to Os 0d ;- turkeys, each, 4s Od to 5s Od. ; geese, ditto, 4s 0,1 to 5s Od ; b utter . for exportation (present cure), per cwt, 85s to 86s Od ditto (summer cured), OOs to 00s 041 ; eggs, wholesale Pr ie v e ' per dozen, 6d to Od 41b loaf, 7d ; 21b loaf, 3YI; Pu r i" fine small, Os Od to Os Od; pork, large, Os Od to Os Od. INVERNESS.—MARCH 8. CORN.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 62113 per ball o t, 48s Od to 52s Od ; barley, ditt o , 541 b ditt o, 28 s Od to Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 20s Od to 21s Od. , 4 MEAL.—Oatmeal, per i m p. boll. 16s 8d to Os Od; e • second, 15s 6d to Os Od ; barleymeal, lls 6d to ( P s peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od ; b ran , per s t one, O s 7d to 08 ";", lst flour, per 2801 b, 40 s Od. to 42s Od ; 2d ditto, 30s °a 8d % 32s Od ; oatmeal, best, per st. of 141 b imperial, is 4d to Os Od ; ditto second, i s 6d t o O s Od ; b ar l eymea l 18 caali to Os Od ; peasemeal, ls 6d t o O s Od ; I s t flour, 2s 9d t 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. PROVISIONS.—Potatoes, per stone, 611 to Od ; BeefhP: lb, 4.d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d t o 5d ; mu tt on' ditto, *a 6d ; pork, ditto, 3d to 4d ; f ow l s , each, 10d to 124 chickens, per pair, 10d to 12d ; ducks, each, lld to 1 6c ". eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d ; b u tt er , f res h , per lb ., 9d to IV: ditto, salt, per lb., 9d t o 10d croudie (curds), 2d to four-pound loaf, fine, 7d t o 74d ; ditto, second, 6d to coals, per cwt., 9d to Od; hay, per stone, ICkl to 12 d . CORK—Menai 11. Brls. __. Currency. White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od Os Od 20 ate". 13 Redwheat 22s 9d to 24s 0:1 Ditto Oos Od to Oos Od .00s Od--20 d o. Ditto OOs Od to 00s Od 83 Barley Ditto OGs Od to OOs Od 145 6d-1 6 do' Ditto 00s Od to Oos Od Bere 00s •Od to OOs Od Os Ott 127 Oats Os 8d to 10s 4d 119 Ditto lOs 4d to Xis 0,1 103 ld do. Ditto Oos 0:1 to 00s Od 7 Pigs 2Bs Od to 43s 6d OOs Od per 0 4 Quantity sold at the highest prices : '. SS 00 barrels whit e w h ea t ; 7 re d ; 16 barley ; 0 bete oats ; 5 pigs, Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week ' 49 1 Wheat, 205. Barley, 391. B ere , 0. Oats, o,' Pigs, 342. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. OMR/MGT. First quality Second quality 7 !g s Third quality BBs Third quality . .............. . 7 2s Fourth quality Fifth quality 7os Fifth quality .............•• Sixth quality s Bs Sixth quality ............... 4' Return of cattle sold for week ending March 5 :-- Pigs, 621. Sheep, 234. Cows, 83. Od; Coax.—Flour— First, 15s Od to 16s Od ; extra, seconds, 14s Od to 14s 6d; hou se h o ld s , lO s t o 13 s Od ; ; 8s Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 8s Od to 8 s " w t. oatmeal, lOs 6d to llsOd ; wheat mea l, lO s 6d t o Ils per e a Indian corn, 7i 5s Od to 81 O s Od p er t on. B ra n, 411 2 s_1' , to 41 15s Od perton. Hay—F armers , 25 s Od t o 32 s Od ; as°7lll, 295; dealers, OOs Od to OOs Od ; average, Os per ton. straw Farmers, 15s Od to 23s Od ; average, 18s ; dealers, 00 s ,A OOs Od ; average, Os. per ton. Brea—Wheaten leaf, ,'; Od ; household ditto, 6d to Od per 41b.—Fresh butter, 2 1 4 04 lld per lb. Eggs, 4s 8d to 4s 103 per hundred. Meat to 44d to 8d ; mutton, 5, 1 2 d to bid ; veal, 4id to 64d ; pork, ; i d. 6d ; bacon, 7d to lid ; sausages, 6d per lb.—Ash, Neof ° „ (10 ; land, 11/. Os to 121 Os per ton ; Scot c h herrings, 28s to v_l 4, Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, w hite, 9d to 10d; lld to 12d.—Coals, Newport, 21s ; Lydney, 21s ; Cult °, Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s Od per imperial gal Hides, market, 25s to 32s ; Salted, 26s to 32s per cwt. skins, 31d per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. per tot 4 Fleece wool, 15s to 16s per stone.—H emp, 381 . to 421. ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 10s ; red pine, 31. 10s ; yellow d" 31. ss. per ton ; deals, 161. to 181. per hundred.--.Bak, redo 8/. to 8/. 10s. per ton.—Tallow, 46s to 47s per cwt. gops , 71. lOs to 0/. per cwt.—Tar, Archangel, 19s. per brl.—Guao Peruvian, 101. 10s to 11/. per ton. SEABORNE MAILS. nm , (N signifies that th e mails are sent front the ,—eral r, by the night— an d M by the morning —dispatch.' When .... t Day when made up From aue in _ COUNTRIES. in General Post- port 7U --------.--- -------- Each Mon America (hyßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... fiver! 00l ... Office, London. Dispatched. America (by United Sts. Starch 15 packet) .... .. ....N March 22 -- - - Liverpool ~• 'rice. America (by U States Starch 1° Packet) ..........N March I 6 ........ Southampton ga Australia (via South April 4 ampton) ..........M 4th of May - .... Southampton ra I _55 - Ditto (via Marseilles) N Bth of May ...... Dover .. •• •• A P 23= Ditto (via Cape of Good r n. 3 ° 16 - Hope) ...... ••--N 2d of April - .... Plymouth .• ••a , i 1 2 England._ 25 - Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Plymouth .• lif' d , 16 69 Alexandria..........N 8,9, 24, &30of m Dover .. •• • • 1 ;:' 1 :.,i, 20 27 Alexandria.. -- - -AI 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton I .'_'; m on 145/ Bahamas ..... .... -31 2nd of the month Southampton Ist 0 , . Dag,' 835' Belgium .. .. ... •.. ..N.7 I >ally -.. _ .... Dover • • March 16 46 Brazil ............ - Ml9th of the mouth,. Southampton • 11 . 4 , ch 16 Buenos Ayres ........3119th -3119th of ihe month.. Southampton 31 I a ' h 26 - N I give ~ 24% Cape of Good Hove .. ! 14th of the month Plymouth . • March ''' 27 Cape of Good Hope .. N 211,•1 of April .. .... Plymouth • • - - , ch 26 Cape de Vents ...... N 'l4th of the month Plymouth • • g a ' - 19% Ceylon (see India) Starch 26 39 Ceylon .. .... . • ......N 14th of the month Plymouth .. ..4S. 71/ Channel 151e5.... Nl3lon Wed &Frld couthampton ro• s ., j 6 Chili- - - - - - - _3l ..d & 17th of month Southampton March China (see India) 16 - Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24427 of m. D0ver...... ch ..--- %/Ar h 20 Constantinople - - -31 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton gar c edAill rice. cont. of Europe 31 & N T w i ce d a i ly ...... Dover •• • Pvile Egypt (see India.) ~,dalli France .... --M & N Twice daily__ _ Dover •• • T " . ,70 16 Gibraltar ..........m 4,7, 17, 20, 27 o f m. Southampton 31a' II 0 Greece (see India) „ r ai 16 )1 0 Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17 th of mon. Southampton M s SSG 18s. Hamburgh ..... • ....N Tuesday & Friday London • • T u „.l . 1 rt Is Havannah .. ... • .... 31 2nd of the month Southampton AP - T har ' 13s Holland ............ 31 Wednesday & Sat. London ..... ‘ion* 16 ?/ 0 Ma rch Honduras .... ••• - 51 17th of the month. Southampton ~i, 20 9 s India (viaSoutliampt.)3l,4th & 20th of mon. Southampton s fLi i . " 16 82 India (via M arse illes)MBth& 2 Ith ot month'Dover ...• • • 31.-- . I'd lonian Isles (see India) ! 1.2: Ireland .... ••..31 & N Twice daily ...... Holyhead ... 6 io Madeira .... d 11 ia. .. ) : • .: rcriced h A l l/1 ‘. 1 1 :70,1 _ NLmii:sibatocatiir:as.e..e.. India) .... .... Ml 7, 9, 17, & 27 of m. Southampton March ...111!9th of the month Southampton 3131. ,), 12 1 , 1123 rd of the month Plymouth .. March Malta .iftrell 18 . 0 ••••• • • • • .....N 1 7,17,19,27, 30 of m. Dover .., i s Mauritius (see India) 1(b/d Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month Plymouth .. ll- 4, ,-r e fi l t e 2 o 6' 3 Mexico .....M;2nd of the month.. ; Southampton 1 !ts' c ' D 12 is Nap1e5......: ..... N Isth Mth2sthof mon !Dover • • Star bl 6 105....... New Granada ......M l 2d & 17th of month,Southampton Ma r er c- t aitt 7 s New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. ! Various ports U nc 12 larch ys Papal States ........N sthlsth2sthotnion.iDover ...... 5.- h l6 143 Peninsula ..........M, l thl7th27thofmon. Southampton Mi tre d , 16 .28 Peru ............ _ 3117 d & 17th of mon !Southampton 34 °, 1 , 96 1 . 1 8 Port Natal - - - N' 14th of the month! Plymouth .. ~N 4a: .11 1 2 Ws c • .1 ,I c l .y •- • .. .. .. .. ..Nsthl Sth2sthofmon, Dover .....• • u t - _,. 1, 12 .Od Tuscany ............ N sthlsth2sthotinon. Dover ...... S." c c i, i 6 Venezuela - - ...... 31!2d & 17th of month Soathampto g ar Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) ~.,.,.c h 16 .._ West Indies ...... ..M l 2d& 17th Of month i Southampton m''' _...-.• _..--ioll ir „,Of " [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills for the , -)" - , a d Asthmatic Coughs, a n d a ll Di seases o f th e Chest — d. Lungs.—A gentleman named Middleton, of Scotlafio, road, Liverpool, s t a t es , i n a l e tt er to P ro f ess or W og way, dated Jan. 1, 1853, that for upwards of fin e he suffered s evere ly f rom as th ma, atten d e d w ith a vf ° "i e fi ci cough, which s o p ros t ra t e d hi s s t rengt h an d debilTibe his constitution as t o t a lly t o un fit hi m f or any o st active duties of life. He was attended by the eminent medical men, but all failed to give him r t e i r ee At length he tried Holloway's Pills, and in about months this wonderful medicine effected a perfect Q cti ja of his disease, and restored him to sound h e alth. -- ',:h. by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Esta bw " ment, 244, Strand, Londcn. BIRTHS. OF A SON. 01e$ On the 10th inst., at Edinburgh, th e wife a Ch i ' . n. 13alfour, Esq., of Cleveland-terrace, Hyde-park, 14 01 '. 1 1 - On the 11th inst., at Beltwood, Sydenham, the vi'-` ° Edward Saxton, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the sth inst., at Upper Deal, the wife of Mayo r Ba,ckhouse, C. 8., late of the Bengal Artillery. MARRIED. At Bangalore, Lieutenant J. H. Knott, of the Ater King's Own Borderers, to Isabell a Clenientina, u a „, ll iras of the late W. Faskin, Esq., surgeon in the Army. w ich, On the 10th inst., in St. Mary's-church, I " ° ;,,tta Captain N. S. K. Bayly, Royal Artillery, 0 1ten_,,, r , 3 1 Charlotte, daughter of Colonel H. W. Gordon, 11 '"' Artillery. On the 3d inst., at Cove D n i t lM .T. Flytter, Esq" asa—;43lll suorgneotnhe4tlhBtDhr jaagnoounarGy,uaartdssit.Y. Sir John Campbell, of Ardn :Amur an, . •, of that island. On the Bth inst., at 5, Newin ton-terraco, Rathraine°' On th aged 72, Rowland Price, E g r On the. 6th in ,on Woolswelich-common, Caroline Prot K.C.8., Caddy Robe, third daughter of Colonel Sir William 1 :1 °., ° : . ' Vi c . n h cent ß 's . , trt of lyaetlle;vfee....„iveor; Cal)tain AVollcock, R.N. T e i. 7 T t i l S•i n a s n t d ., K a . t C. R fl o . c , h o e f s t t h er e , R 3 o l y a a r l y H A or n se n : tr i t v i t T of Ott the 10th inst., a t Chigwell, Essex, Margaret Swith'e wife of Lieute nan t-C o l one l Squire, late of the 13th (Frific Albert's) Light Infantry, aged 67. ____—.....!. 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