The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

, '''lll4N EPSOM RACES. Atitonina. Saville . Calot Coalition (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Catspaw Ann Page— RORTON STAKES. Nine ran. MANOR PLATE, Nine ran. lIEATHCOTE PLATE Fourteen ran. ... 0 LATEST BETTING. 8 to 1 agst Orestes (taken). 9 to 1 asst Sittingbourne (taken). 40 to 1 agst Jerry Kent (offered). 500 even on Sittingbourne against Pharos. 5,000 even on West Australian, Honeywood, and Orestes against the Field (taken). fourtb32 Won SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE DERBY. A Second Edition of the Racing Times publishes the following, received by electric telegraph : " Epsom, One o'clock._ " I think we shall have a magnificent race, and it appears to me to lie with West Australian, Orestes, Ptiaros, Cineas, Honeywood, and Sittingbourne. These will, I think, be first past the post, and I should not be surprised to see Honeywood one of the first three. I have heard that John Scott has sent out a commission to back him for 5001. If anything beats the favourite I think it will be either Honey wood or Orestes ; for, greatly as I admire the looks of Cineas, I am afraid he is made in some way safe, although Alfred Day says the horse that beats Cineas will win the Derby. Peggy will run well for the Oaks." THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 20. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Augustus Loftus, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Stuttgardt, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Berlin. _ FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 21. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Edward Alvarez y Gutierrez as Consul at Cardiff for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 23. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Town and Port of Rye—William Alexander Mackinnon, of No. 4, Hyde Park-place, Middlesex, Esq., in the room of William Alexander Mackinnon the younger, Esq., whose election for the said town and port has been declared void, WHITEHALL, MAY 24. The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Ro bert John Baron Willoughby de Broke, her royal license and authority, that he may in compliance with the proviso and direction contained in the last will and testament of his maternal uncle -Henry Peyto, late Baron Wil loughby de Broke, deceased, take and use the surname of Verney, in lieu of that. of Barnard ; and that he may sign and subscribe the same together with and before his title of peerage, and that he may quarter the arms of Ver ney, with those of his own family of Barnard ; and that the said surname of Verney, and the arms of Verney quar terly, with those of Barnard may be taken, borne, and used by his issue such arms being first duly exemplified accord ing to the law of arms, and recorded in the Herald's office, otherwise the said royal licence and permission to be void and of none effect : And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in her Majesty's College of Arms. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY HER MAJESTY. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi ment of Militia—Henry Holden, Esq., late Captain in her Majesty's 38th Regiment, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain, vice Barth, who retires. 2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Captain Tre vor Davenport, late of the Ist Regiment of Foot, to be Adjutant, April 9. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE WARDEN OF THE STANN ARIES. Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners Regiment.—Ralph Shutleworth Allen, Esq., Captain half-pay Royal Artil lery, to be Major, vice Willyams, resigned, May 20. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. Royal Monmouth Militia—Lieutenant Charles Lewis to he Captain ; Lieutenant James Davis, to be Captain, May 21. 2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—To be Lieutenant —Wm. De Norman, Gent„ May 7. Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—Samuel Lacy Wm. Sanderson, Esq., to be Captain, May 19. Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Samuel Wood, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, May 20. Ist Regiment of West York Yeomanry Cavahy—Mans feldt de Cardonnell Elmsall, Gent., to be Cornet, May 4. 3d Regiment of West York Militia—John Kendall, Esq., to be Captain, May 12 ; Henry Dickenson Wilkin son, Gent., to be Ensign, May 18. 4th Regiment of West York Militia—The Right Hon. Lord Beaumont, to be Colonel Commandant ;the Hon. Nathaniel Henry Charles Massey, to be Lieuienant-Colonel, vice Lord Beaumont, promoted, May 18. [This Article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the Bth of April.] 3d Regiment of West Riding Militia.— William Manley- Eastwood, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Robinson, re signed, March 19. The Royal Anglesey Light Infantry Militia,—Charles Stanhope Jones, Esq., late Captain in the 59th R eg i men t, . . _ to be (Captain, Marcii - 10. Northumberland Regiment of Militia.—John Foster Baird, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 16. 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia-- William Fraser, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 16. Royal South Lincoln Militia—Charles Ferneley, Gent., 'Po be Assistant-Surgeon, May 18. East York Regiment of Militia—John Daniel Ferguson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ward, resigned, May 18. Royal Carnarvonshiro Militia—Lieutenant John Row lands to be Captain, vice %Ikeley, resigned, May 19. BANKRUPTS. J. P.. Thirkell, farmer, Cranbrook, Kent, to surrender, Juno 6, at two, and July 5, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, King William-street ; Parker, St. Paul's-churchyard ; Hinds, Goudhurst, and Tonbridge Wells, Kent. William Hutchison, ship broker, Riches-court, Lime "street, City, June 2, at one, and July 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, 3, Coleman street-buildings ; Neal, Austin-Friars. R. Lambell, draper, Dover-road, Southwark, June 6, at half-past one, and July 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall-stteet ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Alderinanbury. Edward Jones, draper, Strand, June 7, at twelve, and July 1, at eleven, at the. Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Linklater, Sise-lane. Samuel tTnderhill, commission agent, Wolverhampton, June 13, at one, and June 27, at half-past ten, at the Bir mingham District Conrt. Bittloston, official assignee, Birmingham : Price, Wolverhampton ; Metter= and Knight; Birmingham. John Westlake Wainwright, builder, Bridgwater, Somer. setshire, May 31 and June 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Reed, Bridgwater, and Stogdon, Exeter. Hannah Mathew and John Mathew, coach and cart wheelwright, Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, June 8, at twelve, and July 1, at one, 'at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Buchannan, Basinghall-street. Francis Harrrisson, grocer and tea dealer, Chelmsfo r d, June 7, at one, an d July 5, at 2, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Ba singhall-street ; Linklater, Bucklersbury ; Duffield, Chelmsford. ILCABKET INTELLIGENCE. (Prom the _London New Price Current of thie day.) SUGAlL—lmporters of West India sugar were desirous to-day to realise, but submitting to a reduction on Friday's rates of 61 per cwt oceasimied a very good demand both for refinia , " and grocery purposes. Operations amounted to 871 blurs, &c., including at auction 375 hhds, 30 tierces, and 49 barrels Darbadoes, which went for fine yellow at 38s Gd to 395, middling to good 36s to 38s, ordinary 34s Gd to Ms Gd, brow n f rom 32 s Gd to 34s ; 203 hds 2 trcs, and 38 brls St. Lucia, low to good middling grey 31s Gd to 355, fine yellow 38s to 395, middling to good 35s Gd to 37s Gd ; 32 casks Demerara crystallized, good to fine yellow 38s to 395. REFINED.-- To-day refined sugar sold freely for home trade purposes : but prices have ceased to advance ruling for brown lumps at 475, and low to fine grocery 47s Gd to tle per cwt. Crushed in good demand for export at pre vious rates. 1.51/I.soAnutt, rms.—This afternoon the large quantity of „I,,,. uu p, r aits of Mauritius sugar was submitted to public sold, sopeir gave way Gd per cwt., still 11,000 bags were t o 3 7 , 64, low yellow at 38s to 3836 d, good to fine 35s 6d 333 Gd, inferior mid 34s to 355, good to fine brown 32s to refining from 3247t50t0 31s Gd : very ord 25s 6(1 to 2Gs 6d, mid white ditto 41 37 5, grainy yellow 35s to A t to o 41s G(1 pct. cwt. 38s Gd, and EAST INDIAg.ar welrlAie Roles this afternoon of 3,400 bags Ben.ogiaLsleu,,i.es,twather under last week's rates, but mostly ood white at 35s to 38s, line grainy white 43s Gd, good ttOV yellow ditto 378 to 38s 6d, low to middling 35s th 30i Cdaabrowu 33 s to 348 Cd, low grainy 313 to 32s Gd. There r..,:roi,!_uo public sale of Madras, y hav o a downward.treaus,- an little done privately ; an d sy. demand for COCOA.--TO-day there was only a moderato RTall part Trinidad cocoa ; and at auction, of 970 bag low only sold at 30s to 33s for grey, and at 33s G B d t a o 34 n for to fine red, being rather lower rates. COFFEE.—To-day there was a greater desire to operate in Plantation Ceylon Coffee. At auction 190 casks, 402 brls, and 57 bags nearly all sold at rat herllr ir e ifi r g rl. b.i e ss To good middling to good went at 62s to 655, na 61s, lOw middling 57s to 58s, other sorts 52s to 5Gs, triage 46s to 51s, and pea berry G 6 s 6 d to 69 s 6 d. TEA. —ln bettor sorts of Congou immense purchases have again been made both by the t rade and s p eculators, the rates obtained being ra ther above those current pre viously. There is no further rise for lower kinds, still de mand is good, and market firm. OlLS.—Prices continue to give way for Seal, and trans- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 23. The Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master Comman der John E. Petley, came into harbour last evening, from Devonport, with the Master-General of the Ord nance (Lord Raglan) and engineering officers, from their official inspection of the western fortifications. The Duke of Wellington, screw, 131, Captain Henry Ilyain Martin, is bending sails, and using every energy in getting ready for sea. The new proposal for the better manning of the navy has worked its magic up on the hitherto-neglected British sailor, whose heart is as big as the First Lord of the Admiralty, and its imme diate effect is shown by the number of good men who are daily joining this noble three-decker. The Fairy, yacht, Master Commander D. N. Welch, is on the gridiron, shifting her propeller and taking in a supply of brick coals. Imperieuse, 60, !screw, Captain Rendle B. Watson, has hoisted the blue peter at the fore, and is under im mediate orders for foreign service. The Simoom, 18, screw, iron troop-frigate, Captain John Kingcome, will come into the steam-basin dock, to have the state of her bottom examined. The Encounter, 14, screw, Captain G. W. D. O'Cal laghan, received her boilers to-day under the sheers, and will soon be ready for active service. The Conflict, 8, screw, is painting, and only awaiting the arrival of her new boomerang-propeller, which is to be of flinch stronger make than the one that gave way on her trial. It is stated that three of our steam reserve are to be sent down to Plymouth, such as Gorgon, Bulldog, and Stromboli. The splendid American liner Prince Albert, Captain Macgill, arrived from London last evening, and having embarked passengers from this port, sailed to-day for New York. The Victoria, Captain Champion, arrived here this morning from New York ; landed passengers in Garratt and Gibbons' tender, and sailed for London this evening. She left New Yorkqm the 23d April. !PLYMOUTH, MAY 23. The orders for the departure of Admiral Corry's fleet at 4 o'clock this morning hare been countermanded, and the ships will not leave until after her Majesty's birth day, to-morrow. It is stated that they will go to Lisbon. WOOLWICH, MAY 23. APPOINTMENTS. Captain Hon. Charles G. J. B. Elliot (1841) to com mand the Sybille, 40, commissioned this day at Devon port. Lieutenants.—Edward W. Turnour (1843), at present studying steam at Woolwich Dockyard, and to be exa mined as to his knowledge of the working of marine steam engines during the present week, to the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steamship, at Devonport ; Augustus I. Kingston (1848), Allen Bathurst (1850), and Henry W. Comber (1846), to the St. Jean d'Acre ; James E. Bickford (1848) and Frederick Park (1853) to the Brisk, 14, screw steam sloop, at Devonport. Masters.—Henry G. Raynes (1841) to the St. Jean d'Acre ; George H. Blakey (1849) to the Brisk. Surgeon.—James Peters (1851) to the Vulcau steam frigate, at Portsmouth. r aymasters.—Thomas W. Parker (1819) to the St. Jean d'Acre ; John Tweedie (1850) to the Brisk ; Ben jamin J. Hooper (1849) to the Sybille. Mate.—Claude A. C. Do Crespigny (1851) to the St. Jean d'Acre. Clerks.—William H. De Carteret (1847), recently clerk in charge of the Riflemen screw steam sloop, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Geor g e N. Warren (1847), from the Ajax, 58, screw steam flag-ship at Cork, to the Brisk ; John Hay (1852) to the Collins, 14, sloop, at Sheerness. Clerk's Assistant.—F. J. P. Shapeote, to the Impreg nable, flagship at Devonport. Gunner.—James Cooke, to the St. Jean d'Acre. Boatswains.—Andrew Ogden, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Edmond Dean, to the Brisk. Carpenters.--Richard Earl, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; James Lucks, to the Brisk. Captain Buchanan has obtained three mouths' leave, from the 25th inst. actions have been limited, whilst supply is on the increare ; pale has been selling at 311103 to 321, and other sorts 301 to 311 per tun. Cod is cheaper, 331 to 331 ss, having been accepted for small parcels. Southern is little enquired for, but supply not increasing prices remain at 321 to 361 for common to fine. Sperm sells more freely, and the cur rency is firm at 901 to 921. Jleadmattcr 921 to 941. SALTPETnE.—To - clay there was . no improvement in de mand for Saltpetre, and at auction 895 bgs Calcutta were only in part sold at 26s to 27s for refraction (i to 7i per - cent. PEPPER.—TO-day little was done privately, and at nuc tion 80 bgs Penang sold at 3ad to 3id for rather dusty, being easier. INDIGO.—In Spanish little has been done, but sales at present are not pressed. Prices ar e f o r G ua t e mala are for Flores 5s 9d to 6s Od, Sobres 4s 4d to 5s Bd, Cortes 2s 10d to 4s 3d, low and lean 2s 6d to 2s 9d, and Caraccas 3s 2d to Gs per pound. . _ TALLOW.—There is a reluctance to operate in Russian on the spot, yet sales are not pressed, and the currency is fur fine Y. C. 46s 9d to 475, 1851 ditto 46s 3d to 46s 6d per cwt. For delivery in the last three months of the year large contracts have been concluded at 47s 641 to 47s 9d. Home melted only in moderato demand, and can be ob tained at 47s 3d to 47s 6d, supply being rather larger. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—TiIIs DAT. Amsterdam .... . . Ditto, three months Rotterdam .. Antwerp 25 30 Milan ................ Brussels .............. 25 3 , I Venice ...... llamburgh .. . 13 8% . Naples A Itona ................ 'Palermo 125 Paris.. Ditto. three months •. 25 32), Lishon Marseilles. .. 25 30 Oporto Bourdeaux ............ Rio Janeiro . ...... Frankfort-on• Maine .... 120 1 X, • Buenos Ayres .......... . .............. row York, 0 days' sight Vienna 10 54 Philadelphia .......... Trieste ............ •• .. 10 56 I PRICES OF BULLION, PLR OZ. Petersbui ........... 3774 'Foreign Gold 'n Bars Z 3 17 9 Madrid 51 - 441Porttigal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0 50.?.i Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 111, New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Barcelona ........ Seville ................ 'Silver in bars ...... 0 5 1 THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION. The attendance of visitors on Saturday was fully an average of previous days, the total number admitted being 4,894, of whom 4,553 were holders of season tickets, 46 excursion tickets, and 295 paid ss. each at the doors. During the day considerable activity was appa rent in the clearance of bales and boxes, the committee having issued a notice requiring the removal of packing cases, and announcing that after that day no workmen would be admitted. Many alterations were apparent in the Fine Arts Court, the position of many of the pictures having been altered, and others removed. Some of the busts have also been shifted, and more room has been obtained in the centre of the court for the convenience of the visitors who usually throng this attractive portion of the Exhibition. In the great nave a considerable extent of the northern side is Occupied by additional poplin and velvet looms. In these important branches of native industry there is a large display from the establishments of Messrs. Fry and Co., Kirby and Leech, Pim, and other principal ma nufacturers. A large stand has been erected by Messrs. Locke, of London, on which specimens of clan tartans will be exhibited. In works of art numerous accessions are perceptible, the principal of which is the largo bronze statue of the Queen, which is mounted near the entrance, looking in the direction of the western end. It repre sents her Majesty seated upon her throne, invested with all the insignia of royalty, and is admirably executed. Some valuable antique groups have been placed upon the ledges of the pedestal in the centre of the hall, and on the dais similar ornaments have been added. CENTRAL HORSE AND CARRIAGE REPOSITORY, ST. GEORGE'S -ROAD, SOUTHWARK.—Yesterday, this build iog, which has been for sonic time in progress, and is iw advanced nearly towards completion, was formally o,iened by its proprietor, Mr. R. Davis Rea, whose Piends and patrons mustered numerously in honour of tie occasion. The premises appear to be admirably adapted for their intended purpose ; the site chosen, which is adjacent to the bustling district of which the Elephant and Castle is the centre, being tile ground for merly occupied by the almshouses belonging to the Fishmongers' Company, the inmates of which arc now removed to Wandsworth. Tile building presents an im posing architectural appearance at tile corner of St. George's-road, the north front and west wing, compris ing about a fourth of the entire area, being arranged for the reception and sale of horses, carriages, and harness. On passing through the chief entrance, a long range of building on each side is visible, fitted up in a series of compartments for the stabling of horses to the number of 1(30, with all the modern appliances for ventilation and drainage. The entire area, stables included, is paved with Welsh fire brick, and is roofed over, so as to afford every advantage of light and ventilation, and the gene ral appearance, which resembles a railway station, does credit to the architect, Mr. Eyre. At the end of the building a riding school will in due time be erected, and a subscription room and registry office are among the contemplated addenda to the establishment. A hand some collation was laid out in the large room, as yet unfinished, over the entrance, to which a large party of the friends of the proprietor sat down. The healths of Mr. R. D. Rea, Mr. Eyre, the architect, and other gentlemen, were proposed and warmly responded to, and a strong interest was manifested by all present in the success of the undertaking. THE TABLE-TURNING MOVEMENT.—The new experi ment of turning tables, hats, &c., by animal magnetism, so recently imported into this country, has already be come a popular amusement. It is practised in private i and public parlours alike, and with equal facility. The simplest form of attempting the experiment is that now common in the; parlours of many respectable taverns, viz., with a hat, which s.ometimes is placed upon a tripod of inverted glass tumblerS, and at other times on the table. The operators (two in number) form the chain by joining their little fingers, and gently placing the re• inaining fingers of both hands severally upon the rim of the hat. After a few minutes the hat will become charged, and will move away from . the fingers, generally to the northward, gany, gpi„ round w .rl, and sometimes the hat will actually tors then should will be found on a small round table of maim perimeiit. rapidity t under this operation. The ex - the table to turn p.bo suite as successful ; but the opera arlolblr has been accomplished repeatedly It t our a or even six in number to cause i n many tavern public in the metropoli: and other places open to the practicability of this curious all doubt as to the of animal magnetism is at asna.epulieation of the principle '_ILIA. __ PLYMOUTH, MAY 23. By the Atrevida, Captain Sheave, which left Port Philip .on the 23d of February, we have re ceived some Melbourne papers, the latest of which is dated the 18th of February. Mr. Edward Knull, bullion broker, of Melbourne, has prepared a set of valuable tables, containing statistics of the gold fields, &c., from which the following extracts are made :- "Quantity of gold dust brought to Melbourne and Geelong. -By Government escort, 1,339,8450 z. ; by Victoria Escort Company, 821,1430 z. ; by priyate hand, 601,6480 z. " Shipments of gold from the ports of Victoria.- From Melbourne, 1,886,2170 z. sdwt. ; Geelong, 84,0200 z. 14dwt. ; Portland, 3,0390 z. 7dwt. ; Port Fairy, 1,6900 z. 7dwt. ; total, 1,974,9750 z. 13dwt. " Amount of gold dust remaining at the 31st of De cember.-In the Treasury, Melbourne, 83,6780 z. ; Vic toria Escort Company, Melbourne, 58,9820 z. ; banks, Melbourne, 380,0000 z. •, banks, Geelong, 135,0000 z. ; private hands in Melbourne and Geelong, estimate 130,0000 z. ; total, 787,6600 z. " Quantity of gold dust taken to Adelaide.-By over land escort, March to December, 1852, 228,5330 z. ; shipped from Melbourne, 17,3310 z. ; taken by private hand, 178,1600 z. ; estimated quantity taken in addition to•a,bove, 166,6870 z. ; shipped from Adelaide to London, February to December, 1852, 2t33,5640z. "Amount remaining in the banks, assay-office, and private hand at Adelaide, 299,8160 z. "Quantity of gold taken to Sydney in the year 1852. -Shipped, per Melbourne Customs' return, 280,5890 z. ; by private hand, 341,7390 z. ; estimated quantity taken in addition to the above, 100,000 oz. , quantity - held by the banks and private hands, 150,0000 z. ; total, 872,3280 z. " Quantity of gold dust taken to Van Diemen's Land in the year 1852.-Shipped, per Melbourne Customs' returns, 1,953 oz. ; taken by private hands, 140,546 oz. ; estimated quantity held by the banks and in private hands, 50,000 oz. ; shipped from Launceston, per Cus toms returns, 36,946 oz. • estimated quantity held by the banks and in private hands, 20,000 oz. ." Summary of produce during the year 1852.-173 tons 19ewt. lqr. 121 b. 30z., at 705..- 14,163,3641., exclusive of gold dust in the bands of diggers, store keepers, and others, and on the road to Melbourne and Geelong. " Amount of specie imported into Melbourne and Geelong in the year 1852.-January, 20,000/. ; April, 40,000/. ; July, 200,0001. ; August, 90,0001. ; Septem ber, 538,000/.; October, 432,000/.; November, 397,800/.; December, 150,000/. ; estimated amount by private hand, 632,2001. ; total, 2,500,0001. " Number of persona who arrived in the colony and the number which left during the year 1852.-Arrived, January, 7,494 ; February, 7,460 ; March, 5,063 ; April, 4,111 ; May, 5,631 ; June, 3,872 ; July, 4,271; August, 6,552 ; September, 15,855 ; October, 19,162 ; November, 10,947 ; December, 14,255 ; total, 104,883. Left, January, 550 ; February, 847 ; March, 1,239 ; April, 1,511 ; May, 1,629 ; Juue, 1,614 ; July, 2,383 ; August, 1,618 ; September, 1,841 ; October, 3,637 ; November, 4,287 ; December, 5,866 ; total, 27,022. Addition to population, from immigration alone, in 1852, 77,661 ; arrived overland from Sydney and Ade laide, and in vessels over those reported to the Customs, also estimated increase from births in the colony, 20,000 ; total increase, 97,661." • The Argus of the 7th of February says, in refer ence to these computations " The total amount raised from our various gold mines during the year 1852 appears to be 4,175,247 oz., which, valued at 31. 10s. an oz., shows a national income, under this item alone, of 14,163,3641. sterling. We are glad to find that there is very little discrepancy between this estimate and that published in our summary for the steam-ship Great Britain. Ours was a little higher, but Mr. Khali has avowedly made his estimates when actual data were 'wanting, upon a very moderate scale, and the real total is doubtless higher than even the annexed cal culations would show. With such mines of uncounted wealth at our command, what might we not become if our energy, our intelligence, and our public spirit were equal to our riches ?" The Argus of the 16th February states - that, from the tables compiled from official returns pub lished, the startling result was elicited, that while in Victoria an average population of 26,000, during the 15 years ending in 1850, acquired 354,765 acres for the sum of 707,1681., being at the rate of it. 19s. 10d. per acre, and 13a. 2r. 23p. per head, an average population of 22,648 in South Australia, during the same period, acquired 622,653 acres for the sum of 678,1621., being at the rate of 11. ls. 9d. per acre, and 27a. Ir. 31p. per head. It may, perhaps, be said that the lands of Vic toria were, even before the gold discovery, worth intrinsically more than those of South Australia. This, however, would be a mistake. The excellent quality of the land of South Australia, as well as the superior system of land sales, are abundantly proved by the fact, that the colony, in the last four or five months, has sent to Melbourne 4,000 tons of flour, which has uniformly realised the highest price in our market, and that we have received from Adelaide, in the past year, farm produce valued at 250,0001., or more than half of our entire imports under that head. The true explanation of the mystery is, that the Government in South Australia have invariably kept the supply of land in the market in excess of the demand, while here the process has been exactly reversed. In reply to this the Melbourne Herald of the 11th says " What is the remedy ? Let the Government put up for sale land in the largest quantities that in the aggre gate it can reasonably. expect to sell. but in lots so accommodated to the wants .of individuals, that all of moderate means may have it in their power to purchase, and the mere land jobber would find himself subdued by competition. It is no argument against such a pro ceeding that the supply offered would be dispropor tionate to the present amount of population. If land in the hands of a private individual has reached an un natural and dangerous price, this alone should be taken as an indication that the Government should be at work -it should watch the land market as the engineer watches the valves of his steam-engine ; and there is that at work now which will as surely lead to an ex plosion, if some means be not taken to avert it, as an accumulation of steam pressure will send to atoms the engine which is working with. a force it was never in tended to exercise." In the LegiAative Council, on the. Ist of Feb ruary, the motion of Mr. Fawkner was lost by 15 to 4. His motion went to repeal the order in CoUncil made at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, March 9, 1847, which put certain restrictions on the sale of waste lands. The Geelong and Mel bourne Railway Bill was read a second time at this Council. A letter from Ballarat early in February says : " In my letter to you lately I have given favourable reports of these diggings, and yet the escort returns have rather diminished than increased in amount. It is im possible to judge of the yield of Ballarat by the escort. The week before last I knew personally of more gold going privately than by escort. The near ness of Ballarat to Geelong, the safety .of the road, and the cheap and regular conveyance, make the journey so easy and available that few lucky diggers will use the escort ; and I know many who boast of never having transmitted it. On horseback you can go to Geelong from Ballarat with ease in six hours. Before the news of the nugget they Were coming up rapidly, but the rush now is immense. A new gully at Creswick's Creek, and new diggings at Wahnup, were opened last week. I am told that there are nearly a thousand at the latter place already. The price of gold has risen to 3/. Bs. 6d. ; some stores giving 3/. es." On the 6th of February three diggers, named Gough, Sulley, and Bristoe arrived in Geelong from the Ballarat diggings, bringing with them a box con taining two masses of gold, one of which actually weighed 771 b. Box., and the other 691 b. 60z., the proportion of pure gold being more than eight-ninths. They were both found at Canadian Gully, between 30 and 40 yards from the bed of the 1341 b. nugget, and within some 50 feet of the sur face. It is further stated that accounts had also been received of the finding of a 100 lb. nugget in the same golden locality. The fortunate finders of the immense nugget at Ballarat are four new corners, three of whom ar rived in the colony in August last per ship Lady Head, and the fourth came in the steam-ship Great Britain. The three first proceeded to Bendigo diggings immediately after their landing, where they remained for some two or three months, and mrde nearly 1,0001. worth of gold. They then joined the fourth person, and went to Ballarat diggings. Out of one hole in the Canadian Gully they obtained the large lump, weighing 1341 b. Boz., another weighing 51b. ,50z., and 21b. 4oz. of small gold—making altogether 1421 b. 50z.. out of one hole. They then sold their claim for 3001., and went to Melbourne: They were offered 8,0001. for the one piece. Argus says, there is no doubt that industry and perseverance will succeed at the gold fields. The diSappointed ones are the faint hearted, who go away in disgust because they can not discover gold at once, or belong to that idle and incompetent class who are ashamed or unable to dig; and do not scruple in preference to beg. A correspondent at the Ovens, on the 15th of February, gives the copy of a petition from the gold diggers to the Lieutenant-Governor, complain ing of acts of wanton injustice at the hands of the Gold Commission officials and the police force. The petitioners are alarmed at the practice adopted by several squatters, occuping Crown lands near the gold field, who seize the cattle and horses of the diggers. The latter consider themselves en titled to graze their-cattle on the land adjacent to their tents. The Ovens' River escort, which arrived at the Treasury on the sth of February, brought 11,655 ounces of gold ; and the Mount Alexander escort, same date, 6,132 ounces. The gold dispatched from the Ovens on the 15th of February was 4,4780 z. ; on the 16th 1,5000 z. were deposited for the next escort. Up to the 12th of February many persons were leaving Fryer's Creek for new, diggings discovered on the Loddon, Which were reported to be very rich, and called the Bendigo diggings, though some distance from the old diggings on that creek. From Fryer's Creek to Loddon is said to be 40 miles. On the 12th a man had arrived from the latter place with six pounds' weight of gold, the fruit of 10 days' toil. The best Van Diemen's Land flour was selling at Fryer's Creek at 41. per bag ; potatoes, 9d. per lb. ; apples, is. a dozen ; pudding raisins, is. ; and bread and meat at former quotations. Gold buyers were offering 31. 12s. 6d. In the district of Belfast, on the 31st of January, hundreds of acres of wheat were ripe for the sickle. The harvest was plentiful, but the labourers few. Though 355. an acre was the price for cutting, many and many a field would fall ere a hook could be put into it. A letter from Geelong, of the 17th February, says the bidding at the Government laud sale on the 16th was spirited, and the prices realised were as high as on any former occasion. Unseasonable weather had prevailed during the previous week. The South Australian Register, of the 7th, states that, • " Although there is at the diggings everything to in dicate gold in large quantities, none have succeeded in realising their hopes. The majority content themselves with what they can get on Chapman's hill and gully, knowing that, if a fresh place is discovered, they will stand as good a chance as those who have spent months in trying to find better ground. The quantity of gold taken to the Assay-office having, during four consecutive weeks, amounted to less than 4,000 ounces, the Gover nor has proclaimed that after the 17th of February the office will be closed." The sale of Crown lands on the 10th of February exceeded by upwards of 7801. that of any one day's sale during this or the past year. The average price was a fraction over 1/. Bs. per acre. Last sale of Burras, 1331. Dalton and Kelly, two notorious bushrangers and murderers, have been captured. The former was seeking change for notes at 11 o'clock at night at a coffeeshop, when Brice, formerly a cadet in the polio force, offered to procure it, and, instead of taking him home, led Dalton by a back road into the police station, where he was secured, with three loaded pistols, with one of which he would have shot Brice, had he not been overpowered. Large sums of money were *in his pockets, and he and his comrade would have been off on the next day by the Northumberland, had not Dalton been so cleverly and courageously captured by Brice. From the commercial intelligence of the Mel bourne Argus, February 16th, the following is extracted : " Price of gold yesterday was 31. 15s. 6d. per ounce ; English and colonial cheese, ls. 4&d. per pound ; Van Diemen's Land flour, 161. 10s. per ton ; men's navvy boots, 275. per pair ; palings, 545. per 100 ; quartering, 465. to 50s. ; Singapore cedar, a-inch wide, 64d. the running foot ; apples, 14s. 6d. per bushel ; pickles, 18s. per dozen ; onions, 6d. per pound ; black pepper, 94d. ; Liverpool salt, 51. 10s. per ton ; loaf sugar, 10d. per lb. ; colonial butter, ls. 4id. Auction sales—real pro perty, western half-acre, 308, Grote-street, 4001. ; two acres and cottage, at Mount Barker, 2001. ; section, No. 40, in the Morundee special survey, with a public house thereon, 3001. ; a plot of land at North Adelaide, with 30 feet frontage to Dunn-street, 661." Steam fares to and from Melbourne and Geelong —cabin, 20s. ; fore cabin, 12s. 6d. ; freight, 30s. per ton. The steam-ship Melbourne was expected at Port Philip on the 15th of February from Sydney. Vessels advertised for London : —The Bombay, 18th of February ; Henry Gillespie, 19th ; Bar rackpore, Syria, Florence, Beulah, Queen of Eng land, and Blackwall, 20th ; Ann Bridson, and Aberfoyle, Ist of March ; indermere, Nelson, and James Alexander, 7th ; Emigrant and Con dor, 10th ; Golden-Land, 15th ; and Clara Symes, 20th. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1853. MILITARY TROUBLES IN CUBA. THREATENED SEIZURE OF GREYTOWN. The United States mail steamer Daniel Webster, from San Juan de Nicaragua (Greytown), arrived at New Orleans on the afternoon of the 9th inst. We learn from a private telegraphic dispatch, that it was currently reported at Greytown that the State of Nicaragua would immediately take possession of the town, and abrogate the local go vernment. The same arrival brings Havannah dates of the Bth inst. Disagreements between the authorities were notorious, and more disaffection had broken out among the troops in the interior of the island. —Morning Post. CRICKET. Two riELECT ELEVENS OF THE MARYLEBONE•CLUB, WITH Two BOWLERS ON EACH SIDE. This is the usual match on the Monday in the "Derby Week," and if it does not always bring out the finest players, it not merely exhibits good play by others, but gives rise to considerable interest. On the present occa sion the elevens were selected by Mr. Kynaston, lion. secretary of the M.C.C., and the Hon. IL Grimston. The former won upon the first innings, it being a one• day match. The score stood as follows when the stumps were drawn for the day :—' EON. R. GRIIISTON'S SIDE. The Earl Strathmore, b Dakin 10 c Curtis, b Adams... f Royston, c Worcester, b Adams 7 . . Pont, ruu out 5 Hon. R. Grimstou, b Adams Lane, Esq., b Adams 0 _ . _ R. Bowles, Esq., b Adams 9 b Dakin 3 Lord Guernsey, b Dakin O. b Dakin 5 J. B. Alexander, Esq:, run out 4 not out l9 J. Tower, Esq., b Adams 3B c Curtis, b Adams ... 10 H. Murray, Esq., b Adams 3 absent, ill 9 Hicks, Esq., not out 4 not out .......... ... ... 19 Byes 3, legs 1 .. 4 byes 17, wides 3, uo balls 7 Total. Total 96 ME. KYNASTON'S SIDE. Adams,, b Royston G7 Dakin, c Murray, b Royston 0 Sullivan, Esq., b Royston R. Kynaston, Esq., c and b Royston 3 Earl Winterton, b Royston Marquis of Worcester, b Murray 2 A. llaygartb, Esq., b Murray ........ F. Bathurst, Esq., b Royston J. F. Curtis, Esq., b Murray H. Deacon, Esq., not out ... 12 Hon. J. Fienues, b Murray Byes 7, wide 1, no balls 1 9 Total 8 Mr. Kynaston's side won by four runs on the firs innings. THE GREAT 'RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN TIM UNITED STATES. A New York paper, speaking of the scene which oc curred at the dead house, after the railway accident at Norwalk, says,--" The place was literally besieged with people who had arrived from New York, New Haven, and other places, in search of friends or near relatives. Personal grief set aside every other consideration. A gentleman upon the outer edge of the closely wedged mass would cry 'Let me in to find out if my dear brother is dead.' Another would say, cannot endure it ; I must get in and know if my friend is there.' A man, stupid with grief, would totter forward, saying, 'My wife ! my wife !' while delicate ladies, heedless of the maddened rush, would maintain their places, sobbing out, "rhe bride of yesterday !—dead—dead ! Oh, that I could see her lifeless form !' During this time the officials in charge of the door performed their duty with great tenderness, but firmness. To the entreaties of For God's sake let me in,' the universal reply was, ' God assist you! I ain sorry for you ; but at this moment you cannot enter, by and by you will.' When the door was opened, what an effect was produced. The floor was strewed with dead bodies, coffins, and torn dresses, while the air was filled with shrieks, announcing the recognition of a departed father, brother, mother, sister, or child. The bodies. were not much disfigured. There were some bruised about the bead, having the wounds principally upon the left temple, and the same side of the skull. This struck us as resulting from the angular position at which the bodies touched the cars after being projected in the one fatal direction by the shock. The majority seemed to have died from slow drowning, and their coun tenances presented the true index of their feelings at the moment of the awful passage from time to eternity. The chisel of the sculptor has never caught the real de lineation of lineament and expression which could be there seen upon the faces of the lifeless human monu ments of the New Haven Railroad tragedy. One man lay with his lips slight apart, his hair literally erect, his eyes staring, his hands extended, as if in aversion of dan ger, and his retracted muscles showing his feeling of dread at being forced into the terrible gulf. Although stiff and cold. as he lay upon his back, an observer would imagine that he was still receding from the contemplation of the horrible catastrophe. Upon the Countenance of the once robust Mr. Colbach, of Richm and (Massachusetts), you could see clearly the conviction of inevitable death, and the calm steady gaze of a man familiarised with its contemplation. Mr. Colbach was a ship carpenter, just. returning to his native place. Near to the door lay the body of a gen tleman, said to be Dr. Bartlett, of Massachusetts ; it looked as if he had endeavoured to tear off his gloves, in order to attempt to free himself, but had not time to accomplish the act before he died. A beautiful child lay near to him, looking as if the cherub' had returned to earth, after the catastrophe, and lain down to sleep. Hopeless horror was pourtrayed upon the countenances of the ladies. The faces were unusually pale, even for the colour of the departed. This was in some measure owing to the stoppage of the heart's action by the tre mendous nervous contraction when the unfortunate suf ferers realised the first idea of their fate. Some who had struggled violently when cooped in the water had their faces covered with bubbles of foam, belched forth in the strong swimmer's dying agony.' The latest accounts state that endeavours were being made to raise the trucks of the cars and tender, which were bottom up. There was a report that an arm of a person could be seen at low water, and it was supposed that • there were more bodies under the trucks," THE FRENCH NAVY. The following is the report made in the name of the commission appointed to examine the bill on tbe gene ral staff-major of the navy, by Admiral Baron de Mac ka,u. It \MS presented in the sitting of the 13th inst.:---- Messieurs les Senateurs—The project of law which is presented to you, tending to modify the law of June 17, 1841, on the general staff-major of the navy (armee na vale) contains two distinct and chief dispositions for the service of the marine : it proposes : On the one hand to allow the retirement from active service of the general officers of the marine three years sooner than prescribed by the existing law,of 1841 ; And, secondly, to modify by syrnplifying them, the conditions imposed by the law of April 20, 1832, on promotions in the marine for rear-admirals to be raised to the grade of vice-admiral. Before opening the debate, the commission decided to. render you an account of the opinion it has formed on the constitutional question mooted by the project of law. The commission has devoted various sittings to resolve it. It has again carefully consulted the test of the Con stitution, and has repeatedly stopped before Art. 26, which runs as follows : " The Senate is opposed to the promulgation : "1. Of laws which should becontrary to, or an infring ment upon the Constitution, religion, morality, freedom of worship, individual liberty, equality of citizens before the law, inviolability of property, and to the principle of immutability of the magistrature ; "2. Of those which might compromise the defence of the territory." Thus, gentlemen, it might happen that a project of law might appear in accordance with tho Constitution, and which might, nevertheless, contain dispositions contrary to, and infringing upon, great principles, and most im portant questions placed under your care by the two paragraphs of the 26th article of the Constitution—in that case it would be incumbent upon the Senate to re ject the project. Behold how great is the mandate entrusted to your patriotism by the Emperor. Your vote would suffice to stop the Government if it had unwittingly been misled into a wrong path. Gentlemen, your commission only wishes to submit serious questions to you, in accordance with what its members owe to themselves, and conformable to the pro found respect they entertain for your high dignity. It declines ail forced interpretations of the terms of the Constitution, and yet it must render you an account of what presented itself to its mind, first under the form of a doubt, and soon afterwards with the character of a conviction. What do these words mean ? " The Senate is opposed to the promulgation of laws which might compromise the defence of the territory." Is it a law which would make the proposition to sub stitute for a system of defence of well-conceived fortifica tions, a new system inferior to the first ? But the land army itself, is it not the most precious-- the most efficacious element of the inviolability of the territory ? If it was proposed to you to renounce its present vigorous organisation, and which led it formerly to pro tect civilization in our own country and in Europe, to replace it by a vicious organisation which would deprive it of its tried leaders—which would weaken the princi ples of respect in all the ranks of the hierarchy, which would contain (very involuntarily, doubtless) principles in opposition to a sound military spirit, would it not be to weaken our forces for the guard of our territory ? And would it not be the duty of the Senate to reject such a project ? The navy (la marine), gentlemen also contributes powerfully to the defence of the country. During the long war of the Revolution its squadrons protected our coasts of the Ocean and of the Mediterranean. If a new war should break out, with all the new means of destruction at the disposal of all, our navy would have most important duties to perform, to contribute effi ciently to the defence of our continental and colonial territory. It would be its duty, either by the defensive or the offensive, by diversions afar off, or by operations on our coasts, to defend France from attacks meditated against her. England, it is known, calls her fleet her "wooden walls," and we call our ships our "floating citadels."" tadels. To reduce our navy would he to compromise one of our great means of defence. Your commission is profoundly convinced that such would be the result of the proposed bill. It therefore concludes, "That the Senate should oppose its promul gation." To give a suitable explanation of the motives which determined our opinion, and to establish how the pro ject of law is opposed to that so important part of the Constitution, we pass to the examination of the project itself. To Government to justify the two wave derogations to which the law of 1841 was to be subjected, made known by the expose des motifs, that it thought, as re gards the limits of age, there was an absolute necessity, a general and uniform rule, in the general staff-major of the two armies by land and sea. It also thinks 'that it is necessary in the interest of our naval power to open the ranks of the general staff major of the marine to officers who have acquired ex perience in steamers. And it points out that general officers on the retired list, or belonging to the reserve, as well as those raised to the dignity of senators, may, in virtue of the decree of January 29, 1853, be called upon in time of war to resume sea service. As regards the rules of promotion to the grade of vice -admiral, the authors of the project of law observe that the law of 1832, on promotion (Art. 14), makes it a condition on the promotion of rear-admirals to the grade of vice -admirals, that the officer should have been in command for a period of three years of a squadron of at least five ships of the line. The Government opines that it is equitable and con formable to the wants of the service to reduce by one year the period of command at sea, and moreover not to fix the number of vessels of the squadron or division in which the command shall have been exercised, so as to facilitate the accession to a higher grade. Your commission, gentlemen, has examined this pro ject of law with a care imposed upon it by the high in terest which the Senate takes in the good organisation of the navy so intimately allied to our national grandeur and the glory of our arms. The first of the dispositions of the project of law, that indicated by Article 1, having for object the reductiou of the three years' service of general officers of the navy, would be of great prejudice to the naval service, and, consequently, would be of considerable detriment to the general and essential interests of France. It is depriving oneself voluntarily of the services of general officers at the very moment when a long expe rience at sea, a skill generally recognised in the exercise of command, renders the presence of those admirals at the head of their divisions more useful than ever. 91'his question (to what age must the active service of naval commanders be limited) is not a new one. In 1841, on the occasion of the bill on the general staff, it war mooted, discussed, and judged before the two Chambers, with as much freedom as maturity, as the discussion which was opened in the Chamber of Peers on the 28th January was not closed in the Chamber of Deputies till the 28th April following. What was said in 1841, and what is repeated to-day, to limit to 62 years and to 65 the attire service of rear admirals and vice-admirals ? That conditions precisely the same should be adopted as regards the duration of active service of general officers, military as well as naval. To which Admiral Duperrd, then Minister of Marine, and Vice-Admiral Lalande, member of the Chamber of Deputies, replied successively : Admiral Duperr4 : " The duties of naval commander, though very onerous, do not demand that agility of movement, that physical exertion, which have been thought indispensible to the command of armies on land. A naval commander may direct the movements of his squadron, without being put to much bodily ex ertion. Accustomed to live on board ship, hardened by rough work at sea, he can at the age of 65 and 68 well suffice for the duties and exertions of com mand which, especially 'at sea, without great bodily exertion, demand rather precision of judgment, which is'alone required by long experience. If it is necessary to quote examples in support of this assertion, we could find in the histories of foreign navies, as well as in that of France, admirals is ho, though far exceeding the limit of age proposed, have illustrated their career by glorious successes. This is the time to quote the old axiom of every navy : Old admirals, young captains.' " Vice-Admiral Lalande : "I find that this fixation of age is the very worst condition which could be imposed upon the limit of service, because that inexorable con dition will compel, for the greater part of the time, the maintenance in service of invalided officers, or deprive the service of valuable 'men whom time has spared, and who, though aged, have preserved all their physical and moral powers. But, however, if all unite to demand this limit of age, which I find so short•sighted,.l think that it is as well to adopt the proposed bill as it has been amended by the Chamber of Peers, which has studied and discussed it with all desirable perspicuity." Eminent members of both chambers took part in that long debate, and among those who were favourable to the conditions of active service as demanded by Admiral Duperrd, we may mention a former Minister of Marine, Count d'Argout, and the two reporters, who were lis tened to with much favour in either chamber—Baron Charles Dupin and Baron de Lacrosse. Gentlemen, what it is very necessary to point out among the circumstances which occurred in 1841, and which again present themselves at the present moment, is that many enlightened men, in applauding the pro posed measure for naval commanders, saw therein, and still see therein, always a strong presumption that those conditions would be also applied to the army. In fact, before 1848 the King could, in virtue of his prerogative, maintain lieutenant-generals in active service until the age of sixty-eight years, which was generally done. So that it may be said there is a new importance to-day for maintaining the dispositions of the law of the 17th of June, 1841, in the double interest of the navy and army. What can, then, the real object be of the bill before us? Evidently it is not solely to assimilate the condition of commanders. in both services, for to obtain that result it would have been more simple to adopt the rule which ameliorates both services than that which is detrimental to them. The chief object is, and the truth must be stated openly, to accelerate promotion in the navy. Well ! let it be so. But some understanding must be come to on the subject. If it was only a question to adopt an ensemble of mea sures which, whilst respecting the tests of the laws of 1832 and 1841, would result in the more rapidpromo tion from lieutenancies to captaincies of good stailors of long service, arid distinguished captains of frigates who had given proofs, as commanders or second in command, that they deserved promotion, there would be no d;ifi eulty irk the matter. The English Admiralty showed in 1851 how questions of this nature, and' even much more difficult ones, can be resolved. But if, on the contrary, the .particular object is to accelerate the promotion of captains, and for that pur pose rear and vice-admirals are to be raised from the list three years sooner, and thus prevented from rendering to their country the most importaut and perhaps the most glorious services, then opinion becomes divided in a most marked manner, and we think we may say that men who know best what a naval life is will energetically oppose the system of the proposed bill. The report then enters at considerable length into a statistical statement of the changes in promotion in the navy deriing the last ten years, comparing it with the scale of promotion in the English navy. It then gives a list of admirals of seventy years and upwards who ren dered great services to their respective countries. The report concludes as follows : The project of law tending to modify the law of 17th of June, 1841, relative to the naval staff, submitted to the Senate, would, if adopted, be detrimefital (funeste) to the marine service both present and future. It is illegal. It is an infringement on one of the great interests placed by the Constitution under the protection of the Senate. The commission is of opinion— That the Senate should oppose its promulgation. The following is the project of law : Art. 1. Vice-admirals at the age of G 5 years accom plished, and rear-admirals at 62 years accomplished, who cease to belong to the first section of the cadre of the general-staff-major, to pass into the second. Art. 2. No one can be promoted to the grade of vice admiral without having served for two years at sea, with the rank of rear-admiral, in a squadron or naval division. Art. 3. Are maintained the dispositions of the laws of April 20, 1832, and June 17, 1841, which are not con trary to the present law. THE ARMY. A circular memorandum has been issued for the guid ance of the troops about to be encamped on Chobham common, and in other-suitable localities during the pre sent summer : " Horse Guards, May 11. "1. It having been found necessary to revise the existing regulations for the encampment of her Ma jesty's troops, the General Commanding-in-Chief has been pleased to command that the following instruc tions be prepared and promulgated for the information and guidance of the army. " 2. Although troops must be guided in the position and form of their encampments by the shape and nature of the ground, the proximity of wood and water, and, in actual warfare, by a variety of considerations which defy all rules, it is nevertheless desirable that certain definite forms of encampment should be established by authority, to be departed from in all cases whenever circumstances shall make it desirable to do so for the convenience and effi ciency of the troops. "3. The following are the principles which have mainly led to the establishment of the forms of encamp ment which are laid down in these instructions, and which should, as far as possible, govern the disposition of all camps of whatever form, viz.:— "1. That the front of the camp be made to corres pond in extent with the front occupied by the troops in line. "2. That the means of passing freely through the encampment with a large front be maintained. " 3. That the tents be disposed with a view to the greatest amount of order, cleanliness, ventilation, and salubrity. " i. That the camp be as compactly arranged as the above considerations permit. " OF INFANTRY. " 4. The ordinary mode of encamping a battalion of infantry has been in open column on the reverse flank, but with the alternate companies closed, and encamped back to back, with a wide street in the centre, as shown in plan 1. "5. The space occupied by a file is 21 inches. Thus, supposing a battalion of 850 rank and file could be brought under arms complete, its front would be :- 425 Files. 10 Captains. To which add for 1 Subaltern on the officers and co- left of the line. lours l4 Files. 2 Colours. 1 Centre Serjoant. Total 439 Files. Total 14 " But from this total (or indeed from the total rank and file actually in the field) the following deductions must be made, viz. : Rank and File. Band Pioneers ll Sick and hospital orderlies Mounted officers' batmen 90 or 45 files " Calculating five sick men per company, and one orderly to every 10 sick men, with lieutenant-colonel, two majors, and adjutant. " This would reduce the frost of a complete battalion of 850 rank and file to 394 files. " 394 files at 21 inches=229 yards 10 inches (say 230 yards). "In computing the frontage of a brigade or division, the intervals between battalions and brigades in line —viz., five yards, or six paces--will be maintained be tween the encampments of the contiguous battalions and brigades. " 6. The circular tents now used occupy a front of nearly 18 feet, and 15 men are allotted to each tent. " 7. A battalion encamped, as shown in plan No. 1. (occupying a front equal to its own line), will, under ordinary circumstances, cover ground to the rear ex tending perpendicularly to a distance of about 139 yards from the front line of tents, and a space for the parade in the front towards the quarter-guard of not much less than 80 yards in extent, being a total of about 220 yards from quarter-guard to rear-guard. The leading com pany's tents being placed on the prolongation of its front, as it stood in column after wheeling back from line, an interval is thus left between contiguous bat talions of the front of a company and six paces, whereby the free passage of troops is provided for through the lines on a large front, without traversing the actual en campments of battalions. "S. But the mode of encampment, shown in plan 1, is not always practicable, as the ground may not in every case admit of the extent or depth indicated ; on such occasions the camp must be compressed. The diminu tion of the frontage may simply be effected by diminish ing the distances between the companies, and pro portionally likewise the intervals between battalions ; and the depth of the encampment may be lessened as shown in plan 2. " The batmen and horses do not in all cases require a line, and in plan 2 they are supposed to be picketed in any convenient spot affording shade or shelter. " 9. Although the system of encampment in double streets, with a wide street in the centre (which has been used for parades of non-commissioned officers, musi cians, duties, &c,), has long prevailed, there is reason to believe that a simple encampment in open column, as shown in plan 3, each company encamping on the prolongation of its own front, may be occasionally adopted with advantage. 'tin this case the dales may be formed, as is the case in barracks, on the general parade. "Accordin g to this arrangeme n t, th e compan i es ' t en t s can be turned in any direction, so as either to place the tent doors to leeward in driving rains or cold winds, or to windward in hot seasons ; and an encampment on this plan is more expeditiously formed than that arranged on the double principle. " OF CAVALRY, "10. The cavalry has usually encamped in open co lumn of troops, but with the alternate troops closed and encamped back to back, as shown in plan 4. " In this case, as with the infantry, the leading troop should encamp on the prolongation of its own front in column in order to leave a sufficient interval between contiguous regiments, and thus admit of the free pas sage of troops through the lines. 11. The front computed for a mounted troop-horse in the ranks is one yard, and when picketed four feet, and the front and depth of encampments are computed accordingly, allowing quarter intervals in the front be tween squadrons,• and a similar distance between conti nuous regiments - in brigade. Thus the actual interval between the encampments of contiguous regiments equals the front of a troop and a half. "12. The encampment of a cavalry regiment on the war establishment of four squadrons each, of 160 horses, is shown in plan 4, 12 cavalry soldiers being the propor tion established for each tent. "13. But with the pres9nt reduced establishment of regiments this mode of encampment could not be conve niently carried out ; the front covered by a regiment oc cupying too small a space for encampment in column of troops. - "The most convenient mode therefore of encamping a regiment of cavalry of the present establishment of 271 horses will probably prove to be in column of squad rons, as shown in plan 5. " 14. Cavalry encampments do not admit of so great an amount of compression as those of infantry, as the cavalry horse must have four feet, or three feet and a-half, at least, allotted to him at the pickets ; but with a strong regiment the front may be reduced by lessening the troop or squadron distances. " OF ARTILLERY, " 15. As it is important that officers of the service generally should be acquainted with the principles ob served in the encampment of troops of other arms than their own, and with the space which they occupy when encamped, the General Commanding-in-Chief has fur ther commanded that the existing regulations for the encampment of field artillery, as established in the Royal Artillery by command of the Master-General of the Ordnance, be annexed to these instructions for the ge neral information of the army. "By command of the Right Hon. the General Com manding-in-Chief, "J. FRE ETH, Quartermaster-General. "N.B.—All the plans accompanying these instruc tions are framed upon the scale of 40 yards to an inch." It is understood that the King and Queen of Han over will proceed to England on a visit to her Majesty in the course of a fortnight. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia will also arrive in England in the course of next month. If any portion of our troops be out in camp during the visit of the Prince of Prussia, we would recommend them, for the honour of their cloth, to look to their work at field-days, for they will have a spectator whose eye is as sharp as his knowledge of detail is perfect. - - SHIPPING INTELLIGENO CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 23. c• DI P ENTERED INWARDS.—The James Shep herd, atc-I°,, Co• maica ; Sir John Rae Reid, St. Kitt's ; lombo ; Victory, Callao ; Joshua, Melbourne, &c• ; Ise liam and Ann, Belize Anna Maria Barbadoes Merrilies, Iquicpto ; Ruby, Sydney ; d a ssateride s, lins hai ; Laurel, Charente ; Susanna Elizabeth, Ibrail ; C on j. tian Charlotte, Stettin • Glommen, Frederickstadt racht, Dantzic ; Emma 'lleyen, Dantzic ; Alta, 11 .V n i i lie Ida Charlotte, Uddewalla ; Hoppet, Gothenburg; .P den, Sannesund • Garland, Stettin • Leopld Aug A c . Nantes ; Argus, 'Aarhuus ; Marianne,' Vordingbrg,;oll. tive, Malmoe ; Minerva, Uddewalla ; Loberi , dria ; Tweo Goedvrienden, _Amsterdam ; Gezin , "r r3 O gen ; Margina, Horsens; Neptune, Salouica ; Ant ,; Ross , Sydney ; Condor, Rotterdam ; Progress, :„1;,,, Twee Zusters, Worcum • Vriendshap, do . ; Gerard,- ; Carisse, 'Lucon ; Sarah , Caen ' Pillau ; Nordsten. Dantzic ; Wilhelmine, Oporto ; 0 ,1; Christine, Drobach ; Union, Cadiz and Gibraltar ; • n G o o r t i h s e , nb s i t i e rg tti ; n b ; lerlin, Stettin • Helena, Uddewalls; Ingeborg. Naksko Viasery, Worcum. G w r ; ett a a i ,. ka N n, i'b m e ;ahnVooerr Brtess,soS, tpra,,ll; utzic; yin, ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. — Th e 1:)1P-1 Konigsberg ; Resolutionen, Aalborg ; _ Fidel° , t, Video and Buenos Ayres ; North Star, e Hong g° l4 , 4 ' for CLEARED OUTWARDS, WITH CARGO.—The Itfalori St. Petersburg,h ; Falcon, Bermuda ; Fleetwing,i; no, Philip ; Geogiana, Konigsberg ; Ingram, Cadiz ; lYje cr Archangel ; Resolution, Aalborg; Forfarshir, malee and Madras ; Clara, swan River ; Mogadore ; Amaranth, Hobart Town ; Isabella, Green. LIVERPOOL, MAY 23. The New York, from Liverpool to New Yor k, spoken May 12, in lat. 50 N., long. 10 W. ~,„ Ilsll The Jane Sharp, Newport to Quebec, was sP°'—abssir' H.M.B. Grecian was spoken in the Mozambique dokss The William Badger, Liverpool to Boston, " 5 April 19, in lat. 24 N., long.i re n M r° The Rapid, Mazatlan to Plymouth, was sP °- 17, on the Equator. VESSELS SPOKEN IN WITH. 11, . The Milford Packet, Poole to Newfoundlan d ' O D lat. 48 N., long. 31 W. • 2 1, i '' The Walsingham, London to Grenada, Aprd ~, N. long. 39 W. Iye i The Nordstjernen Newcastle to New Yo r, lat. 46 N. long. 26 W. Lit. 4811' The Dettmar, Jamaica to Bremen, 13th, f 10n51 P4 The , Juverna, Payta to Liverpool, May 17; Ist. long. 8 W. Thu Agnes, Liverpool to New York, May 8, it 4 45>'' . long. 30 W. S • a t° The Isabella, of Liverpool, from Norfolk, IThi ta lat. 45 N., long. 23 W. COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD—MAY 20. f 37 i 1 , 4 Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, to 54s Od, new 35s to 528; red, old 34s to 445, n°, 611 ,11 11 ,b' 42s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 37° ; 21s to 278; malt, 55s to 56s ; chevalier, 55s to ; B 19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 30s to 35s ; white, "'" t ielt,'" boiling 38s to 418 ; dun, new, 29s to 33s ; bean s, to 348; Harrow ticks, 31s to 36s ; Mazagan, 29$ t° COLCHESTER —MAY 21. io Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white , e. 0 6 red, 38s to 44s ; barley, 34s to 38s ; oats, 18s to try . Mazagau, 30s to 33s ; middle and small 33s to ." white, 408 to 42s ; grey, 32s to 345. HADDINGTON—MAY 20. p orV The following are the prices of grain at our to-day : 18E'0 OATS• 3 6$ i j 22s I* 30 21s 7d 325 , j 209 lA' o pl i 526 qrs., 294 205 qr., IJ 144 WS, 89$ , 95 qrs., AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. 0.l 034 Average of wheat £2 6 10 D,, - 10034 Ditto of Barley 6- 1 ' Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beaus WHEAT. BARLEY. First sos Od 34s Od Second 46s 10d 31$ 8d Third 4ls Od 29s 6d Total quantity of wheat in market, barley „ oats PP beans „ IP fl PP PP KIRKCALDY— MAY 21. st' f o r ° t j o Here to-day we had a fair supply of whes t 5 f o r and a few small parcels of barley. Sales rea d y sorts, and at prices not obtainable last market dal' t o. 13 0 J Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I lid 8 51s Od I 32s 0.1 22s Od 05 "21 50s Od I 30s Od I 20 s Od I 04 42s Od I 27s 0,1 I 18 s Od 0, Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 28s Od to 291 First .. Second Third.. ° The following is the official statement of the q t be fiti of corn, &c., received in the port of London fr enl o lowing ports, from the 16th to the 21st May, b sive : I 4 A' A Colchester Harwich ~ Leigh ...., Malden__ "587 311 ET—MAY 2 1 . lie close of the m arket 1 4. 1 5 Lawson .............. ...... 15 Northumberland ..• • " "16 Riddell .................... .16 Gibson ............... I 6I Eden Main .... ••• ''l ................... • •••"'pi Belmont ................ Lambton ............. Ca550p............... Kam) ...................... West Kelloe . ...... '1 1 6 5 Whitworth ............ Clavering Tees ...... • •": . 10 23 Hartley ............... Fothergill's Aberdare .00 Myer's Stone Coal.• • • " 29 I 501 d......... • S3' • a 0 A / ...---- ---- 39 2061.---2/ 244 - 544 65 1846 83 COAL MARK. Prices of Coal per ton at t S. d.I Bate's West Hartley 16 Chester Main 15 6 Hastings Hartley 16 6 Holywell e l6 6 Hartlepool West Hartley 16 6 North Percy Hartley l6 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 Townley 14 9 Walker Primrose l4 9 Smith's West Hartley l6 6 Wallsend, Acorn Close l6 6 Bell and Brown 16 3 Gosforth 16 3 Harton l6 3 Hedley. . 16 3 Ships at market 1: ' RAILWAY SHARE .31ARKE.TS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 23. 8 0, 1 1. STOOK EXCIIANGE.—Prices lower than 01 3 4 1 P - t i c oo Caledonian, 35i 35; Chester and Holyhead , shire and Yorkshire, 804 ; Leeds Nort - hern.„, O t i b stA g i',l and North Western, 1184 ; Midland, 75g . o 'g 6 ' shire, 4. d. ; South Eastern and over, ' ; 5' 3 North Midland, 32if ; East Lancashire (fifth sh,,,'";"A Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln (61. now), It''' . • BIRMINGHAM, MAT 2 3 ' .„ 0 00 3 1:0 ; STOCK t XCHANGE.—A good amount of VIOL' At m ir advanced prices. Eastern Counties were ( I ° n° . London and North Western Eighths, at p pr op ' . shire Unions at 3a. LEEDS, MAY 2 3. n noro. i "4 O' STOCK EXCHANGE.—A dull market this cowry. 'Change. In heavy stocks little is doing. Il i ort l3 Yorkshires have been done at . York an' lands 32,4, closing at 32g. North Western 83. ►t MANCHESTER, M 1.1 . 23. ga id nro , . STOCK ExCHANGE.—The market 'has been li te It i ;eo Father lower prices, and the only sales were in r , t 6 ; ; lug. London New Eighths, 9-16 p.; Midlands, i • Northern, 1613-16. / ,CO. CO* V k , ° l , [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EPSOM AND AS*-,,..—r - o siv- la' 9, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly observe, °PP - A. co t' York Hotel. Th e R o y a l Exhibition. -iwaistocrop able, newly-invent e d, v e ry small Po wer ,, f % a r 11 0 ; pocket glass, the s i ze o f a walnut, by Ncl a if o t t i tio theycan be seen Query purposeaenvcelknow known ono on the ra nemileandoca::urse, a oc oa c log l iclee r opera-houses, country scenery, and ships a — c liag , -0 , sattallk2intog,l4miles. yachting, They are invaluable for sh o ,7 o ,lel' e lol it , and tourists. Tele t s o co s re invention in telescopes, possessing such ol_ n i e ce:, Or . ; rs— t siAn en t , ie g w en a tl n e t n i ic ui ll, : s t tr i a ,,, o sii , fo ) , powers that some, 3,i, inches, with an extra er: a o , l , i f :' she* distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's _lT'l ij g 07,110 double stars ; with the same telescope, tb rc °,o i l q. ounces, can be seen a person's countenanno 20 ,yel and a distant, other object from to They supersede every kind for the wal 6 _ siv g P tier fu , and are of larger and all sizes, with incr , r,i, woo ~ile' accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, a' i t; ta l. :,; ii; distant. an object can be clearly soon, optic'fronians, 13 littir e Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, ionciobjeet vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenscsc_,o,.. 0 , i o they are placnd before imperfect visio.p,,,,_evo,4t appears clear and distinct, the most aged, _ tri' s y; ) I becomes bright and brilliant, is broughtv. pisc°, , sO s natural, and original state. Dcafitess--'lowerfSi'ffell, The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary el l iv . , D ,i r e., ~, ..,, newly-invented instrument, for Deafnessj ~jua taof tr ii from all others, to surpass anything of the . s n e i?g e l) r been, or probably ever can be P r°ducca ) tibis i it DV ° IO same colour as the skin, it is not per e o. o l d at P! o ioek i t. deaf persons to hear distinctly at chur 12. !',D ia ,i n g . I ',. 0 e , 1 4, semblies ; the unpleasant sensation 0 5 1,,,_ 5 ± . 44 t1) 0 ;` 0 0., the ears are entirely removed ; and it _l l . T a IL 5!„,,,01 , ante that possibly could be desired. ? T ro t, ro Amists and Opticians, 39, Albeinarie-s Observe, opposite the York Hotel. --- .81RT11.5. 0 OF A SON. • 0 of f ri° _ On the 20th in3t., at Chalcot-villas, the f ife Edward Streeten, Esq. lady of Lancelot S , tl ,/ On the 21st inst., in Not tinghaiu-placc, gal hadis OF A DAUGYITER. e l►oD ei NA RRIED. On the 20th inst ., at St. Giles eatsll°oglr . . , , f p Footner, Esq., of Peckham to Sarah Su4D, p ii ° , late ` William alters Footner, ter of the li r VI: same place. f COI° 10 On the 21st inst. at the parish church o f sc hsr o too , Kent, Richard Edmonds, Esq., 01 11 Y B°_l'°os A. ° l wo' monds, Esq., of Flatcham, Sunny , to Frani, soca third daughter of James Cousens, Esq.) ° Kent. o , DIED• 411oktdot ~ion. op , On the 22d inst., at Menthani RecterY:: ' wo od , .00W' 's °unborn oil:: wife of George Lyall, jun., Eof .11t1 jo ilo "- near Reigate, and only child of the Iltiv' 4 court: rector of Merstham Surrey , 29. ..-. of ili tr eet , On the 21st iust. 'Henry J. Jenest J-4.54'13,01-0 terrace, Camberwell New-road, a nd 3 0, James's, in the 41st year of his agc• 11 ytritP I' l° ll LONDON : Printed and Published °ei by 0 01:60 ye of No. 11 2 , Strand , Printer, at Vie 010 ' . 1 „ Strand, in the Precin ct of the Sa 1663 v Middletex, Tuesday, May 24,