The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL SCHEME OF EDUCATION. I Mr. Hume and Mr. Fox. We may uow hope that we have heard the last in Parliament of this monstrous idea. But while Lord John Russell thus rejects and affronts the prejudices of more than one class of his supporters, the question remains, whether, without their aid, he can carry his measure. We feel no doubt whatever that he can only succeed in this by obtaining the aid of the Con servative party ; and whether this aid will be given is a point which will certainly require more than an hour or two's consideration. (From the Times.) It was pretty well known before yesterday that Lord John Russell did not intend to dazzle the eyes of the public with a magnificent scheme of education. Such schemes are as easily framed as castles of cards, but the sole result has hitherto been a general disap pointment, and a natural conviction in some quarters that education was an altogether hopeless and incorri gible subject. Lord John Russell has very wisely, as we think, profited by much recent experience, and dis armed opposition by adopting a merely permissive, sug gestive, and auxiliary course. That is the course which, as he showed, last night, has answered in the hands of the Committee of Council, and which has enabled it to do so much good with so little noise or offence. The education of towns is the first and foremost part of the new measure, and what Lord John Russell proposes in this instance will rather fall short of than exceed ex pectation. We have heard it alleged to be a matter of common law that every corporation might levy a rate for any reasonable purpose. Instead of this, it is now proposed that the municipal council of a town may, by a majority of two-thirds, levy a rate for the assistance of existing schools, on the sole condition that such schools so assisted shall be under the Committee of Coun cil, enjoying, of course, the pecuniary and other advan tages of that connexion. We know not what objection can be made to so fair and so moderate a proposition. The active concurrence of a large majority of the local government, and the superintendence of the State, con stitute as good security for the proper use of an educa tion rate as can well be imagined. It is a case of necessity rather than choice. Private enter prise fails to reach the masses. is apt to be proselytising, or, at least, eccentric. Any how, the people are not properly educated, and many a. r_enerous mind has reflected with pain, after the payment of a heavy police-rate, or borough-rate for the maintenance of prisons, how much further this would have gone in preventing the evils which are now to be cured at so heavy a cost. Proceeding upon the model of a municipal rate, similar provisions will be made for the case of parishes, even the very poorest, levying rates for the assistance of schools. Secular education, as it has been called, is given up, and as propagandism is equally beyond the province of the State, those children whose parents object to the religion of the schools assisted under the above provisions will be allowed to receive the general without the doctrinal instruction. On the bare mention of a rate it will occur to many minds that a rate is hardly necessary when there already exist so many splendid endowments for education. .When there is hardly a parish without a free school, and hardly a town without many such, sometimes on the mostsplendid scale, the very existence of such means, and still more their neglect and abuse, constitute in themselves insur mountable obstacles in the way of improved and extended education. Everybody of common information can recal from his local experience instances of noble endowments squandered, embezzled, and almost forgotten ; while the only remedy that now exists is even worse than the disease, being no other than the fatal process of a Chancery suit, in which the endowment is certain to disappear. Considering the discouragement and prejudice arising from such instances considering the very natural repugnance that ratepayers will ever have to pay their quotas of 51. or even 55. a year for the education of their poorer neighbours, when they already see wealthy foundations for the purpose, it is impossible to authorise a school-rate with out a corresponding measure for the better manage ment of free schools. The first thing to be done is to decide whether an abuse really exists—that is, whether there really is a case for interference. This decision is assigned to the County Courts where the in come to be dealt with is less than 331. a year, and where it is above to the Master.of the .Rolls. In order, how ever, to prevent those wasteful suits, so notorious and frequent in the annals of our jurisprudence, no such suit is to be instituted without the permission of a Committee of Council appointed for the purpose. When it is decided that the existing administration of a free school is abusive, corrupt, and inadequate—which we believe to be the case in a vast majority of instances- - then comes in the need of immediate correction and regular superintendence, matters no longer within the scope of judicial bodies. This second part is to be as signed to the only body competent to the office, viz., the above-mentioned Committee of Council, which, if not identical with that for education, would, of course, be in perfect harmony with it. Most, if not all, the free schools, and other public schools of the country, might be vastly improved by some little elementary teaching in those arts and sciences which contribute so largely to the industry and prosperity of this nation. An im provement of that kind is to be attempted under the su perintendence of the Board of Trade. _ _ - A statement of the Ministerial intentions on the sub ject of education could not *ell leave out our two an cient Universities. Everybody will ask what is to be done with the reports of the twin commissions? Lord John trusts, with what reason remains to be seen, to the spirit of self-reform awakened in the Universities, and likely to be considerably quickened by his observa tions last night. He contented himself with reca pitulating; the private recommendations of the Commis sions, a:A suggested that if the Universities wished to carry out those recommendations themselves they should have every facility Parliament could give them for the purpose ; but that if they showed no such intention, or fell short of the public expectation, Parliament would step in and deal with them in a more summary manner. The particular points specified by Lord John Russell are just those which have been strongly advocated in these columns—the concession of some voice in tha govern ment of the university to those who are actually engaged in teaching ; admission to the privileges of the university without the condition of belonging to any college ; the removal of restrictions in the election of fellowships and scholarships, the limitation of those stipends to a certain period of years r and, in general, the application of the college revenues more directly and effectually to the pur poses of instruction. If Oxford and Cambridge wish to originate schemes for the promotion of these objects, un doubtedly they can do so better than others cau do it for them. Undoubtedly they can do it with less damage to the traditional feelings , the rcligio loci, the recollections, the secret virtues, and power of the place. They know best how to reform without a positive change of identity. But their work is marked out for them. They know what they have to do, and they must do it. Otherwise, as has happened a thousand times before, strangers will come in and cut the knot which local authority is too weak, or too selfish, or too sentimental to untie. There has not for many years appeared a report which the pub lic is more prepared to accept, to back up, and to carry out, than those of the University Commissions ; and we can answer for it that they will be carried out before long, in one form or another. With Lord John Russell we should much prefer to see it done by the uni versities themselves. They are now invited and challenged to the task, and with the distinct understanding that, if if they fail, Government will hold itself bound to assume the initiative, and infroduce bills placing the universities at once and for good under a Parliamentary regintc. (Prom the Morning Herald.) ,The "Ministerial measure on education contains one of the many ingredients either of which, its was prognosti cated, would probably be fatal to it. It has, on one point boldness ; but it is at least questionable whether the move made in advance will not have to be retracted before a fortnight shall have elapsed. Lord John Russell proposes to establish by law the principle and the use of a borough educational rate. This will be a new thing, and an important thing, if adopted. But the success of the Government in this proposal is at least very problematical. We confess that, looking at the Cabinet, and seeing it composed of so many dissonant elements, we expected a measure full of compromise —a measure less decided in its character than that which was last night described by the leader of the House of Commons. But in so calcu lating we had overlooked the fact, that, amidst all the varieties which are to be found in the Cabinet, there is not in the Government one real and proper representa tive of the dissenting bodies. And thus it comes to pass that the wishes and prejudices of Mr. Baines, of Leeds, and of all who think and act with him, are wholly for gotten or disregarded in the Ministerial measure. But hence will arise this plain and immediate difficulty that the party to which we allude will be, unless we greatly mistake, unanimously and vehemently opposed to the Government measure. And the probable result is equally obvious,—that either the measure must be passed id spite of dissenting agitation, or else, that its most prominent feature will be surrendered out of defer ence to that agitation. It is true that great pains have been taken to render the enactment of an educational rate as inoffensive as possible. The assent of two-thirds of the town council must he obtained before such a rate can be granted. This will probably secure Mr. Baines and his friends in Leeds, Manchester, Bradford, &c., from any immediate visitation of this kind. The influence in the large maim facturing towns will, no doubt, suffice to prevent, for some time to come, the adoption of a rate by any such majority. But this present security will hardly satisfy them ; for if the principle be once established, its appli cation universally will only be a question of time. We cannot think that Mr. Baines' attachment to Lord John Russell and Lord Lansdowne will overcome his repug nance to any sort of a rate—in short, to any infringe ment of the " voluntary principle." Nor can we determine, at first sight, how the pro posal may be relished in the opposite quarter. Whether Churchmen will be better satisfied with the adoption of the rating principle than Dissenters, is a question whi c h cannot be answered i n a moment. The power and duty of a rate is to be given to the town councils. Of these a considerable number are under Radical and Dissenting influence. It is true, indeed, that these will be the last to make use of the power so given to them. But whether Churchmen will be well pleased to have this new power conferred on bodies which sometimes are, and which at any time may be, inimical to the Church, is a matter which will require much consideration and discussion. On the whole, we are inclined to doubt the final suc cess of the Ministerial scheme. The probabilities of opposition and of failure are greater than those of ac complishment. The Ministerial forces will be in some degree disunited on this question ; and the success of the Government must mainly depend on the support given to the . measure by the Conservative party. The most satisfactory part of Lord John's speech was —as is not unusual with him—the negative part. We mean his lordship's disclaimers, and his statements of what he did not mean to do. His lordship leaves, at least for the present, the universities untouched. This is the most decent, as well as the most prudent, course. lie disclaims, too, most warmly and energetically, all leanings towards what is called " the secular system" i.e., the system which treats the child as an intelligent animal merely, and " ignores," to use the modern phrase, the fact of his baying a soul. It is well to have 1 hie lordship's explicit and resolut e re j ection of this eliCited kmaestatious of theory — a rejection (Front the Daily News.) Disentangled from the historical and explanatory re marks of I ord John Russell, the Government proposi tion about education may be described in very few words. In the first place, it is not a plan for National Educa tion, but only a scheme for patching here, and improving there, the school systems now in operation. It is a plan that will require an additional vote of money from the taxes, and that promises in come degree to render the many local endowments of the country more available for educational purposes than heretofore but it makes no attempt to give education to every child born into a community, in which such child is sure to be either a benefit or a nuisance in proportion to his good or evil training. Following, to some extent, the view that has been put forward in these columns—in reference to local management and the adaptation of local funds to really educational uses—Lord John Russell proposes to give Town Councils the power of levying a rate in aid of volun tary school payments. The recognition of the principle of an educational rats is, perhaps, the most valuable part of the plan ; and, together with the proposition for reforming the endowed schools, gives the scheme some claim to support as an acceptable instalment of Educa tional Reform. This rate is only to be available where voluntary effort is active, and where the children them selves are enabled to contribute their "pence ;" whilst all the schools so assisted by a rate will be to some extent under the , control of the Committee of Council of Education, by having accredited masters. Thus far this is only giving to local bodies a power of self taxation in something like the same cases, and in about the same proportion, that aid was heretofore obtainable on application to the Privy Council from their fund. The rates, when raised, are to be distributed by a com mittee of ? the Town Council to schools of different de nominations, whilst in places where there is no Town Council to do this work of self-taxation and distribution —aid is to be still obtainable from the Privy Council. In other words, the towns are to be allowed to tax themselves, whilst the poor in rural places—the tenants and labourers of the squires—will be provided with schoolmasters out of the general taxation of the country; this system all the while being in no sense truly national, but merely an extension, with some improvements, of the present sectional and sectarian arrangements. The part of the scheme that proposes to deal with local charities will meet general approval. Every one will agree with Lord John Russell when he speaks of the uselessness of many local charities—such as distributing six loaves of bread at Christmas, and so on. Yet, on these now wasted gifts is frittered away a large total sum of money that may be very much better spent in giving to youth the food of learning, than to sturdy beggars the bread of idleness. Besides the sum de rivable from useless charities, no less than 312,0001. a year has been bequeathed by benevolent and pious persons for purposes of education. Again and again, for years past, has the Daily News exposed the plunder and waste of this important national fund ; and with great satisfaction, therefore, we now find at last a Minister proposing to deal with the abuse, and intending to turn to purely educational uses funds be queathed for national benefit. The Committee of the Privy Council are to be vested with power for securing the reform of these educational endowments, and they may win a large and noble share of public gratitude if they deal with the great work in a large, wise, and cou rageous spirit. - So far, then, as the partial concession to localities of power to levy a rate is concerned, and so far also as the proposition goes for reforming the educational and special charitable endowments, the Government arc en titled to distinct commendation. But how small this concession is—when compared with the greatness of the need—we only see when we compare what is to be done with what is to be left undone. We ask for industrial training for those thousands of human waifs and strays of our towns and villages, who, when left to themselves, ripen into " dangerous classes." We ask educational training for classes specially needing it, and are offered a mere extension of present defective plans—in which these thousands are ignored. We need really national instruction that shall include all— we are to get a School of Science and Art. We want realities, and are offered makeshifts and ornaments. It reminds us of the ploughmen, who, when starving for lack of bread, were advised by a Duke to try curry powder. And hereon hinges another recollection. The surplus fund of the Great Exhibition was parasiti cally voted by those who held it that a royal whim might be tickled by the establishment of a Valhalla at Ken sington. This doom of the surplus gave an excuse to Mr. Disraeli to get another large sum from the House of Commons to be devoted to the Kensington scheme— and now, when we ask for education for the people, we find this Valhalla School of Art starting up again, to be woven into any plan that Parliament may sanction as an instalment of public education. Schools for teaching every child to read and write and cypher are not to be had because the Coalition Ministry are afraid to grapple with sectarian objections ; but in offering science for those who are denied the knowledge of A B C—there is no difficulty. The outcasts may still be outcasts—but we shall see that Belgravia will get its Kensington Val halla. Good old stories are always finding new illustra tions. When the groans of a starving nation were heard through the very windows of a palace, and the wail was still, "Bread, bread, or we die," "If they can't get bread," said a pitying Princess, " why don't they live on pound cakes ?" So will some say of Lord John Russell's Educational speech. The wail is for the bread of learning, for those utterly destitute—for mental food to lift our Pariahs into the ranks of intelligent men, and Lord John says, " Let them thrive on science and art at Marlborough-house." Science and art are both admirable things—but what we want first is National Education. Give all the children in the land the weapons of learning, and you will have men of Science and of Art springing, more abundant than ever, from the ranks, just as Brindley, Arkwright, Fara day, Hogarth, sprung without the aid of Royal Com missions, In speaking of those advocates for National Education who see in the sectarian element the one great difficulty blocking the road of progress, Lord John Russell did not behave quite fairly. They are advocates of Education because they know it to be the help and mainstay of mo rality and of religious purity and elevation. They merely demand, for the sake of society, and of the individuals composing it, that every child should be rescued from ignorance. The tolerant men who would educate all are the best friends of morals and of true faith. And with this protest we may repeat that the Government scheme can be only accepted as an instalment which we verily believe might have been much better worth taking had we bad in this matter to deal only with Lord John Rus sell, and not with a Coalition Whig-Peelite Cabinet. (From the Morning Post.) Those who looked for, from Lord John Russell, in the matter of education, as was expected from Mr. Disraeli in the matter of finance, a revision of the entire system in existence, and the substitution of something new and untried on a large scale in lieu of all that he finds estab lished and in actual activity, will doubtless receive with disappointment and dissatisfaction the statement of the policy and scheme of the Government made last night by the noble lord in the House of Commons. But those who feel as we do—that whatever may be the faults, the deficiencies, or the shortcomings of the modes of educa tion now in operation, they not only contain within them a sound principle, and the germ, capable of exten sion and maturity, of a noble system of the best and highest influences, but that they actually have, during the period of their experiment, sensibly and materially advanced the education of the intellect and of the heart of the people—will rejoice with us that the noble lord and the Government have not yielded to the temptation of creating a sensation, and have wisely determined to extend, instead of destroying, and to limit their attempts, in the first instance, to rendering better - and more avail able to the general public the machinery which they find at work. So far as we are informed upon them at present, we see no objection to Lord John's propositions, which are exclusively financial in their character for the extension of education to increased numbers of the working classes. It is true that what is offered are rather facilities than positive and absolute provisions, but in this country, where the greater portion of the funds for education are derived from the exertions of religious societies or pri vate companies and individuals, it would scarcely be possible to adopt any of those continental modes of a more compulsory character, which have been so much insisted upon by many of our own writers on the sub ject, without interfering very prejudiciously, if not de structively, with the principle of our existing educational policy, and with the spirit which animates those by whom its vitality is supported and its activity maintained. As will be seen by our Parliamentary report, Lord John simply proposes, by the bill which he is to lay upon the table of the house, to give, in the case of corporate towns, a power of imposing an educational rate to mu nicipal councils, in instances where not less than two thirds of them are agreed upon the policy of such a mea sure ; and in the case of agricultural districts and popu lations not under municipal government, he proposes, through the medium of the Committee of Privy Council, the distribution of a grant of money of so much per head for each child attending the schools of respective denominations as in each instance may be deemed re quisite. As regards the government, the management, and the inspection of schools, the arrangements now in force remain unaltered, and the position of the Church in respect to each of them undergoes no change. There will scarcely, we imagine, be tny difference of opinion as to the expediency of the course adopted by Lord John in keeping, at all events out of this bill, any provisions affecting either of these matters, and he will probably be supported by the greater weight of public opinion in his resolve not to attempt, looking to the present and actual condition of the educational institutions of the kingdom, to combine, in one school and under one schoolmaster, the teaching and training of families of differing religious persuasions. I - The most defective part of tho noble lord's speech, and which, we confess, we heard with much disap pointment, was his review of the present condition of our institutions for the education of the people, and of the means at hand for its extension. It was unques tionably meagre and deficient, and we were surprised that he should have confined himself exclusively to the consideration of the provisions for educating the highest and the lowest classes of society, omitting alto gether any reference to what it appears to us are not a whit less imp or t an t, an d w hi c h are assuredly the most defective, a ! nd the .paest. of all, viz., those available for the education of their children, to the far mer and the tradesman, and to what are generally de scribed as the middle classes. There is no part of the population of England so ill supplied with schools and with teachers as these, and there is no part of the popu lation whose sound religious education and intellectual advancement is of higher importance to the ultimate progress of the country, and to the lasting security of its institutions. We believe that the children of these, and of the artisan or working class of a certain degree, might be educated in combination in the schools under the superintendence of the Committee of Privy Coun cil, to the material benefit of both socially, to the great advantage of the community, as well as to the sensible lightening of the burden on the funds applicable for educational purposes. The noble lord, to our sur prise too, entirely omitted to make any reference to our workhouse schools, which, beyond question, have a part, and that no inconsiderable one, in the training and bringing up of the children of the labouring classes, and which, alth oug h limited at present to actual paupers, might, we are satisfied, be made beneficially available to a very general extent for the education of the general body of the poor. In the wide field of discussion and legislation which was thus barely entered on by the Government last night, so much remains to be developed that we shall content ourselves with directing attention thus generally to a few of the points of importance upon which Lord John touched, or omitted to touch, and shall, as the work proceeds, apply ourselves vigilantly and actively, from time to time, to the task of, discussing with more of particularity, the various aspects and bearings of this important object. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1853, THE CITY ADDRESS TO LOUIS NAPOLEON. (From the Times.) The Lord Chief Justice of England is not much accus tomed to turn his attention to foreign affairs, but he is as good a judge as any man of what is due to the public feeling and the political usages of this country, and with out all the formalities of a trial be has passed a severe but just sentence and reproof on the persons who have lately made themselves conspicuous by volunteering a declaration of peace and amity to the head of the French nation. Between the derision attached to Sir James Duke's self-constituted embassy and the "unqualified disgust" which Lord Ellenborough thinks the whole proceeding calculated to excite, this deputation has un dergone every variety of ridicule and censure. But Lord Campbell goes further. He pronounces the act of pre senting political addresses to foreign Sovereigns by pri vate British subjects, professing to bear a public charac ter abroad, to be positively illegal, and he pointed out last night insthe House of Lords with great force the ob vious inconvenience and impropriety of thus usurping the functions of the constituted authorities of the realm and the legal representative of the Crown. There can be no doubt that all acts of a public character abroad, which are -done by . individuals whose real position and powers foreign States have no means of ascer taining, are liable to great abuse. The authority of this deputation was entirely usurped. They were ambassadors without credentials and repre sentatives without constituents, for even the persons who had been duped into signing the declaration were left entirely in the dark as to the ulterior scheme of presenting that document to Louis Napoleon at the Tuileries. The Secretary of Sta-e for Foreign Affairs had certainly found nothing to condemn in the declara tion when it was shown to him, for, as we observed the other day, the language employed by its authors was such that there is scarcely a man in England who might not have adopted it. But, when Lord Clarendon was asked to instruct her Majesty's ambassador in Paris to give the sanction of his presence to the deputation, this request was most properly refused. The whole proceed ing had, to use the mildest term, an unauthorised char acter, and it is open to all the suspicions and remarks which are naturally excited by the conduct of men who intrude themselves into matters with which they are very imperfectly acquainted. Mr. Smith O'Brien's trea sonable excursion to the Hotel de Ville in 1848 with the green flag of Erin was certainly not a precedent to be followed. And the mission of Lord Roden and Lord Cavan to Tuscany last autumn, though it had nothing of a political character, being altogether suggested by religious motives, might so far have served as a lesson that the Grand Duke of Tuscany refused to accept any address or remonstrance, conveyed to a foreign court by such' means. But, whether the object of these demonstrations be factious or meritorious, the principle is equally mischievous, since they all assume to carry with them the weight of the public opinion of England by means over which the British public have no control. Lord Malmesbury, of course, approves the thing. He was naturally in Paris, and ' probably at the Tuileries, to welcome the deputation, and to note with satisfaction that there are a dozen Englishmen as obsequious as himself to this new Power. But, if Lord Malmesbury had inquired a little further, he would probably have been able to trace the original conception of this declaration to the French Government itself. Several months ago it was undoubtedly men tioned as a desirable measure by a well-known member of the present Administration of the Empire, and various means were taken by the persons employed to get up the declaration in order to avo id th a t publicity M ich would at once have defeated the scheme. We do not cast any aspersion beyond that of levity and careless ness on the persons who were led to sign this docu ment without knowing what use was to be made of it. But, although many respectable names are to be met with in the list, it is not to be denied that the chief movers in this business are gen tlemen verylargelyinterested in French railroads and other undertakings known on the Bourse of Paris ' • and, in spite ,of Lo r d C am pb e ll' s inge nuous disavowal of such an intention, It is equally clear that this demonstration was calculated to affect the price of certain securities, and especially to obtain for its au thors a share of those favours to capitalists in which the French Government is extremely munificent. Suppose Mr. Hudson, at the height of his ephemeral glory, to have united political power with his railway royalty, and we might have seen deputations of the same disinte rested character flocking from all parts of Europe. But, if they had come, we know what we should have thought of them ; and, to do the continental nations justice in this matter, the traders of the city of London have set them an example of servile obsequiousness not at all likely4to be followed. It has sometimes been said by those who would depre ciate the character and spirit of a great commercial coun try, that mercantile pursuits have a tendency to lower the tone of public feeling and morality, to smother independence, and even to sacrifice freedom to the acquisition of wealth. We Certainly do not entertain so low an opinion of the principles and conduct of our own countrymen, and we are confident that the pro portion of those who would sacrifice the self-respect of Englishmen for such objects is as small as it is con temptible. But to that small minority we must impute the scheme which has given rise to these obsevations, and it is . to be hoped that the censure pissed on them, both in the House of Lords and by the chief organs of public opinion, will not be without effect. They are told by the Lord Chief Justice that they have done that which is illegal, by arrogating to themselves the right of ad dressing a foreign ruler in the name of the people of England ; and it is certain they have exercised that right without discrimination and without dignity. If it goes forth to the world without contradiction that any num ber of citizens of London may frame addresses to foreign States, without even the check of publicity, and that Sir James Duke and Mr. Powles are, with such credentials as these, to exhibit themselves at courts and banquets as emissaries of this nation, or even of this metropolis, our relations with the continent will become absolutely bur lesque, and the Ward of Portsoken will supersede the Court of St. James. The international communications of States and countries can only be safely and prudently carried on through the legitimate channel. No other is entitled to credit beyond the four seas ; and if the people of England were to desire other Ministers or statesmen to represent them in their relations with foreign countries they would probably not select these gentlemen, who have turned their Easter holidays to account with more amusement and advantage to themselves than credit to their country. DAMAGE BY STORM.—The West of England was visit ed on Thursday night last with a tremendous storm; several places suffered considerably from its violence. The wind for some time blew a perfect hurricane, and the rain fell in torrents. At Dorchester a large brick building, used at the railway station as an engine -house, was entirely destroyed, burying the engines in the ruins, and causing considerable damage. Fortunately, how ever, there was no person in the building at the time of the accident. At Starcross, a station on the South Devon Railway, and about eight miles from Exeter, a truck was set in motion by the force of the wind, and carried on in the same way to Exeter, where its arrival was anticipated by a telegraphic message. The mail train, which was due about the same time, was detained in consequence about half an hour, and the mails were taken on by a special train from Exeter. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—It appears from the country papers that the emigration mania continues un abated, more especially in the west, where whole dis tricts are turning out. A letter from Galway, published in the Telegraph, states that the city of Galway, and the towns throughout the west, were filled with lame and impotent creatures, who had not the means to join in the exodus. A letter from Gort states that one long street there, formerly inhabited by thriving tradesmen and ar tisans, is now "like a high road between walls, not a person to be found in the tottering and tenantless houses —all dead, or in America." The same letter states that the " farmers who remain find the greatest difficulty in procuring hands." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.—The Rev. Michael Conway, Roman Catholic curate, of Cahirconlish, encountered a terrible death on Thursday night, near that village, where he fell, it is supposed, upon the spikes of a gate, and was impaled by the neck, until the police patrol came up and extricated him, but the immortal spirit had been forced from its earthly tenement before their arrival at the fatal spot. The account in town is that the rev. gentleman was suddenly called out on a very urgent sick message, and, in his anxiety to- respond to the summons, neglected ordinary precaution, striving in a dark stormy night to make his way to the bedside of a dying parishioner by the shortest route, and against all obstacles. With this view, struggling to surmount an iron gate, he sunk exhausted upon the spikes, and there expired.—Limerick Chronicle. DEATH OF THE SULTAN OF BORNEO.—The China Mail, of Feb. 10, states, on the authority of its Labuan cor respondent, that the Sultan of Borneo, who had been ailing for a length of time, has at length p a id th e d e b t of natur e , an d i s succeeded by Pangeran Moumein, who had long acted as prime minister. The legitimate heir is thus put aside ; but as Moumein is very popular, it is most probable that peace will be maintained in Brunai during Wlifctime. Cbtrb lZbitton, CHELTENHAM RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKE. Justice Valentine FREE HANDICAP. Harriott Nom de Guerre Twelve ran. Won easy. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCOV. CROXTON PARK MEETING. The first race on the card for to-morrow is for the Croxton Park Plate, the entries for which, although they closed last night, have not yet come to hand. The second race will be for the Belvoir Castle Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 80 added ; over the mile course. Ethelbert is not expected to put in an appear ance, or he would have won for a certainty. In his absence GRAPESHOT will be first, and Lord Chesterfield's colt by the Emperor out of Beg,una second. The Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, for two-years-old (half a mile), will be contested by Con tender, The Marquis of Sevi gn d, Li tt l e Ki tty, and the colt by the Hero, dam by Touchstone out of Pet. Marsyas, I believe, stops at home ; and Nightshade, it is said, is to be reserved for Epsom. LITTLE KITTY, according to my view of the matter, ought to be No. 1. The Cup of 50 sovs. in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., &c. (two miles), ob tained twenty-four nominations, ten of whom figure on the acceptance list. The race at the finish will be con fined, in my opinion, to Harp, Caurire, and Gla,diole ; and as the running of the last named is much superior to that of the others, I shall look no further for the winner, but expect to see Lord Wilton on GLADIOLE in the premier position. The Farmers' Handicap Plate, which closes this even ing, brings the meeting to a conclusion. CHELTENHAM GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.—A tolerable field will go to the post for this stake to-morrow, consisting of the following :—Peter Simple, Sir Peter Laurie, Valnhope, Miss Mowbray, Duurton, Oscar, Maurice Daley, Friendless, and Dearest Mae. The starting of Leporello and Gulnare is very dubious. Oscar seems to be the fancy horse, and he or old Sir Peter ought to win. The Hurdle Race looks very like a certainty for Tom Gurney. I have already given my opinion of the probable destiny of the Great Metropolitan and City and Subur ban Handicaps. I shall enter in full particulars con cerning the whole meeting to-morrow. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. TATTERSALL'S—Morn)Ay. Subscribers mustered numerously ; but during the greater part of the afternoon the winding up of the Nor thampton accounts was the principle feature of business. Some City movements in the morning prepared the way for Ireland's Eye to be brought very prominently into notice in the betting on the Metropolitan Handicap. At one time, indeed, he threatened to p ass S nowdon Dunhill, and take close quarters with the leading favou rite, 7 to 1 was, however, the laying price at the close. Contentment had many warm supporters, and their eager ness to "get on" at 2 to 1 caused the odds to be quickly reduced to 100 to 60 (taken). Peggy slightly improved, 15 to 1 being 'taken to about 2001. ; 1,000 to 40 taken about Terpischore. Lampedo and Deerhound were not mentioned. Longbow was repeatedly backed at 3 to 1 and 5 to 2 for the City and Suburban, and Ethelbert at 4to 1. The other quotations relative to this event were booked only to small sums. THE DERBY.—West Australian and Orestes were firm ; 14 to 1 and 12 to 1 taken about the Reiver ; 13 to 1 to 1001. about Cineas, but the bet was scarcely booked, when his old opponent offered to lay 14 to 1. Honey wood was backed for upwards of 1,0001., at 15 to 1. 30 to 1 taken to various sums about Contentment. Closing prices : METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 10 to 6 agst Contentment (taken.) 13 to 2 agst Snowdon Dunhill (taken). 7to 1 agst Ireland's Eye (taken). 15 to 1 agst Peggy (taken). 15 to 1 agst Pug Orrock (offered). 20 to 1 agst Wedding-day filly (taken). 20 to 1 agst Gadabout (taken and offered). 25 to 1 agst Terpsichore (taken and offered). Redmond O'Hanlon was struck out yesterday at 9.30 a.m. CITY AND SUBURBAN. sto 2 agst Longbow (taken and offered). 4to 1 agst Ethelbert (taken). 7to 1 agst Pancake (taken). 10 to 1 agst Jouvance (taken). 12 to 1 agst Allegro (15 to 1 also laid). 20 to 1 agst Evadne (taken). TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 300 to 100 agst The Reiver, Filbert, and Barbatus. CHESTER CUP. 33 to 1 agst Little Jack (taken). 50 to 1 agst Peggy (taken). DERBY. 9to 1 agst West Australian (taken). 12 to 1 agst Orestes (taken to 1001.). 12 to 1 agst Reiver (taken). 13 to 1 agst Cineas (taken to 1001.) 15 to 1 agst Honeywood (taken). 30 to 1 agst Contentment (taken). 30 to 1 agst The Queen colt (taken). DERBY-1854. 20 to 1 agst Ruby (taken to 1501.) Thursday being the Metropolitan Day, the groom will be closed, but it will be opened on Saturday, for the set tlement of the Epsom accounts. CROXTON PARK. ARRIVALS.—Harp, Remunerator, Jack in the Corner, Gladiole, The Monk, Humphrey, Smuggler, Bill, Mar quis of Sevign4, The Heriot, Contender, Hero colt, Little Kitty, Begum colt, Grapeshot, and Canine. CHELTENHAM. ARRIVALS.—Peter Simple, Sir Peter Laurie, Vain hope, Bourton, Miss Mowbray, Oscar, Shinrone, Maurice Daley, Leporello, Friendless, Dearest Mae, Gulnare, Non-Such, Bullfincher, Harriott, Gaylad, Tom Gurney, Thurgarton, The Unknown, and Diana. Trust-me-not, and several others, for stakes which closed last night. EPSOM. A new stake, called the Grand Stand Plate Steeple chase, of 50 sous., has been added to the programme. The entries are to be made to-day. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE-APRIL 4. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Stad Dordrecht, from Dor dt City of London, Dunkirk ; Lion, Harlingen ; Menai, Calais ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Magnet, Harlingen ; Dal phine, St. Michael's ; Pendennis, Seville ; Concordia, Rotterdam ; Giraffe, do. ; Clio, Lisbon ; Lion, Grave lines ; Lionne, do. ; Forfarshire, Whampoa ; Visitor; Lisbon ; Marie Constance, Caen ; Marquis of Bute, Cha rante ; Joseph, Guernsey ; Silure, St. Übes ; Melona, Guernsey ; Renovatio, Aveiro ; Railroad or Railway, Terceira ; Julia, Guernsey ; Two Friends, do. ; Corsair, do. ; Douglas. do. ; Aliwal, Greenwich; Rover, Bayonne ; Sarah King, Mogadore ; Edward an d J ames , St. Mi c h ae l' s ; Fortuna, Calais ; Neptune, Gravelines ; Elizabeth, Dieppe ; Stratford, Mauritius ; Fanny, St. Michael's ; Do Jonge Peltor, Groningen ; Galatia, Guernsey ; Enterprise, Cher bourg Carl, Odessa ; Mary Ann, Guernsey ; Hazard, do. ; Marshall, do. ; Neptune, do. ; Gipsy Queen, Mauri tius ; Candidate, Barbadoes ; Spheroid, St. Vincent ; Staverner, Odessa • Hall, Mogadore ; U ran i a , P or t- au - Prince ; Beacon, Charente ; Lassone, Galatz ; Brilliant, Mogadore ; Gustav, Seville • New Orleans, Port Philip ; Lucy, Trinidad ; Duchess Of Leinster, Quayaquil ; Car lotta, Argum ' • Wear, Galatz • James Chadwick, Guern sey ; Hannah, do. ; Vetrunia, bolombo ; Royer, Bombay ; Walsington, Cadiz ; Manuel et Celene, Marans ; L ou i sa , St. Vincent ; Rhine, Hamburgh ; British Merchant, Salaatrona ' • Meroine, Algoa Bay ; Menai, N a nt es; Ger trude, Amsterdam ; Crimla, Buenos Ayres. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The City of Lon don, for Dunkirk ; Concordia, Rotterdam ; Menai, Calais ; Cores, Rotterdam ; Rambler, Rouen ; Quee n o f Britain, Trinidad; Florencia, Bilboa ; Gipsy Queen, Sydney; Heroine, Algoa Bay ; Louise, St. Vincent ; Spheroid, St. Vincent ; Ravensbourne, Antwerp ; Stadt Dordrecht, Dordt ; Caroline, Guayaquil ; Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope ; Swift, Jersey; Santos Secundo, Oporto ; Fyenoord, Rotterdam ; Land o' Cakes, Hong Kong and C a nt on ; Countess of Seafield, Shanghai ; Seine, Boulogne ; Cal cutta, Boston. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Alida , for Rouen ; Caroline, Hamburgh • Ceres, St. John's ; uis, San Francisco ; Rambler, Rouen ; Martin, Dantzie ; Virginia, Naples ; Georgic. Maylath, Venice ; Ariel, Launceston • Plantagenet, Sydney ; Fortunate, St. L uc i a ; Garland, Stettin ; Cornelia, Memel ' • Moultan, Geelong ; City of Boulogne, Boulo g ne ; Ocean, Havre. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Lucy, Trinidad to London, March 11, lat. 42 N., long. 31 W. The Lucia, for Llanelly, March 17, lat. 46 N., long. 24 W. The Intrepid,' Cork to New York, March 16, lat. 46 N., long. 28 W. The Rudolph, bound E., March 12, lat. 41 N., long. 43 W. The Constitution, Liverpool to New York, March 21, lat. 50 N., long. 21 W. The Choice, from Liverpool, Feb. 14, lat. 4 N., long 21 W. The Shand, Calcutta to London, Feb. 21, lat. 10 N., long. 33 W. The Macedon, London to Adelaido, South Australia, Nov. 18, lat. 35 S., long. 11 W. The Auriger, London to Port Phillip, Nov. 26, lat. 33 S., long. 48 E. The James Lumsden, Liverpool to Moulmein, Jan. 14, long. 91 E. THE RAJAH OF SABAwJx•"Among the passengers who went out in the steamer Bengal, which left South ampton yesterday with the Overland India Mail, was his Excellency Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. It was from Southampton that Sir James first started for 0 10 eastern seas about 10 yeas 5i1190. BANE RETURNS. (Front the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and. Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day of March, 1853 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover=-Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemraitt and Pomfret 10,925 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman 4,249 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 24,985 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke-- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham- •Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Rridgnortli and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bath City Bank, Bath— G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire.- EL 24,273 9,889 15,788 85,125 10,970 13,878 23,459 10,288 7,170 56,620 13,238 5,046 31,775 1G,305 22,04 70,344 34,083 24,632 3,178. 34,817 33,424 A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and C 0.... Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Earminag— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury —Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris 12,391 64,865 26,945 11,474 1,768 16,773 39,218 31,860 and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry —Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard--- 1 -Robins, Fos ter, and Co 101,964 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co 49,601 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead. ---Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-- Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich an Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank; Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and C 0.... Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Ce Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle- 19,759 3,117 16,150 31,165 46,775 7,043 20,119 73,742 9,110 11,934 41,074 28,164 9,653 10,622 66,699 78,044 9,475 44,580 43,975 27,665 . 19,604 6,47 5,155 5,677 8,119 24,685 30,835 15,988 21,955 18,270 40,888 4,982 ... 23,601 35,315 .. 21,088 ~. 20,389 59,233 13,936 26,364 8,995 19,685 42,392 8,571 5,291 55,601 36,842 25,429 30,483 11,390 82,116 14,426 ton and Ciadock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Co. - Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Roi's and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. . ~ New Sarum Bank, Sarum--Everett and C 0.... Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co. Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and C 0.... Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and C 0... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. .................. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters.. Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,221 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 11,220 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 10,318 Rye Ba►, Rye—R, C, Pomfret ind C0y..., 12,567 10,795 . 37,657 • 11,158 10,447 27,706 31,934 5,614 4,321 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross —Prich ards and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Gibsons and Co. Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Scarbor )ugh Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and # Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co. Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Co.. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton - Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons 9, 89 Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co Wallingford Bank, Wallingford —Hedges, Wells, and Co, Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— K. Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontef rac t Bank, Wakefield— Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton B an k, Win chesterßulpett and Co Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester - -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe— P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Good ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co., Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart , and Co York Bank, York-- Swann, Clough, and Co 14,278 63,389 10,176 11,298 36,772 10,737 44,737 JOINT-STOCK BANKS Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Ifradford. Commercial Banking Company, Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent 55,310 Cheiterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield 10,300 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington 35,157 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Cora pony, Cheltenham,,,. 9,368 Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 16,865 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and. West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 37, 608 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 23,228 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 146,723 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,005 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,720 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,099 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 14,023 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 43,905 Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,968 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,705 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,745 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 22,170 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 67,128 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 49,235 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 9,748 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,285 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 33,093 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham 27,325 Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle upon-Tyne National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 388,930 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 45,121 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 66,447 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton 3, 0514 p North ars,s a n S e j o c u e t s h t e rs Wales hire Ban, Ea k nk i L n i g v e r pool Company, 10,955 9,480 49,277 9,141 31,782 19,186 Leicester ............ ............................ •• • 47,608 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,122 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 36005 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford 52,329 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang. port 351,882 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 46,038 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge 56,930 Sheffield and llallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ......................................... . Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 52,213 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Storey and Thomas Banking Company, 5hafte5bury........................................ bury........................................ . Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 36,077 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake -12,157 field Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 25,595 V Leamington Banking Company, N h t a Warwick ehv and e n Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 81,931 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 71,231 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield 33,564 Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3,278 Worcester City and. Cbunty Banking Com. pany, Worcester .................................... 4,384 York "Union Banking Company, York ......... 69 , 8 75 York City and County Banking Company, 92 , 018 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leed5............ 125, 758 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, March 19, 1853. BEmEaCkHeEltwSillTobWEe received communi cation we areabout Mßs. to pro found concern by m il l i ons of our fellow men. Tl , steamer which h as j ust arrived from New York b r i ngs T he with the distressing intelligence, in a private letter from a member of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's family, that she had been seized with sudden and serious illness, just a few days before she was to have started for this country. Bid for this unexpected event, the autho ress of Uncle Tones Cabin, would have reached our shores before the end of the present week. We have not learned the nature nor the particulars of Mrs. Stowe's illness, but simply that her friends were in a state of much anxiety as to the result. The next arrival from the United States will be looked for with the deepest anxiety. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills a Certain Cure for Eruptions and all Diseases of the Skin. —Extract of a letter from Mr. J. Hird, draper, Keady, dated Feb. 14, 1852, to Professor Holloway :—" Sir, — My child, when three months old, was afflicted with a severe eruption all over her body. I sought every aid and the advice of surgeons and physicians, by all of whom the case was considered hopeless. I then tried your Ointment and Pills, and without exaggeration the effect was miraculous, for in a short time she was restored to perfect health, and so remains. Mr. Bowden, book seller, Gainsborough, an d myse lf, w ould be happy to satisfy any inquiries as to the truth of this statement." Sold by all druggists ; and at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 214, Strand, London. 6,953 3,906 ... 31,411 11,355 14,265 2,633 1,713 6,370 14,193 28,679 12,911 25,520 46,604 21,452 16,623 45,842 62,086 9,825 3,524 25,828 12,478 27,832 11,018 33,829 8,092 7,343 4,370 29,357 15,252 22,295 38,939 1,992 13,558 13,534 3,780 410 10,770 28,201 23,228 22,348 11,395 7,165 10,475 11,588 13,229 9,540 COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER —APRIL Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, rod, 40s to 50s ; barley, 34 s t o 3 3s ; oats, Mazagan, 30s to 32s ; middle and small, white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 30s to 325. white, 48s to 563 ; 17s to 243 ; beans, 32s to 388 ; peas, CHELMSFORD —APRIL 1. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, old 40s Od to 58s Od, new 33 s t o 53 5; re d , old 36s to 48s, new 31s to 45s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 37s ; grinding, 21s to 27s ; malt, 55s to 56s ; chevalier, 55s to 58s ; oats, 19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 30s to 35s ; white, 32s to 348; boiling 33s to 41s ; chin, new, 29s to 3.3 s ; beans, tick, 320 to 34s ; H arrow ti c k s, 31 s to 36s ; Mazagan, 29s to 325. The following is the official statement of the quantities of corn, &c., received in the port of London from the fol lowing ports, from the 28th March to the 2d April, both inclusive : Colchester Harwich Leigh Malden 53 91 , 65 338 ~i Fi 1 ' g g ff. 15 1 16 42 170 r - - BIRKCALDY--- APRIL 2. The following are the quotations for grain : Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. I First Second 20s 6d Os Od I Third 4 os Od 28s Od I 17s Oct Os Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 29s Od to 30s Od. COAL MARKET—Aram 4. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market : - d• . Bate's West Hartle 6. d. i s. y...... 16 0 Tyne Main .... ........... -15 0 Hartlepool West Hartley 16 3,Willington Hartley l5 6 Hedley's Hartley l5 6 Wylam 17 0 Holywell Howard's West Hartley Northumberlan l6 6 Netherton 15 6 Eden Main .................19 0 , Longridge's W. Hartley 16 3 Hetton 2O 0 North Percy Hartley ...16 0 Stewart's. 2O 0 Redheugh Main 15 0 Whitwell l7 Stewart's Hartley 15 6 St. Helen's Tees 16 ! Tanfield Moor l5 0 Birchg,rove Graigola 22 •‘; Tanfield Moo r Butes 15 o Nixon Merthyr s& Cardiff 22 u Ships at market...... 47 I Sold 37. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull, btli quotations for what was done w ere fi rm an d s t ea d y. C a l e . donian, 313 ; Eastern Counties, 12 15-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 758 ; London and North Western, 174 C. ; Midland, 74 ; South Eastern and Dover, 221 ; York; Newcastle and Berwick, 17 5-16 ; York and North land, 29k. MANCJIESTER, APRIL 4. STOCK ExcHANGE.—Business was unusually dull, but there was no change in values. Sheffield, 50h ; Leeds, 75; Dover, 228 ; Midland, 73g. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of birrr ntss done in this market to-day, but prices were lower. London and North Westerns were done at 118 i. LEEDS, APRIL 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market this morning manifested no symptom of recovery from the prevailing dulness of the past few days. The transactions have been few at former rates—Lancashire and Yorkshires only hibiting a trifling advance of ss, and closing at 75. Ens' Lancasliires were done at 9s. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-mic a by the night—and 111 by the morning—dispatch.] Day when m ade up From what Witcn COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port due in Office, London.* Dispatched. Eoglall o . ------ America(byllrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ... Each 3 1 ° ° ' America (by United Sts. • - packet) ..........N sfarch 30 ........ Liverpool... Arrived America (by U. States packet) N April 5 Southampton pril 8 Australia (via South ampton) ... lli 4th of May Southampton April 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) N dth of May ...... Dover . . April 1 Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ...... •• • ...N 2d of April 30 Plymouth . Alexandria.. e Africa xa i ( d 4 r V i a e s . t . . C . o . as . N N 8 23rd , 2 o 4 f , t & he 3 m o o o l t t m th. DkloYvmer..!t!. . April 19 pril 1 ) 1exandria..........M 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton April 4 Bahamas ..... ......M 2nd of the month S outhamptOn Ist of Ma l 9th of ...... . Dover Daily the month.. South ampton Aprd 16 IBrazil 3 11 l e g n i o ulln sAy ' rr . e — s : II :1 9th of the month.. Southampton April Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .. April P.O Cape of Good Hope .. N 2 n 4 o f Apr. 1.... Plymouth .. march: Cape de Verds .. • ...N 14th of th e month Plymouth • April 26 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon .... ... ••• • . N 14th of the month Plymouth .. April 2 6 Channel Isles ....N Mon „Wed ,& d. Southampto n l' u. T n• ° d, — , Chili. ... ........ „141 & 17th of month Southampton April 1 China (see India) Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,21,&27 of in Dover March 3 0 ' Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th of mon Southampton April 4 ~d Cont. of Europe 5.1 & N Twice daily Dover ...... nvicedaw Egypt (see India) Gibraltar —3l -1, 7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Southampt on A pr il 5 France 31 & N Twice dai1y...... Dov er ...... T w i ce da Greece (see India) G re yt o ,, 2nd & 17th of mon. 4outbampton April Tuesday & Friday London ..... rues. 2nd of the month S ou th ampton .April Lips I f a a v i• n a b n u n r a g h h Holland .... M Wednesday & Sat L ondon ..... Mon.l°- Honduras ..........M 17th of the month Aouthampt oil Apr il t 6 India (viaSouthampt.):4l 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton tpril 4 India (via Marseilles)sl Bth& 21th of month Dover .• Aprd 1 lonian isles (see India) Ireland & N Twice daily Holyhead ... fw )coda° Li 'bon .. Madeira of the month ioutham April 1° Madeira 2 3rd of the montl• Plymouth.. April 1 2 Malta (see India) Malta ....N 7,17,19,28, 30 ofm. Dover March 29' Mauritius (see India) Mauritius 14th of the month Plymouth .. 4pril 28_, Mexico..... —lll Ind of the m on th . Southampton Ist of Mu' I Naples.. ........N sthlsth2sthofmon Dover April 2 I New Granada 2d & 17th of mouth Southampton Apra I . New Z ea l an d., By private ship .. Various port UncerW 1 Papal States ........N ithlsth2sthofmon. Dover April 2 Peninsula 51 7 tll l 7th2Btholmon Southampton April 5 Peru —lll Id & iBth of mon :outhampton 4pril 1 Port Natal 14th of the month ilyinoutk April 26 Sicily • • sthl • th2sthoimon, Dover April 2 Tuscany..... 5 thlsth2sthofmoti. Dover „ April 2 Venezuela 2d & 17th of month Southampton April I Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) . . West Indies 2d & 17th of month Southamptm. April 1 •, * When any of these dates fall on a staiday, the mails 'w.ll dispatche t on the following day, with the exception of the India ( 5 _," Southampton), and the M a lt a , b o th o f which will be dispatched t.l° day preceding. MORE THAN BARGAINED FOR. — Collins, the ferrym 3l/ at Horsham, on the Teme, near Martley, while in pill, suit of a moorh en , a f ew d ays since, with a gun, on ti " bank of a brook joining the river Teme, near the abov e village, observed a small break in the surface of t t l-1 , 4 ' water, and insta n tly p l ac i ng the gun to his shoulder, "- fired, as he thought, at the moorhen. To his great stir' prise, however, instead of killing the bird, a large otte r ' weighing 221b5., made his appearance with a 13 4 1 1 111bs. weight, in his mouth. The shot proved so fat as to kill the amphibious animal, and sever , the hea d —Between from the body of its victim the pike.— Worces% .7 - e and two forth, and a in was brewing occupation_ _ INCENDIARY FIRE IN ESSEX. o'clock on Thursday morning who fire brewing at the a was m is the r. s s ta m ck it - h y . ard on a e t o ß flfa e mh el i e es i s g mb h uenr fa s, rm t , time perceived themessenget Mld for • The n assistance. n ine belonging to the Essex and Suffolk Equitable engine was soon on the spot ; but before the flareee, were extinguished, two straw stacks of between 40 and was at once despatched to a, o 50 loads ; one wheat stack, 50 quarters ; part o f a W I stack, of four or five tons ; a quantity of turnips an; carrots, and a portion of the implements, were des toyed' the loss of which is covered by insurance in the Esses and Suffolk Equitable, We are sorry to add that it 10 feared the fire owes its origin to the fiendish hand of th e midnight incendiary. [AnvEuTisEmENT.]—Deafness—New Discovery.-3• q ) Albemarle-street, Piccadilly y observe, opp os it e th e Pori' Hotel. The organic vibrator, an extraordinary power' ful, small, newly-invented instrument, for deaf ness , en' tirely diff erent from all others to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced' being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church all, at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singir,b, noises in th e ears are entirely removed ; and it afford s all the assistance that possibly could be desired. Th e Royal Exhibition valuable newly-invented, ve rf powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut! to discern minute objects at a distance of from four to five miles, which is found to be invaluable, for yachtiogY and to sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele: scopes, possessing such extraordinary po wer , that son?! 3i inches, w ith an extra eye piece, will s h ow distinctly Jupitec's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double star's' for They supersede every other kind, and are of all s iz es star's' the waistcoat pocket, shooting, military purposes, ttc Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful poweri m inute object can be clearly se en , from 10 to 12 miles di s tant. Invaluable newly-i nvente d spectac l e. — S . an d 13' Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle street! Piccadilly, observe, opposite the York Hotel. BIRTHS. OF A BON. On the 31st ult., at Chippenham, Lady Methuen. On the Ist inst., at 14, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-par l4 the wife of Thomas Jones, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the Ist inst., the wife of C. J. Kempe, Esq., Cana l ' bury-square, Islington. _.... MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Patriot Johnston, Esq., of Edinburgh, to Mary, daughter of tli late Lieutenant-Colonel South, of Southlands, Heavitre°' Exeter. On the 2d inst., at St. Margaret's, Westminster, lir„t' Lewis Waiter Williams, of Walbrook-buildings, Walbroo", solicitor, to Jane Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Willie''' . Taylor, of the Home-office, Whitehall. DIED. At the Rectory, Great Horksley, the Rev. Dairid 1 115fic. ham, canon of Windsor. On the Ist inst., at Bromley, Middlesex, aged 28, r 1 Jane, wife of W. J. Coffey, Esq. —OO LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUI of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 11 - 0. i i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count/ Middlesex, Tuesday, April 5,1553. 9,842 8,428 23,462 4,008 47,512 13,970 20,969 6,883 14,320 36,001 38,256 7,427 12,890 7;593