The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

A iSST ZE INTELLIMICE. WESTERN CIRCIIIT—BoDmiN, MARCH 24 CROWN COURT. Jarie Sampson was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, at Illogon, on the 2d of February last. Mr. Collier was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. H. T. Cole defended the prisoner. In this case it appeared that the prisoner was a young girl living with her parents at !Illogon, in this county. Some time, at the end of January, it was observed that she was'with child, and on the night of the Ist Feb. last she was taken in labour ; a neighbour was called in to assist, and a midwife sent for, when she was con fined of a full-grown child. She was very weak and ill, and the child, after being washed, dressed, and fed, was placed at the foot of the bed on a pillow. The next day it was fed and attended to, and seemed a fine healthy child. The mother, however, was still weak and faint, and the child was again placed at the foot of the bed on a pillow. Later in the day the parent and child were shifted to another bed in the same room, the child being still placed at the foot of the bed. The mother of the girl and her sisters, one of whom was married, attended to her, and, with a neighbour, were frequently - in and out of her room during the day. The child was seen quite well at 5 o'clock, but soon after 6 o'clock one of the sisters went into the room to put hot flannels to the pri soner's feet, when she discovered that the child was dead. The midwife was sent for, and she examined the child, when she found a red mark on the throat at the lower part of the windwipe. This induced inquiries, and a surgeon was sent for, who gave it as his opinion that the death had been calmed by strangulation, and the imputation on the prisoner was, that she had caused the death of the:child by pressure on the windpipe. On cross-ex....ruination of the mother and nurse it was elicited that the prisoner had provided some clothes for the baby, and that she stated that the father had pro mised to give her money to buy more. The mother, who appeared to be a respectable woman, with a large family, and an infant in her arms, gave her evidence with great propriety, and excited much sympathy. _ _ _ As the material evidence in the ease was that of the surgeon, we give it at length : Henry Harris--I am a surgeon at Redruth—On the evening of the 2d of February I was sent for at about seven o'clock, and saw the prisoner and a child. The child was dead. It was dressed, and had a cap on. The child appeared to be a full grown well formed child. There was a bruise or mark about an inch and a quarter in length transversely across the throat. It was livid. There were no other marks on the child. On the follow ing day I made a post mortena examination. The lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and bowels, were healthy ; the stomach full of food. Beneath the marks on the throat I found it rather reddish and inflamed, which would have been, caused by external pressure or violence. lam of opinion the 'death was occasioned by pressure on the windpipe, which prevented respiration. I believe the cap was tied when I saw the child. They are generally tied higher up. If the cap had been tied tightly it • might have produced a mark, but the mark I saw was below the place where generally a cap would be tied, I cannot say positively whether it would have produced such a mark. Cross -examined—I can conceive many things that I have not seen, and therefore I am not prepared to say that this mark might not have been occasioned by the tie of the cap. The knot would make a mark, but I don't know where this knot was. lam not prepared to swear that such a mark might not have been so occa sioned. The death appeared to have been caused by suffocation or stopping of the breathing. There are many cases of children being found dead in bed by their mothers' sides from different causes ; anything that would prevent air coming to the child, or anything being on its mouth, would prevent its breathing. That might happen without the mother's knowing anything about it, especially if the mother were asleep, and the death would take place very quietly. The prisoner was very weak and languid, and very feeble indeed, more so than I have ever seen in many even with a first child. Newly born children have no muscular power in the neck ; if the child's head fell back over a pillow it would remain so. The little shirt the child wore was tied at the neck ; a tie from one thing is as likely to make a bruise as a tie from another. The case for the prosecution having been closed, Mr. Justice Erie addressed the jury, saying that the matter they were engaged in was one of the greatest im portance both to the prisoner and the public, and must be decided by the jury, and he did not mean to take it out of their hands, but to ask them whether, upon the whole of the evidence adduced for the prosecution, they thought it necessary for the learned counsel for the pri soner to go into the defence. The charge before them was one of wilful murder, and they were to be satisfied that the child came to its death by an act of unlawful violence, and that the prisoner was the person who did the act. Upon Mr. Harris's evidence, he had given an account that there was a mark upon the neck, and he believed that the death was occasioned by the stoppage of the breath by pressure upon the windpipe ; but the question still remained in doubt as to whether the tie of the cap or the shirt might not have done it. Mr. Harris was rather inclined to the opinion that it was not pro bable that it was done by either of those means, but it was by no means a positive and decisive opinion that it could not have been so done. If that stood on reason able doubt, the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of that doubt. Even supposing the mark on the neck not to be occasioned by the tie, but by unlawful means, still there would be the question whether, upon the evidence, they could come to a firm, decisive, abiding opinion that the prisoner was guilty of this offence. They had heard the statements of the extreme debility and weakness of the prisoner, and that persons were in and out of the room, all acting with uniform motives of humanity, try ing to give her relief accordin g to their means, and the state of the priso ner seeme d to be one that would call for a good deal of proof to show that she raised herself up in the bed and extended her hand, and - applied her finger to the windpipe of the child, and kept it there till the child was dead. It was not his intention to withdraw the case from their consideration if they liked the case heard fully out. If so, no time could be too much on such an important inquiry ; 'but this was the affirmative case for the prosecution, and if they thought it not suffi cient, they would say so by their verdict of not guilty ; but if they wished the case to go further, the learned counsel for the prisoner would proceed with the defence. The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty. CONDITION OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR. The reports of the state of Feargus O'Connor, from the asylum of Dr. Tuke, show conclusively that there is no prospect of his restoration. His restless life— misapplied as we think, though well applied as his admirers think has exhausted his mental powers, and the decay of his body may be expected to follow that of his mind. We have never been admirers of Feargus O'Connor. If he were honest, he was miserably defi cient in judgment and unfit to guide other. His schemes were wild delusions, his promises merely made dupes, and his policy was to set class against class, to divert men from real to imaginary remedies, while he was ever the bitterest foe of those who laboured for the accomplishment of measures which have made this country secure and pros perous. We do not judge his motives but his acts. Yet it is right to infer a man's intentions from the means he employs, and to say that if the one be bad, the other ,can hardly be good. We are, therefore, very far from being prepared to join in the language of admiration and eulogy in which Mr. Ernest Jones gives an account of a recent visit to O'Connor. We pity the condition to which the man is reduced, but that is a matter quite apart from our opinion of his character and conduct. Mr. Ernest Jones describes the failure of Mr. O'Connor's intellect as a, terrible change. He was requested by Dr. Tuke to speak to Mr. O'Connor on the old subject that had been accustomed to create in him the strongest ex citement, such as the Chartist movement, the Land Com pany, the Northern Star, &c. He found Mr. O'Connor perfectly harmless, and playing with a littl e c hild o f D r. Tuke. He immediately recognised Mr. Jones, and showed great pleasure at seeing him. In person, he is stouter, b'ut a gradual paralysis is stealing over the frame, show ing itself in disinclination to exertion, and the dim and clouded eye indicates the decay of intellect. Mr. O'Connor's account of his habits is, that he rises at nine and goes to bed at ten ; that he is treated as one of the family, and spends his time at billiards, in playing with the children, arranging books, &c. He told Mr. Jones that he knew he was . in a lunatic asylum, but he was under no restraint, and all the people were mad there but himself. He could go away if he chose, and did not know why he did not. Reference being made to the Chartist s , h e as k e d, " How are you going on ?" and sung his old stave of " The lion of freedom," asking with exultation— " Do you know how I thrashed the blue lambs in Not tingham market -place ?" He knew that the Northern Star was dead, an d ejaculated " How I was robbed ?" He spoke with great indignation of the allottees in b his lana d sche ut me, an o hashers w h om he thought he had efrinde, bwh and he expressed great a bec p ome his bitt eres t enemies ; prehensi on o f see i ng his sister, or being given up to her care by the Court Such is the present condition of the man of Chancery. who a few years ago bad such Power over the masses he fostered Sand of the population, whose prejudices flattered, and whom he beguiled from the path of ratio oenferthgye without nal improvement to spend money and stint upon wild dreams. The histo agitation, under the guidance of .O'Connor, is one of the most humiliating passages in our national annals. TWENTY MURDERS.—The following appears in t h e Courrier de Marseille of Saturday :—" Some persons who have just arrived from Toulon inform us that a hor rible discovery had been made by the police of the town. For some time past the public rumour signalised a house, occupied by an agent for finding substitutes for the army, as the theatre of a series of atrocious dramas. Minute researches having been made, about twenty corpses, buried in the cellars of the house, were found. It ap pears that the victims were successively assassinated, and that the death of the first took place several years ago. The confessions of a woman in her last moments laced, we are asmred, justice on the trace of the crimes. The victims, according to the same person, were mili tary substitutes received by the Conseils de Revision ; and the man murdered them in order not to have to pay the price of their enrolment." FOREIGN MAILS now arrive at the General Post-office at almost all hours of the night. As soon as news of their approach to London reaches the General Post-office i irm the outports, by electric telegraph, a staff of clerks ferBl2l.r.l•by messengers, and the mail is got ready foreign By this arrangement the whole of the the i rails are delivered in London and dispatched by " l ung mails, instead of being left behind, as was - often the case when th o e for mer did not arrive in London before fo ur or five o'clock in the morning by the regular night mails. INSTITUTION- CF CIVIL ENGINEERS. MARCH 15 AND 22.—Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., vice-president, in the chair. Both evenings were entirely devoted to the discussion of Mr. D. K. Clark's paper "On Locomotive Boilers." The proceedings were com menced by an explanation of the diagrams exhibited, and by reference to examples from the experience of Pam bour, and other experimentalists, in corroboration of the views propounded in the paper. The author's deduc tions were admitted as to the practical identity of fire box and tube surface, for evaporating action, and as to the constancy of the evaporative efficiency of fuel ; whether by radiant or communicated heat, or both toge ther, or whether the draught was mild or strong. It was considered that heat was specific and certain in its effects. Such expedients as " mid-feathers," &c., which were resorted to for specially increasing the fire-box sur face, were condemned, as they were considered to be no better than tubes, whilst practically they were incon venient and costly ; as, among other reasons, plates of 7-16ths or 4 an inch in thickness were employed to do the work of the tubes, which were less than ith of an inch in thickness. A:practical rule, followed by some engineers, and stated to be founded on extensive experience, was to allow five feet of heating surface for 1 foot of water evaporated per hour, and 100 feet of evaporating surface per square foot of grate. Those results were found to agree with the maximum rates re commended in the paper. It was also argued that the intensity of combustion materially affected the amount of heating surface n ecessary for economical evaporation, being less as the intensity was greater. It was, on the other hand contended that the formula, as stated in the paper, would not apply to all engines, and the table of actual results was given, showing the performance of various engines, several of which exhibited a greater and others a less evaporation of water, and consumption of coke, per square foot of grate surface per hour, than the for mula would have given. It was further argued that, from various causes, no formula could be framed to be of service, unless all the circumstances, in each case, were properly taken into account. As an example of the ob jections to long tubes, the results were given of the work done by a luggage engine, on the London and North- WeStern Railway, before and after alteration. That engine originally had tubes 14 feet long, with a total surface of upwards of 800 feet ; the length of the tubes was diminished to 4 feet 9 inches, and the total surface was reduced to about 500 feet, when it was found, that a saving in fuel of 40 per cent. per ton per mile moved, was produced, with a saving of 23 per cent. per mile run ; the coke used, per ton per mile, with long tubes, before alteration, being '5041b., and with the short tubes . 2981 b. The back pressure was contended to be a serious drawback to the long tube engine, and an ex ample was given of a trial of a single engine, on the new plan, against two of the ordinary kind, with a load of 170 tons, in both cases, and although the single engine was 43 per cent. less powerful than the two engines put together, and had2o per cent, less heating surface, yet it had performed the same distance of 111 miles, in ten minutes less time, and with 31b. per mile less fuel. This, it was argued, was owing to the engine exerting a greater dynamic force by being relieved from the back pressure of the blast pipe, which in the case of the other two was applied to force the fire, and to draw the heated air through the long tubes. By the moffe of placing the tube plate some distance within the cylindrical part of the boiler, the tubes were not liable to be choked with cinders, or the draught to be obstructed. This plan also afforded an opportunity of reducing the size of the tubes from 11 inch diameter to 1/ inch, giving, in the same boiler, an equal area of flue passage, whilst, at the same time, the proportion of tube heating surface was increased 34 per cent. per foot of length of tube, and a very large addition of flame surface was gained. It was further argued, that although the evaporation of water per lb. of fuel was the test of the boiler, yet, up to this time, few, if any, experiments could be implicitly relied upon, owing to the quantities being estimated by measurement, instead of by weight, and without due regard to the variation of the temperature of the water in the tender. As to the evaporative powers of marine boilers, as compared with that of the best locomotive boilers, if an investigation was instituted, it would be found, that the general features of the best tubular marine boilers, now used in ocean navigation, were nearly iden tical with those of locomotive boilers, but the circum stances under which they were used were very different. In the marine boilers, coal was used instead of coke, and the natural draught of the chimney, instead of the urging of the blast-pipe, in a locomotive; salt water was also used, instead of fresh, and a pressure of about 121bs. or 141b5., instead of from 60 lbs. to 80 lbs. on the square inch. Although lightness and compactness were im portant properties in marine boilers, they were less so than in locomotives, and the former were frequently worked for many weeks or months consecutively, with out the means of stopping for any extensive repair, or even to be cleaned except at long intervals. Under these circumstances, marine boilers required to be worked less intensely, and the water and flue spaces must of ne cessity be larger, to prevent their being choked up. The following statement showed the comparative proportions and effect of the two descriptions of boilers : In the Locomotive Boiler. In the Marine Boilers. 1 square foot of firegrate con- 1 square foot of firegrate con sumed about 1121bs. of coke sumed about 201bs. of coal per hour. per hour. 1 square foot of firegrate re- 1 square foot of firegrate re quired about 85 square feet quired about 30 square feet of of firebox and tube surface. fire-place and tube surface. 1 square foot of firegrate with 1 square foot of firegrate with the above surface, would the above surface would evaporate I,ooBlbs. of water evaporate 1701bs. of water per hour. per hour. 1 square foot of flue surface 1 square foot of flue surface would evaporate 11 . 71b5. of would evaporate 5.661b5. of water per hour. water per hour. Ilb. of coke would evaporate 1 lb. of coal would evaporate 91bs. of water. 8 . 51b5. of water. IH.P. of 33,0001b5. lifted 1 IH. P. of 33,0001b5. lifted 1 foot high per minute, re- foot high per minute, re quired about 4lbs. of coke quired about 4.251b5. of per hour. coal per hour. From this statement it appeared that, although the pro portion between the fire grate and the flue surfaces was widely different, the quantity of water evaporated, and the power obtained, by the consumption of a given weight of fuel, were nearly the same, when allowance was made for the difference in the evaporative power of coal and coke. After explaining the table of working results, &c., it was contended that in no case did the formula accord entirely with the practical results re corded in the table ; the nearest approximation being that of the Rocket. It had been found in the altered goods-engine, that certain practical inconveniences arose from the horizontal transverse water tubes, and two or three mid-feathers had now been substiuted for' them. It had been found that intense combustion was liable to cause the formation of clinkers in the small fire-box, but which did not occur in the new engine. When the drivers first took out the new engine, being unaccustomed to its peculiar action, they kept thin fires, and drew too much air through the fuel, which was wasted, by raising steam too freely ; latterly the fires had been kept thicker, and the combustion had b een s l ower, w hil st t h e supply of steam had been fully equal to all demands upon the engine, which, it should be recollected, had been built expressly for conveying heavy loads at high speeds, and whose performances, under these circumstances, were con tended to have been among the best recorded results of the present day. To set at rest all questions as to duty performed, it was proposed to institute a set of experi ments, or trials, with certain loads at given speeds ; the tests to be "consumption of coke per ton per mile, and time of performance." The results to be communicated to the institution. The possible maximum evaporative power of 11b. of carbon was deduced from the results of chemical experiments, showing that 11b. of carbon, con verted into carbonic acid, developed 14,000 units of heat, or would raise 14,0001b5. of water through I°, which was equivalent to the conversion of 121bs. of water at 60°, into steam of 1201bs. The formula was shown to be derived directly from the tabulated results ; it was a mere em bodiment of results, and represented no theory. It was explained that the formula referred to the economical evaporative power of boilers, and that it was in no way designed to limit the unconditional evaporative power ; that a boiler might raise less or more steam than the quantity assigned by the formula, but in the latter case only by a partial sacrifice of the fuel. In the compara tive trials of the Crewe engines and the new engines with enlarged fire-box, it was shown that, looking simply to the boilers, the Crewe boilers raised a greater total quan tity of water per hour, and more water, per foot of grate, per hour than the new boiler, with greater economy, in the ratio of 81 lbs. per hour of coke by the Crewe boiler to 7/ lbs. by the new boiler. It was explained, with re spect to the greater time lost by the Crewe engines on the trial, that the defect lay, not in the boilers, but in, the exposed position and unprotected state of the cylin ders, by which steam was condensed, and in the too large size of the chimneys, which should have been only 12 inches instead of 15 inches diameter, and in the blast pipe, which was carried too far into the chimney. The formula, being applied to the new boiler, indicated that it could not economically evaporate above 120 cubic feet of water per hour; and the correctness of this indication was confirmed by the result of eighteen expe riments by Mr. Marshall, as they showed that, though 150 feet of water per hour had been evaporated, it was at a sacrifice of one-fourth of the fuel, as only nibs. were evaporated per pound of coke. With respect to the rapidity with which the new form of boiler could get up the steam, and which was attributed to the free draught, it was shown that the Rocket, the first tube-boiler en gine ever made, got up the steam in less time than the new boiler. The benefit of the removal of the tube-ends it; the new boiler, from the direct action of the fire, was considered to be more than balanced by the liability of the lower part of the combustion-chamber to become over -heated and to be burned away, owing to the lodging of steam, at the junction with the fire-box. It was suggested that, in order to obtain results from the new esennclugiutmeannberdee,erfdteohe combustion-chamber should b e a b o li s h e d , t h e e f t the to otfh tubesarea. rfire-box, are b s o h l x o t should was whichfu r reduced, tshhoeuir d arguedb e and their restricted st trih ca l t et e , length i g nt t o h t hl h e6 e statement of "actual working results, &c., "the formula had ibneetnhemtiwsuoncereerw,iteeod and wrongly applied ; for instance, engines, of identical proportions, the re sults of the formula were stated as 861, 84 . 4, and 73.7, whereas the same re ginseolught to have been applied to similar 6 discrepancy was ap -11 5 and 1021. In the ex each. In No. 291 en 'A.here were several unexplained p p e a ri re m nt e , nt t s he th re e s m u s l e ts lve b s e int anomalies, and in some instances the engines, instead of working at their full power, were performing very i n adequate duty, and therefor under circumstance s to which the formula was not intended to apply. In the case of the altered goo state ds e th ng eineen, No. 125, it was urged that in its originalengine must have been either in a very inefficient condition, or that its duty must have been chiefly confined to piloting, when it would have been consuming the fuel, without p ro d ucing any useful effect; as a consumption of 51 lbs. or 58 lbs. of all per mile run, with an average train of 115 tons, was o u t alteration— . proportion, lia a Thcansatumtheplar.esonultofof3t9hiebaw.oarkinango 1 bs. working, aft er THE SUN, LONDON, 'SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1853. per mile' run, with a load of 144 tons—was not favour able as compared with the performance of a narrow gauge engine, reported on by Mr. D. Gooch, in the gauge inquiry, where, with a consumption of 47 lbs. per mile, a load of 294 tons was conveyed. Also, when com pared with the working of the Eastern Counties goods engines for the last half-year, where, with an average load exceeding 170 tons, the consumption of coke was only 32 lbs. per mile, taken over a distance of 529,000 miles. A comparison was drawn between the recent experiments, by Mr. Marshall, on the large fire-box en gine and those on the long-boiler engine, made during the gauge enquiry, the results being, with the former, a consumption of 40 lbs. per mile, with an average load of 64 tons, and with the latter a consumption of 27 lbs. per mile, with a load of nearly 60 tons. The recorded re sults of the work of the passenger trains on the Eastern Counties line, for the last half-year, showed an average consumption of coke under 18 lbs. per mile run. It was contended that hitherto no advantages had resulted from the extension of the fire-box and the reduction of the length of the tubes, still it was possible that this innova tion might, by directing attention to the subject, lead to important modifications of the structure of locomotive boilers, which should possess compactness, lightness, power of raising sufficient steam, with rapidity, for per forming the required work, strength to resist the chance of explosions, and a form calculated to dimi nish the disastrous effects of explosions, when they occurred, facility of repair, especially of the fire-box, which was the part most liable to deterioration, being most severely acted on by the fire, and also requiring more support than the tubes, the latter being, at the same time, cheaper and of thinner metal, whilst by an extension of their length the diameter of the external shell of the boiler could be diminished : the fire-grate should not be larger than would evaporate the required quantity of water in steam, within a given time, with the utmost practical economy of fuel, and if that were accomplished it was of little importance whether the evaporating heat was communicated through the fire box or by the tube surface. As to the mid-feathers, it was contended they had hitherto only served to extend the dimensions of the fire-box, and to increase the diffi culties of maintaining and repairing the boiler ; and that, up to the present time, the result of the experi ments upon the boiler with enlarged fire-box and short ened tubes exhibited rather a retrograde step than an onward progressive movement. In order to insure a fuller attendance of members than could be obtained on Easter Tuesday, the meeting was adjourned, by special resolution, until Tuesday evening, April 5, at eight o'clock, when the discussion on "Lo comotive Boilers" will be resumed, and, if time permit, a paper will be read "On Locomotive Boilers," by Mr. J. Sewell. STATISTICS OF BREWING. A Parliamentary return, ordered to be printed on the motion of Sir W. Molesworth, contains the following statistics with regard to the brewers', &c. &c., consump tion of malt in the United Kingdom :—ln England the total number of brewers last year was 2,438 ; being 2,365 in the country, and 73 in London. The total number of victuallers was 60,565 ; being 56,197 in the country, 4,368 in London, Of 39,378 persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, there were 37,028 in the country, and 2,350 in London • and of 3,348 persons licensed t o se ll b eer no t t o b e d run k on the premises, 3,287 reside in the country, and 61 only in London. 26,386 victuallers brew their own beer, butiof -these only four reside in the metropolis. 13,756 per Sons licensed in the country to sell beer to be drunk on the premises brew their own beer, and 57 in Lon don,; but of those no t li cense d t o se ll beer to be drunk on the premises, 1,011 in the country brew their own, and 3 only in London. Th e t o t a l num b er o f b us h e l s f malt consumed in the year ending October 10, 1852, by the brewers, was 19,294,330, of which 12,949,869 bushels were used in the country, and 6,344,461 bushels in Lon don: The victuallers consumed also 7,572,288 bushels, being 7,569,714 bushels in the country, and 2,574 in London. Persons licensed to sell beer (to be drunk on the premises) consumed 3,378,165 bushels, being 3,232,204 bushels in the country, and 145,961 bushels in London ; not to be drunk on the premises, 391,457 bushels, being 390,631 bushels in the country, and 826 bushels in London. In Scotland there were during the same period 142 brewers and 14,684 victuallers ; of the latter, only 178 brewed their own beer. The quantity of malt consumed by the brewers during the above year in Scotland was 979,384 bushels ; by the victuallers, 147,840 bushels. In Ireland there were 98 brew ers, and 14,714 victuallers ; and the quantity of malt consumed by the former was 1,266,344. It does not appear from the returns that any victuallers brew their own beer in Ireland, or that there are licences granted for the sale of beer alone either in that country, or in Scotland. The t o t a l number of brewers conse quently in the United Kingdom is 2,678 ; of victuallers, 89,963 ; of persons licensed to sell beer, to be drunk on the premises, 39,378 ; not to be drunk on the premises, 3,348 ; 26,564 victuallers, also 13,813 persons licensed to dell beer (to be drunk on the premises), and 1,014 (not to be drunk on the premises) brew their own beer. The total quantity of malt consumed in the United Kingdom by brewers was 21,540,058 bushels ; by vic tuallers, 7,720,128 bushels ; and by persons licensed to sell beer (to be drunk on the premises), 3,378,165 bushels ; not:to be drunk on the premises, 391,457 bushels. A BATTLE WITH A GRIZZLY.—The following exciting bear story is told by a correspondent of the Sacramento Union, writing from Diamond Springs :—" I saw yester terday, about 15 miles from this point, on the road from here to Carson's-valley, a man who had been most hor ribly mutilated by a grizzly bear. On Wednesday morning last, a man living near Sly-park-creek, on the emigrant road, while hunting, discovered a she bear with two cubs about the size of a common dog, coming up a ravine, within gun-shot of where he was standing in the road. As the bear had not discovered him, lie determined to give her a shot. The ball struck her on the back of the shoulder, but too low to prove fatal. She immediately raised herself upon her hind legs, turning herself from side to side to discover her assailant. He had commenced reloading, but before he got his powder doWn the bear discovered him. He took to a tree, and barely escaped, 'as the bear was so near that he kicked her head with his feet before he got out of reach. She was enraged, and kept him in the tree for over two hoUrs. While there he shouted for help, and succeeded in attracting the attention of some men in the employ of Bradley, Berden, and Co., who wen t to his relief ; but when they reached the tree the bear had been gone abOut ten minutes. They tracked her into a thick 'chap paral' covering about three acres, and there left her. After dinner they mustered double-barrelled guns and rifles to the number of fourteen shots, and started for the chapparal.' Upon reaching it, the' men very imprudently scattered, some venturing in to see if they could start her, while others climbed trees to be in a' place of safety and to get a view of the ground. Among those who took a tree was Char les .H. Packard, who had gone a short distance into the' bush, and, as he had no gun, placed himself in a sappling, about six inches through. The tree forked about six feet from the ground, and Parkord went up and of the branches, a distance of a b ou t 12 f ee t f rom th e ground, and in reply to one of his companions, said he considered himself safe. At this moment he cried out, Here's the bear within a rod of me ! ' but hardly got the words out of his mouth before she made towards him furiously, jumped at and caught the tree a few feet below him, and with her tremendous weight split it at the. fork, carrying man and tree both with her to the ground. He fell upon his back, and the bear seized him by the left side of the head and face, tore his left ear completely from his head, laying bare his skull. She then seized him by the ether side of the face, cutting a deep gash in the upper lip, and tearing the flesh from the right corner of the mouth to near the large artery in the neck, then by the fore-arm, laying bare the tendons, breaking some of them, and biting his right hand through and through. She then left the upper part of the body, and made an effort 'seem ingly to tear open his bowels, as she left some fifteen severe wounds on his body, but none of them so deep as to enter the cavity, and finished her horrible work by taking out about two pounds of flesh from his right 'thigh. By this time Packard was so nearly exhausted that be lay as if dead, and the bear left him. Some of the company were within twenty steps of the wounded man, but were unable to render him any as sistance. They saw the bear break down the tree, heard his cries for help, but after he struck the ground they could see neither bear nor man, so thick was the chap paral' around them. Mr. Packard was carried to the house, and, notwithstanding he is so terribly mutilated, is in a fair way to recover. The bear is said to be one of the largest kind, and in consequence of being wounded had become furious. She has not been captured." Louis BONAPARTE AND QUEEN HORTENSE.—A work called the "Album de la Reine Hortense" has just been published. It contains some of the unpublished musical compositions and private letters of her Majesty. Amongst the latter is the following addressed to her son, now the Emperor, shortly before her death :—" I send you this letter with my blessing. We shall meet again, shall we not, in a better world ? In quitting this world, I only regret you and your tender affection, in which alone I have found some charm. It will be a consolation for you, my dear son, to say how by your attention you have rendered your mother as happy as she could be. You will think of all my tenderness, and you will have courage. It is quite sure that we shall meet again. Believe in that sweet idea ; it is too consolatory not to be true." THE BONAPARTE AND WYSE FAMILIES.-With re ference to certain paragraphs which have been going the round of the public journals fer some time back, we have authority for stating the following to be a true version of the relationship existing between some of the parties alluded to. The Right Hon. T. Wyse, her Majesty's Minister at Athens, was legally separated from his wife, the Princess Letitia. Bonaparte, in the year 1828. Madame La Comtesse de Solms was born in 1831, three years after the separation. Mr. Wyse has issue by his marriage two children only, sons—Alfred Napoleon, born at Rome 1821, a nd William Charles, born at Waterford in 1826.—Dublin Express. PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL STOCK.-At a sale of farming stock, on Wednesday last, on the premises of Mr. W. Hodgkinson, at Barnby-moor (the celebrated coachin _ _ stage on the old north road), a few miles from East Ea- ford, the beasts and sheep — offered for sale realised ex traordinary prices. Fat ewes fetched 60s. to 81s. per head ; ewes and lambs, 60s. per couple ; hogs, 40s. to . each. 505 Fat bullocks realised from 171. 10s. to 221. 15s. each, making an average of fully 7s. 6d. per stone. The best agricultural horses sold for 40 guineas each. At the annual fair at Retford, on the following day, dealers were stationed at the various entrances to the town to intercept the stock brought for sale, and every thing realised uncommonly high prices. Nzw OPERA.—A new opera, by Pacini, has been brought out at the Scala, in Milan, called II Cid. It was a complete fiasco, no attempt having been made to perform it a second time. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT RISCA, MONMOUTHSHIRE. The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men and boys killed by the late colliery explosion at Risca, and on the three unfortunate men who, though surviving the dreadful burning received by them in the pit, afterwards expired, has resulted in a verdict attributing the deaths to the explosion of fire-damp, ignited by the carelessness of Thomas Davies, one of the men who died some days after the explosion. A very general impression prevailed among the col liers that the man Davies, who, aft er h e was b roug h t to the surface on the day of the terrible catastrophe had readily acknowledged that his neglect had caused the explosion, would be returned by the jury as guilty of the manslaughter of his fellow-workmen ; and this rumour having reached the ears of the suffering man as he lay in his bed, is supposed to have hastened his death. The inquest was conducted by Mr. W. Brewer, deputy coroner, and Mr. Herbert Mackworth, the Government inspector, whose experience in the coal districts of Mon mouthshire and Glamorganshire makes him thoroughly conversant with the system adopted there, and the cul pable neglect too often exhibited, by the colliers. At the opening of the inquest, some days previously to the present hearing, the statements of Thomas Davies and John Williams, two of those who were brought out alive, but had since died of their injuries, were taken from their lips as they lay on their beds. Those state ments were now read to the jury :—Davies said he and Williams were working in the same stall on the Saturday afternoon, and had been engaged in filling a train with coal. A "sheet" had been used by them at the entrance of the stall, to turn in the air where they worked ; but Williams, his comrade, had put the sheet aside for five minutes. As Davies was leaving work, having been en gaged with his naked candle only, and when he was about ten yards from the stall, the gas, which had been disturbed probably by the diverted current of air, ex ploded at his candle. The n , sa id Davies, I was suddenly knocked down, and some one came and brought me out. We were leaving our work when the gas exploded. When I left Williams he went back and shut the sheet. He never asked me to wait till I got the lamp. The fireman had told us to take care and keep the sheet up ; but I forget whether he told us that morning. We found no sulphur in the small windway the day before. We knew that if we did not keep the sheet down the gas would collect. We could not work if it was down. I was fined a short time ago for taking a candle into a dangerous place. I had seen no gas near the place where we were at work within two days before. There had been a blower in the small windway, which John Gib bon Williams tried to stop that morning. I took no notice whether the gas took my light ; it was so quick. I did not hear whether any one had a lamp near us. We had a lamp which we could have lighted if we thought it necessary, Gibbon Williams never told me to wait for a lamp. I think I was about 10 yards in front of the other men. I fell on my back when the gas knocked me down. There is a slope where I was working, but the gas fired before I got to the foot of it, and I don't recollect if I had come or got past the length of the wind-road. John William's deposition was as follows :—I was at work with Davies on Saturday afternoon. There was a sheet across, and we had filled the last train. Five or ten minutes elapsed before it was put up again. I told Davies, when he was going out, to wait till I put the gauze on the lamp, before he went out of the way. I suppose the sheet was not down above 10 minutes alto gether ; and I had just put it up 5 minutes,before the explosion happened. I cannot say if No. 6 stall door was open, but the door of my own stall was shut. I had just taken the full tram through the door into the heading. After that I went back and shut the door, and in the time of putting on my clothes the explosion hap pened. I was about 10 yards from Davies when I saw the fire. I then called to him, but he did n o t answer . I know there was gas th ere . There was a blower of gas in the windway. I had a lamp in my hand at the time, and the gauze was on it. The lamp was blown out of my hand. We were told to go out the way Davies was going. There were no men working with lamps there. There is plenty of them round that part of the pit ; but these nasty blowers collect the gas when the doors or sheets are left open. We had that place all in a blaze in a week before when there were two men working in the same place in which Davies was working, and the gas caught fire, but there was no ac cident, for that morning I took a shovel and tried to stop up the blower. We were told to keep the sheet up, but nothing about the door. It was William Hazel! and Stephen Crooke that told us to do this, for the air would then go down the lower side and keep the blower clear. I knew it was dangerous to go down to the windway with a naked lamp. I told Davies that, and bade him wait till I lighted the lamp. He was al ways first in going out, and slack in coming in the morn ing. If he had been in the pit by himself, he would have been burned to death many a time. He does not know the way to try fire properly. The surgeon of the works, Mr. Edward Robotham, stated that Davies had received a quantity of small coal and dust into the bronchial tubes, after the explosion, in addition to the injuries he had received by burning ; and having heard that he was likely to be charged with manslaughter for having caused the deaths of other people—these causes united to result in his death. The other men had died from "choke," or the noxious atmosphere caused by the explosion, and immediately succeeding it. The fireman who, on the morning of the explosion, succeeded the night fireman Hazell, stated to the jury that Ila,zell, on coming up, reported all safe and free from gas, though he did not particulary report on the east side, where the explosion afterwards occurred. Boys were placed at the heading doors, but not at the stall doors, though lie considered that men should be put to perform that work—not boys. When he went down he examined the various headings, to ascertain if the workings were free from gas. This he tested with his lamp—first with the gauze on, and then without it. He thoroughly examined into every working, and found all safe ; though in one quarter he found a " blower," or indication of gas in the roof. Throughout the day the workinge were still considered safe by him ; bat, not withstanding all the precautions which he had, as usual, adopted, an explosion took place in the afternoon, just about the time when, on Saturdays, the men ordinarily prepared to ascend from work. The mineral agent of the works, Mr. Green, described the routine of operations adopted by him, and all under him, who had the control and management of the works, for the due supply of air, the thorough ventilation of the pits, and the enforcing of strict rules with regard to the working by light of the Davy lamp. The men, how ever, when the works were found free from gas, ordi narily worked with candles, as by the former mode it would be impossible to procure an existence. Some witnesses followed, whose evidence went chiefly to point out the circumstances attendant on the explo sion, and the position, &c., in which the bodies of the dead were found. From all these men there was not the slightest difficulty in obtaining the most free admission of the fact that, although the seam of coal was a highly inflammable one, and scores of men had met their death in working it, there was still no hesitation among the colliers generally to work it, after the morning examina tion by the firemen, with their naked lights. They as generally admitted that the ventilation of the pits was as good as could be procured by machinery, and the machinery had been put up under the direction of the most experienced men,-and upon the best principles. The jury having consulfed for a short time upon the facts, which were clearly laid before them by the Deputy Coroner—namely, that the workings had been pro nounced free from gas in the morning ; that the men Davies and Williams, working together in a stall, had incautiously removed a sheet, and diverted the current of intake air, and that thereby, in a part of a working through which they were passing out with naked candles on leaving work gas had accumulated, which gas, coming into collision with the candles, had exploded, causing the deaths of all those whose lives had been destroyed—re turned a verdict in accordance therewith, and attributing the deaths of the poor fellows to the negligence of Davies, which verdict, had Davies been still living, would have amounted to manslaughter. CRIME IN SOMERSETSHIRE. At the Spring Sessions for the county of Somerset which commenced on Tuesday at Wells, the chairman Mr. W. Miles, M.P., in his charge to the grand jury said—" The longer he sat in that court, the less could he account for the cause or progress of crime. From the general ease and contentment which prevailed among all classes throughout the country, he had expected to have found the calendar decreased in point of numbers,' but such was not the case." The number of prisoners for trial are 84, of whom only two are set down as properly educated. Appended to the calendars are some very useful statistical details, showing a return of prisoners committed for trial in the county of Somerset from the year 1823 to the year 1852, both inclusive ; and also a return of prisoners committed under summary convic tions to the prisons in the county of Somerset from the year 1843 to the year 1852, both inclusive. These tables, which have been very carefully compiled, give the fol lowing total results. Prisoners committed for trial from 1823 to 1853, both inclusive : Year. Total. Year. Total. Year. Total. 1823 ... 528 ......... 1833 ... 727 1824 615 ......... 1834 ... 673 1825 ... 658 ......... 1835 682 1826 ... 576 ......... 1836 ... 773 1827 ... 787 ......... 1837 ... 821 1828 ... 641 ......... 1838 ... 652 1829 ... 714 ......... 1839 ... 627 1830 ... 673 ......... 1840 ... 816 1831 ... 682 ......... 1841 ... 697 1832 ... 796 ......... 1842 ... 766 The returns of summary convictions exhibit the fol lowing results. Total number summarily convicted and acquitted : Year. 1 otal 1843 1844 ...1,139 1845 ._ 916 1846 746 Year. Total. Year. Total. ...... 1847 ...1,028 ...... 1818 _.1,135 ...... 1849 .. 1,245 In the calendar for the present sessions it should be observed that the offences charged are all of the ordinary descriptfon usually brought before courts of quarter sessions. A FOOT RACE. —A foot hurdle race, between two of the most celebrated performers—Fenwick, of Lancaster, and Patterson, of London—came off on Monday after noon last, in the Eton Brocas. The distance was 200 yards, over 10 hurdles. The race was admirably con tested, both men taking their leaps together until they reached the eighth hurdle, which Patterson failed to clear and fell, leaving Fenwick an easy winner. The Brocas was crowded with sporting gentlemen, among I whom were Lord Ad o l p h us Fit zc l arence, an d many o f the officers in garrison at Windsor. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. WAR OFFICE-MARCH 25 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—William Bruce Arm. strong, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Flyter, de ceased, March 25. 12th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry Fullerton Rich mond, from the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Glyn, appointed to the Ist Dragoons, March 25. Scots Fusilier Guards—Brevet-Colonel and Major Henry Colvile to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet- Colonel William Thomas Knollys, who retires upon half pay, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, Unattached ; Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel George Dixon to be Major, by purchase, vice Colvile ; Brevet-Colo nel Ely Duodecimus Wigram, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Dixon ; Lieutenant and Captain J. Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrym ple, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Wigram, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant the Hon. Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Dalrymple ; James Ross Farquharson, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Coke, March 25. 7th Foot— Lieutenant Frederick John George White head, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jenner, wh o re tires ; Ensign Ramsay Wardlaw, from the 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Whitehead, March 25. 23d Foot—Lieutenant. Colonel William Pottinger, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bre vet-Colonel Arthur Wellesley Torreus, who exchanges ; Major Harry George Chester to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Pottinger, who retires ; Captain Frederick J. Phillott to be Major, by purchase, vice Chester ; First Lieutenant Robert Taylor Raynes to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Phillott ; Second Lieutenant James Carnegie to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Baynes, March 25. 31st Foot—Ensign Richard Weld Litton to be Lieuten ant, by purchase, vice Scarman, who retires, March 25. 33d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Wickham to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Parker, who retires ; Ensign William Minchin Harnett, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wickham, March 25. 44th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Caulfield Archer, from half-fay Unattached, to be Major, vice Nathan Smith Gardiner, who exchanges ' • Captain Robert Feilden to be Major, by pur c h ase , v i ce Archer, who re tires ' • Lieutenant Hon. C. W. Herbert Agar, to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Feilden ; Ensign Frederick William Gregory to have the rank of Lieutenant ; Ensign George Ingham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hon. C. W. H. Agar, Dec. 25. 52d - FOot—Ensign John Bainbrigge Story, from the 26th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stopford, promoted, March 25. 64th Foot—Ensign Alfred John Tuke to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Cotton, deceased, January 8. 70th Foot—Lieutenant John Mockler, on half pay, as Paymaster of the 82nd Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Hugh Baillie Mackenzie, who retires upon half-pay, March 25. 95th Foot—Lieutenant George Courtenay Vialls to be Captain, by purchase, vice Master, who retires, March 25; Ensign Godfrey Clerk to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vialls, March 25. Gold Coast Corps.—John Everard Deane, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hales, deceased, March 25. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Enoch, half-pay unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase ; Lieutenant Plomer J. Young, from the 7th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, March 25. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. The Right Hon. Lord North, March 11; Wm. Henry Samwell George, Esq., March 11 ; Charles Warton, Esq., March 11; the Hon. Francis John Villiers, March 19 ; John Jervis, Esq., March 19 ; George Neame, Esq., March 21; Wm. Mount, Esq., March 21—to be Deputy- Lieutenants. Commmisions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Right Hon. the Earl of Effingham, Sir George Armitage, Baronet ; George Armitage, Esq., Joseph Robert Atkinson, Esq. ; James Andus, Esq. ; William Leigh Brook, Esq. ; Thomas Greenwood Clayton, Esq. • John Elam, Esq. ; Thom as F awce tt, E sq . ; George Jarratt Jarratt, Esq. • Joshua Pollard, Esq. • George Pol lard, Esq. • Thomas iValker, Esq. ; Wm. Walker, Esq. ; Edward Vaud, Esq.—to be Deputy-Lieutenants, March 14. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. Oliver Ormerod Walker, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, March 21. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia- Lieutenant Clarence Horatio Carey to be Captain, March 21. 4th Regiment—John Ireland Blackburn, jun., Esq. (late Lieut.-Colonel in the 2nd Regiment), to be Lieutenant- Colonel, March 22. sth Regiment—Charles Towneley, Esq., to be Lieu. tenant-Colonel, March 22. _ __ (The following article is substituted for that which ap. peared in the Gazette of the 15th March.) Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. _ . Ist Regiment of West Riding Militia—Richard Mickle. thwaite to be Lieutenant, March 9. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Militia—Edward Goodwin, Esq., to be Captain ; Joseph Augustus Y or k e , E sq., t o b e Ensign, March 21. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia—John Wreford, Gent., to be Ensign, March 22. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Denbighshire. Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Richard Wakeford. Attree, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Newcome, promoted, March 10. BANKRUPTS. Henry Butt, linendraper, Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, to surrender April 5, at one, and May 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab church-lane ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury. Mary Anne Dow nes , d ra p er an d clothier, Norwich, April 5, at one, and May 5, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lawrence, Bread-street, Cheapside. William Martin, tailor, Crouch-street, Colchester, April 5, at half past two, and May 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Wilson, Gresh atn - s t ree t. Donald Sinclair, apothecary, Bath Place, Peckham, March 30, at one, and May 3, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Lau rance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry Chambers. Robert Liddell, saddler, Doncaster, April 9 and May 7, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assig nee, Sheffield • Sheardown, Doncaster. Rebecca Allen, innkeeper, Alfre ton, April 9 and May 7, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assig nee, Sheffield ; Ingle, Belper. George Hennet, railway contractor, Duke-street., West minster, April 16 and May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannon, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; M`Leod and Stenning, London-street, Fenchurch-street. Henry Fisher, tailor, Nottingham, April 8 and May 6, at ten, at the Birmingham Di s t r i c t ourt. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Shilton and Son, Nottingham. Thomas Hamblet, George Warren, and Nathaniel Wil liam Dobeson, glass manufactu rers , B ro th er t on , York shire, April 14, and May 20, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. S. and W. B. Adams and G. Ralton, of Fairfield-work s , Bow, engineers, second dividend of l s . Id. in the pound on the separate estate estate of Samuel Adams, payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on Monday, March 28, or any subsequent Monday. Henry Newson Brewer, of 80, Bermondsey-wall, mast and block maker, and 8, South-E a st ern A rca d e , S urrey , tobacconist, first dividend of 2s. 6d.. in the pound, payable at 18, Aldermanbury, on Monday, March 28, or any sub sequent Monday. Walter Yonge, of 156; Strand, watchmaker, second divi dend of 2s. 2id. in the pound, payable at 2, Basinghall street, on any Wednesday. William Buchanan, of 35, Gerard-street, Soho, picture dealer, first dividend of 91d. in the pound, payable at 3, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. Harry Burton, of York-square, Commercial-road, East, clerk in the Custom-house, seventh dividend of 50. in the pound, payable at 3, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. William James Paxman and Catherine Paxman, of Hare-street, Spitelfields, silk dyers, second dividend of 6 1-sd. in the pound, plyable at 3, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. Joseph Barrow Montefiore and Jacob Montefiore, late of George-street, Mansion-house, merchants, third dividend of is. 3d. in the pound, payable at 3, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, on any Tuesday. Matthew Brickdale and John Brickdale, of Taunton, Somersetshire, bankers, a dividend of ss. in the pound, on the separate estate of Matthew Brickdale, payable at Queen street, Exeter, on any Tuesday. John Cridland, of Sidmouth Devonshire, grocer, a divi dend of ls. 54d. in the pound, payable at Queen-street, Exeter, on any Tuesday. John Robinson, of Shavington-cum-Gresty, Cheshire, cheese factor, second dividend of 4gd. in the pound, pay able at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool, on Monday, April 4, or any subsequent Monday. George and Sylvanus Pim, of Liverpool, merchants, second dividend of lid. in the pound, payable at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool, on Monday, April 4, or any subse quent Monday. John Cuff, of Manchester, hotel keeper, second dividend of 6gd. in the pound, payable at 45, George-street, Man chester, on Tuesday, Aprill2, or any subsequent Tuesday. William Byrom, Henry Taylor, and Thomas Byrom, of Manchester, coal p ro p r i e t ors , fi rs t di v id end of i d. in the pound, also a further dividend of Bd. in the pound, on the separate estates of Thomas Byrom, payable at 76, George street, Manchester, on Tuesday, April 12, and every fol lowing Tuesday. John Steele, of Spotland B r id ge, Lancashire, brewer, first dividend of 4s. 3d. in the pound, payable at 76. George-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, April 12, and every following Tuesday. William Longson, of Heaton Norris, Lancashire, joiner, first dividend of ls. 2id. in the pound, payable at 76, George-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, April 12, and every following Tuesday. William Gadsby, jun., of Cheetham, Manchester, joiner, second dividend of 7id. in the pound, payable at 7, Char lotte-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, April 5, or any sub sequent Tuesday. John Grant Menon, of Birmingham, wholesale paper dealer, first divid en d o f 6 s . i n th e p oun d, payable at 7, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on any Thursday. Samuel Eardl e y, o f T uns t a ll, j o i ner , first dividend of 3s. sd. in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo-street, Birming ham, on any Thursday. John Fitcheth, of Birmingham, casting pot maker, second division of is. 9d. in the pound, payable at Water loo-street, Birmingham, on Thursday, March 31, or any subsequent alternate Thursday. Robert Heath, William Welch, and John Heath Barber, of Tunstall, iron masters, first dividend of 12s. 2id. in the pound, payable at Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on Thursday, March 31, and any subsequent alternate Thurs day. John Taverner, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, silk manu facturer, first dividend of ss. 2/d. in the pound, payable at 29, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on every alternate Thursday. Edward Hemming, of Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, needle manufacturer, second division of Id. in the pound, pa y a b l e at 29, Waterloo-street, Bi rmingham, on every altere Thursday. James Batson, of Great Bridge, and William Batson, of Handsworth, Staffordshire, i ron masters, second dividend of 4a d. in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo-street, Bir mingham, on any Thursday. Frank James, of Walsall, Staffordshire, iaon founder, first division of 4gd. in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo street, Birmingham, on any Thursday. Henry Springett, of Ivychurch, Kent, publican, first and final payment of 40. in th e p oun d , payable at New Rom ney, Kent. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Charles Harrison, of Kingston -upon-Hull, out of business —George Wheldale, of Kingston-vim-gull, licensed vie- tualler—Robert Thomas Arton, of Preston, Yorkshire, agricultural labourer—William Dewick, of Kingston-upon- Hull, journeyman upholsterer—Benjamin Barlow, of Wol verhampton, stone mason—John Badger, of Coven-l awn , Staffordshire, stock lock manufacturer—Charles Allen of Walsall, Staffordshire, journeyman saddle maker—William Carr, of Hexhatn Northumberland, painter—Willi am Leonard, of Chain-bridge-end, Northumberland, millwright —Joseph Barlow, of Mexborough, Yorkshire, boot and shoemaker—Smith Wil son , o f Horsley, Northumberland, joiner—Joseph French. of North Shields, pensioner—Ro bert Moore, of North Shields, provision dealer—Job Wil son, of Nunnington, Yorkshire, cordwainer—Alfred James Piper, of Andover, plumber—William Brown, Scarborough. tailor—Joseph Morley, of Newark-upon-Trent, Notting hamshire, shopkeeper—Adam Livsey, of Manaingham, Yorkshire, out of business—Thomas Lagoa, of Ibstock, Leicestershire, dealer in tobacco. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Martial Anquez and Louis Ferry, of 29, Great Russell street, Covent-garden—Henry Atkinson and Thos. Eldrid, of Regent-street, whip - makers—Gabriel Goujard Duclos and Ferdinand Caron, of Nottin g h am , l ace manu f ac t urers —John Berry and Thomas Berry, jun., of Sheffield, wine merchants—Reuben Richardson and John Spencer, of Wel linborough, Northamptonshire, lace-dealers—James Wood, Henry Wood, and Ephraim Ellis, of Halifax, Yorkshire, cotton-warp makers—Frederick Webber and James Bart lett Webber, of Taunton, cabinet-makers—Joseph Allwood and Thomas Andrews, of Whitchurch, Shropshire, linen drapers—H. Burnell and W. Millard, of Pimlico, builders —Richard Sampson and William Greenhall, of 325, Ox ford-street, tailors—John Jones and William West, of 150, King's-road, Chelsea, linen-drapers —Joseph Alex. Batho and John Bingley, of 56, Lombard-street, City, engravers —Joseph Laycock and John Hessay, of Manchester, grocers —George Richard Gainsford, Charles Goode, Jolan Cox, and Charles Hay, of 119 an d 122 , High-street Southwark, linen-drapers (so far as regards Chas. Hay)—Thos. Wright and Edward M. Gleeson, of Nether Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeons—Henry Bate and William V. Browne, of 73, New Church-street,_ Lisson-grove, surgeons—Joseph Dernelly and Thomas Brindley, of Stockport, Cheshire, heald manu facturers—John Sherbrook Hall and William Dehown Hall, of Saddleworth, Yorkshire, paper manufacturers— John Mason, Thomas Asquith, James Halliday, and John Walker, of Gildersome-street, Yorkshire, coal merchants (so far as regards James Halliday and John Walker) — Joseph Ashton, Francis Chapman, and Matthew Clayton, of Castleford, Yorkshire, glass bottle manufacturers (so far as regards Joseph Ashton)—Thomas Smith and William Smith, of Leeds, builders —John Mellor, James Mellor, and Thomas Mellor, of Liverpool, spirit rectifiers (so far as regards Thomas Mellor)—Frederick Holmes and William James Moon, of 321, High Holborn, watchmakers—Thomas Adamson Jenkinson and John Whetston, of Liverpool, general brokers—James Munro, James Munro, jun., and Samuel Munro, of Liverpool, ironfounders. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. John Ruck, jun., and William Allen Turner, of Glasgow, merchants, March 30 and April 20, at two, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. James Gordon, jun., of Inverness, d ra p er , M arc h 3 1 an d April 21, at one, at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 19th day of March, 1853. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. X Notes Issued ........ 32,596,935 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,400 Gold coin and bullion 18,577,781 Silver bul ion 19,154 £32,596,935 I £32,596,935 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 24th day of March, 1853. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest ...... 3,626,365 Public deposits tin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of Nat l onal Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 8,203,555 Other deposi s ...... 12,874,698 Seven Day and other Government securities (in cludg.Dead Weight Annuity) 13,461,538 Other securit' es 15,447,272 Nntes 11,131,095 Gold and silver coin 566,211 • ....... 1,352,498 440,610,116 £40,610,116 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1953. Dated t: e 24th day of March, 1 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 22d day of March, 1853, is 265. Bd, per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS Her Majesty's—Monday. Maidenhead-thicket; Friday, New Lodge—at half-past eleven. Bath—Tuesday, Temple Cloud ; Friday, Hinton—half past eleven. Baron Rothscbild's—Monday, Mains-hill, near Hogston ; Thursday, Stewkley—at eleven. FOX HOUNDS. Atherstone--Monday, Meriden ; Wednesday, Coombe ; Friday, Kennels ; Saturday, Arbury—at a quarter to eleven. Badsworth—Monday, Kirkby Guide Post ; Thursday, Pollington-bridge • Saturday, Felkirk— a t h a lf-p as t t en . Duke of Beanifort's— Monday, Siston ; Wednesday, Compton Bassett ; Thursday, Lasborough-gate ; Saturday, Hawkesbury, Upton. Berkshire—Monday, Kinston Lisle ; Tuesday, Cur bridge ; Friday, Coleshill ; Saturday, Vytham—at half past ten. Bramham Moor—Monday, Storkeld-park ; Wednesday, Marston,. Friday, First-cross-road, Bramham Moor ; Sa turday, Poole -at eleven. Lord Henry Bentinck's—Monday, Skellingthorpe ; Wed nesday, Blankney ; Thursday, Stapleford-moor ; Saturday, Branston-wood—at eleven. Colonel Conyer's—Monday, Fyfield ; Wednesday, Bar nard's Canfield; Saturday, Hatfield-heath—at eleven. Cottesmore—Monday, Tollthorpe ; Tuesday, Launde abbey ; Thursday, Wing; Saturday, Ouston-wood—at eleven. Craven—Monday, Supe ; Wednesday, Pen-wood; Fri day, the Swan, Shefford ; Saturday, Welford-woods—at a quarter to eleven. Crawley and Horsham—Monday, Plaw Hatch ; Thurs day, the Cock, Southwater ; Saturday, Rusper Village— at a quarter to eleven. East Essex—Tuesday, Bulmer Plough ; Thursday, Mess ing -street ; Saturday, St. Ann's-castle—at half-past ten. , South Essex—Tuesday, Harwood, near Corbett's Tey ; Saturday, Stanfordle Hope—at half-past ten. Essex and Suffolk—Tuesday, Donyland-heath ; Friday, Gifford's-hall—at a quarter to eleven. Essex Union—Wednesday, Rayleigh-street ; Saturday, Runsell-green—at half-past ten. Earl Fitz william's—Monday, Sawtry-gorse ; Wednes day, Abbot's Ripton ; Friday, Long Orton—at ten. Herefordshire—Tuesday, Whitfield—at eleven. Holderness—Monday, Burton Agnes ; Tuesday, Hawold house ; Thursday, Meaux-abbey; Friday Holme-on Spald ing-moor-hall—at a quarter to eleven. Mr. M. Ingram's—Monday, Ingestre ; Thursday, Bagot's park—at a quarter to eleven. East Kent—Wednesday, Posting Lees; Friday, Wing ham-street. Ledbury—Monday, Acton-green ; Friday, Highleadon green—as half-past ten. Mr. Lumley's—Monday, Clumber ; Tuesday, Scrooby Inn • Thursday, Wadworth- woo dh ouse ; Friday, Grove — at eleven. Mr. Luxton's—Monday, Southtawton -at half-past ten. Oakley—Monday, Deer-park, Yardley Chase ; Thurs dry, Easton-wood; Saturday, Swineshead-wood—at a quarter to eleven. Pytchley—Monday, Pitsford ; Tuesday, North Kil worth ; Friday, Cottesbrooke ; Saturday, Sibbertoft--at a quarter to eleven. Puckeridge—Monday, Hazel-end ; Wednesday, Langley green ; Friday, Walton—at half-past 10. Rufford—Monday, White-post ; Thursday, Beesthorpe ; Saturday, Thoresby-park—at a quarter to eleven. Duke of Rutland's—Monday, Staunton-hall ; Tuesday, Broadwater ; Friday, Ropsley Kennel—at half-past ten. Mr. A. Smith's—Monday, Oare-hill ; Tuesday, Roden ham. Lord Southampton's —Monday, Farthingstow ; Tuesday ; Preston-bar; Friday, Helmdon ; Saturday, Gayhurst—al eleven. Southdown—Monday, Seaford ; Wednesday, Ashcomb ; Friday, East Hoathley—at eleven. Suffolk—Tuesday, Shimpling Mill ; Thursday, Scole Inn ; Saturday, Depden Green—at a quarter to eleven. Sir R. Sutton's—Monday, Easton Pasture ; Tuesday, BUnny ; Wednesday, Charley Mill ; Thursday, R o ll eston Hay ; Friday, Six Hills—at eleven. Sir Tatton Sykes's—Monday, Rscethorp ; Wednesday, Windmill, Stockton Forest ; Friday, Thorp-house —at half : past ten. _ V.W. H.—Tuesday, Jackements Bottom ; Thursday, Lechla.de—at a quarter to eleven. Warwickshire—Monday, Haywood; Wroxton Abb e y ; Tuesday, Weston e hse Walton ; Friday,' t o e l even. Saturday, hursnisday, ld— tterfi Wheatland—Tuesday n. , Bui ldwas-bridge ; F r id ay , Bron hopton—at half-past te Worcestershire—Monday, Cop e d El m ; W ednesday, Shake f-p n st ten.hurst ; Friday, B re d on-hill ; Saturday, Crowle—at hala HARRIERS. pa st B. v.—Tuesday, D o l e ' s Ash; Friday, Kennel—at half eleven. VICE-PRESIDENT KING. —The New York Herald gives the following sketch of the new Vice-President of the United States :—" Vice-President William Rufus King is a native of North Carolina, where he was born in 1786. He is consequently 67 years of age ; and such is the precarious state of his health that it is doubt ful, if he should return to the United States from his present visit to the West Indies, whether he will be able to perform the duties of vice-president. These are limited to presiding in the Senate ; and, in his absence, the president pro tern, of that body, who is elected by the senators, takes his place. Mr, Atchinson, of Miseouri, is at present president pro tem. In case of the death of the Vice-president, Mr. Atchinson ; would remasn in the same position as at present, without assuming the title, as the office would then be vacant ; but in case of the death of both President and Vice- President, the President of the Senate pro tem. becomes President of the United States, until an election can be held. This is according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 1, 1792. THE REPRESENTATION OF CANTERBURY.—A third candidate has just announced himself for this borough in the person Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh, of Cobham Hall, Gravesend, brother of the present Earl of Darnley, whose father, while Lord Clifton, represented Canter bury for some years in the Whig interest. Without en tering into a detailed statement of his political views, as he hopes to b e a bl e t o t a k e an e ar ly opportunity of explaining them perso na lly to the electors, the hon.e and ge n. leman presents himself as "an advocate of temperat progressive reform," and " a firm friend of civil and ' reli gious liberty." He considers " that the present Go v ernm en t affords the best security for a sound and effi cient of n. oe . admi nistration of public affairs. It comprise s the believes, a tp names nearly all our eminent statesmen, " that its policy will be conducted motives, he should wish to give to it a genera l but con scientious support." statesmen," as he most RAILWAY RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. 1853. - 1852. i 1853. .--._..., BRI TISH. ---....-..' 72% Aberdeen .... ..... .........• .•• - £1,467 1,6 • 37% Belfast and Ballymena ••••-•• • • •• •• 6 1 68b 17 Belfast and County D0wn............217 172 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,199 1 , 658 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • 711 752 85% Bristol and Exeter 189% Caledonian... ......... ::: .. • . . 7 .. ... 83;22052 4:05 88837 9431 Chester and f101yhead............... 2,486 3,195 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• • • 140 155 20 Cork and Bandon ................ lB6 186 56 Dublin and Ballast Junction ........ 73 844 53 Dublin and Drogheda.. .... . ... .. -.. 885 1,000 6 Dublin and Kingstown .......• • • • • • • 882 525 16% f )undee and Arbroath .... ........ - 430 45') 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 619 629 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen .• .. - .. 153 181 68 East Anglian.... - • • ... ...... ....... 692 769 81 East Lancashire .................... 4;132 j 4 012 22 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ........ 13,464 15,02 i 95 Eastern Union. ..... .......... • ..... 1,934 2,141 a 91 4 Edinburgh and Glascow 78 iLdinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.• •. • • 2,3'2 2,163 6 Exeter and Crediton .......... • ... .. 96 99 19 Funiess Railway ... .............. 818 407 171 N Glasgow, and South- Western .••• .. • • 3,777 4,228 285% Great Northern and E. L.• • .... •• • . 10,374 14,360 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,563 4,492 315% Great Western ..... ..... ...... •• • • 15,043 17,150 25 Irish South Eastern • • • • • • • • .• .• .• • • 185 177 90 Lancaster and Carlisle.. •••••• • • • • • • 4,248 4,356 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • .... •• • • 15,970 17,78 70 Leeds Northern ...... •• •• •••••• • • • . 976 1,370 18} Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.. .• 257 265 553% London and North Western .• • ••• • • 41,186 45,641 5% London and Blackwell •••••• • • • • • • 852 962 173% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 8,1180 8,729 253% London and South Western. •••• • .. 9,354 ;10,073 34% Londonderry and Enniskillen .••• • • • • 230 289 11 % Manchester, Buxton, and 2.latlock, &c. 105 - 1V.% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 6,58 i 6,672 9% Manchester and South Junction.... - 521 521 28 Maryport and Carlisle .............. 62 • 554 4983( Midland .... ...•.-••••• • • . • • • • • • 21,311 22,636 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) .... • . 2,013 2,517 37 Monklands ........ - .... ••••• • • • • • 1,004 848 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • ..... ••• • • • 2,308 2,389 149 North British ............ ••••• • • • • • 3,352 3,804 232 North Staffordshire •••... . . •• • • ... • • - - 47 North-Western ...................- 652 763 50 Scottish Central .................. • 1,705 1,805 32 Scottish Midland •• • . ... .•••. . • • • .. 593 617 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... 577 600 47 Shrewsbury and Chester ••••.• .. •• • • 1,585 1,727 29 Shropshire Union .. ••••••••• • • • •• • • 618 6 0 58 South Devon- - .... .••..••.• • • • • • • 1,585 1,663 288 Sout i Eastern ••..••......•• .. .. .. .. 10,516 10,921 131 South Wales ...... ••••• • • • • • ...... 1,305 2,445 77 ' South York., Doncaster, Ind Goole - 1,430 1,846 40 Taff Vale ••••• • • • • 2,'76 2,825 36 Ulster . ....... ..... ................ 844 949 50 Waterford and Limerick - .......... 254 548 25 West Cornwall ...... ............. 434 555 12 Whitehaven Junction ..... - - - - - 192 254 304% York and I . 7ewcastle, and Berwick .• • 13.834 15,044 279 York and North Midland . ...... •• • • 7,724 _8,415 !FOREIGN. 57% Dutch Rhenish .. - ............ •• • • 887 1,062 21% Marla Antonia .. .. .. .. .. 63 Montereau and Troyes .• ............ 902 966 63 Namur and Liege .............. •• • • 1,166 1,504 443( Northern of France ••••••.• . • • • • • • • 18,783 21,489 577 Orleans and Central* ......... • ..... 20,303- 22,829 240 Paris and Lyons .... • • - 11,044 1 /,934 84 Paris and Rouen . - 392 Paris and Strasburgh .... •••.• • . • • 8,493 12,726 59 Rouen and Havre" .... .. ... ••• . .. 2,451 - 99 Western of France ...... ...... - .. .. - - * The receiptS include the traffic, on the Orleans and Central, Or leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. COUNTRY MARKE2'S. LIVERPOOL-MARCH 24. Th - ..s weather during the week has been cold, with frost and some slight falls of snow. The business transacted in wheat has been of a retail character, without any chiinge in prices. Several parcels of Baltimore flour have been taken for export at full prices, Choice cuts of oatmeal have been scarce, and the turn dearer. In other articles there has been no change. The shipments to Ireland con sist of 615 quarters of wheat, 2,114 quarters of Indian corn, 376 sacks and 2,269 barrels of flow•. 1858 barrels of flour have been shipped coastwise, and 1,239 loads and 435 barrels of flour to Australia. At our market this day there was an improved consumptive demand for wheat, at the full prices of this day week. Oats met a slow dragging sale, and buyers might have supplied themselves on rather lower terms. Barley, beans, and peas were unchanged, with only a limited inquiry. Both yellow and white Indian corn were 6d per qr. cheaper. Oatmeal supported full prices. There was a better inquiry for American flour, and the dealers bought pretty freely at the full rates of Tuesday. Sack flour was hardly so easy to purchase. INVERNESS.-MARCH 22. CORN.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 621 b per bushel, 49s Od to 50s Od ; barley, ditto, 541 b ditto, 27s 6d to 29s Od ; Oats, ditto, 42113 ditto, 21s Od to 23s 6d. MEN L.-Oatmeal, per imp. boll. 16s 8d to Os Od ; ditto second, 15s Gd to Os Od ; barleymeal, lls Gd to Os Od peasemeal, 5s Od to Os Od ; bran, per stone, Os 7d to Os Od; Ist flour, per 2801 b, 40s Od to 42s Od ; 2d ditto, 30s Od to 32s Od ; oatmeal, 1: ;at, per st. of 141 b imperial, is 81 to Os Od ; ditto second, is 6d to Os Od ; barleymeal is 4( 1 . to Os Od ; peasemeal, is Gd to Os Od ; Ist flour, 2s 9d oash, 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. PRovisioks.—Potaloes per stone, 641 to ; Beef, pet lb, 441 to 7'd ; veal, ditto, ' 4d to 5d ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 641 ; pork, ditto, 3d to 4d ; fowls, each, 1041 to 12d ; chickens, per pair, 10d to 12d ; ducks, each, lid to 16d.; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d ; butter, fresh, per lb., 9d to 104 *. ditto, salt, per lb., 9d to 10d ; croudie (curds), 2d ix. Od ; four-pound loaf, fine, 7d to 70 ; ditto, second, 6d to 6d; coals, per cwt., 941 to 041; hay, per stone, 1041 to 12d. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-ottiev by the night—and M by the morning -dispatch.] COUNTR IRS, Day when made ul In General Post- Office, London. From what Port Dispatched. When due In England. America(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. America (by U State:, packet) ..........N Australia (yla South• ampton) .......... Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Coed Hops) ...... • . • ...N Africa (West Coast) ..N Alexandria N Alexanch is M Bahamas ... .. • • • • .. M Belgium ............N Brazil ........ —lll Buenos Ayres .. Cape oFtlood Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape de Verds N Ceylon (see India) Every Friday .. Ceylon ............ N Channel Isles ........N China (see India) Constantinople .... ..1' Constantinople ......M Cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France ........ lil & N Gibraltar _34 Greece (sea India) March 22 . 14th of May ..... Bth of May ..... keytown lamburgh ....N layannih .......... A; Tolland ............ M londuras ..........M India (viaSouttlampt.) 31 India (via Marseilles)3l lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ........M & N Li5b0n..............31 Madeira ............M Madeira ............ N Malta (see India) Malta .N Mauritius (see India) Mauritius • • • ...N Mexico ...• ••.• • • • .31 Naples.. . • • • ...N New Granada „N, New Zealand „ Papal States .... • „ ,.N Peninsula Port Natal Sicily ....... • N Tus Venezuelan • • • • • • • M Van Diemen's Land (ice Australia) West Indies .. I2d of April 23rd of the month. 8,9, 24, & 30 of m 4th & 20th of mon. 2nd of the month, Daily 9th of the month.. 9th of the month.. 14th of the month 2n4 of Aprl . I 4th of the month 1 14th of the month Mon.,Wed -d & 17th of month /,8,17,21,&27 of m 4th & 20th of moil Twice daily ...... Twice daily .. .... 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m ?nd Sc 17th of mon.' Tuesday & leridaY 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat, 17th of the month 4th & 20th of mon. Bth&24th •f month Liverpool . Liverpool . I southamptoi (Southampton Dover ...... Plymouth . Plymouth . Dover ~... Southampton Southampton D•ver .. .. .. Southampton Southampton Plymouth .. Plymouth .. 'Plimoath . Plymouth .. Southampton Southampton Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. 9th of the month 23rd of the month' Dover ...... Southampton 1 Dover .... Dover ...... Southampton 7,17,19,27, 30 of in, outhampton .ondon ..... Southamptot London .... 14th of the month 2nd of the month. sth Isth2sthofmon 2d & 17th of month By private ship .. sthisth2Athohnon - th I 7th27thofmon 'd & 17th of mon 14th of the month sth! 'th2stholrnon, s thlsth2sthofmon. 2d & 17th of month leach MO Southampton Southampton Dover ...... Holyhead ... Southampton Southampton Plymouth .. prll 4 Arrived April 4 April 1 March-3 0 April 12 March 20 April 4 Ist 4:4 mon irativ April If April 11 arch 26 March 30 March 26 (March 2 6 Ira Tr. Sa. I Dover ... March 30 April 4 hvicedallY I 2d & 17th of montbl Twicedll o 7 March 26 Plymouth .. Southamptor Dwyer ...... April 1 rues. El April I on. T hur April 18 April 4 April 1 Southampton Varioin port , Dover .. Southampton 4 outhampton Plymouth Dover Dover Southampton rwicedaily April 16 April 16 April 12 IMarch 39 ISoatbamptoL March 26 Ist of MOT. March 29 .Ipril 1 i Uncertain March 22 Harch 26 lMarch 26 %larch 92 Niarch 22 April 1 lApril I [ADVERTISEMENT.] The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine after every other means had failed.—See extract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir — I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a diSorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the continent had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBOROUGH."--- These wonderful pills will cure any disorder of the liver or stomach.— Sold (also Holloway's ointment) at Pro fessor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendors throughont the world. SACRILEGE.— NAA£4.—There is great excitement here. Several chapels have been broken into and robbed all around us— Newbridge, Kildare, &c.—the chapel here on two occasions ; the mass books torn, the valuable ornaments carried away, and no clue as yet to the per petrators. The priests threatened at the altar that whoever did it would be turned into goats, but all to no purpose---the plundering still goes on. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 20th inst, Weyborne-hou se , F arnham, t h e wife of John Knight, ' Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 23d inst., at Elm-grove, S ou th sea, the wife o f Captain Hayes, R.N. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at Christ-church, Marylebone, Abraham, eldest-surviving son of the late J o h n Herbert, Esq., o f Coventry, to Eliza Esther, eldest surv i v i ng daughter o f T. ,R. Clarke, S eEstq." of the E as t I ndia-house, and 76, Muni' . ton-terrace, Jolues-wood. On the 22d inst., at St. Giles's-church Mr. E. Evans , of 1, Great Queen-street, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late T. L. Woolley, of 210, High Holborn, an d Kingsbury, Middlesex. RI ED. On the 17th i ns t ., at Ri b . o gington-hall, Yates Jane, third d aug h ter of the Right Hon. William t Peel, and the late Lady Jane Peel. aged On the 24th of November, at Melbourne, Vidalia'• 35, H. E. P. Dana, Esq , commandant of the Victorit: Native Mounted Force, and one of her Majesty's justice.. of the peace for the Melbourne district, eldest son of CaPt W. P. Dana, late of Albrighton. On the 18th inst., at Hull, T. W. Torr, Esq., merchan aged 44. On the 23d inst., aged 80, Mr. James Wyatt, of 00 High-str ee t , Oxford, one of the aldermen of that city. LONDON : Printed and Published by ISITIRDO YOITZTI of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Th 4 Sun O ffi ce, No. 1 1 _, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the multi ‘` Middlesex, Saturday, March 26, 185 a.