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

Vbitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, TATTERSALL'S (THIS EVENING. ) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 7 . to 1 agst Contentment. 12 to 1 agst Lampedo (taken). 12 to 1 agst Snowdon Dunhill (taken). NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 7to 1 agst Hobby-horse. Bto 1 agst Defiance. 15 to 1 agst King of Trumps. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Contentment. sto 1 agst Ethelbert. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to 4 agst West Australian (taken). 6to 4 agst Sittingbourne taken). CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Trifle. 20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn. DERBY. 9to 1 agst West Australian (taken). 13 to 1 agst Cineas. 20 to 1 agst Honeywood. 17 to 1 agst Pharos. 12 to 1 agst Orestes (taken). 17 to 1 agst Sittingbourne (taken). 20 to 1 agst timbriel (taken). 25 to 1 agst Hurworth. 33 to 1 agst Filbert. 33 to 1 agst Contentment (taken). 25 to 1 agst Ethelbert (taken). 40 to 1 agst Queen Colt. OAKS. 9to 2 agst Catherine Hayes. 7to 1 agst The Queen. 14 to 1 agst Mistletoe. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(THIS EVENING, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Bishop of EXETER presented petitions from the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, from Devon, and other places, against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Other petitions were presented by Lord Colville, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Marquis of Breadalbane, to the same effect. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a peti tion from the Presbytery of Caithness, against the im position of religious tests on Scotch professors. THE MERCANTILE LAW OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. In answer to a question from Lord BROUGHAM, The Earl of ABERDEEN said it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to institute a commission to inquire into the Law of Partnership ; and that the sub ject of the assimilation of the mercantile laws of Eng land and Scotland would form a fit subject for inquiry for that commission. • PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE it was re solved, that the house do receive petitions for private bills on the first sitting day after Easter, provided that such petitions shall be lodged at the Private Bill-office on or before Monday the 21st of March. MERCANTILE MARINE. Lord COLCHESTER rose to move for a return of the number of persons who passed their examination for masters and mates of merchant ships between the Ist of January, 1852, and the Ist of January, 1853 ; also for copies of any correspondence between the Board of Trade and the Committee of Council on Education, relative to the establishment of schools for merchant seamen and apprentices. The noble lord proceeded to enter at some length into the subject of the mercantile marine, and was {LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY BILL. On the motion for considering the report on this bill, Mr. SPOONER said the bill had been read a second time, and was now brought up from the committee, and it was his intention to move th a t it b e re-committed. He did not wish to raise the question as to whether the Crystal Palace should be opened on Sunday ; his objection to the bill being that it was introduced to confirm an agreement entered into between the Crystal Palace Com pany and the Brighton Railway Company, although the house was in possession of no information as to the nature of that agreement. There was a clause in the bill which enabled the railway company to receive moneys, and hand them over to the Crystal Palace Company, and the effect ofit would be to enable the latter company to evade the provision in their charter which prevented them re. ceiving moneys or opening the building on Sundays, un less by sanction of Parliament. He thought such an important question as to opening the building on Sun days ought not to be decided by a side-wind, but by a substantive motion brought forward on the general principle. Mr. LEACH said the object of the bill was to divert certain roads, and delay in passing it would occasion great inconvenience to the company, as they were anxious to open the building in May, in order not to disappoint the public. He fully admitted that it was not desirable to discuss or settle the question about opening it on Sun days by an indirect motion ; and if the hon. member would withdraw his motion, he would undertake that the clause to which he objected should be struck out on the third reading. Mr. DEEDES observed that if the house passed the bill, it would sanction an agreement of which it knew nothing. Sir R. H. INGLIS recommended Mr. Spooner to adopt the suggestion of Mr. Leach. Mr. W. PATTEN said it was incorrect to suppose that the agreement between the two companies had not been before the committee. He had looked into it him self, and taken legal opinion upon it, and he believed there was nothing which would, either directly or indi rectly, enable the Crystal Palace to be opened on Sun days. He, however, entirely agreed with Mr. Spooner, that it was not desirable to sanction an agreement which was not in some way before the house, and he should, therefore, suggest that Mr. Spooner should withdraw his amendment, on the understanding that the clause in question should be struck out on the third reading. Mr. LAING disclaimed any attempt on the part of the Crystal Palace Company to smuggle a clause into the bill for the purpose of enabling them to open the build ing on Sundays. After a few words from Mr. WIGRAM, Mr. SPOONER withdrew his amendment, the report was agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time. PRIVATE BILLS. The following bills were read a second time and ordered to be committed :—.Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle Rail way ; East Anglian Railways ' • East Kent Railway ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway ; South Shields Improvement ; West London Crystal Palace Railway. PETITIONS. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Sussex against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays. Mr. DEEDES presented a similar petition. AN HoN. MEMBER presented several petitions from Down, and other counties in Ireland, in favour of tenant right ; also, a petition from Down complaining of the corrupt practices at the last election for that county, and praying for the protection of the ballot. Mr. CRAWFORD presented a petition in favour of the abolition of University Tests in Scotland. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented several petitions from working men, and others, against opening the Crystal Palac e on the Lord's day. Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from the University tof C am b r id ge aga i nst th e a d m i ss i on of Jews Parliament. Mr. EWART presented a petition in favour of the libemrar.tironlio&ALlr. Ed war d M urray. mouth. -N presented a simil ar p e titi on f rom Pl y - Mr. MIALL presented a petition from working men at Sundays Sheerness, in fa vour of opening the Crystal Palace on . Sir J. PAKINGTON P r e: r e: e t a petition from Ryde, complaining of the corrupt es at the l . ast and pre ceding elections for the borough, an d Praying for fur ther investigation.l Mr. _HUME pEesented several petitions m places in Scotland, praying for the repeal of the Test Acts ; with also a petition front merchants in Glasg ow the West Indies, complaining of the irregularities postal communication with the Colonies ; a l so the a petition from the British and other Christian inhabitants of Cal cutta and the lower provinces of Bengal, „ pressin their opinion respecting the future government of I n di a g and praying for inquiry respecting the same. Mr. FRENCH presented a petition from the Guar dians of Carrick-on-Shannon Union, praying for an alteration in the Annuities Act. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire in favour of the reveal of the taxes on know ledge. Mr. T. EGERTON presented several petitions against the admission of Jews into Parliament, and the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays. Mr. BANKES presented a petition from a place in Dorset, praying for the enfranchisement of the London University. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the Scottish Reformation Society, praying for the repeal of the May nooth grant. CORRUPT BOROUGHS. Mr. PEACOCK gave notice that, on Thursday, he Should move that Mr. Coppock be called to the bar to explain a statement which he made before the St. Albans Election Commission on the subject of corruption in "pocket" boroughs. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS. gentl Sir em an, t j PA G . KINTON wish e d t o ask the right hon. he member for Manchester, if he was die . posed to postpone his bill on the subject of county financial boards until after Easter. Mr. M. GIBSON could not accede to this request, as any member unconnected with the Government could not hope to get such a bill on after Easter. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Sir R. H. INGLIS said as the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill and the Jew Bill stood for committal to night, he should be glad to know if it was intended to take both, and if it was, would there be any objection to postpone the third reading of the latter until after Easter? Lord J. RUSSELL said it was net intended to take the committal of the Clergy Reserves Bill until Friday, when he should move the omission of the third clause. The committal of the Jew Bill would be taken to night, and the third reading on Friday. AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. Mr. DISRAELI wished to ask the noble lord the member for the city of London a ques tion relative to the relations that now subsist between Austria and the Sublime Porte. It was re ported in a well-informed journal that in a dispute which had arisen between Austria and Turkey, an ulti matum was offered to the latter by the former which had been • acceded to by Turkey, although, in some degree, it appeared to threaten the independence of Turkey. Two of the conditions contained in the ultimatum were—first, the Turkish troops were to evacuate Montenegro ; and, secondly, Turkish ports were to be closed in the Adriatic, which had hitherto been open to English commerce. Now, he wished to ask the noble lord whether the Government had re ceived any official intelligence of these circumstances, and, if they had, was it to the same effect as stated in the journals, and, lastly, would the noble lord have any objection to produce the papers which had passed on the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government had received an official intimation of the final arrangement of the dis pute between Austria and Turkey, and two of the con ditions in the ultimatum were in spirit the same as those stated by the right hon. gentleman, but the British Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople had re ceived a notification that the latter would not be carried out, or, at least, no change would be made in the ports of the Adriatic open to Bri tish commerce until her Majesty's Government had been consulted in the matter. It would be unusual to produce the papers, as they related to a matter in which this coun try was not directly concerned, and with the settlement of which our ally was satisfied. BALLS AND LEVEES IN DUBLIN. Mr. FRENCH wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, if directions had been sent to Ireland by any Government authority in this country, to discontinue the expense of inserting in the Dublin newspapers the usual notice of levees about to be held by the Lord- Lieutenant. Mr. WILSON said it was time that such directions had been given, for in a bill for advertisements sent into the late Government, it was found that while 3181. was charged for advertising balls and levees, only about 101. was charged for advertising matters connected with the castle of public utility. NAVAL COMMITTEE. Capt. SCOBELL wished to ask Sir J. Graham, when it is probable that the report of the Naval Committee, ap pointed by the late Board of Admiralty, will be laid on the table of the house. Sir J. GRAHAM hoped to be able to lay the report on the table immediately after Easter. COPPER COINAGE. Mr. GLYN wished to ask the Secretary of the Trea sury whether any steps had been taken to secure a suffi cient supply of the copper coinage. Mr. WILSON said the demand for gold and silver was so great that the Mint could devote no attention at present to copper coinage, but the Master of the Mint was about to contract with private parties for the coin ing of five tons of copper. GLASGOW POST-OFFICE. Mr. HASTIE wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, when it is intended to proceed with the erec tion of the new Post-office at Glasgow, for which ground was bought about three years ago, in consequence of the present building being pronounced unsuitable for the extent of business, and in a ruinous and unsafe condition for the inmates. Mr. WILSON said negotiations were now going on for the purchase of additional ground, and when these were closed the Post-office would be proceeded with. COAL MINES. Mr. SANDARS wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to increase the number of in spectors in coal mines, or take any other steps for the prevention of accidents therein. Lord PALMERSTON said the whole subject of coal mines was one of great difficulty and importance, and he had not yet been able to arrive at any decision upon it. WARDENSHIP OF THE -CINQUE PORTS. Mr. HUME wished to ask the noble lord, the mem ber for the City of London, if the Government would lay upon the table any papers relative to the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports? Lord J. RUSSELL had no objection to lay such papers on the table. - On the motion of taking the orders of the day, Mr. NEWDEGATE complained of the way in which the noble lord the member for the city of London con ducted the public business. The noble lord was taking an unfair advantage of gentlemen on his side of the house. He complained of the noble lord wishing to force on the Jewish bill before the recess. (Hear, hear, front the Opposition.) To ende.wour to force on this measure now was a tyrannical proceeding ; it was an attempt to stifle the general feeling of the country. A measure of such a description ought not to be brought in and read a third time the night before the Easter recess. Sir J. PA KINCiTON considered that in general tho noble lord had studied the convenience of the house, but in the present case he was obliged to coincide with the hon. member for North Warwickshire. He hoped that the noble lord would postpone the measure. Lord J. RUSSELL considered that the course he had adopted was the fairest one towards the house. With regard to the Jewish Disabilities Bill, the subject was nearly exhausted, and he did not see any reason for post poning it. Mr. CAYLEY hoped that the'noble lord would post pone the third reading of the Canada Clergy Reserves Dill until after the recess. Mr. M. GIBSON would call the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the taxes upon the means of diffusing knowledge. LEFT SPEAKING.) ELECTION COMMITTEES.-(THIS DA Y.) SOUTHAMPTON. At the conclusion of Mr. Sergeant Kinglake's speech, which occupied nearly the whole day, Mr. Sharp, the legal agent of the sitting members at the last election, was called. He stated that Sir Alex. Cockburn had given emphatic instructions that every thing of an illegal or objectionable nature should be avoided at the election, and that those instructions were strictly carried out. At it, quarter to four o'clock the committee adjourned till to-morrow. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAGHOtrNDS. Tier Majesty's—To-morrow, Cookham-bridge ; Friday, Gerrard's-cross—at half-past eleven. Cheltenham To-morrow, Beekford-inn ; Friday, Coberly-gate—at twelve. FOXHOUNDS. Badsworth To-morrow, Owsten-park ; Thursday, Purston-bar ; Saturday, Woolley-edge —at half-past ten. Bedale—Wednesday, Busby-stoop ; Friday, Sleming ford-park7at half-past ten. Old Berkshire--To-morrow, Wet-sandford ; Friday, Kokethorpe-park--at half-partten. Bramham Moor—W e d nes d a y, Plumpton ; Friday, the Wild-man ; Saturday, Hutton-mill—at half-past ten. Cambridgeshire—Friday, Downing-arms —at half-past ten. Carmarthenshire—Wednesday, Narberth ; Saturday, Llangolman— at ten. Cheshire—Wednesday, Wrenbury ; Thursday, Ridley toll-bar—at half-past ten ; Saturday, Broomslands—at eleven. Cleveland—Thursday, Seamer-village —at half-pas ten. Mr. Colyer's—To-morrow, Dartford-heath ; Thursday, Bates's-wood ; Saturday, Meopham—at half-past ten. North Devon To-morrow, Bish-mill ; Saturday, Yard-down—at half-past ten. South Devon—Thtirsday, Afton-brook, Berry. Lord Elcho's—To-morrow, Swinton-mill-toll ; Wed nesday, Ford-bridge ; Friday, 131ackadder, ; Saturday, Longridge. F:R.L-To-morrow, Stonemasons'-arms ; Friday, Kil ligrew-hill—at eleven. Mr. Furse's—Friday, Shutleigh—at half-past ten. Mr. Garth's—Wednesday, Clere-park ; Friday, the Bull, Swallfieid—at half-past ten. Gwyrtheyrn—To-morrow, New-court, Llanwenog , Thursday, Cribyn ; Saturday, Llaethlew—at half-past nine. Hambledon—Wednesday, Fair-oak-village ; Friday, Soberton-down---at a quarter to eleven. H. H.—To-morrow, Brookwood • Thursday, London lodge, Stratton-park ; Saturday, Wheatley -farm, Bin stead—at a quarter to eleven. Haydon—Saturday, Langley-castle—at nine. Heythrop--Wednesday, Loughborough-gate ; Friday, Garnington-grove ; Saturday, Blenheim—at half-past ten. Hursley—Friday, Ampfield-lodge, Rornsey—at a quar ter to eleven. Hurworth—To-morrow, Wellbury ; /Saturday, Low Middleton —at half-past ten. St. r. M Littleton' s —T o - morrow, Sand Place ; Friday Ive---- at half-past ten. Mr. W. S. Low ndes's—To-morrow, Drayton Cross Roads ; Saturday, Nash Common—at eleven. Mr. Luxton's—To-morrow, Thelbridge-cross ; Friday, lloward-wood—at half -past ten. Mr. Mr nn oM. Mal hal l — Thursday, St ap l eton Brake. uths i i re —Friday, Rockfield. Mr. Morgan's—Thursday, Tuel Down —at half-past ten. N ew Forest—To-morrow, Paultona ; Saturday, Bol • derwood—at eleven. Mr. Newton's—Saturday, Broad woo d wiger—at half past ten. sSoouutthh Oxfordshire sil F e_ ri_dg id Wl ay :e N at a leryb.erth. bridge—at ten. Ruckeridge—Wednesday, Peverils ; Saturday, , 3 - ston—at half-past ten. Sir Henry Seale s--To-morrow, Capton Lane End ; Friday, Mounts, near Tallapit. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAR,CII 14, 1853. NAV.AL INTELLIGENCE. SHEERNESS, MARCH, 12. The Cyclops, paddle-wlieel steam-sloop, Lieutenant John Seccombe, in command pro tei., and rot Mr. Harvey, as formerly reported, arrived here from Wool wich at 7 30 p.m. yesterday. The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam-transport, Master-Commander John Belam, passed here at 11 a.m. this day, from Woolwich to Chatham. The 'Driver, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Mr. Cor nelius Fox, master, has this day taken up his commis. sion as additional master to the Horatia for duty in the Driver. The Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, Captain Charles G. E. Patey, Mr. William Roy, Naval Instructor, 2d of February, 1846 (late of the Phaeton), has taken up his appointment to this frigate. She will be ready to leave the basin in about ten days. The Melampus frigate is masted and rigged all ataunt. A novel mode was adopted to expedite the rigging of this frigate. Her mainmast and maintopmast were com pletely rigged, also her mizenmast, and hung by the shears. The masts were then stepped, when the seamen riggers of the yard commenced their work, and, after a few hours, the topgallantmasts were on end. Her rig ging is partially sparred ready for rattling down. She will go out of the basin on Tuesday next, the 15th inst., and proceed immediately for Woolwich, in tow of the Cyclops steam-sloop. The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate was masted yes terday, and taken into the deck from which the Terrible was taken out to-day. The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander George Parker, has completed the entry of her crew within a half-a-doaen blue-jackets. PEMBROKE. The James Watt, screw-steamer, of 91 guns, will shortly be ready for launching, and when afloat will immediately be rigged and made ready for commission. Heavy gangs of men have for some time past been most actively employed in pushing on the work of completion. Her armament will be a formidable one, and, it is said, will consist of 28 8-inch guns, and 62 32-pounders of 56cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches in length. She will also mount one pivot gun, which will be a 68-pounder, 10 feet in length. The Encounter, screw steam-sloop, 14 guns, under the command of Captain O'Callaghan, will visit from time to time the various ports in the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea. She has lately been lying at Bristol, and since then has gone on to Liverpool to pick up seamen for the Royal navy. WOOLWICH, MARCH 12. APPOINTMENTS. Master Jabez Loane (1846) to the Encounter, 14, screw steam-frigate, at Devonport, vice John Pyper, dis missed the service. Surgeon Charles Ede (1851) to the Espiegle, 12, at Sheerness. Second Master Joseph Cutajar (1845), serving in the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich, is promoted to the rank of Master, and appointed to the Gorgon paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 320-horse power, at Portsmouth. PROMOTION. Commander Charles Wilson Riley (1838) to be Cap tain on the reserved half-pay list. MALTA, MARCH 3. On Saturday a vessel was found on the coast a com plete wreck, and abandoned by her crew, of whom no intelligence has been to this day received, and of whose sad fate reasonable apprehensions are entertained. The wreck is ascertained to be the Swedish brig Apollo, laden with wheat, from Alexandria for England. She left that port on the 2d February last direct, and had on board 3,418 ardebs of wheat. On Sunday last the English brig Washburn, Morris master, from Bristol for Constantinople, in ballast, put in here with the captain and crew (12 persons in all) of the Norwegian brig Gefion, which vessel left Constan-. tinople, for Queenstown, on the 25th of January. Th e vessel sprang a leak on the 25th of Feb., in lat. 38 deg. N., long. 7 deg. 5 min. E., and, in fear of going down, was abandoned by the crew in two boats, whence they were recovered by the Washburn, as above. The Wallachin brig Combinazione has also been wrecked at Marsala, on the Bth of February. She, too, was corn-laden from Constantinople for Falmouth for orders—crew saved. Her Majesty's screw-steamer Simoom, with the 41st Regiment on board, arrived on Monday evening last from Cephalonia and Zante, and will be ready for sea by Wednesday next, with the head-quarters of the 76th Regiment on board for Halifax. Colonel and Mrs. Car penter, Major and Mrs. Eman and two children, Major Northey, Captains Goodwyn, Handcock, Brett, and Meredith ; Lieutenants Hunt, Alexander, Bligh, Skip with, Balguy, Richards, and Bush ; Ensigns Fitzroy and Carpenter; Adjutant Bernard, Paymaster Creagh and wife, Quartermaster Elliott and family, Dr. Wilkins and family, 584 rank and file, 36 women and 54 children, of the 41st Regiment, have been disembarked from the Simoom. The Bengal screw steam-ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Company reached Malta on the night or the 28th ult., and proceeded to Alexandria on the morning of the 2d instant, having been delayed a day by the non arrival of the Sultan, from Marseilles,ibut which vessel arrived to her time, with her portion of the mails. She is a beautiful vessel, and made one of the most rapid passages from Southampton to Malta on record. The following extract from her log : " Feb. 20, left the dock buoy at 11 a.m. " Noon, 21, distance run, 300 miles—all sail set. " „ 22 PP 261 sail set 14 hou rs . 23 PP 282—a1l sail set. " 24 PP PP 272—a1l plain sail sot. 24 70—arrived off Gibraltar, 6 45 p.m. 24, left Gibraltar, 11 30 p.m. „ 25, distance run, 148 miles—all sail set. „ 26 21 264 sail set 12 hours. „ 27 Pt 262—fore and aft sail occa sionally. 240—n0 sail, wind nearly ahead. „, 28 fl 28 74. " Arrived off Maha Light, Feb 28, 8 p.m. The Rodney, 90, Captain Graham, arrived in port on the afternoon of Sunday last, having been but 15 days on her passage from Portsmouth. The Fury steam-frigate, 13 days from Plymouth, arrived here on the Ist inst., and on the day following proceeded to Trieste, where she was to take on board her Majesty's Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Lord Redcliffe, and would return to Malta in about a fort nigh MARCH 4. The French steamer Osiris, from the Levant, came in his morning. M. de Lavalette, French Ambassador to the Porte, is on board the Osiris, en, route to Marseilles. He has ob tained 2,500/. from the Porte, the sum for which Mr. Barry was ransomed. SUSPECTED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner of the eastern division of Surrey, held an inquest at the King's Arms, Rotherhithe, on the body of a female unknown, who was found in the River Thames on Tuesday last, with a very extensive lacerated scalp wound, and some oher serious injuries. Mr. Crutch, surgeon, of Rotherhithe; deposed that he had made an examination of the body, but could not posi tively state whether the wound on the head had been received before or after deceased was in the water. The body not being owned, and the coroner having expressed his opinion that in such a serious case further evidence ought to be obtained, the inquiry was adjourned for a week, Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, and it was attended by the following officers : Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dillon, K.C.H. Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Alfred Crofton. Captains—Henry Dundas (1825), Robert F. Stopford (1810), Woodford J. William (1841), John Washington (1842), William Kelly (1844), William H. Hall (1844), Thos. Sparke Thompson (1846), Chas. John Bosanquet (1846), James Wilcox (1850), and Frederick B. Montressor (1851). , Commanders—Thos. Greene (1833), Wm. MeDwaine (1838), Alexander Goldie (1839), Wm. M. G. Pasco (1846), Chas. R. Johnson (1847), Wm. Thomas (1849), and Wil loughby J. Lake (1851). Lieutenants—Francis Wm. Ellis (1812), Sir Henry Wil mot (1825), Colin W. Lindsay, (1837), and David Miller (1840). Master—Samuel S. Flinn (1825.) Chaplain—Rev. Pascoe G. Hill, B.A. (1850.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear- Admiral Corry, completed the re-adjustment of her com passes yesterday, and will go to Spithead to-morrow, according to present orders. The London, 90, Captain Mundy, will also go to Spit head to-morrow, according to present arrangements. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., is being expedited as much as possible by the en gineer department of this dockyard ; and it is hoped she will be out of their hands by the Ist proximo. The Neptune, 120, Captain E. H. Scott, flag of Rear- Admiral Superintendent Fanshawe, C. 8., is reported to relieve the Trafalgar, 120, in the Mediterranean, and that the Princess Charlotte, 104, in this ordinary,•will be fitted to take the Neptune's place in this harbour. The Cruiser, 14, Commander the lion. G. H. Douglas, left Spithead on Friday evening on a cruise. The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander Welch, was docked yesterday morning to ship a new propeller. The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' brig, Lieutenant Fen wick, of the Victory, in charge, hauled over to her moorings in Blockhouse-hall yesterday morning. The Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Hosken, will be ready for sea to-morrow. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand, Captain Hyde, Parker, having coaled and had defects made good, went out of harbour yesterday, and sailed for the Mediter ranean. The Encour, ter, 14, screw steam-corvette, Capt. O'Cal laghan, is appointed to sail to-day for Woolwich, where she will receive new boilers. Yesterday the steam block-ship Sanspareil got masts on board and tops over the masts. The steam-vessel Avon arrived yesterday from Ports mouth. The Valorous steam-frigate, 16, Captain Buckle, went out of harbour on Friday, took her powder on board, and made a short trial of her machinery. The merchant ship John Young, from Calcutta to London, was off Plymouth on Thursday, and had on board the crew of the abandoned schooner Aim, of Greenock, Captain John Gibson. The brig Pomone, Perran, from Newcastle for Lisbon, was off the Eddystone on Tuesday. OUTRAGES OX WOMEN AND CHILDREN. f (From the Times.) Mr. Fitzroy has just brought before the House of Commons the startling principle of English law that women are of less value than Poodle dogs and Skye terriers. They do not receive the same mea sure of protection as these nobler quadrupeds. Where punishment consists in fines, of course the amount of the fine affords us a certain measure of value as to the worth of the object injured. Our ancestors, who were rather curious in such matters, arranged a sliding scale after a fashion of their own, in which the value of a life was estimated ac cording to the social position of the party who might happen to be knocked on the head. Accord ing to this table, any sporting gentleman in good circumstances might have shouldered his crossbow and given himself the relaxation of peasant shooting without any serious detriment to his fortunes. A yeoman was somewhat higher game—he cost more ; a nobleman was set at a still higher price • .but woe betide the au d ac i ous sportsman who bagged au ecclesiastic. Nothing less than the sacrifice of his whole fortune in convents and monasteries would purge away the sacred ichor from his mur derous hand. The form of English law is altered in regard to such matters, but the substance re mains the same. Let us take—as Mr. Fitzroy has done before us---the cases of donkeys, poodle dogs, and women. Under the Cruelty to Animals Act any r u ffi an l y fellow who ill-treats a donkey may be imprisoned for three months with hard labour. Any peculator who infringes against the provisions of the Dog Stealing Act may be imprisoned with hard labour for a period of six months, or be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed ing 201. With regard to women, any man may, at his pleasure, kick, bruise, beat, knock down, and stamp upon them, and all that the magistrate can inflict by way of summary punishment is a fine of 51., or, in default, two months imprisonment with hard labour. It would be a very material improvement in the position of women if a short clause were introduced into the Cruelty to Animals Act which should include them in the provisions of that beneficent statute. All that would be ne cessary w ou ld b e, " And b e i t enacted that for the purposes of this act any woman or w o men sh a ll b e taken and held to be beeves, ewes, donkeys, cats, dogs, and not otherwise • and that any person or persons who shall be pr ov ed to have inflicted bodily injury upon any woman or women as aforesaid, shall undergo the same penalties and punishment as though he had inflicted bodily injury upon any of the beeves, ewes, donkeys, &c., as af oresa id." Now, Mr. Fitzroy wishes that women should at least be placed upon the same footing as the lower animals, and receive the same amount of protection from the law. He asks merely that the powers of magistrates should be extended to the infliction of a penalty of imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding 201. This is no very great ex tension of their powers, and, surely, in the opinion of the mildest humanitarian, can scarcely be judged an inordinate punishment for the offence. For ourselves—we confess it frankly —we go much fur ther, and are rather disposed to agree with the recommendation of Mr. Phinn, the new member for Bath. The case of brutal violence to women and children is one which can only be met by cor poral chastisement. In the first place, the present form of punishment is evidently no check whatso ever upon the offence. It is seldom, indeed, that our police reports do not contain the record of some such case. They aro of daily and nightly occurrence in all the courts and blind alleys of London to an appalling amount, for the police reports inform us but of an infinitely small per centage of those which actually occur. The pre sent scale of fine and imprisonment does not deter from the offence. We much question whether the extension of the magistrates' powers—which exten sion' however, we heartily recommen d— w ill meet the difficulties of the case in any very considerable degree. Then, again, with regard to the parties to be punished, the usual argument of the humani tarians entirely breaks down. There can be no question of " degrading " a man who inflicts a course of violent and continued brutality upon a woman or a child. The truth is, the brute is so degraded already that, short of miracles his fears constitute the only channel by whi c h his actions can be touched. If he have any feeling left it is a feeling for himself, and the fear of the lash would operate upon his conduct in the same way that it tames the viciousness of a four-footed brute. This case is very different from that of soldiers or sailors, who in former days incurred the penalty of flogging for breach of martial discipline. A man may vio late martial law, and retain all the noblest feelings of humanity. You may degrade him. You may stifle the better feelings of a lad who is dull at his tasks or oversteps bounds by flogging him before his schoolfellows ; and so on with reference to si milar cases. But the ruffians whose punishment we require as a protection to those unfortunate beings who are the object of their violence show by the mere commission of the crime that there is no inch of their persons and no portion of their minds which can receive anything but benefit from as sound a flogging as a stout arm can administer. It is just possible that such a penalty may cause them to realise to their own minds the true nature of their offer ce. To these veiy cogent reasons for at least making trial of corporal punishment in this most offensive class of cases we may add the absolute impossibility of dealing with them adequately in any other way. You would not hang a man—you would scarcely transport him, for giving his wife a pair of black eyes, knocking oat half her teeth, and jumping upon her, unless her life was affected. Nor, on the other hand, does it answer any purpose to consign the dastardly fellow who is guilty of such acts to imprisonment for a month or two. His offence is too small or to great to be touched by any existing punishment. If the magistrate commits him, the humanitarians will take care that he is provided with minced veal and a celestial globe to solace his temporary retirement. In point of fact he rather rejoices in the so-called punishment than otherwise. Now, we do not ask that the term of imprisonment should not be continued—let it rather be length ened ; but, at the same time, let the man who has made so foul an abuse of his physical strength carry away with him a memorial—feel that society will make reprisals, and protect the feeble and the helpless. We ask for the establishment of corporal punishment, but only in the case where a man has shown that he has no claim to consideration as a man by acts of brutal violence against a woman or a child. PROBATE AND LEGACY DUTIES. ( From the licekly Dispatch.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer has now an ample opportunity of developing the resources of his dexterity. Like the manager in distress, all his company of players are quarrelling about his part. Parliament assumes the attitude of a meeting of his political creditors ; and it must be confessed that he answers their demands with as much imperturbable lubricity, and fobs them off with the same successful plausibility, as Charles Mathews in the play of Speculation. In his main plea for being ex cused from assenting to the motions of those amateur " many friends of the hare," who volunteer budgets for him, we confess we think there is much force. If we were in his place, we are not sure that we, ourselves, should not also object to the anticipation of his financial statement by partial propositions of taxation, or remis sion of imposts relative to single articles, which leave out of view the whole area of the incidence of revenue duties. Unless he could succeed in checking this rush of one-ideaed financiers, it is obvious that, like the man with two wives ' one of whom disliked his whit e h a i r and the other his black, if he gave all the oppor tunity of depilatating from our fiscal system whatever each did not like, he would be left as bald as a coote, with an ex c h equer as empty as Sibthorp ' s head. He has been whispe r i ng so f t not hi ngs to P o ll y W i ll i ams and Lucy H ume, and now they both fall upon him at o nce , and be seec h him to marry their " Ways and Means ! " Unfortunately, he does not appear to be quite so well read in the art of dealing with such dilemmas as Captain Macheath—or, perhaps, he is more foolishly confident in the fertility of his expedients and the power of his blarney. Re had not the prudence to escape under cover of the exclamation-- While you both tease me tog e th er , To n give ne i ther r h s wordrea willreasons I forsay. He must needs objecting, on the merits, to the propositions of the members of Lambeth and Montrose ; and reasons are at all times a danger ous ware, in which wise men deal but sparingly. We could have excused his postponement of the discussion until the day of Pentecost, the Greek Kalends, or the Budget, whichever should happen last. But when he so misapprehends the measure of his own capacity to grapple with the subject as to undertake a pitched bat tle on the spot, in defence of the exemption of real pro perty from the legacy duty, he compels us also to anti cipate the natural period of discussion, and to examine the grounds of his opposition to the principles of Mr. Williams's motion. We should be sorry to endorse the accusation of those who, in ecclesiastical concerns, ac cuse Mr. Gladstone of being a Jesuit. His exposure of the Government of Naples is the best answer to the im putation of Puseyite tendencies. But we are not so satisfied that he escapes the charge of being a sort of logical smasher in debate--passing bad change with singular dexterity, indeed, and with unscrupulous steadi ness of face, but with a frequency perhaps encouraged by the absence of detection. It is scarcely possible to present a proposition of which the proof is plainer or more potent thian that the probate and legacy duty was partially imposed by a house of landowners upon per sonal property, and that realty was exempted from its operation by a combination of freeholders against the rest of the community. Why, Pitt had expressly ex extended the tax to land by a distinct bill ; and territorial legislators of the day passed the net levying the duty on personalty, and rejected that which extended it to realty. Lord Lauderdale put it protest on the - I°l l: * nals of the Peers, calling for a suspension of the ' Personalty Act until the Realty Bill should have become law, on the very ground of the grossness of the class legis lation which adopted the one bill and rejected the other. The tinnsaction is so barefaced in its one-*idedness, that Mr. Disraeli, himself the organ of the landed interest, acknowledged the interested inequality of the impost— and yet Mr. Gladstone stoutly denies it, and stands up in justification of the fairness of the exemptions. And how does he substantiate his justification ? Why, by at tempting to show that the imposition of the duty on personalty is so clumsily devised, that, by means of set tlements, trusts, and so forth, a large proportion of property liable to the tax escapes and evades it ? Astonished at the hardihood of this act of passing " false and counterfeit logic resembling, or intended to resemble the current common sense of the realm," poor Mr. Wil liams involuntarily exclaims, " Why that is what I com plain of !"—whereupon the imperturbable Mr. Jenkinson of the Cabinet, who by talking of the " cosmogony of the world," can pass off "a gross of green spectales ' for a good dray-horse, coolly rejoins that the evasion of the tax on personalty by settlement is evidence that the imposers were not actuated by selfishness, in exempt ing their own peculiar description of property from the operation of the impost ? Nor is his next proposition, although it be a good Brum magem imitation of sense, and sounds vei' like it, at all first-rate in serving its professed purpose. Indeed, for a clever man, gifted with that sort of circumspection which does not venture to aim at clear and undeniable success and conviction, but simply at that amount of plausible mystification which will present no salient points for defeat, we have seldom witnessed a more de plorable exhibition of what may not inaptly be termed casuistic suicide. Mr. Williams's motion simply is, that real property should be subjected to the same burdens of !probate and legacy duty as personal estate. The Chancellor of the Exchequer answers that it ought not ; and on what ground, think you, gentle reader ? Why, chiefly on the assertion that—real property is subjected to the duty ? Annuities, quoth he, charged on land, the proceeds of land when sold under bequest, em bracing nine out of every ten wills, leaving land, pay legacy duty. Indeed, he had been told by some Mr. Trevor (one of your " very respectable men" and eminent practitioners typified in "Bleak House" by Mr. Vholes), and apparently he believed that 7-16ths of the legacy duty was paid from property arising out of land. Now we will not stop to inquiretoo curiously into the honesty of this representation. It is intended to pass the bad change upon the House and the public, that the term "arising out of land" is equivalent to the term "real property," whereas it is only true as referring to those leasehold or other tenures of landed property which Mr. Williams was careful to separate from the category of realty. Annuities arising out of land mean, in Mr. Gladstone s private vocabulary, simply obligations to pay money annually, secured by the guarantee of realty. Mort gages are only acknowledgments of the loan of money, for the repayment of which land is to stand responsible in the last resort. The legacy duty on annuities or mortgages secured on land is not paid by the owner of the land mortgaged, but by the legatee or the lender of the money, or the purchaser of the annuity ; and it is merely juggling with and hocus-pocussing the question, to class these instances as legacies arising out of land. It is the earner and producer of the money paid or lent alone whose commodity is in either case taxed by the state, not the proprietor of the realty over which it is secured. But two other answer, remain to the proposition. Mr. Pressly, a far more eminent authority on this subject than Mr. Trevor, de clares his belief in his evidence before the Lords—that the whole legacy duty affected by that section of the proceeds of the revenue does not reach 400,0001. ; and that it cannot amount to much more is obvious from the fact that Mr. Gladstone himself does not state the case higher than to allege that settlements arising out of land constitute seven-sixteenths of the whole ; and as the en tire duty does not exceed 1,300,0001., it is clear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own data do not afford him more than a return of 600,0001. from this source, a small proportion of the nearly 6,000,0001. which Mr. Williams demonstrates can be derived from the extension of the tax to real property. It is only our respect for facts, and our desire that Mr. Gladstone's perversion of them shall not pass current with the country, that has induced us to notice these inaccuracies ; because really the case against Mr. Gladstone is much better substan tiated by treating his assumptions as true than by exposing their inaccuracy. His own argument is the most convincing evidence of the falsehood of his conclusions, because if, under an Act which exempts realty from probate duty, seven-sixteenths of the whole tax is the pi-educe of that which it was the intention of the legislature to exempt from its operation, that is the very best reason why the privileged portion of real property should not escape the exactions to which the rest is subjected. A Chancellor of Exche quer must indeed be hard pressed for the means of heating off a motion when he can betake himself to the jejune plea which has formed the pons asinorum of his predecessors, that realty pays a heavy stamp duty on its transfer. In that it does no more than personal property ; and if receipt and bill, personal bond, insu rance, stock and share, and other stamps on the transfer of moveable effects, were reckoned up, it would Noon appear that, even of that burden, realty pays by no means in proportion to its share. Nothing also can be more puerile than the attempt to plead the burden of local taxation upon real property as a set-off against its exemption from imperial exactions. When Mr. Glad stone asserts that "of local taxation personal property knows nothing," we confess our amazement at its hardi hood. Is it the proprietor of freehold land or houses that pays the poor rate? No—that heaviest of all local imposts is levied exclusively upon the tenant or occupier, who pays a heavy rent to th e owner o f th e land, heavy tithe to the parson, heavy highway, police, sewage, light ing rates, to the local authorities, and a heavy rate for the relief of the poor—dues levied entirely from the person, and not at all from the property. Indeed, the only connexion which property has- with the tax is simply this—that the amount an occupier pays to his landlord is made the measure of what can be squeezed out of him for the maintenance of the parochial paupers. Nothing could well exceed the boldness of the official peroration. Only conceive the hardihood and powers of face which could sustain even a Chancellor of the Ex chequer in the attempt to plead for land exemption from legacy duty, on the ground of the injustice with which it is treated under the property and income-tax. It is the most literal fact in the prose of fiscal exaction, that, under that latter impost, a thousand pounds in money is taxed as much as a thousand a-year in land—and Mr. Gladstone urges that circumstance as a good reason for exempting land from probate duty altogether. We have thought it best to commence the examination of this subject by clearing this official rubbish out of the way. We shall take a future early opportunity to afford the public the full benefit of the admirable speech and the valuable facts contributed by Mr. Williams to the solu tion of this infinitely important question. BRIBERT-THE BALLOT. The Derby Election Committee has concluded a searching inquiry with a comprehensive and particular report. It has discharged all its duties, and the curtain drops with all the dramatis personce on the stage. Mr. Horsfall is unseated, and his civic crown transferred to Mr. Heyworth. With even-handed mercy, both of them have been allowed the opportunity of exculpating themselves from all knowledge of bribery. The petition against Mr. Bass has been declared frivolous and vexa tious. Thirteen recipients of bribes, three agents, the principal, Mr. , Thomas Morgan, and the man that brought the money, have all been designated, and the recipients ignominiously struck from the poll. Many more would probably have shared their fate had they been necessary ; but thirteen were more than enough to give Mr. Heyworth a majority trier his rival. The commit. tee further report the prevalence of corrupt practices at former elections, and recommend that parties engaged in them for the future should be punished with the loss of their fianchise. The only point in which the com mittee appears to have failed is one that is usually rather unattainable, and that is the detection of the parties that set the bribery going and supplied the sinews of war, or the " nail-heads, as they were called in this instance. Three per sons had been mentioned to the committee, but one was ill in bed, and the other two were not to be found, it being, in fact, no such very difficult matter to evade a committee of the House of Commons. As Mr. Frail and the illustrious "W. B." had already received their meed of fame from another committee, it was hardly consistent with British notions of justice to repeat their names again. But, with these exceptions, the whole story of the Derby election has been told, if not in the report, at least in the evidence. The sum Mr. Horsfall was ready to stand, the amount he set down, the figure actually drawn,—all " for legal expenses,"—and the ex act amount of the bribes in each case, are all stated with an exactness not always attainable in the Court of Bank ruptcy or Insolvent Debtors. On the whole, it may be pronounced quite a pattern report. It is a case to legis late upon. What makes it all the better is that there it is . nothing abnormal, monstrous, or extravagant about of a , no enormous expenditure ; hardly even a sh adow d an _ a con mystery. There is a minuteness in the scal e _ it cinnity in the design which seem to have cause got adapted ex pressly for Parliamentary use, •like a neat little up by lawyers for the purpose of trying a prihciple, di vested of superfluous issues. But does not every case of corruption admit of a lik e expose ?—and r why have we not at o nce a ready cure for this great public scandal ? Nobody ever doubted that it was in the power of the House of Commons to extin guish corruption, were it to set about the task in good earnest ; but there is the rub. A good committee, such as that which delivered its report yesterday morning, would probably unseat at least half the sitting members, and disqualify a respectable - fraction of the borough con stituencies. Conscience still whispers "Let hi m t h at is without sin cast the first stone ;', so no member will begin the attack. It is only the defeated candidate who will interfere to preserve the purity of the representa tion ; and, if he has not a pocketful of money, and a few zealous and clever auxiliaries, he may as well pocket his defeat and his indignation. The petitioner has to main tain an army of witnesses, foragers for evidence, attor neys, and counsel, in order to unseat his rival, with only a remote prospect of getting in himself; and happ ' he if he gets off with l ess th an 2,0001. Clearly so great a national duty as th a t o f d e f ending the British g Legis lature from the art s o f corruption ought not to be left to disappointed candidates, or to any private hands at all. But hitherto a ll th e l egislation and proceedings of the house on this delicate subject have gone on the sup position that it was the business of the public at lar ge t o purify the hou se , an d not of the house itself; as much as to say, "It is your place to return us ; do it in as clean a way as you can ; but, once returned, we are not going to denounce, to defame, and to unseat ourselves ; that's your business, if like dirty work." work." We say this, because it is evid en t there ar e various methods of dealing with such a case as that of Derby, without putting Mr. Lawrence Heyworth and his friends to the incalculable expense of a petition. A simple process in an ordinary court of law, a judicial tribunal created for the purpose, a local commission of inquiry in every case of disputed return, and even an oath put to every member, obliging him to state his be lief that no bribery had been committed to bring about his return, could not but abate the nuisance. But the House of Commons is not serious on this point, nor *ill it ever be till the terror of some imminent catastrophe— the ballot, perhaps—drives it to the work of self-purifi cation. That there is no real necessity for very strong mea sures, much less for so great an experiment as the ballot would undoubtedly be, we may see from the case before us. How much has been done under the existing state of the law ? First, "W. B." censured and disgraced ; then Mr. Frail in trouble and denounced ; then his agent, Mr. Morgan, caught, examined before magistrates, indicted, a true bill returned against him, and to be put on his trial forthwith, or his bail forfeited ; then a con siderable number of persons found guilty of bribery, and requiring only the operation of the police to be forth coming ; then thirteen corrupt voters struck from the poll, and just as easily struck from the register, if the house desires ; finally, the sitting member un seated, and the petitioner put in his place. All this has been done with the existing machinery of the law, and, though it is true plenty of money has been spent in the process, and there has been treason in the camp of the member petitioned against, no one can read the evidence and the report before us without feeling that every case of a corrupt return could be investigated with the same success, if the house only wished it. It is the will alone that is wanting. But how can that will not be wanting when the facts are as everybody knows them to be ? With some few happy exceptions, every member of the Lower House knows that, since last July, he has paid to some body, on account of his election, a sum very much larger than his legal expenses could possibly amount to. Indeed, he has not ventured to ask what those legal expenses area He shuts his eyes to the expenditure as much as the miserable creatures who confess in the evidence before us that they presented themselves at a bedroom door backwAls, with their hands behind them, and received 21. without seeing the donor. What one takes blindly the other gives blindly also. It's a case of walking backwards with one's hand behind through out the whole affair ; the candidate and his constituents walking backwards about the town, and sovereigns pas sing from one unseen hand to another. Of the whole 666 members, at least 600 know by the diminished balance at their banker's, if not by a still severer proof, that this is the real fact of the case, and coward con science accordingly unnerves them. Nay, since nothing is so bad as hypocrisy, and itself acquires a new horror when it pretends to be virtue, we cannot complain that the House of Commons refuses to manifest any extra ordinary indignation at every proved case of bribery. They that are so happy as not to be petitioned against only congratulate themselves on their good fortune, and blame not the sins, but the blunders and inexperience of the less fortunate.. But this state of things cannot long endure. Something must and will be done, or we shall have the ballot, and Heaven knows what beside. We must set our House in order, or we shall lose it, and with it, most probably, no small portion of what is valuable in the British constitution.—Times of Thursday. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE-MARCH 12. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Cherub, from St. Michael's ; Neptune, Guernsey ; Dania, Genoa • Deux Sceurs, Cha rente ; Anemone, Oporto ; Cuba, Algoa Bay ; Glenmore, Odessa • Cossack, Guernsey ; Seine, Boulogne ; Brougham, South *hale Fi s h er y ; Panther, Ostend ; Bordeaux, Cha rente ; Prosperitas, M oss ; Pauline, Rouen ; Wanderer, do. ; Susan, Guernsey ; Franc Coeur, Lucon ; Celerity, Caen ; Bengal, Calcutta ; St. Pierre, Graveline.s ; James, Cuba ; Chieftain, Mauritius ; Don, Gothenburg ; Mary, Messina • Walmer Castle, Calcutta ; Maid of Athens, Rodastoe ; Mincarlo, Malta ; Joseph, Guernsey ; Treaty, Rouen ; Prince Albert, Guernsey ; William Pitt, do. ; Emperor, Lacquillon ; Edith, Seville; Elizabeth, Taylor son, Berdianski ; Janvrin, Leghorn ; Steffan Opvich, Odessa; Petrino, Barletta. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Albemarle, for Port Philip ; Augusta, Lisbon ; John Heyes, Barce lona ' • Neptune, Hamburgh ; Equator, Algoa Bay ; Octa vio, Melbourne ; Walter Hood, Sydney ; Lady Hilda, Barbadoes ; Marie, Havre ; Panther, Ostend ; City of Boulogne, Boulogne. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Diana, for Stettin ; Rhine, Hamburgh ; Laura, Stettin ; Echo, Ant werp ; Caesar, Demerara; Centaur, Algoa Bay; Eclipse, Madeira ; Patriota, Malaga ; Susan, Genoa ; A n d a l us i a , New York ; Earl of Auckland, Rotterdam ; Lord Join; Russell, Harlingen ; Baron Osy, Antwerp ; Vesta, Gee long ; Eliza, Trinidad ; Sir Henry Hardinge, Port Philip ; Martin, Santander ; Brilliant, Copenhagen ; Pauline, Sydney ; Albemarle, Port Philip ; Thames, St. Kitt's ; Spykje Alida, Constantinople ' • Ccesarae Constantinople ; City of Rotterdam, Dunkirk ; Albion, Boulogne. GRAVESEND, March 12.—Arrived--The Seine, from. Boulogne ; Panther, Ostend ; Franc Coeur, Lucon ; Ben gal, Calcutta ; Emperor, Lacquillon ; Edith, Seville ; Elizabeth Taylorson, Berdianski. YOUGHAL, March 11. The Telscida, of Fiume, for Eng land, is on shore in Whiting Bay, and expected to be a total loss; the water flows over her at high tide ; crew saved._ REDCAR, March 12.—The Leonidas, of and for London, from Sunderland, got on Redcar Rocks, March 11, and re mains. March 11—The Britannia, from London to Hartle pool, has been got off shore, and proceeded for Whitby. BRIDLINGTON, March 11.—Arrived—The Zephyr, from Seaham, for Jersey, with broadside stove, from contact. PARIS, March 12.—The Jenne Leonie, D'lsigny, Isigny to Dunkirk, got on the rocks near Blanc Nez, in a fog, pre vious to the 10th March, filled immediately, and is not expected off; crew saved. CAGLIAIRI, March s.—There is an appearance to-day of a steady change in the weather, and there is every proba bility that the wind-bound vessels will be able to put to sea to-morrow or next day. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Maple Leaf, Dec. 6, lat. 25 N., long 64 W. The Helen Douglas, Calcutta to London, Jan. 20, lat. 10 N., long. 13 W. The Jane Green, Madras to London, Feb. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 27 W. The Adriana, Africa to Liverpool, March 3, lat. 47 N., long. 15 W. The,Rother, Pernambuco to Queenstown, Feb. 26, lat. 44 N., long. 30 W. . The Letitia, Mauritius to London, March 2, lat. 47 N., long. 25 W. The Violet, March 1, lat. 44 N., long. 13 W. The Briton, Singapore to London, lat. 47 N., long. 28 W. The Rappahannock New Orleans to Liv er p oo l , F e b . 28, lat. 24 N., long. 83 W . . The John and Lucy, New Orleans to Liverpool, Feb. 11, lat. 24 N., long. 80 W. The Mary Holland, Valparaiso to Liverpool, Feb. 28, lat. 49 N., long. 31 W., and supplied with provisions. The James Green, Madras to London, with rudder sprung, Feb. 28, lat 47 N., long. 29 The Inglefield (or Ingleboro), Mauritius to Queenstown; March 3, lat. 49 N., long. 21 W. The Braken Moor, New York to London, March 5, lat. 49 N., long. 14 W. The William Gibson, Bombay to Liverpool, Feb. 26, lat. 44 N., long. 30 W. The Canada (barque), from Singapore, Dec. 26., lat. 2.24 W. The Sarah Budge, of Portland, Jan. 29, lat. 34 N., long. 24 W. The Jessie Mann, Liverpool to New Orleans, 30th, lat. 24 N., long. 23 W. The Witness, of Neath, for Austr a li a , Feb. 18, lat. 38 NN. long. 23 W. ~ Mirzapore, London to Calcutta, 22d, lat. 41 N., long. 14 W. The Rochester, from the South Seas, Feb. 25. A large ship, No. 46, under the Union Jack, Nov. 25, lat. 9 S., long. 88 E. The Bell, Dec. 14, lat. 28 S.,long. 50 E. The Pemberton, off Cape t. Thomas, coast of Afri ca , 28th. The Tribune, Dec. 31, lat. 35 S., long. 17 E. The Mary Spencer, Jim. 17, lat. 9 S., long. 13 W. The May Queen, Coringa Bay to London, M arc h 1, lat. 44 N., long. 28 W. The Albatross, Liverpool to Melbourne, Jan. 20, lat. 13 S. long. 37 W. lathe e Alba on tross (ship), Liverpool to M e lb ourne, Jan. 20, .S., lg. 37 W. The May Queen, Coringa to London, March 1, lat. 44 N., long. 28 W.; The Gloriosa, London to Calcutta, Feb. 22, lat. 48 N., long. 8 W. BAILWAT SHARE MARKETS. LIVER POOL —liana( 12. STOOK EXCHANGE. —The market was flat all day, but very little change can be noted in prices, which have been reported as follows in the authorised list :—Aberdeen, 15 ; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (Chester and Birk enhead, 21i ; E as t ern Counties, 13 13-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 784 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 17i ; Midland, 76i ; Newry , and Warrenpoint, 94; South Eastern and Dover, 2313; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire (6 per cent.), 15 ; Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln (101. shares), 11. MANCHESTER—Mena( 12. STOCK EXOHANGE.—There has been an average business with but little fluctuation in prices. Blackburn, 7i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire 77i ; Manchester and Birmingham, C qrs., 1i prem. ; Manchester and Sheffield, 29k ; ditto 10/. pref., 11; ditto new 61. pref., k prem. ; South-Eastern, 23 7-16. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH n. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a fair amount of business done here to-day, and shares generally are in ad vance. LEEDS —MARCH 12. STOCK EXCITANGE.—We have had but little change in the share market this morning. The market *as, however, firm, and the prices of yesterday were maintained. Eastern Counties were done at 134 ; Leeds Northerns at 16i ; Mid lands at 76a ; and York and North Midlands at 291. :ADVERTISIMENT.]—EQUITY AND LAW LIES ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY.—The annual general meeting of this society was held at the offices, 26, Lincoln's-inn-Fields, on Friday, the 11th instant,—George Lake Russell, Esq., in the chair. It appeared, by the report of the directors, that 4,3171. 7s. 7d. had been received for new premiums on assurances in 1852 ; that the expences of management had been diminished, while the losses by death was 2,0001. below those of the preceding year. and less by upwards of 1,6001. than the amount received for new premiums. The receipts for the year exceeded the charge by upwards of 17,0001., and the investments had increased in the same period nearly 22,0001. The retir ing directors and auditors were re-elected. LEICESTER, MARCH 10.—The confidence felt by m any manufacturers, that the present advanced rates both of worsted and cotton will be maintained, keeps employ ment plentiful. There is a fair business doing in the warehouses for the season in worsted goods, a n d t h e demand for cotton hose is very extelsive r • COUNTRY MARKETS. DALKEITH—MARCO 10. The relative weight per four bushels of the three Fie. of wheat were 18st 61b, 18st 21b, and 17st 21b. Oats, 13st o.(b, 12st 61b, and 13 st 91b. Barley, 16st 41b, 15 71b, and 14,st 121 b. Peas and beans, 19st 41 b, 19st 01b, and 17st 121 b. Q 36 rs. Best .rrent. Inferior. 5 Wheat........... £ 2 1 5 6 £ 2 9 0 £ 2 „ 1 4 1,855 Oats ................1 2 8 10 0 , 0 7 I 0 365 B arley..._. • • ••• ....1 18 0 1 9 3 1 67 Peas and beans...l 18 0 115 0 110 0 Average of wheat, 2/. 8s sid. HADDINGTOI The following are the prig to-day : N—MABCH 11. :es of grain at our market BSANS. WHZAT. BARLEY. OATS. Od First s6s Od 38s Od 28s Oa 43 s AA Second 47s Od 33 8 3d 22s 3 d 35s „,"'" Third 378 Od 28s 6d 18s Od 32s v. Total quantity of wheat in market, 470 qrs., ), ~ barley „ 385 qrs., 338 sold ff 7, OntS 9lB qrs., 730 s°, 212 001 ' beans23B qrs., ~ 409 solil ABERDEEN—MARcs 11. The prices of grain are—Old oats, 00s Od to OOs r °d ' 401bs per bushel ; new oats, 00s Od to 17s Od , 401bs Pe bushel ; bear, 28s Od to 28s Gd, 531bs per bushel ; barley 00s Od to 283 Od, 531bs per bushel ; wheat, rod , 42s ti v; c s i, 00s Od, 621bs per . Jushel ; wheat, white, 48s Od , b o ll; 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 15s Od P er flour, 38s Od to 39s Od per sack. Provisions--Beef, Per 54:1 to 7d ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4{lto ; ~ pork, per stone, 5s Od to Os Od ; lamb, per lb, O d , od; rabbits, each, 7d to 8d ; tallow, per stone, 4s Od to Os a d; potatoes, per peck, lstols 2d ; butter, per lb, 9 d t°to eggs, per doz, Os 7d to Os 9d ; hens, per pair, 3 5 0 . 64 3a 6d. ; chickens, ditto, .2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks, dittf . „.' keys , to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od 'to Os 'ittier each, 4s Od to 5s Od ; geese, ditto, 4s Od. to 5s Od ; for exportation (present cure), per cwt, 85s to °esric e, ditto (summer cured), OOs to OOs Od ; eggs, w holeole per dozen, 6d to Od ; 41b loaf, 7d ; 21b loaf, fine small, Os Od to Os Od ; pork, large, Os Od to Os INVERNESS.--MARCH 8. el' CORN.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 621 k w bpd; 48s Od to 52s Od ; barley, ditto, 541 b ditto, 28s Oct Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 20s Od to 21s Od. ditto MEA v..—Oatmeal, per imp. boll. 16s 8d to Os v" . ; set-ord, 15s 6d to Os Od ; barleymeal, Us 6d to Od; peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od ; bran, per stone, Os 7d to Od Ist flour, per 2801 b, 40s Od to 42s Od •2d ditto, Ws Sd 32s Od; oatmeal, best, per st. of .'l4lb 4d to Os Od ; dit:;o second, is 6d to Os Od ; barleymea l to Os Od ; peasemeal, ls 6d to Os Od ; Ist flour, 2s 9(1 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. p er PROWSlONS.—Potatoes ' per Aerie, 6d to Od i"'"4d to lb, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d to 5(1 ; mutton, ditto, 12d ; 6d ; pork, ditto, 3d to 4d; fowls, each, 10d ' 4 ' idd.; chickens, per pair, 10d to 12d ; ducks, each, lld to i od ; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d ; butter, fresh, per lb., Oc t° „, ocl ; ditto, salt, per lb., 9d to 10d ; croudie (curds), 2„.i l L-01; four-pound loaf, fine, 7d to 744:1 ; ditto, second, Vl' coals, per cwt., 94:1 to Od; hay,' per stone, 10d to roil' CORK-31eRcn 11. Brls. Currene„, s 4 o o. White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od Os Od =2v " 13 Redwheat 22s 9d to 24s Od Ditto 00s Gd to OOs Od 00s Od- 0 do ' Ditto 00s •Od to 00s Od 83 Barley l4s 2d to 14s 8d 16 do,— DittoHs Od to 00s Od 14s 6d - Ditto 00s, Od to 00% Od Bere 00s Od to 00s Od Os Oa 127 Oats 9s 8d to lOs 4,1 do, 119 Ditto lOs 4d to lls Od lOs 1(1 Ditto OOs Oct to OOs Od 7 Pigs 2Bs Od to 43s Gd OOs Od Per opt Quantity sold at the highest prices :—„ „„ re • 59 00 barrels white wheat ; 7 red ; 16 barley ; v '"-- oats ; 5 pigs. ~ ~... Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last 10 ,3 ' 0 ' 4 90, Wheat, 205. Barley, 391. B ere , 0. Oats, '' Pigs, 342. PRICES OF BUTTER. cuasxNa• 8. 9 First quality ---- 94s First quality ................ Second quality - e • Third quality B Bs Thi r d quality.; ............. Fourth aua li ty Fifth quality 7os Fifth quality ............... 49$ Sixth quality sBa Sixth quality .............. Return of cattle sold'for week ending March 5 Pigs, 621. Sheep, 234. Cows, 83. in Od; CORR.—Flour— First, 15s Od t o 16 3 Od ; extra, "" t hird l4 ! seconds, 14s Od to 14s 6d ; households, lOs to 13s Od Sg 6a, 8s Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 8s Od W o ft' oatmeal, lOs 6d to 11s0d; wheat meal, 10s 6d to 11 0 P e es Indian corn, 71 5s Od to 81 Os Od per t o n. Bra'', 41 ; e i rog e ' to 4/ 15s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers, 25 8 0 d to 325 Od ; r p-' 295; dealers, OOs Od to OOs Od ; average, Os per ton. A :, Od Farmers, 15s Od to 23s Od ; average, 18s ; dealers, 7d t OOs Od ; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf, 9 4 to Od ; household ditto, 6d to Od per 41b.—Fresh buttor,,beof, lld per lb. Eggs, 4s 8d to 4s 101 per hundred. ble a t stitf 4{l 4toBd ; mutton, 5Ad to bid ; veal, 4-Ad to 60 ; 1 3 2. 2. '"f o ttna' 6d ; bacon, 7d to 74d - ; sausages, 6d peilb.—Fish,rl o (10‘; . p in gs, land, 111. Os to 121 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 280 Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 9d to 10d 160 lld to 12d.—Coals, Newport, 218; Lydnoy, 2ls ; Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s Od per imperig , Hides, market, 25s to 32s ; Salted, 26s to 32s per OW t i on , , " skins, 3Ad per lb.—Bangor slates 2/. 17s. 6d to 31. per p et Fleece wool, 15s to 16s per stone.—Hemp, 38/. to 4 1;404 ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 10s ; red pi ne , 3/ . 10 8 • Yoll°- redo 3/. ss. per ton; deals, 16/. to 181. per hundred. Bark, 1 ,0, 81. to St. 10s. per ton.—Tall ow , 46 s t o 47 0 per c . oor 71. lOs to 01. per cwt.—Tar, Archangel , 19s. 19s p er Peruvian, 101. lOs to 11/. p er ton. CANT. SEA (N signifies that the fr by the night—and M by COUNTRIES. BORNE MAIL mils are sent from the the morning --dispatch. Day when made ni in General Post- Office, London. America(byrtrit.pack)N America (by. United Sts. packet)........N America (by U. States Every Friday ... March 22 ....... March 1 6.... ... packet) ........ . Australia (via South ampton) ...... M Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Mood Hope) ...... •• • ...N 2d of April ...... Africa ( West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Alexandria.. .... . NB, 9, 24, &30of m. Alexandria.. ..M 4th & 20th of mon. Bahamas Belgium Brazil ..............3f 9th of the month.. Buenos Ayres ........M 9th of the month.. Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Cape of Good HOpe ..N 2n4 of April Cape de Verds ......N 14th of the month. Ceylon (see India) Ceylon .... ....N Channel Isles China (see India) Constantinople ......N Constantinople M cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France N Gibraltar ..........M Greece (sea India) Greytown ..M 2nd & 17th of mon. Hamburgh Tuesday & Friday Havannah .........,M 2nd of the month Holland • ..... M Wednesday & Sat. Honduras . M 17th of the month. India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. India (via Marseilles)M Bth& 24th of month lonian Isles (see India) Ireland M & N Twice daily ...... L i sbon ••• m 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. Madeira M 9th of the month Madeira ........... N 23rd of the month Malta (see Indi a ) Malta ..............N 7,17,19,27, 30 of m. Mauritius (see India) Mauritius •• 14th of the month Mexico ............M 2nd of the month.. Naples .. ........ .N sthlstla2sthofmon. ,New Granada ......31 2d & 17th of month New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. Papal States sthl sth2sthoflnon. Peninsula ..........M 7 thl7th27thormon Peru 2d & 17th of mon. Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month Sicily ..N sthl s th2sthofmon, Tuscany N sth 15th25thofmon. Venezuela .. • M 2d & 17th of month Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) West Indies .. 3112 d & 17th of month': 4th of May Bth of May ..... 114th of the month Mon „Wed ,&Fr'd. Lid & 17th of month aaneral 's , „, 0 t.ofrce 1 From what Fort Dispatched. Liverpool • •• I LiTerP ool • • • Isouthampton IsonthamPton foyer iso Plymouth • • Plymouth • • Dover .. • • • • Southampton Southampton Dover .. • • • • Southampton uthampton Plymouth • • Plymouth • • Plymouth • • Plymouth Southampton Southampton 7,8,17,21,8:27 of m. 4th 8: 20th of mon Twice daily Dover .• . •• Southampton Dover ... •• Twice daily... 4,7, 17, 20,27 of m Doter ...••• 1 Southampton] Southampton London .. • • • Southampton London • • Southampton Southampton Dover • • • • • • Holyhead • • • Southampton Southampton Plymoath •• When due in . , Enghin". lEach gab mArO tiara , io 1 Dover .. . • • • Lrn 4 I P p r 11 I Plymouth •• Southampton Dover . •• Southampton Various porti Dover . • • Southampton Southampton Plymouth •• 'Dover .... . • SO j A a p n ril 1 1 6 larch 2 0 fa r '' o 0 I s t of f t ' March if Mare' 1 6 Pe i' M a t 26 gar 0 Marc 0 March Marc h := 6 *' iv 01 '16 garcji (Dover • • • • • • soathampton ga rCh _, 15160 solthamptonl T~cALIII r " - 16 0161 pato. - pt. 1 . 0 0 ; APr'oe goo• 15 g 0 Mar c ' 16 igarch rific - 06 fif -16 Marciiarc is 0 /1. 1 .;01 , 1 00 1— ga r / 1 60 garf:so AP — 1 6 Mare," I 6 htsrv: 96 %ar c h " 0 flare 0 Mort' 0 54,01' ,ioo' 6 I PI de [ADVERTISEMENT.J—HoIIoviray's Pills for the „ti yo d Asthmatic Coughs, and a ll Diseases of the CLl es il a ea" Lungs.—A gentleman named Middleton, of 801 l road, Liverpool, states, in a letter to Professor 01 11 way, dated Jan. 1, 1853, th a t f or upwards of gc.,,, e / o leo! he suffered severely f rom as th ma , attended with a ,V ta teo cough, which so prostrated hi s s t reng th and deb',:f the his constitution a s t o t a lly t o un fit hi m f o r sel of active duties of life. He was attended 13 9, t , h° r eminent medical m e n, b u t a ll f a il e d t o g ive " - t nthr' At length he tried H o llo wa y' s Pill s , an d in abl" c ar/ months this wonderful medicine e ff ec t e d a Per' Sol' of his disease, and restored him to sound healtiL t biisb' by all druggists, and a t Professor H o ll o way's s- ment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. OF A BON. cho"' On the 10th inst., at Edinburgh, the wife 4, 0 1430. -"" w if Balfour, Esq., of Cleveland-terrace, Hyde-park, e On the nth inst., at Beltwood, Syd e nham, th e Edward Saxton, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. of On the sth inst., at Upper Deal, the v al. Backhouse, C. 8., late of the Bengal ArtillerY._/ MA RRI ED . the 2 0 1 ger , At Bangalore, Lieutena n t J. H. Knott, o f A lo ge King's Own Borderers, to Isabella Clementine, Li v a- 0 ,0 0 of the late W. Faskin, Esq., surgeon i n the • i Army. Isvi ch W °° ti' l On the 10th inst., in St. Mary's-church , 4 , s A l l, , Captain N. S. K. Bayly, Royal Artillery, itcV Charlotte, daughter of Colonel H. W. Gordon,... Artillery. On the 3d inst., at Cove D n i t ED , J . . Flytter, r , —sq" tussiii tt°t 1 surgeon 4th Dragoon Guards. ry „r, ii w' 0 0 On the 18th January at St. Vincent's, of Ye,,, —° 0 . 0 orn' t Sir John Campbell, of ./clnamurchan, Bart., la' '- v of that island. On the Bth inst. at at 5, Newington-terraees Rathu/itle* aged 72, Rowland Price, Esq. . prod° . On the 6th inst., on Woolwich-common, Carotin nobe' Caddy Robe, third daughter of Colonel Sir VirilMl t igerf i R.C.8., K.T.S., an d K . 0 .11., of the Royal H orse °I-wife of On the 7th inst., at Rochester, Mary Ann, Ca Onin Wollcock, R.N. c o dtht the 10th inst.. a Chigwell, Essex, Margaret iron' ce wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Squire, late of the 13 . 1,01 Albert's) Light Infantry, aged 67. ____,../-- yOr 01 "' LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO • 11 2 i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, _ n o Strand, in the Product of the Savoy, in the. cow' Middlesex, Monday, Marcia 14, -1803. I