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pleasure in tb milking you in proper te rms." Harney, with the modesty of true valou r, claimed the praise as due to his officers and men. Thus did the division of the gallant veteran Twiggs carry the main position of the enemy, and occupy the fort which com manded the read. It was here the enemy received their heaviest loss, and their general, Vasquez, was killed. A little after, General Worth, having by great exertions passed the steep and craggy heights on the enemy's left, summoned a strong fort on the rear of the Cerro to surrender. This fort was manned by a large force. under General Pinzon, a mulatto officer of considerable ability and courage, who, seeing the Cerro carried, thought prudent to surrender, which he did with all his force. General Shields was not so fortunate in the battery which he attacked, and which was commanded by General La Vega. A heavy fire was opened on him, under which the fort was carried with some loss by the gallant Illinoisians, under Baker and Bennett, supported by the New Yorkers, under Burnett. Among those who fell under this fire was the gallant geneeral, who received a grape shot through his lungs, by which he was completely paralysed, and at the last accounts was in a lingering state. On the enemy's right G eneral Pillow commenced the attack against the strong forts near the river. The Tennesseans, under Has kill, led the column, and the other volunteerregiments followed. The column unexpectedly encountered a heavy fire from a masked battery, by which Has - kill's regiment was nearly cut to pieces, and the oth er vo lunteer regiments were severe l y h andled. Pillow withdrew his men and was preparing for ano ther attack when, the operations at the other points having proved successful, the enemy concluded to sur render. Thus the victory was complete, and four generals and about 6,000 men were taken prisoners by our army, and one of their principal generals and a large number of other officers killed. The Mexican force on this occasion certainly exceeded our own. The Mexican officers admitted that Santa Anna had had 8,000 men in the lines, and 6,000, including 2,000 lancers, outside of the entrenchments. General Scott's force was about 8,000, General Quitman's brigade not having arrived in time to take part in the engagement. General Ampudia was second in com mand of the Mexicans and superintended the opera tions of the enemy. When the Cerro was carried he was seen retreating on a fine white charger, his hat falling off as he galloped away. Many of the Mexi cans escaped by a bye path which runs off from the main road between the Cerro and the fort carried by General Worth. As to Santa Anna and Canalizo, they retreated in time to escape by the main road. Their conduct is regarded as most cowardly. Some of the Mexican officers who were taken prisoners do not hesitate to attribute their defeat to the cowardice of Santa Anna. The force of the enemy was composed of their best soldiers. The infantry that fought so well at Buena Vista, all the regular artillerists of the Re public, including several able naval officers,were present. Some of the officers whom General Scott rsleased at the capitulation of Vera Cruz, without extorting the parole on account of their gallantry, were found among the killed and wounded. A gallant young officer, named Flalzinger, a German by birth, wh o e x t or t e d the admiration of our army in the bombardment of Vera Cruz by seizing a flag which was cut down by our balls and holding it up in his hands until a staff could be prepared, had been released by General Scott without a parole. He was found among th. , desperately wounded at Cerro Gordo. The enemy's loss (in killed and wounded) was about as large as our own; but in addition to this the loss of some 6,000 prisoners and some of their best officers. Our army captured about 30 pieces of beautiful brass cannon of large calibre and mostly manufactured at the Royal Foundry of Seville. A large quantity of fixed am munition of very superior quality was also taken. The private baggage and money chest of Santa Anna, containing 20,000 dollars, was also captured. The latter was delivered over to the Pay department. The volunteers who were employed in carrying the specie into camp cracked many a joke over the prospect of being so soon paid off in Mexican coin and free of ex pease to Uncle Sam. When our forces had carried the various position of the enemy and the road was cleared, General Twiggs started in hot pursuit of the fugitive Santa Anna, and pre sse d c l ose upon his heels. A strong ' position, five mil es west of Cerro Gordo, . , fortified and defended by a battery of long brass guns, was abandoned by the enemy and occupied by our troops. General Twiggs bivouacked within three miles of the lovely town of Jalapa. In concluding our imperfect sketch of this brilliant achievement, we cannot sufficiently express our ad miration of the extraordinary deeds of our gallant army and able General. Scarcely a month has elapsed since our troops under Scott landed on the enemy's shores. In that time a strong walled city has been capt ure d, t oget h er w i th an impregnable fortress ; a pit c h e d b a t t l e h as b een fought under the most unfavourable circumstances and against the most formidable natural defences ; 12,000 prisoners have been taken, including some half a dozen general officers ; 500 splendid cannon and an immense amount of munitions of war have been added to the national trophies. Truly, such results are glorious testi anonials of the valour of our soldiers, and the perse verance of the accomplished General who led them. LATEST FROM MEXICO. The New Orleans papers of the 6th May give the following as the latest intelligence from Mexico : Upon the receipt of the news of the defeat at Cerro Gordo, the Mexican Congress held an extraordinary session, at which a decree was passed, dictating to all Mexicans the importance of carrying on the war, and defending the nationality of the Republic. It also prohibits the Executive from making peace with the United States, or concluding negotiations with foreign powers disposing of any part of their territories. The decree pronounces all to be traitors, whether private persons or public functionaries, who make any treaty with the United States, and declares such treaty to be null and void. A permanent Committee is to be installed, should Congress find it impossible to continue its session. On this Committee is to devolve the whole duties of the Government Counsel, and appoint, in case of vacancy, a temporary Executive. The powers of the Committee to cease at the con elusion of the war. There were more than eighty Members of Congress present at this extraordinary meeting, and great unanimity prevailed. The Picayune has letters from Jalapa, dated 25th, 26th, and 28th of April, Vera Crnz of the 29th. General Worth was still at Peyote, with 2,500 men. He had advanced one brigade with its battery, to enlarge the circuit with supplies. The arrival of a diligence at Vera Cruz from Jalapa, on the 28th, brought the intelligence that Mr. Bankhead, the British Minister, had offered mediation and Congress was acting upon the propo sition. It was reported that a strong party in favour of peace had formed at the Capital. A few light breastworks had been thrown up in the vicinity of the city of Mexico, but nothing like a re gular defence had been undertaken. The citizens seemed to be stupified by the successive defeats of their troops. Santa Anna had written to the Government from Orizaba, that he had 1,500 men, and wanted rein forcements and money. His demands were, however, unheeded, and the Government and people appear to have lost all confidence in him. The Puebla paper of the 24th declares that a party of Mexicans, headed by Rejon and Gomez Farias, had determined to sell the Republic to the American vandals. By an express arrived at Vera Cruz, on the 29th, information had been received that Lieutenant Dixon, in command of a detachment of 102 convalescent sol diers, on their way to Jalapa, had been attacked by 300 Mexicans. _ _ _ A wagon train had also been captured, and fears are entertained for another. It was rumoured that General Taylor had arrived at San Luis, but not that he had taken that city. It was also reported that the Mexicans intend leav ing the roads entirely free from Jalapa out to Puebla, bat entrenching themselves in the latter place. of A lprr.olution is said to have broken out in the city T T e xico mex yl ic gainst Santa Anna. accounts of the battle of Cerro Gordo say that s ut r a against 14,00 o; and finally sustained himself with 6,000 li nally being entirely surrounded, cut his way tb rou the 4th infantry. 8 the Yankees with a column of The Mexicans admit that two of their Generals f were killed, but General. Sc ott's loss is put down at o wou ur nded. two thousand, killed t thousand, and as many General Salas has issued that he was empowered to r a i se aoc lam ation, decla r i ng calls on all good Mexicans to join hrstrilr°rPs, and The New Orleans Picayune has receive d an ac of the killed and wounded at Cerro ,Zunt was no officer of the Regulars killed -14 - " w e e :: wounded, 39 privates were killed and 196 wounded. One Volunteer officer was killed and seven wound e d, three privates killed and 48 wounded. Total, 43 killed, 265 wounded. Letters received , ex p res s con fidence that General Shields will recover. L loss OP THE SPLENDID STEAMER AM BASSADOR BY FIRE ON THE MISSIS SIPPI. The St. Louis Republican furnishes the following particulars of the burning of the steamer Ambas sador : " The boat, on her passage to New Orleans, grounded at Carroll's Island, just below Jeff.rson Barracks, and lay in that position until April 26, four o'clock, when, with the assistance of the Tobacco Plant, and after taking out a great portion of her cargo, she was re lieved, and proceeded to take in her cargo. " Her freight consisted of corn, wheat, some 300 or 400 bales of hemp, and a quantity of flour. They continued to take in cargo at night, and about ten o'clock a candle fell from its place an d immediately communi cated to a bale of hemp in the hold. Great efforts were made to stop the progress of the fire, but they were un availing. " Meanwhile the officers of the Tobacco Plant, which was alongside, rendered all the assistance poss i ble in removing the furniture of the burning boat, while the flames were confined below. " Finding all efforts fruitless, the magnificent steamer was cut adrift, and soon was a mass of flame. She again grounded near the place of the first disaster, and there burned to near the water's edge. " It is estimated that about 5,000 sacks of grain were still. on shore, and the Tobacco Plant had some 200 bales of hemp on her deck. The cattle on the guards of the boat all escaped, and made their way to the shore. " Still as the boat was very heavily freighted —pro bably to the extent of 700 or 800 tons—the loss of cargo must be very great. The loss of the boat is equally severe. She wa.s a splendid vessel, finished as a passenger boat, and intended for the cotton trade. " She was worth, it is supposed, 20,000 dollars, and there was insurance only to the amount of 8,000 dollars. Captain Brenham was the principal, if not the sole owner. " We cannot hear cf the loss of any lives, but the deck passengers, of whom there were a gr ea t ma ny, lost everything which they possessed. They were taken on board the Tobacco Plant, and brought to this city, and yet remain on her." THE SHRAPNEL SHELL. The following is tLe petition of Mr. Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel (son of the late General Shrapnel, the inventor of the Shrapnel Shell), presented to the House of Commons on the 14th of May, by Mr. T. S. Dun combe " The humble petition of Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, of Midway Manor House, near Bradford, in the county of Wilts, now residing at Lodge, Gosport, in the county of Rants, Esq., late of her Majesty's 3d Regiment of Foot Gum ds, now Cap tain in the 2d Regiment of Somerset Militia, " Showeth,—That your petitioner is the eldest son and heir-at-law of the late Lieutenant-General Shrapnel, the inventor of the celebrated Shrapnel shell. "That General Shrapnel, the father ofyour petitioner, entered the Royal Artillery on the 9th of July, 1779, at the age of twenty-one, and was ordered abroad, where he distinguished himself. That he served in Newfound land in 1780 82, where he was thanked in public orders by Colonel Sir Robert Pringle, for a quick method of fixing an 8-inch howitzer, whereby much good service was rendered. " That your petitioner's father served at Gibraltar and in Hollz.snd, and the seige of Dunkirk, under Sir William Congreve; subsequently to Swan Island, Bar badocs, St. Vincent's, Daminice, Antigua, and various other places abroad, at all of which he acquitted him self with ere dit. "That the father of your petitioner was also the in ventor of the tangient slide, which has brought our artillery to its present perfection, by the accuracy with which the range can by its means be ascertained; anti is now generally in use both in the artillery of army a:.d navy. " That General Shrapnel, your petitioner's father, was likewise the proposer of hollow shot. " That the Shrapnel shell, invented by your peti tioner's father, is a discovery allowed by the most illus - trious of the British commanders to have contributed greatly towards most of the splendid victories gained by the British troops on the continent of Europe and East Indies during the last forty years and upwards, and that the effect of the shell has been to extend the destructive power of musketry, and with much greater effect. " That General Shrapnel, your petitioner's father, had the honour of making experiments before his late Majesty King George the Third and great number of officers. * " Its importance to the nation being admitted by his Grace the Duke of Wellington and other distinguished military and naval officers. "In Portugal, the campaign of 1808, the Boarl of Ordnance in August supplied Col. Robe with the shell, who thus expresses himself:—` Your shot is the ad miration of the whole army; I should not do my duty to the service were I not to attribute our good fortune to the use of that weapon. I told Sir Arthur Wellesley I meant to write you, and asked if it may be with his concurrence. His answer ,was, yen may say anything you please; you cannot say too much.' " That the decisive advantages from the use of the shell, which in those splendid achievements distin guished the British arms—the storming of Gusnee, at the battle of the Kyber Pass, Jellalabad, during the Burmese war, and Affghanistan—are.fully testified by those distinguish e d officers, Lord Keane, Sir A. Camp bell, Sir W. Nott, Major General Pollock, Sir Robert Sale, Lord Gough, and Sir Harry Smith. "That your petitioner is fully persuaded that the applicability of his late father, General Shrapnel's, in vention to all the purposes of marine warfare, has like wise been fully estattishe:l. " That your petitioner's father, during a period of nearly fifty years, in bringing by long serve es of scientific experiments the invention to perfection, is prepared to show that his late father expended upwards of sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty pounds. Your peti tioner's father never received a grant of public money, although other individuals who have deserved well of their country have invariably had their services acknow ledged, and with commensurate honours and rewards, anti those who have used this new weapon have titles, honours, rewards. " That General Shrapnel, your petitioner's late father, mentioned the well-known fact, as your petitioner is prepared to prove—that so fully sensible was the late Emperor Napoleon of the immense value and importance of the Shrapnel shell, in the various operations of war, that in the month of September, 1813, he caused a com munication through a confidential quarter to be made to your petitioner's father, intimating that a certain large sum of one million pounds sterling should be placed to your petitioner's father'S account if he would disclose the secret of the invention—a proposal he, your peti tioner's father, indignantly rejected. "That in 1814, after repeated urgent representations to the Government, a pension of one thousand two hundred pounds, in lieu of three hundred end sixty-five pounds per annum, which was previously allowed to your peti tioner's father for improvement in artillery, was tardily granted to your petitioner's father ; therefore, only in amount eight hundred and thirty-five pounds, the three hundred and sixty-five pounds being withdrawn. " The first time your petitioner's father felt this, your petitioner believes, was in regard of a claim of five thousand pounds which your petitioner's father had on the Honourable East India Company, the amount of a settled per centage upon shells with which the Company had been furnished, of which sum, as also all future emolument, your petitioner's father was deprived, except a small annuity of two. hundred pounds per annum. " The 9th of October, 1806, Major Cunningham, the East India Company's inspector, intimated officially to your petitioner's late father that it was proposed to grant him ten per cent. on the amount of all shells, which the major suggested, a plan for continuing the benefit to the general's heir upon the general's decease ; but this ar rangement was not afterwards carried out and com pleted, by which the general lost an income of several thousands per annum, and all this by the Ordnance Board of the day. "It appears that the East India Company for the term of seven years was to allow your petitioner's late father twenty-five pounds per 1,000 shells supplied or to be supplied ; but this, through the Board of Ordnance, was discontinued. " The Duke of Wellington, for national policy, deemed that the invention of the shell should not be made public—suggesting that a patent should be taken out, without entering up the specification. The East India directors succeeded in getting what they required; but the new founder, not understanding the niceties at tending the manufacture of the shell, unusual num bers of the shell burst, and in consequence they (the Company) returned to your petitioner's late father and the Carron Company. " When 200,000 shells had been supplied to the East India Company your petitioner's late father applied for payment of the per centage, amounting to five thousand pounds, which was refused, and the Board of Ordnance denied, though the Company admitted, the original con tract ; and the Board denied your petitioner's late father, in a despotic style, the power to restrict them as your petitioner's father had been granted a pension for the same. " Thus was the East India Company's claim settled at once—not according to reason and justice, which was unhappily the case a few years ago by high-minded authority—by' cancelling a debt of five thousand pounds. " That the injurious contraction put on the increased pension of eight hundred and thirty-five pounds—not one thousand two hundred pounds—has been the cause of the East India Company withdrawing their payments to your petitioner's late father, though August 9th, 1816, they ordered a supply of 52,000 and 84,000, offering the usual per centage, amounting to three thousand four hundred pounds, with reduced per centage, your peti tioner's late father did not accede to. " The pension seems to have shut out your petitioner's late father, and deprived him of appointments which he, your petitioner's father, by his rank and lengthened services and seniority would have been entitled to, of treble the amount. " Your petitioner's late father addressed Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General of Ordnance, stating that the pension of one thousand two hundred pounds was in lieu of several grants, and in reply draws the inference that the one thousand two hundred a year, being in lieu of several other sums, could never be considered as one thousand two hundred pounds for shells. " Your petitioner, on behalf of his father, asserts that, had he made no invention, he would have succeeded to an income of one thousand and sixty-two pounds, without being previously an inspector of artillery, of which your petitioner's father had an assurance, and which is only one hundred and thirty-seven pounds short of the pension of one thousand two hundred pounds ; and yet his income was considerably less than the other commandants : so by the pension of 1,200/., and a bar to promotion 1,062/., 1371. 10s., your peti tioner's late fath er ' s rank, stading, and long services of upwards of half a century. " That your petitioner's late father, during his 62 years' service, obtained an income equal to the other commandants, though not one of them ever invented any invention ever heard of ; and he, your petitioner's late father, would, as a matter of course, receive not only appointments to seniority, but ample income, and by which your petitioner's late father would have saved sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty pounds for the benefit of his family. " That your petitioner's late father suffered the fol lowing act of grievous injustice:--Your petitioner's late father was a senior in the artillery branch of the service to Lord Bloomfield by two years ; and it is a well known rule that no officer in artillery should be put over the head of a superior officer, yet in consequence of Lord Bloomfi e ld being an aide to George the Fourth was appointed in 1823 ; and Lord Bloomfield succeeded Sir should d 1 havel4Le been odo ; f :th a e n h d o , horse , battalion, bcaotntsaecilioune,neeveh,ich placed him, Lord Bloo m fi e ld , at the bead of that distingu i she d b ran ch of the prof ess i on, where your petit i oner ' s l a te father a r petitioner'sitthousand and wasseven hundred between the h orse and fooloss artillery of four thousand a nd twenty-seven p ounds five shillings to the day of his death. Y e t L ord Bloomfield b ea rs testimony to your petitioner's late f a th er ' s super i or a biliti e s and science ; also de po iv u e n d d s f t o the yo additional dio n a f l four pay father, and further adds, ' Your royal shell contains one hun dred and sixty-six carbine balls—those thrown with the velocity of one thousand feet a second; think of the destruction, and shudder.' "Let the united voices of the army and navy speak its value to the inventor and his country of the Shrapnel shell ; the smallest profit or per-centage for so many years on the millions of shells which have been manu facturedadn for th e h onourable B oar d of Ordnance East India Company for upwards of forty years ; and and when your petitioner's late father c ommunicated to Government the secr e t, f oreseen how they would have acted, would have legally secured to himself a patent, as advised by Earl Moira ; and it is against services and claims like the foregoing that a pension , said to be one thousand two hundred a year, but which was a loss to your petitioner's late father, General Shrapnel, of three hundred and sixty-five pounds per annum. Grace the tehDerukefoereo,f Wellingtonis reward to the so ample generouslyanwdhifcrhankihiys MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. Domestic affairs throughout the Union are in a pros perous condition. The greatest activity pervades all classes of business, and the demand for provisions abroad has given employment to alt the shipping of the coun try. The news of an advance in the price of grain, by the last steamer, has strengthened our markets, and al though the canals and lakes are fairly opened, prices have gone down but little. Immense quantities of flour and grain are pouring into the sea board, through the lakes and canals, and we shall soon have such a supply must materially reduce the prices. Cotton is firmer since the arrival of the last steamer ; prices rarge from 11c. to 14c. The stock market is comparatively dull, foreign exchanges still advancing. Our farmers are putting in plentiful seed for the next harvest, but the spring has not been favourable. Winter wheat, in many sectioas of the Western States, has been frost-killed ; also in the South, and fruit orchards have suffered severely, especially the peach. A de structive worm has appeared in the cotton fields of Ala bama, and elsewhere doing great damage, so much that many planters have countermanded their orders for ropes and bagging. The tobacco plant has also suffered from the ravages of worms. Yet appearances favour a general good harvest of staples throughout . the Union. The stock market was bouyant at the first board, but 1.11 off at the second board, with considerable sales. Treasury sold at 5 per cent. premium, with large de mand. It is said that the Secretary will want no more money until July, which will give takers of Treasury Notes a chance to place them without embarrassment. The Exchange market closed heavy for the steamer at 7 per cent. for sterling. The supply exceeded the de mand. Francs are less plenty, and steady at 5.321- to 5.30. Other Continental bills were dull. Sterling at the close was about 4 per cent. lower than yesterday. In freights there is considerable activity, and rates are firm. To Liverpool considerable engagements of flour were made at 35., and some grain at 10d. A vessel was taken for Glasgow, and another for the Mediter ranean, on private terms. ASHES.-There have been sees of about 300 bbls. Pots at 5 dolls., and 60 do. Pearls at 6 50, the first bill out. The tendency of Pots is upward, and there were rumours of sales at 5 124. FLOUR AND MEAL-The demand continues to be large for future delivery and on the spot, and the market is very firm. The sales in loco reach 7,000 or 8,000 bbls. at 7 811 to 7 871-, goad parcels bringing 7 87. i with out much difficulty. There was a large demand for the East, and prices were well sustained to the close. The receipts to-day were about 10,000 bbls. To arrive, the demand is very good, and rates continue to advance. The transactions would be larger, but for the limited supply offering. The sales reach 20,000 bbls, including 10,000 in all May, at 7 50 to 7 75 ; 6,000 ditto in June, at 7 25 to 7 37i, and over 2,000 or 3,000, by 15th July, at 7 25. a. sale of fancy Western was made at 8 dolls. to arrive. The market closed at the higher rates. In Southern there is nothing doing, excepting small parcels George town, to arrive, at 8 12i. to 8 25. The stock here is used up. The market for Meal is steady, with sales 2,500 to 3,000 bbls, at 473t0 4 81-1, mostly 4 7 5. Of Rye Flour, 500 bbls sold at 5 25, which is an advance. The first parcel of Flour direct from Buffalo, 500 bbls., was received to-day, by Messrs. John B. Wright and Co. GRAIN.-The demand for Wheat to arrive continues to be good, and the sales reach 25,600 bush. Ohio, in June, at 162; to 165 ; 3,500 do. next week, at 170, and 10,000 do. Genesee, at 171 cts. in all June. For Corn there was a good demand, at steady rates. Of Yellow, in loco and to arrive, some 30,000 to 35,000 bush. sold at 94 to 96 ; 5,000 do. Mi xe d, at 92 to 94, an d to ar rivein June 5,000 State Yellow, at 80c ; 25,009 do. Western, in June, at 85 to 90e., and 30,000 in July and August, at 823. to 85c. Of Barley, 1,000 bushels sold at 70c. Rye was in firm inquiry, with sales 7,000 to 8,000 bushels at 101 to 103 c. The receipts of Corn were 30,000 bushels. Oats were in large inquiry, at 50 at 51e. PROVISIONS.-There is some inquiry for Old Pork, and the market is steady, especially for Prime. Sales 800 brls., at 13 dolls. 121 c. for Prime ; 15 dolls. for Mess. New is nominally 16 dolls, and 13 dolls. 50c. In Beef the sales are moderate. Prime is 8 dolls. 75c. to 9 dolls. 25c. Mess, 11 dolls. 75c. to 12 dolls. 50c. nomi nally and rather heavy. A sale of Bacon was made, but we could not learn the particulars. A sale of 165 tcs. Cana's Shoulders was made at 7e., and 150 brls. good Pickled Hams at 9e. The market is firm for Pickled Meats. Lard is quiet. 100 brls. sold at 91c. ; and a lot of good kegs was offered at 10c. No change in Butter and Cheese. TEAS.-The catalogue offered to-day was a good one, and contained a larger proportion of high priced Teas than any offered this season. Grocers held back, and the high grades sold at about 2 cents. decline on previous sales. The common grades fully sustained the market. The catalogue was nearly all sold. G ROCERIES. --The market is rather quiet, but with out marked change. Porto Rico and Cuba Sugars are one-eight cent. lower within two or three days. Coffee is dull. Of Molasses, a cargo of Cardenas sold for Ca nada at 21 cents. Small sales New Orleans at 35 cents., Porto Rico 32c. to 32kc. FISH.-We note sales of Dry Cod to some extent, at 3 dolls. 90c., and of herring 2,500 to 3,000 boxes, at 100 cts for Scale, 60c. for No. 1, and 35c. for No. 2. WHISILEY.-The market is a little stiffer, with sales of 300 or 400 bbls. at 28ic. to 281 e. Drudge is held at 29 cents. OILS.-There is considerable excitement in English Linseed, and we note sales 15,000 gallons at 61c. to ar rive, and 61c. to 63c, on the spot. City American held at 68c. Country is nominally 60c. Of whale oil, 600 bbls. selected sold to the trade at 34c. to 35c. cash. THE , SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MA - Y 31, 1847. declared your petitioner's late father so justly entitled for his ingenuity and science ? "It may seem surprising your petitioner's late father silently submitted to such wrongs ; but he appealed again and again as an officer in the service of his country, to be considered subordinate to the authorities upon whom every officer, whatever may be his rank, is dependent, and the favourable opinion of the Duke of Wellington. he, your petitioner's late father abstained from bringing his claims before the public. " Thus was your petitioner's late father deterred by the purest motives from following the judicious advice of friends, and whom, his Grace of Wellington was Prime Minister, on application, said more should be done, as a national reward. Resting on these hopes, that fearful the acceptance of the luckless ;pension. That when your petitioner en tered the army, though your petitioner's father could have procured a commission for him, but being asked by Lord Hill whether he wished it without purchase or purchase, he preferred the latter, which he did with his own private funds. " That your petitioner's late father being desirous of some honour, laid the same before his late Majesty King William the Fourth, which was favourably received, as appears by Sir Herbert Taylor's letter, written by the King's command, but in consequence of his Majesty's death was unhappily frustrated. "That your petitioner's late father departed this life on the third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, after having zealously and unremittingly served his country for the long space of sixty-two years and up wards. " That your petitioner's late father's widow, the mother of petitioner, only receives a pension of one hundred and twenty pounds per annum, while the widow of Sir W. Congreve receives four hundred pounds, a general of less standing by twenty years than your peti tioner's father ; beyond this, who has the honour of a baronetcy. Even the ordinary personal distinction of a knight of the commander of the Bath never conferred upon him. "That your Petitioners father left debts to a consider. able amount at his death, occasioned by the invention of the shell, and its perfection ; and that your petitioner, out of respect to his father, and in fall confidence the claims of his father would be recognised, mortgaged his life interest in the family estate, in order to assist in discharging the said debts. That a totally opposite construction was put upon the pension of one thousand two hundred a year by the Ordnance authorities of that day ; for this infliction was of the one thousand two, hundred per annum pension without the knowledge of General Shrapnel, your peti tioner's late father, which seems to invest the honour able Board of Ordnance with extraordinary rights, powers, and authorities, as not in any way having bar tered his (your Petitioner's) father's right or forfeiture of the debt of the East India Company, or his continuing to supply the East India Company with shells. Thus was eight hundred and thirty-five pounds set against for life of a debt of five thousand pounds. Could your pe titioner's late father have seen the possibility of loss, privations, and disadvantages, which this increased, or no pension at all, your petitioner's late father would have never acceptc d it. " That your petitioner's late father's request to strike the balance between your petitioner's late father and his country, without any further notice of unjust propor tion, Lord Bloomfield being his junior and promoted over his head, he your petitioner's father, sustained a lowa thereby of four thousand pounds. Then the heavy expense of money out of pocket, sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty pounds, then the one thousand equi valent to fourteen thousand pounds, and lastly the two claims of five thousand pounds, &c., per cent. of five thousand pounds, se that the actual state of the case stands— To balance ... £54,360. Expenditure ... Lord Bloomfield East India Company Ditto, future per-centage ••• though you may say 100,0001. Interest ... ... ... ... £16,360 ... 4,000 ... 5,000 ... 5,000 10,000 £54,360 By balance due to petitioner's father, 54,3601. "The pension taken at one thousand two hundred pounds, instead of three' hundred and sixty-five pounds, less or out of income, could not be called a reward, for had the losses been reimbursed it would have been better your petitioner's late father bad not invented the shell, which would at least have saved the above sum for his family. " With a duo appreciation of the Duke of Wellinton's value of your petitioner's late father's invention, declared him to be entitled to a very ample reward for his inge nuity and science ; that the shells had happily achieved long services of the most brilliant victories in every quarter of the inhabitable globe. Question—has the country shown a proper sense of gratitude for the ser vices of your petitioner's late father ? Your peti tioner, therefore, appeals to the various statements bo fore made, and the numerous testimonial of the most illustrious commanders by land and sea, and courts in vestigation, and challenges contradiction for a decided answer in the negative to this inquiry. "That your petitioner is the sole depository of the secret of his late father's invention. That your petitioner begs leave to subjoin, for the information of your Honourable House, that from the strong testimonials, whereby the efficacy of the Shrapnel shell, and the immense advantages derived from it in the conflicts of fifty-seven battles with the enemy. Witness the united testimony of a Wellington, Gough, a Harry Smith, and hosts of heroes who emblazon the roll. "The pure, disinterested motives which induced your petitioner's late father to abstain from pressing his claims upon the Government and Legislature, and, finally, to content himself with bequeathing them to his family, have already been illustrated and explained. "That if your petitioner's late father had, as agreed upon with the Honourable Board of Ordnance and the East India Company, received the per-centage of five per cent. upon the whole quantity of shells made and delivered during the war, your petitioners late father would have been in receipt of from six hundred thousand pounds to seven hundred thousand pounds sterling. "That our present happy enjoyment of peace may in a great measure be attributed in Europe and Asia, but particularly in Asia, to the Shrapnel shell; peace so highly esteemed and valued by all nations. Yet it is but fair to remark, that it is still more likely to be kept through the Shrapnel shell from the circumstance of the destruction which the Shrapnel shell dealt upon our enemies, who will not dare again to face the Shrap nel shell. " That your petitioner begs to refer your Honourable House to a pamphlet, wherein all your petitioner's late father's testimonials, and every particular, are stated in all the transactions between him and the Board of Ord nance and the East India Company, are related and explained. • " Your petitioner therefore humbly prays your Ho nourable House will be pleased to take your petitioner's case into consideration, and to grant your petitioner such relief in the premises as to your Honourable House shall seem meet. " And your petitioner will ever pray, &c., " HENRY NEEDHAM SCROPE SHRAPNEL.' WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. The anniversary of the Westminster Hospital was celebrated on Saturday by the usual annual dinner, which took place in Willis's-rooms, St. James's. The chair was taken by B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M P., beside whom there were present Lord Sandell, M.P., Sir Charles Burrell, M.P., Dr. Buckland, Mr. C. Lushing- ton, Colonel T. Wood, M.P., Mr. C. Cochrane, Mr. W, P. Wood, General Reeve, Mr. Sergeant Storks, Mr. G Henderson, Recorder of Liverpool, &c. . . After the usual loyal toasts had been given, The CHAIRMAN alluded to the loss which the charity had sustained by the lamented death of the late Duke of Northumberland, and proposed the " Health of the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland and the Ladies Patronesses of the Hospital." The CHAIRMAN next proposed the " Health of the Duke of Northumberland, president of the Hospital," and remarked that members of that noble family had presided over the institution since its commencement, upwards of a century ago. In proposing "Prosperity to the Westminster Hos pital,' the CHAIRMAN stated that this was the 126th anniversary of the charity, and that Paris, with less than half the population of London, had double the number of beds for the sick that where to be found in this metropolis. A great number of patients had, however, been sent to the St. George's Hospital, by which means the usefulness of this charity had been im paired. The Chairman added, that it must be a subject of regret that so valuable an institution as this, which was within a stone's throw of the Houses of Legislature, and in a poor and densely peopled district, should have its usefulness limited by want of funds. Lord SANDON proposed the health of the Honourable Chairman as a liberal supporter of the public charities of the metropolis. Mr. B. 13. CAI3BELL returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Dean of Westminster and the Clergy. The DEAN of WESTMINSTER acknowledged the com pliment, and remarked, that hospitals of this kind in other countries were not maintained by private charity, but by the nation. He regarded it as a great national distinc tion, that this magnificent establishment was supported by voluntary subscriptions. Sir C. BURRELL proposed the health of the Rector and other Clergy of St. Margaret's, to which The Rev. J. COPE acknowledged the toast. Several other toasts having been given, the proceed ings terminated. The Hosiery Manufacture continues in a stagnant state. The wrought hose hands are in a better condi tion, as regards employment, than those who make slop goods. A feeling has again revived, that the rotary frames, which now work with tolerable facility, will ultimately supersede those worked by the hand, con siderable improvements having been made in their con struction. The emigration and exportation of workmen and frames to the United States has been much checked by the late Act of Congress, requiring masters of ships to give security that their passengers shall not become chargeable to the States.—/Vottinghane Review. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 28.—The offices have been very freely supplied with samples from the late arrivals, and there being a steady demand both for the refiners and grocers, the transactions since our last report have been, to a fair extent, at about previous prices. —Bristol Mercury. Many of the potato fields in the Highlands aban doned in despair, when the stems blackened and died, have, on being turned up, yielded a considerable supply of sound potatoes, THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—By the arrival off this port this morning of the Prince of Wales Indiaman, Captain Hopkins, from Calcutta, we have advices from the Cape to the 6th ult., upwards of a week later than the last advices. The Prince of Wales has only been 93 days at sea. We take the following from the South African Com. niercial Advertiser of April 3 : " LATEST FROM THE FRONTIER. " Information has come in from Fort Peddie up to Sunday last. His Excellency reached that point on the evening of Friday, as also several of the burgher con tingents, and amongst them the levy from Lower Albany. On Saturday his Excellency reviewed these new levies. and also a body of about 300 Fingoes. The latter passed before him in single file, after which they exhibited their mode of attack, closing the proceedings with a war dance. On Sunday his Excellency attended divine service in the Wesleyan chapel at D'Urban. It is un• derstood that the troops would make a forward move ment, from Fort Peddie, on Wednesday, towards king William's Town, whence a simultaneous movement would be made by the troops there, including the Dra goon Guards, towards the mouth of the Buffalo, where a military station is about to be formed of 300 men. Lieutenant Jervois, Royal Engineers, proceeds thither Immediately for the purpose of laying out the ground. Both divisions, it seems, after forming a junction on the Buffalo, are then to move back to Fort Peddie, sweeping the country of cattle and crops in their progress—the former to be brought _to Peddie, or destroyed, should there be any difficulty in bringing them forward. The grand aim in this movement appears to be, to convince the Kafirs of our determination to subdue them ; that it is not their property we covet, but that our Government is actuated ;by a fixed resolve to put down and punish robbery and violence, as also to place matters upon such a footing as shall prevent the recurrence of future wars. No sacrifice is too great for this, and we feel persuaded that nothing will be left undone which may conduce to its perfect attainment." FATAL ACCIDENT OFF POPE'S VILLA, TWICEER HAM.—On Friday afternoon two young gentlemen, sons of the Rev. Benjamin Bickmore, of Percy-street, Pentonville, hired a small boat of James Godfred, a waterman, at Rich mond, in which they rowed to the Eel-pie House, on Twick enham Ait, where they ordered dinner, saying they would in the meantime go and have a bathe. They accordingly rowed to a secluded part of the river between Pope's-villa and Strawberry-hill, where they carried their intentions into ex ecution. The eldest cf the two, who is about twenty-two years of age, had swam across the river and was returning, when he heard his brother calling out for help, and knowing that he was but an indifferent swimmer, he proceeded in stantly to his assistance, and held him up for some time, but having been weakened by recent indisposition he at last became exhausted, and for self-preservation was compelled to quit his hold of his unfortunate brother, who immediately sank in about ten feet water, and never rose again. The sur vivor was so exhausted when he got ashore that he swooned away. P alm% SATIIRDAY.—A very scandalous affair has hi sev!ral d ays the subject of conversation in Parisian c age, r ei, d has m a alrl la- been foundnanags g o f ate the highestfather rank,er of three would have D not re with his wre.by neral D— in c t r 3l i i m 3r e i e n y a ep l arn c e o t n tc; : f Billed him on the spot, and not recognise him , though the personage declarel torLe thh'ee wocoffheonurdatetdahnurspstbeaednrk:ll: said that he would summon himg negot4linearnissoridnegr ht.oims4pThreses yon g wil m l ango wtoalthbee and gave him a sound thrashin affair has given rise to many the scandal, and it is said that obliged to travel for several months, waters of Bareges with a younger brother until G ra i D has forgotten the offence. General D.-- has e l onge been in the service of the Belgian Government. INCOME TAX.—Mr. William Ray Smee estimates the annual income of Great Britain at 489,000,0001., of which amount only 185,000,000/., or rather more than one-third, is charged with income-tax. ASCOT HEATH RACES. The following entries took place on Saturday after noo4 FIRST DAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 50 added ; two yi ?s old, 4st 41b ; three, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 71b ; five 93 t ; six and aged, 9st 31b. The new mile. Pru ssic Acid, 4 3 ra Embrace, 2 yrs Also tie, 3 yrs The Iron Crown, 2 yrs Was tots, 3 yrs SECOND DAY. The Windsor Town ITsie of 50 sovs. ; two yrs old, sst 61b ; three, 7st 101 b ; four, Bst 81b ; five and upwards, 9st ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. T.Y.C. Chemise, 5 yrs Mistress Jean, 3 yrs Evenus, aged Keeley, 6 yrs Chippeway, 2 yrs Moodkee, 3 yrs Millais, 3 yrs Widred, 4 yrs Secundum, 3 yrs Correct Card, 5 yrs Babette, by Buzzard, out of Thrapston, 4 yrs Esperanza, 2 yrs Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added ; three yrs old, ist ; four, Bst ; five, Bst 41b ; six and aged, Bst 71b. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs. T.Y.C. Wintonia, 3 yrs The Mangler, 5 yrs Evenus, aged Voronitz, 3 yrs Bishop of Romford's Cob, Alsatia, 3 yrs aged Pic-nic, 5 yrs Piccinino, 3 yrs The Cur, 5 yrs Ould Ireland, 5 yrs THIRD DAY. The Visitors' Plate of 100 sovs. (Handicap), by Subs. of 5 sovs. each, the surplus and entrance money of non-subscribers to go to the second horse. Once round and a distance. Pine Apple, aged Vampyre, 3 yrs Wolf-dog, 5 yrs Master Stepney, 5 yrs Woodpigeon, 5 yrs Pam, 5 yrs Subduer, aged Vanity, 3 yrs Bravissimo, 4 yrs Wintonia, 3 yrs The Stand Plate of 70 sows.; three-yrs-old, ist 71b; four, 9st; five, 9st 81b; six and aged, 9st 121 b. Mares and geldings allowed,3lb. Horses entered to be sold for 400 soya., allowed 3lbs.; 300 soya., 71b; 200 sovs., 121 b; 100 soya., 201 b. Swinley Course. Chemise, 5 yrs (100) IMoodkee, 3 yrs (100) Master Stepney, 5 yrs (200) Widred, 4 yrs (100) Braviasimo, 4 yrs (200) Voronitz, 3 yrs (100) Noiseless, 3 yrs (100) Tarella, 3 yrs (100) Priscilla Tomboy,aged(3oo)'Mount Callen, 4 yrs (200) Vampyre, 33 rs (200) Pam, 5 yrs (200) Mistress Jean, 3 yrs (100) Martingale, 3 yrs (200) Devil-to-Pay, 6 yrs (100) Glory, 4 yrs (200) Etona, 4 yrs (100) Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, three years old 7st 21b ; four, 9st 21b ; five, 10st ; six and aged' lOst 51b. To start at the New Mile post, and go once round. Pineapple, aged Humdrum, 4 yrs Pam, 5 yrs Jericho, 5 yrs Vanity, 3 yrs Vampire, 3 yrs Footstool, 4 yrs Pic-nic, 5 yrs Miles's Boy, 3 yrs Glory, 4 yrs Priscilla Tomboy, aged Tarella, 3 yrs Hydrangea, 4 yrs Voronitz, 3 yrs Oliver Cromwell, 6 yrs 'Oliver Cromwell, 6 yrs Tragical, 4 yrs Footstool, 4 yrs Hydrangea, 4 yrs I Qlory, 4 yrs LAST DAY. The Wokingham Stakes (handicap), of 5 sovs. each, for three years old and upwards. Last three-quay• ters of the New mile. The Borough Members' Plate, of 50 sovs. each, added to a Sw•eepstaks of 5 sovs. each. Three yrs olds. 7st ; four, Bst 41b ; five, Bst 101 b ; six and aged, 9st Winners once in 1847, 31b, twice, 6;b. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs. The Old mile. Bravissimo, 4 yrs Pic Nic, 5 yrs Sir Simon, 4 yrs Alsatia, 3 yrs Tanais, 3 yrs Mount Callan, 4 yrs HORSES ARRIVED OR EN ROUTE. Those marked thus (*) are doubtful. Bridle Deriades Jericho Kim blesworth Miami Crown Jewel Vanity Iron Crown Humdrum Columbine Piccinino Forest Flower Bravissima Secundum African Mosque Plantagenet Etona S!ander Elimca Shylock . Evening Star The Cur Montem Mr. Martin Subduer Alsatia Misdeal The Swallow Guaracha Crozier La Danseuse Mastiff Camelford Chippeway F by M. Moloch Gabbier The Moor Gift Threpston Aliwal St. Francis Miles's Boy Vampire Manchester Reflection • Alkali Red Hart Dr. Goodall Hornpipe Jolity Ould Ireland Colleen Bawn Sting Sir Oliver The Swallow Prussic Acid Mistress Jean Ziska; Pine-apple Doctrine Ellerdale Millwood Glory Woolfdog Poynton Esmeralda f C by Nonsense, Dean Swift out of the Queen Martingale of the Gipsies' Jolly Dick dam The Admiral C by Touchstone, Footstool out of the Queen Tarella of the Gipsies' Sis. to The Nob dam Premature c Daughter of the Harmony c Star Keeley Priscilla Tomboy Mount Callan Embrace So Nice Pic-Nic Widred Evenus ,Good-boy Pam Correct Card Sir Tatton Sykes Lynceus Devil to pay Coningsby Dawson's lot are hourly expected. LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST-END. A SCOT STARES. Conyngham Mendicant Mathematician Allertonian Buckskin Wee-bit Cossack Whirligig The Hero Noiseless Tragical Master Stepney Ptolemmas Egremont Plaudit Mirmillo Clementina *Geraldine *Sir Francis Glendower Flatcatcher Assault Bedouin F by Elis or Vcni. son, out of Odessa Antler The Widow Epirote Bingham Don Cmsar Christopher *Bellerophon *Timour *Nestor Woodpignon Hydrangea Sword Player Tisiphone Voronitz, Cosacbia Fencer Chemise Good Coin Oxonian Patriot Wintonia Grist Mangler Clermont Fistiana 7to 1 agst Humdrum IBto 1 agst Clermont EMPEROR'S CUP. 5 to 4 agst Mendicant 6 to 1 agst Jericho 6 to 1 apt Poynton Grimstone is di 6 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes 7 to 1 agst Wolf-dog 8 to 1 agst Sting. .clai ed not to start. THE RECENT LOSS OF THE EXMOUT/I.—OFFICIAL REPORT. The report of Lieutenant Ramsay, the Government Emigration agent, relative to the condition of the Ex mouth, wrecked, with great loss of life, on the coast of Islay, received on Saturday, contains the following ad ditional particulars:— The Exmouth (although an old vessel—built at Sun derland in 1818), was in perfect state of repair, and underwent a thorough survey by Lieutenant Ramsay and an experienced shipbuilder. She was properly fitted out for emigrants, the aggregate number of superficial feet in the several compartments set apart for steerage and intermediate passengers being 1,675. She was well pro visioned, and was supplied with three suitable boats, with every requisite for their use, and two life buoys. It gives the names of the passengers (most of whom were middle-class farmers, their wives, and families, and possessing property). The numbers were—Male emi grants, 74; female emigrants, 62; male children under fourteen, 29; female children under fourteen, 34; infants, 9 ; cabin passengers, 3 ; master (Captain Booth), 1; crew, B—Total number drowned, 220. The spot where the ship was wrecked was on the north-west part of the island of Islay. A gentleman writing says :—" The vessel was smashed almost the in stant she struck. It was on a point of a narrow gullet, deep, dark, and yawning. Nothing but iron-bound rocks, 80 to 150 feet high. The fragments of the wreck (and fragments they truly might be called) were driven into the chasm, where, mixed with dead bodies, they were tossed and kept in wild commotion by the violence of the wind and waves for days. A more harrowing sight was never witnessed." By the last accounts received from the island, it ap pears no fewer than NS bodies had been recovered ; they were hooked up out of the gullet by men who were lowered by ropes from the summit of the rocks. Most of them were women and children, who were entirely naked ; they were dreadfully mutilated, some without faces, others without heads or limbs. They were wrapped in sheets by two gentlemen named Campbell, who saw to their decent interment in a beautiful spot near the point where the mournful event occurred. We understand her Majesty's Government have been pleased to notify to those gentlemen their sense of such meritorious example and exertion, and to add a gra tuity to the men who have been engaged in recovering the bodies. PROTEST AGAINST THE IRISH POOR BILL. (From Punch.) We have seen a document thus headed in the columns of some of our contemporaries; but not believing in the correctness of their report, we have been at some pains to procure the following, which may be relied upon for its authenticity:-- DISSENTIENT. 1. Because the law, giving to the destitute a claim for relief, encourages a notion that it is the duty of some body to provide for them; and extravagant hopes will inevitably lead to extravagance. 2. Because the Irish people are constitutionally given to starvation, and an interference with national habits cannot be desirable. 3. Because the tendency of the Bill is to increase the distress of the landlords while attempting to relieve the distress of the whole people. 4. Because the Bill, having been framed under an urgent necessity, was framed in a hurry; and as nothing done in a hurry is done well, nothing ought to be done when an urgent necessity demands it. 5. Because it will ruin the independence of the poor in Ireland, by giving them something to depend upon. • RA DNOR. MONTEAGLE of Brandon. FITZ WILLIAM. THE CORN MARKET S IN SOUTHERN GERMANY. — Accounts from Southern Germany speak of a general fall in the price of corn in the principal markets of that part of Europe. It is added, that there is every reason to believe that the decline will be lasting. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. The steam-frigate Avenger, Captain S. C. Dacres, is ordered to be attached to Sir Charles Napier's squadron. Sir Charles will ultimately shift his flag from the St. Vincent to the Vengeance, 84, Captain Stephen Lush ington, on that ship's refitment for sea service. The steam-sloop Geyser, Commander Brown, left this harbour direct for Lisbon at eight o'clock on Friday night, with a large amount of shot, live-shell, and other ammunition, as well as a good cargo of stores, for Sir W. Parker's squadron. She also took out dispatches for the British Minister and Sir William Parker. The next intelligence from Portugal is very anxiously looked for. The Prince of Wales Indiaman, Captain Hoskins, passed this port this morning for London from Calcutta —only 93 days at sea. We give her Cape news else where. Bear-Admiral Dacree, the Commander-in• Chief on the Cape station, in the President, 50, Cap tail) Stanley, was in Simon's Bay on the 6th of April, with the Rattlesnake, surveying-ship. Captain Owen Stanley, and the Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, ail well. PENANG, APRIL 3. On Monday forenoon the Vernon, 50, Captain Fitz gerald, flag of Rear-Admiral Inglefi c d, Comn3ander-in , Ghtef on the East India station, and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, were signalled from the Great Hill, coming in to the northward. The Vernon turned the Pulo Tricoose point just at sunset, and saluted the Agincourt, 72, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, whose term of service has expired, which the latter re turned next morning. On Tuesday morning Admiral Inglefield proceeded to the Government bungalow, on the Great Hill, where Admiral Cochrane is at present residing. The Iris, 26 ; Captain Munday, is reported to sail for England on Tuesday next. The Vernon, and Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, were at Penang on the 11th of April, the latter about proceeding to New Zealand ; the Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, for England ; the Daedalus, 20, Captain Quhae, for Hong-kong ; the Wolf, 18, acting Commander Vansit tart, for Lebuan ; and the Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, together with the Hon. Company's steam sloops Nemesia and Ganges, were in port also at Penang on the 11th of April. The Vestal, 26, Captain C. Talbot, sailed from China for England on the 4th of March, leaving the Vulture steam-frigate, Captain M'Dougal, senior officer's ship, at Hong-kong until the arrival of Admiral Inglefield, when she will be stationed at Wampoa. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, by the latest advices, was to proceed from Hong-kung to Ningpo, after undergoing certain repairs ; tho Childers, 16, Commander Pitman, was to proceed to Shaughae ; the Ringdove, 16, Commander Clifford, to Amoy ; and the Scout, 16, Commander Loring, to Foochow foo; the last named vessel has captured 39 of the pirates who had been committing so many erutl murders and depredations, the boldness with which they perpetrate which may be judged of from the fact that they do not scruple to openly attack a man of-war. The surveying schooner Young Hebe (ordered to be sold out of ber Majesty's service), whilst at Hong-kong under repair and opposite the moorings of the Vestal, 26, was boarded by a pirate boat's crew of nearly 30 men, and was completely gutted. It is said the Scout is to he sent to track the pirates. The Dee steam-transport, Master Commander Driver, arrived yesterday morning from Ireland. The King's bastion, on which floats the flag, forming the principal battery, commanding the entrance to this harbour, on which are mounted two 13-inch mortars, ten king 32 pounders, and two 24-pounders, having until recently only a breastwork of 21 &et in height, con sequently affording no protection for the men serving the guns, supposing an enemy afloat attacked them, is being altered, and high works thrown up round the sea ward side, with deep embrazures for the guns, similar to the new battery called the King's Ravelin, outside the The Birkenhead, iron steam-transport, Commander A. H. Ingram, came into harbour yesterday .to complete fuel and have some defects made good. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain W. Ramsay, has had her coals completed at Spithead, from lighters towed by the Myrtle steam-vessal , When will the Admiralty, learning wisdom ~by experience, station a coal depot at Spithead? The Odin steam-frigate was commissioned yesterday by Captain the lion. F. T. Pelham, a brother of the Earl of Chichester, the same officer who temporarily assumed the command of the Black Eagle for the purpose of bringing the Grand Duke Constantine to this country. Rear-Admiral H. Parker, C. 8., having gone on leave for a fortnight, his flag was struck at sunset last night on board the Excellent. The duties of the ordinary will be performed, in his absence, by Captain Pasco, of the Victory; those of the dockyard, by Mr. C. Brown, chief Master-Attendant. The following are the promotions and appointments fur the past week:— PROMOTIONS. Mate—Edward A. Racket (18.15) to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Captain—• Edward N. Trowbridge, to study at the steam-factory, Woolwich. Commander—Alfred Phillips Ryder, to the Vixen. Lieutenants—Edward Kelly, to be Harbour-Master for the Island of Mauritius; Augustus C. Hobart, to command the two gun-boats fitting at Corr(' for the protection of the .fruit and other vessels from pirates in the waters of the lonian Island; C. J. I'. Glinn, and Douglas Herbert, to the Odin; Richard M'Kinley Rich ardson, to the Ocean, to do duty in the Fearless. Master—J. R. Aylen, to the Odin. Paymaster and Purser—George Hickman (acting), of the Pantaloon, to be secretary to Commodore Sir Charles Hotham; John Brickwood, to the Odin. Chaplain—David Carson, to the St. Vincent. Naval Instructor—Mr. Turmine, to the Victory. Second Master—G. L. Carr, in charge, to the Se ringapatam; receiving depot at Slieernes, for foreign service. Clerk—R. W. Warwick, in charo b v, to the Adventure transport, to be stati one d a t Bl ac k Sod Bay, Ireland, as a receiving ship; G. W. Webb, to the Odin; H. W. Death, to the Bulldog. Assistant-Surgeons—R. Vinigle, H. French, and T. B. Purchas, to the President. Midshipmen—J. T. M. Nicholl, to the Shesrwater; Henry F. Stelling, to the Howe. Naval Cadets—George T. Gordon, to the Spartan; Mr. Poole, to the Queen; C. Smith, to the Howe. Masters' Assistants—O. F. Clemenson, to the Ocean; B. D. Connor, to the Caledonia; D. Spears and H. V. Beatson, to the Seringapatam; J. Hitching, Acting Second Master, to the St. Vincent; Cronin, to the Howe. Coast Guard—Lieutenant Arthur John Molesworih, Royal Marines, .to be in command of the Winchilsea Station, vice Mr. Campbell John Pegus, Royal Marines, previously removed. WooLwron, MAY 29.—The Cyclops war-steamer, be longing to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, which conveyed to England the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar, left Woolwich on Wed nesday to return to Rotterdam. The Vixen steam-vessel having undergone a complete refit at Woolwich, has been commissioned by Comman der Ryder, who recently studied at the factory in Woolwich Do.kyard. The Vixen is to have a crew of 160 men. The Growler steam-vessel, Commander Potbury, is now ready for sea, and will leave Woolwich on Tuesday next, for the coast of Africa, to be employed in the conveyance of free blacks to several of tho West Indian islands. __ _ _ _ The Atholl troop-ship, Master Commander ream, left this morning for Sheerness and Cork. It was ex pected two companies of the Royal Artillery would have embarked in her for Ceylon, and they were medically inspected at the Ordnance Hospital last week, prepara tory to embarkation, but they will now proceed to their destination in another vessel, the Athol'. being required to take on board troops at Cork. The Barretto Junior, No. 23 transport ship, passe;'. Woolwich to-day from Deptford, on kvoyage to Malta, with stores, &c. The Falmouth left Deptford and Woolwich to-day, for Portsmouth. _ _ The Sinbad arrived at Woolwich yesterday, from I coast of Ireland. The Dockyard Battalion—Six companies of volunteers of the workmen in Woolwich Dockyard have now been formed, and assemble: every evening of the we, k days for drill. The large space of ground formerly us( d, near the principal offices, for a depository of anchor:, 63 been cleared and macadamized, and forms a spacious and highly eligible parade-ground. Muskets, of an ex cellent description, havo been forwarded from the Tower for the use of the battalion. The muskets have per cussion locks, and appear of a very substantial con struction. ]DUCHY oy al H R Y OF CORNWALL COURT. I li-h r eqs PRINCE ALBERT presiding.) fe of Warden of the Duchy of oowa ii , his Royal Highness Prince A ct lb_ert,in vir O tu n e Council Chamber of the Privy Council held a court in the Soaftuhrisdaofy lc Office Downing-street. Besides his Royal Highness, the Court consisted of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyio- burst, and another Learned Lord. The case under con sideration was that of BASSETT V. REYNOLDS. This case involved the ownership of sixteen shares in a certain mine in Cornwall. The mine was divided into shares, and it was alleged on the one hand that Mr. J. Basset deceased had purchased these shares, and an entry to this effect was found in the books of the mine. The entry was, however, erased (not in such a manner as to obliterate what had been written, nor did it appear that intention of the kind had existed), and it was contended on the part of Mr. Reynolds that the entry was not of any validity as a proof of the shares being Mr. Bassett's, or that if they had been his, they had been re• transferred back to Mr. Reynolds, of whom the entry and allegation stated that Mr. Bassett had purchased them. In sup port of the assertion it was said that subsequently to Mr. Bassett's death Mr. Reynolds continued for some years to pay the losses attendant upon those shares, which at that time wero considerable, and which he cer tainly would not have done if he had not known that they were his, and had hoped to reap advantage from them should they at any time, as had since become the case, prove a source of profit. A trial before a jury had taken place under these circumstances, at which, how ever, the shares were decided to be the properity of Mr. Bassett, or his heirs and assignees. The present was an appeal against the verdict of this jury. The LORD CHANCELLOR summed up the facts awl ar guments of the case, and His ROYAL HIGHNESS delivered the judgment of the Court, which confirmed the decision of the lower Court with costs. Mr. Hudson, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Saturday. THE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIR FIELD. The prisoners Michael M'Cabe and Patrick Reid, underwent a long examination before the magistrates at Dewsbury on Saturday. About nine o'clock the pri . soners arrived in Dewsbury from Wakefield, in the police van, and at ten o'clock were placed at the bat of the magistrates' room, in the Court-house. Some time before the hour named fur the examinatio n a large concourse of persons had assembled in the vicinity of the Court-house. Joshua Ingham, Esq , H. W. Wickham, Esq., J. B. Greenwood, Esq., and J. Hague, Esq., were the magistrates upon the bench. Mr. Belson, solicitor/ of Middleton, near Manchester, appeared for the prisoner Patrick Reid; and Mr. Watts, solicitor, of Dewsbuil, appeared on behalf of M'Cabe. Both the priecel throughout the examination appeared quite cool and ao lected, and paid great attention to the evidence. Evidence of similar purport to that given before the coroner having been adduced, Mr. INGHAM asked it there were any more witnes s. : to produce today?—Superintendent Green replied tbs there was no further evidence at that time, but be b bee lieved that in a week, or at furthest a fortnight; should be in a position to adduce further evidence. Mr. INGnam thought a fortnight too long. Mr. Hensall (Mr. Watts having declined to say an y thir , on behalf of M'Cabe), then addressed the bench fo r . _ Reid'. He said the liberty of his client was of course ins t he hands of the bench, but in so saying he was fully satisfie d! that the magistrates would take a fair and most prope.. view of the whole circumstances. Whatever suspicio n at e tached to the other prisoner, he contended that on e, attached to his client. Between the two prisoners ther e was a wonderful distinction in this respect. With reg a o to what had been stated about the prisoner being ne_ e the premises of the murdered persons on the day of th e diabolical outrage, he would submit to the bench " I there was nothi ng i n th at . B o th men were hawkers, and both followed their avocations in that neig h hood, and called at every house in the place. It ? never been shown that the two prisoners were sequin antes. That was an important fact, because he cant!: confessed that if it could have been shown that . j d h e oho:. prisoners were acquaintances and companions' have had his doubts. He complained of th e prejudice tfahcatt thathad t h h e e e y n w i c a r i e sed lri a a g h a m in en st: t h e prisoners, froze 1111 that poverty was a c r i me ; b ut h e was 113 11 ad afr l a o i n d g , f bee r E s : had occurred in this case, that in the estimation of • persons a man's b e i ng an I r i s h man was another. ,y et ii pains had not been shown that th ere was a prev i o us secl n 7 ance between the parties, much less an acting cert, and if there had been a n ythi ng o f t h e sort it . r have most certainly b een b roug h t to li g ht by Ow' — o f eellent officer, Mr. Green. Therefore, in the absencei.;., all proof, he confid e ntly con t en d e d t h at th e re was 12°L " - "' to justify the committal of R re eid. The prisoners were thenremanded to SaturdaY and the inquiry terminated at four o'clock. . F y! RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. , ir . STOCK EXCHANGE.-There LIVERPOOL has M been 29 a considerable int provement in our market to-day, especially in the larfog kinds of stock, and a good business has been done at the t ~1 lowing quotations :=-Blackburn, Clithero, &c., Preferenc e . i . !..,' p : -Birminplam and Oxford, 6% p -Caledonian, ss• Eastern Co ties, le 1 / 2 East Lancashire,. 1% dis.--DittO, New, % dis.-Ditto, New Scrip, % p Great Northern, 261: 3d. dis.-Leeds and Thirst, Preference, 6s. 3d. p• --1 1...c verP° ;, , Crosby, and Southport, IA, p.-London and North-vv.:ell 176%-Ditto, Fifths, 14% p.-Ditto, Quarters (G. " • I? p.-Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Extensions) , 1 / 4 p.-Ditto, Quarters, New, 10% p.-Manchester and Ditto, ranchee .... Mills (late West Riding* Union), Is. Bd. P' - ter, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 87-Ditto Eighths, 2 .,,td Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 8 dis.- - nu" a , Stock, 120%-Ditto, 40/. Shares, 4 1 4 p.-Ditto, Nelf,,4 -Newcastle and Berwick, New, 2 1 4 p.-North British,N;th Quarters (scrip), Y i p.-North Staffordshire, 2 1 % % 1 ) ; . „„ a nd Union (A), 207-North-Western, I% dis .--- Fr es Am 4, w- Wyre, 35%-South-Eastern and Dover , Quarters, •,•-• % p.-York and Newcastle, Preference, 3% p. LEEDS, MAY 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. - The setting in of most bea utiful sup?' merweather, and the large arrivals of wheat and flour Mere; verpool and other English ports, having caused a mat l o s'. decline in the price of grain, a better tone has been give!' Ditto, the share markets. The sales are-Ambergate, Istottmg; ham, and Boston, 18s. dis.-East Lancashire, N 0 . d tse and West Yorkshire, % dis.- Great Northern 1% dater, New, % dis.-Ditto, New (scrip), Is. 6d. ~ ~ ..., Ditto, Extensions, 15s. dis.-Iluddersfield and'litanches 7s. 6d.-Leeds and Think, 5% n. dis.-Ditto, N o r, 4 0... - :: Ditto, Preference, Is. 6d. p.-Leeds, Wakefield, and NI!, land, 18s. 6d. dis.-Malton and Driffield Junction, 12s. ts._'; dis.-Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares (late Extensions)r 2s. 6d. p.-Ditto, West Riding Union, 2s. p.-Mancheste ! Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 4s. dis.-Newcastie !"'!. Berwick, New, 1% p.-North British, Quarters (late Caf o uT Branch), 225. p.-Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 3 s• I 1 rT f Staffordshire, 2% c. p -North-Western, 295. 61-Oxforut Worcester, and Wolve;lian l ipton, 9% dis.-Sheffield, Bother ham, and Goole, 1% dis.-Wharfdale Jun ction, 1% dig. SHEFFIELD, MAY 29. STOCK EXCANGE.-The sales are--Ambergate, Notting- IT ham, and Boston, 19s. dis.-East Lancashire, Scrip, 2s. It -East Linconshire, 2 c. p.-Manchester and Leeds (Wes' Riding Union), Ss. p. -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln.. shire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 834 dis.-Ditto, 201. Shares, 21. IBs. dis.-Ditto, 121. 10s. Shares, 1 3 / 4 dis-Ditto (S be l lichl and Lincoln), 3' l dis.-North Staflbrdshire, 2% IN C) N N e - Ir T a , r Y e Is j 2 : are-Great . e _a MAYt salesdßi: S r .-Newcastle - L a l r f !: l h - i U s e le P , 1/. 16s. p.-Ditto (North Shields Pa r " chase), 30. p.-Newcastle ca s . Northern, tie ail HULL, MAY 29. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting' ham, and Boston, 325. 6d.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton. Preicrenee, 1,8 p.—East Lancashire, New (scrip), 56. t, cash—Great Northern, 48s.—Manchester and Leeds (W Riding Union), 3s. 3d. p.—Newcastle and Berwick, —s. 2 ° Ditto, New, 38s. 6d. p.—North British, Quarters, 86$. ,„ Ditto, Extension (scrip), 3s. 3d. p. cash—Ditto, Th l ,7 (scrip), 51s.—Northern Counties Union, 26s.—North 5 14 ' tordshire, 2/.l2s.—North Wales, 20s. EDINBURGII, bar 28. STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales are--Aberdeen, V i rg, Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 10s.-Arbroath and Forfa r ' 15s. -Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 1/. 198. 6d' ..... Caledonian, 291. 9s. 6(.1.-Ditto, New, 2L-Caledonisolos7„, Dumbartonshire, 1!. 95.-Clydesdale Junction, 4 24 Deeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1L 29L 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 401.-Ditto. New, - 0 2. -Ditto. New, No. 2, 301.-Ditto, New, .N 0.3, 41 . 4 , 8 ' d Dundee and Northern Junction, 1/. 9s. 6d.-Dund e e m ar. Perth, SOL 10s.-Ditto, New, 101. 7s. 6d.-Ditto,nst, ters, 21. 175.-East of Fife, 1/. 155.-East Lothian (-; 11. 145.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 8/. 10s.-Edinburghrem Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Halves, 22/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Qu 171.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181.-Ditto, „.Lfer. ence, 2W. 10s.-Ditto, New, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, lls.-Edinburgh and Northern, 161. 17s. 6d.-Ditt o, 2i. 165.-Ditto, Newport, 71.-D itto, ditto, New, 1/. f,yi to , Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 1/. 10s. 6( 1,- t it to, Halves, 6s. 6d.- Glasgow and Ayrshire, llai,', tto New Stock, 401. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, a ,r Halves, No. 2, 51105.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carli, B 2 , t.„, -Glasgow and Garnkirk, 38/. 10s.-Glasgow (,7'C - t 0 Terminus, 12/. 155.-Glasgow and Greenock, 171-If sar . Halves, 81. 155.-Ditto, Preference, W.-Glasgow, nock, and Ardrossan, 4/.-Great North of Scotland, Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 21. 65.-Ditto London and York), 2/.-Newcastle and Berwick, 251. 55.' North British, 311. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 141. 103.-Ditt 4 Quarters, 4/. 55.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 14s. 9d.! Ditto, Thirds, 21. lls.- Ditto, Fifths, 61. 15 5 . - S co ttish Central, 23/. 121. 6d.-Scotti s h G ran d J Unct i on tish Midland, 181.-Shrewsbn r y an d H ere f or d , lb 195. 5.-Shrevr s " bury, Oswestry, and Ch es t er, 9/. 155.-Ditto, New, 11 Stirling and Dunfermli ne , 51 .-Stirling and Midlan d, 21. 55.-Wishaw and Coltne ss , 481. 10s.-York and Newcastle' :35/.-llitto, New, 14/. 5 5.-Ditto, Preference, 64 Gisr.e6adt._No3ritandraosf, India, Nano, and Arcot, Is. 6d. Direct Bombay and Madras, 2s. 6d.-East Indian, 28 ..„. 38.-Great Southern of ;haw- 408 S. Loperii.ln 405. -Dundee tt andat w e . r . rb rr , GLASGOW, MAY 28. uar he a t l e e r s s, Central, 345. Gd 1 . b .- urgh and Glasgow, 691.-Edinburg h awl Perth (New Co.), 315.-Ditto, Halves, 7a. -Glasgow' 56s. are- 6d.-East Lothian New, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 116/-Ditto 39; 1 4-Ditto, Halves, N 0 .,, 1, to, Ilalves, No. 2, S:Y: Glas Dumfries, an: gow, Carlisle, -/ A 0,.-..lauchester and Southampton, - and Dunfermline, 47y. ABERGAVENNY.—We rejoice in being able to state that the colliers have returned to work to Cwm Celyn (the works of Messrs. Cruthwell, Allies, and Co.), while the be ginning of the week, at latest, will, in all probability, find them busy at Coalbrook Vale. The restoration of a go od understanding between the masters and men is hailed WA' very considerable satisfaction by the tradesmen of Aberg_a: wilily, and the poorer part of the population have to ceif. gratulate themselves on the reduction of the price of flour I r, 13s. a week or two ago, to from 14s. to 15s. W.—Hereto a Times. 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