The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) EPSOM TRIAL STAKES. LaBcelles Ephesus. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. Dead heat between Ethelbert and Pancake. Twenty-five ran. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.-DEPUTA TION TO LORD PALMERSTON. Yesterday afternoon a deputation, consisting of the President, fello ws , an d mem b ers o f the Royal College of Physicians, waited upon Lord Palmerston, 81101 a t the Home Office, fo r the purpose of entreating his lordship to take immediate step s as m i g ht appear necessar y t o ob tain a new charter for the college. Dr. PARIS, the president, stated to his lordship that the college, the medical prefession, and the public gene rally, suffered severely from the present state of affairs, an d the e v il s of which they had to complain would be seriously aggravated unless measures were at once taken to place the college upon a better footing. Great incon venience was at present felt with regard to licences which Were granted upon different conditions to persons prac tising in L on d on and others practising in the country— andei tolins ta nce which c rea t e d muc h unp l easant f ee li ng, was otherwise productive of bad consequences. The body o ver which he (Dr. Paris) presided earnestly T his lordship to do what he could in removing the difficulties of which they complained, and in bring- Dabout some p ract i cal improvement. his forßA.wKiisis, the re gis t rar o f th e co ll ege, rea d t o purposeship a statement w hi c h b a d b een prepared for t h e Princip a l of p r esentation. It inf orme d hi s l or d s hip th a t th e points of difference between the present charter and a new charter which the members of the deputation :Were desirous of obtaining were as follows :—The present I.larter gave to the college the exclusive power of ex pi:Le,aring and licensing physicians in London. A similar a c c „, r ,as to physicians in the country was given by the lateory VIII., Confirming the charter, not to the e ge, but to a body chosen out of the college. Hence Persons licensed for one district were not so for another, and many dissensions and much inconvenience had arisen from this distinction. now asked his lordshi ,The e new licensing po p e ac g of th e colle charter to which they i g e e t o s c e t n h c e e w w h o o u l l e d oefx England and Wal es, l and would change the title of the college to that of the Royal Collge of Physicians of England, a change having been recently made by charter in / I ,le title of the Royal College of Surgeons. The new /hatter would provide for the admission into the college Z4terms universally considered extremely liberal, of i;;!3'0 physicians now Practising throughout the country eiut the licence of the college, and by whom such a r e :Pre,,..as this had for many years been ardently de- J .le • new charter made certain changes in the real Constitution of the college ;in particular, it its nsferred to the college at large the power of choosing siej e L cire b si tnt, Which was given by the old charter to a It " c4 Y3 called the " Elects," who were self-elected. fellow to the college the power of expelling any future he inous or Member who should be convicted of certain D octor offences ; also that of conferring the title of T. of Medicine on persons who, being past the age .40 years, were found worthy, from their general at t'llinients and long experience in the practice of medi- I ne, to be licensed as physicians. Under other cireum ntances the colleg e was to be empowered to hcensethose O nly who should have graduated at some university. The nature of the enactments thus proposed, and the reasons for them, had been explained more fully in a memorial honour of submitting to Lord Palmerston. By referring Italso to the preamble of the draft charter sent with that e roorial, his lordship would perceive that the Act of .: 1-e nrY VIII confirming the present charter, must be ear tially repealed, and a new but short act passed to effect the proposed alterations. Dr. BURRows begged leave to impress upon his lord ship one fact, which had not been adverted to in laid certain just read by th e registrar. They had a Certain suggestions before hi s lordship, the result of much deliberation ; and they could assure hi m th a t no °Pposition to their adoption was to be anticipated from any ,Tlarter. It was the general wish .. ‘he college should be remodelled , of the profession that be and made so effi neut as to enable it to meet the altered requirements of the times. S o f ar f rom an y objection being made . to the th Pos ed ref orms , th e grea t es t anx iety prevailed that , th e y should be speedily carried out, and the members o f e colleg e h a d actua l ly b een twitted with insincerity in an °t e ll a a ;Zing impressed the matter on the Government at fo r the 'er opportunity. He believed that it would be Would • ," en fit of the profession gener a lly if hi s l or d s hip D r —ke it into his fav o urable c ons id era ti on . Mited„l Toni) reminded his lordship that a deputation • hi~ ea some time since from the Provincial, hi th!' a f,,lti- S urgical Association, and repesented to rho se of the country upon measu r es s i m il ar t o stated 14 °w su uolitted t o hi m , an d h e th oug ht it was th en charter that t t h a b ill would be introduced giving a new Dr. e Colleg e . Preeed 43VIIINS thought that some such measure might professeio a nlii. ore general measure for the regulation of the Lord p teiic ALIIERsTort said he had listened with great at, ion to the representations which had been made to should The su b ject was one of great importance, and it The have his best consideration. deputation then withdrew. DECIMAL COINAGE. p~44 regard to th e ques ti on o f d ec i ma l co inage, it ap '"lre cq rre t hat a motion is about to be made, with the con 'leo of th e G overnmen t, f or a committee of the goos e of Commons to examine and report upon its ex ,, s ien eY• The following letter refe rs to the g eneral e Luga of the subject : " London, March 31, 1853. rejoice to see that you have begun to use your 4- "Werfal pen in the cause of the reform of our system of money, weights, and measures ; and I trust that you will not ce ase your advocacy of the decimal system until w Ateed at least on a level with, in this particular , theme are ore kientific Chinese. "Our coinage, as in your you showed . article of the 30:1 )tarch, is admirably adapted for a chan ge t o a complete decim a l system ; and by themeansofa decimal coinage e4 sy l e n te age m the public would be more easily instructed in the °f decimal accounts and calc d u e l e a i t m io al n eo th i a n n s If the proposed,i in any other he r markedw way th a t I can imagine. 'with their values, both in relation . t t h o eir th h e a po na u s n , lation to the integer, were once in veins below the sixpence taken out, all d an a d nd th l e n old r with lvay of a change would first step should be the 0. soon ,vanish. It appears to me that the corresponding issue I al of the halfcrowns, and a co florins. " The next step should be the ca • the same,value under Pences, and the issue of new coins of lling in of the old six a name the coin another name. The name of ' tester' would be as good ai one as any yet proposed, and is, moreover,. already- has, and has borne, under its vari o ous n 00 ch e a s n id g value, ever since the time of Henry VIII. the coin should bear in ' Doit is a name plain legible words, ' Forty to Pound ;' on the other, Twenty-five doits. a e s th o e f , a good old w.._hich has been suggested for the integer, and a is pro -toglish name it would be. ' Not worth a dolt' '''erh current enough among us. I'll-x Pence, exchangeable against six old pennies, co . This coin, of the value of thinly create no great confusion, as it would be evnlen n t,. 'ePon the face of it, that there were 40 to the pound, co__ se on two to the shilling, and that ,it was worth r n .. dolts, the smallest of the new coins soon after to b e int o sauced. In six or twelve months after, when the doit came out, its value would be already well known. The tester would therefore be a comtnon measure for the value both of old and the new coins, 6 pennies, or 25 doits. `theher should, I conceive, be the following scale of coins below the ' tester,' having relation to the flori— Silver. 10 5 doits- , ..---10 to the florin. Copper. 3 20 , 331 „ 50 „ 2 1 , 100 " "There seem s at first an obiection to the piece of 3-doits; but it would be a most usefullcooin, as it is not likely that a single doit would circulat as to rho (baits the single present farthing, and with th e , r l' '3l. ever so lunch, as the doit would hardly ever be required, pay a debt of that amount a 3-doit piece would be given, and a 2-doit received in exchange. " Two 2-doit pieces would pay a debt of 4 dolts and all other mbinations would be as easily made. ' _ "rho expense of the change could not be, great, for this mater!e" : most of the copper chin now in circulation was under a regula lion as to the weight of the pieces, different from that under which the Mint now coin Pence. . "If a fair ordinal? mixture of copper coin of all sorts be taken, it will be found that they are heavier on the aver age by veer cent. at least than the pence Us presentgulations. • ued under the " Under the present regulations, a pound weight of copper (avoirdupois) is coined into 24 pence, so that 240 dlipoPenc, or 1/. in copper, would weigh 10 pounds avoir is. The old penny piece with the rim round it weighs, or deigh, loz. avoirdupois, and these still form a large Pof the copper circulation. "It is not likely that there can be m uc h more than a talllion Sterling of copper in circulation considering the great loss there must be of copper coins by the public, and tile anaount coined since 1797 " Prom 1797 to 1807, inclusive, the amount coined was .................. .. £818,447 6 9 " From 1807 there was no coinage of copper until 1 816, and from that time to 1852 there was coined 255 , 360 0 0 21,073,807 6 0 II!' 811PPosing there were a million sterling in circulation, ire would be 10 300 000 lb , avoirdupois, of copper, or xilii i i "" U 00010n.b. more than w ' would be required to replace the " 8111iPosing further, that the 300,0001 b, of copper in excess were coined under the existing regulations as to eZtenNue, there would be a gain of 30,000/. to go against the se of the new operation. t l ., ' The new coins might be exchanged against the old y el le ,l e, and fourpenny and threepenny pieces, in all town% nt• 1 i` e stezeP distributor, or by the postmaster, in parcel - 4,, each and the bankers and shopkeepers would do the est. ' • "present system of money, weights, and measures t a azsgrace to us as a mercantile and civilised nation, and ti l ll W !bat you Nvill continue your advocacy of a . change to e decimal system. Ido believe that no plan initiatory of cha nge could be devised better than that of a decimal e°o4lage, which is ready to our hands.—l am, Sir, your ze st obedient servant, W. MILLER." L TVAY TRAFFIC) .RETURN, 4,1111 GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.---Tramc return for flie week ending March 27, 1853 (283 miles) i:13,526 9 6 '°trVouding week last year (2414 miles) 11,317 13 1 The power which the Constitution gives of alter ing the duties paid on all produce imported into France has greatly alarmed the manufacturers of the north of France, where an impression prevails that Louis Napoleon contemplates a modification of the present tariff on cotton. The manufacturers of Rouen, Lille, Roubaix, and Mulhausen are in great alarm, and an association of the principal manufacturers of the north has been formed under the auspices of M. Henri Barbier, for the purpose of preventing the Government from carrying the proposed moifications into execution. The committee on the bill relating to the sending of private messages by the electric telegraph has nominated M. Gamier its president, and Baron de Veauce its secretary; and that on the bill concern ing the railways from Bordeaux to Bayonne, and from Narbonne to Perpignan, has appointed Count de Tauriac its president, and M. O'Quin its secre tary. The accounts from Martinique and Guadaloupe, received by the last West India Mail, come down to the 13th ult. At that time the sanitary state of those colonies had become satisfactory. The Jour nal Officiel of Martinique publishes an account of the commercial produce and of the revenues of the colony from 1848 to the Ist of January, 1853. The production of sugar, in 1848, was 18 millions of kilogrammes ; in 1849, 19 millions • in 1850, 15 millions ; in 1851, 23 millions • and in 1852, 26 millions. The amount of the value of imports and exports also shows a material increase. The re ceipts of all kinds were successively in 1848, 1,546,000 f. ; 1849, 1,808,000 f. ; 1850, 2,233,000 f.; 1851, 2,559,000 f. • and in 1852, 2,637,0 00 f. The commerce and production at Guadaloupe have not progressed so well as at Martinique. The Journal Officiel expresses a hope that the mother-country, encouraged by the success already obtained, will with confidence lend to the colony the necessary capital for the immigration of coolies. The Count de Pont4coulant, ex-senator and ex peer of France, died two days ago, after a short illness, in his 88th year. The Toulon fleet was, on the 26th ult., off Cag liari, in the island of Sardinia. It is probably by this time in the Archipelago. In speaking of the affairs of the East, the Assem blee Nationale says that, although no political man in Europe believes that the mission of Prince Men schikoff will lead to war, yet it must not be sup posed that the mission is near its end. Russia (it says) is in no hurry, because she knows that Turkey will yield every point at last, and " the Ottoman Empire will then return to its repose until the mo ment of the supreme catastrophe." In other words, the fruit is not yet ripe, but the Czar is ready to pluck it the moment it arrives at maturity. A telegraphic dispatch brings satisfactory 'news from Constantinople of the 28th of March. Mens chikoff had presented a project of convention, which was favourably received. The Russian army had received orders to retrograde. The firman relative to the establishment of the new bank had been published, and a Turkish functionary had left for Paris with a mission relative to the in demnity on the loan. The English fleet had been seen near Spienza, while the French squadron was in sight near Cape Metapan. The number of municipal councillors who, in various portions of the empire, have refused to take the oath of fidelity to the Emperor, increases every post. - M. Linand Bey, a distinguished French engineer in the service of the Viceroy of Egypt, has been charged with the execution of the plans for the levelling of the Isthmus of Suez. The difference of level of the two seas is not ten yards, as formerly supposed, but only one. The Emperor has given a medal of honour to Lieutenant Charles Pearson, of her Majesty's Navy, as a reward for the courageous assistance which Mr. Pearson gave on the 17th of December last to a wrecked French vessel. The Marquis Ricci, the Legate from the Apos tolic See, who arrived in Paris on Sunday last, brought a cardinal's hat, which the Emperor is, on Sunday next, to bestow on the Archbishop of Tou louse. The ceremony will take place in the Chapel of the Tuileries. On the 26th ult. the French squadron was off Cagliari. In the Moniteur is a decree of the Emperor or dering that a proposition to grant pensions of 12,000 f. a year for life to the widows of Marshals Excelmans and Oudinot, be laid before the Senate. The Bourse yesterday was characterised by a ge neral dullness in Rentes and Bank Stock, though a degree of firmness in the prices was evinced towards the close of business. No- change took place on the previous day's quotations for the Four-and-a- Half per Cents., either for cash or the account ; however, the Three per Cents. for money and the end of the month experienced an improvement, the former advancing 10c., and the latter 20c. on Tues day's closing prices. Bank Stock has further im proved to the extent of sf. At the closing of the Bourse the following were the quotations :—Three per Cents., cash, 79f. 30c. ; for the account, 79f. 40c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., both for cash and the account, 103 f. Bank Stock, 2,700 f. The market for railway shares was 'heavy, and only a limited amount of business was transacted, with but little variation from the prices of the pre vious day. At the close, however, a better feeling prevailed. Paris and Lyons shares were in demand, at an advance of Bf. on the concluding price of yes terday ; in the shares of the other lines a decrease of from If. to sf. took place. At the conclusion of business the prices stood thus :—Northern, 894 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,034 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 836 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 945 f. 50c; Paris and Rouen, 1,040 f.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 805 f. to spoil all, and which prevents Europe from energeti cally protecting the independence of the East. In 1839 the victories of Ibrahim Pacha threatened Constanti nople. The European Powers interfered to prevent the fall of Sultan Mahmoud. But suddenly a French ques ' tion appeared through the Eastern one. The object was no longer to prevent the preponderance of Egypt in the Ottoman Empire, but that of France in Egypt. The pretended ambition of France, and her moral aggrandise ment, became the object of all the jealousies and of all the resistance of Europe. It was not the Ottoman Em pire which was saved, as the result has too clearly shown ;it was France which was checked. Such was the solution of the Eastern question in 1840 ; such was the manner in which the interest of Europe against France was substituted for that of Europe in favour of the Ottoman Empire. In 1840, Europe, instead of endeavouring to bring the dying to life, preferred leaving him in his agonies, and endeavoured to destroy or weaken one of his heirs in order to render the succession more advantageous to the survivors. In 1853, we have not for some time seen bow it would be possible to substitute a French question in place of the Ottoman one. France, for instance, did not appear to take fire for the Montenegrins, as she did in 1840 for Egypt. She has scarcely had time since 1848 to think of the East, and she has cared little about it. When then can the hand of France be found in the affairs of the East ? How can it be shown that it is France that has again lighted up the Eastern question ; that it has caused the perils of Constantinople ; that it is against France and against her preponderance in the East that it is necessary to take precautions ; that there is, in short, in 1853 as in 1840, a French question which predominates over the Ottoman one ? The thing was difficult to be done, but it was accomplished. It is now agreed in Europe that the question is not of Constantinople, but of Jerusalem ? What do you say of Prince Menschikoff, who caused the dismissal of a Turkish Minister by not going to see him ; of the fleet of Sebastopol ; of the Russian armies on the banks of the Black Sea ; of the protectorate claimed and exercised by Russia over eleven millions of Ottoman subjects ? You hear nothing of it. The question is of the key of the Holy Sepulchre and of the chapel of Bethlehem. That is the principal affair. To send an English fleet under pretence of protecting Constantinople, but in reality to deliver into the hands of France the keys of the Holy Sepulchre, is a piece of dupery of which Protestant England is not capable. Let us, in the first place, prevent France from triumphing at Jerusalem, as we prevented her in 1840 from triumphing at Alexandria. Constantinople may afterwards become what she may. This is how the question of the Holy Places has been skilfully substi tuted for the Ottoman question, and France left alone in 1853 as too Catholic, in the same way as in 1840 as too Egyptian. To reduce France to a state of isolation ap pears in Europe a question of more importance than to guarantee the independence of Constantinople ; and that, in our opinion, is the greatest danger for Constanti nople." THE FRENCH EMPIRE. SPAIN. The Senate has decided that there was no occa sion to deliberate on the representation of Marshal Narvaez. This decision was come to by a majority of eight votes. The following are the prices of stocks :—Three per Cents., 43 13-16 ; ditto Deferred, 24 9-16; Re deemable Debt, first class, 11 ; ditto second class, 51. Coupon Certificates have fallen to 5i sellers. Exchange on London, 51 10. SWITZERLAND. A coalition of the Southern German States, for the purpose of establishing a blockade against Switzerland, is seriously thought of. An Austrian patrol crossed the frontier into Switzerland by mistake, and at night. The patrol was arrested by the authorities, but almost imme diately afterwards the Austrians were allowed to return into Lombardy. The Ticino Gazette has the following from Lugano of the Ist "In order to prevent any exaggeration, we think right to announce that last night the small Austrian detach ment of Osteno, consisting of two soldiers, two of the frontier guard, and a chief of a fort, were arrested on the territory of Ticino, near the frontier of Gandria, on the lake of Lugano. After it was ascertained that the violation of territory had accidentally taken place, from ignorance of the true frontier line, the detachment was set at liberty. The arrest was effected by the federal guard of the frontier." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna states that the Austrian Government intends to establish a consulate in Montenegro for the protection of its commercial in terests. The .Trieste Observer states from Scutari (Al bania), March 16, that the Serasker, Omer Pacha, and General Mustapha Pacha, have evacuated most of the Turkish districts bordering on Montenegro. The Ottoman fleet has left Antivari, and retired to other Albanian ports, to await orders from Con stantinople. The Constitutionnel says : " At the date of the last accounts from Vienna, an envoy extraordi nar y He from the Sultan, charged with a special m i ss i on to the Emperor, was daily expected. will be the bearer of an autograph letter from the Sultan. This envoy will be Mustapha Effendi, one of the aides de-camp of his Majesty, and who enjoys the fullest con fidence of his Sovereign, and the choice of him for this mission will be a proof of the renewal of a good under standing between Austria and the Porte." The Austrian Government had rejected the de mands of the Piedmontese Government. The personal property of General Haynau amounts to only 5,000,000 florins, instead of 2,000,000 as originally stated, which has been set tled on his daughter for life. In Istria and Dalmatia, the production of marine salt has been restricted to a fixed quantity by the Austrian monopoly. All - above the prescribed amount is thrown into the sea. This extreme measure is causing the vessels to leave the port of Trieste in ballast. TIJRK EY. Nearly the whole of the first page of the Debats of yesterday is filled with an article on the Eastern question, but it is chiefly a notice of the view taken of it by the German journals. We extract, there fore, only the concluding portion, in which the Debats expresses its opinion respecting the jealousy of France that has been displayed on this ques tion : " The mot d'ordre is now given in Germany as in Eng land. What has brought about the Oriental com plication is not the mission of the Count de Lein ingen or that of Prince Menschikoff ; it is the protectorate of the Catholics claimed by France at Jerusalem. We must be permitted on this subject to remark that every time the Eastern question is renewed, Europe appears always to arrange matters in such a manner that it is a French question which is said THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1853. PRUSSIA. The police have, it is affirmed, been successful in seizing the principal person or persons implicated in the insane project of a republican outbreak at this place. The individual most seriously compro mised is said to be Dr. Frankenthal, arrested in his apartments at Moabit. Lists of names and divers correspondence and papers were discovered in his rooms, concealed within the lining of an arm chair. This personage possesses some little pro perty, and has considerable practice in his neigh bourhood. He is an admirer of antiquities, and has a small collection, which enabled him to con vey—so it is asserted—arms and ammunition into his house without awakening suspicion. He and all other individuals arrested, with the exception of Messrs. Behrends and Streckfuss, liberated under surveillance, remain au secret. There is every reason to believe that the police are in possession of written, and perhaps of more direct evidence, which proves incontestibly the criminal and sense less intentions of these enemies to all true liberty, and their connection with other desperadoes in distant parts within and without the monarchy. There is but one opinion here among rational men, that the vigilance of the police has saved Berlin and other towns from the bursting forth of one of thuse explosions, which, after causing much blood shed, terror, and confusion, would have merely led to a recrudescence of police and exceptional seven ties, to an abridgment of liberties, and to the thou sand annoyances attendant upon a state of siege. It is said that an Englishman, with an Austrian passport, is among the persons arrested. It appears that M. de Hinckledy, president of police, whose vigilance in tracing murderers, as recently proved, is equal to his skill in frustrating intended political crime, declines to accept the functions of director-general, or superintendent of the whole police of the monarchy, which an illus trious person is desirous that he should assume. Sundry motives are assigned for this. Among the most conclusive is that such most responsible func tions cannot be undertaken by a subordinate, that is, by any one liable to the immediate control of this or that Minister ; or, in other words, if the ge neral police power be vested in one hand, the power must be independent, and tantamount to that of any other Minister who has uncontrolled sway over his department, subject, of course, in certain cases, to the assent of the whole Cabinet and Crown. It is generally asserted that the so-called Minis terial crisis was not yet determined, and that the whole Cabinet had declared that if the Minister- President retired, all would follow his example. But we have had such repeated instances of these Ministerial crisis, that little doubt exists of matters being satisfactorily arranged. Indeed, were it not for the necessity of chronicling passing events, it would be superfluous to mention the subject. The definitive convention for the renewal and ex tension of the Zollverein was signed last evening, by the whole of the plenipotentiaries. The ratifi cations are to be exchanged and completed within a short period. THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Indus, Captain John Soy, arrived at Southampton yesterday, bringing the Southamp ton portion of the East India, China, and Mediter ranean mails, and dates from Alexandria, March 23 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, April 1. The Indus has 108 passengers, among whom are —Lord and Lady Morton, from Malta ; Colonel White, from Calcutta ; (3aptain Valpy Turner and Captain Griffin, from Calcutta ; Colonel Moore, from Alexandria, &c. This steamer brings on freight-3 boxes of gold dust, 53 boxes of oranges, 34 packages of elephants' teeth, 3 boxes of tortoise shell, 443 bales and 31 cases of silks, 183 bags of gum, 3 cases of indigo, 66 cases of shawls, 282 bales of cotton, 20 cases of plants, and 65 packages of sundries. The Indus left Malta at 1 p.m. on 27th ult. ; on the following morning, at 2, she fell in with the Fleet off Pantalaria, consisting of 7 line-of-battle ships and 2 frigates. It was thought on board the Indus that this fleet was bound to Malta, to join _ the British squadron there, consisting of the Bri tannia (flag-ship), 120, Albion, 90, Rodney, 90, Bellerophon, 78, Arethusa, 50, Modeste, 18, and steamers Retribution, Sampson, Spitfire, and Triton. At the time the Indus spoke the French fleet, it was blowing a heavy gale at N.W. with a long high sea. Discharges of rockets were made from the vessels on the outposts, and the screw line-of-battle ship Napoleon led the fleet. The French war steamer Caire left Alexandria on the 23d, and reached Malta on the 27th ult. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Euxine left Malta with the Marseilles mail at 10.30 a.m. of the 27th. The Indus spoke the Peninsular. and Oriental Company's ship Ripon, with the out ward India mail of the 20th ult., off Cape Bon, on the 28th of March, at 5.30 p.m., steering for Malta. The intelligence brought by this steamer from India, China, arc., has been anticipated by the overland express, published in The Sun on Satur day last. From Gibraltar our accounts are to the Ist inst. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's chartered steamer City of London, bound to the Levant, arrived at Gibraltar at 10.30 a.m. of the Ist inst. The Ripon, 41 days from Southampton, touched at Gibraltar on the 25th ult.; en route to Malta and Alexandria. Her Majesty's steam-ship Simoom left Gibraltar on the 24th ult. The British schooner Emerald put into Gibraltar on the 29th ult., with loss of bowsprit, cutwater, &c., having been run foul of off Cape Spartel by a Danish schooner from Messina, bound to Hamburgh. The United States' frigate Constitution, Commodore J. Mayo, left Gibraltar for the Mediterranean on the 29th ult. The English transport-ship Flora, with troops on board, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on the 27th ult. The transport-ship Sibell a left the bay on the 30th. The screw steamer Orontes, 6 days from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 31st ult., and cleared for Palermo, Messina, and Alexandria. Her Majesty's steamers Furious, Antelope, and Inflexible were at Gibraltar on the st. --- At Gibraltar, exchange on London, at 90 days', was quoted 5J ; Paris, sf. 31c. ; Spanish pillared dollars, 21 per cent. premium. GENERAL SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE DWELLINGS OF THE WORKING GLASSES.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, patron of the above society, has undertaken to lay the first stone of the new building, for the above objects (being the first of the society's series of intended operations for the erection of model dwellings for the working classes and their families). The present site purchased by the committee is between New-street, Hopkins-street, Husband-street, and Cock court, adjoining Broad-street, Golden-square, St. James's. This locality was formerly covered with wretched and dilapidated houses, forming one of the most filthy abodes of vice and pauperism in the metro polis. The ceremony of laying the first stone will take place on Tuesday next. THE Sil ARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 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Lio -- 153 a#— 3I) 10 —ll 13# --131xd 8 -- 9 10i -11 i A ---/pxdi 148 - 150 21 - 23i1) -2; 107 -- 108 25 -- 26 2i -- 3 p 101 -7 114 17 -- 183 -14 p 14 -- 153 par -- P 25i -- 264 ; 193 -- 203 d ipar 101 -- 103 I -- 5i par — 100 Bi, Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost, & hastn. Birmg. Wolverh. ay Stour V alley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk , £5O and £25 Cons, Do £2O 'Bristol and Exeter, Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon..., Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New 'East Anglian (£25 L. and ET & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.dr H.) Pastern Counties.. Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do do IDo., B. and C.. lEast Lancashire' 'Fast & West Ind. Dk.l & Binning. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock (Great Southern and Western (Ireland), Great Western Irish South-Eastern, Lancaster & Carlisle, Do., Thirds Lancash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &Southpt. London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cat. London & N. Western Do., Fifths D0.,X10 Sh.M. &B. C London & S. Western Do., ao Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Urn 'Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. Aberg.&Hftd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor, Norfolk IDo., New. Northn.Counties Un, North British North Devon, N0.,1 Do No. 2 Do., i A Deferred ... Do., 4 B Guaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton . Scottish Central .... Scot:Ash Midland Shrewsbuy&Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do ...... Do Do. Oswestiy • Shropshire Union Sou Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh.River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway' Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall. Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newetl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland PREFERE 'Aberdeen . Do., No. 2, 7 p. e , Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St, Do. 4p. e. Shares , Caledonian £lO I . Cheater .& Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. Cork&Bandon 5h p.c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. o. Do. (.£5), 7 per cont. Do. (X 7 17s), 7. p ct. Eastorn Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. a. St Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash. 6 p. cts Edinb. Pith. & Dund Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. a Do. 5 p. s., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem Gt. S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berke Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. c., ,Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. e Do. Pref. 6 p. e., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do: New Guar. 6 p. c. London &S. Western, Con. Third 5........: Londonderry &Coler, iShares. . ........, Londndry. & Ennisk, t Shares . Mansh.,Shef.,&Lin., Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 . Marypt. dr Carl. 4 p.c, Do. 4i per cent Mid. Consol. 6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4 a percent. Norfolk Extension... De. Guar. 5i per et. Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent...... ..... North British North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. Do. Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. S. Yorksh. 4p. a. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. e. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref Do York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase... FOREIGN. Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin i Dijon and Besanon Dutch Rhenish East Indian.. Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref Luxembourg IDo. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons & Med*erran Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs.], Norwegian Trnk. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5 per cent. pref Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland New Zealand... . 1 16 1 2 — 4l 154 —2 d 5 —6 P 2 2 p 1 ' ll p 1- - 8 4 - 44. . - 2 p 13 9 -11 p 2 - 2i 1) ~. -- ••• 5-6 1 i 35i -35 i 14 -- 15 8i -- 91 17 -17p' 42i -43 ii 41 -42 33f -33 i 4i -- 5 p 22 --21 p 91 9tl 4A -- 5 p 4i -- 5i d -- par 9A -10 p # oi Business done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paidl RAILWAYS. Leasing Compans. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business this day. Bedford and Bletchley Birm. & Oxfd guarantee Do. withoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E.Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. i Shares Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd., Northern and Eastern sp. e. De. 6 per et.. Do. Fixed sp. e Prest. d;Wyre Do. Slres. Roystn.&Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g. 5. p. c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do. Wilts &Somrst London & N. West. Gt.Westn ,Do Do Do L. tit N.W CaWon , Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westn. Yk. New. & Berw Y.&N. Md Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Ln. &N. W. & Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland... E. Count Do Do. L. &IS . W 41Ln& Yk Do Gt. Northn Do Lancash. di Torksh MrMClean Stoat. 61 Darling Do Gt. Westn ,• .--- . ,• -- ... 105 -107 52i -53 k 151 - 153 32i -33 i 111 -- 113 554 -66 i 274 -- 284 131 -14 i 25i --264xd 19 —l94 ' ,26 -- 27 li 2i - 38 thi : 106 64 - 66 ••• - •. 149 - 151 149 - 151 1— id 32 -- 33 102 i -103 i MINES. 1 all Agua Fria lOs all Anglo Californian f 4 p 10 2 Australasian — l4 p 20 5 Australian -1 1 all Australian Cordillera 4- a p 1 all Australian Freehold. id— 4 p 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par 4 p 1 all British Austrin. Gold a g p 20 13.5 British Iron t 8 35 244 Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm.) 5 54 30 all Do. Cocaea & Cuiaba 61 -- 64 61 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 1 Carson's Creek.. par 4 P 40 all Cobra Copper 46 —4B 464 7 5 1 Colonial Gold 24 —2i p 34 14 Copiapo 6 7 St. all CopperMinersof Eng B5 95 88 25 all Do. Preference B4 —9lp S all English and Austin Copper Snteltg. Co ll 1 d 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein l4 —2i p 3 4 3 all Great Polgooth 1 —ll p 1 all Lake Bathurst 4 die— par 1 all Liberty — RI) 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 1 1 all Mariquita 4d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Anteric 8 84 1 all New Granada 4 1 all Nouveau Monde l4 —ll p 5 1 Port Philip — 4 p 1 all Quartz Rock par H p 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. New 7 8 30 104 Santiago do Cuba - 1 all South Australian # a p 1 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 284 all United Mexican 6l 6:"1 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada - p 1 all West Mariposa par p 1 all Yuba 4p— ap l 4 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 93 50 all British N. Americanl ... 60 20- 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India,' Australia, & China 1 —14 p 100 25 Colonial. — 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — ... 4 English Scottish and Australian l4 2i p 20 74 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 34 4 p 50 20 London and County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock _ 100 20 Lond. & Westminster _ 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India id 50 224 National of Ireland 25 all Oriental Bank if Corporation. 544 —sslxd a d 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New — 6 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp. Co.. 4 dis p 25 25 South Australia ._ ... 50 52 51 25 all Union of Australia_ 774 784 78 1 24 Do. New [) 10 Union of London.. ... all Union of Madrid MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 97 100 100 20 8 Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail -- 381 Brit. A.mericn. Land - 67 9 100 112 h Canada • • - ö Crystal Palace ••• • • Gil 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France - 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat— 304 100 50 General Screw Steam. 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 2 Netherlands Land._ • 20 24 Nra.o:EuropeSteatn 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 50 25 Do. Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam_ . -. . 78 25 25 South Austral. Land 51 53 524 1 1 Submar. Telegraph — 6 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation.,. ••• 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 2ll 2200 21 iii ---- iii 'N3 2i MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 7, 1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tewns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. 'BARLEY. OATS. I I BYE. BEANS. I PEAS. 44s 4u 3is 6d 1 I 19s 0,1130 s 2d IMs 81 32s 5d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. Is Od Is Od is Od Is Od is Od is Od 'QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 82,554; Bar'ey, 40,434; Oats, 16,765; Rye, 102 ; Bears, 5,295; Peas, 1,386 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 12s ; clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 5s to 4/ 14s ; clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 9s to 1/ 16s per load. Trade firm, at full prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 12s ; clover ditto, 3l lOs to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand at this market to-day ruled very inactive, as follows : Beef, 28 6d to 38 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 48 2d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 58 10d ; Veal, 38 4d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 26 10d to 4s 2d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOIJTHALL, APRIL 6.—Our market to-day ruled very dull, and prices have not supported those of this day week, as follows :—Beef, 28 8d to 48 Od ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 48 8d ; Lamb, 58 Od to 58 10d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RO3IFORD, APRIL 6.—The demand for each kind of meat at this market to-day ruled heavy, as follows : Beef, from 2s Bd . to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 58 Od ; Lamb, 5s Od. to 6s Od ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 10d par 81bs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 19s to 24s each. HAILSEAM, APRIL 6.—Each kind of stock moved off slowly, and barely stationary prices were maintained. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Lamb, 5s 4d to Gs Ocl ; Veal, 3s Gd to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3s Od to 3s 8d per 81bs. LLOYDS' SHIPPINO-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, April 7.—Wind this day at Noon, W., light breeze, and cloudy at times. DEAL, April 6.—Wind, W.S.W., stormy. Arrived— Fayaway, Cape of Good Hope ; Borneo, Mauritius ; Jas. Cruickshank, Demerara ; Ocean Queen, New York ; Hen drik Hudson, do. ; Nancy Dawson, Havannah. Arrived from the River—Moultan, for Geelong ; Paradise, Cal cutta ; Fortunate, St. Lucia ; Cares, St. John's, N.B. ; Breeze, do. Put a back—Perseverance, for Sydney, N.S.W. —The Forager (barque), of Hull, was boarded in a sinking state in lat. e 4s, long. 10 W., and two men taken off by the Emerald, arrived in the Downs. (Mem.—See paragraph headed " Liverpool, April 2.") LIVERPOOL, April 6.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived — Timely Yacht, Porto Rico ; Triton, Charleston • Carmatie, do. ; Excelsior, do. ; Lady Franklin, do. Sailed—Pacific (s), New York. ISLE OF WIGHT, April 6.—The Navarino, of Guernsey, has been totally wrecked here in a thick fog ; crew saved. COWES, April 6.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Mangola, Havannah ; mnna Mercer, do. FALMOUTH, April 6.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Frolic, London for the South Seas, with loss of three boats, bul warks, &c., and one man. YARMOIITH, April 6.—Wind, W. Arrived—Leonidas, Sunderland for Cowes, assisted in with damage to hull, having been in contact with two other vessels. QUEENSTOWN, April s.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Fame, Matanzas ; Caledonia, Callao ; Thames, do. ; Ann, Maza gan. Off Port—Agenoria, Mauritius, or Leith. _ _ _ o LLANELLI'', April 6.—Arrived—Maria Sarah, Bayonne for Dublin, very leaky, and disabled. The Huskisson, of and for Liverpool from Africa, is on shore in Carmarthen Bay, and will go to pieces ; cargo expected to be saved. BOULOGNE, April 6.—The author, Callao to Aberdeen, is on shore near Naples. GIBRALTAR, March 31.—The Ripon (8) was in Contact with a Norwegian barque on the 24th inst., and the latter received damage. The Emerald, from Liverpool, was in contact with a Danish schooner, and lost bowsprit, &c. CAGLIARI, March 30.—The Glamesk, from Newport, went on shore on the West Coast of Sardonia, on the 21st March ; master and one man drowned ; vessel and cargo expected to be saved. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—APRIL 6. ( From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS BILL. Clause one (power of punishing, on summary conviction, assaults committed on females, and male children under twelve years of age, and occasioning actual bodily harm, extended) :—Amendment proposed, page 2, line 10, after the word "paid," to insert the words, " and if a male to be privately whipped, in addition to such fine or imprison ment as aforesaid." Question put, " That these words be there inserted." The committee divided : Ayes 50, Noes 108. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. MINORITY-AYES, SS. - , Aglionby, H. East, Sir J. Paget, Lord George Boll,y, Sir J. Elliot, J. E. Pakington, 1- ir J. Ball, John Fergus, John Peel, Colonel Bentinck, G. P. Gaskell, James M. Percy, J. Berkeley, Hon. C. F. Halford, Sir Henry Rushout, Capt. Blair, Colonel Hastie, Archibald Sanders, G. Bonham-Carter, J. Jones, David Sawle, C. B. G. Bowyer, George Legh, G. C. Seymour, Lord Bramston, T. w. Liddell, H. G. Stuart, Lord D. Buck, Lewis W. Lovatne, Lord Thomely, T. Butt, Isaac Macartney, G. Townshend, Capt. Byng, G. H. Charles Mackenzie, WF. Tuttlell.H. Caulfield, Col. Macgregor, James Wilcox, B. Craufurd, E. H. J. Mullings J. Randolph IVynelham, General Dalrymple, Vise. Mundy William Deedes, W • Newark, Viscount TELLIES. Denison, J. E. O'Brien, P. Phinn, T. Duncombe, Hn. A. Ossuiston, Lord Newdegate, C. N. MAJORITY —NOES, 108. A'Court, C. Fitzroy, Henry Packe Charles W. Alcock, Thomas Forster, C. Palmerston, Vis. Anderson, Sir James Fox, W. J. Parker, R. Townley Bailey, Crawshay Freestun, Colonel PellattApsley Baines, M. T. French, F. Ricardo, J. L. Ball, Edward Fuller, Augus u• E. Ricardo, 0. Barnes, T. George, John Rice, E. Barrow, W. H. Glyn, George Carr Robartes, T. J. A. Bethell, Richard Goodman, Sir George Rus,ell, F. C. Biggs, William Gregson, Samuel &obeli, Capt. Bouverie, E. Grenfell,(3. Shelburne, Earl of Boyle, Col. Grosvenor, Lord R. Shelley, Sir J. V. Brady, J. Heneage, Geo. H. Smyth, R. J. Brand, H. Henley. J. W. Smyth, J. G. Brisco, Musgrave Herbert, Sidney Sotheron, T. H. S. Brocklehurst, John Hervey, Lord Alfred Stanley, Lord Brockman, E. D. Hindley, Charles • Stapleton, J. Bruce, H. A. Hume, Joseph Stirling, W. Butt, Geo. Medd Keating, Robert Strutt, Edward Cardwell, E. Kinnaird, A. F. Swift, Richard Chambers, M. Kirk, William Tancred, Henry Wm. Chaplin, W. J. Labouchere, Henry Vane, Lord H. Charteris, F. Langston, H. G. Villiers, Hon. C. Clay, Sir W. Lawl ey , F. C. Villiers, Francis Clinton, Lord R. Lockhart, A. E. Walmsley, Sir J. Cobbett, J M. Lowe, R. Walpole, S. H. Cobbold, J. Chevalier Milling, Richard Warner, Edward Cockburn, Sir A. Massey, W. Wells, W. Crook, J. Maule, Colonel Wickham, Henry W. Crossley, F. Milligan, E. Wilkinson, W. Duncan, G. Michell, W. Winnington, Sir T. Dunlop, A. Molesworth, Sir W. Wise, J. A. Egerton W. Moncreiff, James Egerton, Edward Moody, C. A. Feilden, M. Morris, D. VELUM& Fellowes, Edward Musgrave, Earl Ferguson, Joseph Napier, J. Hayter, W. G. Fitzgerald, W. Oakes, J. H. Berkeley Grenville NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6. The Rear-Admiral Superintendent (A. Fanshawe, C. 8.) of this dockyard received the deputation from the sawyers of the establishment in his office this morning, and the men say they never experienced such courteous, considerate, and thoroughly gentlemanly treatment from any official in thpir lives. He listened most pa tiently to the detail of their grievances, and expressed his approval of the mode they had adopted (by their memorial), in bringing their case to his notice, and as ' he considered their case a wo r thy one he should forward it for the consideration of the Lords of the Admiralty. The sawyers express the warmest gratitude for the manner of their reception by the head of the dockyard. By the death of Sir Thomas Livingstone, Admiral of the White, Admiral of the Blue the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., becomes Admiral of the White ; Vice-Admiral of the Red the Right Hon. Lord W. Fitzroy, K.C.8., K.C.H., becomes Admiral of the Blue ; Vice-Admiral of the White Sir John Louis becomes Vice-Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Hon. Granville George Lord Radstock, C. 8., becomes Vice- Admiral of the White ; Rear-Admi ra l o f the Red Henry Hope, C. 8., becomes Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; Rear- Admiral of the White Charles Sotheby becomes Rear- Admiral of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue David Price becomes Rear-Admiral of the White ; and Captain Rich, Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling yard, Plymouth, attains his flag, making the lucrative post he holds vacant. Lieutenant-General Lord Raglan, Master-General of the Ordnance, accompanied by Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifica tions, arrived at this port, from town, yesterday morn ing, and embarked in the Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen, commanding, to make an inspection of Hurst Castle, Sconce Fort, &c. They were attended in their inspection by Colonel Sir J. M. F. Smith, K.H., commanding Royal Engineers in this garrison, Lieuten ants-Colonel Haultain and Cater, R.A., and their per sonal staffs. The Sprightly returned with them in the evening. This morning the distinguished officers pro ceeded to Blockhouse Fort, and inspected that. After which they crossed to this garrison and inspected the Portsmouth defences, attended by Major-General Simp son, the Lieutenant-Governor, who saluted the Master- General of the Ordnance with 15 guns. The experiments which have been for some time pend ing in her Majesty's ship Fairy, under the direction of Captain Crispin, to ascertain the best description of screw, terminated yesterday, and the general results have been deemed so satisfactory, both (as we are informed) as to increased speed as well as decreased vibration, that the patent propeller (Griffiths') with the two fans is retained in her permanently instead of the common screw, and the patentees yesterday were ordered by the Admiralty to make a screw on their principle for the Agamemnon, 91, as quickly as possible, which they expect will deter mine the principle of screws for the navy for the future. The Flighflyer, 21, Captain Moor, is having a thorough refit in the angle dock. She is to have a new propeller, most likely one of Griffiths' patent. A sad accident hap pened on board her last night to a man named David Casteers, captain of the mizentop, wh o f e ll f rom one o f the yards upon the deck, by which he sustained such in juries that his life is despaired of. The Isabel screw steam-vessel, Commander Inglefield, having completed caulking, went out of harbour this morning in tow of the African steam-tug, but the weather looking threatening she anchored in Cowes Roads. WOOLWICH, APRIL 6. APPOINTMENTS. Master.—Edward M‘lienzie (1852), to the Star, 8 sloop, commissioned at Chatham. Second Masters.--William Henry Obree (1851), to the Fisgard flag-ship, at Woolwich ; W. H. Fawckner, to the Phoenix steam sloop, fitting for the Arctic Re gions. D. Harding to be foreman of shipwrights at Sheer ness. Mr. Charles Kerr Renwick, who was appointed act ing chief engineer, in June. 1852, has had the confirma tion of his appointment to be chief engineer dated in the same month of 1852, which places him 15th in seniority from the bottom of the list of chief engineeers. The Rifleman, screw steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com mander Richard H. Dolton, is to be paid off on Satur day, if her stores can be returned by that time. FLOGGING AND DESERTION 1N THE NAVY. The best commentary on Sir James Graham's re marks on Tuesday night with respect to the flogging of the boatswain's mate, Stapleton, and the right hon. baronet's notions as to what is " brutality " and " dis grace," and what is " degrading " and " brutalising," will be found in our Parliamentary report, and especially in the remarks of Lord Palmerston. The wretch who has been convicted, after a fair and open trial, of ill treating a woman and of inflicting the most brutal injury on his wife, must not be flogged, because corporal punishment "will leave marks on his back," and be cause the tendency of flogging is to disgrace and to brutalise the human species ; but it petty officer in the navy, with 17 years' good character, if he happens to commit a breach of discipline, under great provocation, may be "flogged " and " brutalised ' at the will of his commanding officer, and the House of Commons, which on Tuesday li.tened without disgust to a Cabinet Minister who defended the flogging the sailor, voted yesterday against the infliction of cor poral punishment on any notorious ruffian against whose violence a poor woman may be compelled to appeal to the protection of the law. The First Lord of the Admiralty was not aware of the fact that any men had deserted from the navy in consequence of the flogging of a petty officer, and attributed the desertions, which he could not deny had taken place, to the temp tation of higher wages in the merchant service. We are sorry to find Sir James Graham so unacquainted with facts so well known without the precincts of the Board of Admiralty, and we fear that if the First Lord is so slow to acquire information on matters so vitally im portant to the service over which he presides, he will learn a lesson in the House of Commons on naval affairs which will be neither agreeable nor creditable to him. We believe that the offer of high wages in some instances has led to the desertion of a few men-of-war's men, but the principal cause for desertion and of so many vacan cies for petty officers in the navy, is owing to the dis graceful flogging of the boatswain's mate, Stapleton, who had so good a character, and we know that men who would have been received into the navy with first-class petty officers' ratings, have preferred hard-working ser vice in East India clippers at 455. a month.—Morning Herald. SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER -BRIDGE.—Last evening, about half-past six, a plainly-dressed man, apparently about thirty, was observed by some people leaning over the side of the bridge, and looking abstractedly on the water, but did not excite any further notice, until he suddenly climbed the parapet and precipitated himself into the stream, and, although crowds of people were on the bridge at the time, the act was so sudden that none could prevent him from committing it. A boat with drags instantly put off from the pier, but although they were dragging for nearly an hour, no trace of the unfor tunate man could be discovered. His body, however, was found this morning near Waterloo-bridge. DEATH OF PROFESSOR SC HOLEFIELD.--The reliious and lite rary world will learn with regret that this g dis tinguished and excellent man died at Hastings on Mon day. He had been unwell for the last six months, and had gone to Hastings, in the hope that he might be re stored to health by a change of scene and the salubrious climate of that place ' - but the re su lt h as b een o th erw i se . Professo r Scholefield has long occupied a prominent place in the University of Cambridge. He originally came before the public as curate to the Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambrid ge , and has ever sin ce t a k en a warm interest in whatever related to the cause of evangelical religion. He was in his sixty-fourth year. 18j 100 100 all all all 8i all 100 all all 111 100 111 all all all 104 65h 5 isd 22ii 60 25 12 12 20 20 131 i a 81 3 92 31 2 3i 3 77i i fi 120' 1 204 14 14i 92 31 30i 76 i i 7 61 5 3 i 4i 77i 38, 3 / 4 5 70 601 9k 9 601 1281 8 1061 G ad 136 x 281. i pm all 100 all 1100 11 100 100 3 4 9i all LITERATURE. The New Quarterly Review. No. VI. Appended to each number of this new periodical w ill be found a comprehensive list of the principal publications of the last past quarter. A glance at that given in the current instalment, followed by au examination of the contents, will sufficiently prove how very complete is the review here given of the progress made in contemporary literature. Scarcely a single work of any importance is passed over without some consideration. Several of the more important productions are criticised, more over, with a dash and vigour indicative of the fact, that if the " organ " be new, the con tributors to it are, some of them, at least, practised hands, men gifted with ample capa city, and armed with a ripe scholarship. Con spicuous among these effusions this quarter, we take the article entitled " India—The Anarchy of Thraldom," as affording a very fair illustration. Elsewhere, we sMil find occasion to refer to this" paper more directly, but, at the present moment, we may be permitted to observe that the argument is throughout almost as broad as it is searching and elaborate. Another contribution is especially de serving of notice as of peculiar interest just now, the review of " The Two Coalition Cabinets" — namely, those of 1783 and 1853, suggested by the two volumes recently edited by the Duke of Bucking ham. Very happily timed, too, is the article about " Gold : Its Past, its Present, its Future,"—rela ting, of course, more especially to the discoveries of the precious metal in California and Australia. Speaking of "My Novel" in the course of a criti cism headed " The Bulwer Novels," one of the most intelligent writers in the New Quarterly remarks with perfect justice that this is, in truth, " the model novel of our language." He speaks of it, in deed, thus earnestly " 'My Novel ' is the best, and must become the most standard novel in our language. Four thick closely printed volumes, containing more than half as much matter as Gibbon's Decline and Fall, are enough to startle the most intrepid novel reader. Yet do we know many a family wh o are acquiring most dissipated habits oflates has ittinguisimply b ecause the hus b and, w if e, or daughter undertaken to read this book aloud. literally long for the evening,' said a bride of not very long standing, to us the other day, when, my husband at home, and dinner hurried over, we eagerly return to the book, and read alternately chapter after chapter, until the lamp goes out, and we are shocked to find how late it is.' We are not addicted to hero worship ; and if we were speaking of Sir Bulwer Lytton as a politician or a poet, we should have many hard and bitter things to say of him. It is, then, with no blind partiality, that, al though remembering there are such works as the ' Vicar of Wakefield' written in English, and that there are such names as Fielding, Sterne, and Scott in our literature, we return to our judgment that this is the model novel of our language. It is so full of thought, so full of reading, so full of exquisite life-like drawing, so rich in illustration, so carefully wrought with philo sophy, so toned into unity, that we recognise it at once as the magnum opus of the author—the work in which, without repeating anything he has done before, he has concentrated the reading, reflection, and observation of a life." It is almost needless to add in this place that we do not in any way regard this high praise as exag gerated. Having ourselves not less cordially of fered to this noble effusion of the genius of Bulwer Lytton the tribute of our most unaffected admira tion, we need scarcely remark that the praise lavished upon it by the New Quarterly appears to us deserved as it is undoubtedly enthusiastic. Earl Grey's two ponderous volumes elicit from an other contributor a sneering allusion to " The Co lonial policy of Lord John Russell's Administra tion." Another scoffs at the ignorance dis played by the various biographers of Mahomet —hero most horridly spelt Mohammad. An other pronounces Mr. W. B. Barker, author of " Lares and Penates," to be a mere " smatterer in Orientalism." Au interesting though rather super ficial review is given of Layard's " Nineveh and Babylon ;" and another of a similar character both in its merits and defects, of Mrs. Jameson's " Legends of the Madonna." Besides the papers already enumerated, there are numerous others well merit ing perusal by those who like a guide among the rubbish and treasures heaped confusedly together by the cultivators of modern literature. Narrative of a Journey Round the World. By F. Gerstaeeker. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. These travels consisted in a " winter passage across the Andes to Chili, with a visit to the gold regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c." In the present state of things and position of affairs, no more desirable book can be imagined. It carries us at once to the centre of attractions—it conveys us to the goal of so many desires, the land of promise to expectant thousands. We behold, face to face, the mighty regions where so many of our countrymen have gone, that it seems almost a second home. We are informed, in minute details, of the life that is led there. There is no false glitter thrown over the accounts ; the author evidently strives to raise no false hopes and excite no unreasonable expectations. Th e as pi r i ng emi grant is told at once, in plain terms, that there is no royal road to wealth in those parts ; he must work, and that in right earnest, if he wishes for success. The accounts given of California are par ticularly explicit. It seems that washing shirts is six dollars a dozen, and purchasing new ones is only seven or eight dollars ; consequently the dig gers frequently cast away those only once worn, and buy new. The old are collected by the dealers, washed, and sold again. Some of the merchants send their clothes to China, to be washed there for a trifle. The description of Sydney during the excitement prevailing on the discovery of new mines is very interesting. It appears that the author returned to Sydney after an absence of three months. He had left it perfectly quiet—he found it on his return in a state of violent com motion : " People walked no more ; they ran. Before almost every house at the landing some drays were standing loading, and round each vehicle a crowd pressed, looking at the things, and 'the happy coves' who were about to start with them. The Robinsmeau lump, or I had better say nugget, had just been discovered. It was as if that piece of gold had been a door, which, rolling away, suddenly opened to the astonished multitude an illuminated paradise. Such as had been irresolute what to do, to be or not to be' one of the diggers, now shook off every doubt, bought a pickaxe, and the other instruments necessary for their future misery, and it was a settled thing. In one word, Sydney was mad ; you could not converse with any man in town except on that one topic—gold. You went,to a doctor and told him you were ill ; he would feel your pulse, and ask you if you had heard the last accounts from the mines. You met a friend in the street, shook hands with him, and asked him how he was. They found another nugget,' would be his answer. " 'How do you sell those oranges, old fellow ?' you inquire of a man who is running up the street at five knots an hour with a wheelbarrow. 'Any price, sir, any,: is his reply ; it's the last load, God be thanked.' Why, you are not for —?" For the mines, sir, God bless you!" Iron !—who has said iron was the world's magnet? Gold is the charm now darting its burning rays over the world—gold is the magnet to which the needles of Christianity and Judaism turn with obedient veneration ; even the heathens have caught the fever, leaving home and friends merely to see the elephant,' as the Americans used to say." From these passages the reader may judge of the excellent descriptions given in the pages of this work. Tho writer seems to have entered heart and soul into his enterprise of discovery : he gleaned from other lands wherewith to enrich the knowledge of his own. The memory of his country never deserted him in the climes of the tropics or in the golden valleys of the New World, and he concludes the long account of wanderings in far-off districts by an acknowledgment that, although there "are rich stores of beauty out in that fair world, treasures heaped up in the wilder ness, the traveller must ever find out " th a t , b e it ever so humble, there is no place like home." FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—. A terrible boiler explo sion, attended with fatal results, occurred on Monday evening at the forge in Thornhill Lees, on eonisthweeLuanndcaer-- Ingham,g of Blak e been occupied by M r . Gs s t l oo r r e dg, and etAb er Y mp o i r tr a k o gp s h ee i r r tf e yo Rr ofa some o l m w mr a e. hy Joshuaa. time: e explosion no t o H n a ly ll, re i s ie u a lt r ed M i i n rfi t e i l i d e 'saacnridfice of life, but also did con siderable damage to property in the locality. From the g information we h ave been able to ather,iotr.akppearlsoftthtaot about nfiaretinvl ten o'clo c k i n the evening the w go tooa of s n up b p ad er, leaving a y oung man named A m m en mons, a alStaffordshire,so goneoff in d o c t h y a t r o g e ta o k f the is engine.. i supperne.. The fireman had also gone off duty to take his supper. Al- Al most immediately after the workmen had left the place a terrible explosion took place, by which the boiler was almost blown to atoms, and houses in the neighbourhood much dilapidated. 'After the steam had partly cleared off, and the workmen could obtain some idea of the extent of the mischief, an examination of the debris was made. The unfortunate young man, John Ammons, was found at a short distance from the engine, his body much mangled and scalded, and quite dead. Fortunately the night hands, as we have before stated, had not commenced working, otherwise the sacrifice of human life must have been great. There has as yet been no scientific examina tion of the engine, but popular rumour ascribes a very faulty condition to this mighty agent. It has been popularly current that the plates of the boiler were so worn by long usage as to be accessible to the thrust of a common penknife. Of course this will be a question for the jury to determine. SAILORS' WAGES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.—Sea men sailing out of the Tyne, Wear, and adjacent por ts ,,, to London are now earning 4/. 10s. per voyage ;87 per the British American and Baltic trades 31. lOs. Pe oyed by the e been earned at seamen. Higher wages than atli the then were always month, and small stores. Never w ar sineeeatheeni cer tain periods of the war, but s s sg en ang. placed in jeopardy of the pr e time has such a uniformly high rate of wages ~. r s 8 25 25 St. 50 50 St. 20 St. 50 25 100 St. St. St. St. St. 263 13i 20 20 St. 5 St. 20 St. 15 12A 12. 12. St. 10 25 10 Lo 6 10 20 10 20 100 all 10(1 100 100 100 100 all 100 all 11.18 1 100 20 11A 100 100 all 100 5 100 all 3} a 35 G 11058 5/ 251 24 T