The Sun. — London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

. tat ii)tr.o SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. sto 1 agst Colsterdale (t freely). 6to 1 Coomberland Stathesmon. 7to 1 Goldfinder (t). 10 to 1 Chief Justice (t). 12 to 1 St. Andrew (t). SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. Even on Torment. 4to 1 agst Rackapelt. DERBY, 1854. 12 to 1 agst Autocrat (t). 20 to 1 agst Verbena colt (t). 25 to 1 agst Blight (t). 40 to 1 agst King Tom (t). ST. LEGER. 6to 4 agst West Australian. 6to 1 agst Rataplan (taken). 6to 1 agst Sittingbourne (taken). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. .... _ THE TURKISH QUESTION. The Marquis of CLANRICAR DE asked the noble lord at the head of the Foreign-office whether the state ment which had lately appeared in the Moniteur, that the English and French fleets had proceeded to the Dar danelles, and had received instructions to await there in concert any orders which they might receive from the Ambassadors of their respective countries at Constanti nople. He might say that he had read that statement with the greatest satisfaction, and he thought that if true it would have the effect of rendering a war impossible. The Earl of CLARENDON said the statement which had appeared in the Moniteur was perfectly correct. When the news of the departure of Prince Menschikoff reached this country, and when it was understood that the rupture was accompanied by menacing circum stances, her Majesty's Government thought it necessary to send out to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe power to summon Admiral Dundas and the fleet to Constanti nople when it should seem fit, and orders had been sent to Admirrl Dundas to repair to the Dardanelles there to await any orders which he might receive from Lord Stratford. This step had been taken in concert with the French Government, between whom and this country the most cordial understanding on this subject existed. Both the ambassadors and admirals of the two countries were acting under instructions similar in character. It was hoped that there would be no necessity for taking further proceedings, because the mea sure was only one of precaution, and he believed that it would have considerable effect on the pacific solu tion of the present crisis. The Earl of DERBY enquired on what date had these instructions been sent out. The Earl of CLARENDON said either on the day or the day but one after the news of Prince Menchikoff's departure had reached this country. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from Sheffield praying that the support of this country might be afforded to Turkey in her present difficulty. THE INDIA BILL. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move for correspondence between the President of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors on the subject of the measure to be proposed for the future Government of India. The noble earl said that in the early part of the year he had expressed an opinion that it would not be expedient to legislate for India this year, since sufficient information was not yet obtained for the purpose, yet, owing to the particular bearing of the present state of affairs in the east of Europe, or our position as an Asiatic power, he had come to the conclusion that we ought to set our house in order, and he was therefore disposed to acquiesce in the expediency of immediate legislation. The measure, however, of her Majesty's Government was more calculated to continue agitation in India, instead of allaying ii. It was a measure which con tained two experiments —one upon the Court, and the other upon the persons to be sent out to India. The experiment upon the Court was one partaking of an Asiatic character—it was an experiment of mutilation. Certainly, in the East, mutilation was usually performed by the public executioner, but this mutilation was to be performed by the parties themselves. Ile certainly did not approve of this proposed measure, because the rules which the Government had drawn were such as would exclude from the Court of Directors those very persons most likely to be useful. He believed that, if adopted, it would cause so many abuses as would lead to the very speedy downfall of the Court of Directors, and the whole power would be thrown into the hands of her Majesty's Government at once. He thought the first thing to be done was to reform the consti tuency, for at present out of 1750 constituents only 200 had ever been in India. He would propose that all per sons in the civil and military service, all colonels on furlough, ought to have the power of voting in elections for directors. He believed that there ought to be in each court a representative of each of the armies. He re gretted that no step had been taken to put an end to the system of double Government—the most irrational system of Government which the world had ever seen— more irrational even than the Government of the grand Llama. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at five minutes to four o'clock. NEW WRIT. - On the motion of an HON. MEMBER, a new writ was ordered to be issued for the shire of Edinburgh, in the room of Sir J. Hope, deceased. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND DORSET RAILWAY, Mr. CARDWELL brought up the report of the gene ral committee on railways, recommending that the peti tion of inhabitants of Wilts, Somerset, and Dorset, and of proprietors of land, complaining of the non-execution of certain lines of railway authorised to be constructed under the acts of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies, and praying for redress (presented 25th February last), be referred to the com mittee on group NN, to whom the Devon and Dorset Railway Bill stands referred. In reply to Sir T. D. ACLAND, Mr. OARDWELL said the committee thought the case was one in which the rules of locus standi ought to be altered, in order to allow the parties to be heard be fore the committee. Mr. HILDYARD moved that the petitions be re ferred to the committee, in accordance with the recom mendations of the report. Sir T. D. ACLAND opposed the motion on the ground that it was tantamount to throwing the bill out for the session. Mr. K. SEYMER supported the motion. After some discussion, in which Mr. G. Butt, Mr. Divett, and Mr. B. Denison took part, the house diiided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 156 32 Majority 124 The motion was then agreed to. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were considered and agreed to : Australian Agricultural Company, Great Northern Railway (No. 1), Rossen dale Waterworks. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Barnsley Waterworks (No. 2) ; Copper Miners' in England Company ; Electric Tele graph Company ; Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junc tion Railway ; Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway (Power to Sell, &c.); Manchester and Bury road ; Wimbledon and Croydon Railway ; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway. The reports upon the following bills were considered and agreed to, and the bills were ordered to be read a third time :—Ayrshire and Galloway (Smithstown and Dalmellington) Railway ; Bayswater, Paddington, and Holborn Bridge Railway ; Bideford Extension Rail way ; Burton-upon-Trent Improvement (No. 2) ; East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway (No. 2) ; Electric Telegraph Company of Ire land ; Forth and Clyde Junction Railway ; Furness Railway ; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Rail way ; Llanidloes and Newtown Railway ; Roscrea and Parsontown Junction Railway ; South Wales Mineral Railway ; and York, Newcastle, and Berwick, York and North Midland, and Leeds Northern Railway Com panies (Amalgamation, &c.) PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the bill for the registration of assurances. Mr. POTTER Presented several petitions from Ire land against the inspection of nunneries. Mr. ELLIOTT presented petitions from Roxburgh shire in favour of the total separation of Church and State. gaviiel:TenpotiAiee. that on the secondread ing Lord STANLEY move as an of the India Bill pe.rmea Parliament to l ec ri, r amend ment, "That it is the opinion government Of amend t periodhe 11 : t the session it information is necessary to ,mceaansure which, late with advantage for the not be con- India, and that at this late would be inexpedient to while it disturbs existing arrangements sidered as a final arrangement. (Cheers.) THE TURKISH QUESTION. In reply to Mr. LAYARD, Lord J. RUSSELL said the announcement in the Moniteur as to the dispatch of the English and French fleets to the Dardanelles was perfectly correct, and that orders had been given to the effect stated in that paper. He could not state whether any account had yet been received of the English fleet having left Malta, or of the French fleet having proceeded to the Dardanelles. In reply to Mr. DISRAELI i Lord J. RUSSELL paid orders were pat to the Bri. tish ambassador at Constantinople, giving him power to call for the British fleet ; and likewise directions had been sent to the British Admiral at Malta to proceed to the Dardanelles. _ In reply to a further question from the right hon. gentleman, Lord J. RUSSELL said, speaking from memory, he thought the dispatches to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe were sent on the 31st of May, and the instructions to the British admiral at Malta on th e 2d i nstant. COURT OF ROME. Mr. BOWYER wished to ask Lord John Russell whether her Majesty', Government intended, in con tinuati6n of the papf.irs on the relations of foreign Go vernments with tb:e Court of Rome, to lay before this house the docninents regarding the late creation of a Roman CathoUc hierarchy in Holland. Lord J. RUSSELL said there was no intention on the part of the Government to lay those papers on the table, but if the hon. gentleman would move for them, there would be no objection to produce them. Mr. BOWYER gave notice that on an early day he would move for their production. CLARE ELECTION. Captain KNOX wished to ask the Secretary at War whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to take measures to secure from injury and insult the troops,who will be in attendance on the civil power at the coming election for the county of Clare ; or whether soldiers are to be sent on this difficult duty, with the knowledge that they are to submit either to be murdered, or tried for murder, should they defend their own lives and those of persons placed under their charge? Mr. S. HERBERT said the question was couched in terms which he could not have expected from a member of the house and a soldier—(hear)---but with regard to the first question, he had no doubt that the military au thority in Ireland would take care that sufficient troops were sent to protect themselves as well as to perform the duties that would be required of them. With re gard to the second question, all that he could state was that no change had been made in the law, which was well understood by the military. Captain KNOX would only state, in answer to the first remark of the right hon. gentleman, that the other day he mentioned the question to him, and the right ho,n. gentleman said he should have no objection to re ply to it. (Hear.) - Mr. S. HERBERT—It was true he said that he should have no objection to answer the question, but at the same time he thought the question was one which he should have abstained from putting had he been in the position of the hbn. and gallant member opposite. MEDICAL POOR-LAW OFFICERS. Mr. BRADY wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it was his intention, during the present session, to introduce a bill to provide for, the payment of medical officers under the Medical Charities Act in Ireland, in the same manner as the salaries of the medi cal officers under the Poor Law in England are paid ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was unable to answer the question as the subject had not yet come under his consideration. METROPOLITAN SEWERS. In reply to a question from Mr. BUTLER, Lord PALMERSTON said he was bound to admit that many parishes of this vast metropolis were entirely destitute of sewers, but the Commissioners of Sewers had only a limited power of raising funds, and a bill was now under consideration for enabling them to raise money by way of mortgage on the security of the rates. OCCUPATION OF ROME BY THE FRENCH. Lord J. RUSSELL said the hon. member for Fins bury had given notice of a motion on the subject of the occupation of Rome by French and Austrian troops, but, in the present state of public affairs it would not be consistent with the public interest that such motion should be brought on, and he had there fore to ask the hon. gentleman to postpone his motion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE regretted the necessity which compelled the, noble lord to ask this question, as ho was afraid his postponing the motion would greatly disap point parties out of doors. At the same time, under these circumstances, he thought he had no alternative but to accede to the noble lord's request, though he was bound to add that it had not been his intention to submit his motion in an offensive spirit to the French nation, or in a manner disrespectful to the Sovereign of France. (Cheers.) CUSTOMS DUTY. In reply to a question, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was a mistake to suppose that there had been any intention to abolish the five per cent. additional duty imposed in 1840 on the importation of cotton articles, but this he could tell the house, that while in 1840 there were no less than 1,200 articles liable to the dnty, there were at the present time only 22. (Hear.) SUCCESSION DUTY BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Sir J. PAKINGTON rose to move that the bill be committed this day six months. [LEFT SPEAKING.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP STREET.--A. 'well-dressed, middle-aged man, who refused to disclose. his name, address, or occu pation, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt, with having violently assaulted and otherwise grossly misconducted himself towards a young woman named Anne Harris, residing in Eagle-street, City-road. The complainant stated that on the previous night she was passing through Short•street, Finsbury-square, in the company of a female friend, when the defendant suddenly advanced towards them, and, after uttering some insulting observation to attract their attention, deliberately exposed himself immediately in front of them. On telling him he was a beastly fellow for con ducting himself in such an infamous manner towards two unprotected women, the prisoner assailed her with a scurrilous epithet, and instantly struck her a violent blow on the face, which cut open her lip, and caused her mouth to bleed profusely. The prisoner followed up the attack by dealing her a savage kick, and was about to proceed to further acts of brutality, from which. he was apparently deterred by their screams for assistance, and made rapidly off, but was closely pursued by her friend, who kept him in sight until she met a policeman, and gave him into custody. Harriet Holland, the young woman. who was in the complainant's company at the time in question, fully corroborated her evidence, and stated that, after assailing her friend in the manner described, she was also sub jected by the prisoner to an qatrage of too gross and in delicate a nature to admit c.,f description. In reply to the chargr..l, the prisoner, who treated the matter with the coolest indifference, declared that the evidence had been greatly exaggerated, and insinuated that he had been. in the habit of visiting both the young women at their homes upon terms of the most familiar intimacy. On being interrogated by the magistrate, the witnesses emphatically denied the statement of the prisoner, who was an utter stranger to them, as neither of them had ever seen him before the present occurrence. Alderman, the gaoler, here intimated to the magis trate that the object of the prisoner for the studious concealment of his name, might probably be explained by the fact that he had been twice before in custody at this court upon similar charges, on one of which occa sions a communication was forwarded to the magistrate, from the Governor of the House of Detention, to the effect that the accused had been previously under his keeping, for a considerable period, for an offence of a more serious description. Mr. D'Eyncourt said that the prisoner had been guilty of a most scandalous outrage, and he should order him to pay a penalty of 51., or be committed, in default, for two months to the House of Correction. SOUTHWARK.—Mr. J. Smith, the landlord of a beer-shop and coffee-house in Duke-street, London bridge, near the railway-station, was summoned by the police for keeping open his house for the sale of coffee contrary to the act of parliament, which prohibits him from selling liquors or other articles before one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The evidence was that a police-constable went into the house between seven and eight, when he saw five people, some of whom were taking their breakfast. lie did not believe any of them were travellers. Iu answer to the charge, evidence was produced that all the persons in the defendant's house were travellers, and were going by the early train to Brighton. The names and addresses of all five were banded up. The magistrate said there was no ground whatever for believing that the persons in the house were other than travellers whom the defendant was bound to sup• ply with refreshments. The summons was, therefore, dismissed. LAMBETH.—Mr. Richard de Oltamouse Ortome, an attache to the Portuguese embassy at Paris, was charged before the Hon. G. Norton, with assaulting Mr. Fran gois Napoleon de Sazostakowsky, a Polish refugee, at the Vauxhall-gardens, on th e preceding night. Mr. F. J. Van Zeller., the Portuguese consul-general attended, and occupied a seat on the bench during the hearing of the ease. From the statement of the complainant, whose head was bandaged, it appeared that during the performance at the amphitheatre, in the Vauxhall-garclets, on the night before, he said to a f r i en d, a ll u di ng t o th e de fendant, " That's a Portuguese I have been looking out for for seven years." The de-fondant asked him what for ? The reply was that he must know very well, and that some years ago he was in the habit of meeting him at a gambling-house. The defendant assured him be was mistaken, gave bim his card, and said he was Vr attaché to the Portuguese embassy in Paris. Com plainant said he did not believe it, and the defendant then struck him with a stick on the head, and inflicted a wound. In his cross-examination, the complainant admitted that he said he recognised the defendant as a gambler, and that he had been frequently in his company, and that in 1847 he had lost a large sum of money. He did not say the defendant was no gentleman, but, believing him to be a gambler, did not consider him one. Did not challenge the defendant to go out of the theatre, or say "I'm your man ;" but they did go into the place where the fireworks are discharged, and he took off his gloves. Did not strike the complainant but had in tended to do so. Defendant admitted the assault, but said that the n complainant b e i ng m i staken in his personality had acenst.. ed him w rong f u ll y. n V t an Zell er assured the magistrate that the COM. plai o g f h t t h t e h l a a t t latter. and and : poke was Ni-igryhlylll.l.lfelLenigisetnatkleenmainnlyt h b e e d a reifneg a n d an n t d , hitrperettoanbiltihtyou r . e isT s o be met by th e d e f endant's Justice of the case wou ld the complai nan t' s h at and alto tting in b a il , pay i ng for for dressing the w oun d . Paying the surgeon's bill This was a once complied with. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JEJNE7I:3, 1853. TILE CLIMATE OP AUSTRALIA. It was a fine summer morning in Melbourne on Sun day, the 19th of December, 1852, but about midday the air became very hot, and oppressively so about two o'clock. Having occasion to visit au encampment in the bush to the northward of the town, I rode off lei surely in that direction, keeping as near as I could to the winding banks of the Yarra Yarra, in hopes of get ting a breath of cool air now and then from the surface of the water. I had not proceeded far into the bush when the hot gusts became more frequent, and in less than five minutes there came a gale of wind, bringing with it a long streaming volume of hot, stinging dust, so dense that, when I could venture to peep up from beneath the broad rim of my hat, I could not see a yard in advance, nor could I see below my horse's ears. His nose was absolutely invisible, and so were my own feet, while the current of dust swept by us. Being already used to this I proceeded on my way (most unfortunately I had for gotten to bring my veil), and galloped forward between each of the gusts. An interval of a few minutes occurred, and the air having cleared before me—the dust-currents being on their way for Melbourne—l saw on the high swelling ground in front, at the distance of about a mile, as it seemed, a dirty red cloud over the hills 1.1 I mounds, which soon rose above the dry squalid greyi . (Ads of the bush trees. It rapidly expanded, and in a few seconds assumed the appearance of a range of ragged conical rocks of the colour of faded brick dust. The line red dened, and the sky became darker. It was no cloud ; the whole mass was evidently advancing. Of course I immediately became but too well aware that this was some new specimen of the hot blast, of a kind or degree far exceeding any I had met before. A devoted observer of phenomena would no doubt have remained, but I frankly confess that, not understanding the thing, I bolted. Twirling my horse's head round, I spurred back at full speed, intending to reach the town before " the enemy" overtook me. But looking over my shoulder, I saw that my pursuer was gaining upon me ; there was nothing for it, therefore, but to make a sudden wheel to the left, towards a few yards of fence, made of thin planks of the stringy bark called shingles, which seemed to be the only remains of some abandoned station. Feeling sure my horse would never stand what was coming, but tear away his bridle if I hung him up to a tree, I jumped off, and hurriedly detaching the hobbles from the saddle-rings, hobbled him in no very careful way, and took to my heels for the palings. I was ob liged to leap across a long winding gully or watercourse, amid the pelting drift of the preliminary gust of hot sand, and had just time to crouch down, with my back against the fence planks, in a doubled-up posture, my hat pulled over my eyes, and my face pressed close towards my knees, with my hands pressing down the crown and side rims of my hat. With a dry, rushing noise, like a land storm sweeping throne) a forest in autumn, the hot blast struck the fence, the continuous stream pass ing over the top above my head, as I could feel by the pressure and vibration of the boards, as they bent over me. Notwithstanding all my care, the hot dust peppered and stung my face, penetrating my ears and nostrils, covered as they were, tingling under my shirt, and even getting between my teeth, though I thought I had kept my mouth close enough. Half opening my eyes to look upon the ground, in consequence of a strange sensation of things about me, I saw that I was covered, and the ground too, all round me, with myriads of flies, beetles, ants, grasshoppers, and other insects, which had been driven through the chinks and between the shingles of the fence. Great numbers of them were dead, especially the flying grasshoppers, beetles, and a large brassy-looking fly, something like a long, half starved wasp ; but most of the smaller flies, and nearly all the ants, were in a lively state of dismay, and very quickly sought shelter at the back of my boots, the folds and wrinkles of which they literally filled up, covering, also, the heels completely, spurs and all. After remain ing in this crouched position at least five or six minutes, during which the blast continued to rush over me, and onwards, with no apparent sign of cessation, it was im possible any longer to resist the desire of having one look at what was going on. Keeping my hand still on the crown of my hat, with the sides pressed close to my face, and making what schoolboys calla " squinny-eye,' I very guardedly and gradually took a brief look up. Over the top of the fence, and above my head, rushed an unbroken stream of reddish-gray dust, with the same stream rushing from each side where the few yards of fence ended, and meeting in front, so that I sat enclosed in a hollow wedge of reddish-grey, hot, stinging dust, beyond which nothing whatever was visible. It seemed to me that this lasted, nearly half an hour, but, pro bably, as a little of this " went a great way" in sensa tion, the duration was not so much—perhaps not above a quarter of an hour. Quite long enough. Not a soul was to be seen all the way back to Mel bourne except three young men, new arrivals, who were lying with their faces close to the ground, and their coats and waistcoats turned up over their heads. Even on entering the town scarcely anybody was in any street. They had all " run for their lives" and slammed the doors after them. The hot blast of this day is said by some who were here on the celebrated Black Thursday (when the bush took fire for so many miles, and such numbers died in the towns), to have made them appre hend ahnost a recurrence of similar horrors. In fact it was a simoom, and nothing else. These hot blasts in a minor degree, are of frequent occurrence. When the dust cloud sweeps along you cannot discern a single ob ject beyond it. No town, no bush, nothing but hot dust. So much has been said during the last two or three years of the beauty, mildness, and salubrity of the cli mate of Australia, that it would have been a very fruit less task to offer any observations of a different ten dency until a sufficient number of successful and unpre judiced voyagers returned to bear testimony by their own personarexperience. The heat is fitful and excessive. After a period of moderate warmth, cooled by occasional torrents of rain, the thermometer rose on the 30th of December, to 113 deg. in the shade of a verandah. I hung it up against a house in the sun, two doors from Captain Chishohn's office in Swanstone-street, and in less than 20 minutes it rose to 126 deg. To all appearance it would have risen higher, probably to upwards of 130 deg. ; but, being in disposed to bake myself by standing sentry near the thermometer any longer, and not daring to leave it least somebody should just take at down and put it in his pocket, I was obliged to terminate my observations. Next day the heat was much the same till the afternoon, when, the wind changing to the south-west, we were relieved by a sudden coolness, which re quired a change of clothing in the evening. On the day after this (January Ist, 1853), we had rain, and the air was as cold as in the early part of the spring, some three months ago. The rain quite destroyed the holyday of New-year's -day, with its steeplechase, &c., as it did the horticultural show at the Botanical Gardens—just as we are accustomed to be treated in England ; but then we were taught to expect no such caprices of weather in this heaven upon earth. All I can is, that on January the sth I felt cold all day in summer clothing, and on the 6th I fairly returned to the same underclothing I had worn in the winter, and found it just the thing. The following extracts are taken from the "Diary of a Meteorologist, living in a tent in Canvas Town," as the encampment on the South Yarra is designated : " Rounded the Cape in the middle of October ; wet, squally, and wretchedly cold. Consoled by thinking of the land of promise, the gentlest and healthiest of cli mates, where the old get young, where rheumatism is unknown, where pigs axe fed on peaches, and poverty has no place. " Landed. at Port Philip the first week in November, the commencrement of the Australian summer. First few days very fine, somewhat over-warm though—about 80 dee,. in the shade. Still very fine. A moderate breeze from the south, fresh from the sea. All true about the climate. What I hear about the rainy season seems exaggerated.. As to the streets of the town being often impassable, that is for want of proper drains. "Fixed my tent on the South Yarra, and hung up my thermometer. A pastoral life before me. "November 5 (my first day), the mercury rose to 90 dogs. in the shade. Lay panting on a box the greater part of the day, having walked too fast in the morning. "Next day, so chilly, was obliged to put thicker trousers on, and an extra coat. Dark heavy clouds over head all day ;no sun visible. Mercury once got up to 64 degs., and then lazily sunk down again. In the evening I fairly shook with cold. "November 7.—Morning, early ; not a cloud to be seen ; air fresh, and temperature delicious. At break fast the thermometer showed the heat to be 70 degs. ; but the breeze soon dropped, and at about 1 o'clock the quicksilver stood at 96 degs. in the shade. Lay gasping, with nothing but duck and canvas about me. Did no thing but drink water, lemonade, gingerbeer, and cold tea. Oranges 10d. a piece: " November B.—Heat abated, not above 84 degs. ; the day following it fell to 72 degs., and in the evening to 58 degs. "Then came a succession of hot days. 11tOnday, 94 degs. in the shade ; Tuesday, 96 degs. In the shade ; Wednesday. 94 degs. ; then a few moderate aays • then degs,, degs. in 84 be i d n e r r. , 00 degs, and 58 degs. ; moderate again for a few days ; then cold ; then hot t th hr e e s e h successive ad andth d e a n y again, 96 degs., 96 dr ..gs 96 degs. in the shade ; then days, at 76 degs., 76 dep... then 84 degs. ; then 64 dogs., and very wet ; tLes. IGO degs. in the shade, with hot wind, sending dew& of infinitesimally small sand that found a way tWoftgh everything ; in the evening the wind ilitte4, and all night long the rain poured in torrents ; :woke in a temperature of 62 degs., which diminished the next day to 55 degs. "December 30.—Another hot wind, day and night. " December 31.—Worse. Thermometer rose to 110 degs. in the shade, and 130 degs. in the sun. Sky dark, with sand clouds rushing over our heads. Tents blOwn down by hot blast. Some people died from the heat and suffocation. Mouth full of dust. "January 8, 1853.—Mercury at 64 degs. ; cold and rain. " January 9.—Mercury at 60 degs. ; colder, and much more rainy. _ _ _ "January 10.—Mercury at 54 degs. all day, with rain. Great coats and gloves. Several blankets at night. Tents blown down by cold blast, &c." The writer of the dairy from which tha above is ex tracted is Mr. W. H. Archer, who was recently an asso ciate or assistant of Mr. Nelson, the actuary. Being at the country-house yesterday (Jan. 9) of Mr. John Orr, merchant, a shower of rain and hail drove us out of the garden. Expressing my surprise at the strange ness of the summer, and remarking that all the fine things which had been said in England about the beauty of the climate in Australia were, probably, with refer ence to Sydney, or to Adelaide (South Australia), I was at once assumed by Mr. Orr and several other gentle men present that the variations of the temperature in winter were quite as severe. On the 26th of November (1862) there way a hailstorm iu Sydney which deniclishod all the windows of houses and churches that lay in its course. The hailstones were commonly the size of large greengages "dike those" (pointing to a plate-full on the table), and many " quite as large as those peaches ;" that is, about seven inches and a half in circumference. In Sydney the thermometer was continually . at 130 deg. in the sun, and in Adelaide it was sometimes 140 deg. As for the hot dust blast (called a " brickflelder"), they had it just as bad at both those places. It would thus appear that one "heaven upon earth" is about as ob jectionable as another. The complaints of the country are influenza, diarrhcea, dysentery, boils, eye-blight, consumption, and a strange sort of cough, which the people, for the want of a more appropriate name call the guitar." All of these are very prevalent, scarcely anybody escaping one or more of them. In the cemetery north of the town I noticed no less than eight grave-diggers at work the other day. The quantity of recently made graves of children and young people is extraordinary. By the simple record on the little wooden tablets you may count at least 100 deaths of young children, young people, and adults under the age of 35 or 40, for one ofthe age of 60. But, recol lecting the blunder some of our statistical men made in England, when they endeavoured to show that Green wich must be a very healthy place from the great num ber of deaths, showing periods of life varying from 60 to 70 and upwards (forgetting that so many never came to Greenwich till they were old men), nothing very con clusive can be deduced from the above circumstance, as the very great majority of the people who come out here are under the age of 30 or 40. The thermometer of Australian enterprise cools at 40, gets very cold at 50, and freezes at 60. Fortunate that it does so, since the severe and capricious changes of temperature would soon cut off those who were at all " shaky" or touched by the warning hand of ailing age. A word on the other side. We must distinguish be tween "climate" and "weather." The variations are not always so bad. Captain Wright, the chief gold commissioner, who has been here these 14 years, assured me that this was " an unusua l summer." Other resi dents of long standing have said the same. So much cohland rain in summer are not common. All the rest is but too common. Nevertheless, I do not consider the climate as unhealthy. It is good for strong and for perfectly healthy people. There is no miasma. Men go mad from various causes, but dogs never go mad here. No virulent fevers or agues are incidental to the place (though they are being regularly manufactured by - the horse and bullo c k slaughterers' yards, cesspools, want of all under-ground drainage, over-population, &c.) ; and, even with regard to the various epidemics and other complaints which are incidental, some persons have but slight attacks, and a few escape altogether. I do not believe one could sleep at night in the open air in England and be drenched to the skin with the same impunity as in Australia. But everybody cannot do this. There are plenty of rheumatics, sore throats, and "guitars" in consequence. The troops of the Victoria Gold Escort use no tents in camping out at night, and the troopers complain bitterly, Their horses often die from it. One of mine died. Many parts of Australia would be fatal, I should think, to anybody with pul monary weakness. Yet consumptive patients are sent out hero. Science declares that Australia is a most ex quisite climate. Well, let us be just to science, though we suffer meantime. Science cannot do away with the hot wind, or simoom, but the dust, which is the worst part of it, may be the consequence of the present wild and uncultivated condition of the country. If the fields were tilled and the roads macadamized there would certainly be a great diminu tion of the dust which is now swept from them. But this must be a work of considerable time. At present Plutus stands in his own light, and can see nothing but himself. The soil and climate readily produce all sorts of fruits and flowers ; they cannot, however, be com pared to those in England for flavour or for beauty. Here the fruit grows almost wild, and prodigal in quan tity. Cultivation would probably greatly improve the flavour, and the same may be said of vegetables gene rally, which at this time are wretched objects. It should moreover, be admitted, that if you will forego all residence in towns and villages, and dwell among the vast solitudes of field and bush, some 200 or 300 miles up the country, you will there find a climate that may often justify science in many of the deductions which have so deceived those who very naturally applied them to Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide. The only realty satisfactory period of the day is the early morning when fine ; and fine mornings, from sun rise, about six o'clock, to about eight, are not unusual. The air is then clear, light, dry, fresh, and a cool bright ness pervades the whole atmosphere and surroundinn. scenery. After this, the day may be anything. The sunsets are often magnificent in crimson masses of all gradations, floating over changeful fields of fiery gold, with pale emerald lakes and flames between. Though the twilight is of very brief duration, the heavens pre sent a grave scenery of fading purple in grand well defined designs, which in the clear solitudes of the bush suggest the profoundest melancholy by their associations with intense beauty and the loneliness of death. But the air is generally cold, and what we understand in England by a "sweet summer evening" is comparatively unknown in Australia.—Tiracs' Correspondent. by the savages to blind their pursuers. About 4 miles from where the murder was committed the first camp was found. Leaves of books, pieces of dress, and other articles were found near the camp fire, so as to leave no doubt in the minds of the guides that they were upon the right track. The next morning it appeared that the Indians had separated into several small bands, taking different directions, and after travelling some distance in this way the parties unite again at a concerted point. After travelling, sometimes nearly a day, without dis covering the least sign, a piece of calico, a shoe, or some object would be seen by the guides, as certain evidence that Mrs. White was still living, and that she had hopes of being delivered from her dreadful captivity. Every camp that the Indians had left for 15 days was discovered in a distance of 200 miles. On the 16th day the guides, after crossing Red River two or three times, following the winding and circuitous trail o f th e Indians, dis covered a camp which had apparently been left that morning, as a fire was still burning in the ashes. After travelling a few miles objects were seen in the distance which all thought to be Indians, but, after a severe chase of several miles, they were discovered to be wild horses, when the troops again returned to the trail. After tra velling 15 miles further an Indian was seen making for the river. A halt was instantly ordered for the moun tain howitzer to come up, the Indian camp being in sight. While the troops remained in this position two Indians were distinctly seen to plant their ramrods, and take de liberate aim at their pursuers. One of the bullets struck Major Grier in the left breast, directly over the heart ; and but for the fact of his having, fortunately for him self, placed his heavy leathern gloves in the breast of his coat, he would instantly have been killed. As it was, the ball passed through his coat, the gloves, and his shirt, but did not penetrate the skin. The other bullet killed a horse standinc , close by. There were about 40 warriors, a large number of women and children, and, besides the animals in use, 100 head of loose stock in the village. While the command was halted, waiting for the howitzer, the Indians succeeded in making their escape with all the stock belonging to them. A strag gling Indian was killed, and the troops returned to the village, after an unsuccessful charge. The body of Mrs. White was found, about 300 yards from the village, with an arrow passed directly through her heart. It was still warm ! It was evident that the Indians had tried to force her to accompany them in their flight, and she had probably resisted, hoping that she would be rescued from her horrid situation. Her little daughter was never seen. She had been killed and thrown over into the deep canons' of Red River. ,The black woman was killed the day after her captivity, the bones and hair having been seen a short distance from the point of rocks. The body of Mrs. White was laid out, wrapped in buffalo robes and lodge skins, and buried near the camp. Fearing the Indians might return and discover her burial-place, all the combustible matter that could be gathered was placed over the grave and burnt, and the prairie set on fire. The troops returned to Taos after this unsuccessful expedition, having been out 25 days, and encountered one of the most violent snow storms ever known on the plains. Mr. Quin, who had been engaged in packing provisions for the expedition, lost 17 of his mules by being frozen to death. No thing further was heard of these Indians until the 10th of May following, when the mail coming from the United States was attacked by them near Red River. The snail party consisted of Messrs. Thomas Flournoy, Benjamin Shaw, John Duty, Francis Hendrickson, James Clay, Moses Goldstein, Mr. Bran ton, and others, names not recollected, making 11 in all. The fight appears to have commenced early in the morn ing, near Red River, and continued all day along the road, until they reached the waggon mound, about 25 miles. The whole party of Americans were whipped out.' Five Apaches and four Utabs were killed, and buried near a lake in the vicinity of the waggon mound. A large number of Indians were wounded. It was a dreadful fight,' said one of the Indians, for there were 11 Americans to fight, and they fought like wolves.' Ten days afterwards news reached Los Vegas, the nearest military post, and a lieutenant was ordered to proceed with 30 men to bring the dead, and to pursue and punish the Indians. Near the waggon mound two mules were found dead at the tongue of the mail wag gon, the harness having been stripped off and carried away. Three other mules and two American horses were found dead in the road, in a distance of about three miles. The other animals belonging to the party were probably run off by the Indians. The waggon body was stuck full of Apache and Utah arrows. The mail bag was cut open, and letters and papers were scattered along the road for two miles. The trunks vi ere broken open, and their contents carried away. A receipt was found in the road, showing that 40 pairs of revolving pistols had been given by Major Ogden, at Fort Leaven worth, to Mr. Clay. All the bodies of the murdered men were found lying within a distance of 20 yards, two of them having been lanced while sitting inside of the waggon. The flesh was nearly all stripped off their bones by the wolves. The bodies were buried near where they were found, and the letters and papers gathered up and taken to Santa F 4, and the troops re turned to Los Vegas, being unable to find the Indians. This was the last expedition against the Jicarillas Apaches, and not a serious complaint has been entered against them since." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 11. ENTERED INIVARDS.—The Rose, from Hamburgh ; Les Amis, Rouen; Julius Caesar, Dantzic ; Conservative, Mauritius ; Rosins', Amsterdam ; Amelia Thompson, Ja maica ; Elizabeth and Catherine, Dram ; Oscar, Stettin ; Ann, Randers; Eliza Fox, St. IThes ; Lady Kenmore, Callao ; Friends, Rouen : Eagle, do. ; Thomas and Wil liam, Porto Rico ; Kitty's Wave, Caen ; Crown, Ibralia ; Frau Gibko, Leer; Alabama, Cronstadt ; Anto;ia Maria, Bremen; St. Jacob, Dantzic; Stadt Berlin, do.; PrOven , Aal borg; Hannah, Oporto ; Quarry Maid, Dantzic ; Vi ttoriosa, Constantinople ; William Alexander, Dunkirk ; Heinrich, New York ; Auguste, Dantzic ; 2deline, Randers ; Crocus, Rouen ; Cinderella, Dragomestre ; Salem, Charente ; Industry. Antwerp ; Cynthia, Pernam buco ; Santiago, 'Monte Video ; Sydney Claude, Stettin ; Jane Ewing, Calcutta ; Violet, Lisbon ; Josephine, Charles ton ; Ocean, Stettin ; Ernest Auguste, Memel ; Admiral Von Heemskirk, Amsterdam ; Warner, Hamburg. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Conserva tive, for Mauritius; Rockcliff, Calcutta; James, Antigua; Brilliant, Santa Cruz and Grand Canary ; Propontis, Mau ritius and Ceylon. ; Seelemo, Demerara ; Dublin, Trinidad; Konigin, Rio Janeiro ; Thomas Henry, Demerara ; Diana, Altona ; Captain., Cape of Good Hope and Bombay. CLEARED Ourwmins WITH CARGO.—The Victoria, for New York ; Blackfric.r, Sydney, Now South Wales ; Union, Dantzic ; Harmony, Labrador; Velociforce, Genoa ; Jenne Louis Fanny, Rouen ; Brilliant, Geelong ; Cynthia, Portland Bay ; Reenann Engelkens, Melbourne ; Propon tis; Cape of Good Hope and Madras ; Gebroeder, Alton& ; Maria Cristina, Santander, &c. ; Argus, Terceira • Caro lina, Stettin ; Perseverance, Leer ; Walcheren, gydney, Nov South Wales. 'INDIAN WARFARE. The following statement of the recent "difficulties" between the whites and the Apache Indians in New Mexico is communicated to the Ohio (United States) State Journal by a Santa F 4 correspondent, under date Marsh 29, 1853, who claims to have possessed supe rior opportunities for arriving at the truth of the matter : " A treaty was made with the Jicarillas by Governor Calhoun, in which it was stipulated that they should be rewarded by the United States' Government for their lands, but this treaty was never ratified by the Senate. The agent tells them they must remove from the settlements to the country west of the Rio Grande. They stop and argue the question in such a way that it is impossible to answer them, for they have right and justice on their side. They say, ' Comply with your part of the treaty—pay us, and we are ready to go.' A great deal of indignation was felt by the people of the United States against this band of Indians about three years . ago for the murders committed by them at that time. Having had an opportunity of cultivating the friendship of the captain of this band, and feeling a strong desire to arrive at the truth in relation to this matter, I have let slip no opportunity of my communi cations with Apaches, Utahs, Mexicans, and Ame ricans to get the correct history of what occurred, and I herewith send you the result of my investigations. And I will take this occasion to say that I have never known an instance of a murder being committed by an Indian in New Mexico, except in revenge for the loss of some of his people who had been unjustly killed by some of his more civilised neighbours. In August, 1849, a band of Jicarillas Apaches, with their families, visited the town of Los Vegas for the pur pose of trading. The officer then in command of the United States' troops at that place, having heard a rumour (which afterwards proved to be a false one) that the Apaches had killed a Mexican in the Rio Abajo, sent a peremptory order to the captains of the Jicarillas to visit his quarters, to form a treaty of peace. From the manner in which the demand was made the Indians became alarmed, and mounted their horses to return to their villas, about a mile distant, on the road to the States, near the Campo Santo. A lieutenant was ordered by his commander to mount his company of dragoons to pursue the Indians, and to bring in the chiefs by force to make the treaty. The Indians, not knowing the object of their pursuers, fled in every direction. The soldiers fired upon them, killed three of their number, and charged upon them with their sabres. The Indians did not show fight, but as they ran they cried out, For what are the Americans killing us ?' and the reply of the Mexicans was, 'Quien Sabo.' Five women, a boy, and a young man, were taken prisoners and lodged in gaol, where they remained in confinement for nearly a year. The Indians, exasperated at what they considered the treachery of the Americans, determined upon having revenge. On the 18th of October following, Mr. White, his wife, and little daughter, two black servants, and two Mexicans, left Mr. Aubrey's train of waggons, with whom they had been travelling from the States as far as the Cimarron, in order to travel more rapidly to Santa FiS, their destination. Mr. Calloway, the waggon master, accompanied them. When near the point of rocks, 70 miles from Darolay's Fort, they were attacked , by a large party of Jicarillas Apaches and Utahs, who fired upon them from behind rude breastworks that had been thrown up by the side of the road. Mr. White, Mr. Calloway, the two Mexicans, and one of the negroes, were killed, and M rs . White, her daughter, and the negro woman, taken prisoners, and carried off by the Indians to the 'canon' of Red River. The melancholy intelligence soon reached Los Vegas, and a sergeant, with a detachment of 20 men, was ordered in pursuit of the Indians. One of the Indian women, who had been taken prisoner by the troops at Los Vegas, a daughter of Loho, captain of the Jacarillas, accompanied the sol diers, partly in hopes that she might assist in discover ing the whereabouts of the Indians, and partly that she might be exchanged for Mrs. White and her daughter. After reaching the point of rocks the party encamped upon the little mound for the night. The Indian woman asked and obtained leave to remain on the top of the itiOtitid during the night, where she commenced crying, and continued to utter her wailings, in spite of the maledictions of the soldiets, until morning, when she appeared to be more calm ; but upon a teamster approach ing her to put her into a waggon, she suddenly seized a The teamster, in endeavouring to all ow the infuriated butcher's knife lying near the fire a nd attacked him. woman, stumbled and fell, and before she could reach a h t i t m ack sh ed eand thewas i.e an knocked ina ciosto perfect s her ; but, being unable to catch him, as he dodged $ frenzyhe ro rose h instantly o h ut : behind the mules that were standing near the waggon, she stabbed two of the animals so severely that they died shortly afterwards. In the confusion and excite ment attendant upon this scene, the sergeant ordered her to be killed, and one of the men pulled a pistol from his holster and shot her dead upon the spot. The ser geant and his party, being unable to find any of the In dians, returned to Los Vegos, and reported accordingly. The news of the murder of Mr. White and his party reached Taos about the 3d of November. Major Grier, in command of a company of United States' Dragoons, with a mountain howitzer, and Captain Valdez, in command of a company of New Mexican Rangers, started in pursuit of the Indians. The celebrated mountain guides, Carson, Leroux, a nd Fisher, volunteered their services to ferret out the m .urderers from their hiding-places. Near the point Of r. )cks the skeleton of a woman was found, which at first w: us supposed to be that of a negro woman be longing to Mr. White, but was afterwards known to be that of the Apache woman killed by the sergeant's party a few days before. Here the guides took the trail of the Indians, an .d followed it as with the scent of bloodhounds. Enry tract 'mown in Indian stratagem wars resorted to LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11. The Vimiera was spoken with May 4, in lat. 4 N., long 21 W. The Giaour was spoken with May 14, in lat. 14N., long 30 W. The Kingston. of Cork, was spoken with June 4, in lat. 50 N., long. 20 W. The Euxine was spoken with June 5, in lat. 50 N., long. 16 W. Tho Elizabeth, of Elamburgh, was spoken with May 28, in lat. 47 N., long. 23 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Hannah, of Whitehaven, Liverpool to St. John's, Newfoundland, May 14, lat. 42, long. 43. The Four Sisters, Sunderland to Quebec, May 10, lat 48, long. 4. The Moble, Bombay to Liverpool, May 5, lat. 6 S, long 15 W. The Francois Heave, Swansea to Calcutta, May 18, lat. 6 N, long. 21 W. Tho Howard, bound S.W. May 15. The Gem, Falmouth to Geelong, May 2, lat. 4N, long. 23 W. _ _ The Oceanus, of Boston, bound South, 21st, lat. 33 N, long. 43 W. A steamer, showing Dutch colours, bound N.E., same day. The Era, bound E, 29th, lat. 44 N, long. 28 W. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—It is curious coincidence that three men who have each in turn held the helm of affairs in France, and exercised no small influence over her destinies, now inhabit the same street in Paris. Guizot, Mole, and Lamartine have each town residences in the Rue de la Ville l'llveque. The latter of these celebri ties has just quitted the tumult of the capiial for the quietude of his chateau of St. Point, near Macon, where he intends staying until he has completed hi. "History of the Constituent Assembly," the first volume of which twill appear forthwith in Le Siecle.-- The Prem. CURE FOR SEA SIORNESS.—A correspondent of a contemporary writes :—" Having noticed in the public journals a recent instance of death from sea sickness, un der very melancholy circumstances, I am induced to hope that the mention of a remedy, which was entirely successful in a case which came under my own observa tion, may be useful to other sufferers from this distressing malady., A lady of my acquaintance was landed at the Cape of Good Hope, on her voyage home from India, in such a deplorable state of debility and ex haustion from sea sickness, that she was obliged to be carried into the house by men, and would certainly have died if the ship had been a week longer at sea. The danger in renewing the voyage in such circumstances was great, but a simple misfortune enabled her to continue it, and to reach England in perfect health. A swinging cot was constructed, with a top or frame over it, with curtains, so ms effectually to screen the deck overhead, and other parts of the vessel, from the view of the recumbent invalid. The motion of the ship was thus rendered imperceptible, a,ndthe invalid being relieved from the dizzying efirect of the vessel appearing to roll m e way and the cot the other, no longer felt any nausea or inconvenience. billie soon gained sufficient strength to leave her cot for /holt periods, except in bad wea th er, and the confinement ,, such as it was, was a trifle com pared to that which] iersons who have lost, or dislocated, limbs are compelled •to endure, in pain, for months. At all events, life was i saved, and health restored, by this simple means. (ADVERTISEMENT.) L—Holloway's !Ointment and Pills, have effectually Cure 'd an Awful Bad Leg of a person 75 years old.— Extract . . of a lett er f rom M r. Ill sop, drugg i st, Lincoln, dated Apra 4, 1853 :—To Professor Holloway. Dear Sir,—Among t he numerous cures effected by your valuable medicines, hermit me to inform you of the fol lowing : Mrs. Mary Jackson, residing in this town, 75 years of age, had a droadful bad leg for upwards of five months; there were thiree sores on it, and it was swollen to an immense size. Ilvery person that saw it thought that she would not recover : however your ointment and pills alone have perfectly cured it.—Sold by all Drug gists, and at Professor ilolloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, BOARD OF IIEALTH MANAGEMENT. (From the Nottingham Review.) Our attention has been called to a letter, which has been recently addressed by our townsman, Mr. Hawks ley, C.E., to the Marquis of Chandos, M.P., "in relation to the exercise of some of the extraordinary powers assumed by the General Board of Health, and the superintending inspectors, anti the public and private wrongs resulting therefrom." It would appear that Mr. Hawksley's testimony had been sought by the com mittee on the Great Grimsby Improvement Bill. Mr. Hawksley is well known to many of our readers, as having had great experience in the drainage and water supply of large towns ; and his emineoce in the pro fession to which he belongs, is calculated to give great weight to the important charges which he brings forward. He says : " By the 116th section of the Public Health Act it is pro vided that the consent of the General Board shall be a con dition precedent to the raising of money on mortgage of local rates, for effectuating, by the construction of perma nent works, the object and purposes of the Public Health Act, just as, in the case of municipal corporations, the con sent of the Treasury is by the Municipal Act made a condi tion precedent to the alienation of any portion of corporate property. " Out of this very simple and apparently proper and innocent clause (so simple, proper, and innocent as to have escaped the attention of the Legislature when the Public Health Act was, under the plea of a sudden visitation of disease, hurriedly passed through Parliament), the General Board and its inspectors have respectively contrived and organised a system of central control over local authorities, and of personal pecuniary advantage hitherto unheard of in a country distinguished by the freedom of its institu tions and the purity of its Government. " The action of the Genera! Board is shortly this : " 1. A memorial, purporting (and only purporting, for there is no inquiry into the fact) to have been signed by one-tenth only of the ratepayers, sets the 23oard in motion. The memorial is frequently suggested to some persons in the locality by an inspector, with an intimation that if such request be made, the General Board will select this particular inspection to hold the so called in TAU. "2. Upon the receipt of this memorial, the General Board send down an inspector to make such local inquiry, which local inquiry invariably results in the production of a report by the inspector against all the existino institu tions and authorities, and conclades by a recommendation that the Public Health Act should be applied. " 3. Thereupon, in almost all cases, the General Board makes a provisional order, or order in council, that the Public Health Act shall be applied, that a Local Board of Health shall be constituted, and that all other local autho rities (except municipal corporations), whether established by Act of Parliament or otherwise, shall be abolished. Moreover, the order, anomalous. as this may appear, gene rally assumes to repeal the whole or portions of existing Acts of Parliament, to apply portions of other acts not relating to the locality, and sometimes oven to revive the powers of former acts which the legislature has delibe rately repealed. oe " 4. The order once applied and the Local Board elected —works of drainage, water supply, or other local improve ment are frequently proposed to be carried into execution, and therefore Local Board have usually sought the assist ance of such surveyors, architects, or civil engineers, to assist and advise them, and to direct the practical opera tions, as the nature of the work might require. "5. Works cannot, however, be executed without funds ; an application to the General Board therefore be comes necessary and is made. " 6. The General Board, however, instead. of limiting its inquiry, as is done by the Treasury and other departments of government, to the necessity of the work upon which the money is proposed to be expended and the consequent general propriety of such expenditure, demands plans, sur veys, detailed estimates, and other Minute details of the work itself. " 7. Having obtained these, they are placed in the hands of some one of the Board's superintending inspectors, to in quire, examine, and report upon. But it SU happens, that Mr. Chadwick (who in fact, though not in la vr, is the Board) entertains most peculiar views in favour o-f diminutive " tubular pipe drains," " combined back drainage," " im permeable sewers," " drainage water supplies," " soil pans fed direct from watermains," ‘• distribution of sowage water by pumping over adjacent lands," " large scale surveys," &c., in not one of which is countenanced by the most eminent and most practical men of the profession ; and further happens, that the five inspectors selected by the board, not only do adopt Mr.. Chadwick's peculiar views,. but are also permitted, and by Mr. Chadwick directly en con raged, to obtain from local boards, as private engin.cers and for their own emolument, the execution of as many as possible of the works proposed by local authorities. " 8. Hence it results from the inspectors (who no w commonly, at the expense of the consolidated fund, re visit the locality) find occasionally to speak unfavourably of the designs of other engineers, and to support their own superiority of information, and the great facility in their power to afford to Local Boards in obtaining the con sent of the General Board. " 9. The inspector's report being made, the board refuses its assent to the borrowing of money on the mortgage of the rates, and consequently the local authorities become wholly unable to prosecute their plans of local improve ment. _ . 10. Dissatisfaction results. Either the local engineer is at once summarily disposed of and an inspector employed, or an "almost interminable correspondence, negociation, series of deputations, controversy, and other dit.ficulties and obstructions ensue, both on the part of the inspectors and on the part of the general board. " 11. In this manner important works of local improve ment aro either wholly suspended or grievously dekty ed, or can only be carried into execution by the adoption of Mr. Chadwick's views and the professional employment of a superintending inspector ; thus imposing upon all local boards the necessity of adopting modes of construction which have signally failed at Croydon and elsewhere, and the at all events limited skill and experience of employes of the Board appointed to exercise disinterested judicial functions, but whose services are liable to be discontinued the moment they dissent from the peculiar views already alluded to, and whose determinations and reports in favour of those views, and consequently in disfavour of • other professional men, are rewarded by professional engagements thus prac tically imposed on local authorities. " The result of the operation of this system has been most mischievous. The grossest jobbing prevails. Diffi culties are thrown in the way of improvement. One sys tem of construction, and that undoubtedly of a most erroneous and even pernicious character, is insisted upon, and must be extended over the whole kingdom. Able professional men are,wrongfully injured, both in reputation and pocket, for the gain of Government inspectors. Con fidence in the integrity of public men is utterly destroyed. Provincial towns are deprived of the advantages of self government, and the hitherto supposed supremacy of Par liament absolutely negatived. "In my own professional practice I have experienced all the difficulties above alluded to in a most painful de gree." Mr. Hawksley goes on to state a case, in which he had " Prepared plans of so perfect a character that they re ceived, on subsequent reference, the approval and com mendation of most eminent engineers ; yet thess plans were placed in the hinds of an inspector who had just previously carried on by his partner a long and most discreditable private correspondence with one of my clerks whilst in my service, with the acknowledged intention of abstracting him from my employment, and thereby obtaining valuable information and the results of my experience, for the express purpose of carrying on a private business in competition with myself, and under favour of the General Board. Of course I de clined to meet the inspector, and informed the Board of the reason ; whereup , rn the inspector reported against my plans, and denied every allegation against himself. The Board thereupon refused its assent to the application of the local authority. A long and most acrimonious cor respondence ensued, which finally resulted (after many months of delay) in a tardy and unwilling consent being given to the raising of funds, and the subsequent com mencement of works in the month of March, 1853, instead of in the month of April, 1852. No inquiry was instituted into the conduct of the inspector, but I afterwards had placed in my hands the whole of the private correspon dence referred to." Mr. Hawksley mentions one case, in which his drawings and specifications for a now water work, for a private com pany, were reproduced verbatim, at two towns, where an Inspector of the Board of Health (who had required the production of these drawings, &c., to him) " had become employed both as inspector and engineer, putting them forth as his own, and affixing his own name thereto." He also states that none of the superintending inspectors had " made waterworks previous so their engagement under the Board." He then mentions the names of several towns in which the services of private individuals had been re jected, to make way for inspectors of the Board; and he concludes by stating that, "In the whole there were as early as February of the present year, no fewer than 44 cases (as appears by an admission of Mr. Chadwick) in which public inspectors in the pay of the government had become private engineers, in reference to the work over which the General Board assume an irregular, and cer tainly unauthorised control." Mr. Hawksley's statements as to the primary application of the Public Health Act to a particular locality, are strongly corrobrated by the circumstances which took place in Derby. So loosely was the "local inquiry" conducted, that then existing committee of the Improvement Com missioners were enabled to give a complete refutation to the mass of errors, and even mis-statements, contained in the Inspector's report. The experience of our neighbours makes us feel thankful that we have nothing to do with the Board of Health in Nottingham. Mr. Hawksley's observations as to the " peculiar views" of the General Board, in reference to certain works, are worthy of great consideration. The employment of superintending inspectors, " as pri vate engineers and for their own emolument," is objec tionable in the highest degree. Such a course is, at any rate. calculated to lead to the grossest jobbing. As well might the Surveyor of the Admiralty be permitted to con struct government ships for his own private emolument-- the poor-law inspectors to traffic in supplying food for the poor—or the local tow n surve y or t o con t rac t for paving and other works, to bo constructed under his official superintendence. The vast improvements which have been effected with everything connected with the comforts and conveniences of life, owe but little to the fostering hand of official patronage; and it is every day becoming more im portant that the execution of public works—especially of a local nature—should be thrown open to the unrestricted competition of individual skill and enterprise. A MACHINE FOR REPORTERS.—The Randolph Whig an American paper, says :—" In September, 1850, John B. Fairbanks, Esq., took out a patent for an invention calculated to enable any man who can move his hands rapidly in a vertical direction, to report a speaker in full, with ease and certainty. It is operated by keys, which by their move ment, connected with stenographic types, imprint a new alphabet of short-hand characters upon the paper. The alphabet contains only five elementary characters, and by combinations of these, all the other letters, together with numerous word-signs, are made. The fingers and thumb of one hand are sufficient to operate five keys, which constitute the alphabet, and to make in numerable changes upon the same, so that one hand can write one row of signs upon the paper, while another set of five keys under the other hand can, at the same time, be made to write another one. It is really gaining the use of both hands at once writing stenography, and the hand will certainly not so soon grow weary of simply striking those keys, as of constantly pushing a quill, with those who have tried it well know is worth all it comes to. Messrs. Fairbanks and How have now in process an improvement upon this invention, calculated to write oat a speech in Roman characters, instead of short hand. For sketch reporting this would be admirable, as the " copy" would_be more complete, ;end easier for the compositor. COUITRY ARKET DALKEITH GRAIN 3IARKET—JuNS 9. eI, A good supply of all kinds of grain at th is day's o c : r t l l Sales were ready, except for beans and peas. W b ;:iiiii the top 2s per qr. up, current price 6d per qr. 1114 ' l . l . , I t. average is 6id per qr. up. Oats on the top Sd 1, Jo down, current price the same as last week Barley' °: 11 t y top 2s Od per qr. up. Peas and bums 2s per qr. pp top, and current price is per qr. up. io• Qrs. Best. Curre nt. Infer ll 1 194 Wheat 375 Oats s3s Od ....... .. 4 9 s Od ... 0 ...... 4 (15 s 4 i 23s 4d 25 Bar cy 34a Od 45 Peas & beans 40s Od Average of wheat, 21. lOs Oid• ABERDEEN—JUNE 10. 005. The prices of grain are—Old oats, 00 s Od to /4 401bs per bushel; new oats, 17s Od to 003 Oa,l bushel ; bore, 28s Od to 29s Od, 531bs per bushe l ; 0 ,1 ti 27s 6d to 28s 6d, 531bs per bushel • w heat, red, 36 ', 1 7 ,A 38s Od, 621bs per bushel ; wheat, white, 46s Od to r X 11; 621bs per bushel • oatmeal, 14s Od to 15s Od Pf P IG flour, 35s Od to 365 9 Od per sack. Provisions—Be. r, 0.1; 6d to Bil ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 8d ; veal, ditto, Al; pork, per lb, Os 6d to Os 3d ; salmon, per lb, is 3d 00 3 6,1; rabbits, each, 7d to 8d ; tallow, per stone, 4s Od to 3 01: potatoes, per peck, is to 1s 44 ; butter, per lb , tki to 01.0 to eggs, per doz, Os 5d to Os 7d ' • hens, per Pai r ' :4 3 4 .,, g 0 3s Gil ; chickens, ditto, 2s 6d to 3s Od. , ducks, to e.M to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to. Os Od • each, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; geese, ditto, 33 6d to 43 64 41 , GI; for exportation (present care), per cwt, 883 to ditto (summer cured), 00s to 00s Od ; eggs, w holavle P ro A , per dozen, 5d to 004 ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21 b l oaf, 3" ;‘, ~0d; fino small, Os Od to Os Od ; pork; large, Os Od to i lamb, per lb., Os Gd to gd • chcos°, per 1111 • per , " 5s 6d. to Vs. ___ Corrl icr t iot White wheat 00s Od t o OOs Od Os Od"*"."n Redwheat OOs Od to OOs 01 Dittoclib OOs Od to OOs Od 00s Od--S° Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od ) 140 Barley l2s 6d to 12s 7d Ditto -ki 16 01 00s Od to 00s Od 00S (----- Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od - 7. Bore oos Od to 00s Od N 0 i A CORK-J UNE 10. Brig. 62 Oats 64 Ditto 00s Od ty 00s 04115 Dato 00s 0.1 to 00s 0.1 „, aMT C °l' Pigs .00s Od to 00s 0,1 0 05 Quantity sold at th e hi g h es t prices 0012 „ c' 00 barrels white wheat ; 38 red ; 00 barley .; 14 oats wee , - Quantity of grain and num b er o f pigs sold last Wheat, 27. Barl e y, 175 . Bere, 00. Va Pigs, 00. Return of cattle sold for week ending June Pigs, 209. Sheep, 255. Cows, 51. PRICES OF BUTTER. 7 1' CANT. CURREN CY; First quality Second quality Third quality 74s Third quality .......• o Fourth quality Fifth qualh,y 6Bs Fifth quality ........ • Sixth quality 5 CORR.—Flour—First, 13s Od S x Od to 14s u' O l d it ; y . seconds, 12s Od to 13 s Od ; households, 10s to lls 7s to 9s Od per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 7s 6 d nri i f i i oatmeal, 10s 6d tolls ; wheatmeal, 9s 6d to lOs t : "050 Indian corn, 71 Os Od to 71 7 s Cd r ton. Bran , ,01 44 to 51 Os Od perton. Hay—Farmers, 4260,1 to 43s Oa ; 1 ; 00s; dealers, 43s Od to 00s Od ; ave.-age, Os per ton. 355 0% 0 Farmers, 30s Od to 31s Od ; average, 003 ; dealers, 6 4 0 388 Od; average, O s . p er t on . B rea d—Wh ea ten log Od ; household ditto, 54(1 to 0,1 per 41b.—Fresh butt er,,bool lld per lb. Eg gs , 4 s 7d t o 4s 91 per hundred. Mc s t ,s 3t : 4.id to 8d ; mutton, Gd to bid ; veal, scl to Sd ; 6il; bacon, 7d to 8c1; sausages, 6(1 per lb.—Fish , laud, 001. Os to 001 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, O D ' 1 7 ,5 i sßed, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 10d to 12( 1 ; 010 , , 12d to 15d.—Coals, Newport, 19s; Lydney, 198 ; (‘ 11 0 :if 0(1 per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., Gs 10d per imperial C Hides, market, 30s to 365; Salted, 30s to 38s per e"4l skins, 34d per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31 . r Fleece wool, OOs to OO s p er s t one. —H em p, 381. ton—Timber, Memel, 31. 15s; red pine, N. 15s; ye ( v ) , , ' 31. ss. per ton ; deals, 191. to 201. per hundred. --13 / s';, Si. to 10/.los. per ton.—Tallow, 498 6(1 to 50s per clo• 71. 10s to 0/. per cwt.- Tar, Archangel, 19s. per bri. - Peruvian, 121. Os to 001. per ton. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11. ./ the 0 ,1? STOOK EXCHANGE.—The following were pa,. 0, 1 ? Blackburn, 7 ; Caledonian 334 ; Eastern Colin ° , 0 0 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 77 Lon! North-Western, 114 k ; Manchester, Shelthicl( l, , n . coin, 29 1 ; Midland, 71 North iY South-Eastern and, Dover, 20 1 ; York an Midland, 29i ; Dutch Rhenish, 1 9-16 g d MANCHESTER,, JUNE 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices rather lower at the but recovered a little afterwards. Eastern Cou lli East Lancashire, 17i • Lancashire and Yorkshire, I. el; London and North-Western, 1144. ; Manchester, S f it ip and Lincolnshire, 29 ; Midland Railway Cons° l37 North British, SI ; South Eastern and Dover , 15-16. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market wag hesv, awl, except in local stocks, there were very few actions. LEEDS, JUNE 11. - STOCK EXCHANGE.—Ag a i n th e market for ftl shares has been flat to-day, and prices show 1004 decline. The following are the closing trans o Lancashire and Yorkshires, 77 ; Leeds Nortbefl ls Midlands, 71; North-Weste rns , 8i ; Y or k a nd Nab` lands, 29. DUBLIN, JUNE 11. ,vt STOCK EXCHANGE.—DubIin and Wicklow, .h 3 Southern add Western, 55j. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the Quiet& r"/ by the night—and M by the morning--dispatch.] le Ea c/' la"e 4i ron .10 COUNTRIES. Day when made up l In General Poet- Office. London.* From wha t Fort Dispatched. Arnerica(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. packet) .. N America (by U. States packet) ..........N Australia (via South ampton) ........ M Ditto (via Marseilles) .14 Ditto (via Cape of Mood Hope) ............N Africa ( West Coast) .. Alexandria........ N Alexandi Bahamas Belgium .......... Brazil .............. ISuenos Ayres ........ Cape of (hood Hope .. Cape of Good hope N Cape de Verde ......N Ceylon (see India) Every Friday .... Juno 14 Liverpool IJune 22.... . July 4 .. .. .. .. July 8 Liverpool •"I Southampton' 23rd of the month. A, 9, 24, & 30 of m 4th & 20th of mon., 2nd of the month i i„lth °Ulm month.. l 9th of the month.. 14th or. the month AontbatoP t°n Dover •• London •••: Plymout h Dover " SouthanW O Dover •••!:.; ioutban l l),",, South<uoP t°- 113 - Mout h Nymouth Plyinouth I 4th of the month. Ceylon N Channel Isles ........N Chili.... .. M China (see India) Constantinople N Constantinople ........ uont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) _ _ _ 14th or the month 141on..Wed ,&Frid. !4&l7th of month 7 ,8,17,21,8;27 of m. 4th & 20th of mon Twica daily couthanil"; SoutilailiPt° France . & N Gibraltar ........ Greece (see India) Grcytown Hs.mburgh ....N Havannah M, Holland ............31 Honduras India (viaSoutbanipt.)3l India (via Marseilles)3l lonian Isles (sea India) Ireland & N Lisbon .. ...... • Madeira ............ Di Madeira ............ N Malta (see India) Twice daily... 1 4, 7, 17, 20, 27 of rn 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Frid►ay 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat. 17th of the month. 4th & 20th of mon. Bth& 24th of month Dover , Dover •• • • .• Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 2$ of tn. 9th of the month 23rd of the month Dover ••• 0 ,; SouthaniP• :outb , "" Wn London •40UtbarAPwj: bandOn • ion A0111.1 131.3P 11 Dovcr • • " Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..N Naples. ..• • • • N New Granada ......M New Zealand.— Papal States .... N Peninsula P9rt Natal .. ....N Sicily ........ ......N Tuscany Venezuela ........ Van Diemen'sLand (see Australia) .......... West Indies ----II 17,17,19,28, 30 ofm. 14th of the month 'ut of the month.. stlllsth2sthof mon. 2d & 17th of month I;y private ship • • ithlsth2sthofmon thl7 Lh2Btholmon ?d & 27th of mon 14th of the month sthl Ah2stholinon , sthlsth2sZhofmoa. 2d & 17th of month „ Di o h, ~ ~ int o ais 0 * When any of these dates fall on a S u nday , lar, the /0. ed t dispatchel on the following dny..with the eseeptiolll7oocusias Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will 1 day preceding. l rr t BIRTHS. - A rd .----- 11;11 73 OF A SOS.) -.. * Sr On the 10th inst., at No. 14, How le y-Pl` e Y-PI ACe ' o bi” West, the wife of Stephen Charles I r eno ttr, ce, st. J On the 11th inst.,at 53,Hani ilton-torr:f twins. wood, the wife of Andres MontoYa, sg'' cad to„ 110131 1 SouthaltlP% SouthttulPtvi: Elyn3°4t4 Dc,yer '''''' o utll •• PIY i tot , 30ut1 ,31111 Dovcr ver s v o "'g a y; o Sl4°ElV.,:oi:ariy*outli:mtt'tibiriatz:nrrill:;:titirtoovrpit,.: 10 0 C IT JO' pi pole J Oil' 4, 6 dg e • •- ILW' s 6 1, ,;. fa it; jow it inv 10 03 0 .0 rifl e lupe f oe it, 4; rivo'l luiy Tile 40 . 1 6 oe 10" 8 16 Ja i ' odm (wi p e J fon; ou It; jai fan e , In „ ': I rub tl WI : 16 , '^', ertA (1 1, )6 ion` 16 rail' 0. Ba te i 4 rgo e 1110816 rate 16 _AI I sou tbsunPW I 2 d& 17th of monl OF A DAUGHTEIL ~ P c joha On the Bth inst., at 4, Wharuclitre-terra ce' " • tr, wood the wife of Ste hen Vertuo , Esq H3 d e i On , p the 9th inst., at 63. Gloucesterplac wife of William Baker, Esq MARRIED• uing"-et h Wa cq el , i On the 9th inst., at the parish chum ; o ,ly 5,. ; Pas-de-Calais, Stephen Roland Airoulfe,obr" Do rcl li w e l , the late Right Honourable Stephen Vi r 1. . , 'h on . 10 Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, to trid1e,,,,,,, . 0 lirl.• 1 . Letitia, youngest daughter of the late Lo ~.weitCurer,,j On the 9th inst., at Tiberton, the Rev,.yl Lee Nvriirio Mary, second daughter of tlr," . 11 ; A t oll A l) Tiberton Coart, Herefordshire, and Wais". Norfolk. ----- DIED. 10 % Af t°l e , d giddies° P,. 1,0 On the 12th inst., at Cricklewoo , , s „., or ' illness of seven weeks, James Ilariner, 3:4 's _is Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent, in hie 7"h Bedyear'fora-squltAr On the Bth inst., at her residence, 43, ngest dA ti r elii' her 66th year, Miss Eleonera Blackburn, r rk, sca: , 0 0 of tho late Wiliam Blackburn, of Soutllarn, of in tect, and sister of the late William 1 31 ° ck Osj , t Inn, q., ba-at-law. 80 Y et°l4 U Es n the Utli inst rristor at the advance d ago of Wills, of WilLsbro . ok, Lucan ---- 0 ----------- YOC , ~,,, 11 , j LONDON : Printed and Pnblished bY o no 0 1 e J.`"" 1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer. at The Sun , 0 :6'counti ' S a vo)", Strand, in the Precinct of the ill 144410 ex, Monday. ;UP J. Oil ~~. '-:fir for 1 it Ape trn fir Sou N o , oth, ern to F Rai Th, Sir Li,