The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

THE CHARGE _AGAINST M. KGSSUT H. : . (Prom the Daily News. • • The answer ' given by Lord Palmerston last night to the questio ns put to him by the hon. member for Leice!-- ter, will be read with no' little interest by the public g'3nerally, and with corisiderable surprise by those who perased the • -extraordinary statement relative to M. eistrth, which appeared in the Times yesterday morn ing. In substance, the statement amounted to nothing less than that the Secretary for the Home Department had issued a warrant, under the authority of which the police had proceeded to search 'a house belonging to M. Kossuth, and had found therein a large amount of arms and ammunition, such as amply to verify the suspicions previously entertained of the possessor's intention to levy war upon our humane and enlightened ally the Em peror of Austria. How the information which had led to such a proceedinghr.d been obtained our contemporary did not say ; and its readers were consequently left in doubt whether it was derived from sources of foreign espionage or from the revelations of domestic spies —from treachery in the Austrian Post-office, or vio lation of confidence in that of St. Martin's-le-Grand. Unpleasant recollections associated with the names of the Bandieri might naturally suggest discretion as to such disclosures to the organ of Lord Aber deen. Be that as it may, however, no pains were spared to invest the announcement with the cha racter of circumstantiality ; glorify the prophetic wisdom of those who had unscrupulously vilified the Hungarian chief, and foretold his evertual detection as a pirate and impostor ' • above all, to heap upon Lord Palmerston reproachful praises for his discovery, though late, of the duty which he owes to foreign sovereigns as a Minister of the Queen of England. Lord Palmerston, to do him, justice, seems to have been not at all ambitious to remain longer than was un avoidable under the fatal load of 'such laudations. In hi - s ,place in the House of Commons last night he did not hesitate to deny the accuracy of the tale of which he had been made the suppositious hero. With remorseless ingratitude he not only explained that the military stores which the police had, placed under detention had not been found at the residence of M. Kossuth, but at a dis tance of some miles from it, and that he was in posses sion of no information which would justify him in assert ing that they had. been purchased or . placed where they were found 'with the culpable cognisance of that gentleman. But Lord Pal mers t on 'Melia stop there. ' In answer to a second question, his Lord ship declared he was net aware of any under taking having been given by her 'Majesty's Govern ment that they would perform the duties of sur veillance over the political -refugees resident in this country. The Noble Viscount has too long played the distinguished part of Foreign . Minister to a free peopt_e to sit easy under the imputation of turning head police man in his old age, or principal spy to the despots on whoSe cruelty he w..s once the check, and in whose ears , his name is still a sound of terror. Lo rd Palmerston 's position as member of the Cabinet, constituted as the present is,must be as intolerable to him' individually as disreputable to the character of our fellow-men, if it im plied Mach self-abandonment as that on which, with sinister emphasis, his implacable enemy the Times affects to congratulate him. For the honour of British statesmanship, we rejoice to ,think that, true to the principles of 1850, Lord Palmerston disdains to be " the Minister of Austria." Lower and more degraded still he would be if, upon any suggestion conveyed through the foreign office, from Vienna, or upon any information furnished by spies and informers, or supplied by equally infamous means, the Home Secretary were to violate the sanctity of political hospitality, or to harass an un fortunate exile who had sought the shelter of our shore, by instituting against him proceedings in the nature of a State prosecution, as the Times eagerly recommends, unless he were really guilty of an offence against the laws of the country which affords.him a secure asylum. The duty of a Secretary of State in regard to foreign governments with whom we are at peace is simple and plain. Whenever authentic and legitimate information shall be given him of warlike preparations being made within our confines of a nature calculated to excite just suspicion as to their object, he is manifestly bound to interpose, in order to prevent any infraction of interna tional rights being committed under the tacit sanction of our name. If arms or ammunition be found secreted, or in such quantities as cannot be reasonably or satisfac torily accounted for, it is the duty of Government to seize and detain such stores, and to hold all persons, whether natives or foreigners, in whose possession they may have been found, responsible when legally called upon for their peaceful conduct and intentions. But there the duty of a British Minister ends. Whatever may be said or, insinuated to the contrary, it is no part of his business to act as one of a foreign gendarmerie, to play the part of a letter opener, a detective, or a spy, or to prostitute the power and authority which belong to the executive of a free nation in political prosecutions, to appease the baffled fury of despotic Governments abroad. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) The metropolitan public were yesterday startled by the announcement in the Times, that a house belonging to Kossuth had been searched on the previous day by the police, and that a large store of arms, ammunition, and materials of war had been discovered and seized. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago we stated that information had reached us from a reliable source, to the effect that the British Government had responded to the wishes of Austria to play the part of spy on the move ments of the refugees resident in London. We added, however, that, excellent as was the source whence the information came, we could not bring ourselves to be lieve in its accuracy. We thought, and said, that there must be some mistake in the matter. We felt that the national honour would be compromised by such a pro ceeding, and could not therefore give credence to the representations made to us. Unhappily events have since shown that we had thought too favourably of our Government. If the Times may be believed, the Home Secretary has become the servile tool of the Court of Vienna. Assuming that our contemporary is correct, we can only say, that if the discreditable work was to be done at all, we wish it had been done by some one else than Lord Palmerston. The country will be pained, as well as,surprised, to learn that he, who was formerly the terror of all the des potic courts of Europe, and whose name was held in execration by every royal tyrant in Christendom, should now have descended so low in the political scale as to becoroe the submissive servant of the very Court by which he was most hated and abhorred. We may well be supposed to feel especially grieved and, mortified at: this, because no journal took his lordship's part so zealously and so perseveringly as ours, when he was ignominiously ejected from the Russell Ministry beeause of his unpo pularity with, continental courts. While we eulogised the noble lord on that occasion, the Times loadee, him With its coarsest and most virulent abuse. Now "le is the god Of that journal's idolatry. Nye, see in the fact we have recorded an apt and edify ing commentary on the speech of, the Earl of Aberdeen, in the House of Lords, a few weeks ago, animadverted on with such surpassing poxers of language, by 1‘ An Englishman." Lord Palmerston has also become the instrument of carrying out the Austrian predilections of "the good Aberdeen." Again, we must express our regret at the sad change which has taken place in the noble lord's position. We wish, for his own sake, that he had not joined the Coalition Cabinet. We wish he bad better consulted his own high character than to sub mit to serve under a man with whom he had been for years at variance. Had he kept aloof from the mongrel Ministry, he would have lived and. died one of the most popular statesmen of the day. The Times, as might be expected, is in the third.hea yen of happiness, that something has, as it fancies, been a , ; last found which will compromise the illustrious Magyar. There are no bounds to its exultation, It cannot restrain itself. What if, after all, it be doomed to the, mortification of discovering that its fiendish re joicings are, groundless ? Before it raises its shout of joy, it would be well to wait until it see the issue of the trial, which it is to be presumed awaits Kossuth. What distinguished- man is not convicted yet. No British jury liar; yet' returned its verdict of guilty against him. Whether such a contingency is in the womb og the future, is not for us to say. We have, however, our opinions on the subject. At all events the Magyar chief is no convict yet. Assuming that the report of the Times is correct, not only regarding the fact that arms and ammunition have been found in a house belonging to Kossuth, but that a large quantity has been discovered,—what then ? What purpose did the Hungarian patriot intend to achieve by these arms and ammunition ? Let the Times answer that question. Despotism is unhappily not confined to the geographical,limits of Hungary. It pervades nearly the entire Continent. Where is the evidence that the warlike articles found in the house referred to, were to be applied to the overthrow of any existing Governnient at all ? These are questions which must, we presume, be answered before the ex-Governor of Hungary can be convicted. • And then will come another queStion—Why, assuming that Kossuth meant to attempt the emancipation o' his country by the arms and ammunition said to belog to him,—why have other persons notoriously conspiring against foreign Governments, been allowed to escape ? Why,were not the houses of persons who, it was well known, had been systematically plotting, for months and years ; the subve rs i on o f f ore ig n dynasties why werehrn,s not their houses searc h e d for papers, if not for the. and a m m un i t i on llt was i n 1832 c l ear t o as noon -day 811 Tl that a reg u la r ly organised conspiracy was formed and carried on in this country agai n st the Government of Don Miguel in Portugal, and in favour of Don Pedro. An expeditio n was openly got up in England with th a t view. Yet Government did not in terfere. • The expedition started, and the objects which it, contemplated were aceompr h pen that all this was don e i n is open ed. How did it ha p - day, and t t h h a e t p t r h e e . then Government look no notic e of it, r , sent Government can actually so far degrade whileade itself as t o conspiracies of its detective police in motion to discover of the existence of which the public had no idenasfiracies Then, again, look at the forbearance shown to the pre sent ruler of France when he was in this country, is an historical fact that he planned two expeditiO;l s in t England for the overthrow .431,:e Orleans dynasty in France—the one known by the name of the Boulogn e expedition, and the other t:y that of Strasburg. Yet, after the escape of Louis Napoleon from his prison at Ham, and his return to this country, he received no molestation whatever from the police. He was not sus pected. though after the antecedents to which we have referred, he very naturally might have been so. And so, with regard to the ex-royal family of France. Had the British Government thought proper to keep a watch on tlie proceedings it Claremont during the time of Louis Phillippe, there can be no question that they would have found evidence enough of continuous con spiracies against the French Republic in that abode o . f royal exileiL But thejthreshOld of Claremont was never gr107,140/kriioN, SATU'RDA.Y EVENING, APltllt 16. 11511 - . invadedby any_of Sir Richard Mayne's detectives. It was - sacred Against the inquisitive intrusions of the police. W-hiy, then, -should the unfortunate Hungarian refugee' have his every movement watched? Why should Tie spies of the Government always have their, eye on him ? It is because the exiled Magyar is one of the people, and is the object of the special dread and aversion of -the crowned .despots .of the Continent. Royal .conspirators may concoct their schemes as freely and 4,s frequently, as they choose. They will not be watched,- nor moleited, nor surprised in any way. They can do what they please in the work of plotting with impunity. But a Kossuth and Mazzini cannot move an inch withouthaving a detective at their heels. Their steps are dogged, as if they only lived to be hated and hunted by the myrmidons of the Government. We do not, we are sure, mistake the character or feel ing of our countrymen when we say, that intelligence of the way in which Kossuth has been treated bythe British Government will stir every true-hearted bosom in the land to its lowest depth. There is not a man in England whose blood will not boil within him, and whose face will not be crimsoned with a blush, when he is made acquainted with the transactions of Thursday. England degraded to the character of an Austrian. spy ! Deeper degradation it would be impossible to imagine. There is no lower depth than that. Further in a downward direction it would be impossible to go. The Times libels the people of England when it says, "Whatever punish ment the law may inflict on such a misdemeanour, pub lic opinion will not only ratify the sentence, but increase the rigour of it by general aversion and contempt." The Times, in thus speaking of the English nation, not only libels that nation, but grossly outrage:l.ol the better and more generous qualities of their nature •for Jere is no feature mo re no bl e or more mar k e d ;,althe racter than its sympathies with the foreigner, who , has fled from th e blood-thirsty tyrants of his own country,- to seek an asylum on the shores of Great Britain. , But it is not necessary that we should undertakc the vindication of our countrymen from the foul calumnies of the Times. The people will reply to those caluMnies themselves. They did so months ago in a way which that journal will never forget, when Kossuth was syste matically assailed and slandered in A manner which, had no parallel in the history of the British press. The enor mous fall which Then took place in the circulation of the Times was the most effective reply which could be given io the representations made by that journal, to the effect that the people of England approved of the course which the Times adopted in reference to Kossuth. After the above had been in the hands of the printer, we received our report of the 'proceedings in the House of Commons last evening, It will be seen that questions were, put to Lord Palmerston on the subject, and that the noble lord's answers were neither dignified nor satis factory. He would not, on the one hand, say that Kos suth was to. be held responsible for the arms and am munition which were found in the house alluded to; neither would he acquit the Hungarian Chief. All that the noble lord would say was, that the matter was un dergoing a strict investigation. We shall wait with no small anxiety the result of the inquiry. THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. (Prom the Times.) Brevity is the soul of wit. It is also the soul of something that partakes of the nature of wit, Mit is rather more substantial, and that is businesi. When men are agreed upon doing a thing, and 'know that it will be done, they don't waste many words about it ; indeed they are afraid of talking about it, lest they should inadvertently raise some obstacle. On Thursday night Mr. Milner Gibson moved three resolutions, which he affected still to treat, as he has treated, them on many former occasions, as very much one and the same affair. The second and third of these resolutions were stated in language unusually argumentative, prolix, and even rambling. They contain references of all sorts—to public opinion, to lawsuits, to various Parlia mentary proceedings •on other questions, and so on. The language, of the first resolution stands in noble contrast_ :--" That the advertisement duty ought : to be repealed." Here is no redun dance—no needless allusion to the march of the human mind, to the progress of civilisation, to the claims of phi lanthropy or the Court of Exchequer. There is even a brusqueness in the expression, only one seemingly need less elongation—the word " ought"-of which more anon. Now, why this strange difference ? Are not advertisements quite as copious and suggestive a subject as paper and stamps ? The truth is that advertisements were the only piece of real business in the string of re solutions. They were the nucleus, and paper and stamps the mere coma and tail of the comet. They had been ' transacted and made safe. "As men on earnest busi ness bent,'! the speakers said little enough about them, and lavished their eloquence on the resolutions that were not to be carried. The business part of the affair was also put first. - In the natural order the topics would have come paper, advertise ments, , stamps ; 'the material, the contents, the circulation. This' was the order observed last year, when there was no business done, and no prospect of any. The question then lay between Mr. Milner Gib son and Mr. Disraeli, and the amount of understanding they had come to upon it appears from the very uniform fate of the three resolutions. The divisions were then as follow :—Paper 195, against 107 ; advertisements 199, against 100 ; stamp duties 181, against 116. Stamp duties were then first horse, advertisements the last. The latter was beaten two to one. However, towards the end of the year, the unjust steward found it neces sary to make friends with the mammon of unrighteous ness, and opened an account with the Financial Re formers on advertisement duties. They hn.ve now re ceived him into their league, and the result is, that in stead of a long, adjourned debate, followed by a majority of two to one against the repeal of the advertisement du ties, the affair has been settled after rather a short de bate in one evening, and by a division of 200 against 169, virtually in favour of their repeal. Last year only 100 could be found to vote for the measure. There is the same roundness of figures this year, but it is exactly double. The only difference between the two proposi tions respectively beaten last year and carried this is, that, out of - deference to a lingering hesitation in the Protectionist contingent, the word " ought" has been imported into the resolution. After the very marked difference made by the house in its decisions upon the three resolutions, we presume it is almost superfluous to return to those rejected. That on the advertisement duty is the only one likely to be mentioned- again in Parliament this year. There can be no doubt that it is a most unfair duty,, and most unfairly assessed. The uniformity of the charge on the advertisement of a poor scullion wanting a place, and a nobleman wishing to sell half a county, or a company of speculators proposing to join two oceans and cut two continents asunder, operates as disadvantageously for us as it does or it can do for the advertisers. It prevents us from charging the smaller fry of advertisers as much as we should do, and compels us even to refuse or, what is the same thing, to postpone indefinitely whole pages of small advertise ments. Whether there will be the immense increase of advertisements expected by Mr. Milner Gibson is a mat ter of speculation. He and those who think with him take their opinions from America, which they consider, with some degree of truth perhaps, the future of Eng land. Yet there does appear an almost essential, in effaceable difference between the habits and tastes of the two countries. There, to judge from the papers, every body advertises everything. Indeed, there are many dealers that advertise every article in succession, and cannot receive a consignment of hams, or spades, or cravats without advertising it. However, we do not for a moment doubt that with the duty abolished there will be much more advertising, and if it only discourages other more offensive forms of publicity, that will be no inconsiderable gain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. 'Front the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR. —To day West India sugar was purchased with reluctance for home consumption, and the rates accepted were in some cases rather under those of Friday last for grocery and refining sorts. Operations amounted to 317 hhds, &c., including in auction 58 hhds and 68 brls. Bar badoes which sold for ord to good yellow at 34s 6d to 37s 6d, and brown at 32s to 34s per cwt. For the week pur chases are 1140 hhds, &c. REFINED.—To-day the market for refined sugar pre sented a quiet aspect, there is a better supply with sellers of brown lumps, at 45s to 45s 6d, and low to fine giocery 46s to 48s per cit. Crushed sugar is not cheaper, but exporters are not much inclined to operate. This afternoon the quantity of Mauritius sugar offered at auction was 5,600 bags. There was a reluctance to operate, and a small part only sold, still prices were sus tained ; low to mid yellow realising 34s to 35s 6d, good to fine 36s to 36s 6d, and refining from 34s to 36s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal Sugar submitted to auction was 3,600 bags, and the chief part sold at the full currency, low to good white Benares at 35s to 38s, fine and superior grainy yellow 39s to 41.5. Penang low to good soft yellow at 31s 6d to 33s 6d. Madras went at, rather lower terms, soft brown at 27s to 29. 6d, and low * to good yellow 29s to 33s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day foreign Sugar met with little notice for shipiwing or home consumption and prices have a down ward tendency for all sorts. A cargo of brown Bahia was sold afloat at 20s per cwt, RlCE.—Holders of East India are still desirous to sell, and demand having limited both for the home and foreign markets ; prices are depressed. TEA.—Few purchases have been made in low to good common congou this week, yet rates remain at 10-4 d to 10id for sound; Other sorts are held with firmness. 'Pub lic sales of tea are declared for Wednesday ; at present the quantity is 7,886 packages. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE-APRIL 15. ENTERED INWARDS. — The Lord John Russell, from Harlingen ; Flecka, Ghent ; Diana , Amsterdam ; Sarah, do. ; Charlotte Caroline, Malta ; Faith, Africa Witto Cornalis Zoomdenwith, Rotterdam ; Neptunus, Emden ; Neptune, Hamburgh ; Sertum, Guernsey; City of Bou logne, Boulogne. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Ocean, f6r Hanibirgh ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Rudolph, Elsineur, &c. ; Flecka, Ghent ; Halls, Elsineur ; Akbar, Calcutta ; Pa -113.111a, Hobart Town ; Land o' Cakes, Canton and Hong lung; Monarchy, Calcutta ; Desdemona, Melbourne ; Foyle, Jersey and Guernsey ; Walter 3/orrice, Sydney ; Niagara, Sydney ; Indemnity, Port Adelaide ; Ontaria, Melbourne. CLPARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Hindoo, for Calcutta ; Hartley, - Port Philip ; Maria, Hamburgh; Oliver Cromwell, Calcutta ; Olaveaga, Bilboa ; Salarnan deren, Christiania, &c. ; Navigation, Rouen ; Britanni a , Rostock ; F ame, Calais ; Princessßoyal, Hambnrgh ; C d oncordia, R o tt er d am ;Triton, Ostend ~ Diana, Amster- am. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. • The Surat, Liverpool to Calcutta, Dec. 15, lat. 25, long. 23. The Union, London to Hobart Town, out 103 days ; and Confucius, , Canton to London, out 24 days, lat. 13 S., long. 97 E. ' ' • ' .NA VA !BNCE. Captain Uddney Mundy has resigned the command of the London, 92, at Spithead, in consequence of ill health ; and has been succeeded by Captain Charles Eden, late private secretary to the Earl of Auckland and Sir Francis Bari ng, when First Lords of the Admiralty. The London ig 'not yet fully manned, but we trust she soon will be. Captain Eden's selectiOn is a fair one. He is compai atively a young captain, but he has com manded a 50-gi m frigate— the Winchester, and for some time the flag-sh.ip at Portsmouth. He will now make up his time in on: of the best sailing ships in the service. THE NEW MASTER SHIPWRIGHT.—There are several candidates for the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. 0. Lang, master shipw right of Woolwich yard, of whom Mr. 0. Lang, son of the deceased, and assistant-master shipwright of Chattiam yard ; Mr. Turner, filling a similar office in Devonport yard ; and Mr. J. Peake, assistant-master shipwright at Woolwich, the designer of the most successful life-boat on the coast, son of the late Sir H. Peake, formerly Surveyor of the Navy, are con sidered to have the most favourable chance. Mr. Lang was the acting-master shipwright of Deptford Dockyard on its re-establishment, and Mr. Turner was master shipwright of the establishment at Bombay for many years. It is not likely, however, that the officer promoted will come to Woolwich. That has always been regarded as a senior establishment. It is more probable that Mr. Read, who for many years has been the effi cient master shipwright at Sheerness, and who was for merly Mr. Lang 's first assistant at Woolwich, will be appointed to that dockyard, and the new master ship wright will go to Sheerness. At all events, we trust the vacancy will be given to a good, sound, practical ship wright, and not a mere talking, fidgetty, hair-splitting calculator. Doubtless the Surveyor of the Navy will be consulted on this promotion, and the consequent appoint ments.—Herald. The vacant appointment of junior medical inspector of Haslar, vice Anderson, deceased, has been given to Inspector of Hospitals Dr. John Wilson (1841). Dr. Thomas Frazer (1838), of the Cumberland, 70, flag-ship in the West Indies, has been appointed surgeon and medical storekeeper at Jamaica Hospital ; and Dr. William M'Kinlay (1847) has been appointed to the Cumberland. The Admiralty have appointed two, medical officers to the Illustrious, hospital ship, at Portsmouth, Surgeon James Ellis (1823), and Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Pat rick (1847). - The foll Owing assistant-surgeons have been proinoted to the rank of surgeon :—Dr. Charles Forbes, of the Cal liope, 26, Australia ; Arthur Adams, of Haslar Hospi tal ; Dr. Robert Hastings, of the. Hogue, 58, screw-ship, Devonport ; and Dr. John Balfour Nicholson, of the Antelope, steam-vessel, Mediterranean. These officers are the senior qualified, with the exception of Mr. Pritchard, who has been passed over, and other officers who wished to remain in their present rank. These assistant-surgeons are of more than eleven years' stand ing, being of 1841 seniority. A poor encouragement, indeed, for young medical men to enter the service, even if they met with the treatment from the Admiralty which their age and education entitle them to receive. The following, clerks have also been promoted to the rank of paymaster :—F. W. Cole (1836), the senior on the list ; J. T. Spark (1844), of the Virago, steam-sloop, Pacific, fifth on the list, passing over Messrs. Ellis, Spear, and Slaughter, all serving at the, present time ; Edward Robert Chamberlain (1844), of the Porcupine, steam-vessel, Queenstown, passing over Mr. Pinhorn ; John Thomas Wells (1845), of the Ajax, screw flag-ship, Queenstown, pa s sin g over M r . R e t a llick, who is now serving; and James L. Thorne (1845), also of the Ajax, passing over Mr. Horniman, who is serving. ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE.—The following gentlemen passed their examination on Wednesday in navigation in the presence of. Rear-Admiral Superintendent Fan shawe, Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent, &c., and on Thursday received their certificates : Mates for Lieutenants.—Claude A. C. De Crespigny, Edwin Charles Chaplain, John G. T. Clarke, George W. Strong, George R. Bell, Keith Stewart, Andrew. J. Kennedy, George L. Sulivan, Marcus P. Costello, Arthur M. Wells, Louis de la Cherais, J o h n K. E. Baird, and Henry J. Urquhart. Second Masters ,for Masters.— Palmer, Clifton, and Parks. • Naval Cadets.—Turton, Pearse, Skene. Masters' Assistants.—Brown, Hitchcock, Richards ; Row, Atkinson. DOCKTARD.-Mr. Theophilus Scott has been appointed inspector of shipwrights of Chatham dockyard. THE FEVER IN THE (MlN.—The Admiralty have or dered the Odin, 16, steam-frigate, Captai n S co tt, t o t a k e a cruise to the westward, with the hope of improving her sick fever patients. If the fever should not abate the ship is to return immediately to port. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL .15. The London, 90, still remains at Spithead, but under orders for sea. The Vulcan, screw iron-troop-ship, Commander Von Donop, got her lower yards down to-day, and sent them ashore. We undeistand she requires much more power ful ones, as she is very stiff under canvass, and could bear some few hundred yards in addition, which would enable her to increase her speed at the least a knot an hour. The Avon, paddle steam-tender, Master Commander Veitch, came into harhour this morning, from Devon port, with supernumeraries, and returned this afternoon. The Illustrious, hospital-ship, has received her jury masts to-day, and will be moored at Block hou'e hole— the entrance creek to Haslar Hospital. Soundings for that purp6se have been taken to-day. Th. YR:W.IO.s, rec..; sic% hulk, has been shifted along side the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Henry Byam Martin, C. 8., opposite the Sheers Jetty, and has been shipping stores the whole day from lighters belong ing to the victualling department. • The Mercury, cutter, Lieutenant Commander Ireland, arrived this morning from the Channel Islands, and came into harbour to receive wages. Ships of War at Spithead.—London, Encounter, Im perieuee. The Styx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hall, was at Mauritius Feb. 14, and was reported off Point de Galle on the 6th March. The Sphynx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hillyar, arrived at Trincomalee Feb. 27, en route to England to be paid off. PEMBROKE, APRIL 15. M. Dupr4 de Sarm and Captain Bourgeois, the former the constructor and the latter the commander of the Napol4on French screw line-of-battle-ship, have visited and thoroughly inspected the Royal yard at Pembroke. For some time past an order has been in force to admit two French gentlemen to view the establishment, and on their arrival they were received by the Captain-Super intendent, Sir T. Pasley, and Mr. Rice, the Master-Ship wright, by whom they were taken over the yard, the whole of which was minutely inspected. The shipbuilding department elicited warm commendations. FLOGGING THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE. SIR, —I have been much gratified with the manner in which the Morning Herald has commented on the cruel treatment of Stapleton, the boatswain's mate ; and with the promise that the " subject shall not be allowed to drop." Some years ago a good deal was said in the House of Commons on the flogging of soldiers, which resulted in the limitation of the powers of courts-martial, as regards that degrading punishment to 50 lashes, and which is now applied only in the cases of disgraceful crimes. I have long expected that the Legislature, which was so warmly interested on behalf of the priyate soldier, would in time extend some protection to poor Jack ; but have looked in vain for this desirable boon. The cruel case of the boatswain's mate has been ex posed to the view of the public and excited its just indignation, but that is only a specimen of the mar tial law used in the Royal Navy, " the right hand of England," whose humbler members should, in this age of enlightenment, at least enjoy the same immu nity from the scourge as their brethren on land, if not from philanthropic, at least from political mo tives ; but hitherto no benevolent M.P. has been stirred up to inquire into these matters, and things have been suffered to go on unchecked in our ships of war on the distant ocean that would not have been tolerated for one day if they took place in a garrison town in England within earshot of the inhabitants, arising from the power entrusted to the captains of the navy to inflict corporal punishment on' their men to the extent of 48 lashes ; in most cases the captain being, not only judge, jury, and administrator of punishment, but prosecutor also. I readily grant that many of these officers use their enormous power with moderation, and, it may be, a sincere desire to avoid the use of this disgusting punish ment, when they think it can be dispensed with. But the principle of placing such power over his fellow-crea tures in the hands of one man is atrociously wrong, and, as might be expected, it is often abused. For ex ample, I have known a captain capriciously to spard a thief's back, and in a few days afterwards inflict the full penalty of 48 lashes on an unfortunate wretch whose de linquency was drunkenness and too loud talking. This captain was by no means a cruel man, and the injustice he committed was only a consequence of a system which Sir James Graham seeks to uphold, rather than the fault of the fallible man, who carried his power to its utmost extent, perhaps under the influence of temper, caprice, or any of the numerous motives which bias the human mind. Such cases as Stapleton's when perpetrated in an Eng lish harbour, naturally create their own remedy, by their very enormity arousing public attention, and directing it to the manners and customs of naval courts-martial ; but the legalised cruelty that may be practised on the, wide ocean does not so readily reach the public ear, and to this especially I desire to draw attention. The inevitable misuse of the despotic power to which I have adverted might be corrected by relieving every captain of the onerous responsibility of punishing minor offences, and laying it on a jury of the ship's officers (whose awards should be strictly scrutinised at the Ad miralty), the prerogative of mercy being still left to the captain as his privilege ; and no minor punishments, as they are called, ought tp be entrusted irresponsibly to a clpta,in or a first lieutenant, a quarterly return of such being included in the reports of graver punishments, and forwarded to the Admiralty, and that board held accountable to the country for the act of its officers. I doubt not there are a few despots in the service who would dislike to be deprived of the sweet power of lash ing their humbler fellow-man's flesh, and offer plausible ar. uments for the continuance of it : but nothing, in my opinion, should be allowed to come in the way of a re form of this monster evil gins, and declare that 48 lashes such as are inflicted on board a ship of war are equal in severity to at least 200 of the stripes a soldier receives from the regimental drummers—an assertion whi c h I am certain I shall be borne out in by all who have had the same experience as myself. The power to inflict this dreadful torture—second, only, in my opinion, to the power over a fellow-creature's life—is assuredly too great to be confided to one man, if it be necessary that it-should be continued at all ; but as the punishment of the lash has been decided by such high authorities as Lord Palmerston, &c., to be degrad ing and brutalising, the sooner a check is given to the use of the cat on board our ships of war, the better.--I am sir, yours, —Herald. AN OLD OFFICER. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSE OF E.XCH- Amsterdam .... ll 1 7 1. , !'_ Ditto, three months — Rotterdam ...... 11 19% Antwerp 25 30 Brussels ~,, 25 30 Hamburgh Altona Paris.... •• • • 25 7% Ditto, three months Marseilles. .• ..... 25 30 Bourdeaux Frankfort-on -Maine 120 Berlin • • Vienna 11 6 Trieste 1 i 8 Petersburgh 37% Madrid Barcelona ...... ' • Forbes, William Moody, It may, perhaps, be supposed that the 48 lashes with Moore, Ross S. which a man-of-war's captain is armed are no greater in Forker. M. , Franklyn, G. W. Morgan, Calvin degree than the 50 lashes, the utmost $ military court- ' Freestun, Colonel Montan, C. R. martial can award:; but this is not the case. Frewen, C. H. Mostyn, E. M. __„"',„ naval 1 Gallwe, Sir M.P. Naas, Lord I haw) witnessee many military as well as' up g• George, John- --• Napier, J. NEWMARKET CRAVEN.—FRIDAY. For the Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for all ages, T.Y.C., the following appeared on the card : Mr. Morris's Sir Roland Trenchard, 5 yrs, Bst 71b; Mr. Adkins's Tonic, 5 yrs, Bst 21b ; Mr. Payne's Warhood, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b ; but the race became void. MATCH 100, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. Perren's Adeline, by lon, 2 yrs, sst 111 b ....(Wells) 1 Duke of Bedford's Gossip, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 2 Betting-6 to 4on the young one, who waited until they were about half-way in the cords, when she obtained the lead, and the race ended in her favour by a length. SWEEPSTAKES of 50 soya. each, for three-year-old fillies, Bst 71b ; those by stallions, or out of mares th a t h a d never bred a winner, allowed. 31b ; only one allowance. D.M. 9 subs. • LordW.Powlett's Scandal, by the Libel, Bst 41b..(Rogers) 1 General Anson's Mayfair, by Bay Middleton, Bst 71b 2 Mr. Payne's Glenalvon, Bst 71b (Flatman) (Butler) 3 Duke of Richmond's fby Touchstone, out of Cukooo, Bst 41b . (J. Mason) 4 Lord Exeter's Phrygia, Bst 41b (Norman) 5 Betting-6 to 4on Scandal, sto 1 agst Mayfair. A short run race—the work only beginning in earnest when they were near the cords. Scandal won by a length, the second beating the third half a length. A head between third and fourth. The PORT STAKES, a sweepstake of 100 sovs. each, Irft, for four-year-olds ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b ; not named in the Claret. T.M.M. The owner of the second horse to receive back his stake. 9 subs. Mr. R. Harrison's King of Trumps, by Velopicide, Bst 71b (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Greville's Adine, Bst 41b (Flatman) 2 Duke of Richmond's Homebrewed, Bst 71b..(J. Marson) 3 Sir R. Pigot's Filius, Bst 71b (A. Day) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst Homebrewed, 2to 1 agst King of Trumps, sto 2 agst Adine. After the first hundred yards Adine took the lead, which she held to the cords. where King of Trumps, who hid been lying second from the ditch gap, went up and passed her. In vain she persevered to regain her position. The King won very cleverly by two lengths. Homebrewed a bad third. SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, for two.yr-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold foi 150 sovs. if demanded, &c. ; allowances if to be sold for less. Last half of Ab.M. 6 subs. Mr. Snuffling's c by Napier, out of Carouch's dam, (25/.), 7st 51b (Ohm lton) 1 Mr. T. Powell's Grindoff, by Falstaff (501 ), 7st 91b (Wakefield) 2 Betting—Even betting on Napier colt, 4 to 1 agst any other. The favourite made nearly all the running, and won easily by two lengths. He was afterwards claimed. Lord Exeter's Mountain Flower, 4 yrs, received forfeit from the Duke of Bedford's Nathan, 3 yrs, Bst 7113 each. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. In closing the details of this meeting, it but just to state that a better Craven Meeting has not been recorded for some years. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. NEW MATCHES. MONDAY.—Lord Glasgow's f by Melbourne, out of Non descript's dam, agst Mr. Mare's Little Bitty, sst 71b each. First half of Ab. Mile. 100 h ft. Lord Glasgow's c by Assault, out of Miss Norton, Bst 71b, agst Duke of Bedford's Dabchick, Bst 41b. A.F. 200, h ft. _ . _ Lord Glasgow's Knight of the Garter, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b, a,„crst Duke of Bedford's Nathan, 3 yrs, Est 121 b. D.M. 150, h ft. TUESDAY.—Duke of Bedford's HE speras, Bst 71b, agst Lard Glasgow's Senorita Bst. First half of Ab. M. 100, h ft. THIIRSDAY.—Duke of Bedford's Hesperus, Bst 101 b, agst Mr. W. E. Hughes's Sophistry, 7st 71b. First half of Ab. M. 100, h ft. CHELTENHAM GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.—We are authorised by the secretary to state that " the stew ards of the late Cheltenham Steeplechases have taken opinion respecting the objection to Oscar, and it is decided that he is entitled to the stakes, which will be paid over to his owner forthwith. ANGE—YESTERDAY. Gibraltar .............. Leghorn .............. 30 5 Genoa ................ 25 35 Milan .........- •-• Venice .. :; '' •• • • Naples ......•••••••••• 41% Palermo 124% idessitut .............. 125 Lisbon 53 Oporto ...........• • ... 53 % Rio Janeiro •• • Buenos Ayres ...... •• • • New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia •• • • PRICES OP BULLION. PER OZ. Foreign Gold 'n Bars Z 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 illvor in bars ...... 0 5 1% PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 14. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) DUTY ON PAPER. Motion made, and question proposed, " That the Excise Duty on Paper, whilst impeding the developement of an important manufacture, also materially obsti ucts the pro duction of good cheap literature ; and the maintenance of this tax as a permanent source of revenue would be im politic and inconsistent with the efforts which Parliament is now making to promote education amongst the great body of the people :"—Whereupon the previous question put, " That that question be now put :"—The House divided ; Ayes BQ, Noes 279. MINORITY—AYES, 80. Alcock, Thomas Fra, er, Sir W. A. O'Flaherty, Anthony Anderson, Sir James Gardner, Richard Otway, A. J. Barnes, Thomas Greene, J. Peacocke, G. M. W. Bell, James Greville, Colonel F. Pechell, Sir G. Berkeley, Hon. C. F. Grogan, E. Peel. Sir Robert Biddulph, R. M. Hadfield, George Phinn, T. Biggs, William Hall. Sir Benjamin Pilkington, James Bland, L. Hamilton, Lord C. Pollard-Urquhart, W Bowyer, George Hastie, Alexander Potter, R. BulkeleY, Sir It. B. Heyworth, L. Ricardo, J. L. Cheatham, John Hindley, Charles - Sadleir, J. Cobbett, J. lforgan Hume, J. Scholelleld, W. Cobden, Richard Hume, W. F. Scobell, eaptal.ll Corbally, M. Keating, Robert Scully, F. Cowan, Charles Kennedy, Tristram Seymour, W. D. Crook,.J. K'ng, p. J. Shelley, Sir J. , T. Crossley, F. Lasiett, William Smith, John B. Dashwood, Sir G. Lucas, P. Stirling, W. Duffy, CG. Macgregor, James Stuart, Lord D. Duncan, George 111' Mahon, P. Vance, J. Duncombe, T. Maguire, J. F. WMmsley, Sir J. Ellice. E. Miall, Edward Whalley, G. E wart, William Montgomery, H. Wilkinson, W. Fagan, W. Moore, G. H. Williams, W. Foilden, M. Morris, D. Ferguson, Joseph Muntz, G. Frederick TIMMS. GGo G lordo l y ad dnd l or o d : e.A e o , rgd Forster, Charles Murrough, J. P. Gibson, Thomas M. Fox, W. J. Oakes, J. H. Bright, John o e ß r r w r i a r ee) : : , Viscount CßL.ao lrpdh MAJORITY—NOES, 279 Adair, Hugh B. Adderley, C. Ambrose C , William ran arr L . Osborne,ONN' Al. exander, J. Annesley, Earl of Goodman, Sir G. O'Brien, P. Goulburn, Henry Packe Charles W. Bailey, Sir J. Grace, 0. D. J. Paget, Lord Alfred Badge, W. .Win. Bailey, Craw:hay Graham, Sir J. Packenham, E. Baines, M. T. Gregson, Samuel Pakington, Sir J. Baird James Grey, Sir G. Palmerston, Vis. Ball, Edward Grosvenor, Lord Parker, R. T. Ball, John Grosvenor, Earl Peel, F. Baldock, E. H. Gwyn, Howel Percy, J. William Bankes, G. Halsey, Thomas P. Phillips, John Henry Baring, H. B. Hamilton, G. A• Phlllimoi e, J. G. Baring, Sir F. Hanbury, Spencer B Ihillimore, R. Barringtdn, Viscount Hanger, Sir John Portal. M. Bass, M. T. Harcourt, Colonel Power, N. Bateson, Thomas Hardinge, C. S. Pritchard, J. Beaumont, W. B. Hastie, Archibald Pugh, D. Bennet, Philip Hayes, Sir E. Ricardo, 0. Beatinck, Geo. P. Headlam, Thomas E. Robartes, T. J. A. Berkeley, Admiral Heard, J, Robertson, P. F. Berkeley, C. L. Heathcoate, J. Rolt, P. Bernard, Viscount Heathcoate, Sir G. Rushout, Capt. Bonham-Carter, a. Hi athcoate, G. Russell, LordJ. Booth. Sir R. Heneage, G. if. W. Bats ell, F. C. flouverie, E. P. Mileage, G. F. Russell, F. W . Bremridge, Richard Herbert, H. A. Sanders, G. Brisco, Musgrave Herbert, Sidney Sawle, C. B. G. Bretherton, J. Derbert, Sir Thomas Scrope, G. P. Browne, V. Her v ey, Lord Alfred Seaham, Lord Bruce, Lord E. Howard, W. G. Seymer, H. K. Bruce, C. L. C. Howard, Lord E. Seymour, H. D. Bru e, H. A. Hughes, W. B. Shafto, R. D. Buller, Sir J. Y. Ingham, R. Shelburne. Earl of Burke, Sir T. Inglis, Sir R. H. Smijth, Sir W. Burrell,Sir C. M. Jermyn, Earl Smith, John Abel Burroughes, H. N. Johnstone, James Smith, R. Byng, G. H. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Smith. W. H. Cairns, H. M'Calmont Jolliffe, Sir W. G.H. Smyth, R. J. Cardwell, Hon. E. Kelly, Sir F. Smyth, J. Cavendish, G. Kendall, N. Sotheron, T. if. Chambers, Montagu Kinnaird, A. F. Spooner, R. Chambers, T. Kirk, William stafford, A. Chaplin, W. J. Knatchbull, Wm. F. Stafford, Marquis CD after's, F. Knight, F W. Stanhope, James B Christopher, R. A. Knox, W. S . Stanley, Lord Christy, Samuel Lacon, Sir E . Stapleton, J. Clay, Sir William Laffan, R. M. Strutt, Edward Clinton, Lord R. Laing, S. Talbot, C. Clinton, Ld C. Langston, J. PI. Tancred, H. W. Cockburn, Sir Alex. Langton, H. G. Thesiger, Sir F. Cocks, Thomas S. Legh, G. C. Thompson. G. Coffin, Walter Leslie, Charles P. Tomline, G. Compton, H. Combs Lewis, Sir T. Tram, G. Cotton, W. H. Liddell, H. G. Ti ollope. Sir J. Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel Tudway, R. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lockhart, A. E. Tufnell, H. Da rymple, Vis. Loveden, P. Turner, C. Davison, R. Lowe, Robert Tyler, Sir George Denison, J. E. Luce, Thomas Tynte, Col. C J. Disraeli, B. Macartney, G. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Dr umlattrif3, Vis. Mackenzie, W. F. Vane, Lord A. Duff, G. S. Macgregor, John Vane, Lord 11. Duff, James M'Taggart, Sir J. Verner, Sir W. Duncombe, En. A. Magan, %V. IL Vernon,. G. Duncombe, H. 0. Matins, H. Vivian, J. H. Dandas, F. Mandeville, Viscount Vivian, Henry H. Dunne, Col Martin, •f l obn Walcott, Adm. Du Pre, C George Masterman, J. Warner, Edward Fgert n, W. Matheson, Alex. Welby, Sir U. E. Eperton, Edward Matheson, Sir J. Wells, W. Ellice, E. Maule, Colonel West, Frederick R. Elliot, J. E. Maxwell, James P. Whiteside, James Ev us, W. 1%. iles, W. Whitmore, H. Evelyn, W. J. Milli,an, B. Wickham, Henry W. Farrer, James Miner, W. M. E. Wilcox, B . Fen° w es, Edward Milnes, R. M. Wilson, James Fergus, John Zil itch ell, W. Winnington, Sir T. B Ferguson, Colonel • Mitchell, T. A. Wood, Sir C. F. rguson, Sir R. Moffatt, G. Wortley, J. S. Fitzgerald, J. Molesworth, Sir W. Wyndham, General Fitzro, , Hon. H. Monck, Lord Wyndham, W. t. Itzwilliam, G. II oncrieff, J. Wynn. H. Floyer, John Mouse'', W. Wynne, W. Fol ett, B. Spencer Montgomery, Sir G. Wyvill, el arrnaduke Young; sir f. TELLERS. Hayter, W. G. Musgrave, Earl JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.-APRIL 15, Order for third reading read; motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now read the third time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months :" Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—ayes, 288 ; noes, 230. MAJORITY—AYES, 288. dair, H. Fox, W. O'Brien, Cornelius Aglionby, H. A. Freestun, Colonel O'Brien, Patrick Alcock, Thomas French, F. O'Brien, Sir T. Anderson, Air James Gardner, R. O'Flaherty, A. Anson, Gen. Gaskell, James M. Oliveira, B. Anson, Viscount ' Geach, Charles Osborne, Ralph Atherton, Wm. - Gibson, T. M. Otway, Arthur John Bailey, C. Gladstone, William Owen, Sir John Baines, M. T. Glyn, George Carr Pa,. et, Lord Alfred Ball, Edward Goodman, Sir George Paget, Lord George Ball, John Gower, F. L. Palmerston, Viscount Baring, Henry B. Grace, 0. Pechell, Sir George Baring, Sir F. Graham, Sir James Peel Frederick Baring, T. Greene, John Pellatt, .4, Baring, Francis Gregson, Samuel Peto, S. Barnes, T. Grenfell, C. Phillimore, J. Beaumont, W. B. Greville, Col. I hillimore, R. J. Bell, J. Grey Sir G. Phinn, Thomas Berkeley, Adm. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pigott, Francis Berkeley, El. na , illeld, G. Pilkington, James Bethell, Richard Hall, Sir Benjamin Pinney, William Biggs, William Hanmer, Sir J. Pollard Urquhart, W. Bland, L. Ha-court, G. G. Ponsonby, /In. A. Bonham-Carter, Jan Elastic, Alexander Potter, It. Bouverie, E. Basile, Archibald Power, K. Bowe-, G. Headlam, T. E. Price,- Sir R. Brady, John Beard, J I. Price, W. P. Bright, John - Heathcoat, John Ric ardo, J. Broeldehurst, John Ilenchy, D. O'Connor trockman, E. D. " Herbert, H. A Brotherton, Joseph H er b ert, Sid ney Ricardo, 0. Rich, H. Robartes, T, J. A, Brown, William Hey t , orth, L. Russell, Lord J. Itrown,•V. • Hi gg i ns, G . ii. 0. Russell, F. C. Bruce, 11. A. Illuoley, Charles R usse ll . F. W. Buikeley, Sir It. B. W. Hogg, Sir James W. Sadleir, J. Burke, Sir T. . Howard, C. W. G. sandars, G. Butler, Charles Howard, Lord E. Sawle, C. B. G. ItYng, OH. Charles Hudson. George Scobell, Capt. Cardwell, E. Hume, Joseph Scully, Francis k,aultield, Col. . Hutchins, E. Scully, V. Cavendish, C. C. Ilutt, William Seymour, H. D. Cavendish, George Ingham, 'Lobed ,Cayley, E. S. J ermyn , E ar l Shatter, R. D. Challis, Aldennan ' Johnstone, Sir J. Sher, W. Chambers, M. K ea ti ng , R o b er t Shelburne, Earl Chambers, Thomas K ea ti ng H. Seymour W.l), Shelley, Sir J. V. Charteris, F. Kennedy, T. Smith, John A. Cheetham, John - Kershaw, James Smith, John Benj. Clay, Sir W. King,P. J. Smith, M. Tucker Clifford, H. Kinnaird, Arthur F. Smith, R. V Clinton, Lord Robert Kirk, William Smyth, R. J. Cobden, Richard - Labouchere, H. , ' Stafford, m arquis Cockburn, Sir A. Laing, S. Stanley, Lord Coffin, W. ' Langston, J. H. Stanley, Hn. W. 0. Corbally, M. E. Langton, H. G. • Stapleton, John Cowan, Charles Laslett, W. Strickland, Sir G. Cowper, W. Lawless, C. Strati, Rt. Hon. E. Craufurd, E. Lawley, F. C. Stuart, Lord 1). Crook, J, Lemon, Sir C. Sutton, J. H. M. ' Crossley, Frank Locke, Joseph'. Swift, R. Crowder, R. L ove d en , P. Talbot, C. R. M. Cubitt, Mr. Ald. Lowe, R. Tancred, Henry Wm. Currie, R. Lucas; F. Thicknesse, R. A. Dalrymple, Vise. Luce, T. Thompson, George Dashwood, Sir G. H. M.Cami, J. Thornely, T. Davie, Sir H. . M'Gregor, John Towneley, C. Denison, J. E. :WM ahon, P. Townshend, Capt. Disraeli, Benjamin M‘Ta.tgart, Sir J. Traill, G. Divett, Edward Maguire, J. Tufnell , H. Drumlanrig, Viscount Mangles, R. D. Tynte, Col. C. J. K. Duff, George Marshall, William ' Vane, Lord H. Dull, James Mar tin, John Vernon.G. E. H. Duffy, C Massey, W. N. Villiers, Hon. C. Duke, Sir James Matheson, A. ' Vivian, J. H. Duncan, G. Matheson. Sir J. Vivian, H. H. Ouncombe, T. Maule, Colonel Wall, C. B. Dundas, F. Meagher, Thomas W almsley, Sir J. Dunlop, A. Malt, E. Water J. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Milligan, Robert Wells, W. k: nice, E. Mills, T. Whalley, G. H. Elliot, John Mi ner, W. M. E. Whitbread, S. Evans, Sir if L. Milnes, R. M. Wickham, H. W. Evans, William Michell, W. Wilkinson, W. A. Ewart, William Michell, T. Wilcox, B. Fagan, W. Moffatt, G. Williams, W. Feilden, 31. Molesworth, Sir W. Wilson, J. Fergus, J. 44 on ck, Viscount Winnington, Sir T. Ferguson, Col. Moncreiff, James Wood, Str C. Ferguson, Sir Robert Monett, War= Wortley. Jas. Stuart Ferguson, Joseph Moreton, Lord Wrightson, W. Fitzgerald, J. D. Morris, D. Wyvill, M. Fitzgerald, Sir J. Mostyn, E. M. Young, Sir John I- itzroy, Henry Alui.,,rave, Earl Fitzwi"lam, G. W. Mu-e, Col. TELLERS. , Forster, M. " Murphy, F. S. Forster, C. 31 urrough, J. P. 4 , llayter, W. G. rertescue. Chichester Norreys, Lord Berkeley Grenville Fox, R. M Norreys, Sir D. MINORITY-NOES, 230. Acland, Sir T. Forester, colonel Mundy William Adderley,•C. Franklyn, George W. Naas, Lord Alexander, J. Fraser, Sir Wm. A. Napier, Joseph • Alinesley ; Earl Frewen, Oharles Hay Neeld, John Arbuthnot, Gen. . Fuller, Augustus E. Nee ld, Joseph Arcbdall, Captain M. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Newark, Viscount Arkwright, U. Galway, Viscount Noel, Gerard James Bagge, W. George, John North, Colonel' Batley, Sir J. Gladstone, Captain Oakes, J. H. P. Bailey, H J Goddard, Ambrose L. Ossulston, Lord B gird, James Gooch, Sir E. Packe, C. William Baldcock, E. H. Goulburn, H. Pakenham, E. Bankes, G. Graham, Lord 31. W. Packington, Sir J. Barrington, Viscount Granby, Marquis of Palmer, Robert Barrow, Wm. H. Grogan, E. Parker, R. Townley Bateson, T. Guernsey, Lord Patten, J. Beckett, W. Gwyn, Rowel Peel, Sir R. Bennet, Philip Hale, Robert B. Peel, Colonel Bentinok, Lord H. Hall, Colonel Pennant, Colonel Rentinck, G. P. . Halsey, T. Percy, J. Beresford, William Hamilton, Geo. A. plunipps, J. H. Bernard, Viscount Hanbury, Hon. C. Portal, Melville Blair, Colonel Harcourt, Col. Prime, R. Blandtord, Marquis Hawkins, W. W. Pritchard, J. Bolder°, Colonel Heneage, Gee. H. Pugh, D. Booker, Thos. Wm. Henley, Joseph W. Repton, G. W. J. Booth, Sir R. Htidyard, R. Robertson, P. F. Bramston, T. W. Hill, Lord Arthur E. Bolt, P. Itt iseo, Musgrave Hotham, Lord Rushout, Captain Buck, Lewis W. Hughes, W. B. Scott, Francis Buller, Sir J. Hume, W. Fitzwilllam Seaham, Lord. Burghley, Lord Digit-, Sir R. H. Seymer, H. K. Burrell, Sir C. M. Irton, Samuel Sibthorp, Colonel Burroughes, limy N. Johnstone, James Srnijth, Sir W. Butt, G M Jolliffe ' Sir W. G. 11. Smith, Wm. M. Butt, Isaac J ones , Captain 'pooner, Richard Cabbell, B. B. ' Jones, David Stafford. A. Cairns, li. M'Calmont Kendall, Nicholas ~ ,i tillope, J. B. .re,...., v. o. Stephenson, nobeat Carnac, Sir J. It. King, J. K. Stuart, H. Chandos, Marquis of Knatchbull, W. F. 'l'a , nor, Colonel Chelsea, Viscount Knight, F. W. Thesig e r, Sir F. Child, mith Knightley, Rainald Tollemache, John Christopher, R. Adam Knox, Col. Trollope, Sir J. Clinton„Lord C. P. Knox, W. S. Tudway, R. C. Clive,-R. H. Lacon. Sir E. Turner, C. Clive, Robert Langton, W. G. Tyler, Sir G. Cobbett, J 3f. Legh, G. C. Tyrell, Sir J. I'. Cobbold, J. Chevalier Lennox, Lord A. F. Vance. J. Cocks, T. Somers Lennox. Lord IL G. Vane, Lo. dA. Codrington, Sir Win. Leslie, C. P. Vanslttart, George if Colvlle,Charles R. Lindsay, Col. Verner, Sir W. Compton,Henry Lockhart, A. E. Vill lei s, Rt. 11n. F. Conolly, T. Lockhart, W. Vivian, J. Ennis Corry, Henry Lowry Lopes, Sir Ralph Vyse, Capt. COtton,,W . ii. S. Lovaine, Lord Waddington, H. S. Davies, D. Lowther, Colonel Walcot, Adm. I , avisen, It. Lowther, Captain Walpole, Spencer H. Hering, Sir E. II acartney, G. Welby, Sir.,G. Drummond, H. Mackenzie, ll' F. Wellesley, Lord C. Duckworth, SirJ. Macgregor, James West, F. R. Duncombe, Hn. A. Maddock, Sir IL Whiteside, James Dunconabe, Hn. 0. Mantis, Richard Whitmore, Henry Dundee, G. Mandeville, Viscount Wigram, L. T. Du Pre, C. • Manners; Lord J. Williams, T P. East, Sir J. B. Manners, Lord G. Wodehouse, E. Egerton, Sir P. March, Earl of Worcester, DA aqs,. of Egerton W. Mare, Chas. John Wynaham, t en. Egerton, E. Mastermun, John Wyndham, William Elmley, Viscount Itaunsel 1, T. P. Wynn, Herbert W. Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Wynne Wm. W. E. Evelyn, W. Meux, Sir Henry Yor ke, Eliot Tbonaas F. niham, E. Basil Miles, William Farrer, James Montgomery. 11. L. Fellowes, Edward Montgomery, Sir G. Filmer, Sir Edmund . Moody, C. A. TM - M="l. foyer, J. Moore, R. S. Follett, Brent S. Furbes, W. , , 3 3 i l ull org in a g n s , O j c . ta ß v a i n u d s olph N B e r w uC l e e , g C a u te m ' mCing ETHNOLOGICA L SOCIETY.-PERU. On Wednesday evening a paper was read before this society by Wm. Bollaert, Esq., F.R.G.S., "On the Incas of Peru, the Indians of South Peru, and on some Indian remains in the province of Tarapaca. The origin of the term Peru is involved in obscurity, it may be derived from Biru, the name of a river; the an cient inhabitants of Quito.were called Puru-ayes. The author stated that the word Inca was probably derived from Inti, the sun, but that the language of the first Incas 'appear to be lost, and, moreover, that the Incas adopted the language of one of the nations they con quered, namely, the Qiiichna. The shores of Peru have yielded, since 1838, more than half a million.tons of guano, and in the South, the province of Tarapaca has exported, since 1831, more than 250,000 tons of nitrate of soda. In the same district, a new boracic acid mineral has been discovered. The author alluded in particulr to the cyclopean ruins of Ila-Huanien 12,900 feet above the sea, scuth of Lake Titicaca, and which were of a period long before that of the Incas. Mr. Bollaert, con sidered the year A.D. - 1109, to be about that of the com mencement of the reign of Manco Capac, and the death of Atahualpa is put down in 1533, and he stated that it was generally agreed upon that the peopling of the New ' World had been from Asia, !principally ; but at a very early period indeed. The author., gave particulars of I several traditions concerning the origin of the Incas, their history, conquests, and architectural works, &c. Mr. Bollaert . mentioned that on the landing of Pizzaro, the Peruvians had attained a high degree of civilisation, much higher than any other prior to the use of gi aphic records. He noticed the existence of roads 500 leagues in length, causeways through morasses, ruins of numer ous frontier fortresses, palaces, winter palaces with their gardens and fountains, baths, quarries, mausolean towers, swinging and floating bridges, open and subter ranean aqueducts and other works furnish, whether in ruins or converted by the Spaniards into barracks or monasteries, evidences of the taste, power, and opulence of the Incas, and vastness of the population. The Quichaa and. Aymara languages were those mostly spoken in Peru, originally oral, were learnt by the Spaniards, and made by them to follow the Greek and Latin construction. The author had opened many tombs or huacas, and although a few of the skulls found within appeared somewhat elon gated, the greater number were not so, and he thought that when skulls had been found of any peculiar form, such had been caused by artificial means, a practice com mon among some of the Peruvian Indians as late as the 16th century. In the huacas, the mummies placed in a sitting position, were often found images of gold and silver, pottery, arms, tools, fishing implements, mirrors of silver and polished stone, hatchets of copper, dried fruits, maize, shell fossil bones of animals, &c. Some curious Indian pictography was described as existing in the province of Tarapaca, produced by scooping out lines in soft ground, twelve to eighteen inches broad and six deep, representing men, women, llamas, dogs, circles, squares, and other forms, some of the figures being twenty to thirty feet high. Indian pictography, sym bolic and representative devices, are com mon to th nations of the New World. In North America they are cut in rocks, trees, or painted on skins. At a high pass, called Pacheta, in theAndesof Tara paca,. where there is a pile o f stones, the I ndian distance, w lo goes by there will bring a st one , even from a in order to add another to the pile, Thesend other piles of stones a are not uncommon in th e Andesparts of South America. Pach e t a comes from theQuichna h?r Apachitas, meaning a p il e of stones, and were adored. word, Apachitas, The Indian who had surmounted a difficult hill, and ar rived at the pass, was thankful to Pacha-cawak, and cried out "Apacherta," or to Him who has given me strength. IROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. CROWN OFFICE, APRIL 14. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Lancaster. —Thomas Greene, of Whitting ton-Hall, in the county palatine of Lancaster, in the room of Robert Baynes Armstrong, Esq., whose election has been adjudged void. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANTS. John Yeend Bedford Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Worcester ; Robert Sheffield, Esq., Cary Charles Esq., Rowland Winn ' Esq., Henry Hi c k man Bacon Esq., John Lewis Fytche Esq., Geor ge N ev in , Esq., Robert Everard, Esq., William Field, Esq., Robert Thomas Healey, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenants of the county of Lincoln. The Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, commonly called Viscount Cranley to be - Deputy-Lieutenant of the comity of Surrey. West Essex Regular Militia—Robert Honeywood to be Captain. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—Charles Henry Knox, Esq., Major, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. ....._ Ist Regiment of Warwickshire Militia—Williams Henry Betts, Gent., to be Ensign. [The following article is substituted for that which ap- peared in the Gazette of Tuesday last.] Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Edward Stratton Fitzhardinge Ber keley to be Captain. Royal South Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Ensign Capel Augustus Curwood to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Stratton Fitzhardinge Berkeley, promoted ; Augustus Richard Forrest, Gent., to be .Ensign, vice Hobhouse, re signed. Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Mi !itia—Lieuten ant Edward Wm. Ambrose Vaughan to be Captain ; Lieu tenant John Jones to be Captain. Royal Gloucester Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry—Col more Frind Cregoe Colmore, Esq., to be Captain ; Hugh Darby Owen, Gent., to be Comet. 2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Major William Davenport Davenport, late Major in her Majesty's 26th Cameronians, and in the Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. ht or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Robert Hawtayne, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Rolfe, resigned. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Charles Green, scrivener, Spalding, Lincolnshire. BANKRUPTS. John White, draper,_ Charles-street, Tottenham-court road, to surrender, April 22, at eleven, and May 26, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole man-street-buildings ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside. Edward Blakely, linen draper, Conduit-street, Regent street, April 22, at half-past one, and May 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street : Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday street, Cheapside. Robert Chinery, brewer, Withersfied, Suffolk, April 26, at half-past one, and May 24, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sa m b roo k- cour t , Ba singhall-street ; Gooday, Brunswick-square ; Gooday, Sud bury, Suffolk. Frederick Rosenborg, distiller, Freeschool-street, Hors leydown, April 22, at twelve, and M a y 28 , at one, at the Court of Bankrupt c y. P enn ell, o ffi c i a l assignee, Gaildhall chambers, Basinghall-street; Cox and Taylor, Pinners'-hall, Old Broad-street. Heneage Norton Cinder, licensed victu a ll er , Fountain gardens, Lambeth-walk, April 22, at eleven, and May 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Henderson, Mansell -street Goodman's-fields. , William Marsh, beer-seller, Dudley, Worcester, April 30, at half-past ten, and May 23, at one, at the Birming ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming ham ; Bolton, Dudley ; Motteram and Knight, Bir mingham. Edward Goldsmith, tailor, Nottingham, May 6at ten, and May 27 at one, at the Birmin g h am Di s t r i c t C ourt. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Browne, Notting ham. Richard Stephens, draper, Truro, April 26 and May 24, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Gear, Mountford, and Gear, or Stogdon, Exeter. William Artingstall, joiner, Pendleton, Lancashire, April 27, and May 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, George-street, Manchester ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Daniel Dunglinson, victualler, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 26, at eleven, and May 25, at one, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Welford, Market-street, New castle-upon-Tyne ; Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Cheapside, London. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. Edward Cowper Fyffe and Ebeneber Wathen Fyffe, of HoWford-buildings, Fenchurch-street, and Edward Fyffe, jun., of Calcutta, merchants, fist dividend of ls. Bd. in the pound, and first dividend of 20s. in the pound on the se parate estate of Edward Cowper Fyffe, payable at 18, Al dermanbury, on any Monday. Fragoulio Pantoleon Platy, of 15, Broad-street-buildings, merchant, first dividend of ls. lid. in the pound, payable at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on Saturday, April 16, and three subsequent Saturdays. Edward M: Marks, of 21, Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, second dividend of Sid. in the pound, payable at 1, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, on Saturday, April 16, and three subsequent Saturdays. Robert Swansborough, of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, final dividend of Id. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basing hall-street, on Thursday, April 21, and three subsequent Thursdays. Henry Pinhorn and Robert Pinhorn, of Southampton, drapers, second dividend of 2s. 2d. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, April 21, and three subsequent Thursdays. Robert Augustine Braine, of Oxford, saddler, third di. idend of ICd. iu the pound, payable at 76A, liasinghall street, on Thursday, April 21, and three subsequent Thursdays. Cecil Sober Taylor Walker, of 1.59, Oxford-street, arti ficial flower maker, first dividend of 2s. 2d. in the pound, payable at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday, April 21, and three subsequent Thursdays. Samuel Gubb, of Exeter, innkeeper, first dividend of ss. 6d. in the pound, payable at Queen-street, Exeter, on any Tuesday or Friday. Thomas Manley, of Exeter, dealer in wood, a dividend of is. id. in the pound, payable at Queen-street, Exeter, on any Tuesday or Friday. James Hill, of Holcombe Rogus, Devonshire, linen-dra per, first and final dividend of 2s. in the pound, payable at Queen-street, Exeter, on any Tuesday or Friday after the 18th instant. Samuel Cole Harrison, of Sunderland, linen-draper, first dividend of 3s. 6d. in the pound, payable at the Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on any Saturday. Francis Joule Smith, of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, cur rier, final dividend of lid. in the pound, payable at 7, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, on any Thursday. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Robert Pritchard, of Bury, Lancashire, book. keeper—James Frost, of Holbeck, Woadhouse, Notting• b ams hire, victualler—John Gartside ' of Nantwich, Che shire, out of business—Henry FrancisM`Donald, of Liver. pool, hatter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Mary Ann Mitchell and Joseph Richard Mitchell, of Gloucester, hosiers—Ebenezer Harvey and John Harvey, of Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, woollen warehousemen— John Kilner and John Bore, of Preston, Lancashire, join ers Charles Blakeway and Herbert Blakeway, of Dorhall, Worcestershire, farmers —Joseph Sanderson, Edward Rheam Sanderson, and William Thompson, of Kingston upon-Hull, and Liverpool, merchants (so far as regards Edward Rheam Sanderson)—Nathaniel Wheatcroft, see., and Robert Lee, of Cromford, Derbyshire, curriers—James Marshall and Thomas Tattersall, of Liverpool, wine mer chants—Sarah Oakley and Henry Giles Oakley, of 7, St. Dunstan's-passage, Great Tower-street, tailors—Samuel Battley and William Manning Watts, of Whitecross-street, Cripplegate, wholesale chemists—Benjamin Binns and Joseph Wright, of Keighley, Yorkshire, furniture brokers —Margaret Harrison and William Scott, of Sunderland., coal merchants—John Prestwich, Samuel Bolton, and William Bolton, of Radcliffe, Lancashire, engravers (so far as regards John Prestwich)—Mary Ogle and Elizabeth Steel, of Preston, Lancashire—Edwin Ratcliffe and James Hancock, of Manchester, timber merchants—Joseph Bar nard, Thomas Whitaker, and John King, of Little Eaton, Derbyshire, quarrymen—Richard Porritt, jun., Joseph Atkinson, Joshua Riley, and Jabez William Porritt, of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, wool merchants (so far as regards Joseph Atkinson)—James Preston, Henry Schofield, and Thomas Schofield, of Bradley, Yorkshire, timber mer chants (so far as regards Henry Schofield). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. William Dick, of Canongate, Edinburgh, provision merchant, April 22 and May 13, at one, at Paxton's Rooms, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh. Alexander Meldrum, of Grantown, clothier, April 18 and May 9, at twelve, at the Union Hotel, Inverness. David Leech, of Glasgow, land agent, April 19 and May 9, at one, at the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. Robert Low Foreman, of St. A n d rews, coa l d ealer, April 18 and May 9, at two, at the Star Hotel, St. Andrews. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 9th day of April, 1853. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ........ 32,816,460 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.... • . 2,984, .00 Gold coin and bullion 18,797,306 Silver bul ion...—. • • 19,154 M. MARSHALL, Chi ef Cashier. £32,816,460 l £32,81 - 6,460 m Dated the 14th day of April, 1853, BANKING DEPARTMENT, X • Proprietors' ...... capitalptrietorsl... 3 . . 14 ,553,000 1068 8 R 6 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of Nat'onal Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 4,733,108 Other deposi s ...• • . 14,933,897 Seven Day and other Bills .. • • •• ••• • • • 1,469,737 Government securities (includg.Dead Weight Annui ty) •• • • ..... 13,671.382 Other securities...... 14,875.627 N , tes 9,839,745 Gold and silver coin.. 4 , 9.874 X 38,796,628 £38,796,628 M. Dated tle 14th d ay of April, 1853. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 12th day of April, 1853, is 255. sid. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIo way's Ointment and Pills a Certain Cure for Eruptions and all Diseases of the Skin. —Extract of a letter from Mr. J. Hird, draper, Keady, dated Feb. 14, 1852, to Professor Holloway :—" Sir, — My child, when three months old, was afflicted with a severe eruption all over her body. I sought every aid and the advice of surgeons and physicians, by all of whom the case was considered hopeless. I then tried your Ointment and Pills, and without exaggeration the effect was miraculous, for in a short time she was restored to perfect health, and so remains. Mr. Bowden, book seller, Gainsborough, and myself, would be happy to satisfy any inquiries as to the truth of this statement." Sold by all druggists ; and at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand, London. RAILWAY RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST Walt' Miles opened, 1853. NAME OF RAILWAY. BB.ITIBII. 37% 17 26)6 85M 189 M 94j 6 20 17114 285►% 188 319% 288 W 131 65 i3§ 443% 577 240 Aberdeen .. • •• Belfast and Ballymena .............. Belfast and County Down.• • . •• •• •• •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. Bristol and Exeter • • • . • • Chester and Holyhead. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• • • Co"k and Bandon .. • . • • Dublin and Ballast Junction • Dublin and Drowheda• —• • •• Dublin and Kingstown •• Dundee and Arbroath • • •• •• •• Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen•••• • • •• •• • • East Anglian.... • • • • ••• • • • East Lancashire •• •• •• Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .. • • Eastern Union .. . ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow •• •••• •• Kdir burgh, Perth, and Dundee•• •• •• Exeter and Crediton • • • •. • • Furness Railway .. • •• .• •• Glasgow, South- Westeni • •• • • • • Great Northern and E. L... • • Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western .. ••• • .• •••••• •• • Irish South Eastern • • •• •• •• •• • Lancaster •and Carlisle •• •••• - Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • •• •• - Leeds Northern • • • • .• • • • • • • •• Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • • • London and North Weqern • London and Blackwall •• •• •• • • London. Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South Western. •• •• Londonderry and Enniskillen •• •• •• •• Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction.. •• Maryport and Carlisle •• •• • • • • • • • • • • • Midland Great Western (Irish) •• • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. • . •• • • • North British .... •• ••• •• •• •• •• •• •• North Staffordshire • •• •• • • • • •• •• • North-Western .... • Scottish Central •• • • •• •• • • •• •• •• •• Scottish Midland •• •••••••• •• •• • •• Shrewsbury and Birminghan) •• •• •• Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union .. •• •• •• •• •••• • • • • South Devon... • •• •••••••••• • •• •• South Eastern ...• •• •............... South Wales .... •• .............. South York., Doncaster, and Goole Waterford and Limeric% ............ West Cornwall • .... •• •• •• • • Whitehaven Junction • • • • •• • • • - York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds X1.4( 3 - 710 287 1,782 158 627 4,509 15,478 2,139 3,722 2,'125 471 4,237 11,269 3,96 , 17,498 1*23 4,176 17,416 36 1 42,321 1,132 10,414 11,634 323 7,139 719 545 22,094 2,167 X2B 2,206 3,1 5 23,100 FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish .. • • ..... Marla Antonia • • • • • • • • • Montereau paid Troyes..... Namur and Liege . •• ••• • . Northern of France . • •• • Orleans and Central* ...... Paris and Lyons Paris and.Rouen ......... Paris and Strasburgh Rouen and Havre.... • • •.. Western of France 971 161 961 1,041 20,374 21,519 11,839 7,769 9,961 2,790 3,616 1, 0 , 1,717 ass 1,0 41 4 I lia II " 0 1 • The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Can leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. COUNTRY MARKE2'S. LIVERPO—AP g RIL 15. The Corn Exchange this O m L oxnin opened by ho l d quiring advanced p r i ces for wheat and fl our , , rially checked the demand, but before the close ness resulted at l as t Tuesday's rates. Indian corn 4 qr. dearer, American white selling at 29s 6d to f',2 4801bs. ; yellow corn is still scarce, and American at 32s per 4801bs. There was little passing in other PI of the grai n t ra d e, an d quotations remained unaltore WKIELD—APRIL 15. To-day the reported F arrival of all grain is s horiL fresh wheat from the poor show maintains last week ! e , Secondary and cha m b ere d qua li t i es recede in v slil demand bein g very li m it ed. Fine barley scarce 1113 a • 0 0 dearer., Bean s , oa t s, an d s h elling each dull, and PR turn in favour of the buyei. BRISTOL SUGAR —APRIL 14. The market remains steady, but the stocks offal too light for much business to be done. About mats of Mauritius have b een sold. In refined g° , 7o is more busines s d o i ng . F or rum t h ere i s a more inquiry, and the sales have amounted to about Prices were understood to be easier. • 15. . / t CORN EXCHANGE.—For EXETER—APRIL prime samples of 15 , . - t, to 6s Od ; inferior, Os Od t o O s ; b ar l ey, 4s Od.„ grinding, 3s 9d ; oats, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel. Flow 37s to 38s ; seconds, 35s to 36s per sack. to' CATTLE MARKET.—Prime be e f, B s 6d to 9s6d per s'ntil quality, Cis to Os Od ; cow s an d calves 91 Os to 131° 5 - 1 70' 001 to 01; butcher' s ca l ves, 41 d to 5(1. , per lb ; sheeP'e wethers, 7d to lid ; ewes, 61d to ed ; store hog s ' 35s each. INVERNESS.—APRIL 12. bolt CORN. — Wheat, per qua r t er , we i g hi ng 6 21 b 48s Od to 50s Od ; barley, ditto, 541 b ditto, 28s Od t° Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 19s Od to 20s Od. • s / s a MEAL.--Oatmeal, per imp. boll 15s 6d to 16s to Cs second, 00s Od to Os Od ; bnrleymeal, us est, to " 00, peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od ; bran, per stone, Os 7 " 0 05,'", Ist flour, per 2801 b, 40s Od to 42s Od ; 2d (like' , i,j„J;k 4 30s Od ; oatmeal, best, per "- of 14 I b inWer to is 8d ; ditto sooonal - Od to Os Od ; barter:ll 3s Od cr e dit ; zr 1;a to os ; pemsemeal. 16 6d t o O s Od • Ist 2s 3s ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2; 7d credit. COAL MARKET--Amn. 15. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market • 0 , s. d. Bate's West Hartley 15 6 Hetton Lyons ........... Buddle's West Hartley 15 6 Lambton Primrose ...... Carr's Hartley l5 3 Hetton .................... Chester Main 16 0 Haswell .................. New Tanfield 15 3 Kepier Grange .......... •:161 North Percy Hartley _l5 u Lambtou ..... ..........1i i Portland West Hartley 15 3 Richmund ............ • ''l9 l Raveusworth W. Ha r tl e yls t. Stewart's... ..... . ........ ''IS Tanfield Moor l4 9 N or th Hartlepool ...... 18 Tyne Main l4 0 South Kelloe ............. .11 Walker Primrose l3 C P ease ' s West .......... "16 Wall's End, &c. Richardson's Tee!! ...... ••'ig Gosforth 17 0 Tees . _ .......... "14 Barton l7 3 Grey's West . 11a;t 1 e3 r ••''''0 Hebburn l6 9 Llangennech ..,.......•••''o3 Hedley l7 0 Morgan's Stone.... .... •"d Johnson l5 9 Ramsey's Ga res fi e lduv 5$ Riddell l7 0 Watne's Anthracite.- Eden Main . • .......... lB 0 , y Ships at market 163 I Sold B3' 1 ' N signifies that the /nails are sent from the General 7 , by the night—and Mty the morning -dispatch.] SEABORNE MAILS. y when ade 111 COUNTRIES. Da ln General Post- Office, London.. A rnerica(byllrit.pack)N Every Friday .... America (by United Sts. packet) April 13 . . America (by U States packet) April 18 Australia (via South ampton) .. • • M 4th of May • • Ditto (via Marseilles) N Bth of May ...... Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) • • ....N 2d of June ...... Africa ( West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Alexandria .....• ....N 8,9, 24, & 30 of m Alexandria.. .. . • .. —3l 4th & 20th Of mon. Bahamas ..... Al 2nd of the month Belgium ..... . ........ Brazil .. .• • —Bl 9th of the month.. Buenos Ayres 9th of the month.. Cape of Good Hone ..N 14th of the month Cape of Good Hope ..N 2nd of June .. Cape de Verds 1 4th of the month Ceylon (see Indi a ) Ceylon ...... ........ id 14th of the month Channel Isles., Mon ~Wed ,&Fr'd. Chili. •• • • ...DI & 17th of month China (see India) Constantinople ......N 7 ,8,17,24,&27 °fn.. Constantinople , 4th & 20th of mon. cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily Egypt (see India) France .. M& N Twice daily.... • . Gibraltar .... • 4,7, 17,20,27 of m. Greece (see India) Greytown . • ....M 2nd &17th of mon. Hanilmrgh Tuesday & Friday I Havannah ..... M 2nd of the month Holland M Wednesday & Sat I Honduras . • • • .• M 17th of the month India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. I India (via Marseilles)ll Bth&24thof month 1 lonian Isles (see India) Ireland & N Twice daily ... 1 Lisbon .„ • • „ M 7,9, 17, & 28 of an. Madeira 9th of the month S Madeira N 23rd of the month I Malta (see ladia) Malta ••• • . • • • •• • N 7,17,19,28, 30 of m. I Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month I Mexico It'd of the month. S Naples .. ..N sth ht 1425 thof mon. I New Granada 2d & 17th of month S By private skip V sthlsth2sthofmon. E N pa e p w al Z S e ta al t an es d N .. Peninsula ..........M 7 thl7th2Bthofinon. S M ?d & 27th of mon S , Port Natal 14th of the month P Sicily ••• • • • N s thlsth2sthofmon, D Tuscany s thl s th2sthofinon. Venezuela .....• • • ..M 2d& 17th of month Si Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) .• ..... West Indies M 2d& 17th of month Si From what Port Dispatched• Liverpool ... I°l4 Iverpool ... ISouthamptoni Southamptoni foyer .. •• •• ] Plymouth • . l it i rri e l , Plymoual .• A nr t Dover .... • • r Southampton 0 0 tot Southampton o Dover ...• • • D ril Southampton AP; il Southampton AP . r ij Plymouth .• AP A y Plymouth .• 's, - hi Plymouth .. AP" Plymouth ..lAP r , Southampton Tu", Southampton ,41). Dover Southampton ,P" Dover ...• Dover Southampton P" 4 outhampten AP r s London ... •• Southampton Is tf or' London .... Southampton Aptjj Southampton AP",il Dover ...... API Holyhead .•• Southampton AP Southampton 1 4 1 '' Plymouth .. Dover . t Plymouth .• AP r o ' f Southampton Is t ' 0 , Dover AD ;) Southampton AP e l Various porte C r y 7,o Dover ...• •• Southampton A Southampton AP ri Plymouth .• P Dover ...... Dover .....• Southampton Ar 12d& 17th of month ISouthamptoniAl --- Is I A? • * When any of th ese dates fall on a Sunday, them al dispatche on the followi ng d ay, w i t h the exception of the , o die O 11 1 e D Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be diePa` day preceding. BIRTHS. e f OF A SON. ° On the 12th inst., at Clapham-park, Surrey, 1 1 1, Sydney Laurence, Esq. On the 13thinst., at 109, Guildford-street, Sll°se square, the wife of Frederick Smith, Esq. le OF A DAUGHTER. On the 12th inst., at 120, Balmoral-place, Glase' lfi o l' Andrew Wylie. On the 13th inst., a t H eat h- house, Cheddleton, so li shire, the wife of the Rev. A. F. Boucher. -- MARRIED. • Ar c/ 9 1.° On the 14th i ns t ., at St. James's, Piccadilly, j tJt A ., P. G. Ross, E sq., Captain Royal Engineers, to Emma, eldest d aug h ter of the late J. R. Seylx,°ur, P" / of Crowood, Wilts, and Inholmes, Berks. . ..-- str e ' DD. On the 13th inst. in IE Hill-street, BerkeleY -Ali Jef Thomas Po n t on , Esq.,, aged 72. JJ' On' the 13th inst., a Highgate, Mrs. Elizabeth a g ed 77. ° T II IP On the 18th i ns t., a t N ut h all Temple Not t s , , Nixon, Esq., aged 86. y 0 0) LONDON : Printed and P u bli s h e d by MITRDO Na 1 ~ of No. 112, St ran d, P r i n t er , a t The. Sun Office 0 , 1 0,7 Strand, in the Pre c i nc t o f the Sayey, , Middlesex, Saturday, April-16, 1553. ReCe