The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. - - DUDLEY, SUNDAY.-At two o'clock yesterday after noon the inhabitants were thrown into a state of great alarm mid consternation by a tremendous explosion, caused by the bursting of one of the boilers of the engine used at the Fire Iron and Glass Cutting Factory, in the Minories, of Messrs. David and Simeon Davis. Most fortunately it occurred just before the workpeople got into the shops, or the loss of life must have been greatly increased. As it was, four were killed yesterday, and of the life of an other of the sufferers slight hopes are entertained. The effects of the explosion on the factor y are quite r uinous, the building being wholly destroyed, together with all the e machinery, which was blown into the air, and s cattee o ver the houses adjoining , in man y cases, the large masses of iron, weighing 5 cwt., 6 cwt., and even 7 cwt., falling on the roofs of the houses and breaking through *hem. The engineer, named Joseph Millward, was blown to a great height in the air—perhaps near a hun dred feet—and fell on the roof of a house about eighty feet from the factory wall, through the slating of which m and the the ceiling of the room under, his weight carried hi to floor. The unfortunate man was not dead when he was found in the room nearly half an hour after the explo sion, but he did not survive more than an hour. besides the engineer there were killed, Elias Sheldon, about 20 years of age ; Peter Ellis, who has left a widow and five children ; and George Stokes, who was a mar ried man, but had no child. The remains of these poor fellows were shockingly mangled, the hand and arm of one of them severed from his body has not yet been found. James Taff, a lad in the employ of Messrs. Davis, is so dreadfully injured that little hopes are entertained of his recovery. Thomas Cif thes and his wife were found buried under the ruins ; but, extraordinary to relate, they were comparatively little hurt. James Evans was very greatly injured, but it is hoped not fatally. The sufferers were most promptly attended by Messrs. Fisher, Johnson, and Houghton, surgeons, in Dudley. The engineer (Millward) bad only yesterday commenced working the engine, not having been before in the em ploy of Messrs. Davis, Of course the cause of the ac cident cannot at present be satisfactorily explained, and perhaps never will be. We have heard that the engine had been in use 26 or 27 years, and was of 20 or 25 horse power. It worked the whole of the machinery in the factory for driving the grinding millstones and polishing machi ner y for the fire irons and also the glass-cutting apparatus. The dilapi dation to the houses surrounding the factory is very considerable ; portions of the bri c k s , o f the joists of tim ber, and of the iron boiler and machinery being scattered about in all directions. The force of the explosion dis lodged the other boiler of the engine from its bed. It has been a very sad calamity for Messrs. Davis, as they have only been proprietors of the factory about three years, and have expended something like 4001. in repairs and alterations. Much sympathy is felt for them% here. Great numbers of people have been yesterday and to-day to visit the scene of the accident, and a box has been opened at the entrance to the ruins of the factory to receive contributions for the benefit of the widows, &c., of the deceased. The loss of life has not been so great, but the extent of damage to property is probably more than resulted from a similar occurrence at Hart's Hill, about two or three years ago, since which nothing has happened in Dudley of so disastrous a character till the present sad affair. GOLD STATISTICS. (From the Times.) On the 21st of May last year a letter was inserted from Mr. William Birkmyre , containing some elaborate st a tistical tables of the annual produce of g old and. silver throughout the world, accompanied by remarks nil har mony with the doctrine that extensive change! will be produced in the relations of property by the increased supplies from California and Australia. It appears that since that time Mr. Birkmyre has proceeded to Australia, where, with the advantage of being able personally to judge of the prospeets of the mines, he has still pursued his abstract inquiries. The results will be found in the following letter, written at Melbourne, and recently received from him. Its length. is justified by the perma nently useful character of the new tables it contains, and it will be seen that, upon reviewing the course of affairs in Australia up to the end of December, Mr. Birkmyre not only feels strengthened in the soundness of the con clusions which have been formed respecting the influences that will ultimately be exerted on prices, but is also dis posed to believe that the annual production of gold in the colonies will greatly increase, especially when ordi nary skill and industry shall be applied to the extraction of the metal from th e var i ous quartz veins already discovered : " Sir,—At the close of the year 1852 some brief remarks, and one or two statistical tables regarding the general pro duction and consumption of gold and silver, may not be without interest ; for, whatever some persons in London and Paris may say of the present abundance of gold as not likely to have much effect upon the general commerce of the world, there is not one resident in Melbourne but will admit the extraordinary effects of gold upon the province of Victoria. Within a year of its discovery in that colony not only has the harbour been crowded with some of the finest ships in the world, but house property, wages, and provisions have enormously increased in value. " Next, perhaps, to the astonishing discoveries of the precious metal is the incredulity of some persons respecting the probable effects of the present great abundance of gold, and that despite the well known fact of the rise in prices in the 16th century in consequence of the discovery of the rich mines of America. A quarter of wheat, for instance, about 150 years before the discovery of America, could be purchased for 65., while the same quality of wheat in 150 years after that event could not be bought for less than six times the money. But it is more than probable that those who in the united kingdom continue blindly to resist the evidence of their own senses, and who were the last per sons to engage in any speculation, however useful, during the collapse of the railway mania, are now the very indi viduals whom Britain will have to thank in some degree for their obstinacy. For, at the same time that Australia is reaping a golden harvest, it is no less likely that the above class of individuals, distrustful of all enterprise, and the effects of the present abundance of gold, will enable the old country, with its war-contracted debt, to pay off a large part of her national incumbrance, and thereby benefit millions of her population. And it is to be expected, too, that another class of individuals, full of hope and enter prise, will obtain for the United Kingdom from the new order of things, the same benefits that California has con ferred upon the United States of America ; for, notwith standing the inclination of man, in his own time, to raise into undue importance the value of some discoveries, still the great results that have already flowed from the gold fields of California and Australia indicate to both Britain and America that there never was, in the history of na tions a period like the present, take it all in all, so con ducive to the spread of peaceful enterprise and the blessings of civilisation to every distant land. " In order, however, to give a clearer view to those at a distance of the present prices in Melbourne, the subjoined is a short comparative table (No. 1) of the average prices in Melbourne towards the latter end of December of the years 1850, 1851, and 1852. " And, with the view of being some criterion for the future in regard to prices, there follow tables of the annual produce of gold and silver ; of the coinage of both metals in the United Kingdom, United States, and France in the 50 years ending 1850 ; and also of the coinage of the same metals in the United Kingdom from the accession of James 1., in 1603, till December, 1850 : TABLE I. 1850. 1851. 1852. LABOUR. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Labourers, per week Oll 0 017 6 214 6 Shepherds, withrations,peran 23 0 0 29 0 038 0 0 Blacksmiths, ditto General useful servants, ditto 28 0 0 38 0 057 10 0 Carpenters, per day FEMALE SERVANTS. Thorough servants,per annum 15 . 0 0 17 0 027 10 0 Cooks ditto 18 002000 12 10 0 Nursemaids ditto 900170 oa 0 0 PROVISIONS. Beer, ale, per hogshead Tea, hyson skin, per chest Coffee, Java, per lb. Sugar, refined, per lb 0 0 4i 0 0 7 0 0 9 Flour,* fine, per ton 17 10 0 25 4' 0 Bread, per 4 lb. loaf Rice, Java, per ton Cabbages, per dozen Gooseberries, per quart Cherries, per lb. Fowls, per pair Ducks, ditto Geese and turkeys, each Sheep, wethers, each Cows, each Horses, hacks by the ton of 2,000 ited Kingdom. If rice is respectively * Flour is usually sold in Melbourne lb., instead of 2,240 lb., as in the Un reckoned by the ton of 2,000 lb., the p: 161. and 221. 103. "An acre of land in the neighbourhood of the towns o Geelong and Melbourne, which was not worth more than 251. in 1850, is now worth at least 1,0001. Houses, or rather cottages of four rooms, rented at 241. in 1850, are now let at 2001. per annum. " The rich gold washings in Brazil, as,well as the earlier mines of other territories in the New World, had an im portant effect upon the commerce of the globe, although during the first 57 years of the Brazilian gold washings, the greatest annual produce never exceeded 1,088,9251. (namely, in the year ending the Ist of August, 1754), and which does not amount to one-tenth of the gold obtained in Australia in the second year of its discovery. It is true that a produce of 12,000,0001. sterling in the present day will not have the same effect upon the currency as the same quantity would have in 1754, in consequence of the vastly gre a t er quantity of coined money now circulating. But if it w ere true, as there is only 15° it is stated in some estimates, that , ° OO ,OOO/. of gold coin in existence, a yearly produce of 12,000,000/, from one country would have an immediate and great effect upon commerce. There can, however, be little doubt that the above estimated quantity 0f,150,000,000/. is far within the reality. It will be seen by one of the following tables (No. III.) that the amount of gold coined in three countries, and in 50 years merely, was 176,596,0861., and is exclusive of the coinage of many other countries, such as R uss i a, Spain and its colonies, where the amount of gold coined is well known to have been very great. If, then, we estimate (after deducting the wear and tear, and making allowance for the fusion of coin of one State in order to its being re coined in another) the present quantity of gold coin in circulation at 400,000,0001. sterling, and silver at 600 , 000,0001., instead of 400,000,0001. for both metals, and conclude that the same proportion of gold to silver existed in 1754, but that the total amount in those days cou ld not possibly exceed 300, 000,0001. • now, 1,088,9251. o f B raz ilian gold would re p resent an action upon 112,000,0001. of coined gold, while at the present day it is 12,400,000/. . coined gold. The result of effectthe o fformer,the Brazilian Austrgian upon 400,0 0 9, the la er, instead of being 11 times as a ought only to be 3.6 tim o. es as f Brazilian gold, supposing placement of coin in commercial 1. about 100 years ago. If we Add \\\ a a s s great the as transactions than existed theregrwas now no greater dis placement yield of 4.' i ' ' California for this year —namely, 2t111,04e 1,666/ , under the / same conditions the effect must be 6.3 times as great as 1 that felt during the lass century. " The produce of the goldfields of Australia for the year —a:— TN----I. ons.i, lon ~,Twat. in have been 284,000 i at the Mint price of 3/. year , o, is equal to oz., w hich, 1,12,82 5 / 4 and the produce for to 12,440,1991. ending 204hheosef December, 3,194,135 oz., equal figures have been deduced from the shipment? of specie at after making allowance 167,792 oz. which Sfoyrd;tleyn,s3l.Bhielpbraourneutes,, asnridd theretoGacanlongg, have been taken overland to Adelaide. Although 31. 17s. 10d. per oz., is much above the price in Sydney and Mel bourne, yet the quality of the Victoria gold is consider . ably better than standard—in fact a good deal of it aver ages as high as 4.4 per cent., or 3 carat grains, better than standard, and worth 41. is. W. per ounce in London. The whole has on that account been valued at the mint price. " The great question follows—Will the goldfields of Australia produce as much gold in the next 12 months as they have done during the last 12 months ? Now, after much inquiry among the golddiggers and consideration of the subject, the conclusion is inevitable that, although there may not be such instances of individual success as have been observed this year, yet the aggregate produce of 1853 is likely to be much more than that of 1852. It is evident how ever, that Forest Creek and Bendigo will require for the fu ture more skill to be applied to the extraction of the gold to make them yield the large quantities of 1852. On the other hand, at new diggings elsewhere, such as the Ovens, oven the same skill only as has been exercised at Mount Alexander will very soon show a larger produce of gold than that obtained in the corresponding months of this year, 1852. And when it is remembered that a gold com pany in England working a Brazilian mine cleared last year upwards of 40,0001., although their gold-stone did not yield them quite half an ounce of gold per ton of rock, we may conclude that, if the same amount of skill and capital were applied to the very rich gold rocks of this country, there is but little probability of the great produce of Australia in 1852 falling of for some years to come. In support of the above general statement relative to the increase of gold in 1853, it may be mentioned here that the escort fr om the diggings in the week ending Saturday, December 28, 1851, only brought to Geelong and Melbourne 10,851 oz., while the escorts from the same diggings brought to Geelong and Melbourne in the week ending Friday, December 31, 1852, 30,995 oz., and the escort from the new diggings at the Ovens was on the way to Melbourne with 13,400 oz., and there was as much more ready to be taken by another escort to Sydney. 1 TABLE 11. " The following is a short table of the annual produce of gold and silver in the years 1801, 1840, and the estimated. produce for 1852 : Gold. *lBOl 1-1840 11852 Eastern Continent ... £250,523 £2,245,802 £17,752,732 Western ditto ..... ... 2,361,776 1,301,560 22,041,666 £2,612,369 £3,547,362 £39,794,398 ' Silver. *lBOl +lB4O +18 52 Eastern Continent £657,683 £1,204,396 £1,605,024 Western ditto 6,928,252 5,261,619 7,622,814 £7,585,935 £6,465,925 £9,227,835 Total Annual Produce of Gold and Silver. *lBOl -1.1840 t 1852 Gold £2,612,369 £3,547,362 £39,794,398 Silver £10,198,304 £10,013,287 £49,022,235 * Exclagive of Africa, Chino, and Japan. Including Africa, but excluding China sad Japan. Gold. Silver. Gold. S i'ver. In 1801.. l9 tons avoirdupois to 856 tons, or 11b. to 451 b. 1840 27 f f 714 „ 11b. to 261 b. 1852... 286 f f 1,019 „ 11b. to 31b. Subjoined is the estimated annual produce of the pre cious metals in tons, and the proportion of gold to the silver in the years 1801, 1840, and 1852 : - - " The annual consumption of the precious metals in the arts is supposed to be 6,500,0001., of which at one time 1,454,0001. might be estimated to consist of gold, but it is, now probably, 2,300,0001. of gold, the rest—namely, 3,500,00001. —being silver. Yet, the above estimated con sumption of gold must be considered as allowing for a large increase, inasmuch as the annual produce of gold between the years 1801 and 1840 never amounted to 4,000,000/ , and, in fact, appears by the foregoing table to have been under 3,000,0001. in 1801, when the mines were even then supposed to be doing well. Deducting, however, 3,000,0001. from the estimated produce of gold for this year—namely, 39,794,3981., leaves no less than 36,794,3981. to be converted into coin. As the total circulation of gold coin in Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1780 was reckoned by the Mint authorities at 26,003,1351., the present annual pro duce of gold thus exceeds the circulation of those days by 10,791,2631. And on comparing 36,794,3981. with the table of the coinage of the - United Kingdom, we find that it is up wards of one-sixth of the entire gold coinage of the - United Kingdom in the period of 247 years ending with December 1850. Such an increase in the production of gold cannot fail to produce in the old country results akin in some re spects, and widely different in others, to those which every one in Victoria has witnessed in the last twelve months. Of this, however, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the great mass of the people of Britain will derive immense benefit from the new gold fields of America and Australia. " The following table (No. 3) shows the amount of gold and silver coin required in three of the principal States of the world in the 50 years ending 1850. It is divided into four periods for the sake of showing the immense increase in the gold coinage consequent upon the rich discoveries of gold in Russia, California, and Australia. The first period exhibits the total amount, together with the average yearly coinage of gold and silver required in the first 40 years of this century, or till the Russian gold washings became decidedly important, that is to say, in the year 1840, when they began to yield upwards of 21,8751 b. troy yearly of purely gold, that quantity being equivalent to 1,115,0371. The second period contains the amount coined, and likewise the yearly average of both metals, in the seven years ending with December, 1847, this date being a few months before the discovery of the rich deposits of gold in California. The third period shows the amount coined, and also the average of the yearly coinage of both metals, since the Californian discovery, namely, for the years 1848, 1849, and 1850. The fourth period gives, as near as can Ibe ascertained, the gold coinage in 1851 and part of 1852, when gold was found abundantly in Australia : TABLE 111. FIRST PERIOD. Gold coined in the 40 years ending 1840. United Kingdom United States France (about) Total Amount. Yearly Average . £64,418,461 £1,610,461 . 5,647,321 141,183 . 43,434,166 1,085,853 £113,499,945 £,827,497 Silver coined in the 40 years ending 1840. Total Amount. Yearly Average United Kingdom £11,202,104 £280,052 United States 11,203,215 280,080 France (about) £147,907,319 £3,697,632 Gold and silver coined in the 40 years ending 1840. Total Amount. Yearly Average. United Kingdom £75,620,565 ... £1,890,514 United States 16,850,543 ... 441,263 France 168,964,146 ... 4,223,353 £261,405,254 £6,535,130 SECOND PERIOD. Gold coined In the seven years ending 1847. (gee note.) Total Amount. Yearly Average. 'United Kingdom £30,264,929 ... £4,232,561 - United States 8.158,316 ... 1,165,188 France (about) £41,923,245 £5,897,747 Silver coined in the seven years ending 1847. Total Amaant. Yearly Average United Kingdom £2,572,631 ... £367,518 United States France (about) 8,600,000 ... 1,228,571 £14,586,572- £2,083,794 Gold and silver coined in the seven years ending 1847. Total Amount. Yearly Average United Kingdom £32,837,560 ... £4,691,080 United States 11.572,257 ... 1,653,179 France 12,100,000 ... 1,728,571 £56,509,817 £8,072,830 THIRD PERIOD. Gold coined in the three years ending 1350. Coined per Coined per Coined per Total In annum in annum in annum Amount the the United the United in Ft the three Yearly year Kingdom. States. Fran 2 ce. Countries. Average. 1848 ...2,451,999 786,565 1,234,472 4,473,036 1,491,012 1849 ..2,177,955 1,875,158 1,082,382 5,137,497 1,712,499 1850...1,491, 836 6,662,854 3,407,691 11,562,382 3,854427 6,121,790 9,324,577 5,726,526 21,172,912 7,057,638 Silver coined in the throe years ending 1850. Coined per Coined per Coined per Total annum in annum in annum Amount In the the United the United in in the three Yearly Year Kingdom. States. France. Countries. Average. £ £ £ £ £ 1848...35,442 425,010 3,902,613 4,363,065 1;454,355 1849 119,592 440,614 8,261,946 8,822,152 2,940,717 1850-129,096 388,770 3,458,336 3,972,205 1,324,068 284,130 1,254,394 15,622,895 17,161,422 5,720,474 Gold and Silver coined in the three years ending 1850. Total Amount. £8,836,101 13,959,647 15,538 586 Yearly Averaze. 22,945,367 4,853,215 5,176,195 £38,333,334 £12,777,718 Gold coined in the United Kingdom in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Average, In the Ist period of 40 years,.end- £ ing 1840 64,418,461 £1,610,461 In the 2d period of 7 years, ending 1847 .. ........ .. . 30,264,929 4,232,561 In tho 3d period of 3 years, ending 1850 6,121,790 2,040,596 £100,805,180 Silver coined in the United Kingdom in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Average, In the Ist period of 40 years, M end - ing 1840 1,203,215 £280,052 In the 2d period of 7 years, ending lii47 3413.941 364,518 In the 3d period of 3 years ending 1850 1,254,394 94,710 £15,871,550 Gold coined in the United States in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Ayeraze In the Ist period of 40 years, end ing 1840 0,647,328 £141,183 In the 2d period of 7 years, ending 1847. 8,158,316 1,165,188 In the 3d period of 3 years, ending 1850. 9,324,577 3,103,192 £23,130,221 Silver coined in the United States in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Average. In the Ist period of 40 years, end ing 1840 £11,203,215 £280,080 In the 2d period of 7 years, ending 1847 In the 3d period of 3 years, ending 1850 1,254,394 418,131 £15,871,550 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1853. Gold coined in France in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Average. In the Ist period of 40 years, end ing 1840 243,434,156 £1,0 85 , 853 In the 2d period of 7 years, ending 1847 In the 3d period of 3 years, ending 1850 £52,660,682 Silver coined in France in the 50 years ending 1850. Yearly Average. In the Ist period of 40 years, end ing 1840 2125,500,0 C) £ 3 , 137,500 In the 2d period of T years, ending 1847 In the 3d period of 3 years, ending 1850 £149,722,895 Summary of the Gold Coinage in the 50 years ending 1850. United Kingdom £100,805,180 United States 23,130,221 Franco 52,660,682 £176,596,083+50 yr5.=23,531,921 per an. Summary of the Silver Coinage in tho 50 years ending 1850. - United Kingdom £14,058,865 United States 15,871,550 France 149,722,895 £179,653,3104-50yrs.=-23,572,662per an. Total of the Gold and Silver coined in the United King dom, United States, and France in 50 years ending 1850. Gold Silver £176,596,083 ~ 179,653,310 £356,249,393 FOURTH PIRIOD. Gold, coined in the United Kingdom in 1851 £1,000,000 Gold coined in the United States in 1851 12,912,695 Gold coined in France (in ten months — £10,077,252), in 1852, about 10,300,000 £24,219,695 Gold coined in the United Kingdom in the first - - six months of 1852, about £2,300,000 Gold coined in the United States in the first five months of 1852. about.... 3,907,608 TABLE IV. Showing the amount of the gold and silver coinage in England, from the accession of Elizabeth, November 17, 1558 (66 years after the discovery of America), and that of the United Kingdom, from the Accession of James I. (1603) to the year ending December, 1850, being 291 years from 1559 : The amount of gold and silver coined in the above 291 years was 251,226,154/., or an average of 863,3201. per annum. The amount coined since the accession of James I. (1603), to the year ending December, 1850=247 years, 245,394,1541., or an average of 993,4981. per annum. Note.—The great increase in the gold coinage in the United Kingdom in ~he seven years ending 1847 was partly caused by the calling in of all the light gold coins, of which 2,779,0000 z., equal to 101 ton troy, or 85 tons avoirdupois, valued at 31. 17s. 10d1 per ounce, =10,829,731i., were de livered by the Bank of England to the Mint between the Ist of January, 1842, and the sth of February, 1844. Deducting the 10,820,7311. from the 30,264,9291. coined in those seven years, leaves 19,444,1981. for gold bars or foreign coin, which, being divided by seven, is equal to an average yearly coinage of 2,777,7421. of other gold than light British coin. In the FAA Indies the gold coinage in the seven years ending the Ist of May, 1847, was 161,8681., or an average yearly coinage of 23,1251., while the coinage of silver in the same time was 14,086,9591., equal to a yearly coinage of 2,012,4221. It appears, therefore, that both metals were coined in British India in the seven years ending the Ist of May, 1847, to the extent of 2,035,5471. per annum ; but it is much to be regretted tbat the accounts of the East India mints for the years 1848, 1849, and 1850, have not yet been published, as some useful information would be derived from them relative to the very peculiar state of the money market during the last few years. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—An improved tone pervades the share market, but there is not much business doing. Chester and Holyhead, 24c, ; Eastern Counties, 134 c ; Lancashire sad Yorkshire, 79a, lc, ; London and North Western, 13.81, 18c, ; Ditto (a-shares), p ; Manches ter, She ffi eld, and Lincoln, 301 ; Midland, 748, ; South Eastern and Dover, 22, a, ; Shrewsbury and Bir mingham, 8/. shares, 11. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Mat 16. Rear• Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, arrived here this morning, and went on board the Excellent, to witness shot and shell firing at the York hulk. He returned to Chichester in the afternoon. Commodore Henry Eden is on a visit at this port, and this morning inspected the Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain G. B. Martin, C.B. ; he afterwards went on board the Excellent, to witness the experimental gunnery. The Odin, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Francis Scott, having repaired her defects, went out of harbour to Spit head this afternoon. _ The Cyclops, 6, paddle-frigate ' Lieutenant Seccombe in temporary command, returned to Spithead from Ply mouth this morning, and left for Sheerness this evening, taking volunteers for the ships fitting out at the east ward. _ The Star, 8, sloop, Commander Warren, will be paid advance at Spithead to-morrow. The Fire Queen steam-yacht, Master Commander Paul, left port this afternoon for Southampton, it is re ported to embark Sir James Graham, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and a board, and bring them to this port. The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master Commander Petley, dropped out of harbour at 5 o'clock this evening, and moored off the Victoria-pier in readi ness to embark an Ordnance and Admiralty party for the Channel Islands and the coast inspection en route. WOOLWICH, MAY 16. The Zephyr steam-vessel, in charge of Master Com mander W. H. Allen, of the Lightning steam-vessel, went down the river to day to Greenhithe, having on board Mr. Macdonald, Master-Attendant at Woolwich Dockyard, and the pay-clerks from the Admiralty, to pay the crew of the Phcenix screw steam-sloop in advance, previous to her departure for the Arctic regions. The Phoenix screw steam-sloop, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, has received her sailing orders, and will leave Greenhithe after her compasses are adjusted and some magnetical and astronomical observations made, according to instructions given by Colonel Sabine. Similar observations are also to be made at Stromness, in the Orkneys, at Whale Fish Island, Disco, Cape Riley, and Cape Walsingham, these places being in her route to Beechey Island, whither she will proceed, leaving the Diligence store-ship at Disco, in charge of Lieutenant Elliott, who brought round that vessel from Devonport to Woolwich. On the arrival of the Phcenix at Beechey Island she will deposit the stores there, which she is taking out for the relief of Captain Sir Edward Belcher's expedition, and return to Disco and transfer the 400 tons of coal at present on board the Diligence into the Phcenix. The Diligence will immediately after return home to England this summer, under the command of Lieutenant Elliot. The Phcenix will then proceed to explore the Cumberland Sound, and hold on to the westward as far as Repulse Bay, as the north side of the sound has not as yet been searched for the missing expedition. Commander Ingle field, if he finds no traces of Sir John Franklin and his companions in that direction, will return through Cum berland Straits, and proceed up Smith's Sound, to follow out the traces of open water which he discovered there last year during his voyage in the Isabel screw steam-sloop. The period of the return of the Phoenix will depend in a great measure on the discoveries that may be made by her Commander. Captain Penny will leave England in the Lady Franklin sailing vessel, ac companied by the Sophia, to form a colony on the shores of Cumberland Sound, where the Esquimaux have reported there is abundance of plumbago and copper, with other/minerals ; and letters or parcels for Commander Ingleleld's expedition, if sent by Captain Penny, will be delivered to the Phcenix when returning down from her search up Cumberland Sound. FEARFUL OCCURRENCE NEAR OXFORD- 1 f STREET. On Saturday night last, between the hours of eleven and twelve, the inhabitants of Wells-street, Oxford street, were greatly terrified in consequence of the fol lowing occurrence, which destroyed the household goods of some seven or eight families, and was nearly attended with the loss of 17 human lives. From the inquiries instituted it appeared that a builder, named Baker, had for some time past been engaged in laying the foundations of some premises to extend from Wells-street to opposite the old stage entrance of the Princess's Theatre, in Adam and Eve-court. To protect the houses on either side of the opening made, wooden struts were placed across ; but all of a sudden one of these sup ports either fell or snapped asunder by the weight bearing on it, for certain it is that one of the lengths dropped, and almost instantaneously afterwards the side wall opened, when a bedstead and chest of drawers, as if by magic, fell to the ground. The entire side of the building next fell, with a crash resembling the discharge of a piece of ordnance, carrying with it chairs, tables, &c. For some time the neighbourhood became covered with dust, so that the inhabitants were ignorant of the nature of the occurrence. Many imagined that the theatre had taken fire, and they forthwith proceeded to call the en gines and fire-escape, which was exceedingly fortunate, as the latter was the means of saving the lives of some of the inmates. _ As soon as the dust had in some measure cleared away, it was found that in the building which had partially fallen there not fewer than 17 or 18 persons, some of whom were able to save their lives by running down stairs, but all escape by that means was quickly cut off by the centre flight of stairs falling. What to do for the best the re mainder of the affrighted occupants hardly knew, for the building was rocking like a cradle with the wind, and nothing s'hort of death seemed to stare them in the face. Fortunately at that conjuncture the Royal Society's fire-escape arrived, and the conductor having taken the machine down the court, and raised it in front of the remaining walls, happily succeeded in rescuing all the inmates. One person, named Joseph Smart, who was in bed, was placed in such jeopardy that had he got out of bed he must have fallen from the upper story into the ruins. He, therefore, remained where he was until ex tricated by the escape-man. The house was the property of Mr. Hutton, corn chandler, of Castle-street, Oxford-market, and was lett out in tenements. Amongst the parties whose furniture has been damaged are Messrs. Murphy, Smart, Matthew son, Hicks, Gee, and Hicks, jun. The fire escape man and the police are deserving of great praise for the manner they exerted themselves on the occasion. SNOW-BOUND RAILWAY TRAINS IN MAY. The incidents of railway transit this week on the lines west and north-west of Sheffield are quite suggestive of the published records of the famous marine adventures in search of the north-passage. We append a few ex amples. The Huddersfield passenger train left Sheffield as usual at 7.35 p.m on Monday evening, and having the advantage of following in the wake of a powerful goods engine, the train worked its way through the snow without much difficulty as far as Penistone, a distance of 13 miles. Diverging at this point from the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and proceeding on the Huddersfield and Penistone branch, the further progress of the passengertrain was greatly im peded by the snow, which was very deep. When it had travelled on the branch about a mile the train came to a dead lock. The conductor alighted, and found that the snow was about a yard in depth. All efforts at further• progress proving futile, they conducted the passengers— ; some 14 or 15 in number—back to Penistone, the guard,, engine-drive; and fireman piloting the way with their lamps. The passengers found solace at the inns, but the s t t h e r rn ee e p e o n o s r fellows eieusnees who had of dnty le t d the rudged v b an ae , k ac t t e in t g uhendr snow bound train. The pitiless snow came down all the while with blinding intensity, and so it continued till mid gone onrtahee of snow. nnluck They ytriow were oulilpr byob noably as it was, for they were wet to the skin, wleiit buried in a grave with cold, and without a particle of food. hmnb M aeieag a nvh n uenst ful mb. ebsend culellyea 1 they stood by their colours till relief came to hand. It seems that at daybreak on Tuesday morn ing the helpless position of the train was discovered from the main line, and the tidings having been conveyed to Sheffield a powerful pilot engine was sent to its relief, and reached the spot at 5 a.m. The engine be longing to the train was then dug out of its white en closure walls ' and having nearly exhausted its stock of water, took advantage of the path opened by the pilot engine to return to Penistone for a fresh supply of liquid for the boiler and for its freight of passengers. The pilot engine, meanwhile, was engaged in cutting open the road ahead, and having partially cleared the line for the distance of a mile or so it returned for the benighted train, with which it succeeded •in ploughing its way through the snow to its destination at Huddersfield, the other engine following in the wake. By the aid of sti mulants and external warmth, procured as soon as they reached Huddersfield, the three men who had been exposed tall night to the storm were gradually restored. The train was taken back to Sheffield by the two engines with little or no difficulty, the bulk of snow having considerably diminished under the action of the sun. Perilous and difficult as the road to Huddersfield evidently was, the transit per railway be tween Sheffield and Manchester was scarcely less adven turous. The 3 p.m. passenger train from Sheffield to Manchester entirely failed to accomplish the journey. It fought its way as far as Penistone, but the snow was so deep that the engine was not of sufficient calibre to continue the uphill journey, the line being on the rise for at least six miles further. A debarcation of passengers took place at Penistone, and an attempt was made to take the empty train back to Sheffield, which place it reached at half-past one o'clock in the morning. The next train from Sheffield to Manchester, which starts at 3.50 p.m., having the advantage of ! a very large ougine, was more successful than its predecessor. It took in the westward passengers who had alighted at Penistone, and, we suppose, succeeded in completing the journey, tie snow in the worst places having been partially cleared away by the persevering exertions of a number of engine drivers and others with the aid of locomotive engines belonging to the weather-bound goods train. The circumstances attending the transit of pas senger trains in the opposite direction from Sheffield to Manchester on that memorable 9th of May are equally interesting and not less striking. The train due at Sheffield at 4 p.m. arrived two hours too late, and as the snow on the ground was rapidly increasing much anxiety was felt with respect to the next arrival, which, in the ordinary course, ought to have reached Sheffield at half past 8. An hour after that time information was received at Sheffield that the train and its animated freight were firmly embedded in the snow at Oxspring, a distance of about a dozen miles. Mr. Taylor, the sta tion master at the Victoria station, caused a pilot en gine to be got ready immediately, and with it set out in search of the lost train with the intention of rendering aid. Such was the state of the line, however, that the pilot engine could not get within a mile of Oxspring. Its crew, having sufficient reason to feel apprehensive or their own safety—for the snow was falling so thick and fast as almost to blind them—then made an effort to return on the same line to the place whence they had come ; but lo the engine was motionless as a rock. By the application of levers to the wheels, however, and making desperate exertions, they succeeded ultimately in gaining a start, and when they had retraced their steps three miles and reached Wortley station (nine miles from Sheffield) they were overtaken by the train of which they had been in quest. It appears that three of the goods train engines that had suspended operations at Penistone had come to the relief ' of the paralysed passenger train, and with this accession of motive power, having now four engines, its load of passengers reached Sheffield, after much tribulation, at a quarter past one on Tuesday morning. SASI SLICK'S "WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES." 2 vols.—Sam Slick has always been amusing—perhaps the most amusing of modern humorists—but in his " Wise Saws and Modern instances" his humour rises to wit, and his shrewd common sense is elevated into philosophy. No one can read the work without being satisfied that the author (Judge Haliburton) has taken higher ground. He indulges in sentiment as well as fun, his anecdotes are as full of wisdom as of pleasantry, and his characters have something to recommend -them be sides their tendency to raise a laugh. While there has been published nothing of late years so droll as the ad ventures recorded in his narrative, there has been nothing so instructive as the experience which has given to the clockmaker's new publication its appropriate title. THE NEW ACT FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.—The new act to reduce the National Debt which received the Royal assent a few days back, has just been printed. It extends to 42 provisions, and is entitled "An Act for redeeming or commuting the annuity pay able to the South Sea Company and certain annuities of three pounds per centum per annum, and for creating new annuities of three pounds ten shillings per centum per annum, and issuing Exchequer Bonds." After a very long preamble it is enacted that the annuity on the capital stock of the South Sea Company, con tinued under the 6th George 111., chap. 28, and certain Three per Cent. Stocks—viz., the Old and New South Sea Annuities, the Bank Annuities, 1726, created by the 12th George 1., chap. 2, and the Three per Cent. Annuities, 1751, created by the 24th Geo. 11., chap. 2., "shall be paid off and redeemed or com muted as hereinafter mentioned." On or before Friday the 3d of June next parties are to give notice of their assent to receive other stock instead of money. Pro prietors of the said Three per Cents. may for 1001. of their stock receive 821. 10s. New Three-and-a-Half per Cent., or 1001. exchequer bond, carrying interest at 21. 15s. per cent., not later than the let of September, 1864, and after at 21. 10s. per cent. Certain South Sea Annuities, &c., are to case from the sth of January, 1854, and dividends on Old South Sea Annuities are to cease from the sth of 'April next. Persons not assent ing are to receive on the sth of January, 1854, 1001. for 1001. stock. There are a number of provisions in the act to carry it into force. Exchequer bonds are limited to 30,000,0001. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—The wonder ful regenerating effects produced by these invaluable pills are truly astonishing. They act in so pecu liar a manner on the system that by following the directions affixed to each box as to the mode of using them, nervous irritability is allayed, the tone of the stomach strengthened, the digestion improved, freedom of circulation given to the blood, and a robust state of health attained. Persons of studious and sedentary habits, being more especially liable to the class of dis orders hero alluded to, should take Holloway's pills to insure a good state of health. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, ' London. B A N S. (From tke London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day of March, 1853 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,925 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman 4,249 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 24,985 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 35,125 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co • Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford 24,273 9,889 10,970 Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb 13,878 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,459 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 10,288 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. 7,170 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 56,620 Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co 13,238 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 24,632 Bath City Bank, Bath— G. Moger and Son ... 3,178 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co 34,817 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H 5,046 31,775 16,305 A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and C 0.... Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, 12,391 64,865 and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock &Co 16,773 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co 26,945 11,474 29,218 31,860 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son 3,117 Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green 16,150 Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co 31,165 Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co 46,775 Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock 7,043 City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co 20,119 Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff- 7 -Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, 73,742 Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby. Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke 9,110 11,934 41,074 28,164 and Co • Dies Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and C 0... Doncaster Bank and. Retford Bank, Doncaster 9,653 10,622 —Cooke and Co.. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Ba,ckhouse &Co 78,04 Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co 9,475 Dorchester Old Bank and 'Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams 44,580 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank , and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co 43,975 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 27,665 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co -Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh' and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel. Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead —Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford — Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich — Alexander!! and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, K n aresborough—Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and 66,699 101,964 49,601' 19,604 5,155 5,677 8,119 24,685 30,835 15,988 21,955 18,270 40,888 4,982 23,601 35,315 21,088 20,389 59,233 13,936 26,364 19,685 42,392 Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and - Co. -.-. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co • Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co. Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co. Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters....... Reading Bank, Reading—Si mon d s and Co Reading Bank, Reading—St ep h enq Blandy ; and Co. Richmond Btnk, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye Bank, ye—R. C. Pomfret and Co 8,571 5,29 . 55,60: 36,842 25,429 30,483 11,390 82,116 14,426 6,953 3,906 31,411 11,355 14,265 2,633 Roes Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross —Prich ards and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Gibsons and Co. Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 29,357 15,252 Scarbor Hugh Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co. Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southa,mp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck Downward, and Co. _ 22,295 38,939 1,992 13,558 13,534 3,780 410 10,770 28,201 Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock 22,348 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and - Rundle 11,395 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. 7,165 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Noithampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Trill , Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co 10,475 11,588 13,229 9,842 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co 14,278 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co, Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— K. Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co 4,008 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-- Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man- and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—ulpett and Co Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe— P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton--Good ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co.. 23,462 47,512 13,970 20,969 14,320 36,001 38,256 12,890 63,389 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co York Bank, York— Swann, Clough, and Co 10,176 11,298 36,772 10,737 44,737 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradfoi-cl Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- 10,955 9,480 49,277 hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehav - en Bradford Commercial Banking Company, 9,141 31,782 Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking 19,186 55,310 Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- 10,300 35,157 in gton Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pony, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire' Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England-Bank, Norwich 23,228 Gloucestershire Banking• Company, Gloucester 146,723 Halifax Joint Stock lank, Halifax 18,005 Huddersfield' Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,720 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,099 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 14,023 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough ................... .... . Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster - Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle up on-Tyn e National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth. Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port - Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 52,213 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes bury Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhanapton 36,0 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake field Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 81,931 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 71,23 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3, 278 Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 4, 384 York Union Banking Company, York 69,875 York City and County Banking Company, 92,018 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 125, 758 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. 9,368 16; 865 99,580 24,950 20,398 37,608 19,357 43,905 1,505 17,188 26,968 3,705 62,745 22,170 67,128 49,235 9,748 10,285 33,093 27,325 388,930 45,121 66,447 22,461 3,0514 47,608 2,122 36,005 52, 3b -. 351,882 46,038 56,930 23,550 47,694 9,745 12,15 25,595 31,668 33,564 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EPSOM AND ASCOT RACES.- 9, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly observe ' opposite the York Hotel. Th e R oya l E x hibiti on. A valu able, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant; they answer every purpose on the racecourse, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 3A, inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, have in vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses, immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness — N ew Discover y — The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful, small, newly-invented instrument, for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced. Being of the i • same colour as the skin, is not percept it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the cars are entirely removed; audit affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desirod.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. — °ave, opposite the W York Hotel. 6,471 8,995 1,713 6,370 14,193 28,679 12,911 25,520 46,604 21,452 16,G23 45,842 62,086 9,825 3,524 25,828 12,478 27,832 11,018 33,829 8,092 10,795 37,657 11,158 7,343 10,447 27,706 31,93 5,61 4,32 7,222 11,210 18,17 3,5012 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 16. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Diana, from Harlingen ; Magnet, do. ; Annechina, Randers ; De Jong; Ty stock B°- stock ; Zoliverein, Dantzic ; Othello, Memel ; Anne Chris' tine, Christiania ; Twende Brodre, K ra g eroe ; Ransil@ Hositis, Dantzic ; Brothers and Sis ters, North Sea ; Mystery, Hamburgb • Frau Margaretha, Leer; Alio, Embden ; Flora, Bandholm ; Abeona, Randers; Carolinenseil ; Juna, Emden ; Union, Frederick reads, Aeren, Dram ; Jomez, Hamburgh ; Anna Margretha, Stralsund ; Frau Engel, Leer ; Sarpen, Aalborg, ; Marie, Randers; Agatha Caroline, Viele ; Matron, Wismar; Peter Bang, Holbeck ; Anna Louise, Aarhuusi Victoria, Hallein ; Charlotte, Kjoge ; Amor, Thisted ; Lule, Il ani ‘ burgh ; Abel, Boston ; Achilles, Hoer ; Clara, 'lmmanuel, Johanna Nicoline, Copenhagan ; Doris, Wismar ; Jong° Hermann, Swdwesthom ; Delphinen, Odessa ; Ra id ' Buenos Ayres ; Racer, do. ; Philomele, Dover i Odd! Blandine, Kolding ; Heinrich, Rostock ; Catherine add Jane, Belize ; Julius, Aalborg ; Drie Brooders, Worciuu ;. Luna, Memel Porten, Haburgh ri, Stral sund ; Bella Colombo; Lord 'Coke, Antv(erP Roelina Lessiva, Groningen; Twee Gezusters, Memel, Fido, Lubeck ; Jane, Hadsung ; Phcenix, Bandholna ; Dantzie ; Juliana, Emden. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Paken hain ' f°l. Madeira and Madras ; Algosta, Gebiera , • Allegro, . A-3 " ' berg ; Transit, Archangel ; Governor ' ,' V a l en cia • Sydney, New South Wales ; Anna Lena, Hobartirowo ; Hoffnung, Altona ; Dorothea, Aarhuus ; Dorothea, Cop' ID, ; Earl Selkirk, Sydney ; Scotia, Nap les ; illi°17:11 Stettin. CLEARED OUTWARDS S WITH CARGO.—The eries° Am Eagle, for New York ; Joseh Freelander, ydneY, Nei South Wales • Walmer Castle , Stockholm ; Folke Fas te i t : do. ; Apollo, 'Maraibo ; Halls, Elsinore ; Cambriat° maica ; Caroline, do. ; Talavera, Elsinore ; Caroline ! S holm ; Adoluh, Aalborg ; Regina, Montre al ; BleAn°'' Elsinore. LIVERPOOL, MAY 16. k n Js n ' The Twee Gebroders, bound north-east, was sP °—e 27, lat.W. g pokel l The Wilberforce, Mauritius to London, W as March 17, lat 17 S. ong. 2W. ion The Childe . Harolh, l Liverpool to Melbourne, W as sr - April 3, lat. 5 N., long. 21 W. .Pr il 5 ' The Zoe, Bristol to Simon's Bay, was spoken I lit. 6 N., lon. 22 W. The Canton g , New York to Australia, was sp oken Aril 5, lat. 6 N., long. 22 W. to oken The Xenophon, Liverpool to Australia, was April 8, lat. 7 N., long. 23 W. The Amicitia, bound west, was spoken May 7. AO The Joshua, Rio Janeiro to London, was s poken 23, lat. 23 N., long. 43 W. 46114 la ' The Caroline, bound west, was spoken May 4, long. 24 W. 3 1 gr 5, The Ant, of Liverpool, bound west, was spoke' ) lat. 49 N., long. 22 W. „ w oe _ The Infanta, New Orleans to Liverpool, 1 05 ' May 5, lat. 48 N., long. 22 W. The Jane, of Belfast, was spoken April 13. The Britannia, of Cork, for Aden, was spoken out 214 days from England ; short Of water, and OP' VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Henderson (brig), of Whitehaven, from L i i v a Zeri' to Quebec, May 7, lat. 44 N., long. 21 W. ; h ad enced heavy gales from N. to N.W., lost sails, &e yoD The Ruby (barque), Sydney, New South Wales, w don, May 5, lat. 47 N., long. 18 W. The Marian, Liverpool to Port Adelaide, hi t ' 28 long. 19 W. COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD—MAT 13. SP 6'3 Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 01- W to 56s Od, new 35s to 54s ; red, old 34s to 465, Haig, thug' 43s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 370 • 0 1 010' 21s to 27s ; malt, 55s to 56s ; chevalier, 55s to 580 1 0 19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 30s to 35s ; white, 32$ 'lO3l boiling 38s to 41s ; dim, new, 29s to 33s ; beaus, to 34s ; Harro w ti c k s , 31 s t o 36s ;tO Mazagan, 29s COLCHSTER —MAY 4. Prices to-day w ere as follow :—Wheat, 1 white, 443 503' 50135;3 ' red, 38s to 44s ; barley, 34s to 385.; oats, 18s to 245; eO l Mazagati, 303 to 325; middle and small, 33s to 3 811 ' white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 32s to 345. • KIRKCALDY—MAT 14. „to Je Here to-day we had a good supply o f w heat, 131° of oats, and small of barley . . Sales quicker 0311 have been for many weeks, and,a little advance P each. The following are the quotations for graill Wheat. I Barley. Oats. l os First Second - Third 42s 6d 28s Od 18s Od I 0 1 ' Oatmeal,' per bag of 2801bs imperial, 28s Od to 29~ n tit ie i s The following is the official statement of the clin be of corn, &c., received in the port of London fro m 00 lowing ports, from the 9th to the 14th May, both sive : Colchester Harwich ~ Leigh ...., Malden._ 127 1135 627 929; COAL MARK Prices of Coal per ton at t s. d.I Carr's Hartley l6 3 Chester Main 15 9 Holywell. l6 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 0 Ravensworth W. Hartleyl7 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 .0 Wallsend, &c. Harton • 16 6 Johnson 16 0 Eden Main. .......... l7 0 Lambton Primrose 17 0 Bell l6 9 1 Belmont 16 9 Hetton .. 18 0 Ships at market ET—MAY 16. he close of the market 1' IS 6 (Ha5we11......... .......... 'll 6 Lanabton . . ............. ":16 6 Pe usher ... ...............• II 0 Russell's Hett,on ...... 3 Stewart's ................. 6 Cassop .................. • • l Kelloe ..................... 1 8 Whitworth .... . .......... . 0 Tees ............ • • ..... 6 Richardson's Tees.... •* ... 0 6 Llangcnnech ......... •• • "'l6 9 Grey's West HartleY•• • '" ;3 ':16 C0wpen................ •. Watney's Anthracite "' 67 1 Sold ... ..... SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the Gen eriP - by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] 11 .1 10 „ Day when made up Fromwhat 'lae I d. COUNTRIES. in,Gcneral Post- Port ~ 53' ., ,,./ Office, London.* D2 . 2 . 4 ._.. iat ..... „,e 11° ` • Ar ed America(byltrit.pack)N Every Friday .... LiverPO °l '" 2 4 America (by United Sts. i 3P I packet) ..........N May 17 ........ Liver pocm ''' le America (by U. States 0 ,00 packet) ..........N May 25 ........ SoutharaPW 1 , 0 Australia (via South- igaY 11 tO° i dAY ampton) - 3 0 Ditto (via Marseilles) N July 8 ... Dover s• '''. e ll Ditto (via Cape of Good , ) I ' r 1 1 Hops) .... .. _ „N out • • 311 0 16 Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of the rnoi;th " . P P l lr n mo ll° .. 1 1P5 :• l l Alexandria NI 8,9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover .• •1: 0 . 50 1 i, 1 Alexandria ...... .. ..M 4th & 20th of mon. Southa MP toa . /1 ;ilf Bahamas ...........M 2nd of the month SouthacoP 1.1, i iv Beli ....Daily—• • ,-,1;1 .1 1 3 .1:1 16 6 Brazil. .. ...... .... M 9th of the month.. Southallrto r.n.11 2 s o Buenos Ayres ——— AI 9th of the month.. Southall AP o cji 6 Cape of Good Hope ...1.5; 14th of the month Plynlo ul : 14 dl 1 utb ' SP• Cape of Good Hope —74 14th of the month PlYlo ° „.0 .• ' ,6 Cape de Verde ......14 14th of the month. Moo — rd ' so , Ceylon (see India) AP fp uth " Di , 16 Ceylon ..............N 14th of the month mil° nton ~x y Channel 151e5........N Mon.,Wed ,&Frid. Southampton .* . China (see India) 1 .% 4 , 04 M Id & 17th of month Southaul . ,If:; P ,.. Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24,&27 ofm. Dover .*:: to . rt -„,,,tc. -- Constantinople ..... —.. 4th & 20th of mon Southal° l " . .. 1 ' of t:ont. of Europe M& N Twice daily .... „ Dover •• ' , fe co: India) n p e t e (s . e . e ..... 51 & N Twice dai1y...... .. V l O4 • r Egypt Dover " p • telt ' 16 t. Gibraltar ...... __ AI — 4 , 7, 1 7, 20 , 27 °fru. Southall , 09 g Greece (see India) ... ara ptorive s . 1 Greytown ...... —AI 2nd & 17th of mon. ,loutzli. .; j oeottf• Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday Lor l— ,i o ;:p . to l. Nt oa',6 Havannah .......... 51 2nd of the month South . ... , o v t, Holland ............51 Wednesday & Sat. Lon de: _:,O ;„,, - ,,1. Honduras ..........151 17th of the month. So u ut . tl s Ztop , 1 1 Z• 1 India (viaSouthampt.) Al 4th & 20th of mon. So T r ~.. •• Oa Inlia (via 3larseilles)M 8111&24th of mouth Do - no' d _ f fe lonian Isles (see India) , t , iyhead •"., AP 16 Lisbon.. Ireland ........M & N Twice daily ..... • . 4 ' ° i' h oopto' gai Madeira ............ 51 9th of the month °LP S puicalt h " 18 Madeira ............ N 23rd of the month P ) Ft, & 28 of M• Sr... t oupW ° 'O O 7,0 1 4 Malta (see India) .• Dover •''" . fil l " Malta ........ ....'..N 7,17,19,28 . 30 0. 111 • AP', 1 Mauritius (see India) plyt out 0 . 1; 'ji g - 21 Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month tha tuPt )ilk 16 ver •• • o % Mexico ............M 2nd of the month.. So o : •• ' 11 0 s ll3 IN aples ..... ........N sthlsth2sthofm on. s o ld /10 21 1 y tP l y 2 1 New Granada .... —At 2d & 17th of month various po 5111, 0 1 ship 0. ••'. 40 1 16 New Zea1and........ _ By private 8 - DoVer •' nt II ' v Papal States ........N sthisth2sthoh non. to% 'lli fil 16 s° ..._.. ut t h a a ni ntil l 5.1 ) 92 p r e e m niu5 . u1 . a .. ....................11 72tdh8,17T72t8htlotiefin moono ~...v.,,,,0ut0 .• g sl , 0 Port Natal ........ _ N 14th of the month r". 7 — Dover " " .. ) 1 ,y 16 Sicily •• • • ...... _N sthlsth2sthofmon, ___ex.,..t.0..... g Tuscany ............14 sthlsth2sthofmon. I ,, , f.: tha vga I ' Venezuela ........ _5l 2d& 27th °Month `'" 504 l6 Van Diemen's Land (see 2d& 17th of tbal ° P "'. 1,6 Australia) .. . month g° ° 01 11 ,1# West Indies ...... —NI ni . _ oqdiA. (ill. * When any of these dispatched on the follow. Southampton), and the day preceding. d a tes fall on a SundaY! _ o e t rii°lll,, 4 (o'. 0. 1 lug day. with the excep!lol!,. diepatco Malta, both of Whic h Will Vi t. , B I R T HS. . 40 C 4 a tile e 0F A all 11,0°11' 9° lA' at Eastwe e /Ad/ Portland-Place, ' On Hatton, i ns t ., in P° R. F. 14th ins"" On the Dudley. the 14th infit., AS"' f i i . OF A DAU GHTER• w ife o On the 13th inst., at Sing's LyTill, th e ~ 0° Jarvis, Esq. Isirevr roo On the 14th inst., at 18, Gloucester-phoe, Rife of J. K. Walker, Esq. P MARRIED. Ito f • to tlio 0 Church,q rc)ioll" On tho 14th inst., at Ma EB4 a _ t-te e Burrow, George Bulleid, Esq., of CorTfarroor, A Caroline, only da u g hter of Mr. Itichara tagu-street, Portman-square. DI E 11,11, i•tottoikl/4i or On the 13th inst.. at Kirklington-ball, ~v~ n • General John Wheth in a ged 70 .4 . &AO ' a , . . f Thou3o- i, 1- On the 13th inst. Elizabeth, vlif° o 40„,,,r..., Esq., o f 21, Hyde- a'rk- ure and Colebro° x too, bridge, 13 BCI 3 ' 1, BCA I ' P 4 9 ' aged 48. /sTort,.. ....341 On the 13th inst., at the RectorY:, in,ipu, 36i ill Robert Hepburne Murray, Esq. , of I)l°c°oollo,vibt, pl.' On the 13th inst., at Skinner-plac,°L.„.loo r4A 60th year of her age, Ann' wife of yf late of the H.E•I•C• Home Service. ,SO , 6, yOuli4 _-------- 0 -go. LONDON : Printed and Published hi , of6co,oooii of No• 112, Strand, Printer, at Th e " tifl a tti e 6- Strand, in the Precinct of the 13op► 1 Middlesex, Tuesday, lifay 17, 1863' Abu /, r / J 38 372 go A 4,301 9,540 9,895 6,883 7,427 7,593 otool mmmeo...tztoooo v, 0 ,,,, c.,,,,0.c.t....w0c, ..tt . 0 1. Ai. NM -.. cria.74c.fei s wemov ti a, m ,,,,,, ,, t0N..0t00m N .5= .'......r...c....0-... i-. 4 .6", 1--.41 •-. ...;4.i0-mom 0 ,2; A 4 . ...m ~,,, N 'it ~ iffICI, 0MC1,U5M....,2WM . ~,, (7.--W-.N0410040 .L. 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