The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-14 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.--No. CCCCXI. Monday gave us a surprise in the defeat of Filbert, and Tuesday's races opened with another, Estrella having succumbed to Phrygia in the race for the 100 sovs. stakes. Lord Exeter's filly had it all her own way from end to end, winning with great ease by three lengths. The next two races—the 501. Plate and 10 sovs. sweep stakes —were won almost as easily as the preceding, Village Lass carrying off the former, and Leybourne the latter The Riddl esworth presented a pretty fi n i s h b e t ween D iomeiia and Talfourd. The latter waited upon Phrygia into the cords, then took the lead, and kept it until 'Within a few strides of the chair, where Diomedia, who had been pressing Talfourd rather hard, got up and won on the post by a head ; the 51b which Diomedia received, t urning the scale most effectually in her favour. Glen "on was a shocking bad third, and Phrygia, not perse vered with, a bad fourth. It is a matter of half-a-dozen years since both the Riddlesworths produced races. B Y Way of mistifying the ring, Filbert, after waiting upon Cobnut to within a distance and a half of home, took the lead, and won with the greatest ease by a length; , is stai)le Companion Cobnut, beating Petrel a length for S econ d P last lace, while War Whoop, upon whom they laid I ' 3 4 , was out o f th e race f rom en d t o en d, an d finished A. larger field than I expected went to the post for the Ilewinarbket H an di cap , n o l ess th an seven t e en awaiting the starter's orders. Two or three of the youngsters lum ped off t ogether, but as soon as they sett l e d d own t o e work, Charley took a distinct lead, which he main tallied to the turn of the lands, where he had had eno ugh ; here Talfourd, who had been laying close up _mil the start, took first place, and for the remainder of the Journey had it all to himself, winning as he pleased i !,3: some three or foar lengths, Ethelbert beating Double ieolint by a couple of lengs There second place, Content moderate fourth. st were scattered far 1:1 " wide_; at th e h ea d o f th e nic k, however, Weather gage, with all his weight, was to be discovered. The re snit of this race altered the Chester Cup betting materi allY• Talfo ur d' s performance being thought so favourably 41 that was immediately backed at 20 to 1 for above tli cilsaiad pounds, with a disposition to go on at the Z in c figure which was declined the layers. He was b • introduced into the Derby betting at 1,000 to 30, a s might be expected the backers were very shy for and event, it being a very different thing winning and Derby against the best horses in the year, e at carrying sst 31b victoriously in a handi ser r ace. Ethelbert's running, though not quite 2.,:0d as I expected, Epsom considering the Vein - up he colii ipta last week at p, was almost as good as reasonably be expected of him. Contentment, I hii• ‘ 3 7,, s „ l „' l naV now be considered to be disposed of, for wa, s . , -- "cn, inst ea d o f being better than that at Epsom, ne poi nt worse. fir e 3 ~ 7 com munication yesterday unfortunately "missed a nd cons equen tl y m y rem arks upon to-day's races • h de nf " e , "a day too late for the fair." It is pretty evi thowever, to the major ity of the sporting fraternity, a? n Dthe race for the Zetland Stakes will lie between efiance arid Comfit ; that Speed the Plough will win s a " 4 ° o Sovs. St a k es; B egum co lt or Valour, the 50 plate. Stakes ; C avan the M atc h ; an d F ever sham the I le race f or t h e Subscription Plate o f 501. yes t er d a y lade the an nlie way—Ephesus waiting on Nutshell, who heads running at a slow pace, into the cords, where d him, and with a or more in .a n d by half a length won, ; Rackapelt half beating s Nutshell in last half -dozen strides for second place by a distance. !sawn and Dear Me could not live the pace. pThe race for the Handicap Plate of 501. was like the r eceding, all in favour of the winner, who had his race bend go. the start, winning from Koh-i-noor by three ~e ag Ule- King of Troy was a bad third, and the rest 'el'ularly beaten off— Rolando, the crack, backed for a f a a s od deal of money, leaving off at 6 to 4, being the very t in the race, his legs being no better this year than th ey were last. Per the 100 sovs Sweepstakes over the D.M. Noisette Vas made the f avour it e , an d s h e was un d ou bt e dly th e hest of the half-dozen ; but one of those master strokes of Frank Butler's sent Mayfair by the post a neck in advanc e of her. The rest were scattered far and wide. Pharos won his race in a most off-hand style, waiting Nutpecker for a good portion of the distance, and going in front and cantering home an easy winner. The Column Stakes produced the third surprise of the Week—Defiance, upon whom they laid 6 to 4, in the final set-to, being unable to collar Filbert, who won by three parts of a length. Diomedia and Veteran, finish ing third and fourth, were beaten off. How to reconcile this running of Filbert's with his last exhibition when in antagonism with William Rufus on Monday would puzzle any one. Before the race 50 to 1 was laid against the winner for the Derby ; after 20 to 1 was taken freely. • The racing to-morrow will commence early—half-past twelve, I believe—with a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 Boys. each, &c., which, together with a Sweepstakes oflo sovs • eac h, d oes no t c l ose an d name until six o'clock this evening. filh The Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three-year-old D.M., will, I understand, be contested by Scandal Phrvgia (Norman), Mayfair (Butler), Cuckoo x;'Y (° l 3'), Antonina (Bartholomew), and one of Mr. a Y rie'B ) with Nat up. The first and second places . 0 .1 . 1 . ght to be occupied by Scandal and Phrygia, with "-kt;,,Yfair close up. post he P ort Stakes will have a field of four at the Filiu s 1 ( 2 . z. ;„ Ronnebrewed (Butler), Adine (Nat), Lame I , — ` - 'aY), and King of Trumps, whose jockey's kno w ; -av e not bee' able to ascertain. Although 11010-ng the T.M.M. course to be rather longer than find linen winnerN approves of, yet I cannot go farther to .0. 1 and, doe match es I ex p ec t t o see Gossip beat Adeline, It i,e'inntain Fl ower N a th an . eith e : n is that there is but little hope for the backers r ePost; the Rei ver or Cineas for the Derby ; one being ord er ".'4 Positively infirm, while the other is out of 8114 141 . 1 a anoth er fashion. Some time since, when Ore ete i s n t up my Analysis of the Derby, I selected 05 possc: .nly particular choice, I must now add Pharos seeing "si"sing an equal chance with him ; and anticipate Principal antagonists in West Australian, aer Queen colt. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. IRISH AND SCOTCH BANKS. Th e 'lrish following is a summary of the circulation of the 19th of ar ld Scotch banks for the four weeks ending the March Aver ao . av be circulation of the Irish banks 25520,544 era ge circulati on o f the Scotch banks 3,,443,894 c Total £8,64,4 3 35 c0t °l32 Pared with the fixed issues of the Irish and ch banks, it appears that— Tl ir m e Irish b anks are below their fixed issues £833 , 950 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issues 356,685 Total below the fixed issues. £477,265 tie amount e f v of gold and silver held at the head offices fl ues everal banks during the past month have been as .Lowe goold and silver held by the Irish banks 21,538,010 ld. and silver h e ld by the Scotch banks 1,157,510 Total £2,696,420 These return; combined with the average circulation of the Dank of England for the same period, show a de crease of 69 1,568/. in the circulation of notes in England, an d a decrease of 938,5531. in the circulation of the -United Kingdom, when compared with the month end ing the 19th of February ; w and, as compared with the '°nth ending the 20th of March, 1852, the above returns show an increase of 2,151,370/. in the circulation of notes i n England, and an increase of 3,471,5451. in the circu lation of the United Kingdom. The averzwe stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng laud in botlidepartments during the month ending the 19th of March, was 18 ,806,643/., being an increase of 191,487/, as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of 710,6311. when compared with the same pe riod last year. The stock of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 19th of March was 2,69674201., being a decrease of 9,5571., as compared with the previous return, and an increase of 449,9131. when compared with the corresponding period last year. THE OYSTER SEASON.- .D READFUL a business season as the present has not been kno wn f or the last twenty years. The proprietorstirr e suffere rs t o beds the amount of nearly 90 ,000/., one h near fall upon Mr. Aston, of the China Rock will Sheerness. The mortality has been confined to the fo reign oysters. This is accounted for by the salesmen l and others at Billingsgate in the following manner :1 During the summer months the companies import lar ge quantities from the Channel Islands , the coast of France, and other places, where they have lain warm in deep water, and place them on beds in rivers and shallow estuaries to feed ; there not being a sufficient depth of water to repel the late frost, it penetrated to the beds, causing great havoc among the bivalves, so that not above two bushels out of every five that are dredged came up alive , their only use being for manure. MRS. H. B. STOWE IN LivEnrooL.—A meeting was held yesterday in the long room belonging to the British and Foreign Bible Society, Slater-street, for the purpose of presenting the talented authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin" with a testimonial, in the shape of an elegantly- Worked purse, containing 1301., contributed by the ladies of Liverpool. The chair was taken at eleven o'clock by Adam Hodgson, Esq., who, as the repre sentative of the ladies, made the presentation. Pro fessor Stowe, ha an appropriate speech, returned thanks, and also read an address from Mrs. Stowe. A vote of thanks to the ladies was proposed by the Rev. C. M. pirrell for their untiring energy and zeal, and seconded by Sir G. St ep h en. M rs. S towe an d p ar ty started per rail for Glasgow at 1.15 the same day. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the meeting of this society, on T ues d ay l as t, M r . J o hn Gould in the !la Mr. Cuming c ommun i ca t e d a paper, by Dr. Pfeiffe r , on 18 new species of land shells, from his own tittiction and that of Mr. Denison. Mr. Gould exhi three and o described four new species of humming birds, them from the eastern slope of the Andes, remark able for eir size and their extraordinary beauty. The secretary then re .d a paper by Mr. Broderip, containing a._n i o o tiFe of an or i g i na l painting, including a figure of the , in the co ll ect i on of his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, at Sion-house. The size of theicture, which 7tiraiptpheearfis to havenestpre yservation, is 32 in c h es b 19 inches. 4.° been th e j o i n t production of De Heem (.1 Jean Goeimare. Th e l an d scape an d an i ma l s were Painted by Goeimare, and the shells by De Heem. Mr. 13,sof:cies:lip also called attention to a picture in his own c',, 3 .4 on of a dodo, by Roland Savery. Both pictures 'r exhibited to the meeting. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1853, ~~'bitton NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HANDICAP PLATE. £5O. A.F. Warbler Child of the Mist Eight ran. SUPSCRIPTION PLATE. £5O. A.F. Guava Auchinleck Seven ran. DERBY. 50 to 1 Speed the Plough (offered). THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The general result of the ordinary service of the budget of 1850, as set down in the bill adopted on Monday by the Legislative Body, is definitively fixed as follows : • Receipts ... Payments . 1,426,185,571 f. 46c. 1,360,593,737 25 Leaving a surplus of Excesses of expenses of the colonial 65,591,834 21 14,270,551 15 51,321,280 6 92,336,047 31 service Which leaves a surplus of receipts amounting to But as the payments made for the extraordinary service are fixed by the bill at There remains in the end a surplus of expenses 41,014,767 21 Which deficit on the budget of 1850 is to be set down amongst the advances of the Treasury, and will provisionally be placed to the charge of the floating debt, in execution of the laws now in force. We read in the Moniteur "France has just been put in possession of an histori cal monument, which is directly connected with the most glorious, and at the same time the most melancholy reminiscences of the present century, and which had hitherto been wanting to our- national archives. The will of Napoleon 1., written throughout with his own hand, at Longwood, on April 15, 1821, had, after his death, been deposited in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, or Doctors' Commons, where all wills are preserved in England ; and it was there kept for 32 years, unknown to the greatest number, and visited with a respectful eagerness by those who were aware of its existence. The Emperor Napoleon 111. desired to give to this precious deposit a place more worthy of it and of imperial France, and to restore to that French people, which the Emperor loved so well,' the very pages on which his dying hand traced the expression of that wish, since then ac complished, Let my ashes repose on the banks of the Seine.' Towards the end of last year, and by order of his Imperial Majesty, M. Drouyn-de-Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged Count Walew ski, the French Ambassador at London, to apply to the Government of her Britannic Majesty to have the will of Napoleon I. given up to France. The Earl of Malmesbury, then principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, received, in the name of the Govern ment of the Queen, and with the most cordial readi ness the overture of Count Walewski. He pro mised the Ambassador that he would apply to the proper authorities at Doctors' Commons to induce them, contrary to all precedent, to give up the Em peror's will ; and he pledged himself, in case the English law did not warrant such a course, to present to Parlia ment a special bill to authozise them exceptionally to take from their archives a document of that importance. However, the exigencies of the law and of custom were able to be conciliated with the readiness which the pre sent Ministry of her Britannic Majesty evinced in just as great a degree as that of which Lord Malmesbury was a member, and, on the requisition of the Proctor of the Crown, the Court of Doctors' Commons issued, on the 16th of February last, an order to the effect that the will and its codicils should be handed over to the judicial authorities of France. In execution of that order, the will with its annexes, which had been placed in the hands of the Earl of Clarendon, principal Secretary of State of her Britannic Majesty for Foreign Affairs, was delivered up by him to Count Walewski, who charged M. Charles Baudin, First Secretary of the French Embassy at Lon don, to take it to Paris. M. Charles Baudin, conducted to the Emperor by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, had the honour of presenting the will to his Imperial Ma jesty in the name of Count Walewski. By his Majesty's orders it was then taken to the President of the Tri bunal of Premiere Instance of the Seine, who, according to the prescriptions of the French law, registered and signed it, and then handed it over to M. Casimir Noel, notary to the Imperial family, after having had all these formalities duly attested. The will and its codicils, entirely written by the hand of the Emperor, bearing his signature and sealed with his arms, do not, however, contain any clause that has not bean long since printed textually. An, authentic copy will remain deposited in the office of M. Noel, and the original will, by the Emperor's orders, be placed in the national archives. The Emperor, wishing to testify to Lord Clarendon the satisfaction which he felt at the restitu tion to France of so remarkable a document, and at the readiness which the Government of her Britannic Majesty had exhibited,. addressed a letter to that effect to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Queen Victoria. His Majesty, through his Ambassador at London, has been pleased to present to Mr. Dyke, Proctor to the Crown of England, a gold snuff-box, with the Imperial cipher in diamonds on the lid, in return for the steps which he had taken in the Court of the Archbishop at Canterbury to obtain possession of the testament." The Minister of Police has issued a circular to prefects relative to the rules which are to guide them in their conduct towards political refugees. None of such persons can be permitted to reside in or enter the department of the Seine, the Lyons district, or Marseilles, without an authorisation from the Minister of Police. The Spanish refugees are not to be allowed, without express leave, to go within sixteen rayriametres (one hundred English miles) of the Pyrenees ; the Germans or Poles are not to enter the departments adjoining Switzer land or Germany without a special authorisation, and the same is to be the rule for the Italians with respect to the departments next to Italy. When ever new political refugees enter France, they are to be disarmed, and sent at once to a town at least 10 m3rriametres (62k English) miles from the fron tier, there to wait the orders of the Minister of Police as to their destination. The circular further declares that all the laws which had been in force relative to political refugees having ceased to exist under the new order of things, the Government intends to act with respect to these persons in such a manner as it may conceive to be best for the pre servation of the public peace. A telegraphic dispatch announces that Marshal de St. Arnaud's health is completely re-established, and that he proposes quitting Marseilles on Satur day next, to return to Paris. A ministerial journal of Rennes states that the projected journey of the Emperor into Brittany has been adjourned. The demand for Rentes yesterday has been inac tive, with a downward tendency in prices, the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash having declined 25e. on Tuesday's quotations, and for the account 10c. ; the Three per Cents., however, at the close of business had improved 15c. for money, and sc. for the end of the month. There was also an ad vance of sf. in Bank Stock. The final quotations were :—For cash—Three per Cents., 80f. 40c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. ; for the account, Three per Cents., 80f. 50c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 35c. Bank shares, 2,740 f. The shares of the Bank of Credit Foncier declined 5f., closing at 914 f., whilst those of the Credit Mobilier advanced 2f., and were quoted at 932 f. at the con clusion of business. The market for Railway Secu rities was active, and a tolerable amount of busi ness was transacted. resumed the • railways. The SPAIN. Spanish Senate assembled on the 7th, and discussion on the question relative to de Several. senators, and amongst them the some length Y a c) ; Marqui s (pad General Figueras, spoke at Pena y Atia iraflores the Duke de Rivas, M. of them -we n t li with much warmth ; and some nection with nto matters which had no thatcon nection before the house. Thus M. Pena y Aguayo made a sletriattack on the Ministry for trasting with his ordinary its conduct in the a ous, and his speech, con trasting moderation, produced Marquis del Duero, on his n n e t for its proceedings great sensation. The Witl s i e part, attacked the Government o t a h v e ides, Minister of senators, and respect to the relative to the press. Preparing a bill the Interior, replied to both Id but was ad m . that defended the Government. press, he said that the Cabinet was on the subject. The Minister thei P- 1 speak on the question before the Senateeceeded to interrupted by the President, who told the hour fixed by the regulations for the ment had arrived. In the Chamber of DeputiesM leniTotil the same clay, M. Bravo Murillo at great replied to the attacks which had been made on his Ministry for its interference in the elections. What took place on the Bth is thus described in a letter of that date :—" This morning every body talked of the suspension of the sittings of the Cortes, and the Senators and Deputies hastened to their respective chambers with extraordinary zeal to learn what the Government would do. At about two o'clock the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies was opened. The President of the Coun cil appeared in his usua l p lace in full uniform. After the minutes had been read, several deputies deinanded to be allowed to speak. Although the President of the Council, according to the regula tions, having to make a communication from the Government, had alone the right to speak, M. Moron rose, and briefly declared that the Minister had never had, had not then, and never wouldliave the confidence of the Parliament. The President of the Council immediately read a Royal decree by which the sittings of the Cortes were suspended for the session. The document was listened to in pro found silence, and the deputies immediately retired. In the Senate the Royal decree was also read. The Government has adopted this measure in consequence of the violent attacks which have been made on it and on distinguished personages in the Senate. Al though there is a talk of a modification of the Cabinet in which General Roncald and MM. Llorente and Benavides will remain, the statesmen who will be called on to fill the departments of Justice, Marine, and Public Works are not mentioned. A report is current that General Lersundi, Captain-General of Madrid, will unite to his functions the civil gover norship, in order to give greater force to the autho rities."—The journals give no news of interest ex cept what refers to the crisis, but the Gazette contains a royal decree ordering new elections to fill up vacancies in the districts of Casas, Hanez, Cuenca, and the district of the Prado, in the pro vince of Pontevedra. General Aupick, the French ambassador, was preparing to quit Madrid. His departure will, say the papers, be much regretted. On the night of the 9th the Ministers resigned in a body. The Queen asked for 24 hours to decide whether or no she would accept their resignation. Before the expiration of that time, the Queen had accepted the resignation of the Cabinet. General Lersundi has been charged with the duty of forming a new Cabinet. The Cortes has resumed its session. On the Bth the Three per Cents. were at 42 15-16. ITALY. A Vienna journal, of the 9th, states that the Governor of Malta has announced the intention of the British Government of continuing the Sardi nian submarine telegraph to Malta, by sinking a wire between Bana and La Valetta. In its sittings of the 9th the Chamber of Depu ties at Turin voted the project, already approved of by the Senate, concerning bills of Exchange signed by persons not in trade. This law is founded on the same principles as those of the commercial codes of England, France, Austria, and Naples. The Opinions of Turin states from Milan, Bth, that political arrests still continue there. Count Strasoldo, Lieutenant-General of Lom bardy, arrived at Parma on the 7th, on his way to Modena. The Giornale di Roma, of the sth, states that on the first Sunday after Easter the Pope blessed the candles called Agnus Dei, a ceremony which only takes place every seven years. The fireworks which could not be let off on Easter Monday ac cording to custom, on account of the bad weather, were let off the Sunday after Easter with complete success. The British fleet was in port at Malta on the Bth. No preparations were making for its departure. GERMANY. The Augsburg Gazette has the followin g from Munich, dated the 10th :—" Professor deLiebio• was last night giving a lecture on chemistry at the palace, before Queen Maria, Queen Theresa, King Louis, the younger branches of the royal family, and some persons belonging to the court, when a bottle of oxygen gas being improperly handed to assistant,him by his ' who took it for another bottle, an explosion took place, and the bottle flew into a thousand pieces. Fortunately the explosion oc curred in au inner room, the door of which was open. Still some fragments of. the glass passed through the door, and slightly wounded some members of the royal party who were sitting in the front rank. Queen Theresi, was cut in the cheek, and the blood flowed in abundance ; Prince Luitfold was slightly wounded in the forehead, Countess Luxbur e ,ff in the chin, and Countess San dizell in the head. None of these wounds will be of any consequence. The professor was also slightly injured, having escaped with his life by a sort of miracle." The following appears in the Vienna Gazette, of the Bth :—" H. M. the Emperor, desiring to alle viate the burden of labour which weighs on the Minister of Finance, has, by Cabinet letter of the 30th March, attached M. Rueskefer de Wellenthal, Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Com merce, to the Ministry of Finance, and Baron Gehringer d'Oldenburg to the Ministry of Com merce. They will provisionally replace the Minister." A Vienna journal attributes the present dis tress amongst the workmen of the manufactories in that capital to an Imperial decree imposing heavy restrictions on the hawking trade in manufactured goods, and by which the markets of Hungary are in a manner closed against' the persons engaged in it. The consequence is that they give no more orders for goods, and thousands of workmen are deprived of bread. _ _ _ The Wanderer of Vienna states from Bel grade, Ist instant :—" M. Garaschanin has been named member of the Senate. This nomination would have opened a vast field for his activity in the interest of the country had not the Senate lost all political importance. The fall of that Minister is principally attributed to the passive at titude which the Ottoman Porte observed during the war with the Montenegrins. It is said that the Russian Government wishes that the Servian functionaries, who had been educated in Paris, should be dismissed, but up to this time Russia has not demanded the removal of M. Marinovics, Chief of the section of Foreign Affairs, and that of M. Zach, Director of the Military Academy." The Lloyds of Vienna, of the Bth, says :—" The Government intends establishing several new vice consulates in Bulgaria, to give the export mer chants the protection which they stand in need of. At present there is only a consulate at Rustochuk, and another at Widdin. The Abbe Farkas has given 52,000 florins to found a school for girls at Sthulwessenburg, in memory of the late escape of the Emperor from assassination. In consequence of a negotiation between Austria and the Porte, the latter has promised that Bavarian vessels shall be treated in Turkish ports like these of Austria. This advantage accorded to Bavaria is a result of the treaty concluded between her and Austria con cerning the navigation of the Danube." TURKEY. The Trieste Gazette has the following from Con stantinople, 28th ult. :—" It is not yet known whether the question of the Holy Places is at this moment the subject of deliberation between Prince Menschikoff and the Ottoman Porte, but it is cer tarn that the Divan is negotiating with the Prince on the affair of Montenegro and the emancipation of the Christians. The apparent isolation of the Russian Cabinet in presence of the resolution of the other powers to refuse any co-operation, does not in any way diminish the prospect of an amicable arrangement. But it is certain that Prince Menschi koff will not and cannot yield, and that he will place himself as the protector of such subjects of the Ottoman Porte as profess the Greek . religion. He is, nevertheless, very dissatisfied with the Pa triarch. The Russian Colonel Christophores Greek by birth) has arrived from Montenegro. A certain sensation has been produced here by the departure of several Russian officers for that coun try." A letter from Erzeroum, the capital of Armenian Turkey, states that about a month ago the acces sion to the throne and the marriage of Napoleon 111. were celebrated with a good deal of pomp by the French consul and residents, and that the high Turkish functionaries took part in the ceremonies. According to a letter from Teheran of the 26th February a grave misunderstanding has arisen be tween the Persian Court and the British Legation, relative to Herat, and a rupture was feared. " What is certain," says the letter, "is that Colonel Sheil, who was about to quit Teheran in a few days on leave of absence, expected to take with him all the personnel of his legation." The cholera was advancing towards Teheran ; it had reached Resht and Caslin, and had made ravages in these places. The winter had been ono of the most severe ever known in Persia. Snow had fallen for several days, and in some parts communications had been inter rupted. The Schah, notwithstanding the intensity of the cold, had . been on a hunting expedition to Hirsa. He was obliged in the course of it to re main in tents for ten days, and several of his suite died from cold. THE TRANSFER BOOKS AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yester day, at the Bank of England and South Sea House , that the transfer books for the undermentioned annuities will morning, the 15th inst. ; Reduced Three per Cent. be opened as follows, viz. :—Bank Stock, to - morrow Annuities, ditto ; Long Annuities, ditto. ; and annuities for terms of years, ditto ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, on Tuesday next, the 19th inst. At the South Sea House, the transfer books for South Sea Stock will also be opened to-morrow, the 15th inst. THE NEW BISHOP OF LINCOLN.—HoIy Thursday (or Ascension Day) has been appointed for the consecration of the Right Rev. Dr. John Jackson, Bishop elect of Lincoln. The ceremony will be performed in the private of the following week, chapel within Lambeth Palace, by the Archbishop of ' nte rbury, assisted by the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Bishop of Oxford. Dr. Jackson will be installed in his cathedral in the course enter upon the formal osse • of his diocese. The new bishop will have in p . . ssion . . his gift eccleciastical patronage and will immediately afterwards to the extent of 16,0001. a year. It has not yet of St. James's, Piccadilly,Th e tran spired who will be Dr. Jackson's successor in the rectory gilt of Crown. appointment in the PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 Aberdeen 5 all Do., No. 2,7 p. c St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p.c. St 105 107 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... St. 1.00 Caledonian £lO ...... 106 108 106 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent... 19 —2O 191 x d 64 34 Cork&Bandon 51 p.c. a d 6. all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction 6 3 EastAngliau (.C3 10s) 0 per cent. 3. 38 5 all Do. (25) 7 per cent 4 41 74 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. et 1 —14 p 6f, all Eastern Counties Ex _ tension, sp. e. No.l 1 2 1i pm 6i all Do., No. 2 lB I,} 10 all Do., New 6p.c. St l4 15 pm 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent lB 18:14 184 St. 1.00 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. 5 all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 51 per cent.. 34 St. 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent. Si . 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 1.27 129 ,t. 100 Do. s'p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom .... 112 113 64 all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 8 8i 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Barks & Hants Ex. sp. c.).. 6 74 St. 100 G. West. fixed 4l pa. 106 108 1071 16 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, ed— 6 p St. 100 Do., 6p. c., Stock... 151 153 St. 100 London and. Brighton Guanateed 5 p. c.,, xd St. 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. xd 50 all Do. Convertib'e, s p. • c., 1852 St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. 150 153 1531 50 5 London & S.Western, Con. .. 31 —.4 p 121 19 Londonderry& Coler. 1 Shares .. 121 all Lowly. & Ennis. 1 K 13i —1 3 i 25 all Manch. ,Shef. , & Lir., Shares, No. 1... 8 9 'lO all Do. New, £10... lOl 11 4 126 all Marypt. & . Carl. 4p. c. ••• 121 all Do. 41 per cent — P un6ssoopil.o.l6. cent Bristolt..S. d ••• ••• I S S26 t t 1 1 01 83 D D :1 13 : o i 2 g . 6......P —l5 16i 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent. —a! d P 20 all Norfolk Extension 221 — 2• A 5 all Do. Guar. 51 per ct 5 61 4 , 2 all Do. Way. Val. 5p c 1i St. 100 North British lO9 111 20 all North Staffordshire 25 26 St. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolvcrh. £15,6p. c. •• 15 9 Do.. 24 8 all Shrew s& Rim. N. G. 10 14 10 all Shrewsby,. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 17. 10 10 Do. 5 per cent — lip 25 all South Devon l4 I s i 10 14 Do. New Par P 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £108.6d. 26 261 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 191 201 par . 5 t7. 100 3 5 D W I( oo a r t k e r N f d e . N & v c K a i l s t k l e . 6p an .% 6d 25 10 Y B k o e r w i . & p e N k u r ' A c 4 i h i P d . . 1 . .a c . F . d . r e . H . f 1 . : 1 15- - :53 Pi TILE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. lAberdeen lAmbg. Nottn,g. Bost. & Eastn. Junc......, Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh & Cheshire Junct...... Do. Chesh. & Birk. £5O & £25 Cons Do., £2O Bristol & Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and 8and0.J....1 Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin&Belfast June. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junct'on ....... Do. New . East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.) Do., (£lB E. &11.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., do.. Do., B. & 0 East, Lancashire ... Eas,; & West,lre. & Birm;vs. Jure._ Edinburgh & Glasgow Edlub. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dundea Glasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. sth. &West. (Ire.) Great Western Irish South-Easters Lancaster &Carasie Do., Thirds La,ncash. &YorksVrel Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding U Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright. & S.Cst. London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 London & S. Western Do., ••• •• • Do., £4O Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef. &Lincln. Do., 3f2 a. &Lin. T.Ta. Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. Sha .......... Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newmarket. Do. Bu-y Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&lltfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk... ...... ....... • Do., New ........... • Northn. Counties ILI North British North Devon, Nod 'Do., No. 2.....• • ••• •• • Dc., ADe ared Do., 6 B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western.. & S. Westin. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... Scottish Central ...... Scottish Midland...... Shrewsbury &13irmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... Do. Halve - :, d 0....... Do. Os westry • Shropshire South Dev0n.......... South Ea5tern......... South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Stockton & Hartlepi. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall Wmbled on &Croydon Woodford... ...... ...•. York Newctl. & Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland (Closing Prices this day 29 - 30 51 - 6 9/ 104 7i 6 d 21 22 3i -- 2i d 103 -- 105 64i -- 65 21t -- 224 19 -- 20 3A - 4,1) 8 - 9 5.1 - 4 3t 4_l 13i - 1311 10 - 11 7 - 7? 73 - 75 55 -• 57 73 -- 75 32 -- 34 62 -- 64 83 -- 84 48 -- 50 125 - 127 109 -- 110 92i 921 6 94 t-- 74 92 -- 13 -132 p 77 -- 77 41 -- 4:ld 34 -- 3 d 151 -2bl6i - 93 14 -- 2 - p 104 -- 105 1201 -- 1201 21-3 p -1 3 p 91 -- 92 - 34,.! 34 —23 d 104 11 19 —2! 294 304 34 3 d 75 75 : 1 43 45 50 52 34- 3 3d 31 —3?; 52 54 - 2 ct 35 36 . ... d 4i 4s(l. 8 - 8t 2- p 51i - 52} 93 - 100 62 - 63 64 - 66 73 76 ..; dis 18 - 20 9 - 10 13 - 15 3.g - 3 4 ,1 20 - 21.4. 754 - 764 36,i - 374 124 - - 13 4 :j. 4 19 - 21 3 :-: 3 HA —15 i 9 2 10 32 34 94 10 i a _ par ••• 69 -16 7i 7 d —24 d 59 60 Bas'ness done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shr. d r am, ..ALL WAYS. Leasing Compaus, Closing Prices this day. Business this day. !Bedford and Bletchley.... Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. dt Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr. (St Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. a Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' Redcar. (London & N. West. Gt.Westn ,Do Do Do L.&N.W Caledon 106 - 108 52 -54 Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. j.&NMd L 52 - 154 32i -33 i 112 -- 114 56 -- 57 27i -- 28 13 -- 144 25A --26 W 19}- 20 26 -- 27 S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. Midland 21 - 38 Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per et. D.. Fixedsp c Prest. & Wyre 1105 - 107 E. Count Do D• 64 - 66 L. &N.W 1 &Ln&Yk Do Do. iihares. Roystn.&Hit. Do.Shepth.St Shef. Roth.and' Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staffordsh. Wear ValleygT 6 per cent Do IGtNorthn 149 - 151 ,149 - 151 TAincash& Yorksh. 111.31 Clean Stockt. & Darlingt Do 1— i d 32t -- Jo3,i 104:j INVilts&Somrsti ;IGtWestn. MINES. 1 all Agua Fria ..... ' 11 —ll p 24 1 10s. all Anglo Californian — 1 p 10 2 Australasian - 1 P 20 5 Australian 4l p 1 all Australian Cordillera p 1 all Australian Freehold. 4 dis— p 1 all Ave Maria g d § 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par 1 all British Austrin. Gold p 20 13.5 British Iron 6 8 7 35 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm 5 6 51 30 all Do. Comes & Cuiada 64 61 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 1 4 Carsons's Creek iPii 40 all Cobra Copper 47 48 5 1 Colonial Gold 2 24 14 Copiapo St. all Copper Min. of Eng B5 95 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent B4 —94 p I all English and Austin Copper Smeltg, Co 1 —l4 d 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein l.l 2 p 31 3 all Great Polgooth .. 1 p 1 all Lake Bathurst 1 all Liberty 4 pll 1 all Lond. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co d 1 all Mariquita, d— par J.O 9 Mexican&S.Amerien 74 8 8 1 all New Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde le - f . ip 2g 5 1 Port Philip par 4p 1/ 1 all Quartz Rock par 4 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 25 —27 p 15 Do. New 7 8 30 10 Santiago de Cuba 64 74 1 all 'South Australian par 4 p 10 7 Tin Croft ll 13 284 all United Mexican 64 6i 1 all Waller id 4p 14 1 all West Granada par— 4 p 1 all West Mariposa par— i p 1 all Yuba — p JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 93 50 all British N. American ..„ 20 2 Chrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China 100 25 Colonial — ... 20 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 10 English Scottish and Australian ll lap 20 124 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 3a 3Ap 50 20 London and County _ 50 10 London Joint Stock _ 22 14 100 20 Lond. & Westminster „, 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 54 56 25 5 Do. New 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 484 10 all Do. New • ..• 5 1 Royal Australn•Bkg & Gold Imp Co 4 die par 25 all South Australia 49 51 25 all Union of Australia 77 78 774 Do. New 8 9 50 10 Union of London 46 all Union of Madrid.-- - • _ MISCELLANEOUS 100 '35 AustraliaiiAgrieult. 90 95 87 8 20 4 Australsn•Peific.Mail 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail _ 384 Brit. American Laud 78 80 75 100 321 Canada — 5 5 Crystal Palace — 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 100 50 General Screw Steam 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 2 Netherlands Land .,. 20 2 Nrth. o:Euro pe Ste am , 50 all - Pcninsulax & Oriental 50 25 Do. 1 00 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 25 South Austral. Land 50 51 43; 94 1 1 Submar. Telegraph 6 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... . . no 28 4 Van Diemen's Land 204 214 20 . LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON', April 11.—Wind this day at Noon, N. to N.N.E., moderate breeze, and cloudy. RAMSGATE, Aprii 13.—Wind, N.N.E., strong. Sailed —Figaro, Now York. CHATHAM, April 13.—Wind, E.N.E., strong. Arrived —Etheldred, Sierra Leone. DOVER, April 13.—Arrived—Ellen Cork, St. Valery, for Sunderland, very leaky, and pumps choked. DEAL, April 13.—Wind, N.E., strong. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Harlequin, Adelaide, S.A. ; Tartar, Algoa Bay ; Wind, St. John, N.B. ; Diana, Melbourne. Sailed—Countess of Batave, Valparaiso. PLYMOUTH, April 13. Wind, N.E. Arrived—H.M.'s steamer Scorpion, West Indies. Sailed—Medora, Port Philip. The Emma, of Liverpool, was lost near Bonny, Feb 10 ; crew saved. PORTSIIOIITH, April 13. Wind, N.E. Arrived—Mary Evans, New York. FALMOUTH, April 13.—Wind, N.E., strong. Sailed— Kron, Prius ; Oscar, Quebec ; Alchymist, do. ; Solertia, Shedim. SOUTHAMPTON, April 13.—Wind, N.W. Sailed—Cap. tain, Quebec. LivEaPooL, April 13.—Wind, N.N.E. Sailed— Earl of Elgin, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Jupiter, Melbourne ; Flint, do. ; Flora Bella, do. ; Jas. Scott, Shanghai ; Ca,pilla, Singa pore ; Jane Morice, Port Natal ; Tremont, Africa ; Cum berland, do. 2 • Dickey Sam, Buena Ve n t ura ; A nn i e Wor rall, Luna ; Sutlej, Valparaiso ; and the rest of the out ward bound—in all, a fleet of above sixty vessels. PORT TALBOT, Aprii 13.—The Thos. and Sarah, Newport to Swansea, has been got off the rocks. LOWESTOFPE, April 13.—The Ann Mills, of London, from St. John's, N. 8., which was brought in here, March 7, much damaged, after being osi shore, went on shore again yesterday, but was assisted off. POOLE, April 13.—Wind,,E. Sailed—Delia and Caro line, Quebec. CARDIFF, April 13.—Wind, N.B. Sailed—Alfred, New York ; Garonne, ditto ; Eleanor, Quebec ; Gentile, King George's Sound • Vocalist, Cape de Verd ; Arolus, Ber muda ; Emily, St. Thomas. SHlLDs.LSailed—Friends, St. Thomas' ; Emerald, Quebec. - FOWEY, April 12.—Wind, N. Sailed—Royal Adelaide, Quebec. - YOUGHAAL. — Arrived—lnnes, Mazagan. Sailed—Tot tenhs,m, Quebec. MALAGA, April s.—The Albert Schuringa, for Falmouth, has put in here leaky, and will probably have to discharge and repair. GALATZ, March 31.—The Bideford, from Liverpool, is on shore ; a steamer will proceed to her assistance. HOALHOERNE, March D.—The Forsnoes, Saunesund to Holland, and thence to England, drifted on the rocks and filled, but has been assisted off, and will proceed to Fordo rikstadt to discharge, having received much damage. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST INDIA DOCK JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Tuesday morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, an accident, attended with very shocking circumstances, took place on the line of the East India Dock Junction Railway, whereby a man, named Joseph Meadows, aged 31 years, a porter in the service of the company, received such frightful injuries that he is not expected to recover. It appears that the unfortunate man had only been placed iu his situation a few hours, and was engaged in the goods department near the Poplar station ; and on the morning in question he was assisting in the removal of several trucks into a siding. He, however, had not been at work long before a train approached with a quantity of stores, and before he could get out of the way he was knocked down on the rails, when the wheels of the carriages passed over both his legs, which were found to be most fearfully mutilated and crushed. The poor fellow was raised up by his companions, and carried to the Limehouse-station, where he was promptly seen by a surgeon, who rendered some temporary assistance, and advised his removal to the London Hospital, whither he was conveyed in a hackney carriage with all possible speed. He was im• mediately seen by the medical officers of the institution, who found, upon examination of the injured parts, that both the lower portions of the legs must be amputated, wh!ch operation was at once performed by Mr. Adams, one of the senior surgeons, who was assisted by Mr. Mantell, the resident surgeon. The unfortunate man bore the operation with great fortitude, and last even i ng but faint hopes were given of his re co very, THE TAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS. ( From the Daily News. ) To-night Mr. Milner Gibson is to bring under the notice of Parliament the branch of taxation that bears peculiarly on the press. On the present occasion he is to place the subject before the House of Commons in three divisions—first, the Advertisement Tax, then Paper Tax, then Stamp Tax. The mere fact of the ex istence of this treble taxation on a single product en. titles the honourable member for Manchester to every attention and support in his endeavours to correct a fiscal injustice. The tendency is now towards revision and to simplicity of taxation. We live in days when men incline to admit the wisdom of lightening a tax when it is desired to increase its productiveness ; nor is the temper of the time one in which a glaringly unjust amount of charge can be levied on a single product. It is quite enough to pay one tax on one article, and when it is seen that a special product has been selected for the purpose of burthening it with treble taxation, the sense of common fairness leads men to cry shame, and to seek the first opportunity of removing the injustice. If in this country it is thought wise to raise a portion of needful revenue from a charge upon that necessary of civilised life—a newspaper—the pro ducers, both literary and mechanical, can do little more than regret the fact, and pay the money ; but when Parliament does not stop there, but continues to insist upon a second and third impost on the same thing, the unfairnes s and the folly at once justify and excite a loud claim for reform. It is now clear that the taxes on the press were originally imposed rather for the purpose of keeping a rein over its freedom than from hopes of profitable revenue ; but even on repressive grounds it is needless to retain the treble impost ; whilst viewed in the light of productive ness to the Exchequer, it has been clearly shown again and again that these three taxes have a tendency to damage each other's fruitfulness. The Advertisement Duty—the first on Mr. Gibson's list —produces little revenue, but by checking the extension of publicity it checks business, and thus interferes more or less with a host of other feeders of the Exchequer. Again, by limiting the number of announcements, the correspon dence that inevitably follows the publication of any ad vertisement is lessened, and thereby Post-office produc tiveness is interfered with. Then again, every increase of advertisements must add to the consumption of paper on which these notifications are printed. Here then we see the Advertisement Tax in operation againt the Paper Duty. Yet all the time that every one of these three imposts is acting against the other the whole three press in mischievous combination upon the newspaper which has to bear them. Every Liberal member of Parliament will surely feel bound to vote on this subject, and those members who might not be inclined to remove any restriction which may seem to afford a guarantee for the press—nay, even those reactionaries who would if they could prevent or limit the freedom of the press —that liberty of printed discussion, which is one of the foundations of our liberties even these, we say / should assist in removing at least one of the press taxes, if only on the ground that the other two might be more profitable to the Exchequer. A deputation who waited recently on Mr. Gladstone to draw his attention to the Advertisement Tax put their case very briefly before him in the form of ten objections, which may be thus sum marised. It presses unfairly: newspapers and periodicals are taxed on each advertisement, whilst all other means of advertising escape the duty • it is an unjust tax ; the rich pay only eighteenpence duty on an advertisement of an estate, whilst the poor pay the same sum for leave to advertise for employment; it falls with special weight on particular kinds of property ; it checks the free ex tension of cheap knowledge • it helps to create a mo nopoly, by practically excluding the less wealthy from the advantages of publicity ; it involves a false principle of taxation ; it is a tax the repeal or reduction of which the public would gain the full benefit of; it is a tax largely evaded: "the blank wall, the advertising van (dangerously blocking up th e p u bli c th oroug hf ares , the omnius, the railway carriage, the railway station, the street pavement, and many other modes of advertising, reduce the amount paid to Government to a compara tively small amount, and leave its pressure exactly where it is most severely felt, and where many grounds of public policy condemn it. It is a great impediment to trade, literature, and labour seeking a market through publicity—and to the newspaper press for that reason ; while the small amount of revenue which it yields— about 160,0001. per annum —renders it altogether un worthy of retention, at a cost of a tithe of the hardship and injustice which it inflicts." To-night not only Liberals, but men of all politics who advocate fiscal re form and fairplay in taxation, may well treat one at least of the taxes on the press as an " open question," by giving a vote in favour of reforming the Advertisement Duty. KEEPING OF THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS. (From the Times.) Till a few years ago our middle classes alone were taught the art of arithmetic. Excepting only such simple elements as were picked up in the nursery or in the dame school, gentlemen were thought above learn ing it, and labourers below. They, however, who were not to go to the Universities, or India, or the plough, did go beyond compound division, and in due time became familiar with certain mysterious terms, important enough to form the subject of separate chap ters in our popular books of arithmetic. " Gross and net," " tare and tret," are terms that have haunted through life many a mind brought up in a commercial academy, among ushers, slates, sponges, globes, rulers, and compasses. Practised in these expressions, the middle-class intellect learnt to discriminate between re turns and profit ; to sift from the former their thousand and one necessary deductions, and not to hail the latter till it had passed through the furnace of a tenfold exami nation. Therein is the great difference, in a commercial point of view, between the gentleman and the tradesman. The gentleman, unless he has a fund of common sense, or a genius that dispenses with a mercantile education, ruins himself by a too lavish scale of management. As Adam Smith says, and as ho tells us why, the gentleman never turns tradesman or farmer without sinking all his returns in a too splendid and indulgent scale of salaries, ma chinery, material, and experiment. He trades or farms as he would conduct his town establishment or manage his garden. In this respect, the farmer who aspires to be a gentleman generally falls into the same error as the gentleman who condescends to be a farmer. Now, that is precisely what is asked from a Legis lature of gentlemen at this moment, and what the Chancellor of the Exchequer is now prepared to concede, with regard to the management of the great national farm. As Mr. Williams said, on introducing his motion on Tuesday, in spite of continual remonstrance as much as six millions of the revenue is wholly unaccounted for. It disappears in the management. It falls to the ground, and runs away in ten thousand pockets, just as the pro duce of a careless or extravagant farmer is scattered and lost on the way, during the many journeys and restings it has to make from the time it is reaped till it is sold in the market. All that sum, and much more, for anything that we know, is spent without ever coming before the eyes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer or within the grasp of Parliament. It is impossible to say how much is collected from the public, and what is the actual amount of the huge burden under which unfortu nate John Bull is continually acquiring a more downward spirit, a more awkward gait, rounder shoulders, and more wrinkled brow. All we know at present is, that we pay 52,000,000/. and something more. Let us know all that we ' have to pay. The most liberal man recoils from the bill of an extortionate lodging-housekeeper, which, after the stipulated sum, runs out into a long tail of supplementary items. Night after night the House of Commons, now for half a century, has been shaving and paring, in order, if possible, to save something out of our enormous ex penditure, and of late years it flatters itself it has saved something ; but it is baffled at the most promising part of the task by discovering that the expenses of collecting the revenue are not under its control. While it keeps down the responsible expenditure, the irresponsible actually increases ; and though the revenue, after im mense deductions, is less than it was twenty years ago, the expenses of collecting it are actually greater. Was there ever a stronger argument in favour of a responsible system ? Exempt any portion of the expenditure from Parliamentary control and we now see how rapidly it would increase. Indeed, it is evident that the jobbery and corruption which we drive from the daylight of Parliamentary control take refuge, like bats, in those holes and corners which lie out of its reach. In this vast unaccounted margin there is the greatest variety of payments, and when we inquire into them we are told that some are too fixed to be worth scrutinising ; and some too unfixed to bear it ; some too old and some too ephemeral; some too great and some too little ; some too personal and some too national; but it is obvi ous that when contrary reasons are assigned they answer one another. It is difficult to say what there is to de mand either secrecy or exemption from Parliamentary control in such matters as expenses of quarantine, ware housing establishments, judicial establishments in Scot land, pensions granted in the reigns of Charles 11. and William 111., inspectors of corn returns, the civil government of Scotland, the encouragement of Bri tish fisheries, the salaries of process-servers, or allow ances to the officers of the tax departments in Ire land. If these payments are fixed, there can be no reason to conceal them. If they are discretional, that is no reason why they should be done on the sly. Augmentations of pay, promotions, superannua tions, assistant-clerks, leave of absence, perquisites, payments for extra hours, arc all matters in which there may be the grossest extravagance, favouritism, or injus tice, and are therefore peculiarly fit to be under Parlia mentary control. There is a general impression that public servants work less for their money than private servants, and that, after all, they find it a very thankless service. The best men in Government service inva r i a bl y say that they would have done very much bett er i n pri vate employment on any business wh a t ever ; and the worst men are sure to ascribe thei r no t getting on in the world to the depressing influen ce o f a Government office. that even U the stupid n en We believe, ourselves, th a t it is a n n o d ne i d b l u e t itnhveniinidaohlleyn get e a t n d siek dull, of and it a at tshervice whi c h su i ts d l e i : a t t h e d iron routi ne w hi ch is as fatale continual scruti n y o f Parliament itis possible that the public service mi g ht b e released from that corap employe as it ev id ently is to the to the intellect of interests the of the St a t e . There certainly i s not a tendency ju s t now to scrut i nise on reason or presumptiyo,n. T or to overlook c l a i ms f oun d e d phernees n is, h general suspicion that many la expenditure t oo closely, n d o e rw the' h v e e r c , Stamps, and Excise, arelittle bett er th an s i ne cures, and :sto v m er s y , are kept up for no other purpo se than political influence, last the sense to call it. Be that suspicion well founded or not, the only way to extin guishimputation or the abuse mentary control, ) which, if Mr. Gladstone keeps his word, and co • ntmues in office loner enough, we may now reasonably ho ' Hope t o see applied to this subject. FOREIGN. 10 3 A.r:Averp&itot;:erdam — id 5 3 BelgianEastn. Juliet. 1 lg 20 all Oharleroi&Erquolin. 13A —11 A 20 6 Dijon and Bosauvn. • 2i 31 ~ 20 8 Dutch Rho-fish ....... 2 -1. 4 ,1 L 61 20 all East Indian ...... •• - 5, 6 20 1 Do. Extension •••• 1. 1 . 4„ p 5 all 'lt. Indian peninsula 2 — 23 f; 20 7 11. Junct. of Fra nce 11 21, 20A 15i Gt.Westernof Canada Shares. ... . ..... . ..... 1 r 5 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp• c• pref. 1 20 15 Luxemb0urg........... .......... 7A 74 7 10 10 Do. (Railway) ......... 4A —4?) 4 1 5 - .... . ............ 1 .3 4 5 3 Do. (Canal) ...... .. ..... 1 , 2 10 f., Do. 6p. ct. pref.— i ,i. 1 20 7 Lyons & Med iterran. 11 I 1 20 41 Nladras ... - ............ 23 3 1 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest) ....... . ....... 7 i 8 7 20 all Do. (.) x interest) ...... 6 7 16 all Northern of Fran . ce. 34 —36 a a 20 all Do. 20 1 . 3 p. c. Eds. (fmy.B. &Arns. Shs.) 14 15 14A 10 all NorwcgianTruukProf 8i 94 20 10 Paris and Lyons ...... 17i _ 1 4 8 3 7 28 2200 all al ParisPais a ai la i d d rtOorlue.yis.... 4242 __ 43 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 331 34 33 20 4 ParisCaeu&Cherbrg. 5 SAI 10 54 Quebec &Ric hmond. • —1 1 20 all Rouen and Havre—. 20A 21 20 all Sambro and Mouse... 94 w 9_ , i 10 4 Do. 51 p. ct. pref.... ... ... 20 4 Southern of France.. 5 N 3 20 2s. Upper Indi a Scri p . _ i / I Put 84 all West Flanders 4A 4 — 6 10 6 Do. 5A per c. Prof.... Adis P 20 10 Western of France... 104 —10 ii 203 10 2 West. of Switzerland . gd gd 20 3 Zea1and...... , ..... ..... rA ld . , 8 3 i i 1.24 i 109 911 24 92. 3i pin 761 11 1191 i 29 30 751 5 6 all 100 all 103 12A 13i 20 20 11i , 1521 3.4 10G NAV.AL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 13. The Agamemnon, 90 (screw), Captain Sir Thomas Maitland.—Several additional cases of relapse have occurred on board this beautiful but neglected ship. What else was possibly to be expected ? Of what ser vice, we ask in the name of common sense, was it to fumigate the Agamemnon, and then to permit unre stricted communication between her and her hospital hulk, Camperdown ? It becomes a sickening task to be obliged so often to notice this painful matter, but wo think it high time that some decisive and instant step should be taken to stay the further progress of an in sidious malady that may otherwise offect every ship in the harbour. It is very evident that the convalescent were too quickly put on board. The Illustrious, old 72.—We understandthat an order has come down from the Admiralty Board to fit this ship up as an hospital afloat, and to have in charge a lieute nant, surgeon, assistant-surgeon, a warrant officer, boat's crew, &c. She is much better calculated for such use ful service than the proposal of turning her into a block ship without a screw-propeller. If we are to have guard-ships for the protection of the East and West Channel of Isle of Wight, it is worth while to have efficient ones, capable of turning round. The Sidon, 22, paddle, Captain Goldsmith, had her damaged shaft taken out to-day. We understand it is toe faulty to be repaired, and to make a new one will require a month's work. This unfortunate` vessel is again rendered useless, after a frightful expenditure of the country's money. The Basilisk, 6, paddle, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton.—We had an opportunity of inspecting the bot tom of this vessel to-day, and feel a pleasure in stating that not the slightest damage was sustained in her touch ing on the bar in coming into harbour the other evening. Her copper has as fair a surface as on the first day she was launched. The Imperieuse, GO, screw, Captain Rundle B. Matson, C. 8., got up steam and got several turns at the mea sured mile, apparently with great speed. We will give the result of the trial in our next. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 13. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-frigate Odin, 16; Captain F. Scott, arrived in the Sound yesterday, at 2 p.m, and sailed at 5 p.m., for a cruise in the Channel. The quarantine flag was flying, and she had no commu. nication with the shore. The Sanspareil, 71, Capt. S. C. Dacres, took her powder and shells on board yesterday, —The P.Ala i ,s-wilnc.l - • - -•-• • 2.tft 1,1 Re I Thomas Fisher,saleCrorigi Tuesday for Pembroke with jurymasts for the James Watt. The Scorpion, 6, surveying-vessel, arrived yesterday from Portsmouth, and will come into harbour to-day to be paid off. The 6, wa9 taken i n t o d oc k on Tuesday to have hier Nautilus, 6, WOOLWICH, Arno 13. APPOINTMENTS. Clerks.—William H. Chapman (1848), from the Dos cawen, 70, guardship of ordinary, at Chatham, to the Hogue, 60, screw steam-guardship, at Devonport ; Chas. W. Tuke (1848), to the Tortoise, storeship, at the Island of Ascension. Commodore Henry Eden, Superintendent of Wool wich Dockyard, having gone on leave, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, as senior officer, has taken the duties afloat, and Mr. M'Donald, the master attendant, the duties of the dockyard. The Cyclops steam-frigate, having the Melampus, 42, frigate, in tow, with the machinery and boilers of the St. Jean D'Acre on board, passed Woolwich at 4 p.m. yesterday, on their way to Devonport, where the latter vessel is to be fitted with her engines, of 600-horse power, by John Penn and Son. The Phoenix screw steam-sloop, Commander Edwat d A. Inglefield, is reported to be ready for sea by Satur day next, and will be tried down the river on Monday next, to ascertain the working capabilities of her engines. THE COAST OF AFRICA. By the arrival of the Mail screw-packet Faith at Ply mouth, from the west coast of Africa, we have the fol lowing from the squadron : The Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Bruce, in his flag-ship Penelope, 16, steam-frigate; Captain Lyster, was at Lagos, Feb. 28, with the Alecto, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Crufton ; Cygnet, 8, Commander R. D. White ; Ferret, Commander Macdonald ; and Britomart, 8, Commander Hesseltine. The Ferret remained at Lagos on the 11th March, but the Commander-in-Chief had left for Ascension. Alecuo had proceeded to the eastward, and was passed off Grand Popo on the 12th. Bloodhound, steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Chris. tian ; Pluto, steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Bedding. field, and two French men-of-war were at Sierra Leone, March 23. Firefly, steam-sloop, Commander Seymour, was at Goree, March 28. THE :VULCAN AND THE LATE COURT MARTIAL. We regret to hear that some serious differences be tween the officers of the Vulcan, screw steam-ship and the officers of the regiment Commander Van Donop con veyed to Australia, took place on the voyage, and that it is not at all improbable that some correspondence will pass between the Horse Guards and the Admiralty on the subject. We are also sorry to find that there has been so much misunderstanding between the commander of the Vulcan and his officers, which will lead, it is said, to further courts-martial. The case of the mate, tried on Tuesday, is looked upon as a very hard one, and although it was impossible for the court to have overlooked the admitted fact of direct disobedience of orders, yet the circumstances which led the mate (a commissioned officer) respectfully to commit a breach of discipline, demand, on the the part of the Admiralty, further inquiry. It is su mated that the court, which was composed of 11 cap tains, did not go far enough into the " whys and where fores" of the case, and that they stop short of their duty if; in upholding stern discipline, they do not satisfy the service that justice has been done to all grades. There is no excuse for disobedience of orders that are not un lawful, but to fulfil the requirements of justice, this case should not terminate without an inquiry into the whole of the facts that led to the commission of the offence. These facts must have been of a very extraordinary cha racter, or the court would not have so pointedly alluded to it in their sentence. If we are rightly informed, the mate not only appealed to his captain against his ordering him to do inferior duty to that of a midshipman, but previously to his offence, he actually wrote to Commander Von Donop for a court of inquiry or court-martial ; but of which application no notice was taken by the commander. Another " extraordinary" fact has reached us from Portsmouth, which we trust to see fully explained. It is reported that after the court-martial was over, Mr. Hartwell went on board the Vulcan to get his things, when be was again placed under arrest. He expostu lated in vain, and at length managed to get a note to the commander-in-chief, when Sir Thomas Cochrane instantly ordered his release, and accompanied his peremptory order with a sharp rebuke. We sincerely hope that there is no foundation for this statement.-- Herald. NAVAL DISCIPLINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. Sir,-----Our naval discipline is a subject that cannot be too often discussed or too often brought under public notice. It is one of vital importance, because on it de , pends the efficiency of our navy, and, in a great measure, the safety of the country. Everything that has a ten dency to weaken our maritime superiority ought to be exposed, and (without taking into consideration either professional prejudice or antiquated opinions) inquired into and remedied. The great question of manning the navy has at length attracted public attention, and the present state of the fleet imperatively demands a searching investigation into the causes that have driven 20,000 seamen to place themselves under the protection of the flag of the United States of America. Sir James Graham, who, as a landsman, must be as ignorant of naval discipline as he is of naval tactics, stated to the House of Commons, that the cause was the unusually high rate of wages offered by the mercantile service, and said "To that cause, and that cause alone, I ascribe that desertion." Now, every one in this free country has a right to give his opinion on any subject connected with its prosperity and safety, and I believe that all who are acquainted with naval discipline, and have no interest in concealing its enormities, will be unanimous in attributing deser tion to other more serious causes than that so plausibly and confidently proclaimed by the First Lord of the Admiralty. The English people are kept in ignorance of what is passing on board our ships, particularly on foreign stations. Naval discipline has for many years been a sealed letter, and if Sir James Graham could be prevailed upon to break the seal and disclospereivtsaiclonon con- tents he would render a great service to the country. Do those who presume to speculate on the ere . - o f Englishmen, think that the vesting in the public to believe in flitheetiuncrecteosrstiutyYr e coa o fn n his fellow man of a system that drives Atlantic produce proof of that Because they know in y man ? Why do not the are fully aware they cannot. oounree cause ssnes' ai t atT h nyn a l t tnh forces acrosspee Because u s o r et u h° r t ehr their hearts that it was and is the seaman a foreign e enjoys ymu s e eamen to take refuge under the fitlaieggovernment. hn In the merchant service appeal to the civil pelwf c erfer re r a e te d r res adv . advantages than the: treated seaman with cbrutality, ship man -of -war's man. The merchant his at the end of his s , the man-of -war s engagement ; the man-of-war's-man cannot, and the latter is at the mercy of the cap tain, who, if the sailor incurs his displeasure, is em powered by the Articles of War to punish him " ac cording to the customs and usages observed at sea." Now, every ship has its customs, and every captain his usages, for what they ought to be are not defined by the Articles of War • and the seamen under his command are the victims of caprice and his cruelty. It is to these causes, and to these causes alone, that I ascribg these desertions. And what are the remedies proposed by my lords of the Admiralty! Not courts-martial, but the very liberal allowance of sixpence per diem to the worn-out seaman. He will be permitted to return to his native village with, in all pro bability, a lacerated back and his splendid sixpence, to be pointed at as "the man who was flogged on board a man of war !" There is a law for the protection of animals against cruelty, but the seaman is not included in it. Is the biped called a sailor an inferior animal to the q uadruped called a dog ? And is he considered by our legislators as of less value than the donkey that draws the cart of the costermonger ? For the present, "I shall pause for a reply,"--I am, Sir, your obedient servant, BLUE PETER. I x .., 1 g f S it w icouf )10 01 3010' r fain 4 low 105 lucl6 ;.s 01 Ind u nsl?' cbA lt .; r th el. e CU tte i. ' rid P b. a of cto r i reP o tl l l o? [e‘l ~d ro,i 00 1 BA, all 100 all, all 11! 100 11i 211 all all 50 20 11A 10 100 42 100 - 100 474 174 all 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 21s. 1 100 20 11i 100 103 i 64 i 9 1i i 7 3 5k