The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

Inirb IM)Won SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALLS'—(This Evening.) ASCOT STAKES. 7to 1 agst Alice Wentworth 7to 1 agst Winkfield 14 to 1 net Paula Monti 20 to 1 agst Cerva HUNT CUP. 12 to 1 agst Good Friday 12 to 1 aget Flacrow ASCOT CUP. sto 1 agst Skirmisher (taken and offered) Bto 1 apt Wardermarske (taken) 9to 1 agst Gamma di Vergy (taken) 9to 1 agst Polestar 100 to 8 agst Adamas (taken) 20 to 1 iigst Warlock (taken) 20 to 1 apt Winkfield ST. LEGER. 6to 2 agst Blink Bonny (taken) sto 1 agst Ignoramus 12 to 1 agst Drumour (taken) 15 to 1 agst Wardermarske (taken) 20 to 1 agst Adamas (taken) ARRIVALS AT ASCOT. Blink Bonny, Strathnaver, Flacrow, Rosa Bonheur, Nereus, Skirmisher, Saunterer, Kestrel, Nougat, Lawn, Venetia, Evening Star colt, Pitapat, Lord Raglan, Bea trice, Winkfield, Warfield, Queen Mab filly, filly out of Catalpa, Yorkshire Las% Peter Flat, Rhisus, f by Alarm out . of Elspeth, Fanfaronade, Sir Colin, c by Windbonnd out of The Maid, Artillery, Admiral Lyons, Cultivation, Emigrant, Cashier, Amelia, York, Duke of Lancaster, Star of Albion, Adamas, Beechnut Turbit, Noisette, Claude Lorraine, Vulcan, Lark, Triton, Ruth, Scho lfellow, Rosalind colt, Manganese, Fright, Intimidation, Sister to Hesse Cassell, Bribery cc lt, Paula Monte, Tame Deer, Plausible, Rotterdam, Cantrip, Mary Copp, Theodora, Bird -in - the - Hand, Warlock, Victoria, Punster, Wood Nymph, Star of the East, Good Friday, Sprightli ness, Shirah, Humbug, Arsenal, Strawberry, Clydee- Grey Dawn, Brown Mid6leton, Sydney, Sedbury, dale, and Chevalier d'lndustrie. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a petition from Hammersmith, praying for an equalisation of the peor-rate. - The Earl of EGLINTON presented petitions from places in ScAland against the admission of Jews into Parliament, and in favour of an inspection of convents. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a petition from the proctors of Doctors' commons, praying for com pensation in the event of the Probate and Letters of Ad ministration Bill passing into a law. The Earl of DERBY presented a petition against the Sale of Poisons Bal. Lord AVELAND presented a petition from the Poor La►w Union of Spalding, Lincolnshire, for the better regulation of beer shops. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills were read a second time :—Chepstow Gas, PeebleN Railway, South Devon Railway, Reversionary Interest Society. - CASE OF MR. SHEDDON. • Earl GREY presented a petition from Mr. W. P. R. Sheddon, complaining, amongst other things, that, by a decision of the Court of Session in Scotland in 1303, and of this house in 1808, obtained in his infancy, he had been deprived of his estates as a natural born subject of this realm, and as the legitimate cbild of his parents, and of the means of investigating in any courts of law the question of such statutes, and causing the same to be recognised. The petitioner prayed for suzh rel:ef and redress as to this house might seem fit. The noble lord called the attention of their lordships to the state ments contained in the petition, which he stigma tised as one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated. The chief actor in the transaction was a gentle. man named Patrick, who had arrived at a great age, and filled a high position in society and in the honourable profession to which be belonged. He had carefully perused the whole facts of the case, and he bad alio read the statement of Mr. Patrick, and having done so, he felt it his duty to bring the stit.ject under their lordships' consideration. The Dale lord then proceeded to give an outline of the case; in which he entered at some length into the birth and parentage of the petitioner, whose father, it appeared, had the management of a mercantile business in Ame rica ; but on the breaking out of the American war his estates were confiscated, in consequence of his having espoused the royal cause. In 1778 he went to Bermuda, and on the conclusion of peace he re-visited New York with a view to their recovery, but was unsuccessful up to the time of his death, which took place in 1798. Before he died he Executed a deed respecting some property,of which be was in possession of in Scotland, which he left to his son. This deed could not be found. Amongst other things, the will contain e d an i n j enct i on that his son should be sent to Scotland and there placed under the care of Mr. Patrick a nephew of Mr. Sheddon, sen. Mr. Sheddon was married in America, and the issue of this marriage was two childrehLthe petitioner and a daughter. To avoid the marriage, which was per formed by civil declaration, being questioned, another marriage took place in Scotland. [LETT S2EAXING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The &MAXIM took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. The Earl of FIFE took the oaths and his seat for Banffshire. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bids were read a third time and passed : —Cork Gas, Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier, Mayor's Court of the City of London, North Eastern Railway (Capital), and Tralee and Killarney Railway Bills. The following bills were further considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Bri,lgewater Mar kets and Fairs ; Burelem and Tonstall Gas ; Tyne Im provement ; Wycombe Railway ; and Banff, Portnoy, and Straithisle Railway. ELECTION PETITION. The SPEAKER announced that the recogniaances of the elec-.ton petition in reference to the borough of Cashel were unobjectionable. DIVORCE BILLS. Colonel PATTEN nominated the following select committee :—Mr. Walpole, Mr. Massey, Mr. Estcourt, Sir John Pak.ington Sir John Y ar d e B u ll er, M r. Head lam, Mr. Bonham-darter, Sir Erskine Perry, and Mr. Adderley. THE SLAVE TRADE. Mr. KINNAIRD pre-ented a petition signed by up wards of 1,500 of the principal inhabitants of the Island of Jamaila, complaining of the non-enforcement of treaties with Spain, relating to the abolition of the slave trade, an i the consequent incr - •a-e of slavery in Cuba, and the difficulties of free labour competing with slave labour in the Spanish colonies. NETLEY HOSPITAL. Sir D. NORREYS gave notice that he should, to morrow, ask for the production of papers and plans re lative to tote erection of Netley Ilovital, and also ask the Secretary for War if he haA any statement to make in answer to that of the hon. member for North North amptonshire in the debate on Friday night. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS AND REFORMA- TORY SCIIOOLS. Sir G. GREY gave notice that he should, to morrow, ask for leave to introduce a bill founded on the Ecclesiastical Cotncuissioners' report, and also to intro duce a bid for the extension of reformatory schools in England. EDUCATION. Mr. HENLEY, in the absence of Sir J. Pakington, suffering from an accident, gave notice that the right hon. baronet would not be able to bring on his motion on education on Thursday next. MORTMAIN LAWS. Mr. HADFIELD asked the Attorney-General whe ther it was intended to bring in a bill to amend the raort main laws in England, and to assimilate the laws there to those of Scotland and Ireland, and especially to give facilities to transactions for charitable institutions con nected with real, leasehold, and copybold estate, founded upon valuable consideration in money, rent, and other- Wise' and whether the same be by way of purchase, mortgage, lease, or otherwise howsoever ? The ATTORNEY -GENERAL said that the Govern ment not intend to introduce any measure of the kind this session. SUPERANNUATION ACT. Mr. D. O'CONNELL asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government would bring in the bill for the amendme n t o f the Civil Service Superannua tion Act ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the report of the committee was under the considera tion of the Government, brit they bad not y e t come t the decision to introduce a bid on this e sub j t Certain questions had been submitted to the actua riese which had not yet been received. Toby were to be presented in a supplsmental report which had not yet been laid before the bodge. MUNICIPAL BURGHS (SCOTLAND). Mr. BAXTER asked the Lord Advocate, if he in. tended, this cession, to introduce a permissive bill, pro viding for the extension oi the Municipal boundaries of Burghs in Scotland ? The LORD -ADVOCATE said he intended to intro duce such a measure, and pass it this seswion. HARBOURS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Mr. BAXTER asked the Secretary to the Treasury when he intended to move for the select committee to inquire into the harbours of the United Kingdom ? Mr. WILSON said he hoped to move the committee early next wek. T.HE CAPE. Major S, WORTLEY asked when, without in any ; way lessening the force at the Cape of Good Hope, it was.the intention of the Governmeut to remove the 6th, 45th, and 73d Regiments, whose period of colonial ser vice bad expired some time, and to replace those regi ments with three others ? Lord PALMERSTON said the question was answered on a former occasion, viz., that though their term of service had expired, the requirements of the service would not permit their return home at present. The arrangements for moving troops, he thought, had better be left to the Government than discussed in that house. (Hear, hear.) STATUTE LAW COMMISSION. Mr. WARREN asked the First Lord of the Trea sury, whether any and what steps bad been taken by the Government towards carrying out the recommenda tions contained in the last report of the Statute Law Commission, and the views of the several witnesses examined before the committee of this house, appointed to consider the propositions in that report ; and whe ther an officer with a competent staff had been ap pointed, as proposed by the said committee, for the pur pose of attending to all bills referred to that officer, and reporting exactly to Parliament the state of the existing law, and how it would be affected by the proposed alte rations, and especially after a bill had passed through a committee to examine it and report immediately to the house what had been done by the committee, and whether that committee was to be reappointed ? Mr. BAINES said that the committee, on the dissolu tion of Parliament, reported the evidence taken, but did not make any recommendation. Considering the number of committees sitting and about to sit, the Statute Law Commission would not be reappointed. The Govern ment had under their consideration the appointment of a Minister of Justice, and if that be done, much that the hon. and learned meraber asked would be matter for that functionary to consider. NAVAL OFFICERS.—GREENWICH HOSPITAL. Sir GEORGE BROOKE PECHELL inquired of the Secretary to the Treasury, whether the case of certain naval officers of Greenwich Hospital had been favourably considered, which was referred to the Treasury by the Board of Admiralty, praying they might be placed in the same position, with regard to the receipt of half•pay, as other officers of that establishment t Mr. WILSON said that only the governor and de puty-governor of Greenwich Hospital received half-pay in addition to their civil salaries. The case of the Chelsea officers was different, because the whole of the emoluments of the officers of Chelsea was less than the civil salaries of Greenwich Hospital. The Government did not intend to make any alterations in this matter. TRANSMISSION OF MAILS TO AUSTRALIA. Mr. ADDERLEY asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether any and what arrangements had been made for the transmission of mails to and from the Australian colonies, including the branch services to South Australia, Vaa Themen's Land, and New &e -land ; and if not, what steps were being taken by her Majesty's Government towards completing the same I Mr. WILSON said that arrangements were made for the conveyance of these mails, and carried into effect, in August last, to the satisfaction of the Government. Two branch mails were to have been established under the contract, between Melbourne and Tasmania on the one hand, and New Zealand on the other, bat it had not been carried out, owing to a misapprehension. Instruc tions, however, had been sent to the local authorities to carry them into effect. OATHS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, three petitions were presented from synagogues in favour of the bill. The bill was then read a second time without opposi tion, and ordered to be committed on Monday nex•. TUE CIVIL SERVICE. Viscount GODERICH on the motion for going into committee of supply on the Civil Service Estimates called the attention of the house to the last report of the civil service commissioners, and to the present system of admission to the civil service. The noble viscount referred to the report of last year, and called the attention of the house last session, as well as to the speech of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on that occasion, which induced him (Viscount Goderich) to withdraw his motion, from an impression that a great change was to be effected in this branch of the service, and said that, af.er reading the report laid on the table of the house this year, he felt much disappointment to find that no advance S had been made in the right direc tion, that of open competition. The noble viscount, who was less audible than usual, read a variety of extracts from the reports in support of his views. In pass. ing, he remarked that he found the examiners of the nomination of the right hon. gentleman the member for Wells (Mr. Hayter) in the Excise and Customs, ap peared to be less stringent than in other departments. (Laughter.) He bad no desire to urge the Government to adopt hastily any extended system, but that they should progress and not retrograde.jHe had no desire to take the subject out of the hands of the Government, but if he considered the answer of the Government unsatisfactory, he should take an early opportunity of again bringing the subject forward. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BASS wished to know who had the power of nominating or recommending persons for the civil service, and on a former occasion when he asked for in formation, he was referred to the commissioners reports. He had txamined them very carefully, but he bad been unable to find what he required, which was of great interest to the public. He asked for an expla nation if offices were filled up by patronage as in former times, or by exlmination, and if so, what was the course to be adopted ? Mr. RICH supported the movement headed by Vis count Goderich, and expressed a belief that there must be some insuperable objection that prevented the Chan cellor of the Exchequer from carrying out competitive examinations. Out of 376 vacancies that occurred last year, 66 were given away on competitions. Of these 43 were given in the first six months, and but 23 in the last 6 months. The remaining 310 were given away on nomi nations. In the first 6 months the number of persons competing was 4i to each appointment, and in the last 6 months the average competing only amounted to three to each appointment. [LEFT MIXING.] ilmmo THE SUN, LONEON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1857 Naval and Military intelligence. GOLD WORKS IN ENGLAND. gold from Welsh quartz by the smelting procesl, but this soon met the fate which attends all schemes that go out of the way to be excessively expensive. It was soon wound up, but its brief peL iod of working seemed to prove that about three-quarters of an ounce of gold per ton could be got from Welsh rock, though, as far as we are aware, it did not prove that the supply of quartz of even this mode rate richness was large or would be constant. That fair and, perhaps, even rich specimens of auriferous quartz may now and then be found in Wales we are well aware, though it has yet to be shown that it is rich enough to pay the working, or that enough of any kind exists to keep up a regular supply. Gold is almost as universally diffused as iron ; it may even be obtained from the ashes of plants, therefore Welsh quartz is not likely to be without it, but th quanity of its yield is op e n t o as grave doubts as the extent of any auriferous rocks in Wales at all. This is the problem which the Frodsham Company propose to solve. Without being at all sanguine upon the matter, we at least wish them to do so satisfactorily Their plans are not badly laid, and will at least have one result— that of setting at rest for ever the long disputed question as to the value:of the gold-bearing quartz, if we may so call it, in the United Kingdom. The expense of the experiment is not very great, but the chance of a large return is not great either. The same company are also about to enter into arrangements for a supply of Australian quartz. If this is well done the plan may result in a very fair profit. The enormous expense of coal and labour at the Australian diggings makes it unremunerative to crush gold quartz bearing less than six ounces to the ton, just as the rule is there not to smelt copper ore of less than 24 per cent., though here the cop per ore of 5 and 6 per cent. commands a good price. If a regular supply of Australian gold quartz at six ounces the ton can be procured the Cheshire " dig gings" may indeed exult, but the proof of the feasi bility of such an arrangement must be well authen ticated and beyond dispute. THE NIAGARA. (Prom the Times.) People who know only of gold in nuggets, and who are accustomed weekly to read of the arrival of half-a-million in ounces from Australia, may be surprised to hear of works for the crushing of gold quartz being established i n E ng l and. Neverthe less, such is the fact, and in a remote corner of Che shire—pregnable only to firm railway tourists—an establishment exists, not only for the convers'on of American quartz into ounces and ingots of the pre cious metal, but which purposes to extend its auri ferous researches among the mountains and quar ries of England. The Chancellorsville Company, as it is called, has been at work now only for a short period, though long enough to found a tolerably extensive factory, if we may so term it, where all the various processes necessary to the production of the circulating medium from exceedingly dirty looking stones goes on daily. The material upon which up to the present they have [tested their powers has been Virginian quartz from a gold-bear ing district in the United States ; but they intend to venture upon experiments with the English rocks, which, if successful, may lead to important results. To prove the facility and cheapness with which gold might be extracted from the American quartz a number of scientific gentlemen and others interested in the result of the scheme were invited down to the works on Saturday, with a view to a public exhibition of the whole modus operandi, and of course a display of its anticipated profits. Frodsham, as some of our readers may know, is rather an out-of-the-way place, a long, lazy looking town, with no particular interest in itself, or apparently in anything else either. A third crew would be a source of excitement, and, of course, under such eircumstances the new gold works are by no means over-looked, but form the staple of comment and conversation throughout the little town. The visit of a large party of gentle men especially to inspect them and their results on Saturday will by no means tend to allay this grow ing interest, which seems fast leading to the belief that Frodsham is to be at once the Bendigo and California of the Old World. In order that our readers may not be led into so grievous an error, we shall at once inform them of the processes now going forward at Frodsham, their present results, and (on the part of the company) future intentions and anticipations. The works are now solely en gaged in crushing American quartz, or perhaps, we may say ore, in which the gold is found. To those troubled with vague ideas as to gold being always picked up, and realised with little labour and no capital, this account of its "manufacture" from quartz will at least be new, if not interesting. The ore on which the Cbancellorsville Company work is quarried from an extensive mine belonging to the company in Orange County, Virginia, a short distance from Frederieksburgh, and which is brought over to this country as ballast. When de livered on the wharf of the works at Frodsham its cost is nearly 308. per ton. It is a coarse amor phous quartz, not unlike rock salt in appearance, but largely intermixed with auriferous and argen tiferous pyrites. This is first calcined in an ordi nary kiln to partially free it from sulphur, and as sist the process of crushing, which it subsequently undergoes from the stampers, after being broken into smaller pieces. The stampers used at Frodsham are ordinary Cornish ones, of the most primitive form, and such as have been inuse throughout Corn wall and Devon for many years. It is said that these do the work better than either Jones's, Ber , dan's, or Britten's quartz-crushing machines, which certainly seems singular; but what, perhaps, is more remarkable is that ordinary mill-stones,—in fact, a common flour-mill will, it is alleged, crush it better than any. Close to the Frodsham works stands an extensive flour-mill, at which 12 tons of the quartz have been ground finer than anything done by the stampers and crushing machines in the same period of time. The stones 1113 e d were the ordinary chert or millstone grit, as it is called, and the millers aver that this work wore them less than even grind ing Indian corn. It must be remembered, however, that the quartz is calcined before it reaches the mill, though, even making this allowance, it seems rather a snub to our mechanical progress to have in the 19th century to revert to a practice as old as mankind itself. The machine used at Frodsham has twelve 7 cwt. stunpers, which crush the quartz to the consistency of a coarse sand at the rate of rather more than a ton per hour, or about 20 tons per day. There is; however, already sufficient steam power on the premises to crush 50 tons daily if the supply is forthccming. From the stampers the crushed quartz flows with a stream of water into a series of " slime pits," labyrinths of narrow pipes at the entrance of which the particles of gold sink according to their specific gravity. From these it is shovelled up - with the other mattar with which it is mixed and placed on the " shaking table," a long platform of wood fixed under a small stream of water, and which by an alternate rise and fall allows the greater part of the extraneous substances to be washed away. Only a dark coloured sand, contain ing particles of quartz, gold, silver, copper, and iron, remains on the table, whence it is removed to undergo the process of fine grinding, which reduces it to an impalpable powder as soft as flour, and not unlike it, save that it glitters with minute specks of metal. It is again calcinced in a reverberatory furnace (to drive off the remains of sulphur), which is so constructed as to prevent the metallic particles of gold and silver passing up with the draught. Shafts are attached to the .furnaces in which the sulphur and any metals that may have volatilised are deposited, and the yield from the former appears to be large. As the ore thus roasted a second time is found thrown when tocont all a i proportion of other m e t a l s , i t is heated into a bath of mi nera l ac id s , by which the copp er, &c., is dissolved, and afterwards precipit a t e d in the usual manner. For reasons of econo my muriatic acid is used, though the saving is rather in appearance than in fact, as the chlorine in the acid must naturally dissolve a portion of the gold also, and to that extent diminish the yield per ton. The auriferous powder which remains is finally passed through a stream of water under a wheel containing 550 magnets, which re volves at the rate of 15 times a-minute. This frees it from much iron, yet, as it is done to prevent the iron entering with the gold and interfering with amalgamation, it is simply ridiculous, as the merest tyro in chemistry ought to know that between iron and mercury there can be no combination. The magnets are, however, useful for a duty which they were never intended to perform—namely, pressing out the arsenuret of iron. What remains flows into an amalgator, in which the mercury and ore are agitated together, the activity of the former be ing quickened occasionally by jets of steam passed through it. After a given time the mercury is re • moved and placed in a retort, where it is distilled into water, leaving only a gold button containing a little silver behind. On Saturday nearly the whole of this process was gone through on a small scale at Frodsbam. A ton of the quartz was crushed, cal cined fine, ground, magnetised, and amalgamated, and the yield was 1 ounce 7 pennyweights 7 grains of puregodl, or very nearly an ounce and a half per ton. The Niagara, United States screw f r i ga t e , C ap t . Hudson, arrived at Spithead. on Saturday morning, soon after daylight, and anchored. Her appear ance from the shore was anything but prepossessing. On looking aloft, however, the seaman's eye in stantly detects the beautifully-stayed masts and well-squared yards. Her size, and we believe her tonnage, has been considerably over - ra t e d . H er length has been stated to be nearly 390 feet, which would make her longer than the Himalaya ; whereas the Niagara is 45 feet shorter th an the Himalaya, but has more beam. From fore-part of figurehead to after-part of taffrail she is 339 feet 6 inches ; breadth of beam, 56 feet. In outward appearance she looks like a foreign troop-ship. It is only when on board that her advantages are perceptible. The bulwarks on the upper deck are full 7 feet in height, offering great protection from an enemy's fire. On this deck 12 monster guns of 11-inch bore are to be worked, and shutters can be lowered in all direc tions so as to get an acute angle. There can be no doubt, provided accuracy of range could be obtained, that she would be a most formidable antagonist ; but we should infinitely prefer in time of action such frigates as the Impe rieuse, Shannon, or Emerald, with their present armament. Descending to the main deck of the Niagara, the great space afforded is immediately perceptible, there being nearly eight feet under the beams, which are of great strength. We feel satisfied at the present moment she is a disguised ship of war, for her fighting quarters on the main deck, with 68 and long 32 pounders, would be perfection. Her engine -room is very beautifully arranged, but the temperature much above what we had expected. Lieut. Wells is now doing duty on board the iagara, and visitors will have the advantage of being courteously received and introduced to the rest of the officers. The con sul, Mr. Vincent Pappalardo, introduced Cap tain Hudson to the commander-in-chief, Ad miral Sir George Seymour, and other authorities, naval and military. The ward-room far sur passes in size and arrangement that of any ship in the British service. There are about 30 officers in all, and a present crew of 450 ; her full complement would be 700. The mess-tables and berthing-places of the men are of a first-rate character for comfort. The Niagara came into harbour before one o'clock and moored alongside the Rodney, 90, two-decker. She will be taken into the fitting or steam-basin to-day, and her alterations immediately commenced to enable her to receive her portion of the sub marine cable. The commander-in-chief paid a visit to the Niagara after Divine service yesterday. The Colossus, 80, screw, Capt. Thompson, is still lying at the basin moorings at Sheerness, landing all her stores, and stripping with all possible des patch. The order is now that she is to be paid off, and placed in the second-class steam reserve on the 16th of this month. The Ganges, 84, is fitting for commission at Sheerness. Report says she is intended to carry the flag of Rear Admiral R. L. Baynes, and to re lieve the Monarch in the Pacific. The Renown, 91, is still in the basin at Sheer ness, fitting her machinery. She will soon take her trial trip, when she will be placed in the second class steam reserve, in charge of Mr. Robert Nicoll, chief en gineer. The Terror, 14, floating battery, Capt. Frederick Hutton, is in No. 3, dry dock, Sheerness, fitting as a battery for Bermuda. The East India Company's troopships Owen Glendower and Vernon have arrived at Gravesend, having on board nearly 500 invalid troops from re giments serving in India. The Owen Glendower, Commander Watson, sailed from Kurrachee on the 11th February last, having on board 235 non commissioned officers and men belonging to the Bth (the King's), 24th, 27th (Enniskillens), 81st, 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers), and the Royal Artillery, with 33 women and children. During the voyage six men died, and one insane soldier, named Mahon, belonging to the 24th Regiment, jumped overboard when the vessel was near St. Helena, and was lost, although every effort was made to save him. The Vernon reached St. Helena on the 21st of April, and arrived in the Thames on Friday, after a fine passage of three months and twelve days. A banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards at the London Tavern on Saturday evening. Covers were laid for 60. The chair was taken by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Among the company were bis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer ; Colonels Wood, Ellison. Wynyard, Lindsay, Stanhope, Cadogan, &c. The officers of the 17th Lancers gave their annual dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Friday, when they were honoured with the company of the Duke of Cambridge. The Sydney strew steam transport, Captain Thornhill, arrived at Spithead on Friday night, from Gibraltar, which she left on the 31st of May, bringing 12 officers, three ladies, 29 soldiers' wives, 40 children, and 384 men of the 15th Foot, and four horses. She went into harbour yesterday to land them. The Mauritius and Cleopatra steam transports are hourly expected at Portsmouth to embark troops for China. The .4.ustralian steam transport, Captain Castle, from Gibraltar, arrived at Spithead yesterday, with 12 officers, 17 sergeants, 14 drummers, 308 ran k and file, 35 women, and 41 children of the 15th Foot On Friday two Russian steam yachts—the Veha and the Bakan—built by Messrs. Samuda, with machinery by Ravenhill and Miller, passed down the river under steam an d canvas , to test their capabilities before leaving for Cronstadt on Tuesday. Count Lacendorf, Lieutenant Peschowroff, Lieu tenant Skariateen, of the Russian navy, and a large party of gentlemen accompanied the yachts in their trial trip. These vessels are intended for the same purposes as our Trinity yachts, attending the lighthouses, and beacons of the coast, for which use they are specially designed. The results were most satisfactory, and when under steam the boats of each steamer (light cutters), fitted on Clifford's plan for lowering, were several times manned and let down quite free of the ships in a few seconds, without at all slackening the speed, the Count La cendorf and Lieutenant Skariateen being in one boat and Mr. Samuda in the other. The party of riggers and smiths, upwards of 50, employed since the arrival of the Agamemnon at Greenwich on Friday, in riveting the mooring chains and making her snug, were engaged inces santly throughout Friday night up to midday on Saturday, when they returned to Woolwich. The shipment of the submarine wire is to commence to morrow or. Wednesday. The steam troopship Dutchman, Jas. Kavanagh master, having landed her cargo of shot aid shell from Gibraltar at Woolwich / is discharged the Go vernment service. She is compactly fitted with con veniences as a troopship, and is provided with a couple of steam craues fitted to the quarter deck, by means of which 1,200 tons of cargo are removed in the course of 24 hours. The military-store screw steamship Balaklava, Capt. Wm. Petlatt, and the sailing transporc, Somer set, laden with returned stores fram Portsmouth, were yesterday morning moored off Woolwich Arsenal to discharge their cargoes. In consequence of the recommendation of the authorities of the storekeeper's department, Royal Arsenal, Lord Panmure has issued an order for several of the chief foremen of the department named to be discharged, with liberal pensions for long and faithful services. It is but fair to state that the experiment was tried upon one ton of quartz which had been shovelled up hap-hazard from a mass upon the premises. The average yield of the Virginian ore is stated to be 14 ounces per ton. It is very rarely less than this, and sometimes more. Half an ounce per ton, if worked upon th e s p o t w h ere t h e quarsz is found, would pay all expenses, and even with the works at Cheshire and the mine in America lioz., if the supply is continuous and the works well managed, should give a fair remuneration. Twenty tons per diem are now reduced at the Frodsham works, at a cost in coals for amalgamation, loss of mercury, labour, sundries, and wear and tear of machinery, of 17s. per ton, which, with the origi nal price of the ore, raises it to 21. 7s. The local facilities afforded at Frodsham aia very great ; la bour is cheap, there is water, carriage by the river Weaver to the very door of the works, and coals can be had at 6s. per ton delivered. Under these circumstances there can be no doubt that crushing auriferous quartz which yields 11oz. per ton ought to give a profit. It must, however, be shown posi tively that the supply of ore from Virginia can be reckoned upon as regular and large in quantity. But this remains to be proved. The company, however, have two strings to their bow, and do not intend to confine their quartz-crushiug to Virginian ores solely, but will also try the auriferous quartz which is found!about Dolgelly, and generallyround the base of Snowdon. A few small specimens of these quartz were shown at Frodsham, which are as rich as they are rare, and which if found in large quantities would yield, it is calculated, 1,500 OM. per ton. But, of course, these pieces are only curi osities for the cabinet of the mineralogist. Never theless it is thought that auriferous quartz may be found in North Wales at least as rich, if not richer than the ore from Virginia, which, of course, could be brought to the works at Frodsham at less than the price now paid for that from America. This is by no means the first time that attempts have been made to extract gold from the Welsh quartz, th oug h w h e th er f rom m i smanagemen t or the intri ns i c poverty of the matrix, not one of the schem es h as as ye t prove d remunera ti ve. No doubts whatever exists as to the auriferous nature of the soil and rocks of Wicklow, and for some time the Government mining energy was directed into that channel. The result was gold certainly, but gold at the rate of 51. and 6/. per oz. It must, however, be recol lected that at that time steam machinery was un known, and that at no time was our Government over celebrated for the skill or economy with which they could compete against private speculation. About two years ago a company started to produce PARK -CRESCENT GARDENS.—In these beautiful gar dens a fancy fair, for the sale of useful and ornamental work, will be held to-morrow and on Wednesday. From the list of patronesses, and the laudable object of their zeal, there is no doubt the fair will be very fully and fashionably attended. fADVERVISSMANT.]—SIGIIT AND HEARING. SPECTACLES.- - POWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W.—By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements iu the most powerful and bril liant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescopes posse,s such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-plece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a poison's countenance three-and-a-half mile, dis tant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waistcoat pocket, ant are of larger, and all sizes, with inc. easing Po Wets accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—A valu able newly-inVeuto l very small powerful Waistcoat Pocket Glass, the size of a wa l nu t, by w hi c h a person can b e seen and known one and a half mile distant. They an4wer every purpose on the race-course, and at the Opera Houses. Country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. limy are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalkinc, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and ton lets, Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Racecoursa Classes, with wonderful pow, rs. —lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power, The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre :served and strengthened,' and very aged persons aro enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation— can see with these lenses of a much less magnifying power —and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the moat remote part of the world by send inz one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eye they can read small print with ir, and those who have not made use of spectacles by statiry , their ago. Deafness. —N ew Discovery. —The Or ganic ° Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small newly invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, surpasses anything of the kind that leas been, or pro bably ever can be produced. Being of the same colour as tae skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to heap distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could bo desired. —39, Alt , einarle-street, Piccadilly.--Observe—opposite the York Hotel. W. Country Markets. HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET_JUNE 5. WHEAT. I BARLEY OATS. I EEC% E. First 63a Od 41 a 6d 35 s Od 504 041 Second 4Bs ad 1 36s 7d 1 30s 10d 1 44s 8I Third 3cis Od 1 25s 6d 129 s Od 1 403 Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 354 qrs., 330 sold ~ PP barley „ 34 qrs., 32 sold so , oats ,; 112 qrs., 130 sold ~ PP beans 105 qrs., 105 sold PI AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 8 3 3.l2ths 1 Barley, ....11. 16 7 1-12ths Oats, ... 11. 16 10 4-12th3 1 Beans, ..... 21. 4 8 7-12 tbs DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—JUNE 5. Best. Current, 7nfr .• :154 Wheat 63s &I 45s 0, ____...... nreiin 1 217 Oats 323 01 2Bs 50... ...... 22 i Od 111 Barley :42s Od. 32s 54d. 27 Peas & beans 463 6d 42s 5d ABERDEEN —JUNE 5. Potato oats Common oats 2 2 5 6 : 0 0 d 1 t to o 26 2 2 2 0 6 d d 1 401bs per bushel Bere 31s Od to 35 s Od 31s Od t o 40 s Od 1531b8 „ 13arley Wheat, red (spring)3Bs Od to 403 Ud 1 621 b white 35 8 Od t o 48 s Od " Oatmeal s 19s Od to 208 0,1 per boll. Flour 41s Od to 45s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, plb. Os 10d t o i s 0 • Mutton, per lb 7d t o 9d Eggs, p doz. Os 81 to Oa 10 Lamb, do., Os Od to 08 0.1 Rens, p pair 3s Od to 3s 6 • Veal, per lb ... 9d to is —d I Chickens,d o .l s 6d t o 28 0 Pork, 2er1b...0s 6d t o O s 7d Ducke, do., Os Od 0 SaIMOL, per lb .........ls 4d Ducklings,do2s 6d to 01 Grouse, per brace 0s to Os Turkeys, each 4s Od to 4s 6 Tallow, p stone, Os to lls 01 Potatoes, per pock, 01 to 14 Rabbits, each 3d to 4d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.... 80s to 84 Eggs, wiolesale price, per dozen _ - RETAIL PRICES. F10ur,14.13 03 Od to 2s Od Barley flour,l4lb.oB to 2s 2d Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, Beremeal ....Os Od to 23 Od , per lb 2d to 20 Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Sid ' s, 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 4-lb. 10af...7d. 12-lb. 10af...3id. DUBLIN, JUNE 5. -- - - We had an extremely dull market to-day. Transactions limited to tae wants of the moment. The general curren cies of Taeslay were scarcely supported, and Indian corn is lower. White wheat, Ws 01 to 388 6(1 ; red ditto, 32s 6d to 36s 6d, ditto now, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d; grind. ing, —8 to —s ; oats, old, 13s 3d to 16s; ditto, new, —e Od to —s 01; oatmeal, 15s to 1780 d; bore, new, —s to —s Od ; rapeseed, —s Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour. lOs 641 to 24s 0(1 pa. cwt; Indian corn, 38s 01 to 40i 61 per 480 lbs. fADVERTISEMENT.I—The indefatigable researches of Dr. Livingstone have suddenly made us acquainted with one of the happiest people in the world, of whose very existence • little was hitherto known in civilised Europe generally, In their ailments they never have recourse to cod liver oil, and they are equally independent of physic and the physician, for Dr. Livingston found their staff of life to be the Revalenta Arabica Food, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, " consumption, scrofula, cancer, &c., having been scarcely heard of, and the smallpox and measles have not been known for 20 years." In England also the Revalenta Arabica has pro duced a wonderful improvement in the health of the people, removing cough, consumption, asthma, debility, indigestion, (dyspepsia) constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver com plaints, and restoring the faculty of digestion, and uervons muscular energy to the most enfeebled, as proved by testi monials from the eel:bratecl Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Pre ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzel.; Dr, Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,009 other well kuown individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means of cure bad been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Its effect on the progress of population most favourable as exhibited by the Registmr-General,show ing for L ondon as average o f 1780 wee kl y bi rths against a mortality of 1200, leavinga happy gain of 580, or near 50 per rn favour of progress ; a result most cheering to all use of asses, as it op ens a fair prospect that by the more general Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food the Europeans will A so f ol! enjoy the same freedom from disease as the West 51b., 225. Theiplu2lph,..rreayriaiiaxefroee,7o7.n means. It is sold in canisters, llb , 2s. 91 ; 21b 4s f'd • order. Barry receipt Regents, t o r f e . c , t . post-office F ) or church-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street num, Mason, and Co., 182, PiCeadilly • Abbis 60 ' Grace • Strand, London. 430, 330 and ' SPURGEONISM Old Mother Church is naturally a good easy soul. Her maxim is, "He that is not against us is for us." She is not, cceteris paribus, much given to the odium theologicum. Her maxim is, "Swallow your victuals and drink, and hold your tongue." She hates all that botheration about " experiences." If a man professes to belong to her, she does not care to inquire what he believes. "Oh, my son," exclaimed the affectionate Presbyterian mother to her heteredox young hopeful, " I would'nt have cared if you had come to believe in nothing at all ; but only think that you should be so imprudent as to become an Unitarian." That is the spirit of the Establishment all over. With her everybody is orthodox who doesn't dissent. She claims all waifs and strays. She appropriates all the " unconsi dered trifles" which do not appear to have an owner. Everybody is sound enough in the faith for her who does not take the trouble to have " opinions." She hates a Dissenter far more than an infidel. If the latter will only " keep his tongue within his teeth," she will reckon him as a tolerable average Churchman. The mild impartiality of her antipathy to all Dissenters has prompted her to use her political influence to protect them from the consequences of their mutual animosity. Were the Independents or Wesleyans in power, Quakers or Unitarians would sustain unremitting persecution. The Establishment gladly tolerates heretics as thorns in the sides of nonconforming orthodoxy. She has a sneakingkindnessfor rationalistic heresey, made up of detestation of evangelical fanaticism. Naturally she is the very genius of a dead calm. She cannot be bothered with talent, or genius, or zeal. She has an antipathy to anything original —except original sin, and that she winks at, prin cipally on the score of the fees on baptismal rege neration. Everthing about her must be what it has been before. All her prayers, homilies, ser vices, are stereotyped, and set down for her. She insists up on h er m i n isters reading their sermons ; and they ostentatiously flourish their sermon cases in the face of the congregation, to show that they leave nothin g t o i m p u lse, to earnestness, to mere eloquence or inspiration. She has little favour for platform oratory ; she thinks it decorous to be dull. At her missionary meetings, and her Societies for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and for Domestic Bible Readers, she delivers her self with studied prosiness, as if anything like feel ing or enthusiasm were only fit for Methodists and other low fellows that had never been to Oxford. Hush ! Quieta non, movere. Meddle not with such as are given to ehange. Leave things as they are, and let us all be comfortable. Be silent and quiet. Do all things decently and in order. Let us have nothing outré. Wisdom is stare super an tiquas vias. Why should we exert our wits as if we lived by them? Leave those to use their brains who have nothing in their pockets. Talent doesn't pay ; even learning brings nothing hi. Kissing comes by favour ; preferment, either by interest or purchase. In either case ability or zeal has nothing to do with the matter. Why, then, should we either be able or zealous ? Lord Dungannon is frightened into fits—fits of interrogation. The Church has actually taken to field preaching ! The Lord's anointed mount tubs, and hold forth in the market place, and vociferate on the green, and recruit for the army of Heaven on the common, sub Jove—al fresco ! Actually Bishops exhort in unconsecrated conventicler ; dignitaries of the Church condescend to become chaplains in ordinary to the "great unwashed ;" and Lords Spiritual, Peers of Parliament, take refuge from the decorous ennui of stately episco pacy in stump oratory and Exeter-ball ! Nay, worse and worse, _Lambeth pats them on the back, and Lords Temporal become ushers and pew-open ers to Greasy rogues—tbe common dung o' the soil. -- - We ask candid and religious men just to look steadily at the operation of the ecclesiastical eco nomy of the Establ:shed Church. Observe, the whole clergy are entirely independent of the people, and are not in the least accountable to the State or to the Legislature. Whether they do anything or do nothing, their emoluments are the same, are a freehold ; can it he surprising that on such terms they prefer doing nothing ? Their whole phraseo logy is worldly and carnal. A cure of souls has, by the very instinct of the system, been called a " liv ing ;" a minister of religion is t erme d an incum b en t —a fellow who leans and presses as a burthen upon the parish ; a fresh spiritual charge is termed a preferment; and a godly office is styled a benefice. ' What can come of that, what has come of it, but carelessness, self-seeking, " the flesh," " pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy?" Just think for a moment of the necessary, the inevitable effect of raising a clodhopping poor scholar from clouted shoes, pe dantic learning, and a hundred a year, to Fulham or to Lambeth, a peerage, a carriage, and a palace. Through what sycophancy, tuft-hunting, and in trigue must he have crawled his way thither ! Who makes him what be is ? A politician, who looks to the return be is to get for the promotion—who exacts it—who gets his price in votes and subser viency. What object has that man in further look ing to the souls of the people ? He comes upon pomp, luxury, wealth, rank, not as " native and to the manner born," but as an earthly paradise— a worldly Elysium. What interest has he in the promotion of piety, the awakening of zeal, the call ing of sinners to repentance? Every temptation, every motive, is presented to him to draw him away from his duties, and to awaken his sense of solemn obligation. He is a beggar set on horse back ; where is he to ride to ? When asked by a Lord to say grace, he might have retorted that he never returned thanks to God for any one under a Prince, or a Duke at the very least. Why, it is a condescension in him to preach the Gospel. Lord Dungannon was quite scan dalised that a Bishop should serve his Master by proclaiming glad tidings to the poor. lie i s a Lord ; he is rich ; be has power ; he has a family ; his very revenues are a worldling's work ; he is in dependent upon any contingency; he will be just as well-off, as great, settle his sons and daughters as well if he does just nothing at all, as if he were the most diligent of labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. Who can doubt which frail human na ture will prefer Well, but be has servants under him, deans, archdeacons, rural deans, rectors, vicars, curates. Why, is it forgotten th a t eac h of these offices is a freehold interest ; that a living, a benefice, an in cumbency, a preferment has been bought, sold, ex changed ; and that to leave these at the mercy of the contingency of the due perfatmance of official duty would be to endanger the sacred securities of private property ? The Bishop, by a long and very expensive process, may, if he chooses (which he never does), suspend or admonish, or, but emi nently rarely, depose a clergyman for grossly im moral conduct or heretical opinions : but for doing nothing, for negligence of his functions, for utter disregard of his duties, the offender is entirely be yond the reach of challenee. Dissent may grow, the conventicles may be filled, the Church may be empty. What of that ? " Sir," said the clerk to the rector, " the flock aro all going over the hill to the Methodist Chapel." " Well, John," was the consolatory reply, " d'ye see any of the tithe going over the hill to the Methodist Chapel ?" It is true, indeed, that the Bishop has livi ngs i n his gift ; that the patronage of others is given him to give away ; that his good word and his bad word go for somethin g . Are these disp ense d according to merit ? Must not the sons and sons-in-law and cousins and nephews of "his lordship" be first seen to V Will zeal, piety, and eloquence form the best recommendations to a man who has none of his own, or w)ro at least cannot be troubled any Qrs. longer to exert them ? A Bishop or a rector does not, as a rule, favour an active, learned, and enthu siastic subordinate. " There is a daily beauty ie his life which make theirs ugly." Tney do not like to be poked up from behind, or that Jack should be reckoned beau than his master. "A saint in silk is twice a saint in lawn." It won't do that the stuff-gown should carry off the cause from the coif. We have scarcely ever known a curate retained who drew better congregations than the rector. We here known many dismissed for the simple offence of being popular. A blockhead has an instinctive antipathy to a genius. The drone in the rectory does not want a honey-bee in the curate's lodge. A fool in power always thinks talent dangerous. Feed a greyhound too high, and where will be his wind ? Give cats as much liver as they can eat, and what will they care for catching mice ? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," was the providential sentence that set mankind to useful industry. Aye, but what if men can eat bread without any brow-sweat ? will they work if they can come by provender without it ? John Bull stands amazed that he should riot get a thing when he honestly pays for it. "What !" he ex 'claims, "do I give some eight millions in meal or in malt to the Established Church to make the people religious and the clergy attractive, and still are the Dissenters, to whom I give nothing, pros perous, while the Church decays ? Are the Non conformists to have the ears and hearts of the nation, while State clergy are only to retain the loaves and the fishes ? Why have we no Spurgeons with twenty thousand disciples ? Where are the Wesleys and Whitfields, the Halls, the Channings, the Deweys, the Guthries o f th e Establishment ?" Why, the answer is not far to seek. The ecclesi astical economy of the State Church is ingeniously contrived to withhdraw every motivefrommen either to faithfulness, zeal, or the exercise of genius. The very bishops are taxed in the Senate itself when ever they betray the least earnestness in their sa cred calling. They actually have to apologise for doing their duty. They have to stand upon the defensive whenever they presume to follow the ex ample of that Divine Master who was meek and lowly of heart, whose sermon was on a mount, who prayed in the wilderness, and who taught his im mortal prayer to a mob at the corner of a street. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the very father of the faithful, has actually to throw the aegis of his authority around ecclesiastics who offend in the di rection of condescending to imitate the devotedness of the Apostles, the self-forgetfulness of Paul, and the pure-m'nded lowliness of the fathers. Nay, if the truth were known, it would turn out that Lord Dungannon was put up to reproaching the Low Church Bishops for being of any use by their own brethren of the episcopal bench, and that nobody is more alarmed and disgusted at the prospect of any revival of an apostolical spirit of devotedness and evangelism in the Church than the Church itself. The very Act of Parliament which alone saved the offence of preaching to the poor where the poor would listen from being illegal was smuggled through the Legislature. Ministers of religion were only permitted to follow the express injunc tions of their Master by stealing a march upon their own Church. Another ineffable stupidity of our ecclesiastical system is the nature of the conditions and qualifi cations without which the great Author of Christia nity himself could not have entered what is face tiously termed his own. Church. Let genius be ever so great, and the call to the work of the ministry be ever so clear, the most gifted cin rarely enter the Church, if by tl3e accid en ts of society they have never happened to be se n t to two particular Universities out of nine that flourish in the United Kingdom. If we have any faith whateverin the religion we profesß, we cannot doubt that its founders were ignorant in every particular save in those intuitions of evan gelism which in the work of the redemption of the world from wickedness are of more efficacy than all the learning of this world ; and we cannot but know that mere gentility and classical proficiency, " Shakspeare and the musical glasses," are not qualifications which form the foundation of a call for the work of the ministry. In fact, if we read the Gospels and the Acts, and compare them with the wretched worldliness and the lifeless rigidity of Church of Englandism, it is impossible to es cape the conclusion that the whole economy of the Establishment is a huge trap to catch money and power—a hypocritical pretext for pocketing wages without earning them, a prostitution of religion to mere creature comfort and social respectability, and the snug ease of fashionable miserable sinners, who keep clergymen to comfort them, and never to " mention Hell to. ears polite."—Examincr. HONOURS TO MILITARY SURGEONS. A general feeling prevails amongst medical offi cers of the army, and in the civil department of our profession, that in meting out the honours and rewards incident to the late war, military surgeons have not been treated with impartial justice. This feeling is also very gener a lly s h are d i n by all classes in the army. The principle established by the Commander-in-Chief hasbeen, that honours should bib awarded only to those medical officers who were present at the battles of Alma and Inkerman. This principle excludes many military surgeons who were with the army the whole of the campaign previous to these actions, and who served subsequently during the whole of the siege of Sebastopol. Their absence on these occasions was caused either by illness con tracted during their attendance upon the cholera patients in Bulgaria, as mentioned some time since by Sir Edward Codrington, in the House of Com mons or by serving with the army e l sew h ere . But the duties of the army medical officers through out the siege, and especially during the trying winter of 1854, were far more dangerous and arduous than any services rendered during the battles mentioned. In fact, the sick were sent away to Scutari to the hospitals immediately after those actions. During the siege minor sorties were of constant occurrence, and the night attacks upon the Redan and other batteries were amongst the most desperate encounters of the war. Military medical officers were exposed to the dangers of shot and shell during these assaults, and afterwards spent whole Lights in operating upon, and attending to the wounded. Yet these services have been alto gether ignored in the adjudication of honours. One very sore point is, that the principle thus laid down by his Royal Highness the Commander-in- Chief, has been departed from in favour of the other officers of the army. Many have been deco rated who wore not present either at Alma or In kerman, and who did not, in fact, join the army until after these battles had been fought. This bears with particular hardship upon some of the most meritorious surgeons of the war, and has led to the docoration of a comparatively small number of military medical officers, and particularly of the regimental surgeons. We may mention, for instance, the cases of Mr. Blenkins, surgeon of the Grenadier Guards ; Mr. Lawrence, assistant-surgeon in the same corps, and Mr. Trotter of the Coldstreams. Mr. Blenkins was absent from Alma and Inkerman only from sickness through duty, and Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Trotter were absent from these actions because they were selected, as seniors of their rank, to re main at Varna in charge of the sick. The same thing happened to many others. Yet such men have received no step whatever of promotion for their services during the whole war ; some, indee 1, have narrowly escaped being put on the retired list, and all are omitted from the list of those se lected to receive military honours. Others have had decorations who were presen t atAlma and Inkerman, but who were absent for a whole year subsequently, during the most trying period of the siege. As al ready mentioned, the principle has been broken through with reference to other military officers, but adhered to most stringently in the case of mili tary surgeons. In the French army, if a selection were made at all, the preference would, according. to the rules and practice of the French service, be given to the medical officer. In France a large num ber of the medical officers have been decorated. It would, indeed, be a rare sight tosee a French surgeon, who had passed thro ug h t h e R uss i an war, without a decoration. But inthis country the case is widely dif ferent, and deep di ssa ti s f ac ti on natura ll y preva il s. The injustice has been done not only as regards our own honours, but in the case of the Legion of Honour presented by the Emperor of the French to our Government, for distribution in the British army. We trust, however, it is not too late to remedy the mistake which has been committed, awl from the known liberality of the Duke of Cam bridge, who would have lost his own life but for an assistant-surgeon of the 7th Hussars, we hope a sup plemental list of decoration s ma y y e t be issued. It is not only as regards honours that the military surgeon is placed at a disadvantage. Many a youth who left Eton or Harrow at sixteen or seventeen, to join the army in the Crimea, without any previous military education, has acquired his captaincy or his majority; but an assistaut-surgeon, joining the army after a special education of several years, at the age of twenty-one, and serving through the whole of the war, could, by the rules of the ser vice, be nothing more than an assisstant-surgeon at the end of it. There is the more need for libera lay in the distribution of honours.—Lancet, MALT AND HOPS.—In the year ended the 31st of March last 38,127,378 bushels of malt were brought to c h„ rge, aga i ns t 33,524,494 b us h e l s i n 1855, 35,208,563 in 1854, and 41,020,381 in 1853. The average price of barley was 435. 2d. per quarter. The amount in " ola duty" charged on English hops was 267,7051. The quantity of foreign hops imported into the United Kingdom W£6 . 9 11,261 cwt. onialaki "MAMMA AND PAPA." MRS. THATCHER v. COL. D'AGUILAR. This case came before the public again at th e Brighton Cou n ty C our t, b e f ore M r . W.°Furner . a jury, when Colonel D'Aguilar was sued by 1 1 1 forsaken i namora t a f or t h e sum of 50/. ' Parca of 60/. (plai n tiff a b an d on i ng th e excess ), for monY: payable by th e d e f en d an t f or th e suppor t by her ot his illegitimate child from the month of April' 1855, to April, 1857, an d f or mone y a greed to be paid by the said defendant to the plaintiff towards the maintenance of the said child, and for me nel paid by the plaintiff f or th e use o f the defenda nt, and for money found t o b e d ue u p on an accou nt stated between them at Brighton. As on the previous occasion, Mrs. Thatcher d e ' ni , -11 that she had ever been charged with in l P r° priety of conduct, that she bad ever been rolled the bed by any gentleman, or that sh e had ever P a ' she was not sure who was the fath e r of the cb i-1 3 ' but that the colonel was rich enough to-pay for ! t , Mr. Sergeant Parry (for the defendant) subll li a ted that there was no case to go to the jury, 313 a that there was no contract which could be sustaiec in point of law. • ea Henry D'Aguilar was then sworn and exan llll , l by Mr. Roupell---I am defendant in this acr - ,i It was in 1853, about the middle of February, I first met Mrs. Thatcher. I met her on the Pal l , nearly opposite the Bedford, towards dark, I t, b. `„ a ul, e i about five o'clock. That was the fir s t time -t her. She overtook me on the parade, passed me, a rcs looked back, as a woman does who wishes to att r a ct your attention. I passed on and looked at ber, a rc % I then spoke to her. She almost di rec tly asked be to go home with her, to a narrow street behind ;he Bedford Hotel, where s h e li ve d. I sa w her the following day, and I saw her from time to tinae B ; r. visited her up till the month of May in that r oll I had some conversation with her about a Per s . , h o named Granville. The first night I asked her P o o and what she was, and she told me that she es the wife of an officer. She mentioned Granwo name ; but she said that she was living 'with 0. 13/ 0 0 whose name she would not tell me. She also t me this on the second day. She told me that t , i 4 kept her, in f ac t. Sh e sa id a l so th a t s h e disu",t him, and had taken a fancy to me in' the et re 3 ; She said that she should get rid of him a s saeti or , she could. I afterwards saw Mr. Turner, tbe r „o geon, on the subject of an a ll owance . I sa id " be . not sure that this child w as m i ne , as s h e said, le cl cause I knew she had told me th a t s h e was v is t i i,is by o:her people. She told me s h e had met to to Granville in an omnibus, that he had taken berg an hotel in Charing-cross. and there had conne li o t with her. As this was the case, I said I was no t i o all sure the child was mine ; but as she knew name, and my family were living in Brightc ° 'o said I was willing to pay. 30/. a-year as long o r she did not in any way annoy or irritate In my family. I said, from what she had told nlY b ' i O and Dr. Turner, I was very doubtful of the c o g being mine, and I could only make that allo o o f on condition that she did not annoy me or sn o t my family. lam quite sure I mentioned it in re . way to her, through Dr. Turner. She was t,. ° 00 ceive the money, because I was doubtful tba i t y child was mine, and I was not going to pa 1 , 04 money to anybody but herself. She was to ! al p after this child, but the money was to be Iwo , herself. The payment of that money was 3 ,01; wards discontinued by me b ec a use s he vvr°"" anonymous letter. T his During the time you were acqua int e d wit-d woman, did you ever make her a promise of Aar riage?—Never, so help me God. Marriage 0 never mentioned except once. She said ono t "I wish you would marry me." 1 said, • " T u o th quite impossible. I never dreamt of marrying' and I never could marry you." ibex When you met Mrs. Thatcher, as you deg° lot what did you say to her /—Well, I went up t c ' e of and asked her what she wanted, add that ° I V thing. (Laughter.) She said she was the iv i cis io of an officer. I asked her where she lived, 1113 , 0 said in Montpellier-street. She asked me " i i;t", home with her, and I went with her to MoniP e street, there and then. An old woman, le Mrs. Butcher, let us in. I did not see be' Butcher there. Nothing improper took pi° tween us that night. t the re Will you tell the jury, then, what you wen t for ?—Well, I considered her a person on the to and I went home with her for that purpose. „ t ot Mr. Sergeant Parry (to defendant)- - Un if word I would decline to answer such questi ol3 I were you. Cross-examination continued : I asked ror, Thatcher upon what terms I was to visit. d She said, what do you mean ? Well, I s al only come here, of course, for a certain Pu r P t ° o l She said, what do you mean ? I don't u nder you. I then placed money on the table', placed 11. on the table. She told me that s/ 1 1, e r. an officer's widow, and th e d aug ht er o f an 0 4 ; 0 0 I did not see the portrait produced (that 0 0 deceased Thatcher) when I went there. t i " l9 6 I have teen it in her bed-r oo m. She asked to call the next day, and I did. Did anything improper take place then t--1006.4; What time did you call ?—ln the after ri ber, Nobody was there. I looked upon Mrs. Tha t „,r• I won't say as a common pro s titute, bet 1,.';-0. tainly did look upon her as a pr os titute. I ti v oli cl r, gave her my likeness. 1 took it to show h e she kept it, I suppose. I never saw it hangit op ip in my life. I never gave her a lock of roY k of I swear I never rememb e r a nythi ng a bout all:01 4 hair (lock of hair produced). 1 don't think I t c ut my hair. (Laughter.) I dare say she IniP t l i st' it off her own hair ; she i s qu it e ca pable of spar I won't swear that I did not give her the Pcr produced (that in w hi c h th e l oc k o f h a ir wa g b a d served. I never gave her a ruby ring. 511. , 8 0 t1r it from myself. It was given t o m e by a to man, and I told her I could not g ive "tit it her. I showed her the ri ng , an d sbe P bolt on her finger. I really cannot remembe r , oe it was ; but I thi n k s h e sa id s h e put ;" I. o° her righi hand. I will swear I did n ot virri i toll' letters to her, nor 50, nor 20, after I left Bri ci 0 0! I once sent her some flowers. I swear Id i b ile take or send her flowers almost every day i° et at was in Brighton. I never took her a bollq - o se all. The improper connection between us V h ell about the end of April or beginning of MaY'• ivg I placed the money on the table the first ° v iva; she said I mistook her. I said, " Very wel l, to ttl e if you are a virtuous person, give the mone9,l ob° servant, and I wish you good evening." "'blto' swears that I called the first evening a nd savi f or Butcher, and delivered my card to her, it is 3 , 0 00 hood and a lie. I never left a card at her Z it I in my life. She may have one of my cards, "' e l l er never left one there. I never asked Mrs..Tb 3 to return that rin g , but she did so voluntarObscl wrote to ask her for my letters, because 8 11° 0 00 shown me Granville's letters, and I did not c" my letters to be shown to other men. A number of witnesses were th en , as o n th e t o*" vious occasion, examined, for the purpose offiiie , ing that Mrs. Thatcher led a grossly inamor a 'bo o The jury retired, and, after an absence of alto' twenty minutes, returned with a verdict for I ) tiff for the full amount claimed. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment an - ff i e ew incomparabl e R eme di es f ur S ores , W oun d s , and V: it 9 —Mr. James Newman, residing near Emyvale, eis dreadful sufferer for four years from running ulc e t ;o o his leg: he tried all means without effect : he he° tie' in an hospital three months, and turned out inclillof He then had recourse to Holloway's Ointment and fell and, by a steady perseverance in their use for * O l weeks, he obtained an effectual care, and his leg 15 0 ,,, whole and sound, to the astonishment of his. friel l . 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