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fo; / 4 4 .. 4 A b t .„,,on Trl: • SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSAMig'—(This Evering.) DERBY. 100 to 15 apt Skirmisher (offered) 10 to 1 aget Anton (taken) 10 to 1 agst M.D. (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Sydney (taken) 15 to 1 apt Arsenal (taken) 100 to 6 agst Adamas (taken and offered) 100 to 6 aget Znyder Zee (taken and offered) 20 to 1 apt Strathnaver (offered) 20 to 1 aget Lady Hawthorn (taken and offered) 25 to 1 aget Sprig of Shillelagh (taken) 25 to 1 eget Bird in the Hand (taken) Nto 1 agst Wardermarske (taken) 100 to 7 agst Saanteier (taken and offered) 25 to 1 aget Tournament (taken and offered) 40 to 1 aget Magnifier (offered) , 100 to 1 apt Schiedam (taken) 2000 to 10 agst Kent (taken) OAKS. 8 to 1 agst blo3stissima (taken) S to 1 agst Aspasia (taken) ASCOT GOLD CUP. 6to 1 agst Skirmisher 8 to 1 agst Gemma de Vergy 10 to 1 agst Lance ARRIVALS AT SHREWSBURY. The following horses have arrived up to 4.30 to-day —Early Bird, Grey Pyrrhus, Lincoln Tom, Oakball, Happy Prince, Mysterious Jack, The Dupe, Assailant, Trot, Laodonia, Milkboy, Gunboat, Cockatoo, Com panion, Lady Florence, Strawberry, Raven, Polestar, Mary, Lance, Tom Thumb, Polly Peachum, Vaulter, Catharine Logie, Delaine filly, Pantomime, and Maid of Derweat. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord Da FRBYNE took the oaths and his seat upon his elevation to the peerage. The noble lord was intro duced by the Earl of Enniskillen and Lord Monteagle. The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a petition from the civil servants of the Crown at the port of Southampton against the system under which the super annuation allowances were at present provided. The Earl of FORTESCUE presented a petition from the civil servants of the Crown at Dartmouth to the same effect. Lord CAREW presented a similar petition from the civil servants of the Crown at the port of Wexford. Lord EGLINTON presented a similar petition from A) r. ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS. The Marquis of BREADALBANE brought up the answer of her Majesty to the address of their lordships on the occasion of the opening of Parliament. It was as follows : " I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address, and for your lordships' assurances that you will take into your earnest consideration the measures that will be proposed to you. " You may rely on my hearty desire to co-operate with you in promoting the happiness of my people." CHINA. TherEarl 'of CARNARVON gave notice that on an early day he would call the attention of their lordships to the trial of Alin), the baker of Carton. SALE OF POISONS. Lord CAMPBELL called the attention of the house to the circumstancs that last session he had urged upon the house the importance of passing some law with a view of restricting the sale of poisons. There was a subject which was of far more importance than the sale of either prussic acid, strychnine, or arsenic—the sale of infamous publications. He trusted that if the law was not strong enough to redress the evil, their lordships would take the subject into their serious consideration, with a view to providing a remedy to put an end to such a base and flexions trade. In respect to the sale of poisons, he believed that the Secretary of State Lad collected a mass of very valuable information, and was about to bring forward a bill this session for the suppression of the sale of poisons. He trusted that the subject he had referred to, would be taken into the seri ems consideration of the Government. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, be believed that the law, as it stood, was sufficiently strong to meet the evil the noble and learned lord complained of—viz., the sale of immoral and infamous publications. If it was found to be deficient for the purpose, he had no hesitation in saying the Government would immediately adopt more stringent measures. With regard to the sale of poisons, he begged to inform his noble and learned friend that the Government had not only given their serious attention to the subject, but that a bdi had been already framed, and would speedily be in troduced into Parliament to put down the evil. The subject was one of great t'ifilculty, and it was nest to impossible t!, define what was poison and what was medicine. Immediately they enumerated a dozen poisons the ingenuitf of chemistry would be employed to change their nature and characters. THE CIVIL SERVICE. The Marquis of CLANR [CA RDE prezented a peti tion 'from the cfficers of the Custom-house of Galway complaining of the system under which the superannua tion allowances of the civil service are at present pro vided, and asked whether the Government contemplate, an early change of thlt system. Lord GRENVILLE said the report of the commis sioners to inquire into the subject would in the course of a few days be laid upon the table, and then would be the proper time to discuss the subject. TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION.-THE LAW OF DIVORCE. The LORD CHANCELLOR laid upon the table two bills, one relatirg to testamentary jurisdiction, the other relating to the law of divorce and marriage. Lord CAMPBELL sail, if the clau , -; in the latter bid to which he objected last 'session still remained, he should be cornpelle't to oppose the measure. The LORD CHANCELLOR was understood to say the clause bad been struck out. The bills were then read a first time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(rhis Evening) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock, when the swearing-in of members was proceeded with. Amongst them were the Lord-Advocate, Sir W. Dun• bar, and Mr. Stirling. MAYNOOTH. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD gave notice that he should, on the motion of the hon. member for North Warwickshire for a committee ou the grant to Maynooth, move as an amendment that it was expedient to withhold all grants of public money for religious purposes in Ireland. (Cheers.) CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE. Mr. BOVY.ER asked if the Government intended to enforce the I%w compelling the consumption of smoke in London ? Sir G. GREY said that the act was being carried out in London, and that daring the last month 54 convic tions had taken place. (Hear, hear.) THE POOR LAWS. Mr. WISE asked the President of the Poor Law Board, whether it was the intention of her Mapisty's Government •to introduce any measures to revise the laws relating to the settlement and removal of the poor, or to alter the present mode of raising the rates for the relief of the poor by distributing the charge over a wider and less variable basis ; and 211 y, if her '.Majesty's Government was cot prepared to propose early legislation on these subjects, whether the President of the Poor-law Board would assent to the appointment of a•committee to inquire into the practical operation of the laws for the relief of the poor in England and SValee, auto consider the policy and general effect of alt the laws relating to settlement, removal, and parochial assessment I Mr. BO UVERIE, with reference to the third ques tion, said that it was not the intention of the Govers meet to introduce such a measure tnis session ; and tbat with regard to the second question, it was more one for the house to determine than him. He reminded the bon. gentleman that extensive and &a (pent enquiries h a d a l rea d y ta k en p l ac e on the subject. LUNATIC ASYLUMS (SCOTLAND). Mr. E. ELLICE asked the Secretary of State for the Hoine.Departnsent the cause of the delay in print ing the report of the eorninissioneri appointed to inquire into the state of Lugs is Asylums in Scoland, pre sented, by command, the 25th (1,,y of July, 1856. Sir G. GREY said that the cause of the delay in distributing this report arose from a desire on the put of the Commissioners t., carefully revise the report be fore it was finally printed and circulated. Ile was in. formed by oue of the Commi ss i oners, on Saturday, that it was printed with the appendlia, and would be c rcu fated in a few days, REFORMATORY SCHOOLS. Mr. MILES asktki the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intended to introduce during' the present session the bill which was brought forward by Government last session, to facilitate the establish. ment of reformatory schools in England Sir G. GREY said that he had given notice to ask for leave t. re-introduce his bill of last session on this subject on Friday next. PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS. Mr. BRADY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government proposed intro ducing any measure this session, for the better regcla tion of places cf public entertainment which were open for the most part after 12 o'clock at night. Sir G. GREY said the Government had no inten tion to introduce such a measure this session. THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS. Sir H. WILLOVGHEY asked the Secretary to the Treasury when the finance accounts for the year ending the 31,4 day of March, 1357, would be presented. Mr. WILSON said, that according to act of Parlia ment, the financial statement must be presented on or bifore the 30th of June. He believed that on or before that day the return would be made. As the account included a variety of statements, he would have much THE LATE EXPLOSION AT LUNDITILL. SATURDAY EVENING. Since yesterday 10 more bodies have been ex huinecl,_making the total number now recovered 83. *The first of the 10 was recovered yesterday even ing, after onr despatch left, and could not be iden tified. The remainder have been brought to bank this afternoon. Eight have been identified as she bodies of the following miners :—Richard Pullin, of Wombwell ; Edward Garbutt, of Luudhill, and his two son°, William and John Garbutt ; John Grimshaw, of Wombwell, brother of Joseph Grim shaw, whose remains were recovered yesterday ; John Russell, of Hemingfield ; William IVlaugham, of Wath ; and Philip Dart, of Broomhill, " tram mer" to Maughant. The other body; making up the ten, could not be identified ; it had been greatly mutilated by the violence of the explosion. Nearly the whole' of the above-mentioned bodies were found in the third boardgat , s, or main road on the north side of the pie, and within a few yards of each other. It is known that they were all working within tlirea or four yards of the place where they were found. At 3 o'clock yesterday there were 30 bodies lying in the reception-shed ; 11 of these were interred yesterday evening, and the reminder this afternoon. The full o wing 11—i.e., Jas. Edward Pollard, Win. Illingwortb, Edward Sinunonds, Joseph Gr;mshaw, James and Charles Walker, Richard and Thomas Wilkinson, John Harper and Amos James, with five others not known, were conveyed for inter ment to Darfield church .this afternoon, followed by a large number of their relatives and friends and numerous spectators, many of them weeping with great bitterness, and forming a very mournful cortege. An incident occurred on the way which created a very painful sensation. Among the mourners was a young married woman named Ann Brookes, sister to the widow of Amos Jamel. Brookes was taken suddenly ill on the road, and died there before any assistance could be rendered to her. Her body was removed to the house of Mr. Hinchbold, publican, Darfield, where it re mains to await the coroner's inquisition. It is be lieved (but not positively known) that she was labouring under disease of the heart, but that death was accelerated -by grief and agitation on account of the melancholy fate of her brother-in-law, Amos James. Though the work of clearing away the falls pro ceeds more slowly than it was at first hoped, we understand that the different relays of men work with the greatest vigour and good-will, each relay striving to outdo the other in the amount of work and the number of bodies which it recovers. Some few of the men, with the greatest desire to continue at the work, have been compelled to re linquish it, from the effects of the impure atmos phere. The great majority, however, suffer but little inconvenience, and stick to their disagreeable and dangerous task with most praiseworthy zeal. The further the work of clearance proceeds the greater are the .evidences of, the almost unparalleled violence of this explosion. On the north side of the pit, more especially, the strata and working appa ratus.ara found to be torn and dashed to an almost incredible degree, proving, if the violence of the explosion is any criterion ,as to the quantity of gas in the pit at the time of its occurrence, that the influx or accumulatioa of gas, fromwhatever cause, must have been very great. The bodies present the appearance, when found, of having died almost inAantly, and the miners who are engaged in the work of clearance ridicule the ides. that any of those who have perished were alive when the shafts were closed, a few hours after the explosion. Messrs. Nicholas Wood, Woodhouse, and Elliott, three of the superintending engineers, met at the pit this morning, with Mr. C. Morton, the Govern ment inspect Or. Mr. Elliott descended and exa mined the pit as far as practicable. The engineers approved the proceedings of the views, and gave directions for the continuance of the work, after which they adjourned until next Saturday. SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN PORTSIIOUTEI DOCKYARD .—A very-sad accident occurred in the dockyard on Saturday morning. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, being in dock, a party of six seamen belonging to her were en gaged in cleaning ber copper, being on a temporary stage on the side of the ship. Unfortunately, the supports of the stage gave way, and the whole of the men were pre cipitated into the dock, from a height of 15 feet. .Three of the poor fellows received injuries which necessitated their immediate removal to Haslar Hospital—they are Francis Robinsrn, whose thigh was broken and elbo.v fractured; P. Perry, ankle dislocated; and J. Hayward, small bone of leg broken. Tue other three men, who although they received very severe injuries, were G. Merrett, J. Jeffrey, and J. Boulder. Dr. Allen, staff surgeon of the dockyard, and Dr. Elliott, assistant-sur geon, rendered the most prompt and efficient assistance to the poor fellows. I ,AD TERTISEMENT.] —llOllO vvay's Ointment and Pil s estraordioarily efficacious in Curing Er ysipelas.—Mr. Charles Henl e y, age d 1 8, of Abingdon, Oxon, suffered withintermitte n t attacks of this most direful cutaneous disorders fur several years, and had recourse to every known remedy for the cure of the same, but without success ; a,s a dernier ressore he tried Holloway's °int, merit and pills, which were, i . s usua l , s i gnally benef i c i al, for he was entirely cured in five weeks, to the astonish ment of all who had beheld his sufferings, and to the infinite delight of his family and friends. Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and IN, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Constan tinople; A. Guidici, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY H, 1867\ Naval and Illilitlry intelligence. The following officers, belonging to regiments serving in India, have received an order from the War-office to hold themselves in readiness to pro ceed to join the head-quarters of their respective corps with the detachments for India proceeding from Chatham garrison, viz. :—Col. A. G. Black ford, 24th Regt. • Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Otter, 6 1 st Regt. ; Major W. C. Mollan, 75th Regt. ; Capt. F. Clar,k 24th Regt. ; Capt. W. Croker and Capt. H. Mitford, 27th Enniskillens ; Capt. W. Power, 32d Regt. ; Capt. Mure, 43d Light Infantry ; Capt. C. P. Heathcote, 52d Light Infantry ; Capt. H. J. Robertson and Capt. J. Maguire, 60th Rifles ; Capt. A. J. 0. Rutherford, 70th Itegt. ; Capt. C. Venables, 74th Highlanders ; Capt. W. Nott, 83d Regiment ; Captain S. Hughes, 84th Regiment ; Captain Welman, 86th Regiment ; Captain W. F. Ring, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers ; Ensign A. Maynihan, V.C., and Ensign A. D. Corfield, Bth Regiment ; Lieut. R. H. Travers, Lieutenant W. B. Logan, and Ensign J. Johnstone, 24th Regi ment ; Lieut. A Cottee, Ensign H. M. Caine, En sign LI W. Desborough, Ensign Dixon, and En sign Clay, 27th Enniskillens, Lieut. C. R. Ricketts and Lieut. H. S. Stabb, 32d Regiment ; Lieut. J. Davis and Ensign H. E. Fryer, 35th Royal Sussex Regiment ; Lieut. J. B. B. Eliott, Ensign H. C. Talbot, and Ensign J. E. K. Morley, 43d Light Infantry ; Ensign W. Owen and Ensign S. L. Pids ley, 52d Light Infantry ; Lieut. H. Buck, Lieut. E. D. Fenton, Lieut. R. F. Stoney, Lieut. C. 84- nall, and Ensign G. C. Sidebottom, 53d Regiment ; Lieut. G. B. Macqueen, Lieut. J. Steel, Lieut. E. R. King, Harman, and Lieutenant J. 0. Young, 60th Rifles ; Lieut. D. Reid, Lieut. T. E. Gordon, and Lieut. Wilcox, 61st Regiment ; Lieut. C. H. Laprimandays and Ensign W. Morrison, 64th Regiment ; Lieut. W. T. M'Grigor and Lieut. J. W. Madden, 70th Regiment ; Lieut. R. E. Deare and Ensign F. Parry, 74th Highlanders ; Lieutenant C. C. Abbott, Lieutenant L. Brown, and Lieut. W. H. Urquhart, 75th Regiment ; Lieut. T. Anderson, Lieut. W. W. Young, Ensign E. J. Fitzsimons, Ensign W. Thompson, and Ensign R. P. Butler. 78th Highlanders ; Lieut. M. Hanley, Lieut. J. H. Fane, Ensign W. H. M. Jackson, and Ensi g n S. W. Bell, 81st Regiment ; Lieut.•T. P. Wright, Lieut. C. C. Gore, and Ensign N. Penne father, 83d Regiment ; Lieut.- P. Chute • and Lieut. Du Vernet, 84th Regiment ; Lieut. T. R. Hamilton, Lieut. A. N. Wilson, Lieut. V. G. Coates, and Ensign G. S. Jackson, 86th Regiment; Ensign G. W. Marsden and Ensign F. F. Dove rein, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers. On Saturday the officers and men of the depots of the 32d, 35th, 61st, 70th, 81st, and 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiments were formed on the parade ground of the Provisional Battalion, Chat ham, after which they marched to the inner lines, where they were inspected by Col. IL Jervis, com mandant of the Provisional Battalion, who exa mined their nea•clnthing and necessaries. The num ber of troops furnished by the abOve depo',s for their service companies in India is about 500, the whole of whom are ready for embarkation. . The Princess Charlotte, 104, sailing three-decker, Captain'George St. Vincent King, C. B , &c., fit ting out at Portsmouth as a floating barracks for troops on the China station, is ordered to be out of hand by the end of the month. Cabins are being - Qttel up for the military officers who may have to go on board her. The troops 'will sleep in ham mocks, each man having two blankets, which is considered to be a much more comfortable way of sleeping on board ship than on the hard boards of the ;lea:. The Princess Charlotte will h•tve ac commodation for 1,000 men and officers, who will be berthed on the middle and lower decks. The arrangements for ventilation and other sanitary necessities appear to have had great care bestowed upon them, with the view of preserving the health of these on b.)ard. She will ba stowed with as much of the munitions of war as she can couve- THE CREDIT MOBILIER OF FRANCE. (Front the Derbyshire Courier.) each borough have but to take it up : the effect would be immediately felt. It would put all on their guard, and prevent many from committing themselves to a wrong course who otherwise would do it. We may be quite sure that Lord Palmer ston will disquiet no reasonable Reformers, if only they take the precaution to hang on his tail in time the weight of a watchful organisation. A meeting of this gigantic associatiion - has re cently been held in Paris, The President, M. Isaac Pereire, was the chairman on the occasion. Every one interested in financial subjects knows that all the prophets of evil to France designated this project as the great Bubble of the Empire. The year 1856 has been a trying one for bankers and financiers at home and abroad. Now, said the kind friends of Louis Napoleon who make use of him as au ally in the hour of need, and abuse and revile him when the danger is past—now this Bub ble will burst. "We understand," says your Lon don correspondent, who never yet understood that two and two financially make four, "that the Credit Mobilier is on its last legs." Very well ; April 1857 arrives with its high rate of discount, its drain of bullion, its commercial pressure. The great Bubble, bad it possessed the least consistency of character, would have burst long ago. But now is the time for its yielding to " the extraordinary pressure of circumstances," and the " unprecedented depression of monetary affairs." But sonee people never know when they are beaten. Some enterprises are never ruined when the Times and the believers in M. Ledru-Rollin affirm that they ought to be. The Credit Mobilier of France is one of those pertinaciously and obstinately prosperous concerns. It has as many commercial lives as a cat. One would think that, like Mr. Mawworm, it "liked to be abused." It is the only trading association upon record which carries out the Scriptural injunction—"from himthat would borrow of thee turn not away." • If its principles are financially heterodox, its practice is worse. One would really think that, in, opposition to all sound rules of banking, the Credit Mobilier was willing to lend to people when they want it. Hero is a part of their report. "In 1856," it says, "owing to the immense impulse given to all kinds of enterprises when peace set in, its (the company's) task was rather to restrain than to urge forward." Still it has done a little, in a quiet way. "It subscribed for 10,000,0001. to the Government Loan of 30,000,0001., it purchased. 1,600,030/. of Rentes, it gave accommodation to rail way securities on one occasion to the extent of 1,160,0001., the average being 600,0001. for every fortnight ; in fact, the total of such sums furnished in 1856 was not less than 28,120,000:" The Credit Mobilier further offered to purchase with tie co-operation of some foreign levies, all the Rente held by the Bank of France, so as to enable it to increase its metallic reserve ; mid also to pro vide 8,000,000/. for the wants of all the Railways for their loans of 1857. These propositions were contingent on the support of other mercantile asso ciations, and were not met. niently be made to carry independent of the neces sary provisions and stores for herself. She will not mount her three-decker armament, but only a dozen 32-pounders for special service. We. much doubt whether the end of the present month will see her nearer Spithead than she is now. The Melville, 72, Commander Trollope, fitting for an hospital ship for the China station at Ports mouth, is leaky. To discover the defect she was docked, the dock pumpod out, and water enough left in the hold of the Melville to test the permea tion. She remains in dock. When ready she is or dered to embark the head-quarters of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers. SirJ. Liddell, C. 8.,M.D.,F.R.5., Director-General of the Mediiai Department of the Navy, on paying his spring visit to the Royal Naval Hospital at Hsslar in the early part of last week, inspected the Melville and the Marine Infirmary of the dockyard. His inspection occupied two days, and was a genuine one, and by no means pro forma. The Agamemnon, screw, 9t, Master-Commander Noddal, is expected to be put out of dock at Ports mouth this day and to be out of hand and ready to leave for the Thames by this day week or earlier. She will be manned by seamen riggers from Ports mouth and Devonport ordinaries, and a draught of able seamen from the continuous ser✓ice force of the fleet. The financial situation of the company at present is this, " Its transactions 'in cash during the year amounted to 123,407,8071. Its account current with the Bank to 48,667,4511. The company had received payments on Railway Shares and Bonds, producing 6,439,064, and had paid 4,986,304/. on Share 3 and Bonds. " The total profits of the year were 609,9991. — which would give a dividend of 23 per cent, for the year 1856." • This is too bad. A Russian gun; a trophy from Sebastopol, was landed at the gun wharf; Portsea, on Friday, being a present from the Government to the Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth. It is 10 feet in length, of 3G-pounder calibre, and weighs 3 tons. Its mould• is handsome, and it appears to have been cast in 1816. It is in good preqirvation, with the exception of a piece of the muzzle being knocked away. A suitable inscription will be placed on the piece, and a council of the Mayor and Corporation will deter mine its site. Wheu the Credit Mobilier was started we said that if prudently managed it might do immense good, and benefit the public, and its shareholders. But the Times and all the financial oracles of the nation convinced us that we were ignorant financial fanatics. We, therefore, declined to have anything to do with the great Feench bubble. On the failure of the ancient and honourable establishment of Strahan and Paul—where our grandfather kept his account—we invested our little all in the Roy4l British Bank—the name sounded Eiglish and patriotic. ' Now we do not complain that we have lost •ur money, because what we have lost Mr. Humphrey Brown has gained, and " the country," as Lord Overstone assures u 7, "is just as rich as it was before." But we do say that the flourishing condition of the Credit Mobilier of France is au unpleasant affair. The great financial sages who advised us to have nothing to do with Louis Napoleon's mono , tary bubbles cannot be expected to reimburse us what we hare lost, but we earnestly protest that they should compensate us for what they prevented us from gaining—or at the very least that they should write the Credit Mobilier of France into the Gazette. The Beag!e, 4, screw gunboat, Lint, Hewett, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from the Me diterranean, to be paid off. The Devastation, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Marshall, arrived at Spi t head on Saturday from the eastward ; and the Buffalo store vessel from the same locality in the afternoon. The Adventure, 6, iron steam troop-ship, Com mander Lacy, had ber compasses adjusted iu Ports mouth harbour on Saturday afternoon, and will embark her allotment of the troops for China this week. Tito Wallace, paddlewheel steam-tug, brought into the service for the Mediterranean, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday night, brought home by some of the crew of the Malacca screw corvette. The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Shortt, arrived at Spithead during the night of Saturday from the Mediterranean, conveying the Fancy gun boat, and left yesterday afternoon for Woolwich, to be paid off. By the Spiteful we learn that the Gla diator steam frigate is not far off Portsmouth, and that the Malacca is coming home under sail, some derangement having occurred in her machinery. •The Amphitrite, 25, sailing corvette, Captain Tatham • and Devastation, 6, steam sloop, Com mander Marshall, left Spithead yesterday evening for Liverpool. The steamers Beagle and Lynx, from the Medi terranean, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday. The Beagle left in the evenin g for the eastward. The paddlewheel steam frigateGladiatpr, 6, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, with the paddlewheel steam tender Thais in tow, arrived on Saturday. Capt. Williams read his commission on beard the ;wardship Royal William/. 120, at Devonport on Saturday. The steamvessel Alligator, from Portsmouth, ar- rived at Plymouth on Saturday. Thepaddlewheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, hav ing been repaired at Keyhain Plymouth, was re moved to the sheer hulk in Fiamoaze on Saturday, and will be masted to day (Monday). An Admiralty order has arrived at Chatham for the Winchester 50, late flagship on the China sta• tioir, to be paid off into ordinary to-morrow. The Winchester has been dismasted, and is almost en tirely , stripped. Her stores have been removed into the dockyard. The Cressy, 80 guns, Capt. R. L. Warren, was ordered to be paid off to-morrow, but in conse quence of the impossibility of the pay-books being completed at the Admiralty before Thursday next she will he paid off on that day. The Majestic, 80, guns, Capt. Jas. Hope, C.a, is ordered to be paid oft on Friday next at Sheerness. The new screw steam-ship Renown, 91 guns, was taken into No. 3 dry dock on Saturday at Sheer ness. The fitment of the Renown is being made with all possible despatch. The floating-battery Terror, 16 guns, has been taken into the fitting-basin at'Sheerness to befitted with all possible despatch. The gunboats Wrangler, Commander Joseph H. Marry at, from the Mediterranean, and the Brune, Lieutenant (in charge) Walker, of the Vesuvius, to which ship the Brune will be borne out as a tender, will this day be taken into the fitting basin at Sheerness. The Cumberland, 70 guns, Capt. J. B. Dickson, has been put out of the basin at Sheerness, and is stow moored in the harbour. Th urs d a y next is the day named for her departureifor Portsmouth, where she will remain to receive the Grand Duke Con stantine of Russia on his visit to the Queen. The Cyclops, 6-gun paddlewheel steam-frigate, Lieut. -Commander Joseph Dayman, is under orders also to proceed to Portsmouth the same day, if pos sible. The following officers have taken up their commissions and joined the Cyclops :—Mr. Nicholas Giles, paymaster; Mr. Scott, master. Mr. Martin, the late master in charge of the Cyclops, has been consequently superseded, and is now placed on th e half-pay list. The Vesuvius, paddle-wheel steam-ship, Capt. Charles Wise, is ordered to proceed to Portsmouth to join the squadron to receive the Grand Duke Constantine. She has been out of dry dock at Sheerness id is now in the harbour. pleasure in producing any particular accounts, if asked for before that day. NEWFOUNDLAND. Sir J. PAICINGTON presented a petition from New found!and on the subject of the proposed convention with France relating to the Newfoundland fisheries; and asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to the intentions of her Majesty's Government with respect to that Convention. _ . . Mr. LABOUCHERE, after stating the difficulties that existed in reference to the settlement of the right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland and this country, said that, finding there was no chance of their coming to a satisfactory settlement of the question, it was thought de sirable by her Majesty's Government to enter into a convention with France, on the understanding that it should be approved of by the colony. Unfortunately the colonists at first considered their rights had been in infringed on, and they refused to accept the terms of the convention. Since then matters had been explained, and they now felt satisfied at what had been done by this Government. He asJured the house that every endea vour would be taken by this Government to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion. He would be no party to compromise or surrender the rights of the colony without the express consent of the Legislative Council of that colony. He would shortly lay before Parliament papers in reference to the question. CHURCH RATES. Sir J. TRELAWNEY asked if the Government in tended to introduce this session a bill for the abolition of church rates ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government bad the question under consideration with the view to the introduction of such a measure next session. Sir J. TRELAWNEY expressed himself dissatisfied with the answer, and said that unless he had a more satisfactory answer he should bring the question before the house next Monday. SUPPLY. Mr. WILSON moved that the ordinary supply be granted to her Majesty, and said that he should move to-morrow that the house go into committee to consider the subject. SAVINGS BANKS. The house went into committee on savings banke, when The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the following resolution :—That it is expedient to amend the laws relating to savings banks, and to provide for the establishment of savings banks with the security of the Government. He said that this resolution was ne cessary for the introduction of a bill similar to that of last session. During the recess the bill had been sent to all the savings banks, and the great majority of them were of opinion that the principle of the bill should be adopted by the house. They objected to the limitation of the amount of deposit from 2001. to 1001., and he intended to omit that clause from the bill. After stating some minor details in connect-ion with the bill, the right hon. gentleman said that he intended to alter the present mode of investment in Exchequer Bills. By the old bill the commissioners invested their money on an average of prices during the quarter, but by this bill it would be made on the price of the day of the investment. He proposed to introduce a bill prohibiting private persons and companies from establishing banks under the title of savings backs, to prevent the public from being imposed on. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, in the course of his remarks on the question, said there was now a deficiency of the savings banks funds amounting to 5,280,0001., which he said arose from the inconvenient, he would say the mis chievous, system of allowing the Chancellor of the Exche quer to use the stocks of savings banks for the purposes of the State in carrying on his operations of finance and thereby working out his own projects and not those that would he for the advantage of the savings bank fund.. He contended that the Chancellors of Ex chequer had no right to deal with one farthing of this fund as they had dune, and he objected to their placing the money of the savings banks under the control of individual officers of the National Debt Office. He asked the Government to have the whole matter re ferred to a select committee. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. HERBERT expressed a hope that the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would press the clause relative to Government taking the re spolfaibility, instead of the present law, which absolved the trustees and manager from all responsibility, and held out a false inducement to the peore to part with their money. Mr. SOfHEIZAN ESCOTT said tLis bill proposed to introduce a new system of savings banks, and he was of opinion the subject should;be referred to . a stLet com• mitten. He, however, expressed his approval of the principles of tie bill. [LEFT MAME G I A TALE ABOUT TAILS. (Prom the lineman.) Reformers differ in opinion as to the tone our merry Premier will assume this session. We are, indeed, all likely to know soon, but for that very reason the curiosity becomes almost insuppressible ; it is'near upon starting time, and, How will Palmer ston lead off ? for the life of us we cannot help ask ing'. Tantalising hours are those which precede the minutes that couvert guessing, doubting, prophey eying, into certainty. Amongstl other fears of Reformers isthe great one, that, over-sure of a large majority which must sup port him this session, he will gaily tell the sesssion of 1858 to take care of itself ; will jauntily move the previous question on every Reform topic ; will have a host of plausible pretences for touching no thing organic till the session when all political reforms can be taken as a whole ; will try to make the house merry over the premature zeal of Re formers who prefer to-day to to morrow ; in a word, with all the good humour and adroitness he can muster, be will yet let his whole phalanx see that he is the leader of the house, the first man among them, and that wliithersoever he moves his tail must follow him. Now we have a little tale anent the Premier's tail, Era we tell it, however, we protest against any disparaging inference from the animal which figures in it. We protest, moreover, against being required to make every illustration run on all fours. How many a dog have we sean with its fourth leg under its arm, getting along at a rate which would leave us far behind ! Thus much premised, we beg to recal to the minds of many readers, and to tell to others, the story of an a4s—a very " magnificent" magnificent)—as given by M. Hasso,c(inforhaisssebsoocaknonbe This noble animal, which belonged to their guide; beat hollow the mules of the train, and was ever ahead of all ; but in his premier position, he was naturally conscious of his premier qualities, and he showed them in a way which allowed no sleep or slumber to the tired traveller • in fact, full of the genial fire of superiority and leadership, he brayed all night long to all the other asses within sound of his voice. These responded as good asses are wont to do, and poor M. Hue could not shut his eyes all night because he had no means of shutting his ears. Pleased as M. Hue was with the travelling excellen cies of his guide's animal, he could but complain to him in the morning of the creature's assurance in trumpeting so confidently his own praises to all the neighbourhood around. The guide smiled, and promised soon to cure him. M. Hue supposed the promise was but a joke, knowing of no means for stopping an ass's tongue. Next night, however, he slept soundly, and thought, no more of the ass. In the morning, the guide politely inquired how the traveller had reposed—whether he heard the noise of the ass last night : at the same time telling him that he had _taken care to " stop his sing ing." M. Hue still thought he was joking. He told the traveller, however, his method. " When an ass," said he "is going to bray, he always be gins by raising his tail, and he keeps it extended horizontally as long as his song lasts ; to insure his silence, therefore, you have only to tie a large stone to the end of his tail, so that he cannot raise it." Half incredulous, M. Huc went into the yard with the guide, and sure enough there was the ass with the stone tied to its tail. The traveller adds that, it being day time, and pitying the animal, he requested that the stone might be taken off; when forthwith the animal recommenced his music Even the author of " The Organon " would have held the experiment to be complete. Now, what we propose is, to weight well the Premier's tail ! All reformers who fear, and rea sonably enough, that Lord Palmerston may sing too loud and clear, and altogether too assuredly for their comfort, cannot do better than to put the weight on his tail. While he enjoys the free use of that organ, he will naturally display his confi dence ; but every such display will be preceded by an effort, through the well known nerves of the Treasury, to ascertain that all is right with his tail. Restriction there is sure to tell. Premiers who cannot get their parliamentary tail straight, and keep it straight too, become as quiet as M. Hue's ass. We began by apologising for a story that did not go all-fours ; but we are not so sure the apology was necessary. At least it finishes right ;' for the moment our leader of the house had got out of the darkness of stand-still and Conserva tive policy, the moment he and we had all got into broad Liberal daylight together, we should off with the weight at once, and let him "sing his song" la his heart's content. _ _ Last week we suggested such organisation in every Liberal constituency as would render useless all adroit attempts of the Premier to use his fol lowers in the house for improper purposes. We perceive our excellent contemporary, the Norfolk .News, goes even further. It recommends a na tional committee, formed by a delegation of one member from each borough, to inform the Premier and his supporters of the minimum Reform which they are, determined to have. The suggestion is ex cellent. Why can it 'not be acted on ? A few in THE] GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE. (From, the Morniv Post.) Our readers are aware that for the last sixteen or eighteen days the brother of the Emperor of all the Russias has been received as a guest on the French soil, and that for the last eight or ten days he has been alternately sojourning at Fontaiuebleau and Paris. The young admiral has been received at Toulon and Marseilles, at Lyons and at St. Etienne aud, indeed, on the whole line of route, from the department of the Var to Paris, with manifesta tions of civility and interest. At Toulon, the most important and extensive military port of France on, the Mediterranean, the Grand Admiral of Russia experienced more cordiality than in the provinces or in the capital, for his former visit to the part a few years ago was remembered by many officials as a pleasing souvenir. In the dockyard and arsenal of Toulon the Grand Duke Constantine took the greatest interest. He inspected the basins and sills d'armes, viewed all the vessels in construction or on the stocks, examined the magazines and loftsl where sails were made and fitted ; a9.d inspected the rope-walk, careening dock, and naval hospital, asking pertinent questions, and taking accurate measurements as he went along. A second day was devoted to the ships of war in harbour ; and, as though this were not sufficient, the forts Lamalgue, S. Catherine, and Faron, where Napoleon Bona parte first distingu;shed himself in 1793, were mi nutely inspected, and inquiries made which proved to the officials that the Grand Duke was not a mere dilettante traveller. While these naval perquisi tions were being made the time had arrived for certain civil formalities at the Maritime Prefecture. But these were speedily hurried over by the Grand Duke, who impatiently hastened back to the port and dockyard. Thii shows a true sailor's instinct ; and as sailorship is the profession of the Duke, it is laudable in him to le trn everything concerning the .practice of nautical affairs that can be useful to his country. . _ In Paris, notwithstanding its many attractions, it is understood that the Russian visitor is like a fish out of water. Attentions without number have been lavished upon him by the highest person in the State, and the most eminent functionaries ; but, notwithstanding these courtesies, he hungers and thirsts to visit some of the other Ports Miii tafres of France. The consequence is that the Im perial steam-yacht, the Reine Hortense, has been placed at his disposal, and after having visited Bor deaux, Indre, Rochefort, and Cherbourg, which latter town is within a few hours' sail of the British coasts, it is understood that the Grand Duke, ac cepting the invitation of her Majesty, will, in a few days, pay a visit to this country. He has not been the first of his family who has done us this honour. His great ancestor, the man, indeed, who may be said to have been the founder of- hia house—Peter the Great—visited these shores in 1698. During the period of his sojourn, habited as au English sailor, he continued to work in the dockyard at Deptford, and declared to his attendants that if he had not been born Czar of Russia his ambition would be to live and die an English admiral. _ _ _ The first residence of Peter was in a "hand-bme house provided for him at the bottom of York buildings, near the waterside ;" but as a residence "above bridge, as it was then called, was neither agreeable to his humour nor the design of his coming, "a neat residence," belonging to Evelyn ' "with a bai& door into the King's-yard, at Dept ford, was provided." Here the Czar used h's tools, conversed with the shipbuilders, who showed him their draughts and plans, and expressed himself tit the time he had spent in Holland was lost, and that he would never have learned his trade if he had not come to England. During Peter's stay in this country he visited thq University of Oxford, was once to pay a visit to the Archbi-ihop of Canter bury, and went many times to cathedrals and churches, and also to the Quakers' and Dissenters' meeting-houses. Bishop Burnett, who waited on die Czar often by command of the King, tells us that "he was a man of a very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very brutal in his passion." "Ho raises his natural heat," says the bishop in his graphic way, "by drinking much brandy, which he rectifies himself with great application. N " He is subject," says the same acute observer, "to con vulsive motions all over his body, and his 'head seems to be affected with these. He has a larger miss - are of knowledge than might be expected from his education, which was very indifferent. He is mechanically turned, and seems designed by nature rather to be a ship carpenter than a great Prince." _ . . . The chief favourite of Peter during his sojourn was the Lord President of the Council, the Marquis of Carmarthen, afterwards Duke of Leeds. Like the Czar, the Marquis of Carmarthen delighted in nif- ri time affairs, and he often rowed and sailed with Peter ou the Thames, giving him all the informa tion possible as to maritime affairs. Nor was the Russian ungrateful, for when he entered into a treaty with Mr. Heathcote and other considerable merchants of London for a free importation of tobacco into his dotninions, he made it a condition that the marquis should have five shillings a hogs head for *very hogshead exported, " as a return for his obliging conversation." The Emperor Alexander, the Duchess of Olden burgh, and the Grand Duke Michael also visited England during the Regency and in the reign of George IV. During the reign of her present Majesty, both the 'ale Czar Nicholas and his daughter, . the Grand Duchess Maria, also visited this country • and now,. after a war waged during the years 1854, 1855, and 1856, the son of the last, and brother of the present, Czar will soon find himself the guest of a Sovereign with whom Russia was but very lately in open hostilities. With the return of peace, however, all feeling of hostility has died away in England ; and the chief objects of the war being happily accomplished, there is now no reason whatever why friendly relations should not be resumed between the two countries. In fact, for one hundred and sixty years, with the exception of a few months between 1800 and 1801, during the reign of the Emperor Pau!, of unhappy memory, the friendliest arid' the best of relations have sub sisted between this country and Russia. Without admiring the political or social system of the coun try, and at all times prepared to resist the 'asgres sive tendencies of its Government, every English statesman of any repute must feel that a widely extended and profitable commerce may he carried on between the merchants of the two countries, to the common benefit of England and Russia, and to the great advancement of civilisation. On this ground it is that We hail the arrival of the Grand Duke with the warmest pleasure as the guest of her Majesty. The Russian admiral will, doubtless, think himself bound to visit a capital where his great ancestor dwelt for a. considerable time, and where two of his uncles, and where his father and sister, . temporarily sojourned. Peter the Great, and subse; qnently Alexander, Michael, and Nicholas visited the Tower, the Mint, and the Houses of Parliament, and also the opera and the theatres. Peter the Great went twice or thrice to the play, though one of his biographers tells us it was a diversion he had no taste for. Though not liking the entertainment, however, Peter expressed great admiration for one of the actresses of the day, a certain Miss Croft, who, we are told by one of the chroniclers of the time, 4i was once admitted into his company." We presume the Grand Duke wilt come direct from Cherbourg to Osborne. Thence, possibly, he will proceed to visit Portsmouth,' a place which his great ancestor visited before quitting these shores. When Peter the Great was about to re-embark for Holland, the politic William 111. sent Admiral Mitchilil along with him to Portsmouth, "to put the fleet which lay at Spithead out to sea, and to entertain his Czarish Majesty with a mock engage ment." Peter had seen something of the kind in Holland, but he expressed much greater satisfac tion at the English fight, and " declared he thought an English admiral a happier man than the Czar of Muscovy." He approved, indeed, so well of our shipping that he took several English shipbuilders and artificers into his service, and among the rest, at the request of the Marquis of Carmarthen, Captain John Perry, who has given us an account of his experience in Russia. Nor did the civilities of William end here. His Britannic , Majesty presented the Czar - With a fine yacht called the Roy al Transport then mnsidered the best in England. This vessel mounted twenty-one guns, and carried to Archangel " one Mr. Fergu son, a mathematician bred in the University of Aberdeen," " two young mathematicians out of Christ's Hospital," and a number of shipbuilders and artificers, who obtained the permission of King William 111. to enter the service of the Czar. These details may interest the descendant of the inspired barbarian, and suggest matter for reflection to some of the statesmen and politicians of our own day. In- the one hundred and sixty years since 1698 England has undergone many transformations, i but not more than Russia. ELECTION PETITIONS.—The time allowed for present ing petitions to the House of Commons complaining of undue returns of members to Parliament is 14 clear days after the meeting of the house. These days do not com mence on the election of the Speaker. They date from the passing of the sessional orders, which were only moved on Thursday last. • One of the standing orders fixes the time for receiving petitions, which will not close until the 21st inst. FALL OF THREE HOUSES AND LOSS OF LIFE. The following is a more detailed account of this melancholy accident than we were enabled to give in our impression of Saturday : A sad catastrophe took place on Saturday. Three house., Nos. 146, 147, ,and 148, Tottenhatn-court-road, fell down and caused the loss of five lives, besides doing serious injury to several persons. It was shortly after seven o'clock in the morning that the three houses fill, and it is scarcely necessary to state that the event created intense excitement in the neighbourhood. During the rernainder of the day that portion of Tottenham-court-road which lies be tween 'Warren-street and Grafton-street was barred to the passage of vehicles, and the whole space was filled by a dense crowd of people, who waited anxiously to hear of the extrication of the bodies from the ruins. Between Grafton-street and Tottenham-place there are seven houses; five of these are or were occupied by two furniture warehousemen; Mr. Hunter at No. 148 and 149, and Messrs. Maple and Co., 145, 146, and 147. The houses which have fallen are the three centre ones' —viz., Nos. 146, 147, and 148, leaving still standing on either side of the ruins respectively one house of the rival dealers. The front of Mr. Hunter's house and the party wall—still standing—are newly built. The house of Messrs. Maple is old, and would by this time have been a ruin had it not been "shored" up at an early period of the day. The weight of cement has torn the front several inches from the walls, and the stack of chimneys, which leans over frightfully, has separated eight or nine inches from the roof. The wonder is that, like its neighbours, it too is not now a heap of ruins. In the shop of this corner house of Messrs. Maple and Co., extending a great distance to the rear of Totten ham-court-road, there is an iminenee stock of valuable furniture of all descriptions, which has fortunately re mained uninjured; but in one of the houses which had fallen it is said that the furniture and other stock in trade were of the value of several thousand pounds. From 50 to 60 men were at work at the, time, and some score or more of shopmen and others were sleeping or dressing in different parts of the house at the time of the accident. Oa 'she kitchen range, which yet clings with tenacity its place in the chimney nearly at the top of t r ee house, there are still the kettles, and on the mantelpiece over it the tea-pots and pewter wares which in s, few minutes would hive been brought into use for the breakfast of the es tablishment. For some time atter the house had fallen the fire burnt brightly, and the boiling water streamed forth out of the kettle-spout on to the ruins below'. In an adjoining apartment portions of wearing appara and a carpetbag bang on the pegs against the well ; their owner, while still in his bed, was suffocated amid the fallen ruins. The cook, who was preparing the break fast, is a mutilated corpse ; she was hurled among the falling timbers of the adjoining house. A lad engaged cleaning the knives escaped, although precipitated from the top of the house, with only , a few slight scratches. All around the spot where he was found lie piled up in strange confusion the debris of the house. The thick bressemers, strengthened with iron, which carried the front of the houses, are snapped in the centre like thin laths of wood ; girders and beams are snapped or mingled in the strangest of forms; flooring boards are wrung from their joists, and sheets of lead, torn off like paper, are rolled and curled up in the most curious shapes ; lath and plaster, brick and mortar, doors and staircases, window frames and cupboards, bedsteads, chairs, tables, and looking-glasses, are smashed and broken and pounded up into rubbish ; and, as the men work among the mass, they fall on a cup er a saucer, or some other fragile piece of crockery, still strangely pre served, secure in its weakness, amid the general wreck. As though to make still more complete the scene of ruin, there are huge torn printed placards everywhere which appear to rejoice in the catastrophe, and to grin more horribly in the midst of the desolation. They are headed with huge letters, " Fire, fire !" and go on to state tLat the salvage stock froui the late fire—a portion of the pre mises were rebuilding, after a recent conflagration—is to be sold at some alarming percentrge under the original price, and " regardless of the cost." How much of the cause of the present catastrophe is to be traced to the prin • ciple embodied in these four words will never be fully made known, but if it should be proved that, "regardless of the cost," rival traders had disregarded the warnings of surveyors and others, and sough to put showy exte riors upon rotten fabrics, and paid no heed to the foun dations or superstructure of decayed party walls, then it is high time, for the sake of the public, that such per sona should be told that " extensive alterations," when made "regardless of the cost," cannot longer be per mitted. From the statement made to us on the spot it appears that there are two versions in concision with the cir cumstances which hate led to this shocking calamity. Some few weeks since the premises of Mr. Hunter, fur niture warehouseman and upholsterer, which imme diately adjoin the premises of Messrs. Maple and Co., were so much injured by a fire which broke out as to render the rebuilding of the whole, or a great portion nec?szary. These works were entrusted by Hunter to Mr. Johnson, builder, of Proinix-place, Gray's-inn-road, and ca:ried out under the direction of Mr. Redding, Mr, Hunter's surveyor. While these works were pro gressing at Mr. Hunter's, Mr. Maple thought it a fitting opportunity to have some enlargements and alterations made in his premises adjoining, and Mr. MapL's altera tions were entrusted to Mr. Taylor, builder, &c., of Sesy mour-street, Mr. Riggett, of Gower-street, being the surveyor to Mr. Maple. These works were in progress, and no apprehensions were entertained till Friday after noon, when Mr. H. Baker, the district surveyor, is stated to have c:ime. to- view the premises, and ho at once condemned the .old party wall standing on the southern side.of Messrs. Maple's premises, numbered 145, 146, and 147, Tottenham-court-road, and directed . . • that it shoul f be at once underpinned, and from the ground floor to the first floor . new brickwork put in. The distinct orders stated to have been given by Mr. Baker, the district surveyor, to Mr. Johnson or his fore. man, were, that the workmen were to take the party ' wall down . trom the ground fl )or to the first, and replace it with new brickwork, whic'n west° be supported by "un der-pinning." It appears that Mr. Johnson's men came to work about 6 o'clock, and, under orders from Mr. Moore, the foreman to Mr. Johnson e they commenced the re moval ot the brickwork of the party wall. Mr. Taylor's men were also at work in the premises belonging to Mr. Maple, 147, Tottenham-court-road, the house imme diately abutting on the party wall referred to. It is stated that Mr. Johnson's men commenced removing the brickwork from the party wall in two places at the same time—namely, near the front of the house at Tottenham court-road and also towards the back part of the premises. It is said that these holes in the brickwork were made to the extent of about six feet long by three feet high, when the party wall gave way, dragging with it the two adjoining houses, No-. 146 and 147, in its descent. This is one version of the,cause which is stated to have led to the catastrophe. The other version is that derived from Mr. John Moore, the foreman to Mr. Johnson, the builder for Mr: Hunter. He states that he had the superintendence of the works in course of erection for the new p:enises belonging to Mr. Hunter, at 148, Tottenham-ceur,coad, welch adjoin those ot Mr. Maple's last house, numbered 147. The wall of 147 had, ho says, been much cut about for the purpose of putting in a new bressemfr, and all the ties having any connexion with the party wall had been cut off. The district surveyor, Mr. Henry Baker, came on Friday afternoon and inspected the works, and ordered the party wall between 147 and 148 to be underpinned and repaired. In accordancewith the direction of the dis. trict surveyor he gave instructions to the men that they should commence the underpinning of the party wall that morning. They came at the usual hour and com menced the work, when the front wall of Mr. Maple's nearest house, No. 147, fell outward, causing the entire building to collapse, and that forced Mr. Hunter's party wall into the area o f the space on which the house, No. 148 (Mr. Hunter's) was being rebuilt, dragging the next door house, No. 146, with it. The first indication of anything wrong took place about a quarter past seven o'clock in the morning, at which time there were between 20 and 30 young men and women, in the employ of Messrs.. Maple and Co., on the preinises, either in bed or in the act of rising and dressing. Of this number about 20 were in the upper portions of the houses numbered 146 and 147, which have fallen. At the same time there were Mr. Johnson's men at work at the wall en the one side, and some of Mr. Taylor's (Mr. Maple's builder) at work on the other. Two of these men were carpen ters, named Garnett and Richard Turner, who were at work at their bench in the first floor of the house No. 147. At this moment a crackling noise was heard, and a sound like thunder succeeded. The buildings fell with a frightful crash. Shealy after a strong body of police of the. B division, under Superintendent O'Brien and In spectors Checkley and Duigan, arrived, and labourer, under the orders of Messrs. Johnson and Taylor, were set to work to ascertain who were the sufferers, and to rescue those whO might be found alive as fast as possill.e. The first who escaped were, singular to relate, Mrs. Christmas, the housekeeper, and two young women em ployed in the drapery department. They were in the sitting room on the second floor of 146 when the house fell, and were very slightly hurt. The escape of Mrs. Christmas was truly miraculous. She was at the moment of the fall dusting the piano, with which she was carried away, and, falling in the hollow between the piano and a beam, she escaped with a slight graze of the legs. As soon as the alarm created by such a catastrophe had in some degree subsided the muster-roll of the per sons known to be in the houses at the time of the fail, and employed on the works, was called over, and also those attached to Messrs. Maple's establishment. Among the latter were Mr. Frederick Byng, ebief clerk ; James Beam, Reginald Rudd, Horace Regnant, George Bayley, George Eaton, William Ayres, William Beauchamp, a youth who acted as cashier in one of the departments ; Ann Briscoe, the cook ; and Mary Daly, house-servant. Among those employed on the works, missing, were Mr. Taylor, jun., the son of the contractor for Mr. Maples's works ; Turner and Garnett, carpenters ; and George Kevil, one of the labourers in the empley of Mr. John son, at work at the party wall on Mr. Hunter's side of the premises. The large body of men set to work soon succeeded in rescuing most of the above named, and they were conveyed in rapid suc cession one after the other to University College Hospital, where they were at once attended to by Mr. Ericson, one of the principal surgeons, Mr. Teevan, the house-surgeon, and the whole of the medical staff. After digging out ti-e ruins for about three-quarters of an hour the men succeeded in reaching the body of the unfortunate young man- Frederick Byng. The poor fellow was found lying in his bed, which had fallen with the upper floor, where he had slept. He hail evidently been suf focated, as there was no mark of violence whatever upon his person, except a small drop of blood at one of his nostrils, He was at once removed to the hospital, but life was quite extinct. The next body was not got out Mr some time after, and that was the unfortunate conk, Ann Briscoe. It instated that when discovered she had a ,knife grasped firmly in her band, as if about to perform some culinary operation. The next sufferer got out of the ruins was a young man, Mr. Taylor, jun., the son of the builder. Although not dead, his injuries were found to be of so frightful a character that his entrails were protruding, and but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. It appears that a heavy beam had fallen across his body, crushing him in a dreadful manner, as in so peculiar a way that the beam had to be sawn in two before he could be extricated. He was at once con veyed to the hospital. The workmen were unremitting in their labours, but it was not until nearly 2 o'clock in the afternoon that they succeeded in discovering the bodies of the two carpenters, Turner and Garnett, both of whom were frightfully crushed and mutilated. They were got out and also conveyed to the hospital. Mr. Hughes, principal in the carpet department of Messrs. Maple's establishment, gives the following ver sion of the affair :—Hu states that he was aroused soon after 6 o'clock by the knocking of the men, who were re moving the brickwork for the purpose of underpinning IVIr. Hunter's party wall. He went into some of the rooms, and called upon some of the young men to rise, and about 7 o'clock be saw the cook, Ann Briscoe, with a broom in her hand, sweeping out the young men's breakfast room on the second floor of the house num bered 146. He then went down stairs to sea what the men were doing to the wall, and in going down passed the two carpenters, Turner and Garnett, who were at the time working at their bench on the second floor. On reaching the ground fl ,or (level with the street) he saw, Mr. Johnson'e men, with crowbars, knocking the blacks out of the party-wall in two places, at each end of the wall; and, to the best of his judg ment he considers that the holes they had then made were each about five feet long and three high. There were some of Mr. Taylor's bricklayers at work on Mr. Maple's side of the wall. He had been looking at the labourers at work on .the brick work about two or three minutes, when one of Mr. Taylor's men celled out, "See how the duet is coming from that wall—l don't like that ; " and instantly after the same man ex claithed "Run, Mr. Hughes! Run for your life; the wall is coming down !" He (Mr. Hughes) and the three men ran backward towards the carpet department of Mr. Maple's premises, which is detached from the front houses, and had only just passed through the door when they heard the most frightful crashes, one after the other, and felt no doubt but that the houses had fallen. His fright and alarm for some few moments were so great that he did not know what to do, but he followed the other men out by the side door, which leads into Tottenham-place, and lent his aid to rescue the women, who were at the time the houses fell, in the sitting-room, and were creeping out of that portion of the ruins apparently but little injured. Soon after the occurrence a messenger was des patched to Mr. Maple, who resides with his family at Hampstead. He was much affected at the sad occur rence, and informed our reporter that he estimates his loss at very little short of 10,000/. That portion of the establishment which is crushed contained about 2,0001. worth of costly furniture. The loss of Mr. Hunter will not be so severe, as he had no furniture or any other property in the house 148, which was at the time a mere carcase. When the bodies of the two poor fellows Turner and Garnett were discovered they were found one over the other under their bench, which was crushed in upon them. The coroner has appointed Wednesday next for hold• leg his inquest. The following is a list of the sufferers : Fre:ierick Byng (suffaAted while in bed) —dead. Ann Briscoe (cook)—dead. Richard Turner (carpenter)—dead. George Garnett (carpenter)—dead. George Kevil—dead. Joseph Taylor, son of the contractor, received a severe gash in the left groin, about six inches long, completely severing the bone that unites the thigh to the general trunk of the body, and exposing the large blood-vessels in that region. He is likewise severely contused about the bead; has been perfectly conscious ever since the accident ; suffers no pain ; and although in a very pre carious condition, yet hopes are entertained of his reco very. George Eaton, cashier to Mr. Maple, is severely bruised about the chest, but, though hii lungs are slightly inflamed, his chance of recovery is favourable. The housemaid and a boy were likewise brought to the hospital yesterday, but were only slightly bruised and left ►hortly afterwards. Country Market.% HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—MAY 8. wuNAY. I BARLBY 1 OATS. I BRAD. . First 66s 0:1 413 6cl ! D Od 4.81 - Second 46s 5,1 I 393 8d i 293 9d) 43s 2d Third 34s Od 1303 Od I 27s Od 1 35s IA Total quantity of wheat in market, 658 qrs., 655 sold PS OP barley „ 119 qrs., 114 sold ” , oats ,; 296 qrs„ 265 sold li • ,i, beans n 139 qrs., 133 sold AVERAGES PER IMPEStIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 6 5 1-12ths Barley, 19 8 9•l2tbs Oats, 11. 9 9 2-12ths j Beans, 2/. 3 2 5-12tLs DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET-314x 7. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior 245 Wheat 63s od. 700 Oats 33s 63 26a 1 1: 1 (1. 104 74.1 103 Barley 42a Od 37s -Od ......... 27. egt 40 Peas & beans 46s Od 4ls 6(.1 ABE.RDEEN—MAY 8. Potato oats 23s 01 to 24s Oa Common oats `)..ts Od to 233 Od 1401bs per bushel Bere " - 1s Od to 35s Od. 531bs „ Barley 'lls Od to 35s Od 1 Wheat, red (spring)37s Od to 42s Od I ,—. mbs „ „ white .......37s Od. to 47s Ocl Oatmeal ~.18s 6d to lYs 6d per boll. Flour —s Od to 45s Od per sack. ME PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 91 Butter, plb. Os 10d. to Is Od Mutton, per lb 6d to 81 Eggs, p doz. Os 6 Ito Os 8d Lamb, do., Oa 01 to OH 01 Hens, p pair 2s 6d to 3s Od Veal, per lb ... 8d to Os 91 Chickens,do.ls 6d to 2s Od Pork, perlb...os 6d to Os 7d Ducks, do., 03 Od to Ott 01 Salmon, per lb is 6d Ducklings,doOs Od to 2s 6.1 Grouse, per brace.....Os to Os Turkeys, each 4s Od to 54 Ott Tallow, p stone, Os to 12s 01 Potatoes, per pock, 01 to 15d Rabbits, each 3d to 4d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.... 84s to 904 Eggs, wholesale price, per do zen ..... ...... ...sid to 01 RETAIL PRICES. Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 6d Barley f10ur,14113.0s to 2s 2d Oatmeal Os Od to Is 10d • dust, ..... Os to 0310 d Beromeal „Odto ls 10d ~ por lb 2d to lid Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Bids, 7a Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 4-lb. 10af...7d. I 2-lb. 10af...3id. DUBLIN, MAT 5. At the opening of the market to•day rather higher rates were demanded for wheat and oats, but were only obtained in a few cases for very prime samples of wheat, and the market closed languidly at about Tuesday's currencies. In Indian corn nothing doing, and prices unaltered. White wheat, 33s 6d to 37s 6d ; red ditto, 32s Od to 365 Od, ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d ; ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 13s 3d to 16s; ditto, new, —0 Oct to —s Od ; oatmeal, 15s to 16s 63; bore, new, —s to —0 Od ; rapes3Fd, —s Od to —s Od per bri ; bas.ere flour, 191 Od to 24s 01 per cwt; Indian corn, 34s Od to 37s 6d per 480 lbs. [Anyzarrsantvarr.]— A few more of the extraordinary curse without Medicine of L,digertion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility effected by Du Barry'. delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica 144( d, are here given : Cure 52,422. Bridgehouse, Frimley, 3d April, 1854.—Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constipation, debility, sho r t ness o f b reath, and cough, have been removed by your Revaleuta Arabica. My lungs, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my hearing perfect, and my recovery is a marve l t o a ll my acquain tances.—JAatee Doman, Wood Merchant. —From the Venerable A/oh' deacon of Ross.—Not 32,836. Three years' excessive nervousness' with pains in my nec k an d l e ft arm , a nd general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Fwd.—ALEXANDER STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen• bupported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Erre ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey: Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingrain; Lord Stuart de Decics ; the Dowager Countess of c a stle. Stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particulars respect ing this invaluable food our readers are r e f erre d to D u B arr y'. advertisement in another part of this paper, BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the Bth inst., et Stanhope Villa, Campden-hill, gen sington, Mrs. Charles Boosey. On the 7th inst., at Duffield House, Derby, the wife 0, Major Wm: Elliott, Royal Marines. . A OF A DAUGHTER. 11 -- On the 9th inst., at 17, Hugh-street west, Eeeleston" square, the wife of the Rev. S. Flood Jones, MLA., Meat , ' bent of St. Matthew's, Spring-gardens. On the Bth inst., at Lonsdale-terrace, Lonsdale-roo d i Barnes, Surrey, Mrs. Edmund Parnell. M A lt:R I EID. On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's, Johnson-street, Col n. menial-road, Mr. Joseph Crowther, of Bennet's-hill, I) ° °- tore-commons, to Jane Georgians, eldest daughter of Ai r ' C. Kerbey. Whitechapel-road. On the Bth inst., at the Friends' Meeting-house, Ain. bill, Bedfordshire, Ri c h ar d Beck, of 6, Coleman-stre et London, to Harriet, th e younger daughter of Charles 301 ' C. 8., Great George-street, Westminster. DIED. On the Bth inst., at Brighton, David Trevena Coul o3/3 ' Esq., editor of the Press newspaper, and of 2, l'ark-Pr °l- pect, Westr&nster aged 46. On the 9th het% Mr. David M`Kewan, sen., of Br „ s eek‘ nock-crescent, Camde n N ew -t own , an d Custom -6‘ quay, aged 73. On the 2th inst., at Little Stanmore, Mr. Geo. Flin t * On the Bth i ns t., William Crookes, Esq late of Mon tag u place, aged 79. nts, On the Bth i ns t., a t Milf or d-l o d ge, L ym i ng t o n, Thomas Legh, Esq., of Lyme-park, Cheshire, aged 'fro' On the Bth inst., at Edwardes-place, Kensington , deric Han, aed O. On k the 7th i g nst., the Hon. Colonel Henry Sutton age d 53 late On the 7th inst., at B r i x t on , Ch ar l es Boyd, RIK" Surveyor-General of her Majesty's Customs. - LONDON,: Printed Printed and Published by MIIRDO of No, 112, Stride!, Printer, at The Sun 0 11ice ' ty 112, Strand, in the Pr ec i nc t o f th e Savoy, in ° l° °- 0 11 of aiddleeez, Monday, May 11,1857. A Bui cai ex ( do nal 23( qui iss l of