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was rence n on ) Go )n of o the 'AL Six boys, ul.an deck had to the me on le La of the e men poor le at L deck got sited a Ltereat cabin pachas before Lyons he ren such a lers of a very 1—“ I 'ening. shod came lips a 3 ressing Roy al ng the Point before of the ghtest 'IA ex- miral, of the ashika nelles, I then HE ration itrol," taken. , and rty of ire of COll. rtain, ;dom, ectors nt of -3iasti buted n did elec ted as the on to MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. This beng Good Friday there is no commer cial or monetary intelligence to report—Lloyd's, the Stock Exchange, the Bank of England, and all other business establishments being, as usual, closed. THE RUSSIAN ARMY. (Prom a Correspondent of the Times.) BERLIN, APRIL 7. While in my preceding letter I described the abolition of a peculiar corps in the Russian army, and the renunciation of a system apparently about to be revived by the late Emperor, you will find in the following the rapid extension by the present Emperor of an organisation commenced by his father. I allude to the Rifles or Sharpshooters. This body is not to be confoupded with the Jager regiments, Which existed previously, but were however nothing else than Fusilier regiments, standing in this same relation to the Musketeer regiments as infanterie Legere does to infanterie de la e., they dif fered from each other iu little more than in their buttons and facings. All the 42 regiments of Jagers, it may b 3 men tioned here, have ceased to exist as a separate arm, and have been ranged in the same list with the 42 infantry, or Musketeer regiments, with which they now form 84 regiments. They have, in consequence of this new arrangement, all received fresh serial *umbers, and the Jagers have been allowed to re tain the names they bore of certainprovinces, towns, or battles. The Carabineers have also met with the same fate as the Jagers. They stood in the same relation to the Grenadiers as the Jagers did to the Musketeers (they wore black facings, while the Grenadiers and Musketeers wore white), but in all essential matters they were as near as possible the name. To return, however, to the Rifles. Out of the one single regiment that the Emperor Nicholas had at the commencement of his reign —viz., the Fin land Rifles of the .Body Guard—have arisen no less than 54 battalions, besides the company of Rifles or Sharpshooters attached to every battalion of in fantry as a fifth company. General Ramsay, the present commander of the separate Grenadier corps, was the Emperor's right hand in the formation of these battalions of Rifles. An ardent and. enthu aieetic votary of the Rifles, he devoted himself to the tisk with such ardour that results were ob tained totally disproportioned to the time they oc cupied. His first attempts, however, were ren dered futil e by th e Emperor Nicholas's notion t hat these battalions of Rifles could best be raised among the cantonists, or enfuns de troupe, founded on the supposition that their better educa tion and habits of life would render them specially apt at this weapon, which, more than any other, requires smartness, alertness, and a certain degree of handiness. A very short experience having shown these youths to be,totally unequal to the exertions General Ramiay required of them, the Emperor, though with great regret, abandoned his idea of thus turning them to good account ; and, perceiving that nothing but the hardiest ma terials would answer the purpose, he allowed the battalions to be raised among the Tschuwasches, the Tscheremises, and other tribes whose occupa tion is more especially the chase ; and this time the experiment succeeded entirely. The Rifle com panies attached to the different infantry regiments Were, on the other hand, formed by selecting from each company first of all the six best marksmen, and then increasing this number gradually to 24 per company. The aggregate of these picked marks men forms now the sth company attached to every battalion (regiment) of infantry under the name of Rifles and. Sharpshooters. Over and above these, there remains to be men tioned the Rifle Regiment of the Imperiol family, originally projected to consist of four battalions, but subsequently confined to three. This regiment received a peculi ar an d excep ti ona l pos iti on o f th e " Military system, inasmuch as it was placed neither under the Minister of War nor under the inspector of the Rifle force, but under the Minister of the Imperial House. It was raised on the Crown do mains from among the Crown peasantry, and num bered in its muster-roll a large portion of the officials of the domains, the foresters, rangers, &c. Now, let us see how the s e r e c en t crea ti ons of the late and present Emperor have been adjusted into the new organisation which Alexander 11. has given to his army. Of the three battalions of the Rifle Regiment of the Imperial family only one has been retained, chiefly as a memento of the occasion which led to its being raised. It is held to belong to the Guard, lytit'it is not attached to any particular division. Its commander is Prince Galitzin, and the list of its officers contains many brilliant names. , In the place of the one Finland battalion of the Rifles of the Guard there are now three, the first of which is attached to the Ist division of [the In fantry of the Guard, the second to the 2d division, and the third (which retains the name Finland) to the 3d division. ' Each of the three ' Grenadier divisions of the . Grensdier corps has now a battalion of Grenadier Rifles attached to it. In athliiion to these, the Emperor has just lately, while at Zarskoe-Selo, ordered the formation of a normal company of Rifles, under the command of Captain Baron von Korff, who has spent much time of late in studying the most recent improvements made in this arm in other countries. As a reserve to these 18 battalions there exist at present only two reserve Rifle battalions, in conse quence of the men composing the original four re serve and two supplementary Rifle battalions hay ing been draw ;kited off to make up the complement of the 18 Rifle battalions of the main army. Attached to the separate Caucasian Corps there the now one Caucasian Grenadier Rifle battalion, ' 4l O 19th, 20th, and 21st Rifle battalions attached t 0 the Infantry divisions bearing the same serial n umber, and oue Caucasian Reserve Rifle battalion. Out of the six Rifle battalions of the six Infantry e 4 . ° rPs (now called Armee Corps) there have been formed 18 battalions, one of which is attached to eh of the 18 Infantry divisions of the so-called -` First Army," or main army. T he six battalions of Rifles that were raised in Fi nland out of the ci-devant Swedish Indelta troops have been increased to nine ; they stand under th e i nspec t ors hi p o f M a j or -General von l '°den, and, in 'addition to their own serial num °Or, bear the names of the towns where their head- Varters are stationed Abo, Wasa, Uleaborg, ~,t-uopa, St.. Michael, Tawarthus, Bjerneborg, and Wiborg. A !normal Rifle battalion A is ;the school in which these nine battalions are 'rai ne d . Although the four ei-devant normal Carabineer regiments are not reckoned officially as belonging to the Rifles or Sharpshooters, they must, never theless, be mentioned here as forming part of that force, inasmuch as the Emperor has taken away from them their former serial number which they bore as Carbineers, and has named them Normal Rifle regiments. They were raised among the can tonisti of the Nowogrod military colonies, and form a separate body, under the instruction of Lieutenant-General Troloff. The Rifle force of the Russian army consists, then, of the following : Battalions. 1. Attached to the Guard, ... ... 4 2. Attached to the Grenadier Corps ... 3 3. Attached to the Sixth Armee Corps 13 4. Attached to the Caucasian Corps ... 4 5. Reserve battalions ... ... ••• 3 6. Vinland battalions (ladelta, including Normal Battalion) 10 7. Normal Rifle Battalion ... ••• 12 Total ... 54 Simply taken numerically this Rifle fordo far exceeds that of all other armies ; but, with regard to its professional efficiency and skill in the use of its arms, some time must yet elapse, as those who :know it well and are disposed to form no unfavour able opinion of it maintain, before the Russian Rifles or Sharpshooters will be able to vie with those of older formation in other armies. In the meantime no pains are being spared to bring it 'rapidly forward in efficiency and military skill. On one preliminary question, however, military . men in Russia have by no means arrived at a har monious conclusion as yet—viz., whether such tr oops!, possessed of peculiarly good aim and long r ange, should be used rather as infantry of position the question has been carried at present the majo lltY of authorities seem, in consequence of the want of alertness in the Russian infantry of the line, to to the very natural view, that the Rifles, t he good shots peer excellence, should be employed as tirailleurs and eclaireurs. One strong convic tion, however, they all of them seem to entertain . 111 COMMOn—viz., that should Russia be involved i n another war her army will, in the use of small anals, not be found so interior to the rest of Europe as it was in the last. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yesterday . 4, admissions on payment were 1,045 ; by season tickets, '‘)z9.,. total, 1,374. The journey of a company of Spanish artistes, who mer e on their way from Madrid to perform at the Polies -Nouvelles in Paris, has been attended with a melancholy accident. The diligence in which they were travelling v as overtu rne d near th e f ront i er i n t o a ravine. T wo fe male dance rs were woun d e d i n t h e b ea d, a nd a thii - d bad her right arm broke:24Thu guard wag THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10 t 857, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Companies yesterday. yesterday, • . St. 100 Buckghamsh: Ln.&N.W. 92 94 St. 100 Clydesdale Jp. aalodon 98, 102 25 all Col•Stour Vy„ E.U.diE.C , 11 13 &it. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 p.e Gt.lforthn 132 134 5 all E. Un. H. Sh. E. - Count. -4/ St. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. • Neils•Direa.' _ •.• ..• St. 100 Do. 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Registered . i- 1 100 10 Union of ILoudon - ... i 120' 5 Trust&Ln C0.U.0 100 50 Unity Mutmal i ioo 281 Van Diemon's Land 11 -• 3 100 50 Westrulik..oileawl., 12 ..- 10d '- t. tlOO V.Q o . 6 p.cJan VW " - • Y tee ime et. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. AND LOSS OF LIFE MILS DAY). This Morning, 'shortly before .11 o'clock, the greatest excitement was caused in . Great Russell- street, Covent-garden, by the Occurrence of an acci dent which has deprived. one poor man of his life, and seriously injured three others. At the hour above-Mentioned a loud'repOrt was heard in the neighbourhood, and it was at first supposed that a portion of the remaining walls of the Covent-garden Theatre had fallen down, but in a very short time it was discovered that the- noise proceeded . from a very narrow court. called Russell-place, one end of which faces the Bow-street police-court, and the °Veer is opposite to the pit entrance of Drury-Pane Theatre. in Russell-street.. Until the last few days th,e hciuses in the court, five in number, have been principally occupied by:a certain class of ladies,„ but in consequence of the representations of .the . surveyor-to the Bedford estate, that the structures were in. .a dangerous condition, an order had been issued for their demolition, and this process was being carried into execution. by Mr. Howse; a builder residing in the neighbourhood. Nearly the whole of the fronts of the ''five . hOuSeS had been taken down, but the back wall, a very old one, •which • formed a portion of the- premises of the_ adjoining green yard, was left without the slightest support, and the fall iog of this wall has caused the fatal consequences above mentioned. The moment the wall, which was nearly forty feet high, fell forward, four men were occupied in fabing 'it with cement, and on the dust clearing off it was discovered • that the whOle of the unfortunate.indivicluals bad been buried in the debris. A strong force from the F division . of Police under the directiOn of Inspector Mitchell, immediately set to work to discover the workmen, and in a short time pelice-cOnAable, 49 F, succeeded in rescuing one of them, John .Skeen, a plast 3ier, who Was, in a very shocking skate, the bones of his leg and thigh protruding through his trousers. A man named Fitzgibbon was next taken from the ruins, lint he had ceased to exist. This poor fellow has left a wife and six .children. The Other two men—John Manley and - Timothy Madden,' having been dug - out of the ruins, the whole of the sufferers were conveyed to King's College' Hospital, and ; on arriving there every attention was immediately paid to them. The injuries the, three men - have sustained are'of a- very- serious nature, and great fears are entertained that in One case at 'least fatal results will follow. The police have taken posiession of the ruins, and ;he excitement has; in some degree; subsided. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. STATE OF THE POLLS. ANTRIM. ' The show of handion Thursday was in favour of Mr. O'Hara and Lieutenant-Colonel Pakenham. A poll was demanded for Mr. IVl‘Carthy.. Mr. John Rea the Ulster leader of the Presbyteri2n Young Irelenders, was also proposed, but retired in favour of Colonel Pakenham. Great excitement prevailed. The polling is to take place on Monday. ARMAGH (COUNTY.) Colonel Caulfield has retired, and Sir W. Verner and Mr. Close have been returned without opposition. CAVAN • (COUNTY). Maxwell and Anneeley returned. Defoe retired; DOWN (COUNTY)—FIRsr DAT. Hill .... ... 4,977 Ford Xtr ..; ... 4,637 ... 2,891 DUBLIN (COUNTY)--/stoinNaTiobr. Mr. Hamilton was proposed by Mr. T. G. Vernon, seconded by Mr. Thompson Colonel Loucer proposed, and Mr. C. Cobb, jun., seconded, Colonel AVylor ; Sir C. Domville was proposed. by Mr. Henry Grattan, and seconded'• by Mr. O'Neill: • The show of hands was in favour of Hamilton and Doraville. A. poll was de manded. GALWAY-CLOSE-OT THE POLL. Burke ... • „.. 267 247 Gr./very •-• •••• *** 99 Bellew ... KILKENNY (COUNTY)--FlnsT - DAY. - - Ellis ... 1,800 Mostyn " ... 626 She* .„. ... 611 Greene (This is exclusive of the return from Castlecorner.) LONGFORD (COUNTY). Greville, White, and Forbes • were nDminated. The poll is to take place on Monday. QUEEN'S COUNTY—CLosE or THE Pou,. C00te...1827 Dunne ... ... 1,443 Fitzratrick 1,247 SLIGO (COUNTY)—CLosz or THE Por,r, Booth Cooper Ball ... ...1,780 -. ...1,753 ... ... 36G WEXFORD (COUNTY)—CLOSE OF THE POLL. M'Mahon ...4,300 Hatched -.. 2,875 George ... • ... „. ... 2,525 WICKLOW. Lord Milton and Mr. Hume, the late members, and the Hon. Captain Moonlt were proposed. Show of hands in favour of Milton - and Monek- Poll de manded. . EXPLOSION .AT BeerasT.—Yesterday morning, about half-past .10, as the carriages were ,being prepared for the 11. o'clock train at Ballymena, an engine boiler ex ploded, and the fireman (Wm. Sark), who was the only one on her, was killed. 'The engine was raised quite . off the rails, and carried over two waggons a distance of about thirty yards, when it fell on its side much battered. The fireman was brawn high in the air, and alighted in a field about forty perches away. He was quite dead and much mutilated. An iequest will be held to-day. No one else was injured., Tne magnetic wires were smashed .by the engine, .and communication .between Belfast and Londonderry; was stopped until the injury Was repaired yesterday evening. SELF-RIGHTING OF LIFE BOATS WITH THEIR SAILS SET. —Yesterday some interesting trials took place with one of the life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat In stitution, in the Regent's Dock, Lirnehouse, in the pre sence of several experienced gentlemen. The life-boat, with her sails hoisted and sheets hauled taut, was turned over by a povserful.crane and paibuckle, until her masts were perpendicularly under water, when, on being re leased, she instantly sell.-righted and returned to her original upright position, and in 20 seconds self-ejected the water which hadfilled her to the thwarts in the ope. ration. This result was the more interesting as it has often been disputed whether any life-boat would self right with her masts and sails up.. How many sad ao cidents . th life-boats carrying sails would probably have been prevented had they possessed this important quality of self-righting. On the whole, the experiment yesterday afforded much satisfaction to all who had the pleasure to witness it, and clearly showed to what a state of perfection the construction of life-boats has been brought. The National Life-boat Institution, whose life-boats on various•parts of the coast have during the last three months rescued 70 persons from shipwrecks, is about to station this life-boat at Westport, an exposed point on the west coast of Ireland. ATTEWPTED MURDER AT MAlDSTONE.—Yesterday (Thursday) morning information was received by Mr. Blundell, the superintendent of the borough police at Maidstone, that a violent assault had been committed upon two young women, one of whom had received such injuries that she was not expected to recover. On making inquiries it appears that the two women in question, who were sisters, named Margaret and azabetle Jones, bore a very light character. Late ou Wednesday night they were in company with two bargemen at the Rod. ney Head public-house, in High-street, and at about 12 o'clock they proceeded with one of the men, named Charles Churnley, to a barge lying above the Lock meadows, on the Medway. An altercation took place on board the barge between Chumley and the two girls, when Chumley seised a heavy stick and struck the eldest sister, Margaret, a severe blow ovor the eye. The younger Eiger then jumped up and endeavoured to leave the barge, when she was attacked by Calemley in . a Most violent' Manner, and beaten over the head until she be came insensible. At a subsequent period Mr. Saunders, eurgeon, was called in, and on examining the girl foiled that she had received a large lacerated wound tit' the i s ti ca a ip p , rieen9d.ritbeingrt'act entertainedrc oowf lies her o h u st: s h ta er t, skull,o hopewas recovery; Chumley was, taken into custody by lie. Super intendent Blundell, and was brought before the hors:agle magistrates yesterday morning, by whom he was re manded till the 17th inst., in order to see whether the injuries received by the &Lirl prove fatal. L ,,THE CABDRIVERS OF YABlS. — Recompences, by way of encouragement, have just been awarded by the pre fect of police to 23 cabdrivers for their honesty in deli vering up articles left by passengers in their vehicles. During the last year the gold, silver, bank-notes, and securities payable to bearer deposited by the drivers with the commissaries of police amounted to 262,2061., inde pendently of a great number of articles of jewellery, and other -things of more or less value. Certificates of honesty have also been given to 41' other drivers, an d th e names of the whole h ave b een pos t e d up at all, the Stations for public carriages. Sporting TATTMSAt!L'S-TIIURSDAY. A reported favourable trial caused Kent to be brought with increased force. inta. the Two Thousand betting. After I,OOA to 100 bad been laid, he was advanced step by step to- 6to :1. Towards the elose, however, backers cried enougb, and 7 to 1 was offered, without finding takers. sto 1 was wanted about Vedette. Loyola was nominally'second favourite . : 500' even wag early in the afternoon laid on him against Schiedam. Three or four investment', amounting to about 1501., were made on Anton 415 to 1. The betting on the other events was too limited and unimportant for comment. The subjoined scanty list of quotations comprises alt the business transacted. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 100 to 30 agst•Pantomime (taken) 7to 2 aget Eloquence (taken) 100 to 80 agst•the two (taken) GREAT NORTHERN. 9to 2 agst Skirmisher (taken). ' sto kagst St. Giles (taken) 12 to 1 agst Pantomime (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agstCapt. Barclay (taken and offered) . CHESTER CUP. agst Leamington ing (ke t t o a n( n) taken) 4 7 0 to to 1 1 agst zg TWO THOUSAND. , 4to 1 agst Vedette (take sto 1) 100. to 15 agst .Loyola - , 7to 1 agst Kent (taken and offered) &to 1 agst Schiedam (offered) - 10. to 1 agst Sydney. (offered) • 100 to 8 agst Apathy (taken) 15 to 1 agst-Anton , (taketrand offered) 20 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (offered) 25 to 1 agst Drumour (offered) 500 to 10 agst'Loyola's whining this event and the Derby (taken) fOOO t 0 .50 was laid on the following twenty :--Kent, Bird-in•the-hand, Athlete, Purston, Anton, Fugitive, Ackworth, Hunting, Horn, Loyola, Lord of the Hills, Matins, Kingmaker, Drumour, Schiedam, King of -the Isles, Apathy, Lambourn, •Bannockburn, Sydney, and Vedette. DERBY. 7to 1 aget Blink Bonny (offered) 20 to 1 agst Kent (taken and offered) 40 to 1 aget Bird-in-the-hand (offered) RACE-HORSE DUTY. the fellowing are the nevr regulations respecting the race horse duty : Inland• Revenue-office, Somerset-house. We, the undersigned, three of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in pursuance of an act passed in the 20th year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Viotoria, intitaled "An Act to•amend an Act of the last session of Parliament to repeal and reimpose under 'regulations the Duty on Race Horses," do hereby nominate and ap point Mr. Charles Weatherliv, of No. 6, Old Burlington street, ie the county of Middlesex,,to be the receiver of race horse duty, and we do hereby achorise and em power him to receive the duties imposed upon race horses by the said act, to be by him paid over and account e d for in the manner directed by the said act, he, the said Charles Weatherby, observing all the provisions and doing the acts required by the said . statute to be observed and done by him as such receiver. Given under our hands the 3d day of . A.pril, 1857. (Signed) C. J. HEnnifts. HEN. FRED. STEPHENSON. . . ALFRED MONTGOMERY. 6, Old Burlington•etreet, I,,ottdon, April 6, 1857. As receiver of race . horse duty, I beg leave to call the attention of the owners and.trainers of home to the al teration, which has been recently made by act of Parlia ment, in the mode of assessing and 43:41ecting this duty. The act 19th and 20th Viet., c. 82, as amendci by the 20th Viet., c. 76, which came into operation on the 6th of April, 1857, repeals the assessed tax on horsec used or kept in training for the purpose of racing,. and imposes, in lieu thereof, an annual excise duty of 3/. 17s. on every horse which shall start or run for any plate, prize, or sum of money, or other thing. This includes _ steeplechases. The duty is to be paid to the receiver of race horse duty, appointed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or to some pereon'duly employed and authorised by him for that purpose, previously to the, starting of any horse ; And, in the 'event of a horse running with the duty bay ing been paid, the owner or trainer or other person hav ing charge of such horse will be liable to a penalty of 501., and the circumstances under which the horse ran are to be represented to the Board, of Inland Revenue by the receiver, in order that proceeding's may be taken for the recovery of the.penalty. Forms of receipt are supplied by the ,Commissioners of Inland Revenue to the re eeiver ; and on payment of the duty for each horse, one of such receipts, filled up, and signed by the receiver, will be delivered to the person whe pays the money. _These receipts are always •to be obt—ined daring the usual hours of business at Messrs. Weatherby's office, No. 6, Old Burlington-street, London, where I request that the duty may be paid. - Such 'payment and receipt will free the owner for the time bring of the horse named in the receipt from any further payment of duty in re spect of the said horse for the year ending sth April next after such payment. It is to be understood that should a horse be prevented, by any cause from running a race during the year for which the duty may have been paid, the duty will be returned ; there is, therefore, no advantage in postponing the payment. to the day of running. The name of every horse for which the duty is paid will be published in the Bacinglealendar as soon as possible after such payment. This will be a sufficient notice to all whom it may concern, that the horse is qualified. by payment of the clay,. and 'will prevent the necessity of producing the- receipt at each place where the horse runs. WzATHrasr, Reeeiver of Race-horse Duty. Racing Fixtures for 1857. APRIL. Abergavenny l6 York Spring 21 Malton 23 Newmarket F S 27 Newmarket Craven 13 Durham l3 Coventry l3 Catterick Bridge l5 Chester Shrewsbury l3 Ludlow 14 Bath Epsom 26 Manchester Ascot 9 Beverley, Hull, &c 10 . Hampton ' Newton 17 Newcastle 23 NE. ' Bibury Club 24 Stockbridge 25 Winchester 96 Carlisle... 30 Chelmsford 3O Worcester 2 Newmarket Liverpool l5 LY. Nottingham 21 Stamford 23 Goodwood .28 AUG Ripon North Staffordshire 4 Brighton Brighton Club • ... 7' Wolverhampton lO Reading l2 SEPT Warwick Cardiff Tbirsk Lichfield Derby OCTi Northallerton Chester Autumn 6 Wrexham 8 Richmond 8 York 19 Radcliffe 24 Egham 25 Stockton 27 Hereford 27 'MBER. Doncaster 15 Leicester 23 Manchester Autumn 24 Monmouth 24 Newmarket F 0 29 )BER. Newniarket S 0 l2 Warwick Autumn 2O Newmarket H 26 NOV E Worcester Autumn 3 Wedlock Shrewsbury Autumn l7 ,MBER. Livetpool Autumn lO I Ludlow Autumn ' 20 Irish Racing fixtures for 1857. APRIL. ..21 Curragh MAY. • Howth and Bahloyle Sumnler 19 JUNE. Wicklow Curragh 93 Illonckstown (Co. Cork) 9 JULY. _ . . Bellewsiown v 8 Heath of Maryboro' ...28 Down It.. Corporation 2l .•. AUG UST. - --- . • Galway -- 4 - Ballyeigh 25 Tarnore' :,„ • . 11 Tuani Killarney ~., SEPTEMBER. Curragh Catherolvort . OCTOBER. Kilkee • 6 Limerick l9 Armagh 7 Down R. Corporation...2l CSarragh 13' Cork • LORD ELDON'S CIIAIR.—A very handsome present has just been made to the county magistrates by Mr. J. T. Cantrell, judge of the Derbyshire 'County Court. It con sists of a strong mahogaay armchair, with morocco lea ther seat, arms, and back. On the right side is a maho gany table, with a drawer, on a brass rest, and which can be turned in any direction. The table is covered 1 " ..d cloth, and at one end three inkstands, two of with silver, are inserted. This c hair which are mounia4 Chancellor Eldon during the was the one Met: Lord ` l 4al, and is now in exce: many years he held the - , igraved on a brass lent preservation. The following 'hair :—" This plate, and fastened on the back of the "hancellor chair was the judgment-seat of the Lord 'hat Eldon, in Lincoln's-inn-hall, during the many years -- - ho held the Great Seal, and is the one delineated in the portraits of that most eminent judge. On the retire ment of Lord Eldon from office in 1827 the chair became the perquisite of the-usher of the court, from w hom it was obtained by M. Lane, the then steward o f Lincoln's inn, and by him presented to his friend the Rev. Wil liam •Boultby - Sleatb, D.D , head roaster of Repton School. On Dr. Sleath's death the chair was purciased, in 1843, by his relation and pu pil Joseph Ti2omas Can trell, afterwards judge of the County Court of Derby shire, who had known it when in Lord Eldon's occupa tion, and subsequently, and it was presented by him to the magistrates -of the county-of Derby, for their use in the County-hall, in April , 1857. We under stand the chair will be placed in tbo grand jury room. ~_ SHAUII MARKETS---(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Price; yester4ay. Business done yester lay. ZMILWATO. 3 2i imbg--Nottng,. Bost. k Easttn. June.— _ Belfasta&Plena airmngt. Wolverh. & StourrWalley Birkenihd. Lanesb. & Cheshire June]; alacklburn Blyth &Tyne original £25 (lies. at £45) Bristol] etz Exeter.— Caledoniian. Chester & Holyhead Cork anal Bandon.... Cork,.l3llaek. & Pass Cornwalll Do. IB DublindalßelfastJana. Dun. P:.edraber.June East Anmlian Easterm (Counties Easternifinion,A.stk DD., dm. ...... . Do. East Montt East Lanteashire East Suffolk ........ Do. Edinburgh d; Glasgow Edinb.. sand Peebles_ Edinb.lthih.&Dundee Forth anittelydeJune. Furness ....... 10 alasgoweik S.Westen) Great N:.(xtf Scotland Great Ninrthern St. 50 St. St. 20 20 10 St. 100 Do., A.. *kook ..,... 100 Do., 131. Stock 100 Gt. Sth.BOVest.(lre.) 100 Great `Modern, 100 Do. Str....W.R. gua. 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MEDICAL PROTECTION. An imagination as vivid as that which led Capt. Fluellen to detect ,a - resemblance between Mon mow h and Macedon, because both began with M, is required to discover any similitude between two societies, bearing the same name, which respectively exist at Cork and in London: Each is de-igeated a medical protection society ; but the practical means whereby . the two societies vindicate their - claim to the 'Ole differ very widely. The energies of the Cork Medical Protection Society have been for ten years earnestly directed to the honour and. interests of the profession. At one time they com pelled. the late -Marquis of Anglesea (whose name is now employed by one of the Malvern hydropaths as that of the Earl of Aldborough was used by Hol • loway)to cancel a medical appointment he had con ferred on an unqualified person.. . The dismis sal of an imperfectly qualified man, to whom had been confided the charge of the Military Hospital: at Queenstown, during the late war, was procured through the committee of ibis Sooiety. By taking the part of an unjustly oppressed union medical officer, they compelled the Poor-law Commissioners to cancel sealed orders for his dismissal. On the outbreak of small-pox at Cork, they rapidly and successfully organised a most efficient system of vaccination. In several cases they have boldly exposed- the attempted irn powtures of those charlatans, and denounced the disgraceful proc 'edit - Igs of thoie professional black sheep who, thinking only of the money-bags, are willing .to a do the work of. Judas, if, like him, they may thereby fill the bags they bear. The members of ' the Cork Medical Protection Society have cor dially chLoperated With the movement set on foot by,Mr. griffin. They have also taken active mea sures to insure the support of newly-elected Irish ineinbers of Parliament for the measures of Medical Reform-about to be introduced. The enumeration of these good, services suffieient/y proves how ear nestly they have done their work, a n d ho w strenu ous have been their efforts to advance the interests of the -profession,- and -to protect its members against " The influence of office; and . the spurns Thdt patient merit of the unworthy takes," to check the inroads of quackery, and vindicate our honour with a zeal and spirit that reflect honour on them. „ The London Medical Protection Societycontents itself with colledtiiig the debts of its members, and arranging the sale of practices, procuring assistants, ac., the profits that accrue from this matter-of-fact application of the assumed title being devoted to charitable purposes. This is all that is done, and all that' the progia:mme of the society leads us to expect. Yet scarcely a week elapses that we do riot direct attention to some flagrant wrong done to a member of the profession, which it should be the duty of a medical protection society to expose. The lamentable squabbles which from time to time it is our painful duty :to record as occurring between medical men would cease were there a " Court Me dical" (such as a proteCtion society would afford) to which all disputes might be referred for adjudica tion. Our corporate bodies would, moreover, soon be roused from their selfish inertness were there but some influential body to call them to task, and ho nestly and fearlessly avow their shortcomings. Al though it is, possibly, a•very serviceable agency for the collection of doubtful debts, the Society which now exists in London, and arrogates the title of a Medical - Protection Society, has no claim whatever to the name, and we Shall gladly welcome any pro position to establish an association more worthy of the designation, and more resembling in character and objects that which has already rendered such good service to the profession in Ireland.—Lancet. ' THE WAR WITH CHINA.—DESPATCH OF WARLIKE STORES.—Yesterday order's were received by the Ord nance Storekeeper, Tower, from Lord Panmure, for the immediate despatch of a large quantity of Ordnance and Commissariat stores for the service of the troops and fleet serving in'China. Very great activity prevailed in the departments, and several extra labourers, besides fatigue-parties from the garrison, were set to work, and by half-past two o'clock the stores were in readiness on the wharf, waiting for lighters to convey them to Wool. wich, for transhipment to the transports about to sail with reinforcements for China. A quantity of bale goods were also sent by the South-Western Railway to Ports mouth, for conveyance to the same destination. IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION.—At a special meeting of this company, held yesterday it was agreed to carry out a dissolution. A diversity of opi nion prevailed with respect to the immediate necessity of iadopting this course, but it was ultimately arranged tbati the-resolution should -be passed, the prospective outlay being large and uncertain. If favourable intelli gence should be received before'the next meeting for confirming this act an adjournment may be ordered and other measures devised. The Cumba vein and Duval's shoot are the points which appear to be most favourable, but.the latest advices are not encouraging. One of the directors protested against the dissolution, asserting property could by. further expenditure be made remune rative, but his opinion was not supported by the other members of the board. ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRIS TOL.—The public feeling has been awakened by reports of the alarming illness of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The Bristol Gazette of yesterday is authorised to state that the eminent physicians, Dr. Watson and Dr. Burroughs, having been in great anxiety about him on Saturday and Sunday last, now pronounce the bishop to be out of danger, but in a state of extreme weakness, and unable for the present to transct any of the onerous duties connected with his extensive diocese. A SAILOR'S HOSPITAL.—The old Dreadnought hos pital-ship is now entirely broken up. The lower tim bers were separated last week and hauled out of Wool wich Dockyard, the wood and copper comprised in the " sheer hulk" being valued at 4,0001. Although the arrangements of the new hospital-ship now moored on the river in its stead have been most carefully planned and most efficiently carried out, yet the advantage of perpetuating this inconvenient plan for the lodg ment of sick sailors is very questionable. No one can believe that the Thames is a particularly healthy situa tion for the abode of the sick. It would undoubtedly be more convenient, as it would assuredly be more healthy, were a handsome hospital for seamen erected on the banks of the river, in place of a ship moored in the midst of the foul sewer-waters of the Thames. Were this suggestion adopted .we believe that the wealthy shipowners would .willingly aid in erecting a permanent hospital for seamen worthy of the nation whose pride it is that "Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep." —The Lancet. THE PRESS AND THE ELECTIONS.—When representa tives are being elected, every Briton, who is an elector, becomes actually a member of the Government. The voice of the people is our supreme law, but the people (Except, in these latter days, through the press) speaks with authority only when it determines to give power to the opinions it holle, by giving legislative power to the men who also hold them. Against the power of the people there always has fought —in the beginning very vigorously, now rather faintly—the power of great lords and nafn of state ; and there has fought also, until the ascension of our present Queen, with more or less acti vity, the power of the throne. The development of jour nalism has, within the last thirty or forty years, been of a kind to make of it, in good truth, an opening for ever of the dumb lips of the people. The limitation of the time for polling, and of the other good provisions made by the Reform Bill, have undoubtedly taken away the bitterness that raged of old in an election contest. A more powerful cause for the change that has come ON er our election times is, however, to be found in the en larged sphere of action and the increased tone taken by the public press. Through the press the nation makes its voice heard daily ; through the press it compels at tention daily to its wants and claims.—Dickens's "House hold Words." OFFICE SEEKERS AT WASHINGTON.—The gentlemen • who do the didactic and the reflective for the picture newspapers haVe enlarged, in sentences more or lees leaden, upon the moral grandeur of the inauguration, and have, with patriotic pride, speculated upon the wonder—not to say envy—with which the bedizened am ba-csadors must have gazed upon the engine companies and the Pennsylvania Militia. Admitting that we had a ' fine melodrama on the 4th inst., we have now come na turally to the farce. We certainly do not think that the diplomatic people ever witnessed at home anything like this scrabble for place, this contest for collectorships and , clerkships, this pothet about post-offices—in short, if we , may use a coarse word, this grand grab for provender. The Malakhoff was not more closely invested than the White House • now is ; and we verily believe that no Russian soldier in that stronghold was in half so much danger of his life as is our vene rable President just at this time. We can easily ! imagine without personal observation (for we have only asked for the appointment of our friend Cass) bow poor Mr. Buchanan is baited, and bullied, and beset ; how the hungry beggarsdo invade the privacy of bedchamber, and of library, and of parlour ; how the perpetual knocking at the portals sounds in his ears like a certain unmentionable gentleman's tattoo—a reveille of continually recurring wretchedne-a. We all know what a chronic bother are the little girls and boys who come into our areas for broken victuals; but what are they to the hordes of mendicants coming from all quarters and bawling for more cold pieces of patronage than any Presi dent ever bad or ever will hav u e? inch N,V3eade o never ruo b rr e l c f h o Ti r 2l e .dibh f u7e d u o l oi ly a ppreciated “pi ty thew so rtrhoesofap nursery o o line h old rna IGII PRICE OF SLAVES. — The increa u sing value is . B causing considerable uneasinessui in some of the Southern States of the Americaoll at a successuni sa following high prices I w b h ro v i A n on. The Central Organ, pub lished in the parish c o uh y g e h tltloeosk, by L ot o ah u ce i e s iann, gives the 14, 1 475 dols. 13 a field month nigh :—Benton, aged t 0 years, 1,365 dole. ; ag , ed 16, Amanda, eget., in that Hayden, aged 15, 1,525 dols. ; Patent', 1,600 dole. ; John, aged 1,805 dols. ; Louisa, 17, 1,820 cols; Harris on, e.,:ed 15 , aged 25, 1,955 dols. ; George, aged f. 9, 2,000 &Is. 1:1 19, 2,065 Silas, aged 21, 2,020 dole. ; Charles, age dole. ; Laura, aged 16, 2,070 dole. ; Jamesi. aged 21, 2,150 dols. ; Lewis, aged 31, 2,360 dole. The New Orleans Bee feelingly observes ;—"lt is difficuA to con ch - ce ive how slave labour ca n be p rofitably applied at su exorbitant prices. If a n adult field hand is wondt over 2,300 dollars, what vrOuld first, -rate negro Fiat' be worth? NEW MUSIC. Marguerite Polka. Alexander Romanoff Waltz. Argyll Galopr By Henri Laurent. Boosey Co., Holles-street. These compositions reflect great credit on Mr. Laurent. The Polka is well accented, somewhid original in its ch'lneter, and not at all difficult. • The Waltz is a melange of agreeable melody. That bear,- tiful and grand national air, "The Russian Hymn, " is well arranged in the opening page, but we cmfes.s a want of sympathy wick the taste that employs it shortly afterwards for a fashionable waltz in jig time. To our mind there is something of desecration about such handling, andit_offelids us as Much as a bur lesque on' Shakspeare does. The Galop is excellent , —the very thing to drive crinoline and dress boots slightly delirious. Mr. Laurent has often presented the public with admirable specimens of his talent, and these publications fully sustain his former efforts. THE TRANSIT AG4IN! Without setting up for the reputation of prophehs, we cannot help reminding our readers that a ft iw Weeks since a warning appeared in these columns against the employment of a certain unlucky croft called the Transit in the come- yance of troops artd stor,s to the Chinese Seas. This vessel has, p re believe, a character of its own among those ac quainted with the Transport Service, and is oei 6- brated beyond even the average of Governme at vessels for its inability to perform any task a ll o t ( a d to it in decent time, or, indeed, in any t i me at all. Some of our readers may remember its name in connection with the great naval solemnity. of last' year. The Transit was the steamerlia which the hereditary branch of the Legislature embarked on the 23d of April last, full of eae er curiosity and patriotic pride—destined, alas ! to disappointment and mortification.. We need nof recall the fate of the Peerage on that day, how t' 30 engines of the Transit broke down, it, indeed, th were ever in order ; how screw and helm refused their office ; how she never got out of Southamptx)n. - Water ; how the Lords were entirely deprived of all that accurate aad instructive representation or a Baltic campaign which the great naval review so properly supplied. What the Transit has-been doing since is known only to the authorities ; but now, after the lapse of a year, she turns up again. It was natural that a vessel with so suggestive , a name—though, as experience proves, sadly in is applied—should be selected for the conveyance of men and material on an emergency. The Transit was accordingly ordered to be got ready for Chin A. The old acquaintances of the vessel were semewhiat staggered ; but, of course, in these things inter ference is impertinence, and criticism cavilling. On Tuesday afternoon she took her departure from Portsmouth for Hong Kong with 800 offict TS and men of the 59th and 60th Regiments, a ma il, and a large quantity of shot and shell. On We besday morning she returned to Spithead almost in a sinking state. We may well congratulate the country and the friends of the troops on board that the accident which brought her baule took place before she had been 24 hours at Fen. Had she knocked a hole in her bottom at soiree anchorage on a coast less hospitable than that of the Channel, we might . have had to no count a disaster as terrible as any in maritime annals. .The history of the affair appears to have been as follows :—The vessel encountered a • fog on approaching the Needles. The lead was kept going, and at last she anchored in five fathoms. The position was said to be a good one, and not a soul on board was suspicious of the least mishap ; but at dawn the next morning the Transit was dis covered to have 5 feet of water in her hold. The anchor was weighed and found to have half the stock carried away. The explanation was obvious. The ship had been driven on her own anchor, and a hole had been knocked in her bottom. When 9 feet water had been reported the captain put back to Spithead. The troops were transferred to an• other vessel, the mail sent back to the Post-office, and the powder and shell taken out to prevent her from sinking. Engines were set to work to keep her afloat, and by this time she is in dock for inspec tion and repair. This little episode in our new war warns us he w to expect 'that the lessons of two years ago have taught us the right way of doing everything. The whole proceeding as it is described is, -in fact, thoroughly Crimean, and recalls us to 1851. The choice of a ship which had failed more than once in short trips to carry 800 men a distance of 16,00) miles, the management which knocked a hole in the bottom at night and did not find it out till morning, the delay which must now take place at a time wheat every day is precious, are matters which may well renew the irritability and impatience of the coun try. We have no desireto impute blame, where it cannot be shown to be due, but certainly, con sidering the immense resources of our dockyards, the great number of ships of all kinds which the late war has left us, and the knowledge - which our officers ought to have acqnirel during the last three years, such an occur rence as the bare escape of 800 men front destruction a few hours after quitting the English shores does seem inconsistent with the presump tion of proper supervision and management. We trust that this Chinese expedition, for which the authorities have time, materials, and money in plenty, and therefore can urge no excuse for defi ciency, may not again be illustrated by such a mis hap as the narrowly-escaped foundering of the Transit.—Times. FRARFUL RIOTING IN QUEEN'S ,COUNTY.- POSTPONEMENT OF THE ELECTION. DUBLIN, April 9.—Maryborough and Abbeyleix have for the last two days been the scenes of fear ful rioting, which readied such a pitch on Tuesday that the polls had to be closed in several baronies and the election adjourned. The rioters would ap pear to have been mainly the supporters of Mr. Michael Dunne, who is opposed by the Right Hon. Mr. Fitzpatrick. When the booths were shut, the gross state of the poll was—For Sir Cherie.; Coote, 1,254 ; for Dunne, 1,005 ; and for Fitzpatrick, 611. But the entire election, it is supposed, must be do-. dared vitiated in consequence of the intimidation which prevailed. Shortly after eight o'itlock on Tuesday morning, and pursuant to arrangements concerted between the High Sheriff and Major Hoed, a body of police, 'protected by a detachment of infantry, proceeded to the market-place of Mary borough, and formed a cordon across the principal roads lending from Abbeyleis, Mountmelhek, and Mountrath, while a similer body of infantry and police occupied, at the other extremity of the town near the poet-office, the roads leading •from Strad. belly and the collieries. and patrols of the 3d Light Dragoons, under Captain Sir G. Hampson, occu pied all the principal streets, and immediately dispersed riotous mobs as soon as they at tempted to congregate. These precautions kept the road leading to the terminus clear. The same system was not pursued in the other polling-places, the result of which has been the most frightftil scenes of . riot and disturbance At Abbeyleix, a mob of fifty or sixty of Mr. Michael Dunne's supporters began to assemble -at an early hour in the market-place, armed with sticks and bludgeons. There was at the time in the place about thirty cavalry and fifty infantry, under Major Youuge, besides a police force, all under the orders of a resident magistrate, placed there by Government for the purpose of protecting t7ae peace. Notwithstanding these forces (from cam es which must hereafter be more fully explaine:l), the mob was permitted to accumulate, and the town became in a short time a scene of lawless tureult. Scores of men were soon engaged in strife.—several persons had their skulls fractured. A mob broke ,into several houses and assaulted wad Cruelly beat the iuma i tes ; one man had his face tc rn open from ,the eye! to the mouth, and the chi ek co mpletely cut through, in addition to etl wounds. Feeble attempts were made to quell the riot at times. The Riot Act was also read ; but all to no purpose. It was vox et preterea nil. In consequence of the serious rioting the poll had to be closed, and. the election postpoue 1. The seine disgraceful scene of rioting took place at Olen donough, Stradbally, Upper wood, and Borris- Osory, and all efforts to support the law having b; ell abandoned, the booths had to be closed and the el 30. tion adjourned. It is said that the High Sheriff stint a special message by telegraph to the Uuder-Secretray informing him of the frightful ,state in which the county is—amounting almost to open insurrection. Pursuant to these applications a' body of the 56th Regiment, under their ,Lieut.-Colonel and adju tant, arrived at Maryborongh on Wed.uesday morn in A ed b ia b t e l i y oi afterwards: itniage, Highan d were sh e r a It. Ferrer, J. P. ; and another company arrived x, accompanied n s i e e n d t by by , on i.r. e same regiment, who subseq uent 1 Y from Mr. Lyons, J. P., was yester y da assaulted. in the Dublin, were at once despat 104 to umtletown. streets of radbally, and received a severe wound in the head. EMIGRATION FROM NORWAY TO CANADA AND Tan U NITED STATES. --Information has reached this counti7 that upwards of 10,000 Norwegians will proceed from the present summer. Several t e al in Canada, but the larger portion the North-W es tern States of stmeiica. N owsfii o riti r hc w pe.ass a e y sw to oi 1121 Ci rt il oe Roney has 14t England for Christiania to mike arra ngements for the transit of these person s front Qorumebaetclon with to their referoie destination, let, and also n toodbisesheamifinaotfe titne fG overnulent. to rich, 100 Ali 331 4 96 86 39 : 634 i 29z f