The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence. A letter from Malta, dated April 23d, says : "Admiral Lord Lyons, who by the last accounts had left Smyrna for Syra, Alexandria, and Malta, was expected in the Royal Albert, to meet which vessel,the Centurion, Conqueror, and Brunswick left Valetta harbour on the 11th, under orders not to extend their cruise beyond 15 leagues to the eastward of Malta. On the night of the 13th they stood close in, and after midnight exercised great guns, and they have sighted the town almost daily ever since. " The British squadron which left Constanti nople on the 29th March arrived at Smyrna on the 3d April. On the Royal Albert coming in sight the English residents assembled in large numbers at the British and Smyrna Club, and an immense crowd collected on the wharves to welcome the gallant ad miral. Onh sapproachthefrigate Pomone, carrying the French admiral's flag, fired the usual salute, and the sailors of the French ships in port manned the yards and cheered. Salutes were also exchanged by the Royal Albert with the Turkish brig on the station. Rear-Admiral Count Bonet Willaumez repaired on board to compliment Lord Lyons, as did also the Caimacan of Smyrna through his aide de-camp. On the 4th and sth many of the foreign consuls and English residents visited the admiral. The squadron took its departure with the same ec thusiastic demonstrations which marked its arrival. "Her Majesty's steamer Caradoc left for Mar seilles on the 12th to embark for Alexandria, on the way to China, Lord Elgin, the Euvoy to the Court of the Celestial Empire. " All the disposable vessels of the Mediterranean squadron are on their way to England, the gun boats having first landed their heavy armament to strengthen the fortifications. " The Lynx screw steam gun-boat left for Gib raltar and England on the 14th, followed next day by the steam-frigate Malacca. " The Gladiator steam frigate, which arrived from Ssra on the 14th, left for England on the 18th. " Her Majesty's screw steam gunboats Snake and Wrangler arrived from the Piraeus on the 11th, and on the 18th the latter left for England. " The Osprey and Wanderer steam gunboats are to remain out at Malta, to keep up a constant com munication with Sicily and Naples. " The Swallow screw steamsloop has been ordered to Corfu. " The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packets Pera and Euxine arrived on the 9th from Alexandria. The Euxine left for Marseilles on the same morning. " The VectTs steamer arrived from Marseilles with the over:and London mails of the 10th, on the 15th. " The Colombo returned on the 22d, in the morn ing, bringing a telegraphic despatch from Suez, an nouncing the arrival there of the European steamer from Australia, with the mails, but no tidings what ever of the missing Oncida. The Colombo left for Southampton on the afternoon of the 22d. "The Cambria arrived from Marseilles on the night of the 20th with the overland Australian mail, and the Etna on the ernoon of the 21st, with the heavy mails from Southampton, the former baying had remarkably fine, the latter very boisterous, weather throughout the voyage. " Up tp the 14th of April no tidings had reached Alexandria regarding the musing steamer Oneida, from Australia. ; Commodore Shepherd, Superintendent of Wool wich Dockyard, accompanied by Admiral E'en, yesterday inspected the gunboat Slaney, and ordered her to proceed to the Arsenal to ship her ammuni tion and steam down to Greenhithe to be adjusted, and sail with all despatch for the westward to join the squadron under orders for China. The gunboat Leven, having had the damages to her screw pro peller repaired, returned to Greenhithe to be swung, and is ordered to join the squadron with all pos sible speed. The freightahip Violet, which arrived at Woolwich-pier the latter end of March, sail?d thence yesterday for China, laden with about 800 tons of war stores. Mr. J. W. Rawnsley and Mr. Branscomiie, of the Military Stoi.e Department, and some officers ofilthe Medical Corps, took passage in the Violet for service in China. Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty, who is on a vi•dt to Sir Augustus Clifford at R,yde, embarked yesterday forenoon on board the seam tender Fire Queen,.Master-Commander W. F. Paul, and visited the Naval Hospital and other establi.h ments at Gosport. Sir Charles was accompanied by . Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy ; Lieut.- Col. Greene, the Director of Admiralty Engineer ing and Architectural Works ; a n d his assistant, Mr. Scamp, and was conducted by Captain Superintendent Sir C. Dacres over the gunboat berthing slips, the new burying-ground for the Naval Hospital, situated at the western extremity of the slips, and the new washing apparatus of the hospital, the supply of water for the machinery of which is found insufficient. It is proposed to increase the number of sheds for berthing gunboats at Haslar, and, as th e l as t we ll sunk to obtain water for ie washing machinery has by some means caused the admission of salt water into the well supplying the hospital with water, it has been mooted whether it would not be advisable to fill the well up, and endeavour to ob tlin water for washing the linen of the es'ahlish• merit from Titchfield or Roundown, or some other not very distant locality. The First Lord remained about an hour on the Gosport side of the harbour, and then crossed over to Portsmouth. The new burying-ground at Haslar Hospital, which has been very beautifully laid out and ornamented with choice shrubs and trees by Capt. Dacres, pleased Sir Charles greatly. Tho Wisel - Lester, 50-gun sailing frigate, Captain Wilson, late flagship on the China station, arrived at Spithead yesterday forenoon to b e p a id off. Sh 3 has maie a long passage, and has brought no news. She has on board 59 naval invalids, 27 military, and 84 of the crew of the sloop Bittern (made a ten der to the present flagship on the China station), with the following officers of that vessel :—Lieuts. Walsh and Robinson ; Mr, Johnson, master ; Mr. Gurney, paymaster ; Mr. Newton, assist.-surgeon; and the gunner, boatswain, and carpenter (warrant officers). The Winchester has been upward;; of five years in commission. Capt. the Hon. J. R Drummond, C.8.,K.L.H., is appointed private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Mr. T. Baring, resigned. Capt. John M 'Neil Boyd is appointed to the command of the Meander, 44, was' guard frigate on the Devon port station, vice Drummond. The Devastation, 6 guns, paddlewheel sfeam sloop, Commander Edward Marshall, arrived at Sheerness on Sunday, last from Devonport and Portsmouth. She bas brought mull.] with her sea men and petty officers from Devonport for the Ve,ll - An Admiralty order has arrived for her to mike good all defects and be ready for foreign ser vice. She will be taken into the fit'ing basin for that purpose forthwith. The Cumberland is ordered to be out of the hands of the doi:kyard authorities, at Sheerness ; by the Sth of May next, and to be ready for sea 10 days after that date. • Lieut -General Sir Wm. Codrington, M.P., with his brother, Rear-Admiral John T. Codrington, and Mr. Archibald, proprietorof the Acadian iron mines in Nova Scotia, visi;ed Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning - b.) iaspecr the machinery departments; and, accompanied by Mr. Anderson, they passed about two hours examining thesteam machinery employed in the manufacture of percussion caps, bullets, fuze4, &c., with which the large room of the laboratory is furnished. THE .A.Ifff.RICAN 1111,3310 - TO CHINA. [Ansizavissmasr).—Kidneys, Bladder, and Prostrate Glands —their. complications, Diabetes Albuminuria, or Brights Disease, &e,—their connexion with the Stomach, Liver, &c,, and intimate association with the Ganglionic, or great cen tral or solar plexus of nerves, by Dr. Denis Cronin, price 2s " To a sound theoretical knowledge of the painful and dis tressing diseases on which he writes, Dr. Cronin adds the ex perience derived from a large and successful practice." -- " News." Smith and S on , 52 , L ong Acre, t DYSIRTINIIM ANT. j— ORTSM N AND GS , TLEMEN OF TCR ARMY AND NAVY.—S. And 13. Soloruons, opticians, 39, Alba marie-street, Piccadilly, W. Observe --opposite the York dote'.—Portability, combined with great power in Racecourse, Opera, au,i general out-door day an. night powerful waistcoat pocket Perspective Glasses, weighing only four ounces, each containng 12 and 18 lensoo, con structed of German g - ass, will show distinctly a person's countenance two ann a half and three miles, They. serve every purpose on- the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are als , invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, and yachting. Single ones, the s . zs of a w hut, rossessing, the same great power. Her M a j e t y ' s C oas t - G u .rds are making us: of them as d4y and night glasses, in preference • o others; thy have also i nom, in general us,, by gentlemen, of the Army and Navy, and by sportsn-en, gentlemen, came keepers, and tourists. The most powerful and bialkint telescopes, osse•sing such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extr, ast onomical eye- , piece will show distinctl , Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stare; with the same telescore can be seen a per son's countenance three-and-a-half mile, distant ind an object iiona 14 to 16 miles. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by I,4er Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Newly-invented valuable ad Spectacle Le nses of the grca. eat transparent p ower . Th e vantage derived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occup at i on—can see with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they do not require the fre quent change. to the dangerous effects of further power ful assistance Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the. world by s en di n one of the glasses out of their spect •c es In a letter, and stating the dist trice from the eye they can read small rrint with it, and those who have not made use of Spectacles by sta in their age. Deafness,—.A newly-invented instillment for extreme cases of deafness, called the Sound Magn for, Organic Vibrator, an d , nvis ble Voice Conductor. It fits SO int.: the ear as not to be in the least percept:ble; the unpleasant soma ion of singing noises in the heal is entirely emoted. It affords instant relief to , the cleafcst persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at j church acrd at t nblic assemidies. 39, ATieemarle-strcet Picca dilly— opposite the York Hotel , (Trom the New York Times.) The intimations contained in our leading article yesterday concerning the intentions of our Govern ment in regard to China are fully confirmed by our intelligence from Washington this morning. The President has determined upon sending a special Minister Plenipotentiary to China, accompanied by a suitable naval force, and has appointed Will'am B. Reed, of Philadelphia, to that important and responsible post. Mr. Reed is well known through out the country as a gentleman of marked ability, an eminent lawyer, and for many years a promi nent and active politician. Until the late election he had been a leading member of the Whig party in Pennsylvania, but he was one of those who, in duced partly by their personal regard for Mr. Buchanan, and partly by their apprehensions of danger from the alleged sectionalism of the Repub lican movement, transferred their support to the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. They contributed largely to the result, and Mr. Buchanan discharges a political debt, as well as pays a grace ful tribute to a personal friend by the appointment of Mr Reed to this mis-ion. The appointment strikes us as judicious. Mr. Reed is eminently Conservative in all his senti ments and sympathies, and is one of the last men in the country who would be likely to enter upon Such duties in a spirit of reckless disregard of the rights of other nations or of the requirements of public law. At the same time he cannot fail to ap preciate the importance of the mission which he is to fill, and we are confident he will discharge his duties in a spirit of enlarged statesmanship, and with a view to the interests of civilisation through out the world. Mr. Reed will, as a matter of course, be pro vided with very lull and explicit instructions for the guidance of his official conduct. That they will en join upon him the most careful abstinence from everything which can involve us in causeless war with China, or entangle us in the quarrels and aims of European Powers, it is safe to assume. At the same time, we take it for granted he would not be sent to China if it were not expected that he will have something to do. It is known that England and France have resolved to make an effort to secure for themselves the right of being represented by Ministers resident at the Imperial Court. There are abundant reasons why this request, so reasonable in itself and so thoroughly in conformity with public usage and public law, should be conceded. We trust that Mr. Reed will be instructed to urge the desire of the United States, that the application should be granted, and that an American Minister should also have the right of residence at Pekin. We do not expect much in the way of concession ' fry m the secluded and complacent Monarch who rules the destinies of the Central Flowery King dom ; but it is quite possible that evim he may un derstand ihe propriety and policy of conceding a demand so just in itself when earnestly pressed by the three great Powers of the Christian world. Our trade with China is already large, and is cer tain to increase. It is carried on at great disadvan age—by cot, cessions to, and under regulations from, the Chinese authorities, which areas humiliating as they are embarrassing, and without any of the safe guards which rec , gnised international law throws around the commis' ce of the civilised world. If it is to be conflated it should be put upon a more just and equitable footing. And we hope the result of Mr. Reed's mission may be to secure for it a degree of protection suited to its importance and to the spirit of the age. (From the New York Herald.) The Hon. W. B. Reed, Philadelphia, will shortly leave this country on a most important mission He goes to China to represent the United States during the contest which has just been begun with the Chinese and the maritime Powers of Europe. It is understood that Mr. Reed owes his appointment in some respect to the recommendations of Robert J. Walker, whose intimacy he at one time enjoyed, and though formerly acting with an opposite party, whose views on the subject of the development of our Chinese relations he is believed to have shared from the beginning. Mr. Reed's mission, though in point of nominal rank bone ith that of France and England, will, in all probability, be far more important than either in its practical results to commerce and civilsation. At the time of writing our news from China is en veloped m some obscurity ; it is not possible to say exactly what is the condition of affairs in that part of the world ; but, in the absence of authentic evi dence, the story of the conciliatory attitude of the Emperor of China must be received with caution. But we are more inclined to place credence in the report of a forcible opening of the ports of Japan by some English ships of war. This is really a likely occurrence. No doubt the English comman ders in the Pacific—like Sir M. Seymour—have been instructed to stand no nonsense, and have availed themselves of the first pretext to bring the Japanese to their senses. But with regard to China we have no reason to state anything with certainty except that a state of hostility exists there, and is likely to last. Mr. Reed will go out to that region not to make war, but if possible, to gain admission to the great thoroughfares of Chinese trade, and to obtain a re ception for himself or successor at Pekin without fighting. Whether he can succeed in doing this can not be predicted with any certainty, though the Chinese se m to be favourably disposed towards us as a general rule, and may offer us facilities which, until badly beaten, they may refuse their enemies. But Mr. heed may not improbably fill a more im portant station still, as umpire between the comba tants. He is the most likely person to be chosen, and should he be competent for the post, he may absolutely find himself giving the law to both sides. THE RUSSIAN R4IL TrA Y ROBBERY SCHEME. The Nord of Brussels says :—" The systematic and interested hostility of speculators and news papers to the Russian railway scheme has hitherto had no other effect than to show more clearly than ever the immense advantages which the sha-eholders, as well as Europe and Russia, will derive from that vast enterprise. The shares are everywhere so much in demand that it is to be expected that the applications for them will be far from being satisfied. Even in Austria, in spite of the tactics of the Austrian press, public opinion' is favourable to the undertaking ; the journals of Prague; and a letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, state that large . sums have been subscribed in all the Austrian empire, and paWcu lady at Vienna. The Ostdeutsche Post, which at tacks the enterprise with some bitterness, and me naces the shareholders with the miasma of the Putrid Sea, fogets that Russia is not Austria. If Russia, with the immense fertility o f h er =o il , i s even now, when the benefits of capital and the spirit of enterprise are unknown to her, the most productive country of Europe, what will she be when capital - and enterprise shall have accomplished for her the miracles which they have effected every where else ?" We have already reported the telegraphic news of the return c.ll weather at St. Petersburg. Advices dated the 23d inst. remark :—" Winter has suddenly set in again, with snow. Yesterday there were 11 degrees, and to-day 4 degrees frost, with the wind at north•west. Thtre has been a drift of ice in the Neva yesterday and to-day." LA TV AMENDMENT SOCIETY The firet general meeting of this society since the die solution of Parliament was held yesterday evening at No. 3, Waterloo place, and was numerously attended. Mr. Ilea;: lam, M P., took the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. Hastings) read an address of the council of the society on its resuming its fourteenth see sion. It was as follows : After the long adjournment of the Society consequent on the dissolution of Parliament, the council have thought it advisable to follow the precedent established at the commencement of the present session, especially as it seemed to be approved of by the members, and to ad dress some observations to the society on those topics of law reform which are now prominently before the public notice. Captain H. B. Saunders's No. 2 Company was ycst,rday withdrawn from the Horse Brigade of the Royal Artillery encamped on Woolwich-common and was ordeted to the s;h Batt-dion Fort. The horses were d;stributed to the Military Train, and regimentAl depot, when the company marched down from the encampment and were told off to barra quarters. Her Majesty's steamer Locust went to Woolwich yesterday frrnn Sheerness, and conveyed a party of Marines to head -quarters who were discharged from the 50-gnu screw steam-frig. to Euryalus, and the 21 screw steamship Jam .s Watt. THE LATE FIRE IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCIIYARD.—Up .to last Saturdays tremendous amount of property had been secured from the ruins of the premises belonging to Mr. Goodyear, in St. Paul's Chu rc h yari, including several thousand bonnets; bat what is better, the while of the books, &c., j belonging to the firm were found uninjured, d ure , in one of Mares patent fire•raof the business can be shortly resumed safes, conse quent l y [ADVERTISEMLNIq—ALOOng the numerous extraordinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's Delicious Health-Restoring Revalenta Arabica Fool of Indigestion (Dyspepda), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, an d Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debi lity the following are not the least remarkable:--Athol street, Perth, May 2, 1848.—Thirteen years' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Darry's exeellent Revalenta, Arabica Food.— James Porter.. 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For furth er pirticulars respect in,a this invaluable food our readers are referred toDu Barry's advertisement in another part of this papa. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1857. fere in any way with marriage settlements, bat enables a married woman, in the absence of a settlement, to re tain her own property ,ind earning., as if she were a femm sole, making her liable at the same time on her oan debts and engagements. The society has lately received the valuable evidence of Mr. David Dualey Field as to the way in which such a law has worked in America, and nothing can be more conclusive than the statements of that gentleman. His only objection to the alteration made in the law of his own State, New York, as concerns married women, is that it does not go quite as far as he could wieb ; but be entertains no doubt as to the beneficial effect which it has already exercised, and bears witness that it commands the approbation of all classes in the State. The example of a population which has inherited our laws, language, and customs, can hardly be without weight ; but were it otherwise, the feeling which has arisen in our own country, and which increases daily, will enforce the attention of the Legislature. It is a remarkable fact that more than one of the public) bodies which were represented at the late Mercantile Law Conference sent up this subject as one of those on which the laws of England most required amendment ; not on account of the hardship sustained by married women, but in respect to the difficulties which the present state of the law imposes on their cre ditors. The solicitor of the London Association for the Protection of Trade states that the present state of the law is a constant source of loss and annoyance to trades men, and that such an alteration as would make mar ried women the owners of their own property, and re sponsible for their own debts, would greatly increase the safety of trade transactions. It is evident that any measure which dealt only with earnings would leave this portion of the grievance untouched ; and for this, no less than for other well•considered reasons, the council trust that the subject will be dealt with by Parliament in a comprehensive way. It has been currently re ported that her Majesty's Government intend to bring forward a measure to remedy the evils complained of, and the council sincerely trust that the rumour will prove to have been correct ; but should that not be so, the bill prepared by the society will again be proceeded with. Sportincf Intelligence. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. MONDAY. Handicap SweepQtakes of 20 soya each, 5 ft. if declared, T.Y.C. (Five furlongs 140 yards.) Five subs. two of whom paid 5 sovs etch. Duke of Bedford's Cruzada, by Cowl, 3 yrs, Brit 71b (S. Rogers) 1 Mr. Smith's Spinet, 3 yrs, 83t 21h (Fordbam) 2 Baron Rothschild's colt by lago—Evening Star, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Chariton) 3 Betting-11 to 8 on Cruzada, 7 to 4 agst Spinet. Won by a head, two lengths bet ween the second and third. Plate of 5I sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. Allowances if entered to be sold for less, &c. D.M. (7 furlongs 201 yards.) Duke of Bedford's Eupatoria, by Weatberbit, 3 yrs (401), sst 11Ib k.T. Rogers) 1 Mr. Chambers's Hegira, 3 yrs (40/.), sst 111 b (T. Fordham) 2 Mr Deacon's Sichmus, 3 yrs (401.), 6st (Musgrove) 3 Mr. La Mert's Admiral of the White, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Walley) 4 The following also ran :—Raphael, Mary Ann, Jack the Giant-Killer. Betting-7 to 4 agst Hegira, 4to 1 agat Jack the Giant-Killer. Won by half a length, a length between the second and third, three lengths between the third and fourth Mary Ann was fifth, Raphael sixth, and Jack the Giant- Killer, last, beaten off. The winner was claimed, and goes into T. Stephenson, jun.'s stable. The Spring Oatlands, a free handicap, of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added. R.M. 1 mile 17 yards. 28 subs. Mr. Morris's Admiral Lyons, 3 yrs, sst 111 b (Grimmer) 1 Baron Rothschild's a by lago, 3 yrs, sst 1311, (Rayner) 2 Duke of Bedford's Eloquence, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Plumb) 3 The following also ran :—Kestrel, Pembdw, Knight of Avon, Miss Harkaway, Indulgence, and Tiptop. Betting-7 to 4 ag4 Kestrel, 7to 2 agst Eloquence, 6 to 1 each agst Knight of Avon and Admiral Lyons. Won by half s length, same distance between second and third, Indulgence a bad fourth, Pembdw fifth, Mims Harkaway sixth, and Ke4trel next. Sweepstakes of 50 sous each, for foals of 1854, out of mares that never bred a winner. Colts, Bst 71b; Bst 31b. A.F. 1 mile .2 furlongs 73 yards. 7 subs. Lord John Svott's Mceltissima, B=t 3lb (Kendall) w. o. Handicap Plate of 50 cove, R.M. (1 mile 17 yards). Mr. Harvey's Renown, by Collingwood,.3 yrs, 5t 61b (Daley, jun.) 1 Duke of Bedford's Aster, 3 yrs, sst 101b...(3. Rogers) 2 Mr. Waller's Octavia, aged, 7st 12lb The following also ran :—Tom Thumb, Pitapat, Noi. Bette, Alcyone, Tester, Hartley Buck, Fright, and Spinet. Betting.-4 to 1 each agst Pitapat, Aster, and Hartley Buck, 7 to 1 each aget Spinet and Renown, 8 to 1 aget Tom Thumb, 10 to 1 agst Fright. Won by three lengths, came distance between the second and third, bad fourth ; Spinet was fifth, and Noi sette next. Bartholomew rode in this race for the first time since his accident at Goodwood. Match of 200 Bove, h ft. First half Ab. M. Duke of Bedford's Pampa, Bst 71$) (5. Rogers) 1 Lord Glasgow's The Blacksmith, 7st 111 b ..(Aldcroftl 2 Won by a length. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas for mares ; 4-yr-old% Bst 9i ; 5-yr-olds, gat 81b ; six and aged, lOst. R.C. (3 miles 4 far. 139 yards.) Mr. Saxon's Mary, by Idle Boy (Flatman) 1 Lord Clifden's Melissa (A. Day) 2 Duke of Bedford's Eloquence (S Roger's) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Melissa. Wen by six lengths. TWO THOUSAND. The race will be run at a quarter past 4 o'clock. The following is a list of the probable starters: — Loyola Vidette Matins Beeswax colt Lord of the Hills Barba colt Anton Law bourne Apathy Kent I Sydney I Drumour Turbit LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Kent (taken) 4 to 1 airit Loyola (taken) 4to 1 :list Vedette (offered) 6to 1 eget Anton (offered) 10 to 1 agat Lanibourn (offered) 12 to 1 agat Sydney (offered) 13 to 1 agst Drumour (taken) 25 to 1 agat Turbit 40 to 1 agst Lord of the Hills AQUATICS. LONDON UNITY ROWING CLUB. The opening match of the season amongst members of this flourishing club took place yesterday evening, and was remarkable for the spirit and erlellence of style dis played by the several competitors. The contest was in one heat with five four-oared boats, and had created some amount of speculation owing to the reputation some of the men bad acquired as oarsmen. Messrs. W. Hazlewood, Bate, T. Squires, W. Mills, _ sen. ;F. Whitaker, coxswain White 1 Messrs. Hurst, W. Atnar, E. Tuttle, C. Glenieter ; Evans, coxswain Yellow 2 Messrs. T. Day, F. Knight, Palmountain, Sellers; _ 'l. Sheppard, Coxswain Messrs. W. Walker, F. Cask, F. Cross, F. Miller ; R. Jones, coxswain Another crew started, but were ultimately left con siderably astern. The race was from the new bridge at Putney to Barnes railway bridge. Mr. Newnhail, the veteran oarsman of Lambeth, officiated as umpire. The start was moat ex;ellent, more so than could have been ex• pected with such a wind and tide, there not being a couple of feet difference amongst the quartette, and all the oars being in the water at the came instant. Yellow in the course of a few strokes showed in front, and kept it by dint of the most extraordinary labour, till within half a mile of the winning post. when White, who had been engaged in a close race all the way up with Black, challenged them, and a sharp and game encounter fol lowed, which might have terminated differently but for the two boats separating to clear a barge, and White, being advantaged by it, won by two lengths. The Citi- K, steam boat, chartered by Mr. Robert Baring, oar and skull maker, Lambeth, accompanied the race, and the arrangements on board, for the comfort of the visitors, gave general sa'isfaction. THE BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. FOX AND HENDERSON. Yesterday Sir Charles Fox and Mr. Henderson ap peared upon their last examination before Mr. Commis sioner Balguy, in the district Court of Bankruptcy at Birmingham. The abstract of the balance-sheet filed was published in The Sum on Monday, the 20th inst. Mr. Beale, of tee firm of Colcu..re and Beale, who ap peared as solicitor to the assignees, applied that the bankrupts should pass. He stated that their affairs had been under the investigation of the assignees ever since October last, and they were perfectly satisfactory. A further adjournment could do vo possible good, while it might occasion considerable delay and inconvenience to all parties. The Commissioner said he thought in a matter of so much importance, when it was understood there were disputed claims upon the estate, they should not be in a hurry, but that the examination should be further ad journed to allow creditors time for further examination. A. conversation betw.en the Commissioner and solici tors ensued, when ultimately the bankrupts passed, and the certificate meeting was fined for the 27th of July. In the meantime, the creditors and all other parties w.ll have the opportunity of making all necessary inquiries into the affairs of the bankruptcy, and be prepared to lay the result before the Commission on that occasion. The conversation was carried on in such an under-t:me that it was impossible to catch it correctly, Int the above was understood to be its purport. The bankrupts were nut subjected to any examination, and the whole of the proceedings appeared to be of a friendly nature. At the meeting of the London General Omnibus Com pany, just held at Paris, a dividend of si. per sha-e was declared. This is at the rate of 12i per cent. per an num. A resolution was also carried for the canclment of 30,000 unis-ued shares, it being stated that this por tion of the company's original capital is not required. A COURAGEOUS SERVANT GlRL.—Between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning some burglars broke into the house occupied by Mrs. Harri-on, in Trani:tiers,- park, Holt-hill, near Birkenhead, and no doubt they would have committed a robbery were it not for the spirit evince by the servant girl. Having heard a noise in the kitchen, and the striking of two or three matches, she shouted " Give me that blunderbus, and I'll blow their brains out." A young man who lives in the house was then awoke, and having been apprised by the ser vant that there were burglars in the kitchen, he fired a pistol, which had the effect of frightening the nocturnal intruders, who quickly decamped before they had time to effect their object. TIM PERSIAN PEASANTRY.—The Persian peasantry I have always found remarkably civil and obliging. When ever I have inspected their fields and gardens, and de sired information respecting their agricultural operations and such matters, as I have been in the habit of doing very frequently, I have invariably experienced much courtesy, and a willing readiness to show and explain to me everything I wished. This is the more worthy of note, as euch is not usually the conduct of pea-ants in most other parts of the world. The higher classes, pa.. ticulaily such as hold situations of importance under Government, are, on the other hand, notwithstanding the boasted urbanity of Eesan, by no means disposed to be courteous or obli g ing to any one to w hom they dare show a different style of demeanour. In the pn sence of their superiors, or in any ease where their interests demands it, they can be deferential and polite to a servile degree ; but otherwise they generally comport themselves like true Jacks-in-office, in an inso. lent and overbearing manner, presuming and taking liberties as far as they can venture with impunity. Their arrogance is, however, easily checked ; for it is mere bluster and vapouring, without any firmness of purpose. The kindly and civil disposition of the poorer classes induces one to regret the more the miserable state of despotism and wickedness in which they are trained up. With a good religion and under a good Government there is no doubt they would he excellent people. —Mr. Binning on POrilich LIST OF SCOTTISLI COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. . £ a. d. Rank of Scotland .... 7t. per cent. 100 C 100 0 0 195710 British Linen Company 8/. per cent ±OO 0 100 0 0 22110 s Caledonian Bank ..... 8/. per cent. 10 0 2 10 0 3/ 16s City of Glasgow Beak IL per cent. 10 0 10 li 0 131 :is Clydesdale Bank .... 5Y.i 1. p cant. 20 0 10 0 0 14 Os 0 inmereial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500. 0 100 0 0 248 /Os Eastern Bank.. •• •... 61. per centl 25 0 10 0 0 14/ Os Edinb. &. Glasgow.... 3gl. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 51 Is National Bank .. •• -6% per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 191 i os Nortliof Scotland Bank 5/ _per cent 20 0 210 0 5/ Os Royalßank of Scotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 133110 Union Bank of Scot. - 41. per cent. 100 0 50 0 0 106/0s Western Bank •• - .... 71. per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 43/15s Alliance Fire and Life.. 8 1 ,41. pr cent. 100 0 11 0 0 17/13s British Guarantee . .. 41. per cent. 10 0 2 0 0 1/ 12s Caledonian Fire Incur 10t. per cont. 1 0 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite.. 6/. percent. 25 0- 2 0 0 1/ Is Co onial Life ......... 5/. per cent. 50 0 3 0 0 Cl Os Edinburgh Ltfe Incur. il. oar cont. 100 0 15 0 0 291 Os Eng. & Scot, Liw Life 51. ,ter cent. 50 0 3 5 0 4/ Os Life Assoc. of 3cetland 61. per cent. 41 0 3 0 0 GI Iss Nationat Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 1 4 0 2/ Os North British incur-. 71. per cent. 200 0 20 0 0 361 Os Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 1 0 0 11 15e Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 2 0 0 3/ Os Scottish Unlon Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 1 0 o 1/ 15s Standard Life .• •.• • • 5/ per cent. sO n 7 0 21/ Os MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Atnomit Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- - ------ -____ • £ s. 4. 4 s. d. - Acadian Charcoal Iron • • 10 0 0 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam Lea ~, ......... 5.. rer cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Auctitn Mart........ Ili /per cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian Agriculturl _ 25 0 0 19 0 0 21 1 A Australian Trust ..., 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Australian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. ifs. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 n - Canada ....... •• •• .. (./, per cebt 100 0 0 32 10 0 152 Do. 5 per cent Bond. 5/. pet cent Stock 1.00 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5/.per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent. .• 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 CI. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace ...... 21. per cent 50 0 all *si Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France 4 0 0 all - - City /instigation Bowls 351/. per cent - - tillectric Telegraph .. 6/. per cent. Stock. ,00 0 0 93 E n t g :& iis. 1 t r us. ittg. T. Co. Cop. Smelt, -- 5 0 0 all 1 % Eig& - 50 0 0 alt - notifiable teversionry Si per cent. 100 0 0 ,00 0 0 - Dittc New ....... - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Rever s . & Invest . .. 51. p c and 11 100 0 0 .00 0 0 - (len. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 till - Gen.theaniNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - 4 London Gen. Omnibus 1 2 /. per cent 4 0 0 all Hudson's Bay.. •••••• 5/. per cent. Stock Stock - Ilangerford ...... •• • • 2/. ss. 10 0 0 0 all Loa. No. &Na. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all • - London ne-verdionary 51, per cent. 15 0 o all - Mex. &S. Americas: - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 5 0 0 41 / 8 - 100 0 0 - Nor.sL per cent N.S.WB;iG. Australasianov.s 6d. 1 0 0 all ent 20 0 0 17 10 0 - Price's Patynt Cann. Co - gl. per c 22 0 0 all 23 North of Europe,Pc. si)tetrt.• Peel River Land&M in. - 50 0 all 25/ 10 0 0 14% all - - ONdowental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 Revers / /pr eut• 130 0 0 26 0 0 reDnit&tolonary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent 100 0 0 all - Ditto New •• •••• •• 4 / 2 - 0 ••- 60 0 0 12 5 per cent. 1 0 0 all Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 Scottish Aus. Invest. I, /. 1% South A us tralian Land 7l per cent. 25 0 0 all Trust and Loan Comp. 753,. pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 - 'VAN Diemen's Land• • 109. (100 0028 10 0 11% Do. Gov. 6 pact. 11(10. 6 per cent. p a 0 pa A.. ra Colchester — ---, , ----' 291 1 -- 620 \ 75 -- , 0 Harwich 55 S i , - Leigh - ----- -- 2 - 0 - — lO 1392 Haddon 1182? 34 f 310, 23 146 2 10 MINISTER OF JUSTICE. In the address of the council at the opening of the pre sent session of the society, the necessity of giving, in all efforts for law reform, the most prominent place to the question of a minister of justice was insisted on, and a hope was expressed that strong support would be given to Mr. Napier's motion for the appointment of such an officer, which, in a letter to the secretary, be had ex pressed his intention of making at an early opportunity in the House of Commons. The council can now con gratulate the society on the adoption of that motion by the honse, and on the pledge given by Government to carry out the wish thus expressed by the Legislature. It cannot be concealed that the organisation of a depart ment of justice is attended with some difficulties, and more especially as to the question in whose hands the supreme direction of such a department is to be vested. It has been proposed that the minister of justice should he an independent officer of state, having a seat in the Cabinet and the House of Commons ; but to this it is objected that the existence of such an officer would not be compatible with the political ,influence of the Lord Chancellor, who is at present the representative of law in the Cabinet. Whatever weight attaches to this objec tion seems to apply to another proposition, of making the Home Secretary Minister of Justice, with the additional evil of still further burdening a depart. ment which is at present supposed to be fully occupied. Both these plane seem to be grounded on the popular feeling, to which it is hardly possible to at tach too much importance, that proper security for the , vigilance and activity of such a department is only to be obtained by its direct responsibility to the House of Commons. The society a few years since approved of a plan submitted to them, which it was thought would in a great degree meet the complicated requirements of the case, and, without interfering with the position of the Lord Chancellor, would make the department of justice sufficiently responsible. It was proposed in this report that a Board of Justice should he established on the same footing as the Board of Trade ; that the Lord Chancellor should be the president ; and that there should be in addition a vice-president with a seat in the House of Commons, and a permanent non-parliamentary secretary, with a competent office and staff. The council have not yet heard any other proposal which seems to promise on the whole a more satisfactory solution of the difficulty than this ; and they have little doubt that a department well organised after such a plan would not only be able to deal with all current questions of law amendment, but would also find in itself ample resources for the consolidation of the statute law and the revision of bills as they paes through Parliament. TRANSFER OF LAND. Since the society last met, the commissioners ap pointed some time since to consider registration of title with reference to the sale and transfer of land are under stood to have finally agreed to their report. The subject of their deliberations bas been frequently before the no tice of the society, and indeed it was a paper read by Mr. Strickland Cookson at one of our general meetings which first impressed on the public mind the expediency of a registration of title as opposed to a registration of assurances. It was chiefly in consequence of the notice which that paper attracted, and the discussion which ensued on it, that a select committee of the House of Commons was appointed to investigate the subject, the result of their investigation being a recommendation to the Crown to issue the commission from which the recent report has originated. As the commissioners comprised among their number several influential members of the society—the Attorney-General, the Right Hon. Mr. Lowe, Mr. Headlam, M.P., and Mr. Cookson—it was to be anticipated that the views which had been first mooted at our meetings, and bad afterwards obtained so mach approval, would meet with full cons aeration ; and the council, still deeply impressed with the soundness and practicability of those views, are happy to find that the report of the commissioners seems to be in a great measure in their favour. A system of registra tion of title is recommended for adoption by the Legis lature, and is elaborately worked out in its details ; and whatsoever may be the opinion of individuals as to seme of these details, it will he generally conceded that no plan for the simplification of the transfer has been put out to the public in so exact and tangible a form, or which has furnished such solid ground for expecting a great diminution in the cost of conveyances and the un certainty of titles. The council do not attempt to go at the present moment irto the numerous and minute qw.s tions arising in the scheme of the commissioners ; this task can be far better performed by a committee, and they recommend that the principles and details of the registration report should be at once referred to the real property committee, who will of course be ready to re ceive any suggestions concerning it. COMMERCIAL LAW. The Mercantile Law Conference, held in January last, under the direction of the society, has given a consider• able impulse to the efforts for the improvement of our commercial law. The detects existing in the administra tion of the bankruptcy law were brought prominently forward at that meeting, and will be the subject of a bill now in course of preparation by the committee appointed at the conference. The statements made by Mr. Com missioner Ayrton, in bis able paper, as to the expense of the court, have since been verified by a return to the House of Commons obtained by Mr. Headlain ; and to diminish the ruinous cost, amounting, on an average, to about 45 per cent. on the assets, most be the first object of any amending measure. It is proposed to effect this by transferring the compensation payments new saddled on the suitors to the consolidated fund, and by abolishing the offices of broker, messenger, and accountant. Fur ther improvements are proposed in the system of appeal, and the mode of remunerating the official assignee, and the frequency of attendance by the commissioners ; also by giving to the bankruptcy courts the jurisdiction in insolvency, by improving the arrangement clauses in the act of 1849 so as to make them operative, by enacting that a deceased trader may be made bankrupt, by confining imprisonment for debt on execution to cases where the bankrupt's case has been heard and decided on, and by vesting in the Court of Bank• ruptcy the winding-up jurisdiction. This latter point has been made the subject of a separate report, which points at the best mode of effecting the object in view, and which was lately adopted by the society. The con• ference ako reported in favour of repealing the 17th sec tion of the Statute of Frauds, with exceptions as to ctr• taro classes of contracts. A bill for this object will pro bably he introduced into the house soon after it assem bles. The insufficiency of our present tribunals for adminis tering fulland speedy jip-tice in mercantile causes excites the greatest attention among the classes pez.uharly af fected by it. The delegates at the conference stated that i n ❑early all the large towns of the kingdom an absolute denial of jus , tice in cases above the value of 501. prevails throughout the year, except during the two occasions when her Majesty's judges sit for a few days in each cult town ; that a greater frequency of circuits and a large extension of the jurisdiction, both legal and equit able, of local courts, are measures imperatively de manded ; and that to these shoUld be added some means of deciding commercial causes in a more satisfactory way than the present machinery of our courts admits of. The council must add that the bill of Lord Brougham, to give the powers of courts of reconciliation to existing tri bunals, and to discourage frivolous actions and defences, would aid greatly in remedying the evi . s complained of. The council must not omit to add, that the Mercantile Law Conference recommended the fadoption of the Scotch system of summary diligence, and cbe enactment into law of the Judgments Executions Bill. JUDICIAL STATISTICS. A bill to provide for the re; jular collection and publi cation of the statistics of all o'ir courts of justice was in troduced in the last session by the president of the society, and will again be brought before Parliament. The recognition of the need of such a system tins now become universal, and its establishment would be one of the first and moat import - a: it duties of a minister lof jus tice. DIVORCE AND TEST.tMENTART JURISDICTION. The hill.; introduced b; r the Lord Chancellor to remedy the evils complained of o n the subject of divorce and the testamentary jurisdictiofs have filed to satisfy the public expectation. It is to bo hopefl that the counsels of the most ab:e and experienced members of the upper house, backed as they are by public opinion, will at length be allowed their due w, tight., and that the society will no longer have to deplor e t'-ie introduction of measures sig nally ill-4uited to ace c tnplish the objects aimed at. On the testamentary jur isdiction a special committee of the society has recently reported, condemning the creation of a new court, whicv would either supersede in a great 6of Chancery, or else be an expensive t y he fo C r o i/ Ll , l s ' ing , m me a a ch su in re er very little work, and proposing that some of the 4;es of our existing superior courts of common law 1-11., mid be employed to form a court of pro bate, with a sirnple procedure. This plan has received the general au sent of the society. 'rY.E PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. Thert. is. r,o portion of our law which has attracted more att-n. tion of late, than that which affects the condi tion of the property of married women, and none on which the ad van ce Of public opinion has been so rapid. It is only a tiv eivemontii since this society first turned its at tention a eriowly to investigate and report on the evls incident to our present system of giving to the husband an abed ite and unqualified right to all the earnings of the wife, and, in the absence of ft marriage settlement, a right t ) her personal property also. The abstract in justice a rid impolicy of such a state of the law seem to have bee, a admitted by all, but consilerable difficulLy was f e lt.. in many Auarters as to the possibility of apply ing any p Tactical. remedy. The discussions which ensued as to t be Pilb l. 4cation of the society's report, since con tinued by thr, press in a variety of ways, have tended to clear n; ) ir, a great measure these difficulties, and to smooth .1 - ne way for a legislative enactment. The com mittee who were charged with the subject accordingly procei 'dad to p r . p a re a bill "to amend the l aws re l a ti ng to the mperty )f married women," which was intro duced into the ai use of Lords by Lord Brougham shortly befor a the to mins tion of the last session of Parliament. This. bill w. bwiei on the resolutions appended to the 418 and aims at establishing the same state -fa report, w prevails throughout the greater por dti t the o n of n Unitedo ates of America ; it does not inter: CRIMINAL LAW. When the council last addressed the society, at the commencement of the present session, a panic was pre valent in the country on the subject of our criminals, ,and a general disposition was manifested in favour of re turning to a wholesale system of transportation. The criminal law committee reported against any such retro grade step, believing that transportation at the beat was but a clumsy substitute for iv vigilant and judicious ad ministration of secondary punishment at home, and that a return to it in the present state of our colonial empire could only be attended by disastrous consequences. The committee recommended an increase of the terms of penal servitude, and a stricter and more discriminating appli cation of the ticket-of-leave system. The measure in troduced by Sir G. Grey was in a great degree in accord ance with these views. The industrial Schools Bill of last session received the warm support of the society, aiming as it does at the prevention of crime by the arrest of some of those causes which lead to its development, and the council trust that the same support will again be afforded to it, in conjunc tion with the National Reformatory Union and the Bir mingham Educational Association, when this measure again comes before the house. LAW REPORTINO. A report on the mode of publishing the decisions of our courts of justice has been lately presented to the society, and the council trust that the subject will not be allowed to drop. It would be desirable to inquire whether. in addition to the greatly needed improvements in our system of law reporting some plan might not be adopted fur the classification and ultimate codifying of all the reports. In conclusion, the council hare to congratulate the so ciety in the increase which still continues in its mem bers, more especially in those of its corporate members, which have been trebled during the present session, and to express their hope that the influence exerted by the society in favour of the great object for which it was originally established may be commensurate with its numbers and prosperity. Sir E. PERRY, in moving the adoption of the forego ing document, observed that law reform should not de pend exclusively on lawyers for success. As regarded the Minister of Justice, he feared that if the Lord Chan cellor held the office, as it was proposed that he should do, and introduced useful measures, those measures would not in all cases be adequately supported by the law officers of the crown. In his opinion the Home Minister was the officer who should receive the new ap pointment, entrusted as he was with the administration of justice and assisted by lawyers of the greatest emi nence. The present duties of the home department were almost entirely matters of routine, and would not pre vent the alt ration which he suggested. Mr. D. POWER seconded the motion. He did not share in the despondency of some as to the progress of law reform. A great advance bad already been made, and it had been shown by experience that the interests of lawyers were promoted instead prejudiced by the im provement of the law. He agreed with the preceding speaker that the Lord Chancellor could not advantage ously hold the office of Minister of Justice, but could not admit that the Home Secretary would be a good substi tute, or that his present duties were of a light nature. What was wanted was a department in which the coun try had confidence, and the machinery of which wool I ensure that acts of Parliament were properly framed for the carrying out of their object. (Hear, bear.) The CHAIIMAN congratulated the society on the num ber and variety of subjects embraced in the address of the council. The question of the registration of lands involved the whole subject of real property, and there was no branch of the law that stood more in need of re form. As one of the commissioners who had investi gated the matter, he should be glad if the society would bestow great attention upon it. He was unable to con cur in all the recommendations of the commissioners. The subject was se I age that it was noakely that there would be concurrence of opinion till there had been ample discussion. As regarded law reform generally, all saw the evil, but there were differences of opinion as to the beet remedy, and hence it was that progress was so sl Nothing would contribute more to the object than precise measures embodying the principal recom mendations mails on the subject dealt with. The scheme of appointing a Board of Justice was beset with difficul ties. He agreed with Mr. Power that the Home-office had sufficient to do already. It being, too, a purely executive office, he did not see how it couli be com pelled tl undertake additional labours, or how it could be induced to introduce new bills when the probability was that they would not pass. On the other hand there would be great jealousy of an independent department whose sole function it was to frame new measures ; and failure would bring it into discredit. He was therefore, inclined to the opinion that the best minister of justice would, after all, be that society. (Laughter ) The address was then adopted, and after some busi ness of a routine character the proceedings terminated. EXTRAORDINARY NEW MOVEMENT BY THE T.NACT.ARIAN!S, A movement has been set on foot by the Trac tarians which will somewhat startle the religious world, and especially the Evangelical party in the Church, when they become acquainted with it through the medium of our columns. Deeply mortified at the series of admirable ecclesiastical appointments which Lord Palmerston has made since his advent to the Premiership, they have determined on addressing the Queen, the two Houses of Parliament, and the two Houses of Con vocation, praying that either the present system of appointing bishops may be altered, by taking the power of appointment out of the bands of the Premier, or that if it should be deemed expedient to continue that power in the hands of the Prime Minister, that there may be an impartial selection from all parties in the Church, so as that clergymen of every variety of religious t:elief in the establish ment may have their relative share of the higher class of good livings. It is confidently expected that out of the 18,000 clergymen in. the Church, from 6,000 to 7,000 will sign these addresses. Morning A dvertiser. ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS.—On Monday evening the brothers of Court 2,681 celebrated their second an niversary at the Perseverance Tavern, kept by Brother Gibson—Br .ther Robertson in the chair, faced by Brother Forster. After the din.)er, which was of a first-rate kind, both as regards quality and quantity, the chairman save the usual loyal toasts. Mr. Forster, in returning thanks for his health having been drunk, had occasion to advert t.) the failure of the Royal British Bank, in which he had, on the part of the London United District Society deposited 2001. ; that sum was of course sacrificed, but he (Brother Forster) had made that sum good. (Cheers.) He was obliged to refer to the circumstance, ivasmuch as it was mentioned by his fraternal proposer. The affairs of the Court were briefly adverted to, and sufficiently proved that it was one of the most prosperous. A vile of thanks was given to Brother Gibson, for his indefatigable exertions on behalf of the Court, and for his attention and liberality on that occa sion. Brother Gibson returned thanks, and the brethren gaye him the " Foresters' Fire." Several of the brethren contributed to the harmony of the evening, one singing " The Good Rhein Wine" in first-rate style. The party —which was one of mirth and fraternal jollity—broke up at a little aft• r one. _ _ COAST DEieNeEs.—At a special meeting of the town council of Aberdeen, on Thursday, a communication was read from Lord Paninure, to the effect that, acting upon representations made from several localities during the late war, pointing out the great insecurity of the com mercial ports of the United Kingdom, in the event of any desultory attack by an armed force or an enemy's orui-ere, his lordship had been induced to cause the sub ject to be inquired into, and a committee of °facers had recently visited Aberdeen, in order, to report upon the necessary measures for its protection. This report bad been approved of, and his lordship proposed that there should he (1) a 9-gun battery commanding the bay ; (2) a 4-gun battery fronting the town ; and (3) one gun of the heaviest calibre commanding the approaches to the harbour. His lordship asked the co-operation of the authorities in providing the sites, and the council con firmed a former reselution on the subject, granting site —about two acres will be required—at a merely nominal rental, to preserve the right of the town to the property. LoLA MoNTEz. A despatch from Louisville, Ken tucky, dated 10th inst., says :—" Quite a row occurred at the theatre here. It was the benefit of Lola Montez, and she wanted carpet, instead of green baize on the floor of the stage. The stage manager refused this, and ap pealed to the audience, when a war of words took place between him and Lola. The manager afterwards made 1. - 4 speech, and so did Lola. She refused to play, and the ' money taken waa returned to the ticket-holders. PRICES OF SHARES. Prom the Official List. rußLisuED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN LONDON, FRIDA.Y, APRIL 24, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. E Dividend c`' per :n ▪ Annum. Price. games of Companies. !Dividend per Annum. Ashtn 34:01dh Birmingham Coventry... Derby,. •... GrandJ anctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Union' Kennt & Avi Leeds &Livrp Leicester.... Leicstr `tL Lought,orogh Macclesfield. Neath Ox ford .. 98 74 ct. 40 4/. :00 'OO 61. 15s. 1 100 2% pr. 0.1 10 61. pr.ct. 100 73. 66 40 63. 100 251. :100 51. 83 11.55. 'll3 70 , 100 21. 10s. 100 161, 100 Name of Company. • Berlin ...... East London Do. 4 per Cent Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction ...... Do. New ...... Lambeth New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West IliOdlesex ...... Do. Do, Name of Company. flungerford .......... Southwark ...... . Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo ..... ....•• •• Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of Ti. Vauxhall Name of Company Commercial Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand garry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• • . ••••• • • St. Katharine .• •• •• • • outhampton ........ Victoria .• •• •• •• •• e• Ditto New ........ GAS-LIGIT Name of Company. British Provincial Brighton ............ City of London .. •... Equitable •• •• European .... .•• •• Great Central ........ Imperial .• •• •• • •• • • Ditto New Ditto Debentures Do. Continental I stCap. Do. Ito. 24 Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent ... London Part. Preferen. Phceulx •• Ratcliff .. • • • • • • • •• Surrey Consumers United General •• • . Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... •• Western A. ... Ditto B . Name of Company. Albion • •• •• •• Allianza Bri :. and For. Ditto Marine....... Athenmaco. .......... Atlas .. Argus Life ......... • • British Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London .. •• •• Clericl.slad.& Gen. Life County ....._ .• •• .• •• Crown .........• • Eagle.. Equity and Law ...• •• European Life Family Endowment •• General•. • • • • • • .• •• .• Globe •• • • •• resham Life . ....... Do- Dd.. ... Guardian ............ Imperial Fire... •. .... Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire .• •• • • • • • • • • Law Lite... ........ Legal and General Life London London & Prov. Law • • Marine... •• • • • • • • Med. Invlid & Gen. Life Minerva •• .. •• • • • • Monarch • • • . • • • • • • • • New Equitable Pelican .. • •• • •• •• Phoenix Professional Life•. •• .. Provident Life.... • • •• Rock Life........ • • .. Royal Exchange .•.. • . Sun Fire Ditto Life ..... United Xingdom .. •• Universal Life .• • ..... Victoria Life Name of Company. lustralasia......• • • • Bank of Egypt .. •• • • Bank of London British liorthAmerican Ch Ilk. Ind. Au3t & Ch City Colonial • . • • • • • Commercial of London. Eng Scot. & just. Ch. Lond. Char. Bk. of Aug. Do. New .. • • • • • • •• London and County •• Lon. & Eastn. Bnkr.f. C. London •Joint-Stock .• Londn and Westrninatr Nat. PrOVinCliti of Eng. Ditto, New ........ Ditto ditto Natiow..l Rank • New oath Wiles Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank . Provincial of Ireland Ditto, N ew.• • South Australia Union of Australia Ditto Union of Hamburg Union of London Uni'v Mutual Western Bank ot" f,ondn !Peak Forest 91 Regest t's • • —ltocluialo .. Stftrd &Won Stonrbridg,. Severn and 1 I Wye Rail. 61, Warwick & 490 , Birming. Warwick & — I Napton, j 'Worcstr & Birming. Wilts & Brk, WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Atinum. Amount of Share. 51. per cnt. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. C. per cnt. 51. per cnt 41. per cent. BRIDGE Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price. lOs per cent.' 11. 12s. Od. 11. Ss. Od. 28s. s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 C 0 5 1 8 X s. d. 25 0 0 103 0 0 , 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 5L pr cent. 61. pr sent. 41. per cent. 51. p;Cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. LT AND COK Dividend . per Annum. 71. per cent 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21. 61. per cent. 81. per cent 101. per cent. 31. ss. 4/. 1!)s. V. 10s. 6. per cent. 514 per cm 51. 81. per cent. Ifis Od pewit 7 per cent. 'RANCE CO Dividend per Annum. It. per c. 71. I 4s. 6d. it. p.c. & bs, 15s. Oft & bs 41. per cent. 7/. 10s. 7/. 10s. 5/. 5 pr ct.& bs per share 18s. ss. Ski per cent 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent 121. per cent I 4s. 5/ .p. et. &bs 2s & 2s bons 24i. per sh. 4s. per share 18s. & bs. 4 per cent si. per cent 51. per cent. 6 , 4 per cent 51 p. Ct. 5/. per cent. 51. per cent 12% per c. 78. 8 p c. & bs p c & bs. it. 14s. 41. & bonus. & bonus. & i onus [NT-s rocK Dividend per Annum. 101. per cent. 5/. per cent. 9 per cent. 4 per cent. 5/. per cent. 71. p. c. & bs. 4 . per cent. 51. per cent. 151. per cent. 6L per cent. 28 per cent. 18' per cent. l6pc.&bs 51. per cent. 20'. per cent. In per cent. 31. p. ct.&bs. 81. per cent. 5!. per cent. 0/. per cent. 1/. per cent.; 15!. per cent. Amount of Share. X s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 254 121. lOs 11. lEs. Paid. I Price. A s. d. Stock. too "o 0 too 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 COMPANIES. Amount of Share. Paid. 0. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 [PANIES, Amount of Shnre. Price. £ s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 .1 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 U 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 ANKS. AMOUtlt of Share. s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 :03 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 20 0 0 120 0 0 20 0 0 1 50 0 0 ;100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 I 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 £ s. d. all 150 0 0 all 12 10 6 100 0 • 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 52 0 ‘) 16 0 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 Z s. d 50 0 0 I 1 0 0 25 0 u all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 a 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 all 4 0 0 47 6 50 0 n 30 0 0 33 0 9 2 10 0 13 0 0 210 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 rs 2 0 0 20 0 o 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Paid. X 3. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 - 6 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 £ s. d 100 all Z es. d. INLAND TMOK rOgT. - - , `20- t'.• I y x ( • f.: , ) I i : and ti:e t• , .e Ali: Alen fu!lows, PuSTAGE RATES. 1. For a packet not exceeding 4 oz., Id.; do., above 4 z. and not exceeding 8 oz , 2d. ; do., above 8 cz. and not exceeding 16 oz,, 4d. ; do., above 1 lb. and not ex ceeding 1i lb., 6.1., and so on, twopence being charged for cvery addi i anal half-pound or any lees weight. 2. The po,i age must be prepaid in full by means of postage stamps affixed outside the packet or its elver. 3. Every book packet must be sent either without a cover or in a cover open at the ends or sides, so as to admit of an examination of the contents. 4. A book packet may contai❑ any number of sepa rate books or other publications, print■, or maps, and any qualiti y of paper, parchment or vellum (to the tx• elusion, however, of written letters, whether sealed or open), and the books or other publications, prints, maps, &e, may be either printed, written, or plain, or any mixture of the three. Further, all legitimate bino - mounting, or covering of a book, publication, &c., or of a portion thereo', will be allowed, whether such binding, be loose or attached, as also raters in the case of prints or maps, mar ere (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of hooks, and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter, or usually appertains thereto : but no patterns or books of patters can be admitted. 5. No - book packet may contain any written letter, closed or open, 'or any enclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, nor must there be any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter, written in aihy such packet or on its cover. 6. No book packet cao be received, if it exceeds two feet iu length, width, or depth. 7. Any book packet which shall not be open at the ends or sides, or shad hive any letter, or any communi cati,,n of the nature of a letter, writt, n in it or upon its cover, will be charged with the " unpaid" or double letter postnge. _ _ 8. if a book packet be found to contain any written letter, whether closed or open, or any enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or any other un• authori-ed enclosure, the letter or enclosure will be taken out and forwarded to the address on the packet, charged with full postage as an unpaid letter, together with an additional rate of fourpence ' • and the remainder of the packet, if duly prepaid with stamps, will then be for warded to its address. 9. If a book packet be not sufficiently prepaid with stamps, but nevertheless bear a stamp of the value of one penny, it will be forwarded charged with the deacient book postage, together with an additional rate of four pence ; but any packet which shall bear no postagestamp will be charged with the "unpaid" or double letter pos tage, according to its weight. 10. These regulation will not interfere with the privi leges allowed to votes and proceedings of Parliament, or with those alowed to newspapers and other periodical publications bearing a newspaper stamp, and posted in acordance with the regulations applicable to such privileged publications. 11. To prevent obstacles to the regular transmission of letters, any officer of the Post-office may, when neces sary, detain a book packet for a period not sx , :eeding twenty-four hour.; beyond the time when it would other wise be forwarded. 12. The head postmaster who first receives a book packet must, whenever he has ground for suspecting an infringement of the above conditions, and occasionaily. even when there is no ground for suspicion, open and ixarnine the packet; and eve►y packet which shall not be „pee at the ends. or sides, or shall exeed two feet in length, width, or depth, or shall have any letter or corn munica,ion of the nature of a letter written in it or upon its cover, or shall bear no posta4e stamp, must be sent up, with as l►ttle delay as possible, to the Dead Letter office in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, as the case may be ; but, in the event of any other infringement of the regulations, the packet must be dealt with by the post master himself as lad down in paragraph No. 8, and in the first part of No. 9„ By comnanand of the Postmaster• General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. General Pat-office, 24th April, 1857. S Country Markets. CHELMSFORD-APRIL 21. Wheat to-day experienced a rather better sale, and the best samples must be quoted is per qr. dearer—inferior st last week. Spring corn firm Wheat, white, old, per s. s. qr. 32 70 new.... 35 69 red, old 30 60 new '3O CO Barley 35 46 Chevalier 40 54 Grinding 35 46 Malt 73 77 Chevalier 75 79 a. 0. Oats, per qr. 24 30 Peas, Partridge 41 4 3 White 39 46 Boiling 39 45 Dun 37 3 9 Beans, Tisk 35 3 9 Harrow ticks 39 4 1 Mazagan . 34 36 Ditto, new 34 37 Official Statement of the Qua in the port of London, fro April 20 to 25, both incluBi entities of Corn, Ste nn the following p feCelYell nts, from& COLCHESTER- APRIL 25 A fair supply of wheat ; the best samples ware 2s. per quarter dearer. Barley for malting is cheaper. Beano and peas were both the turn dearer. Prices to-day were as follow :--Wheat, white, 564 to 6 4 '; red, 46s to 565; barley, 44s to 48s ; oats, 23s to 28s ; boar". Mazagan, 34s to 364; middle and small, 36s to 44s ; Pea ° ' white, 38s to 42s ; grey, 40s to 425. KIRKCALDY-APRIL 25. To-day we had a better supply of wheat and oats thou on last market day, but only a few sacks of barley. S° 36 quick for wheat and oats at is to 2s advance. Barley goo' sale at last week's prices. Wheat. First sBs Od Second Third 36s Od Oatmeal, 3 Barley. l Oats. Beans% 41s Od t 33s Od Os 38s Od 28s Od Os Od 35s Od 25s ad Os Od to 38s per bag of 2801 b. 4—AraiL 27. the close of the market. Wallsend, age. d• $ F ramwe ll ga te l6 3 Eden Main 1.6 6 'South Hetton L 7 9 1 , 0 1 Ste wart's I,S $ Cassop e . 16 E i( l e a p rt i l e e r p er oo r l a H in e g t e ton ... .:1 1 1 8 ~9 , Lumley ...1 6 Pe ushe r . l 6 0 1 ! I Sswell lB 6 glummer iealiam .. . 16 6 llradrlyll • ..16 6 6 Fletton Lyons Main ....- - 6 Coundou Tees Montague .•.15 90; sold, 57. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at s d, Tattfield Moor Butes 13 3 Howard's West Hartley _ Netherton 18 3 North Percy Hartley _l5 6 Fanfold Moor l3 3 Walker Primrose l4 O. West Hartley Grey's 17 01 Wylam Wallsend, Am Acorn Close l6 L' Eden Heugh Hall South Kelloc 16 9 Toes lB Russell's Hatton 16 fi Lanabton l7 6 Belmont 15 0 Ships at market THE DARDANELLES.—Dy an ord-r recently isstvea 14 a the Porte. all vessels under the English, French. Age Austrian flaw, carrying will be perm ' s tri the Dardanelles at a n y ti me o f day or night. [ADVERTISEMENT ] —Holloway' s -Pill s an i n fallible Ir. e g ; medy for Asthina.—These pills effected a perfect euir el the case of Maria Vick, of Kingt on , H ere f or dshire, f ib° . bad been suffering for m ore ti ian t en years w ith ast 4 ' Vi a ' constinual coughing and loss of sl ee p w ere nuderroj oil l, the system, and-she became a perfect skeleton ; she o r ; f 1 advised to give Holloway's Pills a trial, and persevil f for eight week- , , well rubbing the ointment into the c.',; ) ," night and morning, when these astonishing reme!ta effected a perfect cure, after all other medicine" bad failed.—Sold by all Medicine Vendors tehrougl!'to. the world ; at Professor Holloway's Etitablishreire,,nrk'; 244, Strand, London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New c o ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, S0)31 and E. Muir, Malts. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 27th inst., at 5, Lansdowne-terrace, South °ll. nington, the wife of the Rev. James Bowley. TOP On the 26th inst., Mrs. George Barlis, Broom House, dington. OF 1 DAUGHTER. On the 27th inst., at Norfolk House, the Duchess of Yot. folk, o f Jobli On the 26th inst., in Ampthill - square , the wife - Pycroft Collier, Esq. MARRIED. ~ On the 25th inst., at St. Gi l es's , Camber well, Willianl'l3esli Esq., of Lyde, near Here:brd, to Eliza Ellen, tho 'or daughter of Mr. Thomas Edward Death, of Cambe rwell ' merly of the city, , Ref• on the 23d inst., at St. Anne's Church, Dublin, t"9O Be2ueliamp Stannus, ion of the Very Rev. the Dean of -, t b i ; to the lion. Mabel G.VeseyFitz•Gerald, the daughter 41' Very Rev. the Lord Fitz-Gerald and Vesey, Pea° (Pt more. DIED. On the 27th inst., at Hatfield, Grahame James Seslll°llf° the child of Seymour and Anna Clarke, ag ed nearly ° l.l months. Boys Nao Oi t t ho h fe e 2o6 2 ,7 l h t c l i t nres i st n c. s e, t ,N . i , ta, t a Ti t l,al ß inin a iet t lo h jl , lo C isl t u t o p np t l a ae i rni n sep J ti a ,e m ia..g e Fe s_ l o q. i s : F e . r it , ha third son of the late Rev. John Dampier, of Colitis ' Somersotsi,ire. othe 26th inst., Pengwern Fli n tsbire, the Ilon. Esse Lloyd, youngest daughter of the fate Lord Mostyn. On the 26th inst , F u lham, Mr. Geo. Hawkins, of Irig °- street, aged 21. On the 25th inst., at Brompton , Ca p tain David Eclivard* rt.N., aged 78. en' liinOg, Esq., agedn s tlie2stliinst., at Know i e - gree n, Staines, Will iam 14%1J LONDON : Printed and Publ ished b y ]IIURDO YOUNOI of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Oiliee, 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the court/ of Middlesex, Tuesday, Aviil 28, 1857. Price. - 3 * el 4. c, s '. Cc 7 . A R. Cc 9 . CI 10. c, 12. c, 17 4. D 13 . Cr 14. Cc 15 . h; 16. GI ifi a . G 14, I gPec LOndo For t Panic: Which Pact f lorn Ten 5/ Os 17s Is. Od , Price raid. Paid, 4% 107 25% 102% Price. 20'4 110 34 Price 1~~ 1%1 meter ING ] and ;.• Poly? been ( cess o L sun ?rine eight, ten. Al Mrs_ mint street dar, secur( grnt.s. E L .tor es of 1. 4,2c0n Eus. P G kor ni issued avati a Trai n are e „ Pad Dc tinue, A ate S Th d di a t e Th, from as a 7 .1 Milo cowl( Th from 1)1 Ituft Will 1 arriv Ti be ca bees Willi a.m. olise; 0' ill c( liav verb ding ealli T heat nf tit at 1