The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

Irt irbf Mbrition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. TATTERSALLW—(This Evening.) TWO THOUSAND. 6to 1 agst Brother to Marchioness (offered) 7to 1 agat Clydesdale (take Bto 1) 10 to 1 apt Happy Land 10 to 1 apt Lord of Lora 10 to 1 agat Toxophilite DERBY. 100 to 8 aget Clydesdale 16 to 1 agst Tozophilite 18 to 1 apt Kelpie (take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Vandyke 20 tO 1 aget Mentmore 25 to 1 aget Ditto 25 to 1 aget Longrange 36 to 1 agst Ethiopian 40 to 1 aget Decei►er 50 to 1 agst Brother to Mary Copp 50 to 1 agst Grand Secret IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCIBLLOR took his seat on the woolsack at Ave o'clock. Viscount DUNGANNON presented a petition from A rural deanery in Buckingham, in favour of an amend meat of the Divorce Act. The noble lord also gave notice that on Thursday he should move for a copy of any correspondence relative to the transmission of troops to India. Lord CAMPBELL moved for a return of the war- rants, granted under the act of Parliament of last session, for the prevention of the sale of obscene publications, and also of the steps that had been taken under the said act —The returns were ordered. CHURCH RATES. The Earl of MALMESBURY asked whether it was the intention of the government to bring forward, during the ensuing session, any measure respecting church sates I Sad GRANVILLE said it would entirely depend upon circumstances whether aoy such measure would be introduced. HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS. The Earl ST. GERMAINS brought up her Majesty's answer to the address of their lordships, in answer to ber Majesty's gracious speech on Thursday last. Her Majesty's answer was as follows :—" 1 thank you for your loyal and dutiful address. You may re:y on my cordial no-operation in all measures calco!ated to pro mote the welfare and prosperity of my people in every part of my dominions." _ Tho 1141 GRANVILLE rose for the purpose of correctintststatement made by the noble earl opposite (the Earl of Derby), respecting the conduct of Lord Canning relative to the promotion of a sepoy by General Hearsay. The noble earl stated that a sepoy in Hearsey's brigade had distinguished himself in repressing the in surrection, had been promoted on the spot, and that for so doing Gen. Hearsay was reprimanded by the Gover nor-General for having exceeded his duty for promoting a aepoy without further consulting the authorities in Calcutta. The facts were that the conduct of the sepoy were so praiseworthy, that General Hearsey felt it his duty not to promote the sepoy on the spot, for the general was not present ; but as soon as the facts became known to him he ordered his promotion. When the circumstance was reported to the Governor-General, he, in reply to General Hearsey, said it was contrary to existing regulations to promote sepoy without consulting the authorities at Calcutta. No reprimand was given to General Hearsay, but, on the contrary, Lord Canning confirmed the promotion, and distinctly stated that the conduct of the Sepoy had been in the highest degree praiseworthy, and that he really deserved the promo tion. The noble lord accused the Government of not having taken steps to disabuse the minds of the Sepoys with regard to the intention of their religion. The accusation was entirely without foundation, for the Go weransent had expressly stated that the religions feelings and opinions of the natives of India should be respected. The Earl of DERBY, at some length, contended that although the word repremand did not occur in the letter which General Hearsey received from the Governor- General, it was in substance a censure upon him for having made the promotion. With respect to other state ments respecting the religions feelings ot the natives, he was perfectly aware that a proclamation had been issued, but it had not been made known until some time after the proper period at which it ought to have been issued. After a short consultation the subject dropped. PENSION TO GENERAL HAVELOCK. The LORD CHANCELLOR read a message from her Majesty, stating that, to mark her Majesty's approbation of the exertions of Sir IL Havelock in re lieving the garrison of Lucknow, and he trusted the boase would concur with her Majesty in making a pro vision of 1,0001. per annum for General Havelock during his natural life. (Loud cheers.) Earl GRANVILLE moved that her Majesty's mes sage should be taken into consideration to-morrow. The motion was agreed to. (LEFT SITTING.) SOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. Rnssell took the oaths and his seat for Tavistock. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was or dered for the borough of Scarborough, in the room of Earl kin'grave, who has accepted the office of steward or bailiff of Hempholme. EAST INDIA REVENUE. Mr. ARTHUR MILLS flayed for a return of the revenue derived annually from all sources of taxation in India, from 185253 to 1855 56 (in continuation of parliamentary paper, No. 336, of session 1855). — Agreed to. HOPS. Mr. J. LOCKE moved for accounts of the total num ber of acres of land in the lJnited Kingdom under the cultivation of Hops in the year 1857 ; distinguishing the number of acres in each parish ; and the number of pounds' weight charged with duty in each collection ; and the number ofj pounds' weight charged with duty is each parish of the Canterbury and Rochester collections. And of the amount of duty charged on hops in each collection of the growth of the year 1857; distinguishing the districts, and the old from the new duty in each dis trict ; showing the average amount of duty per acre in each collection (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 19, of session 2, 1857.)—Agreed to. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (IRELAND.) Mr. CAIRNS moved for copies of a letter recently addressed by the Lard Chancellor of Ireland to the Lord Lteatenant of the county Down, relative to the appoint ment of justices of the peace ; and of any similar letters addressed to other Lords Lieutenants of counties in Ireland.—Agreed to. BELFAST RIOTS. Mr. CAIRNS moved for a copy of the report made by the commissioners for inquiring into the recent riote is Belfast.—Agreed to. CORN. Mr. BASS moved for a return from the inspectors of corn returns of the various mcmures and weights by which corn is soli in each of the towns from which the returns are made, and the mode in which tney are re spectively returned, in imperial bnehels.—Agreed to. SAVINGS BANKS. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved for a return in con tinuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 85, of eelsion 2, 1857, from Nov. 20, 1856, to Nov. 20, 1857 ; and, in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 84, of session 2, 1857, from Nov. 20, 1856, to Nov. 20, 1857.-- Agreed to. THE ADDRESS. Lord CASTLEROSSE brought up her Majesty's imost gracious answer to the address, It stated :--" I balm received with much satisfaction your loyal and duti ful address. It is my earnest desire at all times to co operate in measures which tend to improve the state of the country, and to promote and secure the welfare and prosperity of my people in every part of my dominions." INDIA. Sir J. PAKINGTON gave notice that he should to-morrow put questions to the Preident of the Marl of Control relative to the papers that have been ordered with reference to India, whether they would contain the memorial sent hone from Calcutta, asking for the withdrawal of the Governor-General, and whe ther the Government had any objection to lay on the table of the house all the correspondence that had taken place between them and the Peninsular and Oriental Company relative to the transmission of troops to India. He should also put a question relative to the Moto of Lord Clive's fund. JOINT STOCK BANKS. 1 Me, ,___ • COWAN gave notice of an amendment to the L a n it -24_0,m . he . r for Newcastle, relative to the limited lia -7 ouotat-stock banka Mr. 4:II.Eit_RJEVO'S COURTS MARTIAL. • asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attent naval Court-martial h n eic psa been called to a recent n on an offiuer of her Majesty's ship Juno, and whether steps t were contemplated Government in respneYct by the Sir C. WOOD entered intoc;fentlitoaour:d rambling expla nation in reference to the tc,te Fremantle that the Admiralty had censured d a hon. . ordered I for his conduct, and had not the Juti:o Lome he would have been recalled. The then referred to the lax state of diseiptiiie on many ber ,Majesty's stations from want of officers to TlocliCl coeds-martial, THE REMOVAL OF 69TH REGIMENT Fito u PLYMOUTH TO POUTSM-OUTII, uartered at Mr. SCOTT—The 69th Reginient being q Portsmouth, asked her Maj-!pty's Govercm, nf, what was the advantage and also the expen:,•o of moving it from Plymouth to Portsmouth by rail, to embark there, In order to return by sea to Plymouth before de p artin g for the East Indies and by whose authority it wa s done l Sir J. RAMS DEN said that he thought the boo. gentleman had been misinformed of the facts of the case. The hon. gentleman appeared to consider that the whole regiment was taken from Plymouth to Portsmouth, there to embark. The cireutastaucee of the case were, that three ships were taken up by the East India Company to convey troops to Alexandria. Two of the ships went to Plymouth and embarked troops, but the third being a mail ship, and prevented from going to any other port than Portsmouth, one de tachment of the regiment was conveyed from Plymouth to Portsmouth for the purpose of en, barkation. The troops were sent to Portsmouth on a communication of the facts to the Board. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS (IRELAND). Mr. BAGWELL asked the Chief Secretary for Ire. land, if it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern,- ment to introduce a bill for reformatory schools in Ireland this session ? Mr. H. HERBERT said that during the recess Go. vernment would give the;r consideration to the subject, and he hoped, after that, to be able to propose something to the house on the subject that would be satisfactory to all parties. (Hear, hear.) THE WELSH IRON TRADE. NEATI3, DEC. 4. A serious disagreement has broken out between th.a colliery proprietors and ironmasters of the Aberdare Mineral district and the colliers and workmen which has led to a strike of some thou sand ironmen, who are now " at play," refusing to accede to the terms offered thorn by tbeir late em ployers. Tho colliers have already proceeded to acts of intimidation, and it is said that a requisition has been sent for the military. As the district accessible by railway direct from London, a few hours would ba sufficient to bring down a regiment to Aberdare. The cause of this state of things is the sudden stagnation in the iren trade, the price of rails hav ing, in a few week=, fallen from 8/. 10s. to 5/. ss. per ton. There is no d. mand either for America or India, the two best marts for Welsh iron, except the home trade, and consequently the ironmasters found the necessity of reducing the wages of the men. These reductions on the Aberdare Valley are to the amount of 20 percent. at the ironworks, and 10 to 15 per cent. at the collieries. At the old prices a good workman could eirn 265. to 30s. per week, and the reduction propo'ed would have still left him a fair weekly income, but in the Aberdare district the colliers have one and all refused to ac cede to the reduction, and are out on strike, and with little prospect of a return to work. Daily meetings of the workmen have been held on the mountain this week, at which they have resolved— " 1. Not to accept any reduction of wages. " 2. That the men employed to look after the pumping and ventilation and other underground work in the pits should not be allowed to work. "3. Not to pay the various shopkeepers and tradesmen the debts owing for provisions had by the colliers during the past mouth." It should be explained that the practice is very general in this district for the shopkeepers to give credit to the colliers, the accounts of the latter being paid monthly or fortnigh ly, as they receive their wages. One shopkeeper alone in Aberdare states that his Nov. accounts for provisions supplied to the men are all unpaid, and they amount t) at least 3001. Men of this class are generally very improvi dent, and live " from hand to mouth," se that there is already great distress among th e m. S ome of the disaffected have gone so far as to threaten to help themselves from the shops if the shopkeepers refine them the accustomed credit. On Wednesday night a number of colliers visited the different pits, and renewed their threats to the engineers working the pumps, and yesterday morning a number of them in a state of perfect nudity amused themselves by running races directly in front of the house of one of the masters. The most serious part of the business is the stop page of the eugineeri. These men of course have not had their wages reduced in the proportion of the colliers, but the colliers have by their threats prohibited them from working. The consequence is that the pumping engines for clearing the pits of the hourly accumulating water have been stopped the workings are fast becoming flooded, and in many instances this is so serious that it would take weeks and months to restore them to their former workable condition. The Aberdare ironworks, belonging to Messrs. Fothergill, have been compelled to announe3 a re duction of the " sale" coal wages 15 per cent., and of the coal raised for the ironworks 20 per cent. These terms the colliers refused to accede to, and consequently the blast furnaces in these works have been blown out, but the forges, giving employment to 600 men, are still at work, the coal being pro cured from other sources. All the colliers (about 900) employed on these works are on strike, and not a ton of coal has been raised for some d 'Lys. . At the Gadby's works about 500 colliers are em ployed, and about 20,000 tons of coal are raised monthly. The colliers having struck, the furnaces are out and the forges at a stand. At the Blaengwawr collieries about 500 or 600 tong of coal are usually raised daily, and front 800 to 91)0 men are employed. All the colliers are on strike, and all the works stopped. The Cwingrach iron furnaces have also been blown out some days, and the colliers on strike. In the Rhondda Valley the colliers have also turned out. The colliery proprietors, being at this time at loggerheads with the Taff Vale Railway Company, with respect to the transport dues alare that line from the collieries to the shipping port, are in no hurry to resume operations. At Merthyr the colliery owners and ironmasters having resolved upon a reduction of wages of 20 per par cent., th e men h e ld a meet i ng and came to t h e d etermination to accept the terms for the present. It is hoped that tlat.sy will adhere to their wise deci atiirn'a alio f li th n e o c t ol b r e le i r n s of Aberdare.fluen cedorccerced by the op.tra- -------- . 7,....5c Mr. W. Payne, the city cor THE 'MURDER Or TUE C DILTECTIVE.-0111 Saturday liovital on the body of C h a°l-nl:7ei'kld an inquest in Guy's Who was shot while conveying t lin, the city detective, Ptroisoper, ristian Sather, a Daman, horn Hatobur, jury, alter hearing the evidence,immediately returned a verdict of Wil:ul Murder against Cnribt lan Settler. L 1"• The `rnE STN_ LONDON, MONDAY EVEN IN,G, DECEMBER 7, 1851, F. Strong to be Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Chatham division. The following appointments and promotions will take place in the corps of Royal Marines, dated the 2d ult., viz. :—First Lieutenant E. H. Cox, of the Artillery Company of Royal Marines, to be Cap tain, and appointed to the Plymouth division, vice M'Callum, removed to the half-pay list on appoint ment as Barrack Master. The post of Captain Instructor of Gunnery at Woolwich, vacant by the removal of Captain Henry Hotham M'Carthy, on his appointment as Barrack Master of the Royal Marines, has created a vacancy in that de partment, for which a number of applications have been made to Sir C. Wood. It has been announced in reply to the application that the vacancy has been filled up, the appointment having been con ferred o❑ a senior officer. The successful candidate (it is reported) is Capt. P. H. Fellowes, late serving on board the flagship Indefatigable, Rear-Admiral H. Johnstone, on the south-east coast of America. The appointment will probably not be made known until the candidate shall have passed a series of examinations on board the gunnery-ship Excellent at Portsmouth. A few hours after the arrival of the store-ship Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Sturdee, at Woolwich, on Friday evening, the casing of the boilers was discovered by the engineer in charge to be on fire. An alarm of " ship on lire was in s-tinily given through the yard by the police on duty, when a number of riggers were collected, and assisted by portions of the crews from the various ships in basin, together with the Fisgard's men, the floating fire engine was got under way and the fire extinguished. The damage is rot very con siderable. The disaster is accounted for by over heating the boilers with the view of putting the ship to her highest speed, in order to arrive at Woolwich before nightfall. dents of fires and boilers, 4 oilers, 2 engineers' storekeepers, 24 firemen, 36 coal-passers, 1 steward, 3 assistants, 36 waiters, 3 stewardesses, 2 store keepers, 1 barkeeper, 1 barber, 1 chief-cook, 1 assistant cook, 1 b?.ker, 2 pastrycooks, 2 engineers' messmen, 2 keepers of lamps and oil, 1 hosekeeper." Tee .Netv York Journal of Commerce thus de scribes the hull of the Adriatic :—" The Adriatic and the Niagara are modelled on substantially the same plan, with a studious adaptation of shape to the course of the water when cleft by the prow, except that the Niagara is much sharper, but with less dead rise on dead flat, preserving her stability amidships ; and both vessels have many points of resemblance with the America. The keel, for instance, is curved throughout the entire length, but with little curvature towards the stern, while at the other extremity there is a rise of about nine feet to the water-line, commencing 100 feet back. Some said to Mr. Steers that in making his ship so sharp she would go under, but he antici pated a result exactly the reverse, conceiving that the effect would be to throw her out of the water, so that the more rapid the speed the more she would rise, diminishing the displacement. Actual expe rience has confirmed his theory. The frame of the Adriatic is all of live and white oak, locus, cedar, and chestnut, put together in the strongest possible manner. The ship is plentifully furnished with patent metallic boats. The principal anchors each weigh 3i tons, and the cables, each about 100 fathoms, are 21 inches thick." CRUELTIES ON Tile HIGH SEAS. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 5. An investigation into the circumstances of al leged cruelty sea by the captain and mate of the Liverpool barque Elizabeth, belonging to Messrs. Tobin and Son, which is said to have caused the death of a Portuguese seaman on board named Francisco Roderigo. terminated to-day, after hav ing been adjourned on several occasions. The first witness called, who gave his evidence on Saturday last, was H. Renshaw. He said :—I was a seaman on board the barque Elizabeth, and sailed in her last about the 27th or 28th of Jan., for New Calabar, on the coast of Africa. Capt. Pickering was the master of the vessel. On arriving at Cala bar there was a change in the command, and the prisoner, Captain Christie, was made master of the Elizabeth, I think, about July. Captain Christie brought three of the crew of the Faith, the vessel he bad previously commanded on board the Elizabeth. Their names were Joseph Mitchell, Francisco Roderigo, and Mateo Trook They were all able se amee . The crew consisted al together of 21 souls on the homeward voyage. We left Calabar on Aug. 24, 'With those three men on board. At that time Roderigo was in the best of health, stout and robust. He was always in good spirits, and kept the crew laughing. He did not appear to be labouring under any disease. He was was probably 27 or 28 years of age. He told me he was a native of Malaga. He did not complain of illness, but did his work willingly and cheerfully. When we had been at sea from 40 to 60 days, one evening, from 6 to 8 o'clock, I saw the captain seize the deceased by the neck, and throw him with violence on the deck, with his face downwards. He kicked him repeatedly over various parts of the body—head, breas', and right thigh—using the most diabolical language. Roderigo begged of him in the name of God and the Virgin not to kill him, his language being half Spanish, half English. He said, "Por Madte deiDios, don't kill me !" The cap tain continued to exclaim, " G— d— you, you worthless fellow, I will kill you 1" Roderigo came forward as well as he could, partly crawling and partly walking. He said to the crew, " I think something broke ; I no straighten try back ; I wish you look." He said, " Ah, by gar, I think Capt. Christie want to kill me ; I feel something broke." He was moaning, and continued to moan all that night. When he went forward he could not stand upright, but hung forward in a stooping position. I examined his body that night. He said, " Harry, my back feel very much sore ; please little rub my back." I did so, and he groaned more and more, and said, '• Harry, rub easy ; you hurt me too much." One of the joints of the spine of the back was sticking out like-the joint of a bent finger, and his body was discoloured in various places. He complained to us all the next morning that he was unable to turn out. He remained in his bunk ; and either that day or the day following the captain came in the forecastle door, and sung out, "Now, you lazy Russian, what are you doing there ? Come out of that, or I'll clap a watch tackle on you and bouie' you out." Roderigo then came out on to the deck, apparently in a feeble state, lame and stooping. He complained of his teeth being loose, either then or a short time after. He had been spitting blood on the previous night after the kicking. I never saw him spit blood betore the kicking, but he continued to do so afterwards until his death. When the deceased went on deck the cap tain told him if ho caught him in the forecastle again during his watch on deck he would serve him as he had served h;m before. The captain told the second mate t o give deceased some w( rk, and the mate gave him some " sinnett" to do (plaiting ropes). Either that day or during the 24 hours when it came to Ro derigo's turn to go to the wheel he complained that lie was unable to do it, and a dayafterwards scarcely passed that he did not get a rope's-ending from the captain ; and I frequently heard the deceased cry out, " For God's adze," or " For the Holy Virgin's sake," not to kill him. The captain used to make pretty nearly the same answer—that ho would kill Roderigo, and that he s should not live to see Liver pool. One evening, from 4 to 6, when Roderigo was at the wheel (probably-about a fortnight after the first kicking), the captain said to him, with an oath, " Why don't you keep the ship steady ?'' Roderigo made no reply. The captain walked up and down the deck a few times, and then said, again swearing, " If I have to speak to you again, I will give you a little more of what you got the other night ;" after a few more turns he went in front of him and said with an oath, again, " You will have it, then ?" He raised li;s foot to kick him, the man stoaped, and the captain kicked him twice in the face. I could not say whether he had boots, shoes, or slippers on. The effect of the kicks was that his lips were swollen and one of his eyes was disfigured. Roderigo made the usual prayer, "For God's sake" not to kill him. I remember the prisoner Millard, the chief mate, comin g into the forecastle about a fortnight after the last kicking. He came to the forecastle door about 12 o'clock at night and inquit ad if the look-out was relieved yet. Oa being answered "No" he asked who's look-out it was, and some person answered that it was "the Russian's." The mate, swearing at Roderigo, asked why he had not relieved the look out. The deceased said " Me no save (I didn't know) my look-out," when the mate ssized him, threw him on deck with great violence, and kicked him with all his force. Roderigo said, " Do not kill me, or kill me outright ; get a hat chet and cut off my head." The mate replied that he would kill him if he did not go and keep the look-out.. He crawled on his hands and knees up the forecastle ladder, groaning all the time, and went on to the topgallant forecastle. I went up to him and he said, " Oh, Harry, I no can see ; the blood keep coming to my eyes !" I went to him three or four time. The first time ho svas sitting on the " bit-head ;" the second time ho was half lying and half-reclining on bisside. He was groan ing al the time. I told him if the mate caught him in that way he would give him some more kicking, and he replied, " Oh, Harry, I uo can see; two time I fall clown ; my head go round and round." I never saw him stand upright after that. To the best of my belief he was relieved at four bells. I helped him down before the watch was over. I helped him down, step by step, into his berth. He said, "All the time I spit blood come ; all my inside broke this time." Ho said, " Me save (I know) I die—me save I no live to see Liver pool !" He was moaning all night. The captain came to him either - on that or the following night while he was in his berth. Using similar language he told the deceased that unless ho came out he would " bouse" him out with the watch tackle. Roderigo crawled out as well as he could, and sat down on some spars which were on the deck. The captain said to him, " If I catch you in that fore castle again during your watch on deck I will give you some more ' • and he told the second mato to keep him at work—on the look-out, if he could do nothing else. After this he was unable to take the wheel, and ho could only just shuffle one foot be fore the other. To the best of my belief the cap tain did not strike him for 10 or 15 days after, but frequently swore at him, and told him to move quinker. Otte morning, about a fottuightafter wards, I was at the wheel from 6 to 8. Roderigo was employed, with the second mate and another ' l man, heaving the log. Aft er the o r ,o , had beep hove and Roderigo had reeled up the line again he was taking the log reel acrasi the deck, hslp int, himself along with his band on the edge of the poop, in a very feeble state,,, when the cap t(in called out to h im with an oath, 1)o you come upon my quatter- , deek to act Get on quicker, or 1 will hurt y you. He got hold of him by the back of his head, threw him on the deck, and commenced kicking him all over the body. Roderigo could not move q uicker ; ho was in a dying state then. .1 was relieved at the wheel, and the captain was still kicking Roderigo. About ten minutes afterwards I saw Roderigo crawling on the deck on his hands and knees, falling flat every minute. Some one said, "Ali, my poor fcl'ow, you have been catching it again ;" and lie said, " Ah, the eapitaine no kick me any more ; I die now." He was helped to his berth, and after that clay he never moved out, unless wish assistance. He was spitting blood at that time, and continued to do so alniest continu ally till his death ; moaning also day and night. He died on Saturday night, five or six days after. He called to me that evening, and said, •‘ Harry you Catholic, me Catholic, too ; you save my mother, live in Malaga,, poor woman ; my father die ; my mother v,ry poor woman. I think I die. Please time you go to Liverpool speak to Spanish Consul, get my money, and send to my mother, Maria Roderigo, at Malaga. If I die and no live to see Liverpool, by J esus Christ and the Virgin Mother, have justice !" I told him that I would : and he told me to put my hand on my heart and promise before God that I would do so, and I did. Tho inquiry was resumed to-day, the first wit ness examined being Daniel Gillespie, a seaman on board the bark Elizabeth, who corroborated the strikingsand kickings of Roderigo by the captain, when the deceased was at the wheel. The wit ness also described other rope's-endings and beat ings of Roderigo, and also the effect of this course of treatment upon Roderigo's person and health. He also spoke to blJws and kicks given by Millard, the mate. Dr. Thomas Inman was next called. He said he had hoird the whole of the evidence in the case. In reply to Mr. Tyndal, Dr. Inman said the in juries stated would be sufficient to cause the death of an otherwise healthy person. Mr. Wm. Wall, bouso surgeon to the Northern Hospital, agreed with the opinions expressed by Dr. Inman. Th;s being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Snowball addressed his worship on behalf of the mate. Mr. Bluck next addressed the Court on behalf of Captain Christie. Mr. Mansfield said the case was invested with some difficulty. He did not think it proper, with the evidence before him, to commit the captain for trial on the charge of murder, but ho should com mit him for feloniously killing and slaying—in other words, for manslaughter. The case against the mate, lie thought, was very much diminished in magnitude, and he should only commit him for an assault. On being cautioned in the usual way, the captain reserved his defence for the jury ; but the mate stated that the occasion on which he struck the de ceased was not for not keeping the lcok-out, but because he found him in bed when it was his turn at the wheel. On the application of Mr. Snowball, the mate was admitted to bail, himself in 1001. and two sure ties of 50/. each. The grand jury at the assizes had been discharged before the case closed, so that the prisoners will be tried at the March assizes, unless the case should be taken at an earlier period before the Central Criminal Court. SERIOUS CHARGE. PRESTON, FRIDAY. To-clay Mr. Monk, surgeon, a boroughand county magistrate, was brought up at the Tow.a-hall in custody on the charge of forging a will. The case excited great interest, and the court was crowded. Mr. Ascroft, the town clerk, and Mr. R. Segar, barrister, prosecuted ; Mr. IL A.Cross, M.P., barrister, instructed by Mr. W. Blackhurst, beingfor the defence. On Thursday a coroner's inquest was held, arising out of the same matter. Ed. Turner, reedmaker, St. Paul's-road, died on the 25th Sept.. During his illness he was attended by the pri soner. He died in a fortnight, and at his death it was found that the prisoner had succeeded to de ceased's effects, which amounted to about 1001. after his debts were paid. The rumours which were circulated led to the exhumation of Turner's body at the cemetery, and to the transmission of the stomach and intestines to Professor Taylor for examination. Professor Taylor's examination is not yet finished, The inquest on Thursday was adjourned ifter the ev:denco of Alice Chadwick, the, housekeeper, haft been given. That evidence shovTed that deceased during his illness was at tended by Mr. Monk, who in an hour after his patient's death demanded the keys and removed money and hooks from the house. The man died on the Friday and Mr. Monk ordered the funeral for the Sunday, on which day he took some silver spoons away in his pocket. Subsequently he dis posed of the stock in the workshop, and the house hold furniture. The inquest was adjourned till the 11th inst. Immediately after the inquest Mr. Monk was taken into custody by the superintendent of the police, and lodged in the lock-up. To-day there were eight magistrates on the bench, Mr. Ainsworth being chairman. Mr. Segar briefly stated the facts, and expressed the pain and embarras -meat he felt in being engaged in the case. 110 called Mr. William H. Hinder, of the Consistory Court, Lancaster, who produced the will alleged to have been forged. The Rev. Thomas Clark, surrogate, said ho re, membered the 26th of September. The prisoner came to his house and said that a man named Turner was dead, and money was wanted to pay his -workmen's 'wages ; that he had been to the bank, and they declined to give him any without proper authority on his part to receive it. He said there was no will found, or words to that effect, and that there were no relations to deceased known nor likely to be heard of, and therefore letters of administration could be granted to him, as prin cipal creditor. He furt,hkr stated that he had had repeated conversations with the deceased, and knew exactly wl:at he wanted to do with his money. Tho housekeeper was to have ss. a week paid to her as long as she lived. He applied for letters of ad ministration, and witness read him the follow ing instruction which is given to surrogates : "No creditor can obtain administration without first issuing a citation, and obtaining a decree of Court." Mr. Monk then wished hint to apply at Lancaster for that purpose. - On the following Tuesday he came again, and witness told him he had an answer from Lancaster. The prisoner said no answer was required, as a will had been found. He produced a will, and witness administered the oath to the prisoner as sole surviving executor. [The will in question bequeathed 3s. a-week to the deceased's housekeeper, and the remainder of the effects t- the prisoner. It was ptinctured in the margin, contained legal phraseology, and Ives dated February, 1855. Mr. Segar said the paper on which it was written was evidently the blank outside of a draught. It purported to be signed by Edward Turner, the deceased, James Holden, and Joseph Wilkinson.] Witness stated further that he afterwards re ceived the probate from Lancaster, and gave it to the prisoner, who paid the charges. Mr. John Fisher, manager of the Lancaster Bank in Preston, proved that on the 26th of Sep , tember the prisoner applied for Turner's balance at the bank, Ht. odd. He produced a sheet of letter paper cont tilling writing, on which witness declined to pay him the money. He paid it on the 2d of October, on the production of the will. The paper in question on which payment of the balance was refused was net produced, the prisoner pleading that lie had not time. Robert Farnworth said he knew the deceased's handwriting. The signature in the will was not his. He did not know such a man as Holden. Never heard deceased say anything about a will. Worked for him five years, and knew him well. Joseph Wilkinson said the signature of his name in the will was not his handwriting. He knew nothing about it. He was acquainted. with Tur ner 14 year 3. The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday next. Bail was refused. The prisoner is the senior alderman of the borough and a deputy-lieutenaut of the county. He was Mayor a few years ago, and was spoken of for the office at the last election. cures, [ADVERTISHNIENT.J—The possibility of abandoning medicine altogether is shown by . the numerous extraordinary without medicine, of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, con stipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, co nsumption, asthma, a nd debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious Health - restoring Revalenta Arabica Food. ury, Shropshire , Dec. Th e following are not tne least remarkable : 22, 1856.—Gentlemen,—Being i Clunb one of your greatest debtors n respect to the Revalenta Arabica, I beg to offer you ray testimony in its f avour. F or many years I suffered severely from chronic rheumatism', which at length produced a complication of nervous diseases that made me perfectly miserable. The most approved reme dies in medicine and diet were had recourse to in vain, the faculty of digestion was brought to a complete stand-still, and death must apparently have soon resulted had not my attention been providentially drawn to the Revalenta Ara bica. The very satisfactory character of the testimonials induced me to make a trial of it; even within a few days after I commenced using it some of the worst symptoms were so much subdued as to enable me to take a sufficient quantity of food and drink without any injurious consequences. This I had not been able to do for four years previously, and dur ing the last two months of this time not in any measure ex cept at the imminent risk of my life, though the greatest care was used in the selection of what was taken; sleep had nearly forsaken me, this has now been restored to me, and I am now, after ha v i ng t a k en the Revalenta for some time, able to perform those functions of animal life which before had been nearly suspended in me. I have seen it produce equally good effects in other cases among some of mv friends to whom I _have recommended it, but to ex plain all the benefit which I have received from it would be to fill a pamphlet.—l am, &c., JAMES Cirarmaw. Supported by testim on i a l s f rom the celebrated Frafessore of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Cast Axed; Major-Gen. Th omas Ki ng , an d ma ny other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, a fter all :,thee means of cure hsd f a il e d. S u it a bly packed with full in structions. In canisters, 11b, 2s, 9d. ; 21b, 4s6d. 118 ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters], a tu t ! sentD Barry, & carriage fI cc, Du on receipt of Post-Office order. — Ca., 77, Regent-street, London. h . 11,0FANrTYCAunori against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations :—The Vice-Chancel ler , Sir William Page Wood, granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854 , against Alfred Hooper Nevill e for imitating " Do parry's Revalenta Arablea FoodP THE SUPPLY OF GUANO. &Ir. CAIRD asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any obstruction on the part of the British Commandant at Aden had been offered to the employment, by the guano expedition to the Kooria Mooria Islands, of Arab and other labourers net natives of India, and whether Government had taken steps to remove such obstruction. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that labourers had been obtained from various ports, but with regard to Aden, he had been informed that through some mistake the labourers of that plasm had been prevented going to the Kooria Mooria Islands, but he had taken care to call the attention of the East India Board to the circumstance. The Board had the subject under their consideration. THE BRITISH ENGINEERS AT NAPLES. Mr. M. MILNES called the attention of the noble lord (Palmerston) to the state of the British engineers at Naples, having been informed that the Government had received additional information relative to their condition. Lord PALMERSTON said that since he addressed the house on Friday night a communication had been received from Acting Consul Parkes, and from it he found that the Rev. Mr. Pugh's statement did not give a correct statement of the condition of these un fortunate men. The contradictory statement arose from the man not knowing the rev. gentleman, and he thought hon. members would fully comprehend the pri soners not being so communicative to a stranger as to the acting consul, in the presence of the father of one of the prisoners. What they complained of,he was'afraid, was no exceptional case, because it was well known that the Neapolitan prisons were really a disgrace to a civilised country—(hear)—and that the treatment prioners were there subjected to were more fitting a barbarous age than the present time. However, the inquiry showed that the prisoners had not experienced anything like torture except the unnecessary suffering of being handcuffed and strapped in the manner known to the public. The re maining part of the noble lord's statement was similar to the narrative published in The Sun of Saturday. Lord J. RUSSELL asked if the noble lord would lay , the despatch on the table of the house. Lord PALMERSTON said he thought there was no objection to that course. He reserved to himself the right of expunging anything of a confidential nature. Mr. CONYNGHAM asked whether any steps were likely to be taken to set the matter to rights l He wished to know if the lives and liberties of Englishmen were to be trifled with in this manner. (Cries of " Order.") Lord PALMERSTON said that at present these men were confined on a charge of having ♦iolated the Neapolitan law. The Neapolitan government was entitled to enquire into that charge, and all this country could do was to see that the men were brought to a speedy trial—that it was considered fairly—and that they had the best legal advice that could ba obtained in that country. (Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. PENSION TO GEN. HAVELOCK, G. 0.8. Lord PALMERSTON br3ught up a message from her Majesty recommending that a pension of 1,0001. a year should be settled on General Havelock for his dis tinguiphed services in India. (Loud cheers.) He moved that it be taken into consideration to-morrow. (Cheers.) —Agreed to. SUPPLY. Mr. WILSON moved that the house should to•mor row go into supply. Agreed to. INDEMNITY BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. GLADSTONE, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, and Mr. CAYLEY, addressed the house on the question and called attention to certain points, not with a view of opposition but fur the sake of obtaining information. LEFT SITTING. TILE ADRIATIC STEAMSHIP. The United States'mail steamship Adriatic, Capt. West, arrived off Point Lynas at 9 p.m on Thurs day, after a run of ten days four hours, from New York, having loft that port at noon on the 23d ult. Had she proceeded to Liverpool direct the passage between the two ports would have been made in 10 days eight hours, mean time, but Capt. West, pro bably in consequence of a strong gale from the westward, deemed it prudent to lay to during the night, and did not get under way till nearly high water of the next flood tide. We have not received any official particulars of the trip, but we under stand that the Adriatic's performances during the voyage were considered by all on board to be highly satisfactory. It is reported that the supply of coal fell short. We wk re told by a passenger that the highest rate of speed in 24 hours was 330 miles, and that occasionally she logged 15 knots per hour. In taking the passage at te n days eight hours some allowance must be made for this her first trip, for there is no doubt that when her machinery is in good working order she will improve in her rate of speed. It may not be out of place to state that the first passage of the Persia from New York to the Liverpool bar occupied 10 days seven hours ; but this was made in Feb., 1856, the worst season of the year, and on that occi,sion she made a con siderable detour southward to avoid the ice. Her quickest run eastward was made in eight days 23 hours, to the Bell-buoy. On Friday morning intelligence was received that Cie Adriatic was outside, and a steam-tender was despatched for the mails, which were landed at 11 o'clock. In the meantime, not withstandiag the remarkable increase of late years in the size of ocean steamers, crowds of people assembled on the piers and landing-stages to witness the arrival in the Money of the long-looked-for steamer. It was not till 2 o'clock, amid a crowd of outward-bound shipping, that the Adriatic was seen off the Rock Lighthouse, and, as the weather was fine, a good opportunity was thus afforded for vie wing the stately vessel as she steamed against a four-knot ebb tide to her moorings. She appeared to be under easy steam, going at the rate of nine knots per hour, and ye', so keen and fine are her lines, there was scarcely a ripple perciptible at the cutwater, while aft there was an entire absence of that turmoil of waters which die inguishes the "sea-bruisers," the pet models of the old school of naval architecture, in their laboursome progress at sea. On approaching the Sloyne the Adriatic displayed the English en sign and saluted the Cunard steamers Canada and Persia, a compliment which was promptly returned by these fine vessels, each of which had the United States' ensign at the fore. Viewed from the piers, the Adriatic appeared to us less graceful on the water than the Persia, and differs but little from the other steamers belonging to the Collins line, having the same upright stem and nea ly rounded stern. She has twu light masts, with topsail yards on the foremast, and two lofty funnels, placed fora and aft, slightly raked. The Adriatic was constructed in New York by the late Mr. Geo. Steers, who also built the United States' screw-frigate Niagara, and was launched on the 7th of April, 1856. Her extraordinary delay iti that poit was caused by frequent alterations in her machinery. According to the American mea surement she is of 5,900 tons capacity ; hut if mea sured in accordance with the English standard we presume this calculation would be considerably re duced. The length of the Adriatic over all is 354 2-3 feet, while that of the Persia is 390 feet. The breadth of beam of the former is 50 feet, being five feet more than that of the latter. The depth of hold of the Adriatic is 33 1-6 feet, and that of the Persia 32 feet. The tonnage of the latter is given at 3,600 tons, with side lever engines of two cylinders of 100 inchec diameter each, and 10 feet stroke of piston. The machinery of the Adriatic consists of two of the largest oscillating engines that have evsr been constructed, which were manu factured at the Now York Novelty Works. They have two cylinders, each 100 inches in diameter, with 12 feet stroke of piston, and are of the tech nical horse-power of 1,500, but they are considered in reality equal to 2,800 horse power. The dia meter of the paddlewheels of the Adriatic and the Persia is the same—namely, 40 feet. The Adriatic is c nsiderably larger than the other American steamer, being 700 tons more than the screw frigate Niagara, 800 tons more than the Vanderbil - , and 2,000 tons more than the Atlantic. She is alto s gether a splendid specimen of naval architecture, and will doubtless prone to be by far the fastest vessel ever construc'el within the United States The total cost is estimated at little short of a quar ter of a million 5-ening. - The Ace; York Times, speakin g o f th e d epar t ure of the Ad riatie, says :--` The departure o f the s team ship Adriatic on her first voyage across the At lantic, is an event in our current history entitled to a special notice. It does not, indeed, mark the commencement of a new era in navigation, as the first trip of the Clermont up the Hudson or the first passage of the Sirius across the Atlantic did, but it marks an epoch in the history of steam navi gation. The Adriatic is hot only the largest steam ship afloat, but the largest vessel of any kind that has been launched, as she is believed to be the best in all respects. She is, therefore, at the present time the champion of the seas, and is likely to con tinue so until the Leviathan shall be launched and afloat. Then we shall, of course, assign the ocean belt to Great Britain, but until then we may be allowed to claim the d stinction of having sent to sea the largest and finest vessel that ewer clove the waves of the baisterous Atlantic. The Adriatic's engines are the largest in the world. There are eight principal boilers, each with furnaces ranged side by side, se that the whole nunaleer of fur naces is 48. Besides these there are two extra boilers, to be used when desired. The vessel will carry, for the supply if her boilers during a single pas:age across the Atlantic, from 1,200 to 1,500 tons of coal. She is suppli e d w ith patent condensers, the cold water ru nn i ng t h roug h 12 , 000 c i rcu l a ting copper pipes, condensing the steam in its course , saving, as it s said, near l y 75,000 d o llars per an num in fuel and wear an d tear w h en th e s hip is i running. The pist on ro d s are 15 i nc h e s in diame ter, of solid wrought iron. The furnaces require from 50 firemen and coal-passers, and no less than six engineers will be requ i re d to a tt en d the engines. The wheels are each 40 feet in diameter and 12 feet face, and have a dip of from eight to nine feet. What the Adriatic may accomplish retrains to be proved, and, as we shall soon know the results of her first voyage, it will bo idle to boast of her speed and safety now ; but we know her beauty of model, the unequalled elegance of her interior arrange ments for passengers, the super i or i t y o f her dimen sions over any other vessel afloat, and the grace her and lovelinras of lines she sits upon the water ; we kn ow, too, w h a t her elfin in anc • s were en her t r i a l tr i p, as , and w e may confi dently anticipate, setting aside the accidents which all ships artist encounter, that she will fully justify all that her ad m i rers h ave to any other vessel ti e d ha s been in In all her cabin arrange men t s s h e is greatly sum for predicted of her. our harbour, and not only has everytbino , been done to add to the comfort and even luxurious enjoyment of the passengers at sea, but everything that will tend to secure their safety and prevent the occasion of acci arran arrangements, the calcium dents. She is abundantl y supp li e d with lifeboats, among other new gemen li g ht, which she carr i es at her fore t opinas t head, awill not only be a se cur it y aga i nst a co llision nth an other vessel, h u t, b y enabling t h e l oo k- ou t to discover objects at a distance of three or four milts in the dark, will greatly l essen t h e c h anc es of acci dents at night. She has accommodations for about 400 passengers, 300 of the m b e i n g first-clss 188 men, is divided as follows :-1 commaaider, 4 mates, 1 surgeon,. 1 8 . Her working force, nu m b er i ng purser, 1 quarterinasttrJ, 2 carpguters, 1 boatsboatswain,:3t; seanlen, 1 engi ve , r , 3 a,s,idtants, 6 superinten- THE LEVIATHAN. Saturday was the worst day with regard to the progress of the ship which has occurred since she first commenced her tedious journey towards the water. The men were all at work by eight :n the morning, and with the first pressure the Leviathan slipped some eight or ten inches, but beyond this, for sgrne unaccountable reason, it was impossible to move her. All the screw jacks and all the hydraulic machines were worked simultaneously and strained to the very utmost, and every expe dient which could induce a start resorted to, but in vain. The ship remained as immovable as a mountain throughout the entire day, and notwith standing the tremendous pressure applied along the entire surface of both her cradles, it was past 4 o'clock before another slip took place. This hitch doubtless arose from two sources—first, that the fore part of the vessel had descended many inches further than stern, and so twisted th e cra dl es i n the ways as to require double the amount of pres sure to overcome their friction, and, secondly, that the vessel itself is now at least GO feet from the strongest of the hydraulic rams, and this distance necessitates so many joints in the beams which push from them to her that the force of the ma chines is either lost in the compression of the wood, or, when that is overcome, that the beams themselves give way laterally. The latter occurred often on Saturday, and in the delay occasioned in refixing the beams the greater part of the thy was lost. This contretemps was the more to be re gretted as there was an unusual number of scienti fic and distinguished visitors in the yard on Satur day, and dining the early part of the day Mr. Brunel and Mr. Yates had the honour of receiving no lets illustrious a visitor than the Princess Royal herself. Her Royal Highness, attended by the Duchess of Atholl, Mr. Ormsby Gore, and an Equerry in Waiting, went over the entire yard, and all the pondrous apparatus for lowering the largest mass and greatest weight that has ever yet been moved were duly pointed out, and their action explained. Her Royal Highness seemed much struck by the immensity of the drums and breaks, and the hundreds of tons of massive chain cables which were wound around them. The enormous solidity and strength of the basis required to resist the backward strain of the hydraulic presses seemed also to amaze her Royal Highness, who examined and inquired into every detail, inspecting the hydraulic machines, the construction of the cradles, and the double purchases, which, working from the land to the moored barges, drag the vessel towards the river. As we have said, while the Princess remained it was unfortunately impossible to move the vessel ; but this loss was almost compensated by all the apparatus for moving her being quite at rest, and so enabling her to ap proach it nearly, which, of course, had it been in action, and with a full strain upon all its great system of beams and chains, neither Mr. Yates nor Mr. Brunel would have allowed for fear of danger. He.z Royal Highness quitted the yard shortly before 1 o'clock. As we have said, it was past 4 before any move ment was male upon the ship, when the pressure applied was so great that the "yield" c )uld be distinctly felt upon the whole series of timbers which support the rams. After this she moved with more or leas difficulty in short slips and with rather tedious intervals between, EO that at dusk the signal boards only showed a progress of 88 inches forward and 72 inches alt, her mean being 6 feet 8 incheQ. During yesterday no attempts were made, but in order that no further loss of time might be occa sioned the rams were advanced nearor to the ship. The efforts will be resumed to-day, and - with all the Advantages which the change of machines will afford great progress is likely to be made. Trot man's anchors appear to have got hold of the centre (f gravity ; for, in spite of the severe strain upon them, ,up to the present they hive not yielded an inch. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. On Saturday the first draught of the new cavalry levy, in the service of the East India Company, marched from Warley barracks to Brentwood, and thence proceeded to Ti bury and embarked oa board the screw steamship Gertrude, for Calcutta. The number of rank and file who embarked was 450, with five officers. On Saturday next the second draught of cavalry recruits will be despatched to the same destination. When this body (500 strong) has left the barracks, recruiting for the East India Com pany's cavalry, which has been suspended in conse quence of Warley barracks not affording accommo dation for a large number of men will recommence. The Bth company of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Captain W. F. Lambert, Royal Engineers, is under orders to leave head quarters, Chatham, and embark for China, the order tor its embarkation for India having been counter manded. The Bth company has been augmented to its full number, and is now 120 strong, including non comm;ssioned officers and wen. The following appointments to the Staff of the Indian depot battalions at Chatham hive been male by the Duke of Cambridg.: :—Capt. L. Side bottom, Adjutant, to the Ist Battalion; Captain T. J. Grant, late of the 58th Regiment, Inspector of Musketry, to the 3d Battalion. During the whole of yesterday and also on Satur day large gangs of shipwrights and labourers were busily engaged in efforts to rai.e her Majesty's steamer Cuckoo from the position in which she sank off Chatham dockyard. Several of the largest lighters employed in the service have been sent to Chatham to be used in floating her, but they have but partially succeeded. On Saturday the large force were employed in removing the sunken steamer from her former position and placing her stem more towards the dockyard, whereby she was considerably eased of the immense strain to which she had been formerly snbjected. Yesterday re newed attempts were made to lift her, and a num ber of additional chains were passed beneath her keel and made fast to six large lighters. As the tide rose last evening it was found that the steamer was being lifted and hopes were entertained of being able to remove her at high tide last night. A party of 120 men have left °Aches' er Camp for Great Clacton, to relieve a similar number of recruits who have been stationed at that place for rifle practice. Considerable numbers of recruits continue to arrive in the camp, the command of which has been as Alined by Major.-Gen. Shade. Recruiting is actively going on at lin:oln for the Royal Artillery, Ist Royal Dragoons, 91st Foot, and 10th Foot. We have good authoiity for stating that a forth coming Gazette will announce the apppirittnent of an Admiral of the Fleet, and that Sir Chas. Ogle, Bart., the Senior Admiral of the Red will be the recipient of this honour. Sir Charles's father, Sir ChaHoner Ogle, Bart., died Senior Admiral of the Navy in 1816, and his grandfather died Admiral of the Fleet in 1751. The screw steamer Balaklava, from Woolwich, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, with stores for the Abeona steamship, about to sail with troops for India. The Hannibal, 91, screw line-of-battle-ship, hav ing been refitted at Portsmouth, has been removed from dock, and take❑ out of harbour for the work ing of her engine'. the trial of the Diadem, 32, Captain Moorsom, C. 8., having proved so satisfactory under the in fluence of Griffith's improved screw and pitch, Admiral Sir G. Seymour, Commander in -Chief, took a cruise in her on Saturday to observe the working. The Cnrogoa, 31, Captain Mason, was undoeked at Portsmouth on Saturday, and removed into the fitting basin to be masted and rigged. The newly instituted quarterly examination of nominees for entry into the navy concluded at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, on Saturday, when the following passed and received certificates: —For Naval Cadets—H. Studdy, C. A. Blake, J. Bradford, J. A. Dashwood, C. B. Walcot-, 0. Churchill, J. T. Kilgour, E. Wickham, W. A. Hudlestone, R. W. Evans, A. W. Whisb, F. Gar nault, E. Hicks, J. B. Haye, W. B. Inman, E. A. Bolitho, H. P. Karney, T. H. Fraser, C. King, G. H. Jervis, the Hon. H. E. Ellis, G. R. Beadon (the above were between 14 and 15 years of age), J. C. Higginson, R. W. Stopford, G. H. Rainier, A. H. B. Bradshaw, H. L. Ryder, H. E. Maclean, F. Gaskell, J. H. Butt, 0. P. Tu dor, S. C. Holland, N. F. Gye, G. V. Story, G. M. Lock, S. L. Osborne, C. J. C. St. Clair, G. E. Somerset, T. W. Ilaweis (these were between 13 and 14 years of ag!). For Masters' Assistants—J. C. Boultun and B. P. Dickemon, fi oin Greenwich school. 16 of the cadets passed from the preparatory naval establishment of Mr. T. Eastman, R.N., Sett thsea The Persian, 12 guns, sloop, CommlndPr J. 11. Chads, sailed from Sheerness yesterday at 9 35 a.m. She is under orders to stop at Plymouth pre vious to her departure for the West Coast of Africa. The new screw steamship Renown, 91 gunn, Capt. A. Forbes, in the fitting basin at Sheerness, is masted and tops are over the masthead. Exer tion is being made to expedite her fitment. The following officers have taken up their commissions and appointments and joined her :—Commander T. B. Lethbridge, Lieuts. S. F. Douglas, R. Sterne, and the Hoe. F. W. Charteris; Mr. J. R. Andrews, paymaster ; Mr. W. W. Thompson, assist Int-sur geon ; Mr. C. Osborne, naval instructor; Mr. C. M'Kern, clerk; Mr. P. W. Govett, assistant-sur geon ; and Mr. F. B. Williams, assistant-clerk. A commission dated Dec. 3, 1857, will be laid be fore the Queen, appointing the following named gentleman cadet to be second lieutenant in the corps of Royal Marines—viz., Gentleman Cadet H. Country Markets. DALKEITH GRAIN DIARKET—Dao. S. Qrs. Best. Current. 263 Wheat 1302 Oats 2ss 6d 2os 3d 1069 Barley 34s 6d 26s 24d 35 Peas & beans 42s Od _ al 3d Infer for E3s Oa 17s Od 19s Od 35a Id HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—DEC. 3. WIIEAT. BARLEY OATS. First sos Od 37s Od 27s Od 48s Od . _ Second . 39s ld I 293 3d i 23s 5d i 403 3d Third 29s Od I 203 01 120 s Od 135 Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 612 qrs., 574 sold .. barley „ 989 qrs., 946 sold oats ,; 448 qrs., 407 sold OD /1 beans ~ 42 qrs., 31 sold AVERAGES FEB IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 1/. 1,) 1 5-12ths I Barley, —ll. 9 3 6-12th' Oats, ... 11. 3 5 4.l2tha 1 Beans, 21. 0 3 s.l2tha #ll , ABERDEEN—DEcI. 4. Potato oats Common oats 1 1 7 9 5 s Od d t t o o 20 18 s O s Od l Bore 21s Od to 21s Od 1 5 . 1thi 401bs per bushel Barley 21s Od to 24 s Od 1 " Wheat, red (spring)3os Od to 35s Od } 621bs ~ - , white .. 3os Od to 45s Od Oatmeal 15s Od to 1. , s Od per boll. Flour 30s Od to 40s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb Gd to 9d Butter, p lb. Os Od to is 0 1 I Mutton, per lb. 6d to 9d Eggs, p doz. is Od to is 61 Lamb, do., Os 6d to Os 9d 1 Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3s 61 Veal, per lb ... 6d to Os 91 I Chickens,do. 2s Od to 2s 61 Pork, perlb...os Od to Os Od Ducks, do., is 6d to 2s 01 Salmon, per lb ... ...... Os Od 1 Ducklings,do is Gd to 2s 0 I Grouse, per brace.., 0s to Os Turkeys, each 3s Od to 3s 61 Tallow, p stone, Os to —s 01 Potatoes, pr pock, —d to 12 I Rabbits, each 8,1 to —d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt....84s to 864 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 2d Barley flour,l4lb.Os to is 81 I Oatmeal Os Od to 1s 7d , i dust, ..... Os to Os 10 d '„ Beremeal ....Os Od to ls Cd per lb 2d to 2d Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 4d Sids, d I Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 4-lb. 10af...6d, I 2-lb. 10af...3d. DUBLIN, DEC. 4. There was a small supply of all descriptions of grain at market to-day, and Tuesday's prices were about supported for wheat, barley, and the best qualities of oats. In Indian corn very little doing. - White wheat, 28s Od to 30s Od ; red ditto, 25s Od to 281 Oil; ditto new, —s Od; barley, malting, 15s to 18s 6d; grind. ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 12s 6d to 15s; ditto, new, —ll Od to —s 01 ; oatmeal, 14s 6(1 to 16s; bore, new, 14s to Hs Od ; rapese , d, 23s Od to 25s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 161 Od to 22s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 31s 01 to 34a Od per 4SO lbs. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Ret.eipts. opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. -------- 1857. 1857. 1 858 * ------. BSITIBIIO A A - Aberdeen ................ •• .. ....• - - 65 Belfast and Ballymena ••.• 1,079 1,030 17 Belfast and County Down ••.•••• • •• •• - 32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,714 2,084 26% Bolton, Blackburn and West York .. • • 1,00 I 964 18 ,, Bristol and Exeter ' •• . ••• •••• • • • ' 5,273 5,438 198 ' , 4 Caledonian.... •• • . ••••• •••• •• • : 1.2,719 12,475 9 '1.'1 Chester and 110 - ly ' he - ad . ... :. ••.••• • • •• 5,08 6 5,396 " Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • 20 194 178 250 • 223 , Cork and Bandon .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 ; Dublin and Belfast.' unctio . n .. - . •••• .... •••• 63 Dublin and Dro h •d 1,446 lAI4 401,4 gca•• • • • 1,227 ' 1,157 , , Dublin and Kingstown.• •••••• • • • " " 699 617 . i,tl2 1,(M8 , 17 . A Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • •• • • • • 823 1 076 n Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junctim. 454 ' 413 4,7 9 6 2 5 9 6, 9 1 9 75 2 '; , Dundalk and Enniskillen• •••••• • • • • • 67, 2 East Anglian.... •••••••••• " • • • • •• • • • .21,207 22,405 4 9 8 , ~ 3 E E E a s a . East ee L rr nn a n t ic c on a i l on h nt i r i. e e , s. . a. . • ;yd. . i.i.0 .. r .. f .0 . 1. . 1 . ... ... .. .: ... ... 3 . . 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... ........ 5,108 5,19 6 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 3,070 3,020 6 Exeter and Crediton.. - .... • • •• • • • • - - 22 Furness Railway ••••••••• • • • • • • • • - 1 -- 4 1 2 8 655 3: G G lrr l i a es s ha g t ow, and South-Western........ 666 6.64 6 2 83 Great Northern 22 495 24 756 203% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6,164 6,603 s W ou es th te E r a n ste - rn - ........ .• : .......• •••• ...• ...• - 90 Lancaster and Carlisle .. ••- - .. 5,651 5.442 25,_471 24 974 2864 Lancashire and Yorkshire ••••• • • • • • - Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • •• • • • • • • • • •• -- 16 1 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport... , - 8 637 London and North Western ..... •• •• 53,224 58,21 5 % London and Blackwall.• •••• • • .• .... 1. 1 ' 49 1,2 _ 3 ! 17,_924 21,52 4 183% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 11,8 .9 11,6:4 289 % London and South Western. • • ...... 11, 649 12' 68 8 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen •••• • • • • 659 688 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - 1731 4 Manchester, Shenleld,and Lincolnshire 9, 7 5 8 9 2 3 1% 716130 9 Manchester and South•Tunction- .• .. 28 Maryport and Carlisle •• • • ••........ 971 1,034 567 Midland .. ••.,••• • • • • • ............. 32,216 29 , 00 • 177 Midland Great Western (Iris h ) ...... 3,242 3 • 734 - ~, - 52 . 7 8 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •••• •• -•- - ____ bu • • - 4,859 4 , 9 1 49 North British ••..••• • • • • • 6,589 6,580 233 North Staffordshire •••••••• •• • • • • • 885 - 865 47 North-Western ••••••••••• • •• •• '' •• 50 Scottish Central •••••••••••• •• • • •• • • - 2,802 2,701 - 32% Scottish Midland •••••••••• •• •• •• • • 29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham • ...... 2 1,51 1 7. 1,84 . 0 s il li b i 1. 11 e r yuanni Union .. Chester .... .. 45378°54 Shrewsbury bpDevon ~...................... 2,051 5,117 301% S o uth Eastern ••••••• • • • • • ........... 14,680 15,661 .. .• ••••• • • • • • .......... 6,912 6,467 171 South Wales los 3 1 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 2,851 2,642 53 Taff Vale •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • . 3,09 i 4,125 36 Ulster. •• .. • • .... • • 77 Waterford smd Limerick •........... 949 956 27 West Cornwall .... - • .... ....... 611 655 12% Whitehaven Junction ............... 436 369 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - - 701510N4 109 LyonsDllte Dutch andßhenish .Mediterranean . •••• . . ......... .. .. . . . . . : 2,637 1,691 344 - - 63 Montereau and Troyes •• - .. .. ~ •• .• - - - Namur and Liege .. • • .......... • • .. - - 445 Northern of France •••••••••• • • •• • • 41,738 37,963 - Orleans and Central - - 387 I'aris and Lyons .... ..... ••• • • •••• - - - Paris and Rouen. .................. - -• . 631 Paris and Strasburgh .... -••.. .. - - .... - itouen and Havre .. .......... ... ... - _ •-: West and North-West of France .. •• - - 842 5,117 15,661 • 6,467 2,642 4,125 1,280 956 655 369 - 1,891 p 7,963 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —HoIIoway's Ontmient and Pills. —lncredible cure of bad legs of seventeen years' stand ing. —James Nash, Thursted Farm, three miles from Chatham was afflicted for seventeen years with invete rate sore legs. There were thirteen wounds in thew. He was in St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals nearly seven months, all the surgeons concurring that amputa tion was the only thing likely to save him. This was too great a sacrifice, therefore he commenced using Hui- : loway's Ointment and Pills , which healed al l th e w ounds in a short time, and restored him to perfect health.— Sild by all Medicine vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244 Strand, Lou. don ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. ADVE WISEMENT.I SIGHT AND HEARING -- SPECTACLES—. POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPRCTIYE GLASSES. —S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and es traordina 7 improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist- ' coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition. 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a parson can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every par. pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-hsuses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The groat advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation —can sea with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of furtber powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the moat remote part of the world by send• ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the dist ,nce from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Oltenia' Vibrator, an extraordisarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deatness, entirely different from all of hers, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prob ably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the sk in, Is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct !yak churchand at public assemblies ; the Unpleasant sensatic n of singing noises in the ears is entirety removed, and it aa ()ids all the assistance that Totibly could bo desired.-31. Ale. marls-street, Piccadilly... Opposite the York Hotel, W HIRT II S. CAVENDISH—At 3, Tyluey-street, Mrs. William Cavendish, of a daughter. Cox—On the 3d inst., at Athol Villa, Maida-hill, the wife of Alfred C - (x ' Esq., of a son. DAviss -On the 4th inst., at Crickhowoll, South Wales, the wife of G. Sydney D av i es, E sq., solicitor, of a daughter. NEVILLE-0u the 4th inst., at Magdalene Lodge, ' Cambridge, the wife of the H on . and Rev. Latimer Neville, of a son. W( onhsv—On tho 2d inst., at Feltham, the wife of DI. F. ,* Woodley, Esq., of a son. VAtrrL-On the 4th inst., at 30, Groat Coram-stroot, the w i f e of G. C. Blaudy Valpy, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. SITWED—Fitz 130 y—On the 3d inst., at St. James's, Pic cadill y , by the Lord Bish o p o f L on d on , assisted by the Rev. Henry Guithing, i gector of Wigan, George Frederick :'.'itwed, Cap tain in the 3d Light Dragoons, to Cecilia Fanny, eldest (laughter of Henry Fitz Roy, E q. WAT: v 0 . 0 N —. HA.v Collier,EY O M. 4th assisteds t at by ca the rlz e r v o . uth r ,. by White side, R vicar of Scarborough, Thomas C lements Watso n , Esq., of Craven-hill-gardens, Ifyde-Park, to Mary, the seco n d daughter of A,bert Davey, Esq., Co n s ul o f tho United S States at Leeds. DEATHS C :WARD —On the 2d inst , at Skellow, near Doncaster, James Coward, Esq., aged 78. HITNIPIIRY—On the 4th inst., at Tunbridge, John Thomas Hurephry, son of Geo. Humphry, Esq., of 21, College-bill, London, and Balham-hill, Surrey. HUMPREV —On the 2d inst., at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester shire, Mrs. Huinfrey, SCII., aged 94. PARSEY—On the 3d inst„ at 3, Crescent-place, Burton-creS cent, Arthur Fancy', aged 67. W:.r.,4ox—On the 3(1 inst., Thomas James Watson, Esq., Prin cipal of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Oil Kent road, aged 59. VENN- On the 4th inst, at Highbnry-park, John S. Venn, Esq., aged 48. • LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNC, of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at 7714 Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the eoWitY of MidAlesex, Monday, December 7,