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

Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NIAGARA. The Niagart:, United States screw frigate, Capt. Hudson, arrived at Spithead on Sat urday morning, soon after daylight, and anchored. Her appear ancefrom the shore was anything but prepossessing. On; looking aloft, however, the seaman's eye in stantly detects the beautifully-stayed masts and well; squared yards. Her size, and we believe her ton Gage, has been considerably over-rated. Her length has been stated to be nearly 390 feet, which would make her longer than the Himalaya ; whereas th e Niagara is 45 feet shorter than the imalaya, 1 but has more beam. From fore-part of figurehead t o'_after-Part of taffrail she is 339 feet 6 inches ; breadth of beam, 56 feet. In outward appearance she.looks like a foreign troop-ship. It is only when on board that her *advantages are perceptible. The bulwarks on the upper deck are full 7 feet in height, offering great protection from an enemy's fire. On this deck 12 monster guns of 11-inch bore are to be worked, and shutters can be lowered in all direc tions so as to get an acute angle. .There can be no doubt, provided accuracy of range could be obtained, that she would be a most formidable antagonist ; but we should infinitely prefer in time of action such frigates as the Live rieuse, Shannon, or Emerald, with their present armament. Descdnding to the main deck of the Niagara, the great space afforded is immediately perceptible, there being nearly eight feet under the beams, which are of great strength. We feel satisfied at the present moment she is a disguised ship of war, for her fighting quarters on the main deck, with 68 and long 32 pounders, would be perfection. Her engine-room is very beautifully arranged, but the temperature much above what we bad expected. Lieut. Wells is now doing duty on board the Niagara, and visitors will have the advantage of being courteously received and introduced to the rest of the officers. The con sul, Mr. Vincent Pappalardo, introduced Cap tain Hudson to the commander-in chief, Ad miral Sir George Seymour, and other authorities, naval and military. . The ward-room far sur passes in size and arranaement that of any ship in the British service. There are about 30 officers in al 1 , and a present crew of 450 ; her full complement would be 700. The mess-tables and berthing-places of the men are of a first-rate character for comfort. The Niagara came into harbour before one o'clock and moored alongside the Rodney, 90, two-decker. She will be taken into the fitting or steam-basin to-day, and her alterations immediately commenced to enable her to receive her portion of the sub marine cable. The commander-in-chief paid a visit to the Niagara after Divine service yesterday. The Colossus, 80, screw, Capt. Thompson, is still lying at the basin moorings at Sheerness, landing all her stores, and stripping with all possible des patch. The order is now that she is to be paid off, and placed in the second-class steam reserve on the 16th of this month. The Ganges, 84, is fitting for commission at Sheerness. Report says she is intended to carry the flag of Rear Admiral R. L. Baynes, and to re lieve the Monarch in the Pacific. The Renown, 91, is still in the basin at Sheer nes-, fitting her machinery. She will soon take her trial tiip, when she will be placed in the second class steam reserve, in charge of Mr. Robert Nicoll, chief engineer. The Terror, 14, floating battery, Capt. Frederick Hutton, is in No. 3, dry dock, Sheerness, fitting as a battery for Bermuda. . _ The Elst India Company's troopships Owen Glendower and Vernon have arrived at Gravesend, having on board nearly 500 invalid troops from re giments serving in India. The Owen Glendower, Commander Watson, sailed from Kurrachee on the 11th February last, having on board 235 non commissioned officers and men belonging to the Bth (the King's), 24th, 27th (Enniskillens), 81st, 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers), and the Royal Artillery, with 33 women and children. During the voyage six men died, and one insane soldier, named Mahon, belonging to the 24th Regiment, jumped overboard when the vessel was near St. Helena, and was lost, although every effort was made to save him. The Vernon reached St. Helena on the 21st of April, and arrived in the Thames on Friday, after a fine passage of three months and twelve days. A banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards at the London Tavern on Saturday evening. Covers were laid for 60. The chair was taken by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Among the company were his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer ; Colonels Wood, Ellison. Wynyard, Lindsay, Stanhope, Cadogan, kc. The officers of the 17th Lancers gave their annual dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Friday, when they were honoured with the company of the Duke of Cambridge. The Sydney screw steam transport, Captain Thornhill, arrived at Spithead on Friday night, from Gibraltar, which she left on the 31st of May, bringing 12 officers, three ladies, 29 soldiers' wives, 40 children, and 384 men of the 15th Foot, and four horses. She went into harbour yesterday to land them. _ The Mauritius and Cleopatra steam transports are hourly expected at Portsmouth to embark troops fur China. MThe ..A.astralian steam transport, Captain Castle, from Gibraltar, arrived at Spithead yesterday, with 12 officers, 17 sergeants, 14 drummers, 308 ran k and file, 35 women, and 41 children of the 15th Foot On Friday two Russian steam'yachts—the Vella and the Bakan—built by Messrs. Samuda, with machinery by Ravenh'll and Miller, passed down the river under steam and canvas, to test their capabilities before leaving for Cronstadt on Tuesday. Count Lacenclorf, Lieutenant Peschowroff, Lieu tenant'Skariateen, of the - Russian navy, and a large party of gentlemen accompanied the yachts in their trial trip. These vessels are intended for the same purposes as our Trinity yachts, attending the lighthouses, and beacons of the coast, for which use they are specially designed. The results were most satisfactory, and when under steam the boats of each steamer (light cotters), fitted on Clifford's plan'for lowering, were several times manned and let down quite free of the ships in a few seconds, without at all slackening the speed, the Count La cendorf and Lieutenant Skariateen being in one boat and Mr. Sarnuda in the other. The party of riggers and smiths, upwards of 50, employed since the arrival of the Agamemnon at Greenwich on Friday, in riveting the mooring, chains and making her snug, were engaged inces santly throughout Friday night up to midday on Saturday, when they returned to Woolwich. The shipment of the submarine wire is to commence to morrow or Wednesday. The steam troopship Dutchman, Jas. Kavanagh master, having landed her cargo of shot and shell from Gibraltar at Woolwich, is di-icharged the Go vernment service. She is compactly fitted with con veniences as a troopship, and is provided with a couple of steam cranes fitted to the quarter deck, by means of which 1,200 tons of cargo are removed in the course of 24 hours. The military store screw eeamship Balaklava, Capt. Win. Pe datt, aud Ihe sailing transport Somer set, laden with returned stores ti-Jm Portsmouth, were yesterday morning moored off Woolwich Arsenal to discharge their cargoes. In consequence of the recommendation of the authorities of the storekeeper's department, Royal Arsenal, Lord Panmure has issued an order for several of the chief -foremen. of the department named to be discharged, with liberal pensions for long and faithful services. PARIC-CRESCOTT GARDENEL—In these beautiful gar dens a fancy fair, for the sale of useful and ornamental -.work, will be hell to-morrow and on Wednesday. From the list of patronesses, and the laudable object of their zeal, there is no doubt the fair will be very fully and fashionably attended. keesarississirr.l—SlGllT AND HEARING —SPECTACLES. POWERFUL TELESCOPES.— OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSEII.--MOSSTS. 8. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, AN - marle-,treet, Piceaditiy. Obee:vc—oppositethe York Hotel, extraord W ' --13 Y h in err Majesty's Royal Letters P a tent f or va l ua bl e an d ary improvements in the most powerful and bril liant T iescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, ant Perspective Gl-.l3ses, to know the distances. These telescopes 1 osso• s such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half mato, with an extr. eye -p ece will show clistinctl. Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double ktars ; with the same Weseo t e can be seen a pe t kr.n's countenance three-and-a-half mile, dis tant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the wai-tcoat pocket, an are of larger. and ell sizes, with inc easing po won s accordingly. The %al Exhibition, 1851.—A "sal Q able Lewly-invente 1 very small, Glass, Pe,uwielrf: person can be seed Waistcoat Pocket tine size of a walnut, by w and known one aud a half mile distant. answer every p „ r p o , o on the rac . selousresree, cle ar l y at th e Opera Houses, Country sconerY, d invaluable for shooting, deer -sta l king, yachting, "en at 12 to 14 miles, Thoy are t i emou , gimekeepers, Endt to si orL'wo", go , Rt jecours"imsm "l t e t i stei derived ri C e ri vt de l Camp, Perspe ;tve, A preserving Spectacle pow, re. aplanro.bilit power. rh .e great. .advantagere greatest . from this inventior. is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengtkened, and very aged re enabled power to t o h n e s to employ their sight at the most minute ocenpatioix.... can see with these lenses of a much less s nl iseta ar nacn ifi .e ing s —and they do not require the frequent dangerous effects of further powerful as can be suited at the •mo it remote part of the world by send in.! one of the glasses out of their spect cles la a letter and stating the distance from the eye they can read , mall print with•it, and thos e w h o h ave not ma d e u se of spei...acles _by staling their a ge. D eafness.—New Di scove ry.—The Or ganic Vibrator, 'an extraordinarily powerful, small • newl; - invented instrument for deafness, entirely diff e rent from a 1 others, surpasses anythi• g o f the kind that kas 1 eon, or pre• bab'y ever can be • prod,ced. Being of the same colour trio skin, is not pore ptible. It enables deaf persons to hear dis - inctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasaLt sensation of Eing in g noises in the ears is entirely and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desire . ANemarle.street, Pic cadilly , —Observz—opposite 1.1 0 York Hotel. W. ~~ GOLD WORKS IN ENGLAND. (Prom. the Times.) People who know only of gold in nuggets, and who are accustomed weekly to read of the arrival of half-a-million in ounces from Australia, may be surprised to hear of works for the crushing of gold quartz being established in England. Neverthe less, such is the fact, and in a remote corner of Che shire—pregnable only to firm railway tourists—an establishment exists, not only for the convers'on of American quartz into ounces and ingots of the pre cious metal, but which purposes to extend its auri ferous researches among the mountains and quar ries of England. The Chancellorsville Company, as it is called, has been at work now only for a short period, though long enough to found a tolerably intensive factory, if we may so term it, where all the various processes necessary to the production of the circulating medium from exceedingly dirty looking stones goes on daily. The material upon which up to the present they have tested their powers has been Virginian quartz from a gold-bear ing district in the United States ; but they intend to venture upon experiments with the English rocks, which, if successful, may lead to important results. To prove the facility and cheapness with which gold might be extracted from the American quartz a number of scientific gentlemen and others interested in the result of the scheme were invited down to the works on Saturday, with a view to a public exhibition of the whole modes operandi, and of course a display of its anticipated profits. Frodsham, as some of our readers may know, is rather an out-of-the-way place, a long, lazy looking town, with no particular interest in itself, or apparently in anything else either. A third crew would be a source of excitement, and, of course, under such circumstances the new gold works are by no means over-looked, but form the staple of comment and conversation throughout the little town. The visit of a large party of gentle men especially to inspect them and their results on Saturday will by no means tend to allay this grow ing interest, which seems fast leading to the belief that Frodsham is to be at once the Bendigo and California of the Old World. In order that our readers may not be led into so grievous an error, we shall at once inform them of the processes now going forward at Frodsham, their present results, and (on the part of the company) future intentions and anticipations. The works are now solely en gaged in crushing American quartz, or perhaps, we may say ore, in which the gold is found. To those troubled with vague ideas as to gold being always picked up, and realised with little labour and no capit this account of its " manufacture" from quartz will at least le new, if not interesting. The ore on which the Chancellorsville Company work is quarried from an extensive mine belonging to the company in Orange County, Virginia, a short distance from Fredericksburgh, and which is brought over to this country as ballast. When de livered on the wharf of the works at Frodsham its cost is nearly 30s. per ton. It is a coarse amor phous quartz, not unlike rock salt in appearance, but largely intermixed with auriferous and argen tiferous pyrites. This is first calcined in an ordi nary kiln to partially free it from sulphur, and as sist the process of crushing, which it subsequently undergoes from the stompers, after being broken into smaller pieces. The stampers used at Frodsham are ordinary Cornish ones, of the most primitive form, and such as have been in use throughout. Corn wall and Devon for many years. It is said that these do the work better than either Jones's, Ber dan's, or Britten's quartz-crushing machines, which certainly seemi singular; but what, perhaps, is more remarkable is that ordinary mill-stones,—in fact, a common flour-mill will, it is alleged, crush it baiter than any. Close to the Frodsham works stands an extensive flour-mill, which 12 tons of the quartz have been gr iund finer than anything done by the stampers and crushing machines in the same period of time.. The s ones Issed were the ordinary chert or millstone grit, as it is called, and the millers aver that this work wore them less than even grind ing Indian c'_rn. It must be remembered, however, that the quartz is ca'c!ned before it reaches the mill, though, even making this allowance, it seems rather a snub to our mechanical progress to have in the 19th century to revert to a 'intake as old as mankind itself. The machine used at Frodsham has twelve 7 cwt. stampeis, which crush the quartz to the conslstency of a coarse sand at the rate of rather more than a ton per hour, or about 20 tons per day. There is, however, already sufficient steam power on the premises to crush 50 tons-daily if the supply is forthcoming. From the stampers the crushed quartz flows with a stream of water into a series of " slime pits," labyrinths of narrow pipes at the entrance of which the particles of gold sink according to their specific gravity. From these it is shovelled up with the other matter with which it is mixed and placed on the "shaking table , " a long platform of wood fixed tinder a small ream of water, and which by an alternate rise and fall allows the greater part of the extraneous substances to be washed away. Only a dark coloured sand, contain ing particles of quartz, gold, silver, copper, and iron, remains on the table, whence it is removed to undergo the process of fine grinding, which reduces it to an impalpable powder as soft as flour, and not unlike it, save that it glitters with minute specks of metal. It is again calcinced in a reverberatory furnace (to drive off the remains of sulphur), which is so constructed as to prevent the metallic particles of gold and silver passing up with the draught. Shafts are attached to the furnaces in which the sulphur and any metals that may have volatilised are deposited, and the yield from the former appears to be large. As the ore thus roasted a second time is found to contain a proportion of other metals it is thrown when heated into a bath of mineral acids, by which the copper, &c., is dissolved, and afterwards precipitated in the usual manner. For rt asons of economy muriatic acid is used, though the saving is rather in appearance than in fact, as the chlorine in the acid must nat ura lly di sso l ve a portion of the gold also, and to that extent diminish the yield per ton. The auriferous powder which remains is finally passed through a stream of water under a wheel containing 550 magnets, which re volves at the rate of 15 times a-minute. This frees it from much iron, yet, as it is done to prevent the iron entering with the gold and interfering with amalgamation, it is simply ridiculous, as the merest tyro in chemistry ought to know that between iron and mercury there can be no combination. The magnets are, however, useful for a duty which they were never intended to perform—namely, pressing out the arsenuret of iron. What remains flows into . an amalgator, in which the mercury and ore are agitated together, the a,clivity of the former be ina quickened occasionally by jets of steam passed through * it. After a given time the mercury is re moved and placed in a retort, where it is distilled into water, leaving only a geld button containing a little silver behind. On Saturday nearly the whole of this process was gone through on a small scale at Frodsham. A ton of the quartz was crushed, cal cined fine, ground, magnetised, and amalgamated, and the yield was 1 ounce 7 pennyweights 7 grains of puregodl, or very nearly an ounce and a half per ton. It is but fair . to state that the experiment was tried upon one ton of quartz which had been shovelled up hap-hazard from a mass upon the premises. The average yield of the Virginian ore is stated to be 14 ounces per ton. It is very rarely leis than this, and sometimes more. Half an ounce per ton, if worked upon the spot where the quartz is found, would pay all expenses, and even with the works at Cheshire and the mine in America Loz., if the supply is continuous and the works well managed, should give a fair remuneration. Twenty tons per diem are now reduced at the Frodsham works, at a cost in coals for amalgamation, loss of mercury, labour, sundries, and wear and tear of machinery, of 17s. per ton, which, with the origi nal price of the ore, raises it to 2/. 7s. The local facilities afforded at ,Frodsham are very great ; la bow is cheap, there is water, carriage by the river Weaver to the very door of the works, and coals can be had at 6s. per ton delivered. Under these circumstances there can be no doubt that crushing auriferous quartz which yields lioz. per ton ought to give a profit. It must, however, be shown posi tively that the supply of ore from. Virginia can be reckoned upon as regular and large in quantity. But this remains to be proved. The company, however, have two strings to their bow, and do not intend to confine their quartz-crushing to Virginian ores solely, but will also try the auriferous quartz which is foundlabout Dolgelly, and generallyround the base of Snowdon. A few small specimens of these quartz were shown at Frodsham, which are as rich as they are rare, and which if found in large quantities would yield, it is calculated, 1,500 ozs. per ton. But, of course, these pieces are only curl ositiesfer the cabinet of the mineralogist. Never theless it is thought that auriferous quartz may be found in North Wales at least as rich, if not richer than the ore from Virginia, which, of course, could be brought to the works at Frodsham at less than the price now paid for that from America. This is by no means the first time that attempts have been made to extract gold from the Welsh quartz,. though whethe r f rom m i smanagemen t or tt,e intri ns i c poverty o f the matrix, not one of ` he schemes has No d o as yet proved remunerative. doubts whatever exists as t o th e aur if er ous nature of the soil and rocks of Wi c kl ow , a nd f or some ti me the Government mining energ into that channel. The result was gold certainl y , but gold at the rate of per oz 5/. and 61. i im lt must, however, be recol lected that at that bee time machinery was un known, and that a t ever celebrated for the skill' or w ec a o s n oxy with Governmentwhich they could compete against privatc speculation. to produce About two years ago a company batted THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1857. gold from Welsh quartz by the smelting process, but this soon met the fate which attends all schemes that go out of the way to be excessively expensive. It was soon wound up, but its brief period of working seemed to prove that about three-quarters of an ounce of gold per ton could be got from Welsh rock, though, as far as we are aware, it did not prove that the supply of quartz of even this mode rate richness was large or would be constant. That fair and, perhaps, even rich specimens of auriferous quartz may now and then be found in Wales we are well aware, though it has yet to be shown that it is rich enough to pay the working, or that enough of any kind exists to keep up a regular supply. Gold is almost as universally diffused as iron ; it may even be obtained from the ashes of plants, therefore Welsh quartz is not likely to be without it, but the quanity of its yield is open to as grave doubts as the extent of any auriferous rocks in Wales at all. This is the problem which the Frodsham Company propose to solve. Without being at all sanguine upon the matter, we at least wish them to do so satisfactorily Their plans are not badly laid, and will at least have one result— that of setting at rest for ever the long disputed question as to the valuelof the gold-bearing quartz, if we may so call it, in the United Kingdom. The expense of the experiment is not very great, but the chance of a large return is not great either. The same company are also about to enter into arrangements for a supply of Australian quartz. If this is well done the plan may result in a ♦ery fair profit. The enormous expense of coal and labour at the Australian diggings makes it unremunerative to crush gold quartz bearing less than six ounces to the ton, just as the rule is there not to smelt copper ore of less than 24 per cent., though here the cop per ore of 5 and 6 per cent. commands a good price. If a regular supply of Australian gold quartz at six ounces the ton can be procured the Cheshire " dig gings" may indeed exult, but the proof of the feasi bility of such an arrangement must be well authen ticated and beyond dispute. longer to exert them ? A Bishop or a rector does not, as a rule, favour an active, learned, and enthu siastic subordinate. "There is a daily beauty in his life which make theirs ugly." Tney do not like to be poked up from behind, or that Jack should be reckoned better than his master. " A saint in silk is twice a saint in laws." It won't do that the stuff-gown should carry off the cause from the coif. We have scarcely ever known a curate retained who drew better congregations than the rector. We heve known many dismissed for the simple offence of being popular. A blockhead has an instinctive antipathy to a genius. The drone in the rectory does not want a honey-bee in the curate's lodge. A fool in power always thinks talent dangerous. Feed a greyhound too high, and where will be his wind ! Give cats as much liver as they can eat, and what will they care for catching mice ? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," was the providential sentence that set mankind to useful industry. Aye, but what if men can eat bread without any brow-sweat ? will they work if they can come by provender without it ? John Bull stands amazed that he should not get a thing when he honestly pays for it. " What I" he ex claims, "do I give some eight millions in meal or in malt to - the Established Church to make the people religious and the clergy attractive, and still are the Dissenters, to whom I give nothing, pros perous, while the Church decays! Are the Non conformists to have the ears and hearts of the nation, while State clergy are only to retain the loaves and the fishes ? Why have we no Spurgeons with twenty thousand disciples! Where are the Wesleys and Whitfields, the Halls, the Channings, the Deweys, the Guthries of the Establishment ?" Why, the answer is not far to seek. The ecclesi astical economy of the State Church is ingeniously contrived to withhdraw every motive frommen either to faithfulness, zeal, or the exercise of genius. The very bishops are taxed in the Senate itself when ever they betray the least earnestness in their sa cred calling. They actually have to apologise for doing their duty. They have to stand upon the defensive whenever they presume to follow the ex ample of that Divine Master who was meek and lowly of heart, whose sermon was on a mount, who prayed in the wilderness, and who taught his im mortal prayer to a mob at the corner of a street. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the very father of the faithful, has actually to throw the regis of his authority around ecclesiastics who offend in the di rection of condescending to imitate the devotedness of the Apostles, the self-forgetfulness of Paul, and the pure-mended lowliness of the fathers. Nay, if the truth were known, it would turn out that Lord Dungannon was put up to reproaching the Low Church Bishops for being of any me by their own brethren of the episcopal bench, and that nobody ;is more alarmed and disgusted at the prospect of lany revival of an apostolical spirit of devotedness land evangelism in the Church than the Church itself. The very Act of Parliament which alone saved the offence of preaching to the poor where the poor would listen from being illegal was smuggled through the Legislature. Ministers •of religion were only permitted to follow the express injunc tions of their Master by stealing a march upon their own Church. Another ineffable stupidity of our ecclesiastical system is the nature of the conditions and qualifi cations without which the great Author of Christia nity himself could not have entered what is face tiously termed his own Church. Let genius be ever so great, and the call to the work of the ministry be ever so clear, the most gifted can rarely enter the Church, if by the accidents of society they have never happenedto be sent to two particular Universities out of nine that flourish in the United Kingdom. If we have any faith whatever in thereligion we profess, we cannot doubt that its founders were ignorant in every particular save in those intuitions of evan gelism which in the work of the redemption of the world from wickedness are of more efficacy than all the learning of this world ; and we cannot but know that mera gentility and classical proficiency, " Shakspeare and the musical glasses," are not qualifications which form the foundation of a call for the work of the ministry. In fact, if we read the Gospels and the Acts, and compare them with the wretched worldliness and the lifeless rigidity of Church of Englandism, it is impossible to es cape the conclusion that the whole economy of the Establishment is a huge trap to catch money and power—a hypocritical pretext for pocketing wages without earning them, a prostitution of religion to mere creature comfort and social respectability, and the snug ease of fashionable miserable sinners, who keep clergymen to comfort them, and never to " mention Hell to eats polite."—Examiner. "MAMMA. AND PAPA." MRS. THATCHER v. COL. D'AGUILAR. This case came before the public again at the Brighton County Court, before Mr. W. Furner and a jury, when Colonel D'Aguilar was sued by his forsaken inamorata for the sum of 501., parcel of 601. (plaintiff abandoning the excess), for money payable by the defendant for the support by her of his illegitimate child from the month of April, 1855, to April, 1857, and for money agreed to be paid by the said defendant to the plaintiff towards the maintenance of the said child, and for money paid by the plaintiff for the use of the defendant, and for money found to be due upon an account stated between them at Brighton. As on the previous occasion, Mrs. Thatcher de nied that she had ever been charged with impro priety of conduct, that she had ever been rolled on the bed by any gentleman, or that she had ever said she was not sure who was the father of the child, but that the colonel was rich enough to pay for it. Mr. Sergeant Parry (for the defendant) submit ted that there was no case to go to the jury, and that there was no contract which could be sustained in point of law. Henry D'Aguilar was then sworn and examined by Mr. Roupell—l am defendant in this action. It was in 1853, about the middle of February, that I first met Mrs. Thatcher. I met her on the parade, nearly opposite the Bedford, towards dark, I think, about five o'clock. That was the first time I met her. She overtook me on the parade, passed me, and looked back, as a woman does who wishes to attract your attention. I passed on and looked at her, and I then spoke to her. She almost directly asked me to go home with her, to a narrow street behind the Bedford Hotel, where she lived. I saw her the following day, and I saw her from time to time and visited her up till the month of May in that year. I had some conversation with her about a person named Granville. The first night I asked her who and what she was, and she told me that she was the wife of an officer. She mentioned Granville's name ; but she said that she was living with a man whose name she would not tell me. She also told me this on the second day. She told me that he kept her, in fact. She said also that she disliked him, and had taken a fancy to me in the street. She said that she should get rid of him as soon as she could. I afterwards saw Mr. Turner, the sur geon, on the subject of an allowance. I said I was not sure that this child was mine, as she said, be cause I knew she had told me that she was visited by other people. She told me she had met this Granville in an omnibus, that he had taken her to an hotel in Charing-cross. and there had connexion with her. As this was the case, I said I was not at all sure the child was mine ; but as she knew my same, and my family were living in Brighton, I said I was willing to pay 301. a-year as long as she did not in any way annoy or irritate me or my family. I said, from what she had told myself and Dr. Turner, I was very doubtful of the child being mine, and I could only make that allowance on condition that she did not annoy me or any of my family. lam quite sure I mentioned it in that way to her, through Dr. Turner. She was to re ceive the money, because I was doubtful that the child was mine, and I was not going to pay the money to anybody but herself. She was to look after this child, but the money was to be paid to herself. The payment of that money was after wards discontinued by me because she wrote an anonymous letter. During the time you were acquainted with this woman, did you ever make her a promise of mar riage7—Never, so help me God. Marriage was never mentioned except once. She said one day, " I wish you would marry me." I said, " That is quite impossible. I never dreamt of marrying you, and I never could marry you." When you met Mrs. Thatcher, as you describe, what did you say to her 7—Well, I went up to her and asked her what she wanted, and that sort of thing. (Laughter.) She said she was the widow of an officer. I asked her where she lived, and she said in Montpellier-street. She asked me to go home with her, and I went with her to Montpellier street, there and then. An old woman, called Mrs. Butcher, let us in. I did not see Miss Butcher there. Nothing improper took place be tween us that night. Will you tell the jury, then, what you went there for 7—Well, I considered her a person on the town, and I went home with her for that purpose. Mr. Sergeant Parry (to defendant)—Upon my word I would decline to answer such questions, if I were you. Cross-examination continued : I asked Mrs. Thatcher upon what terms I was to visit her. She said, what do you mean ? Well, I slid, I only come here, of course, for a certain purpose. She said, what do you mean ? I don't understand you. I then placed money on the table. I placed 1/. on the table. She told me that she was an officer's widow, and the daughter of an officer. I did not see the portrait produced (that of the deceased Thatcher) when I went there. I think I have seen it in her bed-room. She asked me to call the next day, and I did. Did anything improper take place then ?—Yes. What time did you call ?—ln the afternoon. Nobody was there. I looked upon Mrs. Thatcher, I won't Fay as a common prostitute, but I cer tainly did look upon her as a prostitute. I never gave her my likeness. I took it to show her, and she kept it, I suppose. I never saw it hanging up in my life. I never gave her a lock of my hair. I swear I never remember anything about a loci of hair (lock of hair produced). 1 don't think that is my hair. (Laughter.) I dare say she might cut it off her own hair ' • she is quite capable of that. I won't swear that I did not give her the paper produced (that in which the lock of hair was pre served. I never gave her a ruby ring. She had it from myself. It was given to me by a gentle man, and I told her I could not give it to her. I showed her the ring, and she put it on her finger. I really cannot remember how it was •, but I think she said she put it on her right hand. I will *swear I did not write 100 letters to her, nor 50, nor 20, after I left Brighton. I once sent her some flowers. I swear I did not take or send her flowers almost every day while I was in Brighton. I never took her a bouquet at all. The improper connection between us ceased about the end of April or beginning of May. When I placed the money on the table the first evening she said I mistook her. I said, " Very well, then ; if you are a virtuous person, give the money to the servant, and I wish you good evening." If she swears that I called the first evening and saw Mrs. Butcher, and delivered my card to her, it is a false hood and a lie. I never left a card at her house in my life. She may have one of my cards, but 1 never left one there. I never asked Mrs. Thatcher to return that ring, but she did so voluntarily. I wrote to ask her for my letters, because she had shown me Granville's letters, and I did not choose my letters to be shown to other men. A number of witnesses were then, as on the pre vious occasion, examined, for the purpose of prov ing that Mrs. Thatcher led a grossly immoral life. The jury retired, and, after an absence of about twenty minutes, returned with a verdict for plain tiff for the full amount claimed. FRIGHTFIL STATE OF THE ADELPHL—A. great deal of alarm has been excited amongst the inhabitants of the Adelphi in consequence of the foul and pestilential stench, which his,' during the last few days of hot weather, proceeded from the well-known "dark arches," the filthy state of which has been so frequently de scribed. In the streets into which the arches imme diately open the stench is almest unendurable, and if not at once checked by some cleansing process, hitherto almost systematically neglected, the result will pro bably be the breaking out of some malignant form of fever among the inhabitants. When it is remembered that this collection of filth affects a tolerably closely packed neighbourhood, bounded by the Strand and the towns one way, and by Cecil-street and Hungerford market on the other, it is not too much to say, that should fever break out amongst those who live there, it would in all probability spread among the inhabitants of the surrounding districts. Now and then a few pailsfull of water are thrown down tbs extremities of the arches, but no attempts of any kind are ever made to purify the multitudinous recesses of this gigantic cavern of profligacy, wretchedness and filth. It is a subject which is well worthy of the notice of the new President of the General Board of Health. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The indefatigable researches of Dr Livingstone 'nave suddenly made us acquainted with one of the happiest people in the world, of whose very existence little was hitherto known in civilised Europe generally. In their ailments they never have recourse to cod liver oil, and they are equally independent of physic and the physician, for Dr. Livingston found their staff of lire to be the Rovalenta Arabica Food, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, " consumption, scrofula, cancer, &c., having been scarcely heard of, and the smallpox and measles have not been known for 20 years." In England also the Revalenta Arabica has pro duced a wonderful improvement in the health of the people, removing cough, consumption, asthma, debility, indigestion, (dyspepsia) constipatio n , nervous , bit'ous, and liver com plaints, and restoring the faculty of digestion, and nervous muscular energy to the. most enfeebled, as proved by te3ti menials from the celebrated. Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorlaud ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram; Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means of cure had been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Its effect on the progress of population is most favourable as exhibited by the Registrar-General,show ing for London an average of 1780 weekly births against a mortality of 1200, leavings happy gain of 580, or near 50 per cent. in favour of progress; a result most cheering to all classes, as it opens a fair prospect that by the more general use of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food the Europeans will soon enjoy the same freedom from disease as the West Africans. It is sold in canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., 225. The 121 b. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street ; Fort num, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Grace. church-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street 330 and 430, strand, London. SPU.RGEONISIkij Old Mother Church is naturally a good easy soul. Her maxim is, "He that is not against us is for 119. " She is not, cceteris _paribus, much given to the odium theologicum. Her maxim is, "Swallow your victuals and drink, and hold your tongue." She hates all that botheration about " experiences." If a man professes to belong to her, she does not care to inquire what he believes. " Oh, my son," exclaimed the affectionate Presbyterian mother to her heteredox young hopeful, " I would'nt have cared if you had come to believe in nothing at all ; but only think that you should be so imprudent as to become an Unitarian." That is the spirit of the Establishment all over. With her everybody is orthodox who doesn't dissent. She claims all waifs and strays. She appropriates all the "unconsi dered trifles" which do not appear to have an owner. Everybody is sound enough in the faith for her who does not take the trouble to have " opinions." She hates a Dissenter far mare than an infidel. If the latter will only " keep his tongue within his teeth," she will reckon him as a tolerable average Churchman. The mild impartiality of her antipathy to all Dissenters has prompted her to use her political influence to protect them from the consequences of their mutual animosity. Were the Independents or Wesleyan in power, Quakers or Unitarians would sustain unremitting persecution. The Establishment gladly tolerates heretics as thorns in the sides of nonconforming orthodoxy. Sh e has a sneaking kindness for rationalistic heresey, made up of detestation of evangelical fanaticism. Naturally she is the very genius of a dead calm. She cannot be bothered with talent, or genius, or zeal. She has an antipathy to anything original —except original sin, and that she winks at, prin cipally on the score of the fees on baptismal rege neration. Everthing about her must be what it has been before. All her prayers, homilies, ser vices, are stereotyped, and set down for her. She insiMts upon her ministers reading their sermons ; and they ostentatiously flourish their sermon cases in the face of the congregation, to show that they leave nothing to impulse, to earnestness, to mere eloquence or inspiration. She has little favour for platform oratory ; she thinks it decorous to be dull. At her missionary meetings, and her Societies for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and for Domestic Bible Readers, she delivers her self with studied prosiness, as if anything like feel ing or enthusiasm were only fit for Methodists and other low fellows that had never been to Oxford. Hush ! Quieta non rnovere. Meddle not with such as are given to change. Leave things as they are, and let us all be comfortable. Be silent and quiet. Do all things decently and in order. Let us have nothing outre. Wisdom is stare super an aquas vial. Why should we exert our wits as if we lived by them? Leave those to use their brains who have nothing in their pockets. Talent doesn't pay ; even learning brings nothing in. Kissing comes by favour ; preferment, either by interest or purchase. In either case ability or zeal has nothing to do with the matter. Why, then, should we either be able or zealous ? Lord Dungannon is frightened into fits—fits of interrogation. The Church has actually taken to field preaching ! The Lord's anointed mount tubs, and hold forth in the market place, and vociferate ou the green, and recruit for the army of Heaven on the common, sub Jove—al fresco ! Actually Bishops exhort in unconsecrated conventicles ; dignitaries of the Church condescend to become chaplains in ordinary to the "great unwashed ;" and Lords Spiritual, Peers of Parliament, take refuge from the decorous ennui of stately episco pacy in stump oratory and Exeter-hall ! Nay, worse and worse, Lambeth pats them on the back, and Lords Temporal becOme ushers.and pew-open ers to Greasy rogues—the Doin mon dung o' the soil. We ask candid and religious men just to look steadily at the operation of the ecclesiastical eco nomy of the Establ.shed Church. Observe, the whole clergy are entirely independent of the people, and are not in the least accountable to the State or to the Legislature. Whether they do anything or do nothing, their emoluments are the same, are a freehold ; can it be surprising that on such terms they prefer doing nothing ? Their whole phraseo logy is worldly and carnal. A cure of souls has, by the very instinct of the system, been called a ‘‘ liv ing ;" a minister of religion is termed an incumbent —a fellow who leans and preeses as a burthen upon the parish '.• a fresh spiritual charge is termed a prefermept; and a godly office is styled a benefice. What can. COMO of that, what has come of it, but carelessness, self-seeking, " the flesh," " pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy?" Just think for a moment of the necessary, the inevitable effect of raising a clodhopping poor scholar from clouted shoes, pe dantic learning, and a hundred a year, to Fulham or to Lambeth, a peerage, a carriage, and a palace. Through what sycophancy, tuft-hunting, and in trigue must be have crawled his way thither ! Who makes him what he is 7 A politician, who looks to the return he is to get for the promotion—who exacts it—who gets his price in votes and subser viency. What object has that man iu futther look ing to the souls of the people ? He comes upon pomp, luxury, wealth, rank, not as " native and to the manner born," but as an earthly paradise— a worldly Elysium. What interest has he in tl.e promotion of piety, the awakening of zeal, the call ing of sinners to repentance? Every temptation, every motive, is presented to him to draw him away from his duties, and .to awaken his sense of solemn obligation . ie is a beggar set on horse back ; where is he to ride to ? When asked by a Lord to say grace, he might have retorted that he never returned thanks to God for any_ one under a Prince, or a Duke at the very least. Why, it is a condescension' in him to preach the Gosp-1. Lord Dungannon was quite scan dalised that a Bishop should serve his Master by proclaiming glad tidings to the poor. He is a Lord ; he is rich ; he has power ; he has a family ; his very revenues are a worldling's work ; he is in dependent upon any contingency; he will be just as well off, as great, settle bis sons and daughters as well if he does just nothing at all, as if he were the most diligent of labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. Who can doubt which frail human na ture will prefer ? Well, but he has servants under him, deans, archdeacons, rural deans, rectors, vicars, curates. Why, is it forgotten that each of these offices is a freehold interest ; that a living, a benefice, an in cumbency, a preferment has been bought, sold, ex changed ; and that to leave these at the mercy of the contingency of the due perfcrmance of official duty would be to endanger the sacred securities of private property ? The Bishop, by a long and very expensive process, may, if he chooses (which he never does), suspend or admonish, or, but emi nently rarely, depose a clergyman for grossly im moral conduct or heretical opinions : but for doing nothing, for negligence of his functions, for utter disregard of his duties, the offender is entirely be yond the roach of challenee. Dissent may grow, the 6onventiclea may be filled, the Church may be empty. What of that ? " Sir," said the clerk to the rector, " the flock are all going over the hill to the Methodist Chapel." " Well, John," was the consolatory reply, " d'ye see any of the tithe going over the hill to the Methodist Chapel ?" It is true, indeed, that the Bishop has livings in his gift ; that the patronage of others is given him to give away ; that his good word and his bad word go for something. Are these dispensed according to merit ? Must not the sons and sons-in-law and , cousins and nephews of `his lordship" be first seen to ? Will zeal, piety, and eloquence form the best recommendations to a man who has none of his' own, or whoa at least cannot be troubled anyi HONOURS TO MILITARY SURGEONS. A general feeling prevails amongst medical offi cers of the army, and in the civil department of our profession, that in meting out the honours and rewards incident to the late war, military surgeons have not been treated with impartial justice. This feeling is also very generally shared in by all classes in the army. The principle established by the Commander-in-Chief hasbeen, that honours should be awarded only to those medical officers who were present at the battles of Alma and Inkerman. This principle excludes many military surgeons who were with the army the whole of the campaign previous tothese actions, and who served subsequently during the whole of the siege of Sebastopol. Their absence on these occasions was caused either by illness con tracted during their attendance upon the cholera as mentioned some time since bpaytiSeinrtsin Bulg Edward aia Codrington, r in the House of Com mons, or by serving with the army elsewhere. But. the duties of the army medical officers through out the siege, and especially during the trying winter of 1854, were far more dangerous and arduous than any services rendered during the battles mentioned. In fact, the sick were sent away to Scutari to the hospitals immediately after those actions. During the siege minor sorties were of constant occurrence, and the night attacks upon the Redan and other batteries were amongst the most desperate encounters of the war. Military medical officers were exposed to the dangers of shot and shell during these assaults, and afterwards spent whole nights in operating upon, and attending to the wounded. Yet these services have been alto gether ignored in the adjudication of honours. One very sore point is, that the principle thus laid down by his Royal Highness the Commander-in *Chief, has been departed from in favour of the other officers of the army. Many have been deco rated who were not present either at Alma or In kerman, and who did not, in fact, join the army until after these battles had been fought. This bears with particular hardship upon some of the most meritorious surgeons of the war, and has led to the docoration of a comparatively small number of military medical officers, and particularly of the regimental surgeons. We may mention, for instance, the cases of Mr. Blenkins, surgeon of the Grenadier Guards ; Mr. Lawrence, assistant-surgeon in the same corps, and Mr. Trotter of the Coldstreams. Mr. Blenkins was absent from Alma and Inkerman only from sickness through duty, and Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Trotter were absent from these actions because they were selected, as seniors of their rank, to re main at Varna in charge of the sick. The same thing happened to many others. Yet such men have received no step whatever of promotion for their services during the whole war ; some, indeed, have narrowly escaped being put on the retired list, and all are omitted from. the list of those se lected to receive military honours. Others have had decorations who were present atAlma and Inkerman, but who were absent for a whole year subsequently, during the most trying period of the siege. As al ready mentioned, the principle has been broken through with reference to other military officers, but adhered to most stringently in the case of mili tary surgeons. In the French army, if a selection were made at all, the preference would, according to the rules and practice of the French service, be given to the medical officer. In France a large num ber of the medical officers have been decorated. It would, indeed, be a rare sight to see a French surgeon, who had passed through the Russian war, without a decoration. Bill; inthis country the case is widely dif ferent, and deep dissatisfaction naturally prevails. The injustice has been done not only as regards our own honours, but in the case of the Legion of Honour presented by the Emperor of the French to our Government, for distribution in the British army. We trust, however, it is not too late to remedy the mistake which hes Leon committed, and from the known liberality of the, Duke of Cam bridge, who would have lost his owns life but for an assistant-surgeon of the 7th Hussars, we hope a sup plemental list of decorations may yet. be issued. It is not only Ps regards honours that the military surgeon is placed at a disadvantage. Many a youth who left Eton or Harrow at sixteen or seventeen, to join the army in the Crimea, without any previous military education, has acquired bis captaincy or his majority ; but an assistant-surgeon, joining the army after a special education of several years, at the age of twenty-one, and Beni rig through the whole of the war, could, by the r ules of the ser vice, be nothing more than an assisstant-surgeon at the end of it. There is the more need for liEera• lity in the distribution of honours.—Lancet. MALT AND Hors.- r —ln the year ended the 31st of March last 38,127,378 bushels of malt were brought to charge, against 33,524,494 bushels in 1855, 35,208,563 in 1854, and 41,020,381 in 1853. The average price of barley was 435. 2d. per quarter. The amount in " old duty' charged on English hops was 267,7051. The quantity of foreign hops iroportecb into the United Kingdom was 11,261 mitt PRICE-B-OF SLIA-,R-ES. From the Official List. rUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN,i LONDON, FEID&Y, Juni 5, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. Dividend ' per m Annum. Price. ] Names of Companies. Dividend per Annum. Ashtn &Oldb Birmingham Coventry...• Derby .. • • • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand Unica; Kennt & Avn Leeds &Livr p Leicester .... Leicstr &Ntb Loughborogb Macclesfield. NeAth •• •• 93 71. p. ct.l 40 4/. 190 11 e. 100 6/. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 6 7 ,. pr.ct. 100 7s. 66 40 6i. 100 251. 100 51. 83 1/.55. 143 701 100 21. 10s. 100 161. 1100 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 Middlesex • • • • .. Do. Do, ...... Name of Company. Southwark Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo ....... ...... Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .. .• •• •• •• .• Name of Company Commercial .. • • ...... Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand Surry D. & Canal 1)o. Loan Notes .... Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London ..• • • •••.• • • St. Katharine • • ...... =outhampton ........ Victoria •••••••• •• •• Ditto New ........ Peak For est.l 'llegma Vs • • • • Rochdale.. • • Sttl rd &Wor. StOurbridge. Severn and 1 Wye Rail. Warwick & 1 I Birming. Warwick & 1 Napton.. Worcstr & Birming. j Wilts & Brk: WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Price 51. per cnt. 6i. per cnt. 4/. per cent. 5/. per cent. it. per cnt. 51. per cnt. 41. per cent. BRIDGE; Dividend per Anilum. Amount of Share. Paid. Price. 103 per cent.) 11. 12s. (d. 11. Rs. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. SE. Os per c. X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 2•i 0 0 50 0 0 25 0.0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 X a. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. 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 51. Os. 17s 281 121. 10s.' H. 16s. £ s. d. 100 all GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ s. d. British rrovincial 7l. per cent. 20 0 0 all 23% Brighton .• -..• • .• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 143 City of London .. •• •• 2/. per cent. 150 0 0 150 0 0 - Equitable.. •• • • 2/. 50 0 0 all 41 European - 1314 Great Central .• B/. per cent. 10 0 0 - 12% Imperial lO/. per cent. 50 0 0 - 84 Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 0 27 Ditto Debentures - Stock 100 0 0 208 Do. Continental Ist Cap. 31. ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 52 Do. Do. 2d Cap. 41. 158. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Do. Do. 3d Cap. 41. 10s. 50 0 0 43 10 0 - Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Independent • 51. 40 0 0 all 50 London Parl. Preferen. 61. per ccnt. 25 0 0 - 26 Phoenix •..••...• .. •• 5% per cat 60 0 0 52 0 0 48% Ratcliff ..... - Surrey Consumers - United General .. •• - 20% Westminster Chartered ; 7,eer cent. 50 0 0 - 54 Ditto, New .... •• • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 10% Western A ... •• • • 10 0 0 all 8 Ditto 13 - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ a. d. Albion .... • • - Alliana Bri:. and For. 71. 148.6 d. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17 1 4 Ditto Marine ... Athenaeum - 1 0 0 all - Atlas .. - -15 s. Oil. &bs 50 0 a 515 0 16% krgus life ........... 4/.per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Sritish Commercial .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Church of England .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3% City of London .. •• .. 5/. 50 0 0 2 0 0 214 Cleriel.aled.Bp Gen. Life spr ct.& be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - County .............. 1/. per share 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Crown 1/ 185. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle .. ~ ss. 50 0 0 50 0 - Equity and Law.. •.• • ' % per cent 100 .0 0 5 0 0 5% European Life l/. 20 0 0 all 18 Family Endowment •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - General. ..... Globe ••- .. - 51. per cent. Stock. all 96% Gresham Life ........ - - 47 5 0 - Do. D 0..., ...... - 20 0 0 50 0 0 - Guardian ............ 5/. per cent 100 0 0 20 0 0 52 Imperial Fire... • • .... 121. per cent 500 0 0 31 0 0 380 Imperial Life - Indemnity Marine.... 5P.p. ct. &bs. 100 0 0 13 0 0 115 1 % Law Fire ............ 2s &2s bons too 0 0 210 0 434 Law Lite.- •... .. .... att. per sh. too 0 0 12 to 0 62 Legal and General Life 4s. per share 50 0 0 2 0 0 - London ...... .. O. 25 0 0 12 13 0 - London & Prov. Law.• 3s. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Marine ..... •• .• ...... 18e. & be. ,00 0 0 20 0 0 73 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 1 )4 per cent 50 0 0 2 0 0 3% Minerva • • ...• .. •• .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 4 0 0 - Monarch ............ 51. per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 11. New Equitable - Pelican .... •• • • • • • .. •• 5/ p. ct. - - 50 Pheenix - - - Professional Life."... 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 - Provident Life........ 1234 per c. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life.... • •• .. 75. 5 0 0 010 0 7% Royal Exchange .....• Bpc. & bs Stock. all - Sun Fire .• •• _ 1% p. c& bs - 9, 305 Ditto Life •••• 1/ 14s. - - United Kingdom .... 41. az bonus. 20 0 0 5 10 0 - Universal Life . - ..... 51. & bonus. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life • • ...... 5/. & bonus - 5 0 0 5% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per •of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --.---- - Z s. d. £ a. d. Australasia........... 40/. per cent. 40 0 0 all 57 14 Bank of Egypt ...• - - 25 0 0 18 15 0 16% Bank of London ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 British North American 9 per cent. 50 0 0 all 70 Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. 4/. per cent. 20 0 0 6 0 0 - City .. • • Colonial ... . .......• • • o 100 0 0 25 b 0 - Commercial of London. 71. p. c. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. 41. per cent.! 20 0 0 all - Lond.Char.llk. of Aus. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 It - Do. New .. •••• • • • • 1, 20 0 0 - o London and County Lon. & Eastn. Bnkg. C 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 - London Joint-Stock . - 28 per cent. '5O 0 0 10 0 0 32% Londn and Westminatr 18 , per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49' . gat. Provincial of Eng. 16 pc.& bs 'lOO 0 0 ; 35 0 0 - Ditto, New ...• •• • • ,1 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto titLo National Bank - New -oath Wales .. - 20'. per cent. 20 0 0 all - Oriental Bank Corpora. 101. per Cent. 25 0 0 Pt 39 3 4 Ottoman Bank - 20 0 0 15 0 0 15 Provincial of Ireland ,81.p. ct.&bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New.. •-• • • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 all - lonian...-. . - 3outh Australia •• - lOl. per cant. 25 0 0 all 36 1 4 Union of Australia all. per cent. 25 0 0 all 56 19 '-' 2 10 0 6% Union of Hamburg - 15 0 0 3 0 0 - Union of London.-- 151. per cent• 50 0 0 10 0 0 26 3 / Unity Mutual 1 - - 1001 0 0 50 0 0 - Western Bank or Lond e - 1100 0 0k 50 0 0 40% LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES. Divideud Amount Name of Company. :per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - - - - 4 a. d. X a. d. Rank of Scotland .. •• IL per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 19710 s British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 231/0s Caledonian Bank .. - . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 03/ les City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 131 5s Clydesdale Bank .... 534/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14 , 2s C , mmercial Bank •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 248/08 Eastern Bank.. •..... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 141 es Edinb. 8s Glasgow.. • . 3541. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 51 2s National Bank ......634 per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1921 10 Nortlaof Scotland Bank 51. per cent 20 0 0 2100 5/ lOs Royal Bank of Scotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 137110 Union Bank of Scot. .• el. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 1091 Gs Western Bank.... •• .. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 841 Os tlliance Fire and Life.. 830:pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17112 s British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 01111 s Caledonian Fire Inoue . ith.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os - .3lty of Glasgow Lite.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 1/ 5s Colonial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 5/ Os Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. oer cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 28/15s Eng. & Scot, LAW Life bloer cent. 50 0 0. A 5 0 41 6s Life Assoc. of Scotland 6 /.per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 0 6115 s National Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 I 4 0 2/ Os North British Incur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 16/15s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 li 17s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 031 Os Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/ 15s Standard Life .. •• .. •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 221 Os M I S p e i v E i L a e L n A d N E O A U rn S. ou n t Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- - £ a. d. £ a. d. - Acadian Charcoal Iron • • 10 0 0 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam 'lea ••.. • • .... 61. per cent. 50 0 I 20 0 0 - A.uctien Mart........ 2 1 ,ilper cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian Agriculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 19 Australian Trust .... 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - iustraitan Royal Mail - 10 0 2 all - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 3 all - British American Land 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada ... •..• •• •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 149 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. pee cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6 per cent... 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, Gp c. bds 1874 01. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6'. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -- C: - ystal Palace Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 SIA Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3341. per cent - - - Electric Telegraph Eng.&Aps. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all 1% Eng.&ltis. 'flag. T. Co - 50 0 0 all - equitable Reversionry 51per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Ditto New - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest 5l. p c and 1/. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation 101. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Gen. Omnibus 12/. per cent. 4 0 0 all 3% Iludson's Bay 5/. per cent. Stock Etock - Ilungerford ...... • • - Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso - 10 0 0 al 5 % London Reversionary Si, per cent. 15 0 o all - Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 50 0 4 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb Si. per cent. . - 103 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6cl. 1 0 0 all % North of Europe, Stm. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 9% Price's Patent Cand. Co - 29 0 0 all 23 Peel River.Land&Min. - 5 0 0 al 2 Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent. 50 0 0 all 703 4 Ditto New • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 15% Reversionary Lat. Soc 4,41. pr cent 100 0 0 all _ Ditto New •• •....• 0%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam 4l. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 - Scottish Ans. Invest l5l. per cent. 1 0 0 all CO BouthAustralian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all - Trust and Loan Comp. I N 28 ~ pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 -- Vas Diemen's Land los. 100 0 0 10 0 - Do. 00v . 6 per ct.Bdi 6 per out. I ... - s 4ft-4 , 77: ~~ DE LUNATICO I NQUI.R ENDO. When Bishop Tayl , .r, two centuries AM"), wro'e '' wo must bin:l our passions in Stills like wad folks, I , .st they bre Lk their locks and bolts, and d , ) all the mischief they can," he unwittingly temrsinitted to us one of those suggestive illustra lions which Perrault designates as "comparisons with a long tail." For philanthropy, with medical science in the van, has waged war against the brutal bolt-and bar treatment that in the good bishop's tithe was looked on as essential to the sAfe keeping of the insane, and was referred to in reli- goes book, like the "Holy Communicant" (where the above passage occurs) as necessary to prevent the insane from " doing all the mischief they can." And, happily, in these days, nousavons change tout cela. Since science has prove 1 that gentleness and humanity are far more potent than locks and chains, we read of treatment employed in the olden time with a shudder. We now regard the madm.n as a human being, fallen from his high estat• ; and no longer look upon him as a brute be , st, to be so fet tered and bound. We justly feel pride in comparing the present condition of our asylums—their inm.tes unconfined and congregated in light airy rooms, or enjoying the song and the dance—with the ‘• pro tecting restraint and wholesome darkness of the madman's cell," which seventy years ago was al . uded to by Burke—in his "Essay on the French • Revolution "—as the unavo'clable lot of the insane. Hence the recent disclosure, that in Scotland lunatics are still, without hindrance, trLated on the old and evil system—loaded with chains, and less considered or cared for than the beasts of the field—strikes us with tenfold force. This discovery • was due to the noble exertions of one good, earnest woman, self-devoted to a mission of mercy. She was an American lady, who made it the object of her life to visit the insane with the best and holiest, of motives. Two years ago, whilst inspecting the ab:des of the insane in this country, she found great difficultylin obtaining admission to the asylums in Scotland. On gaining access, she found the inmates in such miserable plight, that she at once cororau nic.tted with the Home Secretary, and at her in- stance a royal commission was appointed to inquire into the treatment of lunatics in Scotland. The horrifying disclosures made in their recently issued report may well render us grateful to the earnest noble-hearted lady, by whose means these dis graceful proceedings are now brought to light. Lunatic asylums, opened in direct, defiance of the . law, and in contempt of the heavy penalties ordered to be enforced in case of its infringement, were found everywhere to be carried on without inspection or control. In these no records of restraint were kept. Patients were in many cases found to be scantily fed ; were stripped naked, and sent to lie on straw; were debarred recreation or religious exercises ; • were huddled together in buildings not large enough fcr their accommodation ; and when they died, no special notice was given of the event, nor any in formation of it conveyed to the friends. To such houses pauper lunatics were sent by parochial beards, selecting that institution which under took the charge for the lowest sum. In their couveyance, most horrible brutality was employed. - In one case, a gag, placed in the mouth, s 0 pressed on the tongue that it in part sloughed avvaY• In another instance, six ribs were broken by 3 - brute, who crushed the breast of a lunatic woman with his foot whilst he bound her. But still worse was found to be the condition of poor lunatics lowed to remain in the custody of friends to be farmed out to ignorant 'cottagers willing to under take their charge. Some were discovered lockeduP in closets, or chainedin outhouses, whilst others were naked and covered with vermin, or caged up like beasts. In one instance a man was found who had been attached to his bed, by a chain 2i feet levg, for 30 years. Those entrusted with such charges were often drunken and dissolute. Women thus restrained. were discovered to have been made vie tines of treatment which humanity shudders te, contemplate. In one county were 15 idiot mothers, 31 children, and one fatuous Nir 3.. man had five offspring. The Poor-law Boards , ' haggling over the pittance to be bestowel, for the charge of pauper lunatics—the Board 0 Supervision, which superintends their proceedings , and corresponds to our Poor-law Board—the c ountY sheriffs empowered to grant licences and enforce, fines, and by whose neglect of duty the state e l things described in the report has been allowed t? exist—on these persons rests the odium, and agains t them may be justly directed the public indignatio r ! which the recital of these horr ors may well cal forth. —The Lancet. • Country Markets. HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET-JUNE 5. WHEAT. 1 BARLEY I OATS, I BRA N 15 '. First Second 483 31 1 36s 7d ) 303 10,1 J 44s 8 1 Third 36s Od I 25s 61 1293 Od I 40s Og Total quantity of wheat in market, 354 qrs., 330 soli barley „ 34 qrs., 32 sold oats ,; 142 qrs., 130 sold beans 11 105 qrs., 105 sold , AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 8 3 3-12ths I Barley, —ll. 16 7 1-120 0 Oats, ... 11. 16 10 4-12ths I Beans, 2/. 4 8 74200 If , DALKEITH . GRAIN MARKET-JUNE 5. Qrs. Best. Current. 32s kid 354 Wheat 633 61 217 Oats 32s 01 111 Barley :42s Od 4s s2Bs - - 27 Peas & beans 46s 6d 42. 56. ABERDEEN-JUNE 5. Potato oats 26s Od to 26s 6d Common oats 25s Od to 26s Od 1 4°11 " p er busbil Bere 31s Od to 35s Od f (53ib. Barley 3bs Od to 40 s Od . •I, Wheat, red (spring)3Bs Od to 40s Od 1621bs „ white 3ss Od t o 48 s Od Oatmeal Ps Od to 208 Od p er b o ll. „ Flour 44s Od to 45s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. 0 1 Beef, per lb Gd t o 9d I Butter, plb. Os 10d to is ~,j mutton, per lb. id t o 9d 1 Eggs, p doz. Os 8 , 1 to 05. 0 ,'1 Lamb, do., Os Od t o O s 0 I I Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3s iii Veal, per lb ... 9d t o is --d I Chickens,do.ls Gd to 2e ,-,1 Pork, perlb...os Gd to Os 7d Du c k s , do., 0 3 Od to o=l Oa Salmon, per lb .... .. .ls 4d 1 Ducklings,do2s 6d to 3 4 vo Grouse, per brace.....os to O s T ur k e y s , eac h 4 s Od to 44 L 1 Tallow, p stone, Os to lis 01 P o t a t oes , p er p oc k, 01 to 1 _ hobbits, each 3d tO 4d. - Butter for exportation (pr sent cure) per cwt.... 80s to 844 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. 2$ 24 Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s Gd Barl e y flo ur ,l4lb.Os to , o a Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ d us t, Beremeal Od to 2s Od „ per lb 2d to 20 Peasomeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Sids Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6a 4-lb. 10af...7d. I 2-lb. 10af...3id. DUBLIN, JUNE 5. We bad an extremely dull market to-day. Transacti° ll° . limited to the wants of the moment. The general ourre% cies of Tuesday were scarcely supported, and Indian 0 1 is lower. White wheat, 3s 0: - .1 to 33s 6d. ; red ditto, 32 s 6d to sp 6d: ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d; grim e lug, —s to —s ; oats, old, 13s 3d to 16s; ditto, new, Od to —s Od ; oatmeal, 158 to 17s Od; bere, new —s to "'„, Od ; rapese d, s Od to —s Od per brl ; flour, 6d to 213 Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 38s 01 to 40i 6cl P°' 480 lbs. lADVERTISE 3 IENTI—HoIIeway's Ointment and P ill° incomparable Reinedies for Sores, Wounds and Ulcers' , —Mr. James N ewman , re sidi ng near Emyvale was dreadful suff e r e r f or f our y ears f rom runn i ng Ulcers ',7; his leg : be tried all maans without e ffect : h e had bee' in an hospital three months, and turned out incurable' He then had recour,e to Holloway's Ointment and nt and, by a steady perseverance in their u se for a i weeks, he obtained an effectual cure, and his leg ig whole and sound, to the astonishment of his friends." I Sold by all medicine vendors thoughout the world ; Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strali London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ;by ' El ‘i Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna, an E. Muir, Malta. BIRTIIS. On tb, 6th ' OF A SON. 2° - - wi f e of ao _ inst., at 26, Hyde-park-gardens, the James R. Robertson, Esq. leg On the 4th inst., at 38, Acacia-road, the wife of OW' Peto, Esq. OF A DAVOUTER. On the 6th inst., at 280, Oxford-street, Mrs. Bic— hata Lovolidge. cif On the sth inst., at Woodslee, near Brighton, the 13 ' of Dr. Henry H. Madden. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at West Hackney Church, Stoke 11 0 , - ington, W. T. Pittmar, o f G rea t C ar t er -l ane , Di' 04 commons, to Margaret Marth a , e ld es t d aug ht e r of Gill, Espartero-terrace, Shrubland-road, Dalston. „ e r, On the 4th inst., at Marylebone Ch urc h, Wm. Tar l 'i rl e Esq., of Clifton, Glocestershire, t o M argare tt a Catbe r , h e Anne, widow of Colonel J. F. S. Clarke, commanding South Wales DistriA, and late of the Royal Soott Gr ey DIED. 1 , well , On the 6th inst., at Enfield, Middlesex, Edwd. S" e Esq., aged 36. On the sth inst., at Richmond, Ernest Brandrarata g e• youngest son o f J. B ran d ram P ee l , E sq., o f 21 , C a nabri square, Hyde -park, aged 2 years and 6 months. , gr. On the sth i ns t., J osep h Willi am, th e e ld es t son of Wm. Dawson, of Bayswater, and Burlington-arcad e, cadilly, aged 23. 0 • Lew i4' of _l the 6th inst., Sarah, the wife of Mr. L. A. Fleet-street, 5B. rel , On the sth inst, at Send-grove, near Guildford, Su r- George Rickards, Esq., aged 78. ue On the 3d inst., at Windsor, Chas. Montagu Snowden Esq., . On the 3d ingst., 74 at Paris, Ellen, Countess de Mandelsl7./39; widow of the late Count de Mandelsloh, formerly Minl3 o o Plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of Wurternber; at Court of St. J amee. --- LONDON : Printed and Pubiighed by MURDO yo CV'," of No. 112, Strand, Prints;, at Th; 112, Strand, in tho Precinct of the Saver ; in t` o 0 0 " of Middlesex, Monday, Juno 8, 1857. Frce. .£ s. d. X 8. d. Stock. too "6 0 too 0 0 0 0 Stock. 500 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 J of Port) Bow Th e La, Itc rand 'n Whit ughev Picture' r igestr, Cavern s ° P,...en at 4.13, famine , ros ' cation? tAf. „ TI „ParlY II( arry wil a gain on A. Nemer ke tha are k ept 13 at pre, 7s. Od. Paid. Paid. Price. 103 92 1,1 111 CP ana In s bancin i rir ev ," wade an 111 1[ 1 tattetts' Itorni n , titan s Folvvra h ad at t Re ZsAt 11 F. Chas M rs Geo. J. L~ M, J a . Xll