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rbirb Wibition SUN OFFICE, Seven, •' Clock. INDIAN DESPATCHES. ~-- (Prom the London Gazette of this evening.) INDIA. BOARD, DEc. 23. The following despatch has been received at the East India House. No. 1. The Governcr-General of India in Council to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, • Fort William, Nov. 9. (No. 71.) In conformity with, instructions receiv e d f rom t h e Secret Committee, that your Honourable Court should be furnished with authentic intelligence respecting Euro peans, whether belonging to the East India Company's service •r not, who may be ki'le I cr wounded by the bands of rebels, a circular has been issued to the autho rities noted on the margin,* requesting them hencefor ward to cause such a return to be made, for submission to your Honourable Court. 2. With respect to past transactions, these authorities have been requested to collect, from the best available sources, as complete a statement as can Fe prccored of those who have fallen ; and that, though this statement is to be made as complete as possible, still, whatever in formation they might have, should be sent in, without waiting untl the report can be made compb te. 3. These re+crns, when received, will be duly trans mitted to your Hon. Court. In the meantime we fel-- ward a list, extracted from letters addressed to tuts department. 4. The Home and Military Departments have been directed to submit what information they now possess on the subject, to this Department, for transmission to your Hon. Court. —We have, Ste., CANNING. J. DORIN. J. LOW. B. PEACOCK. Since the above was written, the required lists have been furnished by the Home Department and the Go ♦ernment of Bengal, and they are forwarded herewith. * Secretary to Government, Central Provinces. Secre tary to Government of Bengal. Chief Commissioner, North-Western Provinces. Chief Commissioner, Punjab. Resident at Hyderabad. Resident at Baroda. Governor- General's Agent, Rajpootana. Governor-General's Agent, Central India. Commissioner, Nagpore. Commissioner, Sanger. No. 2. List of Europeans Killed by Rebels, prepared at the Foreign Office, Calcutta. Major M. T. Blake, Commanding 2.1 Regiment Infantry, Gwalior Contingent • Capt. A. W. Hawkins, Command ing Ist Company Artillery, Gwalior Contingent ; Lieut. A. Proctor, Adjutant 4th Regiment Infantry, Gwalior Contingent ; Lieut. W. Stewart, Commanding 2d Com pany of Artillery, Gwalior Contingent ; Maj ,r F. Shirreff, Commanding 4th R4 , giment Infantry, Gwalior Contingent ; Surgeon K. W. Kirk, M.D., Superintending Surgeon ; Rev. G. W. Coopland, Assistant Chaplain : Gwalior, May 14, 9 p.m., on their return from dinner at Brigadier Ramsay's, by the mutinous corps of the Gwalior Contin gent, stationed at Gwalior. . . . aptain Spottiswoode, Cornet Newberry, let Regiment Bombay Lancers : Nusseerabad, May 29, 4 p.m. Killed whilst charging the mutineers, viz., two Regiments Native Infantry and Artillery, who carried off six guns, and made towards Delhi. Colonel Penney, Commanding Ist Regiment Bombay Lancers : Nnsseerabad, 29th May, 4 p.m. Fell dead from his horse on the march. Captain Hardy, Lieut. Loch, Ist Regiment Bombay Lan cers : Nusseerabad. Wounded on the above occasion. Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Fell : Sirsa. Murdered by.a Jemadar during the insurrection at, and destruction of, Sirsa. Mr. Davis (his brother died in the jungle from thirst), Clerk in Captain Robertson's office : Sirsa. Murdered on the above occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Wedderbnrn, Magistrate of Hissar; Lieut. and Mrs. Barwell, Htirrianah Battalion ; Mr. Daniel, Pa trol; Mr. Thompson : Hissar. Mr. Wedderbarn is re ported to have been shot in his kutehery ; the rest were massacred in their houses by the Hurrianah Light Infan. t Lieut. Lieut. Townsend. Killed by Daeolts on his way to Mahoba. Sergeant Fitzgerald : Hanel. Mr. Cockerell, Joint Magistrate : Banda. Cut down by Nawab's Sow ars. Mr. Bruce, Mr. Brinerum, in the Banda Nawab's service. Reported by the Nawab as murdered. Capt. A. Skene, with his wife and two children, Super intendent ; Lieut. F. D. Gordon, Deputy Superintendent ; Mr. T. Andrews, P. S. Ameen ; Mr. R. Andrews, with his wife and four children, Deputy Collector and Deputy Magistrate ; Mr. W. S. Carshore, wife and four children, Collector of Customs; Mr. Wetton, wife, child, and two sisters, Patrol; Mr. Orr, wife and mother, Superintendent of Customs ; Capt. J. Dunlop, 12th Native Infantry ; En sign S. B. Taylor, 12th Native Infantry ; Lient. W. C. L. Ryves, 12th Native Infantry; Dr. McEgan, wife, and sis ter, 12th Infantry ; Newton, wife, and four children, Quartermaster-Sergeant; Lient. Campbell, and another cavalry officer, 14th Irregular Cavalry ; Sergeant Ryley, Overseer Public Works ; Capt. F. J. Burgess, Re venue Surveyor ; Lient. Turnbull, Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. D. T. Blyth, wife, brother-in-law, and three children, Sub-Assistant Revenue Sur veyor ; Mr. H. Millard, wife, and three children, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr Munrood, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. J. Young, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. Gabriel, Lieutenant Powys, wife and child, Executive Engineer; Mrs. Browne, wife of Deputy-Commissioner, with sister and child ; Mr. A. Scott, Clerk; Mr. Purcell, Clerk; Mr. Purcell, jun., Clerk; Mr. 3futloo, with wife and child, Clerk; Mr. Mutleo, jun., Clerk; Mr. Elliott, with father and mother, Clerk; Mr. Crawford, Clerk; Mr. Fleming, out of service : Jhansi, sth and 6th June. Massacred by the mutineers of the 12th Native Infantry and l4th Irre gular Cavalry, aided by the Ranee of Jhansi, who fur nished them with armed men. Mr. T. L. Loyd, Magistrate of Humeerpore ; Mr. Grant, Joint Magistrate of Humeerpore : Humeerpore, 14th June. Murdered by mutineers, wbo are supposed to have been aided by the R.jah of Chirkaree. Captain Barton and his two sons, Political Agent, Ha rowtee : Kotah, 15th October. Murdered by the Kotah troops. Mr. Snider, Sub-Assistant-Surgeon Kotah, 15th Oct. Captain Monek Mason, Political Agent, JondhporJ : Ahwa, 18th September. Murdered by the men of the Jondhpore mutineers, aided by the men of the dis affected Thakoors. Mr. Neilson, Veterinary Surgeon : Ferozepore, 19th August. Throat cut from ear to ear by the mutineers of the 10th Cavalry. Major Spencer and the Quartermaater-Serjeant, 26th Native Infantry ; Mean Meer, 30th July. Attacked by the men of the regiment and murdered, along with the Havildar:Major awl Snob idar Brigadier Brind, Commanding at Sealkote Sealkote, 9th July. Killed by mutineers of 9th Light Cavalry. Dr. James Graham, Superintending Surgeon ; Dr. J. C. Graham, Medical Storekeeper : Sealkote, 9th July. Shot dead by mutineer a of the 9th Light Cavalry, in their car riages, in preeence of their female relatives. Captain Bishop, 4iith Native Infantry : Sealkote, 9th July. Murdered by mutineers of the :)th Light Cavalry. Rev. J. Hunter, with wife and child, Missionary : Seal kote, 9th July. Murdered by an Hindoostanee Peon, who bad formerly been a Jernadar of Magislrat , !s Chupr aFsues, but reduced for bad conduct. No. 3. List of Europeans, whether belonging to the East India Company's Service or not, who have been killed or wounded by the hands of rebels. Prep tred from papers on record in the Home Department, Cilcutta. Lient.-Col. Finnic, 11th N. I.; Mrs. Chambers, Captain Macdonald and his wife, Captain Taylor, Lieut. Hender son, Lieut, Pattie, 20th N.I. ;. Lieut. Macnabb, Veteri nary-Surgeon Phillips, Veterinary-Surgeon Dawson, his wife and children, Light Cavalry ; Captain Fraser, Sappers and Miners ; Mr. Tregear, Inspector in the E in national Department—killed at Meerut by the mutineers, 10th May. _ _ Lieut.-Col. Rogge, Artillery ; Dr. Christie, 3d Light Cavalry :—wounded at Meerut by the mutineers, 10th May. S. Fraser, Esq., Commissioner and Agent ; Captain Douglas, commanding the Palace Guards; Rev. M. Jen nings, Chaplain ; Miss Jennings, Miss Clifford ; other Eu ropean and Christian residents, names not given ;—killed by the rebels at Delhi, 11th May. Captain Cortield, 9th N. 1.; wounded at Etawab, by a party of rebel Native Cavalry in the attempt to seize them, 16th May. Brigadier Sibbald, C. 8., Brigadier Bareilly Division ; Ensign Tucker, 68th N. 1.; Dr. Hay, Doctor Bareilly Di ' C.S., Di vision; Mr. Robertson, Judge; Mr. Orr, Deputy C llector ; Mr. Raikes, C.S., Additional Sessions Judge; Dr. Buch, Educational Inspector ; Mr. Aspinall's whole family (Mr. 'Aspinall was an lincovenanted Assistant) )- killed id the mutiny at Bareilly, May 31. Mr. Wyatt; Mr. Lawrence. Retired Clerk of the Com inissioncr's Office, and his family of children ; supposed to have been killed in the mutiny of Bareiily, May 31. Sergeant Staples, Bareilly Brigade; murdered while flying from Bareilly. Mr. Mordatmt Ricketts, C S., Rev. Mr. M`Callum, Presbyterian Minister, and Mr. Smith, officials and inha bitan4 of Shahjehanpore—killed by the mutineers in the ontbreik at Shahjehanpore, May 31. Lieut. filutehinson, Quartermaster of the 17th NJ.; shot at Azimgurh by Madho Singh, a Sepoy of the Light Company of the 17th N. 1., June 3. This man owed Lieut. Hutchinson a grudge. Sergeant Lewis, Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 'l7th Nati,. Infantry : Azimgurh ; dangerously wounded by tke mutineers of the 17th N. 1., 3d June. Lieutenant Mara, commanding the two companies of 1 1 00 41 a• na Regiment of Sikh s : s h o t i n th e c h es t w hil e .7.l l XlNat,h e verand a h o f th e C u t c h erry at J ounpore, i n „,the European inhabitants had taken refuge t i:t2 of sepoy mutineers, sth June. the bactie zarige, C. S., assist a nt mag i s t ra t e, s h o t i n face by tifel'""i7lZ He was di scovere d lif e l ess on hi s sergeant Bigsvacmorted the Cutcherry, sth Jane. Bigwood was with th e , fCL,l.!'reelelar Cavalry Sergeant wa e killed while going t o ":lZPerty from Jounpre, but so'. me papers from his house, sth Jane. Deputy Collect or of Jo unpore, Mr. Thriepland, and his wife Mr. and Mrs. Thriepland and twuonPeMi ; shot,through the heart and hid in 'one of the Court chuprageeete houses, t child ren were n were be trayed and shot by so me sowers, 6th .F en „ to make ilia m oo d o Lieut. Alezander, , th hi L` T ie .l; trivin. sabred arlatatfalvdd— their duty, June 6. Captain Birch, Fort Adjutant; murdered at Allaheb ad, during the night, June 6. Mr. Cheek, an rtiposted Cadet; died at Allababad, of wounds inflicted by the mutineers of the 6th N. 1 .1 R e a was, with other prisoners in their hands, rescued by inby the British troops, on the 16th June, but die,' that ni g ht the fort. Mr. IL Ticker, C.S., Judge. The native depntY collec tor of rattehpore, Fleknint oolah Khan, headed th e rebel lion there, and caused Mr. Tucker to be shot, June. Mr. Reymer, employed on the railway, and his wife and children. Dnryao Sing, a Zemindar of the Fut+eh pore district, collected a number of men in open rebellion, and killed Mr. Ker ner, his wife , and children, June. Mr. Snow, railway engineer : supposed to have been killed at the same time with the Keyrner , . Mr. Cockerel], C.S., Deputy Collector and Joint Magis trate of Banda, Mr. Dew/mine; Mr. Bruce, Mr. Lloyd. THE SON, LONDON, FRIDAY EVINING, The Nawab Ali Bahadoor, of Banda, is stated to have caused these gentlemen to be murdered. Captain Skene, Superintendent ; Captain Gordon, De puty Superintendent; and other European res' den' s, names not given ;—killed in the fort of Jhansi in which they had taken refuge. — baptain Fletcher Hayes, Military Seceretary to the Chief I Commissioner of Lucknow; Lientenant .Barbor, 2d Begi iment of Onde Cavalry ; Mr. Fayrer, a gentleman volun teer. These officers, with 2 rissalahs of Oude Irregular Cavalry, had been sent by Sir H. Lawrence from Lucknow under Captain Hayes, his Military Secretary, to aid in keeping order along the Grand Trunk Road and in the Pen , tral Dooab Districts; the rissalahs mutinied on the way, and killed the officers. Serjeant-Major Matthews, 6th Oude Irregular Infantry; shot from the banks of the river while flying with other fugitives from Fyzabad, 18 miles below Adjoudheea (Fyza bad District), 9th June. Lieutenant Parsons, 6th Oude Irregular Infantry; lieu tenant Currie, Artillery ;—drowned while fugitives from Fyzabad, 9th June. Lieutenant Lindesay, 22d Regiment N.I. ; Lieutenant Cantle'', 22d Regiment N.I. ;—killed at the village of Mo wadnbur, in the Gorackpore District, while flying from Fyzabad, 10th June. Major Blake, Commanding 2d Regiment of Infantry, Gwalior Contingent ; Dr. Kirke, Superintending Surgeon ; Lieutenant A. Procter ;—killed by the mutineers of the Gwalior Contingent, 14th June. Lieutenant Smith Adjutant of the 4th Irregular Cavalry; shot by a duffadar 'of his corps, at Mozuffurnuggnr., 21st June. Mr. Butterfield ; shot in the outbreak at Mozuffurnug gur, 2 lst June. Dr. Lyell, Ist Assistant Opium Agent; shot in an out break in the city of Patna, on the night of the 3d July. Mr. W. A. Moore, C.S., Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Mirzapore, and Superintendent of the Benares Rajah's Dominions; killed by the followers of Jorye Sing and others, zeinindars of Poroopoor, at Polee Indigo Fac tory, near Gopeegunge, 4th July. Mr. Jones, Indigo Planter ; Mr. Kemp, Indigo Planter ; killed by the followers of Jorye Sing and others, zemin dars of Poroopoor, at Polee Indigo Factory, near Gopee gunge, 4th July. Major Holmes, 12th Irregular Cavalry, and his wife ; the Surgeon, 12th Irregular Cavalry, and his wife—mur dered by the mutineer sowars of the 12th Irregular Ca valry, at Segowlee, 23d July. Mr. Loyd, C.S„ Magistrate and Collector of Humeer pore ; Mr. Donald Grant, C.S., Joint Magistrate and De puty Collector of Humeerpore ; Mr. Murray—supposed to have been killed. A country born English writer, dis guised as a native, came to Allahabad, via Humeerpore, and asserted that these gentlemen were murdered at Oraie. Captain P. H. C. Burlton, 67th N.I. The company of the 67th N 1., doing duty at Muttra, were to have been relieved by a company of the 44th N.l. from Agra. The opportunity was seized for sending treasure down to Agra, when the men of the 67th, who had behaved well hitherto, shot Capt. Barlton, fired at all the Europeans who were at the Cutcherry, and, being joined by the relieving company of the 44th N. 1., marched to Delhi. Major Spencer, Commanding 26th Regiment Light In fantry ; this regiment had been disarmed. Major Spencer was killed by blows dealt him with a hatchet, at Meean Meer, 30th July, 1857. Major Birob, 41st N. 1., Lieut. Smalley, 41st N.l.—killed in the outbreak at Seetapore, in Oude. Mr. Gibson, a Salt Officer ; killed by some inhabitants of the Mabomedan village of Kurreemgunge (Budaon Dis trict), let September, 1857. Mr. Ronald, Assi stant Commissioner, Deogurh ' • Lieut. Cooper, 32d N.J. —killed by the mutineers of the 32 (1 N.I , at Deogurh, 9th October, 1867. CECIL BEADON, Secretary to the Government of India. November 6, 1857. No. 4. List of Europeans Killed or Wounded by the hands of Rebels in the Lower Provinces. At Rohnee , in the Sonthal Pergnnnahs—June 12. Sir Norman - Leslie, Adjutant, sth Irregular Cavalry, killed; Majot J. M'Donald, and Assistant-Surgeon N. J. Grant, attached to Irregular Cavalry, wounded ; while sitting together in front of the mess bungalow, a sudden rush was made at them by three men of the regiment, with naked swords ; Sir Norman Leslie was disabled by the first blow, Major M`Donald had two cuts on his head, and Dr. Grant received a severe wound in the arm, and another in the leg; they both defended themselves with chairs, and succeeded in driving off their assailants. Sir Norman was fearfully wounded, and died shortly after. At Patna.-4nly 3. Assistant-Surgeon R. Lyell, Principal Assistant to the Opium Agent, Patna, killed :—in the disturbance at Patna, on the night of July 3, Dr. Lyell, while riding in front of his men, to attack the rebels, was shot to the ground. At Segowlee.— -July 23. Major J. G. Holmes, Commanding 12th Irregu lar Cavalry, and Mrs. Holmes, killed :—while taking their evening drive, both were killed by the mutineers of the 12th Irregn lar Cavalry. Aesistant•Surgeon H. S. Garner and child, killed :—the mutineers, after killing Major Holmes, proceeded to the Doctor's Blingalow, forced it open, murdered the Doctor, his wife, and one child, and then set fire to it. One child, a little girl, escaped notice, and was taken care of by the Tehsidar. 24th July. Mr. E. Bennett, Deputy Postmaster, killed ;—mur dered by the mutineers of the same regiment. At Deoghur, Oct. 9. Lieutenant H. C. A. Cooper, Commanding Detachment 32d N. 1., and Mr. R. E. Ronald, Assistant Commissioner, Deoghur, killed by mutineers of 32d N.I. Mr. J. W. Garstin, Deputy Magistrate, Buzar, wounded while accompanying the force to relieve Arrah. A. R. YOUNG, Secretary to the Government of Bengal. LONDON G. Ls Evening,,) WINDSOR CASTLE, Dn. 21. This clay had audience of her Majesty—The Count de Platen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary from the King of Sweden and Norway, to deliver his credentials ; to which audience he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 22. _ __ This day had audience of her Majesty—His Excellency Ferukh Khan, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Shah of Persia, to take leave ; to which audience he was intro duced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Prin cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEO. 23. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Archibald Shanks Schaw as Consul at Glasgow; of Mr. George Wil liam Ewen as Vice-Consul in London ; and of Mr. Robert Richards Broad, jun., as Vice• Consul at Falmouth ;—for the Republic of Salvador. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 14. Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Ca lot Thomas Palmer Norton to be Lieutenant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—George Camp bell, late Captain Ist Royal Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Sir Archibald J. Campbell, Bart., resigned ; Quarter. master John Howie Paterson to be Comet, vice Middleton, promoted. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Chas. Roger, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Marietta, promoted. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Joshua Paul Barkr, Gent., late of the 44th Rogt. of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lomax, resigned. 3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Royal Lancashire Militia—Francis Law, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hicks, promoted. 4th or D'xike of Lancas'er's Own (Light Infantry) Regi ment of Royal Lancashire Militia—William Upton Slack, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia— Loftus John Rolleston, Gent., to be Ensign. MEMORANDIIM.—Tho Commission of Ensign Alfred E,'elby, dated March, 187,6, has been cancelled. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia— Anthony Walmesley, Gent., late Lieutenant 73 , 1 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Meek, promoted; Pargiter Malvoisie Dickenson, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Francis William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., to be Honorary Colonel. Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia —Nathaniel Frederick Ellison, Esq., to be Captain. The Galloway Rifles—Wm. Robinson Lodge, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Erasmus Gower, appointed to the 12th Lancers. Northamptonshire Militia—Lieut. Robert. Jas. D'Arcy to be Captain, vice Capt. Drury Wake, resigned. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the Ist December inst.) Northamptonshire Militia—Ensign Charles Jeanine to be Lientonant, vice William Evans, removed. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Charles John Mare, shipbuil ler, Blackwell. John Otto William Fabert, snip chandler, Liverpool. Savas Caracaziani, merchant, Manchester. BANKRUPTS. 'James Eddy, iron manufacturer, Edward-street, Dept fOrd, Jan. 7, at twelve, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry John Loe, stonemason, Guildford, Surrey, Jan. 5 and Feb. 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Robert Bentham, dyer and stover, Halifax, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. C. and T. Topham, dyers, York, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. William Horsfall, cotton spinner, Halifax, Jan. 11, at twelve, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Robert Henry Adamson, scrivener, York, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at eleven (not January as before advertised), at the Leeds District Court. _ John Ecclep, Edward Eccles, and Alexander Eccles, cotton brokerF Liverpool, Jan. 8 and Feb. o, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. James Howard and Charles Howard, silk manufacturers, Macclesfield, Jan. 4 and Feb.l, at 12, at the Manchester District Court. Edward Reaston, lodging-house-keeper, Filey, York shire, Jan. 18 and Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. . _ Edward Lindsey Baker, ship broker, Liverpool, Jan. 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. James Hagen; candle manufacturer, Bristol, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Thomas Taylor and John Seeger, indigo manufacturers, Soundwell, Gloucestershire, Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Thomas Roe, machine builder, Nottingham, Jan. Hand Feb. 4, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. John Porter, lace manufacturer, Old Radford, Jan. 14 and Feb. 4, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Notting ham. George Hamilton, cotton spinner, Bacnp, Lancashire, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. LI William Robinson Urwin, iron merchant, fCTewcastle uPon-Tyne' Jan. 8, a t h a lf•p as t e l even , an d F e b. 19, a t sass, at th e Royal Arcad e , N ewcas tl e - upon -T yne . .huames Brown, innkeeper, Whaley Bridge and Buxton, Court. • IFeb.2 and Fb 2, at eleven, a t th e M anc h es t er Di s t r i ct i u k e ra u ae ttri,i . y s i, 4,,i c Dean ,,lii i atone , 5 mason sai; dl l F a e b b e .s g 2 b, ham ! Eaves,W ili twelve, at the ManclLater District Court. W gs, haberdasher, Finsbury, Jan. 5, at eleven, Feb. one, at the ourt of Bankruptc J o hn ll Dyne and Sydn ey y. jerrai t iiaamnd . eb 2 1 Dyne, builders, Croydon, Jan. 15 , at half-past one, and Feb, 5, at twelve, at the Court of tailor, Hastings, Bankruptcy. Jan 9, at half-past at twelve, at. the * Court of Bankruptcy. P t 'll en onvi e-road, Jan, 7, at half- John Young, draper, twelve, Thom an as d/ Fe b• Taylor, , past twelve, and Feb. 5, at two, at the Court of Bank. raptcy. Joseph Heldmann, lace manufacturer, Cheapside, Jan. 7, at one, and Feb. 5, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Lloyd, frying-pan manufacturer, Gospel Qak, Tipton, Staffordshire, Jan. 7 and 28, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. William Billings, bonnet-shape maker, Red Cross-street, Jan. 2, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Sybe I. Stevenster, merchant, Mark-lane, Jan, 2, at laalf past eleven, and Feb. kat half-past twelve, at the Cburt of Bankruptcy. William Hopperton, liceman ' Oxford-street, Middlesex, Jan. 5, at half-past two, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Eli Gibson, builder, Wilby, Northamptonshire, Jan. 9, at half-past one, and Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. William Hills, grocer, Gravesend, Jan. 8, at eleven, Ind Feb. 8, at one, at the ourt of Bankruptcy. George Scott, coal merchant, Moor-wharf, Uxbridge, Middlesex, Jan. 8, at twelve, axd Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. . _ Donald Maccallum, grocer, Edinburgh. John Dunn, house factor, Glasgow. John Trainor, spirit dealer, Coatbridge. Thomas Mitchell, flesher, Edinburgh. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Tictorla, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Wednesday, the 23d day of December, 1857. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued N.B. Of which two millions are issued an der the authority of the letter from the First Lord of the Trea sury and the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities .. • . 5,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 10,203,790 Silver bullion• • • • .. • • -- £26,683,790 £26,633,730 d. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1857. Dated the 24th day of Decembi BANKING n; X Proprietors' capital 14,553,000 Rest.. ~ . . Public deposits (in cluding EKchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings' Banks, and Government securities ncludg.DeadWelght Annuity) .. • • Other Securities 28,038,184 Notes ........ 7,426,670 Gold and Silver Coin 514,491 Dividend Accounts) 7,429,837 Other deposits Seven Day and other Bills .... • • • £41,552,103 £11,552,103 MA.RSIIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 24th day of Dec., 185' AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from tho returns made in the week ending Dec. 22, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America 25 9i Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies — Average of the above descriptions. 'GE.-YESTERDAY. 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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. A memorandum from the office of the Comman der-in-Chief states that the Military Secretary will not have a "List" on Tuesday next. The reinforcements for the 18th Royal Irish, 61st Light Infantry, 72d Highlanders, 83d, 86th, and 98th Regiments, upwards of 200 men of all ranks, will leave Chatham garrison to-morrow, and embark at Gravesend on board the Salamanca for India. Yesterday the troops belonging to the 2d Battalion at Chatham were amembled on the general parade ground at Chatham Barracks for the purpose of hearing read the proceedings of a- district court martial for the trial of Sergeant Foord, of the 90th Light Infantry, on a charge of drunkenness. The sentence of the Court was read by Captain Roney, the adjutant of the battalion, the prisoner being reduoed to the rank and pay of a private. Imme diately after the sentence had been read, the senior sergeant-major was directed to cut the "stripes" off the prisoner's arm in the presence of the whole battalion. The prisoner has been upwards of 20 years in the service, and had claimed his discharge previous to the committal of the offence for which he was tried. The steamship Australasia, Captain Secalea, from Portsmouth, with the head•quarters of the 68th Regiment for India, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. Country Markets. MANCHESTER-Du. 24, Since our hit report the trade has gradually assumed a firmer tone, and the transactions have been at about the rates of last week. A small attendance this morning. NEWARZ—Dac. 23. A good attendance, and prices similar to those of lasi week, Best samples a shade dearer. Wheat, white 54s to 565, red 481 to 51s; barley, malting 38s to 545, grinding 36s to 335; oats, 24st. 32s to 365, 22st 24s to 28s ; beans, 46s to 48s ; malt, 63s to 72s ; peas, 445 to 46s ; tares, 56s to 60s per qr. LOUTH—Dze. 23. An inactive trade in corn to-day, with little variation in rates, but a downward tendency. Wheat, 403 to 44s ; extra, 46s ; barley 33s to 353 ; oats 20e to 23s ; baans, 41s to 455. BOSTON—DEc. 23. The wheat trade to-day was in a rather inaotive state. The few sales passing in wheat were at a reduction of Is to 2e. Spring corn a slow sale, and on easier terms. Prices :—Wheat, red, 39s Od to 46s Od; new, —s to -s white, 44s 0(1 to 47s Od ; extra, 495. Barley, 26s Od to 38s 01. Oats 18s to 25a. Peas, 353 to 42s Od. Beans, 36s Od to 43s Od per qr. GLASGOW-DEC. 23. A better feeling pervaded the trade to-day, but trans actions were only retail, and at the rates of last week. Beans and pease dull. Flour in some instances held for less morey. Oats for feed a better sale, at Ws to 18s, and oatmeal 31s. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—Thic. 16. A fair supply of grain to-day, and sales heavy. Wheat and barley bstter. Wheat, on the top, is Od down, and on the average Oa 3d down. Barley, is Od down on the top, and Os 7d ug on tho average. Oats on the top were is 6cl down, and on the average la 3d down. Beans on the top 3a Od down, and o❑ the average is ld down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £1 19 10 6-12th. Do. new -12ths. Barley Oats 1 2 1 6-12ths. Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1198 qrs sold 959 qrs Barley 2272 qrs sold 1927 qrs Oats 1590 qrs sold 1317 qrs Beans 156 qrs sold 131 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.-DEC. 22. A large stipply of fat beasts to-day, lb u t the demand was limited, and few buyers. Sheep in good supply, but sales heavy. Fat pigs plentiful. Calves numerous. The following were the quotations :—Beef, Sid to 6d ; mutton, 7d to 'rid ; lamb, —d to 01; veal, Tod tc 01 per lb. ; pigs, 9s 6d to 11s 3d per score ; rough fat, 5s 01 to Os per 141 b. ; hides, 4kd to 6,d per lb ; calf-skins, 6d to 73 per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-DE°. 24. We have to report rather a firm market, and more dis position to operate at present rates. Refined soarce, and all descriptions much wanted. In rum some sales of De merara are reported at 2s 4d per proof gal l on. AN APPROPRIATE MAW/H.—The Ildinburet EXpre.3B states that Miss White, who has returned to this coun try from Genoa, was married on Saturday to a young Italian, of literary pretensions, named Signor Alberto Mario, with whom she became acquainted in Genoa. A mad dog appeared a few days ago in the commune of Mellecey (Saone et Loire), and bit three children, a cow, and a dog. The animal was pursued until night fall, but could not be caught ; the next day, however, he was killed in the neighbouring village of St. Denis The bites received by the three children were promptly cauterised, the dog bitten was killed, and the cow was placed in a stable to be closely watched. [ADVERTISEMENT.] KIDNEYS, BLADDER, &O. -- Second Edition, Price 2s.—Practical information on the origin of Diabetes, Albuminuria, or Bright's disease, and certain other chronic affections of the Kidneys and Bladder in both sexes their connection with the Stomach and Liver, and only successful mode of cure By Dr Denis Cronin, 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley square.—" A. very able work upon diseases affecting a large portion of the population."—Weekly News. Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre. YORK Hoses FAIR.—The great Christmas horse fair at York was held during the whole of last week, con cluding on Saturday. There was a large number of animals shown, yet the exhibition, whether as to numbers or quality, was below that of the previous years. Good horses of all descriptions were very scarce, and realised prices quite as high as those obtained 12 months ago. Inferior horses were parted with on lower terms. Mr. Murray, of Manchester, bad 21 first-class hunters ; but the attendance c•f hunting gentlemen not being large, only six of the horses were sold, at an -average _pri•ce' et 2501. S ,rna of the most celebrated English, French, and German horse- dealers were in attendance at the fair.—leecis MercurJ• ASSIZE INTELLIGtENOE. NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.--NEWCASTLE, DEc. 23. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Blakestone Hinde, 27, and Wm. Wise, 21, were indicted for having, on Dec. 26, 1856, assaulted and robbed Wm. Owley of 2621. The Hon. A. Liddell and Mr. Davidson prose cuted; Mr. Seymour defended the prisoner Hinde, the other prisoner, by the advice of his counsel (Mr. Price), pleaded guilty. It appeared that the prosecutor on the 22d Dec. last year received a sum of 2651. from Messrs. Hodge and Hurle, solicitors, Newcastle. Of this sum there were two notes of 1001. each, 451. in 51.- notes, and the rest in gold. This sum the prosecu tor, who is a farmer, kept about his person until the 26th Dec. On that night he was drinking at the White Hart Inn, in the Low Bar, Grey-street, Newcastle, in company with two men named Jas. Reed and Wm. Donkin, and left there at 11 o'clock worse for liquor, alone. As he was going home up Collingwood-street he was overtaken by Reed and Donkin, and they all went into the Wellington Inn, in that street, where he had some more to drink. He then separated from them, and left the inn to go home about a quarter to 12 o'clock, and was pro ceeding up Marlborough-street, when he heard foot steps behind him, and saw two men. Immediately after a man threw his arms round his neck, and he was strangled until he became insensible, thrown down, and robbed of all the money on his person, and recollected nothing further until he found him self at home, bruised, and with a front tooth knocked out. He had afterwards charged Reed and Donkin with being the two men who had robbed him. The prosecution, however, did not rely on his testimony as to the persons who had robbed him. They called William Wise, the prisoner who had pleaded guilty, who stated that on the night of 26th Dec. last year he and the prisoner Hinde lived in Gateshead, and a man named Winship lived in Winlaton, near Gateshead. On that night he was in the Charles XII. public-house with the prisoner Hinde and Winship and they left in company at a quarter to 12, when Hinde and Winship asked me to take a walk with them through the town. They all went towards the Cattle-market and along Marl borough-street, and while there Hinde was at one side of the street and he and Winship on the other, when the prosecutor passed them in the middle of the road and spoke to witness and Winship. While his face was turned towards them Hinde crcssed from . the other side of the street, and rushing upon O wley, put his arms round his neck as described by the prosecutor. Winship said to witness, " Come over, here is some money to be got ;" and they then rifled the prosecutor's pockets of 2661.75. 6d. They then all ran away across Knee's field towards the river, towards the wrestling ground, where there is a gaslight, when the prisoner Hinde took the money out of a flat purse and they divided it ; after which they crossed the bridge into Gateshead and walked from there to Winlaton to Winship's mother's, to whom Winship gave one of 1001.-notes, part of his share, and she said she would keep it till it could be changed, and placed it in an old dress. They then wont to a publichouse kept by a man named Reed, to whose wife he offered the other 1001. note to change as a 101. note, and she told him it was a 1001. note, and he then took it away. Mrs. Reed was called and corroborated this statement. A man named Johnson proved that on the night in ques tion he was in Marlborough-street at a quarter to 12, when he saw a man fall and three men run away, leaving the men senseless. That man was the prosecutor. A boy also proved that the day fol lowing he found a 51. note on the road which these three men had taken. It was also proved that on some of Hinde's friends calling to see him at the prison he was overheard to tell them " to call on Mrs. Wise and to keep her sweet." Early in the last year Winship and the prisoner Hinde had es caped from the gaol, and the prisoner only had been recaptured. On the part of the prosecution the testimony of the prisoner Wise was relied on, corroborated as it was by the evidence of the other witnesses. For the defence it was contended that these witnesses were none of them free from taint, andthat Wise had said unless 201. were given to him he would give evidence against the other prisoner. His Lordship having summed up, The jury found the prisoner guilty, and His Lordship sentenced Hinde to be confined in penal servitude for 15 years, and Wise to penal servitude for six years. John O'Harrow, aged 21, and Wm. Daley, 23, were indicted for having, on the 20th Sept. last, attempted to drown John Blackpool, with intent to kill and murder him. Mr. Price and Mr. Greenhow prosecuted ; and. Mr. Seymour defended ()Marrow, and Mr. Davi son the prisoner Daley. It appeared that the prosecutor, who was mate of a ship moored at the quay-side, had been out drinking on the night in question in the town, and was going on board his ship between 11. and 12 o'clock, when ho was suddenly seized by four men, two of whom were the prisoners at the bar, thrown down, and a pocket of his trousers containing his money turned inside out and cut off. While thus on the ground helpless the men seized him by the legs and body, and deliberately threw him over the quay-side into Ste river, in deep water. The prose cutor was not so stunned as to be unable to try to keep himself afloat, and he contrived to get between his vessel and the quay wall, and by means of his elbows and holding on by projections of the wall to support himself until he was got out of his perilous position. A little girl named Catherine Riley, who had been selling crockery ware in the market near, was passing close by at the time with her basket, and said she saw five men go towards the prosecutor as he was going on board hie ship, and saw one of the men walk away, and heard him say as he was going away, " If you are going to rob the man and drown him, I will have nothing to do with it." She then saw the other four men, as described, throw the prose cutor down, rifle his pockets as described, and throw him afterwards into the river. The men then ran away, and she leaned over the quay-side to give and nearly fell into She spoke positively to the two prisoners as being two o f th e men , a n d the the manriver a h e hand rsel f t in o help doing him . up, said she had known them both before. When osseot them ran away the others cried after him, "If you scutch we will kill you." A p o li ceman on duty on the bridge spoke to seeing the two prisoners and other two men running over the brid ge , and after wards, on going to the qu a y- s id e, he saw the pro secutor getting out of the river ou to the quay very wet and dirty. The prisoners' counsel having addresses the jury on their behalf, His Lordship summed up, and tho jury found both prisoners guilty. They were sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude 1 each. POLIC.S IXTELLIGRNCE—Dec. 24. MANSION-HOUSE.--Several of the idle fol lows who have been for a length of time loitering about Leadenhall-market with the intention to plunder were charged with having stolen poultry, and convicted and sentenced in petty sessions, le-t -fore the Lord Mayor and Alderman Rose, to various teems of imprisonment with hard labour. Johanna Callaghan a street-walker who has been in the habit of robbing gentlemen on their return from convivial entertainments, was committed for three months as a rogue and vagabond. She had been treated to a ride in a cab on a very rainy night by a gentleman, who thought she was an object of compassion , and listened to a very sorrowful history o f h er troubles, during the re cital of which she contrived to steal all the money he had about him, and hand it out at the win dow to an accompli ce w ho had watched the cab. Th e prosecutor, suddenly finding that all his money was gone, ordered the cabman to drive to Bow lane station, and there charged the prisoner , wh o said that she was as h on est a woman as ever came from Ireland, and that she never before knew what a prison was, but what could a poor woman do among such a host of bad people ? William Regan Was sentenced to impriso nment for three months for h av i n g attempted to rob John Whelan of his watch i n L ea denhall-market. The prisoner, it was stated, had followed the prosecutor in the ma r ket, and the moment an opportunity presented itself took the watch out of his waistcoat, but could not break it from the guard, and was caught with it in his hand. The prisoner said, the crowd was enormous in the market, and it w as qu it e impossible to say w ho was the thief, but he was quite confident th at he ne ver had engaged in any a thi n g of the kind, and h e c ould refer to his character fornumber of years as a proof that he had had no bad experience of any kind. WORSHIP-STREET.—James Alfred Harman, a young man of respectable appearance, described as a trimming manufacturer, residing at 27, Anchor street, Bethnal-green, was charged on suspicion of having wilfully set fire to his house, and caused the death of three of his lodgers, named John, Anne, and Julia Metcalfe. Mr. Lewis, dßly-pl ac e, attended for the prose r. Sleigh appeared fo r the defendant. Mr. Lewis called th e f o ll o wing witnesses. Police-constable A n d rew s, 11 38, said—On the prose cution, and M morning of Saturday, the 19th inst., between 12 and 1, while on duty in Anchor-street, Bethnal green, I met the prisoner, who had just come out of a publichouse immediately opposite his omit resi deuce. He at once said, "Policeman, I have ju s t been robbed, and my house has been stripped of 601. worth of goods, consisting of my, own and wife's k totothes and jewellery." He added, " It had such an ' effect on me that, I made an attempt to cut my throat ; put your finger up and feel." A l did so, and felt something like a scratch. I asked him who he suspected, and he said, "My wife and my wife's mother," adding, "Ivrishyou would seaach the pre mises." I told him to go and see the inspector of the station. He replied, " No, I will not ; can I get a search warrant 1" I said, " No, you cannot at this hour of the night." He then observed, " I shall leave it until the morning," and asKed me to have something to drink. I refused, and be left, and returned to the Compasses public-house. I saw him again at half-past 1 o'clock, an hour after wards ; he was carrying a gallon can of beer. He bade me good night, and entered his house. I next saw him at three o'clock the same morning. He was then in Anchor-court, nearly opposite his house. I asked him what he was doing there, and he returned some trivial answer. By Mr. Hammill—He appeared in liquor when I first saw him. He exhibited a swaggering man ner. He appeared worse at three o'clock, but not so bad that I should have taken him into custody for drunkenness. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—When I saw him in the front and spoke to him, he asked, "Do you know me ?" I replied, " I do, your name is Har man." We then walked down the court, and he observed, "I shall go in and go to bed ;" but in stantly added, '• No, I shall go to my brother's, or brother-in-law, at the West-end, and get him to look after my premises." At that moment I looked across, and saw what I believed to be gas burning in the house. I saw it through the crack in the shutters ; then I saw smoke issuing from the top part of the shutters. I said, " Good heavens, Har man, your house is on fi and do you know it 1" He said, " Where, where' We both ran across the road. I gave an alarm by springing my rattle. The lower part of the premises was then in flames. He ran against the door and forced it open with his body. He tried to enter, but could not, in conse quence of the flames. He then ran to the side-door, and tried to force it, but it would not give. I sent for the fire escape, and returned to the front of the house. It was then I saw a woman with a child at the window of the second fiber. About 3or 4 minutes bad elapsed since I had left the front of the house pre viously. The prisoner, I believe, has not made any remark. Prisoner afterwards went to the door of the next house, where his mother-in-law re sides. I think the door was by that time open, and I did not see him again. The woman at the win dow was in her night dress. Sergeant Egerton—On the morning in question I went to the house, which I found in flames, and heard some persons exclaim that there were people inside who had made their way to the top. I went to the adjoining house, No. 28, and ascended to the attic, where I saw the prisoner and two civi lians holding him, as he was evidently in extreme excitement. Sergeant Purchase then entered, and he was conveying him down stairs, when prisoner exclaimed, " There are people still in the house to whom I have just been speaking." I then made my way along the parapet, and forcing open one of the windows of the next house, called out loudly, but received no reply. The smoke was suffocating, and the flames extended halfway across the road. The fire-escape then arrived, andwas placed against No. 28. The conductor, however, could not, in consequence of the extreme heat, obtain access to the burning premises. I afterwards saw three bodies brought down lifeless, and soon after saw the prisoner, and said to him, " From what I have heard, I think there is something very serious about this business," and on asking him if he had been in the court referred to, he answered in the negative. I then asked, "Has your house been robbed 1" He replied, " No, it has not," and said he had not stated so to the policeman. In answer to further questions, the accused emphatically as serted his innocence of any complicity in the trans action. After some further evidence, the counsel for the prosecution required a remand, as he would on a future day be enabled to call witnesses of im portance, and Mr. Hammill, observing that there appeared a strong prima facie case against the prisoner, re manded him, at the same time refusing an urgent appeal for bail to be put in. DECEMBER 25, 1857. DIREADEVL SHIPTRECKS. TOTAL LOSS OF THE EARL OF CARRICK, STEAMER—ALL HANDS EXCEPT TWO LOST —STATEMENT OF THE SURVIVORS. In this journal of Wednesday appeared a brief notice of a screw steamer having gone ashore on the Isle of Man, bound from Ayr to Liverpool, and it was supposed that all on board except two had perished. We regret to confirm that statement. The ill-fated vessel proved to be the Earl of Carrick, ' iron screw steamer, commanded by Capt. Albany, 300 tons, builders' measurement, belonging to the Mews. T. and W. Paton and Co., Liverpool. She left Ayr on Saturday with a cargo of pig iron, wheat, potatoes, rye-grass, (Itc. Fortunately she had only one passenger—Capt. R. Paton, who formerly commanded a small vessel trading between Liverpool and Ayr. The annexed statements of the two 'Survivors, taken on oath by the Receiver of Wreck at Douglas, will be found to contain the details of the catas trophe. John Lyon, seaman, on board the Earl of Car rick, deposes—We left Ayr at 12 o'clock at noon on the 9th Dec., with a south-westerly wind, steering S.W. by W.; continued in that course about five hours, when we sighted Port Patrick, and altered the course to S.W. by S., which we continued about an hour, after which I steered S.S. W. until we made the Mull of Galloway, when I changed to S. by E., on which we saw the Point of Ayr light on our starboard bow, and, I then steered S. S.E., the proper course for Liverpool. When I left the wheel, David Bailey took my place, and sailed S.W. by S., about two hours. William Lawson succeeded him, and steered S.S.W. till about half-past two o'clock, a.m., keeping the vessel up in consequence of the strong current carrying her northwards, and having lost sight of the Point of Ayr light in the darkness caused by thick rain. James Watt then took the helm, still steering S. S. W., until about five o'clock, a.m., when wo opened the lights of the Calf of Man, which appeared (from the heavy sea roiling the vessel) to be sometimes on our starboard bow, and sometimes right ahead. When we thus discovered our dangerous prereimity to the shore, we at once brailed up. the foresail and mainsail (which had been set at about half-past 8 p.m.) The helm was put hard sport to bring the vessel's head to the westward, clear of the breakers. At this time the engines were stopped, and I went to the engineer and told him to reverse the engines full speed ; that we were then close on the rocks. The captain called out to know who ordered the engines to be stopped, and I told him that I had ordered them to be reversed to keep clear of the land. But the heavy sea was too strong for the vessel, and she was driven on to the rocks at Dalby Point, about six miles from Peel, in the Isle of Man, at about five o'clock on the morning of the 20th inst. The vessel was supplied with a life-boat and a jolly-boat, and two life-buoys ; but as soon as she struck the vessel broke into two parts athwart ships, the bows falling away sideways into compa ratively deep wry er, and carrying the life-boat and captain and two men along with it. Oa the after part, which remained stuck on the rocks, 10 of the crew, with the stewardess and one passenger (the only one on board), collected, and we tried to get off the jolly-boat, but the bow tackle would not run, and she was at once stove in ; so that our only hope was to reach the shore by swimming and using the two life-buoys. These were taken by James Watt (who has been saved) and the chief engine( r, who, however, could not reach the shore. We had three compasses on board. One was placed about 24 feet from the wheel, and another about 20 feet further forward, and the other in the cabin. They were not at all in good order, and not cor rect, as we had found on a previous voyage from Liverpool to Ayr. The lead was not hove at all during the voyage. The vessel was inspected in October last, at Troon, by a Government inspec tor. She was well found in rigging and tackle. I saved myself by swimming until I reached the rook, when a rope was thrown to me by persons on the shore, who exerted themselves to the utmost to save the lives of the crew, and I was drawn to the land. I have been seaman on board the Earl of Car rick 17 months; the captain joined about a month be fore I did. The captain wason deck all the last watch, when the vessel struck ; both ho and all on board were perfectly sober. Ido not think that anything more could have been done to rescue the crew, as no boat could have lived in the breakers at the tinge. James Watt, seaman, says—l took the helm soon after 12 o'clock at midnight. I steerred the vessel S.S.W., making allowance of two points for the variation of the compasses, which I knew to be in correct. About 5 o'clock on the morning of the 20th the second mate ran aft to me to ask " Could I say what light that was ahead ? " and on looking out I discovered they were the Calf of Man lights, and that we were close on a leesnore. The lights were only visible fora moment, because of the spray washing over the vessel. (Re then confirms Lyons' 'statement as to what was then done, and the ship striking.) She broke into two parts almost at once. The bow - fell away . sideways, 'and several of the cr i ew, with our only passenger, the stewardess and myself, were left on the stern of the vessel, which stuck on the . rock. 1 put myself into one of the' two life-buoys, and the chief engineer, standing by my side, took the other, when a heavy sea washed over us and carried several off the wreck. After struggling about an hour and a quarter I was thrown on a rock, and crawled up ou t ofreach of the sea. An ttempt was made to launch the jolly-boat, but as the bow tackle fouled and would not rtin, we had no means of saving our lives except by the life buoy, as the life-boat was stove in when the vessel broke. The lead was not hove during the passage. The body of the stewardess (who was a'fine young woman, 24' years of age), in her night-dress, has been washed ashore, as also two of the seamen. The wreck was witnessed by a large number of liersons on the shore, who were unable to render the leant aid to the unhappy crow in consequence 'of the heavy sea which kept rolling in. The sufferers were observed td be washed off by two and three: Most of the crew were married, and have left families. The ship and cargo are insured. TOTAL LOSS OF THE SHIP WALLACE, OF LEITH. HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS, AND DEATH OF THREE OF THE CREW. By the arrival in the Mersey, on Wednesday night, of the barque Colina, of and from St. John's, N. 8., Captain Robyns, we have the particulars of the total loss of the ship Wallace, of Leith, Capt. Cormea, and the dreadful sufferings of the crew, who remained on the wreck during a period of 11 days without food or drink, except the body of a dog, and what water they could secure during short intervals of rain. The details are horrible in the extreme, and we relate them as they were received from the lips of six of the 'crew of the ill-fated vessel, who were on Wednesdaynight brought on shore from the Colina, and conveyed to the Sailors' Home, at Liverpool. It appears that the Wallace was a full-rigged ship, and sailed from the Clyde on the 10th Aug., coal laden, for Quebec, having a crew of 21, all told. During the passage out little else but gales of wind was experienced—she carried away her masts, and ultimately reached Quebec under jury-rig. On the 14th Nov. the Wallace sailed from Que bec, timber laden, for Greenock - . Shortly atter putting to sea a gale of wind came on and conti nued with little intermission until the 7th inst., when the ship was about 800 miles distant from Cape Clear. Soon after 12 o'clock on that day, while the hands were at work at the pumps, a tre mendous sea struck the ship, and capsized her, the crew having to crawl up the lanyards to escape being drowned. After groat oxol tiong they cut away the lanyards, when the main and mizen masts fell. The ship shortly afterwards righted, when another sea struck the bowsprit and carried it away, and also the foremast, and at the same time sweeping the deck of all that was left, and washing overboard Mr. Lindsay, the chief officer, and the steward (be longing to Devonport, but whose name the crew could not recollect), and they were unfortunately drowned. The remainder of the crew held on by the wreck all that afternoon, night, and a part ef next day, when the gale abated. On the Bth they were enabled to ascertain that the hatches and deck had been forced up, the poop cabin cleared of its contents, and that not a morsel of provisions was to be obtained The weather having further moderated, the crew cut away the wreck from the ship's side, and made further search for food. Ultimately a couple of casks of water were discovered in the fore hold, and half a bucket of biscuit.; but on the 9th a sea stove the water casks, and thus was lost what the men were now craving. On the 10th the poor fellows had be come greatly exhausted from hunger, thirst, cold, and wet—indeed their sufferings can be more easily imagined than described. No vessel had hove in sight, and their hunger now became of that cha racter that they could eat anything, when it was determined to kill and divide the dog, which was done—a small portion being consumed by each, un cooked, for they had no fire. On the 11th and suc ceeding days shower of rain fell, and the poor fel lows managed to catch a small quantity, but not suf ficient to allay their parching thirst, whilst small bits of their once favourite dog were the only food they had from the '7th to the 17tti Dec., on which day the joyful cry,of " a sail" was given, and ulti mately the Coliva, Capt. Robyus, bore down, took the crew off the wreck, got them on board, behavedl in the most kind and humane manner to them; but care was then necessary for their treatment, for although well nigh exhausted, their appetites were ravenous. An apprentice, who was insensible when taken off the wreck, died soon afterwards. The captain (Cormea) and all the crew, except the three above named and the six now at tbo Li verpool Sailors' Home, remain onboard the Colinda, being too ill, from swollen feet, dm, to be imme diately removed. The ship Frank Pierce, which arrived at Liver pool on Tuesday last, fell in with, on Dec. 13, in lat. 48 N., lon. 33 W., the Norwegian ship Espin dola, off Porsgrund, Funnemark, master, water logged and abandoned, with decks swept, and sails blown away. The following particulars of the Espindola have been ascertained:—The Espindela sailtd from Que bec the 14th Nov., and encountered strong north erly winds until Monday, the 30th Nov., when the wind increa-ed to making a violent gale, the ship labouring heavily, and making much water ; the crew constantly at the pumps, and the water gain ing on them. At midnight lost the bulwarks of the starboard side. On Tuesday, the Ist Dec.,. gale increasing, at Bp. m. shipped a sea that cox ried away the skylight and filled the cabin with water. On Monday, the 7th, the crew constantly at the pumps, but could not reduce the water. At 8 a. m. saw a ship to the S. W. ; made sail and stood towards h r ; at 10 a.m. hoisted a signal of dist , ess ; at 3p. m. the stranger, observing our sig nal, hove down upon us ; it proved to be the Ame ricas, Captain Potts, of and:from St. Johns, N. 8., bound to Liverpool. Capt. Funnemark went on board, when Captain Potts immediately offered to lie and take us all off. The captain then returned on board, and sent one boat to the ship, with a quantity of clothing and four hands. After discharg ing the boat the crew attempted to return to the Es piudola, but, from the increasing wind, found it im possible to make her, and returned to the Ameri cana. The second boat then came alongside, with seven hands, and also full of clothing ; but t from the increasing wind and sea, almost immediately filled, the crew b are ly esca pi ng w ith th e i r li ves . Captain Potts being i n f orme d by th e crew th a t th e captain did not intend to leave the ship until the return of the other boats which he had seat to the Americana,-and they both being stove and lost, and the night pitch - dark, with a heavy sea running, found it impossible to render any further assistance, kept the ship by the wind until 8 a.m., with hands aloft to lOok out for the Espindola. At that time, nothing being in sight, the Americana resumed her course. Too much praise cannot be given to Cap tain Potts for having come-to theirrescae- so soon ; nor could the kindness and attention of both Cap tain and Mrs. Potts be exceeded, which will be ever remembered by those saved. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting M. Pelouse read a report on a paper by M.Gelis, entitled "On the Action of Heat on Neutral Organic Substances," divided into two parts ; the first comprising all that relates to the action of heat ou saccharine substances, and the second containing ail the facts relat ing to starch and leculak.. Having confirmed the fact that the volatile produCts resulting from the decomposition of sugar ' are solely composed of particles of steam, without the slightest trace of permanent gases, M. Gel's has examined the fixed residues obtained by the operation. These residues, far from consisting of a single substance, contain three different ones, which are successively obtained by continuing the action of heat for a sufficient length of time. These three substances he has called caramelane, caramelene, and carameline, the three different vowels in the last syllable marking the order in which they are produced during the operation. They differ in taste, appearance, and colouring power. They are decomposed by several tests, and especially by acids. Caramelano only differs from sugar by a deficiency of two equivalents of water, and, like sugar, it contains twelve equivalents of carbon. Caranielene contains still less water, and thirty-six equivalents of carbon ; and carame line is almost anhydrous, and contains 96 equiva lents of carbon. The report concluded with re commending the insertion of M. Gdlis's labours in the "Memoires des Savants Etrangers." Marshal Valiant and Admiral Du Petit-Thouars presented papers on the grape-blight, and M. Delavergne sent in an apparatus for sulphurising vines. M. Ville wrote to claim the right of priority regarding M. Bousingaules observations respecting phosphate of lime as manure. (See M essenger , Dec. 5.) To this claim M. Bousinganit replieci that lie had not by any means attributed to himself the discovery of the favourable action of phosphate of lime as manure, a fact which is by no means new • and that he only claimed to hav e p rove d that phosphate of lime un mixed with an azotated substance did not produce the same salutary effects.—M. Waraksine sent in a description of a machine for sorting seeds. The contrivances at present in use merely separate seeds according to size, the largest being preferred for sowing ; M. Waraksine, on the contrary, has suc ceeded in sorting them by weight, that being the most important element for securing a g ood evop ilis he has ascertained by numerous experiments.lasynsitneernlicnoendsipsisaninel,eutntdinegrtthheeseaeczltsiofanl vertically upon of a horizontal current of air. The fall e seeds, in receivi ng and are projected by t— heahNeieisntelsieneedds planev to r l a ca pa y r: ticular spot ; while the lighter the impression of the current s it deviate from the vertical line, and are projected elsewhere.— M. Maumene communicated a paper on alcholic fermentation, establishing : 1. That sugar may be transformed by fermentation into alcohols differen fri m common alcohol ; 2. That the tartaric acid of grapes is transformed into sugar as the fruit ad vances to maturity. THE SOLAR ECLIPSES OF 1858. On this subject M. Faye has just read an inte resting paper, with a view to call the attention of astronomers to the questions which may be either entirely solved or at least considerably elucidates by the observation of those important phenomena. What, he asks, is the sun ? It is a fiery globe com posed of two concentric parts of very unequal Cal den sities. The inner part constitutes a spheri nucleus, and the outer one a kind of very extensive atmosphere. At a certain distance from the centre this atmosphere is covered with a continuous sphe rical layer of a peculiar kind of clouds, which are luminous and constitute the fiery g l o be visible t o us, the photosphere of•the sun. Under this principal layer there is the comparatively dark surface of the nucleus ; and above the photosphere there ar e the last highly rarefied and usually invisible strata of the general atmosphere. From the nucleus gase ous eruptions issue, partially dissipating and extinguish ing the luminous clouds of the photosphere, na y rising beyond it into the e x t r eme strata (wh isli only become visible by a faint light at the time of an eclipse), where they form those torrents of va pour known by the name of rose coloured protu berances. The volume of these vapours is some times a thousand, and even two thousand times the size of our globe. M. Faye now draws a parallel between the present condition of the sun as above described, and what must have been the state of our earth when the crust which now con ceals its central fire was not yet formed. It Wag then a diminutive sun ; the whole mese of its waters swam in the atmosphere under the form of steam, with the immense mass of carbonic acid which ha s since been absorbed by calcareous matter. The se vapours, which were invisible and transparent in the vicinity of the then liquid nucleus, were con densed at a considerable altitude, so as to form a continuous involucrum of white clouds brilliantly illuminated by the rays of the sun. Seen from distance, our earth must have presented this pho tosphere to the eye. Immediately above it there must have been the last strata of air in a high state of rarefaction, and therefore incapable of support' ing any of those luminous clouds or a queous vapours ; immediately below there must have been a layer of dark clouds or fogs constantly dissi pated by the radiation of the nucleus ; and lower still a dense atmosphere weighing upon the still denser smoke, incessantly issuing from the nucleus. M. Faye concludes this hypothetical picture by supposing that volumes of Pe di d at times penetrate through the photosphere, pro ducing gaps in the stratum lof white clouds ; in which case a distant observer would, through these gaps, have seen the dark nucleus of the earth, just as we at present see that of the sun through the gaps in its photosphere, which appear to us as dark spots. Now, whether this theory really ex plains the process actually in progress in the sun can only be ascertained by an exact observation of eclip ses. The eclipse of Sept., 1858, will onlybe central and total to the inhabitants of the southern conti nent of America, where there are but few astrono mers and observatories. M. Faye, however, pro poses to establish two observatories for the occasion —one at Ignape on the coast of Brazil, and othe r in Peru at 1i deg. south cf Cape Blanco. But t he first eclipse, which is to take place next March, though not central as regards France, will be very nearly so : for the spot whence it might be seen is only 32 kilos. from the island of Ouessant ; and an observer stationed on that island will see the eolipse with a deviation of only 14 seconds from the centre. At Brest the observation would not be so favours' ble, the minimum of breadth in the solar crescent being 25 seconds ; at Paris it will be 3 min. 22 50.5 a very unfavourable condition for observing' physical condition of the sun. M. Faye now pot's out various precautions to be taken by astronomer s in making their observations. First he adviseS them to divest themselves of all preconceived theo retical notions,whichmight induce them to neglect essential circumstances for others the importance of which may be mere matter of opinion. They ought therefore to mark down the situation of the solar spots on the day before and the day after the eclipse, in order to see whether they really coincide with the protuberances observed during the ohsell" ration. Secondly, the observer should husband his eyes—that is, avoid looking at the sun or re ceiving its direct rays, until the very moment of the observation ; else he may be unable to see all the expected phenomena with sufficient nicety. Thirdly, in order to avoid the irregular refractions caused by the air within the tube of the telescope, when rarefied by long exposure to the sun, the in strument ought to remain covered with a white cloth, having previously been pointed to the proper spot in the heavens until the moment when the observation is to begin. This precaution, M. Faye contends, is of the greatest importance, and its being neglected is the cause of frequent error. So great indeed is the effect of this refraction that the disc of Saturn has sometimes been seen in the form'of a square, with its angles slightiy rounded oit [Anvzieriszatzler.]—We quote a few more of the extraordle ' nary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicirn health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility= Cure No. 180.—" Twenty-five years' nervousness, cousin)** tion, indigestion, and debility, from which I had suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a veil Alert timo.—W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." 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