The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-05 00:00:00

p e Pirb 441 l'lttten SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. CHE3TER RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GROSVENO R STAK ES. Gem di Vergy Drumour. Fisherman 3 Six ran. Won by a head. Half a length between second and third. CHESTERFIELD STAKES. Special License '''Kenerdy Ma Mie colt 2 Eight ran. Won by half a length. MOSTYN STAKES. Longrnnge.... Jack Horner.. Seven ran. LATEST BETTING. CHESTER CUP. 9to 2 agst Leamington (taken) 9to 1 agst Dulcamara (offered) 12 to 1 agst Mincepie (Offered) 14 to 1 agst Warlock (taken) 15 to 1 aget Gemma di Verity (taken) 20 to 1 agst Van Dunck (taker.) 30 to 1 agst Bay Hilton (raken) 50 to 1 agst Lance (taken) 50 to 1 agst Cumberland 66 to 1 aget Early Bird (offered) DEE STAKES. 2to 1 on the field. 4to 1 bar one DERBY. ,13 to 1 agst M.D. (taken) 40 to 1 agat Strathnaver (taken) An accident has happened to Dulcamara's van, but be is not hurt. NAVAL APPOINrmENTS.—(This Day.; The following appointments were mioe at the Admi ralty this afernoon : Captains—Frederick Hutton to be Naval Officer in Charge of Stores, &c , at Bermuda ; Woodford J. Wil liams, to the Royal WiNam, vice Hutton. Commander —Arthur Wilmshurst, to the Racehorse, vice E. K. Barnard, promoted. Lieutenant —J. W. Armstrong to the Cyclops. Staff - Surgeon—William Dines to the Boscaw en. A4B:sant-Surgeons—George V. ll‘Dononh and John T. B. Torrance, to the Boscamen. THE VICTORIA CROSS. (From the Gazette of this eventng.) WAR OFFICE, MAY 5. • The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned officers of her Maj sty's army, who have been recommended to her Mejesty for that decoration,—in accordance with the rules laid down in her Majesty's warrant of the 29,h Jan., 1856,—0n account of acts of br.very perfermed by them before the enemy during the late war, as recorded against their several names, viz. : Grenalier Guards—Colonel Hon. Henry Hugh Man- Vera Percy—At a moment when the Guards were at some distance from the Sand Bag Battery, at the Battle of Inkerman, Col. Percy charged singly into the battery, followed immediately by the Guards ; the embrasures of the Battery, as also the parapet, were held by the Russians, who kept up a most severe fire of musketry. At the Battle of Inkerman Colonel Percy found him self with many men of various regiments, who had charged too far, nearly surrounded by the Russians, and without ammunition. Colonel Percy, t.y his knowledge of ground, though wounded, extricated these men, and passing under a heavy fire from the Russians then in the Sand Bag Battery, brought them safe to where am munition wan to be obtained, thereby savin e some fir y men, and enabling them to renew the combat. He re ceived the approval of his Royal Highness the Duke or Cambridge, for this action, on the spot.---Colonel Percy was engaged with, and put hors de combat, a Russian Col tier, 7th Regiment--Lieutenant Win. Hope—After the troops had retreated on the morning of the 18th of June, 1855, Lieutenant W. Hope being informed by the late Set-pant-Major Wm. Bacon, who was himself wounded, that Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson was lying outside the trenches badly wounded, went out to look for him, and found him lying in the agricultural ditch running towards the left flank of the Redan. He then returned, and got four men to bring him in. Finding, however, that Lieutenant Hobson could not be removed without a stretcher, he then ran back across the open to Eger ton's Pit, where he procured one, and carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying. All this was done tinder a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries. 7th Regiment— Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Egerton Bale, M.D.—First : For remaining with an officer who was dangerously wounded (Capt. H. M Jones, 7th Re giment), in the filth parallel, on the Bth Sept., 1855, when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood r‘• treated, txcepting Lieut. IV. Hope and Dr. Hale ; and for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieut. W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers. Secondly : For having, on 8 h Sept., 1855, after the regiments had re tired into the trenches, cleared the most a ivanced sap of the wounded, and carried into sap, under a heavy fire, several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted be Sergeant Charles Fisher, 7th Fusiliers. Coldstream Guer,ls (late of the 49th Regitnent)—Brevet- Major John Augustus Conolly. In the attack by the Russians against the position held by the Second Division, Oct. 26, 18e4, Major Conolly, thee a Lieutenant in the 49th Regiment, while in command of a company of that regiment, on outlying picket, made himself moat conspi- CllOll4 by the gallantry of his behavitur. He came pat ti cularly under the observation of the late Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, while in personal encounter with several Russians, in defence of his post. He ultimately fell, dan gerously wounded. Lieut. Conolly was highly praised in General Orders, and promoted into the Coldstream Gnarls, as a reward for his exemplary behaviour on this occasion. LONDON GAZETTE-(This Evening.) HORSE GUARDS, S.W., MAY 4 Her Majssty does not require that the officers of the army should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy o ccas i on o f th e d eat h of her late Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms. By command of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in -Oh ief, G. A. WETHERALL, Ai j u tant-General. MAY 4. Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the fleet or Royal Marines should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, than a black crape round the left aral, with their uniforms. R. 0.513011.&E. The Gazette of this evening states that, the officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marinle, who have received her Majesty's pirmimion to wear the French Legion of Honour, must apply for the same to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, between the hours of 12 and 4 daily, and for the army to the War Glee, Horse Guards at the same time. 'WHITEHALL, 31? r 2. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Honourable Robert Montgomery, Lor I Belhaven, to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly for the Church of Scotland. HOME-OFFICE, MAY 4. The Rossie Reformatory School, near Montrose, in the county of .Forfar, has been certified by the Secretary of State as fit to be a Reformatory School, under the provi sions of the Statnte 17 and 13 Viet., c. 37. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4. The Right Honourable the Liras of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received. through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty'a Consul at Stockhcdru, enclosing the following translation of a Proclamation which has been issued by the Chamber of Commerce, of that city, relative tothe cattle disease. The Royal and State Chamber of Commerce makes known that information having been given to the Board that in certain places in the Grand Duchy of Mecklen burg-Schwerin cases of virulent diseases among horned cattle have appeared, and that tbo same disease which has been for some time prevalent in the Kingdom of the • Netherland s has latterly increased considerably in the Province of Friesland, the Chamber of C ommerce now decl ares the Giaid Duchy of lecklenburg- Schwerin. infected by disease iu horned cattle, and repeats the orler formerly published, declaring the following countries infected by the more disease, viz.:—The Nether lands, En,larul, Scotland, the Duchy of Holstein. as well as that part of the Duchy of Schieswick which is situated between the River Eider and -Huzum in the west and Flensburg in the east; bekdes which, The Netherlands, Zaland, Fithen, anti Jutland are declared infected with glanders in horses. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 4. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and P 1 .ntati us have received, through the Secretary of Stat e f or Foreign Affairs, a copy o f a despatch from her Ma;Jsty's Ambassado r at Paris, enclosiug copy of a French I mper i al Deere?, temporarily permitting the free importation into Franca of Arachide seedy (ground nuts), under conditi ons specified in the de- Oreg. BOARD OF TRADE, WEIITEUALL, VAT 4, The Right Honourable the Lordi of the Committe e of Privy Council for Trade and Plln..ations have received, through the Secretary of State fcr Foreign Affair s , »c o py of Despatch from her Nfaiesity's Consul at 'slop, -report ing the re-est4blishruent of the exp,,rt duty ou gold and silver from the ports of Peru ; viz. : 4 reels, or Is. 10 d. per rn3r;c of B.)z. of silver. 2 reels, or 11, •1. peroz of gold. BOARD OF TRADE, ‘ l / HITEFIALL, MAY 4, Toe Right Ffonontablo toe Lor is of the Commat e of Privy Council for Trail. And Pianratiobs have received, throe di the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. a copy of a De , patch f• ow her Majesty's Consul-General at Lima, enclosing a copy of a decree of the Provisional P. esident of Peru, of wh Qu the following is a translation, declaring certain al ticks of congnmp' ion free of duty. Art. 1. The an lermentioned provisions of the first ne cessity shall be tree of import duty for the term of 18 numt,hp, viz. Sugar, rice, cheese, lard, dried bee, tutOr, tall),', French beans, chick peas, broadbeans, peas, lentils and barley. --- - Art. 2. Wheat only shall be free of duty for the time stated i❑ Alt. 1, in the ports of Arica, Iquique, an-1 Payta, and flour shall pay at those ports the half of the duty spe• cified by the c(maercial regulation. Wheat and flour carried or re•shippod from those ports to others of the republic shall always pay the duty accord ing to regulation. Art. 3. This law shall take effict 30 days after its pro mulgation.. Dated 22d January, 1857. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. Huntingdonshire Militia —George John gust, Erg., to be Captain, vice David Veasey, deceased. 4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal Lancashire Militia—Willi:fin Honner Fitzpatrick, M. 8., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Bone, resigned Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En sign William Plummer to be Lieutenant, vice Stone, re signed. 4t►h or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Alfred James Cogdell, Gent., to be Ensign. MEDALS FOR THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Ad Somerset-house, April 3t',1857. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify her comma , di that a medal be granted to all persons, of every rank and class, who have been engaged in the several Expeditions to the Arctic Regions, whether of discovery or search, between the years 1818 and 1855, both inclusive, • Notice is hereby given, that all claimants to such medal, notwithstanding any previous application, should apply personally, or by letter, with the words " Arctic Medal" on the outside, to the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-House. Every applicant must state his rank or rating, and the name of the ship or ships on board which he served ; also, in the case of every petty officer, seaman, or marine, it is indispensable that his application should be accompanied by a certificate of service, except in the case of his being on board one of her Majesty's ships, and the application be made through his wintuanding officer, in which case the certificste will not be required. In all cases where the parties served on board mere than one ship, or belonged to more than one expedition, such information should be afforded. The following are the names of her Majesty's ships, the officers and crews of which are entitled to the Medal : Name of Ship. Year of Expedition Isabella 1818 Alexander 1818 Trent 1818 Dorothea 1818 Hccl a Griper 1819 • Fury Hecla lB2l Griper lB2l . Heels 1824 Fury . 1824 Griper 1824 Blossom 1 ,26 Heels 1 27 Terror 1836 Erebus Terror Plover Eo terpriza Investigator Hertld Enterprise. Invest'ga or North Star 1849 Resolute lB5O Assistance Rattlesnake .Assistance 1852 Resolute 1852 North Star Phoenix Phoenix Victory Lady Franklin'.. Sophia BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Samuel Danford, money scrivener, Lombard-street. BANK RUPTS. Thomas Harrison, co•d merchant, Maidstone, to surren der may 11 and Juno 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Henry Bateson, apothecary, Waterloo-road, May 12 and June 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lucy Oakley, draper, Wal-all, kay 15. and June 5, at half-past eleven, at th- Birmingham District Court. William Sheldon Withers, miller, Mansfield, Notting hainshir,, May 19, and J une 9. at half-post ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. George Gillett, cabinet maker, Preston, May 19 and June 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Thomas Frederick Theed, surgeon, Winchester -street, Waterloo-town, May 12, at half-past eleven, anti June 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Ward, manufacturer, Bow Churchyard, May 20, at eleven, and June 22 at one, ut the Court of Bankruptcy. David Meyrick, shoemaker, Cardiff, May 18 and Juue 15, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. William Penny, brewer, Newport, Monmouthshire, May 18, and June 15, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. William Wiliam Jones, ship builder, Carnarvon, May 22 and June 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District C. , urt. Ebenezer Brookes, spring knife manuf ac t urer , Sh e ffi e ld , May 16 and Juno 27 , at ten, at the Leeds District Court. John Figg, boot and shoe maker, Farnham, Surrey, May 15, at two, and June 18, at one at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Kitchingbam Gravil, groper, Halifax, May 25 and Jane 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Aderson Stoker, grocer, i urham. James Wallwork, c.)tton spinner, Chorley, Lancashire. William Swinton Laurie, Liverpool, May 18 an d J une 8 , at eleven, at the Live r p oo l District Court. SC )TCII SEQUESTItATIONS. Thomas Walsh, wine mercuant, Glasgow. David Stewart, shipowner, Dundee. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. kutsterdzun ............ II 47% Gibraltar •............. Ditto, three months .. 12 Leghorn .. •• • . Rotterdam ............ 12 Genoa ........ • • ...... 25 75 Antwerp .............. 25 55 Milan ...... • • ...... Brussels .............. 25 Si Venice. ...... ilamburgb •••••• •• •• • • 13 9 Naples •• .• ...go • • ••• 42% Altona .. • • ............ i Palermo ..... .... 130 Part 5........ ...•..... 25 , 0 Messina ... • •• 13(N Ditto, three months .. 25 75 Li sbon .. .. .. •• 52% Mar5ei1ie3............. 25 75 Oporto BourdeAux . ........ Rio •laneiro ...... iri ankfort-on-liaine ••.. 119% Buenos Ayres ..... Berlin ................ New I'ork.oo days'sight Vienna.......... • • .... 10 34 Philadelphia ... I r1e5te........•• ...... 10 35 PIECES Or BULLION, PEa oz. Petasburg ............. 371 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 M adrid .............. 49 Po r t uga l G o ld Coin .. U 0 6 adiz ... • ..... ...... 49% , lexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 llareeloita ....•....... New Dollars ..... ' n n 0 5ec11e...... .. .. .... • illver in hare .. 00 0 THE HOP PLANTATIONS,—Reports from all parts of the country represent the bine as coming in a very weak and sickly condition, from the bleak northeast wind.; which have prevailed so much lately ; the cold nights and cloudy days being most unfavourable for a healthy and strong development of the plant.—Maidstone Journal. WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS.—PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS.—At ten o'clock yesterday Westminster-ball was thrown open to the public for the purpose of view ing the plans for the new Government offices, and general improvements proposed to he effected in the vicinity of the Hermes of Parliament. The number of spectators was coesiderable. The Hall is to be open to the public from ten o'clock a.m. to Fix p.m. each day this week, and will amply repay the trouble of a visit. It is affirmed that the Russian railway subscription in London has proved an almost total failure. roe applications in France, Amsterdam, and Germany are stated to have been limited and uusatisfactory, but the want of 811CelAR in that country has been still greater. SYDNEY (N.S. W.), M a r c h 10 . —T he Herald, Captain Denbane, arrived from the South Sea Islands on the 261 h February. The [lentil is last from Ovalon, at which place the American schooner Tickler was lying deserted by her crew. The Herald reports feeling a severe shock of an earthquake on the 6th of February, Norfolk Island bearing at the time south, 47 degrees west, distant 634 miles. COAST DEFENCES IN SCOTLAND.—The War Office is busy at present putting the coast defences of Scotland into repair and adding to their strength. At Aberdeen three cow batteries armed with 16 guns are to be erected, by which the hat boor and town will be defended from any attack on the sea-board. 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It affords ini:tagnit.urge°fiste: the dearest persons, and enables3?t,h,e4mmteomhareiaer.sctlrile:t. IT104: distinctly a. e'oirch end at riblic asseneeee e dilly—opposite the York Hotel, LAW I NTELLIGENCE.—May 4, VICE CHANCELLORS' COURTS—MAy 4. (Before Vice-Jhancellor Sir J. STUART.) BRIMFIT V. MORTON. This was a bill for the specific performance of an agreement dated on the Gth of December, 1856, by which the plaintiff agreed on or before the sth of January then next to assign to the defendant "the two messuages or pubic-house called the Cider Cellars, being No. 20 and 21, in Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, for the residue of two several terms of 60 years and 21 years, for which the plaintiff held the same under leases, of which terms 38 years and 8 years, or thereabouts, were unexpired, subject to the yearly rents of 154/. and 50/. respectively, and to the covenants in such leases contained and free from all encumbrances." The agreement also con tained stipulations that the defendant should take the tenant's fixtures, and the stock of ale, porter, wine, and spirits on the premises at a valuation, and that the defendant should accept the assign ment before mentioned "without requiring evi dence of any title prior to the above -mentioned leases," and that he should "not make any objec tion thereto, notwithstanding any recital, state ment, or covenant therein contained, or by reason of the leases being derivative or under leases." It appeared that the plaintiff was not entitled to all the premises comprised in the lease for 60 years, but that he was entitled to a part only thereof, and that such part, together with all the premises com prised in the term for 2/ years, had been assigned to him in 1854, for the residue then unexpired of the two terms of 60 years and 21 years, except the last seven days of each of such terms, at a rent in the one case of 1 0/ and in the other of 501. The other part of the premises compris -d in the term for 60 years had been demised, iu 1836, by the per son in whom the tile to that term was then vested, to one Levy, and it was now used as a Jewish syna gogue. It also appeared that the defendant at tended at the office of the plaintiff's solicitor, in company with his own solicitor's clerk, in order to sign the agreement before-mentioned, and on that occasion an abstract of the plaintiff's title to the pre mises'which furmed t he subject of the case was banded to the clerk, who looked merely et one or two pages at the commencement of the abstract, but did not examine the abstract sufficien ly to make himself acquainted with the plaintiff's title, and in a few minutes afterwards returned the abstract to the plaint.ff's solicitor. The plaintiff delivered an els wract of his title to the defendant on the 11th of December last; and, after some correspondence lei-tweeu their respective solicitors on the subject of the defendant's requisitions as to the plaintiff's title, the defendant on the 4th of February declined to complete his purchase. The bill was then filed. Mr. Craig and Mr. Rogers were fur the plaintiff; and Mr. Bacon and Mr. Bazalgette for the de fendant. Vice-Chancellor said that the plaintiff asked for the specific performance of an agreement to purchase certain leasehold property. The defendant insis ed that ou the production of the title the pleintiff was shown not to have such a leasehold interest as was described in the agreement. The question turned on the language of the agreement as appl.ed to the p 1 intiff's title. The plaintiff's contention was that th- defendant at the time of signing the agreement had sufficient information as to the nature of the interest ha was purchasing to bind him to his contract. There was no ambiguity in the description of the property to be purchased by the defendant. The difficulty was as to the nature of the plaintiff's interest which was de scribed in the agreement. The original lease, creat ing the term of 60 years in No. 21, Maiden-lane, reserved a rent of 1541., whereas the lease tiudr which the plaintiff held reserved a rent of 150/. But that was not all. The defendant, on investi gating the plaintiff's title, found that the lease creating the term of 60 years comprised other pro perty which was now underlet to one Levy and used as a Jewish synagogue, and that this property was nut comprised in the agreement of the 6t of Dec-mber last. Thus the defendant by no default of his own would be liable to be evicted from a part of th' premises comprised in the agree ment in case of a breach by Levy of any of the covenants contained in the lease creating the term of 60 years. To expose a purchaser to such a risk there ought to be a certainty either from the language of the agreement or upon the evidencethat he was avrare when he signed the agreement he was purchasing subject to such a risk. Here there was no such evidence, nor did the agreement on the face of it show that the plaintiff's interest was exposed to such a risk. There was also nothing in the evidence which would justify the court in hold ing that the production of the abstract on the occa sion of the agreement being signed would fasten the purchaser wi.h notice of the plaintiff's pecular title. It was a case in which it was impossible that the court could decree specific performance ; but, as the defendant had shown a want of caution and pru dence in the matter, and as a good deal had been done by him in respect of having a valuation made of the fixtures and stock to be taken by him, the b 11 would be dismissed without costs and without prejudice to either party's right to any action at law. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—MAY 4. (Sittings in Banco—Easter Term.) DENIS V. MORLEY AND COMET. In this ca , e Mrs. Cobbett moved for a habeas corpus to bring up the body of her husband, now in the Queen's prison, in order that he might be enahled to move for a rule for a new trial. The action was in ejectment, tried before Mr. Justice Williams, in which the verdict was found for the plaintiff. A long affidavit filed by Mrs. Cobbett was then read by the Master, setting forth the grounds upon which she wished to move for a new trial. The Lord Chief Justice—Your husband in this affidavit does not show that he is not in a condition to apply to the court through learned counsel. Mrs. CoVett—l should be very happy if any gentleman would do it. There is a gross conspiracy against my husband. All the counsel I have spoken to about it say, " You are right, but you will never succeed, because all the judges are against you." The Lord Chief Justice—l fear the court has no power to grant such a habeas. Mrs. Cobbett—Oh, yea. Chief Baron Pollock in a similar case in which my husband was con cerned said he could have a habeas ; and Mr. Jus t:co Williams gave my husband a habeas at china hers. The Lord Chief Justice—ln whst court did you ever obtain a hatteas ? Mrs. Cohbett—Oh, 50 or 60 habeases, my lord, in all the three courts. I have moved for a habeas to bring my husband up in all the courts. I was never refused a habeas. The Court always held I had a right to apply for one. The Lord Chief Justice—We understand there was a doubt expressed on the subject by Mr. Baron Parke • but have s en t t o i nqu i re. Af er a short interval, his lordship said the inquiry bad been made, and the Court found that, although at one time a practice had grown up of granting applica tions very much at Mr. Cohbett's instance, the mater had since been reconsidered, and the Court of Exchequer had corns to a resolution that such applications as the present could not be granted, and the Court of Queen's B. nch had concurred in that rule. The Court felt that this practice was ir regular, and they must also be bound by the rule laid down in the other courts, which was only going back to the old decisions. The learned judge referred to the case of Mr. Hunt, who made a similar ap plication to be brought up on a habeas from It chester gaol, to show cause against a rule, which was refused. Mrs. Cobbett—My husband was imprisoned 12 years wrongfully for a contempt of the Court of Chancery, and I moved for 56 habeases, and he was discharged at last. The Lord Chief Justice—lf he is wrongfully im poisoned, no doubt you can move for a habeas. Mrs. Cobbett—He is falsely imprisoned now. The Lord Chief Justice—The Court is of opinion that they have no power to grant this application. If you wish to move on other grounds we will hear you. Mrs. Cobbatt slid she was not then prepared, and retired from the court. [ADVERTISEMENT j —TIIO iudefatigable researches of Dr. Livingstone have 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 life to be the Revalenta Atabica Food, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, consumption, scrofula, cancer, dtc., having been scarcely heard of, a n d the smallpox and measles have not b een k nown 1 for 20 years." In England also the Revalenta Arabica has pro , duced a wonderful improvement in the health of the people, (d removing cough, co usumpt i on, asthma, , ebility, indigestion, yspepsia) constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver com plaints, and restoring the faculty of digestion, and uervous muscular energy to the most enfeebled, as proved by testi ' mobials from the eel,brated Professor of Chemistry Dr. i Andrew Ure ; Dr. Sborland ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wtirzer ; Dr. lugram ; Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager clountess 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 1 ! recovery abandoned. Its effect on the progress of population is most favourable as exhibited by the Re gistrar-General,sho w leg for London an averaio of 1780 weekly births against a mortality of 1200, laavinga hippy gain of 580, or nearso 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 smile freed , m from disease as the West Africans. It is si old in canisters, 11b., 2s. .91. ; 21b., 48. 61. ; 51b., 22s The 1 21b. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry D u Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street ; Fort num, Mason, a'ad Cu., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, G race . church-str3et ; 63 and 15), Oxford-street 330 and 130, SrauJ., Lonuau, THR DELAYS IN THE TRANSMISSION OF THE INDIAN AND AUSTR ILrAN MA ILS, VIA FRANCE AND MAR SEILLES. The Rist India and China Association, in their recently issued report; publish a letter addressed to them on this subject by Mr. De Salis, a gentleman well known for his able advocacy and energetic promotion of questions of Australian interest. Mr. De Salis's remarks will be read in the colonies as well as as India with great interest, while the sug gestions which he makes for the improveirent of a postal service, every day becoming of greater im pertauce to the public, merit the early attention of the French and English Governments. It is well known that serious delays are always occuring in the despatch of the mails from Marseilles ; and al though it admits of no question that from thence letters might be transmitted toLondon in 27 hours, their tran,it sill usually occupies n4arly two days, reckoning from the period of the arrival of the mail packets in the hirbour of Marseilles. The following is a copy of the letter above re ferred to, which is addressed to the Secretary of the East India and China Association : Dawlty Court, Uxbridge, Oct. 18, 1856. Sir—At the suggestion of several gentlemen connected with India and Australia, I resolved to avail myself of a short tour I was making in the south of France, in order , to inquire into the causes of theextraordinary delays that have recently occurred in the transit of the India and China mails at the port of Marseilles; I accordingly pro ceeded to that locality, and now beg, upon the invitation of a member of your association, to report, for the infor mation of your committee, the results of my inquiries at the same time I desire to submit for their considera tion a plan fir the future transit of the mails, which, while it must c,insideraldy shorten the time now occu pied in their transmission, will effectually prevent a re currence of those delays which have been so justly com plained of. I would premier my observations by stating that my in formation has been derived from persons in business at Lyons, Avignon, and Marseilles, and I am at the same time bound to add that I received much valuable intelli gence regarding the practice of the poi,t-office authorities at Marseilles from Capt. Roberts, the commander of her Majesty's post-office packet Vsl-tta, now stationed on the Marseille and Malta line. Your committee will thus observe that I neglected no means of obtaining informa tion from the best and most reliable sources, and I there fore venture to hope that my suggestions, having been derived from practical men, will be found free from all prao ical objections, and capable of being brought into easy operation, it adopted by the French and English g ,vernments. The Conveyance of the Outward Mails. Viewing the difficulty and danger attendant on de spatching the mail packets from Marseilles during the night, and viewing also the ohjeetions which exist to altering the present hour of departure of the mail from Londoe, I do not advocate the despatch Of the outward mails by special train. I desire, howev, r, to draw at tention to the importance of accelerating this despatch, so as to ensure the mails being put on boatel the mail packets, and started from Mar-eilles not later than 7 a m. on the second morning after their despatch from London. This is more important than would at first ap p,ar ; because, if the packet be despatched as above, she is sure to reach MaLa in good time on the third day, so as to allow of her transferring the mails and passengers to the steamer then waiting to receive them ; whereas, if she is detained at Marseilles, she reaches Malta during the night of the third day, and as the steamer to which she transfers the mails is in consequence unable to start for Alexandria until next morning, the obvious result of the delay at Mareeillee i 4 a detention of the wails at Malta amounting to 12 hours. To admit of the mails being placed on board at Mar seilles by 7 a.m., the Lyons and Marseilles line ought to be induced to accelerate their present night express which now leaves Lyons at 10.30 p.m., and arrives at Mar. seilles at 6 35 a.m,—a train which, it nut delayed three quarters of an hour at Lyons, as is at present the case, and run at 25 miles per hour, would arrive at Marseilles at 4.15 a.m., thus allowing ample time for the mails being on board before 7 a.n.r. If, however, the railway company cannot be induced to accelerate their usual night express, then the India and China mail ought as suredly to be forwarded by special train from Lyons to Marseilles. Having now gone through the leading points con nected with the transit through France of the India and China mails, permit me, in conclusion, to observe that I have also reported the result of my ob-ervations to the Australian General Association, and I am gratified to he able to inform you that this body, feeling the subject to which this letter refers to be of the highest interest to the Australian colonies, are solicitotie to co-operate with your committee. and have resolved respectfully to press upon the a:tention of the Government the imoortance of improving the transit of our mails through Franca. I sincerely trust tbat their efforts, conjoined to your Own, supported as they w.ll by the great mercantile interest of the country, will have due weight with ber Majesty's government ; and in this hope, I have the honour to subscribe myself, sir, your most obedient ser• vant, W. FANS DE SALIS. To the Secretary of the East India and China Association, &c Suggestions for the Improvement of the Transit of the E.stern Mali through France. Ist. The English government c airier accompanying each overland mail to be permitted to take the English mail boxes direct from the ship to the railway station at Marseilles, and also to have leave to make all minor ar rangements requisite to carry out the above operation without delay. He is further to be allowed, weather permitting, t > Fend boats out , ide the harbour for the mail, should the steamer arrive off the port at night, but be unable to enter till daylight. 2.1. The French government to be invited to foraard direct to the railway station, as promptly as may be, those b(erres of the continent.a overland mail which, being destined to Lyons, the North of France, Belgium, &c., do not require immediate sorting. If asmall room at the ral way station were appropriated for the use of the post office as a bureau, the bores could be there looked over and separated, thus saving the delay of their transmis sion to the post-office in the centre of the town. 3d. A special express train to be invariably started as soon as the English and French mails can be placed in the railway carriages. As passengers always create delays, none to be permitted to accompany the special ex• press under any pretence. For convenience sake, I have classified my obeerva in a ti u e s o of etrt hoa t i shi generally hos D :o heiploolaiewoyr, supposed env c dee o ra m t ( noa l ott a t i tt n i complained Cone under distinct heads, and I commence with the haaust attributableoe Cre e oF o l delays l n a teh y be s pc h a a os v ,,et e : a obffi s el rt ente variety of causes have been in operation to impede the due despatch of our mails. Owing to the recent large extension of the silk manu factures of France, her postal relations with India have assumed proportions which would hardly be credited. That such is the case, yourcornmittee willperceive, when I nsfer d ra eli t v h e e rd them that ursein atthaeconets on ine the ntal 29th of dept.tionofthe Inia mail, last, amounted to 118 boxes. It must also be borne in mind that these very heavy mails, owing to the difficulty expe rienced by the packets in entering a very crowded pert at night time, usually arrive Finitely after daybreak, that. is, just at the very period of the day when the whole staff of the Marseilles Post office are enga!ed in preparing for their extensive diereal deliveries. Under such circum stances, the Marseilles officials have elected to perform their usual office business first, before they attend to the India mails, and hence one cause of the detention of our letter bags. Another cause is, however, also in operation. The French authorities, especially in the present fevered state of the silk market, exeibit a marked reluctance to permit any one part of the India mail to precede the rest ; hence it has frequently occurred that whilst the continental portion of the India mail was being sorted and arranged, our own mail has been detained pending the completion of that operation, and bas in consequence missed the 10 o'clock morning train, by which it might otherwise easily have been despatched. A third and last cause of delay exists in this, that the French Post-office at Marseilles have no authority to en gage a aprcial train for the despatch of the mails, and thus find themselves hound to employ one or other of the two existing mail trains, viz., the train starting at 10 a.m., or the evening train, starting twelve hours and a half after it, at 10.30 p.m. Best mode of obviating toe Delays complained of. Having pointed out the causes of these delays, I pro ceed to show how they may be heat remedied. In the first place, as the French government never either open or desired to open our mail bags, it will be quite clear that no ground whatever exists for taking them to the Mar sell es Post office ; on the contrary, the Thiglish Go vernment courier, who waits the arrival of each mail packet, ought to be permitted to take the mails direct from the skip to the railway station ; and I am assur e d, on good auth or ity, t h at the i r transfer from the ship to the railway carriages ought always to be effected within the hour ; thus, the possibility of the long detentions which have recently occurred, within the precincts of the Marseilles Post-office, will be wholly done away with. The cogent grounds which exist for despatching the mail at all times by special train will be dwelt upon by me at length under a separate head ; in the meantime, I would observe that one of the grounds put forward by the French Post office for detaining the English mail while they are sorting the continental mail—viz., their reluctance to allow airy one portion of the India mail to precede the other, has no just application to the English despatches, which must, under any circumstances, whe ther sent on or detained, reach their destination long alter the greater portion of the continental letters have been delivered ; and I would further respectfully sub mit for the consideration of the French authorities, that as regards those boxes destined for Lyons, the north of France, Belgium, &c , no necea ity "ss,t-tooffigcoe. directT hey to o t u b g e h t r , a i i n l w c a o y n j s u ta n t c i t o i o n n , w b e i th t h o e u r e r whatever emists why th ey s h ou ld b e taken to the Mar seillesownm P ai o l ANOTHER ACCOUNT. looked over in a bureau appropriated to the postal see- The British have always been celebrated as a most vice, and then be instantly despatched with our own to amphibious race. From the period when our uncivilised their respective destinations—the sorting process going and half-naked ancestors paddled about the 'Names in on as usual on the road, their wicker coricles to the present day when our fleets Ineroveinent on the present mode of Transmitting the are distributed all over the globe, a nautical taste has Homeward Mail. been strongly developed in the English character. It is Under this head I have drawn out a scheme suggest- true that antiquarian research has failed to discover the ing several improvements in the present mode of transit, remains of aboriginal ship-yards under the marshes of This document is appended hereto; in the meantime, it Poplar and Blackwell, nor have the Roman authors will be sufficient for nee to refer to its leading features, communicated to poeteriry their admiration for the won which ar e as follows :-I.et. No delays at Marseilles. dera of any ouch places as Sheerness and .Portsmouth. 2d. Deepaich of the mails by a special train. 3d, No But though mechanical skill may havegiven us the means delays a t Paris. 4th, Sorting of the mails during their of applying the national aquatic propensity to the hest transit through France. 50. The time table annexed possible ad vaetage, yet that prepensity has no less been to my sch eme , Showing that the mails may now e as ily an essential part of the English character in all ages. be delivered in London within 28 hours of their despatch There is a natural tend enc y t o p rogress i n th e m i n d s o f from Marseilles. men. A small invention when first known may excite Necessity for Despatching the Homeward Mail by a astonishment and admiration, but we soon tire of it in Special Train. its original limit, and seek for it in some more extended The delays at Marseille s b a y ing b een already discussed, form. The marvel of yeste r day m ay b e th e common - I proceed at once to refer t o the necessity of despatchi ng pace of to-day, and the laughing-stock of to- morrow , the homeward mails immediately on their arrival by a Even the wonders of telegraphic commu n i ca ti on h ave special train.now become stale, and we begin to consider that th e i n - I feel assured that whe n our G overnment reflect on vention riot such a grant boon after all, as it cannot the present extent of our E astern trade, and when they be applied to the transmission of merchandise. It i s b u t consider the importance it i s t o our merchants not only a few years since we escaped from the tedious and uncer tain navigation of sailing shire and hailed with delight to have early advices but a l so f ul l time to reflect upon the orders they must tran sm it b the out sin mail they the application of steam power, which rendered us at once will be of opinion that an unnecessary delay y g , of many independent of the caprices of wind and weather. Y e t, n hours in the transit of v a l ua bl e i ntelligence may prove now we look upon the abort sea passage tothe Continent, a very dear economy to th e pu bli c. I t anything were even when performed in the greatest steamers, as sl o w wanting to confirm them in the necessity which exists and behind the age, and ere mof submarine tunnels and for putting the Marseilles se rv i ce on t h e b est footing, it flying machines to render the "through j ourneyto Para" is to be found in the fact th a t th e over l and route has re- something more than a figure of speech. Even the wick er cently been selected as the means of communication with dere at the time of their invention, and we do not kn ow stitute the channel through w hi c h a d v i ces relating to a con- coriclee of the Brutii were, no doubt, considered won our Australian col nies, and will th ere f ore shortly Cu what odes may have been recited in their fav o u r by th e trade even more important th an our E astern commerce Druids. The galleys and small sailing ships of the Sax ons a must reach England. Wheth er th e w h o l e or a portion and Normans were the next succeeding improv emen t s. only of the expense of the special train should fall on But the astonishment which was excited through this country, it is not f or an i n di v id ua l to di scuss ; out the world in the sixteenth century by th e b u ild- I may, however, be per mi tt e d t o o b serve, whether ing of a vessel of less than a th o u san d t ons i s f ami li ar the French Governm e nt p ay any port i on or not to all who are acquainted with hi s l or y. Y e t vesse l s of the proposed s p ec i a l tra i n, that no measure of a thousand tons have b ec om e commonp l ace , an d s h ips it could take would b e more p opu l ar with the great mer- of nearly four lime s th e s i ze cons t an tl y to b e seen at our cantile cities of F rance th an t h e acceleration of their seaiporte. But now we have arrived at a period when a moderate increase in the m agn it u d e o f our un d erta ki ngs authority that the Ch am b ers o f C ommerce of Ly o much-looked for silk a d v i ces. I was assured upon goodns, will not keep pace with the s pi r it of th e d a y. B y d on - Havre, and Bo r d eaux f e l t warmly on the delays which tiling the size of our ships we should fail to e x c it e th e sa bad taken pla ce , an d were qu i te ready to support to tasted wonder : a more rapid progression i s necessary . We are not now looking forayed to the completion of a their utmost th e representat i ons they.heard had been vessel twice the size of the Himalaya, or exceedin g th e made on the subj ect f rom E n gl an d . Delay of the Mail at Paris. dimensions of the Niagara, but absolutely five !ti mes th e size of the largest vessel hitherto built. There was an I beg your committee's particular attention to the mug- observation made some time ago by an eminent naval geetion made by me on this head, No. 5. Much time, pro bably three hou rs an d a h a lf , wou ld b e econom i sed i f the authority that the limits of naval architectur e as regar d s [ego had been reached ; that it was impo ss ibl e t o wor k mails, in lieu of being driren into the Paris station o f the vessels of greater magnitude .than a first rate line-of- Lyons Railway, were t a k en d irect to t h e N ort h ern sta . battle ship, utiles also men of Cyclop ean more tion by tbe cir cu l ar ra il way, w hi c h connects together all could be found as a crew. The difficulty is proportionse the French met ropo l i t an t erm i n i. Thi s means of cone• wonder a p p s - rent than real, though no one can at the obar rnunicatien is extensively used Jre the transit of enerchan- vation being made who pays a viiit to the Great East. dise—ewhole trains proceeding now direct from Marseil- ern. It is, indeed, impossible to conceive how that ley to Havre and Antwerp without stopping at all at gigantic mass can be placed uuder th e con t ro l o f men of Paris. What t a k es p l ace w i t h a luggage train may, with- the ordinary Feruetate, and we alm os t ex e ect, as w out disput e , eas il y also be d on© with a train consisting wander about tbe yard, to stumbl e suddenlyp upon some simply of a post-office carriage and tender. I therefore of the Brobdignagiane for wh om s h e must b e intended, submit, with a ll respect, t h at t h e present stoppage at Upon examining the vessel, ho wever , we see h ow every diately done a wa y w i t h . Park, equ a l t o four hours, may and ought to be mime- appliance - is made - use of th a t can poss ibl y save manua l labour. She may be a l most consi d ered, indeed, as a Sorting of our ma il s d ur i ng th e i r T ransit through France. vast automaton. Auxili ar y eng i nes are p l ace d every where round the deck t o per f orm t h e d uty o f t h e sa il ors Viewing th e propose d i mme di ate t rans f er of our Aus- trallan mails to thi s li ne there a under their superintendence. By these her anchors will , ppears no reason why a be cast nod weigh e d, her - sails spread and furled, her proper staff should not be permanently organised for this cargo teemed a n d discharg d, and the coal for her fires service. It wi ll not b © di- gate d t h a t , w i t h proper ar- brought int o th e stoke-hole • in fact, she realises the rangemente, th e ma il s m i g h t an d oug h t t o reac h L on d on all ready sorted f ur t h e h ome t rans it an d d e li very , true idea of a st eam ship. ft is very ' difficult to really© the magnitud e o f th e h u ll b y a c l ose i nspec ti on . W o The Time Table annexed to the Scheme for the Im- see a certain amount of rod painted iron side, which is proved Transit of the Mails, opposed to us, and which conveys no idea of vastness to The rate of speed assumed in this document is that our minds. Even if we walk along the side every sue adopted by the Lyons and Paris line fir their usual ex- cessive portion which we pass is but a repetition of the press trains—viz, 35 miles per hour, stoppages included; previous one, and to obtain an adequate idea of the a speed which ought to be easily maintained by a ape- Great Eastern in this way would be like walking two oral express, viewi ng that su ch train would carry no pas- r three times round Kensington-oval to see a mile of sengers, and would stop only for water and fuel. paliegs. If we go upon the deck we certainly can ob- It is here, perhaps, p ro p e r to state that the express ain a better notion of her, but it is only done by cm rate of speed on th e Ly ons an d Marseilles line is onl) 25 parison. We stand upon an extensive plain of iron so miles per hour. As, however, this rail way may be said studded with rivets that you fancy you are walking on to be a better running road than the Parisand Lyons line, the pathway of some old French town. In this expanse and presents, on the whole, fewer curves, I think the of iron there are some dozen extensive gaps left open for Government might fairly ask them to adopt the accele. the purpose of fitting in the engines and boilers. By rated express rate of the Lyons and Paris line. Their looking down these apertures we see a space like a small capability to run at high spee4et for their own purposes, square in the Temple. This we know is one 9f the . . - 4tb. The English boxes to be placed in a posts ambu lante, separate from the French boxes, and a proper sorting staff to be permanently organised, so that toe mail might reach England ready sorted and fit for imme diate transmission into the interior. sth. The special mail train not to be permitted to enter the Paris station of the Lyons Railway, but to he driven direct to the station of the Northern Railway by the Paris circular line. 6th. An engine to be ordered by telegraph to meet the special mail train at the junction of the Northern Ralway with the Circular Railway connecting the vari ous French metropolitan lines, and such engine to take the mails on direct to Calais without change of carriages. 7th. At Calais a special steamer is to be in readiness to convoy the mails to Dover, whence they are to come on to Loudon by special express. Bth. The following is an estimate of the time within which the mails might be delivered in London under the proposed improved means of transit : H. M. Marseilles to Paris, at 35 miles per hour, including all stoppages, 534 miles l5 0 Stoppage at Pans 0 30 Paris to London, via Calais l2 0 27 30 9th. So soon as the construction of the branch line intended to connect the port of Marßeines with the rail way is finished, the mails to be started from the goods terminus at the port, in lieu of from the present termi nus on the hill above the town. THE GREAT EASTERN. TUESD'AY EVENING, MAY 5, 1857. is unquestioned, and in proof of it I may state that the train I returned in, being considerably behind time, wa3 run over the least favourable portion of their line at the rate of 44 railt:s per hour. The time from Paris to London is that of the usual night train. If the South• Eastern Railway Company were permitted to use its discretion in conveying the mail by Calais or Boulogne, according to the state of the tide, the transit, when effected by the latter route, would be shortened by two hours. I beg hero to express my opinion, that if a small steamer, drawing a very light draft of water, say 2 feet 5 in., were employed to assist in taking the mails to and from the mail steamer off the port of Calais, on nights when the tide does not permit her to ente-r the harbour, much time would be economised. My impression is, that the maintenance of such small steamer would not cost as much as the large sum paid to the numerous boatmen employed, and the service would be much more efficiently performed. water-tight compartments, and if by a mental process of arithmetic we can multiply the apparent magnitude by 12, we may get a tolerat le idea of the interim, but f ven by o , mi:ire-teens an adequate notion of her is hard to form. Figures are the only means of explaining magnitude, and' 'to these we must have recourse She is very nearly 700 feet in extreme length, with a width of 83 feet ; the r x treme breadth across the paddle-boxes is upwards of 120 feet, and the depth of the hell 60 feet. The aggregate tonnage is very nearly 23,000. She is built entirely of wrought iron, and is so - rivetted and bolted together that she is like one entire piece ; but in order to give lie creased strength and stability, a second iron skin, as it is called, is placed inside the first, at the distance of 2 feet 10 inches, as complete and perfect as the outside one. This double case Extendg to three feet above the water line, and is divided transversely into small air tight compartments ; double. security is thus given in case, by any accident, the outer hull might get perfo rated. In the interior, as a precaution against fire and leakage, she is divided into 12 water-tight compartments by iron bulk-heads, half an Inch thick, all entirely eepa• rated front each other. Se carefully have the sides been constructed toat previous to their being coveted with the waterpro f cement nearly all the seams where the plates are j feed were found to be water-tight. About 8,000 tons of wrought iron has been used in the 60,000 superficial feet of plates used in her hull. These are fastened together by 3,000,000 wrought-iron rivets. The manner in which she was constructed is very peculiar, the whole of the heavy lifting work being done by a powerful steam cradle, fitted up on purpose. The plates properly punched are heated to redness in the furnaces, and while in that condition are hoisted to their proper places. The white hot rivets are then immediately driven home, and the iron as it cools contracts so considerably as to render e seams quite water-tight: The deck which, as before stated, is entirely of iron plate, sup ported on wrought- ron girders, will, when the vessel is launched, be covered to the thickness of an inch with a preservative cement, and afterwards Wanked. She will be fitted with both paddle and screw engines ; the for mer of 1,500 horse power,/ and the latter 1,800 horse power, giving a total of 3,300 horse-power, at a prefi gure of 2516. to the square inch. Of course she csn if necessary, work u p t o 5 , 000 h orse-power. The paddle engines will dmsist of four oscillating cylinders, 6 feet 2 inches in diameter, and 14 feet stroke, each of which weighs more than 26 tons. The steam to set these in mo tion will be generated by 4 boilers, having 40 furnaces. These engines are constructed on the disconnecting prin ciple, by which either of the paddle-wheels may be worked independently of the other, if required. The diameter of the paddle-wheels will be about 56 feet. The screw engines will certainly be the principal ',deities of propelling the vessel. They consist of 4 cylinder, of 7 feet in diame ter and 4 feet stroke. The weight of each of these cylinders will b.- 30 tons. The number of boilers will be 6, provided wi' h 72 furnaces. The screw will have four blades, each 12 feet long, and the length of the connect ing shaft will be 150 feet, and its weight 60 tons. The consumption of coals by these gigantic engines will, of course, be very great, but at the same time the stowage room wi;l be quite in proportion ; she will be able to carry nearly 12,000 tons of coal, or about sufficient to supply her for the out and return voyage between Eng land and Australia. The total weight of the vessel when ready for launching will be about 12,000 tons, and the displacerneet of water to compensate for this weight will be about 15 feet 6 inches ; her ordinary light draught is 20 feet, and the maximum draught, when fully laden, will probably not exceed'3o feet. The accommodation is to be such as has never before been known on board ship. She will have five uppr and five lower saloons ; those on the upper deck being 70 feet long and 12 feet in height, and 36 feet broad. The lower deck saloons are only 60 1 et long, but are 13 feet 8 inches high, an elevation, equal if not superior to that of most ordinary drawing-rooms. Of course, With the vast bulk of the ship it is anticipated that there will not be env motion --at least not sufficient to disturb the stomach of even the meet sensitive passengers. Under steam alone she is expected to attain the speed of 20 rni!es an hour. She is to carry six masts, three of which will he square rigged. They are to be of hollow wrought iron, with the exception of the mizenmast, which is to be of wood. It has been urged as an objection that it would be 44: possible to get the compasses to act correctly in the neighbourheird of such a mass of iron. To guard against such interference the corrected compasses will be kept ou the mizenmast, at the height of 84 feet from the deck, and consequently sufficiently removed from surrounding objects to be always pretty reliable. When under fill sail she will spread some 6,500 square yards of can vas. The standing rigging is to be of iron-wire rope, some psrtions of which will be eight inches in cir cumference. The Great Eastern is chiefly in tended for passenger traffic, rind is to he fitted to accommodate 800 of the first class, 2,000 second class, and 1,200 third class—in all 4,000 passengers, and if used as a troop-ship it is said she can take nearly 18,000 men, baggage and provisions included. Ample boat -accommodation will of course, be provided for the whole number of her passengers. In addition to 201trge boats on the deck she will carry, suspended aft her pad dle-boxes, t ovosimall iron screw steamers, each about 100 feet long, and nearly 70 tons burden. They can be raised from or lowered into the water by small auxiliary en gines provided for the purpose. These steamers are in dispensable adjuncts to a slip of this size, as it would be impossible for her to crose even a moderate bar, and there is no dock that would take her in. The shipping and unshipping of passe. gars and cargo would be a mat ter of great difficulty without them. She will be one of the first vessels that has been launched completely fitted, and with engines, masts, and everything on board, nor, could it be done in her case if the launch was to take place in the ordinary way, but this is not the case. She will belowered down an inclined plane into the river by hydraulic presses, an operation which will occupy at least a day or two. She is to be zeady for launching in August, and will take her trial trip to America about the middle of that month. The arrangements for the no vel mode of launching, the ultimate success of which ope ration we cannot but think problematical, we will reserve for our next notice on this subject. We (Bristol Advertiser) are informed that it is no longer a matter of uncertainty from which pert the Great Eastern will sail, Milford Haven has been se 1-cted as the favoured spot—no other harbour in the kingdom being able to 'afford her accommodation. Our informant states that the moorings for this mighty levia. than are now being laid at Neyland. HONOURABLE' CONDUCT. TESTIMONIAL TO DONALD MACDOUGALL, ESQ., OF INVERNESS. (Prom the Caledonian Mercury.) A large assemblage of the personal and business 'riends of Donahl Macifouga 1, Esq , of Inverness, met within Carrick's Reyal Hotel, on Thursday last, for the purpose of presenting to him a testimonial of resnect. The more immediate object of the testimonial will be learned frem the proceedings at the meeting. Among the company present were—the Hon. the Lord Provost ; Sir James Campbell of Stracathro ; Bailie Wright ; John Gilmour, Elq. ; James Gourlay, ; Andrew Wmeate, jun., Esq. ; Williern Wineate., E sq . ; John M'Donald, Esq. ; John Anderson, ; John Harvey, Esq.; John Wilson, Esq. ; James Arthur, Esq ; Walter Seobie, Esq. ; John Robertson, Eq. ; Witham Whitl , ead, Esq. of E linburgh ; Valiance, E q , of alinburgh ; Robert For i rester, E-q., &c , Sir J. CAMPIELL, addressing Mr. Macdougall, said— It is my pleasing duty, sir, in compliance with the re quest of the gentlemen who have take❑ the more imme diate charge of the arrangements for the present occasion, to beg your acceptance of the articles of silver plate now before me, in testimony of the high respect of a number of mercantile names and firms in England and Scotland, who have benefited by your most creditalle. honourabl-, and self-denying conduct in paying the balance of your obligations of 1837, for which you were no longer legally I:able. It is within the knowledge of the gentlemen present, sir, that upwards of twenty years ago, when you were but a young man, and little more than entered upon your career in business on your own account, hav ing met with disappointments and losses, to which mer cantile pursuits are always liable, you found yourself in such pecuniary difficulties as made it prudent and neces sary, while at the same time most honourable on your part, to selernit your affairs to your creditors. The re sult was an arrangement made to the entire satisfaction of your creditors, by which you were to pay a csnepol• tion on your liabilities, which was acknowledged to be the ample value of the assets of your estate. That composition was punctually and honourably paid, and although your means were thus but limited, the confi dence of your friends was not denied you—your credit was completely restored. Since that period, sir, you have applied yourself to the prosecution of your business with great energy, industry, and shill, and wale most praiseworthy economy. But you have had great mo tives to encourage you onward. With the ordinary am bition for success, without which there seldom is progress it - . any work, you have had an interesting family to pro vide for, and you have had also, sir, the noble aepira tions for independence —you would " owe no man any thing" by any interpretation, legal or moral. We are met here to-day to acknowledge the practical result of your exertions, and to testify our sense of your merito rious and honourable conduct by presenting to you these articles of plate. We beg you will accept them, sir, with our earnest prayer that you way long live to enjoy them, with all the pleasing associations they will ratur ally carry with them ; and that they may go down through generations in your family, as a testimony to your worth, and to the estimation in which you have been held by all who knew you. Mr. MACDOUGALL in reply said —Sir James Campbell, your kind and flattering remarks have so overpowered me, that I fear I shall scarcely find words adequate to the expression of what my full Highland heart at pre sent feels, It is to me a source of no ordinary gratifica tion, I will tint say pride, to have the honour of meeting so many honourable meo ; but instead of glorifying my selfeon this occasion, I ought to give humble and devout thanks to the Source whence all blessings flow, that He has so preserved my health and nerved my arm as to enable me, though with a severe struggle, to do a simple act of justice, and to pay each man his own. Sir James and gentlemen, or I may be permitted to say kind friends, a sense of justice ought to compel me to acknow ledge that 1 am utterly undeserving of this magnificent testimony of your approval and good fee'ing. I ought rather to have presented each of you with some tangiLle expression of my gratitude and respect for the kind for bearance you exemplified when circumstances over which I had no control necessitated me to deprive you of a con siderable portion of what you were justly entitled to re ceive, and which I have been so tardy in repaying. Had it not been for your kind consideration upon that occa sion, I might possibly, at the present moment, have been a poverty-stricken and heart broken outcast, instead of a prosperous man. It is to you, then, I owe my present position for since the first moment the idea of pay. ' ing all in full entered my mind, till the present time, Providence seem , to have prospered me ; and if it is an un wok, d oce ,, rrerico for a man to do this, sursly there ou i zht to be no merit att?c!ied to the act, it being ", simple o ne o f d u t y. E ven in, perf,ruoing that duty, merit be attaehed to it, I must give the credit not to myself, but to the excellent Example I lead in early llfe set befire me, by the single-hearted Christian whom I ever revered as the best of fathers, and who, like myself, was beset with difficulties, compounded, but lived to do as I have done now. His honesty of principle was all be had t o b equeath me—all I inherited from him. Thar k God, my p ract i ce i n this case has not di sgrace d the memory I venera t e. H owever, ty this act I have gaine d. what is precious to me—your approbation ; and I beg your acceptance of my more than thanks, from an over flowing warm heart, for those beautiful, useful, and costly specimens of the silversmith's art. I can assure you the recollection of this day wiil he engraved on the tablets of my memory ; and should it. be God's good pro vidence to spare my dear children, I shall band these down. as an heirloom to them, and should any of them be at any time what their father was—unfortunate—tbig exempla of their forefathers shall, in language not to be misunderstood, teach them the wise and glorious lesson, "Go ye and do likewi e'' Tile testimonial consisted of a silver tea service, And several other articles oft late, amone which was a superb silver salver, bearing the following inscription :—" Pre sented, with a tea service and other articles of silver plate, to Donald Macdougall, Esq , Inverness, bya numerous circle of commercial friends, as a testimonial of their re' spect, and more particularly as an expression of their sense of his honourable conduct in paying the balance of his obligations of the year 1337. from which he had been fully dischar:;ed.-30th April, 1857." After presentation of the tes;.irnonial, the compani dined together in the hotel—Sir James Campbell in the chair, and John Gilmour, E q., croupier. A poropriate and , xcellent speeches were delivered by the Chairman , the Lord Provost, and other gentlemen ; and the even ing was spent in the most harmonious and happy manner. THE CASE OP MISS SMITE . Several contradictory statements have been eh' cula!ed relative to the time and place of the triat of Miss Madeline Smith. We believe that nothing has yet been fixed in either respect ; but the ac cused has taken advantage of a provision in the law, known as " run ring letters," whereby she mutt be indicted within 60 days, and tried within 40 more, or else discharged. The Clown, h owe ver, hag the power of postponing the, trial for 40 days more by " criminal letters," so That practically 140 days altogether may el apse , re trial ; and th° ordinary course of criminal procedure seld,Ta re quires a longer period of preparation than' is really ga i ne d by this mode of forcing on the trial —North British Mail.—A correspondent of a contemporary says :—" Miss Smith was brought through from Glasgow on Thursday, I believe, and lodged in the plan of Edinburgh. Meanwhile, her trial, which is expected to take place in the last week of May, is looked forward to with no o r di nary d egree of expectancy. All sorts of rumours are afloat hear ing on the character of Mis--Smith and the young I Frenchman L'Angelier, wh om s h e i s accuse d O r having poisoned. It is, of,couree, out of the ques tion to place any reliance upon those stories, but it is said that the evidence at the trial will be of 'a very startling nature—so much so indeed' that it may be deemed advisable to conduct the case with closed doors. I conversed the other day with a person who saw and talked with Miss' Smith 0 ° the day of L'Angelier's death, and, of course, be fore it was known to her, or any suspicion bad arisen regarding it, and he informed me that the young lady was as gay arid fascinating as he bad ever seen her. In little more than a week after wards she was committed to prison. Those who profess to be acquainted with the circumstances of he connexiou wi.h L'Angelier, so far as these are known to the family, are very sanguine as to her acquittal ; but whatever the result may be, the trial will be one of the 'most exciting that has takea place iu recent times." Country Markets. CHELMSFORD-11A2 1. Wheat to-day experienced a rather bet,ter sale, and the best samples must be quoted is per qr. dearer—inferior 0 last week. Spring corn firm. Wheat, white, old, per s. qr. 33 new 36 red, old 31 new 31 Barley 3 s. 0. No 71 I Oats, per qr 24 3 0 70 Peas, Partridge 41 43 61 W hi tP 46 uite 39 Boiling 39 45 461 Dun 37 3 9 Fi Beans, Tick .35 3 9 , 46 I Harrow ticks 39 4' " I Mazagan 34 3 s 79 Ditto, new 34 37 Chevalier 0 Grinding 35 Malt 73 Chevalier ...... ....75 Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, Zcc in the port of London, from the following April 27 to May 2, both inclusive. ~ receiTei Nis, ;ITO I 1 E * 1 , 4 Colchester Harwich 7491 Leigh sfaldon i 8781 COLCHESTER-MAT 2. 1 - 200 1 500 --- Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 603 to 664 red, 52s to 603; barley, 44s to 48s ; oats, 25s to 28s ; beans. Mazagan, 34s to 363 ; middle and small, 36s to 445; pass: white, 38s to 42s ; grey, 40s to 425. KIRKCALDY-HAT 2. To-day we had a better supply of wheat and oats than on last market day, hut only a few sacks of barley. Salsa quick for wheat and oats at is to 2s advance. Barley sloe sale at last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. First Second Third 34s Od 34s Od l 25s (id f Os o , i Oatmeal, 36s to 38s per bag of 2801 b. COAL VARKET.—Mer 4. s d. Middle W. Hartley l7 9' Howard's West Hartley Netherton l7 9, Bebside's Hartl e y l7 9 1 Canfield Moor l3 31 Canfield Moor Butos 13 West Hartley Grey's...JO 9 1 Wylain Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market. Wsllsend, &o. s d. Braddyll l6 6 Framwellgate l6 a Hetton lB 0 Kepler Grainge l7 f Lambton l7 u Lumley 16 1 1 6 Plummer l5 Peusher... 15 9 Russell's Hetton 16 6 South Hetton 17 g ~ I .3i,ewari,'s lB 0 l eassop 16 , 6 Elartlepool H w etton l6 tough ball 15 9 'cello() 16 9 tees lB 0 'Whitworth l6 0 ;, 72 ; sold, 50. Wallsend, &e. Eden Gostorth l5 0 1 Hartou Northumberland E 15 0 Riddell l5 0 Wharnelitre l4 0 Eden Main l6 3 Belmont .. 15 6 Ships at market LOCAL SSA RE MARKETS. LIVER POOL. MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market is steady to-day, with good business doing at a slight advance on the quotations of Satuid•Ly. Eastern Counties, 11/. 16s. 3d., —Edin burgh, Perth, and Dundee, Bi—L anca ,hi re and York shire, 104 .1,1 —Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 191 --- London and North Westerns, 105 :3 —London and South Western, 101— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 394 -- Midland, 82;—North E as t ern , Berwick, 21i—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14i—South Eastern, 22i —Dutch Rbeni , h, d.— Gland Trunk of Canada, 161. 13s 9d., h—Great Western of Canada, 24k. BIRMINGHAM, MA.T 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.--Great Western Birmingham Gus' ranteed Stock wai sold at 72—South Staffordshire Rail way shares at 91 3,4. 9,1. per share, and Shropshire Union Stock at 49. Closing prices : —Stour Valley, 8t 9—Ditto Guaranteed, 64 s—Lo❑don and North Western Eighths. 3-16 dis—Midland, 82 ,i—South Staffordshires, 9a 9 3.0 per share. MANCHESTER, MAY 4. STOCK EXCITANGE.—There was a good general bneiness► and the market was active, at rather better prices, St• Helens, 41 per cent., 74 prem.—Sheffield, 391—Dover, 221 East Lancashire, 98 —Ditto New, dis. —Midland, 84 -- Leeds, mg—Grand Trunk, 161—Great Northeen A, Caledonian, 3t 9-16—London and North Western, 105 — Great Western, 664—Leeds New, 1-16 prem. BIRTHS. OF;AESON. - - On the 2d inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of the Rev. Joh M. Brack enbury. On the 3d inst., at 30, Leinster-gardens, Hyde-park, Mr°' Stewa , t Pixley. On the 3d inst., at 10, Pembury-road, Lower Clapton, the wife of llerbert Moron, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. .On tho 2d inst., at Boughton, Northamptonshire, MO Granville Howard Vyke. _ _ On the 3d inst., at 72, Glocester-street, Eccleston-square the wife of William Goodenough Hayter, Esq. On the 4th inst., at Beulah hill, Norwood the wife 0 Frederick Lamb, Esq., of Melbourne, Victoria. MARRIED, On the 16th ult., at St. Paul's Church, Malta, Alfred Cocker, Esq , surgeon, 2d Battalion the Royal Regiment, W Mary, eldest daughter of Edward Delamaiu, Esq., St. Sall our's Jersey. . On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, Grassendale,l 3 ; tain Edward Augustus ingletield, R.N., F.R.S., eldest sou o£ the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Ingletield, C. 13., to ENO' Fanny, second daughter of Edward Johnston, Esq., Alleetoo Hall, neer Liverpool, DIED. Oa the 19th ult., at Gibraltar from the effects of Crimea n fever, in the 29th year of his age, Captain Wm, Wilbei fole Hagan, Royal Artillery,. only surviving son of Captain Sir Hagan, R.N. Oa the 9,d inst , at his residence, Ryelands, Lancas t°l. Jonathan 'Dunn, Esq., in his 79th year. On the 3d inst., at his residence, 31, Hoxton.equare, th Rev. Thomas I'ancourt, aged 86. 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