The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

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Apply to EARLY DELIVERY OP THE " NORTHERN TIMES." at Rod Clatight does i er within four mi t receive his e, —Any Eight o'clock will ob. e Liverpoql Exchange, Or nhead, Woodside, Oxton, v Brighton, who NORTHERN - TIME - 8," by ler by addressing a note fact, in order that the to him at the office tiotifyini CI Corn moved. t five o'cloc be inrestigateti and re ce their delivers gingers coma ompletion if subscribers es in their doors through which the detention and causes delay and disappointment to other subset VENING EDITION ° NORTHERN DAILY TIMES Day, up to THE J DAII f going to Pr Ebie IFEDIVESL civic busi his intere N EAS PER ARNIM RIL 16, 1856 men of t between En throw cant to time, and ti the LORD 1 the mercantile a communication tralia is about to be le London men, a second Mayon, ed on by Peers commoners of high and low degree are up, and doing with a degree of zeal which is only equalled by their disregard of truth. Men who stand up in public, and tell the world " the usual postal speed " is ten knots, or nautical miles, a _ the voyage to Australia " might be easily per " formed at an average speed of ten knots an hour," hour"—that —and Ilia' an unknown route, though shortes do not show y which Parliament and the country have a right to look for in the. discussion of questions of transcendent importance to the whole community. No such average fair-weather speed has yet been attained, and right well the Earl of HARDWICKE, Lord STANLEY, of Knowsley, and the other speakers at a meeting held at the London Tavern, onMonday, know it from their own CHARLES WILLMER, WHOLESALE STATIONER AND PRINTER, 19, SOUTH JOHN-STREET, LIVERPOOL. THE attention of Merchants, Brokers, Trades men, and others, is respectfully drawn to the fol owing list of CASH PRICES for 3 simpl erence to it experience or careful research The distan e from Liverpool to Chagres is, as nearly possible, 4,630 miles From Panama to S ,574 miles, according to Captain EDWARD BELCHER'S evidence given before the Parliamentary Commit tee of 1851 )w, this wo distance from Chtgres to Panama, a total of 11,204 miles, and howit would take fifty-six days, as the London Times to perform the distance at the average speed of ten knots, we cannot under stand. According to our reckoning, of 240 miles in the twenty-four hours, it would only take a few minutes over forty-six days sixteen hours, ing twelve hours to cross the Isthmus of Panama, it would only occupy forty-seven days four hours, and this route, in which every rock, shoal, current, and atmospheric phenomena are known to our mariners, is to be given up for one which the Lon- and allow its ingenuity, can on -four days! and of which ly, that, "prima facia, st rout( With our totem. porary _ased to be a matter of The fact, and affair of news nee in the s, both in Vustralian will be orders, carried back id a half miles an hour, c glity-four steam tra cod at the meetieu our clippers as NV padd 'oats of tl Mr. W the stipulat ictors e meeting that " one of in their contract was, that the steamers should go at the rate of eight and a half ~ ~ miles an hour; but, in point of fact, they only went six and a half miles an hour. Still, how " ever, they performed the voyage in sixty-four " days, which it took the General Screw Company " eighty-four days to do. That state of things " continued for about two years." What becomes of the ten knots an hour humbug after this ? But this speaker went on to say Since that time " they had had what was called a clipper line, one " of which clippers had been out 110 days; so that, "bad as the postal communication was carried on " by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, it was ander the of a i\l'lvET cidents at sea arrival of certainty we do those ay that Liverpool has the men and can find the Ocean Steamships for a perfect packet service. We have an established route that is known to every one of our ocean steam-boat commanders. From Liverpool to Chagres is a fine open track, and from Panama to Australia we have smooth water with light year winds for ten monti The facilities for crossing the Isthmus are equal to any traffic. On the 18th ultimo 800 passengers, 300 mail bags, 200 tons of express freight, besides passengers' luggage, crossed it, from sea to sea, in twelve hours. These are the advantages Liverpool can coin. mend. Now, let us see what the London, Dover, and round-the-world gentry have to say. Lord HARDWICKE stated that the " Aden and Red Sea had been established as a " useful route ;" but on that point even " a difference "of opinion would arise," while he " could not " understand what, in the present day, with the " power of steam so thoroughly established, and " understood, anything but rocks and shoals, " which merely required a seaman's look-out' " was to prevent a direct communication " from port to port. Steam defied winds and " currents, to a certain extent. The question of " propelling power was left entirely to their own ' discretion and command, and he, as a seaman, " should say the shortest line was the best, es pecially " in a case where they gained a difference between 84 days and 48 days," All this must have been rich reading for our London friends. But, unfortunately, the noble Lord went on to say that, " to pass Diego Garcia it would be necessary " to build there a lighthouse, to establish a depot for " coals, and a small colony to supply passing ships " with other necessaries. He thought that might be "done in time, but he should recommend that the " Mauritius be first taken, with the ultimate view " of establishing the necessary facilities he -had " suggested at Diego Garcia. " The slight di gression from the " shortest" line hero sug. z_vl6 miles to the distance, gested, would add t making it nearly fifty days, or three days longer than the Panama rout( )ur .Lancashire Lord STANLEY, after telling us that the Parlia mentary Committee, of which he was a member, " were mostly landsmen, and had no practical " experience to guide them, had rejected the " Panama route almost unanimously formal resolution, " tl e 1 in f Mr. C. STEVENS, a Australia ave the noble Lorc porters a very distinct answer n fresh from " was Mr. STEVENS commenced by saying, h well acquainted with the fep, Jiings of the colonists on this question. fe wished to say that he A believe ssible to get ie col to make hi this matter ), have no more experiments in They were sick of delay, and s f change; they had plenty of money to pa. steam postal communication and they as'. the Imperial Government to concede it to them at once. On the question of route, he contended that Diego Garcia was a terra incognita to the British sailor, and that they would lose one shin " out of four if they sent them by that route these simple truths make Lords HARDWICKE and STANLEY blush, or will they be thrown away on the Government? Finally, will the Mayor, mer chants, shipowners, manufacturers, bankers, and traders of Liverpool and the North, allow jobbery to rob them once more of what ought to be theirs, if the national and colonial welfare is to be considered? Liverpool is the best port in the kingdom for the Australian packet station, and the Panama, if not the shortest, is the quickest and best route; and these facts ought to be brought to the knowledge of the Legislature without delay in the form of an address, emanating from a town's meeting, presided over by the Mayor of Liverpool. REFORMATORIES for juvenile criminals are, we are rejoiced to say, springing up in all parts of the kingdom, with a rapidity which shows that the lt last aroused to a sense of their duty towards neglected and depraved youth. It is necessary, however, to guard, as much as I give, exclusive of the possible entire community is , against such a movement being converted into political capital by professional philantro phists, and those who have a deep interest in making the increase of crime a source of enlarged emolument or patronage. The simple truth is enough to call into action the Christian sympathies of society. But to enable us to get at facts, we must have accurately compiled criminal statistics. In another column of this paper, will be found `a return of inquests held before t Borough 'Coroner, for the year 1.855," in which nine cases of wilful murder, and eight of mans►aughter are recorded; Alereas, in the Borough I ?oliee Report persons " taken into cu ly and commit to the s for murder, b, rdicts of tl 110 Coroner's juries, set down at 12; manslaughter, milted for trial, 4," while in the gives the number of deaths during the year 1855, Joroner's Inquest table which 3 been holden there are " 27 cases of violence to the person, "which, when classified, appear as. 17 wilful murders, " and 10 cases of manslaughter." Suicides, instead of being 14, are put down 11 • drunkenness, and "other causes' 02, instead of 70." With such iscrepaneies as these in the returns of ,nes against life, what reliance can the public place on the much talked of increase of danger to glaring d person and property? If wo are to deal fairly and comprehensively with vice, let us have reliable statistics. If we could depend on the accuracy of the police report before us, we could prove that, although there was a lamenting increase of manslaughter and murder in 1855, as compared with previous years, still there was a decrease in pocket picking aud other robberies from the person, breaking into dwelling-houses, burglary, drunken and disorderly and incapable parsons The- - population of the kingdom is growing rapidly, and if the spread of crime does keep pace with our numbers we ought to be able it official reports. Few persons Li the many reformatory agents long all classes of the people, been done. The fact that Drderly persons are not increasing ..re there are never less that nen from all nations—ought to courage a who would see the working iced from the bondage of intemperance, Will it 1) redited that, thstanding the sin of drunkenness cannot be THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERP mmarily punished. in 1833, that 9,028 were ink, disorderly, arid incapable of taki g care of emselves, and that in this frightful mass of tiering there wen no less than 3,314 women ! said to have been appre hended in the ent year, 659 only co uld read incl. write well 1 1,688 Ns while there were 12,020 who could could read only, and 11,322 With such an ay of figures before us, who can be s prised at the intemperance and crime vhich fill our gaols every month and year ? To rid us of such a scourge, give us voluntary edu r compulsory education at any ation at any better for our neglected youth o be under the worst rigour of moral discipline, than to be the prey of policemen, and the victims of criminal persecution. In 1855 there were 756 boys under eighteen, and 12 girls under fifteen years of age, taken into custody for being drunk and disorderly; whilst there were 642 between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years charged with the same offences. This shows the temptation to which the youth of both sexes are exposed, and the means by which they are led into the commis sion of crime. The moment they are thrown upon the world the tempter besets them, and never leaves them until their total destruction has been effected. The law, unfortunately, only reaches the drunken child, and not the inhuman monster who places the poison in the hands of infancy. If those who made children of the tender age of twelve or fifteen drunk could be found, they ought to be punished, and not those irresponsible crea tures they may have draw❑ into a life of torture and disgrace. But to revert to the Borough statistics. Are the public given to understand that they will have them correctly compiled henceforth ? Major GREIG will scarcely venture to say that the entries made in the Coroner's books are wrong. The simplest error in an official report is sufficient to render it 'ntirely useless Besides, in this case, it exposes the Coroner and his officers to very serious conse quences. If the Police Returns of the Borough I— , taken up by the Home Secretary and he Coroner's Court, the lose who have charge of its compared tai h thos 3 of li probabili 3 very harshly dealt with, on the police authorities must be Lie mistakes in the present crimes which ought to be istered than any others. It for M: r GREIG, on reading the lother place, Ind Watch Committee. To the Press sueh documents are of great value at this particular moment, and we shall be glad to to set himself ht with a THE COURT, to sta ig the fig that the Queen's ball, unced for Friday, the 6th of June, is to take place on Her Majesty and the on Monday morning, Princess Alice, and attended by the Prince Albert afterwards rode MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL LIVERPOOL, TUESDAiT,VE N I NG. The Liverpool .Cotton Market maintains the firm tone which' prevailed yesterday, and with an active demand and only moderate supply, the advanced rates of yesterday have been fully maintained. The sales - reach 15,000 bales, of which 5,000 have "been` taken for speculation and export. The Liverpool Share Market opened this morn ing rather less buoyantly, and throughout the day showed very little change. The closing quotations were—Aberdeen, 13z - 131. CheSter and Birken head„ 151, 16. t Caledonian, 30 309. Chester and Holyhead, 10 - Eastern Counties, 108 101.. East Lancashire, 'l9l l 9 f. ; Great Northern 23k 231 Ditto A, 91 10,'. T . Great Western 64! 643, Lanea [lire Stool Southr 88f, 89. Liverpool, urosu y , 17 1.71. London- and N - orth - We - stern Stock, 101-7, 1014. Manchestev,'"Shiiirield and Lincoln, 29 298. Ditto Pref., 111 - 11 i. New 6 per cent. Pref , 7-16 9-16 p. Midland Stock 741: 75; North - British, 8,1 n. North Stafford. shire, 651 d. South Eastern and Dover, 21 13-16 21 15-16. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191 198. York and North Midland, 281 28a: Leeds Capital Stock, 158 16. Bnffalo and `Lake 1 - 1111'90, 18 2p. Dutch Rhenish, 1 11-1-6 1 18-16 p. Great Western of Canada, 25 13-16.25.15.16: Di"- 3 1-16 3- 1 -p. 8 Luxe s nabO'urg ?nd i The, Corn. t- con tinu Ditto the attendance at L.. tolerably good, the prix. 3d to 4d per bushel, whilst, is 6d per sack arid barrel lower. The Manchester Goods Markets has been very firm to-day, but the amount of business done has not been very large, in consequence of the increased, rates demanded fer b o th goo d s and yarns. Where business was done, from lid to 3d per piece, on, goods, and a farthing p er poun d on yarns had to' be submitted to. The following is a statement of traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway of Canada by pas senger and goods trains for the week ending 28th March, 1856, and for the corresponding period last year :---28th March, 1856—total receipts, 13,1341. Bs. ; 30th - March, 1855—d 0 ., 8 5291 . 19s. Bd. ; Increase, 4,6041 Bs. 4d. Aggregate gross re ceipts from the commencement of the current half-year . to the above date, 79,6241. 155.; ditto for the corresponding period last year, 53,23516 s 2d. —all sterling. The weekly commercial reports from France state that traie has begun to show a little more activity, from the favourable effect of the reduction of the rate of discount by the Bank of France. There is not much disposition,. however, to enter eagerly into commercial operations. The high prices of law materials for manufactures is again a slrious obstacle to the vigorous return of business. In Paris there continues to arrive numerous buyers from the provinces and foreign countries; but they are reserved in their purchases, or they ask from the manufacUirers reductions in prices which they are not disposed to concede. The best customers are those who buy on Russian account; and the Pari sian manufacturers have received important corne missions during the week for that destination. It is expected also that this trade will increase if the Czar is induced to lower the present protective duties on manufactures, which amount to a COM , plete prohibition on some articles. Letters from St. Petersburg state that the old Muscovite party, who have been agitating for the adoption of the. national cost ume t o t h e d etr i ment of French fashions, have not succeeded in their efforts. The retail traders in Paris complain of a sensible dimi nution in the amount of sales during March this year, compared with last season ; but this was not to be expected, on account of the Exhibition in 1855 having giving an unusual impetus to bush ness. Among the expected arrivals from Australia are the Anglesea, with 51,319 ounces ofgold on freight, and the Statesman, with 14,198 - ounces—of the total value' of 262,0681. Both of these vessels sailed from the Port 'of Melbourne on the 26th December. The departures for the Australian Colonies during the past week comprised—three to Port Philip, one to Sydney, and one to Hobart Town, measuring a total of 3,622 tons. The favonrible reception given by M. Muslims, the Turkish Minister, on Saturday last to the de putation which waited upon him for-the purpose or obtaining the registration of the Guaranteed 4 per Cent. Bonds, has i of those seeuriti ward his mo Commons the Chanc mated that the matter L 'TEST INTELLIGENCE. VENING 3k this morning, 3atehes leave at " certainly better than it w " servic for those clippers had been 84 days_ on "an average in Ti an find, that sailing from - ;oing out, and 93 " average in coming hal " what Here 1 as called the clipper line," Liverpool, were as fast as the London screw boats within half a day —and this is not all. Our clippers hay e frequently beaten the average spe of the paddlt s ! But what, in the nal reason, is to keep the Australian mail going from Liverp Australia b teamers either direction Give us a CUNARD Line under the I except in the case of a shall be able to calculate the 3 Southern mails with the from the West It is no Tuesday, the 17th of June next Prince Co accompanied I t rode on horseback Equerries in Waiting of Wales and Prince Alfred. The Queen has given sittings to Mr. Noble, for a colossal bust for the Town-hall of Manchester. Her Majesty had out with the 1 a dinner party a the evening The company included the Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Royal, the Belgian Minister, Lnd Madame Van de Weyer, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Earl and Lady Con_ stance Grosvenor, Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn, Major-general the lion. Charles Grey, Sir George Couper, and Lieutenant-Colonel Maude, Royal Artillery. THE LEVEE.—Yesterday afternoon, her Majesty, accom panied by the Prince Consort, and attended by the usual officers of the household, proceeded in state from Buckingham Palace to St. James's Palace, where the Queen held a levee, which was numerously and brilliantly attended. THE LONDON CORPORATION REFORM BILL.—A common hall of the livery of the city of London, was held yesterday aggrnoon in Guildhall, for the p ur p ose o f cons i der i ng, an d, if‘pproved, adopting resolutions in opposition to the government measure for the reform of the corporation. The Lord Mayor presided, supported by the sheriffs, aldermen, and other civic functionaries. After some dis cussion a resolution, condemnatory of the government measure, was agreed to by a large majority. A petition to Parliament was afterwards adopted against the bill, and a resolution passed, declaring that the livery were fully alive to the desirableness of reforming all abuses, and would gladly accept any just and proper scheme for that purpose. Another resolution was also carried, con firming the proceedings of the liverymen's committee, and requested them to continue to act on behalf of the com mon hall, in endeavouring to secure the defeat of the bill. The proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor. THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.—Last night, in the House of Commons, Mr. Spooner again brought forward the ques tion of the Maynooth grant, by moving that " the House resolve i►self into a committee of the whole House for the purp ,, se of considering the acts for the endowment of the college of Maynooth, with a view to the withdrawal of any endowment out of the Consolidated Fund, due regard being had to vested rights and interests." On this the recently elected member for the city of Edinburgh, Mr. A. - , Black, moved, by way of amendment, to add to the original motion the words following :.—"And at the same 4--- ke into consideration the other parliamentary sde to religious denominations in Ireland." )ate, the House divided on Mr. Black's 1 there appeared in favour of the amend -253, so that the amendment was lost A. division then ensued on the original )y a majority of 2, motion, which was carried by a majority of 26, the numbers being—for the motion, 159; against it, 133. The announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheers, so says the report. After two futile attempts made by Mr. Hutchins and Mr. D. O'Connell to bir the further progress of Mr. Spooner's success, by moving amendments which the forms of the House prevented, but in which they were defeated by majorities of 22 and 17 respectively, Mr. Spooner triumphed and obtained leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of the endowment of Maynooth. Thi Idds another to the defeats already experenced by the Government since the commencement of the present session of parliament THE WEATHER for the last two days has been very fine and dry, The wind has been rather sharp, with chilly atmosphere, but sunny. Altogether, the weather is favourable, and such as cannot fail to be welcome to the agriculturist. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1866, RUSSIA A correspondent of the Independance Belge asserts that at present foreigners wishing to visit Russia on business, find infinitely less difficulty in obtaining the necessary authorization than was once the case, and are .not subjected, as formerly, to a host of vexatious formalities. SPAIN A despatch from Madrid, dated the 14th inst., states that a new municipality has been named at Valencia. • The Government was acting with energy tranquility Continued to 'prevail. FRANCI In consequence of the e e of a violent gale yesterday in the channel, the sual mails from Paris, dated have net been for lensual letter of VD MAIL ondav eN to the holder In acCorclanc ject in the Hens or of the Exchequer inti sted with the authorities of the Bank of M. Musurub LLIG ueptucation tnat ne woui - take immediate steps to communicate with the Porte, as well as with the governor of the Bank of England, upon the subject. If registration is permitted the value of the Bonds will of course be enhanced, and a greater security will be given to the holders ttoman governMent The English Funds were again flat to-day. In the morning a decline of 8 to 1 per centwas quoted, but the closing prices were nearly per cent below those of yesterday. At the close, the prices were 931 to 931. The tendency towards depression was chiefly attributed to the activity of the demand for money in all quarters. In the Stock Exchange, the !pressure was especially noticed, being increased by the settlement of the account in shares and. _foreign stocks. This is a natural consequence of the outstanding speculation for a rise in most descriptions of securities. In face of the stringency of the Money Market, the Funds must be considered fairly supported. The Stock Exchange settlement has not been effected without the announcement of a failure. The party referred to has been an exten sive speculator for the rise in several departments of the market. His suspension has thus had a prejudicial effect - upon the price of certain securities. The closing quotations of the Paris Bourse did not reach the city this evening. On 'Change, this afternoon, there.was more demand for bills on most Continental cities. Foreign Exchanges : Amsterdam short, 11 191 to 11 194. Do., 3 months, 12 2to 12 21. Rotterdam, do. 12 2to 12 21. Antwerp do., 25 60 to 25 671 Brnssels, do., 25 60 to 25 671. Hamburg do, 13 111 to 13 12. Paris, short, 25 37/ to 25 45. 'Do , three months, 25 721 to 25 771. Marseilles, do, 25 72/ to 25 771. Frankfort, do., 1211 to 1211. Vienna, do. 10 20 to 10 24. Trieste ; do., 10 21 to 10 25. Petersburg, 361 to 37. Madrid, do., 491 At the adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr. W. 0. Young to-day, the opinion was expressed that an arrangement, tantamount to a partnership, really existed between Mr. Young and the late Mr. Beckwith. Mr. Young's affairs are, therefore, to be thrown into the Bankruptcy court. The prospectus of the Imperial Hotel Com pany is issued ; the capital is fixed at 1,000,009/. sterling. The object is the building of a large Hotel on the principle of the great Hotel de Louvre at Paris, The 'recommencement of the 'trade with Russia is absorbing a great deal of tonnage; there is an active enqu i ry for Cronstadt, Archangel, and Riga, and there is a large bnsiness doing, about thirty ships having been entered for Russian ports at the London Custom 'House last week. The current quota tions are 65., wheat from St. Petersburg town to London, ex east coast; 55s deals from Cronstadt to Liverpool ; 33s 6d tallow ; 50s clean hemp, &c. from Odeasa, the Azoff, and Danube: There is less animation in freights owing to the large supply of tonnage. The rates from the former ports are 60s and 70s, tallow ; and. from the latter 12s Oil to 13s, ' wheat. Market to-day was flat. quotations : Caledonian, 61 61. , Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3-10 East Lancashire, 76 .78. Great Northern, 91941. Ditto A, 781- 791. Great Western, 641 641 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 881 89 London and North Western, 1012 101'1. Mar chester Sheffield, and -Lincolnshire. 0^ Glamor The Railwa3 Share ng were the closing The t Midland 'Stook,' 7 South Eastern castle' ? and' Benviek, 78 '79j Midland. 564 57. qorth 'British, 35 353. 31.- York, New fork and North DANIEL V. CALLO cause in the Court of Pas erroneously stated defendant —ln our report of the trial of this - ag , e, on Monday, th. 9 verdict was 'g of the jury was for the The find Mr. STUART, THE TRAGEDIAN.—WC hear that legal difficulties having defeated the appointment of this gentle man for which he took farewell of ' the stage, he has returned to his profession, and his friends and the public may shortly expect to see him on a professional ,visitito Liverpool., . • - warded. Hence our own Paris correspondent a aro without THE OVI The Vectis, arrived at five , o'cl ith the mails from India. De STEAM COMB dUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA On Monday, a large and influential meeting was held at the London Tavern, to determine on the best means to be taken to insure the immediate re-establishment of our steam postal relations with Australia. The Lord Mayor was called to the chair, and among the company on the platform were, the Earl of Hardwick, Lord Stanley,, Mr. Kerr Seymour, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P. Mr. J o h n M'Gregor, M.P., and m an y o th er gentlemen o ' f influence and.standing, The Lord layor, in opening the proceedings, said that it appeared to him to be a matter of deep regret that govern meet had done nothing to facilitate the postal communica tion between this country and her Australian colonies. The importance of such a communication was at once apparent. In fine, it was his opinion, that the: money which would be saved in insurance and in interest on the value of cargoes, if a sure and reliable postal communication were opened between England and Australia, would go a long way towards a subsidy for that purpose -(hear, hear)—and he therefore, thought that they ou g ht t o urge on government ' to expedite the establishment of one, and he hoped that the united voice of that meeting would have the effect of getting, without further delay, a line of ships put on the most eligible route, which might pr event the inconvenience which had hitherto been felt. The meeting was addressed at considerable length by Mr. C. Wenrworth, lately representative of Sydney in the legislature of New South Wales, by the Earl of Hardwicke, by Lord Stanley, M.P., by Mr. Kerr Seymour, M.P., and other gentlemen, and the - followi ng resolutions were unanimously adopted : _. First. Tliat while the long-continued interruption of all postal steam intercourse with the Australian Colonies have been productive of serious discontent and detriment to them, it has been in a still greater degree injurious to the com merce and finances of the United Kingdom. Second. That it is 'expedient that immediate steps be taken to establish a steam. postal service suitable to the vast commerce and growing importance of Australia. Third. That it appal =rs to the meeting that the trans missions of letters between England and Australia could be performed at an average-, /ate of not I.ess than ten knots an hour, and this should be effectad by the most eligible route and in the shortest possible time. On the motion of Sir W. M'Arthur, a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor was passed by acclamation, and thus the proceedings terminated. THE RAILWAY -FOR-GtRIES DUBLIN, Monday Evening,.---At the head police-office, this day, Mr. James M. Knighting was brought up, charged with having committed another forgery of a transfer of railway shares. From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Knighting, in June last, called at the office of Mr. Robert Corbett, stockbr4er, and stated that. Mr. Henry M. Jones, of Hampstead, was anxious to dispose of 156 preference shares in the Great Southern and Western Railway, and that, inasmuch as his residence was at some periods uncertain, he wished to appoint Mr. John J. Ryan, of the Lunacy-office as his agent. In accordance with this direction, a deed of transfer ' from Mr_ Ryan to Mr_ Jonpa Q rnado out in Mr. Co - rbett's office and forwarded to the Great Southern and Western Railway of was returned with the si rough t for- feror, and of Mr. Ryan with futt Corbet 2,960/, was paid to. Mi the shares were Bank of Irelind, and thr now attended, and deriiis, d that he ha bunting to nearly ur chee —on one r. Jones 7, ned the transter, and that he was now the proprietor of tlie shares originally, allotted to him in the Great Southern and Western Railway. After a lengthened investigation the prisoner was committed for trial on two charges ; but it is feared that forgeries to a far greater extent will:yet be discovered. THE LONDON GAZETTE BANERITPTS market, dea in potatoes. ansbue, provjsion TAYLOR, Junior, J. a . wich, tualler. AUGUSTUS JOHN YELLraps, late of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope ; now of Oakley-street, • Chelsea, shipowner and trader. JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER (riot Draper, as advertised in last Friday's Gazette), Wimbledon, Surrey, victualler. GEORGE STANTON, late of Marylebone-street. woollen draper, but now of Forkan's-terrace, Kentishtown. - Thous HARRISON, Chancery -lane, and Esher, S urrey , tailor and church decorator. JAMES HooD, the younger, and CORNELIUS ROBERT SCHALLER, Charles-Street, Middlesex Hospital, auctioneers, upholsterers, and valuers. TuomEs BALLS, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, City, and Belgrave-place, Tuffnell-park-road, Upper Holloway, Middlesex, iron merchant and commission agent, COLPITTS HARRISON, Liverpool, wine merchant. ISAAC GUNTON, Mauea, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, grocer and draper. A.TiD, Farrington- DANIEL DAVIES ; Cardiff, JOHN Eeneral deale Wo atty.st EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE.—The splendid clipper ship, Zobooh, 1300 tons register, which arrived last week, has made the fastest passage, we believe, on record, from New Orleans to this port, viz , twenty-three days and a-half. She is now laid on the berth for Melbourne, as one of the Mersey Line of Packets, and, as her accommodation for passengers are very superior, we have little doubt she will command the preference which such a fine ship deserves, and usually obtains in this trade. _ TUE LATE GOLD DUST SEIZURE, —We have already stated the circumstances of the seizure of gold dust, value £l2OO, by Mr. L. T. Gaskill, in the case of Nathan Sala man, an Australian bankrupt. The party decidedly stated before the commissioner at Sheffield that the dust did not belong to him, but. from further information received by the Red Jacket, from Australia, it seems the assignees in the case, are confirmed in the fact that it did belong to him, and we have been informed that the Messrs. Baines have received orders to retain it. Yester• day, the Leeds Messenger 'of Bankruptcy arrived in town in consequence of a refusal of Messrs. Baines to give up to his agent, Mr. L. T. Gaskill, a box of silver plate that came from Australia in the Lightning also, and is stated to belong to the bankrupt. Of course, the Messrs. Baines only wished to keep themselves harmless, and on the messenger and his agent producing their authority, the box was accordingly given up. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday, the Coroner held the following inquests :—On the body of a person named John Dixon, a painter, who from the evidence, it appeared, went into Mr. Nuttall's public-house, at the corner of Saltney-street, and sat down for a moment, and then dropped dead. He had been ailing for some time past. His death was the result of natural causes. Verdict, died by the visitation of God. On the body of Elizabeth Fenwick, who kept a small confectionary shop in Scotland road. It appeared that the deceased was 42 years old, and that she had been subject to disease of the heart for some years back. On Saturday she died suddenly, after being at market. Verdict, died' by the visitation of • God. On the body of a boy named Thomas Calvert, who was killed by being driven over on Saturday (in Park road) by a car. It appeared that the deceased was running across the road, when the car passed over him. The car is the property. of Thomas Norton, and was driven by a man named John Pickersgill. It appears that the unfortunate affair was purely accidental, and that no blame wets attached to, the driver. The jury returned a verdict of accidental- death. On the body .of a female, whose name was not known, who was killed by a shandry near the 'Adelphi Hotel, crossing from_ Brownlow-hill. The shandry was drifred by a person named James Watson, who was in custody.. The deceased seemed to be a poor woman, and had a loaf of bread in her hand when the fatal occurrence took place. 'On the evidence, it appeared that the driver was not much to blame, as the horse had a hard mouth., The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but at the same time, they thought there was a great want of caution in the owner of the horse, in sending out the animal without a proper bit to the bridle, and that the driver was not as cautious as he ought to have been in such a thoroughfare. The driver was, however, discharged from custody. On the body of Ber nard Morgan, who resided in Glover-street. He was a dock labourer, and was hurt on board the ship Mary Cassells. when he was at work. He fell into the hold, and died fromi the effects of the injuries. The affair was purely accidental, and the jury returned a verdict of i accidental death. Shan C' 11, and although this morning was elined frcim flour " was from Is to IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENI HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY. Their Lord9hips sat for a short time, but no business of punc interest was transacted. HOUSE OF COMMONS. — TUES DAY The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Cambridge University and TOIND Bill was ( " 1 ",, - sidered, and ordered f or third reading: T h e British and American Great Railway Land Company Bill was read a second time, A largenuMber of petitions were presented, P the withdrawal of the grant to Maynooth. Viscount CHELSEA gave notice that on an early would ask her Majesty's government what steps had been taken to erect a monument to the late Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral . COUNTY TREASURERS' ACCOUNTS. Mr. MILES asked the Under. Secretary of State for fl a t ! Home department why th e C ounty treasurers' account of last year had not been laid upon the table of the House ? • ly Mr. MASSEY said the treasurers had been extreme remiss in the observance of the act. The Howe (°e° haddone all it could to obtainthe;egular transmissi of this information ANDING THE MILITIA. In reply to Lord Naas, • • Mr. PEEL said th e m iliti a would not b e disernbo-I ;red r., the order in which th ey were embodied., 'Those in bar racks and billetted would be disembodied first. THE BRITISH FOREIGN LEGIONS. In reply to Colonel Dunne, a to Mr. PEEL said th a t w h a t had b een p r omise- id foreigners on their enli s t men t i n t h e Eng li s h se rvice w ° , 1 , 1 :,.. undoubtedly be carried i n t o e ff ect. W hen th e y were a . 1 : 1, sharged they would b e sen t h ome or to Nor th Ameri c o according to their own t erms , an d the pr i v ates 'O il receive six months and the officers twelve m onths' P I. They would have no claim to pension. THEPRENCA MEDALS OF HONOUR. In answer to Colonel Lindsay, Mr. PEEL remarked that the French medals to Bri tish soldiers were to be gi ven i n t h e . 0 p ro p or tion of ten to 1000, and General Codrington had been called uP° O make selections of the most deserving of the Men: THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. of Mr. Spooner, in moving a resolution for the abolition ha the Maynooth . Grant, referred t o th e nu mber of tim es had brought the questi on f orwar d , an d sa id 'be mould have been willing t o di v id e a t once upon the motion whe he now made, if he thought such a proceeding 1 " i/1d t :the with general support. He referred at some length -- of report of the Maynooth commission, and to the natur e the evidence taken before it, contending that the 1.01 :4 the report, was sent to Rome, which rendered the m eet e tigation a mockery and a snare. He met the argt Of frith, that the removal of the grant would be a breach 1 0 rd by referring to statements made by Sir R. Peel and was John Russell in 1845, to the effect, that no promis , e /1 0 1 made on the subject, and that the conditions under iz v ni an the vote was given had not been fulfilled by the " n ous Catholics. The grants for Roman Catholic instituti _0 were not too heavy, but now the Roman Catholics wilec'h dissatisfied and were demanding more, and und e L s de-' circumstances he called upon the House to take 801 " n -r i t zy cided steps to put an end to the taxation of this P fl n - oed for the support of a religion that had been prone, that idolatrous. The hon. member concluded by Inevi" the the House resolve itself into a committee, to consider grant to Araynooth, with a view to its abolition. Mr. A. BLACK moved as an amendment, that " Mon quiry should embrace all grants for evQry•denoinhrt: of Christians in Ireland. He stated 'that the church constituted only 113 per, cent of the poi:0110.10,1'o Ireland, the other sects comprising 77 per cent, While sum4'of money voted for the established church Viiitig " .1- ? 0 , 1 900, and .4 ) 38,000 was divided anionxst 'fit I°l establi-ne sects, including Roman Catbolics. :• v ' ' in Lord BERNARD denied that any _compact Nva,. s nte d existence for the continuance of the grant, and sL'o x , that in Ms opinion, the principles inculcated at Maynoo led to disloyalty and disturbance in Ireland. the Mr. Lo AN enumerated . the various taxes that on, Roman Catholics had to submit to, for which. Ile cop' sidered the Maynooth Grant an inadequate recomPell',,, The present time, when peace was just established I . 4 ''' 0 he thought, a very inappropriate occasion to introd o this discord between religious seats, and, if the were carried, the majority would be produced by bination of the partisans of the Protestant establi: and the advocates of the voluntary princiPle. rre idt Mr. WILKINSON would not oppose the Maynooth .- - while the Established Church in I re l an d . continued, to enjoy its enormous endowments. 4 , 1. Mr. ICENwEor opposed the resolution. Mr. DE VE -1 -ail :the flou.^ it withdraw- -...E warneu ~...._ , .uat if this vote 0 1 _wn, some other means w ou ld h ave to b e res or ted ior obtaining furids for the support of the ItoL n3rl Catholic clergy. Money would have to be wrenched frol3l A:5 an impoverished people, and they m i g ht then: l o ok for o' . turbances in Ireland. not Mr. DRIYMMOND remarked that if some step svos - taken to get rid of the Maynooth influence something e f ir e would he swept away that they did no t think of. f„ 0 thought the most effectual way of checking the inflile' of the priests was by education and moralisation. Mr. MEAGHER opposed the motion. the in :in t h the *e jilti the Mr. DEAREY instituted a comparison between t ime surrection in Ireland in 1798, which was about the lace *hat the college was founded, and that which took Post afterwards, showing that, while 4-IrOt....:sctea,ntths,etßheofmaailnureCoafthAlri.cssmwitehreou,Bnritedien, agains.,,r n w o a t s h a a c v k in n g ow t l h e e dg c e o d .o b p y er h gt im io , n t o o f b t e he in p =rence °I ' e d to the services of the Roman Catholic soldi H er e sT i o le f Crimea, and deprecated at such 'a time the retro' an d the support of their priests, whose consolationa g e • encouragement had comforted them in the hour of d' n i g o He denied that Roman Catholics were open to the ch , i a s , id of disloyalty, immorality, or Ultramontanisn3, and r-ian that' stich charges were only made to serve secta 10 years afterwards, purposes. Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the motion. Mr. ROEBUCK opposed it. After a few remarks from Mr. RIRK, b r O r North Warwicksh i re (Mr. Spoon er ) h a d again N regretted that the 11011° glienintindtutclide this question into the H ouse . He considered tb, a , h the withdrawal of the vo t e wou ld b e a breach o f f a ith vv" first Roman Catholics. The vote had been allowed in t h f ha d instance by a Protestant Parliament in Ireland, been sanctioned by a Protestant Parliament in '° l3 ' taut and had been placed in its present footing by a P r°tes minister in this country. Mr. SPOONER having briefly replied, the House di vided on the amendment. For the amendment Against it Majority A. division immediately followed on the origina l The numbers were-- For the motion. Against it .159 ~133 Majority .. The announcement was received with loud che ers ' The Rouse having gone into committee, fortt"Mr . A Mr. SPOONER mov e d f or l eave to bring i n a bill f o c repeal of the endowm en t out of the Conso lidate' for the Collee of Maynooth. 11 : Ir. HUTCH g INS moved that the chairman report Pr° gress This motion was negatived on a division by 132 to 154' majority 22. t o he Mr. D. O'CorotELL moved that the chairman leas e c re w e. s l. the Mr. JAMES M ACGREGOR compla i ned t h a t Memher ° taking'this cours e t o se t as id e the solemn deeisi° 3 House. t hat th e HO L U o S r e d h P ad at e 3 o x o nu e s t T o oN he sa w i o d u t l h d at h after the decision ,— ciivl sioh should be taken upon the main (pestle!), bu t r abcr f s wo a hr m mo e , so t o t b m fi et e cht h ei e nicir , o would ut. ose tt ho n e o g t em fi t n , ad rids fault of wit aaihl e d an h y i m h o s n e i f nl o e f the .it. 1 , it was The motion that the Chairman leave the c" 3 , - „ 141 negatived on a division by a majority of "9 to preferred that a itt the Majority, 17. reavew . asthen giv.en to bring in the bill THE ARMV MEDICAL . ate On the . MOtioll of MF. A. STAFFORD, a DEPARTMENT select com a' „ E yre as ordered to enqu i re into t'Ll, Atroy Medical 1/e!"- The other business was disposed of, and the adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock. COMMENCEMENT OF EASTER TER The right hon. Lord Cranwoith, Lord High ‘-'"'"" England, yesterday entertain e d the judges of the - and common law to b r e a kf ast , at his cia 6B Upper isrook-street,'Grosv enor - square , of Easter.term, previous to their opening their reslocre, courts at Westminster Hall ; and also held a g, e ; a - no levee of thebar. At one o'clock, the Lord Chancellor nro the judges proceeded in state to Westminster Hall, thlevrost cession being conducted by the high constable of ,_, Oll o f being.the minster. The several courts, as also the main a nd the hall, were filled with elegantly dressed ladl es ,„ o j of gentlemen to witness the cereniony. On the arr" rt of the Lord Chancellor and the judges at the •Exchequer, they took leave and proceeded to opl °ld respective courts. their - coUr: s of equity I iASE OF WILLIAM PAL:kr/tn.—ln the -p url bpll, Queen's Bench, the presiding judges were Lord CanlPsti--. u ce Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Erie, and Mr. J that Crompton. Mr. James, Q.C., intimated to the court nue to-morrow (this day), he would move for a rule, u " 7 1 in Ha the recent act of Parliament, to remove the case of I ', a Palmer, charged with the Rugeley murders, for t rial at Central Criminal Court.