The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1852,

OVERLAND MAIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Site,-4 have just read with pleasure your admirable
article in this evenieg'a Sun on the extreme improbability
of a war taking place, under any circumstances, between
England and Franco—a war which, if it occurred, would,
as you justly observe, ba ahnoA as disastrous to the
conqueror as it would be to the cot quPred. Your able
reap:tits, and the enlightened views expressed in the
Presse, must not only receive the cordial sympathy, but
app. al successfully to the enlightened judgment, of the
people of the two countries. For they are beginning to
learn that the truest interests of nations consist not in
fostering those antiquated feuds and absurd prejudices
which have too long existed between them, and which
have led to many a fratricidal contest, but in strengthen-
ing the bonds of international goodwill and fraternal
feeling, by fighting in the army of progress, engaging
vigorously in the peaceful pursuits of ran unfettered
conornA-c and helping forward the march of ideas.
The article from which you quote is another proof of the
pacific spirit of our neighbours across the Channel
towards us; and it should cause us to reciprocate their
professions o' friendship, not by imitating the bluster of
the Horn,urafde and Learned Member for Sheffield, who
seems to have a good opinion of no one but himself; but,
by the expression of similar sentiments, and by avowing
our belief that France, like En land, is tired of war,
with its untold misery and crushing expense, and desires
peace.
Again I beg to express my hearty sympathy with
the noble sentiments you enunciate, which are in har-
mony with that watchword of the ege—" Progress.

I am, Sir, &c.,
F. W. CHESSON.

New Broad•strPet, City, May 27.

THE LATE ELOPEMENT.
We gave an acoeunt in Saiurasy's Herald of the
elopement of Dr. A. P. from Brighton, with a young
woman named Emma P., also bringing with him 1,9001.
sterling, money claimed by Colonel H., of the British
army, the p trticulars of which we gave in our previous
ace tint. On Saturday, it seems, the doctor did not
relish the county gaol, and intimated that he would like
to see Emma. The messenger, however, returned, and
stated that Emma would not content to an interview
unless he restored the money claimed by the colonel.
At first the doctor returned an answer that he had
not got the colonel's money, and, therefore, could
not comply with the request. However, during the
afternoon, he requested the deputy sheriff to
take him down to the Irving-house. Here an
aff sting interview took place between the two, in the
presence of Mr. Edwards, the counsel of the colonel.
Mr, Edwards ultimately promised to release him from
custody on his paying back the lid, ney. The doctor
could resist no longer, and believed !bat by so doing he
would not only be restored to his liberty, but also to his
Living Emma. Tne doctor, on concluding to give up
the money, said he bad only 1,6001, and opening his
watchfob, drew therefrom, in a tm4ll leathern bag, a
1,0001 Bank of England note, a 5001. note, and a 100/.
note. Sir. Edwards took the 1 5001., leaving the doctor
the 1001. to seek his fortune in the land of liberty. The
doctor was then liberated from custody. For
the balance of the money he gave the colonel his
liability. Notwithstanding the payment back of
the money, Emma still refuses to cohabit with
him any more, under the advice of Colonel H.
and others, but. has concluded to return back
to her parents, and do better for the future. It is said
that the intimacy between Emma and the doctor has been
going on for some time past, until she discovered that,
ere long, it would be impossible to disguise the ordinary
course of nature, and accordingly consented to elope to
America for an asylum. She has now, it appears re-
pented of her previous course, and, under the promise of
forgiveness by her parents, who, it seems, are very
wealthy, she concludes to return home by the steamship
Niagara, which sails next Wednesday. What the doctor
intends to do, we know not; but we would advise him
also to return home to his wife and children, and ask
their forgiveness, and settle down like a man under a
solemn promise never to do 'so any more.--Note York
Herald.

IRISH CHANNEL SUBMARINE TELE-

GRAPH.

The Hon. George Massey, one of the directors of the
Irish Channel Submarine Electric Telegraph Company,
has arrived in Belfast with a view of superintending the
completion of this great national undertaking. The
IVortitern IVlrig thus reports progress:—" At the Scotch
side of the channel the operations have been exceedingly
brisk. Trenches are being opened from Dumfries to
Portpatrick for the reception of the telegraphic cable,—
for, as our readers are aware, the telegraph, for
the purpose of greater security from accident, is
intended to be subterranean as well as submarine—and
the works, under the superintendence of Mr. Fletcher,
are proceeding rapidly. The landed proprietors of the
stewartry and of Dumfriesshire are all warmly inte
rested in the project, and are affirding it every sup-
port in their power. Stranraer is not in the
direct route to b- taken by the wire from Dumfries
to Yertpatrick. but it is the intention of the company to
run branch lines to the various towns in the stewartry,
provided the inhabitants of towns so accommodated
will secure them from loss. Our respected townma❑
11r. H. Henderson has promptly offered the company
the use of a steamer and tug to render any assistance
that may be required; and Government ste.mera have
been ordered to Portpatrick to aid in laying down the
wires under the experienced direction of C tptain Skin-
ner, of Holyhead, and Captain Hawes, of Portpatrick
Dumfries is at present in direct telegraphic coni-
nsunication with London, Manchester, Liverpool,
Pry mouth, Bristol, and, in fact, all the principal
rnahutaczurieg towns and military and naval stat►ons in
England, as well as with Glasgow, Paisley, Edinburgh,
&c., in Scotland; as that when this great work has beet,
brought to a completion Belfast will have the vast ad-
vantage of an almost instantaneous transmission of in-
telligence to and from these places—an advantag,
of the utmost importance to a large mercantile corn
munity such as this, and one which we feel assured
wilt be appreciated nt its proper worth. We may
state that the Ilenourable Mr. Massey is at present
staying at the Darn gal Arms, and that he will remain in
the neighbeurhool until the completion of the unoer•
taking, happy to render all the information in his power
to those interested. The Scotch contractors are bound to
U9O the utmost diligence, and we have authority to state
that the trench along the road from Dumfries to Port-
patrick must be fully opened by the 31st inst., at
furthest. As to the deposition of the wire from Port-
pierick across to the Irish coast, from the entirety
of the preparations made, and the aid which the
company have at hand in the way of powerful steamers
and other accessories, it is probable the cable will be laid
down by the sth proximo, but the high spring tides of the
2d and 3d may cause its delay a little longer. It is not
supposed that, under any circumstances, the completion
cart be delayed beyond the 10th proximo. The open
ing of the line to Belfast wili be celebrated by 'if-elk on
a scale of great magnificence, to which it is intended to
invite his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant and the
Countess of Eglinteun."

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LorruL.—CHORLEY,
FRIDAY.--The adjourned inquiry into the fearful occurrence '
by which thirty-six lives were lost, was held at the Royal
Oak, in this town tc-day, before Mr. Palmer, of Preston ;
Mr. Dickenson, Government inspector, being present,
Thomas Smith, one of the firemen, depsed that it was his
duty to examine the south side of the new pit, where the
explosion took place, every morning before the men com-
menced work, and if he discovered gas in any of the places.
to warn them against going there with naked lights. It
was the duty of the master to find the labourers and firemen
with lamps. It was the duty of the colliers and drawers to
supply themselves with lamps. On the morning of the
accident witness found a quantity' of gas in several parts of
the pit, which satisfied him that it was unsafe for the men
to work there with naked lights. Told all the men he saw
that they mus not go to work unless they had lamps, and
left his eon to wan the rest. The explosion occurred about
an hour and a half afterwards, and witness with difficulty
escaped. The whole of the evidence tended to show that
the accident was solely attributable to the recklessness of
the colliers themselves. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death."

ANOTHER COAL PIT ACCIDENT NEAR CHORLEY.—
At an early hour on Friday a rumour spread with alarming
rapidity that Mr. Hargreave's coal-mine at Coppull, where
thirty-four lives were lost last week, was again the scene of
another explosion. Upon inquiry it appeared that one of
the colliers, named Richard Booth, being of opinion that it
was unlucky to start work on a Friday, and, refusing to
work on that day, took a lighted candle in his hand, and
proceeded towards an old working to gather up his tools;
and atter he had been gone a few minutes, an explosion of
tire-damp took place. Oa examination it was found that
the explosion had taken place in a working which had been
closed up for some time, and on examination being made of
the whole of the workings it was found that four persons
(two men and two boys) had been injured, and they were
conveyed home in carts. The injuries sustained by the men
are si serious that doubts are entertained of their recovery.
The names of the sufferers are Richard Booth .and James
Bannister, both unmarried, and very seriously burnt, and'
William Cooper and Joseph Turner burnt on the arms and
breast. As might be expected, the exciteme .t in the neigh-
bourhood is very great, the recollection of the catastrophe of
At
hcac
pMe
nE
rNhT3;
last week being still so fresh in their recollection.
has FjausTtatLakCOLLIERY
at -7-n
sAlatseergioullarsriaesc. The
ciden
workmen having made preparations for blasting, retired to
a place which they supposed safe, but by the violence of the
explosion a large mass of rock was thrown with great force
to the spot where they had assembled. Two men were
frightfully injured and died soon afterwards. An old matt
had all his ribs dislocated, and several others have sus-
tained severe and in some cases alarming injuries.
MANSLAUGHTER ON SHIP BOARD._On Saturday
last an inquest was held before the Liverpool coroner, on the
body of Ferdinand Mielke, an apprentice on board the barque
Amelia Laura, who, on the preceding morning, was struck
he vesselin consequence of, some alleged
by the mate of t
andafter repeated blows the deceased discbedience of orders, e
deck,h which being was knocked overboard
receivedintt
such injuries as fo cause.
his the time the young man
afterwards.
The violence of the mate
his death shortly
s deposed to byEnglish carpenters who
two
(Schwarz) w a
but the captain of the barque—the whole
were pas mg,
crew of which are German—have the mate a high r
eatment.
tr The jury returned a
for gentleness and kind ,
the was committed
verdict of " Manslaughter; and prisoner
to Kirkdale gaol to take his trial at the next assizes.
DEPARTURE OF THE STEAM-GRIP AMERICA.—On
Saturday afternoon, at a quarter past four. the British
and North American Royal Mai--1 steam-ship America,
Halifax and
Neil Shannon command-r, left the Mersey for
Boston, with the mails for the United States, Canada, &c:,h.,
in charge of Lieutenant Grant Ra)rnond, R.—V•, Admiralty
agent There were on board about ninety passengers, and
a moderate freight.

PRoPoSED EQUESTRIAN STATUE TO WASHINGTON.
—An idea often talked of in New York is, we have reas
on to
believe, atout to take visible form and shape. A bronze
equestrian statue c,f NVashington has been projected,to be the
the joint work of the sculptors Greenough and Brown,
'who
have already commenced the designs for the work. The
military costume of the Revolution is to be preserved, and a
height of 14 feet for the statue, exclusive Of the pedestal, is
contemplated. —Builder.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CCXXXVI.
THE EPSOM RACING.—ITS EFFECTS ON THE

FUTURE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—My intention is not to touch upon the minor
races, hut upon the Woodcote, Derby, and Oaks Sakes
only. The winner of the Wooderve, Orestes by Orlando,
dam by Bay Middleton out of Vitala, was, in the first
instance I believe, the property of Mr. Hobson, after-
wards of Mr. Oldacre, and lastly, this spring, became
the purchase of Baron Rothschild. He is a fine
speedy animal, furnished with thorough Orlando
loins, and will make a great stir in the Derby
betting between now and next May ; but I
fancy ho :is another Orclio all over—speed
being his forte, not distance. 11 managed to beat, how-
ever, a fine slashing filly in the Sister to Mountain Deer.
Dagobert, late lonides, is a very inferior animal in com-
parison to Orestes; and as to all the rest that were
beaten in the race, Rataplan and Speed the Plough are
the only two likely to make any noise in the world.
Orestes has not another engagement this year, and at
present only two for the next—the Derby and Leger.
The second in the Woodoote, the Sister to Mountain
Deer, is a splendid animal, very much like her
brother; and, notwithstanding the defeat she sus-
tained at her dark, will yet enable the
Squire to realizo out of her numerous engsgements a
goodly sum of money. Rataplan and Speed the Plough
are both improving animals, and will be seen to advan-
tage hereafter. Dsgobert is in as good form at the pre-
sent time as he can be made; as a two years old, he
do little or nothing; as a three years old he will get
on a little•better.

The accidental win (for accidental it must be called)
of Diniel O'Rourke for the Derby—the second, third,
and fourth being, as it is generally admitted, much better
than the winner—will capsize many a calculation as to
his future engagements. Had Job Marston, Nat, and
.gers been upon Barbarian, Chief Baron, and Hobbie,
Daniel, to a certainty, would have been fourth.
was Butler's head-piece that won the Derby, not
Daniel; Barbarian, Chiet Baron Nicholson, and Hobbie's
chances having been thrown away by the very singular
riding of +heir joekies—at least such is my opinion, in
common with many others. Daniel's engagements are
numerous, his first being at Ascot for the St. James's
Palace Stakes, where, if he is not particularly wide
awake, he will be beaten by Alcoran. H s next engage-
ment is in the Gateshead Lottery Stakes at Newcastle,
where, as he has only two opponents of any note, Augur
and Gossamer, he may possibly be triumphant; but I
cl,tibt their pulling him out on this bard course.
As Goods()ld he is engaged in the First Ben-
tinek Memorial Stakes; but as Longbow is in the
s ,me stake, here again he will probably be an
absentee; or, if he runs, it will be but to
be beaten by Hobble Noble. For the Ehor St. Leger be
is penalised six pounds; and as Longbow, Alfred the
Great, and Frantic are also entered tor this stake it is
hardly likely he will put in an appearance. His next
engagement is for the great St. Leger, for which already
he is a great favourite ; but if I am not egregiously in
error, his name is not the one that will head the return
lists. He is also engaged in the Scarborough and Don-
caster Stakes at Doncaster, but as he is penalised ten
ne:unds for each, of course he has no earthly chance of
winning. His final engagement this year is tor the St.
Leger Stakes at Newmarket, where he will have to en-
counter
Stockwell at a difference of two pounds; which
of the twain is likely to be the winner I have not the
most ghostly idea.
Barbarian we shall hear of to advantage in some races
where staying is required.
The Chief Baron will come out in his winning colours
at Stockbridge, and in after races will prove that he is a
slasher.
Hobbie Noble's speed will serve him in many a mile
and mile and half race yet to came.
Harbinger will enrol his name as a victor several
times this year.
Alooran will do ditto.

Altred the Great and the King of Trumps, together
with Stockwell, will, in all probability, be in form by the
St. Leger day; at arty rate, they will be great favourites
for the aincaster " great go."
In the race for the Oaks, with the exception of Red
Hind, the running was probably as true as it could be.
The winner has several pretty engagements in the course
of the year, one at least of which she will probably pull
off for the Wizard of the North. At Ascot she is en-
gard in the Third Triennial Stakes with Red Hind,
tiarbinger, and Fines in opposition. At Newcastle she
is entered for the Gold Cup Stakes, but as Nancy figures
in the opposition, I presume she will not run. At Liver-
pool she is entered for the Lancashire Oaks, but as she
is penJlised seven pounds, a doubt surrounds her start-
ing. She is in the Great Yorkshire Stakes, for which
she will have to carry four pounds extra; likewise in the
Great St. Leger and Doncaster Stakes. I had forgotten
to observe that she is also in the Third Triennial Pro-
duce Stakes at Newcastle, for which she or Claverhouse
will probably walk over.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
May 31, 1852.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

COWES, MAY 29.
Excintsinfq TRAINS —The heavy rains of this day
(Saturday) have depriv d numbers of our islanders of
,hair promised trip to L nadon by the cheap steamers
erd 'reins, and has doubtless also prevented hundreds
fri.m L‘,ndon visiting this neighbourhood. It was ar-
ranged that the train from Linden should reach South-
ampton about twelve o'clock this day, and that to Lon-
don leave Southampton at two o'clock; one train, there-
ore, was made available :or both purposes, and time
was given for parties to gut from all parts of the island
in time for the train. The same arrangement was
made for returning on Tuesday next, but the weather has
spoilt all.

Mei 30.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT —An accident of a very serious
nature has this evening befall ,n Miss Charlotte Ward, of
W.sthill park. As this highly-respected lady was
ascending the stairs of Westhill House, her foot slipped,
and she broke both the hones of her left leg. l)rs.
Hoffmeister and Davids were called in, and the fracture
reduced. We hope that she will be speedily restored
to the poor of this town and neighbourhood; her life
has been one work of charity.

MR. FEAR& US 0' C ONNOR in NEW YORK.
Among the amusing notabilities which our city has
had the honour of receiving
lately from Europe, Mr.
Feargus O'Connor, who arrived here a few days ago by
the Europa, occupies the most distinguished niche. His
past career as a great political agitator, Member
of the British Parliament, proprietor of the
Northern Star, leader of the Chartists of England,
and originator of the Snigg's-end land scheme,
has brought him so prominently before public attention,
that he had become somewhat notorious, even in this
country. For the last few years, however, his eccentri-
cities have so manifested themselves, as well in the great
council chamber of the nation as in his private and pub-
lic life, that it was apparent his intellect was becoming
deraeg,d, and a short time since his friends instituted
the preliminary proceedings to issue a writ de lunatico
inquirendo, for the purpose of having him
placed
under restraint; but ho avoided the execution of this
process by withdrawing himself from England and
coming to this country, where—as he bad wit enough
left to discern—European lunatics are not only
secure from molestation, but jilted, admired, and
made much of. His mind, too, bad been so long
dwelling on the six
points of the Charter, that, after
it had bcc(me deranged, it may, perhaps have
imagined the existence of some affinry between them
and the " Five Points" situated in our city, which have
attained such w.rld-wide celebrity. Whatever may
have been his principal motive, however, he is now
here among us, and we should not be at all surprised
if he was found taking an active part in the Presi-
dential movements. His presence at the Fillmore
meeting this evening is not a vary improbable
contingency, and would, we doubt not, create
quite a sensation. Mr. O'Connor's partial insanity is,
however, we regret to say, a confirmed fact. His con-
duct at the Irving-house, where he has been staying, re-
movt s every doubt as to the certainty of that melancholy
termination of his exciting political career. At the
table d'h•Ste his aberrations of intellect manifest them-
selves in the strangest way. He sometimes takes
a fanny for dishes not to be found in the bill of
fare, and fights with the waiters for not attending to
his orders. He exhibits a wonderful curiosity to find
out the nativity'of all that are sitting near him; asks
gentlemen to send him over their wine; drinks health
with every one about the tabl>, addressing them as
your Majes,y;" quotes poetry, recites Parliamentary
speeches, and amuses the company by telling anecdotes
of the Queen and her husband, O'Connell, Peel, and
Little Johnny Russell. He frequently visits Stew-
art's marble palace, and shocks the sensitiveness of the
ladies by his strange manner and strange questions,
asking them, among other drolleries, why they don't
wear beards on their chins. None of his friends have
as yet made their appearance here to take him in charge;
but, as his insanity is so unquestionable, some surveil.
lance should be placed over biro by the proper authority
until they do arrive, which will probably be by the next
steamer.-7-New Yarh Herald.

Mr. HENRY CLAY.—The Washington correspon-
dent of the igew York Journal of
—Bo.o4nl—febae
called upon tofear
s says—"
that Congress andwill
the country soon—very
whom
they
bestow funeral honours on one
Commerce ys
Clay, of Kentuky, would
arrive. He was pleased to know that he would be here to-
have long honoured in life. Mr. Clay asked very earnestly
h her it et
to-
night. On Sunday he asked Mr. Jackson, of Philadelphia,
whether his death would be a painful one, and w
would not, be by suffocation, which he had feared. Dr.
Jackson replied that his death would not be by suffocation
—that it would be perfectly easy, that his nervous energies
were entirely destroyed, and nature would yield without a
struggle. Mr. Clay has been perfectly cheerful throughout
his protracted illness, and is still calm and in full possession
of his mental faculties. lie talks of death with no regret
at its approach. He has neither expected to recover, nor
expressed any anxiety for it. He was anxious for some
weeks to get to the Senate Chamber once more, intending
to express his views on the subject of intervention, but this
was denied to him He has left dying injunctions to his
countrymen against all the doctrines and the measures that
would involve the country in foreign broils or in domestic
dissensions, and is ready to depart."

BA/WARD'S NEW PANORAMA._Mr• Banvard is
engaged upon a new panorama, which is" to throw into the
shade all previous panoramic paintings." It is to be called
the Orient, and is composed of scenes painted by the artist
in the course of a two years' tour in the Mediterranean,
season.--Builder. ,
Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, the Dead Sea, Palestine, Jerusalem,
surface of canvas as his panorama of the
alpeTair,:fret,h:nndexSitd.soena.sonTiis panorama will contain six
gaenda will be exhibited in London some time in
Bttb
,ihinaielaseslebsi:eauscisr,i

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.
LIVERPOOL , MONDAY MORNING.
The Europa arrived at six P sr. She brings one
hundred and twenty-five passengers, and specie to the
amount of five hundred and seventy-six thousand
dollars.
The Atlantic was at New York on the 16th instant.
The Africa passed at ten P.m. on the 19th. Amongst
her passengers is Feargus O'Connor, M.P.
The United States news is not important. Con-
gress was still engaged in discussing the Deficiency
Bill. The vote for additional aid to Collins' steamers
was to be taken on the day the Europa sailed.
Kossuth had reached Albany in a state of impaired
health.
The widow of the late J. Quincy Adams, ex-Pre-
sident of the United States, died at Washington on
the 14th inst., and her funeral was attended by nearly
all the distinguished personages at Washington.
Nothing new in relation to the presidential elec-
tion had taken place.
Jenny Lind's farewell concerts at New York were
numerously attended. She met a most enthusiastic
reception.
By the arrival of the steamers Daniel Webster
and Serra Nevada, at New York, with a large
number of passengers, and gold dust amounting to
2,300 000 dolls., advices from San Francisco to 18th
April had been received. News of little moment.
The States Senate had passed a Bill for the pur-
pose of promoting the arrest of fugitive slaves. A
Bill also was before the. "Legislature, dividing Cali-
fornia into three States. It was proposed to intro-
duce Coolies and South Sea Islanders. The depreda-
tions of the Indians were of an extensive and alarm-
ing character. Business at San Francisco was greatly
improved, and the accounts from the mines continue
highly favourable.
Latest Australian news up to February 20 had
reached California, which stated that the mines con-
tinued prosperous, but the demand for gold was
limited. The Sydney population were all emigrating
to the Victoria placers. Great depression prevailed
at Adelaide. Gold, 675. 2d. per ounce.
The accounts from Mexico announce that much
excitement prevailed there in consequence of the
discovery of the gigantic conspiracy against the Go-
vernment.
Late news from South America had been received.
Valparaiso dates of the 9;11 of April mentio❑ the
execution of Cimbiaso, the notorious insurrectionist
and chief-murderer, at the Chilian convict colony
Before being shot, he confessed his crimes, and
acknowledged the justice of his sentence.
In the province of Coquimbo forty political pri-
soners were being tried, and amongst them was the
celebrated Lieutenant Valdiva, who precipitated the
revolutionary movement of September 7 ; also the
clergyman, Don Joaquin Vera.
The copper mines were flourishing.
From Peru there is nothing respecting the Flores'
expedition.
The commercial regulations had been publiAhed,
and a decree issued abolishing the old one, which
obliged all merchants to use unbtamped paper for the
flret page of their books.
The Government had issued a decree against Ge-
neral Flores' expedition, dated the 14th of March,
and stating that they, having received repeated infor-
mation of the warlike preparations taking place in Peru
ordered the prefects of the different provinces to take
all possible measures to put a stop to them. That
Government will not afford protection to any Peru-
vian citizen who should embark on this expedition,
or take any part in it; also, that all Peruvian vessels
engaged in the expedition will no longer be considered
as bearing the national flag.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money as abundant as ever. Exchange on London
had advanced to 110 to 1101. Cotton in good de-
mand, at advancing prices ; rates I cent. up since the
Baltic sailed. Slow request for flour. Cured provi-
sions mostly unchanged. Freights to Liverpool dull,
and not much offering.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.)
Sir,—On Thursday the 27th, the House was occu-
pied by a long debate on the motion for the Second
Reading of the Valuation (Ireland) Bill, having for
its object to make alterations in the application of the
Tenement Valuation under 9 and 10 Viet., c. 110.
The promoters of the Bill do not appear to have been
successful in their attempts to establish their case ;
for the Second Reading was finally supported by only
6 against 89.
A question was asked of the Government during
the evening, on the subject of Mr. Murray, an Eng-
lishman by birth, now under sentence of death at
Ancona, whether with or without trial, or at all
events with what kind of trial, the English Govern-
ment does not appear to know, or else is shy in say-
ing. Even on the question of what the charge is, it
appears to be in the same state of ignorance, or else
of un-easy transmission and nflexion. The utmost
that can be extracted from it, is that the inclination
of its mind is to believe the charge to be political.
The facts, as in spite of the use of words for the con-
cealment of ideas they can be collected with little
danger of mistake, are as follow. An English re-
tired officer took a commission under the Roman
republic, and was afterwards translated to be head of
the Police at Ancona. In that not very moral town,
where Hull men 03 I chance to know used fury years
ago to walk with pistols in their pockets, enormities
ran high under the excitement of late events, and at-
tacks on individuals in the streets took place, ending
in deaths, which as was likely, fell to the share of the
defeated rather than of the predominant party. The
chief of police was accused, of course by the party
of the sufferers, of connivance. What the facts
were, either of the deaths or of the share the chief of
police had in them, are among the things it is not
permitted to know. But the
Republican government
ordered an inquiry, how fur approaching to a regular
uua
trial is among the things
riovvn, and the result
was that the chief of Police was discharged and sent
back to his office. When the Roman republic was
put down by the regimented slaves of France, and
tt
o have
e oldav e tyrannyretired
as
needssto he
red ,the
must,
chief of police appears
the country. The end was, that he was seized, and
after being kept some three years in prison, sent down
but not to have left
accede,h°neio-g
to Ancona to be hanged, or in such other wise disposed
of as the fashion of the place may be. The English
consular authorities appear to have interposed as far
as they were able ; and the dispute is left at the
interesting point, of a consular agent having requested
the Governor of Ancona to grant twenty -four hours'
delay on his own reap gibe;
he"tY, a request to which
clear to unsophisticated minds,
is that it is a case of
reactionary murder under pretence
an easy one. What is
of law. But who
is to interfere with reactionary
Tishevecryasennislikfaerlyfrtonm.
murder under pre-
tence of law ? is it not part of the
" domestic insti-
tutions" of every country, as slavery is of the United
States ? One powerful method of interference our
present Government i
s not
particularly likely to
exert,—which trying
is, the e '
fie" of a few inches of
State Paper, commenting upon
the whole circum-
stances in a way to act strongly against the interests
of the adverse party. by bolding out a
prospective
rallying point for its enemies. when
the time comes.
This weapon is one of which the use is not duly
approaches to lee
understood. It-,eoleon's arme des 1
proclamations. In the present
cacao t acts at peculiar
advantage. Nobody can or will come to London, to
avenge a remonstrance unpleasant to the great Pan-
jandrum. And it is precisely been
—.llse the reon-
strance cannot be so avenged, whir
" at the same twime
it rallies elements of infinite peril to the parties re-
monstrated with, that it is voted "exceedingly dis-
agreeable," which is precisely what is wanted. A
correspondence which shoulds excite. a„d
diced. the
and wishes of every Individual, of Anti-le i
hopes
apa
and Ariti•Gallican tendencies in the D
...Oman States,
might well be held out in terrorem as
a counterpoise
against the pleasure of strangling an
individual
Englishman. .
The law of Wills is evidentlys tin a state admitting
of a parody on Rasselas's estimate of the difficulties
of being a poet. e Enough I thou halt convinced me
that no man in England can make a „, ,
vvlll, ' might be
the exclamation of every personweh
o heard the de
bate. It is not at all certain that the Govern-
ment taking the b • ment lawyers are not e ; and if
as
was best con
so, they will have their way, proved by a divi-
sion of 121 against 64.
The Maynooth question still drags along and is
like to do. Men thought it done with on Tuesday ;
but there it is at three on Pridayllllling, and „ De.
bate further adjourned till this day.".
. .
Maynooth. Cilium
On Friday, more ation and re-
crimination at
both sides aiming nothing, and hit-
ting ;
their mark.
The House determined that on rising it should
adjourn till Thursday the 3rd of June.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
1852.
Blackheath, 31st May,

—pOarnk.Fstrrpideta,ywanjmin.
dayTilbeEforEethe
ster, was literally besieged by applicants anxious to procure
a passage to Australia, and so numerous was the crowd that
the carriage-way was all' but impassable. Except in times
Mt
the
R emigrationAT O N lld(l:ffincLeS Ei ;i
of great political excitement, the neighbourhood has never
presented so crowded an aspect. The emigration companies
propose to dispatch four .ships—two to Melbour4e
, one to
Geelong, and one to Adelaide—as soon as they can be made
ready.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Richard Gros•
venor Butler is appointed Inspector-General of Police for
British Guiana • Dr. Horatio Nelson Chipman is appointed
a member of the Legislative Council of the Bahamal
Nathaniel 8 an s •
Foderin h d James Walker, Esqr - '
g ham and 3, are ap-
Poiated members I the council of Btrbadoes.
ere 91,

CAPTURE OF MARTABAN AND
RANGOON.

We have received letters and newspapers in anti-
cipation of the Overland Bombay Mail. The dates
are, Bombay, May 3 ; Calcutta, April 22. There
is no further news from China.
BOMBAY, MAY 3.--Yesterday's post brought a
telegraphic dispatch announcing the capture of Ran-
goon and Mirtaban. To day's post (this instant re-
ceived) has brought further particulars. The fol-
lowing is from the Calcutta Morning Chronicle of the
24,11 of April :
" Yesterday morning the electric telegraph an-
nounced the arrival of her Majesty's steamer of war
Rattler, from Rangoon, with the flag of Vice-
Admiral Austen flying, that officer being himself on
board. When passing the sea terminus of the Elec-
tric Semaphore, the steamer signalled the taking of
Rangoon and Martaban, the former on the 14th, and
the latter, as reported by mistake, on the 15th. Mar•
taban was taken o❑ the 6th by the Moulmein brigade,
commanded by Lieutenant• Colonel ReignoldQ, C. 8.,
of the 18th Foot, and consisting of the right wing of
that regiment, the right wing of her Majesty's
80th, the Madras regiments quartered at
Moulmein, and the artillery. The capture of
Martaban was a work of comparative fa-

cility, the troops having been landed under a
protecting fire from the ships, led by her Majesty's
ship Red( r, and advancing rapidly, in conjunction
with the artillery, upon-the works of the enemy. The
whole operations lasted, we believe, only some four or
five hours, when the place was ours. After its cap-
ture the troops re-embarked, and proceeded to the
Rangoon river, where they and the Madras troops
joined the Bengal force, and the operations against
Rangoon commenced. On Easter Sunday, the 11th,
the entire squadron proceeded up the river, not in-
tending, however, to commence operations on that
day, but the steamers towing the transports up having
taken them higher up than was intended they came
within the range of the river batteries of the Burmese,
which immediately opened upon them, and a reply
was inevitable. A terrific cannonade was then com-
menced on both sides, the steamers opening their
broadsides on the river face of the Burmese works on
both banks of the river, and entirely demolishing
them, both at Rangoon and Della. Her Majesty's
ship Serpent then proceeded up to Kemmendine,
upon the works at which place she opened fire,
but the return was so severe and the enemy's guns
so well served, that the brig was obliged to
haul off, and send down the river for aid,
when two war steamers were sent up to her assist•
ante. With these the Kemmendine batteries were
silenced, and a landing having been effected, the
enemy deserted the works, which were occupied by
sailors and marines from the ships, and European
troops. During the cannonade and shelling on Sun-
day, besides the destruction of the Burmese works on
the river face, the enemy suffered great loss by the
explosion of their powder magazine, a shell from one
of our guns falling on it and causing it to blow up
with a terrific sound. On Monday, the 12th, the
land operations commenced, the troops effecting their
debarcation under the protection of the ships' guns,
and all the boats of the squadron being employed in
effecting the landing. Here the brunt of the work
commenced, as it was necessary, soon after landing, to
attack and capture a strong stockade a short distance
in shore, where the enemy fought most gallantly and
caused considerable loss to our force. On Tuesday,
the 13th, there was a pause, which was occasioned by
the unavoidable delay in landing the heavy guns from
the ships, the last of which did not arrive in the camp,
if we may so call the bivouac of the troops, till mid-
night on the 13th. On the 14th, in the morning, the
entire force broke ground, and advanced towards the
great Pagoda stockade, throwing out skirmishers, the
Burmese also fighting well in their fashion, and
knocking over many of our men. Nothing, how-
ever, could check the advance of our soldiers, se-
conded by a tremendous fire of artillery, and they
advanced rapidly but steadily, towards the Pagoda
stockade, taking some minor ones in their forward
movement. At length, towards noon, it was resolved
to deliver the general assault, which was made by
all arms with the greatest spirit and intrepedity, on
the north-east angle of the Pagoda bill end stockade,
when the enemy gave way and retreated at all points.
They never expected that the assault would have
been made at this point, and a gate was actually
found open there, through which our troops rushed
in and instantly occupied the place, when all the
fighting was concluded by two o'clock in the after-
noon. We regret to announce the following casual-
ties among the officers the action of the 12th,
on taking wbat is called the White-house stock-
ade, Major Oakes, Madras Artillery, and Major
Griffiths, Madras Infantry, who both died of coup de
eoleil : Colonel Bugle wounded by a musket shot
through the thigh; Lieutenant Donaldson, Bengal
Engineers, mortally wounded ; Captain Blundell,
her Majesty's 51st, dangerously wounded; Lieu-
tenant Trevor, Engineers, very severely wounded ;
Lieutenant Harris, Madras 38th Native Infantry,
severely wounded ; and Colonel Foord, Madras Ar-
tillery, struck down by coup de soleil, but soon re•
covered. On the 13th, the day of cessation, Colonel
Warren, commanding the Bengal brigade, and Lieu-
tenant Piercy, her Majesty's 18th, struck down by
the sun, but since recovering. On the 14th Lieu-
tenant Colonel Coote, her Majesty's 18th, wounded
in the assault, and Lieutenant Dorin, Adjutant of her
Majesty's 18th Royal Irish, killed, when advancing
to storm the Pagoda stockade. All arms behaved
splendidly, but we have especial pleaaure in recording
the gallant and praiseworthy conduct of the 40th
Native Infantry, who did not rest satisfied with per-
forming what they had speed to do,' but lent a
band to everything, guns, working parties, ecc."
The following is from the Calcutta Gazette Extra-
ordinary, published by authority, Friday, April 23 :

" NOTIFICATION.

" The Governor-General in Council has the high-
est satisfaction in announcing that dispatches have
this day been received reporting the capture of
Martaban and of Rangoon by combined attacks
of the naval and military forces now employed in
Burmah. _ .

" Toe Governor-General i❑ Council is pleased
to direct that, in honour of this success, a royal
salute shell be fired at every principal station in India.
" The dispatches will be published for general in-
formation.
" C. ALLEN, Officiating Secretary to the
Government of India."
(From the Calcutta Englishman of April 24.)
" We have received the following communication
from this Secretary for India, which, with our own
correspondent's narrative, will put our readers in
possession of the most material features of the pro-
ceedings at Rangoon :
" Martaban was stormed at eight o'clock of the
morning of the sth of April.
" Her Majesty's steamers Rattler, Hermes, and
Salamander worked in concert with the troops,
bombarded the place, and covered the landing of the
troops.

" The troops engaged were a wing of her M
jestrylg'salltBtuhr,oapewainngAro
tt
ilhlee
rr
yMaa
and Madras
as,drBaoat
sib
apa
per'
an— a-
f
Bengal
:l ag2Tbn6ohotuhei
dt
attacking
,It4aaanocdkodr as Native Infantry, with detailsw 1 g ofo
innicgaepnpt.:rinty
Gwialsiecsopmie,maonfdethde bivBCbo,lownaesl
first on the walls. Only eight men were wounded ;
no officer killed cr wounded.
"On the 10th and 11:h of April her Majesty's
and the Company's vessels destroyed the whole of
the stockades on the Rangoon river. On the 12th,
her Majesty's 51st, her Majesty's 18th, and the
40th Native Infantry landed, and took, after severe
lighting, a stockade called the White-horse picket,
Major Fraser, of the Engineers, being the first into
the stockade.
" The heat was so excessive that further operations
on that day were suspended. Majors Oakes and Grif-
fiths, both of the Madras army, were killed by the
sun. Colonels Foord, Warren, and St. Maur suffered
severely from the heat.
" On the lath the heavy guns were landed. On the
14th the troops landed at 5 A.m. Two companies of
her Majesty's 18th, 80th, and 40th Native Infantry
formed the advance.
"The enemy's position was turned, and the Pagoda
approached on the east side. At eleven, after the
Artillery had played on and destroyed the east
entrance, the storming party was formed. It con-
sisted of one wing of her Majesty's 80th, two compa-
nies of the 18th, and two companies of the 40th Native
Infantry, under the command of Colonel Coote.
The troops advanced steadily, and stormed the Pa-
gods with a rush. All the country round fell with
the Pagoda.

" OFFICERS BILLED.
" Lieutenant Doran.
"Ensign Armstrong.
"WOUNDED.
"Lieutenant Donaldson, mortally.
" Lieutenant Chads, slightly.
"Captain Allan, severely.
" Lieutenant Williams, slightly.
"Lieutenant Trevor, severely.
" Captain Rundall, slightly (Madras).
"Lieutenant Ford, slightly (Madras )•
" Her Majesty's 1811—Colonel Coote, severely.
"Tier Majesty's 18th—Captain Bruce, slightly.
"tier INlftjesty's 18th—Lieut. Elliott, slightly.
"Her Majesty's 8011—Li:lit. Turner, slightly.
" Her Mojesty's 51:t—CaptainBlunchell, dan
gerously.
" Madras—Ensign Ha%ker, slightly.
" Madras—Lieutenant Harries, dangerously.
" Madro—Lie4t,-Colonel Dogleg Bevere!y."

Killed. Wounded.
" Officers ... ... 2 14
" Rank end file... ... 15 114
"Lascars 4

" Total „, .. 17 132."
The following is from the extra of the Bombay
Times:—
, "Oa the morning of the sth of April the Hon. Com-
pany's steamer Proserpine anchored off Moulmein,
having on board Lieutenant-General Godwin, C. 8., and
Rear-Admiral Austen, GB., and was followed daring
the day by her Majesty's steamer Rattler (bearing the
Rear-Admiral's flag), Hermes, furl Salamander.
" The general and admiral proceeded at once in the
Proserpine to reconnoitre Martaban. The same even-
ing the Salamander went up and anchored abreast of
Manahan, at a distance of about 1,800 yards, and the
following troops embarked on board the other steamers:
---60 of the 2:1 Company's sth battalion Bengal Artil-
lery, under Brevet-Major C. S. Reid; the left wing of
her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish, Lieutenant-Colonel
Reignolds, head-quarters and right wing of her
Majesty's 80th Regiment, Major Lockhart, and the 26th
Regiment Madras Native,lnfantry, Lieutenant-Colonel
Johnson. At daybreak, the following
morning, the
whole proceeded to take up their position off Martaban.
Unfortunately the Hermes grounded about 2,000 yards
off, but the Rattler and Proserpine brought up, the for-
mer at 213 yards from, and the latter within 50 yards
of, the main wharf.
" The enemy were in considerable numbers lining the
mud wall which runs along the bank of the river to
the large Pagoda, and as soon as the two steamers came
opposite the wharf each opened a sharp cannonade,
which was re'urned with goodwill by the enemy, both
with guns and musketry. The fire from all four steamers,
was most effective; the Rattler and Proserpine, from
being so close, must have caused many casualties, and
the practice from the Salamander and Hermes was ad-
mirable; even at the distance they were every shot told.
Too much praise cannot be given to Captain Brooking
for the noble manner in which he worked and fought his
little vessel—the Proserpine.

" When the landing place was cleared of the enemy,
the troops, which were at hand, were landed from the
steamers, and most gallantly drove the enemy before
them, following them up the bill, and from position to
position, meeting with considerable opposition from their
musketry, but immediately driving them from and
getting possession of their guns. The town was at the
same time cleared, tho first to make his- escape being
the Governor. The place was entirely. in,our possession
a little Jler 8A M but the last of the troops did not
return to the big Pagoda, where the General had es-
tablished his head-quarters, till about 1 P.M.
" The whole of the troops that were engaged did their
work well, notwithstanding the heat, which was exces-
sive, and fortunately the casualties were very few. A
havildar of the 26th Madras Native Infantry, and a pri-
vate of her Majesty's 18 h Royal Irish, being the only
two dangerously wounded, and 15 Europeans slightly so.
The loss of the enemy is not known, for they removed
all their dead and wounded; but it must have been con-
siderable, for the fire from the steamers was very sharp
and continued for some time.

" The artillery returned to Moulmein the same even-
ing, and the European infantry the following morning,
leaving the 26th Madras Native Infantry to garrison
Martaban, where they were joined during the forenoon
by the company of Madras Artillery, with its light field
battery, with instructions to erect a bastioned stockade
with tour guns on the top of the hill overlooking the
town.

" Only two small brass and two iron guns, with five
or six wall pieces, were captured, though it is well
known that many others were in position when he com-
menced the attack. One or two light-fingered gentry
are believed to have appropriated after the action (when
Martaban was filled with persons of all descriptions who
had come over from Moulmein) what they had not as-
sisted in obtaining.
" Thus fell Martaban, an easy conquest, notwith-
standing the various and exaggerated reports of its
strength. On the morning of the attack the garrison
consisted of 3,000 men, who were evidently unprepared
for our rude visit. ThFy had been hard at work for 15
or 20 days previous, cutting down jungle and clearing
away houses, but we were too sharp upon them, and dis-
turbt d them in the midst of their preparations.

"On the evening of the 6th the following troops were
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to embark for
Rangoon the next morning:—
"2d company sth battalion Bengal Artillery, Major C.
S. Reid, and head-quarters, and 100 of 18th Royal Irish,
Lieutenant• Colonel Reignolds, C. 8., on the Rattler screw
steamer.

" The remainder of the 18th Royal Irish, with the
General and staff, on the steamer Hermes.
"Right Wing of her Msojesty's 80th Regiment, camp
followers and baggage, Major Lockhart, on the steamer,
Salamander and transport Jessie.
" The two first vessels having received the troops
allotted to them, weighed anchor at two .at. on the 7th
of April (leaving the Salamander and Jessie to follow as
soon as the baggage was on board), arid anchored at the
mouth of the Rangoon river at one P. 31. on the Bth. We
found that the Bombe), steamers with the. Madras troops
had arrived the previous evening.
" The following are the vessels now at anchor here:—
" Her Majesty's frigate Fox, Commodore Lambert.
" Her Majesty's brig Serpent, Commander Luard.
" Her Majesty's steamer Rattler, Commander Mell'.
huish, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Austen, C.B.
" Her Majesty's steamer Hermes, Commander Fish-
bourne.

" Her Majesty's steamer Salamander, Commander
Ellman.

" Hon. Company's steamer Fercza, Captain Lynch.
" Hon. Company's steamer Zanobia, Captain Balf.
" Hon. Company's steamer Mczuffer, Commander
Hewitt.

Hon. Company's steamer Sesostris, Commander
Campbell.
" Hon. Company's steamer Berenice, Lieutenant
Nesbit.
‘ }f. Company's steamer Medusa, Lieutenant aser.
„ ` lion."— Company's steamer Phlegettion, Captain Nib-

" Hen. Company's steamer Tenasserim, Captain Dicey.
" Hon. Company's steamer Enterprise.
" Hon. Company's steamer Pluto, Captain Burbank.
" Hon Company's steamer Fire Queen. Captain Boone.
" Hon. Company's steamer Mahanuddy.
" April 11.—The fleet weighed anchor at 8 A.M., and
proceeded opposite Rangoon. The steamers had all
taken up their positions, when a fire of cannon and mus-
ketry was opened upon them from the Della side, and I
immediately afterwards from the southernmost stockade
at Rangoon. The steamers lost no time in returning the
fire, which continued fur an hour and a quarter. A shell
from one of the Bombay steamers exploded a mine or
magazine in the right stockade, and shortly afterwards
the enemy's fire was silenced, and orders were given to
cease firing from our ships. All the stockades appeared
to be filled with men. A detachment was sent to attack
the Della stocked,s, consisting of a detachment of Eu-
ropean infantry and seamen, who carriod it immediately,
losing one officer, Ensign Armstrong, her Majesty's 61st
iiegim,nt.
" On the morning of the 12. h the troops disembarked.
The 2d °mere)), s:b brigade Bengal Artillery landed at
six A M , and put together their guns, end were ready to
proceed by eight o'clock, when the advance was made,
headed . by the light companies of the 51st Foot.
On coming within 850 yards of the first stockade,
Brevet-Major Reid, with two 9-pounder guns and two
24-pounder howitzers, unlimbered and came into action,
firing shrapnel end retied shot. The practice was ex-
cellent and most effective. It was instantly returned by
a well-directed fire from the stockade. The enemy fired
rather high at first, but after a few rounds they obtained
our distance exactly. Just as Major Reid 's ammunition
was expended, Brevet-Major Oale s, of the Madras Ar-
tillery, brought up two 24-pounder howitzers, and con-
tinued the fire till the order for the stermingpiarwtyithto-
advance was given, and the stockade war ascarri d
storming party
out any loss. Before the advance of the
a gunner of the Bengal Artillery and one of the Madras
Artillery were killed at their guns, and two wounded. d
" The following day (the 13th) was
to bring-
ing up from the ships supplies of ammunition
other
and
stores, and on the morning of the 14th the army ad-
vanced to the attack of Rangoon. Immediately on
leaving the bivouac of the previous day a sharp firing of
the musketry commenced on both sides, and on our
reaching an opening in the rising ground all around us
two stockades concentrated the fire of their guns upon
us and did some slight damage. On arriving at a dis-
tance of 800 to 1,000 yards from the Great Pagoda
tour 8-inch howitzers, which had been dragged up
from the rear by the seamen of the fl-et, were brought
to bear upon it, and continued to fire till about 1
o'clock, when the order was given for the storming
party to advance, headed by her Majesty's gal-
lantn- 18th Royal Irish. It received little
mo-
lestation till it commenced the ascent of the steps
leading to the Great Pagoda, when it was received bya
discharge from two guns and from hundreds of
muskets
that and
theCa PI
firstt
and matchlocks. The three first who ascended were
veere
Lieutenant-Colonel Coote, and Lieutenant and Adjutantai
Latter,Doran of her 1
Majesty'sregret
veryl Bt. hm Royalueh to lardi sab ,
officer was severely, and Lieutenant Doran, mortally
wounded. Poor fellow, ho received seven w
a
expired in half an hour, deeply and eincerely"rnedg;etatnedd
by tvery officer and man in the regiment, and most de-
servedly so, 'for is nobler fellow and mere gallant and
amiable soldier never lived. No other offiOer was killed,
and the returns of wounded have not Yet been received
fmro regiments.
" The army is now occupying quarters
Great Pagoda, and evidently the enemy were totally
unprepared fur our attack; about the
quantities of food
just
theB4onane
c.,
ordnance weq
ee found in every
captured is tieing
direction.
A returnclothing, in
of the
taken by Majors Reid, of the Bengal, and Mont-
goteery, of the Madras Artillery;
100 guns, of sizes (including
s, en,nicr jinjalls.
the number is about
18 pounder iron
guns), and 70 or 80 wall piece
Thousands
of balls and pieces of china
most of which were found loaded were
lying by the guns,
and spiked. some to
within six or eight inches of the muzzle, one filled with
duck shot.

" The place is most offensive from the number of
de
bodies of men and dogs, and from the stench of thkeness-
cayed fish which the Burmese are fond of, and sickness hus, I am sorry to say, cornea, need to a very gratptain
ex-
tent. Cholera is raging fearfully; one officer,
t has al-
Unit, Paymaster of her Majesty's soth Foot, dead
ready fallen a victim, and another is scarceloyo
are
to recover. Tile soldiers of the different regiments
dying in numbers. ;xpected
a has been fes►rfal.
" The heat since the troops
Two officers, Brevet-Major Of the Madras Bri-
lery, and Bfigane-Maj,T Griffitbnst 0
th 1.):h, and Briga-
gado, died trona a coup de soled on
numerous soldiers,
oAkhelan,def the Piladras Artil-
dier Warren and many others,
_0
cause.
have suffered severely from thal.62lt rho gun, of Major
" Oh the hioruiDg of the

Reid's battery were dragged into position, about a mile
and a half, by the men of the company, the bullocks not
having been landed, and cfter having been well fought
by them, the limbers were taken back in the same
manner for a fresh supply of ammunition.
" Her Alsjesty's brig Serpent, and the lion. Com-
pany's steamers IllczGffer and Fercz', were sent on the
evening of the 13th to attack and take possession of
Kemmendine, which they did most gallantly. We hear
that two lass of rupees were found there.

" At present nothing is known of our future proceed-
ings, but it is generally believed we remain here during
the rains." _

The following dispatch from Captain H. B. Lynch,
Indian Navy, commanding the Indian naval squadron,
Bay of Bengal, to Commodore Sir Henry Leeke,
KM., Commander-in-Chief of the Indian navy, has
been obligngly placed at cur disposal by Sir H. Leeke,
R.N. :

" Sir—ln continuation,of my last letter of the 10th
inst. I have the honour to inform you that Rear-Admiral
Austen and the whole of the squadron having joined us
below the Hastings Sand, on the evening of Saturday,
the 10th, the squadron under my command—each vessel
having two transports in tow on the morning of the 11th
(with the exception of the Zenobia, which vessel un-
fortunately grounded on the Silver Shoal, and was not
in company) crossed the Hastings Sand, and anchored
a little below the stockades, having cast off the trans-
ports when clear over the Hastings Shoal. Almost
immediately on our anchoring, at 9 30 A M., the
enemy opened fire, which was returned by the
Feroze, Sesostris, and Mozuffer, the Berenice and
Medusa having anchored some distance below. At
9 40 sat. the magazine of the principal stockade at
the King's-wharf was blown up by a shell from
the squadron; at 10 A.M. her Majesty's ship Fox passed
'up in tow, and opened fire. The enemy's fire was soon
silenced; at 1045, A Zt. tressed firing, and at 30 minutes
past .notiii 1-inifttlibra the Fox landed, took and burnt
the Daila atookadiVon the right bank of the river. At
5 P.M. weatbetrand Stood up the river, anchoring ahead
of her Mejtottyilohip Fox, abreast of the King's-wharf,
the Admiral having previously taken and burnt the
stockades on the right, or Della bank of the river; at
5 55 P-11., two stockades just above us having opened
fire, were quickly silenced by our fire. The maga-
zine of the stockade on the upper wharf having blown
next morning
up, the enemy's fire ceased for the night. At 4 A.H.
the 9th and 35th Mad
51st Regiment from theMozjfferApril),
rea
szFeNenr
Zenobia
btziievae
haalnvadirna
gnSt
jerotiyionsfet
rraoi sdm, u r
ist and
dge
the night. Having landed the troops, and obtained the
Admiral's permission, proceeded up the river and
anchored abreast the upperesclockade, with the Sesostris,
Mozuffer, and Zenobia, aundelanded parties from the
evacuated
Campbell, and burned the r
vessels of the squadron command of Captain
stockadesthe without opposition,
principal of the Great
the enemy having
landing of the party. Being now aft previously to the
stockade at the
Pagoda, and the fine of the
upper end of an open plain, commenced
signal from the
found we could do so with effect, the shering, and
over the pagoda. Ceaeeil firing by s bursting
Admiral.
"Commodore
Lambert came on board and desired
me
to proceed up to K. mendtne, where her Majesty's brige
Serpent, and Plalegethon steamer had attacked the stock;
ade, weighed and stood off, Mozuffer in company, and
anchored at dark a-head of the Serpent, about three-
quarters of a mile below the Kemenoine stockade.
" The next morning (April 13), flood tide having
made, the river being too narrow to allow the ship to
ride at anchor off the stockade, dropped up in company
with the Serpent, Mczuffer, and Phlegethon, abreast
the stockade, which not returning our fire, landed a
party from the vessel, as previously arranged, under
command of the first lieutenant of the Serpent, and
burnt the stockade, the enemy having evacuated it on
the approach of the steamers. I then returned, Mo-
zuffer in company, and rejoined the admiral off Rangoon,
anchoring in the same position as yesterday, abreast
the Great Pagoda and the squadron shelled the pagOda
during the night, by order of the Admiral. At two
A az. ceased firing to allow the troops then near the
stockade to advance; and I am happy to inform you
that Rangoon was taken by our troops this afternoon.
"I send this off too hurriedly to be able to forward
any other papers from the squadron, which I am happy
to state is all in good order and health.
"It is probable the Mozuffer will be detached for the
protection of Manahan, the Zenobia, and Berenice for
troops to Vizigapatam, and the Sesostris to Calcutta
with dispatches
" I have the honour to be, &0.,
(Signed) " H. B, LYNCH,
" Captsin Com. the squadron, Bay of Bengal.
" Off Rangoon, April 14, 1852."

The following letter, addressed by Captain Lyncb,
in command of the Bombay Squadron, to Sir H.
Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy,
appears in an " extra" of the Telegraph and Cou-
rier

" Feroze, Rangoon, April 17, 1852.
" The fall of this place gives me an opportunity, which
I gladly seize, of addressing you, and offering my re-
spects on your safe arrival in India.
" You will be aware of our movements by the official
reports which go with this, and which I try to make a
faithful record of our procet dings, and as far as I can
gather from the very kind manner and expressions of the
admiral and Commodore Lsmbert, they are quite satis-
fied with our part of the work.
" We had a pleasant voyaga across the bay, and found
the Commodore on the 7th off the mouth of the river, or
rather inside it. The Admiral and General Godwin
joined from Martaban on the Bth, when we moved op to
the Hastings Sand, where the whole fleet assembled by
the evening of the Mb, crossed it in steamers, each
towing two transports on the 11th, and came milder fire
almost immediately we anchored.
" The General, I believe, had an idea that we should
not come into action on that day, and cur orders were to
anchor out of range. But this was impossible, the whole
space above the Sand being in range, and we, of course,
anchored above all; but the stockades, although giving
a good fire for the first quarter of an hour, were quite
unequal to heavy guns, which sent shot and shell right
through them—the latter bursting in the middle of them.
They were soon seen to slacken fire, and a shell blow.
log up their main work at the King's-wharf, sending the
immense pile into the air, appeared quite to put them
out—and the .firing soon ceased. 1 have detailed so
much in my official letter that I need only add that the
Fox and Rattler and Tenasserim having burnt the stock-
ades on the Della side during the afternoon, and we
having moved up and silenced those in the Rangoon aide
in the evening, so that not a gun was fired from the river
defences atter dark, all were burning neat morning, after
which we shelled the Great Pagoda with effect till or-
dered to go up and take Kemmendine to which place the
Mozuffer and ourselves moved the same evening, and
joined Serpent and Palegethon, and lairnt it without
opposition next morning. This made an end of the river
work, and we then returned and shelled the Pagoda.. All
the troops advanced on the 14th and took it by storm.
" Oar crews are healthy except the worm (guincli,
worm) ; but 1 am sorry to say the cholera is among
the troops, and a few cases afloat, but I trust it will
not spread.
" 1 his is a very fine-looking place. The effect
operations, - of th
Great Pagoda on the hill is very striking
aod the blaze of the burning stockadoesree
on
tohremwhfoenr
have astonished the Burmrse. at night must
"I know nothing of the probableepending
trust
any of the steamers will be at liberty
bay, and only trust you are not de
your monsoon mail arrangement.
We are hard at work, so I
hasty scrawl, &c., you will excuse this
P.S.—While closing my l " It B. Lirecer.
signal on board ; the Admiral
letter I was called by
should proceed himself to informed me he
Sesostris, as had hem Ualcutta, instead of the
my letter
himself with reference '
go to 3 en ur.ranged, and I cannot let
operations. He said heh
very kind manner return
n beautiful,to B
o e
in
which
telling you of the
ich the Admiral expressed
vessels of
and in shelling te
Indian navy—
feltto f
471
yr t
hpea rvtahtion of the
our
ser-
vices—thelate
operations. He said he felt fully the value of our ser-
expressed himself full the
both in the at-
tackhave much ully satisfied with our practicre—that
we had been of the Place, and that the General bad
l most essential service, and he should
it did me;
dispatches. 1p pleasure in making it fully known in the
em sure this will gratify you as much as
farce,
I am
and the concurrent testimony of the whole
happy to say goes with the Admiral's opi-
nion. I took the e t
- pp - ' of mentioning to the Ad-
miral the probabili orftu °nrety
or
more of the steamers
being required to
assisty' inn the mail duties during the
monsoon, and suggested his corsidering that point when
in Calcutta with the Governor-General, which he said
he would, and thought one might be spared. There is
scarcely work here now for so many of our steamers, and
their absence will, I fear, much inconvenience yam,
B. L."
It is stated that the Governor-General has sent the
King of Ava a bill, amounting to 250,0001., for the
expenses incurred up to the 31st of March, with a
notice that he will be charged at the rate of 10,0001. a
day for the expenses of the expedition till be comes
to terms.
The
present strength of the expedition -
is about 6,000 tr°°Pß'
sixteen or seventeen steamers,
(all but two armed), four Or five transports, a line-of-
battle ship, a 44. gun frigate, and a brig of war.
If operations on a larger scale are required after
the rains everything will be in readiness with re-
ference to
such a contingency. The Governor-Ge-
lhas stopped all leave of absence, furloughs, and
re
.11tr ereents 111 . the unties of Bombay and Madras.
The order ,extegedtpi.,4oEsthe officers of the Bengal army,
but not .to: its. .7... a tacit acknowledgment that
the latteroare of no use for foreign service. It is for.
tunate tbstktheir services can be dispensed with, and
that the troops of the minor Presidencies are eager to
supply their place, and are sufficiently numerous to
do so without inconvenience.
Another melancholy instance of the small depen..
dance that can be placed on the soldierly qualities of
the Bengal regular cavalry occurred in the neigh.
bourho cd of Peshawur on the 31st of March. Lieu-
tenant Tottenham, with the sth troop of the 7th Light
Cavalry, having succeeded in getting between a party
of the Momunds and the hills, immediately ordered
through
the charge, and set the example by dashing
them himself, only followed, however, by the subardar
of the troop and a single trumpeter'
ofN othreeaswoeontis
assigned for the dastardly conduct
troop, whe, it is said, had an opportunity of striking
a blow more revere than
have yet felt. This inatancle is not,
the
unfortunately,
da
lomun
of regular cavalry,
a singular one ; it is only a few weeks since a art
a theirwy from Kohut to
Perhawur, surrendered their horses and arms to a
1 party of Afreed:es *Kwut sustaini • .
ng a wound or

striking a blow. It is extraordinary that the use of
native regular cavalry, armed and seated in the
European fashion, has not been superseded by that
of Irregular or Silidar Horse, the latter description
of force being much the more economical of the two,
and generally acknowledged to be infinitely the more
effective. The only opponents to such an alteration
are commanders-in-chief of the old school, who
imagine it essential to the prestige of our native
standing army that it should be armed, clothed, and
pipeclayed in strict accordance with the English
model. _

The north-west frontier continues in an unsatisfac-
tory state. It is now clear that the only result of Sir
C. Campbell's operations last cold season has been to
weaken the force at Peshawur by the detachments re-
quired for three strong and distant outposts, the
establishment of which, instead of curbing the incur-
sions of the hill tribes, has only irrifated them into
combinations against us. Sir C. Campbell is again
"out" with a force. On the 13th and 14t1 of April
reports arrived that the fort of Shub Kadder was
threatened by a strong party of .I\l,, mends, so Sir
Colin started with 300 cavalry and two guns of
Major Waller's troop of horse artillery to rein
force the post. On the 15th tha enemy came
down in unexpected numbers, 5,000 or 6,000 strong,
and Sir Colin, with his reinforcement and the greater
part of the garrison, moved out to meet them. Three
hours' skirmishing then took place the enemy re-
tiring towards the hills as our troops advanced, and
following them again as they returned towards the
fort. They kept out of musket shot, but occasion-
ally advanced within 200 yards of the guns, and lost
30 or 40 by grape shot. On one occasion the old
general charged in person at the head of a body of
the 15th Irregular Cavalry, and cut up 18 or 19 more.
An order for more troops had ven sent to
Peshawur, and 6 P.M. her Maje sty's 68d started
for Shub Kudder, mounted on 100 elephants, and
the officers on horses. On arriving at the bridge of
boats, an hour and half after midnight, they were
met by a countermand, and returned to Peshawur,
but on the following day the 16th), at 2 P.M.,
down came the elephants again, and away went the
52d at a moment's warning. They were accompanied
by the remainder of Major Waller's battery, and im•
mediately followed by a wing of the 23d and the re-
mainder of the 29th. Her Majesty's 53J, all saddled
on 100 elephants in line, moving out of camp, is said
to have afforded a very imposing sight. The fire of
artillery was heard on the afternoon of the 16th in
the direction of Shub Kudder. It was not thought
that there would be much more fighting, as the
enemy's provisions were said to be nearly exhausted,
and it was feared that their style of fighting was too
timid to give Sir Colin an opportunity of catching
Them
in the open country and reading them a lesson.
It is reported from Cabul that the people of Ko-
'listen have rebelled against D'nost Mohamed and
worsted a body of his troops. The Dhost's youngest
son had marched against the rebels with one regiment
ofinfantry and two of cavalry, with four guns.
Gbolan Hyder Khan was expected to leave Cabul
about the 25th with a strong force for the occupation
of Herat.
The state of the Nizam territories continues as bad
as can be. The Government is unable to realize
its revenue, and credit is at an end ; even the Con-
tingent is months in arrear, and all other departments
are of course still more so. The country is covered
with predatory bands of Rohillas ; parties of the Con-
tingent are, however, at last, everywhere in chase of
these, and this evil at least will be suppressed.
It is to be hoped that the failure of the Bengal
38th Native Infantry and 7th Cavalry will not mis-
lead people in England to unfavourable deductions
regarding the spirit of the Indian armies generally.
Nothing could exceed the general soldierlike spirit
of the troops of the minor presidencies and of the
officers and irregular corps of the Bengal army. The
Sikh Irregular corps, and the 14th Irregular Cavalry
(Skinner's Yellow Boys) have volunteered fur Bur-
mah, and an eager contention for the honour of being
sent on field service to Burrnah has manifested
itself at all the stations of the Kt.dras and Bombay
armies. The Bombay Times says :
" The sound of coming combat has aroused the mili-
tary ardour in the bosoms of all real soldiers in all the
presidencies, and the misconduct of the Bengal .38th
Native Infantry at Calcutta, and the s:h troop of the 7th
Cavalry before the enemy at Peshawur, has male the
war-dogs strain upon the slips to take the places at once
of those who seem disposed to be slack in the hour of
necessity. The feeling is a proper one, and ought to be
improved on, so that unworthy men may not only be
shamed, but be shown how little ultimate harm their
misconduct occasions—that it scarcely aff:cts the ge-
neral character of the noble army that has the misfortune
to own them, and in the sister presidencies only makes
their fellow soldiers eager to be permitted to take their
plum"

- It is remarked as a proof of the modern degeneracy
of the Bengal Native army in discipline and soldit r-
like feeling, that the 38th Native Infantry, which has
just made a three days' steam trip across the Bay of
Bengal a pretext for declining to go on service, is one
of those regiments which in former days volunteered
to go by sea all the way to Egypt on the occasion of
Sir D. Baird's Egyptian expedition.
Apprehensions of further Mopla disturbances in
Malabar are entertained.

The Governor-General is at hi 3 post, but the cir-
cumstance of the Commanden-in-Chief of.l3?ngai and
Madras bring respntively at Simla and the Neil-
gherry Hids at such a juncture as the present is
much commented on.

(From the Overland Bombay Times, idly 3.)
SUMMARY..

Our anticipations of being able to furnish for over-
land transmission to-day intelligence of the opening of
the campaign in Burmah have bean realized. Ran-
goon was captured on the 14th, and Alartaban on the
15th ultimo. The news of these events reached U 3
yesterday, and is given above.
The little war on our north-west frontier is still is
progress. On the morning of the 31st March the sth
troop of the 7th Bengal Cavalry were ordered out,
under command of Lieutenant Tottenham, to protect
some villages in the neighbourhood of Peshawur,
which the Momunds were supposed to be plundering,
and from which firing had been heard. The move-
ment seems to have been judiciously managed, so as to
intercept the retreat of the plunderers ; the only two
paths by which they could return to the hills were
occupied. The enemy on coming within sight found
their retreat cut off, and they fired a volley into the
cavalry party. Lieutenant Tottenham gave the order
to charge, end he himself dashed forward, when be
found that only four of his troopers would follow him ;
the rest refused to advance, and the Momunds made
their escape, and returned to their mountains in
safety, Some Afreedies having, about the 6:h &t.,
-pin, an attack On a village about 16 miles from
Peshawar, .were warmly received and so roughly
handled
ley the villagers, that they vb:,ro compelled to
retreat.
Boners,' ,i,'hyring font of their people dead and two pri-
wounded. ,rie;eof the villagers were killed and nine
handsomely head man of the village has been
irnewfuarded. On the Ilqa thß Mo:nunds
came down
same
to ravage thedaw country. They
attacked ii, fort
oudtishtance from Peshawur, and en-
deavoured to draw
overpowering them on the
garrison, in hopes of either
When stripped
or getting into their
rear and seizing the fort
policy was seen n stripped of its defenders.
Theirthrough, and the cflicer in charge
kept within while he
dispatched
an express to bring up
reinforcements ; in less than
Irregular Horse were in hot an hour a party of
pursuit but the enemy
contrived to escape. It now bec_e: _ ,
force of i,OOO horse and foot had 'du
jescetriodwfn that a
from the
hills, and were preparing to sweep"
..
(!ol
around. Sir Colin Campbell iraedtihate‘countr, all
aac the
field, at the head of the 15th Irreatoar nIY t
The village of 'avalry, and
a couple of guns.
threatened by the enemy. As our force advanced the
enemy retired, and were followed to the foot
or —.
the
hills, and when we returned, they followed nta kee
ing at a respectable distance, our guns
°Perauing out
on them as often as they came within reach. ahe iadr,.,
misbing continued from four P. 31. till dark, the artil-
lery having fired no few than 76 roundF. Soma thirty
or forty of the enema were killed. On our taking up
our quarters for they night within the village, they
set fire to a hedge and burnt some houses beyond the
suburbs, when they were dispersed by a Cannon
shot. Six hundred of her 31-tjestY'i 531 Foot,
mounted on elephants, next da.
y proceeded to the
scene of action,
Awing of the 331 Native Infantry,
some companies of the 29th, with Major Waller's
battery, were all ordered out, and it was expected
that next accounts would tell us of the final disper-
sion of the enemy for the present. Sir Henry
Lawrence returned to Lahore on the 15th ult., the
President of the Board of Administration having,
during his absence, visited Haws, Peshawur,
Kollar, and gone down the whole of the Derajat, re-
turning by Moczuffernugger, Mooltan, and Futeh-
poor Gogaira. This is something deserving the name
of a tour of in section performed in 8 couple of
months. Toe steamers Jelurn and Chenaub were at
Mooltan on the 13th ult. 'lle recent unfavourable
weather had done much mischief to the crops. The
canal had been bridged, and a good road built from
the fort •to the lines in the cantonments. A rifle
club had been established. The trying season was
setting in, but as yet no sickness had made its cp.
pearance.
In the Molussilite of the 16th tilt we find the f '
lowing extract from L -1K letter-
lac now :
" A fight has takena
Captain Barlowi'd troops, P we between a Email body of
Lieutenant Stokes, nee; o , under Captain I'. Ocr rnl
from the Nepaul fro- a vi,ll?-g' named jets, not far
about a
twetiwpoi.f.4 e.r,
wenn a fugitive lanTholdzr, who
The Raja eyerd
, ,n-ivii-t,
ei:l.u.nied Orr most dreadfully.
five stand
•wed—,l,o4i.tedht.3 pTr(hip:rT•?f, his guns, and
300 men, Nv!?'ite ',Orr harl. t 1,14 too. ...i_laja had above
of the former was 10. itintcl,l 22 T oys ona _the side
taken prisoners; on the' side,ot the wounded,l_t. 7d several
latter 2 killed and 4
wounded., •- I understand the above ctficors behaved
with great gallantry,and roolneas."
WiLlisra from Ctiubsid that the People of 1- o ih-
\.staa

have rebelled against Dost Mohammed; they have
already had a collision with the Dost's troops, forty of
whom are said to have fallen in the conflict, as well as
the officer who was in charge of the place. Moham-
med Shurreef, the Dost's youngest son, has been or-
dered to proceed to the spot, taking with him four
guns, two regiments of cavalry, and one of infantry,
for the purpose of punishing the rebels. Gholam
Ryder Khan was expected to leave Caubul for Herat,
with his force, about the 25th ultimo.
Parties are out in all directions throughout the
Nizam's territories in chase of the Rohillas who have
been allowed so long to plunder the country with im-
punity ; and Captain Young, commanding the 3d
Cavalry, has succeeded in capturioga notorious plan,
derer at the head of some twenty Rohillas. But
Brigadier Mayne has astonished their weak minds by
his rapid movements in pursuit of them. He has
succeeded in surprising the garrisons of two ghurries
(or forts) which sheltered large bodies cf these free.
hooters, and has deprived them of their arms. The
garrisons of four other ghurries escaped the same fate
by only a few hours, and not a single Rohilla is left
in the district. It is said that the Resident has given
orders for all these ghurries to be levelled with the
ground.
Sir W. Gomm could bear the heat of the plains no
longer, and determined on settling himself at Simla
durieg the hot season. He was expected to have been
at the hills by the 30th ult. So long as the Go-
vernor-General is willing to do his duty at Calcutta,
why should he not enjoy himself among the moun-
tains ? Sir R. Armstrong quitted Madras for Ban-
galore and the Neilgherries on the 19th ulttimo.
The result of the court of inquiry, held at Barrack-
pore, on the late proceedings of the 38th Regiment,
is the summary dismissal from the service of eight
men of that regiment, who made themselves conspicu-
ous by their mutinous bearing on the occasions which
called for the assembly of the court.
The death of Major J. C. C. Gray, 18th Bengal
Native Infantry, is reported as having occurred at
Ferozepore, from disease of the heart, on the 13th ult.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Madras returned
to that presidency from Vizagapatam, by the Hugh
Lindsay steamer, on the 11th ult.
The Hon. D. A. Blane, senior member of council,
returned to Bombay on Wednesday, the 21st ult., by
the steamer Ganges. Brigadier-General Robertson
left us on the 27th by the steamer Victoria for
Kurrachee, to assume the command of the troops in
Sinde, in room of General Manson, deceased.
A couple of the Seikh Irregular Corps, and the
14th Irregular Cavalry (Skinner's), have volun
teered for service in Burmala. Apprehensions of
further Mopla disturbances in Malabar are enter-
tained.

The ship Blythswood, Captain Giles, was destroyed
by fire in Coringa harbour on the sth ult.
2,0001. has been awarded by the Government of
India to Dr. O'Shaughnessy, in testimony of his
services in establishing the electric telegraph from
Diamond Harbour to Calcutta. The Doetor proceeds
home in June to lay before the Court of Directors
his plan for establishing lines throughout the conti-
nent of India.

The hot weather is drawing on apace, and bring-
ing with it the langour and inactivity which belong
to it.

The following is an abstract of the trade returns
for Bombay for 1850.51, which have just been pub-
lished :—The total value of the imports from all ports
excepting those of Sinde, Goozerat, and the Concan,
amount to rupees, 8,45,37,683—eight and a half mil-
lions sterling yearly ; from the ports just named as
excepted in the above, Rs. 6,02,16,206 are received—
of this, Rs. 6,01,33,094 came under the general head of
merchandise. The grand total of imports, therefore,
amounts to Rs. 14,47,53,889. The exports only
amount in value to R 3. 10,97,47,737—but this in-
cludes Rs. 8,13,70,075 of re-exports—that is, of mer-
chandise that has already paid import duty, and merely
lands at Bombay in transitu to some other port ; so
that the value of our commerce, apparently amounting
to Rs. 25,45,01,626, in reality, when the re-exports are
subtracted, amounts to Rs. 17,31,31,551, or seventeen
millions sterling and a third. Subtracting the amount
of the re-exports from the total imports, we have
goods to the value of 6,500,0001. sent by land into
the interior or consumed at the presidency ; and in
like manner deducting this from the total exports,
we have nearly 3,000,0001. sterling worth of exports,
the produce of the presidency or the interior. For
the last five years the value of the imports has on an
average amounted to Rs. 10,63,95,523—the imports
of the past year having exceeded the average by no
less than Rs. 3,83,59,917. The value of the exports
again over the same period amounted to Rs.
9,41,42,347, the actual exports of 1850-51 exceeding
this by Rs. 1,56,05,390.
Trade during the past fortnight has somewhat im-
proved, and the money market become rather tighter.
The following is a list of the names of the passen-
gers who left by the steamer Ackbar for Suez on the
31 of May :
Mrs. Fraser and two children, with a native servant;
Mrs. Jamieson, Mrs. Burgess and two children, Mrs.
Smyttan and two children, with European servant; Mrs.
Goldsmid and a European servant; Miss Gardiner, Miss
Forbes, Miss Edith Stuart, J. Maclean Lee, Esq., Cap-
tain J. E. Mayne, A. W. Ravenscreft, Esq., W. M. Ellen,
Esq., Lieut, R. H. Payne Crawford, her Majesty's 83d
Regiment; T. J. A. Scott, Lq , A. Kavanagh, Esq., A.
B. Leech. Esq.; Assistant-Surgeon F. Lodwick, Bombay
army; Lieut. 13. Burgess, 20th Bombay Native Infantry;
Ensign A. Taylor, 25th Regiment Native Infantry; and
M. Mull, Esq.
Second ebiss—Mrs. Isenberg and a native servant,
Rev. Mr. Isenberg, the Rev. H. P. Cassidy, Mr. J. Hud..
son, and Mr. C. Schonrman. •
For Aden—Hakim Bunday ROM Kban and three
native servants, Meer Goolabshaw and a native servant,
Meer Mehde and a native servant, Dada Chuttoo and a
native servant, and Rabhimtoola Rua:wok

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
L BOMBAY MARKETS.
From the 17th of April to the 2d of May, incluiive.
The Money Market—From the fact of the Bonk of
Bombay raising izs rates of interest and discount 1 per
' cent., we are forced into the conclusion that money is.
scarcer since last mail took its departure. Securities of
all kinds, however, maintain late prices, with the excep-
tion of transfer paper, which has been done at 113.
Current rates we quote as follows—Transfer paper at
113; Sicca Fives, 107; Sicca Fours, 94; New Fives,
1041; Company's Fours, 91; Bombay Bank shares, 16i.
per cent. prem.; Oriental Bank Cirporation shares, 22
per cent. prem.; Commercial Bank shares, 2 per cent.
dis.; Agra Bank shares, 9 per cent. prom.
IMPORTS.
LI=T OF SALES SINCE CUR LAST.
Cotton Piece Goods—The market hai been tolerably
steady during the last furtnight, and buiiness has been
done to a moderate extent at rather improved prices on
some descriptions. Grey Shirtings—All descriptions of
40 inch are in good demand, and medium quality, such
7fts., has further advanced 2 annas per pi•ce; 45-inch
is in f:iir demand. Grey T cloth is still in fair request;
" sales to arrive" have been nshde at about 6 annas re-
duction upon its late extreme value. Grey Al.idapollams
are
in
moderate r. quest; for low qualities, such as albs.,
and under, there has been a good demand. Grey Do-
mestics in good demand. Grey Longcloth is dull of
sale, in consequence c f the season for dyeing having
nearly cloned. Grey jaconnets arc in good request and
have slightly advanced in price.
Bleached Shirting;—Low qualities continue dull of
sale, and 66's and upwards aro in fair inquiry.
Turkey Red—Plain and twills very dull. Mulls in
slight inquiry.
Bleached twills dull.
Bleached satin spots in slight inquiry.
Fancy Goods—Under this head there has been no
change.
The cotton yarn market has been dull for mule, which
has receded slightly in value. Water of 20's and 30's
is steady, price slightly advanced, while 40's, owing to
the large supply, has slightly declined. Dyed orange
very dull. Turkey red is in moderate inquiry at previous
rates.

Woollens—There has been nothing doing in these,
and the market is very dull.
Metals—Copper—Brazier's sheathing and bottoms are
in good demand, and have advanced to our quotations,
while tile remains as before.
Iron—Swedish of good assortment in demand, but
without change in value. English bar as before—very
dull. Nailrod, round, in demand, and square dull. Sheets
ine moderate request. Hoops declined and dull. Swedish
ate el in tubs in good demand, and has advanced. In fag-
got dull.
L'ai Pig—ln fair demand; sheet dull.
shelter Recent supplies have caused great dulness,
Re
e. d tight
in
faire
rienipureiscte..
ali:
Tin
advanced to 1
CoehiaZtiwlte lead both dull.
has been in fair inquiry, and prices have
saff.ren,aw*r. per lb., bat no transactieni are reported.
Beer—.morig to thelargesupply,has receded is value.
come in duriegattie,
freely into other h:
is very slack.
" Tennant's" at 50nr ,
supplies of Allsopp and Bass have
fortnight, and have passed pretty
Wool—The enfa.ohaerkaretolh'
T,neds, but the demand for other brews
only sale reported is 35 hhds. of
20r. For Hodgson'', „vand Porter of the same brew at
seeded tTn5
anothing dvoeirnyg
.steady,
and the demand both
arreEi:;::g.land and China can-
freely made. At
Cotton
ntinneuetsinigeopoddcepanhrcandaaree
87x, for Dhollera, and
95r. to 95ir. for s
they have
ad
tions. Arrivals of the new cro v_inced to our quota-
p have been more free
of late.
Opiaaa—The market has been ye rY stead
v and
have advanced from 1,075 r. to 1,105 r. d, prices
Pepper—Bhutcol, 61r., and Malabar 59}r. to 60r.
The steak in the market is very smelt,
and a good
busines3 being done for the home market.
Linseed—Snolapore and Kbandeish both in
mend for the English market, but the stock ii good de-
mend
Freights—ln consequence of the numerous anot large.
lasts
week these became dull and slightly
-- deelioprdrival
since the reviral of the demand for produce they . but
risen to 3/, 2s. 6d. to 3/. 10s. for London, and 31. i 'hav©
afovro
Liverpool. For China they declined 17x., but have
since risen to 19r. per candy.
Eacharge—ltates have again advanced to 2e. °D. to
2s. O,FI. credit, and 2s. Oil for document bills. 0,3
Chips 211 r. to 212 r. On Calcutta, 991 r., at 60 days'
eight.