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London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LYNN—TUESDAY. r+o e]
A fair attendance at market to-day, with a Vey 4,*-
show of wheat, in excellent condition. The denloo, 09,0'
steady, and sales were made at late rates for the beo.b_or
pies. Barley, oats, and beans sold readily, fully nialvi
30
ing their late values. , 300 °Oil
White ..47s to Ms 8ar1ey...... .... •,,,28 to ig
RA .. 44s to 46s grinding ...... . . 's to
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Beans .34,4 to 388 Oats..
New --s to —a' Pea 5.......... ---3 w

HULL—TUESDAY. it glad hti;
The wheat trade during the week has been dui', ~- leas
k
few transactions have taken place. To-day thert."oo °''',.
small supply of English wheat, which was 0' reale,'
slowly at barely last week's currency. Foreign vi,ld per
neglected, and is lower. Oats scarce, Beans °m- Oa
rather dearer.
Wheat.... Old white per qr.
Old red ti
New white .. „
New red .... ,
Barley.... English malting '
Grinding
Said and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 2Bs Od to -•.; 0 00.
Grinding 2Bs Od to Is 00
Oats English, old 268 Od to 43tl
Archangel and Riga, per at osl2ld ,A
Friesland and Dutch „,43d to t,,'..1
Swedish and Danish 233414 6628:8 sssss: 60°°°°Iddldd ittti 0::
03;u4:4Ail
01 14.'
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'l' Oa tb 46' 04
Beans ....English, old, per qr 450
New pigeon 428
New tick
Od to 44 01
od to . r
Egyptian
''
6 Od to '-
Peas ..Foreign boilers .
'• •1 3 s t 35s Od
_33: Od ( 3,01;' 'l_,
Grinding
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Tares .... Spring.
Od to u.
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing •
Linseed cakes (Hull)
Foreign
Rape cakes
Bones i 9685 1:5505 453
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NEWARK—WEDNESDAY. 2J9 "" SOO
White wheat new, 60s to 53s Barley, grinding' t°
Red do.
Old whito 6ss to 60s New do .......... t° 580
Red do. sos to 546 Beans.. .........
.340 to
Barley, malting 378 to 42s Beans, new .....
Peas, 408 to 445.

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Banquet to Major-General Lindsay, M.P.

On Tuesday evening the Wigan friends of Major-General
Lindsay, M.P., entertained the hon. and gallant member
for the borough at a grand banquet in the public hall, the
occasion being the departure of Major-General Lindsay for
Canada to command a brigade of Guards. The room was
completely filled, and the gallery thronged by ladies. Mr.
N. Eckensley presided, and commenced the atter-dinner pro-
ceedings by reading letters of apology from Lord Stanley,
who regretted it was not in his power to attend, as he knew
of no one who better deserved such a compliment than
Major-General Lindsay; from General Wetherell, Lord
Skelmeredale, and others.
The usual loyal toasts having been given,
Mr, LORD proposed " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers,"
Col. the Hon. C. H. LINDSAY responded. After a brief
reference to the first two services, ho said he felt it a great
privilege to be called upon to respond to any compliment
which might be paid to the volunteer force of England,
and more so because that service had been universally ad-
mitted on ail occasions amongst the standard toasts of the
country. When England thought it expedient to contem-
plate the undefended position of her shores and to look to
the national feeling of her people on the subject, be toge-
ther with many others considered it his duty to give what-
ever experience he might have had in the army towards
the arrangement of a system of volunteer organisation, at
the time so much required ; and although the responsi-
bilities and anxieties which were heaped upon those who
came forward to commence the work were great, yet the
case was of such paramount and vital importance that
they considered it their duty to help as much as possible
in the furtherance of the movement. He need not speak
under correction when he said that the most sanguine ex-
pectations had been realised. He had the honour of com-
manding one of the most interesting bodies of men in
London—men of station, of education, and of substance,
forming a regiment which he had raised, trained, and or-
ganised into discipline and efficiency. He need not say
how proud he was to be at the heed of such a body of men
who had thus submitted to the bonds of discipline and made
themselves masters of the profession they considered it ex-
pedient to espouse. In conclusion, he said that, es long as
officers and men pulled together, so long would the service
be maintained in its integrity, and be considered an impor-
tant element of action in the regular army. (Cheers.)
In responding, on behalf of his father, to the toast of the
" House of Lords," Lord LINDSAY said that in this really
free country the road to the highest position in every de-
partment of life was open to every one who was qualified
by talent and character to fill such a position. (Cheers.)
Besides this point, which had already been eloquently
brought out by the proposer of the toast, there was another
he wished to mention. This was the fact that the peers of
Parliament had been in almost every instance members of
the House of Commons. The sons of peers were all com-
moners, and were eligible for Parliament. In most cases
the peers themselves had been members of the House of
Commons, and consequently served an apprenticeship
which enabled them to understand the feeling and spirit of
the country. They thus acquired that practical acquaint-
ance with the necessities of the country, which they could
get in no other way. The consequence of this was that the
House of Lords in England had a deep sympathy with the
whole country. In that respect it certainly differed from
such assemblies somewhat like it in character which might
exist abroad. In fact there was none like it. Where they
had tried representative government they had been success-
ful to a small extent, but they had never had an assembly
like the House of Lords, for this simple reason, that in
England only was there a body which was in itself stable,
and independent, and irremovable, and which, at the same
time, was in origin and in sympathy, one with the country
(Loud cheers.)

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The " House of Commons" was responded to by Mr. F.
S. Powell, M. P. for Cambridge, formerly member forWigan,
and Mr. Henry Woods, M.P. for the borough.
The toast of the evening, "Major-Gen. Lindsay, M.P.,"
was then given and drunk with great enthusiasm.
Major-Gen. LINDSAY, in reply, stated the circumstances
under which the post of commander of the guards in Canada
had been offered to him. He thought it his duty, without a
moment's hesitation, to aceept it, though he greatly regretted
that he should be compelled to leave the many kind friends
he had in Wigan. He hoped soon to rejoin them, for he did
not think that, though he was a soldier, he was wrong in
expressing a hope that no collision would occur between
this country and the Federal States. (Cheers.) No doubt
if it did occur the immediate effect would be the raising of
the blockade--at least he trusted that the British navy
would have power enough to do so, and he could not doubt
it would. (Loud cheers.) Another result would naturally
be that, by protection of the cruisers to Great Britain, a
larger supply of cotton would be received in this country.
But there were higher considerations than these, if it was
acknowledged that war was the most fatal game nations
could play at. They had been told by a great authority
that there was nothing so horrid as a battle lost, except a
battle won. (Cheers.) For the interests of the country,
and for the success of our own merchants, they felt most
anxious to be kept out of war, but he (Major. Gen. Lindsay)
believed that they had in Lord Palmerston a Minister who
would not truekle to any foreign country. (Cheers.) He
had nu doubt that the noble lord at the head of the Govern..
ment was anxious for peace; but they were in this state in
the Commons and in the country, that the Government
R ould act through public opinion, and public opinion went
with the Government. If they had to carry out a war, the
people might depend upon it, it would be done with all the
vigour that the nation could chow, and all the enthusiasm
that had ever characterised the British character. (Cheers.)
Canada was a large country ; it had no less than 1,500
miles of frontier, and it had great inland seas upon which
a navy was as much wanted as upon the Atlantic. There
was one point to which he would invite their attention.
England at the present moment had only a force of
11,000 men in Canada, and in time of war that was not
sufficient. If that force was not supplemented by the
Canadians, they could not expect England to support them
after a war was over. If there should be a war, England
would go heart and soul into it, but it would be the last
time unless the Canadians were ready to defend themselves.
(Hear, hear.) He believed, however, that if such a thing
occurred they would find the whole of Canadarise as one man.
(El ear.) There was another very important point. Soldiers
were not made in a day, and any colony that wished to de-
fend its own liberties must improvise a Tome and have one
ready to back up that from the mother country as soon as the
emergency arose. This was not yet the case in Canada, but
he trusted it would soon be so, and in case of any difficulty
between England and America, Canada would have a force
ready to co-operate. (Cheers.) After further and earnest
thanks to his Wigan friends, Major-General Lindsay bade
the company farewell, and sat down amidst a tempest of
applause.
Other toasts were given and responded to, and the com-
pany separated at a late hour.

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Another Frightful Murder in Liverpool.

About a quarter past nine on Tuesday night, a
man named Henry Cohen and a foreign sailor, said
to be a Spaniard, jostled against each other in pass-
ing near the bottom of Ormond-street, whereupon
a quarrel ensued between them, the foreigner ulti-
mately drawing a knife and striking Cohen a blow
in the right side, which felled him. The sailor then
ran away, but a man named James Harrison, also
a sailor, having observed the act, attempted to stop
him, and received in return two blows with a knife,
which felled him also to the ground. The foreigner
continued his escape; but being closely pursued by
several boys who hail witnessed the whole tragedy
he turned into Launcelot's-hey, where the lads lost
sight of him, but affirming that they saw him turn
into a cellar there.
The two wounded men meanwhile were taken to
the Northern Hospital, where every assistance was
them, but Harrison died about twenty minutes
after his admission. He received two wounds in
the region of the stomach, either, it is said, being
sufficient to cause death.
Cohen, who is an assistant at a photograph gal-
lery, sustained a small incised wound in the right
side. It is, however, supposed to be of considerable
depth, probably having entered the liver. He lies
in a very precarious state.
We understand that the police have apprehended
a man on suspicion. He is a Chilien sailor, who
lodged at the boarding-house of Maria Burgess,
39, Launcelot's-hey. A prostitute, who said she was
present when the murder took place, positively
speaks to him as being the man who perpetrated it.

ROYAL LITERARY FUND.

improvements had been made in the science since
those persons lived, and if any had ever held that
opinion, how completely was it disproved by the re-
sults of the labours of such:men as the Astronomer
Royal and Mr. Adams. (Cheers.) If we looked to
geography, let them see how much had been
achieved, and was being achieved by the Geogra-
th might be expected
week, that one ofat
phical Society of London, guided as it was in its
efforts by its excellent and unwearied president, Sir
Roderick
nth,Murchison.orevener
p Tidingshapti
the greatest geographical problems that had ever
puzzled mankind in ancient or modern times had
been successfully solved. He need scarcely say that
he referred to the discovery of the sources of the
Nile, of which a telegram had already been received,
although in an imperfect form. That was a dis-
covery which was once conceived to be an unfa-
thomable mystery, beyond the Powers of mankind
to unveil. An ancient poet described the Nile as
running away from a general conflagration, and
hiding its head, which he said was concealed to the
present day.

44 isfitus extrenaum fugit per tentu orbem,
Occuluique capet quod adhuc latet."
Was it not a proud reflection in honour of the men
37 week might per-
hear.) From
of fa spcsi ernecme
oovfe t h
thei s a gmeytshteartyt s vuie re a r
the mysteries of geography he would pass to those
other mysteries which the earth hid beneath its
surface—to the sciences of geology and arcbceo-
logy, and to the success achieved in those pursuits
by such men as Sir Charles Lyell and others. It
was not in these sciences as with astronomy, merely
a progress of an ancient science advanced from cen-
tury to century, and developed from year to year;
but these were sciences of which not the faintest
rudiments were known 100 years ago. (Hear,
still found to the conside-
rhaetai ro.n)
ofFl
irtoemr
ascience
nhde
hwe
roeu ltdh
epya ss
abun-
dant grounds for congratulation. As it chanced he
was reading that morning in the Revue des Deux
.blondes an account of the state of poetry at the
present time in France, which was very discourag-
ing. It was stated that at the present time there
was no great work of poetry recently brought out
in the French language. "Les tresois de la poesie
sont tres pauvre." That was speaking of France
only, and he believed that that account was correct.
He could not help thinking how yin._ A
y different was
the cede in England. Any man who had paid a
moment's attention to the subject would see how
our ancient glories in poetry were supported by
such men as the Poet Laureate, the Dean of West-

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the railway officialssome
enables new
going on during the
march of the train, and allows the Passengers to freely
move about from one end of the carr i
placed
to the other. A
platform or balcony for smokers is at one end. Ven-
tilators are also fixed, which can be opened
orh
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new plan
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facilities for smoking without annoyance to any
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THE SUN, LONDON, TH URSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1863.

The 74th anniversary festival of this institution
was held yesterday evening at Willis's Rooms, Si.
James's—the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, the presi-
dent of the corporation, In the chair.
The committee, in presenting their annual address,
thought it only proper to state that the principle
of the institution is to administer assistance to
authors of genius and learning who may be reduced
to distress by unavoidable calamities, or deprived
by enfeebled faculties or declining life of the power
of literary exertion. This assistance is renewed
ks often as the committee consider necessary, and
is extended, at the death of an author, to his
widow and children. In the application of this
liberality the utmost caution is used both as to the
reality of the distress and the merits of the in-
dividual. No writer can come within the views
of the society who has not published a work of
intelligence and public value, and something more
than talent, however brilliant it be, is invariably
exacted. While the bounty of the institution is
bestowed without regard to national or political
distinction, every author, without exception, is ex-
cluded, whose writings are offensive to morals or
religion, and whose personal character is not proved,
by satisfactory testimony, to be beyond suspicion.
In its career of unobtrusive usefulness the Royal
Literary Fund has devoted to the relief of the un-
fortunate scholar no less a sum than £57,130, and
2,962 grants have been bestowed upon upwards of
1,300 applicants.
About 150 sat down to dinner,among whom were :
His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hol-
stein, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Lord Mayor,
the Hon. E. Stanhope, the Hon. W. Addington,
M.P., Lieut. -Gen. the Hon. Sir E. Cast, K.C.B ,
Lord C. Hamilton, M.P., Sir B. Bridges, M.P., Sir
C. Lyell,
F.R.S., Mr. Massey,
m r.
A. Bruce, M.P., M.P., Mr. Nicholas,
Marsh, M.P.,H.
Col. Sykes, M.P.,Mr. S. Western,M.P., Lord Crewe,
Sir W. Jones, the Dean of Ripon, Sir Charles ,
Mr. Erskine May,
Bun-
bury, Mr. Beresford-Hope, Mr. M. Milnes, M.P.
cSi.rBH., .sEirllßis,. Aplrt.alGmuorren,epy,r3/10f..P.
Owen,
F.R.S.,
Mr.
Curling, F.R.S., Mr. Joseph Clarke, F.R.S., the
Rev. Ernest Hawkins, the Rev. Charles Merivale,
Col. Watson, Major Goldsmid, 117 r. A. Heeps,
John Murray, Mr. W. H. Smith, Mr. R. Bell, Mr.
G. A. Sala, Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. W. H. Rus-
sell, Mr. E. Romer, Dr. Doran, Mr. Sketchley, Mr.
George Scharf, and others.
A number of ladies occupied seats round the room
after dinner.
On the cloth being drawn the noble CHAIRMAN
proposed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, which
were duly honoured.
Lord C. HAMILTON proposed " The Church and
the Archbishop of Armagh," to which the latter
responded.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the
evening, said he came now to the constant and
principal toast at each of their annual meetings,
namely, " Prosperity to the Royal Literary
Fund." (Cheers.) He could not propose
the toast without, in the first place, most earnestly
lamenting, as they all lamented, the loss which the
institution had sustained in the death of the late
president, the Marquis of Lansdowne. At a very
early age Lord Lansdowne occupied a high political
position, but in his later years it might, in a great
measure, be said of him that he filled even a higher
place than that of leader of a political party, since
he came to be regarded as their judge and umpire.
(Hear, hear.) To literature and the fine arts Lord
Lansdowne brought an exquisite taste, a highly cal
tivated mind, and a generous temper, and in his case
the impulses of a kindly heart were well supported
by an ample fortune. (Hear, hear.) They had been
pleased to call upon him to fill the place thus left
vacant, and on the present occasion he ventured to
address them not only as chairman of the day, bat
as president of the institution. (Loud cheers.) He
wished to pass as rapidly as he could over all that
related to himself; but still he would not be doing
justice to those assembled around him if he did not
show that he appreciated as he ought the honour
of being the successor of such a chief to such a so-
ciety. (Loud cheers.) It would be his anxious wish
during his tenure of office—let that tenure be long
or short—that the position it had pleased them to
confer upon him an ould receive no deterioration at
his hands, and that it should be handed over unim-
paired to his successor. (Hear, hear.) Passing over
these personal matters, he would remark that, how-
ever difficult it Nv as to put in fresh language the
merits of this institution—which had been so fre-
quently and eloquently stated on so many former oc-
casions—still the claims upon their bounty were as
pressing, as fresh, and as deserving of their sympathy
as ever. The claims upon them extended as literature
and science extended ; and they must be aware that
at no period that could be named had science ex-
tended into wider fields than at present, and never
was our ancient renown for literature more power-
fully upheld than at the present time. (Hear.) If
we go through the sciences we should find it just
the same. Take astronomy, for instance, and see
how we had explained all those simple phenomena
which were in ancient times hailed with astonish-
ment, end regarded as strange events. It might
have been asked at one time how it was possible,
atter the great discoveries in that science by New-
ton and Laplace, that anything would be left for
their successors to find out, and yet see what vas

minster, and Mr. M. Minns. (Loud cheers.) Was
it not a subject for congratulation, whilst the great
critics of France had been compelled to acknow ledge
a dearth of poets in their country, that, without any
undeserved self-laudation or undue compliment, we
could safely assert that our poets were maintaining
that just renown in this branch of literature
which we had acquired from the earliest times ?
(Cheers.) With regard to works of fiction, he
might say that the greatest eminence had been ob.
tained in the present age. He did not merely allude
to the old established fables that had for many
years held possession of their smiles and sometimes
of their tears from their first appearance, such
as "Pelham," " Piekwick," and Vanity Fair,"
which had so justly obtained popularity, but to those
of more recent date. He would ask them to consider
how well the rising school of novelists was repre-
sented, and how beautifully illustrated by such men
as Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and others.
(Hear, hear.) He thought the works of such per-
sons as he had referred to, and of others whom he
would not pause to name, had afforded to them all
sources of great pleasure, some in their more serious
hours of health and strength when instruction was
sought, and others in those hours of depression and
pain which sometimes intervene when lighter works
of literature come in with a beating power. (Hear,
hear.) To those works applied the beautiful address
to her books by a lady whom he did not do justice
to when he omitted to place her among our poets—
Mrs. Norton—when she said-
1, Silent companions of my lonely heart,
Friends, we can never alter or forsake."

(Cheers.) Looking, then, to the progress both of
science and literature we have great ground for
congratulation, but it clearly behoved them to re-
' member not only those who succeeded in those paths
but also those who failed. (Hear) They ought to
be mindful not only of those who had climbed the
rugged and arduous steep that leads to fame, but
they ought to think of those who, without any fault
of their own, perhaps, had found their strength
give way, whose feet had slipped in climbing the
ascent and had fallen, and had perhaps been maimed
by the fall. (Hear.) Surely it behoved them to
show their sympathy for those as they offered their
admiration to their more fortunate brethren. (Hear.)
Amidst all the subjects for rejoicing he had pointed
out there were two circumstances which inspired
him with a feeling of regret. The first was the one
he had just adverted to—namely, that the wider
the field of literature and science extended, the
greater the number of claimants upon their
bounty; but this was the inevitable result of all
intellectual progress, and it was an evil which
it was the object of institutions like this, so far
as they could, to remedy. But there was an-
other subject upon which .he felt regret. Speak-
ing for himself, and without committing any other
person by what he was about to say, he felt that,
from year to year, the various branches of know-
ledge had an increasing tendency to rur in separate
channels, and to have less communication with each
other. It fell to his lot last week to preside over
a commission which was sitting to consider the
constitution of the Royal Academy, and they had
before them as a witness an accomplished gentle-
man, with whose merits they were well acquainted,
and who was then present—he meant Mr. Beres-
ford Hope ; and besides the remarks which that gen
tleman made, which he would not allude to, on the
immediate subject before the commission, he made
some short remarks upon the intellectual progress
of the country. He stated that in London there
was a constant tendency to establish three socie-
ties where one would answer the purpose, and
that in some respects this multiplication of
societies might not have been so advantageous as
their founders wished. (Hear, hear.) What he
chiefly regretted was, that an increasing spirit of
isolation prevailed among those who cultivated the
different branches of science and literature—and
he thought that would go on increasing unless
they could provide ground on which those follow-
ing the different branches could meet. (Hear.)
Without imputing blame to any particular class,
he must say that they appeared to treat somewhat
superciliously those following a different, and per-
haps as they thought, a less important branch of
study. Those who had done so had, doubtless, a
perfect right to follow their own course, and had
done so from the purest motives; but he only wished
to lay before them some grounds for doubting
whether this tendency was a right one. (Hear,
hear.) He wished them to observe that in France
a very opposite system was adopted. There each
set of men whilst cultivating his own par-

ticular branch of study was happy to meet with
those pursuing other branches, and the result of
that spirit had been the establishment of the Insti-
tute, which was one of the glories of France, and
which had extended its influence, not only through
that great nation, but through the world. (Loud
cheers.) Now, we had nothing in Ecgland which
bore even the faintest resemblance—the most dist-

tant similitude, to the Institute of France. Why,
should that be the case ? It was not for want of
men of merit, because it was sufficient to cast the
eye round the room in which; they then were to
answer that question; but it was because the spirit

of combination was wanting—it was the spirit of
isolation that prevented them coming together.
(Hear, hear.) He thought more was required of
literary and scientific men than simply to cultivate
with ardour their peculiar branch of study. That
was the great fault of England at this time.
Could not the French system be advantageously
established amongst ourselves ? (Tlear, hear.) It
was one of the great advantages of this institution
that it tended somewhat to remove that isolation by
bringing men of different pursuits together. (Hear.
For besides seeking to stretch forth their hand to
the unfortunate man of genius, without letting his
name become known (loud cheers), they had the ad-
vantage of meeting on occasions like the present men

of every profession and of all classes of intellect.
(Loud cheers.) With regard to the more immediate
object, it was well known that thisanstitution, in

dispensing its charity, made no discrimination o

country, party, or creed. (Cheers.) The Frenchman
was as welcome to relief as one of ourselves. (Hear,
hear.) They did not ask an applicant for relief whe
ther he was a Protestant or belonged to the Roman
Catholic religion (hear, hear':, or whether
he was a Liberal or a Conservative. (Cheers.)

:t was enough for them to know that he

was a man of worth—that he was a man of talent

and in distress, and the funds of the society were

open for his relief. (Cheers.) All men from the
various classes of knowledge combined to assist this

society, which did not appeal to one class more than
another for support ; but they appealed to all classes

who contributed either to the instructio❑ or the

intellectual power of mankind. (Cheers.) Let them
combine in support of this one society which linked
them together, and the only regret which would re-
main would be that there were not more frequently
similar opportunities for their meeting. (Cheers.)
Upon the whole, he was sure they would feel
that this society commended itself to their sup-
port in the exact proportion in which science
and literature extended, for in proportion as it
was successful, in proportion as greater profits
were reaped, so much the greater was the claim
of those who were unsuccessful in the same pur-
suit from the want of opportunity, the failure of
health and other causes beyond their control.
(Hear, hear.) He trusted that this institution would
their presence
long continue to affordassistance to the unfortunate
author ; and feeling, as he did,of tthhaeti
on that occasion was a proof
mould call upon them with full heartsy m
apna
dt h
brim
Aimhe
.
rs
min g glasses to drink to " the Pro •
speri
Royal Literary Fund• "
and(Loud ty of the
cheerin prolonged
g.

The toast was drank with three clines three.
Mr. GEORGE GODWIN (the secretary) then- read
the list of subscriptions and donations, which
amounted in the whole to between £7OO and 1800.

77,e

-..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

The announcement was received with loud cheers.
Mr. MoNcicroN MILNES, in preposieg "The
Health of the Chairman," said—Lord Stanhope
had already referred to the Institute of
France; and it was the custom therP when any
new rt. ember was elected that he should speak-
for an hour in praise of the individual whom he sue
ceeded, and that some one else should get up and
speak for another hour in praise of the merits of the
newly-elected member, There might be something
in the peculiarity of the French language which
might render such euphemistic nothings pleasant,
hut there was something in our English language
which rendered it repulsive to stand and heap praise
upon an individual who was present. (Cheers and
laughter.) He would therefore spare the president
the annoyance of listening to his own praises, but
still there were certain facts he might state which
the noble lord had no reason to be ashamed of. For
many years Lord Stanhope had taken a great inte-
rest in literary pursuits, and in conversation with
him upon literature and literary men he did
not recollect ever hearing him say one unjust
word regarding either of them, but he rather
erred on the side of expressing too much esteem and
admiration for the writers. (Hear, hear.) He held
very sound and sensible views, and he knew well
that the influence a man in his position and rank
should exercise in this country upon literature was
a very useful and powerful one, and ought to be
very beneficial in both its direct and its indirect
associations, From the very beginning of his life
he had been interested in literature, and there had
been hardly any period for many years in which he
had not been occupied in some work that had taken
a high place in the literature of the country. (Hear,
hear.) History occupied a prominent place in our
literature, and required in the man who devoted
himself to it accuracy of detail, freshness of judg-
ment, and power of criticism. There were few his-
tories of modern times more agreeable to read, or
which conveyed more accurate images of the cir-
cumstances of the times than the last work
written by Lord Stanhope. (Loud cheers.) He had
vindicated the memory of that great man Pitt, and
had shown how that man, eminent as a great Eng-
lishman, was above all political faction and party
feelings. (Hear, hear.) It was also to the noble lord
at the head of the table that they were indebted for
that revision of our sacred Liturgy—that one revi-
sion which, he believed, had received both the con-
sent and the approbation of the clergy and of the
people at large of this country. (Cheers.) He was
sure that, without any unpleasant interference, Lord
Stanhope would exercise the influence he held as
president of the society for the good and the ad-
vancement of literature and the sciences, and would
fill that difficult office without permitting them to
see the insolence of the patron or the servility of
the client. (Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN shortly responded, and proposed
"The Writers on Science and Sir Charles Lyell,"
which was followed by " The Writers on Art and
Mr. Beresford Hope," "The Lord Mayor and the
City of London," " The Writers of Works of Fic-
tion and Mr. Anthony Trollope,"and " The Ladies."
The company separated at a late hour.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Of all the abuses existing in connection with the
naval service of the country the steam reserves are
perhaps the greatest. We are not now speaking of
the "officers" of the steam reserves and the officials
attached to them, but of the vessels standing on the
official Navy List composing the reserves, their cost
of maintenance by the different departments, and
their actual value as ships of war, either as they
are at present or could be rendered for any future
time. No exact idea can, perhaps, be given of the
total cost of the reserves. If, however, some mem-
ber of the house would move for full returns on the
subject, he would find in them ample material with
which he could assist the Administration in largely
reducing future naval estimates. If the half-yearly
returns now being examined at the Admiralty of
the vessels forming the reserves at each of our ports
were analysed, the total sums expended by the de-
partments in keeping these vessels in a supposed
state of efficiency would be found to be enormous.
At the same time, while not more than seven or
eight vessels of the whole number can be pro-
nouncLd ready to proceed to sea under three or four
weeks' notice, others would take months to make
ready, and the remainder could never be made avail-
able again as war ships under any circumstances.
In proof that no part of this statement is at all ex-
aggerated, let one port be selected as an example—
say Portsmouth, and, to keep clear from all compli-
cations, let a sum be selected from one department
alone. The steam reserve at this port, as at the
others, is formed of four divisions, and in the first
will be found one line-of-battle ship, two screw
corvettes, one paddle sloop, and nine gunboats—
he latter of 60-horse power engines. The line- of-
battle ship, the Duncan, is one of the finest and
fastest ships in the service, but could not be made
ready for sea under three months, although a new
ship. Of the two screw sloops, one, the Esk, is,
with the exception of four or five days' storing,
ready for see, having been specially preparing for
commission for some months past. The other
screw corvette, the Nimrod, is quite rotten, and was
r+cted on that account by Captain Sherard
Osborn when offered to him by the Admiralty
some time since for the Anglo-Chinese fleet. The
one paddle sloop has been commenced as a floating
factory, and will be finished some day if the steam
factory officials and shipwtight department ever
find time for the work. The six gunboats would
be available for coast service. In the second divi-
sion stand the Royal Sovereign, turret ship, two
new three-deckers, two new liners, three screw cor-
vettes, and one paddle corvetie. The turret ship is
an experimental ship not yet tested ; the two three-
deckers and two liners would each take three months
to make ready. Two of the corvettes are of wood,
and are rotten, the remaining one being of iron and
of so light a scantling as to be fit for nothing but
river survey. She is now all to pieces in dock, and
has been selected for the trial of Commandere
eVaem.
ren's bow rudder, if her repairs should Placed
in
the
pleted. The one paddle sloop
frigates, six
line-of-battle ships, eight
useless category. In the thirsdn:edaYliavbbisslontire seven
fialrl screws ; five paddle
rotten,P themor t Ports-
mouth sloops, and two troop
e
are resourcesal l
h a loff
to sea, but would
of the liners has not yet beentake
The remaining six liners
sloops, and seven gunbsehaitPsso' f2O horse power. One
six months to complete.
sloopswhol
mwouth yard six or eight months to make
would occupy needy
leles•rolYf the
ready. '
and their machinery requires heavy overhaul and
repairs. The two troopships Simoom and Urgent
have both seen long foreign service,
and they
neces-
sarily require repairs. The paddles,
with
excep-
tion of the Rosamond and Bulldog,the
the same useless category as
class, and the seven gunboats may be reckoned as
others of the same
nil. One of the paddles, the
as a steam factory for th Rosamond, is fitting
afloat, and the other, e repairs of machinery
l the Bulldog, probably the
best of the paddle
clas
is under heavy repair in
dock. In the fourctlds•,vi division are the the Penelope
and Retribution paddle
frigates, both rotten from
ke,-.1 to topsides
; the Erebus and Glatton, floating
iron-cased batteries, of which nothing need be said;
three paddle steam tenders, and three or four coal
hulks. In the Haslar gunboat yard are 47 gunboats,
one half of which might be available. In the above
is not included the Hector, new iron frigate, as she
is preparing for sea, and her case does not apply to
our present argument. Out of the whole of the
vessels enumerated in the four divisions there is
only one vessel—the Esk, 17, screw, of 250-horse
power—that is ready for sea. The Dancan,-Fred.
William, Prince Regent, and Neptune, liners; and
Octavia and G;asgow, screw frigates; Royal Sore-
Jeignp turret ship; Bulldog, Volcano, Rosamond,

ar:oduidbe questionable Syra would
takemonths to complete; while it
policy to repair the remain•
der under any circumstances. It is to the sums
expended for theannual maintenance of these vessels
that we want to direct attention. If we discard all
charges under the head of wages and victuals to
warrant officers, engineers, stokers, seamen, S‘c.,
,nc.l also under the steam factory and ahipwright
Ilepartment, as well as any consideration of interest
of the capital invested, and select only one item—
"the preservation and repair" of the machinery on
board by the engineers and stokers of the steam re-
serve alone, it will be found that it alone in the one
port amounts to about 1:,45,000 per annum. For
this annual sum under one head Portsmouth dock.
yard and harbour at this time possess but one vessel
ready for sr a, while the remaining vessels, it they
are ever to be completed and repaired, would occupy
the whole of the present resources of the shipwright
and engineering department forseven or eight years.
In consequence of the great success which has
attended the newly-invented ventilating arrange-
ments on board the iron-clad screw frigate Royal
Oak, 35, Capt. Campbell, fitting for sea at Chatham,
the Lords of the Admiralty have decided on intro-
ducing a similar system on board the other vessels
composing the squadron of armour-plated steamers.
Orders have accordingly been received at Chatham
dockyard for one of the officials from Devon port
dockyard to proceed to Chatham for the purpose of
obtaining a knowledge of what has been done,
with a view to their being applied to the armour-
plated frigate Ocean, recently launched at
Devonport. The system of ventilation carried out
in the Royal Oak is from a plan submitted to the
Admiralty by Capt. Fanshawe, superintendent of
Chatham dockyard ; the engineroom and stokeholes
being ventilated according to the principles laid
down by Mr. Baker, inspector of machinery, and
the chief of the engineering department at Chatham.
The sailing frigate Volage, 26, hitherto used us a
floating magazine in Chatham harbour for the re-
ception of shells, has been given up to the dockyard
authorities by the War Department, in order that
she may be converted into a powder magazine, to
be stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the supply
of the North American and West India frquadrons
with powder, shot, and shell.
By direction of the Admiralty, one of the officials
from Devonport dockyard is to attend at Chatham
for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the
system adopted at that dockyard for annealing and
bending the armour plates required in the construc-
tion of the iron and iron clad ships building, with
a view to a similar plan being introduced at Devon-
port for preparing the plates required in armour
plating the Ocean frigate.
In order to hasten forward the completion of the
Orlando, 46, 1,000 horse power, now undergoing
extensive repairs at Chatham, a number of caulkers
are to be sent there from Sheerness and Woolwich
yards.
The Prussian sailing frigate Gefion, Capt. Klatt,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the
West Indies, and on anchoring exchanged salutes
with the Victory, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir M.
Seymour, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief; the Edgar,
86, screw steamer, Capt. the Hon. F. Foley, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Sidney C. Dacres, C. 8., lying
at Spithead, and with the saluting battery of the
garrison. Capt. Klatt afterwards landed, and, ac-
companied by the Chevalier Vandenberg, the Prus-
sian Vice-Consul at Portsmouth, paid an official
visit to Major-General Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., and
Sir Michael Seymour at their residences at the Go-
vernment and Admiralty Houses. The Gefion
sailed from the Havannah on the 18th April, her
Majesty's ship Nile sailing from there for Bermuda
on the same day. The French liner St. Louis had

landed her guns at Havannah, and was loading with
stores for the French army in Mexico. All the ice
that could be procured at the Havannah had been
purchased and shipped on board the St. Louis for
the use of the sick and wounded of the French army.
The Swedish screw corvette Lagerbjelke, Capt.
Herkepe, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, sailing from the
Cape on the 10th of March and St. Helena on the
25th. Easterly winds and fine weather were expe-
rienced throughout the voyage until yesterday
when a strong westerly gale was fallen in with. The
Lagerbjelke on anchoring exchanged salutes with
her Majesty's ships Vi.tory and Edgar, and with
the saluting battery of the garrison.
A letter, received at Portsmouth from her Ma-
jesty's screw sloop Espoir, dated Feb. 22, at Ka-
bunda, says :—The fine Dutch bark Jane, which we
some time since captured, has been condemned in the

mixed court Sierra Leone. This makes our sixth
capture on the coast. The slave question out
here is getting more complicated than ever since the
treaty with America. Our visits are much increased,
and the slavers are, if possible, more particular than
ever in concealing all trace of the object of the voy-
age until the last hour, when six hours will convert
a legal trader into a slava ship full of slaves, so well
ara these ventures organised. We sail in a day or

two for a two months' cruise south of St. Paul's de

Loando.

With reference to the statement in The Sun of
Monday last relative to the cylinder covers of the

Black Prince, we are informed that the representa-
tives of the manufacturers of the engines, Messrs.
John Penn and Son, after a careful examination,
consider the objections raised of no importance, and
that, so far as the firm are concerned, the ship can
at once proceed on foreign service. The covers were
tested with a water pressure of 451 b., and if they
did " sweat" somewhat under such a test, as it is
said they did, it is the only result which could be
possibly expected.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. J. A. H. Trotter to the
Alert ; Lieut. Chas. E. Pearse to the Columbine;
Lieut. W. H. Maxwell to the Sutlej ; Lieut. Geo.

B. Goolden to the Pembroo;kleuerm;:Tenihnep;oeoslr;.lvt WJ:hooeahsnr.ngrn,insmehaeisreledtro,
to the Alert; Henry Y. Slader, master, to the
Columbine; Philip G. Richards, midshipman, to the
Resistance; Reginald A. Brock, James F. Owen,
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ALARMING OCCURRENCE AT THE MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY WORE .S.—Yesterday morning, between four
and five o'clock, the neighbourhood of Agar Town and
Camden Town, in the immediate vicinity of the extensive
works progressing at the former place for the metropolitan
goods terminus of the Midland Railway Company, Wag
alarmed by a loud crashing noise proceeding from the direc-
tion of the works in question. It appears that, amongstr
other erections, the Midland Company are building, ut,nrbdoy,
the management of their engineer, Mr. Croskill,Lft Drrhich
an enormous goods store, clos,ly abutting t
was formerly known as Cambridge-streeptAoini=s7:Snfilt
contract for this building was entrusted
Pesth
tho workmen,
and Co., of Leicester, and for some
apparent
sinking of ono side
it is stated, have observed an
,yth had been built simply
of the outer walls, and,
yesterday
foundations, it was feared
after fur o'clock
Shortly
building to prepare for
of the soil.
on the London clay,
slipping
, who entered the
walls, and
morning som
of workmen, .
the general body
They had
made a precipitate retreat.
' craBhing large portion of the build-
hearnig a
great while when a
e men
he abdineenntohate
crash, bringing a consider-
ableconsequence.
ing caw- ' dere and roofing along with the out-
ward of the girders
portion
4,lnoftrotmran;
event taken place about an hour later,
iio. Had the .
Iward wa
the workmen were engaged, there is ,little doubt that
will bl abme e
rememberedattaching
to one
aecyadt.iuse the arches of the City and Ham-
naorrtidvoedLo down with a terrific
awilgernoatlos of life would have been the,
spired ,
back,
nplarVece
crkhe:ernstachinteyhdrb
suticioshttmaobeausiiriatsleil:rirvds
gave way, some two or three months
jarlamentablege and
fissures
as
that
without'n'thtsacrificeheree anyo
pif theoutward
hartd
concreteh
livesa
workmen.