The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-19 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 191 1852.

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andllarper,and Duffto six months' imprisonment and Medi!for the
e Cruvelli made her first eppraranco
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
hard fab-oure - Goodwin Ito nine months.
season at this establishment on Saturday evening. Her
Clerkenwelt were sen_ten_c_rd..7
who hes been several times CO r. , performance of Norma is too well known and
convicted s dendid •
b r4pbacnicLe-eBt-Spiii6epkilTgr!' was how found guilty of the same. appreciated to render it necessary to enter into a detailed
effenee, and sentenced by Mr. Witham to six months analysis.
The salient excellencies of Cruvelli were de-
imprieonment. in the House of Correction, with hard eeloped on Saturday with even increased prominence,
labour, and her Norma must be pronounced yet better than it
was last season. She had a magnificent reception and a
1- triumphant ovation. Lableche, who made his first ap-
pearance this season, as Oroveso, was received with an
enthakiastic welcome. The great basso is in his fullest
potency of voice, and his performance Was, as it elways
Viscount Ossurstot aMndispsarlityor
has been, grand and elevated to a degree. Gardeni
personated Pollio, and Mdlle. Feller, Adelgisa.
The Queen's box was occupied by the Marchioness of
Ely, Lady E. Hay,the
distinguished company also honouring the theatre with
their presence on this occasion we remarked the follow-
ing :—His Grace the Duke of Wellington and the Mar-
chioness of Douro, his Excelleeey the Frency Ariabatsa-
dor and suite, his Excellency, the Russian Minister, the
AVlnernen,gMatisteheDnilolobnle,
and
Baroness Brunow and Medfle. Brunow, the Countess of
Wilton and party, the Earl Grey; the Earl and Countess
of Glengall and party, the- Countess de Flaheult and
Mdlle. de Flahault, the Countess of Harrington and'
Lady Jane Sr. Maur Stanhope,
and Miss Heward
Count Louis Cord, the
charles, the Earl of Mount-
Ladies Egerton, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., MX., Lady,
•
Vicount Dupplin, Sir Henry Webb, Bert.,
--; Mrs. Egerton, the
Lady Charles
Somerset and the Misses Somerset, the
R
Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Shelburne, the Countess
of Chesterfield, Mr. and Mrs. Craven, Mr. and Mrs.
Burton Trelawny, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, :the
Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir Thomas' Barrett Lennard
Bart., Lady Barrett Lennard, and party; Mr. Hubert de
Burgh, Mr. George Hudson Mrs; Hudstin, Miss Hudson,
and party; Captain inglefield, ToWsend, Esq., Miss
Caroline Collins Mrs. Storer, Colonel Dixon, Mr.
Franks, Mr. Luke, me. W. Doiafi,id, Mr. C. Pole, Col.
Freestun, MT., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Lord Sin-
clair, Mr. Clement IT i
-z•eni, Mr. B. Trelawney, Miss.
Atwood, Mr. Montague Gore, Captain end Mrs. Robert-
son, the Viscount Anson, the Hon. A. D. Willoughby,
the Viscount Clifden, Sir George Wombwell, Bart.,
Colonel Wildman, ism,

MARLBRAY-,TREE r-( THIS DAY.}
DESERT-I-NG A WIFE.— William Bartholomew, a well-
' dressed map, de:O6l)A ai a Servant out of place, was
brOugfit Up in custody of Lacey, cons,able of St. George's,
flanoverrsquare,.on a. warrant charging him with desert-
ing his wife-and five children, and leaving them charge-
able to the above parish.
Eliza Bartholomew said she was the wife of defendant,
and had five children depending upon her for support.
The eldest child was 15 years of age, and the youngest
a year and a half. On the 24th of February he kft her
without the means of support, anti she saw nothing of
him till the following Saturday. He then left her again,
saying thitt he was going after some money, and would
return shortly. He did not do so, and as she and her
family were without the means of existence she was
obliged to go to the parish for support. On the 3d of
April she received 201. tram defendant, and out of that she
had to pay 9/. for arrears of rent and 101. to her son's
master, in part p4ment of premium of apprenticeship.
She and her children were now in the workhouse.
Lacey' proved taking the defendant into custody, and
said that the money named by the woman was seat atter
the warrant was taken out. The woman was much in
debt at the time, and when ho went to see her, she and
her children were in great distress. Lacey added that he
-found 9/. and a gold watch on the defendant.
In reply to Mr. HARDWICK, the defendant said he was
fornierfy butler to the 'ate Sir Herbert Jenner. Fest, and
was now out of place. He was. willing to give his wife
54 out of the 91., and allow her 12s. a week. This was
all he could do at present, but as soon as he got another
situation he would increase the amount.
Mr. HARDWICK thought this a fair offer, and directed
the case to stand over till the arrangements were com-
pleted to the satisfaction of the parish authorities.

AMERICAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH )
LIVERPOOL, AIIDNIOIIT.
The Europa has just arrived, with advices from
New York to the 7th instant.
The Baltic arrived at New York on the 24th ult.
The Europa brings 4,500 dolls. in specie.
In the Senate on the Sch instant, the compromise
resolutions passed.
A riot at S. Louis, attendant upon an election,
resulted in the death of six persons.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
Donizetti's I Martini was again put off on ,Saturday
night, in consequence of the continued hoarseness of
'ramberlik. The 6'onnambula was substituted, with
Castellan for the heroine, and a new tenor of the name
of Galvani, from the Scala, for the Elvino. The organ
of Signor Galvani is soft and southern in quality, but
greatly deficient in volume and resonance, and after
being accustomed to listen to Tamberldc, or Ander, it
sounds flat and ineffective. The nearest approach to an
effect was in those passages which required delicacy
and tenderness. He possesses considerable skill in the
management of a voice originally deficient in flexibility,
and by his perfect savoir
faire may prove highly useful
in the operatic company of Covent Garden. Madame
Castellan's Amina is well known. This accomplished
vocalist was in her best voice on. Saturday night, and
was tumultuously applauded in the finale " Ah non
giunge.,, She might, without any impropriety, have
construed the demonstration into an encore, but she
chose the modest cou,se, and simply made her obehance.
She subsequently appeared before the curtain with Gal-
veni and laglisfice, when she received a second fire of
plaudits. The ballet divertissement was well received,
Messrs. Alexandre and Mignard, Meads. H. and L.
Bellotti, Leblond, &c., sustaining it with much spirit.
ramberlik was stated in the house to be so much re-
covered that the promised Martiri will be, unless a re-
lapse should supervene, produced on Tuesday:
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary honoured the performance with
their presence. The Royal party occupied the Queen's
box. Lord William Powlett and Major the Hon. James
Macdonald were in attendance upon their Royal High-
nesses. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
alio honoured the theatre with bis presence. Amoug
the fashionable company present we remarkid
his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Swedish Minister, the Baroness -R-hatisin
and Mdlle. Ciaamier, the Earl of Chesterflold, the Earl
of Durham, Viscount Exmouth, Lard and Lady
Francis Gordon and' Lady Blanche Dupplin, Lord Ar-
thur Hay, Lady Peel and Miss Peel, Honourable Mrs.
George Anson and Miss Anson, Hon. Francis Lawley,
Hon. Harry Grey, Hon. Francis Stoner, Hon. John
Fertescue, M.P., Hon. Leopold Agar Ellis, Baron de
Steinberg, Lady Talfourd and party, Hon. Mr. Burke,
Sir Henry Webb, Sir George and Lady Armytage and
party, Sir William and Lady de Bathe and party, Sir
William Fraser, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Colonel
Crombie, Sir James Ferguson, Colonel Blane, Colonel
Tyrrwhitt, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Mr. Norman
Macdonald, Mr. Charles Standish, Mr. Gregory, Mr. C.
Webster, Mr. H. Webster, Mr. Lyne Stephens, Mr.
John Stanley, Mr, Ewer, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Arce-
deckne, Mr. Praed, Mr. Oliver, Captain De Bathe,
Captain and Mrs. Leyland, Mr. A. H. Thistle-
thwayte the Misses Burgoyne, Captain Steele, . Cap-
tain Oliver, Captain Robertson, Mr. Henry Ore.
ville, &e.

A large number of persons had been killed by two
steam-boat explosions.
Further troubles had occurred in Equador.
The Bolivia had arrived at Panama with 686,500
dolls. in specie.
Hayti accounts report tranquillity.
The Prometheus was at New York with 300,000
:dolls. in goki-dust.
We have late but unimportant advises from Ha-
vannab.

In- the New York corn market flour favoured
,buyers.
Foreign exchange dull—on London 1091 to 1091.
In'ootton an advance of fully ka. on middling uud
.upwards had taken place.
Scotch pig iron in fair request.
Freights to London, ls. 9d.; heavy goods, 17s. 6d.
to 20s.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending April 17, 1852 ... £11,240 14 3
'frank— Week ending April 19, 1851 ... 10 864 15 1
Total of the, half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 132,610 19 6
Total of the half-)-ear, to this date, 1851 ... 129,743 2 11
Total number of Passengers— Week ending
,• April 17, Isn 73,445
; Passengers ... ....E9169 7 9
Goods 2 071 6 6

Total ... £11,240 14 3
Total 'miles open, 1852, 1784 ; ditto, 1801, 173:I.
London Terminus; April 19, 1852.

OE OF MISS VINCENT.
The marriage of this lady, the proprietress of the
Victoria Theatre, has been attended with the most
unhappy circumstances. She selected for her partner
in life Mr. Benjamin Crowther (late of Astley's); a
fine handsome-young man of eight-and-twenty, who,
:•iinving seceded from Mr. Batty s Amphitheatre, was
starring in lifazeppa and other hippodramatic spec-
tacles at the Victoria. The courtship was but of
abort duration, and the preliminaries for the wedding
soon arranged. The marriage took place on a Se-
ttirday, at Trinity Church, Carlisle-lane, Lambeth,
:and the "happy pair" left town immediately after the
'ceremony to spend the " honeymoon " at Brighton ;
'brit their happiness was soon disturbed, for on the
following Thursday, on their return to their resi-
dence, Barkbam-terrace, St. George's-road (opposite
Betblem Hospital), the bridegroom was seized with
a brain fever, attributed by his medical attendants
to over-excitement. It was reported at the time
that he was compelled to be placed under restraint in a
public institution. This was untrue. But, melancholy
to state, it is now the fact, Mr. Crowther is an inmate
of a private lunatic asylum at Peckham. The fever hay-
having subsided, he became in a low and depressed,
state of mind, and at this time a settled melancholy per-
vades; him, notwithstanding the most eminent physicians
'have, been consulted, and every means adopted, to
arouse him. fromhis hypochondriacal p)sit loc. Mr.
Crowther was-for many years a member of the orps
dramatique of Astley's, and is much esteemed by a
Wrgei circle of professional and private friends. 'Miss
Vincent, on the demise of Mr. Osbaldiston, became
possessed of the Victoria Theatre, and like Wise the
bulk'of his; fertune, which was settled on her.and her
daughter, Miss- Beatrice Osbaldiston, a young lady
islicut eighteen- independent of which Miss Vincent
bad realized a-handsome competency by her profes-
sional exextions... The at:flit:6°n of her husband, as
may be imagined, is a source of great sorrow to her,
and his family-.=—Sunday Paper.

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF TEM Ross AND FOREST
OFI DEAN IiANK,..AND Loss OF LIFE. On Saturday the
fire ohiCes in the_City received accounts from their agents at.
Ross, ;in Herefordshire, of a calamitous fire occuring in
that town the, previous morning. by which the 'banking
housrOif W. and R. Hall, known as the Forest
Of Dean Bank, was utterly destroyed, besides the adjoining
housee being severely damaged. The bank was situated in
New-Street, and the upper portion of the capacious premises
was occupied by _the family of Mr. INleeton, a partner. The
fire was first discovered about four o'clock in the morning, the
inmates being aroused by persons in the street, and they
found the staircase in flames from the bottom. Fortunately
for most of them some painters had been employed on the
premises, and, had-left one of their ladders against the front
of the; house, by means of which they all managed with
much diffidulty to reach the street, with the exception of
one of the female domestics, a girl between 17 and 18 years
of age, who, we regret to state, perished in the flames. There
wava '1 .rga amount" sin gold and bank notes in the b ;nk,
~which i with the books of the firm, were in a fire-proof box,
and ehscaped. The body of the, unfortunate sufferer has
been ciug out of the ruins.

FATAL COLLISION IN TIIS CHANNEL —A most
disastrous collision, resulting in the lo3s of a Dutch ship and
most Of her crew, was announced at Lloyd's on Saturday. It
took place on Friday morning, :in" the Channel, off tie Bill
of Por;land., The-Triton, Baker master, bound from Cardiff
to Bremen, was brought up in the •Chissel Cove, a good
anchorage on that-line of coast, and while in that position a
Dutch trader, -name at present not correctly ascertained, but
belonging to Rotterdam, .and bound to Liebau from Liver-
pool, in working up, ran with -tremendous force into. the
Triton, which was taken amidships. She sustained consi-
AVrable damage: by the collkion, and her escape from imme
diate foundering-maY be deemed most providential. The
Dutchinan was low in the water, and her' hull receiving a
fearlul'shaking, -she.'inStantl.V began to fill. As quickly as
practicable, the Triton got clear of the Dutchman, and the
latter very shortly afterwards' went down in deep water,
with (is was supposed at the time) every soul on board. It
has since been ascertained, however, that a pilot-boat from
Portland succeeded in picking up the masterand his brother,
but the remainder of the unhappy.creatures who comprised
the crew, some six or seven, perished. After great difficulty
the Triton, by the aid of a boat's crew from Bridport, was
got into that-harbour. The Dutchman is stated to have
been insured. •

COMIC SINGING.—Mr. Holding, an Irish comic
singer of genuine homotir and talent, has been lately giving
some musical, entertainments at: the Surrey aide of the water.
Thy accent` and stock of mirthful songs pos-
sessed by Mr. Holding constitute him a valuable acquisition
to day_ -alba metropolitan harmonic establishments.

: _PARISH__OF CLERKRNWELL.—An exciting contest,
of three days' duratiun has taken place in this parish, for
the effice ot vestry clerk. At the final close of the poll on
Saturday, the numbers were—for Mr. Wakeling, solicitor
(who had served the office for 10 years), 1,415; for Mr.
:51arsh (a non-professional man), 1,265; for Mr. IVilkin, so-
Bator, 170; majority for Mr. Wakelihg over Mr. Match, 150.
The votes of the rate-payers in the parish number 8,000.
I
Two= GREAT BORES.—The " Ei glishraan" in the
Times, and " Jehn Ball Slick" in the Herald.
It is a foci, 'Worthy of record, and one which argues
trainsl%7 A a_no
atrongiyinfavour of the salubrious air of Chelmsford, that of
the 200 burials which have taken place since December 30,
pbaBer4ceBk,iavetzi:ektaaa;:j.Esynsoctf,eArpl:Buoof the deceased persons amounted to
11,-78 heing_an average of 85 years. The lowest age was
sidering
sounded the werth
I°, till. highest 9L—Essex Herald.
toli A
Troyesß AIL
RailwayßO .—Aswas one
three of thedays
time did all- he
herwran standing in the centre of the way. Con-
thing' the' station of Romilly, the engine-driver
istle as a- warning to her,
as inevitable if she refrained there, he
ain, and the weocnanild tostop the train. All his efforts were
whole train and at the same
passt7‘was knocked down by the engine. The
,tllittee.'was but little injured, for, falling
tellect, bay
Slitraanpgoes
position
patellae
rahowiler-Ige'r the'epot' where she had stood.
tinges of which thweastruatii
inifrei:w. 'at4h,ecivirthaolliettelef
btyh'e•thl6e cfariri;,
madess.
without touching here liner
faacse composed passed over fier
, mg been several times
The poor woman turned
~
,
n Seriirdly- last, Mr. Tv
- .., 0 - ' ' • • Williams,m p f
Lambeth, forwarded to the. Chancellor .•. or
bcoouuntt
fitonotebdeerf:w
fitri s! k s
ihon:
Lanioei.u. _ of the Examtier a
memorial from a numbeF ot cfountry publishers, stating that
they had been illegally int ered witla by the Stamp-office,
aucl,praying. for compensation.
0 ...,On Saturda
I MANSIoiti*HOUS • YI the Bth of May
and the Lady mayoteq. will . ,
pp Loya.mayar „ - Ministers,
as entertain her
Mfkiesty's Ministers, the xoreignwell as a dis-
tinguishe4party OfAVlPke,t3 14:16414 110404 of-Parliame-a(
NW thvir dyer;.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CCVII.
THE YORK SPRING MEETING, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—One of the dullest meetings at Newmarket on
record was wound up on Friday, by the realisation of
my predictions in every instance. The Nabob had his
race in hand all the way for the 100 Son. Stakes, win-
ning with considerable ease by a length; the queer-
pinned Sackbut obtaining the second place, beating
Ambrose by four lenehs. How the " talent " came
to back Ambrose against his field of two, when he i 3 to
all intersts and perpoies dead amiss, and for what reason
they laid 3 to 1 against The Nabob is a complete
puzzler to me, as the winner was in excellent health
and condition, and, notwithstanding his being an infe-
rior animal, could have given Sackbut and the dead
amiss Ambrose seven pounds each and a beating.
The Prime Minister party, as I stated in my Notes of
Thursday, were tolerably confident LI pulling through
for the Port Stakes with their short•distanced son of
Melbourne and Pantialonade; it was a near affair, how-
ever, with twist:mine, as the Minister only won by a
head. Midas, like unto Lord Exeter's horse in the pre-
ceding race, was dead amiss, and finished a bad third
and .last.. _
Sophistry walked over for the .50 sow. Stakes, and so
ended the Craven meeting of 1852. It has not been
without its effects on the future, though comparatively
unimportant when placed- beside former meetings.
Lapidist's defeat in the race for the Column Stakes,
and Father Thames's unexpected victory in
.the New-
market Handicap, have been the most important results
of the.week's racing. The. ' former at' once decided the
fate of the whole of Lord Ribblesdale'a Derby stud ; per-
haps with the exception of Kingston, who it seems is
likely to take the place in the betting lately vacated by
his stable companion. for since the defeat of
Lapidist, Kingston has been much more inquired after
than he was before, notwithstanding he was reported to
be at the least some six or seven pounds inferior to the
defeated of the Column. Day's party made an awful
mistake in not trusting Father Thames with a sprinkling
of the circulating medium ; this was owing to their en-
tertaining a rather low estimate of his chance, fur had
it not been for his owner, wbo will start his horses good
or bad, ho would not have been sent to Newmarket ; but
as Sir H. Pigot gave orders for his journey to head
quarters, the stable evidently was of opinion that they_
might as well make use of him to draw a line'
for their Chester Cup horse; which feat Father Thames
accomplished for them in first-rate style through Ofa
cious, and so enabled them to get the length of the
Metropolitan winner and Chester Cup favourite, Stilton-.
The fields for to-morrow's races at York are; as near
as I can ascertain; as folloWs:
Craven Stakes, one mile—lris or Croupier, Lady
Agnes, Radulphus, and Peniston. . The foar, it is not at
all improbable, will pass the post in the order placed, the
ue furkngs 44 yards—Lamb., Mabella, St. Andrew,
ton, judgment of Bader on • Lord Derby's horse telling its
own tale at the finish. Marson will ride Radulphus.
Dick Turpin, and perhaps Grapeshot and Plunderer.
Grapeshot's running being somewhat dubious, I must,' Strait
judackSetk
tall'eti Qveen
in his absence, go for the QUEEN or LarariTora, and ex-
pect The
Zto see Lord Eghnton's Strait Jacket iu the third
place, if no nearer.
The Flying Dutchman's Handicap, two mires—Vst.
tigeur, Elthiron, Haricot, Lough Bawn (d), Aehryanthes,
Prior of Lanercost, Harp, Goliah, Sa yll Warfoot colt,
and perhaps Bardolph Euphony, and Little Fawn. For
the first time this season in a great Handicap, the three
years old will, I think, be'deleated, as they run at a i
great disadvantage with their elders. The winner, ex
will be found in HARICOT or ACELYRANTS
pect, ES and
by
/L
that Voltigeur, notwithatanding his being tooled_
fancy
arson, will not be nearer than third. Those who

long shots or outsiders, will find a couple of capital in-
ves.tments if they go to the post in form, in Harp and
Goliah, both possessing a very good chance of doing
the mysterious or unexpected win. Lucio, I believe,
will nut run for this- event, and Loogh Bawn is very
doubtful.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTII, APRIL 18.—A large and influential
meeting or both army and navy offictrs attenled RE the
Royal Naval College on Saturday, the Commander-in-
Chief; Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, in the chair,, when
it was determined to denominate the meeting as " The
' United Service Birkenhead Relief Committee;" and,
consequently, a number of the military officers of the
Portsmouth garrison joined the committee, and primary
steps were taken for distributing the funds so soon as
cases of distress could be •obtained. Subscriptions are
flowing in. The committee meet again next Saturday,
after which time it will probably meet on %Vednesdsys
and Saturdays.
The following acting lieutenants, mates, and midship.
men passed for lieutenants at the Royal Naval College,
last week :—Messrs. Norie, Singer, Irvine, Broad, Mon-
tagu, Ssumarez, Lomax, Young, Robinson, and Clutter-
buck.

The following officers also passed in navigation for the
rank of master on Friday :—Xiesrs. H. Goldsmith, H.
J. Ley, G. A. Macfarlane, C. P. Hodges, R. M. Curry,
and J. K. Richards.
The following young gentlemen have passed at the
College for entry into the navy as cadets, and have
joined the Victory pro tern.:—Masters H. Fox, S. 11.
Davies, L. Loraine, H. E. Wood, F. C. Grove, J. S.
Trotter, and C. R. Macdonnell. Parente Should look to
the education of those children intended for the navy.
On Friday a most respectable boy,".who doubtlessly was
considered by his fond parents " well educated," was
turned back in his examination, owing to his deficiency
in the common matter of English spelliog, an item no
doubt overlooked by his parents in the desire to give him
a superficial knowledge of something less useful, and as
this rejection is fatal to his entry into the service, he
has lost hie chance and must seek other employ.
Mr. Stafford, Secretary to the Admiralty, visited
the Excellent on Friday, on his return from Devonport,
in the Retribution steam-frigate, and witnessed practice
from that ship. On Saturday he went over the deck-
yard, and ia the evening entertained a select circle o
ten at the Quebec hotel. He returned to London to-day
The Locust steam-vessel, Lean-Commander Day,
grounded in the River Plate, on her way down the river,
on the 3d of February, but was got off without damage.
A court of inquiry assembled on board the flag-chip
upon the occasion, but the Commander and Master were
acquitted of all blame. Her Second-Master, Mr. Payne,
had the day of the battle between the forces of Urquiza
.and Roses, ventured very imprudently too near to Sautes
Lugaras, and received a shot in his arm, from the effects
of which he died the same night. Mr. Whitehouse,
Second-Master of the flag-ship, has been appointed to
the vacancy, and Mr. Ryan, master's-assistant of the
Rifleman, is promoted by the Admiral to the rank of
Second-Master.
Mr. W. IL Clarke, Assistant-Surgeon of the Centaur,
flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Henderson, in the River
Plate, is appointed to the Locust, vice Mr. Patrick, who
was to leave the Brazil station in the first vessel for
England.
Mr. Watson, Second-Lieutenant of the Centaur, joined
her prior to the 3d ult. from England.
The Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, arrived at Rio from
England prior to the 16th ult., and was to sail on the
18th for the Cape of Good Hope and India.
The Driver, 6, eteam-sloop, Commander Johnson,
arrived at Rio on the 14th ult. from the Pacific, and was
to sail for England on the 18th.
The Bonetta, 3, Lieutenant Wake, and iron steam-
tender Harpy, put to sea from Rio on the 12th and 14th
ult., to cruise for the benefit of their health, the yellow
fever having broken out on board.
The Furious screw steam-sloop was taken into the
steam basin yesterday.
The Bulldog steam-sloop is having her boilers taken
out and undergoing an examination and repair.
Messrs. Fox and Henderson are erecting a new
smithy in this dockyard, which is progressing very
rapidly, and will be a very handsome looking building
when finished. Its dimensions will be about 210 feet
square by 60 feet high, having a chimney at each corner
100 feet high. _

The Champion Handicap, one mile—lris or Croupier;
Penang, Oxtoro Blue, Prince Caradoc colt, Miss Lydia
sight of four black horses
filly, and one of-Stebbings's. Should Sir Charles Napier
be start( d, as the representative of Stebbings's stable,
there will be the unusual
in the race, who will probably finish in the four fore-
most places; the PRINCE CARADOC COLT or MISS LYDIA.

FILLY winging, with the whole field tolerably close up.
The latest betting this morning rules as follows:
Zetrand Stakes-2 to 1 agst The Cia6 en, 4to 1 agat any
other. Craven Stakes-6 to 4 agst Lord Derby's
couple, 5 to 2 agat Lady Agnes, 4 to 1 apt Radulphus,
Clincher not mentioned.. Flying Dutchman's Handi-
cap-5 to 2 agat Voltigeur, sto 1 eggs Haricot, 6to 1
each sgst Achyrantbes and Sally Wartoot colt. Cham-
pion Hundicap--4 to 1 on the field. Eglinton Stakes
—2 to .1 agst Longbow. York Spring Cup--3 to 1 agat
Iris. Derby Trial Plate-2 to lon the field.

Letters from China inform us of a disastrous accident
to the Sphynx steam-sloop, Commander Shadsvcll, and
the Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer
On the 21st of January these vessels were prodeedinc;
into the Bay of Sheipoo in search of pirates (of whose
doings and whereabouts they had received official
notice), the Contest in tow of the Sphynx, when tne
latter struck on a rock not laid down in the charts, The
shock was terrific, carrying away entirely her false keel
and forefoot, while the Contest ran into her with such
force and violence as to knock her off or over the rock,
making at the same time a clean sweep of all the after
upper works, and carrying away the mizenmast, while
she lost her own jibboom, figurehead and cutwater, and
sprung her bowsprit and foremast. In consequence of
this misfortune the Sphynx had to go to Whampoa to
be docked. We regret also to add that the smallpox
had broken out on board her, and that several men and
(,fficers, including both lieutenants, are laid up with it,
and the gunroom steward had died from it.
The Lily, 18, Commander Sanderson, has hal a
" brush" with a piratical junk, which she sent to the
bottom with upwards of 80 people on board; her own
casualties in the engagement were two men wounded.
The Cleopatra, 26, Captain Massie, was expected at
Ilong-Kong from the Straits, at the last advic,,s, and he
would remain senior officer during the summer.
Lieutenant Pasco, of the Royalist, has been invalided
home.

The Hastings, 72, Rear-Admiral Austin, arrived at
Singapore from Hong-Kong, en route to Rangoon, on the
27th of February, and the Salamander steam-sloop,
Commander Ellman, on the 24th of February. Both
were at Singapore on the sth ult.
The Penelope steam-frigate, Commodore Bruce, Com-
mander-in-Chief on tho Coast of Africa, was at St. Vin-

cent, Cape de Verds, on the 23d ult., and sailed fur the
coast that day.
The Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander Phillips,
left Madeira on the sth instant, fur the coast of Africq.

The Retribution, Captain Warden, having curled, left
this harbour on Saturday morning and proceeded down
Channel to either relieve the wind-bound ships at the
chops of the Channel, or otherwise, in case or meeting
with the Queen, with Admiral Sir W. Parker on board,
to assist and tow her into Spithead.

. -
The Simoom, iron troop-steamer, Captain Kingcome,
embarked late on Friday evening 1 officer and 82 men of
the 20th Regiment, 2 officers and 84 men of the 23d
Regiment, and 2 officers and 42 men of tho 54th Regi-
ment. She sailed for Queenstown this day (Sunday) at
noon, where she is to receive 2 officers and 52 men of
the 66th, and 1 officer and 92 men of the 71st Regiment,
with which detachments she will procted direct to Que-
bec, from whence she will bring home a regiment.
Most of the Aretbusa's seamen having returned from
a fortnight's leave, that ship has commenced fitting. She
got up her topmasts on Friday, and yesterday (Satur-
day) bent sails.
The Furious, steam-sloop, was removed from the steam
basin to the old basin on Friday, and is to be further
advanced.

The Leopard, steam-frigate, has been brought into
dock.

TThhee FWitrheeQheaseteenr,bssos, bceeentauinndtecktekd.
from the basin to alongsidep the Pitch-, house
h:jetty.
has been removed
, 92, the Rodney, 92,theS The Prince Regent, nperb,
80, and the Hogue, 60, remain at Spithead. The Blen-
heim, Winchester, Victory, Neptune, Excellent, Ale-
thuss, and steamers Sampson, Sprighily, and Echo in
harbour. The Royal yaches Victoria and Albert, and
the Fairy, and her tendel the Ma are in dock.
The wind shifted last night to S. W., and there was at
daylight a smart shower of rain, but the wind has now
got to the north with cold wr-other.
DEVONPORT, SATURDAY Nionr.—Orders haveiou been
received at Devonper!, countermanding tbote prevsly
given, for the preparation of the Dauntless steam-ship,
Caplain Halstead, for the conveyance of Sir Charies
Huth= and suite to the 43rbzils. Unfortunately, this
order was not received until the whole of the fitment
were completed, the men of the dockyard having been
°
the
particular, the change in the
engaged in the work for the previous fortnight, and
officers and crew of the ship had laid in the necessary
absence, and
stock and equipments for foreign service. Upon them,-
_proceeded
and the captain in
destina-
tion of the ship is telt to be a great hardship, and
created much dissatisfaction. Captain utdste(ihas
deratand, has obtained leave of , we un-
mandt,r Barnard,
from Devonport to London to lay the facts
fitted nnounced, and the
Admiralty. According to the recea
arrangements before the
the Board, the Vixen "eatn-sloop,Com of
iTse es)eirorhosose proceed
beent the
orderedß razi I s , as first a
to be
Sir Charles Hotham accordingly. T for the reception of
Devonport on Friday last, froth 3713 be Vixen arrived at
DEVuNPORT SAILORS' II Portsmouth.
late Sir John St. Aubyn, B 03IE.—The trustees of the
piece of ground, near oneart., have liberally given a
of the borough, for of the principal landing-places
which it is pro the erection
posed shall afford of this building,
seamen. rd accommodation for 200

The Britomart,
8, Commander Heseltino, fitting at
this port for the coast of Africa, will not be' ready tor
sea until the 26th instant, and not the 29th, as stated by
the Plymt2nth correspondent of the Times.
Captain George Hay, R.N., on the retiredlist of 1846,
died at Tavistock, Devon, on the 12th inst.
The wind, which has so long prevailed from the
E.S.E., on Saturday veered to the southward and west-
ward for a few hours, during which upwards of 100 sail
of merchant vessels left Plymouth Sound for the eastern
ports.

SHEERNESS, APRIL 18.—Her Majesty's screw steam-
frigate Horatio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie,
took in her.powder on Thursday, and her crew received
three months' wages in advance. She was inspected the
following morning by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stop-
ford, flag-captain to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline
Percy, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, who was ac-
companied by: the flag-lieutenant, the lon. 0. W. M.
Lambart, and will sail most probably this day on a trial
cruise to the Land's End. The Horatio was built at

Bursledon in 1607, on the lines the Lively; she is of
1,000 tons burden, and has en auxiliary screw propeller
of 350-horse poower, fitted on a plan suggested by the
late Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel sto.am-vessel Lizard, Mr.
Brockman, master-commanding, conveyed Captain the
Hon. Montagu Stopford and other officers to the Ho-
ratio on Friday forenoon. She at the same time towed
the boats belonging to that ship. The Lizard remained
ed
alongside during the inspection, and afterwards return
with the flag-captain who mastered the cificers and

crows of the ships in harbour.
Her Majesty's screw steam-sloop Desperate, 8, h
the
avivg
completed coaling, came to moorings is
cif
dockyard, and adjusted her corapasses. lc is stated she
Basilisk, 6,
will prom ed to Chi.tham for the pa
°l' towing the
Herald, Captain H. Denham, as for as the Channel.
Her Majosty's paddle-wheel stesul-a°°P
Mr. G. 11. Gardiner, commander pro tern., will shortly
proceed toWootwich, to assibt in towing the vessr:ls
dos.
ttlied for-the A„0, regibllS, under the command of Sir
E.-Baleher, as far as the ice.
,16tieotYli Pao! 6em-rig4tl Amphiof 34

chief engineer Mr. G. Elcock, will be ready to leave the
(
dry dock in a few days. She was launched at Woolwich
in 1846, having been built on the lines of the Castor, but
with White's " bow," and has been subsequently fitted
with an auxiliary screw-propeller of 300-horse power.
She sails fairly, but when last in commission only steamed
at the rate of five and a half miles an hour. She mounts
on her upper deck the 10. inch 84-pounders, each weigh-
ing 84 cwt., and 12 32-pounders, &x feet long, and
weighing 25 cwt. each. On her main deck she has 14
32 pounders, nine feat long, and of the weight, each, of
50 cwt., and six 8-inch 56-pounders, nine feet long,
weighing 55 cwt. each.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr.
W. S. &atelier, master commanding, left port yester-
day forenoon for Chatham, and returned in the evening
to;her moorings in the harbour.
The Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H.,
captain of her Majesty's steam-yacht Victoria and Al-
bert, arrived here on Friday on a private visit.
Her Majesty's screw steam-vessel Conflict, 8, Com-
mander Jenner, may be daily expected with General
Rosas and family from Buenos Ayrer. Commander
Skipwith, who was appointed to succeed Captain Drake
in command of the Conflict, has arrived in England, be
having missed his ship in conAquetce of her having
boen ordered off the station to convey to England the
ex-Dictator of Buenos Ayres.
Drake, the sergeant of marines who was saved from
the wreck of the Birk( nhe acl, and who assisted Cornet
Rolf to a raft, had, we hear, some time since been
brought under the favourable notice of the Admiralty
for his gallant conduct on the coast of Africa while on
board a prize slaver, on which occasion he was severely
wounded.

We are informed that another expedition is about to
be dispatched to Melville bland, with the view either of
meeting or anticipating the arrival there of Captain
M'Clure, and of these iu the Investigator from Behring's
Straits. Two ships, it is stated, will be got ready for
this service, the commands of which will, on the nomina-
tion of Sir E. Blcher, be conferred on Commander In-
glefield and Mr. Allen, master.
The smallpox has broken cut on board her Majesty's
steam-frigate Dragon. The clerk has been attacked by
it, and sent to the naval hospital at Lisbon.
Cnatham Garrison.—Detachments, consisting of up-
wards of 2,000 men, from the several depots of regi-
ments stationed in India, are under orders for embarka-
tion to join the head-quarters of their respective corps.
Woo'Arica', APRIL 17.—The Black Engle steam-
vessel, Master Commander John Petley, arrived at
Woolwich on Fri,lay evening from attending on the
Lords of the Admiralty at Portam ‘uth.
The Lightning steam-vessel,
Master Commander ll. Allen, returned to Woolwich on Friday forenoon, from
attending on Lieutenant-General Lord • Hardinge,
C.C.8., on a visit to the fortifications at Portsmouth
and others in that quarter.
SUNDAY EVENING.—The Queen's barge has been
placed under orders to be kept itt readiness, and the
Monkey is to have her steam up at Woolwich to-
morrow morning, to tow the barge to Greenhithe in
the event of her services being required to convey
any royal party on board the vessels of the Arctic
expedition.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
WOOLNTICII, APRIL 17.—The North Star, Commander
Pulley, left Woolwich this morning, towed by the Adder
steam-vessel, and arrived at Greenhithe about two
o'clock P.M., where the whole of the vessels of the Arctic
expedition are stationed to have their compasses ad-
ju,ted by Captain Johnson. The Assistance, Captain
Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., has now all her stores on
board and stowed away, with the exception of a number
of boxes which had been delivered during the morning,
each box containing four cylinders, and each cylinder
201bs. of powder, for blowing up the ice when required
to force a passage, through Wellington Channel, to the
open water seen in Victoria Channel by parties em-
ployed in the recent expedition, after the three graves
had been discovered on Bach), island. These cases have
been supplied by the Ordnance department from the Royal
Arsenal, where they were made for the special purpose,
and will be discharged by means of galvanic batteries
supplied to the expedition for service in tue Arctic regions.
The Ordnance department have also supplied 300 whale
rockets, weighing one and a-halt pounds each, and two
superior-made rocket tubes for firing them by means of
percussion locks and percussion-quill tubes. One of
Greener's harpoon guts, with percussion locks, has
been mounted on the gunwale of the Assistance, and
turns in any direction, being fitted with a swivel near
the stern of the vessel. A look-out was kept by Com-
mander Richards, on board the Assistance, from ten
o clock, A. at , until the snivel of the three o'clock P.M.
train of the North Kent Reilway, as it was expected
that a Neopolitan Prince, brother of the King of
Naples, would visit the vessels during the day; and
Lieutenant Gore, flag-lieutenant to Commodore Henry
Eden, was in attendance at Greenhithe-pier, in the
barge of the Fisgard, with ten rowers, to row him on
board the vessels of the Arctic squadron; but as he did
not arrive, Sir E. Belcher left for town by the half-past
three o'clock up train, and Lieutenant Gore, with the
barge, was towed back to Woolwich. There was also an
impression in town that his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort and his Serene Highness Prince Leopold of
Saxe Cobeurg would visit the ships and steamers of Sir
E award Belclaer's expedition previous to their departure
fur the Arctic regions. The gallant officers now on the
eve of their departure have but one wish ungratified,
and that is that her Majesty the Queen may be graci-
ously pleased to pey a short visit to the vessels of the
expedition previous to their departure from Greenhithe.
By the desito of the naval authorities, Mr. Watkins,
manager of Mr. Beard's photographic establishment, sent
one of the operators to Greenhithe to-day for the pur-
pose of taking portraits of the officers of Captain Sir
Edward Belchsi's expeclaion, and the following had
their portaits taken on the deck of the Assistance, under
highly favourable circumstances, by the photographic
process, the sun shining with unclouded brilliancy, and
all the officers being in their uniforms, and evidently in
excellent spirits:—Captain Sir Edward Belcher, e.g.,
commander of the Arctic expedition ; Commander
George H. Richards, Lieutenant Walter W. May, Lieu-
tenant John P. Cheyne, Master John F. Loney, Surgeon
David Lyall, M.D,, Clerk in Charge James Lewis, and
Midshipmen Pym and Grover. The officers of the Re-
solute, the North Star, the Intrepid, and the Pioneer are
also all to ba taken by the photographic process previous
to their departure.
The subject of the two ships said to have been seen on
an iceberg by the captain of the crew of the Renovation
was alluded to on board tha Assistance to-day, and Sir
Edward Belcher expressed his belief that two ships had
been seen, not on but beyond the iceberg, and that they
were not the Erebus ana Terror, and that no reliance
could be placed on the pos_ition or_ correctness of the
havetic regions,taken
his
n pursuedat
was wht
a a
objects seen over a field of ice. He instanced a case
were what
which occurred to Captain Sir Edward Parry, who, with
ea
ve;
y o shootingneo party at rhte party
ainrtythweouAldrc
herd of moos
whole deer,dsy,s untilex,r
exertion,
Camsana f
eunpn
dt o
they them,
after
nearly a
the Admiroety are expected to proceed
flock of ptarmigan.
snt on Monday to Greenhithe,
morning and the
vessels thehsiet LNtl:oerfdtvessels of the Arctic
expedition,
vessels ern to be psicl
Get enhithe on Wedueiday
advance on T
onutheciiBrY andenterprising leave
voyage.

THE GREAT NATIONAL EXIIIBITIoN AT CORK.—
During the past week several influential meetings have been
held of the Dublin committee at their rooms, Stephen's-green,
to Dubin,ti and the
r nepor,ttsiorneaaiduant each assembly with reference
important
ert
gratifying nature. The building will
werelnoccupa• a it
wards of five acres in extent, the whole of w ohicfslitehweoiflmluoPbset
surrounded by a wall twenty feet high. The Corn Exchange
will be, as it were, the basis of the building, owing to the
magnificent and capacious halls and galleries it contains, and
in addition to this there will be other large and ornamental
gal eries abutting from the main edifice. The general ap-
pearance of the buildings wilt consequently be ornamental as
well as substantial, and esp,cially as the whole is to be en-
circled. The immense number of applications almost
hourly being made from every part of Leland for space to
exhibit proves at once how warmly the undertaking is es •
poused on all sides. The latest donations are—Mr. Peto,
M. P., for 25/. ; Mr. Brassey for 2 1.; Mr. Herbert Ingram,
proprietor of the Illustrated London News, for 101.; Mr.
Roney for Si., &c. &c. Sir Joseph Paxton has also written
to the honorary secretary a letter in which he mentions the
warm interest he takes in the success of the Cork Exhibi-
tion. It will be confined exclusively to Irish productions.
The new beet-root sugar manufacture and the" sewed mus-
lins" will form prominent objects of interest, as they pro-
mise to be highly important elements of future employment
in Ireland. Blaclise tias promised to paint an original pic-
ture for the Exhibition. lklaDo wall will exhibit his "Eve"
that attracted such admiration at the Crystal Palace last
year, and also an original group; Foley, twe original groups.
Contributions in art are also expected from Elmore, Moore,
J. E. Jones, Richard Doyle, and numerous other distin-
guished Irishmen resident in England.
DEATH OF DR. MIISORAVIL—Anthony Musgrave,
Esq., M.D., for many years Colonial Treasurer of Antigua,
West Indies, and a member of the House of Assembly, sud-
denly died in that islaad on the 24th of February, of disease
of the heart, lamented, as he was esteemed, by all who
knew him, both on account of his private worth, his pro-
fessional ability, and his public services. As a student, be
distinguished himself in Edinburgh, where be graeluaotV
1814, after havieg been one of the yearly President
,rwthh:
Royal Medical Society: Those, his contempe
reaiem"ebser the
had the pleasure of knowing him there,
will red of that
argumentative power he displayed in the
-4 to the West
re
eloquence. He contributed after his.
society, and his happy facility in speakinf,
reason to believe'
Indies a valuable account of an idenalvez
in the
prevailed at St. John's, in 1816, which, , soce publishedl tof London.'
enronwlitftelevershwohrtico:
ThTeradnissecatsie"wshoifchthperOlveeddicto.4ll,:ierlYelism the time that he
sed considerably in number
was of long duration, dating a
was a student.
our practical aeronauts have
within the last ferr_v
is y
BALLooNING.—
ears
-,b ear the veteian Green will retire
wherehis e
if not in ability. 1 whilst an able successor in
tretrhpreisleassthfiavvee
the person
and rest on his laurel`'l is
1 likely to s •
coxwe upersede him as the
a Mr. IlenrVut
-, a the day. Mr. Coxwell f
leading aexo
~,,,e ncended on the continent
ng
Years --- st-cularly in Germany. His
• ,Aped, 1-*! i- last ascent was at
LiePs`c' daringi ras Hun •
eiteeded as !t gar), and he has ascended probably
• quenfly than
dflorerie any other aeronaut in
royalty, as also front various cities during the time of their
being n a state of siege. Mr. Coxwell will shortly publish
a diary of his travels
~by land
and air, and from the circum-
stance of his beinp. ii
.. a Aterary as well as ;scientific man, his
adventures will doubt! ' - • interesting.s
Vs prove highly
BRIGHTON, r 3'
IC I.l,viAg.—The high estimation in
which this stuck has leng,becu held carried it up on Satur-
d_ay last to par. Chi. Moutlay the price rose to lot; on
Tuesday, to 10.4; on,Wednendav, 1014; while on Thursday
and yesterday the quotetione were 102 to 104. Even is
presence of the very general rise that has taken place, it de-
serves to be particularly 'noticed that the closing of the s
capital account on one hand, and clear and able management
on the other, have ra ide this the first of our many once pre.
niium lines, which agsheinclicale ail eecupency -ef that 0,1
i ttAWYON4i49Dew,liailW(l/ ;Imes!

•
FRANCE.
The Minister of Police has just addressed a cir-
cular to the prefects, explaining- the sort of restric-
tions ei) which ere to be eubjected persons under
surveillance, or who are. interne—that is to say, i
obliged to reside in a particular place. The object
of both measures is to prevent communications with ;
others suspected of being inclined to conspiracy,
and to break off relationship with old associates.
Persons under surveillance and interne must present
themselves every fifteen days to the proper authority,
or incur certain penalties set down in the decree of
the sth March last. Should any such persons re-
quire to visit same other district, or to make change
of residence, they can only do so by express autho-
rity of the prefect. Particular objections are made
to giving passports for Paris, Lyons, and the depart-
ments of Allier, Basses Alpes, rArdeche, Cher,
rllerault, and re, la Nievre, and the STar. The
Minister of Police reserves to himself the more serious
right of allowing persons condemned to reside in a
particular place to change into some part of another
department.
The Debuts states that when the agents of the Go-
uernment wcat to take posge3sion of Neuilly and '
Monceau' they found the gates closed, and after have
ing three times demanded that they should he opened,
and each time received a refusal, they broke them
open. Immediately after this forcible entry, a com-
plaint w:is addressed, in the name of the heirs of
Louis Philippe, to the President of the Civil Tribunal,
who fixed the 16 hto hear the parties. Tne counsel
for the Orleans family are ea. Paillet and M.
Bernier.
The Prince President of the Republic, with the
view of extending' commerce in Algeria, has, on the
report of the Minister of War, decreed that a fair
Shall be held annually in Algiers from the 20th to
the 30th September Fairs held in 1850 and 1851
have, it is said in the report, had the effect of
strengthening the commercial and political relations
between the French and the native populations.

THE ARYIY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
STAFF APPOINTMENT VACANT.—The appointment
of Inspecting Field Officer of the York Recruiting
District hes again become vacant; Lieutenant-Colonel
Davis, of the 9th Regiment, having been obliged to
decline accepting it, in consequence of his having
made arrangements to retire from the service by the
sale of his commission.
PORSMOOTH GAREISON.—The regiments in gar-
rison are busily engaged training their quota of men
to the use of the Minie rifle. The troops composing
the garrison of Portsmouth amount to 4 600 men.
The Ordnance Board have purchased the premises at
the top of High-street, including the Theatre, which
are to be pulled down, and the ground added to Cam-
bridge-barracks. The amateurs of the garrison are
about to get up a series of theatricals, in aid of the
fund for the relief of the widows and children of the
men•lost in the Birkenhead.
CHATHAM GA anvoN.—DAachtrients, consisting of
upwards of 2,000 men from the several depots of
regiments stationed in India, are under orders for
embarkation, to join the bead-quarters of their
respective corps.
DRAFTS FO& INDIA.—The several drafts for the.
following regimen's will-emberk in June for B-mgal,
viz. :—The 10th, 22nd, 24th, 32nd, 53rd, 60. h, and
96th Regiments. No vessels have yet been taken up
for this service.
Captain Grey, 85th Light Infantry, Aide-de-
Camp to Lieutenant General Sir John Grey, late
Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, has returned to
England.
Lieutenant-Colonel Huey, 68th Light Infantry, is
about to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission.
A Court of Inquiry is about to assemble to inves-
tigate some transactions that have taken place be-
tween Mijor Shaw and Captain Poitier, of the 31
West India Regiment.
Colonel Bazilgette, Deputy Quartermaster-General
to the Forces in Nova Scatia, has assumed the com-
mand of the troops stationed in that colony, in con-
sequence of the demise of Sir John Harvey, the late
Lieutenant -Governor.
The ith Fusiliers have been ordered to take their
grenades off their collars, and the 85th to replace
the beads on their jackets with buttons.
EXPEDITION TO MELVILLE ISLAND.—We have
reason to believe that it is in contemplation to dis-
patch another expedition to Melville Island, with the
view of anticipating the arrival, or of meeting there,
Captain M'Cure, and the Investigator's party, from
Behring's Straits. Tnie expedition, it is said, will
consist of two ships, the commanders of which have
been ncminated by Sir E. B,lcher. Commander
Inglefield and Mr. Allen, master, it is reported, will
be the officers selected for th=.a commands.

Her Majesty's screw vessel Conflict, Commander
Jenner, may be-daily expected with General Ro3as
and family, from Buenos Ayres,
Commander Skipwith, who was appointed to suc-
ceed Commander Drike, in com►nand of her Mjes-
ty's ship Conflict, has arrived in England by the Bra-
zilian packet, he having missed his ship, in conse-
quence of her having been ordered off the station by
Rear-Admiral Henderson, in order to bring to Eng-
land Rotlas, the ex-Dictator of Buenos Ayres.

HER MAJESTY'S STEAM FRIGATE DRAGON.—We
regret to hear that small-pox has broken out on board
this vessel, and that hsr clerk has been attacked, and
sent to the naval hospital at Lisbon.

Her Illjes'y's steam-vessel Harpy has been con-
demned, by survey held on her by orders of Rear-
Admiral Henderson, as being unsafe.
A JOB FOR THE GENTLEMEN OF THE LONG ROBE.
—'We bear that a certain captain in the Royal Navy,
who was engaged in the Chinese war, has commenced
legal proceedings against a brother officer, for asper-
sions cast out against his character in connexion wi'h
an engagement against the enemy. We wish our
worthy friend well through his difficulties.

'STATISTICS OF RAILROADS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
Mr. J. C. G. Kennedy, of the Ce,nsus-offic9, Wash-
ington, gives the following interesting Etatistiza Qf rail-
reeds in the Vaited States:— _
The number of miles of railroad in operation in the
United States, January 1, 1852, was, as nearly as can be
ascertained, 10;814`. At the same, time there was in
course of construe-Lien an extent of railroad emounlite.
according to the most reitaole estimates, to 10,894
..miles._
~y far the greater portion of the lines cyal-
ul_eneol but now incomplete, wig be finished within the
ensuing
into
operation since
The length of railroad brought
since January 1, 1848, is 5.224 miles.
Within the last year 2,153 miles have been finished.
Nearly all the lines in pro.ress have been commenced
since 1848.
miles, additional LSO Btl7o,ed that from 1,000 to 1,500
grass, will be put under 10,898 now known to be in pro-
There never euzinatiettdagzateter activity in the making of
contrac, during 1852,
railroads in the States than at the present time.
Many of the lines Projected taankdenturtnheo
plans for the construction of canalsuab ikPelaroceadosf.
Accordingly these works of
Prosecuted with the same orderP tc
improvemeet are not
and energy,
although much activity exists in as
plank roads. The labour inici the construction of
would require are absorbed in the capital which they
colossal sehernee of railroad budding.n Meraus and almost
extent of railroad opened for traveland Since 1843 the
has nearly doubled, and there is reason transportationbt'
ieve that
the increase in th- let gth of road brought •
into use will
not be less rapid during the next period
of four
years.
By the year 1860 we. may expect that the territory
of
the United States will be traversed by at least 3
0,000
miles of railroad. .
form an estimate f the It is very difficult to _ _ .. 0 average
mile of building rattroads in the 'united
expense per
no average can be assumed
States. In fact.as applica-
ble to the whole country. The cost of the roads in New
England is about 45,000 dolls. per mile; in New yolk,
Pennsylvania, and Maryland, about 40,000 dolls. But
in the interior of these States the surface of the country
is broken, rendering the cost of gradi6g very heavy;
and nearer the sea, wide and deep streams interrupt the
lines of travel, and mako the expense of bridging a seri-
ous item.
In New England and the more densely inhabited
parts of all the old States upon the Atlantic. as in all
European countries, the extinguishment of private
titles to the real estate required for railroads
frequently forms a large part of the expenses
included in the item of construction. In the
southern States and the valley of the Mississippi
20,000 dolls. per mile is considered a safe estimate.
There, in most cases, all the lands necessary for the
purposes of the companies are given to them in consi-
deration of the additional advantages which private pro-
prietors expect from the location of the roads in the
vicinity of their estates.
In many of the western States the cost of grading a
long line of road does not exceed 1,000 dells. per mile,
the cost of timber amounting to no more than the ex-
pense of clearing it from the track. For these reasons
the expense of building railroads in the southern and
• western States is now much less than it will be when the
country beanies as densely settled as the older States
°Abe Union.
. ' The Central Re:hoed of Illinois is an enterprise
*Mob furnishes gm- .. a remarkable example of the energy
nobiliVrt of improvement in the new States. LH-
State trisadmitted into the confederation RS a
square inuelalS, with 30,000 in-h
abitaWs. It has 55,405
to the aft °' territory, and a population, according
Railroad is t, tite_.o 1850, of 951,470. The Central
st the eonfiank„7Lrore its south-western extremity,
the north line or th:Tre-lasisaippi and Ohio Rivers, to
The total length et thistei with two diverging branches.
and branches, is to be F,5714, itictodiag the main stem
at 20,000 dollars per enue. tit. The cost is estimated
entire work, without etraf 3'60 ROO dollars for the
is the longest continuous ma ,:,"4 operating it. This
' k 'llO the United States of '''''renew '
in conterepla-
4--
- ' ' seeedx completion. n- ~44„is
/.:•, 5 ' • • - tett", any Prebabi-
'44.-S - "Witelr facilities for executing
Plage —inzillenced with
k :.- ; dig titers Tkolvasonable do{
u sht:- 'la projectors
t "\---..,‘ .e. ' 110thin.a few yOrs. ~ *lithe finished
,t-rki:;_,..,„,',,_s.4lrlr4s.aaWjiitney proposes to_ stsutruo
• c., -__:.'"ln'M---484. ~ r 4040, or some other ram."' ladlsead
\\,.. ? )riaSissippi- erlier, to the Pacific ocea--; aa 'the
k .7: '...- .Ltuiting eiLhiiritit San Francisco, in California,tThisi-
-411" irle-Mcktii.iif the CAumbis river, in -0 -- or at
Oregon, ile,
-S" •

solicits the patronage of the national Government for
this prodigious work, and petitions for the grant of a
tract of land equal in extent to 60 roileit in width by
2 000 miles in teegth. his plans were first laid before
Congress in 1842, and he his since been continually oc-
cupied in recommending them to the favourable atten-
tion of the Goverment and the people with great
ability and zeal, but with what success remains yet to
be seen. Without expressing any view with reference
thereto, it may be said that his project is generally oen-
aidered impracticable, from the tact that of the 2,000
miles of territory which his route across the country
must traverse, a large portion consists of desert or of
sterile and very elevated mountain district,,, in which
caabe found no materials of construction, and which
would afford no business for the support of the road,
were the difficultios of building it overcome. Many in-
telligent men, however, are convinced of its practica-
bility and expediency.
The railroad system of the United States may be con-
sidered to have commenced in 1830. The first one put
in operation was a short road built for the transporta-
tion of ice from u small hake to the sea in the State of
Illawsechueetts. The length of this work was four miles.
it was finished in IS3O. In the same year the Stste of
South Carotins caused to 1r) commenced a railroad from
Charleston, its principal part, to Augusta, in Georgia.
The distance is 135 miles. Tee work was firtieh.tri in 1833,
at the very small cos; of 1,336,615 dolls., which sum in-
cluded, also, the expense of furnishing the road with
engines and passengers' and freight cars, and all neces-
sary equipments. This was the first railroad of any
considerable length constructed in the United States,
and it is believed to have been the cheapest 'and one of
the most successful.

The longest continuous line of railroad in the world,
and that in the construction of which the greatest
natural obstacles have been overcome, is that which ex-
tends from the Hudson River through the souther('
counties of New York to Lake Erie. Its length is 469
miles, and it has branches of an aggregate additional
length of 68 miles. Nearly its whole course is through
a region of mountains. The bridges by which it is car-
ried over the Delaware and Susquehanna rivora and other
streams, and the viaducts upon which it crosses the valleys
that intercept its route, aro among the noblest monuments
of power and skill to be found in our country._ Most of
these works are of heavy masonry, but one of them is a
wooden bridge, 184 feet in height, and having but
one arch, the span of which is 275 feet. One of the
viaducts is 1,200 feet long and 110 feet high.
The aggregate cost of this important work was
23,580,000 d ylls., and the expense of construction was
43,333 dolls. per mile. The road was originally sug-
gested in 1829. A comp any was organized in 1832.
Surveys. were made in the same year, and operations
were begun by granting a part of the route in 1834. It
was finished in May, 1851, and opened with great cere-
mony for travel and transportation in that month. The
State advanced 6,000,000 dolls. towards the work, and
afterwards released the company from the obligation to
pay the loan. It will thus be seen that the execution of
this great improvement was pursued through nineteen
years, and it was not accomplished without calling into
requisition both the resources of the State and the means
of her eitizsms.

Ia the infancy of the American railroad system, and
for ten years thereafter, it was the rule to extend to
every important enterprise of that character the assist-
ance of the State in which it was to be built.

Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Mississippi, and
some other States adopted extensive systems of improve-
ments, consisting of railroads and canals, which they
pursued until their credit failed—an event which hap-
pened in- most cases before any of the works had been
compl t,-d and brought into profitable use. But the
general praetics was to charter companies, each of
which wits charged with the execution of some particu-
lar work, and to aid them by loans of State st ,cks. Al-
though this practice has tallen into so much distnvour in
some of the States, that the citizens have incorporated in
their constitutions articles prohibiting advances by
their Legislarures for such purposes, it is yet continuei
by others, an Virginia, Tennessee, and other States are
HOW prosecuting expensive works, considered essential
to their prosperity, by means of advances from their
respective treav Elf ies.

In the year 1850 Gingress passed an Act, after a very
protracted discussion, granting to the State of Illinois
about 2,700 000 acres of public lands to aid in the con-
struction of the Central 'road, to which allu,ion has
been before made. This magnificent d)nation is reck-
oned by the company to which Illinois has confided the
building of the road to be worth 18,000,000 dolls. This
was the first instance in which the aid of the national
Government had been extended to .a railroad project.

But since the above grant innumerable ap.pl;cations
have been made from alt the new States for cessions of
land for railroad purposes. Whether such further aid
shall be extended is now a much agitated (poison in
American politico. Bills are pending in Congress pro-
po9ing to cede for these purposes about 20,000,000 acres.
Nearly parallel to the Atlantic coast of the United
States, from Maine to Alabama, runs the range of moun-
tains known as the Allegheny or Apalachian chain.
Thaeestern bases of these mountains are not distant
from the seaboard more than a hundred miles, and they
form a very formidable obstacle to the construction of
railroads between the great eastern cities and the inte-
rior. In nearly all the great enterprises which have
been undertaken with the view to effect such connexion,
great additional expenme has been incurred to overcome
or penetrate this mountain barrier. In the plan first
altered tor the general it, stem of State improvements
in Pennsylvania, it was proposed to effect the
eres3ing of the Ageghasies by means of in-
clined planes with powerful stationary engines at
their summit. These planes were built, and
have been used for several years, until experience
proved that their operation was too slow and too expen-
sive to maintain a successful competition with other
methods of conveyance, and other improvements have
since been finished, designed to supersede them. The
railroad !rose Baltimore to Ohio river is carried over a
passage in these mountains where the elevation is up-
wards of 3,000 feet, and a part of that height is over-
come by tunnels, varying in length from 1 16th to
4-s:hs of a mile. The road from New York to Albany,
along the banks of the Hudson, has three tunnels. The
greatest work of this kind yet proposed in the United
States is the tunnel through the Hossack mountain,
which, if executed, will be four miles in length and
1,590 feet below the summit of the ascent. The cost is
estimated at 2,000,000 dolls. On the road from New
Yobs to Lake Erie tunnels have been avoided by very
expensive works, which overcome ascents of 1,400 feet.
No authentic statement has ever yet been given of
the capital invested in the railroads of the United Spates,
but we have the means of forming an estimate upon
which much reliance may be placed. The railroads in
operation at the beginning of the present year may be
assumed to have cost 348,000,000 dollars. The amount
invested in the lines under construction it is impossible
to estimate with even an approximation to correctness.
Their cost, when completed, will be considsrahli less
than that of an eq'ial length of road now in operation,
for the reason that the greater number of new or un-
finished lines are in the west or south, where, as has
been shown, the c )st of construction is far below what it
is in the northern and eastern States.

The management of the American railroads is entirely
distinct from she administration of Government. Their
concerns are maa.ged by cerporations, which consist of
a president, secretary, sad directors. Each of the di-
rectors must own a certain amount of stock. They are
chosen by the body of stockholders, who have votes in
proportion to the number of shares they hold. The di-
rectors choose one of their b, dy president, and appoint
the secretary. The president and secretary have gene-
rally liberal salaries, but the cervices of the directors are
gratuitous.
The rate of. speed on our railroads is not so great as
on those of England. The ordinary velocity of a pas-
senger train is 20 miles an hour, but on some routes it is
as high as 23 and 30 miles. Express trains, on such oc•
casions as the conveyance of the President's Message,
frequently maintain for long dist inces as high a speed as
45 miles Ztln hour; and on one road—that between New
York and Ai bany-40 miles per hour is the regular rate
for all passenger trains.
The fares or rates of passage are not uniform. In
New &gland the average price per mile for the con
veyanee of passengers is under two cents; from New
Yi.rk to Bolton it is two and four-tenths; from New
York to Philadeiphia, three and four tenths; from Phi-
ladelphia to Baltimore, three and one-tenth. From
New York to Cincinnati the distance is'Bs7 miles by the
northern route, of which 143 miles are travelled by the
steam-boat. The price of passage for the whole distance
is 16 dolls. 50e, being slightly under two cents per mile.
The lines between Baltimore and Cincinnati, soon to be
opened, will be 650 miles in length, and the fare will be
1.3 dolle.—that is 2e. per mile.

COURT, JUDGE, AND
story,e ilti Art Nha
so tifing IRISH
i I:el_ w.
The
eek b?fore last, is,
REGISTRAR.
""itnug account of a curious scene in the Cork
Irish raciness as anything
'me. It is a private letterwhf
Irishnelhana"
hfoirtsaalff°l' t."
two Mo :loom a c voerri
Cork,
aahnlde
we have real
registrar in thewith great fidelity. The
in the English • and:nun corresponds to the marshal
(which is a vvell-paidigearilly the judges give the post
bun, who was Attorney-
YGoennee) tio some relative. Mona-
(poor fool) figured as a retail, is when Smith O'Brien
the Munster circuit this assiaos,l77- a
n thiecte, and came
Judge WI. Monahan and Ball are botillabt.ll7"ll ell of old
although I don't see much
connexion betty-''Aultoil, and
reli-
gious profession and their conduct on thbee— tneir
it is tbey both afford the Corko " e
.':4191a. , yet true
roans a bit of f 9
they come here. The following morceaux .n— au When
facts, although they may seem incredible in rrerttable
half of the nintcenth c9ntury. Some—lreland. e second
half
wag tried this last week for stealing oats. I *". raan
believe the
evidence was conclusivel
enough in fact, thoegh not *n
' law. Perhaps the identity of the property—at all tinaeli a
difficult proof in the article of grain or flour . • • • V/ a 5 de
Ective. Hovrevor this might be, so it was that, the jury
brought in a verdict of acquittal, " How say you,"
says the registrar, a moist and rather ro,lick-
ing brother of the Judge—" How say you,
gentlemen of the jury, is the prisoner guilty or not
guilty ?" "Not guilty," says the foreman. '- Not guilty ?"
says Judge Monahan—•" Oh Lord!" Then, addressing
the prisoner—" Prisoner, the jury have found you not
guilty. but you stole the oats nevertheless, and take care
you don't come before me egiiin." This same worthy
brother of the judge was quenching his thirst at a
shop (Mrs. Usher's) in Princo's-street, while the court
was sitting. and it is his duty to be present and adminis-
ter the oath. He was sent for, and ran to the court as
well as he was able. When he got into the court .he
made his way across the table, squeezed himself in
under the front of the bench, and putting his hand
on his pocket, he exclaimed, loud enough to be heard
by all the counsellors and attorneys, " Oh, d— it, I
have broke my pipe!" immediately after this a Quaker
came on the table to be examined as a witness; the regis.
trar banded the Quaker the swearing book. " I'm a
lqiend," says the Quaker. " You're no friend of mine," 1

DAS-LIGHT AND COSS COMPANIES.
Dividend A.mennt
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
.----
4. 8. 4. L. a. cl.
British ••••••.. • • •• .. • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 1034
Ditto Provincial.... 11. 81. 20 0 0 20. 0 0 1834
Brighton •.-..• • •• • , 51. 120 0 0 - 16
City of LondOn .. •• - 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 125 •
Continental Consolidat. - hOS. 175 0 0 31 5 0 -
Equite.l,lo , ...... •• .. 503. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Great Central .••• • • • 51. I 0 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Imperial ............. 31. & bonus. 50 0 0 60 0 0 66
Independent ... .... • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London ........ .. .... - 50 0 0 50 0 0 --
Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 7 10 0 -
Phoenix ............. 311. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 25%
Ratcliff ..... ._ .. 61. !100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General. .... .. 11. 5O 0 0 SO 0 0 1734
WestallastarCl3artered 51. per eent. 60 0 0 - 39%
Ditto, New •....... bL per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 734
LIST OP SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. • Price.
Annum. Share.
.--....---- -- -- -...........-
• Z 8. d. 4 s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Comp any 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 201%
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank I 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10
Clydesdale Bank-. -
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. percent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 180
I,.lastern Bank .• •• ...• 61. percent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9)%
F.dinb.k:Glasgow Bank 31. per cont. 5 0 0 5 0 0. 3%
Exchange Bnk of Scot - 100 0 0 33 0 0 4%'
National Bank 434 per cent. ,50 0 0 10 0 0 1534
Northof Scotlandßank 51.pereent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Royalßank ofScatlancl 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 132 N
Union Bank of Scotland 81. pox cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85%
Western Bank....
Alliance Fire and Life 134/.pr cent, 10 0, 0 10 0 0 2134
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Incur lOl.per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. 78
Colonial Life
Edinburgh LH"; Incur 6l. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 ! 2134
ling.& Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 1 3%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6l.per cent.. 10 0 0, 110 0 ,31• 150
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ;29•.6d
North British limn •• 41. per cent. , 200 0 0 20 0 0 ! 31
Scottish 'Union Inernee. 7341. pr cent! 20 0 0 1 0 0 ,364.0 d
Standard Life
united Dep.Assurance sl.per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 20s ed
MIS CIII.I.ANI301:713 .
Dividend ' Amount
Naule o f Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
...-.-.............--. ______. -.--- -,......
X. a. d. A. I. 4 • .
Asmara Tea •• •• -.. .• - 20 0 0 20 0 0 9
&nett ,Ir Mart •••• • • • • 21. ss. 50 0 0 - 26
61. per cent. - 35 0 0 21
11. 100 0 0 35 0 0 1634
1.
11.108. 10 0 0 10 0 0 23%
:
- 2 10 0 -
AustralianrigsAustralian
aHenx
iaTAlcfrg:
sdsnbte:furlie.t;slli.r... -
British American Land - - 38 10 0 -
Canada
...
..
..
.. .. . , 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 •••••
- 100
- 11134
cent.s3pi.pce.:3bs,2lloo 0 0 ,100 0 0 94
- 93%
5/ pr. cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 119
CotzNi,:DDettbn
.yu
liolits
Navigation
atR.t.5:....
veTeg Zealandorpu
orasrc.levetonie
Ea..
etnn:tr
Companyt..sBßß.i
Invest.n.li.nno dr.dd ge.yas a
percent.
.....
_
50 0 0 7lO 0 -
Geu.steamNavigation 10 p.ct. 'l5 *0 0 14 0 0 29 .
nucleate,' 11,y.. .. .... ... Stock. - 206
Ilungerford •
.......... 21.5 a.
liounth4Atennetraluesianan.d. •..... ' -rOO 0 47
London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 5
- _25 0 0 25 0 0 -
- 25 0 0 112 10 0 -.•• • • •
_nseell Institution •• • • - - !26 5 0 -
KaenvinualrBr.Orient.Stm. 61. p. e.te be. 50 0 0i 50 0 0 7934
000 , I
620060
000
000 12:04234
Royal Man At • • share. It ti4}4ll.l.3lPP.rritharcearneet...il2o:o
000
--' ►liea 0,200 0 1 --

I LIVRI!
PrIOL, SATuDAY, APRIL 17 —The screw
steam-ship City of Manchester, Leitch commander, which
andde r,
Boston:sail e.adtt
woimist
htt h:eil;tenrss eF:ay:lmaatya elevenlsafatnedr Aa:privru•
sailed from Philadelphia on the let inst., arrived in the
Mersey
days. The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Stone
to-day,nommen-
narodfs
o upwardsf7oor Haloiffaxl 5
passen-
gers. The United States,
maner, will bail from no
S f --'' Port
next d,
with the mails, am. c'r New York on Wednesday
mail steam-ship Pacific, Ne, com-
SUN FIBll.—TVio of this valuable species. of shark
were captured daring the Present week in the neighbourhood
of the Isles of Arran, by a Ciaddagh fisherman. The fish is
rarely found on the coast of Ireland before the month of BUY.
—Galway Mercury.
Earl Httrdwicke, the Postmaster-General, is at
prea9ut steyiDg at Ma Kati SYcley UV, Ilaut4
- -

LIFE IN CALIFORNIA,
(From thd San Francisco papers.)
A rid effatr ccurred in a hewn of ill-fame, on the
night of the 221 of February in this city. Ae alterca-
tion ensued between two men, one named McDonald and
another Carroll, which resulted in the stabbing of
Carroll, who died from the effects of his wound a few
days after. McDonald has been arrested, and committed
to await his trial.
An atrocious murder was committed et Spanish Bar,
on the 16th ult. Mr, Charles H. Dexter and Captain
Daniels were fout.d cat to pieces in their beds. The
murderers were supposed to have been Mexicans; no
arrests have been made. The victims wore generally
esteemed.
Two Sydney men, supposed to have been connected
with an organized bawl of villains, committed a daring
robbery at Murphy's Diggings, in Calaveras county on
the 20th of February. They were arrested by the
people and promptly hung on the spot. In this city
burglaries have been of almost nightly occurrence, and
thus far the criminals have escaped without detectien.
Crime has alarmingly increased in San Francisco
within the past month. Hardly a night passes that the
most daring burglaries are not
perpetrated in some part
of the city, aid notwithstanding the violence of public
opinion against the robbers, and the certainty that if
caught in their WS, the rascals would in all probability
meet with instant death, they seem to grow more em-
It seems that the fearful tragedies that have male
bcoalcliietonred nas they Oclatinue successful.
soun.motly
diatinguished have not yet
a( 0 learn. from the Calaveras Chronicle
coQfSsa'dtuerdnatireytlhy.
the 14th et Rebruary, that on the preceding
wWdeerenhesdunal
attwisio ins
repebri evEi
get gflshoir int
haenft.a n dTahn Irishman
Thane
Chronicle
sap:—" Two tents bad been broken into at that camp,
from one of which 400 dolls. had been taken, and from
the other but 25 dells. Sheriff Marshall, we learn,
arrested the persons who had committed the crime,
and they proved to be an Englishman and an Irishman,
whose names we were linable to learn. The people were
nf control, showing, by their excited
inetaiorianst,edoibueontynotdhing
but the Jives of the criminals
would be allowed to expatiate their guilt. Accordingly
they- seized them from the sheriff, and with shoos of
passionate exultation launched the unfortunate culprits
into eternity.
Price REGULATION OF TIME BY ELECTRIC

TELEGRAPH.
The ingenious apparatus intended, by means of the
electric telegraph, to establish and transmit uni
formity of time, in accordance with the Greenwich
standard, throughout London and the provinces,
having been completed, a notice of the remarkable
contrivance cannot fail to be read with interest. The
apparatus in question has been designed by Mr. Ed-
win Clark, the engineer to the' Electric Telegraph
and carried out under his superintendence
Cbyommpra.n
yJohn Sandys, electric telegraph instrument
and clock manufacturer, at whose establishment, in
Upper Whitecress-street, the contrivance was ex-
hibited to visitors. Entering an extensive work-
shop, the visitor observes between fifty and sixty
workmen busily engaged in all sorts of telegraphic
oonstruction, brass finishing, battery plates, wire
work, Ste.

There
are to be seen in this department in process
of manufacture all the newest devices and designs for
carrying out with economy, and to the greatest
possible perfection, the system of communication in-
troduced and now established so extensively by the
Electric Telegraph Company. In another department
were observable a variety of finished instruments
ready for removal, and in a third direction the visitor
entered a department devoted to the ingenious ap-
paratus constructed by the Electric Telegraph Com-
pany, in association with the Astronomer Royal, for
the establishment and transmission throughout
London and the various provincial commercial
communities of mean Greenwich or geometrical time.
In this department, placed horizontally on supports,
is a long quadrangular shaft or pillar of wood, painted
white without, 38 feet high, and between I and 10
inches square. It is constructed in three sections, so
as to allow of its being readily taken to pieces, in
about 13 feet lengths. This hollow sbaft passes
towards its apex throligh the centre of a large hollow
globe or ball, by a contrivance similar to that in
connexion with the well-known ball at the top of
Greenwich Observatory. The globe is about .4
feet 6 inches in diameter, is constructed entirely
of basket work, and is large enough for four per-
sons to sit comfortably in it. It is to be covered
with canvas and painted black. By means of a bar
inside the ball, connected with a piston or moveable
rod, working iu grooves or slides t!.om inside the pillar,
and by means of an electrical trigger communicating
with it, an electrical shock will every
day at one
o'clock cause the ball to fall eight feet from the top of
the pillar, and by this means, when placed in the in
tended position in the Strand, it will, when the wires
connect it with the ball on the op of the Observatory, at
Greenwich, fall simultaneously with it, and thus indi-
aete exact Greenwich time The ball, released by the
.electric trigger, will on the instant of its falling com
municate mean time to a "grand regulator," or electrical
clock, in the offices below, which in its turn will send an
-lectrical stream of true time throughout the country
—theregulator being also furnished with a remarkable
apparatus by means of which the minute and hour
hands are to be made to move every minute. 'The ap-
paratus consisting of the pillar and ball will be
placed on the top of a dome admirably adapted
for the purpose, and which is observable on the
top of the West Strand establishment of the Elec-
cric Telegraph Company, by Hungerford-market.
Of the 38 feet of which the pillar consists, 17 feet
are to be fixed into the dome or roof, leaving 21
feet visible above the building, and the Pit'
tar will be crested with a silvery looking
weather vane 10 feet 6 inches high, with the let-
ters E T C cut transparently on the arms. Outside
the establishment in the West Strand, but in imme-
diate communication with' the grand regulator, is
to be a newly-designed electrical clock, surmount-
ing an ornamented bronze pillar, and similar
ones are to be placed at all the other telegraph.
stations. The dial-plate of these clocks is of
the most elegant workmanship and design. There
are four square dial faces, each two feet high, and
within which the electrical clockwork is enclosed. The
dial-plates are of a beautiful enamelled glass of a
pare milk white, the hours and minutes being marked
by :stained glass indications on the alabaster base, and
upon which, under the hour and minute hands of
bronze, are inscribed, in a beautiful light blue letter-
ing, the words "Electric Telegraph Company."
The
peculiarity of the enamelled glass, which consists of a
coating of white enamel on both sides of the ordinary
sheet glass, is, that when the dial is illuminated, it
does not reflect on its frontispiece or face the unsightly
shadow of the machinery within, so noticeable in
connexion with the ordinary ground glass illuminated
clocks in London, bw, presents a soft opaque white
surface or transparency, and is, so far, a great
im
provement upon the present method of illuminated
clockmaking. Mr. Sendys is the patentee.
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RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852.

York Spring 2O
Royal Leamington 2O
Malton 22

(Merton • 1
Chester Spring
Tavistock
Lewes Spring lO
Newmarket S. S.
Shrewsbury l2
Plymouth Spring

Eping 1
Leptham
Manchester... .
Cuggeßball
Soothwell
Ascot .
Beverley ........ 9
Lambertoo ............... 15
Hampton. l6

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Salisbury ... . 1
Newmarket .............. 6
Worcester
Lancaster
Ileley l4
Liverpool
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North Staffordshire ....
Brighton 4
Edgware 5
Wolverhampton 9
Great Yarmouth lO
Beading

Newmarket F. 5......... 26
Hambledon Hunt ...... 29

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Durham .................. 13
Bath and Somerset ... 18
Liverpool H. ......... 19
North Herta ...... 20
Epsom ......... . ........... 25
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Newcastle
Bibury •
M icclesfield 23
Stockbridge
Winchester
Knighton 25
Carnal° , ...... 29
Ludlow

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Stamford 2O
Kuutstord
Nottingham
Abingdon
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Coventry ll
York
RadeliP 23
Eghara _ 25
Lincoln

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Warwick 7 Beiford
Whitehaven . ~.
Doncaster
Eglinton Club 2l I Newmarket F. 0.

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Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club 6
Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 I
Wrexham

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Newmarket S. Q.
Holy well Hunt
Richmond. . 2O
1 Newmarket Houghton.. 25

NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn 2
IRISH RACES TO COME
APRIL.

Curragb .................. 20

3IAY.

Kilcock .......................................... . ........ . ..... 24
JUNE.
Curragh 22 I Monkstown .............. . 29
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JULY.
Heath 5 I Bellowstown ............ 21
AUGUST.
Dawn Royal Corp 3 'nom ........... ... 23
Phcenix Park ...... . ...
Roscommon
Down • sErr smuts 21
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Curragh 7 I Johnstown
Limerick
OCTOBER.
Curragh l2 I PATIO??
Royal Corp ... ...
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A little boy,ren yeari old, drowned himself in
Derby on Wednesday last, from mortification at his mother
haying discovered that he had stoleu sixpence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTH WARK.

Jaincs Welsh, a well known puglii,t and ,'ubliean. wss
ixrought before Mr. Combe on a warrint, by Guest, 52
L, charged with assaulting George Thomson, a betting
wan, by attempting to gouge his eye out.
Complainant, whose right eye was completely closed
up, stated that on the previous evening, a little after
eleven o'clock, he went into the parlour of Mr. Patten,
of the Scar Inn, High-street, Borough, to see some
friends. He sat down quietly for at m, time, when the
defendant entered the pariour in a very excited manner,
exclaiming that he " should like to knock somebody's ear
off." Witness asked him " Whether he meant his?"
when he replied, " Yea, you -." The defendant
then came up to him suddenly and pushed his finger
into his right eye, and called out that " he wrald kick
his brains out." Witness was in such agony that he
could hardly help himself, and defendant nearly forced
his right eye out. He here produced a certificate from
a surgeon, showing that he had recvived a severe injury
to the eye.

Mr. dOBIBE—What is the reason of all this ill feeling
between you? Complainant—l believe it is si.me-
thing about his wife and marriage. I now go in bodily
fear of him, as he asBsult,d me iu a cruel Runner once
before.

In cross-examination by Mr. Hutchinson, complainant
said he was a betting man, and got Ma livelihood by at-
tending races. He was not a member of Tattersall's,
but went round the country and bet upon horses that he
thought would win. There were abut twenty persons
in the room when he was assaulted, and he was playing
cribbage wish a friend.

Mr, Hill, from the ofEe of Mr. Roberts, requested an
adjournment or the else, as the complainant had a num-
ber of respectable witnesses to corroborate his testimony,
but they were unable to attend that day.
Mr. litrchinson said his client was a very respectable
man, and at present looking out for a public•house. He
should be able to prove on a future occasion that the
complainant was the aggressor and brought all upon
himself.

Mr. COMBE asked whether he had any witnesses in
court? Mr. Hutchinson replied in the ricga;iv,. His
client had surrendered to the warrant; therefore his
Worship would be pleased to accept of bail should be
feel inclined to adjourn the case. He had several re-
sponsible tradesmen in court who would be answerable
for his attendance. ,
Mr. COMBE said that it appeared to be a quarrel be-
tween them, and resulted in one of thein being worsted.
He should, however, remand the detent lent until Satur-
day next, and accept bail for his attendance.
Bail being put in be was dis -harged.
LAMBETH.

Upon the Hon. Mr. Norton taking his seat a certifi-
cate was produced from the County of Surrey Lunatic
Asylum reap-cting the statc+ of mind of the lunatic and
murderer, Thomas Wheeler, from which it appeared that
he had been discharged from that asylum in February
of last year at the urgent request of his mother, who had
given the required undertaking in pursuance of the
Lunacy Act.
On reading the document Mr. NORTON said it was a
lamentable thing that the law as regarded lunatics was
not more stringt-nt. It was evident that this man was
quite unfit to be at large, and there ought to be a law
empowering the lunatic tsylums to insist upon the most
ample security that a discharged lunatic would be pro-
perly taken care or. They ought not to be given up at
.the.mere request or caprice of any of their family, bat
some protection should be given to insure the public
security.