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voyage, with a lawful cargo, when she was seized
by orders of Rear-Admiral Wilkes, and we protest
in the most solemn manner against the act which
has deprived us of our property and our liberty, and
for which we hold the American Government re-
sponsible.
As holders of bills of lading for the greater part
of the cargo on board the ship, we are also anxious
to protect, as far as we can,the rights of the under-
writers as well as those of ourselves and the
parties in England who are interested in the goods
which we represent, and also the resin ctive claims
for damages of all concerned.
We request that Captain Jarman may be called
upon by you to extend his protest while the ship is
here, and that we may be furnished with three offi-
cial copies of the same, and that you will forward a
copy of this letter to the British Minister at Wash-
ington.

All the ship's documents and our own having
been demanded by, and given up to, our captors,
we are the more anxious that the protest should
not merely be noted, but extended.
May we further request the favour of your reply
at your earliest convenience.—We have the honour
to be, sir, your obedient servants.
ROBERT BOWDEN,
G. W. ALMOND,
SAMUEL J. REDGATE.
To A. G. Butterfield, Esq., her Britannic
Majesty's Consul, Key West.

Copy of reply handed to us by Captain Jarman,
as received from Mr. Consul Butterfield, in an en.
velope addressed to Captain Jarman :
Key West, March 12, 1863.

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your communications of yesterday and
to-day, and in reply beg to refer you to the enclosed
copies of letters I have this day received from the
Admiral and Prize Commissioners.

By these you will see that nothing can be done
in reference either to your vessel or yourselves until
the arrival here of Admiral Wilkes, or until news
comes from Havana as to his movements.

I have the honour to be, Sirs,
Your obedient servant,
ANTHONY S. BUTTERFIELD.
(No address on the letter itself.)

District Court of the United Southern District
of F--, Key West, March 11, 1863.

Sir,—The matter of the passengers on board the
Peterhoff not being under my control, the case is
adjudicated in this Court, I have referred the com-
munication of yourself, and request to Admiral
Bailey, whom I trust will take the matter under
consideration, and see what can be done for them.—
I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
(Signed) G. D. ALLEN, Prize Commissioner.
A. G. Butterfield, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's
Vice-Consul, Key West.
United States flag-ship St. Lawrence,
Key West, March 11, 1863.

Sir,—Your several communications of yesterday's
date and two others of to-day, relative to the steamer
Peterhoff, with enclosures from the captain and
passengers of that vessel, have been duly received.
In reply, I have to state that the Peterhoff was
seized by a vessel belonging to a squadron under
the command of Rear-Admiral Wilkes; that it is
probable that both the vessel and the Admiral will
arrive at this port within a few days ; that all ap-
plications regarding the Peterhoff ought properly
to be made to him or to the commander of the cap-
turing vessel, and that I can only consent to take
action in the matter in case after the return of the
schooner Nonpareil from Havana it shall appear
that their arrival is likely to be delayed indefinitely.
In the meantime the prize-master has charge of the
vessel until delivered over to the legal authorities.—
Respectfully,

T. BAILEY, Acting Rear-Admiral,
Commanding E.G.B. Squadron.
Antny. G. Butterfield, Esq., her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Vice-Consul, Key West.

Per Europa Steamer, via Halifax.
New York, March 31, 1863.
Dear Sir,—The Peterhoff arrived at this port on
the 28th, for adjudication in the Prize Court. I
made application to go on board for the purpose of
having an interview with Capt. Jarman, but was
refused, and regret to inform you I have not yet
seen him, neither can I do so until his evidence has
been taken by the Prize Commissioners, which, I
believe, is this day being done.

The district attorney filed a libel against the
Peterhoff yesterday, and, such being the fact, I
doubt very much whether Lord Lyons will inter-
fere until her case has been argued.

I will take the necessary steps for her defence,
and after the captain's protest is drawn and ex-
tended will proceed with him to Washington and
see Lord Lyons.
It certainly is a great outrage sending her here
from Key West, almost worse than her capture;
and I sincerely hope you will lay the facts before
Earl Russell, and induce him to make a formal de-
mand for her release, with damages on the Federal
Government.

I enclose you slips from the newspapers respect-
ing her, from which you will observe the authorities
would not allow any person to go on board of her.
I also have no doubt Captain Jarman writes you
this mail, and perhaps Mr. Bowden, who is also on
board.

I will render the former all the assistance and in-
formation in my power, and engage a solicitor of
high reputation to protect your interests in the
Prize Court; and I need not add the expense of so
doing must, with the damages, be charged to the
Government.

I hope to meet Captain Jarman before the mail
closes, and will add a P.S. should I do so.
The Nicholas Ist (S.), Granite State (S.), are re-
ported captured, and the Georgiana (S.), chased on
shore near Charleston and destroyed.
Gold is 148. Exchange 162.
I am dear sir, yours very obediently,
(Signed) EDWIN GERARD.
Five p.m.--I have just discovered the captain will
not be examined before to-morrow (Wednesday)
April 1.
Joseph Spence, Esq., 2, Cowper's-court,
.rcd.on.

Extract from Letter of Mr. BOWdellt,heydaotuec:far.nokmdprtlihl(e3eny.
The Peterhoff got here March 28, but we were all
kept prisoners on board till Monday
lodged in prison on shore till April 1. I only
got
my baggage and change of yesterday, and have
been occupied in calling on the Consul,,
,&c,
since
that I have little time to • I wrote
York.
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they are so anxious to get hold
con-
demn the Peterhoff. of any plea to

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Thle'uta oPculprits, and Wg:Tnti. IRKDALE.—
Woods, convicted at
the last Liverpool Assizes of the
murder of Mrs. Walne, at
Itibehester, will be executed at Kirkdale, on Saturday,
unless a reprieve be received in the meantime of which.
however, there does not appear to be any probability, the
prayer of a memorial in favour of Woods, the less guilty
criminal—if there be any difference between them—having
been already refused. Both men are devout in their attention
to the ministrations of the chaplain. M'Phail is still buoyed
up by the hope that he will yet be reprieved, but Woods
has abandoned all hope of life in this world. Neither of
theicriminals has been visited by friends, but M'Phail has
corresponded with his wife, who has arranged to visit him
in the middle of the week. The prisoners continue to dis-
play great reticence on the subject of the murder; indeed,
the topic is never alluded to by either of them, but a general
hope is expressed that they
will ma
before their executionmake some statement

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The Viceroy's progress still concentres the inte-
rest of the North-West. His Excellency made his
entry into Meerut on Saturday, the 7th March,
with considerable military display, and Roorkoe 011
the 16th idem.

Trio Commander-in-Chief of India arrived in
Meerut on the Bth March, and in Roorkee on the
18th idem.

W bllion still lurks in various districts in Gutih.
Soiliiions letters have recently been circulated
among the Mahomedan inhabitants, inciting them
to rise against her Majesty's Government. Several
parties have been arnsted, and committed to stand

The cash balances on the 31st of January last,
as compared with the balances on the same day in
the two previous years, were as follows :-1863,
119,746,715 ;1862, £18,615,617 ; 1861, £12,637,757
The last balance in hand is the largest the govern-
ment in India ever had in its treasuries. The
balances have thus increased by upwards of two
millions since Mr. Laing brought in his budget in
April last, when they stood at 171 millions. Specu-
lation was rife as to what Sir C. Trevelyan would
do with his anticipated surplus; and the prices of
government paper were rapidly running up. The
4 per cents, had nearly touched "par."
Sir 0. Trevelyan has appointed Mr. A. 0. Hume,
C. 8., son of the late Joseph Hume, M.P., to office
in the Financial Department, with a view to the
reorganising of official salaries.

The Commissioner of Sciade is about to proceed on
a political mission to the Persian Gulf, in connexion
with the telegraphic and other means by which
Government intend opening up a communication
with England.

The East Indian Railway, which was begun in
1851, has been carried on at the rate of 90 miles a
year, and is completed from Calcutta to a point near
Delhi, with the exception of 140 miles. The girder
bridge over the Soane has been declared by the
Viceroy to be exceeded in magnitude by only one
bridge in the world.
There has been some hard fighting in the Jynteah
hills, and several of our officers have been wounded.
By last accounts the "little war" seemed at an etd.

Very extensive flights of locusts have visited the
Punjaub. It is feared that the grub of next, year
will cause immense damage, and efforts are being
made to destroy the eggs. In one district the eggs
were being collected by maunds.

The new scale of Indian military pay and allow-
ances will, it is expected, come into operation from
the Ist of May next. The Englishman says:—
" A leading feature in the code is the wish of Go-
vernment to hold out very advantageous inducements
to its officers to serve with native regiments of
cavalry and infantry, even the commands of which
have since the mutiny been taken from necessity.
By the new scale a lieutenant-colonel command-
ing a native cavalry regiment will receive
1,550r5. a month; and if commanding an infantry
corps, 1,450r5. From these rates the pay of com-
manding officers will graduate down by a slid-
ing scale according to their rank, a captain in
command of a native regiment receiving 900 rs. a
month. The staff pay of a number of appoint-
ments will also be increased; amongst others that
of assistant-adjutant-general of division, which
will in future be 600r5., instead of as at present
400 rs. a month."

The Cotton Adulteration Bill, in its amended
form, was before the Bombay Legislative Council,
and was causing considerable discussion.

The limes of India makes the following remarks
upon this measure :—" Mr. Scott will deserve after
all, we believe, the thanks of the public for his
Cotton Bill. It emerges at last from the select
committee, in a shape that will probably meet the
views of all parties. The committee conceive,' says
the report, 'that the object of any legislation such
as that proposed is the prevention of the practices
which endanger the existence of the great cotton
trade of this presidency rather than the mere
punishment of offenders, and keeping this in view,
they
Snow beg to submit for the approval of the
Council the draft of such a measure as appears to
them best calculated to meet the exigencies of the
case.' The bill accordingly makes the mere adul-
teration, or mixing, of cotton—whether fraudulent
or not—unlawful, and punishable by fine and im-
prisonment. This is to strike at the root of the
evil. The bill goes still further, and wisely taking
the matter out of the hands of the merchant alto-
gether, provides for the appointment of Inspectors
of Cotton,' whose duty it will be ' to suppress the
use of unlicensed presses, and to examine cotton
offered for compression, or exposed, or intended for
sale.' The provisions under which the cotton
screws and presses' are to be placed seem also to be
honestly and carefully devised."

On the 16th of March the Senate of the Presi-
dency College assembled in the Town Hall, Cal-
cutta, to confer the degree of Master of Arts on six.
Hindoo students of that University. This was the
first time that that honour has been conferred in
Calcutta.

We read in the Bengal .Hurkaru :—" The report
of the probable removal of the seat of government
to Allahabad or Agra, with a summer residence at
Simla, has recently been revived—it being stated on
good authority, that orders have been received from
home not to proceed any further with the varioas
public buildings, some time since projected and sanc-
tioned, and the want of which is becoming daily
more urgent. No doubt, when railway communi-
cation is completed between Bombay and either of
the above-named cities, a more central point than
Calcutta will be found advantageous to Imperial
interests. Following the seemingly inevitable
course of empire to the westward, the chief seat of
Indian commerce will, ere many yearahave passed,
be transferred from Calcutta to Bombay, unless, in-
deed, the merchants of the existing capital rouse
themselves to make such obvious improvements as
the construction of wharves and goods sheds, thea
supercession of pilot brigs by fast steamers, and
large reduction of port dues.

zeitNteToßf INTELLIGENCE.
I2GBEtINa March.)CE.
v rTAL
(From the Bombay
-caontinued active during the past
The import market
.haon
and value of both piece goods
position
and the
A considerable business
fortnight,further improved.
.
and yarns have.n`iece goods, owing to an active speculative
as legitimate
buyers in the bazaar, large purchases
has been done 1 p
• • to demand ; in addition to an increasing
iansqwu
ieryll
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are being made, chiefly by speculators for transhipment to
Calcutta, where, owing to the scarcity of goods, prices
have advanced to a very high point. Yarns are also in ac-
tive inquiry, especially for shipment to Calcutta and Mad-
ras, where the prices rule much higher than here. Metals
remain dull as before, with the exception of copper and yel-
low metal, which have shown more activity. In the pro-
duce market the business has been rather moderate. Cot-
ton is active, and prices are firmly maintained. Seeds are
scarce and dearer.
Money Market—The money market is easier, and thereo
is a considerable increase in the cash balance of the Bank
Bombay. The bank's rate of discount remains 9 per cent.
for private bills and 8 per cent. for government bills.

(From the Calcutta .Englishman of March 19.)
Produce Market.—The amount of business transacted
since our last has been but limited. In the face of little
coming down holders are firm, while the state of the freight
market offers no temptation for eager purchases.