The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

NORTHAMPTON RACES

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPE.
ARRIVALS.

Sharavogue, Eulogist, Orestes, The Reiver, Orson,
Crystal, Switch, Craubourne, Roebuck, Victorine, Mr.
Sykes, Kingston, Hungerford, Defiance, Koh-i-noor,
Jacqueline, Olinder, Pancake, John Bull, Lamprocles,
Bracken, Caliph, Ptolemy, Swiftsure, Jujube, Duchess
of Lorraine colt, Little Jem, Sister to Aphrodite, Alas,
Jacob Petler, Twinkle, Student, Palmerston, Pigeon,
Monge, Katerfelto, Chalice, Redemption, Prevarication,
Ephesus, Pelion, Vanderdecken, Sonoat, Grief, Florist,
Wellman, f. by Epirus, Freckle, Rackapelt,
~Commodore
Charley.

BIRMINGHAM RACES

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.

Eight ran.
£5O PLATE.

Six ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at 5 o'clock.
Lord WROTTESLEY presented a petition from
Wolverhampton in favour of the establishment of refor-
matory institutions for juvenile offenders.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition
from Bath to the same effect.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
magistrates and town council of Edinburgh in favour of
some measure to enable the same probate which was
taken out in Scotland to affect personal property in
England and Ireland.
The Duke of CLEVELAND presented a petition
from Darlington against the opening of public-houses on
Sundays.
REMOVAL AND SETTLEMENT OF THE
POOR BILL.
The Earl of WICKLOW, in moving for returns of
the minutes in the different unions throughout England
and Wales, entreated their lordships, in the event of the
Law of Settlement and Removal Bill passing the House
of Commons, and being introduced into this house, not
to assent to it, if they valued their own consistency and
sense of honour, unless it contained a clause to include
in its operation Scotch and Irish paupers.
The return was agreed to.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN IRELAND.
The Earl of CLANCARTY moved for a return of the
indictment and•conviction, &c., in the case of two men
named John and Hugh Murphy, who were tried at the
Armagh Assizes for the murder of James Wilson.
It appeared that in consequence of some compromise
on the part of the crown prosecutors, one of the men
was acquitted, and the other, on pleading guilty of
manslaughter, was sentenced only to 6 months' impri-
sonment. The noble earl entered into a statement of
the circumstances connected with the murder and the
trial, and described the latter as a miscarriage of justice.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said there would be no
objection to the return, with the exception of the judges'
notes, which it had never been the practice to produce.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMIVIONS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The Hull Cemetery Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Stourbridge and Bridgenorth Road Bill was read
a second time and ordered to be committed.

PETITIONS.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin appeared at the bar, and
delivered in a petition from the Corporation of Dublin,
in favour of an improved postal and steam communica-
tion between England and Ireland.
Mr. JOIIN O'CONNELL presented a number of
petitions from various parts of Ireland against the no-
mination of the committee on conventual and monastic
institutions. One of these petitions, which was from
Dublin, was read by the Clerk at the table.
Mr. W. BROWN presented a petition from the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce, in favour of a decimal
system of coinage; also a petition from the Roman Ca-
tholics of Liverpool against the nomination of the nun-
neries committee. This latter petition was read by the
Clerk at the table.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from the
Roman Catholics of Birmingham against the nunneries
committee.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from Tor-
quay in favour of the establishment of reformatory
schools.
Sir W. VERNER presented three petitions from
places in Ireland against monastic institutions.
Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from Wedgbury
and other places in Staffordshire against any alteration
in the Oath 13111.
Mr. FAGAN presented a petition from Cork against
the Ministers' Money Bill, and a similar petition from
Limerick. Also a petition from the Roman Catholics
of Cork against the nomination of the nunneries com-
mittee.

Mr. L. HEYWORTH presented a petition from the
medical botanists of Derby against the Medical Regis-
tration Bill.
Alderman KERSHAW presented a petition from
Stockport against the Poor Removal Bill.
Mr. LUCAS presented a petition from the town of
Sells, in the county of Meath, against the nomination
of the nunneries committee.
Mr. MACGANN presented a similar petition from
the corporation of Drogheda.
Mr. CRAUFURD presented petitions from various
medical bodies, against the Medical Registration Bill.
Sir W. SMYTH presented a petition from the firm of
Sturgeon and Sons, of Grays, Essex, on the subject of
the recent hay fraud on the Artillery, and moved that
the petition be read by the clerk at the table. The clerk
proceeded to read the petition accordingly, but it ap-
pearing that the phraseology of the petition was against
the rules of the house, it was withdrawn.
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from Chatham, and
eleven other places, in favour of the Affirmation Bill.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS BILL.
Mr. CRAUFURD gave notice that on the motion
for going into committee on this bill, he should move as
an amendment that the bill be committed on that day
six months.

SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL.
In reply to a question,
The LORD ADVOCATE stated that it was intended
to proceed with the second reading of this bill on Thurs-
day next.
An HoN. MEMBER gave notice that be should move
that the second reading be postponed until the Ist of
May.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
, On the motion of Mr. BRADY, an address was ordered
showing the number of practitioners in medicine, accord-
ing to the census of 1851, for each county of England
and Wales, according to the registration division, and
for each county of Scotland, and of the islands in the
British seas, stating the heads under which they appear,
whether as physicians and surgeons, or apothecaries ;
also, the number returned of druggists, aurists, oculists,
dentists, &c.; and also, the respective ages, in quin-
quennial periods, under each head.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND
DUBLIN.

Mr. H. HERBERT rose to move that an humble
address be presented to her Majesty, that she will be
graciously pleased to give directions that immediate
measures should be taken to give effect to the re-
commendation contained in the report of the se-
lect committee of this house, appointed in the
last session to examine and report upon the pre-
sent state of communication between London and
Dublin ; namely "that a class of steamers be provided
with adequate accommodation for passengers, and with
greater capabilities as regards speed than those at pre-
sent employed." The hon. member quoted a letter from
Sir Cusac Roney, stating that of late years immense advan-
tages in respect of rapid communication between Eng-
land and the United States and England and the continent,
had been effected; it was only as regarded Ireland that
the rate of increased rapidity of railway travelling was
not seconded by rapid transit across the channel. He
(Mr. Herbert) thought there had been an unreasonable re-
duction of the sum which had formerly been allowed for
the purpose of communication between the two capitals
of the United Kingdom, the importance of which was
undeniable.
Mr. VANCE seconded the motion.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
would be his duty to object to this motion. Within the
last few years there had been a considerable saving of pub-
lic expenditure in the carrying of mails between this
country and Ireland, and with increased comfort and
advantage to those travelling by those packets.
This change, which was treated by the two hon. mem-
bers who had addressed the house as if it were a measure
directed solely against Ireland, had sprung from a re-
commendation of a committee of this house, who sug-
gested that the contract system should be substituted
for the previous system, which had been found
enormously expensive ; and that very contract system
which had been applied to Ireland was to take effect
also on the Ist of April next with respect to the Dover
packets. He did not at all undervalue the importance
of the communication between Holyhead and Dublin ;
but he said that a sum of 120,0001., or 150,000/., or
anything at all approximating to it, should not be incurred
for the mere luxury of the easy and middle classes
in travelling by those packets at a moment when the
country was placed in a position which would demand
all her energies, and all her resources in matters of
honour, and the welfare and independence of the umpire.

7th Foot—Ensign Edwyn Stanhope Jervois, from the
10th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice eightley,
who retires ; John Phillipson Langham, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Sunter, promoted on the Staff,
March 28.
10th Foot—Home Purvis, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Jervois, promoted in the 7th Foot, March 28.
14th Foot—Brevet-Major John Watson to be Major,
without purchase, vice Tidy, who retires upon half-pay ;
Lieutenant David Thorcas Armstrong to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Watson ; Ensign Gage Hall Dwyer to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Armstrong • Gentle-
man Cadet Edward William Saunders, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Dwyer, March 28.
15th Foot—Lieutenant William Smith, from half-pay
31st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Tilghman, appointed
Paymaster of the Regiment ; Ensign George Edward
Hunter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smith, who
retires ; John Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hunter, March 28.
17th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Walter Simpson, M.D.,
from the 66th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Cruickshank, pro-
moted on the Steil', March 28,
19th Foot—William Marshall Webb, Gent., to be As-
si tant-Surgeon' vice Longmore, promoted, March 28.
23d Foot --Assistant-Surgeon William Godfrey Watt to
be Surgeon, vice Smith, promoted on the Staff; William
Cattell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Watt, March 28.
35th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Miller Layton to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Berkeley, who retires; Ensign
Ranulph Charles Lee to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice
Layton ; Albert John Revell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lee, March 28.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Edwin Richards to be Captain,
by purchase, vice the Honourable Richard Handcock, who
retires; Ensign Edward Every to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Richards, March 28.
42d Foot—Wm. Alex. Davidson, M.D., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Muir, promoted in the 33d Foot, March 28.
55th Foot—John James Norris, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Croker, promoted in the Ist Foot. March 28.
63d Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Robert
Lewins, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Macdonell, promoted
on the Staff; Wm. Wilson Mills, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Lewins, promoted on the Staff, March 28.
65th Foot—Lieut. Chas. John Ewen to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Anderson, who retires; Ensign Frederick
Wemyss to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ewen; Walter
Higgin, Gent., to, be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wemyss,
March 28.
71st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon 'William Barrett, M. 8.,
from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Can., promoted on the
Staff, March 28.
77th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Christopher Macartney,
M. 8., to be Surgeon, vice Prendergast, promoted on the
Staff; Ormsby Bowen Miller, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Macartney, March 28.
81st Foot—Major John Hamilton Stewart to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Farrant, deceased ;
Captain Henry Edward Sorell to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice Stewart; Lieutenant William Benjamin
Browne to be Captain, without purchase, vice Store!! ;
Ensign Charles James Hughes to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Browne, Jan. 25.
86th Foot—Lieutenant John Jerome to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Croker, who retires ; Ensign Robert John
Wallace to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jerome ;
Francis Drewe Edwards, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Wallace, March 28.
91st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Miah Wm. Murphy, from
the 80th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Jameson, promoted on
the Staff, March 28.
97th Foot—Edward Malcolm Sinclair, M.D., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Cay, appointed to the Coldstream
Guards, March 28.
Rifle Brigade—Assistant-Surgeon David Reid M'Kin-
non, from the 78th Foot, to Surgeon, vice Anderson, pro-
moted on the Staff, March 28.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieutenant and Capt. Charles
Van Notten Pole, from the Grenadier Regiment of Foot
Guards, to be Captain, vice Stuart-Wortley, appointed to
the Ist Dragoon Guards, March 28.
STAFF.—Brigadier-General William Lennox Lascelles
Fitz Gerald, Lord de Roe, Unattached, to be Deputy Quar-
termaster-General to the Forces, proceeding on a particular
service ; Brigadier-General James Bucknall Bucknall Est-
court, Unattached, to be Deputy Adjutant-General to the
Forces, proceeding on a particular service, Feb. 21 • Major
Thomas Holmes Tidy, from the 14th Foot, to be 'Deputy
Adjutant-General, at Jamaica, with the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel in the Army, vice Farquharson, who resigns,
March 28.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Lieutenant. Colonel Peter Far-
quharson, Major on half-pay 65th Foot, late Deputy Ad-
jutant-General at Jamaica, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, March 28.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals John Hall, M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, March 28.
To be Deputy Inspector-Generals of Hospitals—Staff-
Surgeon of the First Class William Henry Burrell, M.D.;
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class David Dumbreck, M.D. ;
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class Thomas Atkinson, M.D. ;
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class John Forest, M.D. ; Staff-
Surgeon of the First Class William Linton, M.D., vice
Hall, promoted, March 28.
To be Staff Surgeons of the First Class—Staff-surgeon of
the First Class Peter Robertson, M.D., from half-pay, vice
Burrell, promoted ; Surgeon Alexander Sheriffe Macdo-
nell, from the 63d Foot, vice Dumbreck, promoted ; Sur-
geon William Cruickshank, M.D., from the 17th Foot,
vice Atkinson, promoted ; Surgeon George Gordon Ro-
bertson, M.D., from the Ist Foot, vice Forrest, promoted;
Surgeon Joseph Samuel Prendergast, M.D., from the 77th
Foot, vice Linton, promoted; Surgeon Thomas Ross
Jameson, from the 9lst Foot ; Surgeon Robert Smith,
from the 23d Foot ; Staff-Surgeon of the second class
Richard Janies O'Flaherty ; Staff-Surgeon of the second
class John Thomas Telfer ; Surgeon George Carr, from the
71st Foat ; Surgeon Arthur dersou, M.D., from the
Rifle Brigade ; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class John
Charles Graham Tice, M.D. March 28.
To be Staff. Surgeons of 'the Second Class—Assistant-
Surgeons Alexander Fortoath, M.D., from the 211 Dragoon
Guards, vice Telfer, promoted; George Cunningham Meikle-
ham, from the 51st Foot, vice O'Flaherty, promoted ;
Ro-
bert Marshall Allen, from the 3d Dragoon Guards, vice
Lewin, appointed to the 63d Foot; George William Powell,
from the 34th Foot, vice Tice, promoted; Thomas Mooreithe
Sunter, M. 8., from the 7th Foot; Vero Webb, f
10th Foot ; Charles Frederick Stephenson, from the
e 81st
Foot; Samuel Smith, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment;
David Anderson, M.D. from the 9th Foot ; Peter
M.D., from the 12th Foot; Hampden Hugh Massy, --0 •
from the 4th Light Dragoons; Mark Stanley Todd, from
the 86th Foot.
To be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces—Assistant-Sur-
geon Thomas O'Kearney Gordon, from the 76th Foot,
vice Barret, promoted in the 71st Foot, March_ 28.
MEMORANDUM. —The Christian names of Brevet-Major
Sterling, Unattached, are Anthony Conineoltß am, and not
Anthony Cunningham, as previously stated.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Nottingham—Edward Thomas Coke, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant.
Roy 4 Backs or Kin 'a 01Tii Boainaut Qf Dual—

Maurice Emmett, Esq., late Captain 43th Regiment, to be
Captain, March 7 ; George Tyrwhitt Drake, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, March 17.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
Lieutenant Sir Percy Florence Shelley, Bart., to be Cap-
tain, vice Gage, promoted, March 23.
Derbyshire Militia-Ist Regiment—To be Captains—
William Milnes, Esq., vice Hunter ; George Newdigate,
Esq., vice Bateman ; John Wright, Esq., vice Cox.
To be Lieutenants—john Jessop, Gent., vice Emery ;
John Radford, Gent., vice Lambert; John Woolnongb,
Gent., vice Wragg.
Royal Flintshire Militia—Second Lieutenant- Arthur
Willoughby Crewe Read to be First Lieutenant.
Ist •Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Arthur Chap-
man Esq., to be Lieutenant.
3dßegiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—Samuel Leo.
Schuster, Esq ; Andrew Green, Esq. ; William Beat,
Esq., to be Lieutenants.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel Wimple, to be Colonel, vice William Thompson,
deceased ; Lieutenant Christian William M`Niell, to be
Captain, vice George Platt, retired, March 24; Lieutenant
William Robertson, to be Captain, vice Sir James Lau-
rence Cotter, Bart., resigned, March 25 ; Thomas Joseph
Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, March 24; Edward Vera
Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, March 25 ; Alfred Augustus
James, Gent., to be Ensign; Murdock William Pollard
Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign, March 27.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle-
men to be Commissioners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery :
Isaac Palmer Baker, Ipswich.
Frederick Solly Gosling, Gray's-inn-square.
Samuel Shama, Kennington-cross.
' Thomas Gregory, Clement's-inn.
Joshua Jullian Allen, Bedford-row.
William Galsworthy, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.
Edward Jago, Plymouth.
Thomas Robinson, Eccleshall, Staffordshire.
James Warder, Beaminster, Dorsetshire.
Edward Brown Fiske, Beccles, Suffolk.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
John Corner Blacklock and Thomas Robinson, drapers,
Birmingham.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Steel, grocer, Norwich, to surrender, April 2, at
two, and May 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee; Hodgkinson, Little Tower-
street.
William Turner, currier, Crewkerne, Somersetshire,
April 7 and May 4, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Randall, Lawrence
Poutney-lane ; Gidley, Exeter.
James Young Hulbert, dealer and chapman, New-court,
B)vo.iane, April 7, at one, and May 12, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Beidger and Collins, King William-street.
William Ormerod Bradshaw, builder, Bolton-le-moors,
April 12 and May 1, at twelve, at anchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Marsland,
Bolton

Henry Malcolm Ramsay, builder, Kensington-park,
April 7, at half-past twelve, and May 12, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,,Basing-
hall-street ; James, Basmghall-street.
Robert Robson and John Thomas Robson, silk manu-
facturers, Derby, Aprill, and 28, at ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Notting-
ham ; G. F. Hudson and Co., Bucklersbury; E. and H.
Wright, Birmingham.
Charles Barnett Gibbs, grocer, Eccleshall, Stafford,
April 20, and May 4, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; But-
terton, Eccleshall; Wright, Birmingham.
James Green, carpenter and builder, Northampt on,
April sat two, and May 9 at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Stevens, Bedford-
row.

William
Wallen, jun., architect, Lawrenc Poutney-lane,
April 3, and May 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings,
Stevens and Satchel!, Queen-street, cheapside.
Thomas Radford, warehouseman, Noble-street, City,
April 5, at one, and May 13, at half-past twelve, at the
notirt of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basing
hall-street; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury.
John Frederick Thynne, dealer in musical instruments,
Tavistock, April 7 and May 4, at one, at the Exeter Dis-
trict Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Beer and
Rundle, Devonport ; Hartnoll, Exeter.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Angus Ross, ironmonger, Inverness.
Robert Crawford, lime-burner, Bells-quarry, Edinburgh•
shire.

Morris, Young, and Co., called printers, Kilmarnock.
Mrs. Caroline Allatt or Douglas, lodging-house keeper,
Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-THIS DAY.
Amsterdam....... 11 13 Gibraltar
Ditto, three months 11 15 4 Leghorn 3O 70
Rotterdam ..... ..• 11 15 Genoa .. • ,25 55
Antwerp •• •• ••• • •• 25 20 Milan ••••.••••• •• •• ••
Brussels •• •• • • •• •• •• • 25 20 Venice . • ••
..• • • •• •
liamburgh ....• ..... 13 5 .• • •
Naples 4l
Altona • • ,Palermo .......
Paris •. • • .. 25 0 I Idessina .
Ditto, throe months 25 35 I Lisbon 53
.... • • .... 25 37% !Oporto . . 53% Bourdeaux ........ • Rio Janeiro ...
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118 Buenos Ayres ... ... • ...
Berlin ................ New York, 60 days' sight
Vienna .. • • ..... Philadelphia .... • • .... Trieste •• • PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Petersburgh...• • ..
31 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ................ 50 Portugal Gold Coln 00 0
Cadiz .. ••••••••• • •• • • •• 50% Mexican Dollars .• 00 0
Barcelona...—. New Dollars 00: 0
Seville ................ in bars .... 0 0 0