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N°.18,260.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY
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APRIL 9 185
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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
DIIIECTORS.
tn. LA3fIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.

*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
■Hugh Croft, Esq.
tFallotson, F.R.S.
*Ralph Gough, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.
*John Moss, Esq.

*John Rawson, Esq.
*John Shaw, Esq.
tsEdmund S. Symes, Esq.
t*Clement Tabor, Esq.
t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
t*Augastus Vigue, Esq•

_
AUDITOR.
tPrOfeSSOT Wheatstone, F.R.S.
PNTSICIAN.
Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street.
SUESEON.

i *E. B. Byrnes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.

ACTUARY.
t,W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S.,
SECRETARY.
*D. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*IV. A. Hawkins, Esq.
BANKERS.

t*Messrs. Glyn, HaWax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS,
tMeSSTS. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Easlnghall,

street.

*W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.
CAPITAL-5tX0,0001.

The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that
can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with-
held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the
event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the
Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be
returned by the Society.
Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health
and payment of arrears of Premium without interest.
Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities in the hands of
third parties.
No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp.
The present naual income of the Society from Premiums is
63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Society is
1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to
the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. ss. 6d. At the last annual inves-
tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As-
sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums
in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original sum assured by'
each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent.
EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED.

. I Perma-
;.,,*, Annual Policy Bonus In sent Re-
AIM ge. Pre- taken addition Bonus In unction of
,2 .T, minas. out in to Sum Cash. Annual
Assured. Premium.
- - 1
X s. d. £ a d. X s. d.
1 1837 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1
1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7
1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8
£
X s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010
60 1000'74 3 4 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 811
1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 1 10
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11
1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 1

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0001.
(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Yid:, cap. 110.)
. .

The leading principles of this Office ara —Moderate and equitable
Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits.
The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so
great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess
than calculation. _ _ _

It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the
different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the
amount of annual Premiums received by each.

It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers,
that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the
true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu-
rance Company is established.
The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap-
mached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied.
Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to
the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as
security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer
is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by
supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica-
tion and Avenge, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk.
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, ftom time to time, adopt such rates of Premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange-
ments as regards tariffs with other offices.
With this view an annual investigation will be made into each
class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett
excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have
been in force for three years.

Insurances against L'oss by Fire are effected by this Company upon
every description of Property on moderate terms.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

f National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society.
• Equitable Fire
t* Both Offices.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.

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No. 11, LOMBARD-%TREET, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
-THOMSON HANICEY, jtfn., Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq.
John Dixon, Eel. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
John G. llubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, j 1132., Rig.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
Joins Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.

AUDITORS.

A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Aet of Par-
liament, recently obtained, this Company now offers to future In-
surers a low Rate of premium without participation in Profits; or a
moderate scale of premiums with four-fifths of the Profits to be de-
rived from all Assurances hereafter effected.
The divisions of Profits which heretofore have been made Septen-
nially will in future be made Quinquennially, the first of such divi-
sions to be declared in Jul% 1835,Avhen far participating policies
which shall have subsistedltt least one year at Christmas, 1854, will
be allowed to share in the,proflts.
At the several past divisions of profits made by this Company, the
reversionary Bonuses added to the policies from one half the profits
amounted, on an average Of the different ages, to about 1 per cent.
per annum on the sums insured, and the total bonuses added to the
four septennial divisions exceeded 770,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent ot their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
an the sth of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1849, and the same
:snow in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
Notice is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at
Lady Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with
Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall, or with
the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.

GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

itt ETROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.

No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall
due on the sth of April next, that the same must be PAID within
Thirty days from that date.
The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
ciety as Members on the sth of April next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.
This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the
whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives
for the whole term of life as Members of the Society.
For the year ending the sth of April, 1852, an abatement of 51 per
cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five
Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD /MAU:WIELD, Superintendent.
Princes-street, Bank, March 22, 1851.

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T"E QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CLXXVI., will be published Next Week.

CONTENTS:
I. Poultry Literature.
11. Women in France—Madame de Maintenon.
111. Julius Caesar—Merivale's Roman History.
IV. The Republic in the King's Coaches.
V. Sanitary Movement—Centralization.
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VII. Lord Itoßand's Reminiscences.
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, MARCH 25...

Her Majesty's steamer Merlin, with the h'omeward India
mail, arrived this morning, and will be conveyed to Mar-
seilles per Antelope, at 4 P.M.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ganges
arrived yesterday, having made a passage from Smyrna in
60 hours. She was 84 hours from Malta to Constantinople
in going up, and delivered her cargo in 15 days 2 hours at
Trebizonde from Southampton, including all stoppages.
The Banshee steamer arrived last night, only eight days
from England, including-18 hours' stoppages at Gibraltar.
The Resistance troop-ship embarked her sick and the
troops (five companies) of the 44th, who proceed by her to-
morrow to Gibraltar. The officers are Captains Spring,
Daubenev, and Fenwick; Lieutenants Green, Preston, Ottley,
Micklethwait, and Caulfield ; Ensigns Baker and Gregory ;
Quartermaster Walsh ; and Dr. Robertson. The whole are
under the command of Major Gar&iiner.

The Alipore arrived at Corfu on the 18th inst., and sailed
on the 20th for Malta with part of the 76th Regiment.
The Barrackpore was to leave Confu on the 24th instant,
with the remainder of the 76th on board.
The Java, with the depot of the 36th on board, has left
Corfu for England.
The Hercules, with the 41st Regiment, reached Corfu on
the 17th inst. She was in quaraatine, having:small-pox on
board. One death had occurred, and four were ill. She had
not disembarked her troops on the 21st.
A troop-ship, with the 36th on board has passed the
island.

The 30th, 41st, 47th, and 49th Regiments have arrived at
Corfu. The 92d were daily expected.
Accounts have been received from the Levant of a very
violent &lock of an earthquake, particularly felt at Rhodes
and Maori. In the latter place two mountains have fallen
in, crushing a village and destroying 600 people. We have no
particulars.
Vessels of war at Corfu on the 20th—The Albion, Ganges,
Frolic brig, and Growler steam-frigate.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Rhadamanthus steam troop
ship, Master-Commander Belem, sailed from Spithead yes-
terday, for the Cape of Good Hope.
The remains of the captain of the Turkish brig (who died
in London) were brought to Gosport to-day by railway, and
interred in the burial-ground apportioned for the sepulture of
the Eastern sojourners in our waters.
The American line-of packet ship Yorktown arrived at St.
Helen's to-day from London, and sailed again after embark-
ing passengers for New York.
The Tyne, naval store-ship, Master Commander Peter
Willington, arrived this morning at Spithead. She left Rio
Janeiro the 10th of February, and the island of Fernando
Noronho the 2d March.

She left a strong muster of men-of-war at Rio. The
Southampton, 50, Captain Cory, with the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Reynolds; the Thetis, 38, Captain A. L. Kuper, C. 8.;
the Geyser, steam-sloop, Commander E. Tatham; the Con-
flict, screw-steamer, Commander Thomas G. Drake; the
Rifleman, screw-steamer, Lieut. Commander R. H. Dalton;
the Spider, schooner, Lieut.-Commander Tomlinson; and the
Harpy, steam-tender to the Southampton, were at anchor
there. The crews of these ships were all healthy, although
the fever was still prevalent on shore. The Rifleman hal lost
one man from it, and we are sorry to say it found its way on
hoard the Tyne, and carried off the second master, Mr. M.
C. G. Crompton, and one seaman.
To the south:of the line:.the Tyne on her passage home ex-
perienced very light wind with tine weather, and to the north
she had hard gales land squally weather. From Thursday
last to Monday, less than four days, she ran a distance of
1,156 miles, nearly 303 miles a day. On the 29th March, in
lat 47 36 N., long. 14 20 W.. she spoke the American ship
Vaucleuse, of Thomaston, thirty-one days from New York,
hound to Liverpool. She had lost her rudder-head and
mizentopmast, and was steering with tackles. On the 30th,
at noon, in lat. 48.45 N., long. 8.14, spoke the Hamburgh
brig Ellen and Emma, fifty-eight days from Rio. On Mon-
day last, off the Start Point, spoke the Cumberland, 70,
standing down Channel, with the wind at N.W., and the
Ganges. of Kirkcaldy, bound to China.
The Tyne was at Rio three weeks, discharging the stores
she took out and taking in old returned stores from the
squadron. She brought home one or two seamen, and Mr.
Graham J. Eden, mate of the Thetis, who has had charge of
a watch on board the Tyne. She has also brought home a
small freight and some packages of diamonds valued at about
21,0001., which will be conveyed to the Bank of England,
this evening, by Mr. Chambers, of Common-hard.
The Fairy, yacht, blaster-Commander Welsh, and the.
Royal dispatch-steamer Elfin, have both been brought into
'the south dock for the greater convenience of being painted.
grid some of the gilding will be touched up afresh, which can
le done • more easily and with less expense in dock than
Afloat up the-harbour.
• The Argus, stesrp,corvette, is being coppered, and the rig-
=gers are rigging her,;.. her topmasts are fidded.
The Trince Regent has her topmast up, but she has been
very much delayed in hpr.equipment by some mistake made
by the dockyard people, as to the eyes of her lower rigging.
The rigging was fitted at the yard-loft, and when the shrouds
were put over the mastheads the eyes were found to be
much too large, consequently they had to be all fresh seized.
It is now found that her chain cables are defective, and she
will have new ones; altogether it would have been much
better, instead of being paid off all standing, that this ship
should have been thoroughly stripped and cleared out; now
there has been double work every way, and much more ex-
pense incurred.
The Birkenhead will sail to-morrow for Woolwich.
The Atalanta, Dutch man-of-war schooner, Lieutenant
Commander Klerke, sailed this morning for Curagoa.

The Penelope, steam-frigate, went out this morning to try
her engines and speed along the measured mile in Stoke's
Bay. The south coast surveying party, consisting of Cap-
tain Sherringham, Lieutenant Cox, Mr. Taylor, master,
with a few seamen, have; proceeded to Exmouth, which will
be their ',head-quarters during the summer months, while
surveying the coast adjacent. They have no vessel, but
when it may be necessary to take soundings, &c., a boat or
vessel will be hired for that purpose. Captain Sherringham
last summer surveyed the shores in the neighbourhood of
Weymouth.
We are sorry to announce the death of Captain Edward
11. Butterfield, R.N.; 1841, who die 4 rather suddenly in
London, aged forty-four. He was much and generally re-
spected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Wind, W., light breezes and very fine weather.
PnYmouTir, TUESDAY.— Hsr Majesty's brigantine Bo-
netta, 3, sailed on Monday, at 3 A.m. for the Brazils.
Her Majesty's ship, Cumberland, Captain Peter Ri-
chards, was off this port yesterday, (Monday) afternoon, at
three o'clock, all sail set, wind N.N. W., proceeding on her
voyage, to relieve the Wellesley, 72, Captain George Gold-
smith, doing duty as flag-ship on the North America and
West Indian station.
The merchant schooner Pike, of Shoreham, 180 tons per
register, James Francis master, was towed into this port on
Sunday, by James Hyde's pilot cutter. She sailed from Car-
diff on the 9th of February, laden with a cargo of railway
and has experienced a continua-
by which she lost two tiriaoan,obfohuenadvyto
wNeeswteYrlyorgka,
main-
sails, one trysail, one staysail, and four jibe, and the main-
gaff was broken twice; they were also obliged, for general
praervation' to throw overboard the larboard bower anchor
snd chain cable, end thirty fathoms of the starboard chain,
water-casks, provision- casks, spars. and everything movable
on deck, for the purpose of lightening and also right-
ing the vessel, the cargo having got adrift in the hold.
Finding they could make no progress to the westward, on
the llth of March, being in long. 47, they bore up for a port
in England to replace and repair their losses and damages,
intending to reach Falmouth, but were unable to make that
port. The crew are much disabled from excessive fatigue,
and for ten days neither the master nor mate was able to
keep the log, their hands and arms being covered with salt-
water boils.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Toup Nicolas expired this morn-
ing, at three o'clock, at Windsor-terrace, Citadel-road,
Plymouth.
The Rhadamanthus steam•frigate has just come in from
Portsmouth, bound to the Cape of Good Hope.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, APRIL I.—Lieut. Henry B. Beresford (1642)
to the Penelope steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.
Chief Engineer David Partridge to the Penelope.
Assistant-Surgeon Wm. E. O'Brien (1846) from the Tri-
dent, paid off yesterday at Woolwich, to the Tartarus steam-
vessel, at Woolwich.

Second Master Wm. P. HaMs (1846) to the Teazer steam-
vessel, at Woolwich.

Clerk in charge Robert W. M. Jones (1846) to the
Tartarus.

The Right Hon. Sir Francis T. Baring held a levee at the
Admiralty. at Whitehall, to-day, which was attended by the
following officers :

Captains—Constantine R. Moorsom (1818), Mark H.
Swaney (183 S), Charles Smith (1841), and Wm. H. Brand
(1846).

CoMmanders—Thomas Furber (1824), Joseph M. Mott-
le), (1843), Thomas D. Stewart (1843), Henry Gage Morris
(1846), Frederick Erskine Johnston (1846), Robert Coote
(1847), Walter G. Mansfield (1847), and Reginald J. G.
Mac Donald (1848).
Lieutenants—William H. Lloyd (1812), R. 11. Whits
(182 b), R. D. Stupert:(lB4o), John R. Rodd (1840); George
T. C. smith (1842), John Norris Norman (1842), Arthur R.
Henry (1842), Francesco S. Tremlett (1843), Edward
Hardy (1843), George Edward Knox Gore (1843). Percy
W. Coventry (1844), Henry B. Everett (1844), and William
D. Lyster (1845).
Paymasters and Pursers —William B. Basden (1805) and
John Colwell (1832).
Rear-Admiral J. W. D. iDundas, C. 8., First Naval Lord
of the Admiralty, held a levee to-day, and it was attended
by the following officers :

Captains—Frederick Bullock (1838), Charles Smith
(1841), and David Peat (1847).
Commanders—Marshall Frederick Johnston, Archibald
McMurdo, Edward Smith, and Henry G. Morris.
Lieutenants—H. B_ Beresford, F. S. Tremlett, A. R.
Henry, C. G. GryllF, W. R. Davis, W. H. Pym, H. Lloyd,
Samuel Berrington, and Meynell H. M. Mundy.
Master—H. T. Ellis.
Mate—St. George Rathborne.
Second Masters—Edward McKenzie and R. E. Pym.

THE CEYLON QUESTION.
(From the Times.)
Lord Torrington's speech last night illustrates, what
everybody knows, that when a man has a tolerable case a
simple statement of it, especially from his own lips, is better
than all the evasions, mystifications, and delays that the offi-
cious ingenuity of his friends can effect for him. Could his
Lordship have said what he said last night two years ago,
he might not have satisfied the public that he had acted
with dignity, temper, and discretion, but he would have ob-
tained at once the indemnity due to a zealous bat inexpe-
rienced servant of the State discharging a high responsibi-
lity in a crisis of great difficulty and danger. The governor
of a British colony embracing a :large native population
avowedly disaffected to our rule, only the other day under
the dominion of its own Kings, and still devoted to its
priesthood and its chiefs —a governor of such a
colony called on to suppress a rising en masse in
the summer of 1848, when every mail brought from
Europe another budget of revolutions, could scarcely
hope to be infallible in a year of political failures. In
theory, of course, nothing is more beautiful than a golden
mean between indulgence and harshness, between a fatal
security and an exaggerated estimate of the danger.
Considering ;the time, the office, and the man, there never
was an occasion when it could be plead with more propriety,
"Res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt
" Moliri."

We should imagine that it would be far from easy to ad-
duce the case of a semi-barbarous people, governed effec-
tually, yet entirely without scandal. On the whole, there-
fore, we have always been disposed to take an indulgent view
of certain incidents in Lord Torrington's Ceylon ad-.
ministration that were not quite of a nature to stand a
microscopic scrutiny, or a cold-blooded analysis. From time
to time we have expressed our opinion that the case re-
quired only to be stated. His Lordship's employers and
friends unfortunately appeared to be of another
opinion. They have all along acted as if it required a very
prudent and careful handling. A fair case indeed has been
in the hands of very clever attorneys, who had so ill an
opinion of it as to overlay its merits with legal finesse. We
could never understand why the Noble Secretary and the in-
dustrious Under-Secretary for the Colonies should gratui-
tously put themselves in the position of baffling Mr. Baillie,
and seeming to keep back evidence, when it would have
been so easy to present the world with Lord Torrington's
own version of the facts, and leave it with all its merits
and demerits to the verdict of the public. It is a common
remark Qui s'excuse, s'accuse, but much more is a man held
to plead guilty when he or his friends are apparently shrink-
ing from inquiry. Lord Torrington owes much of his false
position to his ill-judging friends.
But, if Lord Torrington has been injured by his friends,
he has not a little reason to thank his opponents. It was
impossible not to appreciate the ingenuity and humour of
the article in the Quarterly Review of December, on " the
Mysteries of Ceylon ;" but it was equally impossible not to
see that it was simply the case for the prosecution, culled
from the blue-books, and artistically woven into a very
pretty story. In that article there did not occur the
slightest allusion to the former rebellions in Ceylon, to their
treacherous beginnings and sanguinary results, to the con-
stant disaffletion of the natives, rather a different race from
the mild Hindoos ; to the particular juncture of the re-
bellion in 184 S, namely, immediately on the re-
ceipt of intelligence from Europe, then in high
revolution ; to the actual result-dt,tlf Lord. Torring-
ton's administration up to the Me of the article,
and to some other important considerations in his favour. It
it was impossible to leave all the features of his case wholly
unnoticed, they were dexterously thrown into a corner. The
fact that Lord Torrington was merely carrying out a lino of
policy and specific recommendations bequeathed to him by
his predecessor was alluded to slightly and sceptically in
small print at the foot of a page. The undeniable evidence
in support of the very probable fact that the rebellion was
preconcerted and independent of the " Torrington taxes"
was noticed in the same inobtrusive and incredulous man-
ner; and the writer, while enumerating the Portuguese and
Dutch among the miscellaneous ingredients of the
Ceylon population, omitted the French, always, and
especially in 18a8, a very ready channel for the
conveyance of European sentiments to Eastern
populations. It required either some knowledge of the facts
or extraordinary vigilance to detect from the article that the
rebellion really was a rebellion, and not a trifling and local
enzeute, fostered by spies, for the employment of British
muskets, and the acquisition of a little colonial glory. As
Lord Torrington observed last night, some recent events in
this quarter of the world have taught us that an outbreak
may be more serious than it seems, that it is better to over-
rate than to underrate a danger, that precautions are not
ridiculous whenever they answer their purpose, and that a
distinguished body of statesmen, and the greatest captain in
the world, will rather incur the risk of a little ridicule than
of a successful rebellion. From such a case to that drawn up
in the Quarterly Lord Torrington had nothing to fear. He
saw that, and his speech last night was a reply to that clever
but disingenuous attack.

Here, fiowever, we must stop. A successful defence against
a partisan attack,—an Appeal to the generosity of the public,
—a proper case for indemnity, is a very different thing from
an entire justification. Lord Torrington may claim the credit
of having extinguished in the bud a dangerous rebellion, but
he has not been so fortunate as to do so in the most credit-
able manner. The gravity of British counsels and the hu-
manity of Brif ish arms were ill sustained in the presence of a
conquered and not very formidable race. It is not easy to
see whether Lord Torrington felt himself dealing with ene-
mies whose ferocity justified rigour, or with savages
whose folly deserved contempt. Without betraying
more fear, he might have shown more respect for them,
and treated them more as civilised beings. However,
the course he took was not injurious in its general conse-
quences, for the Cingalese population is now peaceful, obe-
dient, and prosperous, and these results have been there
purchased at infinitely less cost than in most other countries
effected by the political epidemic of 1848. As for the nu-
merous minor charges in which the wit of our contempora-
ries has been revelling for some time—the dog-tax, the arms-
tax, and all the rest of them —these are matters of detail,
and his Lordship's reply on them is at least as sound as the
wit of his antagonists. Should Mr. Baillie give the indict-
ment a more formidable as well as more serious form in his
forthcoming assault, it will remain to be seen whether
Lord Torrington can meet an accusation as well as disarm
a jest.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT'.
@Roar OUR OWN CORRESPONDE
NT.)
COWES,APRIL
1.
WHAT'S DOVE AT SEA.—On Saturday, the captain of a
Sunderland brig, :just arrived at Cowes, from abroad, was
taken before the Newport magistrates, charged by one of the
crew with having been instrumental in the'death of one of
his men, a lad about 18 years of age. It was stated that on
the voyage home the. lad was attacked with dysentery, and
the captain had the second mate throw cold water over
him, that he died soon after, and was thrown overboard.
The man's statement was not supported by the rest of the
crew, and the case was dismissed. While our only two po-
licemen were engaged with this case at Newport, the boat-
men and the residents on the watch-house quay we-e at-
tracted by the cries from a schooner in the Roads, on board
which the mate was beating the black cook with a large
rope. A shore boat went off with two hands, but they were
not allowed to go on board. About an hour afterwards
(there being no police or magistrate in the town, and the
cries continuing) a boat with four hands went off', and
brought the black man on shore. The schooner's boat Was
On shore with the captain, and on its going off with; provi-
sions, one of the men used strong language to the *late for
his cruelty to the cook, when she latter took a piStol and
presented at the man, who was then putting some" beef on
board ; fortunately, he put up his hand and knocked down
the muzzle, at the moment of the trigger being draWn It
was loaded with swan shot, one of which took the thick part
of his hand, and three his thigh. On the return of the police
they took the mate out of the schooner, and placed him in
the Cowes police station-house, where he remained till Mon-
day. On Sunday the schooner sailed, and there being no
evidence before the magistrates on Monday, the mate was
discharged.

sent—Mr. Pusey, M.P. (chairman), Colonel Challoner, Mr.
Joseph Locke, M.P., Mr. J. V. Shelley, Mr. H. S. Thomp-
son. Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Hamond, the Baron Mertens
d'Ostin, M. de Bethmann-Hollwig, and Mr. Lampson. Col.
Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee, was present at
the meeting.
Mr. Slaney, M.P., transacted business yesterday with the
Railway Commissioners at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation of hotel-keepers, consisting of Mr. Gardiner
(Golden Cross), Mr. Ellis (Richmond), Messrs. James and
ton (Morley's Hotel), Mr. Staples (Albion Hotel), Mr.
Wright (Clarendon), Mr. Burrell and Mr. Poole ( Bredon-
house Hotel), Mr. Elder (Adelphi Hotel), Mr. Tapster (Cla-
rence Hotel), and Mr. Newbon, solicitor, had an interrievr
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Mr. John Wood, ihhairman of the Board of Inland Reve-
nue, Mr. Pressly, and Mr. Timm, had an interview yesterday
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

SPORTING NOTES:
No. XXVI.
THE SPRING "MEET" AT EPSOM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—The race for the Granby Handicap yesterday de-
ceived the judgment of the " knowing ones ; ' the great gun,
Clothworker, supported universally throughout the past
week, at all sorts of odds, from 3 to 1 against, to even on
him, despite his jockey's ( Mr. Scobell) artistica' handling,
was beaten in the last stride by half a neck ; the weight
(11st 101 b) telling fearfully. The winner, Melford, an aged
horse, tooled by Lord Cardross, received 241bs of the
favourite ; and the third horse, Warwick, who was beaten
a bare half length, received 201bs for his,year. Panope and
New Forest Deer were beaten off. The race for the Belvoir
Castle Stakes was rendered interesting from the eircumatange
of Theseus, a showy son of Minotaur and New Year's
Day, being among the starters; he has been invested on,
at long shots, as a respectable outsider for the grand event
at Epsom on the 21st May; in fact, as little as 40 and 33
to I were booked about him on Monday and Tuesday. His
appearance when at the post, however, did not please some
of the cognoscenti, and the result of his first race this year,
although a winner, does not please me • for it was with
some difficulty, that he accomplished the task of giving
Knook Knoll 71bs. and a beating, having won by a neck
only after a desperate set-to for the last hundred yards ;
Tightwaist was third, with Truth and Sir Rowland Tren-
chard bringing up the rear.
The Epsom Metropolitan Meeting commences on Thurs-
day, with some " across -country" events, which I do not in-
tend commenting on, more than observing that the British
Yeoman, lOst 121 b, and Mulligan, lOst, have been supported
for dollops of money, at very small odds ; Spring Buck has
also been inquired after; Sir John's running is reported du-
bious; and a good many careful speculators have been in-
vesting on Sir Peter Laurie, and nibbling at twelves and
fifteens about Spectator and Scavenger.
The legitimate portion of the reunion will come off on
Friday, commencing at one o'clock with the Epsom Trial
Stakes of 5 soya. each; for three yrs old, 7st; and four, 9st.
One mile. To which is added, I believe, 501., by that remark-
ably fine specimen of an almost extinct species—the old
English gentleman, the late Sir Gilbert Heathcote, who, with
regret I heard, departed this life last week. The entries for
this stake close at four o'clock this afternoon; I will make a
brief comment on them to-morrow. At a quarter to two the
second race is timed; it is the City and Suburban Handicap
of 15 soya each, 10 ft, &c., with a bonus of 1501. added. One
mile and a quarter. There are fifty-one subs to this stake,
and twenty-seven acceptances, and the following will pro-
bably be found at the post :—Pitsford, 4 yrs, Bst Sib ; Elthi-
ron, 5 yrs, Bst Sib ; The Swede, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib ; Haley,
6 yrs, 7st Blb ; Maid of Team Valley, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ; Wood-
lark, 5 yrs, 7st 6lb (d) ; Dulcet, aged, 7st ; Windhound, 4
yrs, Gst 12Ib ; Eva, 5 yrs, 6st 91b; Handsome Doe, 4 yrs,
6st 91b ; Teeswater, 4 yrs, Est 91b ; Castanero, 4 yrs, Est 4lb ;
Brington, 4 yrs, Est 41b ; Duste-, 6 yrs, sst 4lb ; Tightwaist,
3 yrs, oat 41b; Theorem, 3 yrs. sst; Empress colt, 3 yrs,
sbt ; The Incurable, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b. It would be tedious to
wade through an analysis of their pretensions; let it suffice
to note down the latest moves concerning the stake and the
probable result. Since the Incurable's victory at Northamp-
ton for Lord Spencer's Plate, she has maintained the pre-
eminent position of premier favourite, and her running
then warranted it ; she won then all the way, and I
think it very
`into
she may do so now •, but
a doubt will creep into my mind anent the distance, whether
it is not a furlong or so too much, at least, for a good finish
with so diminutive a jockey, even supposing the filly can
manage it; therefore, should THE INCURABLE miss the
mark, I shall bring WINDUOUND, HAGLEY, and
THEOREM to the rescue, taking the first-named for choice.
Elthiron has a little too much weight allotted to him ; he
oh,
tasT however,
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Brington,
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twlh a'iset ➢l‘lid
havea
been mercifully treated by the handicapper, and have each
been backed for a great deal of hard cash, especially at the
list-houses.

The third race on the list, marked for half•past two, is
the Two years old Stakes, for which most of the following
will run, viz. :—Queen Bee, Litle John or The Nun, Miss
Giddy, Fire Queen, Carinetta, The Old Lad, Pslerine filly,
Flirt, Apostate, filly by Hetman Platoff, out of Sircingle,
Freedom, Prince Rupert, and Miss Conyngham. Of the
dark division Apostate and Freedom are about the - best.
Prince Rupert has also been backed for a tolerable amount;
but it is with him as with The Greek at Northampton,
his day has not arrived. Of the remainder I con-
sider Tne Old Lad, Flirt, and Miss Conyngham to be the
best, and think, without Mr. Payne spoils my calculations
with Chaffinch. or Freedom, that FLIRT or THE OLD LAD
will be the winner.

The fourth race, run at half-past three, is for the Sixth
Great Metropolitan Handicap of 25 sous. each, &c., with 350
added. Two miles and a quarter. For this stake, out of
102 nominations and 44 acceptances. somewhere about the
following very respectable field will be attracte t to the post,
viz.:—Peep-o'-day-Boy, aged, Bst 101 b (d); Glance, 5 yrs,
Bst 81b (d); Old Dan Tucker, 5 yrs, Bst 21b; Snowstorm, 5
yrs, 7st 91b ; or Raby, 5 yrs, 7st 71b ; Vatican, 5 yrs, 7st 91b
(d ) ; Vampyer, aged, 7st 71b ; Sauter- le. Coupe, 5 yrs, 7st 51b;
(Edipus, 5 yrs, Est 121 b ; Minimum, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b ; The
Sweep. 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (d); Kathleen, 4 yrs, Est 91b; Agis,
6 yrs, 6st 81b; John of Berwick, 4 yrs, 6st 61b; Selina, 5
yrs, Est 41b ; Estafette, 4 yrs, 6st; Valentine, 4 yrs, Gs 31b ;
Aristocrat, 4 yrs, Sat 101 b ; Cnveus, 3 yrs. sst ; Hesse-Hom-
burg, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b; Sunrise, 3 yrs, sst 1W; Ingratitude,
3 yrs, 4st 61b. My opinion on this race has been published
for such a length of time, that it is well known ; it has un-
dergone no alteration whatever. I still think that the race
will lay among tho following batch:—Estafette, Old Dan
Tucker, Cnseus, Vampyer, Kathleen, Hesse-Homberg, and
Sunrise; and that eNdEUS or SUNRISE will be the win-
ner, with Estafette, the game Old Dan Tucker, Valentine,
and Percy's nags healing the ruck.
The ether stakes are not entered for at the present mo-
ment, so can give no opinion concerning them.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

April 2, 1651.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CROXTON-PARK RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Farmer's Plate of 50 sovs., and 10 for the second ; for
horses not thorough-bred; mares and geldings allowed
31b; to be ridden by farmers or their sons. heats, two
miles.
Mr. G. March's, jun., gby The Sea, 5 yrs, 12st(Green) 1 1
Mr. G. Parr's Cropwell, 6 yrs, 12st slb (Vincent) 2 2
Mr. R. Barlow's Speculation, aged, 12st 81b (Pilgrim) 0 3
Mr. J. Stokes's Folly, 5 yrs, list 11Ib .(Rouse) 0 0
Mr. W. Hilton's Wait-a-while,s yrs,llst 111b(Owner) 0 0
Mr. Green's Johnny Russell, 6 yrs, 12st 81b (Foster) 0 0
Mr. Sharp's Black Bess, 6 yrs, 12st 41b (Owner) 0 0
Mr. W. Finder's Minx, 6 yrs, 123 t 51b (Sampey) 0 0
Mr. R. Hawley's Catmos, 6 yrs, 12st 81b (Webster) 0 0
Mr. F. Cross's Fanny Gray, 5 yrs, 12st (Briggs) 0 U
First Heat—Betting-2 to 1 agst Cropwell, 3 to 1 agst
Johnny Russell, 3 to 1 agst Folly, and 4 to 1 agst The Sea
gelding. Won by half a length; three lengths between
second and third. Second Heat— 6t05 on The Sea gelding,
and 5 to 1 agst Cropwell. Won by half a length; two lengths
between second and third.

The Belvoir Castle Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 80
added; for three years old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b;
maidens at the time of naming allowed 31b; having started
twice at that time, 51b ; and thrice or more, 71b ; winners
extra. One mile.

Mr. G. Higgins's Theseus, Bst 71b
Mr. H. Stebbiug's Knook Knoll, Bst Burnby) 2
Mr. Dawson's Tightwaist, Bat Sib (Cartwright) 3
Mr. Oliver's Sir Rowland Trenchard, Bst . (Flatman) 4
Mr. E. Phillips's Truth, Bst 51b .................(J. Evans) 5
Betting -7 to 4 on Theseus 9 to 2 agst Tightwaist, and 5
to 1 agst Sir Rowland Trenchard. K.nook Knoll went off
with the lead, followed by Tightwaist, and carried it on to
the half distance, were Theseus went up, and, after a good
race between the two, won by a neck.
The Scurry Stakes of 10 sow. each, h ft, with 20 added, list
51b each; five yrs old and upwards, never having won a
plate or sweepstakes, allowed 51b. The winner to be sold
for 120 soya. if demanded, &c. Half a mile.
Lord Clifden's Sagacity, aged, list (Mr. Williams) 1
Mr. C. L. Thorpe's Forest Flower ... (Count Batthyany) 2
Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Iron Rail, list 51b (Capt. Little) 3
Betting-3 and 4tol on Sagacity. After the first 100
yards Sagacity and Forest Flower went on by themselves to
within a few yards of the stand, where Sagacity showed in
front, and, maintaining her position, won by three-quarters
of a length. An objection was made against Sagacity, for
carrying 51b short of weight, and allowed by the stewards.
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft if declared,
with 50 added ; for three yrs old and upwards ; winners
extra. T.Y.C.
Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, 4 yrs, 6st 9lb ...... (Wells) 1
Mr. F. Dawson's Tightwaist, 3 yrs, 7st 3lb ...... (Arnold) 2
Lord W. Powlett's, St. Ann, 6 yrs, Bst 131b...(5. Rogers) 3
Mr. Waring's Gloom, 3 yrs, 6st 81b .............. .(Preece) 4
Mr. Sutton's Knight f the Whistle, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (Cowep) 5
Betting-7 to 4 agst Tightwaist, 2to agst agst Humphrey,
and sto 2 agst St. Ann. Humphrey, Tightwaist, and St.
Ann went away abreast, and kept well together to the dis-
tance, when Humphrey parted company, went on by him-
self, and won easily by a length and a half, a length sepa -
rating the second and third.
The Granby Handicap of 20 soya. each, 1.1 ft, and 5 only if
declared, &c.
The winner to subscribe to this stake in
1852, and to pay 15 SON'S. to the fund. About one mile and

a half.
Mr. H. D. Bromley na Melford (h b), 103 t (Ld. Cardross) 1
Mr. Parr's lothworker, 5 yrs, list 101 b ...(Mr. Scobell) 2
Mr. R. E. Oliver na Warwick, 4 yrs, lOst 41b (Capt. Little) 3
Mr. Parr's Panope, 4 yrs, lOst 91b ...(( ount Batthyany) 4
Lord Granby na New Forest Deer, 104 91b (Mr. White) 5
Betting-Even on Clothworker— 3 to 1 asst New Forest
c
Daer, 4to I agst Warwick, and 6to 1 agst Milford. War-
wick, with Panope and New Forest Deer well up, carried on
the running to the hill, where Melford took it up, carried it
on to the end, and won, after a good race, by half a neck;
half a neck between Clothworker and Warwick; New Forest
Deer a bad fourth,
The 13illesden Coplow Stakes.
Lysimachus ••• ...2
LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESD4Y.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.— 6 to 1 agst Sunrise (t)
7 to 1 agst entens (t)— 9 to 1 agst Valentine (t) - 9 to 1 agst
Hesse liomburg (t)-10 to 1 agst Agin (t)-14 to 1 agst
Sauter le Coupe (0-15 to 1 agst Kathleen.
CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst Rhesus (t)-12 to 1 agst Mon-
tague (0-13 to 1 agat Black Doctor (t)-I',o to 6 agst The
Italian (t)-100 to 5 agat Haricot-500 to 10 agst Tight-
waist.

Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.—. 6 to 4 agst Grecian (t),
and 5 to '2 agst Mountain Sylph colt.
Pgiusx.--No betting.

[PRICE SD.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
combinations,
d attempted
unicated
which the
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EpsdulibDlTlE,iiiheTnes,txththmeefionßlilsoetwperuiibnalic
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to realise, have definitively failed."
It is rumoured in the political salons that the fail-
ure has been occasioned by the refusal of MM. BA..
ROCEIE, FouLD, and LEON FAUCEIER to enter any
Cabinet of which ODILON BABROT is a member, and
the reason given is that the latter gentleman has mani-
fested a disposition to relax somewhat the rigour of
the Electoral Law of the 31st May,
A great scandal has occurred in Paris. A diplo-
matist, so it is stated, had been discovered cheating at
cards, and had been kicked out of society after having
been compelled to disgorge his plunder. He, how-
ever turns out to have been no diplomatist at all, but
au arrant impostor who passed himself off as the re-
presentative of New Granada.
The offices of the Receiver• General at Lyons have
been destroyed by fire. All the official registers were
destroyed.
The Moniteur publishes the official returns of
the average price of wheat in the various depart-
ments of France, from which it appears that the
highest price is 20f. sc. the hectolitLe at Marseilles,
and the lowest price is 1 lf. Go. the hectolitre at
Verdun.

The-Eire per Cents. opened at 93E :60e., and closed
at 93f. 40c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57 f. 350.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 895 E; Rouen, 650 f.; Havre,
286 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 478 E 75c.; Avignon, 205 E;
Vierzon, 450 f.; Bale, 158 f. 75c.; Boreaux, 402 f. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 372 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes,
2771. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Arm 1.
Boulogne and .Amiens, 10—Central of ;France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 181/9—Maria Antonia, :New, 31A—Namur
and Liege, BN—Northern of France, 1514—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 414 - Rouen and Havre, 111/2 Sambre and
Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes, 6 4, .