The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

THEN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1851.

T. Barrons, mason, Highweek, Devorj,,nim
J. Dobb, manufacturing chemi,.:
igan, Lancashire.
R. Ferguson, engraver, Prst.,n, Lancashire.
J. Jones, miller, Leed:,,tr,..Gt Liverpool.
M. Lawless, w?re',,ounman, Mill-lane, Liverpool.
John Marslar,d, timber agent, Hollinwood, Lancashire.
Holland Ilassey, butcher, Houghton, Lancashire.
Haworth Maxwell, farmer, Sabden-bridge, Lancashire.
T. Mawdsley, journeyman joiner, North-road, Preston.
John Neems, farmer, Stroad, Gloucestershire.
Richard Smith Roach, Navestock, Essex.
J. Stabb, mason and builder, Newton Abbott, Devonshire.
Richard Sharrock, farmer, Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire.
John Stone, licensed victualler, Manchester.
C. Samson, agent for the sale of ale and porter, Liverpool.
Matthew Wilkinson, shawl manufacturer, Laneshaw-
bridge, Lancashire.
Joseph Everist, gentleman, Welling, Kent.

BANQUET AT THE MANSION-ROUSE.
On Monday evening the Lord Mayor and the Lady
gave a splendid Easter entertainment at the
Maa , env
irons
!house. The Egyptian-hall was superbly deco-
rated and illuminated, and the company, which num-
bered about 400 persons, included several Foreign Minis-
ters and their ladies, Members of Parliament, Aldermen,
and:Common Councilmen, and many of our most excel-
lent fellow-citizens. Tho band of the Coldstream
Guards were in attenaance, and played a variety of po-
pular airs during dinner. Mr. Harper acted as trumpeter,
and Mr. Harker discharged the duties of toast-master
with his usual efficiency.
On the removal of the cloth grace was given with
great effect by the following vocalists:—The Misses
Pyne, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Francis, Mr. Machin, and Mr. J.
L. Hatton, who presided at the pianoforte. Nothing
could have been more judicious than Mr. Lockey's se-
lection of vocal music, especially those charming ballads
in which Miss Louisa Pyne so greatly distinguished
herself.

Among the company present were—the Tutkish Am-
bassador, Baron Charterien, Earl and Countess of
Enniskillen, Earl and Countess of Effingham, the
Bishop of Oxford, the Cursitor Baron and Mrs. Bankes,
General Sir Colin Halkett, Lieutenant-Governor of Chel-
sea Hospital, and Lady Halkett, Major-General De-
lamotte, General Sir George Pollock, Mr. Master-
man, M.P., Sir James Duke, M.P., Colonel Lawrence,
Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Legge, Mr. Colqahoun, Mr.
Deleprene, Sir James and Lady Hamilton, Hon. Charles
Villiers, M.P., Hon. H. Byng, Colonel Sibthorp, M.P.,
Sir John and Miss Burgoyne, Mr. Wyld, M.P., and
Mrs. Wyld, Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., Fitzstephen French,
M.P.,:Colonel Chatterton, ALP., and Mrs. Chatterton,
Mr. Macgregor,:M.P., Governor of the Bank of England
and Mrs. Hankey, the Dowager Lady Napier, the Hon.
William Bathurst, Alderman Humphery, M.P., and
Mrs. Humphery, Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr. Plowden,
M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Dunne, M.P., Captain Burton,
R.N., Mr. D. Waddington, M.P., and Mrs. Waddington,
Mr. Keating, M.P., Alderman Sir Peter Laurie, Mr.
Gilpin, Mr. and Mrs. Baggilley, the Master of the
Apothecaries' Company, the Rev. Dr. Rice, Mr. Osgood
Haubury, Rev. Mr. Cattley and Mrs. Cattley, Captain
Harmer, Captain Rice, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Garford,
Sir Henry and Lady Ellis, Rev. Dr. Vivian and Mrs. and
the Misses Vivian, Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. H.
Kemble, Mr. Zohrab, Mr. and Mrs. Bodkin, Mr. and Mrs.
Wentworth Dilke, Mr. and Mrs. Blewett, Mr. Paxton,
Captain Powell, Colonel Jackson, Dr. Bushman, Mr. and
Mrs. Hartley, Major Moore, Mr. F. Macdonald, Mr.
J. Yilcher, Mr. Hammock, Captain Denham and Mrs.
Denham, Captain and Mrs. Ryder Burton, Rev. H.
Montgomery, Alderman Wilson, Alderman, Mrs., and
Miss Hooper, Alderman and Sheriff Carden and Mrs.
Carden, Alderman Farncomb, Alderman Challis and Mrs.
Challis, Alderman Hunter and Mrs. Hunter, Alderman
and Mrs. Finnis, Alderman and Mrs. Lawrence, Alderman
and Mrs. Wire, Alderman and Mrs. Carter, Sheriff
Hodgkinson and Mrs. Hodgkinson, the Chamber-
lain and Mrs. Brown, Mr. Calvert, Mr. An-
derton, Mr. L. Cubitt, Mr. Hodgkinson, Under-
Sheriff Law and Mrs. Law, Under-Sheriff Ellis and
Miss Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. John Wood, Mr. Wethercole,
Mr. W. D. Starling, Mr. D. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Pro-
berts, Mr. and Mrs. Hasman, Mr. and Mrs. Tate, Dr.
Hood, Mr. R. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, Mr.
and Mrs. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. Towle, Mr.
Goldsmith, Mr. Scrymgeour, Mr. and Mrs. Priest, Mr.
J. Henderson, Mr. J. Kinnersley and Mrs. Hooper, Mr.
W. G. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, Mr. Hill, Sir
Seymour Sadler, Mr. Henry Kemble, Mr. and Mrs.
Moore, Mr. Capper, Mr. Deputy Stacey, Mr. and Miss
Lister, Mr. and Mrs. J. Carr, Mr. A. Schutz, Mr. E.
Walkin, Mr. J. Billingshurst, Mr. Deputy and Miss
Cork, Miss Ryall, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Humphery, Mr. Lye, &c., &c.
The usual loyal toasts of "the Queen," "Prince Al-
bert," "Albert, Prince of Wales, and the rest of the
Royal Family," having been disposed of, Major-General
Sir John Burgoyne returned thanks on behalf of " the
Army," and Captain Ryder Burton for " the Navy."
The next toast was " the Church," and, in conjunc-
tion with it, the Lord Mayor gave the name of the Bishop
of Oxford.

The Bishop of OXFORD, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, said that the greatest gratification he or his fellow-
labourers could enjoy was the approbation of their fellow-
citizens. lle felt that they all loved their Church, that
they wcro ready to maintain the liberty of all classes;
and that while they wore prepared to maintain the spiri-
tual liberty of all, they were, at the same time, ready to
cast back the aggressions of any party or sect upon that
spiritual freedom.—(Cheers.)
The Turkish Minister, Zohrab, responded to the toast
of " The Foreign Ministers." The Earl of Enniskillen
spoke for "The House of Lords," and Colonel Sibthorp
for " The House of Commons,"
The Bishop of OXFORD then gave " The health of the
Lord Mayor," who appropriately responded, and toasted
" The Carsitor Baron of the Exchequer."
Mr. BANKER, M.P., returned thanks, and proposed
" The health of the Lady Mayoress," which was received
with the greatest enthusiasm.
Some other toasts followed, and the festivity was pro-
longed until midnight.
Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of Cornhill, supplied the
banquet, and all their arrangements were of the most
unexceptionable character.

EXTENSIVE DEFALCATION AT
WINDSOR.
(From the Windsor Express.)
Happily for the wellbeing of the royal borough,
we are not often called upon to record any startling
circumstance in connexion with its domestic history,
bu'.• an event has just occurred, of so unexpected and
unparalleled a character, and by which the interests of
so many parties have been affected, that we feel
bound to give the particulars, so far as they have as
yet transpired, every publicity. For many years past
Mr. Andrews has been a surgeon, enjoying a most
extensive and lucrative practice in partnership with
Mr. Brown, of Sheet-street. Being unmarried, Mr.
Andrews occupied apartments in the house of his
partner, and, to judge by his constant appearance in
public, either walking or driving about the town
and neighbourhood, no man could have been more
exemplary in the performance of his professional duties.
Last week Mr. Andrews suddenly disappeared, and has
not since been seen in Windsor; nor was the cause of
his sudden disappearance long a secret, for it turns out,
on inquiry, that his liabilities in this town and neigh-
bourhood approach the enormous sum of 60,0001.,
entirely for borrowed money. The sufferers are
parties moving in almost every rank of respectable
society, from titled aristocracy to the humble trades-
man, and, we regret to say, no small number of the
latter. For some time past it would seem to have
been the practice of Mr. Andrews to ascertain the
pecuniary means of his patients, and wherever he
found them labouring under a plethora of ready
cash, he appears to have relieved them effec-
tually, by borrowing the whole of it either on
his own personal security, or on the security of his
friends ; ladies, too, have been laid under contribu-
tion to a large amount. A wealthy relative, it is
rumoured, has been eased of something like 10,0001.
The amount due to his partner, for money lent and
liabilities, is said to exceed 20,0001. At first sight the
affair would seem incredible, and it would have been
impossible, had the creditors of Mr. Andrews used the
common precautions which prudence alone would sug-
gest. They appear generally to have been tempted by
the dangerous bait of a high rate of interest-15 per
cent. has been named—and each lender playing
the part of " Every man his own lawyer ;" the se-
cret of the fugitive's liabilities was kept intact up to
the moment when he took his departure. The imme-
diate cause of that departure has been variously stated.
It has been said that he had occasion for a large sum
of money to meet payments then due—that suspicion
had been cast upon certain signatures—and it is
quite certain that on the Sunday previous to his de-
parture he tried unsuccessfully to borrow the trifling
sum of 9,000/. of more than one person with whom
he had had no previous monetary transactions.
What steps the creditors will take, how his wealthy,
connexions will act, and the precise nature of the se-
curities held, we have not yet been able to learn, but
the whole truth will be known quite soon enough, we
fear, for the parties most interested. It does not ap-
pear that Mr. Andrews has aggrandised himself by
these transactions, for we bear that he borrowed
something like 301. to enable him to leave the town •
and there seems to be no certain clue as to how he
has disposed of the enormous sum of money, which'
in addition to a handsome income from his profession'
he must have been receiving for years past. One re.!
port points to mining speculations, and experience
tells us that it would be no difficult task to sink
60,0001. in that way ; then we are told that the delin-
quent paid nocturnal visits to the metropolis, and was
a regular attendant at the West-end gambling
houses. We do not vouch for the truth of either of
these reports, but merely give them as they reach us.
R. most remarkable part of the story, however, re-
mains to be told. The steady, sedate, and outwardly
pious Mr. Andrews has been enacting the gay Lothario
on the most extensive scale. We are almost afraid
to say how many living evidences of his prowess, we
have heard, are now quartered in this locality. This,
too, was a profound secret to all but the parties con-
cerned up to the time of his departure. And here,
again, we are struck with astonishment at his suc-
cess ; prematurely old in his appearance, so near-
sighted as to wear spectacles, bald-headed, and
scarcely a tooth in his mouth, as be rolled by in his
rumbling phaeton, enveloped in his cloak, he looked
like anything rather than a " lady-killer.„ It will be
seen by a notice in another column that the partner-
ship between Messrs. Brown and Andrews has been
dissolved.

AIIEILICAN MAIL PACKET STATION..-...We received
from London, on Wednesday, letters announcing that the
Government Commission on the mail station question had
decided to report in favour of Holyhead. We do not under-
stand that the Government has as yet sanctioned the pro-
posed removal from Liverpool, but we recommend the adop-
tion of strong and instant measures to meet the threat-
ened danger. Deputations of leading men ought immedi-
ately to be dispatched to protect the interests of the American
trade of Liverpool and the north of England.—Liverpool
Albion.
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not, than
to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish
both has little to learn in hypocrisy.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
The mate of a vessel named the Amity, of South
Shields, was " tarred and feathered " on Wednesday night,
for having sinned articles for lower wages than the amount
a.te4 -Or the Seamens Associatim

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.
By the Royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Har-
rison, we have advices from New York to the Bth,
Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to the 10th inst. She
brings 130 passengers.
Our accounts from New York by the Canada,
which extended to the Bth instant (the usual tele-
graphic dispatch via Halifax not having been re-
ceived), are of unusual interest, bringing a large
variety of intelligence from the West Indies, South.
America, &c.
Letters from New York report, with respect to the
domestic affairs of the United States, that political
matters remain quite.
No further disturbances had occurred at Boston
touching the fugitive slave arrested there on the
eve of the Franklin's departure. Large meetings of
the populace were being held, and the Rev. Theodore
Parker and other speakers urged violent resistance
to the laws, but the prisoners were safely guarded
by the military, &0., and no rising occurred on the
7th. Judge Shaw refused a writ of habeas corpus
applied for on the petition of Thomas Simms, the
fugitive slave.
Fugitive slaves were discovered by the commis-
sioners living upon the flesh of their dead companions.
Letters from Washington, in the New York Journal
of Commerce, express a probability that a Deficit
Bill for 12,000,000 dolls. will be presented on the re-
assembling of Congress. C. M. Ingersoll, Demo-
crat and Unionist, had been elected to Congress for
Connecticut. It is announced, also, that the Mexican
Boundary Commission had arranged the difficulties
with the Mexican Commission, and that an initial
point was fixed on the Rio Grande.
Our New York files announce the launch of the
steam-ship Pioneer, of 2,700 tons, on the sth, intended
to carry passengers to Europe to the Exposition.
Several new and somewhat threatening crevasses
had occurred on the Mississippi.
From Texas we learn that the Hungarian colonists
had met a most favourable reception.
Our mercantile letters from New York state that
owing to the influx of gold from California, &c., the
threatened decline in sterling exchange had not been
realized.

Our letters from San Francisco extend to the sth
of March, being 16 days later than our last accounts.
Great excitement has been caused by the threatened
lynching in San Francisco of two men suspected of
almost murdering a merchant named Jansen, in
his store, and robbing him of 2,000 dollars. Ulti-
mately the jury disagreed, and the people, after
tremendous excitement, quietly dispersed. Political
affairs were also in an excited condition, arising
from the struggle to elect a senator to the United
States. From the mines we learn that dry weather
continued to be experienced, and from the lack of
rain apprehensions were entertained in many new
quarters; locations had, however, been explored which
promised to yield largely, and from the general
tenor of the accounts it was expected that unusually
large receipts of dust would be received during the
spring, the miners having adopted plans :to meet
the difficulty. Gold dust was already arriving
somewhat more freely at San Francisco, and the
assayers were fully employed. Quartz rock mining
and crushing by machinery was being prosecuted
with great activity. On the 2d of March two steamers
were destroyed by fire at San Francisco. Our
accounts state, in regard to mercantile affairs, that
since the departure of the previous mail business
operations had been light. Goods had been offered
freely for sale at auction, and lower prices accepted.
Drafts on England at sight, 48d. to 50d. one dollar ;
ditto, 60 days, 49d. to 50d. do. France, sight, sf. to
par. Hamburgb, sight, 43 to 44 for one dollar ;
ditto, 60 days, 44 to 441 ditto ; Valparaiso, 30 days,
6 per cent. premium. Mexico, 30 days, par to 1 per
cent. premium. Gold dust, 16 dolls. 50c. ; quick-
silver, 15 dolls. 50c.; doubloons, 16 dolls. ; sove-
reigns, 4 dolls. 85c.; 10 guilder pieces, 4 dolls.; 20f.
pieces at Custom-house, 3 dolls. 85c. Money was
rather more easy, and first-class paper was going at
6 to 8 per cent. per month.

The Pacific Mail Company had raised their rate of
freight on dust to li per cent. from San Francisco to
Panama.

Letters from the' Gulf of Mexico received in New
York announced, in relation to the Tehuantepec
Railroad Company's operations on the Isthmus, that
the engineers had discovered two deep, well sheltered,
and spacious harbours on the Pacific shores, a few
miles south-east of the town of Tehuantepec.
From Chagres we have accounts to the 29th, and
from Panama to the 26th ult. On the 25th a de-
slructive fire took place on the island of Tobago, at
Panama, from which the storehouses and property of
the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company were barely
saved. Some 30 houses were destroyed. On the
28th the men who murdered eight persons OA the
Chagres river were to be shot.

Letters from Havannah of the 3d inst. received at
New York state that political affairs had been quiet,
although vague rumours of a revolutionary attempt
had prevailed at New Orleans.
On mercantile affairs we learn that freights, owing
to numerous arrivals, had receded :—Cowes, and a
market, 21.105. to 21. 15s. ; Baltic, 21. 123.6 d. to 21.75.
Gd.; Mediterranean, 21. 12s. 6d. to 31. Exchange on
London, 7 per cent., and in some cases a trifle more.
Sugar exportations had been light during the week,
but buyers were numerous ; white regular, 8 to 81.
Coffee, dull at 7i to 81. Other letters state that on
the 26th ult. a serious fire occurred at San Diegos
de Los Banosi ; six houses were consumed. Henry
Clay still remained in the city.
Valparaiso accounts of February 25 state that the
Copiapo railroad was making satisfactory progress,
and the survey of the route to Santiago had been
carried fifty miles with favourable results.
Her Majesty's ship Daedalus had been ordered to
take on board 20 months' provisions in order to carry
succour to the Plover and other ships searching for
Sir J. Franklin.

Her Majesty's ship Portland arrived out on the Bth
Political affairs were tranquil, and little doubt
existed, that in March Moritt would be elected Pre-
sident.

Mercantile affairs had improved, large sales had
been made, and the houses appeared satisfied.
The British steamer Vulcan has been purchased
to run to the southern ports. We lear❑ that the Bri-
tish brig Brutus had been lost in the bay of St. Quen-
tino, with all on board but two.

From Oregon we have accounts to Feb. 22, bul
they are unimportant.

From the Sandwich Islands, under date Jan. 28th,
we learn that a terrible gale had been experienced;
several vessels were much damaged. The difficulties
with the French were expected to he amicably set-
tled. Business was dull. Letters from Hong-Kong
had been received only seventeen days after their de-
parture from China.
Letters from Peru state that the result of the Pre-
sidential election had excited no disturbances. Troops
had been dispatched to quell a rising of slaves in
Truxillo. Letters from Canada state that Mr. Thom-
pson was still lecturing there on slavery. Some signs
of resumption in the annexation movement are noted.
The postal establishment had been handed over to the
Provincial Government on the stb, and the rates
throughout Canada were 5 cents.
From St. John's, New Brunswick, we learn, un-
der date of April 6th, that the Legislature opened
on the 25th ult. His Excellency, in his address,
referred to the dispute which existed between his pre-
decessors and the Assembly, and announced that he
was prepared to introduce a responsible Government
into the colony in a modified form ; and also to sur-
render the disposal of her Majesty's Crown revenues
when the Legislature shall have agreed to certain con-
ditions required on the part of the Crown.
From Jamaica we have files of journals to the 31st
ult. (being 14 days later), announcing that the Royal
Mail steam-ship Trent, Clarke commander, arrived
there on the 25th, with eight passengers, and left on
the 26th for Vera Cruz. _ _ _

_ .
Her Majesty's ship Alarm, 26, and Persian, 16,
left Port Royal on the 27th for Havannah and Ber-
muda ; and her Majesty's steamer Alban on the 31st
for Grey Town and Bermuda.
Our files report a variety of cases of cholera as
having re-appeared in the Lenidas Bale district.
Numerous deaths are reported.
His Excellency the Governor had transmitted to
the House of Assembly a long ;dispatch from Earl
Grey on the labour supply question, on which sub-
ject much discussion was expected.

at the quotations. Subsequently 2,000 bales were sold,
making the sales of the day 6,000 bales. On the subject
of the crops there is nothing new to communicate, the
general opinion centring on 2,200,000 bales."
Iron-25 tons of Coltness pig sold tat 21 dolls. 50c., at
six months. The market is inactive.
Ashes—Pots are steady, at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 6ic.;
and pearls, at 5 dolls. 75c, to 5 dolls. 81ic.
Naval Stores—Sales of spirits of turpentine were made
to-day at 35c. cash. Rough turpentine is held at 2 dolls.
814 c. to 2 dolls. 87ic. Common resin, 1 doll. 10c. to
1 doll. 20c. _ _

Flour, &c.—Eastern Canal flour has been in good de-
mand, and prices are firmer.
Wheat is in fair demand for milling. Sales of Ohio
have been made at 1 doll., and of white Virginia at 10
dolls. 3c. Corn is heavy and prices lower. Sales of
yellow have been made at Vic. Corn meal is steady.
A parcel of Jersey sold at 3 duds.
Provisions—The upward tendency in pork continues,
particularly in new. 500 barrels mess sold at 14 dolls.
50c. Beef is in fair demand at 9 dolls. to 11 dolls. 50c.
for mess. Pickled meats are buoyant and in good de-
mand. Sales of 500 barrels and tierces plain hams at
Bac.; and 90,0001 b. sugar cured ditto, at Elie.; and good
shoulders at 6io. Lard is inactive, and prices favour
the buyer. About 150 barrels sold at Bic. to Bio. for
fair to prime. Butter is very dull, and prices are now
quite nominal. Cheese is steady at sic. to 71c., with a
fair demand. . . . . . .

Tobacco—There is not much activity, with no change
in the rates.
Freights—Grain, 4d.; naval stores, is. 3d. To Lon-
don—Tobacco, 32A. 6d.; flour. Is. 6d.; naval stores,
2s. To Havre.—Cotton, ; ashes, rice, &c., 5 dolls to
6 dolls.
TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.

NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 4.—Cotton has been active
since the receipt of the Baltic news, and has advanced ie.
SAVANNAH, APRIL 3.—Our cotto❑ market is very
firm, although sales were only made of 343 bales at pre-
vious rates.
CHARLESTON, APRIL 4.—The sales yesterday rea-
lized 1,000 bales. Prices have advanced ie. to ie. since
the receipt of the Baltic news. Extreme prices are .131 c.
to 11 }c. per lb.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Rob'rt Coote (1847)^1;;;heen ap-
painted to the command of the Voca:10 6team-vessel,
on the coast of Africa, vice Rows, who, strange to
say, invalided immediately after reaching the coast.
Commander Coote entered the navy in 1833, passed
his examination in 1840, served three years and a half
as a mate before he was promoted from the royal
yacht, and as a lieutenant served in the Cyclops and
Vulture steam-frigates.

Commander Thomas Abel Brummage Spratt
(1849), to commission the Spitfire steam-vessel, at
Malta, and to command that vessel in continuing the
surveys in the Mediterranean which have hitherto
been conducted by Captain Graves.
By this appointment the expense of surveying in
the Mediterranean will be very much reduced, inas-
much as the service will now be performed by a com-
mander's staff, with a limited crew. Commander
Sprat is the son of one of the most gallant officers in
the navy—Retired Commander James Spratt (who
ought to have been an admiral). The son entered
the navy in 1827, passed his examination in 1835,
and having served in the surveying service of the Me-
diterranean in the Beacon and Mastiff, under Captain
Graves, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in
1841. O'Byrne, in his Naval Biography, has the fol-
lowing notice of this officer :—" On the '27th October,
1837, he plunged overboard from the Beacon, and
at great risk saved the life of a marine, Samuel
Turner, who, while scraping the side of the
ship, had accidentally fallen into the sea. In a public
letter to the Commander-in-Chief, Captain Graves,
after detailing this occurrence, says, His (Mr.
Sprat's) conduct with me during a servitude of up-
wards of five years, having been invariably most ex-
emplary, and his being alio most indefatigable and
attentive, as well as a valuable assistant in the par-
ticular service in which we are employed will. I
trust, lead you to consider the case worthy of the
consideration of my Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty.' On the occasion of Mr. Spratt's advance-
ment to the rank of lieutenant, Captain W. A. B.
Hamilton, then private secretary to Lord Hadding-
ton, observes, in a note addressed to his father, Com-
mander Spratt, His Lordship directs me to make
known to you the great satisfaction it has afforded
him to recommend to the Board for this promotion a
young officer so highly spoken of as your son has
been, both by Captain Beaufort, hydrographer of the
Admiralty, and Captain Graves." Your eldest son,'
writes the present Sir William Parker, in 1846,
now five years a lieutenant in the surveying-
service, stands decidedly high in that branch of his
profession.' From March 1, 1847, until April, 1848,
Mr. Spratt served in the Volage, 22, surveying-
vessel, again in the Mediterranean. In 1838, the
lieutenant communicated to the Geographical society
some Remarks on the Supposed Situation'of Minoa
and Nisma ;' and in 1846 he published a volume of
' Travels in Ancient Lycia.' "

Lieutenant Gabriel Johnston (1841), late First
Lieutenant of the Yolage with Captain Graves in sur-
veying the Mediterranean, has been appointed to the
Spitfire, as also Lieutenant A. L. Mansell (1841).
Master—John Stokes (1846), to the Spitfire.
Second Master—E. W. Brooker (1849), to the
Spitfire.
Clerk in Charge—Robert T. Baynes (1846), to the
Spitfire.
- Assistant-Engineers—William Buchan, E. R.
Dutton, J. W. Husbands, Thomas F. Simmons, and
William Cockshot, to the Caradoc steam-packet,
Woolwich. _ _ _

Midshipman—G. R. Wilkinson, to the Spitfire.
The artificers of Devonport completed the break-
ing up of the Astrea, late store-ship at Falmouth, on
Saturday, at noon, and the labourers cleared the dock.
This day the Aurora will be taken into the same
dock, to be broken up.
The work in the sailmakers' branch in Devonport
Dockyard having fallen short, their Lordships have
ordered the establishment to be reduced to 30 men
and 4 apprentices.
PLYMOUTH', SATURDAY.—The Turkish frigate
Feiji Bahri (skimmer of the sea), 450-horse power,
Captain Mustafa Pacha, from Constantinople, is
shortly expected either at Falmouth or at this port,
with goods for the Industrial Exhibition. She has
also on board his Excellency Constantine Mussurus,
the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St.
James's, and a number of Turkish officers of rank on
a visit to this country.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Retribation having
taken her stores and provisions on board, has been
warped to the Jupiter hulk to receive coal prior to
sailing for Lisbon ; she will probably start on the 26th.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 21.—The Governolo, Sardinian
war-steamer, Captain Baron di Tholosano, has taken
in a supply of water to-d'ay, and intends leaving
Woolwich to-morrow on her summer cruise round the
coasts of England and Scotland.

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CI - .P, , i VZ 4
I q • c' 0
,3 74 11 g g L?
. XI ra., 4,
1 ,
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Colchester E2I 570 —I 466
Harwich
Leigh 612 560 —1 664
.. 1 6 I 36: 55
Maldon 46425 46! ! 177 21 840
CHELMSFORD, APRIL 18.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, old 41s to 463; new 40s to 465; red, old

CHELMSFORD, APRIL 18.—Prices to-day were ... follow:
Wheat, white, old 41s to 463; new 40s to 465; red, old
35s to 413; new, 35s to 40s ; barley, 26s to 302515; chevalierss
221 to 30s ; grinding 19s to 25s ; oats t 0155; malt 53s
3
to 55s ; chevalier 543 to 56s ; peas, partridge,, new
t 27 to
29s ; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 26s to 2s ; Id
2 to 46
dun, new, 26s to 28s; beans, tick, new 2430.dt00002365t0—;
closolsd:, :2:4
to 275; harrow ticks, new 25s to 275; I
ar.oaetst.heipir.licz ofg
zagcaoriL,enHewEsT23Esßt,owhites s; red s6s
_oows toe
aoto, sp e per q4r
to 428 ; barley 22s to 28s ; beans, m_ azagan 22s to 245; middle
A2sssa;lLoll9d.
and small 24s to 28s; peas 26s to 28s per qr.
:ro o w ,
to-day:—
eßf:oewyi. following
grain lAaDtDol
Wheat.
market A ft:IR-id;
42s Od 29s Od i
First 238 6d 31s Od
Second ... ..• 393 5d I 26s 9d 1 21s lid i 29s Od
Third ••• .. 35s Od 23s Od 21s Od 1 24s Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 400 qrs., 394 sold
Do. Barley do. 175 qrs., 153 sold
Do. Oats do. 305 qrs., 270 sold
Do. Beans do. 120 qrs., 120 sold
KIRKALDY, APRIL 19.—The following
for grain :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I Peas.
(..
First 43s Od 27s 6d 22s 0 ' —s Od —s Od
Second 393 Od 24s Od 203 Od —s Od I—s Oil
Third 36s Od 21s Od 18s 6,1 —s Od I—s Od
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 27s Od to 28s Od.
GLASGOW, APRIL I6.—Provisions—Cheese, 33s to 42s Od
per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 203 Od to Os per
cwt. Country fresh butter, lid to Os Od per lb. Irish pow-
dered, in lumps, Sid to powdered, wholesale, 90
lOd; country
to Od. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s Od
per 120, or 7d per dozen. Hcns, 3s Od per pair; Ducks,
2s 6d.

P&LKIRK, Aratt, 17.—The supply of grain in this day's
market was 213 bolls; wheat at 15s 6d to 19s Od per boll ;
barley, 17s 6d to 19s 9:1; oats, 00s Od to 00s Od; beans, 14s 9d
to 155 6d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.
Pstaxn, Aram 18.—Wheat, old, 00s Od to Cs Od; ditto,
new, 37s to 41s; barley, new, 20s Od to 23s Ud; oats, 14s to
18s ; peas and beans, 23s Od to 26s per quarter. Oatmeal,
per sack, 00s to 28s.
KELso, APRIL 18.—Wheat, old, 00s to 005 ; ditto, new, 25s
to 32s Od ; barley, new, 17s Od to 20s Od ; ditto old, Os to Os;
potato oath, 005 to 006 ; ditto aew, Us 6d to 155 €4 ; coma ion

oats 00s Od to ON Od; ditto new, 13s to 14s 6d ; peas, IN Od
to 201 s Od; beans, 194 to 20e. per boll of six imperial bushels.
flawicx, API:IL 17.—Wheat, new, 2,:s to 30s Od; bole!'
new, 18s to 2,s 6d ; ditto old, Ida Od to 17s Od ; °
' potato
~,,°"01:1
12s 6d to 14s Od ; common oats, lls6d t 13s • peas, in'
•
to 22s Od ; beans, 19s Od to 21s Od per boll of six unpeTits'
bushels.
BERwrck, APRIL 17.—Wheat, 36s 4d ; barley, 239 5„Ad;
oats, 18s Od ; rye, OOs Od ; beans, OJs Od ; peas, ON uu
average per imperial quarter.
STIRLING, APRIL 18.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 245•
ditWf
home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 17a Od to 19s 6d; ba;ley,Od
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 16s 6d to Os
Oats, common, 00s Od to ()Os ; ditto new, lls 6d to 13s Od;
jolt,
ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 00s Od;
distillers, 3ls 6d to 33s • citto brewers, 32s ed to 345; bear,
per boll, 00s Od to 009 Od'; ditto new, 12s 6d to 14s 6d; pease ,
9d to Oes Od; flour, new per sack, 31s to 33s Od; ditto common
ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, OOs Od to 005 0%
ditto new 28s 6d to OOs Od ; ditto per peck of 71bs, &11 to 9d;
fresh butter, per lb, 9d to 10d ; eggs, per dozen, 5d to 6d ;
hay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 80s Od to UN.

COAL MARK ET. YESTERDAY. 1 Od
Bate's West Hartley.. I3s Ctl Keepier Grange ...... --s 3d
Huddle's W. Llartl;:,y.. 14s 3d Laanbton ............. • 15,5 a
Longridge's W.Hartley 14s 3d Riebmund .. .. ..... ...• l's 0
Howard's W. 11. Neth. 14s 3d. Scarborough ........... 149 d
Redhugh M .
Alain ... 13s Od Russell's Hatton ..... 15' 3
153
fantield Moor Butes... 13s , d ' Stewart's
West Viylam
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. Hartlepool .............. 153 0;
153 6a
Brown ... l3s Od Kelloe.. ......... •••••••• 6d
Eden

-- A 04
Gosforth ..... l4s OU South Hartlepool ..... 1-s
Harton
Hilda .. 153 vo
14s Od Whitworth . ....... ... 123 A6cl4
1 's :-3d Adelaide Tees .... ad
Riddell ..... ... ......
1335 Pcl-
Walker
, .1
Wharncliffe
Eden Main ..
Bell
Belmont l4s 6d Nixon's Merthyr and ed
Braddyll
H etton
Haswell ... 15, 6dl Ships at market, 155.