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':order to prevent anycutn
of water-for the treorsi :t.
`mined on the erection
scale for the supply of wa',
and hospitals at Chatham.
The 77th Regiment, at Sydney,- .have received
orders to_Trooped to Calcutta. • ' •
The head-quarters of the 12th Feet,. with Colonel
Percival and 10 other officers and.ls7 rank and file,
ked at Hobait Town en the Bth of-April on
bo ird the Tasmania,_
_and sailed for Sydney.-
Fir 4 Lieutenant Nur;.;e, 1 sergeant, 2 dorppr4lol
and 64.privatesofthe Royal_ /Winne Light_bf in-
, try, Portsmouth Division, left Wo lwich yes' erday,
and proce,ded t their division. :Capt.ilarrw,
First Lieutenants Mitchell, D. inelf ait.,,,Gnltinnii, and
Pritchard, 10 Serg eau tsil. 2 0' ir pn tar- :1;141-tiiiittn
and 185 privates; bOen4in fo :the : Woeiliwicto vi-
sion of Royal Marinej,ight Tufantry,Elia;ve. taken
up the guard duties at Deptford;
An AdmirAty order has been received .at'.ohat-
ham &ckyard# for the Cleopatra, 20,f• fitt.tehed to
the reserve of vessels in -ordinary Irat Chatham; 40
be appropriiced for the 'acooranaUditiOn of. the
officals and crew of the yacht: Fe/11z'
belonging to the Viceroy of Egypt, which is ordered
to Blaekwall to be repaired. , The Cleopatra will
P rocee I to the Thames, where she is :to be sta-
tioned.
The following appointments Were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
J Caldwell and W. B. C. Christy, surgeons, to
the Cmsar ; Juhn Murphy has beet. promoted to
surgeon ; J ames G.' Liddell, 'masters Maus the Pembroke. taut, 19

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population, will be indirectly represented. Some
of the districts are agricultural, wthout an over--
whelmteg mining populalion ; others are still
essentially pastoral. Melb erne proper is mercan-
tile ; North Melbourne partly manufacturing. It
has been proposed by Mr. Wilson, f eenerly editor
an l still part proprietor of the Argus, that inte-
rests or classes only should be grouped into eight
classes—namely, -agricultural, mining, pastoral,
mercantile, manufacturing, labouring, &c., find
that each class should return eight members,
making a house of 64; and yet with the same
breath he deprecates delegation. His proposel is
equivalent to the establishment of complete dele-
gation. What we have most to fear here is the in-
fluence of a very uneducated wealthy class. Al-
though their sympathies ought to be with the
classes front which they have emancipated them-
selves, they are not unfrequently hard masters
and exacting employ,rs. They do not retire and
litre upon their rents and interest of their money as
the newly rich do in England, but continue
to employ their money to the best advantage.
Under the scheme proposed for the represei
tati on of class interests they would form
a very large proportion of the house. The
working classes, mechanics, artisans, miners, &c.,
are quite aware that they meet with much warmer
sympathies from men of wore "gentle" birth, of
better education and more moderate wealth—a
class which our systein of representation is much
more likely to place in the house.
If this schedule is carried, the contain will be
allowe I to. fall upon this session in a few weeks.
Parliament will be disseleed in June—that is, after
the next registration, and the new Asetembly
will meet in August. If -ministers are beaten,
which, however, does not seem very likely, they
will appeal to the country. '
Tbe very short duration and small degree of the
late commercial embarragsment, and the complete
restoration of confidence and credit, have kept the
financial condition of the colony in a state of pros-
perity. The revenue Las continued unaffected ;
and our expenditure on establishments, though a; -
parently large, is far within the total revenue. The
consequence is, that we expend'annu ally enorinous
sums in reeds and public works. As the interest
on our railway loan is a first cha-ge on the general
revenue, in the event of a bad financial year the
temporary cessation of public works renders the,
security perfect. The loan by debentures, author-
ise 1 by the legislature, is 8,000,0001., which will
be required in four years. With the aid and co-
operation of our banks, I believe that this money
will be raised in the first instance in the colony,
ueleas communication which is understood to have
been made to some of the large English capital'sts
should show it to be more advantageous to contract
directly with the moneyed houses at home. In
the former case, our debentures, payable in Lon-
don, will find their way home as remittance s, and
what Mr. Samson Ricardo called the exportation
of securities will form part of the purchasing power
of the c louy. So, incl,ed, they will be in the
latter case, only by a different mode—that is, the
government will remit and draw. The railway
contractor.' tenders were opened on Monday for-
night, in the presence of the Governor and Execu-
tive Council, all the contractors and the press
being present. There were seventeon contract ors
for different sections of the line. The rates varied
very much, and the engineers and their clerks are
now analysing and abstracting them. It is calcu-
lated that the whole 208 miles of the trunk lines
will be constructed at the average rate of about
33,0001. per mile, and that the whole cost will be
about 7,000,000/. I have no doubt whatever that
these lines will pay. The passenger traffic is large,
for the hebit of moving from place to place is as
conspicuous here as it is in America. But the goods
traffic will furnish a larger proportion of the rail-
way receipts than in England, as they will not be
subject to the competition of inland navigation.
Many of the contractors tendered "payable in cash
or debentures at par," but it is understood that the
Goyernmentis opposed to making any payment in
debentures, as the necessities of contractors would
compel them to hawk them in the markets. More-
over, as the credit of the colony ought to be, and I
believe is, good, debentures bearing 6 per cent. in-
terest ought to be at a premium.
The supply of gold now falls short of that of last
year by only 40,000 ounces. The balance of im-
ports over exports is now less than 150,0001. The
general state of trade is good, and the finances of
the country are in a healthy condition ; but the
non-arrival of the mail at the proper time always
produces some degree of stagnation.

THE .
The head quarters of the 49th EaA Kent Regi-
ment of Militia, in command of Colon&Brockinan,
left Woolwich on Tuesday morning for ,thelaimp
at Aldershot. The five, compatnes or tbe same
regiment doing duty at Sheerness left alsolor the'
same destination. The three companiestationed
at Deptfor.l dock and victualling yards, wire called
in, and relieved by the Royal Marino! ftol,n. Wool-
wich, and proceeded with the reginleht to. Alder-
shot.

The 79th Antrim Militia (Queen'a Royal Rifles)
yesterday arrived at Woolwich, and t,,ok up quar-
ters vacated by the East Kent. They travelled
from Dover (where they have been stationed this
last six months), and reached the Arsenal station,
Woolwich, at 1 p.m. They were met at the station
by Brigade-Major Shaw, and the drninsi2.na fifes of
the Royal Artillery. The Antrim Rifles are con-
siderably below their effective strength, a few of the
companies containing only half their allotted num-
ber. The following is the detail ;--Colonel the
Marquis of Donegall, G.C.R4-in command of the
reiment : Lieuren.nt-Colonel George Ferguson ;
Major William J. Verner ; Captains T. W. Ray, -
Thomas Verner, H. S. Bere4ord Bruce, Edmund
Douglas L slie, C. B. Hartwell, W. Jackstn
Clarke, J. Ferguson Montgpmery, W. S. Burton,
R. Maunsell, and Alexander Whitla ; Lieutenants
Humphrey May, Frederick Gordon Thompson,
Skeffiugt on Thomson, A. Murray, Francis
Edward Brown, William Magee Hunter, and
RandolpheLuscombe; Ensigns 0. Hill, E. Thomas,
G. C. Cuppa,..o'e, W. H. Thomas, J. R. Read, C.
W. Joy, W. H. Hume, and C. H. Atkinson ; Pay-
master Dr. Sinclair ; Majoi.J. K. M'[Cenzie, Ad-
jutant ; Quartermaster A. Markham, Surgeon J.
L. Gaussen, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon N. Hunter,
51 sergeant, 43 , corporals, 13 buglers, and 608
privates. The Marquis of Donegall and the whole
of the officers were yesterday evening entertained
at their mess by Caonel Brown and the officers of
the Royal Marines.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, JUNE 10.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Vectii, which arrived at Marseilles with the over-
land mail on the 6,h, left on the same evening for
Alexandria, conveying, among other passengers,
Capt. Prescott and Lieut. Mills ; also Lieut. Slad•
and one private of the 57th.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Colombo arrived from Alexandria at 6 a.m. on the
Bth, bringing, among other passengers, for Malta,
Capts. Birch and Pedder, and Dr. Clarke ; for
Marseilles, Capt. Flatt and the Rev. G. Evans ;
and for Southampton, Col. and Mrs. Polwhell, Col.
Simpson, Major Bird, Capts. Blogeland, Duinning,
Jacq, Loames, Kemp, Slade, Heckford, Turner,
Wens, and Weston ; Hon. Capt. Twynam, Mrs.
Twynam, Hon. J. Doris, Lients. Harrison, Fox,
Moonsome Oliver, Salis, Buckle, Isdell, and
Tucker ; Brigadier and Mrs. Macgregor, Dr. Bay-
cott, Dr. Mantel', and Capt. Kirton, lately com-
manding the Ave. She left for Southampton at
noon, conveying, among ocher passengers from
Malta, Ensign COL
The steamer Panther, belonging to the same
company, left for Marseillei on the Bth, at 9 a.m.,
conveying, besides the aforenamed passengers, per
Colombo, for that destination, Commissary-Gen. J.
W. Smith, Esq., C. 8., ordered, by telegraphic di-
spatch from the War Department, to repair t ) Eng-
land on urgent business, and Lieut. Birch.
The Tiber, screw merchant steamer, from Alex-
andiia, for Liverpool, passed Malta June 6.
The Lebanon, screw steamer, arrived from Con-
siantinople and Smyrna, with grain, on the Bth,
and left, for Liverpool, on the 9th.
The Mulioina, French screw steamer, from Tri-
poli, left for Tunis and Marseilles on the 7th. •
The Austrian Lloyd's steam packet, Vorwserts,
arrived from Corfu and Messina on the Bth, bring-
ing Lieut. Hammond, of the 46 h, and leaves on
her return voyage on the 14th.
Her Majesty's surveying steamer Medina arrived
at Alexandria from Rosetta on the 31st May, and
the Boaotia, screw merchant steamer, with part of
a cargo from Trebizond and Constantinople, to fill
up at Alexandria for Liverpool, on the 2d une.
The Orontes, screw steamer, from Alexandria,
with grain, beans, and cotton, arrived from Alex-
andria on the 9th, and left Liverpool on the same
day.
Capt. Fanshawe, R.N., of H. M. S. Centurion,
returned from Naples and Sicily in the Capitole,
French steam packet, on the Bth, ace )mpanied by
Mrs. Fanshawe, but still not sufficiently recovered
to resume duty.

The Ottoman steamer Bosphorus arrived on the
10th from London and Gibraltar, from which last-
mentioned port her Majesty's steam gunboat the
Wanderer returned on the.loth, and whilst com-
municating in the offing with Admiral Lord Lyons,
who left Valetta hatb3ur shortly before in the
Royal Albert, wi. h the Conqueror, Princess Royal,
and Centurion, screw steam ships of the lin,, fur a
three days' cruise to exercise great guns and tat get
firing, broke down in one engine, when she was
taken in tow in a most masterly and seamanlike
manner by the Princess Royal, which, on reaching
the harbour's mouth, turned her over
rn by
the
the
Hearty, dockyard steam tug.
Wanderer the arrival at GibraltarW, from Lisbon, - of
the Renown and Racoon, and of the
passing
Tangiers,
out of
a French fleet, steering in thedirectiton o
eneral off which the were seen exercisig
quar-
ters, no doubt to the great intimidationcoB. Shortly after
gof the liege
subjects of the Emperor of jgo.roece
d ple of Malta were
midnight on the lltb, the gen iP
aroused from their slumbers by the heavy firing of
the ships in the offingt
t have been admirably
exact, under Lord Lyons, whose
exercise by day is said
by shell, completely rid-
exacz, as well by shot
moreas
s particularly the concon-
dlina the target, and.
against which an enemy
trate% broadside firing,
chance, in howsoever dimi-
nutivewould stand but poorall might reduce himself. The
a compass
porte the 13th, and on the 18th
ships return to on
installed as a Knight of the ,
Lord Lyons is to be
order of St. '
Grand Cross of the most distinguished ,
Michael and St. George, in addition tothe very
many others he already wears upon his breast, for
prowess and valour before the enemy, the gift of a
grateful Sovereign.

In consequence of the scarcity of water exiting
in Chatham garrison; and •the-necessity fur econo-
mising the supply furnished from the dockyard,
orders have issued that the supply of water to the
public taps placed within the garrison for the use

THE EAST INDIES.
The f,tllowing- is an extract of a priivatO letter
-front the Shannon, 51, screw, bearing.date Cal-
cutta, May 5 : ,
" The death of Sir Wm. :Peel, our.-:late beloved
cap t ain, -is not only natiOnal-- los:Ont. is also a
terribl-i blow to us. . We wea a infitly proud of Lim. •
He was, indeed, a- wand Nelson-I-yet, giiith'the
couragri of a lion ho -was path, as a
cannot conceive our-deepgriaf,Son.be 64.14-046 tl-oa.
hearts of all. • • „• , • •
" Shannon's brigade was. stopped con their way- •
down. - Vaughan with:. a
,party-at Young,
at Burkatta on the Graild Truilk'lloitl,l"was to
leave on the 4th May, and join Wilson aradipien at
Sherghatty. Hay is at Sassaran. . .
" When the 6th Regiment pass up an expedition
is to be organi• ed against Koor Sing, in his strong,
hold, Jodgespoise. We must have revenge for
his victory over 113—the poor 35th 'Regiment and
Company's Naval Brigade. .It was au unfortu-
nate affair. No wounded returned:from there.
"Cholera is very bad at Calcutta among the
shipping. The Simoom:is here: "and expects-to
return to the Cape for troops. Pearl and Roebuck
are here. Plenty of troops are required, and
plenty of fighting for them in store. - All the ship-
ping lad the r flags half-mast !sigh on Sunday La- Sir
William. We were unable to fire minute guns,
in consequ, nee of having some of the .cie* vt-ry iii
oa hoard. Our ship is badly ventilated abaft."
An extract of a private letter fromber Majesty 'll
ship Racoon, bearing date-May 14th, states—" We
have just arrived, in. company with the Renown,
from Gibraltar, iu five days ; hurried off without
anybody knowing anything. Officers have left
their clothes behind. An officer was left at kick
quarters (Mr. Brown, engineer,) and we were sadly
cut up at trot joining the flag of Lord Lyons ; how-
ever, we all trust that as soon as the,cause which
sends us to England has ceased we shall go to
Malta, picking up our t ngineetund washed clothes
by the way. Mr. Arthur. L.' Browne was
drowned on the 6th, while officer of the watch.
The Vulcan left .40 hours before us, but we passed
her cff Oporto: 'T4' Wanderer sailed for Malta.
ciutlew on the Spautskeocat,"