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COURT OF BANKRUTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fans.)
THE WEST HAM DISTILLERY COMPANY.

The following change of quarters of the House-
hold Brtade of Guards will take place on the 15th
of April :
Grenadier Guards-Ist Battalion, from St.
George's, Kensington Magazine, and Buckingham
Palace Barracks to the Tower of London ; 2d BA-
talion, from Wellington Barracks to St. George's,
Kensington Magazine, and Buckingham Palace
Barracks ; 3d Battalion, from the Tower of Lon-
don to the Wellington Barracks.
Coldstream Guards-Ist Battalion, from Wel-
lington Barracks to Windsor ; 2d Battalion, to re-
main at Dublin.

A. meeting was held today for settling the list of con-
tributories, and also for the appointment of an official
liquidator. A. private meeting of the creditors was held
yesterday, with a view of effecting an arrangement, so
as to prevent the continuance of the present proceedings,
and to continue the business, and avoid the serious loss
which must inevitably result from the sale of the valuable
premises and plant. The precise resolution come to did
not transpire.

The case, however, came on to-day in the usual man
ner, and was proceeding.

Scots Fusilier Guards—lst Battalion, from Port-
man-street and St. John's-wood Barracks to Wel-
lington Barracks ; 2d Battalion, from Windsor to
Portman-street and St. John's-wood Barracks.
The following officers and troops from the batta-
lions of Infantry at Chatham garrison embarked at
Gravesend yesterday, on board the Abeona, for Cal-
cutta, viz :—Ensign J. E. W. Black and 10 men
of the Bth (the King's) Regiment • Ensign C. H.
Newbatt and 11 men of the 10th Foot ; 40 men of
the 19th Regiment ; 13 miEm of the 20th Regiment;
78 men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; 26 men
of the 24th Regiment ; Ensign J. Garforth, Ensign
J. T Gray, and 48 men of the 32d Regiment ; 13
men of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment; Ensign
Wm. L. Barr, 53d Regiment ; Ensign G. Man-
surgh and 26 men of the 75th Regiment ; and En-
sign G-. B. Wolseley, with 20 men of the 84th Re-
giment. Tho following troops, from Canterbury,
also embarked in the same vessel ;-30 men of tine
7th Hussars, under-the command of Cornet J. B.
Phillipson; 24 men of the 64th Regiment, with
Ensign H. Davies and G. ash; 16 men of the 82d
(Prince of Wales's Volunteers); and 10 men of the
90th Lightlnfatitry. Detachments from the H.gh-
land depots stationed in Scotland also emb ,rked
for India, con-isting of 26 men of the 42,1 R.it al
Highlanders, from Perh ; 20 then of the 79 h
Highlanders, from Stirling; and 11 men of the
93d Higblanlers, from Abeideert. A.sis-ant-
Surgeon Slater, 61,4 Regiment, and a Staff As-
sistant Surgeon embarked iu medical charge of the
tr.,ops. A detachment of 100 gunners of the alai
Artillery lei% Siieerness yesterday by the Medway
steam-packet at 9.15 a.m., for Gravesend, to em-
bark on hoard the transport Abeona. The men
were from Majer Shaw's Company, 12th Battalion
(nine in number) ; from Capt. W, olsey's Company,
511 Battali n (30 in number) ; from Capt. Ragg's
Company, 2d Batral:on (44 in number) ; and Capt.
s Company, 11th Battalion (17 in num-
ber).
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IN RE ELWIN.

The bankrupt was a grocer at Dartford, and passed
his examination on accounts prepared by Messrs. Hart,
Brothers. The debts are about 5,3761. ; ditto, holding
security, 1,3751.; creditors' good debts, 1161. ; doubtful,
1901. ; property held by creditors, 1,539/. ; deficiency,
January, 1857, 3,8381.
The bankrupt passed.

The whole of the regiment of Royal Artillery
was yesterday morning mustered by Mr. Pellaet,
principal milt iry storekeeper of Woolwich Arsenal,
attended by Mr. Harry, one of the superior officers
of the department, wearing the undress uniforms
as prescribed by a recent . Government regulation.
The duty of mustering the garrison, in order to
verify the pay-officer's returns at the end of every
mouth, has now devolved on the principal military
-.torekeeper of the Arsenal, in consequence of the
field-train having merged into that department.
Brigade-Major Shaw attended as staff-officer of the
garrison. The battalions, numbering about 3,000
men, were assembled on the Royal Artillery
Parade ; the Royal HOTS 3 Brigade in the west
square ; and the field batteries at the encampment
at the extremity of Woolwich Common. The mus-
ter commenced at 9 a.m., and terminated at half-
past 11 o'clock. The Royal Marines, the militia
regiments, and the military train were mustered in
their respective quarters by the divisional pay-
master of the each corps.
Mr. Cornelius Noddall, master in charge of the
receiving ship Fisgard, and late acting master-
attendant at Woolwich, having been appointed
master attendant at the Royal Carence Victualling
yard, Gosport, left Woolwich yesterday morning
for his hew post. The functions of master atten-
dant at Woolwich dockyard are consequently car-
ried on by Mr, George Fittock temporarily.
The new Lords of the Admiralty paid their
first official visit of inspection to Chatham
Dockyard on Tuesday afternoon. The mem-
bers of the Board who were present were Rear-
Admi, al T. Martin, Lord Lovaine, and the Right
Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., first secretary, accom-
panied by Rear-Admiral Sir. B. Walker, K. C. 8.,
surveyor of the n ay, and Lt.-Col. G. T. Greene,
surveyor-general of works. Their lordships went
over to the dockyard in the Admiralty steam barge.
On landing they were received by Capt. G-Llsouitit,
C. 8., the superintendent of the establishment ;
Mr. C. Pope, mister attendant ; Mr. F. J. Lairs,
master shipwright ; Mr. R. Laws, storekeeper ; Lt.
J. Wise, dir..ct,,r, of pelice, and the several heads of
departments. Their Lordships then proceeded to
make an inspection of the several large screw-
steamers which are building at Chatham, visi‘ing
in succession the Hero, 91, the Charybdis, 21, the
Irresistible, 80, the Hood, 90, and the Mersey, 40,
the list of which they spent some time in examiri-
ing. This steamer, which is the longest in the navy,
is rapidly approaching cempl,tion, and will be
launched during the summer. The members of the
board also went over the various factories and wo cic-
shops of the establishment, and afterwards pro-
ceeded to the extremity of the dockyard, where
their lordships spent some tittle in the inspec ion of
the site for the lags steam basin which is to be
shortly commenced at Chatham, the excavations
' for which are to be duLl by the convicts attached to
the pri-on at St.. Mary's. On returning to the yard
their lordships were conducted by Col. Greene to
see the improvements which are being carried out,
and were shown the large floating basin which will
be shortly fit for the largest vessels in the navy.
Af er leaving the dockyard their lordships inspected
the Marine Barracks, where they examined the
plans for their enlargement and improvement, which
are to be immediately carried into effect, at au esti-
mated expense of 55,0001.
The Pewbroke, 60, screw, Capt. E. P. Charle-
wood, has been taken into No. 3 dry dock at Sheer-
ness, for survey of screw propeller apparatus, feed-
pipes, valves, (tc., she being fitted for coastguard
service.
The Edinburgh, 60, screw steam-ship, Captain
the Hon. J. S. J. Carnegie, has been put out of the
fitting basin at Sheerness, and will be ready to
join her station at Leith for Coastguard service in
10 dam__

The CAossug, 83 guns, screw steam-ship, re-
cently from Chatham yard, where she has under-
gone repairs, has had a trial trip to test her machi-
nery. The trial was in every respect highly satis-
factory. The Colossus is now placed in the steam
reserve at Sheerness.

The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Captain
E. P. Ildsted, is completed in No. 3 dry dock at
Sheerness. She will shortly be moored as guaid-
ship of the steam squadron of reserve at Sheerness.

An Admiralty order has arrived at Shet rues to
pay off the Childers, 12 guns, Commander Victor
G. Ilickley, expected home from the West Coast
of Africa.

The Hero, 91, screw-steamer, being completed,
an Admiralty order has been received at Chatham
for the launch to take place on the 15th of April.
The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Merlin, 6, Com-
mander C. W. Buckley, from Sierra Leone, Feb.
16, and Lisbon, March 26, arrived at Plymouth
yesterday morning. As previously advised by'
telegraph, she has no news of the mail steam-ship
Gambia, Capt. Tubb, now overdue three weeks at
Plymouth. It is possible that she may have gone
ashore in one of the rivers on the . West Coast
during the prevalence of the " smokes," wh ch
have been more dense this season than for half a
century. Her predecessor, the Ethiope, made
eight attempts to get out of one river, and struck
her bar five times. The Merlin reports that the
Sharpshooter, 8, sailed on Feb. 12 for the Bights
Division to relieve tie Autelepe, 3, Commander
Pike, ordered to proceed to Ascension. The steam-
sloop Alecto, 5, Commander Hunt, arrived at
sierra Leone from Ascension Feb. 12. The steam-
vessel Pluto, Commander W. Swinburn, sailed on
the 18th for the Bights, and the steam-sloop
Ardent on the same day, with the Commander-in-
Chief, for the Gambia. At Sierra Leone on the
14th the Boscaw,,n, 70, Capt. N. A. Powell, the
Vesuvius, 6, Commander. Wire, the Alecto, and
Childers. The Teazer, having been ashore in SJarcies
river, was beached in Serra Leone for repairs. The
Merlin left Sierra Leone on the morning of toe 16th
Feb., and comueunica-ed on the 18th, in lat. 12.04
N., long. 17.7 W., wi h the Spitfire. Called at the
Gambia on the 19th, and left the following morn-
ing for St. Vincent's. Arrived there on the 23d, and
left on Vie 26th. Commuuicated with the Alert the
same day. Arrived at Tenerife on the 4th March,
and on the sth, 6th, and 7th, while at anchor, ex-
perienced a very heavy gale of wind. Left on the
11th, but had to put back on the 12th, in conse-
quence of a defect in her rudder head. Sailed again
on the 19th, and arrived at Lisbon on the 23d.
The Merlin has been nearly three years on the coast
of Africa, She brings home seven invalids and three
distressed British seamen.

DEATH OF COMMAANDER BRAKE,—Commander
Wm. Leuthall Brake died at Garland Cottage,
Holt, Wilts, on the 27th ult. He entered the navy
in the summer of 1796, as a volunteer on board the
Royal William, Captain Francis Pickmore, flag
ship of Sir Peter Parker. He has been unemployed
since Feb. 2, 1816. He accepted the retirement
with the rank of commander (under her Majesty's
order in council of Nov. 1, 1830), on the 11th
April, 1851.
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WOOLWICH ARSENAL.—The recent auaittong to
this establisument, consisting of the new factohrelisy
for the manufacture of heavy ordnance,. t
tir
cartridges, &c., will, in accordance Iv the last
aci
si
army estimates, be in full operation a "IV weeks,

-whe.i it may be expect: d that at least 1,500 addi-
tional hands will lx r required. .
TEE MILFORD HAVEN SEMAPHORES. --The Admi-
ralty have again al ered their wind with regard to
tlit se stations • and although totally us,lesa at
night, and in thick weather, they are to be for a
while cnntinued, not,vithstanding the premises at
Thorn Nand and tlakin Point have actually been
publicly advertised to be let. The whole, how-
ever, from its total ineffici9ncy, must, sooner or
later, ba superseded by the- electric wire, sub-
marine or wherwise.

THE COAST VOLUNTEERS. —The Violet, gun-
boat, has just arrived at Milford Haven, as tender
to the Eagle, for the purpose of affording sea prac-
tice to the numerous coast volunteers daily train-
ing at that port.
PEMBROKE DEPOT BATTALION,—The staff of the
14 battalion, which left Pembroke for Colchester
some weeks back, returned there last week en route
to Buttevant, Ireland. This changing and counter-
changing cannot but prove expensive and injurious
to the service. The barracks, so long promised,
and for which land has been purchased at such an
enormous outlay, have not yet been begun, and the
troops are still crammed into the inefficient wooden
huts.

COAST DEFENCES. —The Berwick Advertiser says
—" The Government have resolved on placing a
aeries of heavy artillery on cur ramparts: The guns
are each to be 95-pounders, and are to be planed
on the battery underneath the flag-staff, whereby
they will possess a range of the shore on the south
coast for a considerable distance. Holy Island
Castle is also to be supplied with guns, and is, be-
sides, to be garri-oned by some companies of ar-
tillery."
The following appointinentl Were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Commander J. Dayman to the Gorgon, comm's-
sioned ; F. A. Pouutney, clerk, to the Agamem-
non ; E. B. Cornish, assistant-clerk, to the Nda ;
and A. Walker, assistant-clerk, to tile Agamemwm.

MILITARY OBITUARY FOR MARCH.
Generate.—John. Munro, East Intim Company's
Service ; Aug. Andrews, C. 8., ditto.
Lieatenatit-Generals.----John Willisms Alfred,
Major-Gener.ds.—Cood Bisshopp, C. 8., Colonel
16th Foot ; Fred. Char:es G, ifliths.

Colonel-J.—Henry Tucker, R tyal Engineers ; H.
Cotton, C. 8., gist I.,dta company's Service; C.
Graham, C. 8., retired full pay, ditto.
Lientenant-Colouel-=.—William Wilmer, B'h
Dragoons • Samuel G. Carter, retired full pay, 16th
Foot ; Lord Alvanley; J. P. Dtrom' late Orenadier
Guards ; J. K. Mackenzie, 'ate 4th Foot ; George
Warren, late 23d F,,ot ; Richard Hort, late
81st Foot ; J. D. B. Elphinstone, late 4th West
India Regiment • Henry Swart, late Royal Engi-
neers ; J. Lionel Stephenson, C. 8., East India
Company's Service ; Sir William Lloyd, retired full
pay, ditto.

Majors.—Sir James Dunlop, Bart., Coldstream
Guards ; Johu Smith, retired full pay, Royal Ar-
tillery ; Sir A. Mackenzie, Bart., retired full pay,
Eist India Company's Service ; G. Simmons, late
7th Dragoon Guards ; Viscount Balgon'e, late
Grena tier Guards ; A. C. Innes, late 3d Foot.
Captains—Garththore Sterling Home, Bth Foot,
on board the City of Manchester, on voyage from
Calcutta to London ; Robert Bogle, 78th Foot, of
wounds ; John Gordon, 82d Foot, of wounds ;
Henry Lempriere, half-pay Royal Artillery ; Be-
verley Robinson, ditto ; Thomas Askew, half-pay
Water's Regiment ; John Fleury, half-pay Port
Service.

Lieutenants.—SydneyVyse, 6th Dragoon Guard.,
killed in action; John C. Brown, 5111 Foot ; Fred.
Browne SAndwitb, 10th Foot ; John Gordon, 93d
Foot ; Edward Stanley, retired full pay, Royal
Artillery Drivers ; William Kingsmill, retired full
pay, 10th Vets-rinary Battalion.
Ensigns—Wm. Spooner, 54th Foot ; Thos. Fred.
Bowen, 59,11 killed in action ; Alexander M‘Donell,
half-pay, Glengarry Fenciblos.
Adjutant—John Pa ckett, half-pay, 2d Greek
Light Infantry.
Quartermaster—John Jones, late Szots Fusilier
Guards.

Asistant Commissary General—Donald Macleod,
half-pay.

InSpector General of Hospitals—Hugh Bone,
M. D., half pay.
Surgeon—E b ezer Rack, half-pay, 18.11 Dra-
goons.

AssistantSurgeon—Robert Ferguson, 95th Foot,
Deesa.

EARL ST.ANHuPE'S ADDRESS.

(From the Times.)
The address of Lord Stanhope to the University
of Aberdeen oeserves a nigh place in what has now
become a numerous and important class of n lune-
ations. We have seldom read anything so likely
to apply the needful stimulus to the often smoul-
dering fire and fitful ambition of Academic youth.
A. Scotch precedent is ab nit the last that is likely
to ob,ain weight at our English Universities, and
one of theta has for its Ch.ncellor a man who
teaches eloquence, at least, by his own most distin-
guished example. Yet even Lord Derby could
bring that example more home, and make it m'a.e
available, if he w( uld some day inform the scholars
and reasuners, but very indifferent talkers, of his
University how he came by his marvellous com-
mand of words and power of exposition. This is
not meant to imply that the example is perfect, for,
like one of the representatives of the sainejUniver-
sity, Lord Dolby is occasionally carried away in
the torrent of his own words. When, however,
we sea a man the chief of his party, able to rally
it and bring it into power once and again under the
most adverse circumstances,—then there is no sub-
ject on which he cannot deliver himself so as to
rivet the attention of all hearers, disarm their hos-
tility, and for the time even overbear their convic-
tions, it is idle to criticise a faculty which every-
body must envy and desire. So, by what pro-
cess is Lord Derby an orator.? How did pat assist
nature ? Can he impart the secret to that
crowd of students,—the hope of England,—from
whom our Parliament, our pulpits, our courts,
our magistracy, our hustings and platforms, are
to be supplied ? Lord Stanhope has given his
view of the secret, which, indeed, is in general
terms that to which every distinguished orator,
ancient or modern, has given his authority. It is
labour, study, practice, drudgery, application, or
whatever else we may call it. We should only
take up needless time if we were to attempt au
enumeration of the splendid examples and em-
phatic admonitions in favour of early, constant,
various, and systematic training, in the case of
everybody called upon to spealrin public. The
early statutes and usages of our Universities bear
witness to the paramount importance of the faculty
in the estimation of our forefathers. The old
scholars of Oxford f‘ disputed" their way from
terra to term, from one degree to another. Till
the Restoration we believe we are justified in saying
that no sermon was ever read in the University
pulpit, and even elsewhere a manuscript was as
great a confession of weakness as a printed book
would be in these days. Yet these were ages in
which the Universities had a far stronger hold cn
the nation than they now have. They were not be-
hind ours in solidity of scholarship, in depth of
philosophy, and strength of conviction. The art of
speaking did not dilute learning and weaken vi.lour
of mind, but ministered to them. Scholars then
not only held their own, but went forth, and
taught, and persuaded, and governed the world.
In this age, however, which brooks no com-
parison with any age tha• went before it, it is a plain
tact, which cannot be disputed, that neither at our
Universiti: s, n-r at our public schools, nor in any
other places and systems of education in vogue
amongst us, is any attempt made to teach the art
of speaking. What may be adduced in the way of
excetition is utterly inconsiderable. From the time
a gentleman's son goes to school to the happy mo-
ment when he sees his name, perhaps, in the list
of Wranglers or the "Class Lnt,” he has most pro-
bably never recited English poetry or prose, never
even read either aloud, much less has he ever made
an oral statement of facts or views to a greater
length than a short sentence in reply to a short
question. Up to the age of three-and-twenty it is
matter yet to be ascertained whether the intended
clergyman can read a verse in the Bible as it ought
to be read ;
_whether the intending barrister can
make a legal statement, attempt to convince with-
out giving disgust, or to persuade without making
himself ridiculous. He may at that age be able to
do many things seldom required. He may be deep
in Greek and Roman antiquities, and able to
~,cr7 write
Greek and even scan any chorus ;he he may
Greek and Latin verses in a dozen metres LpoBo a
eau=
etrogne and many
be a good mathematician, and
What, how_
tolerable essay. He may have
never be called
other accomplishments, which maY.
except in the
"fe'or some cor-
into practice once in a whole
of all efasses:,
production of writniteun::::
Treinne
respondence of unusutaldoternityo•ne
way
0
ever, every man
what is the
all
jelkfballetTeen man and
an-
ages .ff
other, what is the
professions,
first and foremost
one
and between 0
.man and another, is left
brute,
without any assistance whatever from
to chance, without
schools or
' Some men have naturally
better organs of articulation, some are in better
_.,jety and more among good talkers than others ;
soma are more sociable • Some begin to talk a year
or two before others and have that start upon
them • ,some prefer society to study from mere idle-
ness • so
Me are early seized with an ambitioq to be
orators, Nature and circumstances interfere in
many ways, and make one man a speaker, another
e, mute, and others all shades between these ex- !I