The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1857.

THE "MONTHLY' MONSTER, ALIAS

THE GREAT EASTERN:

Among the passions which belong to human
nature we may recognise what may be called a
passion for size. Those primitive works of fiction
which feed the childish imagination appeal very
boldly to this passion. They go straight to the
point, and create without ceremony men, houses,
and lions ten times bigger, than actual men, real
houses, and live lions. But this is not the• only
quarter in which this appeal is made. Science, with
all Ai gravity, copies fiction here, and appeals to
the same passion exactly as the childish fairy tale
did. What single ingredient in astronomy, for exam-
ple, tells more in creatingataste for thatscience than
the enormous distances in which it abounds? The
figures which represent the distances of heavenly
bodies from us, or the speed with which light, or
the speed with which electricity travels, have the
same fascination for the scientific that the
numbers in the banker's book have for the covetous
imagination. The one set of figures constitutes
the conventional symbol fur space, and the other
for wealth.
Whoever wants to feed this natural passion for
size in the primitive way, and to see a true giant
in its own line, must visit the bank of the Thames
at Millwall. But before he goes we recommend
him, unless he is very well versed in the Book of
Genesis, to turn to the 6th chapter, and refresh his
memory as to the dimensions of Noah's Ark and
the " fashion" of its making : " the length of the
Ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits,
and the height of it 30 cubits." So, reckoning the'
cubits at a foot and a half, we have a ship 450 feet
long, 75 feet broad, and 45 feet high. While
the visitor is collecting data as to ships, sacred
and profane, he may tura out " Marlborough" in
the .Navy List, and there he will see that the
largest line-of-battle "ship in the British Navy is
exactly of 4,000 tons burden. And now let him
get on board a Greenwich steamer and be steamed
though the picturesque Pool to Millwall. Just op-
posite Deptford be will be aware of something pre-
Adainitic wallowing in the mud of the Isle of Dugs
—a stranded saurian ship, to which even Noah's
Ark must yield precedence, and to which all the
Mariboroughs, and Wellingtons, and Merrimacs,
and Niagaras in the world are mere cockboats. An
iron hull of the burden of 23,000 tons, nearly 700
feet long, and 60 feet high, will meet his eye—the
hull of Mr. Scott Russell's Great Eastern steam-
ship. We must give a few more figures, for every
figure is a mon-ter, and worth looking at separ-
ately. One is a figure of 30,000—the number of
the iron plates which compose the enormous erec-
tion, each weighing the third of a ton, and each
fastened by 100 rivets. The ship will accommodate
4,000 passengers, 800 of whom are first-class. On
an emergency she could carry 10,000 troops. She
will contain 10 boilers, and 100. furnaces. The
cylinder of every engine will be six feet in diame-
ter, and will weigh five times as much as the great
bell of St. Paul's. The screw propeller will be 24
feet in diameter, and the diameter of the paddle-
wheels will be 56 feet, or considerably larger than
the circus at Astley's. The principal suite of
salooes will be 400 feet in length, and a promenade
round the deck will afford a walk of more than
a quarter of a mile. This monster ship will
combine steam power in both shapes, screw and
paddle, with sailing power. She will carry 11,000
tons of coal, she will be lighted by gas wade on
board, and the electric light will flicker like St.
Elmo's fire at night from her masthead. She will
spread 6,500 yards of canvas, and her speed is com-
puted at 15 knots or 18 miles an hour—a rate which
will perform the voyage to India by the Cape, and
to Australia, in little more than a month.
Who would not• wish to be the captain of this
gallant ship
With these principal figures, then, gone through,
let us imaeine.the Great Eastern afloat, and on her
road to Bombay or Melbourne, and with her ordi-
nary complement of passengers on board. The first
idea which strikes us is the multitude of faces on
board. It will, in fact, be a whole town afloat,
and much more than a town of 4,000 population,
because itswill be a floating town of 4,000 grown-
up persons; at least, with comparatively few excep-
tions, each of them being what is called an " indi-
vidual," by which we mean a human being of size
to command notice, and having to appearance, at
least, a mind and will of his own, together with a
formed air, tone, and manner peculiar to himself.
In this sense even young ladies are individuals.
All this crowd of individualities will be collected
within the dimensions of 700 by 60 feet. What a
new shape of human "society Take the 800 first-
class passengers by themselves, and what room does
even this number afford for the formation of all
kinds of different circles and sets, which will know
nothing of each other, one wan only just knowing
another by sight, and hardly that. How many
immeasurable social chasms will be collected within
a few hundred feet ! How many Mr. Smiths will
there be who will not speak to Mr. Jones during
the whole voyage because he is not in the same set !
How many MrJon eses will pay back MrSmith in the
samecoin I Between how many niceyoung ladies and
proper young gentlemen will there not be a great
gulf fixed, because intbeeyes of anxious mothers the
s dd young gentlemen are not desirable persons, but
mere penniless bipeds ! What flirtations will there
not be behind boats, what rivalries, and, if many
Americans voyage by the Great Eastern, what
duellings may we not expect on that ample deck !
In short, what an epitome or camera-obscura of the
world will the Great Eastern present ! It will be
worth an aspiring novelist's while to take his berth
to Australia or India and back again, simply for the
great convenience of having so much human nature
brought before him within so small a compass. It
will be the mountain brought to Mahomet, the
world condensing itself before his eyes, for the sake
of being observed and examined. The rapid na-
-1 cession of faces will bewilder him at first, but indi-
viduality will come out in time, though he• must
be sharp about his work, otherwise the Great
Eastern will have stopped her screw and paddles
before he bee. got any results. If his material is
enlarged, his time is mush curtailed on the ne,w
system. Farewell to long voyages, with their ap-
propriate quarrels and matches—their lovewakings,
jiltings, reconciliations, and irrevocable unions ;
voyage life has entered on another phase. For
what is a month ?—it is gone before we begin to
think about its going. How will the old voyagers
look back to the romantic days when a roomful of
persons were the'r own company for four months,
gradually forming enmities or friendships, when
attachments rose up among "young people" uncon-
sciously and by the mere passive influence of the
scene ! We are growing a busier nation every
year,.and cannot afford time for more than one
chapter of this sea romance.
But we must not let the appeal to imagination
supersede the reel practical result of the, grand ex-
periment of the Great Eastern. The poet, as he
Surveyed this vast sublunary scene of restless in-
dustry and adventure, was struck by nothing so
much as the triumph of man over the sea. lie ex-
presses himself as more than struck—as shocked.
" Nequicquarn Dens abscidit
Prudens Oceano diaeociabiii_
Terra., si tarnen imp!as
Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada."
He argued that the sea was a providential appoint.
meat, and that it was impious in man to struggle
aga nst it—he had no right to unite what God had
separated, and connect land with land when the
Divine power had inserted water between. We
have long seen the weakness of this argument; and
arrived at a much better doctrine of final causes
than this. But, if any one wants to see a good fin-
ishing b'ow given to the Horatian argument—at
least on the Solvitur ambulando principle—he may
see it given by the Great Eastern. That mighty
fabric indeed does not)talk, but it acts—its act be-
ing a month's voyage to India or to Australia.
That act, while it is a speechless, is at the same time
the most powerful answer, that the religious scruples
of the awestruck poet could ree,ive. A reflecting
mind will see in such a voyage a much more natu-
ral, proper, wise, arid obedient fulfilment of the
designs of Providence than any timid self-confine-
ment arid servile deference to a barrier of nature
would have been. It will appear that the sea was
made to alternate with the dry land, not that con-
tinents might be disconnected, but that man should
have the opportunity of exerting his skill and in-
vention iu connecting them. The result of this
great experiment in shipbuilding, if it answers, of
which there is little or no doubt, will be a con-
solidation of the British Empire such as we
have not yet seen. Half of the space which
separates the various sections of it from the
mother country and from each other will
be. annihilated. Our colonies will be brought com-
paratively close to !us, and, what is almost of as
much importance as the actual vicinity gained,
they will be more than twi e as near to us in ima-
gination. The difference between a month's voyage
and two or three months is all the difference to the
imagination. We think of a place as within reach,
and within a home distance, if it ie only "a
month off." The whole empire is thus brought
into a home compass, and obtains the addition of
strength which so much greater union gives. We
shall find ourselves paying visits to and receiving
visits from India and Australia. Our friends will
come over for the summer with return tickets,
and the British empire will become
in virtual
compass, a province.—Tiinee
Ta

LAW INTELLIGENCB.--April 17.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
THE ROYAL BRITISH BASK-THE DIVIDEND,

In our impression of yesterday we gave the
commencement of the proceedings before the
learned Commissioner. Towards the close ofthe hear-
ing, Mr. Linklater said—Sir, with reference to the
position of the bank at present, it is important that I
should communicate to you the result of the pro-
ceedings up to this day. The debts proved at the
meetings previously had amounted to 514,1241. 17s.
6d. The proofs of to-day amount to about 4,000/:,
and your Honour has permitted a claim to be en-
tered of 5,0001., making a total of profs and claims
to-day of 9,0001. ;so that the total amount already
proved and claimed would be 523,0001. A divi-
dend has been already paid of ss. 6d. in the pound,
and I am happy to say even the money assets of
the estate are not yet exhausted, for, if with ordi-
nary diligence we have good luck, we hope to be
able to make a further dividend of 2s. in two
months, or even 2s. 6d., and I trust even then that
the assets will not be exhausted. It is important
that I should make this communication to the Court,
because the forthcoming session of Parliament is
one in which it will be incumbent upon-those who
have the interest of the creditors at heart, for the
purpose of enabling the assignees and those who
are anxious to bring about some general compro-
mise, to take measures for that purpose. It may
be, and it has been found exceedingly difficult,
dealing with so many creditors and so many debt-
ors, to bring all to a common understanding, but
we have succeeded in getting from certainly more
than half the creditors their assent to the compro-
mise which has been proposed by the shareholders
of 6s. 6d. in the pound beyond what the assets in
bankruptcy will realise. The dividend which has
been declared and that which is to be paid to-day
will amount to Bs. The further dividend under this
bankruptcy we have no doubt will amount to 2e.
certainly, and possibly to 35., and that will enable
the assignees to make a dividend under this bank-
ruptcy of 10s. or lls. in the pound. If it were but
lOs. in the pound, the 6s. 6d. which is offered by
the shareholders would increase the total composi-
tion to I6s. 6d. in the pound, and it certainly does
strike one as being most desirable for the creditors,
and certainly for the shareholders, to use their
united efforts to bring about such a result ; and
the assignees have exerted themselves, and the
committee of depositors have been unremitting in
their duties for the purpose of aiding in this com-
promise, and it is hoped that no step taken by any
person will have the effect of preventing that taking
place. It is just possible that the unfortunate delay
which has arisen from the dissolution of Parliament
may have deprived some of the shareholders of the
means of paying the contributions with which they
might have been prepared. Even that I hope will
not endanger the general result of it. Then I should
hope Parliament would give us some power of deal
ing with a shareholder by himself; and enable us to
discharge him from his liability to creditors gener-
ally. However much iu theory it may have been
considered good, inasmuch as it involves unlimited
liability, it has been found iu practice to be detri-
mental to the interests of those whom it was in-
tended to serve. The result of the proceedings
here, I have no doubt, will give satisfaction to the
creditors. They will see that, with a certain divi-
dend in bankruptcy, and with a fair prospect of that
which will be got from the shareholders, it is
their interest to withhold proceedings until those
who have been intrusted with their interest in the
end to obtain that advantage for them which they
have all along desired. The dividend, owing to the
very great exertions that have been made by the
official assignee, and I may say by Mr. Cooper and
others in his office, have enabled us to say that,
though the number of creditors is so large, the di-
vidend will be payable on and after April 28, and
we shall have the use of the South Sea House,
which has been sold for 11,0001., the fittings being
taken at 1,4001. That 12,400/. this day will not
come into the present dividend, and therefore we
shall have a certain further asset—an available
( ready money asset. I have also the satisfaction of
being able to say that a vessel belonging to Mr.
Humphrey Brown, the Ellen Lindsay, is on her
way. We expect from that and other securities to
realise 1,0001. or 1,5004 at a future period, and
therefore the prospects'- ) which I have referred are
exceedingly fair, and I hope may be realised at no
distant period. We have had a most able and sa-
tisfactory report from surveyors of considerable
eminence—auctioneers, with reference to the Welsh
works, and we are not without hope that a sum,
exceeding, possibly, 40,0001., if we should be fortu-
na'e, will be realised fur the estate. If we were so
successful the dividend which I have mentioned
would be increased, because there are other debts
outstanding which possibly, by yery good fortune,
might increase the dividend for this estate even to
12s. in the pound. lam quite sure the assignees
will spare no pains to bring about so desirable a re-
sult. It will be one which I think will be credi-
table to the administration in bankruptcy, one for
which we have all fought very eagerly. * Your Ho-
nour was pleased to name. Wednesday next for the
examination of Alderman Kennedy. Alderman
Kennedy is abroad and unable to attend on Wed-
nesday, and it is considered desirable to delay Mr.
Humphrey Brown's examination till after Mr.
Alderman Kennedy's ; but he proposes to be here
on the 20th. The time will not be loot, .because
we have the exceedingly important duty of examin-
ing the auditors and accountants, and there will
be also, in consequence of the singular and extra-
ordinary statement of Mr. Stapleton, necessarily a
short further examination of him. Ido not want to
say more upon it at present, but 1 propose, with
your Honour's permission, to proceed on Wednes-
day next with that examination, for the purpose of
showing that some of the statements have been
without foundaton. The 30th inst. is appointed for
the last examination, and the, assignees had hoped
that the balance sheet would have been prepared
and filed by that time. I have no doubt the ac-
countant who has been employed by the assignee;
for that purpose has found his duties exceedingly
laborious, and no doubt he has been diligent in the
preparation of it; but, having regard t) the several
periods at, which rests have to be made, he hasfound
it impracticable to file it. I am told that a very few
days will see it completed, but I can scarcely hope
that there will be sufficient time between this and
the last examination to allow the assignees to give
it that attention which undoubtedly it would re-
ceive at their hands.

The Commissioner—There is only one thing
that one desires could have been added to the state-
ment made by Mr. Linklater—that 20s. in the
pound would be paid, which, in case of a joint-stock
bank the public always expects should be realised.
Looking at all the circumstances of this unfortunate
case, it may be desirable that the compromise should
be carried out, which is perhaps more than we might
at one time bave been led to ant' eipate.
Mr. Linklater—That is so, Sir. The great mis-
take which the shareholders made was in not com-
ing forward at once with such a sum of money as
would have prevented the sacrifice of their pro-
perty; it would have been undoubtedly the bestpo-
licy, and would have been the most honest. There
is an additional advantage which the assignees have
now which they did not possess before—viz., the
assistance of Mr. Wyld, , one of the members for
Bodmin, who has promised his assistance in con-
junction with the Attorney-General for the pur-
pose of promoting the promised measure.
The dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound was then
ordered to be paid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 17.

BOW-STREET.—Victor Bunnolle, a French-
man, was charged with a savage assault on a young
woman named Jane Bryant, who described herself
as a dressmaker.

The complainant stated that, having been at
work late last night, she was going home to her
lodging at Kennington, at about a quarter to one
that morninz, when she encountered the prisoner
at the corner of Wellington-street and the Strand.
He came up to her and gave her a violent blow in
the face, making the blood flow freely, and fearfully
disfiguring her countenance. She gave him no pro-
vocation, not having even spoken to him, and she
had never seen him before.

The prisoner being unable to speak English, his
wife came forward and offered to translate for him.
He said that the complainant accosted him, and,
finding that he would have nothing to say to her,
struck him in the face and knocked his hat off.
Complainant called as a witness a man named
Treniaine, a man employed to watch and pro-
tect a painting of the interior of the Coal Hole Ta-
vern in the Strand, with portraits of London cele-
brieties. He said he saw the whole transaction.
Complainant came down Wellington•street, and
was about to cross the road towards Waterloo-
bridge, when the prisoner, who came from
the direction of the bridge, walked up to her
without the slightest provocation, and dealt her a
tremendous blow. She bled so profusely that in a
few minutes there was a great pool of blood on the
footway, where it still remained.

Mr. Jardine sentenced the prisoner to 21 days'
niprisonment.

WESTMINSTER. —Thomas KelseU, alias Thos.
Kruse, and William French, two middle-aged men,
were harged with the following impudent fraud.
Early in the month of October last the prisoner
Kelsell went ,to Mrs. Dolley of Church-street,
Chelsea, a lady 87 years of age, and representing
himself as the sun of Mr. Kruse, of the firm of
Bruce Kruse, and Co., coal-Anerchants at Batter-
sea-bridge, said that one of their coalheaverd La.

met with an accident, which prevented his work-
ing, and the firm were getting up a subscription
amongst the benevolent to start him in some way
cf business. The old lady, believing the statement,
gave him 55., and he went away, but she soon after-
wards discovered that she had been imposed upon,
and that Kelsell was in no way related to Mr.
Kruse. Yesterday afternoon Kelsell went again
to Mrs. Dolley with another story calculated to ex-
cite her sympathy. He introduced his companion
as the son of a poor widow woman, whose goods
bad been detained for rent, and was just short of
2/. to pay the broker out. As ihe old lady recog-
nised her former visitor, and was determined not to
be duped again, she accordingly sent for the police.
It having been stated that there would in all
probability be many more charges against the ac-
cused, they were remanded for a week.

GeOrge R. Clark, a bricklayer's foreman, and Rosa
Bush, a servant girl, were brought up for final
examination, the former charged with assaulting
and violating Elizabeth Harris, a girl under 14
years of age, the daughter of a clothier and sales-
man in James-street, Westminster, and the female
with feloniously aiding and abetting in the commis-
sion of the offence. The court was densely crowded.
Mr. Sleigh, barrister, saaia attended yesterday
for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewig, jun., for the
accused.

On the prisoners being placed in the dock, Mr.
Sleigh put two or three questions to the prosecu-
trix, in reply to which she said that the male pri-
soner (who is a married man, about 35 years of
age) always told her that he was single, and said he
would marry her. When they got to the house at
Notting-hill, on the Monday night, Rosa went in
first, and spoke to the landlady. Prosecutor did not
say anything to the landlady about being Clark's
sister.

Mr. Sleigh then stated that he should proceed
under the Bishop of Oxford's Act, although he
would not pledge himself that the man might not
a'so be indicted for the capital offence. The case
was one of the very worst description, and although
the penalty under the Bishop of Oxford's Act would
fail in awarding commensurate punishment, still
society and justice would in some measure be vin-
dicated by its operation.

Martha Bourne, 3, Durham-place, Plough-lane,
Notting-hill, was then called, and stated that on
the night of the 31st of March the prosecutrix and
Rosa came to her house. Rosa said they had come
from Woolwich, and wanted a lodging for the night.
Rosa said that she had come to town to find her
husband, and that the little girl (prosecutrix) Was
her sister-in-law, and owing to the respectability of
Miss Harris's appearance mainly she was induced
to take them in and let them a back room. Rosa
paid her a shilling for the night's lodging. The male
prisoner came to the house next day, when witness,
seeing him in the room, thought he was Rosa's hus-
band. Hearing nothing of them, witness went up
to the room late at night, and knocked at the door.
After doing so three times, and receiving no an-
swer, one of the females moved towards the door,
when
_witness asked her if she wanted a bed made
up for the sister Y and a voice replied, "No ; not
to-night, thank you ; but witness could not say
whether it was Miss Harris or Rosa that spoke.
She heard footsteps of two persons in the passage
at, six in the morning, when the male prisoner
went out. Miss Harris came down stairs directly
after breakfast, buLshe did not observe anything
particular about her, except that she appeared as if
she had been crying. She had seen Miss Harris
and Rosa both in tears while in her house. On the
following Thursday Rosa said that Miss Harris was
ill, and was obliged to keep her bed. Sometimes
Rosa came down for different articles they wanted,
sometimes Miss Harris. Witness's husband, seeing
a handbill offering a reward for any information
that could be given respecting Miss Harris, went
to her parents, on Saturday morning, when Mrs.
Harris and a friend came and fetched her away.
In answer to questions from Mr. Paynter, wit-
ness said that she supplied Miss Harris and Rosa
with coffee and rolls on the first morning, after
which they got things for themselves. Rosa went on
errands during the week. Witness never suspected
anything wrong till her attention was called to
the handbills. She did not know that Miss Harris
was of a superior class to the prisoners. She never
saw Clark till he came on the Wednesday.
Mr. Paynter having expressed a wish to, put
two or three questions to Miss Harris's married
sister, she was sworn, when the magistrate inquired
whether prosecutrix had ever been considered of
weak intellect.

The sister (Mrs. Flint) replied that she was not
considered so. In answer to further questions,
witnes said that her sister while at school did not
exhibit any dulness, but learnt as well as other
girls of her age. Her sister was heavy in sleep, so
heavy that she had often undrened her and put
her to bed while in thri state. She was an intel-
ligent, sharp girl. Rosa had considerable influence
over her. It was observed in the famil 7. Wit-
ness had often seen Clark speaking to kosa, and
thought he was her sweetheart.
Mr. Pearse, police divisional surgeon, who had
been called in after Miss Harris was recovered by
her friends, proved that the offence charged had
been committed.

Sergeant Loom, a detective officer of the B divi-
sion, said that during her absence from home her
parents employed him to trace her. He went to
Clark on bath the Tuesday and Thursday, and
urged him to relieve their minds by telling what
had become of their child, when he called God to
witness that he knew nothing about her.
Knowland, the summoning officer of the court,
proved tbat when he apprehended Clark he denied
that he had assaulted Miss Harris, and inquired of
witness whether he had got Rosa.

Mr. Lewis submitted at great length that this
was not an offence under the Bishop of Oxford's
Act, which required that a woman should be pro-
cured for the criminal purpose by false pretences,
false representations, and fraudulent means. This
case lacked all these ingredients. This girl had, by
her own admission, long corresponded with Clark,
and, instead of being deluded from her home by any
fake statements, she left it of her own free will, for
the express purpose of seeing Clark. There
were no fraudulent means used ; she was not
coerced in any way, but with the romantic
spirit which sometimes actuated young lldies
left her home of her own free will, cared for
the time nothing for her parents, comfortably re•
mained at the lodgings until she was fetched by her
mother, .and then found it necessary to make up
the best story she could to stand well with her
friends. All must depend upon the girl's state-
ment, and he would ask whether any jury, or other
sane body of people, would believe the story that
she did not know how she was undressed or how
she got into bed ? He had no doubt that she was
a consenting party to her own ruin.

Mr. Paynter thought there was a very strong
false pretence in a married man and woman saying
and doing what the accused had done, and adverted
to the remark that Rosa had made, that it was of no
consequence, as she was to be married on the Sun-
day. If there bad been no Bishop of Oxford's Act,
and if it had been proved that the girl consented,
he would not believe that they were living in a
country where such a flagrant atrocity as this case
developed could becommtted without punishment.
This remark was followed by clapping of hands
and vehement applause from the auditory.
Mr. Paynter-committed the prisoners for trial at
the Central Criminal Court.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. William Bates
was charged with keeping an office for betting on
horse races, at No. 1, Queen's Head-court, Wind-
mill-street.

Four other persons, Sidney Collins, John Fagg,
Edward Wills, and Joseph Steel, were charged with
being found in the house without lawful excuse.

After a statement from Mr. Hawkins, who ap-
peared for the defendants,
Mr. Bingham decided upon discharging all the
defendants except Bates, the charge against whom
mainly rested on the testimony of Police-constable
Parker, A 326, who visited the place in plain
clothes and at la't saw a bet made and money paid
to Bates, who gave the person who made the bet a
yard.

Mr. Hawkins contended that the evidence did
not bring home the charge to the defendant, and
that the fact of a single bet having been made, if it
really was made,
was not sufficient to make the shop
in which the transaction took place a betting office.
Mr. Bingham said that to his mind the evidence
that the shop was not a barber's shop, but a betting
offices was overwhelming. Ho should call upon
defer 'dant to pay the reduced fine of 50/., or be im-
prisoned for three months.
Mr. Hawkins said notice of appeal would be
giv en.

Mr. Hawkins having afterwards abandoned the
appeal, and intimated the readiness of his client to
gkve up the betting business,
.Mr._ Bingham reduced the fine to 201.

EASTER OFFEP.INGS.—A very pleasing and poetic idea
*learns to have arisen in the mind of Madame Temple, of
:184, Regent-street, from the practice of the offering of
,eggs at the present period of Easter. This ingenious
lady has formed the eggs of sugar in two halves, which
are attacbed together by a tasteful bandage of ribbon.
En the interior and reposing in a soft bed of wool is to
be found--what ? We really do not think it fair, how-
; .ever, thus to reveal the contents of these " (Etlfs de
..Pdgues," as a principal charm is in the mutual surprise
.ana'pleasure of the donor and acceptor at the disclosure
•of that which reposes in so sweet a shrine. We may add,
they are in every respect worthy of this persevering ca-
terer hi the 1 roduction of novelties for friendship offer-
,ings.

From the. London Gazette of Last Night.

WHITEHALL, Apßtr, 14.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be pased under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Charles Lecock, of Speldhurst, in the county of
Kent, and of Hertford-street, Mayfair, in the county of
Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, and First Physician Ae-
&mber to her Majesty, and to the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 15.
_

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto
Major Charles Nasmyth her Majesty's royal licence and
permission that he may accept and wear the Imperial
Order of tho Medjidie of the Fourth Class, which the
Sultan hath been pleased to confer' upon him as a mark of
his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his distinguished ser-
vices in the defence of Silistria, and during the campaign
on the Danube, in the year 1854.
WAR OFFICE, APRIL 17.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Colonel Alexander Murray Tullocb,
Unattached, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Divi-
sion of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the
Most Honourable Or,ler of the Bath.

, upon-Tyne; Watson, Newcastle-upon-Typo; Harwood,
Clement's-lane, City.
Richard Winter Nears, miller, Sheffield, May G end
Juno 3, at twelve, at the Tow, -hall, Kingston-upon-Hull.
Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Daubuoy, Market Ras= ;
Stamp and J: ckson, Hull.
Ge-,rge Jayi.e, jun., builder, Newport, April 27 and
May 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
official assignee, Bristol ;. Bevan and Giriing,
Samuel Dalton, Daniol Dalton, and Alfred Dalton,
ironwasters, Chester, April 213, and May 2d, at eleven, at
the Liverpool D;strict Court. Cazenove, official assignee,
Liverpool.; Cooper and Sons, Manchester; Dodge,

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John M`Ro3tie, flasher, Crieff.
David Spence, merchant, in Ferry-Port-on-Craig.
James Glennie, lace and sewed muslin. warehouseman,
Bucbaoan•street, Glasgow.
William Sharp, draper, Kirkwall.
Thomas Murray, tailcr and clothier, Port-Glasgow.

BANK OF E
An Acconnt pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturday
lurk DEP
Notes issued ...... .• 22,795,165

2. NGL AND.
7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
ir, the t Rh day of April, 1857.
♦RTMENT.

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...—. 3,450,ii00
Gold coin and bullion 8.321,165
Silver bu11i0n........

£22,796,165

£22,796 165
MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 16th day of April, 184,

BANKING DE:
Proprietors'capital .. 14,553,000
(test . .... 3,237,639
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of

!PARTMENT•

Government seenritios

National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 5,116,350
Other deposits 10,181,057
Bcven I)ay and other
Bills .....• 717,237

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .. 11,333,126
Other securities .. 18.984,64
Notes •• .. .......... 3,041,121
Gold and silver coin.. 713,447

£34,105,333 £34,103,333
M. MARSHALL, Chief ,;iistater.
Dated the 16th day of April, 1857.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
T o Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Apri-
-14, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid of
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Groar
Britain : s. d.t
From the British Possessions in America 39 101
Muscovado, the produce of the MLuritius 39 64
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 7 93.
Average of the above descriptions.

Mlles
penal.
1857.

Country Markets.

..-_,__.__.-, -_.,.-..__

LIVERPOOL—APRIL 1?.
The Corn Exchante this morning ,was well attended by
millets and dealers• The demand for wheat was good,
several purchases being made for Ireland and Scotland,
and an advance of about 2d per bushel over Tuesday was
realised. Flour did net participate in the rise on wheat,
and only a small bu,iin,:ss was done, at, however, full
prices. Indian corn was 31 to 6 I per qr dearer. Oats were
per bushel. an .1 oatmeal 3d to 6d per load higher. Bar-
ley and beans were 1i.A!.1 neglected.

WAKEFIELD--APRIL 17.
Fine wheat was in fair request at is to 2s advance on
last week's prices. Inferior sorts were held for is advance,
hut the sal., was limited. I❑ barley there was no change.
Beans, oats, and shelling were steady.

EXETElt—Armr, 17.
CORN.—Wheat, G i Od to 7s ; barley, 58 Od to 58 6d ;
grinding do., 0, Od. to Os Od. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 4d.
Beaus, Os Od to 0 Od. Peas, OOs Od to OOs Od.
FLoun.—Fiuo, 38s Od to 510 Od ; seconds, 36s Od to 381
Od per sack.

CATTLE, —There was a small supply of bullocks. Best
beef, from 10s al to 11s per score ; inferior, Os 6d to 108 per
score ; fat calves, 61 to Oil per lb ; barrenners, Os Ocl to Os
0,1. per score ; cows and calve-, 121. to 16/. ts ; butchers'
calves, Od to 7d per lb., re:trio:: calves —s to s each.
sheep, ewes and lambs, 0/. Os to 0/. Os per couple; ewes, 74d
to 8d ; wethers, 8,1,.1; lambs, —to 0,1 per 11). Pigs,
large size, —s to —s ; second size, --s to —s : slips, —s
to —s ; suckers, —s to —s. Rough fat, 41d per lb.
Pork carcases from lOs 0,1 to lls Od per score.

BRISTOL SUGAR—APRIL 17.
There .has bee] a Very active &w and this week for all
descriptions of sugar, and the offices have been completely
cleared of every sample on show at fully former rates firall i
kinds excepting Barbadoes, n which latter some con-
cession has been made .by the importer on the previous
asking prices. Afloat shout 2,000 tons, including Mauri-
tius, Havannahs. and Manillas, have been disposed of, at
rather higher prices. Refiners' produce continues in short
supply, and former rates are fully sustained. Of ruin
there is none left in first hainis..

COAL MARKE'

Prices of Coals per ton at

s Bates's West Hartley l5 d 0
Huddle W. Hartley l7 3
Boll's Primrose . 13 6
Carr's Hartley l7 0
Howard's West Hartley
Netherton l7 :31
Longridge's Wst Hartley 17 3
Canfield Moor 3 C
Canfield Moor Butes 13 l•
.Walker Primrose l3 9
West Hartley Grey's 16 6,
Wylam
Wa &c
acorn Close l6 91
Eden
Hartoa
Hilda 14 6
Northumberland E 14 7
Eden Main l6

a.—Apar. 17.
the close of the market.
Wa

s d.
Framwellgato l6 9
:laswell 18 0
dawn lB 0
GArribtou l7 6
Plummer
',Lessen's Helton 16 6
south Hetton 17 9
itewart.'s lB 0
Cassop 17 0
Hartlepool l7 6
Hartlepool Hetton l7 0
deugh Hall 16 6
Kelloe. l6 0
South Hartlepool l6 6
[south Kelloe 16 9
Tees lB 0
Whitworth l6 0
Wayne's Merthyr, 2l 3

Ships at market,

203; sold, 109.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.
• msterdarn . . .H .7 Gibraltar ......•• •••• •• --
Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Leghorn ...• • •• 29 60
Rotterdam ............ 1I 19,4 Genoa ........ •• ...... 26 7b
Antwerp ~............ 25 s 0 liilan ......•.........
Rraqsels ...•......... 25 50 Venice.... •• •••• ......
Plamburgh ............ 13 87i Naples
•••• ...
A.ltona ..•• ............ Palermo
•....
Pari5................ —25 !=2!4 Messina •
... 1304
Ditto, thrce months .. 25 6734 Llsho- ..
Marseilles ............. 25 70 ; Oporto ..............•• 52%
Bourdeaux ........... I Rio J.l.neiro ...... •.....
Fr ankfort-on. 'lalne .... 11934 I Buenos Ayres... •••• . ..
Berlin ................ I New York,6o days' sight
1
Vienna .......... • • .... (0 32 Philadelphia
rrie5te........•• •• .... 10 33 PZICE3 or BULLION, rxs oz.
Petersburg ............ 26% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Stadrid ....... ~., .... 49 ii, Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz ......... • • ...... 45A, Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 0%
Blreelona ......, ...... New Dollars ...... 9 0 I,
Saville-.............. Sliver in bars ...... r) 5 1%

RAILWAY TRAFFIC BETUREP.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Receipts.

NAME or RAILWAY.

1857. 1856