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ESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1857.

THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND DUE
HAM DISTRICT BANKING COMPANY.

Yesterday the Lord Chancellor issued an order
directing that all parties concerned in the case of
the petition for winding-up this bank, just pre-
sented by Messrs. Tucker, Greville, and Tucker,
on behalf of Mr. E. Bourne, of Morden College,
Blackheath, do attend before him on Friday, 15th
January. The petition states that the bank was
started in 1835, and the capital fixed at 600,0001.
in 60,000 shares of 10/. each, and had offices at
Newcastle, and branches at Sunderland, Durham,
Alnwick, Sauth Shields, North Shields, Berwick,
flexhatn and Morpe, h. That petitioner is holder
iif 20 shares, on which he paid 2001. the full
amount thereof. From 1837 to 1857 the directors
convened meetings yearly, and dividends of 6 per
cent, and recently of 7 per cent. were declared
every half-year, with a considerable sum on each
occasion to the contingent account. Reports
were issued by the directors, but the informa-
tion in them was scanty and meagre as to the
real condition of the company. The directors
iu the last report in February 1857, stated that
the business during the preceding year had fully
answered their expectations, that there was a nett
rofit, after all expenses, of 70,2601., giving a divi-
i-nd of 31. 10s. for th,, half-year ending June, and
hat they proposed to declare a like dividend for the
De!einbar half-year ; leaving a surplus of 23,8411.
rho statement with the report showed, on the debit
side, thatthe proprietors' capital, paid up, amounted
to 655,491/ , the deposit and credit balances to
:3,379,8191., and the guaranteeiuml. to 90,874/. ;
al.d on tt;e credit side of the scoount the cash-bills,
notes, debit balances, and other securities, amount-
ed to 4,152,0851., and the value of the bank pre-
nises at Newcastle and local branches 21,165/.
That since the stoppage of the bank petitioner has
tiscovered that included in the 4,152,085/. repre-
gen ted as invested on security, was a very large sum
,dvanced by the directors on mortgage of certain
mineral properties in which one or more of the di-
. ectors were interested personally, and which fact
was wholly cone 'afed from the shareholders. It
dowfurther appeared that in August last, when the
last half-year's dividend was declared, the bank, to
the knowledge of the directors, was hopelessly in-
solvent At a meeting on the 26th Nov. last the
shareholders were for the first time made aware of
the alarming position of their affairs ; that the as-
sets were insufficient to meet the thbts and liabili-
ties ; that not only was the paid-up capital of 101.
per share lost, but that the liabilities would require
a further contribution of 51. per share, which was
made in the shape of a call, but not responded to.
That the directors advanced considerable sums to
one another on inadequate security, and improvi-
dently invested it in speculative transactions. The
total loss of the capital was concealed from the
shareholders,. and the company represented as in a
flourishing state. T at the debts and liabilities of
the bank amount to several millions ; that the share-
holders are liable ; and that there is no other equit-
able method of dealing with the bank and its em-
barrassments but under the winding-up jurisdiction
of the Court of Chancery ; it being understood
that any call made by the directors is invalid on
the ground that the shares have been fully paid up,
and that therefore the directors have no power to
make a further call. Petitioner, in conclusion,
alleges his belief that the committee appointed to
confer with and assist the directors are personal
friends and under the influence of the latter.

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THE ROY AL MILITARY COLLEGE.

The following notice and memorandum have
been issued by the military authorities :
" Horse Guards, S.W., Deo. 29.

" Notice is hereby given that the competitive exami-
nations of candidates for the admission into the junior
department of the Royal Military College, referred twin
article 6 of the subjoined memorandum, will be held at
Butlington-house, Piccadilly, on the 2813, 29th, and
30th of January :

" Memorandum.

" florae Guards, Dec, 3.

" Her Majesty having been pleased to approve that
the education of gentlemen of all arms of the service
who do not obtain commissions by direct appointment
shall be given at the Royal Military Colleg., at Sand-
hurst, the following will be the regulations for the future
admission of candidates into that College

" The age of admission to be from 16 to 18 years.
"The candidate must apply through his parent or
guardian to the General Cowmanding_in•Chief for per-
mission to have his name entered on the list of competi-
tors for the College. On receiving that permission it
will be open to the candidate to compete at any one of
the half-yearly Entrance Examinations whioh may occur
while he is within the prescribed limits of age. If un-
successful, he will be allowed a second trial ; but if again
unsuccessful, he will be debarred from further competi•
tion for entrance into the College.

3. The unsueeasau oandtclate, however, will still be
eligible to enter the army by passing the exatoination for
direct oommiesione.

NAVAL AND MILITA RY INTELLIGENCE.

"4. The period of study will be two years. It will
be terminated by a competitive examination, the most
succes4ul candidates in which will be permitted to select
the Corps of Royal Engineers or Royal Artillery, ac-
cording to the number of vacancies in those corps, or
will receive commissions without purchase in the Ca-
valry, Guards, or Line. Those who select the Ordnance
Corps will be removed to the School of Application at
Wool wich.

" 6. The payments by Cadets at the Royal Military
College will be on the tolls wing scale, viz.:—
Per annum.
For sons of private gentlAmen £loo
For sons of admirals and general officers having

The authorities at the War-office having decided
on sending out an additional force to India, exclu-
sive of the troops who are now under orders or on
their passage to that country, instructions have
been forwarded to the commanding officers of the
various depots attached to the Indian establish-
ment, directing them to hold in readiness troops
from their several depots to the number of 1,000
non-commissioned officrra and men, with the pro-
per proportion of officers, the whole of whom will
embark at Gravesend early in the ensuing month,
tonnage having been taken up for them by the Ron.
East India Company. The following are the depots
which are ordered to furnish that number of officers
and troops for their regiments, the service compa-
nies of which are now staiioued in the Bengal Pre-
sidency—viz., sth (Fusiliers), f'''-th• (King's), 10th,
I9th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh leimiliens), 24th; 27th
(Enniskillins), 29th, 32d, 35th. 37th, 42d (High-
landers), 52d (Light Infantry), s.id, 60th Rifles, Ist,
2d, and 3d battalions, 61st, 70th, 75th, 78th (High-
landers), 81st, 82d, 84th, 87th(Royal Irish Fusiliers),
88th (Connaught Rangers), 89th, 90th (Light In-
fantry), 93d (Highlanders), 94t1, 98th, and the
Rifle Brigade. In addition to theabove troops, 500
non-commissioned officers and lien will embark
early in January for the purpose of joining the
head-quarters of those regiment; attached to the
Bombay and Madras establishments, together with
the 48th Regiment and the 92d Eighlanders, which
regiments are to proceed to India from Gibraltar,
where they will be relieved by the 22d and the 25th
(King's Own Borderers).
An adjourned meeting was held yesterday
of the
yesterday
morning in the messroom of tf.e officers
Royal Artillery, Woolwich, at tie request of the
Commandant of the Garrison, sild was attended
by Major-General Sir W. P. ViLiams, Colonel
Brown, R.M., Colonel Brockman, East Kent
Militia, Colonel Bowles, Oxford Militia, Major
Salts, commanding the Royal Military Train,
and upwards of 100 officers belonging to the
various regiments on duty in Woolwich. Major-
General Williams announced the abject of the meet-
ing from the chair, by stating that he had requested
their attendance to discuss the advantages to be
derived from a military institute, now in progress,
for the benefit and recreation of the private soldier,
and which ho hoped to see liberally carried out and
supported by the coutributions of every officer in
the garrison. The General, after pointing out the
numerous advantages which such an institution
would confer on the whole military community, said
he was anxious for its Einauguratiou, as he had wit-
'leased the benefits of similar establishments in other
garrison towns. Col. Brown, R.M,, expressed him-
self highly in favour of forming an institution which
would offer a second home for the leisure hours of
the soldier. It cannot be denied (continued Colonel
Brown) that the domestic accommodation of a mar-
ried soldier's quarters, is oftentimes most uninvit-
ing. In such cases an establishment like the one
now under their consideration, would be fraught
with marvellous advantages, and would offer a
second home at an insignificant expenditure. The
.
Rev. G. R. Ghee, M.A., chaplain-geuerM to the i
army, enumerated instances of the manifold advan-
tages which he had observed in Dover, and other
places, where these establishments have been
created, iu order to provide for the relaxation and
amusement of the soldier's leisure hours, and said
there could not be two opinions on the benefit
which a similar home would confer in Woolwich on
the well-disposed of every ago, but more particularly
on the moral and social well-being of the young
soldier. Colonel Gardner and other officers sub,,e-
quently addressed the meeting, when a show of
hands was requested by those who were in favour of
the institution, and who were willing to contribute
towards its establishment and support, and also a
show of hands for the contrary object. The num-
hers exhibited a majority in favour of the institu-
tion.

regiments
For sons of general officers not having regiments 70
For sons of captains and commanders of the Royal
Navy and field officers of the army having sub-
stantive rank 5O
For sons of all officers of the :Royal Navy and
Army under the al ove ranks
For the sous of officers of the Navy and Army
who have died in the service, and whOse fami-
lies are proved to be left in pecuniary distress 20
Twenty ' Queen's Cadets,' being sons of offieeis
in the Navy and Army who have fallen in
action, or have died from the effects of active
service, and have left their families in reduced
circumstances..

Free

" In addition to the above payments, there will be re-
quired to be deposited on entrance such sum as shall be
found ❑ecessary for supplying clothing, books, and in.
struments.

" 6. The find competitive examination for the Royal
Military College will take place in the month of Jan.,
1858, at which 24 of the moat successfal candidates, if
duly qualified, will be admitted.

«7. Etch candidate will be required to produce a
certificate of baptism, or other sati-factory proof of his
age, a certificate from a minister of the Church or deno
initiation to which he belongs that he has bees d'ily in-
structed in the princip es of religion, and a certificate
from the master or tutor under whom he has been edu-
cated of his general moral conduct for at least the two
preceding years.
"The candidate will be examined by a medical officer
to ascertain that be is in every point of view, as regards
his physical constitution, fit for military service.
"The following will be the subjects in which exami-
nation papers will be set, and the number of marks
assigned to each, viz. :

Marks.
Classics (Latin 2,000, Greek 1.600) 3,600
Mathematics
.... 3,600
English language
French
1,200
Any other modern language 1,200
History, with geography
Natural Sciences—i. e., mineralogy and geo-
logy
600
Experimental Science:, —i.e., chemistry, heat,
electricity, including magnetism
Drawing
" In mathematics the following elementary branches
will be required to be taken up, viz.:—
" Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions;
proportion, extraction of the square root, interest.
" Algebra, including fractions, simple equations, and
questions producing them.
" Euclid,' the firbt two books.
"To thesis two branches 1,200 marks (out of the above
3,600 marks for mathemalic-) will be allotted, and it
will be necessary for qualification that at least 600 marks
in all be obtained.

Some important improvements and alterations,
suggested by the East India Company's Directors
ou their recent inspection of the light draught gun-
boats under construction for river service in India
j,y Messrs. Rennie and Sons, having been cora-
Tleted, the three already terminated are being
acked for shipment forthwith.
Instructions were received yesterday at Woolwich
Dockyard relative to paying off and recommission-
ing the flag ship Fisgard on the 31st inst. Com-
modore Shepherd will immediately rehoist his flag,
and the whole of the numerous officers employed in
the contingent services, and who are borne on the
Fisgard's books, are to be reappointed, with the
exception of Mr. Mugford, matter who is to be
succeeded by Mr. C. T. A. Noddall, commanding
her Majesty's ship Agamemnon ; and Mr. V. Wil•
hams, who will retire on the half-pay list.
The G.,liath, 80, screw 'reamer, which has been
some time in dock at Sheerness, to be fitted with
her machinery, is ordered to be taken to Chatham
to be ready for sea.
The freight ships Dutchman and Adonis em-
barked yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard the Ist
Royal Surrey Militia for conveyance to Waterford.
The Dutchman embarked seven companies, com-
prising two field officers, four captains,
eight
subalterns, two staff, 32 sergeants, 10 drummers,
21 corporals, 398 privates, 32 soldiers' wives, 38
children, and two officers! horses ; and the Adonis
embarked three companies, comprising one field-
officer, two captains, five subalterns, three staff,
eight sergeants, 10 corporals, 177 privates, 11 sol-
THE STAFF COLLEGE. diem' wives, four children, and one horse. The
"Horse Guards, Dec. 29. officers were Col. W. H. Sumner, Lieut.-Col. G.
" Notice is hereby given, that the competitive exami P. Evelyn, Major G. D. Scott, Captains E. H. L.
nations for admission to the Staff College will be held at Penrhyn, C. W. Calvert, J. A. Bouloott, C. S.
Burlington House, Piccadilly, on the Ist of Feb.,1858."' Barrow, W. Platt, A. H, Sumner; Lieut 9. 8.

" In. the English language 400 marks will be assigned
to correct and legible writing from dictation and to am;
position, and of these it will be required that at least
200 shall be obtained for qualification.
" In the French language 400 marks will be allotted
to correct reading and translation from an easy French
author, and of these at least 200 will be required for
qualification.
"In history (with geography), 400 marks will be
allotted to that of England with its dependencies, of
which 200 will be required for qualification.
"And, in addition to the number of marks just stated
as indispen,able for qualification in the required portion
of mathematic.,, English, French, and history, it will be
necessary that the candidate alma obtain such a number
in these and the remaining rubj.cts above enumerated as
shall raise his total number to 2,400 marks.
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"No marks will be allowed to count in any subject
left optional to the candidate, unless at least one-fifth of
the marks allotted to that subject be gained.
" The candidate will be required to forward to the
Council of Military Education one month before the ex-
amination a statement of the subjects he desires to take
up, in which he will specify the names of the classical
Authors he has studied, and the course of history he has
been reading.

"The competitors will he reported to the Commander•
in-Chief in their order of merit, and those first on the
list will succeed to the vacancies at the College. •
"By c ,rnmand,
"G. A. WETBERALL, Adjutant-General."

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Peters, W. H. Wedley, P. A. Carlton, S. Taylor,
A. L. Bayne, G. C. Bayne; Ensigns W. U. Miller,
H. A. Harding, J. R. Medley, G. P. Walker, G.
R. Alaskan, C. A. P. Bullock, B. W. Minchin,
Paymaster F. J. Bellew, Adjutant J. Prosser,
Quartermaster Rontree, Surgeon R. H. Warwick,
and Assistant-Surgeon H. W. Jackson. Both ships
left last evening for Waterford.
The Diadem, 32, screw frigate, Capt. Mooreom,
C. 8., and the Sharpshooter, 9, steam sloop, Lieut.-
Commander Gibbon, were officially inspected yes-
terday at Portsmouth by Adiuiral Sir G. Seymour,
K.C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief of the station,
prior to their going on a cruise, the former for some
experimental trials in the Channel, and the latter
to the coast of Africa.

The following appointmenta weremade yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Lieutenants—A. C. Curtis to the Vulcan ; George A .
Douglas and W. Heaton (for disposal) to the Royal
Albert.
Paymaster—W. G. Parmeter to the Ajax.

Assistant-Surgeons—William Carmichael, Maxwell
Rogers, Joseph V. N. Blake, and Richard C. M'Clement,
to the Victory ; Thomas Roe, Andrew Mullan, mid
Edward B. Bro•ter to the Impregnable.
Mr. Samuel Irvine has been promoted to a Daputy
Medical Inspector on the retired list.

The West Indian negro peasant- is, aceerfling to
the Timts of yesterday, "as much like a beast as
ever :" he won't work, he won't cover his person,
or shelter himself or his family ; he is vagrant and
indolent to th• last degree. Oonsequently, argues
our contemporary, West India .planters must be
allowed to commit felony by buying Africans, or at
all events to import Indians, as French restaurants
supply bread, a discretion.

This description of the emancipated peasant of
the British West Indies is not only, as regards its
objects, a foul, but—in the interests of the planters
—a very injudicious libel; for it is by exaggerations
and untruths of this kini that passions are roused,
ill-will and prejudices cultivated and extended, an-
tagonism established, and all confidence destroyed.
The West Indian planters will gain nothing by such
falsehoods ; they will only render their cause more
odious than it is, and create an opposition to their
views and projects that will frustrate and defeat
them, even when they may be unobjectionable.
That the West Indian peasant can work well and
profitably for his employer in the sugar field, the
history of sla'rery shows. Why, then, does he not
work there now steadily and continuously ? His in-
terests, his prospects, his improvement, are more
or less dependent on sugar production, which is the
staple wealth of the West Indies ; why then does he
not by his labour maintain and largely augment the
production of that staple ? Surely the chief reason
is plain and simple enough. You cannot cast your
eyes over a book of West Indian statistics but it
stares you in the face. Turn, for example, to the
tables relating to our Colonial possessions for 1855,
lately presented to both Houses of Parliameat by
the Queen's command, and then he who runs may
read the cause. The reason is the low rate of wages
given for work in a country in which labour is not
redundant, and where there are many temptations
not to work for wages at all.
In St Kits the average rate of wages was in 1855
6d. to Bd. a day, in Nevis it was 7d., in Antigua
6d. to ls., in Montserrat sid., in Dominica 7d., in
St. Lucia ls., in Barbadoes 10d., in Grenada 2s. 6,1.
to ss. a week of five days, in Tobago 10d. a day, in
Trinidad ls. 3d., in British Guiana ls. 4d. Now
it is to be remarked that the cost of many of the
leading articles of provisions, nearly all of which
are imported—the cost of clothing, in which the
emancipated peasant, or " beast," as the Times calls
him, is vain and expensive—and the taxation of all
these colonies, are very high. Field work is the
lowest kind of labour, and while it is thus miserably
underpaid, skilled labour in these colonies is very
highly remunerated. It St. Kits, for example, the
average wages of tradesmen are Is. 6d. to 2s. Id. a
day, in Nevis 2s. 6d., in Antigua 25., in Mont-
serrat 2s. to 35., in Dominica 25., in St. Lucia
2s. 6d., in Barbadoes ls. Bd., in Tobago 2s. 6d., in
Trinidad 4s. 2d., in British Guiana 4s. These
statistics establi,h two things—first, that the wages
given ,for cultivating sugar arrant- no° adequatOrtivt
ducementefor the peasantry to cultivate it steadily
and continuously, and that the profits of skilled
labour are large enough to divert every predial
labourer worth his salt to the prosecution of higher
class work.

[t is further apparent from these tables that it is
exactly in those colonies wherein wages for predial
labour are highest that production is increasing. In
British Guiana wages for field work are Is. 4d.
a day, and its exports were valued in 1853 at
1,014,944/. ; in 1854 they rose to 1,405,3321., and in
1855 were worth 1,331,3711. So also in amaica,
where labour bears a higher rate than in the
smaller colonies; the value of Jamaica produce ex-
ported rose from 729,9561. in 1854 to 957,1141. in
1855. To some extent this rise in value may have
been caused by a hivher price of sugar ; in that
case, however, the profits of cultivation must also
have increased, and the planters can have had no
excuse in want of pecuniary means for not drawing
steady and continuous field labour out of the pea-
santry by good and adequate wages.
The true policy of the West India planter is to
purchase at its proper market value the labour he
allows to be wasting for sugar purposes around him.
But the real object of the West India plant-r is the
very reverse of his true policy—it is to lower the
rate of wages for field work by immigration. The
emancipated peasantrycan live without the planters,
and their labour is only to be had for substantial
wages; those wages the planters, we have seen, will
not pay ; and then, because the peasantry will not
work for inadequate remuneration, they are insultd
by being told that " they are as much like beasts
as ever;" as if at any time or under any circum-
stances, conscientious, serious, and temperately-
minded men could or would apply such a term or
use such language to describe any of the human
race, "heirs to immortality," however low in the
scale of civilisation.

But if the emancipated peasantry are, in West
Indian estimation, like beasts, it is obviously be-
cause of their Afri;,au origin and of their Negro
character. Then surely it is the grossest inconsist-
ency to ask for more Africans, more Negroes, and
more "beasts," unless indeed it is intended to sub-
ject the now arrivals. purchased in Africa, to that
compulsory servitude in the West Indies whichthe
British people paid the planters 20 millions sterling
to free the " beasts" they already possessed from. If
Creole negroes in a state of freedom won't work in
the West Indies—where the climate enables them
to dispense with the refinements of shelter or ap-
parel, and the soil provides them with sustenance—
surelythere is less reasonableexpectation that newly
imported Africans, ignorant of all inducements to
work, will toil voluntarily under similar circum-
stances. There seems to be a hitch here, a sort of
hiatus in the West Indian argument, which can
only be repaired or filled up by a proposal to re-
duce the African immigrants to slavery of some
sort or other.
But if we will not open Africa to the West In-
dies, can nothing, we are asked, be done in Indian
for the West Indian planters, who won't employ
the labour they have at home 7 Indian labour has
rendered the Mauritius far more profitable, far more
productive, far richer under freedom, than that
colony ever was under slavery. Why not let the
West Indies enjoy all the advantages which the
Mauritius possesses ? The answer to this question
is twofold. We cannot, if we would, place the
West. Indies on the same footing as to Indian labour
on which the Mauritius stands. But so far as we
safely can do, we have already opened India to
our West Indian colonies—a fact of which the
Times appears surprisingly ignorant.
The Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean,
within a few days' sail of the Indian coast ; it is of
easy and cheap access from India, the return to
India from the Mauritius is also cheap and easy,
and the voyage has become familiar to the popula-
tion of India. It is a single colony easily compre-
hensible to a simple mind. These natural advan-
tages it is not in the power of man to confer on the
West Indies ; and even were there no other adverse
agency, this difference must always render any
comparison between the Mauritius and the West
Indies, so far as Indian emigration is concerned,
wholly inadmissible. Take that element which
must always chiefly regulate the extent of emigra-
tion—its cost. The contract price for conveying
emigrants from Calcutta to the Mauritius in 1856
—a year of unusually high freights—varied from
2/. 12s. to 4/. 9s. a-head, and from Madras ave-
raged about 4/. ss. No wonder, then, that the
Mauritius can afford to convey 10,000 or 12,000
Indians a-year, to be returned at the expira-
tion of their terms of service. But from India

to the West Indies is a three months' voyage ;
the mortality of such a voyage, and of the re-
turn voyage, must be far greater than to and
from the Mauritius ; the coat of transport is more

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13URNING OF THE SAKAI/. 5.4 ,VDS TRANSPORT.

The following letter from Capt. J. S. Castle, the
_ commander of the Sarah Sands screw traiesp;.rt-
- steamer, has been received by Messrs. Walton,
shipbrokers, of Gra,cecherch-street, relative to the
partial destruction of the ship by fire and the es-
cape of the troops and crew:—
"At about 3 45 p.m., on the 11th of November,
I discovered a very strong smell of fire arising
from the after orfop deck (where about 120 of the
troops were berthed), and upon going into the
hold found it to be on fire, and immense
volumes of smoke issuing from it. - I immediately
ordered all the engines to be stopped, all sail taken
in, and the ship brought to the wind ; some hands
were at the same time getting fire hoses passed
below.
" I then requested Col. Moffatt to have all the
ammunition thrown overboard, and succeeded in
clearing the starboard magazine. By this time the
whole of the after part of the ship was so much
enveloped in smoke that it was scarcely possible to
stand, but volunteers came aft and attempted to
clear the port magazine, which they succeeded in
doing, with the exception (as we suppose) of one
barrel. Several of the men were dragged up sense-
less from below while thus engaged.
" I ordered all the boats to be lowered, placing
the ladies in the port lifeboat under the charge of
Mr. Verey, third officer, giving him orders to keep
clear of the ship until recalled. Mr. We!ch, chief
officer, was forward hoisting out the cutter and
longboat, which was done without accident. I then
commenced constructing rafts, of which I launched
two overboard, and safely moored them alongside,
keeping a third across the deck forward in readi-
ness.

Shan treble ; the change is in every respect far
greater ; and the objections of the. Indian Coolie
to cross the " black water" are almost insuperable.
The-proximity of the Mauritius to India is so
favourable to emigration, that up to 1856 no fewer
than 175,388 Indian immigrants had been received
in that island, of whom 27,000 had, on the expira-
tion of their service, returned to India. But even
this immigration, carried on under the most encou-
raging circumstances, has one unpleasant feature—
' which is of course seriously aggravated in the case
of the West Indies--in the frightful disparity of the
sexes ; for while of this total immigration 135,152
were men, the number of females was only 25,137.
Happily however, and owing chiefly to the low cost
of transport, this disparity in the Mauritius can be
easily removed, and a new scale of proportion has
been adopted by Governor Iligginson which will
next year raise the. per tentage- of female immi-
grants to 40, and in 1860 to SCV But the cost of
such a per tentage to the West Indies would
entirely d.tfeat the operation ; it would render it
impossible in a pecuniary sense.
But it might be supposed from the manner in
which the Times writes that a prohibition of all
emigration from India to the West Indies was in
force. The very reverse is the case. India is just
as open to the West Indies as to the Mauritius ;
and if the Times will refer to this year's Report of
the Emigration Commissioners, under the head of
the West Indies, it will. find the first paragraph
commencing thus :
The number of Coolies Vred for the West Indies
for the-season 1856-7 was ' 60 for British Guiana,
3,000 for Trinidad, and a ship load for each of the
islanda,Jf St. Lucia and Grenada.
In amsequentrabf Os 'f oitier" .from the West
Indies there were actually despatched to British
Guiana 2,987 Indians, of whom only 664 were
females ; 1,642 to Trinidad, of whom 414 were
women ; and 375 to Grenada, of whom but 68
were females. Yet we have the Times exclaiming
in December, 1857, " Can nothing of this sort be
done for the West Indies ?"

At about 8.30 p.m. flames burst through the
upper deck, and shortly after the mizen rigging tcok
fire. I was then fearful of the ship paying off, bat
fortnnately the ufter-brartrivereffettgti
and the rnainyard swung round.
" About 9 p.m. a fearful explosion took place in
the port magazine. By this time the ship was one
body of flame from the stern to the main rigging,
and thinking it scarcely possible so save herl
called Major Brett (in command of the troops) for-
ward, and told him my opinion, requesting him to
endeavour to keep order among the troops till the
hist, but at the same time to use every exertion to
check the fire.

The truth is, that from 1847 to 1856 4very con-
siderable addition has been made to the labouring
population of the West Indies. Sierra Leone has
a nt them 6,543 free Africans; St. Helena has
furnished them with 7,096 liberated slaves ; Ma-
deira has given them 9,366 of its distressed
labourers ; China has furnished 2,000 of its people ;
and India, which the Times treats as closed to
them, has sent 20,229 Coolies. In these ten years
the total extent of West Indian immigration has
reached nearly 50,000 labourers of all classes.
Thus we see how very little this great advocate
of the West Indies really knows of West Indian
affairs—how perfectly unconscious it it is of the
radical vico of West Indian political economy—
how inconsistent with its libel of the black peasantry
is its proposal to import more Africans—how it
underrates the advantages which the Mauritius pos-
sesses for Indian immigration ; and how profoundly
ignorant it is that the suggestion it makes has
already been actually in operation for the last ten
years. It is, in the case of the Times and the West
India planters, " the blind leading the blind."

" No person can describe the manner in which
the men workel to keep the fire back, one party
were below keeping the bulkhead cool, several of
whom were dragged up senseless, and fresh volun-
teers took their places, but wore soon in the same
state. •

"At 11 p.m. the maintopsailyard took fire. Mr.
Welch, one quartermaster, and four or five soldiers
went aloft with wet blankets and succeeded in ex-
tinguishing it, but not until the yard and mast
were nearly burnt through. About midnight we
appeared to have made some impression on the
fire, and after that drove it back inch by inch until
daylight, when it had been completely got under.
" The ship now appeared in a fearful plight ;
merely the shell remaining, the port quarter blown
out by the explosion, 15 feet of water in the hold,
and the ship rolling heavily and taking in large
quantities of water aft.

"As soon as the smoke was partially cleared
away I got spare sails and bla,nke's aft to stop the
leak, passing two hawsers round the stern and
setting them up. The troops were employed baling
and pumping, the ship rolling heavily, and the
tanks rolling from side to side in the hold.
" About 10 a.m. the ladies joined the ship. I
then ordered all the boats alongside, but found the
sea too heavy for them to remain there ; the gig,
however, had been abandoned during the night,
and the craw, under Mr. Ward, fourth officer, got
into another of the boats.

" The troops were employed during the remainder
of the day bailing and pumping, and the crew in
securing the stern. Throughout the night all
hands were engaged in bailing and pumping. The
boats were secured fore and aft, but several were
severely damaged.

"At daylight on the 13th the crew were em-
ployed hoisting in the boats, the troops working
manfully in bailing and pumping. Latitude at
noon 13 12 S. At 5 p.m. set foresail and foretop-
sail, and bore for the Mauritius. On Thursday, the
19th, sighted the Island Roderigues, and arrived
at Mauritius on Monday, the 23d.
" J. S. CASTLE, Commander."

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 29.
We mentioned on Thursday last the existexpolit
a better feeling, with steadier prices in yarnraiid
cloth, and it is gratifying to repeat the repott to-
day. Sellers are asking higher prices for cloth, but
there has not been so smell business at the adv4i3ce.e. •
A considerable number of orders of moderate ,eit
tent, in madapollams and ehirtings for India, plaCea"
towards the eud of last week, were obtained by thei
manufacturers who have found themselves uhaele
to obtain the same rates now. The market, hc'vw-
ever, is undoubtedly steadier in most kinds of
cloth, and the easier state of the money-market,
the higher price of cotton in Liverpool, and better
commercial accounts from India appear likely to
promote a still firmer market. In yarns there has
been more inquiry, but it was checked by spinners
to some extent asking higher rates. The advance
demanded was id. to id. per lb., and in some few
cases an advance of id. per lb. was obtained. The
business effected was not inconsiderable in warps
and cops for the home trade, and twists for India,
the Mediterranean, and German markets. If the
prices of this day week had been taken, a consider-
able business would probably have been done in
both cloth and yarn.
Messrs. John Slagg 1,3 Co. report :
" Since the reduction of the Bank rate of discount on
Thursday last the market has been firmer and steadier
than for the last few weeks. To-day both spinners and
manufacturers are asking higher prices ; but buyers are
still acting very cautiously, and, though willing now to
operate at the prices asked last week, decline, except in
few cases and for small quantities, to give any advance,
and there is corsequently but little business doing."
Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. report :
"There is a somewhat firmer market to-day, and in
yarns a slight advance is asked, but not generally ob-
tained, as business still continues on a limited scale and
without animation."

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There is a general impression that the market will
go on improving, but that for some weeks to come
such improvement will be slow and very gradual.
LEEDS, DEC. 28.
There is no feature of importance to notice in the
cloth halls this morning. The attendance of buyers
has been moderate, but they have purchased as
sparingly as they have done for the last month.
There is a little more cheerfulness in the trade as
to its future prospects, it being generally admitted
that the state of the money-market at home and
the accounts from America are favourable, and
that with the commencement of the ensuing year
the beginning of a better state of things is likely to
commence.

HUDDERSFIELD, Dm. 28.
A slightly improved state of things may be noted
here, and the market in the Cloth-hall displays
more animation. Business is, of course, chicly
confined to the home trade, but the offers are gene-
rally freer, and there is greater encouragement to
operate. Wool maintains a steady aspect, but sales
are not numerous.

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claimed being 20001. and that a decree for that sum has
been obtained, his grace having failed to enter appear
mice. The ground of action is said to be founded on a
letter written by one of the duke's agents containing
defamatory statements regarding Mr. Mackellar.—
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