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

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis aro from
Sd to 81d; of household ditto, 60 to 74d per 4 lb loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.

Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, sid to 6(1;64113 to 721 b, 6d
to 6,}d ; 721 b to 801 b, 60 to 6d ; 801 b to 881 b, 6td to 60 ;
381 b to 961 b, bid to i d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 7d to 74d ; 1041 b
to 1121 b, Od to Od ; upwards, —d to —d ; horse hides,
lOs Od to Os Od ; Calf skins, light, 3s 03 to 5s Od ; ditto
full, Os 6d to Os Od; Polled Sheep, —s Od to —8 Od ; gents,
8s Gd to lOs Od ; Half-breds, Ss Gd to 108 ; Downs, 68 3d to
7s Gd ; Shearlings, is 4d to is 5d ; Lambs, 3s Od to 4s.
HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ Os • clover do.,
Si lOs to 5/ Os; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ is per load.
A moderate supply and a fair demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 03; clover
do., 31 los to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load.
Both hay and straw sold slowly, at barely late rates.
WHITECEIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 41 Os ; clover
do., 3/ lOs to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s to Ii 8s per load.
Supply good and trade rather dull.
•

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave town ta-
day for St. Leonard's-oe-Sea. A suite of apartments
have been engaged for the Premier and her ladyship at
Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel, on the Esplanade.
LoaD otims. JUSTICE COMM:IN.—His lordship, we
regret to say, bag not been in perfect health ever since
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TUE HON. MR. LONVE.—Mr. Lowe arrived
at his town residence in Lowndos-square yesterday. We
are glad, however, to say that the accounts of the in-
juries he has received are considerably exaggerated.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Royal Ilousehold.—The
office of Examiner of Plays, Lord Chamberlain's Depart-
ment, has become vacant by the death of Mr. John
Mitchell Kemble. The Foreign Department.—The Vice-
Consulship at Terming has become vacant by the death
of Mr. Ferd Janseen. The Admiralty.—The office of
Private Sccretary to the First Lord has become vacant
by the resignation of Mr. Thomas a Baring ; Mr.
Graves, late private secretary to Mr. Phinn, has
been appointed private secretary to Mr. B. Os-
borne, vice Mr. Stapylton, resigned ; Mr. C. A. Kemp
promoted to
has been appointed private secretary top
vice Mr. Graves. The Board of Trade—General Re.
gister and Record-office of Seamen—Messrs.M‘Dermott,
Fitton, and Stone, the first, second, and third
of the third-class del-4s. have been
the second class. Mr. William Courtis, the 12th of the
third class, and Mr. Carter, the first of the fourth class,
have alsa beeA promoted to the second class. The re-
vised scale of salary of second•class clerks is from this
month (April) 2001., with an annual increment of 151.,
rising to 350/, per annum for the maximum ; in lieu of
the present scale of salary of 2001. per annum, rising
by 101. to 2701. for the maximum. Trinity-house.—A.
vacancy among the Elder Brethren has been caused by
,he death of Captain Henry Nelson. Customs.—Mr.
Richard Leo has been appointed a clerk in the tea de-
partment,
Loudon ; Mr. Robert Brown has been ap-
pointed a &tisk for general businesi at Liverpool.
freland.—A vacancy in the office of Secretary to the
Queen's University has been caused by the death of
Robert Ball, LL. D. The office of Civil Service Ex-
sminer for Irelarel has become vacant by the death of
Dr. BAll.—Citil Service igcPette.

DINNER TO MR. THACKERAY AT

EDINBURGH.

had described as unitin,, the front of Bacchus with
the head of Jove— (laughter)—the Scotch unit ersi-
ties did not stand where every true Scotchman '
would desire them to stand. They had starved their
schools so much that the pupils were but half-edu-
cated, and the consequence was that the professors
had to expend their strength on drilling raw,nat-f
mi-
serable boys in their elementary lessons, instead of
leading them into the inner shrines and the
penetralia of science. He
Parliament would not separate without hoped
doing the
some-
thing to place the Scottish universities on ah.liiiglrtiero
platform than that on which they had hitherto
stood. (Applause.)
Tee Rev. Dr. HANNA, in giving "English Lite-
rature," observed that, as a
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had in the perusal of his writings.
He would even venture, on the part of his profes-
sion, to claim Mr. Thackeray as an ally, and to
thank him for the great service which he had ren-
dered in the exilic which was common to them all
—of spreading among their countrymen all kind,
and gentle, and high, and pure, and Christian sen-
timents and principles. He coupled with the toast
the name of Mr. Stirling, who replied.
Mr. THACKERAY, in proposing "The Fi. s AT'S
and the Royal Scottish Academy," said—lt is now
my duty to ask you to drink a toast, which I am
sure you will drink without any pressing, and lam
glad, in doing so, to speak my thanks to ten artists
who have held out their hands to mo this evening.
I assure you that I have been a constant visitor at
the building with the Doric pillars not far off, for I
have spent no less than ls. 6d. for various cata-
logues—(laughter)—and I have come away with the
strong idea that the battle of the lion and the uni-
corn is not altogether decided—(a laugh)—and that
I do not know what colours ought to have prece-
dence on the pallet, and whether it should be those
of England or of Scotland. I am perfectly
certain of this, however, that the President
of our Academy could not paint, and would
own himself that be could not paint, so
good a portrait as the President of yours. lam
perfectly certain that there is a certain Francis
Grant in London who could paint a picture as well
as any Scotchman out of London, or any man in
almost any ottier country. I know that one of our
chief painters—one of our naturalistic school—
comes to draw his inspiration from Scotland, and
that he finds his most noble rocks, his most beauti-
ful lakes, his most splendid deer, and his most won-
derful heather here. I know that a week ago I
shook hands with a young painter, a leader of the
Young England school in Perth, and that he last
year found his autumn leaves, and his Leauti-
ful grass, and his glorious sunset, worthy of
Giorgione hinr olf, by the banks of the Tay.
Iknow the young Queen of the French natural-
istic school came into our country, and has
fallen in love with it, and • has taken away
from it a little ark a' her own, carrying with
her many of your auimils. (Cheers) I cannot
say what particular power it may be in your coun-
try which creates this immense attachment, but I
begin, I assure you, to feel it myself. (Cheers.)
What vitality is it in the air which causes all you
Scotchmen to have such an intense nationality ?
Not that your artists cannot go to other places
than to Scotland. Yesterday, in the course of one
of those visits of which I spoke to the Royal Aca-
demy's Exhibition, I was taken by Lauder into the
sacred garden of Olivet. I wandered also with
Harvey back into old times; and saw dear old John
Bunyau standing at the gate of Bedford Gaol. I
passed a little door, and there I was away from
John Bunyan, but Harvey was carrying me on
still, and I stood on the deck of Columbus's caravel,
and we looked out and saw land across the Atlantic.
Then I went with Noel Paton, who led me on to
the moonlit regions of fairyland, and looked at the
beautiful crowds of creatures that danced, and
frisked, and gambolled around Oberon and the
beautiful Titania, Then he brought me away from
that fairy place into a place still more pleasant—
from fairy land into love land—and I beheld a young
couple sitting in uncommonly close conversation
under the gleams of Hesperus, that bright star,
who I am sure would wiuk at what that couple were
going to do next. (Laughter.) And I thought
to myself how delightful, and how calm, and how
pleasant, and how superior is your calling and your
business—the mistress you worship--to the noise,
and the turmoil, and the struggle and the excite-
, meni which have been going on all over Scotland—
' except in your studies and galleries—to that im-
mense noise and bustle of elections, which, I am
sure, Mr. Cowan is very glad is over. (Laughter.)
Your mistress is always young. It does not matter
to you what dark conspirators are attempting to
oust Mr. Cowan from his seat. (Laughter.) I have
heard of several. Your city is standing there, calm
andgreat, and bright, audbeautiful ; theoTeat castle
looks down the great street that leadstollolyrood;
and Arthur's seat is enveloped in mist, or is covered
with cloud, or is golden with sunshine. What mat-
ters who is elected at Leith, andwhether Mr. Miller
or whether the Lord Advocate triumphs there ?
The waves, as before, come rollinc, into the Firth
from the sea. What matters it at° Aberdeen whe-
ther Colonel Sykes or Mr. Leith is elected ? The
great, calm, old grey city of Aberdeen, and its Uni-
versity, with its crowned towers, still sits calmly on
the sands, and looks towards the ocean ; the Don
rushes by Seaton Woods, and under the slim arch
of the old bridge away towards the sea. As I was
musing upon the vast superiority of your calling
over other callings, I was met by a couple of friends
of mine—politicians, in this city—and I heard these
gentlemen engaged in the deepest consultations
about the last return from the Lochfin burghs, or
about John o'Groat's House, or about who was to
be the member for the Orkneys. (Laughter.) And
passing away from their conversation, I thought I
would go into your Gallery, and there, to my sur-
prise, I found that the painters had been working,
and had been candidates for public applaue too.
The landscape painters had been at their work, and
as I looked round, I saw that Ferragon in Perth-
shire wore Harvey's colours in spite of the Act—
(laughter)—that Lochaline Castle, and lnverlochy
Castle, and Irvine Mill were admirably represented
by M‘bulloith ; that Arran from the large Cumbrae
had been most triumphantly canvassed by Milne
Donald, and that though Edward Ellice may tor-
t tinly sit for St. Andrew's in the next Parliament,
D. 0. Hill has achieved a much greater triumph,
and made St. Andrew's sit for him. (Cheers.)
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Mr. Thackeray was entertained to dinner on
Thursday evening in the new Royal Hotel, Edin-
burgh. The company comprised many of the most
distinguished names connected with literature,
science, and the fine arts in Scotland. Lord Neaves
occupied the chair, the croupier being Mr. W. Stir-
ling, of Keir, M.P.
After the usual preliminary toasts,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " the health of Mr.
Thackeray," their distinguished and honoured
guest. His Lordship paid an eloquent and graceful
tribute to the merits of Mr. Thackeray, and entered
into a lengthened review of his works and style,
and pronounced a high eulogium upon their ten-
dency to promote truth and cultivate virtue. He
defended the distinguished author's recent lectures
from the charge of 'disloyalty, contending that in
dealing with sucha subject the voice of truth should
not be stifled by that of flattery, and concluded by
remarking on the philosophical treatment and bene-
volent spirit that characterised all his writings.
Mr. THACKERAY 7 in reply, said—My Lord
Neaves and gentlemen, I have to thank you as best
I may for the immense kindness and hospitality
with which you have been pleased to receive me,
and for the extraordinary and generous welcome
which I have had here, and which I have met with
during the whole time that I have been roaming
through Scotland. Wherever I have been, from
Dumfries to Inverness, I can assure you that I
have met with a welcome as kindly almost and as
great as yourown ; at whatever town I have landed
I have found the kindest hand stretched out to
shake mine, the warmest friends ready to make me
welcome, and the most extraordinary sympathy,
and goodness, and friendship, and affection—if I
may be allowed to say so—shown towards me.
(Cheers.) If this kind of reception is to continue—
if such hospitality is to go on—if I am to be feasted
every day in this way, or in a way almost equally
good—allow me to say that, with these dinners, and
with this kindness, and with this hospitality, you
are taking my bread out of my mouth. (Laughter
and cheers.) It is quite an error to suppose that I am
a man possessing any benevolent feelings or any
generous sympathies with my fellow creatures. My
business is to find out snobbishness, and meatiness,
and vulgarity-, and base motives in all the people
among whom I go. (Laughter.) I read in scores
and scores of vauable critical works that such is
my only task, that such is the dreary occupation of
my existence. It is said that if I try to speak of a
good man, I render him absurd, and mean, and
vulgar ; and of a good woman, that she, too, is
foolish, and vapid, and insignificant—that it is only
with agreeable vice that somehow or other my busi-
ness in life lies ; and, in fine, that to picture
wickedness, and selfishness, and meanness, is my
ta-ik. I know that this must be true, because I
read it a very short time ago in a LiverpOol news-
paper—(laughter)—and not only in a Liverpool
newspaper, but in a Liverpool newspaper which
w; s quoting a Scotch newspaper. (Renewed
laughter.) This Scotch newspaper enounced these
facts which I have been mentioning to you,
to ally contrary to the theory of Lord Neaves.
" Catch this fellow," says the Scotch newspaper,
"say anything kind about anybody ; and the
Liverpool newspaper which prieged my lecture
backel up the opinion of the Scotch critic.
" Catch him praising anybody or saying anything
good of anybody." He loves nothing that is
lovable ; he praises nothing that is praisable. And
yet I thought that in those lecture, which some of
you were pleased to come and hear, I had certainly
not praised some monarchs who had lived hundreds
of years back, but I had praised Burke, and Rey-
nolds, and Goldsmith, and Johnson, and the lite-
rary men, the men of art and the men of science,
the good men of the time, whom I value more than
the Star and Garter wearers of those old days. I
had thought that in those lectures I had spoken in
terms not of disrespect or unkindness, and in feel-
ings and is language not un-English, of her Majesty
the Queen ; and, wherever I have had to mention
her name, whether it was upon the banks of the
Clyde or upon those of the IVlississippi—whether it
was in New England or in Old England—whether
it was in some great hall in London to the artisans
of the suburbs of the metropolis, or to the politer
audiences of the West-end, or to the people in the
mightier West by the banks of the Ohio, and away
on the American continent—wherever I had to
mention her name, it was received with shouts of
applause and with the most heartfelt cheers. And
why was this? It was not on account of the speaker ;
it was on account of the truth ; it was because the
English or the Americans—the people of New Or-
leans a year ago, or the people of Aberdeen a week
ago—all received and acknowledged with due alle-
giance the great claim to honour which that lady
has who so worthily holds that great and awful
situation which our Queen occupies. It is my
loyalty that is called in question, and it is my
loyaly that I am trying to plead to you. Suppose,
for example, that in America—in Philadelphia or
in New York—that I had spoken about George
IV. in terms of praise and affected reverence, do
you believe they would have hailed his name with
cheers, or have heard it with anything like respect ?
They would have laughed in my face if I had so
spoken of him. They know what I know and you
know, and what numbers of squeamish loyalists who
affect to cry out against my lectures know, that
that man's life was not a good life—that that
king was not such a king as we ought to love, or
regard, or honour. (Cheers.) Awl I believe, for
my part, that in speaking the truth, as we hold it,
of a bad Sovereign, we are paying no disrespect at
all to a good one. (Cheers.) Far from it. On the
contrary we degrade our own honour and the Sove-
reign's by unduly and unjustly praising him ; and
the mere slaverer or flatterer is one who comes for-
ward, as it were, with flash-notes, and pays with
false coin his tribute to Oman-. (Cheers.) I don't
disguise that I feel somehow on my trial here for
loyalty, for honest English feeling. (" No, no !"
and cheers.) I do not hold any dangerous revolu-
tionary opinions. I am sure there is many a Con-
servative here who might follow my opinions, or at
any rate who might hear them out, and not be very
much alarmed at them when I had got to the end.
As far as I know of my political opinions I belong
to the class that I see around me here, the class of
lawyers, and merchants, and scholars, and men who
are striving on in the world, of men of the educated
middle classes of the c iuutry. And, belonging to
them, my sympathies and my desires are with them.
If it happened that we were all here an assembly
of noblemen and earls, we should no doubt form a
Viscounts' Government, and think it the best of all
Governments possible. If a difficulty arose in
China, for instance, we should look for my Lord
Duke A. to go and settle the difficulty, or we should
ask Earl B. to go if my Lord Duke A. were not in-
clined. If a Minister were wanted at Washington
we should send my Lord A. to fill the place ; or if
a Minister were wanted elsewhere there would be
some other lord who would be quite ready to accept
the office. If we had a war wa should select a noble
lord from the Horse Guards to fill the place of Coin-
mander-in-Chief, we should select a couple of noble
earls to command the cavalry—(laughter and cheers)
--and we should find out a number of gentlemen
of the best families to go on the seal of these noble
lords. (Cheers and laughter.) If I, for example,
were theneble lord who occupied a high position at
home, and especially if I should possibly have a rela-
tive in a l'ar distant land where the war was going
on, I should most undoubtedly and most justifiably
write out to those in authority at head-quarters to

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BOROUGH OF SLIGO-RETIREMENT OF
21R. BALL.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE
NEW PARLIAMENT.

(Franz the London Gazette of last evening.)
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 31.
Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned
to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April.
County of Haddington—The Hon. Francis Wemyss
Charteris.
Haddington District of Burghs—Sir Henry Robert
Fergusson Davie, Bart., of Creedy.
City of Limerick—Francis William Russell, of West-
bourne-street, Hyde park, London, Esq. ; James
O'Brien, of Stephen's-green, Dublin, Esq., one of her
Majesty's Serjaants-at-Law.
County of Bute—The Right Hon. James Stuart
Wortley.
County of Linlithgow—George Dundee, jun., of
Dundas, Esq.
Borough of Southwark—Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Napier, of Murchiston Hall, Hampshire, Knt. ; John
Locke, of Cheeter-street, Belgrave-square, Middlesex,
Master of Arts, Barrister-at-Law.
APRIL 1.
Borough of Gateshead—William Hutt, of Dur-
ham, Esq.
Borough of Bolton—William Gray, of Wheatfield,
Bolton, Esq. ; Joseph Crook, of Chamber Hall, Bol-
ton, Esq.
Montrose District of Burghs—William Edward Bax-
ter, merchant, Dundee.
Borough of Oldham—John Morgan Cobbett, of
Sumner-terrace, Brompton, Middlesex, Esq. ; James
Platt, of Hartfort House, Oldham, Lancashire, Esq.
Borough of Bury —Robert Needham Philips, of the
Park, Prestwich-cum-Oldham, Lancashire, Esq.
Borough of Wareham—John Hales Calcraft, of Rem's-
ston Hall, Dorsetshire, Eeq.
County of Banff—The Right Hon. James Earl of Fife.
Borough of Preston—Charles Pascoe Grenfell, of Bel-
grave-square, Middlesex, Esq. ; Richard Assheton
Cross, of Harcourt-buildings, Middlesex, Esq.
City of Manchester—Sir John Potter, Kat. ; James
Aspinall Turner, Esq.
City of Oxford—James Haughton Langston, Esq. ;
Charles Neate, Esq.
County of Pembroke—John Frederick Campbell,
commonly called Viscount Emlyn.
Borough of Harwich—John Bagshaw, Esq., of Cliff
House, Dovercourt, Essex ; George Drought Warburton,
Esq., of Henley House, Frent, Sussex.
Borough of Cambridge—Kenneth Macaulay, Esq. ;
Andrew Steuart, Esq.
County of Edinburgh—William Henry Walter Mon-
tagu ; Douglas Scott, commonly called Earl of Dalkeith.
City of Edinburgh—Charles Cowan, Esq., Paper
Manufacturer, Edinburgh ; Adam Black, Esq., Book-
seller, Edinburgh.
County of Cardigan—The Right Honourable Ernest
Augustus Earl of Liebniae.
Borough of South Shields.—Robert Ingham, of
Westoe, Durham, Esq.
Borough of Tavistock.—The Honourable George
Henry Charles Byng ; Sir John Salusbury Trelawny,
Bart.
County of Invernesl.—Henry James Baillie, Esq., of
Letterfinlay.
Dumfries District of Burghs.—William Eivart, Esq.,
of Cambridge-squere, London.
Borough of Sunderland.—Henry Fenwick, of South
Hill, Durham, Esq ; George Hudson, of Whitby, York-
shire, Esq.
County of Forfar.—Adam Duncan Heldane, com-
monly called Viscount Duncan.
Town of Dundee.—Sir John Ogilvy, of Inverqubarity,
Bait.
City of Durham—William Atherton, of the Inner
Temple, London, Esq. ; John Robert Mowbray, of
Cambridge-,quare, Hyde-park, Middlesex, Esq.
County of Hertford—Sir Henry Meux, Bart. ; Sir
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Bart.;
Christopher William Puller, Eeq.
Borough of Hertford—The Right Hon. William Fran-
cis Cowper ; Sir Walter Minto Townsend Frrquhar,
Bart,
County of Salop, Northern Division—John Whitehall
Dod, of Cloverley, Shropshire, Esq. ; the Hon. Row-
land Clegg Hill, of Hawkestone, Shropshire, Esq.
Southern Division—The Right Hon. Charles Bridg-
man, commonly called Viscount Newport ; The Hon.
Robert Windsor Clive.
County of
,Gloucester, Eastern Division—Sir Chris-
topher William Codrington, Bart. ; Robert Stayner
Holford,
Western Division—Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kings-
cote, Esq. ; John Rolt, Esq.
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme—Samuel Christy,
of Park-street, Westminster, Esq. ; William Jackson,
of the Manor House, Claughton' Esq.
Borough of Ludlow—Colonel the Honourable Percy
Egertea Herbert, of Po wis Castle, Montgomeryshire ;
Beriah Botfield, of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire, and
Dcker Hill and Hopton Court, Shropshire, Esq.
Borough of Bodmin—The Honourable John Crunch
Walker Vivian, of Glyn, Cornwall ; James Wyld, of
Manor House, Regent's-park, London, Esq.
County of Westmorland—The Hon. Henry Cecil
Lowther ; the Hon. Thomas Taybur, commonly called
Earl of Bective.
Borough of Denbigh—Townahend Mainwaring, of
Galltfaen, Denbighshire, Esq.
City of Lincoln—Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sib-
thorp, of Canwick, Lincolnshire, Esq. ; George Fieschi
Heneage, of Hainton, Lincolnshire, Esq.
Borough of Bedford—Samuel Whitbread, Esq. ; Tho-
mas Barnard, Esq.
Combined counties of Clackmannan and Kinross—
William Hugh Elliot, commomly called Viscount
IVlela,und.
County of Dumfries—John James Hope Johnstone,
Esq., of Annandale.
County of Selkirk—Allan Eliott Lockhart, Esq.,
of Borth wick brae.
County of Peebles—Sir Graham Graham Mont-
gomery, of Stanhope, Bert.
County of Renfrew—Sir Michael Robert Shaw
Stewart, of Greenock and Blackhall, Bart.
Town of Paisley—Arohibald Hastie, Esq., Merchant
in London.
Town esf Greenock—AlexandernMurray.Dunlop, Esq.,
of Corsock.
Borough of New Shoreham—Sir Charles Merick Bur-
rell, Bart. ; the Hon. Alexander Francis Charles Gordon
Lennox, commonly celled Lord Alexander Gordon
Lennox.
County of Suffolk, Eastern Division—The Right Hon.
John Henniker Major, Lord Henniker ; Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, Knt., of the Chauntry, Ipswich.
Western Division—Harry Spencer Waddington, of
Cavenham, Suffolk, Esq. ; Philip Bennet, of Rougharo,
Suffolk, Esq.
Borough of Rochdale—Sir Alexander Ramsay, of
Balmain, Kincardineshire, Bart.
County of Lancaster, Northern Division—John Wil-
son Patten, E-q. ; the Hon. Spencer Compton Caven-
dish, commonly called Lord Cavendish.
Southern Division—William Brown, Esq. ; John
Cheetham,
County of Fife.—John Fergus, of Strathore, Fife-
shire, Esq.
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs.—Robert Ferguson, of
Raith, Esq.
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County of Worcester, Western Division.—The Hon.
Henry Lygon, commonly called Viscount Eimley, of
Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Frederick Wynn
Knight, of Wolverley Court, Worcestershire, Esq.
Eastern Division. George Rushont, of Burford
House, Tenbury, Worcestershire,_Esq. ; John Hodgetta
H. Foley, of Prestwood House, Staffordshire, Esq.
Borough of Northampton.—The Right Hon. Robert
Vernon Smith, of Farming Woods, Northamptonshire •
Charles Gilpin, of Moorgate-street, London, Esq.
County of Carnarvon.—Hon. E. G. D. Pennant.
Borough of Brighton—Rear-Admiral Sir Brooke
Pechell, of Castle Goring, Sussex; William Conyngham,
of Brighton, Sussex, Esq.
County of Nottingham, Northern Division—Robert
Renebald Pelham Clinton, commonly called Lord Robt.
Clinton ; John Evelyn Denison, Esq. Southern Divi-
sions—William Hodgson Barrow, Esq. ; Sydney Wm.
Herbert Pierrepont, commonly called Viscount Newark.
County t
of District
Stirling—Peter
o f BAuPrnglhrs —3B.lSaiurkW m Dunbar,
Blackburn,
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( From the .Dublin Evening Post )
We sincerely regret to learn, from an address
which appears in our advertising columns, that
Mr. Ball has retired from the contest for the borough
of Sligo, for reasons which, though very honourable
to that gentleman, reflect no credit upon a portion
of the electoral body.
It is plainly intimated in Mr. Ball's address that
ho foregoes his expectation of being returned for
Sligo, because he will not consent to secure it by
corrupt practices.
Though the electors of Ireland, as a body, are
singularly free from all taint of corruption—much
more than in any portion of the United Kingdom
—public rumour has pointed out two or three
boroughs as forming shameful exceptions.
But it is plain that such a stain on the public
virtue of the country could not long continue, if
there were not men who, from ambition or interest,
or weak vanity, were willing to seek Parliamentary
honours by indirect and illegal courses.
If there were no buyers there could be no sale ;
and electoral corruption must speedily cease, if all
candidates would imitate the honourable example
set to them by Mr. Ball.

take care of my relative. (Great laughter.) Against
that system I could scarcely protest, because it is
perfectly natural. I think it is quite fair that a
noble lord should send out and say, "For Heaven's
sake take care of Dowb"—(renewed laughter)—but
for us on our side I think that we are bound also to
look after Tull and Mac
our family •
they are of Mac, Tull Iheull and Mac belong to
working, sturdy, middle
classes. (Cheers.) Toey are men in whom lie, as I
believe, the safety, the hope, and-th main
intelligence of our country. It is e part
that
I party that
I would like to say that I bele
will carry no dislgoYalty with it,and
and I hope that
my confession
will meet with no very sincere di(sAapppiraouval from' the
Ofh the
strongest Conservative present.
kindness with which you, my Lord). Neaev.e)s.
been pleased personally to speak of me, and have
esteem in which you hold my work, it does not be-
come me to speak; but I assure you that I am most
grateful and thankful to think if I can have in the
course of my life's labours merited such an enco-
mium as I have had from you—(cheers)—and if,
after tle night is over, you, gentlemen, are pleased
to confirm the sentence which my kind judge, here
seated, has passed upon me, it will always be a source
of great gratification to me to think that he has
made a righteous award, and it will be a source of
immense pleasure to my children to remember how
very kindly, how very hospitably, and how very
generously you have treated me. (Continued cheers).
Mr. STIRLING, M.P.,'in proposing " the Scotch
Universities," remarked that they could not boast
the great endowments, or the great patronage, or
the political consideration which their sister uni-
versities in England and Ireland possessed ; they
had had the Privilege sometimes of educating men
like the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston,
or Lord John Russell, but they never had the chance
of sending them to Parliament. (Hear, hear.)
Professor BLACKIE returned thanks, wishing
rather that this duty had fallen on him some 30 or
40 years ago, as he could then have spoken of the
Scotch as the best educated people in the world,
language which could now scarcely be ventured
upon even in a Wigtown or a Caithness
presbytery.
With the single exception of the Medical Faculty,
represented here by the breadth and majesty of the
whom a recent poet
learned professor (Simpson),

Though it is always easy for a candidate to re-
1111°--''h gnorance of details, we do not
main in convenient
ct when corruption is being
ever left so completely in the
bdealrikevase tnhoatt
thoesisuspe
practiced on his behalf;
or that a man, who really
foulness,
wishes to avoid contact with
....lness , can have his
hands much soiled against his will
But on This point most
men's
_ i
consciencesincreases
ourare
elastic, and our knowledge ofthisfa
t
tempta-
mean
esteem for a man who
with the strongesttions to secure a seat 'by any sti his power,
sternly refuses to compromise his
principles,
and
has the boldness publicly to indicate the cause of
his exclusion from a position he is well qualified to
fill.
but
It
to is a lesson not merely to the electors of Sligo,
other beranths siinnarjy
which we trust will not be forgotten by them, or
by the country at large, to which Mr. Ball has
circumstanced,
done good service by hi spirited conduct on this
occasion.
We sincerely trust that Ireland will not long lose
the services of a man who can point within a short
career to so much good work done, both as a
member of the House of Commons, atid as the
holder of an important position in the public service I
•••••=1.11•••=•...........,...........1in

Mr. Matthew Forster remained in Berwick some da ye
after the election to take leave of his intimate friends a ,1.1
supporters. He left on Tuesday evening for Ihrha;
where he intends staying a short time with his broth, er,
Percival Forster, Esq., and will, we learn, issue ala re-
well address to the Liberal party in Berwick on. lids
arrival in London.—Benack Advertiser.

District of Burghs of Inverness—Alex. Matheson, of
Ardross, Ross-shire, Esq.
District of Burghs of Elgin—George Skene Duff,
Esq.; of Milton.
County of Carmarthen David Arthur Saunders
Daviei, of Pentre, Pembrokeshire, Esq. ; David Jones,
of Pantglas, Esq.

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filE SUN, _LONDON, SATURD IT EVENING, APRIL, 4, 185-7

MEMBERS RETURNED FOR THE
NEW PARLIAMENT.

The country having been appealed to by Lord Palmer.
ston to decide between him and the late House of Com-
mons upon tke question of the Chinese hostilities, we
have distinguished the members returned as Ministerial
and Opposition according to their declared opinions upon
that subject. The names of the late members for Eng-
lish counties and Scotch and Irish constituencies who
have lost their seats, or have not presented themselves
for reelection are given in Italics. Having already pub-
lished the returns for the English and Welsh boroughs,
it is unnecessary at present to repeat them :
ENGLISH AND WELSH COUNTIES.

Ministerial. Opposition.

ANGLESEY.
Sir R. Bulkeley .11 11116 0
BEDFORDSHIRE.
Mr. F. H. Russell 11,11 1 11,. 0
Col. Gilpin ... 0 ... 1
BERKSHIRE.
Mr. R. Palmer ... 0 11,11 1
Ho.. E. P. Bouverie 1111. 1111. 1 0
Mr. G. H. Vansittart „.. ......0
1
Lo.-cl Barrington (0.)
BRECONSHIRE.
Sir J. Bailey ... ... 0 1
BUCKS.
Right Hon. B. Disraeli 0 1
Mr. Caledon George du Prb ... 0 1
Hon. C. C. Cavendish ... 1 ~.
CAMBRIGESHIRE.
Hon. E. T. Yorke ... 0 1
Mr. E. Ball 0 1
•.•
Mr. Adeane ... 1 ... f
Lord G. Manners (0.)
CARDIGANSHIRE.
Lord Lisburne ... 0 1
CARMARTHENSHIRE.
Mr. D. Jones 1 0
Mr. D. S. Jones ... 1111. 0 1
CARNARVONSHIRE.
Hon. E. D. G. Pennant 0 ... 1
CHESHIRE, SOUTH.
Mr. Tollemache 1111. 1111. 1 1111, 0
Sir P. Egerton 0 ... 1
CORNWALL, WEST.
Mr. M. Williams ... 1111. I 11,11 0
Mr. Davey ... 1 ... 0
CUMBERLAND, EAST.
Hon. C. W. G. Howard ... 1 0
Mr. C. Marshall 1111. 1111. 1 ... 0
CUMBERLAND, WEST.
General Wyndham ... 0 ... 1
Captain Lowther ... 0 1111. 1
Mr. Irton.
DENBIGHSHIRE.
Colonel Biddalph 11,11 11,11 1 ..., 0
Sir W. W. Wynn 0 1
DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH.
Mr, Evans 1 •••
Mr. Colville ... 1 11,11 0
Mr. Mundy (0.)
DEVONSHIRE, SOUTH.
Sir J. Y. Buller 11,11 1111. 0 11,11 1
Mr. Palk 0 ... 1
DORSETSHIRE.
Mr. Portman 1 ... •
Mr. Ker Seymer 11,11 1111. 0 1
•••
Mr. Stud 1111. 1111. 0 ... 1
DURHAM, NORTH.
Lord A. V. Tempest 1 ... 0
Mr. R. D. Shafto 1111. 1 0
DURHAM, SOUTH.
Mr. Pease ... 0 ... 1
Lord H. Vane ... 0 ... 1
Mr. Farrer.
ESSEX, NORTH.
Hon. W. Beresford 1111. 1111. 0 ... 1
Mr. Du Cane 1111. 1111. 0 ... 1
Sir John Tyrrell (M.)
ESSEX, SOUTH.
Mr. Bramston 1111. 1111. ... 1 ... 0
Mr. Wingfield ... 1 ... 0
Sir ll'. B. Smijth (M.)
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
Mr. C. H. Talbot) 1 ... 0
Mr. H. Viviai 1 ... 0
Sir G. Tyler (0.)
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, EAST.
Mr. Holford ... 0 a. 1
Sir C. W. Codrington 1111. 1111. 0 ... 1
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WEST.
Mr. Rolt 1111. 1111. 0 1111. 1
Colonel Kingscote ... 1 0
Mr. R. B. Hall (0.)
HANTS, NORTH.
Mr. Beach ... ... 1
1111. 0
Mr. Sclater 1111. 1111. 1 1111. 0
Mr. Porta (0.)
Viscount Eversley (M.)
HEREFORDSHIRE.
Sir H. G. Cotterell 1111. ... 1 ..: 0
Mr. Blakemoro... 0 ... 1
Mr. K. King ... 0 1111. 1
Hon. C. Hanbury (0.)
HERTFO RDSHIRE.
0 ... 1
Sir H. Meux

YORKSHIRE, WEST'
Lord Goderieh...
Mr. B. Denison
.M 2.. Cobden. (0.)

Ministerial. Opposition

DOG 0 1

... , ... 1
... 0

SCOTLAND.

ABERDEEN.
Col. Sykes ...
Mr. G. Thompson (0.)
AERDEENSHIRE.
Lord Haddo
AYRSHIRE.
Lord J. Stuart
Sir J. Ferguson (0.)
BANFFSHIRE.
Lord Fyffe ...
BERWICKSHIRE.
Hon. F. Scott ...
BUTESHIRE.
Mr. J. A. S. Wortley
CLACKMANNAN.
Viscount Melgund
Mr. J. Johnstone (0.)
DUMBARTONSHIRE.
Mr. Smollett
DUMFRIES.
Mr. W. Ewart
DUMFRIESSHIRE.
Mr. H. Johnstone

... 1 ... 0

... ••• 0 .e. 1

1 ~. 0

... ... 1

••• ••• 0 • •• 1

... 1 ... 0

~. 1 ..#-. 0

... ... 0 0.9 1

... ... 0 ,„ 1

DUNDEE.
Sir J. Ogilvy ~.
Mr. G. Duncan (5f.)
EDINBURGH.
Mr. Cowan ...
Mr. Black . .
EDINBURGH (COUNTY).
Earl of Dalkeith
ELGIN BURGHS.
Mr. Duff
ELGINSHIRE.
Mr. C. Bruce
FALKIRK.
Mr. J. Merry
Mr. J. Baird (0.)
FIFESHIRE.
Mr. J. Fergus ...
FORFARS HI P.E.
Lord Duncan ...
GLASGOW.
Mr. Buchanan...
Mr. Dalgleish .
Mr. Alex. Ilaziie (0)
' GREENOCK.
Mr. A. Dunlop
HADDINGTON.
Sir T. H. Davie
HADDINGTONSHIRE.
Lord Elcho . .
INVERNESS BOROUGH.
Mr. A. Matheson
INVERNESS (COUNTY).
Mr. Baillie
KILMARNOCK.
Hon. E. Bouverie
KINCARDINESHIRE.
Gen. Arbuthnot
KIRKALDY.
Lieut.-Col. Ferguson
KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
Mr. Mackie, jun.
Mr. Mackie, sea. (C)
LEITH.

~. 0 ... 1

• •• 1 et, •

• •• • •• 1 ... 0

... ... 1 ... 0

.., 0 ... 1
~*

... ... ... 1

... 0 goo 1

GOO 0 SIPS 1

019 ... 1 so. 0

... ... 1 ... 0

•••
~. 1 ... 0
•••

... 1 ..., 0

... GOO 1 ..• 0

... 1

... 1 ... 0

... to.. 0 ... 1

••• 1 ~. •

... els 0 ... 1

414141 1 0410 0

... 1 ... 0

1 .. 0
••• Ott

Mr. J. Moncrieff
UNLIT li GOWSHIRE.
Mr. G. Dundas
MONTROSE.
Mr. Baxter ..,
PAISLEY.
Mr. Archd. Hastie
PEEBLESSHIRE.
Sir G. Montgomery ;
PERTH.

Se* ••• 0 ... 1

... ... 1 ... 0

••• 1 goes 0

... 0 ... 1

Hon. A. Kinnaird
RENF REWSHIRE.
Sir M. S. Stewart
ROSS AND CROMARTY.
Sir J. Mattheson
ROXBURGHSHIRE.
Hon. J. E. Elliot
SELKIRKSHIRE.
Mr. A. E. Lockhart
ST. ANDREW'S BURGHS.
Mr. Ellice, jun.
STIRLING.
Sir J. Anderson
STIRLINGSHIRE.
Mr. Blackburn...
WIGTON BURGHS.
Sir W. Dunbar
Sir I. .31' Taggart (M.)

*ell 1 ... 0

... 0 ... 1

... ... 1 ... 0

~• ••• I 0
•••

... 0 ... 1

••• ... 1 *4.0 0

roe ... 1 ... 0

00. ... 0 . f. 1
:

1 0
.„See

BERWICK.
Mr. Stapleton ... ... ... I ... 0
Mr. D. C. Marjoribanlus ... 1 ... 0
Mr. .r. Forster (M.)

IRELAND.

ARMAGH.
Mr. S. Miller 1 0
Mr. J. W. Bond (0.)
ATHLONE.
Mr. Ennis 1 ... 0
Hon. Capt. Handcock (0.)
BANDON.

Capt. Bernard ... ... ... 0 ... 1
BELFAST;
Mr. Cairns ... ... ... 0 ... 1

Mr: Davison 0 1
CARLOW.
Mr. J. Alexander 0 1
CA.RRICKFERG US.
Mr. Dobbs ... 1
Major Cotton (0.)
CASHEL;
Sir T. O'Brien'... ... 1 0
CLONMEL.
Mr. Bagwell ... 1 0
COLERAINE.
Mr. Boyd ... 1 0
Lord Naas (0.)
CORK (CITY).
Mr. Fagan ... 1 ... 0
Mr. Beamish 1 0
DOWNPATRICK,
Mr. R. Ker 1 0
DROGHEDA,
Mr. M 'Cann 0 1
DUBLIN (CITY).
Mr. Grogan ... 1 ... 0
Mr. Vance 1
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
Mr. Napier ... 0 ... 1
Mr. G. A. Hamilton 0 ... 1
DUNDALK.
Mr, Bowyer ... 1 ... 0
DUNGANNON.
Hon. W. S. Knox ... 0 1
DUNGARVON.
Mr. Maguire 0 ... 1
ENNIS.
Mr. Fitzgerald 1 '••• 0
ENNISKILLEN.
Mr. Whiteside ... 0 ... 1
GALWAY.
Lord Dunkellin 1 0
•••
Mr. O'Flaherty... ... 1 ... 0
Mr. Blake.
KILKENNY BOROUGH.
Mr. Sullivan 1 0
KINSALE.
Mr. J. I. Heard ... 0 1
LIMERICK (CITY).
Mr. F. W. Russell ... 1 0
S,rqeant O'Brien 1 0
LIMERICK, COUNTY.
Mr. Monsell ... 1 ... 0
Mr. De Vera ... 1 ... 0
LISBURN.
Mr. Richardson •.. 1 0
LONDONDERRY (CITY).
Sir R. Ferguson ... 1 ... 0
MALLOW.
Sir D. Norreys 1 0
..•
NEW ROSS.
Mr. Tottenham 0 1
NF.WRY.
Mr. Kirk ... 1 ... 0
PORTARLINGTON.
Mr. Darner 1 ... 0
Col. Dunne (0.)
SLIGO, COUNTY.
Mr. J. P. Somers 1 ... 0
lir. J. Wynne.
TRALEE.
Captain D. 0'C0nne11......1 0
WATERFORD, CITY.
iißlitasksaerd 00

Sir E. B. Lytton ... 0 ... 1
Mr. C. Fuller
Mr. Abel Smith, jun. (b.)
HUNTINGDONSHIRE.
Mr. J. M. Heathcote 1 0
Mr. Rust 0 1
.••
Mr. Fellows (0.)
KENT EAST.
Sir R. Bridges 0 1
Sir E. Dering ... 0 ... 1
Mr. Deedes (0.)
LANCASHIRE, NORTH.
Col. J. Patten 0 ... 1
Lord Cavendish ... 1 ... 0
Mr. J. Heywood )
LANCASHIRE, SOUTH.
Mr. W. Brown ... 1 ... 0
Mr. Cheetham . . 1 ... 0
LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTH.
Lord J. Manners ... 0 1
•••
Mr. Farnham 0 ... 1
LEICESTERSHIRE, SOUTH.
Viscount Curzon ... 0 ... 1
Mr. Packs ... 1
Sir H. Halford.(o.)
LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH.
Mr. J. B. Stanhope ... 0 1
Mr, Cholmel3y
Right Hon. R. A. Hamilton (0.)
MERIONETHSHIRE.
Mr. W. W. E. Wynne... ... 0 1
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Mr. C. 0. S. Morgan ... 1 ... 0
Lieut.-Col. E. A. Somerset ••• 1 ... 0
MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
Lieut.-Col. H. W. W, Wynn 0 ... 1
NORFOLK, WEST.
Mr. H. Bentinck ... 1 0
Mr. B. Gurdon... 1 ... 0
Mr. Bagge (0.)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NORTH.
Lord Burghley 0 ... 1
Mr. A. Stafford 1
Mr .Maunsell (0.)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, SOUTH.
Lord Althorp 1 ... 0
Mr. Kni,ghtley 0 ... 1
Col. Vyse (0.)
NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTH.
Lord Lovaine 0 1
Lord Ossulston... 0 ... 1
NORTHUMBERLAND, SOUTH.
Mr. W. B. Beaumont... ... 1 0
Hon. 11. G. Liddell „, 0 1
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, NORTH.
Lord R. Clinton 0 1
Mr. J. E. Denison ... 1 ... 0
Lord if. Bentinck (0.)
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, SOUTH.
Viscount Newark ... 0 ... 1
Mr. W. H. Barrow ... 0 ~. 1
OXFORDSHIRE.
Right Hon. J. W. Henley 1
G. G, V. Harcourt ... 0 ... 1
Colonel North 1 ... 0
PEMBROKESHIRE.
Viscount Emlyu 0 ... 1
RADNORSHIRE.
Sir J. B. Walsh ... 0 ... 1
RUTLANDSHIRE,
Hon. G. J. Heatheote ... 1 ... •
Hon. G. J. Noel ... 1
SHROPSHIRE, NORTH.
Mr. J. W. Dod... ... 0 1
Air. Hill
Mr. TV. Gore (0,)
SHROPSHIRE, SOUTH.
Lord Newport, 0 ... 1
lion. R W. Clive ... 0 ... 1
SOMERSETSHIRE, EAST.
Mr. Miles 0 ... 1
Col, Knatchbull 0 1
9011 .041
SOMERSETSHIRE, WEST.
Mr. Moody .„ 1 ... 0
Mr. H. Langton 0 ... 1
STAFFORDSHIRE, NORTH.
••• •••
Mr. Adderley 0 ... 1
Mr. Child 0 1

Mr. Meagher (M.)
Mr. Keatinge (M.)
WESTMEATH, COUNTY.
Mr. Magan ... ... ... 1 .»0
Sir R. Levinge ... ... ... 0 ... 1
WEXFORD (BOROUGH).
Mr. J. Devereux ... ... 1 ... 0
YOUGHAL.
Mr. I. Butt ... ... ... 1 .M 0

PRODUCT OF TITS AUSTRALIAN MlNlS.—Acoording
to the Melbourne Argus, the yield of gold in 1856 was
3,007,280 ounces, second only to that of the celebrated
year 1852.
IRISH APPOINTMINTEL—Mr. T. O'Hagan, Q.C., has
just been appointed a Commissioner of Charitable Dona-
tions and Bequests, in the room of Lord Bellew, who
has resigned in consequence of his inability to attend the
meetings of the board. Referring to this appointment
the Lvening Post remarks :—" If there be any persons,
clerical or lay, who at the end of the 12th year of this
board's existence, and without a single charge of par-
tiality or sectarian feeling having been proved against
any one of its members, still retain feelings of diffidence
towards it, we cannot doubt that the appointment of
Mr. O'Hagan will, in the minds of such persons, con-
vert these feelings into those of trust and confidence ;
for we feel assured that there is not a Catholic in
Ireland who would not with unswerving alacrity
confide the nearest and dearest interests of his
religion to the keeping of Mr. O'Hagan. That the board
of charities has not to the fullest extent carried out the
objects for which it was originally constituted must be
admitted, but if it has failed, the failure has not been
attributable IP any disinclination on the part of the com-
missioners to excoute their trusts fairly and efficiently,
but to defects and shortcomings inherent in the act of
incorporation, which we hope before long to see entirely
remedied." The same journal announces that " Mr.
Robert Johnston, of the North-west Circuit, has been
appointed assistant-barrister for the county of Longford,
in the room of Mr. Thos. O'Hagan, Q.C., who has been
promoted to the chairmanship of Kilmainham. Mr.
Johnston is one of those right-minded Protestants who
never participated in the views of the Orange party of
this country, but, on the contrary, was always a true
and consistent Liberal, and a Liberal in a part of the
country and on a circuit whose liberality is not
in fashion. For his appointment Mr. Johnston is
solely indebted to his high character and legal
attainments, and we have been assured it was conferred
on him without any solicitation on his part." The Free-
man's Journal mentions that, when a student in Trinity
College, Mr. Johnston signed a petition for Catholic re-
lief, and incurred the censure of the authorities for his
boldness. The menaced expulsion, or at least rustica-
tion, however, subsided into an aduMitory reprimand.

STAFFORDSHIRE, SOUTH.
Mr. Foley „, „, 1 ~. 0
Mr. Forster 1 0
Earl of Uxbridge (M.)
Hon. E. Littleton
SUFFOLK, 11, EST.
Capt. Bennet ~„ 0 1
Mr. Waddington ... 0 ... 1
SUFFOLK, EAST,
Lord Henniker • ••• 0 ... 1
Sr F. Kelly , , „ 0 1
SURREY, EAST.
Mr. Locke King ... ••• 1
Mr. Alcock , 0 ~. 1
SUSSEX, WEST.
Earl of March .„ 0 ... 1
Capt. Wyndham ,„ ,„ 0 1
WARWICKSHIRE, NORTH.
Mr. Spooner
Mr. Newdegate , ~, 0 ,„ 1
WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH.
Mr. E. P. Shirley „. 0 ... 1
Mr. B. King 1 ...
••• •••
Lord Guernsey (0.)
WESTMORELAND.
Earl of Bectile
Col, Lowther „, 0 ... 1
WIGHT ISLE OF,
Mr. Clifford ~, 0
Col. P. V. Harcourt (O.)
WILTS, NORTH,
Mr. Long •40 4... 41. 1
Mr. T. H. S. Esteourt 0 610 1
WORCESTERSHIRE (EAST).
Captain Hon. G. Rusbout 0 ••••
Mr. J. H. Foley „. ... 0
WORCESTERSHIRE, WEST.
Lord Elmley ... 0 ... 1
Mr. Knight „, 1
YORK SHIP.E, EAST.
Lord Hotham 0 1
Hon. Capt. A. Anncombe 0
•