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London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY 4
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MAY 2, 1850.

OUTIT AFRICAN EXHIBITION,
►-7 CHINESE GALLERY, HYDE•PARK CORNER.

he OPENED TO-MORROW, a MUSEUM of SPORTING
TROPHIES, NATIVE ARMS and COSTUMES, &c., from the
unexplored regions of the tar Interior of South Africa.

RE MONT'S OVERLAND ROUTE to
OREGON, TEXAS, and CALIFOR,NIA, across the
ROCKY INPILINTAINS, made by the United States Government ;
illus,rated by a GRAND MOVING PAINTING from Wa-hington
City, pourtraying the thrilliim scenes that o,curred to Colonel
Fremont and Party, and Sir William. Drummond Stewart and PartY,
whi'e crossuag the Rocky Mountains ; IS NOW OPEN for Public:Ex-
hibition, at the EGYI' IT'CADILLY, and exhibiting
every afternoon, at Ilalf-past Two ; Evenings, Quarter to Light.
Admission. is.; Stalls, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 6d

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
CoLOURS.
The FORTY-SIX ril ANNUAL EXHIBITION IS NOW OPEN,
at their Gallery, 5, PALL-MALL EAST. from Nine till Dusk.
Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
GEORGE FRIPP, Sa'.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on MUSIC by Sir HENRY It. BISHOP resumed.
with an increased number of VOCALISTS for tie Illustrations on
Monday, IVcdoetday, and Friday, at Eight, and on Tuesday, Thu s-
day, and Saturday, at Three o'clock.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Second
Lecture on the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation with Optical
Effects, daily at Two, and on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at
a 7quarter-past Nine.—Lecture by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on the
Chemistry of Hydrogen, with spacial reference to its application for
conveying by Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John
Franklin, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Three, and on
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings, at Eight.—Dissolving Views,
illustrating the Arctic Regions and Ceylon ; also Views of London in
the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is.—Diver and Diving-
bell, &c., &e

Admission, ls.—Schools, Half-price.
Analyses and Chemical Experiments conducted in the Laboratory,
under the direction of H. Pepper, Esq.

ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
Windmill-street, St. J tmes's.
Musical Director and Conductor, M. LAURENT, jun.
This ACADEMY, for Tuition and Practice of DANCING, is
`OW OPEN for the Season. Teaching by Professors Calkins,
Hosey, and Franconi.
For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub-
scription, for morning and evening practice :--Six months, 51. 55.;
one month, 11. Is.; one evening, Is, Subscribers' tickets not
transferable.
The Academy ►ill open fir evening practice at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely.

FMIGRATION.-BENJAMIN EDGING-
TON, 2, Duke-street, Seuthwa,-k, London-bridge, invites
Settlers to insect his EMIGRATION TENTS, which are fitted up
with every requisite, at a moderate cost. May he seen any day at
his Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, S..uthwark, one being purposely
erected, with cot slung, table, and camp-stool complete. A Ware-
home, 208, Piccadilly.

Just pnbrshed, Vols. 1. and H. !Ivo., price 245. cloth,
H15T0..:17 of tho 110 NIANS und-r the EM-
PIRE. By the Rev. CHARLES MERIVALE, 8.D., late
Follow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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per box; also iy the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
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Ask for Fit AMPTON'i PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
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EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a
few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of
ei M ST 0 N E'S AROMATIC
REGENERATOR.
Ir you are in want •f that beautiful adornment of the human
tissue, a natural sudply of human hair, obtain through the post, or
of any wholesale or retail chemist r,r druggist, or perfumer, an 11..
bottle of Grlmstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential
spirit, drawn fr,m aromatic herbs and flower= (grown at his Her-
bary, Highgate), which has been long known to the nobility and
gentry, by whops it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too
numerous to be set f,.rth in an advertisement, but may be read in his
pamphlet, in which the bottles are e:closed.
Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstone, Merchant,
Herbary, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, un er the copy of
Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th
of August, 1046.
This pamphlet is forwarded through the post, on receiving two
postage stamps.
The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on
receiving a post-otlice order for 4s. 6d., 7s, Bd., or la., which in-
cludes the postage with the case.
The lls. size contains four of the 4s.
A few of its many virtues, as thousands can prove, are published
In the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle.

Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age
you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your
walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was
the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re-
moved those sightless beings, airi given place to a straightforward,
clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell you the cause
—the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff! and because it cured
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cater ,et, Nervous Headach, and Deaf-
ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed to be denominated a medi-
cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67
cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of
oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, I lodfrey Sykes, Esq.,
altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of
the Treasury; the letter of protection, signed by Herries, I sq., to
Mr. William Grimstone, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was
on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time is canis-
ters, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of
Government it is obliged to be stamped.
GR[MSTONE'S EDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters,
inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the
Government order, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. The
Pamphlets sold at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3s. 6d., and
ss. Bd., including postage, &c. The following letter is one out of the
many thousand proofs.
Read the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases
of Gutta Serena, from G. H. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:—
" Soutbsea, near Portsmouth, Ilants, sth Nov., 1848.
" Ma. W. GatmsTosE.—Sir—l must in justice to you send the fol-
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or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished
me and thousands of others.—l am, Sir, Etc.,
G. H. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism."
All letters to Mr. William Gemstone, Herbary, Highgate, near
London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his
far-lamed HERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed in all foreign parts.
The following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from
the author o; tke " Pleasures of Home :"
" Springfield Ccttage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1845.
" Sir,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I
esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for

the choice leaf, hitherto obtained—by me from a friend in Constanti-
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yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price.
" I am your obedient servant,
" sTUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L.
" To Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate."
This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug-
gists, and others, with W. Grimstone's signature attached, at 7%d.,
Is. I ►(d. 2s. lid., and 4s. 6d. each. including the Government stamp.

Thomas Denny, who was sentenced to death at the
late Kingston assizes, for the murder of his illegitimate'
murder,te
aripst
child, has received a free pardon. The chief evl('
him at the trial was Elizabeth Tarrnnt, the motheerneef
in-
fant, and who was charged also with assisting in the°
but the bill against her was ignored by the grand jury.
Jus-
tice Maule, who tried him, communicated with the Secretary
of State, and three weeks ago obtained a respite of the saer
tence. Ocher circumstances have since come to light in hi.
favour, which have induced the. Government to grant him as
free pardon. Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, Mr.
Keene, the governor of the gaol in Horsemonget-lane, re-
ceived the pardon from Sir Ge,rge Grey, and at once libe-
rated the recently-condemned convict. The unfortunate man
seemed overjoyed at the news, and exrressed his thanks to
the parties v i
who had interceded in his behalf. He also
thanked Mr. Keene, the governor, for his humane attention
to him while in the condemned cell, and since the respite.
OXFORD.—The Rev. William Judd Upton, M.A.,
late Fellow of New College, has been nominated to the
perpetual curacy of Greuborough, Yorkshire; patron, Earl
Fitzwilliam.

THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
Ye-terday the lint public conference of degrees by
this University took place in the presence of the Chan-
cellor at‘d S-riate, and a large number of private friends,
in the hall of King's College.
The use of the hall had been kindly granted for the
occaiion in consequence of the Surveyors of Woods atd
Fo•ests having expressed some doubts as t r the safety of
the large room of the School of Design, which is the
proper apartment of the University.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Burlington, the Chancel-
lor, occupied the chair; and umongA the distinguished
persons present were—Mr. .T. G. S. Lef •vre. the Vice-
Chaticell.4.; the Bishop of Durham, Lord Overstone,
Professor Faraday. Mr. G. Grote, Mr. H. Hallam, the
Right Hon. 'l'. B. Macaulay, Lurd Baistock, Lord Mil-
11,m, the French Ambassador, the Dean of St. Paul's,
the Hon. Colonel Cost, Major-General Sir W. Morison,
K.O 8.. Sir 11. de la Beche. Sir E. Colebrooke. M.P.,
Sir IL Ellis, Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. M. Milne.t,
anti a great number of professors and scientific gentle-
men.

The proceedings commenced with the reading of a
short report by the registrar, which stated that in the
course of the last academical year her Majesty had been
pleased to grant a supplemental charter, enlarging the
powers previously conferred on the University. Her
Majesty had also, by warrant under her sign manual.
been peased to place in connexion with the University,
in addition to the colleges and institutions previously
authorised to issue certificates for degrees in arts and
laws, the West of England Dissenters' Proprietary
School at Taunton, and St. Patrick's College at Thurles.
During the past year 167 gentlemen had been admitted
to matriculation, of whom eleven had distinguished
themselves when under examination for honours in ma-
thematics and natural philosophy, and one had obtained
an exhibition ; and four had distinguished themselves
in classics, one of whom bad obtained an exhibition.
Twenty-five gentlemen had passed the first examina-
tion fir the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, of whom
one bad obtained an exhibition in anatomy and phy-
siology, another in chemistry, and a third in materia
medics and pharmaceutical chemistry ; several others
had distiuguished themselves and obtained gold medals ;
thirteen gentleman had passed the examination for
the degre, of Bachelor f Medicine, of which one had
obtained a scholarship; two gentlemen had pissed the
examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, of
whom one had distinguished himself in jurispru fence,
and obtained the University Law Scholarship; 53 gen-
tlemen had passel the examination for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, two of whom had obtained the Uni-
versity Scholarships; seven gentlemen had passed their
examination for the degree of Master of Arta; eight
had obtained the degrce of Doctor of Medicine, and one
that of Doctor of Laws.

The following gentlemen were then presented by the
Prineirals of their respective colleges, and admitted to
the d,•grees indicated below:—
Charlei James Foster, of University College, LL.D.
Thomas Snow Beck, Soorjoo Coemar Chuekerbutty,
John Owen Evans, H. Frederick Augustus Good-
ridge, and Robert Dawson Harting, of University Col-
lege, M.D.
Thi,mas Hawksley and Frederick John Hensley, of
King's College, M D.

- - .
z Spence Ramskill, of Guy's Hrspital, M.D.
David Charles D ivies, Robert Halley, Richard Holt
Hutton, Bunnell Lewi., and Rictiard Francis Wey-
mouth, of University and Manchester Colleges, M.A.
Samu,l Roberts, of Manchester College, M.A.

John Sib:•e., f Spring hill College,
John B. idge, Thomas 11)rlase Coulson, Charles Wil-
liam Crouch, John Curtain, Edward Boustield Dawson,
Edward ele,tnell Dunn, Benjamin Chandler Durant,
Eberezer Ru-t Edg.,r, John Henry Gould. John Russell
Goulty, John Philip Green, Frederic Hepburn John
Hll, Thomas Hillier, Richard Revel lbotson, Richard
Charles Jessop, William Taylor Malleson, Philip Mea-
dows Martineau, Arthur Nash, William Henry Nash,
Edward John Routh, Gerard Bayley Smith, William
Smith, Alfred Thornely, Thomas Davis Wilcox, Alfred
Wills, and William Fuller Woodham, of University
College, B.A. _ _

Chries Weston Devenish and Frederick William
Headland, of King's College, B.A.
James Clare, Joseph Johnson, Henry Michael Fausti-
nus Langton, Theobald Arthur Lambert Langton, and
Walter Sweetman, of Stonyhurst College, B.A.

John James Bishop and John Dendy, of Manchester
College, B.A.
James Leonard, of Highbury College, B.A.
Benjamin Hudson, John Brown Paton, Robert Ainslie
Redford, and Daniel Smith, of Spring-hill College, B.A.
B••njswin Farrington, of Stepney College, B.A.
George Decimus Davis and Patrick O'Brien, of St.
Gregory's College, B.A.
Jonathan Bates, of Huddersfield College, B.A.
William Kirkus and Samuel Sharp Walker, of Lan-
calhire College, B.A.
Benjamin Ellis Coates Chambers, Henry Jefferson,
and Samuel Sharpe, of Wesley (Sheffield) College, B.A.
William Henry Fryer, of Queen's College, B.A.
George Morgan and George William Olver, of
Wesleyan College Instit., B.A.
Henry Matthews and Matthew Atmore Sherring, of
University College, LL.B.
William Elenry Colborne, James Morris, Sherard
Freeman Statham, and Edmund Whitaker, of Univer-
sity College, M.B.
Thomas Rhodes Armitage and Samuel James Augus-
tus Salter, of King's College, M.B.
William Ayre. of London Hospital, M.B.
Edward Enfield Barron and Samuel Weston Devenish
of Guy's Hospital, M.B.
Robert Trout Hawley Bartley, of Bristol Medical
School, M.B.

Cornelius Black, of Edinburgh School of Medicine,
M. B.

Joseph Drew of the Royal Manchester School of
Medicine, M.B. _ __

The following scholars, exhibitionesrs, medalists,
and prizeuien were then presented to the Chancellor:—
Bunnell Lewis, M.A., University, medal i❑ classics.
Samuel Roberts, M.A., Manchester New College,
medal tu mathematic,.

Hiehard Huh Mutton, M.A., University, medal in
philoophy.
E twani John Routh, 8.A., University, scholarship in
mathetnaticA.

Alfred Wills, 8.A., University, scholarship in classics.
Fr,deriek William 11-adlind, 8.A., King's, prize in
chynii.try.
Fre.seriek William Headland, 8.A., King's, prize in
an~tu physiology.
fli•nry slattlevws, LL.B., University, law scholarship.

Cornelius Black, M. 8., Edinburgh School of Medi-
cine, scholarship and medal in physiology and compara-
tive anatomy.
James Morris, M. 8., University, medal in physiology
and comparative sinatum.

Joseph- Drew, M. 8., Royal Manchester School of Me
dieitio, medal in surgt•ry.

J-itnes Nlurris, M. 8., University, medal in surgery.
Siierard Freeman Statham, M.B , University, medal
in medicine.

Cornelius Black, M. 8., Edinburgh School, medal in
medicine.

Ch tries Pardey, King's, exhibition and medal in ana-
tomy and physiology.
Henry Thompson, University, medal in anatomy and
physiology.
Charles Pardey, King's, medal in chymistry.
William Odling, Guy's Hospital, medal in chymistry.
George May, King's, exhibition and medal in materia
medics..
William Odling, Guy's Hospital, medal in materia
medics.
Charles Pardey, King's, medal in botany.
Henry F, eneh, Wesleyan Institution, exhibition in
mathematics. -
Edward J. S Dicey, King's, exhibition in classics.
Frederick J. Money, St. Thomas's Hospital, prize in
chymistry.
Edward Fry, University, prize in zoology.
John Za(lhariah Laurence, University. prize in botany.
A committee of the graduates then advanced, and pre-
sented the following address to the Chancellor:—
" We gladly avail ourselves of this the first public
occasion of conferring degrees in the University of Lon-
don to express our gratitude for the foundation of the
university, and to thank the Senate for their great and
continued exertions in framing the curriculum and con-

ducting the examinations, by which an honourable repu-
tntion has been obtained tor its degrees, and for the
time and lA3our which they have so long and zealously
devoted to the affairs of the university.

...._.
"In particular, wa are desirous of thanking the
Senate for the establishment of a public day for confer-
ring degrees, by which the members of the different col-
leges will be annually brought together, and which will
greatly contribute to the creation and extension of a
more corporate feeling than has hitherto existed among
the graduates.
"In conclusion, we hope we may be permitted to ex-
press the anxious interest which we take in the prosperity
of the university, and our ardent desire to contribute to
the utmmt of our power, to maintain its character and
promote its welfare. '
The CHANCELLOR, in responding to the address, said
he begged to assure them, in the name of the Senate,
that he had received with great satisfaction the address
which had just been presented on the part of the gra
dilates. That university had been established to recog-
nize the great principle of rendering academical oistinc-
tions accessible to all persons, of every class and every
religious denomination, and they should ill hare dis-
charged the trust reposed in them if they had not taken
the best precautions in their power to insure this im-
portant result, that the degrees which they might confer
should hold au honourable place in public estimation.
—(Cheers.) Accordingly, they had devoted much time
to the system of examination, and they had had the
satisfaction of adopting regulations which had met
with the approval of the managers of education in the
colleges connected with the university, and those pre.
sent had now also accorded their approbation of
the system.—(Loud cheers.) The number of degrees
that they had now conferred was considerable, and he
had no hesitation in stating that it was desirable that
hene,furward opportunities should be offered of confer-
ring them in public, as he anticipated that that arrange-
ment would contribute much to the a,lvantage of thou ni. itvheor sfittoyi
.m-ce(r htthearts.) the I universityr. w ai the
,
place amongst the great educational institutions of this
si nh toeut
lt tdi o nt a andke
adesire

country. That object must ever be kept strictly in view
by those who were connected with it, but, in order that
it might be fully littainei: not only must-the Senate act
v-aloubly in the administration of its affairs, but the
future career of the graduates themselves must be such
as to raise, by their character and reputation, the esti-
ma►e in %filch the university should be h.ld. •

The proceedings, which ha I been of a highly grati-
fying charact,,r, terminated with a vote of thanks to the
Chancellor and the Semite.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

(From the Poen and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commas')
WEDNESDAY, MAY I.
BENEFICES IN PLURALITY BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
•
Clause one (Spiritual persons not to hold Benefices in
Plurality, except under certain circumstances):—Amead-
went proposed page I, line 20, after the word " Benefices,"
to leave Out all the words to the end of the Clause: -- Ques-
tion put," That.the words ' unless the said Benefices are
actually contiguous to each other,' stand part of the Clause.
The Committee clivuled:,-
MAJORITY—AYES, 166.
Elliot, J. E. Mahon, Viscount
Emlyn, Viscount Manners, Lord J.
Estcourt, J. B. B. Martin, C. W.
Euston, Earl --" mastorman, John
Farnham, E. B. Matheson, Colonel
Fergus, John Miles4W.
Floyer, John Milner, W. M.
-Forbes, William Morris, David
Fortescue, J. W. Mostyn, E.
Fuller, A. E. Mulgrave, Earl
Galway, Viscount Mundy, William
Gaskell J...M. Naas, Lord
Gladstone; W. E. Noel, G. J.
Glyn, G. C. Oswald, Alexander
Goddard, A, L. Packs, C. W.
Gordon. Admiral Paget, Lord C.
Gore, W. R. 0. Palmer, Roundell
Graham, Sir James Patten, J. W.
Granby, Marquis of Pennant, Colonel
Grenfell, C. P. Pet sAmuel
Grenfell, Charles W. Pig a 4. *ands
Grey, Sir George Plrzoden,:w. H.
Grommor, Earl PrLA, laeliard -
Gwyn, Rowel Reid. Colonel
Halsey, T. I'. Ricardo, Osman
Hamilton, G. A. Richards. Richard
Hanmer, Sir John Romilly, Sir John
Heald, James Russell, F. C.
Heathcoat, G. J. _ Sandars, George
Heneago, G. 11. W. Seymer, H. K.
Henley, J. W. Sheridan, R. B.
Herbert, Sydney Sibthorp, Colonel
Hildyard, R. C. Simeon, John
Hill, Lord E. Smyth, John G.
Hodgson, W. N. Sothoron, T.
Hood, Sir A. Stafford, Augustus
Hepe, H. T. Stanford. J. F.
Hotham, Lord Stanley, Edward
Howard,!:E. G. Stuart, H.
Hudson, G. Sturt, Henry G.
Jennyn, Earl Thompson, Colonel
Jervis, Sir John Trollope, Sir J.
Johnstone, Sir J. Verney Sir H.
Jones, Captain Villiers, Viscount
Kerrison, Sir.E. Villiers, F. W.
Knox, Colonel Vivian, J. H.
Lacy, H. C. Vyse, H. 11.
Langston, J. 11. Waddington, H. S.
Law, C. E. Walsh, Sir J.
Legh, G. C. Watkins, Colonel
Lennard, T. B. Wood, W. P,
Lenpox, Lord A. Wyvill, M.
Lewis, Sir T.
Lewis, George C.
Lockhart, W.
Lowther, Colonel
M'Cullagh, W. T.

Adair, E. Shafto
Adderley, C. B.
A rkvrright,
Armstrong, B. B.
Bagge, William
Bailey, Joseph
Baines, M. T.
Baldock, E. H.
Bankes,
Bennet, P.
Bentinck, Lord H.
Beresford, William
Bernard, Viscount
Best, John

Blackall, S. W.
Blackstone, W.
Blair, Stephen

Boyle, Colonel
Bramston, T• W.
Bromley, Robert
Bruce, C. L. C.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Burrell, Sir C.
Burroughes,_ll. N.

Buxton, Sir E.
Campbell, W. F.
Carew, W. P.
Carter, John B.
Cayley, Edward S.
Chatterton, Colonel
Christopher, R.
Christy, Samuel
Clay, James
Clive, Henry B.
Cobbold, J. C.
Cocks, T. S.
Codrlngton, Sir W.
Coke, Edward K.
Coles, H. Y.
Colvile,

Cowper, W. F.
Da rymple, Captain
Dawson, T. V.
Deedes, W.
Denison, Edmund
Denison, J. E.
Dod, J. W.
Dodd, G.

Duck Worth, Sir J.
Buncombe, A.
Buncombe, 0.
Duncuft, Jobn
Dunne, Colonel
East, Sir J. B.
Edwards, Henry
Egerton, Sir I'.
Egerton, W. T.

MUM
Frewen, C. H.
Buck, L. W.

MINORITY—NOES, 53.
Bass, Thomas Hodges, T. L. Robartes, T. J.
Brockman, E. D. Hodges, T. T. Bomilly, Colonel
ltrotherton, Joseph liorsman, E. Rushout, Captain
Burke, Sir T. J. Keogh, William Salwey, Colonel
Clifford, H. M. Kershaw, Jame! Scholefield, William
Colebrooke, Sir T. King, P. J. ' Serve, G. P.
Corbally, M. E. Lawless, Cecil Stanstield, W. R. C.
Cowan, Charles Lushington, Charles Stanton, W. H.
Davie, Sir H. Mackinnon, W. Sullivan, Michael
Drumlanrig, Via. Melguud, Viscount Thicknesse, Ralph
Duncan, Lord Mitchell, T. A. Thoruely, T.
Ewart, William Nugent, Lord ' Tollemache, F. J.
Fitzroy, Henry O'Flaherty, Anthony Walmsley, Sir J.
Forster, M. Perfect, It. Willcox, Brodie
Greene, John Pilkington, James Williams, John
Hardcastle, J. A. Power, Dr.
Harris, Richard Raphael, Alexander TELLM.
Hastie, Alexander Itawdon, Colonel Hume, J.
Henry, Alexander Rice, E. R. Agllonby, H. A.

Same Clause (page 2, line t :—Amendment proposed. to
leave out all the words from the words "each other and" to
the end of the Clause, in order to add the words " unless the
`•early value of one of such contiguous Benefices shall be less
than one hundred pounds :"—Question put, " That the
words the population of the two Benefices jointly shall not
exceed ,' stand part of the Clause." The
Committee divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 16.
Jermyn, Earl Trollope, Sir J.
Langston, J. H. Verney, Sir 11.
Lowther, Colonel
Packe, C. W. TILLERS.
Rushout, Captain Frewen, C. H.
Sibthorp, Colonel Christopher, R. A.
Start, 11. G.-

Bagge, W.
Blackstone, W. S.
Burroughs, H.
East, Sir J.
Floyer, John
Gore, W. R. 0.
Gwyn, Howel

Adair, R. A.

Adderley, C. B.
Agliouby, H. A.
Bailey, Joseph
naines, M. T.

Baring. Sir F.

Bass, M. T.
Bennet, Philip

MAJORITY-NOES, 162.
Estcourt, J. B. B. Miles, William
Evans, William ' Milner, W. M.
Farnham, E. Mitchell, T. A.
Ferrer, James Morris, David
Fergus, John Mulgrave, Earl
Forteseue, J. W. . Mundy.
_William
Freestun, Colonel Oswald, -A. '-
Fuller, A. E. Paget, Lord Clarence
Galway, Viscount Patten, W.
Gaskell, J. M. Pennant, Colonel
Glyn, George Carr Perfect, Robert
Graham, Sir James Peto, Samuel
Greene, John Pigott, Francis
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Pilkington, James
Grenfell, Charles W. Piowden, W. 11.
Grey, Sir G. Power, Dr.
Grosvenor, Lord R. Prime, Richard
rialsey, T. P. Raphael. Alexander
Hamilton, G. A. Reid, Colonel
Hardcastle, J A. Richards, Richard
Harris, Richard Robartes, T. J.
Hastie, Alexander Romilly, Sir John
Hawes, Benjamin Russell, F. C. IL
Heald, James Sandars, George
Heneage, G. H. Scholefleld, W.
Henley, J. W. Scrope, G. P.
Herbert, 11. A,
Hildyar 1, R. C. Seymer, henry Ker
Sheridan, R. H.
Ilildyard. T. B. Simeon. John
Hodges, T. L. Smyth, J. G.
Hodges, T. Twisden Sotheron, T. H.
Hodgson, W. N. Stafford, A.
Hood, Sir A. Stanford, J. F.
Hope, Alexander Stanley, Edward
Horsinan, Edward Stanley, E. H.
Howard, E. G. Stanstield, W. R.
Ilume, Joseph Stanton, W. S.
Jervis, Sir John Stuart, H.
Johnstone, Sir:j. Sullivan, Michael
Jones, Captain Tennent, R. J.
Keogh, William Thicknesse, R. A.
Kerrism, Sir E. Thompson, Colonel
Kershaw, James Thornely, T.
King, P. J. Turner, George
Knox, Colonel Verner, Sir W.
Law, C. E. Villiers, F. W.
Lawless, Cecil Vivian, J. 11.
Legh, G. C. Waddington, 11. S.
Lewis, Sir T. Walmsley, Sir J.
M'Callagh, W. Watkins, Colonel
Manners, Lord J. Willcox, Brodie
Martin, C. W. Williams, Johu
Mastertnan, J.
TELLSKS.
Matheson, Colonel Herbert, Sidney
meigund, Viscount Gladstone, W. E.

Beresford, WciHam
Bernard, Viscount
Best, John
Blackall, S. W.
Blair, Stephen
Brainston, T. W.
Brockman, E. D.
Bromley, Robert
Brotherton, J.

Buck, 1.. W.

Sir Y.

Burke, Sir Thomas
Buxton, Sir E.
Carew, W. P.
Carter, J. B.
Cavendish, C. C.
Cayley, E. S.
Chatterton, Colonel
Christy, Samuel
Clay, James
Clitlord, IL M.
Clive, H.B.

Cobden, Richard
Cocks, I homas S.
Codrington, Sir W.
Coke, E. K.

Coles, Henry B.
Colvile, C. R.
Corbally, M. E.
Dalrymple, Captain
Davie, Sir Henry
Dawson, T. V.
Deedes,
Denison,
Denison, Denison, J. E.
Dod,

Dodd, George
Duckworth, Sir J.
Duncan, Viscount
Duneombe, A.
Doncombe, 0.
Duncuft, John
Dunne, Colonel
Ebrington, Lord
Edwards, Henry
Egerton, Sir I'.
Egerton, W. T.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PonTsst.)nTil, MAY I.—Captain Michael Qain is ap-
pointed to commission the Ajax, 60, at this port,
of Rear-Admiral M. H. Dixon, at
us the flag-ship
Queenstown.
The Birkenhead iron steam-frigate arrived to-day from
Plymouth with 701 persons of the 28th regiment.
The . Sealark, 8, Commander Monypenny, arrived to-
day from the west coast of Africa, and is ordered to be
paid off at this port. She sailed from St. Paul de
Loma() Feb. 16, St. Helena March 2, Ascension March
9, and Sierra Leone March 22. The Commodore had
left Sierra Leohe, and gone to the southward, having in
spected the northern division. The Gladiator steam-
frigate, Captain Adams, and the tender Jackal, arrived
at Sierra Leone from England a few days before the
Sealark sailed, and would proceed on the day after to
seek the Commodore.
The Presidentia steam-slaver, captured on the coast of
Brasil by the Cormorant, bad arrived at St. Helena for
condemnation.
The Sealark reports the slave trade very dull, so
that the last prize taken on the south coast, off Old Ben-
guela-head, by the Cyclops had only 400 slaves in, when
she was engaged to have taken 800, but they could not
be made up, even though domestic slaves had been
pressed into the service.
Mr. Aberdeen, who went out with the late Alr. Dun-
can, has returned in the Sealark; and Mr. Penfold, clerk
of the Cyclops, has come home in her invalided. Dur-
ing her commission the Sealark has captur• d six
slavers, but empty. Having been employed for twelve
months on one division of the station (the southern), she
has no news of a recent date from any other district.
She has brought mails from the places last sailed from.
The Maria Somei convict-ship came up to Spithead
from Cowes-roads last night.
The last stone of the Frederick's battery, at the
north-east corner of this dockyard, completing the line
of extension sea-wall, was laid this morning by Captain
James, R.E , in the presence of a select party party of
officers of the yard, Mr. Edward Smith, C.E., the repre-
sentative of the contractor for the work (Mr. Peter
Rolt), and other official personages. This battery is
one of the most complete pieces of masonry in the shape
of a work- of defence in existence-
PLvmouTn, APRIL 30.—The steam-ship Birkenhead
arrived this morning from Portsmouth with the remain-
der of the 23d Regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers, and
a portion of the 4th or King's OWD, to be stationed at
this garrison. The Birkenhead is appointed to leave
this evening with the bead-quarters of the 82d for Ports-
mouth, and the Virago sti am-vessel is to take a detach-
ment of the 234 to Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, to re
lieve the detachment of the 38th, some time stationed
there.
The screw steam-ship Archer, 4, Commander Strange,
went from Hamoisze yesterday into the Sound, round
which she steamed to try her engineA, and brought up
in Barepool to have her compasses adjusted. She is to
be paid wages to-day, and to sail on Thursday, with
mails for Madeira, Cape Verds, Sierra Leone, and As.
tension.
Wind, easterly.

APPOINTMENTS.
WooLwlcu, MAY I.—Lieutenant Gruff d C. Llo3 d,
(1846), to the Ocean. 80, flag-ship at Sheerness.
Master-Asiktant Daniel Burdwood, to the Centaur
stem-Ingate on the coast of Africa.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Captain Sir Edward Parry, Mr. John Barrow, and
Mr. Wooley, from the Admiralty, paid a visit to-day to
Captain Austin and Captain Ommanney, at Greenhithe,
and nutnerous parties were formed to visit the vessels,
although the weather was very cold. The Intrepid.
Lieutenant-Commander John 13ertie Cater, left Wool-
to-day for Greeninthe, at 2 40 P.ar, , and seamed
herself down the river. The Jasper, under the charge
of Acting-Master W. Bryant, was ordered to tike on
board a large supply of coals to-day, and in a 'Maori
to her bunkers being filled, will take 20 tans on deck, as
she is ordered to proceed as a tug with the vessels, and if
necessary will go as far as S:ronsiless. The Advice
steam-vessel is also under orders to take on board a sup-
p'y of coals and other requisite articles to sssist in tow-
ing th.e vessels to the northward, and they will all leave
the river on Saturday mornjng.
Captain Sir John Ross vt-iiterl Woolwich yesterday
and to-day, and a quantity of provisions hsvin.l bleu
put on board his small yacht, the Mary, she will leave
the river to-morrow, taweil by the Widgeon steam-
vessel, Captain Bullock, to the Firth of Forth.
The Crocodile, 8, recently receiving-ship at Cork,
having come round to Sheerness, is ordered to bo taken
up the .river to opposite the Tower, instead of the
Athol], to serve in place of the Perseus.
CHATHAM, MAY I.—The following prisoners were
tried yesterday at this garrison by district courts-
martial, of which Major J. Whitcomb, of the Royal
Marines, was president, viz :—Michael Lawler, of the
12th Regiment, a private, was tried for desertion at
Windsor oa the 18th of December, 1849. The prisoner
was brought into Chatham barracks on the 22d ult.,
under a military escort. He was also tried for making
away with his regimental necessaries. He was found
guilty. Private Marshall O'Neal, of the 15th Foot, sta-
tioned at Sheerness, was alsa tried for offering violence
to Corporal William Parker, of the same corps, when
sentry on the main guard at Sheerness, on the 17th ult.,
when in the execution of his duty. The prisoner swore
that he would run him through with his bayonet, using
other expressions of a threatening character. Private
Thomas Slattery, of the same corps, was also tried for
theft, that of stealing a penknife from one of the officers
of Sheerness dockyard. These prisoners were all found
guilty, but the sentence of each must be confirmed at the
Horse Guards before they can be publicly known.
Captain Thomas R. Mould, Royal Engineers, and
who has been director of works in Chatham Dockyards
for some years, is ordered to proceed to Portsmouth to
take charge of the works at that yard, in place of Cap-
tain James, who has resigned. The order from the
Admiralty for Captain Mould's removal arrived yester-
day at this dockyard.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—A short discussion that took place on Tues-
day evening in the Lower House on the subject of the
Registrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative Court
almost carries us back to the days of Horace Walpole
and official nepotism. Will it be believed that at the
time we are exercising so severe an economy that we
almost count the lumps of sugar a poor
,half-starved
clerk in a public office puts into his tea, a post—an ab-
solute sinecure—exists in one of the Ecclesiastical
Courts, which yields its fortunate tenant 12,0001. per
annum? What a sum ! 12,0001. per annum! One
should like to meditate upon so glowing a theme
throughout a long summer day by the side of a rippling
brook, which might give tune and time ti fancy over-
heated with the dazzling pageant of possibilities. It
must be considered that this 12,0001. per annum, this
Arch-Delilah of sinecures, involves no agricultural, no
commercial, no railway risks. Land rats, or water rats,
land thieves or water thieves, signify nothing. There may
be a dearth of cotton in Carolina, ore fit of extra fertility in
Tamboff ; Uncle Sam may exclude our piece goods, or the
Russian serf glut us with the cereals; Sir Robert Peel
may turn traitor, or Mr. Hudson lend to his balance-
sheets a glowing Titianesque touch; all this matters not.
The 12,000 b per annum wnich we have in view at the
present moment is an official 12,0001. per annum. It is
"in the nature of," or' issues from," a salary and fees.
The happy tenant of the appointment need have no fear
of any ono but the income-tax collector. Even the visits
of this individual may not possibly be without the effect
of adding self-complacency to his repose. The percentage
offered on the altar of patriotism quiets all scruples, and
sheds a rosier hue over his afternoon slumbers and the
waking dreams of the qiiiet morning time, when he is
passing from the temporary annihilation of sleep to the
tingling consciousness of 12,0001. per annum. But like
all other dreams, this one too is destined to fade away.
On Tuesday evening Sir Benjamin Hall put a question
to the First Minister upon the subject, a.id the
brief conversation that arose elicited the following
facts. The official style of the post in question is
" Registrar of the Canterbury Prerogative Court."
The Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being has
the power of appointing one person to the office and of
nominating two others in succession. When Archbishop
Moore held the see, he appointed (perhaps not very un-
naturally) his two sons to the post. One of these gen-
tlemeo now survives, who, in addition to the emoluments
of his office, holds other preferments, which increase his
income very nearly to the mark of 15,0001. per annum.
During the da) s of Dr. Manners Sutton the original no-
mineediul, aid he filled up the vacancy with the name
of his grandson, the present Lord Canterbury, then a
boy between ten and twelve years old. Dr. Manners
Sutton died in 1828. and Dr. Howley succeeded him at
Lambeth. Here let us do honour to the memory of that
mild and revered prelate! He was so itruek with
the turpitude and iniquity of the whole arrangement,
that when in 1845 John Moore, then Registrar of
the Court, died, he absolutely refused to make any
appointment at all. When the fact was mentioned
on Tuesday night in the House it drew forth
cheers from all sides. A case of such disinterested.
ness is unfortunately so rare that it merits especial notice
and attention. Dr. Sumner, the successor of Dr. Man-
ners Sutton, has not followed his example with regard
to this monster sinecure. The " second reversion" to

the office of Registrar, which has fallen in since Dr.
Sumner has been called to Lambeth, has been given by
him to his son, a young man who is now studying at the
Temple. Upon such an exercise of patronage we will
not venture to comment. All that we have mentioned
has been culled from the speeehes of Sir Benjamin Hall
and the First Minister, and may be received as admitted
facts. But in the answer of Lord John we find the fol-

lowing very satisfactory assurance:—" The nature of
the office itself is now undergoing investigation before
a Select Committee of the HOLM.. It appears to mo to
be one of those offices which, when Parliament is con-
sulted on the subject. must either be abolished altogether
or so altered that no more salary should be given than
is required for efficient and beneficial services." So
far there could, of course, be no doubt upon the matter,
but we might be pardoned for entertaining an appre-
hension that the unpleasant idea of compensation t)
young Mr. Sumner might come to be so inextricably
and unpleasantly mixes up with oar satisfaction as very
materially to modify its character and abate its fervour.
It is, then, most satisfactory to find that, for this once
at least, there is a special Act of Parliament—the 10th
and 11th of Victoria, cap. 98—which will entirely cut
up Mr. Summer's htipes of a compensatory sum in gross
for the lois of his glittering prospect. The office, it is
to be hoped, will be abolished, and the memory of so
gross an abuse consigned, without more ado, to oblivion.
Mr. Sumner, however, is not to be driven into the
howling wilderness alone as an expiatory victim
for the sins of his fellow- sinecurists in esse and
posse. The whole array of sinecurists in the
Ecclesiastical Courts, actual and prospective,
must be passed in review, and all who cannot give a
good account of themselves be dealt with according to
the exigency of their particular cases. Sir Benjamin
Hall, we see, has given a notice of motion which will cut
down to reversioners. Despite of the Act mentioned
above, actual tenants, at least the majority of them,
would be in a position lo demand so much compensation
that it might become a question whether it would not

be better to let the claims become extinct by the course
of nature. All this, however, is no valid reason for not
looking sharply int) the matter. Whatever doubts may
exist as to the propriety of cutting down the official
salaries of those persons who actually perform services
of public advantage, there can arise no very nice ques-
dons of policy or propriety upon the abolition of a nest
of sinecures. At least, let there be no more salary given
than is required for necessary services actually and effi-
ciently performed.

THE MURDER AT CLAPHAM.
The excitement occasioned by the murder continues
unabated, and during the whole of yesterday, as on the
previous day, the place was visited by an immense con-
course of persons. As the police proceed in their en-
deavours to aicertain some clue to the perpetrators of
the outrage they find the matter enveloped iu a darker
state of mystery than any case of the kind in which they
have been previously engaged, and they are almost at a
loss to know how to act. They cannot obtain the slight-
est assistance from Mr. Meddle which would enable
them to trace the property alleged to be stolen. Although
Mr. Meddle has had the gold hatch for some years, he
states that he cannot tell the maker's name,
where he
bought it, the number of it, nor furnish any description
whatever.
Ye.torday several officers of the detective force went
to the house in Claremont-place, and in the presence of
Mr. Meddle arranged all the papers and documents
which had been strewn about the place on the day of the
robbery, and after examining them all, Mr. Meddle could
not positively state what he had lost. Among the pa-
pers were a large number of valuable deeds, leases,
bankers' receipts and other documents, which it is very
surprising were not carried off by the robbers. Mr.
Meddle, by the advice of the police, has been to his
banker's to ascertain whether any of his documents or
cheques have been presented, as many of them could
readily have beam negotiated, but nothing of the kind
had taken place.
In consequence of the refusal of Mr. Higgs, the coro-
ner, to give Mr. Parrott, the surgeon, an order to employ
either Professor Taylor or Dr. Lotheby to make an
analysis of the contents of the stomach of the deceased,
Mr. Parrott, as we stated yesterday, applied to the Corn•
missioners of Police for an order to that effect. Mr.
Mayne, the Chief Commissioner, informed Mr. Parrott
that there were no funds at the disposal of the Commis-
sioners for such a purpose, and advised him to again ap-
ply to Mr. Higgs for the- necessary order, remarking
that in a case of such public importance he felt assured

[PRICE SD.

Mr. Riggs would grant the order. A subsequent appli-
cation was then made to Mr. Higgs, but that gentleman
still refused, stating that he had no power to give a
second order, having already employed Mr. Parrott to
make the post mortem examination. The result of this
communication was conveyed to Mr. Mayne, who imme-
diately waited upon Sir George Grey, the Home Secre•
tarp, and informed the Right Hon. Baronet what
steps, he (Mr. Mayne) had taken in the rust-
ier. Sir George Grey agreed with Mr. Mayne
that he had no power to order the content 4 of the
stomach to be forwarded either to Professor Taylor
or Dr. Letheby, but at the same time ordered him to
send Dr. Fisher. the physician to the Metropolitan Po-
lice-force, to Mr. Parrot., to ascertain whether they
could not make the analysis. In accordance with these
instructions, Dr. Fisher had an interview with Mr. Par-
rott yesterday, and, after having been informed by that
gentleman of the inflainma-ory state of the intestine.
(which showed evident indications of the presence of
poison), Dr. Fisher said he thought it would not be
politic for him to make the analysis. Mr. Parrott st:11
declining to make the analysis, a further communication
was sent to Mr. Higgs last night, requesting him to give
an order to Professor Taylor or Dr. Letheby, but the
result has not yet transpired.
Last evening, Mr. Smith and Mr. Field, the two active
officers of the detective force, who have the case in
hand, received information from a source on which they
can place the greatest reliance, that a man was seen to
leave the house in Claremont-place, a little before one
o'clock on Sunday, and from the description given of
him there can be no doubt he is one of two men who
were seen lurking about the neighbourhood early on
Sunday morning.
The police yesterday made a most minute examination
of the drawers and cupboards which were broken open
by the thieves, and they are decidedly of opinion that
the robbery was never perpetrated by regular house-
breakers., The implement used for forcing open the
drawers was a small chisel, the blade of which is not
more than two inches long, and, what is a most extra-
ordinary fact, it is the property of Mr. Maddle, and was
kept in a small tool-chest in the back kitchen, from whence
the thieves must have taken it into the drawing-room,
where it was afterwards found. The police are con-
vinced that had the robbery been perpetrated by pro-
fessed " cracksmon," they would have taken their tools
with them, and not have depended upon the chance of
finding implements in the house.
The manner in which the drawers and cupboards have
been broken open, confirmed the police in their convic-
tion that the thieves were not expert hands. The chisel
was not, as is usually the case, applied near the locks,
but was put in at the side of the drawers, and the fronts
faced out, an operation which would occupy a much
longer period than forcing them from the locks.
In the event of Mr. Higgs still refusing to give the
necessary order for the analysis, there is no doubt from
what transpired late last evening, that Sir George Grey
will take upon himself to do so, as, until the analysis is
made, the Government are precluded from offering any
reward for the apprehension of the supposed murderers.

THE UNITED STATES.
(FROM THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 16.—1 t is a matter of notoriety
in this country, that since the accession of General
Taylor to the Presidency, his Cabinet have, unfor-
tunately for him and for the people, conducted the
affairs of the state in such a manner as to render his
Government singularly unpopular to every descrip-
tion of party. Honest and well-meaning himself,
and tolerant as a soldier should be regarding political
creed, his election was unquestionably facilitated by
the solemn pledges he voluntarily gave, that he " had
no friends to reward or enemies to punish," as, also,
that in the event of power being confided to him, his
ambition would be to " govern irrespective of party."
Not a month elapsed after his installation before
his Cabinet Councillors gave evidence that they
neither. shared his feelings nor regarded his promises,
and under very frivolous pretexts a system of pro-
scription commenced in their several departments,
unparalleled (during the same period) even under the
administration of those Presidents who had honestly
avowed their intention of so dispensing places as to
reward their friends and supporters.
Thus commenced disgust and discontent, from
which there were found few dissentient voices except
among the successful aspirants to office.
With want of principle there was unfortumately
combined want of ability. This was peculiarly exem-
plified in the erroneous calculations and dogmatical
forebodings of the Treasury department, and it may
safely be asserted that much of the difficulty which
has occurred in Congress during the present session
has been intentionally augmented, even by Whig
Members, with the sole view of embarrassing the pro-
ceedings of the Administration.
Such decided unpopularity, even among their own
party, has caused frequent rumours that a dissolution
of the Cabinet was about to take place ; but hitherto
it has been evident that, much us this was to be de-
sired by others, no such intention existed among the
members themselves. Now, however, not only a dissd •
lution, but probably an entire change, has become ab-
solutely necessary, precipitated by the extraordinary
proceedings of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of
the Treasury, and the Attorney-General in relation
to a claim on the public purse, in which the first-
named of these officials was largely interested. This
claim bears date even previous to the revolution, and
has been ineffectually urged under past Administra-
tions. But setting aside all malicious reports, and
admitting it to have been impartially and strictly
scrutinized by the Attorney-General and the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, before either gave their con
sent to its payment, there was certainly something
worse than indelicacy in the fact of a Cabinet Mi-
nister being himself the successful collector, during
his term of office, and solely by the decision of two
of his own colleagues, of a sum which had been re-
fused him when in private life.
Mr. Crawford has demanded an investigation of
his conduct, and a committee has been appointed by
Congress for the purpose. Whatever may be their
report, it is understood that he will resign his place,
and that his example will be followed by all his col-
leagues. In such a case there is little, if any doubt,
that the State Department (Foreign Affairs) will be
offered to, and accepted by, Mr. Webster, though
many think that Mr. Rives, now Minister to France,
will receive the nomination.

The Bill before the local Legislature of this state,
prohibiting corporations from pleading usury, has
passed the Senate by a a vote of 18 to 7. It had
previously passed the House, and with the signature
of the Governor will now become a law. It must,
however, not be looked upon as retrospective, or as
having any bearing upon past transactions; but on
all bonds or obligations issued after the law goes into
operation there can be no plea of usury put in for
their repudiation. The commissioners of the New
York C mal fund advertised a few days since for a
small .5 per cent. loan, interest payable quarterly,
and final reimbursement to be made in 1866. The
sum wanted was 203,415 dolls. ; the offers amounted

in the aggregate to 1,623,492 dolls., at rates ranging
from par to 6.90 premium. The successful competi•
tors have the loan at 5.30 to 6.90, which is certainly
a high rate in this country for a five per cent. stock,
and not only evidences the abundance of money, but
the high appreciation in which' the New York funds
are held.
Within the last fortnight three steamers have ar-
rived from the Isthmus, bringing a further supply of
gold and specie, amounting to about :3,000,000 dolls.
Another million or thereabouts has been disbursed for
account of the Mexican indemnity, which events con-
tribute to keep the money market easy, notwithstand-
ing the immense amounts tied up in cotton and other
speculations.
Trade generally is very dull, and cotton spinners
are now working at prices far disproportioned to the
value of the raw material. This is the consequence
of the peculiar method on which they conduct their
business. Goods sold at a credit never less, and often
longer, than eight months, brought forward specu-
lators during the last summer, who purchased all de-
scriptions of heavy goods on the supposition that the
shortness of the crop must cause prices to rule very.
high. In this calculation they have been disap-
pointed, and many of them now force their goods on
the market under the imperative necessity of selling
at materially reduced rates in order to meet the lia-
bilities incurred by their purchase.
Accounts from the different shipping ports at the
South, made up to the 12th instant, show a defi-
ciency in the rates of cotton, as compared with the
same date last year, of 536,000 bales ; and this con-
veyance will probably take telegraphic news via Ha-
lifax, placing the difference at 550,000 bales, while
the steamer of the Ist of May will no doubt show a
falling off of 600,000 bales. It should be remem-
bered, too, that the heavy early receipts, and the
great inducement to hurry the article to market,
must have left very little remaining on the planta-
tions. Those, in fact, who most openly discredited
the estimate of 2,100,000 bales now consider a reduc-
tion even on that quantity to be more approximate to

reality.
Small as this crop will turn out, compared with
the expectations of the cautious, yet the indications
are plain as they can be that the next will be smaller
still. Frost has again done its work at the same
period when it destroyed the young plants last year,
and though its effects may be more limited, yet the
damage fully made up by other causes connected
which ma be
with a backward spring, among
reckoned a flood in the Mississippi, which is said to
have laid 150,000 acres of cotton under water. The
seed is destroyed, a replant must take place, and this
at a period when the trees ought to be blooming ; so
that however favourably circumstances may subse-