tit [ GRATIS.] SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1883. [ GRATIS.: HORSES IN TRAINING IN FRANCE. ( CONCLUDED.) In the French Derby, t in the Grand Prize 1863 1864, J are Pub- lic Trainers. AT IE PIN. IHE GOVERNMENT TRAINING STABLES— TRAINER, A. BRIGGS. M DES VIGNE'S. Eabray, ch g, aged | Auricula, gr g, 6 yre MG. MARION'S. Ham, b g, 4 yrs ( h b) Eoyal Dawn, ch c by Royal Quand Meme out of Twilight, 3 yra M F. MARION'S. Calvados, b c, by Faugh a Ballagh out of Princess Olga, 3 yrs COUNT DE CHAZOT'S. Babine, ch f, by Fitz- Gladiator out of Boutique, 3 yra M G. BUI8SON'S. | Black Capucin, br c, by Lanercost out of Katinka, 3 yrs M DE LAVILLE'S. Bretteville, b c, by Pedagogue out of Bonne Aventure, 3 yrs M AUZOLATO'B. X. Lamplighter, be, by Conspirator out of Cinderella, 3 yrs COUNT DE LA BIGNE'S. Gentil Coriiard ( lateOberon), b h, 5 yrs MARQUIS DE FALENDRE'S. BSrSnade, ch f, by Festival out of Diggory Diddle, 3 yrs M OSCAR MARIE'S. Grfegoire, b g, aged M BASTARD'S. Gustave ( h h), b g, 4 yrs M LECOMTE'S. Vatican, ch g, by Wanderer ( h b), 3 yrs MR BRIGGS'S. DuchSne, gr f, by Monarque out of jElla ( Auricula's dam), 3 yrs Caleb, br c, by The Flying Dutchman out of Iodine, 8 yrs Ch c by Royal Grand M6me ( h b), 3 yrs AT SEICHES, NEAR ANGERS. M J. ROBIN'S— TRAINER, C. BAINS. LaChatte, ch m, 5 yrs I St Paixent, b c, 4 yrs Faust in, br c, 4 yrs | Souvenir, b c, 4 yrs Mdlle des Dwuze- traits, b f, 4 yrs Ca et La, b c, by Womersley out of Alma, 3 yrs Cholet, b c, by Spartacus out of Apropos, 3 yrs * f Marjolet, b c, by Womersley out of Emilia, 3 yrs Bamboche, b f, by Womersley out of Mdlle Marco, 3 yre La Fl& che, bk f, by Womersley out of Japan, 3 yrs La Lionne, b f, by Womersley out of Venisonette, 3 yrs Marguerite d'Anjou, b f, by Womersley out of Heritage, 3 yrs Herring, b c, by the Prime Warden out of Phrygia, 3 yrs AT ECOUFLANT, NEAR ANGERS. VISCOUNT DE CHEMELLIER'S AND VISCOUNT DE MONl'REUIL'S— TRAINER, J. HEARNDEN. Beau Soleil, ch h, 5 yrs I Souci, br c, 4 yrs Fortunio, b c, 4 yrs | La Beaumette, b f, 3 yrs Mdlle de Romauerie, ch f, by The Baron— Warplot, 3 yrs Foulques, ch c, by Womersley out of Olivia, 2 yrs Chalumeau, b c, by Prettyboy out of Musette, 2 yrs F by Prettyboy out of Clair de Lune, 2 yrs F by Prettyboy out of an Emilius mare, 2 yrs AT NANTES. M D. CAILLE'S— TRAINER, J. MAXTED. J Bt Aignan, b h, 5 yrs | Le Gamin, br c, 4 yrs Julienne, b f, by Allez- y- gaiment out of Camelia, 3 yrs M REVERSEAU'S. Frize- Poulet, f, 3 yrs M SIMON'S. Foe, b c, 3 yrs COUNT DE BREON'B— TRAINER, C. BRAY. I Basilic, b g, aged | Gr f, by Trim, 4 yrs ( h b) M LOISEAU'B. Dwina, b in, 5 yrs M BROSSEAUD'B. Alleluia, b c, by M de St Jean out of Wren, 3 yrs MR C. BRAY'S. Polygone, b g, aged I Max, b c, 4 yrs Roi de Graslon, br c, 4 yrs | AT BOUZE, NEAR BEATJNE. M VERRY'S— TRAINER, J. FRANCIS. Plaisir des Dames, b h, 5 yrs I Vertu Facile, b f, 4 yrs Fructus Belli, b c, 4 yrs I Montretout, b f, 4 yrs Beautd Severe, b f, 4 yrs f t Acta: on, b c, by Pedagogue ® ut of Miss Harkaway, 3 yrs • t Corybante, b c, by Pedagogue out of Figurante, 3 yrs Endymion, b c, by Pedagogue out of Needle, 3 yrs Ganymede, b c, by Pedagogue out of Hopeless, 3 yrs * t Glaucus, b c, by Pedagogue or Trajan out of Glaucopis, 3 yrs » Scamandre, b c, by Pedagogue or Trajan— Fair Helen, 3 yrs Smuggler, bk c, by Fantome outof Discretion, 3 yrs Sybarite, b c, by Pedagogue eut of Bayonette, 3 yrs Cyth& re, b f, by Pedagogue out of Scythia, 3 yrs " Paphos, b f, by Pedagogue out of Yanthe, 3 yrs Eros, b c, by Pedagogue out of Needle, 2 yrs * Le Dieu Mars, b c, by Pedagogue out of Scythia, 2 yrs Vulcan, bk c, Dy Sfiuechal out of Yanthe, 2 yrs • t Aphrodite, b c, by Pedagogue out of Debutante, 2 yrs Erycine, f, by The Flying Dutchman out of Rachetee, 2 yrs * f Golgia, b f, by Pedagogue out of Figurante, 2 yrs Praxis, b f, by Pedagogue out of Hopeless, 2 yrs Salammbo, ch f, by Cossack put of Appleton, 2 yrs AT L&. CHAUME, NEAR DAMPIERRE- M DE BE HAGUE'S— TRAINER, J. MIZEN. Arcole, br h, 5 yrs Arc- en- Ceil, ch c, by Buckthorn out of Landrail, 3 yrs Bleuet, br c, by Buckthorn out of Lady Charlotte, 3 yrs Tamerlan, ch c, by Buckthorn out of Miss Lot, 3 yrs Rocambole, ch f, by Buckthorn out of The Heiress, 3yrs Trompette, b f, by Buckthorn out of Miss Agreeable, 3 yrs Mons de Dampierre, b c, by Firstborn out of Miss Lot, 2 yrs Mons de Rosny, ch c, by Firstborn out of Landrail, 2 yrs Romeux, ch c, by Firstborn out of the Heiress, 2 yrs Taillebourg, bk c, by Firstborn out of Lady Charlotte, 2 yrs La Soiogne, ch f, by Firstborn out of Miss Agreeable, 2 yrs Siberie, b f, by Cossack out of Lady Arthur, 2 yrs V- - AT RICHELIEU. TRAINED BY R. JORDAN. J— M DU GARREAU'S Beau- Sire, br h, 5 yrs | Barb d'Or, ch m, 5 yrs Chevalier du Ris, b c, by Napier out of Exquisite, 3 yrs Frontin, b c, by Napier out of Barricade, 3 yrs Vaillance, ch f, by Napier out of Stella, 3 yrs PRINCE E. DE BEAUVAU'S. Bouillabaisse, ch m, 5 yrs M S. DE LOGNAC'S. Young Dutchman, by The Flying Dutchman out of Young Lady, 3 yrs M. A. DESBON'S. La ComSte, ch f, by Pyrrhus the First out of Mitraille, 2 yrs AT BOUSCAT, NEAR BOURDEAUX. TRAINED BY H. MIDDLEDITCH. J- M F. REGIS'S. Cep de Vigne, b c, 4 yrs M T. REGIS'S. Fantasie, b h, 5 yrs ' COUNT DE BONY'S. Ga6te, bk f, by Weathergage out I Messine, b f, by Ionian out of of Fringante, 2 yrs | Agar, 2 yrs M FOMBELLE'S. P& re Jean, ch c, by Napier out of Miss Exile, 3 yrs M R. SUBERCAZEAUX'B Mons St Bris, b c, by Weather- gage out of Cinq- Sols, 3 yrs Barah, ch f, by Weathergage out of Start, 3 yrs M W. GUEBTIERE'S. Poisson d'Avril, br c, by Sting out of Cinq- Sols, 2 yrs Gateau de Savoie, br c, by Saucebox out of Zulme, 3 yrs Mascarade, bf, by Saucebox out of Uberty, 3 yrs MonsMendor. br'o, by Saucebox out of Demi- fortune, 2 yrs Jour de Noces, b c, by Saucebox out of Zulme, 2 yrs M DE PAUL'S. Petit- Poucet ( late Orphee), by Sharavogue out of Augusta, 3 yrs MARQUIS DE LAGARDE'S. Aigrette, ch f, by P> rrhus the I Apolionia, b f, by Ellington out Firstout of Prima Donna, 3yrs | of Poesie, 2 yrs M GARDONE'S. B c by Saucebox out of Georgette, 2 yrs AT MONTAUEAN. TRAINED BY G. JANICOT. J— VISCOUNT DE VALADY'S, Y. Nabob, ch c, 4 yrs M THOUVENET'S. Miss Ionian, br f, 4 yrs | Stella, bk f, 4 yrs BARON DE CANTALAUZE'S. Y. Moustique, b c, 4 yrs M E. DUBOI'S. Ferragus, b c, by Epervier out of Vexation, 3 yrs M F. PERE'S. Balafre, ch c, by Napier out of Feuille de Rose, 2 yrs M MIRET'S. Olga, gr f, by Epervier ( h b), 2 yrs MR G. JANNICOT'S. Querida, br f, 4 yrs bk c, by Roi de Chypre ( h b), 4 yrs AT MONT DE MARSAN. TRAINED BY W. PAUL 8MITH. I- M DE LONJON'S. Dumas, b c, by Sting out of Agnes Sorel, 3 yrs Mieux- que- ea, ch c, by Collingwood out of Mianie, 3 yrs Romulus, ch c, by Garryowen out of Zelia, 3 yrs Grenadier, br c, by Voltigeur out of Zeta, 2 yrs Pauvre Diable, b c, by Ionian out of Fantasie, 2 yrs Etoile du Midi, b f, by Teddington— Madame Ristori, 2 yrs VISCOUNT DE MALEZIEU'S. Flying Gipsy, bk c, by The Flying Dutchman out of BohS- mienne, 3 yrs Ch f, by Pyrrhus the First out of BohSmienne, 3 yrs COUNT DE BEAUMONT'S. Presto, br c, by Ethelwolf out of Reine des Pres, 3 yrs M LAFAILLE'S. Virginie, b f, by Cossack out of Wedlock, 3 yrs MR W. P. SMITH'S. Favori, ch g, aged | Fitz Malton, b c, 4 yrs Bagatelle, b f, by Saucebox out of Reconnaissance, 3 yrs Urigantine, b f, by Commodore Napier out of Catlega, 3 yrs TRAINED BY W. STAPLES.]— M LECRAMP'B, lady Sting, b f, 4 yrs | Tremill, br c, 4 yrs M DE BAFCAREL'S. Confiance, b f, by Ronconi out of Rocka, 3 yrs M DE LOUBSERT'S. Mlphyde, I f, by Ionian out of Aurelie, 3 yrs MR STAPLE'S. Circee, b f, 4 yrs COUNT A. DE MONT'S— TRAINED BY H. CUTLER.! Sans Vanite, b h, 5 yrs | Gouvernail, b c, 4 yrs Esperance, b f, by Collingwood out of Miss Jenny, 3 yrs Expleratrice, br f, by Sting out of Castagnette, 3 yrs Intervention, br f, by Collingwood— Good for Nothing, 3 yrs Trinite, b f, by Collingwood out of Lilla, 3 yrs Due Job, b c, by Collingwood out of T& rSsina, 3 yrs Pourquoi- pas, b c, by Collingwood out of Abigail, 2 yrs -•• » > Hourika, grf, by Grev Tommy out of Miss Jenny, 2yrsi Xodoiska, b f, by Collingwood— Good for Nothing, 2 yrs M RIBETTE'S. " * . Chaldee, gr f, 4 yr| J : AT VIGEAN, NEAR BORDEAUX. M DE VANTEAUX'S— TRAINER, M DESMAISONS. Bissextile, br h, aged I Yacht, b c, 4 yrs John Styx, b c, 4 yrs | Md. le Malton, b f, 4 yrs Outrance, br f, by Ionian out of Sylvandier, 3 yrs Balle Franche, f, by Napier out of Ligoure, 2 yrs Corvetta, f, by Pyrrhus the First out of Yole, 2 yrs AT ECOUFLANT, NEAR ANGERS. VISCOUNT DE BARACE' 8— TRAINER, J. JOSEPH. Perle- fine, b m, 6 yrs I Vobiscum, br c, 4 yrs Linieres, br h, 5 vrs | Flamme de Punch, br f, by Faugh a Ballagh— Probe, 3 yrs Quinte et Quatorze, br c, by The Flying Dutchman out of Dame de Coeur, 3 yrs Barbier, c, by Womersley out of Deminus, 2 yrs F, by Aguila out of Dame de Cceur, 2 yrs M J. BOUTTON'S— TRAINER, L. LEFUR. Surprise, b m, aged I Polichinelle, ch b, 5 yrs Reseda, b g, 6yrs | John. bc, 4yrs Nankin, ch c, by Womersley out of Vision, 3 yrs M DE LIGNIERE'S. Pacha, b g, aged AT NEXON NEAR LIMOGES. BARON DE NEXON'S— TRAINER, W. SARGEANT. Encore- un, b h, 5 yrs I Tandem, ch c, 4 vrs Frevillers, b c, 4 yrs | Action de Lens, br f, 4 yrs Dioz, ch c, by Pyrrhus the Firstout of Miss Malton, 3 yrs Escaupont, chc, by Pyrrhus the First outof Lady Maud, 3 yrs Goer, b c, by Pyrrhus the First out of Emma, 3 yrs Pimlico, b c, by Pyrrhus the First— Yorkshire Lass, 3 yrs Small Money, b c, by Pyrrhus the First— Plumstead, 3 yrs Pussycat, b f, by Nunnykirk or Pyrrhus the First out of Ada Mary, 3 yrs Bosco, ch o, by Pvrrhus the First, dam by Simoon, 2 yrs Fergola, ch c, by Pyrrhus the First out of Plumstead, 2 yrs Minikin, b c, by Pyrrhus the First out of Selima, 2 yrs Noel, ch c, by Pyrrhus the First out of Finery, 2 yrs Boheme, b f, by Pyrrhus the First out of Gipsy Girl, 2 yrs Beinede Naples, b f, by Pyrrhus the First— Ada Mary, 2 yrs AT IBOS, NEAR TARBES. M FOULD'S— TRAMER, H. JORDAN. Mousquetaire, ch h, 5 yrs T Wolfram, br c, 4 yrs Bolferino, b c, 4 yrs | Choriste, b c, by The Flying Dutchman out of Co'- yphee, 3 yrs Robert Houdin, ch c, bv St Germain out of Grenade, 3 yrs Warrior, br c, by The Flying Dutchman out of Whim, 3 yrs Brigantine, b f, by Weathergage out of Egeste, 3 yrs Deborah, ch f, by Collingwood out of Drill, 3 yrs Gertrude, br f, by The Flying Dutchman out of Gazelle, 3 yrs Gourmette, ch f, by Velox out of Martingale, 3 yrs Margarita, b f, by Sting out of Margaret, 3 yrs Bruneau, br c, by Dirk Hatteraick out of Palatine, 2 yrs Germanicus, b c, by TheFlying Dutchman out of Gazelle, 2yrs Masco, b c, by Collingwood out of Betty, 2 yrs Marion, b c, by Sting out of Mouse, 2 yrs Melchior, b c, by Sting out of Margaret, 2 yrs B c by Collingwood out of Jane Eyre, 2 yrs Duchess, b f, by Sting out of Arlette, 2 yrs Meduse, ch f, by Dirk Hatteraick out of Grenade, 2 yrs Sarah, b f, by Sting out of Deer filly, 2 yrs Ch f by Colhngwood out of Babiole, 2 yrs AT PAU. TRAINED BY P. PRUNET. M BORDA'S. Rubens, b c, by Ali Baba out of Mascate, 3 yrs Margot, b f, by Commodore N v> ier out of Miss Burplice, 3yrs M LAFITTE'S. Aramis, b f, by Sting out of Pari bole, 3 yrs M LA VIGNE'S. Gondole, ch f, by Womersley out of Jenny, 3 yrs M P. PRUNET'B. Jupiter, ch g, 5 yrs I Yvonnette, r m, 4 yrs Fanie, ch m, 5 yrs Pharaon II., by Collingwood out of Mainada, 3 yrs Atala, ch f, by Remus out of Delphinia, 3 yrs La Savoie, b f, by Remus out of Delphinia, 3 yrs SPORT IN HUNGARY. THE PESTH HOUNDS. — TO THE EDITOR OF BELL'S LIFE. SIB : As it may be interesting to the readers of BelPs Life in England to hear accounts of hounds in foreign parts, I send you the following particulars of some runs with the Pestb Harriers, also an account of the races, and which I will ask you, Mr Edi- tor, to try and find space for in your next publication. THURSDAY, FEB 19.— The meet was at Foth Park gate, the resi- dence of Count Istvan Karolye, who kept foxhounds for many years, and at the hour appointed ( twelve a. m.) the hounds were thrown off, and that great desideratum, punctuality with hounds, being kept by all concerned. We made the first move in the direction of a large grassy field, and in a very short time a hare got up, and proved to be one of the right sort, running straight as a fox for the first twenty minutes, and after that to.„ k to doubling, but all to no purpose, as the hounds were not to be done out of their prey, and after twenty minutes more wtu- fairly run into and devoured. It was a most creditable performance of the hoinds, as the wind and weather was much against them, the former particularly being most trying, not only to the hounds but to the eyes of the riders. With these two exceptions we had a very pleasant day. SATURDAY, FEB 21.— A beautiful day for hunting. We met at Megz6r, the training stables of Mr Benson, where we soon found a hare and killed, after which we found another, but in the middle of the run a fox jumped up, and " Tally- ho" was im- mediately the cry. Without much difficulty the huntsman lifted his hounds off the hare, and laid them on to the fox, who gave us a short, sharp, and decisive run of about fifteen minutes, when we came to a check, but in casting his hounds the huntsman remarked a sandbank a little dis- tance off, which appeared perforated with holes; in fact, sort of rabbit warren, which, he knowing the habit of the " varmint" in these parts, immediately concluded he had taken refuge in. Nor was he disappointed, as the moment the hounds came to it they gave us to understand he was at home, at least for the time— but not for long, as some men were speedily procured, who set to work to dig him out, which, after an hour's work, they succeeded in doing, and he was turned down. After a fair allowance of time the hounds were laid on, and after an ex- citing chase of forty- five minutes, with only one check, he was fairly killed in the open. TUESDAY, 24TH.— Met at Czinkota, the residence of Mr Be- niczky, where we drew for a fox, and were successful, much to the delight of the field, as he broke away in full view, with the hounds at his brush. However he was too many for ttiem, although they hunted him very well, until they came to the high road, which was crowded with carts, carriages, and, worse than all, a herd of Hungarian pigs, which Mr Fox evidently knew was a contretemps much to his advantage, and one which he did not fail to make the best use of, as we came to a check there, and never could hit off the scent again. We then went hare hunting, and had one or two nice rings with a hare, but the scent was bad, and Puss lived to run another day. THURSDAY, 26TH.— Met at the kennels, a short account of which may be interesting. They are well situated, with a south westerly aspect, and have the advantage of a river running through the yard, and are very well and cleanly kept. On inquiry, I ascer- tained the hounds' food consists of rye bread, with an equal quan- tity of boiled horseflesh, bruised and mixed with the bread, to which a little soup is added. The huntsman told me they could not get oaten meal, and he considered that to be the best substi- tute. It seems to answer, as the hounds hunt three times a week, and now, at the end of the season, are in good condition. The stables are also very good, and the huntsman and whip have ten horses between them. The members of the club have made ar- rangements and intend getting a pack of foxhounds from England for next season, and, as foxes are very plentiful, they are likely to have good sport. Owing to the dryness of the soil and the wind and dust, the hunting to- day was indifferent. SATURDAY, 23TH.— The last day of the season. Met at Pascal Malom, where we soon feund a hare, and the scent being much better than the last day, the hare was killed, after a very good run over the stiffest country I had yet seen. MARCH 3.— The HUNT STEEPLE CHASE came off at Megzer, where there was a good course laid out of about three miles, with 18 fences. The following gentlemen officiated as stewards:— Counts G. Almasy, A. Szapary and R. Wenckheim, the offices of judge and starter being respectively filled by Count L& szlo BatthySny and Count Gyula Szeehenyi. The first race for horses belonging to the members of the Pesth Hunt Club which have been regularly hunted during the season 1862 and 1863. A CUP, value 50 sovs ( the cup being the gift of the ladies of Pesth) added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each; four year olds 1251b ( German), list 41b ( English); five 1301b ( German), list 91b ( English); six 1351b ( German), 13st 21b ( English); thorough bred horses carried 1451b German, list lib ( English); 101b ( German) extra for thorough breds ; 11 subs. Count L. Batthyany's Menyecskc, by Fortuiutus eut of Porge, 5 yrs, 1301b Sir Kelly 1 Mr Biaskovich Erno'sBeatrice, byAlertoutof Beatrice, 6 yrs, 1351b Owner 2 Count P. Festetics's Forester, by Gambia, 7 yrs. Kiilb. Owner 3 Count Gyula K& rolye's h Barsony ( thorough bred) by Conyngham out of Fides, 1451b Owner 4 Mr Jemsey Lajos's Doubtful, by Young Jerry out oi Alice, 5 yrs, 1301b Owner 6 CountGyula Szapdry's Confederate ( thorough bred) byGambia out of Confederate, 14.51b. Mr F. Beniczky Count Ivan Szipdry's h Futar ( thorough bred), by Co- nyngham out of Lucia, 1451b Owner Count Jeno Zichy'sDjerrid, by Duncan, 5 yrs, 1301b Count Andor Festetics Betting: Even on Confederate, and 2 to 1 agst Menyecske. All got off well together, and immediately after the start Menyecske took the lead until the fifth fence, when her rider took a pull before coming to the kanSn, when FutSr took the lead, but was collared by Menyecske at the second brook, which they jumped together, and these two then made the running to the second fence from home, where the rider of Futar lost his saddle cloth, con- taining his extra weights; he was leading at the time, with Menyecske well up, in which position they passed the judge's chair, the race being awarded to Menyecske. The rider of Doubt- full fell at the fourth fence from home, and was completely thrown out of the race. Confederate also fell at the same fence, but his rider recovered himself, and tried hard to make up his lost ground, and, although Forester passed the chair third, his rider was found deficient. I can only wish my brother sportsmen in England such weather as we have had here since the 1st of January. It has been, with one or two exceptional days, like the finest April weather in Eng- land, but without rain, and the day of the steeple chase was nearly as hot as summer in England. Some of the fences were very severe, and before concluding I must send you a description of a fence, essentially " Hungarian," and which they have in all steeplechases. It is called, in Hungarian, a " karan," and is a sort of " cage," into which you must jump your horse over a hurdle, and when inside you cannot see anything, but must force your way through high reeds or bulrushes, and at the same time jump over a hurdle, w hich is strongly made, and interwoven with'the above reeds.— Yours, & c, W. D. K. Pesth, March 4,186- 3. FISHING QUARTERS ABROAD.— No. VI. ( CONCLUSION.) Leaving Innsbruck, we eomeinnine miles to Zirl, where the direct road to Munich branches off due north. It takes us up into a good fishing country, across the Bavarian frontier. Mit- ten wald, on the youthful Isar, is a good stopping place. It is a curious spot, cooped up under the precipices of the Karwendel, 7,800ft, full of old- fashioned houses, the lower stories of which are vaulted, and is occupied chiefly by musical instrument makers' who fabricate countless guitars, violins, and double basses, at marvellously low prices. Most of these come to. England and America. Some of the fishing fraternity about here are better in- structed than most ot the name, and you may find native flies as well tied as any in Bell-} ard. The lsar, as was said, is a worthy trout stream, not too large or furious in his course, and a clear water, undefiled by nasty glaciers, which always render the health- giving element as repulsive as possible. Branching off again at Mitcenwald, a good road leads westerly to Part- enkirch and Garinisch, two much frequented snminer retreats, grandly situated under the hoary Zugspitz, of which more presently. Trie little Eibsee is beautifully placed beyond Garmisch, some 90Oft higher, and may be compared to the lower Gosan Lake. The fishing belongs to two families, who, being descendants of gipsies, and, like them, squatters, have bought the lake and its seven islands. Under the circumstances, perhaps, the water is less inviting than it really deserves to be. But, ali around this neigh- bourhood, there are beautiful streams. A little westward conies down the Loisach, and another lovely valley, with its brook, the Ammer, is reached by a side road from Ober Ammergau. The country will well repay walking through it and fishing it. North- ward from Mitten wald the road runs by two interesting lakes, the Wralchensee and Kochelsee. That from Partenkircb descends first to the Staffelsee, and then to the very fine sheet of water called the Starnoerger See, from which runs a short strip of rail to Munich. The Aiiiiner, a little on the left hand of it, runs into another large lake, the Ammer See; both it and the Loisach ulti- mately join the Isar, where it has become already a large river, and trout fishing is no longer possible. The Isar, however, like all the large tributaries of the Danube, has plenty of huchen. We might work round by either the Loisach or by the Graswang Thai, past the source of the Airliner, into another capital fishing ground, between Lennos and Reutte; but I prefer returning to Innsbruck, or the point where we struck northwards towards Munich, be- cause we shall so attain some noble scenery, scarcely ever visited by English people, although it is known to the Germans as being a route incomparably the finest of any by which Tyrol is entered. Leaving, therefore, the Munich road on the right, at Zirl we con- tinue straight up the splendid valley of the Inn, waving with its crops of maize. At Telfs this is quitted, and though still keep- ing it in sight, we rise steeply, and the views open out grandly to the S. and W. At Ober- Miemingen is a good inn, the Hirsch. Nassereit, the next post station, is a poor place, but the road at- tains a high elevation, and the prospects in the neighbourhood are exceedingly fine. We are here just opposite the mouth of the Otz Thai to the south, which contains at its head the highest peaks in all Tyrol. Their names are, due south, the Wildgrad- nogrel, 10,200lt, just to the east of him, and glittering far behind, the ranges of the great Gebatsch Ferner and Hochvernagt Ferner, first the Platei Kogel, 10,250ft; and the Wild Spitz, 12,350ft; to the west, and farther back, the Weisskogel, the loftiest of the whole, 12,620ft; behind, and to the east, are the Firmian Spitz, 11,840ft; and the Siniilaun, 12, U00ft. These highland chiefs may hold a comparison with most other Alpine groups. At Nassereu our road quits that leading towards the lake of Constance, and, turning north, becomes very interesting. It passes by a singular picturesque castle, Sigmundskron, rising from a knot of little bright blue lakes ; mounting still by skilfully en- gineered turns, it crests the pass called Auf dem Fern, 5,040ft, and runs through a gateway, hewn out of the solid rock, at the half ruined castle of Fernstein. Falling towards the nortb, the defile is very fine, under the Wanneck Mountain 7,600ft, and below is a sweet, pearly lake, the Blindsee, shut in by rocks ; it is trouty, and its fish must be about as ignorant of man's devices against them as any in creation, for scarcely any one comes this way at all, and perhaps the waters are never troubled for their prey. The route certainly ill deserves this neglect, for both the scenery is first- rate and the inns are good; but our guide books do not putt it, and we generally go with our noses well pinned to their pages. Divers other dots of blue water are passed, such as the Weissensee on the right, and Drachensee, further off from the road, and we descend into the watery level through which the infant Loisach runs, about to force the passage of the Alps. On the right, or east side, a path comes down the Gais Thai, which communicates by the Leutash Thai with the Isar, near Mittenwald ; this passes close under a magnificent barrier of limestone mountains, and would probably be found remunerative to the rod. Lermos is the post station next to Nassereit, and the post is a tidy inn, kept by obliging people, with a good cellar. When I was there they re- membered two Englishmen coming to fish some years before; considering the grandeur of the country, and the unsophisticated nature of salmonidce hereabouts, it is a pity that our visits are so rare. Ask the host for his " red ofener," Hungarian wine, a drink which will probably be better known in England before long, considering its undoubted excellence and cheapness. I gave 7d. a bottle for it at the grower's cellars in Austria ; the white variety is a really delicate wine, prime cost 10Jd. The charm of Lermos consists in its being directly under the highest group of Bavaria's Alps, called the Wetterstein, which rise abruptly from the plain of the Loisach, above the snow level. Partenkirch and the Eibsee lie on their north side, and here they stretch away on the east. The Zugspitz is their monarch, towering away with his s arp pointed peak of ice 9,650ft. A little lake called Berler See supplies Lermos with trout. The place lies high, 3,200ft from the sea level, and the climate, as in all such situations, varies between wide limits with great rapidity, a few hours making a diflerence frequently of from 40 to 50 degrees. Be on your guard, therefore, as to clothing. Our road rises again after Lermos, and a long post- stage leads to Reutte, rather lower than it, passing through the Ehrenberger Klause, a fortified pass; on the right is the small lake of Heiterwang, communicating with the larger one called Plansee. Reutte has the best inn, Post, on the whole road to Innsbruck; this, and the beauty of the neighbourhood, the abundance of fishing, and, above all, the friendliness of these Austrian hillmen, may tempt one to make the place head- quarters for a while. Just below the town comes down a trout stream to join the Lech; following it you come, in a few minutes, to the Stuiben Fall, where the Ache takes a plunge of 90 feet; a little higher up is a second fall. You can follow the water up to the Plan See, drained by it, over three miles long and half a mile across. It lies very open. A very beautiful bridle road, laid down by the King for hunting purposes, skirts along it, and runs past Griesen to the Bavarian frontier and the Loisach valley. The highest hills in sight are the Sauling, 6,250ft, to the N. E., as its name imports, a pillar mountain; due S. the Thoneler, a fine object, 6,400ft; in the distant S. W. the Hochvogel, 8,500ft. Alto- gether, the scenery about Reutte is very pleasing, especially in that combination of the luxuriant and the grand which is peculiar to the north side of the Alps. The big river filling the valley is the Lech, one of the most important tributaries of the Danube, but, like most large mountain rivers, very fluctuating and uneasy; in fact, it seems, from the amount of gravel and stones tossed about, to be always kicking itself out of bed ; in such waters we do not expect sport beyond huchen. Winding down the Lech Thai, and through the Knie Pass, where the river is pent up in a ravine, we see the Vils brook coming in on the left, which may be fished up past the village of the same name, and for a considerable distance. It has its source in the lake high up in the hills, the Vils Alp See. At Fiissen, over the Austrian border, we are close to Hohen- schwangaru, literally the " high swan country," the greatest lion in Southern Germany. On the top of a lofty, well- wooded, marble rock stands the castle, or. ee, it is said, a Roman stronghold ( the Romans certainly held Fiissen, its name being a corruption of Fauces, or pass), afterwards a medieval castle, and destroyed by theTyrolese in 1809. The present king bought it about thirty years ago, and completely restored and decorated it with ancient weapons and other appropriate garniture. But its great attrac- tion is in its fresco painting, an art which has been worthily re- vived in Bavaria, and has become exceedingly popular, and justly — Every room has its series of pictures done on the walls, re- 6 8 GAME PRESERVES IN AUSTRALIA.— We have been favoured by Mr Thomas Austin's gamekeeper with a few details respecting the gallinacea, which are so carefully tended at Barwood Park. After thinning out the cock pheasants, so as to ensure a groper equality for the breeding season to the dames, there are twenty- two hens in the breeding compartment, which have laid 200 eggs, out of which number 142 are placed under sitting fowls, the nests varying from fifteen to sixteen eggs. The partridges have got on admirably. There are about twenty eggs, and four young birds are laying. These birds have become so domesticated, that they mingle with the ordinary fowls, and feed from the hand. The hares, though improving in form and waxing fat, still preserve their shyness. The chief difficulties that lie in the way of the preservation of game have been successfully combated, as is illus- trated by the remains of 300 eagle hawks, some of which measure eight feet from tip to tip of expanded wings. During the past year J., 000 native cats came to an untimely end. The hawks still continue their depredations. The warren of wild rabbits is now redolent of life as an ant- hill, and swarms of bunnies are thrown off, which find their way to Armytagc's old station, up the Leigh, and down the Barwon Banks, for m;! es affording increasing sport to the gun. The newly imported quail are doing satisfactorily, and seem to luxuriate in their new abode. Snipe abound in this pastoral retreat, no fewer than twenty- one brace being knocked over by one gun last vreek,— Geelony Chronic!^ ' - v presenting partly national historic memories, and partly illus- trating the old legends of the poets of Germany. In the garden are fountains with bronze swans and lions, by the first artists of the country. The rambles round the castle are highly interest- ing, embracing some fine waterfalls and a series of lovely lakes. Leaving Fiissen for the rail, Nesselwang is passed, only remark- able for the incivility of the people. Their house was burnt down lately, but the flames do not seem to have purified the owners. It is so rare to meet this kind of annoyance, that it is all the more remembered when it occurs. Just beyond the Wer- tach is crossed, a fine fishable- looking stream, having its birthplace in the hills. At Kempten the train takes you northward to Augsburg, the shortest route to or from England, and south- west to the Lake of Constance. We take this latter route, and wind up the valley of the Iller, a considerable water, to Immenstadt ( inn not good), prettily situated under the mountains. Close by it the pretty Alp See is skirted ; in the dis- tance is a splendid half circle of hills, the highest being the double- peaked Madele Gabel, Maiden Forks, the rulers of the Algauer Alps, 8,500ft. Sonthofen and Oberstdorf, higher up towards the source of the Iller, are much visited in summer, and good fishing might be certainly predicted in the head waters flowing into it. J ust before Oberstaufen, where the rail turns to the north, a magnificent panorama opens out of the Alps of Bre- genz and of Appenzell, in Switzerland, which is repeated here and there as the rail winds round in manifold coils to reach Lindau, on the Lake of Constance; the whole route is well worth attention. To those acquainted with Swiss or Italian lakes the Boden See may perhaps appear tame, and when residing on it I have thought it so; but when I last saw it on a fine August morn- ing, with many glittering peaks, in the very heart of Switzerland, clearly defined, its fertile shores and broad clear green mirror lighted up, I confessed it to be very grand. As head- quarters for boating and fishing, it is to be highly recommended for a longer sojourn. Best places are Friedrichshafen, in Wurtemberg, capital inn, and rail direct to England; boat should be sent straight here; Lindau. Bavarian, a place of great thoroughfare, situation beautiful; Bregenz, in Austria, the safest, perhaps, for boat- ing. Of course on such a water, upwards of thirty miles long and nine miles wide, of great depth also ( 960ft), the boat man's weather eye must be kept well open. It is not pleasant to be caught by the Fohn, or violent south wind of the Alps, four or five miles from shore. Still in summer much fine and safe sailing may be promised, in a boat properly constructed. In this lake salmonida are represented by the rheinlanke, a large variety of lachs trout often reaching 201b, the lachs proper, and also salmo umbla, or charr. There is also the gangtlsch, a kind of 6'. lavare- tus, and, as its name seems to imply, a migratory fish, comir g and going with certain seasons or vicissitudes of temperature. The Rhine, which issues out of the lake at its western end, may be pleasantly navigated down to Schatfhausen ; it is usually gentle and deep, and very clear, having been thoroughly purified from glacier defilements byitstransit through this great filter, where it annually leaves large deposits, and builds on to the continent at the expense of the water. The hills round the lake, beginning from the east, are those of the Vorarlberg. a finely- wooded range, reaching near 7,000ft; Scesa- Plana, 9,800ft; Hoher- Santis, in can- ton Appenzell, 7,900ft, the nearest of the S wiss hills. On very clear days, and early, the distant peaks in the heart of Switzerland are seen. Most conspicuous the Dodiberg, between Schwyz and the Grisons, about 12,000ft; a difficult gentleman to scale. Then, to the west, theGlarnisch, about 9,700ft, flat topped, in Glarus; then the snowy heights near the Lake of Lucerne ; and, still deeper in, and far to the S. W., are some very distant cones, which must be in Bern, probably the Wellhorn and Wetterhorn, the out- standing sentinels of the mighty Oberland. Rails run all round the lake towards Italy, to Bern, and Geneva, and France, by Basle. Between this last place and Schaff- hausen the Rhine is not navigable ; besides the great fall, which, of course, you stop to see, there are rapids, principally about Lauffen If, therefore, yoa meditate a descent of Father Rhine, you tranship the craft to Basle and launch it afresh there. This upper part of the river is far from interesting, and is not quite so smoothly navigated as the lower portion below Strasburg. The channels are often intricate, the stream runs fiercely, and makes very sharp bends, so that there is danger at least of run- ning aground from ignorance of the course. The pontoon bridges are sometimes, but not always, formidable obstructions— such a one as that at Strasburg being impassable by a boat with high rowlocks. Care must be taken, therefore, and no attempt at shoot- ing the bridges be made without a careful reconnaissance. If pass- able anywhere, they will be most so at the ends where the road- way rises from the pontoons. Then, also, the places worth visiting are not handy for boatmen; Strasburglies back from the river, Frei- burg with its splendid church is far inland; not until you come to Speyer or Spires is there any town worth seeing placed conve- niently on the river. From that spot downwards all is manage- able. and pleasant, and there can be no doubt that of all the rivers of Europe none is to be compared to Old Rhine for boating pur- poses— whether you like to go ten miles a day or a hundred you are equally free to choose your halting place. And for seeing the Ehenish border and its contents properly, no conveyance is at all equal to a boat; its freedom is incomparable, and its pleasure far exceeding any other mode of progress. As it is, we hurry past nearly all the interesting towns except three or four chief ones, leaving architecture and scenery, both of high character, entirely unvisited. I have been up and down the Rhine more than a dozen times, and when I reflect I seem to have seen and to know nearly nothing of it. And so it is with most people; we are in such a hurry to get on and achieve the promised distance that we neglect what is most remunerative and lying closest to our own shores. This is not a right way of treating the finest part of Germany; indeed, there is something childish and senseless in it. I mean, there- fore, when I have leisure, to attack the Rhine formally in my own boat, and this is the way to do it, viz, to send her up to Mann- heim as a parcel, which will cost from £ 2 to £ 3, and start thence, taking both banks and dropping down with sail or oar to all the points of interest in succession. Especially the reach between Mainz and Bingen is to be admired and dwelt on for boating pur- poses. Bieberich would be a good head- quarters for exploring both up and down. Here the noble river spreads out to 2,000ft, and its gentle current is easily stemmed. Thence downwards every bend , brings with it some new attraction, until quite the lower course of the stream is reached. In any case tooling along ad libitum on the besom of a fine current is less monotonous than the dulness of the steamer. One regret only we feel about the Rhine, that the exquisite beryl- like brightness of the Bchaffhausen fall is not preserved to the sea. AlasI about halfway between it and Basle, at Waldshut, there comes rolling in the mighty dis- coloured mass of the Aar, as big as the Rhine itself, the drain of all central Switzerland; and it is only in winter that the great river looks really clear. No length of course seems to purify a glacier- fed current; this is owing, no doubt, to the excessive fineness of the particles to which the irresistible grinding of the glacier in its downward pressure reduces the hardest kinds of stone. A glacier, like a torrent, is alwaj's eating away its banks, however solid. And the drain- age of it once admitted never fines off wholly, nor loses its dirty, milky tinge; just as the life of man, when it has once consented to some great crime, never afterwards shakes off the taint of it till it has commingled with the great ocean which absorbs and covers all. Considering what a magnifi- cent supply of salmon the Rhine yields, in the size of the fish far exceeding those of our waters, if only the colour of its stream were perfect, ye Gods, what a salmon river it would be ! But I would not bethought to abuse the glorious river for any imperfection's sake, or have it supposed that it is unfit for bathing or anyways uninviting to the swimmer. One of the chief privi- leges of the downward course upon it is the unlimited number and length of the bathes to be indulged in. A necessary accom- plishment is the art of taking a well- balanced header off bow or stern, and then of vaulting back again. This secured, you have the most independent enjoyment of the fluid possible, floating gently onwards and swimming by your boat perfectly ad libitum. Oh that I might thus pass many any hour of the next dog days upon that softest and coolest of reclining couches! REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF SALMON FISHERIES. We have just received the second annual report of Messrs Ffennell and Eden, the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries in Eng- land and Wales, in which they report upon the condition of the rivers of Cumberland, Cheshire, Lancashire, Devon, Hampshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, North and South Wales, and also the rivers discharging into the Bristol Channel. From this report it seems— That the extent of water in England and Wales capable of pro- ducing salmon is very large, and that, though the total present amount of production is extremely small, there are very few rivers that do not contribute something towards it. A stock, in fact, still exists in nearly every river in the kingdom that is suited for salmon; and, small as that stock now is, it will be sufficient to make the process of restoring the rivers comparatively quick and easy, if it be but carefully fostered. The inspectors say: When we visited the different rivers of the country with the royal commission of 1860, we found that very erroneous opinions re- specting the habits of the salmon and the true interests of the owners of fisheries and the public very commonly prevailed, and, as was stated in the report of that commission, " It was beyond doubt to such filse notions and short- sighted views that the de- cline and partial ruin of the English salmon rivers is to be as- cribed." Since that time much interest has been shown in the subject; it has been publicly and privately discussed; and as men's minds have become better informed, a greater unanimity of opinion has been arrived at, and a more general desire to carry into effect such measures as are felt to be necessary for the deve- lopment of the fisheries. The change masle by the act of 1861 in the law, and, conse- quently, in the methods of fishing and in the regulation of seasons, is very great. Objectionable engines have been abolished; those whoseuse was permitted to continue have had restrictions im posedupon them. On many rivers over- fishing had so decreased the fish that few of those remaining entered them until September, when the Act declares that fishing for sale shall cease; but, not- withstanding these changes and restrictions, no Fishery Act of modern times has been received with so little opposition, and has so quickly gained over the greater proportion of opponents. It met, at the outset, as we stared in our report of last year, with general approval, and the effect of another year's working has been to make that approval almost universal as regards its merits, whilst its deficiences are becoming generally known, and the re- medies proposed for some ef those deficiencies show a great con- currence of opinion. There has been, indeed, a common desire to test the act, and to use, in the best manner that the circumstances of the different rivers made possible, the means that Parliament has provided for the development of the fisheries, and the result has been already a nMSt marked improvement The past season has been univer- sally good, and in many places surprisingly so. To some extent this improvement is to be attributed to the sea- son. The rainfall of 1862 was large; the rivers were constantly full, and the fish entered them earlier and in greater numbers than usual. But that the increase is mainly due to the Act of 1861 will, we think, be seen by a consideration of the principal evils that existed before that act passed, and of the remedies that have been applied by its provisions. And as, in order to see in what particulars that act is deficient, it will be well to observe in what respects it is successful, we proceed to review shortly the causes to which the decline of the English fisheries must be at- tributed, and the beneficial effects of the act in its operation upon them. These causes of decline were:— 1. Artificial obstructions to the free passage of the fish. 2. Tha use of fixed engines. 3. Defective regulation ef fence times or close seasons. 4. Destruction of unseasonable fish; unclean fish: smolts, or fry. 5. Pollution from mines, and by manufactures. 6. Confusion and uncertainty of the law. 7. The want of an organised system of management, and for the provision of funds. 1. ARTIFICIAL OBSERVATIONS. No other cause has so injuriously affected the English fisheries as the artificial obstructions that are to be met with on nearly every river in the country. That the only limit to the productive power of a salmon river is the quantity of spawning- ground it possesses is a truism which we cannot too often repeat; and par- tially to deny, therefore, the fish access to the spawning- beds is to impoverish, or, if carried far enough, to destroy the fisheries. Weirs or dams had, however, been erected for fishing, for milling, or for other purposes, in such numbers, and of so formidable a character, that in very many cases the existence of the breed of salmon has for years depended upon the accident of exces- sive floods. It was the aim of the act to correct this abuse, and to restore that highway to the fish that nature intended the rivers should afford, so that in those ascents and descents necessary for their breeding operations they should have free access to and egress from every portion of the river. The fish- pass, or ladder, invented by Mr Smith, of Deanston, has enabled us to open such a way for the fish on any river, how- tver many weirs there may be upon it, and provisions of the act that are most wise and sufficient give us powers to make use of that invention. It may be convenient to refer to them in detail, as many questions respecting them continue to be referred to us. By sec 27, every fishing weir that extends more than half way across any stream at low water shall have a free gap of not less than one- tenth part of the breadth of the river. By sec 12, no fishing mill- dam shall be used for catching salmon, unless it have a fish- pass attached, of such form and dimensions as the Home Office may approve, nor unless it has such a flow of water constantly running through it as will enable salmon to pass up and down. By sec 23. any proprietor of a fishery may, with the consent of the Home Office, attach a fish- pass to any existing dam. By sec 25, any person constructing a new dam, or altering an old dam, must attach a fish- pass to it. The construction, by the owners, of free gaps in fishing rivers, and of fish- passes in fishing mill- dairs, and in new mill- dams, is imperative; in existent simple dams the passes may be put up at the expense of any proprietor, or proprietors, who may obtain the consent of the Home Office. Some ladders have been already erected ; but last season was a peculiarly wet one, and the constant floods rendered any tamper- ing with weirs difficult and dangerous. We cannot too strongly impress upon proprietors the necessity for opening as extensive a field to the breeding fish as the natural character of the rivers will permit. No loss of water, moreover, is exacted from the mill- owners to render such ladders effectual; and the sooner they are erected, the more generally and effectually will the restoration of the salmon fisheries be accomplished. A certain outlay must, no doubt. be incurred in the first instance, but this outlay will be a most profitable investment; under the old system of monopoly in fishing matters which prevailed before the act of 1861 was passed, when, at the mouth of nearly every river, a fishing weir or fishing mill- dam enabled the proprietor to reap the whole produce of the river, it could not be expected that the upper proprietors would incur any expense for the improvement of fisheries from which they received no benefit. But now, as just stated, a free gap is prescribed by law through all fishing weirs ; a fish- pass, sufficient to permit the constant ascent and descent of fish, is required to be attached to fishing mill- dams, and, in addition, a weekly close season is provided equal to nearly seven days in the calendar month during which a free run shall be given through every crib, box, or cruive, whether used for the purpose of fishing or not. The monopoly, therefore, no longer exists. The law has placed within reach of the proprietors the improve- ment and development of their property. In order to do so, it has dealt peremptorily with the prevailing methods of fishing, which, though they were, without doubt, great abuses, had that sanction which long usage confers. It has imposed restrictions also upon the public fishing on their common law right; and per- haps it is not too much to expect from the proprietors that they will put a law in force that has been passed, it is true, for the public benefit, but from which they will derive the great private advantage. 2. THE USE OF FIXED ENGINES. The Uth section of the act declares that no fixed engine of any description shall be placed or used for the capture of salmon in any inland or tidal waters ; but this section shall not affect any ancient right or mode of fishing as lawfully exercised at the time of the passing of the act, by virtue of any grant, charter, or imme- morial usage. In consequence of the very deteriorated state of the English fisheries, a condition which the fixed engines on the coast, and the fishing weirs and fishing mill- dams had much contributed to bring about, there were not many of the more expensive and de- structive kind, known as stake or Scotch weirs, exercised at the time of the passing of the act; and as these engines are of com- paratively modern invention, only two attempts have been made by persons employing them to resist the law and continue their use. Those cases were at the Duddon and the Conway. On the Severn some prosecutions were instituted respecting the erection of new ranks of putts and putchers, and an interpretation has been given to the proviso already quoted, which we believe to be erroneous. But if the decision of the bench be correct, the earliest opportunity should be taken of amending the section. The Legislature, in prohibiting all fixed engines and exempting such ancient rights or mudes as were exercised at the time of the passing of the act, could not have intended to allow such modes to be multiplied indefinitely, to increase as the fisheries increase, and to render useless any efforts to preserve the rivers made by the rest of the proprietors. Fixed engines, in inland waters, as we have shown, are so dealt with that they can be no longer destructive to the fisheries. 3. DEFECTIVE REGULATIONS OF FENCE TIMES OK CLOSE SEASONS. The close time varied in the English rivers to such an extent that in one river or another fishing was permitted throughout the year. In the two Avons, for instance, at no great distance apart, the fishing commenced in the one a fortnight before it ended on the other. In the Hampshire Avon, fishing commenced on 1st January. In the Devonshire Avon, fishing closed on 15th January. The great difficulty that the want of an uniform close season, has thrown in the way of the preservation and increase of salmon, has lately made itself so conspicuous, even where the variation oc- curs in rivers of different countries, that it wilj be readily under- stood how great the evil was when that variation prevailed in nearly every two neighbouring counties, so that even in the same river fishing on one bank wasclosed when it was legal on the other. The fish will enter some rivers earlier than others, but in all they will begin to go out of condition much about the same time; and when they are out of condition they are not only more or less unfit forfood, but, sluggish and heavy, they frequent the shallower portions of the rivers, or congregate obstinately at the foot of some barrier that opposes their progress to the spawning beds, and thus when their state renders them easy to take, their instincts collect them in portions of the river which facilitate their capture. The effect, therefore, of a late close season upon such rivers as the Avon already mentioned, the Tainar, which olosedon the 15th December, the Taw and Torridge on Oct 20, the Towy and Teifi Nov 1, and the Dovey Dec 14, was, that a far larger proportion of fish were captured than the stock of those rivers could afford, and that the fish were killed in other rivers when the close season had commenced, and sold, should any questions be asked, as the pro- duce of any one of such rivers as were open. But, in fixing the close season, more consideration, perhaps, should be given to the amount of fishing that a river can sustain than to the condition of the fish, for there are very few rivers, if any, in which the year's harvest cannot be, and is not, reaped be- fore the fish begin to deteriorate. This is fully understood in Scotland, which country, from the extent and the value of its fisheries, and the legislative care that has always been bestowed upon them, must be considered as a great authority in such matters ; and in the aot of 1862, for the regu- lation of the salmon fisheries of Scotland, power is given to the commission on which we serve to determine at what dates the annual close time for every district shall commence and ter- minate ; but the number of days during which such close time shall continue is most wisely extended to 168. The act of 1861 remedied the variation within its jurisdiction by imposing one uniform close time, commencing on 1st September and ending 1st February, upon all engines, save rod and line, used for the capture of salmon ; and, following out the policy which caused the entire prohibition of certain engines as wasteful in their metuod, and consequently as too destructive and mo- nopolising in their character, it further prohibited any fishing, save by rod and line, from Saturday, at noon, to Monday, at six a. m. The use of rods is permitted until 1st November, on the grounds that the number of fish taken by them cannot injure the stock of a river, and that the co- operation of the upper proprietors, irrespective of their undoubted right to a share of the fish, is cheaply purchased at the price of such a concession. Power is given to the Home Office by sec 18 " to extend or vary the time during which it is prohibited to take salmon," but in no instance as yet has the required application that the Home Office should do so been made. The uniformity of the close season period has been a great boon to England, and it would be well for the fisheries of the three countries if, in this respect, there was less vaiiation. At present, no fish caught ta England can be sold in England between the 3d of September and the 1st of February, whilst Irish fish can be sold until the 15th Oct and on the 1st ot January. In Scotland the regulations are not complete, and from the Tweed the fish can be sold till the 14th September. The ionsequence of the open season, with sale permitted, being extended in Ireland to so late a date as the 15th of October, and commencing again on the 1st of January, has been that numbers of salmon killed in England and Scotland have been sold as Irish fish; and it may be said that no one river can be opened in the United Kingdom with- out causing more or less injury to the others. There is no poaching more destructive and more common than that car- ried on during the close season, and the only manner in which it can be thoroughly checked is by closing the market. As long as one river is open in either of the three countries this cannot be done. J Public attention has been much called to this question, and to the evil that has been occasioned by the Paris market remain- ing open during the close season. The effect has been felt on too many rivers, and such a stimulus been given to poaching that they have severely suffered. From the Tweed we hear that £ 1,100 has been spent in preservation this year; and, notwithstanding the large number of keepers that such a sum implies, there have been 78 convictions during the last close season, and, so profitable has the trade been, that in 51 cases the fine was paid ; and as by the Tweed Aet minimum penalties are enforced for close season offences, those fines were not trifling. The foreign market, how- ever, will now, we hope, be closed, as a bill has been prepared to prohibit the exportation of fish during the close season, and we are glad to hear that it is the intention of the French Government to introduce a law for the protection of the breeding of salmon in France ; and if that law is founded, as we have reason to believe, upon the experience of the working of the Fishery Acts of this country, there can be little doubt but that it will throw increased difficulties upon the importation. The foreign market then will be closed ; and, if greater uniformity were observed in the close season of the three countries, all that could be done and all that is necessary to be done in the way of legislation on the subject will be accomplished. An earlier supply of fish has already been obtained from many of the rivers of England ; and the regulations with respect to the weekly close season have permitted a greater distribution of the fish throughout the length of the rivers, and thereby obtained for the act support from many who would otherwise have submitted very unreadily to the restrictions imposed in other ways upon their methods of fishing. The inspectors, in their summary, then proceed to review the other causes of the falling- off in therivers, butwantof space prevents our laying their remarks before our readers this week. We there- fore postpone them till our next. It is our intention, from time to time, to give extracts from such other portions of their report as may be interesting to our readers. CRICKET IN S0N0RA. H. M. S. CLIO v H. M. S. TRIBUNE. DEAR BELL: " Am I right, or any other woman," in troubling you with such an insignificant account of the national gamer Do I see my contribution to the sheets of that " ever watchful eye'' at once consigned to the waste paper basket, or shall it be told in Gath— i. e., Old England ( for whose sons are stronger?)— that my children occasionally " handle the willow and trundle the ball." I'll try it, at all events. Be it known unto you, illus- trious Bell, that on the 3d of January, my boys and the represen- tatives of the Roman swell ( did they sport Dundrearys in the Forum ?) played a match at Guaymas, the most northern port on the west coast of Mexico, ere they separated, the former " home- ward bound," and the latter remaining as senior officer's ship on that part of the station. No turf was forthcoming, so on dry mud the wickets were pitched at 2 p. m., and as my captain had the misfortune to guess incorrectly whilst the eventful coin was spinning in the air, he had to make eut his " list for places," the Tribunes taking the field; but, mind you, they mustered nine to our eight Two Davieses got together, and refused to be separated until a miscalculation was made t> 3" one, and, of course, he was run out. Bargeant, 8hewell, and Thompson did good service for their side; but as I put my finger to the side of my nasal pro- montory, and exclaim* d, " Steady, Clios, steady!" we ran them to earth, two runs behind us. It is but fair to add that " wides* and " no balls" were not counted. The ground, I beg to state, was honoured by the presence of our respective captains. Now, don't be hard upon me, Bella mia, but tell them at home we don't forget cricket, read with intense interest the doings of Carpenter and Hayward, and dear Old Tom ( how's that?), through the medium of your wide- spreading columns.— Yours, & c, CLIO. H. M. S. CLIO. Lieut Grimston, run out 1 Lieut Da vies, run out 17 Lieut Barrow, run out 1 Lieut Davis Welch, c Shewell, b Sargeant 20 R. Hoskins, b Thompson 5 J. Buckner, c and b Thompson.. 0 W. Macklen, not out 5 J. Martin, b Thompson 0 Byes 13 Total. .02 .. 8 .. 0 .. IS ... 11 H. M. S. TRIBUNE. RevF. Nichol, b Hoskins Lieut Yorke, b Welch .... Lieut Sargeant, b Hoskins Lieut Shewell, b Welch. Lieut Thompson, b Welch 15 A. Moore, not out 6 B. Moore, b Hoskins 8 Thomas, b Hoskins 1 Hulton, c Buckner, b Hoskins .. 2 Byes 6 Total, CRICKET. ALL ENGLAND ELEVEN. MAT 4, Falneck, Leeds— v 22 of Pudsev and district. MAY 11, Sheffield— v 18 of Sheffield ( W. Slinn's benefit). MAY 14, Glasgow— v 22 of Clydesdale Club. MAY 18, Berkenshaw, near Leeds— v 22. MAY 21, Manchester, Old Trafford— North v South. MAY 25, lord's— v United ( benefit of Cricketers' Fund). MAY 28, Bath— v 22. JUNE 1, Halifax— v 22 of the district. JUNE 4, Old Traflord— y 16 of Manchester ( with two professionals). JUNE 8, Southampton— v 22 of Union Club. JUNE 15, Dewsbury— v 22. JUNE 18, Broughton— v 20. JUNE 25. Uedditch— V 22. JULY 2. Morley— V 22. JULY 16, Hackwood Park— V 22 of Basingstoke. JULY 27, Walsall— V 22. JULY 80. Longsight— V 20. AUG 3, Boston Spa— V 22 of Boston Spa. Acq 6, Ashton- under- Lyne— v 22. AUG 17, Lawton Hall— V 22 of Cheshire. Arc 20, Harrogate— V 22. AUG 24, Scarborough— V 22 of the district. AUG 27, Liverpool— North v South. UNITED ALL ENGLAND. MAY 14, Gomersal, near Leeds— v 22. MAY 18, Southsca— v 22 of East Hants. MAY 25, Lords— v All England ( for the Cricketers' Fund). MAY 28, Oxford— v 20 of Christ Church College. JUNE 1. Ealing— v 20 ( with two bowlers). JUNE 8. Seaforth— v 20 of the Northern Club ( with two bowlers). AUGUST 6, Southgate— v J. Walker's 16. AUGUST 10, Otlev, Yorkshire— v 22. AUGUST 13, Southampton— v 22 Gentlemen of Hampshire. AUGUST 24, Hastings— V 22. AUGUST 31, Newport, Isle of Wight— v 22 of the island. COUNTY OF KENT MATCHES, MAY 28, Oval— Kent Colts v Surrey Colts ( under 25). JUNE 11, Nottingham— Kent v Notts. JUNE 22, Tonbrldge Wells— Kent v Surrey. JUNE 2\ Brighton— Kent v Sussex. JULY 16, Oval— Kent v Surrey— return. JULY 23, Cranbrook— Kent v Notts— return. GEORGE PARR AND THE SURREY CLUB. Radcliffe on Trent, March 11th, 1863. MR EDITOR: If the remarks made in your paper of Sunday last from Mr W. Burrup were in accordance with the truth, I should not have troubled you or your readers with any further observations, but, in justice to myself and friends, I must trouble you a little more. With reference, then, to the match " Surrey v England and the Canterbury Week,'' and Mr Burrnp's desire to rectify the error so soon as he discovered it, I can only say that his statement is wrong, and, in support of this assertion, I send you a copy of the letter I received from that gentleman on the occasion in question:— " Surrey Ground, Feb 15th, 1862. " DEAR PARR : In my last to you I stated that the M. C. C. had fixed the Kent v England at Canterbury. I have written to them on the subject, stating that my match had been fixed for the last two months, and that the principal men were engaged both on the England side as well as the Surrey, and that as we held six Surrey men who more or less play in those matches, they cer- tainly would not be allowed to be absent from the Surrey Ground on Monday, 11th Aug. They have replied to my note, asking me to change the days here from the 11th to the 18th and 21st for Broughton, Surrey v North. That we cannot do, inasmuch as you have prepared a series of England matches so as not to inter- fere with us. My object, therefore, in writing to you is to ask you to stand by the engagement I made two months auo to play here in the match Surrey v England on the 11th Aug. It has been our custom for the last three years to fix our matches early, and to engage for such players like yourself. Daft, Hayward. Carpenter, Jackson, and others, and I feel satisfied you will not desert us on this occasion. Cricket now requires attention and energy, and we cannot wait for the M. C. C. matches at the end of January. I shall, therefore, feel obliged if you will send me word by return of post that you consider I have, on behalf of Surrey, engaged you, so that I may be prepared to back up what we intend to carry out. I have written to all the others in the same spirit, as we are " deter- mined to maintain our position of carrying out the programme wc have advertised. Waiting your replv. believe me, yours truly, W. BURRUP, Hon Sec." A perusal of this. I think, will satisfy your readers, if it does not Mr Burrup, that he had no intention of rectifying the error if he could have got the players with him— to say nothing of the secre- tary of the 8urrey Club being in ignorance of the Canterbury week, which is, so far as cricket is concerned, quite a time- honoured institution, and remaining in ignorance for two months, as he stated in a letter published by him last month. As to his statement why I discontinued my visits to the Surrey Ground, they are many, and certainly amongst them may be numbered the unfair manner with which I was treated by that gentleman in the early arrangements with Mr Mallam, to which he alludes. The Surrey counsels prevailed with Mr Mallam, and I was thrown out. My great offence with Mr Burrup, and the fierce onslaught I made at Mr Mallam's dinner to the players at Man- chester, to which Mr Burrup refers, was simply a suggestion to him to send out to Australia all Surrey players. If I had con- sidered that I had been fairly dealt with in other matters, I should not have kfpt away from the Oval on that ground. It is true I have played there since that period, and should have con tinued to have done so if I had not discovered that Mr Burrup took every opportunity of declaiming against my professional abilities and conduct, though at the same time he was writing to me in apparently the most friendly manner. As to my marring the arrangements of the Surrey Club, I have no such intention, except so far as they interfere with my professional cricket en- gagements. As I do not choose to play at the Oval, the public will not be surprised to learn that I am making arrangements to play elsewhere. With respect to the other parts of Mr Burrup's long letter, I have not time to answer them, and if I had it would scarcely interest your readers.— Yours, & c, GEORGE PARR. CHELTENHAM COLLEGE v MR ECCLES'S ( DUFFERS). This, the first match of the season, was played on March 4, and resulted in an easy victorv for the College, Mr Cooper being the only Duffer who could make any stand against the bowling of Messrs Cotton and Croker. For the College, Messrs J. R. Ro- bertson, Bramwell. and Duncan played good innings. Lilly- white, owing to his arm not having recovered its last year's accident, wns only able to bowl part of the innings. Score : THE DUFFERS. 1st inn 2d inn B. Cooper, c Bramwell, 1) Cotton 17 b Croker 3 W. Turnbull, c Laurie, b Cotton 10 c Laurie, b Cotton 0 W. Coningham. b Cotton 0 st Smyth, b Cotton 2 A. Tickell, b Cotton 0 b Cotton 0 C. V. Eccles, b Crotter 3 c and b Cotton 1 G. H. Kemoe. b Croker 0 not out Steuart, c Robertson, b Croker 2 Brindlev. absent 0 H. Marshall, run out 0 J. English, not out 9 J. Lillvwhite, legb w, b Cotton 0 Wide ball 1 Total bCroker 5 c Beid, b Cotton 1 cCameron, bCotton ... 8 c Reid. b Croker 1 c and b Croker 13 B1, w b 1 2 13 Total — 42 CHESS. CHESS PROBLEM. No. 390. By M. Berlin, of Lisle. BLACK. JJf § § § § ill WM. Si • m Jjjj IP § § § U Hi § § j a HP • i 1i IP A H mm, m • ii • j § § § § j jj • III • • 1 m WHITE. White to play, and mate in four moves. Game between Herr Kohte Kohte. Eynatten. 1. K P 2 2. K Kt B 3 3. K B Q B 4 4. Q Kt P 2 5. Castles 6. Q B P1 7. Q P2 8. PXP 9. P Q5 10. Q B Kt 2 U. BXKt K P 2 QKtBS Same BXKt P QP1 BQB4 PXP B QKt3 Q Kt K 2 ( a) K Kt B 3 PXB ( a) Very bad move. Should pli ( b) Thinking about checking K ( c) Rather play Q Kt P 2. and Herr Eynatten, in Holland. Kohte. Eynatten. 12. Q Kt B 3 Q B Kt 5 13. Q Kt I{ 4 BXKt 14. QXB BQ5 15. Q It Q B K 4 16. Q Q 3 Q Q 2 17. QltXKt( b) QBP1 18. K B P 2 Q B P 1 ( c) 19. PXB Castles Q F 20. PXP QXP 21. QXP+, and wins. home, or to Q R 4. and Q, if QXKt. Game between Anderssen and Dupree, recently, in Rotterdam Club. Anderssen. 1. KP2 2. QP2 3. PXP 4. K Kt B' 3 5. K B Q 3 6. Castles 7. Q Kt B 3 8. K R K 9. KtXP 10. Q B P 2 11. PXKt 12. Q B K 3 13. B Q B 2 14. Kt K5 15. PXKt 16. KBP2 17. K Kt P 2 18. K 14 P 2 19. P K KtS 20. PXP 21. K K B2 22. R K R Duprfee. KPl QP2 PXP K B Q 3 Q Kt B 3 Q B K 3 K R PI K Kt B 3 KtXKt Castles QBXP K B P 2 O KB3 KtXKt QXP QK3 QBP1 QRK PXP Q K Kt 3 K K B 2 R K R Anderssen. 23. B Q Kt 3 24. P Kt 6+ 25. BXB+ 26. QXP+ 27. QXKt P+ 28. QKB3 29. Q R K 30. R K R 7 31. 14 K 2 32. Q Q 5+ 33. liXKtP+( a) 34. B Q 4+ 35. BXB- t- 30. Q K R 37. R K 3 38. PXR 39. Q K R 7+ 40. Q K Kt 6+ 41. Q K 147+ Duprfee. Q K 3 QXP PXB Q" K 3 QRK2 KRK Q K li 3 QXP+ QKB3 Q K 3 KXR B K 4 K K B2 Q Q Kt 3+ ( b) RXB RXP K K 3 K Q 4 KQ5 42. QKKt7, wins; because you can advance K to B 3 and B 4. ( a) Mark the master hand all through this. ( b) Dupree makes a fine defence, but Anderssen has the position. THE COLLEGE, J. R. Robertson, b Lillywhite .. 37 J. C. Robertson, c Eccles, b Lil- lywhite 4 R. T. Reid, c Turnbull, b Eccles 2 R. Cotton, b Eccles 2 W. H. Croker, c English. bRccles 2 A. Duncan, c Brindley, bTickeI1.. 25 fi, Cameron, c Marehall. bEcclea 6 B. Bramwell, not out 11 A. lliggins, c Tickell, b Steuart 3 E. Smyth, b Eccles 10 W. Laurie, st Cooper, b Steuart.. 2 B 2, w b 3, n b 1 6 Total ... uo CHRIST COLLEGE ( CAMBRIDGE) ATHLETIC SPORTS. These sports came off on Fenner's Ground, Feb 24, as follows:-— Hurdle Race, 200 yards, J. Fleming 1, R. Irving 2 ; time, 28sec.— Long jump, G. D. Owen 1, R. Irving 2; distance, 18ft 2in.— Putting the weight, J. W. Cartmell 1; distance, 30ft lin.— 100 yards race, G. D. Owen 1, W. Coplestone2; time, ll| seo.— Throwing the cricket ball, G. D. Owen 1, distance. 99yds 2ft.— High jump ( standing), G. D. Owen 1; height, 4ft 2in.— Quarter • f a mile race, R. Irving 1, W. P. Oldham 2; time, 64sec.— High jump with pole, 8. D. Owen and W. Bell 1; height, 8ft 3in.— High jump ( running), J. Fleming 1; height, 4ft lOin.— Mile race, W. G. Rigden 1; time, 5min 15sec.— Trowser race, 100 yards, T. F. Fowler and J. Fleming 1, G. D. Owen and W. Bell 2; time, 19| sec.— Consolation race, 200 yards, W. Copleston 1, W. P. Old- ham, 2; time, 25sec.— Strangers'race, quarter of a mile, Wayne ( Trinity) 1, Frost ( Jesus) 2; time, 59sec. HENLEY- ON- THAMES ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ATHLETIC SPORTS. These annual games were celebrated on Tuesday, March 10, with great eclat, for when it was decided that the day should be that of the prince's marriage, it was determined to impart to it additional festivity. Circulars were accordingly issued, inviting old pupils and the relations and friends of present ones, as well as the gentry of the town and neighbourhood. A band of music was engaged, handsome new flags were prepared, appropriate to the day, the cricket ground was levelled, and a tent purchased for the use of the school on this and similar occasions. The entries in the different stakes ( 35 in number) amounted to 340, 36 in ex cess of last year's. The Steeple Chase and Mile Walking Race had been previously decided, the former, in which there were nearly 20 ( principally water) jumps, was run very fast by the first- clats, and in it, as also in the second, several got a good ducking in the brooks and drains. Tuesday was in every respect the right day for the right occasion, sunny, but just that bracing wea- ther which is best suited for active exercises. The proceedings of the day commenced by the cadet corps firing off volleys. The school warren was gaily decked out with flags, tents, & c, and, until the ladies were called away in the latter part of the after noon to preside over the tea given to the children of the town in honour of the day, was filled with ladies and gentlemen, in- cluding the elite of the town and neighbourhood, who had not been tempted away to Windsor or London. The sports went off well, especially the longer flat races, the high, wide, and high pole jump, but all were creditable ( and generally closely con- tested) except the throwing at the wicket, which, from want of practice, was rather wide. When the oricket season begins, the eleven intend to improve it, and to that end will be glad to receive challenges for matches with clubs of about equal strength, as well as to meet on the half- holidays elevens from the neighbourhood. Of those who distinguished themselves, where many did well, Stevens, Sparrow, and Day; Salmon and Coles in the middle division, and Down and 8. Burn in the lower classes, deserve special mention. The day closed with the presentation of the prizes, and a supper, at which Dr Morrell, Coadjutor Bishop of Edinburgh, was a guest, under the presidency of the Head Master, which made a good termination to theday's proceedings. The following is the list of the prizes and winners:— Steeple Chase: Class 1, one mile and a half, 12 entries, first prize a cane- handled bat, second a walking cane. Stevens 1, Raxworthy 2; Class 2, under oft 5in, one mile and a quarter, 11 entries, first prize a set of boxing gloves, second a sporting knife, Salmon 1, H. Kinch 2.— Walking: one mile, 13 entries, first prize a telescope, second a sporting knife, Raxworthy 1, W. Godby 2 — Flat Races: Class 1, half a mile, 11 entries, a set of boxii. g gloves, Stevens I; Class 2, under oft 3in, 440 yards, 7 entries, a hunting knife, Coles 1; Class 3, under 4ft lOin, 300yards, 11 entries, set of lines, Down 1.— Vaulting: Class 1. 7 entries, hunting crop, Robinson ( 3) 1; Class 2, under 5ft 5in. 8 entries, dog whip, H. Kinch 1.— Throw- ing at Wicket: Class 1, 17 entries, batting gloves, O. Brooks I; Class 2, under 14, 13 entries, bat, W. Pickering 1.— Wide Jump : Class 1, running, 13 entries, gold pin, Sparrow 1 ; standing, gold sleeve links, Day 1; Class 2, under 5ft 3in, or 15, 9 entries, rod, Coles 1; Class 3, under 4ft 9in, 16 entries, first whip, second knife, S. Sharp 1, Down 2.— High Pole Jump: Class 1, 10 entries, powder flask, Sparrow 1; extra, rod Robinson 1 ; Class 2, under 5ft. 3in, 7 entries, whip, Alexander.— Flat Races: Class 1, 200 yards, 11 entries, walking cane, W. Godby, 1 ; Class 2. under 5ft 5in, 150 yards, 12 entries, match bat, Salmon 1 ; Class 3, under 4ft lOin, 120 yards, 16 entries, first prize sporting knife, second prize flask, 8. Burn 1, Barlow 2 ; Class 4, under 4ft 6in, 100 yards, 9 entries, set of lines, C. Cripps, 1.— High Jump: Class 1, 4 entries, hunting knife, Day ( 2) 1 ; Class 2, under 15, 9 entries, sporting knife, Dane 1; Class 3. under 13, 12 entries, hunting crop, Barlow, 1.— Hurdle Race: Class 1,150 yards, 9 entries, shot pouch and belt, Day, 1; Class 2, under 15, 150 yards, 9 entries, flask, Dane, I ; Class 3, under 4ft lOin, 150 yards, 19 entries, first prize bat, second prize rod, Ward 1, S. Sharp 2.— Throwing Cricket Ball r Class 1, 8 entries, match bat, Sparrow 1; Class 2, under 14, 8 entries, rod, W. Harris 1. — Flat Race: 440 yards, 14 entries, fly rod, C. Lucas 1.— Consola- tion Stakes ( Handicap) 200 yards: Class 1, first prize flask, second prize, knife, Powys 1, Cooper 2 ; Class 2, under 13, first prize sporting knife, H. Brooks 1; second prize, flask, P. Picker- 1; Class 3, hunting crop. Fane 1.— Visitors' Stakes : Class 1 did not fill; Class 2, silver pencil case, E. Young.— Sack Races: 60 yards, 35 entries, Class 1, sporting knife, Raxworthy 1; Class 2, flask, Cook 1; Class 3, knife, C. Cripps 1. KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY- PRIVATE ATHLETIC SPORTS. A numerous and fashionable party were assembled on] the afternoon of March 10 to witness these games, which came off in the following order:— Senior One Mile Flat; eight entries: J. Horsley 1, Barnard 2.— Junior 220 Yards Flat; seven entries: Gardner, minor, 1, Buchanan 2.— Senior 220 Yards, Hurdles; eleven entries: Browne 1, Fowler, max, 2.— Junior 440 Yards Flat; eight entries: Smith, minor, 1, Marten, major, 2.— Two Miles Walking; five entries: Dundas ( 150 yards start) 1, J. Horsley ( scratch) 2, 8. Horsley ( 20) 3.— Pole leaping, five entries: Cannon ( 8ft 2in) 1, W. Horsley 2.— Long Jump; eight entries: Cannon ( 14^ ft) 1, W. Horsley 2.— Junior One Mile; eleven entries: D. Fowler 1, G. Du Boulay 2.— Senior 440 Yards; eleven entries: Corbett I, Stephenson 2.— Sack Race; eighteen entries: Smith, major, 1; Haycock, minor, 2; Hales, minor, 3.— Hopping, 50 Yards; five entries; Corbett 1, Stephenson 2.— Blind- fold Pick- a- Back; five entries: Corbett 1, Browne 2.— Consola- tion Race: Gardner, major, 1; Hales, major, 2; C. Fowler3. The prizes were then distributed by the Hon D. Finch, and th © company dispersed very well satisfied with their afternoon's en- tertainment. AQUATICS. VANBERBECKEN'S LOG.- No. 5. *• The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterra- nean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world— the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our relltfon, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almoss all that sets us above Bavages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean."— Da JOHNSON. MR EDITOR • Not to have accomplished the teur of the Mediter- ranean and stood upon Italian soil, according to the celebrated Samuel Johnson, leaves a man open to a consciousness of infe- riority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. Acting upon the great lexicographer's maxim our yachts- men seem determined not to leave a gulf, bay, or creek of the classic sea unexplored, and of late years the burgees of our royal clubs have flown there as plentifully as ever they do during the height of the season in the Solent or the St George's Channel. Perhaps never has there been such a splendid fleet of yachts through the Btraits of Gibraltar as durirg the season of ' 62, amongst them some of the finest vessels of our squadrons, manned by the flower of our seamen, and fitted out and handled in a style that has acquired for them abroad the designation of English private ships of war. An example has been set to our French neighbours that they have not been slow in fol- lowing, and yacht clubs are now being formed, the leading one of which appears to be the Societe des Regattas de Citrines, of • which the Due de Vallombrose has been elected president. The noble French Commodore seems to be enthusiastic in the cause of yachting, and, with his vessel, the Fantaisie, spares no exertion in promoting it. Marseilles and the bays « f Hyeres and de la Napoule, at a distance of about sixty miles apart, have been fixed upon as the great yachting rendezvous, and at Cannes a palatial club house is about to be erected on the shores of the bay, that will rival, if not surpass, any of the beautiful structures we so much pride ourselves upon at home. Furthermore, to inaugurate the building of this club house, and, as a proof of future exertions, a grand regatta is fixed to be held there on the 6th and 7th April, at which there will, no doubt, be a large attendance of our English yachts, to the owners of which a hearty welcome has been accorded, and a tempting programme of prizes will be offered. I have been informed that the impetus given by these proceedings to yacht building upon the French shores of the Mediterranean is already felt; and not only will the local naval architects feel the benefit, but the more ambitious of the French yachtsmen have determined to enlist the skill of our home builders in enabling them to compete with the crack yachts- men of England. We have carried the sports of the Turf into France, and the euthusiasm with which they have been supported leads us to look forward to a French Yarborough and a gallic Cowes. The following will be found a tolerably correct list of the English yachts that made their numbers in the Mediterranean during the season:— The Leonora, schooner, 116 tons, R. B. Hesketh, Esq, sailed from Southampton on Thursday, Jan 2, had a splendid passage across the bay, calling at Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malaga, Mahon, Island of Minorca, Ajaccio, Island of Corsica, Malta, & c, and was homeward bound in May for the matches in the Thames and Solent. The lone, schooner, 129 tons, R. Blanshard, sailed for Lis- bon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malaga, Algiers, thence across to Sardinia, for the Gulf of Cagliari, southward again for the Gulf of Tunis, from whence she sailed for Malta, and arrived back at Lymington on the luth of August. The Derwent, schooner, Colonel Talbot Clifton, was cruising through the Mediterranean in the early part of t! ie year, and arrived at Cowes in May. The Beatrix, schooner, 127 tons, Earl of Durham, was at Civita Vecohia, and cruising on the coasts of the Roman States early in the year. The Gleam, schooner, 140 tons, sailed for the coast; of France and the Ciiamiel Islands in April, was exploring the intricacies of the Gielte Fiord, on her way to Bergen, where she arrived on the 5th of June, after a passage of 27 hours from the north of Scotland ; returning from thence, she again left Cowes, on the 28th October, bound south, calling at Lisbon and Gibraltar; sailed from the latter for Malta, from whence she proceeded to the Ionian Islands, arriving there in December. The Fairy Queen, schooner, 70 tons, L. H. Powys, Esq, was cruising in the Mediterranean in May. The Plover, yawl, 70 tons, Colonel Brown, was at Civita Vecchia in May, and arrived at Cowes from Cherbourg early in July. The Albertine, schooner, 1- 56 tons, Lord Londesborough. was cruising in the Mediterranean, and homeward bound in May. The Cecile, schooner, 190 tons, Marquis of Drogheda, was cruising in the Mediterranean, and arrived from Gibraltar in July. The Albatross, schooner, 110 tons, Thomas Brassey, Esq, jun, was cruising in the Mediterranean in the Spring, and arrived home from Vigo in July. The Sylphide, ship, 481 tons, Marquis of Downshire, sailed for the Gulf of Lyons and the French coasts of the Mediterranean in July. The Flirt, schooner, 155 tons, Sir Percy T. Shelley, Bart, sailed for the Mediterranean cruise on the 25th August. The Julia, yawl, 122 tons, G. Fielder, Esq, ar- rived at Cadiz, November the 9th, bound for Mediterranean ports. The Doris, G. B. Fawcett, Esq, was at the island of Guernsey, Nov 4, bound upon a Mediterranean cruise. The Maraquita, schooner, 125 tons, Capt G. M. Goad, sailed for the Mediterranean the first week in November, touched at Cadiz and Gibraltar, and was at Port Mahon, Minorca, in Dec. Egidia, schooner, 137 tons, Lord Rendlesham, reported bound for the Mediterranean in Nov. Zoe, schooner, 161 tons, P. O. Powys, Esq, M. P., arrived at Gibraltar, Nov 25, from Southampton, bound for the Mediter- ranean. The Iolanthe, schooner, 83 tons, Harry Bridson, Esq, sailed from Southampton in Nov, and made one of the finest pas- sages on record to Gibraltar in five days twenty- one hours; having made the land at night, sail was shortened until daylight, other- wise she would have saved six hours. She had a strong gale from B. W. off Cape St Vincent, but proved herself a splendid sea boat. Upon arriving at the New Mole, Gibraltar, there were lying there the Zoe, P. L. Powys, bound for Malaga; the Ceres, screw schooner, Earl Brownlow, bound for Madeira; the Erminia, and the Doris, yawl. She sailed from Gibraltar for Malaga and Algiers, and left the latter port on Jan 27, bound eastward. The Hornet, schooner, 209 tons, T. E. Moss, was at Gibraltar in November, bound up the Gulf of Lyons. The Undine, screw schooner, 356 tons, Duke of Sutherland, sailed from the Thames on Dec 2 for Marseilles and other ports in the Mediterranean. The Daphne, schooner, 140 tons, R. Hall Say, sailed for Mediterranean in December. The Pilgrim, schooner, 135 tons, Duke of St Albans, arrived at Malta on Dec 7 in five days from Algiers, and sailed for Rome. The Brunette, cutter, 70 tons, J. P. Ellames, made a fine run of sixteen days from Cowes to Malta ; she sailed from Malta on Dec 11, and arrived at Corfu on the 14th, where she found the Gleam, J. Richardson; Columbine, L. Fort; Camilla, J Broad- wood ; the Fidelio ; and the Lark, — Guest. The Brunette was becalmed during the first 24 hours from Malta ; she then expe- rienced very heavy squalls and gales, calms alternating during the - remainder of the passage. As the lovers of the trigger amongst yachtsmen may take an interest in the sport to be had in Calabria, I insert here a yacht's game bag for four days at Butrinto, about ten miles from Corfu:— 57 wood- cock, 32 snipe, 10 teal, 15 wild duck, 9 plover, and 1 quail; and amongst the sundries, one kite, an owl, a fox, a falcon, a grebe, a red- shank, and a coot. Butrinto is considered to be too near the garrison of Corfu for good sport. The Georgian, schooner, 180 tons, F. Baird, Esq., was at Valetta, from Tunis, on the 18th of December. And, to sum up our Mediterranean cruisers of 1862, may be added the Eclipse, 210 tons, Lord Sefton; Eva, 130 tons, A. Kavanagh, Esq; Lavrock, yawl, 72 tons, Captain Norris; and the Claymore, 130 tons, J Harvey, Esq. Of yachts that have been cruising in other latitudes, the Chance schooner, W. Walker, Esq, Commodore Australian Yacht Squadron, takes pre- eminence, as having performed the longest passage, namely, from Cowes to Australia, the log of which having appeared in detail in these columns in November last, it is unnecessary to repeat any par- ticulars. The Chance, in the hands of Mr Richardson, now of the Circe, had achieved a renown before leaving our waters similar to that enjoyed by the America and Wildfire, viz, that she had suc- cessfully engaged and defeated clipper cutters, and the best clip- per schooners that could be pitted against her. It will prove rather a difficult task to match her in the waters of Port Jackson. The Themis, schooner, 140 tons, Thomas B. Hanham, Esq, sailed for Madeira in February, was at Gibraltar early in July, and arrived at Weymouth on the 13th of that month, after a passage of eleven days from the " Rock." She was reported at Falmonth on the 10th of December, bound for Gibraltar, Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Melbourne, New Zealand, Ta- hiti, and home round the Horn, calling at Rio Janeiro, but it appears that she did not sail until Feb 8, 1863. The log of this cruise will be replete with interest, and we shall look forward anxiously for her safe return from a fast and pleasant voyage round the globe, and the appearance of her chronicles in the Pacific. Zoraide, schooner, 140 tons, W. J. Pawson, was cruising off Dunkirk and Boulogne in May, sailed for Amsterdam on June 10, thence to Hamburg, and home on the 22d of same month. The Viking, schooner, 144 tons, Col Sir A. C Stirling, K. C. B., was at Cherbourg and Hamburg in June. The Freak, yawl, F- P. Delme Ratcliffe, sailed for the Baltic in July, leaving in com- pany with the Channel squadron. The Titania, schooner, 184 tons, Earl of Rosse, was cruising on the coast of Holland in July. The IerrnS, schooner, 60 tons, 8. R. Graves, Commodore Royal Mersey Yacht Club, was cruising in the Baltic Sea in August. The Thule, screw schooner, 356 tons. A. Anderson, cruising on the coast of Norway in July, was at Lerwick, N. B., on Aug 11, and arrived at Southampton on the 25th of same month. The Redgauntlet, schooner, 148 tons, G. Powell Haughton, sailed in August on a cruise for the wonderful fishing grounds of Rockhall, west of the Lewis and St Hilda. The Minion, cutter, 40 tons, J. E. Cox, formerly owner of the 8pray, that made such a successful run from the Clyde to Australia, sailed on a cruise round England and Scotland from Ramsgate on June 24, arrived at Granton June 28, sailed from thence July 3, and arrived at Kirkwall on the 5th, left on the 7th, and arrived at Oban on the loth, sailed from Oban on the 14th, and arrived at Douglas, Isleof Man, on the 16th, left Douglas on the 21st, and arrived at Kingstown onthe22d, sailed from thence for Cowes on the 25th, where she arrived on the 28th of July; direct distance sailed, according to log, not in- cluding beating to windward, 1,500 miles, performed duringmuch foul weather, and with adverse winds, at a speed averaging six knots an hour. The Shadow, cutter, 50 tons, W. Ord Marshall, sailed on a cruise for the North West coast of Scotland and YVes- tern Isles in June; she logged 2,500 miles, had intricate navi- gation, and experienced very bad blowing weather, with much rain ; coming home in August, she ran from Kingstown to Cowes, 350 miles, within 41 hours. The Streamlet, 44 tons. D. Balfour ; Myth, schooner, 122 tons, F. C. F. Gascoigne; and the Wanderer, schooner, 65 tons, Vice- Commodore Henry, were cruising on the coast of Scotland in J une and August. The Fox, 35 tons, H. Chamier, at Cherbourg and the Channel Islands, in April and August. The Dream, yawl, 1S4 tons, G. Bentinck, M. P., cruising on the coast of France in June. The Ranger, screw schooner, 150 tons, Hon Moore Smyth, at Cherbourg and Guern- sey in June. The Koh- i- noor, Capt J. A. Legard, 1{ N., K. T. S., and the Sultana, schooner, Lieut- Colonel W. T. Markham, cruising on the coast of France and Channel Islands, in July. Halcyon, schooner, 34 tons, E. Gibson, at Bou- logne and Dieppe in August. Avalanche, schooner, T. Groves, jun, at Channel Islands, in August. Night Thought, cutter, 61 tons, J. D. Lee, at Havre August 10. Anaconda, schooner, 101 tons, P. L. Powys, M. P., at Guernsey, Aug 12. Clytie, schooner, 64 tons, Capt Clarkson, at Boulogne, Aug 12. Ursuline, yawl, 110 tons, H. Villebois, at Cherbourg. Aug 20. Cayman, schooner, 78 tons, R. B. Baxendale, at Channel Islands in August. The Zara, schooner, 312 tons, Commodore the Earl of Wilton; Volage, schooner, 104 tons, Lord Colville, M. P.; Eugenie, schooner, 92 tons, R. Frrnkland; Capricorn, screw schooner, 418 tons, C. R. M. Talbot, M. P.; and the Petrel, schooner, 64 tons, P. Perceval, at Cherbourg in August. The La Reve, schooner, 40 tons. Colonel Evelyn, at Channel Islands in August; and the Achiever, cutter, 21 tons, Captain Mannock, cruising on the coast of France in November. It will be seen from the above list of our cruising yachtsmen that not much grass is allowed to grow on their copper; they increase in number every season, but this last has been very remarkable for the exodus of burgees; the much- dreaded beef- bone reefs, that so alarmed our hydrograpliers in the vicinity of yachting stations, have vanished, through lack of sup- ply, and good practical navigators are becoming the rule, not the exception, in our yacht dubs. In the obituary of distinguished yachtsmen that have passed from amongst us we find the names of some of the oldest mem- bers and most ardent supporters of yachting, men whose loss it will indeed be difficult to supply, but we have reason to be thank- ful that the list, although recalling to mind melancholy remi- niscences of days gone by, is but a short one. The Earl of Yar- borough, son of the ever to be remembered Commodore, died at Brighton, on Tuesday, the 11- th of January. It will be in the re- collection of our readers that in his first yacht— the Zoe— he was wrecked off the Norfolk coast in the spring of 1857; she struck, as it was supposed, upon a sunken wreck, and so sudden was the oc- currence that his lordship and the crew had barely time to escape with their lives, everything in the shape of plate, stores. See, going down with the vessel. Although much grieved at the loss of his favourite craft, the spirit of the old Commodore was rife within him, and a new Zoe speedily replaced her. Exposure in an open boat during a cold spring night seriously affected his lordship's constitution, and brought is illness to a fatal termination. The Eoyal Cork Yacht Club lost one of its oldest members and warmest supporters in the person of Cooper Penrose of the King- fisher schooner, a yachtsman whose name has been connected with every yachting movement in the harbour of Cork within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Mr Penrose was one of the good old school of yachtsmen of whom there are so few left, and kept up his vessel in a style worthy of imitation. It will be long ere the memory of that cheery, courteous, gallant little yachts- man Sir William Lockyer Freestun, K. C. T., is forgotten by those who had the pleasure of his friendship. During the period he represented Weymouth in Parliament, his pretty schooner the Benita, of 66 tons, was always a prominent object at the aquatic meetings on the south coast, in all of which he took a warm interest, especially the Weymouth Regattas. He died at his house, Gloucester Gardens, Hyde Park, on Wednes- day, April 17, aged 58. With equal feelings of regret will be noticed the deaths of Q. P. Nayler, Esq, of the Sappho schooner, SINGULAR CHARGE.— There is nothing in the " sensation" novels to exceed a real case of romantic crime that came before the police magistrates at the head office, Dublin, on Monday, March 9. Joseph Harcourt, a respectably dressed person about 30 years of age, described as a tutor, was brought up in the cus- tody of Inspectors Daly and Smith, charged with having incited two men to murder a gentleman of property residing near Newry, in the county of Down.— William Smith, one of the men, deposed that he lived at 4, Fownes- street, Dublin; that he knew the pri- soner about ten years ago, when he lived at Mr Graham's, of Erne- street; that since then he only saw him about twice a year, when they used to drink together. About midnight on the 14th of February the prisoner called at witness's lodgings, in company with a man named English. They went out to have some drink, and Harcourt asked him to breakfast with him next day. While at breakfast the prisoner said he came to Dublin to get a job done, and he thought he might as well put it in the witness's way, as he knew he was " hard up." There was a person near Newry who did not live amicably with his wife, and the wonder of the country was that he was not " popped'' long ago, because he was in the habit of acting improperly with his servant maid. He had a fine estate, and " no money would stop the job,'' and after it was done they could go to America. The lady in question, when the pri- soner was living in Newry, according to hiso wn statement to wi tness, took out her purse, and desired him to take as much money as he wished out of it. She had £ 1,800 in her own right. The prisoner offered to go with him on the following Saturday to practise shooting at a mark, and it was proposed that he should go down to Newry to learn the topography of the place. He was to be concealed in a shrubbery opposite a window where his intended victim was to be playing chess with the prisoner. The conversa- tion was resumed in Graham's house in presence of witness, when Graham said, " Young man, you had better be very cautious what you are at. It strikes me very forcibly that you only want to get the man out of the way in order to have the widow and get the estate." The prisoner then offered Smith the sum of £ 50 for doing the " job," and offered him a revolver for the purpose. Both Smith and Graham had sworn informations, stating that they had never the least intention of entertaining the question, but merely wished to draw Harcourt out, and let him develop his scheme. They also stated in their informations that the pri- soner told them he had got prussic acid from a person named Donnelly. When the police went down to Newry to arrest him they found prussic acid in his possession, and a six barreled re- volver, with a letter from Mr Donnelly acknowledging the receipt of one, in which he had asked for a revolver. These discoveries seemed to corroborate the evidence of Smith and Graham, and Mr Harcourt was accordingly arrested. The result of the investi- gation in the police court was that the prisoner was committed for trial, reserving his defence. DEATH OF NINETEEN PITMEN.— OnFriday morning, March 6, an explosion occurred in Coxlodge Colliery, situate about two miles from Newcastle- on- Tyne, on the old Edinburgh turnpike- road, whereby 19 pitmen and pitlads lost their lives. Coxlodge Col- liery, which is the property of Mr Jooshua Bower, of Leeds, is one of the few remaining pits working in the old Wall's- end dis- trict. It has been open over half a century, and its workings are very extensive. The area of the explosion was very limited, and but for the bulk of the unfortunate men and lads running back upon it and into the chokedamp, the loss of life might not have been so great. There are about 200 hewers, with the usual com- plement of drivers, putters, and off- hand men, employed upon the colliery. The fore shiftmen were in thfe pit at the time that the explosion occurred. The colliery is provided with three shafts— the Prince Regent, the Jubilee, and the Fawdon. The Prince Regent and Fawdon are downcast, and the Jubilee is the upcast shaft. The accident occurred about a mile and a half north of the Regent Pit, at a place called Leonard's Cross- cut. Thirteen hewers and 12 boys were working at this part of the mine. About 20 men and boys were working at a place still further north, called the Gosforth Drift. All the deaths, it is said, were in reality caused by the after- damp. Five only were burnt by the explosion. TOWN AND GOWN IN DUBLIN.— An unfortunate collision oc- curred on Monday night, March 9, between some of the students of Trinity College and the townspeople. The beautiful devices in front of the building were lighted up for a short time. This attracted a crowd outside the railings. It is alleged that the students amused themselves by throwing small pieces of wood and other missiles at the people, who retaliated, carrying the outer gate by storm. There was a regular fight inside. The stu- dents, overpowered by numbers, retired to the inner gate, which was opened to receive them. With difficulty they were all got in. The triumphant mob then attacked the windows with stones, and broke seven or eight of them on the ground fleor. A few police- men appeared, but they were laughed at and pelted with pieces of wood. They succeeded, however, in arresting six of the ring- leaders, and were about to lock them up, when the mob rallied with increased force and rescued them all. The police, however, obtained reinforcements, and subsequently recaptured four of the prisoners. It is not known whether any serious injuries were sustained by the students. One policeman got a severe cut in the head. The lights were put out, and the mob dispersed. A few panes of glass were broken in some neighbouring streets. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A meeting of this institution was held on Thursday, March 5, at its house, John- street, Adelplii: Thomas Chapman, Esq, F. R. 8., V. P., in the chair. There were also present Lord Henry Chol- mondeley, Capt Sir Edward Perrott, Bart; Admiral Gordon, W. H. Harton, Esq ; Capt A. P. Ryder, R. N. ( private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty) ; Col Palmer, J. Griffith, Esq; Capt Ward, R. N. ( inspector of lifeboats to the institution), and Richard Lewis, Esq ( the secretary). A letter was read from Gen Knollys, stating that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales " had great pleasure in becoming the Vice- Patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and in contributing a donation of £ 30 to its funds.'' The meeting expressed their high appreciation of the honour his royal highness had thus conferred on the Life- boat Society. Voted the silver medal of the institution, and a copy of its vote on parchment, to Mr David Williams, collector of H. M.' s Customs at Aberdovey, in admiration of his gallant con- duct in putting off in a heavy sea, in the society's lifeboat sta- tioned at that place, on the 8th ult, with the view of rescuing the crew of the brig Friends, of Newport, which had stranded on Aberdovey Bar. Mr Williams had previously exerted himself in saving life from wrecks. A reward of £ 7 was also granted to the crew of the lifeboat. £ 4 16s was also voted to pay the ex- penses of the lifeboat of the institution at Drogheda, in saving during a heavy surf the crew of five men from the schooner Mary Anne, of New Qua}', which was stranded on Drogheda Bar on the 14th ultimo. £ 15 was also voted to pay the expenses of the Walmer lifeboat, belonging to the society, for putting off on the night of the 6th ult, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the Goodwin Sands. The silver medal of the institution, and a copy of its vote on parch- ment, were presented to Mr Henry Maddiek, master of the smaok Ruby, of Hull, and to his apprentice lad, Wm. Thompson, in testi- mony of their gallant conduct in putting off in the smack's boat and rescuing, at great risk of life, the crew of six men from the brigantine Ganymede, of Ipswich, which, during a fearful gale of wind, had sunk somedistanoe off the ooast on the 28th January last. Captain Maddick immediately, cn observing the vessel's signal of distress, launched his boat, but neither of his seamen would go off to the sinking vessel, and he therefore determined to go alone, when the apprentice boy requested to be allowed to accompany him. The two brave fellows then succeeded, after great difficulty, in rescuing the six shipwrecked men, and in getting them safely on board the smack. A reward of £ 6 was voted to three Irish fishermen for putting off during a hurricane in a curragh— a small wicker- boat— and rescuing two men belonging to the ship J. S. Parsons, of New York, which was wrecked off Inneshenen, on the coast of Donegal. The ship struck with fearful violence, and in a few minutes was in a thousand pieces. The sea at the time was run- ning mountains high, and it was considered impossible for any ordinary boat to live in it. It was heart- rending to witness the crew ( 28 in number) clinging to the rigging, while huge waves were breaking over them every moment. Shortly after the vessel broke up, two men were seen holding on to the roof of the deck cabin, which had floated away from the ship. Seeing the dan- gerous position of the poor fellows, the three curragh men put off in their frail boat, and succeeded in saving one of them, the other having, in the meanwhile, perished. Twenty other persons were saved by men wading into the surf, and a reward of £ 5 was granted to these men. The insti- tution also presented its thanks, inscribed on vellum, to R. Edwards, Esq, inspecting chief officer of the Rutland Coast Guard Division, for his valuable services on the occasion, and 10s each to his boat's crew. The silver medal of the institution and £ 6 were presented to Mr Thomas Evans, sen, Thomas Evans, jun, and William Evans, and also £ 6 to three others, in acknowledg- ment of their gallant and persevering services on the night of the 20th January, in assisting to rescue the crew and passengers of the American ship John H. Elliott, of New York, which during a terrific squall, accompanied by thunder and lightning, was stranded in Liverpool Bay. With the help of the salvors' boats, about fifty- three men were safely brought to Liverpool on board the steam- tug United States, of Liverpool, to the crew of which vessel the society voted £ 510s. Other rewards were likewise voted to the crews of shore- boats for their laudable exertions in saving life on different parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom. A new lifeboat and transporting carriage had been sent during the past month by the society to> Porthleven, on the Cornish coast. The boat was the gift of T. J. Agar Robartes, Esq, M. P. The Great Western, and the other rail way companies in connection with it, had readily granted a free conveyance over their lines to the boat and carriage. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishop of London had ordered £ 50 to be sent to the insti- tution from the Cholmondeley Charities. A contribution of £ 251 had also been received by the society from Hong Kong and Bhanghai. The amount had been chiefly collected by Mr W. H. Harton, one of the committee of management of the institution, who had recently been temporarily sojourning in China. He was aided in his labours by Messrs Gilman and Co, of Hong Kong. The institution intended to build a new lifeboat with the amount, and to call her the China. The committee expressed their cor- dial thanks to Mr Harton and other gentlemen. It was reported that the lifeboats of the institution at some of the ports would take part in the processions on the wedding- day of the Prince of Wales. The Swansea Harbour trustees, like those ef nearly all the ports in the United Kingdom, had decided on placing their lifeboat under the management of the institution. A legacy amounting to £ 189 had been received by the institution from the executors of the late Mr T. Robinson, commercial traveller, of Manchester. The meeting presented their thanks, inscribed on vellum, to Admiral Yelverton, C. B., in acknowledgment of the important services he had rendered to the institution while Com- modore Controller- General of Her Majesty's Coast Guard. Pay- ments amounting to £ 560 having been made on various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings terminated. 104 tons, and J. Davenport, of the Ballerina schooner, 117 tons, both excellent yachtsmen. Herbert Fillis, Esq, of the Maritana • cwtter, 57 tons, a yachtsman who was well known in aquatic circles, died on Sunday, AuglO. The Royal Northern Yacht Club lost one of its oldest members in the Manpiis of Breadalbane, whose noble vessel, the Galley of Lorn, 280 t » ns, formed one of the Clyde squadron, and carried the blue burgee and golden anchor with becoming dignity. Though last, not least, and long will he re- membered that excellent yachtsman and good man, Richard Green, Esq, Vice- Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, whose death has caused such universal and sincere sorrow. His admirable qualities in the various relations of public and private life are too well known to need the efforts of a feeble pen; they stand imperisliably recorded for future generations. As a yachts- man his loss may be considered irreparable, especially to the club that he helped to place foremost amongst royal yacht clubs How will the well- known form and cheery voice of the fine old Com- modore be missed at the starting buoys in Erith Bay, the pretty bay where he loved to marshal the clippers of the Thames, on the eventful day of the Oce. in Derby; truly there will be a pain- ful void, difficult to be filled! Before closing this fifth leaf of my log for the past year, Mr Editor, I will say a few words relative to the season that is ap- proaching. The question of the use of shifting ballast during match sailing has been fairly and ably argued by your various correspondents, and the weight of opinion is decidedly against it. The Royal Thames, Royal Mersey, and Royal St George have un- mistakably signified their intentions respecting it, and I happen to know that a good deal of correspondence has passed amongst influential yachtsmen upon the subject, all of whom agree that it is an evil of the system that should at once, and for ever, be got rid of. It now remains for the other clubs to make public their intentions, and the sooner they are understood the more effectual and general will become the prohibition, for the outport stations where yacht clubs do not exist, will be thus amply forwarned that this important rule of prohibition will be expected at their meet- ings. Unless it becomes general and most strict the same evasions that have hitherto existed and been made use of will again creep in, and the battle will have to be fought de novo. The names of the clubs that have signified an intention to abolish it at their regattas is a sufficient guarantee that the attempts wilt be made with a firm determination and impartial hand ; no super- ficial vigilance will suffice upon these occasions; it must be minute and conclusive ; the blow struck at the root of this evil will need to be a strong and effectual one, and yacht owners themselves can ably co- operate by warning their crews that no breach of the rule will be overlooked under any circumstances. It is too well known that the words " no shifting of ballast allowed" has stood amongst sailing regulations for years a nul- lity and matter of merriment; let the new rule, therefore, be a law as inexorable as if issued by the Medes and Persians. Fol- lowing in the wake of this important movement, a universal code of sailing rules and regulations has been prepared by an excellent yachtsman, and is now undergoing the criticism of many veterans of the wave, after which it will be submitted through your columns for general adoption or otherwise, as its merits may demand; a forlorn hope is nothing without a leader, and if this yachtsman succeeds in producing a code that shall meet the views of all, he will have deserved well of the brethren of the wave. VANDERDECKEN. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF L0RBS. M0NBAY — NAVAL OFFICERS ABROAD.— A conversation took place between the Duke of Somerset, Lord Malmesbury, and Lord Hardwicke relative to the propriety of naval officers wearing their uniforms ashore when on foreign stations, Lord Malmesbury expressing an opinion that if the officers of the Forte had been in uniform instead of in plain clothes, the mis- understanding with the Brazilian Government would not have occurred. He also postponed the motion of which he had given notice on the subject. THE CITY POLICE.— The Earl of DALHOUSIE wished to draw the attention of their lordships and Her Majesty's Govern- ment to a matter which deserved their earnest consideration. Among the general rejoicings connected with the reception which was given to the royal lady who had recently landed on our shores, it was painful to think that scenes should have occurred in the procession of Saturday which deserved, to say the least, the gravest reprobation. While the procession occupied the ground from the Bricklayers' Arms to London Bridge, which was under the administration of the metropolitan police, all went smoothly and " merry as a marriage bell ;'* but, on the arrival of the cortege at London Bridge, there ensued a scene of confusion and delay which would not have taken place if proper precautions had been observed. He perceived from the public prints that on London Bridge the royal carriages were delayed for no shorter period than fully half an hour. Again, a great delay took place opposite the Mansion House, where the confusion became such that the populace were permitted to break through all re- gulations that had been laid down, and even to approach so near the royal party as to lay hands on the carriages in which they were seated. Buch was the account given in the news- papers. He held this to be a highly indecorous proceeding, and he must attribute it to a feeling of false pride and self- sufficiency on the part of the authorities of the city of London, who had, it appeared, been offered the aid of the metropolitan police, but had declined it, on the ground that they were able to perform the police duty of the City themselves. This proved to be a very grave mistake, and it ought not to occur again. On Saturday, the whole of the people of the me- tropolis were striving to excel each other in doing honour to the illustrious princess who was passing through their streets, and in upholding the character of the country for loyalty and hospi- tality ; but occasions might occur of a very different character, and it was the duty of Her Majesty's Government to see that the City was permanently provided with a police force sufficient to maintain public order and decorum when great masses of the people were congregated. Some years ago a proposal was made to have one police for the whole of the metropolis, but circum- stances occurred to prevent the carrying out of so beneficial a pro- posal. He trusted, however, the circumstances of Saturday would so convince his right hon friend the Secretary the Home De- partment of the necessity of such a measure, that no time would be lost in putting an end to the present state of things. There could be no time more opportune than the present for considering the propriety of amalgamating the two forces, because the Com- missioner of the City Police died recently, and, he believed, no new appointment had taken place. He asked no question of Her Majesty's Government on the present occasion. His object was merely to call their attention to what occurred on Saturday in that part of the metropolis yclept the city of London, with a view of inducing them to give their early cansideration to the subject [ hear, hear].— The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that his noble friend the President of the Council had left the house in ignorance of the subject on which his noble friend ( the Earl of Dalhousie) had risen to address their lordships. He had not only shared in that ignorance, but had been totally unaware of the circumstances to which the noble earl had just referred, not having had time to read one line of the accounts of the procession. He had heard that some confusion had occurred at one place, near St Paul's, but that was all he was told in reference to disturbance or inter- ruption. He had ne doubt, however, that the matter would en- gage the attention of his right hon friend the Home Secretary. Some years ago a preposition was made for the amalgamation of the two police forces, and, speaking for himself, he must say he regretted that a feeling of independence had hitherto caused an opposition ki the City to a measure of that character. He did not believe a City force oould perform the police duties as well as they might be performed by an amalgamated police [ hear, heat). HOUSE OF COMMONS. M0NBAY.— TRANSPORTATION.— Mr ADDErLEy moved a resolution, an address to Her Majesty, thanking Her Majesty for having issued a commission of inquiry into the operation of the acts relating to transportation and penal servitude, and into the manner in which sentences under the provisions of those acts have been carried out, and praying that, pending that inquiry, the conditions on which any remissions of punishment or licenses to be at large are given may be strictly enforced according to the intentions of those acts. His object, he said, was that the house should press the Government to do what they ought to have dene at first— to put the present law in force. If the report of the com- mission was long delayed, were we to remain, he asked, under the existing system of liberating convicts upon a ticket of leave, under which there was no check upon their actions, and which was a mere sham and delusion ? But supposing that the commis- sioners should report in a short time, and supposing they should recommend a change of the law, he thought it would be better to try the existing law before it was altered. That law, he con- tended, had been departed from in practice. The discipline in prison was lax, the remissions were not granted as a reward for good conduct only, and the conditions under which they were given were not fulfilled, although less stringent than those an- nexed to licenses in Ireland. Having shown that the law and the practice were at variance, that this was a state of things dangerous to the country, and likely to produce a recurrence of the acts of last year, he asked the house to agree to the resolution.— Sir GEO. GREY explained that the hon member was mistaken in supposing the law was not now enforced, and having shewn that the motion, if pressed, would cause inconvenience, it was withdrawn. THE ARMY ESTIMATES.— Sir G. LEWIS moved the Army Estimates. After referring to the reasons which had caused a considerable increase in the charge of the army since the period previous to the Crimean war, he congratulated the committee upon its diminution this year, the amount of the present estimates being £ 1,000,000 less than those of last year, which were £ 16,060,350, this year's estimates amounting to £ 15,060,237. The number of men, which was last year 152.403, was this year 148,242, being a reduction of 4,161 men. which had been effected, not by a diminution of the number of battalions, which was the 6ame as last year, but by reducing 100 rank and file in each battalion, with a few exceptions ; and he stated the grounds upon which the Go- vernment did not think themselves justified in proposing alus number of battalions. After explaining the principal votes, a* l the reason of the increase or diminution of their sums, he moved the first vote of 148,242 for the land forces.— General PEEL ob- jected that the estimate did not show the correct number of men, there being two Indian regiments employed in China not in- cluded ; and he moved that the number should be increased by so many men.— The CHAIRMAN decided that this motion could not be adopted without a departure from the rules of the Committee of Supply.— Sir G. LEWIS explained the reasons why the estimate had been prepared in the present form, which was conformable to practice.— Mr W. WILLIAMS moved a reduction of 10,000 men in the vote ; but, after much discussion, the motion was negatived upon a division by 77 to 19. The vote was then agreed to.— Several other votes were agreed to, and the house adjourned till Wednes- day. WEBNESBAY— THE OATHS BILL— Sir J. TRELAWNY moved the second reading of the Affirmation Bill, the object of which was to substitute affirmations for oaths, as in the case of Quakers and Nonconformists.— Bir C. DOUGLAS seconded the mo- tion.— The ATTORNEY- GENERAL opposed the bill, and moved, as an amendment, that it be read a second time that day six months. The bill, he said, made provision for the substitution of affirma- tions in every possible case. This would introduce a very com- plicated machinery, and would be productive of inconveniences far greater than those which existed under the present state of the law.— Mr ROEBUCK said the law as it now existed shut out the truth- telling witness and acccepted the liar, inasmuch as the evidence of any man who chose to say he believed in the existence of God, and in a future state of rewards and punishments, was of necessity accepted, no matter whether he believed what he pro- fessed to believe or not; while the witness who had the hardihood to declare that in his opinion there was no God and no future state was, as a matter of course, set aside.— Bir J. FERGUSSON said we were bound to take the highest moral standard we could, and that so long as we did that we must be right. The belief in the exist- ence of God and of a future state of rewards and punishments was, in his opinion, the only safe test of credibility.— Sir F. H. GOLDSMID supported the second reading, on the ground that there ought to be no civil incapacity on the score of religious belief or the want of it.— Mr HENLEY thought that if there were no other objection to the bill, the inconvenienee that would re- sult from it ought to be quite sufficient to deter the house from sanctioning it. for whenever an infidel presented himself in the witness box a discussion would arise as to what extent an infidel was worthy of belief.— On a division, the amendment was car- ried by 142 to 96. The bill is therefore lost. FLOGGING GAROTTER8.— Mr ADDERLEY moved the second reading of the Security from Violence Bill, the chief object of which, he said, was simply the introduction of whipping among the punishments to be awarded to garotters. The remainder of the bill was copied from the act providing for the punishment of persons who might attack the person of the Sovereign.— The mo- tion was seconded by Lord LOVAINE.— Mr HADFIELD moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. He argued at some length that corporal punishments were not effective for the suppression of crime; and submitted that the punishment of penal servitude for life awarded to garot- ters by the criminal law was quite sufficient to satisfy anybody except, perhaps, the right hon gentleman the member for Staf- fordshire.— Mr POTTER seconded the amendment.— Colonel NORTH thought there was no necessity to be mealy- mouthed about a set of ruffians to whom a good flogging would no doubt be a very valuable punishment.— Mr CLAY doubted whether excep- tional legislation was necessary. He had conversed on the subject with police magistrates and police officers, who had assured him that there was no increase in the number of street robberies with violence, and that the number of instances in which garetting had actually occurred were greatly exaggerated.— Sir GEORGE GREY described the bill as an attempt to procure panic legislation after the panic had ceased. He also pointed out several " blots'' in the details of the bill.— Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE admitted there were defects in the bill, but urged that the objection did not come with a very good grace from a Government which had de- clined to deal with a crying evil. He recommended the house to go into committee on the bill, and endeavour to make it a useful measure.— On a division the second reading was carried by 131 to 68. The bill was then read a second time.— The Gardens in Towns Protection Bill, the London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Bill, and the Thames Embankment ( North Side) Bill were re- spectively read a second time, the latter being referred to a select committee. EXPLOSION OF A FIREWORK MANUFACTORY AT PLYMOUTH. — Loss OF SIX LIVES — A melancholy explosion took place at 25 minutes past two o'clock on Monday morning, which has caused the death of six persons, and may prove serious to two or three others. The circumstance is the more sad from the fact that the explosion took place at the house of Messrs Lawrence and Son, firework makers, who were probably at the time of the accident engaged in making articles which were intended to contribute to the pleasures and enjoyments of other people. As, however, both the father and son are dead, the circumstances which led to the explosion are never likely to be known. Mr Morris Lawrence and his son carried on their businessof pyrotechnists in a small, mean- looking. and somewhat wretched house in that part of King- street West ( No. 103), which is more familiarly known as Btonehouse- lane. The population is very dense, consisting for the most part of the poorer classes of the Irish people. Lawrence, who was a good firework- maker, and was well known at the different county fairs and in our Plymouth market, which he was in the habit of regularly attending, was doing a very large business, having received numerous orders for the supply of fireworks. At twenty- five minutes past two, while Sergeant Murcli, P. C. Elson, and a supernumerary policeman were walking up the street, they saw the windows and shutters of Lawrence's house blown right across the street, and heard and saw an explosion of rockets and fireworks, which went off", making a noise as loud as the firing of a file of musketry. The place was instantly in flames. The explosion had burst the door as well as the window open, and had blown up a portion of the upper part of the small house, in which, unhappily, there were many people. Sergeant Murch, seeing the house in flames, immediately alarmed the neighbours in the adjoining houses. Two men named Oliver and George Harris ( a well- known silly person, called Button George), made their escape by jumpingoutof the upper window. Both of them were so injured that they were carried off to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. Oliver was very much burnt, and Harris, who jumped from the attic on to a shop roof, and fell from there on to the pavement, was taken up bleeding across his back, which it is sui posed has been very much injured. A man named Smith got through the attic window, and scrambled across to the next attic window, on a deeply sloping roof, with no ledge on which to rest his feet, and thus managed to effect his escape. A man named Lismore escaped by jump- ing out of the window, but his poor wife and children, while en- deavouring to make their escape, were unsuccessful. The mother and her three children sank into the flames, and in a few minutes ceased to exist, having been burnt to death. Mr Lawrence and his son ( who was grown up and a married man) were also burnt to death. Mrs Lawrence, the wife of the elder Lawrence, had re- cently taken apartments near by, because the house was so crowded She- is left a widow, with seven children at home and three away, beside the son who has been burnt. HE ALTH OF LONDON.— The deaths in the week ending March 7 were 1,370, being 86 below the average; 42 deaths occurred from siXiallpox, 38 from measles, 67 from scarlatina, 149 phthisis, 144 bronchitis, 88 pneumonia. The births were. 957 JJoyj and 815 girls— fcofcxl 1.832. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. IKON OB WOOD ?— A statement has been presented to the Admiralty by Rear- Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, on the relative advantages of iron and wood, and cost of those materials, in the construction of ships for Her Majesty's navy. The admiral says:—" Taking it for granted that it is essential for this country to possess a number of ships armour- plated, equal to that of any other power, the first consideration must be with regard to such ships as we require, whether they shall be of wood or iron. There are two important points involved in this consideration. 1. The nature of the material. Iron possesses these advantages over wood:— An iron ship « an be built of larger dimensions than a wooden ship, with no loss of strength. An iron ship has more rigidity and strength of structure, as a whole, than a wooden ship, though locally weak and liable to be penetrated by blows, which would fall harmlessly on a wooden ship. An iron ship has much greater durability in certain parts of the structure— indeed, in all parts where no wood is in contact with the iron— than a wooden ship; and after a lapse of years the iron frame would have suffered next to nothing as compared with a wooden ship. But against these advantages must be set the serious local weakness of the comparatively thin plates of which the bottom of an iron ship is necessarily com- posed; the danger, consequently, of getting on rocks in such ships; and the necessity which this weakness entails of con- structing double bottoms, thwartship bulkheads, water- tight com- partments, sluice- doors, & c, and various other complicated arrange- ments, which add both to the weight and costfof an iron ship; the rapidity with which the bottom of an iron ship gets foul, and the immense loss of all the ship's qualities that follows from the adhesion of marine zoophytes. No practical remedy has been found for this serious disadvantage; repeated docking and clean- ing is the only palliative. Add to this the extreme uncertainty as to the quality of the material used— in fact, the small quantity of real good iron of the best shipbuilding qualities that can be found in the market; the prodigious ravages caused by the splin- ters of iron when the plates are broken and smashed by shot; and the far greater facility with which iron ships can be pierced below their armour plating by submarine guns than wooden ships. Lastly, as the progress that may be made by artillery, and all destructive agents of warfare, is quite without a limit, the im- mense price paid in an iron ship for durability may not bean advantage, as new forms for ships of war may before long be abso- lutely requisite. The iron ship of to day, for which so large a price has been paid, may not be the weapon we require to- mor- row. It may prove, therefore, wiser and more economical to supply the wants of the moment by a cheaper and less durable structure, which at least is of the same quality as those with which we may have to contend. The most able designer of war ships in Europe, whose success has been so remarkable, M Dupuy de L'Ome, is of this opinion, and constructs the ships that are to form the French line- of- battle of wood, in preference to iron. 2. The second point to be considered in this question is— where and how the ships, whether of wood or iron, shall be constructed. If iron is the material preferred, we have the choice < of either incurring a large outlay in our dock- yards for the requisite plant, or of building by contract. In one dockyard only ( Chatham) we can build in iron without any fresh expense. If, therefore, we take the other alternative, and build by contract, the following serious disadvantages attend upon our doing so. The first practical fact that cotnes before us is that in no one instance have the contractors kept to their agreements with the Government, either as to time or cost. There is no pro- spect that more than one out of the four iron ships last ordered will be delivered till many months after the periods agreed upon. It is not one contractor or one iron shipbuilder, but all who have failed in their agreements, and this clearly indicates the great un- certainty attending this mode of construction. Two other diffi- culties present themselves.— 1. The general slovenliness of the work performed by iron shipbuilders, rendering the presence of an Admiralty inspector necessary on the premises wherever the contract ships are building, and leading to many difficulties be tween the contractors and the Admiralty; and, 2. The great temptations that beset the contractors, owing to the cost and diffi- culty of procuring good iron, to use inferior and cheaper ma- terial. Again, after a contract is signed no alteration or im- provement. however great, can be made without submitting to any terms the contractor chaoses to enforce. Strikes of workmen, strikes of colliers, disputes in trades, all interfere with the progress of the work, and always to the prejudice of the Government. But if wood be the material selected, the place of building will be our own dockyard, with all the plant, appliances, and materials already at hand. No moremoney will be required than what already appears in the navy estimates, whereas if the ships are built of iron by contract the whole of the money required to do so must be voted separately, and in addi- tion to the ordinary navy estimates ; and the increase of the total charge to the country could only be diminished in a very small degree, if at all, by the discharge of a limited number of work- men from some of the yards, who in such a case are entitled to pensions or gratuities, for it would still be necessary to retain that large portion of workmen who are employed in repairs, fitting and refitting ships, and in building the smaller classes which are essential for the protection of our trade in the distant corners of the globe. In every way, therefore, the system of building by contract armour- plated iron ships would be more expensive than building armour- plated ships of wood in our dockyards. The wooden ship, though in some respects inferior in rigidity to the iron, and not quite so strong as a whole, is yet, if we may believe the detailed accounts we have received of such ships as the Gloire, Normandie, Magenta, and Solferino, perfectly sufficient for the weight it has to bear. Very bad weather has had no effect upon the Gloire, a wooden ship plated from stem to stern, and there- fore far more heavily loaded and more severely tried than any of our iron armour- plated ships have yet been ; none of these ships having armour- plates at their extremities. Great addition to the strength of the wooden structure is given by iron beams, iron decks, tilling in between the timbers, diagonal bracing, & c ; and, taking all the circumstances into consideration, it seems deci- dedly preferable, at the present time, to build these ships in our dockyards of wood rather than in private yards and of iron. As a comparison, the probable cost of the Hector and Valiant, arinour plated ships, has been taken; though, being only partially armour- plated, and the accounts not yet completed, an addition must be made, to compare these with the wooden ships proposed to be built:— Cost of a ship of 4,063 tons, iron and par- tially armour- plated, if built by contract, £ 206,000; add ( esti- mate), if wholly plated, £ 8,000.—£ 214,000. Cost of a wooden ship of 4,200 tons, and of greater strength than those now build- ing, wholly armour- plated, for wages and materials ( estimated), £ 170,000; add, as in the case of private firms, for general charges incidental to the above, 10 per cent, £ 17,000.— Cost of the wooden ship built in the dockyard, £ 187,000. The cost of building the Royal Oak, as furnished by the accountant of Chatham dockyard, for labour and materials, with 2 per cent, added, is £ 151,970, in- cluding the value of materials already provided before the conver- sion commenced: adding to this 10 per cent for general charges, as a private builder would do, the cost of the Royal Oak for build- ing amounts to about £ 168,000, subject to any corrections arising from the auditing the accounts when they are completed. The time required to build the iron ship by contract has been 25 months ( in the case of the Hector). To build the wooden ship leisurely and to the best advantage would take about as long; but if as much pressed as the contractors have been for the Hector, and if the workmen were entirely uninterrupted, the period might be shortened to 21 months." REPOBT OB THE THAMES EMBANKMENT COMMISSIONERS.— The Thames Embankment Commissioners, appointed to consider plans for making a communication between the embankment at Blackfriars Bridge and the Mansion House, by means of a new street in a north- easterly direction, from the termination of the embankment roadway near, or of an extension of the embankment to the eastward of, Blackfriars Bridge, with the existing embank- ment at Millbank, and also to consider the advantages and cost of the different plans that may appear to them calculated to relieve the overcrowding of existing thoroughfares, and to conduce to the convenience of the public and the embellishment of the metro- polis, have just presented their report. It is of more value, because it has been issued so early in the session as to give the Go- vernment an opportunity, if so disposed, of introducing a measure on the subject. With respect to the extending the embankment eastward from Blackfriars Bridge to Queenhithe, the commis- sioners report against the plan on the ground of the enormous ex- pense, and because it would interfere with many valuable wharfs in which very extensive businesses are carried on. This road and embankment would, according to the lowest estimate, cost £ 768,640; and the proposition, at all events for the present, may be considered at an end. Two othej plans were submitted to them, one for a wide road from the embankment at Blackfriars Bridge, terminating at the south- west corner of St Paul's Church- yard, and thence by Cannon- street, where, by widening Wall- brook, a splendid thoroughfare would be opened up. Were this plan adopted, St Paul's would be shown to great advantage. It is a very tempting proposition, and one that will not fail to find admirers; but the commissioners cannot re- commend it, as it would be too costly,— viz, £ 713,643, and it would interfere materially with some of the great trading establishments on the south side of St Paul's Churchyard. The third plan, which the commissioners do recommend, is that proposed by the Thames Embankment Commission of last session — viz, to widen Lower Thames- street as far as St Bennett's Hill, and to make a new street to run into New Earl- street, and then by a curve to the Mansion House. The cost is set down at £ 460,015, or about £ 250,000 less than the one to which reference has been made. Thus much for the first portion of the task allotted to the committee. With respect to extending the embankment west- ward from its present proposed terminus at Westminster Bridge, it was at first suggested to carry it on in front of the Houses of Parliament, but this the commissioners consider highly objec- tionable. First, the terrace and tower of the Palace of Westmin- ster now project into the river to the extent to which it was con- sidered prudent at the time, having reference to the flow of the current and the important traffic on the stream. They are also in a line with the abutment of Westminster Bridge, and with the in- tended embankment northward. It would therefore be necessary to turn out 70 or 80 feet of the embankment to use for the road- way the first arch of the bridge, and after passing the Palace of Westminster, to fall back again the same distance to a new em- bankment there. The cost, of such a work would be consider- able, and the commissioners doubt whether those entrusted with the control of the navigation of the river would as- sent to it. Great objections were felt against such interfer- ence with the architecture of the Palace of Westminster, and the inconveniences which would be caused by a public street being carried in front of the committee- rooms and libraries of both houses. The commissioners, therefore, reject this propo- sition, and in lieu of it recommend a plan which we think will meet with general approval. Their plan is simply as follows :— They propose to continue the communication westward from Palace- yard to the Horseferry- road, by improving and widening Abingdon- street and Millbank. The commissioners especially point out that open spaces are greatly needed in the immediate proximity of the Victoria Tower, in addition to the requirements for ordinary traffic, and which on certain state occasions are even more urgent, because, on the opening and closing of Parliament, room is required near the royal entrance for troops, masses of pedestrians, and for the convenient placing of the vast number of carriages which then assemble there. They also call especial attention to the unsatisfactory position of premises immediately- facing the robing- room and other apartments in the south front of the palace. Trades are carried on at these wharfs or warehouses and yards of an offensive kind; the buildings are mean in character, and are liable at any time to a conflagra- tion, which would place those apartments in the palace before alluded to in imminent peril, and might occasion damage to the Victoria Tower, in which are kept the records of both Houses of Parliament. The commissioners re- commend that these buildings be removed, and the ground cleared southward as far as the line of Wood- street, or 415 feet, and that so much of it as extends to the line of Great College- street, or 230 feet, should be embanked, kept clear of buildings, and laid out and planted as ornamental ground. Such an appli- cation of the space would relieve the palace from great danger and nuisance, and form a suitable appendage to the south front of the palace, and bean agreeable embellishment to the river. The clearing away of these buildings would materially improve the appearance of that front of the palace, the edifice itself being, in the opinion of the commissioners, " a worthy monument of the wealth, power, and dignity of the British empire; and it is but fitting that ample space on all sides should afford opportunities DO the people for fairly seeing and duly appreciating its merit and surpassing grandeur.*' In conformity with this view the com- missioners recommend that the houses in Poets'- corner, Old Palace- yard, and Abingdon- street, and the mews in the rear, should be taken down, the Chapter House, Henry VII.' s Chapel, and the south front of the Abbey being fully brought into view, the resi- dences which stand between the Chapter House and the garden to the south be removed, and the site so cleared laid open, by which a clear space from Henry Vll.' sChapel to Great College- street could beobtained, about 200 feet wide in its narrowest part. This would be a great improvement indeed, and would meet universal approval. Further, it is proposed that the ground between the road and the river between the lines of Great College- street and Wood- street, being the southern portion of the ground next the river, might be advantageously let for the erection of six or eight first- class resi- dences, standing in a line at right angles with the river, and look- ing on to the proposed ornamental ground between them and the palace. The commissioners also recommend that a short road be made through the enclosures on the north side of St Margaret's Church, so as more directly to connect Victoria- street with the Houses of Parliament and the Thames embankment. It is finally suggested, with the view of relieving the traffic of Parlia- ment- street, that King- street be widened. The better plan, how- ever, would seem to be to pull down the houses on the north side of King- street, which, though more expensive, would conduce far more to the general improvement of the district. The total cost of these west improvements is estimated at £ 450,120, of which the commissioners recommend that that portion which affects the iopjOYement. Qf the Palace of Westminster should be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund, and the remainder by the metro- polis. Snch are the main features of the report, which, taking it altogether, is one of the most sensible we have seen for some time. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MURDER AT NEWTOWN.— At Worcester, on Saturday week, Timothy Grundy was indicted for the wilful murder of Emily Jones at Newtown, in the parish of St Martin, near Worcester, on the 29th of April last. The prisoner was to have been tried on this charge at the last summer assizes, but he was at that time confined in a lunatic asylum, from which he has since been dis- charged as cured. The circumstances under which the alleged crime was committed left little doubt that the prisoner was the murderer, the only question being as to his sanity at the time when the deed was done. It appeared that the prisoner had for some time been keeping company with the deceased, who was the daughter of poor people in Worcester, and that he had been in an asylum in 1861. He was rather addicted to drinking, and had latterly been very unsteady, and had threatened to poison him- self. He had for several days carried a bottle of laudanum in his pocket, and had on the 28th of April been taken before the police magistrate at Worcester ( Mr Sidebotham), who had ordered the poison to be taken from him, and the man to be set at liberty. His friends then persuaded him to go to Birmingham in search of work, and on the evening of April 28 he went up to the railway station, andon his way met the deceased and her sister, and walked about with them for some time. The sister afterwards left them, and the deceased and the prisoner walked into the country and sat at a public- house until ten o'clock, when they left It seems they then wandered about until after midnight, when they went to a hut where a railway gauger was stationed, and remained with him until daylight, when they left. They were seen be- tween six and eight o'clock in the morning walking about the fields, and the last that was seen of the deceased was at about a quarter to nine, when she was walking with the prisoner along a certain field, in which was a pool. They were walking in the direction of the pool, and the man lost sight of them behind a hedge. Ha'f- an- hour later the prisoner was seen hurrying across an adjoining field ( in which there was no footpath), and he ar- rived at his mother's house in Worcester about ten o'clock, when he said to an acquaintance, " I've done it; I've knocked her over." He was much excited, and his friends got a policeman to take charge of him while inquiries were made about the girl. At eleven o'clock the dead body of the girl was found in the pool near where she was last seen alive. There was a hedge stake lying near her in the pool, and she had received a heavy blow on her head.— The jury found a verdict of Acquittal, on the ground of insanity. MANSLAUGHTER AT ASHBY FOLVILLE.— At Leicester, on Satur- day, March 7, Thomas Boswell, a youth, turned 15, was charged with the wilful murder of W. Harvey.— The prisoner and the deceased were labourers in the service of Mr Flavell, of Ashby Folville. The young men lived at the house of their master. On the Sunday afternoon the whole of the family were at church, with the exception of the prisoner and the deceased. On the re- turn of the family from church Harvey was found dead, with his head on his arm, as if in the act of leaning on the table. He had been shot close to the ear,| and an unloaded gun was found in a corner of the room ; it was, in fact, the property of Mr Flavell. The prisoner was subsequently arrested at Leicester, whereit was found he had pawned a watch, the property of poor Harvey. The account he gave of it was that he'Viad taken up the gun and put a cap upon the nipple, and, not knowing it was loaded, intended to frighten his companion; that he fired, and shot him dead. He was frightened, and not knowing what to do, ran away, taking the watch that was lying on the table with him, which he pawned for his support. As to his having caps in his possession, he ac- counted for that by reason of his father being a gamekeeper, and being in the habit of going out,. shooting.— The jury found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard laboua. MURDER AT BBIDPORT.— On Monday, at Dorchester, Charles Fooks, described as a farmer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Daniel Joseph Stone, at Walditch, on the 29th of August. Mr Collier opened the case, and said the prisoner was a farmer, liv- ing at a village called Walditch, about a mile from Bridport. He occupied a good position in his parish, was overseer and way- warden, and was a bachelor. The murdered man was a first cou- sin of the prisoner, and they were near neighbours, living about 100 yards apart. Unhappily, these near relations and neighbours could not agree. What the original cause of their dissensions might have been he was not informed; it might have been trifling — but sometimes trifling causes led to great animosities. But the prisoner, for some reason or other, entertained feelings of strong hostility against his cousin. Efforts were made by the neighbonrsto reconcile them, and the prisoner refused, and used expressions, showing a violent feeling of animosity against his cousin. He had now to call their attention to the 29th of Au- gust. On the morning of that day, about seven or eight o'clock, the prisoner was standing at his door, which led into the street of the village. He was standing there with a gun in his hand. The deceased, Daniel Joseph Stone, passed by at the time, within a short distance of the spot where the prisoner was standing. Whether the prisoner intended to waylay Stone, or whether, as was the more charitable supposition, and which he should wish to adopt, he had no fixed intention, but having a gun in his hand, and the opportunity presenting itself, he was unable to restrain his vengeance, it would be for them to consider. He was seen to put the gun to his shoulder, take a deliberate aim, and shoot Mr Stone ; he shot him in the back of his head. Stone im- mediately fell. He only breathed once or twice. The neigh- bours came to his assistance, and he was conveyed to his father's house, and shortly afterwards died. Upon this the prisoner re- turned to his own house. He went up stairs and locked himself into his bedroom, and in a few minutes afterwards another re- port of a gun was heard from his room. Attempts were made to open the door, but at first without success. A person climbed up to the window, and saw the prisoner lying on the floor. The door was then broken open, and the prisoner was found on the floor sensible, but wounded. A gun was lying close by him, of which one barrel would appear to have been recently discharged. The other barrel was not discharged, but was loaded with powder only. So it would appear that after he had shot Stone he had re- turned inside the house, and had loaded one barrel of the gun again, but whether merely with powder he could not tell. Whe- ther he attempted suicide, or whether he pretended to commit suicide he could not tell. The neighbours came in and rendered what assistance they could to the prisoner. An inspector of po- lice was sent for. When he came, he cautioned the prisoner to be careful in what he said. Notwithstanding this caution, the prisoner used words to this effect:— On being told that Stone was dead, the prisoner said, " Yes, suppose he is. He has been teaz- ing me for long; he has made me very nervous for the last month." Upon another occasion he had said that he understood and wished that Stone was dead. These were the facts of this most melancholy story. They had in the case an eye- witness to depose to the fact, which was not usual in cases of this description. So far as he could judge, it would seem that the prisoner had some cause of complaint, whether real or imaginary, against Stone, and, instead of endeavouring to check his feelings of animosity, he appeared to have indulged them until they became too strong for him, and, having a murderous weapon in his hand, and the opportunity presenting itself, he yielded, one would hope, to a sudden impulse, and not to a premeditated design. It was a very sad fact that these were two young men who ought to have been on terms of friendship, quarrelling about mere trifles. One had been sent to his account without any warning, the other stood before them upon his trial for his murder. Evidence was then given, including that of a surgeon, who deposed that the injuries the prisoner inflicted on himself were trilling. The defence was insanity, but the jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen- tenced to death. THE KNIFE AT SHEBBORNE.— At Dorchester, on Monday, Geo. Moore was indicted for cutting and wounding William Kerby, at Sherborne, with intent to murder ; and in a second count for cutting and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor and the prisoner, who were strangers to each other, were at the Rose and Crown Inn, at Sherborne, on the morning of the 26th of December, drinking together. The prosecutor being the worsefor liquor, some scuffling took place between them, and after some time, and with difficulty, the prisoner was got out of the house. Kerby then lay down on a settle, and went to sleep for about three hours. During that time the prisoner returned, but the landlord refused to let him enter the house in conse- quence of his previous behaviour. Instead of going away, he waited outside, and was heard to say thai if he could find Kerby he would " knife" him. On Kerby awaking he left the house, and walked up the principal street of the town ; the prisoner fol- lowed him, and ran at him with a table- knife, which he stuck in his face, inflicting so serious a wound, that for a fortnight he was unable to give his evidence, and for s ime time his life was in danger. The prisoner was immediately taken into custody, and another knife of the same description was found in his pocket. The jury found him Guilty, and the learnedjudge sentenced the prisoner to ten years' penal servitude. MURDEB OF A WARDER BY A CONVICT.— EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.— At Dorchester, on Wednesday, Edwin Preedy, aged 20, a convict, was tried for the murder of Charles Evans, a warder, at Portland, on the 8th of Sept,— John Moore said: I was a convict. On the 8th of Sept I was in the cleaning gang. It is part of my duty to carry the dinners in tins to the convicts. A knife is put under the doors. Three of us go round with a war- der to collect the tins and knives. I went on this occasion with Evans, the warder, and Ashton and Schofield, convicts. When we came to the prisoner's cell Evans unlocked the door, and Scho- field put out his hand for the knife. The prisoner had his knife in his right hand and liis tin in his left. He looked at us, pushed the men on one side, let drop his tin, and rushed after Evans, the officer, to the next door, seized Evans with his left hand, raised the knife with his right hand, and struck him under the ear with the knife. We dropped the trays, and seized the prisoner while he had the knife in the wound. He seemed to jerk the knife in the wound. He then pulled the knife out.— At this moment a scene took place which, we be- lieve, has never been witnessed in a court of justice. When the prisoner first came to the bar he looked a very harmless young man, but during the evidence he became restless, and sharply asked a question. Immediate^' after the answer the pri- soner threw one leg and arm over the front of the dock, and very nearly succeeded in getting over. Two warders who were in the dock rushed at him and seized him, and other warders jumped into the dock, and an almost deadly struggle took place, the pri- soner kicking, fighting, and roaring more like a wild beast than a human being, and it required nearly ten strong men to hold him. Several had hold of his legs and arms, and some were hold- ing him by the hair of his head. This continued for some minutes, and when it ceased it was only because he was held fast. The ferocity of the man was beyond anything that can well be imagined. The surgeon of the gaol, who was in court, went to him, and was then called by the judge, to whom he stated that this was a repetition of what he had seen before in the gaol. His observation would not justify his saying that the prisoner was insane. His opinion was that he was perfectly sensible to all that was going on.— The judge then told the prisoner that the trial should proceed, because the surgeon was of opi- nion that he knew what was going on Upon this the prisoner again became very violent, and it was found necessary to put him into heavy irons and straps, and this was not done without great exertion on the part of five strongmen.— John Moore's evidence was then proceeded with: I seized him first, and Ashton seized his arm and wrenched it back. The pri- soner cried out " Murder!'' and let the knife drop out of'his hand. We had a struggle with the prisoner. He attempted to get down, as if to the knife. I got on his back. He made a rush at Roberts, another warder, who came up. We then all secured him. Evans ran round the hall, and I did not see him again.— Cross- ex- amined : Each man is locked in a separate cell during dinner. The prisoner rushed upon Evans immediately the cell door was opened. The prisoner was very violent, but not so much so as he has been here this morning.— The other persons who were present were called, and confirmed this evidence.— A warder, named Dou- glas, then stated that, on asking the prisoner what his motives were, he declared that there was something between Evans and himself that he did not know of, and he expressed a hope that Evans was dead.— A surgeon having proved the death of Evans from the wound, Mr Prideaux addressed the jury for the prisoner, and set up as a defence that he was a maniac. Many of his family were called to prove this, but they could only speak of eccentrici- ties, which certainly did not in any way sustain the defence.— The jury, after a brief consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to death. POACHING AFFRAY.— At Nottingham, on Wednesday, Charles Maltby, publican, was charged with unlawfully wounding Wm. Brooks, a gamekeeper of the Earl of Chesterfield.— Mr Mere- wether prosecuted, and in opening the case said on the 22d of October last the gamekeeper Brooks, Sergeant Horne, and Police- constable Rudkin went to the prisoner's house to apprehend a poacher named Waddington. A man named Walker ( against whom Rudkin had out a warrant) was there. There were fifteen or sixteen poachers in the room drinking. Rudkin attempted to apprehend Walker, asking the gamekeeper to assist. The pri- soner immediately struck the prosecutor very violently on the top of the head with a life- preserver, felling liim to the ground, re- peating heavy blows on the head and shoulders, blood flowing freely. Ultimately the life- preserver was taken away. More assistance was procured, and the prisoner was apprehended. The keeper is still suffering from the effects of the wounds.— The jury found the prisoner Guilty of unlawfully wounding, and he was sentenced to fifteen months' hard labour. ANOTHER MELANCHOLY DEATH THROUGH CRINOLINE.— On Monday morning Mr John Humphreys, coroner for Middlesex, held an inquiry at the London Hospital respecting the death of Maria Agnes Devonshite, aged 16 years, who lost her life under the following shocking circumstances:— It appeared from the evidenoe that deceased was a servant in the employ of Mrs Wright, Roman- road. Old Ford, and that while washing the children's faces in the morning she stooped down, and thereby forced her crinoline, which was very capacious, in between the bare of the, grate. She was instantly in a blaze, and in her terror Printed and Published by WILLIAM CHARLES CLEMENT, at the Office, 170, Strand, in the Parish of St Clement Danes, in the City and Liberty of Westminster,— SUNDAY, MARCH 15.1863. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, MARCH 10- WAB OFFICE. MARCH 10.— 31et Regt of Ft: Maj- Gen W. F. Forster to be col, v Gen T. Evans, C. B., dec. ' BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Richd. Wheaton. Northumberland Park. Tottenham, merchant's clcrk. BANKRUPTS. The Rev Edward Morley Muriel. Ruckinge, Kent, clerk. Alfred Catt, Portobello- road, Notting Ilill, bootmaker. John Buck, Brighton, printer. T. F. Ea9terbrook, St John's Wood and York- road, Lambeth, grocer. Enrico Guiseppe Augusto Giovanni Soadinary, Gibson- sq, Islington, Robert Sewell, Swailham, Norfolk, attorney. Henry Tvler, Canal- place, Old Kent- road, corpenter. George Richardson, Queen- street, Edgware- road, grocer. John Amm Saunders, Old Manor- street, Chelsea, builder. John Plummer, New- street, Brompton- road, pork butcher. Charles Jessop, Woolwich, baker Robert Dowsett, Good Easter, Essex, builder. David Compton, Tollord Royal, Wiltshire, farmer. George Hewitt, Bentley, Southampton, bay merchant. Thomas Saunders, 1' rinting- housp- lane, Blackfriars, carpenter. Wm. Henry Jackson, Rochford, Essex, auctioneer. Joseph Kinsella, Chester- street, Kenninuton- road, journeyman hatter. Fred. R. Sasse, Kich- ter West, Old Brompton, clerk in Foreign Office. Robt. Lanham, Irelands- row. Mile End- rd, and Whitechapel, auctnr. Robert John Lyle, late of Brydges- street. Covent- garden. Thos. Zealey, Ricliardson- st and Gny- st, Bermondsey, fellmonger. Thomas Stapleton Leemine, Dame- street, Islington, woollen agent. Thomas Brundell, Fetter- lane, greengrocer. Domlnick Jennings. Elin- grove, Hammersmith, omnibus driver. Wm. M. Ilerriott, Stainsby- rd, East India- rd, licensed victualler, Richard Woosnam. Westbury, Salop, farmer. Edwin Booth, Sheffield, agent. James Bishop, Abberlev, Worcester, farmer. James Freegard, Marl! oroueh, Wiltshire. Wm. John StocXwell, Newport. Monmouthshire, innkeeper. Stephen White. Piddlehinton, Dorsetshire, farmrr. George Morrell, Bristol, baker. Frederick Ronnefeldt, Kingston- upon- IIull, merchant. Charles Picker. Lincoln, grocer, Thomas and Win. Henry Stagg, Sheffield, tile manufacturers. James Evens Tagman, Liverpool, merchant. Nathaniel Robertson, Liverpool, master mariner. Elisha Holm, Manchester, yarn agent. John Woolstencroft, Warrington, hairdresser. Geo. Coster and Jas. Miines. Bolton- le- Moors, minufacturg chemists. Thomas Perrins, Birmingham, gun percussioner Joseph Clark, Birmingham, cab driver. Henry Howell, Birmingham. Richard Blackwell, Birmingham, railway clerk, John Harriott, Birmingham, engraver. Robert Clavton, Manchester, bootmaker. Wm. Ilaigh, Stretford, journeyman cooper. Nathaniel Denton, Cheetham, Lanchashire, hatter. Jas. II. Frappell, Bedminster Down, Somersetshire, limeburner. Samuel Coupe, Oldham, tailor. James Law, Almondbury. Yorkshire, joiner. Wright Taylor, Iluddersfield. woollen manufacturer. Thomas Tunstall, Coleshill. Warwickshire, wheelwright. Win. Blanc', Grcetham, Rutland, retailer of beer. Ralph Hodgson, South Shields, cooper. Richard Fields, Wrool, Lincolnshire, wheelwright. Thomas Edwards, Ilanley. joiner. John Whitaker, Hurley, near Leeds, milk dealer. Edward Powell, Hereford, fishmonger. Wm. Exley, York, journevman currier. Robert Attoe, late of Old Catton, Norfolk, limeburner, Isaac Jones, Llanvabon, Glamorganshire, innkeeper. Edward Hards Eldrid. Horsham, veterinary surgeon. Wm. Ross, Swansea, brewer's traveller. Wm. Short, Conlngshv, Lincolnshire, butcher. John Dean. Higher Walton. Cheshire, wheelwright. James Wbilev, Gorleston, Suffolk, fisherman. Henry Read Pridgeon, Honiti n, taker. Norman Pennett l'arkin, Sheffield, cabinet casemakerv Henrv Gray, Braintree. butcher. James Milbourne, Carlisle, draper. John Wm. Lockwood, Cambridge, cabinet maker. Joseph Bowden, Atherington, Devonshire. John Lakeman. Barnstaple. John Nay lor, Winterton. Lincolnshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS, J. Gordon, Buittle, Kirkcudbright. G. Lindsay, Glasgow, wright. J. Whitton, Wester Keith, Forfarshire, farmer. H. J. Lemmich, Glasgow, shipbroker. P. Murrav, late of Glasgow, accountant. S. Duke, Landend, near Fettercairri. Kincardineshire, cattle dealer. E. D. Keith. Eassieand Novav. Forfarshire, farmer. BREVET.— me roi proms to take place consequent on tne decease of Maj- Gen J. Cox, col of the 88th Ft, on Feb 7:— Lieut- Col and Brev- Col H. E. Doherty, C. B., on h- p 9th Ft, to be maj- gen; Maj and Brev- Lieut- Col F. Walker, Royal Canadian Rifle Regt, to be col: Maj W. G. Cameron, 4th Ft, to be lieut- col; Capt M. M'Creagh, 4th Drag Gds, to be major. WAR OFFICE, MARCH 6— 2d Regt of Life Gds: Maj and Lieut- Col and Brev Col G. H. Vyse to be lieut- col, v Brev- Col F. M. Martin, who ret upon h- p; Capt F. Marshall to be major and lieut- col, v Brev Col Vyse; Lieut C. G. H. Rowley to be capt, v Marshall; F. Young, gent, to bo cor and sub- lieut, v G. A. Curzon, prom. 1st Drags: H. A. Keogh, gent, to be cor, v T. J. Walker, prom; Surg A. Forteath, M. D., having completed twenty years' full- pay service, to be surgeon- major, under the provisions of the royal warrant of 1st Oct, 1858. 3d Hussars: L. It. Stevenson, gent, to he cornet, vW. P. Maxwell, prom.- 12th Lancers : Cornet C. T. B. Vandeleur to be lieut, v T. E. Houghton, who ret. 14th Hussars: T. K. Baker, gent, to be cornet, v R. J C. Thompson, prom. 19th Hussars: Ridingmaa W. Langdale, Bengal Armv, to be quartermas. Roval Artil: Lieut- Col and Brev- Col J. N. A. Freese, C. B., to be col, v J. W. Mitchell, ret upon h- p ; Captain and Brev- Maior A. F. Connell to be lieut- colonel, v Freese; Second Captain Richard Oldfield to be captain, v Connell ; Lieut A. J. H. Wynne to be second capt, v Oldfield; Gentleman Cadet H. Soames to be lieut, v Campbell, prom; Gentleman Cadet J. H. G. Browne to be. lleut, v Wynne; Second Capt C. D. Bevan to be adj, v Oldfield, prom. Royal Engineers : The first Christian name of Lieut, with temporary rank, Beamish is Alten, and not Alexander, as stated in the, Gazette of Feb 6,1863. 4th Regt of Ft: Ens R. A. Knox to be lieut, v D. Smith, who ret; T. Blackwood, gent, to be ens, v Knox. 6th Ft: LieutG. W. B Collis to be instructor of musketry, v Lieut Saunders, prom. 21st: Ens II. Feilden to be lieut, v II. Sherwood, who ret; Ens H. J. Henley to be lieut, v E. W. Pearman, who ret; F. W. Burr, gent, to be ens, v Feilden; S. A. Rothwell. gent, to be ens, v Henley. 24th: W. P. Symons, gent, to be ens, v C. J. Brom'aead, prom. 34th: Ens W. Vaughan to lie lieutenant, v R. . Newton, who retires; G. James, gent, to be ensign, vice Vaughan; Francis Arthur Eagleton, gent, to be ensign, vice Thomas Wheeler Gilham, who retires. 61st: Ens the Hon E. J. Chetwynd to be lieut, v M. Murphy, who ret; J. L. M. Parkinson, gent, to be ens, vthe Hon E. J. Chetwynd. 79th: Lieut A. Hutton to be instructor of musketry, v Lieut Clay, who has res that app. 109th : Capt A. A. P. Browne to be maj, without pur, v F. W. Woifahrt, dec ; Lieut A. W. Lucas to bo capt, without pur, v Browne ; Ens A. Balderston to be lieut, without pur, v Lucas. 3d West India Regiment: Capt Sir S. R. Jarvis, from h- p 7th Hussars, to be capt, v Brev- Mtfi G. M Ross, who reverts to h- p; Lieut W. W. Worswick to be capt, v Sir S. R. Jarvis; Ens A. R. Keene to be lieut, v Worswick; B. V. Layard. gent, to bo ens, v Keene. VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.— Th « following acting veterinary surgeons have been permitted to resign their commissions:— J. H. Bnrbage, J. L. A. Poett. STAFF.— Lieut- Col and Brev- Col R. Wilbraham, C. B., h- p unat, to be governor and commandant of the General Hospital at Setley; Capt and Brev- Maj T. A. Rawlins, from staff capt Invalid Depot at Chatham, to be staff capt and assist- com at the General Hospital at Netley ; Ens, with local rank, W. llawtree, from Act Capt of Orderlies at the General Hospital at Woolwich, to be ens and capt of orderlies at the General Hospital at Netley; Capt and Brev Maj G. T. Field, of the Royal Artil, to be act gov of the General Hospital at Woolwich ; Mrs J. Shaw- Stewart to be superintendent- gen of female nurses at the General Hospital at Netley ( not commissioned). BREVET.— Lt- Col and Brevet- Col T. Chute, 70th Ft, tohave the local rank of brigadier- gen, while in command of troops in the Australian colonies; Capt Sir S. R. Jarvis, 3d West India Kegt, to be maj in the army; Capt and Brev- Maj Sir S. R. Jarvis. 3d West India Regt, to be lieut- col in the army: Capt G.! l\ Colley, 2d Ft, to be maj. To be Generals: Lieut- Gen C. R. Fox; Lieut- General C. A. Shawo, col 4th Ft. To be Lieut- Gene- rals : Maj- Gen Sir P. Grant, G. C. B., col 104th Ft; Maj- Gen Sir R. J. H. Vivian, K. C. B., col 102d Ft; Maj- Gen W. Wyllie, C. B., col 109th Ft. To be Major- General, the rank being honorary only: Colonel John Wray Mitchell, retired full pay, Royal Artillery. The date of promo- tion of Colonel Henry Joseph Morris to the honorary rank of maj- gen to be 26th, not Jan 24, 1803, jas stated in the Gazette of Feb 6,1863. The following officers having completed five years, qualifying service as lieut colonels, under the Roval Warrant of Oct 17, 1858, to be colonels:— Lieut- Col H. A. B. Campbell, C. B., Royal Artil; Lieut- Col J. Turner, Royal Artil.— The following promotions to take place consequent on the deaths of Gen T. Evans, C. B., col 81st Ft, on lltli Feb, 1803, and Gen S. H. Berkeley, col 16th Ft, on Feb 12, 1803 :— To be Generals: Lieut- Gen Hon Sir 0. Gore, K. C. B., col 6th Ft: Lieut- Gen W. L. Walton, col 5th Ft.— to be Lieut- Gens: Major- Gen J. R. Craufurd. at present serving on the staff in Great Britain as maj- gen In command of the brigade of Ft Gds; Maj- Gen W. S. Balfour. To be Major- Generals: Lieut- Col and Brev- Col A. II. Ferrvman, C. B., from h- p, late 75th Ft; Lieut- Col and Brev- Col W. J. ltidlev, from Scots F. is ( Ms. To be Colonels: Maj and Brev Lieut- Col H. C. Brewster, 76th Ft; Lieut- Col C. Beamish, 35th Ft. JTo be Lieut- Colonels: Maj W. Rickman, Depot Battalion; Capt and Brev- Maj E. J. Cruiee, on h- p unattached, and Staff Officer of Pen- sioners. To be Majors: Capt H. A. Smyth, Royal Art; Capt P. W. Phil- HR » R » A ART FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES OF MARCH 3 & 6. WAR OFFICE, MARCH 3.— 16th Regt: Lieut- Gen G. Macdonald, from the 96th Ft to be col, v Gen S. H. Berkeley, dec. 88th: Maj- Gen the Hon A. A. Dalzell to be col, v Maj- Gen J. Cox, dec. 96th: Maj- Gen C. Warren, C. B., to be col. v Lieut- Gen G. Macdonald, transf to the 16th Ft. 1st Regt of Drag Gds: Lieut W. E. Marsland to be capt, v E. Bradbury, who ret. 1st Drags: Lieut E. W. Griffith, from the 7th Ft, to be lieut, v C. L. Lane, who ex. 5th Lancers: Ens G. Olliver, from the 24th Ft, to be cor, v W. J. St Aubyn, prom. 14th Hussars: J. L. White, gent, to be cor, v F. J. S. H. Newton, prom; J. G. G. Shaw, gent, to be cor, v J. Mather, prom. 4th Regt of Ft: Ens L. M'Laine to be lieut, v. H. A. Blake, who ret; R. G. Freeland, gent, to be ens, v M'Laine. 7tli Ft: Capt A. J. Tuke. from the 64th Ft, to be capt, v W. J. C « ope, who ex; Lieut C. L. Lane, from 1st Drags, to be lieut, v E. W. Griffith, who ex. 18th: Lieut J. J. R. R. Russell, from the 49th Ft, to be lieut, v W. H. Thomas, who ex. 24th: Capt W. M. Dunbar, from the 34th Ft, to be capt, v G. C. Ross, who ex; P. M. French, gent, to be ens, v G. Olliver, transf to the 5th Lancers. 34th : Capt G. C. Ross, from the 24th Ft, to be capt, v W. M. Dunbar, who ex; Lieut J. F. Wyse- to be capt, without pur, v Brev- Maj F. P. Cassidy, seconded, on being app district inspec of musketry. 38th : The app of Ens T. F. Still- well, from the 67th Ft, to bear date Feb 20,1863, and to be in succes to Ens Wood, transf to the 35th Ft, and not as stated in the Gazette of the 16th ult. 47th : Maj and Brev- Lient- Col R. W. Lowry to be lieut- col, v Brev- Col T. C. Kelly, C. B., who rets upon h- p; Capt and Brev- Maj C. C. Villiers to be maj, v Brev- Lieut- Col Lowry; Lieut G. Walker to be capt, v Brev- Maj Villiers; Ens W. R. Jervisto be lieut, v Walker; J. A. Smith, gent, to be ens, v Jervis. 49th: Lieut W. H. Thomas, from the 18th Ft, to be lieut, v J. J. It. Russell, who ex. 53d : Staff Surg R. M'Nab, M. D., to be surg, v Surg- Maj G. T. Galbraith, M. D., who ex. 56th : Lieut A. W. Turner to be capt, v H. Williams, who ret; Ens G. D. Grimes to be lieut, v Turner; H. B. Walmesley. gent, to be ens, v Grimes. 63d : Ens J. Thacker to be lieut, v 1). F. Tarratt, who ret; J. H. Edwards, gent, to De ens, v Thacker. 64th : Capt W. J. Coope, from the 7th Ft. to be capt, v A. J. Tuke, who ex. 66th: Lieut G. W. M. Hall, from the 74th Ft, to be lieut, v C. T. Wallace, who ex. 74th: Lieut C. T. Wallace, from the 66th Ft, to be lieut. v G. W. M. Hall, who ex. 77th: J. H. Bourne, gent, to be ens, vG. A. White, prom. 92d: Lieut F. W. Prittie, from the 97th Ft, to be lieut, v E. S. Tritton, who ex.— 96th Lieut R. A. Mostyn to be capt, v E. Hogg, who ret; Ens T. E. B. Townsend to be lieut, v Mostyn; R. C. Stevens, gent, to bo ens, v Townseni. 97th : Lieut E. 8. Tritton, from the 92d Ft. to be lieut. v F. W. Prittie, who ex. 99th : Maj and Brev- Lieut- Col M. H. Dowbiggin to be lieut- col. v H. J. Day, who ret; Capt J. H. Dunne to be maj, v Brev- Lieut- Col Dowbiggin ; Lieut H. Townshend to be capt, v Dunne; Ens J. F. Stephens to be lieut, v Townsend; E. G. Franklen, gent, to be ens, v Stephens; Staff Surg W. Snell to be surg, v C. C. Rutherford, app t* the Staff. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.— Surg- Maj G. T. Galbraith, M. D.. from the 53d Ft, to be Staff surg- maj, v Staff Surg R. M'Nab, M. D.. who ex. To be Staff Surgeons:— Surg C. C. Ruther- ford, from the 99th Ft, v U. W. Evans, M. D., app to the 61st Ft; Staff Assist- Surg R. F. Andrews, v W. Snell, app to the 99th Ft; Assist- Surg J. B. Hamilton, M. B., from the 3d West India Regt, to be Staff assist- surg. v W. Chalmers, dec. THE MURDEB OF MB FITZGERALD.— DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.— Dennis Dillane was this day convicted as accessory before the act of the murder of Mr Fitzgerald, in the county of Limerick. Sen- tence was deferred. It was by Dillane, who is a shopkeeper, that the assassins, Beckham and Walsh, were hired. The trial of Matthew Dillane, for the same crime, is postponed until next assizes. William Cooke pleaded guilty to the charge of harbour- ing Walsh. In this case also sentence was deferred. MORE INFANTICIDE.— A young woman, named Elizabeth Lydia Brown, daughter of respectable parents, living in Rotherfield- street, New North- road, aged only 17, has been commited on the coroner's warrant for the murder of her infant child, of which she was delivered on Wednesday week, and which was found strangled in a closet at a Wesleyan school in Mintern- street, which the pri- soner had been seen to leave shortly before the discovery. rushed into the garden. Mr Wright, hearing her screams, ran to her assistance, but before the flames could be extinguished she received dreadful and fatal injuries. The jury returned a verdict " That deceased lost her life accidentally, by being burnt through wearing crinoline." PRINCE ALFRED.— His Royal Highness Prince Alfred is now quite recovered from his severe illness, and is as well as ever. Last week, shortly after his removal, he passed his examination for lieutenant. The captains who examined him were the Hon F. Egerton, of the Bt George ; W. O. Stewart, of the Marlborough : and Commander Marsoll, of the Firefly. Directly the ceremony was over his commission as lieutenant was handed to him? and he now awaits his passage to England to join Her Majesty's ship Racoon. It is strange that he should have passed his first step to promotion in an hospital. THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.— The following are the arrangements for the distribution of new rifles to competitors for the Queen's prize at the Wimbledon meeting of the National Rifle Association for 1863 :— 1. That new rifles shall be issued to the competitors for the Queen's Prize, in exchange for Govern- ment rifles held by them as members of the corps to which they belong. 2. That upon the issue of the new arms to competitors the rifles previousl y held by them shall be immediately delivered into the stores o' „ neir respective corps. 3. That the rifles thus returned shal> le retained in store by commanding officers, and held available either to replace arms that may become unservice- able, in abatement of the 10 per cent of new arms now allowed in exchange for old arms, or for the service of any new members that may join the corps. 4. That commanding officers of corps shall forward a report to the War Office that the arms have so been returned into store, and a certificate that they shall be kept clean, and not leave the armoury or be used for any other purpose until required for the above services. 5. That the distribution of, and all arrangements connected with, the new rifles be carried out by the National Rifle Association ; and, further, that the as- sociation shall forward a report to the War Office, Pall- mall, giving the names of the competitors to whom rifles are issued, and the corps to which they belong. 6. That all new rifles supplied by the War Department for the abovenamed service shall bear a dis- tinctive mark on the barrel, so that they may be at any time identified.