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Mr. Laird moved, in amendment, that it be read this day three months, upon which the House divided, after a short discussion :-—

Ayes—Messrs. Laird, Muirhead, Clark, Macintosh, Yeo, Cooper, Dingwell, Perry, Hou. Mr, Montgomery, and Hon. Mr. Wightman— 10.

Nays —Hons. Messrs. Whelan, Longworth, T. H. Haviland, Col, Treasarer, Col. Seeretary, Palmer and Mooney, Messrs. Maedonald, H. Haviland and Munro—10.

The Bill was lost on the casting vote of the Speaker, who d: cided in the affirmative.

The engrossed Bill from the Council, entitled “ An Act relating to the office of Surrogate, and for other purposes,” was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to a eommittee of the whole House this afternoon.

Read a third time, as engrossed, the ‘ Act for the relief of debtors confined under process of the inferior Courts, and t) amend the Act relating to the recovery of Small Debts.” }'issed. Adjourned for one hour.

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Gleanings from late Papers. THE REBELLION IN INDIA.

OFFICIAL ACCOUS TS OF VICTORIES. In the Gazette various details are given of what has been «fected in defeating the Sepoys by a Lritish detachment. Gen. Hope Grant thus describes how he took the town of

Meeangunge, in Oude :—

Carrure of Meganaunce sy Genrrat Grant.—I have! the honour to report, that on the morning of the 25rd }ebruary, | marched with a force to Meeangunge (with which | J had been sent out to cleaz the country on the left bank of the Ganges, and aiong the main road from Cawnpore to J.ucknow), where I heard a force of 2,000 infantry had taken ® position in the town, with 300 cavalry outside and five or =\x guns. The town was an old walled city with three strong gates, one leading to Lucknow, another to Cawnpore, and the tiird to Rohileund; at each of the gates were placed guns behind strong breastworks, and these three sides were covered with trees, 1 reconnoitred, and found on the fourth side an excellent position within 350 yards, where the two heavy gaus, under Major Anderson, C.B., could be brought up, and a part of the wall, in which was a postern gate beside a house ealled the Palace, which could be breached. I imme- diately ordered up the two guns, placed the 53rd Regiment with the 88th in support, in rear of the guns behind a village. I sent the cavalry, with four guns of the Royal Horse Artil- lery, to cover the Lucknow road, and the 34th Regiment, with two other guns and a troop of cavalry, to cover the baggage on the Rohileund road. Major Turner's troop of %-pouuders, under command of Lieutenant Bishop, I placed ov the right of the heavy guns, to keep down the musketry fire from the walls of the town. In the space of fifty minutes the two heavy guns made a practicable-breach, aud [ then ordered the 43rd Regiment to advance to the assault. They were formed into two columns, one was to proceed through

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charge of the fort, but I propose to make it over to the Soobah of Seiadia, after having entirely demolished theasti we breac The town of Chandairee is now eatii..5 from revels, and the inbabitants are resuming their occupa- tions; the Sir Soobah has now charge of the gates of it, which

who cut off all communications with it from my brigade.

TreasonapLe CorresponDENce with Nena Sauts,—From the Deccan we still continue to receive intelligence of plots. A traitor of high rank who had been condemned to the gal- lows for treasonable correspondence with Nena Sabib, bad begged hard to be spared the degradation of being hanged, and prayed that he might be allowed the ignominious punish- ment of being blown from a gun. This was refused him, and the wretch, under the influence of mortal fear, made a clean breast of the busjness, and revealed the details of a grand scheme, in which he himself was to have borne a conspicuous part, for the simultaneous slaughter of afl Europeans in the Decean and Southern Mahratta country. The disclosures made by the convicted traitor under notice have led to the arrest of numbers of rich and influential persons, who had nearly all of them enjoyed the unhesitating confidence of the Government. Of such importance were the revelations which the man made, that the Government has been induc d to spare his life, and commute his sentence of death to tran- sportation to the Andaman Islands,

Comptaints apour Sir Contin Campsent. — It must be confessed that our position here, so far as it relates to the general attitude of the British army in ladia, is not, at first sight, very satisfactory: Sir Colin Campbell is thought by some to be guilty of great neglect, because he is not covering ‘the country with flying columns, and his conduct. is’ revi- ving old Indian traditions against him. We are actually at this moment in danger of having our communications with Cawnpore interrupted at any time, for the enemy are reported to be at Hurha, within two miles of the road between Bannee and the Ganges, and we hear thatgsome 14,000 men are assembled at Bitowlie, which is situated on a loop of the Gogra, due east of Buraech. “ Why does not Sir Colin go out and thrash these fellows?” is the angry demand of all civilians, and of some soldiers. Well, it is probable that Sir Colin Campbell thinks that in the first place his troops would never be able to inflict such punishment on the enemy as would prevent their assembling in another place, and that the efforts of the Chiefs will disperse these people. He may object to exposing his -soldiers in useless forays, or he may be devising some grand scheme of general suppression, It is useless to deny that whatever may be the causes of the delay, and whatever may be even its effects, there is one po'nt of view in which its consequences appear deplorable, and that is to be taken from the financial side of the question, Our transports cost about £10,000 per diem. The possession of India will soon become dear, indeed, if this army with its prodigious stores, and its nomad population, its docks and herds devastating the couutry—the piralysis of its presence —is to be maintained in a state of inactivity.

Dearu or Carratn Sin W. Peer, K. C. B.—We deeply regret to learn that intelligence has been received of the death of Captain Sir William Peel, of the Shannon, and Commander of the Naval Brigade serving iu the Bengal Presidency. Capt. Sir William Peel was third son of the late Sir Robert Peel, and was born on the 2d Nov., 1824. He entered the navy as midshipman on board the Princess Charlotte, Capt.

right, under Major Payne; thiis duty wus performed most } A. Fanshawe, flag of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, in April, admirably by the 53d; they approached the town through | 1858, and took part in the bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre ;

some lanes to the left, they rushed in at the breach, : the town and took it; six guns were also taken. of the enemy were killed, and numbers tried to make their escape through the gates, but we were everywhere prepared for them, and altogether there must have been 500 killed and 400 taken prisoners. The cavalry, artillery and infantry, on al sides, did their duty, and gave me the greatest satisfaction.

Cou. Bowcxorr’s Vicrory at A.tanabav.—Col. Bowcroft had a yictory in the Allahabad district, over a rebel force, whieh he thus describes: — “ Our line remained in steady position, anziously awaiting the moment for attacking the The bugle sounds neared on our line, and the enemy son showed themselves in great force, their line extending right and left, over-lapping our flanks. Our guns opened from the centre, and the enemy commenced a heavy and rapid eannonade from several guns on our line. I ordered out the skirmishers, and the whole line to advance. I received a report from Major Richardson, commanding left sjuadron, that the enemy in furge were pushing round my lett year. L ordered him to detach a troop, or if necessary w ih the squadron, to attack and clear out the enemy, but not « leave my left for any time. This was gallantly and elfectua'!y carried out by Major Richardson and his squadron, gealousiy and actively aided by Captain Brooks with a party of Ghoorkas, cutting up and killing a number of the enemy. Jiere Captain Jenkins and Corset Durnford had their horses shot and killed under them. pe reeetyed yreat assistance from Cornets Kloer and Troup, his erderly oijicers. I saw that there was no time to be lost, and that a rapid and decisive blow must be struck. Leaving orders for the guns to continue the advance and fire, and taking u party of Rifles, of 20 men from the naval column, with lieutenant Ingles, R.N., to reinforce the marine skirmishers, I rode on to the right squadron, and ordered Captain Chap- man to advanee rapidly with his squadron, inclining to the right, and bringing up his right shoulders to charge to the enemy's sowars and infantry, hoping it would also shake their centre. At the same time [ sent an orderly trooper with an order to the Gorrucknuth Ghoorka Regiment, on the right of the Naval Brigade, to advance at the charge, and the Ghoorkas moved gallantly forward. The result of this movement was soon apparent. I saw the left of the enemy hesitating, and some pressing towards their centre, the sowars in rapid retreat. Dows came the Yeomanry Cavalry at a charging paee, well and steadily together, on the moving masses of in- funtry, routing them and cutting down and killing great numbers, upwards of 90 reported, The whole left of the enemy soon gave way. I galloped up to the Yeomanry Cavalry, and thanked Captain Chapman and the squadron for their good and gallant movement and charge, and ordered Captaia Chapman to move towards the left to threaten the enemy's centre. The combined movement and gallant bear- ing of the troops, tue steady advance of the Naval Brigade, -o00 shattered the whole line of the evemy. They abandoned ‘heir guns and were in full retreat, and our gallant troops captured seven guns with limbers and ammunition, When ordering the right squadron to advance, I detached a party ot twenty troopers to the rear of the naval guns to cover and protect them, and this party, under Acting Cornets Copland aud Prinsep, by their gallant and excellent service, aided in capturing some of the guns.”

Capture or tue Fort or Cuanpatner.—Brigadier Stuart

reports the capture of the fort at Chandairee ;—* The fort of

(handairee was carried by the troops of this brigade, the breach was resorted practicable last evening, and proved a fair one; the impetuoys rush of the stormers of the 36th and “Sth Regiments carried every thing before it. Captain Keating, political assistant, was, Ll regret to say, severely

Major Richardson reports that |

stormed | from the Princess Charlotte he was removed to the Monarch, Numbers! Capt. Chads, in which ship be servediff the China seas. Ty

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‘he passed his examination in such a brilliant manner that be called forth thet warm eulogiumws of Sir Thomas liustings and Sir Charles Napier, and was torthwith promoted to the ravk tieutenant. in May of that year he was appointed % Hope station, and shortly after removed to the Cormorant steam-sioop in the Pacific, and subsequently to the Thalia, 42, on the same station, Sir William was promoted to the rank of commander, June 7, 1846, and was appointed to the com- mand of the Daring, on the North American and West India stations. He held several minor commands until the out- break of the Jate war with Russia. He was captain of the Diamond, 28, in the Black Sea fleet, and distinguished himself greatly with the Naval Brigade ia the Crimea, Capt. Peel was compelled, from wounds and over-exertion, to return to his native country before the fall of Sebastopol, but at the commencement of the differences with China in 1856 he was appointed to the command of the Shannon, 51, serew-frigate, ordered on the China station, Capt. Peel had scarcely reached the Chinese waters before he was ordered by the Ambassador, the Karl of Elgin, with spare troops to Calcutta to afford assistance in the suppression of the mutiny of the Bengal army, Since the Shannon anchored in the Hooghly | Sir William Peel’s exertions with his brave crew have been | unremitting in carrying out the views of the Grovernor-General. He made, with his men, a most rapid progress to Allahabad and Cawnpore, and, as most of our readers are aware, was severely wounded at the capture of Lucknow, under Sir Colin 'Campbell. He is said to have died of small-pox. Capt, Sir | William Peel was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his services in the Crimea, and for his recent services in India was nominated a knight commander. He was also an officer of the Legion of Honour of France and of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie, and had received the Sar- dinian war medal,

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A Domestic Teacepy 1x Carcurra.—A frightful tragedy |has been enacted in Calcutta, in which Mr. Samuel Scott, |printer, his wife, and three daughters, and a mehtranee in their service, were the victims, Mr. Scott a short time ago dismissed his sirdar-bearer for secking to form an improper intimacy with the mehtranee. The bearer begged himself back into service, and on the previous Saturday, having had an altercation with the woman down stairs, went up to the _dining-room, snatched up four knives from the table as it was being laid for dinner, and returning below, attacked the woman with two of them in each hand, He inflicted sixteen wounds upon her, but they were “hone ef them dangerous. |The mehtranee contrived to escape up stairs, thither the bearer followed her, and ran a-mwuck at the family. He |came into a room in which six of Mr, Scott's daughters, the ‘eldest of whom was only eleven years old, and a friend, named Jessie Herberlet, were playing together. He stabbed the child nearest to Lim, Catherine Warden Scott, only four years old, on the neck, Jessie Herberlet on the nose and head, ‘and Jane Scott on the neck as she was rushing out of the -room. The wounds on the two first children are very severe, but not dangerous; that on Jane Scott killed the poor ‘creature on the spot. All this was the work of a moment. |The ruffian was then making for one of the other children, an innocent five years old, and who had wrapped a door- curtain around her in the hope of concealing herself from -yiew, when the cries of Mrs, Scott behind them made him ‘turn, and rush upon her. Having dealt her two or three ‘stabs, he went into an inner room where Mr. Scott lay still suffering from the effects of a severe illness, and struck him ‘with his knife first on the crown of the head, and then on

up to this morning have been strongly held by the rebels, |

wounded whilst forward in the storm:ng party, I beg to the left side of the neck. As he turned to leave the room, enclose a list of egsualties on our side; the joss of the enemy he met a Christian beggar, named Samuel Da Costa, who is unknown at present, but in and abeut the fort there are lived on the benevolence of the family, and, falling upon

from 40 to $0 bolies; their flight was most precipitate, and him, gave him a wound which almost severed the thumb from |

they seattered over the surrounding jyagle in every direction, his left hand. But Da Costa brought him down by a blow with tae exception of about 200, who, somewhat in a body, jof hig stick with the fright, and the police soon after arrived fled northwards. All the guns in the fort, eight of iron and |and secured him. The child who had wrapped the purdah

two of biass, are in our possession. Major Robertson is in | round her was ai.erwards found hiding behind a chest, The

Sir| others who were untouched had been taken away to a place | ion | of safety by an ayah andia tailor. . -eed | were removed to the Medical College Hospital,

EXAMINER.

All the persons wounded The life of Mr. Scott was for some time depaired of, but according to, the last account -he was doing well, as also were Mrs. Scott, | Catherine Scott, Jessie Herberlet, and the mehtranee.

Tur Lare Brroaprer Avrian Hors. — The army bas scarcely less reason than the navy to mourn one of its most distinguished members. ‘The telegram announces that Briga- dier the Hon. Adrian Hope, C.B., of the 93d Highlanders, | was killed in the attack on the fort of Rowas on the 15th of April. He was one of the most gallant, able and popular of the young officers whom the warfare in the Crimea and in India has bronght into prominence; and among the H3drd Highlanders, and those with whom he served, his loss will be | deplored as a domestic bereavement. Colonel Hope was the | youngest brother of the late Karl of Hopetoun, and uncle to. the present peer; he was born in 1821, and entered the army as second Lieutenant 60th Rifles in 1838. With the second | battalion of that regimeot he served as captain through the Kaffir campaign of 1851-52-58, and received the brevet rank

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the astern expedition in 1854, Major Hope was appointed |

afterwards he rejoined the army in the field as second Lieu- tenant Colonel of the 93d. But his desire for active service was frustrated by the termination of the war and the return of the army from the Crimea, when Lieut.-Colonel Hope was placed on half-pay. On the 93d being ordered to China, he was re-appointed to the regiment, and with it sailed to its eventual destination in India, where he was almost iame-

_— eae SEE Tue Caprrau or Vicrorta.—Me!dourne, as it appears to us, is a kind of modern Babel—a little bell upon earth a city of rioters, gamblers, and druvkards—-a crowded

of human iniquity —where from the highest merchant down. ward, there appears to be but one object in view—where

very faculties of mind, body and soul, are employed ang

directed to one worldly end —where thousands are #0xiously *

and almost exclusively b.nt towards the consummation of their own selfish and ambitious desires—where delusiyg schemes are the pickpockets of honesty, aud where the of useful invention is too oftea the bane of its own utilj where calm reflection and all the higher attributes of mind lose their proper influesce in artificial excitement— where the ties of frieadship, domestic duties, kindred obij tions, intellectual study, and the immortal spirit of trye Tee ligion are often neglected, if not entirely forgotten in the busy work of self-agvrandisement— where, in fine, the price, less possessions of health, together with all those sweet ep. joyments which constitute the reat happiness of life, fal) sacrifice to an insatiable thirst for gain.— Puseley’s Australia Leh dig-ahhyp-etheiehh pol

A Reorvenr or Sotpiens rrom Canapa.—In a

of major for his services, On the formation of the army of) ort time, according to the reports from Quebes, was °o ,

expect such an arrival from the shores of America as bo

Brigade Major of the Highland Brigade, then commanded by | Englishinan has ever yet seen. The spectacle will coniteh all

Sir Colin Campbell, and in that capacity served at the Alma! new Regiment of the Line, imported whole and entire from

and other operations up to the month of April, 1855, when! in. other side of the Atlantic.

his promotion to a regimental majority in the 6Uth compelled) ow the Jast regiment on the list, it will be numbered the ‘ el ca a vias st reg st, :

him to relinquish his staff appointment, but in a few months! 19th Reyiment of Foot, but it will be dignified also with a

In suce-ssion to the

Loyal title, and wiil be inscribed in full as * the Prince of Wales’s Royal.Canadian Regiment,” under which designation ‘it will form part and parcel of the regular infantry of the jarmy. As we are informed, the corps is already neatly |complete, and its appearance in England may be anticipated within a few weeks. The event will be not a little remark. able, for it will constitute, we believe, the very first examp

diately placed in command of a brigade, consisting of the | o¢ its kind in the history of the British army. ‘The offer of o3d, 93d, and a corps of Panjaub Rifles, which be led to the | jhe Canadians to contribute to the forces of the Fanpire wag relief of Lucknow, and the subsequent re-adyance to that | jade with every circumstance of patriotism and le place, in a manner that gained him the warmest approval of | during the pressure of the Crimean war, but the p his chief. Colp el _Hope’s death was causod by a shot from) was declined. Te authorities have since availed themselyes @ Sepoy, wo fired at him frovm a distauce of about twenty of these overtures, and in the augmentatious which our army yards as he was out reconnoitring. has receutly received, have assigned the quota of one regular

i oa = i -|regiment to the Canadian Colouies, It is ouly a short time

ZquesTRiaN Statue o¥ THE LATE Fretp-Marsuat Loxd| 7), the resolution was taken, but more than half tl Harpinae.—This work, by J. H. Foley, R. A., being un- ee . I 000 h: ee a J rate am oe covered und exhibited in Burlington-gardens, the public have —-680 ouk of: -000-—Save. aiventy. beep Fee Sena the advantage of judging of its merits, both as a likeness and apreee mee" _ onan ere wouls be ready ek ahi a es aia th ‘il “n 8g MEd embark for Engiand soon afier the close of the present arate treatment. Ln a few weeks it wi e¢ On lls way to month. The sight of a reziment landing on cur shores Calcutta, its destined home, which had never quitted them, will be novel indeed,

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Much has been said and written as to the glut of labour/or Two Lives —Ou Sunday a serious accident occurred in in Australia, but this applies solely to Victoria, and even in| the river Thames, immediately opposire the coast-guard that colony it refers almost exclusively to what may be! station at Charlton. It appears that the Arab brig, a collier termed efieminate labour—that is, those classes of persons | vessel, with a full cargo of coals, was lying at her moorings who are more accustomed to office or in-door employment, | in the centre of the stream, when, at 7 a.m., the iroa screw but does not in any sense include those who occupy them-|steam-vessel John Howe, and the steam-vessel Black Du

selves in the search for, or in the working of, mines. In| Victoria and New South Wales there is, it is true, little | wore produced than the precious metal, but from South | Australia we draw large supplies of rich copper, lead, and | tin. In the two last-named colonies, where mining in its’ wiore ordinary sense is extensively presented, there is a | dearth, and not a glut, of mining labour—indeed, of every | description of labour; and various localities well known to | coutain rich lodes of ores would be promptly opened up, 1 the supply of this description of labour were equal to the | demand, We may add, from the letters which reach us) from the various mining districts in this country, it is evident there is a steady increase of mining labour leaving our shores. | In fact this is the natural consequence induced by the con- | tinual arrival of large amounts of the precious metal from

iac Winelfester, 50 guns, on the Cape of Good |

Victoria and Sydney, aud of rich copper and silver lead ore | from South Australia—the result in a grest measure of) unskiiled mining with unskilled labour ; therefore, it becomes | self-evident to experienced miners that they are certain | to obtain immediate aud lucrative employment the moment | they reach the mining localities of Australia. No discrimi- nation is shown when allusion is made to colonial labour by | the general press in this couatry, which necessarily leads | to misappreliension in the minds of some who otherwise would emigrate ; for while there is a glut of one description, there is frequently a great dearth of another. Our Australian colonies are an illimitable field of mining enterprise, and with practical miners to open up the various deposits of ores, and with a corresponding necessarry amount of agricultural and pastoral labour to supply the wants of others, it is evi- dent that no glut of mining labour can exist for years to come.—Mining Journal.

The Melbourne Argus says :-—Although the actual state of the labour market here is a most unsatisfactory one at present, Gur prospects are brighter than they have been for a louy time past, but it must be remembered that these are only so from the probability of money being obtaived from Kvgland for the construction of our railways. Until final arrangements are made for the negotiation of the required loan, we cannot advise the working elasses to flock bither- | ward in any numbers; but as soon as it is aseertained that | the railway works are to be commenced on the scale in- tended, and with a certainty of their continuance, this may | again be looked upon as the working man’s paradise, where steady work at his ordinary ealling awaits bim, with a rate of remuneration for bis services that will enable him after a very few years either to become a master himself, if he have

a trade, or else a settler on his own land, if accustomed to, | ceeded, with the aid of our divers, in getting up £2

or desirous of following, rural pursuits, Domestics, more particularly thoroughly competent fe- male servants, are still much inquired for, and, when fully

mond, proceeded up the river at full speed, the two vessels being apparently engaged in racing, the John Howe being foremost. It is said that in approaching the brig the crews of the steamers were shouting to each other in the excite ment of the race. When close to the brig the pilot on board the black Diamond pereeived the imminent danger, and signalled to the Juun Lowe to put back. Lt was, however, too late, for the latter vessel daslied into the head of the brig with tremendous foree, literally splitting her in two. The brig went down head foremost immediately, and the iron steam-veseel hud s me difficulty in getting clear of the wreck, The coast-guard men ou this station put cif in their boat to render ass'stance, but their efforts were unavailing. The whole of the crew of the brig, consisting of the captain, four seameo, and two boys, were asleep in their berths when the vessel went down, aud the five men escaped from the stern of the verse) which was uppermost as she sank, and swam to a small boat hauled to a collier lying near. Two boys were at the time berthed in the forepart of the brig, and, from the fact that the bow of the steamer entered into the timber of the former vessel at least three yards, it is pre sumed that they were crushed to atoms, lu order to prevent danger to the navigation of the river, a signal flag has been affixed to the main mast of the sunken vessel, the top of the mast being just visible at high water.

Tux Wreck or tue Ava.—So little of an authentic character has transpired with reference to the loss of this beautiful but ill-fated ship, that the following extract froma letter, received from one who had served on board of ber, will be read with interest. It is dated from “ The Ava Camp, April 10.—We have continued our ovcupation of the camp on the shore, aud have worked, to use an old expression, ‘like true British sailors.’ Of course our duties have not been of the most agreeable kind, but [| must give you another adage, “‘ reward sweeiens labour,” and whether we ever shall get properly recompensed by the Government or Bo, it certainly is very encouraging to see so many boxes of bright gold brought up, albeit that one has to work up to his neck in water. Of course we are not without protection, and Commodore Watson, who commands the Kast L[ndia squadron, is here in her Majesty’s frigate Chesapeake, having come to render us every assistance in his power. Tle is a glorious fellow, and his presence and that of his officers is very grateful to all of us. A few days since (on the 7th) the wreck, which as I before told you was for a long time partly visible, wholly disappeared. Up to this ‘ime we have sue 30,000 of the specie. ‘There remain below water seven more boxes, containing about £43,000, and [ am very hopeful that we shall succeed in recovering the whole of it. We bave alo

capable of performing the duties they engage for, ol-tain even | got up some bales of silk, and some baggage, and one or two

higher rates of wages than those quoted. The system of

assisted emigration now adopted, although not inroducing completely spoiled by the sea-water.

so large a number, brings a much improved and more suited

class of domestic servants into the market, who readily find | stories, but do not believe thei,

situations. The demand for farm servants, in Melbourne at least, has entirely ceased, and even in the farming districts, there is reported to be but little demand for agricultural labour. Mechauies are still in excess of requirement, and

things of our own have been fished up, but of course all is For myself, all By You will no doubt hear many You will find that we should not have been wrecked had it not been for the Trias comalee light about which there bas been so much complaiat

things have gone to pot.

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Serrremenr or THE Jew Question.—The Peers have

as the summer closes, employment will become more d ficult | capitulated in the battle with the Commons on the Je

to procure. The following continue to be the rates of wages, subject, of course, to arrangements :— With rations ; Married couples, without families, £70 to £80; ditto with families, £60 to £70; gardeners, £60 to £65 ; grooms, £52 to £65 ; shepherds, £30 to £40; keepers, £30 to £40 ; hutkeepers, £20 to £20 per annum ; general farm-servants, 20s; plough- | men, 293 ; bullock-drivers (on roads), 253; on stations, 20s per week ; men cooks, £52 to £100; female, £35 to £46:

general servants, £30 to £35; nursemaids, £18 to £25 per countrymen generally.

annum. The following are considered the standard weekly | rations :—I12lbs. beef or mutton, 10lbs, flour, 2ibs. sugar,

Alb. tea.—Without rations: Compositors, 1s 6d per thou-| treating.

question. The last division in the Lower House, which gave a larger majority than ever, had a material effect upon! resolve of one portion of the Peers. It was that porto which is represented by Lord Derby—those who stand by their order, and would shed the last drop of their rather than surrender their high position in the country, yet

‘who nevertheless feeb that they can maintain that ascenda®

sition only so long as they have the coxcurrence of te

: . i Lied Derby has always been dis- tinguished by his dashing style of debate, but he has also been called “ the Rupert of debate,’ from his facility of re This characteristic was brought into stronger P y

sand ; ditto by the week, £4 4s; pressmen ditto, £4 4s to, by the peculiar circumstance of his being a Minister.

£4 10s; carpenters, 12s to 14s; masons, 14s to 16s; plas- terers, 12s to 15s; bricklayers, 13s to 15s; blacksmiths, 12s)

Tae Brisa Force Empioyep at Lucxnow.— The

to 16s; quarrymen, 9s to 12s per day; woodsplitters and taking of Lucknow consisted of a series of operations cone

fencers, 4s to 5s; fencing by the rod (material to split only), ducted from the 2od till the 16th of March.

Gs per ton ; labourers on the roads, 6s to 8s per day, wood, | water, and tents found.—Seamen’s wages: There is no, change in rates of this description of labour. There is a fair demand for men, but the supply is quite equal to require- ments, and the following continue to be the rates paying :— Coasting voyages, £5; India or China and back, £4 10s; India, China, west coast of America, and Kngland, £4 10s ; England direct, £4 10s ; for Callao only, £2 10s per month. |

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827 European officers, 147 native officers, aud 1 ‘and file, with 4,517 horses. ‘down as an effective force of 20.000. Of this num

'—total loss, 646.

consisted 0 8,797 rank:

That is to say it may be put ber, after

first named the force under Sir Colin Campbell

Lucknow fell, it was found that 127 officers and men been killed, 505 had been wounded, and 14 had been a The pieces of ordnance captured 4

Lucknow were 118 in all,

On the day 4

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