The Sun. — London, England, 1858-06-30 00:00:00

Ali D COMDTERCIA.L INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly and with some ani mation ; prices of all descriptions, however, were without change. The sales amounted to 15,000 bales, 4,000 of which were taken by the specula tors, and 3,000 by the exporters. In Railway Shares a fair amount of business was transacted, and former values were fully supported. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Ross, Mitchell, and Co., held yesterday, it was agreed to accept a composition of 12s. Gd. in the pound. Loud complaints were made at the system upon which the business of the firm had been conducted, and the diecussion was very protracted. Although an angry feeling is often displayed at similar meet ings, the indignation expressed on this occasion was much greater than usual. When the fire took place at the St. Katherine's Dock a few weeks ago, the insurance offices ad- vanced the rates 2s. Gd. to 3s. Gd. per cent., but as similar casualties have since occurred at Fresh Wharf and the London Docks, it would not excite surprise if another rise is shortly announced. The losses accruing from the disaster of yesterday are considerable ; indeed there has not been such a destruction of property .in London for some time, but it is yet too early to form a correct ei•timato of the value of the merchandise damaged and destroyed. Before these events, which singularly enough have all occurred within a few weeks, the offices had sustained few losses of a similar cha racter. They had been particularly fortunate in that respect, and thus some complaint was made when they advanced their terms immediately after the fire at the St. Katherine's Dock, the claims arising from which being the first cf any magnitude since the opening of the establishment, but now it is admitted that the risk justifies the movement, and there can be no doubt that from this time many will ensure their property, who have hitherto declined. A very active demand for money was experienced yesterday. At the Bank a larg~r discount business was done than at any time since the crisis, and the terms out of doors further advanced. At the Sock Exchange also there was some pressure. There was a meeting of the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company to-day, but the proceedings were said to be private. The de-cription given of the English Stock Market yesterday will apply to-day, scarcely any change either iu the transactions or quotations having taken place. If anything the Funds are a trifle flatter, but the movement is fractional and unim portant.. Perhaps, the less favourable position of the Money Market has slightly influenced the values. Consols have been 95 and are now 95j buyers. The New Tbree per Cents. are 95 I; the Reduced, 95 ; the March Exchequer Baca, 325. prem. ; and the Bonds, 1001 ; Bank Stock Was 2201 224. The numbar of transactions recorded in the Foreign. Stock Market are rather limited, but the tendency in prices has beer► in an upward direction. Turkish. 6 per Cents. are 94 :T ; ; ditto 4 per Cents., 1041 ; Brazilian Scrip is 1 11 discount ; Mexicali 3 per Cont.,s.. :19;i 20 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., •._ .46k 47 ; Russian 41 per Cents., 102 Spanish 3 per Cents., 45 4 ; and ditto Deferred, 27Z. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bends, 5.1 6 ; Mexi- CAD, 19i 19i ; Peruvian, 861 7i ; Ditto 3 per Cent.s., •66 67 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 4947 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111 113 ; Ditto 4i, per Ceuta., _ . 101 103 ; Sr-Inisla 3 per Cents., 44. C! 45. f ; and. Ditto Deferred, 27.1 The transactions in the Railway Share Market to-day have bean limited, but prices have been firmer. , Great Northern, North-Western, Man- Chester, Sheffield and Lincoln, and Midllnd?, im proved 55., Caledonians 10s., and South-Eisterns, 11. Eastern COunties and North British declined Ds., and Lancashire and Yorkshire 153. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings are nat. Groat, Luxembourg have re.Tded 55., Grand Trunk of Canada.lss., and East Indian 153. Mining shares are inactive, and show little vari ation from previous quotations. Joint-Stock Banks and Aliixellaneous Share; are at stealy quo- tations. Union of London improved J.l.w3irs lian Agricultural ös., and Van Dienaa , i'a Land decliued 15s. BRITISH FUNDS.— CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (From the Oflicsal Lst:) Bai.k Stock Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 45 3 . !2:i Ncw Three per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto Bonds, £lOOO Di t ae).l.T Cloloi. Consols for Account . Exchequerßills— ,tlooo £5OO Smaa Exchequer Bonds, 1858, :3 per Cent Ditto, 1859 FOREIGN FUNDS.—THIS DAY. Brazilian, !`: per Cent — Ditto Scrip, 1854 ...... • 20 Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent B7 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent lO2 8, 1) • ,ii.t, ~ ,,,, , i s. a per (Ann ... . - Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. • Turkish Bonds, 6 per Cent. Litto Guaranteed 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above pa) ante in London. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for account (July 8) 9sa 3 x il 15 20 95,4 Marcli. June. :;21 it 17p 18 - 19 22 17 p COURSE OF Rae RANGE. — YESYEIIDAT. Amsterdam •••.•. • . • . •• 11 l it 4 Gibraltar .. • • Ditto, three months .• 11 1 7 4, Leghorn ..... • • 29 G 5 Itotterdani ••••.•• • •• •• 11 17% Genoa Antwerp •• •• •• •• •••••• 25 35 whin •••••• •• • - Brussels •• •••••.•• •• 25 35 !V en i ce •• •• •• •••• •• Bamburgh •• ••• •• •• •• •• 13 7 'Napier. —••.•GO•O • • • •• 414 Alton* •• •• •• ...• •• •• • • Paiermo •• •• •• 1 4 259 4 it 25 10 Messina .• 25 32? , :i Lisbon • • h 1 „ r M• •••.••••• •• 25 35 Oporto .• •••• •• •-• ..... 52N, Itourdeaux ••.•.•.. •... • • 'Rio Janeiro ...... •••• •• Frankfort-on,llaine .... I l 8!,; Buenos Ayre5.......... •• ••• » ••• ••• ••• • •• • • .New, days'eight Vicuna .......... • • .... 102 s Philadelphia Trieste .• •• •• •• •• •• .• 10 29 i TRICES OF ECLLION, PEN oz: Petersburg .. .• 35 3 A 'Yoreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9 Madrid 49)4 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 Cadiz •••.••••• • • •• •.•• 40% !Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 B • •• arcelona ............ .• New IJoHars ...... 0 0 Seville.. A. CHILD KILLED BY DRINKING 14:11.—On Sunday evening, as a man named Evans, residing in Blenheim street, Liverpool, was drinking a glass of rum, one of ;ais children, a girl three years old, seized the glass -end tinily and swallowed the contents. The child soon after- Verde became very unwell and died on Monday im con- Ylllsione. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Yesterday morning, a.t an early boor, a well-dressed young woman attempt e 2. suicide by jumping off Hungerfeett. bridge. Sthee, -eiss taken out in a , ""sate of insensibility, and conveyed to Charingeeroes hospital, where she now remains in a dangerous state. he gave her name Amelia Farrow. , THE RIVER oF DEATH.—One w ou ld h ave t h ought that 'be College of Physicians would years ago have warned the , e qoveinreent as re gar d s th e s t a t e o f t h e Ri ver Thames. ;chat river has been gradually , getting worse for the last L en years, and why, we ask, did not the Royal College of rhysicians. as it is called, warn the authorities, and pre `tbrit the Houses of Parliament being built over a common tesspool, which they ou g ht t o h ave k nown would endanger he lives of all the members ? I£ that college be of any lue to the country it surely was its duty to have acted the laart of a monit. r on this question, and the only way we ~a u account for its apathy in thi s ma tt er i s the fact that doctors live by the diseases of the people. The more there a re of them the more fees they pocket. When the number ?f doctors is cvsidered (all on the look-out for fees or b usiness) it is not unnatural that they should speculate bhon a sickly season. This seems to be the only reason longcan a ccoun t f or th e C o ll ege of Physicians not having I gng ago interfered as regards the state of the liver. We have a Minister of Health Dlr. Cow- Der, we believe, to whom the country pays 2,C00/. year. - How is it, that he did not bring this important question before the House of Parliament? It is surely a question of health.• if officials who aro so handsomely Paid by the country, are to shuffle and throw the ball from °Ze to the other, it were better far to alter this form of government. It is truly lamentable in a great country like thi s to see its principal river turned into a regular kisoi lu d chalice. All such evils, we thir., proceed from the ninnuer in which doctors are paid vi::., by the num ber o f their visits. If this had not been the case, depend ‘ 1 1)on it that long ago the walls of Parliament would have "uounded with petitions against the state of the river, Which mu s t and would have b een alter:A. ; but, as it is, tho w ore di sease there is the better for the doctor, and • therefo r e it is no one's business to interfere. Ci Tempera, 0 Mores : It is o:lly when üblic opinion sounds the tocsin. q alarm th at the doctors m ake a sign of joining in th e cry for redress, a they did i of n respect. of the pharmaceutical Bunio s , and i n the case Dr. William Palmer, for the llngeley pcisonings. We ask aga i n, Why did , not the theca° College of Physician s (i f they are to b e cues ? eyed nservators of theublic health) long ago interfered 6 'la this matter ? Let th e m answer this question if they 0 44 • -- (Signed), THE MEMBERS ot"rnFi BBITTSIT COLLEGE laZAZTH, Eustou•road, Lentlr l y, 1 . , ;1 th e t.:4,ciMy of niiste.—awns 2(1,1858. MONEY MALKET FiR anima- epared y; and iveyed actions each vying iat ou d into notifi which .d. If peared overed places, .ments d with ;be re t other Coke's ' were e city, eciara- ) day, lid not Mr. of in misted. 11, was house rritten Esq., trriage large d, and crowd 1 three of the )ers of 3tracey. . 1&3 • 157 • 10 . 28 • 93 . 432 ;try. cey. . 562 • 405 . 87 . 176 ▪ 336 108 1,E74 , trac ey. . 735 W . 506 . 156 . 383 . 418 . 164 ;traoey. 792 . 506 . 166 . 413 . 443 . 171 2,491 stracey. . 818 . 561 175 . 455 468 . 188 2,665 1 2 3 1 2 ..... 3 `,ance. 1 2 3 ..... 1 2 1 2 .. 0 1 .. 0 2 on by .... 1 .... 3 .... 4 .ed in ler of R4I.!_,WAXN, ;AIL w 7 .4ottng. Bost. & Eastn. June"... &Vast & Pailymon :limn sig. Welvo: h. ,! Stour Birkenhd. Lanesl „ 4,; Cheshire glaokimrn Myth & Tyne original; £25 (iss. at £45)....J Bristol ei Caladon , .u. _ ....... IChtSter & Holyhea ' 'Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall ) Ds, A ! Do. 13 !Dublin&BelfastJunc I Dun. P. &Aber June. East Anglian ..... Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A.stk ! Do., do. B. Do. Now A , , 1 Ea d Kent ........... , 1 ‘ )) , ! Kant Lancashire East Suffolk all ; D o . 100 inblargh & Glasgow 100 !Edic.b.Prth.4DundAs , ~ all Forth and. Clyde-June. 400 : F ume ," 1100 leltzgow & S.Westorn , 811 Great N. of Scotland 100 Great Northern 100 :Do., A. Stock ' lo ° Do., B. Stock ;100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre). I :100 Great Western. 100 iDo. Str.V.R. all 'lrish South-Eastern. all (Lancaster &Carlisle. 15. Do., ...... jDo. New Thirds 100 ILaneash. &Yorkshire 6 [no., do. F 7 ;Du. Do., £9 • IDo' , Wet. Riding Un Do. flouth i nt:rt. 'London & Blacl-.waP !Do. New, iss. Si. 10s. iLond.Bright.6S.Cst (London &N. Wester Do. Eighths (London & S. Woat .rn Ludndrry.4Coleraine Lndwirry. & Ennisk, I I'tlanch.Sh•sf.drLine n. Metropolitan IMidland 'Do. Binning. dr De . r . h : Midland G.West.(lr.' Do. A Shares ......... Nownastle &Carl isle.. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd. Newry & Armagh N e wr y , Wazroupoi.. Rostrevor Norrollc ...... INorthn.Counties Un !North British North Devon, Rail 4 'Dock 5t0ck............ Do., A Stock ....... ,Do., B Stock ......... IN. Eastern -- Berwick ,Do do. G.N.E.Purch. IDo. Leeds Do. York !North London !N.& S. Wstn., Hamp ! stead, and City Jn. I North Staqordshire.. North Western 'N. dr S. Westrn. June ! Oxford Worcester 6 Wolverhamptan , all Peebles 19 "Portsmouth 10 !Rhymney 1100 Scottish Central t. :100 , Scrit. N. E. Ahrdn. St 'l.lOO 'Do. Scot. Mid. Stock St. !100 Shropshire Union 10 ; all 'Sitinghourne Sheer St.' 100 'South Devon St ? ! iGO South Eastern........ St. !100 !South ...... 20 all 'S. Torkeh. RirvrDun 20 14 'Do. 20 all Staines, l Vok.,&Wok. 25 all Stockton & 15 20 Do. do., 1854 25 5 Do. do., 18'15 16ilStoekton & liartlepl St. 100 Tail' Vale... St. 100 . Do. Pref., No. I__ 25 22 ti.ames Hay. D. &lt. St. 1.00 Vale of North St. ;100 Waterfd. & Kilkenny , Sd j all Waterford &Limerick 20 1 all West Coo nwall 10 I all 'West End of London and Crystal Palace 5 ; all Do. A 6 ! all : Do. B 20 all Wcst Loudon 10 all Do. First Class 20 all Do. Second Class_ ; ( )losing rre this day 5f 7 - 68 - 70 10 - 11 1100 .100 100 100 26A - sr 89 73 - 74 33 - 35 4 --- 5 7 - Si! 16 - 17 1 59? - OA! 46 - - 31 - 33 141 15, 88 - 90 2 0 all I- 1 i all 11. St. :100 St:. 100 12i 5 St. 100 5 all 25 ; all St. ; 100 10 11 St. .100 St. 100 50 all 25 all 00 all 25 all tO 9 20 all 62 - 68 21 - 26 92 - 94 1 9i - 10 99 - 100 - 84 1128 - 130 102 - 104 - 56 - 83 88 loi 10j; . 11} 88:1 --1 14 a St. 100 50 3 St. 100 St. 100 - 6 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 25 ui St. 100 St too St. too 10 31.1 107 - 108 89 - 8)j 1$ - 1R 91 - 92 , 20 1.7 A 20 an 10 all St. ilOO 36 2 ld 90i 91 62 64 12 - ii 59 - 61 3A 3 45 - 46 • • • '..... 89 - 90 44,i 2 - 45:1 69 - TO 95 - 98 6 - 71 - 8 - 9 65 ssi i 5i a 69.1 1 91i 2 36 I 90i 1 901 15 1 a 4 Ili a 27 - 29 ... .. 7 4 . d [OB - 110 26 - 28 81 - 83 43 - 44 21 - 34 - 35 651 - 66 78 - 13 - 15 7 - 5. 9 - 11 - 35 ii = 100 ••• ..... "1 21 ..... 3i 64 - 61 RETTISII POSSESSIONS. WO I all 'Atiau. and St. Law. 1 8 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lhl,guar. 5 p.c. d rat 18 i all .Do. 18 all Do. Additional A .1 d par 24 all Buffalo & Like Rim 6 71 100 pi? Buff., Brut. & 100 1 100 (1 r.c.bds., 1 Aug..'7l 813 85 Do. do., 1 July, '7::; 75 PO 100 1100 Do. do., 1 June,'74 , 73 77 75 20 2s. Calcutta and S. East 20 ;2s6d Central Undo 20 2 iCeylon A shares — 1 1741 all IDernerara. 20 2. s Eastern Bmgal st. 100 lEast Indian ! , 04 11i4 : i 101 20 all Do. C Shares 1 20 5 Do. E. do. iP 100 al , D0.4.i 20 all Geelong & Afelbourn,l guar. 5 per cent. II7 18 St. 100 Gcl. Trunk. of Canadal 33 42 40 39i 40 I 100 all Do. 6p. c. Deben 172 77 74 3 20 all lot,. In, Pen. g. 5 pore 203 '.OJ 20 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c — par 20i all Cit. Westn. of Canals 161 —16 i 20 13 Do. New 100 all Do. Ilds 7 payable '57 100 all Do. do., 76, p. '6O lO6 110 100 all Do. d0.,'73, do lO6 110 100 i all IDo. do., '73, without; option :105 107 20 all .Nladras, guar. 44 p.c i 18 19 20 all Do. do., 5 per c. 20.." ; — 20 i, 20 15 Do. 4i p. c. Exten.; 20 5 Do. 3cl Ex., g. 5p.c.; d AP 20 5 Do. 4th Ex., do ! a iP 20 ss. Undo (Limited)•2o 15 ,Seinde, guar. 5 per I'. 20 all Do. ••• ••• LO all !O all 0 3 5 all j 0 al l 6 all 6 I all all .0 all 0 all .6 an LO I al-1 KI all !,0 all :0 r 0 ; all 1091 26 5 all 4 all !G all 8 all .0 all n i all 6 , all ~ 0 1 all FOREIGN. Antwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes Bahia & Fraud:co.. Belgian East. Junet. Be tiers to Grai sae ssa c Carmeaux&Toulonse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franco ' Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Const. k Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca & Pist.sp. c. p. Lyons and Geneva Maria Anteula Do. New 'Nauru, k Liege I Do. do. 6 p. C. Pref ! Northern of Franee I Do. New 51 - 51 ia par ba 5 25 253 = 3i - ,i-i, 23 - 24 9 - .64 2 1} - 21 - 34 I NorwegianTruk. Pref Paris and Lyons 'Ditto New. Paris and Orleans I Recife & San Frau., (Perham.) g. 7 p. c. Riga and Danaburg Rome and Frsseati Royal l)anish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i per cent. pref Southern of France Wect Flanders Do. 51 per c. Prof W. &g. W. of France Western of Austria We , L. of Switzerland Wiest aden Do. 8 p. cent. pref. Zealand ••• 304 3o ili - ii 7 # i - ••• -- ... - - 9 - 21 • 4g - 5 0 - 23 - 24 NI • • • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. !Agra & United S erv tustralasia Bank of Egy pt Bank of London ' Bri. Col. Bk.& Lu. Co British W. American' Ind•Au.&Ch City !C e C o o o m m lo m n in ial Commercial ia rcia lo o f f e La an n ati d a . . Eng.Seot.&Aus.Cot., ,hon. Co. Bk.of A ..,t.! London and County, 'London Joint Stock. Lond.andWestminst,; National Pro. of En,g. !Do. New National. Ilan lew South Wales iOnental Bank Corp. Ottoman Ba.ak ;Provincial of Ireland! Do. New South p 4 , stralia • Do. NeW ••• •.• Union of Auatralia 1 49 r Do. New 35 37 Union of London 23 t 235 Unity Mutual I Westru Biz of Lond 19 lid 81 - 8.1 21 - 21,1 45 - 47 3 -. 5? SDI 1 14 - 181 -- 19' 43 - 45 1 31 - 3i 114 - 161 61 - 63 111 t SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEtING, :Dlyth and Tyno 10 p. c.pref. (issd. at 501.) Bris &Ex 4 p.c. St. I • • po. 4 per c. Shares.. iCaledn. £lO 4.j p. c. hes (St Ho. 5. P.C. Do. do. 5 por cent... Cork&Bandons.p.c. I Dun: Perth . or. J. IE: Anglian Cis: A Sh. 'Do, do. Cle. B Op. c.! do. Cls. C 7 p. c.i Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo.ll Do. No. 2 ..... .....I: •Do I , tew 8 pr. c. St. East tin., G. d p. c. • Do. 51., 10 per cent. ,Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh. Do, do. 4 per cent... East lianessh .5 p.a.,. E4W. York. J. sth, Cdin. Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c 5.W.G.5 pv% !Groat North?). 5 p.c. iDo. 5 p. c. Redo. in. at 10 p. c. prem.,,. IDo. 41 per cent !Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt. N.of Scot.lst Prc Gt. S dr W. (Ireland)! Do. 4 pert. Pref. St. Gt. W. (B. &11. Ex.spc 'Do. con. red. 41 p.c., Do • • con rod. 4p. c. 48 - 50 95 - 97 !100 - 102 6 - 64 - 115 1107 - 110 1115 - 118 111 ~t - 116 'l3ll - 134 79 - 81 1100 100 ,100 100 100 1100 100 100 1100 (Do. irred. 4 per lent. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh.. Do. Chester gp. c.P. S. Do. do. 5 p. c.d0.... 1 Do. Birm. Gun.. Stk. Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh. Do. do. do • • Do, do, do • 100 100 100 100 100 1100 Lando York. 6 pc. St. Got.l. &B. G. 5 pc. No. I Do., P., 5p.c.5t.N0.2 Do. Now Guar. 6p.c. De. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N.W., Cow. & Nuneaton 5 r. et... [.on. & S.W. 7 porct. late 3d Shares ... Lon,dy.& Color. Sl► Londydianis. i Sh S.,&L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. Si. 12 12 St. St. Do. do. 3i per cent. Marypt. Carl. 4 p.c. 1)0. 4. per cent Do. dO. ull 100 'lOO 1.00 'l.OO Mid,Consol.(ip,c. St. Do. Con. Br. B r. 6 p.c. Do. 4. p. C. Prof. St. Do. L. dr. 11. Pref. St. Now., Aber., &c., pr 5 p. c. red. 5 p. c. pra. Do. Perpet. pr. at. Norfk.Dch.4 SI% 1)o. 5 p. c. Ext. 1815 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 Do. WI% V.sp. North British Do. 71. freferenco. N. E. Per w. 4 p. c. Prf. Do. do. do 'IDo. Leeds 6 pa. No.l IDo. do. Qrn., 1848_ Do. York IL di S. Pur. North Staffordshire.. 10x., Wor. do Woly. 6 p.c. ' Ist ;-uar. Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar...l Do. (10. Debetr. Scot. Ceut.Ncw Pre!. St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 20 all 25 all 25 19 St. 100 !Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. :Do. d0.:4 p.c. pf. St South Devon Do, fi:ced t pr cent !S. Eastern (iteadina . Ann.) of £1 Os, Gd. l r - )o. per cent Do, Fixed 4),' p.a. Sh. Do NOW 41 pr. cent . S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 4h i. c Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c. IDo. do. do. Waterfd& Kill:. 6 pc. 115 14 MISCELLANEOUS. 1000 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) ... I 25 19 'Australian Agricult 29 31 30 234 10 all' lAustraln. Royal Mail 1/ 13 10 all Berlin Water Works. 31 41: 10 I 2 :Do. Now iss. at Si. d 50 140 !Brit. American Land , 100 132. Canada lll7 122 1. 1 0 St. 100 D0.G0.6 - ie.JankJul) 116 117 116 : 1 St. all Copper Ain. of Eng. 25 30 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cwt., 25 27 5 ail ,Crystal Place •j —1/ 5 all Do. Prefo,rence 4 all Crystal Pal. of France, 20 all Eastern 5team......:.' 3 3. 1 , St. 100 El ectric Telegraph -4103 10 , 5 105 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel I 5 I all En.ezAust.Cop.Sme,7; 1 11 10 I.oa. Eur. s Ind..Jetn. Tel.! all Eur.,SzAtn.Stm.(liaL)l 3 3A 20 all Gen, Ir.Se.Col.(llm.)l 15 il4 Gen. Steam Navigat.l 20 5 London Discount 1H 4 all Loud. Gen. OuniitZi 21 2i 20 10 Magdalena St. Novig.; 10 all Moll teran. Elec. Tel.! 7i 10 all Do. E. - ztension Teleg.; 10 all Mexican & S.Amerienl 23 5 Discount Co — J 10 6 .Netherlands Land.— —l/ 10 all ,Do. Do. 5 all Do.B p.e.Pf.iss.at 1d , 4 2T 1p 5 3 'Do. Do. 300 80 .New ti . &N. S. Land 14 17 St. l 100 .N. S. W. Gov.s p.e.D.'102 1024 1024 1 all N. B. Australasian... 20 all Nrtli .of Europe Steam 24 1 all Oriental Gas .. — 1 1 108.IDo New Shares.-- id r 5 I all IPeellir. Ld. & Mine. 2 2/ 50 i all Peninsular & Oriental 78 79 78 9 bo 10 Do. New 50 all Rliymney Iron LOO 60 Royal Mail Stearn... 59 61 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l4 - 14 St. lOU S.Aus, Gov. 6 p.c.lais llO 112 25 all South Austral. Laud 31 38 371 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip k 1 1 an ,Do. Registered 20 5 (Truri.Ln.Co. Up. Can - 1001 V 41Van Diemen's Laud lOl -- 113 104 11 Tut rb 120 Mon SUN OFFICE, Sevcit o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.) The SPEAREn took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE IIiUSINESS. TheLords' amendinenta to tbeLandon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Shoreham to Norfolk) Bill and the Birkenhead Comtni,doners (Bondholders Arrange mert) Bill were considered and agreed to.. Tae following bills were farther considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Manobester, South Junction, and Altrincham Railway (No. 2) Bill, Clyde Navigation Bil., and the Tees Conservancy Bill. A long discussion totek place on the Clyde Navigation Bi;t, involving points conneered with the standing orders cf the house that had not been technically complied with, and also affecting the merit■ of the bill, which was characterised by Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. Hanley, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Bouverie, the Lord Advocate, and others, as a valuable and useful measure. tnii with tbe.epprohatiop of a large majority of his con stauf tits, (Hear, bear) He was not so sanguine as to believe that the bill could be passed this session, but Le thought some progress might be made towards settling the question if they want into committee on the Mr. BYNG, as representing the second largest con stittiency, gave hie support to the bill. Mr. B. HOPE referred to the manner in which peti tions were got tip in Lancashire in favour of the bill. Touters were employed to get signatures, and young children were allowed to sign them. Lord GODERICH supported the bill. After some further discussion, in which Mr. M. Milnee, Mr. Pease, Sir C. Jervis, Mr. Browne, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Stewart, and Mr. F. Crossley took part. The house divided, when the numbers were— For going into committee Against it 5B Majority The home then went i n t o co m m itt ee on th e bill. On clau.e 1, Mr. LYGON moved the omission of the words " which has been celebrated at any time or place what ever within the realm or without." The effect of which wool I be to still continue the invalidity of these mar ria7es before the pasting of the act. Mr. SCHNEIDER considered the omission of the words would be to brand about 40,000 children as illegi timate. It the law was to be good fur the future it ought to be made applicable to the past, especially in reference to marriage. A proviso could be afterwards in setted to meet the objection of the clause. Mr. BRISCOE hoped the committee would not enter tain the amendment. If adopted it would press heavily and ulifiiily on ihoze who had contracted these marriages abroad and under legal sanction. Mr. B. HOPE said that the parties had entered into these mat riagee with their eyes open to the consequences, and he thought the ourumittee ought not to pass a clause which won d give them emunity for the offence. Mr. Secretary WALPOLE said it was important the claim:, should be just and equituble to all the parties concerned, whatever might be the result of the bill hereafter. If any person married his deceased wife's sister, and subsequently separated, and if the gentleman married another person subsequently, as the law now stood, the second marriage was valid, but if the bill passed in its present form, the former would be valid as well ae the second un,e, and the party would be liable for bigamy. Another objection to retrospective legislation was, that it'" would invalidate all those merriages that had taken place since 1835, which would materially interfere with the dieposition of property relative to the children. The third obj:etion to the (lure in its present form was that of a man married to his deceased wife's sister, and they afterwards generated from conecicntious scruples, this bill would validate the marriage against the will, and the lady wosid be able to maintain a suit against the man for a restitution of conjugal rights. He obj,euei tai the legis lature being retro:Tee:Ave. It should be ot.iy prospec e:-- Viscount GODERICII hoped the noble lord (Bury) would not accede to the amendment. Tho SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it was necessary to alter the clause to meet the obj,.ciions raised by the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the Hoine Department, especially with regard to the cause of the double marriages referred to, Double marriages existed, and it was not de,irahle they should recklts,ly legislate on them. The diffic❑lty raised ought to be met on tiie clause before the bill was further proceeded in cornmieee. Mr. AYRTON said it was not intended by the bil to establish c.oopulsory bigamy. Tee Act would not take effect where the parties had treated the marriage as invalid, or one or the other of the parties had married again. The bill was never intended to be extended to such cases. It was the duty of the committee to legalise marriages that had been celebrated under legal sanction in other countries. Mr. fIENLEY o! jetted to the sweeping nature of the words in the clause. It proposed to make every• thing bad good, and he could not consent to so sweep ing a provision, until he knew the nature of the provi sions by which it was to be guarded, to prevent iej is tice being inflicted on certain partite. Mr. M. T. BAINES said if prospective legiplation only was to be permitted, it would be inconsistent in them to stigmatise those marriages that had taken place as bad, whilst all such feture marriages were to bacon. sidered goad and valid. He thought it woul I be better to have no hell than a bill that would not affect past marriages. _ _ General THOMPSON supported the clause. It was their duty tl legalise marriages honestly contracted by persun4 of safe consciences in times of persecution. (Hear, heir.) Lord BURY proposed to a'ter the clause in reference to marrying atitteeased wife's sistt r, "save as in hcre _ after provided," and on bringing up the report he would be prepared with a clause that would meet the exigencies of the taco refcrrod to by hon. members in the course of the deha , e on the bill. After some remarks from Mr. LTGON in reply, The committee divided. The numbers were— For the atm.ndment Against it Majority —5l Mr. STEUART proposed an amendment in the vhu,e, that a man might marry his deceased niece. L rd BURY sa;tl he could nc . ,...:accede to the amend tutlat. .Toe only (.Ikit-!ct the. 4 1 ,1 vrai to It-liaise tuar riage with a decea-le , i tsisttr. Gen. TITO NIPSON ttt j fet,el t the amend:writ. Mr. A rtroN ttieught the amendment n•ruld not be entertained i.y the committee. The eilAiitMANeaid Lbs, title of the Lill wai " Mar riage•l3w Amendment Bill," and the mooed/neat now pr , poicd could be ente , taked by the cAcricni:tee, and the words, if they thought prop r, intradu-.:•d into it. After some remarks from Mr. Bereelord Hope and Mr. Mdnee, LYGON hoped the ameadnient w,:uld ba with drawn. Mr. STEUART eonsertt?.(l to the withdrawal of the amendment. On the motion tbat Cie clause stand part of the i.ill, Mr. LYGON asked the mole lord if it was his intention to bring up a c'auie re. , ,lieviog the persons who con tracted these rnairiAges limn the pains and penalties of ecclesiastical proceedings ? If the qussti 'n was nut sats fact.rily answered he should :nova t C.:airman do re port progresi. Mr. STEUA.III' said that as the mobil lord declined to answer the queetion, he must not be surprised if bon. members availed tbornselv:ts of the furies of the house in order to obtain the necessary que,tion. There appeared to he a desire to press on leg,itlxion with u'idue haste, and he therehre moved tam: the Chairman do report progreie, and ask leave to sit again. (Cries of "Oh, ob.") The committee divided. The numbers wer.:— For the motion Against it ... 129 .•.----64 The motioo was negatived. Mr. S. WARREN :aid the essence of the bill was contained in the clause no.v hebri the committee, and ho believed a greater blow to the sanctity of family peace, social order, and morality had nev.:r been aimed towards its destruction. Tho LORD ADVOCATE urged on the committee the great and palpable dt-fecits in the measure as the clause now stands. Tue bill prop )sed to these marriages in Scotland, but it did not propose to relieve the c intractors from the penalties for incebtuous connectlon they were liable to under the laws of that country. Lord BUI Y was ready to answer ali questions put to h:m, but it was unueual for them to be 011,wed up by threats. In answer t.) the question of the hon. member for Tewkesbury (Mr, Lygor,), he saw no necess;ty for introducing such a clause. flu proposed to move an amendtui•ut to remedy the defect referred to by the Lord Advocate. After some discussion relative to the ltw of marriage in Sao:,land, the clnum as amended wam agreed to. Oa &Ruse 2 Mr. LYGOk called attention to the legal difficulties in the clause, and, in the abienca of the Attornes-Gene rib! and SAiottor.Ge.ieral, he aikiid for an explanation in reference to its application. He urged the necessity of time being given to the committee to fully consider the effect of the clause, and he moved the Chairman report progress. After some discussion, in wilioti 4r. S. Warren, Mr. Hope, Mr. Henley, Mr. ifeallarn, 14`)rd B pry, Viscount Godench, Mr. Ellice, jun., Mr. Byog, Mr. Steuart, and other hoc. members took part. The amendment for reporting progress was withdrawn, and the clause, after amendments, was agreed to. Clause 3 was agreed to. Oa clause 4, Mr. MONS ELL moved an amendment c x:duding Ireland from the operation of the hill. After some discussion the committee diviled. The numbers were For the amendment Against it 9B Majority -42 The amendment t.va-; agreed t acid the clause as amended was al , o agreed to. Lcrd BURY moved an addi iunal proviso,to clause 1, the elhet of which was that in mad where a man had married his deceased wife's Kist, r, which was at present illegal, and after waris married another persoo, the last should be the valid marriage. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected to the proviso being then c .nsidered or on the bringing up of the re port. It should be printed and considereu in committee. lla the.r, fore wowed that the chairman report progress. A discu•sion ensued on the amendment, in the course of which, Lord BURY said he wool I consent to the proviso being printed and brought up with the report, but he could not consent to the chairman's reporting progress. The cionmittee then divided. The numbers were— For reporting progress .•... 94 Against it . , l4 Majority ........ ...... ---51 The amendment for repoitiug progress was negatived, After some remarks from Mr. C. BRET; Lord BURY said he would withdraw the proviso and firing it up on thOreport. The 101 l then passed through committee amid loud cheer , i, and was ordered to bo reported on Friday. P.ROTECTION OF FEMALE CHILDRZN BILL. Thi , bid was read a se.cond time. MEMBERS' FREEDOM FROM ARE 4ea BILL. Mr. G. W. HUNT moved the second reading of this bill, the effect ot which was to take away frisin the mem bers of Parliament the privilege of freed( m from arrest, wish a view to personal restraint. He intended to have moved a clause to this effect in the Ptoperry Qualifica tion Bill, but the forma of the house not permitting it he had introduced - a separate measure. c.,:::.,idered it as . It.iiratie that the cznqius :f hoz. zuemb!re evtnli ,This Day). Badness done this dey. 119 - 121 - 114 63 - 65 lOt - 91 - 93 83 - 85 , F 4 - F 6 99 - 101 - 104 , 16 -- 17 9i - 1( 1 4 Ti - 73 181, - 19.4 9j- 91 134 - 14 1138 - 142 160 - 165 122 - 124 66 - 68 1138 102 - 101 92 - 91 il k ::: iii 106 - 108 97 99 1 i d, ••• 4 23 118 - 120 104 - 100 101 - 103 118 - 1f() 125 -13 u 73 - 75 - 23 - 24 101 - 193 101 - 103 100 - 102 15 - 17 28 - 2O lii 7 ii walked ever. 60} 50 3 49, 1.0.6 101; SCHOOL OF MINES! Mr. HADFIELD moved for returns of the names of all At:dents who have attended the lectures or labora tory of the School of Mines, Jermy; : street, for the Ses sion 1857-53, ending March 31, 1858, with a specifica tion of the lectures each student has attended, and the fees he has paid ; and of the names of all students who have satisfactorily passed the examinations of the School of Mines, Jermyr.-street, from its establishment to the present time, with a specification of their present en gageinents.—Agreed to. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Numerous petitions were presented in favour and against legalising marriage with a deceased wife's LONDON CORPORATION REFORM BILL. Sir J. DUKE presented petitions against the Lon don Corporation Reform Bill, METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Mr. COX presented petitions from various planes in the Tower HaruleL4 complaining of the systetn of fort.stalling and jobbing adopted in the new cattle mirket. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lord BURY moved the going into committee on this Mr. LYGON objected to the motion. The bill was not likely to pass into a law this session, and he thought it was beiter to abandon further legislation on the sub- ject for tee present. Although the bill bad been for a long time tef ..re the house it had received but little consideration and discussion, and he, therefore, asked Vie noble lord to postpone its further consideration that the house might devote in a more useful manner the time that would 'otherwise be unnecessarily consumed in the clicussion. The bill before the house materially differed from the bills cf 1549 and 1355. The three classes of exceptions .1f h .31e.able character provided for in the former bills were not contemplated in this bill. rile bill only dealt in one out of the 14 prohibitions mentioned zieripture, and he wanted to know how the proposer of the bill reconciled his allowing so glaring an anomaly to exist as that of 13 prohibitions without the bill, eswcialiy as one of the 13 prohibitions bad beca discussed in that house. Be moved their goiug into committee thi= day three months. Lord BUR': hoped his bun. friend would not persist in his motion. It was an important bill, and required their iietious consideration; and if aoy delay had oc curred in its progress, it was owing to the continual motions fur adjournment and delay made by the hon. inember. (gear, hear.) Mr. DE VERE hoped the house would not proceed fur. her with the hill. Mr. E. DE'',.\TISO.Y, as . the representative of the thrg:st cl , nsi;itnenq is kirgiztc, eaid the bill kack R 5 100 123 98 f JUNE 30, 1.558. be placed in the game position ae the creditors of other debt - irs (Htar.) Now that they had abol6hod the safeguard of property qualification it was necessary to abolish this privilege. (Divide.) Mr. E. P. BOUVERIE moved aq an amendment tEat the bill be read a second time this day six month.. Mr. CRAUFORD seconded the amendment. The privilege from arrest was of importance in connection with a call of the house. Mr. 11. BERKLEY said that so long 343 the Lords were to b 3 protected, and the members of that house unprotected, he should oppose any change in reference to the latter. After some remarks from Mr. I:rsr in reply, The house divided. The numbers were— Fur the second reading Against it Majority The HI as then read a second t;ine NEW GENERAL POST-OFFICE (EDINEURGII. BILL. This bill passed through committee. The other orders were disposed of, and the house ad journed at fire minutes to 1 - :;x o'clock. -54 CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. ANNUAL MEEriNG-THIS DAY. The sixth ordinlry general meeting of the shareholders of this company was bell this day, at the Bridge House Hotel, Scuthwark. T. N. Farquhar, Esq., occupied the chair. V The usual routine business Laying ham transacted, 'rho CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which stated that the revenue account for the year ending 30th of April last showed a gross balance to its credit of 35,0731. After deducting all preference charges for dividend and interest, the general revenue account showed an available balance of 13,79:Y. The directors recommended that this balance should be carried over to the next half-year, and if this could be done they hoped, with the prospects of the present season, to be able at the meeting in Decem ber next to submit a proposal for payment of such a dividend on the ordinary shares as would be satisfactory to the general body of proprietors. A considerable reduc tion had been effected in the past year under all the ordi nary heads of expenditure, and the directors tr net that a !still further reduction may he attained by a strict and vigilent superintendence over all the departments, without in any way impairing the efficiency or high character o the undertaking. In regard to the receipts for the past year it is satisfactory to obs .rve that the gross amount ex ceeds that of the previous year. But this is in a measure to be attributed to the Handel Festival, which can only bo regarded as au exceptional occasion. Oa the other hand, the expenses of the festival were very hip, but still leaving a satisfactory balance in favour of the company. Iu reference to the 6 per cent. debenture stock there has been appropriated to this date about 140,000/., and the accounts show that 84,2511. was received iet cash to the 30th of April !nett on account of this stock, and which has been applied in paying off temporary loans and debentures falling due. The directors were open to receive applica tions for the balance of the 251,000/. of this stock autho rised to be raised by the resolution of the general meeting of July 31, 1857, and they confidently recommended the shareholders by themselves and their friends to take up this stock, the security for which was considered by the Board to be undoubted. Tho directors regretted to state that their efforts to procure a reduction of the capital of the company and. to effect an arrangement for the Sun day opening, in terms of the proposal submitted to the last meeting, and so generally approved 17 the share ,holders, have been frustrated through the intervention of the Court of Chancery, an injtuiction having been obtained at the instance of a shareholder in the company to restrain theelirectors from carrying out the proposed measure. The contract for the supply of refreshments having expired at the beginning of this year, the directors advertised for public tenders, which resulted in their concluding a con tract with Messrs. Sawyer and Strange on much more favourable terms to the company than the previous one. The directors had every con t l dence that this arranee ment would be found to work beneficially for the company and the public, while the energy displayed by the con tractors leads to the expectation that the result will prove satisfactory to them. The revenue account for the year end ing the 31th of April last showed that 122,662/. had been rec,ived, including 32,417/. for season tickets, 9?,6251. for admiesions, 8,0641. for rentals, 7,5251. refreshment con tract, waiting and cloak rooms ; and tbo expenditure amounted to 87,r881., including 8,505/. for general man agement ; 10,715/. for mainterancr and repairs of baild ing ; 8,53:i/. for gardens and grounds ; 2,7611., waterworks ; 8,871/., alterations and additions to various departments ; 7,62?/., music ; 0,194/., opera concerts ; 14,6981., Handel Festival ; 2,454/., spacial concerts, fetes, &e.: 2,8001., flower shows ; and 1,4681. poultry shows ; leaving a bal ance as ebove of 35,07.1. The capital account shows that 1.339,:352/. hail been received, inclinting shares issued by Robson, and 1,311,531;1. expended, including 28,02 s shares fraudulently issued by Robson, leaving a balance against the company of 8,418/. Mr. OGILVY seconded the adoption of the report, which, after same discussion, via' adopted amidst loud cheers. Mr. ADDF.SCOTT moved a resolution to the effect that all sharehillers and their friends be entitled to a ttnission to the gardens of the Palace on Sunday. If they could only open the Crystal Palace on that day, he knew there were t 0, 1 ,00 people in London who would instantly join the company. Mr. WING, amid great interruption, opposed the reso lution. ' Mr. CARDEN nsid it hsd been settled that sharAo'ders could go into the ralace on Sunday, and, fraving that right, he Phoulil like to know who was to oppose theta ? The CLIAIRM AN thought the wisest course to adopt was to Agree to a resolution in tho following form :—" That the opening of the grounds of the Crystal Pdlace on Sun day to the shareholders is desirable, and that it be left to the directors to mako such arraugetneuts as they tnay think fit to carry out. the wishes of the proprietors." Mr. ANDERSON moved en amendment to the effect that. the oirectors he empowered to carry into immediate effect a resolution, agreed to at the last !nesting, nr the imme diate opening of the grounds on Sunday to shareholders. Tho resolution as suggested by the chairman was put and c ried. A ballot was then demanded. • 31r. &row said a certain arrangement with resp2ct to cancelling shares Navin ; been abwidoued in con equence of the Vichancellot's decision, be begged to wove that the directors In now empoweced co give a number of shilling adutisiou tickets for Mach :there sent iu to he cancelled. The number and time during which the sail tickets may be available to be decided from time to time by the directors, The resolution was carried, and a long and angry dis cussion then took place with respect to the ballot de manded ou the previous resolution ; after which it was ul~•imately decided that a ballot should take place at the Bridge•house Hotel, this evening, till vim o'clock, and that it be - continuel, by atijourninetii, at the Cryst:.l Palacio, on tho 14th, 15th, and 1.00. July, and the meeting to be adjouinod till the 21st. oule other rautine 11.2siness hiving been transacted, the !fleeting separated. SHREWSBURY RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CORPORATION PLATE. Apollo Coantress Unexpected Sven ran. HAWKESTONE CUP, Weuvermlns Misty Morn Verona Three rae. SALOP HANDICAP. Merry Sunshine Maggie Lauder J unior Wrangler .. Four ran. SHROPSHIRE STAKES. Misfy Morn CARLISLE RACES.--(Thi3 Day.) (nrEr,nornic TELl;utth.rti.) LOTTERY STAKES. ..tinstone Julia Breizc.. Three ran. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, June 30.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.; light broom, aivl tine. Pomotouni, June 29.—Wind N.W.- Diadem, for the westward. GFF DoVER, June 29. —Arrived—Rose, from Sunder. land for Callao. SOUTHAMPTON, Jou() 29.--Arrived—Cornelia Johanna, from Carolinehsiel. O.Fr [HZ START, J Jut 27. Arrivod—Ofortuna, from Domerax.t. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wied W. Arrived—Charles Napier, Edward Susan, and Marquis Bute, from Sunderland ; Good Design, Newcastle ; George, ; Louisa, London ; Argonaut, Port Madoc ; Foyle, steamer, thiblin ; Le Coq, Cherbourg. Sailed —A lh tit), for Newport ; Atalanta, steamer, Jersey; Foyle, steamer, London ; Carolinas, Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday'Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived, Juno 29th.—Dictator, from Now Orleans; Chieftain, Detroit ; Capriole, Prince Edward's Island. Arrived, June :30th. • Seabird, from Sines ; Earl of Eglintonn, New Orleans ; Agnes, Savannah ; George, and Lebrun; Nantes; Lilliam, Akysb. Off.—Cliatl);un ; Braid' Queen, screw steamer, from Havre. (ET SUBS:Arsn"E AND Bit:TlSti TFLEGEAPII.) GRAVESEND, 'Wednesday Morning. Wind W., tide last hour's ebb, weather fine. Arrived—Charlotte, from Elernosand ; Regina, Stettin; Hope, Quc:usey ; Hercules, Dautzie; Vulcan, Stettin ; Ellen, Meniel; Argyll, Carentan ; Vrow Anur, Wor'um. June 29—Jolty Dunean, Calcutta; Dorothea, for Dunkirk. SO—Robert Small for Wellington Edith Maria, Smyrna; Terrafert, Adelaide; Lord J. Russell, Dunkirk. PEEL, Wednesday Night. Wind S., light _ Passed, in tow—John Duncan, from Gravesend for Calcutta; supposed, Blenheim, from London for Calcutta. Paused—Seafonte, brig, (tom wo,tward,. for Lon4ou.. th 3 11:::•Lrz.147' frltc Qa..4-I:tetc A - r, r7z LITER., AT 1:12.E. HARRISON AINSWORTH'S NEW STORY. Mervyn, Clitheroe. Parts XI. and XII. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by " G. Routledge and Co. The completion of Mervyn,Clitheroe brings us to the close of Mr. Ainsworth's Fifteenth Rom a nce, and to the termination of about the Fiftieth sub stantial volume, contributed by his rapid end industrious hand to the abundant stores cf our national imaginative literature. Fifteen Romances —beginning,.in-1826, wilt Sir John, Chivorton. ! Fifty volumes, more or less, inaugurated by his little accumlation of collec.ed magazine contribu tions, entiled December Tales, published by Whit taker : papers originally contributed by our author to the periodicals of the day before he was yet nineteen : Conspicuous among them, his story of the "Falls cf Ohiofyle," first given to tho world in the pages of the once fatuous Llncion magazine —Taylor aid Hessey's Magazine, the magazine of E:ia end of so many other wits and wags of rare humour and radiant imagination. Half a hundred goodly volumes, 'including among them separate poems, like The Maid's Revenge, or a companion metrical effusion like The Summer Evening's Tale. Books, then, written, prin• ed. and published. while Harrison Ainsworth was still under age, still an infant according to law—though the laborious and precocious student had begun as a writer long before the appearance of thse daring adventures into the dreamlands of the poetical visionary and of the prose roinancist. Sixt,en years at;o, poor Laman Blanchard told in the tLen tiourish'ng "Mirror," how his author friend even in childhood apprenticed himself to light literature ; bow he, too, like Talfourd and Chatterton, and s 3 many others proved to be— " A youth for'doomed his father's hopes to cross, Who penned a stanza when he should engross." Designed by his father to be a conveyancer, he became thus prematurely a " dreamer of dreams" and a teller of wild romantic stories. So that, while yet hardly out of the nursery, he wits eveu then writingplaye, pakintiug scenes, mating dresses, and enacting the chatacters of his own creation in an impromptu theatre of his own construction, built away covertly in the shady recesses of the house cellarage ! Al'eady as a schoolboy he was writing. largely in the kiss, a literary weskly journal, published in those times in his native place, the borough (since the city) of Manchester. While yet a stripling, be brings out in fact a theati ical publication, written wholly by himself, a periodical work, called The Bcrotian, But his first produc tion of a really ambitious kind was reserved for a little while afterwards. William Harrison Ains worth comes of age, attains his majority, and, thereupon, A.D. 1826. Ebars, bookseller, pub lisber, manager of the King's dpera House, after. wards moreover the young novelist's fsthet-in-1 tee, issues through the press the book atready men tioned, the romantic creation of " Chiverton." Well do we remember reading the book years ago, and being lured with a sense of horrid fascination through the subterraneons labyrinths of those grim passages and cavernous glooms honeycombing the ground of that wild old goblin manor-house. No Wonder at the time of its appearance there was 'a complimentary reference to the work in the Diary of Sir Walter Scott, a casual tri bute, giving to the youthful novelist the timbre of the great Romancist's early and spontaneous ap probation. Afterwards—as many as ei g ht years afterwards, during whi c h ti me h e was don ntless maturing his powers and proparing for another and a bolder flight of imagination--in 1831 appeared his first work in three volumes, perhaps of all the happiest romance, as a romance, he has ever yet written, the glorious 'romance of Edoktvood—e-er tainly of all these various and undeniably successful productions, the one containing his most felicitous lyric—Jerry Juniper's chant ab Jut the roliclting romany ! And bey °tad this the fiction containing incomparably the very best of all his wondrous (le rciptions—the famous ride to York of Dick Turpin, the prince of Highwaymen. Subsequently came in 1837 the romantic historical figment of Crichton —the Admirable. And two years later there ap- • neared in " Bentley's Miscellany," on the first of January, 1839, the introductory chapters of what the writer first intended to call " Thames Darrell," but what he eventually designated Jack k.'heppard. It was a success far greater as a literary success than that won hyl Henry Fielding's " Jonathan Wild the Great." When dramati.ed and put upon tee stage, it was as much the rage of the town as ever in its palmiest days was the " Begaat'a Opera" of Gay. In the midst of its unparalleled triumph, however, it was denounced as neither of those kin dred productions was ever denounced, - as "Jack Sheppard" indeed alone was ever deneunc:d—as demoralising, as • deleterions, as a sort, of in• ellec tual dram-drinking, maddening and intoxicating Me - more - ereta We of the frnpilatien. - Big - I/teem years have gone by since then howbeit, and the outcry•has long ago been recognised to have been in every sense monstrously exaug, rated. Jack has been acted " many a time and oft" during the interval by Mrs. Keeley and other vivacious itnpersonators—Paul Bedford has red dened his nose and sung the drinking songs as Blue skin with inimitable gusto—the prison breaker has worked his way out of Newgate again and again, amidst the applause of crawded boessa--the book , has been printed and reprinted by thousands and tens of thousands -; and the indignation against it has me awhile died out r-o entirely that we do not conceive the author's reputation has in any way whatever been deteriorated by it, even temporarily. It was shortly atter the commencement of Jack's adventures upon his first periodical appearance thatllr. Aine worth (on the retirement of Boz from the editorial chair) first of all in the early part of 1839—now Learly twenty years ago—undertook the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany. Thirteen years have elipsrd, moreover, by this time since, in 1845, he purchased from Mr. Colburn the s.ile proprietorship of the other serial, he has since then conrinuously edited the only surviving three and-sixpenny first class serial—the It ew Monthly Magazine. Notwielistanding his editorial laboure, sometimes single, and certainly then sufficiently arduous, but latterly double--yet not even then exhausting or impracticable to this most indefatig able man oef-letters —notwithstanding his editorial labouts begun here as early as twenty, there tier t,'en years age, how waey popular fictions Harrison Ainsworth has himself printed during the interval —besides beginning and ending during this long lapse of time the cereer of his own (eve', by n one essentially his own) periodical, A insWo►ti es Maga zine. 'Simultaaeouslr, in 1849, ide bj• side, month by month each illustrated by G,orge ' Cruikslaank Guy Fawkes, with all tee hair- breadth dangers run by himself and his accomplices in the Gun Powder Oenspiraey, and the other and very different historical romance, illustrative of The Tower of London as a Palace, as a Pi icon, and as a Forttese Next, nay, in the very year to low ing, Lamely in 1841, there appeared from week t , ) week in the columns of a - Sunday newspaper the enthralling tale of the Fire and Plague—Old Saint Paul's. Almost simuteeneously with one another appeared in 1842, anther "brace" of romances of the olden time—February witnessing the cow mence ment of The Miser's Daughter, and July that of the giegeous Tudor narrative of ll' tndsor castle as it was in the daya ef Henry the Eighth and Herne he Hunter. The last mentioned work being brought to a close in 1843, there began to appear in 1844 the other kindred liistoricsl ramence of &tint James's—descriptive of ;ho Court of Queen Anne, in what Tennyson calls— " The tea-cep times of hoop and heoel." The subsequent year saw our novelie, as wo have said, the purchaser of the late Mr. Coinurn's Maga zine, a periodical which claims for itself the glory of having among its previous editors Theodore Hook, the wit, Thomas Campbell, the poet, Thomas Hood, both alike, and Bulwer-Lytton, those and a great many other characters besides. Another imaginative tale two summers after was contributed by Mr. Ainsweeth to the Sunday newspaper whose columns he had in e similar way previously embel lished. This time namete, iulB4B, the weekly serial in questiniewas his noreiern romance of The Lanca shire Intchcs. in each instance the journal paid him a thousand poands for his contribution. Be sides the foregoing how many other tales and ro mances have been penned by Ainsworth? There is Auria, the "fragment of a romance'' —if we mistake not, theeame originally called the "Revela tions of London." There is tbeElitelt of Bacon, illus trative of the famous custom of Dun mow—e cer tom long fallen into disuctude, but one which this ale actually revived with all the an tiqu epageautries of the fantastic procession. Then thi-ye was the recen'ly completed story of a century ago, pub lished in "Bentley," and en t itl ed The ;.•:pendthrift, a tale in its social and moral design eminently Heger thian. As indt cd, in one sense, had been i s more predecessor., "Jack Sheppard "--Jack Sheppard and Th am e s Darrell bein g very striking types indeed of the industrious and idle app.9- tices. Lastly, there is this story of modem iife and "living manners" but just now happily bi ought to its conclusien. In its appearance there occurred, as many of the readers of Mervyn Clitheroe will well remember, a provoking hiatus .of several years, durin g the lapse of which i t seemed at first that the work had been indefinitely sus pended, and at last, even to the fancy of some, definitively abandoned. Fortunately, however, for those who, litre ourselves, regarded the narra tive as in merry respects unusually propitious in its commencement, the broken threads of the story were taken up again at last, and the 'weaving of them. into the iutric4e weele of the ;;lot ro ll 3 h", e t b - any one would now be able to detect where the pause occurred in the labour of composition. Al ready we have followed the progress of the fiction eo carefully and watchfully throughout that but little now remains for us to add in the way of com meotary. The closing, double number, comprising within it eight additional chapters, has brought th e narrative dofrn to a ser i es o f the tappiest consum mations. As the et. - -atnatis personae gather together before the footlights immediately prior to the final deseentof the curtain, we are delighted to observe that the abominable Mrs. Brideoake h as t h rown aside her unatniable masquerade and appeared in a more agreeable light, in 'her true character as Lady ..A.rnicia. r _ledyship, moreover, has been hap pily reconciled at last to her family —to her brother, Lord Leyland —'0 her father, the Earl of Rosen. dole. nor eon, moreover, is now no l onger t h e Rev. John B r id eoa k e, a bachelor clergyman—but my Lord Wilburton, married to Ora, consequently now my Lady Wilburton. As an equally delight. ful matter of course, Appbia is the bride of our young hero Mervyn Clitheroe, who has meanwhile come at last into possession of his old uncle Mobs berley'e farm-estate of Nethere e efte It is espe cially observable, too, that _Mervyn discovers his father at last, and this as nearly very time he obtains li's ass possible at the property. Another wed ding has yet to be mention e d ; t o wit, that of Ora's maiden aunt with Cuthbert Spring, the merry gentle:uan, and up to that time the isseera rigible old bachelor. Nay, there are some oth er nuptials recorded at the close of the narrativi a . meaning t hose of Molly Bailey with the stately old Jacobite Butler at the anchorita's, Mr. Comberbach. While we are conscious of the principal personages of the fiction thus (in military phrase) dressing up preparatory to the last simultaneous bow and fare well, we are aware of two or three little incidents occurring in the background : Pownall and the gypsies being carried off behind the scentless con victed delinquents, consigned to protracted and well-merited punishment. Captain Sate has pre viously broken his neck, and died repenting—in the midst of riding a gay steeplechase. One' of happiest specimens in "Mervyn Clitheroe." of Mr. Ainsworth's better manner as a romancist is the midnight tale of murder told by him as the " Le gend of Owlarton Grange," the narrative of the horrible crime of Jothatn Shoclack and its still more horrible retribution. It is a fragmentary passage reminding us vividly of the panel-work surprises in " Reawood," and of the terrible sub terranean vaults and corridors of " Chiverton." "Inscribed to my contemporaries at the Manchester school," is the simple but kind'y dedication. An explicit aud not unwelcome ackuowledgmerst by our author that the free grammar school at Cotten bourgh really does mean in truth what few failed to conjecture it to be long age the free grammar-school at Manchester. And in the same way it is pleasant to think now of the novelist's ancestral home and domain of Beech-hill, as the original of the dear old picturesque house either of the Anchorites or of Nethercrofts. Thither, as Lamar Blanchard intimated fifteen years ago iu his memoir of Mr. Ainsworth, our popular novelist "meditates a row n in maturer life;" adding " But the metropolis and its neighb errhood, the 'pursuit of fame, and the fields in which he has grain -red up many golden sheaves, will long detain him thence —the delay only tending to enrich his memories, and double the sweetness of a late retirement." Fortunately for all his London friends has that u te rior removal been thus indefinitely postponed-- driven onwards to the exeremity of that vague and remote perspective. So that while our author leaves • Mervyn at last comfort ably housed at the Anchorite's, looking in at fre quent intervals upon Nod Culcheth, established as a bailiff at Nethercrofts—he himself happily remains within reach of the metropolis and its neighbours hood, while—with the practised skill of one with so long and brilliant an editorial experience —driving the literary tandem of the New Monthly Magazine such Bentley's Miscellany. The Light of ather Days. By John Edmund linade, author of " Italy." 3 eels. Hurst and Blackett. This work cannot fail to atfract attention, inas much as the writer is well-knows by his previous productions, and also as the volumes before uP, are distinguished by consist rabic agility. This is no ephemeral composition, to amuse an idle moment, but the result of thought, judgment, and reflection, a refined and cultivated intelligence is brought to bear ou some of the most important s cial and literary questions of the age, and while the readers differ from sours of the arguments, they must sgree in rendering a tr.bute to the accumulitted Isoow ledge that they displsy. It may be ohj-cted that these dissertations are to frequent and studied, and that they are more suitasle to the essay, than b the pages of a novel. The story itself pos sesies great interest. Heen Hengist, the heroine, is one eminently c.alcit'a,ted to excite enthusiasm for her welfare. She was placed in a perilous posit ton, but always act-d with discretion, and at the same time evinced a spirit that on more than one occasion bore her trittupliantly through threatened evils. Her home was a most unhappy one, and she was compelled to leave it on her mother's death. Her father was a peculiar man, who gave way 'o his own prejudices, and indulged his passions till he b ecame , unbearalle. Her bro ther was a still greater trial to her. He had early left the paternal roof, in consequence of serious altercations with his father; and when once on the highway of the world, without a guide, lie plunged recklessly into ad sorts of excesses, and cared nothing for the feelings of his family, nor the honour of his name.. To one so sensitively alive to the requirement.; of justice, and so scrupu lous in adhering to the dictates of honour as Helen, it was a bitter trial to have one so closely related hy the ties of kindred con tinuslly crossing her path, and harassing her mind by his dis graceful present tours', and the prospect of still more aggravating actions in the future. One of the most pleasing of the personages introduced is "Dame Hengist," as she persisted in styling her self. There is a charm about her that insensibly attracts—something fresh and genial in her style and manner that wins its way on the regard—whde the sterling excellencies of her mind, and her many noble qualities, procure for her at once homage and respect. She dtspised the honours to whiah she was entitled by her position, and, indeed, she was not den endent on adeeseitions aids for priority. It might truly he said of her — "'The beauty of a life well spent, W:cs her majestic ornament.". Her at •achisent to her humble friend, Mrs. Maude, is a proof of her kindness of heart, and her sorrow at Ler death is tcuch ngly desciibed. The design ing and treacherous Trioresby is well depicted, and, it is a retributive scene, in which Sir James Hen gist and his servant meet death at each other's hands The former had trained the latter to his evil ways, and he had turned round on the min who had at least benetitted after his own fashion. The passage which describes the narrator's visit to the poet in his retiremeet is au interesting one. The mournfulness which pervades the retrospect of L.'s life, invests it with a charm and a grace un knciwn to a lighter or livelier career. Atter he has sketched in a focib a insiiner the many obstacles that b erred his path to fame, and the slights that had to be endured, and the failures met with, be fore his ambition could be gratifies, and the dreams of his imaginative youth realised, .he enters on another page of life's history. A. shade falls over the carter that appeared to promise so bril liantly. He who had bsen successful in love as triumphant in literature, felt the impotence of this world's greatness, when he laid his beloved wife in her early grave, which was soon re-opened to contain their only child. In this skech there is a solemn earnestness of tone, united with a depth of feeling and a sunplicity of expres sion, that possess interest of no ordinary kind. It seems the language of one who liss felt what he utters, and the sympathies of iris hearers are aroused by the zesital of his struggles, while the sad tale of his sorrows shares their pity and regret. There is much to win the attention in this work. The light of other days generally shines with a sub. dued splendour, and it is most fitting that a retro spective narrative should be ithbued with a melan choly hue, as is the one before us ; while many other causes combine to create for it a regard. In these pages we meet with much that may give rise to thought, and the general impression conveyed to the mind of the reader by their perusal is, that the work belongs to the superior order of novels. LETTERS OF CREDIT BILL -A. Eill of Mr. Hord!'ll. Mr. K. ibr!gson, imlci Mr. thvill makes 1.-tt, re of credit trenAerable awl liable to bo enforced and Hued upon in a court of 1a. , / or gutty, as in the case of a promissory note parxbler to .rder. - . CRYSTAL PA LAoll.—The great RllOO6lOl shish attended the fir.t apnearance of the Bradford Festival Choral Society yesterday hats induced the directorA to twangs. atwitter performance to. morrow (17bursorty1. which will be their last Appearance at the naval price of admission. zri LT ILY •tit TR, OF THE est orda T. on the t.orth bank a the river between Westminster: and Hungerford Bridges, men were engaged dosing the period of low water in covering the shore with time, as al o the shore above Westminster-bridge; and it is pur posed that this er periment to destroy the noxious effluvium shall be carried out along both banks by the local boards of health of the different parishes within whose districts the shore is situate, they having the power to make the outlay for the preservation of the public health. The. pleasure trail on the Thames has suffered considerably, and the nu m b er , o f p assen gers travelling by the river steamers is daily ditainisbiug• The individuals who look forward to this time of the year to make a little harvest by the letting of boats are completely at a stands till, and the only trade which is fourishing on the river :s carried cz in the ce.:itte, Clite ircpz - abriey ate - i 4 ctt4taat Eltest 2,362 .... 1 le 28. NO over It etc that re ft re ft lan , ept to the een 2P ~: ` .