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every lover of liberty, notwithstanding any treaties that might ' exist between the Governments of any country. This question had not yet been decided once and for ever. The things that had already taken place, would return again and again. lt was impossible that that state of things , w hich had producedso much misery and so much crime — it was i m p ossible for s uch to continue ; and he rejoiced that the trea t y of Vienna had a been violated by those who had made it—by those who won so muc h by it. The Noble Lord had said, and he had said wisely, that it would be rather injudicious on the part of the combined powers of the north—the German s tates, whohad gacr edso much by this treaty of Vienna — it w oul d be unwiserecklessaii in them to treat that treaty wi th indifference. A n d yet th ey h ad done so. That treaty , wh ich had hitherto secured protection to a small community—that treaty which recognised rig hts and the and established libert ies accorded to a small fragment of the nation of Poland —was not respected for an hour or for a moment when theyad no purpose to serve in maintaining it inviolate.—. Now, that fact would not be for ( gotten. Hear, hear) The No ble Lord was a strong advocate for t h e appointment of a consular power at Cracow. He (Dr. Bowring) recollected bearing him give an opinion on that subject, in, a Committee at which he (Dr. Bowring) had had the honour to sit, and the Noble Lord certainly did express himself most cordially as to the desirableness of the appointment of a consular agent. He (Dr. Bowring) attached great value to the presence of a Bri tish representative. He must express his thanks to the Noble Lord for what he had done in this matter. The Noble Lord bad certainly done everything that he could to give effect to the wishes of Parliament and the opinions of this country; but he (Dr. Bowring), for one, believed, that had there been a Bri tish agent at Cracow —knowing the influence which always at tached to such an individual—knowing the weight of authority which, thank Heaven, was associated with the British name— he believed that the presence of such an individual would have prevented the terrible catastrophe which had taken place.— ( Hear, hear.) Sure he was that the Noble Lord had done all in his power in this matter; sure he was, also, that this question would not be settled even if the troops of the allied powers should be withdrawn from the country of Galicia. The question of the integrity of Poland, of its greatness, and its nationality, must return again; and, if living in the next year, it was his purpose to show to the Parliament of this country that the state of Poland did require the attention of Great Britain—( Hear, hear)—and the atten tion of all countries interested in the progress of the liberty and peace of mankind.—( Cheers. ) Mr. MONTAGUE GORE said he could not avoid the ex pression of his gratitude to the Noble Lord for the speech which he had just made. That speech was worthy of the Noble Lord and of the present Administration.—(Hear, hear.) He did confess that be felt most deeply on this subject, because he thought that it was one of vital importance—of vital im portance, as it respected the treaties which we should always consider inviolate, from the attacks of ourselves, and free also from the attacks of other countries—of vital importance also as regarded the general interests of liberty, and freedom, and national independence, with which that House and this country would ever, he trusted, express a warm sympathy, and the sincerest regard.—( Hear, hear.) And if on these ganerel views, he felt a warm sympathy, he must say that he felt deeply so, when such a country as Poland was concerned —a country so eminent in many respects—a country so distin guished for the public virtue, for the patriotism of her sons—a country which in former times rendered such great, such signal services to Europe, and civilisation at large. He trusted that the remembrance of those services was not yet effaced, and that both throughout this country and civilised Europe it would cause men to exert themselves as much as they could— for in gratitude they were bound to do so—to assist that high minded, that gallant and honourable race.—( Cheers.) There was one point which, as regarded Austria, ought not he thought to be omitted on this occasion, and that was that when Vienna was besiged in former times, who was it that came to the rescue of Vienna? If we looked to this point, we must feel that if any country owed a debt of gratitude to Poland, it was Austria ; and he was sure they would feel that the Austrian Government, especially such a Government as now existed there, would feel it to be its bounden duty to take whatever steps it could to do justice to that country, from whose ancestors they experienced such signal benefits. He confessed that he could not look at the circumstances that took place in Poland, now some 70 er 80 years ago—he forgot the exact time—but he could not look at those circumstances without blushing for the degradation to which Europe was subjected by those occurrences—without blushing for the honour of his own country. If they could not have prevented, they could at least have mitigated, the wrongs that had been com mitted. But if they would now make a reparation, let them, as far as was consistent with the treaties of other nations, show to Europe and the world, that a spirit of liberty and freedom, and a regard for national independence, still glowed as warmly and as brightly within the breasts of Englishmen as it ever did, and, as he trusted, it would do to the latest generations ; and although the Hon. Gentleman who brought forward this measure might not obtain all those papers that he wished, still be thought that the Noble Lord would, as far as was consistent with his public duty, do as much as he could to remedy the present state of things in Galicia—( Hear, hear)—and he hoped that the kindly expres sions in that House would not fail to be oeneficial to the un fortunate Poles.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") With respect to Cracow, there seemed to be no doubt that its independence was guaranteed, and if it was guaranteed, as no question could be entertained on that point, he did trust that the Government of this country would feel it to be their duty to do all that they could for the purpose of seeing that that guarantee which they gave was fulfilled. He was sure that if they made this case their own, and if it happened to the people of this country to have had their independence struck down—if our own rights had been assaulted, if our own lib3rties had been violated, what must have been our feelings? They would, of course, exert their utmost endeavours for the restoration of the rights and privileges, and he did trust that we should feel animated by no less ardour in the cause of the in vaded rights of the unfortunate Poles. We were called upon to do so by the very terms of the treaty into which we had en tered with the people of Poland. We were also called upon as men and as freemen, to feel with the misfortune znd oppression of the people of that country. It had been his fortune to know several Poles who were distinguished some of them for literature, as well as for their patriotism and zeal. He was acquainted with one of the most distinguished men of that country, and he said he never did participate in the outbreaks of Poland, but he said that he hoped he might net sink into his grave until his country had regained its inde pendence. That man was now no more. He loved and honoured him ; he was a perfect statesman, a true patriot, and a real friend, and he always expressed a hope that Great Britain might continue to maintain her present proud position in the scale of nations. Such a spirit ofliberty as that of the Poles was most praiseworthy, because it tended in a great measure to preserve liberty; is tended to spread the principles of literature, civilisation, and all those pursuits which did honour to a nation. 'The Hon. Member concluded by expressing a hope that this country would not delay exerting itself on behalf of the unfor tunate sons of Poland. Mr. JOHN A. SMITH concurred with the two Hon. Members who had preceded him as to the gratitude due to the Noble Lord for his speech that evening, but he did not believe with the Noble Lord that the Government of Aus tria were blameless in this matter. Indeed, everything that had taken place, in reference to the recent outbreak in Gali cia, showed that they had, in fact, countenanced, if not prevolod, the horrible attack upon the unprotected people of Galicia. He felt that it was a duty which the Government owed to the House and the country, to take such measures as would vindi cate the character of this nation from being any party to the atrocities that had been perpetrated.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WYSE thought that little remained to be said, after the speech of his Noble Friend. The treaty of Cracow had TiO doubt been violated, and they could not do better, he con sidered, than to leave the matter in the hands of the Noble Lord, who would no doubt take care and see that justice was done. But it was not of Cracow alone that they had to express an opinion. The House, though it might not interfere in the affairs of Galicia, could at least ex- press its opinion of the atrocities that had been com mitted in that province. He had hoped that such crimes and cruelties as were said to have been committed there had been banished from Europe, and he trusted that what the Noble Lord had expressed as to their being exagge rated was true. Still, whether or no, an expression of opinion by that House against such atrocities could not but exert a be neficial influence on the Governments concerned. Mr. P. M. STEWART could not allow the discussion to pass without saying a few words. He was pleased to hear the sentiments of the Noble Lord as to maintaining the treaty of Cracow inviolate, though his (Mr. Stewart's) opinion was, that the intentions of the treaty were much more extensive than they had been stated to be. He had been somewhat surprised ,at what his Noble Friend said respecting the establishment of a consul.ar agent at Cracow ; and, instead of thinking it would have been of little service, it was hi s (Mr. Stewart ' s) - impres sion that great benefit would have been conferred by the Government ► eceiving correct and authentic information of proceedings there, from time to time. It was their duty to watch the proceedings of the three great powers surrounding Cracow, as he could not but recognise a growing disposition on their part to encroach on this small independent state. He had no doubt but that great benefit would result from the dis cussion of that night, and ho would conclude by thanking the Noble Lord for the way in which he had met the motion, and with the hope, that the Hon. Member (Mr. Hume) after the explanation would withdraw his motion. Mr. HUME, in consequence of the expression of opinion of the House, and the satisfactory explanation of the Noble Lord, consented to withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn, and the House re solved itself into a Committee of Supply. ► SUPPLEMENTAL NAVY ESTIMATES. TUFNELL rose to explain the first vote he had to propose. It was but the renewal cf the vote of last year, and in doing so he would explain that the late Lords of the Admiralty proposed a plan for the retirement of a certain number of captains. They decided on a number of retirements, which they determined to carry into effect in due course of time. He would not state the precise nature of that plan, as an official account of it would be issued immediately, but he would infirm the House generally that the terms were not con sidered by the present Board to be sufficiently favourable, and they agreed to make the terms more favourable, and in order to do that diminish the number of those who would imme diately receive the benefit. The present Board proposed the retirement of 200 captains ; the object being the retirement of all those who were not less than twenty years in the service, arid fifty-five years of age. The Board would grant the applications for retirement, as they were made ; according to seniority. 30,0001. would be sufficient for the whole of the present year, but when the plan was fully carried out, he hoped that before many years there would be an actual diminution, in consequence of the operation of the plan, while at the same time the public would be greatly bene fited. It would cause the withdrawal of those who were not sufficiently vigorous for active service, and cause the, navy to be manned with officers i n th e most effe;tive manner. He would ;l ow sit down by moving that a sum of 7,500!. be granted for the purpose he had stated, for the comin g quar t er . Sir CHARLES NAPIER said he knew something of the plan alluded to by the Hon. Member, but, in order that he .night not make any mistake, he considered the Hon. Member ought to have supplied him with a copy of the official document which he appeared to have in his hand, in order that he might discuss the subject fairly. For himself he had advocated the retirement of these captains for the last thirty years out of the House, and for five years inside of it, but he had been told it was altogether unnecessary. lhe Lords of the Admiralty all declared that such a step was unnecessary, and that it would be saddling the country with a great deal of extra expense. They then brought forward their plan of retirement ; he would no t say quite so seerAly as the Hon. Member oppo si t e . Th ey told the House what it was more publicly and fully than the Hon. Gentleman had done on the present occasion. At that time, when they had unfolded their plan, the House asked Sir George Cockburn whether the plan proposed was definite; and "within a few hours afterwards, by next day, their plan of re tirement was made up, and sent down to all the officers and re po4iated. According to that list their was no limit to infe- Why, what, he asked, was the effect of this ? a man sixty years of age on the inferior list i enniediately sent in his acceptance of it ; 250 instead of 300 L •ceepterl it, and the Admiralty, seeing this, rejected it. Yet he.re, he said, they had been boggling at it from the month of Febrzr—(aughter)—and they had left it in the hands of the Right lion L . Gentleman. VAJE—What is the plan ? Mr. Sir CH ARLES NAPIER said, he did not know that. The Truht Hon. Ge ntlemen o pp osite would not tell him what it was. We understood the Gallant Member to sa y he had seen it, but they would not give him a copy of it, and he reckoned this way of T a-oceeding a most ind ecent thing.—(Laughter.) Here they wet.e votin g away 30,0 /., and the Government would not tell jhem how they proposed distributing it. He THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 184 g. es hoped the Hon. Gentleman would be persuaded to lay it on The House then resumed. I the table, that he (Sir Charles Napier) might spea k to it in The Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill, and the Turnpike answer. Such proceeding was most indecorous in his opinion, Roads ( Ireland) Bill were read a third time and passed. and he felt it the more that it was a matter on which be was The Tithe Amendment Bill was read a second time and or most anxious. He considered the whole affair was scandalous; dered to be committed. the officers had been tricked ; they had been written to, and RATEABLE PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL. many of them had sent in their names, saying they would The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to. accept of the retirement ; the plan was rejected, and SMALL DEBTS BILL. the names were kept up in the Admiralty—kept The House went into Committee on this Bill, the clauses up there as a rod over their heads. The conse- of which were agreed to. quence to these officers would be, that they would never MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS BILL. get employment, for whenever they applied the Lord of the Sir GEORGE GREY said that the profession did not ap- Admiralty would refer to the said list, and his observation prove of this Bill, and it would only be fair to give them an would be, ;" Oh, why hers I have this man's name down for opportunity of discussing it. retirement, and yet he asks to be employed." In his opinion, Mr. WAKLEY said he would be content to go into Corn the whole proceeding had been most reprehensible and most mittee, pro forma, and to take the further consideration of the scandalous. The present plan, he said, was that the first 100 Bill on Friday next. old captains should:retire, if they thought proper, on 255. a day. PAWNBROKERS' ACT. How inconsistent this was the plan was, if they would take it, Mr. WAKLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill, amend -255. a-day, and the hope of rear-admiral. But then if 10 only ing the Pawnbrokers' Act. took it, and though that was an extreme supposition, yet it THE ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE BILL might occur, if 10 only took it, why, then, only 10 would retire, was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on and that would be the working of their plan. The next 000 Thursday next. on the 14s. 6d and the 10s. 6d. list, if they took it, retired on EJECTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. 11. and IBs. a day; and many, lie had no doubt,frould accept it; This Bill was read a third time and passed. they would retire as captains, only they could never rise higher MARRIAGES (IRELAND) BILL. than 360/. a-year, and might ob'ain promotion to rear-admiral, This Bill was also read a third time and passed. which they might have got in the natural way. This he con- The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the sidered to be injustice, if all the 100 got to be rear-admiral House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock. and 4601. a-year. The plan which he ( Sir Charles Napier) would suggest would be the following. He supposed that the Government gave all the officers, within the first 100, 4601. a-year, which he thought was only fair; and for this reason, because if one cfficer would get to be rear• admiral in the course of five years, he had a right to the 4601. ; this, then, gave all at the top of the list the same privilege of re ceiving the 460/. If 60 or 70 took it, he did not see why those that were left of the 100 should be punished. After having applied this to the first hundred, he would allow the rest to take 360/. and retire. Thus, then, when the one hun dred had received the 4601. and the promotion of rear-admiral, they would allow others to retire on the 364/., till the money was absorbed. He said absorbed, for he was not'of opinion that more money should be voted than 30,000 L ; he did not want more money, but more judgment, applied to the case ; indeed he thought 25,000/. enough for the first year. There was another objection which he had to this plan, an insur mountable objection, an objection which he would never yield while he sat in Parliament. - It was that the adoption of the plan would be forcing the officers to go on the retiring list ; and the oldest officers were allowed to ask employment till they were black in the face—(Laughter)—but in vain; they were forcing the oldest officers on the list—Captain Gordon, for example. At present the oldest officer, and very soon his Hon. Friend opposite (Captain Pechell) would be affected in the same way; to accept of the retirement—to accept it in spite of their teeth.—(Laughter.) That was the very practice which the Duke of Wellington, at the head of a Commission, had done away. That Commission brought back many from the retired list, and gave them employment. The present proposal was to undo all that the Commission had done. It put a man on the retired list—yes, and more, it put a dot against his name, to the effect that he could never be employed again. Why, there was a friend of his, still but a you ig man—he was a younger man than he ( Sir C. Napier) was—(Laughter)—but he bad been asking employment for the last thirty years— ( Laughter)—yet it was in vain. He said the Government positively disgraced a man by the plan proposed—the plan which the Honourable Gentleman opposite kept very snug in his pocket ; he thought it was most degrading. But, again, while the sum of 30 000/, was being given by the country, the House ought to have an assurance as to the number of those who were to be promoted. The plan which had been pursued was most irregular. In 1830 it was ar ranged to be one promotion in three. What, he asked, should the House and the country understand by that? Why, that it would be religiously observed. But what was the fact? Why, instead of one in three, it was three in one. Every man who distinguished himself was made the one in three ; that one in three promotion was given as the private patronage of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The First Lord of the Admiralty monopolised all the patronage. A friend made a call upon him; the First Lord of the Admiralty went to his board, " Gentlemen," he said, " I have a pressing case ; my own patronage is up, let us make it a special case." The list, he said, woul show wht he aid ; but let ompare the lis t of 1830 w i th that ', of 1846, and them only c the House ought to be satisfied how this was to be settled. He thought that 15 admirals and 15 captains dying during the year, the 30 ought to cover the year's promotions. He said that one half of the vacancies that occurred would be on the com mander's list, and one-half on the lieutenant's list, which would give the First Lord of the Admiralty more patronage than any First Lord had ever had who had been there. The conse quence of the plan pursued at present, was that the service was in an inefficient state ; their commanders were old, and their captains were old, and they could not get lieutenants sufficient for the service. He hoped the late motions on flogging in the army and in the navy would have the effect of directing attention to the state of the navy. He hoped the Government would follow the ex ample of a private merchant, who had a fleet of twenty-two ships, and had established a seamen's home for his men, and he found it most economical after all. He (Sir C. Napier) did not see if it was most economical for a private merchant to provide for the comfort of his men, why it should not be so for a Govern ment. He hoped the Government would adopt a different system; would improve the men's pay, and would desist from paying off the ship's crew when she came home. Mr. HUME said lie had called the attention of the House to the abuses in the navy, and at that time he found, for every captain employed there were seven relays, and an equal proportion for each commander.—(Hear, hear.) This was not a system of retirement, but of patronage. If returns were laid upon the table of the House, they would find that the navy was solely kept up as a means of bestowing pa tronage. The Hon. Member proceeded to read extracts, to show that many were placed on the retired list, and on the promotion list, who had never served. The House of Com mons should not permit a superannuation to be made unless they had a list made out agreeable to these returns. It appeared, from the returns printed in 1838, that the actual service per formed by 638 captains was only a period of four years. Now they wanted, at the present time, to put 200 of these men on the retired pension list. Out of 1,188 com manders in the navy, 49'2 never served a day as a commander, and 102 only served one year; leaving a balance of 594 who never served at all. For every officer in service there were six who could not get employed, and thus, when vacancies were required, they were obliged to pension off some and promote others. This was a system which could not be allowed to continue. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that a great many things in the system might be altered and modi fied, but the Government were in office too short a time to be able at the present moment to give it the attention which they desired. The present system owed its origin to the enormous number of officers who were employed during the war. Mr. HUME—That is the old story. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It may be the old story, but that does not make it the less true ; and it has been found that it was impossible not to place them in such a position which they deserved, and so much merited. Hence arose the over-stocking of the navy ; and the men who at present served would not continue to do so unless they had some hope of some reward, particularly as the pay of the Admiralty, was not as liberal as he considered it ought to be. Though brought up in the school of the Honourable Member for Montrose, he had ever advocated an increase of pay to officers in active service. Mr. CORRY was very glad that the Admiralty had taken up the question, as it gave great promise that a wholesome re form would take place in the present system, Admiral DUNDAS hoped the Hon. Member for Montrose would not oppose the vote. He considered the plan submitted was necessary for the efficiency of toe service. Mr. WILLIAMS thought they would not effect any good until they had cleared out all the old captains; but to do that they ought to have a properly digested plan of retirement. He could not consent to the vote merely because the Govern ment asked for the money, but they ought to lay down a plan before they asked the House to agree to the vote. He would certainly divide the House on the question Mr. GOULBURN hoped the Hon. Member would not divide the Committee on the question. He considered it was impossible to bring any definite plan before the House upon a mere conditional arrangement, which depended on the accept ance of the officers whose retirement was desired, in order to give it effect. He trusted the Hon. Gentleman would allow the vote to go on the responsibility of the Government. Captain BERKELEY said that the object of the Govern ment was to make the list of admirals progressively effective, and it was for that purpose this vote was proposed. Captain PECHELL complimented the late Chancellor of the Exchequer on the speech he had made. It had made him sorry that the Right Hon. Gentleman had gone over to the other side of the House. He complained, however, that the • plan propose was not clear and intelligible; and, although the Hon. Member for Hertford had stated how the plan affected the 145., the 125., and the 10s. 6d. list, he did not state how it affected other officers in the service. These points were unexplained and they could never have confidence in the arrangement until this was done. On the other side of the House, it was pro posed to retire 300 officers, but on that side of the House it was proposed to retire 200; and if he were to give his opinion on the two plans, he would admit that his bias was in favour of his friends below him. He thought, in the absence of any plans, the Hon. Member for Coventry was justified in pursuing any course calculated to throw light upon the subject. The public wanted to know what the Government plan was, and would not be satisfied till they were put in posssession of that information. Mr. COWPER supported the vote, and in doing so said he should be happy to communicate the plan of the Admiralty to the Hon. and Gallant Member privately.—( Hear, hear. ) After a few words from Captain Pechell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Napier, and Admiral Derides, Mr. HUME said, if captains were to be bribed to retire, he could see no reason why officers of a lower grade should not enjoy the same privilege. After a few words from Captain PLUMRIDGE, Captain PECHELL said that with the Hon. and Gallant Meraber,he agreed that the retiring officers should be better re munerated, but he had very great objections to the plan of giving a different amount of remuneration to different officers. Mr. WILLIAMS said he had intended taki ng t h e sense o f the House on this question, but considering the present state of the House, he would not persist in bringing the House to a division.—( Hear, hear.) He would, however, bring forward the subject on some future occasion. The vote was agreed to. After which the House resumed. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. The Miscellaneous Estimates then went through Committee and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. SPIRIT LICENSES AND DUTIES BILL. This Bill, with some amendments, was read a third time lilneomesataidx, and passed. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICERS BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. INCOME-TAX DEDUCTION BILL. The House then resolved itself into a Committee en this Bill. Mr. J. COLLETT wished to know, from the Chancellor of the Th The CHANCELLOR Exchequer, wha t w was the of object tho of EXCHEQUERt sßi hithertot ere we n r o e t e b e e r e ta n in l iaebffilecetorsthatand the payment of the in the Court of Chancery w ho had this T h w e as c t la o u m se a s ke w t e h r e e m ag pa re y e . dio l , au th g e House hter.) rr resumed, oow and the Bill was ordered to b e rea d a thi r d t i me to-morrow. COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND) BILL. The Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be This Bill was r e e lj ad S read a third ti me tomorrow.aT secondOA 1 S B t lin iL Le, ( a N nd o. 0 2 ; ) d es jo i l t s ted Tß ty c m T orr L e dere d to be com as ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day for the House resolving itself into Committee Captain LAYARDon this Bill, proposed a question to the Government. In Therep lyto which CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the salary had been settled by the late Government, b Mr. J. O'CONNELL wa s h a pp y to hear t be happy to consider the case. he u ß t ig h h e t w H o o u n ld . Gentleman say so. After a few words from Mr. WAKLEY on the Haydeck Asylum, the House went into Committee on the Bill, the clauses of which were read and agreed to. The report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. IRELAND. THE POTATO FAILURE. DUBLIN, Auci. 14.—We regret to state that, amidst a long catalogue of reports from all parts of the country, there is not this day a single account calculated to mitigate the alarm for what is now felt to be the advent of a great national cala mity—the almost annihilation of the early crop of the only food of the poorer classes. Last year there was unquestion ably some exaggeration, which had the effect of creating what was called an anti-alarmist party, who, deprecating the cry of famine, sought to restore confidence by a counter cry of "no scarcity," if no monopoly or no jobbing. And this turned out, to a certain extent, to be the truth. This year, however, the case is totally different, and journals of every shade of politics concur in the belief that there is no hope for the future, save in the united exertions of all parties (Government inclusive) to provide a remedy for an infliction which seems to be inevitable. The reports received through the provincial papers since Thursday would occupy too much of our space; it must, therefore, be sufficient to say that the last accounts repre sent the pestilence as rapidly spreading through the counties of Westmeath, Antrim, Down, Armagh, and Fermanagh In the market of Enniskillen, on Wednesday, potatoes, owing to their deteriorated quality, suddenly fell from Bd. to 2d. per stone, while here, in the metropolis, from the same cause, prices range from ls. to 7s. per 1001 b., the sound kinds be coming every day more scarce. A highly-respected clergyman of the Established Church, the Rev. J. R. Cotter, has addressed the following seasonable letter to the Prime Minister upon the present state and pros pects of the poor : " bly"Lord,—lmpelled by an imperative sense of public duty, I take the liberty of addressing you upon the present state and future prospects of our poor in Ireland. Your Lordship has, of course, been already informed of the failure of the potato crop. Last year the loss, though heavy, was in some degree partial, some few favoured districts escaped the blight ; but this year I regret to say that the devastating disease has been universally diffused, nor am I acquainted with one: single potato garden in these localities which has been untouched. The great majority are either wholly de stroyed, or vegetation has been so completely arrested, that the tubers have not attained one-fourth part of their natural size, and a large proportion of those which are sound at pre sent will, we fear, in a very short time, by the spreading of the disease, be rendered unfit for human food, as we know happened last year. This is no exaggeration ; my wish is neither to exaggerate the distress, nor to make too favour able a representation. The potato crop is gone, gone so far as not to be depended upon as constituting the support of the poor. Now, my Lord, what is to be done? There are thou sands upon thousands who have been accustomed to live en tirely upon potatoes; that source has failed. Divine Provi dence, for some wise purpose, has destroyed the potato crop, and it remains to be considered in what manner the starving poor are to be supplied ; and, my Lord, be assured, if assist ance be not afforded upon a large and liberal scale, the con sequences will be fearful. The late Government wisely sent into the country large supplies of Indian corn, and this pre caution had the effect of keeping dowse the prices, and enabling the poor, with the most rigid economy, to exist. " But, my Lord, at the present time they are in a totally different position. The farmers, who were accustomed gene rously to assist all who solicited relief, with a few potatoes, have now none for themselves. This source is dried up, and the poor labourer having no potatoes of his own, having no friends able to relieve him, is thrown entirely upon the produce of his labour, which he has latterly been accustomed to lay out in the purchase of Indian meal from the relief committee of his district. I would wish, here, to make a distinction between gentlemen's labourers, who have constant employment and enjoy perhaps some little advantages, and the far more numerous classes of those who have no constant employment, and belong, if we may so express it, to no one. Besides, there are many sick, with large ,helples families; many aged, who have hitherto depended upon casual charity. It will be said, perhaps, by some, Let them go to the poor house.' The poorhouse is the only fair test of real desti tution.' It is unnecessary for me here to enumerate the causes of the strong prejudices of the Irish peasantry against entering the poorhouse, some, I admit unfounded—many I think most reasonable ; but, my:Lord, I will freely assert that it is most fortunate that these prejudices do exist—for if they were removed, four times the present number of workhouses would not suffice to contain the applicants, and those who could not obtain admission must then be given outdoor relief. We ought, therefore, to keep the poorhouses out of view when considering what is to be done during the present emergency. " Let us now inquire what the wages of labourers are, and look to the present prices charged for Indian meal by many of our relief committees. I think it will appear that they are wholly inadequate to meet the exigencies of the family of the buyer. Labourer's hire varies from Bd. to 10d. per day. Suppose a man has four children ; he has then, including his wife, six to provide for ; in the great majority of instances these all depend upon his daily wages for their daily food. " I would assume as an average sufficiency of Indian meal for such a family, 21b. per head, large and small ; here we have 121 b. per day. Many of our relief committees charge Is. 2d. per stone, that is, ld. per pound; some even higher. How, then, can the labourer's 10d. wages purchase 121 b. of meal, to hich the Sunday allowance is also to be added ? We say nothing of milk to use with his Indian meal as stirabout, and if he is working at a distance from home, he must use Indian bread ; although meal made into stirabeut is more economical, still this latter cannot be carried to a distance. My Lord, I am here putting forward the most favourable case, but consider the number who have not this constant employment. How are they to exist ? How are they to be clad ? Where is their firing, bedclothes, and rent for their cabins to come from ? Many have removed their bedclothes—what is to become of them when winter arrives, when cold and wet are added to hunger? They cannot now afford to purchase or to keep a pig, by the profits of the sale of which they were once enabled to pay the rent of their cabins, and to supply them selves with many little necessaries. It comes to this, my , Lord—wages must be raised, or the price of Indian meal and other food considerably reduced by private subscriptions and by public grants. Employment will not suffice, unless the produce of that employment is equal to the support of their families. You cannot throw them entirely on the head landlords ; many of the most distressed are located on estates held by middlemen, who possess large terminable interests, much larger than what the head landlord possesses, and who cannot reason ably be expected to support persons whom they have not brought upon their estates, of whom they kno w no thi ng , , and whose condition they cannot improve until the termi nation of the existing leases. Tenants should be left entirely to their landlords. The landlord is bound to assist , and protect his tenants who hold immediately under him, , and do not sublet ; no assistance should be afforded by relief committees unless to the labouring classes and un employed tradesmen, or tickets granted to none without the closest investigation, and limiting the quantity of relief, either at reduced prices or gratuitously, which must be given in many cases to what was absolutely required for the con sumption of the family. Circumstances may oblige me to address your Lordship again upon this subject, and, my Lord, • I have the honour to subscribe myself " Your obedient, humble servant, " JOHN ROGERSON COTTER, " Rector of Innoshannon, County Cork. " Innoshannon, 12th August." Subjoined is the reply given by a landlord of the county of Cork to an application from one of the local relief com mittees:— " Skibbereen, July 4. " Sir,—l have the honour of acknowledging the reeeipt of your note of the 2d inst., together with a copy of the resolu tions adopted at a meeting of the inhabitants of Upper Church, held in the chapel on the 2d of May, to adopt the best means of relieving the poor of their district. " Possessing some property in the parish of Upper Church, I readily recognise the right of the inhabitants of this parish to call on me for aid towards the relief of the proor in their district, and in transmitting to you the annexed order for 101. on the Provincial Bank, 1 feel that I am only discharging a duty which devolves on me as a landlord. " The proposition enunciatedlby the immortal Drummond, that Property has its duties as well as its rights,' is now ge nerally adopted, even in Ireland, and of those duties I con sider none more imperative than that of relieving the poor in seasons of distress and destitution. _ _ " The demand which the resolutions adopted at Upper Church made on me in behalf of those suffering from distress in that district, is enforced by the additional consideration of self-interest, for, whilst the duties of property are discharged with punctuality, its rights will be acknowledged and re spected, the laws will be observed, peace and order will pre vail, and those unfortunate crimes which have disgraced some of our provinces, and which bring down the maledic tion of Heaven on the perpetrators, shall be far more effec tually prevented than by Coercian Acts, or a suspension of our constitution. " I have the honour to be, faithfully yours, " DANIEL WELPLY. " Mr. Andrew Ryan, Upper Church Relief Committee." To the foregoing the Cork Reporter appends the following statement : _ " We have it from private authority, in which we impli citly confide, that in and around Skibbereen, and through Carbery in general, the crop both early and late is doomed ; that the distress is frightful, and that the small farmers can not subsist much longer on the miserable and unwholesome fare they spend the whole day in digging from their fields. No garden, or part of a garden, says our correspondent, in this country has escaped the prevailing disease, and in gene ral they are not considered worth the labour of digging them. The Skibbereen Relief Committee have done every thing in their power to provide employment and food for the labouring classes, and they have already 500 men employed. This, however, is but a small relief amongst so dense a po pulation, and where both farmer and labourer must hence forward depend on their labour for support. I have no diffi culty in telling you, and as you are the organ of public opi nion, you should have no difficulty in telling the landlords and the Government, that unless measures be at once taken to meet the present emergency, that neither law nor private property can be much longer respected. The masses of idle, hungry people going through this town and neighbourhood, looking for work or food, publicly declare that they cannot stand it much longer, that it is as good to die by the bayonet as by starvation.' " The Cork Examiner of yesterday contains the subjoined memorial from the Kinsale Relief Committee : TO HIS EXCELLENCY EARL BESBOROUGH, LORD-LIEUWENANT GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, &C. " The memorial of the undersigned members of the Kin sale Relief Committee humbly showeth—That your memo rialists, after the most careful and minute investigation, have come to the conclusion that the potato crop in this ba rony is altogether lost. "That in a fortnight from the present date the agricul tural labourer will be thrown out of employment, as the har vest will be then gathered in; and as the farmers are unable to provide them with food, or to pay them wages, they will consider themselves released from the obligation of the con tract catered auto at the coauktaucetaellt of the season. " That to provide for the destitution necessarily arising from such a deplorable state of things, it appears to your me morialists that not a moment should be lost in procuring em ployment on a large scale for the people ; and that unless im mediate steps be taken for effecting this purpose the peace of the country will be endangered. " That already large assemblages of the people have met within the last week, and threatened the proprietors and millowners that, unless immediately relieved, they will ' help themselves.' " That your memorialists beg likewise to represent that the contemplated measure of appropriating 1,000,0001. ster ling to the drainage of land in Ireland will not be available for the purpose of giving employment in this and many other districts, insomuch as there are no lands requiring to be drained in the localities alluded to. Your memorialists, therefore, humbly suggest that the application of said money may be of a more general nature. "That the funds placed at the disposal of your memo rialists for the relief of the ‘listress existing at the close of the present season, are now nearly exhausted and your me morialists respectfully suggest that a further grant be forth with made to them for the purposes of meeting the impend ing pressure, and providing temporary employment until the Government shall have bad time to organize a more general system of affording relief by the construction of public works on a large scale. " Your memorialists consider the subject-matter contained herein to be of so urgent a nature, that they most respect fully request the immediate attention of your Excellency to its prayer, and your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray." THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD. The accounts to-day state, that all the worst symptoms which attended the recent indisposition of the Noble Marquis have abated, and that no immediate danger in now appre hended. The Surgeon-General has returned to Dublin from Curraghmore. THE RIVER PLATE. From the River Plate important advices, datel Monte Video, June 14, had been received at Baltimore by the barque Creole, arrived from Corrientes. We extract the following from the Baltimore Patriot:— " Monte Video, June 14. " On the 4th instant, at nine o'clock in the morning, the fleet weighed anchor about three miles above the Burancas of St. Lorenzo, in the river Parana, where there were placed 25 pieces of cannon, belonging to Buenos Ayres, to stop the expedition from passing. At half-past nine the fort opened a fire on the five steamers, the English steamers Gorgon, Firebrand, and Electra, the French steamers Gacende and Fulton, which took their position abreast of the batteries, whilst the English brig-of-war Dolphin led the van of the merchant-vessels, amounting to 100 sail. " From the time the Dolphin passed, being the first vessel, at half-past ten o'clock, to the time the last vessel of the convoy passed, after sundown, made seven hours and a half firing. It appears very singular that in such a large fleet of vessels, in passing so many pieces of cannon, and within musket-shot of the infantry, which played their part, not a man was either killed or wounded ; and still more strange that no accident should have happened of either killed or wounded on board any of the vessels of war, amounting to twelve sail, especially the five steamers, which were under the fire from the batteries eight hours. " The only accident that happened was four vessels getting on shore abreast of the batteries, which the English and French naval commanders set on fire to prevent them falling into Rosas' hand, one being the English barque Caledonia, of Hull, the other three being schooners from Corrientes ; their cargoes consisted of amber, hides, wool, verbs, and to ' bacco. " There are as yet but a few of the convoy arrived at Monte Video ; only the large vessels. The weather being boisterous, all the smaller vessels were lying at the island of Martin Garcia. . . "There is not such a large quantity of hides come down as was expected, but there is a larger quantity of verba, tobacco, and wool. Salt hides none. Small quantity of tal low, packed beef, one cargo horse hair, a great deal of tim ber, &c. (From the Philadelphia North American.) The following is an extract of a letter from General O'Brien, dated Monte Video, May 26 : " General Gilarte, accredited Minister from Bolivia, is now here for the sole purpose of attempting to arrange a free communication with that extensive and important country. You are aware that though by nature Bolivia has the means of communicating with the Atlantic, by being permitted to make use of her own rivers and those they fall into until they reach the Plate, she has never yet enjoyed anything of the * kind, but has been entirely isolated from the rest of the world, save and except by the poor port of Cobija, on the west coast, whence all goods have to travel over a desert of 500 miles, without a drop of water therein existing. " The Minister's instructions are to build or procure four iron steamers drawing three feet water, to be sent out (with false keels) for the purpose of navigating the rivers Vermejo and Pilcomayo. If this be effected, the trade of Bolivia, which is now little more than a trifling addition to that en joyed on the west coast of South America, would become really valuable by its natural channels, and a most important advantage to the trade of the River Plate. " Our own Minister, Mr. Ouseley, will doubtless have kept his Government well-informed upon this subject, but I have thought it well to let you know what is going on ; I fear that Rosas may be too strong for us. He unfortunately can issue as much paper money as he likes. His enemies on this side are toe poor for him." --- - - - (Extracts from letters dated Monte Video, May 15.) The state of the war and the undecided character of the intervention are bringing ruin and misery upon all, and I don't know how or when it will end. It seems to be the plan of the interventionists to carry out the object by means of shipping alone. This is a great error. Rosas and Oribe will defy them, and do as they like, if nothing else be brought against them. An English officer, Wardlaw, was assassinated in a most barbarous manner by Rosas' people. He was cruising in a boat on duty near to Ensenada, and was driven on shore by a storm ; as his boat got aground, they fired at him, and then beckoned him to go ashore : he then hoisted a flag of truce, which was apparently answered in a friendly way. He went on shore to them with the white flag, when they made him a prisoner, and commanded him to order the boat's crew on shore. However, in place of doing that, he ordered his men to take care of themselves, and get away as well as they could, telling them that he was a prisoner. Rosas' people, finding the men would not come, sent an armed whale-boat with ten men, and ordered the crew to surrender, firing some shots at them. The crew had loaded a small swivel gun with a round ball, and filled the gun up to the muzzle with musket bullets; they waited till the whale-boat came within 20 yards, when they fired and killed eight men; the other two tied, and the Racer's boat got away undisturbed. Poor Wardlaw was afterwards deliberately murdered with most re fined cruelty, being cut, scored, and mutilated in a most dreadful manner. Mr. Lodge, the English chaplain at Buenos Ayres, applied for his body, but did not succeed in getting it. I fear many scenes of this kind will occur before the war is over. Rosas has just issued a decree declaring all English and French officers and men incendiaries, and ordering all the commandants of the different districts to take them, and instantly apply the punishment appointed by law against that offence, which is death, so that condemnation is pro nounced upon them all; and they only require to be caught, and without further process put to death. Although the intervention is so miserably dilatory, they are daily getting deeper into it; and it is evident to every one here that they cannot withdraw from the contest if they wished. It is incomprehensible to all to see how much the two Go. vernments are misled with regard to the local circum stances of this war. If they had come forward boldly with an overwhelming land force, the war in the Banda Oriental would have been over now. But they seem to think that partial means will do, and thus they are losing the sympa thies of the people, who begin to think the intervention will end as the Frcnch question ended in 1840. There are re ports in Buenos Ayres of strange doings in Corrientes and Entrerios; it is said that the Maderiagas, with the Corren tinos, have leagued with Urquiza and the Entrerianos, and they have discarded Paz, who is gone to Paraguay, with the troop. of that country. The coasting vessels that have arrived here from Entrerios all state that the league or new order of things in Entrerios and Corrientes is to esta blish peace. There is no official news from the vessels of war in the Parana, therefore nothing certain is known of what ' has taken place. But the report which gains most credence here is that Corrientes and Entrerios have declared them selves a separate state, and independent of all parties, and resolved to maintain peace if possible. What gives great weight to this report of peace is that Urquiza had dis banded a great part of his army, and had liberated all the Correntino prisoners. The people in Entrerios are marking their cattle, and pursuing their rural occupations ; there is also a free trade between Monte Video and Entrerios, from whence a great deal of produce is arriving here every day. There is now a convoy of 50 or 60 vessels (mer chant) loaded with produce, on its way from Corrientes. By the last accounts they were at the Bajada, waiting th• de struction of a battery that Rosas has constructed at San Lorenzo, which is so high (300 feet) above the water, and the river at that part so narrow, that the vessels of war cannot touch them with their shot. It is understood they are going to attack them by land and destroy them. I hope they may soon succeed, and bring down the convoy. Rivera left this some time ago ; he was taken by the Apollo to Colonia with from 500 to 600 men. The first essay of his new campaign was successful, having taken 1,500 horses and 1,000 head of cattle from Oribe's people. He will have very good assist ance and great advantages from the squadrons, and is ex pected soon to have on foot a respectable force in the interior. May 26.—We observe more activity in busines , , particu larly in the produce market. The supply of produce from Entrerios is very extensive, chiefly dry hides, and this causes a visible change in business generally. As regards politics, we remain in the same painful state of suspense, without advance or retrocession, and nothing has occurred worth noticing. May 27.—We have no further news to communicate, ex cept a rumour that negotiations for peace are going on be tween Oribe and the interventionists, on a basis independent of Rosas. This wants authenticity ; but, if true, we may soon expect a satisfactory settlement. At present we only mention this as a report. The convoy has not arrived from Corrientes. Rivera has commenced operations at Las Vacas, but nothing of importance has yet taken place. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Saturday afternoon for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. ILLNESS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.—BIR MINGHAM, SUNDAY, ONE O'CLOCK. —This morning a special messenger arrived here by the mail train from Liverpool, to procure the immediate attendance of Dr. Hodgson, M.D., and J. W. Whateley, Esq., solicitor to the above nobleman, who is now lying very ill in his yacht, Wyvern, at Beaumarie. His Lordship left Liverpool on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, for Cowes, but was taken ill, and the vessel, wa s put back and medical assistance instantly obtained; b u t hi s disease increasing, the Duchess ordered a messenger to be dispatched for the above-named gentlemen, who will leave here at two o'clock for Liverpool. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A TRADESMAN IN THE STRAND. —On Friday evening, about eight o'clock, Mr. George Buck ley, a paper stainer, of No. 329, Strand, expired in King's College Hospital, in consequence of injuries he received about six weeks since under the following circumstance :—lt ap pears that the deceased at the time of the accident was when standin cream, g uponm both a from lad hiser at the wife rear and child, of the abovesuddenly premises s as sailed his ears; the child had hurt her hand between the , door, and the scream produced a similar ebullition from the mother, and in hastening down the ladder to their aid he fell and broke his leg near the ankle, the bones of each being splintered in a most shocking manner. The medical gentle men of the above institution, into which he was at once ram ceived, recommended, as a means of savinH h g the patient's life, immediate amputation of the limb. e, owever, re fused to undergo so painful an operation, until at length urged by his friends he consented; but it would appear that it was then unhappily too late, as, although everything which human skill could suggest was had recourse to, he continued, as before the operation, gradually to decline, and expired on Saturday, as above stated. The cause of, as well as the unfortunate accident itself, has, as may be con sGa a n m t s e , ceived, plunged the widow of deceased into the boshmt poignant grief. It has been stated that an inquest will eld upon the body. GAME IN THE ROYAL PRESERVES AT WINDSOR.—. is sf morea ll descriptions, plen tiful th i e s s especially p tin t the t r r i v d g al e s domains n p s h e a a t - Windsor than at way former period, CAPTAIN G. SMITH'S PADDLE- BOX SAFETY BOATS. Latest testimonials in favour of Captain G. Smith's Paddle box Safety Boats, with the Parliamentary Report of the Select Committee on Shipwrecks. United Service Club, Pall-mall, May 14, 1846. My dear Smith—l am sorry to find it has been asserted that paddle-box boats cannot be easily and safely got into the water when the ship is rolling much ; now the contrary of this was most apparent in the Growler, as well as the Penelope, Eclair, and Hecate, off Shebar and Gallinas, on the coast of Africa, where I have seen them used by each of these vessels, at anchor on the open coast, and underweigh at times when it would have been very inconvenient, and attended with considerable risk as well as much loss of time, to have hoisted out the pinnace, or other boom-boat, by the fore-yard or other means; added to which, a paddle-box boat carries nearly twice as much as a pinnace. I recollect an instance of our supplying the Ardent with provisions and stores, while rolling heavy off Shebar, by means of our paddle-box boats (with which she was not fitted), in the course of an afternoon so as to enable her to proceed that evening, instead of being detained till next day. Many similar opportuni ties of benefiting the service, and, consequently, of proving the value and importance of these boats, occurred on that station. At Sierra Leone, for instance, coal-lighters could seldom be obtained, and it often became necessary to ship 100 or 200 tons of coal in these boats only, while the pin nace and other boats were watering, &c. Without the paddle-box boats the .steamers would have been detained a week or ten days, instead of two or three, which, in the sickly season, would probably have cost some lives. On one occasion, while rolling off t ltebar, we received coals from the Penelope without difficulty; on another, we supplied the Hecate with them under similar circumstances, or rather, when rolling still more heavily ; in short, with out these boats, the service must have been delayer', and some of the operations could not have been attempted It would be superfluous to advert to their vast utility, might say, infinite value, in cases of fire or shipwreck, and in carrying on war-like operations, lightening the ship when on shore, laying out anchors, carrying guns, &c. Finally, I do not see a single objection to their being univer sally adopted in all sea-going steamers; and they possess advantages from their form and size which could not be de rived from any number of smaller boats that could be car ried by them ; and, as I have before observed, my experi ence (of nearly four years) has proved to me that they are much more readily and safely got into the water than any deck boats carried by steamers, as they only require being turned over into the water, which is done by a few men. I should have stated that the boats so frequently used by the Penelope, are enormous boats: one of the Growler's could safely carry 85 men, though considerably smaller than Penelope's. Believe me always yours very faithfully, CLAUDE M. BUCKLE, Capt. R.N. FROM CAPT. HALL, R.N., LATE OF THE NEMESIS. Junior United Service Club, June 1, 1846. My dear Captain Smith—My opinion of your paddle-box boats is, that no steam vessel, large or small, belonging to the navy or merchant service, ought to go to sea without them. Very faithfully yours, WILLIAM 11. HALL. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT The tenth sessions in the present mayoralty were opened yesterday at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, be fore the Recorder, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and Al dermen Wilson, Challis, and Hughes. The calendar on this occasion presents a heavy list, there being in all 245 prisoners committed for trial on various charges during the present sessions. Among the prisoners waiting for trial there are—for ar son 1, burglary 5, bigamy 1, uttering counterfeit coin 17, cutting and wounding 8, embezzlement and forgery 20, horse-stealing 2, larceny of various descriptions 149, man. slaughter 2, demanding money with menaces 1, misdemeanor 13, murder 2, administering poison 1, rape 1, receiving stolen goods 9, robbery 10 ; 37 of the prisoners have been committed in London, 164 in Middlesex, 3 in Essex, 6 in Kent, and 35 in Surrey. The RECORDER, when the grand jury had been called and sworn, addressed to them the following charge :—Gen tlemen of the grand jury, the number of prisoners whose names appear on the calendar, standing charged with dif ferent offences, is 245, and there is some reason to expect that in the course of the present week that number will be augmented to somewhere about 300 or more, at least before the termination of your labours. I am afraid, therefore, that you must expect to be employed for some time with that public business on which you are about to enter, but it is a duty from which you will not shrink— a duty ;devolved upon you by law in connexion with this Court. The list presents a great num ber of offences, many of them of a very serious nature, and of deep public importance. There are two for murder; several, at least six, for cutting and maiming, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm ; no less than three for manslaughter, or that criminal act involving the taking away of life, which only comes short of the crime of murder; one for rape; three for assault, with intent to commit rob bery; seven for robbery, besides other important charges, involving the use of violence in the commission of the offences. It is lamentable to find that offences, crimes implying violence in the commission of them, and the crimes of cutting and wounding with intent to do some bodily harm, appear to be on the increase— certainly they are not diminishing. Within the last few years, the use of the knife in cases of provocation and quarrel, a practice at one time almost unknown in this country—the use of dangerous weapons for offensive pur poses, instead of having recourse to mere bodily strength, is become unhappily rife. Where the cases appear to you on the evidence to be fully made out, you will feel it your duty to put them in the course of further inquiry. On the charges which will be presented to you of cutting and wounding with intent to do some grievous bodily harm, I have but one re mark to make, and it is this, that if you shall find that a person receiving provocation employs the knife or other in strument in such a way as leads you to put the con struction upon such conduct that the party intended to do that which, according to the evidence, has taken effect—if, for example, you find a person striking with a drawn knife, and the, weapon taking effect on the body of another, you will put the entire charge in the course of further investigation. But if, on the other hand, in a charge for cutting and wounding, the jury shall see that cir cumstances will warrant it, you will discharge the prisoner of the violent intention, and commit him to take his trial for the aggravated assault. Gen tlemen, your duty merely is to put the case in the course of further inquiry, it is for the petty jury to try whether or not the offence charged against the prisoner has been committed by him, you have only to inquire as to the fact of dangerous weapons having been used, and whether they were used with the intention of doing bodily harm, and to send the case tor further investigation accordingly. Among the cases of murder, one, unhappily, is a charge of child murder. There is nothing in that case which is peculiar; handkerchiefs were found on the mouth or throat of the child, then dead. These suspicious circumstances would na turally excite a doubt whether in case the child had been still born the party would have resorted to that which, if the child had been alive, would have the effect of putting it to death. I have said that, not to prejudice you, but that you should put the case in the way of fuller inquiry, and I say no more, because they are circumstances which may receive some answer when they come to be investigated. But the fact of a child having been found dead under these cir cumstances is enough for you sending it before a petty jury. There is another charge of murder—one which will require some investigation on your part. The first question which will occur in that case is, how the party met with her death, whether it was by a fall, involving no other person in the guilt, or whether it was by violence, inflicted by another; whether it occurred through the vio lence of another throwing her down stairs, or from herself falling down stairs. The next question, if you find that the death has been occasioned by another party, will be, whether the evidence points to any individual, and whether there be sufficicient connexion between the party who did the deed and the person charged in that evidence. The safer course will be if the evidence is not sufficiently clear, to throw out the bill until more evidence can be subsequently got, for if you put the prisoner on his trial upon evidence which will not bear a conviction, and the bill be thrown out, it will be very inconvenient if other and clearer evidence should afterwards arise. But if you see that there is sufficient evidence of both, you will put it in the course of further inquiry. I have said that because you ought not to inquire merely into the cause of death, and, supposing that there was enough to satisfy you on that point, so to send it before another jury; you must be satisfied that the party died by violence, and that that violence was inflicted by the prisoner. I have read the depositions very carefully. Ido not presume to form any definite opinion on the case, but I recommend you, if you shall find that the cause of death is something beyond the party dead, and that the evidence points out the person who is charged as being that cause, then you will put it in the course of further investigation. If you are not satisfied fully on these points it will be better to leave it to the pos sibility of more evidence arising, than to send the case on to meet with an acquittal on unsatisfactory evidence. There are either three or four cases of manslaughter; two of them of a less serious aspect. In the case where a blow hav ing been applied to a child resulted in the death of the child, the question will be whether the violence is of such a character, that the person is chargeable with an unlawful act, and hat of such a kind, towards a child, as will involve the crime of manslaughter. Another of these charges arose out of very peculiar circumstances, and was of the utmost public importance. The party is charged with negligence in the conducting of an engine, so that he ran into another train, to the great danger of life to many in that train. The inquiry here was, whether the person appointed to conduct the en gine, seeing the usual signals, ought to have increased his caution, and whether he neglected that caution and conducted himself recklessly, and with such rash ness as would amount to criminal negligence, and, therefore, involving the crime of manslaughter. I need not state to you that where persons having the care of engines, with the lives of individuals depending upon these engines, and with the usual signals given for precaution, neglect these signals when given, and by that criminal negligence are the cause of death to one or more individuals—these persons so acting are chargeable with manslaughter. I recommend you to put this case in the course of further investigation; it is enough for you if, when warnings have been given, by signals with which the party is acquainted, these war - ings have been neglected and the party has thereby become the cause of death. On the charges for robbing there is no thing to require the construction of a point of law; 3ai w t hs nhloflas,acelusithdi h w r n ° i eee , : gh i dnpuh t e .t a ase h t ae l r h l i t s Ylbi e 3 i ytirecsoihtooeunennil. the g r fm\d— e vfiai s si t t netrl n n circumstantial btetdestruction they are charges of great public moment, but y still the question is rather one of fact than of law, and you will find no difficulty in the application of the law. If, however, I am mistaken, and anything does arise to perplex you, the Court, however constituted, will be ready to afford you any aid, and there is a most able and intelligent officer of the Court, who will always be happy to lend his assistance to the grand jury on questions of law or evidence. I have only to remark on the case of arson, that the charge is not for feloniously setting fire to a house in the possession of another party, not for exposing the life of any party to immi nent dangdr, but for setting fire to a house in the occupation withlf, t l e nhos f au r r‘ ame _ wor k and timbers being on fire-- r, eant coe the inquireintention company w hweh t t defraud e o hreort htobeh property o an ai sn o oae t dfnet h aNiwtdiNnih e t.li ayardiini his whether fire was set to it ; whether e e s t t r v u i c l wilful ol actevidence, of o t f h e a n yt property,he person,fae b l e v f i o ll re pu a t i a'o n iti k I need conduct on the occasion, be such as saa t i nn o i du l to e hsf a tte d hhtnhaa 3 l:\ o m, e u eabhv t i to suspect the evidence majoritydi un c o ae r w p seen,iof i p t er i s n o t n h c o ha oo r . g ancidit e ruof d sei ,orAsvay w hi loln i ariyf t enot h attf3odod, t oyar h i tffiutl e hlhocel a e wurcl yourselvest th. investigation particulars s less ce f t c y h oi occur, a n n d d this, b yI trial rh ? must make no presentment but by a e de ilc a . s p a3thu,hs e aof fia t rut tihryc you ron j elrut u aae wcrpyi reach your number. It is necessary that 12 out of 23 make it, it, jury to find a bill against any prisoner committed for trial. I am sure that you will not disnuss any case without making on the other hand, gentlemen, if you are satisfied with the evidence given by the first two or three witnesses, it will not be necessary to press it further. I now dismiss you to the discharge of your duties. One of the gentlemen summoned to serve upon the grand jury objected to serve, upon the ground that under the present system of prison discipline he should object to be any • party to carrying it 91st, as se disapproved of it altogether. The RECORDER asked if he was to unde:stand that the gentleman had a conscientious objection to perform the duty which the law required from him ? The party summoned said he conscientiously oljectea to be a party to carrying out the present system of punishing offenders. The RECORDER, after consulting with his colleagues upon the bench, said that it appeared to him th a t th e rea l groun d upon which the person ought to be excused was that he was really unfit to undertake the office. The same obliquity of mind which induced them to entertain such opinions as he had conceived might induce him to say that an innocent pei son was guilty. The COURT eventually excused the person from serving on the grand jury, the Recorder remarking that the ground for excusing him was, that he was unfit to perform the duties of a grand juror. _ _ John Weehes surrendered to answer an indictment charging him with embezzling three several sums of 45., 65., and 65., the moneys of Nathaniel Pegg, his master. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Charnock prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Parry defended the prisoner. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Pegg, who is a coal merchant carrying on business at Phcenix-wharf, Southwark, for twelve years, as ccllecting clerk, and his duty was to receive moneys due to the prosecutor, and to account for thesums he received at the end of each week; and it was alleged that he had re ceived three payments from a person named Watts, and that on those occasions he had embezzled the sums mentioned in the indictment. Upon the cross-examination of Mr. Pegg, however, he admitted that he allowed one of his clerks the privilege of selling coals to his friends or private customers, at an advance of five shillings per ton upon the price of the coals in the pool, and although he denied ever having ac corded such a privilege to the prisoner, it appeared that the sum he was charged with embezzling made up exactly the amount that he would have been entitled to receive for him self, supposing such an arrangement to have existed, and which on the part of the prisoner was alleged actually to have been the case. It likewise appeared that the charge had not been made by the prosecutor until after the prisoner had left his service, and gone into that of another coal-mer chant, named Wright, who had set up in the coal trade near Mr. Pegg's wharf, and he admitted that the prisoner had taken a great many of his customers away. Mr. CLARKSON made a very able address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and called a number of highly re spectable witnesses, all of whom gave him an excellent character. The RECORDER summed up the case, and the jury imme diately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then arraigned upon another indictment, preferred by the same prosecutor, charging him with larceny ; but, afi er one or two witnesses had been examined, Mr. Bal lantine expressed an opinion that he did not expect the jury would convict the prisoner upon the evidence that he was in a position to offer, and he therefore withdrew from the prosecution. A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly recorded. James Augustus Seymour, 40, was indicted for a mis le meanour, in having unlawfully caused the registry of a false entry of a birth. Air. Doane conducted the prosecution. Mr. Hamblin, the registrar of births, deaths, and mar riages for St. Luke's, deposed that on the 12th of May de fendant came to his office and said he wished to register the birth of a child, and witness, at his dictation, filled up the register. He described himself as the father, and described the mother as Amy Seymour, formerly Amy Wallen. The witness said that the prisoner did not say that they wire married, but he inferred that they were so from the descrip tion the prisoner gave of the mother of the child. The prisoner cross-examined the witness at some length, as to his identity, but he persevered in declaring that he was the man who had come to his office and had caused him to make the entry. Amy Wrallen deposed that she had been living with the prisoner as his wife, but they were not married. She was delivered of a child, of which the prisoner was the father, in the beginning of May, and she remembered the prisoner go. ing away on the 12th, saying that he should get the birth registered. She identified the signature to the register as the prisoner's handwriting. The prisoner cross-examined the witness at, great length, but upon matters totally irrelevent, and the only object ap parenily being to defame her character and that of her fa mily. The Recorder repeatedly interposed, and told him that he could not do himself any good by such a course of examination, and - that he ought to confine himself to the real question at issue, viz. whether or not he had caused the false entry to be made. In anwer to a question from the Court, this witness said that for the last nine months she was living with the pri- soner, she went by the name of Amy Seymour, and was looked upon by their landlord, and every one who knew them, as the prisoner's wife. The prisoner, who had conducted himself with great effrontery during the trial, declared that the whole pro ceeding was a conspiracy by the girl's relations to get him transported. The RECORDER, at the close of the case for the prosecution, said there appeared to him to be this difficulty, that although the prisoner had made a statement that the parties were married, and that the child was legitimate, yet, in point of fact, he had not made any actual false statement. Mr. DOANE admitted this was so, but he said the effect of such a proceeding was entirely to defeat the intention of this Act of Parliament. The RECORDER said that the mischief which it was the in. tention of the Act to prevent, was certainly effected, but under the circumstances he should like to take the opinion of the judges upon the point. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of Guilty, but under the direction of his Lordship, they appended to their verdict the statement that the woman was known by the name described on the reg!ster, and:that in point of fact no actual false representation had been made by the prisoner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Fitzgerald was charged with creating a disturbance at the Boar's Head public-house, Clare-street, Clare- market. The whole case arose out of a question of right. The com plainant, a Mr. Davis, said that he had purchased the house of the former landlord, a Mr. Hawker, and produced an agreement and some receipts in proof of the sale. On the other hand, the 410endant produced a lease, an agreement, and a license (which had been transferred to him), in proof of a prior sale. Mr. Davis stated that the prisoner and his wife came to the house on Saturday—he being then in possession—and brought with them " half a dozen Irishmen." They said that the house was theirs, and the goods and fixtures also, they having bought them of Mr. Hawker; and they were determined to take and maintain possession. They remained until a policeman came up and took the prisoner and his wife into custody. (They were both taken to the station-house, and were got out on bail, but Mrs. Fitzgerald being ill and unable to attend, it was agreed that the case should proceed in her absence.) A long, and by no means orderly discussion, here took place between the complainant and defendant, and their re spective solicitors, in the course of which it appeared that there were three boxes on the premises which were admitted to be the prisoner's property, and it was agreed that they should be sent by tie complainant to his (prisoner s) address. Mr. HENRY said that this was a case of trespass on a claim of right. The prisoner had clearly no right to force an entry, whether he was or was not the true owner of the house. He should have taken legal means to eject the complainant and gain possession ; but as it was a case of trespass, he could not adjudicate. A civil action might, perhaps, be brought. The prisoner was discharged. The Brussels Opera company left London on Sun day morning for Antwerp, by the steam-ship Soho, from Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall. As they performed at Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday night, and were so en gaged until midnight, the time allotted for preparation for their departure was very small, and as their theatrical wardrobe and effects were delivered to them in bulk on their arrival here for professional purposes, without payment of the duties, under protest that they should be again ex ported to Belgium within a stated limited period, it became necessary for the director, on the part of the troupe, to make application to the revenue authorities for their exami nation to take place at a very early period of the morning of Sunday, previously to shipment and their departure, in order to relieve the parties to the bond from the onus which had devolved upon them for the general convenience of this gifted company. MUSICAL GOSSlP.—Paris.—The Italian Opera has published its programme; it will re-open on the Ist of Oc tober. Grisi, Persiani, Marietta Brambilla, Mario. Lablache, Ronconi, Corelli, Cullini, Tagliafico, Peppina Brambilla, Angiola Albini, and Coletti, are among the engagements announced. The theatre continues under the direction of M. Vatel. A new opera, La Caquet du couvent, the music by Henri Potier, has been produced at. the Opera Comique, with considerable success. The success is traced to the performers, Madame Potier, Mdlle. Marie Lavoye, and St. Foye, rather than to the music, or the book, which is the production of MM. Planard and Leuven. A dramatic version of Clarisse Harlowe, after the form given to it by Jules Janin, has been produced at the Gymnase Dramatique, with brilliant success; the names of the authors are MM. Dumanoir, Leon Guillard, and Clairville ; the first and last of these have had little to do in the work, but M. Leon Guillard, the real author, to insure its production, was compelled to avail himself of the names and prestige of others better known, if not clever than himself ; this is the system in Paris. M. Guillard is a cousin of Massol, the singer.— Vienna.—Liszt, the pianist, after giving about a dozen con certs here, and a great number more in the Austrian pro vinces, was attacked by an inflammatory fever which raised apprehensions about his life. Under the care of M. Loewe, the famous homoeopathic doctor, he recovered entirely, and will shortly repair to Italy. The _Album de Sainte Cecile informs us that on the 11th of July l the inauguration of the monument to Glucksttoaotked thatace. Mozart's Requiem was e xecuted. — Jenny Lind has refused the offers made s ad l e to her from the Imperial Theatre a t St. Peterburgh—viz., forty thou sand silver rubles for five months, and one thou sand rubles extra for each representation. Among the most interest i ng features of the forthcoming festival at Birming ham is the 93d Psalm, to which Moscheles has set music. High e xpectations are entertained of this first essay of this master in the ecclesiastical style. Balfe, the new chef d'orchestre of her Majesty's Theatre, has signed a renewed engagement with Mr. Lumley for two years. He has adopted the poem of Halevy's Mousquetaires de la Reine for his new opera at Drury-lane Theatre. Leopold de Meyer, the pianist, p ro mises to return to England in May. Miss Messent has concluded an engagement with Mr. Bunn to fill the situa tion of seconda donna at Drury-lane Theatre. A. chorus written by Rossini, to celebrate the recent Pontifical mark of clemency, has been much talked of. Some ;say it is ori ginal, others that it is from one of the finalec of the Donna del Lago, others that it is from some less known work • but no one seems absolutely t o k now anyt hi ng about it, not even the Bolognese, who regard every movement of Rossini with so jealous an eye.—New Italian Opera.—This bubble has burst effectually, Persiani, the original proprietor, having withdrawn from the speculation.---Musical World. DEATH OF ROBERT PLUMER WARD, ESQ.—Died on Thursday last, at the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, in his 82d year, of a sudden attack of angina pectoris, Robert Plumer Ward, Esq., of Gilston Park, in the county of Herts. Mr. Plumer Ward held office for 25 years under the governments of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Perceval, and Lord Liverpool, and retained to the last that vigorous intel lect which has, more recently, identified his name with some of the master-pieces of English literature. THE NEW SPIRITS LICENSES BILL.—The greatest activity prevails in the Excise department, making ar rangements in the event of the Spirits Licenses Bill passing into a law. Mr. John Wood, the chairman of the board, who had left town for the purpose of making his annual in spection of the coast, was called to town, and remained in communication with the Chancellor of the Exchequer the whole of Friday and Saturday last; and Mr. C. Freeling, the secretary, was also required to be in attendance to afford information. The duties of the surveying offices in thickly populated districts are at present sufficiently heavy, and little addition can be made to them, consequently some few new officers will be required ; but in other districts, it is stated, the additional duty will be performed by the surveying offi cers. The premises of chemists and druggists will be pe riodically visited; and each vendor will be required to take out a two-guinea license. The object of tho Bill is to put a stop to illicit distillation, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Auc. 17.—Wind S. by E., moderate breeze, and fine. 16, DEAL, Auu. 15.—Wind S.S.W. ; 16, S.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd• Marian, Crawford, China ; Thetis, Cass, Calcutta and Jamaica; .."" Nova, Cape of Good Hope ; Fifeshire, Vaughan, Patag onia ; Sam slick, River Gambia; Forester, WArthur, Tobago; Whr u P °s ' Willis, Porto Rico. mo derate — LIVERPOOL, Auc.ls.—Wind S. to S.W , light; 16, S.W., Arrd. Ashlam, Williams, New Orleans ; William and Elizabeth , F it : cher, do. ; Leuconia, Porter, do. ; Tyrian, Jackson, do. ; Clanhox, n r, do. ; Wm Goddard, Potter, Mobile; Louisa, Tay, do. ; Georgia, ,'° llns, Savannah ; Charles Humberston, Charleston ; AlcYcat P.,..7;;;;; Philadelphia : Hottinguer, Montreal; Huddersfield, Kirby, Bonny ; Alice Hamland,Cerriel;tr Burnley, New York ; Rockshire , badoes ; San Francisco,' Tobaran, Havannah ; Finland, Brc r i vi4 „ Q ees- Orleans ; Rockingham, Pershalton, do.; Medenseb, Bayeon, ton ; Q. E. D., Montreal. riema, NEWHAVEN, AUG. 16.—The St. Antonio, from Newcastle to and the Elizabeth, Saunders, from Arundel to Newcastle, Wer e contact off Hastings on the night of the 14th inst. ; the for mer _o run on the Eastern Bank, heeled off, making much water, an a pears to be logged. The Economy, Hooper, from Loudon uloucester, has put in here with pumps choked. 0 4lig POOLE, Auo. 11.—The Vixen, Tilsed, of Weymouth, in Pr ° , o . o t off out of this harbor, without a pilot, run aground twice, t S wit P hout apparent damage. ORT Tama, Atm. 15.—The Mary Ann, Henwood, from ' AgneS Ade is aground on the north side of the bar, but expected off nett ightening. bas put DUBLIN, Aro. 15.—The Friendship, Young, for MVO , back to-day, very leaky. To Oro l lr LOSSIEMOUTH, Atm. 12.—The Isabella, Anderson, of te d 0.• run on the Cove Sea Skerrie Rocks this morning, but eir" nextOFF tide. ole PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 15.—Tagus steamer, Constati.--flo r a Cowes, Ausa. 16.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Mona, Batavia; Hall, Havannah. Jaller°; LIVERPOOL, AUG. 14.—S1d. Patchett, Norman, for Rio o w, Helen, Hicks, Quebec; Creamore, Salt, Newfoundland; Arc° piled' Start, Newfoundland ; Experiment, Robins, Newfoundland; a pe sor, Pepper, Para; Elizabeth Wood, Creslier, Barbadoes ; Parker, Parsons, New Orleans ; Columbia, Dyer, New :LryetX TO ; Sardinia, Crocker, New York ; Manchester, Taylor, Ne,r,. Per Cairo, Poor, Boston ; Zion's Hope, M`Pherson, horamic.".,Terio , severance, Leeds, Quebec ; Hero of Acre, Jones, Quebec ; B en N tier, Herron, Quebec ; George, Simpson, Quebec ; Montezuma , eel New York ; Alfred, Campbell, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Pomare, Till, St. John's, New Brunswick. POOLE, Auo. 15.—Arrd. the Rainbow, Arnold, Patagoni a' °ld' Liston, Brown, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERD— CORN EXCHANGE. ; dins The past week's arrivals of all kinds of Grain, - 0 %00 Flour, of home produce, were on a very limited scale; lo ad, had an increased supply of Oats from Ireland. From a ' o ia we received a full average quantity of Wheat, Oatth sh Flour; but other articles came slowly to hand. Fr e war the receipts of English Wheat, coastwise, as well as 11 4 eis carriage and sample, were rather limited, and chieflypresent year's growth. The stands being rather mod filled with samples, the attendance of buyers numerousobea the accounts from Ireland respecting the potato crop e waS very unfavourable, the demand for Wh ea t o f h o me proda! it ies very steady, at an advance in the value of new' ';lf. - 001; of from is to 2s per quarter, and at which a good cLn ie st, was effected. Old parcels of Wheat were in good yi of and the currencies had an upward tendency. The g "„ foreign Wheat, owing to the firmness evinced by w:014 porters, was by no means extensive. The best P; moved off readily, at an improvement of is per quart e nt ,yeC the value of other kinds we can notice no improvon e ,j o aats the quotations were steadily supported. The !",,, r eesS which have come to hand relative to the progressol . „," fef „ work in the north are highly satisfactory. v oolf samples of new Batley were on sale, and those tos t, of middling quality. Grinding parcels were in fair leq wag but not dearer. In all ' other kinds next to nothl Ras doing. Superfine White Malt, the supply of wh,f kindslimited, moved off steadily, at full prices. In all oth er o the we have very few sales to report. The show of Goate d /role whole was good, but the hulk of the supply was der ive e at i n abroad. All kinds moved off briskly, at an improver° 0 5 value of from Is to 2s per quarter. The sale for D ea . r tj off rather dull, yet prices were supported. Peas on: m g ia slowly, at previous quotations. There was more o°'" Flour, at very full prices. 6 6 % CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE 6 400 Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevaller • • • • • A 4 0 Red, New 348 to 46s Oats—Yorkshire • an d 2 35 : 0 6 Ditto,Wldte, Old 51s 57s Lincolnsh., Fee"' 2 6g " Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ••.• • • • .40 coin, Red. •. • . 368 46s Ditto, White ••• • • • 46s 50s Irish, Red.. ••• • . • —s —s Cork, White .• • • 249 3 61 Youg ß h l a a l ck an . res, Ditto, White .•• • • • —s Scotch, Feed. •• ' 345 4 71 dye—Old •••• • • • . .• . 323 348 Beans—Tick ... ••• • • 435 3;0 New. •• • 3os 33s Pigeons ....• •• • • 33s 3 60 Barley—Grinding . 26s 288 Pease—Grey. .• ••• • • 365 4 /1 Malting . 32s 34s Maple ••• • " 405 440 Chevalier •• • • 34s 35s White ... •••• • • • 429 4 60 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • ••• • • 3 4 folk— 588 63s Flour—Town-made • " 445 . 345 s o Brown .•• • . • s2s 54s Suffolk ....... . • 34 , Kingston and Ware 64s 65s Stockta & Nerfol l ' FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND: 3 05ta3 3 1 Wheat—Dantzic s3s to 568 Beans .• • . ..... •• • • 305 0 Hamburgh .. 488 50s Pease ••••••• • • • • • " OS 0 Barley • • 20s 24s ' Flour—American •• • •279 Oats —New .••• • • . 24s 25s Baltic .•••• • • • • Feed 198 20s o fo SMITHFIELD. toc k h; During the past week, the imports of foreign.,! London consisted of 26 Oxen and 8 Calves from 111n7cal03 56 Oxen, 114 Cows, 1,473 Sheep, 200 Lambs, a 0 Sheep' from Rotterdam ; as also 8 Oxen, 96 Cows, 44 ,•° ile d 54 Lambs from Marlingen. At Hull, about 5 o , stock have been received, mostly from Hol land ge: Plymouth, 52 Oxen have been imported from SP.alf offervaryiat bad condition, and which have found buyers , at pr n i abou • from 12/ 10s to 15/ lOs each. To-day we °ether WI 150 foreign Beasts, and 2,200 ditto of SheeP , t e o r g-!—ber ra te few Calves, which moved off steadily, at rath o nig fresh f Beas From our own grazing districts the arrivals _ f very middling up to-day were moderately extensive, .bot bited many goo, quality, compared with the stock exh , bUyCIS being g vious market-days. The attendance o f _, an „ on last weekt, cleatthe Beef trade ruled steady, at an "' quotations of fully 2d per 81bs, ante was effected. A few of the verY P , 4s per Slo: uotation was Sher' 4s 2d, but the more general top q dabout 800 age From the northern counties we receive and Cal nbri 1 11 prodo.,_,e" horns; from Norfolk, Suffolk,apEdasisiteixists:'lelisctliscao tgsood fro am, ° liereftn, the western and midland counties , 600 , shire, 500 Scots, Home-breds, and Short-h rns ; s a Runts, Devons, Scc. ; from .other par ts of Log a 300 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 60 Scots ; Scc from the neighbourhood of London, 400 Cows, 3 '...% t t01l Although the numbers of Sheep were large, the ",. 8110 , trade was active, and the quotations advanced 2d P e ' u ppli the finest old Downs selling at 4s Gd per 81bs. pie 9 , s tS of L nibs was good, while the Lamb trade was beavP l ics depre , sion in value of 2d per Blbs, and a clearancu.w_,s9 difficulty effected. In Calves only a moderate 0 be aviki doing, yet prices were well supported. Pigs moved u at late rates. 4' Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d too 6 s. d. s. el. 3 10 , Inferior Beasts • • 2 8 210 Second quality ditto A 6 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolledditte 4 ." : 4 4"''_6 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wet hers Prime Scots 3lO 4 0 Ditto out of the wool rg 4 4 16 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ***** ' 4 8 0 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers ••• • , e 0 .i' 6 Suckling Calves lB 0 29 0 Quarter old rigs • • • • 1 ," 6 ' Inferior Sheep .. 3 4 3 8 Lambs • • ..... •'' - . SUPPLY AT MARKET. pin' Beasts. I Sheep, I Calves. I 1O" 3,342 33,070 1 216 4 11,1.• kille i NMI:MATZ AND LEADENEE — t ry-- di. For the time ofyear, fair average supplies of coun od coll o Meat have come to hand ' since Monday last, in C, D olig , d i tion ; while, with Meat slaughtered in the ree' r yclet o v o have been well supplied. Still, however, the geu er4 i t 0 0 t is yq, has ruled steady, and in some instances the quo ta 0 OW had an upward tendency. Several carcases ot foreig Sheep, Lambs, and Calves have appeared on sale. 5- d ' At per stone, by the Carcase. •d to 0 s. d. to s. d. 1 4 ' tO 3 0 .2 - 3 0 Beef, inferior 2 6 2. 8 Mutton, inferior • 3 3 4 ~ middling prime large .. 3 0 3 2 prime ••', 3 4i ° prime small .. 3 4 3 6 / Pork, large.. ••• • • 4 ' Veal •••••••• • • • • • • 3 6 4 4 I— small —••• • '. Lamb. 4s 8d to 5s Bd. AR/tIVALS DURING THE PAST c gs Beasts /49- Beasts Sheep C 51 . ... 1 5 30 ...- 20 8 100 ..- 20 10 80 Scotland • • • ....... • . • • . • Yorkshire .•••••• • • • • • • Lincolnshire .. • . • . • . • . Norfolk . • • • • • • • • . • . • . • • Suffolk .. Cambridgeshire ••.. • ... Devonshire Wiltshire .............. Other parts •.•••• • • • • • • 20 40 5 50 -- 30 8 20 80 5 0 - 30 40 10 20 50 -- 2 0 20 - 70 30 0 0 20 100 20 Total ...... ........ 116 - 570 170 10 Previous week's arrival...... 100 265 <0 '0 Difference since our last 1 .. 16 - 305 - lO C° BOIELOUGH HOP inanicOr . . petkifig From most quarters the accounts respecting th e pin gi st. of the growing bine are favourable, and a very ear nv orC is generally expected. Fine parcels of Hops 00 1 0 0 5° ," tO week's prices, but all other kinds May be purchase'n 000' th what easier terms. The duty is backed at 16 of Pidit 165,0001. Sussex pockets, 41 16s to 61; Wea l "' r 51 to Cl 6s; Mid and E as t K ents, 51 12s to 81 8 3 P e e BOROUGH AND SPITAIMZO I 'Ire th e l Although the supplies of Potatoes are e2cteusl„,j , e oe: mand rules very steady, at from 71 to 101 per ton. lu.eb quality of the parcels on offer is good. t of nor' • WOOL. g ha t v h e e pastamo amounted to t t o h e 3 a 2o rri b v a a i l e s a Lo D nd u o r n in 320 bales from Hamburh ; 210 bales from Llobno l a ° 0 ", o f f ro W in o S ol ov i . R th ti3 A en T 'e ffit s.c : i i 1,926 bales from Sydney; 834 bales from PoTt Pnv or e bales from Spain ; and 65 bales from Ale :_and prictor 6 mand for English Wool has become h e avy, 21 ' . tiler '- with difficulty supported. In foreign qualities business is doing. eg TALLOW, rriC ,het There is no alteration to notice in this market• A Le t , et the spot and for forward delivery are unaltersuj 1 1 , - -r tl ei from St. Petersburgh, received this morning, M i l" _;"fot higher prices, with a fair amount of business ",. ° ,7sonaet Y. C. for the last three months is 41s 3d to 41s vuih s separate months, 41s 6d to 425. Town Tallow', '- cash. 10 s. Ise , - LADVERTISEMENT. J—THE RAJAH OF 04 6 Yr , po ts_ , - .4 TILAY A 0 o f y LL w ow t : h t o 's no o a i r N e T wi aN t T h . AND Io l l o i w i ° a Holloway's —On olloway's Ointment, from no less a error than 1 11 ',, a .n the - O• En the Rajah, or reigning sovereign of Tt ? trfancore, thr ° 7nallt°l for,,,Y . firm of Messrs. J. Cockburn and Co„ East India M .. „.er" , I °,, stirol New Broad-street, London. The ointment, it APP7„ 6 r 0 ,1 st e e, personal use of the Rajah, and will be employed and ;09 0 7,,r intendence of his private physician. Holloway's u` an d6 tli , ' over India, being a certain cure for ttleers, wounds, sere - ',.s of btain"""Jor• even if of twenty years' standi ng , an d may be o o e prietor, 444, Strand, London, and of every medicine ..............—... 0 5 e iliji' BIRTHS. 10 1 L On the 9th inst., at Belle Vue, Urlingford , . 00 Y wife of the Rev. Nesbett Lodge, of a daughter. ~.,a e , A Eye ...-- •ti On the 10th inst., at South-street-terrace , liter . A , 0 ham, the wife of Charles Rolls, Esq., of a chug _hem, ' On the llth inst., at Prestbury, near Chelteiw 0 1 of G. R. Stevenson, Esq., of a daughter. e • 001' On the 12th inst., at Marston Ree th ory, ueO. ro Richard Boyle of a daughter. nuckillg'' On the 13t1; inst., at the Bury, Cheshanl , shire, the lady of W. Lowndes, Esq., of a son. ..,...0.00;, On the 13th inst., at Cambridge-squares . 13 o f f' lady of A. Salomons, Esq., of a son. t h e lag On the 13th inst., at Maize-hill, Greenwich' o fil Kent, Esq., of a son. John On the 14th inst., the wife of the Rev. ---... 0. daughter. , ig' On the 19th of May, at A/ H AR , RIED. • Horwood, 14th Regiment, Ca Pta r iil lei 1., to Jan'J u ......,," eldest daughter of Captain C. T. Hall, Maids , .......,... ire of Bodmerbaabyalsi.Sinde, e _ st he GeOorngtehDe e l i t a h tt i o n s st a ., ge a d t ss C . a p l i g . Gertrude geildri"' 1 .,„ 10 0 --di g' r On the 12th inst., at Ipswich, 111 r. T. Shorten, ..v 1,5 0 Georl;° On the 13th i ns t., i n N ew Bas ghall-street, in staff, Esq. ..if dIeAV Esoq.nt of f h H e a r k t n h ey ln a a g t. e , d A 34 n . ne, Second daughter of f r• On the 14th inst., John Taylor, Esq. , Essex. "-----". ---n—P----."".-7-'"-"...".---------.—=-'.5.1.-* o f Oo rc ipc i Lonon: Printed and Published by MURDO YOITNas roos Stand,Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, ill,w . , of the 134V07 , in the Coed" or ZLiddleffas T r r 64, iP ' of StrEttforel-gree2 Kim, -