The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-04 00:00:00

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Thomas Brodigan, Esq , Pilton House, County Meath, a magis trate of that county, complaining of the outrage to which he, in common with other British subjects, was subjected on the occasion of his visiting Jerusalem on Good Friday last (detailed in the correspondence which appeared in the The Sun of yesterday), and praying that effective measures may be resorted to by the English Government, which will cause the Sublime Porte to exert a more repressive authority against such outrages, and thus protect British travellers visiting the East. CLARK'S DIVORCE BILL. Lord DUNCAN moved that a message should be sent to the Lords, requesting their Lordships to furnish this House with a copy of the minutes of the evidence taken in Clark's Divorce Bill. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time: — Clark's Divorce. Ely and Huntingdon Railway (Bedford Extension). Howell's Charity Estate. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension Railway. Somerset Small Debts Court. GLASGOW AND BELFAST UNION RAILWAY. Mr. HODGSON moved that the further consideration of the report on this Bill should be postponed until the evidence had been printed. After some considerable dizeussion strangers were ordered to withdraw. On our readmission we found that no division had taken place, but that the postponemnt of the question had been agreed to. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from several of the shareholders of the South-Western Rail way Company praying that the House would not grant any power to the Portarlington Railway Company, which would allow that Company to purchase their line of railway. They also prayed that the decision of the Committee with regard to that railway might be allowed to stand. Mr. F. FRENCH, in moving the re-committal of the Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway) Bill, said that there was naturally and equitably a feeling in the House to support the de cision of its Committees, and such a feeling should not be departed from unless upon some strong and peculiar grounds. This Bill bad received the sanc tion of the Board of Trade and had actually passed both Lords and Commons. The evidence on which the decision had been come to, and the decision of which he com plained, was in the hands of every Member of that House. The Committee came to the decision that they would not allow parties to be heard in opposition to the preamble of the Bill, notwithstanding which thy admitted such evidence. The line was recommended by the Board of Trade because it would open up raiivay communi cation between the eastern, western, and southern ports of Ireland. After stating that the Bill had received the sanction of the House of Lords, he said he called for a revision of the Bill on the broad ground of public interest and national justice. They had witnesses to prove that another line would have been more consonant with the public good, but the Chairman refused to hear the evidence. He looked in vain for any reasons which would have justified the Committee having thrown out the line which he (Mr. French) advocated. The opposing counsel to it admitted that they had completely proved the pre amble of the Bill, yet the Committee came to a far Jiff r ent conclusion. Their great object was to open the western district and thus open the fisheries, for which a Dutch company, in the reign of Charles the Second, paid for liberty to fish 5,0001. per annum. They depended on the fact of being able to connect Liverpool with America by a voyage of seven days • and with such evidence before the m h e wondered how the decision had been arrived at by the Committee. Mr. W. COLLETT, in rising to second the motion, expressed his astonishment at the decision the Committee had come to, seeing that the Dublin and Galway line was the only railway that proposed to accommodate Galway, and thought, as Parliament last year all but sanctioned the measure. the House ought to support its decision of the former Committee. Mr. MACKENZIE defended the course adopted by the Committee. Ile denied that the Bill was the same as the one which was before thy' House last year, and he world therefore oppose the motion. Mr. REI)INGTON believed that the Committee had acted corscientiouslv, but their decision was nothing less than absurd.—(Hear, hear.) All his Hon. Friend sought by his motion was, that the House should give effect to the decision given by the House of Lords on this subject during the last session of Parlia ment. The Bills wore not necessarily competing Bills, and the House of Lo-ds, looking upon them in that light, had pissed them. Be lieving that hi; Mono .ra!de Friend had made out a sufficient case for his motion, he should give him his support. If the motion were not agreed to, he considered that the vast population which would be accommodated by this railway would be most unjustly treated. B. BALDWIN briefly supported the motion. -3ftr. I_AIDNU3TRONG thOuglit the lino under eon sitiorelion-Aihjectionable, as a means of commutica• wilt - ,the West of Ireland. The proper route for Galway . . Mullingar. Ile should as soon tbtak,ot" ping, to Bristol by way of Southampton, as k o ; frookrAhliir to Galway by the route of Mullingsr. -I r eland atiduhthe;supplied by threo great trunk lines-- to the floral.; .13eliast, to the south by Kilkenny, and i 0 the west- . u lli ngar . ROSt , 'aid he would say row words on the pe. Mr. PLUMPTRE was of opinion that the proposed railway would fvlly satisfy the wishes of the inhabitants of North Kent. The merits of the Bill had been fairly discussed before the Committee, and he should support the original motion. After a few words from Mr. PROTHEROE, Mr. FREWEN consented to withdraw his amend ment, and the report was considered and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest •• • • Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di- vidend account:•)•• 7,807,02 Other deposits •• •• • • 1.5,031,3d1 Seven day and other bills ......... .... 851,222 X 41,G51,739 Dated the 2d day of June, 1846. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam .. ....C.F. 12 814 . -- liiiie:aisigh — t ; . -..... 12 5 1 A Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 9 Antwerp ••.. .. Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona . Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 23 75 Ditto, 3 Months .... .. 26 5 Marseilles •••• • • .... 26 10 Bourdeanz .... .. .. .. • . 26 10 Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Petersbargh, 3 U 5.... • • Berlin ..... • ...... • . • • Vienna, effec. flo ••• • • • 10 934 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 10 Madrid ••.. • • ......., 35% Cadiz • • • : • ....... 36! i i Barcelona —........— Sevllle.. • . — Weight Annuity).. 12,987,946 Other securities •••• 18,257,149 Notes Gold and silver coin • • 742,554 X 41,651,739 2iIARSIIALL. Chief Cashier. NGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar .. • .... Leghorn ••. • • • 30 45 Genoa •• .. 26 10 Milan .. Venice. Naples .... • .... • • 39% Palermo, per 0z... ..... 119 y, Lisbon. Oporto .... • ..... • Rio Janeiro ..... . . • 24 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin • • 3 17 5 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0 New Dollars •• . . Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of July 3.) SUGAIL—To-day, although there were sellers of all kind of Sugar subject to the 14s per cwt duty upon further re duced terms, still there was no improvement in the dernanl privately, and there was only one small public sale of Madras. In West India Muscovadoe the busines transacted was ex tremely limited, only 160 hhds and trcs finding buyers, making the total sales fur the week amount to the very small quantity of only 520 hhds and trcs, and the decline in prices during that time 1s 6d to 2s per cwt. REEmEn.—The home trade have purchased all descrip tions of refined goods with extreme caution this week, and the business transacted has been less than for some time MAURLTIUS.-There are sellers of all descriptions by pri vate contract at prices rather under those that previously prevailed, still the purchases made by refiners and grocers have been extremely limited. EAST Ixrun.—lniporters of Madras are inclined to realise, and having supplied the market freely has produced a de cline of is to Is 6d upon last week's rates. Bengal has been sparingly dealt in privately, although there are sellers at a reduction on previous rates of is per cwt upon all qualities. FOREIGN.—To-day there was much inquiry after all kinds of Foreign Sugar, but the stiff rates asked operated against business. A floating cargo of Porto Rico, deliverable here, has been sold at 22s 6d; and 300 hhds on the spot at 23s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon a fair amount of business was transacted privately in Ceylon, and 42s to 433 paid for good ordinary pale native; none was cffered at public sale, but 1,400 bags chiefly Plantation are declared. Mocha is wanted, and fetched stiffer rates-450 pkgs are declared for auction. The market for foreign is still quiet, and 151 bags Bahia at auction went at rather lower rates, good ordinary dingy at 29s 6d to 30s, very good ordinary 30s 6d to 31s, and sea damaged 27s to 29s per cwt. Congou a good business has been transacted in all descriptions, but merchants have been compelled to take previous market rates. In Pouchong sales to a fair extent have been made. For Hyson the market is firm, and several purchases have been made. Twankay has not risen in value, but a fair business has been done. Of Scented Teas the supply is still exceeding the demand, and prices in consequence keep low. The common kinds of Im perial and Gunpowder are heavy of disposal, and can be had upon rather lower terms, but the better sorts bring full rates ; there has been little passing. MoLAssxs.—West India at present cannot generally be purchased upon lower terms, but there has been less demand, and the market is rather better supplied; the qualities are chiefly middling and inferior. In Bengal Treacle there has been little passing, and former rates are not to be obtained. RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice met with attention, and 3,373 bags at auction were all sold at stiff rates, good bold white fetching I3s 6d to 14s, and damaged 8s 6d to 13s 6d. Of Italian 150 bags fetched 15s for ordinary white. SALTPETRE.—This afternoon at public sale 3,751 bags of Calcutta were offered, and the whole sold, but the rates taken were in sonic cases rather under those previously quoted. SPICES.—A good demand has prevail?d for all descriptions of Ginger, and the rates paid have been rather above those previously current. Pimento ie wanted, and the parcels sold privately were at stiffer rates. The low rates for Black Pep per cause holders to supply the market sparingly, but the home and export demand has been limited by private contract. For White prices do not improve, although several pur chases have been made, and the supply bein g less than it was. Cloves have been sparingly dealt in. Mace is not cheaper, but there has been little business transacted. Nut megs are not offered upon lower terms, bat the demand has not improved, as there is a fair stock here. Cinnamon of all kinds has been in much better request, but holders are unable to obtain any advance on the prices of the last guar. terly sales, as there is a fair supply at market, especially of the ordinary, coarse, and jungle kinds. There are sellers of Cassia Lignea upon low terms, still there are not many buyers to be met with at present, as there is a large stock here. SPIRITS.—The business transacted in all kinds of Jamaica Rum has been to a very small extent this week, and the market having been better supplied a slight decline in prices has taken place. In Calcutta a fair amount of business has been done, and prices are firm. In Leeward Islands several sales have been made, and owing to the small supply holders easily obtain 2s 2d to 2s 4 . 0 for proof strength. In Deme rara there has been little passing. For old Brandy the de mand has been good, and prices are on the advance, in new descriptions the operations are upon a more extended scale, but merchants are sellers upon former terms. Geneva is !awed for exportation, end the Klee made were at 2e W 2e 2d T. IV. Hooper, chemist, Bathurst-street, Hyde-park gardens—first div. of lOs. 114 d. in the pound, on any Wed • nesdav, at the office of Mr. W hitmore, Basinghall-street. M. 'Maclean, cloth factor, Basinghall-street—first div. of Is. Gd. in the pound, on Saturday, July 4, and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. M. and T. A. Butterfield, linendrapers, Royston—first div. of 5T.. in the pound, on Saturday, July 4, and three following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch- lane, City. M. and H. Emanuel, goldsmiths, Hanover-square—first div. of 6s. 6d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. J. Gibson, farrier, Manchester—first div. of Is. 2d. in the pound,on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. T. Heppell, timber-merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first div. of ss. 6d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon - Tyne. W. Fordyce, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first div. of 2s. 9d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon - Tyne. T. H. Bennett, builder, Cheltenham—second div. of 7d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Acra man, Bristol. W. Parsons, brewer, Bristol—second div. of 2d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Acrausan, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. R. Moir, jeweller, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, July 24, at half-past one—E. Green, house agent, Whitecross street, Cripplegate, July 24, at half-past eleven. In the Country. _ _ J. G. Gore, innkeeper, Cheltenham, July 27, at one, at the Bristol District Court—T. Lee, common brewer, Liverpool, July 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Ogle and W. Walton, merchants, Liverpool, July 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—S. Archer, woollen manufac turer, Rochdale, July 21, at twelve, at the ➢lanchester Dis trict Court—E. S. Harley, grocer, Birmingham, July 27, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granteJ, unless cause be shown tc the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. S. M. Latham, banker, Dover, July 24—S. Whaley, gro cer, William-street, Lisson-grove, July 24—W. G. Bradford, tailor, Bucklersbury, July 25—H. Dunnington, glove manu facturer, Nottingham, July 31—J. Roe, drysalter, Manches ter, July 30—B. Vanderplank, woollen warehouseman, Love lane, City, July 24—V. Elkins ; coach maker, Southampton place, Euston-square, July Blackman, farmer, Bid dendon, Kent, July 24—E. Dorling, Berlin wool dealer, Ips wich, July 24—J. Kirkup, coal merchant, Providence wharf, Rotherhithe, July 24 A. M. Beaumont, woollen cloth manufacturer, Houley, Yorkshire, July 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. and R. Atkinson, builders, Corbridge, Northumberland —F. Clarke and F. S. Gosling, attorneys, Austin-friars—J. Wilson and J. Graham, silk manufacturers, Gresham -street —T. Marriott, E. Munk, and 11. Smyth, wholesale drapers, Nottingham —C. Hook and EJ. Rodway, wine merchants, Devizes—F. and M. H. Hodges, music-sellers, Bristol—ll. Steele, J. Brereton, and R. L. Jones, timber merchants, Liverpool—J. Brereton, R. L. Jones, H. Steele, and J. Thompson, timber merchants, Liverpool—J. Brereton and R L. Jones, timber merchants, Liverpool—J. Payne and T. Freer, printers, Leicester—J. Nash and F. B. Bainbridge, boarding•schoolkeepers, lleavitree, Devonshire—G. Holden and J. MClellan, borax manufacturers, Liverpool—J. Byers and J. C. Stagg, Stockton, Durham—W. Raddall and J. H. Hill, veterinary surgeons, Plymouth—J. L. Pratt and J. Wilson—A. Aitken and J. Henderson. jun., ironfounders, Liverpool—W. M. and P. Lawson, corn dealers, Commercial road East—l. Gregory and G. Goold, tanners, Tewkesbury— 11. Buehler and J. P. Thol, agents, Mark-lane—T. Calvert and W. Hancock, woollendrapers, Bradford— D. Oliver, R. Oliver, and J. Oliver, corn millers, Wood-mills, Yorkshire— J. North and J. Dixon, blue manufacturers, City-road—J. Leach and J. Cooke, butchers, Liverpool—G. Vevers and W. Woodhead, woolstaplers, Leeds—J. Wallace and J. Sibson, grocers, Carlisle —J. Woodhead and I'. Charlesworth, merchants, Leeds —J, p stock brokers, Bradford —J. Powell and R. Lowndes, sharebrokers, Liverpool—W. T. 0. Joy, W. G. Joy, and E. Joy, jun , oil ChLlmsford—J. P. Lynill and P Berlyn, stockbrokers, Man- Lee, W. W. Brumb chester—J. Hall and E. Gower, map draughtsmen, Red Lion square, Holborn —J. Holmes and J. Morrow, stove grate ma otter and H. Nicholson, linendrapers, nufacturers, Ne wcastle-upon -Tyne—E. Briggs and G. Bright, hat manufacturers, Castleton Lower-mill, Lancashire—H. knife manufacturers, Sheffield (so far as regards W. W. Brumby and W. Middleton). SCOTCH Sr QUESTRATIONS. John Mackenzie Ross,ironmonger,lnverness , July 10 and Y, w, Middleton, and G. H. Lee, table- Aug. 7, at twelve, at th Caledonian Hotel, Inverness. ' John Campbell, writer, Paisley, July 10 and Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Saracen's lieid Inn, Paisley. Ro'aert M'Cuns, merchant, Glasgow, July 1 0 and 31, at twelve, at the Bl ac k B ull Hotel, Glasgow. Andrew Balfour, printer, Edinburgh. July 9 and Aug. 3, at two, at the chamb ers of Mr. Lothian, Edinb ur g h. William Hill, innk eeper, Dalk(ith, J u l y 8 and Aug. 5, at two, at Ferguson's Shi p T avern, Edin b urg h. ' PR ICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brow n or Muscovado Sugar, the pro duce of the British possassions in America, computed from the returns made in the week ending June 30, 1846, is 365, 9 3 / 4 d. per cwt. IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS IN BELGIUM. -- The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs has recently issued the following notice:—" It tertain the opinion that they may proceed to Belgium with out being provided with a passport. This is an error, how ever, which it is importrnt to rectify, and it may be useful to state that it is obligatOry for every foreigner who travels in or through Belgium to have a passport in due form. The appears that certain travellers en those documents, which, greatest facilities, however, are given for the examination of generally speaking, rem ain in the possession of the travellers." This notice, which is app end e d to all the official adverti sements relating to the Dover and Ostend steam-packets of th e English an d B e lgian Govern ment, is the more important, inasmuch as it is stated i n the circulars of some steam -pack e t compap i e3 that pas3porta are ant required La Belgium. to 250. The latest intelligence, in this correspondence, brings us to a letter from Ponta do Sal Antonio, dated March 9, 1846, received April 17. From this we learn that the sickness still continued in the villages of the interior of the island, awl that the number of deaths then amounted to upwards of 400. Our space will not allow us to make any fat they comments on this report in the present number ; but we must request our readers to observe that after the crew had left tl:e ship, and were stationed on the island, the disease continued to spread and to prove equally fatal— that only one short week after the departure of the Eclair, a Portuguese soldier, who had been housed with the crew, was seized and died, that the following day another soldier died, that two more were seized, brought into town, and from this time two or three cases occurred daily, all within the immediate neighbourhood of the houses where the first death took place! Those who were inclined to disregard this clear order of causation, and to refer the disease to stagnant water, malaria, &c. —very convenient means of evading a difficulty in a theory—now began to alter their opinion, and finally de clared the fever to be of a most contagious nature. If any confirmation of this opinion be required, it will be found in the statement that the fever, almost without exception, proved contagious to those who acted as nurses to the sick ! Now we care not whether a disease of this description be called " bilious remittent fever," or not ; but the facts here related are entirely opposed to the premature as sertion of Dr. Richardson, that there would be no fur ther risk of infection under the circumstances than in ordinary cases of typhus fever. These facts plainly show that the greatest risk might have been incurred by admitting this pestilential ship and crew to pratique according to his suggestion. It is, indeed, a matter of regret that while off our coast five perso::s should have perished on board this vessel ; bat we must balance against this sad result, the fearful effects of that partial intercourse with the crew which has led to the depopu lation of the island of Bona Vista, and its abandon ment by those who had strength to remove from it. „laical theories concerning the origin and progress of fevers are very interesting as subjects of discussion, and call forth much ingenuity, either in oral argu ment or written treatises. So long as they are confined to discussion no harm is done ; but when carried into practice, at the possible risk of endangering the lives of thousands, it is but a poor compensation to find, when hun dreds are laid in their graves, that the medical theorist retracts his opinion and acknowledges his mistake. We are no advocates for the maintenance of the quarantine laws in their present absurd and anomalous condition ; but we are still less disposed to join with the commercial party, who either, cannot or will not see anything like cause and effect in events like these, which to unbiassed minds cannot fail to bring home the most complete con viction. If any explanation can be (riven of the diffusion of this " common African fever" throughout the island of Bona Vista, independently of its importation by the Eclair, and its subsequent propagation by human conta gion, we think that the common opinion of small-pox or any other disease being contagious, must be at once abandoned. If no other explanation can be given than that which we have suggested, then we must admit that this country has had a very narrow escape from a disease more dangerous than either the plague or cholera. The most important question in the correspondence on the subject of the Eclair is undoubtedly that which relates to the contagious or non-contagious nature of the fever, which this vessel is alleged to have brought from the coast of Africa. On this point the Superintendent- General of Quarantine, Sir W. Pym, and the Director- General of the Medical Department of the Navy, Sit. W. Burnett, entertain directly opposite opinions; and it may be easily conceived, therefore, that the Lords of the Admiralty have felt exceedingly embarrassed in laying down rules for the commanders of vessels on the African station, or in advising or sanctioning a departure from any of the quarantine regulations now in force. The question at issue involves many important ques tions: thus it not merely includes the possible importa tion of a very fatal and unmanageable disease into our own country, but the entire prohibition of commercial intercourse with other European states. The fact that we are satisfied with certain medical theories on the subject, by no means binds other countries to join in our views ; and we should very soon find that by prema turely laying aside our own quarantine laws we should only be adding to the rigorous and universal application of those restrictions which the non-contagionist party already complain of as a great bar to commercial inter course. The House of Commons has already, and very properly, sanctioned the principles of a relaxation of these laws ; but the Government must go beyond this, before it undertakes their abolition—it must be prepared to show, to the satisfaction of all European countries, that there are no grounds for maintaining them, or a reform of our own system will only be productive of greater injury than that which already exists. Thus, to take the case of the Eclair, we find from this correspondence that, on the intelligence of the arrival of this vessel in England reaching Naples, all English ves sels were immediately required to undergo a severe quarantine, those coining from parts between Portland and Dover being absolutely excluded ! The British Minister attempted to effect some mitigation of this order—a represeatation havieg been made that, owing to the sanitary restrictions imposed, the fever bad not spread ; but this was of no avail. Without entering into the question of the influence of miasmata, the use of ardent spirits, moral influences, &e., in the proclue:ion of the disease, or whether it was a river or cietet lever— a simple remittent or a bilious remittent—the. Nee po lima Council, on the 25th of October last, came at once IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 3. Their Lordships ROYAL met to- AS day SENTS at Four o'clock. . The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Sugar Duties Bill and a number of Railway and other Bills. The Commissioners, who arrived a few minutes past four, were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buecleuch, and the Earl of Haddington. The following is a list of the Bills: — Sugar Duties. Superintendent of Convicts. Railway Companies Dissolution. Friendly Societies. Exeter and Exmouth Railway. General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway. London and South-Western Railway Acts Amendment. Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth Extension and Lowestoft Railway Lease). Dundee and Arbroath Railway Extension. Alford Valley Railway. Great North of Scotland Railway (Eastern Extension). Edinburgh and Northern (Newport Railway and St. Andrews' Branch). Scottish Grand Junction Railway. Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Dunfermlineßranch). Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Strathearn Devia tion).- Great Leinster and Munster Railway (Kilkenny to Clonmel—No. 2). Glasgow, Stratbaven, and Lesmabasrow Direct Railway. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Railway (Thornlie Bank, Househill, and Ilurlet Brarcbes). Glasgow, Paiiley, and Greenock Railway (Harbour Branch). Thames Haven and Dock Railway. Bridgewater and Taunton Canal and Railway Harbour. Herculaneum Docks. Forth and Clyde and Monkland Navigation Junction. Frilford (Merles) Inclosure. BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, this Bill was read a third time and passed. SEES OF ST. ASAPII AND BANGOR. The Earl of PO WIS presented a petition from up wards of 100 of the members of the University of Ox ford against the union of these sees. SUNDAY TRADING. The Bishop of LONDON presented two petitions against Sunday trading from a great many of the inhabi tants of London. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition against the Leicestershire and Bedfordshire Railway Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, Ju'y 3. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock, when there was a very full attendance of Members. NEW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, new writs were ordered for the following places, in the room of those Members who have been selected to fill the various oftSces in the new Administration, viz.:— LONDON. In the room of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury. TIVERTON. In the room of Lord PALMERSTON, who has ac cepted the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. DEVONPORT. In the room of Sir GEORGE GREY, who has been appointed Secretary of State for the Homo Department. HALIFAX. In the room of Mr. CHARLES WOOD, who has ac cepted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. In the room of Lord MORPETII, appointed to the ofliel of Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. TAUNTON. In the room of the Right Hon. 11. LABOUCHERE, who has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hun- dregs. NOTTINGHAM. In the room of the Right Hon. Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, who has been appointed to fill the office of President of the Board of Control. CITY OF EDINBURGH. In the room of the Right Hon. T. B. MACAULAY, who has accepted the office of Paymaster-General of her Majesty's Forces. WORCESTER. In the room of Sir T. WILDE, who has been ap pointed her 3lajesty's Attorney-General. DUNGARVAN. In the room of the Right Hon. R. L. SHEIL, who has accepted the office of Master of the Mint. PERTH. In the room of the Right lion. FOX MAULE, who has been appointed Secretary-at-War. MESSAGE FROM TIIE LORDS. The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and summoned the attendance of the Commons to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to various Bills (fur which see Lords' report). OUTRAGE ON BRITISH SUBJECTS. tition presented that evening against the re-commital of the Bill. He was informed that the promoters of the Dublin and Galway Railway would not ma'ce the line on their own responsibility, for the shareholders had held a meeting, and agreed not to go on with the Bill, unless it was leased to another company. Mr. BLAKE opposed the re-committal of the Bill, on the ground that the town of Athlone would not support two railways. Mr. MOFFATT was also of opinion that the decision of the Committee ought to be supported as it was quite carried out by the evidence. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said, that in consequence of one or two observations which had fallen from the Hon. Member for Roscommon, some answer was required from him. What were the reasons which the Hon. Member for Roscommon adduced for the recommittal of the Bill ? The first ground of complaint was that he (Mr. Duncombe) as chairman of the Committee, did not turn a Parliamentary agent out of the room for giving his counsel the li e . What was it that the Honourable Member for Roscom mon (Mr. F. French) proposed ? Why, that the Bill should be re-comenitted, but that it should not be sent back to the same Committee. What was this but saying that it should be sent back to some other Committee, whose decision was to over throw the decision of a Committee properly constituted; and this he believed to be so contrary to the usage of the House that it was not at all likeiy to be adopted. The Honourable Member for Dundalk had stated that he should have been satisfied if the Committee had passed both lines, and that good feeling would thereby have been secured ; but in reply to this, he (Mr. T. S. Duncombe) was bound to assert that he had never in the whole course of his life seen such bad feeling and so much jealousy as had been exhibited by both parties in this Committee. It should be recollected that this line had last session been thrown out by the Lords. The same had occurred with regard to the Pertarlington line, as well also in the case of the Mullingar and Galway line. The Cashel line, it was notorious, was to be sold to this Company, and he thought, therefore, that, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there was every reason for the decision at which the Committee had arrived. Then the Irish Great Western, by an agreement, was to cease to exist if they obtained this Act, as they had en tered into an agreement to sell it to the Cashel Company. What guarantee had the public that this line would be made to Galway ? He maintained, therefore, that the Mullingar Company ought not to be entrusted with the construc tion of this line of railway. Then it was necessary three fifths of the shareholders of the Cashel Company should be in favour of carrying out this bargain, but the evidence adduced before the Commmittee was to the effect that that Company would not con sent to such an agreement. The petitions, too, presented from parties holding shares in the Company, were to the same effect. What operated on the micds of the Committee was, that the Cashel Company were not the parties to make this railway. Sir John Bur goyne, whose official position rendered him an impartial witness, was also of the same opinion, and considered that there ought to be three main branch lines—one radiating from Dublin down to Cashel and the southern part of Ireland—the other going west by Mullingar, through Athlone to Galway, and the other from Dublin to Belfast. The Hon. Member here produced a large map of Ireland, in which the country was divided into three large divisions coloured separately, red, yellow, and blue. The portion coloured red, which occupied nearly the half of the map, was that which the Hon ourable Member said the Great Western Company modestly claimed for themselves. Another map was also produced, showing the decision of the Committee, marked in a similar manner, but show ing that the portion coloured red was more equally divided with the other districts.—(Considerable laughter was caused by the Hon. Member exhibiting these maps.) Mr. F. FRENCH repudiated the maps in question. Mr. SHAW thought there was no sufficient reason shown for the re-committal of the Bill. Strangers were ordered to withdraw. Tho House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it Majority against it — 112 NEW WRITS. On the motion of Lord MARCUS lIILL, new writs were ordered to be issued for the following places : PLYMOUTH. In the room of Lord EBRINGTON, appointed a Lord of the Treasury. LEITH DISTRICT OF BURGHS. In the room of Mr. A. RUTIIERFORD, appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland. KIRCUDBRIGIIT. In the room of Mr. T. MAITLAND, appointed Soli citor• General for Scotland. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (GREENWICH RAILWAY TO CIIILHAM, NEAR CANTER BURY, WITH BRANCHES TO SHEERNESS AND FAVERSIIAM CREEK). On the motion for the consideration of the report on this Bill, _ . Mr. FREWEN moved that the report be considered that day six months, as the railway when made would not accommodate the northern districts of Kent. Mr. lIUME thought that the various proposed lines through the district had not been fairly brought before the Committee, and he should certainly support the amendment. MESSAGE FkOM THE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords announced that their Lordships had agreed to several Bills. (See Lords' re port.) Mr. CARDWELL moved that the House at its rising do adjourn until Monday next. The motion was then put and carried. ORDERS OF THE DAY. On the motion of Lord LINCOLN, The orders of the day were then postponed until Mon. day next. The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Eight. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY) HOUSE 01? LORDS. GROUP D. ASHOLIKE, GaINSBOROUGH, GOOLE, YORIC, AND NORTH warmaND. The Committee assembled this morning, Lord Somers in the chair. Mr .Gambles, a merchant of Lincoln, was called, and deposed chiefly to the amount of produce grown upon the course of the line. He said that the distance between Gainsborough and Hull was about 62 miles, of which as much as 20 miles of ground, occupying a space of five miles on each side of the course of the line, were occupied in the growth of potatoes and other similar produce. He be lieved the produce of flax was not less than 70,000 stones, and as many as from 120,000 to 150,000 tons of potatoes are grown in and exported from that district. Rev. Charles Dundas, rector of Epworth, stated that the roads in the neighbourhood were exceedingly bad, that there was only one public conveyance—that is, a coach on market days—to Doncaster, which is seventeen miles, and oc cupies four hours. There is also a coach to Gainsborough. The Isle of Axholme contains 50,000 acres, of which 400 are Potatoes; and he believed that the produce would not go by the London and York line, but by water. The cost of the carriage by that route was 9s. a ton. Mr. lluttsn, a magistrate of Lincolnshire, residing near West Butterwick, deposed generally to the great incon venience from going by the present means of conveyance. He had himself been as much as an hour-and-a-half in crossing the Humber from New Holland to Hull, the two places being nearly opposite to each other. Mr. John Wills, a farmer of Armine, near Goole, stated that there were about 20,000 acres of land in this district likely to be accommodated by the railway, of which about 5,000 acres are devoted to the growth of potatoes, and that 27,000 tons of potatoes are annually sent to London, and 13,000 a year to Leeds. The time occupied in the voyage to London varies from two days to five week., according to the season and the state of the navigation. The quantity sent to Lon don from the neighbourhood is certainly equal to 1,000 tons a week, and thought he should soon save Ss. a ton in the car riage if the railway were made. Mr. llinde, a farmer at Crowle, who occupies about 500 acres of ground, stated that in the district of the line from Crowle to Belton there were 15,880 acres, of which 950 acres are in potato culture. Mr. Marshall, a farmer of Epwortb, stated that the gross amount of live stock, wool, and other agricultural produce, is 23,171 tons, and by the Knottingley line they now cost 14s. 6d. a ton to London. The general produce is about 8,000 tons of potatoes, and from 34 to 5 acres of oats, 6 quarters, and of beans 5 quarters. Mr. P. S. Johnston, of Belwood House, near Epworth, spoke generally as to the benefit to be derived from the new line. Mr. R. J. Atkinson, of Epworth, a landowner, stated that tl,e whole amount of land occupied as a drained district by the line will be 100,530 acre., and that the total export. and imports are 202,463 tons, and the exports for the Isle of Axholme are 56,581 tons, warp land, of which the isle chiefly consists, being from 30s. to 51. an acre. The coals consumed are 24,680 tons per annum. On witness ated th a,y e r by Mr. of the e Sergeant INRA a;ab N o G u t t r.ta s r o , too t h o e acres, which produced about 39,128 tons of exportable mat ter. 4,956 of the acres of the isle are underaan , t_atoes. The imports Etna exports of the isle are a b out of marsh land 87,285 tons, of whi c h t h e expo' 4 8 1 a t r o e n 4 . , 6, a 8 n 0 o d tons. The object of the Learned Sergeant was to show that no part of the produce from the Nottinghamshire district could possibly come upon this line; but it was not elicited at this stage. The Committee then adjourned till Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XXXVIII. LEEDS, wAxcErszian, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. Mr. Swannich, the engineer to this line, was examined. The principal part to which the evidence was confined was the junction proposed to be effected with the Manchester and Leeds Railway. At this point of junction the gradient was lin 75, and the curve 3 furlongs. He did not think there would be any difficulty whatever in working the line with perfect safety, and so as to afford accommodation to the traffic on the line. Mr. Leather corroborated the evidence of Mr. Swannich. There was a difference in favour of this line over that of the opponents equal in tractive power to 3►,2 miles of horizontal distance. He had adopted Mr. G. Stephenson's estimate, that 24 feet perpendicular required the same power to over come as one mile of horizontal length. He had taken the sum of the summits upon both lines, and comparing them together he lad feud this difference. GROUP XLII. The Committee on this group re-assembled to-day at two o'clock, and went seriatim through the clauses of the LIVERPOOL AND BURY (EXTENSION AND BRANCHES) BILL, the preamble of which had been proved, and then separated. GROUP XL VIII. THE TAFT VALE. The Committee met this day at twelve o'clock, Mr. Aldam, chairman. Mr. H. HILL addressed the Committee for a Mr. Vaughan, a landowner, whose property would be affected by the Bill. At the conclusion of the Learned Counsel's address, the room was ordered to be cleared. %% hen the parties were called in, The CHAIRMAN said. that the Committee would postpone giving their decision on the preamble of the Bill till Monday next. GROUP LIII. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) DErcrissuntE, sTarronnsimits, AND VTOILCESTER JUNCTION. This case was resumed by Sir John Rennie, engineer-in chief to the line, being called to substantiate the evidence given yesterday by his coadjutor, ➢lr. Remington. It being intimated to the Committee, at the conclusion of Sir John Rennie's evidence, that all opposition had been withdrawn, they decided that no further evidence was ne cessary. The preamble was then declared to be proved, the clauses gone through and passed, and the report agreed to. surtEwsnuny, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND SOUTH sT.l3.PronnsanzE JUNCTION. The clause: of this Bill were then gone through and agreed to, as well as the report. This brought the Committee's labours to a close, and they accordingly dissolved. GI:0111) LXI. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, and were all day engaged on a canal Bill, which stood next in the group. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at the usual hour to-day in Room I (House of Lords) ; Lord Shaftesbury in the chair. Present, Lords Hawarden and Redesdale. There were eight Bills on the list ; all but one were Rail way Bills. MIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES (CAM BRIDGE TO WEEDON). The promoters of this Bill had complied with the standing orders. BLACKBURN, DATtWEN, AND BOLTON. Standing orders complied with. EASTERN COUNTIES (STATIONS ENLARGEMENT). The standing orders were complied with in this case also. The remaining Bills on the list were all adjourned. Their Lordships, resolving themselves into a Select Com mittee on Merits, proceeded with a list of eight Bills, of which six were railway Bills. They were occupied almost the whola of the thy with "Dr. Macfarlane's (Glasgow College) Estate" Bill, which case was not concluded, but adjourned to a future day. NORTH UNION. This Bill belonged to the third class. As is usual in such cases the proofs as to the standing ordeis and as to the preamble were given at the same time. The Committee declared the standing orders complied with and the preamble proved. The Bill therefore passed through the Committee, and being unopposed will pass through the House as a matter of course. LONDON AND BRIGHTON (WANDSWORTH BRANCH). The preamble of this Bill was declared proved. Clauses were inserted to secure the erection of stations or lodges at all level crossings. EASTERN COUNTIES (EPPING EXTENSION.) Their Lordships also declared the preamble of this Bil' proved. GLASGOW SOUTHERN TERMINAL. This case stood over till Monday next. Their Lordships then adjourned at a late hour. HOLSE OF COMMONS. Sub-Committee No. 6. This Committee met to-day in Room 10, at three o'clock. Mr. Phillips took the chair, in the absence of Captain Jones, Sir J. Yarde Buller and another Hon. Member were present. EASTERN COUNTIES (WISBF.ACH AND SPALDING - BRANCH). This was a Bill commenced in the Lords, under the title of the " Eastern Counties (March and Lincoln Branch)," but part of the line was thrown out, and the title was there fore altered to its present form. The original length was 55 miles, but it was reduced by the amendment to 15 miles. It was an unopposed case. The standing orders were declared complied with. DUBLIN, BELFAST, AND COLERAINE JUNCTION. This was also a case commenced in the Lords. It was ; like the last, unopposed, and the standing orders were com. plied with. GALWAY AND KILKENNY. The Galway and Kilkenny was also a Bill commenced in the House of Lords. The same decision was made. At this moment the Speaker was announced at prayers, and the Committee adjourned at four o'clock. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) Am Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fo the Week ending on Saturday, the 27th day of June, 1846. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued•. • ..... 29,273,105 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .. .. 2,981,900 Gold coin and bullion 12,819,579 Silver bullion ••• • .. 2,423,526 X 29,273,105 X 29,273,105 MARSIIAL.L, Chief Cashier. Dated the 2d day ofJuly, 1846. oEPARTHENT. Government securi- ties (including Dead BANKING DI for common, and some of fine parcels have been taken at 2s 4d to 33 per gallon. For Corn Spirits the demand has been limited, but prices remain firm. The market is quiet for Gin. OlLS.—This afternoon at public sale 75 tuns of Southern Oil were all sold at 2215 s to 241 for low to fine quality, being rather cheaper, 8 tuns of Sperm Oil went at 771 to 77110 s per tun. TALLow.—There are few purchasers of soy kind of Russian on the spot, and the tendency of prices is still downwards, still soapmakers and chandlers operate with extreme cau tion. For forward delivery few buyers are to be met with, although there are sellers upon lower terms. All other sorts of Tallow are heavy of disposal. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, Ju . Ly 2, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Henry lle.ipard, of the 99th Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, of the 53th Foot, to be Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 3. The following is a further list of non-commissioned officers and privates of the Queen's army, killed in the recent battles on the Sutlej, or who have subsequently died of wounds re ceived in those actions :- 29th Fcot—Pierce Ambler, John Barry, James Beaumont, Richard Bentley, Charles Beresford, Michael Blackburn, William Blazer, William Box, George Boyce, Wiliam Boardman, Isaac Bobbin, Benjamin Broomhead, Joseph Brown, John Burrell (alias W. Holmes), Peter Callan, C. Challener, Andrew Colquhoun (corporal), Edward Courtnav, John Chapman, Charles Clee, Charles Copeman, James 'Corbett, Bernard Dailey, George Day, Patrick Dormodv, William Duckham, William Duncan, Patrick Dunphy, John Do naughey, James Drew, Jeffery Dursto', Marma duke Davis, John Deeran, Daniel Denny, Charles Elvin, Abraham Ellender, Thomas Evans (corporal), Edward Fuller, Edmond Fitton, William Flood, Patrick Frayne, Frederick Green, Richard Green, William Guire, Thomas Goodier, William Gates, John Giles, George Green, Francis Greenway, Thomas Hadkinson, John L. Harter, John Hastewell, William Hahn, William Hearne, William Helum, David Hodgkinson, Jas. Harrison, Wm. Harrison, Wm. Head, Alexander Henry. Robert Hodder, John Hoolahan, James Holmes (sergeant), John Howlett, William Hunt, William Hill, Thomas Illingworth, Edward Johnson, John Jackson, Robert Jones, George Jubb, Matthew Kelly, Patrick Keelan, James Kehoe, Charles Kerle, Henry Lane, James Lewis, William Lord, James, Loceck, Thomas Langham, William Earner, Mathias Laugelin, John Marshall (colour sergeant), Patrick M'Anley, Matthew M•Kennv, John M'Crackin, John M'Ken, Thomas M'Manus, James Manhinnv, Thomas Mellon, William Mullholland, Jeremiah Murphy, Patrick Nolan, J o h n N ea l, Mi c hael O'Connor, James O'Donnell, Robert Pitcher, John Parle (drummer), John Robert, Wm. Reading, Jas. Rice, Daniel Rice, Thomas Ryan, John Roebuck, Geo. Reed, Geo. Sands, William Saunders, William Sheldon, William Shelton, John Smith (gergeant) Charles Smith, John Smith, Michael Smith, Daniel Sullivan, George Sutton, Robert Scott, William Stanton, Hugh Stewart, Thomas Stewart, John Swabs' (colour sergeant), James Teasdale (corporal), Joseph Toole, William Toms, Hugh Taggert, John Taylor. 29th Foot—James Warren, John Watts, Henry Webb, Robert Whinyates, Charles White, James Wier, George Wilkins (colour sergeant), Charles Withey (corporal), Henry Wilson, Winniford Winn, James Woodcut, Henry Watts, James Wason, James Weathers, John Webb, William Willis, John Wilson, George Watton, Thomas White. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 23. Corps of Royal Marines—Sergeant ➢lajor W. Ruston to be Quartermaster. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 25. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant G. Webb to be First Lieutenant, vice Whiting, to half-pay ; Sergeant Major N. Austin to be Quartermaster. Commissions by the Qticen. Herefordshire Regiment of Militia—Captain J. E. M. Kyrle to be Adjutant, April 27. First Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Captain H. Townshend, late of the 88th Foot, to be Adjutant, May 6. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia--Captain E. Lavie to be Adjutant, vice Smyth, who retires, June 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, The Hon. John C. W. Vivian to be Deputy-Lieutenant, June 25. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. George Hornsby, builder, late of Amble, now of Lesbury, Northumberland. _ BANKRUPTS, Michael Goodale, builder, Middlesex, to surrender July 14, at eleven, and August 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ilasinghall-street ; Keighley, Basin; hall street. William Rouse, baker, Neptune-street, Eotherhithe, July 14 and August 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. ;rcen, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Oliver, 01(1 Jewry. Alfred Samuel Holl, grocer, Norwich, July 14, at half-past twelve, and August 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Abbott and Wheatley, Roll's. yard, Chancery-lane; Miller and Son. Norwich. Joseph Lord, tanner, Sheffield, July 17, and August 7, at eleven, at the Sheffield District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, London; Binney, Sheffield. John Senior, common brewer, Salford, Lancashire, July 15, and August 7, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, George-street, Manchester; Gre gory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London; Clays, Thompson, and Welsh, Manchester. John Davis, Miller, Broadway, Worcestershire, July 14, at twelve, and Aug. 7. at eleven, at the Birminghom District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Chetham, Stockport; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. 'Wilton Wood, rope-manufacturer, July 15, and Aug. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Norris and Co., Bartlett's-buildings, London ; Bell, Liverpool. James Irvine, ironmonger, Liverpool, July 9 and Aug. 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, London; Thompson, Liverpool. James Dent, cloth merchant, Huddersfield, July 14 and Am'. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, offi cial-assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co., Chancery-lane, Lon don ; Floyd, Huddersfield. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. THE ECLAIR AND THE AFRICAN FEVER. (From the Medical Gazette.) In the last volume of this journal some remarks were made upon the alleged importation of the African fever, and the state of the Eclair steam sloop, which bad recently reached this country from the coast of Africa. The official report of the condition of that vessel on its arrival, by Sir W. I'ym and Mr. J. M. Arnett, will be found at p. 1,043 of the same volume. So soon as this report appeared, we did not hesitate to express the opinion, that the fever had certainly, in this instance, spread by contagion, and that it was probably some severe modification of the African coast fever, described by Dr. M.Williarn as non-contagious. The report rendered it evident that the fever thus imported to our coast retained its virulent contagious character, oven after the arrival of the vessel at the quarantine station of Standga;,e Creek. This inference was drawn from the facts-1, that so many medical men entering the ship at different places during the voyage had been at tacked, and four had died ; 2, that the coast pilot taken into the vessel at Portsmouth was speedily carried off by an attack ; and 3, that a physician who had volunterred his services on the arrival of the vessel at Standgate, had been soon afterwards seized with the fever. The circumstances which came to the knowle Igc of Sir W. Pym and Mr. Arnott in October last appear to have left not the slightest doubt in their minds that there would be the greatest danger in allowing free intercourse with this pestilential ship ; and subsequent events have most strongly justified the conclusion at which they then arrived. It was considered necessary: —l. To observe strict quarantine. 2. To separate the sick from the healthy so soon as an opportunity should occur without endangering the public health. Some dissatisfaction was expressed, at the time, that this plan of separating the sick from the healthy had not been adopted immediately on the arrival of the Eclair; and we gather from the correspondence now before us, that a proposition has been made to remove the sick at once to Haslar Hospital. This was on the 29th September, 1845, when, on the day preceding, the following certifi cate had been given by Dr. T. H. Salter:— " Motherbank Quarantine office, Sept. 23, 1345. " I hereby certify that I have examined the comman der and surgeon on hoard her Majesty's steam-ship Eclair. I find that as many as 60 have died of fever, and that as many as seven are still suffering from that disease. Three of the cases have commenced within the last week; and the type of the fever is of the most severe form—that accompanied with black vomiting. Under these circumstances, I have recommended the superin tendent not to release the vessel, and submit this report of the case. I cannot but consider the disease contagious. " T. 11. SALTER, M.D.' Dr. Richardson, however, in a letter addressed to the Admiral of the station, calls the disease the " bilious remittent fever," and ascribes its spreading among the crew to the fact that they had ail been exposed to " malaria" on the coast. He further observes, " Notwithstanding the extraordinary mortality that has swept off so large a proportion of the crew of the vessel, I entertain no fears of her being the means of introducing epidemic disease into this country." At the very time these lines were penned, the so-called " bilious remittent" had actually, as we now find, be gun to spread with fatal rapidity among the inha bitants of the hospitable island where the vessel had been allowed to take shelter on her way to England. Dr, Richardson's view was supported by the opinion of Sir W. Burnett ; but, fortunately for this country, judging from the facts now brought to light in the cor respondence before us, these suggestions were not acted upon. The vessel was ordered to Standgate Creek, and arrangements were mane to separate the sick without exposing any person to the risk of infection, or giving this " bilious remittent " the opportunity of diffusing itself through England. In our judgment, it certainly would have been better could this plan have been carried out on the first arrival of the vessel, without incurring loss of time by sending her to a remote quarantine sta • tion ; and Mr. Arnott, it appears, had entered into an arrangement to that effect with Read-Admiral Parker. We learn, however, from the correspondence of Sir W. Pym, that there was a want of proper accommoda lion at the Motherbank; and, on the whole, it was con sidered better for the healthy and sick that the vessel should proceed at once to Standgate Creek. The pro gress of the disease, after the arrival of the vessel there, has been already detailed in our columns, and we shall therefore pass to another part of the silt ject. The most interesting portion of the correspondence before us, is that which refers to the results which fol lowed the visit of the Eclair to Bona Vista. Govern ment has been kr some weeks in possession of the im portant information, which is now, for the first time, laid before the public. The correspondence can, we think, leave no reasonable doubt that the fever of the Eclair was of the worst and most malignant form; that its real character, as marked by the occurrence of black vomit, was concealed from the Portuguese Governor-General of Bona Vista; that it was eminently contagious, and wholly different in its nature from the coast remittent fever. A letter addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen, by Mr. Rendall, our consul for the Cape Verde Islands, dated St. Antonio, December 22, 1845 (received March 9, 1846, extracts from which we have already published), detailed the opinion which led to the belief that the disease was the common African fever, which led to Dr. Kenny granting pratique to the Eclair, and to the ad mission of her unfortunate crew to the fort upon the island. This letter,•it will be observed, is dated Dec. 22. The deaths are therein stated to have amounted, at that time, to the practical conclusion at which non-profcssioral ' men would arrive ; namely, " that, whatever may be the case, it is certain that the disorder must be a most extraordinary one, with which the Eclair is infected, if it has produced so many lamentable results ; and so much the more extraordinary, as other vessels have held the same course as the Eclair, upon the same coasts of Africa, have not contracted any disease."' The Neapo litan Government, whether rightly or wrongly, were disposed to deal with this as a peculiar ce : and it is pretty evident that, had not quarantine restrictions with respect to this vessel been carried out by our Govern ment the injurious effects to British commeree—setting aside the risk to public health—would have still been greater than they were. It is impossible not to commend the fair and candid spirit which has been manifested by our Government in publishing, as it has done, the whole of the correspond ence connected with the disease which prevailed in this ill-fated vessel. It will show to foreign countries that there is no desire to conceal facts, or to give a false colouring to events which appear to militate against the present feeling to abolish the laws of quarantine ; and although the result to our minds leaves it certain that these laws, in a mitigated firm, cannot be dispensed with, yet it is satisfactory to meet with a clear case, in which facts and medical theories on the subject of con tagion can be fairly contrasted. No later than the 16th of May, 1846, a motion was made in the House of Commons en the quarantine laws by Dr. Bewring. This gentleman, not being then in formed of the facts which have since come to light, argued, with respect to the disease in the Eclair, basing his argument on the views of Dr. .M.`William, that there was nut the slightest evidence that the disease was com municated from one person to another, thereby assuming that all fevers acquired on the African coast must possess precisely the same characters as the fever observed by Dr. ,`William on the African rivers. He further con tended, that "had they (the crew of the Eclair) been removed from the focus of contagioe, there would have been no danger whatever to others, and he believed many valuable lives would have been saved." Another mem ber thought "that the abolition of these (the quarantine) laws would be a step not only in humanity, but towards free trade;" and Mr. Mackinnon declared, " that if the quarantine regulations had not been in existence, he sincerely believed that one-half of the persons who perished in the Eclair would have been saved." This commercial view of the question—a view which, for the sake of freedom of trade, leads its advocates to propose, not merely the removal of abuses, but the entire abolition of a system which civilised countries have set up as a safeguard against the importation of disease. Unfortunately for the arguments thus employed, they are entirely opposed to the facts contained in this corres pondence. While Dr. M`William's remarks on the ab sence of contagion apply to the river fever, Dr. Bowring refers them to a fever contracted on the coast, differing completely in symptoms from that described by Dr. William, especially in the absence of one which is elle recteristic of the most aggravated form of the malady, namely, " black vomit." Mr. Reudell's letter will suffice to show whether there would or would not have been danger to others by the disposal of the crew of the Eclair lit any other way than that adopted under the directions of Sir W. Pym and Mr. Arnott. The same answer may be returned to Mr. Mackinnon's declaration, that "if the quarantine regu lations had not been in existence, he sincerely believed that one-half the persons who perished in the Eclair would have been saved." The correspendence shows that the numb -r of the deaths after the arrival of this vessel and her being placed in quarantine was only five. It also proves that the number of deaths from fever at Bona Vista, where the vessel had not been placed under any quarantine restrictions, amounted up to the last date (March 9) to no less than 400. We are, therefore, disposed to draw a conclusion the converse of that at which this gentleman has arrived, and to express our firm belief, from the report before us, that had the Portuguese Governor at Bona Vista adopted the quaran tine restrictions resorted to in this country, not one-half only, but probably the whole of the 400 individuals who have fallen victims to the fever in that island would now have been living. Mr. Macaulay, a resident on the island, in his official correspondence with the Earl of Aberdeen, says, in relation to this subject:— " One thing is quite clear, that the medical officers of the Eclair, who had never previously served on the African station, misunderstood the malady which pre- Tailed on board their ship, declaring from first to last that it was nothing but the common coast fever—an opinion which, whilst it unhappily obtained the unequi vocal concurrence of the only Portuguese doctor in the island, received also the tacit assent, if not the unre served approval, of the only English doctor. " Assured, by the concurrent testimony of all the medical men to whom reference could be made, both ashore and afloat, it is not surprising that the Governor- General should have permitted the intercourse between the ship and the shore to continue. As an unprofes sional man, he could not be expected to sea cause for alarm and precaution where none was thought necessary by the doctors."—Page 39. Dr. Bowring lately stated in Parliament that "he had seen again and again that a crew, arriving in perfect health, had perished from being delivered over to the tender mercies of the sanitary laws." He may now, we think, fairly add to his experienee by a perusal of this correspondence, in observing what are the effects of delivering over the creveof a vessel affected with a sus picious disease to the tender mercies of commercial theorists! The question is, not as Dr. Bowring puts it, whether the healthy crews of vessels are ta be subjected to vexatious restrictions of intercourse, but whether those crews which are not healthy are, for the sake of I freedom of trade, to become the means of spreading a most fatal malady throughout a heal! hy community. Is it better to cut otiintercourse with the crew of a vessel affected with disease, or to run the risk of multiplying the mortality . a hundredfold among thd community b, came the present quarantine system is open to abuse? A man must be singularly infected with the doctrines of free trade, and singularly ignorant of the nature and progress of contagious diseases, who can hesitate in deciding be tween these alternatives? The commercial party are, however, fully aware of this difficulty to the practical application of their views; they therefore adopt the opi nion, that the disease, whatever it may be, is not con tagious, and they seek to explain its diffusion by refe rence to all sorts of contingent circumstances—the state of the thermometer, barometer, malaria, decomposed bilge-water, mental depressien, the use of ardent spirits, &c. We do not deny the influence of these causes in aid ing the diffusion and increasing the mortality of fever, but we deny that they suffice to explain how it happcnA, that, in spite of the removal of the crew at Bona Vista, and in spite of the thorough overhauling, white , washing, fumigation, cooling,, and watering of the ves sel, the Eclair should still, when off our coast, and after having sailed over nearly 2,000 miles of sea, become a source of infection and a direct cause of death to several persons who were permitted to have intercourse with the ship. This may be explained either by contagion existing in the ship itself or in the crew—we care net which. The bare fact still remains—a most fatal ma lady identical with that which prevails and is endemic en the coast of Africa, was brought close to our shores, and proved rapidly fatal to seine who had not been exposed to these peculiar thermometric:Ll and barometrical changes, malaria, the vapour of bilge water, &c. It is au event of this kind which nations dread, and to prevent which quarantine re strictions are established. That these sometimes fail to keep out disease, that they are most expensive to maintain, that they are great burdens on commerce, and that they are turned to vexatious uses by despotic states, are circumstances which, with the evidence from this correspondence before us, fell to furnish sufficient ground for their entire abolition. _ _ . We shall reserve our examination of the co , flicting views entertained by Sir W. Burnett and Sir W. P 3 m, on the nature of the fever which prevailed in the Eclair, for a future number. * " Che qualunque pert fosse certo che un morbo tutto straordinario deve esser quello di cui a infettato tsnti tristi effetti ha predotto, e tanto pits straordinario in quanto che gli altri legni che han tenuto la stessa rotta che l'Eclair, non ban contratto alcur morbo." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 3. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) 8311T1E, 110 LT, AND NEALE'S 8 kNIiItUPTCY. The bankrupts in this case were the proprietors, printers, and publishers of the Iron Times, and carried on their busi ness in Fleet-street. The sitting today was for the choice of assignees and the proof of debts, and a great number of creditors were in attendance. As a contest for assigneeship existed, opposition was raised to the proofs on both sides. Mr. E. James appeared for the bankrupts, and Mr. Cross for Mr. G. Berry, the petitioning creditor, and late editor of the paper. Mr. Berry's proof for 791. Gs.lod., balance of salary, was h objected to, and he was exami ned at some length respecting claim. It appeared f rom his evidence that he was first engaged at a salary . of two guineas per week, which was ad ' vanced in progression by Mr. Holt till it reached six guineas per week. Subsequently, when the paper was not so pros perous, he consented to reduce his salary to four guineas per week ; but, on the meeting of Parliament, it was again ad vanced to six guineas, he undertaking to write a summary of the debates in addition to his other editorial duties. Ile received regular payment up to the month of December, 1:845, but not since, and hence this amount was the balance of account from that period to the date the paper stopped, which was in May last. The tendency of the examination was not so much with the view to show that there was no claim at all, but that overcharges had been made. The paper, it seemed, actually stopped to the public on the 25 th of April, but Mr. Berry charged for services up to the 9th of May. This he ex plained by stating, that though the paper was not issued to the public, it was nominally printed; and, hopes being enter tained of a" resuscitation," he continued with it till he saw there was no further prospect of success. He never received any notice of dismissal, and therefore, had he been so in clined, he could have made a larger claim than was now before the Court. He would not swear that he had per formed full editorial duties after the 26th of April. lie could point out what he had. done, if a file of the paper were produced. Mr. JAMES then examined Mr. Berry on certain payments made to him on account of his claim , and i:lquired h ow it was, if he kept (as he admit ted) no detailed statement of his receipts from Mr. Holt and other parties connected with the paper, that he could arrive :It the balance named. Mr. Berry slid that every week he struck a balance of what was owing him by the paper, deducting the gross amount received from the 1 - mss amount due. Mr. Commissioner FoNBLAZNQUE thought that the claimant had answered in an honest a.) (1 straightforward manner. All he slid was very clear, ar.d th Nigh he (the Commissioner) might have been inclined to c ensure his (Mr. Berry's) con duct in reference to his account ; had he been a trader, still, it was not in the least unlikely that an editor of a paper, re ceiving a weekly salary, would roe.rely carry a memorandum, from time to time, of what w as lue to him. Mr. JamEs submitted that ;the charge, up to the 7th or 9th of May, ought not to be tali , wed• Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQ UE-Why, it appears that it was in "mercy" t o von that tic relinquished his claim as early as that date. lie never re. -eived notice of nismissal. One of the bankrupts (Thomas Lyttleton Holt) was then examined by Mr. James relative t‘ Ms claim. lie entered iAtc the fa particulars 9 i the claiuil/4"-M first enageMent, SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. Guildford, July 3. (Before G. T. NICHOLSON, Esq., Chairman, the Earl of LOVELACE, Lord LovAIN, G. BEST, Esq., &c., sc.) THE JOINT STOCK COMPANY REGISTRATION ACT"' IMPORTANT DECISION.—SAMUEL HENRY POWBL I APPELLANT, V. A CONVICTION BY THE HON. DO" NORTON. This was an appeal against a decision of Mr. Norton at the Lambeth Police Court, convicting the appellan t in the sum of 201. for neglecting to register a railway speculation, of which he had been the promoter. Mr. W. Payne appeared in support of the conviction . Mr. Wallenger and Mr. Bagley were for the appellant. Mr. PAYNE having taken some objections to the notice of appeal, which were overruled by the Court, Mr. WALLENGER addressed the bench on behalf of the appellant. He said that this was an appeal agains t a conviction under the Act of the 7th and Bth Victoria. commonly known as the Joint-stock Company Registra" tion Act. The appellant was alleged to have been th e , promoter of a railway undertaking called the Gran d Junction, Great Western and South Western Junction Railway Company, and' a penalty of 201. had been inflicted upon him for not having registered the coin' pang in accordance with the provisions of the above Act of Parliament. Ile should contend that such a n association did not come w ithin th e sc ope and meaning of this Act of Parliament, and he referred the Court t ° the second clause in the Act, which required that eel' tain undertakings should be registered, but which CSC pressly excepted all undertakings from the o p e ratine of the Act, where they could not be carried into effe ct without obtaining the sanction of an Act of Parlianien Now, as it was perfectly clear that the undertaking en question could not be carried into effect without an Acw of Parliament, he submitted that the clause imposing the penalty could not apply to the case, and that, there: fore, the conviction must be quashed. The Learne d Council then cited the decision given by Lord Denroell in a recent case of Lorton v. Hickman which, he Ole' entirely confirmed the view of the Act he begged tie suggest to the Bench, and he therefore called upon the magistrates to quash the conviction. Mr. BAGLEY, on the same side, said it appeared to' him the point was so clear, that he would not troubl e the Court further than to say that in another decision in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Smith t Young, the very same principle had been sanctioned by the Court. Mr. PAYNE said these were cases in which the legality of the sale of scrip was the question at issue, and the/ did not apply to this case. Mr. WALLENGER said the point involved in these call was, whether railways came within th e scope of $"" Joint-stock Company Registration Act, which question now at issue. *ttea Mr. PAYNE,I on behalf of the respondent, subrul . that the Act of Parliament in question was clearly Ole; tended to apply to railways as well as to every 0 tb ,. 0 description of joint-stock undertaking. He cited tu.. 4th section of the Act in question, and said, that aftell enumerating various descriptions of works, it concl uda, ! by the words, " whether for executing any such work all aforesaid under the authority of the Act of Parliament , or for any other purpose, the same should be register ed in accordance with the provisions of the Act." He re' minded the Court that it was exceedingly important for the public to know who were the originators and pro moters of those schemes, and in confirmation of 1 14 opinion that they came within the scope of the Act of Parliament, he said be was in a condition to prove that almost up to that very day it had been the practice to register all such undertakings. Mr. WALLENGER admitted that this might have been done, but that,did not alter the case. The question vl a very nice one, and until the decision to which he ha d referred there might have been some doubt upon til e point, which was now quite settled. 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London: Printed and Published by 3.11711D0 YOUNG, of No. Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112. Strand. in the Precinf of t h e Savoy, 111 tll6 County Blid(llenz, baturdah 4, 1846, J~ : • stating that he was put upon a rising salary of two guinea.. per week, which was subsequently increased to three, a nu then to four guineas. Mr. Berry had previously been en' gaged on the Stock Exchange Express, at 30s. or one guinea per week; and, not being satisfied with that, applied to him (Holt) for employment. He told Berry that if the paper succeeded he :houlcl be advanced, and the paper succeeding he was accordingly advanced. In November or December last, when they were down in Cambridge together, a convex cation was entered into respecting the paper, and then 011. Berry suggested filling up the back pages with markers concerning oil, tallow, cotton, indigo, and drugs, which b e said would not cost much, and generally be standing matter. It was then arranged be was to take the management of tha t " and he was raised to six guineas a week. The railwei panic was then on, there was a " subsidence" of advertise' meats, and, affairs not presenting the most promising BP' pearance, it was thought necessary to do this—the paP er d being a great expense. Mr. Berry was a hardworking se e , attentive man, and, being well acquainted with mercantile affairs, was intrusted with them. The last time the of the establishment was paid was on the 6th of December' He recollected that well, because the reporters and all Wel paid, and " that did not always happen." Previous to that time they were in an " El Dorado" (if he might so term it) of 6001. to 400/. a day for advertisements ; but as the money was on the books he could not collect it fast enough, and the limited means at his command through other channel were not sufficient to support the expenses. The bankrup t was here about to show that assets had existed which wall pay 80s. in the pound, referring to claims on provisiona l committeemen and others, but he was checked by Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE, who begged of him to confine himself to the question of the debt of Mr. Berry. The bankrupt then stated generally that Berry had CO' sented with others, in the period of difficulty, to reduce b° salary, which it was understood should be again increase" , if the paper revived. The Parliamentary career of the paper was short, and Berry, he believed, wrote the summa' ries. After the 25th of April his services were little re quired, but it was not supposed that he was to receive cis guineas per week. There had always been a good under standing between him and Berry up to this time, Berri being much pleased with his (Bolt's) conduct towards hint; but lie thought, after what Berry had told himself, that the present was an attempt to place Berry iu the assignee ship, in order that parties connected with the Great European Railway, who owed the paper 1,400/., might cora' promise that claim. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said be would not suffer such matters to be discussed now. The inquiry was Bare s debt. If Berry was put forward as an assignee, then that objection could be urged. After somesfurther discussion, His HONOUR said he felt inclined to admit Mr. Bevil debt, subject to further inquiry as to actual amount. There could be no doubt that there was a debt, and he thought, ee far as he could see, for the sum claimed. Mr. JAMES asked Mr. Cross what he proposed to do further. Mr. Caoss said he feared there would be no chance of, concluding the choice of assignees. A great number or other proofs would be opposed, and long examinations mus t ensue. Mr. James said, if that were the case, a private sitting ha d better take place. This proposal being agreed to, the choice was adjourned to Wednesday, the Bth instant. eitivonou, bu t ( I t by Ee be t i c a i • il L as , TO THt 'E' it li ....ut.eci li to bl be A com dll e been (limo] Te the omen of F a 1t5,..., therefore, be ..._uncil you did i Fiction of represt dal Freedom the Although t was tt 1 841 w ere adv I) i Protection, eye. el axation of rest went of the prim Finally, we hi barrY a 'measure Ves to which I a tan._ not, indeed, ct Wade as a IBMs tag exertions of practicable attem Unctions, But I awarding to MY Perate relaxatim Xneasure had bee relieal, and usini thMance of the : I trust that the :luta aren too c l e ar m e In n ain iayri t° e le tb a i ec ci o m e: Bid. The Gocer L a rtial eye the wanre. In manut One of them is I ifislation, and die prnia. Great so tlecieled ; the 5 the grosglY ne - gl, . e most earnest have laid bare tb 017 4 b y any be ".OUI ou ft . a rnskler an h e - 4 e T t kleSty ha I 4 the Preient hil anUlOrised s uI,Y 3 1846 VIT T ,N.) A MEET ,prntrierce Trea clock pre'etselv. JOlti 111J8Sit 4111 Y 4 1846 T ° THE R' THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1846. C 1,, c,i ipt, vaiii; 4 4 , 11, la, The