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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. building was placed in such a position as to be convenient for the public. He did not think it HOUSE OF LORDS, August 14. was, and he, for one, would be glad to see The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at the question postponed till next session. —(Hear, hear.) Five o'Clock. It was not out of any objection to the architect that he was HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. opposed to this Bill, but merely from a conviction I This Bill was brought up from the House of C ommons, and of the advantages that would result from a further in read a first time. quiry into this subject.. It could not be said that WILSTON AND HARBOROUGH RAILWAY. Parliament was niggardly with respect to palaces, for within This Bill was also brought up. and read a first time. his owe time 2,000,0001. had been expended on this subject. MAIINOOTH. He thought that until there had been plans laid before them, they Lord REDESDALE gave notice that he should. call their ought not to lay out a farthing on Buckingham Palace fur- Lordships' attention to the report of the ‘Coutretirsioners on ther than was necessary to keep it in repair. These ought the education in the College of Maynooth. to be placed before the proper tribunal to decide upon this sub- ABOLITION OF EXCLUSIVE TR-A:DING. ject. He thought that 4,000/. or 5,0001. was rather too much Earl FORTESCUE presented a retiticee from the mer- for broken glass.—(Laughter.) He would, therefore, propose chants, traders, and operatives of Dublin, eraying that this Bill that the House should postpone the consideration of the matter might not pass without further ielq_u_ir e y till next session. . FLOGGING IN TH'..a ARMY. Lord LINCOLN said, he thought it was only Earl FORTESCUE presented s, petition from South Molten, necessary to state to the House that her Majesty was not at pre for the toted abolition of flogging in the sent proper l y accommo d a t e d. H e cou ld assure t h e H on. Gen uarnmanimously praying v but stated that he could. 'not concur in the object of the tleman, that if they (the late Ministry) had r ema i ne d i n petitioners, ' when he found ; nib great objections in the minds ,ffice they would have proposed this ver y vo t e ofthose officers, who we - re, the best authority on the subject. When he held office his attention had been directed Lord REDESDA L V . s aid that he could not suffer this ep- to this matter, and it was found th a t th e pa l ace was portun ity to pass without stating, that after a careful review of by no means suited to the wa n t s o f h er M a j esty, and the evidence given on the death of Frederick White, a commission was appointed to inquire into the met tle could not say that he ever saw evidence taken in a more ter, amongst whom were Mr. Barry and Sir James objectionable manner than this was. And this he thought Clark, the architects, who were of opinion that such would be the feeling of any person, except those who took the was the case. He tr us t e d th at un d er these c i rcumstances e xtreme view of the coroner and jury , upo n whose conduct_en he he the Hon. Gentleman would conce i ve i t r i g h t to w i t h draw hi s could not offer too strong remarks, especially opposition.—( Hear, hear_) It was per f ect l y i mposs ibl e to over saw w he n that the coroner had rejected t tesemony of rate the manner in which her Majesty acted with respect to de four medical men, and charged upon the report of one wands on the public, and when he was in office he had even to medical man, who was a p ersonal friend of his own. sugeest the necessity of making such demands. With regard to the punishment by flogging, he regretted that L. HUME said he would pull down Buckingham Palace, the - army was not compeed of a claes that would warrant the and put it where Kensington Palace was, where they would b ition of such a course. This punishment had been found have a good soil. If they expended a million on Buckingham aelgacious, and he did not see why it should be Palaoce.;c:heiu• but t h ey never h make it . useful for u the fur p th u u rp p o u s h e hu t e l . ley discontinued. If they adopted the principle here laid down with respect to this case, they should also take a similar view of pro lV p lr. WlLLl t AZS mi s g aid t m h a e e ha l d t a n m ev u e ' r e k m nown o f suc h pro all punishments ; for it was known that nothing was more inju- ceedings as the votes which had been granted for such purposes rious to health than imprisonment, Lord LYT•TELTON presented a petition from th e bankers as the present. He had a much regard for the convenience of her Majesty as any one, but bethought the present vote un of Worcester, complaining of the practi ce a d op t e d b y ra il way called for, particularly when there was so large a portion of her companies in openine parcels conveyed by them. Majesty's subjects in a state of utter destitution. He thought Lord CLARENDON said that the matter had occupied the that those who were complaining of these expenditures were the attention of the Government, and that a reme dy wou ld be true friends of monarchy. provided. The Earl of LINCOLN would put it to the House whether Lord MONTEAGLE thought that the remedy should be the extra expenses that had taken place had not been for the immediate. benefit of the public, and at the suggestion of a majority of Lord BROUGHAM said he considered that the present that House ? railway Acts required some considerable improvement. He Mr. WILLIAMS admitted he had never found a more thought that a revision of all Bills as well as Railway Bills efficient officer at the head of the Woods and Forests than the was required, for instance, law Bills. He gave notice, that Noble Lord. early next session of Parliament, he would move the adoption Lord J. RUSSELL wee happy to hear the Hon. Member for of resolutions on the subject, similar to those he had hid on the Coventry make such an admission, but bethought, when he took table of their Lordship-' House. upon himself to make assertions he should take care to be more EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE IN TRADE (DUBLIN) accurate ; nothing could be more incorrect than the statement RILL. he had made that eight palaces had been kept up for the sove- Lord BROUGHAM preiented several petitions against this reign. He believed, considering the convenience that the Bill. Sovereign required, the country could not do less than keep up the Palace of Windsor and Buckingham Palace; and as to the suggestions of the Honourable Member for Montrose of appropriating Buckingham Palace to a public museum and building a palace at Kensington, he thought that entirely out of the question. He trusted that next year they would have something more handsome to look at, and something more commodious for the comfort of her Majesty, than BuCkingham Palace at present presented. After some observatons from Captain PEC HELL, MrSPROTHEROE said be would vote against the grant under the hope that something better would be done for the accommodation of her Majesty than the grant, if carried into effect, would accomplish. Mr. HUME said that his only object was that the further consideration of this grant should be postponed till inquiry could be made upon the subject. He thought he should be only doing his duty by dividing the House upon the grant if the Government persevered in it. After some observations from Mr. GOULBURN and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, The Committee divided, when their appeared— For the vote Against it Majority for the vote —49 4,5001. was next voted to make good the damage to palaces and public buildings by the storm of the Ist of August. 30,000.'. was next proposed in payment of part of the ex pense of works in Portland, recommended by the Commis sioners of Harbours of Refuge, in their report laid before Par , liament in she last session. Mr. HUME said, as he understood convicts would be em ployed on these works, he wi,,hed to ask the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) whether the plan of marks for good cenduct would be introduced? Sir G. GREY said the harbour would afford excellent means of employment for those unfortunste persons. He hoped they would be able to adopt the plan referred to by the Hon. Member. The vote was then agreed to. On the vote f r a grant of 10,000. for the erection of a model prison in Ireland, Mr. HUME said that the Government seemed more intent on providing prisons than on taking measures for preventing crime. He wished to know where the plan of that prison was. Sir GEORGE GREY said that he could best answer that question by referring to the substance of a letter which he ha2l addressed to the Treasury on the subject. It was the custom in Ireland to ship off the transports as soon as poasib'e after the sentence. The letter contained a recommendation for the erection of such a prison ; but it did not state whether it was to be in Dublin or elsewhere. The Government would shortly be better able to give more explicit information on that subject. Mr. WILLIAMS was sorry that the present Government was about to take up the crotchets of the late Home Secre tary on this subject. The expense they had been at in erect ing model prisons was very large, and there had been no evi dence whatever produced as to their utility. Sir GEORGE GREY vindicated the vote, and showed the necessity for such a prison as the vote was required for. Mr. HUME thought there was no use in having a model prison in Ireland, seeing that they had one at Pentonville, which was intended for the United Kingdom generally. Mr. DUNCOMBE said that the prison at Pentonville was conducted in a most admirable manner. The solitary system, as carried out at the prison at Millbank, inflicted the greatest miseries upon those who were subjected to the process. When those individuals were admitted to the sight of a fellow creature they became so much affected that, in several instances, they fainted. Mr. HUME wished to know whether the same system as was carried on at the Pentonville Prison was to be carried out in the proposed model prison for Ireland? Because the expense of keeping each prisoner was between 14s. and 15s. weekly. Sir G. GREY—Twelve shillings. Mr. HUME—And at the lapse of three years they put this eonntry to the expense of sending them to one of the penal settleMents abroad, whilst they refused to advance to virtuous and industrious young men sufficient to enable them to go abroad for the purposelof obtaining employment, which they could not meet with here. Suck a system was an abso lute encouragement to the criminally minded young,men of this country, and he should be sorry to see such a system carried out in Ireland. Mr. HAWES said that he had seen letters that day which spoke in the highest terms of the good conduct of the convicts who had been lately transported, and he thought it most expe dient to extend the benefits of the system to Ireland. Mr. HUME said that there were many persons who desired to get out for the purposes of emigration, but that they could not go, by reason of the expense. unless they committed some offence. The system appeared to him to give an encourage ment to crime instead of doing anything else.—( Hear.) The item was then agreed to.—The House resumed. In reply to a que-tion from Lord LINCOLN, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was his intention, the first thing on Monday, to call attention to the distressed state of Ireland, and immediately after that question was disposed of the Small Debts Bill, and Navy Esti mates, would be proceeded with. The report on the Small Deb:s (Salaries and Compensation) Bill was brought up, and agreed to. The report on the Lunatic Ayslums and Pauper Lunatics Bill was brought up, and agreed to. The following reports were then brought up and received: —County Works Presentment Ireland—No. 2) Bill (third reading to-morrow)—Public Works Commissioners' Bill (Ire land) (third reading to-morrovr).—Public Works, Fisheries, &c., Bill—Public Works (Ireland—No. 3) Bill (third time to-morrow—Public Works and Fisheries Bill. The Public Works and Fisheries Bill was then read a third time and passed. The House then went into Committee on the House of Commons Officers' Bill. The clauses having been agreed to, The House resumed, and the CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. NAVAL AND MILITARY DEPARTMENTS BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that this Bill should go through Committee pro forma. After a few words from Dr. BOWRING and the CHAN. czto.oa of the EXCHEQUER, the motion was agreed to. The Bill then went through Committee pro forma, and was ordered to be recommitted to-morrow. The report of the Contageous Diseases Prevention Bill was postponed till to-morrow. PRIVATE BILLS BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted to-morrow. RATEABLE PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on this Bill. The clauses, with a few verbal amendments, were agreed to, the House resumed, the Cha,rman reported progress, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM (IRELAND) BILL. The Committee on this Bill was postponed ill Monday next. ERROR IN THE CORN BILL. Mr. VILLIERS rose to move for a Committee of the whole House to inquire into the operation of the Act lately passed for regulating the averages and the duties on tye, peas, and beans. Some error had arisen from the careless manner in which th e Bill had been drawn up, and he trusted, as this was no party q mtLwh u yhoe e nvi sewn; which question, i toLhl , t :eb b , a e dHt nGt wouldrepre s en t ationshu . see have ß,H.en ti n h ) e . He supportw would , of ul d the therefore, Hon. Member t dwsi for hy witho us House resolvethdeowere obj e ctin oafd i t ep s l e au l ; 1 4 1 n egr t e thet a h e aprovisionsrticleCommittees aboutoo ff clause 4. Messengers from the House of Lords brought down certain Bills, amongst others, the Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill. Lord G. BENTINCK said that he readily admitted that it was a blunder which had been committed by the late Govern. meat—by Gentlemen, who pretended to be the only prac tical men in the country—and that after having the Bill five months under their consideration. Ridiculous as this blunder was, be would not give it up without another fight, because he would hold whatever portion of protection was left to them. By the present Bill, while barley was cheap peas and beans were dear, and when barley was dear peas and beans were cheap. About 6,C00 quarters of peas and beans were intro-- duced every week, which returned about 30,000/. a year, which he did not think the Chancellor of the Exchequer could afford to give up : but if he were willing, he would oppose it to the utmost, and he would—though it was at the end of August—debate the question as uncompromisingly as if it were at the commencement of the session—a task which they would not much desire. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid that he did not think the question was of sufficient importance to enter into at that late period of the session. Mr. GOULBURN said that it was not a blunder, but merely a clerical error, which was of frequent occurrence when a large schedule was attached to an Act. cwoovAuellrrd V l L LlERS po:trh:el:ie begged pp i t t o i know n whether e t h r e su Noble L ord du_ details d f th error was Ibrahim Pacha, when examining the LoAArildrr.in O e T agu Y r o e. RKE said he would support the Noble VILLIERS said he would divide the House upon the question, only he found that there were only thirty-seven mem bers present, which were not sufficient to make a House. He w ou Theld therefore w w a s i t t li h t e l r u a w v, h th is dr in a o w t n io . n. ZEALAND.the Exe The CHANCELL N O E R W of hwe,,Ni:‘, H ir Q aa U ut E h ß H i b ‘i r u n g ug a hLi t n , a Bill to amend an Act of this Bill to ß m ill ak w e a a i d e f . u v C r is o i l m on pa . f n or y the fro . r ir t . he HA rlo w w. E o s 'ida b t r e o d ug l' h u t n i rl n tr ai Government of New Zealand. The the foundation of a local Representative Government, atallieng same e time retaining putliolent control on the p ar t o f th e GOTeliMat• ROBERT OWEN. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Robert Owen, late of New Lanark, praying that their Lordships would found a system of national education on the principles which he had adopted in his several establishments. On the motion of l i prd CAMPBELL, the Mandamus (Ireland) Bill, the Interpleader Bill, and the Citation (Scot land) Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. ~ 55 THE EARL OE bUNDONALD'S INVENTION. Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty, whether he proposed to investigate the merits of the invention of the Earl of Dundonald, as he un derstood that the discovery of Captain Warner was shortly to be put to the test? Lord AUCKLAND said, it would be exceedingly desirable that the invention should be tested, anti a commission would be appointed for that purpose. Lord BROUGHAM hoped that the utmost secrecy would be observed in the trial. Lord AUCKLAND intimated that this would be done. WASTE LANDS (AUSTRALIA) BILL _ _ . . Earl GREY proposed the second readily; of this Rill. The Noble Earl, after describing the nature of the Bill, said that the number of emigrants had been 9.985, and the money spent in carrying out the emigrants about 1,000,000/. The conse quence bad been that the reveLue, which in 1831 was only 122.0001., had in 1844 risen to 394,0001. The exportations in 1831 amounted to 237,C00 1 ., including 75,0001. for wool, while in 1844 they were 871,0001., and the wool alone from this colony had risen to 411,000'. It was evident, therefore, that the system had worked well for the colony and for this country. 'Licences had been granted to the squatters, as they were called, who had gradually settled upon the waste lands, as it was desirable they should be occupied, and a space of as mush as 1,600 milts in length by 300 miles in breadth, was now held under this system. But throughout the whole of that immense territory there was not a single place of worship, or a single clergyman to be found for the spiritual instruction of the people. Females had followed into the district, and a population was rap,dly growing up without any means whatever for the preservation of the cha racter of the people. In the digricti however, there nes a large number of persons settled, who, prior to their emigration, had, in this country received the education of gentlemen • and who were, of c ourse , i m b ue d with all the refinements Of civilised life, and in the course of years, therefore, it was but natural, that without any means of spiritual instruction, their influence must decline, and ulti mately die out. It was necessary to preserve that influence for the sake of the inhabitants, and that the character of the people shOuld be upheld, but it was not to be expected that those parties, having only a slight tenure, would go to the necessary expense. It was, therefore, the duty of the Government to bring it about ; but this they must do without interfering with the right of sale. Happily there was a means of doing this. Cer tain parts of the country were more valuable in consequence of the supply of water, which might be made much more valu able by the erection of dams for its retention. Around these districts the population would concentrate, and it was proposed to grant leases of the lands for fourteen years. But this was evidently too long a period, if you considered the advance of the population, and he would propose to substitute the team of eight years, with a right of pre-emption to the present oc cupants. In the event of those parties not being able to pur chase the several runs, they might be sold by auction, or let on private valuation. He proposed to retain the same rate of payment as at present existed. It was further proposed, that at the expiration of the leases, should they not be required to be sold, the former occupants of those lands should be allowed to retain them at leases for a period of the same length as the former leases. He proposed that the passing of orders for regulating these matters should be invested in her Majesty, and that any order Made in Council, repealing any former order, should be laid fOr six months on the table of both Houses before having any effect. Lord BROUGHAM said, he objected to the power con ferred upon the Crown under the garb of Parliamentary proceedings. _ _ _ Lord LYTTELTON said, he had no intention of troubling the House with any lengthened observations, as he approved of the Bill in principle, though he thought it not altogether perfect in some of the details. The Bill was then read a second time. POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS. • Lord BROUGHAM said that he had ascertained the cause of the delay in making the return for which he moved yes terday evening, and he entirely acquitted the honourable gen tlemen who had to perform the duty of Poor-law Commis sioners from being the intentional cause of it. He knew these Commissioners to be extremely kind and humane men, and yet they were called hard-hearted dictators and iron dis positioned men. If there was any fault to be found at all, he thlught they should find fault with the system, and not with the men. But even as it regarded the system, it had been much misrepresented, as he believed all the real evils that had ari.en were to be attributed to its not being carried into full effect. He would have it enforced in all its it.tegrity, and when ever there was any attempt to revive the old pernicious system of out-door relief, he would must strenuously oppose it. In some instances he saw a disposition to return to this practice, but he had no doubt the Commissioners, without being probed to do their duty by him, would take care that the practice was abandoned. With regard to the Bills he had proposed for the purpose of amending the laws of the country, but especially with repect to the criminal law, he begged leave to postpone them for the present, but it was with the hope that the sub ject would be taken up next session, and fully considered and disposed of. SCOTCH BANKING BILL. This Bill was then read a third time and passed. SUGAR DUTIES (No. 3) BILL. This BID passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. Thy Deodands' Bill passed through Committee, and was or dered to be read a third time on Monday. Several other Bills were then forwarded a stage, ani the House adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, August 14. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) SUPPLY. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. GREENE in the chair. The first vote was that a sum not exceeding 132,0001. be granted for the purpose of purchasing meal, potatoes, &c., for these distr;cts in Ireland afflicted by the potato blight. Mr. WILLIAMS protested against the justice of the vote. He contended that the landlords of Ireland should be com pelled to feed their own poor. The land of that country was quite fertile enough to support its people, if it were properly cultivated- If this vote were granted, it would be a grievous injustice to the poor people of this country. There was no secu- ' lit) , for the repayment of this money by the people of Ireland. He distinctly asked the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the commencement of this session, whether any more money than the sum then granted (50,0001.) would be required, and he as distinctly told him that it would not. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that as there would be a full discussion as to measures affecting Ire land at twelve o'clock o n M on d ay next, when he wo uldpropose a further grant ; he the re f ore h ope d that all discus sion at present might be postponed until that period. The Earl of LINCOLN said that he was quite willing to justify the conduct of the late Government on this subject, but if it was agreeable to the House he would abstain from saying anything until Alotillay.—( Hear, bear.) The vote was then agreed to. The sum of 30,000'. was then voted for the relief of the sufferers from the late fire at Newfoundland. 20,0001. having been proposed for the relief of the sufferers from the recent calamity at Quebec, Mr. HUME said that in his opinion the vote was too small. The vote was agreed to. 20,0001. was then proposed for enlarging and improving Buckingham Palace. to which Mr. BAINE obje cted. Ile did not see the necessity of the change, and the sum pr oposed was too grea t. The CHANCELLOit of the EXCHEQUER explained the grounds on whi c h t h e sum w as asked. [t er M a j esty h a d been subjected to very great inc o n venience want of proper accom o d at i on at the palace, fro m th e present in convenience had been f e lt by her and the same wished the House to b ear i n inin d aredecessor. H e the first sum ever asked by her Majesty f or that this was silents since her accession to the Throtl. any improve- The total expense of the improvements at the Hear, hear. ) amount to 150,0001, but the sum asked for at rre palace would 20,000 L, leaving 130,000/. to be provided in futur e hears. was only Mr. PROT HEROE said that the present b u ild d ears. g wa s not at all befitting the dignity of the British Sovereign, and he thought that the better plan to accommod a t e h er Majesty would be by assigning part of St. James's Park to her exclu sive use, and that the public would agree to such an arranxe talent, if Pall-mall were continued, so as togive a direetcomenu nication between Trafalgar-square and the Chelsea -road. Mr. BERNAL said that the present site of the palace was one of the worst in the metropolis. The neighbourhood would, however, be improved by judicious arrangements. He denounced the system of the Government in erecting a building without etaibei's..iriiiithe most undesirable situation , and afterwards Z., V's vom jjag ,iscAlsok country for continual bits and bits of money, -,: - .2 _ -thifir tll.l.4...nptrosity of art was the result.—.( Hear, hear.) . LL trusted that, as the people of Brighton suriebil&r:i4;.. • , years ago, one of the principal entrances to eptirielise- ? e . cellor of the Exchequer, now that he was proiidineeti . ~rt, no' accommodation for her Majesty, which -' 'liell Tie' -mean( ' bjected to, would take steps to place the 1 • . liiliabitatits of • hton in the same position they were in pre. 1 n d ?loin to the erection of the Pavilion.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. HLTME thought, before they laid out any more money oil Buckingham Palace, they ought to consider whether the Mr. GOULBURN said he did not object to the intr e duction of a Bill for the improvement of the Government of New Zealand, but he did not think it was judicious that at such a late period of the session such an intricate question should be discussed. bone—bad always been against it, and said they would not have it. He said he was most sincere in deploring any irre gularities that had occurred in Marlborough workhouse, and he wished most heartily to see the poor comfortable and their wants supplied. The speaker concluded his statement by thanking the chairman and the meeting for listening to him with the attention which they had been pleased to bestow on what he had to say. _ Mr. C. BULLER. said that the Bill was brought in upon the same principle as tine which the late Government sanctioned. he late Government were prepared to concede a representative Government to the inhabitants of New Zealand. The resolution ivas put and carried unanimously. Mr. LUKE HANS lILD moved, and Mr. HYDE CLARKE seconded, the following resolution :—" That the efforts of the Poor Man's Guardian Society in behalf of the poor gene rally, and especially in exposing the cruelties practised to wards the poor in the union, Marlborough-house, Peckham, entitle it to the warmest support of the citizens of London." This was put and carried unanimously. Mr. THORNBORROW moved, and Mr. PERCIVAL seconded, the following:—" That for the convenience of the merchants and citizens of London a subscription be opened in the city on behalf the Poor Man's Guardian Society, and that Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Messrs. Dennison, and Mr. Thornborrow, be requested to re ceive contributions." Mr. J. SMITH made some observation which did not reach the gallery. Leave was then given to bring in the Bills. COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND). The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the further regulation of certain offices attached to the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL obtained leave to bring in the following Bills :—Bill for altering and amend ing and registering Deeds and Instruments affecting Real Property in Ireland—Bill for facilitating the sale of encum bered Estates in Ireland—Bill for preserving in repair, letting, and generally managing Real Property in Ireland, pending suits regarding such property in Courts of Equity in Ireland—Bill to enable Tenants for Life and Mortgagors in posse.son of Lands in Ireland, to grant Leases ; and to enable Tenants for Life of Lands ie Ireland to make exchange ; and fur giving a summary remedy for Partition of Lands in all cases in Ireland—Bill for Registering Births, Deaths, and Mar riages in Ireland—Bill for canwrting the renewable Lease hold Tenure of Lands in Ireland into a Tenure in fee-simple, and for apportioning rents issuing out of Lands in Ireland, and for authorising the ,redemption of fee-farm rents—Bill to enable Tenants holding Lands for limited interests, mediately or immediately, under aggregate bodies politic, corporate and colleg'ate, ecclesiastical and lay, or trustees for charitable or other public purposes, in Ireland, to acquire estates in fee simple in the same lands, and for other purposes. The New Zealand Government Bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Hall-past Seven o'clock. The resolution was put from the chair and carded. Resolutions appointing a committee of co operation in the City, and according thanks to Mr. Aluxhay fur the gratuitous use of the Flail, were moved and carried. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the busines?, and the meeting separated. MARKET INTELLIG ENCE. (From the Landon New Price Current of August 14.) SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar. was in good request for grocery arol refining purposes; prices are stiffening, and the sales amounted tb 560 hhds and trcs, and the rise during that time is per cwt. The market closes with a firm appear ance for all descriptions of Colonial Sugar. REFINED —To-day Refined Sugar was in excellent request by the home trade, and higher rates were paid, brown gro cery lumps fetching 63s to 63s 6d,and standard lumps 64s 6d per cwt. For Bonded Crushed Sugar prices remain the same, but few buyers are to be met with at present. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in excel lent request, and 1,613 bags at public sale were sold at 6d per etct advance. ➢lAuarrttrs.—A considerable increase has taken place in the demand for all descriptions for refining and grocery pur poses; an advance in the value of 6d to is per cwt. has oc curred, although the market has been better supplied with all kinds. Privately several parcels have been disposed of. FOREIGN.—To-day there was more desire evinced to operate in white Havannah ; 1,936 chests were offered at auction, damaged, of which the chief part consisted, all fuund buyers at stiffer rates. _ NEWMARKET and CHESTERFORD RAILWAY. The first half-yearly meeting of this Company took place yesterday, at the Offices of the Company, 5, Church-passage, Guildhall; Lord John Manners in the chair. The SECRETARY read the usual advertisement convening the meeting; and the following report was then submitted to the shareholders'— " This meeting has been convened in accordance with the requirements of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, and your directors have the pleasure to submit their first report, subsequent to the passing of the Act which incorporates this Company ; and congratulate the shareholders upon the Act having been successfully- obtained. Your directors are happy to be enabled to state, that owing to the excellent manage ment of the law affairs of the Company, no opposition has been made to the progress of the Bill in passing through its several stages ; and, consequently, the legal expenses incurred have been of limited amount, as compared with those borne by similar projects, which have been carried before Parliament under less favourable auspices. The land owners and occupiers along nearly the whole extent of the line have been successfully treated with, upon terms which may be considered satisfactory; and your directors are con vinced that the early construction of the line will be at tended, not only with great advantages to the public, but from the central situation of the line, in respect of some of the most important railway communications in the kingdom, will prove highly remunerative to the shareholders. Your directors confidently recommend the immediate prosecution of such surveys and plans as may insure to this Company the success of an application to Parliament next session for carrying out extensions of the line from Newmarket to Thetford, and from Newmarket to Bury St. Edmund's, and resolutions to this effect will be submitted for your approval. It having been with much reason suggested, that it may be expedient for this Company to extend the proposed line from Bury to Ely also, your directors recommend, therefore, that they should be empowered (if upon further consideration it should appear to them of sufficient public importance, and to the interest of the shareholders) to make this additional extension. Your directors are empowered to announce, that they have as 'surances from most of the landowners on the line of the proposed extensions of their readiness to co-operate, by their influence and support, in the success of an undertaking that will, when completed, form the best and most convenient route from Norwich to London, as well as from the east coast to the midland aid northern counties. Your directors feel called upon to state that they had entered into a treaty to lease the present line, with the extensions of Thetford, at the rate of 6 per cent. on the outlay, and halt the profits of th e N or f o lk C ompany; b ut that treaty was broken off in consequence of an intimation from the solicitors engaged, that the Norfolk Company had no power to do so without the leave of the Eastern Coun ties. The capital which the Act of incorporation. em powers the Company to raise is more than ample for the purposes of completing the present line, and contracts, under the guidance and advice of Mr. R Stephen son, have been made for the entire completion of the works; the line has been staked out, and the works are in course of progress. The short period that has elapsed since obtaining the Act has prevented the directors from ascertaining the precise amount of expense incurred, but, after making liberal allowance for accounts not yet received, they are of opinion that the total expenses of the Company, to the date of in corporation, will not exceed 9,000 L, being under 13s. per share. It is intended to pay interest at 4 per cent. per annum on the deposits paid, and upon all future calls, commencing Ist of Januar/ last, upon registered shares, and the first payment will be made on or after the Ist of September, 1846. In ac cordance: with the Act, it will be the duty of the proprietors at this meeting to appoint two auditors. The directors beg to recommend to the notice of the shareholders, fur appoint ment, John Sands, Esq., of Austin-friars; and Henry Rance, Esq., of Cambridge, solicitor." The report was adopted unanimously. The present line brings Norwich nineteen miles nearer London than it is at present. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. COFFEE.—To-day Ceylon CoiTee met with attention, and privately several transactions took place; good ordinary pale Native brought 41s to 42s per cwt. Of Penang 182 bags were offend at auction, and the sound was taken in rather above the value. TEA. — Therehas been a falling off in the demand for Black and Green, occasioned by the announcement of large public sales for Tuesday. It is expected that nearly 50,000 pkga will be offered. Congou has been purchased with caution during the last few days, and lower rates have been taken, Pouchong is not cheaper, but the demand has been limited at 4d to 9d fur low to fine quality. In the value of Hyson little variation has taken place, but few sales have been made. There are selle.s of yellowish leaf Twaultay upon lower terms; for brightish leaf and flron sort former rates are rtquired, but little business has been done. Gunpowder and Imperial are little wanted, and prices are on the decline, excepting for fine sorts, for which they rule firm. For Scented Orange Pekoe and Flowery Pekoe the market has a dull appearance, and if parcels were to be pressed for sale, a fall in the value would be the result. None has arrived this week, still the stock yet much exceeds that cf last season, but every sort is cheaper. Stactcs.—To-day 557 bags of Penang Pepper at auction were taken in rather above the value—good light greyish at 2/d to 2nd, and dusty at 2d per lb. SrLeuTs.—lmporters of arnica Rum manifest firmness, and require full rates for all descriptions, but the demand has been limited from exporters and the home trade, only small parcels having been disposed of. Demerara has been in good demand, and fetched full rates; the private sales amounting to lto puns at 3s 5d to 33 6d for 36 to 38 per cent. over proof. For Leeward Island the demand has been only for small trifling quantities, but the sup ply being scants , holders insist upon former rates, that is to say, 2s sd' to 2s 61 for proof strength. In Calcutta there has been little passing, and proof with certificate can be obtained at is lld to 2s. The arrivals of Ruin have been upon a small scale only since this day week. For Brandy the demand has been good, chiefly from the home trade; old kinds have been the most in request, prices are firm. Geneva has been in good demand for exportation; and British Corn Spirits have been in active request. MoLassEs.—There has been very little business transacted in West India, although there are sellers of all sorts upon further reduced terms. The stock is still on the inerea,e, but is not equal to that of last year. Bengal Treacle is ne • glected, and it is difficult to quote prices with accuracy. Honey is plentiful, and prices on the decline. RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice was in excellent request, and 2,703 bags at public sale were sold at 3d per cwt advance. Privately some parcels were disposed of. Off.s.—A considerable increase has taken place in the de mand for Olive Oil since our last report, an 4 prices have advanced 4.0 s to 70s per tun, extensive parcels having been disposed or. Rapeseed Oil has met with a brisk demand, prices are still on theadvance, and the supply on the decrease. Linseed Oil has met with more attention, and prices are firmer; sales to a fair extent have been made on the spot by the home trade at 23s 6d, and for forward delivery the operations have been on a more extended scale at 23s 9d to 245; for exportation the demand, however, is still trifling. The crushers continue to work freely, notwithstanding the small profits they are getting. The consumption still ex ceeds that of last year, yet prices axe lower. Palm is not to be obtained upon lower terms, but the demand has been less active. The supply of Cocoa Nut Oil is still scanty, and there are several buyers. Of Fish Oils there are further arrivals; still holders, for the most part, evince firmness,,and refrain from pressing sales. Seal has been in goon demand, but holders have been compelled to take previous rates. Cod is little wanted, and the supply at market is yet small. Southern has met with attention. Sperm has been sold to a fair extent, but not at better prices, there being still a good supply. For American Lard Oil the demand has been limited at 33/10 401. This afternoon Southern Oil met with atten tion, and 130 tuns at auction were all sold at advanced rates. POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY. A public meeting of those friendly to the objects of this society was held yesterday, in the Hall of Commerce, City, at one o'clock. Mr. B. B. CABBELL, UP., having taken the chair, said it would not be necessary to detain the meeting with stating at any length the objects of the society, as these would appear in the motions and in the speeches of the gentlemen who moved them. He thought it unusual and extraordinary that, in a nation whose merchants were princes in wealth, a society like the present, should be necessary to draw the public atten tion to the unprotected state of the poor - yet so it was. Wealth, he said, had its powers. but it also had its duties; and it was to fulfil these that this meeting had been called. He would not detain the meeting longer, but call on Mr. COCHRANE, who moved the first resolution. He said it would be a work of supererogation in him to talk of the condi tion of the poor generally ; he would confine himself to the poor within the eity of London. It was said in the last report of the asylums supported by voluntary subscriptions that from 18,000 to 20,000 persons had been relieved during the last winter, and that about 50,000 rose daily from their bed not knowing where to get a breakfast. The Lord Mayor, about the beginning of the year, on hearing a case of ayoung woman who had broken windows, stated that about one hundred and twenty-five cases of young women ' had been brought up before him for breaking windows, that they might obtain that protection in gaols which was denied them anywhere el: e. He stated further, that in the poor unions of the city of London they kept bull-dogs to growl and snarl when the poor came to apply for relief. These were statements which were not indebted to private fiction. Mr. Cochrane then referred to the case of Ann Lynch, the details of which have already appeared in The Sun, as well as the details of the assault committed on two women by the under officers of Marlborough workhouse. He added that the ex posure in this 'let insiance was due to the humane exertions of one of the police—Sergeant Morton—who at first paid the expenses out of his own pocket. He thought these de tails were enough to rouse every citizen of London to give that protection to the poor which the law at present denied them. He said the meeting perhaps was not aware that Dr. Southwood Smith, in his late report of the Fever Hospital, had stated that one-fifth of the whole number of the patients were traceable to Marl borough workhouse, at Peckham—one-fitth of the whole number being 125. He concluded by moving— " Tnat the number of distressed poor who apply to the City unions is very great; that their necessities entitle them to our warmest sympathies; that the treatment which they too frequently experience is proved to be harsh, cruel, and unjust, and that their sufferings imperatively demand the wannest exertions of every honest citizen in their behalf." Rev. JAMES Minors seconded the motion. He never felt FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. more gratified than on that occasion in lending his aid to the amelioration of his poor fellow -creatures, for he thought BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, it was the da wn i ng o f a d ay when the attention of Christian AUG. 3, 1846. England would be turned to facts which had escaped it for The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. the best part of his life. He did not think that the aristo- Robert Grosvenor, commonly called Lord Robert Grosvenor, cracy were aware of the state of the poor, he did not believe Treasurer of her Majesty's Household, vice the Right Hon. that they could form an idea of it, and therefore he was glad Frederick William Hervey, commonly called Earl Jermyn, that such an institution had risen to point their attention to resigned. it. He said he had been called again and again, being the CROWN OFFICE, Aim. 13. incumbent of Mile End New Town, to see the poor, many MEMBER. RITURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT and many a time, dying of starvation. They submitted to PARLIAMENT. starvation and death even, out of the strength of their better Borough of St. Alban—etenjainin Bond C t bb e li, o f th e feelings, rather than apply to these workhouses, which he Middle Temple, London, Esq., in the room of the Right Hor. did riot think were a blessing to this land. He augured suc- William Earl of Listowel, who has accepted the office of one cess to the society from the strength of sympathy which had of the Lords in Waiting on her Majesty. been stirred, and from the presence of their present Chair- WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 14. man within the legislature of the country. The speaker Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant paid a compliment to the philanthropy of Mr. Cabbell, Mr. Colonel G. W. Eyree, from half-pay unattached. to be Cap. Walter, and Mr. Ferrand, and concluded by seconding the tain and Lieutenant Colonel, vice Sir G. A. F. Houstouu, resolution. Bart., who exchanges ; Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. J. Lindsay Mr. SIMMONS, before the resolution was put to the meet- to be Capt. and Lieut. Col., by purchase, vice Evres, wbo ing, wished to be allowed to say a few words. He said he retires; Ensign and Lieutenant Sir C. Lindsay, gait, to be was one of those cruel individuals, the City union guardians. Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. J. --(Hear, hear.) He had come there that day like any other Lindsay; C. V. role, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by citizen, merely to hear what might be proposed to the con- purchase, vice Sir C. Lindsay; Lieutenant and Captain R. sideration of the meeting. He had not come with th e i nien - Bradford to be Adjutant, vice the Hon. J. Lindsay, pro tion of making a speech, but after hearing the speech of the moted, Aug. 14. eloquent gentleman who moved the resolution he felt called Ist Regiment of Foot—General the Right Hon. Sir J. Perhaps London Kempt, G.C.B. from the 2d Foot, to be Colonel, vice General on to rectify some of the statements which had been made. It was not known that the guardians of the city of Lord Saltoun, n ion in sv were p elected ari s h btoy whichthe free they e N s . o h tf e r i a o g n e g s , of or their that Sir 2d G . F b a l a u t Murray,la s ) i, a ' G j a . r C - . G B e . a , deceased, er a l Alexander Aug.. George 7. fellow-citizens U K.C.8., from the 55th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Sir they being 50 ol them, there were nearer a hundred. Now thescv 6th Foot—Lieutenant J. Mackintosh, from half-pay Royal ery guardians, these maligned individualswished to erect an Marines,to be P • tvice A. J. Macpherson, who re asylum sie•mas er, for the casual poor • , and it was only on Tuesday last that a verts to his former halt par as Lieutenant, Aug. 14. special committee had been appoi n t e d t o ca rr y out that object. 18th Foot—Captain G. W. M. Lovett, from half-pay Un hut he was unwilling that th e c iti zens should retire from that attached, to be Captain, vice W. A. T. Payne, who ex place without hearing the otherside; they had already heard changes, Aug. 14. one side depicted by his friend, Mr. Cochrane, in the most 20th Foot—Ensign T. W. Andrews to be Lieutenant, with glowing colours. It was surely an injustice to visit on the out purchase, vice Mountain, ain t e d Adjutant ;R. Mylius, guardians whatever casual oppression might be exe rc i se d b y Ge n t., t o be Ensign, vice Andrews; Lieut. J. G. Mountain their officers on some of the casual poor. There were men to be Adjutant, vice Cameron, promoted. August 14. among these guardians as ready to aid in the present move 36th Foot—J. E. Harvey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, meat for the protection of the poor as the gentleman who had vice Bond, appointed to the 85th Foot, Aug. 14. so eloquently addressed the meeting. They were men who 46th Foot—J. Reid, G e:it. , to b e A s sistant Surgeon, vice were elected by their fellow-citizens to the discharge of Thompson, who resigns, Aug. 14. Lieutenant, by 54th Foot—Ensign. T. H. Powell to be Lie their duty as guardians, and, therefore, they were - purchase, vice Ridley, who retires; R. S. Swinbu . rne,Gent. not likely to be the men whom his friend would to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Powell, Aug. 14 • difficulty them believe they were. They found greatlo be Colonel, 55th Foot—Lieutenant General J. Wardlaw,.t, 7. difficulty in managing the casual poor, a vast number of vice Lord Saltoun, appointed to the 2d Foot, whom came into that city; and perhaps injustice might in Ac s some Captain, at Foot—Lieutenant C. W. H. Sotheby, to some cases be done, but it was hard, he thought, to lay this Lieutenant G. by purchase, vice Munro, promoted; Second ~ at th© door of the guardians, and to represent them asce Sotheby A. Robinson, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, a hard and cruel set of people, as though they were l u i rchase, vice ; opposed to the poor, or the Poor Man's Guardian E. Bowles, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by p Society. He had had the pleasure to stand up /tobinson, Aug. 14. himself and othe r s b es id es hi m i n th at b oar d o f 71st Foot—Ensign J. Horne, to be Lieut e nant, without Fuller, Gent., guardians, and advocate the cause of the Poor Man's Guar- purehase, vice Loftus, appointed Adjutant; J. be Adjutant, dian Society. But it had been the policy to attribute any to be Ensign, vice Horne; Lieut. H. Loftus to cruelty which might be committed in Marlborough House to Aug. 14. Foot, to be the City union guardians, which was surely more than ought 85th Foot—Ensign A. V. Bond, from the 36th to have been expe c t e d. H e felt it so, especially,, when he 1 Ensign , vice the Hon. P. R. B. Feilding , appointed to the stood there and said he wished as much as any of them ' coldstreatn Regiment of Foot Guards, Aug- 14. . k. ~... o remedy these evils. It was 11:, wish and the wish of 87th Foot—Lieutenant-R. E. Rich to be Captain. ."I „ P . ~, v hers to do so ;but udividuale t( whom allioion had been chase, vie. Brc.ca 11.60 r White, who r. tires, Ati, I i . 11re 1 . 1 ; 1 , iiiik:e ILA always stood in the way. Aiarylebooe was a large Li ,, ot•?,nant'l LI yd to he First Liententiot, wit bon!. ) r) Lieutenant parish, and many Noble Lards liver. there. When the pro- 1 vice Cobbe, appointed Adjutant, Aug. 13; Second vice the vice posal to build an asylum for the casualmade, I E. W. J. Fulcher to be First Lieutenant, by poor was nd Lteute the pariolz of Alarylobono—the aristocratic *wish a Maryle- P i Rich,Aug. 14 ; T. M. M'Clintock, Gent.,to be Secou A. P Pant, by purchuse i vice ralcher, Aug. 14; A. - ' O'Malley,_ TURPE.NTINN —For Spirits the demand has been active, and prices are firm at 44s 6d to 455. American has been selling at 39s to 40s. In Rough a good deal has been done at 9s to Os 3d per barrel. Tar is wanted, and in conse quence of the small supply buyers have been compelled to pay Ills for Stockholm, and 17s 6d to 18s per barrel for Archangel. TALLOW.—Holders of Russian on the spot evince firmness ; the trade have come forward more freely, and a good business has been transacted, chiefly by the chandlers. For forward delivery many purchases have been made, and from 41s to 41s 3d per cwt paid for fine Yellow Candle for the last three months of the year; indeed, some parties will not sell upon those terms, notwithstanding the quiet state of the market at St. Petersburgh. Home made Tallow has been in lively demand, and prices are firm. Australian is wanted, but the supply has become sm a ll, an d p r i ces are firmer. In American business to a fair extent has been done at 34s to 41s 6d for low to fine quality, and the supply is on the decrease. BANK OF ENULAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the Bth day of August, 1846. ISSUE DEPkItTMENT. :votes i55ued........ 29,336,305 Z. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 12,935,426 Silver bullion ...... 2,450,879 29,386,305 Dated the 13th day of August, 1846, 29,366,3C5 J. li. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. BANKING DEPARTMENT Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,00 0 Rest .... 3,603,683 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 5,014,2 r 0 Other deposits .. 12,456.737 Setiren day and other bi 115.... .... 952,056 £ 36,579,676 Dated the 13th day of August, I Government sew'. ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 12,961,735 Other securities .. • • 13,984,578 Notes .. .. ••• • • . 9,075,160 Gold and silver coin.. 558,203 £36,579,676 J. R. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. 346. Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Lloyd, Aug. 15 ; Lieute nant A. H. Cobbe, to be Adjutant, vice Lea, promoted, Aug. 13. Rifle Brigade—Sergeant-Major T. Gough, from the Corps of Military Labourers at Barbadoes, to be Quartermaster, Aug. 14. ' 2d West India Regiment—H. A. W. Ayton, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Griffith, deceased, Aug. 14. UNATTACHED.—Captain J. St. John Munro, from the 60th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C. H. Smith, who retires, Aug. 14. HOSPITAL STAFF.—H. Semple, Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Fletcher, whose appointment has been cancelled, Aug.l4. BREVET.—Major J. Grattan, of the 18th Foot, to be Lieu tenant-Colonel in the Army, ug. 14. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire, E. Romilly, Esq , to be Deputy-Lieutenant, June 17. Commitsions 13Y the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry— Lieut. Viscount Curzon to be Captain, May 7 ; Lieut. C. T. Freer to be Captain, June 3 ; Cornet •H. Clements to be Lieu tenant, May 7; Cornet C. S. Burnaby to be Lieutenant, June 2; J. Boyer, Gent., to be Cornet, July 27. WHITEAEILL, AUG. 8, 1846. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick Hancock, ()f Shipton nu Stour, in the comity of Worce,ter, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Frederick D-ly, money scrivener, Hemel Hempstead. John Solomon, outfitter, Exeter. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Barter Bloomfield, jun., chemist and druggist, Poole, to surrender August 28, at two, and September 25, at half-past two, at tt.e Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basioghall• street ; Knight, Basinghall street. Francis Holmes and James Flolmes, ship-builders, South town, Suffolk, August 28, at two, and October 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, tiirchin lane ; Storey Gray's Inn. John William Stratton, tailor, March, Cambridgeshire, Aug. 28, at one, and Sept. 23, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Meredith and Co., Lincoln's Inn. James Mead Price, innkeeper, Warminster, Aug. 28, at half-past one, and Sept. 25, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane ; Stewart, New Inn. Thomas Uriah Knight, grocer, Princes-street, Gravesend, Aug. 24, at eleven, and Sept. 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Coome and Jones, Church-court, Clements-lane. Thomas Browne, hatter, Southampton, Aug. 26, at eleven, and Sept. 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street ; Lloyd, Cheapside. Robert Oxtoby and William Christopher Oxtoby, millers, Wansford, Yorkshire, Sept. 2 and 30, at tan, at the Town hall, Hull. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Capes and Co., Gray's Inn; Robinson, Beverley; Bell, Hull. Simon Puckering and William Thomas Makins, woollen drapers, King4ton• upon-Hull, Aug. 26 and Sept. 16, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Linklater, Leadenhall-street ; Ayre, Hull. William Ludlam 011ard, auctioneer, Upwell, Cambridge shire, Aug. 22, at halt past ten, and Sept. 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official a-signee, Birchin lane ; Hensman, Basing-lane._ John Birch, tailor, Hull, Aug 26, and Sept. 16, at ten, at the Town..hall, Hull. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Hicks, Gray's Inn; Galloway, Hull. Charles Taylor, brush manufacturer, Birmingham, Aug. 29, and Sept. 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whi•lnore official as4gnee, Birmingham; Ivemey, Chancery-lane; Vright, Birmingham. Thomas Crane, comm.at brewer, Kegworth, Leicestershire, Sept. 1 and 29, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; James, Birmingham. Robert Naylor, licensed victualler, Marlborough, Aug. 31 and Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acre man, Bristol; Blower and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields; Nash, Bris - 01. George England, clothier, Brimscombe, Gloucestershire, Aug. 27 and Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Paris, Stroud. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro duce of the British possassions in America, computed from the returns made in the week ending August 11, 1846, is 333. 5 3 / 4 d. per cwt. EDividends, &e., in oar Next]. MR. RICHARD DUNN AND MISS BURDETr COUTTS AGAIN. From the following extraordinary and unique proceedings it will be seen that Mr. Richard Dunn, nothing loth of the in. dictment which has been found against him by the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court in June last for perjury, and upon the warrant subsequently issued for his apprehension, and of his committal to Newgate, the pars iculars of which ap peared in our journal of the sth inst., is determined to obtain the 100,0001. which he alleges he has the authority of Alias Burdett Coutts to draw out of the banking-house of Coutts and Co. ; as in the course of Wednesday morning the Learned Gentleman went to the Court of Bankruptcy for the purpose of swearing an affidavit before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, but that learned functionary nct sitting, he went and swore the following affidavit before Mr. Co nmissioner Goulburn, which was signed as a matter of course, not the slightest remark pass ing, beyond the officer of the Court saying, this is your name and handwriting, and the contents of this your of .lavit is true? to which Air. Dunn replied in the affirmative. The following is a copy of the affidavit " IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. " Richard Dunn, Esquire, barrister at law, of No. 6, New-stre• t, in the city of Westminster, maketh oath, and saith, that Angelina Burdett Coutts, of No. 1, Stratton.. street, and 59, Strand, both in the city of Westminster, is justly and duly indebted to this deponent in the sum of 100,000/., by virtue of a certain authority in writing given to this deponent by the said . Angelina Burdett Coutts, to draw a bill on the bank of Coutts and Co. for such a sum of money as this deponent should think a fair compensation for the injuries and imprisonments done and inflicted on this de. ponent by the said Angelina Burdett Coutts, and fur the re covery of damages for which this deponent had at that time commenced legal proceedings, and which said bill so drawn by this deponent the said Angelina Burdett Coutts promised in writing should be duly paid, which said bill, although drawn for the sum of 100,000/., as compensation for the said inju.. ries, and duly presented by this deponent at the said bank aforesaid, dated March 4, 1846, was not paid, and which said bill still remains justly due and owing to this deponent; and this deponent further saith, that the said Angelina Burdett Coutts is a partner in the said bank aforesaid, and a trader within the meaning of the laws relating to bankrupts, as this deponent verily believes, "RICHARD DUNN. " Sworn in the Bankruptcy Court, Basinghall-street, this 12th day of August, 1846, before me (Signed) " EDWARD GOULBURN." As soon as the signature of the Commissioner was attached to the affidavit, it was handed back to Mr. Dunn, who pro ceeded to the office of Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor to Mit.s Burdett Contra, and informed that gentleman through the medium of his son, that he (Mr. Dunn) had no intention by his present proceedings to sue out a fiat of bankruptcy against Miss Burdett Coutts, his object being to oblige her to give bail, that she would proceed to trial in an action for debt, and that if Mr. Humphreys would give him a written undertaking that he would accept the affidavit on behalf of Miss Coutts, he would be perfectly satisfied. If his proposal was rejected, then he should have to adopt measures to enable the affidavit of debt to be served personally on the lady. Mr. Humphreys, however, declined interfering, causing Mr. Dunn to be in informed that he must adopt what cou-se he thought proper, on which the Learned Gentleman left the office for the purpose of causing his notice of debt to be served. The following is a copy of the order for payment which has led to the adoption of the recent proceedings : _ _ " Londim, Mareh 4.1846. " Gentlemen—Pay myself or order the sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds. "RICHARD DUNN. "By the authority of Miss Burdett Coutts. "241essrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand." Mr. Dunn has also sent a icing statement of complaints to Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, in which he requested the interference of the Government to protect the liberty of the subject, contend ing that as he had removed the indictment by a writ of certio rari into the Court of Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Baron had improperly committed him to Newgate, because he had not been able to obtain two housekeepers for bail. although one person who was rejected had 1,6001. standing in his name with the Accountant- General, that he could qualify for a voter for the city of Westminster, and that if the Lord Chief Baron had the power to commit, it was to the Queen's prison, ani not to Newgate, at which latter place he was treat e d a s a felon : that he had applied at the office of the clerk of the indictments at the Central Criminal Court, to be allowed to see the indict ment in which perjury bad been assigned, but which had been refused. It will thus be seen from the above statement that still further legal proceedings will be adopted before the matters connected with this extraordinary case are finally terminated. EAST LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—On • Wednesday last the twenty-second anniversary of this very deserving institution was celebrated in a dinner at the White Conduit House Tavern, Islington, on which occasion about fifty gentlemen partook of an entertainment served up in the usual excellent style of this place. Henry Knight, Esq.. of Basinghall-street, presided. as chairman, and was supported by the Rev. T. Gibson, senior curate of St. Matthew's, Bethnal-green. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, accompanied by very appropriate observations of the chair man, and responded to with great enthusiasm by the com pany, Mr. Knight, in a very eloquent speech, proposed success to the " East London General Pension Society," which, he stated, hat afforded assistance to ninety aged male and female pensioners. He expressed his regret that the deficient state of the funds of the charity has obliged the Committee from time to time to limit its sphere of useful ness. He however trusted that in the forthcoming year sufficient funds would be placed at their disposal, so that in obedience to its charitable principle a fuller measure of relief may be afforded to the deserving poor. The Rev. Mr. Gibson, in a neat speech, proposed the health of the worthy chairman, and promised to preach a sermon for the institu tion. The toast, as was the kind offer of the Rev. Gentle man, was received with great applause. The Secretary then read a list of donations (which included one of ten guineas from Lord Robert Grosvenor) amounting to between 50/. and 60/. The chairman shortly after vacated the chair, and the party broke up, evidently highly pleased with the evening's proceedings. Tug WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN DERBYSHIRE.— A correspondent just returned from au excursion into the mirth of Derbyshire and Notts, describes the harvest as fast progressing there, at every interval allowed by the thunder storms, which have occurred almost daily for some time . The wheat crop, he says, is almost universally luxurian t,au especially the red, being larger in the ear than k fo . r yield of spring corn seems scarcely equal anyw fine fields of autumn-sown. About Warsop are several luxuriant and for years. This is particularly the case about Welb h ec ere , b t u o m t t th h y e e turnips—one sown broad-cast r e markably uialf grown and ward, the bulbs being already outat o y the du p g ot crop, our correspondent having i h in size, were all that, though as fine as could be w i shed sound. There is, however, a gene m r: n : seems to have operated in jured by the prevailing blight, w hi ch week two. The " within the last or f ruitage more powerful ly ir s e e l l u f te s r e y e seen b m ou a t n in that district, so famou s for its orchards, is th is year a total failure—few apples , fewer p ears, and scarcel y a single plum be in g seen on the trees. Nuts and bramb:e fruit a re , however, in gre it abundance — Derby Reporter. CAETIoNoro TRADESMEN.—FORGED BILLS.—A Polish Jew, name unknown. has lately been obtaining a quantity of goo 's from various tradesmen at the East end, by means of bills of exchange which have turned out to be forgeries. Mr. Calisper, No. 88, Aldgate, is a recent sufferer. The Jaw lately resided in Plymouth, is 28 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, red hair and whiskers, ruddy complexion, and had a paralytic stroke lately, which injured. one of his eyes. THE BREAKwATFR AT PORTLAND —We have much satisra( tion i;: statim that infm - IDAti , m, which may be re li e d on, has loon Iv_Te. from I.,r,n(ion, an notme i ng t h at it is the intention of Government to proceed with the bong talked of Breakwater off Portland, as soon as local circum stances wilt permit. The liveliest sensation has been excited wey nn th o n tin pit Sherkurne Journal. OBSTRUCTION OF MIDDLE-ROW, HOLBORN. Mr. Taylor, Mr. Mayes, Mr. Baldock, and Mr. White, M.D., Commissioners for paving the united parishes of St. Andrew's, Hulborn above the Bars, and St. George the Martyr, attended by the clerk, Mr. Pugh, waited upon the Lord Mayor on Thursday, at the Mansion-House, for the purpose of soliciting his Lordship's assistance in procuring the removal of the dan gerous nuisance of Middle-row, Holborn. Mr. TAYLoa said that the petition which was presented a few nights ago in the House of Commons would put his Lord ship in possession of the subject in as brief a manner as pos sible. It was from the Commissioners of Pavements of the districts above mentioned, and was as follows : " That your petitioners, in the exercise of the duties imnosed upon them by the Acts of Parliament, by virtue of which the paving of the Streets of the Metropolis is entrusted to the con trol of parochial boards, have had their attention directed to the widening and improving of the public streets, and have out of the parish funds under their control made many improve ments in the thoroughfares in the district over which they have jurisdiction, and they observe with great satisfaction the efforts made by her % ajesty's Government to open channels of communication and widening and improving the streets gene rally. That Holborn, which is one of the two leading avenues from the City westward, is impeded by an unsightly pil, of buildings called "Middle-row," which reduces the thorough. fare for foot passengers to nine feet, and renders the carriage way exceedingly narrow and dangerous. That the buildings in Middle-row escaped destruction at the great fire of London, and are extremely old, chiefly of lath and plaster, and without party walls, and two of the houses have lately fallen down, leaving others in a falling condition and dangerous. And, in the judgment of your petitioners, it would be most impolitic to rebuild or repair any part of the premises, and so favourable an opportunity for removing the whole r bstrum ion will not occur for many years if the houses are suffered to be rebuilt. That the removal of so large a pile of building is quite beyond the means at the disposal of your petitioners, and is a measure so important for the community at large, that your petitioners are not without hope your honourable Ilouse may, in your wisdom see fit, to cause the removal at the public expense. " Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray that your honourable House will not allow the present opportunity for re moving Middle-row, or a portion of it, to be lost sight of, and hope you will deem the improvement the clearing away of this unsightly obstruction wi.l cause of sufficient importance to claim your immediate attention in carrying out the mea tires of her Majesty's Government for affording increased facilities of transit in the metropolis." The object of the Commissioners was to obtain the favour able interposition of the Lord Mayor as one of the Commis , Eioners of Public Improvement appointed by Parliament to include the removal of so glaring an obstruction amongst the contemp!ated improvements in the metropolis. Ii was true Middle-row was not within the city of London, where his Lord ship's magisterial authority was available, but it was upon the borders of the city, and any improvement which might be affected there would peculiarly benefit the city. So excel lent an opportunity could not be supposed to be likely to occur again, and as the houses en both sides had been condemned, and the pi operty was not worth much, the expense of stressen flan), improving the great thoroughfare of Holborn would not amount to an item of any consequence amongst the vast mass of changes which are every day taking place. The Loan May.cia admitted that a very admirable im provement would indeed be produced by the removal of Middle-row, but be did not think it was likely to be re• commended by the Commissioners of Public Improvements to be carried into effect, except the parishioners proposed to bear some portion of the expense. His Lordship then instanced some parishes which had come forward with offers to pay some part of the expeno's incurred by the alterations necessary to increase the traffic and respectability and comfort of the vicinities. The Commissioners apprehended that great difficulty would be met with in the eneeavi , ur to prevail upon those who did not reside in the precise locality, to subscribe for an improvement which they might think would not in any degree affect them. For ii.stance, it could be scarcely expected that the inhabitants of Bedford-row, and its neighbourhood, would pay a permanent rate to widen an approach to the City of London. It appeared to be, in an especial degree, incumbent upon the City of Lon don to favour the prskjec;ed alteration. The jurisdiction of th e City extended to the widest part of Holborn, and at that spacious entrance began the contracted and broken thorough fare of Middle-row. With respect to the parishes which nis Lordship had described as having contributed to improvements in the more western parts of the metropolis, the advantages to all the inhabitants were so obvious, that not to contribute for such purpose wou'd show very great indifference, either to the public or the private benefits derivable from the widening of the thoroughfares. They believed that if Middle-row were re moved, the proprietors of Staple's Inn, which was a very ancient building, would at once rebuild their ft., nt. The LORD MaYou asked whether the ommissioners knew the opinion of Lord Morpeth upon the subject? The Commissioners replied that his Lordship said that the projected improvements would he most important, and that all that was wanted was the money to accomplish it. His Lord ship had visited the spot on Sunday last, and his impress.on that the improvement ought to be made was considerably strengthened. Some gentlemen who were present during the interview of the Commissioners with his Lordship. but who did not belong to the deputation, said they were convinced it must be the wish of every one who passed the place that the whole of the nuisance should be, as soon as possible, removed, nd that no thing was more probable than that Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, who had already done so much for the City to which be belonged, by the construction of magnificent approaches, would add his high authority to the evidence of the able men who had counselled the application to Parliament under such cir cumstances: The LORD MAYOR assured the Commissioners that they had his good wishes, and that his Lordship advised them to call a meeting of the parishioners, to take the subject into considera tion, and to determine to what amount they would assist the Government in the work of removing the obstruction. His Lordship intimated that the moment he had a pecuniary pro posal to 'make from the parishioners, he should, with great pleasure, place the matter before the Commissioners of Public Improvements, and recommend that the offer should be favour ably entertained. The Commissioners expressed themselves greatly obliged by the warm interest his Lordship took in the question, and said they would, as soon as possible, cause the parishioners to be called together to discuss it. THE ELECTRIC GUN. A series of interesting experiments with this powerful apparatus were _ performed on Wedn es d a y, iu Ki ng _ street, Westminster, by Mr. Benningfield, its inventor. The machine has on former occasions b en described in the public journals, so far as its external appearance is concerned, but as the principle remains a secret with its inventor, nothing beyond conjecture can be known of its construction. Its efficiency as a military eagine was amply demonstrated in what we witnessed of its powers, whilst its susceptibility of being adapted to the purpese of modern warfare, halt been expre-sed in strong lan guage by Sir Frederick (rends, Sir Edward Coirington, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir Charles Napier, and many other distinguished officers of both services. The electric gun, as it was exhibited to us, is mounted ou three wheels, the third being placed accross the direction of its 1-..ngth, so as to swing it round in the manner of a tra verse or swivel. A target of a gear er- inch iron plate is placed at a distance of about 30 yards from the gun. which was directed against it, and charged wi h swab leaden bullets. Single stints repeatedly kllowed one another at imperceptibly small interva's of time. arid apparently without the smallest effort en the part of tho-e who " manned " the machine. The discharge of a volley from this gun is. a matter of the greatest sim plicity ; nor does it appear to be more difficult to fire a hundred volleys successively than one. A continued volley was frequently poured upon the same spot of the target, with an accuracy and effect truly surprising. Of the initial velocity of the shot it would be difficult to speak correctly, as it has not yet been tested by the bal listic pendulum, or other instruments employ ed to de termine the momenta of projectiles. That a consider able velocity is easily communicated to a shot by the machine, there can be no doubt. The bullets flat ten up immediately on touching the target, and frag ments broken off bury themselves deep in the wooden frame. A piece of dry Scotch fir has been penetrated by one of the small bullets to a depth of two inches ; and two of them were shown us, which, from the one having been fired directly up,n :he other, w. re completely welded into one mass. The correctn ess o f . the aim is a peculiar feature of the apparatus ; for the barrel can easily be adjusted to any practical angle of depression or of elevation. In the short space of four seconds it can ba brought to bear upon any two different points, and a tremendous quantity of lead showered upon the spot. For ricochet firing it seems to be admirably adapted, .and there appears little reason to doubt that as an ab solute concentration of infantry, which it in fact is, it would be found invaluable in either branch of the service. The fatal havoc that a machine of the kind could create in an ambuscade or in an intrenchment, can be easily conceited. Its rapidity of execution in clearing any curtain of a fortified place, a drawbridge or bridge of pontoons, in cutting down a marching column, or in defending a breach or mountain pass, is also a matter on which no doubt can be reason ably entertained. In attacking a fortress the machine appears capable of doing great service, by a simple and elegant manoeuvre. Guns of this kind being drawn in the rear of the advancing party, the files immediately before it have only to separate slightly, in order to allow a few volleys to be discharged, which would certainly unman the guns of a bastion, curtain, or breast-work. Its great . lightness, the certainty of its aim, the tre mendous quantities of metal it is capable of discharging within the shortest time, and the extreme risk and diffi culty of taking it, must render it alike the treasure of the service which employs it, and the terror of the enemy. Of THE WEATHER AND " r RI heavy fall of rain which accompaniedCPs IN rr t s tated, on Saturday ha Sc o OLL d A e N r D ; — T he Or last Friday, was followed, forenoon by a further outpouring o a alt. e a ty t h e clouds, renewing the deluge to which the crops again laying po rtionhad so recen tly been exposed, and of the country ender water. Much damage a beenhlaarsge were torn up; bridges sw ept away; the soil washed off many fields, andpthers co vered with mire and gravel bro ug ht d own grounds. The crop was quickly l a id d own, from at breik high erh s wind having sprung up on Sunday, much of it ' was again raised. On Monday morning reapers were at work on almost every farm in this neighbourhood and in East Lothian. Yesterday was breezy, dry, and mild, and on the whole a good harvest day. Every hand was at work, and evening showed, in the numerous well stooked fields, that the most had been made of the favourable opportunity. Hands are more scarce than usual, and wages high, with a tendency to go still higher. Fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen shillings a week, with victuals, have bean readily obtained, and evea at this high rate hands are not abundant. Of the quality and 3 ield of the crop it would be premature to give any decided opinion ; but the small quantities which have yet been brought to the bars floor are a fair average, both as respects yield, weight, and quality. —Caledonian Mercury. FEARFUL StruATIoN—A Mr. Gray, of Providence, painter of the congregational meeting-house, in Kingston, Rhode Island, last week ascended the steeple to take off the vane for gilding, and having left the ladders, climbed the iron spire to the distance of twelve or thirteen feet above, re lying upon the ball, half-way up the spire, to rest his feet on, and from which position he could take the vane off with his right hand. While he was in the very act, the ball on which his feet rested gave way and ran down the spire. At this a moment he was raising the vane over the end of it ; as he did so, the spire growing smaller, made a convenient place for his thumb to keep the balancer in . the gudgeon bore, when the ball gave way under him and o . re, The vane held him falling back with his thumb in the gudg a T r n . b He remained fast, with his feet dangling in the air.. ascended the spire, in this ' perilous situation until a hi ll . : . _felt, .at once c relieved and placing his shoulder under 12001 a. Anteri an Paper. him. The scene was terrible to HAMBURGH MAIL. STUTTGARD, AUG. I.—An address to the Assembly of he the Estates of Holstein was forwarded from this city yest t er - day evening. HANOVER, AUG. 7.—The General Assemblage of the , Estates of the kingdom was prorogued to-day, till-the Ist of November, after a session of more than five months. FrtorrnErts GALACIA, JULY 26.—The harvest ready begun in the eastern circles of Galacia, and the ch, countenances of the peasants and the nobles prove, tit.'" happily for this unfortunate country, there will be a nroa abundant harvest. In some circles, however, they look for. ward to the harvest with fear, because the peasants threatetr_ not to suffer the nobles to have the whole produce. Most ot the nobles pass the summer in the towns, and the inagi s : trates of the circle has given the strictest orders that n o one shell be injured in his right, and that every excess or; the,_ part of the peasants severely punished. It is natural that the great fear of the nobles it.crease the insolence of the peasant.' However, as there is nothing to give occasion to further per' secution their threats may, perhaps, be as a milder interpre tation, conformably to the Polish character. Everybody is anxiously looking for the arrival of Count Stadion, the Impe rial Commissioner, who is daily expected. It is generally as serted at Cracow that Mr. Von Shindler, formerly President of the Senate, will shortly return and take part in the Go' vernment. t VIENNA, AUG. I.—lt seems to be worth mentioning tha t the Amsterdam Observer communicates to its readers, with out curtailment, the address of the Estates of olstein against the letters patent. KIEL, Ana. 7.—lnstead of the members of the Estates of Holstein, who withdrew from it, the substitutes a re summoned to meet at Itzehoe. It is estimated that the Assembly of the Estates cannot be sufficient l y completed to come to any resolution, since there mnst be at least three-fourths of the total number present (that is 36 of the 48), and it is supposed that, under the most favourable, circumstances, the Government will not be able to bring together more than 30, or at the mod 32 members. VIENNA, AUG. I.—lt is said that Sir Robert Gordolif he English Ambassador, is to be succeeded by Lord Dio s r a Much is here said, in the higher circles, of the visit whicbl:-: King of Prussia paid to Prince Metternich at Konigswartit, It is said that the Prince had a conference with the 1i; 3135 ' respecting the question of the Prussian Constitution. GALsCIAN FRONTIERS, AUG. 2.—Count Stadion passed 0 8 frontiers last week, and avoiding the usual road throw Cracow and Lemburg, took that through Myslewice. • has declined all visits from- Vie authorities; but in all the towns in which he passed visited the prisons. in which the, many political prisoners are confined. It is said that he vii' 4 make a tour through all Galicia, by which he will nl oo s ea,ily convince himself that the peasants in certain circle refuse to . perform the services which they owe to the no ble , landowners in the approaching harvest. It seems strange that the Jews, under these circumstances, should buy corn these peasants.—kanzburgls Papers , Aug. 11. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 14. STOCK EXCEIANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, DI ton, and Eastern Junction, 1 dis.-Birk en h ea d , Lancashire, a n k , Cheshire Junction. I% p.-Birmingham and Oxford, 4% p.- 13 Z . ingbainshire, dis.-Chester and Birkenhead, 48% -Direct Nu r-. ern (25(. Shares), dis.-Dundee and Perth, 4% p.-Eastern Coun ties, Perpetual, No. 2, 71. Is. 3d.-Ditto, York Extension, 15j s P • East Lancashire, 8% p.- Fleetwood and West Riding Junction , 70 dis.-Grand Union, Ils. dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 1% P. -- Ditto, Extension, 4 p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 734 p•-La ne sh're and North Yorkshire, 165. 6d. -Leeds and Thirsk, 4 dis.-Live . r a pool and Bury, 8 p.-Ditto, New, 1% p. -Liverpool, Ormskirk , Preston, :1% p.-London and North Western, 206-Ditto, Quart ers ' 2314 p. -Ditto, Quarters, New, 16 1 4 p -London and Manchestj:_ (item.), dis.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, New' 774 p. -Manchester, Matlock, and Great Grimsby, 20s. 6d. di a. anzhester and Southampton, 14, dis.-Midland Stock, 142-Mid lanu, Birmingham, and Derby, 118-Newport and AbergavennY, (111k _. North British, Carlis:e, p. -North Staffordshire, 3/. 14s. Scott sh Central, New, 6% p.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quartet Shares, No. 1, 4 1 4 p.-Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, Ils. ~. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, % p.-Shropsu ire Union Railway and Canal, % dis.-South-Eastern, No. 3, Co ns°. dated, 6p. -Ditto, Half Shares, p.-West Riding Union , 3 ,t - 2. Belfast and Ballymena, 7 dis. -Newry and Warrenpoint, v• w ' East Indian Railway, ifs. p.-Dutch Rhenish, % p. MANCHESTER, Annual' 14. Svocx FACHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham , dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 4%-Blackburn , wen, and Bolton, % dis.-Buckingham and Bletchley Junction, u ; dis.-Eastern Counties, York E x t ens i on , 1' 13-16 p.-East Lin, c° ,„o, shire, 12s. dis.-Huddersfield and M anc h es t er R a il wa y and % p. - Ditto, Extension, par- Lancashire and North Yorkshire; dis.- Leeds and Thirsk, 3% dis.-Leicester and Bedford, Yz Liverpool, Ormskirk, ind Preston, 3% p.-Manchester, Buxt ea and Matlock, 1M p.-- Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter baf,, (A), 10 9-16 p.-Ditto, ditto (C), p.-Manchester and Souttnastprit, ton, 4a dis --North British, Carlisle Branch, 2% p.-North 114 dis.-North Staffordshire, 3 11-16 p.-North Western, YiOldr Nottingham and Mansfield, % p.-Oldham Districts, % (1 15 • (3), ham, Birkenhead, &c., 21s. 6d. dis.-Preston and Wyre, Halve ° a nd 7.16 p.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, ' A i-Sheffield •„„,, Manchester, Quarters, No. 1, 4 p.-Ditto, No. 3, % p.-Shrew s n!:, and Birmingham, % p. -Shropshire Union, 12s. 6d. dis. -Son!: Eastern and Dover, Halves, N 0.4, 13-16 p.-South Midland, 11-1°61; -West Lancashire Coast, 15s. 6d. dis.-West Riding Union, 3 3 ' l LEEDS, AUGUST 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Blackburn and Frestorl,_,„„_ p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 365. 6d. p. -East Lanca!nfa 8% c. p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffild, 1% dis.-Huddersfi eld Manchester, 2% p.- Ditto, Extensions. 2s. 6d. p.-Huddersfield,'i, Slieffieki, 8% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 44 p.-Leeds and Dew'rieda 534 C. p.-Ditto, Branches, 2% p.-Ditto, Extensions, 6d. Lee and Thirsk, 3 dis. -Ditto, New, 2% - Manchester and Leeu s Z o tie tensions, 21. 18s. p.-Newcastle and Berwick, 13% C. co and Darlington Junction Extensions, 10% p.-North Britis!4,woy lisle Branch, 2% s. p. -York and North Midland, East AV? . Riding, 12% p.- Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston , 17s. ou _`," an d Buckinghamshire, 7s. dis. -Direct Northern, 1 5 s. dis.- c•TA!!'„I.O.. West Yorkshire, 17s. 6d. dis.-Lancashire, Yorkshire , Eastern, 265. dig.- Leeds and York, 265. 6d. dis.-Leeds and Midland. 16s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and Birmingham, DI ° r r , Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.-London and Y Bton, -Mahon and Driffield Junction, 85. 6d. p.-Manchester, Matlock, and Midland, 215. 6d. p.--North Staffordshi ralidla „..p. n d Jun.- Western, %p. -South Midland, 15s. p.-Soutb d and (Has tion, 16s. dis.--W , st Riding Union, 51. 3s. 6(.1. -- "Y'' rks gow Union, 38s. dis. HULL, Anousr 1 4 - mu Shares, STOCK EXCRANGE.-The sales are - Carlisle, 775. 39%-North British, Half Shares, 13/. 1 6 s. 3d.-Ditto,cls-East Lincolnshire, -Blaekturn. Darwen, and Bolton, New, ' • %"-Lel - and Canal, 12 155.-Bud lersfield and Manche ter Railway and 1 55 . cester and Tamworth, 345. 6d. -Derby an d Bedford, Great Eastern and Western, 225. 6d.- Leicester an , Hull and Selby, Liverpool. Ormskirk, and Preston, 31. 13s. nd. iv Aral ds JURC . ' Bs. p. - North Staffordshire, 3i. 14s. p.-South and idlan • and GISSSOW Lion, 275. 3d. p.-West Riding Union, Si. 3s. -Yorkshire Union, 13s. SHEFFIELD, AuGusT 14. Western , Srocx Excrimtscli.-The sales are -Eastern Counties, 2354-" - Grimsby and Sheffield, 114 dis.-Ditto, Extension, I Is. dis.-Ditto. Quarter Shares, 6s. 6d. dis.-Ditto, Railway and Dock, 1% Leeds and Dewsbury, 434 p.-Newcastle and Berwick, 13 1 / 3 P. Leeds, Wakefield, arid Midland, 17s. dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, aiid Midland Jtinction, 2/. 18s. dis.-North Western, 7s. 64. p.-Sheow and Lincolnshire, ls. p. - • YORK, AUGIIST 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Eastern Counties, York Eaten: sion, 2 1 4 —Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 2 4 —Leicester Tamworth, &c., 11. 12s. London and York, 21. 4s. 6d.-31anchestc , 1 ; Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%—Newelstle and Berwick, 2 itt t —Newcastle and Darlington, New, 1 IN—North British, 39g .e a u' Half Shares, 14%—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 31. 19s. 6 d• I-- Staffordshire, 51. 13s.—North Western, 11. Hs. -Welsh West Riding Union, s%—York and North Midland, East and Vv' Riding Extension, 13%. neW LOST AND WON ; oR, THE LOVE e • gel d° novel under the above title by the author of "The nay Husband," is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and o _, now be had at all the Libraries. The following are also t : ready :-2. Leontine. by Mrs. Maberly-3. The Soldier and Statesman, by the author of " Salattliewi yell 4. Adventures of Captain O'Sullivan, by W. B. 3 13 % 00 Esq., author of "Stories of Waterloo-5. Emilia Wyno e h° by the author of "Two Old Mens' " Mount Sordoe, &c —6. " Confessions of a Pretty Woman, by Miss of . authoress of " The City of the Sultan"-7. A new editt„?.o;; arston. 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Solomon' l ope!: vented Spectacle Lenses afford astonishing relief to extremetY other feet vision. We give them the decided preference to ever Y.... obi kind of Lens. The clearness of the transparency brings eve to ject very distinct, and enables individuals to view the most ni , t particle with perfect accuracy. They are p ,rticularly pleasairiot candlelight, as they appear cooling to the sight, and softee" o ,o• • and brilliant lights.—J. Blundell, Esq., M.D., 1, Great ( l e , 0 0r; street, Westminster; T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., F.R S., 8, Savill n ;Dits , d. Ramsb,ttom, Esq., M.D., Broad-street-buildings ; A. Eel, Surgeon, 3, Parliament-street; George Cursham, 5, Saville-row; Frederick Leighton, Esq., M.D., 7, upper street ; H. Golburn, Esq., Surgeon, 28, Harleyford-place, IC en ref' ton ; Alexander Farquhar, Esq., Surgeon, 76, Cadogan per, grave-square; W. 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To prevent mistakes, be cautious, and Obser ve — Note)). orx had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly (opposite th e 1 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—PALPITATION ov THE 1..' „ lot " LOWAY'S PILLS.—A gentleman of the name a o nd , p SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND GENERAL DEsi f la s TY o , nc C e tT r ß . W res r ding ' who was for the present in Sackville-street , the action the very bed to shake; 6 ° Or was even at death's door, of his heart being ill-health, years in the East India Company:spusebrltte. fell into ill all :„,etl 'l3whNnlytoilid'gdaeobwiray he could scarcely walit 'lest now be seen out hunting, in ‘i f fvrioomiensthaosrttnoecsastrosireiernman may Yards. This t Surprising bewis en,Joyment of health, having been cured by the fied i ewa3 's justly celebrateds, which are sold by ever/ and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Lou" - e L AD A o Day ENTERTAINMENT.—There was a great ". 1 ttle demonstration dinner, but vo-w if ' t he s to pea e k a i t n . g ProtectionistsT a h t e theLyni food n d f ° f r o for any lau gavefarmers th would em pl e plenty t ofm talked, and talked, as they SCOTTISH TART T- TARTANS.— he Grand Duke e Russia has sent tile 11°115 . other r t. food,_ pn a c s h r.all g an extensive order to a mercan Inverness for tartans. w as of I BIRTHS. e On the 7th i ns t., a t M ar k e t O ver t o n, Rutland, the wit of the Rev. Henry Green, of a son. ura • 3 . 0 115 On the 10th inst., at Camden-row, Camberwell, ..---• Smith, of a daughter. Wiff On the 12th inst., at Tiverton-square, Southwark, the of George Bennett, Esq., of a son. ,„i n ster, On the 13th inst., in Great George-street, Vires 4 '"" the wife of Commaner Boyle, R.N., of a daughter. if er, On the 12th inst., at Slough, the wife of the KO% G. Fre of a son. -------- church MARRIED. On Thursday, August 13, at St. Andrew's 0 f Plymouth, by the Rev. T. Trevenen Penrose, Preb enchs Lincoln, William Henry Prance, Esq., eldest son of IVI 1 _ 11 " .7, Prance, Esq., of Plymouth, to Elizabeth Penrose, 0,_,4 daughter of Captain G oode , R.N., C.8.,&c., and granddaughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sir C. V. Penrose, K.C.8., DIED. On the 6th inst. at Innex-hill House, near From e . Somer set, Mary Ann, widow of the late Captain R. I. L. O'Counero of the Royal Navy. On the 9th inst., at Woodhouse, near Leeds, Margaret, t he wife of William Gott Esq. On the llth inst., , at Glengall-grove, Camberwell, ENO' bath, the wife of Edward Pilgrim, Esq. On the 12th inst., in Montagu-square, Charles DalsO n Nevinson, D., aged 72. On the 13th inst., Julia, second daughter of Mr. R.Blanckett• hagen, of Hackney, aged 24. -- London: Pri • nted and Published by kr EDO YOUNG, of No. p 3l, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112. Strand. in the Precl_M' of the Savoy, is the County of 11fiddlosoil fiaturdslo AAP' . • IN 1146. . SUN, LO , S TURDAY ErENING, AUGUST 15, IAI6. ter ..