The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

WEE LAND MAIL INDIA. We I. (From the Times.) lette have received by express, from Marseilles, re and papers f rom B om b ay t o th e 18th o f July. e rainy season continued, and the fall was suc h t ° satisfy th ose who desired much of that most prr4luable e lement in India—water. Tranquillity /pit ailed throughout the whole of that continent, di4t Perhaps, one exception, v i z., t h e unpa id an d b isfied troops of the Ni z am ; but they cando lit li ttle. The cholera has lessened its ravages at Kurrachee, 4 1vil 4 ere it destroyed several thousand persons during th e i,„ da Y e • The troops had lost about a fourth of Carle umber. E very pra i se was b es t owe d u p on Sir ttift erers s Xepler f or hi s ki n d ness an d a tt en ti on t o the J. ~ • S Only two officers had died—viz., Captain Da 3.Seto e •on, of the Bombay Fusiliers, and Lieut. Gr oss °n t of the 12th regiment of Native Infantry. tt?.. exaggeration of the insalubrity, &c., of Sinde o Ws the theme of some of the Bombay " B PaPers Fr o • %ere. From the Punjaub there is no news. All was quiet St The Governor-General and Lord Gough were Where the rain was falling in torrents. ,e,, e departu re o f Si r George Art h ur f rom t h e G o 'LLoSe m t of Bomb a y was fi xe d f or th e sth o f A ugus t. Ni:llg Continuance of ill-health is the cause of his 1 11 . th e e tae nt• Mr. L. R . R e id , th e sen i or c i v il servant 4 or Bombay Council, was to succeed him until a eriior nominated i n L on d on s h a ll h ave arr i ve d. error is a hop e e °it e xpressed that the Court of Directors ~..grant Sir Ge orge Arthur a pension. line retire ment fro m th e b enc h of Sir henry t o / e ta rt Which i s expected in November, has given rise th e . e eh talk respecting his successor. The want of tip alre e ; g, Judges allowed by the charter is much felt Of bi tnu aY. The result of the penury in the Court Illto„ t , reetc rs which saves the salary of one judge, is to 1 44 - Z he whole decisions of the Court into the b uts of the Chief Justice. It was expected (with klil itt le reason our readers are aware) that Sir Ikeoto., Bluer ° P erry, the puisne judge at Bombay, would 4 , bad Pe next Chief Justice : his judicial conduct Lie great satisfaction. qe4,,,, ii , ten ent-Colonel Martin, Deputy-Adjutant detit,;°f her M a j es t y ' s troops i n th e B om b a y P res i- V' d ied at P oona h on t h e la t h of July. 11 4; ta ke the f o ll ow i ng f rom th e B om b ay Gen rittt4tn:B Gazette, principally on account of the app e which h as b een di rec t e d h ere to the ktti l l: l a t , r tnent of Mr. D. Pollock as Chief Justice of J statehie et4lll to England of Sir George Arthur, the - f r e t,! °l Bonaba long expected from the infirm beb•• his health, is ' now finally determined on, and 10 7,4 t George will leave our shores about t i 4 Be B e„ vc eK in August. We regret to say, repeated attacks of illness have much debilitated our the Pat o i,_ - Tovernor, who strove long . and courageously • stt "'a evil da, but the suggesstions of his friends_, t 'ut °ing rec ommendation of his medical advisers, and - e'llas ill , et , of his family,have at length prevailed, and tittaiz'emetantly yielded to their united wishes. We tak e opportunity after his departure, of saying t eink of his vernment—contenting ourselves hlltitCrir the Preseet with e g p o ressin a hope that he may find A ‘ k * .tt o ti ve land that health which g he has lost amongst tb -1111 a re perfectly conviced that Sir George tensen application to business has been 'll li g▪ la b ,l e : °f those attacks, which render is return to in the midstof the monsoon, a measure of ab tc, up in of 411 „ Vt 3 7. Another subject of very great interest g IS the appointment to the seat on the bench - p u t r eMe Court, about to be vacated by Sir Henry isew'lef Justice. Many are, and have been, the Stio ts on this subject; and the public anxiety is 4 11 aP it st to learn whom Government will appoint to 45 11, 11 titi o ' t i ce of such high trust and responsibility. The 1 0 1 c har of the Supreme Court, as contemplated by o k e „--"‘er, required the appointment of three judges. d Norickeeniary con-iderations we have only two, and b, the c onsequences of this parsimony is, that whe.n ,th:re is a. difference of opinion the Chief Justice voi, - , e asting voice, and a decision, without a majority f e e Duisl, gives little' satisfaction to the profession or to lb . This is a grievance . where appeals are so 80 restricted. Bombay is increasing every year C.lrtanee, and ought not to be deprived of every 1 7 1 4 11 7 legitimate advantage, to which the charter 4 , 4 e b ,,e general feeling of the community deem it to ,` B B i'tid. A ain the climate is so very hurtful to Vropean constitution, g that frequent absence from Ir e ."Sy, and short trips to more healthful localities, <kiperatively necessary to keep the judicial mind and 1 in working vigour. Here there is no long vaca 6s-the whole year requires the presen ce o f at least htt`i?ldge. Every Monday and Thursday throughout the 81 4 ,„._ 18 . judge sits i h n en c e la h a . mbers, and to discharge the 14 0 :''' e .dutiee of the One of the judges, under biA.. i teumstances, will be found as frequently absent on the of quasi sick leave as he can without detriment to ti)tiPlilic. If there were three judges we could afford loil s IP one to become generally absent, but it becomes t a nother question when we are allowed only two. a obvious, that under present circumstances the kat t i,,Tial who is to fill thi s high office is anxiously re: .by all of us , an d we h ope s i ncere ly th a t Govern Well consid er th e qua lifi ca ti on s of candidates 'be • t-l-Q a3 7 decide a question of such grave importance. ,kr,'"tiatession to the Chief-Justiceship has, of late ' B c v t a c ken place from the Puisne Justiceship, and we oo sounder principle of succession. The cu. ' 11 (1 - " e el of the country seem to require it. In Eng ts% la barrister practises at either the equity or eom brakil bar. He is comparatively ignorant of the b pai Which he has never practised. Either a cora esl. hilisarn'toorthane equity man, coming fresh from the Indian bech, would, immediately 4 atti e la Ett rival have to preside, if appointed Chief 4 1, 4 14: i Over equity, common law, admiralty, ecclesi ;'it ForaMalometn and Hindoo laws, with all r 4 e t s ll , vji t t -- tfi ea dons. . the efficient discharge of t 'o duties a practised judge is , required. A Effie "tation from the home bar must be at . least ktli this countrbetorehe can be considered th e el,` i t . then,appoint any barrister to teie 4111s tiee p Governmenthe becomes for two years an in- Nee tit Pte4ici e o l f ' the con rt, and having the casting b lot ° deter 1 11 4 sg, mine all questions, wherever he and his t ql L tle rloed junior judge happen to differ. Our l' :iiai e t :Fitesito to the home authorities would be—if e t Z i k . s ' ti - o ' n eu t ,eurs n elv es that they would__ attend to any f', 4 ltte„, from a source so humble and so distant — Your supreme courts in India after this Wig• s li r ,end us out one equity judge, one common law al; 4l , ° ,_Prorriot e our present puisne to the chiefship. i'atte h l t een have our number complete, as contem '44th the charter, and confidence from the profession Illtavkectifblie reposed in men who have each acquireala j g i e of this pecular branch of the law. It would . tini tb n Y unwise, but disgusting to the legal profession V' , to see a man placed over the head of Sir io.itsselo the for upwards of five years, has applied a t h i i with utmost diligence to make himself tho- L 4B le l , Yc Quvers an t with his judicial duties. How far he 1 1 4 40`e:eeded would ill beware us to presume to express e an fo r upon ; and we probably shall have little -"wide ' c 't going so far as we have done into an honest 'erlition of his just claims to promotion." s• iu (From the Boaabay Times.) o news for the ,1 4 %th -e Supplies almost the only 1 . 4 The seaport of Kurrach t e o e p , le the . healthiest and glio,'Nurite military station, has ever h since it became I NI 7II to us been visited triennially y cholera. In . 1830, b uY• 4 Ttin in 1842, the amount of suffering occasioned 'ta l i t "as terrible, yet slight compared to that which it 44 0 4 endured. Between the 13th and tile . 23 .t d .n o - f el4dahctve 8,000 human beings were cut off b 3-1 l en s ally 895 Europeans, of whom 815 were fighting a, - es this, 595 sepoys, and it is believed about 77000 . c amp -followers and inhabitants of the town, have Sat ' he pestilence had quitted Kurrachee, and _wtas°oldi. ' 4 4(1 - 1! . ,1Y creeping up the river. Fever of a very fa al ; 13 : 4 Made its appearance amongst the European 4 1tt, - ,„' Sukkur—its triennial visit is to be i'is a „"„ar• Her Majesty's 17th had chiefly suffered '04:;t" they were to be moved down, while her Ma 488th were to move up to Hyderabad. Official -I Stl e of the finances, revenue, and mortality in y \ t, e ilr e clafirm all that has been said by the Indian papers 1,7 1 , 0 s -/It e most of what has been urged by }T 11 (1 4 , ; a t home. The acknowledged expenses presentof ,'tae l / 4 ,„ 41 excess of its returns amount up to the he I, \ , tis 1 7 about three millions sterling ; and when t "aYI - , 4 ,2''s sa d expense of steam between Bom eliJai,74 Ku rrachee an and cost of troops destroyed by the o%tit l ,: e ' are added, we shall have a current drain on the f t tttl -c a 4 of India equal to between a million and a quar- a te t , i " million and a half annually, with no prospect lf tl i aaa til ' Somewhere about 3,000 Europeans and ha 1,-,e or 43' native troops have in four years perished from thts' eets of climate. At home a peerage is claimed - " , :e 041 ; author of blessings so unbounded ! The good 111 11,7 a o t il s - V g t r h e e at G w ov e e r r k n s ment. and the public improve in Sinde, reach us in India dye .4 4 11 the home news apers ; they exist nowhere C o A ,t' t, of. The Punj p aub and newly-acquired terri t-t7 e B ve — r il r t e i _oUe tranquil ;- scarcely a word worth repeat toad co u_e ra ties n u s fom Chiefs eith e r. The Governor-Gene h": ts der-iri: muchcontinue at Simla, and all eatti n , Ignout India as they have been since .4113 e g 14 of the rains. An extremely dry season vt at iti walloweda• by an unusually wet one ; and the Ler, so severely felt, is now abundantly sup wigt tl 9th of June and 17th of July up -11.4ctlib-ac:!3s inches of rain have fallen. The Governor of Z oo arl'aetoliatinues severely indisposed, rumours every lt --4 tto "en gaining currency that he is about to re 'flgland. k% • at. a one of its most frightful and deadly forms, n liurrachee, and in the course of ten days k its it att. fourth of the troops and one-half of the re, Port o f that station. Ever since the conquest the ttl th o Sinde has enjoyed a comparative exemption us,se Maladies which have been so fearfully fatal t Ilh. PPer if ;‘at:h Country, so that the fact escaped . us that f i LO lta l C Was subject to triennial visitations, and that .14N„ tlu oa 9• 114 : 1 1842 the disease was the same, only less 4 ; . 4ed tesi.U. 14 46, the circumstances'most d pro s h .t ably d th e e 4(4 I:Lb! smaller volume and lesserdensity of " 4411 : 1 beings on whom it hat! AC t . of t The heat bad for the first fortnight of June been intense, Ibut there was no considerable amount of sickness at the station. The 14th was a Sunday, and the atmosphere was more than usually stagnant and oppressive. A thick portentous-looking cloud crept up the sky when the troops were proceeding to church, and a sudden burst of wind threatened the buildings. It passed away almost as speedily as it came, and when the worshippers re tired the air was as still as when they as sembled. At that same hour did the pestilence ap pear. Before midnight nine of the 86th were at rest, and men began to be borne into hospital in such numbers that it was difficult to make arrange ments for their reception. It was a fearful night. With morning came the tidings that the pestileuce was over spreading the town, an 50 had in twenty-four hours fallen victims. The 86th were the earliest, and continued to be the severest, sufferers. They and her Majesty's 60th had for six months been in tents close to each other: they were the day after the disease appeared marched out for change of air, and encamped by the sea shore near Clifton. The Rifles were next attacked; then the Fusiliers; the artillery and native infantry began to suffer after this. For five fearful days didr_the destroyer lay his hand most heavily upon them, and in this time more than 1,000 men were carried to their graves! The pestilence now began to abate—it had done its worst, and seemed about to withdraw: within less than a fortnight 900 Europeans, including 815 fight ing men, were carried away; 600 native soldiers and 7,000 of the camp followers and inhabitants of the town had been hurried into eternity. The conduct of the Go vernor is stated to have been beyond all praise: anxiety for the sick conferring an alacrity on limbs the hand of time might have stiffened. He went about everywhere— counselling the healthy—seeing that the sick were cared for—cheering the sufferers, and comforting those hasten ing to another world. Pestilence, which too often gene rates recklessness and indifference, was here met with manly dignity and Christian composure and resigna tion. The men disregarded infection, braved every dan ger in waiting on teach other, and each seemed to feel that the tenderness one hour bestowed on a suffering comrade might be the next required by themselves. The feeling in too many cases was not slow in being realised. Calamity is apt to beget complaint—sickness to generate unreasonable querulousness. Yet on the present occa• sion no single murmur against the arrangements or con duct of any one has reached us during the currency of the pestilence. The appearance presented by Kurra chee after the fatality of the disease had passed is de scribed as very awful. The temporary sojourners in the town, and all who could get away, had fled panic-struck ; of the natives, one-half nearly had been removed by death. Tho soldiers had been buried in their beds— there was no time for shroud or coffin—in pits of such depth as could be excavated in haste. The effluvium now arising from the remains of 8,000 festering dead — half-burned or half-buried—is described as fearful—fit to generate a second pestilence. Cholera had been heard of in the neighbourhood, and its appearance was not wholly unexpected. It seems now to be creeping up the river, great apprehensions of its approach to Hydera bad being expressed. At Sukkur, again, a very virulent variety of fever afflicts the European soldier. In a few hours it is fatal ; and so severely have the men of her Majesty's 17th suffered, that arrangements were being made for bringing them down to Hyderabad by steam. The regular triennial visitation so fatal in Upper Sinde, is not due till next year. Such is the salubrity of Young Egypt in 1846 ! In the course of three years it has been the grave of nearly 6,000 of our troops ! The financial returns obtained on the motion of Mr. Hume, appear to have attracted so little notice at home, that six weeks after the publication, the London papers were boasting of the value of a country shown to draw a million an nually from the revenues of India beyond what its own could supply ; and talking of 100.0001. a year sent to Calcutta, instead of ten times the sum having been with drawn from it ! Incomplete as are the returns, and heavy as are the items omitted in them—the Governor's salary of 10,000/. being amongst the first—the Bombay steam charges of 50,0001. amongst the second—the dis closures they make are appalling. The military charges for the past three years exceed a million sterling annu ally ; the civil charges average 125,0001. ; to which, if the defects above noted be added, they will amount to 185,0001.—a grand total of 1,185,0001. The total in come to meet this averages about 200,0001. ; the ad mitted defect is about 900,000/.—the actual one about a million and a quarter : as near as possibe the sum we have for three years past set down. Nor is there any prospect of a change for the better ; the country is not improving, and the Governor seems to begin to despair of improvement ; the blame is laid on the habits of the people. Most of the revenue is collected in grain, and to enhance its apparent value, this is sold at an excessive price to the army contractors, and purchased from them, at a charge of course equally excessive, by the cominis sariat—so that India in filet, pays doubly a portion of the netted income of which Sinde pretends to boast. This we are aware will be denied; but we speak on authority equal to that of the Parliamentary papers. An eminent political authority at home writes—" The grossest at tempts have been made to mislead, but the facts are these. Some dosen or two people are filling their pockets in Sinde at the public expense, and what care they though the country costs a million or two annually ?" " The fallaciousness of the reported remittances to Cal cutta have been fully exposed—and the immediate result has been that the Governor's salary has been raised from 60,000 rupees (7,0001.) a year to 80,000 rupees (9,0001.) a year ! Such is Sinde, as known to all who wish to make themselves acquainted with its affairs—such the delusive aspect in which it is viewed at home." Were the cost of it to appear in the estimates of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to be learned at home, the people of England might think :of the costliness, if not of the ct longhr i e m m i a n es a a l nt i h t s y 7 , pw o o f ho )r t . , h su e hno wrongs nng t g h , they vhe mrhtaeavnxee overtaxed troublen ll d i u n d g o e t ho d emins. providese vSs about inquiry? They do not go on without warning They may rely on it the d a y w ill come when restitution. may be impossible —remors e and repentance unavailing. A subscription having been opened f or the purpose purchasing in the jewels an d ornaments of tle Princesses of Hyderabad advertised for sale amongst the Sinde prize booty, with a view of restoring them to their owners, above 600/. were almost immediately s e t d own . Some of the officers have determined to decline touching their prise-money at all. - (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) CALCUTTA, JULY 9. The six days which have elapsed since my last have been productive of little that is interesting. From La hore we have nothing of importance. Soondur Singh, the ci-decant Commandant of Kote Kangra, had been presented at Court, and received without any signs of violent displeasure for causing us the trouble and ex pense of moving a battering train and a large force to coerce him. Rumours are afloat that Lord Hardinge is determined to remain at Simla and its neighbourhood during . the whole of his sojourn in India, and that the Council are to go and join him, leaving Calcutta and the Government of Bengal in the hands of a Deputy- Governor, or, may be, this designation may be changed to that of Lieutenant-Governor, placing the Bengal and Agra provinces on the same footing, the Legis lative Council remaining where they are. This arrange ment would be productive of good even now, as the Government would receive intelligence from England as soon at Simla as at Calcutta, or in a few days more ; and when railroads are established at Cal. cutta and Delhi there can be no doubt but the residence of the Supreme Government in the interior would be productive of great good to the country, be cause as there would always be a tendency to progress from the seaports to the seat of Government, the inter mediate space would benefit by the increased communi cation between the extremes, which would be the result of the Government being stationed on the north-west frontier; and while the transit of goods from Europe to the interior of the country would tend to preserve to the whole seaboard the activity which now prevails, the attraction of the seat of Government would give such an impetus to the said transit as to insure a larger portion of goods being carried into the far north-west, by the establishment of entrepAts for the supply of the coun tries beyond the Sutlej and Himmalayas. I must now revert to a very painful subject—the ap parent disregard of the Government fur the comfort of the brave men who have so lately faced death in their country's cause. The 16th Lancers and the 31st Foot have been put on board of wretched straw-covered boats and sent down the Ganges at the most stormy and burning season of the year, when the light, dry, and fiery sandbanks everywhere found in the de scent of the river, are blown about with the irresist ble fury, so as to fill the hair, eyes, &c., with scorching sand, with the thermometer at 110 degrees and the chance of having boats dashed to pieces by the "north westers," which invariably prevail at that season of the year, instead of being retained in some of the many , vacant barracks at Meerut or Cawnpore till the rains had fairly set in, or put on board the Government steamers, and brought down quickly and comfortably, which ought to have been done, instead of, as alleged, the latter being employed in making money for the State by carrying merchandise for individuals. The result of this indiffer ence of the Government to the comfort of their gallant defenders has been great destruction of life by sinking of boats, and in one instance the loss of about eighty wounded men by the foundering of the hospital boats. Surely when Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough hear that these noble fellows, who faced death to win their laurels and pensions, have been drowned through their own want of care for them, their hearts must sicken at the thought, and their satisfaction in the contemplation of their own good fortune be greatly diminished. It is to be hoped that when private enterprise shall have supplied steam transport sufficient to enable the community to dis pense with the Government boats, these boats may be applied to the conveyance of troops, to the entire discon tinuance of the present dangerous and uncomfortable country boats ; and I am happy to think that private en terprise is fast supplying the means of transporting mer chandise from Calcutta to Allahabad, and from the latter to the former. A short time ago, that is on the 26th ult., the Inland Steam Company launched their first river steamer, and the day after the Ganges Steam Na vigation Company launched their first. The first boat is intended to tow two accommodation or baggage boats, but the latter will carry tier passengers and freight in her own hold. She is to be immediately followed by three others belonging to the same company, while the Inland Steam Company will have, I believe, an equal number. Other companies a re forming, I hear; so that in the course of a few years I hope we shall have an abundance of steam tonnage on the Ganges. I Among the improvements of the day talked of at head quarters is a suspension-bridge across the Sutlej at Be -1 laspore. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Calcutta Overland Price Current of July 7.) The few days which have elapsed since our last issue have not been productive of any amelioration in the state of our money market, or, in fact, of any alteration in commercial affairs generally worthy of comment. The Precursor steamer arrived off town on the even ing ©f the 3d, and put us in possession of London dates to the 25th of May. As might have been anticipated, however, the amount of Treasury draughts received by this opportunity was again insignificant, and quite in adequate to produce the slightest beneficial effect. In Exchange and Government Securities, we have but few operations to report, the greater portion of the bilk going forward by the present opportunity having, we be lieve, been contracted for previous to the last dispatch. In those reported, however, our last quotations have been maintained. In Bank Stock we have not heard of any sales, but the directors of the Bank of Bengal have just declared a dividend for the half year, at the rate of 13r. 6a. per cent. per annum. In produce there has even been less doing; but this is generally the case when, as in the present instance, two mails are dis patched. and one received within a week. Another reason, however, undoubtedly is the scanty supply of sugar (the only article in any general inquiry) in our bazaar, good Benares being still readily saleable at our last quotations; other staples have continued neglected, but without any decline in prices, with the exception of saltpetre, which has been obtained to a moderate extent at rather easier rates. In imports, also, little has been done, and without any improvement in prices. In fact, the dealers have apparently gladly availed themselves of the unsettled state of the weather to keep quiet, and our markets are in almost exactly the same position as on the 2d. Consignees have been showing rather more anxiety to secure cargoes, but no material decline has as yet been established in the rates of dead weight to Great Britain. As there is every indication of the constant rain ex- perienced in Calcutta during the past two days having extended to most of the indigo districts in lower Bengal, we are in hourly expectation of receiving complaints, as it must have done considerable injury wherever experi enced. A letter from Rajeshaye, dated the Ist, states that a gale was then blowing which bad retarded the progress of manufacture, as well as reduced the produce. From the neighbourhood of Ghazeepore, also, accounts are less favourable ; not only from a want of rain, but also from the difficulty experienced in negotiating draughts on Calcutta, on which many planters had relied for their supplies, a continuance of which would doubt less cripple their operations very materially. Exports from the Ist instant up to date have been as follows : Great Britain. N. America. Saltpetre 2,100 mds. Sugar Raw Silk 295 Corahs 2,143 pcs. Hides Safflower Cowries . Horn Tips .... Rum 8,047 galls. Jute . Mustard Seed MEMORANDUM OF THE CARGO PASSED THE CUSTOM HOUSE FOR VESSELS LOADING !OR EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, UP TO THE EVENING OF THE STH JULY, 1846. TH SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORN'ING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1846. FOR LONDON. By the Boyne, 2,542 maunds of khaur, 278 maunds of castor-oil, 5,154 maunds of sugar, 2,683 maunds of lin seed, 3,381 maunds of saltpetre, and 214 maunds of mus• tard seed. By the Plantagenet, 6,336 maunds of saltpetre, 2,897 maunds of sugar, 231 maunds of sapan wood, and 58 maunds of silk. By the William Gibson, 844 maunds of red wood, 10,050 maunds of khaur, 10,104 pieces of hides, 17 maunds of lac dye, 729 maunds of jutes. By the Greenlaw, 1,359 maunds of saltpetre, 3,145 pieces of buffalo horns, 2,644 maunds of sugar, 110 maunds of tallow, 1,700 maunds of molasses, and 9,144 gallons of rum. By the Kelso, 4,481 pieces of buffalo horns, 1,400 maunds of molasses, 810 maunds of sugar, and 80 maunds of silk. By the Lucknow, 147 maunds of silk, 638 maunds of khaur, 6,101 maunds of sugar, 10,527 pieces of torahs, 210 pieces of tussers, 1,265 pieces of choppas, and 252 maunds of safflower. By the Coromandel, 1,700 maunds of molasses, 74 maunds of red wood, 26,763 gallous of rum, 18,180 maunds of sugar, 57 maunds of tamarinds, 34 maunds of tallow, 2,911 pieces of torahs, 1,480 pieces of choppas, 117 maunds of silk, 101 maunds of safflower, 23 maunds of castor-oil, 200 maunds of wool, and 120 maunds of Bucha leaf. By the Asia, 3,068 maunds of sugar, 3,400 maunds of molasses 804 maunds of saltpetre, 293 maunds of red wood, and 85 maunds of cowries. By the Charles Jones, 5,025 naaunds of sugar, 147 maunds of red wood, 19 maunds of sapan wood, 402 maunds of mustard seed, and 11 maunds of bees'-wax. By the Oriental, 1,795 maunds of saltpetre, 5,106 matitrds of sugar, 428 maunds of indigci, 372 maunds of safflower, and 312 rcaunds of cowries. By the Advocate, 192 maunds of red wood, and 1,368 maunds of sugar. By the Tartar, 104 maunds of silk, 1,750 maunds of sugar, 4,117 maunds of saltpetre, and 102 maunds of indigo. By the John Grey, 1,500 maunds of molasses, 9,664 maunds of sugar, 59 maunds of hide cuttings, and 50 maunds of silk. By the Sultan, 20,369 pieces of hides, 200 maunds of rice, 8,624 gallons of rum, 10,651 maunds of sugar, and 4 maunds of silk. By the Duchess of Buccleuch, 1,500 maunds of mo usses. By the Buteshire, 1,500 maunds of molasses, and ,364 maunds of sugar. By the Lloyds, 4,280 maunds of sugar. FOR LIVERPOOL. _ _ By the Airey, 6,323 m aunds --- of - ;tigar, 198 maunds of sapan wood, 80 maunds of eastorftoil, and 6,218 gallons of rum. By the Ganges, 2,243 maunds of molasses, 185 maunds of caster-oil, 1,298 maunds of jute, 4,317 maunds of salt petre, 478 maunds of khaur, 11,993 gallons of rum, and 7,504 maunds of sugar. By the Margaret Skelly, 7,083 maunds of sugar, 167 maunds of deer horns, and 515 pieces of torahs. By the Thomas Fielden, 681 maunds of sugar, 2,736 maunds of rice, and 231 maunds of horn tips. By the Patriot Queen, 174 maunds of red wood, 281 maunds of tincal, 5,961 maunds of sugar, 2,188 maunds of jute, and 170 maunds of horn tips. By the Hope, 225 maunds of sapan wood, and 3,129 maunds of sugar. FOR HAMM:IIICH. By the Fortuna, 2,625 maunds of saltpetre, 5,306 maunds of rice, 317 maunds of red wood, 201 maunds of horn tips, 845 maunds of cutch, 60 maunds of tamarinds, 3,576 pieces of hides, and 44 maunds'of shell-lac. FOR BOSTON. By thQ Thomas B. Wales, 2,682 maunds of saltpetre, and 1,150 pieces of hides. FOR NEW YORK. By the Herselia, 823 maunds of salpetre. THE BOMBAY MARKET. From the Chamber_ 07 - Commerce Overland Price Current.) BOMBAY, JULY 18.—The business transacted since our last has been of a very limited and unimportant na ture, as is usually the case at this season of the year. The monsoon continues favourable. In Bombay itself, the fall of rain up to the present time has been consi derably beyond the average, while in the agricultural districts, there has been, from all accounts, an ample supply for the purposes of cultivation. Should this satisfactory state of things continue, commercial opera tions will no doubt be resumed with spirit on the ter mination of the rains. Metals—There has been a slight speculative demand for some descriptions of these, and a few sales in them have been effected by holders. In copper, braziers, sheathing and raised bottoms, exhibit no change in value ; a sale of the first-named variety appears to have taken place at our quotation. Tile is nominally lirs. to 2rs., and American 2rs. higher than before. British bar and rod iron have also improved in price. Considerable transactions in the former have, we believe, had effect at 31irs. and 30rs. 14ans. per candy : the latter price having, as we hear, been accepted during the last few da3 s for a parcel f 700 candies, probably of an inferior assortment as to sizes. Our present quotation is 31rs. to 313-rs. for fair assortments. We are informed of a sale of 620 cwt. square, and 400 cwt. round, nail-rod, at 47irs. per candy, and a transaction in square - alone, at rims:tine price, has, we hear, taken place, though not communicated to us for publication. Swedish bar is said to have been disposed of atsors. Sheet and hoop are both nominal in value, nothing appearing to have been done in either. Some considerable sales of steel in tubs are reported to have been made, at prices ranging be tween 9rs. 14ans. to lOrs. per cwt., and we give the latter rate as the quotation of the day. In lead the only trans action which has come to our knowledge is a sale (made to Government) of 275 cwt. pig, at lOrs. 1 lans. per cwt. The market price, however, is only lOirs. as quoted. Speller has somewhat declined in price, as will be perceived from our quotations. Both quicksilver and tin plates may be considered unchanged in value. Cotton Manufactures—The business in cotton piece , goods continues almost wholly suspended, the only in quiry being for fabrics that happen to 'be wanted for local consumption. We are informed of a sale of 3,000 pieces of grey madapollams, 24 yards by 33 inches, at 3rs. 2ans. per piece ; and some white shirtings are also said to have been disposed of at a slight advance upon previous rates. Beyond this, so far as we can learn, nothing has been done; and the feeling in the bazaar is unusually dull for the season. Yarns--We hear of no transactions either in mule or water twist, and prices are quite nominal. Turkey red yarns are still neglected ; but for orange there has been some inquiry ; and llians. per lb. has been refused for No. 40's. Woollens are quiet unchanged in value, and no sales in them have taken place. Marine Stores--There has likewise been no alteration either in the price of, or demand for, the articles under this head. Deer—We are apprised of sales of " Allsopp's" to the extent of about 760 hogsheads, at 6Ors. per hogs head, and we undertand that about 500 hogsheads of " Bass's" have been disposed of at the same rate. This reduction of price has induced dealers to supply them selves freely. Spirits—We hear of no transactions ; but gin has again declined in value, and a very large quantity of brandy is held in stock by importers, which will keep the price of that article down for some time to come. Red Lead—llas slightly improved, whilst white has receded in price. There appear to have been no sales to any extent. Cochineal—We have reduced our quotations for this article, some parcels of it having, as we hear, changed hands at 3rs. 3ans. per lb. Bottles—Quarts are unchanged, but pints have some what declined in value. We are informed of a sale of 100 gross of the former (Liverpool), at 18 annas, and 265 gross at 17 annas per dozen. EASTERN PRODUCE. Cotton—The prices of this staple have risen slightly since our last, but owing to the reduction in the rates of freight, shipments have been made, though to no great extent, both to England and China. The stock in the place is now reduced to a small compass, and the quality of it is very inferior. Subjoined are the current rates: — Broach and Jumbooseer 83 rupees to 84 per candy. Surat Dollerah Oomrawuttee Barsee Coffee—Mocha has advanced to 83- rupees per maund, while Malabar has slightly declined. Opium—The price has latterly somewhat given way, and it may now be quoted nominally at 1,100 to 1,200 rupees per chest, according to quality. Wool—There is no Khorassan or Mekran wool now in the market. We quote Marwar at 100 to 105 rupees per candy, and Cutch at 120 rupees, the small parcel of the latter at present here being of superior quality. Senna Leaves—Some purchases of Senna have been made at 6 rupees per cwt., but the article is of an infe rior kind. In other articles of Eastern produce we have heard of no transaction, but some variations in price will, on re ference to our quotations, be found to have taken place in them. These, however, it is unnecessary particularly to enumerate. FREIGHTS. A further decline has taken place in the rates of freight, which may now be quated at 2/ to 2/ ss. to London and Liverpool, and 5i rupees per candy to China. There is a good supply of tonnage. MONEY MARKET. Subjoined are the current rates of the different Govern ment Securities. 5 per Cent. Loan of 1825-26 . . . . 110 r. 4 per Cent. Loan of 1832-33 ... 99r. 4 per Cent. Loan of 1835-36 96r. 5 per Cent. Loan of 1841-42 105 r. 4 per Cent. Loan of 1842.43 ... 96r. EXCHANGE. The rate on England has again advanced, and we may now quote it at 2s. 04d. for six months', and 2s. for 30 days' bills. There has been another sale of Govern ment Bills on Calcutta, to the amount of 5 Lacs of rupees, and 102 rupees 7 annas per 100 rupees was the average rate realised. ' PRICE OP BULLION. Sovereigns, each ... ... ... Bank of England Notes, per £ 1 11 / rupees. QUOTATIONS OF THE BOMBAY EXCHANGE MARKET.—JuLY 17, 1846, FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Shares—Bombay Bank, no sales. May be quoted for without dividend,l to sell at 40i to 41 per cent. premium. Oriental Bank, old—Ruling from 30i to 304 to buy, but to sell rather neglected. Oriental Bank, new—Some shares have been sold during the week from 261 to 25 per cent, premium. Agra Bank— No sales to report. Nominal 54 per cent. premium. Madras Bank—No sales to report. Nominal, 53 per cent. premium. Commercial Bauk—Little doing in this, from 91 to 9f per cent. premium. Transferable at limited time of the bank, nominal, 3f per cent. premium. Steam Navigation Shares—Bombay, nominal 20 per cent. discount on 500 r. No sales to report. Calcutta, nominal 16 per cent. discount. No sales to report. Railway Shares—No quotation. Nothing having yet been done, these remain stationary. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 5 per cent. Transf. Loan for sa. rs. nom. 117 rs. per 100 sa. Ditto ditto 5a.1825-6 rs. 109 1 4 52 22 Ditto ditto 5a.1829-30rs. 110 1 Ditto ditto Co.'s rs. 1051 100 Co.'s. 4 Ditto • ditto sicca 99 4 to 99k„ Ditto ditto Co.'s rs. 954 to 964 EXCHANGES. London—Six months' sight, Bombay and China drawn, negotiated from 2s. 01-d. to 25. Ofd. per rupee. Calcutta—Co.'s draught at 60 days' sight 2k per cent. pm. f t at sight 21 Shroff's bill at sight 3 . 2 months' sight 1 If 22 4 1, 2/ 1 month's sight 22 „ Merchants' 1 per cent. less than Shroffs rate. PRICES OF BULLION. Sovereigns—Old, 11r. 2a. each, to sell ; new, 11r. each. Bank of England Notes—Per £., 10Z. to 11r. Spanish Dollars—Per 100, 2204 r., to sell. German Crowns—Per 100, 2144 r., to sell. Sycee Silver—Large boat, none, retail price, 1064nf small boat, none, retail price, 105 r. 15a. Gold Leaf—Per tola, 16r. to 17r., range of quality ; 97 Standard, per tola, 17r. Gold Mohurs—Bombay, 16r. each, to sell ; Calcutta, old, 20r. each, to sell ; new, 17r. each, to sell. Gold Tomauns-16 wals in weight, 64r. each, to sell. Gold Gubber-12 wals in weight, sr. 3a. each, to sell THE WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam Packet - Company's ship Dee, James Fuller Boxer, R.N., Commander ; Lieutenant- Commander W. South, R.N.,Admiralty agent, arrived at Southampton at half-past ten o'clock on Friday morninfj She brings on freight 252,040 dollars on merchants' ac count, but none on account of the Mexican dividends 17,708 ounces of silver, 66-i ounces of gold, 37 ounces of gold and silver amalgam, 440 ounces of gold-dust, 625 franc- pieces, and 1,0351. 7s. 6d. silver coin ; also 1,230,250 cigars, 9 cases, and 99 bales of leaf tobacco, 83 cases of ditto, 1 bale of bass, 75 cases of pine-apples, 13 casks and 9 cases of preserved turtle, 20 head of live turtle, 6i barrels of arrowroot, 63 bales of sarsaparilla, 22 gourds of aloes, 8 cases of plants, 5 cases of succades, and 55 packages of sundries—the largest amount of cargo yet brought by any of these ships. The Dee brings mails to the following dates :—From Tampico, July 22 ; Vera Cruz, August 2 ; Havannah, 10th ; Nassau, 12th ; Bermuda, 20th ; Jamaica, Bth ; Jacmel, 10th, Porto Rico, 13th ; Honduras, July 20th ; Demerara, August 3d ; Tobago, sth ; Trinidad, sth ; Barbadoes, Bth ; Grenada, 9th ; St. Vincent, 10 th ; St. Lucia,evisl2th 10th Dominica, 11th ; Martinique, 11th ; Guadaloupe, 1 1 th ; Antigua, 11th; Montserrat, 12 th ; N St. Kitts, 12th ; T or tola, 13th ; Porto Cabello, sth ; La Guayra, 7th ; St. Thomas, 14th ; St. Jago de Cuba, sth. The Dee also brings fifty-three passengers, as follows, viz.:—from Nicaragua, Don J. Costerica; from Chagres, Captain Loit, Gen. Col. Superintendent of the Royal Mail Steam - packet Company, and servant • de Quiros and Messrs. A. \ Pridham ; from Santa Martha, Mes s rs. Mackirdy and de Boon, T. A. Bareau, Klein ; from La Guayra, Mrs. Andral, daughter, and Mr. Foulguce ; from Havannah, Senors. Urban°, T. de Sotomayor, S. de Martiartu and servant, A. Kleinwort, J. F. Lineros, and Mrs. Scull and daughter • from Ja maica, the Rev. J. C. Hall, l a dy, an d family, Messrs. Westmoreland, R. Moss, Benite, and P. Blake, and Mt. and Miss Read ; from Demerara, Mr. Foster ; from Barbadoes, Miss Stopford ; from Trinidad, Messrs. Le guin, Bowen, and Armstrong ; from St. Vincent, Capt. Griffin, R.A. ; from Dominica, Messrs. Hockin and Scott ; from Guadaloupe, Mr. Le Dentu and two chil- dren, and Mr. CouchiMbert ; from Montserrat, Mr. Buchan ; from St. Kitt's, Messrs. Barr and Turner ; from Bermuda, the Right Hon. Lord James W. Butler and servant, Mrs. Ross and family, and Captain Powell of the 20th Regiment, also two Government in valids, one Company's invalid, and three distressed Bri tish subjects. Our letters from the city of Mexico are dated the 30th of July. Most of the troops had left for the north, and General Paredes was abont to place himself at their head, having transferred the Government to General Bravo, the Vice• President. All the Ministers had resigned. The new Cabinet was not yet formed. An amnesty to prisoners accused of political offences had been published. The insurgents at Guadalaxara still maintained their position in the centre of the city. General Arevalo had been killed. ..... The Americans appeared to be waiting the ter mination of the rainy season in order to resume hos tilities. The blockade of Vera Cruz and Tampico continued. The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico still remained blocaded by the American squadron, consisting of one corvette at Tampico, and two frigates, one corvette, two brigs, and two steamers, off Vera Cruz. The Ameri can commodore's frigate (Cumberland, 60, guns) had gone on shore on the Anton Lizardo shoals, and been obliged to get all her guns out ; she got off with the loss of her talse keel, and other serious damage, and it was expected would shortly sail for the States to repair. The town of Vera Cruz had declared against the Government, and in favour of Santa Anna, on the 31st of July, and a deputation left in the Dee. to invite him to return and resume the command of the army. He left Havannah with his family, General Almonte, and a number of other followers in the Arab steam-vessel of Liverpool, on the evening of the Bth ult., cleared out for Sisal, but it was supposed he would go direct to Vera Cruz, having been assured that no obstacle would be offered by the American squadron to his landing. The light on the Castle of San Juan do Ulloa was re lighted on the 23d of July, and continued 130 every night during the Dee's stay. The Endymion and Rose (all well on board) were the only English vessels of war at Sacrificios, the Vesuvius steam-vessel having been ordered to Bermuda from having severe sickness amongst the crew. The Alarm and Daring were daily expected. There was one Spanish frigate and a brig, and a French brig at Sacri ficios. The Vesuvius was off Bermuda on the 9th ult., with 27 cases of yellow fever on board. She took in 100 tons of coals, and sailed for Halifax. Information had been received in the L'acific of the blockade of the Mexican ports by the Gcrvernment of the United States. The feeling it seemed to produce was that it might tend still further to comr plicate our re lations with the latter power. The news of the peace able issue to the Oregon quebtion had n ot, however, reached Peru or Chili at the time the ma ails were dis patched. Her Majesty's ships Daphne and Sampson (the latter a steamer), a French corvette and a brig of war, were lying at Valparaiso. The Grampus, 50 guns, Captain IL B. Martin, C. 8., sailed for Callao o u the 28th of June, there to await the arrival of the E uropean mails, due on the 7th of July; and after receiving her dis patches, she put to sea on the 11th, to join the Admiral, whose " whereabouts" every one seemed to be igno rant of. The United States squadron were sup osed (with the exception of the frigate Constitution) to Ile off the coast of Oregon and California. The latter ye ssel had pro ceeded homeward, her timbers, it is said, being in a de cayed state. There was a French corvette at Callao. A silver mine, lately discovered by a watchmaker na . m eldtsTueraere is , o s ta said o t r u oc c n o n ro ta , i i n n B an ol u ivnivasiaeily large , ; greatly spoken of propor tion of silvel, and anticipations bad already been hazarded that this mine would surpass; in value the far famed Potosi mines. . . We learn, moreover, that arrant gements have been made by the Royal Mail Steam P acket Company for conveying treasure from the Pacific t o Europe across the Isthmus of Panama, and that the pr oject is looked upon with much fuTour on the west coast. By the latest accounts the Company's ships were as follows:—viz„ the Thames at Grenada, on the 9th of August, proceeding to Trinidad ; the Eagle at Barba does, on the Bth of August, proceeding to Tobago and Demerara ; the Reindeer at St. Thomas's, on the 14th of August, returning to Grenada ; the Tweed at Grenada, proceeding to Jamaica; the Avon at Jamaica, on the Bth of August, to follow the Dee to England, via St. Thomas; the Medway at Havannah, on the 9th of August, pro ceeding to the Gulf ; the Severn at Bermuda, on the 29th of August, proceeding to Nassau, Havannah, and Jamaica; the Lee schooner was gone to Honduras on the Bth of August; and the Larne at St. Thomas's on the 14th of August, proceeding to Grenada. The Jamaica Despatch of the Bth of August states that the whole face of the island has been blessed with most abundant rains. The entire aspect now wears a change almost indescribable. The rapid growth of the sugar-cane is most amazing, and plants which in many districts were conceived to be entirely burnt out of the ground are now making great strides towards advance ment. Next year's crop will be very early, and a large increase on the present. The appearance of the coffee fieles is most cheering, betokening a growth of wood which must yield very large returns at maturity if at tended to; while the new crop promises a fair—we do ❑ot think an excessive, but a considerable advance on the last. The native labourers had not resumed their work after the August holidays, but the Coolies were em ployed and conducting themselves in a very satisfactory manner. The Trinidad Gazette of the 31st of July mentions a violent gale from the south-west, which bad done con siderable injury to the roads and bridges. Dysentery was very prevalent in the island, and many deaths had occurred from it. . The St. Kitt's Gazette of the 7th of August says— " We do not remember for a long period past to have had the delightful and continuous showers of rain that have fallen during the last few days. The appearance of the country is exceedingly gratifying, and we have no doubt that the young canes will be materially benefited." Throughout the whole of the West India Islands there seems to be an unmixed feeling of satisfaction with the weather and the appearance of the crops. The Dee passed on the 31st of August the General Parkhill, American ship, in lat. 46 deg. 41 min. N., long. 19 deg. 16 min. W., and on the Ist of September the American barque Wallace, of Boston, steering to the westward. On the 2d of September passed a barque standing to the N.E., painted with a white streak, under jury-sails ; made no signal of distress. DERBY ELECTION. OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL. DERBY, FRIDAY MORNING, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—The official declaration of the poll has just been made by the Mayor, in the presence of a large body of inhabitants, at the Town.hall, and the bells of the different churches are ringing merrily. The satisfactory result of the elec tion has given pleasure to the vast majority of the town. Mr. Strutt was received with plaudits on entering the Town-hall at ten o'clock this morning. Sir Digby Mackworth did not make his appearance. The MAYOR having cast up the books, declared the state of the poll to be as follows: Strutt 835 Mackworth Majority for Mr. Strutt —276 The announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheers. Mr. STRIITT then rose, and was received with loud applause. He said, the electors had again placed him in the proud position of one of their representatives in Parliament, and with most grateful, most heartfelt thanks did he receive this renewed proof of their confi dence. Not only had he to thank them for the honour they had thus done him, but he had to thank them still more for the proud position in which they had placed him on the poll—(Loud cheers)—a position which had proved most unequivocally to the whole country that the town of Derby had not swerved from the principles which it always professed, and that it had boldly an swered the appeal that had been made to it.—(Renewed cheers.) Notwithstanding the differences of opinion that had been manifested on some subjects during this election, he thought they would all be agreed in this, that as on the one hand no pains had been spared to pro pagate charges against him, so, on the other hand, he 4iad not flinched from meeting those charges.—(Loud ft cbeers.) He had retracted nothing—(Cheers)—he had equivocated in nothing—(Cheers renewed)—and there fore there was no mistake—(Cheers)—there was not a doubt about this, that the electors bad answered the appeal that had been made to them.— (Cheers.) At the commencement of the present con test he expressed some regret that on his account the l i electors of Derby should have to incur the trouble and inconvenience of an election ; but he did now rejoica that the attempt had been made, for the result of this struggle was of the greatest importance to the cause of Liberal principles, and the cause of religious liberty, not only in this borough, but throughout the whole country.—(Cheer!) At the nomination their opponents told them that the eyes of the country were upon them. If the eyes of the country were our witnesses in the day of trial, they were turned upon us in the hour of vic tory—(Cheers)—and he was convinced that the struggle that had been made would have its influence in other places as well as in this town.—(Loud cheers.) Let him now congratulate them—and if his friends who had been arrayed in the ranks of his opponents (for many of whom he felt personal attachment) had been present on that occasion, ho should have wished also to congratule them upon the re spectable manner in which this election had been conducted. It had been conducted in a manner credit able to the town, creditable to their opponents, as well as to themselves.—(Hear, and cheers.) If Sir Digby Mackworth had been there he would have said that the fair and gentlemanlike conduct of his hon. and gallant opponent accorded with the high personal character he bore. One of his (Mr. Strutt's) opponents on the day of election did him the justice to say, although he was elected by only one part of the electors, yet that, on all matters connected with their local or general interests, he gave the same attention to his political opponents as to his friends. He now begged to say, as he had said on former occasions, that although he would never flinch from the due assertion of his political opinions, yet he never wished to carry them beyond their due sphere, and on all matters where he could promote their interests he wished to be considered the representative not of a part, but of the whole constituency.--(Hear, hear.) Upon that principle he had acted, and would continue to act. And now, in takinc , his farewell, they must permit him again to return to them his most grateful thanks for the honour they had done him, and the exertions they bad made in his behalf. He trusted, that although this contest had been a strong one—and a strong one it certainly had been—that it would not leave behind it one spark of animosity.—(Cheers.) He retired from the contest with grateful thanks to those who bad supported him, but without one unkind feeling to any one of his oppo nents.—(Much cheering.) Mr. STRIITT again rose, and said he had now the pleasing duty to perform of proposing a vote of thanks to the Mayor for the able, efficient, and impartial man ner in which he had conducted the business of the elec tion.—(Much applause.) Mr. JESSOPP had much pleasure in seconding the motion. The MAYOR returned thanks. Three times three cheers wero given for Mr. Strutt, and the large audience dispersed. The affability and courtesy of Sir Digby Mackworth pleased opponents as well as friends. The Honourable and Gallant Baronet has left the town. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. Br AGNES STRICKLAND. VOLUME 9.—We have repeatedly intro duced to the notice of our readers with deserved com mendation the Lives of the Queens of England. The pre sent volume is one of the most attractive that has yet ap peared. It is exclusively devoted to the life of Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James IL It is a delightful piece of biography, and has cost Miss Strickland more labour and research than any of her previous volumes. She visited France in 1844, and subsequently Edinburgh, to say nothing of her inquiries in the State Paper-office at home, in order that every interesting particular re garding the life of Mary Beatrice, which is accessible, might be made to contribute to the interest of her nar rative. Miss Strickland has discovered a large mass of papers relating to the consort of James 11., and the eventful period in which her husband reigned, which had never before seen the light since they were written. Among these new documents are upwards of two hundred original autograph letters of the Queen, com prising her confidential correspondence with her bosom friends in the Convent of Challiot, to which place she peatedly retreated in the days of her exile. The volume, we repeat, is one of the most interesting of the interesting series. No words can sufficiently express the sense which every intelligent reader must feel of the research and labour which Miss Strickland has bestowed on her work.—Observer. WIDENING OF TIE GREENWICH RAILWAY.-- ERECTION 0111 THREE ADDITIONAL LINES.—The South- Eastern Company have determined that the extensive works for the widening of their branch line, the Green wich Railway, for which they obtained the sanction of the Legislature during the past session, shall be pro ceeded with forthwith. The works comprise another viaduct, built on brick arches, the entire length of the Greenwich line, so as to provide for three additional lines of rails; one of which is for the Atmospheric Rail way, and the other two for the North Kent line. Half the work, we are informed, is under contract, and the remainder will be let in the course of three weeks or a month. It is executed under the direction of Mr. Peter W. Barlow, the company's acting engineer. The joint station at London-bridge is also to undergo important improvements, and will be enlarged nearly to twice its present dimensions. The contracts for widening the Greenwich line include the works at the station. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—This institution will close on the 11th inst. for six weeks, for the place to undergo a thorough cleansing, after which it will remain open till next September. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Friday the 41b. loaf was raised to 7d. by the cheap bakers in the vici nity of Clare-market and other poor localities, the price being Bd. at the best bakers at the west-end of the metropolis. AN USEFUL M.P.—Last Thursday morning the passengers on board the William Jolliffe steam-boat, on her passage from London for Yarmouth, were informed by the captain and stewardess that they might shortly expect an addition to tneir number, one of the female passengers having been taken with the pains of labour. The unexpected addition at length took place, a well known medical Member of Parliament acting as doctor and midwife on the occasion. Both are " doing as well as can be expected." BURGLARY.—On Friday, information was forwarded to the police that the premises of Mr. Turbyfield, of No. 8, Hayfield-place, Mile-end-road, had been burglariously entered, and a great number of valuable silk umbrellas and other property abstracted. ANNUAL MEETING of the HIGH LAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. (From the Inverness Courier.) INVERNESS, SEPT. I.—The members of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, having resolved to hold their fifty-third annual general meeting and show at Inverness, on the Ist, 2d, and 3d of September cur rent, arrangements were made by the local authorities, in co-operation with the society's committee of manage ment, for rendering the demonstration in every respect worthy the important occasion. The spacious grounds of the Academy Park were set aside for the show of im plements 'and stock, while a splendid pavilion was erected for the dinner party, capable of dining from 1,800 to 2,000 persons. The great influx of strangers during the fine weather of the last two weeks, more especially during the fes tivities of the northern meetings, had made accommoda tion in the hotels scarce enough and dear enough before to- day •' but when the Duke of Ri c h mon d' s s t eamer arrived in the afternoon with some eighty or a hundred passengers, many of them from England, every acces sible place where one could get either bed or board was at once taken up, the charges being from five shillings to a guinea a night for a sleeping room, even a couch or a sofa; and for eatables-at least four times the amount for which, in ordinary circumstances, one might either lunch or dine. The only commodities that might truly be called cheap were hare soup and Highland whisky, which seems to imply that the good people in these northern regions have practically abolished the excise and game laws, and that in shooting of hares and brewing of Ferin tosh they do ample justice to the more elastic principles of free trade. The business arrangements were these :—Tuesday (to day), a public breakfast at half-past eight &cloak, under the direction of the Agricultural Chemistry Association, the subjects of discussion being the use of prepared food in feeding stock, and the mode of improving bill pastures, and hill land generally; the exhibition of implements and machines, dairy produce, seed roots and plants; a dinner of the committee and members, and a lecture in the evening by Mr. Smith, of Deanston, on thorough draining. Wednesday—the general show of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and the whole of the arti cles exhibited on Tuesday, to conclude by a public din ner in the pavilion. On Thursday a public breakfast, when the uses and value of artificial manures will be discussed; and the whole will conclude by a sale of stock. The breakfast this morning was given in the Northern Meeting-rooms, J. B. Fraser, Esq., of Reilig, in the chair. Amongst those present we observed James Matheson, Esq., M.P., Professor Johnston; Mr. Horne, of Longwell; Mr. David Milne, of Gradden; A. Mathew son, Esq., of Ardross; Colonel Mathewson; Major Campbell, younger, of Oraigie; Mr. Ainslie, commis sioner of the Earl of Moray; Mr. Brodie, of Lethen; Mr. Wallace, of Kelley (late M.P. for Greenock); Col. Mackintosh; Mr. Smith ; of Deanston. &c. The CHAIRMAN, after remarking on the importance of the topics to be discussed, introduced Professor JOHNSTON, who congratulated the members on having assembled in a district of Scotland where agricultural science had been carried to a higher state of perfection than in any other ; and where improvements of a yet more important character were now to be car ried out by Mr. Matheson, the proprietor of the island of Lewis, under the able direction of Mr. Smith, of Deanston ; the question as to the best food for cattle, and the best mode of supplying it, was one of vital in terest, seeing that they had now to depend so much on the produce of stock, and had opened up for them, by the facilities of steam conveyance, the advantages of the London market. The learned Professor then went into an analysis of the food generally used for feeding cattle; and, in the course of an able and instructive lecture, showed that though much had been done, much yet re mained to be done before they could produce the finest qualities of meat at the minimum cost of production. Some conversation followed, in which Mr. Smith, of Deanston, took part, and spoke briefly on the same question. The meeting seemed surprised at a remark by Professor Johnston, to the effect that the cattle feeders of England, as had been shown by the exhibition of im plements for preparing food for cattle, at the late show at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, were making more rapid pro gress in this department of agricultural science than the breeders of stock in Scotland. The show of implements in the yard was a poor one. There were a few new inventions exhibited, the most novel and important of which was a plough for digging potatoes; but the universal destruction of the esculent detracted from the interest which this ingenious machine would otherwise have excited, and hence it was passed over with but little remark. There was one feature in this exhibition of a peculiar and novel character; the ex hibition of two ploughs, or rather a plough and a spade, used by the ancient Caledonians, side by side with some of the finest specimens of our modern inventions for the tillaze of the ground; the rude stock and half-forged grubber contrasted oddly, but most instructively, with the finely-moulded plough, polished stock, mid sword like coulter of the present day. The dairy produce exhibited was not of great attrac tion. In this department of husbandry the Highland Society yields the palm to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. A circumstance of considerable importanie to the dairyist, as well as to every one who can appreciate mellow butter and good cheese, occurred at this show to-day. A gentleman ap plied for permission to enter some milk pans, manufactured by Mr. Rice Harris of Birming ham, on a principle which, while it possesses the singular advantage of preserving milk in process of creaming from the destructive effects of electricity, at the same time shows the remarkable quality of inducing the milk to generate, and throw up to the surface a rich cream, and in larger quantity than can be induced by any other kind of pan yet made. The pans, which are called " The registered compressed milk pans," it seems were first tried in comparison with wedgeware and brown ware, when a difference appeared in favour of the compressed glass of thirty per cent. Mr. Percy, the dairy chemist of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng land, then made a series of experiments, the results of which were thus stated:— ANALYSIS OF THE CREAM OF FOUR PHIALS.—SAME MILK. Compressed Blown Wedg- Glass. Glass. ware. Brown ware. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. Water 5 8 .62 71 . 91 73•86 64 . 79 Butter 3 5 .04 21.31 18.88 27.94 Solid residue 6.64 6 . 78 7 . 26 7.27 100'00 100'00 100'00 100'00 Struck with the remarkable results, Mr. Percy was led to try other experiments which have proved equally satisfactory. The application for entry was too late, but the subject was considered to be of so much im portance that means were to be adopted for getting the whole subject fully discussed. There was an excellent show of seeds and plants, of native pines and bulbous roots, grasses and potatoes. Prizes were awarded for the best of each. In this class wero conspicuous collec tions of native and foreign pines, and forest trees in general, from the nurseries of Messrs. Peter Lawson and Son, the society's seeduien, Edinburgh, and of Messrs. John Grigor and Co., Forres Nurseries. The latter collection attracted universal attention, and of it we may specify Cedrus deodara, Pinus excelsa, P. Ge rardiana, abies, Smithiana, &c.; also specimen branches with cones, brought from the Himalayan mountains, illustrative of the various kinds of seedlings shown. The first premium was awarded to Messrs. John Grigor and Co. At six o'clock this evening, the members dined in the Northern Rooms, Mr. M‘Pherson Grant, of Ballen dalloch, in the chair. The discussion and conversation at the dinner were of a private character, for what reason does not very clearly appear. At half-past eight, Mr. Smith, of Deanston, delivered his lecture on thorough draining, and was listened to throughout by a most numerous and attentive audience. Some conversation followed on the general question, the great bone of contention still being whether the deep, or the comparatively shallow drain be the best; the impres sion evidently was that both are necessary, and that local circumstanced must determine in each case which should be adopted. Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen present at the show, were the Duke of Montrose, president of the Society; the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Cawdor, Sir James Mackenzie, Bart., of Scatwell; Sir J. Drum mond, of Ilawthornden ; Sir Archibald M`Donald, Major Cumming Bruce, M.P., Captain Cumming, Sir W. Cumming, the Mackintosh, the Chisholm, Mr. Brodie, of Lethen ; Colonel Baillie, ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.—AIARSEILLES, AUG. 31.—The inhabitants of Leghorn were only begin ning to recover from the alarm into which the earth quake on the 14th had thrown them, when they were again surprised by a similar warning. The Archimede, which came in yesterday from the coasts of Italy, brings tidings, that on the 27th, at a quarter past ten in the morning, a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Leg• horn. The Archimede has no written details of this fresh calamity, arising, no doubt, from her having been on the point of departure, and her mails made up. INHUMAN CONDUCT OF A SWEDISH CAPTAIN. , -. About seven o'clock on the evening of Monday last, a Swedish seaman, of the name of Anders llendricksen, of Gottenburg, fell from the yard of the brig Albertina, of Gottenburg, when about seven miles off Dover. It appears Captain Berg tools very little trouble to save the poor fellow, never heaving to or putting the brig about to pick him up, but merely threw a plank over board, in compliance with the poor fellow's cries. This plank (about fourteen feet long and ten inches wide), from being a very expert swimmer, he succeeded in reaching. He then stripped himself of his clothes, took off his boots, and lashed them all to one end of the plank, and took up his position at the other. In this state he continued for four hours, when an English schooner, the Joshua Carrol, of London, Captain George, from Cardiff, with iron, for Bremen, came within hail of him ; and hearing the unfortunate man's cries in the water, immediately lay to, lowered a boat, and succeeded in rescuing him from his perilous condi tion. The schooner, Joshua Carroll, brought up the next morning in the Dover Roads, and Captain George brought the man ashore in his boat; after having treated him in the most humane, kind, and judicious manner. The Swedish Consul procured him a refit in clothing, with a little supply of cash, from a fund for the aid of shipwrecked foreigners, at the disposal of the Master of the Fellowship of Pilots, and, thus equipped, he was immediately shipped as seaman on board the Norwe gian brig Ocean, of Drontheim, lying in our harbour. The poor fellow has, during the last two days, been suffering from the effects of his exposure, but, we hear, is in a fair way of recovery.—Dover Chronicle. Partridge shooting commenced on Tuesday, with splendid weather. We hear some complaints of birds being shy, and also of barren pairs being found fre quently ; but upon the whole believe that the sport in this district has been tolerably good, Worcester Herald. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 4.—The market for sugar has been very dell this week, and the transactions are limited to small parcels, in some instances at lower prices. Nothing worthy of notice has been done in silk. 1,000 bales China are announced for sale by auction, in Liverpool, on the 18th instant. A good demand has been experienced for cotton this week, and sales to some extent have been effected, at gradually improving prices; and the latest transactions establish an advance of id. to /d. in American descriptions. Sinoe Tuesday there has been rather less animation in the market, the advanced rates required having tended to check the de mand. Prices, however, are perfectly firm; and, after the large sales recently made, spinners and manufac turers are i❑ a better condition to wait than they were previously.—Manchester Guardian. BRADFORD, SEPT. 3.—`'POOL.—There is a full supply of all kinds of combing wool in the market, but sales are difficult to effect, prices generally ruling too high to induce the spinners to buy freely. YARNS.—The de mand for yarns continues to improve, both for export and home consumption. We are glad to learn that spinners generally are obtaining an advance; spinning, for many months past, has been a most ruinous trade. PIECES.—There is a steady business doing in all kinds of goods suited to the approaching season; manufac turers are for the most part making to order. Prices fully maintained.—Bradford Observer. NOTTINGHAM, SEPT. 3.—The branches of the hosiery trade which are carried on in the town and suburbs, have, with a few exceptions, got considerably worse, and little is heard amongst the poorest class but want of work, and want of money by the small tradesmen. The bobbin-net trade may be considered as considerably im proved, particularly in plain nets, most of the German houses being actively preparing for the ensuing October Leipsic fair. The cotton warp lace trade keeps gra dually improving, the frames being slowly put to work, while some'are working long hours. The silk branch is depressed ; the same may be said of the bobbin-net silk trade, which, on the whole, is very dull.—Nottingham Journal. LEICESTER, SEPT. 3.—A healthy business in all branches continues doing, both by the London and coun try houses. Stocks of goods on hand are very low, and wrought hose extremely scarce, the fine weather still keeping the hands and seamers out. Yarns and wools are steady.—Leicester Journal. I N HOP INTELLIGENCE. S "U ....... - -....,-,.......-- FARNHAM.—The expectation that was expressed a few weeks back, that there was likely to be a crop of hops at this superior hop-growing place, has been very fully realised; the picking has now become general, and has proved their high condition in the pickers' binns. There has scarcely ever been a more rapid growing period, unless we may name the year 1826, when the Hants collection, of which Farnham forms the principal amount, reached 14,6501. old duty; if it should reach 10,0001. this year, it would be considered high, seeing that the average of the last seven years has been much under this amount. It is only during the last month that they have done such wonders, yet there are many drawbacks to a great district crop, for many of the villages around are very deficient. We are happy to see the very great recovery made made in those of Oldham, for these were struck very hard by attack of aphides. Many of the grounds hang in a luxu riant and most picturesque manner, forming vistas, al coves, avenues, &c., ornamented with festoons of golden coloured hop strobiles feathered to the ground, the lateral shoots being generally well clothed ; although there are many instances where these side shoots are much more backward in their growth than they are at the top of the poles. In some instances there will be complete hops at the top, and the lateral shoots will have the blossom only just formed, this being the effect of the very congenial weather we have lately had. A lux uriant growth has been noticed at Bentley, at Lower Froyle, Alton, Hartley, and other places, where pains have been taken to give the proper food at seasonable times. It is now very well known of what consists the bine and what the fruit; it is therefore the business of the cultivator to add the constituents wherever the crop is found to be deficient. On this head we are assisted by the analysis made by Mr. S. Nesbit (see " Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society," last number). From this we may learn that by far the principal mineral in gredients removed from the land, when the bine and the hops are all taken away, consists of 53 parts out of every 72 of phosphate of lime, and silicate of potash and soda. The picking, which commenced at Lower Froyle on the 19th of August, was nearly a month earlier than it was last year. It is expected that some most excellent samples will be the result of this early picking, for they are in fine condition, and those that aro allowed to hang the longest are likely to be of the most pungent bitter, particularly if there are ample male plants around or amongst them. —Hampshire Independent. HERRING FISHING. , BERWICK, SEPT. 4.—Our men are still fishing on with as much vigour as ever, and in the early part of the week their success was pretty good, but now the takes are lighter and not so general. The fish are now to the north of this ; they are good in quality, and there is still a prospect of next week making up for the indifference of the returns during the last few days. Prices have ranged from I Is. to 12s. per cran. HOLY ISLAND, SEPT. 3.—During the latter part of last week the fishing was what we may justly term ' heavy, many of the boats baying between 40 and 50 crans at a shot. We heard that one strange boat had to crans on Friday last. This week, although the fishing is still good, the shots have not been so heavy, the highest ranging between 30 and 40 crans. The whole of the present week we have had between one and two hundred boats in our harbour every day. Some of the Island boats have night after night fallen out, and consequently had poor shots. There has been groat havoc amongst the nets of both strangers and our own fishermen. The highest shot we have heard of this morning (Thursday) is 5 crans. As the weather is very line the fishermen expect another shoal on the ground. Prices from 10s. 6d. to 13s. NORTH SIINDERLAND.---The weather during the past week having been very favourable, the fishing has been prosecuted at this place with great vigour and success, and a rich harvest has rewarded the fishermen for their labour. The season is far advanced, but if the present good weather continue over next week, a considerable quantity may yet be got. On Friday, Saturday, and Monday mornings the boats brought in from five to thirty barrels, and two were said to have fifty to seventy each. Tuesday and Wednesday the herring being close in amongst the rocks, several of the boats lost three, four, five, and six nets each, and one crew their whole fleet. The general take ran from six to ten, and a few boats had nearly twenty barrels each. Thursday very little was done here ; some of the Newton and Beadnell boats had good shots, but the fishing was not general. The prices are looking up—from Its. 6d to 12s. There has not been many spent herrings got yet. DUNBAR, SEPT. 2.—The fishing since Monday has been unprecedently heavy—not for years has the take been so great—every boat is laden to the gunwales and some are making two trips within the 24 hours. It was estimated that there were brought into the harbour yes terday 6,000 trans, and to-day is nothing behind. This is independent of the many boats that are plying to Fife. Should it continue through the week as produc tive as at presentAboth salt and barrels will be wrought up. As it is, several curers are not packing up into barrels but rousing in vessels, leaving the sorting for greater leisure. The fishing ground is about three miles west of the harbour, and is said to extend three miles in length and one in breadth. Selling prices to-day ss. per sran.—Berwick Advertiser. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK'S HORSE ArRICAN.—• A few days since, a person giving his name S. Bale, came down to Goodwood to inspect the racing stud of Lord George Bentinek, which is for sale, and eventually agreed to become the purchaser of African at a sum of 2001. He paid 4/. in gold, and gave a cheque on (we believe) a Norwich bank for 1961., and was permitted to take the horse away. The cheque was presented in due course, and was dishonoured, the drawer either having no effects, or being unknown. Immediately on this being known, a warrant was issued and placed in the hands of Mr. Pesco, the active officer of Chichester, who has been in pursuit, for more than a week, of the man or horse, but with what result we have not heard.—Brighton paper. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—On Thursday next the British Association will commence its meetings at Southampton, under circumstances of more than usual encouragement. The savans, instead of having to wan der about for beds, and getting at last very bad accom modation, at an exorbitant charge, will find that the local committee has caused a general registration of comfortable lodgings. It is to be hoped that there will be enough of these select apartments to meet the wants of all who apply for them, or the struggle for precedence may mar the harmony that ought to exist among all the sons of science. THE SEASON.—As a proof of the approximation of our climate this summer to that of eastern countries, it may be worth recording, that our island has been visited by a swarm of those destructive insects, the great brown locusts. A few stragglers have visited this vicinity, two specimens of which were taken to our museum, where one of them is now alive, and in full vigour. A northern paper mentions the fact of the swarm having been seen at Sunderland, and that they travelled in a southerly direction.—Norfolh Chronicle. THE PICCADILLY PAVIOURS.—WiII you kindly ex plain (asks a correspondent of the Builder), for the satis faction of the public, why it requires exactly two men and a boy (literally) to square, on the spot, the many thousand worn paving-stones which have been, or which still remain to be taken up ?—or why it would not be better to employ some half-a-dozen carts, and a full complement of men, to take them all away, and bring back the required paving-stones ready hewn, all which could be accomplished in a comparatively short time ? and why, while a sprinkle of workmen are employed at the lower part of the street, others should not be at work, lowering and preparing the ground at the upper ? ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM GILTSPUR-STREET COMPTER.—On Saturday, between one and two o'clo c k, a prisoner, named Dennis Shine, effected his escape from this prison. It appears that he was employed to assist the workmen in making some repairs now going on, and while they were gone to dinner, Shine availed himself of a ladder which they had left in the yard, and contrived to scale the wall and escape over the roofs of the neighbouring houses. Ile is a desperate fellow, who was tried at the last London Sessions, and convicted of the commission of a series of ruffianly assaults at a house in Friday-street. He is described as having light hair, fair complexion, stoutly built, 5 feet 9 f inches h igh, and about 21. He has not yet been heard of. O'clock the HIGH TIDE.—On Friday, at:about R ha iv v e it r ig Th at a on ra e nce the tide p i e n a ches above the tmaiensedpreaseitigdhat soifegsuelvaerraapl usual mark. A great dea l of dama g e was sustained in consequ ence by the several sand and lime wharfs along the river side, from London-bridge to Battersea and Wandsworth. Pl-"%, qo 1 ~t~