The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-06 00:00:00

tO 31/1 s 33/ 8 271 9 291 vO. filet °ll P, as Do .g ; 61 • o? 610 L, tO ; 3 2 3 4 I 4 11 0 4 1 1 19 6 ( 10 1 1 tror i kiOk )e- „be of f°' b 6" to o' § 3 G 8 3 4 0 5 4 ' o a r) 3 244 270 3 290 s 360 s 481 s 34 g 36' g 380 g 41 g 524 g 410 g 42 - ROLLS' COURT—(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the greater part of the claY in hearing motions, which Nvere of no public interest. BARNES v. HASTINCS. This cause whi c h wa •on the list fur to-day was postponed till the 22d instant. s Several other causes fixed for to-day were alsu postponed RIMINAL COURT—(ThIiS DAV.) OLD COURT. were ese sessions, the ninth daring the present mayoralty, opened this morning before the Common Sergeant, the moa_rrddlialiair an,; r, and Aldermen Sir James Luke, Sir Chapman Challis.' th p uring the sh or t i n t erva l s i nce th e c l o se of last sessions the c ases have accumulated to 89, as appears by the calendar, a Il i that number will be likely to be augmented (luring the are of the grand jury. Among the cases to be tried there 130 4 for cutting and wounding, with intent to do grievous j ar Y harm, 10 for embezzlement, 3 for forejnty, 49 for in i B c ,, ell Y of diGrent description:, 2 for manslaughter, 5 for Of Limiest:our, 1 for murder, 1 for perjury, and 1 for rape. k i ,1, 11 ,e 89 cases, 12 have been sent from London, 55 from \v", es ex, 3 from Essex, 4 from Kent, and 15 from Surrey. Ills the raur had been sworn, auT CO MMON-SERGEANT proceeded to address thm. After vious n ,, P; to . the short time which had elapsed since the pre "ession,, only a fortnight, and the untidier of cases, of _ „ the laem of a very serious nature, already appearing on calendar, which he expected would be increased to s a r t Ye a hundred before the grand jury had finished their case ul gs, he directed the attention of the grand jury to ;several laid s .) °f rape, some of them indicted as misdeaneanouri, and lii) ..own the distinctions which were drawn in law upon the Pct. The second class of cases on which the Learned ti Zgeant thou g ht i t proper to commen t was th a t f or th e sorr n le of cutti ng and wound i ng t h e person, w hi c h h e was 'to say Was very much on the increase. lie then ad ve nted to the three cases of this nature frem Middlesex, sod n,'..their att en ti on part i cu l ar l y to t h e case o f Thomas ' 4l Uatherine PosthF, directing the grand jury to consider es pecially whether Thomas Posths was involved criminally the „ t. lie said, in reference to the case of William a 3( ! l ;charged w ith cu tti ng an d wo u n ding a policeman with brickbat, that it was enough if the wound was inflicted by 'I,IIY instrument, and it was not necessary that the instr ument , 3 " °4l d have b een one ma d e f or cu tting, so that whether the "and had been inflicted by a knife or a brickbat, it equany ea lne under th e wor d s o f the statute. The Learned Sergeant then turned to the case of Benjamin Gibbons , committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of Anne Sloinan, and Went at great length through the facts depose t ) before the a gistrate, adding that the grand jury would nor oubt think before the a case as ought to be sent for further in ves ti ga ti on the judges and another jury. The Th rest of the morning was occupied with swearing in the Petty juries. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. (THIS .) If EETING TO PROMOTE TI DAY IE RETURN OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL. A meeting of the electors of the City of London was held at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle street, to-day, at o ne o'clock, to take measures for promoting the re-election of !word John Russell. The meeting was attended by the lead !it'lg bankers, merchants, traders, and gentlemen of influence i b e i t , / ,' e City, and was exceedingly numerous, the large hail - g completely crowded hy the hour for commencing the th °ceedi tigs- Amono• the gentlemen present we recognised betel following well-known friends and supporters of the Li -441 cause ;---Abel Smith, Esq. ; A. \V. Roberts, Esq. ; 4 4r Y, 1, - Keeling, Esq.; John Dillon, Esq. ; W. Wilkinsen, SV•L',V, to. Williams, Esq., M.P.; 11. Aglionby, Esq., ist : P• ; 10 1 "iam Molesworth, Bart., M.P.; J. R. Ricardo, Esq., Uw e ', Sir James Duke, M.P. M. Foster, Fe q., M•l , Sir isA'LP,; David Salomons, Esq. ; Bann Rothschild; l honarie t e ,Yora Goldsmith ; Sir Edward Fowell Buxton ; i rrae ls • • - m• akey Esq. •, J. A. Hankey, Esq.; Ingram Cott on ' p c l.; Sir George Larpent • G. F. Young, Esq. ; •, j ,,,° ll es L7:l' ~ Chairman of the Bank ' of England) ;. Samuel I '. '"' ; Mr. Rintoul, Mr. Sergeant Gazele?, Mr. Are s al . l ,Y , Mr ' . Trott, Mr. Bayliss, &c., &c. .• LOYD rose, amidst loud cheers, to propose that °ccairio Roberta, Esq., do occupy the chair on this %ant /1 ' He proposed this, in the first place, on ac t. of that gentleman's personal character, and the 04f.ltornedspect and esteem in which he was held by the citizens e,o ns i q ;in the second place, on the ground of his strong no w " e ney to the great principles of free trade, which was o,,,,acknovvledged to be the principles of the country; the third place, on account of the long, consistent, and cordial friendship which had existed between Mr. Roberts who the great and distinguished individual in respect to ") 13 :1 they had been called together on the present occasion. While proposing the appointment of the Honour !tile Gentleman he had named to the chair, he (Mr. Jones Loyd) could not allow the opportunity to pass Without declaring his cordial concurrence with the great Principles which had just obtained so extraordinary and glorious a triumph; and expressing the earnest hope that t h ey would by acc l amat i on secure th e re t u rn o f L o rd John Russell, who bad hitherto so faithfully discharged the trust reposed in him to his constituents, and in a manner bene ficial to their common country.---(Cheers.) He trusted they Would send back the Noble Lard to Parliament, to carry out to the fullest extent the principles of commercial freedom, W hich had been recognised in that great measure which had 80 recently received the sanction of the Legislature. — (Loud cheers.) The motion being seconded, was put and carried by accla rnation. The CHAIRMAN then rose amidst loud cheers to address the meeting. lie said—Gentlemen, I feel greatly flattered by the honour you have done me, and the confidence you have shown in solicit and tine to take th e chair on this impo rtant occasion, I cannot but over so numerous an d respec t a bl e a meeting. but feel myself inadequate to give satisfaction as Chairman on such an important occasion, and would rather that some more influential person had been selected; still I will, to the best of my ability, discharge the duty you have reposed in me. Y ou ale all, Gentlemen, familiar with the ci rcumstances that have called us together. This meeting has arisen on account of a vacancy in the representation bthis City, yo ur l ate Noble Memb e r having been called on ' )7 io oisui.... o urr er Giiacious Sovereign to take the office of her first Cheers)—an appointment which, I feel confident, o.given general satisfaction.—(Hear, hear.) I do not here will be any opposition attempted to the re. election of the Noble Lord • and from a grateful recollection egfiohuiss fuji,astst consistency, hi; able advocacy of civil , and reli hoconstituency of this trade, he .11 r ( Y, and his support of the principle. , of frte . the as the strongest claims upon the votes or futig e great m Aropolis.—(Loud cheers.) therefore, that on the present, as well as On any and th r.i°,l, the great consistency of the Noble Lord, faithful, manner in which he lies proved himself an honest,. excellent, and indefatigable representative, will in dnuotue you to return him as your Member to the Commons Sir ( l e _ of ar liament.—(Loud cheers ) I will now call on e,orge Larpent to move the first resolution. so 1 VEORGE LARPENT said he felt great satisfaction that humble an individual as himsef had been thought worthy to move th e fi rst resolution on that auspicious occa sion. They m lghthave got one more able to perform the duty, but he could assure them they could not get one more strongly im pressed with a sense of duty,or who felt more strong and warm 311 regard to the great question they had met to consider. The resolution he had to propose was—" That the recent reforms in the commercial code of the country has given great satisfaction to the electors of the City of London." Flom the signs of the times lie was persuaded that this • resolution would be unanimously adopted. He felt it was a great sign of the times that the two great Political parties of the state had united to carry those prin ciples which th e y h a d advocated for so long a time. T hey would remember that in 1820, the citizens of London petitioned Parliament in favour of the principles of free trade, and now they found them supported by the party t hat then opposed them.—(Hear, hear.) He had taken a fe w words of that petition. They were, that Parliament S hould do away with every restriction on trade— \",ear, hear)—and that no duties on imports S hould be retained except for the purposes of revenue. The Petition prayed that all protective dutiesas h shouldapp3 to say, the , be abolished, 411 ,, 4 it was on this principle, he w astion had now been settled.—(Loud cheers) Re thetheoy should t h a t ng to the address of the /aasothalned over, • . conflict in regard to corn was p see that the p r inciple so admitted was carried out to other Zonnbercial questions in a faithful and impart ial manner to Su gar and other articles of commerce. Thoug h he was glad at the principle of commercial freedom had be en reco g nised ho the Legislature, and he felt thankful to thos e who had th e - ttlY changed their opinions, and in assistieg to carry . theme freely and boldly, stood forward in support of tatei t i lw ea t,h— still, it must be admitted, that without the timely Weal d li ‘low of the letter of the Noble Lord, the great question a tOttel i ° t Yet have been carried. Though lie was not one r•it • ta party, it was but right that they should look see c who those were, who, year by year, stood Wa; 40 * ,L ll support of those principles which d l debt no .reived their final consummation. A great belong of wit due to those that did not profess to of that ho Still h eitt Yrhe t.„ BO that then the supporttebdatcoimtm,serracsialbvfreetdboem means o n opinion h Had Y v e ra e l) re l c party they d h l t ia ed d t p o r r i t n i c te ip ir al t i r y iump. succeeded— letter °f tits the time it did to encourag e tb s' Ob i le aln L ly or l d n not e appeared at timid, and steady the faltering and wav el in all, , great get firmmss and confidence the rried zi • h ''easure which had so recently b q ee t i o s were mai 1 consistent t have fallen through.—(Hear,.hear.) t was n y Inuebt a for Test and• e a dvocates of civil _ o aken place. • e or all the great improvements and and religious liberty they plainly that had t th e c a Pe nd ul a n l g t For the Reform of a r t e io p n e . al the rporation Acts, Catholi P • the trade to India, China, Negro Emanc . ipation, social 1 and elan eether great political, religious, commercia , therefore, g j a - of the last twenty years. To that pa o r b y, a w nn e i r n e t tounder the deepesatchievelid-. obli gations for e 7 It was Lord Johwn had already been_ n achieved. 1827, 1827, to join Mr. C trop, and he would ass ure hi l t as!ell who declared his • ? them carr t y h t u l t ie i C t a is t i h r o . l c ic a L uo m in tin g cLa d been allowed to carry that m eeee re, a great number of the evils which now render Irelaiad a difficulty to statesmen would never have existed.— it that in 1828 prop ( os ti ed ear a .) He would askt ? hem L , o i r v d ho was JoJo hn-- K ll ear, hear.) I moderate reform Russell. thwarted, but he still pie was opposed—he was ered • , and when a change in the Administration took 'place it was to him, in IS3I, and intrusted the carrying into effect that , rest measure and did the Ministry in office ad whichLo r t a h ey j h o a n d u ex u p u r s e s s e s l e l d w in as OP P t r e h a t e t r i e e u t . o_ those ( iiear, principles hear.) father of the Reform Bill, and when he took all these c ircumstances into consideration, he .could have no hesitation or doubt as t o the re-election of the Noble Lord. He had constructed_ an Ad m i nistration on as broad a b as is as it was possible under ex i sting eircum xtanceß, and he had appointed to the subordinate fuee f sufficient g u • of the the Administration men whose gaveiigh acharacters, I 13- people, and known principles, ldr.antee that the hopes of the people would be . fully t realist He referred to the Secretary of the Colonies, .o the Secretary for the Admiralty, and to the Secretary for the Treasury - To these offices appertained the real Stitl Effectual working . _ of . the Government. He felt that he hail already occupied too much of their attention.—(Hear, hear.) lle the result. L or d J o h n R u ssell stood butor., ti.w.lno fear of with the characteristics of the three great parties to whom were entrusted the d est i n i es c f the State. Trusted by her Majesty, connected with the aristoeracy, and attached to the pe o pl e b y a name grateful to t h e care' English men, and one which always carried with it honour able distinction, h e wou ld b a placed in tits s ituation of represent a ti ve f or th e l arges t e oMinereial con stituency in the world.—(Hear, hear.) Ile had, therefore, great pleasure in moving the resolution. Mr. FOSTER, Ar.r., rose to second the resolution which lead been moved by his Honourable Friend, and lie did so with the greater pleasure, as ha meat heartily coin cided with the sentiments he expressed, and what ever slight difference in opinion there might as yet remain in the minds of some as to the ultimate success of these rey forms, he for one felt convinced that they would soon expe, rience their beneficial effect, If the City of London had seen reasons to elect the Noble Lord in 1841, those reasons had surely increased at the present moment. The Nobl e Lord anti his colleagues would nave to carry out 'what had beeu already so happily begun, and they V. 93,144 have the glorious opportunity of founding a basis for a claim of eternal gratitude from the country, by adopting the same liberal tone with regard to the Colonies which they had already shown in their policy at horns.— (Hear, hear.) It was not necessary for him to dilate on the importance of the colonies. They had beer, unfortunately, much neglected, principally be reason of their remove situation, and the niflistilty which was experi , :nced in getting up any agitation respecting them. But he would ask were they never to have any reform without agitation? Ile trasted that the new Ministry would undertake reform without being coerced into it—(Cheers) —by agitation. He had reason to know that were it not for the change which had taken place it was the inten tion of many influential parties to form a Colonial League.— ( Hear, hear.) But he had the greatest confidence in the appointments which had been made respecting the colonies. He might allude to his Honourable Friend Mr. B. Hawes, the appointment of which gentleman to the Under-Secretaryship was a sufficient pledge that they would not long have to wait for those reforms which were so anxiously expected, and so loudly called for.—(Hear.) It had been asserted that Sir Robert feel had gained the confidence of the commercial classes, and that they conse quently viewed with indifference the Ministerial change, not having the seine confidence in the financial and commercial policy of Lord John Russell as in Sir Robert Peel, but he was quite sure that the commercial classes would find the Nol;:e Lord as anxious, as able, and as willing to carry out those reforms as any statesman of the present day.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution from the chair, which was declared to be carried unanimously. Mr. TituarrsorellaNKEy said he had been entrusted with the care of the second resolution, which he felt the greatest gratiticatiosi in moving, as it contained a well merited eulogium on the statesman whose return to power would tend so much to promote the welfare and happiness of the country.—(Hear, hear.) He would not attempt to enter into any statement of the long list of services which the Noble Lord had conferred mom the country, but there was one point to which he would beg to call their attention, and that was the course which lie had pursued with reference to the late reform. When the measures of which lie had been the consistent advocate during his whole life, and which lie had pursued to ultimate success, were brought forward by his political opponent, he did not hesitate for one moment on the course he should adopt, but, generously sinking all differences of opinion, he stepped forward boldly in order to ensure their success, believing them to be essential to the prosperity of the country. When they recollected this fact be was isure they would joyfully concur in the eulogium comprised in the resolution which he had the honour to move, namely, "That the independent support given by Lord John Russell to the commercial measures of Sir Robert Peel's Go vernment, give him an additional claim to the gratitude and confidence of the electors of the City of London." Sir WILLIAM )10LESWORTII (who was received with great cheering) said since lie had come into that room he had been asked to second the resolution which had been proposed by Mr. Harkey, in which resolution he must say, as well as in the sentiments to which that gentleman had given expression, he. most cordially concurred. Being thus taken by surprise, he • had to apologize for the necessarily imperfect manner in which he would have to address them.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution di vided itself into two parts, and it expressed that the City of London was indebted to Sir Robert Peel for his commer cial measures, and not only the City of London, but all the co mmercial cities of this empire.—(Hear, hear.) . They were indebted, also, in a particular manner to all those who had contributed by their energy, industry, and talents, to the success of the free-trade principles, and first of all, they were indebted to Adam Smith, Ricardo, and those who led en the battle in favour of free trade.--(Applause.) They were indebted to Colonel Thompson—( Loud cheers) — and they were likewise indebted to those who amongst the commercial classes had by their eloquence and manly voices carried into the minds of our statesmen and senators the great principles of free trade—they could have no doubt that he alluded to that great and eminent man at the head of the League, he meant Mr. Cobden.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) They were indebted, too, to Lord John Russell, who had the manly courage to come out in support of the great principles of entire freedom to trade (Cheers)—and as the resolution expressed that that meeting felt itself deeply indebted to those advocates of commercial freedom, he felt great pleasure in assenting to the request of seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was unani mously passed. Baron L. ROTHSCHILD moved, in a brief speech, the next resolution, which was to the effect that Lord John Russell having accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury, and thereby vacated his seat in Parliament, this meeting pledges itself to use its most zealous exertions to secure his re-election as Member for the City of London.—(Cheers.) JOHN DILLON, Esq., in seconding the resolution, said it was now five years since he proposed Lord John Russell for a representative of the City of London, when, as the Noble Lord stated in his last letter to them, he was carried by a small majority. On this occasion, then, the electors of the City of London had determined to redeem that stain upon their character.—(Loud cheers.) They meant, now, he trusted, to return the Noble Lord to Parliament without opposition and unanimously.—(Cheers.) But, in doing so, they would not return the same Lord John Russell as they had returned at the last election.( Hear, hear.) Now that Noble Lord had become matured in thought and experience, he had become more enlightened, and was now more deter mined to legislate fairly and justly towards Ireland; and he (Mr. Dillon) hoped that the Government of this empire would thereby prove to the people of the sister country that Englishmen were anything but opposed to the prosperity and happiness of Ireland.—(Cheers.) After some further able remarks in support of the resolution, it was put from the chair, and carried amidst loud cheers. Cites. F. YOUNG, Esq., M.P., in an able speech, moved the appointment of a committee to carry into effect the foregoing resolution. As for Ireland, he said it was a subject on which many statesmen had erred, and lie at that time would not say more on it than that he hoped the Noble Lord would be fully succssful in carrying out his good intentions in refer ence to that country. That Noble Lord had already given one pledge which gratified him (Mr. Young), and he beheved would gratify many more; the Noble Lord had pledged himself on colonial reform. He believed he spoke the senti ments of 99- hundredths not only of those in the city of London, but in every commercial city of Great Britain, when he said that no department had fallen so much into discredit as that connected with the colonies, and he said that without respect of any who might have filled the offices in that department. The abuses in that department were no longer tolerable; he was therefore glad that the Noble Lord (John Russell) had put it into the hands of one who, with one single exception, he meant the Member for Liskeard (Mr. C. Buller), understood the details of the colonial interests the best of any in the country. The colonies, he thought, were intimately and inseparably connected with the question of free trade. He might refer them, for example, to the West India interests—the sugar interests. It would now be felt per fectly ridiculous to attempt continuing any longer the fantastic distinction between free and slave-grown sugar ; he expected that distinction would be at once and entirely swept away. But, as for the differential duties between colonial and foreign sugar, he thought that the Ministry, placed suddenly in circumstances of difficulty, ought to have time for considering and introducting so great a change. He hoped that the Noble Lord would de velop the colonial resources so as to create an outlet not only for the redundant capital, but also for the redundant population of Britain, and that be would do so by granting to the colonies that muni cipal liberty— that freedom which those who expatriated themselves from this country had learned to value, and would not rest contented without. He sat down after moving the appointment of a committee to preside over the election. Mr. GREGSON seconded the resolution, which was put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. D. SALomoss, in moving avote of thanks to the chair man, alluded to those measures, which had their beginning with the Noble Lord's Administration, affecting the body to which he belonged, fur which he expressed himself grateful, and hoped the Noble Lord would continue in the steps of his immediate predecessor on that particular. Mr. PuEscorr seconded the motion. Mr. PArrisoN, M.P., supported it in a few words. The motion was carried with acclamation. The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the honour that had been done him, and the meeting separated. THE RAILWAY RELIEF BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The above Bill has proved a complete failure, owing to the minority of scripholders being FORCED to go on with the various schemes. It is quite clear, that unless something be done to stop the progress of railroads, thousands of families must be ruined. I would therefore humbly suggest the following : That before any Railway Bill obtains the royal assentthe promoters thereof should prove that they have offered to those parties who have signed the deeds, and who wish to withdraw, a return of their deposit, and to release them from all liabilities. This could not be a hardship on the company, because it has the option of winding-up, dividing, and com mencing de novo.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, J. MORISON. 23, Cavendish-road West, St. John's Wood, London, July, 1846. LAST APPEARANCE OF MR. WILSON THIS SEASON.— This evening, Wilson, "the Minstrel of the North," gives his last entertainment for the season, at the Music Hall, Store street, when, no doubt, the lovers of Scottish song will gather round him. He promises a great treat. In addition to the chef dceuvre of Burns and Macneill, to the best of the old Jacobite songs, and to the fine Scottish songs of the olden time, lie is to sing two Germ an son g s, and the English cantata of The Soldier's Dream, written by Thomas Camp bell, and composed by Attwood. He will, besides, recite " Tam O'Slianter (it is a great treat to hear Wilson recite " Tam O'Shanter") and, in addition, Mr. Land will perfor m a fantasia on the pianoforte , introducing a variety of the favourite Scotch airs which Wilson's sings. There cannot be a doubt but that " the gathering" in Store-street, this even ing, will be great. THE MURDER AT GREENHEYS.—The little boy Dean, committed on this charge, about whose death so many ru mours have been circulated, continues, according to the latest accounts from Kirkdale, to improve both in health and spirits, and there is little doubt he will be restored to health by the approaching assizes. There is still an important link wanting in the chain of circumstantial evidence already ob tained, and that is by whom, and in what manner, the body was conveyed from the stable to the brook—a fact that will no doubt be brought to light before the day of trial.—Man chester Courier. MR. COBDEN AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. — As some surprise has been expressed on account of the non appearance of Mr. Cobden's name in the published list of tl , e members of Lord J. Russell's Administration, we think it right to mention the following facts, which we derive from :—W most un ques tionable authority When Lord John received Pi Queen's commands to form an Administration in Decem ber last, h e a dd resse d a note to Mr Cobden, stating that he should be glad to offer him a place in the Administration he vaa then endeavouring to construct, or in any future Ad ministration of which he might be the head. On that occa tide 13 s occa sion he offered, our readers are well aware, the Vice-Pre as i ncy of the ncompatible ord of Trade, which Mr. Cobden declined, e ilvninthhis engagements and pursuits. Since that period, th ex plained to Lord John Member . for Stockport has so fully ex declined, and must continue the grounds OR which he had to decline office, that any offer either n of the post formerly ten dered, or any other place' i t n h n e su Arinistration, would have been peifectly useless ex pected by Mr. Cobden or his personal was at all friends.—Manchester Gordian. WfeT IsPIA PINES.—A large consignment of this fruit, now for the first time placed within reach of those of moderate means. has bean received by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, of Monum ent- y ard. The advanta g e accruing from the importation of this article is, that the whole of the pro c.l,;ds giro remitted from this country in manufactured goods, principally Co, - el.othing the natives, who hitherto had the Americans only for eii.sti;l4ers, who obtained the produce in question fur a mere trifle, but since t4p, import to England the price has been enhanced nearly double. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA THE REVENUE FOR. THE Y. EAR AND QUARTER ENDING J LY 5, 1846 • No. I.—An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue of Greal Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1845, and sth of or Decrease on each head thereof. July, 1846, showing the Increase QUARTERS ENDED rEAIt QUARTERS ENDED YEAR -&_____ • --, elided - , , --A , ended • Year ended July 5. Quarter ended July 5 Oct. ' _. -___.--A- -- r - ....A__________, . Oct. 10, 1 Jan. 5, . April 5, July 5, July 5, Ot 10, Jan. 5, April 5 July 5, Jaly 5, ! 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1846 1846 1846 1846 ' Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. ----- - £ I££,-£ X X X X 1 Customs .............. 6,002,855 1 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807;0 44 ' 4,848,363 4,394,789 3,961,918 4,523,391 17,688,461 Customs ... • £ £ ' £ •- •• 2,118,983 23,843 £ - Excise . ..... .... ~.... 3,900,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 2,90,684 12,074,999 3,955,106 3,333,837 1,626,458 3,104,711 12, , 25,112 1 Excise .... • ..... • • •• • • 49,887 13 ( : ) . ,0 . 2 . 7 108781 Stamps ........... .. .. 1,665,638 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,88 3 - 1,780,175 1,702,402 1,685,868 1,730,495 6,988,940 1 Stamps .••••• • :. • • 142,057 •• • • Taxes . • . - Property Tax.. .. .. .... ' 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 91-9,991 5,261,914 1,823,883 386,085 1,963,882 1,009,162 5,183,912 . Property Tax. ••• • • • ... 78,042 99,171 - Post o ffi ce 200,000 146,000 178,000 155,000 679,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 181,000 , 794,000 i Post-oftice ..... .... 115,000 •• • • 26,000 - Crown Lands •••• • • • ... 10,000 50,000 35,000 30,000 125,000 ' 30,000 25,000 45,000 - 100,000 , Crown Lands .•• • • • 725,277 25,000 .... 30,000 Miscellaneous . • ..... .. 220,961 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 465,102 369,471 91,522 458,001 1,384,096 i Miscellaneous ••• • • • •• • • •• • • 444,349 - --- ---- --- Total Ordinary Revenne 14,220,544 12, 307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,652,140 13,312,908 12,332,535 0,735,790 13,013,187 48,394,420 ! ! Total .. .... • • 983.792 '2,271,512 733,250 136,581 rest Moneys, &c. .. 28,117 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145 24,591 64,084 52,909 73,939 215,523 Imprest Moneys, &c. •• • • 194 6 44,677 -- Repayments of_tilvances 123,692 250,980 418,549 182,354 975,571 4 73, 881 404,179 456,473 111,607 1 1,446,140 ' RepamntsofAdvncs. 470,569 70,747 • ... • ... ------- --, ------ 1 -. --,--- , Total Income ... 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,856 113,811,380 12,800,799 10,245,172 13,195,733 i 50,056,083 Total ........ 1,454,361 2,466,131 782,927 207,328 ___.--- - ----- , Amount applied to Con- 1 Deduct - ,), 1 Deduct solidated Fund .. •. .. 11,264,6 25 9,830,758 7,273,077 8,255,562 36,024,022 1 8,86 9 , 973 7, 85 9,997 5,468,355 8,476,134 30,674,459 : - increase 11,454,361 20 0,3 Decrease. Ditto, as Advances .•• .. 184,225 262,001 360,000 101,501 927,727 550,000 615,077 1 140,000 91,501 1,396,578 1) Us, as Ways & Means I Decrease Increase of th e Tear.......... 2,923, 9 0 3 : 2 , 612,934 3,713,599 4 , 2 66,071 1 3 , 516 , 107 1 4,391,407 4,325,724 . 4,636,317 4,631,098 1 17,085,046 on 1,011,773 575,599 on the ----- ----, the Year. . Qum ter. Total... •• 14,372,353: 1 2 ,7 05 , 693 11 ,366,679 1 12,623,13.1 i 51,067,856 113,811,3 50 12,800,798 10;245,172 13,198,73 3 1 50,056,083 . No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1845, and the sth July, 1846. Quarters ended Jnl3 5. / - INCOME. 1843 1 1846 \ X. X. Customs •••.••.• • • • • • • • ............ 4,499,543 4,523,391 Excise ..... ...... .................. 2,980,683 3,117,181 Stamps .............. • • ............ 1,837,076 1,730,495 Taxes . . 2,000,562 2,006,427 Property Tax .... . • ....... . Post-office • • • Crown Lands .. . .. •••• • • • • 30,000 Miscellaneous •• • • Produce of Money received from China 440,000 Imprest and other Moneys ••••• • • • • • "29,262 ' 73,939 Repayments of Advances .• • 12,638,133 13,211,203 To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay off Deficiency Bills.. 250,000 12,588,133 13,211,203 Quarters ended July 5, 5,650,119 618,886 1,407 595,150 98,004 370,584 MAGAZINES —(CON TIN LIED.) COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE. To an enterprising young legislator, desirous of distin guishing himself, we could not recommend a subject more promising than that of army jobs. Of the grossness of the jobs perpetrated in the army, we had no idea until we read Colonel Firebrace's paper on jobs in general, in the present number of the United Service. The following extract, partially anatomising what the writer calls the great job in the army, is long, but the subject is so important that we feel it necessary to give it : " All the regiments that were raised up to the end of the eighteenth century, however proud they may be of their fame and honour at the present day, were originally raised by job. A sort of contract was given to gentlemen, some of whom were not officers at the time, to raise regiments ; they made a bargain with subordinates, few or none of whom had been previously in the army, to raise a certain number of men, and according to their success in that way, they were rewarded with Ensigncies, Lieutenantcies, and companies, the Colonels retaining the absolute property in the regiments so raised, with all the profits of clothing, &c., and the regiments bore for many years afterwards, and until they were numbered, the names of these worthy personages, who turned the affairs into an excellent job. Many of the inferior ranks, who only gave their assistance to their patron for the sake of getting a sort of position in the world, and some pay, or were actuated by the vanity of wearing the King's livery, soon found out that they had mistaken their trade, and that a soldier's life was not what suited them. In this dilemma they applied to their Colonel, who, pitying their embarrassment, said he would endeavour to release them from their engagements, for a con-si-de-ra-tion, not openly to be avowed, but by permit ting these persons to sell their commissions to others whom he would nominate. A portion of this traffic no doubt fell to the Commandant, in the shape of commission, &c. The job of raising the men originally, was one of constant deception, fraud, debauchery, and drunkenness. Such was the origin of the British army, and I blush to say, that it still bears about with it undoubted traces of its polluted birth. "The Colonels, who had not unfrequently expended large sums in these levies, looked on the soldiers of their respective corps exactly as the Russians and Poles do on their serfs; the rigour of martial law hung constantly over their heads, and as to any amelioration of the hard life of a soldier, or bestowing any instruction on him beyond the drill, they would just as soon have thought of sending him up in an air balloon. Besides the original bargains between those who retired and those who purchased, the Colonel had all the waifs and strays, men dying or being killed, or resigning, whose commissions he might dispose of as he pleased; when it might not appear decorous to sell the commission, he had only to put in his own natural son, or that of any friend. I have known myself of a General Officer pensioning off his butler in this manner. There were no records kept at head quarters, and officers might be kept on the pay-lists years after they were dead; and as in the early stages, the Colonel had the whole management of his corps, he might continue drawing the pay of dead officers and men, if not withheld by principle. I can perfectly recollect in the regiment I was in, that we had a Captain in our pay-lists who had been dead five years—who got his pay I never heard. To help along the emoluments of the poor Colonel, he was allowed a certain number of imaginary beings—men of straw—for whom pay was drawn, under the name of non-effectives, which name was borne after I went into the army; it was afterwards altered to commuted allowance, and is now given in the infantry to the Captains of companies, for the repair of arms, and to meet any losses they may suffer from deser tion or dying in debt. A vestige of these non-effectives fur the benefit of the Colonel is still to be found in the cavalry, where they are called hautbois—not amiss, for they are all en Pair. Further to assist the Colonel who had spent money in raising a regiment, he was made a tailor, and, I rejoice to say, he still continues so—the cabbage being denominated off-reckonings? " The Colonel thus, besides his pay of 20s. a-day, had the sale of the commissions of his regiment, and all the, under hand negotiations inseparable from such transactions. He might draw the pay of dead officers and men, as there was no check on him ; he had invented for his use a set of imaginary beings, for whom he drew pay; and he was master-tailor of his regiment. I ask if this was not altogether a very nice job? " These little pickings were not thought adequate reward for their arduous services, and they were promoted in large batches to the rank of Major-General, and successively to Lieutenant-General and General, and this is the respectable origin of General Brevets, which in time of war annually hoisted up, like sacks of flour through a miller's loft, a cer tain number of officers, whose commissions were dated in one year, without the slightest reference to talent, ability, or even bodily capability. Without running through the long succession of these promotions, I may be allowed to notice the last year of war-1814. "'l here were in the "Army List" of that year 5 Field- Marshals, 87 Generals, 196 Lieutenant-Generals, and 321 Major-Generals ; give to each of the last-named rank a com mand of 3,000 men, and it would require an army of 963,000; give the whole of the 609 Generals the same small command of 3,000 men each, and it would require an army of 1,827,000. Of these 609 Generals, I have counted out 188 that never saw the face of an enemy, and at least as many more who were never entrusted with any command as General Officers; — and, I ask, is this not a splendid job? "Notwithstanding the Brevets are far apart since the Peace, one might have supposed that thirty years would have entirely done away with this burden; but I find by the "Army List" of 1843, that there were still 414 General Officers receiving pay; of these, 42 are since dead, leaving a balance of 372: give each of these, as before proposed, a com mand of 3,000 men, and we should have a numerical force of 1,116,000 men, just about the strength of the British army— striking off the million. But this is not all ; the power of selling half-pay com missions has given occasion to the grossest jobbing, and the consequence of all this is, that the officers of the British army are, generally speaking, profoundly igno rant of their profession, and would, in the opinion of the writer of this article, be found utterly incompetent to defend their country in case it should be invaded. He also makes out a strong case of jobbing against the Ordnance Department. The statements contained in this paper may be exaggerated, but unless they are altogether fictious, the writer has made out a prima facie case for inquiry, and we join with him in expres sing a wish that Mr. Hume would devote his attention to the subject. This magazine in addition to its valu able papers on professional subjects, contains, as usual, much pleasant reading. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. There is in this number of Douglas Jerrold a most va luable paper, entitled Ireland and the Irish," which it would be well that all those who talk or write about Ireland should read, and that those who are called upon to legislate for that unfortunate and ill-used country, should study. That Ireland is suffering under great and intolerable evils it is impos sible to deny, the question to be considered is, how are those evils to be remedied? " There is but one true remedy for the evils of Ireland, and it is comprised in one word—JUSTICE ; justice to her toiling, ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed children. She might, with a fair claim to being heard, ask of England mercy, and a helping hand as well. From her she has received the deer wounds that vet rankle in her sides; but let her receive justice, free and Unstinted justice, and rapidly will the evils of her condi tion disappear, and plenty and prosperity visit her. This is vague : I will explain what I mean. It is security for life and property—the cant phrase of some of her doctors, but not as they mean it :—security, not for the lordling in his castle, he does not require it, but for the peasant in his cottage ; not for the landowner, but from him ;—security to the poor man for the just results of his industry. There are robbers and murderers in Ireland who disturb its whole moral and physical constitution, and prevent its progress ; but they are not clad in rags or frieze, but in brocades and broad cloth, reclining in saloons, living in clubs and palaces, and received and acknowledged in the houses of the great—not the puny midnight assassin doing his solitary murder, but wholesale slaughterers, who sweep away whole families by tens and hundreds at a time—not the caitiff wretch, driven by penury to snatch from the traveller his gold, and trembling for the consequences, but men of titlekoblemen, as they are called, wresting from the trembling hand of penury the bread of life, from the toiling hand of industry its hard-earned profits, and doing the whole with legal sanction, according to Act of Parliament. " To do that justice, to effect that security, the whole sys tem of landed tenure should be altered—it is at present most artificial and absurd. Improvements are proposed, and they show a disposition to grapple with the monster evil of Ire land, but they are but tinkenngs. It is not enough that a simple form of lease should be appointed ; landholders should be obliged to give them, by decreeing that in all disputes about land, where there is not documentary evidence to the contrary, and in all doubtful cases, the occupier should be deemed to be the owner. £his is the case with regard to all other property ; why is land an exception ? Thus would the granting of leases be enforced. These should be as simple as possible, and always at the expense of the landlord, as they would be for his protection, and not that of the tenant. With regard to the proposal to remunerate the tenant for improvements, the writer considers it good, as far as it goes, but it does not go to the root of the evil; to do that the writer says every encouragement and faci lity must be given to the purchasers of land : " The laws of entail and all the legal difficulties and tech • CHARGE. Permanent Debt • • • • ••• • .. ....................... •• • • •• ••• • • • ......... . Terminable Annuities.. .. .. Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ... The Civil List • • •••• • • • • • • • .. Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund . • To pay off Exchequer Bills, raised per Act 6 and 7 Vict. c. 87, for Opium Compensation ....... . Total Charge The Surplus • • .• .• • • • • • • • • • The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Apri 5, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1846, after deducting 000,06 W., paid off out of the Sinking Fund • • The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1846, in part of the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services•• • . The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1846 . The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet Quarter ended July 5, 1846 • •• • . the sums granted by Parliament out of the charge on the Consolidated Fund, nicalities surrounding its sale and transference should be done away with, and it should be rendered as easy for a man to buy an acre, or half an acre of land, as a cow or a sheep. The immense tract of country kept waste by the nominal titles which a few possess to them, should be given up to the husbandman, the value of those nominal titles paid, and the drones driven from the hive. When such things are done, a free and independent resident proprietary would spring up. In a few years the greater portion of the land in Ireland would change its owners, greatly to the advantage both of the present owners and the tillers of the soil. The country would be held by five millions of its own people, instead of by five hundred foreigners. The advantages are obvious. Its wastes would be reclaimed, its fruitfulness in creased an hundred fold, its population would be all busy and industrious, we would hear nothing of discontent or dis turbance, and plenty would overspread the land. " I have now stated my case and given my proofs. To my mind, it is as clear as daylight, that all the political vicissi tudes, not only of this country but of England, are traceable to the land monopoly, and the absurdities of land tenure. It is not merely an Irish question; but with you English it is not, as with us, one of life and death. lon have large and profitable manufactories to provide bread for your people ; and your land-owners, though too often opposed to anything that has a tendency to elevate humanity, are yet English men, and live in England, and are consequently less likely to abuse their power, and more under the influence of sympathy and public opinion. Yet you are deeply interested : this worst of the heir-looms of accursed feudalism yet remains; it must be struck down by the same hands that felled the giant monopoly. No greater boon could be conferred on our involved aristocracy, than to give them facilities, and urge on them the necessity for selling off large portions of their estates; most of them are only nominal owners, and are in reality but a sort of land-agents to a host of money lenders, lawyers, and relatives. It is for such reason, and in connexion with measures of a more comprehensive character, that the proposed expedient of compensation to tenants would be of value ; it would force sales, for few of our proprietary would be able to pay for improvements in their lands, and there fore should sell them." There is much force in the above observations, and it is true that England is as much interested as Ireland in getting rid of insolvent proprietary of mere nominal landowners, and substituting for them a solvent proprietary, who would have not only the desire, but the capital, to improve their estates to the utmost. " St. Giles and St. James" is continued in this num ber, and we have papers by Cooper, the Chartist poet, by Angus Reach, and by several of our old favourites, but the paper of the number undoubtedly is " Ireland and the Irish." 5,670,128 4;43,844 1,559 1,585,609 97,835 438,490 101,501 8,538,966 4,349,167 91,501 7,425,651 5,785,552 12,888,133 13,211,203 1,953,799 4,631,097 5,785,552 1,154,455 799,344 prove successful. The fellow-burghers of the re nowned Flemish painter have erected, in a conspi cuous part of their city, an effigy of Sir Peter Paul Rubens ; the Parisians not long since raised a similar monument to the memory of Moliere ; everybody re members how last year a colossal statue of Beethoven was uncovered in Germany in the presence of sovereigns; the Scott testimonial is already a famous structure in Edinburgh, and the Burns mausoleum is equally celebrated ; how is it that no national memento has ever been adventured in any quarter of Great Bri tain to demonstrate the reverence of the English nation to the genius of William Shakspere ? Thousands of pounds are collected as a gift to a man who has been successful in huckstering railway scrip :—what a profligate instance of mammon worshipping is this ! And twopence has never been subscribed as a gift of gratitude to the memory of the most wonderful poet who ever breathed the breath of life. We are proverbially the wealthiest nation on the earth ; and we have never raised even a plaster of-Paris bust to him in any public place of any of our tewns or cities. We speak thus not because such a monument would add one spark of glory to his fame, but because it would show we were not altogether unworthy of being his fellow countrymen. Poets are the truest regenerators of man• kind, and that is why they deserve honour. And the French have afforded us an example of doing this economically, and yet beautifully : they christen their streets after the most illustrious men of France, and, by so doing, associate glorious thoughts with their very household. Nor are they de terred from so doing by the most lengthy titles, one of the thoroughfares in Paris being designated Rue de Jean Jacque Rousseau. Hcw much better than Tom kins's-place, Snooks's-terrace, and Jackson-villas, would Dryden-street, Cromwell-street, Coleridge-street, Hamp den -street, and the like, be ! The notion is not un worthy the attention of the Commissioners of Metropo litan Improvements. OUR OWN TIMES. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank. A glorious etching of " Almack's over the water," where " no gentleman is allowed to smoke except at re freshment time," and " no gentleman is allowed to dance with his hat on," is the frontispiece to the present num ber. Then we have a most original sketch of railway deposits—to wit, the hats and bonnets left in the first, second, and third-class carriages, arranged on shelves as they are to be seen at the station; and under the title of the " Moderns in Beards ad the Ancients in Spectacles," we have an admirable quiz upon those white vested gentlemen who insist upon wearing beards and moustachios, and, sticking the head of a Venetian senator on the body of a Bond-street lounger, fancy they Look artistical and aristocratic. As appendant, George Cruikshank claps a pair of spectacles on a ferocious Baron " of the good old times," who, dagger in hand, is about to strike; and the whole countenance reminds you " Instead of Fitz-Walter, or of Guy of Warwick, or blood spilling Bagniolles—of a grinning hyena, in a fancy dress. " That being the case, my grotesque young artist, all of the modern school, be kind enough to turn to your mirror, and tell me if your shoulder-sweeping masses of hair, and your Spitalfields figured waistcoat, your renaissance mousta chios, and square-cut coat, your curled whiskers, and your star-bespangled satin stock, are not equally as incongruous companions as a feudal baron in spectacles. And does not the suspicion creep over you that you are nearly as fertile an object of merriment ? You don't think so. Very well :we will go a little further, and try back as far as the classic ages, and if that does not convince you we shall hand you over to Truefit and to Stultz, to do their worst upon you. _ _ " The incongruity which a mixture of modern with bygone costume produces is, of course, increased in proportion as we dive into antiquity. We have heard of an ingenious artist, moving in no elevated sphere, who obtained his livelihood by painting pictures for peep-shows. His drawing was always vigorous, and his colouring uncommonly bright, but for want of a knowledge of ancient history, his composition and ac cessories were somewhat incorrect, inasmuch as he clothed all his figures in modern costumes, and attributed to them habits of life peculiar to the class of society in which he him self moved. Ile was also a severe moralist. who, wishing to combine instruction with amusement, invariably treated his juvenile patrons with pieces, in imitation of the early dramatists, whose equally grotesque mysteries were—in the best faith, and with a really pious purpose—representations of passages from biblical history, only that our friend mixed up sacred with profane history, with the most anachronistic miscellaneousness. his master-piece was a family group of King Solomon, and when he exhibited this composition be hind the glazed peep-hole, his description of it ran somewhat as follows : " The next piece in this ere show, is King Solomon—King Solomon on his golden throne. Look to the right, and you'll see Nimrod a standing with his back to the fire, in top-boots, buskins, and red upper Benjamin, just come in from hunting. He is a talking to King Solomon, who is smoking his pipe and a reading the Times newspaper. A sitting on the steps of the golden throne is the queen of Sheba untwisting a pair of stockings as fast as Mrs. Penelope—(there you see her, in the arm-chair in the cotton gown)—has knitted them. Look to the left, out of the open window, and you behold Nebu chadnezzar sitting down on all-fours, and waiting for Mer cury to bring him a cold salad.' "The extravagant absurdities of the showman are easily wrought, in actual life, by inattention to propriety in cos tume. The figure of Diana, for example, carved with its far from ample drapery, by hands said (scarcely with pro fanity) to be immortal—so exquisite is their work—excites no feeling but that of the purest pleasure—that pleasure which the chaste and beautiful are calculated to call up. But place a Bond-street bonnet on the head of the sculptured goddess, and she is immodest ; add a pair of spectacles, and the statue becomes a ridicule." There is much sound sense in this good-humoured satire. ECLECTIC REVIEW. Schlosser's " History of the Eighteenth Century" is reviewed in the Eclectic, and although the dissertation which grows out of this review is a very scrambling cata logue of the literary characters of that eventful age, it is nevertheless the most striking article in the number ; and this from the momentous nature of the subject. A cheap and popular edition of this really remarkable work would be a most useful publication, and we com mend this fact to the consideration of those adven= turous publishers, who have followed the example of that celebrated society, of which the Ex-Chan cellor Lord Brougham was the originator and chairman. Ancient History, like the dead languages, is taught with infinitely more assiduity than those histories which pertains to modern times, and those vernaculars, the knwledge of which would be of such immeasurable efficacy in spreading civilisation and brotherly love throughout the various nations of the globe. From this preposterous disregard to the develop ment of the p:)pular mind, of rendering the mass familiar with the occurrences in which they are in reality more interested than in all the achievements of antiquity, a monster ignorance still hangs over the population. Thousands are intimately versed in the half-heroic and half-voluptuous career of Alciabiades, who have but a feeble notion (if any notion what. ever) of the blundering policy of M. Necker : and yet the life of Alciabiades is little better to them than a fascinating fiction ; while upon the mistaken political economy of M. Necker depended the social emancipation of millions. Thousands again are intimately acquainted with the mellifluous odes of Horace, to whom the writings of Hobbes ere as a book never written; and yet the Roman poet is nothing better than a minister to our intellectual luxury, while the pen of the old Malmesbury philosopher burst asunder many of the ma nacles which bound the continental populace in a general serfdom, and inspir3d his successors, Le Clerc,Belingbroke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Boyle, and Rousseau, to the production of such a system, or rather of such systems of philosophy as shook kings upon their thrones, and have totally changed the character and position of mankind. Schlosser, therefore, to our thinking performs, with regard to modern times, what Plutarch performed with regard to ancient. He divulges the progressive advance of those illustrious men who were destined ultimately to dissipate the political dark ness of many centuries, to arouse the people from ages of political stagnation and of subjection to the present state of enlightenment and freedom. Hence it is that the mere criticism of his singular work upon the eighteenth century—that century of changel—is invested with a charm and an importance quite irrespective of its literary merits. Other papers, such as one on " The Lancashire Operatives," another on Mackenzie s Memoirs, and a third upon the writings of Mackintosh, render the Review of this:quarter attrac • tive. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE. A very sensible course is taken by the conductors ofthis publication, as regards the great question of the past five months. Seeing that so many of their countrymen have declared themselves opposed to the so-called protection to native industry (which was about as much protection as a Chinese shoe—cramping and crippling the national resources instead of placing them upon a sound and healthy footing) ; finding moreover that the vast majority of Legislators in both Houses of Parliament have declared themselves in favour of the free trade measures ; and knowing, in fine, that complaint is now altogether useless, since the Corn and Customs Bill has become the law of the land, the Farmers' Magazine determines henceforth to drop all political considerations upon the subject, and "not to wage a war against what they have no power to avert." From the " Review of the Corn Trade during June," it would appear that the prospects of a wheat harvest throughout the country are rather favourable than otherwise, though the spring-sown corn has suffered materially from drought. The erroneous statement of the Protectionists we perceive is still pe rsis t ed in in the pages of this maga zine, namely, that nearly a million and a half quarters of m wh ar e lt at et ha'ebeenwaiting in bond to b e pro d uce d i n t h e immediately after the Ministerial measures were passed. The Earl of Dalhousie stated in the House of Peers that there were merely 9 00,000 quarters of wheat in bo nd ; not a million and a half, therefore, farmers of En g land! but nine hundred thou nevertheless, of li tt l e i mportance to for the supplies o f h ome grain have scan ty during June ; and th e F armers ' Maga zine comes to t his conclusion, " that there is less sobauenerdntovrenryT. growers,his wheat of home gr owth remaining i n t h e country than many supposed. The fears of the agriculturists will in time wholly evaporate. 11TONTHLY PRIZE ESSAYS. Though the first number of an entirely new descrip tion of periodical , the p resent be ars a rather substantial a ppearance. Whether it can tak e a permanent stand, where so many Promising p u bli cations have failed, is a question which time alon e can test if y , an d which ich it is s also in the _p ower of the ed i tor ,6 Bensons for a Ne w Edi t i on o f Shak spere," is the mo st ealborate a rticle in the collection, assure. t o and will somewhat astonish Mr. Payne Collier. It is remarkable enough that no edition has yet appeared in any degree worthy of the Napoleon of Poets. If we could have an accurately collated text, printed in full lines (not those detestable " double columns to a page"), interspersed with the dainty devices of Kenny Meadows ; embellished with the choicest notes culled from Knight, Johnson, Malone, Collier, Ayscough, and the rest ; prefaced with that masterly preface o f the lexicographer, an entirely new memoir of the dramatist and an antiquarian disser tationdresses and appurtenances of the this were s u bj o i ne d an appen di x o f a t z o lit t, Charles L am b , an d t h e lik e , tegc vfraargiemuesnuptpslaofyrnosm;ibutef ther with certain chapters from Schlegel's " History of Dramatic Literature," and others from Mrs. Jamieson's " Female Characters of Shakspere," we almost think we should be c ontented. The attempt may possibly be made in time/ slid we really believe would THE LIFE ASSURANCE CHRONICLE. This is the second number of a new periodical devoted to the subject of Life Assurance. It contains much valuable information. THE MUSICAL TREASURY. Pcot LXI. This is a marvel of cheapness. The present number contains all the best of the vocal music of Flotow's new opera of "Stradella," with English words by Mr. G. Soane. BANKERS' MAGAZINE. In an article on Post•office money orders, the follow ing suggestion is thrown out which will, we hope, be acted on by bankers generally:— "But without entering fully into a discussion of all the questions which may be raised either for or against the pre sent system, it is certainly deserving the considerrtion of bankers in large commercial districts, whether they might not add considerably to the profits of their business by grant ing letters of credit on London and on their correspondents generally, on the same terms for commission as are now charged for Post-office orders. The charge might be propor tionally increased for sums above W.; that being the highest amount the Post• office will remit by a single order. 'We think that a trial of the plan, on an extensive scale, would show it to be worth continuing." The carrying out this plan would be a great public convenience. - In addition to many valuable articles on railways a" mines, the present number furnishes some curious tails relating to stagging and stagdom. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. We rejoice to see this publication succeeding; it de serves success. Seldom does a periodical advance with such high aspirations, with such a corps of admirable contributors, or with such a consistent enthusiasm for the interest and instruction of its readers. It cannot fail to become a favourite. RAILWAY REGISTER. In the opening article of the present number, on the contest of the gauges, the writer, who confesses that his sympathies are with the broad gauge, after going through the whole of the evidence adduced before the Commis sioners, comes to the conclusion that the inconveniences of a break of gauge have been greatly exaggerated— that they are more than counterbalanced by the benefits arising from the existence of the broad gauge—that the report of the Commissioners " is a very creditable docu ment for honest men, who were appointed to report upon a subject, the correct mode of investigating which they did not understand, and who possessed among them every qualification except that of being men of business," and that the Board of Trade did right in setting the report aside. The article thus concludes:— "For our own parts, we see no occasion for any decision at all; we think it would have been better for both parties to have been left alone to fight it out; but if any decision was to be come to, that of the Board of Trade seems to be more consistent with equity than any other." After an article on Indian Railways, wo have a minute account of the working of the Leviathan loco motive Great Western on the journey to Bristol on the memorable 13th June, 1846. In an article on the deci sion in Walstob and Spottiswoode, the writer pleads the cause of the provisional, committee as against the allottees, and considers that the former have in many instances been rather hardly dealt by. The "Railway Portfolio," which is now incorporated in the Register, is intended to furnish a complete record of the prospec tuses and other documents of railway and other joint stock companies, and preiserre them in an acoeasible THE PATRICIAN. • In addition to a variety of papers on historical, genealogical, and antiquarian subjects, we have, in the present number, a well-written notice of the doings at the Italian Opera, and an excellent critique on De Vigney's novel of " Cinq Mars," and on Victor Hugo's " Notre Dame." FINE ARTS. THE INDEPENDENTS ASSERTING LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. This splendid picture of the first assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents, is the work of J. R. Herbert, Esq. The scene is laid in the Jerusalem Chamber, where the Westminster assembly of Divir es were accustomed to hold their sittings, and may be said to be one deQcriptive of a most interesting period of our history, though unfortunately but little known. It is almost impossible to criticise the merits of the piece, without taking it in an historical point of view ; but even looking on it as a mere work of art, though there are some blemishes we would wish away, yet we must at once accord to it no ordinary degree of merit. In many of the portraits the artist has shown 'a master hand—that of Cromwell is drawn with great power, freedom, and expression, and the beholder at once recognises in his lineaments the subtle statesman and the daring leader. The portrait of Bulstrode Whitelock, one of the lay assessors, is also exquisitely handled. The colouring is rich yet truthful, and we do not observe that " garishness" which is the fault of many modern artists, when treating an ambitious subject. The discontent of the zealots at Philip Nye's address is well expressed. While the calm manner of the speaker, and the dignified, yet re solute composure of his adherents, is powerfully de veloped. On the whole this piece must secure to the artist a rank in his profession, to which it is but the fortune of few to attain. We understand that Mr. Agnew, of Manchester, has purchased it for the sum of five hundred guineas, and that he has given an order to the artist to execute him a picture of Mr. Cobden and the Anti Corn-law League in council, for which he is to receive one thousand guineas. The picture is to con tain upwards of fifty portraits. The present exhibition is at No. 23, Cockspur-street. LATER FROM AMERICA. By the arrival of the London line-of-packet ship Quebec, Captain Hebard, at Plymouth, we have re ceived New York papers to the 18th June, from which we copy the following extracts : THE OREGON TREATY. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. IN SENATE. WASHINGTON, JUNE 16, 1846. THE FINANCES OF THE COUNTRY.-WAYS AND MEANS. A message from the President - was sent in this morning, with Secretary Walker's report on the finances and the tariff. The President states that the increase of revenue rendered necessary, by the war with Mexico, can be met by reducing the duties to a revenue standard, imposing duties on free articles, and modifying the duties on others. Additional authority is asked for the issue of Treasury notes. The Secretary's report was also read. He estimates a de ficiency in revenue for the next fiscal year at nineteen mil lions six hundred and twenty thousand dollars, but antici pates receipts from various sources which will reduce this to fifteen millions. This deficit will also be reduced, if the tariff is modified according to the provisions of the House Bill, introduced by the Committee of Ways and Means. The entire receipts with this modification, are estimated at thirty millions, but leaving still the deficiency mentioned of fifteen millions. The warehouse system proposed, it is estimated, will fur ther reduce this amount, and the graduation of the sales of public lands half a million more, leaving still over twelve millions deficit. To meet this the Secretary recommends a resort to loans, or issue of Treasury notes, or both, as circumstances may render it most desirable; and at the earliest dates, and at such rates of icterest as may be agreed upon. The message and report were referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. An Executive message was also received, which was under stood to be the Oregon treaty. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, JUNE 16, 1846. Opened with the usual ceremonies. THE OREGON TREATY. Mr. M'Dowell, of Ohio, moved a suspension of the rules, in order to introduce a resolution embodying a protest against the treaty in progress for a settlement of the Oregon question. The resolution and preamble assume that this is a question proper for the action of the whole legislative power; for the attempt secretly to adjust the matter while the people and their representatives are ignorant of the terms, would be doing injustice to the rights of the people, and "consum mated" no obligatory force upon them, therefore " Resolved,—That in the opinion of the House, it is the duty of the Senate to postpone the further consideration and action upon the same, and submit it to the people for their action and consideration." The. remaining resolutions censure the President and Se nate for executive and senatorial Supremacy, and for secret conclave, by which to hide their proceedings from the public under the midnight veil. O❑ his motion to suspend the ruler, the yeas were 35, nays 156. So the motion was lost. WASHINGTON, JUNE 16. THE OREGON TRZATY.—IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS. The treaty was not sent to the Senate yesterday, owing to the resignation of the Chairman on Foreign Relations. The vacancy will be supplied by an election to-day, when the document will be transmitted. It will be necessary to refer it to that Committee, and their reasons for recommending its adoption will be embodied. _ _ _ _ We learn that Mr. Walker has recovered from his illness, and will lay his communication relative to the tariff and finance before the Senate to-day. It will, it is said, recom mend a duty on tea, coffee, and other articles from 20 to 30 per cent., which he estimates will afford an increase of three or four millions in the revenue. _ _ ....... It is said with authority that an issue of twelve millions in Treasury notes will also be recommended in preference to a loan. _ _ MONEY MARKET.-JUNE 16, Six P.M. The stock market was heavy this morning, and prices fell off a fraction. We look upon this as one of those reactions usual upon a rising market. At the first board Pennsylvania Fives declined per cent.; Farmers' Loan, 1 / 1 ; Morris Canal, 1 4 ; Canton, 1 ; Long Island, 1 / ; and Norwich and Worcester, 3 / 4 . Mohawk and Harlem closed at Saturday's prices, and Reading Railroad Bonds advanced I/ 2 . The Exchange Bank and the Canal Bank of Lockport have suspended. Their bills are no longer redeemed at the agencies. COMMERCIAL. BREADSTUFFS.—The market is a little better, with more sales. A lot of prime Genesee sold at 4 dols. 25c., and some indifferent at 4 dols. 18%c. Michigan . held at 4 dols. to 4 dols. Corros.—Another quiet day in this article, and sales small. Buyers are not disposed to enter the market at pre sent rates, and holders, in view of a more prosperous state of trade a-head, and a short supply of the staple, seem disposed to be firm at present prices. NAPOLEON at FONTAINEBLEAU. We have been favoured with a view of this extraordinary production of art, now suspended in the picture gallery of Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., Pall-mall East. The painting, which represents the Emperor Napoleon, seated in a chamber of his imperial palace at Fontainebleau, on March 31, 1814, is eminently worthy of the genius of M. Paul Delaroche o the great French historical painter. In pourtraying that solemn spectacle, the artist has thrown his whole soul into its conception, and nobly and wonderfully has he realised his endeavour. As we entered the apart ment in which this painting is suspended, we could not for the moment divest ourselves of the impression that we stood in the presence of Napoleon himself. It is impossible to look upon his countenance as there delineated without being altogether overwhelmed with a flood of solemn and affect ing thoughts—the mutability of fortune—the woes of am bition—the agonising respoasibilities attendant upon a crown. Delaroche has achieved a triumph in that head of Napoleon ; he has there expressed with remarkable sagacity and power the emotions of a great mind, when pressed down, as it were, by a very avalanche of misfortunes. In the majestic and beautiful features of the Emperor, he has traced out the exquisite torments of doubt, despondency, and irre solution with which we must conceive the whole sentience of that extraordinary man to have been wrung on the first destruction of his empire and the first perfidy o f th ose w h om he had raised from obscurity to greatness. In the com pressed jaws, bent head, and sunken brows, we might almost detect the presages of his abdication ; while in the clenched hand, and in the fire which still smoulders in the eyes, we can recognise the unconquered spirit which afterwards conducted him from Elba. Although the various accessories of the scene are finished-up in a manner even approaching to minuteness—such, for example as the hat and sword, the grey coat, and the mud splashes on theboots, betokening the hard riding from which Napoleon has just returned—they do not in the slightest degree detract from the unity of the com position. We observe that a line engraving of this great work of art is now in preparation under the superintendence oh M. Fiancois, of Paris REMOVAL OF CONVICTS. -The undermentioned pri soners were removed from Newgate on Saturday. to 11E11- bank, preparatory to their embarkation to the pen a l co l on i es, to which their are s entenced to banishment far the f o ll ow i ng t erms : —For ite—Samuel Eales, 23 ; J. Carter, 37 (for man slaughter). Fifteen years—H. Barnaby, 22 ; C, Sullivan, 48. Fourteen years—J. Mortitner (the bigamist), 37. Ten years—F. Stienberger, 22 ;E. Davis, 30 ; Mary Lane, 30 ; Jean Le Grand, 60 ; J. Williams, 24 ; J. Morgan, 20 ; H. Hinton, 19 ; G. Jones, 25 ; G. Jones, 17 ; W. Jones, 21; T. Smith, 22 ; C. Smith, 19 ; W. Brown, 28 ; G. Stone, 15 ; 11, Sale, 20 ; J. J. Craig, 27 ; E. Gregory, 19 ; C. Giles, 21. Seven years—Elizabeth Blackenburv, .27 ; Louise Baptista, 23 ; T. Con no lly, 24 ; T . M urre ll , 46 ; T. Bradley, 23 ; V. Williams, 27 ; T. Smith, 19 ; E. Walter, 25 ; T. Jones, 17. The growth of the apples in Normandy, from which the cider is made, is this year so scanty, that the measure, which in ordinary years is sold for lf, 25c., is now quoted at 4f. and upwards.—Parispaper. THE ,SUBSCRIPTION TO TUE COMDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.—The list includes four contributions of 1,0004 each ; nine of 500/. each ; four of 400/. ; eight of 2501.1 eleven of 2001. ; and a great number of smaller amounts, amounting in all to the sum of twenty thousand one hundred and thirty-six pounds.-211ciacItesier Guardian. ROYAL COLLEqg, OF SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen were admitted members of this college, on Fri day evening, the 3d instant, viz.:—Messrs. James Lander, Cork; Samuel Winter Burbury, Birmingham; John Walsh, Drogheda, Ireland ; William Evans, Devonport ; Mark Mazelwood Clayton, Stratford-on-Avon; Edward Hall,New town, Montgomeryshire ; John Robinson, Wensleydale, Yorkshire ; John Yeoman, Whitby ; Bryan Liao., Hebden bridge, Yorkshire ; Joseph Clegg, Rochdale, Lancashire; Thomas James, Louth, Lincolnshire; Daniel Paterson Barry, Kensington ; and Thomas Blood O'Donnell, Kilrush, Ireland. At the same meeting of the Court of Examiners, Mr. John Andrews passed his examination for naval surgeon ; this gentleman's diploma, from the came college, is dated October 15, 1841. SPORTING. TO THE• EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—l have already given a list of the " good for noughts" and " third rates ;" to-day I will review that dangerous por tion which generally forms at least two-thirds of the held, to wit—" the second rates" and from which the winner now and then springs -up to the astonishment of the ring, but this dose has been repeated so often lately as to call for a careful analysis of this important division. lago—This son of Don John has proved himself a "Derby nag," by his doings at Newmarket and Ascot; he won very cleverly the Welcome Stakes, beating that extraordinary animal St. Demetri, and the spring crack Burlesque —a per. formance -well worth recording. lam very muele afraid his legs are not so good as they ought to be—the last•titne I saw them they were but so-so; on this account I cannot fancy him for the Leger. Joinville, by Picaroon, out of Resolution's dam—Must not be overlooked ; his running on the Downs was far from mediocre. lie possesses strength and speed, has remarkably good quarters, with shoulders well laid back, the withers rather high, but altogether the beau ideal of a racer; he is a dangerous outsider, and must be taken care of. Fair Star, by William the Fourth—A tolerable filly; can not beat Joinville. Cranebrook, by Lord John—Must not be despised, for he is the particular fancy of a few influential bettors--persons who know what they are about—for my part I know but little about him; consequently, at present, can't advise. Brother to Sir Henry, by Sir Martin—A tough outsider, who can and will go, especially over trying courses—more of him anon. Dolo, half brother to the foregoing nag—A strong and compact piece of horseflesh, as his victories at Newcastle, the week before last, proved. I reckon him, and the Brother to Sir Henry, to be on a par, and have but little hesitation in declaring Fancy Boy to be at least half a stone better than either. St. Demetri, by Colwiek, out of Galata—Cut out for a great deal of work, but without a chance for this race. _ _ Wrestler, by Gladiator, darn by Mulatto—One of the " dark lot," is an animal which must be carefully dealt with. His blood and size are very superior ;'he has just gone into active training for the Leger, and if well on the day will be one of the most dangerous outsiders that can be found. It is difficult to judge of the capabilities of horses when out of training, but from present appearances he is a likely colt to do something prodigious. He is engaged in the knaves. muir Stakes at York, with the Brother to Millepede, Sir Tatton Sykes, and the Peri colt, and should he start his length will be obtained immediately. Humdrum, by Sir Hercules—A great pet for the Derby, but an extreme outsider for the northern event; will do but little, his chances being entirely out after his last display oa the Heath. Colt by Don John, out of Pen—This colt's distance is iwo or two and a• half miles, any other length of course seems to be unsuited to him. His running on the Downs was any thing but first-rate, and his running at Doncaster, if he goes, will be a remarkable similitude to the former. Vanish—This filly is the property of Sir C. Monck, who generally starts something; it will most probably run, but will not win. Couroush, an half bred Irish nar , by Birdcatcher—A most mischievous fellow to be again s t, if quite up to the mark on the flay. The Traverser—No go at any price. Woodpecker—Another " Irisher" by Birdcatcher, who will, if well, be one of the competitors for a dead certainty. His success will materially depend upon his training after his arrival on this side of the Channel. Colt by Drayton, out of Ruby—Has splendid blood in his veins—more I know not. Wilderness—A fine large filly, but not good enough for this race. Sheraton, by Inheritor, out of Fancy—Will not "inherit my fancy." Thus I have disposed of seventeen more of the high-bred cattle, leaving but six to form that distingui s hed lot, which I shall denominate the " tirst rates," and first rates they are in mettle, strength, power, speed, and size, as will eventually be proved on the 16th of September next. I shall close my remarks on the St. Leger for the present on Monday next. The Newmarket July meeting contains three days of meagre sport. On Tuesday the July Stakes will m os t pro bably bring the following to the post :—Wolverton, Marmora colt, Sister to Deerchase, Cutaway, Cossack, Oxygen filly, Veneur, Eldon, Borrachio, R e d s h an k co lt, an d Alexander— a large field for this race, and it is not improbable that one or two more may go for it, including Bedouin. I shall look 'to Sister to Deerchase, Oxygen filly, and Colonel Peel's starter to pull me through, having a preference for the Oxygen filly. The Chesterfield Stakes on Thursday will have a very re-. spectable field—seven or thereabouts—including one of Lord Exeter's, one of Colonel Peel's, and the Earl of Chesterfield's Lady Lurewell. The race I may safely leave to these three s the latter being the best, although the others are but little inferior. This stake seems destined for my Lord of Chester field ; he won it last year with Free Lance. This year I think he will just manage to win it with Lady Lurewell. But my readers must bear in mind that Colonel Peel has a well-brtd trio, one of which will be sure to start, and the Colonel is the best breeder of two yrs old in existence. For the Liverpool Cup next week Mendicant, Little Hampton, and Plaudit look well on paper, but two out of the three are such " slow coaches" that it is hardly safe to invest on them, notwithstanding the weight is so light. Mendicant must not be peppered. The weight in comparison with the rest is heavy, I allow, but she is as fine a filly as any out this season.—l am, &c., Saturday, July 4. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. On Saturday this distinguished club closed a brilliant season with a match for three handsome pieces of plate. There were ten yachts of the first and second class entered, to sail from Erith to the Chapman Head Buoy and back to Greenwich, but only eight started, viz., Lord A. Paget's Belvedere, of 25 tons ; Mr. H. Gibson's Ino, 26 tons; Mr. J. Smith's Secret, 25 tons; Mr. Heighington's Vixen, 25 tons; Mr. T. Harvey's Prima Donna, 25 tons ; and of the second class, Mr. Roberts's Ranger, 12 tons; Mr. Atkinson's Enchantress, 11 tons; and Mr. J. Gordon's Wee Pet. It was a delightful day, but for sailing it was far from being what might reasonably have been desired. The Star steamer, with the Duke of Beaufort, Lords Seaham, De Ros, and a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen on board, ac- . companied the yachts, and, in addition to Adams's band, the'. Marquis of Anglesey gave directions for the band of the Royal Horse Guards to be in attendance. Notwithstanding the light air of wind, the competition was extremely inte resting all the way down, particularly in rounding the steamer at about Cliff Creek, below Gravesend—the tide having run its course before the contemplated distance could be reached—where the Secret only headed the Ino a few seconds, after an admirable and scientific struggle for " pride of place." The Belvedere came next, and then the little Ranger, which had, in a surprising manner, followed the leading yacht down the river a considerable distance. The Prima Donna, Enchantress, and Vixen did not go round until several minutes after the others. Ir. the run up to Greenwich no change took place, and the Secret won the 60/, cup, the Ino the 30/. claret jug, as the second in her class, and the Ranger a 30/. prize, as the successful competitor of the small yachts. Lord Alfred Paget, the Commodore, pre sented the prizes in eulogistic speeches of the manner in which the yachts had been handled throughout the match, and the company were landed at London-bridge, evidently gratified I with the day's proceedings. FATAL EXPLOSION. SATURDAY.—A frightful explosion took place at Messrs. Ellins and Co.'s salt- works yesterday, by which one life was sacrificed, and others are in a precarious condition. It is necessary to explain the construction of the works in order to understand the nature of the accident. The pans in which the brine (from which the salt is manufactured) is boiled are not placed immediately over the tire, but have false bottoms a few metres in depth, which are tilled with water, and the steam generated therefrom is carried off in pipes to other pans, and generates sufficient heat to cause the brine in these also to deposit salt. From some cause or other, at present unexplained, the false bottom containing the boiling water beneath one of the pans blew up, and with such force as to drive one-half of the latter through the wall of the building in which it is placed, tearing up the strong piping, and throwing the whole into inextricable confusion. The greater part of the workmen and women had just retired from the premises to their afternoon meal, when the explosion took place, but a horse and cart standing near the premises was by the explosion precipitated into the small river Salwarpe near. Two men loading the cart, and also the driver, were dreadfully scalded, but it is hoped they will recover. Two of the injured men, named George and names Carter were conveyed to Worcester Infirmary, where the former died this morning, and the latter is lying in a danger ous condition. The unfortunate deceased has left a widow and a large family of ten children. An inquest will be held on the body of George Carter, when the cause of the catastrophe will be developed. FIRE IN THE CUTTINGS, &C., OF THE GREAT WESTERN BAILWAY.—The grass on the slopes of the cut tings and embankments of the Great Western Railway, be tween Slough and Paddington, has been nearly, throughout the eighteen miles, completely destroyed by tire, occasioned by its being ignited by the live coals thrown out by the fur naces of the steam-engines traversing the line. Several patches of from half a mile to three - q uar t ers of a mile in length have been laid totally bare, and the roots, together with those of the growing shrubs, wholly destroyed. A pas senger, who left Slough by the Bristol day mail-train on Saturday, observed the grass on the cuttings and embank ments on fire, to a considerable extent, in no less than a dozen places. A MAN SHOT.—On Friday last, John Thompson, carrier betwixt Gisburn and Settle, was entrusted with a gun that belonged to David Seed, of liellifield, to take to Settle to get repaired. The gun had a cover upon it, and, when he got to Settle, he was takingit out of his cart, when it proved to be charged , and the contents entered his side, and killed him in a moment. He was 62 years of age. A. coroner's inquest was subsequently held on the body of the deceased, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," with a aeodand of 21. upon the gun.—Leeds Intel ligencer, :DISCOVERY OF A MAN'S LEG AND SKULL IN THE '1 eampi.—On SatVirday morning, as some workmen were dredging the ri ver near W ater l oo -b r id ge, t h ey di scovered a man's leg Awl a human skull. They were both in a decom- Pi -, sed state from being exposed to the water for some time and the leg had on it a piece of a large boot, similar to those used by fishermen. Rumours were circulated that the body had been cut up, that the guilt of the party committing the crime might not be revealed ; but in all probability the limbs and skull were cut asunder by some steamer or other vessel I as it was lying in the bed of the river, at low water mark., Information has been sent to the Coroner, who will hold are inquest forthwith. TEE THUNDER-STORM YESTERDAY.—Yesterday, about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, this metropolis was visited with a thunder-storm, the phenomena of which were most eccentric. The clouds appeared to form them selves into a semi-circular girdle in the southern hemi sphere, and the electric shocks shot out in rapid and almost unremitting succession, as if from a continuous park of ar tillery, until one erratic flash detaching itself from the gene ral volume, which appeared to spend its fury about two miles to the south, burst with a terrible clatter in the neigh bourhood of Denmark-street station-house. Inspector Dons gen, who was on duty at the time, judging by the sound that something had been stricken, after careful inquiry, aseer• tained that the electric fluid had struck the south-west point of the Sailors' Home, in Well-street, Whitechapel, and dis lodged about four yards of the brickwork right opposite to the spot where Prince Albert, a few weeks ago, laid the foun dation-stone of the new Mariners' Church. The heavy mass fell with an immense crash into an upper room of the house of a Mr. Ellis, cow- keeper, adjoining the home, which at pre sent is used as a dressing-room. Mrs. Ellis, who had been dressing, there, had fortunately left a few minutes previously; and so sudden was the shock, and so powerful the electric effect, that every inmate of the house was for the moment paralysed. The immense mass of bricks broke completely through the roof and two ceilings. A marchand de vin of 13erey, near Paris, hanged himself on Thursday. He had, in a moment of intoxication , accepted a bill for 15,000 f., and on becoming sober, and reflecting that he would be unable to pay it when due. /01, was filled with despair, and resolved to conunit suicide. to 6 I 271 I 330 ket- 4 tar aproof ir6d I go c to ~~~ NO Ar• f p 50,0 of t • j ; to ,ten t ea d!' t wr"