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Immediately, in 2 vols.. small Avo, 21s. bound. p ETERSBURGH AND MOSCOW. A VISIT TO THE COURT OF THE CZAR. By RICHARD SOUTH WELL BOURKE, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough street, THE NEW NOVEL. Immediately, in 3 vols., post Svc). L OST AND W O N , Or, THE LOVE TEST. By the Anther of " The Maid's Husband." Henry Colburn, Publisher. 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE of SATUR DAY and SUNDAY. the Bth and 9th instant, will con tain, in addition to all the News of the Week, 1. The HOUNSLOW FLOGGING CASE and MR. WAKLEY. 2. YOUNG IRELAND. Its INTELLECTUAL CLAIMS. No. 2. 3. The BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL DINNER. Its SPEECHES, PARTY, and POLICY. 4. RETURNS to be moved for from KING HUDSO.N'i EASTERN TERRITORY. Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsmen. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ESSR S. LAMOND, SHALE, AND llvo LAMOND, Railway Share Auedoneers, beg to thank their friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, Ind to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. Al! Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but Four or the Season. TO-31ORROW EVENING Will be performed (by d sire) Donizetti's Opera, entitled LUCUEZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, Mdlle. Grist ; Arsini, Mdlle. Brambilla ; Gennaro, Signor Mario ; alphonso, Signor Lablache. In the course of the Evening, the highly successful new and original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Signor Fugni, entitled LE JUGE3IENT DE PARIS. Introducing a new Grand Pas, entitled " Le Pas des Deesses." The principal parts by Madlle. Taglioni, 3fadlle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Cerito, 313 f. Perrot and St. Leon, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mdlles. Cassan and Demelisse, &c. To conclude with the Second Act of the admired Ballet of LA SYLPIIIDE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglionl ; La Sorciere, Madame Coperel; James, M. Perrot. TIER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night but Two of the Seasou. Via Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that there will be an EXTRA PERFORMANCE on THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, When will be performed (for the last time this season) Mozart's Chef d'oeuvre, entitled, IL DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Sanchioll ; Zer lini, Madame Castel= ; Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Masett ), Signor F. Lablache ; Leoporello, Sgnor Lablache ; 11 Commendatore, Signor Botelli ; Don Ottavio, Signor Mar o. In the course of the Evening, the highly successful new and original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Signor Fugal, entitled LE JUGEMENT DE PARTS, Comprising a new Pas—" Le Pas de Deesses." By Mdlle. Taglioni, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Demelisse, Mdlle. Cassan, and MM. St. Leon and Perrot. With other Novelties in the BALLET department ; ccmprising the talent of Mdlles. Taglioni, L. Grahn, Cerito, and L. Taglioni, assisted by the Ladies of the cores de ballet ; M. St. Leon and M. Perrot. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box , frice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Last Week but One of the celebrated BRUSSELS OPERA COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed M. St. George's Comic Opera, entitled TIIE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS; Or, LES MOUSQUETAIRES DE LA Olivier d'EstragueS, 31. Couderc ; Hector de Riron, 31. Boulo; Le Capitaine Roland, 31. Zelger; Athenais de Solange, Mdtne. Laborde ; Berthe de Simiane, Madams Guichard. After which, the Fourth Act of Meyerbeer's celebrated Opera of LES HUGUENOTS. In which will appear MM. Laborde, Zelger, Nassol, Barielle, Boulo, Madame Julien, and Madame Guichard. Doors open at Seven, performance to commence at half-past seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Last Night of the Company's Performing this Season . . - THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Comedy of SPRING AND AUTUMN ; or. The Bride at Fifty. Sir Simon Slack, Mr. W. Farren ; Mrs. General Dartmouth, Mrs. Glover. A (ter which, a New and Original Drama, called BOROUGH PO LIT iCS. Principal characters by Messrs. Webster, Tilbury, Buck .f o ne ; Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. E. Yarnold. In the course of the Evening Mr. Webster will deliver a Fare well Address. The Band will perform the Overtures, " L'Ambassadrice," and " Edouard e Christina," the Quadrille, "Je Veils Danser," the " Dublin Walzer," and " Czarina Mazourk." To be followed by the Farce of NICHOLAS FLAM. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farrell, Brindal, Mrs. Clifford, &c., will sustain the Principal characters. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called A CABINET QUES TION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE LOYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed (by particular desire) the Drama of NELL GWYNNE. Betterton, Mr. Diddear ; Joe Haynes, Mr. Meadows ; Counsellor Crowsfoot, Mr. Matthews; Nell Gwynne, Mrs. Keeley, Orange Moll, Mr. Keeley. Atter which the Farce, entitled AN OBJECT OF INTEREST. In which Mrs. Keeley, Miss Mars, Mrs. Woollidge ; Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, and Bellingham win perform. To he followed by a new Farce, entitled THE END OF JUNE. Nicholas Czarny, Mr. Keeley; Catherine Kroff, Miss Howard. To conclude with the first Act of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CMUR DE LION. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairhrother, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Viliars ; Messrs. J. W. Collier, Kinloch, F. Matthews, A. Wigan, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be•performed the Drama, entitled TIIE GREEN BUSHES; or. A H un dred Years Age. In which Madame Celeste, Mrs. Fitz william, Mrs. Ellen Chaplin ; Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, Wor rell, &c., will perform. After which an entirely new and original Comic Retch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. To be followed by Mr. Buckstone's Comic Drama, called THE MA 11) WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Diccon, Mr. Wright ; Idilly, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed A SPEAKING LIKENESS. Coco, Mr. Comp ton ; Manette, Madame Vestris. To be followed by an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER BRAVO. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss Marshall will perform. After which a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SLEEP ING BEAUTY INT THE WOOD. Baron Factotum, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Princess Isabelle, Madame Vestris. To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. C. Mathews ; Sir Adonis Leech, Mr. Granby ; Lady Clutterbuck, Miss E. Horner. ASTLEY'iI ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. Great and glorious success of our Military Achievements in India. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Military Spectacle, called THE six Gs' INVASION ; or, England's Victories of 1846. Intro ducing the whole resources of the Theatre, military Brass Bands, &c. After which, Novel and Picturesque SCENES of the HIPPO DROME and Sports of the Curriculum, by the British and Foreign Professors. Clowns in the Arena, Messrs. Wallet and Roches. The whole concluding with the legendary Spectacle of the PHANTOM KNIGHT ; or, The Fatal Kiss. liox-office open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. • Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented (MTH (C BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GUIOTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECIINIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI will descend :mom a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Lim, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons or lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivora at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; ('oncert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. Admission. One Shilling. MONSTER FETE GRAND NEAPOLITAN CARNIVAL AVD FETE D'ETE!! ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MONDAY, TUESDAY, 1 1 th, WEDNESDAY I , 3th N , AD1846.H TURSDAY, August 10th, 12th and Bands of the Coldstream, Horse Guards Blue, Royal Artillery, and Lewis's Brass Band, forming a Monstre Band of One Hundred ; National Anthem and Salute of Twenty-one Guns. The DISTINS the Original Performers on the Saxe Horns. HEIR. CHARLES KIST, the Modern Hercules, Flight on the Sails of a Windmill. NEAPOLITAN BAZAAR, Attendants in Neapolitan Costume. The TIGHT ROPE, by Madame Ilicken, Mr. Ryan, and Master Ryan. FAIRY-TAKE EXPLOITS, A-la-Risley, by the Messrs. Candler. The TARANTELLA, by Muddle. and Mon. Fontaine. LA TRANCA HISPANIOLA, by Mr. Candler. FEATS on the CORDE VOLANTE, by Monsieur Bradbury. An ENCAMPMENT of GIPSIES. ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS, with new and indescribable effects. On THURSDAY, the Anniversary of her Majesty the Queen Dow ager's Birthday, a Grand Display of Fireworks. Doors open at Two o'clock. Admission Two Shillings; Children, un ler Twelve years of age, halfprice. WEATIMIL-SUN OFFICE. AUGUST 6. TIIER.Mv3IETEE, Lowest, 63; Highest. 76 ; Noon, 79 BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1ND N.E. ; cloudy. 111 )H WATER AT LONDON-BELDGE THIS DAY. tiornin4 27 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 52 minutes after 1. !t• e • - of M A ,4 92 " • ,aftol \- f - 43_: • virithr.g Ai tit LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1846. Among the various means of materially improv ing the sanatory condition of our populace, none are likely to produce such immediate benefit, whether morally or physically, as the regulation of public cemeteries upon a different system than the present. So thoroughly convinced are we of this circumstance, that we have never tired, nor shall we ever tire, of in veighing against the pernicious grievances incident to the present arrangement, until it be altogether and permanently abandoned, and one of an entirely dif ferent character substituted. Feeling thus earnestly in regard to the precarious tenure of public health, under the existing evi l s of b urying - grounds NNithin our most populous cities, we are heartily rejoiced toperceive that Mr. MACKINNON has re mlled the serious atten tion of the Legislature to the subject, by moving for the second reading of the Public Cemeteries' Bill. We regard those Members of our representative assembly with peculiar interest, and, we must acknow' ledge, with a kind of paramount partiality, who labour arduously and unostentatiously for benefac tions to their common country. Such men as these we look upon as the most laudable and legitimate, because the most retiring and the most hard-working of our legislative patriots. They contemn the men tricious glories of faction; they may be classified as among those who, on a large scale, "do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." As we re gard the fabrication of the sickle or the plough as immeasurably beyond the marvellous inventors of eurekas, and automata, and eccentric clocks, we re gard these abolishers of social scourges as of a loftier renown than that acquired by the METTER.. mcns and the TALLEYRANDS, in the adroit and so phistical construction of treaties and protocols. How much more advantage has been entailed upon succes sive generations by the first shoemaker, than by the first worker in tinsel and lacquer ! Precisely ana logous are those descriptions of statesmen whom we have particularised and contrasted. Again we repeat our gratification at the revival of the ques tion of public burial-grounds by Mr. MAC KINNON. He has recognised the extraordinary benefits that would accrue to the community by some radical alteration in the present localities and the other baneful concomitants connected with our churchyards. Nor do the Ministers evince any disregard to the necessity of such a change. From the incidental observations of Sir GEORGE GREY we are deeply rejoiced to see that it is the intention of Government to incorporate with other sanatory mea sures now in preparation, some plan for an alteration similar to the one proposed by the Hon. Member for Lymington. Mr. Macau/Now has, after the most approved fashion of preaching and propounding, divided his proposition into three distinct heads, all of them likely to prove individual causes to a common effect. First, he insists upon the necessity of preventing all interments within the precincts of large towns, or populous places; secondly, of speedily committing the bodies of the poor to the earth, so as to lessen the chances of the spread of pestilential disorders; thirdly, of puttingsome limitation upon the charges of undertakers and others, the like gloomy craftsmen, who are at present enabled to impose upon their unwilling employers by the most exorbitant charges. We conceive that the foregoing classification is judicious enough, as far as it extends, but we be lieve that there are other collateral requisites in this reform which should have been distinctly specified, and successively enumerated. With the prevention of interments within towns should have been joined the prevention of interments in the vaults of such sacred edifices as are habitually used as places of public worship, and thousands of which structures would not come under the influence of the preliminary clause of this Bill. Is it not contrary to common sense, to imagine that sound health can be pre served in our rural districts, and contagi ous diseases avoided in the sequestered hamlets of England, when every Sunday the coun try folks assemble together in their churches, some times as well suited for the reception of the parishioners as a thimble to a quart of gooseberries ? Can health of body and avoidance of contagious maladies, we repeat it, be insured when a crowd of these labourers assemble every Sunday in their diminutive church and sit there for hours in the broiling heat of summer, with the steam and stench of mortality reeking up through the planks or tiles of the floor from the decaying flesh of their brethren in the vaults beneath ? Is it possible that while breathing such a pestilential atmosphere at periodical intervals, these people can preserve the purity of their own blood, and the wholesome or ganisation of their " tissues ?" It is from such monstrous and unnecessary evils as this, it is from the inhalation of the vapours arising from animal decomposition, it is from the living poor sleeping for many successive nights in the same room with the dead poor (and this particularly in the dense quarters of our metropolis), it is from unwholesome earth of our City grave-pits infusing a subtle poison into the lungs of our civilians, that thousands of lives are sacrificed every year, that the inhabitants of our towns are proverbially of more debilitated constitutions than the dwellers in the country, that contagious disorders sometimes ravage the land and decimate the population ; that 67,000 of our fellow countrymen were every year swept from creation by endemic and epidemic diseases. To say that this is not a matter requiring the resolute and speedy interposition of Government would be folly and cruelty to the last degree. All the washhouses and public baths, and Sewerage Acts, and copious supplies of water, and ventilation, and domestic drainings in the world, can never ensure the natural health of, or ward off unnatural maladies from, a people living in an artificial state of society unless the vestiges of mortality—in plainer words, the rotting corpses of our fellow creatures—be re moved from the vicinity of their living and breathing companions. And morally such a change would be beneficial. There is something more consonant with the divine, and tender, and moving thoughts upon death, such as are evoked by Christianity—there is something, we say, more consonant with those so lemn and beautiful thoughts in the green grass, and the cowslips, and the night sky of a country churchyard, than in the mouldering planks, the greasy clay, and rusty bars of a city church yard. The tranquillity of the one is as appropriate as the din around the other is detestable and distracting. Rejoiced, as we should have been, to see Mr. MACKINNON'S motion for the second reading of the Public Cemeteries' Bill acquiesced in, we shall, nevertheless, await in patience and hope the re-intro duction of the matter by the Government, under Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Our patience in this particular will be the more sincere as we continue sanguine that the subject will receive the revision as well as the patro nage of the Administration. We have perused the report of what passed at the meeting, held in Conciliation Hall on Monday last, with feelings of unmixed satisfaction. The antici pated presence of Mr. O'CoNNELL imparted a peculiar interest to the proceedings, as it was known he had left London for the express purpose of justifying his conduct in the face of his enemies, and of offering his counsel to the Association as to the course to be pursued in consequence of the secession from its bod y of Mr. S. O'BRIEN and his turbulent clique. Mr. O'CONNELL has triumphed in every way. He found ready to his hand, as soon as he set his foot upon his native sh Ire, letters addressed to him by distinguished men of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, admirably calculated to strengthen his unflinching determi nation, by moral means alone, to succeed in re dressing the political ills of Ireland. The letter of Dr. HIGGINS was at once seasonable and severe, but not more severe than just. We cannot resist tran scribing the following extract : " We have witnessed with sorrow the disgraceful scenes that have lately taken place in Conciliation Hall, and have felt the deepest indignation and disgust at the shallow sophistry and flippant impertinence exhibited by the few young men who so childishly style themselves Young Ire land. Do these persons already forget that all their import ance, if any they possess, is owing to your superhuman and unbounded influence? Or do they imagine the whole country will ever start up at their wild bidding ; throw moral force and O'Connell to the winds; trample upon God's holy com mandments; violate their sworn allegiance to their gracious Sovereign ; and, under the magic spell of puritanical rank and Jacobin impiety, sally forth from their peaceable fire sides to be butchered in an unequal and fruitless contest? Assuredly, if such be the expectations of the Young England party, they must look on their fellow-countrymen as the veriest idiots upon the face of the earth , w hilst, at the same time, they draw down upon themselves the scorn and laughter of every true repealer in Ireland." The confidence of the Romish priesthood is, if possible, increased in Mr. O'CONNELL by the divergent tactics of the " physical force" party. The unbounded influence which they exercise over their respective and multitudinous flocks is beyond dis pute. The detestable doctrines broached by Young Ireland compel every well-conditioned man to stand aloof from them. Numerically, mentally, and morally, then, these factious demagogues, and gun powder tyros, have happily placed themselves hors de comb t. v re a d ti i c c i t n ed at io a n s much last week, and we rej that The split is irremediaoice ble. l a V t e our p has been justified. The Libera tor boldly denounced every seceder as a traitor, Mr. S. O'BRIEN excepted. To him only did he leave open the door of repentance. We know not what may be the future political career of Mr. S. O'BRIEN. It would be difficult to foretel it of the possessor of so vapouring a temperament. Our hope is that Mr. O'CONNELL may live long to guide his country to a safe redemption from the oppression under which she has suffered. But, should we be disappointed in this, we are persuaded that, after what has occurred, his sagacity is too keen to permit him to recommend the Member for Limerick as a proper person to fill his place. It is evident from the following sentence in the letter already alluded to, from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, that a great moral respon sibility would attach to any such recommendation : " I feel thoroughly convinced, if it were the will of PROVIDENCE to warn you to-morrow oryour near dissolution, the Irish nation would unanimously adopt, as their political guide, that man alone whom you would bequeath to them as worthy of their con fidence." Mr. O'CONNELL broadly declared that the present Government should have his strenuous support. " He was convinced that so much good to the country was never tendered by a Government, and so much pru dence and discretion were never so necessary on the part of the people." Probably no man out of the Cabinet knows better than Mr. O'CONNELL the outline of the ameliorating measures for Ireland intended to be introduced next session by the Government; and certainly few men could compete with him in capa city for judging of their salutary efficacy. More over, no one is more fully aware than the Irish leader of the folly of harassing a well•intentioned Adminis tration by any untoward demonstration of violent conduct in Conciliation Hall : his present moderating policy is, therefore, equally a proof of his wisdom, and true patriotism. The imbecility of the rebellious seceders, in having arraigned those repealers who have accepted office, was felicitiously ex posed ; for either they were sincere or insincere, when they upbraided Lord EBRINGTON for considering a repealer disqualified from holding office. If sincere, they should have praised the Government for remov ing the ban of exclusion, and have congratulated the present recipients of office. But, as they have not done this, but have, on the contrary, denounced them, they have, independently of the impolicy of their views, furnished indelible proofs of their former insin cerity. We have them here inextricably seated be tween the horns of a dilemma. Conducted in the way in which the Association now is, ruled over by such a master spirit as O'CONNELL ' S, fenced round with the most solemn declarations, that by the action of the pure and unalloyed principles of moral force only shall its energies be devoted to the regeneration of Ireland, we see no reason to regret its existence, because we are satisfied that, simultane ously with the realisation of equal rights to those enjoyed by Great Britain, the Association will be either voluntarily dissolved, or crumble into insignifi- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, MO, cance. " You take my house when you do take the prop That cloth sustain my house: you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live." Conciliation Hall serves the purpose of a political venti lator, and acts wholesomely enough for the time. 'With a stinted franchise, and but a spare number of repre sentatives, it is not unnatural that an ardent, discon tented, and suffering people, should sympathise with an Association which offers a safe outlet to their feelings, and authoritatively sots forth the wrongs by which they are oppressed. The phantom of repeal troubles not our brains. O'CONNELL has frequently alleged that without the co-operation of the Protestants repeal is hopeless, and for their support he will look in vain. If Ireland were as righteously governed as England and Scotland, repeal would never be de manded. Scotland might then just as well agitate for a severance of her union, as Ireland. Neither would the absurdity stop short of kingdoms, for an extensive and numerous county, or two or more of them united, might, as far as abstract ar gument is concerned, just as reasonably start for a several, or conjoint independence, till, in fine, we relapsed into another Heptarchy. It is not pre tended, that, were equal rights conceded to Ireland, there would still remain in that country political peculiarities, establishing the necessity for a separate legislature. The latter pri vilege has only been earnestly sought for, from the partial belief that England never would place Ire land upon the same footing with herself in all other respects. Our past rule may have done mush to strengthen this belief, but we rejoice to think we have reached a period when a beneficent spirit will influence our national councils, and prosper and direct all their consultations, to the safety, honour, and welfare of that afflicted country. The report of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris on the questions referred to them by the French Government, with a view to their giving an opinion on the quarantine laws, is a document of the greatest importance, and from which we may eventually hope for the most valuable results, in the relaxation, and, perhaps, ultimate abolition of the odious system, by which the most injurious effects have been produced—by which science has been impeded, travelling obstructed, and commerce, navigation, and manufactures seriously restricted. The report of these learned gentlemen, which is in every way worthy of their high reputa tions, objects in the strongest manner to the system now in use by the authorities of Mar seilles, where the quarantine regulations are most frequently used, and which it justly designates as having been adopted under the influence of exagge rated fear and a total ignorance of the limits of danger, and as stamped in several points with a character of barbarism which demands an early reform. The: Commission pro poses a line of conduct entirely opposed to the mea sures now taken. It is suggested they should be re placed by means simple and easy of execution, and which have already received the sanction of expe rience. The report is divided into four branches : the first refers to countries in which the plague has arisen, or Still arises, spontaneously; the second, to its epide mic or sporadic character, and to the manner in which it propagates itself ; the third treats of the transmissibility of the disease ; and the fourth of what is the common or exceptional time for the incubation of the plague. It then introduces the applications therefrom to the question of quarantine. On the first branch, after giving a definition of what the plague is, and the general characteristics of the several localities in which it has arisen spontaneously at different times, they arrive at the conclusion, that in all countries where the disease has been observed to be spontaneous, it may reasonably be considered to arise from certain causes acting on a great portion of the population. Those causes are, living on a marshy soil, near the Meliterranean sea— near certain rivers, the Nile, the Euphrates, or the Danube—living in houses that are low, not well ventilated, and where there exists a superabundant accumulation of inhabitants—hot and damp air—the action of animal and vegetable substances in a state of decomposition; and, lastly, great moral and human misery. In Lower Egypt, where these causes are chiefly prevalent, the disease is endemic. It is observed to assume the sporadic form every year—that is, when it attacks a small number of separate individuals, and is wanting in the character belonging to epidemic diseases ; and the epidemic, where it attacks a vast number of persons in a given time, about once in every ten years. After showing that this country, now so frightfully afflicted, and from which the prin cipal danger of the importation of the disease is to be feared, was for a long space of time kept free from the epidemic by good administration and the exertions of the sanatory police of the country, they state their expectation that the adoption of the same means would be followed by the same results. We have thus the hope afforded to us, that by energetic measures being adopted in Egypt, the scourge may eventually be banished from the face of the earth. Surely such a desirable result —a consummation so devoutly to be wished for—' t r evincedtieeh s the condition o M ef would justify the different European Governments more particularly the French and English, in remon strating i wnit h E a o T efs tA his L I anxietypww eh h o po o ehfno.aorsw Is alreadythe presides it over the d Et s r ß o tm n nation, intro ducedso many and such valuable reforms, and who has ameliora tionno tto ob e ofe s h supposed that if the restrictions and expenses occa sioned thereby to the commercial interests of his country, which he has proved himself so desirous of advancing, were clearly pointed out, that he would adopt every suggestion calculated to attain the object; and from the extraordinary power belonging to an Eastern Sovereig n he would have the means of doing so more readil y available than in a more limited monarchy would be possible ? Sincerely do we hope that no time will be lost by our Government in takimr measures with th,se of other nations for so greatly advanci9g the interests of humanity. Independent of the considerations which must have such weight with all philanthropists, the mere political economist must feel most desirous of the re formation of a system the maintenance of which has been so costly. It has been calculated that commerce has been taxed for the support of the quarantine laws to the extent of from 1,000,0001. to 2,000,0001. per annum ; but even that expense, great as it is, is of less consequence than the vexation and delay attendant thereon. The report of which we have been speaking clearly proves the utter inutility of by far the greater portion of these regulations, and testifies that they may be either wholly abo lished, or, at least, subjected to such changes as, in a great degree, to do away with the principal grievances. One country alone can do nothing : if England alone should take the lead, which she has ever done, by the removal of these commercial restrictions, and the adop tion of a sounder and better principle, her commerce might possibly be subjected to a greater degree of in convenience by the additional stringency to which it would be subjected by the nations whose prejudices had not been removed, and which still cling to the antiquated and objectionable system with obstinacy and pertinacity. It can, therefore, only be attained by persuasion and losing no opportunity of calling the attention of other nations to the practical result of the observations of the Academy. We trust, at least, that the attempt will be made by our Liberal Government. They may be unable to command success, but let them deserve it ; and, should they happily be successful, and induce the principal nations of the earth to join with them in the total abolition of these vexatious laws, they will have conferred a most valuable boon on the great mercantile and commercial interests of their country. It is impossible for us to follow the report through all its parts, suffice it to say, that it states that the disease is propagated by local and atmospheric causes, and not by contagion, and that it is not conveyed by goods or merchandise—and that, at a distance from countries where the pest is ende mic and out of the focus of infection, it never broke out, among persons that had been exposed to its action after they had been isolated eight days. Letters from Rome of the 28th state that the emente at Cesana, in which a captain of the Swiss Guard was killed, was merely an affair between the guard and a body of smugglers. The PorE, however, has ordered the Swiss troops in garrison at Cessna to be removed, and it is expected that one of the first acts of the administration of Cardinal Gizzt will be to reduce the number of Swiss in the pay of the Pore. His HOLINESS presided over the deliberations of the Committee of Education, consisting of sixteen cardinals, on the '26th ult., and, it is said, proposed the introduction of many improvements in the system of public education. At Berne the new constitution was adopted, on the Ist instant, by a large majority of the inhabitants, in public meeting assembled. The Military Commission of Inquiry at Cracow has completed its labours ; 1,250 prisoners were ex amined ; of these 200 have been delivered up to Austria and Russia ; 220 remain in prison in Cra crow, to undergo a trial before the Civil Commission. composed of two Austrian, two Russian, and two Prussian judges, with a President, and 830 have been set at liberty. The Emperor ncnoLAs addressed, on the 25th of June, the following edict to the nobles of Esthonia:— "TO OUR BELOVED, FAITHFUL, AND DISTINGUISHED NOBLES OF TILE GOVERNMENT OF ESTNONIA. "The nobles of Esthonia have presented to us their propo sitions relative to the organisation of the condition of the peasants in this province. A committee especially appointed for that purpose having examined these measures, which fully answer our expectations, we bestow on them our ap probation, and it is with peculiar satisfaction that we ex press our imperial goodwill to the nobles of Esthonia for this fresh proof of their generous efforts for the general welfare. In the conviction that the nobles of Esthonia will continue in the same spirit to deliberate on the final mea sures which this question demands, we assure them of our imperial goodwill. " NICHOLAS." Madrid papers of the 30th have been received. So great has been the desertion among the Spanish troops stationed on the Portuguese frontier, that General VILLALONGA has issued a bando, con demning every soldier who quits his post to enter Portugal to be shot three hours after his arrest. The Heraldo, which has recently been publishing a series of articles advocating an invasion of Portugal, and in one of which it openly and boldly defied the powerof England,which would it said at once succumb if Spain acted with proper spirit, has now, acting no doubt upon instructions, taken upon itself the whole respon sibility of those articles, declaring that the opinions it has published are not those of the Spanish Cabinet. It appears that the propriety of an armed interfe rence in the affairs of Portugal has been fre quently discussed of late in the Spanish Cabinet, and at length Senor ISTURITZ, who has all along been opposed to an armed intervention, has, it is said, brought round the majority of his colleagues to his opinion, so that, notwithstanding the efforts of General SArz, backed as those efforts have been by Count BREssON, the French Ambassador, to whose inspira tion it is supposed the articles in the Heraldo are due, there will be no invasion of Portugal after all. According to the clamor Public°, General RON• CALI has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba, and Senor CARONDELET, Captain-General of the Philippine Islands. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The elections still continue to go in favour of the Ministers. At the time the latest accounts left Paris the results of 446 elections were known, giving the Ministry a majority of 102 ; the numbers being, Minis terialists, 276; Opposition, 172. It is calculated that the Ministerial majority in the new Chamber will exceed 120. Every one of the Ministers has been elected, and M. DE SALYANDY, the Minister of Public Instruction, has been returned for two places. Among the Depu ties re-elected are M. D'EICHTIIAL, the banker, the Marquis D E MC!NTALEMBER T , Marshal Bu- GEAUD, and M. DEFIN. The Legitimatists and the R.publicans are all but annihilated, as far as the Chamber is concarned, by these elections. There will, in fact, be only two great constitutional parties in it—the one led by M. GUIZOT, the other by M. TIMERS and M. ODILON BARROT. The Oppo- sition papers endeavour to find consolation for their misfortunes by making much of the defeat of M. JAcouEs LEFEBVRE in the second arrondissement of Paris. The Commerce alone honestly confesses that the Opposition have been soundly beaten, but it attributes the Ministerial victory to corruption. The Moniteur announces that the moment the Minister of Justice was informed of the false and alarming rumours which were circulated at Rouen and Paris on the 2d, he gave orders to the Attor neys-General of those two cities to institute a judicial inquiry to ascertain the origin of those rumours. The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th states that ABD EL-KADER, accomFanied by Bou MAza, and a small number of followers, who were in a state of great distress, has taken refuge in Morocco. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 83f. 50c ; the Five per Cents., 122 E 15c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,272 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 975 f. ; Havre, 692 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 701 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 877 f. 50e.; Vierzon, 615 f. ; Bordeaux, 553 f. 75e, ; Dieppe, 390 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 485 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 497 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 480 f. BUSINESS PONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE„kucusx 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 12V,— Dutch Rhenish, EPA —East Indian, I —GI, at Indian Pennisclar, % —Great Western Bengal, Y, —Louvain a la Sambre, 114 —Luxembourg, 2 ex d.—Northern of France Con • stituted, 12% —Orleans and Vie: zon, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —P uis and Lyons Constituted, s%—Sambre and Meuse, 4—West Flanders, 3 4. The Ford Abbey estate, which our readers will remember was sold by George Robins a few weeks since to the Rev. Mr. Lawrence Gwynne, of Teignmouth, for 52,000 guineas, is, we perceive, most unexpectedly again in the market. The advAlisement explains the why and the wherefore; at all events, it sill afford an opportunity to the Catholic body, who delayed arriving at a favourable conclu sion in time for the last auction, to repair the mischief they then encountered. It is beyond all doubt the finest monastery throughout England, and, with its splendid demesne, was estimated the other day at 70,000 guineas, so that the possiblity is, that at the approaching sale (which must be a peremptory one) it will higher than to Mr. Gwynne; but we say "nous verrons." MR. AND MRS. KEELEY'S; l'.x/iEFIT.--The benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley took place at the Lyceum last even ing. For the last two years they have cate red most judi ohusly for the public amusement, and to their credit, be it recorded, they are the on l y managers who have ever been able to manage the Lyceu m . Th e Bill o f fare comprised An Object of Interest, which the beneficiaires ever wil l be to the love+ s of the drama, Nell G wynn, an d Rebu de Lion. t Hood and Richar d Cceur MONEY and CO 111MERCIA L NEWS. (From The Sun of last Nig,lit.) The Cotton-market at Liveri,ool yesterday was very active. The sales were 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including 800 American and 200 Brazilian en speculation and for export.-Shares were steady, but not so buoyant. The intelligence by the West India mail notices a conti nued improvement in the weather, which was favourable for the planters in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Demerara, &c. The Coolies in the latter colony seemed inclined to turn to handicraft and trading pursuits, but in any way we think they must certainly be valuable to the colony. The fine weather comes too late to do more than improve the prospect for next year's crop. This season's will be lamentably deficient. There was a scarcity of shipping at Barbadoes. • The public securities have been rather dull, and the slight decline in prices which occurred yesterday afternoon has not been recovered. Consols for present transfer have realised 95% to 957/ s , and for time 96 to lA. The Nevi Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been also lower, viz., 97; 7 ( 4 to 98. Bank Stock is firm, and has been as high as 209 1 /. Exche quer-bills have realised Bs. to 12s. premium. Speculation in the Foreign Market has been exceedingly dull. Spanish Bonds have been tolerably firm. The Pas sive are quoted 6. Mexican Bonds are lower again, viz., 2 to 25 , 1 1 .. Chilian Bonds are at par; and Brazilian at 90. Belgian Four- and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 98 to 1 ; and Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 591 to 60. Shares are not quite so buoyant, and the recent decided advances induces sales while it checks investments. BRITISH FUNDS. • ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. 2093 4 208% 208% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9638 1 4 9634 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95 3 %% s 95% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 9734 98 98 New Five per Cent. Annuities .. .. 125 126 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 10 5-16 Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 1-16 10 1-16 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. 23 23 Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 23 18 18 South Sea Stock .. „ „ Ditto Old Annuities .. • • • • 9 5 3 958 Consols for Account .. 96% 96 Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. - 12 8 - - pm. 11 5(101. .. - 12 8 - - pm. 8 Ditto, Small - .... 12 8 - - pm. 8 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'Ci•OCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent .. .. 90 90 Chilian Bonds, G per Cent .. . .. 100 100 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. - Ditto, for the Account 2434 25 1 % 24% Portuguese Four per Cent - 42 Ditto, for the Account - 41 Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .• - Ditto, Small .. 42% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. - 25% Ditto, for the Account .. - 263 Ditto, Passive Bonds .. Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 9834 974 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 5934 %60 GO Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 943 94 94 PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .. 15 .. 10% ........ Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. 2 838381„ 21 4 Birmingham and Gloucester ..100 .. - • • • ..... - Ditto, New (issed at 734 dis.).. 1732 ... 32 1 j Birmingham and Oxford J auction 2 .. 7 34 %• • Buckinghamshire 425. .. par % dis. die. Caledonian .. 20 .... 16% 16 Ditto, llalf Shares .. - • 1 3 / Ditto, Extension .. .. 2'4 -1% Chester and Holyhead 27% - ..... 27% Cornwall .. .. 5 .... - I)irect Manchester (Remington's) 2% Direct Northern 234 _ 2 2 Eastern Counties .. .. 14/. 165..... 24% Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 89%8% p 834 p Ditto, York Extension .. I Os. 2% y s Eastern Union .. .. 30 .... 4 334 43 Do. Ipswich & Bury St.Edmunds 9 8 34 • 8% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... - .. •• • • - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% 18% I B I ,E Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 10 .... 11 1 A .......... 11% Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 423. dis... • ... % dis. Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25 .... 3014 304 Great North of England . .. 100 .... -..........- Ditto, New . .. 15 .... 51 .. ..... 50% Great Western .. .. 85 ..., - • • ..... - Ditto. Quarter Shares .. .. 10 .... 23% .... • ... 23% Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 45 .... 65 .. •.• • .. 65 Leeds and Bradford 26 .... 71 .......... 71 Leeds and Carlisle .. - .... Leicester and Bedford 225. dis ..... dis. Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2%.... 2%14 . . London an Birmingham . ..100 ....234 Ditto, Thirds .. 32 .... 73% Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... - Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 2632 London and Brighton .. 50 • • . 66'4 London and Croydon .. .. 131. 153.94... - .••• • • • Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 - • . London and Greenwich .. 12/. Iss. 4d. 9 London, Hounslow, and Western.. 2 .... %. . London and South• Western -41/. 6s. 10d... - - Ditto, New .. •• .. • • 17% 27% .. 2734 London and York .. 2% -2% IA Lynn and Ely .. .. 15 .... 15% 16% Lynn and Dereham .• 15 .... 13% 14 13% Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 - ........ - Ditto Extension 425. .. • • 4 332 p 3 l /2 p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 88 Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 5 .... 16% 16% Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) I •• • • 11 1138 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 1 3ti 34 p.....• 14 p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1 3 / Midland ..100 .... 146 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .. • . 4330 44% Ditto, New . 1 .... 12 % % 12 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .• • • 2934 % 2832 Norfolk 20 .. - Ditto, Tenths .• .• 2 •• .. Ditto, Extension .. .. • • 2 • • - ••• • • ... 2 3 4 4 North British .. .. 25 .... 40 39%% .... 3934 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • • 15 14% ...... 14% Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% .... 3 3 4 3a % 3% North Kent and Direct Dover .. 234.... 1% .• 1% North Staffordshire .. • - • • 425. • • 4% % p.. • ... p Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 9 Portsmouth lnrect • • • . . • 334 5%74 .. . Pregton and Wyre .. • . • . 25 .... 373 4 ...... •• • , 3754 Readin g , Guildford, and Reigate 425. • • • • % dis Scottish Central .. . 12%.... - Ditto New . .. • • - •• • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 .... 338%• • • • • Shropshire Union .. 425. tits % dis. South Midland .. 425..... p.. •• • • South Eastern and Dovor 33%.• • • --..........- Do.. New (do. 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... - • • .... 1834 Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 21% • • ••••• .. 2138 Do., New (do. 151,.) .. No. 4. 234 . ........ 3% South Wales .. .. 5 .... 2 %.... . . . . Warwickshire and London .. 425. - dis Welsh Midland .... 1 Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 10 .... - West Riding Union • . 423. .... 4 34 3 3{ 4 p 4 34 p York and Carlisle .. 234.. •. 1% ....... 1 34 York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... - ..... - Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 25 .... 50 .......... 50 Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 49 .......... 49 Ditto. Extension .. 20 .... '3944 39 IA Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.- 1 ••.- 14 1 4 •• •• 13 3 ,E FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian .. 4 .. • . 23.4 .......... 234 Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 14 .... 12%.. 123 Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... 1% Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 1% 54 Dutch Rhenish , „ 6 61% East Indian .. ss. .... 1 % ...... ys Louvain ala Sambre .. .. 5 ...• 1N Northern of France Constituted.. 5 •• .. - ••• • • ... 13% Namur and Liege .. _ 6 .... Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 8 %•• • • Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 5 % .. ••• • • • 54 Rouen and Ilavre .. 20 .... 2794 .. • • .... 27% Sambre and Meuse _ • . 8 .... 431 .. . West Flanders 6 .... 3 344 •••• • • • • 3 % MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered - •• • • 3 % •• • • •.. •• • *6 BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY. The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was held in the Board Room, at the terminus, London-bridge, yester day, at eleven o'clock. The Hon. Capt. Hareram, RN., having taken the chair, called on the Secretary to read the notice of meeting. After the seal of the Company had been attached to the registered list of the shareholders, The CHAIRMAN said it would not be necessary for him to detain the meeting with any lengthened statement. They were aware of the circumstances under which they met, that it was merely in compliance with the Act of Parliament. They were aware also that the Brighton and Chichester line had been completed, and was opened to the public, and that the traffic on it was satisfactory. He said the l'ortsnmuth extension was in progress, and the Eastern portion ;was considerably advanced, and he might say with confidence that by the end of the year, or early next season, it would be entirely completed, and that as soon as it was completed the transfer of the line would be made to the Brighton Company. A statement of the accounts, up to the 30th of June was then laid upon the table, making the whole expenditure amount to 93,8131. 18s. 6d. Mr. COOPER moved that the report and accounts be re ceived and entered on the minutes. _ _ . Mr. HILL seconded the motion, which was carried nem. con. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was passed, and the meeting adjourned. LONDON JOINT-STOCK AND COUNTY BANK. The usual, half-yearly meeting of this Company took place yesterday, at the London Tavern. The chair was taken ly Mr. Hawes. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the affairs of the Company were in the most flourishing and satisfactory condition. The CHAIRMAN announced a dividend of 6 per cent. This announcement was received witi great approbation ; and after a vote of thanks had been passed to the Chair man, the meeting separated. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. My Lord,—Did the extreme injustice, as well as cruelty, in the mass of punishment to which a delinquent in the army or navy is subjected ever occur to those persons who un happily possess the power of ordering its infliction? Has it ever occurred to them that, in accordance with the mode adopted, nine times the quantity of agony, degradation, and distress, is thus endured ? When a nation, assuming to itself the name of polished, passes a sentence of punishment as barbarous as it is de basing, it is at the same time intended to .cover a falsehood and deception of the grossest kind. The culprit is told that such a number of stripes are allotted to him ; and the in flictors, whom habit has rendered callous to every sentiment of human sympathy, are commanded to violate both law and justice, and add to the torture nine-fold ! No compensation can be made to those who have thus been made to lose their self-respect—mutilated, murdered— but the crime may cease to be committed, and the cry of blood be hushed in this land of boasted freedom and hu manity. Oh ! let the commencement of your government be immortalised by the utter and complete annihilation of this worse than brutal system. Severity never was, never can be, the avenue to a British heart. Remove this brand of infamy from our land, and receive in return the honour, the obedience, the love, the prompt devotedness of emancipated Englishmen. August sth, 1846. MILITARY FLOGGING. —The following resolution was agr eed to on Tuesd a y evenin g , Au g . 4, at a meeting of the National Association, 242, Holborn :—" That the punishment by flogging, as practised in the army and navy, is disgraceful ° a c ivilised nation , brut alisin g and cruel to the men w ho to and endure it, and inefficacious as a means for the suppression of vice and crime. That thJ late cruel and bar barous e xhibition of this punishment at Hounslow calls for a strong expres-ion of public opinion, to obtain which it re solved that a public meeting be held in the Hall, on Thurs day, August 13th." ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.-IES Ro a 3 Highness the Duke of Cambridge and su i te visited these' gardens on Wednes:lay evening, to witness the eruption of Ve suvius. His Ito 3 al Highness passed most flattering enco miums upon Mr. Tyler, on the success of the spectacle, and also in a most feeling and condescending manner congratu lated him cn the little amount of damage done to the gar dens by the late storm. COURT CIRCULAR. Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen yes t2rday. The Queen, the Queen of the Belgians, and Prince Albert, walked yesterday forenoon in the pleasure grounds of Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their accustomed walks and rides yesterday in the Royal gardens. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace, which included their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, his Royal Highness Prince George, his Ex cellency- M. Van de Weyer, the Marquis and Marchio ness of Normanbury, the Countess Vilain MM., Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baroness de Speth, the Countess of Morley, Earl Spencer, Earl Granville, the Right Honourable Sir George and Lady Gray, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord George Lennox, Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke, Mr. Edmond Mild may, and Captain the Honourable J. P. Murray. A military baud attended at the Palace during dinner. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The company began to arrive at the Palace soon after nine o'clock, The following had the honour of receiving in vitations:—Malame Van de Weyer, Baron and Baroness de Moncorvo, Prince Castelcicala, Le Commandeur and Madame Marques Lisboa, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and the Ladies Mary and Adeliza Howard, Lord Edward Howard, the Mar quis of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de Burgh, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the Lady Alexandrina Vane, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Viscount East nor, Lady Elizabeth Dawson and two Misses Dawson, Dowager Lady Lyttelton and the Hon. Caroline Lyttel ton, Lord Foley, Lord Adolphus Vane, Hon. Frances and Lady Anne Charteris, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Lord Brownlow Cecil, Hon. John and Mrs. Bloomfield, Captain the Hon. Mortimer West, Hon. William Cowper, Sir Robert and Lady Gardi ner, Miss and Miss Emily Gardiner, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance during the evening in the Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Keate, visited the Surrey Zoological Gardens on Wednesday evening. Mr. Wilshere, M.P., for Great Yarmouth, with a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Yarmouth, Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Saunders, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, upon the Wreck and Salvage Bill. The Marquis of Normanby transacted business on Wednesday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. Andrew Tennent and Mr. Peter Drew, of the North British Bank, Glasgow, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, yesterday, at the office of the Beard of Trade. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Carr, Solicitor to the Excise, had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman. Dispatches were received yesterday, et the Colonial Office, from the Governors of the West India colonies. Dispatches were sent off last evening for the Governor of New Zealand. Captain G. Smith, RN., had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the Board of Trade, and explained his invention of the paddle box safety boat, recommended by the Committee on Shipwrecks to be generally adopted in all sea-going steam-vessels. Mr. H. Houldsworth had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. ST. LEGER. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Grimston— taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes—taken 9 to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago 10 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy—taken 12 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Eringobragh 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Dawsen's Povnton—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Cranston's Cranebrook 400 to 100 agst Sir Tatton Sykes and Fancy Boy—taken. DERBY. 12 to 1 on the Field—offered. BRIGHTON RACES—THURSDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles. Lord St rad brooke's Lynceus,3 yrs,6st 131b(Clay ) 3 3 1 1 Mr. Ram sbottom's Queen of Cyprus, 4 yrs, 6st 21b 1 4 5 2 Sir W. M. Stanley's Pic Nic, 4 yrs, 8-t 91b..,... 2 1 6 3 Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale, 4 yrs, 7st 41b... 4 2 2 dr Mr. Wallet's Columbus, 4 3-rs, 9st . 6 6 3dr Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, Bst 91b 5 5 4 dr First Heat-5 to 4 agst Annandale, and 4to 1 agst Lynceus. Won by a length, only two having run for the heat. Second Heat-6 to 5 agst Annandale, 3to 1 agst Lynceus, and 4to 1 agst Queen of Cyprus; Pic Nic jumped off with the lead, was never caught, and won by 15 lengths. Third Heat-5 to 2 agst Annandale, 3 to 1 agst Lynceus, and 3 to 1 agst Jenny Wren. Won by a length : Columbus a good third. Fourth Heat-7 to 4on Lynceus, who won by two lengths. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added. Heats one mile. ( 9 Subs.) Mr. Leigh's Correct Card, 4 yrs, 7st ... 5 2 1 1 Mr. Jackson's Syntaxina, aged, Bst llb Lord Chesterfield's New Brighton. 6 yrs, Bst 111 b 1 4 dis Mr. Cuthbert's Bourra Tomacha, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b 2 3 dr Mr. G. Hobson's Twyford, 3 yrs, 6st 31b 3 dr Mr. Booth's Moose Deer, 3 yrs, Est 121 b On Wednesday the winner of the Town Plate was ridden by Sly, not Esling, as stated in our return. BANBURY RACES—TUESDAY. The Warden Hill Stakes, of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 30 added. Heats. One mile-and-a-half. (6 Subs.) Mr. Martin's Trill's, 5 yra, list llb (S. Darling, jun.) 1 1 Mr. Wills's c, by the Count, out of Polly, 3yrs, Ost 41b 3 2 Mr. G. Symonds's Tincton, aged, list 91b ...... 2 3 Mr. Brown's Lightning, 3 yrs, 9st 41b ... 4 4 The Banbury Stakes, of 10 soya each, with 50 added. Two miles. (15 Subs.) (S. Mann) 1 Mr. S. Scott's Mosque, aged, Bst 1 1 Ib ...... air. Norris ns Valiant, (h b) 4 yrs. Bst 41b ...... .. 2 -sr. Pratt's Venus, 4 yrs, Bst 4:b Mr. G. Ongley's Mystery, 4 yrs, Bst The Tally-ho Stakes, of 3 sovs. each , with 15 added; mile and a distance ' (6 Subs), was won in four heat s b y M r. Collins's Brunel, 5 yrs, Bst 131bs (H. Darling), beating Mr. Symonds's Tincton, aged, 9,t 2lbs—Mr. Brown's The Preten der, 3 yrs, Sat 101bs—and Mr. B. Austin's Fancy Girl, 3 yrs, ist 31b. The winner was claimed for 201. The Neithrop Stakes, of 5 soya. each, with 50 added; one mile and a distance; was won by afr. Cowper's Roebuck, 4 yrs, Bst, beating Mr. Pratt's Venus, 4 yrs, Bst—Mr. Green woofs Tit-bit, 2 yrs, Est 101bs—Mr. Wall's Zela, 5 yrs, 7st 51bs—and Mr. Holmes's Chevy Chase, 2 yrs, Est 101bs. NOTTINGHAM RACES-WEnstEsDAY. The Nottingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added; three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, Oat 21b. Once round and a distance (4 Subs.) Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzwilliarn, 3 yrs (Longstaff) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright, 3 yrs Mr. Lancaster's Lutestring, 3 yrs... Plate of 50/.; three yrs old, 6st 101 b; four, 7st 121 b; five, Bst 51b; six and aged, Bst 101 b; mares and geldings al lowed 31bs ; and the second to receive 101. Heats, two miles and a half. Lord Chesterfield's c by Don John, out of Game • Lass, 3 yrs (Longstaff) 1 4 1 Mr. Harrison's Lady Mallorie, 3 yrs Mr. Clifton's Pedlar, aged 3 2 dr Mr. Mallett's Paleface (late Utica), 6 yrs 2 3 dr The Two year old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; winners 31b extra. T.Y.C. (7 Subs.) Mr. Clifton's Conceit Colonel Anson's Treacle 0 2 Mr. Copland's Cheapside Lord Chesterfield's cby Don John, dam by Ishmael 4 The first was a dead heat, the second won easily. The Chesterfield Handicap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, and only sif declared, &c., with 'CO aided. The second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 10 sovs. to the fund. Twice round sod a distance. Mr. Bell's Winesour, 6 yrs, Bst 91b (Bumby) 1 Mr. Johnstone's Brother to Sir Henry, 3 yrs, 6st 2 Mr. Godson's Susannah, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b A Plate of 50 sovs. ; three yrs old, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 7lb ; five, 9st ; six rad aged, Oat 41b. The winner to be sold for 2001., if demanded, &c. Heats, once round and a distance, (5 Subs.) Mr. J. Scott's Curiosity, 3 yrs (Simpson) 4 1 1 Mr. Edmonstone's Pinkinkindness, 3 yrs 1 3 2 Mr. Lancaster's Lutestring, 3 yrs Mr. Wildman's The Heiress, 5 yrs Mr. King's Minnette, 3 yrs ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The chemical lecturer to this establish men t, D r. R yan , has been engaged during the past week in deliv e ring a cours e of lectures on the application of chemistry to the various arts and manufactures, such as glass.making, &c. In one of these lectures the Doctor illustrated a method of cutting and boring glass by common iron instruments, em plojing, however, a sol u ti on o f cam phor and tur pentine, instead of the usual preparations, such as emery, sulphate of copper, &c. By keeping the instrument milstened with the camphorated turpentine the Doctor showed that glas s m i g ht b e cu t and bored as readily as any of the metals. This is a secret well worth know ing, and we canno t avo id expressing our thanks to the learned lecturer, who thus prominently has explained to the world a matter of such moment. This Institution, we are exceedingly sorry to hear, experienced great damage ft orn the late thunder storm. The expense of repairs, we hear, exceeded a hundred pounds, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The Ethiopian Serenaders took their benefit last night, at this house, after an engage ment of seven months. After the performances Mr. Mitchell was presented, by the party, with a very valuable gold watch, as a slight token of esteem. THE LORD MAYOR'S V ISIT TO OXFORD. —OXFORD, WEDNESDAY EVENING. —The Lord Mayor reached Oxford by special train soon after 11 o'clock this morning, and imme diately proceeded to the residence of the Mayor of this city, Alderman John Thory, and invited his Worship and the town clerk to dine with him in the evening at the Star Hotel. The Lord Mayor and his friends have spent the day in visiting the chief attractions of this city and neighbourhood; and as it appeared to be his Lordship's wish that his visit should be as private and unosten tatious as possible, there was nothing beyond a little addi tional bustle to denote that we were honoure Hisdwtth the company of the ruling powers of the great metropolis. s L, t o a r r d si Hotel p t e g l ; i v e e e s v a e rsplend areidlaid entertainment . e this h €l l v n e g n c in e g n n a e t e the_ with t e eti Lordshiper t e a n i n d m i e m n i t ty is p o u n r p a e s l i e b e l r e a a l v i a n n g d O s u x m fe p r t d u o b u y s s e c i g al h e. His t oth'cloesctk to morrow atebarge,whi morning, ehisinagndheNi r v e, ll an p d ro a c n ee e d b j b e y et w ol at g er tea in t attraction. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, August G. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up severrl Bills, and praying their Lordships' concurrence. SHUAR DUTIES. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, in which they express their g ra tifi ca ti o n at the passing of the B ill for the abolition of the corn-laws, and now pray f or the equalisation of the sugar d u ti es . The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the town of Newport in W a les i n f av our of the Bill for t he better recovery of small debts. AMENDMENT OF LAW (IRELAND). The NOBLE LORD also obtained Wave to bring in two Bills, for the improvement of the law in Ireland- - o ne was entitled the Interplcaders' Act and the other the Mandamus Prohibition Act. Thee Bills were read a first time. MARRIAGES (IRELAND) AC r AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill went through Committee. JOINT-STOCK BANKS IN SCOTLAND. The Earl of CLARENDON moved the second reading of the Joint-Stock Banks (Scotland) Bill. The Earl of EGLINTOUN s a id he would not con: tinue his opposition to the Bill, because the Scottish bankers had withdrawn theirs. Ho still, however, re: tained his opposition to anv interference with the present system of banking in Scotland. The Earl of RADNOR said he thought that the system of banking in both countries might be a ssimn: lated ; but when the system carried on in Scotland g e r; universal satisfaction to the people of Scotland, an d t “ system pursued here worked anything but satisfacto ril l i he thought it would b e w r ong to assimilate a g ° ?,„ system with a bad on e . The Scot c h s ystem V"' that satisfaction for a period of one hundred and fifl years, and the introduction of an altered system Inn s lead to confusion. He was not surprised at the ciro. cumstance which led to the Noble Lord's withdra w*" of his opposition, namely, the bankers no longer offer" ing any opposition, because it would give them 1" monopoly. Lord CAMPBELL said that the present Bill bad been for upwards of twelve months under considerat ion by the late Government, so that no new principle WI introduced. That sy s te m h a d b een f ou nd to W° r a well in this country, for notwithstanding what bs been said it had had the effect, during the mania ti ftl speculation, to prevent spurious banks being got up. would, therefore, support the second reading of the P l ' The Earl of EGLINTON explained his opini° ° with respect to the principle, not only of the prese nt measure, but former banking Bills. • The Bill was then read a7second time. CHESTER RETURNING OFFICER'S BILL, The LORD CHANCELLOR, in compliancu the notice he had given on Thursday last, moved ttiv third reading of this Bill. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. ,„g NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA WAS."' LANDS. Lord LYTTELTON wished to ask a question fr°lll the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies —i t w „ P i with reference to New Zealand. There were a Eff; - t many difficulties connected with this st`ti' - „; but he hoped that the present Governle g e ; would consider it their duty to take some notice ° l , '- measure which the late Government had in conteiney tion, and which he believed would be of the utmost 101: portance, and the principles of which met with the greatee; concurrence. Ho desired to know what were the intentiond of the Government respecting that measure? The see ° , question which he desired to ask was with regain L t 4 c measure respecting the Australian Waste Lands, 11 1 ,13 was also introduced by the late Government, sin" upon the table of the House. in et Earl GREY said he hoped that the Govere - ",„ e s s would be able to pass both measures this session, no it was. The draft of the Bill was found in the e " - „ s '. Alien the Government came into power, and he i s tiered it was most necessary that some Bill should regulating th; future Government of New Zealand. lor regard to the second Bill, the Government found ito cessary to modify it in some particulars, but theY m ity agreed in the principle of the Bill. He proposed " - ore troduce it on Tuesday next, and he wou ld thee f a ge its second reading, and desire that the House sb° l , l ote into Committee pro form!, in order that he wig ,_ - what alterations he should propose. POOR- LAW REMOVAL BILL. f the Earl GREY then moved the second reading o Poor Removal Bill. He would not ask their Lortl'lnr to pass it if it was to be a final measure, ost the subject of settlement would require the rq o d, serious attention of Parliament at a very early Pel l tbe Reserving final legislation on the law of settlement, ist, question now was, should they interfere with the ex.o_ Mg evils which wore well-known to attend the , op era+ ! of the present poor-law? By the law, as it now stood, tit'. a poor man went in early life into the rett li r , facturing districts and passed a considerable P e „, tion of his life there, he was not entitled t o any relief, should he require it. This, it would be geaeralq admitted, was a great hardship ; and it was to we e ' that case that the Bill was introduced. A s trong er pectation was excited when the Corn Bill was intro duced, that such a measure would be brought forwards wad it was to meet that feeling that he asked their Lordships to give the Bill a second reading. The Duke of RICHMOND objected to the Bill. $e thought that as the whole law of settlement was to be considered next session, it would not be advisable to in terfere now with the law of removal. This was one of the boons which was promised to accompasy the corn laws.—(Laughter.) He was against union, se ttlements. es he 134dieved that they would grind the p oor to t. dust. He agreed that the hardship point ed out by t" Noble Earl was very great, but, instead of any tot; rary regulation of the law, they o fight not to inte r be tilt a permanent measure was brought forward. ' A 7deal considered that this Bill would give rise to a greernini of litigation, and as he considered that such an in3P;ttress question should not be lightly touched, he wolli" ; 53ill upon the Noble Earl the propriety of postponing h '" till next session. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH o bj ecte d to the BiIL ht It was not the Bill whi c h was i ntende d to be brollge forward by the lat e G overnment, and he cou ld not th fore support it. • • Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH—Then, Earl GREY—It is the same Bill exactly he must say that alterations were introduceds:ged it in the House of Commons which completely c h ot as it from that contemplated by the late Governme supplementary to the Corn Bill. eve r° Lord REDESDALE supported the Bill. The g tho ugh principle of the Bill he was most happy to adopt , he thought it admitted of further amendments. 00 t he The Marquis of SALISBURY said it was onlY, go if it be the same, last day that the House met he asked the Nn b ' e seble quis opposite a question OA this subject, and th° f v ery Marquis replied that he considered the subject would great importance, and he was induced to think i', or t he not be pressed on so quickly. He was also ueu yea rs impression that it was intended to make fi r i e to the residence a settlement. A pauper might aPP,I m ig'.4 relieving officer under these circumstances, ' , Yu , va his answer that he should go to a magistrate and Prv,ecide statement, and that the magistrate would then w as whether he was entitled or not to relief. But waa ti li ta e. to become of the wretched pauper in the Inet a , r oce This Bill, if it were carried, would remain a w'''' on the statute book. hops The Marquis of WINCHELSEA said be zit of the Noble Earl would consent to the postponen3e orl this Bill. If this Bill were passed it would lead W the less litigation. He would ask the Noble Lord °n Woolsack what was meant by residence ? P e f - ja a tamed that this Bill did not place the ptiaP e " ivea proper position. With respect to lunatics ther' reca ni considerable injustice done, and he kne w a case ,': e ni all occnrrence where a poor woman was remo ved 0-- her friends to a distance of 300 miles. acid to Earl ST. GERMANS s a id t h at t h e Bill ietel'Attetl provide an exemption fro m remova l . H o fully at o coir that the measure was by no means complete, but t t ote sidered that it was an improvement on the prese°o not of the law, and he mus t con t en d th a t the Bill vi t ae l ata materially altered from the one introduced hf Soils' Government. He, therefore, trusted that tl' e would not reject it. bieb' sc i Lord BEAUMONT said that the promise w would companied the Bill was of such importance that h st iv . , not throw cold water upon it by voting agio n ., e c le:S a ( li t t e e n a t r i . o ) n t B o e t c h a e u ci s e u e t s h t a i o t u p roofms i e se tt b le o m un en d t. th a e ri m a to re g o l o i3 for 'eef l ND desired his Noble Fr' e e s t e h t e tl p e r m in e c n i t ple that a residence should give a chino The Duke of RICIINTO _ tell him what period of r e sicLe g li e d e a k im so for settlement ; in fact he hell' n o . in every clause of the Bil l fr w oll ou t ld he that there was an appeal to give a claim to settlemenc , „ °- ssib Le Bill s ' h . ould be to do as m aci !,,ln ° itY t i. ° f possible decision which would be mad any MOYS considered e. ri°4° Lord CA that a certain 1 0 „d th, ° wdpeirtrehevdetnthhteautl unjust vu s es t rt p yc o lp s a s ei i rm b s l os e . 2 n i ii h; tch ,: ceeti i - ; ge a r : 3 ! s tl _ A P eti. . emW give 0 0 0u o f5.a l s ht a cth c l justice t g bho r e e o a kp t so: a wr to . h i p cH a h r e i w s c h oo e un s lsdi whether he paid rate or not, should be urea ' — to osii res idence practical difficulties arose ' in every clause °` ler ,- - ,-, t isi He should support the Bill, however, as he e -- it was an improvement. sho ji° The- LORD CHANCELLOR said that a wa s 0 measure existed i n S cot l an d , and though there w as e e abstract d e fi n i t i on of the term residence, there (wa r, practical difficulty in administering the laWe' t hear.) 'dee d °i nt . The Duke of GRAFTON said that he cons]. ofide the Billwould do dealof harm, and felt c a great JO that it would produce endless litation. Le cretin The Marquis of LANSI)OWNE said that t02*,,, w ere , upon which he would vote for the second reading c ia_ that the Bill recognised the principle of irePr,..;, a a O s ! the poor-law, and because he felt sure that It i,t, t lo pe _ placed upon the statute book they would flan i s su ch . pas 0 00' sable to stop, but that they should go on and T h e it measure as would give universal satisfaction. -'.." a receive - sure was precisely in the state in which they . _, bees 1 from the late Government, and there n*". OA trivial no alteration in it except o f the aint there villa instances. Their Lordships were aware th h : preve nte d a cruel law upon the sta`ute-book, whie % pen& 0 e f a d , those who had passed their best years, a ; 0 - from local their toil and money in a place, in their the w versity from receiving. the slightest aidosiity. $o a authorities if he had not been born in the 1° °gni° he re c dhe that was a cruel and unjust principle, and nt, to .he, in the present measure a great improveinevo d co in 7 5 would, therefore, support it as a step ii:liseir Lordship right direction. He, therefore, hoped ___.. n ot would sanction the second reading of th h e a D t il , L e wottld n,_. s The Marquis of SALISBURY said h t . he belieVed that ill press the House to a ivision, althougvision divisions • . the Bill would be the s d ou ree of endless P osed 0 1 ° WA' REDESDALB slid 010 U theY t