The Sun. — London, England, 1846-06-25 00:00:00

Jast Ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo. p ETERSBURGH and MOSCOW, A VISIT __ _ TO THE COURT OF THE CZAR. By RICHARD suu ruwELL BOL:RKE, Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by alt Booksellers. New ready, in two yois. small Svo., with Illustrations, pric4 - _ 21i. bound. _ ECHOES fromthe I3ACK WOODS; or, KRTITCHES of TRASSATLANTIC LIFIL liy Captain LEYINGE. Henry Coiburn, publiaher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. itAILWAY SIiARE:, EY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAILIOND, SHALE, AND LAIIOND, Railway Share Auctioneer,, beg to thank their Prwuds and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., ake Place every TUESDAY and Flunar, at One o'clock, at the all of Comsnerse, Threadneedlartreet, London, to which place, wrours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectftilly egneetsel to be addreesel. All Scrip and Share Csatiticates meat be deposited, at lemst ne day previously to their being offered ; avid advices of multi *NI forwarded by the ftret poet After the sale. ant the proceeds Aremectlately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. /tail of Commerce. Tb.readneedle-street, London. ER MAJESTY'S TUEATRF:. ritner FORNASARI Ma the honour to acquaint the Nobility Patrons to the Opera, his Friends, and the kublic, that 131 , 3 BE s'EFIT will take place THIS EVENING, JUNE 35, When will Ite personified Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, NINO, Ninus, Signor Fornasari Idaspe, Signor Corelli; Orotaaphe, Signor ; Tenena, 31thle. Corbari ; Abigail, 313111 e. Saneldoli. To be feLlowed by a New Divertia,3enient, entitled L.A. BAr- CHANTS. In which Vadile. Lucile Gratin and 31. Perrot will appear. Artiir which (for this occaelon only), Gnecco's Opera Buff:. LA PROVA D'Uti OPERA SLR lA. _ _ Gorilla, .MadaoneGlisi;Canpan , ne, Signor Lablache ; Pedrico, Signor Corelli ; Griletto, :•ignor F. Lablache. To conclude with the highly successful new Grand Oriental Ballet. by M. Perrot ; the Music composed and partly selected Ruin relicien David's Ode Symphonique of ‘. The Desert," by Sig. 'lets fled, LALLA ROOKH ; er, IO THE ROSE OF LAI RE. The principal parts sustained by 3ldlle. Cerito, Mdllc. L. Ta,glioni, M. St. Leos, and M. Perrot. Principal Dances : Tableau.—Pas itymbolique, by Mille. Cerito, supported by INDIUes. Demelisae, Zlitasan, James, and Honore, and the corps de ballet. Tableau. —Le Chiboucl. Pas Seal, by Mdlle. Cerito. Last Tableau. Feast of liOste. Pas de Corbell4, by Mdlle,s. L'Amoreux and Julien, and the eorpede ballet ; Pas de Neuf, by Mdlles. Cerito, L. Tegboni, and H . ht. L. supported by Males. Dernellase, CasSall. James, L'Amoreux, Julien. and Honore. Applications for boKesi dans, and tickets to be made at the b o% (slice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to ruence at half-past Seven o'clock. TILICATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, THIS EVENING w i ll b e presented Sha.kspere's Comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT ; or What you Will. Malvollo, Mr. W. Farren, Sir Andrew Ague .,,hoek, Mr. Buckstone , Clown, Mr. Webster ; l iota, Miss Cushman ; Olivia, Miss Susan CuAnnan (their first, appearance is these elle . maters, and fifth night of their engagement). To :le followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER. WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren; Dray - ton, Mr. Tilbury: Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Seymour; Susan, Mrs. Stanley. . To , ionclude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SIIIL LLIGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Bu: tztone ; Capt. £hobbs, Mr. Tilbury - ; emit. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major rhobbs, Miss I'. H. rton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM • r2CDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mils. KEE:LEY. it the request of several dis Inguished Patrons of this Establish. Merit, whose families are now at home tor the Itlidsununer Holidays, THREE JUVENILE NIGHTS. THIS EVENING, TO-MORROW, AND SATURDAY The performances will commence with the New au,d Original Comic Drama, fa Two Acts. founded on a recent well-known event, called THE DUST-MAN's BELLE. N,.d Windfall, Mr. Keeley ; Sally Bromley, Mrs. Ka:wley. After which, the grand burlesque of ROBIN HOOD. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, A. Wigan, Kinlock, and Keeley ; Miss Fair brother, Miss Mary Keeiey, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters by Messrs. F Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, 'turner, Kinloch, and Ballingham ; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, alias Arden, sad 3iis3 Forster. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENINU VIII he performed the Drama, entitled HE GREEN BUSHES; ee, A Hundred Years kge. In which Madame Celeste, Mrs. I. itz• wililarn, Mrs. E. Yarnold ; Messre. Paul Bedford, Wright, O. `atitta, ems., will perform. After which a ti ew Romantic Drama, In Slit Tableaux. called THE QUEEN OF THE ABRUZZI. The principal characters sus tained by Madame Celeste, Miss Chaplin ; Meitsrs. Paul Bedford, Cullenford, Ryan, Boyce, &c. T conclude with the highly popular Barletta of TAMING A TARTAR. 3fadame Celeste, Mis 6 Woolgar, 31easrs. Paul .edford, Wright, Selby, er,c., will lustain the principal characters. PRINCESs'S THEATRE. OXFORD-ST?: T Fourth Night of Madame VESTRIS and Mr. C. MATHEWS. THIS EVENING. Will be preeented the Comedietta of TILE BARRACK ROOM Clarixia. Madame Vestrls. After which, a Divertl,l,3u:twat, THE WELSH GIRL. Julia, .5f &china* Ye.. tris. To conclude with THE BUSY BODY. Marplot, 31r. Charles Mathews. ASTLEY'St ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. GlorionF euccess of the new Military Spectacle of the " Indian War ; or, The Rattle of bobraon." The beet ventilated Theatre in London; nightly honoured by rank and fashion. THIS EVENING Will be - performed the mew Asiatic Specitecle, called THE SIKHS' INVASION ; or, Our Victories of 1846. In which the whole resources of the Establishment will be brought forward. Double Stud, &c. Grand and Novel SCENES of the CIRCLE, aided by the inimi table Wallet, the Shakesperian Jester. The whole concluding with a favourite Afterpiece. !Ir. RATTY respeattilly wares his patrons and heads of fa nil lied that the Last Mi 4 -day EQUESTRIAN PERFORMANCE will take plate on FRIDAT Next, Jane 26, commencing at Two o'nlock. Box-office **en from eleven till Eve o'clock.--Doors open at six and commence at oevon o'clock. NEW STR.kND TUEATRE Open every Evening, riti;&greate:tiioveitiea of the Day. M. PHILLIPPE feels happy to announce, that the extraordinary Performances of the MONKEYS and DOGS have been received with the greatest admiration and applause, and will be continued every Evening at the above Theatre. Doors open at a Quarter before Eight ; to commence at a Quarter after Eight o'clock. Stalls, as.- . Boxes, 25.; rit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is. and 105.64. M. PHILLIPPE will give tale Ferflarmancea EVERY EVENING at the STANDARD THEATRE, Shoreditch. NOTICE.—M. PHILLIPPE wants a Gentleman who could take the management of his business, as a PARTNER, throughout the large Town.e of the United Kingdom. A aecurity of 6001. will be required. For Particulars apply at the Strand Theatre, between the hears of Eleven and One o'clock. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ' • ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VTEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION or HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This Magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the former, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction or Her culaneum and Pompeii took place : produced under the direction . ct Mr. Damon. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been ccontstnieted, which will be brilliantly ❑luminated at Night. "the PROMENADE CON,. ERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band Is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. In addition to the other attractions of the Gardens, will be exhi bited CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, approached by the Illumi nated Gothic Bridge, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the rl.xat complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display. a novel exhibition will be intro- Cuced, representing the Descent of Yhrebus In the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Farineill will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Nalad'a Car will rise to Teceire Urn, and bear him to his ebryetal home. The Glass Conservatory is qpiend,t;ly ornamented with festoons of lampe, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore, by gas-light. • Feeding of the Carnivore at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at • ill ; Concert at half-past six and the Eruption at dualt. . . - Atlrniasion. One Shilling. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JUNE 25. Trtmaxomrrsta, Lowest, 52; Highest. 69 ; Noon, 69, BiItOMUTZR, 29 57.—Wr.mn S.W., fine. H 143 WA.TEK 1T LONDON-BRLDGE THIS DAY. Mottln; .. !6 stinato4 after '2. rcatninT 45 mintn i u aft e , 2. I, :;.- 4qh et, , 14 1 '._,..."-gt• i ' ,!;•'714 * ... . ~,,... . • 7_ ,0 ,: .. . , .. L ,.. , , , ,.... j... , , . ... •• A , 4',5,,tri, . - If , ". 1 / 4 ---- , • . ' .. s, - •;• c . .. 4 lic.t'. - • • - - • ,-, . .... it, .A. • '1 z . e, ~,,,,:.... T • N't°' • bzTi - - -- ; " ..... ~. ....,:e. 314 it TIT ft - LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1846. .l .. _ . Azo4.'railtvay case of considerable importance wao . - Taesday decided in the Court of Common Pleas which the principles that decided the case of -Virlis.it,,..e:u:So'rriswooDs were confirmed and extende l . v . i'l liV t l now have had question s respect i ng the liabiltty 4intte*is t o bear any portion of t h e ex penses -of abandur,,4 railway und er t a kings brought before a ll the sAperio r courts. In the Ex chequer the dec ision of the full court has been given in the case of WALSTAB Sporty% w " l m , and the plaintiff declared entitled to recover back the entire amount of her deposit without any drawback or de duction whatever for the preliminary expenses. The present case of WONTNER v. SHARP difTers in some respect from the former, and will be found to govern a vast number of cases which, it was asserted, did not fall within the rule adopted in that case. In WALSTAB vtigiporrtswoone no scrip had ever been tba, plaintiff, 'nor bad she, signed the Parlia t-Theiatter7 contract ma subscribers' agreement, both of --- ylifq4,:itt'actualtyllgn e a, and the scrip received by the plaintiff in the present ease. The evidence will shO* what has 'been the cause of the failur e of a vast number of railway undertaki ngs , viz., th e im proper retention of a large proportion of the shares by the managing committee, although there were abundant applications from solvent and respectable persons, more than sufficient to warrant the allocation of the entire number of shares of which the project was to consist. The object of many of the com mittees during the palmy days of railway enterprise appeared to be to allot only such a number of shares as would produce deposits sufficient to meet the current expenses, and to retain the greater portion • for themselves and their friends when the scheme .waS favourably received and its shares at a premium t4et market; but should it prove a failure, to cast the bulk of the expenses on those who had paid their .tisooey on the faith that the entire number had been allotted, and that if there should be such a failure the expenses would be borne rateably by the holders the ahem We have ever thought .: ;,;; a' it :u tWi Lst ~ r toodttrb tagi ;star &Xi/ 4-# The Learned Judge left two questions to the jury —first, was the statement that all the shares had been allotted false to the knowledge of the defendant ; if they thought it was, and that it was a material in ducement to the plaintiff to pay his deposit, and that he would riot have done so had he known the real facts of the case, they should find for the plaintiff: and, secondly, if they thought the scheme an abortive one, and at an end, they should also find for the plaintiff. He also desired them to say whether the deed was executed by the plaintiff on the same under. standing. The jury found for the plaintiff on both grounds, and also that he had executed the deed on the same understanding as he had paid the money, and gave the full amount of the deposit, 821. 10s., as damages. We have been thus minute in detailing the entire circumstances of this case, because new elements existed in it different from those which have already been before the country ; and we are convinced that there is nothing so important to all parties connected with railways, whether as committeemen or shareholders, as to know accurately the entire amount of their liabilities—to be enabled to judge correctly of the circumstances in which they are placed. The law may now be looked on as fully and entirely settled ; that which a short time since was doubtful is now perfectly clear. The com mitteemen must bear the entire expenses of every undertaking which has not been proceeded with, and I must return the full deposit, without deduction, to such parties as paid on their shares. The sooner they make provision for this purpose the better. Every delay can only increase the amount of the original claim which the shareholder or allottee is entitled to make against them, and which he now knows he can recover in full by the costs necessarily incidental to that recovery. What, then, is to be done? They must ascertain the full amount of the debts due by their respective companies, including the demands of the allottees, and by a subscription amongst them selves raise a fund sufficient to satisfy them. The sacrifice will undoubtedly be very great, but its amount can be ascertained, and the party liable wil be enabled to say whether it will be in his power to meet it or not. Even this will be valuable. Any, thing must be better than the uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed, and which has heretofore prevented the parties liable from exerting themselves for the purpose of fairly meeting their creditors, and making provision for the liquidation of their just demands. Although the suggestion made on Tuesday even ing by Mr. Wrzim, during the discussion upon Mr, CHARLES BULLER'S motion in reference to the esta blishment of a Public Record Office, was rather irre levant to the original proposition, there was, never theless, a considerable amount of justice in the shape of inferences deducible from that suggestion. That there are manuscripts of inestimable importance to the world of letters, and which would moreover tend to the political guidance of our statesmen, among the papers which are at present scattered about the me tropolis, no one for a moment would undertake to dispute ; and unless, through the interposition of Go vernment, their publication will for ever prove an impossibility. We are not desirous, however, that the public money should be rendered so accessible upon every case of apparent emergency as to im part to our Legislators the character of profligate spendthrifts ; but still more are we opposed to that niggardly denial of assistance, by which many most admirable national undertakings have never been attempted. It is another of those Scylla-and-Cha rybdian straits through which a Government is ex pected to pass without collision or submersion. From the execrable prodigality which our rulers have in , bygone days displayed, from their readiness to un loose the purse-strings of the empire, and from their total disregard to economy, have sprung those monstrous parasites, those sinecureships, those causeless pensions, and those secret boun ties, which, like political excrescences, have extracted all our monetary vigour, and debilitated the nation by the ever-present responsibility of 83 5,000,000/. debt. From the penuriousness, on the other een thee hand whi c h, a l mos t w ith ou t except i on , h as displayed by the various Administrations of n, Great B r i ta i n towardsf many of its noblest and most illustrious children, from the stinti ng an d d o li ng charities which have been srp and apathy ev i nce d from the Excheque r by the an wrung anguish of destit u t e gen ius, and by the general to or by Government t o wa rd s the woes and vicissitudes o f so me of our most em inent countrymen , have pro ceeded the starvation, andthe,hch impart such a lunacy,i and the su d den and sometimes vi olent deaths melancholy but significant gloom to the mem o . rials of the most gifted beings in the land. Hence a double reformation is not only u advisable, but is absolutely incumbent upon the Legis laturep ;—a contr a ction of that tendency to squander moneys upon in s ufficient occasions and upon utterly worthless recipients, a large and more generous philosophy in reg ar d t o th e s t arv i n g labourers in the vineyard of knowledge. Had the former course been more speedily adopted, we should not have to disemburse 358,0001. annually to the paltry hangers-on of placemen, or for ex-ambassadors (men who have already performed their services and received their wages), 34,048 annually ; we should be spared the degradation of perpetuating the recollec tion of CHARLES the SECOND'S debauchery by large yearly payments, and have been preserved from the fangs of many a voracious vampire, in the shape of some portly ex-official. Had the latter been adopted as a coniti- J-' ' , Y and stated, that the strong ground that existed for the refusal of those persons to whom shares had been allotted after the panic had set in to pay the deposit thereon, or to contribute any sum whatever to the expenses of the defunct company, which we conceived they were not bound either in law, in equity, or in point of honour to do, consisted in the fact that no reciprocity existed—that if the the scheme had been a prosperous one they would never have received an answer to their applications; the good things would be reserved for the especial behoof and benefit of the committee; but, if the con trary, all the shares would be molt impartially distri buted when it was known that a loss and not a gain was to be the result. It originated in the proceed ings of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Com pany, which had been provisionally registered in the month of May, 1845, with a proposed capital of 3,000,000/. sterling, in 120,000 shares of 251. each. The plaintiff applied for sixty shares, which were grante l to him on the 15th of October ; and adver tertisernents appeared on the 17th of October, stating that the allotment had been completed, and an apology made to the numerous persons, with un doubted claims on the score of wealth and social standing, whose application had either been passed over or cut down. In fact, there had actually been applications for more than 400,000 shares, and yet the allotment committee, of which the defendant was the chairman, only distributed 58,000 shares, retaining no less than 62,000 shares, or more than half the number, for the use of the managing com mittee. Had the allotment token place a few weeks later, when the panic had set in, and all new projects were at a discount, in all human probability the full number of 120,000 shares would have been distri buted amongst the applicants for the 342,000 shares, whose requests were not complied with ; and we should have heard an outcry against the English re pudiators, who refused to confirm the contract which they had deliberately entered into, to take up the shares for which they had applied. In this case, however, the allotment took place a little too soon and the usual practice was followed of retaining the lion's share for the promoters. On the 21st October the plaintiff paid up his deposit, and on the 4th No vember signed the Parliamentary contract and sub. scribers' agreement and received his scrip. On the 15th December a meeting was called, when it ap peared that 32395/. only had been paid for deposits, but of which 31,900/. had actually been expended, leaving a balance of 4921. to pay the Parliamentary deposit and all future expenses, and that no less than 44 of the provisional committeemen had neglected to pay any deposit whatsoever on the shares agreed to be held by them : of course they were raa,le to go before Parliament. It was contended, oti behalf of the plaintiff, that the scheme might he said to be virtually abandoned and that he had a right to recover back his deposit on the ground of the failure of consideration on the part of the projectors, and also on the ground of fraud. The company it ap peared defended the actin and secured the services of the Solicitor-General. Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. The only intelligence that can be gleaned from them is that, for a wonder, tranquillity prevails throughout the length and breadth of Spain. MADRID BoLSA, JUNE 18.—The Three per Cents. were done at 33i for cash and 33 7.16 for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 201 for paper ; the Debt without Interest at 61 for cash, and 6i for paper ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando at 280, and those of Isabel at 96. Letters from Rome state that the number of cardinals assembled in conclave for the election of Pope was fifty one. The news of the election of Pius LX. was received with acclamations by the people of Rome. The en thronement of his Holiness took place on the 17th. The first Ambassador whose felicitations the newly elected Pope expressed his desire to receive was Count Rosai, the French Ambassador. His Holiness, in his reply to the Count, expressed the most friendly sentiments towards France. The Universal German Gazette publishes a letter from Posen of the 17th inst., which says that the son of Count PONINSEY, who had taken a passport at Berlin for Po land, fur the purpose of visiting his father's estate, had been arrested at Kaliech and taken to Warsaw, where the Governor declared that he should not be released until Prussia gave up the Pole Domnaowsict, one of the chiefs of the late insurrection. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Epoque, which is the organ of the G vizor Minis ry, contains an article on the refusal to give an autho risation for the meetings of the Anti-Protectioei is League in Paris. This article, which we give below, is important, as showing that free-trade principles are making progress in the French Cabinet, which by this article may almost be considered as a Governmental manifesto, plainly refuses to identity itself with the protectionist party. The cause of free trade has every thing to hope from the liberal commercial tendencies of the Government, as shown in this article:— " Certain journals assuming to themselves a monopoly of all liberal sentiments exclaim with great indignation against the refusal of authorisation or license to the Association de la Liberte des Exchanges.' We cannot participate in their alarm, nor discover that the progress of our industry or commerce is compromised by the refusal of which they say so much. As a first ground of consolation, we offer to them the example of the calmness with which we have received this measure. They may say to themselves, that having seen with a lively pleasure the formation of this association, that having hailed its birth with favour, we should have been seriously afflicted if any misfortune had happened to it, that its existence cannot be really threatened as tong as we do not hear those lamentations and sobbings which are ever excited by the loss of an object of sincere affection. We are indeed sufficiently happy to have it in our power to observe that this refusal which creates so much indignation in those journals and causes them to tall into such over powering grief has not, scarcely in any degree, the lugu brious signification they attribute to it. It is in fact in our opinion quite erruniously that they have considered it as an act of and hostility to prevailing ideas and to men wishing to promote freedom of trade, in order to increase pr..gressively the well-being of the people, the public pros perity, the national power. In this there can be nothing in common with the refusal of a license to an association, even an association formed with the view of developing a free ex change of commodities, sad the convictions of a Cabinet or a Government on questions of public economy. It is per fectly allowable to believe that a Cabinet or Government, in refusing to authorise officially the establishment of an association whose avowed object is the promotion of this freedom of exchange, may be perfectly convinced that there is much to do to ameliorate the economical condition of the county. We, fur our part, are intimately persuaded that there is not in the present Cabinet any blind protectionist— any one enemy to the progress of political economy. It moreover seems to us to be very easy to assign legitimate motives to the refusal given to the Association de la Liberte des Echanges,' setting entirely aside the direct interests which the association pursuea. Under a free constitutional government, with representative institutions of a very democratic character, private associations are certainly not the only forms and instruments necessary for realising the desires and wants of social progression. These objects have other means of realisation. To obtain this what is there need of more than the councils of arrondissement, the coun• cils-general of the departments, and the three councils general of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, with the Chambers of Commerce and the commissions incessantly ap pointed and consulted by the Ministers, together also with the right of petition, with the agency of the press and the tribune, with the influence of public opinion, Queen of the world, with, in fine, the irresistible power of the majori ties in the Chamber? Let us then acknowledge in the ful lest feeling of consolation and even of pride, that France, in order to amend her laws, to improve her habits, her arts, her commerce, and general industry, is not reduced to such a hazardous state as to require the union of a certain number of persons under whatever denomination npou any one point of her territory. Let the Parisian journals be fully convinced of this, and pursue their vocations in peace. We can safely promise them they will not lose their time and labour, and when the day comes that they can consider their plans to be worthy the civilisation of France and Europe, they will have at their command every means of causing them to be accepted by a happy and grateful people." • . The Chamber of Deputies on Monday held its last sitting before the official termination of the session. The Chamber of Peers were engaged in discussing the Bill for an extraordinary credit of 93,000,000 francs for the navy. In the course of the discussion Count BECONOT, M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and several Peers, txpressed their desire to see France a first-rate naval the e po wer,es and st of A t l h . e uz me C d A it Sr a L n L ett A l N in in la s d is d r i e t d io o n n to th T e o n u e i c eonts. i o ty Of n constructing The m cir a v n uu o b t b h liii e sch r ;nsvaaovralruoy roy a l . ars enal and dockyard the ordonnance, charging Minister uf P o u f bric Instructiu: wdiuthrinthge pthoretf(adbioseonfuethofe Ministry the Count nt SALVANDy. M. P. DAVID, Deputy for Calvados, and formerly French Consul-General at Smyrna, died in P ar i s on Sunday. 31. DE LIMARTINE has left Paris for Italy. It was rumoured in Paris that it had been agre e d be tween Prince METTERNICH and the Papal Nuncio at Vienna that the Austrian forma in Italy should be aug mented by 10,000 men. On Tuesday a grand mass was performed at Notre Dame, on the occasion of the decease of the late POPE, at which all the Ambassadors in Paris representing Ro man Cittoli, S,,vereins were pt,b , 'T)l. The steamer Cuvisr arrived at T,,tilon on the equadron of evolution was then at Palma, th 9 cacitill of with dispatches from the Prince DE JOINVILLE. The eani3ll 1b 6c:rioJ tutional principle, we should never have been haunted by the dying groans of OTWAT, or the emaciated and hagard visage of CHATTERTON. Had there been some rational allowance made by the State for those who are struggling in penury through the treasures of intellect, the bloody and horrible morning te rm i na t e d ca the tast c r a o re ph e e r wohficpoh or HAMoybondaNy might have been prevented. And surely we are not endeavouring to extort an exaggerated moral by merely playing upon the sensibilities of the people when their hearts are wrung and their imaginations inflamed by a spectacle of such ineffable desolation and despair as that of the suicide of this most remarkable man ! Surely there is a tendency to commisseration in the mere retro spect of the evil against the existence of which we are Inveighing; surely there is a mournfulness and a rationality about it, altogether irrespective of any temporary cause of incitement to those sentiments! Can any one remember the premature decay and the torments of involvement which had ren dered the death of JOHN BANIM inevit able before the Government vouchsafed him the miserable pittance of 1501. a year, without feeling the horrible consequences of this legislative apathy ? Can they remember the death-bed of THOMAS Hoon, that saddest death-bed poet ever came to, without mourning that the pension to his widow was only sealed by his last breath ? When we find, indeed, that 9,6741. is all the money annually conceded to literary, scientific, and artistic eminence, and that one hereditary pension alone from the Excise revenue (and in recompense for no good service whatever), amounting to 10,5841., is paid yearly into the pocket of a Noble Duke, we cannot but revolt at such a disproportionate distribu tion of the national funds. In the lament able self-destruction of LAMAN BLANCHARD, only the other year, an instance was afforded us of the fearful effects of thus contemning the unfriended worshippers of knowledge. In the recent calamity, so analagous in some particulars to the preceding, the truth is forced still more vividly upon our conviction that the contingencies of poverty to intellectual men should be foreseen and prevented. Unless some effort in behalf of our militant and suffering genius be officially made, the blood of our men of arts or letters, shed by themselves in the madness of destitu rion, will continue to be an indelible stain upon the Legislature. The Premier has, in this recent case, been preserved from the possibility of having any stigma of neglect cast upon himself. by an act of genuine benevolence, which would never Nave been revealed but for the unanticipated decease if the historical painter, and which will serve to stabilitate the popularity and assure the love of the deople towards ROBERT PEEL; the more espe cially so sts this beautiful and affecting instance of generosity is simultaneous with the malevolent and vulgar derision with which he has been himself treated. From that unfinished painting of " King ALFRED and the First English Jury," before which eras discovered the dead body of HATDON, shall we not draw a moral ? Must genius still continue to starve, and become madmen, and commit self-murder? BRITISH FUNDS. CLOSIS4 • PRICE 204 Ni ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock._ .. .. • • • • 2053 % 1 2041 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 9470 j 95 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10 3-16 Ni India Bonds, 1,0001. .• • • .. 18 Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. • . 23 Consols for Opening .. .• • • •• 94'h7 Exchequer Bills. 1 d. 1 tid. 1,0001... ...• 913 9 pm. 9 500%. 9 14 13 prn. 13 Ditto. Small .... 14 13 pm. 13 ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 84% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 274 Ditto, Deferred is Portuguese Four per Cent .. 49 Ditto, for the Account 48% Vitus, Three per Cent .. • • Ditto, for the Account .. • • • . 37% 36% Dividends on the above payable in Lsnuun. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60 % Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% % PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING DON E AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. .• • . .. 10 .... 33y .......• Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 1 •• Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 ... . 128 127 • . 127 1 , Liirmlnghant and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2 1 yi • • ........ Buckinghamshire 425. .... dis. • • • • 34 die. Caledonian 10 .... 10 93‘ • • • 9 3: - 151 - fe - O - tTht orttiern 214 1M % .•• .. 1 % Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 23 %;s 23% 23% Ditto New .. .. • • lOl. 165..... p • ..... p Du Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 13e. 4d. ..... Ditto, ditto, .. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p........ Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. 14 East Lincolnshire .. • . • • 1 •• • ••••• • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .......... - Ditto 54 Shares .. . .. 10 .... 167 i 16;71, Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. .... Great North of England . ..100 .... 225 223 223 Ditto, New .. 5 .... 54% • 54N Ditto, New . .... 16 • • 16 Great Western .. .. 85 .•..141 Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 50 •• • • ••••• • • • • • • 81 Ditto, Fifths .. . • .. 20 .... 31 ...... • ... 3, CLOSINC; PRICES. 84% 27.4 16% Hull and Selby • . • • • • •• 50 •• .. . ... 102% Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 40 .... 54% as 55 Leicester and Bedford 225..•., y dis ..... • • tM dis. Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. —•••••.• • • % di Live p., Mauch., & Newc. 23 .... 1 I London an Birmingham . • • 100 ....225 ...... •• • • 224 Ditto Thirds .. 24 „ . 62% Ditto Quarters • - •• •• 2 .. 28% •••••• . 28% Ditto Fifths • • • • 3 •• •• 25 ••. • •• 25 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% 7% London and Brighton .....50 • • . 64% % •••• 64% London and Croydon • • • • 131. 153 0 c1.• • • • •••• • • 2'2% Lot.don and South•Westem 111. 63. 10ci... 77 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 1 7% 284 .. •., 28 London and York .. • • • • • • 2 •• • • 1%.. . . . . Manchester and Leeds .. .. •• 82 _ Ditto, Quarters • • • • 2 .• • . 10 10 Alanchester and Birmingham • . 40 _ Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4 •. 13% ••••••• .• • • 13% Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • 1 •• • • 94 •• • • • • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. p p Midland .. • • • • ••100 • • —149 149 Ditto, New • • • • • • • . 27 t, 2 4 _ ... Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... _ Ditto, New • •• • • • • 1 • • 94 Newcastle and Berwick • • •• 15 •• • • • • _ 24% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • • 1%.., ...4Norfolk .. • • • • • • 20 .. 25 25 3 Ditto, Half Shares ......5 _ ... Ditto, Tenths .. • • ••• • 2 •• • • 2% .... ..... • • • • • 2% Ditto, Extension • • • • • 2 .. North British .. • • • • Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 8 % •• • • 114 .. 114 Ditto, Carlisle Extension 14 North Kent and Direct Dover •• 2% North Staffordshire .. • • • • Oxfd.,Worc.ester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% _ 8 8 Portsmouth Direct • • • • " 3 14 —• • 4%4 4 th South Midland42s.... di5........ dis South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% •• 40 39% •• •.. 39% Ditto. New (las. at 32/.) No. 1. 16 _ 18 , Do., New (do 331.65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 _ 13 ?e Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 17 , Do., New (do. 151.) .. O. 4. 2%. ,,. % ...... South Wales .. • • • • • • • • n 5 •• • 14 % ........ • 1% Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • •• • • 1 ..... 1 York and Carlisle .. •• •• . • • 234 • York and North Midland . 50 _Ts Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 474 •• .: 47V Ditto. Extension • • • •• 15 •• • • 334 • % 33 Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 11 FOREIGN RAILWAY S. Ceylon .• • • • • • • '• Demerara .• • • " • • " '• • • ••••• • • • • • Dondre Valley • • • • • ' " L D o u u t v clL n Rl a ie n n d is j h emep . p . e : 6 t O% . Luxembourg Madrid and Valentia .. • • • • 2 •• • • 1% Namur and Liege •• ••••••• Northern of France Constituted.. 5 Paris and Lyons Constituted • • 5 •• • • 5-'B% Paris and Rouen ........20 as k Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 _ Rouen and Havre . .. • • 20 28% West Flanders • . .. • • • 6 • 8% _ _ JOINT-STOCK BANKS.. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 27 London Joint-Stock • • .. 10 .... .......... MINES. Real del Monte, Unrezistered LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LoSlos, Jetrz 25.—Wind S.W., light breeze, and tine clear weather. Deal., JUNE, 24, ♦.x.—Wind W.S.W. to S.S.W.; P. 14., S., light.— Arrd. Ratcliffe, Gilbert, Sydney, New South Wales; Pudor, Lay. Calcutta ; St. George, Norris, Patagonia ; Thames, Davison, ditto ; Trieste, Marsobett, Bahia; B. hitt, Toronto; Tinker, New York; Victor, Murray, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Oriental, Hoigt, ditto; Hope, Gambia. Arrd. from the river, Queen of England, Pearson, Ch na. Sid. Triumph, Leggatt, Montreal ; Wellingsley, Davis, Bal timore; Antoine, Meyer, Texas; Adrianus Jacobus Preciosa, Krog, New York ; Bucephalus, Bell, Madras, &c. ; Lady APNaughten, Hibbert, ditto. OFF PORTSMOUTH, JuNZ 24. —Achilles, S. Wilson, Alexandria. Cowes, JUNE 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Virginia, Porto Rico. FALMOUTH, JUNE 24.—Wind N.N.W —Arrd. 23d, Commodore, K:llea, ratagonia; Mary, Isblster, Sierra Leone. 24th, Crane packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 11th ult., Bahia list, and Pernambuco 27th ; on freight, 9,000/. in gold and diamonds. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 23. - Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 24th, Jolly Robin, Beverly, Calcutta; Courier, Carr, Lima; Bee, Murray, Arica; Oc tavia, Reed, Valparaiso; Avon, Robinson, Patagonia; William Russell, Paleth rp, Bahia ; Corsair, kilo de la llache ; klecto, Anwyl, Barbadoea ; Triumph, Hama!, Darbadoes ; Mary, Hodges, Maracaibo: Mary, Jackson, Galveston; Republic, Sullivan, New Orleans; Troubadour, M•Itowall, New Orleans; Argo, Mitchell, Mobile; Corotnandel, Broadfoot, Mobile. The brig Africa was wrecked at Ascension on the 2Gth of April. The Hope has been wrecked at Patagonia. LIMERICK, JUNE 23.—Wind W.—Acrd. Ann, M'Fie, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Hornet, Heddigan, ditto; Jessie, Challas, ditto. BELFAST, JUNE 23. Wind W.—Arrd. 21st Tarollnta, Smith, New York; 23d, Alvarado, Awes, New York. 81d. 21st, Duke of Corn wall, R4dtald, St. John's. PeatsmouTn, JUNE 24. —Wind S. MaW. to N.W.—Arrd. Welcome, Broadfoot, Moulmein. Sid her jesty's steamer Terrible on a cruise. The Chartetheld, Saunders, got on shore on Southsea Beach yesterday evening, was assisthd off on the flood, and proceeded to Statism. The Oscar, Videler, from Aalemnd for gpain, which put in here yesterday, is leaky, has been surveyed, and must discharge. Wsarusys PoiNT, Jurie 22.—Arrd. Brothers, Wilson, St. John's, New Brunswick. THY. WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The fresh and eshiltrating rain cf this morning (Tuesday) has done wonders in the delds Rain was much needed for farming operations, especially for turnip sowing. —Bury Herald of yosterday. ORDER OP THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL. —Yesterday morning an order was posted in the letter-carriers' office of the General Post-office, instructing the men by no means to leave any chargeable letter at any ootuiting-house, or place, without payment of the sum charged. If the parties are not in, the letter is to be brought away and tendered again %ben the letter-carrier has de livered the remainder of his letters. DittADFUL 1774.RICANZ /17 LO2I3.I'ADY —A letter Mota..., la Lombardy, of jun a I I, .tati.s that a dreadful cane had almost destroyed the forest near that town, 4,000 trees having been torn up by the roots, and the rest stripped of their leaves. The country was tilled With birds killed by the hail. The storm es ttrui.le4 voittlan territory, 'There it also did gretqdsiinige> Majorca, from whence it would sail in a few days for Barcelona, and from thence proceed to Algiers. Marshal BCGEAUD returned to Algiers from Oran on the 14th. The Duke D'AUNALE had accompanied him as far as Djtma Ghazaouat, and then left for Tlemcen with General CAYAIGNAC. Dcn CARLOS, and the Princess DE BEIRA, his wife, passed through Chamber) on the 17th instant, on their way from Turin to the waters of Aix. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues day at 82f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., at 1201. 45c. ; the Orleans Railroad bhares„ 1,242 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,007 f. 50c.; Havre, 7251 ; Great Northern, 721 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 870 f. ; Vierzon, 6201. ; Bordeaux, 586 f. 25c.; Basle, 217 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 4051.; Paris and Strasburg, 497 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 512 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 532 f. 50c. Spanish Actives, 31%; Ditto Three per Cents., 37,E ; Ditto Do mestic Debt, 3214. The following are the quotations for other lines : Lyons and Avignon, Definitivea, 501 f. 25c.; Bordeaux and Cette, Definitives, 48.51. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 24. Anglo-Belgian, 2N— Boulogne and Amiens, 12% —East Indian, %—Lnxerribourg. IN —Lyons and Avignon, 1 - Namur and Liege, 2—Northern of Franae Constituted, 13% - Orleans and Bordeaux, 94',—Paxis and Lyons Constituted, is% —Sambre and Meuse, 4 % • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TI'II?EE- The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was heavy, but there was very little alteration in prices. Sales, 5,000 bales, including 700 for exportation; '2OO bales Pernsmbuco, at 4 1 0. to id. ; and 80 bales Bahia, at 6d. ; 200 Egyptian, at 54d. to 8 1 ,;d.; 200 Surat, at 3d. to 3,4gd. ; and the rest American, at 4d. to s', d. per lb. Shares were dull again. An arrival from Cape Town furnishes advices of April 25. The Governor, Sir P. - Maitland, having matured his prepara tions, and put the whole of the inhabitants of the frontier in a-state-of defence, advanced with the main body of the troops into the Kafir territories, but found that no preparations to oppose him had been made by the enemy, who in tact had fled into the mountains. A good proportion of the chiefs were friendly to us, &nubile, Macomo, and Botun excepted. The necessity of teaching the Kafirs a wholesome lesson of our power seems to be fully recognised by the Governor, and the effect we may hope will be permanent security. That even now very vigorais proceedings will be indispensable, we may judge from the fact of more robberies and a murder having been committed by one or two straggling parties of Kafirs. '1 he Crane packet, arrived at Falmouth, brings later in telliger ce from Rio de Jareiro and the Rio Plate. The Bra zilian Ministry had resigned, but otherwise there is nothing of interest to be noted in there accounts. As regards belli gerent operations in the Rio Plate, since the battle of Salto there was nothing new, save a few skirmishes. At Monte Video, up to April 16, the Government seemed to be still rather unsettled. Accounts of February 16th, from Sydney, afford very little local new s , an d i n a d v i ces of the 13th of January, from New Zealand, we do not find that the troops had moved further up the country after the affair with Kawiti on the 11th of that month, having, of course, scarcely had time to do so. There is a flat market again for the Public Securities, and the probability of the Peel Administration going out and leaving the country in a state of political confusion, has a depressing influence, which, we much fear, will not be got over until a firm Cabinet is again in power, and where that is to come from, if Sir Robert Peal refuses again to head, sorely puzzles City men. Lord John Russell is admitted to be fully competent to the task, but it is doubted whether the Conservatives who followed Sir Robert "more in sorrow than by choice," will adhere to a Whig successor, even though to for ward irea i :lures planned nearly in the same spirit as are those of the existing Ministry. These are City views, and we give them for as touch as they may be considered worth. Console for time bring 94 3 ,E Exchequer- bills are heavy at 9s. to 13s. premium. Bank Stock has receded to 205 1 ,i and 204 1 ,2, and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been down to 96 3 % The Foreign Investments are heavy, as may be supposed. Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 48 to for Ac count ; Spanish Three per Cents. obtain 37% to 36A ; Mexican Bonds have been worth 27 1 , ; and Brazilian,B4 l /,. Dui chi Two- and- a- Half per Cents. have been marked 60 to 60%. Iri Railway Shares and Scrip there appears still to be very little inclination to do business, either for speculation or investment. The quotations are rather easier in the majority of cases. G, JUNE 25, i 846. MARKET NE WS.—(THIS DAY.) iii 4~ 1r MA aziwrig. SKr/Taint) —Meadow Hay, 3/ to 41; Clover ditto, 4/ ie to 5/ 15s ; Oat /traw, 1110 s to 11 12s ; Wheat straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 4s; Clover dltto, 418$ to 5/ 14s; Oat Straw, 1/ 108 to 11 12s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 12e to 11 l - per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ to 41; Clover ditto, 41 5s to 51 186 ; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 128; Wheat Straw, I/ 12e to ti 14s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. New Meadow Hay was selling at from 2/ bs to 316 s per load. MEAT MAXOLETS. Sot - MALL, Jc:3 - t 24.—Prime Mutton commanded a steady Inquiry, at fully last week's prices. In all other kinds of stock very little business was transacted, and previous rates were with difficulty supported Beef, from 2s 84 to 34 10d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 46 4d ; Lamb, Is to 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8,1 per Sibs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Jcsg 24.-IVe had rather an extensive supply of fat stock on sale to-day, while the general demand ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices Beef from 2s lod to as 10d; Mutton, 3s to 45 4cl; Lamb, 55 to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8 , 1 per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 163 to 19s ; and 3111 ch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 10/ each. HAILS/IAM, JUNE 24.—We had a very inactive trade in to-day's markets, yet we can notice no material alteration In the quotations. Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 35 6d to 4s 6xl ; Lamb, 5s to 5s Sci; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per gibs. ARUNDEL, Jurga 23.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ; Mutton, 38 4d to 4s 4cl; Lamb, 5; to 55 3d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d: and Pork 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. Supply moderately good, and trade dull. J CuicitEsrlitt, UNE 21.—Prime Mutt. n and Lamb moved off steadily, at full prices ; o:herwise the trade ru ed dull. Beef, from 2s led to 4c; Mutton, 3s 44 to 4s 4d ; Lamb. 58 to 53 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6c! ; and Pork, 41 to 43 6d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 18s; and Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 CaCil. NEVITGATE AND LEADENIIAX.X. Our markets were fairly suppled with each kind of Meat, yet the general detnard ruled steady at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3e bd ; Muttoii, 2s 10d to 4s ; Lamb, .59 to 6o ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 33 8d to 4s lOcl per 81bs, by the carcase. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended June 20, 1+446, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wake per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT. I BAILEY. I 0.418. 1 BYE. BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE • . 515 5d 275 3d 235 3d 33 5 4 d 36s 4d 325 6d DUTY... .8s 0 , 1 ( ...s Od 6s Od 9s 6d 74 6d 8s 6d RAILWAY COMM IF: 14:Es (THIS DAY ) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room 13. GLASGOW, zmnsrmaxo, AND NEILSTON (PAISLEY BRANCH). I3IPORTANT ESION. Their Lordships met at eleven as usual, Lord Roden in the chair ; all the Members were present. Some further evidence was given on the part of the Glasgow, Kil marnock, and Ayr Company ; and their ease against the Bill b, ing closed, Mr. linmvAßD, on the part of the promoters, replied to the address of Mr. Wakeling, who spoke on behalf of the Ayr Company yesterday. The Learned Counsel went over the whole case at considerable length. On the conclusion of Mr. Iliklyard's speech, The Co rrnittee ordered the room to be cleared, in order that they taight consult as to their deeis on. In the course of about ten mi nutes we were re-admitted, and The CHAIRMAN said the Committee have come to a unanimous decisi_n as to this Bill. We arc agreed that the line of country through which the railway w add pass is a most important district, and requires railway accommodation, but we think that accommo dation would not be supplied by the passing of the Bill, which would wit , pen the mine of wealth which should be opened in this district, and we, therefore, declare the preamble not proved. Their Lordships then roee dually. COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIR. MINGHAM AND LEICESTER RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the sharehoders of this Com pany was held to-day, at eleven o'clock, at the King's Arms, New Palace-yard, in pursuance of the sessional orders of Parliament, to consider the propriety of proceeding with the Bill now before the House of Commons. In the absence of Edmund Peel, Esq : , the chairman of the Company, who was stated to be suffenng from illness, John Ridgway, Esq., one of the directors of the Company, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, after informing the meeting of the cause of Mr. Peel's absence, called on the secretary to read the adver tisement calling the meeting. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the shareholders. In the first place, before proceeding to the business of the meet ing, be hoped that all the gentlemen present had registered their scrip. The present meeting he said had been called in pursuance of the sessional orders of Sir Robert Peel, in order to place-before them the situation and present position of the Coventry, - Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Company. Ere he did that he begged leave to state that the Leicester arid Tamworth Bill was withdrawn. The directors considered it best, under the circumstances in which they were placed, and the present state of the market, to suspend the Bill. This had been accordingly done. How far those circutn stances might be altered in another session remained to be seen. In the meantime the shareholders might consider the Bill suspended, if not abandoned. In regard to the present Bill—the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester —they were in a different position. With this Bill the di- ectors intended to proceed, and to that their exertions would not be confined, and it was right for him to say, that to the best of his belief the object of the Bill would be carried out. He was happy to inform the meeting that proci edings were in progress, of a delicate and important nature, with the London and Birming ham Railway Company which would, if successtul, be of great advantage to the shareholders of the present company. He could not go further with that point in the present state of the nefotiation, only to express his belief that its success would exercise a happy influence on their interests, and would be the means of greatly benefiting the public. With respect to the expenses of the Company up to the pre sent period, it would not amount to 17s. per share. He com municated that information now, so that none of the share holders might have occasion to ask the question afterwards. —(Hear, hear.) The interest of the shareholders had been consulted from beginning to end by the directors, and they would continue still to wan ch over their interests carefully. With regard to the arrangement in progress he had already referred to, he should have been glad to have given detailed information, but he found it was impo-sible to do so wit hout jeopardizing the interests of the shareholders themselves. Prudence was necessary in conducting such an arrangement as the one the directors were engaged in. It was necessary they should place full confidence ffi the directors in con ducting such an arrangement to a successful issue, and from their past proceedings, he must say their interests were perfectly site. From what had taken place in another com pany—in which he had a great interest—the North Stafford snire—and in which much ).,reater interests were at stake, he did not think it would be safe to enter into an explanation or the negotiation in progress. In that Company the share holders, having confidence in the Directors, left it en tirely in their hands. If they went for ward with their Bill the shareholders might feel assured that their interest, as well as that of the public, would be safe. He for one would be glad to do the best in his power for them. The directors were considering nothing but what was compatible with their present position and advantage, and for the public interest ; and hoped for a con tinuance of that confidence the directors had had hitherto re posed in them. The solicitor would now read the clauses of the Bill, add explain any matter that might be worthy of consideration. The Bill was drawn up in the ordinary form, and contained the usual clauses. The Solacima then read the heads of the several clauses. The CHAIRMAN cantinued, and said the Tamworth anti Le tester scheme might be considered defunct at present. No expense had been incurred in regard to it since its merits had beer. decided on. They might also be assured that in the prosecution of the present Bill they would take such steps as to ensure every safety regarding expenses. Mr. B. ESSEX wished to know whet her the present line was to be constructed from Coventry to Nuneatett only, and not to Leicester? The CnatastAx replied that it would be taken on to Leicester. Mr. Essex said, that a rumour was abroac; that some arrangement was come to with the London a al Birmingham Company, by which the line to Leicester was not to be car ried out. The CHAIRMAN said there was the strongest desire on the part of the directors that tl:s line to Leicester should be carried out. Mr. Essax—Such was the report in Coventry; namely, that in deference to the London and Birmingham Company, the line was to be carried no further than Nuneaton. Tee CHAIRMAN denied the truth of the report. Mr. ESSEX wished to know why the ineetteg had not been more fully aovertised, as he only had learned it by accident. though he re..:ularly read the Times and other daily news papers? He had not seen the advertisement in the Times or any offer newspaper which be was in the habit of read ing. 'Hence the very small meeting. He did not think it would be proper to proceed with such a meeting, there being only thirty gentlemen, who could be but a small proportion of the pr. rprietors of shares in the C.dnpargy. tie was trot aware of the whole number of shares, but he submitted whether it was right to proceed, considering the small num ber of them present. The CHAIRMAN said that business of great importance was in the hands of the directors, and in that case it was better to go forward, than wait till a tel time. Besides, it was required by ti a sess i ona l orders t hat the Bill s h ou ld be sub nutted to the shareholders before the third reading, and to delay that would interfere with the progress of the Bill. The S mcrrort said the gentleman who had asked the questioa was. perhaps, not aware of the great difficulty of getting an advertisement inserted in the Times on a particular day. He knew of one case in which the whole pr ceedings taken had been rendered abortive by the non-insertiws, of an advertisement in time in the Times newspaper The directors in the present instance would not give the advertisement for insertion in any news- Taper unless they would give a written guarantee of its appearance on a certain day. The Times would not give that guarantee. and that was the reason the advertisement did not appear in it. It bad, however, appeared in f tur daily newspapers. A SHAREHOLDER complained that the notice had been too short, and that .itne should have been given fur its appear ance in the Times. The SOLICITOR replied that ample notice had been given. The Committee had only closed its labours on the Bill, on Tuesday, and reported the Bill on Wedtresdav, and as it was necessary to have the meeting advertised three times that week, and there being great doubt of the advertisement ap pearing in the Tim: s in time, that paper was excluded, and it was inserted in four others. The session was drawing near to a close, and it behoved them to take steps at once for the holding of the meeting to prevent loss of time Mr. J. GERsTENBERG wished to know, as the meeting, tie cording to the ad% ernsement, was called for the shareholders of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham. and Leicester Rail way, whereas the scrip was for the amalgamated company. The scrip, therefore, was not in agreement with the adver tisement. The Soucrroß said he understood the scrip to be employed for the purpose of carrying out the intention of the advertise ment by altering the meeting. Mr. GERSTENDERG doubted if the decision of the meeting would be binding, seeing that the scrip was not in con fortnity with the advertisement. The CHAIRMAN said no doubt parties might, if they felt disposed, make every technical objection, still lie thought that all the directors had done was perfectly legal and right. Mr. GERSTENHERG said, with regard to the arrangement with the London and Birmingham Company, there were two rumours—one that the line was bought by them, another that the Company was not to make the line en condition of receiving 20,0001. The CHAIRMAN thought, if the gentleman possessed any facts on the points he had referred to, he should state them. He hoped the shareholders would see the propriety of not asking further explanations then; there were no secrets which they were not willing to communicate, but when a negotiation was in progress it was not advisable to enter into particulars. He would state, however, that the line, to the best of his knowledge, would be made. Mr. Hoop understood that there would be considerable opposition in the Lords to the Bill, especially in the Standing Orders' Committee. The SOLICITOR did not think so. They had been opposed by two companies, but the one was dissolved, ana the other had spent all ira funds. Mr. GERBTENBERG called the atter don of the shareholders to tl e tact that the return made by the Cr mpany to the sessional orders of Mr. Duncombe was, that the capital was 600,000 L, whereas according to the Bill it was but 267,5811. This was a material difference and would endanger the Bill, besides lead•ng farther to great expenses. The CHAIRMAN believel that 17s. per share would meet all expenses He did not apprehend any danger. In answer to the question of another shareholder, he said that out of the 50,000 shares he bslieved 49,000 had been bike!' up. A SHAREHOLDER asked whether it was the intention of the directors to issue fresh scrip, seeing they were giving up the Leicester and Tamworth line? The CHAIRMAN thought nor, as they were both one con cern. They snould take the disadvantages of that line with the advaetages of the other. They would hate a larger amount in hand than the capital of the present Bill required at present,_ and they would make such a return as they thought fair.,on the shares of the Leicester and Tamworth afterwards. After, some further discussion, the vote was taken, when there appeared-- For proceeding with the Bill, Assents Dissents •••• The CHAIRMAN said this was more than necessary. as 45,000 Could have been enough‘to constitute the meeting. The. meeting, after passing a vote of thanks to the chair. man and directors, then broke up. T: - - RE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.—The fountains in Trafalgar-square, after a cessation of a few days, re commenced playing on Monday with increased vigour, some altera tion having been effected for the purpose of giving a greater supply Of water, and th refore of throwing up a higher jet. This has been a cleated improvement, and might be still turther extended with great advantage, as the water power at command, from the great altitude of the reservoir, is sufficient to throw up a jet five times higher than at present. Were the jet only twice as high, the foun tains would have a much better effect, and as the means of producing this greater elevation are at command, it seems unaccountable why they are not rendered available. If the waste of water be a consi deration, it would be better to diminish the diameter of this jet-Pipe and to have the same quantity of water thrown up higher fro smaller jet. m a The " early di-livi,ry" of 1.-tters which has so long be. n terminated yesterday,convenience a subject of complaint in Post-office practice, ..chose to the great sat s But they are not equally diction of the general public, was sacrificed to the advents pleased that the has terminated likewise. practice of s g en e d o i f ng th a e of an extra penny postman round with a bell to and indeed in the count collect letters on payment In the City this practice was not common, or porters enough to carry letters there are always clerks residents of the houses in the ing-betts,s post-ofilce. but by the and papers to the short Pu- distance from town, where therneans of taking outskirts, or at a off are not so completely at bawl, the accom a letter a street or two ng ", b and bell was found to be great, whil e yro nwdati°° of the -t- inconvehience that it occasioned. have not heard of any T ON FIRE. —O n A WOODEN :spouSunday afternoon spouting to the stables and other out offices. belong last. t Mr. Thomas Gibbons of Wolverhampton, cow ignited by the ing to sun, and had it not been fora timely discovery, the cnsequences in all probability, would have been of a Mui ous character ,--. Wolve s Chronicle. FintEioN FooD.—Yesterday there was a sale in Monument-yard of a variety of articles of food which have only bat recently been introduced into the London markets. Amongst these were 5 cwt. of concentrated gravy soup from Australia, upwards of a hundred sorts and preparations of meat, vegetables, and fruit from Corunna in Spain; a large quantity of the choicest preserves of the East and West Indies, with mangoes. &c. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE IN LEITH ROADS.-011 Luna day mornii , g early, a v er y di stress i ng accident happened in the Roa ,3 g. a ebor: distance ft um Dunt,r, I,y <., Inch threes i , r^.'l , - 106 t. awl,' ilv,g. A bow, (2 , 42e:titling three of It - he crew of tits I,,iz Barila.r.lCaetie, uhich ~ ..kk I , lug off the town, was ab.ta go!n, alongside the hr g, when it got under the vessel's lee-quarter and upset. The captain immediately made every endeavour to save the Men, but the exertions were of no avail. The boat speedily went down. carrying Vie that poor Mon with tty Tiro Ilatlltir at Me $ l -49 M ft HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat td-dav at ten o'clock to hear appeals. The Peers pre,ent were, Lorti Cottenham, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Dartmouth. CALI:NS V. RAINS. The further arguments h this p!.ut-heard app ea l occup i e d their Lordships the whol e monim. PRIVY COUNCIL.—(TEIIS DAY.) The dadicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords preioat were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, the Lord Chia Jus tice of the Common Pleas, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Secretary Gladstone, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. WILLIS V. SIR GEORGE OIPPS The arguments on this appeal were heard this moning. The appellant had been a judge in New South Wales, and had been dismissed from that office by the respondent, vho was at that time Governor of that colony. Mr. DUNDRY was heard yesterday on behalf of the appel lant. and was followed on the same side to-day by Mr. CHARLES BoLinn, who addressed their Lordships till nearly one o'clock. Mr. BETHELL'S address against the appeal occupied theit Lordships the remainder of the day. Nothing of any interest. took place in the Equity Courts, which are now sitting in Lincoln's Inn. QUEEN'S BEN('H-4THIS DAY) THE MASTERS. &C.. OF TRINITY COLLEGE. CAMERIDGX, F. THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. This case, in the result of which the public telt a deep rt. terest, stood first on the list fir trial by special jury th 4 morning, but, on being called on, it was stated that the matter had been : , ettle4 by private arrangement. The case was accordingly withdrawn. EXcHEQUE-t.—(THIS DAY.) Sittings at Nisi Prins. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Middlesex Speeht June-). GARWOOD V. MOORE. This was an action to recover the sum of 1051. under the fonowing circumstances :—The plaintiff had been allotted 5 0 shares in the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton ItAway Company, on each of which he had paid the requl• sire deposit of two guineas. It was set forth in the proa• pectus of the company, that the capital with which the scheme was to be carried out was 300,000 guineas. Instead however, of that sum being realised, the amount of the sub scriptions did not exceed 10,000. When all hope seemed to be given up by the company of getting the two guineas deposit on each share, they resnived to ask for 10s. only in the first instance, and to " call " for the remainirg 325. at a subsequent period. The plaintiff, how ever, had paid the entire amount of his two-guilica deposits, and afterwards found himself in a worse condition th.,o other subscribers, who, by a resolution of th e com p an y, s lve" exonerated from liabilities on payment of 2s. only per abe:re. He afterwards failed in obtaining back his deposit-motion, and, con-equently, brought the present action. lie LORD CIIIEF BARON told the jury they would have to say whet her, on looking to the pros ; ectus, to the letter of allotment, and to the receipt of the deposit money, the plain tiff, in theirjudgtnent, became a partner in the undertaking, or whether he engaged to pay the preliminary expenses. The jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 10.5/. SHERIFFS' CuURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. tinder-Sheriff BURCHELL) FISHER V. AMOS. This was an action to recover damages for false impri' sonment. Mr. CORRIE appeared for the plaintiff, whom he stated W be a master tailor in a small way. The defendant is a cheese" monger in the Kentish-town -read. In April, of last year° the plaintiff was passing along Argyle-street, Regent' street, when he saw the defendant in a state of f r i: toxication, and he offered him his assistance, which was accepted ; but a few minutes afterwarda. on meeting a policeman he gave plaintiff into custody n charge of robbing him of 25., and plaintiff was thereupon locked up at the station-house till the next morning, but t 13 1 delendaot did not appear before the magistrates, and plaint_% was of course discharged. The defendant had refused a , ' apology, and had nut even pleaded to the action ; the tiff, therefore, now came before the jury to ask such damage' as they would themselves expect under similar circumstanc e t Police constable Goodram C 169, was called, and pram' taking the plaintiff into custod%' ; on being searched, tb: only money found upon h i m was a half-crown p i ece and some copper money. The defendant appeared to be very much intoxicated and did not appear the next day to / 9 119 up the charge. The UNDER SHERIFF said the defendant had admitted s ll the allegations in th e d ec l aration, and had not attemp te d justify his condu ct . Th e amount of damages was e ntirely tor the jury. The jury gave damages 40s. DREADFUL TIRES. IMMENSE SACRIFICE OF PROPERTY. This morning, about halt-past two o'clock, the neighb our, ' hood f Cl u rk enwe ll was visited by the outoreak of one of past the most e3vensive conflagrations that has occurred in that district tbr some considerable time. The scene of its operations was a large superficies, whereia were erected num erous l arge b u i ld i ngs, b ut i t i s at present impossible t o s t a t e w i t h anyt hi ng l ike accuracy th e number of premises destroyed. One thing is certain, that darnel' were observed by a policy-c..nstable to break out of the loaf veneer and foreign wood works, belonging to Mr. Jaques, situate in Liquorponthstreet. In the course of a few minutes the whole place was wrapped in flames. The houses in Tothill -street arid several intervening alleys abutted upon the building in questi9n, and some time elapsed before the whole of the inmates were aroused. By the time that was aceomplislie,., their own dwellings had in several instance caught fire. 11,e tire-escapes of the Royal Society for the Protection of Lite from Fire, numerou4 engines of the brigade, West of England and County Offices, with those of the parish, arrived wiih all expedition. The flames, however, had obtained too strong a hold to be easily extinguished, and notwithstanding that the firemen laboured most incessantly, the conflagra tion continued to extend, and by three o'clock there could not have been much less than half an acre of pro p,•rty enveloped. The scene at that period was truly distressing, the house hold goods of the different lodgers in the several streets were thrown out of the windows for protection from the most alarming and destructive element. The flakes of fire falling like ntyriads of sparks around, several of the beds and light srticles thrown for safety into the streets were actually set in flames. GROUP V. RUCRINGRAIVISRIRE RAILWAYS (TRZNG TO 8A.11733URY). The Committee met this day at eleven ; Lord Stanley in the chair. The CHAIRMAN at their meeting this morning intimated to the promoters of the case that he had communicated with Lord "iaftes bury, and the Committee were of opinion ti.at the present Bill was much at tit- mercy of the Great West rn and the Oxford and Rugby lines. Originally the Bill was for a railway from Tring to Banbury, and contemplated no junction with the Oxford and Rugby late; taking, therefore, no power to form such a junction as was now proposed, a proposal, therefore, which the Committee could 11 , 4 by possibility sanction, he said, if the railway had been described in the Bid as fron t th e Oxtord and Rugby line to the town of Banbury, it might have been allowed them to construct the ji.nct ion by inclined sidings, under the sanction o the section of the general Act referring to accommodati works ; but it was not ao, it was simply a railway from Tring to Banbury. Mr. ACSTIN said he did not put the case forward as an accommo dation work, for these words of the general Act referred to the ac commodation to be afforded to landowners, and landowners only. Ile submitted, therefore, first, that in point of fact the proposed line came into the neighbourhood of the Rugby Railway, so that c .als could be lifted off that and upon their line, and carried through Buckinghamsh re; and, secondly, under the words of the general Act, " shall have power to execute the railway and allworks neces sary thereto," that they had power to form the proposed junction, though no section of the same had been deposited, which he sub mitted was not made ne,essary by the Standing Orders of their Lordships' House. The CHAIRMAN replied, that if the railway had been from the Ox ford and Rugby line to Banbury, the promoters might have had a case, notwithstanding tile deviation from the Parliamentary levels. But they deviated from the levels to effect a junction, for which they did not take power in their Bill. Mr. Robert Stephenson having been recalled this morning, in re ference to a question put to him yesterday, put ill the following statement of the capital of the lines in connexion with the Louden and Birmingham Railway, and intended to supply the Warwickshire district:— Tring and Banbury Bletehley and Oxford Weedon and Worcester - Rugby and Leamington - Hampton and Banbury Hampton and Abchurch Birmingham Extensions - - £900,000 - 550.000 - 1,366,000 - 390,000 - 1,400,009 - 300,000 Total Mr. TALBOT then addre s s e d th e C omm i t t ee against the line, and was pro,e.ling, when The CHAIRMAN intimated that It wontl be unnecessary to proceed filmier, as the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the 8111 was net proved, and that the line ought not to pass. HOUSE OF CONIMONS. GROUP 11. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual hour this morn ing; Lord Morpcth in thg,chair. TAW VALE EXTE nrssoN. The whole of the morning was occupied with general traffic evi dence in favour of the line. GROUP XVIII. The Committee met at the usual hour; B. Denison, chairman. LONDON, BEN LEY, AND DA.TII DIRECT. Several witnesssa were examined, whose i vhience went to show the want of railway accommodation in the district through which the Me proposes to pltss. GROUP XXXIII. The Committee on this group met to-day, at half past twelve o'clock, in Room No. 24 (Grand Corridor). Present, Air Robert Ferguson, the Marquis of Worcester, Viscount Newry, Mr. Sinoliett, and Mr. Fellowes They resumed the hearing of evidence on the Warwickshire and London lines— WORCESTER AND WEEDON. HAMPTON AND BA. BURY. HA*IP TWAT AND ASHCHURCH. Mr. CocxßuttN, Q. C., for the Great Western, called witnesses in favour of the cornpltting line, the BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION. Lord Hatherton, being examined by Mr. COCK/IVAN, stated that it would be of the greatest advantage to the mineral district, through which the prGpesed railways would pa-s, to have two competing lines, and not to be dependent on the London and Birmingham Rail way. The town of Birmingham had a population of two hundred thousand, and was entitle: to have a competing line. Cross-examined by Mr. LANE Although one of the competing lines would be seven miles shorter than the other and somewhat cheaper, that was not a reason for rejecting the competing line. All the inconveniences to the public were enhanced upon those lints which had conic Into the hands t f Mr. Hudson. , ;Rout XXXVIII. The Committee assembled at the usual time this morning; Mr. Acland, chairman. HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER (BRADFORD BRANCH). The Committee, after some discussion among the ♦arious counsel, agreed to take the Iludclersfleld and Bradford Railway next in order. Ur. Sergeant WRANGILAM accordingly opened, at considerable length, the case of the promoters of this railway. GROUP XLII. LIVERPOOL, PRESTON, /MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHPORT. The case for and against the Bill having Iteen concluded, Mr. Sergeant KINGSLAKE adds eased the Committee at grt at length in support of the line, which, he contended, was superior to the other lines before the Committee, and afforded a larger amount of public accommodation, at the least possible expense. GROUP LIX. The Committee on this Group re -assembled to-day, at twelve o'clock. LIVERPOOL AND BURY, AND MANCHES TER AND LEEDS AMALGAMATION ; AND MAN CHESTER AND BOLTON AND BURY CANAL NAVIGATION AND RAILWAY, AND MANCHES• TER AND LEEDS AMALGAMATION. The clauses of these two Bills, the preambles of which were proved, were proceeded with. EASTERN CoUNTIE-N RAILWAY (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors and share hol lers of the Eastern Countirs Railway took place this day, at the Offices of the Company, Shoreditch, G. Hudson, Esq., M.P., in the chair, to ake into consideration the propriety of pr.'ceeding with the following Bills in Parliament, namely— "A Bill fur making railways from Wisbech to St. Ives, and to Fenny Drayton, to be called the ' isbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction Railway.' "A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make three branch railways from the line of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway, twofthereof termi• nating at the paper warehouses belonging to the East India Dock Company, and the other terminating by a junction with the Eastern Counties Railway." The SECRETARY having read the advertisement convening the meeting, and the preambles of the Bills. The CHAIRMAN said that the first Bill had received the assent of the Committee of the House of Lords, do that the shareholders might fairly consider that it was safely lodged in a position shortly to become the law of the land. The capital proposed to he raised was 475,000/ The second Bill had been several times before the share holders, and it was merely as a matter of form that he brought it under their notice that day, Resolutions adopting the Bills were then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then adverted to the charges which had bee❑ made with respect to the opposition which they had offered to the London and York. They had offered it every fair and legitimate opposition, but he indignantly denied having used any foul or dishonest means to accomplish their objects. EXETER HALL.—The fifth and last choral meetint , of Mr. Mullah's classes, in aid of the " Mullah Testimonial Fund," took place last night, in presence of a fill , audience. A variety of part music was excellently sung, under the able dtrection of Mr. E. Collett May. There were several encores. A young man tin Sunday lost his life in a strange and unfortunate manner. He was under the arch of the canal de St. Maud, holding a large dog by a cord. tic had wound the cord three or four times round his arm, and on the animal suddenly jumping into the water, the young man was drag .ed in with hitn, and before aid could be brought was drowned. 'LEE PRICI.: OF BREAD —Ytaterday another reduction about man took place in the prioe of bread among the bakers of the metropolis. Seine, however, maintained the figure of 80. alleging that the Good bread may re duction in wheat did not justify any alteration. ao ti t n bi ft e t. . Ile now be purchased at 6d. per loaf, and 6d . to 7 ya d .x . : f sa o tot r eth t ar l o i dyi e ; FATAL Io A CCIDEN T fol n l E ow N i T g oz ua TE . E ci i d l an iv t E oce.. R. — g one o c , Ile was bathing in the named George Witee, residing in Lambeth. h river, off Vauxhall, having a boat. in which had been a .irnmin, tri the water 1, 1: ha Ludienly exclaimed, "Oh, God. the cra m p l" sad ad bew e his .nate could rta ch bite, be bad supls, apparently ~ tlioat it strJggte. Tiz young man was an excellent swimmer, and had partaken o; 3 very I hearty dinner a short time before he lost his life. The drags were procured, and used its time pottrithe to find the bod but wig tomati44, ritircat tract 34P 1% i FURTHER PARTICULARS. Abou• five o'clock all danger of the fire committing far tl.er ravag.s was at an end, and the majority of the engine? enabled to be removed to their stations. On inquiry by octt in6rmant the most heart distressing accounts were obtaln not lt as than between 20 and 30 families ret dered hoMele B4 ant!, unfortunately, too poor in circumstances to retrieve their losses. The loss cannot be esteated at less than be. tween 6,0004 and 7,0001. DAMAGE OCCASIONED BY THE /IRE. 1. The saw-mills of Mr. Jaques, Tothill-street, with Ma' chinery, stock, &c., entirely consumed.—lnsured in the West of England Company 2. The coach depository of Messrs. Crowley and Cook eel tirely consumed ; several coaches, tools, &c., all destroyed.... Supposed to be insured in the Sun Fire-office. 3. Front Nos. 1 to 8 in White Hart- passage, Liquorpond. street, inhabited by about thirty families in poor circum stances, back part of houses nearly destroyed, and majorityof the humble furniture damaged.—None insured. 4. Houses Nos. 6 to 13, Tuthill -street, all inhabited by poor working people, window-frames burnt, and greater portion of furniture destrwyed and damaged by hasty removal.—Housee (orly) inured in the Sun Fire-offi ce . 5. In Liquurpond-street, houses from No. 31 to 35 back fronts all damaged, ani furniture by removal. Our informant, in endeavouring to ascertain the cauee of such a demructlon of property, was told by one of the Royal Society fire-;escape men that while at the spot on the previous evening ( Wednesday) a chimney be longing to a house at the corner of White Hart-court took fire, and from this circumstance it might have happened that a spark Pont the chimney fell among the timber in the yard of Mr. Jaques, where the fire originated. The supply of water throughout was abundant in the ex treme, and the following is an account of the assistance rm. dered un the occasion : FIRE-ItNomits —Of the London Establishment, 2 A, 4 B, 2C, I I), and between 100 and 130 auxiliaries; West of England Company, I, and every fireman of the Company's London station; County Office, 1, and every man; Parish, 2; Mes , rs. Rei , !'s, 1--I'utal, 13 engines FIRE-ESCAPES.—F t ur in number, from the Hatton garden s Red Lion-square, Blacktriars, and King's-cross stations. It is very,pleasing to state that not a single serious acci• dent was heard of, and the police arrangements in keeping back the vast crowd present was ably managed by Inspector Penny. of the G division, not a single robbery having been heardf of: Flux AT CAMBRIDGE-PTEATII, HACKNEY. -- Shortly half-past tour intelligence artived of another fire at Cambridge-heath. Hackney, when Mr. Braid wood with his engine and men repaired thither. It hap• pened at the Victoria Coffee-house, near the toll-gate, Dur ham-terrace; but from the timely aid previously rendered by the arrival of other engines from the A brigsde section, under Mr. Fogo, the fbrenian, the damage was confined to the floor on ohich it originated. The proprietor is insured in the Royal Exchange office. MORE COACHES OFF THE ROAD.—In consequence of the opening of the Eastern Counties Railway to Ipswich, the Reta liator coa, h to Woodbridge, the Quicksilver coach to Ipswich, and the Yarmouth ltoyal Alai' coachesi from Colchester to Ipswich, have all been taken otT the roach OF POISONING ANOTHERliNeotudhseaatnißtah , N I r k ma, 1 .) ft ' ra s t net T i 1 i EiedgeranxnialcmeUlidi decease S :ca ep, atoimother, n CASE weeksrwici ', En relative an t m ap y p t osetaetrr mysterious Njuo . FOLlC.—During the last two or three !flours have prevailed in the vicinity in the parish or St. Etheldred, in the above . e the s r h , e whencan stmm•Yasurmtaken ill of a t ouog woman, named Maria Itea o d f , N w•ho c d t le y d . about a month ago Yarmouth to few days previous to her , Friday evening, and s a ri a e rned her just before sheasbrteoaththede reside with her rn with a Tittle" sickness 01-expired — a medical gentleman, ----j on the following at the time some doubts took place, and the jury of t zp o on od. t " he ow bo i d n y :. There were h Co r leb l ya, st bein i g in a : l imed by the visitation of inquest was held but no post so° . . agreed to a . cause of de v a erd tn ic a t o o d i )ielo s r • r to the many susi . u eports that have been since circu how es e , lated, the body on Friday night was exhumed, and the contents of the stomach submitted to Mr. Firth, the surgeon who so ably brought to light the recent deAlis by poisoning at ilappisbeux, for examines, Lion. We have been since intormed that the presence of arsenic has been detected in the corpse, and the further examination and analysis wilt h is now going on will probably ascertain the quantity and its effect. No doubt when the necessary tests are completed, and the evidence in a more perfect state, the city coroner will reopen the in quiry into the cause of death. At present the case Is involved in complete mystery. SEVEItE THUNDER -STORM IN KENT.—On Tuesday afternoon a most severe thunder-storm passed over Erith, North ' end, Crayford, and Bexley, accompanied by much lightning and very heavy rain, which continued all night and throughout yester day (Wednesday) at intervals. Some damage Is done, but as far as can be learned no lives are lost. WOOLWICH Docs.yettro.—The directors of the Great Western Railway have given Mr. Wyatt, the sculptor, the use of four large wheels, ten feet in diameter each. for conveying the status of the Duke of Wellington from his establishment to its destined site. the wheels have been taken to the dockyard to have brass bushes made for the axles to revolve in, and to turn off the projecting part for guiding them on the railway. Tyers of ten inches broad are then to be attached by rivets, to present a broad surface to the ground, and massive iron axles will support the carriage with the great weight of the statue. WANTON CMJELTY.—A few days since, some wall clone vilhan unknown cut the tails of two donkeys nearly off, so that they hung by the skin only. They are the property of a poor man at Winston, near Debenham.— Bury Post. We hear &inn good authority that Lord Hardinge may be shortly expected back from India. Like a wise man he wishes to return while his laurels retain all their freshness, and hs,s written home to express his desire to come back.—Morning paper, tiIURDER OF DR. TUNE IN PARIS.—The Frerch's , 4- n - nr.ler..'l Dr. Ttt , ! in P.-119, the c:rrurnst,:nce wh;ch -It tile 2 - i.iS rank:: tiald HeaterweLl to teal ye!: 6' r t t:0,41i iri the night . of the 30th ult. a fire broke out there which consumed lu very short space of time nearly 400 small chops. It was only by the greatest ezertten that the mere inrronent building" Wore per. OM; :f.l .__ri:;r