The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-10 00:00:00

ARCHES COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Befor,- Sr JOHN DODSON.) Tax OFFICE OE JUDGE PROMOTED DY HODGSON V. GLAD- STONE.—JUDGMENT. The Learned Judo deliver , Al the jurlgment of the Court in this important case to-clty. IL said the suit was instituted by virtue of leLters of request from the Bishop ~ f London, pursurdat to the statute of the 31 sod 4 th 01' Vie., c . 86, c yuneouly called the Chureis plinr Act, by %II:eh he w,-,s enabled to send cases of this deseripljoa by letters of Lit to the Court of APPeal of the previous, t) the there/Yard end determined ,ce 'rding to the seed ~f that court. It was hardly accessary to sta . ' the proo, edinga in the case, as that had already be ,, u done on one or 01 o OCcasiOiv,, bat ho might as wed of s, , rre that, by virtue of these le t er* of request a citation issued from the Court, which Was returned widi 0, certificate stating it had been per sonally served upon Mr. Gladstone; that en appearance was given for him by his proctor,who prayed for articles; th kt, those artiel-s were afterwards brought in and a,?.- niit e (1 by Mr. Gladstone without any opposition. Upon the following court dav, after ti:e admission of the aril eles, he denied tho lst, 4th, sth, 10th, and 11th articles, . s an d admitted the truth of the remainder, viz.: the 21, 3d, 6th, 7th, and Bth. The Learned Judge then detAiled the subsequontatages which were gone through, and Raid, as the publication of t he articles had been n r tts3 c'd, the case now stood for judgment. The offence charged against Mr. Gladstone was contained in the bedding of the articles, and was publicly reading prayers, pr eaching, administering the holy sacrament, and per form other divine (Bees, in an u nconsecrated cha p el, celled Long-acre Chapel, in the parish of St. Martin's, and in the diocese of London, without any licence from the Bishop, the previous licence buying been revoked by h im, and contrary to the prohibition of the Bishop, The first of the articles set forth the law of the case, but the C ou rt having pronounced its judgment on the lave as applicable to the facts charged in the articles, and tie to the right of the Bishop to revoke the licence, and to prohibit Mr. Gladstone from performing divine ser vice in the chapel, it would not be necessary to discuss that point again. The cases which had been cited ap• Peered to him to put the matter beyond all doubt—at least so far as to prevent the Court coming to a con trary conclusion. The remarks, which were somewhat irregularly made, in reply to what fell from the Court, he had listened to with great attention; but, in his !Tinton, they were not such as to induce him in the slightest degree to doubt the correctness of the conclusion he had arrived at, or the principle as laid down in those authorities. Adhering, then, to his view of the law, and the facts charged in the articles, the principal remaining question was whether those facts were established by sufficient proof; but before entering upon that, it might not be improper to notice Certain of the objections offered by Mr. Gladstone's Counsel to the irregularity of the proceedings. First, he said, that in consequence of the omission of the Word in the citation served on Mr. Gladstone, the iiiehop of London was described in that document as " Father God," instead of " Father in God." This !natter, it was contended, must be deemed of high i mportance, an d of essential value, inasmuch as a ti t l e of a blasphemous character was attributed to the Bishop, from:which it might be supposed he intended t t ° assume the title " Father God," which it was men ;pled wa s g i ven t o th e Pope. Papa nostrum dominus e us• He scarcely knew whether the Learned Counsel . !',as seriou s i n ta ki ng this objection, but in his opinion " certainly did not carry that weight with it to which he s eethed to think it was entitled. The omission of this r"osyllable was, in fact, a mere clerical error, and it r ?.d been almost admitted to be so. The Bishop was o l f g h tlY described in every other part of the instrument Citation, and the accidental omission of the word could „h lu .ti ther e f ore, m i s l ea d any b o dy ; it did not, at any rate, r io talead Mr. Gladstone, for he duly appeared to the cite lain' This then was a very trifling matter, for it was Psssible g rave ly to su pp os e that the Bishop meant to /* r ime the bl as ph emous titl e which the Learned Coca tio:aid he did. Another objection was, that the cite th ,Was served in the diocese of Winchester, whereas do e letter s of request were issued in the diocese of Lon and this wee said to be informal under the Church d e "nne Act; but the Learned Counsel laboured er s ome Ar e, confusion as to the constitution of the Court of ap „ e "_°,', and did not distinguish between that court in its in r e 't character and in its more limited jurisdiction Leg u i could s atin g the peculiars of the Archbishop. There Pell doubt that if a citation, issued from an sp it ; l i nt oeurt to a clergyman in the province over which li tei ,ad jurisdiction, was served anywhere within the i t ss ‘" ef the province, that service would be binding if the as followed by an appearance. That was precisely eh rtt l3l * R seent ease, and it was vain, therefore, to contend by Gladstone was not properly before the court, thareason of undue service. A further objection was t Glee the proceedings were instituted against Mr. two—stonentalus celeritum—that fourteen days wer© oo lte " by the Church Discipl i n e Act, for issuin g tb m ulission before a party was obliged to appear; Rt h e on ce . re the proceedings were taken against him at gala in the Arches Court, and without any opportunity pu g afforded him to consider what course he should Dry er that ho was in ops toncili, and was led into %ser consequence of the speed which was unduly pro fit e the occasion. Now, Mr. Gladstone appeared by sei th , l. in the usual way; he had heldful opportunity to eon ei,euts professional a dvisers ; and ould not see to what 1 0eV alit age he was exposed. The Court only foi l:3(4,i' the usual course which was adopted in all cases. h '"es, Mr. Gladstone was resident on the spot, and e admitted all the main facts charged against him, and ( ftl e t ia t4 renore, on every occasion when he applied for Tee, t Y ' the Court acceded to his applicatien. The h tw thed Judge having thus expressed his opinion on the to t b a PPlicable to the facts, and on the objections urged wh e ,tlUrisdiction of the Court, proceeded to consider wer the proof of the facts was sufficient or not. done 4 th and sth articles were in reality the only ones Of L I " by Mr. Gladstone; they set out that t he B isho p th o la d en did, by instrument under his own han d, o n linen 16th January, 1852, duly revoke and make void the of which he had previously—to wit, on the Ist day pi e 4 ugust, 1851, granted to Mr. Gladstone, during his s e as ure, to perform the office of minister in the uncon vactratted chapel known as Long - acr e Chapel , in the effl, e i ;"„hf St. Martin's, &0., and fu rt her prohibit him - ` 4 Ung or discharging any ecclesiastical duties in that h e al 3 sl or elsewhere, in the iocese of London, and thmt a which instr um ent was duly served on him on the 19 th ? is of of January. The fifth article simply annexed °' of the instrument of revocation end prohibition. T hough Mr. Gladstone denied the truth of those articles h ! admitted the two subsequent ones, that the instru ,:e,iit bore the signatere ot the Bishop, and also his c ii",aeopal seal. The question was whether it had been served. It was first said the service of the revoca n4sh and prohibition ought to be proved by two wit jsss; but he was of opinion that it was only necessary 0 bring the issuing of the instrument to the knowledge of Mr. Gladstone, and that a formal service in the pre sence of witnesses was not necessary. That Mr. Gladstone Was made acquainted with the nature of the document was placed beyond all doubt by the evidence adduced in the case. It was first served on him at his chapel on Sunday, the 18th, previous to divine service, and as he denied the validity of the service on that occasion, it was sub sequently served at his residence, in accordance with his oven appointment. The next objection was that the licence to preach was not given during the Bishop's pleasure, out absolutely; but a witness stated that he saw the li nes in the registry, and that it wee " daring pleasure." zut even supposing it was an absolute one, the authority °F Dr. Dillon was directly applicable to the present case, because he held, and he thought p ro p erl y , that in 141 cares the same power which gave a license had the Power to recal it. But there was every reason to sup- Pose the license to Mr. Gladstone was during pleasure. The instrument being therefore legal and le gally served, and Mr. Gladstone having ad mitted that on the following Sunday ho publicly reached and read prayers, &c., end continued do so up to the present time, or at least until he made his admissions, there appeared to him complete Proof; either in the evidence of witnesses or in the ad- Missions of the party himself, that he was guilty of the of with which ho was charged. After alluding to some other technical objections the Learned Judge con cluded thus:—l am, therefore, of opinion that the Iliahop of London had power to revoke the license at his will and pleasure. end had power to prohibit Mr. Gladstone from continuing to perform divine service in the chapel; and that, notwithstanding the revocation of the license, and the prohibition of the Bishop, he has still continued to perform divine service. That being so, I consider the facts charged in the articles are supported by sufficient proof, and I therefore admonish Mr. Glad- Stone to refrain from reading prayers, from publicly Preeching, or administering divine offices in the uncon aeerated chapel of Leng•mere for the future, until he obtains a license from the Bishop, and from performing diem service there or else where within the diocese ot 44 hodon, in the province of Canterbury, until he obtains I nch license, and I likewise condemn him in costs. dr. TEBBS, the proctor, said he would appeal a gsiost the decision. The JUDGE—Very well. COURT.—(THIS DAY.) `'-'efere JAMES &MCI - JELL, Esq•, Under-Sheriff.) A CU RT -. °UB WIND-UP OF A CHANCERY SUIT—BISGOOD Thi V. LLOYD. "Ce 8 was an inquiry under a proceEs in outlawry thy_eto d efe rtain what lands, tenements, goods, and chattel. ._ k of the Sh4.` 4l3 t was possessed of within the bailiwick '„' 11. of Middlesex. th e T BoBIPBoN CHITTY appeared for the plaintiff in j ud 811 it, and star(' that the plaintiff had obtained c om t'nt against the defendant in one of the courts Of a c i e ; ° , ll Ift,w, and the present proceeding had been fo r ,„ri Th '!". to obtain any property belonging to the de et us to secure the plaintiff to the extent of the "out in st i t Le; and although the present proceedings were Was Med by the Crown, and the property b , neually forfeited to the Crown, it would Vivered up to the creditor. The defendant in the Ceent scion bed been the plaintiff in a suit of Chao. another suit, by a cross bill had been made a defendant in of snit. In the first suit he was entitled to a sum th e ;::' 15 %, and in the other to a larger amount, never ' 4 2? 'Lll)ject to any dccrce of the Ma,ter. Court'"ng didenssien ensued, fur the judgment of the titer, " Cbaneery had not been drawn up for want of Thi c 'r as the judgment W 33 only delivered in April las - . so 1' 11 ; 4 -l utes et th e jud,zment were produced , bur, were ue a C e T t ' l l i giMo that the Learned Under - S heriff re • The LEAR NED th ey might be put in f orm . th e ut i mi E t A ßNEn COUNSEL sidd that the tranrcribing The UN ' , would not take a minute. takes tlat, OthertEi: S ZlEßM—wal, than, go en, and I will eu,s j es • mir,ut s o f th e •,, 4 _,"leb, the rccistrar, 1 , -.noted to the Mr C J "'gna - lat . 'BITTY tsuid bu;, the cirawin,, p judgment could not bo altered, he defendant tuti. °f the order was another matter, for 441911 Wight Win uP the order iii TUE SUN, LONDON, :...-- Clioncery to entitle himself to the money; but it he did not do so no one else could. The UNDER SHERIFF said that it was a question for the jury whether the defendant hal any coulrol over the property. The jury ultim atel y found a special verdict, that de fendant was en tillA i to, but not n pmsersion of, certain funds now in the Cuurt of Chancery. It took a considerable time to decipher and transfer the minutes of the judgment, and the Under-Sheriff pro ceeded with the other cases, so that the verdict might be recorded in proper form. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The lioniteur publishes a second warning which has been nerved upon the Constitutionne/ in conse quence of M. VERON'S article of the Bth inst. The effect of this second warning is to give to the Govern ment the power of su•pending, end even suppressing, the journal in virtue of Article 32 of the Law on the Press, decreed on the 17th of February, 1852. We read in the Moniteur :—" Some journals have ascribed to the Government the project of proposing a lsw for interdicting work and sales on Sundays and holidays. The Government never entertained any such idea. It desires that the religious law shall be respected ; it has prescribed to contractors for works which it causes to be executed that they shall not em• ploy men on the days which religion consecrates to repose; but there stops its duey and its right ; it does not belong to the civil power to intervene, except by the example it gives, in an affair of con science." The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic went on Tuesday in an open carriage to Vincennes, and wit nessed experiments with the new description of gun carriage which he has invented. He returned by the quais. He was only accompanied by an otficier d'ordormance. The correspondents of some of those English papers which have shown themselves least favourable to the Government of Louis NAPOLEON received invita tions to present themselves in the cabinet of M. LA TOUR DUMOULIN, director of the department of the press in the ministry of police. On Tuesday after noon the correspondent of the Daily News waited on M. LATOUR Dumounisr, whose manner is repre sented as being characterised by perfect politeness and suavity. The tenor of his communication was that the French Government had observed attentively since the 2d of December the attitude of the Eng lish press, and regretted to perceive that many of the London newspapers were not only hostile to the pre• sent Government, but outrageous towards the head of the state. Now the French Government did not ask for support et the hands of any foreign newspaper ; it did not even wish to depre cate opposition; but it was determined not to allow the person of the head of the state to be treated with outrage and insult, and his name to be dragged through the mire (traine dans la bone). It was not only in the letters of the corre spondents that this offensive manner of mentioning the person of the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON was prat • tised, but also in the leading articles. But in either case, for the future, the person of the corres p ondent would be held responsible, inasmuch as it was only fair to suppose that he furnished the false news on which the insulting appreciations contained in the leading articles were founded. The correspondent was then given to understand that if either the Paris letter of the Daily News, or the leading articles of that pa p e r, contained any expressions outraging the person of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, he would be consi dered as the responsible person, and be forthwith expelled from France. (The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle and Advertiser, whom the direc tor also has seen, has received a similar warning.) The correspondent of the Daily News protested against this principle. He stated that if the French Government made the Paris correspondent of an English paper responsible for whatever appeared in that paper relative to France, it would act neither ac cording to the principles of justice, law, nor inter national usage. It was known that the responsibility could only lie with the editor of the newspaper in England. A correspondent formed no part of what the French call the redaction of a paper. He was a private person, who sent confidential letters, the re sponsibility of whose publication he had nothing whatever to do with. The remedy of the French PRE SIDENT lay clearly against the newspaper, which he Englishor might la e y e i tGh diplomatic r ve r p r prosecute in the w complainth ieh w En hei onull English s gtei h c against ieloape o t courts s of law, with lei oitashfshefaott ehnhteee c E o r tn e n e t h o t G h e o v s e a r m n m e t e h n i t n g; wouldonlyresponsibleviolence recently f aey o r theub theay uncle leet ahhseee ei prosecutionanmDee EnglishEl g na of b ißelgium. ea wwrr t , s h phh epaper, uee pnwetrahss: attacked took this means of redress. He caused a criminal information to be filed against the editor of the news paper, who was defended by Sir JAMES . MACSINTOSII. The upshot of the affair was the condei;nation of the newspaper to considerable damages. M. LATOUR DUMOULIN answered that the French Government could not accept the theory of the irresponsibility of correspondents. For the charge of uttering false news, although it seemed scarcely necessary to touch this question, the correspondent remarked that such errors were necessarily incidental to the journalist's vocation, but that they were in his case at least never intentionally committed. In all events, he was sure that the Daily News would have no objection to insert such rectifications of false news as the Government would communicate. M. LATOUR DUMOULIN said that the Government was anxious to afford every facility to English correspon dents for sending correct news ; it would even have no objection to c ommunicate at times important docu ments which it could not permit to be published in France. For instance, the Count DE CEAMBORD'S letter, although the Independance Belge was seized for the publication of it, would have been confided without difficulty to an English newspaper. These and other civil offers were made politely by M. LA TOUR DUMOULIN, who acquitted himself of his deli cate task with no want of civility. But his ultimo ttuernlovrwhyaaotsefvthe the Whatever the Governmen t could not acce p t the h diriffreesrpeoeneseibiolfityopoinfiocoorrmesapyonedxeiet ntsa.moog our contemporaries as to political proceedings in France, it is certainly to be deplored that very violent personal attacks have been frequently directed by some of the most influential among them against the PRINCE PRESIDENT, giving but too just grounds for remonstrance. Nevertheless we can by no means acknowledge the propriety of M.LATOUR DUMOULIN'S views, as to the individual responsibility of a foreign correspondent. Captain KLEBER, who was condemned to death by a court-martial for the affair of the 13th of June, and whose sentence w as commuted by the PRESIDENT of the Republic to imprisonment, has just been set at liberty by a further extension of clemency spontane ously accorded by the PRINCE. The Presse p en h General CUANG ARNIER to the ers i sts no twithstending the former contradiction iv assertion that he had offered to inva de En g land if the Provisional Government of the Repub lic would place ' g y only 12,000 troops at his disposal, in stating that the offer was made, and repeats what it had said on the subject, to show that its assertion was well founded. , The affair of the " conflict," set up by the Prefect of the Seine on the subject of the decrees against the Orleans property is to be pleaded before the Council of State on Saturday. The report will be presented by M. LEON CORNUDAT, a Member of the Council of State, and M. RIVERCEON will address the Council as Government Commissioner. N. PAUL FABRE and M. MATHIEU BODET will plead on behalf of the Or leans family. M. SENTINI, conductor of the malle-poste from Epernay to Sedan, has been nominated guardian of the tomb of NAPOLEON at the Invalides, with a salary of 3,000 f. a-year. He was one of the persons who accompanied the EMPEROR to Elba, and after wards proposed to accompany him to St. Helena. The EMPEROR bequeathed him 20,000 f. The Union states that during the whole of the term of his imprisonment at St. Pelagie, M. PROUDRON wore a white blouse end a blue cotton nightcap. The Corsaire of yesterday, in giving an article about the Corn Exchange in Liverpool, puts the name of the building in English, but, fearing that its readers may not understand it, adds a translation of it in a parenthesis and calls it l'Echange des Cornes ! An ex-gendarme, nearly 100 years of age, named HEILMANN, died a few days ego at Colmar. He formed part of the detachment which conducted ROBESPIERRE and SAINT•JUST to the scaffold. There was but little business transacted in Govern ment Securities at the Bourse. Railway Shares con tinue to be in good demand. The Four-and-a- Half per Cents. opened at 100 f. 30c., and closed at 1001. 25e. for the end of the month; the Three per Cents, closed at 70f. 25c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,2251.; Rouen, 8021. 50c.; Havre, 315 f.; Great Nor thern, 6101.; Avignon, 365 f. ; Vierzon ' 612 f. 50c.; Basle, 260 f.; Bordeaux , 635 f .; Paris and Strasburg, 575 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 381 f, 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 6351. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 0. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 23N—East In dian, 2234 —Luxembourg, VA—Namur and Liege, 6% 8 — Northern of France, 23 7 / B —Ditto, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly Boulogne and Amiens shares), 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 16 ex d.—Faris and Rouen, 31.34—Paris and Strasbourg, 231—Rouen and Havre, 12 5 / s —West Flan ders, 3. LITERATURE. A VOYAGE' TO CHINA. By Dr. Berncastle. In these volumes Dr. Beracastle gives an animated account of his eastern voyage, together with an in teresting and instructive description of Bombay, the Mahratta country, Singapore, and Western India and the Celestial Empire. Many amusing in cidents ere narrated of the strange customs of the va rious nations and tribes which the author met with in his travels. One day, whilst examining the ruins of a Dutch fort in the neighbourhood of False B a y , during resid,nce at Cape Town, he perceived ckse by at an inn, 'yclept " The Gentle Shepherd of SAisbury Plains," having an appropriately painted bign-board with the following inscription and verses : " Lif,'s but a journey, let us live well on the road,' says the Gentle Shepherd." Underneath which are these verses— " Multum in pry°, pro bono publico, Entertainment for man beast all in a row; Lckker kost (nice victuals) as much as you please, Excellent beds without any * * * Nos patriam fngimus! Now we are here, Vivamus, let us live by selling beer; On donne a boiro eta manger ici, Come in and try it who ever you be." His graphic and picturesque description of the ascent of the Table Mountain, and the account of his previ ous ascent of Mount Wellington at Hopart Town, which, from its resemblance to the Table Mountain at the Cape, is commonly called by the same name, of which the following in an extract, are well worthy of perusal : " Aware of the dangers attending the enterprise, I had fully made up my mind to undertake it, and guard against them by proper precautions. Having kindly been offered by the ex-sheriff, Mr. Beaumont, the ser vices of his servant as a guide, we started three in all— Mr. Beaumont, jun., the servant, and myself—at noon, expecting to reach the top before dark. We were equipped with fowling-pieces, a telescope, and pocket compass (most indispensable), a tin kettle, a few kitchen utensils, and provisions for two days. " Our clothing was light, the heat being excessive; but we bad reason afterwards, on reaching a colder tem perature, to regret not being warmer clad. The first part of our journey was easy enough, there being a broad footpath through a partially cleared forest for about three miles, on leaving which the steepness increased considerably, and we arrived at the intricate part of our route. The track lay along a ridge, on each side of which were deep gullies covered with tall sassafras trees, and so thickly studded that the eye could scarcely pene trate them. It is here that there is most danger of losing oneself, as it is impossible to see which way to turn to get to Hopart Town. We pushed on for about two miles through an almost impenetrable forest, here called bush, consisting of gum, peppermint, oak, and sassatras trees, of great height, many reaching from one to ono hundred andlifty feet. Our march became much impeded by a stubborn species of grass, breast high, rendered still more interestins , by our guide informing us that it abounded with snakes, j which in this country are very venomous. . . • " The mountain now presented an irregular appear ance. The stones, instead o f follo wing any sort of order, were heaped pell-mell upon each other. They were all nearly square, and each one detached from the rest several tons in weight, we had to clamber from one to the other and cling to each for our lives; the least faux pas would have sent us rolling headlong several hundred feet beneath. It is at this part that many who undertake the ascent give it up, thinking it becomes more than a joke. Here we felt that our bag gage was a great encumbrance, and before we got half through our task our boots and our clothes were all in tatters. At last we reached the top of the basaltic por tion of the mountain, and entered into the same kind of bush as that we had left behind, with the exception that our path was obstructed by quantities of large trees torn up by the roots and lying prostrate in all directions. Such is the force of tho hurricanes from off the moun tain that the roots of some of the trees torn up were twenty feet deep. We had now accomplished three parts of our task, it was getting dark, no incubil at-a, and but for the cheering hope of soon obtaining water and bivouacking round a good fire, that kept up our spirits and renovated our energies, we could not have completed it. Our physical strength was quite exhausted, and had we not been tantalized by the spring that our guide promised to find on the summit, if we could only muster courage to reach it before dark, we would not have stirred another inch. We came to a second ridge of baysalt, but not so steep nor closely heaped together as the former, so that it was comparatively easy. At this height a very great change had taken place in the tempe rature, and we clearly felt that we were entering a more rarified atmosphere; the cool air was rather favourable to our desperate condition and enabled us to hasten our pace. At last we saw bt fore us the clear well-defined margin of the summit, and attained it at 8 .at,, having been seven hours performing the ascent. The cold here becaMe very intense, and oar great solicitude now was about finding the spring, which to me appeared im possible as it is not bigger than a hand baisin. Our guide did not despair, having often been there before. However, after many fruitless attempts, he began to doubt; but at last, when on the point of giving it up, we had the good luck to fall in with it. Our joy may be easily imagined when it is considered that we had drunk one bottle of brandy out of sheer necessity only to wet our parched lips, which had the effect of rendering us still worse, by adding fuel to the flame, and for years afterwards I had an antipathy to that spirit, which originated entirely from this circumstance. Having filled our kettle and bottles, we proceeded in search of a favourable place to pass the night. The proper way is to descend the mountain for a few hundred yards, where the cold is less severe, but the darkness rendered this step dangerous, so we were compelled to remain on the top. At last we found three large square stones, forming a partial iuclosurc. Having collected a large quantity of fire-wood for the night, we lighted a large bonfire, and set about cooking our provisions." After giving the reader a history of the Mahratta tribes, and a description of the inland country, and a full account of Bombay, its defences, the military, the hospitals, Ste., Dr. Berncastle conducts him through the Straits of Malacca to Singapore, and thence to the Celestial empire, into which he gives him an insight as far as the Chinamen will allow, and gives a long account of the depredations of the Chinese pirates, and the apathy of the Chinese Govern ment with regard to their suppression. Lie describes the celebrated edible birdanest, which is considered such a luxury, and is found in Java, Sumatra, and in most of the rocky islets of the Indian Archi pelago. It is the nest of a small swallow, and is composed of a mucilaginous substance resembling ill concocted fibrous isinglass. The method of procuring these nests is not unattended with danger, the caves in which they are found being sometimes many hundred feet down the perpendicular side of the rock, which are reached by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rock. After the nests are obtained they are carefully separated from feathers and dirt, are dried and packed, and are then fit for market. The white or best quality com mands an extravagant price, costing four thousand dollars per parcel (about one hundred and thirty-three pounds avoirdupois), which is nearly twice their weight in silver. On the author's visit to Macao, be longing to the Portuguese, he remarks : " One of the most remarkable things in Macao is the Cave or rather Grotto of Camoens, where that celebrated man wrote the greater part of the Luciade.' It is situ ated in the middle of an opulent Portuguese domain, is taken great care of, and is surmounted by a bust of the poet, the rocks being covered with suitable inscriptions and verses to his memory. The owner allows free ac cess to all visitors to the cave, which is by tar the most interesting spot in Macao." Although from the title one might be led to believe that this work is bat a narrative of a voyage, it is in reality a very useful and amusing history of nearly all the important stations from Europe to China. ROYAL MARlNES.—Woomvicn, JUNE B.—Eleven volunteers from the Woolwich division, and sixteen from the Chatham division, will leave Woolwich to-morrow tor Ports mouth to join the artillery companies. One corporal from Chatham to act as schoolmaster, and six privates from the oolwich division, vohmteers, are to embark in the David Malcolm freight ship, , ldr service at the Island of Ascension. Lieutenant Delacombe will take charge of the volunteers for the artillery companies to Portsmouth. dioramicUGEitronD BAZAAR.--The veryFA e l x L t U e n E s E i v e lD b F a z aTartrEandll re cently erected out of the old fish-market exhibiting theatre, S u spension-bridge, has, after several ineffectualat the Hungerford keep it going, turned out to be a completefailure, attempts to place is now shut up, the large dioramas, with a and the all their ma chinery, arc a d v ertised to be sold, under the hammer, few days. Th e re was a report some time since, that the in a ma tt e r had pasted into the hands o f an English proprietary, w h o were about to open the p lace a g ain, under mor attrac tive a t i ve arfa ngemente, but the ann ouncement seem s to have been premature, as there is not the least sign of animation about the building. There must have been a considerable sum of money lost by the s peculation, for, after the thron g of e Great Exhibition passed from the metropolis, this new e diti o n of the Lowther Arcade s oon became deserted and tenantless. The accounts of the country trade throughout the past week :fate that business has been considerably interrupted by the holid a y s, which, owing to the in creasing prosperity of the people, have . never been more generally kept, or been attended math a er greater amount of rat i ona l enjoyment. At lanchest prices continue fi rm , an d tran sactions have b ee n chiefly ill connexion will the home demand. At Birmingham there has been little the railway work of any hind, and • ex cursion trains hav fl , The sales of iron are large, and reaped heavy pro ~.. In the woollenc.luotations show a further improvement. , GERMAN Y. pears to be ma d ia ie r i p r . ict s the revival of confidence ap- , .A letter from Vienna, of the 2d inst , Ports of both the tried. From Nottingham the re- , " The ordinance on the press just promulgated,.says :— more satisfactory than " and hosiery departments e mu f • , t t li . h- from the United Staten those last received, and the oreers taints en ‘ tc , men s w ;c ar© less severe than were ex. are extensive. -11 Che liberty ket has been rather less active. The Irish linen mar- pentt • of the presa is subjected to some ' gration to Australia is felt in all Th e impulse towards emi- restrictions. Copies of thejournals must be deposited the departures, which are numerous of the kingdom, and were it not for the want of hands at 1 would be much in the hands of the authorities one hour before their greater ~,: ; nu , liCat,OD, and for works, three days previous. The facility 0 otAilli" topiquieut. hours and the consequent , r` j deliv I Goverucaeut w it eX pep:4Bo 2 a for tie sole SPAIN. I. The Madrid Gazette of the 4th, publishes a royal decree, ordering that the vessels of the Pontifical States arriving in Spanish ports shall be placed on the same footing, with regard to duties, as those of Spain. The Espana of the 4th, announces that the Government bus farmed out the octroi duties of six provinces. The Three per Cents. were done at 45 1 ; the New Ter.() per Cents. at 22 5 16; the Debt of the first class at 87-0 and that of the second at 51. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE of the journals. No journal can be published but in virtue of a concession. At Vienna this con- I cession will be granted by the police authorities, and in the provinces by the Government. The edi tors must be 24 years of age, be Austrian sub jects, and of irreproachable reputation. The political and religious journals are bound to furnish a caution money, the maximum of which is fixed at 10,000 flo rins. The journals now existing will have a delay of three months granted them to furnish the caution money. Journals having a hostile and dangerous ten dency may be suppressed after two warnings. The police may prohibit the distribution of articles printed abroad. Offences of the press will be tried by the or dinary tribunals. The King of Prussia will leave Berlin for Breslau on the lOch, to visit the Exhibition of Industry, ac cording to a promise obtained by the Committee. The order of the Finance Department, by which in March last the import d u t y on grain and flour was suspended for the whole of the Zollverein till the end of August next, has kept down the price of provisions, which in some districts were becoming scarce and dear. Another order of the Finance Minister has just extended the application of the first decree, and prolonged it till the end of September. Many re- presentations having been made to the Government that it was desirable other articles produced from grain, besides flour, should have the same exemption from duty, it is now ordered that pearl -barley, crushed corn, and groats shall also be imported duty free, till the close of the ab ove - named mont h. A letter from Vienn a o f the 3d says: —" This evening the Court of the EMP ERo a will leave for Pesth, and the Imperial guard will fo ll ow the day after to-morrow. His MAJESTY will be absent for from six weeks to two months. He will go through the whole of Hungary. On the 11th be will leave Pesth for Czegted and Keskemeth ; on the 14th he will arrive at Temeswar ; on the 22d at Jaspereing ; and on the 23d he will arrive at Baden." The new law for imposing a stamp duty on journals in Prussia has been promulgated, and will come into operation on the Ist July next. BELGIUBL A telegraphic dispatch from Brussels rec eived in Paris on Tuesday evening, annou nces that 25 Liberal and 19 Opposition Members have been elected. SWITZERL4I4D. The Union Francomtoise of the 6th says We learn a fresh act of persecution against the Catholic religion in Switzerland, being the suppress i on o f the religious corporations existing in th e canton of Tessino, and the confiscation of their prope r t y. The law w h i ch authorises this act of violence and spoliation was passed by the Grand Council, by a majority of 53 votes to 51. The Grand Council consists of 114 members, so that there were several absent when the vote was given." AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9. The United States Mail stcaro..6hip Atlantic, Captain West, which was telegraphed off Holyhead at six o'clock this morning, arrived in the Mersay at noon. She left New York on Saturday, the 29th ult., but in cons; quence of the prevalence of a dense fog came to off Sandy Hook, and remained there until five e,nr, on Sunday, when she proceeded on her voyage to Europe, and shortly afterwards fell in with her consort, the Arctic, which was then on her way to New York. On the Ist of June, at 5.30 P.M tho Atlantic passed the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, also bound for New York, in lat .41 30, long. 64 56. The Atlantic brings 150 passengers, 520,000 dolls. in specie, and the usual mails. Among the passengers are Madame Goldscmidt, (Jenny Lind) with her husband and suite, who were en thusiastically cheered on lending; they proceeded at once to the Adelphi Hotel. During tho greater part of the passage Madame Goldscbmidt was confined to her berta . by severe indisposition. There were also two Protestant bishops (Delaney and Crcskey), Charles Gould, Esq., and Grace Greenwood, among the passen gers; being, says the ./Vetv Y orh Times, more notables than have been congregated on any steam-ship that has left New York for the last twelve months. The following are extracts from the New York pa pers:— The grant of 33,000 dolls. for each voyage has been passed by the Senate in favour of the Collins' line of steamers. The majority was 27 to 19. Dispatches from the west announce the destruction of two or three more steamers by fire, together with a large amount of very valuable freight. Since the Ist of Ja nuary over twenty steam-boats on the western rivers have been entirely des,royed by fires, explosions, sink ing, &c., and the whole number of lives lost by these casualties is estimated at over 250. Affairs in Buenos Ayres appear to bo in a very quiet and satisfactory state. Nine days later news from that quarter was received on Thursday, which indicates that thus far the order of things was rapidly developing the resources of the Plato provinces. Dr. Perkins's extensive sugar-house at Baton Rouge, Virginia, was entirely consumed by fire ou the night of the 18th of May. Loss about 200,000 dolls., and in sured for 70,000 dolls. Destructive fires have been raging in the woods in Maine, on the line of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, for some time. On one day it was impossible for the cars to run between Greene and Lewiston, and passengers wore taken a long circuit in carriages around the fire. At Mechanic Falls the running of trains was also impeded. Several thousand cords of railroad wood have been consumed, and much damage done to the woodwork of the track. The steamer Southerner, off Turtle Island, passed the small tow-steamer Telegraph, on fire. She ran as near as possible, but could discover no human being, and concluded that the crow, numbering eight men, must have perished. Mr. Hiram Perry and daughter, of Monson, were killed at Collins' depot, near Springfield, Mass., on the .27th, by being run over by the 6 P.M. express train. The New York papers contain a full account of the escape from Van Diemen's Land, and the arrival in New York, of Thomas Francis Meagher (pronounced Maher), the Irish exile and orator, who was transported for the part he took in the Irish revolutionary movement with William Smith O'Brien, John Mitchel, and others. He arrived in the brig Acorn, from Pernambuco, having escaped from Van Diemen's Land in an American whaler. He kept himself perfectly incog. until Thurs day, except to one or two friends. The Courier and Inquirer gives the following account , of his escape from Van Diemen's Land:— " For some time previous to February last arrange ments were in progress, which, if successful, the exiles, nine in number, were to be taken from Van Diemen's Land and brought to our shores. In January the ar rangements were completed, when it was found that in consequence of their residing so far apart (some ten miles) it would be impractica ble to get them all off at one time, and their friends though reluctantly, were obliged to confine their opera tions to effecting the release of Mr. Meagher, as his position gave the surest prospect of success. Everything being in readiness, early in February Mr. Meagher sent his parol of honour' to the magistrate, with the pro mise that he would consider himself bound by it for two hours after its delivery, and no longer. On receiving it the magistrate gave immediate orders to the constable in Bothwell (where Mr. Meagher resided) to arrest him without delay. This the constable refused to do, stating that he was himself an Irishman, and would do nothing, to hinder Meagher's escape. This placed the magistrate in a position somewhat unpleasant, as there was not another officer within twenty-four miles. He, how ever, mounted horse, and proceeded to the nearest point for the purpose of bringing back an officer to take charge of Mr. Meagher, waited for hia return until the time promised had expired, after which he took horse and proceeded in an opposite direction, in which course he is said to have travelled as fast as his horse could carry him, for over one hundred miles, or to the point where his friends had another conveyance in waiting. After reaching Pernambuco, he is said to have been taken on board the brig Acorn, on the 23d of April, and by her brought to this port." In the Senate, on the 28th ult., it was carried, after various amendments proposed and rejected, by a ma jority of 27 to 19, that the present allowance to the Collins' line of steamers he increased to 33,000 dollars per trip, with the proviso that it shall be in the power of Congress at any time after the 31st December, 1854, to terminate the arrangement for any additional allow ance herein provided for, upon giving six months' notice. ITALY. The Giornale di Roma of the 3d ha s an ar ti c l e on Mr. Murray's affair. It begins by stating that Rome possesses a Penal Code and a code of procedure, and that these, and not t he t caprice of he judge, determine the rules for discovoring the truth. It further recites, that Edward Murray, a native of Ce phalonia, was brought over to Italy b y his father, followed the profession of a banker, and married Ursu l a Gabrieli, a native of Loretto. In 1 848 and 184 9 he was named police inspector at Ancona, during which time the greatest disorder reigned there, and many murders occurred, in support of which assertion the writer of the article quotes letters of Sir George Hamilton, addressed to Lord Palmerston. Some days after, it is further stated, a British vessel ar rived to protect the British Consul, and the Governor had Murray : assassins arrested, amongst w h om was " Now, the writer concludes, these facts ar e f orgotten ; people show themselves full of pity, not fo r t h e v i ct i ms of t attention called to the matter, and it has been asserted that th e P ont ifi ca l trelirarmore,nbtat has for h M ad u rirtasy, who abetted it; an tribunals are slow, and accessible to co rrupt i on. As rur system opean o P f a to the first assertion, it is not generally known that Murray's case comprises eighteen counts of accusation for the most serious offences, and that forty individuals are implicated in it. As to the second, we repel it with indignation, because our magistrates aro models of im partiality. The case has been regularly judged by a competent tribunal, and we have only now to learn the tenor of the sentence." MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR. The House of Commons has at length taken mea sures for the protection df its Members, the vindication of its dignity, and the good order of its proceedings. Mr. F. O'Connor is now in the custody of the Sergeant at-Arms. Ou r P ar li amentary re p or t contains the few and brief speeches made on this painful occasion, and to this report it is only necessary to add that just at the mo ment when the motion for his committal was being made Mr. O'Connor stood at the Speaker's left hand, and was addressing that gentleman in a manner which, under any circumstances, must have been a breach of order. So soon, however, as Mr. O'Connor became aware of the exact nature of the proposition which was about to be carried, he walked out of the House, ob tained a glass of brandy at the bar in the lobby, which he instantly drank, and proceeded down the Members' private passage into Westminster-hall, whither ho was followed by a few gentlemen, some of whom were magistrates, k nown to the police. T he con stables on duty, therefore, act i ng upon the informat i on which they then received, t o l d Mr. O ' Connor that h i s presence would soon be required in the House, and that he must not quit the Hall; on receiving this intimation he began to howl so loudly and vehemently that a con siderable crowd soon assembled. At this spot Mr. O'Connor remained for a few minutes, in the course of which the Speaker's warrant for his commital was made out. Armed with this authority Mr. Clementson, the Deputy-Sergeant, accompanied by several officers of the House, proceeded to Westminster-hall, took Mr. O'Connor into custody, and removed him without any r e sistance to the room s ee Mr. Gosset, the Ai assistant-sergeant. In a li ttle time those cham bers became filled with — embers, anx ious to learn the particulars of the arrest. Their presence seemed vio lently to excite Mr. O'Connor villains, murderers; at times shouting furiously, at others groaning most heavily, and occasionally giving expres sion to his feelings the tones of triumph and rejoicing. After a feels the the gentlemen who had crowded into Mr. Gosset's apartment were induced to withdraw, and Mr. O'Connor was left in the care of five officers. But in less than an hour from that time, when Mr. O'Connor . who called them ruffians, had been somewhat calmed, he was removed to the pri son-rooms in the upper story of river front; and tithehole f CI. these procee dings were completed before adjournmentHouse. of the It is usual to supply aiewith mbers in custody refreshments at their osvn expense. If Mr. O'Con nor, who does not seem to want funds, be supplied with all that ho is accustom e d , " 13 enjoy, brandy will the building towards the enter largely into the articles of his consumption. It is understood that for a l ong t i me p a st he has been scarcely ever sober. refreshment rooms attached to the House of Commons he has for many weeks oe breaches session been ent guilty of the most scandalous of decorum; and his presence has occasionally bee n even dangerous. At one time he attempted to stab till Hon. Alderman of London with a fork; at another he threatened a dis tinguished Minister of dash alarm Ls the libraries and wherever he appeared; a rrotrn Y before his committal he had a violent personal encounter in the lobby with a Member of the House. A large Proportion of the Mem almost all the o-4cers believe from bers and 1,, the ex treme cunning which he manifests, that ' his madness is feigned, or at least that h e io sufficiently sane to be considered a responsible ag ent other ; while, on the hand, those accustomed to persons of , spreading not surprised at his artfulness, and think the sooner he is placed in a lunatic asylum the better Times. " unsound mind are ST. JAMES'S ri; ------ - --2 Kotzebue 's Der Arme Poets ing. The chief merit of this pieos„,l3,erformed last even wallEATßE. the structure is but slight. A Pee r Is in the acting, for tered garments but a sound heart , ,9 4 1 poet, with tat garret. He has not tasted bread for "!‘'es miserable and has to soften the hard h eart 814- and-thirty hours, whom he owes a few miserable p eno ° ,.. f his landlady, to to be enabled to pay his debt, f oet sZ He hopes soon a st a or n y nd rich lady is in'extremis, and she rra ;;," 6 "poodle" of a this critieal juhcture an elegantly d : an "elegy." At suddenly. She calls (his daughter, unknown to him), Vsecl young lady out, but she dares not reveal it to i m ' a° bus found him orders food and wine. The generous ji old man's heart; he is induced to the betrothed of "tocehisagsoabin tc,3ll„°r warms the A runaway match—separation_h opes • his sad tale. related . by the beholding his wife—his struggles — a ll i s o f bing child. A youth is announced , light, and the maiden. He desires a marriage tht°ld ode, story of his bride—the echo of th e e relates the old man. It bursts upon him like of this curtain ho falls senseless at the foet of his ti e ar and the ' l3 , i l l:l ia r:e r n, great relief of the audience he recovers hi and drops upon a happy man. The success th T e o r t .c h t , r : parta There a p d on m d i s ra m bl u y c . h uTphoen elegant aancttor.H manners err olitttetuosebtioeid;eopaoarrrttpwmhto, gewleman wore visible beneath the rags o f and when he pressed ;the elegant girl al l Was for got ten. c is am se e m to e father , c s l i a m im ila h r i t m ty as be h t e w r eent and Guardians, in which Mr. Wiga n played in Parents lently. The house was very well attended, 3° eXCCI- attended by Major tEhesxtellalleinrjedynamlatnnhise. Viscountess Canning, Hi lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— g D -..0yal Ifi ß h, t o by the Mar the DUke of Cambridge honoured the performancei at Lr Majesty's Theatre with his presence on Tuesday even - a Marchioness e b s s i s al a t s . s t l y y ' a s te b r o fo_ x r_do _ : i n s hic,i o ec upi His ct Macdonald.niMar quis Roya l andß , I i a AmonHoward de Walden, the 4 isses Ellis and Parry. gst the noble and distinguished Persons also honouring. histhe Secretary ' the theatre with their presence on this occasion were the following :—The Duke of Rutland,l the ne Duke and Duchess of American Minister and Mrs. and Miss t _ Abbott Lawrence, his Leinster, the Marquis of Lan th s ( e °7 , ht Excellency' the Sardinian Minister, the tie Marquis of Clanri carde, the Marquis of Titchfield, the Right He, the Secretary he a m u l l and Madlle. de Fla hault, the iarl of Cardigan, t c% . n ess of Malmesbury fworaFrroirneisi,gntenAtffhaeircs,enthneteEmardleap_Fdi ha _ t Countess of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P., tong Hon. for the Colonies and Lady Faking _,the_ Master General of the Ordnance, Lord Southampton, Lord George Paget, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., the lion. M r . D u tt on and the Miss es Du tton, Lord Willi a m Lennox, Bliss Nashe, Miss Burdett Coutts and party 4 c._ etic. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The Money Market at New York had been very easy; money was plentiful, and could be obtained at moderate rates. Stocks were in good demand. Breadstuff3—Western Canal Flour 4 dolls. to 4 dolls. 2; Gennessee prime wheat 1 doll. Bc. tol e. perlldoll. b l r O l" c. 2 ; e o aY r d 6olb. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 60c. to 62c. per bushel, steady; Indian meal 3 dolls. 121 c. to 3 dolls. 25c. per br). The Cotton Market is brisk at advancing prices; New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 110. to ic; Upland and Florida, mid, fair to fair, 101 e to 101 c per lb. Provisions in demand at full prices. Exchango on London, 1101 to 1101; Paris, 5,15. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JUNE 9. _ Loss OF THE FRENCH BRIG ST. BARBE, OF BOR DEAUX.—The Solent steamer towed in yesterday the crew (eight in number) of the above vessel, who had escaped in their boat. The brig foundered on Monday afternoon, about twenty miles to the southward of the island, she was coal laden from Newcastle for Algiers. The poor fellows had only time to save their clothes and a few provisions before she went down, but their humanity led them to take from the sinking vessel a monkey and a cat. THREE BULLS AT COWES TARING A FANCY TO PHYSIC.—On Monday last nearly 100 head of cattle were landed at Cowes from Southampton fair, some of them rather wild and vicious looking animals, unused to eivilizA society, and inclined to take any road but the right. Three of these monster bulls (but not the Pope's) took a fancy to a chemist's shop, and dashed in at the door. Mr. Weeding and his assistant, having no taste for such company, beat a hasty retreat out at the back. The shop was too small for the huge animals to turn in; they found their way through it into the sur gery at the back, demolishing as they went the glass in the cases and the bottles on the shelves. It was ex pected that they would have found their way back into the street through the shop-window, but after some time two of them turned, and were driven out at the door; but the third, feeling tired, laid down behind the counter. This placed the doctor, the driver, and some score of anxious lookers-on in a fix. A genuine Isle of Wight man was for killing the bullock, and drawing him out in quarters; when it was proposed by the " Bull" of the Fountain Inn to put up the shop-shutters and remove the counter. This being done, the animal took the hint from his namesake, and regained the street by the shop• door without doing any further damage to the doctor's simples. During the same day a gentleman of the same family did far more mischief in two drapers' shops in Newport, waging destruction particularly amongst the ribbons; his old Tory blood was wrath at beholding so Radical blue displayed. much GREAT FIRE IN LAMBETII.—The following is Mr. Braidwood's official report on the fire at Mr. Saxton's timber-yard, of which we gave a brief account in yesterday's i m pression :—" Two o'clock, A.M., June 9 Called by strangers and police to a fire at Mr. Saxton's, ,timber mer chant, Blackfriars -wharf, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars road, which destroyed the stabling, saw pita, the mahogany lofts, and about one-fourth of the stock in the yards on land side. The fire was extinguished by water from the Lam beth Company's works and the river Thames, with three engines of the D, one of A, and two of B districts of the London establishment, one of the West of England-office, and the upper float. Mr. Cox, No. 1, Bennett's-mews, front windows burnt out, and furniture damaged by water and heat—nsured in the Globe Fire-office. Messrs. Scott and Thompson 's iron works, roof of foundry and sheds ed by fire, and some windows broken — insura nce not damag known. ST. MARK'S HosriTAL.—The anniversary festival of this hospital was celebrated on Monday evening, at the Al bion .Iclotel, Aldersgate-street. Sir Charles Burrell, Barb, M .F., took the chair, in the absence of the Mayor, who P was pr evented from attending. Amongst Lordom pre sent we noti ced Sir James Law Lushington, Sir E. arry, 8.N., Mr. Masterman, M.P. Mr. Hoare, and M r. Bosan q uet. The chairman gave the " Army and Navy," coupling with the toast the names of Sir James Law Lushington toast of the evening, " Prosperity to St. Mark's Hospital," followed. ID the course of the evening a list of subscriptions was read by the treasurer, amounting to 1,2501., including 10/. from the chairman; the Lord Mayor, 101.; Mr. Masterman, 105/, 101, L th e Auxiliary-Society,Mrr. W. C. Jones, Mr. Uzielli, 521. 10s. ; Mr. J. Masterman, jun., 101. ; m, Burrower, 211. ; Mr. Cazenove, 21e. ; Mr. Cotterill, 10/. 10s., &c. I N NER TEMPLE, JUNE 7.—The following members of this Honourable Society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evening before several of the benchers : Arthur Dyott Thompson, M.A., James Lennox Hannay A LA., Frederick Dumergue, Esq., Edward Yates, B. A., J o be Richard Fowler, 8.A., Edward Thoroton, 8.A., C ec il Smith, 8.A., Arthur George Macpherson, M.D., David lilitat, 8.A., Edward Carthew, Esq., James Holy Fernley, E Joseph Holdsworth Fernley, Esq„ George William ' Latham, M.A., John Foster Gresham, M.A., Edmund P o well, B. George Samuel Fereday Smith, 11. A , Eug Sherwood, Esq., Joseph Beaumont, Esq., John Elliott Boileau,__ ene Henry Charles BA., the Hon. Edwin Berkeley Portman, Lop es, 8.A., and Samuel Wordsworth Barber, E sq. M E TROPOLITAN SEWERS. — The Government Bill on the metropolitan sewers was vesterdayprinted. The Acts ar e to be continued unti l t he 7t-h. of August, 1853, and laud id to be rated to district sevfoss on one . fourth of its annual 10, lss2. SPORTING NOTES. CCXLIII. THE PROBABLE STARTERS FOR TO-MORROW'S RACI.,S AT ASCOT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—My - judgment 3 esterday was right iu every in stance but out—the Royal Hunt Cup—tor which, some how or other, I completely overlooked the pretensions of Ephesus, which were more than usaally dangerous, flora the state of the ground, and the course being a se vere mile ; an order of things most suited to this son of Epirus and Enterprise. He waited in the early part of the race, came when required, and won easily enough. For the Fourth Triennial, 113 I placed them so they passed the post, but in much closer contiguity than I expected, Whitehouse having anything but the race in 11,413 d at the Stand railings, Cheddar at this point looki n g parti cu l a rly mischievous ; he, however, swerved a stride or two from the post, and thus enabled the Reiver to pop his nob only in first, Butler, on Auld Acquaintance, being stalled off by a like gap f or secon d p l ace; Nat, on War-whop, I at h her q ters. I ha ve n o doubt the winner, for whom a uar fancy as a f oa l , h e b e i ng a rem arkably fine one, will Tatiko som e Considerable stir in the Der b y b e tti ng; bat I hold some doubts as to his qualities for staying— more about hi m in the course of few days. The Se cond and thi r d will bothturn out a tidy animals; but i:t e down s il r Cheddar, I a m afraid, no Derby h ors e. As I anticip a t e d , V for the Fernhill Stakes incut her antagonists , th e first h un dr e d yards, and won as she pleased by a dazen lengths or more. The race for th e Coronation o Stakes was as close as that for the Tri enn i a l ; Butler, winning by one o f hi s splendid' on the Ex ot i c filly, only by a head, Hirsut e b eat i ng Caloric, by es in the last stride for second place. My l ast remarks the s ame di stance thus verified. a on this st a k e were The Windsor Town Plate is not entered and I know nothing ab out the Working s for as yet, m tak give the list of starters f or th e ot h er three rac 20 Sovs. Stakes, halt mile—O ne o f Mr. L 1 e ' B. ey snoznina tions (probably Bracelet) will walk over. 50 Sovs. Stakes, old milt—Lucio and Ambrose; the last-named ought to be the winner. Great Western Railway Handicap, mile and a half— Edward of York, Sir Rowland Trenchard, Storyteller, Sackbut, Knight of the Shire, Bushranger, Tophana Pun, Houlakin, Benito, Free-trader, Maria, and perhaps Cotton Lady or Greengage. Several of the above will most probably be withdrawn at the last moment, but which they are likely to be I cannot discover. The race I anticipate will lay entirely between BUSHRANGER and TOPHANA; with Free-trader and Mr. Payne'a starter in the next positions. No betting this morning, except upon to day's racing. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Juno 10,1852. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT-HEATH RACES.-WEDNESDAY. Although there was a prospect of short fields or walks over for three out of the seven events enumerated in the card, there was interest enough in the two, the Royal Hunt Cup and Triennial, to make a very attractive day's sport. Unfortunately, however, the weather was wretched, the rain falling heavily and without intermis sion from daybreak, flooding the roads in many parts in the immediate neighbourhood of the course, and making the course itself a swamp. It is scarcely necessary to add that the gathering was almost entirely confined to parties located in the vicinity and the professional speculators; the exceptions were the Duke of Montrose, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, Lady Chesterfield, Lady Rachel Russell, the Ladies Somerset, and one or two others, whose names we could not ascertain. The sporting" influentials" present were the Duke of Montrose, Marquises of Exeter, Drogheda, Worcester, Waterford, and Normanby ; Earls of Chesterfield, Wil ton, Bruce, Rosslyn ' Jersey, Uxbridge, E us t on , Gran ville, and Zetland; Lords Enfield, Ribblesdale, Villiers, G. Manners, Newport, Clifden, Somerton, Canterbury, Seabam, Henry Gordon Lennox, Maidstone, W. Powlett, and Dunkellin; Baron Vigier, Count B a tthy an y ; Si rs G. Armytage, T. Burke, and G. H. Boswell; Honoura bles General Anson, L. A. Ellis, J. Macdonald, H, Pitt; Captains Rous, Fred. Villiers, Francis Villiers; General Ritter, Colonel Peel, Colonel Newton ; M essrs . R. E. 011iver, R. H. Nevill, J. M. Stanley, S. Stanl e y, Greville, Payne, G. Fitzroy, and a few others. The racing commenced half an hour later than on the first day, and time having been well kept, concluded a few minutes after five o'clock. The following are parti culars:— The Coronation Stakes of 100 sovs, each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies, fist 71b each; the winner of the Oaks to have carried 71b extra, and of the 1,000 Guineas, 31b; if both, 91b extra. Lord Oxford's bf by lon, out of Exotic (F. Butler) 1 Ir. Payne's Hirsute (Flatman) 2 Mr. Magenis'4 Caloric (Pearl) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Caloric, nothing else backed. Ca lorie made all the running until half way op the Stand railing, where the lot closed; a severe finishing race en sued, the Exotic filly winning by a head, and Hirsute beating the favourite by a short head. Tho race was not timed. _ The Albany Stakes of 50 sous. each, h ft, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst _3lb, the winner of the . . 2,000 Guineas, Derby, or Oaks, to have carried 515 extra. New mile. (50 Subs.) Mr. Merry'6 Hobbie Noble, Bst 71b(Marlow) walked over Mr. Greville's Frantic, Bst 91b, withdrew her stake. The Royal Hunt Cup, a piece of Plate, value 200 soya., by subscription of 10 sous. each, with 100 added. The winner of any handicap plate, or stake, value 100 soya., including the winner's stake, after the weights are declared, to carry 71b extra. New mile. (50 Subs.) Mr. Waller 's Ephesus, 4 yrs, 6at 121 b Captain Delme's Little Savage, 3 yrs 6st (Hardinge) 2 Mr. Stephenson's Pan, 3 yrs, 6st llb (Rook) 3 Lord Enfield's Hernandez, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (F. Butler) 0 Mr. H. Hill's Hothorpe, 4 yrs, Tat 1210 (A. Day) 0 Mr. E. Jones's Tonic, 4 yrs 7st 10lb (Thick) 0 Mr. Pa} ne's Catalpa, 4 yrs, 7st sat 71b. 2 6 1b( . G .u ie M nd an a n ii ) ) 0 0 Baron Rothchild's Hyacinth, Est 91b (Charlto n ) 0 Mr. W. Etwall's Bushranger, Mr. R. E. Oliver's Sir Rowland Trenchard (Flatman) 0 Mr. H. Waring's Manifold, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (J. Lowe) 0 Lord Exeter's Phlegra, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (J. Mann) 0 Lord Bruce's Knight of the Shire, Est 91b (T. S m i t h) 0 Sir W. Booth's Timid Fawn, 4 yrs, bat 71b (Barker) 0 Mr. Merry's Sally, 3 y (Knott) 0 Mr. E. Parr's Sanita, 3rs, es yrs, t 6st b 71b 71 (Hiett) 0 Capt. Powell's AfilarollB, 4 yrs, 6st (Wynn) 0 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plunistead, 3 yrs, 6st (Garvey) 0 Mr. Spencer na Benita, 3 yrs Est (Wells) 0 Mr. Magenis The Heriot, 4 yrs 7st 7lb (Barham) 0 Mr. Begbie's Follow-me-Lads, 6st 91b (A Marlow) 0 yrs, 55t 71b (Oli ver ) 0 Mr M r.. T M : eni ogmpeso'sn'jaBßbliaOnoa 3 Royal, sst 21b (T. Sherwood) 0 Betting-7 to 2 agst Ephesus, 6to 1 agst Hernandez, 6 to 1 agat Bushranger, 10 to 1 agat Phlegra, 12 to 1 agst Hyacinth, and 12 to 1 agst any other. Amaroso, heading a ruck of at least a dozen, including the Heriot, Hernandez, Ephesus, Little Savage, and Catalpa, made play at a good pace, for the state of the ground, to the road, where the leader and The Heriot were beaten. Sanity immediately after showed in front, but at the dis tance gave precedence to Ephesus, who cleared his horses a few strides from the chair, and won easily by two lengths, Little Savage beating Pan by a length. Sanita, Iluthorpe, and Hernandez, were the next three. Little Fawn jumped the rails befure starting, and Janina turned round at starting, and lost a good deal of ground. Run in 1 min. 48 secs. The Duke of Richmond intended to start Officious for this event, had not the stewards decided, on a case being submitted to them, that the condition which imposed a 71b penalty on the winner of a " handicap plate or stake," made her liable to it for winning the Trial Stakes, which, it should be mentioned, was a weight for age race. The First Year ofwthitch Fourthloo added; A for T tw ri o en y n r i s al old Stakes of 10 soya. each,colts, ,Bst 41b; the second to receive 50 sots. outBst 7 0f lb t ; fillies, Bet ~L ordo r d c jiiSfdceontt,s'acThheeddßaire,lrs,t Bst 7lb (Manion) 2 71b ( Whi to h 0 u se) 1 Mr. Bowes's Auld Acquaintance, Bst 41b (F. Butler) 3 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Veteran, Bst 7lb (Charlton) 0 (Flatman) 0 Duke of e a) ; n R e l W mo a n r a wb° 'sC ° u P c ' k B oo ot filly, Bst 41b...(A. Day) 0 Betting-6 to 2 agst The Reiver, 10 to 6 eget Ched dar; and 5 to 1 each agst Auld Acquaintance and the Cookoo filly. They got away nearly abreast, The Riever with a slight lead, and ran in company to the distance, where the Cuckoo filly and Veteran were beaten. The others went on together until within a few strides of home, A on u t id he A po c s i t u b a y in w t a . when Cheddar got his head first, but swerved a fe anand y d rs g o o ld o , n 7 c s e t strides from the chair, and was be an ate a n dr; atcherweeas naogtedt,iinlOecist. neck; a head between Cheddar ance, and Warwhoop close up. The Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas 21b; four, 9st 21b; five, 9at 1112illeb;psoisxt ft, with 40 21b. To start at the New round. Mr. Waffle's Barcelona, 4 yrs, Walked(Flatman),s The Fern Hill Stakes of 15 sous. each added, for two yrs old, 7st; an r7 cl 3B ; 6 h .; r i e .i e, l ov er . 1;6 ......(A , Cowley) (Garvey)i ) 2 1 geldings allowed 31b. About half a mile ' fillies and M D a il H e o o f w ß ar i d c ' h s m V o a n u d l , t s re s s t s e , ll 2 a, y 2 rs y , T i rholomew) 3 e b l e ( N u g o t r h m s . a n Mr. E. R. Clark's Plumstead, 84 , 1 8 11 5 1: Betting-5 to 2 apt Vaultress, w h o Lord Exeter's Mountain Flower , running, and won in a canter by twel made all the iu 1 min. 1 sec. ) Run 4 Handicap Plate of 50/. S w i n t Mr. Williams's M ar i a , 3 yrs, Sit 41b --..e3 7 Course. it 41b ~,,,,(Garvey) „ 1 Mr. Edney's The Incur a bl e , 4 Mr. J. Day's Captain Parry, 6 Yrsi Est 41b (B ra dley) Mr. W. Hale's Bilberry, 3 yrs, 6st (Oliver, jun.) 0 ( yrs, sst 91b ...(Fordhain) ‘ Mr. Greo,,field's SIIVIAIVrdeI Betting-6 to 4 apt lkl ur:iB' 5 yrs 7st 71b (Cowle_l2 " rr a! 3to 1 apt Captain V Y 2 and 4 to 1 agst Shepherdess. Woneasy -h y a len g th , b a d third, and Bilberry fourth, Run C aptain in 2 min. The races commence to-day at half-past one. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. TILE EMPEIIOW-S. 2 to 1 agst Voltigour 7 to 2 apt Bobbie Noble 5 to 1 egst Mountain peer 6to 1 apt Miller g( Joe gory, and one or It is tho ug h t that Pitsford, L i tt l e two others w ill run. lidded DE RBY. 20 t o I ages The Beiver (t) BEVERLEY RACSS.---WEDNESDA.Y. The ic IngSten-upon-Hull S takes of 5 soya. each, and 50 for Or . o yr s old and upwards. One mile. Lombton ..• Wvn t o y half leagth. Eve nal' The Holdernees Hunt Stakes of 5 sous. encb, and .25 added. Two miles. (9 Subs.) Cogia Little Queen Six ran. Won by half a length. The Boyerley Cap of 100 sors., tidclud to a ilandiCap SweepstakEs of 10 save. each, 5 ft, and only 3 if de clared. Two miles. (24 Subs., 13 of whom de dared.) Kathleen, 5 yrs, 6st 131 b Gholab Singh, 4 yra, bit 131 b... ,„ Eight ran. One by half a neck. ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ••• 2 PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE S . THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the Committee, Right Hon. Lord Hotham, chairman, Earl Jermyn, Mr. Ba!dock, Mr. Hanley, and Mr. West, Mr. KEATING, Q.C., in the absereo of Mr. Sergeant Wrsngham, Q.C., from indisposition, rsplied on behalf of the British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill in an able address of between two and three beurs' dura tation. The Learned Counsel called on the Com mittee to pass the preamble of the Bill, as involving' a principle of deep importance not only to his clients, the promoters of the Bill, but to the mercantile com munities (if the country, who now sought at the hands of Parliament to be relieved from a combination the most formflable, end a monopoly the most start ling, that had ever been permitted to exist in a free trading commercial country. The patient attention the Committee had given to the fortnight's inquiry was a sufficient guarantee that they would deal out even handed justice as between the public, the promoters and opponents of the Bill, the opposition to which, though it had been masked and subdivided smongst railway coin , panics, was redly and truly to be traced to its source RI the opposition of the Electric Telegraph Company alone. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to•contest the fal lacy that had, he affirmed, been sported so frequently, but erroneously before Committees of the House of Commons, and advocated in the present instance by Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Locke, and others, viz., that where competition was impossible, combination was the British always possible, or in other words that competition always eventuated in combination. This absurdity had been effectually exploded by Parliament, not only in the graph s , ~,, tt., TelegraphColß hen it decided on granting the original Bill of case of railways, but more particularly in that of tele graphs, corn • •place in matters of tele graph,_ communication. Petition should take of this decision, that occasion the old electric telegraph' Company in 1810, ordaining that exclusive clauses- 1c company proposed which Parliament declined to insert. In defiance, however,restrictive and to do that, by meantionth railways, which sof exclusive agreements with the Parliament would not do for them, and the result was the they proceeded present application of the British Telegraph was now for the Comfliepttiaerpneuy9btleic Co that should overrule carrying out effective being precluded from public advantage, and to detePreti• fo a e rarm spe t c h i special original power competition. It fiat of the Legislature that com ou t l h d e be re ft ly th ed e will of Parliament should not bemfrme would to contend that any new system ofutsetrlated. It was idle by the common road, when they remallegraph should go state of things bad arisen in connexion what g rea t lines of traffic, that new towns had sprun g up, the channels for the transmission of intelligencegaee and new The evidence, moreover, that had been adduceden 13penede before the Committee es to the expediency of comm on -r oa d or underground telegraphs went to negative t hi s tion, it it were not sufficiently negatived by rhreopases of the. old company having constructed some 4,000 t miles of telegraph with scarcely any of it under ground. If the old Telegraph Company were of opi nion that a more effective competition would be carried out by road, why did they sacrifice thou sands in exclusive agreement with the railway com panies for the express purpose of keeping the new com pany off their line? And there could not be any effectual competition unless the Committee passed the Bill. The Learned Counsel then, at considerable length, com mented in detail on the evidence that had been adduced, and contended for the expediency and propriety of con ferring limited liability on the British Company, just as limited liability was conferred on joint-stock com panies in general, on the fair principle of putting those who supplied intelligence on a large scale oa the same footing as those who supplied light and water. With limited liability the shares would be taken up, and it had been given in evidence that one party alone would take 26,000/. worth of stock. Without limited liability the promoters could not proceed, and the evidence of Mr. Macgregor and Mr. Cobbold, two Members of the House, had been given in favour of conferring it. The new company would then in some degree be able to encoun ter or compete with the old company, though the latter were backed up by one of the most powerful commercial interests in this country. Even if the new company were invested with the powers sought for, the old com pany would still retain the enormous advantages of pri ority of establishment, weight, capital, and influence, of which in the legitimate struggle for competition no one wished to deprive them. He denied that in seeking to go upon the railways it was anything in the nature of an invasion of the rights of private property, railways being public highways and being greeted for public purposes, though to a great extent these powers given under the original Acts had from circumstances become inoperative. The contracts entered into between the Telegraph Company and the railways were contrary , to the spirit of the law, and which, while they had ef fectually tied the hands of the new company, had been anomalously represented by the Learned Counsel on the other side as containing the elements of free trade. It had been end( avonred to be shown that the construction of a secoud line of telegraph could not be carried out consistently with the safety of the railways. This was ludicrous in itself, and to prevent anything like jeopardy to the various parties concerned, it was specially pro posed that this part of the subject should be placed under the control of the Board of Trade, and this would be an ample safeguard. After negotiating with the new company for a couple of years, the London and North-Western Railway suddenly lent themselves to the delusion that danker would arise to the working of the railway and the public traffic, but this was merely claptrap. The assertions as to the probability of messages being intercepted or stolen were alike un worthy of credit. In a state of honest competition these things could not exist, arid English workmen were not very susceptible of the charms of transportation for life. Self-interest actuating the competing parties on both sides would suffice to prevent danger. Tho Learned Council then proceeded to show the remunerative re sults, as exhibited in the financial statement laid before the Privy Council, of the operations of the old Tele graph Company, as justifying the proposition that there was ample room for a second company. Mr. Ricardo bad stated that the company he represented had given general satisfaction; and yet counsel on the other side had not called a single disinterested commercial man to say that he was satisfied. Complaints had been m a d e of insinuations as to the use or abuse that was Diode by the obi Telegraph Company of its extraprethery an d exclusive powers. Nothing, perhaps, httd teat) defi nitely proved on this point; but what was to prevent it, when they remembered it had come out in cro ss .e. x .,,, ;4L nation that the shareholders of the old company con sisted to a great exten t of r a ilw ay representative 6 and members of the Stock Exchange, and that in th mission of messages the startling p ! , , ,,,,k,, , € trans that the messages of the principal ep ure ,‘ - ':;', P r !'"iled the company should have precedence (Wei, ti eitativea of Go vernment and the public. The Learned Coun se l 'l" of eluded by callieg on the Committee, in • con " merous petitions presented to the of the nu all the large towns in favour of the eßouse from Bill, to pass it by affirming the British Company's preamble. The Committee then cleared the for about half an h our, and room, an d d e lib erate d admitted, on the public being rea The NOBLE CIIAIR • /lAN said and best attention to the a te —After giving our fullest tracted inquiry, we have u ject-naatter of this very pro sufficient case for the come to the conclusion that a Bill has been made passing of the preamble of this this statement, I out-un At the same tim"hat I Ins" the parties, with directed by the Committee to in form that the opinion of tl a view to our further proceecdhingsa; against the South-Lie Committee is, that inasmnotl corn-, plaint of any sort appears ',stern Railway ComP a a d n e Y and that epears to have bern they stand on a tot m to that of any other company . totally different footing to intention of the c opatuttee. brought before insertion of clauses for is to require the the peotc *' desired also to inform s ' e tl°n of that line. Ism the parties , Committee will, when the that 8 , althea the proper time arrives, sanction the clause giving limited liability to the promoters of the Bill, it is the intention of the Committee to require the insertion of a clause which sh a ll rever t any opera tions being undertaken p under thi s Bill until a certain amount of capital shall be Paid up- That amount, it is to bo understood, is to be considered amongst us betwee n this and teereoi row, and then we s h a ll b e able to go on . Ofc eurse . that will not prevent anybody making any suggestions of their own. SHARE MARKETS. RAILWA Y STOCK EICEIANO to-day. The only sale reported was— F —There was little or nothing done in B RISTOL, JUNE 9. 2 1, 5 1ARPOOL, JUNE 9. • the s y ha a r l e e, mar New, Earaissex.—We have no improvement to notice tory: The transactions have been very limited, and prices litt l e from those which have been quoted for the last varied La; days . The transactions reported were—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 221. Shares, 5 7 4 dis.- Caledonian, 19 3.16 —Eastern Counties, 9 3-16—East Lancashire, 173i — Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 534—Lancashire and York 4,ire, 72 5 / B —Ditto, Fifths, 6 dis.—London and North ivestern, 12234—Midland, 6734—South -Eastern and Dover, .2044--York and North Midland, 23%. MANCHESTER, Jurtx 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.--There was an improved tk.eling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business has been done at firm prices. The sales reported were—Black burn, Prcference, 213,i—East Lancashire, 17 1 /2—Ditto, Pre ference, Quarters, 9 3-16—Ditto, Piths, y s p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72%—Manchaiter.Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, t. Preference, 1334,—Ditto, New Preference, 13-16 p.— westry and Chester, 13—West Riding, 4— South - Entitern and, Dover, 20%. BIRMINGHAM, Jumi 9. STOCK ESCRAIWE.—The business to-day was rather li mited, but prices were firm. The only transactions were-- Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 51. 13s, yd, - Shropshire Union, 3! - i dis. ELECTION RIOT.—A somewhat serious riot took place on Thursday, at Epworth, on the occa , ion of Mr. Christopher, Mr. Banks Stanhope, the Conserviuive candi dates, and Sir Montagu Cholmeley, who comes forward on the Yarborough interest, addressing the electors. The riot resulted in some broken heads, the demolition of the hurt ings, and the windows of an inn. The Cambridge University Commission had a meet in z yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. Present —The Bishop of Chester. the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, Profeasor Sigigwieks atid the Aey. W, H. 13/1400: 4ecretarl•