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LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commeree, Threadnce(lle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. alt Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, aril the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instructions. °trees, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TAGLIONI most respectfully informs the Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, her Friends, and the Public, that her FAREWELL BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING IVl.en will be performed (for the last time this season) Donizetti's Opera, entitled, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grist ; Dr. Malatesta, Signor Fornasarl ; Ernesto, Signor Mario ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. after which, the highly successful new and original Ballet Diver tissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Signor Pugni, entitled, LE JUGEMENT 'DE Introducing a new Grind Pas, entitled " Le Pas des Messes." The principal parts by 31atillc. Taglioni, Madlle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Cerito, MM. Perrot and St. Leon, ➢ldlle. Louise Taglioni, Cassan and Demelisse, &c. A Selection from the last Act of Donizettrs Opera, LUCIA DI LAMNIERMOOR. Lucia, Madame Ca-stellan ; Eidebent, Signor F. Lablache. After which a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which will be introduced "La Cracovienne," by Mdile. Lucile Grahn ; and the " Pas Sty rienne," by Mdllo. Carito and 31. St. Leon. TO conclude with the Second Act of the admired Ballet of LA SYLPIIIDE. La Sylphlde, Mdlle. Taglionl ; La Sorciere, Madame Copere ; James, M. Perrot. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. THE ITRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Last 'Week but One of the celebrated BRUSSELS OPERA COMPANY. ON FRID 1:Y EVENING, AUGUST 7, Will be performed M. St. George's Comic Opera, entitled THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS; Or, LES MOUSQUETAIRES DE LA IZEINE. Olivier d'Estragues, M. Couderc ; Hector de Biron, M. Boulo; Le Capitaine Roland, M. Zeller ; Athena's de Solange, Mdine. Laborite ; Berthe de Siroiane, Madame Guichard. Atter which, the Fourth Act of Meyerbeer's celebrated Opera of LES HUGUENOTS. In which will appear MM. Laborde, Zelger, lilassol, Barielle, Boulo, Madame Julien, and Madame Guichard. Doors open at Seven, performance to commence at half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Comedy of TILE HYPOCRITE. Doctor Cantwell, Mr. Farren ; Mawworm, Mr. Buckstone ; Old Lady Lambert, Mrs. Glover ; Young Lady Lambert, Mrs. E. Yarnold ; Charlotte, Mrs. Seymour. .Alter - Which, a New and Original Drama, called BOROUGH PO LCtIC •; - p a l characters by Messrs. Webster, Tilbury , Buck stone; •lc • 1)(.: , and Mrs. E. Yarnold. :The; norm the Overtures, " L'Ambassadrice," and na," the Quadrille, "Je Veux Dauser," the • `and " Czarina Mazourk." To be fijlowed y the laughable Farce of UNCLE JOHN. Uncle John, Mrs W. Farrell; Friend Thomas, Mr. Tilbury; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Eliza, Miss Telbin. To .2exielude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SIM- T.11 , 46,'5. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buck.;tone ; Capt. rhobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton. THEATRE LOYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley'. — Pon THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed (by particular desire) the Drama of NELL CAVYNNE. Betterton, Mr. Diiblear ; Joe Haynes, Mr. Meadows ; Counsellor Crowsfoot, Mr. Matthews; Nell Gwynne, Mrs. Keeley, Orange Moll, Mr. Keeley. Alter which the Farce, entitled AN OBJECT OF INTEREST. In which Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Mrs. Woollidge ; Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, and Bellingham will perform. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled THE END OF JUNE. Nicholas Czarny, Mr. Keeley ; Catherine Kroff, Miss Howard. To conclude with the first Act of ROBIN 11001) AND ItICIIARD c(FATR DE LION. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Viliars ; Messrs. J. W. Collier, Kinloch, F. Matthews, A. Wigan, &c. Tickets, Places, and Private 11.)xes to be had of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, 12, Brorapton-square, and of Mr. Grogan, at the Boa-office. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPTIL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING To conclude with the Drama, entitled TIIE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. In which Madame Celeste, Mrs. Fitz william, Mrs. Ellen Chaplin ; Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, Wor rell, &c., will perform. After which an entirely new and original Comic Sketch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. To be followed by Mr. Buckstone's Comic Drama, called TIIE 31.111) WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Diccon, Mr. Wright ; lliilly, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. Duchess de Chartres, Madame Vestris ; Dr. Druggendraft, Mr. Compton ; Pierre 3lalliott, Mr. Charles Mathews. After which a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TIIE. SLEEP ING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Baron Factotum, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Princess Isabelle, Madame Vestris. To canclude with the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. C. Mathews ; Sir Adonis Leech, Mr. Granby ; Lady Clutterbuck, Miss E. Ilonner. ASTLEY'% ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE:. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. Great and glorious success of our Military Achievements In India. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Spectacle, called THE SIKHS' INVASION ; or, England's Victories of MK Intro ducing the whole resources of the Theatre, military Brass Bands, &e. Aftei;hicTiTtiovelZlPicturesque SCENES of the HIPPO DROME and Sports of the Curriculum, by the British and Foreign Professors., Clowns in the Arena, Messrs. Wallet and Rochez. The whole concluding with the legendary Spectacle of the PHANTOM KNIGUT ; or, The Fatal Kiss. I,o x-once open trom eleven till lave o'clock.—Doors open at sit and commence at seven o'clock. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SintRETY, TUESDAY, GARDENS. THURSDAY. yNvEISuDsA.Yr;. EVBRY MONDAY, DESTRUC TION' of NAPLES, ERUPTION of TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, A richly ornamented (OTHEC BRIDGE ofnEiThe gent 79. constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated STATUES has be es The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr.ight. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing i n "° ""Y• the Interior Telemac hus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI wlll descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Lim, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory Is splendidly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivora at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. Admission. One Shilling. MONSTER FETE. GRAND NEAPOLITAN CARNIVAL AVD FETE D'ETE!! ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. "MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND TIIIRSDAY, August 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, 18-16. Bands of the Coldstream, Horse Guards Blue, Roy; :Merv , and Lewis's Brass nand, forming a Monstre Band of One ALandred ; _National Anthem and Salute of Twenty-one Guns. The DISTINS the Original Pertbrmers on the Saxe Horns. HERR CHARLES IUST, the Modern Hercules, Flight on the Salle of a Windmill. NEAPOLITAN BAZAAR, Attendants in Neapolitan Costume. The TIGHT ROPE, by Madame !Hellen, Mr. Ryan, and Master Ryan. FAIRY-LIKE EXPLOITS, A-la-Risley, by the Messrs. Candler. The TARANTELLA, by Maddle. and 3lon. Fontaine. LA TRANCA HISPANIOLA, by Mr. Candler. FEATS on the CORDE VOLANTE, by Monsieur Bradbury. An ENCAMPMENT of GIPSIES. ERUPTION OF YES UVI , S, with new and Indescribable effects. On THURSDAY, the Anniversary of her Majesty the Queen Dow itger'S Birthday, a Grand Display of Fireworks. Doors open at Two o'Clock. Admission Two Shillings ; Children, dor Twelve years 91 . Age, tuaPace. GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY, (including the Extensions and Quarter Shares) ; SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY, (including the Extension Shares) AND GRIMSBY DOCK COMPANY. TO THE SHAREHOLDERS. The Directors have the 13;1;71;;;;;;IO - c - maint the Proprietors, that they have been successful in all their Parliamentary proceedings, both as regards the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and the Grimsby arid Sheffield Lines, and the amalgamation of the whole with the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company. In addition to the line from Gainsborough to Great Grimsby, and the intended Docks at Grimsby, both sanctioned by Acts of the last session, they have this year secured the lines front Sheffield to the Midland Railway, to Gainsborough, and to Lincoln ; also from Gains borough to Newark, and from New Holland en the south bank of the Humber to Lincoln, with the right of constructing piers, and making an improved communication from New Holland across the River Humber to Hull, The Acts for all these lines and works, including the amal gamation, have already received, or now only wait, the royal assent. By the terms of the amalgamation, the proprietors in the Sheffield and Manchester Company will, until six months after the opening of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Grimsby and Sheffield lines, re ceive the profits realised on their own line; and the proprietors in the other above-named amalgamating lines and works, will, during such time, receive interest at the rate of Si. per cent. per annum on the amount of calls actually paid up on their respective shares. 'When the Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Grimsby and Sheffield lines have been opened six! months, thenceforth the shares of all the amalgamating companies will partake of the same rateable di vidend in proportion to the amount of their respective shares. The first payment of interest on calls is intended to be made in January next. By order of the Directors. J. H. HUMFREY, Secretary. Rsilrray Office, Sheffield, July 24, 1846. G REAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. CALL on the 20/. SHARES, and on the 12/. 10s. SHARES (lately called the " EXTENSION " and " QUARTER" SHARES._ The Directors of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Rail way Company having resolved, by virtue of their Act of Incorpora tion, to make a Call of Eighteen Shillings on the 201. Shares, and a Call of Ten Shillings on the 121. 10s. Shares of this Company, the Shareholders are required to pay into one of the undermentioned banks, on or before Tnrasnav, the 10th day of September next, the sum of Eighteen Shillings on each share of Twenty rounds, and of Ten Shillings on each share of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, now registered in their names. The bankers are instructed to charge in terest at the rate of 51. percent. per annum on all sums tendered after the 10th of September, up to the day of payment. The half yearly dividends of five per cent. per annum will only be payable to those shareholders who shall have paid the calls due. By the 16th clause of Bth Viet. cap. 16, commonly called " The Companies Clauses Act," it is enacted that "No shareholder shall be entitled to transfer any share after any call shall have been made in respect thereof until he shall have paid such call, nor until he shall have paid all calls due for the time being, on every share held by him." The Company's hankers are—Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., at Lincoln, Gainsborough, Caistor, Brigg, Market Rasen, and Grimsby ; or their agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, in London, to whom the calls may be remitted (accompanied by the call circular, which will be sent to the address of each shareholder), through any of their agents in the country, or through the Sheffield Banking Com pany, in Sheffield. Dated at the Company's office, in Sheffield, the 24th day of July, 1846. By order of the Directors, J. H. IIUMFREY, Secretary. N.B. Circulars will be posted to the address of each registered shareholder in due time to enable them to pay the above calls ; and it is requested that the said circulars may in all cases be forwarded with the amount due to the Company's bankers. The neglect of this notice is liable to cause delays and inconvenience iu the advices, and to prevent the individuals from being properly credited in the Com pany's books. The sealed certificates of the 201. and 121. 10s. shares will be ready for issue in the early part of September, of which notice will be given. ARMAGH, COLERAINE, and PORTRUSH RAILWAY COMPANY.—AR MAGI', COLERAINE, and PORTRUSII RAILWAY EXTENSION COMPANY. The holders of Scrip in either of these Companies are requested to forward to the Secretary, on or before the 10TH INST., the number of shares represented by the scrip which they respectively hold, and also the numbers designated on each certificate of such scrip. By order, WILLIAM GALT, Sec. 14, Ironmonger-lane, Aug. 1, 1846. WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 63; Highest. 76 ; Noon, 79 BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1ND N.E. ; cloudy. 111 If WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 32 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 59 minutes after 12, f e 34 It. ,-,.. rt - ...itk t - :"-t - :'::2 , t' -- i '.''') 1. ' 4.- •- v i\t,. ° ~e, • .-,..„ , ,, i ,A.F . ",--.L.,,,c. \ . z r, :!' ' ' ..;?:- 6 !-'4lb6 ' ;,,,... \ \ -- - - ~,y,t , . .„; - 4-•.,..)5„.; , ~ ..i r .... 'ts . _.--• tekV.ZrA k. -,.... : ti . -.....----- SECOND EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, THUR SDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1846. Obviting 211 tit LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1846. Among the various means of materially improv ing'the sanatory condition of our populace, none are likely to produce such immediate benefit, whether morally or physically, as the regulation of public cemeteries upon a different system than the present. So thoroughly convinced are we of this circumstance, that we have never tired, nor shall we ever tire, of in veighing against the pernicious grievances incident to the present arrangement, until it be altogether and permanently abandoned, and one of an entirely dif ferent character substituted. Feeling thus earnestly in regard to the precarious tenure of public health, under the existing evils of burying-grounds within our most populous cities, we are heartily rejoiced to perceive that Mr. MACKINNON has recalled the serious atten tion of the Legislature to the subject, by moving for the second reading of the Public Cemeteries' Bill. We regard those Members of our representative assembly with peculiar interest, and, we must acknow ledge, with a kind of paramount partiality, who labour arduously and unostentatiously for benefac tions to their common country. Such men as these we look upon as the most laudable and legitirr ate, because the most retiring and the most hard-working of our legislative patriots. They contemn the mere tricious glories of faction; they may be classified as among those who, on a large scale, " do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." As we re gard the fabrication of the sickle or the plough as immeasurably beyond the marvellous inventors of eurekas, and automata, and eccentric clocks, we re gard these abolishers of social scourges as of a loftier renown than that acquired by the METTER. NICHS and the TALLEYRANDS, in the adroit and so phistical construction of treaties and protocols. llow much more advantage has been entailed upon succes sive generations by the first shoemaker, than by the first worker in tinsel and lacquer ! Precisely ana logous are those descriptions of statesmen whom we have particularised and contrasted. Again we repeat our gratification at the revival of the que3- tion of public burial-grounds by Mr. Mac- KIN NON. He has recognised the extraordinary benefits that would accrue to the community by some radical alteration in the present localities and the other baneful concomitants connected with our churchyards. Nor do the Ministers evince any disregard to the necessity of such a change. From the incidental observations of Sir GEORGE GREY we are deeply rejoiced to see that it is the intention of Government to incorporate with other sanatory mea sures now in preparation, some plan for an alteration similar to the one proposed by the Hon. Member for Lymington. Mr. MACKINNON has, after the most approved fashion of preaching and propounding, divided his proposition into three distinct heads, all of them likely to prove individual causes to a common effect. First, he insists upon the necessity of preventing all interments within the precincts of large towns, or populous places; secondly, of speedily committing the bodies of the poor to the earth, so as to lessen the chances of the spread of pestilential disorders; thirdly, of putting some limitation upon the charges of undertakers and others, the like gloomy craftsmen, who are at present enabled to impose upon their unwilling employers by the most exorbitant charges. We conceive that the foregoing classification is judicious enough, as far as it extends, but we be lieve that there are other collateral requisites in this reform which should have been distinctly specified, and successively enumerated. With the prevention of interments within towns should have been joined the prevention of interments in the vaults of such, sacred edifices as are habitually used as places of public worship, and thousands of which structures would not come under the influence of the prelimintiry clause of this Bill. Is it not contrary to common sense, to imagine that sound health can be pre served in our rural districts, and contagi ous diseases avoided in the sequestered hamlets of England, when every Sunday the coun try folks assemble together in their churche3, some tplamreisamaanserralal a suited for to a the aartreocfepgto gooseberries of seberrie t s h; Can health of body and avoidance of contagious maladies, we repeat it, be insured when a crowd of these labourers assemble every Sunday in their diminutive church and sit there for hours in the broiling heat of summer, with the steam and stench of mortality reeking up through the planks or tiles of the floor from the decaying flesh of their brethren in the vaults beneath ? Is it possible that while breathing such a pestilential atmosphere at periodical intervals, these h people can preserve th purity of their own , i b t lo s o s blood, es t Ite w i s h o l f e r s o o m m e ore s ucrh ganisation of the ir the monstrous inhala tai nunnecessary o n d of t fru it i a s n f i r m om al hevapoue;silasrisssintghisfr, decomposition, it is from the living poorsleewpiinthg the many successive nights in the same room dead poor (and this particularly in the dense quarters of our metropolis), it is from unwholesome earth of our City grave-pits infusing a subtle poison into the lungs of our civilians, that thousands of lives are sacrificed every year, that the inhabitants of our towns are proverbially of more debilitated constitutions than the dwellers in the country, that contagious disorders sometimes ravage the land and decimate the population ; that 67,000 of our fellow countrymen were every year swept from creation by endemic and epidemic diseases. To say that this is not a matter requiring the resolute and speedy interposition of Government would be folly and cruelty to the last degree. All the washhouses and public baths, and Sewerage Acts, and copious supplies of water, and ventilation, and domestic drainings in the world, can never ensure the natural health of, or ward off unnatural maladies from, a people living in an artificial state of society unless the vestiges of mortality—in plainer words, the rotting corpses of our fellow creatures—be re moved from the vicinity of their living and brea!hi.)g companions. And morally such a change would be beneficial. There is something more consonant with the divine, and tender, and moving thoughts upon death, such as are evoked by Christianity—there is something, we say, more consonant with those so ' lemn and beautiful thoughts in the green grass, and the cowslips, and the night sky of a country churchyard, than in the mouldering planks, the greasy clay, and rusty bars of a city church yard. The tranquillity of the one is as appropriate as the din around the other is detestable and distracting. Rejoiced, as we should have been, to see Mr. MaciuNNoN's motion for the second reading of the Public Cemeteries' Bill acquiesced in, we shall, nevertheless, await in patience and hope the re-intro duction of the matter by the Government, under Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Our patience in this particular will be the more sincere as we continue sanguine that the subject will receive the revision as well as the patro nage of the Administration. We have perused the report of what passed at the meeting, held in Conciliation Hall on Monday last, with feelings of unmixed satisfaction. The antici pated presence of Mr. O'CONNELL imparted a pectins interest to the proceedings, as it was known he had left London for the express purpose of justifying his conduct in the face of his enemies, and of offering his counsel to the Association as to the course to be pursued in consequence of the secession from its body of Mr. S. O'BaiEN and his turbulent clique. Mr. O'CormELL has triumphed in every way. He found ready to his hand, as soon as he set his foot upon his native sh)re, letters addressed to him by distinguished men of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, admirably calculated ,to strengthen his unflinching determi nation, by moral means alone, to succeed in re dressing the political ills of Ireland. The letter of Dr. HIGGINS was at once seasonable and severe, but not more severe than just. We cannot resist tran scribing the following extract : "We have witnessed with sorrow the disgraceful scenes that have lately taken place in Conciliation Hall, and have felt the deepest indignation and disgust at the shallow sophistry and flippant impertinence exhibited by the few young men who so childishly style themselves Young Ire land. Do these persons already forget that all their import ance, if any they possess, is owing to your superhuman and unbounded influence? Or do they imagine the whole county} will ever start up at their wild bidding; throw moral force and O'Connell to the winds; trample upon God's holy com mandments; violate their sworn allegiance to their gracious Sovereign; and, under the magic spell of puritanical rank and Jacobin impiety, sally forth from their peaceable fire sides to be butchered in an unequal and fruitless contest? Assuredly, if such be the expectations of the Young England party, they must look on their fellow-countrymen as the veriest idiots upon the face of the earth, whilst, at the sam( time, they draw down upon themselves the scorn and laughte; of every true repealer in Ireland." The confidence of the Romish priesthood is, it possible, increased in Mr. O'CONNELL by the divergent tactics of the " physical force" party. Tin unbounded influence which they exercise over their respective and multitudinous flocks is beyond dis pute. The detestable doctrines broached by Young Ireland compel every well-conditioned man to stand aloof from them. Numerically, mentally, and morally, then, these factious demagogues, and gun powder tyros, have happily placed themselves hors de combat. The split is irremediable. We predicted as much last week, and we rejoice that our vaticination has been justified. The Liberator boldly denounced every seceder as a traitor, Mr. S. O'BRIEN excepted. To him only did he leave open the door of repentance. We know not what may be the future political career of Mr. S. O'BuiEw. It would be difficult to foretel it of the possessor of so vapouring a temperament. Our hope is that Mr. O'CONNELL may live long tt guide his country to a safe redemption from the- oppression under which she has suffered. But, should we be disappointed in this, we are persuaded that, after what has occurred, his sagacity is too keen tc permit him to recommend the Member for Limerick as a proper person to fill place. It is evident from the following sentence in the letter already alluded to, from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, that a great moral respon sibility would attach to any such recommendation : " I feel thoroughly convinced, if it were the will of PROVIDENCE to warn you to-morrow of your near dissolution, the Irish nation would unanimously adopt, as their political guide, that man alone whom you would bequeath to them as worthy of their con fidence." Mr. O'CosiaLr. broadly declared that the present Government should hare his strenuous support. "He was convinced that so much good to the country wae never tendered by a Government, and so much pru dente and discretion were never so necessary on the par! of the people." Probably no man out of the Cabinet knows better than 11r. O'CONNELL the outline of the ameliorating measures for Ireland intended tc be introduced next session by the Government; and certainly few men could compete with him in capa city for judging of their salutary efficacy. More over, no one is more fully aware than the Irish leader of the folly of harassing a well-intentioned Adminis tration by any untoward demonstration of violent conduct in Conciliation Hall : his present moderating policy is, therefore, equally a proof of his wisdom. and true patriotism. • The imbecility of the rebellious seceders, in having arraigned those repealers who have accepted office, was felicitiously ex posed ; for either they were sincere or insincere, when they upbraided Lord EBRINGTON for considering e repealer disqualified from holding office. If sincere, they should have praised the Government for remov ing the ban of exclusion, and have congratulated the present recipients of office. But, as they have not done this, but have, on the contrary, denounced them, they have, independently of the impolicy of their views, furnished indelible proofs of their former insin• cerity. We have them here inextricably seated be tween the horns of a dilemma. Conducted in the way in which the Association now is, ruled over by such a master spirit as O'Cozi NELL'S, fenced round with the most solemn declarations, that by the action of the pure and unalloyed principles of moral force only shall its energies be devoted to the regeneration of Ireland, we see no reason to regret its existence, because we are satisfied that, simultane ously with the realisation of equal rights to those enjoyed by Great Britain, the Association will be either voluntarily dissolved, or crumble into insignifi cance. " You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house: you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live." Conciliation Hall serves the purpose of a political venti lator, and acts:wholesomely enough for the time. With a stinted franchise, and but a spare number of repre sentatives, it is not unnatural that an ardent, discon tented, and suffering people, should sympathise with an Association which offers a safe outlet to their feelings, and authoritatively sets forth the wrongs by which they are oppressed. The phantom of repeal troubles not our brains. O ' CoNNELL has frequently alleged that without the co-operation of the Protestants repeal is hopeless, and for their support he will look in vain. If Ireland were as righteously governed as England and Scotland, repeal would never be de manded. Scotland might then just as well agitate for a severance of her union, as Ireland. Neither would the absurdity stop short of kingdoms, for an extensive and numerous county, or two or more of them united, might, as far as abstract ar gument is concerned, just as reasonably start for a several, or conjoint independence, till, in fine, we relapsed into another Heptarchy. It is not pre tended, that, were equal rights conceded to Ireland, there would still remain in that country political peculiarities, establishing the necessity fur a separate legislature. The latter pri vilege has only been earnestly sought for, from the • . partial belief that .England never would place Ire land upon the same. footing-with herself in all other respects. Our past rule may have done much to strengthen this belief, but we rejoice to think we have reached a period when a beneficent spirit will influence our national councils, and prosper and direct all their consultations, to the safety, honour, and welfare of that afflicted country. The report of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris on the questions referred to them by the hi each Government, with a view to their giving an opinion on the quarantine laws, is a document of the greatest importance, and from which we may eventually hope for the most valuable results, in the relaxation, and, perhaps, ultimate abolition of the odious system, by which the most injurious effects have been produced—by which science has been impeded, travelling obstructed, and commerce, navigation, and manufactures seriously restricted. The report of these learned gentlemen, which is in every way worthy of their high reputa tions, objects in the strongest manner to the system now in use by the authorities of Mar seilles, where the quarantine regulations are most frequently used, and which it justly designates as having been adopted under the influence of exagge rated fear and a total ignorance of the limits of t. danger, and as stamped in several points with a character of barbarism which demands an early reform. The: Commission pro poses a line of conduct entirely opposed to the mea sures now taken. It is suggested they should be re placed by means simple and easy of execution, and which have already received the sanction of expe- rience. The report is divide I int) four branches : the first refers to countries in which the plague has arisen, or still arises, spontaneously; the second, to its epide mic or sporadic character, and to the manner in which it propagates itself ; the third treats of the transmissibility of the disease ; and the fourth of what is the common or exceptional time for the incubation of the plague. It then introduces the applications therefrom to the question of quarantine. On the first branch, after giving a definition of what the plague is, and the general characteristics of the several localities in which it has arisen spontaneously at different times, they arrive at the conclusion, that in all countries where the disease has been observed to be spontaneous, it may reasonably )e considered to arise from certain causes acting on a great portion of the population. Those causes are, iving on a marshy soil, near the Mediterranean sea— mar certain rivers, the Nile, the Euphrates, or the Danube—living in houses that are low, not well ventilated, and where there exists a superabundant accumulation of inhabitants—hot and damp air--the action of animal and vegetable substances in a state if decomposition ; and, lastly, great moral and human nisery. In Lower Egypt, where these causes are chiefly )revalent, the disease is endemic. It is observed to tssume the sporadic form every year—that is, when it attacks a small number of separate individuals, and is aranting in the character belonging to epidemic liseases; and the epidemic, where it attacks a vast lumber of persons in a given time, about once in .very ten years. After showing that this country, low so frightfully afflicted, and from which the prin cipal danger of the imports.tion of the disease is to be 'eared, was for a long space of time kept free *rom the epidemic by good administration and the .xertions of the sanatory police of the country, hey state their expectation that the adoption of he same means would be followed by th e same results. We have thus the hope afforded to is, that by energetic measures being adopted in Egypt, the scourge may eventually be banished from the face of the earth. Surely such a desirable result —a consummation so devoutly to be wished for— would justify the different European Governments nore particularly the French and English, in remon strating with MEHEMET Au, who now presides over the destinies of that nation, who has already intro laced so many and such valuable reforms, and who has evinced the strongest anxiety for the ameliora ion of the condition of his people. Is it not to be supposed that if the restrictions and expenses occa sioned thereby to the commercial interests of his :ountry, which he has proved himself so desirous of advancing, were clearly pointed out, that he would elopt every suggestion calculated to attain the object ; tnd from the extraordinary power belonging to an Eastern Sovereign he would have the means of king so more readily available than in a more imited monarchy would be possible ? Sincerely do we hope that no time will be lost by our Government in taking measures with those of other nations `Or so greatly advancing the interests of humanity. [ndependent of the considerations which must have such weight with all philanthropists, the mere ?olitical economist must feel most desirous of the re -Ormation of a system the maintenance of which has been so costly. It has been calculated that commerce has been taxed for the support of the quarantine laws •o the extent of from 1,000,0001. to 2,000,0001. per annum ; but even that expense, great as it is, is )f less consequence than the vexation and lelay attendant thereon. The report of which we have been speaking clearly proves the u tt er i nu tility )f by far the greater portion of these regulations, old testifies that they may be either wholly abo lished, or, at least, subjected to such changes as, in a ;seat degree, to do away with the principal grievances. )ne.country alone can do nothing : if England alone should take the lead, which she has ever done, by the removal of these commercial restrictions, and the adop tion of a sounder and better principle, her commerce might possibly be subjected to a greater degree of in .lonvenience by the additional stringency to which it would be subjected by the nations whose prejudices bad not been removed, and which still cling to the antiquated and objectionable 'system with obstinacy Ind pertinacity. It can, therefore, only be attained by persuasion and losing no opportunity of calling the attention of other nations to the practical result of the observations of the Academy. We trust, at least, that the attempt will be made by our Liberal Government. They may be unable to command success, but let them deserve it; and, should they happily be successful, and induce the principal nations of the earth to join with them , n the total abolition of these vexatious laws, they will have conferred a most valuable boon 3n the great mercantile and commercial interests of their country. It is impossible for us to follow the "eport through all its parts, suffice it to say, that it states that the disease is propagated by local and atmospheric causes, and not by contagion, and that it is not conveyed by goods or merchandise—and that, at a distance from countries where the pest is ende mic and out of the focus of infection, it never broke out among persons that had been exposed to its action after they had been isolated eight days. Letters from Rome of the 28th state that the emeute at Cesana, in which a captain of the Swiss Guard was killed, was merely an affair between the guard and a body of smugglers. The POPE, however, has ordered the Swiss troops in garrison at Cesana to be removed, and it is expected that one of the first acts of the administration of Cardinal Gum will be to reduce the number of Swiss in the pay of the POPE. His HoLnizss presided over the deliberations of the Committee of Education, consisting of sixteen cardinals, on the 26th ult., and, it is said, proposed the introduction of many improvements in the system of public education. At Berne the new constitution was adopted, on he Ist instant, by a large majority of the inhabitants, ,n public meeting assembled. The Military Commission of Inquiry at Cracow has completed its labours ; 1,250 prisoners were ex amined ; of these 200 have been delivered up to Austria and Russia ; 220 remain in prison in Cra crow, to undergo a trial before the Civil Commission. composed of two Austrian, two Russian, and two Prussian judges, with a President, and 830 have been set at liberty. The Emperor NICHOLAS addressed, on the 25th of June, the following edict to the nobles of Esthonia:— .• TO OUR BELOVED, FAITHFUL, AND DISTINGUISHED NOBLES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ESTHONIA. "The nobles of Esthonia have presented to us their propo sitions relative to the organisation. of the condition of the peasants in this province. A committee especially appointed for that purpose having examined these measures, which fully answer our expectations, we bestow on the m our ap probation, and it is with peculiar satisfact ion that we ex press our imperi a l goodwill to the nobles of Esthonia for this fresh proof of their generous efforts for the general welfare. In the conviction that the nobles of Esthonia will continue in the same spirit to deliberate on the final mea- sures which this question demands, we assure them of our imperial goodwill. " NICIIOLAS." Madrid papers of the 30th have been received. So great has been the desertion among the Spanish troops stationed on the Portuguese frontier, that General VILLALOSGA has issued a bando, con demning every soldier who quits his post to enter Portugal to be shot three hours after his arrest. The Ileraldo, which has recently been publishing fa series of articles advocating an invasion of Portugal, and in one of which it openly and boldly defied the powerofEngland,which would it said at once succumb if Spain acted with proper spirit, has now, acting no doubt upon instructions, taken upon itself the whole respon sibility of those articles, declaring that the opinions it has published are not those of the Spanish Cabinet. It appears that the propriety of an armed interfe rence in the affairs of Portugal has been fre quently discussed of late in the Spanish Cabinet, and at length Senor ISTURITZ, who has all along been opposed to an armed intervention, has, it is said, brought round the majority of his colleagues to his opinion, so that, notwithstanding the efforts of General SANZ, backed as those efforts have been by Count BRESSON, the French Ambassador, to whose inspira tion it is supposed the articles in the Heraldo are due, there will be no invasion of Portugal after all. According to the Clamor Publico, General RON CALI has been appointed Captain-General of Cuba, and Senor CARONDELET, Captain-General of the Philippine Islands. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The elections still continue to go in favour of the Ministers. At the time the latest accounts left Paris the results of 446 elections were known, giving the Ministry a majority of 102 ; the numbers being, Minis terialists, 276 ; Opposition, 172. It is calculated that the Ministerial majority in the new Chamber will exceed 120. Every one of the Ministers has been elected, and M. DE SALVANDT, the Minister of Public Instruction, has been returnesiefor two places. Among the Depu ties re-elected are M. DTICHTIIAL, the banker, the Marquis DE . MONTALEMBERT, Marshal BU GEAUD, and M. DUPIN. The Legitimatists and the R-•publicans are all but annihilated, as far as the Chamber is conurned, by these elections. There will, in fact, be only two great constitutional parties in it—the one led by M. GUIZOT, the other by M. TRIERS and M. ODILON BARROT. The Oppo sition papers endeavour to find consolation for their misfortunes by making much of the defeat of H. JACQUES LEFEBVRE in the second arrondissement of Paris. The Commerce alone honestly confesses that the Opposition have been soundly beaten, but it attributes the Ministerial victory to corruption. The Moniteur announces that the Moment the Minister of Justice was informed of the false and alarming rumours which were circulated at Rouen and Paris on the 2d, he gave orders to the Attor neys-General of those two cities to institute a judicial inquiry to ascertain the origin of those rumours. The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th states that AIM. EL-KADER, accompanied by Bou M4zA, and a smal number of followers, who were in a state of great distress, has taken refuge in Morocco. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 83f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 1221. 15c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2721. 50c.; Rouen, 975 f.; Havre, 692. 50c. ; Great Northern, 701 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 877 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 6151.; Bordeaux, 553 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 3901. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4851.; Tours and Nantes, 497 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f ; Lyons and Avignon, 490 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 486 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 1214 —Dutch Rhenish, GIA —East Indian, I—Groat Indian Peninsular, %—Great Western Bengal, !4 —Louvain a la Sambre, 1 1 4 —Luxembourg, 2 ex d.—Northern of France Con stituted, 12% —Orleans and Vicrzon, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% —Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Sambre and Meuse, 4—West Flanders, 3y3. RA JLWA V COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) ROUSE OF LORDS. Room C. aunnzitsriELn AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY AND CANAL (OLDHAM BRANCH). OLISHADX, MANCE ESTEE, LIVERPOOL, AND DIXZILENHEAD JUNCTION. The Committee on these Bills, consisting of the Earl of Radnor (chairman), the Earl of Wicklow, Lord Lyttelton, ,Lord Montfort. and Lord Strangford, met to-day at eleven o'clock. HUDDERSFIELD AND MANCHESTER HAIL WAY AND CANAL (OLDHAM nuaxv CH). 'This Bill was opposed by several petitioners, and, amongst the rest, bythe Manchester and Leeds Company. Mr. Sergeant IVRANGIIAM, who opened the case for the promoters, said that the Bill in suppot t of which he appeared was for obtain. proposed to be sanctionedw oubranch last ing a railway which branched off from th e H u dd ers fi e ld Manchesterand ld session. Ilieline had constructed off at a point on the Manchester and Huddersfield line near Lidgate, and then proposed to proceed to Oldham. The length of the proposed line was between three and four miles. The object was to afford a shorter route between the eastern and western parts of Yorkshire. The town of Oldham was important, and the chief manufactures were the spinning and the weaving of cot ton, and the making of machinery. The neighbourhood was rich in minerals and there was a large coal trade carried on in the neigh bourhood. The preamble of this Bill had been proved before the other House without any evidence being heard, the Committee, from their local knowledge, being satisfied of its importance. There was no injury inflicted by the railway which could not come under the head of compensation. The Learned Counsel then called evidence. BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meetingof this Company was held in the Board Room, at the terminus, London-bridge, to-day, at eleven o'clock. The Hon. Capt. lloTnflt, RN., having taken the chair, called on the Secretary to read the notice of meeting. After the seal of the Company had been attached to the registered list of the shareholders, The CuAtumAx said it would not be necessary for him to detain the meeting with any lengthened statement. They were aware of the circumstances under which they met, that it was merely in compliance with the Act of Parliament. They were aware also that the Brighton and Chichester line bad been completed, and was opened to the public, and that the traffic on it was satisfactory. He said the Portsmouth extension was in progress, and the Eastern portion „was considerably advanced, and he might say with confidence that by the end of the year, or early next season, it would be entirely completed, and that as soon as it was completed the transfer of the line would be made to the Brighton Company. A statement of the accounts, up to the 30th of June was then laid upon the table, making the whole expenditure amount ,to 93 813/. 18s. 6d. Mr. COOPER moved that the report and accounts be re ceived and entered on the minutes. Mr. lIILL seconded the motion, which was carried nem. con. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was passed, and the meeting adjourned. 'LONDON JOINT-STOCK AND COUNTY BANK.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly meeting of this Company took place this day, at the London Tavern. The chair was taken by Mr. Hawes. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the affairs of the Company were in the most flourishing and satisfactory condition. The CHAIRMAN announced a dividend of G per cent. This announcement was received with great approbation ; and after a vote of thanks had been passed to the Chair man, the meeting separated. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—His Roya Highness the Duke of Cambridge and suite visited these gardens yesterday evening, to witness the eruption of Ve suvius. His Royal Highness passed most flattering enco miums upon Mr. Tyler, on the success of the spectacle, and also in a most feeling and condescending manner congratu lated him on the little amount of damage done to the gar dens by the late storm. FIRST PERFORMANCE OF BALFE'S OPERA. " THE BOHEMIAN GIRL," AT VlENNA.—Balfe's opera of The Bohe mian Girl was produced at Vienna, on the 24th of July; the overture and six pieces of music, were rapturously encored; and as the public of Vienna are not so much inclined to encore as in England, this must be considered an extraor dinary success. Balte may now be considered the most popular composer in Vienna, as, independently of his success, his opera, The Castle of --triton, is nightly per formed at two theatres. VAUXHALL-CARDENS.—Thefite of St. George, which was celebrated here last evening, was attended by more than the usual number of visitors. The weather was propitious, and though up till a late hour in the day the clouds were lowering, the night cleared up, and patronised the patron saint. rhe attractions of the evening were increased by the ascent of the coronation balloon, which took place at ten o'clock, in the presence of several thousand spectators, from the firework-ground. It took a direction towards Richmond, a light wind blowing at that moment from the east. When at a tolerably lofty elevation, Mr. Green, who was alone in the car, discharged the fireworks, suspended at a consider able distance beneath him. The effect of this 1)3 rotechnic r d e is n r m ia in Y d w er as o of the Ethiopian harmoniste, the performances, the songs s c p t l e h n e d i e d n b t e e r y t o a n i e d m w en t hat e, is consisting usually e x e ti f i bi equestriand. fireworks, and the dancing, kept the company on a perpetual qui vice for many hours, nor was it till long past midnight that the gay throng thought of going home, and left the gardens to peace and quietude. THE LORD MAYOR'S VISIT TO OXFORD.—OXFORD, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Lord Mayor reached Oxford by c e l n oc e k e o this h e m; i r a n 3 ln er g, er andth this imme diately ieiovanatst metropolis, ofa this s c i n t Os taenn Ills•d• invited his Worship and the 'sAlderman i pi , ' l et v tc n ei al 'l' c ltperrraokicijle o t e i d°ne : l d : lt a e ot ; l :v hrr i 3e ; 1 1 : leasni'dd' him in the evening ilOxford x fopr d a u t obu t the e Star i visit a i iisi n i l r it d n gs t a i l pi l s oo e uli l l. t c ae l r i a lio i epbfpefeaatathrsteerr great be his Lordship's Hotel. The Lord Mayor and his friends have spent i t ‘t c 'V a l o e'i t n esi l g i ll O p h' U l a ba S t : oh' y u a a s rti o in :p oo o v s d i s ible, there was nothing beyond a little addi tional bustl h e t i i s i t e o denote that we were honoured with the Lordship gives a splendid entertainment this evening at the Star Hotel ; corers are laid for 80, and everythingt connected scale. by w y at e er igh in t -o w: c it lo h a the to en m te o r r t r a o i w nm i e n n o t rn i i s n o g n , aanititbewrialli apnrodcseuedm His Lordship and party purpos h e er l e e , av a i n n a g object of great the state barge, which is lying attraction. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton -market at Liverpool yesterday was very active. The sales were 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including 800 American and 200 Brazilian en speculation and for export.—Shares were steady, but not so buoyant. The intelligence by the West India mail notices a conti nued improvement in the weather, which was favourable for the planters in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Demerara, &c. The Coolies in the latter colony seemed inclined to turn to handicraft and trading pursuits, but in any way we think they must certainly be valuable to the colony. The - fine weather comes too late to do more than improve the prospect for next year's crop. This season's will be lamentably deficient. There was a scarcity of shipping at. Barbadoes. The public securities have been rather dull, and the slight decline in prices which occurred yesterday afternoon has not been recovered. Consols for present transfer have realised 95% to 95%, and for time 96 to %. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been also lower, viz., 97% to 98. Bank Stock is firm, and has been as high as 209%. Exche quer-bills have realised Bs. to 12s. premium. Speculation in the Foreign Market has been exceedingly dull. Spanish Bonds have been tolerably firm. The Pas sive are quoted 6. Mexican Bonds are lower again, viz., 21 1 / to 25 1 %. Chilian Bonds are at par; and Brazilian at 90. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 98 to I ; and Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 594- to GO. Shares are not quite so buoyant, and the recent decided advances induces sales while it checks investments. BRITISH FUNDS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. .. • • .. .. • • • • 209% 208% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • . 96%1,4 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% % New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97% 98 New Five" r Cent. Annuities .. . • 125 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .• 10% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 1-16 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. • • .. Ditto, under 1,0001. South Sea Stock .. Ditto. Old Annuities • . • • • 95% Consols for Account 96% Exchequer Bills. d. 14 d. 1,000/. 12 8 500/. • • .. • . •.. 11 8 pm. Ditto, Small .. .... 12 si pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 90 Chillan Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. • • 100 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • Ditto, for the Account • • .. 24% Spanish Bonds, 5 per C en t. .. Ditto, Passive Bonds .. . • • 6 Dividends on tile above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 98% Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. 59%5 60 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 94 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK, RAILWAYS. PAID. Pas SHARE. Aberdeen .. . .. • • • . .. 15 .. .. 101,E to Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% .... % % to Birmingham and Gloucester .. -100 •• • • to Ditto New (issued at 7% dis.) • . 17%.... 32% .... to Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 .... %.. to Buckinghamshire .• .. • . 425..... par .. to % die. Caledonian .. • • • . 20 .. .. 16 % .. to 16 Direct Manchester (Remington's) .• %.... to Direct Northern .. .• .. • . 2% ...• 2 ...• to Eastern Counties •• . • • • • 14/. 16s. 01... • • 24%.... to Ditto, New .. .• • • 101. 16s, 0d....• 8 ptoB% p • Ditto, York Extension .. • • • • 10s. 2% .. to Eastern Union .. • • • . 30 •• • • 43%.... to Ditto, Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 9 .. • • 8% .. • • to Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • •• 50 •• ••.. to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • . 12% .• 18% ••• to Edinburgh and Northern .. 10 .... 11% .. to Goole. Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. ...• die. to Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn) 1%.• .• 1 1 4 1 ,g .. to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 25 .. • • 301% .. • . to Great North of England. ....100 .... to Ditto, New .. .. • . .. 15 .... 51 .... to Great Western .. .• • • • • •• 85 ••• • •••• to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. •• 10 .... 23% .... to Lancaster and Carlisle .. • • • • 45 .. • • 65 .. • • to Leeds and Bradford .. .. •• 26 71 .... to Leicester and Bedford .. • • • • 225. % die. to Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. • • 2% lA.. to London and Birmingham • • • • .. 100 • • ..234 to Ditto. Thirds • • • • • • • • •• 32 .• - 73% .. ••to Ditto. Fifths • • • • • • • • 2 .. • • 26% .. to Loadon and Brighton • • • • .. 50 66% .... to London and Greenwich • • 12!. 15s. 4d... • • 9 .. ••to London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 ...• to London and South-Western 411. 63. 10d. • .• •• .. to Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 17%.... 27%.... to London and York .. .. • • 2%....2 1 %%.. to Lynn and Ely .. .. •. 15 .. • . 15%.. ••to Lynn and Dcreliam 15 . .. 13% 14 to 13% Manchester and Leeds . • • .. 82 ••.. to Ditto, Extension 425. .... 4p• • • • to 3% p Manchester and Birmingham .. • • 40 .... 88 .. • • to -- Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. • • 5 .. • • 16% .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .... I .. ••to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. •• . • 1% pto Manchester and Southampton .. • . 2 .. • • 1% %• • to Midland • . ..100 -146 .... to Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .. 43%.. •. to 44% Ditto. New .. .. • • .. 1 .... 12% 1 %,. to 12 Newcastle and Berwick .. • • •• 15 .. 29% . to 28% Norfolk • • • • • • .. 20 . .. ••to Ditto, Tenths .. • • . .. 2 .. • • 2% .. to North British .. .. • • .. • • 25 .. • • 40 .. .. to 39 Ditto, Half Shares • • ..8%.... l5 .... to 14% Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. • • I % ...• 3% %%to —% North Kent and Direct Dover .. .. 2% ...• 1% • . to North Staffordshire .. • • • • • • 425. .. • • 4% pto 4 p Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% .... 9 .. • . to Portsmouth Direct .. .• • • • • 3% •• • • 5% %..to Preston and Wyre .• - • • • 25 .... 37% • • • to Reading, Guildford, and Reigate •• 425..... 74 die. to Shrewsbury and Birmingham . • 2%,... 3%%.. to Shropshire Union • .. .. • • .. 425... •• % dis. to South Midland • .. • • • • 425..... % p.. to South Eastern and Dover .. .• • • 33% •• .. to Ditto, New, No. 3 .. .. • • • • 15 •• • • 21% .. • . to Ditto, New, No. 4 .. • • • • • • 2%.... 35l .. • . to - South Wales .. .. • . .. • . 5 .... 2% %.. to Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • 2% 1 .... to West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 425..... 4%p to p York and Carlisle .. • . • • .- • • 2% .... to York and North Midland .. .. 50 to Ditto, Half Shares . 25 .... 50 .. • • to Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 49 to Ditto. Extension • • •• .. 20 .• • . 39 1 4 to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 14% to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. . • • • . 23 18 Anglo-Belgian • • • • • • • . 4 .. • • 2% •. • • to Boulogne and Amiens • • .• .. 14 .• .• 123.... to Bord., Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... .... to Ditto, ditto (Esrelete) .• .. 2 .. • • 1% •• .. to Dutch Rhenish •• .. • • .. 6 .. 6% .. ••to East Indir.n .. • . • • .. 55. .• • • 1 •.. to Louvain ala Sambre .*. .. 5 to Namur and Liege .. •• .. • 6 .. •. 2X .... to Orleav3 and Bordeaux .. •• B%h to Paris and Lyons Constituted .. .. 5 ...• %.• to —• Rouen and Havre .. .. . .. 20 .... 27% ..•. to Sambre and Meuse .. 8 .... 4 11 4 •••• to West Flanders .. .. • • .. .• 6 •• 3h U.. to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered .. .--.— .... 3% .. ••to LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Arc. 6.—Wind N., light airs, and hazy. DEAL, Auo. s.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Romeo, Pollock, Calcutta; Henry Welton, Long, Baltimore. Arrd. from the River and sailed, John Panter, Humphreys, Cape of Good Hope ; Atlantic, Hall, Richibucto ; Clydesdale, M'Farlane, Montreal; Xenophon, Rochester, Quebec. Sid. Ann, Know, Bombay ; Osprey, Brown, Quebec. NEWPORT, Auo. 3.—Arrd. Concordia, Jeffery, Quebec. MUMBLES, Auo. 3.—Arrd. Hixham, Sharp, Quebec. DOVER, Atm. 4.—Arrd. Intrepid, Duncan, Quebec. OFF HASTINGS, Auo. s.—Persea, Stevens, Ceylon; Antario, Holmes, New York. SouTIIAMPT•N, AuG. s.—Arrd. Clyde (steamer), West Indies. PLYMOUTH, Ana. s.—Wind S.W.—Off port, 4th, Ncrth Briton, Herd, Hobart Town. HOLYHEAD, Aue, 3.—Sld. Voyager, Parker, Quebec. Ltvaarooa, AuG. s.—Wind N.E., light —Arrd. Sir Henry Pot tinge; M' Wean, Calcutta ; St. Thomas packet, Pelirsen, Porto Rico ; Dauntless, Rogers, Apalachicola; Leland, Tufts, Charleston; Kathleen, Pittigrove, St. Andrews, New Brunswick ; Sy Iph, Raes beck, Richibucto. Sld. 4th, Liberty, Norton, New York. sth, Robert Finnic, Hodgson, Lima; Jamaica, Gibson, Jamaica ; Silas Holmes, Berry, New York ; Macao, Scott, ditto; Reliance, Hanley, Quebec; The Duke, Dady, ditto ; Elisa Morrison, Leitch, ditto ; Lockwoods, Errington, ditto; Milton, Ellis, Montreal. Off port, Penelope, Ma gellan ; and Hunter, —. LYTHAM, A uc. 5 .—Sld. Elizabeth, Moses, Port Wallace. CLYDE, AVG. 4.—Sld. Waringsford, Llawellye, Demerara; Derby, Gibson, Montreal. CLAY HOLE, Auo. 4.—Arrd. England's Queen, Waules, Miramichi. OFF PILL, AUG. 4 .—lndustry, Quebec, for Gloucester. GLAssoN Doca, JULY 29.—Arrd. Charlotte, Fame, Quebec. Sld. 30th, Sarah Ann, Fortune, Dalhousie. HUNA (rENTLAND FRITH),JULY 31.—Arrd. Ceres, Johnson, Quebec; General Graham, White, ditto ; Stentor, Wright, ditto ; Gratitude, Forest, ditto; Mameluke, St. John's, New Brunswick; Laura, Quebec; Choice, ditto, both for Newcastle ; Elizabeth and Mary, Miramichi, for Sunderland. STocKTON, Auo. 3.—Arrd. Tweed, M'Kenzle, Miramichl ; Dorothy, Storr, ditto; Nautilus, Quebec; Pioneer, Miramichi. FALMOUTH, AuG. s.—Arid. Vicar of Bray, Sawyer, Callao ; Para gon, Symonds, Quebec. Sid.' 4th, Carl, Prins, Rio Grande. Off, Queen of the Isles, South America, WATERFORD.—SId. John Bell, Carrol, Quebec. Coal:.—Sid. Mary Dunbar, Quebec. LIMERICK.—SId. Energy, Bowhe, Quebec, SHIELDS, AuG. s.—Arrd. Sylph, Walsham, Quebec. BLOCKADE OF TAMPICO. The agent to Lloyd's at Tampico, in a letter dated June 20, 184 G, mentions that Commander John Le Saunders, of the United states corvette St. Mary's, who holds that port under blockade, would not permit any communication to pass between the masters of merchant vessels and the consignees on shore. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) -Error 11111.EZETS. SMITHFIELD.- Old Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 41; New dltto, 21 5s to 81 14s ; Old Clover 41 to 51 15s ; New ditto. 31 5s to 41 17s ; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 1116 s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. Cumnzatarin.—old Meadow Hay, 315 s to 4/ 4s ; New ditto, 218 s to 3115 s ; Old Clover, 41 to 5/ 14s ; New ditto, 31 tis to 41 15s Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 169 ; Wheat St raw, 1/ 16s to II 18 3 per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 41; New ditto, 215 s to 31 14s ; Old Clover, 41 to 5116 s ; New ditto, 313 s to 4/ 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. MEAT MARKET. HAILSIUM, AUG. s.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved off steadily, but other kinds of stock commanded very little attention. Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s Gd per Sibs. ARUNDXL, AUG. 4.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 35 2d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 6d ; and Veal, 45 to 4s 6d per 81bs. Supply good, and trade dull. CHICHESTER, AUG. s.—We had a dull trade here to-day, yet the quotations ruled about stationary. Beef from 3s to 4a; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 58 4d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s Gd per Ms. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 18s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 lOs each. SOUTHALL, Auc, s.—Prime Sheep and Lambs commanded a steady sale, at full prices. In all other kinds of Stock very little was doing. Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 9d ; and Pork, 3s Bfl to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Aua. s.—We had a Hill average supply of fat stock on sale to-day. Generally speaking the demand ruled heavy, at late rates. Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 55 8d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, IBs to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 193 ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 lOs each. IWEIVTGATEI_AuFp . III3ATIENELAX.X. Fair average supplies of each kind of Meat were on air, wiili e the demand was in a very sluggi.h state, on the following terms : Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s Sd to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 43 8d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4cl to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s 4cl to 4s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. CORN AVERAGES: GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Aug. 1, 1846, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Enland and Wales per Imperial Quarter. PRICE ..: 47a 5d r Am4 OATS.---.:-------'--- 5d 26s lid 23, 5d 28s R. I 3 B 9 EA s N 2 S d I 3. P 5 s EA ltd DUTY... 78 Od 4s Od Is 6d 4s Od 48 Od 4s Od I THE LADY MAYORESB.—Mrs, Admiral Ross and Mrs. Foulstone left the Mansion House this morning, at nine o'clock, in her Ladyship's carriage and four post-horses, to meet the Lord Mayor at Reading, in order to accompany his Lordship and party to the fete given by Mr. Morrison, M.P., at Basaldon• park. MILITARY FLOGGING.—The following resolution WAS agreed to on Tuesday evening, Aug. 4, at a meeting of the National Association, 242, Holborn :—" That the punishment by flogging, as practised in the army and navy, is disgraceful to a civilised nation, brutalising and cruel to the men who witness and endure it, and inefficacious as a means for the suppression of vice and crime. That the late cruel and bar barous exhibition of this punishment at Hounslow calls for a strong expression of public opinion, to obtain which it is resolved that a public meeting be held in the Hall, on Thurs day, August 13th." SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Under Sheriff 13URCHELL.) EASTON V. HEDGES. The plaintiff is a hay and corn dealer in the Edgeware road, and the defendant is a horse dealer in the v icinity • The action was brought to recover the sum of 71 9s. dil. for hay, &c., sold to the defendant. The defendant pleaded the genoral issue• The plaintiff's ease was to the effect that the parties had been in the habit of dealing together for some years, and in November last year the account was settled between them, and the defendant said he was going out of town, but wished plaintiff to let his man have things as usual. Some goods were delivered at the stables as usual, and others to a mart named Peake; but after the defendant's return it was dis covered that Peake had sold a portion of the hay, and a question arose as to. whether he ought not to be given into custody, and a policeman was called in, but plaintiff refused to give him in charge. Peake was called,and swore he had been in the defendant's service for eight years, and had not been discharged . When defendant left town, in November, he gave witness a part of his week's wages, and witness from time to time sold hay and straw for his own support, as he received nothing from defendant. He had been jobbing about for one /ITd. another since, and occasionally f or pl a i n tiff. Plaint 1 asked him to st a y t o g i ve ev id ence, b ut h e never s a id that he would prosecute him if he did not give evidence to " fix the defendant. H e go t t h e hay from plaintiff on de fendant's account, b u t t o ld th e persons to w h om he sold . that he got it in exchange for a horse. Mary Gunn, the mother of Peake, was called, and swore that she met defendant a few days ago, and he told her to tell her son to k ee p ou t o f t h e way at the time of the trial, and she had better get some one to make him drunk. Mr. THOMAS, on the part of the defendant, called a witness named Lund, who swore that he took the premises of de-, fendant in December last, as he was going down on a rally/el f contract, and that no horses were kept there defendant's, nor had any hay or straw been delivered at tir stables after then, although plaintiff's witnesses had sworn the contrary. He had heard plaintiff say that Peake ha committed a felony, and he had put Inspector Wiggins him, and he would h ave hi m if h e was a b ove grou nd. 4 " was further proved that th e plaintiff had sent several ti mes to the persons who had bought the hay, and required o f theme to pay the difference between the price they bought it at and the fair price, thereby treatin g th ose p ar ti es as th e i r cr editor'' The jury said they had made up their minds at least all hour before. The UNDER-SHEINIET said that he could not tell whi ch way they had decided, but it was right to say that the plaintiff's counsel had the right of reply. The jury said they were in favour of the defendant. The plaintiff's COUNSEL contended that the goods had been delivered at the usual place, and to men who had been in the service of defendant; and that the plaintiff was not respon sible for the frauds of the servants of other persons. The thamta. Sit ERIFF said the fair and real question ive s Pr i c if Peake was in the service o f th e d e f en d ant, and plaint'". bad been in the habit of supplyi ng hi m as usua l , w i t hout having had notice not to do so, then would he be entitled t ° a verdict; but if he had notice, of course he would not. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. BOW-STREE r. -(THIS DAY) George Johnson, a young man of decent appearance, wi g charged with stealing a portmanteau, the property of Mt Day, a trunk and portmanteau dealer in the Strand. John Bliss, shopman to the prosecutor, said that he wa, l standing in the shop this morni ng , w h en a ca b man came to the door, and said that somebody was running away with $ portmanteau. He went to the door just i n t ime to see th e prisoner turning the corner of Wellington -street. He 1 30 , 1 : sued and succeeded in catching the priso ner , w ho bad th e portmanteau produced on his shoulder. The foreman at Mr. Day's shop identified the portrnantosli as his master's property. The prisoner made no defence. Mr. HALL said it would be necessary to remand the pri soner in order to bring forwa r d the cabman. If the latter refused to appear a warrant could be taken out. ~,t The prisoner was remanded till F r id ay (t o . morro w wee' THE WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. The Convention resumed its sittings yesterday Inn° litl‘ Mr. Samuel Bowly took the chair. The SECRETARY read a paper containing a statistics l eo count of the state and progress of temperance prinelP4 throughout the country. A mong th e statements continuo therein may be mentioned the following :—That in the ti of Bury alone no l ess a sum th an 21. 3s. 4d. was anu s spent by each man, woman, and child, in strong drinks ; de cl Poor-law Commissioners' circular stating the sum exPe e ra r in that manner to b e 24,000,0001 ., w hi c h i s more than 4'o-01, times the amount o f p oor - ra t es t h roug h out the knig l " o ia The amount of spirits annua ll y consume d b y each persl, the United Kingdom was —i n E ng l an d 7 1- 9 p i nts, i n , 13 pints, and in Scotland 23 pints. h 11 i t The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution, by sr- ic ,ete was agreed to refer the large number of statistical doen% it which the business committee had received, and wii' d c r ft was impossible to arrange, to a statistical committee, to Mons from them such information as they deemed desirable , iv was to be w hereafter printed and published. oke Mr. HorooD, Dr. BEECHER, and other gentlemen, sP in support of the resolution. The Rev. T. SPENCER followed, and stated the follow in ..ff, details, which had been ca l cu l a t e d b y a ge ntleman, w e c: known as the author of " M ammom ' —that in this m etro' e polis there are at present 12,000 c hild ren t r aining in vial -3,000 persons receivers of stolen goods ; 4,000 annually 'flitted to prison for crime ; 10,000 living by gaol 20,0r10 by beggary; and 30,000 practising theft and Ira tis To feed all this depravity, three million's worth of spiritil s li q uor was employed, producing in one year 23,000 d ru nks% reeling about the streets, 150,000 d r i n k ers o f spirits, bP' temples of debauchery, and innumerable sabbath-breaker' The whole of this vice be attributed in a greater or less "!: gree, and more or less directly, to the use of spirit uou. liquors. The re f ormat i on which lie urged he intended to apply not only to th e l ower c l asses , b u t to every. class .; f r a . even proposed to go i n t o th e H ou ses of Parlianent !a d iow n n dasc i tain how many of th e M e mbers were teeto tallea, many were not. He would even go to the Bishop same inquiry.—(" Oh, oh !" and laughter.)Dr. CA3 ELL., upon The meeting was then addressed by • s with the some of whose sentiments an irregular impugninglardiscussiontheensued. Mr. BUCKE made some remarks accuracy of the Rev Mr. Spencer's statistics. of Mr. in r.D E u n a g t. l o an r d followed, in llowediracnoeme. Thepar sions were that the annual offences against the person ily,r.. in London, 8,333 ; in Paris, 3,416. Offences agains`,g of perty—London, 17,794 ; Paris, 4,076, being three to rso o s. ing t t o h t e a 1 p or p r esent ent a ent his stat e crime n the first, and three to one of the latter class, against er etl Mr. Chrimes, Mr. Miatt, and Mr. Joseph Sturge, deli s the further addresses in support of the prin c ipl e , a ft er wine' meeting adjourned. At the commencement of the afternoon sitting a resolutiut expressing generally the opinion of the meeting on th e frCnt ject of strong d r i n k s , an d which had been postponed Clapp' w ar the previous day, was now prop osed by Mr. de. the Washingtonian d e l ega t e , and seconded by Mr..'" es olir . Mr. If ewson h av i ng a l so spo k en i n i ts suppor t, the r of A tion was carried, aft er a s li g h t amen d men t, the fru it le nthened discussion. matee and The SECRETARY then read a letter from the corn a nd the South Indian Union on the subject of temperan_cZiot, congratulated the society on their progress; a fter ry or k, resolution was proposed by Mr. J OSE P H S P ENCER, Ca res s of expressing the satisfaction of the meeting at the 10 0 % 00 01 the temperance cause amon g s e amen , an d at the s hips premiums offered by several assurance companies . 0 " „otii where the use of spirituous liquors was confined to tile eine chest. Mr. THORPE, of Halifax, seconded, and the B e r V ; o 3l of . MARSH supported the resolution, alluding to the P,fo i tbs t temperance in the American vessels, in none of wt i .ains sailed from New York were any spirits in use. , 1 0 e ita trY, results were to be hoped for in the navy of that sign ed s i g ned where the officers and crew of a large vessel had s the pledge. sOir its the Some discussion ensued on the question of _ ar d to medicine, which ended in the reservation with rear o - a , whic h " medicine chest" being excluded from the reso liztj was then carried. The meeting adjourned until ten o'clock this ""i • ,fit Of The bett b ' MR. AND MRS. KEELEY'S BENEFIT.--• even ing Mr. and Mrs. Keeley takes place at the Lyceum tb st .For the last two years they have cateredeit eieusly for the public amusement, and to their credit, able able recorded, they are the only managers who have ever b i r;,b; e ct to manage the Lyceum. The Bill offare comprises t i o f of Interest, which the beneficiairesever will be to the loVe.' o t the drama, and that the house will be crowded there cap P od be a doubt, seeing that Nell Gwynn and Robin H o od 14 Richard aeur de Lion will all appear on this occasion. R l ' ^ t , apart, the Keeleys deserve a bumper, and th ey w ill lave SALE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE MIL 13 ' sr, HAYDON.—Yesterday the sale of the effects of the late jed Haydon was commenced on the premises recently occuP, by in Barford-place, Edgw are - roa d , M r. N u tter pa the auctioneer. The sale yesterday consisted prP abY na te the household furniture an d the library of the unfortu gentleman, and caused the attendance of a numerous c :i n g pany. Of the 188 lots sold yesterday, not one was &ser e . 0 of especial notice, but many of the books were interspc",i,, with manuscript notes by Mr. Haydon, and conseque"ledd their value was enhanced. In addition to the furnitu r , de a's books there was a large number of engravings from 10 ,Zr e iter paintings of the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, Sir 11, sz ,,, Scott, the " Mock Election," " Waiting for the Tioeslf tbo and a few sketches. The paintings, busts, specimen s ° f 01 0 Elgin marbles, principal sketches, &c., are reserved f o r this day. / O ° C FIFE IN OSBORN-STREET, W HITEcHA PEL.-", t i evening, between five and six o'clock, a fi re b ro k e out T o o great pile of buildings in the occupation of Messrs. 0 „P h ite' Jones and Co., starch manufacturers, in Osbo rn - s treet, ll' yrs? chapel. It appears that during the time that the stoc%t) it drying in the stove (a building several stories in heleigi A became overheated, and in a very short time sevee h la tir e ; of the racks at the lower part became ignited. "e"rrive' h w o i t w h e o v u e t r , s e w r i a o s us got d a u m n a d g e e r . b y Th the rm time i s t i h n e s u engine r e dlr b - e Atl as " and other offices. t de u i N s gha m pteo a ri r wo ri fn a N g La e THE LATE . EX-KING OF HOLLAND. The C lt n had St. Leu, ex-King of Holland, who died the 25tb,,e' Weis, wthhr thedcieh di adoptedld in ren Bbocd daughter s, eon w , h v o iz d , Charles Louis pou. w ol; ith Hoobrtenss de o c es - ar ies, TT • a Napoleon, who was imprisoned at —l l 6, ex-King was placed on the throne of Holland in " a reigned four years, when lie abdicated, in conse(l...-og to was generally said, of the Emperor Napoleon refe j s i e ivas, permit him to rule in the interest of his subjects. his fond of literature, and published, in 1820, several documents. In 1801 he wrote a pretty roman ce ' ,iNedapionleoisni4b; an d who enti tled " Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour." - 01 1 ° 1 :: FALLING OF THE MAIN SEWER IN RECENT t hat - t had —Last night, about ten o'clock, it was discovered ae wer large portion, nearly twenty feet, of the main sling t u " fallen in, near Foubert's-place, Regent-street , vterl re basements of the neighbouring houses. Workm_T,l, Ana immediately employed to effect the necessary P 4" every precaution adopted to prevent accident. :A in bi s SIGNS OF THE IIMES.—ir Robert Peel sa"_ an who speech about art-unions, that " there was not a g of it bl had a bad picture who did not endeavour to get!'" ,ettiag a raffle." Why not try the same means, then, for rid of the imitation Holbein in the National " Ga c e e if ilt the spirited raffle at ss. a share would certainly indu 4 ton ing licensed victuallers to take a chance, in the hop e u p ass at it into a public. house sign. It would doub tless origi 24l Pentonville, without fear of detection, for au Marquis of Granby.—Punch. CO It is with much pleasure we observe tbstftt Pr has been formed at Rochdale, for the purpose 0 P n bear wit testimonial to Mr. Bright. His fellow-tow ne devet i° he ness to the sacrifices he has made, the unwearied Jr bee has manifested, the untiring energy with which en. '"L, Ad boured in the cause of free trade. It will be s c e om mittee has vertisectient in our columns of to-day, that a it hdale ith the oc a we h°Pe been formed in London to co-operate w . n be Paid, trade mittee, to whom subscriptions may l e , o f free . 0 _ that all forward , ho profess the pruic t p sibscr i p ti p will come and add their names 9 the list. T