The Sun. — London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

Two M EXICAN AND WEST INDIA MAILS. eole ro yal mail ste am - pac k et Cl y d e, Willi am Symons ,Zleander, a rr i ve d at Southampton yesterday, at three 4e s: bri nging 80 Passengers, and mails of the fil:owing tailn)rn Tampico, June 21 and 29 ; Vera Cruz, July 2 ;la dt:el,..July 12: Nassau, July 13 ; San Juan is, icarague, 174 J! eba n gres, June 25 ; Carthagena, J . une ; Santa 1, June 00 ; St. Jago de Cuba, July 5 , Jamaica, July Ir d urae July , June 22; Jacmel, July 11 ; Puerto Rico, 4;4 ererar a , July 5 ; Tobago, July 7 ; Trinidad, July 6 , Q;4 Lad?escia , July 9 ; G renada, July 11; St. Vi ncent, July 11 ; 12; u July 11; M ar ti n i que , J u ly 12 ; D om i n i que ,, J u l y lal,, a daleupe, J u l y 12 ; Antigua, July 13: Montserrat, 11 ;"6 - '' I Nevis, July 13; St. Kitt's, July 13; Tortola, July T homas's, July 16 ; and Bermuda, July 21. keon e .l l4° brings on freight 349,106 dollars on merchants' , PlatC"‘ , 3,656 ounces gold dust, 176/. British coin, 221bs. 4 4 4 , 11,159 ounces silver, 2 serons cochineal, 102 bales 3 314 ° . 5 3 bales sarsaparella, 51 casks cigars, 76 packages t e ,e, 2388 plata bruta. kleai ner u . e most recent accounts the Royal Mail Company's Th, he iiv°ll arrived at Bermuda July 20. The„ice° left Ilavannah for Vera Cruz July 10. "' ed waY arrived at Grenada from England Ju'y 10. Ti),rerern left Grenada for Jamaica July 10. T he teviot arrived at Jamaica July 9. The R a gie left Barbadoes for Demerara July 9. The eindeer arrived at St. Thomas July 15. c e l Yde left at Vera Cruz, on the 2d of July, her Ma- Endymion, 44, Captain G. R. Lambert; her OAT Sloop Rose, 18, Commander R. W. Pelly; her Beleam• sloop Vesuvius, 8, Commander W. V. O'Cal he lhroiejesty's brig Daring, Commander Matson, :ailed NitHpannah for Jamaica in July. I" time of the Clyde's leaving, the Fort of St. Juan de L' l 6* - , was well s d with men, and the two forts adjoin ees,•,._`re tlefendend b Supplied with men, and the two forts adjoin ed by 1 000 men. It was thought that if the likileZoetesland to (heir guns, the present American force of nabL produce no effect. Sata Anna remained at , lebut was daily expected to be recalled. E ' l lovTitieta to our usual Mexican correspondence, the keee:g leteresting news has reached us from another L' l Th pera e lgezican Congress was installed on the 6th of June 141%.er.edes was elected President, and General Bravo ▪ , t hetb lu ent of the Republic, and powers were delegated Zete,Leeident to effect an arrangement of the public debt fi 7; t rf ', B4l , money to meet the pressing wants of the coun ,ls4j; twe financial condition of Mexico was most lament '44o of Ports blockaded, the revenues anticipated, the pay:- klert-,,,,Lhe dividends expended, the salaries of all public dPt h;rno uleed one-fourth , and the Government compelled to • " e lo meet the exigencies of the day; added "„•.4 gre l a n t s it a rtion of Southern Mexico was in open leter t il let the Gov ernmen t, which had been forced to kTh e r ""Ps to the disturbed districts. elk° Californias have declared their independence of to t a h n e 4 . Orders transmitted by the American Govern th 1 r senior officer off Vera Cruz ha . d been for- It:be A th rip 9gh Mexico to Commodore Smith, in command 1 , 1 :4 1 , -et lean squadron in the Pacific, to seize on every trt, - Port on the coast. Lste ) e states of Ir* ge and Chihuahua were about to . thltV.tidependent i r r e ran ublic, under the title of the Republic "weir l° (trande, to P be protected by America. General 41 who bad been deprived of his command and ,te repair to Mexico to account for the loss of the No, slatamor but who had declined to obey the sum wa to be President. e‘k eb f e ,',,a l Taylor had occupied the villages on the right skee%`fle Rio Grande, and was about to March on Sanfallo, ,;:erintended to wait instructions from his Government, L eery to marching on pYp ro . a k::ruz was declared state es of siege, and martial 1 1. 4 flaed on the 30th of Joe, it was reported that 'mean squadron would attack the castle of San Juan 7 1 , B a ba 0 51 the 10th of July. The greater portion of the s ti ", , foreign, and Mexican residents had consequently left L Th . „ l „for the interior." Vti,` , - , 13-de was permitted to enter the port of Vera Cruz, oltsilver, and embark specie, under terms of an ar k,pe,ent entered into by Captain Pelly, of her Majesty's i ' le N 'Ole, and the senior officer of the blockading t Captain Pelly d eserves grea t cred i t for securing ktelusive privileges for the royal mail steamers. Lices have been highly appreciated by the British and m erc h an t s res i dent in Mexico. Contrarytet.! NI, es tablished rules of b'o c k a d e , th e cap t a i n o f th e St ates corvette St. M ary , stat i one d o ff T amp i co, . ht:`e,t° admit the arrangement of his senior officer, and ed the landin g from the Clyde of 1,080 bottles of ki v B r , destined for that place. They were subse- ' It,, 'anted at Vera Cruz, and on the circamstance 'e to ,N 4 Sinhunicated to the American ° Commodore, he St. Mary to repair to Vera Cruz, and con -1 i • uig • • sentor officer's arrangements, extending the of landing quicksilver and shipping specie to both k a • kh tN iieo Jesty's steamer Vesuvius has been dispatched to t °.bring away all money the property of British 'Cetrati'flnetY thousand dollars were shipped, and after ), th, r le erred to the Clyde at Vera Cruz. • a: t tl4 an ta Anna remained at Havannah. His fricnds th,"P, e, e t creatin g disunion amongst the Mexican 1 , - , 'ilti em " e. Plea that he alone could save the country a tee' 44l ll Ju ncture •it was very generally believed that ell, of . t he soldiers would pronounce in favour of his gaoytrPsd Ke the Prince Albert on the flth of July, off tat Peliza on the Ist of August, in lat. 46, long. in .13 .Y . tr 14 1 A I;' l 'otind to New York; and the Antigua packet, s~alisareN. 21 same . 0 rer „ C We have our day usual files of papers, contain "teeeL, 'VW; ~T*3' little news. The Trinidad Standard 44 (1 the the new Governor, Lord Harris. He had 4 1 , 4 ,prePatron. ef the Trinidad Agricultural Society, EI N 4 ea the „at the late general meeting. He has given kit;;L Winge hi following the example of the Earl of '11• Prizes for agricultural essays and improve -3e4,,e Jame. L'a -bi e"Paleeh gives the following notice of the correspondent tine rains 4 ttl e r ued . from . Manchester informs us they t ote fr , l) r the p onds uce Friday for the_ ground, but very t kik Penc e 04 w hi ch are very low. The coffee crops, in h• torn" . the Severe drought, willb_e_v os e s rLsm o a f il, c a o s n t s h e e_ Ogee. RI, WO late to expect any blossom teY p rrs i ge cattle generally have suffered much, and on ti..y4rs'Parties great loss ; this makes the third successive ?, Lt ha w , f 7 Dens, which, like most other Jamaica proper oe,e beco me scarcely worth the anxiety of carrying 1 11 f (From the Plymouth Post ) ttr. t4 j3 e a s t .L.° perciful Providence, we have been blessed k t ; tB hin t i ; r e Dar the last week with several partial_ but of our era of rain, and we are glad to learn from begins be V culturalg friends that the effect on the soil 4 1, 1 t are _ o assurei nn , _ perceived, as the pastures and field of en and healt appearance. The I tS May no set in, and although 3 t, ere rathe r be e said to havee, trust that they have tufacient ,we sincerely 1 4, erp,. me to secure ago nearg for em tismtri a it , e late drought has y ruined many Ne • " Plant - — capital was embarked rle the ere j whose little I t h t tt u , e so ultues m e Ureehase or leasing of properties, and it will ve them from w ar hic o ll p t r l c iel -erit have been unfortunately L tl ,r , Y, the 2 6th ult., a melancholy accident occurred tar t i 4l etle Val mail ship Clyde, on her voyage home from 3 3 ' th at et seaman named Patrick Welch, engaged very 31 ' ( 1 1 411, Ti t in furling the fore-topgallant sail during e th 'ece 4i'laeed died old, and fell from the yard with such gle," 4 ete „ s tt he in about an hour afterwards. The un- ith'eete r 'Laa was a native of Dublin, and bore an excellent 1 4 his shipmates. So far as is known, he has 1 4„Dese tr ,' behind him dependent on him for support; but d kt - ger% to h their sympathy with men expose Nrils . 3 ow discharge of their duty, set on foot a sub d Pta " -1, / the f 16/. sterling having been collecte , S, 4 t l to sum ° fC t'n Symons, to be given by the hands o al let e 0 Y- Pwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent 4 itt - tle, le t ters fr omthe city of Mexico are up to the 29th of i ‘t d the , ; (1 heltan Congress was installed on the 6th, and a enral Paredes, in explanation of his policy and co 4t !le 1,,, 5 „" of the country. Ittii'teeeergents of Guadalaxara, Mazatlan, and San Bias ern. 'll l '. L ., 14 ar ms, notwithstanding the efforts of Gov L Mat ' l * Cal." Durang as devastated by the Indian tribes. —°w inde endence of Mexico, q e su p ,„,,_ as bad declared their . p el l , ll Ql•4l';','ed through American intrigues. tad 0b "Ylor, with the American army, greatly aug- IL Y volunteers, remained in possession of Matamoras, I",e,ounied the villages of Reynosa Camargo, and t ill D " k ). - e l ' u e right bank of - the Brano (or 'Rio Grande del e was expected to advance on Monterey and Sal t,'eer,ieu,'lo resistance could be offered. e 4-aredes had been elected President, and General qpi, lee President of the Republic. With the exception derivileged British credits, no arrangement of the eta t had been made; but the President had ; received modore t tk l l le ri t l ° that effect, and to raise mo ney. States on' frigate Vii, l ltrt, a d arrived at Vera Cruz in the and was supposed to be the bearer of an ' 4l from his Government. AT THE CAPE OF GOOD ( r HOPE. 1 ' 4l th 1 11, 4 0 1 „ e Cape of Good Hope Shipping Gazette, May 15.) Ith.ho 4 , l ast we briefly alluded to the skill and bravery of tto', ( lt tf,lll African farmers, and now, under so able a leaer, 1(1t!t iii,onfront the savage foe, they must soon turn the I t t Ott a i l . of the colonists, and inflict on the inva t d u e rn app has k4,oe 4r inented chastisement. The following is a re _ force collecting to oppose the Kafir or . d-.7 ""n compiled from the best sources at our com h'l.4te of L' W tile Forces for the Defence of the Frontiers, on t 1 4tk t aY, or about to be dispatched, from the differen 44, 3 :-••••• 1,11 411 1% ISURGHEa. LEVIES. Cradock, Graaf-ReuThet, and Coles- I v elm Nil ". .. 7,500 .............. go" .. ................ . . .................. •• • 800 011,? t er including second division) . i~lia , •,1 1 . ... t44le N iatii ''••• — 600 /l:te 41:4 (i ... ; 650 lito t ;••• ... luding second division) , (iiiili•z ................................. .. u nlg second division) Ve 44 - 'Ss, 9. Cap, b . Total tad ehe _ s tvision (only partly expedited). ," wient of Fingoes Grand total . 18,380 11 4 °4 d S' , „,, itr o ,, , `gor t ,',7 l3 , iir r i',„_,' Arc. s . —Mr. R. Cobden, d this ''et - ,' l la sail e ',7 l at the Bedford Hotel last nigh n a continental 4, ~,A p M.P., and Mrs. from the pier for Dieppe, on a , , 4 0 I ..kg 1 .„ __ ~ortoFerrencieru,,z.E SOLD.--A flag, a little worn, with 'he nation inscribed upon it, is offered to the c . ollec- Ve l pra,l aw al relies, The flag has been in the campaign of b t 4 r aech a nd sugar questions and will now go at a price 6 t Raii i ;educed k tive tequired in from its original . cost. Should the flag °a d b n a f°r the lo any future service, a liberal sum will ~, . i ., A ',....5t paid loan' Apply for terms to the Duke of Rich ,ll4,-,Ly p ill .--punch. I,Ne',ll. wort, Alio. 1 . -- -Extract of a letter : " Sir - Ltil, m o l tto ek. e. s house was found to be on fire this morning, about 11,, suable great deal of damage has been done, and very trq,ru'r,,,,,"e destroyed." ,t'll PaniPTA3ll3s, &c.—From a return just issued by it ..qa /. 4 lnD ed :ntvent, it appears that the total cost of producing post pr4,l 1 4. ' ,1.842, 5 ' 5 1 .,°13es since 1841, has been as follows : —ln 1841, 1 , 4 41 b„ ,!rie fi rs : ' 01 .; 1843, 5,290/. • 1844, 6,190/. ; 1845, 6,948/. i',,%!..i,i_lll,o,o,.•...queraartern of 1846, 4846/. T?tal, , 30,072/ i1 06 R 8 z : llt1:1414 bernotft'oluover,nlineandtdldtulorinn to th t e he ab r o e v t e alle profit, , years r of 9921. I Bs. 7d. 15 4 Zst per nvilarrips issaed during the above period is 83,694,240. f i !r• ba Zr s , v.er,,,,, err of the envelopes is 3591. 6s. I Id.; repaid by the ,` Ih t - " 0 11 up oti 'Zillo, 371/. 4s. 2d., leaving a profit of 11/. 17s. 31. tels,D!"erlt tiarae swhole number issued, while the profit per million 'n4l 4 7D,3,3.17(12.11, 16s. Id. The total cost per minion of post- TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, ,A"'[-OUST 6, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of the Bel gians, and the Princess Royal, took an airini, yesterday in sin' open carriage and four. Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by the Hon. Captain Gordon. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yester day, at Clarence House, St. James's, and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Heredi tary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, at Cam bridge House. Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Henry Cole waited on his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, to submit the prize patterns of the Society of Arts, and received his Royal Highness's commands regarding the future pro ceedings of the Society, of which his Royal Highness is President. _ . _ Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took an airing in an open carriage and four yesterday, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing yesterday in the pleasure grounds of the Palace. _ The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace, included their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies the Count and Countess Dietrich stein, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Countess Vilain XIV., Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl of Charlemont, Viscount and ViscDuntess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, and Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the l'a!ace awin g dinner, and performed the following pieces— Overture--" Stradella—Flotow. Romance—" Enfia un jour," (Les Mousquetaires de la Reine)—Hatevy. Solo and Semi- Chorus—" See rosy dawn," (Das Unter brochene Opferfest)—Winter. Seena—" La mut Letizia," (I Lombardi)—Verdi. Grand Scena Matilda—" Malek Adel"—Costa. Valse—l "Fleur de Marie"—Barret. Yesterday Mr. Thorburn was honoured with another sitting for the portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, by command of her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday. Mr. Young, Speaker of the Assembly of Nova Scotia, Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., M.P., Sir Allan McNab, the Hon. Robert Dickson, Member of the Legislative Council of Canada, Mr. G. Robinson, Mr. Gillespie, Mr. George Pemberton, Mr. 'f. H. Brooking, and Mr. Wm. Bridges, a deputation on the subject of the Halifax and Quebec Railway, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Warburton, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation, including Earl Fortescue, Mr. Warbur ton, and the Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his Official resi dence in Downing-street. The Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council-cham ber, to consider a petition of the Provost and Fellows of the College of Eton, against a scheme of the Eccle siastical Commissioners for carrying into effect certain alterations in the Dioceses of Oxford and Salisbury. Mr. Bethell, Queen's Counsel, was heard by their Lordships during the whole of the sitting. The Lords present were the Lord Presidunt, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Vice Chancellor of England, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Hon. William. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The case was adjourned. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES—VirEDNESSAY. . The Two Year's Old Stakes of 10 soya. each, 5 ft ; with 25 added, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b ; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Mistress Jean, 7st 31b (Abdale) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Jollity, 7st 81b 2 Mr. Verrall'a Little Muley, 7st 71b .. 3 Mr. Knowles's b c by Camel, out of Zenana, 7st 71b 5t04 on Jollity. Won by half a length. The Brighton Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added ; the second to save his stake. The Old Course. Two miles. Count Batthyanny's Gannet, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Abdale) 1 Mr. Waller's Columbus, 4 yrs, 7st 41b Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, 5 yrs, 9st ... 3 The following also ran :—Duke of Richmond's Pic Nic, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Mr. T. Smith's Jack, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Sir S. Spry's f by Sir Hercules, out of Taglioni, 4 yrs, 7st—Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs, 7st—Lord Stradbroke's Lynceus, 3 yrs, 6st 51b. 7 to 4 agst Connaught Ranger-4 . t0 1 agst Pic-Nic-4 to 1 agst Columbus-5 to 1 agst Alamode—and 6to 1 agst Gannet. Won by a length; half a length between second and third. The Town Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 says. each ; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for' 250/. Heats, New Course. Two miles. (Four Subs.) Mr. G. Hobson's Chatham, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Esling) 1 1 Mr. Wall's cby Coronation, 3 yrs, Est 131 b Lord Chesterfield's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 9st 6th Mr. Booth's Moose Deer, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b 4 dr Won in a canter. The Marine Stakes, of 5 sous. each, and 30 added, for three yrs old, 7st Olb ; four. Bst 51b; five, Sse., Bst 121 b. Win ner to be sold for 1501. Heats, one mile. (Seven Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Cherokee, 3 yrs ... (Abdale) 1 5 1 Mr. Pratt's Deodora, 4 yrs, Bst slb Mr. Booth's Miscellany, 4 yrs, Sst 51b Mr. Freeman's Sir Diggory Diddle, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b 4 3 dr Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, aged, 121 b Mr. Petit's Alvanley, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ... 5 dr Three well contested heats. The winner claimed. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. ST. LEGER.-11 to 2 agst Pyrrhus the First-13 to 2 agst Grimston (t.)-13 to 2 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (t.)-10 to 1 agst The Traverser-10 to 1 agst Fancy Boy (t ) —l2 to 1 agst lago (t.)-25 to 1 agst Sting-30 to 1 agst Cranebrook (t.)-30 to 1 agst Humdrum. DERBY.-15 to 1 on the field (offered). • INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1846. MONDAY. Lord Glasgow's Sister to Conspiracy, Bst, against Duke Of Bedford's Eothen, 7st 111 b. T.Y.C. 200, h ft. Mr. Mytton's The Baron, against Mr. Gully's Old Eng land, Bst 71b each. T.M.M. 200, h ft. The match between Free Gift and Eryx is off'. WEDNESDAY. Lord Eglinton's Eryx, Bst 71b, against Duke of Bedford's Eothen, Bst 51b. Ab. M. 300, 200 ft. THURSDAY. Van Tromp receives 50 ft from Eothen. T.Y.C. 500, 300 ft INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. _ _ WARWICK, 1846. Handicap for the Leamington Stakes :—Weatherbit, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—St. Lawrence, aged, Bst 51b—Yardley, 6 yrs, Bst 31b Alamode, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Maynooth, 4 vrs, Bst—Pantasa, 4 ist 121b—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Red Rover, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Espoir, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—The Pacha, 4 yrs, 7st 81b— Intrepid, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Telemachus, 5 yrs, 7st 61b—Crim. Con. 4 yrs, 7st 61b—The Dart, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Wilford, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Old George, 5 yrs, 7st Ilb—Ould Ireland, 4 yrs, 7st —Freeman, 4 yrs, 7st—Example, 5 yrs, 7st—Roderick, aged, Gst 121b—Devil-to-pay, 5 yrs, Est 12113--Chortonian, 6 yrs, 6st 121b—Warp, 5 yrs, 6st 101b—Satyr, 5 yrs Est 101b—Ob scurity, 5 yrs, Est 10 Ib — Gwalior , 4 yrs , 6st 91b—Kilgram, 5 yrs, Est 91b—Stittenbam 4 yrs, Est 51b—Columbus, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—Fitzallen, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—My Mary, 4 yrs, Est 41b— Vitula, 6 yrs, Est 41b—Plenitude, 4 yrs, Est 21b —Nereus, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—Forward, 4 yrs 6st— As You Like it, 4 yrs, 6st—The Crown Prince, 3 yrs, 6st—Teetotaller, aged, 6st—ldolater, 4 yrs, 6st—The Mongrel, 4 yrs, sst 131b—Princess Royal, 4 yrs, sst 121b—Barometer, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Twig, 3 yrs, sst 101 b The Parson's Clerk, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Fanny Booth, 3 yrs, sst 814—Morocco, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Polka, 3 yrs, sst 81b— Phcebe, 3 yrs, sst 81b —c, by Touchstone, out of Laura, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Marretta. 3 yrs, sst 71b—The Snob, 4 yrs, sst 61b — Forest Flower, 4 yrs, sst 61b—Flash of Lightning, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Mermaid, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Sis. to Pergularia. 3 yrs, sst Camera Obscura, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—Sweetbriar, 3 yrs, 4st 81b— Regalia, 3 yrs, 4st 41b—Redleg, 3 yrs, 4st 41b. Acceptances for the County Stakes :—Godfrey, 5 yrs, Bst 81b—Teetotaler, aged, 7st 31b—Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, Est 121 b —Columbus, 4 .yrs, Gst 121b—Mystery, 4 yrs, Est 121 b Minus, 5 yrs, Gst 101b—Jonathan Wild, 3 yrs, sst 121 b Rosin the Beau (h b), 3 yrs, sst 1 11b—Martext, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Sister to Pergularia, 3 yrs, sst 51b. AQUATICS. RICHMOND AMATEUR REGATTA. The regatta for various presentation prizes, subscribed by some of the influential residents of Richmond and its vicinity, open to competition amongst amateurs, came off yesterday, and was tolerably well attended. Scullers' Match. First prize, Silver Model Wherry; second, Pair of Silver Sculls. First Heat. W. Wilberforce J. Sturges Watford... (Light Blue) 2 The distance in this, as in the other two races, was, Cross deep down to the flagstaff opposite the Castle Hotel. Mr. Falls was to have contended, but did not come to the station at the time of starting. As the two first in each heat were eligible for the grand heat, there was of course no ne cessity for the gentlemen to over-exert themselves. Second Heat. --- Mr. A. Paul -- (Red and Black Trident) 1 J. W. Ellis Augustus Raitt It was a smart race for some distance only. Grand Heat. Ellis 1 Wilberforce ---- 2 Won by two or three lengths. Pair Oars Match. First Prize, Pair of Silver Cups ; second, Pair of Silver Oars. First Heat. H. Smith and R. H. Smith (Black) 1 Rowe and Hand (Light Blue) 2 J. 1). Chillingworth and J. G. Chillingworth (Red) 0 Won cleverly. Second Heat. Wallich and Wilson (White and Black Cross) 1 Charles Planket and Edw. Duplau (Green) 0 Only the above two pair started, and were, of course, eligible to start for the grand heat. Grand Heat. Plunkett and Duplau Messrs. Wallich and Wilson H. and R. H. Smith They made a good start, immediately after which the win ners began to draw ahead. Won by several lengths. Black a bad third. Four. oared Match. First prize, Silver Oars and Rudder ; Second ditto, Silver Medals. Fcigh- a-Ballagh, Richmond (Black) 1 H. Hand. I H. H. Smith. A. S.Lith. L. Tyrell, stroke. F. Smith, coxswain. Bartholomew Club, London ...... (White and Black Cross) 2 G. Gaines. J. Orford. I J. L. Worship. J. Wright, stroke. D. Wallich, coxswain. The Sylph, Twickenham... (Black and Red) 0 Nicholson. Rowe. I Sheldar. Johnson, stroke. Burke, coxswain. The whole of the boats went off well together, immediately after which the winners went out a-head, and were closely pressed by Bartholomew, until nearing Richmond-bridge, when the latter had a slight foul with the Sylph. Won by three lengths. The boats afterwards rowed in procession from the Duke of BUccleuch's, where the band of the 7th liussais were sta tioned, down t'6 the winning- post, farming a very pretty pidture, and the band accompanying them. The prizes were presented by C. J. Selwyn, Esq. MILITAR Y FLOGGING. REASONS FOR THE ENTIRE ABOLITION OF FLOGGING AS A PUNISHMENT IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) I. Because of its uncertainty ; arising from, first, the vastly varied bodily powers of executioners ; from, second, the humour of commanding officers acting on the powers of the same executioners ; from, third, the thickness or thinness of the culprit's skin ; from, fourth, the vast difference of nervous sensibility of the culprits ; from, fifth, the perpetual variation of the cat from any given standard, in despite of all precautions that can be taken to the contrary. So that, in fact, with all these things telling one way, you may be inflicting punishment equal to 1,000 lashes, by the sentence 100, and vice versa. 2. Because it will henceforth, as long as it exists, tend to mutiny. For the soldiery now know that the a hole nation is against their officers in this point, and for them. And they will surmise that if, at any time, they insist (which is mutiny) that the sentence of flog ging by a court-martial be not inflicted, the nation will stand betwixt them and the extreme of law. And where some favourite comrade is to be punished,at the instance of some "brutish" commanding officer, nothing is more likely than for them to do so. 3. Because of its effects on the innocent. When strong men faint in the " square," what must be going on among the women and children, listening to the yells in the barrack-room ? But suppose the culprit a husband and father. It is nature's protest given thunder-tongued. 4. Because military and naval people are public ser vants, and if they please to take the public money, it must be for doing the public will. From the fifer to the com-mander-in-chief, their choice of the profession was for the gratification of their own instincts, and their pay and promotion are their wages ; f r it boots not to call things by too fine names. They have served the public and the public has paid them. If they wish to be continued in the public service, let them do the public work as the public desire it should be done, otherwise there are plenty who will. Indeed if this law were altered in 1846, the candidates for officership in 1847 would be a more elevated class of I men. Hundreds of our bravest and highest spirited gentry are kept out of the army and navy by the flogging system. 5. Because there is no tenable ground for flogging men, in a mode illegal and held offensive to public rights in the case of brutes. For the only thing that can be said on the other part is this—that man being a moral, and therefore a more responsible being thah the brute, his criminality is by so much more odious; and then by so much more deserving of this punishment. But if you say this, then inasmuch as the officer is a more enlight ened and responsible man than the private, his crimes are so much more odious, and therefore so much more deserving of this punishment than the private's crimes. His drunkenness, his brawls, his duels, should be treated with the same number of lashes, only it should be in the public forum instead of in " the square." Fiat justitia ruat calum. But if you will not apply your moral principle to implicate the officer, you must not to implicate the private man. S. Because the worst men are least punished by it. This moral aspect of the matter is a profoundly important one. In fact, if the case for flogging he lost here, it is lost entirely and for ever. Now nothing is more un deniable than that the sensitive, honourable-spirited man is crushed by it, whilst the cool and dogged vaga bond backs it off (as is the military phrase) with the most consummate effrontery. 7. Because of the very offensive character it superin duces upon the officers, commissioned and non-commis sioned. The feeling of the 7th Hussars towards their ser geants (for of their commissioned-officers THEY dare not speak) is to be very clearly gathered from the appeal made to the Coroner's Court by one of the military witnesses respecting a sergeant who was peeping in at the door to listen to his evidence. No man of common sense will say that the verdict of a whole regiment (for of course all the privates feel alike) on a moral point is likely to be an error. As to the effect on the commissioned officers—the buffoonery of Colonel Whyte in the inquest-room—the snarling reply of Edward Ireland, the adjutant, about "making the law"—and the denial by Dr. Warren of a conversation with his patient, that no powers under those of a first rate dramatist could so have feigned and fitted to the facts ; these three circumstances may suffice. To those who are not aware of the customs of the army, &c., and of their disparaging effects in certain particulars upon the characters of those who are otherwise gentlemen, there is a species of offensiveness about these incidents, that, but for direct affirmative evidence, would go far to render them incredible. 8. Because it is equally known, and may be judged, to be one of the prime promoters of crime in the army. Flog a man, and he invariably flies to drunkenness to drown his shame and wretchedness. And this very drunkenness again leads him into the crime he is consti tutionally prone to. But not so only ; one drunkard makes half-a-dozen. This time he invites this comrade to join him—another time, another; and the very sympathy for him which his flogging has created leads his comrade to consent, for it is thought unkind to refuse anything that can be done for a man so situated. Thus, not only the man himself is driven to desperation, but ho becomes a fountain of infection to others. _ _ 9. Because it actually is done without in other armies; no ill effects to the discipline and operative faculty of those armies following. It is a great problem for a per son of common sense and direct natural motive—How the flogging General can have the impudence to ask his men to fight the General who does not flog ? Really, it is time for men to begin to judge the good and evil, and be no longer led blindly on by others ; or hounded against sections of their kind more advanced than themselves. 10. Because of its direct tendancy to produce fatal disease in the physical system. It is very true that a number of army'(paid) surgeons pronounce it innocu ous to a fatal extent. On the other, just as great a num ber of army surgeons give the directly opposite opinion. So that if the matter end here, a case is made out of the doubtfulness of its effects ; and so of its unjustifi ableness. But looking further, we find the opinion of almost the whole body of the medical and surgical pro fessions among civilians against it. And then what a very sorry spectacle of a minority does the section of the military medical class supporting it present. Be it observed, moreover, that this objection is more to 50 lashes than to 500. For the destruction of the mus cular organisation, to which Professor Wilson (the only disinterested referee in the case) attributes death in the late affair, is more likely to have taken place during the first 50 lashes than subsequently, because it was affected by the power of the nervous system, and that was more forcible during the first 50, than at any time subse quently. A WORKING HAND. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY ' AND NAVY. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. My Lord,—Did the extreme injustice, as well as cruelty, in the mass of punishment to which a delinquent in the army or navy is subjected ever occur to those persons who un happily possess the power of ordering its infliction ? Has it ever occurred to them that, in accordance with the mode adopted, nine times the quantity of agony, degradation, and distress, is thus endured ? When a nation, assuming to itself the name of polished, passes a sentence of punishment as barbarous as it is de basing, it is at the same time intended to cover a falsehood and deception of the grossest kind. The culprit is told that such a number of stripes are allotted to him ; and the in flictors, whom habit has rendered callous to every sentiment of human sympathy, are commanded to violate both law and justice, and add to the torture nine-fold! • No compensation can be made to those who have thus been made to lose their self-respect—mutilated, murdered— but the crime may cease to be committed, and the cry of blood be hushed in this land of boasted freedom and hu manity. Oh! let the commencement of your government be immortalised by the utter and complete annihilation of this worse than brutal system. Severity never was, never can be, the avenue to a British heart. Remove this brand of infamy from our land, and receive in return the honour, the obedience, the love, the prompt devotedness of emancipated Englishmen. August stb, 1846. BRITISH AND FOREIGN CLUB.—This new establish ment, attached to the Institute in George-street, Hanover square, was opened by a house dinner to its members on Monday evening. Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell was in the chair, supported by Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir Benjamin Smith, Mr. Buckingham, and a large party of gentlemen. The dinner and wines were served under the direction of Mr. Bacon, and were of first-rate excellence. Many animated speeches were delivered, and several songs, duets, and glees were sung by Mr. Lee and his fellow-choristers of. the Temple. The entertainment was of a most agreeable character, and formed an auspicious opening for the club. THE PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.—The death of the ex. King of Holland has greatly affected Prince Louis Napo leon, who has, since his escape, been refused permission to visit his venerable father. The Prince, it will be re membered, applied to the French Government for permission to visit his father, and promised to return to his confinement after performing this filial duty. This request was refused, and on his escape Prince Louis wrote to Prince Metternich for permission to visit Florence, and pledged his word in no way to interfere in politics, but no answer was returned from the Austrian diplomatist. A similar application was made to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and refused, princi pally, it is stated, through the representations of the French Government. This latter request was even limited to a visit of twenty-four hours. FIRE AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—DUBLIN, Amt. 4. About one o'clock this morning the roof of this fine struc ture was discovered to be on tire, caused, it is understood, by the negligence of some plumbers, who had been at work during the day. The alarm was promptly given, and a number of engines being speedily set to work, in the most effective manner, by parties of the 30th Regiment, from Ship- street Barracks, the fire was got under before four o'cicck, not withcut doing considerable damage to the roof and the lecture-room of the Mechanics' Institute. In the vaults of the building are stored several thousand hogsheads of whiskey in bond, and, had the conflagration extended to the spirits, the consequences must have been most disastrous, as the vaults run under the houses in Parliament-street, Dame street, and the Lower Castle-yard. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood, aware of their dangerous proximity to the inflammable materials, were kept in a state of dreadful sus pense while the fire lasted. EARLY HARVEST.--As an instance of the forwardness of the harvest this year, we may mention that all the wheat and oats (about forty Lancashire acres), on the Barlow Farm, occupied by Mr. Samuel Dean, were cut in the month of July, an occurrence, we believe, perfectly unprecedented in this part of the country.—Nanchester Guardian. THE MAGAZINES. TILE UNION: " A Transatlantic Editor " is 'the title of a most hu morous Yankee sketch in the present number of the Union. Mr. Washington Wolfe Lick is the publisher, proprietor, and editor of the " Citizen of the West " newspaper, published in an uncertain town in the uncer• lain territory between LouiFiana and Texas. Mr Lick, in his journal, has libelled a certain Mr. Abel Wright and a Mr. Herman, who determine to inflict corporal punishment on their traducer, but who are personally unacquainted with him, and with each other. The re mainder of the story is so good that we must give it in the very words of the narrator:— Mr. Lick was seated at his desk, engaged in skimming over the contents of a number of newspapers, or rather culling choice morceetus for the next Citizen. A loud knock was heard at the street door. Lick started at the sound and then listened attentively. The door was opened. lie heard a gruff voice growling out something, but could not distin guish what ; and immediately heavy and hasty steps were heard ascending the stairs. _ . _ " Alia! here comes the freeman !" exclaimed the editor, and darting to the fire-place, seized .the poker and shovel (tongs there were none) which he deposited—oh sacrilege! in the editorial desk; then seating himself on the high stool, he plied his pen intently. The steps grew louder; the stranger would be in the room in another instant. " He's coming," quoth Lick; " and there's only one lucky thing, he don't know me. The heavy and hasty gentleman, who was no other than Mr. Abel Wright, put his foot upon the topmost stair, and without knocking, rushed into the room, armed with a beau tiful " cowhide," and roared out, " Hullo here! is your name Lick ?". The editor slowly raised his eyes from the paper, and sur veyed the enemy with a bland look. "If you wish to see ➢lr. Lick, sir,"—he deliberately commenced., " Slice me into sandwiches and smash me into sosengers ! if you don't answer plain and spry, l'll bring this here to bear upon you ;" and he flourished the cowhide before the wily Lick. " You wish to see the editor, sir ?" said Lick, coming down from his seat and going towards the door. "Yes, sir; call him up. Say a gentleman has called to pay a bill." ;4 Yes, sir," answered Lick, "glad to escape in any manner from within range of the formidable weapon. He stood out side the door for an instant, hesitating whether he should turn the key upon Mr. Wright and lock him in, or seek safety in flight, when lo ! he was startled by another loud knock at the street-door. It was opened. Some one entered hastily, and again was Mr. Lick inquired after. The idea instantly flashed across his mind that this must be Mr. An drew Herman. Here was a dangerous situation. To go back was madness—to go forward was like rushing into the lion's jaws. It was, however, necessary to decide quickly, for the enemy was now ascending the stairs. In another moment they were face to face. Instead of a cowhide, this second as • sailant rejoiced in the possession of an enormous cudgel. As the editor imagined, it was Mr. Herman ; and if ever a man testified his intention by his look, it was plain that the said Mr.. Herman was bent upon committing assault and battery upon some person or other. He seized the luckless Lick roughly by the collar, and, without uttering a word, had already raised his cudgel high up in the air, in order that it might descend with the utmost violence on the person of that worthy, when the latter, with a forgiving and good natured smile, said, I presume you wish to see the editor of the Citizen ; if so, please to go to the room above." "Oh ! beg pardon. Slight mistake of mine. Up stairs, I see." With a chuckle of infinite glee, Lick straightway pro ceeded to the coffee-room on the opposite side of the road, to wait the issue of his stratagem. Meanwhile, Mr. Abel Wright prepared himself for the re ception of the editor, and hearing sonic one ascending the stairs just after . Lick's departure, he, naturally enough, sup posed it was that gentleman coming. Placing himself close behind the door, and twisting the thong tightly round his hand, he stood prepared to deal a " clencher" the mo ment his fancied libeller should enter. Mr. Herman presently bolted into the room, and was saluted, on the instant, with a tremendous whack across the shoul ders, and 'in the next Mr. Wright was favoured with a smart tap on the head from the other's cudgel. As may be imagined, a tremendous contest ensued, and the hide and cudgel were plied stoutly. No words passed for some time, but the epithets of " infernal scamp, rascal,scoun drel, villain," &c; presently, however Mr Wright beginning to get the upper hand, exclaimed, " You blighted scoun drel. I'lliteach you to abuse honest men ;" to which Mr. Her man replied, " Put anything in your humbugging paper about me, and skin me alive! if I don't break every bone in your body." On hearing this, the former gentleman began to think there must be some mistake in the matter, and prompted by a sudden thought, he exclaimed, " Is your name Lick ?" Thinking this a fresh and most deliberate insult, Herman recommenced using his cudgel, and another desperate en counter ensued. Everything in the room was overturned— editor's desk, stool, fender, files; ink spilled, bottle broken, &c. ; at last, having thoroughly exhausted themselves, the combatants stood panting, and glaring savagely at each other. " Hear me," gasped Herman; " you skin-flint lightning driver, every time you put my name in your paper, you shall fare like this." As may . be suppoed, the extraordinary circumstance of each accusing the other of the same offence at last induced an explanation, and, when the mystery was cleared up, great was the wrath and mortification of these amiable gen tlemen, on finding that the object of their vengeance had escaped scot •free, while they each had received a sound thrashing. Great, on the contrary, was the glee of Mr. Washington Wolfe Lick, as he saw, from the window of the coffee-room, his fiery visitors emerge from the house, flushed and heated by their exertions ; their hats broken, necker chiefs untied, dresses disordered and countenances expressive of the direst exasperation and chagrin. Two days after this occurrence, Messrs. Wright and Her man were summoned to the Back-street police-office, at the instance of Washington Wolfe Lick, editor and proprietor of the Citizen of the IVest newspaper, charged with having en tered the house of the latter in his absence, and created an uproar and disturb nice therein ; and also with having broken, damaged, and spoilt a desk, stool, and sundry other of the property of the said Lick. Fined twenty dollars each, and costs. The illustration to this story,. by Mason, is almost as good as the tale itself. The point of time chosen is that just before the first meeting of Wright and Herman, when the latter is in the act of opening the door of the editor's room. The interesting adventures of the " Deal Boatman " are continued, as are " The Sketches of Bri tish Landladies," and " The History of the Jesuits." We have the commencement of the " Adventures of a British Serjeant in the Auxiliary Legion in Spain,from 1835 to 1840," which promise well ; and a variety of other amusing articles. This is a good number of the Union. COLBURIV'S UNITED SERVICE, The present number contains an admirable assort ment of professional and amusing articles. No one understands better the art of mixing tho duke with the utile than the editor of the United Service Magazine. THE ALMANACK FOR THE MONTH. G. 4. A'Becketi. A condensation of b fitn, frolic, whim, and wit of the last four weeks. THE COMIC _HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By G. A. A' Beckett. No. 11. ,the present number, Merrily does Mr. A'Beckett in rattlelb merrily, to ruyglh h, n theoset the Historyof ies of England, from the days of eit William the Conqueror • but, truthfully. Take the follow ing Ethelredatr ri those account of " King Canute reproving his Courtiers" as a specimen:— " One day, when in the plenitude of his power, he caused the throne to be removed from the throne-room and erected, during low tide, on the sea-shore. Having taken his seat, surrounded by his courtiers, he issued a proclamation to the ocean, forbidding it to rise, and commanding it not, on any account, to leave its bed until his permission for it to get up was graciously awarded. The courtiers backed the royal edict, and encouraged with the grossest adulation this first great practical attempt to prove that Britannia rules the waves. Such a rule, however, was soon proved to be nothing better than a rule nisi, which it is impossible to make ab solute when opposed by Neptune's irresistible motion of course. Every wave of Canute's sceptre was answered by a wave from the sea, and the courtiers, who were already up to their ankles in salt-water, began to fear that they should soon be pickled in the foaming brine. " At length the monarch himself found his footstool dis posed to go on swimmingly of its own accord, and there was every prospect that the whole party would undergo the ceremony of an immediate investiture of the bath. The sovereign, who was very lightly shod, soon found that his pumps were not capable of getting rid of the water, which was now rising very rapidly. Having sat with his feet in the sea for a few miutes, and not relishing the slight spe cimen of bydropathic treatment he had endured, he jumped suddenly up, and began to abuse his courtiers for the mess into which he had been betrayed by their outrageous flattery." The illustrative woodcuts aro laughter-moving ex ceedingly. THE• MIRROR. Edited by Percy B. St. John. This, the oldest and the best of the cheap weekly periodicals, is now, under the able editorship of Mr. Pere/St. John, raised to the dignity of a monthly magazine; and, considering the immense quantity of matter contained in it, the Mirror is by far the cheapest magazine published ; and, with regard to matter, the name of the editor is alone a sufficient guarantee that none but the productions of first-rate literary talent wik find admission to its pages. The present number is in a great measure devoted to the conclusion of a French tale, which the editor is obliged to finish to keep faith with former subscribers, but we are g lad to find, that, in his address to his readers , he declares t hat henceforth "it will be his rule never to have more t han one a ext in be t li h e i v s' in e g ample."ountry con tinued article; nor will he ever resort to tr anslations of literary FrenchF rench talentrom tn , c and romances , d t o t ofisl pre, to is l his columns, In addition to this French tale we have the opening chapters of a Texan romance by the editor, which are full of striking incident, and promise well. THE PATRICIAN. The Patrician for this month opens with the family history and genealogy of the gentlemen who have been created Peers or Baronets by the Administration of Sir Robert Peel. Under t he head " Curious Trials connected with the Aristocracy" we have the history of the celebrated ejectment case between James• Annersley and the Earl of Anglesey, and under that of " Celebrated Peerage Cases," we have the r emark able cases of the Earldom of Banbury and the Ea rldo m of Huntingdon ; three of the most interesting a nd romantic histories ever recorded, and which prove that " Truth is strange, stranger than fiction." We doubt not but that the genealogical studi es o f Mr. Burke must have made him acquainted with many such interesting family histories, and we hope that from time to time he will, in the pages of The Pat, ician, give the public the benefit of his researches. We would, how ever, suggest to him the propriety of not confining him self to the British aristocracy. The family histories of the aristocracies of France, Spain, and G ermany would furnish him with many a " true" romance not less in teresting than those he has already placed on record. This is the best number of The Patrician that bas yet appeared. RAIL WAY REGISTER. The Railway tlegi.;telofthis month ope ns w i t h an admirably written article on the "Report of the Com missioners on Metropolitan Railway Termini," in which that wonderful production is made the subject of a most severe, but, at the same time, just critique. The com position, however, of the commission, does not entitle its report to much authority, as the writer of this article justly observes. "A schoolmaster is a very bad man of business, and perhaps a soldier is a worse, though it is really impossible to institute an accurate comparison; but a combination of the two pro fessions, in the masters of the engineering school at Chatham, might a priori be conceived to constitute the height of unfit ness, if even experience had "not proved it to us. We are satisfied no merchant, we know no banker, would entrust Major General Pasley or Lieut. Col. Sir Frederick Smith even with his ledger, much less with any matter of business ; yet to these gentlemen is the whole subject of railway management from time to time handed over for experiment, in despite of their professional unfitness, and the confirmed experience they have afforded of it. They are thus placed in a difficult and invidious position, having a glimmering of their ignorance, and ashamed and afraid to confess it. Con fused with theoretical imaginations, and mystified occasionally by some of the more daring of the rival railway men, they are agitated by their theories, their prepossessions, their fears, and their desire of popularity; and bring forth those reports which are rejected by the contending parties, read by the public and then forgotten, and made the laughing stock of railway men. The Government do . not appoint majors general and colonels to be commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, but they appoint merchants and bank ers; and it they must appoint officers to look after railway traffic, the least they can do is' to name men -of businesa, who have some knowledge of their duties, and not parties who know nothing of business, never can know, and only do mischief by being allowed to meddle in what they do not understand." It is to be hoped that in the present instance, as has happened in so many others, the superior authorities will modify, if not altogether disregard, the recommendations of the Commissioners, and that the City of London will not be deprived of the Central Railway Terminus some where in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-street, with out which its commerce will eventually=-slowly, perhaps, but most surely—leave it for the suburban towns now springing up in the vicinity of the different metropolitan railway termini. Mr. Hyde Clarke, the editor, furnishes some valuable contributions to railway statistics„ and we have a very able paper explaining the adoption of the barometrical system of atmospheric railway traction, in addition to an accurate register of all the railway events of the month, and a retrospective review of bygone rail way projects. COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE'. This is the first number of a new periodical, professing to furnish, " First, Original Articles and selected documents referring to commercial subjects. " Second, Papers on the varic us branches of commercial law, which should be familiar to all men of business. "Third, Mercantile Statistics of every description ; and "Fourth, Commercial and Monetary Intelligence of the kind most required by merchants and bankers, as indicative of the prospects of trade and of the currency. The want of such a periodical has long been felt. The army, the navy, the professions of law, of medicine, of the church, have each their own special magazine. Every class of religionists has its organ—bankers, and builders, and engineers, and artists, and railway pro prietors, and mechanics, have each their one or more journals; but the great commercial body has as yet had no magazine specially engaged in their service, open at all times as a repository of commercial statistics ready to do battle in behalf of the commercial portion of the community, where necessity may require. This want it is the objfict of the projectors of the present pe riodical to supply; and, judging from the contents of the first number, the commercial body cannot desire a more talented instructor, a more efficient advocate, or a more able organ than the Commercial Magazine. Its policy is in strict unison with the principles of free trade, and perhaps the most able article which has yet appeared on the sugar question is the opening phper of this magazine. We have also a most able article on the commercial law of stoppage in transitu, besides the monetary and trade reports of the month, the new tariff complete, and an im mense mass of useful statistical iuformation on matters relating to trade and commerce. THE NEW NAVY LIST and General Record of the Services of Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Conducted by Joseph Allen, Esq., R.N., Greenwich .Hospital. The New Navy List, as edited by Mr. Allen, is not a mere dry list of names ; it is a readable, and, in many instances, most amusing book. At the end of each list it gives a complete record of the services of every officer in the list, and thus furnishes us with a resume of our naval annals during the last three-quarters of a century—the most glorious three-quarters 6' a century in British naval history. • As a specimen of the manner in which Mr. Allen has performed this portion of his task, we extract the following record of the services of Sir Charles Napier:— " Sir C. Napier, Lieutenant of Courageux, at capture of Marengo and Belle Poule, 1806. Commander of Recruit, 18 gun brig, in action with Fr. 20 gun corvette Diligente, in 1808; and in same brig at the capture of Martinique, 1809, and at capture of Fr. 74 gun-ship Hautpolt, which ship he closely engaged. Captain of Thames, and in conjunction with Cephalus, destroyed a convoy on the coast of Italy, 1811; and assisted at the capture of another, in company I with mperieuse, in 1812. In company with Pilot took the port of Sapri ,• and in 1813 commanded the naval forces at the capture of Ponza, and assisted at the capture of a convoy in Calvacie Roads. Captain of Euryalus in the Potomac, at the capture of Alexandria, and attack on Baltimore. Commopore on the coast of Syria in Powerful, in v arious operations, including the bombardment of St. Jean D'Acre, 180. Gaz. 1799, 1809, 11, 11, 12, 13, three times, 1814." Mr. Allen's New .Navy List is the most complete record of the services of our naval and marine officers extant. The improvements introduced into the first number of the revised series have been perfected in the present, and the editor proposes to extend them in his January number, by introducing distinguishing marks against the names of those officers who have received medals from the Royal Humane Society, or other public bodies, for saving the lives of their fellow-creatures. FUNERAL Lf the BABOO DWAR KANAUT II TAG ORE. The mortal remains of this highly esteemed and dis tinguished foreigner was yesterday consigned to a vault at Kensal-green. In accordance with the wish of the son of the deceased, the funeral was conducted in a strictly private manner. The cortege left the late residence of the Baboo (St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street), at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning. The hearse was succeeded by Major llenderson's private carriage, in which rode the son of the deceased, Nogendra nath Tagore, Mohun Lal, and Nobin Chundro Mookiyse, a young Indian of distinction, related to the Baboo. A mourn ing coach followed, in which rode Sir Edward Ryan (the appointed guardian to deceased's son), Major Henderson (the deceased's partner), Dr. Raleigh, and Mr. D. J. Mac killop. A second mourning coach contained the Hon. Captain R. Gore, Captain Henderson, Mr. C. Plowden, and . Dr. Goodeve. A third contained Mr. Mordaunt Ricketts, Mr. Prinsep, General Ventura, and Mr. Roberts, all intimate personal friends of the Baboo. The mourning coaches were succeeded by the private carriage of Mohun Lal, which con veyed three native students. The courier and domestic establishment in the service of the ILboo closed the pro cession, these latter riding in the deceased's private carriage. On arriving at the cemetery the cavalcade filed off into the unconsecrated portion of the grgand, where, nearly opposite the entrance gate, a large brick vault had: been prepared. Every portion of the ceremony was conducted in solemn silence, broken only by the peals of thunder and tempest oY rain which burst over the cemetery just at the period of its performance. The officiating chaplain to the cemetery, the Rev. Mr. Twigger, was in attendance in his private capacity, but no religious service of any kind was performed over the body. As the mourners were about to retire they were requested by Nogendranath Tagore to remain until the vault was closed, a desire which they of course at once complied with. This occupied some time. At length a huge stone having been placed over ther cavity the parties retired to their car riages and left the ground. The son of the deceased was attired in an Indian costume composed wholly of black cloth. Mohun Lal and the other Indians present wore the ordinary brilliant costume of their country. The coffin containing the deceased's remains had a very magnificent appearance. It was covered with puce silk velvet, and studded with silver ornaments. On the lid were two silver plates—the one bearing the style and titles of the deceased Baboo in the llindostanee language, and the second a translation of the same in English, as follows : " BABOO DWARKANAUTII TAGORE, ZUMINDAR, DIED IST AUGUST, 1846, AGED 51 TEARS." It is stated that the fine face and features of the deceased were so little changed by death, that the parties called on to perform the usual offices on similar mournful occasions were with some difficulty persuaded that the spirit had fled. While in this state a cast of the Baboo's face was taken. The heart was subsequently removed from the body for transmission to India, there to be dealt with in accordance with the tenets of the sect to which the Baboo belonged. • PARLIAMENTA KY BUSINESS. ;From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. WEDNESDAY, AUG 5. MESSAGE FROM TILE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills, which their Lordships had agreed to:— Edinburgh Paving (No. 2) Bill—Argyll Canal Bill —Taw Vale Railway Extension Bill—Sligo Ship Canal illill—Campbehown Har bour, Waterworks, and Paring Bill—Amendments to Lord Kin naird's (sir John Webb's) Estate Bill —Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cam bridge Junction Railway Bill, without amendment—Rugby and Leamington and Warwick Railway Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Bill—Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway Bill —London and South-Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury Extension) Bill—West London Railway Improvement and Extension Bill, with Amendments. THE TWENT Y-FIFTH REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION. The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railway Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the House, have considered the several matters referred to them, and agreed to report as fellows : Your Committee recommend that the Cork and Waterford Railway Bill be referred to a distinct Committee, Group No. 72. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The following Members were in the House when counted out on Tuesday evening : Mr. Strutt Sir W. Fell(len Mr. Maitland Mr. Parker Dr. Bowring I\ Ir. Bouverie Mr. IL Berkeley ➢!r. B. Escott Mr. Tamil Mr. D. Morris Mr. Brown (Lan.) Mr. Waw n Lord J. Russell Lord M. Hill Mr. Ewart Chancellor of E xc h equ e r Mr. Warburton Sir E. Coleb roo k e Mr. Patti son Mr. Fox Maule Mr. Langsto n Mr. Duncan Mr. Christie Mr. Dickinson (' Lord Courtanay Sir T. Esm on d Mr. Hawes Sir G. Grey Mr. Hume Mr. Thornely Mr. Barnard. Mr. Mitcalfe Mr. Baine An accident happened a short time since on the Southern Austrian Railway, near Cilli. The engine ran off the rails, and drew after it three waggons. Fortunately no One was killed, and only two men, an engineer and a stoker, wounded. The cause of the accident is not known. NA' TAL INTELLIGENCE. POUTSMOUTI.4 WEDNESDAY. —The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Co cans ander Johnson, returned from Devonport this afternoon .whither she had conveyed arms for the In flexible to ta'se out to the Cape, and left again at 6 o'clock for the eastw and with supernumeraries. The folio wing extract of a private letter received this afternoon dr.scribes the passage of the Constance and Eury dice front Spitteact to Plymouth sound : " On leavi og Spithead all ashore must have seen how beautifully 7.2:urydice took the lead, and maintained it for two hours, whell she was 5.5.E.4E., near two miles. The wind on startin g was near S.W., but just before tacking it changed t o W.S. W., which gave the Constance the advan tage of ti :To points, yet they crosred each other within 300 yards, the Eurydice to leeward; but at 4 pm.•(Sunday) the Constano a Was to leeward, and at 8 rm. she bore S.S E. five miles , wind variable from S.W. to W. by S. After mid night they bad a leading wind until daylight, when the Con stance was seen S.S.E., courses down from deck. At 9 A.m. (Monday), wind from W.N.W., the Constance bore E. S. 13 miles, and by noon the Eurydice lost sight of her, bearing E. Tae Eurydice continued to make the best of her way, and st ortened sail this morning (Tuesday) at 2 A.M., Eddy stone Light 'W. three. miles, and at lyreak of day bore up, anchoring in the Sound shortly attar 6 A.M. At e ll A.M. the Constance made her number, but kits not yet (1.45 P.M ) ar rived. This shows the Eurydice to advantage, as she must have left her competitor fast. Of course the variable winds precluded a fair trial, and renders it impossible to enter more fully into detail as to. distance.". A gunner's mate, belonging to the Excellent, named John Porter, lately serving in the Warspite, 50, fell, i❑ descending the side, into the Liberty boat, on Monday evening, and his head striking the boat's gunwale, he died instantly. He was interred to-day, the ships, as the procession passed, tolling their bells. The Athol troop-ship did not sail yesterday, according to Admiralty order, and remains at Spithead. The Aid, naval lighter, Smallman master, arrived this morning with stores from the eastern yards. The following ships have served the usual term of commis sion (three years); some of them nearly double that time, and may shortly be expected home to be paid off. Many of them, having been relieved, are on their passage:— Ship's Names. Agincourt, flag-ship Acheron, steam- vessel .. Alert Castor Cleopatra .. Conway Cormorant, steam sloop Curocoa Cyclops, steam-sloop Daphne Driver, steam-sloop Espoir Ficn-trti Gorgon, steam-sloop Hazard .. Ileela, steam-sloop Venues, steam-sloop Hydra, steam-sloop Lark Modesto • • .. North Star 'Orestes Royalist .. • • Salamander, steam sloop .. . • Sappho .. Sealark . • .. Spider .. . Spiteful, steam-sloop Talbot • • .. Thunderbolt, steam- By whom commanded leapt. Johnston Lieut. Aplin .. Corn. Ellis .. Capt. Graham Capt. Wyvil .. 'Capt. Kelley .. 004 •: •• Tyne .. Vestal .. Virago, steam-sloop Wasp Wolf Wolverine Corn. Gordon . Capt. Broughton S Capt. Lapidge s Capt. Onslow.. ; Com. Mayes .. ) Com. hand ! Capt. Duntze Corn. II anilton Com. Crouch .. Coin. Egerton Cern. Stunner Lieut. Carr .. Coln. Young .. LieuE. Lawrence Coin. Watkins Ct. Sir J. Home Com. Cannon.. Com. Wilson .. Corn. Reed .. Com. relley Com. Ogle iCapt. Hamond Coin. Gambier lOn what station jEast Indies; .. ;Corn. Gooch • • 'Lieut. Pym • • ICorn. Maitland ,Captain Sir T. Thompson • • Nfediterranean Coast of Africa East Indies .. Cape of Good Hope .. Cape of Good Hope .. Pacific .. .. Brazils .. .. IC ban. Squadron Pacific • • .. 'East Indies Coast of Africa Pacific Pacific Brazils East Indies .. Mediterranean West Indies .. Coast of Africa West Indies .. Pacific East Indies .. Mediterranean East Indies .. Brazils .. West Indies .. East Indies .. When commis sioned. Feb., 1842 Com. Boyle .. 'Capt. Glasscock Capt. Talbot .. 'Con. Lunn .. Com. Ussher • . Corn.Vordon.. Coin. Clifford.. Dec , 1842 July, 1843 Apr 11,1843 April,lB42 May, 1843 April,lB43 Feb., 1843 Mar., 1843 July, 1842 Sept.,lB4l May, 1843 May, 1843 Nov., 1842 Nov., 1842 Oct., 1841 Jan., 1843 May, 1843 Aug., 1843 July, 1842 June,lB43 Aug., 1841 Aug., 1842 July, 1843 April,lB43 Mar.,1843 Oct., 1841 Pacific Cape of Good Hope .. Coast of Africa Brazils .. East Indies .. Pacific .. June,lB42 'Cape of Good Feb , 1843 Oct., 1843 April,lB42 Dec., 1842 Hope • . • • Mediterranean East Indies' . .. Mediterranean Coast of Africa East Indies .. East Indies Apr 11,1842 Dec., 1843 Apr 41,1843 Nov., 1843 May, 1843 Oct., 1842 June, 1842 Jan., 1842 The above list does not include surveying or other vessels employed on " particular service," whose terms of commis sion are not defined, as are the other ships in the Royal Navy. We may add to the above the America, 50, Captain the Hon. J. Gordon, hourly expected from the Pacific with valuable freight, but whose term of service will not expire until February next. _ _ A terrific thunder-storm visited this place this morning be tween the hours of three and five o'clock, creating the most alarming consternation among the inhabitants, none of whom had ever experienced anything like it before. The lightning continued to flash as if in one uninterrupted blaze of various hues during the whole time, and long after day light the storm continued. Peal after peal of thunder, more like the cannonade of a fleet or army, each succeeding one louder than the last, shook the place and all in it, during the time the terrific strife of the elements lasted. A mass of water, accompanied by huge hailstones (for it surely could not be called rain), fell during the storm, de luging the streets, and choking up such few drains as the locality is blessed with, beating down standing crops, smashing windows and skylights, conservatories, &c. The electric fluid entered a house in Mount Pleasant, Landport, by the chimney, smashed the looking-glass, and set fire to the tenement; happily an elderly woman and a child who were in the house at the time were not injured, and the fire was immediately subdued by the neighbours. At another part of Portsea, a woman was so shocked by the thunder and lightning as to fall into a state of catalepsy, from which it is feared she will never be roused to life. Further inwards, Portsea has received considerable damage from the iioods which have rushed down Portsdown-hill and deluged the meadows and roads below to a most destructive extent, which, following so closely upon the awful storm of Friday night last and Sunday night, will, it is feared, form a sad item in the harvest accounts of many small farmers and others whose crops were exposed to the ravages of the floods. The electric telegraph is, of course, hors de combat. Such shocks as it has met with in the late storms will take some time to adjust. It is conjectured that the attraction it ap pears to present to the electric fluid will be an insnrmount able bar to its sate and effectual working in the dockyard, where so much attractive and combustible matter is at pre sent stored. Much fear was entertained for the safety of powder in magazines at this port. The houses situate low in Portsmouth, Portsea, Southsea, and the adjacent villages were all inundated to some depth with water, which, owing to the very inefficient drainage, will be some time in sub siding. SHEERNESS AUGUST s.—The Mutine, 12, Commander Crawford, discharged her powder at the Little Nora on Sun day, and was towed up to Chatham on Monday, where she is to be taken into the dock at present occupied by the Trident steam-sloop, nearly ready for sea. The Columbine, 16, Commander Booth, arrived from Chatham yesterday morning, and is now having her com passes adjusted in this harbour. She will undergo the usual inspection by the Commander-in-Chief, and afterwards sail for Portsmouth, where she is to be paid advance wages and receive her final orders. An accident which might have terminated in the destruc tion of that fine vessel the Dragon steam-frigate occurred here on Sunday evening. It appears that an old canvas jacket had been left behind a bull's eye of one of the paddle box cabins, which by the convergence of the rays of the sun had ignited and was smoking away at a furious rate when it was happily discovered by the pol►ceman on ,!luty, who gave the alarm. The fire was soon afterwards subdued without having done the slightest injury to the vessel. HAMBURGH MAIL. COPENHAGEN, JULY 2 s.—The Berlin Gazette of to day contains menacing language respecting the move ments in the duchies occasioned by the King's letters patent of the Bth of this month, at the head of which it conceives the party of the lawyers is placed. The address of Neumunster is reproached for the most bitter and unbecoming opposition to what the' Sovrigu" has in his letter patent designated as justice and truth. The Danish papers will not enter into a further dis cussion of this movement ; only so much appears clear to it that the Corypheei of this agitation are playing a des perate game, which may call for serious measures if they do not reflect, when they become better acquainted with the motives of the Royal letters patent. POLISH FRONTIERS, JULY 20.—1 t is again reported that Prince Paskeuitsch is retiring from his post in Poland, and Prince Gorschakon is spoken of as his suc cessor. If we will be just, we must maintain that Prince Paskeuitsch has done much good to the kingdom com mitted to his government, and that as far as circum stances allowed him, he governed in a mild spirit. At the time when Benckendorf police regulations were in force, the latter often complained of the forbearance of the Prince. DRESDEN, JULY 23.—His Majesty has complied with the wish of Prince John, to accept the otice of Commander-in-Chief of the Commercial Guards of the kingdom, fully appreciating the reasons he assigns, and acknowledging the service he has rendered to the State. Major-General Mandelstch is appointed, ad interim, to fill this office. BERLIN, JULY 28.—The letters patent of his Majesty the King of Denmark makes a great sensation here. The proceedings of the Agnates in particular are looked at with great interest. We Team that one of them, when he was at Berlin, commissioned a learned lawyer to draw up a memorial. But it is believed here that the three great European Powers will leave the initiatives in this affair entirely to the King of Denmark. OLDENBURG, JULY 28.—We are able to announce as a fact, that in one of the sittings of the Germanic Diet last week, his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg caused his representative in that assembly to enter on the journal a pretext to guard his interest against the partial representative ot; he Holstein succes sion, contained in the letters patent of the King of Den mark. BERLIN, JULY 23.—The political prisoners here con tinue to enjoy the mildest treatment, and are permitted to correspond with their relations, of course under some control. Carriages with Polish ladies often come to Fort Winiari to visit their relations, which they likewise do at Sonnenburg. In the prison called the Cassioniere St. Adalbus there were lately twenty prisoners, who on several occasions have made a considerable noise, which prevented the neighbours from getting their sleep ; it has been deemed necessary to have them conveyed to Wimiari. O SNA BURGH, JULY 26.—Several alterations which have been ordered in the Palace, has given rise to a report that it will shortly be occupied by the Prince of Soloms, his Majesty's stepson, who is President of the Council of State.—liamburgh papers, July 31. HAMBURGII BORSENIL&LLE, JULY 28. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents .. ••••• • • • • • ... 112 Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1570 Anglo-Russian Loan . ..... ••• • • • .... 107 Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate. 10014 Ditto let series Inscription.. Ditto, Rope andCo.,3d and 4th series.. 97% Ditto, in Certificate...• • • • • .• ........ New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .• •• • • 90% 90 Ditto Stleglitz .• • . ..... ..... 88% 88% Spanish New 5 per Cent • ••• • • • 17% 17% Ditto 3 per Cent . • .• 31 30% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 214 per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent- •.• .• 591 2 Ditto 3 per Cent. • • .. .• Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 79% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 86 National Bank Shares... ....... PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 30. __ Bills. Money. St. Sanla Sell., 3 1 A per Cent •• • • • ‘ • • • • • • 96 1 95% Truss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. • • • • Foreign Exchanges ... .. . .... .... .. .. .. Exchange ou Loudon, £1 Sterling, 3 Month,. 6 24% 6 24% AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE BY RAILWAY. The following is an extract from Captain Laws' evi dence before the Commons' Select Committee on Rail ways, the report and the evidence taken before which have just been printed : Do you think that the advantages of railways have been developed in the conveyance of agricultural pro duce ?—No ; I do not think the conveyance of agricul tural produce has been largely affected by railways.. In tact, with the exception of cattle and sheep, the agricultural produce that is carried by railways is comparatively small. Green groceries from Co lent garoen market into the north is considerable, and you would be surprised to hear of the immense quantities that are convex ed from Covent-garden to Manchester, and from Manchester, ramified by the lines, to the north. One of the great carriers has shown to me his account with parties for this description of traffic; as much as 13 and 14 tons, at this season of the year, of water• cresses, come into Manchester from London per day, and they are sent a considerable distance on the lines in the neighbourhood : from Berkhamsptead quantities are brought by carriers, and one or two of the large greengrocers in Manchester pay more for the carriage of garden produce than the largest manufacturers in Lancashire. On the Manchester and Leeds Railway next month, when the new potatoes come in from the south, we shall carry up as touch as 200 tons of pota toes, onions, and other garden produce, and other things, in a day; a vtry populous district all the way, and we drop at each station along the line a waggon containing 4 tons, 3 tons, and so on; these are all brought to the Manchester market in the same way as • to Covent-garden market, and are bought up by the greengrocers and taken out and retailed in the district. Though you say the amount of agricultural produce earns d on railways has hardly yet Coen developed, are there not a very considt rable number of cattle and sheep conveyed upon railways?—yes, but nothing like what there will be, The fact was, that railway companies, not considering well the nature of that traffic, at first put a high price upon it ; the consequence was, that as long as drovers could pursuade graziers that they could drive them up as cheaply by the road, and the turnpike trust would Make a little reduction in cense qugneeof the railway competition, they continued to send them along the road from distant places to Smith field, or to the markets in the north, even when they had the convenience of railways; and I believe th It our railway was the first to demonstrate that, as long as an animal has locomotion in itself, the owner will use that locomotion to carry it to market, and therefore we reduced our rates so low as to knock those drovers up ; and all the rates that have been lately introduced into railway Bills for the conveyance of cattle are about a third of what they started with. And you consider that there is that progress going on now, and that there are an increased number of cattle and sheep conveyed by ra:lway 2—Yes ; it is growing every day ; and now, so far from the graziers having anything to do with driving cattle 100 or 150 miles, they will not do it at all, but they will get them upon the railway, and convey them to market, and come back again. We allow a man to go in charge of two waggons for the safety of the cattle themselves, and to return free; we kive him a pass back agaift. The increase on all the lines in cattle and sheep has been very large, but still I think the majority are driven by road. Pigs always come to us, as they are bad travellers; the Irishman always puts his pigs upon a railway as soon as he can. --- COMMUTATION OF TITHES. The following is an outline of the Lord Chancellor's Bill (just laid on the table of the House of Lords), and intituled " An Act f ur th er to amend the Acts for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales." The preamble recites the Acts 6 and 7 William IV., c. 71, 1 Vict.. c. 69, 2 and 3 Vict., c. 62, 3 Vict., c. 15, 5 and 6 Vict., c. 54, 1 and 2 Vict., c. 64 ; and the first clause proposes to give power to landowners to redeem a rent charge not apportioned, where the amount does not exceed fifteen pounds. 2. Upon payment of the consideration money, com missioners to certify that the parish is discharged of tithes. 3. Gives power to redeem rent charge erroneously ap portioned on lands not chargeable therewith. 4. After redemption of the rent charge erroneously apportioned, the appointment of the remainder to be valid. 5. Separate rent charges, not exceeding twenty shil lings in amount, may be redeemed after apportionment. Extraordinary charge not to be affected. 6. Commissioners to certify the amount of considera— tion money for redemption. 7. Consideration money for redemption, how payable. 8. Consideration for redemption of rent charges pay able to spiritual owners to be paid to governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, to be applied in augmentation of the be nefices to which the rent charges belonged. 9. Consideration-money in case of owners under dis ability, how payable. 10. Relates to consideration-money under 20/. 11, Gives power to persons entitled for limited inter ests to charge expenses of redemption. 12. Commissioners' certificates of redemption to be under the hands and seal of the Commissioners, and show the amount of the consideration-money for the redemp tion thereof, and to whom or in what manner the same shall have been paid, &c. 13. Alteration of apportionment may be made after inclosure. 14. Expenses of alteration of apportionment after inclosure s hall be borne by the owners of the lands to which such altered apportionment shall relate, and shell be recovered in the same manner as expenses chargeable on the same owners in or about the making of an origi nal apportionment of the sum of the rent charges charged on the same lands respectively would bare been recoverable. 15. Supplemental apportionment of a rent charge as made payable to one owner in respect of tithes of several owners or held in separate rights. 16. Gives power to declare land as to which doubts arise which delay the apportionment as a separate district. 17. Place of deposit of copy of confirmed apportion ment may be altered by quarter sessions. 18. Tithes, or rent-charge in lieu thereof, may be merged after agreement or award, but before apportion ment. _ _ 19. Powers relating to the merger, &c., of any tithes, may be executed by a person entitled in equity. 20. 1 and 2 Vict. c. 64, to be construed as part of the Tithe Commutation Acts. 21. Decisions concerning boundary not appealed against to be valid, notwithstanding informality. 22. Glebe lands may be exchanged although no com mutation be pending. 23. Act to be construed as part of 6 and 7 Wil liam IV. c. 71. THE LATE EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS IN LAM MITIL—ConoNEn's INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Wm. Payne, the City Coroner, held, at the Crown avern, Lambeth-road, an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire and explosion that occurred upon the premises of Mr. S. Drewell, firework-maker, of No. 6, Hatfield-place, Westminster-road, some particulars of which appeared in our columns on Monday last. Several witnesses were examired, and the jury returned a verdict, " That the fire was the result of accident." SwIMMING MATCH.—A swimming match came off on Tuesdiv evening at the splendid Swimming Baths in the Westminster-road,for two very handsome chased silver medals. There werela competitors, divided into fourheats and four swim mers in each, all members of the Surrey Swimming Club. The first four were Messrs. Cooper, Gilbert, Smith and Harrington; they had to swim the whole length of the bath, which is Izs feet, and back • on the return the contest was between Gilbert and Smith, and the latter won by about two yards. The second heat was between Messrs. Barron, Green, Emmett, and James The third was between Messrs. Fisher, Mills, Hood, and Bartlet. Won by Hood, Bartlet coming in second. The fourth was contested by Messrs. Winter, Parker, and Bavin, which was won by Winter. Then came the fifth and last heat, in which the competitors were those who were first in the others, and they were Smith, Winter, Hood, and Emmet. Hood took the lead at starting, and kept it through out, and won, Emmet coming in a good second. There were one or two other matches between the above, in one of which three boys, under ten years of age, were the compe titors, in which a lad named Stevens w as the wmper . n .l. O S i em between s ec o nd s ltha underpd i a v i i k n e g rw, mat ainter c w. h h iAacli:o raethe e took p for formere w place o r e b m et a w in e ee sovereigns d n t M hci e ar s mt s y r se- thirty-five Messrs. Walker and Graham, but it was neck and neck, and must be again contested. The medals were given to the successful candidates, amidst much cheering. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. —As the half-past eleven o'clock Bristol train, comprising first, second, and third class carriages, neared the Box station yesterday, it stopped for a few minutes before it came close to the platform. During its temporary stoppage, an old tar, named Hannigan, who had been discharged from the Hibernia, 100 guns, Cap tain Williams, at Cork, got out, but as soon as be ob served the train moving on, he attempted to re-ascend; the third class carriage, although a hundred voice, cat boned him against so doing. In his attempt to reach tee step, be failed, and again made another effort for it, Mit while in the act of so doing the train got parallel with the platform, dragging the unfortunate man along with it, so that three-fourths of his body was under the train while his head and shoulders rested on the platform. At this moment the scene was terrific, for every one imagined that he was crushed to atoms, and the scream from the spectators were awful. Fortunately, one of the office clerks and a constable had sufficient presence of mind to rush to the man's rescue, and grasping him by the jacket held him, and as the train moved on so held him that his body was kept in motion similar to that of the trair, until the engine driver was enabled to shut off the steam. As soon as he was released from his perilous situation, instead of ex pressing his gratitude for his miraculous escape, he exclaimed with perfect nonchalance, " Oh, I knew there was no danger, for I held on and was determined not to let go my hold." One of the guards having explained to him the great danger he had escaped, he very coolly replied, " Oh, well, if I was killed there would be an end to me." A passenger 'then asked him what would have becotrie of his soul had he been killed ? " Well, I declare to God," said the old tar, "I never thought of that ; I am very mueh obliged to you ibe . reminding me of it, and for so doing you must take a drop of the ' creature' (holding out a bottle of Irish whiskey) with ' me." , F We understand that Messrs. Willmer and Smith, of Church-street, received an order from Buckingham Palace. yesterday, to supply her Majesty with a copy of 'all the Liverpool papers containing the account of Prince Albert's visit to Liverpool. Their own paper, the European Times, of the 4th, they printed on beautiful white Win, bound with blue, and tied with silver tassels, which presented a very unique appearance.—Liverpool Courier. GAUGE OF RAlLWAYS.—Yesterday the Bill which has passed the House of Lords, entitled "An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways," was printed. There are nine clauses in the measure following the preamble, " Whereas it is ex pedient to define the gauge on which railways shall be con structed." After the passing of the Act it is not to be lawful, except in cases mentioned, to construct any railway for the conveyanCe of passengers on any gauge other than 4 feet 8 inches and half an inch in Great Britain, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland. The exceptions are set forth, and on certain railways the broad gauge is to be used. By the 4th provision it is declared that after the passing of the Act the gauge of any mile ay used for the conveyance of passengers is not to be altered. Railways constructed co 0 yery Act may be abated. There is a provision for the of penalties. Frolic