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rbtrlT Nbittort TIIE FUNDS--(CLOSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSIN:, O'CLOCK. PRICES. 95% Three per Cent. R e d uce d A nnu i t i es .. .. 96 96 % 1 4 Three per Cent. Co nse i l A nnu i t i es .. .. 95%3a Now Three - anda..Quarter per Cent. Anna. :4 97% 97h Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 5.16 10 5-16 India Stock . .. •.. .. 260% 260% India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. • • • • is 18 p Consols for Account 41 Cihequer Bills. 1,000 i... 1 3 4 d. 1 1 0. 7 10 G 10 pm. 7 7 11 -- pm. 11 12 8--- pm. 8 5001, Ditto, Small ONE CLOSING FOREIGN* FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 23 234 Ditto, for the Account 23% 23% Portuguese Pour per Cent .• • • 3 4 % Ditto. fo: the Ac c ou n t .. .. 39 40 38% 38 % 39% 40 ePanish i:londs, 5 per Cent .. — 753 i Ditto s for the Account .. blvidends on the above payable in tendon. * PRICES OF Er B rNES S CLOSI:NO r..km. DONE AT PRICES. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .• • • • • 10 • Amber., Notting., Boston. and Eastrn Junction 2.... 2 U 2 2%.... 2% . Birmingham and Glouces ter.. ..100 .. —130% 130% Ditto, New (issed at 7 36 dis.).. 1734 ... 32% • ......... 3., , 34 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 7% 34 • • •. .. 7% Bristol and Exeter 75 .. 87 •• . 87 Ditto New .. . • . • • • 5 ••• • ••••• • • • • • lON Buckinghamshire 425. .... %34 di5..... 34 dis. Caledonian .. • • •• 20 •• • 15 % i L .I ••• • • • 153 4 Ditto, Half Shares .• ... ..... 1 :6 Chester and Holyhead 27% .... 27% 27 .... • • 27 Churnet and. Blythe .. . • • . 2 .. .......... Cornwall .. „ ..5 2 Direct Northern .. 2% 1 2., . ..... 2 Eastern Counties .. .• .. 141. 165..... 23% . 23% Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 8 p.......... 8 Ditto, York Extension • 105....• 2 •••• • • ' • 2 Eastern Union .• .. 30 .... 43 43 Do. Extension to Norwich • .. 2% •••• " " " East Lancashire .. • .. 14 • 24 ..........24 East Lincolnshire l% —•• • • • .... 74 % Edinburgh and Glasgow . . .. 50 .... 74 .. Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 10 .... 11 1 4 11 Edinburgh and Perth • • • Ely and llflntingdon 736 .... 614 •. ........ 6 Goole, Di:roust., and Sheffield, &e. 425..... di5... Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% • • Ti Great - Eastern and Western .. 2% 1 .......... 1 Great Western .. E 5 ....149 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 .... 22 213 Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 34 Guildford, Fareham , &Portsmoth 5 .... 5% ..... 5% Hull and Selby .. 50 .... . . Ditto, 34 Shares.. .. 1234.... 21% 2134 Leeds and Bradfordl 26 • • ...... • • 70 Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. 1 dis Leicester and Bedford 225..... % di5..... • • % dis. Leicester, Tamworth. &c. 425..... di5....... i 4 dis. London anl Birmingham . • .100 ....225 223 224.... 224 Ditto, Thirds 32 .... ...• 69 Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... 30%.......... 29 Ditto, Fifths 2 „_ 25 .... ...... 25 London and Black wall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• ••• • •• Ditto, New • • .. • • • • 3 ••••—•• • • • • • • " London and Brighton . 50 .. . 66 London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 9 4 .... London and York .. .. 2 y s i .. • • 2'A%••• • • • • • Ditto, Half Shares • • 2% .... 2 •• . ••• • •• Lynn and Ely .. .. 15 .... 16% • • .....• • • 16&., Lynn and Dereham „, .15 .. • • ...... 13% Manchester and Leeds.. .82 ....12034.......... 120% Ditto, Fifths . 3 .... .. •••• • • • • 12 Ditto Extension . 425. •• 334 p.. • • • • 334 p Manchester and 141rminxham .. 40 . ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) - • 5 15 ••••• • • • • 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares (13 • . 5 .... 15 • • 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 •• • • 10%34 • • 10% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • 13 34 p...... 1% p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1%34 1% Midland ..100 ••• • • • .... 145 Ditto, New 24 .... 38% .. • • ...... 38% Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .. •• .. •• • • . 4334 Ditto, New Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .. •. 29 •• • • 29 Norfolk .. .. • • .. 20 .... ..... Ditto, Extension - . • • .. 2 .. • . ........ North British •• 25 .. • • 38% Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 834 14 32 14 ...... Ditto Fifths.. .. .. 5 .... Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 3% Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... 75% Ditto, Quarter 'Shares 12% .... 18 Ditto, New .. 1 .• 23 ••••• • • • !• North Staffordshire .. 425..... 3% %p . Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 83‘ • • • • • • • • • • Preston and Wyre 25 •• • •-• • • Ditto, Half Shares .. • . 2% •• .. 834.. •• • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 425. • • 3,i dis Richmond .. .. 10 .... 18% 19 .... Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick 425. % p.. Scottish Central . 12% fw Ditto New • .. • • -• • • 2 k; •• • • 8 ! , 4 ••••• • • • • • 9 Scottish Midland .. .. 10 .... 7 ........ . 7IA Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 35 3.. .. • • 3 Shropshire Union .. 425..... 3 dis • ....... Sinth Midland .. .. • • .. 425. 4 ,y p % p South Staffordshire Junction . • 23 .... 2 4 South Eastern and Doyor 45% 45 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% .... 3% South Wales .. . • .. 4%% ••• .• • 4 Vale of Neath .. 2 .... .......• 'l% Welsh Midland 2% .... 1 ....... 1 West Riding Union .. • • .. 425. • • 3% la 1 3 • ••• • • 3% P York and Carlisle .. York and North Midland .. 50 ••••• • • • • Ditto, Extension .. .. 20 .... 39%39 . 39 IDo. E, and W. Riding Eaten... ••.••• • • • • 13% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 14 Bordeaux and Mediterranean .. 2 „ Bord., Toni., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 ........ Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 ........ Dutch Rhenish , . 6 .... 6 ...... East India,' . • • • • • • ss. .. •• 1 ........ Great Indian Peninsular ss. .„ „ „ „ Great Western Bengal .. • • 58. ........ Luxembourg Namur and Liege .. • . 6 .... .... Orleans and Vierzon .. • • lO .... ........ Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 5% Sambre and Meuse g „ ..... ... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England 35 .... 36 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 33ii (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room B. 7AVERPOOL, ORIVISZITLIC, AND PRESTON. Mr. Andrews, silk manufacturer, of O r m s ki r k, was ex amined by Mr. BRANDT, with a view of showing the accom modation to be afforded by this line. Mr. Blundell, surgeon, of Southport, stated that as many as 24,000 or 25,000 persons visited Southport during the summer, for the purpose of bathing. Mr. B. Lewis, one of the Commissioners appointed under an Act of Parliament for the purpose of improving Southport, considered that a railway communicating Southport with Ormskirk was desirable for the interest of the former town. Mr. R. Harkness, draper, of Ormskirk, thought the pro posed line between Ormskirk and Southport desirable. Mr. E. Rigby was connected with the coal-fields Skel mersdale, and thought the proposed line would be beneficial to the interests of that di,trict. Lieutenant Kellock, R.N considered that the present scheme embraced everything of a beneficial nature that was included in the rival scheme. He thought that the pier pro posed by the rejected line at Southport could not be bene ficially carried out. Mr. Blair, traffic computist, gave evidence of the details of the traffic between Southport and Ormskirk. The Bishop of DUMIAM, to the witness—What is your oc cupation, Mr. Blair? Witness—l am a traffic statist. Mr. MERMINVETHER—I think it should be traffic creatist. Mr. Smith, of Deanton, was the next witness examined in favour of this line. His evidence went to show that the pro posed line would do very little residential injury. Mr. M'Veagh, civil engineer, and engineer to the line, was then called and examined. He stated that the line proposed to commence at Liverpool, and proceeded through Ormskirk to Preston, where it effected a junction with the East Lan cashire line. From Ormskirk there was a branch to South port. The line was also proposed to join the Liverpool and Bury Railway at about a mile from Liverpool. The left of the main li ne was Miles. Chains. 22 52 Ormskirk and Southport Branch 7 39 Skelmersdale Branch 3 6 Dock Branch at Liverpool East Lancashire Branch ... Total length of main line and branches 36 15 The capital of the Company was The cost of the main line would be 322,4911. The Dock Branch .. .. 119,0201. The Skalmersdale Branch Southport Branch 82,480/. East Lancashire Junction Leaving a surplus of 153,894/. _ 750,000 f. The steepest gradient upon the main line was 1 in 150, and on the dock branch it was lin 100. There were no curves of a less radius than half a mile. The estimates were amply sufficient for the construction of all the necessary works. Cross-examined by Mr. MEIWIENVETIIER—Did not know a case in which a railway seven miles in length had been con structed in the face of hostile parties. At this stage of the proceedings the Committee intimated their opinion that the line between Ormskirk and Southport should not be constructs& Mr. AUSTIN accordingly withdrew that portion of the line, and the Committee, without hearing further eviden ze , de clared the preamble of the Bill to be proved, with the excep tion, however, of the Southport and Ormskirk branch. Air. Lowe, C.E. engineer . to the line, was then examined— The total length of the line was six miles five chains. The estimates were— For Land £110,102 For Works For Stations 30,000 Contingencies Total estimate --- £450,.503 There were two tunnels u ponthe line, one of 1,020, and the other 140 yard s in length. The gradients were— .l in 270 ......... ... for I 108 ............ - 7. ......... I mile. ...... ...... 1 —47 i ............ 2 11 mites. ............ 2 miles 1 145 up to the central station at Oldham . . There would be no difficulty in working this line, without having recourse to the ropes and balance-weights used by the rival Company. It being nearly four o'clOck before the cross-examination was concluded, the Committee adjourned till eleven o'clock on Monday. Room C. OLDRA.P , I,IKANCHESTER, AND LIVERPOOL - - - nISLICENIIEAD JUNCTION. Mr. Bennett, of Manchester, gave evidence of a favourable nature as regards this line. Mr. Carr, from Newton, and Mr. Barnes, machine-maker of Oldham, gave similar evidence. DUBLIN AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the shareholders in the Dublin and Ennis killen Company took place this dly, at Guildhall-place, for the purposes of determining whether the Company should take advantage of the powers of an Act lately passed, en titled the Railways Dissolution Act. The chair was taken by Sir John Campbell. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement convening the meeting, scrutineers were appointed. The report stated that it would be useless to persevere with the undertaking, although the line was essentially a good one, in consequence of the altered state of the money market, and in consequence of the Company having lost their Bill in Parliament on purely technical grounds. The directors bad expended the funds of the Company in a most economical wanner, and they were now able to come:before THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 11148. the shareholders, and to make a return of 41. out of every 51. paid on the deposits. The utmost unanimity prevailed at the meeting, and it its dissolution resolved that the Company should dissolve, and that dissolution should not be taken as an act of bankruptcy. The meeting then adjourned. PETEHBottoUtli II AND NOTTING HAM RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) An adjourned meeting of the shareholders in this under taking from Monday last, to consider of and determine on, a dissolution of the Company, was held to-day at the Londun Tavern, at one o'clock. Lord T. P. CLINTOI4 took the chair, and called on the Se cretary to read the minutes of that meeting. The SECRETARY then read a statement of the accounts, which gave the gross receipts at 17,3871., and expenditure, 12,6461., leaving a balance of 4,7411., to which is to be added securities on bills, 1,8621., and about 4,000/. deposits still un paid and expected. The whole divisible surplus will be about 10,000/., being about 1/. 2s. a share to be returned. Mr. Darr wished to know whether the directors had ceased the ex penditure as soon as the failure of the Company was seen. Mr. GRIDLEY, solicitor to the Company, said that it was 1 about the end of January when the directors found that the Company was in difficulties, through allottees not paying upon their shares. in November the plans were deposited, a n d b e t ween t h at and D ecem b er t h e notices were served. Everything was done up to the time when the deposit ought to have been paid into the accountant-general preliminary to the Company going before Parliament ; and In consequence of that alone the directors had been able to resist successfully an action which had been raised at Lincoln by a shareholder, on the ground that they had failed in their part of the contract. The directors, in • deed, had spent their own money in order to put the undertaking in a position to go before Parliament. and thus secure the interests of the shareholders, and they were in hopes up to the last moment of being able to amalgamate with another company. Mr. FEW? said 'he was perfectly satisfied with the honour able way in which the directors had acted. The motion for dissolution made at the last meeting was again put before those present, and the voting was proceeded with. The CHAIRMAN then declared the votes to be to-day 715 in favour of dissolution without bankruptcy. The number of votes recorded at the former meeting was 1,830 all in favour of dissolution, 30 for a dissolution with bankruptcy, being altogether 420 votes more than were required by the Act of Parliament. A vote of thanks to the Chairman and the Committee of Management was then passed unanimously, and the meting adjourned. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY THAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail. ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Week ending SAI LIN GS. JULY 31. Apsara cutter, Earl of Orkney, for Guernsey and other ports. AuC. I. Resolution schooner, Duke of Rutland, for South • arn pton and Troon. S. Georgian schooner, Wm. Lyon, Esq., for Cherbourg; Fair Rosamond schooner, Marquis of Blandf or d , for Cher bourg ; Zephyretta schooner, Henry Hope, Esq., for Cherbourg ; Drift cutter, James Lyon, Esq., for Cher bourg. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners—Fairy Queen, Xarifa, Flirt, Camilla, Maud, Gem, Magic. Cutters—Pearl, Sparrowhawk, Charlotte, Tar, Emerald, Peterel, Whim, Avenger, Dryad, Nymph, Dream, Frisk, Medina, Osprey, St. Margaret, Ganyinede, Turquoise, Stormfinch, Moran, Spider, Intrepid, Caprice, Iris, Heroine. Yawls—Albatross, Eagle, Duchess, Susan. Earl Cardigan is hourly expected from Portman-square. His new yacht, the Enchantress, goes out of harbour to morrow, when it is expected his Lordship will proceed in her on a cruise. 6. P.M.—Her Majesty's yacht, Fairy, is passing through the ships and yachts in the roads, which are all gaily dressed, a Spanish barque firing a royal salute ; she steams up the harbour saluted from the castle, R. Y. S. battery, Woodyear's outfitting house, &c. At 10 minutes past six landed her Majesty and suite at the Trieity Wharf. THE CROPS AND THE WEATHER.—Wheat a full average; oats not much under; barley rather short. The weather was highly favourable to Friday, the 31st ult., and so impressed were the farmers that it would continue fine, that very little was carried in proportion to the quantity cut ; they let it remain in the fields, intending to thrash as soon as they had carried. On Friday night the rain commenced, and it has rained every night since, while each day has been calm and sultry, the sun being very powerful in the afternoons; the wheat has, therefore, shot considerably, and if we have not an unusual change will be seriously injured. The rains were much wanted for the grasses and turnips, the fly having carried the latter off as fast as they come up. Mange! wurzel has failed from the great drought. All is now bustle at the Squadron-house, preparing for the regatta. The roadstead is crowded with yachts, the town with company, and will continue so during the month. The first match is on the 10th, for a piece of plate, value 1001.; the second on the 13th, for a piece of plate, value 1001. Fireworks in the evening. On the 15th will be sailed for a Cup, valued at 501.; on the I . 7th her Majesty's Plate; on the 10th Prince Albert's Cup. The dinner is on the 12th; the ball on the 14th. Rowing-matches and duck hunts are proposed, to till up the time. SALE OF THE DRAWINGS, &c., OF THE LATE MR. HAYDON. The sale of the effects of the late unfortunate Mr. B. R. Haydon was continued on Thursday, and consisted princi pally of his drawings, sketches, and unfinished paintings. The room in which the sale took place was densely crowded, principally by artists. Of the numerous lots sold the follow ing are deserving of notice :—The palette, maal stick, and crayon holder, used by Mr. Haydon on the morning of his death, sold for one guinea. An octagon colour stone and two mullers, belonging to Mr. James Barry, R.A., and after wards in the possession of Hoppna, at whose sale, the auc tioneer stated, Mr. Haydon gave 351. for it, sold on Thursday for only 11. 133. A small bronze cast of the head of Pauline Bonaparte, by Canova, sold for 355. An etching sketch book, bearing date 1807, and called by the deceased " Ideas in Embryo for Composition," sold for five guineas. The coat worn by Earl Grey at the Reform Banquet, and pre sented by that nobleman, at his request, to the de ceased, was " put up," but only 7s. being offered for it, the auctioneer withdrew the lot. A small print of George IV., with the following written beneath, "The only monatch who felt for me—B. R. Haydon," sold for 10s. Four small pen and ink sketches of Anarchy, Democracy, Justice, and Despotism, by Haydon, sold for 31. 7s. A small drawing of Haydon asleep, by Wilkie, sold for 17s. An unfinished painting in oil of "Copenhagen," the charger rode by the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, was purchased by his Grace for 17 guineas. "A Study for the Peasant Woman in Alfred—B. R. Hay-don, June 9, 1846," done only nine days before his death, sold for 51. 10s. A design by Haydon for the Nelson Monument, which he sent into the Committee of Selection, sold for 51. ; it represented the interior of a mausoleum, having in one corner a colossal statue of the naval hero, with the following inscription be neath :—" A little man with a mighty heart." Of portraits of political and other characters, two unfinished in oil of Earl Grey sold for five guineas; one of Sir George Cock burn in crayon, a very excellent likeness, was bought by the Right Honourable Baronet for 61. A portrait of Lord Burghersh, now Earl of Westmoreland, in crayon, was pur chased by the Countess of Westmoreland for three guineas and a half. A portrait of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., which the auctioneer said was a good likeness, but which the Honourable Member repudiated. sold for 1/. Portrait of the Duke of Richmond, in chalk, sold for 10s. Study for Napoleon's hat, in Sir R. Peel's picture, consisting of several hats of full size in various positions, sold for 195., and the study for the Duke of Wellington's hat, 10s. A sketch of the Duke of Wellington's sword which he wore at the battle of Waterloo sold for three guineas and a half. The large pie lan 101, plll lip was cue large picture of "Alfred and the first British Jury," upon which the unfortunate deceased was at work shortly prior to his death. Before any bidding took place a person who was present handed to the auctioneer a written paper, at the same time saying, " I give you notice not to sell the large picture, for if you do you will do it on your own responsibility." The auctioneer took no heed of the document, but said he had a commission to purchase it for 2001. At this sum it was put up, and there being no farther advance, it was knocked down for the 2001. In was understood that Sir Robert Peel was the purchaser. The other lots sold, although in an unfinished state, fetched good prices. ANOTHER MURDER NEAR BANBURY. BANBURY, Ana. 5.--The excitement which existed in this neighbourhood consequent upon the discovery of the mur derers of Mr. George Mobbs, and their conviction at the late Oxfordshire Assizes, had scarcely subsided, when the feelings of the people of this neighbourhood have again been pained by the perpetration of a murder by a man of the name of Cave, a farmer, residing at Hornton, a village about five miles from Banbury. Cave, who is a married man, had formed an improper connexion with a widow of abandoned habits, named Hannah Treadwill, the mother of nine living children, having :buried three. Two of the three were con sidered to be Cave's, as well as one that is living. Cave be coming somewhat reduced in his circumstances it is sup posed was the cause of his ceasing to supply her with money, in consequence of which she and her children were often in a state of great destitution. Some time since she applied to the board of guardians for relief, but this they refused to give 'out of the workhouse, and thither she would not go. The whole neighbourhood has for a long time past been disturbed by their quarrels, and sometimes .fights, in the streets. Site followed him to Banbury, and a variety of other places, so that he was scarcely ever free from her. She was a violent person, and often assaulted him with stones, a wound from one of which he now has on his face. On the morning when the fatal occurrence took place Cave went to his land, taking with him his gun. The spot is elevated, and not more than a furlong from the village. The woman followed him, snd they were heard in the vi!lage at high words as usual. A person going in that directicn between seven and eight o'clock met them returning towards the vil lage. They were then quarrelling; and shortly afterwards he heard the report of a gun, but thought nothing of it. Cave went home with the gun under his arm, and told his wife and his mother he had shot Hannah. Before they could recover from the shock the intelligence gave them two other persons going towards Cave's land found the deceased on the footpath, quite dead. The spot where the act was committed is a peculiar one. A cartway is cut through the side of the hill to ease the descent, and the footway is 12 or 15 feet above it. The footpath is not more than three feet wide, and the bank is perpendicular. It is supposed he stood in the cartway, and that she was on the footpath when he fired the fatal shot. When found she was lying ex tended along the narrow footpath, and a stream of blood had flowed five yards from her body. Cave was taken into custody and lodged in Banbury gaol. He gave two different accounts of the affair; one that they were quar relling and had a scuffle; that she had hold of the muzzle of the gun, and that it went off by accident; another, that in the heat of the quarrel he tried to get up the bank to strike her, but being unable to do so he shot her. He then loaded the gun with the intention of shooting himself, but had not courage to do so. An — inquest was held on the body on Wednesday, before John Churchill, Esq., one of the county coroners. The body presented an awful appearance, the slots having entered in a mass on the left side of the neck, making a wound three inches long, nearly two inches wide, and of great depth. The carotid artery aad the jugular vein were both divided. A part of the deceased's dress, with which were coagulated blood and shots, were removed from the wound. The in quest was adjourned until Saturday, in consequence of the principal witnesses being absent before the county magistrates at Banbury, who were holding an inquiry into the case. The greatest commiseration is expressed for the prisoner's mother, who is a very respectable woman. She had two children only, the prisoner and a daughter; the latter, who was a very fine young woman, poisoned herself a few years since. Cave's age is about 46, that of his victim 40. DEPARTURE of FOREIGN MAILS. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. On Thursday the Post-otlice aathorities issued a notice ap pointing the nays for the dispatch of the next mails to India, China, the West Indies, the Peninsula,Ameri ca , B raz il s, & c. Mails to India via Southampton—The next mails for Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, China, &c., will be dispatched on the morning of the 20th instant. vid Southampton. Overlai.d Mail to India, &c.—The mail for the Medi terranean, Egypt, India, China, &c., vita Marseilles, were cispatched on the evening of the 7th inst. (last evening,) Peninsula Mails—The mails for Lisbon, Cadiz, Vigo, Oporto, Corunna, Gibraltar, Spain, and Portugal, were dis patched, via Southampton, by the Royal Tar, on the morn ing of the 7th instant (yesterday morning). The next mails will be dispatched on the morning of the 17th. West Indies—The next mails for the British and Foreign Colonies, in the West Indies (except Honduras and Ha vannli) and for Bermuda, Madeira, Venezuela, San Juan de Nicaragua, and New Granada, will be dispatched rid Southampton, by the Tay steamer, on the morning of the 17th instant. America—The next ma il s for the United States, Halifax, and British North Ame r i ca , w il l b e dispatched on the evening ' of the 18th instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres--The next mails for Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, &c., will be dispatched. on the Ist of September. Her Majesty's brig Swift was ex pected to sail from Falm iuth on the arrival of the mail of the evening of the sth instant. From August to January in clusive the packet touches at Pernambuco and B a hi a , on h er ou tward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward passage. sydney and New South Wales—The neat mails for Australia, Sydney, and New South Wales, will be dispatched on the eveni, g of the 3 lst instant. __ Ho'hind—The oc,an fi:r the mails of the morning of the Bth inst:int. lianillurtzh—The Princess Royal for the mails of the even ing of the 7th inst. ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON AND HASTINGS RAIL wAY.—On Wednesday afternoon, as the two o'clock train from Briahton to Hastings was on its way, and when about a mile from the Polegate station (the line being at that part in a cutting), the engine and tender ran off the rails, drawing after them a third and first-class carriage. *The passengers were greats- alarmed, but, fortunately, no one was seriously injured. Mr. Clement, of Hastings, sustained a slight con tusion on the mouth, and a porter of the company had his knee slightly hurt, but beyond this no one was injured. Tte train was detained two hours before the engine and carriages could be again placed on the line. It then proceeded to its destination. With t: is exception the traffic was not inter rupted. The accident was caused by the sinking of the line at that spot, in consequence of the late rains. This has since been repaired. SUSPECTED MURDER.— NEWCASTLE ON -TINE, WED NESDAY NlGHT.—Three men, named Thoburn, Bell, and Douglas, and a girl named Ann M'Cartnev, havincs been apprehended, charged with being concerned in the murder of Mr. Robert Lowthin, late registrar of births, marriages, and deaths for the Gateshead district, and whose body was recently found in the river Tyne, under extraordinary cir cumstances. M'Cartney was first taken into custody, it having been ascertained that she was one of two girls with whom the deceased was seen on the night on which his death occurred. Immediately on her apprehension she made a confession, the full extent of which has not been allowed to be made public. Her statements implicated the three men, the first of whom surrendered to the police 'yes terday, and the others this morning. Thoburn, as soon as taken to the police-station, made a confession to the in spector present, in which he unreservedly admits that he and the other prisoners are guilty of robbing the person of the unfortunate deceased. but he as strongly denies all knowledge of the way in which the unfortunate man came to his death. His fellow-prisoners admit the accuracy of the confession, the substance of which is, that late in the night in question the prisoners were in the company of the deceased, whom they found insensible in the streets. They contrived to rob him of his watch and money, to an amount exceeding 51., and left him, they say, under one of the sheds which stand on the quay here. Of his further pro ceedings, or how he came into the Tyne, they profess them selVes ignorant. The deceased's watch has been recovered, and the police are busily endeavouring to elucidate still further this mysterious affair, which is causing great excite ment in this town and neighbourhood. SALE OF GREEK AND ROMAN COINS.—On Thursday sale of Greek and lioman coins, which has lasted 11 days, the property of Cavaliere John Peter Campana, of Rome, from which city they were brought for sale in this country, was concluded at the auction-rooms of Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, Wellington-street, Strand, many of which fetched high prices. They belonged to the circulating medium of almost all the periods of the existence of those empires, many of which have been bought for the British Museum, while agents attended from France, Italy, and other parts, to purchase. There were 1,538 lots, the sums at which some of them went for being as follows :—A bronze medallioH of Annius Verus et Gommoclus, of which there was only an other specimen known, and which is in the Bibliotheque Royal at Paris, 36/. ; a ditto of Hadrianus, 30/. ; a small gold coin of Platina, on the reverse was the laureated head of her husband. 20/. 10s. ; a ditto of Domitian, with the head of the Empress on the obverse, a most rare coin of the Empress, of which there are only three known, 271.; a large brass coin of ditto, of which only two are ex tant, 161.; a middle brass of ditto, 10/. 9s. sd. ; a bronze me dallion of Geta, on the reverse the Emperor standing in the midst of five military standards, from the Gabeleur collec• tion, 13/. • a bronze ditto of Faustina, sen., one of her most rare medallions, 10/. ; a large brass coin of Hadrianus, re. lating to Britain, on the reverse the Emperor on horseback, addressing the British 3 soldiers, 14/. 14s. ; a small silver coin of Claudius Macer, the head of Africa on the obverse, on the reverse the Roman legionary eagle between two military standards, 91. 12s. 6d.; a gold coin of Sextus Pompelius, on the obverse the head of the Emperor encircled by a garland of oak, on the reverse the head of Pompey the Great, and Cneius Pompey, his eldest son, 121. 10s. ; a large brass coin of Caligula, on the reverse the Emperor is addressing five soldiers, 101.; a large brass ditto of Marcus Aurelius, on the obverse the Emperor on the eagle, going to Olympus, &c., 9/. 12s. • a small silver coin of the Brutii, their caps orna mented with laurel leaf, Cl., &c. The entire property realised above 3,000/. _ FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about half past six o'clock, a number of printing machine boys (belonging to the Times) proceeded as usual to bathe in the Thames, near Paul's Wharf, when otie of them, a youth nearly 18 years of age, named William Clark, was drowned. It appears, from the statement of one of the bathers, that the unfortunate deceased was unable to swim, and was only witnessing the others while standing on the extreme edge of a coal barge lying close to Paul's Wharf. The swell of the river, caused by the passing of the Bee steam-boat, made the barge heave forward, throwing the unfortunate youth overboard; the body was picked up almost immediately, without the slightest signs of life. It being so early in the morning, the usual warm baths and other re storatives were not available. IMPERIAL PARL LAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 7. DIILILARY FLOGGING. Lord J. RUSSELL said--Sir, in rising to move the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply, I will answer those inquiries which have been made by Hon. Members with respect to corporal punishment, and in so doing, I can only generally state what is to be done by the Commander-in-Chief of the army; and before I do so, I beg to state that I wish neither to have the credit of suggesting any alteration which the Commander in-Chief has thought proper to make, nor do I wish, on the other hand, to shrink from any responsibility with regard to the limit at which the Commander-in-Chief has stopped, and has determined not to comply with what appears to be the wish amongst some —that there should be a total abolition of corporal punishment. I say, therefore, that the plan which has been at present adopted, is the plan of the Duke of Wellington, and one which he has deter mined on. He thinks, as matters stand at pre sent, corporal punishment ought not to be abolished. I have a paper here which shows what are the present regula tions with respect to corporal punishment. By the articles of r. e esvict p. eafore a pgrieral i courism artiabshese Id be ing 200 lashes ; before a garrison court-martial not exceeding 150 lashes, or before a regimental court-martial not more than hal lashes. Now, the Duke of Wellington having taken this subject into his consideration, has given directions to the officers to whom the duty appertains of ordering such corporal punishment, that by no court-martial of any kind, whether general, district, garrison, or regimental, shall any greater punishment b e i n fli c t e d th an fifty 'lashes— ( Cheers)—a very considerable diminution, which the Com mander-in-Chief has ordered with respec t to t h e army. H e has, at the same time, given special directions that every precaution should be taken in order to ascertain the state of any offender who may be sentenced to receive corporal punishment, that his health is such that he appears in so robust a state of health as to be able to bear the punishment. He has likewise directed that every other circumstance should be attended to—whether the extreme heat of the weather, or any severity in the sta . e of the weather, or any other circumstances whatever which might make the infix:ion of such punishment dangerous to the offender sentenced to receive it. Such, then, are the directions, which have been given by the Commander in -Chief, applying directly to corporal punishment. Now, S,r, I know that my Hon. Friend th e M em b er f or Bolton (Dr. Bowring) has given notice for that purpose, that corporal punishment should be at once totally abo lished.—( Hear, hear.) I think every one must desire, and I am sure the Government desire, that it may be possible to keep the army in a right state of discipline without the infliction of any corporal punishment whatever.— (Cheers.) I should be glad, for my own, part to see that day when corporal punishment shall be entirely abolished.—(Renewed cheers.) But, Sir, I do think that the maintenance of discipline in the army is a paramount object.—( Hear.) I consider that a well di sc i p li ne d soldiery is a protecti o n t o the country to which they belong —a terror to the enemy which they have to meet, and that an ill disciplined soldiery, is, on the other hand, a terror to the coun try to which they belong, and a scorn to the enemy they have to encounter.—( Hear, hear.) I, therefore, consider that the Duke of Wellington is perfectly right in making the present reduction which he has made, without taking any ulterior steps, because, if we are to look fur the abolition of corporal punishment, and at the same time to th e ma i e t enance of discipline, which I think I perceive this Ho use f ee l s as hi g hl y as I myself have just stated it—(Hear, hear)—it is only by two modes that it can be effected.—(Hear, hear.) The one is by substituting some other mod e o f p un i s h ment f or effecting a higher state of discipline than the one hitherto in operation ; and the other is, by so ehanging the moral feeling of those belonging to the army, that other motives and other modes of government would have greater effect in influencing their conduct than those now employed.—( Hear, hear. ) To both these objects have the attention of those connected with the management of the army been from time to time directed. 'Pile commanding officers of the army have had the subject under their consideration— both Lord Hill arid the Duke of Wellington. The various Secretaries at War have ale, had their attention called to the question—Lord Howick, Mr. Macaulay. Mr. Sidney Herbert, and ,the present Right Hon. Gentleman who occupies that office. With respect to other kinds of punishment, the subject was fully considered by the Commission which sat on the question in 1835. Different modes were then suggested both with regard to military prisons and solitary confinement ; for great advances have since then been made in carrying out the recommenda tion of that Commission. A considerable number of prisons have been constructed, others are in progress ; besides, altera tions in several prisons ere proposed, in order to make them available for the purposes suggested. But as yet the system is nut in complete operation. I have in my possession several ac counts of the new prisons in progress, in order to give effect to punishment by means of imprisonment. New prisons are erecting in Dubl.n and Cork. In Canada the military prisons are in progress, but as yet they are not in a complete state. In Gibraltar and the lonian Islands new prisons are to be coo structed. For Nova Scotia plans for a new prison have been submitted, and for the West Indies the officers of the army have the subject under consideration with the object of erect ing a prison, so far the suggestions of the commissioners have been carried into effect. With regard to cells for the purpose of short terms of imprisonment the subject has been under the consideration of an old friend of mine ; and he has proposed a plan upon the subject. The late Government had also en gaged the services of Major Jeff on this subject. A number of cells have been constructed, the result of these deliberations, but the system is in its greatest features as yet but new, and but partially introduced. With regard to the extent to which corporal punishment has been carried out, I am happy to be enabled to say that this mode of punishment has b e en considerably diminished of late, in consequence of other modes of punishment being car ried into effect. The returns I have in my possession will show the extent to which this diminution has taken place. The returns are from 1838 till now : CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN TIIE ARMY IN PROPORTION TO THE WIIOLE OF THE FORCE. In 1838 1 in 108 In 1e42 1 in 140 In 1839 1 in 122 In 1843 1 in 194 In 1840 1 in 129 In 1844 1 in 194 In 1841 1 is 126 In 1845 1 in 189 The ratio, therefore, is, that about one man in every 190 receives corporal punishment in the course of the year. Now, if any one can consider and reflect what was the state of corporal punishment in the army formerly, they cannot but that even the number of lashes, h a s been greatly diminished. that the number of persons receiving punishment, and With regard to the second mode which I havestated, by which corporalpunishment may be reduced, and may at length altogether be abolished in practice, is by the improvement of the moral condition of the soldier, and making him of an offence more than the reflection of the punishment— ( latethe first yearsiof .changes h a lli v a e a t r a' kheenar)p—lacaeadoirfear the commission great number of rewards have been distributed for good con. duct, and more frequent commissions in the army have been bestowed upon private soldiers. Between the 31st of December and the present time, no less than thirteen commissions . have Leen given to private soldiers.—( Hear, hear.) With 'laCietha greatthisoab?jemcbt number view. A re spect to the improvement of their minds, my . Hon. Friend . stated the pains which had been taken to establish libraries in the United Kingdom. No less than 500 libraries have been established, containing no less than 60,000 volumes. The late Secretary at War was the proposer of this plan, and an excelreet one it is; and I consider that the effect of such institutions libraries, containing well-selected works—must have a most beneficial effect upon young men going into the army. When I was at the head of the Chelsea establishment, I found that the men were constantly at the public houses, and I therefore proposed that they should have certain small gardens allotted upon which they could employ themselves. I have just heard that the plan has proved most successful, yet when I proposed the plan I was told that I did not under stand the character of the British soldier, and it was prophesied that the plan would never succeed.—(Hear, hear.) Why, if you encourage t'ne soldier in idleness he will always he idle, while, if you give him sources of occupation and amusement, you will find that he becomes a better soldier and a mote contented man.--(Hear.) At the same time that I was at the head of the Chelsea establish ment, I advocated the establishment of savings' banks, bet the officers of the army strongly objected to it, and in one in stance returned the money deposited in one of the banks, with an intimation that it might be spent as the owners thought proper. At present, however, he was glad to say there was a strong disposition for encouraging soldiers to deposit their money in savings' banks.—( Hear, hear.) That subject has occupied the attention of Government and the Commander for some weeks, with a view of devising some great plan upon the subject, and it will continue to occupy the attention of those connected with the Government with the view of maintainir g discipline in the army. arid at the same time diminishing, as far as possible, the necessity for corporal punishment.—(Hear. ) Sir, I trust I have now said enough to induce my Honourable Friend the Member fur Bolton to postpone his motion, of which he has given notice—(Dr. Bowring shook his head. ) lam sorry to see that he makes a sign that he does not assent to my proposal, and I must therefore go on to make one or two statements with regard to this subject which I think merit the attention of the House. In the early part of 1835, there was a Commission ap pointed upon this subject. It consisted of Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Sandon, Sir W. J. Heath, Mr. Tufnell, Colonel Bar, and Sir John Ross. This Commission, after examining a great many witnesses, from the highest officers down to the private in the guards, came to the conclusion that corporal punishment could not be abolished immediately.—( Hear.) The fourth resolution is, that even supposing that some effectual substitute might be devised, it is not desirable that it should be entirely abolished. Such is the opinion given by men of considerable authority, anti men who were members of t hat Committee, some of them military authorities and of consi derable military repute. Sir, a number of military authorities have proceeded upon that opinion, to endeavour as much as pos sible to reduce the amount of corporal punishment—(Hear, hear}—and to substitute other punshments in its place.— ( Hear, hear.) I consider that this House ought not, at the end of a session, suddenly to propose, on an occasion that would scarcely warrant a material alteration of the law—that this House ought not at the end of a session, I say, to carry any resolution by which the whole system of military discipline would be altered—(Hear, bear) and the confidence of the army in general, both of those military authorities which are placed over them and of the soldiers, and pt ople would be materially shaken.—( Hear, hear.) I cannot but think, even if my Hon. Friend professes no confidence in the designs, and de sires, and intentions of the present Government— if that is his statement, that he does not believe what I say, that we wish to see this system of punishment re tained only as long as it is absolutely necessary—even if he does not give credit to that statement, I think it is due to the illus• trious man now at the head of the army of this country to rest satisfied with the orders he has now given, showing, as those orders do, the utmost desire to consider both the benefit of the army, and that which is due to humanity upon this question.—( Hear, hear.) Even omitting any reference to the glorious achievements of that chief in the space of 60 years, I think, spent in the army, and in every position of that army— (Cheers)—from serving in the lowest ranks up to the eminent station to which he has now attained ; the experience he has had in the command of the armies, in the field and at borne—the knowledge that he has had of the modes of liscipline pursued in other armies, I think has entitled him to the confidence of the House with respect to the mode in which he proposes to carry on the discipline of the army. —( Hear, hear.) For my part, I tell you now, as I told you at the beginning, that these ate the views the Commander in-Chief takes, and in which the Government entirely concur with the Commander-in-Chief.--( Hear.) I ask this House therefore to pause before they adopt an inconside rate resolution.-- ( Hear, hear.) I ask them to rest satisfied with what has been done, and allow this useful progress to continue, and if they wish not to mar the fair work that has been commenced, to abstain from interposing a resolution to this House in the way that the Hon. and Learned Member proposes.—( Cheers. ) Dr. BOW RING said that he had seldom risen impressed with emotions of a more painful nature than he did at the present time. He was sure that every Honourable Member could with him bear witness to the tone and temper in which the Noble Lord who had just sat down had addressed the House. It was to him a matter of great disappointment that the Noble Lord had come to the conclusion which he had done upon the subject. He did hope that under the influence of public opinion, which had removed such masses of abominations connected with military flogging associated with their past mi litary history—he did hope that public opinion, again called into energy and again reaching every bosom, would have so influenced the Government as to persuade it that a total abo lition of the system of military flogging can be safely delayed nolonger, and that the country must get rid of it at once— not a fragment, not a vestige, not a modification of them must be left; but that the House was bound tc consider what measures are necessary for the constitution, of the army, and for the preservation of its discipline, always bearing in view that the lash is no longer to be put in the hands of the flogger —(Citeers. ) When he considered the illustrious names con nected with the modification of flogging in the army, and who had from time to -time made such progress in benevolent feelings, with such kindness, such wisdom, arid such eloquence, he could not but feel that the present subject had fallen into feeble hands. After all, there was only one single word—one single argument brought forward—the argument. of necessity. This is an argument which has always been put forward in alt times by tyrants of all nations ;.from the earliest period of their history it had always been trought forward in support of the lash. Torquemiuto, when he burnt his thousands—the monsters of the inquisition calmed their consciences by the belief that necessity demanded the frightful outrane—slavery At' noooscitv ft igged through the fleet, and 1,500 ashes wire laid upon the back of the sufferers, necessity was then put forward as the plea of justification. The plea of !le es ssity had justified everything which had been dune by tyrants in every age—everything which had been done by the rack, by the torture, by the galley, and by the guillotine ; but he hoped to show before he sat down that necessity did not justify the retention of any portion of this abominable system of flogging, and that the time had arrived when Parliament was baund unequivocally to declare that, whatever be the substitute, mili tary flagging was no longer to be endured.—( Cheers.) It was delightful to witness in the present day the progress of humanity with reference to this subject. Time was, when in their West Indian colonies, the slaves had the lash laid upon their backs without mercy and without responsibility. Their condition was much worse than the domestic slavery of the Roman times. Education had since, however, exerted a hunanising influence. Flogging had been gradually driven away from their schools. ( Laughter.) He thought that the time was now come when a humane discipline should characterise their military code. In a book lately published by the son of Dr. Ferguson, the Inspector-General of military hospitals, the following description of the barbarous system was given. ( The Hon. Member here read an extract, from which it appeared that a soldier belonging to the sth Regiment had broken into the house of a person. living in Sussex, and had been sentenced to be flogged for the offence. When stripped he exhibited the finest model of the human frame that could possibly be conceived, and when tied up he told the drummer boys to do their worst, for they should not extract a sigh or groan from him. After receiving 770 lashes, though not a word hut one of defiance and abase had escaped his lips, nature failed him, and he was ordered to be taken down. After a few weeks he was reported cured, and the Colonel determiued to inflict the remainder of the punish ment. He was again brought out and tied up. But it was not now as before. At the very first lash the new and scarcely formed skin wee torn to tatters, the scarcely cicatrised wounds were again torn open, and soon the whole of the integuments of the back were torn to ribbons and screams, shrieks, and all the other signs of writhing agony were called forth at every stroke of the cat. The second cure was not as !secure. When the author left the regiment on promotion a few months afterwards, he left a poor hectic wretch in the hospi tal, creeping about with his back not healed, as before, for healthy suppuration could not be obtained, but extensive sloughings had taken place, and abscesses in various paris had been formed, which could not be healed. ) He would now read an extract from Marshall's " Military Mis cellany," which comprised the statement of an efficer who hal himself formerly been a drummer. He stated that for eight years it had been his miserable duty to inflict the punishment of flogging three times a week, and that after the first 100 lashes, the suffering was extreme. and that after 300 lashes, his clothes were saturated with blood, and he would run to the barracks to escape the sight of his comrades, and to divest himself of the pollution of his fellow soldier's blood. That frequently he has picked pieces of skin and flesh from his clothes, which had been torn from the poor sufferer's back. A late friend of his, Mr. Jeremy Bentham, suffered much from this proximity to the flogging yard, and used to tell him that he was tortured by the shrieks of agony he used to hear from the suffering soldiers. One of the severest operations in surgery was the operation fur stone, and when skilfully performed, lasted only a few minutes; and it had been said that each lash was equal to the incision of the skin in that operation ; 50 lashes were then to be retained—the soldier was to be subjected to a punishment equal to 50 incisions. The extent of the punishment could not be measured, as its operation would be different, according to the different temperament, and that which might kill one, might be endured by another safely. There was one instance in which a soldier, in the course of his service, had received no less than 15,000 lashes. Mr. Slade, when examined before a Committee on the subject of transportation, had also given evidence as to the uncertainty of the punish ment, and its variation under different circumstances. That man said that when punishments were administered by ' others who were liable to be bribed, the scourger inflicted the blows so they merely seemed to take effect, bnt when it was administered under his superintendence, the skin was cut by four lashes. That same man said he ordered-that the handle should be two feet long.—( Cries from several Members, " Who ?) He meant Dr. Slade, who had charge of the flog ging department. There were five lashes of whipcord, and on each lash six or seven knots. That person said he stood by and saw- the punishment inflicted himself ; and when the scourger did not do his duty, he adopted the system existing in her Majesty's army, and had the scourgers tied up themselves. He said further that he found twenty-five lashes under his superintendence were worth one thousand administered by others. An eye-witness of one of these disgusting scenes, reports concerning a drummer in the Coldstream Guards that he stood weeping, unnerved, and unable to strike with vigour during all the time of his 25 lashes, and behind him stood the drum-major with his cane, urging him to proceed. In the late case which had excited so much attention, the farrier major said, on the inquiry, that he had no instructio- s how or where to strike, and that he struck where he thought best ; so that it seemed there was no law to limit them in the adminis. tration of this punishment just in those particulars where the greatest injustice could be done; it was lest to individual taste, or caprice, or malignity. It put him in mind of a case which he (Dr. Bowring) witnessed in France. A convict condemned to be branded, happened on his way out of prison to trample on the font of the executioner. The executioner looked at the prisoner and said " I'll pay you out for this," and on reaching the scene of punishment, lifted the branding iron, put it into the fire till it was red hot, and pressed it into the victim's forehead till it met the bone. He said he had several recorded cages which tended to illustrate the effect of the proposal before the House. The first was the case of one Edwards, sentenced to 59 lashes—SO lashes, he must remind the House —the number proposed to be retained by the Noble Lord. That Klan was sentenced and received 50 lashes, but such was the effect on him that he could not bear his cross Celts or use his arms for three months after. He was a tall, gt nteel looking, slender young mar,. There was another case of a man named Henly who suffered 200 lashes, and who was upwards of seven months before he recovered. The drum-major who witnessed the execution of the sentence of flogging on a private, struck the drummer to the ground for not performing his duty. He saw the man who was being flogged fall to the ground, and he died in eight months after in the infirmary, from mortification. Now, suppose the presence of a medical man was some security in this case, what' said Dr. Marshall on the subject. He said, " Such men were placed in a very unjust position, because obviously it was impossible, from the naiure of the punish ment, and the uncertain circumstances of the sufferer, for a medical tnan to be held responsible for the consequences; climate, the physical and mental state of the patient's body, and the other circumstances to be considered, rendered it im possible for the most skilful to be accountable." Inflam mation of the back, notwithstanding the greatest diligence and attention on the pa of the medical man, might lead to fatal consequences. Now what was the position of the me dical man in that case ? Why, in Fonblanque's book on that subject, it was held, "that a medical man who is present at an execution of this nature, is held responsible for life." Now this is legally untrue, and physically impossible. This was a criterion that enabled him to judge fully on the subject. The same doctrine was laid down by another eminent authority. Some officers were dis posed to deal leniently, but there were others who were bold and reckless, and who, unfortunately for human nature, looked on human suffering without any sympathy or care. Dr. Mark ham, on the subject of corporal punishment, said that in the army the suggestions of the surgeons were often neglected. lie stated that in an island in the West Indies a man was, on an occasion he referred to, condemned to receive 500 lashes. When he had received 250 lashes the doctor ordered the punishment to be stayed, but the officer in command ordered the punishment to go on, reprimanded the surgeon for stopping the progress of the punishment, and placed him under arrest. The surgeon was only released after an appeal to the general officer, and after he had been in custody for ten days. Sir Charles Grey, late a Member of that House, said the medical art, which was ene of the most useful and en nobling professions, was, in the present application of it in the army, degraded. Medical men were called on to determine the extreme limits of human suffering, and te decide what amount of punishment could be endured without exhausted na ture sinking under the infliction. The late Sir Samuel Rornilly, in speaking on this question, said, the surgeon had to determine the extreme verge of human resistance under punish ment. The surgeon had to feel the pulse of the victim, and to declare when he considered exhausted nature could no more resist the punishment, and was only permitted to take the poor wretch from the halberts when the soul was about to take it, de parture from the lacerated body.—( Hear, hear.) He would not go at any length into the case which had occupied the at , tion of the publie so much of late, if not their indignation. That case had, no doubt, been the main cause of the changes that were now proposed. He believed that the colonel of the regiment was an average sample of the gallant officers in the army, and what did he say on the subject of floggin g ? He supported it, because , according to hi s o wn words:le had, when a boy, received a " Devilish good flogging." Such were the words attributed to him, which he believed to be correctly reported ; at least, this expression had not been denied by . the gallant officer. During the whole progress of the investiga tion, the subject of corporal punishment was talked of very lightly indeed. He observed a very considerable differ ence in the army. He found one stating that the punishment was inflicted in the usual manner, and another saying that such was not the fact. He did not doubt that the death of White would lead to the entire abolition of the punishment of flogging in the army. He woulii read for them the verdict of a British jury on the late inquest. The Hon. Member then read the verdict. This matter of flogging might be summed up in a few words. A man was put to death who was not condemned to death.— ( Hear, heir.) The British Parliament could not pass over this ease quietly. Now these other cases had occurred within the last few days, and he held in his hand an account of the flogging of two men at Devonpert. Now if this system could be defended, it must be because it produced good effects. But gofer from this being the case, all authorities concured in the opinion that its results were most degrading, deplorable, and ineffective Mr. 51 - Pherson of the 9th Foot, says, " After the experience of thirty-one years, in which I have been called upon to witness many scenes of military flogging, I have no hesitation in saying that. I never knew a single instance of a bad character being reformed by it, and beg to express my firm belief that any mode of punishment is better than corporal punishment." And what said Dr. Vvse on the subject, "The lash used judicially, is a virulous thing; self-exposure is the loss and the ruin of many a man ; it has destroyed many gallant spirits, but it has reformed none. The heart which might have been contrite before this public disgrace will be contrite no longer. A spirit of malig nity and disaffection takes the place of subordination. The man feels he has been disgraced before his comrades. Flog ging makes the youthful man a coward, and renders him more reckless in his conduct. The system of flogging should he ex punged from the rules of the army; if that were done it would soon be seen that this mode of castigation was productive of no benefit." Sir Charles Brookes says, " I have seen many hundred men flogged, and I have seen when the skin is thoroughly cut up and completely flayed off. that the great pain subsides, and the poor man bears the re mainder of his sentence without a groan. They lie motion less, as if they were without life, and the drummers continue to ply as though they were flogging a lump of dead flesh. The soldiers look on with disgust—a low whispering sound, scarcely audible, is heard issuing from the scene—sounds which rise from lips which speak not, but produced by " hearts which feel !'" Now, continued the Hon. Member, was that a state of things to be encouraged, and to be allowed to exist in the army. In " The Sketches and Tales of a Soldier's Life," there was this passage :—" I have known," says the old sol dier, " whole regiments demoralised by this system of flogging, in a particular corps which came under my observation, and which, for some time, bore the nickname of ' the bloody regi ment.' " The consequence was, that all sense of shame was lost among the men. One blackguard used to make it his boast that he had received 1,000 lashes upon the back, upon the calves of his legs, and in the fleshy parts of his thighs ; and he who could boast the greatest number of lashes considered him self the most honourable soldier. "—( Laughter.) If such be the effect upon the spectators, and if this be•the effect on the suf ferers, could any other conclusion be come to than that it tended to cause the brutalisation of their army? qe had heard it remarked that the French drummer had a bold dignified air, and presented a very marked contrast to the English drummer, who was called upon to inflict that punishment. He had received several touching letters from private soldiers, expressing a strong feeling of disgust against the system. He had also received commu nications from officers to this effect That blessed would be the day when this punishment would be taken out of their hands " One old Belcher said. " Give us the punishment of death in addition to that of flogging, for by giving greater ;„11;,,ticii of this punishment." Lord W. Bentinck, whose opinion was highly creditable to him, said " that in proportion as corporal punishment was diminished, and as the soldier was treated more like a rational being than a brute, his own pre judices as to flogging had given way." Sir C. Napier had given a similar opinion, and stated that if minor rewards were substituted corporal punishment might be abolished." This system of tinging, which was so much cherished by their country, had been ahandoned by all the civilised countries of Europe, and he was bound to ask if there was something so base and brutal its British blood that it was only by such treat ment that British soldiers could be subjected to proper discipline? The number of the French army was 317 675, while only 4,367 were punished, being lin 70. Out of this army of nearly 320,000 men, there were only 102 condemned to death, and of these only five were executed, and all these five had committed murder, and would have died by the civil law of England. The whole of the punishments in that army were I 2,028; of these 243 were punished with labour, 220 were punished with hard labour, 419 were sent to the public works, and four were fined. The number of punishments in the Fret ch army averaged only one per cent., while in the British army the floggings were one per cent., and the general punishments were eight per cent., thus giving an average of nine to one against the British army. This was according to the reports of 1834. In the American army, according to the work of Dr. Southey, in Esprela's Letters, among a people of similar charac ter and blood to of rselves, flogging had been abolished thirty years ago, and it was evident that public opinion would soon put an end to it in this country. The punishment might be pro longed service, diminished pension, or severe imprisonment— anything but this brutality. The press had lent invaluable aid to the destruction of this intolerable abuse and abomination. Even the most strenuous Conservatives had agreed that flogging must be abolished in the British army. If a better class of men were desirable for the army, let them be obtained; let an army be obtained which would not require the aid of such brutal inflictions. Let any thing be done to save the country from the imputation of this abomination. It was satisfactory to hear that the flogging was now in the pro portion of Ito 19.) of the number of the army. In 1826 and 1827 it was as one in 50. The punishments now inflicted were of a lighter character, and yet the condition of the army was more satisfactory. This punishment was also more on the decrease in the Colonies, anti yet was the army in the Colonies less efficient. Dr. Ferguson said that within the last half century the lash was in universal requisition ; it was supposed that the whip-cord formed the soldier, The result was that the British soldier was, when discharged, a ruffian—than whom no one more dangerous could be received into the bosom of the country. The experiment of diminished punishment was at length tried, and the public opinion was brought to bear on its cruelty. The lash was diminished and the result was a tenfuld better condition of the army. He could not but believe that the Noble Lord had been temporarily overruled ; and with regard to any opposition he might have met with at the Horse Guards, he hoped that the Noble Duke, having made so great a coneeesion to the public, would at length abolish the small remnant of the evil. The cfficers who inflicted these punish ments were not themselves visited by it. Scenes of drunkenness were not uncommon amongst them, and yet whet was called their human weakness was visited upon the rank and file by the lash. He would ask th a t, w i t h out reserve and hesitation, the House would agree with him in the resolution that flogging should be now once and f or ever abolished.--( Cheers. ) - Mr. H. BERKELEY, in seconding the motion, said that it was not without some hesitation he consented te do so. When a civilian rose on a question I.ke the present he generally met that kind of derision and sneering which had marked this ques tion from its commencement. He now rejoiced to find that it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to take up this subject, and that the edict for the modification of punish ment had gone forth front head-quarters. When he turned to the debates which had taken place on this subject, he found the same remarkable feature which was to be observed in debates on all questions of reform, viz., argument met by dictatorial assertions, which carried with it the majority. He could see no difference in the ancient evil of the torture and the present system of flogging, except that one was inflicted as a punishment and the torture was inflicted for the purpose of forcing the truth from a witness. He thought that the torture of the steel boot, with its horrible wedges, had a fair rival in the modern infliction of the lash. When it was proposed to do away with the torture it was slid that law and justice would be done away with, and in the present age it was said that the army could not be ruled without the lash. It was well known that in different institu tions different punishments existed, and would any man say that the gallant French army was not as well disciplined as our own ? He thought that there was too much distance placed between the private and the officer in the English army. He might say in the words of the bard of Elizabeth, That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy." In the English army a man was thought to be a man of honour and any officer who received a blow was considered to be so degraded that he must either lose his commi s sion or w i pe out the insult by a bloody r eme dy. A private soldier they allowed might be a man of h onour, and yet he was compelled to re ceive any number of blows. That man might afterwards, by some fortuitous cir cums t ances, rise to a commission, andY having been flogged as ithout mercy while a private soldier, a blow inflicted upon him as an _officer was considered as a gross and glaring ins u l t upon him. He objected to the lash, because he believed the lash to a man not perfectly vicious was demo ralking, and ,to a man perfectly vicious it was, he feared, of little or no use. Colonel PEEL said his own opinion, acquired duringsevere years' servi ce i n some of the best disciplined regiments, was that corporal punishments were absolutely necessary, The power of inflicting it was necessary for colonels of regiments, who Were Obliged to retain in their regiments men of the worst possible characters. With regard to what had latch- taken place at Hounslow, it was, he thought, most unfair to attempt to attach a stigma to individuals in consequence of the inflic tion of these punishments unless it could be proved that they had exceeded their duty. From the moment that the first ac count of that flogging appeared in the papers, Colonel Whyte was assailed by every abuse that calumny could invent or false hood furnish. Colonel Whyte h, d little more to do with the punishment of that unfortunate man than he ( Colonel Peel) had, and he certainly had as little power to remit the sentence, or any part of it. From the moment the case was before the Horse Guards it was entirely taken out of his hands; and had the commanding officer been absent the witnessing of the idles tion of the petits/mimes steels! have devolved au seteeteels vials and would have proceeded precisely in the same manner. With reference to the said case of punishment, the statement that a man had been flogged for saying " hollo" to his sergeant had never been contradicted, and he would undertake to con tradict it. The man had p rev i ous ly b een con fi ne d for misconduct, and had been warned against a repetition. His answer to the ser. geant was in an insolent tone, and it was well known that a man might be insubordinate and insolent without saying a word. It was for this insubordination that the man was punished, and th a t p un i s h men t was necessar y to keep up the discipline of the army. Mr. WILLIAMS said, he heard the statements of the . Noble Lord with grea t regre t, an d h e was sorr y that he should have taken shelter behind the back of the Commander-in- Chief. The Duke of Wellington had not the power to apply the lash to the back of a soloier any more than the merest corporal in the army. The power was vested in the Queen, and given to her expressly by Parliament, with the strict pro. vino that it should not affect life and limb. It was most unjust to throw the responsibility u p on th e D u k e o f W e lli n gton. It lay entirely with her Majesty's Ministers and advisers. They d ought to have a definiti on o f th e ca t- o '- n i ne -t a il s , f or they had it in evidence before them that fifty lashes were equal to one hundred , and wherefore would be the use of limiting the nolo; ber, when the mode of giving the punishment could be varied almost illimitably ? There ought to be a responsibility some" where for the death of the man. The law did not allow that life or imb should be affected ; but was that carried out? No; and if there was a responsibility laid upon some pers°°, it would go far to remove th e d angers o f t h e i n fli c tion of this punishment, if it was still to be continued.--( Hear, hear.) Napoleon was as good a soldier as the Duke of Wei' lington, and he abolished the punishment of flogging. AN Hoer. MEMBER---No, no. It was the Convention. Mr. WILLIA US—Well, the Prussian army does not alloy; this punishment ; it does not exist in the French army. and where can yon tied better armies in the world ? near; hear.) There was a frightful power also vested in captains 0 ' ships, who could give forty-eight laehes, a number which is the navy fully equalled one hundred in the army. It was not to be endur e d th at th e pun i s h ment s h ould be continued, air he called upon h er M a j esty ' s G overnment to reconsider their determination. Captain LAYARD said that he was not disappointed i° the course adopted by the Government, and he rejoiced that the principle had beer. s o f u lly recogn i se d t h at corpora l puni sh" ment might be wholly done away with. He formerly was sn advocate of corporal punishment in the army, but he ha d changed his opinion even long before it was at all populer t° attempt to meddle with the discipline of the army. But he now believed that public opinion had now set in so strongll that it would be impossible to stem the time. He was coo" vineed that her Majesty's Ministers had used great exertion s to introduce this change among the heads of the army. Mr. FOX MAUL E— Oh no, no, by no means. Captain L &YARD —Well, it seemed that it was not so, but he would say that it was a very late conversion. If h e were private soldier he would much rather be shot than fiegged.--• ( Hear, hear.) (Mr. Fox Maule shook his head.) The Hon. Member shakes his head. Good God 1 would it not be muc h , better ? who would not p re f er t o b e s h ot t h roug h t h e head than be flogged and die in a week? The - Hon. Member the n adverted to the fast th a t flogging had been abolished in Ind i a under Lord W. Bentinck. An Hoer. 111Emnisit —Oh, it has been restored. Captain LAYA RD was sorry to hear it, but it was an answer f to the objection th a t th e y cou ld not restore the punishment ' they once al olished it.—( Hear, hear ) He was convinced s that the army could not b e h e ld toget h er i f they continued the system. Twenty lashes was the utmost that could be given ju the Russian army. Lord J. RUSSELL—On what authority do you state that it is authentic? Captain LAYARD—He could assure the Noble Lord tha t • he would not bring an ythi ng b e f ore th e H ouse w hi c h was n e t so. He held in his hand the testimony of Dr. Marshall, fa te the truth of his assertion, and the fact was very well knovrni (Hear, hear .) A n d th e y were i n E ng l an d engage d a t that a moment discussing the cl emenc y w hi c h re d uce d t h e puniso_ merit from 150 la s h es t o 50—(H ear, h ear, an d c h eer ing); when in Russia there could only be twenty lashes inflicte2 and that as a maximum of purishment. The Honoura ble Member then read an anecdote of a soldier, who, being CO i : demised to death f or a mut i ny, o b ta i ne d l eave of his comm and ing-officer to ge to Glasgow to transact SOT e private busines, and gave himself u p a t th e en d o f t h e t i me to meet hi s fate . o The man w as no t execu t e d, t h e l ot o f d eat h h av i ng fallen one of his comrades. Th e H on . M em b er t h en rea d several ttat tracts to prove that it was impossible for the med ic man to be certain i n hi s opinion, or answerable the for . lite of a man who should only receive fifty lashes. The o°° Member also read an opinion from Sir John Cam Hohholl: in 1827, in whi c h h e sa id th a t fl ogg i ng oug h t to b e a b o lish ing and that the cus t om ren d ere d our army, i nstea d of b e n t " before, second to the French. The principle of en listre e r ought to be changed, and if it was so they would have n° cessity to continue corporal punishment. lgoble Mr. NEVILLE h a d li s t ene d to t h e speec h of the if Lord at the h ea d o f th e G overnment upon this subject, 01 he might be allowed to make a remark upon it, he woo' , :0 0. that he was sorry it h a d not gone f urt h er i n t h e r i g htclirer', die e When he heard so mu c h laid upon the condition of the 0' the he could not refrain calling the attention of the .House t O cr bs case of the military k n i g h ts o f Wi n d sor, w h om h e the is were not sufficiently cared for by the Government of s" country. Colonel REID said that he could not shrink from the b e formance of a public duty on th e present occas ion ; tba s served in her M a j es ty' s army f or t hi rty years , and se to nothing but an imperative sense of duty had induced moles.' come to the c inclusion that- at th e p resen t moment corp o li. punishment could not be done away with in the army . thought that diff eren t d egrees of crime deserved different the grees of punishme n t, an d th e so ldi er w h o could rob fro m box of his comrade, who slept near him, deserved greater puni,hmsnt than the man who had been guilty of nothing mot: th e than a mere neglect of duty. Punishment by flogging of army had the effect also of preventing the commission o among the other soldiers of the regiment. Imprisonment t 3 0 ', reliefno pu ncrioshmmtehnetiratal duties;lit was t looked hadno u t po t n he by sa t m he e men effen t as n a po s n o tLO, 4 individual as upon that of the civilian; corporal punishment_ . 1 ! on account o the contrary had f th e a physicalmoral i e e ff fl e i c e t t , i e a e n . and theHe badthought soldier it v f e e r a y re e d u i; to inflame the public mind upon this subject , and lead t heta with away by false statements of the abhoretice and disgust m which soldiers viewed the infliction of corporal punishment. r - that. i.. di, di my a system was pursued • some years since, by which the soldiers themselves held a court-martial on any man who might have committed any action that was considered disreputable to the regiment, and had power to inflict a corporal punishment on the offender . In the regiment t o w hi c h h e b e l onge d ( on e of the regimen t ' the Hous e h o ld t roops ), b u t t wo cases o f fl ogg i ng had tatr if place fora number of years ; one of them was for theft, e:g r a the offender had been handed over to the power he would have been transported for effec t That sentence was not, however, carried into but by his consent ; he had tried to prevent the inflictio u t t he the Commander-in-Chief refused to interfere with gee , sentence. It wa s accor di ngly carried into ne:ture and since th a t ti me not a single crime of that best had taken place. (Hear, hear.) He thought the _ to y course which co u ld b e a d opted with reference to the tebem • would be to try to raise their moral position, and give„ech a the mean s o f recreation, amusement, and education. ' t he course had been p , roductive of most b ene fi c i a l resol t '" e d regiment to which he had the h onour to b e l on g. " e established lib rar i es f or t h e use of the soldiers, som,e,gn,„ ha il had had been o bt a i ne d at Windsor for their use, and but endeavoured t o es t a bli s h savings' banks in the regimen' the they had failed, because the soldiers were afraid that knowledge of th e i r sav i ngs would get to the Gover noleoa and they m i g ht then snake an attempt to reduce th eir Pi , m a With regard to the personal comfort of the soldier, he 7,10 state that he had not the common mean s of washing *nimse'y e o, he felt that he ought not to be punished if he was found hso cient in cleanli ness on parade. There w er e no less t twenty or thirty nen crowded together in the o' sleeping-room ; an d, i n a ddi t i on to the want of e soe -lea so liness which this produced, it was destructive os health.—( Hear, h ear .) Th e atmosphere of such room s positively delete r i ous , an d d ay a f ter day his heart was made 51.;it at the scenes whi c h h e w it nesse d . With regard to disc harg e e re he thought th a t so ldi ers s h ou ld o b ta i n them before they w o o worn out, and made unfit for all civil employment. It wati w ith bad, that at the en d o f th e i r serv i ce t h ey were sent away man only a pension of 6d. per day. Th ere was t h e case of ' t ea for who had serv e d 21 y ears , an d an opportunity having offe r to his obtaining a good situation, he (Col. Reid) advised 1,1 " - su b, apply for hi s di sc h arge , an d a f ter a correspondence 00 the rid ject, it was re f use d b y t h e S ecretary at War, on the greties that there was no special reasons to justify it. The situtout was afterwards fill e d u p, an d t h e man becoming invalided a joe , a year atter war d s , h e was di sc h arged with a full Pe i n b ' o es which would h ave b een avo i ded if his application h a d granted. Mr. B. OSBORNE had listened with some a li e n to the statements which had been made on this s u "ti n - Po but he could not agree in the opinion that the time had :-that when flogging should be abolished. It was not necessary t he the raw-bone style of oratory should be employed to depic t cruelties of this system. He held that the question should regarded not only as to its effect on the army, but also °v - r e ciety. He was afraid that he would not please the ad mire of William 111., w h en h e state d that the pugishment origi nat with that great commander. It had always been the custout select the l owes t gra d e o f soc i ety for the army, and t h a t beg!: so, it required them to be cautious in taking away punishment befor e th e y got t h e army recru i te d f rom a Os o a class. He objected t o th e i n t ro d uct i on o f so li tary c onfinetef into the army, as h e hid k nown severa l instances in whio,: o f had been of the greatest injury. Lord Bexley prayed the Legislature to abolish the solini c i i system in the Milbank Penitentiary, and to introtl i t corporal punishment in its stead, it h.id been found so 1 0 jurious. He would next refer to the abolition of flogging 'd the French army. It was abolished in 1794 ; but w hat h i ss been the punishments awarded in its stead ? Why, in t en t army there were forty-fivehear.) offHeencethsofuogrhwtheisoliggthine,pus:l2l:biVere..bC was death.—( Hear, better than such a state of things._( Hear, - he ' ar. ) T h i e o g was t t b h e n some best pu kind ni g h o m f einstantaneous ,nwda fiantdeccdeath punishment and , md woab common use s d aua l° o gr g:,.; :ed - a s t o h forln thetr striking gneahn officer, army the while punishmentthere o le f g th o e f the party, w i th 40 '3 t w a a c s hi c n a g li a ed ean th n e en p . u b n a hsh t m o e tnh t e which had to move about for twelve ear 1p Jere was another was his answer to the Hon. (Mr. Osborne) joined issue w the French service. T ber for Coventry. He Honourable Member that the t that did not think w o t- se epal b . ir s Far from it. Considering the privaticns so l l i d erad wtoasundere'tjee with k Member the fo r Cllpeoyoneion:juttrroayanbrir.f!We : 1121 j o b 0. great exertions, and his havin g t o l eave a lif e o f coniPtarecin tirtue for that of military strife, he thought the °- 0 0° soldier was most inadequately rewarded. He was paid I than any husbandman, and it would be impossible to r ne et. good b o d y o f so l diers until a reform was made in this r e ,„ n er , of There ought to b e every encouragement for a higher cb7r-re recruits, and for that purpose they should give h w e ig b ward. With regar d to fl ogg i ng, he agreed to some ex terl ext er.‘ the Hon. Member for Bolton, but not to the whole on. He was not for the entire abolition of flogging like th at Gentleman. He (Mr. Osborne) considered that . . 00 o f punishment should be retained, and a limited apese at i t „ she flogging was he thought best for this purpose, and such w d as an opinion of Sir Samuel Romily, who had been Olu ite qae suel authority on the other side of the question. Both Sir ow Romily and Mr. Wilberfo rce too k t h at v i ew o f the 'cal there idlers tion. It was their opinion that another party to be consulted as well as the s l ` t i the y and that was the civilian.—( Hear, hear.) What o ° u i t of think, if in the line of march the soldiers were to coin flagrant breach of discipline, and there was no instanntanonerere punishment of this kind to appeal to? He w ould, u p for existing circumstances, vote with the Hon. Member,d s till Bolton, though he thought the power of flogging s _ l t e o f 01 0 be retained on a line-of -battle march. In the eve , ' s to motion failin g , t h en h e would propose t h e motion ad laid limitation of fl ogg i ng, according to the pr i nc i p l e s he ,a down, and of which he had given notice.—( Hear.) t i o r, re- Cap , ain LA YARD offerod a few words of explar r ! .. ... ris be specting an alleged discrepancy between certain by to hail quoted from, and which had also been referred T.O 1100. Member a h n is-t addres-ed the House. Mr. FOX MAULS sa id th e H o n. Member wh o had P 4 sat down h a d ma d e a mos t conclusive speec h in favour of th e y retention of the power of inflicting corporal punishment in the hands of th e military authorities, yet he concluded eluded b ji 01 t d on daring that he would vote with the Hon. Mem ber 5 65 44 NAME OF RAILWAY. 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Gd p.--Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 245. p.-Manchester and Southampton, 7s. die.- Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 15s. dis.-North Staf fordshire, 4 p.-North western, 10s. 6d. p.-Sheffield and Lincoln, 3s. 6d. p.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 34 dis.-South Midland, 14s. p.-South Mid-and Junction, % dis.-Welsh Midland, 21s. dis.- West Riding Union, 51. 13s. 6a.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 345. dis. HULL. AUGUST 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 24--Eastern Union. 43 and Selby, Half Shares, 39—North British, Carlisle Branch, 69s.—Caledonian Extension, 1% —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 3s. 6d. dis.—Amber gate, Nottingham, and Boston, &c., 45s.—East Lincolnshire, 15s. Grand Union, 19s. 6d. —Leicester and Bedford, lls.—Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston,f3% p.—London and York, scrip, 2.,4 —Mahon and Driflield Junction, 14s. p.—North Western, Bs. p.—North Staf- fordshire, 4 p.—South Midland, 15s. p.—Sffellield and Lincolnshire Junction, 295. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 31. 63. Shropshire Union, 14s. dis.—West Riding Union, 51. 13s. 6d. SHEFFIELD, A.CGUST 7. Swot EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, Ex tension, 9s.—Ainbergate, Nottingham, and Boston, ie dis —Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, A, dis.—Manchester and Lincoln 'Union and Canal, 15s. dis.—Nottingham and IN ansfleld, 41 q p.—North Western, 9s. 6d. p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 2s. 6d. p. YORK, AUGUST 7 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2%—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2k—Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 19s. 6d.— Leicester and Bedford, 11s.—Lon don and York, 214 Dittc, Half Shares, N —Mallon and Driffleld Junction, 2N —.llanchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3% Newc ist:e ityo Berwick, 28 / 3 4 —Newcastle and Darlington, New, 12—North British, Carlisle Extension, 3% —North Western, 1% — South Midland, 2%—York and North Midland, Extension, 40—Ditto, East and West Hiding ExtenAlon, 13/. 6s. 3d. GLASGOW. AUG UST 6 rocs EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonian, New, 40s.—Calc donlan and Dumbarton,hire Junction, 255. Clydesdale Junction, 231.—Direct Northern, 48s.—Eastern, Counties, York Extension, 50s, —East of Fife, 28s.—East Indian Railway, 17s. 6d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 10%—Ditto, Newport, 24s.—Edinburgh and Perth, 60s.—Glasgow General Terminus, 9% —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 45s.—Glasgow, Kilmamoolt, and Ayr, 75 ) A —Glasgow, Dumfries., and Carlisle, 395. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 31s. —Glas gow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 46s.—Great Indian Penin sular, 7s. 6d.—Great North of India, 7s. 3d.—Kilmarnock and Ayr, 345. 9d.—Manchester and Southampton, 339.—Scottish Central, 19% --Ditto, New, 8% - Scottish Grand Junction, I Is. 9d.—South Mid land, 575. 6d.—South and Midland Junction, 25s.—Wishaw and Coltness, 47% . Mr. Villiers paired, in favour of abolition of flogging, wi Mr. Patrick Stewart, against it. SIR ROBERT FEEL AND THE SOUTHWARK ADDRESS. The following reply to the Southwark address has been re ceived by the High Bailiff from air R. Peel :-- (Copy.) Whitehall, August 3. " Sir,—l request that you will convey to the inhabitants of the borough of Southwark, who were parties to the address which vou placed in my hands, my grateful acknowledg ments for the sentiments to which they have given expression in that address. " If I have borne with equanimity the vituperation by which I have been assailed, it was because I was supported by the consciousness that in the course which I was pursuing I had no private interest to serve, no object of political am• bition to promote ; but that I was discharging an imperative duty, which, by undertaking the responsibility of a Minister, I had contracted towards the Queen and the country. "It is gratifying to me, on personal grounds to receive the assurance from i•tich a body as that from which this ad dress proceeds; that ample justice is done to the motives by which I have been influenced, and that the measures which have received the sanction of Parliament meet with their cordial approbation. "It is gratifying to me, also, on public grounds, because it is right that those who are charged with the high trust of averting impending danger from the state, and consulting its permanent interests, should be encouraged to perform their duty by the conviction that the resolute and faithful dis chaige of it will be duly appreciated by a large and intelli gent portion of their fellow-countrymen. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant, ROI3ERT PEEL." "The High Bailiff of Southwark. N C I A L INTELLIGENCE. PORTS2dOUTH, FRIDAY.--The Comet steamer, Lieutenant- Comman N dil A ig This indefatigable (finer has actually made Johnson, returned to-day d from Plymouth. two d voyages to Plymouth and back in two hours under ' tim e r a stoppage in this harbour of seven hours. aR e including traveri;ed is about 650 miles, and this has been accomitst c d e by one of the oldest steamers in the service, and one generally held to be a very slow coach. The Athol troop-ship, Master-Commanding E. Pearce,waa towed into the harbour last evening, and is to be grounded, we believe, alongside the dockyard, to have her copper ex• amined and repaired, there being no dock vacant. The slight repairs required by the royal yacht in conse quence of her late accident have been completed, and she was hauled off to the buoy opposite Clarence yard this morning, ready for her Majesty's use, should she think lit to employ her. The ships dressed in flags this afternoon at a quarter past one, and the pier at Clarence-yard has been decorated in like manner, as from the lateness of the hour at which her Majesty has appointed to arrive, it will be low water, and she will be obliged to use the barge. In Harbour—Excellent, Victory, Victoria and Albert, Nautilus, Athol, and Seaflower cutter ; Gladiator, Dasher, Comet, Fairy, aid Echo s t eamers . At Spithead—Contest and A urora , S ar di n i an corvette. 1 In Dock—Prince Regent, Leander, Cambrian, Naiad, Rattlesnake, and Rifleman. In the Basin—Neptune, Edinburgh, Penelope, Trincoma lee, and Amphitrite. •_ COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FRost OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INT LLLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Jutx 31. Eagle yawl, Clement Riding, Esq., from London ; Fair Rosamond schooner, Marquis of Blandford, from Brighton. AUG. 1. Flirt schooner, Sir B. R. Graham, Bart., from Weymouth ; Pearl cutter, Marquis of Anglesey, from London. 2. Dream cutter, George Bentinck,a , q., from Portsmouth ; Gem schooner, J. W. Fleming, Esq., from Weymouth; Duchess yawl, ditto, ditto; Iris cutter, Lord Rodney, fro n Cherbourg. 3. Ganymede cutter, J. H. W. P. Smith Pigott, Esq., from Weymouth. 4. Frisk cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., from Cherbourg; Tar cutter, Rev. J)enis George, from Dartmouth ; Georgian schooner, Wm. Lyon, Esq., from Portsmouth. 5. Osprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., Cherbourg;' Peterel cutter, Earl of Ilchester, from Isles of Scilly. 2 1 / 4 381Ai 3% 7556 a% P 8% 1 dls 2% lt% 8% 5% 4% 2,196 1,234