The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-29 00:00:00

B ank PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk. -.Ara s tock. 3 2ll},i 11 1 India Stook 26 3 Per Cent. Re,L g 2.4, t,„' , Ditto Repots ~ Per Cent. Cons. 9114 4‘. ' South Sea Stock — :6soPer Cent.........._.. ......... .-- Old Annuities .. ....... .- — New "%„ Re d......-.... ...... 100 99% 100 f New Ditto .. N c ; - .7t per Cent. 9 1 44% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... 14, 0 ,1:r Cent... . ..... ........ Exch. Bills, £ l,oon 4l 45 pa a ..0 4Annuitl'istoexpire Ditto . - ... .........500 43 45 PIA J a n 5, 1860 Oct. ...._ 10, 1859 14 15-16 Ditto Commercia' — pro Ja n. 3. 1860 w, - -Ditto Advertised-- R, ....... —— P ilia. 5, is ' Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... - April 5. 139 n............ o,;;m um "!. 3 , 1870................ ..... Consols for Acconnt ._— pm. ,If_IIICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,stnan B ondi .........»....« ...... adm an . —; Peruvian Bonds .... ........ ....... Bondslo3 l 4 I Ditto Account ....—........... ••.—.... .rat Ditto Account...". ........ .• —; Portuguese Bonds 11,Plian Bonds ........... ........ 81 3 4 Ditto Account — 2tt" , Account ............ ..... H Ditto New Bonds 39(4 "_.'106 Ayres Bonds ..... —! Ditto Account ... ......... •.... Ditto Account ...... —1 Ditto, 3 per cent. 25 thillian Bonds ..—... .......".. Prussian Bonds — Col /l ino Account .........—.. ..... .. ..... — 1 Russian Bonds, 1e22......... ••• / 11, i urnbian Bonds. ...... -- ' Ditto Account ...... ....... ....• Ditto Account ...... . .»....,,,, — 1 Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824 24li ' Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account D tnish Bonds .. • 73 ' ; i Ditto Bonds, IHH 2O Greek Account.: :........ . ; Ditto Account _ "'reek Bonds.„ . ........ .... :-...' French, 5 per cent.......... —r —C. Ditto Bonds, 1825 —' 4 per cent. —f. —.c mtlitto Account • 3 per cent exican Bonds, 5 per cent.... — 1 Exchange ..... Ditto A.ccount .......... ....... --; Dutch, 2K per cent. ......527 , , % %I; Ditto, 6 per cent. .... ..... 2414 ' Ditto Account — , Ditto Account.« " 102 Mi 'oanolitan . ...."....... Ditto, 5 per cent. ' Ditto Account ... ..... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Or e 45 54 5 ~. at Western Railway Company righton Railway Company (SteYenson's) 5 11%704 ' u ndo') and Birmingham Railway Company 9(l 13”, 140 Ditto 4 Shares Manchester and Birmingham Railway 5 4% tondos a nd W es tminster Bank 2O 20% MAILS. Attired, MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America......... , 0 1 F rance 0 (L L isbon 1 0 Brazil ............ 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta .... 0 0 o nenosAyres.. 0 0 H am b urg 0 0 M exico I 0 Carthagena...... 0 0 H o ll an d ...... .... 0 0 Ostend 0 I Dublin... .. 0 0 Jamaica 1 1 0 Sweden 0 O pera .. . ... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. it, ... '" r nin2...... 41 minutes after 1. 1 Evening 3 minutes after 2. ____ SPECTATOR'S COMPLETE LISTS of LORD MELBOURNE'S HOUSE of COMMONS, With the POLLS of 1837 and 1835, in parallel columns. NEW MEMBERS, DOUBTFUL. Ditto, REJECTED Ditto, GAINS and LOSSES, TABLES of COMPARISON, Sce., price 6d. '` This pamphlet is one of the most complete that has ever fallen Under our observation, and for its accuracy and impartiality is de terring of a most extensive circulation."—New Farmers' Journal. Clayton publisher of the Spectator, 7, Windsor-court, Strand. PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN. THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER OF C OLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE 1100 K, Esq. Is embellished with an ORIGINAL LIKENESS of HER 'IAJESTY, as she appeared on the Day of Proclamation ; and torltains, among other Contributions by Distinguished Authors:- 11 'e Gurney Papers. By the Brown, Jones, and Robinson. Editor. By Douglas Jerrold, Esq. minaey in France. The Painter's Daughter. COafessions of Ralph Restless. The Golden Pippin. By Alfred 'BCaptain Marryat. Crowquill. t the Salt Mines of Sals- Philosophy in the Influenza. burg. The Old Watchmen. By the The Plagues of Popularity. Author of " Glances at Life." B en Jonson. By the Author of An Election Anecdote. " Glances at Life." The Sporting Bet. By Benson A Ride in the Great Western Hill, Esq. Jungle. Forget and Forgive. By E. The Phantom Ship. By Captain De Fonblanque, Esq. Marryat. &c. &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 77 1 e publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. Vribt ann. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1837. The Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons on Turnpike Roads in Ireland, which will be found in our columns of this day, demonstrates how i mmeasurably the Parliament of the United Kingdom has been distanced in the encouragement of wholesale jobbin g by the defunct Legislature of College Green. In the expert practice of the petty details of the system, our countrymen, from the sweep to the senator, are remarkably clever adepts. We could always manage a r n tish job, a corporat i on j o b, a borough job, or a man 'the-moon joint-stock-company's job, with any People in the world ; but a job on a scale so exten tire, s o preposterous, so dishonest—so universally in jurious, and ao numerically limited in the distribution of the pecuniary gain accruing from it—as the Lime rick Road job of the Irish Parliament, never existed for ten years consecutively in this kingdom. Indeed, so disgraceful a job to all connected with it—in and out of Parliament—was scarcely ever before submitted to the British people. As the details of this affair are summed up with great distinctness and brevity in the Report, we will not here recapitulate them, aware that any language we might use could not convey a stronger impression of the importance of the facts themselves than that employed by the Committee : but after a careful per u s a l o f th e evi dence g i ven before that Committee, and the documents submitted to it, we have come to the conclusion, that the Acts of the Irish Parliament, under which the Messr:. TAYLOR and BOURNE claim a right to ex orbitant tolls, were the result of a corrupt negociation between certain Members of that Parliament indivi dually, and the Road-contractors. The Acts were Paid for in hard cash. This is the only feasible inter pretation of the business. The object of these Acts clearly was to give the Contractors so complete a mo 110Poly of the road, as mail-coach proprietors, that it would be impossible for them to experience any oppo sition ; for, as Sir EDWARD LEES well observed in a toinute to the Lords of the Treasury, dated December, 1832 , " it could not have been supposed that any at)eculator would be insane enough to establish a stage oosch in opposition to the mail, on which, if he car tied more th an t h ree outs id e passengers , h e wou ld Lave to pay a toll-duty of nearly 11,0001. a-year." This object they accomplished ; and had it not been for the dishonest avarice of the Contractors, who perse vered in subjecting the Irish Post-office to the demand of exorbitant tolls upon this line of road, it is probable that the abuse, as regards the public generally, might have gone on till doomsday without attracting any at tention. The claim of additional toll upon the Irish Post -office, was first successfully resisted by Sir EDWARD LEES, the Secretary, in 1811. He took by the question on public grounds, and though opposed i u Opinion to some of the most eminent gentlemen at the Irish bar, he maintained his view of it with so much ability, and by his memorials to the Irish Go- Yernment and to the Lords of the Treasury, brought Public opinion to bear upon it so forcibly, that the Messrs. BOURNE and TAYLOR were glad to allow their claim to fall into abeyance rather than provoke the final decision of the House of Commons. It ap- Pears also from a report of Sir EDWARD LEES to the Lords of the Treasury, dated " Edinburgh, 14th April, 1836," that Mr. BOURNE had other " very S ufficient reasons f or allow i ng h i s cla i m to l i e dormant " from 1 811 to 1832, wh en it was aga i n rev i ve d. t es ides the " risk of an i nvest i gat i on b e i ng ma d e i nto the circumstances connected with the improper extension o f hi s monopo l y on t h e Li mer i c k roa d , b y t he t Act passed in 1798, and of me asures b e i ng taken 1 3 do justice to the public by re p ea li ng th at A ct , M r . "RNE held a lucrative contract for the conveyance of the Li mer i ck mails, of wh i ch he had a residue of ten ure until th e year 1823, an d h e wa s m os t anx i ous t° O btain a renewal of that contract. While this im portant affair remained to be settled, and, indeed, L endi ng numerou s di scuss i ons as to its renewal, Mr. cl l3 *alms WINE took care to say not hi ng o f hi s pretended for arrears of toll. At length his mail contract 0 herenewed i n 183 0 f or a per i o d o f ten years , an d n--h • dert L. _ a vm . g secured his interest in this lucrative un tt was then that he ventured to submit his a P a Pli Eeati .0 the of RtcHmoND, when the arls o ,on 1./ NEIL Whenj m s i l L f l and Ross E were no longer in office, ye lad left Ireland, and when the circum stances connected with his claims were supposed to be forgotten, and when some of the parties who knew best about the matter had been dead some time." In another part of the same Report Sir EIOWARD LEES says—" I consider the claim, under all the circum stances that surround it to be the most extraor dinary, the most unjust, and the most improper ever made on the public purse ; a claim which twenty-one years ago I thought for ever set at rest, and which I feel has been now revived only because in the opinion of Mr. BOURNE the circumstances under which it was opposed may be forgotten, that documents may be lost, parties whose opinions were hostile to it may be either dead or so placed as to secure him from farther opposition from them." It will be readily admitted by every intelligent per son in the three kingdoms, that no road monopoly could inflict a thousandth part of the injury upon such an establishment as the Post-office, which, under a similar regulation, it must occasion to the commercial relations existing between such cities as Cork, Lime rick, and Dublin. If, therefore, Sir EDWARD LEES saw so much to object to in the abuse denounced in the Report of the Committee of the House of Com mons as regarded the Post-office alone, in what indig nant language would he not have expressed himself had he viewed it in the light in which it must appear to an extensive corn-grower or merchant in the south of Ireland, in the habit of carrying on large trade with the capital ? Extravagant tolls are all that is wanted to ruin the internal trade of a poor country like Ireland. The certainty of having to make a large immediate outlay in the shape of tran sit duties, and the uncertainty of a ready-money de mand to remunerate the producer for so great a hazard, must prove most injurious to the internal trade of Ire land. Nevertheless, Ireland might have groaned under this abuse for centuries to come, had not the monopo lists grasped at the entire revenue of the Irish Post office. To make sure of 22,0001. of alleged arrears of Post-office toll, they have unconsciously urged the Parliamentary exposure of one of those foul jobs which reflect such deep disgrace on the memory of the Irish Legislature. The Morning Post is exceedingly angry, because it finds itself puzzled for a satisfactory answer to the assertion that the Ministerial majority in the new Par liament is not exclusively Irish. Our Contemporary will not allow that a majority comprehends the whole number attached to any particular system of policy, but thinks itself at liberty to restrict the meaning of the term to that portion or surplus which remains, after it has ba lanced the opposing parties, according to a standard which it sets up for itself, and which is, of course, very favourable to its own party views. The majority is "ex clusively Irish," quoth the Post, because, " taking the whole body of the representatives of Great Britain, we find that, upon a division of that body into Minis terialists and Oppositionists, the Ministers are in a minority. If they outnumber their opponents, it must be by the aid of Members returned from Ireland, in virtue of Mr. O'CoNNELL's conge d'elire." This may be exclusive but it certainly is not conclusive reasoning ; for on the principle of calculation here as sumed it would be just as easy to prove the reverse of the proposition, namely, that the majority is not ex clusively Irish. Our Contemporary goes to work after the following fashion—lump England and Scotland to gether and there is a majority against Ministers ; their majority is therefore exclusively Irish. Now, suppose we were to say, which we have a right to do, take England and Ireland together, and there is a majority in favour of Ministers ; there is also a majority for them in Scotland ; therefore their majority is not " exclu sively Irish." This shows the fallacy of those dis- tinctions which the Post, and its coadjutors of the Tory press, are in the habit of drawing be tween the quality of the votes derived from the different portions of the empire. Such distinctions are in their very nature arbitrary, and can never hear the investigation of any intelligent person, though it may suit the purposes of faction to hold them up to the public as very important elements in calculating the relative strength of parties. The empire to all political intents and purposes is ONE, or else the Unions of 1707 and 1800 arc nothing better than shreds of old parchment ; and the only real distriction which can be made between the vote of any one mem ber of the United Parliament and that of any other, must be derived from the number, intelligence, and in dependence of his constituents. In all these important particulars, it is needless to repeat, the Liberal party . . hare immensely the advantage in the New Parliament ; and it is the consciousness of this that drives the organs of the other—the illiberal party—to such shal low and sophistical expedients to depreciate their op ponents, as that to which we have just alluded. The Emperor of RUSSIa has issued a Ukase which —by way of a joke, we presume—he calls an act of amnesty, whose principal object, it seems, is " to grant certain mitigations of punishment to those amongst the exiles in Siberia who, although blackened by error and crime, have by their subsequent conduct merited that our compassion should be exercised to wards them." We infer from the publication of this Ukase that the Northern NERO is meditating some fresh act of deadly outrage upon Poland ; for it is remarkable that the Russian monarchs never make a public formal boast of their uncommon clemency, ex cept when they are on the eve of committing some new atrocity. Thus the invasion of the Crimea, under CATHERINE, was prefaced by Ukases and Manifestoes without number, breathing the gentlest and most be nignant spirit towards the duped inhabitants ; and in like manner, not an act of murderous tyranny was perpetrated during the last Polish revolution, but it was ushered in by a series of public declarations, wherein NICHOLAS addressed the Poles in the language of kindly paternal remonstrance, beseeching them to lay aside all thoughts of further resistance, and to trust to his clemency and sense of justice, which was that of a fond father towards his misguided children. The in fatuated Polish patriots took the EMPEROR at his word, and what was the consequence ? They were persecuted without mercy ; the flower of the nation were sent to perish in the deserts. of Siberia ; women and children were imprisoned, tortured, and not unfre quently murdered ; and even the infant was torn by assassins from the mother's breast, and flung to rot in the highway. As if this were not enough to satisfy the vengeance of the Imperial " father" of his Polish children, the very language of the country was proscribed, and the Russian ordered henceforth to be taught as the vernacular tongue. Remembering these things, we conceive we are justified in regarding the present Ukase as a signal for the renewal of atro cities against the Poles ; or if not that, that at least it is intended as a mere mockery'. For what is its lan guage ? To say nothing of its being clogged with exceptions, which render it a mere nullity, it tells the Polish nobility who are at present withering in Sibe ria, that those " who, during a thirteen years' resi dence, hare attracted by their good conduct the attention of the local authorities, shall be allowed to leave the class of colonists, and enroll themselves into that of inhabitants of the towns, or to enter the military service in Siberia, or beyond the Caucasus, as common soldiers, according to general conditions laid down for persons of this de scription. The chief l oca l aut h or i t i es may a l sl, a f ter investigation, allow them to enter the civil service in Siberia likewise in the lowest capacities, with the ca pability of promotio❑ into the most inferior class of officers, after twelve years service, and may intercede with us on occasions extraordinarily drawing attention for permission for some of them to return into govern ments of the interior, with the right of entering the military or civil service in the lowest capacities." And this is the Ukase which the NERO of th e North thinks it an act of superior clemency to issue to the Polish patriots in Siberia, at the " express intercession of his son, the heir to the Rus sian Throne !" This is the boon which he bestows, in his exceeding benevolence, on the flower of the Polish Nobility ! After thirteen years of the m os t aggravated slavery, they are to be allowed to enter into the military ranks of their enemies " as common soldiers !" If this be not the most cutting insult-- the most gratuitous mockery, which none but a fiend could conceive, we know not what is. However, as the old Polish proverb has it, the good time is coming when Poland shall again rear her head among the nations. We have barely space to point the attention of our readers to the article in another column headed, " Fic titious Votes in Scotland." It will serve to show the true value which ought to be attributed to the votes of Members of Parliament chosen by mushroom consti tuencies. The Paris Journals of Sunday, the whole of which we have received, discuss at much length the events connected with the downfall of the Spanish Cabinet. The Journal des Debats can make neither head nor tail of the important changes that have been effected through the most contemptible agency ; and by way of consoling CALATRA VA and MZNDIZABAL, reminds them that if they lost their places in consequence of the hostility of seventy-two officers, they owed their eleva tion to the insubordination of Serjeant GARCIA and a handful of disorderly privates. There is, however, a material difference between a revolution effected by a Serjeant at the bead of his company, and a revolu tion brought about by seventy-two officers of high rank, well understood to be in the confidence of a Commander-in-Chief, with an army of 100,000 men at his back. The first cannot proceed from any de monstration or apprehension of physical force, and therefore must, if successful, be regarded as an indivi dual expression of the national will. Serjeant GARCIA was, and could only be, the mouth of liberal Spain. Not so the military traitors who upset the C AL ATRA VA Cabinet. They represented the physical influence of the army ; and consequently the instant it is discovered that the Cortes have nothing more to fear from its li centiousness, we find them denounced as traitors by all parties in the Chamber. In the sitting of the 18th, re ferred to in our columns of yesterday, the Cortes voted an address to the QUEEN, expressive of " the painful sensation experienced by the Constitutional Cortes, on hearing what had taken place among the troops in the environs of the capital, and praying her MAJESTY to punish severely the authors of an act of insubordina tion which constituted a violation of her Royal pre rogative." This address was adopted with acclama tion by all the Deputies present—a convincing proof of the vast difference between the La Granja and the Prado revolutions. Senor MADOZ assured the Cortes, that though he had always opposed the CALATRAVA Cabinet, he regretted to witness its fall in a manner that cast a blot on the glorious revolution of La Granja. The act of military insubordination was only a hollow pretext for changing the Ministry, which was really the consequence of occult intrigues—the work of the secret partizans of Do❑ CA rums, who mask themselves under the guise of Estatutists and Moderate Constitutionalists. This was evidently glancing at ESPARTERO. Senor INFA NTES, Go vernor of Madrid, went still further. He toad the Deputies that the late Ministers had foreseen all that had happened ; and that they were only prevented from making important disclosures by a regard to the public welfare. The time for such revelations had n ot arrived. From all this we arrive at the conclu sion that the Cortes rightly appreciate E PAR TERO'S conduct, and that his tenure of the Presidency of the Council will be as brief as his manner of ob taining it was disgraceful. He wants the ability to reap the advantages of his villany. This is already obvious. He has evidently not the talents for soarko above mediocrity either in good or evil. What other news we have received from Spain will be found in the subjoined extracts from th e P aris Journals. _ The Editor of the Europe, a legitimist French lady Journal, has been sentenced to pay a fine of 8,000 francs, and be imprisoned for a year, for an attack upon the ORLEANS' dynasty : We announced yesterday, after the Journal des Debats, the death of Baron Louis. It is an error. He was still alive at one o'clock yesterday afternoon ; but there is little hope of his recovery. On the proposal of the King, the Minister of Marine has just decided that a general officer of the army shall be commissioned to proceed to a general extraordinary inspection of the troops in garrison a t Sene gal and in the French Colonies in America, as well as o f the depot of theitvro regiments of the Marine at Landerneau. Major-General the Count de :Ligneville, Commander in the department of Java,: has been chosen to fulfil this mission. After having made the genet al inspection of the depot, he will leave Brest in the month of October next, on board a king's ship, and go successively to Senegal, C ay _ enne, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. The Governors of these colonies are directed by the ex isting regulations to make a general annual inspection of the troops of all arms within the limits of their govern ment. But, independently of the advantage which must arise from an extraordinary inspection by a General Officer of the army, it has appeared desirable to examine what have been the effects of the Royal Ordinance of the 14th of May, 1831, which created from the ordinary service of the garrisons of our colonies special regiments, which,hovv ever, are organized in the same manner as the regiments of the line. The Gazette du Midi of the 23d, publishes a long letter from Palermo of the 10th of August, on the sanitary and political situation of Sicily. With respect to the former it says that several towns have not yet been affected, but that they cannot escape ; as for the politicul situation it gives the following details : Palermo, which has had its glorious days, has submitted to the lawful authorities, since it learnt the creation of per manent councils of war, and the military executions. The arrival of the Neapolitan squadron at Reggio has not a little contributed to bring back to their duty the new heroes of July. The people have themselves seized the ringleaders of the revolt, and delivered them up to legitimate authority. They have thus spared themselves many misfortunes. Why have not all the revolts which have succeeded each other during the last seven years ended in the same man ner ? Europe would be more tranquil and more happy. Order is restored at Messina. The Neapolitan squadron sailed on the 4th for Syra cuse, where it must have arrived the same day. Twenty hours will prove sufficient to restore order. The military executions at La Baguerie, Marineo, meri, Abatte, Fermini, Capace, Curini, and Corleoni have restored tranquillity there. Some of the assassins have escaped into the mountains, but they will soon be taken. Here three ringleaders have been shot, and tranquility is entirely restored. Trade, however, suffers greatly. In a country like this where the death of a merchant is al ways followed by his bankruptcy, it is easy to imagine in what a situation retail trade must be. The Government has granted a delay of two months to pay the notes of the Custom-house, but this will be a slight relief. We shall be glad •f the thirty millions which the constituents of 1830 so generously voted in France, and of which they took a good share for themselves. - The Board of Health decreed the day before yesterday absolutely to rofuse admittance to all importation from Genoa, and to suspend the admittance of those from Mar seilles.—Le Conzme re. Mr. Betts, ornithologist, of Woodbridge, has a duck with two perfect heads, batched a few days since. On Monday Hayfield and the neighbourhood was visited by a tremendous whirlwind. Mr. Marriott bad a six-acre field in cock near Hayfield, and the whirlwind pass ing that way, swept most cf the hay a distance of from one to two miles, and scattered it in such a manner, as to ren der it impossible to be gathered again. —Derbyshire Chron. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUGI. 28.—Wind S.S.B.—Sailed the Heroine, Gu"len, for Sierra Leone. Pea-rxmouTn, AUG. 28.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed the Bar. retto, for Madras;" and her Majesty's ship Hercules, for the -vestward. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 28. —Wincl E.—No arrivals. FALMOUTH, AUG. 27.—Wind E. S. E.—Arrived off port, the Vernon, Davis, from Madeira ; Alchymist, from Quebec ; and Atlas, from Nantz. STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 28.—Arrived the Bell, ill'lnnes, from Tarragona. DARTMOUTH, Auo. 21.—Arrived Emma, Silly, Demerara. PENZANCE, Aro. 27.—Arrived off port, the Emma, from Canton 16th April, India, Batavia, sailed 10th May, Cape of Good Hope Ist June, and St. Helena 1 Ith ult. LIVERPOOL, Ave. 27.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Wood, from St. Petersburg; and Stadt, Berlin, from Konigsberg.. BELFAST, Ace. 26..—Arrived the Solon, Smith, from Pug. wash; Jessie, Davidson, from St. Petersburg; and Corde lia, M•Mahon, from St. Petersburg. ' OFF FILET BAY.—Tho Cyrus, Harrison, Sierra Leone. WMITEBOOTII ROADS. —Arrived Abram, Hibbs, Greenland. Ilumnsta, Ace. 27.—Arrived the Volunteer, Clark, from Pugyvash. HULL, Are. 27.—Arrived the Gazelle, Dixon; Thomas, Potts ; Hermes, Roxby ; Nancy, Winch ; Preston, Arnot ; Castlereagh, Lumsden, and Catherine Ann, from Archangel. PENZANCE, Ace. 27.—The Allen, Swansea to Truro, struck on the outer Stag Rock, off the Lizard, last night, and sunk ; crew saved. BRIDLINGTON, AUG. 27.—1 t blew a heavy gale yesterday from N. N. E. About 120 sail were brought up in the Bay. A loaded sloop foundered off Flamborough Head. The Earl of Errol, bound to London, has put back to Aberdeen, having been on shore. The Providence Good Intent arrived at Yarmouth, leaky, bound to London. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1837 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T ELTE O'CLOCK We are exceedingly barren of intelligence this morning, owing to there being very few arrivals. The dispatches received yesterday by the East India Company, as well as the private letters by the merchants from Bombay of the 7th of May, are silent in respect to the report of disturbances having broken out in Siam, and that 23,000 houses had been destroyed by fire in that place. Papers of the 3d of May are received from Bombay, which state that the city of Surat has been injured by fire ; even if true it could not have been of that disastrous magnitude as was reported, otherwise the private letters of the 7th of May would have noticed the event, as well as the dis turbance at Bangalore. Some disorder prevailed, which was soon put down. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday firm at 91i 92 for the Account, opened at the same ; Exchequer Bills, 45 ; India Bonds, 46 prem. ; Bank Stock, 211 ; India Stock, 2591. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 194, opened at 204 21 with Coupons ; Portuguese closed new, 3'.), opened the 'AMC ; 3 per cents. Portuguese, 251. LIVERPOOL CO'CTON MARKET of yesterday just received : —" There has been a pool demand for cotton to-day, and the sales amount to nearly 5,000 bags at full prices -500 Pernams Sid. to 94J. ; 400 Maranhams Bd. to 91d. ; 200 Bahias 71 to 81 ; 400 Egyptian, 84, 10d. ; 500 Su• rats, ai to 41 ; and the rest American 54, at 7d. HALF PAST OiV.R. New Brunswick papers to the 21st •f July have been received, by which it appears that the Civil List Bill had been passed in the House of Assembly, in exact conformity with the draft transmitted by Lord Glenelg to Sir A. Campbell on the 30th of October last, and agreed to by the Assembly and Legislative Council at the last Session. Consols have been inanimate during the morning, and may be quoted at present 91i, buyers for the Account, and 91i for Money. There is not a feature in the mar ket worth observation. Exchequer Bills, 43 45 prom. ; India Bonds, 48 46 prem. lower ; Bank Stock, 211 ; India Stock, 260. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has rather im proved owing to the retreat of the Carlists from Segovia. Spanish Active, 20 without Coupons ; with Coupons, 20i 21 ; Portuguese, 39} ; Three per Cents., 25i; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 i. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91k. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BIVITISH FUNDS. F.trik Stuck '2l . Omni am t per Cent Red , ;•.4,.', India Steel( :3 ;.;Pr l':crit Cons pits, :/itto I:(m4e. 3 , „ per Cent. 3., •.!...r Cent. Bed. .110 Ditto Old Annuities . N'rw !in; per Cent. l,9)i, Ditto New Annuitic: — I ; , :er ..-mt. Assmted Dissented Ditto 50(II 45 pm. tl7, Annuities to expire . - I Ditto 5001 45 pm. . ._ . -. . . .. tan Piv) l5 1-1 i 1415- 6 Jan. 1260 FOREIG Art:than, rs per cen• riOriltn, 5 p,r Bonds flank Stock for org. • .. lacha Stock fer Act. C,msolo f , r Act. Ayreg, 6_ per east FUNDS. P,rtugucse, Bonds. 5 per cent. • Ditto, Now Ditto Prussian. 5 per cent. j Ru'e'in 5 per cent .. 111 Ditto, Metallic Spanish. 5 per cent 2 ) Ditto. Consolidated. French, 5 pet cent • Est:hang. • French. 3 per cent. Dutch, 2 3 1, per cent. 527„ Ditto. 5 per cent 102% SHARES. Clnlian, 6 per cent redornhian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1`434 D wish, 3 per crir 73 Give!, Bonds, 1112.5,5 per cunt ,xican, 5 per cent... ....... Ditto, 6 per cent., 152.5 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent Gre .t Western Railway 5414 Lowlon and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's) London and Greznwich Railway Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway ....... :Sin other variations in the Prie-. of Shares since our One u'c]ec Liet. THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—Ave have received a copy of the Spectator's list of the new Parliament, done up in the very convenient form of a pamphlet, for general reference and distribution, by Mr. Clayton, the Publisher. The pamphlet comprises the following heads :—I. The whole members divided into Liberal and Tory, with the places they represent.-2. The Doubtfuls.-3. New Members.-4. Members rejected or resigned.-5. The Exchanges.-6. Gains and losses.-7. Ballot-men in the now Parliament.-8. The Constituencies, &c., &c. All these are done up with the Spectator's acknowledged cha racter for industry and ability ; but we regret to see in some of them an evident leaning to Toryism. Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock the following awful instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred at the Victoria Gardens, Vauxhall, to a highly respectable elderly gentleman between 50 and 60 years of age, of the name of Sparks, residing at No. 17, Wickham street, Kennington Common. It appeared that a number of ladies and gentlemen proceeded to the above Gardens for the purpose of dining together. The unfortunate gen tleman, accompanied by his daughter, about 25 years of age, proceeded there. After having eat a hearty dinner, the cloth was removed and Mr. Sparks left the room, ap parently in his usual health and spirits. After remaining absent a considerable length of time. Miss Sparks became uneasy and alarmed, and requested one of the waiters to go in pursuit of her father. Ile had not been gone more than a few minutes before he discovered the unfortunate gentleman in the water-closet, apparently lifeless. He im mediately acquainted the proprietor of the Gardens of the melancholy circumstance. Medical assistance was promptly procured. On their arrival they immediately pronounced that the vital spark had fled. The body was removed to the tavern to await an inquest. On the unfortunate young lady being informed of the f►tal event her feelings can be much more easily imagined than described. Yesterday forenoon, about twelve o'clock, the inha tants of Berkeley-street., Lambeth, were much alarmed, in consequence of the appalling screams of a female, who was observed at No. 11, in that street, holding a man at the second floor window, and whose desire appeared to be to precipitate himself into the road. Dunn, a parochial offi cer of Lambeth, seeing the perilous situation from his house opposite, hastened to the assistance of the female, and was just in time to save the unfortunate man from destruction, since the only support the female had of him was by grasp ing his head with both her hands. He was drawn into the room by Dunn, with other assistance, when he was told thut the man, whose name is Marshall„ was only a few minutes before attacked with madness. A strait waistcoat was procured from the workhouse, which, after great exertion, was put upon him, and he was so violent as to be compelled to be tied down. It appeared that on Monday last, ho was in a tepid bath for two hours, since which he has gradually got worse. In the opinion of the doctor who attended him, the effect of his lengthened im mersion in the water has been to produce temporary de rangement. RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 28.—We are ex ceedingly happy to find that her Majesty's Ministers are making inquiries by whose orders the troops were sent from Portsmouth to Ryde (luring the late election, when every. thing was perfectly quiet, and would have remained so but for the conduct of the Tories. We have no doubt that Ministers will go on with their inquiries, and ultimately punish the guilty. We think that some of our Tory magis trates and parsons begin to feel queerly, and very differently to what they did when they sent for the bayonets. The body of a young woman, supposed to be the person lost when the Medway steamer took fire, was picked up yesterday at Northfleet, not far from the yard into which the Captain ran the vessel. The parish Church of St. James, Bristol, which had been closed for the last five or six weeks, for the pur pose of being cleaned and repaired, was re-opened on Sun day last. It is understood that the expense of the same has been defrayed by private subscription.—Bristol Mercury. On Monday Mr, Thomas Emmett, and Miss Fanny Roberts, of Rochdale, availed themselves of the privileges granted by the Registration Act, by contracting the sacred and binding obligations of matrimony before the Super intendant Registrar of Rochdale.—Manchester Times. FICTITIOUS VOTES IN SCOTLAND. (From the Perthshire Advertiser.) DUNELANE. On Wednesday of last week, Mr. Sheriff Anderson hell the annual Court for the registration of claimants at Dun blane, when the Tories brought forward a large number of mushroom claims, which were sustained. Mr. Stirling of Kippendavie, we understand, to have been the principal manufacturer on this occasion, and game-keepers and other subordinates were admitted as life-rent proprietors on parts of his property. The number added to the roll on both was, notwithstanding, nearly equal. On Friday the Court met in Dunkeld, where several faggots were also admitted, and the enrollments were, as at Dunblane, about equal. The persons admitted as mush room voters in this district were ! Mr. Robert Austin Finlay, writer in Perth, joint Secre tary to the City Conservative Association. Mr. Andrew Cunningenn, clerk to James Condle, the landing Agent for the Tory Lairds. Mr. David Peacock, precentor, East Church, Perth, Reporter for the ultra-Tory Journal, the Constitu• tional, and now or lately also clerk to Mr. Condie. These individuals claimed to be enrolled as life-rent pro prietors of some acres of West Haugh, Caputh, in virtue of a disposition in their favour granted by Sir John M. P. Mackenzie, of Delvine, narrating the subscription of a bill for 749/. by those parties long since due, and cleclaring- that amount a real burden on the disposition of the subjects. The value being proved, reference was made to the oath of the parties, when they severally underwent a sifting exami nation by James M. Bell, Esq., Advocate, Counsel for the Liberal interest : Mr. Findlay was first examined, and deponed as fol lows:— Have you ever seen the subjects referred to in the claim? —Yes. When did you first see them ?—This morning. What inquiries did you make to natisfy yourself as to the value, before entering into the transaction ?—I had no in formation as to their value excepting from Mr. Condle. Was not he the agent of Sir J. M. Mackenzie, of Del vine, who is stated in the deed to be the seller?—He was. And you acted solely on his information as to the value of the subjects did, and made no particular enquiries as to the value. I have heard to-day the rent is 35/., but I cannot say where I first beard that. For what amount was the bill drawn which you signed in reference to this transaction ?—I think it was for 749/. sterling. At what date was it drawn ?—I do not recollect. Is it long past due ?—I rather think it is. Did you expect to be called on to pay it when it fell due ?—Not exactly when it fell due. Why did you not expect to be called on to pay it ?—Not from anything that was ever said to me. Was there any understanding on that subject between you and the opposite party ?—No. Then, if there was nothing ever said to you, and no un derstanding on the subject, can you explain why you did not expect to be called on to pay it when it fell due ?—I cannot ' explain why I formed that idea. I knew I was liable, but so long as I retained the life-rent 1 did not expect to be called on to pay the bill. Are you under any obligation to give up the life-rent when called on by any party ?—No. The sum in the bill is large, have you made any arrange ments to pay it if called on to do so ?—I have not. You are a man of businesss, and arc aware that in en ordinary bill transaction you might be called o❑ summarily to pay the whole bill ?—I am. Have you funds ready to pay it, if so called on ?—I will not answer that question. Who holds the bill ?—Sir J. Mackenzie. Have you drawn any rents out of the subject ?—No ; the first rent since I acquired the right has not fallen due. After some questions as to the delivery of the deed, which appeared to be in the possession of Mr. Cunning ham, one of the co-life -renters, Mr. Findlay said that he was a true life-renter of the subjects ; and was admitted on the roll. The other two claimants, who were also enrolled, were then examined, whose deposition was of a similar descrip tion. It appeared in particular that neither of them knew at what date the bill fell due ; and one of them expressly stated that he had never taken any serious thought about payment of it. Mr. Peacock deponed that he had long been desirous V purchasing sonic property iu the county, but it did not appear why he had selected Delvine for that purpose. HAYMARKET THEATRE. • A new candidate for the honours of the high drama in the metropolis appeared last night on these boards in the person of an actor, named Phelps (uf, as the bills averred, provincial celebrity), who made his debut in the arduous part of Sbylock. There was a full house to witness the effort, and to welcome, which it did, with a most generous encouragement, the bold adventurer. It required no pre vious information to be satisfied, after Mr. Phelp's first scene, that he was not a novice in his profession. The practised actor, with all his special points and peculiarities, was at once made manifest ripe for judgment. In per son, Mr. Phelps is of a moderate height, with a good head and well-marked features. In his costume, on this occasion, he wore a strange straw hat, which was calculated to inter fere with the latter advantages as well as, at the outset, to throw a dangerous doubt upon his general taste. On the character of Shylock, or the sources of its peculiar interest, it would now be superfluous to dispatiate. Suffice it, that its just impersonation is at once a test of subtlety of con ception and power of delineation on the part of an actor not to be surpassed in the whole ,range of our drama. Mr. Phelps misconceived it, we should say, in more than one situation, and yet there was a degree of spirit and vigour in his general performance which might have misled any but those very familiar with the part. His great error was a boldness, and undisguised inso lence of manner from first to last towards his Christian foes, which would have defeated his ultimate purpose, and would not have been tolerated for an instant at a time when his entire race were uniformly maltreated and humbled. Instead, however, of so injudicious a display of independent boldness, Shylock, for the most part, deals in bitter sar casm, which is at once the best disguise of his intense passion, and penetrates the hearts of his opponents with out alarming their pride. It is only when he fancies that the law is his ally, and that his dear revenge is on the very verge of its full accomplishment, that his subtlety, yielding to his exultation, makes him openly set at nought his unpit) ing masters. We should say that Mr. Phelps lost much of the niceties of the part ; but in their place, it is but justice to say for him, that he substituted a warm and undisguised passionateness, far from commonplace, and well calculated, as we have hinted, to mislead those not thoroughly impressed with the true reading of the part. The most remarkable instance of this error and result was in the celebrated passage, " Hath not a Jew eyes," &c., which he delivered rather as an outpouring of sudden, wild, and vociferous anger, than as the very concentration of bit terest sarcasm, convicting manifest tyranny by a manifest truism. Notwithstanding this blemish, Mr. Phelps' per formance deserved, on the whole, to be considered masterly and successful. It was much applauded, and at the con clusion of the fourth act, the actor had to come before the curtain to receive that tribute which the metropolis now deals out so freely to its favourites. Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford have arrived at Ryde, to pass a few weeks ; after which they will proceed to Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire. Sir W. Molesworth, Bart., M.P., is entertaining a distinguished party at his scat Pencarrow, near Bodmin. Among his visitors are—Mr. Leader, M.P. for West minster; Mr. C. Buller, M.P. for Liskeard ; Mr. Duppa, and the celebrated Trelawny, who distinguished himself in the Greek war of independence.—Falmouth Packet. Some years have elapsed since we recorded a sin gular instance of vegetable physical power, in the forcing up of the paving bricks laid down in that part of our market appropriated to the butchers ; a similar instance has this day again occurred near the same place, where several large mushrooms have actually forced up the heavy pavement above them, and protruded themselves above the level of the surface of the bricks.—Reading Mercury. The violent clap of thunder that burst over the metropolis on Saturday so terrified a spirited horse with which Dr. James Scott was crossing Westminster-bridge, that the animal set off at full gallop, and, the wheel of the cabriolet coming in contact with a coal-waggon, the doctor was precipitated out of the vehicle, but in the act of falling caught hold of the shaft, which preserved him from sinking under the wheel. The situation, however, of hanging with the head nearly on the ground was awfully perilous ; but Dr. Scott regarded it with great presence of mind, and seeing that if he relinquished his hold the wheel mint ine vitably run over his body, he passed himself under the step, the iron of which he next seized with his tight hand, and, drawing himself beneath the vehicle, laid bold of, the axle tree with the left. He then placed himself as clear of the wheels as possible, and lowered himself to the ground, the carriage passing over without doing him any injury. Hi s son, a youth of fifteen, who was also in the cab, had seized the safety-rein, but not possessing strength enough to stop the frightened horse, managed to steer him clear of all col lisions till he arrived opposite to Astlev's Theatre, when, stooping forward and getting a firm hold of the reins as far as he could reach, he threw himself back with all his force, and produced such a sudden and severe curb upon the horse's mouth as to pull him neatly upon his haunches. Some persons coming immediately to his assistance, the courageous boy was restored unhurt to his father, who escaped also with some bruises and a few flesh wounds, but with his clothes torn to pieces. FIRE AT SURAT. We are indebted to Mr. Court, of the Underwriters= room, for a copy of the Bombay Gazette of the 3d of May, received by the Caledonia, Captain Strovan, which arrived at this port on Saturday evening. It contains an account of an awful and destructive fire, which had destroyed three-fourths of Surat (comprising from 5,600 to 6,000 houses), above 500 lives, and an immense quantity of pro perty. The fire originated in the house of a Parsee, but whether from accident or design had not been ascertained. Be that as it may, the fire was at first neglected, the neigh bours refusing to allow water from their wells to extinguish it. The fire spread through the best part of Surat. Tho beat and dryness of the season aided the combustion, and the conflagration was soon beyond the power of man to controul. It raged, with terrific fierceness, from Monday evening until midnight on Tuesday, when it burnt itself out, and left Surat one vast extended heap of ruins. This ancient city, declining as it has been for years, and now nearly bereft of commerce, could not, it was feared, re corer from the effects of this awful and overwhelming ca lamity. The same paper which contains the account of the firo at Surat states, that the Atalanta had arrived at Bombay from Mangalore, with intelligence to the 26th of April, the substance of which was, that on the coast all was quiet, and that Mangalore, which had been menaced by a body of insurgents, had been left with a captain's party of the King's 6th regiment. A private letter, however, mentioned that a heavy cannonade, of some hours'duration, had been heard in that direction a day or two previously. The operations in the interior were in the direction of Bunt walla anil the Lower Coorg country. The passage of the BLisley Ghent, which had been said to be stockaded by the rebels, had been opened by a party of the Madras cave' ry. —L iveip 00l Albion. VICTORIA GARDENS, VAUXHALL—Yesterday a public breakfast was given by the Lambeth Reform Asso ciation to celebrate the triumphant return of Messrs. Rites, and Tennyson D'Eyncourt for the borough of Lam beth. A variety of amusements were given, and in the evening the gardens were brilliantly illuminated with se veral thousand lamps in various devices ; dancing then commenced to the Surrey Yeomanry band, and, after a superb display of fire-works (one displaying the initials of the Members," H. and 1'."), the numerous and highly re spectable company departed, delighted!. A polite letter was received from Mr. Hawes, stating, that but for a prior engagement he would have been present.—(From a cor respondent.) DREADYFUL MURDER. On Saturday last a dreadful murder was committed at Middlesbro', by a sailor named Fowler, belonging to York, who, it seems, had re cently returned from a foreign voyage. According to the evidence given at the inquest, it appeared that the unfor tunate deceased, Cuthbert Hutchinson, a carpenter by trade, belonging to this town, had been working at Stock ton, and on Saturday, the day on which the murder was co•nrdtted, was visited by two of his acquaintances from Sand:rland, who prevailed on him to accompany them to M d ilesbro', and whilst in a public-house there, they met with Fowler. Some quarrelling ensued, and by some of the witnesses it was stated that the deceased was, but by others that he was nut, implicated in the quarrel. Fowler left the public house in a highly exasperated state. After the lapse of some time, perhaps an hour or more, he was seen rushing out of the house with an open knife in his hand, and swearing that he would stab the first man he met. The deceased was sitting in the yard near the public-house. Fowler immediately rushed upon him, and plunged the knife into his heart, and caused almost inssant death. The coroner's inquest sat on Monday and Tuesday last, when a verdict of wilful murder against Fowler was recorded. The coroner made out his warrant, and committed him to York Castle to take his trial at the ensuing assizes. A post li10) . tent examination of the body took place before Dr. Sleigh of Middlesbro, and Dr. Pridie, of Stockton. The heart was found to have been pierced nearly through. The body of the unfortunate deceased has been removed by his friends for interment.—Sunderland Herald. It is with deep and sincere regret that we announce the death of Joslth Proud Hodgson, Esq., of N. 13, Castle -street, Finsbury, the Founder of the Licensed Vic tuallers' Asylum, which melancholy event took place on Friday last, in the 55th year of his age, after a few days' suffering from quinsey. To those who knew hint intimately, any eulogium on his character would be superfluous. The valuable and extensive Institution which owed its origin to his active and persevering benevolence, will remain fur ages yet to come as the most distinguished memorial of his merits, although his bounty was also extended to the S , hool as a Life Governor. His port-ait was placed some years since in the Board-room of the Asylum, as a well-deserved tribute to his talents and exertions, and future visitors, while they contemplate the futures now sleeping in death, may, with strict propriety, apply to him the well-known epitnph on:Sir Christopher Wren, " Si monumentrinz quccris, circumspice !"—Morning Advertiser. RAILROAD Exc URSION.—On Thursday last the Qu:.cn, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, the Princesses, the Dukes d'Aumele and de Montpensicr, Count Flahault, the Minister of Commerce, the Russian Ambassador, Count Medem, and several distinguished personages, made an ex cursion on the St. Germain railroad, from Paris. The party were received by the directors and engineers of the rail road, and the principal Administrators, amongst whom were Baron James de Rothschild, and at half-past two the Queen, the Duchess of Orleans, the young Princess and Princesses, took their seats in one of the carriages, the Duke d'Orleans and the Duke d'Auinale being stationed on the imperial. The closed and open bcrlines, diligences, and waggons were occupied by the rest of the party, con sisting of upwards of 150 persons. On a signal from the Queen the train took its departure, and arrived in twenty five minutes at Pecq, a distance of four and a half leagues. At the root point, where the railroad stops, Baron Roths child had prepared a sumptuous collation for the Royal and distinguished travellers, who were, at the same time, received by the authorities, national guards, end population of St. Germain. The national guards vi ere then reviewed by the Duke of Orleans, and after the lapse of half an hour the train set out on its return, which was accomplished in twenty-seven minutes.—Galignani. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Sal vator Bore, a native of Malta, who lost his life by the re cent explosion of gunpowder in the skiff in the Thames. Several witnesses were examined, but nothing whatever was elicited calculated to show in what way the accident originated. A few days since a poor lad of the name of Nash, a nephew of the carrier of that name at Great Mil.genden, met with a dreadful death. The waggon was just entering Amersham from the London Road, when the boy got up in front to reach some hay for the horse, he foot slipped, he fell to the ground, and the wheels passed over his head. In stant death ensued.—Not thampton Mercury. A man named Morgan applied to the rector of Ti verton to put up the bans for himself to be married to a young woman of that town. The worthy clergyman, recol lecting that he had married the man within two years to another woman whom he believed to be then living, charged Morgan with the fact, when he readily confessed it and said —" But that marriage was'nt good, sir, 'cause I had then a first wife living, and she be since dead." The fellow's law was good, and he was yesterday married to his new bride, after forsaking the second wife.—North Dcvon Journal. An economical and easy method of sinking Arte sian Wells, and boring for coal, &c., has recently been practised near Saarbruck, by Mr. Sellow. Instead of the tardy and costly process of boring with a number of iron rods screwed to each other, one heavy bar of cast iron, about six feet long and four inches in diameter, armed at the lower end with a cutting chisel, and surrounded by a hollow chamber, to receive through valves, and bring up the detrilus of the perforated stratum, is suspended from the end of a strong rope, which passes over a wheel or pulley fixed above the spot in which the hole is made. As this rope is raised up and down over the Ivheel, its tortiou gives to the bar of iron a circular motion, sufficient to vary the place of the cutting chisel at each descent. When the chamber is full, the whole apparatus is raised quickly to the surface to be unloaded, and is again let down by the action of the same wheel. This process has been long practised in China, from whence the report of its use has been brought to Europe. The Chinese are said to have bored in this manner to the depth of 1,000 feet. Mr. Sel low has, with this instrument, lately made perforations 18 inches in diameter, and several hundred feet deep, for the purpose of ventilating coal mines at Saarbruck. The gene ral substitution of this method for the costly process of boring with rods of iron may be of much pnblic impor tance, especially where water can only be obtained from great depths. About ten days ago, a man who was at Norland feast, having gambled away all his money, accosted some of his comrades with a request that they would furnish him with more, as he had only had two sovereigns as his share of the money produced by the Brighouse Bank robbery. He was observed to do this ; and information was given to the Huddersfield police, who apprehended the man soon afterwards, and being kept in custody at Huddersfield, he gave such information as led to the apprehension of Joseph Dodson and John Johnson, of Moldgreen, near Hudders field, George Atkinson, of Leeds, and John Haley, o f Halifax, with several others, who have been concerned in various robberies in Huddersfield and the neighbourhood, during the last six or eight months. The four persons above namei, after undergoing several private examinations before the Magistrates, were on Tuesday committed to York Castle to take their trials for the robbery of the Brighouse Bank. Several other persons are in cust o dy, an d w ill b e brought before the 10 agistrates at Huddersfield to-day.— Balgiu Express.