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IMPERIA. AMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 28. Their Lordships assembled at Five o clock, Lord EDEBDALE presiding. PETITIONS. Lord WODEHOUSE presented a petition from the colony of Grenada praying for a further reduction in the ditties upon sugar, with a view to increased con sumption. Lord CRANWORTH presented a petition from cer tain Protestant Dissenters residing within twelve miles of London against portions of the Metropolitan Burials Bill. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition against the use of Copenhagen-fields for a cattle market. Lord LYNDHURST laid on the table the report of the Select Committee on the claims of the Baron de Bode. Oa the motion of the Noble and Learned Lord the report was ordered to be printed. Lord REDESDALE rose to move the addition to standing order No. 179, of a proviso to the effect that for the future no Bill introduced into their Lordships' House in which there shall be any clause afft cling the revenues, patronage, or constitution of any charity, shall be read a second time, unless notice of such clauses shall have be3n givm tAe the Attornoy-General for England or Ireland, es the • case may be, and a report received from him on the matter. The motion was aczreed to. The Consolidated Fund Appropriation and the Mi litia Ballots Suspension Bills bevorally passed through Committee, and were reported to the House. MILITIA PAY BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Lord BROUGHAM took the opportunity of ex pressing his opinion that the defence of the country would have been much better provided for by a regul ar force than a militia force. This, he conceived, was th e result of allowing our military defences to sink so_ low, and not doing that which we ought to have d one a dozen years ago. A worse method of levying troops_ in this country could not be conceived. It amounted to a t ax upon one portion of the community, and a compulsory many months had elapsed service upon the other. Before . . take he hoped the country would find its m l istake, a n d after alluding te the loss steps to ensure the enrolment of a regular forcs. The Earl of CARDIGAN. the discipline of the Birkenhead steamer , and eulo g iz ing displayed on that occasion, was un derstood to express hi s conviction as a military wan that the Government would have done much bette r f gardless of the un p o p u l a rit y l'e which might have accruedto them, they had proposed an addition to the reg +d force, in place ef the militia, which he was suiei woot prove efficient. After a few words from Esrl GREY, the Bill passed through Committee. PATENT LAW AMENDMENT. Lord COLCHESTER moved that the Commons' amendments to this Bill be agreed to. Earl GRANVILLE thought the Bill would have been better had the amendments of the Commons been ex cluded. Lord BROUGHAM considered the Bill was a great improvement on the old patent laws. He was not dis posed to recommend their Lordships to disagree on the subject of these amendments, and by so doing endanger the Bill for this session. Lord CAMPBELL was understood to concur in the View taken by the Noble and Learned Lord. Earl GREY thought their Lordships, even at the risk of rejecting the Bill, ought not to concur in the amend• ments, because they would interfere with the rights of those colonies in which there were representative assem blies, who had power to grant patents—a power now proposed to be superseded by the authority of the Crown. On this question he had so strong an opinion that he should move their Lordships do not agree to the amendments of the 18th clause. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the Crown already had the power of granting patents to the colonies. Earl GREY replied, if the Crown had that pow er _ which was doubtful—the Crown had practically waived it. The amendment was withdrawn on the gallery being about to be cleared for a division. The amendments of the Commons were agreed to. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BILL. The Earl of -DESART moved the third reading of the New Zealand Government Bill. After a few words from Earl WALDEGIUTE and the Earl of DESART, The Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Nisi Prius Bill went through Committee. SUITORS IN CHANCERY RELIEF BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the third read ing of the Suitors in Chancery Relief Bill, with the amendments. Lord LYNDHURST begged to call the attention of the House to a matter personal to himself in connection with this Bill. On a former night, when the House was in Committee on this Bill, something was supposed to have fallen from him which inflicted considerable pain, as he was infoimed, upon a• Learned Judge who sat • in the other House of Parliament, fur wheel he (Lord - Lyndhurst) entertained . the most sincere re spect. He had not the personal acquaintance of that Learned Judge, nor- had he spoken to him since he occupied his present office; bitt that learned person had practised before him (Lord Lyndhurst) when he (Lord Lyndhurst) held the Great Seals, and he had con stant reason to admire his learning, his eloquence, his ability, •and his courteous b ear i ng . H e (Lord Lynd hurst) considered him, in short, every way worthy of his distinguished parent when at the bar, and he had every reason to believe that ho had maintained a corre spondieg high character since he had been raised to the bench. Nothing, therefore, was further from his (Lord Lyudburst's) heention than to make any obeervation that might be painful to that Learned Judge.—(Elear.) The matter in question arose cut of a disjointed discus sion on the Bill before the House, which, as the Com mittee sat unt t it a late hour that night, :heir Lordships might easily suppose was not very accurately reported. In feet, he (Load Lyndhurst) was supposed to have made some cbservations on th© Master of the Rolls, when, in truth, he had not said a word upon that sub ject. the matter being entirely foreign to him. The facts of the case were shortly these:—He (Lord Lyndhurst) had stated them before a very thin House, but their Lordships would permit him to state. them again. The Bill in question was founded upon the report of a Select Committee. The Master of the Rolls wits a member of that Committee. That Committee nen:amended, in the strongest terms, the abolition of the office of the orders in course; but, thinking it might be proper to except some orders, it proposed to transfer them to the register in Chancery. The object, however, was to abolish that office. Sir S. Romilly they held the office of Solicitor-General ; since then ho had been raised — very properly raised—to the office of Master of the Rolls. When the Bill before the House was brought io, his (Lord Lyndhurst's) attention hal been directed to the circumstance that no attention was paid in it to this recommendation of the Committee. Nothing, iu fact, was said of the obvious intention of the report. Some gentlemen of great respectability, members of a society for the improvement of the law—the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association—had accordingly petitioned their Lordships on the subject, and they had requested itek to introduce their petition to the House. So far • • from there being 4ny provision for the abolition of the V i e actt in question in the Bill, or the adoption of the re ii'lltamentlatioa of the Committee in the manner in which sicctehsworde.d, at the very time the Bill was under con ``ttett—en November last, the Master of the Rolls, upon te te . appointment becoming vacant, appointed to• it a VOry y ou the City, at ! meet an articled clerk to an attorney in made sager of bad not completed his articles. That was ci",4 01 complaint, and he (Lord Lyndhurst) was l i e e r l utc'bsokue tght 11 11 /g the subject before their Lordships. duty to do so, and ho did nut refuse. Ho had asked. for stances, but he ad explanatiou of the circum " d received none. He had called the attention of - e _ etoble and Learned Friend on the woolsack to tu net t% Was he wrong, therefore, in pressing the : F d — "Ta? And that a the House whether they net. believe that if the Master of ) had done the Rolls was in his titnation, he would not have considered it his duty % th course as he (Lord LYndhurst one on e that same eccasion? If the matter had been refereed to a Select Committee, which, as his Noble and 44 aged Friend the not let wool sackjustly stated, could e eensequea hence of .the lateness of the session, the aahjeet could easily it ex plained. Bat there had been. no taxelanation until that moment, and he (Nord Lyndhu rs t) contended, therefore; that he only did his duty in calling Iletictentiono their Loideliips to the subject. A Committee hut b ee ;„ h e said, tippointed—the learned person in .geoltien w_ a member of — that Committee--the report of that C " 4 om ..a Mitten recomm en d e d a cer tain course With t ft ,i rd certain office in the court of which thislea person was the head a short time after. Bat in t h e n „, " - brought in: ostensibly for the purpose of carrying cut ;that tepart--trt flat purporting to be founded on 'it there wan not the altgh he test reference to the remarkable • recoliraandation in question. As far as (Lord LYeellneet) could collect from what passed on the sub . ject in the .other House of Parliament, the learned person in question had had nothing to do with the pre paration of the Bill. H e (Lord Lyndhurst) Was, boar' ever, ...while in-ignorance-. of that fact, bound to assume that, c being a member of the Committee, and the Bill relating to the courts of equity, of which lie *as one of the kites, this dear led person had taken part in the discussion of the measure.. and had „en : .advised of its contents.—(Hoar, hear.) He (Lord : l 4 - yrioaursl) teueted e therefore, . that when us the next sessieri of Parliament he should move for the abolition: of the office in question, he should have the support of that Learned Judge in the other House. The office of the woolsack had, been cut down with an unsparing hand; that of the Master of the Rolls had been entirely spared. He asked his Noble and Learned Friend if that was not true? There was not u single office held under the Mester of the Rolls which had been toughed in the Bill. When he (Lord Lyndhurst) men , tioned these circumstances be had only stated facts which he believed to be strictly true, He 'considered , it, therefore, his duty to state them. Thin learned per son, in rof'rpnce to the office andet notice, - was re ' atittd to, have stated that th e offic er was .new paid by §1 . 1 44,: zlot: 'tebs that the fees forniertY paid to. tdl 111-4 °P were put an end to, and a :salary of 1,0001 a.year given instead. tjut where did this sa lary come from? It came out of the Suitors' Re Fund. So that it *a s actually paid out of the fee, . of .t.u:Vrs in. the Court of Chancery. If tLe office was' thelith`-': 8 , In accordance with the recom meedatioee o. thh Conimittee of which that Learned petton w. 1.3 a m e oer, Rat 1,001, a-year would be saved to the p^`:'-i,-% There was another point which he (Lard Lyndhurst) h a d adverted to. He had stated that one clerk in Chancery had 200/. .a4e.a?, salary, whi!e two .cierks in the attic() of the ?ifaSter of the Rolls had 300!: It a pp e ared; -however, 'that 3001. was given to the Master of the Rolls, and that only one clerk eas appointed with that Salary. But there was a prut isiou in the Bill by which the fleeter of the Rolls would be enabled to divide an Office into two clerkships of 1501. a year each. He (Lord Lyndhurst) regretted that in the scrambling discussion which had taken place on the Bill that this was not sufficiently pointed out. He had said enough, he trusted, to satisfy their Lord ships that he was fully justified in stating what he had stated. It was his duty to press th e su bject on e at tention of the Committee on that occasion, and ho had performed it. He hoped, however, that the explanation he had given would be satisfactory to the Learned Judge in question, and ho begged to say that he would feel the greatest regret if what he stated then or subse quently gave any pain to that Learned person. With respect to the Bill, he wished to put the House on its guard against all measures coming up from the other House at that late period of the session, as well as against all alterations made in Bills in their last stage. In the Bill before the House, for instance, a certain amount on retirement was given to officers of the Court of Chancery; awnhdiethhewreas perfectly just. was er a pro vision originally that the retire me nt afforded by Act of Parliamentp That shouldprovis proviso was , not bs however,effected, struck out o n th e re port or the third reading in the other House; and, con bee the A c t o f P ar li ament n passed in th a t con diti on , e l underof the sa l ary of the individuals s twh e oqousuleedn retirementst l equaly h a d w d o t_h t h e r B i l l hd after 20 years service, would have been reduced to half that amount. The difficulty was that it was a money c i ane . Sooner, however, than do such an act of in justice to individuals, he (Lord Lyndhurst) would have Bill, but f or t unate l y t h e d efect b a d v b o ee te n dagainst remedied h t by e a machinery which he should not at tempt to describe, and the proviso restored. Under these circumstances he should vote for the measure, and ho hoped it would receive the sanction of their Lordships. Lord BROUGHAM had not the least doubt of the facts as stated by his Noble and Learned Friend, and he fully concurred in all that had fallen from him respect ing the high character of the Master of the Rolls. He (Lord Brougham) regretted the absence of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Traro) who would have been able to explain the provisions of the Bill; especially with respect to the power of appointing two clerks vested in the office of the Master of the Rolls. Lord LYNDHURST had informed the late. Lord Chancellor that he had intended to make this statement. From the information he had received respecting the office of the orders of course, he was satisfied if it were abolished one clerk would be sufficient. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. COMMONS ENCLOSURE ACTS EXTENSION. On the motion of the Earl of LONSDALE, the Com mons Enclosure Acts Extension Bill was read a third time and passed. TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE. On the motion of the Earl of LONSDALE this Bill was read a third time and passed. POOR-LAW BOARD CONTINUANCE, &c. The Poor-law Board Continuance Bill, the Inland Re venue Offices Bill, and the Savings' Banks (Ireland) Bill were severally, on the motion of the Earl of LONS DALE, read a third time and passed. JURISDICTION IN EQUITY. The Commons' amendments to the Improvement of the Jurisdiction in Equity Bill and to the Masters iu Chancery Abolition Bill were then considered. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the latter Bill would never answer until the clerks were in immediate communication with the judges. In the other Bill the House of Commons had inserted a clause which he strongly objected to—namely, that taking away the power from judges in equity of sending a case to the courts of common law. It would add greatly to the ex pense of suits in Chancery. Still he should not oppose the amendments. Notwithstanding the statements that had been made in the other House —statements the most unfounded—he was bound to say that there never was a measure more maturely considered than the present one. He had the advice and assistance of four equity judges in framing this Bill, every clause and word of which was duly considered and discussed. In that state it went down to the House of Commons. He found no fault with those who made alterations in the measure, as re gards their power and disposition, but he could not avoid expressing his regret that this had been made a party measure. He had performed all he had under taken. He undertook honestly to carry out the report of the Commission. He bad not done so servilely—he was not bound to carry out every part of the proposi tions made by them; but he adopt e d th e sense and meaning of them. No one was disposed to give the Commissioners more credit than he had done; but still it should be recollected that their report was not law. Although great respect was due to those persons for conduct in this business, and the gratitude of th e c thei oun r try for the attention they had given to the subject; yet their recommendations were not to be carried out precisely. The alterations made in the Bill were, how ever, not of such importance as to call upon them to re leo; them. lie would therefore move that the amend ments of the Commons be agreed to. Lord LYNDHURST said ha should bear his testi mony to the Powerful assistance given by his Noble and Learned Friel* to these improvements in the law. He had brought to this question that great activity of mind and legal skill w hi c h h a d always characterized him. He congratulated his Noble and Learned Friend upon the accomplishment of this great and important measure. When his noble and Learned Friend came into office, there was a large arrear of business, which, with the exception of one or two cases, was now com pletely disposed of, through the extraordinary exertion and ability of the Noble and Learned Lord.—(Hear.) Lord CRANWORTH thought that there were one or two of the propositions of the Commissioners objection able. There was an alteration made in the Bill which he thought an unfortunate one—namely, the withdrawal from the Court of Ceane,ery of the power of sending certain cases to a court of law for their decision upon a point of law. This power having been taken from the Court would necessarily create much more difficulty and expense in determining questions of law arising out of Chancery proceedings. There was, however, so much excellence in the two measures, that he thought that they would not be justified in risking their safety by ob jecting to the Commons' amendments. Lord CAMPBELL thought it would be expedient to endeavour to restore the main Bill to what it was when it left that House—he meant with respect to the power spske of seeding ca ses t o a court o f commo n law. H e most disinterested:y upon the subject, because he was urging the adoption of a course that would considerably increase his labours. He had some experience' of a court of equity, and he knew the importance of retain inn this Power. In a court of equity these cases would be attended with considerable expense and delay, f or they would be argued by several counsel on each side, instead of one. if they were to be sent to a court of law. Lord BROUGHAM thought it was a very unfortu nate alteration indeed the taking away of this power of sending down cases to a court of common law. Ho did not thiek it would be wise to adopt this amendment of the Commons. He was of opinion that these measures would confer invaluable benefits upon the jurisprudence of the country. He did not think any measures sanc tioned by the Legislature would bear comparison in point of importance with those of which they were then speak ing. He begged to offer his thanks to the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack for his exertions in the promotion of these legal reforms. It was impossible to name the Commissioners without expressing their deep sense of gratitude for the zeal and ability they evinced upon these questions. The late; Government also deserved praise for the steps they had taken to give effect to their reports. His Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack had applied himself again .to a full consideration of the subject, and had given them the benefit of his bug experience, great learning, and distinguished talents. He was now per forming a superfluous task of general commendation, which was not likely to meet with the approbation of those inside or outside of that House who were devoted adherents to ono particular party; bat it was a satisfac tion which those alone could enjoy who were not under the trammels of any party—a satisfaction which altoman historian describes as an occasional felicity—rarns tem porum felicitate—of in fact enjoying the satisfaction of thinking as they pleased and speaking as they felt. After a few words from the LORD CHANCELLOR. The Commons' amendments,with the exception of one, were agreed to. The report upon the Metropolitan Water Supply Bill was brought up and agreed to. The Thames Embankment Bill was read a third time and passed. METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL. The Earl of HARD WICKE, in moving that their Lordships go into Committee upon this Bill, said that it was rendered necessary from the circumstance of the former measure becoming inoperative. It was found ne cessary to abandon the former Bill because the Board of Health were unable to borrow the amount of money that was required, inasmuch as they were not in a position to give sufficient security for the same. The inhabitants of the metropolis were not, in fret, compelled by that mea sure- to bury their dead in the proposed cemeteries. The present Bill was totally different in this respect. In stead of vesting the powers in any one party, it vested them in a responsible authority, who was to be respon sible to Parliament—namely, one of the Secretaries of State; and it empowers the Queen in Council, upon the U!_presentation of the Secretary of St a t e , t o or d er t h e r "ling up of su c h burial-grounds as were deemed re • wing to health. Having done so, the P4rlsh in which such burial ground was situ at" would be under the necessity of seeking some powere other a burying its dead. Thu Bill em them to borrow money to purchase grounds out portion of any cemetery, as they of tow n ineeratil: roux .f Parish itself or the united parishes having adapted for the Purposes. They tPteanseeiwl':leofPaelecting such sites as they considered best 20 years. would be enabled to borrow money to emery out this object, paying the in hado Brompton C emetery . forest and capital in aief or been oi purchased t hosepu b i y , t e h g e rT w n h who were . disposed_ to . avail 1 1 themselves of that grpor4usatving • A provision was also intro the rights of incumbents With reference to Dissenters, a such t d s uc th ed eir in b to ur t i h a e l B te d e l s: port i ep of the newe,l3Yrial-grounds would not be conse crated, SO that the D issenters would bo entitled to bury their Owdn_preilveartgebuluernit;l-gOrobjuencdtairsTwheerree their dead persons—the one w w ra e i r s e ed tw by o ( t i h c o s s e e ri v p s t l i i o o n h s a ot connected with grouada they were objects of horror and disgust to the Eying. l i e ,doidn:ootttdelvointshidgerroutnhdast just With respect to they could found a claim for cuese ensuion upon any th grounds. 4twe go el. a a u b il r e e abroad .tha fatter, the Government had nTic:lterruoitihye changedpartle w w i e t r h e dead. _ determined upon the bringing up of the repsrt li t s o a i i n d tr i o l.o d t ue w e ish su i c t h t: would meet-their case. that the Government wera going to give them compensa tion. They merely proposed to exe mpt n esa fromthy were e theacstinoen. of the Bill such burial-gronnds, u chilly named by the Order in Council. And even to the latter case the owners would be entitled to be heard by counsel, if they could show that they would be inj ured by the Act, or that the ground was still good for th e purposes intended. He apprehended that the present THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE measure would get rid of all the difficulties that cur. rounded the former one. Lord CRANWORTH said that the Dissenters were under the apprehension that, when this Act was passed, they would be deprived of their right of being buried in consecrated ground. He did not think that the Bill could bear any such construction. The Earl of HARDWICKE said the Dissenters would have this advantage under the Bill—they would be able to bury their dead in the cemetery or burial ground of their parish, either in the consecrated or the unconsecrated ground, just as they pleased. The . Noble and Learned Lord had expressed his regret that they were not also to be allowed burial by their own ministers in consecrated ground. That was a question which had been over and over again discussed in the House of Commons, which, however, had declined to agree to any such arrangement. It was felt, indeed, that if Dis senting ministers wore permitted to bury their dead in consecrated ground the character of consecration would be totally and entirely changed. Still Dissenters would be able to make their selection, and be buried by mi nisters of the Church of England in consecrated, or by their own ministers in unconsecrated ground. Lord ORAN WO RTLI suggested that before the Bill . . was read a third time a pro - 7;ision should bo introduced against building upon unconsecrated burial-groundp. The Bill was then passed through Committee, and re ported, with amendments, to the House. The General Board of Health (No. 2) Bill was passed through Committee and reported. The Pimlico Improvement Bill was passed through Committee, and reported. The following Bills were severally read a third time and passed :—The County Rates Bill, the Excise Sum mary Proceedings Bill, the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues Bill, the Valuation (Ireland) Bill, the Metro politan Sewers Bill, the Friendly Societies (No. 2) and the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day for reading this . Bill a third time, Lord MONTEAGLE, whilst admitting the advan tages which had arisen from the operation of the -In cumbered Estates Courts in Ireland, objected to this measure, that although', in consequence of the approach ing expiration of the period during which petitions were to be presented to those courts, and the vast accumula tion of business which that circumstance had occasioned, it proposed to extend the period for receiving petitions another year, it did not go further, and extend the period for considering those petitions. The result would be, he feared, the bringing an accumulated quantity of land into the market, without the court having a cot, responding power to distribute it, and also a great de preciation in the value of landed property in Ireland. The Earl of DERBY agreed with the Noble Lord that it was highly desirable that a glut in the supply of land, by forcing large quantities of it into the market, should be prevented. The object of the Bill was merely to extend the time for presenting petitions, and taking those other Opal steps which were direct e d under the Incumbered Estates Act, and which time would otherwise expire in the present session of Par liament. But, inasmuch as the powers of the Commissioners to act upon the presentments made to them were to continue for two years longer, there would be ample time for Parliament hereafter to con sider Whether or not it might be advisable to amend the existing Act, or to do away with this exceptional tri bunal, and by adapting the machinery of the Aot to the ordinary law tribunals of the country, give them greater facilities than they now possessed for dealing with the peculiar cases which came before the Commissioners. That was the view of the question which was taken by his Noble and Learned Friend, to whose opinion he was certain his Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle) would readily defer—he meant the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. —(Hear, hear.) Hie Noble and Learned Friend had for some time been engaged in the preparation of a measure giving the Court of Chancery in Ireland the further poWer of exercising the functions which were vested in the Incumbered Estates Commissioners; and his Noble and Learned Friend was desirous of continuing by the present Bill the existing machinery Of the Act for another year, in order that be might have the opportu nity of considering and maturing that measure. The Bill was then read a third time and passed, as were also The Distressed Unions (Ireland) Bill, and the Hol loway House of Correction Bill. On the order of the day for considering the C om mons' amendments to the Common Law Procedure Amendment Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE expressed a hope that a copy of the Bill would be sent to the Lord Chancellor of Ire land, with a request that he would consider if some analogous measure could not be brought in for that country at the commencement of the next session of Parliament. The amendments were agreed to. The Commons' amendments on the Secretary of Bank rupt's Office Abolition Bill, and on the Aberdeen Boys and Girls' Hospital Bill, Were also considered and agreed to. And The Earl of DERBY ha►ing presented a petition from Leith, praying an alteration of the new navigation laws, Their Lordships adjourned. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. Minor money-order offices will be opened at the nn. dermentioned places on the respective dates named. Post town from Date on which served (when which the since itself is the office will not a post town). . bb opened. Epworth, Lincolnshire Bawtry Ist July Stonehouse, Gloucestershire Stroud Ist July Winterton, Lincolnshire Brigg Ist July N.B.—Postmasters arc informed that henceforth Om bersley will be served from Droitwich instead of Stour port, and that the List of Money Order Offices recently transmitted to them, must be corrected accordingly. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, - - YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.—It appears from a circular addressed to the snareholders of this company by Mr. Parke, of Whitby, that by creating a3i per cent. perpetual debenture stock to take the place of the present debenture debt, a saving would be effected to the extent of 19,4661. per annum, and by creating a 4 per cent, perpetual preference stack, and paying off the Hull and Selby and the 44 per cent. preference shares, a further sum of 12,2031. would be saved, mak ing together the sum of 31,6591. per annum. This sum, iu addition to the amount of net receipt realized in 1831 would enable the company to pay 2t per cent. on the original shares. SIIREWSBURY AND WORCESTER.—It is proposed to construct a railway from the Madeley branch of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at Madeley, passing along the valley of the Severn, near Broscley; Much-Wonlock, Bridgenorth, Bowdley, and Stourport, to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail way. The leegth of tho proposed Hue is 26 miles, and it is estimated that the cost will not exceed 13,4001. per mile, or 350,000/. SHREWSBURY* AND ABERYSTWITH.—A company is in course of formation for constructing a line-of rail way from the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway near Shrewsbury, passing through Newtown and Machynlleth to Aberystwith with branches to Welchpool and Llanid lees. It is stated that the line as proposed to be carried out can be constructed for 10,000/. per mile, and that the landowners are favourable to the project. Should the undertaking receive the support anticipated, it is intended to extend the line round by the coast from Aberystwith to Cardigan and Milford Haven. NEWMARKET.-It appears that arrangements have been• made for the extension of this company's line from Newmarket to Bury St. Edmund's, a distance of fourteen miles, and the works have been commenced. HATS. The Cork Examiner, in one of its excellent notices of the National Exhibition now open in the chief city of Munster, thus justly;reprobates the villanous fashion of the modern male head-dress : " We mach wish the many makers of hats metropoli tan and provincial, who so well occupy a large space in this transept, would produce something amongst them which might rid us of the peculiarly stiff, un comfortable, and ungraceful style of head - piece which custom compels us at present to en dure. Unanimous es the public are and have long been in their complaints and evens groans at our present hat, which by a rare and happy combination, unites almost the extremes of weight, ungainliness, and fragility, it still seems likely to live. Once it was fondly hopsd that the Great Exhibition might have re corded its doom, but on the contrary it seemed to have rather given it a new charter and muniment of existence.: Truly when burning June (only luckily in that respect the present mouth does not happen to be of the " melting mood") waves it red flag' one feels almost inclined' to follow the example of Byron's Bardanapalus, who casts his helmet away alto gether, and rushes forth bareheaded rather than have his brow encumbered with its ponderous shapelessness. Certainly the exhibitor who shall contrive some fitting substitute would well deserve of his country the appro priate tribute of a laurel crown." DEATH OF HOWARD PAYNE.—John Howard Payne, the noted American actor and dramatist, died lately at the Consulate at Tunis, in his 60th year. He was born at New York, in'l792. From childhood he was a prodigy even in that region of precocious intellect. In his 13th year he was a writer for the press, and editor of the Thespian Mirror. At 16, the youthful Roscius appeared as Young Nor val, in Douglas, at the Park Theatre, New. York. At Boston, he appeared, among other characters, in those of Hastings, Rolla, Edgar, and Hamlet. In 1812 he came to England, and made his debut: at Drury-lane, in his 21st year. • West, the painter, was a kind patron in those days. In 1826 he edited a London dramatic paper called The Opera Glass. A great number of dramas were prepared by him when on the London stage, chiefly adaptations from the French. Charles Kemble appeared in some of these, as in Charles 11. The now cosmopolitan air of " Home, Sweet Home," first bppeared in Howard Payne's Clari, the Maid of Milan. In the latter years of his life he occupied the post of Consul of the United States at Tunis. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS! BENEVOLENT INSTITU TIO.T. The usual half-yearly general meeting of the gover nors and subscribers to this charity, founded for the purpose of granting annuities to aged and decayed members of the above community, which was advertised to take place on Saturday, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, was adjourned, there not being sufficient members present at the hour appointed to form a quorum. The report to have been submitted to the meeting stated that the receipts for the half-year had amounted to 1181. IBs. 6d., making the total amount received from the commencement of the institution to the present time, 951/. bs. The disbursements during the same period had been 316/. 15s. Bd., leaving a balance iu the hands of the bankers of 6541.95. 4d. The re port, after noticing the establishment of a new branch _at "Bristol, concluded by urging the necessity of active and per severing efforts being made, it being the intention of the committee to have an election at Christmas next. The meet- I fag was then adjourned for a week. FRANCE. When the Chamber, on Saturday, voted the diffe rent clauses of the budget, and the President ar rived at the chapter relative to the registry dues, M. de Montalembert rose and said that he was happy to state that the Assembly had not been a party to the decrees of the 22d of January, which had despoiled a family—decrees which the Government, no doubt, had a right to issue, but which the country had witnessed with pain, more in the interest of the Government itself than in the interest of the persons affected thereby. The President, interrupting M. de Montalembert, Observed that those decrees were now laws of the land, and besides were not under discussion. That chapter and the following, with the exception of the three last, were subsequently voted without further opposition. The Camber after wards adjourned at half-past six o'clock. It is stated that the property of the Duke d'Aumale, which he inherited from the Prince of Conde, is to be forthwith placed under sequestration, pending the proceedings commenced by the parties in whose favour the yearly sum of 100,000 f. was left to found a beneficent establishment at Ecouen. Advertise• men ts have appeared in the papers from the agents of , announcing the sale on the 4th next of portions o f th e Ch an tilly the adno dm Duke asint h. o d f ' A Julynm a 1 e The annual religious servile in commemoration of the death in the streets of Paris of M. Affre, late Archbishop, was celebrated on Saturday morning in the Cathedral of Notre Dame. The Archbishop of Paris pronounced the absolution. Their Eminences Mathieu,Archbishop Archbishop of Besancon, a n d Donnet, Cina is Bishop of Algiers, of Bordeaux, together w ith th e and several other di gn it ar i es o f the Church, 'were pre sen t a t th e office for the -dead. Amongst the laym en present were General Piet and Viscount Alphonse Ri card, who accompanied the il lustrious martyr to the barricades. It appears that the visit of the President of the Republic to the southern departments will not take place so soon as had b een expecte d ; an d that he has pro mised Cardinal Donnet to see him at Bordeaux in the begin n ing of September next. The Prince President has, according to the Siede, purchased a property, Villeneuve l'Etang, adjoining the park of St. Cloud, for a sum equivalent to 44,0001. sterling. The Prince has also agreed to purchase the hotel of the l a t e Mar s h a l Sebastian', which adjoins th e Elyse - e, for sake of making an addition to the palace. A Bill has been introduced for auth?rising an exchange for this property of the old Foreign Office on' the Boulevard de Capucines, to which some objection is felt, on account of the estimated greater value of the latter. GREECE. Accounts fleni Greece state-that the Monk Christ° - foros, who seems almost to be deified, has been chia gainst the Government, and obtained many convert s to his opinions. It would seem that so many pe op l e had enrolled themselves under his banners that th e Government has sent troops to arrest him. A g fisorionagbe in our power." Private letter says :—" Our troops hav e landed, 'and fortunately we have calmed the people prean a shot. Christoforos is surrounded, and cvit h o w u i tl The Ria ITALY. orgimento ' of Turin, states that the direc tors of the N atio na 1 Bank have reduced its discount o n bills to 3 per cent . , The C orriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 22d states, from a source which, it says, may be relied on, that the Prince el MONACO is treating with Austria for the salehl3 i its Piedmont against his will. The above principality, now, as is well known, in corporated paper k ids that b o th - th e F renc h an d English Govern mentsof vi have expressed their disapprobation of such: pro ceedings to the. Court of Vienna. R , ° YAL ITALIAN OPERA. On oat urday Le Prophete was repeated a t this house to a crowded auditory. This might be fully expected from the ci rcumstance that the transcendent Grisi was about, for th e first time, to impersonate Fides. With she j single exception of the substitution for Viardot of the great G r i si, the cast of Le Prophete was as oa pre vious occasions. Mario was John of Leyden; Taglia fico, Count Oberthal; Herr Formes, Zaccaria; Po- Mathise n • ' Stigelli, Giona; Soldi, the Sergeant; and Madam e Grisi, Castellon the Bertha •of the evening. on her entrée, was enthusiastically greeted. Her first coup was in the duet with Bertha in scene 4 ; thenceforward Fides is but little seen, except for a brief period, thill the third act. Throughout this, the mother of the Prophet is almost continually before the footlights, and from this time till the fall of the curtain Grisi achieved a never-pausing triumph. In the cathedral scene her histrionic energy and vocal excellences were fully developed. Her tender suppliance when soliciting alms to pay the priests for a mass for the soul of h er lost son; her revulsion of feeling when she finds him in the church under the ban of his fanatical followers, himself an impostor and renegade, was finely expressed; and her renunciation of " the Prophet King," when, on her knees before the simulating scoundrel, he prays heaven to restore her reason, was the perfection of lyric tragedy. Her vehement prayer, " Gran Dio,de lei pieta," thrilled through the whole auditory, and when the drop scene fell, atter this, Madame Grisi was recalled two several times. The fourth act in its great point—the interview between Fides and her son —was fully developed. Her denunciation of his awful sins and prophesy of his fate were chef d'oeuvres of acting and singing; and in the finale of the opera, when, staid roaring frames, she em braced her son and forgave him, even his unnatural de nials and awful blasphemies, Grisi fully held her posi tion as the first of operatic tragedians. Mario was in admirable voice, and his acting and singing in the scene with the Anabaptists, in act 2, and with his mother in each of the concerted portions of the opera, left nothing to be desired. The orchestral and scenic efforts were as magnificent as ustal, and the skating scene, with its fa vourite pas de Patineurs and incidental ballet, unexcep tionably executed. BOTAL.--On S atur d ay DUBLIN THEATRICALS. evening, the inte resTtilingEldTri:sta of ihe Love Chase, by Sheridan Knowles, was produced to a well and fashionably-attended house. The part of Master Waller was sus t a i ne d by M r . whose ver s i on o f the character evinced of con cept i on, and displayed a certain d mT e il ig cC r h e ' e l°i.ri o ing f gin, j a d i e it n Y thy with the character, such as true genius alone, whether it be faulty or otherwise, can sus tain. The character of Sir Willian was performed by Mr. Granby in his usual clever and effective manner. Kirby, as Lydi a , l oo k e d, ac t e d, an d deli nMerastedlitilhdescohn aracter to perfection, and was received with loud demonstrations of applause. The part of Conitance wa s performed by Miss Emma Stanley in her usual credit able and talented manner—the stock company doing full justice to their various characters. The interlude con sisted of a pleasing ballet divertissement by the female danseuses of the company, led by Mademoiselle Ernes favourite nautical dr ama of Black•eyed Susan wound up t t h in e e a S ni t u . s L e o m u e i n n t , s w o i f th the her e usual agility and grace. The evening, the part of Williams being personated by Mr. T. C. King, in which he displayed a versatility of genius which cannot fail in rendering his per formances successful; and Mrs. Hudson Kirby, as Black-eyed Susan, was a p i ece o f act i ng hi g hl y credi table to. her talent s and received the unanimous com mendations of the house. The music incidental to the piece was executed by the orchestra with its usual effici ency, under the direction of its excellent . leader, Mr. Levey. n ‘O4I:TEEN, m S x11nTRE...... • The entertaining drama of Paul ,Cliyord Was performed at the above interest i ng place of amusement on Saturday evening, the house being, as usual, d ensely Clifford was allotted to Mr. Geier, in which he acqu itt e d himself (partieultul- thronged. The part of Paul yin the incidental musical parts) , very credstabl3' • M r. Barrett, as the accomplished old nobleman, Lord Mauleverer, acted his part admirably , and with a true ari s t ocrat i c b ear i ng . Th e acting of Mr. Vandenhaf w as also - much applauded. Miss Fanny Reeves as Lucy Brandon, displayed an ability of no ordinary degree. Th e Mi ss Sl opperton o f Miss Harriet Gordon, and Sally R osemary o f t h e c l ever M rs . G ow ard, were most creditable representations. The scenery is entirely new, atd admirably painted, especially that por tion in which the robbery is committed upon Lord Mauleverer; a horses being p m i nto requisit i on f or t h e occas i o n, an d green carriage and dashing pair of grey piloted by the enterprisie& manager's own coachman (Curran).—.Telegraph,et NAVAL DISCIPLINE. (From the .6rismouth Times and Naval Gazette.) Having ourselves served on the blue water many .a long year, We recognise the d i sc i pl i ne o f t h e nav y as it s moat healthy sa N uard, therefore wo s h a ll no t b e accuse d of any intention to weaken that discipline, or bring into disrepute those who enforce it, by the following remarks:— In , a precedin g page w ill b o f oun d a re p o rt of the tri a l by Court-marti a l o f M r. Seroco hl; S econ d Lieutenant of her Majesty's stip Retribution, on a charge brought against him by hi s brother officer, tho senior lieutenant of the . same ship (Mr. Willes). On carefully perusing the evidence, we cannot arrive at any other conclu sion than that the sentence is unduly proportioned to the character of the offence. Dismissal from the ship would of itself have been a most salu tary measure, and one that could not have failed to , be a source of comfort to the prisoner, whilst , at the same tune, it carried with it a due amount of disgrace. Let IL3 not ho misunderstood; we would Lot for a mo ment impugn the juigment and accuracy of decision ar rived at by the members of the Court who tried Mr. So rocold, for each rind all of whom we have long enter tained the highest sentiments of respect, but we may, as "an old salt," venture to op i ne th a t th e re was no neces sity fur a court-martial at all The case was frivolous and fragile in its ground work in the extreme, and arose, it appears to us, in the first lieutenant's desire to perform all the junio r li eu t enants ' d u ty mos t zealously except the dirty part of coaling the ship when another lieutenant could do that just as well, but who, thinking his senior was still pursuing Lis hobby, made a mistake, and in reply to the snap a t himself, too hastily conceived a meaning on the p a rt o f the said senior of impertinence, with the view of woun ding his feelings or lowering his position in the e y es o f th e surrounding spectators. Now, could nut a couple of old heads have put this matter to rights , without the pomp , and .. trouble of a court-martial? Here, for a whole day 'nearly, were seven naval officers taken away from their respective du ties to examine into a COO which never ought to hays been brought before them. The result has been that much ill blood seems to pervade the officers of Retribu tion, and much want of unanimity, and we cannot but add that Captain Warden showed by far too much alac rity in submitting their trumpery case to higher autho rity before he had exercised the power of his own au thority in the endeavour to reconcile the hostile parties Another circumstance must not be forgotten—two other officers besides the prisoner deposed before the court that they never heard any lieutenant address another in the same ship on duty as Mr. Willes did the prisoner in the case under notice. We think this was deserving of mention by the Court in their finding. We can readily perceive, from the evidence, that had .Lieut. Serocold been tried "by his peers" (i. e. his brother officers in Retribution on board that ship), a very different construction would have been put upon his injudicious, rejoinder to the ire of his senior, and con sequently he would not now stand mulcted of a year's rank, and the loss of his appointment. But " the jury of cooks" has not yet been introduced into the navy— but it will, and such cases as those of Lieut. Serocold and Mr. Willes will hasten its adoption. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Your paragraph, referring to a court-martial held on me on the 23d inst., seems to be hardly giving me fair play. Mr. Webb, the surgeon, the only officer who wit nessed Lieut. Willes' manner towards me, and who has been sixteen years in the navy, in answer to my ques tion, " Did you ever see ono lieutenant address another lieutenant in the way in which Lieut. Willes addressed me?" stated "Never." Trusting you will (lo me the favour of inserting this in your valuable journal, I am, Sir, your obedient ser vant, GEORGE PEARCE SEROCOLD , Portsmouth, June 24. Lieutenant, R,N. HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA. The sports concluded on Saturday. The morning was ushered in with a heavy rain, which, after a heavy shower at midday, was succeeded by a very fine after noon. The attendance, as on the previous day, com prised all the rank and fashion of the surrounding neighbourhood, and the scene was most lively and ani mated. As we stated in our last, it had been determined, in reference to the foul in the second heat for the diamond sculls, that both Mr. Rippingall and Mr. Awdry should be entitled to row with Mr. M'Naghtou, for the honour of competing with the holder. The following was the result:— E. WlsTaghtee, Trinity College, Cambridge S. F. Rippingall, Cambridge ••• ••• W. Awdry, Oxford ••• ••• •• ••• It was a beautiful race throughout, and amply com• pensated for those of a less spirited nature which had preceded it. Mr. Awdry took the Berks side, Mr. M'Negbten was in the middle, and the winner on the Bucks side. Mr. Awdry took the lead in gallant style and kept it for a quarter of a mile, the rowing of all parties being beautiful. Mr. M'Naghten challenged him at this point, and, by dint of fine, finished rowing, went ahead. Messrs. Rippingall and Awdry then engaged in a very severe conflict, and were neck and neck up to the Poplars, where, after a most animated race, Mr. Rip pingall drew clearly in front and went into his opponent's water, coming in three or four lengths astern of Mr. M`Naghten and a couple ahead of Mr. Awdry. GRAND CHALLENGE CUP RACE. Oxford University Boat Club ... (Messrs. Sharp, Blundell, Hadnee, Coventry, ... . 1 Donne, Stevens, and Barker ; Greenhill], stroke; Balguy, steerer.) Oxford Aquatic Club ... 0 (Messrs. Rich, Pemberton, Rogers, Bullen, Mal-, cola], Nind, and Marshall ; King, stroke ; Barnes, steerer.) This was a very exciting beautiful race, the crews which, to a certain extent, might be termed " scrateh," being very evenly fitted, and comprising the aquatic flower of the University. As it was, the only eight-oared race of the regatta, it necessarily became a strong fea ture amongst the visitors. The University had the Berks side, and both crews started very evenly, the work in each boat proving that fore and aft they were all first rate oarsmen. They were nearly oar and oar for almost a mile, and looked, as the patrician eight always does when well manned, very pretty. The pace was extremely fine, and continued so throughout. At the point the University began to draw in front, and gradually increasing in the lead, ultimately won the race by two lengths. STEWARDS' CHALLENGE CUP. Oxford University Boat Club ... 1 (Messrs. Greenhall, Barker, Nind, and king, stroke; Balmer, steerer.) The. Argonauts . Club ... 0 (Messrs. Snowden, L. Payne, Marshall, and Herbert, stroke; Burchell, steerer.) This was also a very spirit-stirring exhibition. The Argonauts had the Berks shore, and took the lead slightly, closely waited upon by their opponents; and in this conditien, at an enormous pace, they continued to B erno ul l i= gate, where they became oar and oar, or the University slightly leading. At this point the latter put on a b eaut if u l spurt, and went gallantly in advancP, ulti inately winning by nearly three lengths. VISITORS' CHALLENGE Cup. The Argonauts Club ... 1 Same crew as above. Christchurch Boat Club, Oxford ... ... 0 (Messrs. Blundell, Nind, Malcom, Barker stroke; Barnes, steerer.) A capital race succeeded a dashing start. The Ox ford men had the Barks shore, and, after a few strokes, exhibited a very slight lead, but they were soon level again, and continued oar and oar for a number of strokes. Off I.emenham the Argonauts, by dint of the most plucky rowing, began to show in front, and then in creased their lead to four lengths or more at the finish. THE SILVER — GOBLETS. In this, the pair-oared raco, Messrs. Hailing and Awdry, owing to the indisposition of the former, with drew; and Messrs. Barker and Nind consequently be came the winners without a race. SILVER WHERRY DISTRICT PRESENTATION PRIZE. First Trial Heat. Mr. J. H. Brooks, jun., Henley ••• ••• ... 1 H. Dormer, Caversham .• ••• •• ••• 0 It was a.emart race for a little way, but ultimately won easily. Second heat. Mr. T. Piper, Caversham ••• 1 This was a walk over, Mi. J. P. Nash, of Henley, withdrawing. Final Heat. Mr. T. Piper ..• ••• ••• ••• ••• Mr. J. H. Brooks, Jun. ... ••• Mr. Piper achieved an inglo rious victor y at as cheap .., ne d. Ha became eligible. a rate as can possibly be imagiL as it will be seen, to contend in the grand head without having to row in the trial one, and was declared the winner of the second by his opponent fouling him in the final heat almost directly after the start. WATERMEN'S RACE /OR A PURSE OF SOVERE IG N S . Phelps, Fulham; Messenger, Teddington; Po cock, Lambeth; T. Cole, Chelsea, stroke; an Argonaut, steerer 1 T. Mackinny, Richmond; R. Doubledee, Lam 4. betb; Battle-bridge; R. Newell , oom& q Mortlake, stroke; Mr. Ogsden, steer The names of these men have been long before the public. They were the eight picked Waterman of the London river, divided so evenly as to make a capital match. They rowed very levelly for the first half mile, when the winners be g an to show in front, and won by a couple of lengths. DIAMOND SCULLS. Final Heat. Mr. Macnaghten, Trinity College, Cambridge .... . . 1 Mr." Peacock, London 0 The latter gentleman was the holder of the prize from last season. This race wound up the sports, and created a great deal of interest. Mr. Macnaghten had the Bucks sid`O. For a few yards they were scull and scull, when Mr. Macnaghten took the lead and kept it the whole distance, winning by about six lengths. Mr. Pea cock rowed very hard, but could not change the fortune of the day. The distance was done in little more than ten minutes, which, considering the head wind out, was very sharp work. In the course of the regatta some strong efforts were made by the gentlemen present to arrange the differences between T. Cole, the present champion of the Thames, and R. Coombes, so recently deprived of his laurels, re specting another match. Cole insisted that he could not, owing to the time required to get in proper order, be butted to row under three months, and Coombes pro duced a letter to show that the gentlemen willing to be friend him with the stake could not do so unless the affair came off in August. Some conversation then arose amongst the leading gentlemen about gettillig up a 100 guineas purse by subscription within two months to row two miles and a half at Henley, and the men pledged themselves to contend should the amount be raised. A party of the swell mob from London were down, and had just commenced operations in full force when fortunately for the visitors, they were pounced upon by Sergeant Hodges, of the A division, who was in at. tendance in plain clothes, and were committed to Oxford ' gaol. NEW PLANET. TO THE EDITOIt OF TIIE TIMES. Sir,—At 12b. 30m. mean time last night, I discovered a now planet on the borders of the constellations Aquila and. Serpens, about 5 degrees east of the star Tau in in Ophiuchus. It shines as a fine star of between the eighth and ninth magnitudes, and has a very steady yellow light. At moments it appeared to have :a disc,_ but the night was not su f f i ciently favoqrable for high Magnifiers. At 13h. 13w. 16s. mean time its right ascension was 18h. 12w. 58.85., and its north polar distance 98 deg. 16 min. 0.9 secs. The diurnal 'motion in R. A. is about 1 min. 2 aces. towards the west, and in N. P. D. two or three minutes towards the south. This beautiful little planet is the fifth discovered during our systematic examination of the zodiacal heavens.—l remain; Sir, your most obedient servant. J. R. HIND. Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's-park, Jane 25. PAY OF THE OFFICERS OF THE MILITIA.—The estimates for militia allow colonels 1/. 6s. 6d. per diem; lieutenant colonels, 15s. 11d.; majors, 14s. id.; captains, 12s. 6d. (including contingent allowance); lieutenants, 6s. fid.; ensigns, Ls. 2d. ; adjutants, Bs. 6e..; quartermasters, 6s. 6d.; surgeons, Ils. 4d.; sergeant-majors, 2s. O'd.; ser geants, ls. Gad. ; corporals, is. 2i-d.; drummers, ls. ld.; privates, Is, The beer money and marching money of the non-commissioned officers and privates will give to each 4s. extra for 21 days' training. Surgeons and adjutants are to draw 2s. per diem for forage during the training time, the former also receiving one guinea for every hundred effective men under their charge. The Secretary-at-War has issued a circular to staff officers of pensioners, stating that about ten pensioners from each district will be required to drill the militia. They will receive ls. Gd. a day in addition to their pension, RS well as the usual allowances, &cc., in the regular army. 29, 1852. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UIL Dll A L L. Thomas Jones, CharlesWrght, and James Willis were placed at the bar before Sir R. W. Carden, charged, Jones with stealing a box, containing books and other c ry This ed ease a Company,stee a valuable property, the goods of the Great Western Reit bs and Wright robbery.tliValriighhte and Willis with being can ard by Alderman Finnis on Tuesday last, who adjo . u y rned the examination, admitting Wright to bail. The following are the particulars of the inquiry: John Francis, police-constable 212, said that on Monday afternoon' about f o u r o ' c l oc k , he saw Wright and Jones, the latter carrying a large box on his shoulder, in Long-lanp. At the corner ol ur street they appear e d un d ecided which way to proceed, when Wright said to J ones, " Come this way, it is the nearest." At that moment they had separated, and were going different ways, when witness took theta into cus tody. Junes at first said he did not know the contents of the box, bat afterwards said it was given him by a stranger, who gave him 6J. to take it to the Royal Hotel, in Bridge-street, Blackfrears, to where it was ad dressed. At the station Jones sat on the box, and when ho was removed a new pair of stockings were picked up near the spot. On inquiring at the Royal Hotel wit ness ascertained that the box was one of seven belong ing to a Belgian of the name of Frederick Bohn, who had booked them at Bristol to go by the Great Western Railway, but six only had arrived safe. Wit ness t h ou went to the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway Company, and there learned that soon alter the arrival of the goods train that brought the seven boxes one was missing. Willis was callea in, being the car man to Messrs. Younghusband and Son, agents to the Great Western Railway Company, and interrogated as to who rode with him on Monday last on his leaving the station with a van load of goods. Ho stated that he picked up with Jones just outside the station, mid he rode with him into St. John-street, Clerkenwcll. Willis delivered his load at Islington. Witness then took him into custody. Mr. Edward Johnson said that on the morning in question he saw Jones, who had been in his employ, on the platform of the Great Western Railway station. The van driven by Willis left the station at ten minutes to eleven o'clock in the morning, and Jones was there as early as nine o'clock. W. Black, a porter on the railway, said that in going to unload the truck he found only six boxes addressed to the Royal Hotel instead of seven. The van driven by Willis was not at that time loaded. Alfred Bill, the clerk of the wood shed, said that strangers were not allowed on the platform when goods arrived, and the prisoner Jones had no business there at nine o'clock in the morning. It would be impossible to get a single package or a load through the gates without a pass from the proper authority. The interonce, there fore, was that Jones conveyed the box in question from the station in the van driven by Willis, who obtained a pass for his load only, and not for a specific number of packages. Mr. Frederick Bohn identified the box produced, the lid of which had been broken open, and further stated that he booked seve n p ac k ages at ristol, and only six of them arrived. A man of the name of Fletcher, at whose house Willis delivered his load of goods, deposed to seeing Jones with Willis, and the box produced, in the otherwise empty van, as it left his house. Several other witnesses were examined to complete the necessary chain of evidence, and the prisoners were then asked what they had to say ? Mr. nobler, on behalf of Wright, who appeared the most respectable of the three prisoners, said that the evidence affecting his client was of a very tri vial nature, and could be explained away in a few words. The fact was, the prisoner Jones owed Wright a little money, and meeting with the former accidentally, iu Long-lane, he was requesting payment, when the officer took them into custody. Sir R. W. CARDEN said that - Wright had been guilty of some deception when the constable told him he was wanted with the man with the box. His reply was that he knew nothing of the man or the box. Under these circumstances ho must leave his guilt or his innocence to be decided by a jury. He would, however, admit him him to bail in two sureties in 504 each, and his own re cognieences in 1001. The prisoners were then committed for trial. , MAR YL EBONE. Yesterday William Henry Cole and Eliza Marriott, the latter of whom had been out upon bail from the 16th instant, were brought up for re-examination, charged with having been concerned in uttering forged cheques, drawn upon the bank of Sir Claude Scott and Co., No. 1, Cavendish-square. The court was, as upon former oc casions, much crowded. Mr. Lewis, solicitor, Ely-place, Holborn, attended as before for the prosecution, and Mr. Hempson, managing clerk to Mr. Vaughan, Paddington, for Cole. The particulars of what previously transpired have already appeared at some length in our paper, and it will be remembered that two distinct cases of uttering Were already shown, and that the accused were taken into custody by Sergeant Williamson, 30, and Sergeant Sanders, 29, of the same division, both of whom have been very active in getting up evidence in connection with the case.. It will be borne in mind that the ac quaintance between the prisoners commenced several weeks ago, while it was raining hard, and that Cole then politely offered her (Marriott) his umbrella, Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate (Mr. Long), giving a resume of the antecedent investigation, when a remark, in which the then sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, concurred, was made, expressive of a belief that the female was an innocent instrument in the hands of Cole. Mr. Fell read over the voluminous depositions which he had taken, after which Mr. Lewis proposed, in order to further properly the ends of justice, that Marriott should be admitted as a witness. Mr. Limo considered that such a course was the best that could be pursued, and she (Marriott) was accord ingly put into the box and sworn. She gave evidence at some length, and in addition to her previous statements, she said that, at the instigation of Cole, she had; without the slightest idea of there being anything wrong, endeavoured to get cash for two other cheques, one at Mr. Marshall's, a baker, at the corner of Ampton-street, and the other at Mr. Robin son's Old-street, St. Luke's. The whole of the cheques were alleged to be drawn by Mr. George Howell, 22, Oxford-terrace, Hyde -park, one of them made payable to Mr. Webber, butcher, Edgeware-road; a second to Mr. Collard, Tichbourne-street, Paddington; a third to Mrs. Marriott; and the fourth to Mr. Robinson. Tho one drawn in favour of Marriott was found by Serjeant Sanders under the cushion of the cab in which he con voyed Cole to'the station-house. Hempson cross-examined the witness, and in reply CO questions put by him to Marriott, she said, "I work at millinery and dress-making when I can get any to do. Ido not see gentlemen. If I had got change for the cheque at Mr. Robinson's, Cole was to have given me 5L out of charity to me, knowing, as he did, the diffi culty which I and my sister were in?' Mr. Howell proved the whole of the signatures pur porting to be his to be forgeries. In answer to the charge, Cole, at the termination of the first examination, said that what ho had done with regard to the cheques alluded to was owing to severe losses which since he had quitted business he had sus tained. It was far from his wish that he should have brought the female (Marriott) into any trouble; but his misfortunes had occasionally affected his mind. Mr. Fell having read over the additional evidence, The prisoner, after being cautioned in the usual way by Mr. Long, was asked if ho was desirous of saying anything, when, by the advice of Mr. Hempson, he de clined to make any defence. He was then committed for trial. 7'homas Barris, lodging at 21, Little Carlisle-street, Portman-market, was placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having, while in a state of intoxi cation, attempted to set fire to his apartment on Saturday evening last. Several witnesses were examined, and the prisoner was remanded till Monday next. HAMMERSMITH. Mr. Frederick Lester, of No. 28, Cameron-square, Chelsea, appeared before Mr. Beadon to answer a sum mons charging him with having unlawfully picked some flowers from a grave in the West London and West minster Cemetry, Earl's-court, Kensington. Mrs. A. S. Stockley, a lady residing in Sydney-street, Brompton, said one of her children had been buried in the West London Cemetery, and she was in the habit of planting flowers upon the grave. On Friday week last she was in the cemetery, and while watering the flowers upon her child's grave, she saw a party of persons walk ing along, including the defendant, who had a female by his side. As he passed the grave he stooped and picked some of the flowers which were growing at the side. Witness told him he ought to be ashamed of himself for robbing the dead, and ho replied, " Dear Lady, you ought to excuse my ignorance." Witness comraunicatfi'd with the constable of the cemetery, and the name of the defendant was obtained. Witness was in the habit of - - planting flowers very frequently upon the grave, but they wore not allowed to remain there long, as the visitors were constantly picking them as they passed. Tho constable said his . attention wa.i called to the grave, and he found some of the flowers which had only been a short time planted plackod from the ground. The flowers upon the various graves in the cemetery were constantly being plucked by the visitors, and the company were determined to prosecute every person discovered in the act. . The defendant denied the charge; and called the female who was walking with him at the time, and bhe stated that she never saw her companion touch the flowers. Mr. BEADON believed the statement of Mrs. Stookley, end inflicted upon the defendant the mitigated Pc"ltY of 103. ' and 23: costs. The defendant immediately paid the money. A deputation from the Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick Railway Company had an interview with Sir John Pakington on Saturday at the Colonial•otfiee. ville, was, at the Winslowsler committeds nd u M r . e The deputation consisted of Lord Dudley Stuart, si r Richard Brown, Mr. Thomas Alen; Hankv, M.. B Boothb y , 51 r . l ao ' tn h ot.mh Newtonea Thomas a ht n fio: inst.,d charged with TR THROWING AT RAILWAY AlN.—David Pi I p eo e n tty of s a e sio n farmers ,Aylesbury Gaol fur trial under the General Railway Act, • n the 21st of April, at the • having o pariah of N villa, wilfully and maliciously thrown at Newton Long along the Buckinghamshire Railway. a train travelling adduced, it appeared that on the day From the evidence threw from the road over a bridge named the accused ,: duced, at the luggage-train, a stone, which was pro- ! Bletehiey; and that he afterwards.which was on its way to saw him a gallon of ale;to .toH.: C°iiLete. gave two, persons who I saw. The company did prevent their •tallirarwhat they magistrates thought not press for a committal, but the the case demanded it. THE IRON TRADE. The preliminary ine , “.int.- of the irorimasters of South Stafford s hi re too k place at Stewpoey, on Thurs d a y, and was fully uttendcd, not one- of the leading firms being unrepresented. The tone of the meetzeg was o f a more chc.erful character than for some y ear s, but it was unanimously resolv e d to a dh ere to the prices o f last rArc'rs It was ack now l e d ge d t h at near l y a ll th e works are full of order s , some indeed were refusing them; that the produce at p resent is at its highest po i nt; that there are several ca uses conspiring to make an increas ed demand a moral cert a i nty; but still it was deeme d Po litic to declare no advan ce i n pr i ces until t hi s co urse was forced upon the makers. Sane of the causes re ferred to as certain to sti mu l ate the trade may b e men (P tioned. Toe great infusi on o f the precious me tal into the United States, as well as into our own country, is insensibly stimulating commercial trans actions everywhere, and must be really beneficial to the iron trade. The abundance of money is giving en impetus to the formation of railroads. Oar trans-Atlantic neighbours especially, we find from their journals, are prepariug to lay down railways to en amszing extent, which must require large supplies Of iron. Added to these special causes, the system of free commerce is wid:nina. our foreign markets; and the heme rewire:, which has been languid for some time, is recover'ng its tone, either from the demands caned by the it purposes to which iron is aP plioa, or by an improvement in the purchasing power of the consumers. With these facts before us —viz, the whole of the works producing to their maximum power ; nearly every firm full of orders; combination of causes conspiring to increase the demand --a considerable rise in price is a mere question of time, and for the interest of .11 concerned it is well that cir curn9tances should compel the advance, rather than that it should be anticipated. We may add, that many of the small masters, whose prices have ruled lower than the trade generally, have been compelled to raise them to the prevailing standard.—Birmingham Journal. THE CutUATI7E-----,y MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the poi Essex, from the 20th June, 1852, to the 26th June, both inclusive 6 73 IA Colchester Harwich. Leigh Mahlon 100 1 1090, 51.4, 858 Les of , 852, r - 12561 223 2050 1 ,, 30 CHELMSFORD, JUNE 25.—Prices to-day were as follow: Wheat, white, 42s to 48s ; red, 37s to 425; barley, 27s to 30s; chevalier 28s to 335; grinding 22s to 28s; malt 553 to 565; chevalier 55s to 58s ' • oats 193 to 25s ; peas, partridge, 30s to 335; white, 303 to 32s ; boiling, 31s to 345; dun, new 30s to 325; beans, tick, 29s to 325; harrow ticks, 29s to ;333 rnazagan, 27s to 31s. COLCHESTER, JUNE 26.—Wheat, white 46s to 48s ; red 39s to 423 ; oats, 21s to 235; beans, mazagan 29s to 30s; middle and small 32s to 34s ; peas, white 36s to 38s, grey, new 30s to 32s ; barley, 283 to 30s per qr. KIRKALDT, JUNE 26.—The following are the quotations for grain : Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 43s 6d 30s Od 22s 3d Second 423 Od 29s Od 21s 6d Third 3ss Od 28s Od 183 6d Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, HADDINGTON, JUNE 25.—The foil grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. Beans. —s Od —a Od —s Od 30s Od to I ig are the Barley. First 4-Is 6d I 29s Od Second 403 8d 2Bs Od Third , 36s Gd 27s Od Total quantity of Wheat in market Do. Barley do. Do. . Oats do. Do. Beans do. Oats. 23s 9d Peas. —s Od ..... s Od 213 3d -- 8 Od los 01 prices of 18s 6d Beans. 33, Od ii; 8d COAL MARKE . 3's 04 473 qrs., 399 sold 118 qrs., 73 sold 264 qrs., 191 sold 51 qrs., 35 sold 7. --YEBTERDA.Y. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market : Bate's West Hartley.. 133 6d ilieepier Grange Buddle's W. Hartley.. I3s NlSeaton Chester Main -13 s 3d Russell's Hetton ...... 15s 6d Fluting's Hartley l4s Od Stewart's .. ... -..... 15i 9d New Tanfield Tyne Main lls 6d Hetton Lyons Main... 15s Od Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s Od Hartlepool lss 9d Redheugh Main ...... lls 6d Howden Canfield Moor ......... 12s 6dHeugh Hall Canfield Moor Butes-. 12s 3d:South Kelloe 144 91 Townley... ..... ......-. 13s Od Birchgrove Graigola l9s Od West Hartley West Wylaru Wall's End, &c. 'Llangennech Northumberland Harvey Wylam (uns.) lls 6d' Cardiff Eden Main ...... ...... 14s 9d Sidney's Hartley Haswell l6s Odßamsay's Garestield.. 21s 6d Ships at market. 258 ...Sold. 91. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Jurtz 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing done in the share market to-day. The only sale reported was — Great Western, 95 3 4. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 28, STOCK Excimmax.—We have no improvement to notice to-day. The transactions have been very limited, and prices varied little from those which have been quoted for the last few days. The transactions reported were—East Lancashire, 19%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 80—Ditto, Fifths, 4 1-16 dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 dis.— London and North-Western, 128 %—Ditto, New Quarters, 6% p. —Ditto, Fifths, 72%—South-Eastern and Dover, 21; 1 4—Londonderry and Enniskillen, 12 1 A—Demerara, 8 — York and North Midland, 25%. hIANCHIJsTI ts, Juris 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business done to-day, without material alteration in prices. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 10% dis.--Blackburn (No. 1), 67s — Lancashire and Yorkshire, 79 3 /—Ditto, Fifths, 4 1 4 Manchester and Birmingham (C). Quarters, 2 5.16 p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3434—Eastern Coun ties, 10% -London Stock, 128 1 / 2 —South-Eastern and Dover, 21 3 / 4 —Shrewsbury and Chester, 19—Ditto, Halves. 9Y4-- Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 5 5 / B —North British,B s A. BiliaLNIGHAsa., Juruc 28. STOCK EXOTIANGIL—A considerable amount of business was transacted in our share market to-day at firm prices. The transactions were as follow:—Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Stour Valley, 103/4—Midland (Birmingham and Derby), 39i1—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 81. 13s. 9d.--Ditto (B), 6 1 A—Ditto, Preference, 1114., SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent trona the General Poet-odes by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] When made up is I From what when PLACF.I9. GeneralPost-oface port dis- due. London: patched. Atnorlca (by Brit. pkt.)N.July 2 .. .. Liverpool .• America (by U.S. pkt.) Isi!June 29 .. —lLiverpool • . July 8 America (by U.S. pkt.) Alluly 7 .. 'Southampt. Juno 30 Australia (via South ampton) M Southampt. Ditto (via Marseilles) .. Dover .. Ditto, via C. orG. Dope Ni2d of August .. Plymouth.. Africa (West coast).. N lath of mu month ,Plymouth June 29 Alexandria* •• NI 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. June 28 Belgium .. .• NI Daily . Dover .. Daily Brazil .. .. .. M,3th of the month • ;Southampt. June 16 Buenos Ayres M9th of the month Southampt. June 16 California(vlaChagrer)M & 17th of month r Southern pt. July 5 Capo of Good Hope N , Plymouth.. Juno 29 Cape do Verdi N 2d of the month .. Plymouth.• June 29 Constantinople* .. • • Ni7th 17th 27th of mu Dover .. June 30 Central America .. M ; Id & 17th of mon. ISouthampt. July 5 Channel Isles N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. Tls.Sat Chili .1K 17th of the moutl;v ISouthampt. July 5 France Mt N Twice daily .. Dover .. Twicedaily Greece* .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover .. June 30 Hamburgh W . Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. sat. Holland .. M , Wedues. & Satur. London OH. Thor Honduras Nl7th of the mouth Southampt. July 20 Ireland .. M& N Twice daily I Holyhead.. Twicedally India (via Soutbamp.) M 20th of the mouthlSouthampt. June 28 India (viaMarsoWes) N fith& 24th ofmonth Dover .. July 17 India, via C. of G. Hope N 15th of month Plymouth.. Juno 29 Mauritius .. •N 15th of month Plymouth.. June 29 Mediterranean (via Southair p ,on) • • MlOth of the month Southampt. June 28 Mediterranean (via I Marseilles) .. N,Bth& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Iduly 17 Mexico .. •• Mi2d of the month.. Southampt. ( July 5 Madeira • • .. Ilk9th of the month Southampt. ;June 16 Malta* •• f 'Tth,l7th,l9th,27th 1 Dover I &30th of month Naples* •• 1115th 15th 25th ofme Dover July 2 IJUne 28 Papal States* N sth 15th 25th ef mo Dover .. July 2 Peninsular.. • • .. M i 7th 11th 27th ef me Southampt. Ju l y 6 Peru •. M 17th of the month Southampt. July 5 Tuscany* N t stla 15th 25th of mo Dover • • July . 2 West Indies M 17th of the month Southampt. July 5 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month Southampt. ' The mails to those c °nutrias thus marked ( 5 ) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles- Strarninu:nsiderable, [ADVERTISEMENTI—HoIIoway ' s _.'i s.or the .nl ._ •f Coughs, Colds, and Asthmatic Complaints.—These a_d for the cure of coughs, colds, and asthma. Some of dom e . !: est stinate cases of diseases of the lungs and affectionesoh; u remedy known Pills to have yielded to their curative powers. They s iratory organs any accumulation of phlegm, whereby the resgd a nd perfect pr Cure are permanently relieved, and ultimately a s ( c ) :T cure is effected. Therefore the asthmatic , :id :lee sloppy iwn.enf:e.brrecai t hose rthc li s en u go : ( r t i rh u g ea bfraodma cough , tigh s t h n o e s o t; of d h t a h v e e chest , recoursea d t r c nl o ti tli gis ,„ and at Professor insure a radical cure.— Sold by all g notwitb -044, Holloway'a Establishment, r ;.......s . e condition of The attendance of ROYAL BOTANIC SOCI O E n Ir visitors on Saturday afternoons London. Regent's-park was by f. wet, standing the prevalence _ r f rose s, which w as the ground. The show° virtually postooned t announced to was has 0 a later day, for have taken p l a ce , he w e ather had - (less of t f its natural effect the backwardness _ the o in retardiog the. maturityspecimens destined for ex hibition.were The visitors severally presented with an extra them to ad mission Pass, entitling t .. on W ednesday next, when exhibition , the third ge neral will take place; or upon any ether da y during the month. BIRTH:g: OF A SON. On the 26th inst., at Burtord-lodge, Dorking, the wife of James A, Gordon, M D. On the 2,5 th icst., at Bavnard CI:Ale, Gravesend, the wife of Edward Lacey, Esq, J.P. OL Oa the 2Gth i A n G A u r o c s r v i T e n r, o r ; square , Viscountess Ebrington. Mr O s. a e e d e 2 r s i t c h k i i n i s o t il , a a n t d o i f n c t tlienY-dwargdhleAsrsi.lbourn, the Iron. MARRIED. At St. George's, Hanover.square, P. M. Murphy, Esq., Q.C., and Assistant Barrister for the county of Cavan, to Jane, widow of the late Thomas T. Vigors, Esq., of Erindale, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Carlow. DIED On the 22d inst., Captain G. Bray, formerly of the King's Dragoon Guards, aged 62. On the 25th inst., at Bucklebury Vicarage, Barks, Richard Valpy, Rai., of Edgbaston, Birmingham, eldest son of Dr• Valpy, of Reading, aged 69. On the 25th inst., at Fern Acres, Fulmer, Colonel William Spiller, Bombay Army. London: Printed and Published by lIIIIRDO.TOITii O, ‘, t No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11)1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savvy, ill alo wag: 41 NAddi#o:4l WV1044.7004 9 29, IRA