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ARCHES COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (13efors Sn. JOHN DoDSON.) TIM OFFICE OF JLDGE PiioMoTED BY HODGSON v. GLAD STONE.—JUDGMENT. The Learned Judge delivered the judgment of the Court in this important ease to-day. He said the suit n ` st 'es instituted by virtue cf letters of request from the seishop of London, pursuant to the statute of the 3d and 4 th of Vic., c. 86, commonly called the Church Disci - Pant. Act, by which he was enabled to send cases of this description by letters of request to the Court of Appeal of the province, to be there heard and determined according to the law and practice of that court. It wns h ardly necessary to state the procredingi in the case, as that had already been dope on one or tem o ccasions, but he mi g ht as well aserve that by virtue of these letere of request a citation issued from the Court, which was returned with a eertificate stating it had !teen per sonally served upon Mr. Gladstone; that an a pp earance Was given for him by his proctor,who prayed for articles; that those articles wore afterwards brought in and ad mitted bY Mr. Gladstone without any o pp osition. U p on the following court day, after the admietion of the erti cies, be denied the Ist, 4th, sth, 10J), and 11th articles, and admitted the truth of the remainder, viz.: the 2,1, 3 d, 6th, 7th, and Bth. The Learned Judge then detailed the subsequent stages which were gone through, and said, as the publication of the articles had been Passed, the case now stood for judginent. The t ffeece charged against Mr. Gladstone was contained in the heading of the articles, and was publicly reading prayers, Preaching, administering the holy sacrament, and per • f unning other divine noires, in an unconsecrated chapel, called Long-acre Chapel, in the parish of St. Martin's, and in the diocese of London, without any licence from the Bishop, the previous licence having been revoked by _him, and contrary to the prohibition of the Bishop. . The first of the articles set forth the law of the case, but the Court having pronounced its jud gment on t h e law as applicable to the facts charged in the articles, and as to the right of the Bishop to revoke the licence, and to prohibit Mr. Gladstone from performing divine ser vice in the chapel, it would not be necessary to discuss , that point again. The cases which had been cited ap• peered to him to put the matter beyond all doubt—at least so far as to prevent the Court corning to a con , trary conclusion. The remarks, which were somewhat irregularly made, in reply to what fell from the Court, he had listened to with great attention; but, in his opinion, they were not such as to induce him in the slightest degree to doubt the correctness of the conclusion he had arrived at, or the principle as laid down in those authorities. Adhering, then, to his view of the law, and the facts charged in the articles, the principal remaining question was whether those facts were established by sufficient proof; but before • entering upon that it might not be improper to notice c ertain of the objections offered by Mr. Gle.dstone's ,Counsel t o th e i rregu larity of the proceedings. First, no said, that in consequence of the omission of the worn ein"in the citation served on Mr. Gladstone, the Bishop of London was described in that document es " Father God," instead of " Father in God." This !tatter, it was contended, must be deemed of high importance, and of essential value, inasmuch as a titl e o f a bl asp h emous c h arac ter was attributed to the Bishop, fro m : w hich it might be supposed he intended • (,) assume the title " Father God," which it was men -I°Tied was given to the Pope. Papa nostrum dominus e 2 4. He scarcely knew whether the Learned Counsel w as serious in t a king this objection, but in his opinion it certainly did not carry that weight with it to which tt ," s eemed to think it was entitled. The omission of this inuesyllabl e was , i n f ac t, a mere clerical error, and it ri ghtly been almost admitted to be so. The Bishop was • ttlY describ e d i n every other part of the instrument of citation %Wien, and the accidental omission of the word could , lot, therefore, mislead anybody; it did not, at any rate, m islead Mr. Gladstone, for he duly appeared to the cita tion. . : This then was a very trifling matter, for it was . aee_ • s ausstble gravely to suppose that the Bishop meant to sal said the bl as ph emous title whi c h the Learned Come ' ti on ls aid he did. Another objection was, that the cita th was served in the diocese of Wiachester, whereas do e letter s of request were issued in the diocese of Lon dn+ and this was said to be informal under the Church „ sci Plino Act; but the Learned Counsel laboured un- II41; rule confusion as to the constitution of the Court of c ues, and did not distinguish between that court in its t t l:Peal character and in its more limited jurisdiction 00 beanoregulng the peculiars of tho Archbishop. There 111€1 doubt that if a citation, issued from an ap , repentt court to a clergyman in the province over which li t ! l t a o d ai jurisdiction, was served anywhere within the the province, that service would be binding if themas follow e d by a n appearance. That was precisely p r esent case, and it was vain, therefore , to contend t hat Mr. Gl a d stone was no t properly before the court, by reason of undue service. A further objection was th at the proceedings were instituted against Mr. agetTads ntaises celerikis—th a t fourteen days were by the Church Discipline Act, for issuing that before a party was obliged to appear; o 4 t here the 'proceedings were taken against him at h e r 2 i n the Arches Court, and without any opportunity et rase; afforded him to consider what course he should n ' t .". l.B net that he was in op* 'will, and was led into 11 ; °r in consequence of the speed which was unduly • Proctor on the occasion. Now, Mr. Gladstone appeared by nuctor in the usual way; he had full opportunity to con • salt his professional advisers ; and he could not see to what i:rttadvantage he was exposed. The Court only fol -11:!ti the usual course which was adopted in all cases. lie admitted Mr. Gladstone was resident on the spot, and stllnitted all the main facts charged against him, and furt hermore, on every occasion when he applied for del ay. the Court acceded to his application. The t an rraed Judge having thus expressed his opinion on the to " aPplicable to the facts, and on the objections urged tpli t be Jurisdiction of the Court, proceeded to consider • The the proof of the facts was sufficient or not. Lie 4th and sth articles were in reality the only ones . :Ned by M r . Gladstone; they set out that the Bishop h London did, by instrument under his overnhand, on t 16 th January, 1852, duly revoke and make void the ce nee which he had previously—to wit, on the Ist day o l ti August, 1851, granted to Mr. Gladstone, during his p le asure, to perform the office of minister in the uncon ' secreted chapel known as Long-acre Chapel. in the P_atish of Bt. Martin's, &e., and further prohibit him ° Pciating or discharging any ecclesiastical duties in that "apel or elsewhere, in the diocese of London, and that he • nid admonish and require him to desist therefrom; which instrument was duly served on him on the 19th d ay of January. The fifth article simply annexed 'Proof of the instrument of revocation and prohibition. Though M r . Gl a d stone d en i e d the truth of those articles be admitted the two subsequent ones, that the instru ment bore the signatere or the Bishop, and also his episcopal seal. The question was whether it had been duly served. It was first said the service of the revoca tion and prohibition ought to be proved by two wit nesses; but he was of opinion that it was only necessary to bring the issuing of the instrument to the knowledge of Mr. Gladstone, and that a formal service in the pre sence of witnesses was not necessary. That Mr. Gladstone was made acquainted with the natureof the document was placed beyond all doubt by the evidence adduced in the case. It was first served on him at his chapel on Sunday, the 18th, previous to divine service, and as be denied the validity of the service on that occasion, it was sub sequently served at his residence, in accordance with his utvri appointment. The next objection was that the licence to preach was not given during the Bishop'a pleasure, but absolutely; but a witness stated that ho saw the li cence in the registry, and that it was " daring pleasure." But even supposing it was an absolute one, the authority of Dr. Dillon was directly applicable to the present ease, because he held, and he thought properly, that in all cases the same power which gave a license had the . Power to recal it. But there was every reason to sup- Pose the license to Mr. Gladstone was during pleasure. The instrument being - therefore legal and le gally served, • and Mr. Gladstone having ad flitted that on the following Sunday he publicly Preached and read prayers, &c., and continued to do so up to the present time, or at least until he , made his admissions, there appeared to him complete proof, either in the evidence of witnesses or in the ad missions of the party himself, that he was guilty of the Offence with which he was charged. After alluding to some other technical objections the Learned Judge con cluded thus:—l am, therefore, of opinion that the . Bishop of London had power to revoke the license at his will and pleasure, and had power to prohibit Mr. Gladstone from continuing to perform divine service in the chapel; and that, notwithstanding the revocation of the license, and the prohibition of the Bishop, he has still continued to perform divine service. That being so, I consider the facts charged in the articles are supported by sufficient proof, and I therefore admonish Mr. Glad stone to refrain from reading prayers, from publicly Preaching, or administering divine offices in the uncon secrated chapel of Lonansere for the future, until he obtains a license from the Bishop , and from performing di rtne service there or elsewhere within the diocese of L . London, in the province of Canterbu r y , until he obtains ma l ce M • se, and I likewise con demn him in costs. „a r* TEtans, the proctor, said he would a p peal ° "* 2 4 l 't d ,the decision. MX4E—Very well. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) • A (Before J AMES BURCHELL, Esq., Under-Sheri ff.) —• CURIOUS VIND-UP OF A CHANCERY SUIT —BIs"" • This Was V. LLOYD. an inquiry under a process in outlawry to tiaßee r ertain wh a t l an d s, tenements, goods, and c h atte l s the silendant was possessed of within the bailiwick of the iff of Middlesex. the AIr eu ..TROMPSON CHITTY appeared for the plaintiff in tt, and stated that . the plaintiff had obtained a judgmenteo against the defendant in one of the courts of :won law, and the present , proceeding had been r ° P i ed .to obtain any property belonging to the de .endant b R um --, on as to secure the plaintiff .to the extent of the —unt due; and although tho present proceedings were wiTituted by the . Crown, and the property b: 5 , .!lotuall forfeited to tho Crown, d it tithe present Up fo r the creditor. The defendant • •o o action hnl been the plaintiff in a suit of Chan cery, b y a cross bill had -been made a defendant in another su i t. (.4 3 1 241. ir.,,. In the first suit he was entitled to a sum , and in th e o th er to a larger amount, never the ess subject to any decree of the Ma :.ter. Co A urt l"g di 'cussion ensued, for the judgment of tho time, a f)t th e e 4 . l lll3 .,cory had not been drsvitt up for want of Tho rainu - J u ugrnent was only delivered in April las:. minuses ot so unintell• ' the judgment were produced, but w(re I %ible quested that th th . at, the Learned Under-Sheriff re• The LEARNp, D eY •P i ght he put in form. the minutes w e o ci '° l Thlexi. said that the transcribing The UNDER -S R nelt t ake a minute. take the other cases Ft then, go OD, and I will Mr. Howell Leach , the registrar, depos ed minutes of the judg to the Mr. CHITTY WC - I t:lien % ~, but t h rawin up th° judgment could not be altered, the de f erd*ut iu g tli. of tbe order was another matter, for la A c tAert tniotht t.tr. nn the order in THE SUN, Chancery to entitle hinagrif to the money; bu'; if ho did not do 're no one else could. The UNDER-SHERIFF aid that it was a einestic.m for the jury whether the defendant hal any cs)nirol over the property. The jury Ultimately found a spacial verdict, that tie fondant wa entitled to, but not in p3sseSsion of, 'certain funds now in the Court of Chancery. It took a con,iderable time to decipher and ttensier the minutes of the judgment, and the Under-Sheriff pro ceeded with the other case;, so that the verdict might be recorded in proper form. LITEitATURE,'. A VOYAGE TO CHINA. 'ByDr. Peng' a sfie. la these volumes Dr. Beracastle gives en animated account of his eastern voyage, together with an in teresting and instructive description of Bombay , the Mahratta country, Singapore, lirid''Western India and the Ceiestild M Empire. any -arniasing in cidents are narrated of the strange customs of the va rious nations and tribes which the author m+ t. in his travels. One day, Whilst examining the ruins of a Dutch fort i n th e neighbiAirheod of False Ba 3-, during Ids residence at . Cape Town, be ,perceived cl,,se by at an inr, 'yolept .‘..The Gentle Shepherd of Salisbury Plains," having an appropriately painted sign-bDard with the following inscription and verses:— "' Life'l but a journey, let us live well on the road,' says the Gentle Shepherd." Underneath which are these verses— " Multum in parvo, pro bono public°, Entertainment for man beast all in a row; Lekker kost (nice victuals) as much as you please, Excellent beds without any * * * Nos patriam fugimus! Now we are here, Vivamus, let us live by selling beer; On donne a boire et a manger ici, Come in and try it who ever you be." His graphic and picturesque description of the ascent of the Table Mountain, and the account of his previ ous ascent of Mount Wellington at Hopart Town, which, from its resemblance to the Table Mountain at the Cap, is commonly called by the same name, of which the following in an extract, are well worthy of perusal : " Aware of the dangers attending the enterprise, I had fully made up my mind to undertake it, and guard against them by proper precautions. Having kindly been offered by the ex.sheriff, Mr. Beaumont, the ser vices of his servant as a guide, we started three in all— Mr. Beaumont, jun., the servant, and myself—at noon, expecting to reach the top before dark. We were equipped with fowling-pieces, a telescope, and pocket compass (most indispensable), a tin kettle, a few kitchen utensils, and provisions for two days. " Our clothing was light, the heat being excessive; but we had reason afterwards, on reaching a colder tem perature, to regret not being warmer clad. The first part of our journey was easy enough, there being a broad footpath through a partially cleared forest for about three miles, s on leaving which the steepness increased considerably, and we arrived at the intricate part of our route. The track lay along a ridge, on each side of which were deep gullies covered with tall sassafras trees, and so thickly studded that the eye could scarcely pene trate them. It is here that there is most danger of losing oneself, as it is impossible to see which way to turn to get to Hopart Town. We pushed on for about two miles through an almost impenetrable forest, here called busk, consisting of gum, pepcormint, oak, and sassafras trees, of great heighr, many reaching from one to ono hundred and fifty feet. Oar march b ecame muc h impeded by a stubborn species of grass, breast high, rendered still more interesting by our guide informing us that it abounded with snakes, which in this country . . • aro very venomous. " The mountain now presented an irreguler appear ance. The, stones, instead of following any sort of order, were heaped pell-mell upon each other. They were all nearly square, and each one detached from the rest several tons in weight, we had to clanaber from one to the other nod cling to each for our lives; the leastfeux pas would have sent us rolling headlong several hundred feet beneath. It is at this part that many who undertake the ascent give it up, thinking it becomes more than a joke. Here we felt that our bag gage was a great encumbrance, and before we gut half through our task our boots and our clothes were all in tatters. At last we reached the top of the basaltic por tion of the mountain, and entered into the same kind of bush as that we had left behind, with the exception that our path was obstructed by quantities of large trees torn up by the roots and lying prostrate in all directions. Such is the force of the hurricanes from off the moun tain that the roots of some of the trees torn up were twenty feet deep. We had now accomplished three parts of our task, it was getting dark, ma- incuLil atra, and but for the cheering hope of soon obtaining water and bivouacking round a good fire, that kept up our spirits and renovated our energies, we could not have completed it. Our physical strength was quite exhausted, and had we not been tantalised by the spring that our guide promised to find on the summit, if we could only muster courage to reach it before dark, we would not have stirred another inch. We came to a second ridge of baysalt, but not so steep nor closely heaped together as the former, so that it was comparatively easy. At this height a very great change had taken place in the tempe rature, and we clearly felt that we were entering a more rarificd atmosphere; the cool air was rather favourable to our desperate condition and enabled us to hasten our pace. At last we saw before us the clear well-defined margin of the summit, and attained it at 8 P.m,, having been seven hours performing the ascent. The cold hero became very intense, and our great solicitude now was about finding the spring, which to me appeared im possible, as it is not bigger than a hand baisin. Our guide did not despair, having often been there before. However, after many fruitless attempts, he began to doubt; but at last, when on the point of giving it up, we had the good luck to fall in with it. Our joy, may be easily imagined when it is considered that we had drunk one bottle of ; brandy out of sheer necessity' only to wet our parched lips, which had the effect of rendering us still worse, by adding fu e l t o the flame, and for years afterwards I had an antipathy to that spirit, which originated entirely from this circumstance. Having filled oar kettle and bottles, we proceeded in search of a favourable place to pass the night. The proper way is to descend the mountain for a few hundred yards, where the cold is less severe, but the darkness rendered this step dangerous, so we were compelled to remain on the top. At last we found three large square stones, forming a partial inclosure. Having collected a large quantity of fire-wood for the night, we lighted a large bonfire, and set about cocking our provisions." After giving the reader a history of the Mahratta tribee, and a description of the inland country, and a full account of Bombay, its defences, the military, the hospitals, &c., Dr. Berncastle conducts him through the Straits of Malacca to Singapore, and thence to the Celestial empire, into which he gives him an insight as far as the Chinamen will allow, and gives a Fong account of the depredations of the Chinese pirates, and the apathy of the Chinese Govern ment with regard to their suppression. He describes the celebrated edible birdsnest, which is considered such a luxury, and is found in Java, Sumatra, and in most of the rocky islets of the. Indian Archi pelago. It is the nest of a small swallow, and is composed of a mucilaginous substance resembling ill concocted fibrous isinglass. The method of procuring these nests is not unattended with danger, the caves in which they are found being sometimes many hundred feet down the perpendicular side of the rock, which are reached by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rock. After the nests are obtained they are carefully separated from feathers and dirt, are dried and packed, and are then fit for market. The white or best quality com mands an extravagant price, costing four thousand dollars per parcel (about one hundred and thirty-three pounds avoirdupois), which is nearly twice their weight in silver. On the author's visit to Macao, be longing to the Portuguese, he remarks : - " One of the most remarkable things in Macao is the Cave or rather Grotto of Camoens, where that celebrated man wrote the greater part of the Luciade.' It is situ ated in the middle of an opulent Portuguese domain, is taken great care of, and is surmounted by a bust of the poet, the rocks being covered with suitable inscriptions and verses to his memory. The owner allows free ac cess to all visitors to the cave, which is by far the mort interesting spot in Macao?' Although from the title one might be led to believe that this work is bat a narrative of a voyage, it is in reality a very useful and amusing history of nearly all the important stations from Europe to China. ROYAL MARINES.—WOOLWICU, JUNE B.—Eleven volunteers from the Woolwich division, and sixteen from the, Chatham division, will leave Woolwich to-morrow for Ports mouth to join the artillery companies. One corporal from Chatham to act as schoolmaster, and six privates from the W oolwich division, volunteers, are to embark in the David Malcolm freight ship, for service at the Island of Ascension. Lieutehant Delacombe will take charge of the volunteers for the artillery companies to Portsmouth. o e it x p hib -- - - - iti nGAZAgTi theatre, n. lm —The ver F y A e l a L t u e n n s E i vet z a T a H r and THE ri d u i ll o r Q a E m R i F c re.. cently erected out of the old fish-market at the ord Suspension-bridge, has, after several ineffectual attempts f keep it going, turned out to be a complete failure, an ti t le place is now shut up, the large dioramas, with all heir ma chinery, are advertised to be sold, under the hammer, in a few days. There was a report some time since, that the matter had passed into the hands of an English proprietary, who were about to open the place again, under more attrac tive arrangements, but the announcement seems to have bee n p r emature, as there is not the least sign of animation about the building. There must have been a considerable sum of money lost by the spec u lation, for, after the throng of the Great Exhibition passed from the metropolis, this new edition of the Lowther Arcade soon became deserted and tenantless. The accounts of the country trade throughout the past wee k interrupted state that business ✓h a s been consid erabl y by the I•A • . 1-,•,1 owing to the in creasing ho.rua3s, w ...u...i, prosperity been more generally 2 r ept of the people, have never amount at rational ' or been attended with a greater continue firm, anderjom en t. At Manchester prices in connexion with the transactions i have been chiefly there has been little work of demand. At Birmingham ex cursion trains have reaped heavyany hind, and the railway , are large, and quotations 8 profits. The sales of iron In the woollen districts the w a further improvement. pears to be maintained. From of confidence ap ports of both the lace and hosiery°illNottingham the re more satisfactory than those last departments are from the United States are extensive. received, and the orders ket has been rather less active. The i he Irish linen mar gration to Australia is felt in all parts of towards emi the departures, which are numerous would be kingdom, and be much greater were it not for the want of hands at bom . - C° alla tho ougequat LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, THE FRENCH - -REPUBLIC; We have received the Paris journal; of yesterday. The lioniteur publi4les a second warning which has been serve] upon the Constitutionnel in MM.. pence of 111. ATERON'd article of . the Bth inst. The effect of this second warning is to give to the Govern ment the power of suspending, and even sappresting, the journal in virtue of Article 32 of the Law on the Press, decreed on the 17th of February, 1852. We read in the Moniteur :—" Some journals hays ascribed to the Government the project of proposing. a law for interdicting work and sales on Sundays and holidays. The Government never entertained any such idea. It desires that the religious law shell be respected ; it has prescribed to contractors for works which it causes to be executed that they shall not em. ploy men on the days which religion consecrates to repose; but there stops its duty and its right; it does not belong to the civil power to intervene, except by the example it gives, in an affair of con science." The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic went on Tuesday in en open carriage to Vincennes, and' wit nessed experirwnts with the new description of gun carriage which he has invented. He returned by the quais. He was only accompanied by an otlicier d'ordon n an ce. The correspondents of some of those English papers which have shown themselves least favourable to the Government of Louis NAPOLEON received invita tions to present themselves in the cabinet of M. LA TOUR DUMOULIN, director of the department of the press in the ministry of police. Oa Tuesday after noon the correspondent of the Daily News waited on M. LATOUR, DumouLiN, whose manner is repre sented as being characterised by perfect politeness and suavity. The tenor of his communication was that the French Government had observed attentively since the 21 of December the attitude of the Eng lish press, and regretted to perceive that many of the London newspapers were not only hostile to the pre sent Government, but outrageous towards the head of the state. Now the French Government did not ask for support at the hands of any , foreign newspaper ; it did not even wish to depre cate opposition ; but it was determined not to allow the parson of the head of the state to be treated with outrage and insult, and his name to be dragged through the mire (traine dans la bone). It was not only in the letters of the corre spondents that this offensive manner of mentioning the person of the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON was prat • tised, but also in the leading articles. But in either case, for the future, the person of the correspondent would be held responsible, inasmuch as it was only fair to suppose that he furnished the false news on which the insulting appreciations contained in the leading articles were founded. The correspondent was then given to understand that if either the Paris letter of the Daily News, or the leading articles of that paper, contained any expressions outraging the person of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, he would be consi dered as the responsible person, and be forthwith expelled from France. (The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle and Advertiser, whom the direc tor also has seen, has received a similar warning.) The correspondent of the Daily News protested against this principle. He stated that if the French Government made the Paris correspondent of an English paper responsible for whatever appeared in that paper relative to France, it would act neither ac cording to the principles of justice, law, nor inter national usage. It was known that the responsibility could cnly lie with the editor of the newspaper in England. A correspondent formed no part of what the French call the redaction of a paper. He was a private person, who sent confidential letters, the ree whose a ne p s u t b remedyl t Li c i no of fw thehs p e a pFhe French e d , n which n hh c t hh PREinh ge. s s e : p h ° t N s e i T v b lr lay t t y o d c o o l f e w a r i w l t y h h might either prosecute in the English courts of law, or lay a diplomatic complaint against with the English Government, which would, in point of fact, come to the same thing; only in the latter case the French Government would hold the English one responsible for the prosecution of the paper, as had been recently the case in Belgium. When the PRINCE PRESIDENT'S uncle became Emperor, he was attacked with violence by the English newspapers; and he took this means of redress. He caused a criminal information to be filed against the editor of the news paper, who was defended by Sir JAMES:MACKINTOSH. The upshot of the affair was the condemnation of the newspaper to considerable daniages. M. LATOUR DUMOULIN answered that the French Government could not accept the theory of the irresponsibility of correspondents. For the charge of uttering false news, although it seemed scarcely necessary to touch this question, the correspondent remarked that such errors were necessarily incidental to the journalist's vocation, but that they were in his case at least never intentionally committed. In all events, he was sure that the Daily News would have no objection to insert such rectifications of false news as the Government would communicate. M. LATOUR DUMOULIN said that the Government was anxious to afford every facility to English correspon dents for sending correct news ; it would even have no objection to communicate at times important docu ments which it could not permit to be published in France. For instance, the Count DE CHAMBORD'S letter, although the indipendance Beige was seized for the publication of it, wou ld have been confided without difficulty to; an English newspaper. These and other civil offers were made politely by M. LA TOUR DUMOULIN, who acquitted himself of his deli cate task with no want,of civility. But his ultima tum was that the Government could not 'accept the theory, of the irresponsibility of correspondents., Whatever difference of opinion may exist among political proceedings in our contemporaries as t o France, it is certainly to be deplored that very violent personal attacks have been frequently directed by PRINCE PRESIDENT, giving some of the most influential a mon g them against the but too just .grounds for remonstrance. Nevertheless we can by no means acknowledge the propriety of M.L.vrouu DUMOULIN'S views, as to the individual responsibility of a foreign correspondent. Captain KLEEER, who was condemned to death by a court-martial for the affair of the 13th of June, and whose.sentenc e was com muted by the PR ESIDENT of , the Republic to imprisonment, has just been set at liberty by a furth er extension of clem enc y spontane ously accorded by th e P RIN CE. The rresse p e r s i s t s , notwithstending t he foemer contradiction given by General CHANGARNIER to the assertion that he had offered to invade England if the Provieional Government of the Republic would place only 12,000 troops at his disposal, in stating that the offer :was made, and repeats what it had said on the subject, to show that its assertion was well founded. The affair of the " conflict," set up by the Prefect of the Seine on. the subject of the decrees against the Orleans property is to be pleaded before the Council of State on Saturday. The report will be presented by M. LEON COItNUDAT, a Member of the Council of State, and .M. RIVERCUON will address the Counc il as Government Commissioner. M. PAlli; FORE and M.,MA.TBIEU BODET will plead on behalf of, the Or leans family. , , • „ M. SENxisr, conductor •of tllO, trom Epernay to Sedan, .has.been nominated .guardian of the tomb of NAPOLEON at the Invalides, with a salary of 3,000 f. a•year. He was one of the persons who accompanied the EMPEROR to Elba, and after wards' proposed to accompany him to St. Helena. The EMPEROR bequeathed him 20,0001'. The Union states that during the whole of the term of his imprisonment at St. Pelagie, M. PROUDRON wore a white blouse and a blue cotton nightcap. The Corsaire of yesterday, in giving an article about the Corn Exchange in Liverpool, puts the name of the building in English, but, fearing that its readers may not understandit, adds a translation of it in a parenthesis and calls it l'Echange des Comes ! An ex-gendarme, nearly 100 years of age, named HElLiciA.Nrt, died a few days ago at Colmar. He formed part of the detachment which conducted ROBESPIERRE and SAINT-JUST to the scaffold. There was bat little business transacted in Governs *meat Securities at the Bourse. Railway Shares con tinue to be in good ckniand. The Four-and-a- Half per Cents. opened at 100 f. 30c., - and' closed at 100 f. 25c. for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 70f. 25c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,225 E; Rouen, 802 f. 50e.; Havre, 315 f.; Great Nor thern, 610 f.; Avignon, 365 f. ; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c.; Basle, 260 f.; Bordeaux, 635 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 5751. ; Tours and Nantes, 3Slf. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 635 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE',',Juagx 9. s u t o r r a m sb e o r ur ly 6 80n1 23 0 3 g: _ a C n entral of Prance (Orleans andlrierzon), 235/ 1 --`East In 22.4—Luxembonrg, B:l—Namtir and Liege, 6 1 ,— Bordeaux, 141 e x Northern of France, 2378—Ditto 20/. 3 per Cent. Bonds R an ou d eu /k. an mi d en ff s a s , h vr a e, res) l , 2: l: l o v r e l s e t ansand d.—Paris and Rouen, 31 3 4—Paris and Flan ders, 3.. • SPAIN: The 11.facfrici Gazette of the 4th, publishes -a . royal decree, ordering that the vessels of the. Pontifical States arriving in Spanish ports shall be, placed on the same footing, with regard to duties, as those of Spain. The .Espana of the 4th, announces that the Go verntuent has farmed out the octroi duties of six provinces. The Three per Cents. were done at 451; th e N ew Three per. Cents. at 22 5-16; the Debt of the 'first class at el; and that of the second at si. • of the j own 31s. lioc concession. At A ca t n v be i - en pi n i a t blisp ais ed but in virtue -of a. u con cession will he granted by th e p o lice authorities, and in the - -provinces - by the Government. The edi tors must - be_24 years of age, be Austrian sub jec.ts, and of irreproachable reputation. The political -and religious journals are bound to furnish a caution money, the maximum of which is fixed at 10, 000 fib rins. ,The journals now existing will have a delay of three mouths granted them to furnish the caution money. Journals having a hostile and dangerous ten dency may be suppressed after two warnings. The police may prohibit the distribution of articles printed abroad. Offences of the press will be tried by the or dinary tribunals. I The King of Prussia will leave Berlin for Breslau on the:lo:h, to visit the Exhibition of Industry, ac cording to ti promise obtained by the Committee. The order of the Finance Department, by which in March last 'the i m p or t duty on grain and fl our was suspendedkr the wh o l e o f the Zollvere i n t ill t h e e nd of August next, has k ept d own the price of prov i s i ons , which in some district s were becom i ng scarc e a nd dear. Another order of the Finance Minister has just extended the application of the first decree, and prolonged it till the end of September. Many re presentations having been made to the Government that it was desirable other articles produced from grain, besides flour, should have the same exemption from duty, it is n ow ordered that pear l-b ar l e y, crushed corn, and gr ea t s s h all also be importe d d u ty free, till the close of th e a b ove-named month. A letter from Vi enna of the 3d says:- 9 This evening the Court of the Exp Eßon will leave for Pesth, and the Imperial guard will follow the day after to-morrow. His MAJESTY will be absent for from six weeks to, two months. Ile will go through the whole Of Hungary. On the 11th be will leave Pesth for Czegted and Keskemeth ; on the 14th he will arrive at Temeswar ; on the 9 9d at and on the 23d he will arri ve at Baden. " The new law for imposin g a stamp duty on j ourn als in Prussia has been promulgated, and will come i nto operation on the Ist July next. Jaspereing ; BELGIUT Paris on Tuesday evening, ann ounces that 25 Lib era l A telegraphic dispatch from B russels, and 19 Opposition Members h ave b een elected. rec eived in S WITZERLA ND. The Union Francondoise of the 6th says :—" We learn a fresh act of persecution against the Catholic religion in Switzerland, being the suppression of the religious corporations existing in the canton of Tessino, and the confiscation of their property. The law which authorises this act of violence a n d spoliation was passed by the Grand Council, by a m a j or i ty of 53 votes to 51 . The Grand Council consists of 11 4 members, so that there were several absent when th e vote was given." GERMANY. A letter from Vienne, of the 2d inst., says : " The ordinance on the press just promulgated, con tains enactments which are less severe than were ex pected. The liberty of the press is subjected to some restrictions. Copies of the journals must be deposited in the hands of the authorities one hour before their publication, and for works, three days previou s. The fnr the sale ITALY, The Giornale di Roma of the 3d has an article on Mr. Murray's affair. It begins by stating that Rome possesses a Penal Code and a code of procedure, and that these, and not th e capr i ce of the judge, determine the rules for disc over i ng the truth. It further recites, that Edward M urray, a native of Ce phalonia, was brought over to Italy by bis father, followed the profession of a banker, and married Ursula Gabrieli, a native of Loretto. In 1848 and 1849 he was named police inspector at Ancona, during which time the greatest disorder reigned there, and many murders occurred, in support of which assertion the writer of the article quotes letters of Sir George Hamilton, addressed to Lord Palmerston. Some days after, it is further stated, a British vessel ar rived to protect the British Consul, and the Governor had some assassins arrested, amongst whom was Murray : " "Nov, the writer concludes, these f ac t s are forgotten; people show them se l ves f u ll of pity, n o t f or the victims of the system of terror, bat for Murray, who abetted it; an European Parliament has had its attention called to the matter, and it has been asserted that the Pontifical tribunals are slow, and accessible to corruption. As to the first assertion, it is not generally known that Murray's case comprises eighteen counts of accusation for the most serious offences, and that forty individuals are implicated in it. As to the second, we repel it with indignation, because our magistrates are models of im partiality. The case has been regularly judged by a competent tribunal, and we have only now to learn the tenor of the sentence." MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR. The House of Commons has at length taken mea sures for the protection of its Members, the vindication of its dignity, and the good order of its proceedings. Mr. F. O'Connor is now in the custody of the Sergeant at-Arms. Oar Parliamentary report contains the few and brief speeches made on this painful occasion, and to this report it is only necessary to add that just at the mo ment when the motion for his committal was being made Mr. O'Connor stood at the Speaker's left hand, and was addressing that gentleman in a manner which, under any circumstances, must have been a breach of order. So soon, however, as Mr. O'Connor became aware of the exact nature of the proposition which was about to be carried, he walked out of the House, ob tained a glass of brandy at the bar in the lobby, which ho instantly drank, and procee d e d d own the Member' private na . --- ssagc into Westminster-hall, whither he was followed by a few gentlemen, some of whom were magistrates, known to the police. The con which they then received, told Mr. O'Connor that his ten'esdtoeddy, and removed stables on duty, therefnre presence would aeon be required in the House, and that . acting upon the information he must not quit the .id a ti ----; on receiving this intimation he began to howl so loudly and vehe me ntly that a con siderable crowd soon assembled. At this spot Mr. O'Connor remained for a few minutes, in the course of which the Speaker's warrant for his commital was made out. Armed with this authority Mr. Cleznentson, thef accompanied hy several officers of the Westminster-hall, .. estminster-Intll, took Mr. resistance to the rooms of Mr. Gosset, the OtDh ,eeConnor house, er: pt e ro a o n ce assistant-sergeant. In a little time those cham bers became filled with Members, anxious to learn the particulars Of the arrest. Te., -- ' 4l ' presence seemed vio lently to exeite Mr. O'Connor, who 'called them ruffians, villains, murderers; at times shouting furiously, at others groaning most heavily, and occasi ona lly giving exPres sion to his feelings in tones Of triumph and rejoicing. After a short time the gentlemen who had crowded into Mr. Gosset'a apartment were induced to withdraw, a n d him without any Mr. O'Connor was left in the car e o f five officers, But in less than an hour from that tirao, w h en Mr. O'Connor bed been somewhat calmed, h —6 was removed to the pri son-rooms iia the upper story of the building towards the river front; and the whole b were of these proceedinel completed before the de,„ 1 11- ' l ""rnment of the - House. It is usual to supply At e custody with rebel's in refreshments at their o wn exee. If Mr, nor, who who does not seem to wants funds, be supplied with all that he is accustom e d , ' 0 enjoy, brandy will enter largely into the articles of his consumption. It is understood that f for a long time past be' has b een scarcely ever sober. In he libraries and he has for refreshmentmany roomsweeks of attached to the H ouse of Commons pre s s ent session guilty of the most scandalous thbree ache of decorum; been and his presence has occasionally been even dangerous. At one time he attempted to stab an Hon. Alderman of London with a fork; at another he threatened a dis tinguished Minister of the Crovvn spreading alarm wherever he appeared; and shortly before his committal be had a violent personal eneo with a flute r in the lobby of the House.. A larg e I Member ,m Proportion of the Mem. hers and almost all the Oweera b e f ern the ex ho manif e leve ' treme canning which este, that his madness is t th t h feigned, or at leas ._ l a , ; - 1 sufficiently sane to be considered a responsib 0 agent; while, on the other hand,lhose accustomed to persona of unsound mind are not surprised at his artfulness, a nd think the sooner he is placed in a lunatic asylum t h e better.— Times. 5maminn0mmmimm.M.................._ ST. JAMES'S rie -----:-----""--• REA TRE. Kotzebue's Der Aare Poete W as ing. The chief merit of this pi ene l3 .erformed last even erous li the structure is but slight. A poor l e ,in the acting, for ag t e na r rd e r d eht g .a a sH r mtooehnat has not softenb u t .the tasted toeudnbd hardr e h ah e d a e heart, I i i 3 ,;: s P i n o 0 a t , miserablei t h ta t - 01-a/Id-thirty hours, P 1 o d o t d o l e h " i e to be enabled to pay his, debt, for:th e Ile hopes soon whom he ewes a few miserable p ence. his landlady, to rich lady is in. extremes, and she nai l , this critical juncture an elegantly dressed _`,` elegy." At a childr s uddenly. She calls (his daughter, unknown to hitla),,,,i Be ,u Young lady out, but she dares net reveal it to hi m ° uas found him t ntor Warms the acte orders:food and wine. The gen old man's heart; he is induced to relates the • A runaway watch —separation—hopes of sad tale. of by the beholding his wife—his struggles—all is once aain light, and sob bing child. A youth is announced, t h e man. The success of this ofa the maiden. He desires a marriage ode. $e relates of story of his hride-7-the echo of the story related old man. It burst upon him like a H oed he ;falls ~ senseless at the feet of hi e curtain great relief 9f the audience he recovers, andeuti To the the part part de drops upon a happy pends much upon the actor: Herr K u h n poor poet, g e admirably. ntlema niv The y elegant ie be manners h theorfatghse scholar ofthe and the .orgatteeeart Therewho is some similarity between this and the part In * Parenu and Guariiians,in which Air. Wigan pl ayed attended. excel lently. The house was very well tied. came andw t h o en claim b eP hi e m s se as d her the fa e t l h e e g r a , n al t l g w ir st i . t ° his so , - • Loyal Highness the Duke of . Cambridge honoured the Performances at h e r Majesty's Theatre with his preset_sce .on Tuesday even i ng . His Royal Highness was attended by Major the Hon. James Macdonald.. Her Majesty's boa ,w, B occupied by HER MAJESTY'S TREATRE.—His R the Mar quis and Marchioness of Water orn,tne Viscountess Canning, Lady Howard de Walden, the Hon._ Misses Ellis and Parry. Amongst the noble anddistinguished persons also honouring the theatre. with their • presence on t his occasio n were t h e ' following :_The Duke of Rutland, the Duk e and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis of Lansdowne, hi s -,, ~ - .. , xesitency the American Minister and Mrs . and Miss Abbott L awrence, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, _the Mar qu i s of Clanri card e, the. Marquis of Titehfie ld, the Right H on . the Secretary for Poreign Affairs, the Ear l and Countes s of Stamford and Warrington, the Countess d e Flahault and Madll e. de Fla lisairtilitt,otheertEraereli,ofßeaartr. my digan% the Countes s o f blalmesburY, the Right Hon. the Secretary 1 for the Colonies and Lady Pakington, the blaster General of the Ordnance, Lord Southampton, Lord George Paget, Li Bart., the Hon. Mr. Dutton and the M isses Du t to n , Lord William Lennox, Atiss Xa4e, AIL.SS J3urciett Ccutts and puty • 8.,.. k. Adolphus Fitzclarence, Sir George WoWombwell, JUNE 10, AMERICAIi NEWS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9. The United States Mail steam-ship A tlantic, Captain West, which was telegraphed off H o l yhead at six o'loek this morning, arrived in the Mersey at noon. Sbo left New York on Saturday, tae 29th ult., but in consecrience of the prevalence of a den oe f cg came to off Sandy Hook, and remained there until five A. M. on Sunday, when she proceeded on her voyage to Europe, end shortly afterwards fell in with her consort, the Arctic which was then on her way to N ew Y or k. , On the Ist of June, at 5.30 r.es,, the Atlantic passed the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, also bound for New York, in lat .41 30, long. 64 56. The Atlantic brings 150 passengers, 520,000 dolls. in specie, and the usual mails. Among tho passengers are Madame Goldcemidt (Jenny Lind) with her husband and suite, who were en thusiastically cheered on I.:riding; they proceeded at once to the Adelphi 11:01. During the greater part of thepassage Madame Goldsehmidt was confined to her berth by severe indi-position. There were also two Protestant bishops (Delaney and Croskey), Charles Gould, Dq., and Grad Greenwood, among the passen gers; being, says the. New York Times, more notables than have been congregated on any steam-ship that has I left New York for the last twelve months. Thu following are extracts from the New York pa , pers:-- _ _ - The grant of 33,000 dolls. for such voyage has been passed by the Senate in favour of the Collins' line of steamers. The majority was 27 to 19. Dispatches from the west announce the destrnctien of two or three more steamers by fire, together with a large amount of very valuable freight. Since the Ist of Ja nuary over twenty steam-boats on the western rivers have been entirely destroyed by fires, explosions, sink ing, &c., and the whole number of lives lost by these casualties is estimated at over 250. Affairs in Buenos Ayres appear to be in a very quiet and satisfactory state. Nine days later news from that quarter was received on Thursday, which indicates that thus far the order of things was rapidly developing the resources of the Plate provinces. Dr. Perkins's extensive sugar-house at Baton Rouge, Virginia, was entirely consumed by fire on the night oi the 18th of May. Loss about 200,000 dolls., and in sured for 70,000 dolls. Destructive fires have been raging in the woods in Maine, on the line,of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, for, some time. On one day it was impossible for the cars to run between Greene and Lewiston, and passengers were taken a long circuit in carriages around the fire. At Mechanic Falls the running of trains was also impeded. Several thousand cords of railroad wood have been consumed, and much damage done to the woodwork of the track. The steamer Southerner, off Turtle Island, passed the small tow-steamer Telegraph, on fire. She ran as near as possible, but could discover no human being, and concluded that the crew, numbering eight men, must have perished. Mr. Hiram Perry and daughter, of Monson, were killed at Collins' depot, near Springfield, Mass,, on the 27th, by being run over by the 6 ran. express train. The New York papers contain a full account of the escape from Van Diemen's Land, and the arrival in New York, of Thomas Francis Meagher (pronounced Maher), the Irish exile and orator, who was transported for the part he took in the Irish revolutionary movement with William Smith O'Brien, John Mitchel, and others. He arrived in the brig Acorn, from Pernambuco, having escaped from Van Dicmon's Land in an American whaler. He kept himself perfectly incog. until Thurs day, except to one or two friends. The Courier and Inquirer gives the following account of his escape from Van Diemen's Land:— " For some time previous to February last arrange ments were in progress, which, if successful, the exiles, nine in number, were to be taken from Van Diemen's Land and brought to our shores. In January the ar rangements were completed,' when it was found that in consequence of their residing so far apart (some ten miles) it would be impractica ble to get them all off at one time, and their friends though reluctantly, were obliged to confine their opera tions to effecting the release of Mr. Meagher, as his position gave the surest prospect of success. Everything being in readiness, early in February Mr. Meagher sent his pared of honour' to the magistrate, with the pro mise that he would consider himself bound by it for two hours after its delivery, and no longer. On receiving it the magistrate gave immediate orders to the constable in Bothwell (where Mr. Meagher resided) to arrest him without delay. This the constable refused to do, stating that he was himself an Irishman, and would do nothing, to hinder Meagher's escape. This placed the magistrate in a position somewhat unpleasant, as there aas not another officer within twenty-four miles. He, how ever, mounted horse, and proceeded to the nearest point for the purpose+ of bringing back an officer to take charge of Mr. Meagher, waited for his return until the time promised had expired, after which he took horse and proceeded in an opposite direction, in which course he is said to have travelled as fast as his horse could carry him, for over one hundred miles, or to the point where his friends had another conveyance in waiting. After reaching Pernambuco, he is said to have been taken on board the brig Acorn, on the 23d of April, and by her brought to this port." In the Senate, on the 28th ult., it was carried, after various amendments proposed and rejected, by a ma jority of 27 to 19, that the present allowance to the Collins line of steamers bo increased to 33,000 dollars per trip, with the proviso that it shall be in the power of Congress at any time after the 31st December, 1854, to terminate the arrangement for any additional allow ance herein provided for, upon giving six months' notice. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The Money Market at New York had !Nen very r.asy; money was plentiful, and could be obtained at mode - A . :4e rates. Stocks were in good demand. Breadstutfs—Westorn Canal Flour 4 dolls. to 4 dolls. Inc. per brl., steady; Gennessce prime wheat 1 doll. Sc. to Ti doll. 10c. per 50Ib. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 60c. to 62. c. per bushel, steady; Indian meal 3 dolls. 12ie. to 3 dolls. 25c. per brl. Tito cotton Market is brisk at advancing prices; New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, like. to -? ; e ; Upland and Florida, mid. fair to fair, lOic to 10:1c per lb. Provisions in demand at full prices. Exchange on London, 110 e to 1101; Paris, 5.15. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JUNE 9. Loss OF THE FRENCH BRIG ST. BARRE, OF BOR DEAUX.—The Solent steamer towed in yesterday the crew (eight in number) of the above vessel, who had escaped in their boat. The brig foundered on Monday afternoon, about twenty miles to the southward of the island, she VIM coal laden from Newcastle for Algiers. The poor fellows had only time to save their clothes and a few provisions before she went down, but their humanity lcd them to take from the sinking vessel a monkey and a cat. THREE BULLS AT CowEs TAKING A FANCY TO PHYSIC.—On Monday last nearly 100 head of cattle were landed at Cowes from Southampton fair, some of them rather wild and vicious looking animals, unused to civihz , ,,d society, and inclined to take any road but the right. Three of these monster bulls (but not the Pope's) took a fancy to a chemist's shop, and dashed in at the door. Mr. Weeding and his assistant, having no taste for such company, beat a hasty retreat cut at the back. The shop was too small for the huge animals to turn in; they found their way through it into the sur gery at the back, demolishing as they went . the glass in the cases and the bottles on the shelves. It was ex pected that they would have found their way back into the street through the shop-window, but after some time two of them turned, and were driven out at the door; but the third, feeling tirol, laid down behind the counter. This placed the doctor, the driver, and some score of anxious lookers-on is a fix. A genuine Isle of Wight man was for killing the bullock, and drawing him out in quarters; when it was proposed by the " Bull" of the Fountain Inn to put up the shop-shutters and remove the counter. This being done, the animal took the hint from his namesake, and regained the street by the shop d o or without doing any further damag e t o the doctor's simples. During the same day a gentleman of the same family did far more mischief in two drapers' shops in Newport, waging destruction particularly amongst the ribbons; his old Tory blood was wrath at beholding so much Radical blue displayed. GREAT nun IN LAMBETIL—The following is Mr. Braidwood's official report on the fire at Mr. Saxton's timber-yard, of which we gave a brief account in yesterday's impression :—" Two o'clock, A.M., June 9 —Called by strangers and police to a fire at Mr. Saxton's, timber mer chant, Blackfriars-wharf, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars road, which destroyed the stabling, saw pits, the mahogany lofts, and about one-fourth ot the stock in the yards on !and s ide. The fire was extinguished by water from the Lam beth Company's works and the river Thames, with three engines of the D, one of A, and two of B districts of the London establishment, one of the West of England -m e-of fiws, ce, an d the upper float. Mr. Cox, No. 1, Bennett' front windows burnt out, and furniture damaged by water and heat—insured in the Globe Fire-office. Messrs. Scott and Thom b pson's iron works roof of foundry and sheds damaged y fire, and some w i n d o ws broken—insurance not known.' ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL.--The anniversary festival of this hospital was celebrated on Monday evening, at the Al bion Hotel, Aldersgate-street. Sir Charles Burrell, Bart., Dj,p., took the chair, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, wh o was prevented from attending. Amongst the company pre sent we noticed Sir James Law Lushington, Sir E. Parry, E,N., Mr. Masterman , M.P., Mr. Hoare, and Mr. Bosanquet. T h e chairman gave the " Arm y and Navy," coupling with the toast the names of Sir James Law Lushington and Sir B. Parry, both of whom returned thanks. The toast of the evening, " Prosperity to St. Mark's Hospital," followed. In the course of the evening a list of subscriptions was read by the treasur er, amounting to 1,230/., including 101. f rom the c hairman ; the Lord Ma y or, 10/. ; Mr. Masterman, M.P. , 10/. ; the Auxiliar y Society, 491. Mr .W. C. Jones, 105/. ; lizielli, 521. 10s. ; Mr. J. Masterman, jun., 10/. ; Bu r . B. Burrower, 21/. ; Mr. Carznove, 211. ; Mr. Cotterill, 10/. 10s., &C. INNER TEMPLE, JUNE 7.—The following members o f this Honourable Society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evening before several of the benehers • A r thur llyott T hom p son, M.A., James Lenno x Hann . ; Frederick Dumergue, Esq., Edward Yates,B.A., John Richard Fowler, 8.A., Edward Thoroton, B.A., s' • A " Macpherson, 111 D David Smith, 8.A., Arthur George M William Ritcat, 8.A., Edward Carthew, Esq., J ames H :, E s q., Joseph Holdsworth Fernley, Es Georgewy Fernley, Latham, M.A., John Foster Gresham q 7 M.A., I'clrnu Powell, 8.A., George Samuel Fereday Smith, B Edmund Elliott Boileau, Sherwood, Esq., Joseph Beaumont, Esc; John 8.A., the Hon. Edwin Berkeley Portman, Henry ,. Lopes, 8.A., and Samuel Wordsworth Barber, arles METROPOLITAN SEWERS.—The Government I 3 ill on the metropolitan sewers was yesterday of printed, are to be continued until the ithThe Acts is to be rated to August, 153, and land is 1 - yer3 3 ' and oue•tpartla 9. f its annual 1852, SPORTING NOTES. No. C CXLI TUE PI'►OBALLL STARTERS FOIL TO-MORROW 'S RACES AT ASCOT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sltt,—My judgment ,7esterday was right in every in stance. but one—the Royal Hunt Cnp—ior which, some bow or other. I completely overlooked the pretensions of Ephesus, which were more than usually dangerous, from the state of the ground, and the course being a se vere mile ; an order of things most suited to this son of Epirus and Enterprise. He waited in the early part of the race ' came when required, and won easily enough. For the Fourth Triennial, as I placed them so they passed the p ost, but in much closer contiguity than I expected, Whitehouse having anything, bat the race in lookin g enabled particularly mischievous ; he, however, , Bader, thus e d a strid e or two from the post, and in first . , e being stalled at her quarters. I h off by a l ike gap For tohne Auld d - ve A r cti to uai u c h , is nob only I had a fancy as a foaal:S h c e c e on be d i p g lace; Nat, on r . I), will make some consid the as to 110 doubt the winner, fir whom but I hold some doubtserable-0- - bly fine one, cease of a few day staying — wore about him in 13 s — tir e in re t el he Derby 4 betting; his qualities for cond and third will both Cheddar, I am afraid, is no Derbyurn out tidy animals; but As I anticipated, Vaultress cut her s. The Sa fer the Fernhill Stakes in the first eh antagonists down won as she pleased by a dozen lengths or yards, and ". The race for the C oronat i on Stakes % s as cl ose as ore ' that for the Trienni a l ; B ut l er, on the Exotic winning by one of his spl en did rushes in the lfielet filly, Only by a head, Hirsuta beating Cal or i c b y the same (ii stride stanco for second place. My l as t remar k s on this stake Were thus verified. The Windsor Town Plate is not entered for as yet, and I know nothing about the Workingham Stakes. I give the list of starters for the other three races. 20 Sovs. Stakes, half mile—One of Mr. Liley's nomina tions (probably Bracelet) will walk over. 50 Soya. Stakes, old mile—Lueio and Ambrose; the last-named ought to be the winner. Great Western Railway Handicap, mile and a half— Edward of York, Sir Rowland Trenchard, Storyteller, Sackbut, Knight of the Shire, Bushranger, Tophane, Pan, Honlakin, Benita, Free-trader, Maria, and perhaps Cotton Lady or Greengage. Several of the above will most probably be withdrawn at the last moment, but which they are likely to be I cannot discover. The race I anticipate will lay entirely between BUSHRANGER and TOPHANA ; with Free-trader and Mr. Payne's starter in the next positions. No betting this morning, except upon to day's racing. I am, Sir, yours, &c., TUE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Jane 10, 1852. - - - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT-HEATH RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Although there was a prospect of short fields or walks over for three out of the seven events enumerated in the card, there was interest enough in the two, the Royal Hunt Cup and Triennial, to make a very attractive day's sport. Unfortunately, however, the weather was wretched, the rain falling heavily and without intermis sion from daybreak, flooding the roads in many parts in the immediate neighbourhood of the course, and making tho course itself a swamp. It is scarcely necessary to add that the gathering was almost entirely confined to parties located in the vicinity and the professional speculators; the exceptions were the Duke of Montrose, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, Lady Chesterfield, Lady Rachel Russell, the Ladies Somerset, and one or two others, whose names we could not ascertain. The sporting " influentials" present were the Duke of Montrose, Marquises of Exeter, Drogheda, Worcester, Waterford, and Normanby ; Earls of Chesterfield, Wil ton, Bruce, Rosgyn, Jersey, Uxbridge, Euston, Gran ville, and Zatland; Lords Enfield, Ribblesdale, Villiers, G. Manners, Newport, Clifden, Somerton, Canterbury, Seabam, Henry Gordon Lennox, Maidstone, W. Powlett, and Dunkellin ' • Baron Vigier, Count Batthy any ; Si rs G. Armytage, T. Burke, and G. H. Boswell; Honoura bles General Anson, L. A. Ellis, J. Macdonald, H. Pitt; Captains Rous, Fred. Villiers, Francis Villiers; General Ritter, Colonel Peel, Colonel Newton; Messrs. R. E. 011iver, R. IL Nevill, J. M. Stanley, S, Stanley, Greville, Payne, G. Fitzroy, and a few others. The racing commenced half an hour later than on the first day, and time having been well kept, concluded a few minutes after five o'clock.. The following are parti culars:— The Coronation Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b each; the winner of the Oaks to have carried 71b extra, and of the 1,000 Guineas, 31b; if both, 91b extra. Lord Oxford's bf by lon, out of Exotic (F. Butler) 1 Mr. Payne's Hirsnta (Flatman) 2 Mr. Magenis's Caloric (Pearl)_ 3 Betting-6 to 4on Caloric, nothing else backed. ,Ca loric made all the running until half way up the Stand railing, where the lot closed; a severe finishing race en sued, the Exotic filly winning by a head, and Hirsuta beating the favourite by a short head. Tho race was not timed. The Albany Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b, the winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, or Oaks, to have carried 51b extra. New mile. (50 Subs.) Mr. Merry's Robbie Noble, Bat 71b(Marlow) walked over Mr. Greville's Frantic, Bst 91b, withdrew her stake. The Royal Hunt Cup, a piece of Plate, value 200 soya., by subscription of - 10 Boys. each, with 100 added. The winner of any handicap plate, or stake, value 100 sovs., including the winner's stake, after the weights are declared, to carry 71 b extra. New mile. (50 Subs.) Mr. Waller's Ephesus, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b Captain Delmo's Little Savage, 3 yrs Est (Hardinge) 2 Mr. Stephenson's Pan, (Rook) 3 3 yrs, Est lib Lord Enfield's Hernandez, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (F. Butler) 0 Mr. H. Hotborpe, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ...... (A. Day) 0 Mr. E. Jones's Tonic, 4 yrs 7st 101 b......... (Thick) 0 Mr. Payne's Catalpa, 4 yrs , 7s t 21 b (G. Mann) 0 Baron Rothchild's Hyacinth, Est 91b ......(Ch ar l ton) 0 Mr. W. Etwall's Bushranger, Est 71b.. (Kendall) 0 Mr. R. E. Oliver's Sir Rowland Trenchard (Flatman) 0 Mr. H. Waring's Manifold, 5 yrs, Sit 21b (J. Lowe) 0 Lord Exeter's Phlegra , 4 y rs, Est 91 b (J. Mann) 0 Lord Bruce 's Knisht of the Shire, 6st 91b (T. Smith) 0 Sir W. Booth's Timid Fawn, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (Barker) 0 Mr. Merry's Sally, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (K nott) 0 Mr. E. Parr's S a nita, 3 yrs, Est 71b (Hiatt) 0 Capt. Powell's Amarosa, 4 yrs, 6st (Wynn) 0 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plumatead, 3 yrs, 6st (Garvey) 0 Mr. Spencer na Benita, 3 yrs 6st (Wells) 0 Mr. Magenis The Heriot, 4 yrs 7st 71b (Basham) 0 Mr. Begbie's Follow-me-Lads, Est 91b (A Marlow) 0 Mr. Magenis 's Janina, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Oliver) 0 Mr. Thompson's Blood Royal, sst 21b (T. Sherwood) 0 Betting-7 to 2 agst Ephesus, 6to 1 ag s t H ernan d ez, 6 to 1 agst Bushranger, 10 to 1 agat Phlegra, 12 t o 1 agat Hyacinth, and 12 to 1 agst any other. Amarosa, heading a ruck of at least a dozen, including the Heriot, Hernandez, Ephesus, Little Savage, and Catalpa, made play at a good pace, for the st a t e o f the ground, to the road, where the leader and The Heriot wore beaten. Sauita immediately after showed in front, but at the dis tance gave precedence to Ephesus, who cleared his horses a few strides from the chair, and won easily by two lengths, Little Savage beating Pan by a length. Sanita, Hothorpe, and Hernandez, were the next three. Little Fawn jumped the rails before starting, and Janina turned round at starting, and lost a good deal of ground. Run in 1 min. 48 secs. The Duke of Richmond intended to start Officious for this event, had not the stewards decided, on a case being submitted to them , that the condition which imposed a 71b penalty on the winner of a " handicap plate or stake," made her liable to it for winning the Trial Stakes, whioh, it should be mentioned, was a weight for age race. The First Year of the Fourth Ascot Triennial Stak es of 10 sous. each, with 100 added; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; the second to receive 60 soya. out of tho stakes. Bst 71b (Whit e h ouse ) 1 L lir or Bowes's Auld Acquaintance, sat 41u (F. Butl er ) 3 Lord Lord c J i Scott'sfdcn Cheddar, dßatre,v bater, 71 b(2,1arson) 2 J. M. Stanley's Veteran, Bst 71b (Charlton) 0 Mr. Payne's Warw hoop, Bst 71b (Flatman) 0 Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo filly, 83t 41b...( A. Day) 0 Betting-6 to 2 agst The Reiver, 10 to 6 agat Ched dar, and 5 to 1 each agst Auld Acquaintance and the Cooke() filly. They got away nearly abreast, The Riever with a slight lead, and ran in company to the distance, where the Cuckoo filly and Veteran were beaten. The others went on together until within a few strides of home, when Cheddar got his head first, but swerved a few strides from the chair, and was beaten on the post by a neck; a head between Cheddar and Auld Acquaint ance, and Warwhoop close up. The race was not timed. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; threaendyarsgeodld:i7osstt 216; four, Oat 216 ; fi ve , 9 st 1216; six 216. To start at the New Mile post and go once round. Mr. Greville's Barcelona, 4 yrs, (Flatman) Walked over. The Fern Hill Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for two yrs old, 7st ; an d three, 9st; fillies and geldings allowed 31b. About half a mile. Mr. Howa r d' s V au lt ress, 2 yrs, 7st ... (A. Cowley) 1 Duke of Richmond's Stella, 2 yrs, Est 1 Ilb (Garvey) Mr. E. R. Clark's Plumstead, Bat 111 b (Bartholomew) 34 Lord Exeter's Mountain Floa er, Sat lib (Norman)the Betting-5 to 2 agat Vaultress, who made a ll running, and wo n i n a canter by twel ve lengths. itun in 1 min. 1 sec. Handicap Plate of 50/. Swinley Mr. Williams's Maria, 3 yrs, 4lb ...... ( Gar d v i v e 3 r 7 s 2 Mr. Edney's The Incurable, 4 yrs, Est 41b (13" jug.) Mr. J. Day's Captain Parry, 6 yrs, 6st Oliver,lLEn) 0 Mr. W. Hale's Bilberry, 3 yrs, sst 016 ru 0 frow,ey, - Mr. Groenfleld's Shepherdess, 5 yrs, ist Captain Parry, Betting -6 to 4 asst Maria, 3to 1 ugst - - and 4 to 1 agst Shepherdess. a bad third, Won easy by a length, Captain Parry Course. 1 and Bilberry fourth. Run in 2 rain:lf-past one. The races commence today at LA.TEST BETTING ON THE EarrEncat's THE v o itigeur '2 to 1 cgs; b bi o Noble h a COURSE. 7 to 2 g a- S t! lifOuntain Deer 5 to 1 s 3; Joe (t) Pitsfor It 13 though 6 t that to 1 v 5" two others will run. d Little Harry, and one cr DERBY. 20 to 1 Ogst The Reiver (t) BEVERLEY RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The' Kingston-upon -II ell Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 56,4 'added, for two Sri old and upwards. o De m il e . Lambton 13raral *** 11 1 - 0 ran. Won by half a length. II"I• 6.2 The Iluldernes! ad, Cug!G ••• Little Quoul The B:verley Amp Sweepstakes if de clared.- Two miles. (24 Subs., 13 of whom de clared.) Kiathl, en, 5 yrs, Gst 13Th Ghols,h 6:LO, 4 3rs, Git 131 b... Eight ran. One by half a neck. ... 1 ••• 9 PARLIAMENTARY COMMIT TEES. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the Committee, Right Hon. Lord Hallam, chairman, Earl Jermyn, Mr. Baldeck, Mr. Henley. and Mr. West, Mr. KF.ATING, Q C., in the abseeco of Mr. Sergeant Wrengbam, Q.c., from indispoaition. replied on behalf of tic British Electric Telegraph Company's Bill in an able address of between two and three hours' dura tation. The Learned Counsel called on the Com mittee to pus the preamble of the Bill, as involving a principle of deep importance not only to his clients, the promoters of she Bill. but to the mercantile corn munitui of the country, who now sought at the bands of Parliament to he relieved from a combination the most formiriable, end a monopoly the most start ling, that had ever been permitted to exist in a free trading commercial country. The patient attention the Committee had given to the fortinglit's inquiry was a sufficient guarantee that they would deal out even handed justice as between the public, the promoters and opponents of the Bill, the opposition to which, though it had been masked End subdivided amongst railway com panies, was really and truly to be traced to its source as the opposition of the Electric Telegraph Company alone. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to contest the fal lacy that had, he affirmed, been sported so frequently, but erroneously before Committees of the House of always C ph w haeanil yi alte n cv m a f .s o p n o s, as a i n b d ie advocated in the present instance by Mr. w ie - e c -engo n , Mr. Locke, end others, viz., that case of railway ' l3 competition was impassible, combination was bad eventuated in combination. This absurdity . been effect or in other words that competition 5 ,decide d exploded n b y Parliament,gr antis g th e not originalo n the British Telegraphbut more particularly in that of Bill of in 15.50, ordaining meansof exclusiveis decision, they effectual compeioihComPanY tele graphic communication. s ould take place in matters of In defiance, however, - Upon that occasion the old electric telegraphic co exclusive clauses which Parliament proposed restrictive and of thr.liamuenldt notdeclinedforto inthseermt: to do that, byproceeded railways, which Parliament would agreementswith the British Telegraph Company, precluded from and the result was the present e application of the beingior special power carrying out; effective was now for the Committee to a go rni mpetition. It fiat of the Legislature that competition would be original public advantage, and to determine that the be for the will of Parliament should not be frustrated. It resolved to contend that any new system of telegraph shweasididle by the common road, when they recollected what should new state of things had arisen in connexion with the great w lines of traffic, that new towns had sprung up, • p l y i' 1 tibs:: and new channels for the transmission of intelligence been opened. The evidence, moreover, that had been adduced before the Committee es is, rho expediency of common -road or underground telegraphs wont to negative this proposi tion, if it were not sufficiently negatived by the fact of the old company having constructed some 4,000 miles of telegraph with scarcely any of it under ground. If the old Telegraph Company were of opi nion that a more effective competition would be carried out by road, why did they sacrifice thou sands in exclusive agreement with the railway com panies for the express purpose of keeping the new com pany off their line? And there could not be any effectual competition unless the Committee passed the Bill. The Learned Counsel then, at considerable length, com mented in detail on the evidence that had been adduced, and contended for the expediency and propriety of con ferring limited liability on the British Company, just as limited liability was conferred on joint-stock com panies in general, on the fair principle of putting those who supplied intelligence on a largo scale oa the same footing as those who supplied light and water. With limited liability the shares would be taken up, and it had been given in evidence that one party alone would take 25,0001. worth of stock. Without limited liability the promoters could net proceed, end the evidence of Mr. Macgregor and Mr. Cobbold, two Members of the House, had been given in favour of conferring it. The new company would then in some degree be able to encoun ter or compete with the old company, though the latter were backed up by one of the most powerful commercial interests in this country. Even if the new company were invested with the powers sought for, the old com pany would still retain the enormous advantages of pri ority of establishment, weight, capital, aed influence, of which in the legitimate struggle for cempetition no one wished to deprive them. He denied that in seeking to go upon the railways it was anything in the nature of an invasion of the rights of private property, railways being public highways and being granted for public purposes, though to a great extent these powers given under the original Acts had from circumstances become inoperative. The contracts entered into between the Telegraph Company and the railways were contrary to the spirit of the law, and which, while they had ef fectually tied the hands of the new company, bad been anomalously represented by the Learned Counsel on the other side as containing the elements of free trade. It had been endeavoured to be shown that the construction of a second line of telegraph could not be carried out consistently with the safety of the railways. This was ludicrous in itself, and to prevent anything like jeopardy to the various parties concerned, it was specially pro posed that this part of the subject should be placed under the control of the Board of Trade, and this would he an ample safeguard. After negotiating with the new company for a couple of years, the London and North-Western Railway suddenly lent themselves to the delusion that danger would arise to the working of the railway and the public traffic, but this was merely claptrap. The assertions as to the probability of messa g es being intercepted or stolen were alike un worthy of credit. In a state of honest competition these things could not exist, and English workmen ware not very susceptible of the charms of transportation for life. Self-interest actuating the competing parties oti both sides would suffice to prevent danger. The Learned Council then proceeded to show the remunerative re sults, as exhibited in the financial statement laid before the Privy Council, of the operations of the old Tele graph Company, as justifying the proposition that there exu w r_i a d s i,nary made andby was ample room for a second com p an y. Mr. Ricardo had stated that the company he represented had given general satisfaction; and yet counsel on the other side had not called a single di s interested commercial man to say that he was satisfied. Comp l aints had been m a d e the o of a d Telegraph insinuations ss to c t et: p u a s n e y or a of abuseitsextraordinary that tr be id it er haaadfee them e out old i n cross-exami nation powers. Nothing, perhaps, e'" defi nitely proved on this point; but what eras to prevent it, been ewahteionn thatthey the remembered sbara aisted to a great extent of railway company con members of the Stock Exchange, and d r epresentatives and trans mission of messages the startling la that in the that the messages of the principalg privilege prevailed the company should have precedence representatives of vernment and the public. Th over those of Go eluded by calling on the e Learned Counsel can' eluded petitions Committee, in view of the ntr• all the large towns in f pre sented to the House lot Bill, to pass it b __ favour of the British CoMnanY - Y effirrnine The Committee thencleared the preamble. deliberated for about half tne room, and admitted, n hour, and on the public loin re The NoI3LE CRA ring our fullest and best attention IRBIAN id—After gi to the of this very pro tracted inquiry, w have come t su sect-mat er elusion that il sufficient case for u . ave come to the preamble-°°n of this Bill has been mad the passing of the e nli ma k e this 0 that l73a—e this statement, I 0 out. At the by Sage Committee to he am directed form the part - f rther proceedings, parties, with a view to our a . that the opinion o f • 's that inasmuch as inion of the Committee 1 , no against the South-Eastern 13 - sl i ml y Company e and tang they com plaintof any sort appears to have been mad , t _ 1 they stand on a totally different footing the a h i ntention tso of other beforethem, company brought insertion of clauses for the Committee is to require I l l a n oi desired also to inform the protection of that line. the parties, that although the Committee will, when the proper ti me arrives, sanction the clause giving limited of the Bill, it is the intentioo liability to the promoterresq aire the insertion of a clause of the Committee t to any operations being undertaken which shall prevent certain certain amount of capital shall be under this Bill unti cunt, it is to be understood, is to ,'7 49 paid up. That an s l t us between this and to-morrow, an ti considered s g till:enable to go on. Of course that will not then we Alla.. Preve nt anYe iv,ao making any suggestions of their own. wee RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JUNE 9. srocg E X CITANGE.—There was little or nothing d on e in the share market to-day. The only sale reported was — To Yale, New, 23,g p. LIVERPOOL, Jura: 9. spocK EXCIIANGIC.—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 f e w days. The transactions reported were—Birkenhead , Lancashire, and Cheshire, 22/. Shares, 5 , :;; dis.—Caledonian , 19 3-I6—Eastern Counties, 9 3-16—East Lancashire, 17 1 / 2 — Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 51,.1 —Lancashire and York shire, 725/g—Ditto,' Fifths, 6 dis.—London and North- Western, 1221' —Midland, 67 —South-Eastern and Dover, 20YA—York and North Midland, 23%. MANCHESTER, JUNE 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feling ex esr.shemem, and Lincolnshire, hibited in the share mar k et to-day, and a good business has been done at firm prices. The sales reported were—Black burn, 1 7 1 / 2 —Ditto, Pre ference,p.—Lancashire and Preference , Yorkshire , B — I a i n a c h s t te Lancashire, Quarters, 9 3-16— Ditto , P iths , 72 2:; i ___l il Preference, 13 1 / 2 —Ditto New Preference, we stry and Chester, 132 West Riding, 13 -16 13.---O3- 4, Dover, 20%. • —South-Eastern and BIRMINGHAM, JIINE ii. EiTCCK ENCILLNOR.—The business li mited, but prices were firm. The to- day was rather S h rews b u ry a nd Birmingham only transactions were — (B), 5/. 13s , 9d.—Waropshire Union, 3 i die. . r .„ --- -- - ELECTION lIIOT.—A. somewhat serious riot took place on Thursday, at Lpworth, on the o ccasion of L. Christopher, Mr. Banks 3 Stanhope, the Conservative candi dates, and Sir Montagu Cholmelev, who comes forward on the Yarborough interest, addressing. the electors. The riot resulted in some b ro k en ' heads, the demolition of the butt Tugs, and the windows of an inn. The Cambridge University Comm ission had a meet., in,yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, i n D ow ning-street. Present — The Bi sho p of Chester. the Dean of Ely, Sir John ilersehel, l'ofeatior Seklzwicii, ;AO the gey. W. ii. DAtenu, §ecr9W.Y. ..: ,4: • ms s ; r.. . *I < i e. i tik , , V f• c —......... • 4 . : • 45 z 1 -,d. n t sit, 33 k -‘i....it' iT'`-'-i ‘. and : ran. IV oa_ll , ' •.', al. Cap cf 100 Fars. ded to a Heath( GI 10 . sove. each, 5 , and only 3 if