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NOTICE. ro ART IV. OF BURKE'S HISTORY of the LANDED GENTRY, COMPLETING THE WORK, IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY at the Booksellers in Town and Country ; and the Purchasers of the first three Parts are re quested to complete their sets without delay, as the Parts will only be sold separately for a short period. N.B. The work may also now be had complete, bound in 2 volumes, price 21. 10s. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY MRS ROMER. Now ready, and may be had of all Booksellers, in Two Vols. Bvo., with numerous Engravings. A PILGRIMAGE TO T HE TEMPLES and TOMBS -of EGYPT, NITBIA, and PALESTINE, in 1845-6. By Mrs. ROMER. Author of " The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquirir," " Sturmer," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). New ready, in two vols. with Illustrations, price 21s. bound. ECHOESfromtheBACK WOODS; Or, SKETCHES of TRANSATLANTIC LIFE. By Captain LEVINGE. " This is one of the pleasantest books of travels we have read for many a day —full of curious facts, vivid impressions, judizious remarks, and well-told stories. Captain Levinte sees everything that is to be seen, and shoots at er angles for everything that is to be killed or caught (from a moose or salmon to a colonial beauty) in or about the Canadas; races through the United States, rifle, rod, sketch-book, or note-book in hand ; tries most kinds of transatlantic life, and seems to seize intuitively on the traits or incidents best fitted to throw light on manners, or convey a lively impression of a scene ."—Esain t n er. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CAUTION to the MEDICAL PROFESSION. The PROPRIETOR of the MEDICAL DIRECTORY for 1845 begs Vs CAUTION the profession against replying to any circu lar of interrogatories, or writing their names as subscriber 4 to any blank form, which does not emanate from his publisher (Mr. Chen chill, Princes-street, Soho), to whom alone all communications for the Editor, as hitherto, are requested to be addressed. Circulars from this office will be posted the first week in September.—Metlical Directory Office, 46, Princes•street, Soho, Aumst 18, 1846. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. ESSRS. LAMOND, SM ALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patrowage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing Instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. Al Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; arid advlces of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, an I the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. (Mal. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE OYA L, LYCEUM. 1 . 1 4 .(DER THE MANAGEMENT OF MIIS. KEELEY* THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Farce, entitled SISTER AND L After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic. Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of " Oberon," entitled THE AIAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinircb, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Sil , er, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, * Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrothcr, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Bromley, Miss Howard, and Airs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled THE END OF JUNE. Principal characters Mr. Diddear, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Turner, Mr. Keeley, mid Miss Howard. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Woollidge and Miss Howard. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. O. Smith ; Somers, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce, Frank Hardy, Mr. Braid ; Witherton, Mr. Selby ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Laws ; Marian, Miss E. Harding ; Phoebe, Miss ElletiChaplin. After which, a Grand Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PA hIS ; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen naire, Lindon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alderson, Ryan, Wright, Paul Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Taylor, Miss Harrison, 31 iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c. To be followed by an original Comic 0 31:etch, called ABRAHAM PARKER. Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakespere's Comedy (with Music) of TIIE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Granby; Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Page. Mr. Ryder ; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Charles Mathews; al t e r Slender, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Stirling; Anne Page, Miss Georgians Smithson. To be followed by an entirely new Sefo-Comic Drama, entitled A CURIOUS CASE. Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Vining; Twigghton, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Charles Stanton, Mr. Fisher ; Edward, Mr Homier ; Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE BARBER. BRAVO ; or, "i he Inventor of Powder. In which Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and Miss Marshall will perform. ASTLEY'); ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Priucess Royal. Immense novelty and entire change. Fresh addition to the Company; and first Week of the highly interesting Spectacle of " The Merchant Steed." . THIS EVENING Will he performed the popular Drama, called THE MERCHANT STEED ; or, The Flight of Damon. Calanthe, Mrs. Morton Brooks; Damon, Mr. J. Harwood ; assisted by the whole of the Company. Double Stud, rare Quadrupeds, &c. Alter which, magnificent SCENES of the HIPPODROME, by the French, German, and British Professors. The whole concluding with the pleasing Drama, entitled THE NAMELESS. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances D ividge. Unrivalled talent for Six Nights only. The distinguished Artistes Miss • ushman, and her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, will sustain some of their favourite characters duri-g this Week being their last performances previous to their departure for the United States. Engagcnnent of Mr. Macarthy, the popular Irish Comedian, Inc Six Rights. THIS EVENING ne pep rvrmcd Minh .pere s a rageay at ttkl IMMO ArD JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Juliet, Mss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Daly; Mercutio, Mr. E. F. Savile ; Capulet, Mr. Deslop ; Benvolio, Mr. Johnson ; Tyha , t, Mr. Fredericks; Friar L w:ence, 3lr. Neville; Apothecary, Mr. W. Smith. After which, the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mal lowney, Mr. Macartby, supported by the principal talent of the Company. To conclude with the Dram of THE BRO.;EN HEART ; or The Farmer's D..taghtcr of the Severn Side. fn which Me,srs. E. F. Saville, Neville, J. T. Johnson, W. Smith, Heslop , Miss Rich• ardsen, and Miss. E. Terry will perform. • Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUFADAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAt'LES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRIJC TION of HERCULANEU3I and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventures to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARINELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive 13m, and bear him to his chrystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splenditily ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivora at half-past five; the Pelicans, &c., at six ; Concert at half-past six ; and the Eruption at dusk. Admission, One Shilling. Under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambidge. THIS DAY, A GRAND FLORICULTURAL EXHIBITION and. BAZAAR DES FLEUR 4. In aid of the Funds for assisting those Nurserymen and Florists who suffered by the late hail-storm. Extra Bands will attend, in addition to the combined attractions of the Gardens. Admittance, TWO SHILLINGS. Doors open at One. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 25. TIIERMOKETER, Lowest, 51; Highest. 69 ; Noon, 76 BAROMETER, 30 29.—WIND N., fine. /11 , 111 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. tili , rntrax •• 45 minutes after 3. Even , ng .. 0 minutes after 4. vii"'''') ), N , ... 6 ~E , • -r ,?-:!..,:,,- ~.-0- ----. .,, kcc 1 -- - ,- . ' ~r , , ,',-.. - • , -,,-,-.. „,„-, 7 ;...-e•i ci ls , ~c • ~. , / 2 t, - -," - s . ...-, -7.= , ... ; -, , --- . • -,i,-..-- , .._ ..,.-.....‘ .., c. ,,... . ~... , SECOND EDITION. e:t.elling :.111t LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1846. "My son, you know not with how little wisdom the affairs of nations are managed," was the ad dress of a celebrated Chancellor of the olden time to his son. The adage appears to have sunk deeply into the mind of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, who has so fully convinced him-elf of its truth, that he begins to fairy himself a statesman to whom the destinies of a nighty kit plorn might silly be entrusted.. Acting on this principle, there is no question of foreign or domestic policy, nothing interesting to the public, on which the Noble Lord does not con ceive himself qualified to take a lead, and bound to enlighten the Legislature with his lucubrations. His Lordship also is anxious to let slip no opportunity of impugning the character of the late occupants of the Ministerial benches, and no matter how slight the foundation may be, although built upon the merest surmise, the supposition, perhaps, of some anonymous scribbler or unknown speculator, it is quite sufficient to warrant his Lordship in bring ing forward the most reckless charges, the weightiest accusations. That somebody should have said some thing somewhere that implied a doubt of the vera city of one of the obnoxious Ministry, amply suffices to induce his Lordship forthwith to rise in his place, and assert or imply his belief, that a wanton, wicked, and gratuitous falsehood had been uttered, that a distingui,hed Mcmbtr of that or the other House of Parliament had made totally unfounded statements, the want of truth of which must, nevertheless, be publicly known in a few short weeks. neither rank, age, character, nor posi tion protects the possessor from the onslaught. The various circumstances that would avert the attack of a high-minded man are lost sight of in the blind fury of his malignity ; and the more signal his defeat, the more perfect and decisive his overthrow from the complete refutation of his assertions, with so much the g r eater virulence does he return to the attack, and repiat bis firm belief in the truth of the eitloded calumny, or bring forward new and still laiprt; unjastifable accusations. Like the fabled giant, eacb:. **cam appears to give him increased strength, apsiL - :he ari3es from the embrace I S of his mother earth with sevenfold vigour. No sooner has he been floored by Lord LYNDHURST, and foiled in every thrust, than he turns on Sir ROBERT PEEL with the infuriated frenzy of a Malay running-a -muck, and after repeating the state ment of the late Premier on the 29th of June last, " that the first packet had taken out an offer of medi ation on the part of this country to the United States," he seeks to discredit that statement, and to make it be believed that Sir ROBERT had been guilty of a wilful falsehood. And on what authority ? Simply because the New York Journal of Commerce, of the 20th of July, had a paragraph from which, to use the very words of the Noble Lord, " it appeared that this astounding fact of the late Premier's de claration in the House of Commons had arrived in the United States, but it was there discredited ; and not only was that the case, but it appeared also, from a statement in the Washington Union, the official organ of the Government of the United States, that no such offer of mediation on the part of this country had come out, and that no such offer of mediation bad been signified to Mr. PAKENIJAM, our Minister at Washington." This statement called forth from the Noble Se cretary for Foreign Affairs a defence of the late Government alike honourable to the vindicator and the vindicated, which fully established as well the truth a the assertions made by Sir R. PEEL as the wisdom and policy of the course adopted. The ma terial portion of the defence would suffer by any attempt at curtailment; we therefore give the follow ing words of the Noble Secretary himself:— " His Noble Friend doubted the accuracy of the state ment that an offer had been made by the late Govern ment of mediation on the part of Great Britain between the two parties. He (Lord Palmerston) was glad. in justice to his predecessors, that his Noble Friend enabled him to set that question right. The facts of the case were shortly these :—lt was perfectly true, as had been assert( d by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's late Government, that an offer was made to the United States' Government, and also communicate,' to the Government of Mexico, which her Majesty's late Government understood and meant to be an offer of mediation ; that that offer was conveyed, and, as he thought, properly conveyed, in terms which left a great latitude of interpretation to the Government of the United States. Our position with regard to the United States just at that period was nut that which was be• coming the character of a mediator. Our disputes and negotiations with reference to the Oregon question had not come to a final settlement. It was possible, not withstanding the negotiations then going on between the United States and ourselves, that the question might assume a position which would have divested us alto gether of the character belonging to a medi ator, and then the mediation of which we had made an offer would have been put out of the question. Now the offer which was made by her Majesty's late Government to the Govern ment of the United States was in effect this—that if the Government of the United States were disposed to ask the mediation of the Government of Great Britain, that mediation would be formally offered and accorded. He thought that was going as far as the British Government could have gone in the position in which they were placed. Well, then, the Government of the United States, considering what he had stated with regard to the position in which the Oregon question placed Great Britain with reference to the United States, did not think it expedient to express any opinion in answer to the communication from the British Government. The Government of the United States thought that it did not require an answer to be made to it." The Noble Lord also stated the course he himself had pursued, consequent on the change of circum stances, and the more amicable relations that existed between this country and the United States since the accession of the present Ministry to office. We are now in a position to offer our services as a mediator, and accordingly instructions have been sent out to Mr. PAKENHAM to renew the offer of mediation, on the part of this country, to the Govern ment of the United States, in such a shape as to require an answer, and corresponding communications have been made to Mexico. Until the answers to these overtures have been received it would manifestly be impossible for this country to take any other step ; her acting as the partizan of either country would be quite inconsistent with that impartiality that should be evinced by a nation which has taken upon itself to make offers of mediation between contending states. Any other course would be more likely to involve Great Britain in the horrors of war than to re store peace and harmony between the oppo nents. If the counsel of the protectionist leader were to be acted upon, and this country were forth with to take measures to prevent the annexation of Mexico to the United States, and to inist upon an end being put to the hostilities at present going on, the result would be that we eurselves should speedily be involved in the contest, and become one of the belligerent parties. We have already seen the good effect of peaceful and temperate language, in the termination of the dispute respecting the Oregon territory, and we may hope that a similar degree of prudence will end in a like happy manner. Before Parliament be actually prorogued it is to be hoped the plans of Government for the ameliora tion of the people of Ireland will be thoroughly digested, and all their subordinate operations judi ciously organised. Although the calamitous disease in the potatoes has developed itself earlier than upon the former occasion, there are now better prospects of alleviation to the distresses which must result from its appearance than there were simultaneously with its appearance in 1845. The Executive is not taken by surprise as at that period ; before the prorogation of the Commons our representatives are enabled to in troduce precautionary measures; an extraordinary com mission of relief has not to be constituted, that com mission having been evoked by the previous deficiency in provisions ; the commissariat officers have not to be drilled into the requisite modes of superintending the distribution of food to the distressed civilians, their practice a few months since having rendered them familiar with those arrangements. Although our anxieties are on those accounts diminished with refe rence to the prospects of inanition and contagion among the unfortunate peasantry, we find it impos sible, nevertheless, to throw aside all feelings of tre pidation as to the threatening future of our fellow countrymen in Ireland. Every additional intelligence respecting the ve getables in that country is intelligence of additional ca lamity. Sot only are the potatoes diseased beyond all the reparative powers of agricultural chemistry, but the turnips, especially in the vicinity of Limerick, appear to be eaten up by a similar malady. There are circumstances in connexion with this disease which already, to our thinking, require the interfer ence of the Government authorities. Somewhere between one and two hundred loads of potatoes were exposed for sale in the market of the above-mentioned city on Saturday last, every individual tuber of which was infected with the prevalent rotten ness; and these pernicious roots were vended to the poorer classes at prices varying from fuurpence to sixpence. Surely food in a partial state of putrefac tion cannot but prove a very deleterious article of consumption, and would be more likely than any thing at this season to produce dysentery, and cholera, and cholics sufficient to increase the morta lity of the districts in which they are devoured. It is from parsimony in these preliminary cases that many unnecessary and irksome expenses (such as the establishment of fever hospitals, and other sanatory proceedings . ) have been entailed upon the nation. It i 3 another exemplar of the fallacy of the "penny wise " system. Nothing indeed can justify official lassitude in mo ments pf such emergency. We ask common sense if such particulars as the following do not demonstrate the necessity of preventing the Irish population from satisfying their hunger with the decaying fibrine of these infected potatoes; we ask honest feeling if charity should not instigate the Government to such a movement, after reading as follows ? The diseased potatoes while boiling reek with disgusting odours ; they are altogether tasteless to the palate, and are surcharged with a watery fluid! 11 , just not a vege t a bl e o f t h a t d escr i pt i on prove most of fetdriismeaesne n ta i lto its consumer s ? I s it no t th e b ree di ng hunger ? a spuri ous e ff or t t o a ll ev i a t e th e pangs o f Does it not stand to reason that a legu minous food, in a state of decomposition, cannot by possibility afford wholesome nourishment ? There is already a deficiency, and that s f mer ely from deficiency • 1 n from a diseased i mag i nation, but from di potatoes. Unless these i n f ected tubers are pre vented from being sold in the public markets—just as putrid meat cannot be offered for sale under I penalty—much blame will necessarily be attached either to the local authorities, the relief coca mitteEs, or the Executive itself. "The offence is rank, it smells to heaven !" Some preventative measures must be adopted forthwith. Besides this suppression of unwholesome food, the deficiency must be met by a proportionate importa tion ©f wholesome provisions. Already some Irish merchants are making arrangements for the importa tation of Indian corn : let them profit by the example of the late Administration, by importing it on a scale compatible with the deficiency. They will, unhap pily, find it no unprofitable speculation. The Russian journals of the 13th published the following imperial ukase, which was addressed to the Directing Senate on the 18th July : " It appears that the ill-disposed persons who, in the month of February last, made attempts in the republic of Cracow, in Posen, and in Galicia, to overthrow the existing government, had accomplices in the governments of Wilna, Kanen, and Grodnos. We have to extend to the said go vernments the measures already prescribed for the main tenance of the public security in the kingdom of Poland and the government of Podolia and Wolhynia, and accordingly declare the governments of Wilna, Kanen, and Grodnos in a state of siege, and place them under the command of the Prince of Warsaw, Prince Paskewitsch Erivanski, Field- Marshal and Commander-in-Chief." The Spener Gazette publishes a letter from Wladekawhas, dated July 23, which states that SCUAMYL had, on the 14th ult., attacked the Russians, under General WITOSICY, at Metschick, and suffered a repulse. This, however, it must be remembered, is a Russian account of the affair, and must therefore not be construed exactly an pied de la lettre. The AugAburgh Gazette of the 18th August publishes a proclamation, addressed by SCUAMYL to the people of Kabardia, recalling to them their oaths and the duty they owe to their religion and country, and rousing them to war against the Russians. Madrid journals of the 18th have arrived. Don FRANCISCO D'Assis, who arrived in Madrid on the day preceding, had been received in the most gracious manner by the QUEEN and the QUEEN-.MOTRER. They had appeared together in public, and the Heraldo of the 18th has an article in which the claim of Don FRANCISCO to the hand of the QUEEN is most energetically supported. Ac cording to the Tiempo, Dun ENRIQUE has been in vited to return to Madrid. The return of NARVAEZ is also spoken of as an event soon to be expected. Mr. BULWEIt still continued very ill. A fire, supposed to have been the work of incen diaries, has devastated four leagues of country in the neighbourhood of Xeres. The Count of MONTEMOLIN (the son of Don CARLOS) has, it is said issued the following procla mation to his followers : " It is not without a deep feeling of grief that his Majesty has learnt that meritorious officers of the army who support Ni ith honour and constancy the heavy privations of proscription, showing themselves more zealous than prudent, have allowed themselves to be drawn into a combination formed of Royalists, Liberals, and Exaltados, which is represented as being approved of by his Majesty, whilst he has no part in it. In con sequence, his Majesty commands me to inform all those who join this combination that they act contrary to the intentions which he has manifested and made known on several occasions ; that they merit his so vereign disapprobation and incur his royal displeasure ; that they ought to know well that all which his Ma jesty should order would be made to them in a sure manner, and in such a way that the desires of his Ma jesty could not be misunderstood. The secret emissaries who go through the departments and the chiefs of another party, now on the line of the Haute P> ren flees, preparing a movement in Aragon and in Catalo nia, are entirely unknown. to his Majesty. They defend a different banner—they are enemies of the throne, and of the order and prosperity of the country—they abuse the name of his Majesty—they suppose and counterfeit orders and authorisations which his Majesty has neither given nor thought of giving—they prescribe conditions diametrically opposed to what his Majesty has ordered, contrary to those which might serve his cause, contri bute to the happiness of Spain, and to the amelioration of the positions of his defenders. "By royal order, &c.. Bourges, August 8. (Signed) "R. M. MON." MADRID Boma, AUG. 18.—The Three per Cents. closed on the 18th inst. at 33k; the Four per Cents., at Passives, at 6i; Coupons, 21. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Moniteur publishes an official account of the reception by the KING of the deputation of the Chamber of Peers with the address on the previous evening. The following was the answer of his MA JESTY to the address:— " Messieurs les Pairs,—l am deeply affected by the senti ments you express towards me in this address, and I ever love to repeat to you how much mine respond to them. 'These striking manifestations have enable me to support most painful trials, and I find in the loyal co-operation, the assurance of which you again renew to me, an invaluable ledge for the preservation of that. which you justly call • the 4lotious conquests 'of modern civilization, die faithful main enance of our institutions, and the guarantee of the rights of all.' So long as it shall please God to prolong my life, it shall be consecrated, with your support, to this noble end, and to the gradual development of the happiness and pros perity of France." The Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in the verifications of the powers of the Members, and in the deciding on disputed returns. It was suppoaed that the verifications would be completed in the sittings of Monday. The National publishes the following extract of a letter from Otaheite. It is dated Papeite, April 11 " Taking advantage of the absence of the Uranie, stationed at Uahine ' the Kanaks to the number of 1,200, on the evening of the 13th, attacked the village of Pa peite and the camp pitched by the crew of the Uranie. The camp was defended by 50 sailors of the Heroine, who eventually beat off the enemy. The French had .ix killed and 15 wounded, among the latter a midship man of the Phaeton. The buildings outside the camp were pillaged and destroyed. The loss of the Kanaks if not given." The potato disease has broken out with great viru lence in Savoy. The Bishop of CHAMBERRY has ordered prayers to be offered up in all the churches to avert this dreadful calamity. Incendiary fires still continue to prevail in every quarter of France. The Northern Railroad Company have declared that the paragraph in the Journal des Chemins de Per of Saturday last, stating that a call for a second in stalment would shortly be made on the holders of their shares, had been published without their know ledge or authority. The provisional inauguration of the Orleans and Vierzon Railroad took place on the 16th inst. There was nothing doing in the Funds in Paris on Sunday. The following are the quotations for new lines MARSEILLES, Aun. 19.—Marseilles and Avignon, 892 E ; 50c. ; Northern, 703 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 522 f. 50c. LYONS, Au°. 21.—Paris and Rouen, 955 f.; Avignon and Marseilles, 902 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 520 f. ; Orleans, 1,268 f. 75c. BUSINESS FAIONU IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, AUGUST 24. Boulogne and Amiens, 12 3 ,0 —Demerara, 25(—Dlreet Bombay and Madras, %—Dutch Rhenish, 6—East Indian. I—Northern of France Constituted, 13—Orleans and Vierzon, l4N—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 %—raris and Rouen, 37. CABINET COUNClL—Summonses were issued yes terday to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The meeting is expected to take place to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon. FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES WETHERELL.— The remains of the late Sir Charles Wetherell were this morning deposited in the vault of the Temple Church, Appropriated to the twitchers. Sir Charles was the senior bencher of the Honourable Society a the Inner Temple. The funeral was attended by his relatives the Rev. R. Wetherell, the venerable Archdeacon Wetherell, Nathaniel Wetherell, Esq., the Rev. T. Frere, R. Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham, the Rev. E. Round, Mr. Beech, his clerk, and Mr. Rudge, his valet, who had been in constant attendance on him from the moment he met with the accident which terminated his existence up to the time of his death. W e were partially in error in our announcement yes terday respecting the prorogation. A Privy Council is to be held at Osborne House on Thursday next, at which the terms of the speech will be decided upon, and a commission appointed to deliver it. The prorogation itself will take place probably on the following day.—Times. Lord and Lady Brougham, W. Brougham, Esq., lady and family, are at present' located at Brougham Hall, in Westmorland. THE LATE LORD BLOOMFIELD.—The remains of the late Lord Bloomfield arrived at Lainton, the family se a t i n Tipperary, Ireland, on Saturday tnorning last, from Portman square, and were the same evening consigned to the family vault in the churchyard adjoining. Lady Bloomfield lea ves Portmau-square, this day, for Kingscote,vGloucestershire. THE VIOLINS OF MR. CRAMER.—Yesterday a por tion of these valuable violins was sold by auction. There were 29 lots, some of which fetched the following prices : Lot 16, a violin by Andrew Guarnerius, 25/. ; No. 19, a violin by Nicolas Amati, used by Mr. Gmnier when acting as leader at various concerts, 16/. ; Lot 10, a violin by Joseph Guarnerius, formerly in the possession of Pinto, 66 guineas • Lot 21, a violin by Bett, used by the father of Mr. Cramer, 71. ss. ; Lot 22, a violin by Staines, used by George In, George IV., an d Wil liam IV., 30 guineas; Lot 11, a violin bow, 21. 10s., &c. The whole fetched above 2801. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—MONDAY AFTER- NooN.—The rehearsal of the new oratorio Elijah has just terminated in the Town Hall, under the direction of the composer, who arrived yesterday with the orchestral and choral forces. There is every reason to believe that the public performance will be one of great interest. The presi dent of the festival, Lord Wrottesley, was present. The sale of tickets is still going on most favourably, and estab lishes the expectation that the aggregate proceeds will much exceed that of former years. We regret to state that Air. Moscheles was taken suddenly ill this morning, and it is unlikely that he will be able to assume the baton of conduc torship, as waS intended. . We understand that Captain Sir Frederick Nicholson, Bart., recently promoted, has returned to this country in the Acheron steamer, from tho Mediterranean Atstions MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. 1 CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Lit erpt.ol yesterday were 4,000 to 5,000 hales. including 500 American for export, 40(1 Perham and Maranharn, at 53d. to 6id., 100 Bahia at 60., 150 Surut at :id. to 31d., and the rest American at 4d. to 54d. per lb. Tie market was dull, hut prices were firm. Shares were not very brisk, and prices were a little flatter. At present much interest is directed to the trade between Canada and the United States, as re spects the exportation to England of flour and grain -a conflict cf opinion as to which will have the advan tage in this respect, under the provisions of our new Corn Bill. That the American agriculturists are jealous of the British American colonists: on this point is pretty cef tain. It is conceded by the American journalists that the Bill in question will cause a great increase of business, not only with the United States but with Canada ; but it is pretty evident that anticipations are en tertained that by the St. Lawrence most of our supplies of flour, which form a greater portion of each year, will he not through the United States. The New York Courier and Inquirer, in reference to this subject, important as it is to the Canadas, thus expresses an opinion upon the matter; and while, it may be added, strong inducements are held out by our American con temporary to compete by improvements with the Canadas, it may be just as well to mention their opinions, so that Montreal and Quebec may be induced to afford every practical facility to the transit of produce. The paper just named has the following re marks upon the sub.): ct :- " We need scarcely add, that we do not believe the St. Lawrence route can, under any circumstances, compete with that of the Erie Canal and the Hudson River. This city is, and Bill continue to be, beyond all doubt, the great commercial port of the northern section of the continent ; and the im provements in the means of communication with the interior of the west, which are ROW in progress, and which must be carried forward, will put it out of the power of any other route successfully to compete with us. " We have referred to this matter, and copied the re marks of our Canadian contemporaries, mainly to call the attention of the authorities of this state to the con stant and vigourous efforts made by our neighbours to withdraw business from our gr( at channels of trade, and to the consequent necessity of enabling them to meet and to keep up with the exigencies of the times." Some papers and letters have come to hand this morn ing from New South Wales, but they are barren of news of interest, except that trade was better. In Consols for Money the only transactions this morn ing have been at 95i 4... ,Up to mid-day not a single bargain was quoted for the Account, the price, therefore, is nominally the same as yesterday. Exchequer-bills are at lOs to 13s premium, and Bank Stock steady at 208 to 209. Int'ia Stock has advanced to 260. India Bonds have rani, d to 23s premium. In the Foreign Funds a very few purchases were made in Mexican at 24 for the Account; in Prussian, at 38; in the Portuguese Five per Cents., at 85; in Spanish Passive, at sf; and in Dutch Four per Cents., at a fall from 94* to There is a dull demand for Railway investments this morning. BIUTISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. • • • • • • 208 209 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 96% 96 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • • • 95 %14 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 98 97% 98 1 4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 10 5-16 7-16 India Stock • . • • • • .. .. 260 India Bonds, 1,000/. • • .. • • • • • • - Ditto, under 1,0001. „ • • • • 19 23 South Sea Stock .. • • • • • • •• • • - Ditto, Old Annuities • . • • • • 9 5 1 Exchequer Bills. I%d. 134 d. 1,0001. - .• • 13 10 13 - pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Old, 5 per Cent • - • • • • - Ditto, 1846, 5 per Cent. • • .. 23% Ditto, for the Account • • • • 23% 24 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 38 Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. 85 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cant. • • • • - Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • • • 5 % Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9434 93% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .• .. .... to .- Bristol and Exeter .. • • .. .. 75 •• • • - to - Ditto, New .. „ _ 5 .... 10% .... to - Buckinghamshire • • .. 425. •• .. 14 1 4 dis. to - Caledonian .. 20 .... 153 g .... to - Ditto Half Shares • . •• • • 11,4 •• .. to - Ditto Extension . 2% .... to - Chester and Holyhead .. 27 1 /x 26 .• .. to - Unmet and Blythe .. • . .. 2 .• 13d %..to - Cornwall .. • • • . .. 5 .... 1 •• • • to - Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% •• • • 1% ••.. to - Direct Northern .. 2% •• • • I %14 .• to - Eastern Counties .. . • 141. 16s. Od ..... 22%44 .. to - Do.,Perpetual,s per Ct. No.l, Cl 13s. 4d• • • - .. ••to - Ditto, ditto .. .. No. 2, 61. I3s. 4d.• •.. %p.. to - Ditto, York Extension 10s. •• .. 2% 1 % .. to - East Lancashire 14 .... 22% •• .. to - East Lincolnshire • . •114.... 34 3b.. to - Edinburgh and Northern • • .. _lO .. • • 9% .. • • to - Goole. Doncaster. and Sheffield, &c... 425. .. • • % dis. to - Great Eastern and Western • • .. 234 •. • • 1 ••.• to - Great North of England .. ..100 • . 22814 to - Ditto, New .. .. 15 •• .. 50 .... to 51 Ditto, New .. 1%.... 19 .... to - Great Western .. „ „ „ 65 to Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 83 .. • • to - Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10 .. .. 23% %.• to - Hull and Selby • • • . • • .. . • 50 104% to - Leicester and Bedford .. • • .. 225. % dis. to - Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. .• • . 134.... to - London and Croydon • • 131. 15s. 9d. • • •• 23% to 23 London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. •• . • 9 .... to - London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .... 34 .... to - Landon and North Western •• ..100 ....2071,4 .... to 20d 1 3, Ditto, Quarters .. •• .• 2 .. • • 24% .. • • to - Ditto ditto New Shares .. • - 1534 %15pto 16 p Ditto, Firths - • .. 2 •• • • 21 . • . to -- London and South-Western 411. 63. 105. .. • . - .... to - Ditto, New • . 1754 26%.... to - Ditto, New .. .• . .. 14 .. .. 21 .. •.to - Loudon and York ' .. • . 2 1 % • • 2 .... to - Lynn and Ely • . .. • • 15 •• • • 15 3 / to 16 Lynr. and Derebam .. • • • • • • 15 .• • 1334 to - Nlauelievter and Leeds • • • • • 132 .• • • - •• .. to - Ditto, Extension .. • • • • •• 425. •• 21% pto - Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 - •• • • to - Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 •• • • 8% •• to 9 Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock . 425. .... j p.. to - M.anch,ster and Southampton .. .. 2 ...• h ...• to 3i Midland .. • • • • -100 ....139 .... to,- Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 24 37 to 36% Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .... 42 1 ,4 • to - Ditto, New .. • • • • • • • • 1 - 11 1 4 %•. to - Newcastle and Berwick • • • • •• 15 .... 27% to 28 Norfolk .. .. • • • • • • • • •• 20 . • • 2644% .•to - Ditto Extension • • • • • • • • 2 .... 2% .. to - North British • • • • • • • • • • 25 .• •• 383%... to - Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • • • 1 I .... 16% .• • • to 17 Ditto, Carlisle Extension •• • . 1 4% .... to - North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 425. 3%% pto - Oxford, Worcester, Se Wolverhampton 12% _ 8 t o Iticlunond • • • • • • • • • • • • 10 • • 19 .• ••to - Scottish Central .. • • • • • • • • 1214 ...• 19 1 % .... to Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • .. 2% •... .... to - Shropshire Union - • • • • • • • • 425..... %% dis. to - South Eastern and Dover • • •• • • 33% ..„ t o Ditto, New, No. '4 • • •• • • • • 12 •• . 16% ... to - Ditto, New, No. 3 •• • • • • • • • 15 •• • . 19% .. .. to - Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • • • •• 2% •• • . 3345 x.. to - South Wales .. • • • • • • • • • • 5 •• • . 3% .... to - Warwickshire and London • • . • 425..... 34 dis.. to - West Riding Union • • • • • • • • 425..... 32%pt0 VA p FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens • • • • •• 14 ••• • 13 to - Direct Bombay and Madras .. . • 55..... 14.... to Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • • • • 6 •• • • 6 .• .. to - Luxembourg • • • • • • • • • • • • 4 •• • • 1% .... to - Namur and Liege • • • • • • • 6 •• • • 3 .... to - Over. Yssel .. • • 4/. 38. 4d... 236 dis .to - Paris and Lyons Constituted • • .. 5 •• • • 5 34 .... to JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminsfer • • • • • • 20 .. • 28%.... to - National Provincial of England • • 35 .• .• 35% .... to - MINES Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •• - 31% to - LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 25.—Wind N., light steady breeze, and fine. DEAL, AUG. 24.—Wind N.E., strong breeze.—Arrd. Fal con, Larsen, Matanzas, and sld. for Antwerp. Arrd. from the river and sld. Cape packet, Lamb, Cape of Good Hope; Sans Pareille, Brodie, ditto ; Janet, Chalmers, Mauritius; Marmion, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 24.—Wind N. E.—Sid. Trauley, Stoney, Quebec. • SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 22.—S1d. A. Elizabeth, Mowat, Prince Edward'S EXMOUTH, At7o. 2 4 .—Sld. Eliza Liddle, Miramichi. DAtamourx.—Arrd. Briton, Youngliusband, Quebec. HAY LE, AUG. 21.—Sid. Olympus, Tompkin, Quebec ; Vic toria, Martin, ditto. lixuAcomna, AUG. 22.-510. William Wilberforce, Dennis, CARDIFF, Aus. 22.—S1d. John Bell, Renwick, Rio Janeiro ; Beatrice, Alexander, Quebec. . _ ROTILESAY, ISLE OF - BUTE, AUG. 20.—SId. Argyle, M'Pher son, Calcutta; Favourite, Allen, and Minerva ; Demerara. LivELrooL, At:G. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Sarah Sheaff, Sands, Apalachiculo; Great Britain, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Leander, Phelan, Quebec. Sld. Elizabeth, Davies, Newfoundland; Fourier, Grey, _Calcutta ; Raja, Boyd, ditto; Palmyra, Barstow, NeW Weans ; Tyrone, Butler, ditto; General Parkhill, 111‘Kown, Charleston ; Arethusa, Kelly, Quebec. Off port, Sabbates, Stevens, Boston. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 1311 Y IVIAIitHZ IT . SMITHFIELD.-oTdDieadow Hay, 3/ 5s t 41; New ditto, 2l 5s to 31 14s ; Old Cloy( r, 41 5s to 51 16s ; New ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 183; Oat Straw. 1/ 12y to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 I4s to 11 I6s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at barely late rates. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 8s to 41 ; New ditto, 218 s to 3/ 16s ; Old Clover, 4/ 5s to 51 14s ; New ditto, 318 s to 4/ 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 133 to 11 15s; Wheat Straw, 1115 s to 1/ 17s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. WHITECIIAPIL.— Old Meadow Hay, 315 s to 41; New ditto, 21 5s to 31 15s; Old Clover, 4/ 4s to 51 18s; New ditto, 3l 5s to 51; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT POPLAR.—Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, a fire, that caused considerable alarm, broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. Steward, a general dealer, carrying on business in Grundy street, at the corner of Oriental-row, Poplar. The flames were first perceived on the second floor, by a neighbour, who immediately - raised an alarm. So firm a h o ld, h o w e ver, had they obtained be fore the discove r y, th at very s peedily the whole of the top part of the h ouse b ecame enveloped in fire. The intelligence wa s promptly forwarded fur the engines, a m rr r i . v c e e d n a n t et th te e n s w ce i n t e h t o h f een w g e i r n e e. followed T he East by and, with as little delay as possible, the several bri gade engines, with Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent, conflagration.lVest ot England and London Works afforded an abundance of water, and the en gines were worked with full vigour, but upwards of an hoUr elapsed before the flames could be said to be entirely sub dued. By that time the whole of Mr. Steward's stock in trade was consumed. his furniture and wearing apparel de stroyed, and the building itself completely gutted. The ad joining house, belonging to Mr. Urine is likewise injured by fire and water. The whole of the residents being from home at the time of the outbreak, it was impossible to learn whethr or not they were insured. The origin of the tire, like that of most others, could not be ascertained. FATAL OCCURRENCE ON TUE DUNDEE AND PERTH RAILWAY.--On Monday last, James Duncan, a labourer on this railway, opposite to Glendoick, while engaged at work, was deprived of life by a superincumbent mass of earth fall ing upon him. He belonged to Burreltone— Witness. The lean ore tnint.ts of Alston- moor, - Allendale, and Weardale, have engaged the services of Mr. 'Thomas Bow • man, of Boal Cleugh, as their oculist, at the rate of sixpence per mu per alltain4. iMFER!AL PARLIA 11 ENT. 'l' HIS DA Y.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The -SPEAKER tool the Chair a few minutes after Twelve o'clock. STANDING ORDERS. Mr. ES I COURT moved the abolition of the present standing orders, and the adoption of others which had been agreed upon as being more agreeable to the cir cumstances of the present time. It would be recollected that the standing orders had been decided upon on the motion of the Hon. Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume), on the 10th August. It was by that resolution determined that a certain number of Members, forty-two, should be selected for the duty of ascertaining whether the standing orders bad been complied with. Those forty-two gentlemen had divided themselves into small committees, and during nearly the whole of the session has been en gaged, not only every day, but throughout a great part of the day, till the House met, laboriously occupied in ascertaining whether the several parties who promoted private Bills heel complied with the standing orders of the House. Now when the number and nature of these standing orders were recollected, it would be seen that they had no easy task. By the resolution of the 10th of August this system was done: Sway with, and the Speaker was empowered to appoint certain officers whose duty it was always to be engaged in !his busi ness ; so that the examination of private Bills might proceed immediately, and thus dispatch was at least ob taiced. By the Bili which was passicg for the constitu tion of a railway board, the sub committees would be doge away with, and coneequent4 there would be no Committee of Selection. But it was ne cessary that there should be some means of bringing private Bills into the House, and the present Committee of Selection recommend that the six gentlemen who had heretofore been entrusted with the business of selection, should still be continued in their post. It would be re collected that by the 2d and 3d Victoria, the Speaker was required at the beginning of the session to lay on the table of the House a list of the private Bills, for which application had been made. But ho could not ob tain this knowledge without due information from these examiners, and in order to give authority to their state ments. new standing orders were necessary. He (Mr. Estcourt) having thus stated the reasons, and the gene ral nature of the new orders, preceeded seriatim through the orders, and stated the verbal alterations which the Committee recommended for adoption. The only whole clause inserted is the following :—Order 120 a, "That when it is intended to bring up any clause, or to propose any amendment on the report, or the consideration of the report, or on the third reading of any private Bill, the same be submitted to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the day on which notice is given thereof in the Private Bill-office, and that no such clause or amendment be offered in the House unless the same shall have been so submitted to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and he shall have re ported to the House whether, in his opinion, the clause or amendment be such as ought or ought not to be entertained by the House without referring the same to the Select Committee on Standing Orders." One of the principal alterations was, that where a turn pike-road was to be passed by a railway, the rise of any arch or bridge or embakment should not be more than one foot in thirty, and where a private road was to be -passed, the rise ehould not be more than one foot in twenty. In Ireland it was proposed to pass an immense number of these roads, and some such regulation was absolutely necessary to save great public inconvenience. The House would see that the alterations were chiefly verbal, and he wou!cl, therefore, move at once that the report be agreed to, for the adoption of the new orders as the future regulations on private Bills. Mr. HUME, in rising to second the motion, was quite sure that the House was greatly obliged to the Hon. Gentleman and the other Slembers of the Committee of Selection for their great labour, and that there would be a great relief to the Members of the House, that the business of private Bills would be placed on a better footing in future sessions, and greater satisfaction would be given to the country. The motion was agreed to. CAMERON'S COALBROOK STEAM COAL AND SWANSEA AND LOUGHOR RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this 8,11 were agreed to. SOUTHWARK, VAUXHALL AND WATERLOO BRIDGES. Mr. BROTFIERTON presented petitions from South• wark praying for the free passage of these bridges. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented petitions from Cork and Antrim counties fraying tOr inquiry and relief. SMALL I)EI3TS' Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition, numerously signed, praying that the appointment of the officers under this Act might remain with the Lord Chancellor. ENGLISH CONSTABULARY. Mr. HUME moved for_ a return of the numbers and services of the constabulary in England during the past year. POOR LAWS. Mr. HUME moved the following resolutions :—. " 1. That the letters of instructions and '.proceedings of the Poor-law. Commissioners in 1838.9, for the indis criminate relief of vagrants and casual poor, without dirt cting proper provision to be made for setting the able bodied mendicants to woll: (in conformity with the letter and spirt of the 43d Elizabeth, c. 2) have greatly in creased vagrancy in the metropolitan police districts. " 2. That the Act of the 3d and 4th William IV., c., 76, conferred upon the Pour-law Commissioners full powers of inquiry into the actual condition of the poor, in order, ainoegst other objects, that they should, as re commended by the Commissioners of Inquiry, p. 241, submit any fur . her amendments of the law which they might think talvsable, together with the evidence on' which their suggestions were founded; whereas it appears in evid,nee that the establishment of district asylums was suggested by the Poor-law Comtnissioner,, without their having previous!) made any due and adequate in quiry as to the applicability of the existing accommoda tion for vagrats and casual poor in the several parishes of the metropolis. "3. That it appears by returns that the existing ac commodation in the unions and parishes (with the ex ception of the City of London, where there are not proper workhouses) within the metropolitan police dis tricts, was sufficient for the reception, on any night, of the greatest number of mendicants who applied for ad mission. " 4. That the Poor• law Commissioners have not exer cised judiciously the powers confided in them in the for mation of district asylums ; and that there is no suffi cient record of the grounds on which the Poor-law Com missioners originally recommended the establishing dis trict asylums, nor any sufficient record of their proceed ings to show the grounds on which they acted under the authority of 7 and 8 Vic., c. 101. " 5. That the 4th and sth Will'am IV., c. 76, consti tuting the Board of Poor-law Commissioners of England and Wales, only empowers any two of them to sit from time to time as a Board of Commissioners for carry ing that Act into execution;' whereas it appears in evi dence that single Commissioners, sitting in their private rooms, have frequently, without lawful authority or delegation, and without proper minute or record, given directions and instructions therefrom, relating to im portant proceedings in the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor. •' 6. That the same Act requires, that the said Com missioners shall make a record of their proceedings, in which shall be entered in writing a reference to every letter received, from whence, its date, the date of its reception, and the subject to which it relates, and a mi • nine of every letter written or order given by the said Commissioners, whether in answer to such letters re ceived, or otherwise, with the date of the same, and such record shall be submitted to one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State once in every year, or as often as he shall require the same ;' whereas it appears that no regular and duly authenticated minute hook, of the proceedings of the Board, has been kept during long periods of time, as required, for the information of the Secretary of State and of Parliament, as well for the protection of her Majesty's subjects, by rendering the Commissioners responsible for any illegal or improper acts of omission or commission, as above required, in the performance of their duties. "7. That the Commissioners of Inquiry into the ad ministration of the Poor-law, reported in 1834, that the evils which they investigated as injuriously affecting the condition of the labouring classes, and the welfare of the whole community, had been caused by departures from the letti r as well as the spirit of the Act of the 43d of Elizabeth; and one main object of the appointment of the Poor-law Commissioners in that year was to in sure an administration of the taw in conformity with its letter as well as its spirit. And as these Commissioners were for these purposes invested with extraordinary powers, any departure or culpable deviation, either from the letter or the spirit thereof; is fraught with great in jury by the bad example as well as in the direct effects on the whole of the executive administration of the poor-laws. " 8. That as the facts, set forth in the evidence above referred to, are calculated to destroy all confidence in the administration of the poor-law, and to endanger the continuance of the law itself, it is imperative upon this House to take immediate measures to restore and to preserve public confidence in this important branch of administration. "9. That, on these grounds, her Majesty will be gra ciously pleased to cause a special public inquiry to be made into the facts above recited and referred to in the evidence before the House to ascertain whether the Commissioners, by their letters, IN structions, and proceedings, and by their omis• sion to direct the means for setting . the able bodied mendicants to work, did encourage and increase mendicity; and also whether the procceelinsof the Commissioners generally ha ve been c irre gular or illegal; and , if it shall appear that the Com missioners have so acted , or bare, b y their culpable de faults, occasioned the mischiels conaplamd of, that her Majesty will be grac i o usl y p leased to take into her con sideration the certainty of dismissal of inferior officers when they have infringed the law or the rules laid down for their guidance; and that she will be pleased to direct that even-handed justice be done to these superior officers, who have had, as it is expressed by the commis sion of inquiry, the immediate advantage of well de fined objects assigi;ed to them, powerful means at their disposal, and el: ar rules for their guidance.' " The Hon. Member said the House would observe that, these nine resolutions were placed upon the paper, with the view of having the opinion of the House upon them. The resolutions had a - isen trots the evidence which hall been received before the District As) lum Commission. of which he (Mr. Hume) was a member. The last re ::elution was conflicted with the poor-lave, and a. he considered it a most important one, he would bug leave to trouble the 'louse with his opinion upon the subject. He was, as the House might be aware, a great advocate of the new poor-bye; Which he thought o .meat inirabe Act if its provisions had been properly carried our. lie would pot di t,,in the 11,11,c! eiti, the ie!orina ti, n wnicti ti-,d ceue beto., t. An(r.,vor union inquiry, but he could not Le,t, ren caking that by the proceedings of the lion. Uommis,sioners of Somerset House the clauses of Nos. 2 and 4 of the A9t bad been virtually annulled.. The Commis-ieners had been in the habit of sitting in different No minutes, no records of their proceedings had net n kept since the year 1841, but something like minutes had been put upon scraps of rapt r, which had been at the end of the year bound together. This mode, he contended, was quite illegal, and on these grounds, seeing that the end and aim of the Act had, been altogether thrown overboard, he thought that these officers should be dismissed altogether. The Hon. Member then went into several statistical details to show that, under the management of the Poor-law Commissioners the number of paupers receiving relief, without adequate work being provided, had increased threefold. 'He nould merely nientu.n two instances, one in t.q. Saviour's parish, qraere in three weeks be ore the test of labour was applied 1,111 applied for relief, but in the next three weeks after the application of the ti st there were only 776 applicants. Again, in the parish of St. Marylebune, 900 applied in one week before the test was applied, and when that principle was adopted only 90 remained.—(Hear, hear.) Could any other proof be wanted that the Commissioners had grossly neglected their duty in not providing labour for able-bodied paupers. On these, and many other grounds, he felt that he was justitied in bringing forward these resolutions. The Hon. Member was proceeding, when Sir GEORGE GREY said that there had been a distinct understanding between himself and the lion. Member for Montrose that these resolutions should not be pressed at that late period of the session, and after the pledge that had been given, that her Ma jesty's MiniAu would give this important question their earliest attention, he could not conceal his surprise at the course which the Hen. Member had seen proper to adopt. Mr. HUME said that he had already given some Honourable Members beside him to understand that it was not so much his intention to press these resolutions as to take the opportunity of making knoWn the reasons which had induced him to bring them before the House. He was quite willing to withdraw them. The resolutions were then withdrawn. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he had a notice of motion on the paper " That the House, at its rising, do'adjourn till Thursday," but as there would be a Com mission to-morrow at two o'clock, he should move that the House should meet to-morrow at a quarter before two o'clock.—Agreed to. The O'CONOIt DON considered that be should not be discharging his duty if he dil not rise to confirm the statements of the two Honourable Members who had preceded him. lie wished that the failure of toe potato crop were confined to the county of Mayo, but it was a lamentable fact, that the greart.e portion ,of the whole of Ireland would be ob jected to the greatest distress during the corning winter from the same cause. He could assure the house that the Government were most anxious to do all in their power to alleviate that distress. Mr. GRANGER wished to known if the Government had received information of the distress that at present prevailed at Kinsale ? He held in his hands letters to prove that the distress was most alarming, and that, if remedial measures were not immediately taken by the Government, the consequences to life and property would, be most destructive. Captain LAYARD corroborated the statements that had been made as to the distress prevalent in Ireland, and stated that he had seen that mornin. a letter from a gentleman who had recently travelled from Cork to Dublin, and that letter stated that in the whole course of that .journey he did not see one potato field which was not tainted. Mr. LABOUCHERE did not dispute the truth of the statements made by the Irish Members that the potato crop had failed to a greater extent this year than the preceding one. He believed that Mayo, of all the other counties in Ireland, was the one which would suffer most from the potato blight. He found by the last accounts from Mayo, that Indian meal was selling at Id. per lb., and every one must admit that that was an exceedingly low price; thirty tons of that meal were lately sold at Westport at that price, and he therefore did not conceive that any one need have any apprehensien as to an outbreak in Mayo from a want of food. The Hon. Member had said that it was useless to talk of the cheapness of the food if the people had not money to purchase it.—(Hear.) In reply to that he could only say that the Government had exerted themselves towards establishing public works in Ireland, but, unless their efforts were aided by the landed proprietors in that country, they would, he feared, prove unavailing.—(Hear, hear.) The most fatal step which the Government could take in reference to this subject would, in his opinion, be an interfere lice with the importation of food, which he considered would plentifully flow into Ireland in the regular course of trade. The Government, however, were prepared to interfere to this extent—they would take measures to prevent food in Ireland rising to a price which the people could not pay. The Government would continue to devote their most serious attention to this subject, but he must again declare that the landlords of Ireland were in a far better position to aid the prosperity of Ireland than the British Legislature. All the accounts of distress in Ireland that had reached this country brought the very gratifying intelligence at the same time that the people were most long.suffering and patient, and that the clergy, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, did their utmost to prevent the people from committing any acts of violence in their sufferings. Lie hoped that every one would feel it his duty to prevent as much as possible the tendency to exaggerate, which manifested itself so much in reference to the distress in Ireland. SMALL DEBTS BILL. On the order of the day fur the third reading of the Small Debts Bill being read, Mr. WARBURTON said that he hoped the claims for compensation, to be made under this Bill, would be regarded with the utmost jealousy by the Government. Sir G. GREY said it was the opinion of the Govern ment and of the Lord Chancellor, who had been con sulted on the subject, that no danger would result from that source. Several additional clauses and verbal amendments were proposed and agreed to. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND). This Bill was PAalso readROKERS' a third time BILL, passed. W N B This Bill was also read a third time and passed. WASTE LANDS (AUSTRALIA) BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. LEGAL EDUCATION. Mr. WYSE broughteup the report of the Select Com mittee on Legal Education. PRIVATE BILLS. Lord LINCOLN moved for a return of the number of priva•e Bills which have. pasied since the , year 1838, classifying them as railways, bridges, canals, oads, &c. MEDICAL REGISTRATION. Mr. WAKLEY - presented several petitious in favour of a system of medical registration. PUBLIC RECORDS. Mr. PROTHEROE wished. to call the attention ef the Government to the necessity of takkg Mime i+ume diate steps for the preservation cf the public records, by establishing a proper place for their deposit. A great mass of the records were ut present left in the greatest danger, and he doubted not but th,st, if in stead of their being the records of the n. , iiHh they were common Government stores, or elothieg for the vitted for ~ army or navy, a plac- would very soon be pr. them. The new lleuses of Parliament would not afford ,any proper convenience tOr them. Mr. Barry had stated that the Nry;torie Tower would be a most improper place for del siting theta ; he hoped, therefore, that the Government would, - in this, the 19th century, build some plain and simple building fit and proper for LI depository' for Olen valuable bataoual ticiads be • • THE LATE MI STERIOUS DEAT ° OF A CLERGYMAN. Yesterday, at an inquest held by Mr. Wakley, at the Llephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pan e T,i, on ihe body of a young man who had died insane ia 70 St. Pancras workhouse, the Coroner made some reres,r,, relative to the recent investigation instituted by 1'43 board of directors and guardians upon the case of te_. late Rev. Ch-irles Cay, who, it will be remembered, e' pired, on the Bth instant, in St. Pancras W or khouse. 6lo , The Coroner (add r e s sing Mr. J. H. Cooper, the Mr. neon of the St. Pancras Infirmary) said PraY. it Cooper, what is the case of the Rev. Mr. Cay, wh! c e"' is appears, has caused so much sensation, and wb'e alleged to be enveloped in so much mystery ? Mr. Cooper said he did not consider there w as gs, mystery at all about it. It appeared that the Rey. it y Cay was taken suddenly ill, and was removed to traiv er° o ll Hospital, and he (Mr. Cooper) having occasion tc'tho there to see Dr. Quain, was informed by the do et4r ec i to there was a patient there which he must have rein ° g for the workhouse, as he was insane, and not a fit subject:stir that hoipital. He (Mr. Cooper) was shown the re,gbro man, whom he at once recognised as a client of P ' o f yij ther's, and to whom he wrote on the su bject earl removal. He was subsequently removed to the ink' under of St. Pancras Workhouse, where he was place"4 o eat his own medical treatment, but he refused non o° of every description, and died therein. uteu The CORONER said that some of the papers bad to him a refusal to hold an inquest in this ca se e_ e - bad he wished to observe, that the only information_n w as received relative to the death of the Rev. Mr. C r ll l ):; ive d a letter from Pratt-street, and he had no t t e b board any official communication either from swing officer. of directors and guardians, or the sup f u sed to hold It could not therefore be said that he h r ad d that an inquest. The letter from Pratt -a I conse• the reverend gentleman had been even hinted that quence of the hot weather, and never a t he had died insane. There wa s not a word about taken t eet sn 11l sanity. rectors, A Mr. Pitt, observedt t,a officer t hat a o l f t h t o h u e g h S t t . h e Pa b n o c a r r a d s had investigated the matter, A was more with a view i to investigate the conduct of their own officers than at o f the death of the deceased gentleman, and they f ° „73 - et o b f oa; 1 1 01 1 1 . 31 7. 0 ; nothing, as far as he believed, in the evidence to re The it necessary to send to the coroner on the subject. 6 ot_ matter, however, Would not be dropped as it at P re tor. stood, as a further inquiry by the board of dire was about to take place. The CORONER requested that Mr. Pitt would st et t i e fi i, the board of directors what had transpired 0 111 1 04 and the position in which he (Mr. Wakley) was in reference to the affair. W e a ge" BLACK GAME.—Thursday last being the day -,-„. a by law for the commencement of shooting blae%' c is , sportsmen were out on the moors and high grt al ,..,fer various directions. These birds, like grouse, are not s s e y r we rti tiful this season as compared with former years. A fe „tivelf shot in Cumberland and Westmoreland, but, comPar speaking, they were small birds. rre asi Colonel Hamilton and family, and General gala OA - arrived in Lond on y es t er d a y, by the steam-ship Triton' Ostend. ft er' SERIOUS AND FATAL ACClDENTS.—Yesterday ....aYartio, noon a shocking accident occurred to William I I,y glit brewer's drayman in the employment of Messrs. per c io gitiev. Co. It appears that the poor fellow was walking sal; his dray in Whitechapel-road, when, by a sudden Jeri,: gee!: sioned by the application of the whip to the horseet: i duel' , cask of beer was thrown from the cart, knocking 1) '" o pt Afr i in a state of insensibility. A surgeon was in e t cte!, tendance, and upon examination it was found tPa tur ed• his legs was broken and the other very severely fr ac r oaf 11 0 The following shocking accident occurred Yes te 'f b King's - cross to an elderly gentleman named W110„,0lbt,1: was seated at the front corner of a Paddington I.l3titt,_',, proceeding along the New-road in the direction .e: s brot`! bridge, when one of the foremost wheels of the velf!c' to ta: throwing him, together with the' driver, violeat'iL s istaa c i ground. Before either were enabled to rise ° l ,, t he l e b te could be procured, both wheels of a cab passed e v _f o rtue 3 ,A of the former. Upon being picked up, the p re sent D , gentleman, who was understood to be a surge°D;Jocted o, a shocking appearance, a frightful wound beogd o w ed lit e r the right side of his head, from which the We° other re rally all over his person. Although sustainog the pee severe injuries he was perfectly sens ibl e during „ owe to be e , rence, the dressing of the wounes, and the calve) w residence in the Lower-road, Islington, where be ,T; 1 15 14 9, little hope being entertained of his reco ver y . No pears to be attached to the driver o f the omnibus but to the originator of the s econd occurrence wilful sea genre was iinputeo. inasmuch as he did not attempt I sc ef his horse, either before or after the accident took grov e ; Whilst attempting to reach a boy out of the river St "Biancos tie stairs, yesterday, a lad, whose name and residence known, fell into the river and was drowned. The a'';A-siul e ' s of a boat and waterman was obt a i ne d a s p ee dily as Pi e r' but not before the body was washed away. I ` l °, i ,, e , - orc`,7e were omitted on the part of th ose w h o w it n essed :jaert'ag rence to save the unfortunate lad, who might beli e ~ covered, but for the swell of the water occasion s. passing of the Waterman steam-boat, No. 4. efts r 1 0 ,0 1b ila FIRE IN ESSEL—OR Saturday, Shortly o ne --s fire broke out upon Mr. Pemberton's farm, within :0 0,46 of the railway station at Romford, Essex, which w,.,hisilemie-. tinguished before much produce and several on o to : s a were destroyed. The contiguous property hel, ° „ ll A ore i c s or Reynolds, farmer, was with difficulty saved. 41 :itb to have originated through two lads playing "" /AA matches in one of the out-houses. 'al , * La i r LAMENTABLE SUICIDE BY A. YOUNG YE''' - ld evening Mr. J. Payne, the Deputy-Coroner, b t hefet_,k' s iee quest at the Grapes Tavern, Tooley-street, Se e egeusierd s pecting the death of Miss Sarah Hester Peire_t e laa' t bet t een years, the niece of Mr. Thomas Lobb, of the above house. It appeared from the el l „ 0 01, A for ' the deceased was barmaid to Mr. Lobb, but kr . Jo e l/J ., past she had suffered severely from pains in uf a ,t of sire which she had been under the occasional treat Walker. The deceased was of very religious 5 - 0 11 1,0 P - b p usually occupied her time by reading the Bible. A s r , o r. mining the deceased was much worse, an d . the less procured some pills for her, which she took turs IP, eesto, Immediately afterwards the d ece ased became °lie 'to with pain, and left the bar as was su p p ose d its o,cetico About half-past eleven o'clock, one of the ser a ' ,aere l her bedroom, but found the door fastened. 011 .0 wasod raised, and when the door was forced the dec e rwab 12 0 0 covered lying on the bed, which was saturate( . 0 w et to She held a razor in her right hand, which was a u ' s eera c e sie blood. She had a wound in her throat whit the se" te e have been inflicted by herself. Mr. Pettigrew c , _ d s eoet,ast was called in, but the deceased bad been da...rie minutes. The deceased had inflicted the fatal 0 1 1 ; l i t . L ost jestr: re lying on the bed, and death must have been !„ ta ble , 1 4 0 0- tantous. The Coroner remarked on the l'lne ct ef of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict e • porary insanity." • the pas ' se" THE HARVEST.—The weather, during m uch done ibis we are sorry to state, has been very unsettle( •ry c continued taius having fallen, which have, whe at lie s siderable damage to the standing crops _ o f whe!r,, the neighbourhood, However, a large breadtvaea • t to been secured, and we look for a change of moon's change to -day.— Worcester Guardian. s , 'The Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte yr“envoniz";th • tends to f the t our city, and we understand that lie in , f , s e at for▪ UMW, for a few weeks, in order to swat Ile r eslue 's waters, his health not being pod. ,„,._ the l'ultenney Hotel, Sydney.gerdens. ~„r i tc " tended by no retinue, and lives quite en simP"r r ,tl 5 riot t B.sth Herald. i, a `did A veril ore RIOT AT HAWARDEN.-011 Monday u cc toer wee affray, originating from some domestic que rn r _ v , e xt b ent io e t Ilawarden ; and to such a pitch and so P. , IL e , o f t y wag the tumult proceed among the workiugthat_'''uell who themselyes partilans to the -qua ,liter}' ,OL'eleatt found ces , ary to send to Chester for k tt bad os the disturbance. As the infantry bad ) r i , t 1 " place tlic i '',posite t . Clay, anti the regiment which was ot r ir arric o ti teei tieitorel was ordered to the scene of actiotn:s _ .. , 40t e , 0 , „, A ,Ol/ 0 arrived, a detachment of artillery arn:edvaicrie restored order. In consequence of one A al u d o t for military aid, Chester Garrison, ita 'nyder the night, ~....ca rna pto7; arms, was left, on Monday glazedhat battalion of the city polio. SRI Ao N th k i , ti l, l t here } eetin • n , tiudso• MIMMIN ANDOVER COMMITTEE. Mr. ETWALL gave notice that he would take the earliest opportunity next sessien ot calling the attention of the House to the report of the Andover Committee. DISTRESS IN COUNTY OF MAYO (IRELAND). ,On the order of the day being read, Mr. DILLON RROW N 8 wished to call the attention of the house to the state of distress in the county of Mayo. He had a statement of facts to show the dreadful destitution under which that county was labouring, and he feared if measures were not taken to relieve that distress, the peace of society would be endangered, and human beings would perish of starvation. From Castlebar, and other places, he had received accounts that the potato crop had not only been tainted with the rot, but the whole crop had entirely disappeared. There were not less than 42,000 people in that county in a state of famine, and immense number in a state closely approximating to destitution. [ l'he Honourable Member read several docaments to prove that his statements were. not exaggerated, every one ot which gave a most appalling description of the state of wretchedness which existed in the west of Ireland.] He hoped the House would press upon the Government the propriety of taking itnme d tate and more effectual steps than were proposed to avert the awful calamities which were impending. He did not wish to make an inflammatory speed), but to give no unvarnished statement of facts. He knew the priesthood would endeavour to repress any outbreak, and to preach resignation and patience to the people under their suffer itigs, but a crisis might arrive when reason and religion would be disregarded, and cravings of nature burst through all restraints. The Hon. Member having referred to the landed proprietors of that country, many of whom were entirely ignorant of the extent and situation of their properties, and who consequently had little or no knowledge of the tenantry and labourers on them, concluded by pressing upon the •Government and the House the awful responsibility in which they were placed with regard to this destitution, and the ne cessity of taking immediate and effectual measures for its relief. Sir DENHAM NORREYS corroborated the state ment of the Hon. Member who had just sat down, with respect to the great distress which at present prevailed, and was to be anticipated in the west of Ireland. He trusted that the Government would now seriously turn their attention to the condition of Ireland, and pre pare measures which would tend to bring permanent employment to the people, who were, as it were, children in their hands, for they had never been left to themselves. The British Legislature had ever interfered with the gentry of Ireland, for the purpose of furthering their own interests at the expense of the people of Ireland. Eng land owed to that country a ;:reat debt, and it was but just that they should repay a portion of that debt by increasing the means 01 employment ct the people of Ireland. would, therefore, move—" That it having been reported to her Miik-sty, by the DeLut3 keeper of the Public Re cords, ttai all the 7:••certt repesitories in the me tropoiis are subject to such an amount of r lBl from fire, that they could be insured only at the following premiums :—Rolls' Chapel, at ls. 6d. per cent. ; Chapter House, Bolls House, and Wakefield Tower, at 2s. per cent. ; Carlton Riding How e, and White Tower, in the Tower, at ss. per cent. It bein g observed of-the hitter repository by Mr. Braidw ood, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, that no merchant of ordinary prudence would keep his books and accounts in the same situation in which the'reeords are placed in the said repositories. That A large annual expenditure is curred ed for temporary arrangements and repositories, and for watching the same. That the public records are justly deemed of such national interest and value as to occasion a largo yearly-grant of public money for their custody and administration. • It is the opinion of this House, that no further delay should take place in the erection of a suitable record repository, pursuant to the Act for heeoing the public records, passed on the 14111 day of August, 1838." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 5i 0 . 4 9 that at present he could give no otfier opinion on the subject except that it was necessary that come piece should be erected for the purpose of preserving these records. After a few words from Mr. PROTHEROE and Sir G. GREY the motion was withdrawn. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. In the absence of Mr. Hume, Mr. P. BORTHWICK moved for a copy of the i re port, of the commission to_ inquiren.o the salubrity °I Buckingham Palace to Lord Melbourne. • Mr. PROTHEROE hoped that if the arch in front of Buckingham Palace was removed, the beautiful scull ) ; Lure of Mr. Blore would not be destroyed, which he III" intended for the top of the arch, but which had been placed at the top of Buckingham Palace. He (A ir ' Protheroe) did not quite concur in the general condenr nation of Buckingham Palace; he believed that soon portions of it would do credit to the best periods 01 Italian or Grecian sculpture. Lord MORPETH said that as it was decided to plc up the statue by way of experiment he did not wish to say anything on the subject at present. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PREVENTION 1 31 Ti ri a The Lords' amendments to this Bill were then re° and agreed to. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from 23 in viduals, who were prisoners in the Queen's D one : prison, complaining of the treatment inflicted oP° them there by the keeper, who frequently put them la solitary confinement, their treatment being that of felon s instead of debtors. He also presented a petition to the same effect from Mr. P. Herring, a debtor inth e prison. ANDOVER UNION. Mr. P. BORTH WICK wished to ask the Hon. on e Gallant Member who had last spoken when the evi den t! adduced before the Andover Union Committee would be laid upon the table of that House? Captain PECHELL said that the evidence was being revised by the Chairman previous to its being placed n` the hands of the printer. All the members of that Coul:, mittee were most anxious that it should be produced ov the very earliest period possible. The House adjourned at half-past Three to a q ualW to Two to-morrow. THE SUN, LONDON, TtTESDAY EV-11.NING, AUGUST sis, 1846.