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TIM FAIRFAX CORRESPONDENCE. J tat ready, in 2 vols. demy Bvo., with numerous Portraits from Original Paintings, THE FAIRFAX CORRESPONDENCE. MEMOIRS of the REIGN of CHARLES the FIRST. Edited by GEORGE W. JOHNSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) lIBR MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Publie are respectfully informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURS DAY next, on which occasion Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear in one of her favourite characters. With various novelties in the Ballet Department, combining the talents of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati, Mdlle. M. Taglion I, bldlle. Cerito, &c. &c. The Fr'e List is suspended, the public Press excepted. PA Tickets may be obtained as usual at the Box-office of the Th'eatre, price 10s. 6d. each, where applications for Boxes, Pit Stalls, ar,d Tickets are to be made. _ll ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LIND. M THALBERG has the honour to announce that his CON CERT will take place on MONDAY, July 17, and will be supported by the talent of Mdlle. JENNY LIND. A Programme of the arrangements will be shortly announced. GRISI, Persiani, Steffanoni, Castellan, and Cor bari, Viardot Garcia and Alboni„ Mario, Tamburini, Tagßa be°, and Marini, will sing at the last GRAND MORNING CON ‘'ERT, on FRIDAY NEXT, July '7, when will be performed Beethoven's MOUNT OF OLIVES, complete; a Grand Miscel laneous Act ; and Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. 'rickets, Stalls, and Boxes at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Re gent-street. HER 31 . A.TESTY'S THEATRE. 'Medic. JENNY LIND. THIS EVENING will be performed Donizetti's Opera of LA FIGLIA. DEL REGUIMENTO. Maria, Mdlle. Jeir.iy Lind ; Suplizio Sergente, Sig. F. Lablache ; Tonto, Sig. Gardoni... To conclude witt , , the highly successful New and Original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Sig. Pugni, entitled, LES QUATRE SAISONS. Summer, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Autumn, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati ; Winter, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni ; Spring, Mdlle. Cerito. PAS.—Regne du Printemps, du Printemps, Regne de l'Ete, de l'Ete, Regne de l'Automme, de PAutomme, Regne de de ''River, du ''Union des Saisons. Apc,lications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at tho Box-office of the Theatre. Doors open at half-put Seyen. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, UAYMAItKET. Milt: the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Creswick ; Claudius, Mr. Rogers ' • Horatio, Mr. Brindal ; Leartes, Mr. 11. Yandenhoff ; Ghost , Mr. Howe ; First Gravedigger, Mr. Keeley ; Gertrude, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Ophia, Miss P. Horton. After which a new piece called the PAS DE el FASCINATION ; or, Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, Mr. Keeley ; Katherine Kloper, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the Farce of SPRING GARDENS. Lord Court iagton, Mr. A. Wigan ; Scoreup, Mr. Keeley ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Seymour ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. tae MAU ager, J. I n•en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. acmes, Is. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Sit, Pertormance to commence at Seven. THEA' CBE ROYAL, ADELPIii. Under the. direction o; Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a, now and original Drama, called HARVEST HOME. Principal cb.aractors by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0.. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. /rank Matthews, Mi if Turner, Six. After which a new - Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John Jams Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks. Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. lie",)r4 oven at half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. SOYA.I. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. Solo Lessee, Mr. Charles Matkews. TILTS EVENING, Will be performed. a, new comic Drama, entitled THE TUTOR'S ASSISTANT. Characters by Messrs. Selby, C. Mathews, F. Cooke, Rosily, Granby, Kerridge ; Mrs. C. Jones, Miss Howard, and Miss Jane Coleman. Atter which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. IV. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. Matthews ; Polly, Miss Kath leen Fitzvvißiam.; Lucy, Madame Vestris ; Jenny Diver, Miss Jane Coleman. To conclude - with a new comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, limner; Mrs. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall. Dress noses, bs. ; Upper Boxes , as. ; fi t, 25. ; Gallery, is. No halt-price to any part of the house. The 2 , sew Lox-ollie a, No. I, Wellington-street, Is open to the Public e , ,ery day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Yiaddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. TO-MORROW EVENING be performed THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. To aio, Mr. Allen ; Sulpice, Mr. Weiss ; Corporal Mr. Wynn ; Marie, M aflame Anna Thillen. After which THE SPIRIT OF GOLD. Albert, Mr. Conway ; I flric, Mr. J. lining; Carl Knockertop, Mr. Oxberry ; the Spirit of Gold, Mdlle. Leclercq ; Aline, Mrs. Sdrling. Dress Circle, Is.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, so. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. THE LAST WEEK BUT TWO. TO-MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at half-past Seven o'clock when Will be performed the comic Vaudeville of lINE FIEVRE BRLT LANTE. Richard Tremblay, M. Ravel ; Le Comte de Renardoff, M. Grassot ; Atalante, Madame Moutin ; Armantine, Mdlle. Bras sine ; Florentine, Mdlle. Aline Duval ; Jenny, Mdlle. Juliette ; Pa male, Madame Berger; Madame Fiquet, Mdlle. Thierret. To be followed by L'ALMANACH DES 25,000 ADRESS. Boxes, bs.; Pit, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Uallery, Is Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN - continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary *Aid original SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, which he will repeat THIS EVENING • and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. In consequence of the great demand for places, lie will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES TO-11:JRROW ➢MORNING. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new and original Drama, in Eight Tableaux, •pourtraying by living characters George Crulkshank's celebrated De signs, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. Edward and Emma Roy (the Drunkard's Children) by Mr. N. T. Hicks and Mrs. R. Runner, supported by this talented company. ♦fter which, BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Black-eyed Susan, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with THE CHATEAU DIP. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Fitaball's new gorgeous Chivalrous Spectacle pre-eminently suecess ful.—Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR MION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field. To be followed by the inimitable EXERCISES OF THE EQUES TRIAN TROUPE. To conclude with the Farce of THE FOX AND THE WOLF. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement of Miss lIUDDART. Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson. superb and Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Cleft, Collinet, Koenig, Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg, Atc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will sing two fa vourite Songs, Miss Huddart will sing a favourite Song, and with Madlle. Lovarny will execute an admired Duet.—Also to be seen, daring the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Giranciola daring the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten A.M., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Niue. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nc' communication can be attended to unless authenti ,cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JULY 4. THEIIIONETEit, Lowest, 54; Highest, 67; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 30.13. W 1 ND—Morning, N.W.; cloudy. Afternoon, N.E. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 14 min. after 4 I Evening .. 34 min. after 4 q t* , k1A' . 1 . 4 ; 4 ...4 a ,,, 0.111 - bIA, ..- 4 r,e,r" . 1 - 11 r 9 wAigei r , — .. 4 - -...*../ nn 74,:...wi?4/,;' 0-1 ;.•;„;, ,,, tititn, ~ i • •-, - 7- - '7: 4- - w ' '.. - - 0-7 .; , •• - • s isur tomb.% att) LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1848. The Protectionists have succeeded, by the factious and vexatious opposition offered to the Government propositions, in materially damaging the interests of those whose especial friends and advocates they pro fessed themselves to be—like the greedy dog in the fable, in grasping at the shadow, they have sacrificed a portion, at least, of the substance which was actually within their reach. As the resolutions cannot now possibly be reported before the sth of July, all foreign sugar must be admitted at the rate of duty fixed by the Act of 1846, and as the parties interested will, undoubtedly, avail themselves of the chance thus afforded to avoid the increased rate, we may fairly assume that the smaller duties will be paid on all foreign sugars in bond on Thursday and Friday morning, on which latter day the Committee is to resume its labours. The national revenue will thus suffer a loss of many thousand pounds, and the West Indians will be deprived of a portion of the protection tendered for their accept ance. Well, indeed, may they on the present occa sion exclaim, " Save us from our friends 1" The House was last night engaged during the en tire evening in discussing an amendment proposed by the Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Droitwich, that for six years there should be a differential duty of 10s. per cwt. in favour of the produce of the British colonies, which object he proposed to effect by at onc© lowering the duty on British colonial sugar to 103., in place 0f145., as it now stands, or of 125., as proposed by Ministers. That on foreign sugar should of course be continued during the same period at 20s. The arguments in support of the amendment have already been repeated usque ad nauseam during the protracted debate that took place before the House went into Committee. In fact, the subject has been completely exhausted; but still the time of the House is taken up, at a period when so much remains to be done—while the advan tages of monopoly are enlarged upon, and the Legislature is called upon to retrace its former steps, and again to impose restrictions and impedi ments upon trade and commerce for the advantage of a class—to fix duties, not for the legitimate object of obtaining a revenue for the national exigencies, but for the sake of protection. For that purpose we are called upon to risk a loss of nearly one million ster ling, at a time when the income of the country is ina dequate to its expenditure and there is too much reason to fear that there will be a deficiency, if not to the amount at first supposed, still to an extent sufficient to impress a 'prudent man with reasonable apprehen sions for the consequences, and which, if con tinued, must lead to an increase either of our public debt, or of our already enor mous taxation. The Hon. Baronet attempted to show that the loss would not amount to so large a sum as that estimated by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, but we cannot say that his arguments were by any means satisfactory on the point, or such That the Minister of Finance would consider himself jus tified in acting upon and encountering the risk of so serious a loss. The question, too, would not by any means be settled, even if the proposition of the Hon. Member was acceded to. Indeed, he de clared that "he could express no decided opinion as to what should be done at the end of the period for which he proposed this duty; he would give no explanation as.to whether he would then equalise the duties or have a descend ing scale." In fact, the object of the West Indians, as we have already shown, is that a permanent pro tection should be obtained, all their arguments go to that extent ; but as the proposition might appear too startling if put forward plainly and unequivocally, they only ask for that protection for a limited period, when the discussions are again to be resumed, and we are again to bear of the ruin of our colonies, and the abandonment of the cultivation of sugar therein, I unless the protection, which was merely tolerated for the period of transition from an erroneous to a wiser and snore politic system, should be perpetuated. Nothing could possibly be more injurious than thi s uncertainty to all parties concerned. It would keep up that feverish and excited state which is so very prejudicial, and consumers would be compelled to pay higher prices without any actual or real benefit to the producers. Whatever may be done, let it at least have the appearance of finality. If it should appear to be based on incorrect principles, the Legis lature may review its decision, but do not render the renewal of the discussion a matter of necessity. The amendment of the Hon. Baronet found 169 supporters last night, there being a majority of 62 fur MiListers. On the division which took place on Thursday last, 245 Members opposed going into Committee, but, as we then showed, the minority on that occasion were actuated by the most conflicting and opposite views, and would not again be found going into the same lobby on a division. The Go vernment resolutions will therefore be carried, al though the business of the country may be retarded, and serious injury inflicted upon the very parties they desire to serve, by the stubborn and pertina cious resistance offered by the Protectionists. During the last three or four months, in our politi cal world, as in our theatrical world, the home in terest has been eclipsed by the foreign. When abroad revolutions were of daily and almost hourly occurrence, when every succeeding bulletin an nounced some new marvel, was it possible that public attention should keep its Argus eyes rivetted upon homely matters ? When, in other countries, republics started up to-day, kings were dethroned yesterday, and emperors might be to-morrow, do mestic affairs dwindled into insignificance, and " motions made and questions put," in the House of Commons, seemed unworthy of consideration. The patriotism of Chartism, indeed, endeavoured to render England as politically conspi cuous as her neighbours, but those magnanimous efforts, as Lord BEAUMONT said in speaking of the theatres, only presented us with indiffe rent translations of French pieces, than which it were preferable to see the originals. So thought the public on the 10th of April and the 12th of June, and the Chartists retired from their too-ambitious position, like the Theatre Hiato rive from the boards of Drury-lane. But, added Lord BEAUMONT in the observations just referred to, were national talent adequately displayed, the British drama would again become a rallying 'point of attraction. Some such consideration as this has, apparently, suggested itself to our political actors. The Liberal party, at least, have be stirred themselves to afford a correct representation of the spirit and sentiment of the country. They have been so far successful inasmuch as the pro ceedings of the House of Commons are now again in vested with their due importance, and regarded with more than ordinary public interest. Thanks to Mr. HOME'S motion we are no longer producing bad copies of French pieces—we are now perfectly original. While the continental nations are rough hewing constitutions modelled after the pattern of our own, we can afford to occupy ourselves with the perfecting and improving of that admirable but, as yet, in some respects faulty and unfinished struc ture. While the great question of Reform is under the consideration of the House of Commons, the House of Commons will be again the focus of public attention. It will be again, as it should be, the paramount object of interest to the inhabitants of these kingdoms—the paramount, but assuredly not the sole object of their interest. The political affairs of foreign nations are now of too important a character, and the well• being of those nations is too immediately connected with our own, and moreover the bond of sympathy which knits nation to nation is now become infinitely too powerful, to render it possible that the English people should feel indifferent to events occurring abroad. It is impossible but that we should still continue to regard with anxious interest the struggle of the young Republic across the water—the fabrication of the new French Consti tution will still arrest our scrupulous attention, the memory of the late Executive Government which was inspired by the glorious moderation of LAMAR TINE will still elicit our most cordial eulogium, notwithstanding the slanders of the now domi nant faction, and the designs of the Socialists will still excite our indignation and apprehen sion. It is impossible, likewise, but that Spain, with its unhappy SOVEREIGN, with its Ministerial tyrants, and with its generous but ill-used people— Spain, more especially with whom recent events have placed this country in a peculiar and ominous posi tion—it is impossible but that the Iberian peninsula will be the source of very considerable interest to the English people. Italy, in like manner, ' will arrest their regard, and their warmest sympa thies must inevitably follow the Italian patriots in their protracted struggles. The kingdoms of the North—Austria with its self-exiled Emperor, Hun • gary, Prussia, and Germany, newly animated with the spirit of nationality—will each in their turn claim a share of English sympathy ; nor will the buried glories of Poland be forgotten ; her coming resurrec tion will be watched for with unceasing hope. Ne vertheless, with all these claims, these peculiar and important claims on our attention, with all these en thralling subjects of interest soliciting our re gard, it must not be forgotten, that, as we have already said, the Parliament of England should be the paramount object of observation to Englishmen. By the decisions of our Parliament it is that we have obtained those liberal institutions and those great reforms in which we glory, and by the decisions of our Parliament it is that we look to receive those yet mere liberal institutions and those yet greater reforms which the people of this country so much require. Their immediate and zealous at tention to these necessary and much desired mea sures, is a duty the Parliament undoubtedly owes to the people, and their unceasing interest and cordial co-operation the people owe to the Parliament. It is a consideration of these mutual duties which induces us to regard with so great a sense of satisfaction the popular course recently adopted by a large body of our representatives, and the earnest sympathy testi fied by the people in the deliberations now taking place at Westminster. No subject could pos sibly be bets ;er calculated to call these relative duties into existenc e than one which so nearly and so pecu liarly concer is both people and Parliament as the question of i•eforming our system of representa tion. That great question, on its first intro duction, gave occasion to one of the most inter esting and elc )quent debates which has taken place this session. To every succeeding debate upon this important su,b;iect the public will look with eager in terest. The i nanner in which the matter progresses will inevitably. excite their interest and anxiety, but, as to its - ultimate result, we ars confident that, like ourselves, the people of the country entertain no doubt whatsoever. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The ltitouiteur publishes the following handsome testinratiy to the loyalty of the proceedings of the English Government, which, during the days of the insurrection in France, M. FLOCON had thought proper to calumniate before the Assembly. The insinuations directed at the tribune of the National Assembly against a neighbouring country by one of the mem bers of the late Government having justly moved the Ambassador of England, his Excellency thought it his duty to protest energetically, by a note, ad dressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated the 27th ult., against the possible application of these words to the English people or English Government, whose good faith and character are of themselves a suffi cient reply to such attacks. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, appreciating the noble suscepti bility of Lord lioamaNnr, replied as follows : " THE MINISTER! OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS EXCEL- LENCY THE AMBASSADOR OF ENGLAND. " My Lord,—My opinion, and that of my Govern ment, is, that the Government of her Majesty the Queen is too loyal to have taken any part i❑ exciting the frightful scenes in Paris. I see no impropriety in your giving to this declaration, as well as to your own note, such publicity as you may deem proper. I sh ould see you do so with the more pleasure, as it would afford a new proof of the reciprocal sentiments of good friend ship which animate both our Governments. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your most devoted, " JULES BASTIDE." The Moniteur also gives Lord PALMERSTON'S reply to Mr. WYLD in most conspicuous form. The process of disarmament still goes on with energy. On Sunday a force of 500 men surrounded the village of Puteaux, near Neuilly, and disarmed the inhabitants. Puteaux was the bead-quarters of the Socialists. The imprisonment of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN still continues. He is guarded au secret, and although Madame GIRARDIN has offered bail for him in 100,000 francs, it has been refused. The cause of his arrest and detention is the discovery of certain correspondence implicating him in treason able practices against the Republic, and not the pub lication of articles in his newspapers. The attempts at incendiarisin and assassination still continue. A few nights since an attempt was made to set fire to the Chateau de Beaumont, near Blois, belonging to M. DE La'roux. It was neces sary to send for a body of troops, who succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but the incendiaries have escaped. We have before alluded to the connexion of the Legitiinatists with the insurrection, and to the fraternization which is going on everywhere betwee❑ the Aristocrats and the Communists. The following is an additional proof of the connexion of the Legiti matists with the outbreak of the 23d June :—Count DE FOUCHICOURT and his son, a young man twenty. four years of age, both residing at No. 7, Rue St. Anastase, near the Rue St. Louis, distinguished themselves for their resistance at the barricades, of which they were the chiefs, in their quarters. The COUNT planted a white flag on the barricades at which he fought. He was recognised by M. IsAMBERT, lieutenant in the 6th Legion, and that gentleman, assisted by some comrades and mobiles, arrested him at his own house on Sunday evening. "It is true," said M. DE FOUCHICOURT, " that I fought at the barricade, and I did so in the name of order ; for, in my opinion, order cannot be re-established in France without the restoration of legitimate royalty." BARBES, and the prisoners arrested on account of the affair of the 15th Diay, have been transferred from Vincennes to Ham. The following report of the proceedings of the Na tional Assembly yesterday will be found most im portant. General CAVAIGNAC, it will be seen, an nounced the dissolution of the Ateliers Nationat, and M. GOUDCHAUX made a financial exposition of so satisfactory a nature that there was a great rise in the funds immediately after. The President took the chair at a quarter past two. The President read a letter from the members of the committee of inquiry ,appointed to investigate the cir cumstances connected with the late insurrection, de claring, as they generally held two sittings!e. day, of from four to five hours each, they begged leave to be dis pensed with for a short time from attending the ordinary sittings of the Assembly . General Cavaignac, President of the Council, ascended the tribune amidst the deepest silence, and said that he came there to redeem the promise which he had given to the Assembly in the course of the past week relative to the national workshops. The organization of that body had reached a most critical point ; the original idea had been good, but in the course of time it bad become altogether dangerous; it had, in fact, been turned away from the first intention, of giving aid to the poorer classes, and had been converted into a powerful instrument to assail the Republic and public liberty. He should not enter into an examination of the details connected with these establishments, but he must declare that it was evident that most decisive measures were demanded respecting them. Now that the Republic was relieved from the danger which had of late so seriously threatened it, he had thought it useful to ask the opinion of many as to the number of workmen engaged in the late insurrection, and the estimates given were of the most diverse charac ter. The highest number which he had heard men tioned was 50,000, and as there had been from 105,000 to 106,000 inscribe 1, it was evident that less than one half at most had been engaged. A great number of the men hail in fact continued well disposed ; still a terrible attempt had been made, and the Government had come to the resolution to dissolve at once the estab lishments i n ques ti on . A s t o th e su pp or t to be g i ven to the persons o f good conduct thus thrown out of bread, he had given orders to the mayors to continue, for the present, such assistance as might appear suitable under the circumstances, and which should be withdrawn according as the revival of work would permit it. Aid was at present regularly given, and would be continued until further orders. He had now, therefore, to announce that the national workshops were dissolved, but the Assembly would easily comprehend that the Government must be prepared to bring forward measures to supply the place of the assistance previously given. That had already much occupied the attention of the Minister of Finance, and he would continue to do everything in his power to restore con fidence. He had to announce, in the first place, that the State was resolved to fulfil all its engagements.— (Hear, hear.) For the present moment, the measure vc hich the Government should propose, as more particu larly affecting the working classes, was a Bill demanding a credit of 5,000,000 f. to be advanced to the persons engaged in building. This would not only give em ployment to a considerable number of men directly, but would be advantageous to the various trades con nected with building. He should leave to the Minister of Finance to state what financial measures he intended bringing forward. The National Assembly would, be doubted not, give them such support as would soon restore manufactures and general business.—(Hear.) M. Goudchaux, Minister of Finance, said that the reports presented in the name of the Finance Committee had shown the Assembly that the large amount of the floating debt bequeathed by the Monarchy to the Re• public had imposed on them the sad necessity of adjourn- ' ing the payment in cash of the sums due to the savings' banks and to the holders of Bons du Trfior. This ad journment had produced the very worst effects on credit, public and private. He determined in consequence to pay off immediately the persons interested in these two matters. The Bons du Tresor should be consolidated in three per cent. at the price of 48f. for a sum total of 246,835,464 f., of which 126,458,562 f. were issued before Feb. 24, and 120,376,895 f. renewed by the decree of March 16, The depositors of the sums placed in the savings' banks, amounting to 330,608,134 f., should be paid in Five per Cents. at 70f. As to the loan men tioned by his predecessor in his financial statement, of 150,000,000 from the Bank of France, he could not but approve of such a measure, and did not intend to inter fere with so happy an arrangement. His predecessor had also spoken of 100,000,000 as likely to come from demands for rentes from the provinces, but he considered that though the idea was good, the sum to be yielded would not be anything like what was estimated—at the most, owing to the shock given to credit, not more than twenty-five millions could be looked for. As to the 100 millions arising from cutting down of the State woods, he was obliged to consider such an amount as exceedingly doubtful; it was, in fact, impossible to fix any sum with exactitude for such matters; but the Government would do all they could to render the idea of his hon. predecessor a productive one. He might, however, observe that the sum fixed appeared altogether too high. His prede cessor had also set down 45,000,000 f. as the sum held by the railway companies. The Government considered that to continue that plan would, from the large issue which it would require of rente to pay for the lines, pro duce a great depreciation in the public funds, and would tend to still further injure the state of public credit. In consequence the Government intended to abandon the measure in question.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") THE S'UN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1848. He thought it right, however, to proclaim that the principle acted on was a just one, and that the State certainly had a right to expropriate these lines or any other such property, if the interests of the State demanded it. The State had also determined to withdraw the Bill to enable the Government to take possession of the insurance offices. The duty on mort gaged property, proposed :by his predecessors, which tied been set down at forty-five millions, but which would not produce more than twenty millions, would be retained, but only for one year. To meet the expenses of the year the Government was obliged to devise some means of meeting the expenditure of the year, and, in consequence, it intended establishing duties on legacies and donations, which would bring in, it was calculated, thirty millions. The Honourable Minister concluded by bringing forward five Bills. The first relative to the 150 millions lent by the Bank; second, on the savings' bank; third, on the Buns du Tresor; the fourth, on the legacy duty; and the fifth granting five millions as an advance to the persons engaged in building. M. Duclerc declared, that as the principle of the Railway Bill was not objected to, he wiiuld undertake to show, when the discussion came on, that the Bill would not produce any of the ill effects spoken of. In the course of the sitting, M. GOUDCIIAUX read the following expose des motifs with respect to the loan of 150 millions of francs, concluded with the Bank of Prance : " A negotiation relative to a loan of 150,000,000 had been commenced by my predecessor with the Bank of France. I have lost no time in concluding that important operation. 75 000,000 can be paid into the Treasury before the termination of the next quarter of a year, and 75,000,000 in the first three months of 1849. The guarantees given by the Bank are—for a sum of 75,000,000 of Rentes derived from the Sinking Fund, in conformity with the or donnance of the 15th of June, 1834, that is to say, on three•fourths of the value. For the other 75,000,000, forest belonging to the State, and amounting to 84,729 hectoires. The first half of the loan will be reimbursed by the Treasury in three payments in the course of the year 1850, the second half by the produce of the sale of the forests, and under the condition that whether the sale be effected with a profit or with a loss, the difference will be to the profit of the Treasury, as will be covered by it. Such are the basis of the loan of the 30th of June, 1848." Several detachments of workmen from the Ate liers Nationaux have left Paris for the purpose of joining the Piedmontese army. The discussion on the project of the constitution is going on in the several bureaux with great animation. In some of them the preamble has been entirely re jected ; in others most important modifications have been made in the enunciation of the so-called droit de travail, which it is to be hoped the Assembly will re ject entirely as absurd, and impossible to be carried out. The mode of government proposed has also given rise to warm discussions. One of the bureaux, on the motion of the Count DE MONTALEMBERTI adopted as a resolution that " The separation of powers was an essential condition of the Government of the Republic." M. PIERRE LEROUX gave it as his opinion that the constitution of three estates (pouvoirs) was necessary in order to escape the despotism of mem bers. M. QUINET, on the other hand, contended in favour of a single Chamber as necessary for the cen tralisation of the democratic power, which is to re place that of the monarchical power. M. DE MONTA LEMBERT contended warmly for two Chambers as a necessary check on the march of democracy. The Commission of surveillance over the savings' banks has been reinstated, with the consent of the Government, and the Committee on Finance has ordered the restoration of the funds belonging to the Tontine Companies, which had been seized by order of the late Government. The state of the prisons in France occasions con siderable anxiety. The Constitutionnel says— "We have on several occasions called the attention of the Government to the central houses of confinement and correction. W e s e,: with pain that for the last three months about 18,000 individuals confined in those establishments have been left totally without employ ment, and that it has been almost impossible to maintain order and discipline amongst them. It is well that the Minister of the Interior should be made aware that, in the eyes of the prisoners, the laws and regulations which were made by the old Govern ment have been all annulled by the Republic, and they therefore rebel against their compulsory silence, and the deprivation of wine and tobacco. If the system of labour iu the prisons is not promptly resumed, we much doubt whether the directors of them, with all their energy, will be able much longer to exercise any authority over the prisoners. Formidable disturbances have already broken out which have necessitated the in terference of the armed force. At Melun, Limoges, and at Loos, the agitation has been very great. At Loos the prisoners attempted to break out of prison, and at Melun they barricaded themselves in their sleeping wards. Yet when it was so necessary to have experienced men at the head of those establishments, the last Minis try replaced the former experienced directors by men who had never put their foot inside a prison." General CAVAIGNAC has announced that the sum of 100,000 francs, payment demanded by the Go vernment for the expense of the bureaux, is unne cessary. The project of law relative to primary instruction laid before the Assembly by M. CA RN O T on Friday last, has been published in extenso. According to this plan, education to a certain limit is declared com pulsory. If the parent cannot, or will not, educate the child, the State will do it. Gratuitous education to a certain limit is offered by the State to all with out distinction. A parent who will neither provide education for his child, nor avail himself of the gra tuitous instruction offered by the State, is guilty of an offence punishable by fine and suspension of civil rights. That portion of instruction called primary, and which it is declared in this project necessary to impart to all French children as the indispensable qualification to the future exercise of their rights as citizens, is declared to be as follows :-1. Reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, the metrical system, measures of magnitude, elementary notions of physics, agriculture and industry, drawing, singing, and French history and geography.-2. The duties and rights of a man and a citizen, the develop ment of the sentiments of liberty, equality, and fra ternity.-3. El e mentary precepts o f h ea lth a nd exer cises useful to physical development.—Religious in struction by the ministers of the different worships. Such is the extent of education which this project declares it to be the duty of the State to impart or cause to be imparted to every child of either sex under the Republic. The machinery by which this immense design is to be realised is declared to con sist of public schools, private schools, and family instruction, all of which are to be directly or indi rectly controlled by the State. The public schools are to be conducted at the expense of the State, and administered under the direction of the Minister of Public Instruction. The masters and mistresses of private schools must be licensed by the State, and their qualifications must be tested by means appointed by the Minister of Public Instruction. All children of every class, from the highest to the lowest, are sub ject to the surveillance of the Minister of Public In struction, whose duty it is to see that none are unedu cated. The following is the fourth section of this project, in which the means of compulsion are enumerated : Every father, whose child aged full ten years, is notoriously known not to frequent any school, or re ceive primary instruction, is obliged, on notice from the mayor, to present him to the commission of ex amination as to instruction. If the child be not pre sented, or If it appear that he does not frequent any school, or receives no instruction, the father may be cited at the request of the commission before the Juge de Paix, and reprimanded. The judgment sh a ll be publicly posted up at the Maine for a month. If the Commission report on the following year that he has not attended to the reprimand, the father shall be cited before the civil tribunal of the arrondissement, and condemned to a fine of from 20 to 500 francs and suspension of his electoral rights during a period not exceeding five years. The punishment shall cease when the Commission shall report that the child has received primary instruction. BOURSE—.PARIS,MONDAY, JULY 3. THREE o'CLocK.—The Bourse was very animated to-day; and the financial project of the new Minister of the Finances produced a great rise in the Rentes and Shares. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have risen if. 50c-; Five per Cents. have risen 2f. For Money, the Three per Cents. have risen 2f.; Five per Cents. have risen 2f. 75c. Bons du Tresor are at 14 discount. Bank of France Shares have risen 80f. Bel gian Bank Shares n o t quoted. Two.and-a-Half per Cents. are not quoted. Spanish Funds, nothing ,done. Roman has risen per cent. Rothschild's Recei p ts have risen 50; dittosenipe (90 per cent, 25 .yExeha4nor o n London (30 days), 25 BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 3. Boulogne and Amiens, 61/2 —Northern of France, 4 3 / 4 -- Sambre and Meuse, 3. EXTENSIVE FIRE NEAR ENETER IlALL. — Shortly before two o'clock this morning great alarm was occa sioned by the discovery of a fire in the lower part of the premises of Exeter Hall Cigar Divan, Strand. Having been opportunely discovered by Carr, the Savoy watch man, his timely information enabled the quic k arrival of Dowden and Solornons with the Chandos•street fire engines. Unfortunately a delay occurred with the sup ply of water, but notwithstanding this somewhat diffi cult matter the windows and doors were kept closed till water could be procured, when other assistance had arrived, and by such judicious measures, aided with the redoubled exertions of the brigade, West of Eng land, and County firemen, the damage, to a very great extent, was confined to the stock, shop, and luwer part of the building. Mr. Hunt, the proprietor, is insured. As to the cause of the fire nothing decisive was known. A_ youth, fifteen years of age, and seven feet one inch in height, is on exhibition in Liverpool. GERM A N Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The Prussian National Assembly met on the 30th ult., at twelve o'clock, at Berlin. M. Beusch rose and questioned the Ministry on the three following points:-1. The relation of Prussia and Denmark, with which latter Prussia is at war. 2. The intervention of England. 3. The menaces of Russia. The Honourable Membsr then proceeded to expatiate upon the various phases of the war, anti to quote pas sages from various journals, tending to prove that the intervention of England was far from partial, because arms had been permitted to be exported by her for the use of the Danes. He thou spoke of the move ment of 27,000 Russian infantry, and 70,000 cavalry towards the German frontier, and begged the House not to forget that they had been at war with Russia since 1815, but how, where, or when, he did not " Russia," added M. Beusch, " has ruled us through the policy of our sucessive Cabinets since 1815, and through the gold she has sent to Austria." M. Beusch then asserted that the Prussian arms' had not retired from Jutland in consequence of English diplo matic intervention, but in consequence of a note dated May 8, addressed to the Prussian Cabinet, declaring that, unless the Prussian troops evacuated Jutland upon the 28th of May, the Czar would consider this refusal as a casus Belli. In support of his argument, M. Bausch quoted an article to this effect from an English newspaper, and another from the Journal des Debuts. M. Auerswald then rose, and assured the House that no note whatever, bearing the construction attributed to it by the Honourable Member, had been addressed by the Russian to the Prussian Government. The previous Ministry had stated to the House that stra tagetical motives alone caused the withdrawal of the Confederate troops from Jutland, combined with hopes of thereby promoting a speedier settlement of the question. Ie this the Government had been disap pointed, but it hoped that this desirable object would soon be obtained. In the meantime (said M. Auers wald), I am bound to state that our warm thanks are due to the British Cabinet for their incessant exertions to settle the question in a manner conformable to the honour of all parties interested. As regards the remarks on the armaments of Russia (continued M. Auerswald), I am glad to have an opportunity of stating that imme diately after the events of February in Paris, the Im perial Russian Government made known its intention to place itself in an armed defensive position; and her ar maments are completely in unison with her declarations. These preparations are the more justifiable since her frontier has been menaced. But as tranquillity has been restored on the menaced points, it is expected that a change will take place in the disposition of her forces. Her troops are already withdrawn from our frontier. Every report we receive confirms the fact that the sole object of Russia is to protect her own territory. The conduct of Russia with regard to Schleswig harmonizes with her peaceful professions elsewhere. The report that the ! Russian Cabinet had offered active succour to the Danish Government is totally unfounded. I have motives for asserting that it is the desire and intention of Russia to aid by all means in her power in putting an end to the war in Schleswig, and to prevent any further embarrassments or serious collisions. If (added M. Auerswald) the Honourable Member grounds his asser tions on newspaper reports, he must beg to decline answering any further questions. Count Siezkinki then explained his motion relative to the appointment of a commission to inquire into the mode and system adopted by the Government in regard to the decision of the Grand Duchy. After a long discussion and half-a-dozen amendments, Count Siezkinki with drew his motion. The motion was, however, taken up by M. Kosch, in shape of amendment. A discussion then ensued as to the mode of selecting the Committee, when it was determined that it should consist of two members of each of the general sections. At last the House proceeded to the order of the day, but not without considerable debate as to what motion should have the priority. At length M. Gladbach rose to renew his questions as to the disarming of certain young heroes on their re turn from Schleswig, by the authorities at Spandau. To this the Commissioner of the Minister of War re plied in the name of the Minister, that a company of volunteers, dismissed from Holstein for motives which it was not in his power to explain, had reached Spandau, and that their own commander had begged the police to disarm them. They were consequently disarmed; but that their arms, now lodged in the Spandau arsenal, should be re turned to them when they reached their respective homes.—(Oh! oh!) M. Gladbach, who belongs to the extreme left, replied that these volunteers had been honourably dismissed by Prince Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein, that some bad been sent as suspected persons to their homes. This was not the way to treat "glorious warriors." Ho then proceeded to read a document that these proceedings resulted from a Ministerial order-- (Cries of " Shame" from the Left)—which was in direct opposition to the assertion just made. " Perhaps," added he, " there is another Ministry in Spandau whieh conducts itself after the Russian army code."— (" Bravo" from the Left.) M. Kuhlwelter rose, and stated that the Hamburgh Charg6 d'Affaires had informed the Government that certain free corps had quitted Schleswig with the avowed intention of promoting tumult at Ber lin. Besides, said the Minister of the Interior, it is an unheard-of thing for armed bands to be allowed to traverse this or any other country. The late Mi nistry shut their eyes to this anomaly, but I distinctly declare, that so long as I am Minister, I will not permit it.—(" Bravo" from the Right.) After a short and sharp discussion between M. Gladbach, and a tart and firm re ply from M. Kuhlwelter, the subject was dropped, and shortly afterwards the House rose and adjourned.' The address has been given up by the new Ministry. It is said that the abolition of, all titles of nobility will be a prominent feature of the new constitution. WURTEMBERG. DISTURBANCES AT ULM. A scandalous outrage was committed on the 27th at Ulm (in Wurtemberg) by about twenty cavalry soldiers, who entered a room sword in hand, in which a demo cratic meeting was being held, under the presidency of the journalist SCIIIFTERLING. A number of persons were wounded, several mortally. The remainder escaped through the windows, and uttered cries of alarm. The drums beat and the Civic Guard flew to arms. A great agitation followed, and the military authorities confined the cavalry troops in their barracks, which were with difficulty preserved from an attack on the part of the exasperated inhabitants. Barricades were raised during the night of the 28th, under the ap prehension that the soldiers might escape by favour of the darkness; but these were demolished on several highly respected persons pledging their honour that such would not be the case. Next day proclamations were published by the civil and military authorities pro mising the guilty parties should be punished with due severity. A deputation proceeded to Stuttgard de manding the removal of the regiment from Ulm. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. On the 30th June the order of the day was the eleo tion of the President and the two Vice-Presidents for the ensuing month. Before proceeding thereto the President put the following questions:— " Is it the will of the National Assembly that Deputy Kapp's resignation of his seat be received?"—Carried unanimously. "Is it the will of the National Assembly that the Government of Baden be applied to to institute the election of another member in his place ?"—Carried unanimously. Several requests for leave of absence were then read. The ♦otes respecting the President were as follows : For Gagern .•• ... ••• 399 „ Simon ... ••• ..• 68 „ Blum ... ••• ••• ••• 12 Soiron... ••• ••• "• 2 Dahlmann, Heckscher, Lichnowsky, Radowitz, and Vincke, each had one. The votes respecting the first Vice-President were-- For Soiron... ... ... ... 326 ” Blum ... ••• ... ... 106 " Andrian .. ... ... 8 &c. &c. Andrian had the majority over Simon, for the second vice-presidentship ; so that they all remain as they were. ITALY. VENICE, LOMBARDY, AND PIED MONT. The project for a union with Lombardy is strenuously opposed by several Members of the Piedmontese Chamber, who fear that the transference of the seat of government to Milan would be the necessary consequence of such union. The citadel of Milan is to be converted to civil uses, and all parts that could command or injure the city are to be destroyed. VINCENT. GIOBERTI has arrived at Florence. The following is the text of the capitulation of Palma Nuova, between Colonel KERPAN, com mander of the blockade corps of Palma Nuova, and Baron Zuccur, civil and military commander of the fortress : MERETTO, JUNE 24.-1. The life, liberty, and pro perty of persons, whether civil or military, as well as of the guardia civica, will be secured, and no one will be regarded as amenable for the past.— 2. Every burgher is at liberty to quit the fortress for a time or permanently, and may settle in any part of the boundaries of the State most agreeable to himself. Every one who quits the place will be regarded as an emigrant.-3. Gen. Baron Curl Zucchi shall return with his Piedmon tese artillery to his native place, Reggio, and will, for the sake of security, be provided with sauve garde. 4. Major Boni is permitted to return with his family to Reggio; he will also be provided with a saueegarde, and will be regarded as expatriated. 5. The regular troops of the provinces of Frioul and Belluno must lay down their arms; they will be escorted as tar as Udine, where they will be disbanded and permitted to return home. The troops from Treviso are already being disbanded. The officers will be permitted to retain their swords; till their arrival at home all the men, from the sergeant downwards, will receive supplies during the march.-6. The Piedmontese company of artillery may return to their country, retain their weapons, enjoy the honours of war, and be furnished with pay and provi sions on the Austrian footing, on their binding them selves not to fight against Austria for the next twelve months.-7. The Crociati of Venice are to be sent back thither, and treated in conformity with article 5, the re- quisite means for the journey being provided for them. If there should be any foreigners among them the same will receive subsistence, and be sent forward to the frontiers.- 8. The National Guard must lay down their weapons and disband at the moment that the Imperial troops enter the city.-9. All public officers who were ap pointed previous to the 23d of March shall retain their post.-10. All the sick military, to whatever body they may belong, will receive the requisite care until their recovery, and will then be set at liberty, in conformity with Arts. 5,6, and 7.-11. Every burgher is to lay down his arms within twelve hours, otherwise he will be amenable to the existing laws. —l2. Everything which appertains to the fortress will remain there, and be delivered up in due form.- 13. The commandant of the fortress, Major Boni, will remain as hostage for the surrender of Palma Nuova, after which he will depart at liberty, according to Ar ticle 4.-14. To-morrow morning, at seven o'clock, the Imperial troops will occupy the three gates of the for tress and the principal guards.-15. The officers of the line and of the Crociati will receive an indemnification for their journey . —l6. Finally, the city, fully recog nising the error it has committed, surrenders un conditionally, although it has still the power of deciding upon questions of life, and measures of defence, and delivers up the fortress to the Imperial authorities, while it at the same time implores their clemency; that the public expenses which have been incurred by the blockade may be charged to the state, as many families have lost everything under the melancholy circumstances in which the city of Palma is placed. (Signed) JOSEPH PATELLI, President. J. N. KERPAN, Colonel. CERILLO GRAFFI, Captain. C. EuGNra, Sardinian Captain of Artillery. The 'Venice Gazette of the 24th has the following in a postscript :—" On the 22d, at half-past one, the enemy appeared along the river Osellino, at the distince of a mile from Marghera, and occupied two houses outside of Mestre, Rear the canal. They were dislodged by a few cannon shots; and a shot from a howitzer killed eight Croatians and two children. At four the enemy appeared on the dyke leading to Cumpalto, but were repulsed by Captain MAINo after a short fire. The Venetian forces made two sallies on the 23d, one from Fort 0, the other from Fort Rizzardi, and succeeded bath times in destroying the works of the enemy. On the same day an Austrian battery of six pieces, at Fussina, maintained an obstinate fire against the Venetian cannon-boats Pelosa, Calipso, Medusa, and the Pirogue Vivace: after two hours cannonade the bat tery was silenced." The Risorgirnento, of the 28th ult., states from Trieste that the Greeks residing there have offered to send fire-ships against the Italian fleet. The governor has refused. The Italian ships are cruising at ten miles distance off Trieste; they are fourteen in num ber. 1,600 Sicilians with twelve pieces of cannon, under the orders of Itinorri, have landed at Pacola, and effected their junction with 2,400 Calabrians. They intend dislodging the royal troops from Palma. The Italia del Popola of the 28th June publishes advices from Ostiglio of the 27th, which say : "All the line of the Po, the road from Mantua to Gower riolo, on the Mincio, and Ostiglio, are in the power of the Germans. Massa and Rovigo may now be occupied by them." NAPLES. According to the Epoca, a note had been delivered to the Neapolitan Government by the Minister of the French Republic, to the following effect :—" 1. Con sidering that military capitulations in the present state of European politics are an obstacle to liberty, and the Helvetic Diet having pronounced itself to the same effect, the Swiss troops must be recalled from the territory of the Two Sicilies. In the con trary case, their presence will be considered foreign invasion, and the right of intervention will devolve upon France. 2. The damage suffered by citizens on the 15th of May shall be entirely made good. 3. The constitution of the kingdom of Naples, recog nized by the Powers of Europe, shall be guaranteed by France with all modifications required hereafter by the times and the people. 4. In the same way that France interfered in the civil war in Portugal, she will interfere in Naples, if the civil war which has already broken out be not terminated imme diately by a reconciliation between the people and the Prince." IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DUBLIN COMMISSION COURT, MONDAY. Chief Justice Blackburn and Mr. Justice Doherty presided hereto-day. True bills have been found against Mr. Devin Reilly for marching and drilling, and his trial is fixed for half past ten to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. True bills have also been found under the late Act against fourteen other persons, accused of the like of fences, and their trial will immediately follow that of Mr. Reilly. Mr. Sergeant Warren died suddenly yesterday (Mon day) from an attack of apoplexy. The Learned Gentle man attended Divine service on Sunday evening. DUBLIN FUNDS, MONDAY.--Three per Cent. CON.. ols, 841 Three-and-a-Quarter per C en t. St oc k , 841 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—In the market for British Plantation 450 hhds have been disposed of at steady rates, including at auction 125 hhds Barbadoes at 39s 6d to 42s 6d. The public sales have comprised 3,000 bags Bengal and 2,000 bags Madras, which sold without material a lteration in value. Bengal Benares at 39s to 435, for low to fine white, and at 35s to 37s 6d for grey and yellow, with grainy descriptions at 37s to 44s ; Madras 30s to 33s for brown to low yellow, and 36s to 42s for good and fine. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 3,538 hhds, 181 tierces, 274 barrels ; there were taken for home consumption 1,034 hhds, 73 tierces, 210 barrels. The stock in the same places is 10,895 hhds, 2,069 tierces, 3,446 b arre l s. COFFEE.-130 bags Plantation Ceylon, 118 bales 86 half-bales Mocha, and 280 bags La Guayra have been offered by auction. The Ceylon brought the previous currency, but Mocha sold at a decline of is per cwt, chiefly at 45s to 46s for clean garbled. La Guayra realised 26s 6d to 28s 6d for fine ord, being low prices. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 310 puns 207 hhds. ; there were taken for home consumption 68 puns 22 hhds., and ex ported, 21 puns 9 hhds. The stock in the same places is 16,393 puns 3,226 hhds. RICE.--1,300 bags 611 pockets Bengal, and 1,700 bags Aracan. Bengal p ar ti a ll y sold on rather easier terms, as also Aracan, which brought 6s to 6s 6d for common yellow cargo. SALTPETRE. -1,100 bags Bengal realised 28s to 28s 6d for 21 per cent. refraction, being about the previous value. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 44s 6d to 44s 9d per cwt. on the spot, and town 46s 6d. TEd.—The market is quiet. TOBACCO. The market presented no particular feature last month, but continued in the same comparatively neglected state it has dune for some time past ; transactions generally have been of a very limited character, and although statements were freely circulated relative to the short supply of Kentucky strips put up, said not to exceed 5,500 hogsheads, buyers have not been in duced to purchase beyond their immediate wants; re cent advices tend to confirm the statements alluded to, but we have not observed any indisposition on the part of holders to effect sales at previous rates. Sales last month may be estimated at 7uo hogsheads. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN 4 and a Sprcial Jury of the City of London.) THE QUEEN V. HARDEY. The defendant, a barrister, appeared in discharge or his bail, to answer an indictment charging him with an alleged conspiracy. The indictment arose out of heavy litigation pending in Chancery bei wean the defendant; and prosecutors. A ,second indictment had been pre-• ferred against the defendant for alleged perjtx.xy, arising out of the same proceedings, and came on for trial in. this Court at Westminster, at the sittings for Middle sex, on the 27th ult., before a special jury of tha t county„ when after the case had been called on, Sir Frederick Thesiger, on the part of the prosecution, declined to. offer any evidence, and the jury immediately returned. a verdict for the defendant of Not Guilty, as repo/ ted in The Sun of the 28th ult. Mr. D. D. Keane (with whom were Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., and Mr. Prendergast) again appeared as counsel. for the defendant, and Messrs. Walter and Pemberton as solicitors. No person appearing on behalf of the prosecutfon, the Learned Judge directed the jury at once to find a verdict fur the defendant of Not Guilty. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, belore the LORD CHIEF BARON 7 and a Common Jury.) CROSS V. BARKER. This was an action brought for false imprisonmee t. The plaintiff was formerly a porter in the employ of the defendant., the proprietor of a steel-yard, it, Tb am, Is street, and in April, 1846, he was sent to dvi..:Yer a quantity of sheet-iron, for which he was to obtain a re ceipt in the delivery-beck. On his return, he diacomered. that he had lost the delivery-book. The defendant • gave him into custody, and he was locked up in Boa '-lane station all night. On the following morning Sir Peter Laurie dismissed the charge. Subsequently the book was found in the streets and returned to the defends nt. For the defence it was contended that the prevarica, ting statements of the plaintiff himself as to the missing b ook led to his arrest. He had, moreover, allowed two years to elapse before bringing his action. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, ls. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT - . (Before the RECORDER.) " BROTIIERS."— Thomas Skinner pleaded guilty to!steal ing and pawning a watch belonging to his brother Wil liam Skinner. The defendant said he did not pawn the watch with a felonious intention, but for the purpose of raising a small sum of money for which he had urgent use. He intended to redeem it immediately. The prosecuting brother besought the Court not to punish his brother too severely, who was comp ►fitted to Newgate about the middle of last month. The RECORDER sentenced him to three weeks' im• prisonment. BAy MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 31 10s; Clover ditto, 31 18s to 41125; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 103 per load. A fall average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 12s; Clover ditto, 41 to 41 10s; and Straw, 114 s to 11 12s per load. Trade dull, at about last week's quotations. WIIITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/17s to 3/ 10s; Clover ditto, 4/ to 41 13s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. COAL MABEE' Bate's West Hartley 14s Od Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 3cll Chester Main l3s 6d Davison'sWestllartley 14s 3d, Hasting's Hartley l4s 3d' Holywell Main North Pontop New Tantield . . .... . North Percy Hartley l4s Od Original Tanfield lls Cci Ord's Redheugh. Tanfield Moor Tanfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Walker's Pri►nrose Wylam Wall's End, &c .T.—YESTERDAT. I Lambton Primrose l4s 9d Belmont lss Od Braddyll's Hetton l5B Oa Bell 'Haswell l6s 3d Hetton . Lambton Morrison l4s Od ,Russell's Hetton Shotten Stewart's IWhitwell .. Cassop l4s 9d Hartlepool Hudson's Hartlepool l4s 6a Heugh Hall South Hartlepool Thornley Adelaide Tees Cownden Tees l4B Od Denison South Durham l4s Od %Vest Cornforth ..... West Hetton l4s 6d Aberaman Merthyr Howard's W. H. Neth l4s 3d Hartley ............... Powell's Dnffryn Stm l9s Od Ships at market 196. Bewicke and Co. Brown's l3s 3d Framwell Gate ...... 14s Od Gosforth Harton Hedley Heaton Hotspur l3s 9d Hilda l3s 9d Killingworth l4s 3d Riddell's l4s Od ‘Vharncliffe Eden Main l4s 6d We are requested to state that it is not true that M. Benjamin Larvite, the translator of Scott and Byron, was killed in Paris. His being the editor of a journal (La Tribune) may have contributed to his being con founded with some person resembling in name. His Excellency the Count de Lomonozoff arrived yesterday at Mivart's Hotel, from St. Petersburgh. NEW COURT. The Court was occupied all the morning in trying Mint cases, but none of them presented any fe atitre of more than ordinary imp. tance. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The July General Sessions were opened this mo fning at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green. The grand jury having been sworn, they were b riefly addressed by the Assistant-Judge. The Court was occupied the greater part of the n iorn ing with cases of petty larceny, of which several were those of children under twelve, and in one case inder ten years of age, for picking pockets. These gave occasion to the Assistant-Judge to repeat his animadversion. upon Sir John Pakington's Bill, passed in the last session of Parliament, and called the Larceny Act, by which the case of such children were withdrawn from the public eye, by the power of summary conviction given to the magistrate. The effect of that measure, which ths.d been in operation now only six months, bad already proved to be such as he had'predicted, and had increased this class of offenders at the rate of two hundred per annum; whereas, if they had continued to be brought bt More the public, in that court, the public would not rest until an effectual remedy was found for so deplorable and dis graceful an evil. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after Twelve o'clock. EARLY SITTING OF THE HOUSE.. On the motion that the Committees have leave to sit, notwithstanding the sitting of the House, Mr. FRE WEN objected to the motion, and com plained of the inconvenience resulting to Members that were on Committees, in consequence of the sitting of the House at so early an hour. Leave was then given to the Committees to sit. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were further considered, and agreed to:— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station Approach in Manchester). South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway Amend ment (Extension to Penistone and Alteration of Dod worth Branch). Tadcaster and Halton Dial Turnpike Road (Diversion, &c., of the Road in the parish of Tadcaster). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Dunbar Customs, Water, and Harbour Dues Amend- ment. West of England and South Wales Land Draining Com pany Incorporation. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. The reports on the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Birkenhead Dock Commissioners (Transfer of Powers to New Commissioners, effecting Arrangements with the Crown, and Amendment of Acts—No. 2). Hulme and Eccles Road. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway Deviation and Branches. Monkland and Kirkintillock, Ballochney, and Slamannan Railways (Amalgamation or Sale or Lease, and Amendment or Repeal of Acts). Royston and Hitchin Railway (Extension to Cambridge and Branches). ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN moved pursuant to notice, that it be an instruction to the Committee to extend its operation to England and Scotland. His object in. making this motion was to render the law in both countries analogous, an object which he believed had been lost sight of in this Bill. He understood that his motion was to be opposed by her Majesty's Govern , ment. He was surprised at this, because the Bill as it at present stood was a one-sided measure. He trusted that, although this measure had met with the concurrence of the House of Lords, this House would not adopt it without grave con sideration. He complained of the course pursued by her Majesty's Ministers in forcing on the Bill at the present moment, when it was well known Irish Member were absent in Ireland, in consequence of having to perform in that country most important duties. This Bill would. alter completely the whole law with respect to property in. Ireland; and it therefore behoved the House of Commons to consider well its provisions before they acceded to them. He believed that the provisions of this Bill, if carried into effect, would inflict great evils upon Ireland, and her Majesty's Ministry had been told that such would be the result of the measure. He thought that the measures that had been introduced with respect to Ireland by her Majesty's Government were not at all calculated to relieve the burthens wader which that country laboured, or to secure peace or comfort there. He codsidered the Labour Rate Act false in principle, and that every one of its provisions ought to be cancelled. He advised Government to withdraw the Bill for the present year, or so to modify it that it should be a boon to the landlord instead of an oppression. He always un derstood that it was brought forward to benefit the landlord, and surely if that were so, Government ought not to object to the improvements which the landed pro prietors suggested should l be introduced into it. He denied that the English creditor was suffering from the present system; there might be individual cases of injury done to his mortgagee by the landlord, but these instances could be provided for without having recourse to a legislative enactment. By this Bill they proposed to suspend the law of entail and primogeniture in Ire land, although it was upon that law that her Majesty rested her title to wear the Crown of these realms. The law of entail might be defective and inconvenient, but it was a law which had always been religiously observed, and he did not think the House would be justified in suspending it in Ireland. He therefore called upon the First Minister of the Crown to pause before he allowed this Bill to pass; but of this the Noble Lord might be as sured, that if he persisted in pressing it forward now he should certainly move that its provisions be extended to England as well as Ireland. The landlords of Ireland were a calumniated and much abused body. They were repeatedly being charged with not only neglect of duty, but of aggravating the sufferings of their own country; but when these charges came to be inquired into, they proved to be utterly w ith ou t f oun d at i on . F or hi s part, he liked to lay the blame where blame was due, and he had no hesitation in saying that the misery of Ireland was to be traced to the legislation of that House. Of late years its legislation had had a tendency to in duce landlords to get rid of their tenants, and it was unjust to lay the consequences of such a system at the door of the owner of the soil. (LEFT SITTING.) IfIRTIIB. On the 28th ult. ' at Rugby, Warwickshire, the wif e o f S. B. Bucknill, Esq., M.D., of twin boys, who survived only a short time. On the 29th ult., at Edinburgh, the wife of Dr. Cockburn, Ross, Herefordshire, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Hyde-park-terrace, Mrs. D. Nicol, of a son. DIED. On the 2d inst., at St. James's-square, the Countess De Grey. Al Bath, aged 62, Charles, son of the late J. Prothero, Esq., of Richmond-terrace, Clifton. On the 28th ult., at Totness, Devon, Neil Macvicar, Esq., late of her Msjesty's Customs, London, aged 72. On the 29th ult., at Lancing, Sussex, aged 64, Mary Ann, relict of the late J. Geast, Esq. On the 29th ult., at Pembroke-villa, King's-road, Clap ham-park, the Rev. Isaac Hitchin, London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of hliddlesex, Tuesday, July 4, 1848.