The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-17 00:00:00

~~~ .! ITALY. ROME. The following is the address of the Chamber of Deputies of Rome in reply to the speech from the throne : " Most Holy Father, --The first duty of your people, and of all us, who are their representatives, is to offer to your Holiness the most solemn thanks for having called us to the exercise of political life— giveai a reality to our rights—and laid the foundations of a true, just, and unchangeable liberty—a memo rable undertaking, and worthy of your name, to have made distinct in one sole person the authority of the Pontiff and the just power of the Sovereign. " We are well aware, nay, we feel a conscious con - viceion, that nothing can g ive more stability to public institutions than the true spirit of religion, which, inas much as it engenders, and consolidates lib read erty. , renders it easier for it to gerrnivate and to sp Hence the love of that faith, of which yotuo re are the guardian and the teacher, makes b us t r b ej e o n ic a e tub e f that whilst you, an e nem y to t b h e l e e vh esupreme s the your disposition and by the all leect of priesthood, are distribut in g to the true celestial treasures of g race, peace, am d l tr b ut, you transfer to responsib le ministers the am i administration of the temporal do minion, which, neverthel, is yours also. " Thus our utmost intellectual endeavours shall the be di rec ted to harmonize , as best we may, and shortest possible thne,t the national unitybs ta —thi ntial is the first goal of all our thoughti, and su aim of every design. Our views are so determined on that object, that should we feel the necessity of advising the Government to propose any alteration in the constitution for the manifest advantage of the people, we shall always study and endeavour to seal that unity with laws reciprocally suitable. " We are satisfied we stand in no need of encourag iem-you to establish the Italian League, since it is you .who first thought of it, would have it, and favoured • it. We dare to go further still, and we, moreover, promise ourselves to see it in a short time determined upon chiefly between the two supports to which Italy addresses her fervent prayers—the victorious sword of Charles Albert and the authority of the Pon tificate, both of which, less by the transitory conventions between Prince and Prince, than by wise and co-ordinate institutions, will render it firm and perpetual. But as as e see clearly that such a league could be bound by no other tie than a na tional Diet, we express our most fervent wishes that you. yourself would, in this Rome, become its centre and commencement ; and we entertain no doubt, that in conjunction with all the other populations of the peninsula, the noble and strong Sicily will become a member of it, and it will prove an addition to her glory to complete the wished-for unity, having with her own blood conquered liberty. The present con dition of the Neapolitan kingdom seems, indeed, repug nant to so noble a cause, since the troops, perversely called back, after having as much as it lay in their power resisted the Italian enterprise, have occasioned perturbation and mischief and scandalous outrages in our provinces. We do not raide to that people destinies different from our own, but if it has not been in the power of your Government to pre vent that ignominious abandonment (desertion !), you will not fail to ask satisfaction for those outrages from him who gave the ominous command. We entreat you to recommend to the protection of King. Charles Albert those of your magnanimous children who, flushed with a sacred and unrestrained ardour for the national contest, have been prompted to fly to_ arms, in order to avenge the Italian name. It is the sanguine wish of the representatives of your people that with that illustrious Prince, and the magnanimous and loyal Tuscan, as well as with other States, official negotiations may be without delay entered into, with a view to provide for the actual necessities of war. It is worthy and honour able to the sacerdotal ministry, and most concordant with your celestial mind, to pronounce amongst belli gerents a word of peace (the Italian nationality as foundation and principle) ; but, although we disdain any imitation whatsoever of the stipulations of Cam poformio, we are however of opinion that your peo ple neither ought nor can lay down their arms, and that, on the contrary, they should try all the means in their power to re-invigorate the war, until our common country shall have been recognised in its natural frontiers. " The national right established and declared by every civilised nation, and principally by the learned and generous Germans, leads us to indulge in the hope that out own forces will be sufficient to give to this war a good termination. It is a defensive and just war, since it is a war solely to re-possess our selves of what was taken from us by force. But should it come to pass that some others were inclined to wage war in our land against those rights which he defended in his own house, making himself the champion of those echo deny to Italy the power of becoming Italy, and jointly with our chains to rivet his own,—there would not certainly remain unavail able the offers of a spirited and gallant people, who, aspiring in our days to no unjust and dangerous con quests, could be able to repulse the violence of arms, without polluting this sacred ground with blood. "It would prove that man very indifferently ac quainted with public business who presumptuously ventured to answer for peace, order, and internal liberty, after examining with little care the external relations of the state. But, although we consider this matter of the highest importance, we have no less at heart our internal affairs, to which the Government ought to have already applied such provisions, and we expect that it will in a short time lay before us by what means it proposes to re-organize the trea sury, to restore credit,' and to heal every part of the public administration. These are no small evils ; but by cutting off the excess of the expenses and the multiplicity of offices, by reducing the pensions, by a better distribution of taxation, by the available pro duction of the national property, and by taking off the restrictions on commerce, we do not despair to be enabled to surmount our present difficulties. " We also confidently expect that our police shall be reformed in accordance with the present civilisa tion, and become the guarantee of order and security, nor longer busy itself with the scrutiny of the thoughts, with injurious suspicions, and with other hindrances to personal liberty. The tears of deserted families shall no longer be profitable to a wretched race, which boasted of protecting the Government, whilst it was only conniving to devour it, and so destroy all the means which might prove instrumental to civil improvements. "We also hope and promise ourselves much from the impartial administration of justice. We expect laws and tribunals better and not dissimilar from • those of other Italian states—public trials, and in our own tongue—and a public ministry to preside over it—reduced fete—in law trials of common right no privilege of fir .c--;,o offences of the press a jury— no more confiscation, no more pain of death. Des potism shall be impossible—all kind of rights firmer and sacred. " After honour and life we require that all pro perties shall be sacred, and we will not spare our la bour that, byremoving all useless burdens, the interest of supporting property may always be on the increase. But, as it clearly appears to us that ignorance is the foremost cause of false opinions, and of the loose manner of living,' it would bring much mischief on the people, and no less blame on us, if to public instruction and to civil education we were not careful to apply ourselves in a manner corresponding with the progressive institutions of the state, and of the growing civilization. " We shall bestow the same attention to the pro vincial as to the municipal regulations, which will greatly contribute to improve the condition of the people, when a new form of elections, based on a - large scale, shall have returned to them the public confidence—when the income and the jurisdiction of the municipalities, shall be separated from those of the state—when a more equitable separation of territories shall secure in the municipal liberty the first foun • . dation of political life. "If the difficulty of the undertaking can be sur passed by the desire, we are heartily . disposed to lend you our support in every social improvement; we will make ourselves a study to eradicate the roots of guilt and misery. What would it avail us to have new laws, were stupid or wicked executors still to administer them ? What would prisons avail, if, instead of correcting the guilty, the reciprocal tuition in all kinds of vice were still suffered in them ? Our principal attention is directed to that portion of the people whose labour supports our life ; we will procure them help ; we will remove obstacles to the industrious workman, to the honest farmer, that his - bread be gained by the sweat of his brow, but no longer moistened with tears. " For all these reforms you had prepared yourself an invincible bulwark in the Civic Guard, to the faith of which you have intrusted their keeping and their defence. The people, aware of the obligations which bind them to this courageous militia —aware of the narrowly-escaped dangers, of that order it has preserved—the !more confidently intrust to it their infant liberty, the more heartily bless and thank you, who have bestowed on them so great and permanent benefit. " We will do all our endeavours, Most Holy Father to begin this great labou r without dela y . We feel, and we respect too much in ourselves the rights of the people whom we represent, not to know how to proceed in it with courage and moderation. We are proud to comply with the noble duty of raising • in union with you and your Government the glorious statue of liberty, ready, as we are, to defend it from those who might still dream of reviving past times, no less than from those who, thirsting for peculation, prefer abuses and corruptions to a well-regulated society. " It was with the sacerdotal word of peace and union that 3rou commenced and proclaimed our rege neration. We shall, we feel, strictly adhere to your THE SUN, LONDON, MON DA Y benevolent intentions. We shall ke2p inviolable those principles ; and thus the national banner be headed by the Cross, which is the symb A no less of victory than of justice and truth." LOMBARDY A.ND VENICE. The report of a battle having tiken place between the Piedmontese and Austriani is not confirmed by the Italian papers which have arrived. They state, however, that the communications between :Mantua and Verona are completely open to the Austrians who cross the Adige at Legnano. The Dicta Italiana of bologna of the Bth, states that on the 6th General PEPE ordered the two Bolognese battalions, and the battalion of Lom bardy, to march to Brondolo, to attack the body of Austrians stationed there. The General him self male a sally to destroy the works begun by the enemy against Maighera. The results of these two operations are not known. Letters from Vicenza announce that two-thirds of the population have emigrated ; that the Austrians have imposed new contributions, and that a great mortality prevails among the 20,000 men stationed in that town. The linparziale of Venice of the sth, states that in consequence of the repeated refusal of MANIN and TOMASEO to resume the Executive power, the follow ing Ministry has been named by the Assembly : JACOPO CASTELLI,•PIETRO PALEOCAPA, FRANCEACO CAMERATA, ANTONIO PAOLUCCI, LEOPOLDO MAR TINENGO, GIO. BATISTA CAVEDALIS, and GIUSEPPE REAM. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday had been active. The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, of which 6,000 were American, at 34d. to 54c1. per lb., at fully previous rates. In Railway Shares only a mode rate business was transacted, and the market was very firm. Holders in some instances demanded higher prices. There are no arrivals to day with news of any parti cular interest, the ship letters not being generally of later date. We are glad, however, to notice the most favourable reports upon the state of the crops on the continent, as well as in the United Kingdom, and par ticularly in Ireland, and there seems to be every pro bability of food becoming even cheaper and more abundant than it is at present. The grain market this morning evinces unmistakeable symptoms of weak ness. The Money Market is exceedingly easy as far as the bankers and others are concerned, and even in general quarters there is a greater abundance. The railway '6 calls" absorb, however, a portion of the surplus which, in the absence of that source, would be seeking em ployment. For the present month they amount to 3,833,2551. on English, and 157,E001 on foreign lines. For August the amount as yet announced is about 1,500,0001 A report of the state of the iron trade appears in Aris'a Birmingham Gazette, from which we take the following extracts :—" The slight amendment in the export and home demand for iron, noticed in our last as a ground to hope that little underselling would be resorted to, has since that time considerably increased, and not only proved sufficient to realise such expectations, but, with the aid of some heavy orders for railway bars brought forward just upon the quarterly meetings, has induced considerable anxiety on the part of our manufacturers generally to obtain supplies of metal before any de cided reaction in price should take place." "Although we think that we may now congratulate the trade upon a very general impression that the lowest point has been turned, and that a more cheerful feeling may be reasonably assumed, still this beneficial movement cannot be referred to such a permanent re vival of activity in the iron' market, or in the general aspect of mercantile affairs, as would warrant the expectation of any immediate advance in prices; and, above all things, a wild resumption of opera tions or increase of make should be guarded against, The flush of orders which has lately been felt may be accounted for, even by the distribution alone of that business which was formerly executed at the various works unfortunately closed under the late pressure; and it should be borne in mind, that sales made at the pre sent prices arc affording little or no remuneration for the outlay of capital, if, indeed, they do not entail an abso lute loss upon the manufacturer." The abundance of money still has a strengthening in fluence upon Consols, and although the " fag end" of the settlement may be in part the occasion of the ad vance, there is also, no doubt, an indisposition on the part of the jobbers to sell stock, seeing the manner in which the quotations were lately "run up." The trans actions have been exceedingly limited. Consols have been 874 to 88 for Transfer, and 874 to 88 for Account. The premium on the March Exehrquer-bills is again 455. to 495. Bank Stock has been 197 to 193, being a very decided glee for the first named. East India Bonds have been 295. to 31s. premium. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have been 87i to 888, and the Three per Cents. 87:2 to 88. In the Foreign Bonds there has not been much doing, but the quotations are steady. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 11'4 1 , and the Three per Cents. 21i to 22. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 174, and Bra zilian 69. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 45 to 452. Danish Bonds have been at 70. Mexican are 17A-. Railway Shares are looking very firm again, and are still tending upwards. There is a small business doing, but holders are not inclined to press business. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONIL O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 197 1971 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 87 3 4 !,; e 88 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 87% 88 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arras 8734 88% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8% 9 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 _8 9-16 . . India Stock 239 Do. Bonds, 1000/ .. .. 29 p Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Account, Aug. 10 Exchequer Bills. 2%d. Juno. March. 1,0001. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 7O Mexican Bowls, 1846,"5 per Cent 17% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Ditto Passive Bonds 3 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 21% Ditto for the Account 22 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 45% 45 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto for the Account ...... . BUSINESS DONh IN RAILWAY SRARE9 AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Pt& SiaLit. Aberdeen Amb.a., Notting., Boston, &c. 334 — to Ayrshire and Galloway _ _ . _ Belfast and County Do ,• - n .. 16 . .. .. Birmingham & Oxford Junc... 20 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . Binning., Vol., & Stour Val. 121.48.... Di...L....he:ad. i.aucar,hir., sind Cheshire Junction.— lO Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire... l4/. 4s — ...... to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares B 3 / 4.. ... ...... to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and H01yhead......... 42% — ...... to Ditto, Preference Clarence. Do., let Class, 6 per Cent Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 5 1 4 to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 30 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 173( — to East Anglia, 251. L. & E., and L. & D Ditto, 181., E. & H l6 ...... Ditto, 3/. 108,, E. & H... 3 34 ...... to Eastern Counties Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 2% 3 14 to Do.Perpet., 5 per et. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N 0.2,61. 133.4 d... Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cent. Du., Quarter 12%..... Do., New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 17% — to bittos cc cr:ii s, ) ( g::) . , 6 per et.) 10 5 e c 2 ........ Ditto ditto • •-•— / ........ •• p •• r ... 7: '20 1;4 to •••••• to Ditto East Lancashire t to o Ditto, New - to Do., New Quarters to Do., 6 per Ceut. Preference Quarter Shares East Lincolnshire 2 % -•••• --- to 201....... _ Ed i n b urg h and Glasgow 42 Ditto, lilt Shares 11 _ .** t Ditto, Quarter Sh ares 1 2% lOl4 to - Edinburgh and Nerthern ... 25 ...... ..._ to Ditto,New Ditto, New port- ••• 6 14 — ...... to 13 Ditto, ditto, New ........«.. A ..... ...... to _ Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... Ditto, New ... ...... 2%.„ _ to Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 65.8 d... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New .................. 40 ..... to Great Northern.... to reerfetrheenvice..C..o.n.s. ......... ..... 1155 6!4s to Do. Loudon & York Eaten. 24 — ...... to .... Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42 1 / 2 - ...... to — 231 Great North of England ...... 100 ..... Ditto, New 40/. ............ .. 15 ..... . . 30 to Ditto, NOW 30/.... ......•••••• - . ,• ••• ** - - • to Ditto, New 15/. ..... ... ...... 90 .....• 891,.2 11%...... . , to • Great Western .................. Ditto, Half Shares ..... - ..... 50 ...... 49:3 -- Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 21 ...... 19' 1 4 to Ditto,to Eludderafield and Manchester 28 ...-• . ::: 1 1° 2 12 Ditto, Thirds 9 ...... -- Hull and Selby 5O ...... Ditto, Half Shares . ......... 26 ...... --- Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... . 12% ...... Lancaster and Carlisle.... ..•• 50 ...... to Do., Thirds Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... ...... to Ditto, ditto - •• ••• to Ditto Half Shares ..... Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths ..... Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6 1 4 ...... •--•• ... to -- Ditto Thirds (Reg. ) - ...... to -- . . - .:: . ... ro Do., New Guar. 6 per cent 2% .-- •••••. to -- Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 38 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Do., West Riding Union... 6 .... . - Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9%...... - Leeds and Bradtord 5O ..... Leeds,Dewsbury, & Manches. 47 %...... Ditto, and Blue ri,h i ( rb sc k ri . p .. ) . .. ........... .. .. 4 22 52 1 4 ...... to .... Do., Half Shares Leeds to -- .... . to ...... to .... Ditto, New .... ...... .. 30 . .... Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... .. Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. 3% to ...- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Juncti0n.......... 2% — to London Pk _Blackwell ....an Os. 8d.... Do. Estension Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 40 . t J. , Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... 8 1 ; 2 ex div to De. Prat. Cony. 5 p er Cent. 50 ...... _ .. to 7.. Ditto, ditto ..........1852 50 ..... _ Do , New, guar. 6 per cent. 2 ...... _ ... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... Ditto Preference .........181 17s 2d... London Ys North Western..... l o o 127 1 /2 to 127 Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 Th. New . .................... 7 Do. Fifths ..................... 2 ..... S Do. 40/. Shares...,l4. &M 20 — to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 •••• . to Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 ..... Do. 101.... Id. and B. (C.) 1 Loildon and S. NV wtern ....... :.0 .. - 48 1 ,‘,..... to - Ditto, New 504....... .. ..... 4`2.% ! ...,,„ Ditto, New 401......•• , - . , .. .;4_ Do. Tenths (COUNlidated) 50 •••••• "'" -• Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - Ditto. Thirds 111. 13s. 4d ... 2 dis. to Do., New Scrip. 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Depoeit and 5 per Ct. on Calls .....11. 13s. 4d.... % dis. to 11.nidon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11,4 — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 2714 — . to Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 .........____ _ ~: . .. _ Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 - ••... to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 3 Manch, 1112 - ,tton, & Matlock 4 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto I, Shares (No. 1) ... 18 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 — to I)itto,_l , :; Shares (No. 3)... 7%....•. Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 — — to Ditto Grimsby 3O — to Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto - Ditto Sheffield and Line. 10 ...... . to Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 15 Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 4/. 23.... Manchesterand Southampton 2 .. - to Midland 100 -105 104 ] ;. 3 to 105 Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - Ditto, 50/. Shares Midland, Birm.. and Derby...loo ... .. Midland, Consul. Bristol and Birmi•ngbam, 6 per cent.... 100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 88 Ditto ditto 141. 188... Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 par ct.gua.)....100 ..... Ni i(II d. Great Western (Irish) 421. 2 — Middlesbro' and Bed car. 6 per cent. guar. ......,.. . ... 50 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ....... __ ..... . to Ditto Quarter Shares -. Newmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... V. 12s Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Newry and Enniskillen Ncwrv, Warrenpoint, and - itostrevor ... . .. 1714 .. ... .. to Norfolk Ditto New 20/. Ditto Extension ............ 20 - to Do. Guaranteed 5% per c t. 5 ..... Do. Scrip,lB47, N. of Norflk 2 — Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares 1 2 1,E 934 l Do. Quarters: 6 1,4 — Ditto, Extension N1...... Ditto Thirds ... ........ .—.... 4q;..... .-- ...... to North and South-Western... 2 .. .. .. ... to North Staffordshire... .. ...... 12%...... 10 1 4 1A... tori— North Wales North Western ...... 8 Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wol- . -- verhampton Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 7%...... Royston and Ilitchin ..... .. 1X 1 ...... Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 25 Ditto,New 1214,..... -- Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 7 % — ....•• to Do. do. (South Div.) 4 Shrewsbury andl3inningliam 8 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 5 Shrewsbury and Chester _ (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... Ditto, Uswestry Ditto (New) Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref lO ...... 13 Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... ... 45 Ditto. Preference '2s ...... ...... to South Staffordshire 54••••- .. to South Eastern ...... .. ~... 33 1 ,4 Ditto, New, No. 1 ..... ... 24 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 25 Ditto New, No. 4. ... .. 8:; 3 41 — ...... to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole 4 - ..... . to Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 6 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1,E — Taw Vale Extension ........ 6 -....--- „t o _ Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny...... 15 1 ,x___ —_ Waterford and Limerick ... .. 42,..... __ Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin ... 3 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ......••• 42 3 4 _ Do. do. do. Do. do. do. ..... ... 7 3 /.„ ~ ... to West Cornwall 6 - Whitehaven andiurness ...... 13 ..... _, ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western ...... 9% — to Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 35 ...... to York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. • 31% to Do. Exten. No.l (Y. &N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 ... 11 3 4 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 - to York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, rreferenco Ditto East and West Riding Extension ..... .... .. ...... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Arnim 20 ..... 7 1 ,Vh... to Central of France (Orleans ._ and Yierzon) - Ceylon - Demerara. bendro Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish 7lh — •• ••• to East Indian Great Indian Peninsular ss. - Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. micanetzlinction 1 Louvain ala Sambre .....—.. 7 1 / 3 — ...... to Luxembourg ... 7 ....•• •.... to Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege........ lB - -Ito -- Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux :... „ 6 _ _ ..... to Over Yssel 413 s 4{l -.-- **** * tot° _— Paris and Lyons - -...-- to Paris and Rouen ........ 2O - Paris 4 Strasbourg 8 ...... Rouen and Havre 2O - ..... . to Sambre and Meuse - ...... to -- Strasburg and Bale l4 , . ..- .„..• to Tours & Nantes ... Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and liasselt .. .•• .. 18 ...... --- "•••• to -- West Flanders B 3' .-- - JOINT S TOCKIANKb. Australasia - British North American - ...... to -- Colonial ..... ......... ........... 25 ..., - • " to Commercial of London ...... 20 London Joint Stock ...„ ..... 10 Loudon and Westminster.., 20 National Provincial of ling,iti. 85 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 l' — -•• •• to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New to Union of Australia ....... ..... 25 Ditto, New 24 ...... - Union of London ........ ..—. 10 Union of Madrid 4O ...... MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ••••••• --- Asturian Mining Company... 12 ~.... Australian... 2% Blacnarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip , — - ...... to British Iron • Brazilian Imperial ...,. ..... 241,x — ...... to Galvanized' Iron • — Ditto, New Real del Monte. Unregistered . .• to Do. Black Debentures — United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) ' LONDON, JULY 17.—Wind W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. DOVER, JULY 16.—Wind N.E. to W.S.W.—Arrd. 15th, Ocean, Puncher, Rio Janeiro. OFT BEACHY HEAD, JULY 18.—Paquet de Cantabria, Havannah. OFF NEWHAVEN, JULY 14,—Janet Willis, Laing, Trinidad. SEAFORD ROADS, JULY 14.—Acrd. Employ, Sellers, Quebec for Hull. LIVERPOOL, JULY 16.—Arrd. Foam, Flinn, Sierra Leone ; Neptune, Porto Rico ; Minesta, Allen, New Orleans ; Emigrant, Morse, Savannah ; Caleb Grim shaw, Hoxie, Now York ; Blue Nose, Lancaster, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Cornwallis, N ewman , S t . John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 14 th, Hamlet, Triniad ; 15th, Prudence, Hong Kong Glendaragh, Calc u tt a; Si r L Henry H a rdinge, Bombay; lolchester, Aden and China; Oneida, Whampoa ; Benjamin Boyd, Africa; Monarch, Rio Janeiro ; Seraphina, Pernambuco ; Yeoman, Ha , , vannah ; Conqueror, Angostura ; Susan Lord Portland United States ; Humphrey Purinton, Portland, United States ; Genoa, Bath, United S t ates; B. C. Bailey, New Boston York • Wakulla, New York ; Europa (stea mer ) H a lif ax and ioston ; Windsor, Fay , ,British E m pi re , Cumberland, United Stat es ; Ol ive , St. J o h n ' s , N ew Brunswick; Haidee, Newfoundland; Charlotte, Thomp son, Bombay, leaky ; 16th, Gossypium, Callao • Eu ropean, New Orleans; Hebre w, B uckport, United slates; Wisconsin, New York; J. Z. New York ; Oli ve Branch, Quebec ; John, Quebec. Off port, Argyon, Cabin; Walsford, ditto. DEAL, JULY 16.—Wind S. toi , s Q ---'.W.—Arrd. 15th, Dianna, Pattison, Hull, and sailed for Bahia, 16th, Coun tess of Durham, Seron, Singapore; Sandwich, Dull, St, Lucia. Arrived in the River and sailed, 15th, Indefati gable, Manwood, Callao ; Maria Grace, Grace, New foundland, Chi na ; A nt ill es , foundland , 16th ; Uenam, Pearce, V a lparaiso ; Agincourt , Nisbet, C a p e o f G oo d Hope &c. Sarah lti skett, Goddow, st. Hel ena ; Cod ringtoU, Huxtable, Antigua ;__ Argyle, Golden R u l e , W atl i ngton, Sophia, Bartlett, Honduras ; B er muda ; River St, Laurence. 15. , --Sid. 15th PORTSMOUTH, J ULY 9 Mary S ea ton, Meldrum, Quebec. 15.—Wind S.E.—Acrd. .Mason, Os- CowEs, JULY good, Matanzas. CLYDE, JULY 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Chevalier, Mackinley, Trinidad. Sid. 14th, Wanderer, Demerara; c . 15th, Mary and Ann, Clarence, Halifax, N. ....., De merara. . Quebec. d S ampson TROON, JULY 13,—Arr . OFF TROON, JULY 14.—Arcadia, Quebec, and sailed for Ardrossau. SCILLY, JULY 13.—S1d. Arrow, Newfoundland. OFF SCILLY, J ULY 13.—Neptune, Bombay, and sup plied with provisions. OFF FALMOUTH, JULY 13.—Jenny Lind, Rock, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Rotterdam; Sir R. Campbell, Baird, Pernambuco, and sailed for London. Mr. Macaulay having retired from public life, is now busy with his Ilistory of England from the times lion of James H. The two first volumes are in the press. • LITERATURE. TEE CLOSING SC ENE. By the Author of " The Bishop's Daughter," 6-c. The lives of eminent men may always be read with profit, but never more so than when they are brought in strong contrast to each other, as they are in the volume before us. Here we have the lights and sha dows of human life—the holy aspirations of the Christian contra , Aed with the gloomy forebodings of the Infidel : and so faithfully are the portraits drawn, and by so masterly a hand, that they cannot fail to arrest attention. The author laments, that " among the acute, and the gifted, and the highly educated, are arrayed the antagonists of Revelation and the enemies of the Redeemer." It ever was and always will be so. What says the Scripture ? "Not many wise men after the flesh, rot many mighty, not many noble are called." And Cowper, who always de lighted to drink from the Fountain of Life, thus enforces the same truth : " Not many wise, rich, noble, or profound In science, win one inch of heavenly ground." " Not many wise are called." And why? Clearly because they are so puffed up with their own (often vain) attainments, that they think it derogatory to ask for aid of Him to whom they are indebted for all the talents they possess. The inconsistency of these urea is most remarkable. For instance, Shelley, a sketch of whose unhappy life is given in the work under consideration, once declared to a literary friend that of all the books he had ever read he valued the Bible the most. His friend, somewhat startled at this remark, asked hitn how he could, with the least consistency, make this assertion after the sceptical opinions he had published in his various works ? " lf," replied " I have written anything in opposi tion to the'Bible, it has been done from very scorn for the hypocrisy of those who call themselves Christians, but whose walk in life is as opposed to that of Christ as light to darkness." This is ex ceedingly cutting, and is well calculated to lead men of reflection to consider the springs of their actions, and w hat their " closing scene ' is likely to be. Shelley was an extraordinary man ; highly gifted unquestionably, with a keen perception of the beauti ful. His " Hymn to intellectual Beauty "is proof sufficient of this. At every object in nature he looked with the eye of a poet. In watching the graceful motion of the clouds he once said— " They blindly on their errands go." Not thinking, perhaps, at the moment, that he him self was equally blind in all matters relating to eternity. Shelley at one period of his life endured great privations; but when his circumstances im proved, we have heard from a gentleman who was in timate with him, that to a necessitous author, though no relation, he presented a thousand pounds. This was at any rate acting the part of the good Samari tan. And after such conduct, who can refrain from looking with tenderness on the man whose feelings could*. prompt him to such princely liberality ? When Shelley drew the cheque for this amount, he might have said to a mere professor, " Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works." The " mighty, the noble, and the rich," are included in our quotation ; but we have not space at present to pass any remarks on these. From the narrative of every character included in " The Closing Scene" we might select passages of great interest, but in doing so we should be robbing the book too much of its valuable contents. We will therefore close our notice by strongly recommending the reader to get a copy of the work, which, to our taste, is the most interesting of any which the author has yet published. * 1 Cor. i. 26. CURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. The Royal Children took their usual airings yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.- Seymour, Col. Equerry in Waiting, was present at the field-day morning, i o n f I; ,l e ,d e Sc r ot a s rk F , u n s n i d lie t r onk Gu th a e rd e s n , mmonanSdatnuf therday regiment. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Major- General Wemyss and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, Equerries in Waiting, drove, on Saturday, in a carriage and four, to Richmond, and honoured Lord and Lady John Rus sell with a visit, at Pembroke Lodge. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, drove out on Saturday in an open barouche and four. A magnificent chimney-piece, grate, and fender, en suite, of un entirely new mode of manufacture, made for his Highness Abas Pasha, were submitted to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, by Mr. H. Room, of Birmingham. Her Majesty and his Royal Ilighinss were pleased to express their appro bation of the articles. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, lion. Miss Cavendish, Lord Camoys, Major-General Wemyss, and Lieut.• Colonel Seymour, honoured the perform ance at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with their presence. her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Augusta Bruce), and their Royal 'lionesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Mary (attended by B aroness Bose and Mr. Edmond Midway), also honoured the performance with their presence. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Baroness de Speth, visited her Maj est y the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Their 'Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended Divine service yester day in St. Michael's Church. Baroness Bose and Baron Knesebeck were in Waiting on their Royal Highnesses. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac companied by the Princess Mary, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, on Saturday, at her resi dence, Clarence House, St. James's. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Mi nister, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office. Mr. J. G. Deane and a deputation of Bakers had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere at the Office of the Board of Trade cn Saturday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches were sent cff on Saturday evening from the Colonial Office for the Governors of the West India colonies. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. W. Hall, and the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Perceval. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. G. Repton. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Perceval. The anthem, " I was in the spirit," (Blow), was sung by Messrs. Bradbury, Bennett, Francis, and Machin. Mr. Turle presided at the organ. patched to Ireland on Saturday , appointing LORD CLARENDON. — T he Queen's letter was asLodrids; Justices th to e a a n d . :m en in e i e st n e f r t t h h e e L g c o , r y d e e government mon' that T h c e o A u n r e t r h y . •Li bishop of Dublin, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and the Commander of the Forces are named in the com mission to act in the place of the Earl of Clarendon, to enable his Excellency to pay a short visit of a few days to London, usual at this period of the year. Lord Clarendon will leave Dublin on Monday. It is not im probable that during his short stay Ministers will avail themselves of his presence to discuss more closely the present condition of Ireland. The intended visit of the Court, postponed by the unhappy circumstances of the country, so detrimental to its best interests, may still, perhap2, form one of the subjects for discussion. It is the people of I re l an d—l o y a l an d good-hearted in the main—that suffer in this, as well as in many other respects, for the violence and folly of their self-consti tuted leaders and agitators by profession.—Observer. DRILLING AT BRADFORD. During the past week, four parties have been brought before the magistrates of Bradford, charged with drilling bodies in the army) hav e a li T of men in May last. h it : L., men (two committedof whomtr trialhacla t t beenthe assizes.-111alichkster Guardian. A law among the Arabs permits a man to divorce any of his wives who do not make him good bread. EVENING, JULY 17, li4ll, MARKET NE W S.- (T 'HIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The arrivals of English Wheat, Malt, and Flour for our market last week 'coastwise were on a full average scale, even the time of year considered. Of all other F articles of home produce the receipts were very limited, though of full average quality. From Ireland and Scot lend very little Grain carne to hand. Collectively the receipts from abroad were good, viz., 4,602 quarters of Wheat; 7,085 quarters of Barley; 18,122 quarters of Oats; 1,167 quarters of Beans; 690 quarters of peal; 935 quarters of tares; 2,746 quarters of linseed; 41 quarters of rapeseed; 37 quarters of mustardseed; 114 quarters of sundry seeds, together with 130 seeelts and 56 barrels of Flour. Since these returns were made up several cargoes of Oats have come in from Germany. • Fresh up to-day rather an extensive supply of Wheat was received from Essex; and a moderate one from Kent, Suf folk, and Cambridgeshire. By land carriage the qtiantity was on the increase, and the show of samples was larger than on any previous market day during the whole of the present year. This circumstance, together with the con tinued fine weather for the growing crops, and the com paratively small attendance of buyers, had a very de pressing influence on the demand for all kinds of English Wheat, at a decline in the quotations of Monday last of from 2s to, in some instances, 3s per quarter. The mar• ket closed heavily, and a clearance of the stands was not effected. The quantity of Foreign Wheat brought forward was far from extensive; nevertheless, that ar ticle was a mere drug, aed prices receded quite 2s per quarter. In qualities under lock or on board we heard of no transactions. Several parcels of very fine Aus tralian Wheat were offering at from 55s to 56s per quarter. The few samples of English Barley on the market were quite neglected, consequently nominal in value. Foreign _Barleys, the supply of which was moderately good, moved off heavily at Is. per quarter less money, with out any progress being made in sales. For Malt there was scarcely any inquiry. Chevalier parcels on the spot were mostly held at full prices, but the value of the secondary qualities had a downward tendency. We were very scantily supplied with English, Scotch, and Irish Oats, but the show of foreign exceeded the wants of the dealers, hence the trade ruled heavy, and prices suffered an abatement of fully 6d. per quarter. For Beaus, espee cially foreign samples, the demand was in a very in active state, and in some instances the rates were not supported. In Peas next to nothing was doing, but we have no actual decline to notice in the quotations. The sale for Indian Corn and Meal was dull in the extreme. Flour, both English and foreign, was heavy on somewhat easier terms. CURRENCY PER IM Wheat—Essex & Kent, 'ERIAL MEASURE. i Al alt—Clievalipr.. .• • • 59s to CO.: ........ - 47 s to b3s Oats Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 50s 56s Lincolnsh., 188 218 Norfolk and Lin- Potato ...... .• • . 20a 23 , coin, Bed. • ... 458 49s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White• ••• .• 47e 54s Black . 148 18s Irish, Red.. ••.• • • —s —s Cork, White .. • 16s 20s Ditto,White.... •• —3 —s Scotch, Feed. •• • • 208 22s Rye—Old .•••••• • • • • • —s a Beans—Tick ..... 32s 40s New. •••• • • .. .. 31s 33s Pigeons ...... .• • • 36s 40s Bexley—Grinding ..• .• 24s 294 Peas—Grey .•••• • • • • 365 it's Malting . ........ 30s 32s Map1e........ 3 g s Chevalier .. • • •.• 32s 33s White ••••• - • • • 348 tdalt —Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • ••• • • 37s 388 folk •••••• • • • • • • 55s 588 Flour—Town-made... 41s 4os Brown .••••• • • • • • 478 53s Suffolk ••••• • • • .. 35s :Ns Ilingstonand Ware 57s 595 Stockta So Norfolk 33s 33s SINZITEFIZILD. The imports of live stock into London last week were as under: — From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calva .1. Amsterdam ... 63 ... 810 Rotterdam ... 259 ... 1,668 ... 129 398 Antwerp ...... 27 Harlingen ... 6 7 ... 123 Hamburgh ... 52 ... 332 ... Havre ..... 8 ... ... 13 1 ... 115 33 Total 449 2,960 130 569 Corresponding week in 1847 724 ... 2,312 ... 258 ... 423 Difference ... 175 less. 645 more. 128 less. 146 more At the northern outports about 2,000 head of each kind of stock have arrived, mostly from Rotterdam and If sin burgh, in very middling condition. With foreign Sheep we were somewhat heavily supplied to-day; but the numbers of Beasts and Calves on offer from abroad were comparatively small, yet their general quality was tole rably good. For the time of year, the supply of Eng lish-fed Beasts on sale was tolerably good, while the quality was, a fair average. Notwithstanding the con tinued warm weather, the Beef trade, owing to the good attendance of town and country buyers was steady at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, the prices paid on this day se'nnight; the primest Scots selling at 4s to 4s 2d per Sibs, aad at which a clearance was effected without difficulty. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,000 Scots and short horns; from the western and midland counties, 800 short-horns, Devons, runts, Sc. ; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds; and from Scotland, SO horned and polled Scots. With Sheep we were tole rably well, but not to say heavily supplied. For all breads the demand was steady, and last week's prices were supported in every instance. The general quality of the Sheep was good. The supply of Lambs was but moderate. On the whole, the Lamb trade was firm, at full rates of currency. There was a much better in quiry for Calves, but we have no improvement to notice in value. Pigs were in short supply and heavy demand, at barely late rates. Per Blbs. to s s. d. to s. d. S. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts-- 3 0 3 2 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 tlscomi quality • 3 4 3 6 Coarse-weolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime largo Oxen 3 8 310 SouthdownWetLer 410 b 0 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Lar:;c Hogs ...• •. 310 4 2 ;Ink the offal. Prime small ditto .. 4 0 4 4 Smsallkxikore ---- A 4 4 6 Suckling Calves ••17 0 25 0 Quarter old Pigs •• 17 u. 22 8 Inferior Sheep •••• 3 10 4 2 Lambs .......... 4 6 s 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I "a2P. 24.560 I Calve27l s. I Pigs. 290 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. I Sheep. I Call24ves. I Pigs. 201 — NMIXTGATEI AND LEADEIVILELLIC. Beasts. a. 296 Since this day se'nnight the arrivals of country-killed meat for these markets have been tolerably good, the time of year considered, viz., 160 carcases of Beef, 400 ditto of Mutton, 400 ditto of Lamb, 120 ditto of Veal, and 230 ditto of Pork. With meat slaughtered in the metropolis we have been fairly supplied. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Lamb have commanded a steady sale, at full rates of currency. In the middling anti inferior kinds, as well as Veal and Pork, only a moderate busi ness has been doing, at barely late figures. About 900 carcases of foreign meat have been on offer, in very middling condition. • At per stone by the Carcase. s. a. to s. d. e. d. to o. d. Beef,inferlor•• .• •• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 3 8 310 middling • 2 8 210 middllng•• 4 0 4 4 primelarge 3 0 3 2 prime ••• • 4 6 4 8 prime small •• 3 4 3 v, Pork, large— ••• • 3 6 4 2 Veal.• •• • •• • 3 4 4 2(— small • ..... 4 4 4 6 Lamb, 4s 6d to bs Bd. 11032,01,7G11 IiOP VIANLICET. The plantation accounts being still very favourable, the demands for all kinds of Hops is heavy, and, to effect large oaks, Is to 2s per cwt Jess money must he cub witted to by the holders. The duty is called from 195,0001 to 200,000/. Sussex pockets, 2115 s to 312 x; Weald of Kent dit to , 2/ 18s to 3 l ss; laid and East Kent ditto, 3/ 4s to Si 5s per cwt. nOItOUGII JIND SPITAL:7 I IEL73S. These markets continue to be heavily supplied vtith new Potatoes, the sale for which is steady, at from 41 10s to 6/ 6s per ton. The imports during the week have consisted of 710 baskets from Rotterdam, 100 bags from ilamburgb o and 400 baskets from Antwerp. WOOL. The public sales have at length been brought to a conclusion. Out of the 32,000 bales brought forward, about 20,000 were actually disposed of, at a decline in the quotations of from ld to 2id per lb. Privately, so little business has been doing that prices have ruled almost nominal. The imports during last week were 353 bales from New Zealand; 2,500 ditto from Sydney; 417 ditto from Odessa; 310 ditto from Hamburgh; and 418 ditto from the Cape. tin v. - as, whether two Bums of Stock. ono of 2,328!. 17s. 10d.,• nod the other 2,735/. and cad, charged upon an coat° at Brighton, ':c•re or wore not part of the per sonal estate of a lady named Catherine Goulburn. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE ) Hi:, HONOUR, after disposing of the tninityupt peti tions on hi p per, proceckd to hear the further.argu• ments in the part-heard case • of Bruce clforris, which came before the Court upon exceptions, and the ari:Ji • talents in which occupied the rerninder of the day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor \VICRAM.) LETT V. THE LONDON AND BLACK. WALL RAILWAY. The arguments in this case, which came be'ore his Honour upon exceptions, were concluded this morning. His HONOUR postponed hi judgment. SHEFFIELD P. VON DONNOP. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed, and occupied the Court the whole morning. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Robert hump, a footman in the service of his Excel lency the Danish Ambassador, was brought before Mr. Birwharu, charged with having obstructed Police-con stable Lowe, A gl, in the execution of his duty. The complainant stated that on Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, he was on duty near her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, on purpose to prevent coachmen from i,riving out of their ranks, while the company was leaving the house. While he vras in the act of keeping the rank clear, a carriage belonging to the Danish Ambassador was driven out of the raukF. Wit ness imrnediatoly went up to the coachman and ex plained to him that it was contrary to his orders to allow him to pass, and that the order of the rank must he preserved, The defendant, who was on the box with the coachman incited the latter to flog his horses and drive over him. Witness got hold of the horses' heath, and detained the carriage till another constable arrived, when he tool: the prisoner to the station. Inspector Whale, C division, said ho took tho charge on Saturday night, and having satisfied himself that the defendant was in the service of the Danish Ambassador, he Ist him (defendant) ,ait on his own recognizances to appear at this coc"t this morning. Mr. BINGHAM said he (Inspector Whale) had acted perfectly right in so doing. He should now direct the constable to take the defendant to the Danish Ambas sador's, and explain the nature of the charge against the defendant to his Excellency, who would deal with the case accordingly. THE WEATHEIL—Since Sunday, the present week has been uninterruptedly fine bright weather, and it has consequently been most propitious for the bay, whether cut or uncut. The former, where it had been wet by the heavy rain of Sunday, has been turned, dried, carted home, and st:leked in good condition; and in this neigh bourhood, what hay had not been previoully cut, has been rapidly brought under the scythe, and safely housed. Throughout this neighbourhood, the crop generally has been more than au average one; in some instances heavier than for many years. In the south, it is said, to be quite otherwise. The barometer has en totally steady during the last few days; its variation being from 30.35 to 30 , 10. The temperature has been gradually increasing till Thursday last ; yesterday it was somewhat lower, and the barometer also declining a little, it was not unlikely that we may have some rain shortly. On Tuesday, the thermometer reached 70 degrees, on Wednesday it rose to 77 degrees, and on Thursday, early in the afternoon, it reached 80 degrees in the shade,—the highest point for some time past. Yesterday, it was not higher than 74 or 75 degrees. The following is the telegraphic report nf wind and weather at the places named, at seven o'clock yes terdsy morning:—Glasgow, E.NE. very fine; Edinburgh, N.E. ha z y ; Li verpoo l, N . W . fi ne; M anchester, N.N.W. fine; Norwich, E.S.E. very fine; Yarmouth, N.E. very fine; Lowestofre, E.S.E. foggy; Birmingham, N.W. fine; Gloucester, N. by E. very fine; Colchester, S.E. very fine; Gosport, N.E. fine; Southampton, E. fine.—Man chester Guardia n. MASTER ALEXANDER RANC/lERAE'S CONCERT.-- This talented young musician, who is not yet nine Years of age, but whose p e rf ormances h ave acquired for ilin a high fame in Vienna, (hi s nat i ve p l ace) end in the other principal cities of Germany, gives a Matinee Musicala on IVednesday next, at 3, Foley-place, Portland. nlace, v, hich will, no doubt, be fully attended. isms; or MAN FISHERY.--"The herring fishery for three or four days lust wee l 4," says Mona's Herald, *‘ was very successful around Port St. Mary and the Peel side. Seine of the boats on Thursday brought in 20 meaze each, and so ranging from that number to 12 113CaZr. The boats are not all out as yet, but all the old fishermen are counting on a goad season for their business, judging from the signs. Considerable quan tities have been shipped by the fresh buyers, who pur chase wholesale at 4s. and as low as 3s. 6d. a hundred The retail prices may be quoted at the rate of 24 for a shilling. ALARMING OCCURRENCE ON BOARD A-STEAMBOAT. —Much alarm was excited among the passengers on board the Fire King, Gravesend steam-boat, last even ing, when between Woolwich and Greenwich; by a re port that the vessel 11;.l caught ire, occasioned by a large quantity of steam and hot ashes bursting up the hatchway. An immediate cry was raised for boats, and several put off, but the captain refused to stop the vessel, lest in their hurry to escape, the passengers might overcrowd the boats, and thus cause the inevit able loss of a number of lives. On arriving at Green wich, however, the machinery broke down, and the vessel was towed to the pier, where the passengers all landed in safety. The accident is Aided to have arisen from the forcing of one of the stays of the boiler which had become overheated, and thus allowing the steam and water to escape into the furnace. A military encampment has been ordered to be im mediately formed at Kersall-green, near Manchester, to be composed of the entire of the Orb Regiment, to which a detachment from another regiment of the line will be added, to make up 1,000 men. it is in contemplation to establish two other camps of a similar nature, the second to be in Yorkshire, and the third near to some part of the southern or western coast. The troops are to be drilled in all sorts of field and camp exercise, and have with them all the appliances and means fur a campaign, easily moveable at an hour's notice. It may not be uninteresting to mention the very cheap terms on which contracts for the provisioning of these troops have been taken. From the 16th of July to the 30th of November the 41b. loaf' (now Mlle; in London at 6, 1 ,-d.) is to be supplied under 5d., and tiro meat is to be furnished from 4d. to sd. a pound.—Observer. L'UCK. FOR THE SUGAR MERCHANTS.—The duty of 20s. on foreign muscovado sugar, under the old law, fell on Thursday to 18s. ad.; and the new law not hav ing. come into operation, merchants have paid the duties upon nearly all the stock of sugar in the port of London, in order to avoid the discriminative duty between clayed brown and muscovado of Is. GI The operation will put somewhat about 20,0001. into the pockets of the mer chants, at the expense of the revenue.—Shipping Gazette. —[We hear that one of the principal brokers in this city has paid duty, for the purpose above stated, to the ex tent of not less than 15,0001.—Bristol Mirror.] The trustees of the Earl of Durham have com menced building freestone pillars for a suspension bridge across the Rector's Gill, at Ilishopwearmouth, as a sub stitute for the ancient public road, which has been ap plied to railway purpose:. The . bridge will be a great accommodation to the public. —Durham Advertiser. On the 22d ult. a double murder was committed at Vitry, near Choisy-10-Roi, and was afterwards followed by the suicide of the murderer. A gardener of that com mune, named Broux, had for some thin) had a criminal connexion with the wife of a day-labourer, named Di".!io re:, although himself a married man. This being made known to Broux's rife, she naturally reproached him with it, and frequent quarrels arose between them, till, en the 22d, he became so exasperated as to strike his wife with a hatchet and kill her. This deed done, he quietly went to his barber and got shaved. After this, he remained some time in conversation at the shop, during which he contrived to secrete one of the razors. IVith this weapon in his pocket, he went to his adulterous mistress, and took her with him to Maisons- Alfort, where they entered a traiteur's, and dined. The dinner over, they went out to walk in the fields, and from that time were heard no more of till the murder of Broux's wife was discovered, and Di:dore became alarmed by the absence of his. In formation being laid before the magistrate, search was made for the two absentees, and it ended in the discovery of the body of the woman Diiiorde with her throat cut, and several deep wounds in her arms, received no doubt in defending herself. The razor taken from the barber's shop was lying by her lifeless corpse. As the insurrection in Paris had in the meantime broken out, it was impossible for the officers of justice to take any effectual steps for the discovery and arrest of the murderer. It was after wards learnt that Bronx was seen fighting on the side of the insurgents, at a barricade in the Faubourg St. Marceau, and two days ago his body was found in the Seine, near the Port a la l'Anglais, with indications that loft no doubt of his having committed suicide. Lord Glengall gave notice on Friday in the House of Lords of a motion respecting the seditious clubs or ganized in Ireland, for Thursday next. FEMALE VALOUR.—A daring attempt at burglary was made about one o'clock on Tuesday house of Mr. William Scafe, relieving-officer, of Paterleoyn rnornieg, at the bridge. The house is situate at a short _distance _f 1 the town, and we understand that Mr. Scare had re ceived a considerable sum of money the preceding day. At the hour above named, while the family were all asleep, three ruffians (navvies) effected au entrance at the bedroom window, but the family, being aroused by the noise, rushed from their beds, and while Mr. Scafe ran for assistance his wife and daughter, aged 21, and a boy, had a most violent struggle with one of the party, and acted a truly valiant part. They laid the scoundrel prostrate on the floor, and the heroic daughter knelt upon his body, and at the same time so firmly grasped him by the cellar, that he roared out she was choking h i m . By the help of her mother an d t h e little boy she securely held him down until help arrived, when they properly se cured him. H made His two comp an i ons their escape. The prisoner has giv en up their names and a description of their persons a.rnid.dirsecsast.e hOu-dn—eo-no-ei th e m was previously transported. rs o f her arms hurt by a blow given with the shaft of a hay-fork.—Rulifaz Guardian. Y terdfty morning lii, G's COLLEGE llosmAL. of the funds of mug's es a sermon, on behalf pital, wasp reached by the Rev. Ileur;lloCw'alrletlgilt., at thch of St. Clement Danes, Strand. A very : ' .. eloquent appeal was mad., and at th e conclu Divine service a lib era l collection was made in aid cloofuthoei hospital. EMIGRATION. -- 'At the marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, :th e adjourned discussion on th e su bj ect of di emigration was conelad 3 pointed for the purpos e e ( , of a committee was ti p_ poor dev guardians of the in • • co-operating with the Ist .- • emig rati on. ilit lB3 stematic plan of TALLOW. Owing to the hot weather, and the large shipments from St. Petersburgh, the Tallow market is heavy, and prices have further receded from 3d to 6d per cwt. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted to-day at 445, and there are sellers for forward delivery at 42s 6cl per cwt. T6wn Tallow 43s 6d per cwt net cash. Rough Fat 2s 6d per 81bs. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lord Chancellor presided. FULHAM AND OTHERS V. BVCARTHY AND OTHERS.- NUNS PROFESSED AND THEIR VOWS. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from the decision of Sir Edward Sugden were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The original suit was instituted in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, for the purpose of obtaining two distributive shares of one of the appellants, Maria Wm-thy, and of a respondent, her sister, Catherine M'Carthy, in the personal estate of their father, deceased, Alexander M'Carthy, of Cork, merchant. The appellant, Maria, had, with the approbation of her father, in 1828, become a nun, and professed of the order of St. Ursula, at Black Rock, Cork, when her father paid to that community 1,000/. for her admission and main tenance for life. Next year her sister Cathe rine adopted the same course, and paid a similar large sum to the convent. The father's property at his death amounted to 100,000/. He had ten children, and it was conceived that the 1,0001. given on appellants' admission to the convent was intended to be their portion, having renounced by their vows the world and all right of suc cession to wealth. The Catholic superiors of the con vent advised them to assert their claim to two entire dis tributive shares of tho 100,000/. in the Irish Court of Chancery. This the heir-at-law resisted for the family generally. The two sisters had executed deeds transfer ring their shares to the two superiors of the convent, which there were reasons to believe were not made with out the pressure and compulsion of their religious vow upon taking the veil, and the Lord Chancellor Sugden, acting on that impression, decreed that no relief ought u to be given to the appellants upon deeds so obtained, and dismissed their bill as respected these two sacred spinst ers with costs. Against this decree these superio rs a pp ea l ed to the House of Lords. Mr. G. of th S. Tu e n a N p E p ß e i landant appellants e n . BiEriTdsayELlLasat,rgaun_edd the case on beh alf spo A n fr d . en ßo ts, L r T e , su w m ho ed w h a is s atrhgeunmepnatratltyhishreaaorrdnifno: the re he arguments .en thtaodpnreosts. conc luded when ourb' The Edition After no VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit to-day till eleven o'clock. SWABEY U. SWARM His Honour wee occupie d the wholemornipg ith th u arguments on a petition in th is cause, in which the ques- TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, was the discussion on Mr. Ilindley's Sunday Trading Bill for, the metro polis. The proceedings were interesting as demon strating a marked progress of opinion on the subject concerned, and holding out the prospect of union on a point where fierce and clashing interests were very likely at some time to lead to dangerous results. With the exception of a single Member, who of course was received with the same respect as if he had stood up for the necessity of the Jewish rite of circumcision, there was an absolute withdrawal of all pretension to legislate on the question as making part of the national religion. The truth has evidently penetrated, that instead of coercive legisla tion being dictated by the national religion, it is in the teeth of the literal directions of the rule appealed to, and like other invasions of the literal rule, such as judicial oaths, taking care for the morrow in a sav ings -hank, defending an action at nisi pries, or applying to a policeman instead of holding out the other cheek, it must be excused on the ground that there must have been some local or partial applica tion in the original direction, and that the regulations found conducive to the welfare of society in its pre sent state, would not have been opposed by the law giver if they had been distinctly in his eye. In fact in all these cases the groat solvent is, that the spirit rather than the letter of the scriptural rule is to be kept in view. Now there can be no reasonable denial that sabbath-keeping and not sabbath-breaking is what is distinctly forbidden to Christians; and the orderly-book is there to prove it. But it does not abso lutely follow, that if Christian men in the present age find a public convenience in legislating for the cessa tion of trade and traffic one day in the week, it is con trary to the duty of a Christian Legislature to pass enactments with that tendency, or that a reasonable plea could be set up for excluding Mr. Ifindley and those who vote with him from their seats in Parliament, on the ground of apostatizing from that " true faith of a Christian" which is the present guardian of access to those benches. This would be excessive ; and there must be a liberty. But at the same time nothing is clearer, than that the legislation is excusable on the ground of public convenience only, and not a jot fur ther ; and that if any man is detected trying to ad vance anti-christian tenets under false colours, he ought to be exposed to public odium like other would be deceivers. A man has a right to maintain any tenets he likes, but not to advance them under false pretences. And if this should be attempted, in the present temper of the times, it will end as in the case of another notable experiment which history presents. It will give no pain to the intelligent members of a Church which had once a greater number of fol lowers in this country than at present, to assume that an ancient establishment in the plenitude of its power did at one time carry its interference with men s secular concerns to an extent which was almost necessarily followed by reaction. Friday, not Sunday, was the day it seemed to fix upon ; and great were the gri maces of our beef-eating ancestors, at the way in which the spiritual power insisted on interfering with the spit and with the pot, on that and other days of its appointment. For a long time the rule went on, and the hungry objectors consented to resist under the stigmas of impiety and bad citizenship; and the Sir Andrew Agnew of that day if such there were, would probably have thought he did heaven service by introducing a Bill with a preamble saying, " Forasmuch as abstinence from flesh on Fridays is an essential part of the true service of God." But look to the end. As knowledge progressed, and as the burthen of the imposition increased, men be thought themselves of looking into the orderly-book; and though they did not find there a prohibition against allowing any man to trouble them on the subject of observing Fridays (as is the literal trans cript of the order in the other case), they found what they conceived an absence of authority for the imposition, which ended in a decided breach, extend ing to matters of greater ostensible import. Here then the case stands. There is no more authority in the Christian Scriptures for stopping men's following their callings on one day of the week than for fasting on another ; on the contrary, there is a literal prohibition of the principle on which the first has been supported, and nothing like it in the case of the other. Tradition too, which is worth something though not everything in this case as well as any other, is all the other way. There is not the slightest trace of the early Christians attaching any idea of sabbatical observance to the first day of the week. They held meetings on it for religious and charitable purposes; and they made a festival of it, as is con firmed by the display to this day of a tendency to a pudding on Sundays, and by the fact that even in the apostolic age their meetings of a mingled social and religious nature were not free from occasions for rebuke on the score of temperance. The sixth day of the week, as being the day of the crucifixion, and not the first, was their day for mortification and interruption of ordinary:enjoyments ; and to this hour the tokens may be seen in Catholic countries, in the Tendredi I?elache (Friday no per-_ formanee), which or its equivalent appears on that day on all theatres. The early Protestants also entered their protest against the imposition of the Jewish rule; and those who visit the Brielsh Museum may see it in the Confession of Augsburg (A.D. 1530), in perhaps the very copy which was thumbed by hands that afterwards went to the stake upon the same quarrel. Luther is known to have made a point of buying something on the Sunday, or other wise snaking demonstration of what he called his Christian liberty ; on the same principle that an "old Christian" of Castile thinks it a duty to exhibit pork at table as evidence of his freedom from Jewish taint. The Church of England followed the German confessors ; as is shown by the fact that in her catechism, though evidently not indisposed to as sist in the good government of the numerous classes, she makes no attempt to enforce the duty of any kind of sabbatical observance from the Fourth Command ment, any snore than to enforce the making of no likeness of anything in heaven or earth, which large masses of mankind at this hour have derived from the second. Her most eminent men, such as Paley, Arnold, and Whateley, have taken the same side; and there would actually be about as much chance for men standing up in Parliament to declare the religious duty of returning to the Jewish rite of circum cision, as for taking a similar course in the present instance. Both the learned and the vulgar know better ; if there was a mistake once, there is none now ; and legislation must be upon our own reading, not the reading of our predecessors. The question then, finally stands thus. If there is to be a consent to legislate upon the principles of public convenience and general expediency, includ ing therein a due regard for the habits and feelings of the nmjority, then peace. But if there is to be an attempt to exercise or perpetuate restrictions with contrary tendencies, and particularly if there is to be any inroad on the opportunities of the working classes to apply their leisure to the attainment of generalk e nowledge t and he r wholesome and Nvi th or rie ved the prying l'ullc onti recreation, der c o e f n - the same result. Stout esquires and rural members of parliament, who feel themselv es likely to be, as their fathers wetreeiery ithagkit c hens on a of the religious authorities into h instead of consenting to carre h ' eing Friday, had much better do as t e l n sei t r he fa bad Christians, imputation of impietyl; and Nthvaerrsunddider and o t u d once, aenod logical, to look into the is not as contrary to what pluck up resolution, atheeit see if what disturbs orderly-book no t ggiven t° S a t fathers of good appetite made than anything t' ously rejecting. A further reason. is written there, theirand in reality vastly more contrary, a merit of co nscientiously ate, is that an organ of the op arising press those of different religious belief, put ivcsii-a'crteyth( Standard) avows the object to be to violence on a , and Romanists." t h e Incumbered Estates (*eland) • On Thursday . je rY s general disposition to leave the Committee and Bill was con specifically the e ered reported. The ev i n ced voting beringtaovfethese estates to the ingenuity of On Friday a long debate on the Public Works (Ireland) Bill ending in the second reading without d t ;" 1 s :ri G c a division. ouvmernmen O n Saturday the House met at twelve o'clock for half an hour, and received a r e p or t on W ays and te le a 3 v n o s ided A ; b fo a r d i N t Y naay ayof be doing oingbusiness wh en it can taken for granted that the House on such an occasion'will be composed of little but the Government's men,-and the few over-worked Members who make a point of always attending. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T on . d r on E , R4O Iy N I E 7, T IB T 4 I B - I..OMPSON. Blackheath, L THE MAILS.—SOUTUAMPTON, SUNDAY, 'JULY 16. —The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Avon, Lieutenant Philip Hast, R.N., commander, will sail on Monday with the usual British and foreign West India mails. The Tay, Captain Sharpe, will also sail on Monday for the West Indies; she is sent out a 3 an extra ship, to be employed in the intercolonial service. The Trent, with the homeward West India and Mexican mails, is due here on the 22d inst. The Tagus, Captain R. W. Evans, will sail on Monday with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. The Por tuguese steamer Falcao, from Lisbon and Oporto, and the steamer Tiger, from Vigo and Corunna, both with oxen, are expected on Monday or Tuesday. The United States mail steamer Hermann, Captain E. Crabtree, is expected from Bremen to-night or to-morrow morning; after taking on board coals, cargo, and passengers, she will leave co Thursday next for New York. The Penin aular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Indus, Captain Soy, will take out the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails of the 20th inst. We have a communication from the steam-ship Oriental, Captain Smith, bound for Calcutta, at sea, stating that the ship had made almiraMe progreo, and that fine weather had been experienced since leaving Southampton. Steam ships in dock:—Avon, Tay, Teviot, Indus, Ilindostan, Tagus, Euxine, Jupiter, and Pacha. be TES en )st he he IN IM