The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

17 mart at tbe rm an): ; igal, in .dss• offer ; stock r 24 pet o 56 6d uest, OS luggish minuet! Torte& e. d: 2 4 • 6 4 10 5 0 -0 t 0 4 4 4 0 29 b 6 at hatt lay lash DO ditto c. Fot he tar queliT *toad,' ,nd DO cat' en klik I.to t 6 0 4 6 4 6 4 ' O , 4 .n the" ising import heayo 4WD** SOHO 4 . 5 10 c ., well o ditto, 0 ditto iprove: ; Li glisP terabif hid fat some r (5 1 1 . ' 4 t cas h' k Y.) w° ,pector ircuor 5v4 to i; (le is 2!J 20a 471 151 171 17s 211 2ts 231 32s • 341 3fs 381 351 374 361 34 370 390 411' 4611 34a 30s 341 330 t week Isl bii6,11 3 it.o IA L L... \"* S. CITY, QuAIMIR TO 7IIREE. In the Liverpool Cotton Market the sales on Saturday Were 3,000 to 4,000 bales, all to the trade, and at study rates. In Shares not much was done. . The Niagara steamer furnishes late intelligence from the United States and Canada. From New York it is stated that " the exportation of Bacon, Beans, and Lard to the ports of Qreat. Britain this season has been un usually large. These articles have been exceedingly active this year. The receipts at tide water have been large, and the shipments have about kept pace with the increased supply. We have have had a fair trade this season with the West Indies and with British North America; but the aggregate shipments of all our pro ducts, except Cotton. have been limited, compared with last year. " The exports of breadstuffs from the United States to great Britain were as follows: Flour brls. Meal brim. Wheat bush. Corn bush. Sept. 1, 1847, to latest - dates 1849.3 160,0 86 98,444 1 7 4, 943 1 , 763 , 497 Stilt. 1, 1846, tot 2,773,421 795,583 3,095,693 13,426,975 latest dates 1847. Decrease 1848...... 2,613,235 697,139 2,880,359 11,796,210 Resides these, there were shipped lasi year, up to the middle of July, 77,752 bushels of rye, 435,423 bushels of oats, and 271,103 bushels of birlt.y. This year none of these grains have been ahippd to Great Britain. The immense falling off in the qeantity of flour, meal, wheat, and corn shipped, compared with last ) ear, dues not give . a correct idea of the decrease in value, as the decrease in prices since has been a large per cent. As au in stance of this. it is only necessary to state that the average price for nearly the whole shipment of flour, up to this time last year, was above 7 dollars per barrel, while the price of that shipped thus far this season will not average much over 5 dollars per barrel. This dif ference in price, in connexion with the difference in quantity, makes an immense difference in the value of exports of breadatuffs in . the two years. The same re marks will apply to Corn, Wheat, and Meal. This vast falling off in the value of our exports, with a correspond ing decrease in the value of our imports, is the prime cause of the financial embarrassments under which we now labour. It is estimated that the value of our ex ports this season, compared with that for the corre sponding period last year, has fallen off full 50 millions of dollars. The shipments of Cotton have increased, but in consequence of the depreciation in prices for the raw material, a corresponding increase has not been realised in the value of that exported." The acccounts from Canada respecting the crops are favourable. The Continental advices this morning are not of a. definite character. Everywhere the late of great States P .to be suspended in the balance. It is hoped that . rd Palmerston may in Pediment this evening be enabled to give rather satisfactory assurances upon the subject of Denmark, Austria, and Limburg. In Paris the state of affairs seems to txcite a little uneasiness • Again, but there is no precise reason for apprehension assigned. • Tne market for the Public Securities has been rather fluctuating again. At the opening, there were symp . toms of improvement, but the Chancery broker having made sales, the quotations have receded agaie. Consols • have been 87* I, and since 86! The New Three-and - a Quarter per Cents. are 87/3- to and the Three per Cents. 86i to 87i. Bank Stock is 197* to 1981. East India Stock has been at 243. Exchequer-bills of June have been quoted 395. to 40s. premium, and ludiu Bonds 30 4. premium. • • In the Foreign market the dealings have been limited. Mexican stock is worth 17 to 17k, Chilian 84, and Bra . Chan small 71. Venezuela deterred have been 4i ; butch Four per Cents. have been 69 to 69*. Railway Shares have been quiet, but are looking rather better in respect to one or two of the lines. • BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 198% 197% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 87% 87 87% 86% • 3 per Cent. Consols Anus 67% 66A New 3% per Cent. Anus. B 7Vis% .- • Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 • Do. 30 'Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8 11-16 • India Stock 243 • India Bonds under 1,0001......... ...... 30 p • • Consols for Account ....... . ..... 87 % % 86 7 ) i • Exchequer Bills. 2%d. ed. March. June. 1,000/. — 44 45 42 p 40 39 p ' - 5001. 45 p Small • 4l p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, I per Cent - ' ' Ditto Small •• Chilien Bonds, 6 per Cent • . , 84 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent l7-% 17 Ditto for the Account l7 Venezuela Bonds ... - Do. Deferred 4% . , Dividends on the above payable in London. • - Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 44 • t . Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . ROSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK , RAILWAY/. PAID. PIA SHADY. Aberdeen - ...... to - Amber., Notting., Boston, &c 31 :4 - - -• • Ayrshire and Galloway 2% - to - ' • Belfast'and County Down .. 16 -- - to - • Virmingham & Oxford J unc... 20 - .. .. to - Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley 10 ... . - ...... to - Writing., \Vol., & Stour Val. 131.14 s - - • ••kr• ' Birkeutotad. Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. ...... ... 10 - , Boston, Stamt., & Binning-. 6 - .• :-,. Bristol and Exeter ' ' Do., Thirds • 25 - . ... ..to - • • 'Buckinghamshire l4/. 4s - to - ' . Ualedonian - .. . - Ditto, Half Shares - ... 1.7 i xnto - - - Ditto, New 101. Preference .2% - .. ... to to - - • Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 - ' 'Chester and Holyhead... 471% - to - Ditto Prefo rence - to - , . , Clarence. - ...... to - . Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - to - Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to - Direct London & Portsmout h . 5% - to - - - • Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 30 ...... - - • D undalk and Enniskillen .:. 17% - to - East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., '-• • ' mid L. & D - - • Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ...... - - . .. '' - Ditto, 31. 10a., E. & H... 3% -... .... to - • - . • - Eastern Counties - ' . Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. , 5 - - : Do.Perpet.,6-per ct.N o. 1, 61. 13.. 4d... - to - - - . D0.,d0....„ N 0.2,61. 138.4 d... par - , DCf.i Northern &Eastern... 50 - to - ' . ‘ ,• 130 -, 5 per cent. ....... -... 50 • 1 - 10 ., Quarter .... ...... .. 12 %... .. - - ~..„. "V. , New ;Eastern Union, Class A (late , . . E. U. Shares) ... .. 25 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 - to - ' Ditto, do, ( lass 13 (I. &B) 20 - to - Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 17% - to - Ditto §crip (gua. 6 per ct.) 10 . - - • • Ditto,%tto ......... ........ 20 ..... -- - '.• • • Ditto - (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% - to - ' . East L a n cas hi re - - , ~, Ditto, New .- ......... .... . 19 - ...- to - Do., New Quarters ' 6% - to - Do. 6 per Cent. Preference - , Quarter Shires - - East Lincolnshi re 23 - to - ...• .. , Edinburgh and Glasgow 6O - :, , • - Ditto, Halt Shares . Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - to - ‘ , (tt ... Zdintou•gh and Northern ... 25 ...... - - vie, . Ditto, New..... ... ..... ...... 6% - to - •:„. ' 'Ditto, New port l3 Ditto, ditto, New 3% - ...... to - Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% - •11,-:v Ditto, New ..- ' 2% - to - . t 3. ^'' n , i llSg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6..8d... - to ....' ▪ Ul _ as gow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ..... -. to - ~,. . • Ditto, New ' 4O - - Do. Prefe rence C onso lid a t e d 15 ..... - .. ... to - - teat Northern l6 - 'Do. London & York Exton. 2% ...... to - Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42 1 % 2 6 1% to - '',' • Great North of England. 100 Ditto, New 401 l5 - to - . Ditto, Now 301. ........ -..... 30 ... .. - - ... Ditto, N ew 151...... .... ..... 11%..-.. - . - ~... • Great Western 9O 85% to - Ditto, Halt Shares '1 • - Ditto, Quarter Share. ...... 21 . ..•• : • Ditto, Fifths 2O - - - ‘1:. '' ' 1 . 3 0. New 171. - - , • uddorsfield and Manchester 28 .. -.- - to - '), . "all hag Selby 50 - to - ':;•• Ditto ; Half Shares ... ... ... 25 ...-. - to - ' • . _ D itto, Quarter Shares 12% • - ...... to - ...ancestor and-Carlisle.... ..• • Do.,Thirds• lO - to - ~'• Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... - to - • Ditto, ditto ... 86 - . D itto Half Sh ares ., .. 43 • . 'Ditto Quarters - ... .. to - Ditto Fifths Dili 0 . —0 oixteenttis ........ ... 6 1 . 4 ...... .. • ' Ditto Thirds (Reg.) - to - D,_o., New G uar . 6 p er cen t. 2% 3 IA to - •: Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 Do. (Budder.. and Shoff.) 38 - -. • Do.. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole. 5O - - _ DO., West Riding Union-. 6 .... .- • - ' O . , kreston and Wyre ... 25 - to - , • Do., do: Ealf Shares (A) 9% , - to - Leeds m n a 'Bradford 5O ...., - - L eedS,Dewsbury,& blanches. 50 - 1 • 10 ., Half Shares - ...... to - Ditto, Blue (scrip) .. 2% '' .;,- - Leeds and Think ...-.... ..... 45 • - .... „to - • Ditto, New - -• Do.,do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - Liverpool. Crosby, and South . ' POrt. 3% - to Liverpool, Manchester, and • Newcastle Junction. 2% - ...... to - London •f3z Blackwell ......131.65. 8d - - • Do. Extension ........ ...... 22% ..... - - Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 29% 3014 to 29% Do. Consolidated Eighths... 40 • Do, Guaranteeds per Cent. 9 . - - ' 1 -)0. PrW.Conv. 5 p er - Cent. 50 ...... - - tritto,4lltto • ' 1852 50 ..... --. f . Do. i, New, guar. 6 per cent. 2 ...... 2 %A - • ` * lot Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... - ..., Vlerence lBl 17s 2d... - ...... to - , - ~.,,w • -'on , t4ort North Western.....100 • NZ -Quarters (L. and B.) 22 - to - . Dl. New - to - Do. Fifths' - . . Do. 40/. Shares... „L. & M 20 ...... - - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 .... . - __ o- Do, 101. .. M. and B. ( B.), 9 - Do. 10/. ... bI. and B. (C.) 1 LOadon and S. Western...-. 50 , Ditto. New 501............... 4214...... • Ditto, New 401.......... .. .. 34 - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 - - - Do. Tenths t,Consolidated) 40 - - Ditto. Thirds ... .. .......... 138.4 d ... 3 dis.... to - Do., New Scrip, 1848, Prot' 7 per et. on Deposit-and TTIR •SUN, 5 par Ct. on Calls .....'ll: . 132. 4 , 1... - London, SAisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 ,E — Londonderry and Coleraine... 27 ih. — - Londo;aclerry and Enniskillen 25 Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.... 3 Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 4 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 / 1 Shares( No. 1) ... 18 Ditto, ditto, (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3 )... 7 1 ,x ...... Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ..... Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... Ditto Sheffield and Line. 12%...... . Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 17% — to Ditto, Man. . Lin. Union Nlanchesterand Southampton 2 1 4 —.- to ............. —lOO ... 101 1 / 2 ....... to 101 Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo . — ...... to Ditto, 50/. Shan ...... 20 Midland, Birrn., and Derby...loo Midland, Con Rol. - Bristol and • Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 Ditto ditto 1-1/. 185... Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 Great Western (Irish ) 42 1 / 2 to Middlesbro' and Redcar. per cent. guar. ........ 54 Newcastle and Carlisle IOU Ditto Quarter Shares N ewmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 2/. 12s — Newport Abergy.. and lleref. 6 Newry and Enniskillen . ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and liostrevor Norfolk ....... ~... —...... 100 Ditto New 20/. Ditto Extension - Do. Guaranteed 5 1 % per et. 6 ..... 5 Do. do. IV aveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Unien .... 4 Korth British Ditto Half Shares. - to Do. Quarters 6 !i l. Dit to. Extension Ditto Thirds ... ......... -.... 4%...... 2% to North and South-Western... 2 .. .. - North Staffordshire... .. ...... 12%. - North Wales 3l/e ..... _ , .... to North Western B3A, — .... to Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton ... . ........... .. 45 - Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% ...... Royston and Hitchin ..... .. 1%...... Scottish Central Scottish Midland ..... ....... .... 25 Ditto, New 12% to Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 7%...... ...... to Do. do. (South Div.) 4 ..... - Lrewsbury and Birmingham 8 Ditto, ditto. Class B. 5 Shrewsbury and Chester ( Nor. W. MM.) l6 Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. . to Ditto, Oswestry l6 Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cent.Pret...... 10 Sbropslaire,Union... South Devon Ditto, Preference . . .... 25 ..... to South Staffordshire... -outh Eastern Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 8 3 / 4 5 3 /4 to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca- Meron's St m. Coal . 6 - Thames Haven Dock and to Railway 1 7 1,4 — Faw Vale Extension ..... 6 Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 76'4...... Waterford and Limerick.... Waterford, NA' exford, W ieklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed .... . ..... 4 2 34 — Do. do. do. Do. do. do. ..... . _ 734_ .. ~ West Cornwall 6 - Whitehaven and Furness l3 ... .. . ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western „ • 914 — to Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 35 ..—.. to Cork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 ... Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension ..... ...... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... ..... .to Central of France ( Orleans -------- and Vierzon) Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... Dutch Rhenish - East Indian Great Indian Peninsular Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ahi Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege 2O ...... ...... to -- Northern of France lO ..... 5 5 %... to Orleans and Bordeaux ... Paris and Lyons Pans and Orleans.... 2O - Paris and llouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 8 ..... Rouen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 ..... ..... to Tours & Nantes ... rournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt . 18 ...... —..-.. to West Flanders JOINT STOCK RANKS. Australasia • • - British North American .... 50 Colonial - • .. to Commercial 01 London London Joint Stock ..... London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, N ew National of Ireland 22% ..... to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New ••••••••• 10 Union of Australia 25 Ditto, N ew... 2% — to Union of London .... 10 Union of Madrid . 4O free.. - MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — to Asturian Mining Company... 12 ...... Australian ... 21,x...... ..... to Blaeuarvon Iron awl Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ...' 24% Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 ....• --- ...... to Galvanized Iron .... ......... ... 10 - ...... to --- Ditto, New - Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures — United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AuG. 7.—Wind S.W.; light breeze, and fine clear weather.. LEITH, AUG. 4.—Wind N.—Sld. Royalist, St. John's, New Brunswick. PETERHEAD, A UG. 3.—Wind N.W.—Arid. Com merce, Setter, Greenland, with 43 tons of oil. MARYPoRT, Am 3.—Arrd. Congress, Lester, Que bec; 4th, Hannah, Shaw, ditto. MILFORD, AUG.s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd, 3d, Hope,. fames, Quebec. Std. sth, Silurian, Lewis, Portland, United States; Caroline Alice, Howells, Boston, United States; R•solution, Gales, Quebec. PoßTsmouTit, Auc. 6.—Wind W.N.W. to W., strong. —Arrd. Princess Royal transport, Barbadoes; Canon dale, Munden, Quebec. OFF PORTSMOUTH, AUG. s. —Asia, Calcutta. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. s.—Arrd. Prince. Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 6.—The Cornelia, French, for this port, run ashore on Middleton Port, New York, on the 21st ult., while in tow of a steamer, but got off with out apparent damage, and proceeded. A ship, with loss of foremasts was run on shore on Cape Sable, on the 20th ult. The Affghan, Black, from Quebec to the Clyde, which was on shore on Jeremie Island, was floated off on the Bth ult , with apparently only trifling damage, and making but little water, and proceeded. the Zetland, Bannerman, from St. John's, New Bruns wick to this port, put back to the former port, water-logged, having been on shore on Seal Island, and would have to discharge and repair. The .Jenny Lind, which arrived here yesterday from New Orleans, experienced a heavy gale three days' out., and threw overboard about 40 bales . of cotton and 20 sacks of corn ; the vessel did not receive any damage. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. sth, Niagara steamer, Regrice, Boston, left 26th ult. and Halifax 28th ; Juinna, Fletcher, Calcutta ; Commodore, lir. a lfoot, Calcutta ; Circassian, Carr, Valparaiso ; Jenny Lind, New Orleans ; Eliza, Smith, New Orleans ; George Canning, Biikett, Ambrig, Scotland ; Mobile, Home, Muir, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. sth, Corinthian, Mauritius ; Coaxer, Cape of Good Hope ; James Calder, Charleston ; Ancona, Mason, New Orleans ; Cambria, steamer, New York ; Diogenes, New York; Nelson, Willage, Quebec. Conic, AUGUST 4. —Wind S.W.—Arrd. 3d, Wuzuier, Batavia ; Queen of the Isles, Evans ; Callao, 4th, her Majesty's ship Stromboul. Sld., Sea Bird, Holmes, Mirarnichi, John Knox, Galatz. OFF LIVERPOOL, AUG. s.—Magnificent, Dale, Corssir. SHEERNESS, AUG. 4.—Arrd.Vittoria, Quebec. I)ovER. AUG. 6.—Put back Eleanore, Schroeder, far Port-au-Prince. SCILLY, AUG. 4.—Wind S.W.—Ski. Gazelle, Lakey, Newfoundland. NEWP,AtT, AUG. s.—Wind W.—Sl(l. Ann,l Moon, Quebec. FALMOUTH, Auc. 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. 4th, Lis bonaise,ive, Evet, Bahi a , w i t h l oss o f an anc h or; Tom Co r n Manson, Cape Haytien for Bremen; sth, Chap mans, Atkins, ARilobejrzneiitroi o slt tn , des, Rogers, Bahia. Off i) London; 6 Jt . 'h Sourabaya, and sailed o • , hi armonie, Dingus, Havannah, and PLYMOUTH, Auc. sailed for Antwerp; Msgdalen, Kindelman, New York. s.—Wiud S.W., strong.—Arrd. Albion, Hindsen, Quebec. SILCOMBE, Aua. 6.--Wind W.—Arrd. Old Nap, Quebec. L ON' 11 0 Nir_ IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair..a few minutes after Twelve o'ckelc. The Lords' amendments to the Landon and South Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment (Exten sion, Deviation, and New Works) Bill were considered and agreed to. The Report en the London (City) Small Debts Bill was brought up and agreed to, sad the Bill ordered to be read a third time. Captain GORDON presented a petition from the county of Aberdeen against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill. Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from the island of Tobago, signed by the Speaker of the House of Assembly. but the Noble Lord did not state the prayer of the petition. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Glasgow against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill. and also against the Marriages (Scotland) Bill. Tl:e Hon. Member also presented several petitions to the same effect from other places in Scotland. REGISTERING BIRTHS, Ste., (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD-ADVOCATE, in moving the second reading of this Bill, stated that the impel feet nature of the present system of registering births, marriages, &C., in Scotland, made it absolutely necessary that some measure should be introduced for the purpose of giving some further protection to the prisete rights of persons, and of affording that correct statistical information on the subject which wsis so important and valuable to the country. Under the law as it now existed neither of those objects could be accomplished. He asked the House not so much to consent to the measure upon the ground of what had taken place in the House of Lords, or in the House of Commons during the last session, as upon what had been done under the Act of 1837, for the more perfect registration of births, marriages, and deaths in England, and by which the most authentic and valuable sources of information had been furnished to Parliament. He did not propose to interfere with the principle of the law of Scotland as far as concerned the ceremony of marriage, but be required that where the parties did not choose to go before a clergyman that they should go to the registrar, and have their marriage properly entered. All doubt as to the legitimacy of their issue would, therefore, be set at rest, and much litigation prevented. If the House agreed - to the measure no marriage woulil be legal in Scotland unless it was duly solemnized by an authorised clergyman or by a licensed registrar of marriages. The law of Scotland with re spect to the punishment of the seducer of women under a promise of marriage was most defective, since the man who had betrayed a woman into connexion with him might deny it on oath, and in an un uspecting moment obtain from her all written evidence of the promise he had violated. All who had paid attention to the subject must be per fectly satisfied that the law relating to marriage was altogether defective, and required placing upon a defi nite tooting. Banns might now be published in parishes in which the parties did not reside; the parties who heard them read might know nothing about the parties, end the certificate of the clergyman was deemed a suffi cient evidence of the publication. Again, as the law stood, if a man declared in the streets, perhaps, in a heedless moment, that a woman was his wife, or if he did so before a magistrate, that was his wife to all intents and purposes. It was an irregular marriage, but yet according to this monstrous law it was valid. As far as. ,possible, marriage should he sanctified by a religious ceremony. He urged the House not to let the session pass without passing measures so earnestly required as those he had been dealing with. The motion having been put, Mr. DUNCAN said, as the measures had been fully considered in Scoland, the reconsideration of them again was utterly unnecessary, since every village and hamlet in Scotland had had ample time to form their opinion. The measures had been deferred from time to time. (He read the dates of the different stages.) The House had not ample time to consider the . Bills in consequence of the delay that had taken place. They were most unpalatable to the people of Scot-- land, as evidenced in the vast number of petitions pre sented against them, and the extremely small number in their favour. The first Bill, which was virtually the same as that of the last session, which was so generally petitioned against, was only printed on the 28th of July, and could not have reached some of the northern parts of the country. He was not opposed to registration, but he considered it could be accomplished with much less cumbersome machinery, and less expense. The objec tions against the Bill were to be found in the petitions against it, which he advised the Noble and Learned Lord to read. Considering that the first Bill required consideration by the people of Scotland, he should more that it be read a second time this day six months. (LEFT SITTING.) DERBYSHIRE DALES. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) I sigh for the land where the orange tree flingeth Its prodigal bloom on the myrtle below; Where the moonlight is warm, and the gondolier singeth, And clear waters take up the strain as they go. eh! fond is the longing, and rapt is the vision That stirs up my soul over Italy's tales; But the p, esent was bright as the Jar off Elysian, When I roved in the sun-flood through Derbyshire Dales. There was joy for my eye, there was balm for my breathing; Green branches above me—blue streams at my side; The hand of Creation seem proudly bequeathing The beauty reserved for a festival tide. I'was bound, like a child, by some magical story, Forgettitig the " South" and " lonian Vales;" And h It that dear England had Temples of Glory, Where any might worship, in Derbyshire Dales. Sweet pass of the " Dove!" mid rock, river, and dingle How great is thy charm for the wanderer's breast; With thy moss-girdled towers and foam-jewell'd shingle Thy, mountains of might, and thy valleys of reit. I gazed on thy wonders—lone, silent, adoring, I bait at the Altar, whose " fire never pales;" The Great Father was with me—Devotion was pouring, Its holiest praises in Derbyshire Dales. Wild glen of dark "Paddington"—rich in thy robing Of f,rest-green cloak with grey lacing bedight; How I lingered to watch the red Western rays probing Thy leat-mantled bosom with lances of light! And " Monsal," thou mine of Arcadian treasure, Need we seek for " Greek Islands" and spice- laden gales, While a Tempe like thee, of enchantment and pleasure, May be found in our own native Derbyshire Dales. There is much in my Past bearing way-marks of flowers, The purest and rarest in odour and bloom; There are beings and breathings, anti places and hours, Still trailing in roses o'er Memory's tomb. And when I shall count o'er the bliss that's departed, And Old Age be telling its garrulous tales, Those days will be first when the kind and true hearted Were nuring my spirit in Derbyshire Dales. ELIZA. COOK. ACCIDENT. — Last evening between four and five o'clock, as a cow was being driven along Bridge-street, the animal made a spring at a child and tossed it in the air. The child had two teeth knocked out, and was otherwise severely hurt.—Australian Journal, March 24. THE " JUNO" STEAM-SHIP.—As an illustration of the valuable and increasing intercourse afforded to the inhabitants of the three colonies, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, by the regular steam communication now opened by means of the Juno, we w ill observe that or. her last trip she conveyed 300 pas sengers, to and fro m the various ports of the southern n Saturday d 46 eci . the sale . of slziaep.sbEstreNsitt.lirdsi; y t o ra ra / Li i: Ed / c t \Tv J i o iol u ks e i n no a sy l o , nc M oc a lo r N e ns h c.r.u 2 the first portion of this important collection of . coins. Most of the costa sold on Saturday were of . the highest Ft ] L h AE e r uC b ' interest, and, as will be seen by the following notice of those disposed of, some of th e most rare were purchased for the British Museum: — " C oins of cities of northern Greece, in silver—Atrax , in 'lliessaly, a small coin, weighing but 40 grains, but of extreme rarity, having on the obverse a female head, and on the reverse a horse, sold for 9L Kings of Macedonia and Epirus, in silver. Archelaus, a coin of the• greatest rarity, having on the obverse a horseman, and on the reverse the fore-half of a goat, within an indented square, was bought for the British Museum for 221 . P erseus, a rare coin, in fine ;preservation, having on the obverse the head of Perseus diademed, and on the re verse an eagle, with wings extended, standing on a thunderbolt, sold for 61. Bs. 6d. Pynhus, King of Epirus—an extremely rare coin of this monarch's, having on the obverse the head of Artemes, and on the reverse the figure of Victory, with wreath in one hand and trophy in the other, weigh ing 66 grains, was brought by Major-General Fox, for 231. 10s. Roman Imperial coins in gold—three very rare coins of Iladrianus, but of different types, in good condition, sold for 19/. 4s. 60.; these coins were struck between A.D. 118 and 138. /Elius Cmsar—a fine coin , is perfect condition, struck AD. 137, sold for seven . iecoin, guineas.n. p C ott. u nt.t. . Aa r m r u s r ( vi s g.t t ) :: , hl u Brir. n ck ty a. ro. l n 9: t ) ah,ne ob a l h r t e v m ee r a sb( rk ,u s a s, t b si l o y fli Comm. th . e Emperor, and on the reverse, Minerva with branch of laurel in right hen I, and buckler and spear in left—this fine coin was bought for the British Museum for 71. 10s. Didius dulientes (struck A.D. 193), on the obverse the bust of the Emperor, with "Imp. Caes MA female ve.," holding at' a d ons standard ar reverse din e`a`gonc hand;ordi this was purchased for the British Mu se u m f or 271. lO s . Severius (struck A.D. 194 5), a coin having a moat cu rious reverse, representing two captives with their hands tied behind them on each side of a trophy ; it so ld f or 141. 55. Nothing could exceed the beauty of the two latter coins, although near 1,700 years old they were as perfect and fresh as if just struck. This portion of the sale produced in the aggregate 3,5861. The remaining portion, which commences selling on Monday next, will, it is expected, produce a much greater amount, on ac count of the excessive rarity of the Asiatic Greek coins. Major Smith and family, Colonel Bentinek and family, and the Baroness d'Erchthel and attendants left London on Saturday morning, by the snail steam-ship Ocean, for Rotterdam. DEATH OF SIR JAMES C. COLLETON, BAST.—We have to re cord the demise of Sir James Roupell Col leton, Burt., who expired on Saturday, at his town residence. BELFAST, AUG. 3.—The Isabells, nore, from the Clyde to Newport, gut on shore on Balbyferris Paint, near Denaghadee yesterday, but came off on the flood, and proceeded. MONDAY F,4VP,NING, IRELAND. ARREST OF MR. SMITH O'BRIEN. THUR.LES, SeTURDAY NIGHT. This evening, at eight Octeck; - Mr. Smith O'Blien was arrested in the town of Thurles,-jutt as Ito w'as . on the point of leaving for Limerick. .Tha arrest was made without the slightest resistance either on the part of the prisoner or the people, and the infa tuated rebel chief is now on his way to Dublin. He was recognised in passing through the principal street of Thurles by --Hulme, a guard in the em ploy of the Great South ern an d 'Western Railway Company. Mr. O'Brien asked him the way to the railway station, and Hulme having answered the question, immediately sent a soldier off for reinforcements. lie himself followed Mr. O'Brien to the. station. On arriving there Mr. O'Brien asked for a second class ticket to Lime-• _rick, the price of which he pail His - manner was so embarrassed that the clerk noticed it, nnd o particularly wever,, hisor of t he h face. Havingon lie . given di d nut, more money than wai sufficient to pay the fare, the clerk returned him 6 I. change, but he took no notice of this, and Wll6 walking away, when the clerk called him back. On his return he asked which was the right platfistm to go to, and being told that it was that opposite where he stood he crossed the line to get to it. There he was immediately arrested by Hultne, who commanded him to surrender himself in the Queen's name, and seized his arm to prevent any re sistance or the use of a weapon . Head-constable Hanover, D, who held the warrant for his arrest, im • mediately assisted Hulme, and Mr. O'Brien was at once disarmed of a small pistol which he carried in his waistcoat pocket, and which was the only weapon he had about him. The reinforcement which Hulme had the prudence to send for, and which consisted partly of police and partly of sol diers, now arrived, and Mr. O'Brien was at once conducted to the gaol, where arrangements were apm m erc a ;spo d or e nnden f i o nra e : wi i ,ht s hinn: l u of tnv g ea m r:n e rnc n wro t eirns - d d eeilb u nyi r ty i ,s n ra g hd determinedoet rl h at e y a p tpo i a g c h Det t 0. of fbsl G eti ninem,dn time, n: r h a dae l troop of dragoons and a detachment of infantry were drawn out as..an escort to the station. In the mean time the people began to assemble in groups, the voices of women were heard waxing eloquently rebellious, and every moment increased the signs of popular agitation. General M'Donald's arrange ments, however, were made and carried out with the greatest expedition and precision. The entrance to the gaol was cleared by the police, a strong body of infantry held the station, and a troop of cavalry swept the streets clear of the crowds that had assembled there. The shopkeepers were imperatively ordered to close their doors, and the General himself entered one or two where a disposi tion was shown to disobey his orders, and struck terror into the inmates. In consequence of these vigorous measures, not the slightest difficulty was experienced in conveying Mr. O'Brien from the gaol to the station. He was taketi there on a ear, which was also occupied by Mr. Gore Jones and Captain Fitzmaurice, the resident magistrate, and by General M'Donald. A. strong escort of infantry and police accompanied the prisoner, who was safely placed in a special train previously prepared for the purpose of conveying him to Dublin. Mr. O'Brien occupied the centre seat in the carriage, and in the same compart • ment were Lieutenant Alexander M'Donald, four armed policemen, and the sub-inspector of constabu lary at Thurles. The train started on its way a few minutes after ten o'clock. - DUBLIN, SUNDAY MORNING, SIX O'CLOCK. _ _ Mr. O'Brien has arrived, and has been safely lodged in the Royal Barracks here by Lieutenant M'Donald, to whose care his father, the General, en• trusted the prisoner. Mr. O'Brien was prohibited from speaking or moving on the way on pain of instant death. He therefore tried to sleep, but his efforts were not successful. His manner during the journey was upon the whole confident and self-possessed, though the uneasiness of his mind would occasionally betray itself in his face, and in the restless manner in which he changed his position from time to time. He yawned frequently, as, I believe, to account for the tears which came starting into his eyes, and I could see that anxiety of mind and personal ex posure have left dee:p traces behind them on his features. On reaching the Dublin terminus he walked to the barracks, guarded by a party of thirty policemen; who had accompanied him by the train. This capture is decisive as to the fate of the Irish re hellion, and it is gratifying to think that it has been effected so quietly. A report had for some hours previously been industriously circulated in Thurles that Mr. O'Brien had escaped to a sea-port in Galway, and sailed for America. Viscount Hardinge left town this day to take com mand of the troops at Clonrnel. I am this moment informed that Mr. O'Brien has been sent to Kilmainham, under the same escort as that which accompanied him to Dublin- Prince George of Cambridge has tints lost no time in pro viding for his safe keeping. The few provincial journals which reached this morning are totally barren of intelligence. All seems to be quiet in the south. The news of Mr. O'Brien's arrest, although ar riving at the untimely hour of two o'clock this morn ing by special engine from Thurles, flew like wild fire over the town. Even at this early hour the subject forms the topic of discussion at every street corner. People appear panic-stricken at the fate of the leader of the insurgent army. Evident dis content, at his pusillanimous surrender without re sistance, is the prevailing feeling among the lower classes. Under the head of " Very important," the TVater ford Chronicle has the following : " We hasten to lay the following very important letter before our readers, which we received law yesterda) evening:— ?" Goff's-bridge, Thursday Night: " Dear Sir,—l hasten to inform you that Mr. Smith O'Brien, Devie Reilly, R. O'Gorman, and three French . e n g ineers, supped at Goff's-bridge last night. The) are accompanied into this county (Wexford) with about 2,000 men, armed with rifles, pikes, &c. Mr. Smith O'Brien appeared In good bealtti.and the best virits.— I remain yours, " ARTHUR GOGMiTY. " P.S.—I forgot to mention that Mr. Smith O'Brien was joined by several clubs, numbering about 1,000 men."— 7 Imes. CONDITION OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. GALEULLY, AUGUST 4.—After having traversed the greater part of both ridings of the county Tip perary, I halt at this little village, situated at the foot of the Galtee Mountains, and on the borders of the , county Limerick, to give you, a brief abstract of the result of my observations. -Rebellion I found not. I have said that I could not find rebellion ; th a t it true. I did not see an army of insurgents, or any thing that gave indication of r the actual existence of civil war; nevertheless a rebellion does exist, if the whole of the south of Ireland is not at this moment plunged into all the horrors of a civil, or rather servile war, the reason is to be attributed, not to the disin clination of the people to rise up in arms, but solely to the want of a proper opportunity, and of bold, able, and trusted leaders. T h i s is no hasty impression or idle guess-work ; it i 3 a deliberate conviction ' founded on the most satisfactory evidence. Every mile I travelled every person I conversed with every fact bearing on the subject which has come under m y observation, all have served to impres indelibly on my mind the truth of the statement I have made. Let no man lay the flattering unction to his soul that the spirit of disaffection has been crushed. True it is that the wise and salutary precautions of the Government have saved the country from convul sion for the present; but the winter is fast approach ing—the season for a bivouac will have passed—the troops must be drawn into winter quarters, and then the hour for mischief will have arrived. 1 have heard it stated—and the stateme nt does not u see m improbable — t hat the leaders intend to remain passive till the winter sets in --that they are qu i te Much, h owever , will depend upon circumstances. ste satisfied, adiflryig hftoern then abiding the Government,present, their w ti i i t n h e .harassing the soldiery that they are and In the course of my wanderings I have met with a great many country gentlemen, and all of them agree in thinking that the rebellion is not extinguished, that it still smoulders, an d the y look wi th considerable apprehension to the comin g winter. Certainly it is unreasona ble to calculate that all the wild theories which have been propounded by the anarc hi sts an d Jacobins—the visions of wealth, happi ness, and'inde endence which have be en held out t o the misguided people—it is unreasonable to su pp o se that these con , genial theories have tak en no root, o r that the people, p after such golden dreams, will sink back, without a struggle of some kind, into their former position. AU'GUST The absentees are fast returning to the country, and there are at present a great number of residt•r:t gentry in the county of Tipperary. I trust their presence may serve to check the existing spirit of in subordination. There is a remarkable absence of agrarian outrage just now, hut I have heard in many quarters serious complaints of petty depredations which have. been committed since the concentration of the police force in the town. You will remember I had occasion to remark on the same occurrences in a former letter from Kilkenny. In all quarters I have heard that there has been no surrender of arms worth speaking of under the pro. clamaVon. The constabulary are busily engaged in searching for them, and to-day I met a large force in the neighbourhood of the town of Tipperary en.: gaged in that business, hut with little success. The conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy in the present crisis has been most praiseworthy, and I have heard it commended by their bitter political opponents. On la%t Sunday Dr. Howley, the pariah priest of the town I have just mention( d, delivered a most impressive discourse to his flock on the criminality of the club system, and I have authority tor stating that it pro. duced the very best results. The police in this county are extremely vigilant ; patrols scour the country every night, and all persohs found out at unseason able hours are searched. THURLES, AUG. 5. I returned to this town to-day, and on my arrival found all quiet. The "moving column," under the immediate command of General Ill'Donald, still re- main encamped at the same place. It is said that the 74 - h Regiment will shortly be ordered to Dublin. The severe weather, scarce a day passing without heavy rain, is already beginning to tell against the troops exposed to its inclemency in camp, and num bers are reported sick. The General and his staff occupy apartments in the principal hotel. The con stabulary when patrolling last night arrested two individuals on suspicion of being concerned in the existing conspiracy : one of them gave his name as Fitzpatrick, and stated that he came from Dublin; the other announced himself as an American who had come to this country to see his friends. He gave his name as Nolan. A letter of introduction, and rather a considerable sum of money were found on his person. Both prisoners have been remanded by Mr. Gore Jones, the resident magistrate, for further examination. It is really wonderful what an impetus the pre sence of 2,000 soldiers has given to the provision trade of the town. The country people flock to the camp with milk, butter, eggs, potatoes, turf, and other necessaries, where they meet a ready market at remunerating prices.— Chronicle. THE BALLINGARRY AFFAIR-INQUEST ON THE BODIES. An inquest was held at Ballingarry on Monday, 31st of July. by Thomas O'Meara, Bouladuff, coroner, and a jury of the farmers of the locality, on view of the bodies of Patrick M'Bride and Thomas Walsh, the two men who were shot dead by the party of police on Satur day, the 29th July, in the affray b-tween the police and the insurgents asstmblvd on the Commons of Boulick. The inquest was attended by one of the local magistrates, Mr. Going, of Ballyphillip, by Mr. Fiizclarence, R.M., as well as by General APDonald and the officers of his staff. The coroner first took the evidence relative to the death of M'Bride, and called John ➢i'Brida, brother of the deceased, who, being sworn, deptised that on Saturday 1 act he heard his brother was shot at Farranroy, near the Commons, and went in that direction, when he met some men carrying him home on a door ; asked him what was the matter with him, when he replied, " Oh, I'm killed." He said no more until he came home, when he said he was coming over the wall of the widow Cormack's yard ; the police were at the time in the house when he was shot in the back from the house. Witness stated that deceased had gone with the crowd who followed the police, and heard about half a dozen shots. He was a servant boy that was making hay at the side of the road, and when he saw the crowd he followed them. In reference to the cause of the death of the unfor tunate man Walsh, the Coroner examined Anne Walsh, wife of deceased, who, being sworn, de posed—l recollect Saturday last. My husband went to work at breaking stones about six o'clock that morning. About twelve o'clock I saw crowds of people going to the Commons, and heard some shots, but I cannot say how many. I then went to widow Cormack's house, where the shots seemed to be firing, and saw my husband lying on the - field outside the wall of the house. I was going over to him, when two guns were put out of the highest window of the house, and some persons inside cried out to. me to go back, or they would let the light through me.. There was not a man near the house, or any other person except my self and my husband, and another man who was I)ing at the wall of the house, struggling for life. The Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald then came up, and I asked him to interfere to ;,et my husband's body, that I might bring it home to wake it. I have one child, and had no way of living, but my husband earned a pound of meal a day stone breaking on the relief work:;. It is Smith O'Brien I blame for my husband's death, he would not have gone there only for hun. Dr. Ryon swore that the deceased had got a gun-shut wound on one side of the chest, and au aperture at the opposite side, where the bullet passed out. The shut must have been tired by some person on a level with tho deceased. That wound caused death. The jury returned a verdict in both cases, that death t!n=tied from gun-shot wounds inflicted by some of the police, who had retired to the widow Cormack's house, and fired in self defence. _ _ . On the suggestion of General M‘Donald, Anne Walsh was called, and on being asked did she received money from Mr. '.;mitt, O'Brien after her husband was shot, she said that Mr. O'Brien gave her a if. note before he left, expressing the greatest sympathy with her misfortune, 'and telling her to bury her husband with the money. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 2d, coffee and tea were declared not to be beer nor fermented liquors, by a majority of 44 against 34. This is a wholesome check to the spirit of interference with everything the poor loan eats, or drinks, or tries to turn to his amuse ment. The great good of it is, that it will postpone the time when the poor will be obliged to try their hands for a twelvemonth, at exercising the same ac tive benevolence towards the rich. On the same evening the Cruelty to Animals Pre vention Bill, second reading, was put off for three months, which is equivalent to being given up tor the present. N o reason seems stated why cruelty to animals should not be prevented, except that the animals are not represented in the House of Commons. It may occur to some that the same reasoning may apply to more. Two independent reasons, however, appear for sup porting the principle of such a Bill; one, that cruelty to what are called animals, is intensely disagreeable to some who boast of reason ; and the other, that a set is made against legislative interference on the iuhkt, by the school whose object is to establish the right of the craftiest and strongest to have their way, or what may be otherwise described as the " Anglo- Saxon" school. It is no doubt possible for the prin ciple to be run riot on ; but what is a House of Com mons for, but to prevent ? The merciful man is mer ciful to his beast; and if he happens to have a vote, here appears no reason why his mercy should not show itself through an Act of Parliament. On Thursday the Farmers' Estate Society (Ire land) Bill went through Committee. lam afraid I did not make great progress in persuading anybody, that the true way to put down Repeal rebellions, is to show the discontented in Ireland (which is every body) that they can be better cared for by a Parlia ment of Scotch and English as well as Irish repre sentatives, than they ever were or will be by a Par liament in College-green. If a native of an other planet were to drop upon the earth, he would rush to the conclusion that the greatest godsend for a people in the cir cumstances of the Irish, would be to find their legis lation taken out of hands which,to use the mildest terms, have been found incomparably unfortunate, and di vided with those who have had more success in the task of making nations comfortable. There is no strength in the argument, that Irish Members ought to have a monopoly of Irish legislation because they know most of Ireland. The knowledge of Ireland is their bane ; they know too much. It is for that very reason, that Ireland wants somebody that is not to be of the nature of an interested jury ; somebody that was riot born to the notion of injuries to requite or oppressors to put down ; somebody who can look upon a question without the interference of recollec tions going back to the.days of Brian Borlioitne. A Ministry will sooner or later find out the necessity o t applying the English mind to the Irish question ; and every step towards it is a good. In this view, 1 hope the muster of the Noes on Thursday night on the Ten Acre motion, however small, hut of which the half were Scotch and English Members, was not without its use. On Friday the battle went sore against the Tories on the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill. They resisted like men contending pro aris et focis. In fact, that such things can be so defended, is evidence that the time must come when. an organic change, as the phrase is, must mend the superstructure by put ting the whole on a foundation of more soundness. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, London, Aug. 7, IS4B. The Right lion. the Speaker gave the customary Parliamentary entertainment to the officers of the nous, of Commons prior to the prorogation of the session u! Parliament, on Saturday last, at bis official residence in Eaton-square. The following gentlemen constituted the circle :—Lord Charles Russell,Nir. Ley, Mr. W..Ley, 111 r. Henry Ley, Mr. John Dorrington, Mr. Whittam, Mr. Dyson, Mr. R. Gibbons, Mr. John Clementson, Mr. James Booth, Mr. I'. Vardou, Mr. T. E. May, Hon. George Waldegrave, Mr. R. A. Gusset, Mr. W. Hawes, Mr. R. R. Gibbons, Mr. C. Rowland, Mr. A. Jones, Mr G. Gunnell, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. J. Rose, Mr. C. Sr. Pole, Mr. F. H. Gray. Mr. C. Frere, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. W. Hodgkin, and the Rev. G. Repton and Mr. C. Lefroy, ' chaplain and secretary to the Speaker. 7', 1948. TIIE SOUTH OF IRELAND. TO THE L' Ii OF THE SUN. Sett,—B, irg al!xious to ascertain the exact state of the south of Ireland, so as to' be table to take a safe course with reference to my commercial transactions in that part of the kingdom, I visited all the towns sup posed to be in insurrection, including. Ballingarry and Killenaule. I s!ept at the later place. last night. - Wherever I went I found all quiet, and the people seemed to be averse to any movement that would dis tract their attention from the approaching harvest. There was some excitement created by the rumours that were in circulation in each place with reference to what was going on elsewhere, but it appeared to . me to be merely the, excitement of curiosity amongst an idle and wonder-loving people. Every account of what has transpired has been grossly exaggerated and falsified by the Irish press, and every man you converse with on the subject of passing events, official or otherwise, seems to think it his duty to make out a case of desperate rebellion. William Smith O'Brien has not as yet appeared in arms with a view of destroying the English government' in Ireland. He has simply been eudeavouring to protect himself from arrest. He has nevi r had two hundred people about him at any one time, with the exception of the local mob attracted by curiosity; when he has been in immediate danger of arrest, h e has thrown himself on the people about him for protection, he has told them that on account of his advocacy of their cause he is about to be torn from his country, and treated as a felon. In an en deavour to prevent. his being taken by a large party of police at Badingary two seen were shot and two or three , wounded, and at the intercelsion of the priest the police were permitted by the people to retire, upon condition that no attempt was matte to take Smith O'Brien, and in half an hour afterwards the people were dispersed to their homes, and Smith O'Brien again a fugitive. It is comain that wherever O'Brien appears the people in the locality will protect him ; but they will not rise in open insurrection. Any person who knows Ireland, knows that a mere rescue from the civil power, is in the view of the people a very different thing from rebellion. Many of those who were present told me that they would not become rebels, they would not join in a rebellion against the Queen, but that they would protect Smith O'Brien as far as they could so long as he remained amongst them. They said " Sure the ouldest blood in Ireland trusted to the men of Ballingarry." What could they do ? And I trust that when the English press comments upon a movement which may or may not prove to have been an attempt to subvert British power in this country, they will not for get that the inhabitants of one of the most miserable, poverty-stricken little villages in this wretched country could have enriched themselves by giving up the three or four men who fled to them for refuge, but that they were proof against th e t em pt a tion, an d preferred poverty and starvation to plenty basely acquired. I believe that it Smith O'Brien is given up it will be by one of the shop ocracy or middle class of the country—not by the peasantry. I have exhausted every means of gaining in formation on the spot where it could be obtained, and am certain that Smith O'Brien has hitherto only endeavoured to preserve his liberty; That no rebellion was intended at present; That the revolutionary spirit was confined to a por tion of the least influtntial inhabitants of the towns, and fomented by a seditious press, that wrote what it thought would sell with a view to profit; That the Government has either been acted upon by exaggerated reports, or has availed itself of them as a means of crushing agitation by a coup de main; and if life is not sacrificed I, for one, will say that the end justifies the am, Sir, &c., B. F. LLOYD. Cork, August 2, 1848. DISTRIBUTION BETTER THAN DIVISION. --- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—The only apologue which ought to be added to tEsop is one of Erasmus, comparing human nature to a drunken clown, who, as fast as you help him up on one side of his horse, falls over on the other. " Dum fugiunt stulti vitia in contraria currunt." "11 n'y a rien de si rare dans les sciences qu'une certaine egalite de raisonnement qui fait qu'en soutenant une proposition on laisse dans son entier une autre."—Vernacularly, " Two blacks don't make a v‘ hite ." When laws are made by the paradoxically covetous rich, there will ba a tendency to accumulation which no pulling of nests to pieces can cure, for, the divi sion being somewhat irregular, is repeated hourly. The modest " Spence's Plan," which we semi centinarians remember, proposed an equal division of land and moveables, repeating the operation of course in a few years. Ledru Rollin was supposed to have similar views. Possibly he embarked with aged Dupont (de l'Eure) lest.the vesssel should be too stiff and not crank enough. Such personages as he end Mitchel remind one of the bachelor Sampson Carrasco, a figure painted with all the vividness of reality, as if one had seen him before, rushing on the scene full tilt, out-quixoting the Don himself. Like Panurge, in the great French romance, he did no harm to Pantagruel great and good, pio, just°, fort', pacific° Lamartine, briefly exemplit .) ing the wish of Piato,. Rep. 5, cited by Rabelais. Happy the land whose rulers philosophize and whose philosophers rule. Gargantua, the nursing father, might be Na poleon, or Pius IX.. or both. _ - Accumulation can only be moderated by banks of discount, and honest paper drawn by real sellers on real buyers. .. - Knowing one to be a great sheep-master, you will surely say—These are pecuniary considerations. This is just revenons a nos moutons. Why talk of currency now? You are premature at least; write to me this day six months. Not so, however. La martine's first measure was to set up a great discount bank with branches everywhere, imitating Napoleon, founder of the Bank of France, whose notes, accord ing to a statement by Al. Thiers, 1840, are not re ceived at public Treasuries ! which has kept discounts at 4 per cent. during twenty years ! ! and which in crises extends discounts immensely ! ! ! Thus Napoleon achieved his own principle, " Draw from the repositories of wealth sufficient to supply all who may want employment—this creates a sort of market or sinking fund fur labour, by which its price may be kept up." The above sentence you printed once to oblige me—iteration is a Homeric as well as House of Commons' trope—f e w ma x im s so worthy of being reiterated. Small notes are made for critical times—in the meeting of our fleets they saved us and carried us through the war. As the rumour only of Lainartine's 11. notes raised the French funds greatly, so in our panic of 1825 they were received with ac clamations. • Lamartine also suspended the converti bility; and, as in our Reform year, the " broadsides," " To stop the Duke, go for gold," would have justi fied such a measure, so Lamartine in effect declared he•would wait till gold became a sign instead of a juggle—till public disorder had ceased to make con vertibility an engine of terror, which against a good strong Government is treason. Sir R. Peel coming into office, 1841, found Bank of England notes seventeen millions, raised them be fore April, 1842, to eighteen and a half Millions, and by February, 1843, to twenty-one millions ! Sir Robert's state-craft was amusing; its effects still more so—these might be enumerated, but at present it is enough to remind you that, in 1843, Mr. Wok - ley was " fascinated into paying his income tax," which, in 1848, he found unbearable. It was not the Premier's well-deserved compliments—fair words butter no parsnips. No, the increase of actual, prac tical, rational cash which Sir Robert, no doubt, took care should be " for business and for return," floated the Aliniiter in, as the restriction of 1844 floated him out, and the celebrated majority of 100 depended oil supplying us with market-money—any congestive bankerhood to the contrary notwithstanding. The socialist plan seems well intended and badly managed.. We must cure this rabies of accumulation which excites the just fury of Chartists, but whose remedy they mistake, and rush into a course which, destroying all confidence, sets the ouvrier still farther down-the stream. The object is not rabblementing and division, but advances and distribution. Unless a step is made in a right direction we shall soon be brought to the place where nec vitia net remedia pati possums. Goldsmith warned Egland in a friendly way, that— " The time may come, when, stripp'd of all her charms The land of scholars and the nurse of arms, One sink of LEVEL AVARICE shall lie, And scholars, soldiers, kings, unhonoured die." Your great leveller is moral death, avarice tri umphant, "eternal naught, and man's digestive power and horror of cesspool. But " Question —How does our monetary system tend to hoarding and prevent distribution ? tie Ans.— Our stuffs and fabrics, our work and labour under the e sun, our fervid industry (fervet opus) . bring lisp anglaiS. It industry be wise , the wise men came from here. • Proverbially we know, gold is Engseror America to Spain, from• Spain to England, as before . the East—the work-bought metals drifted from from Europe to Asia, besides a pretty deep drift to that series of " pure Caucasians. The origin ot' mis takes which make milli ons too poor and thousands too rich may be that in countries without credit or con fidence, the " oozing " of bullion contracts their ev'l *f cir culation n ecessarily, and is a real 7 -1 so, our jealousy of gold export is merely priscce vestigia fraud is. The hundred mints, cent" zecche, of Italy i n h e cirque co 110, were indispensable then. Mr. thi rteen produced a letter in the House declaring simply, " In five years you will lose India." Here is another currency• question enough to plague Lord Brougham's heart out. Cheshire may he the salt of the earth, but Cheshire cannot expect Asia to pay for salt and salt duty the swine quantity of cash-money coin as when Indian stuffs and fabrics showered on her kings barbaric pearls and gold. " Do you not see," said Raleigh, " that the silk, calico, and spices of the East swallow up all the mines of the West ?" trans lating from Virgil's nonne vides ? Let Mr. Cobden know that Virgil's temper was never * ruff led but once, and then about free trade. " Hic segetes, illie verdunt felicius Arbutei fittus alibi iitque injussa vt • • • rescunt Gramina. Nonne vides ?" 13 , on't ye see ? The first line hits off the old corn law an:l Methuen treley ; the in.;u9sa grartstgal 4 root weeds, are precisely Ireland with her Pale Par* liament wheat, tenant-farming, and landlordism- Yes, Virgil, who, even in the case of Dido, had not the heart to make " so.ne Tyrian nobleman kick the pious ...Eneas, in the fourth book," lost his temper about free trade, as Raleigh against hullionists, and absolutely scolded. At present we have fourteen millions bullion more than we can want, This blessing, valeat quantum, we owe to some curt Saxon expletive of the great Duke (long Pro visional Government of this country, as T whispery,.._ you, Sir, in 1843), but Sir itobert said, once, at least, " He wished Plainly, therefore, it was no Cabinet 'question. Yes, our stuffs and tabrics bring the gold here, and some tribunician power forbids the conveyance neat as heretofore. " Convey, the wise it call." Before the memorable Committee of Secresy, 1832, 111 N. 111. Rothschild honestly and repeatedly deposed that gold was conveyed never to redress balances of goods but invariably (1)- for loans—repudiated; (2) for nefan dous) wars ; (3) for corn—forestalled and r..•grattd, bought at one end of the town, sold at the other, bought on the Vistula, sold to hanri•loom weavers at excellent prices till " the week of Great Delivery," mentioned by Sir Robert, and again by the present Lord Grey quoting him ; after which comes th , : Irish corn, sells for nothing, and tenants are exterminated, i. e. extirpated, because they can'.t. pay. Yet the gold saturation is worshipped to all kinds of music, because, forsooth, it protects corn trade! (See Al sager loc. chat.) The profits on these coups by vast confederacies make fortunes—the winners play the money, or lend it to foolish lords and ladies. Exe crable love of gold, Quid non mortalia ! (Virgil again.) The Times used to proclaim that contraction was the only way to bring the much-loved metals here. Their song was partial—but the harmony Suspended cash. Gold comes here in despite of contraction. The ship has too much " way on her " to be suddenly brought up by any remora. But what is this London-circulation mysteriously mentioned, which dissipates the credit and resources of England P Ministers want more to pay dividends—lords and ladies want accommodation to drive and dress and dine. Each private bank respectively has " made an arrangement" with the great polypus which exists for everything but ourriers. These bankers, con trary to all principle loan our money on mortgage instead of advancing our money on honest paper drawn by real seller on real buyer, facilitating and habilitating bonafide transactions in the usual course. This is a point of tremendous importance and gives a real answer to Sir Robert Peel's question, What is a pound ? A pound is not merely a pound's worth in general values, tho' even that is nearer the mark than so much gold. A pound is what will assuredly be a pound ut a future time, and bankers should take or buy thins which will be money at a future day, without having to be sold off like a great moat de piite of assignats—there amounted in France to many hundred millions sterling, and the property re confiscated by each ephemeral Government, was not forthcoming after all, which made the case if possible worse--at all events there could be no buyers, no in dustry, no money at a future day. That the French will try such schemes again is as certain as that we shall "re-enact the Heptarchy" or plunge into a War of Roses ! I intended to show how a most stingy and faithless currency operates on mortgages, mortgagees, and mortgagors, but the letter is already too long — non concessere columnce. I. have the honour to be, Sir, &c. H. C. A RGENT. COURT CIRCULAR. OSI3ORNE, SATURDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness and the Royal Family rude and walked iu the grounds at Osborne this morning, The iiuchess of Nemours arrived at Osborne on a ♦isit the Queen on Thursday, and returned to Claremont .his forenoon. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are ex pected to arrive at Osborne this afternoon, having been honoured by an invitation from her Majesty, and are ex pected to remain until Tuesday next. Lord John Russell is also expected this afternoon, to remain for a dny or two. OSBORNE, SUNDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and younger mem bers of the 11 , yal Family, walked this morning in du) grounds of Osborne. Iler Majesty, the Prince (attended by the royal household), the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Lord John Russell, attended Divine service at Whip pingham Church this forenoon. The royal dinner party yesterday included Lord Jilin Russell, the Marquis and blarchiouess of Abercornoind Sir James Clark. On Saturday summonses were issued from the Privy Couneil-uttice, to the Cabinet Ministers and the Officers of State, to attend a Privy Council on Friday next, at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. His Royal highness the Duko of Cambridge Iloilo', e‘ed the performance at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday eVening, tlith Ilk presence. His ltoytil Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning, in Foley Chapel. A deputation from the borough of Wakefield, consist ing of his Worship the Mayor, Mr. Alderman Meynell, and the Town Clerk, had an irterview with Sir George Grey, On Saturday, at the Home-office. Lord .John Russell left town on Saturday morning for her 1114jesty's marine resid e n ce . O s b orne , I s l e o f Wi g h t. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his offichl residence in Downing street. Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo• from the Governors of the West India colonies Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening trona the Colonial-ottice for the Governor of Gibraltar. The l)uke of Buckingham had an interview on Satur day, with Sir George Grey. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wt ley officiated and preached the sermon. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Hel ruore, and the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Thomas. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem, " Thy word" (Purcell), was sung by Messrs. Ilobbs, Machin, and Burnaby. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. THE INDEFATIGABLE FRIGATE. TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE XORNING HERALD. Sir,—l have read with suri;i;T:n — arTjcle — in the Morning Herald, stating that the Indefatigable frigate, hitt ly launched at Devon port, was constructed by me ; and I hasten to beg you to contradict this assertion, which is false. I know not what object your informant could have bad in imposing upon you, for I have had nothing whatever to do with the constructing of this ship or the correct ing of her lines, as you state, and therefore hope you will give immediate insertion to this letter.—l am, .air, your ver) humble servant, EBENR. WOOD. Devunport Dockyard, Aug. 4. MEETING ON ICENNINGTON-COMMON.—Yeaterday afternoon the inhabitants residing in the immediate vicinity of Kennington-common were in a state of con siderable alarm, in consequence of its having been an nounced that a meeting or Chartists and Irish Repeaters would take place on the Common, for the purpose of adopting resolutions in support of the Irish confederates; but as it had been ascertained that the Government was determined to put down the meeting, and that fur that purpose a strong body of police would be in the neigh bourhood, several of the leaders of the. Chartist body And Irish Repealers had a private consultation, and it was agreed that the meeting should be postponed sine die. The Commissioners of Police, however, made amine merits to prevent any disturbance of the public peace, and about two o'clock in the afternoon, the P, L, R, and M divisions "of police, under Messrs. Superintendents Robinson, Rutt, Mallatieu, and Jones, known with a number of the horse p atrol, took up their station at various localities, within a short distance of the com • was appointed to be held at three man, The few hundred n ot Whom were d.rdpersoil as l frequenters of the Cha rtist meetings at the South Lon (1 .',n Chartist Hall, Webber-street, &e. The only knows Chartist c haracter, as a speaker at these meetings, was a man named Salmon. Ile was cautioned by Mr. Super intendent Rubinson against interfering by delivering a speech, and was informed that if he did he would b e given into custody. From three o'clock to five o'clock there was, at no time, more than 2,000 persons present, nearly the whole of whom appeared to be drawn there fromen present curiusity. in Therepla plain el was a g T n: largerbe r of portionpol ice mof those who were spectators consisted of boys . ,. there being but a few of the female sex present. The police remained at T th u ei:; s i e ß v o e m ral , s r ta ß t A io D u E s a:Fa Sou'rnlate S hir. TAFFORDSUIRE.—• (From our Correspondent.)—HlßMlNGßAK, :SATURDAY. —I am gratified in being able to d state that within the f a u r r etnig abundant, there has but been e yth,;iiludsissetrdi, .eeaindedadilm.unpereoveumfepnrtibiens the has ironbee been tradeserseriously u o l i a r iron Orders for eh kinds of althoughat i ' inne has yet taken place upon those fixed at the late quarterly meeting. Another highly. pleasing feature of the present time the good understanding which at present A ters and the m en . equitable adaptation of wages to the fluctuating price of u on is now occupying the ear nest attention of some of the more influential masters of South Staffordshire, with . a view to prevent those dis agreements • which of late years have au frequently been a source of great inj u ry to the general trade of the dis trict, and caused an immensity of suffirring to thou san ds of families. Most of the milt and forgemen have re sumed work at the late reduction, and the calii;rs and miners are generally •employed; a portion of the pud , lers, however, still hold out, but it is expected that they also will come in on the same terms as their fellow workmen. Pending the negotiations now on foot for a fair adjustment of the question of wages, it is to be ' hoped that nothing will ne,cur to disturb the friendly feeling ss hich still exists between the masters and the workmen, more particularly from the disposition evinced by the former to recognise, in a fair and liberal spirit, the claims of the labourer to a participation in his pro p, rty .—Morning Post. We understand that the Paella of Egypt is in a very precarious state of health, and not expected to survive. inn=a "W. Pto. 310 rigs. bi nig eloref al c• --_-~: - Th;%