The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

Vtirb ambition. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. FRANCE. It is stated that it was not the intention of the Government to apply the decree about taking the oath of allegiance to the President, to general officers who were in exile. It was only applicable to those employed at a distance, for instance, Generals Aupick, Castelbajue, and others, so far as the term granted to them is concerned. And that consequently there was no intention of depriving them of their com- missions. The C onstitutionnel announces that the French ship-of-war, Charlemagne, arrived on the 9th at Smyrna, after being refused the passage of the Dar danelles. The sale of the pictures composing the gallery of the late Marshal Soult terminated on Saturday even ing. The principal pictures sold on that day were — St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus, by Alphonse de Tobar, which brought 1,150 f.; St. Catherine, by ZurblAran, 1,600 f. ; the Interior of a Smoking-room, by Davil Teniers, 1,21.0 f.; St. John, by Alonzo Cano, 2,800`. ; St. James, by the same, 2,100 r.; a Female Saint, by Zurblron, 3,200 f. ; another, by the same, 3,300 f. ; the Communion of a Saint, by the fame, 2,100 f. ; St. Anthony, by the same, I,ooof. ; a Holy Family, by Ribero, 9,100 f. ; St. Anthony of Padua and the Infant Jesus, by Murillo, 12,200 f. ; the Repentance of St. Peter, by the same, a ; the Deaarius of Cmsar, by Titian, a picture little more than two feet in height, 62,000 f.; &c. The sale on that day produced 223,923 f., which added to those of the two preceding days, give a total of 1,477,830 f. Among the persons who purchased the principal pictures of the S p a n ish masters, are the Duke of Galiera, Count Pozzi di Borgo, the Marquis of Hertford, `Count Duchatel, Baron D evaux , Messrs. Townend, O sborn, de Bruui, Roux, Mundler, Cafe, for the Museum of Montpelier, &c. The following pictures were either bought or with drawn by the family of the Marshal, v i z .,—th e Bi r th of the Virgin, by Murillo, which fetched 90,0001. ; the Glorification of the Virgin, by the same, 5,000 f. , Christ on the Cross, by the s ame , 3,100 f ; the Miracle o f San Diego, by the same, 85,500 f.; a Brigand Stopping a Monk, by the sa me , 15,000 f.; Abraham offering Hospitality to the Angels, by Fernandez de Navaretta, surnamed El Mudo, 25,000 f., &c. GERMANY. The fact that the Prussian Chambers were pro rogued, and had disappeared as a Legislature, a few hours before the Emperor of Russia entered Berlin as a visitor, has excited some notice and remark. Yet it was an accident, and nothing else. The prorogation had been fixed for the middle of May even before the same period was notified as that of the Em peror's arrival ; and it has been evident for a much longer period that the session could not be con tinued with advantage either to the Government or the country. For six weeks past it has some times been difficult to get a House togetherin the numbers legally necessary to transact business. Often during the sittings the Deputies would disappear, compelling the President to suspend proceedings. Six months of continual work bad wearied all partieP, especially as the public sittings are not the largest or most irksome part of the De • puties' duties ; it is the preliminary labours of the bureaux and commissions that are the most trying. Those who augured ill for the continued existence of the Chambers and for the Constitution generally, have been a little reassured by the bandeome acknowledgment of the Deputies' services made by M. von Manteuffel in the address by which he ad journed them. The Government has no real cause of quarrel with either House. No chamber could have voted the budget less grudgingly or sanctioned the present and future taxes more generously. They Toted one new tax even in the face of a surplus revenue, and only negatived another because it involved a positive breach of contract. In all essential questions the Government is strong in both houses ; and would be in a far more difficult position without them than with them. If they are in any peril, it Is neither from the policy of Russia, nor the ill-will of its ruler to the constitutional form of government, but the apathy and indifference of the mass of the nation. ROLL AND. The Minister of Justice of Holland, M. NEDER.• METER VAN ROSSNTUAL, has resigned. A letter from the Hague, in the Independance, of Brussels, states that this will probably lead eventually to the dissolution of the Cabinet. It was rumoured that M. VAN SPENGLER and M. VAN SONSBECK, Minis ters of War and Foreign Affairs, were about to re sign. M. C. BACKER, King's Commissary in the province of Overyssel, was spoken of as the suc cessor of M. VAN ROSENTHAL in the Ministry of Justice. TURKEY. The Courrier de Marseilles publishes a letter from Bigdad of the 9:11 ultimo, which states that an insurrection had broken out in that province. The communications were intercepted, and the mails could not be forwarded but with an escort of 100 or 200 honemen. The Arabs are masters of the country from Mossoul to the Persian Gulf. The Turkish authority no longer exists but in the fortified towns ; its moral Erne has almost entirely disap peared, and it is time for the Government at Con stantinople to put an end to this deplorable state of things. • The French scientific mission had arrived at Bagdad ; its labours will occupy in members for a year unless the state of the country should pre tent too many obstacles to the accomplishment of it. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE LORDS: The LORD CHANCELI; R took his seat 011 the Wool sack at Five o'clock. MR. COEBETT'S CASE. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Mr. Jesse Oldtield, complainieg of the present state of the law with regard to actions brought in forma pa uperis and writs of habeas corpus, and praying for some alteration in the law. Mr. Oldfield stated that he had been a party to the ori ginal well-known proceedings in cons' , (pence of which Mr. Cobbett had been committed to the Queen's Bench Prison, and that since that rime—the commencement of October, 1839—above 100 writs of habeas corpus had been moved for by Mr. Cobbett, and a vast number of actions brought against him by Mr. Cobbett, all in forma : n eris, and at the present time there were now pend t_ .. Ai o less th an seven ac ti ons , a l s o br.-ught against him by r. Cobbett. Alter a i _ Lord ( . 1 C. words from the, LORD CHANCELLOR, of writs 4 N , ,PBELL moved for a return of the number the lst OcteLerai.c s orpus moved for by Mr. Cobbett since The return was agreed to. The PETITIONS. fro m oEtiVlVers CASTLE presented a petition a b e u D ild u e k r o s and e f N in the metropolis, praying fo r the enfranchisemen t Of The Ar..hbishop of CANTERBURY holds. may e:NTERBURY presented a grant. petition against the On the m)tiOn of Lord CZt)I,ICIIRSTER, the Stock in Trade Bill was read a third time e, and passed. On the motion of the sa me ttuao : TI LT LORD the Highway Rates Bill w.:s read a third On the motion for the bringth passed. Common Law Procedure Bill, gup the report on the Lord LYN DBURST said that , rumour bad gone abroad that this Bi ll was distastef ul tot, and that they had r etarded the progress of rGernment, t in Com mittee. He would app,al to the Noble and Learned e t ould to of Lords opposito NA h et ber this w as the - whether, in fact, they had not done all the case and facilitat e it s p r ogress. In fact, h ad it y n o owing to the unfortun ate illness the been and Learned Lord on the Woolsack the Bill would long ago have passed throu g h t his Rouse. The Bill it se lf was ca lculated to 'OD of great service to e: the publi c , an d would d o aw ay with a great numb er of technicalities which at present v ery much impeded the due administration ofjustice. The Noble and Learned Lord proceeded to quote a number of instances in which the ends of justice had been defeated by the court hay. ins pushed th e t ec h n i calities of t h e l a w to a most absurd eltent. Lord CRANWORTU concurred in the extreme im. portance of the measure. The report was then received, and the Bill was or dared to be read a third time on Thursday nex t. ' PROPERTY-TAX CONTINUANCE BILL. The Earl of DERBY - rose to move the second read, ing of this Bill, and was (LEFT SPEARING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. C. V?. GRENFELL took the oaths and his sea for Windsor. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Aberdem Fire and LiCe Avsurance Company. Cheltenham Improvement and Health. Forth and Clyde Navigation. Glamford Briggs Water , :vork3. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks. Sheffield Bridges end Street& The following Bills ware read a third time and passed:— Gres , Western, Shrovvabury and Birmingham, and ShoreShrewsbury and Ch-ster Railway Companies Amal on. Limerick Improvement and Market. Maw halter, Shcffield,RAAlLincolnBhire Railway (No. 2). Manchester, Buxton , Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway. Marsden, Uisburn e, and Lo ng Preston Roach. Pedmore and Rowley Rozdl. Stroud and Bidey Road. Truacizo ErabanlilLeu;. THE SUN, The following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Beaconsfield and Redhill Road. Cambridge to Elyaad other Roads. Eastern Union Railway. Kettering and Northampton Road. Kingston-upon-Hull Dues and Docks. Kingston and Sheetbridge Roads. Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement. River Humber Conservancy and Kingston-upon-Hull Docks. The Bowden-park Estate Bill and the Manchester and Salford Education Bill were read a third time, and or dered to be committed. PETITIONS. Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from the Wes leyan College against the Militia Bill. Mr. ANDERSON presented a petition from Orkney against the Maynooth grant. Mr. L. HEY WORTH presented four petitions from four different temperance societies, praying the House to inquire into the causes and consequences of intem perance. Mr. NOEL presented a petition from Buckingham shire against the Maynooth grant. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from a place in Scotland in favour of ocean penny postage. Mr. E WART presented a petition from Dumfries against the Maynooth grant. Admiral STEWART presented a petition from Dept ford in favour of ocean penny postage. Alderman KERSHAW presented a petition from a place in Monmouthshire against the Militia Bill. Mr. LOVEDEN presented a petition from Aberys twith against the Militia Bill; also one from Cardigan praying for the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. FINSBURY PARK. Mr. T. DUNCOM.BE wished to know from the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he had received the new estimate for the Finsbury Park; and, secondly, whether he could hold out any hope of a Bill being introduced for the formation of the park during the present session? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Government had received the new estimate, but having carefully considered it he did not feel that he should be justified in bringing in a Bill for the formation of the park this session, as the data which had been placed before him was not of a satisfactory nature, but the sub ject would continue to receive the attention of the Go vernment.—(Hear, hear.) OYSTERS. Sir GEORGE PECHELL wished to ask the-Presi dent of the Board of Trade, whether any instructions have been issued to the Commissioners of Customs (in consequence of any representation from the French Go vernment), directing the commanders of revenue cruisers to prevent vessels taking oysters in the English Channel beyond the limits exclusively reserved to the fishermen of this country? Mr. HENLEY said an Act of Parliament was passed in pursuance of a convention with France, which prohi bited the use of dredges between the 18th of May and the Ist of September, bat the fishermen of Dover and Essex were opposed to the Act, and had memorialised the Government to relax it accordingly, while the fisher men on the coast of Kent were anxious that the Act should be strictly carried out. Under these circumstances, the Government had no alternative but to see that the Act was strictly enforced, so far as it related to dredging, but there was no law against the lauding of oysters.—(Hear.) In reply to further questions, Mr. HENLEY would have no objection to lay the correspondence and the memorials before the House. THE BARODA INQUIRY. Mr. ANSTEY wished to know from the President of the Board of Control the reason of the delay is pre senting the papers relating to the Baroda inquiry, and the removal of Colonel Outram? Mr. BERRIES said such papers as could be pro duced were in preparation, and they would be shortly forthcoming. AUSTRIAN TREATMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. Mr. ANSTEY wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the House might expect the papers relating to the expulsion of British subjects from the Austrian dominions ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the papers were printed, and in a day or so they would be laid before the House. IRISH RAILWAYS. Mr. W. 0. GORE wished to ask whether, in the event of railway companies having paid up a certain proportion of their capital, and complied with certain conditions to be named by the Government, the Govern ment was willing to make advances by way of loan to railway companies in Ireland; and whether the Chan cellor of the Exchequer was prepared to state what the conditions were which he required to be complied with before making such advances? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the conditions precedent upon which loans were made to railway companies were contained in the Acts of Parliament by which the railway companies were framed, and Government took care that fur each loan they made an equal sum was also advanced out of the funds of the company.—(Hear, hear.) In this manner the sum of 1,200,0001. had been advanced; and he was bound to say that the interest had been duly met and the instalments duly paid.— (Hear, hear.) Besides that 500,0001. had been advanced under a special Act to the Irish Great Western Com pany; and if the Hon. Gentleman could bring a fair and proper case before the Treasury it should be as fairly entertained.—(llear, hear.) METROPOLIS BUILDINGS ACT Mr. OSBORNE wished to ask the First Commis sioner of Woods and Forests whether he proposed to bring in a Metropolis Buildings Act in the course of the present session? Lord JOHN MANNERS said, it was his intention to bring in a Bill to reconstruct the Court before whom metropolitan building disputes were adjudicated. Mr. OSBORNE—This session? Lord J. MANNERS—Yes, if possible. CANADA RAILWAY. Mr. M'CULLAGH wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether the communications that had lately taken place between her Majesty's Govern ment and the members of the Executive Councils of Canada and New Brunswick who have come to this country, relative to the formation of a railway from Ha lifax to Quebec, have been brought to a satisfactory ter mination. Sir J. PAKINGTON said the negotiations to whieh the Honourable Gentleman's question referred had now terminated, but whether they had terminated sa tisfactorily be must leave for the Honourable and Learned Gentleman himself to determine.—(Hear, hear.) The result, however, had been communicated to the Governor of the colony, and it was, that the Go vernment could not recommend the Crown to allow the Imperial revenue to become the security for the repay ment of the sum required for the railway. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. In reply to Sir J. GRAHAM, Sir J. PAKINGTON said the Crown was pledged not only by the Now Zealand Act, but also by a corre spondence which had since taken place between the Colonial-office and the New Zealand Company, to secure certain rights to the company which he men tioned to the House on Friday. The correspondence bad already been printed, and was now to be found in one of EXPLOSIONEy said the blue-books.—(g ear , hear.) S. Mr. C AYLgreat c l a N lam li i i t l ie N s E were continually taking place from explosions in mines. One occurred the other day, when 60 li ves were lost, andmore another happened, when 45 li ves werelost.'an Now h recently e wished to ask, in the first place, whether any inquiry made into the cause of these appalling calamities,was being and, secondly, whether there would be any objection to ap point a Committee with the view of arriving at some means by which such accidents could be remedied less frequent if not absolutely prevented.—(Hear.) Mr. Secretary WALPOLE said he had received in formation respecting the last accident, and some causes for it c,had been suggested to him. However, an inquiry was now going on into the matter, and it would shortly be terminated. In the mean time he should have no objection to the ap pointment of a Committee to investigate the whole subject.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. CATLEY gave notice, then, that to-morrow he would move the appointment of a Committee.—(Hear.) THE REV. MR. BENNETT. Lord CASTEEREAGH said he had received a letter from the Rev. Mr. Bennet, stating that there was not one word of truth in the rumour that he had joined the Roman Catholic Church; and adding, that he still held orders in the Church of England, and had no intention of leaving it. The Noble Lord warned the House against placing too implicit faith in rumoured conversions to the Roman Catholic religion, and observed that the Roman Catholic Directory contained the name of a clergyman who not only adhered to the doctrines of the Established Church, but was in possession of his living. ABOLITION OF GRAND JURIES. In reply to Mr. FRESHFIELD, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he saw no reason for giving compensation to clerks of the peace and to the clerks of the Central Criminal Court in consequence of the Bill abolishing grand juries. There was sorne difference, however, with regard to the crier, whe received a f e e o f ed. for every w it ness w h o was examined to , before the grand jury, but he was not allowed court. a Ke any fee f or administering an oath to a witness in rangement Th e Government thought it would he a fair ar admin' • to permit this functionary to levy a fee on the administration of clause ere Prop ose to witnesses in court, and if a e prop ose their support. d to that effect, they would gi ve it CEp,RIGHT, In Th r e e p c l MILITIA BILL. Bill was LOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was s learly understood that the report believed yli th At a o t N 7: Militiah third reading could not take place until to b© brought up on Thursday. O o n f t c h o e u after the holidays. oTrIDE HOLIDAYS. TEE WHITSUNTIDE EXCHEQUER said it The CHANCELLOR th u e djournment of the House next until the Thursday fors theh ls intention hofidays t o o n re oEvreidtahye na ction for the third readin gent had ELECTIONS BILL. followin,cf. of this Bill, CORRUPT PRACTICES AT of jilt it his duty to e :Bill. He was On the Colonel SIBTLIORPE said, oi taken up oppor surprisedtheto fu fi r n th d er th p e rog G r o es y s ernm and adopted such a measure as the was origina • • ted by the Noble Lord present which John Russell). It was a trap artfullyeyposite (Lord other side of the House, and invented ho w by the Government against the man traps warned the and spring guns which were placed in their W a • He Star Chamber was a face to the tribunal W hi ch y wa be appointed under the Bil l. There was to be ab s ody o of Commissioners, composed perhaps of briefiess bar risters, who were to go to variou s p arts of t he county and prey like vultures on the innocent and unwar y Such attempts at legislattge were Unwert h Y of any LONDON, # MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, other, although on the previous evening he had found them almost equal. This fact, when considered in connexion with the constant change of the relative positions of the stars, and the total disappearance of one of them, left no doubt on his mind of their real cha racter. He therefore came to the conclusion, that there are in the heavens three stars revolving round Jupiter in the same manner as Venus and Mercury revlove round the Sun. On the 12th he saw three stars; two on the east side of Jupiter and one on the west side. The third began to appear about 3 o'clock in the morn ing, emerging from the eastern limb of the planet; it was then exceedingly small, and was discernible only with great difficulty. On the 13th he finally saw four stars. Threo of them were on the west side of the planet, and the remaining one on the east side. They were all arranged in a line parallel to the ecliptic, with the exception of the central star of the three western ones, which declined a little towards the north. They appeared of the fame magnitude, and though small, were very brilliant, shining with a much greater lustre than fixed stars of the same magnitude. The future observa tions of Galileo established beyond all doubt that Jupiter was attended by four satellites. He continued to exa mine them until the latter end of March, noting their configurations, and recording the stars which appeared in the same field of view with them. WHAT THE SIDNEY PAPERS ARE FULL OF. The file of a Syciceydaili paper , since the com mencement of gold discoveries, is quite a study for phi losophers. • . . In one week, for example, twenty five thousand pounds worth of gold has come to town, against which uprises a wholesale and retail grocer, who advertises that "Economy is a sure road to a Gold Field," and requests the public to look rather to his teas and coffees. Then our English eyes do, indeed dwell a little on hi▪ s list, when we remember our own taxes, and see that the gold diggers may buy g unpowder tea at two shilli▪ ngs a pound, and sugar at twopence. No wonder that they make their tea in kettles. The next weekly Gold Circular tells us of fifteen thousand pounds worth that has come in by Government escort—an un popular, because a dear conveyance, the charge being one per cent.; and, as for the gold privately transmit ted, adds the Circular, " When we know of one man bringing down a thousand ounces in a horse-collar, it impossible isaible to state correctly what may come into town. On the same day, a draper declares that he is determined to sell ten thousand pounds worth of haber dashery at an alarming sacrifice, '6 it being perfectly evident that at the present time it is the only means by which a trade can be done,"—and so on. In the same paper there is advertised number one of a new perio dical, to be called the Golden Age; and another book seller announces as " the only readable book ever published in Australia, The Gold Calculator; or, Diggers' and Dealers' Ready Reckoner.' " That being the humour of Australian authors, an Australian musician offers, in the same good cause " The Ophir Schottische;" while the public is in various places strongly recommended to buy pumps and cradles. . . . In another paper we are told of the first passage of " the gold coach" through a private village, and of the consequent defection of the labourers. In the same paper we have news from Mount Alexander that might well turn the head of any villager. One person " left Melbourne on Saturday, and returned on the Monday week following, bringing fourteen pounds weight of gold with him, dug up by himself. Another man, after working ten days, brought back twenty-two pounds weight. A friend of mine, a gentleman who only went to see, was anxious to try his luck, and begged a dishful of earth, to have, as he thought, a few grains to take home with him; a few minutes' washing gave him nearly two ounces of gold." The gold at Mount Alexander, the richest field discovered yet, lies near the surface. Two men there obtained four hundred ounces in three weeks. As for the weekly Gold Circular, at Sydney, it gets poetical:—" In our first shipment, we could coant the value of the gold in pounds sterling by hundreds; in a few weeks it roso to thousands; in a few weeks more it became tens of thou sands; and we are fast approaching a period when each ship will convey hundreds of thousands." At the time when that was written—on December sixth—in the very few months since the digging was commenced, there had been shipped from Australia, gold to the value of three hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven pounds; and since that time the yield of gold has been increasing. At the same time, California continues unexhausted, and the field of gold in Russia has enlarged.—Dickens's Household Words. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 22. (Sittings in Banco,) THE QUEEN v. SILL. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS applied on the part of the de fendant fora certiorari to remove the indictment in this case into this court. This was an indictment aga i nst t h e defendant for compounding a misdemeanour, which mis demeanour was the charge made by the present de+end ant againit certain persons for cheating at cards at Brighton. The applicant stated that th ere was no ground for the present indictment, which had on l y , as h e believed, been preferred in order to prevent the other indictment from coming on. He alleged that an appli cation had been made to the magistrate at Marlborough street for a warrant, but had been refused; that an ap plication for a summons had also been made, and refused; and that then this bill had been preferred at the Central Criminal Court; that on the 7th of May the order for the certiorari was obtained; and on the 11th the bail on the certiorari perfected; but that on the 10th, when the parties were perfectly aware of the certiorari and the proceedings thereon, he had been unlawfully conveyed from the Queen't! Prison to Newgate. He alleged the proceedings against him to have been vexatious, and ho swore that he wished to have the benefit of a special jury, and to have Queen's counsel to conduct his defence. The COURT granted the rule. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. A special meeting of this company was held on Satur day, at the Euston-station, Euston-square, for the pur poseand appr ov i ng , or o th e r w ise, a Bill, Parliament, to enable the Chester and Holy head Company t o ex t en d th e i r ra il wa y to cow Birkenhead, Railwayf boe fcorensid a e n r id 3:g to amend the Acts relating to the com pany ; end also for the purpose of considering and ap proving, for the working of Junctionp ther o v i railways n g , or Railway o otherwise,f the Company o a m p nn n a yg Birkenhead, b y Lancashire, and Cheshire the London and North. Western Company; Mr. G. C. Glyn, M.P., in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, it was agreed to postpone the consideration of the Bill until June 2. The CHAIRMAN said the most important business of the day was the consideration of the agreement with the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction Company. The object of the agreement was to obviate the necessity of constructing the proposed new line from Chester to Birkenhead, and upon its being confirmed by the proprietors of both companies they would be in a position to withdraw the Bill. The directors had no wish to call on the proprietors of this company to . subscribe more money for new lines. He thought, under the circumstances, that it was better for all parties to make good working agreements than to resort to the expedient of constructing competing lines, involv ing considerable expenditure of capital. An Hon. Proprietor, who was not then present, had found fault with the board of directors for the policy they had pur sued with regard to the Birkenhead line. He (the Chair man) had not the record then before him of negotiations between the two companies respecting the Birkenhead traffic, but he could state that in 1845 attempts to make arrangements for amalgamation with the Chester and Holyhead had been made, and that down to the 11th of September last there had not_been one half-year during that period in which some attempt at negotiation with the Birkenhead existingC om pa n j ' had not been made. On the 11 th o f September last these n ego ti a ti ons cease d. There was an agreement and the Cheshire Junction Company, with which they had nothing to do. The Cheshire Junction directors had between - the Shrewsbury and Che ster explained this at the time they entered into the present arrangements with the company, which were now finally settled. The terms were mutually advantageous to both companies. He held that no agreement would be binding unless it were mutually advantageous to the contracting parties. The London and North-Western Company secured to the Birkenhead Company the most economical working of their line. It was a fair ar rangement between the two companies, They were i aware that it h ad been contended that the London and North-Western Company ought to con fine themselves to ,` Liverpool, an d not go to Birken h ea d. Th© company had furnish e d Liver I with the best accommo d ation hadfor their t ra ffi c they had given them g oods stations of the most co mp l ete description; b u t having done that, the company was no more obliged to stop at Liv er p ool th an ge at any oth er place. The trade of Liverpool was not to Liverpool was ex i be fost ere d b y a railway compan y ' tending so much in almost every di rection that it would at no di s t ant day swallow up Bi r kenhead, the exten sion of trade at that port woul d find its vent at the oth er side of the Merse y, and under these cir cumstances he would ask why were they not to cul tivate th© traffi c o f Bi rkenhead as w ell as that of Liverpool? The traffic was i ncreas i ng t o such an extent at Liver pool that they could not accommo date it. The y must call upon Bi r k enhea d f or assistance. The company must also l oo k to the i r conn exion with Manchester, and the imp ortance of provid i ng the requisite facilities f or trade b etween that place an d Bi r kenhead. The L on d on and North-W estern C om pany have more power t o de velop the trade of Birkenhead than any other party. Ho w holly denied that they were bound to go no further than Liverpool. They had the opportunity of sending a large traffic from the Chester and Holyhead line on to the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction line, and to make the latter profitable by working it on the same advan tageous terms as the London and North-Western Com pany Mr. STEWART, worked their traffic. It would prove a beneficial arrangement in every respect. They were at the same time perfectly aware that in consequence of a vicious system of legislation, other parties had powers granted them to run over the Birkenhead line, but ho had no kenhead Company conse quences by judicious arrangements —(Cheers.) of Y would be enabled to avoid serious the agreement, which specified that the London and North - Western Company for a term of 99 years are to work the lines of the Birkenhead Company; the former the secretary, then read the heads Co mpany to run as many trains as the traffic of the !Ur fewer than are at present) at fares and rates to be fixed by the Birkenhead Company, it being understood that for through traffic the fares and rates , shall be the same as those charged by the London and North - Western plant, and Company shall from time to time require (not to and from the same places; the stun to be allowed the London and North-Western Company for working expenses (including passenger duty, ruaiuto nance and depreciation of way, works, and gellet 41 charges) to be finch ProPortioll ef the gros re., assembly, especially when a great portion of it consisted of Members who called themselves Liberals. A more inquisitorial, unchristion-like, and dangerous measnre, instead of doing any good, it would lay a trap for inno cent men, and encourage perjury. The Hon. and Gal lant Member moved that the Bill be read a third time this day six months. Mr. GEORGE HUDSON said he should vote against the third reading, believing that the Bill proposed to deal with the constituencies of England in a most unfair manner. He was quite satisfied it was not to the advantage of the country to pass such a measure, and he hoped, when it reached the House of Lords, it would be kicked out. He could not conceive a greater insult to the constituencies of England than the present Bill, because it assumed that most boroughs were corrupt. Did corruption exist to such au extent as to reqaire such a wholesale and sweeping remedy? He believed not, and he therefore hoped the House would not pass the Bill. Mr. SIDNEY saw no reason whatever why the con stituencies of the country should be subject to the injustice which was to be established by the Bill. The effect of the measure would be to encourage a set of persons who bad neither money nor character to lose to come before the Committee for the purpose of giving evidence against the purity of bo•• roughs. He was no advocate of corruption, but he should oppose all Bills of this kind which were founded on such an unnecessary assumption as to the existence of evils, evils, and which gave powers far exceeding any that had ever been granted under similar circumstances. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the third reading ... 281 Against it ... Majority [LEFT SITTING.] •.• ..------275 TA TTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING Six o'cLocx. DERBY. 3 to 1 eget Hobbie Noble 5 to 1 agst Little Harry 10 to 1 agst Alcoran 10 to 1 agst Harbinger 12 to 1 apt Claverhouse 17 to 1 agst Alfred the Great 18 to 1 agst Kingston 25 to 1 agst Stockwell 25 to 1 agst Womersley 30 to 1 agst King of Trumps 00 to 1 net A ogur 30 to 1 agst Orelio 30 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke 50 to 1 agst Nabob NATIONAL EXHIBITION, CORK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Dublin Committee Rooms, Museum of Irish In dustry, 51, Stephen's-green East, May 21, 1852. SIR,—NViII you favour me by publishing the enclosed letter, which, I think, cannot fail to give additional con fidence in the public mind to our National Exhibition? I am glad to be enabled to announce the followi n g additional subscriptions:— Sir Joseph Paxton „. ... £5 0 0 Royal Hibernian Mining Company, per Henry Gibson, Esq., Managing Director, London .20 0 0 Jobn Sampson, Esq , Cutton Waste Manufac turer, Stockport ... ••• 5 0 0 T. W. Kinder, E., q.,Contractor for Locomotive Service, Midland Great Western Railway... 5 0 0 I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN C. DEANE, Hon. Sec. " Bank of Ireland, 20th May, 1852. " Sir,—l am desired by the governors and directors to inform you, for the information of the deputation from the Cork Exhibition that attended at the Bank this day, that the Cork agent will be directed, by this night's post, to pay to the executive committee at Cork the sum of 50/., as this Bank's subscription to the National Exhibi• tion of the Arts, &e., to be held in Cork. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " Wm. GRAVES, Secretary. " John D. Atkin, Esq., 5, Merrion-square East." THEATRICAL STATISTICS. An immense volume of statistics, collected by order re the Chamber of Commerce by a special commission, under the superintendence of M. Horace Say, with a view to ascertain the state of trade and manufactures in the metropolis, furnishes—though it seems a strange place to look for such information—some curious details respecting the state of theatricals, past and present, in France. The gentleman charged with this part of the inquiry, M. N. Rondot, has not, like his colleagues, con• fined his researches to Paris, but extended them to the whole of the country. The number of theatres in the 86 departments is set down at 361; 36 out of that num ber belonging to the small department of the Seine. The provincial boards do not appear well supplied with performers, 40 itinerant companies doing duty far no less than 280 theatres, 45 only being provided with stationary troupes. Three departments have no theatrewhatever, all three being situated in the south—Lozere, Basses-Alpes, and Ardeche. M. Rondot concludes his general statistics by stating that the number of actors and actresses in France is variously estimated at from 3,000 to 8,000. We aro then shown the proaressive in crease of theatres in Paris. Under Loilis XIII. there was only one theatre in the capital ; under Louis XIV. they increased to five; there were six udder Louis XV., and under his ill-fated successor ten theatres were in full play. In 1791, all monopolies having been abolished, 51 theatres sprung up all at once; but, by the year 1807, we find them decreased to 34. At this period privileges were re-established, and in the following year only nine were in existence. Paris enjoyed ten theatres from 1810 to 1814, eleven from 1814 to 1819, fourteen from 1819 to 1830, sixteen in 1831, twenty-one in 1832, twenty-three in 1846, twenty-five in 1849, and twenty-three in 1851. These twenty-three theatres contain about 34,000 places, and the average number of spectators every night is calculated at 20,000. Besides theatres, there are 145 places of amusement open in the capital and its vicinity, principally during the summer season—public balls, such as Mabille's, CaPeconcerts,.Guinguette's, &c.; these establishments are frequented by, it is estimated 24,000 persons per diem, thus carrying the number of pleasure seekers in Paris to 44,000 daily. Not the least inter esting part of these statistics is that which refers to the receipts of the metropolitan theatres, which have under gone many variations, as may be seen from the following account. From 1807 to 1811 their average was nearly five millions of francs; from 1822 to 1826, nearly seven millions; from 1837 to 1841, they averaged more than nine millions; from 1842 to 1846, more than ten; and in 1847 they rose to eleven millions. Here M. Rondot discontinues his own figures, and quotes the Government returns which stand thus; -1848, 6,747,408 e.; 1849, 7,775,5701.; 1850, 9,959,785 f.; 1851, 10,460,000 f. M. Rondot concludes his return by a statement of the number of the personnel employed in the Paris theatres, from which it appears, commencing at the lower end of the scale, that there are upwards of 400 box keepers, male and females, and 750 employes, clerks, &c., in the administrations, whose aggregate sa laries amount to 740,000 f. The dress-makers, carpen ters, scene-shifters, &c., are more than 600 strong, and their average salaries amount to 500,0001. The number of musicians in the various orchestras is 630, and their aggregate income is 600,8501. We now come to the performers, of whom, according to M. Rondot, there are 1,152 men, and 891 fe males. Of these 793 are artistes, and the remainder choristers and figurants. The emoluments of this nume rous personnel average per annum 3,534,990 f. At the time the statement was drawn up (1851) the highest salaries were 4,500 t., and the lowest 251. per month '. — a startling difference. Formerly, in 1743, for instance, the first singer at the Grand Opera only received 1,500 f. per annum ; in 1783, Mme. Saint Huberti's salary was only 4,0001. a year; and the celebrated danseuse, Madlle. Guimard, only received 4,330 f. How different at pre sent! when, at the same theatre, artistes, scarcely of first-rate excellence, receive as much as 80,0001. a year! 7 -nearly doubl e the remunerat i on of the first magistrate in France, the President of the High Court of Cessation! Among the reforms now in progress, both in England and France, is there no Mr. Hume to put a stop to this tax on the good-natured folly of the too easy public?— Galignani's Messenger. DISCOVERY OF JUPITER'S SATELLITES (From Grant's History of Physical Astronomy.) • When Galileo first turned his telescope to the planets, he was delighted to perceive that they exhibited a round appearance, like the sun or moon. Jupiter presented a disc of considerable magnitude, but in no other respect was he distinguishable from the rest of the superior planets. Having, however, examined him with a new telescope of superior power, on the 7th of January, 1610, his attention was soon drawn to three small but very bright stars that appeared in his vicinity, two on the east side, and one on the west side of him. He imagined them to be three fixed s tars, and still there was something in their appearance which excited his admiration. They were all disposed in a right line parallel to the plane of the ecliptic, and were brighter than other stars of the same magnitude. This did not, however, induce him to alter his opinion that they were fixed stars, and therefore he paid no attention to their distances from each other, or from by mere accident to examine Jupitert the planet. ag ain il o a n "in t e h n eB g th of January, he was surprised to find that the stars were now arranged quite dif ferently from what they were when he first saw them. They were all now on the west side of the planet, and were nearer to each other than they had been on the previous evening; they were also disposed at cqual distances from each other. The strange fact of the mutual approach of the stars did not yet strike his attention, but it excited his astonishment that Jupiter should bo seen to the east of them all, when only the pm ceding night ho had been seen to the west of two of them. He was induced on this account to suspect that the mo tion of the planet might bo directly contrary to the calculations of astronomers, and that he ha d get in ad vance of the stars by means of his proper motion. He therefore waited for the following night with great anxiety, but his hopes were disappointed, for the hea vens were on all sides enveloped in clouds. On the 10th he saw only two stars, and they were both . on the east side of Jupiter. Ho suspected that the third might be concealed behind the disc of the planet. They appeared as before in the same right line with him, and lay in the direction of the zodiac. Unable to account for such changes by the motion of the planet, and being at the same time fully assured that he always observed the same . stars, his doubts now resolved themselves i nto ad. =ration, and he found that the apparent motions should be referred to the stars themselves, and not to the planet. para mount therefore deemed it an object of pare ount importance to watch them with increased atten tion. On the 11th ho again saw only two stars, and they were also both on the east side of Jupiter. The more eastern one appeared nearly trficQ to Jorge 04 the ceipts as similar expenses of the whole railways of the London and North-Western Company bore to the gross receipts on such railways the preceding half-year, a proportionate allowance to be made to the London and North-Western Company on account of the traffic carried over the lines of the Birkenhead Company by other parties; the property and plant of the Birkenhead Company to be valued and restored at the termination of the agreement of the same working value; the line bwween Chester and Birkenhead to be put into an efficient state of repair by the Birkenhead Company ; nothing in the proposed agreement to affect or prejudice the powers, rights, and privileges of the Shrewsbury and Chester Company con tained in that company's Act passed in 1851. The agreement contains the usual provisions for referring differences to arbitration. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a resolution approv ing of the agreement was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN, in tuovinm the adjournment of the meeting to the 2d of June, said they would perceive by the papers that an application had been made—he could not say by their opponents—for an injunction to the Court of Chancery to restrain th-.: Birkenhead Company from completing the arrangement with this company; and although an injunctio❑ should be granted, they were not to suppose that the matter was at an end, as it was only one of the preliminary steps; and as to the result of the proceedings in Chancery the directors entertained no fears whatever. The motion was curled, and the proceedings con cluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNCTION. The adjourned special meeting of this company was held on Friday at Birkenhead, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Bill now beore Parliament for amending the provisions of the several Acts relating to the company, &c., and for approving, or otherwise, of an agreement for working the railways of this com pany by the London and North-Western Railway Company. Mr. Bancroft in the chair. The CHAIRMAN detailed the proceedings anterior to the last sp , vial meeting, which had resulted in the with drawal of this company altogether from the alliance with the Great Western Railway Company. Since then the directors had entered into negotiations with the London and North-Western, which resulted in an agreement : under it the Birkenhead Company was secured the whole traffic passing along any railway from Shrews bury and the north-west, inclusive of the Holyhead system of railway from Birkenhead and the whole traffic from Chester and Manchester. The SECRETARY read the agreement, which was for a term of 99 years, the London and North-Western Company to work and manage the traffic over the lines of the Birkenhead Railway Company, handing over to the Birkenhead Company the whole of the receipts from their own line, less the amount of the cost of traffic. The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the agreement, A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Harper, Mr. Gibb, Mr. Saunders (of the Great Western Company), Mr. R. King, and Mr. Cotteral took part. The CHAIRMAN moved the adjournment of the meet ing to the 29th inst. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION. A special meeting of this company was held at Bir mingham on Saturday, for the purpose of considering a Bill now depending in Parliament to confer on the Great Western Railway Company enlarged and additional powers for the construction of parts of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and the com pletion of -other parts thereof; for the purchase of lands on the lines of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton lines, respectively; and for the alteration of the works of the last mentioned railway and the formation of additional stations and branch lines of railway; and also for the lay ing down of the broad g auge on the South Staffordshire Railway, and for other purposes. Mr. Barlow, one of the directors of the Great Western Company, presided. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the Bill was unani mously approved. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY. A special meeting of this company was held at Bir mingham on Saturday to consider a Bill to confer upon the Great Western Company additional powers for the construction of parts of the Oxford, Worcester, nod Wolverhampton Railway, and the completion of other parts thereof; and for the purchase of lands on the lines of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birming ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railways respectively; and for the formation of certain additional stations and branch lines of railway, and also for laying down of the broad gauge on part of the South Staffordshire railway. Mr. Barlow presided. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the Bill was unani mously approved. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. On Saturday an extraordinary general meeting of this company was held at Derby, for considering a Bill now pending in Parliament for enabling the company to lease their undertaking to the London and North-Western and the Midland Railway Companies. The CHAIRMAN (the Hon. G. H. Cavendish, M.P.) stated that it was a permissive Bill, and that if passed into an Act it would be of great benefit to the pro prietors. He moved a resolution approving of the Bill, which was seconded by Mr. H. TooTAL, and carried. The meeting was then made special, and a resolution, authorising the directors to borrow any sum of money not exceeding 110,0001., for the purpose of completing the purchase of the Croinford Canal, was carried. NAVAL IN TELLMENCE. PORTSMOU TIT, SUNDAY.—Rear -Admiral A. L. Corry hoisted his flag (blue at the mizm) on board the Prince Regent, 90, at this port, yesterday at 3 15 P.N., as Com mander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron, vice Commo dore Martin. The Prince Regent on the occasion saluted the Commander-in-Chief with 17 guns, which the Vic• tory returned with 11. At sunset Admiral Corry's flag floangboard to Rear- Admiral morning. was struck, and be w ent on leave. commission Captain Hutton (as we antici p ated on Tuesda y ) has A been d in ir a l c appointedorey,to andthe r eread Prince his Regent, Lieutenant Hope (1848) is appointed Flag-Lieutenant, and Mr. Richards (late secretary to Admiral Sir William Parker) secretary to Rear-Admiral Corry, The Queen, 116, Captain Wise, will go to Spithead to-morrow, and sail in a day or two after for Plymouth, where her crew will be paid down and given leave. The Winchester, 50, Captain Lock, 0.8., embarked detachments of regiments (the 2d and the 6th companies of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, the 12th Lancers, and 45th Regiment) yesterday morning, and sailed at five o'clock last evening for India, calling at Plymouth for letter bags, and the Cape of Good Hope to land her troops. The Edinburgh , 58, steam g un nery ship, Captain Hewlett (acting), will be taken out of the steam basin on Monday, and proceed out of harbour to try her en gines. The Rolla, 6, apprentices' instructi on brig, Lieutenant Fonwick, com mandin g , was ordered o ut of Barbour on S a t ur day, to anchor off Os b orne , and fire a Royalsalute, with yards ma nned and shi p dres sed on Monday, in honour of the Queen's birthday. The Highflyer, 21, Captain Matson, was taken the shears on Saturday to have a new bowsprit. The P or cupine steam-vessel, Lieutenant Jackson, has hauled off to her hulk to receive her crew, and is ready for sea. The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George ma ster, R.N., commanding, left on Allen, acti ng Saturday evening for Devonport with supernumeraries, The sentence of the Court-Mart' Lieutenant Edward Hamilton Finn Court-Martial ordered to try quartered in this garrison, whi c h le a' of the Ist Royals,. ult., and has continued by adjournment- place on the 29th may, has just been promulgated,_ to the sth of conduct to the prejudice of The trial was " for good order and military dis cipline in the following instances:--- " 1. In having on the night or early on the following morning at Winchester, un lawfully attempted to place dun er rrest Captain Charles Curtis, he, the said Captain Curtis, being at the time the superior officer of the said Lieutenant Finney in the same battalion. "2. In having unlawfully palled upon and ordered the regimental guard to aid and obey him, the said Lieu tenant Finney, in carrying into execution the unlawful attempt aforesaid. "3. In having, on or about the time aforesaid, com manded the sergeant of the guard to place the corporal and file of men, to whom the said Lieutenant Finney had given the unlawful order aforesaid, in confinement, for disobedience to the order which he, the said Lieutenant Finney, had so unlawfully given." The Court found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to bo dismissed from her Majesty's service, bat strongly recommended him to the merciful and gracious consideration of the Queen, who was pleased to confirm the finding and sentence of the Court; but, in considera tion of the strong recommendation in favour of the pri soner, her Majesty has been graciously pleased to allow Lieutenant Finney to receive the value of his commission. The splendid band of the Royal Marines of the Ports. mouth division is commanded to be in attendance at Os borne to-morrow (Monday) morning at sunrise, to sere nade her Majesty on her birthday. PLYMOUTH, SATunDAY.—Her Majesty's surveying. vessel Herald, 26, Captain H. M. Denham, arrived this afternoon, last from Marga te Roads. Her Majesty's screw steam-blockship Sanspareil, 81, in charge of Mr. Biddlecombe and a party of seamen riggers, having been towed out of harbour yesterday at G A.M., by the steam-vessels Pike andeonfianc, weet i n to the Channel to try her engines, under the superin tendence of Captain W. Ramsey, of the magiel • i n c ompany with the steam-sloop Desperate, Lieutenant end e S tev ens. The Sanspareil returned at 7 inlheevening, and went up Hamoaza; her average speed und er steam was 7 4 1 knots, the engine s working- well or dered to take on bo ar d a ll h er guns and 8 stores,heis now when her engines will be again tried. The Rodney, 90, Captain Graham, lying in the Sound, is expected to sail in a day or two to relieve the Ajax, at Queenstown. The steam-sloop Buzzard went to her sailing moor ings on Thursday, and the Brisk steam-sloop, in charge of Mr. Brown, second-master attendant, arrived from Scotland yesterday, and went up harbour to join the steam reserve. The brig Philomel, 8, Commander Forbes, arrived from Portsmouth on Thursday, and, after inspection, went up harbour to be dismantled; she will be paid off alongside the jetty on Wednesday. The ship Calcutta, 84, was taken into dock on Wed nesday to be examined, have her copper cleaned, and defects made good. The brig Ferret, 8, is ordered to he coamiosionvd 1852. this port shortly for Commander Henry Phelps, and is to have a complement of 80 officers end men. Letters were received here on Wednesday from her Majesty's' ship Resolute, 2, Captain IL Kellett, dated at sea, April 30; officers and crew all well. CHATHAM, MAY 2l.—Meand,T, 44, was this day taken into clock to have her defects made good and to be fitted for service. She is intended to relieve the Castor, at the Cape of Good Hope. Royal George, 120, in dock, is ordered to be fitted as an advanced ship for Sheerness. Hercules, store-ship, has arrived from Greenhithe, and is dismantling iu order to be laid up in ordiniry at this port. James Sparshott, caulker, is superannuated on a pen sion of 201. per annum. LAUNCH OF THE AGAMEMNON. 1 WOOLWICH, MAY 22.--This fine screw steam ship, of 90 guns and 600-horse power, having been announced as ready to be launched shortly before high water here ; this day, carriages began to arr i ve as early as 12 u'cleck. The 11 o'clock trAin of the North Kent Rsilway brought down a considerable number of visitors, the steam-boats to Woolwich wero well filled, an d soon after great numbers of persons arrived by th e N orth Woolwich Railway and took up their position on t h e Essex side of the Thames, opposite the dockyard, where they would have an exe:llent view of the vessel as she entered the water. The crowds who rushed to the London-bridge terminus of the North Kent Railway after 12 o'clock rendered it necessary to put oil . long special tra i ns at and it i s gratifyin g t o state very short intervals; that although the number of passengers. w as f ar beyond what might have been antur plied, not t h e slightest accident occurred at the railways nor in any other quarter to mar the general satisfaction of the been spectators, of whom there could not have less than from 90,000 to 100,000 present. There were upwards of 1,000 persons on board the Agamemnon when launched, including the band of the Royal Dockyard Battalion, the pensioners who had served in the old Aga memnon, and more than 500 admitted by cards, besides the riggers and others under Mr. M`Donald, Master - Attendant, who had the charge of bringing the vessel to her moorings when afloat. At half past 2 the Dake of Northumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty, with the Duchess of Northum berland, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Grosvenor, Lord Ellesmere, and a number of the nobility arrived. Mr. Augustus Stafford, Secretary at the Admiralty; Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, Second- Secretary; and Captain Pelham, Private Secretary to the First Lord, left the residence of Commodore Henry Eden, with Mrs. Eden, and proceeded to the bow of the Agamemnon, where a bottle of wine was uncorked, and Mrs. Eden drank success to the Agamemnon. The bottle with the remainder of the wine was then suspended and broken on the bow of the vessel in the usual manner by Mrs. Eden, who named her the Agamemnon. The shipwrights, under Mr. Lang's dire c t ion , i mme di ate l y a f ter commence d driving out the blocks f rom un d er t h e vesse l , an d at 7 minutes past 3 o'clock the Agamemnon began to move slowly, and as she progressed gradually quickened her pace, and entered her future element amidst the cheers of the assembled thousands in the dockyard, on the river, and on the opposite bank of the Thames, the band of the Royal Marines on the platform and the band of the Dockyard battalion on board playing " Rule Bri , tannin" and " God save the Queen." The Agamemnon was built very rapidly, her keel having only been laid down in December, 1849. Her engines, of 600-horse power, are to be fitted by John Penn and Son, on their patent trunk-engine principle, and are of the same description, but double the number of horse power, as those fitted by the same firm in her Majesty's steam-frigates Arrogant and Encounter. Al i though the order f or th e mac hi nery o f the Agamemnon was given only in September last, the works are already sufficiently forward to begin to fix them on board, and a boiler will be alongside by the time the ship is taken into the basin. The whole of the machinery and boilers will be considerably under the water-line, the depth in the engine -room being 24 feet 6 inches. COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN HAWKEY. WOOLWICH, MAY 22.—The court-martial held on Captain Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, having coneuded its sittings, and the finding and sentence of the court having been confirmed by the Lords of the Admiralty, we are now permitted to promulgate them. The following is the charge on which Captain Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey was tried by a court-mar tial, of which Colonel George Batt Bury, Royal Ma rines, was president : " For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, on the 26th day of April, 1852, in the public road between Woolwich and Charl ton, in the county of Kent, violently assaulted and struck First Lieutenant Henry Thomas Swain, of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, such conduct being in breach of the Articles of War." The evidence for the prosecution occupied the court one day, and for the defence two days, and extended to a great length, and is of such a nature that it would not be justice to either party to give an abstract only of it. The following is the finding and sentence of the court:— " FINDING, " The Court having maturely weighed and consi dered the evidence in support of the prosecution, toge ther with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, and the evidence in support of it; taking also into con sideration the great and long continued provocation he has received, and the very peculiar nature of that pro vccation; is of opinion that he, the prisoner, Captain Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, is guilty of having violently assaulted First Lieutenant Swain, of the Woolwich divi sion of Royal Marines at the, time, and place stated in the charge, but that he is not guilty of conduct unbe coming the character of an officer and a gentleman, and the Court therefore most fully and honourably ac quit him of that part of the charge." " SENTENCE. " The Court having found the prisoner Guilty of part of the charge preferred against him, which bei ng in breach of th e A rt i c l es of War, and taking into con sideration the very high character given of the prisoner, do now sentence him, the prisoner, Captain Henry Charles Moor e h ea d H awkey, of the `oolwich division, to be reprimanded. " Royal Marine Barracks, Woolwich, May 17, 1852." GAROTTE MURDER AND ROBBERY. HULL, MAY 22.—This morning, at an eery hour, great excitement was created in the town by the report that a young man, well known among the commercial firms here as engaged in the house of Thomas and Co., merchants, as a clerk in the cashier's department, had been robbed and murdered last night. The report turned out, unhappily, to be true. It appears that a po liceman on going his rounds at 3 this morning in Pros pect-place, a cul-de-sac street with houses on one side only, built in the eastern suburbs of the town, discovered at daybreak the body of a yong man lying on the edge of a ditch which separates the road in front of these houses from a piece of waste land which they overlook. lle at once communicated with the sergeant on duty, and they aroused the nearest surgeon, Mr. Boultrr, of Dry pool, who, with a feeling that does him infinite credit, assisted to convey the body to his own house, when it was in a short time identified as that of Mr. F. W. Maplethorpe, residing with his father, a retired trades man, in the abovenamed street; marks of a scuffia on the pavement and the dragging of a body across the road were perceivable, showing that the poor youth had been attacked within a few feet of his own threshold. The external appearances of the body indicated that death had been occasioned by suffocation, no marks of violence bein g ob serve d, b u t some scratches as of human nails upon each cheek. A gold his watch, which the deceased carried, had been tornoabout from waistcoat pocket, and his money, to the amount I W., had also been taken from his per th so e chef n' constable of Immediately after the discovery, Mr. M'Manus , of police, was on the alert, andof Johnatelevsenneop'eoloacnkdtoiodhany two men, giving the names • Smith, who had been apprbeahrenof the policelodging house,dedinalo.weourtona were placed at the robbery.and remanded chargetill ITo of Tuesday murder and highway sd ayoext.A o inquest was held on the body this day, and adjourned till to hhearteowboeefnora2Wednesdayliw Hull, nl lt, t o n showe x t . T th h a e t e t v h ie had, imm e di ate l y e f p de ri n s c o e ne o r n s, b b o a lh ag th s e tr s a e n i g n e q r u s iri t e n s com mitted, taken a ea after the murder b t w ro a ro s the sup c p e o n s t e r d e o t drive on the Beverley road, and there dismissed the cab man; that the prisoner Snape had some scratches and bruises on his hands and arms, and that his clothing was torn and muddy, the earth on them bearing a re semblance to that which formed the bank of the ditch where the corpse was found. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAY 22. STOCK EXCHANGL—The share market was very inactive to-day, and without deviation in the few transactions that were effected. LIVERPOOL, Dar 22. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market opened heavily this morning, but afterwards improved, and a fair amount of business was done at firm prices. The transactions were as folio w : — Aberdeen, 13—Eastern Counties, 874 East Fifths,Lancashire, 163 4—Lancashire and Y or kshi r e, 6 ' dis.—Lancaster an d C ar li s l e , Thi r ds. 9% P.-- London an d N orth-Western, 122 'x i — Ne h w e f.f eQuarters,ld, and, Ditto, 71 Y s —Ditto, Li ncolnshire, 33—Midland, 68 l/2—Ditto, New Preference, i , 5. ,.. ii 5 % p.—Ditt o , Fif t h s, 3 743 11 -- Manchester, s per cent., pa r —N or th B r iti s h, 7_j— North Staffordshire, d, 7 i MANGHESTit, MAY 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6 die. —London and North-Western, 123—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 33—Midland, 68—South-Eastern and Dover, 20 . BIRMINGHAM, MAY 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing done in the sharo market to-clay. The only sale reported was-- London and North-Western, 12J. ed that the --- markets e uninteresting.accounts from t l la n e r continental t i i t n h e a n s t al been moneyststated reimbursement of about 1,200,0001.. demanded by the Empe conitilnue ) • on account of the Five per Cents. held b ror of Russia 3' him h h as already been effected. At Hambur g money has again become rather mere in demand, and the rate of discount is 4 per cent. F rom St. Petersburgh it is mentio ne d t h at milder weather had set in, and that the opening of the navigation n be expec'ed. Several might so o shipments of gold t o Eng land will then take place. r ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE EARL OF ALDBOROUGIit AND lloLLowst'S Pmts.—AM astounding c med i c i n e, after every other means had „ c ure by this miraculoill failed. Lordship's letter, dated " Villa 2tes • See extract irom 11.11 Professor Ilolloway—Sir : I beg to ac si, i - ia, Leghorn, Feb 21, 184% fected a cure of a disorder in my liverqua utyouthatyour pills have ef. eminent 01 the faculty, at home and and stomach which all the most been able to effect; nay, not all over the continent, had not rienbad. (Signed) „ ALDBoR even the waters of Carlsbad or Ma cure any dieease of the liver °u"." These wonderful pills wil or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway' Ointment) at Professor liollowa by au ~,, . y's Establishment, 244, St rand , 6 , i m a iw n",‘V .TT. l _44 re Yar9144914 We civaiiig "mg, THE COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERFOOL, MAY 22.—Not much passing in the trade to Indian corn a shade dearer. MA NCHISTER, MAY 22.—A rather firmer feeling has pre vailed in the flour ti ade during the week, choice fresh-made parcels, particularly of household quality, having moved off steadily on arrival at full, and in some instances for favourable marks, at slightly enhanced rates. In other articles no mate rial variation has occurred. With the exception of tolerably fair quantities of oats and oatmeal from Ireland, the arrivals thence and coastwise are extremely light ; and from abroad the supplies are on a much less extensive sca'e than for some weeks past. At our market this morning wheat fully sup ported the currency of this day se'nnight, whilst flour was generally held for a little more money. Oats, except of the finest quality, were the turn cheaper;, but oatmeal was firm at late rates. NOTTINGHAM, MAY 23. —At our Market to-day we had s better supply of wheat, and the prices of last week were im proved upon, in some instances an advance of is per quarter. being given. Grinding barley was rather dearer. Oats and beans maintained their value.. The average prices of grant and flour in Nottingham are as follow:—wheat, old white, 455 , to 48s per 36 stone new ditto, 42s and 48s; old red, 3'15 to 425. Barley, for malting, 28s to 31s; for grinding, 27s to 2 8 * Oats, 20s to 235. Beans, old, 34s to 36s per 33 stone; neW ditto, 31s to 345; Egyptian, 30s to 3:s. Flour, super, 30s t ° 35s per 20 stone; fine, 29s to 293. At Woodbridge the supply was not large, and some businesS was done for shipping at fully late rates; for good fresh l y . thrashed samples is more money was given. At Stowmarket wheat was about the same as last week* There was scarcely a sample of spring corn in the market. „ On Thursday, at Bishop's Stortford, wheat was 6d to " dearer ; spring corn was firm in price. filif WORCESTER, MAY 22.—The market is steady, and a 0 amount of Lusiness was transacted to-day. English i'! 1 ! 0 wheat ranges from 15s 6d to le s 6d per bag, and red 1 4 s b a :. 153 6d. Malting barley 3s 6d per bus hel, and distilling qua a ' s ties 3s to 3s 4d. English beans 4s 2d to 4s 6d per bushel , se ," foreign 4. t o 4 s 4d, with a limited business. New English 00 3s to 3s 2d per 391 b. and old 3s 6d to 3s 9d, Irish, 2s 6cl to 3 9 ', White peas 3s 10d, and gray 3s 8d per bushel. Spring vetc hes 4s 6d to 4s 10t1 per bushel. At Stratford-on-Avon market on Frir'ay there was an aver' age amount of business transacted at our last quotations. of wh A ea t t, S , T h u i r e h h ri a d o g ide mfreaerlkyet at en fu Fllridy t h ay there rates o w f as l a fair s k u e p t el auesi. Bariey maint a i ne d last week's quotations. Beans astm a w r ere . held firmly at former rates. In peas and oats the bus u w",„ was exceedingly li m i te d , b ut there was no actual reduction it' price. At Wolverhampton market the supply of wheat front the farmers and dealer s was moderate, and market millers were_ and fine llitliifor is, purchase at form er rates ' the fine qualities of wheat some little 2.va ruled realized.rm • lish white fetched from 5s 4d to 5s 6 r e per 6 wa s 2 lit, and red 5s to 5s 3d. Good malting barley s t ea d y in pri ce , the run ":1 from 28s to 30s per quarter. N ew E nglish beans euiteAl dear, say 12s 3d to Its 9d per 951 b, old a b out 13s to 131,—0f be There was a dull sale for oats, which wer e rat h er i n fave t ta buyers, English oats 22s to 23s per imp er i a l qua rter, '. 20s to 225. No black on sale. elo DALKEITH, MAY 20.—The relative wei g ht per four ba.-- vg of the three prices of wheat were 18st 121 b, IBst 71b, and l e, 21b. Oats, I2st 71b, 12st 41b, and Ilst 01b. Barley, 16st 5 . .„wi 15g 91b, and 14st 10Ib. Peas and beans, l9st 01b, 18st 41Y1 and 17st 121bs.` Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior' 219 Wheat ... Z 2 3 0 £ 2 0 0 £ 1 12 0 989 Oats 114 Barley 1 11 0 1 7 6 1 4 u 37 Peas and Beans 114 6 112 0 111 0 Average of wheat ........... 425 00. ABERDEEN, MAY 20.—Grain—Oats 17s 9d to 185 , 64 . 401bs per bushel ; barley, 25s 6el to 26s Od, 521bs per bu s ! e f bear, 26s Od to 27s Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat, red 35s to 3 I,; ditto, white 42s to 435, 621bs per bushel; oatmeal, 14s ud t.V.L per boll ; flour, 32s to 32s 6d per sack. Provisions- -0 74 4d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d; veal, ditte , , to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s 6d to 4s ; lamb, per lb., sdtees 5' ___., p ,i tallow, per stone, 33 Od to 3s 6cl; potatoes, Pc` 4d to 6d ; salmon, per lb, is 3d to Os Od; hares, to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d t ffr - -..., eggs, per doz, 6d to 7d ; cheese, per cwt, Os to Os Od ;,__ , s.j i pet pair, 2s 6d to 3s Od; chickens, ditto, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; doeni .)%1 be i; Is 6d to 2s Od; ducklings, ditto, Os to Os Od; turkeys, Per, r rilaiec to 7s Od; geese, ditto, 8s to 7s ; butter for exportation SP cure), per cwt, 52s to 00s; eggs, wholesale price, per dezelir* to Od ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b l oa f, 3d ; por k, per s t o ne of 1 1 .41 Os Od to Os Od; pork fine, sma ll, 5 s 6d to O s Od ; pork; —5,, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os ge o m 4l Meal—Oatmeal, Is 5d t o I s 6d; barley dust, 9 d , t° 9 peasemeal, Os Od to 2s Oct; side, Od to 7d ; beresnegivol to is sd; flour, Is 9d to Os Od ; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; flour, is 5d to Is 6d. ss ra alb DUBLIN, MAY 21.—We h ave aga i n to repor t a n ei- - e e t i o o dull market at o u r C orn E xc h ange to-day. Our ette4,,ess; represent scarcely more th an reta il transact i ons, an d the IC,', to tendency of the t ra d e was to l ow rates. Wheat, w hite, L'''' od 26s Od ; red ditto, 22s Od to 23s 6d ; barley, , 14 ',. s per• to 14s 6d ; be re , O s Od to O s Od ; oats, 10s Od to 11 5 8 a L' i; d seed, Os Od to O s Od ; oatmeal, Ils Od to 12s Od; w s e 9s e tii flour, per cwt, 12 s Od t o 15 s; I n di an corn , per 480 lbs-ft to 31s 6d. CORK, MAY 21. he re' The supply of home grain dwindles away daily. T to ceipts for the last six days are only :—Wheat 41 brls, at Sti 22s ; barley 136 brls at 12s 3d to 133; oats 636 brie, at i n t, to lls per brl. The quantity of native grain coming jo y market is so trifling as to make quotations altogether na i l a re The stocks of the primer descriptions of foreign wile s gl it narrowed to a small compass, and as holders on this lice,l op e are firm in their pretensions, but little business has been ~de in the article. In the other descriptions the sales being li t tle are only to a moderate extent at late prices. There lo ots ,. barley held in this market. We have not heard of any t ips. actions in oats, which are rather dull at our late 41 0 ° 4 0 0 The trade in prime flour is very languid, and the bil!..ipif passing is confined entirely to the supply of the more PT t he wants of bakers. Inferior descriptions also partake co re, dulness, and are less free of sale than of late. Ind_,la n o f the which at the close of last week and during the early part , feed present, manifested a tendency to decline, has partially t ier tb ° a firos tone, and with a fair consumptive demon' t te t he article, we believe our late quotations will pretty fairlY 5 ; 1, 11 10 position of the market. A sale of foreign flour, by W t.-- not been without its effect upon that branch of the trade. barrels. I.3terefrotio O White wheat 00s Od to 00 s Od 00s Od""'" - O Red wheat oos Od to 001 Od , en 4 lo 0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od} 00s oa- - "'"" O Ditto .oos Od to 00s Od 59 Barley 12s 10d to 00s Od} A n as O Ditto oos Odto 00. Od 00s Od O Ditto oos Od to 00s Od O Bere 00s Od to 001 Od Os Od 93 Oats lls 2d to 12s Od do 0 Ditto ... oos Od to 00s Od lls 84- 0 0 Ditto ... oos Od to Oos Od O Pigs 00s Od to 001 Od 001 od PIT °lt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:— 0 barrels w Q hite wheat ; 0 red ; 0 barley; 0 bere; 2 0410 i 0 Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last Wheat, 47. Barley, 410. Oats, 543. Pigs, 0. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. cuititlNCT• 641 First quality - ........ 62' Second quality Third quality Fourth quality . Fifth quality Sixth quality 32s Sixth quality ... ••• - ii: Return 249attle sold for week ending 1 W Pigs, . Sheep, 334. Cows' 44. 145 Od; Coax.—Flour—First /23 6d to 13s Od ; ° L ° , a d , 7 6 to9 o dtslooli tadt9Al:l,6 seconds, Ils Od to 1280 d ; households 108 to Ils tP,:4 ; w heat' per cwt. Oatmeal Ilsto 1 ls 6d; Indian meal 7s tid to 18 ' , tol. meal, 8s 6d to 980 d percwt. Indian corn 715 s to 7110 8 . 0 u P: eri gs Bran 8786 d to 905 per ton. Hay—Farmers 18s Od to 228;!_ ... . 0 .1 00s; dealers 294 to 40s Od; average 005 per ton. St: aw•--- r,, e ''o,l; 14s Od to 208 Od; average 00a ; dealers 25s Od to 30i p 1; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 61c1 t 0,,,, 0 household loaf bid to Od per 41b. Fresh butter, r, C 1 ° 0, ,„,, 10d er lb. Eggs-3a 4d to 3s 6d per hundred. i. 394 j s ; CO" e l ift : 381 r imperial gallon. M ail Newportl2s 6d p i et ' ° t d o n ; . Whisky, 25 o. P-. 56 9d per imperial • g • q to —Beef 41d to 7d ; mutton ac . i to 6id ; veal u ann a sausages 5d per lb i'''' • bacon bd to 7d , 7d ; pork 4d to Od , B Ly i d a n l e lo y w lss ;.. L o r to o , to Bark, red 71 to 8? 10s per ton. Fleece wool 14a to 151 per 0i'"„„; 8/ 8s to 910 s per cvt. Bangor slates 21 17s 6d to 3/ Os Pe -.13 , Hemp 291 to 341 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 195 to 00s; r ' et ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 1 11 „ a g 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per IG3. ' H i lee k l it s Market 18s to 255; salted 20s to 26s per owt ; a l ' 1,.. ft ton. Timber—Memel, 708 per ton; red pine, 31 51 • 9` . .„, - 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 10/ 101 to 111; Ichabool per ton. Tar —Archangel, 19s per barrel. 3/id to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 8d to 9d ; p ie d 1 THE CLOT --- IHN G MANUFACTURES. ids Londonprobab probably to sales. the e absence The opening ni of n a sale l FOREIGN W OOL , L EEDS, MAY 21.—There has been wia business d one i n t h e foreign wool market this week, °, last tbe place andevening, at w hi c h we learn the attendance of both bota_et +paorgfe the took buyers 2 foreign buyers w as very numerous. Prices are quo ted 3 advance of full 2(1 per to on last February rates. 0 2; f ENGLISH WOOL ;. no t , LEEDS, MAY 21.—There change of moment to report this week. Sales continue fo r supply of the i mme di ate wants of the manufacturers, and are firm at last week's rates. ins r ' THE WOOLLEN TRA DE or L EEDS .—W e h a d better Tv kets at the Cloth Halls both on Saturday and TuesdaY., wo ol firmness in the wool market, and the appr e hension that iro o may advance in price in consequ ence o f th e accounts Iv Australia, have to a small extent induced speculation . , an d stocks are by no means large in the m anu f ac tu re rs' hana . , e s ' in esa they still continue to act with th e greatest caut i on . Bu st has also been pretty brisk in the warehouses since this dal and a little more is doing in the shipping houses. , ha Virg BRADFORD WORSTED, MAY 20.—Th e spr i ng t rad e 0 6. closed, there is great depression in business ; but the cod dente in prices continues, which m a k es th em s tiffer, a, o so some cases higher. Those who are g o ing to the wn°l The hardly know how to decide with regard to their parchfn es' t ort most notable feature in the market is the advance upon c 0 for warps. We have heard of 4d more per lb being obtaine d them. Lustres, wools, nolls, and broker are most in doula To TAKE INK OUT OF LINEN. ..-. Take a pie- e be tallow, melt it, and clip the spotted p ar t o f t h e l i nen into t o melted tallow; the linen may then be washed, a nd the sP will disappear without injuring the linen. BIRTHS. OF A 80 N. t On the 21st inst., a t F riars-place, near Acton, the W if e Captain Curtis, 12th Royal Lancers. ' On the 20th i nst., i n Norfolk -street, Park-lane, the W ife Henry Chetwynd Stapylton, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 19th inst., at Corsoombe Rectory, the wife of the ßev. T. L o y s F erris. On the 19th at Elthain, the wife of H. Lewin, Etl:-- MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at St. Margaret's Church, Westru il l ster the Rev. Ch ar l es Edgar Turner, son of Francis Turner , Eeq of Lincoln's Inn, to Theophila, daughter of the late I,e ' . James lloste, of Litcbam, Norfolk. DIED On the 21st inst., at Linton-park, Kent, the Right 0 James Mann, Earl Cornwallis, aged 73. On the 18th inst., at Richmond-terrace, Queen's- 0 , - e Dalston, Mr. Godley Jackson, late of th e Alli an ce Marla Assurance Company, aged 68. On the 18th inst., at Kilfane Glee, Thomastown, IrelArld Amy, youngest daughter of the Venerable Crinus Archdeacon of Ossory, and wife of Captain Chanaberlailit late of the Buffs. On the 19th inst., at Eton College, the Rev. x , "" --. ra Haves Pickering. At Clewer, Captain Winterbottom, late of the Ist Life Guards, aged 59. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUIC-1 , 11 , No. 112, St:and, Print er , a t Th e S un Offi ce , No. og Strand, in the Precinct of the Savior, in the cousw ,. AlNsigYi /gay 24, 1554