The Sun. — London, England, 1835-07-29 00:00:00

' COURT CIRCULAR. Sir James Graham and a deputation had an interview yes terday with the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary of State for the Colo nies, at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday from his seat at Bowood, Wilts. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank transacted business yesterday at the Treasury. Mr. Spring Rice visited Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Lord Auckland and the Hon. Miss Eden had an assembly last evening at the Admiralty, which was very numerously attended. PRIVATE & JOINT STOCK BANKS. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account of the aggregate Amount of Notes circulated in England and Wales, by Private Banks and by Joint Stock Banks and their branches, distinguishing Private from Joint Banks, b e t ween t h e 28th of March and the 27th of June, 1835. —From Returns directed by the 3d and 4th Wil liam IV., c. 83 : Private Banks .£8,455,114 Joint Stock Banks 2,484,687 Stamps and Taxes, July 28. X 10,939,801 JOHN WOOD. PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, JULY 22. The Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal have appointed Robert Thurston Loynes, of Wells next the Sea, in the county of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the $i Court Court of Chancery. she Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal have l s° appointed Willi am Ai n s w orth, of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal have a l,s° appointed William Jefferies Beckinsale, of the city of New Qarum, in the county of Wilts, Gent., to be a Master Extraordi nary in the High Court of Chancery. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY :18, 1835. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Sir Robert Adair Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order °f he Bath, sometime his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and P lenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, to proceed on a special mi ss i on to t h e C ourt of hi s M a j esty t h e Ki ng o f Prussia. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby. Sir Richard Paul Jeddrell, to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 25. C ommissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northum- berland. Northumb er l an d an d N ew castle Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet J. aPrnan, to be Lieutenant, vice Johnson, resigned ; J. Cookson, `ient., to be Cornet, vice Chapman, promoted, July 16. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. ..CHARLES TAYLOR and JOHN HENRY RUSSELL, Wors, Ne w Bond-street. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. THOMAS JONES, collar-maker, Birmingham. SIMON JACOBS, merchant, Manchester. 'BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. GEORGE DOWNS, dealer, Tickhill, Yorkshire, from July 17 to Aug. 14. „,RENRY GOODE, wholesale grocer, Birmingham, from July 44, to Sept. 11. BANKRUPTS. ~,THOS. ROBINSON WILLIAMS, LEONARD STREATE ,"XE, and GEORGE CHAMBERS, manufacturers of silk "Alres, Lamb's-buildings, Bunhill-row, Middlesex, to surrender, •,,l'ufillat 6, at eleven, an September 8, at twelve, at the Court of •L'ankruptcy. Coe and Tippett's, Pancras-lane, Bucklersbury. I GEORGE THOMAS BROWN, sack-manufacturer, Mark tne, August 4, at one, and September 8, at twelve, at the Court "ookruptcy. Stafford, Buckingham-street, Strand ; Johnson, Official assignee, Basinghall-street. G EORGE TUNSTALL, hop-merchant, Worcester, August 15, and Se2tember 8, at twelve, at the Crown Inn, Worcester. Mi chae,rls„Red Lion-square ; Amos, Evesham. „1 - '"Q`' M AS ASH, druggist, Birmingham August 17, at two, ""t 8, at twelve, at New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Newton' South-square, Gray'slnn; Harrison, Birmingham. SAMUEL WINCHURS, brass-founder, Birmingham, August 1 7, at four, and September 8, at three, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmin gham. Ivimey, Chancery-lane ; Wright, Birmingham. WINCHCOMBE HENRY SAVILE HARTLEY, music-sel tehr, Upper Gloucester-pl a ce, Regent's-park, London, August 8, at ree, and September 1, at twelve, at the George Inn, Winchester. Lee, Winchester ; Sheppard, Lower Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor square. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. IV. E. Powell and J. Powell, linen-draper, Oxford-street, Aug. 18, at half-past two—J. Pycroft, jun., underwriter, Lloyd's Coffee house, Aug. 20, at twelve—G. Armstrong, founder, Fox's-lane, S hadwell, Aug. 20, at eleven—D. H. Rucker, J. A. Rucker, and 1 • J. Rucker, wool-merchants, Wormwood-street, Mincing-lane, Aug.'l 20, at half-past eleven—R. Parker, harness maker, Rupert street, Haymarket, Aug. 12, at twelve—J. Ashton, brandy mer chant, Tower-street, Aug. 20, at one—W. Marsh, J. H. Stracey, and G. E. Graham, bankers, Berners-street, Aug. 19, at eleven. In the Country. 1 . Straker and Co., ship-builders, Jarrow Lodge, Durham, Aug. 21, at one, at the Commissioners' Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— Morga9, jun., jeweller, Bristol, Aug. 19, at eleven, at the Com reercial Rooms, Bristol—J. P. Mortimore, cabinet maker, Devon rr ' ht, 12, at eleven, at Elliott's Hotel, Devonport—M. e;e-vWein::a.stoatzhemaker, Bristol, Aug. 24, at one, at the offices of Mr. , arils, Bristol—W. Pleace, victualler, Bristol, Aug. 26, at Commercial Rooms, Bristol—G. Hutchinson, J. Hutchinson, H. Hutchinson, and T. Place, bankers, Stockton -1,1,,P00-Tces, Durham, Aug. 21, at eleven, at the Black Lion Hotel, Mockton—S. Chapman, cotton spinner, Hurst, Lancashire, Aug. 27, at four, at the Commissioners Rooms, Lancashire—T. Turner and J. Gough, cotton spinners, Salford, Aug. 26, at three, at the Co mmissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—AUG. 18. G . B. Highfield and Co., merchants, Liverpool—J. Evans, grocer, Bridge -street, Lambeth—T. Palmer, cattle dealer, Wor cester—J. Mallett, grocer, East-street, Walworth—J. C. Stretch, I;rlctioneer, Worcester—H. L. Lancaster, upholsterer, Tunbridge ell s — W: Graham, jun., wine-merchant, Liverpool. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Nottingham and W. Nottingham, carvers, Cheltenham—J. stusby and E. Rushy, hop merchants, Red Lion-street—D. M‘Tag.. Part and W. M‘Taggart, veterinary surgeons, Leeds—J. Haworth a nd J. Hargreave, varnish manufacturers, Preston—W. Al s t on an d spinners Leicester—J. Howorth anclJ. Ramsbottom, drysalt ers , iverpool—.l. Milne and Co., coal merchants, Cowheys, Lanes shire --C. Kinnear and J. J. King, jeweller, Frith-street, Soho square — J. Green and W. Simpson, plasterers, Bradford, York shire —J. 011erenshaw and E. 011erenshaw, hat manufacturers, Man ehester--J. Allen and Co., wine merchants, Liverpool—W. Barnby and Co., ship-brokers, Kingston-upon-Hull—P. Cadman and Ce., r t, manufacturers, Sheffield—F. Savery and G. Irvine, wine iner ants, John -street, Adelphi—S. Davis and Co., wharfingers, 4,avis's Wharf, Horsleydown—C. M. Husband and G. Sanderson, Merchants, Kingston upon-Hull—J. Owen and J. Gerdos, che mists, Liverpool —J. Wain and E. H, Rose, butchers, Birmingham - sit Smith and J. Lowden, drapers, Crawford-street, Portman Plowman, jun., and W. Plowman, saddlers, Sherborne, o rsetshire—R. Haywood and J. B. Dobney, auctioneers, Worces ter's - S. Butterworth and J. Sharples, joiners, Ashton-under-Lyne " - J. Johnston and J. Johnston, linen-drapers, Liverpool-o.lsher- Wood and T. Burch, calico printers, Manchester—W. Littledale B a d Younghusband, drysalters, Lverpool—T. 'Massey and M. rint, provision dealers, Warrington—J. Cole and M. Pigott, dress- Makers, Southampton. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. b J AMES THOMSON, wine-merchant, Home - street , Edin ,argh, Aug. 7 and 4 21, at two, at the Old Signet - Hall , Royal Ex euange, Edinburgh. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOOD WO OD RACES.—TUESDAY. Th e Drawing_Room Stakes of 25 sows. each, with a bonus of 10 sovs. each, for three-years-old; colts, Bst. 71b.: fillies, Bst. 21b; second to receive 100 sovs., and the winner to pay 25 sovs. to the Julge. Once round. Value 9051. Mr. Greville's Preserve (41b. extra) Mr. Houldsworth's Outcast Lord Tavistock's Oak Apple Lord Exeter's Aurelius Mr. W. Edwards's Tritonia... Betting -7 to 4on Oak Apple, sto 2 agstPreserve (taken), and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won very easy by two lengths. The Levant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 sovs. forfeit, for two-years old; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. Half a mile. 19 subs. Mr. W. Chifney's bro. to Glaucus (51b ex.) Robinson Mr. J. Day's Venison, by Partisan—Fawn 2 The following also started, but were not placed : Duke of Richmond's filly by Camel out of Gulnare Lord Uxbridge's c. Gemappe, by Waterloo Lord Exeter' s f. Ceta (Lamia filly) Sir J. D. King's Isa, by The Colonel—Palatine Mr. W. Edwards's Grenoble (Maiden f. ) Betting -6 to 4 agst Glauctis, 10 to 6 agst Venison, 4to 1 agst Maiden, and Bto 1 agst any other. Won by two lengths. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 sovs. added. The winner to be sold for 100 soya., Heats, T. Y. C. 6 subs. D. of Richmond's c. by Helenus, 7st. 411. Paris 31 1 Lord Exeter's Bodice, 4 yrs, 7st. I llb Mr. Houldsworth's Partridge, 4 yrs. Bst Mr. W. Edwards's Chatterbox, 3 yrs, 7st. llb Mr. J. Day's Gondolier, aged, Bst. 101 b ..... 6 2 dr Sir J. King's Proserpine, 2 yrs, 7st. lib Won cleverly. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 7 to 9 agst Mr. Mostyn's Queen of Trumps 4 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mundig 11 to 2 agst Lord Orford's Ascot 9 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Verbena A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each remained to be decided when our express left the ground. Brother to Glaucus is christened " Athenian." AQUATICS. AMATEUR WAGER.—The anticipated contest between Mr. Hood, of the Leander Crew, and Mr. Curtis, did not afford any sport. Mr. Curtis was very ill and did not appear. Mr. Wood rowed the distance alone, of course being the winner. THE LIMEHOUSE WAGER.—We stated yesterday that the grand heat of this match would be agaih contested, in conse quence of Di son ' s b oat b e i ng swam p e d. Th e atten d ance was very good, and at a little after two, W. son, Kidney-stairs (scarrett), and W. Kirby, Duke shore (pi Di nk), started, the dis tance being from Ratcliffe-cross round the Canal buoy ; the distance being doubled. Dison, although meeting with much obstruction, won easily. LAMBETH REGATTA.--The annual contest for the wherries and other prizes given by the Ladies and gentlemen inhabitants of Lambeth, took place yesterday. It has invariably been con , sidered the best stairs wager of the Thames, and yesterday did not in any way fall short of its predecessors. The bank facing the Bishop's Palace was literally thronged with persons, and the attendance of boats was most numerous. The contest was in three heats, by sixteen men, two pairs of sculls in each boat (the prettiest system of sculling). The first heat was started from buoys off Lambeth stairs, up to a boat moored off the Red House, down the Surrey shore, round Carey's bath, and back to Lambeth stairs. G. Wilson and H. Richards (black) ; and G. Maynard and H. Shelton (red) won the first heat ' • and H. Mansfield and L. Ri c h ar d s ( w hit e ), an d J. Maynard and W. Shelton (yellow), the second heat. These four pair were po sitioned at half-past seven. White took the lead, closely fol lowed by yellow, red being third. White lost the leading sta tion off the Spread Eagle, Milbank, and red rowed into the first place, rounding Carey's Bath. They came in thus :—Red first, yellow second, white third, and black last. se upon the sings of the to Governor : essor to his r with much lajesty's Mi this subject. air, and the J4ills, at the copy of all ig to the re endish Ben , and to th e id before the en Mr. Jol!i! Ineers. At ad examined mtion, 287 ; papers, 231• declared the id the Court ICH—Th e tat his Lord ct to Green ted that the lard the City nied by the officers, Ste. , rom Some!' Greenwich: nation of the y companial rovided with reign. Il is essels on the wharfs along, artainment of t brilliant aP' t-obarkation. ;1111ess th e orrow, i n the sties and the Marquis of Commander. emissions in ble Charles not likely to in her el& hers, Lora a voyage up rife schoone r Wilton. )posed mar' it. The firs, P Madame a ° id, with th e Prince Me t ', he journeY The rmany. . )f Brunsvo c , man pape i r% irnich, en° [lot, howev er le—the Ms' daughter o f duced to el ms e queneef e no the Du:, o erect a 01 " tue had etc' d have pad !rnory. Vordswor t l f Winches ° 3 next, of Dr'i an emine iji Lest collectio° of malael o 2 s, in Benne, ards has be 'EATS iA 'ore the Jr A ' If the peti tiv the last el ec :,, ley's, Bridgi pasms jo sequent egree, W I's Thea tre :i f horses, A Pd ,nd procee d linent dank ust inevitan at the O a ; the aninlo ht, and in Catching is r Pau lo :ne 's the eilf.'4 nday ev e ! ' " 3. 3, Jog 3 d j, nary to tlie against 0 4 , ta i Lture, into an whiclic; D. 757, v ib t y ,t, sent to o i , :zits, a 0 ~4 0 to nave r ot to have " t bo omet neas. d i :d at het r ; • a delil:ty er ever r: / RANG E tb• e :rt that • 0 1; of the 5° years' I.ler.d e logitias , itY of in tr, erotic° ""ipf :c used hay 0' to say, tepi ome nine s attaeus i r last half Il i ) a beat' t !y l to l as ado te0 P oroper an 0,1 it dealer , os low', as 0' week 4 • trout, nilrl n , out ly a , b thap , 0 64 4 ;houg l, - 0 01 'uesdaN s ir !twee° L., 00 te t , d with in oc, tw° i 7 o) th e to creed c 10 let at . 1 1, off ,11,, b oth t tot i s trate arlicle. o o the c resell" BLOWING UP OF THE EARL GREY STEAMER. (Further details, from the Greenock lntelligencer of Saturday.) Yesterday evening, a few minutes before six o'clock, a dreadful accident took place, occasioned by the bursting of the boiler of the Earl Grey steamer, while she was lying at the steam-boat quay, on her way from Dunoon to Glasgow. The Earl Grey had been moored at the quay about fifteen minutes, and was just on the point of starting, the bell having been rung, when an explosion happened of so dreadful a nature that the boiler was rent completely round, the roof forced up into a perpendicular position, the upper flues driven into the cabin, and the lower part of the boiler and under flues removed from their situation, blowing the deck completely off from the fun nel to within eight or nine feet of the stern. The unfortunate persons who were standing on that part of the deck were blown into the air; two of these, Mr. Hugh Watson, shoemaker, Dunoon, and Angus Wilkie, of Tarbert, belonging to the ves sel, fell upon the quay, both of whom died immediately after, the rest fell into the sea. The water from the boiler was blown nearly to the west end of the steam-boat quay, ever the shed, on board two vessels, the Jean and the Rebecca ; the rope which fastened the steamer's stern to the quay was blown on the top of the shed, also camp stools, large pieces of wood, &c. A part of the boiler, 6or 8 feet square, was driven by the force of the steam a distance of 100 feet and upwards. A. great number of persons standing on the quay were much in jured by the scalding water and by pieces of coal, wood, &c., falling on them. It is impossible at present to state the pre cise number of the sufferers by this dreadful occurrence, as it is believed that some of those thrown into the water have not been found. The steward of the vessel informs us that before the accident occurred he counted twenty-seven persons on the quarter-deck, and considers that there were about forty per sons on board at the time of the explosion. The following are the names, as far as has been ascertained, of the PERSONS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.—MISS Stevenson, George-street, Glasgow ; Angus Wilkie, one of the men of the vessel, belonging to Tarbert ; Mr. Morrison, clothier, Greenock ; Mrs. Smith, Tradeston, Glasgow ; Mr. Hugh Watson, shoemaker, Dunoon ; a Gentleman apparently about 46 years of age, who had been taken on board the Clarence steamer, died on the passage to Glasgow. PERSONS SEVERELY INJURED.—Mr. Robert Mitchell, from Aberdeen, wounded on the head, and scalded on different parts of the body, but not dangerously ; Mr. John Wilson, spirit-merchant, Paisley, scalded over the whole body, and severe bruises ; Captain James M'lntosh, of Rothesay, com pound fracture of the left leg, and scalded ; Daniel Munro, son of Mr. Munro, baker, Glasgow, scalded on the head, face, and shoulders; M'Kellar, son of Capt. M'Kellar, of the steamer Sultan, scalded over the whole body; James M'Neil, step-son of Mr. Wyse, grocer, Greenock, severely scalded ; Mr. Thomas Carmichael, merchant, Greenock, ancle dislocated, and head much cut; Orr, son of Mr. E. Orr, mason, Shaw-street, Greenock, cut severely in the cheek, and scalded from head to foot; Duncan M'Kay, aged eleven years, scalded on the back, head, legs, hands, &c. ; Donald M'Kay, aged eight years, scalded on the fdce, head, and shoulders ; Mary M'Kay, slightly scalded on the face, and cut on the fore head. (The three M'Kays above mentioned are of the same family, and reside in Bread-Gloss, Greenock.) Mrs. Clark, Mile-end, near Glasgow, scalded on the legs, with several se vere contusions on the head ; Mrs. D. Mitchell, of Glasgow, scalded and bruised in the face, but doing well ; Mr. Mon crief, cut in the head, and Mrs. Moncrief, scalded and bruised ; both doing well. PERSONS SLIGHTLY INJURED.—Mr. Thos. Lang, wood merchant, Greenock, injured on the leg by a piece of coal ; Mr. Gumpreicht and his son, scalded ; Mrs. Cassels, of Glas gow, slightly scalded; Miss Forrester, Wellington-street, Glasgow, scalded on the shoulders and heels ; Mrs. Waters, Greenock, contusion on the shoulder ; Mr. Taylor, of the Ship Bank, Glasgow, scalded on the face and head, slightly ; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, Trongate, Glasgow, scalded • Mr. Matthew King, of Port Glasgow, and his wife, slightly in jured; Mr. Harkness, spirit dealer, East Quay-lane, struck on the left leg with a piece of coal while on the quay, and knocked down. On recovering himself he leapt on board the vessel and rendered assistance to a number of persons who were in great danger. He then went into the cabin and assisted two ladies into a boat alongside ; Mr. Innes, Port Dundas, Glasgow, scalded in the face, bands, and different parts of the body : Mr. James Farquhar, vintner, Vennel, slightly scalded. The steward of the Earl Grey, while standing on the pad dle-box, was knocked overboard by a large piece of coal, but got out little injured. Excepting the steward and the seaman Wilkie, who was killed, no other person connected with the vessel was hurt. The young lady, Miss Stevenson, whom we have before mentioned, had gone on board the ves sel, accompanied by her sister and a young genttleman, a few minutes before the accident took place. The young man had gone forward to the bow, leaving the two young ladies stand ing abaft the funnel, at the moment the explosion occurred. When the steam and smeke had cleared away he discerned one of the Misses Stevenson in the water at a considerable distance from the vessel, and although an indifferent swimmer he plunged overboard and saved her. The body of the other sister was got out of the water an hour and a half after the accident, by the boats which were employed in trauling, but no other body has as yet been found, although exertions under the directions of the Provost and Magistrates were used till a late hour last night, and during part of this morning. Mr. Matthew King, of Port Glasgow, who, with Mrs. King, was blown overboard, saved himself by clinging to a block attached to a rope which hung over the vessel's side. While in this situation he saw Mrs. King floating. He immediately got hold of her, and while supporting himself with one hand and holding his wife with the other, some person seized hold of the rope Mr. King was clinging to, and nearly pulled it from his hand. Mr. King, with great difficulty, got him to desist until a boat came to their assistance, and rescued them just in time, as Mr. King had become completely exhausted. Mr. Hugh Watson, who is mentioned among those killed, was on the deck at the time of the explosion, the force of which blew him and Angus Wilkie, who was loosing the stern line at the moment, a great height into the air. They both fell on the quay, and the bruises they received from this, together with the effects of the steam and scalding water, caused almost instant death to both cases. The body of Wilkie was sent this morning to his friends in Tarbert, by the St. Mun steam-boat. Mr. Peter Somerville, of Glasgow, one of the passengers, who saved himself by his singular activity and presence of mind, described to us in the following manner the circum stances connected with the blowing up of the vessel, as far as his own observation had extended. He had gone on board the Earl Grey at Gourock, with the intention of proceeding to Glasgow, and on the vessel's arriving at Greenock, he had stepped ashore for a few minutes. On his return to the quay he found the steamer preparing to start, and he went on board, and descended to the cabin just as the vessel was about to leave the port. On entering the cabin ho found only one individual in it—a gentleman, who was sitting, apparently asleep, at the end of the cabin nearest the engine. Mr. So merville was surprised at perceiving the cabin to be full of steam, and, becoming apprehensive that something was wrong he advanced to the farthest end, where he had only had time to lay down his hat and umbrella when a hissing noise which he heard convinced him that an explosion was about to take place, and he sprang suddenly out at one of the cabin win dows, breaking the glass, a pane about fourteen inches square. Instantaneously as this was done, the explosion oc curred before his legs were quite out of the windows, and his feet were scalded by the hot water or steam rushing into the cabin. Fortunately, Mr. S. succeeded in catching hold of an iron rod projecting from the stern by which he hung until the stern boat had been lowered, when he was drawn up to the deck of the vessel. While thus hanging to the steamer's stern, Mr. Somerville looked down into the water, in which he thinks he observed about thirty persons, many of whom ap peared to have been hurt by the explosion, and were stream ing with blood. He saw six or seven couples clinging to each other as if resolved to be saved or lost together. On being hauled up on the stern Mr. Somerville found that the greater part of the deck had been torn up. On the only portion of it which now remained—namely, a few feet at the stern, he ob served an old gentleman evidently much hurt, and a lady of apparently about forty years of age, who was either dead or had swooned. All the other cabin passengers appear to have been blown off the deck by the violence of the explosion. The quay at which the vessel was lying at the time of the accident was in an incredibly short time crowded by persons of all descriptions; the alarm having been spread by the peo ple running to call medical assistance, and by the appearance of the young man running homewards along the streets, with only a rug thrown round his body, his clothes having been torn off, in order to relieve him from garments which were completely saturated with the hot water from the boiler. The excitement was also much increased by the wounded sufferers being borne along the streets to the Infir mary, and various other places. The steam-boat quay, about seven o'clock, presented a scene of horror happily never be fore witnessed here—mangled and bleeding bodies carried to places where aid could be administered—the boats em ployed in trauling for the bodies rowing backwards and for wards, anxiously watched by the spectators whenever the men aboard hauled up the creepers, to which, in almost every case, were hanging pieces of clothes, shirts, :handkerchiefs, &c. But the most fearful spectacle of all was the vessel her self—the roof of the ponderous boiler being raised up, over which the funnel lay crushed and broken; the uptorn decks exposing the cabin, into which the upper flues of the boiler had forced their way ; while hats and portions of male and female attire were strewed around, telling too truly of the fearful destruction that had taken place. It may be consoling to the friends of those who were injured to know that every thing which humanity and skill could devise was done to alle viate the agonies of the unhappy sufferers. Great praise is due to the medical Gentlemen of this town for the activity and zeal they displayed in rendering assis tance, and it is but justice to mention that Dr. M'Naught, of Helensburgh, who was on board the Clarence steamer, which was lying at the quay at the time of the accident, was the first to give assistance to those who were hurt, and that his active exertions in relieving the sufferings of the injured excited the admiration of all present. We understand that before return ing to Helensburgh he left his address at the Tontine Inn, with instructions to the landlord to attend to the wants of some of the sufferers who were left there, and that he would be accountable for any expense which might be incurred. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1835. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 28. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,760 61 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. 18s. sh. 160 1,482 61. Ashhy.de-le-Zouch Average 1134 sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO4 sh. 51 1,005 54 Brecknoek and Abergavenny 150. sh. 95 • 4.oooish. 121. 10s. Birmingham, i share 171. 10s, 219 4,0t,u Ditto and Liverpool Junet....tw/. sh. all pd 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....lOW, sh. all pd 6; 4"0 5/. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 421. Coventry 1001. sh. 4,546 Croydon Average 311.25. 100. sh. .2,0601 34 10s. Dudley lOO/. sh. 74 600 6/. Derby 'OO4 sh. 120 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. so 231 43!. Erewash OOl. sh. 485 1,097 281. Forth and Clyde Average 4001. 16s. sh. 600 11,500 121. Grand Junction WI. sh. 232 2,8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 24 1,521 Grand Surrey II 01. sh. 120,0004 4/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO4 73 3,096 Grand Western 600 13/. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 280 1,9(10 Gloucester and Berkley 1001 sh. 14 749 10s. . Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 11. 10s. Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 34 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 23,328 11. Kennet anti Avon, Average 391.85. 10c1. sh. 20 2,897; 204 Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 525 545 121. Leicester l4O/. sh. 148 907 41. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 3/. 10s. so 550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 25/. sh. all pd.. 25 70 14.11, Loughborough Average 142/. 17,. sh. 1,520 2,409 9/, Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 180 250 91. Melton Mowbray 1001 sh. 190 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 569 3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 56 247 15/. Neath 100/. sh. IGO 1,786 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 615 522 21. Oakham 130/. sh. :38 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 106 21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. 80. sh. 15 6 669 51. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 141 500 Si Shropshire 1254 sh. 140 800 10/. Somerset Coal 1501, sh. 163 45,0001. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 121 700 361. Stafford and Worcester 14.94 sh. 690 500 11/. Shrewsbury 1254 sh. 242 A SOO 8/. Stourbridge 5,647 I/. 10s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 70/. 9s. Ad. sh. cod 533 13/. Swansea 1001. sir. 206 3,76: 11. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 2,600 Ism 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1004 sh. 625 8,149 Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Bd. sh. 2 1, 1,0 000 00 ish. 811 15/ Warwick and Birmingham 1004 sh. 280 1, 9&: / 12s. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 218 6,000 31. 103 Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 784 Bs. sh. 86 20,000 Is. Wilts and Berks .. Average 161. 17s. Bd. sli. 5 800 61, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 1143 Wisbeach lO5l. sit. 95 905 1/ Wey and Arun llO4 sh. 221 DOCKS. 2,600 & } 3p. C. Commercial 1004 sh. f 0 1,06515 h 193,667:1 3,238,3104 24 ss. p. ct. London Stock 571 Ditto Bonds 10:3 1,380,0004 Si. per ct. West India 2,20.4 31. Os. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. 19s. sh. 68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1,352,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 70 500,003 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 yea is lO-1 Shoreham Harbour 2571 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 23 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. (03!. 2s. Bd. sh. 21 1,700 11. Iss. .. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. . _ 1001. sh. 2; 5,000 - -- -- Waterhio - 5,000 11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/. pd 25 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 22 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 6,000 1/. Vauxhall Average 70/. 10s. :id. sh. 22; ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ 10s Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 76; 50, 00 0 {5 pienrdesesnt 'l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 11. 4 1 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. Si. lid 5; 24,000 j'. per sh. Atlas 1,200 Ish. 4/. Birmingham Fire 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. W. pd 6{ 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...loo/.0. 2/ lOs pd 3; 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 42 6,000 58. Eagle 50/. sh. Si. pd 5; 200 g ne ll r 3 g i al Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 2501. p d 315 2,271 5;/. per cent. European Life ` )o/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New ''ol. sh. 2/. pd II 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 153 20,000 1/. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 34 „„„, Fire 5 p ct.l ~,, 4°, """ /Life 8 p ct. 3 - "P` ,:, 50/. sh. Si. pd f; 2,400 51. 7s. 68. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 117 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1 10 °°1 1 t ) s' / (10) .. 11 5 6. 1 h : 5h . b. . 1 1 0 a810 / 11 , :l I P: , d i L 5 2 2 621 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 10, 1 00 16s. Law Life 3,900 1/. London, Fire 23/. sh. 121. 10s. pi 23; 31,000 1/. London, Ship 25/. sh. 121. 10 s. p d 2 31 31),030 LI. per cent. Palladium Life .50/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Ss 25!1,00) . ls. 6d. Protector Fire °Ol. sh. 21. pd 119 s Od 2,500 11. I'rovident Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 19 100,000 5.5. Rock Life 20/. sh. 24 pd Si 15s. 689,220. Si. per ceut. Royal Exchange , tmk... 185 Sun 2lO 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd 212 s 6d IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 28. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock, but in conse quence of there being a ballot for a Committee upon the Carlow Election the gallery was not open until twenty minutes after. _ Lord CASTLEREAGH presented several petitions from parishes in the county Down against the Irish Church Bill. Mr. HE ATHCOTE presented a petition from the Post Masters of the North road, complaining of the system of farm ing the post-duty. Mr. LONGFIELD presented a petition from Drogheda, against the Irish Church Bill. Mr. FRE S HFIELD presented a petition from Hitching, and other parishes in Herefordshire, complaining of the union of parishes formed there. Captain S PIE R S presented a petition from the hand-loom weavers of Paisley, praying for the institution of Boards of Trade. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. Mr. GROTE presented a petition, signed by 300 ship wrights of the port of London, praying for the repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers ; also one which was agreed to at a public and most numerously attended meeting, held at the Crown and Anchor on Saturday week. He was sorry the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in his place, as he (Mr. G.) would have pressed him to take instant mea sures upon this subject ; for, if not, the property of those at present in the trade would be ruined by the preference of these papers which were published without a stamp, and in defiance of the law. . . _ Dr. BO WRING said that he had been present at the meeting in question, and a more respectable or numer ous one he had scarcely ever attended. The petition was passed not only unanimously, but with absolute enthu siasm; and he trusted the subject would meet with the atten tion of the Government. . _ Mr. ROEBUCK would take that opportunity of saying that the conduct of the Commissioners of Stamps was not marked with fairness—he saw they had been prosecuting some poor men in the country for selling unstamped papers. Such conduct would not reflect any honour either upon themselves or the Govern ment. If they must prosecute, why not do so in London, where the people were not ignorant of the risk they ran. The pe titions were then laid upon the tabie. Mr. CHISHOLM presented a petition from certain Proc tors, against the Bill for altering the Ecclesiastical Courts. JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Atvtrala , ia 4Ol. sh. 2fil. pd 311 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5 , 1. sh. 101. pd 124 , 10,000 lOper cent. Birmingham Bank ..... ....... ...50/. sh. Si. pd 12 y 13,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 151. pd 12i 3,000 Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd 30 2.5,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 1001. sh. 101. pd 15 20,000 7 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 k sh. 25/. pd 48 10,000 National Provincial Eng. M. sh. 25/. pd 221 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 501. sh. 5/. pd 11 0,000 ---- - - - - . - GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1112. s Bath 2O/. sh. la pd 26 5,000 61. per cent. British 4Ol. sh. 164 pd 23 fin ,-, c ercent.l . 5.""' Land Bs. 53.5 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 191. pd 24 844 51 108 Birmingham 4,250 210 s Bristol 2o'. sh. 69e 1,500 ..._ Brighton _ 20/, sh. 13 750 ...... ... Ditto, New 20/. sh. 18/. net, 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all Pd 19 4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 511 t. pd 76 1,000 101. City of London lOOl. sh. all pd 1921 1,000 6/. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 604 pd 115 4,000 4/. Equitable 951. pd 29 6,000 64 per cent. East London 5/. sh. 41. pd 41 10,000 51. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 43; SOO Si. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 20 2.350 6/. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 50 9,000 41. per cent. Phcenix. 501 . sh. 33/. IA 24 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 60/. p,l 69 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 ,./. sh. 13/. pd 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 444 pd 381 240 51. per cent. Warwick' 501. sh. 5(1 400 I/ 58 Wakefield 251. sh. 221 !2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 461 6,000 12s. Ditto, New 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd. F , I sou - - •••- -•- -- - WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham v 23/. sh. 251. pd 27 4,433 54 East London lOOl. sh. 1321 4,500 2/ 105 Gr..nd Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. Id. sh. 51 2,000 21. Kent 100/. sh. 46a47 388 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2oi. sh. 300 1,500 2/ lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/. Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 47 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 85 8,300 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 78 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 34 IRON RAILWAYS. 350 Cheltenham 100/. sh. 78 2,000 Clarence lOOl. th. 1001. pd 45 2,500 19s. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd 27 tirand Junction 100/. sh. 30/. pi 43,4 2,000 Ilartlepool 1004 sh. 100/ pd 80 2,100 Leeds and Sclby lOO sh. 100 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh all pd 51 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/.sh. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 's/. 20,000 ... ...... London and G reenwich '2ol. sh. 13/, pd pd IS 25,000 2,500 Preston and Wigan 2Ol. pd 5 800 ....,.... Durham Junction 1001. sh. 101 . pd 10 pm MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 2/. pd 31 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 10/. 10s. pd 0,000 ........ Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pin.... 1001. sh. all pil Ditto Subscription 25/. pd 2,000 Boleros l5O/. sh all pd 10,000 31..5. Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 3.5/. sh. 201 pd 6,0 0 Ditto St. John Dcl Rey 20/. sh. 711. pd 11,000 Cata Branca 4i/. pd Candonga Si. pd Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 20/. pd Ditto Scrip 9/. pd 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 31/. pd 62 8,500 Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 55/. sh. 54k1. pd 2,8:0 IL English l2l Its. pd 20,000 • General Mining Assoclation...2o/. sh. 1 51. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh 49.-1 L pd 2,000 ... ...... Polberou Consols 10/. sh. Si. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2l Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd 41 Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 5,(00 Union Gold, iss. 2/. ss. pm.... 221./. sh. 41/. pd West Cork 501. sh. 251. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 10,000 ...... ... 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 20 1,500 London University sh. sill pd 27 700 King's College 1001. pd 44i MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo4 sh. 2el/. ph 3S 1,080 IL Auction Mart 50/. eh. 6,000 British American Land Company 81. pd 5 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1004 sh. 204 pd 34i 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan losi City Bonds, 4 per cent lo2t 15,000 11. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 13/. pd 104 per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 250 2,000 I/. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 18 2,754 4/. per eent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/ sh. 100/. pd 9,633 41. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd 75 4,000 10,000 Van Dicmer.'s Land 100/. sh. 16/. pd 71 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, JULY 1, 1835. BANKS. 1,500,0001. 81. p. ct. Bank of Scotland B3l. 6s. Sd. sh. all pd 202; p. c 2,000,000/. 5/ p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd . 1701. 500,000/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :.11 pd 240/. 3,000,000/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1004 pd 170 /. 5,000,000/. 5 p. ct. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 14/ lOs 2,000,0001. 2 1 1. p. et. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 601 . 4,000,000/. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 30/. pd 33/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,000611. sp. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 11. pd IN 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. pd 11/. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lo/. sh. all pd 7/ Os 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 15/. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 101. pd 13/. 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. oh. 101. pd 14/. 100,000 4 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 9/. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canal 501. sh. all pa 8/10s Ditto Allocated 9CI. sh. all pd 60/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 331. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 4501. 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Emilie - wry 50/. sh. 3' l l. pd 18/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 161. pd 6 1. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 65/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 60/. 730 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh all pd all. 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Elalkeith Railway...sol. sh. 751. 3,000 10s. per sh. Equitable Loan Company 25/. sh. 91. pd 101. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 7 Ditto, at sight l2 5 Rotterdam `) U l2 7 Antwerp l2 6 Homburg M.B. 13 15 Altana l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto 2 Us. 25 95 Bordeaux . F-ankfort on Maine, Ex. M 154 Fetersbitigh, rub1e......3 Us 1 0 1,6 3erlin Vienna, effective fl. '2 M 10 9.;, Trieste ditto lO 9N Madrid 'l7 Cadiz ^7 Bilboa . '37 Barcelona Seville 37 Gibraltar NGE YESTERDAY Leghorn Genoa Milan Venice 47 Naples Palermo per oz. 121 Lisbon 57 Oporto 5 64 Rio Janeiro 36 Bahia 26 nuenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork .... 25 !`,O PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 317 9 New Doubloons New Dollars ..... . Silver, bars, standard OO 0 SCOTTISH CHURCH. Mr. S. MACKENZIE presented several petitions from Scotland, praying that a portion of the grant about to be made to the church of Scotland may be devoted to the provi sion of elementary and religious instruction for the neglected portions of the Scotch population, particularly in the High lands. Mr. PRINGLE supported the prayer of the petition. The subject, he said, was well deserving the best attention of the House. Mr. WILK S was extremely surprised at the statement of the Hon. Member ( Mr. S. Mackenzie.) He had always un derstood that the state of education in Scotland was such as to excite, if not envy, at least emulation. He was, therefore, astonished at the number of petitions presented from Scot land on this subject. Mr. WALL ACE complained that Scotland had not the same advantages that England and Ireland had. Whilst a Committee up stairs was sitting to inquire into the cases of re mote parishes in Scotland, a Commission had been issued in this country and in Ireland. If Scotland had the same advantages of a local enquiry it would be attended with results equally be neficial. The petition was then laid on the table. . CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. DYSON brought up the reduced list of this Committee, and the following Members being sworn retired to elect a Chairman : Barclay, C. Jones, Wilson I O'Connell, J. Egerton, W. I'. Lowther, J. H. Power, J. Gaskell, J. M. Nagle, Sir R Sandon, Lord Grimston, Hon. E. Yorke, Elliot Thos. Mr. D. ROCHE presented a petition from Mr. James Fitz gerald, of the city of Limerick, complaining of the window-tax. LADIES GALLERY. Mr. G. BERKELEY brought up the report of the Select Committee on the Ladies' Gallery amid much cheering. The report was ordered to be printed. IRISH CHURCH. Colonel WOOD presented a petition from Brecon against the Irish Church Bill. The Hon. Member felt confident that he expressed the sentiments of the greater part of the country, when he expressed a sincere hope that the measure would never pass into a law.—( Cheers from the Opposition.) SHERIFF'S DECLARATION BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the Order of the Day for the seccnd reading of this Bill. POST-OFFICE MAIL-COACH CONTRACT. Mr. WARBURTON, seeing the Hon. Member for Taun ton (Mr. Labouchere) in his place, wished to ask him whether it was intended that any additional time should be given for delivering in estimates for the contracts for mail coaches. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that there was no intention to extend the time. It was absolutely necessary that the vouchers should be ready for the servive of the public on the sth of Ja nuary next, and therefore it was deemed by the Commissioners inexpedient to extend the time beyond the Ist of August next. Mr. WALLACE expressed his entire approbation of what had fallen from the Honourable Member from Taunton. An opinion was now abroad which he trusted was without founda tion. It was believed in some quarters that the country was to to saddled with all the useless expense of the old establishment. Now that they had the promise of the advantage of new models and patterns, he trusted that the Government, or the Com missioners of Post-office inquiry, would make it perfectly clear that the old establishment was entirely to cease, and was no mote to be foisted upon the public. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Commissioners and the Government had no intention of keeping the old establishment ; on the contrary, they would have an entirely new establish ment. Captain BOLDERO understood that the present contrac tor had been offered the contract upon the present terms for a longer period. He wished to know whether such was the fact. Mr. L ABOUC HERE—It was undoubtedly true that the present contractor had been made such an offer, but in consequence of his conduct he was totally excluded from the new contract ; in the first place, because, it having been found that it would be for the benefit of the pub lic service to continue the present contract for six months longer it was offered to Mr. Viddler. It was accepted by his solicitor, and only when he was called upon to sign the contract did he give the very first intimation of his refusal. Such conduct he thought no public officer ought to allow.— (Loud cheers.) The Commissioners, therefore, had tendered this advice to the post office, in consequence of which no esti mate would be received from Mr. Viddler, or his representative mittee appointed to inquire into the merits of this election, declaring that Colonel Thompson was duly elected, and that neither the petition or the opposition was frivolous or vexatious. THE BUDGET. The Marquis of CHANDOS, not seeing the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his place, begged leave to ask of the Noble Lord (J. Russell) when it was intended that the Right Hon. Gentleman would make his financial statement. Lord J. RUSSELL, we understood to say that it was not yet finally settled, but be thought it would be on Monday. The Noble Lord then again asked Hon. Members who had notices pending to give way to the Committee on the Irish Church Bill. Mr. CLAY had alone given in in consequence of the great importance of the measures before the House, which must have been retarded had he pressed his motion.—(Cheers.) He trusted the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Maxwell) would follow the same course, or otherwise he (Mr. C.) would proceed. Mr. J. MA X WEL L—l may as well tell the Hon. Gen tleman that I will proceed.--( Laughter and cries of Go on.) Mr. D. JACKSON seeing the Noble Lord, the Secre tary for Ireland in his place, wished to ask him some particu lars relative to the case of four persons tried for an assault at the last Armagh Assizes. Mr. PERRIN promised to make inquiries into the matter. Mr. CLAY would not press his motion, as it. was most likely to occupy the whole of the evening.—(Loud cheers, ) He bad on a former occasion postponed it in consequence of the important measures before the House, and would do so again. He considered his motion as of the utmost importance, but he would take that opportunity of stating that it was not his intention to press it during the present session, but he would take a very early opportunity of doing so in the next. Sir E. CODRINGT ON had before waived his motions, merely because the measure before the House was of the most vital importance. As the same course still operated, he would follow the example set by the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. T. DUN C OMBE postponed his motion relative to the case of Lieutenant Bradley, till Tuesday next. Captain PE C HELL would follow in the wake of the Gal lant Admiral ; he trusted the House would allow him to in troduce his two Bills with respect to Tithes on Turnips, at the close of the sitting. Mr. E. TENNANT wished to ask the Noble Secretary for Ireland whether it was his intention, during the present session, to introduce any measure to alter the issuing of Par liamentary NI rits in Ireland. Lord MORPETH said a Bill on the subject was in prepa ration, but the Session was too far advanced for its introduction. Mr. SHIEL postponed his motion until Thursday next. HAND-LOOM WEAVERS. Mr. MAXWELL then rose to bring forward his motion for Boards of Trade. He felt as much regret as any other Member in inconveniencing the House.—( Cries of " Oh," and laughter. ) The Hon. Member referred to the evidence of one of the weavers who had been examined before the Parliamentary Committee appointed for the purpose. That person, who was a competent and credible witness, stated that in the year 1797, his wages were 275. per week, and that then he could command 281 lbs. of flour a year • but in 1834, his wages were reduced to ss. 6d. per week, and he was compelled to support himself and family upon 81 lbs. flour only for a year. Those on whose behalf be then appealed to the House did not ask benefits at the expense of others ' • they only asked to be enabled to support themselves, by giving them the same protection they gave to others. Oh, but then it was said that it would be contrary to the principles of political economy, and therefore these hundreds of thousands must be left to starve.—( Hear, hear.) It might be said that these persons should have recourse to other trades or to agriculture. What would be the advantage of this ? Was not the agricultural labourer complaining, and would he not complain still more if so large a body were to be thrown on the land for support ? A Committee had been appointed upon this subject, and it was in pursuance of the views of that Committee that he now asked leave to bring in this Bid. He admitted that his Hon. Friend opposite, the Member for Kilmarnock (Dr. Bowring), who had taken an active part in the labours of the Committee, dissented from the principle embodied in the Report, and sug gested a remedy (as we understood), in the reduction of the pressure of taxation ; but in reply to such a suggestion he begged to say that until those reductions were made, the Le gislature was bound to give these classes protection against the influence of wealth and power, protected as that influence was by such imposts and restrictions as the existing corn laws provided.—( Hear, hear.) This class of his Majesty's sub jects subjects were entitled to equal protection. It was true that great capitalists might not be enabled to make large for tunes, owing to the variations in the price ofmanufactures and to the starved condition of the people, and their unequal com petition with machinery, but he contended that some protec tion should be afforded to the poor man's capital--his labour. And what was the condition of that class as had been proved before the Committee? The House would, he hoped, excuse him if he quoted the evidence of one of the body who had been examined, of the name of Hallowell, and he proved that though formerly be could earn 20s. per week, his earnings were now reduced to ss. 61d. per week, and that was to suf fice for the support of himself and his family. This man had been himself a weaver for 40 years, and was a person well ac quainted with the trade, and as such competent to speak upon it. The Honourable Member then proceeded to read at length long extracts from the evidence taken before the Committee, but in a tone of voice which was wholly inau dible in the gallery. We understood the result of the evi dence to be, that even in health the hand-loom weavers were not enabled to earn sufficient " to keep soul and body toge ther." Under such a state of misery, was it to be won dered at that some men would go astray frem the paths of rec titude and honesty—was it surprising that they should be guilty of petty thefts and purloinings from the property in trusted to them by their employers? He would not express an opinion as to what a man driven by despair might perpe trate even in such a state of things, but how much must that despair be increased when, as the witness had stated before the committee, the Poor Law Bill was regarded by the labour ing classes as a measure of coercion upon them ? He ( Mr. Maxwell) begged to ask the house whether it was just or pro per that a man who for 40 years had laboured hard for the support of his family and himself should have to look forward to such a state of things? With increased distress, the liabi lities of the labouring classes had increased, and yet what had been the language of the Government when the Legislature had been called upon by them to raise the salaries of the judges ? It was urged that they had now a great deal more to do, and it was stated in proof of that proposition, that in one district the number of criminals for trial in the year 1810 was 326 ; while in 1829 the number had increased to 1,240. That increase had originated from the distressed condition of the people ; and from the same cause crime had still further progressed during more recent years. By giving employment and adequate wages to the people, crime would most assuredly be diminished, and though it might be urged that the Bill which he trusted to obtain the permission of the House to in troduce was insufficient, he should be prepared in a future stage to show that it would prove adequate both in respect to increase of employment and reduction of distress. The Hon. Member concluded a speech, which from the indistinctness with which it was delivered was almost wholly inaudible to us in the gallery, and of which the above is consequently but an outline, by moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the better protection of the artisans of Great Britain and Ireland em ployed in weaving by hand-loom. Sir M. S. STE WART seconded the motion. The SPEAKER having put the question, Lord DUDLEY STUART thought that when the Go vernment and the House considered that the subject to which the bill proposed by his lion. friend had been referred by the House itself to a select committee, they would agree in think ing that it would be very hard to refuse to sanction the intro duction of a bill founded upon the report of that committee. When it was alto remembered that no less than 800,000 of his Majesty's subjects earned their scanty and miserable sub sistence by the trade of weaving, and were in the distressed condition which had been proved, could the rejection of their petitions, praying that which the select committee by their report had recommended, be justified ? This suffering por tion of the community deserved well of the legislature, inas much as up to a certain period they had borne their deep privation with patience, and for a great many years conducted themselves under their sufferings with great morality. That morality had only suffered injury by the want of those means which could afford them physical strength, by the want of those means which in the weaving districts had produced the most squalid wretchedness. Wai it surprising that when by honest in dustry, by work night and day, not excepting in some cases Sun days, they they were unable to maintain themselves and fami lies even in health, that they should resort to trifling pilfer ings ? For this state of things the Government had called for a remedy to be devised ; the remedy had been devised, by the labours of a select committee appointed by the House it self, arid he trusted that House would not throw out, without consideration, that measure. On the contrary, let the House consent to its introduction, and when it came before it, en deavour, if possible, to improve its principles or details. — ( Hear, hear.) He would not now undertake to say that he should approve of all the details of the bill, but he supported its introduction in the hope that it might prove a measure of amelioration to the wretched but deserving classes whose re lief it contemplated.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. P. THO M SON announced his intention of opposing the motion of the Hon. Member for Lanarkshire for leave to bring in this Bill, and said that he did so principally for the in terest of those whom the Hon. Member professed himself so anxious to protect. It was not that he turned a deaf ear to the complaints of the hand-loom weavers, or that he underra ted the sufferings under which they were labouring at present, that he had come to the determination of rejecting this Bill, but it was because he was satisfied that the sooner the delu sion which this Bill fostered was dissipated, the better it would be for those who believed in it. The principle of this mea sure, although disavowed by a number of the Committee, was nothing more nor less than than the fixation of a minimum of wages, and being so was a sufficient reason for his opposing it. —(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to allude with disrespect to the labours of that Committee, but the large blue volume then under his hand was not the only volume which had emanated from them. There were two other volumes equally ponderous, and he should like to know how many Hon. Members bad waded through their contents. His official situation had com pelled him to read them, and he thought that they that they would have been much better had the questions been shorter and the answers longer. He turned, however, from the ques tions, which were full of speculations upon corn and cur rency, and from the answers which were given to them, to the report of the Committee itself. The Committee in their re port stated that the causes of the distress under which the hand-loom weavers were suffering were in their nature fivefold. The first cause was the increase of machinery ; the second was the oppressive taxation occasioned by the war ; the third was the increased pressure of taxation occasioned by the alte rations in the currency in 1816, in 1826, and in 1829 ; the fourth Was the exportation of British yarn, and the foreign SPAIN. Captain BOLDERO, seeing the Right lion. Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, begged to ask a question as to the correctness of a report which had that day been promul gated in a public journal, which was certainly not remarkable for the accuracy of its reports, but it stated that three English sailors had been murdered in Spain. If the fact should prove true it was one of intense importance, because there were auxiliary forces forming in this country to proceed to Spain, and among them were several of his friends and acquaintances. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had heard something of the affair, but could not say whether the account was accu rate or not. To-morrow, however, he hoped to be able to give a positive answer. BONDED WAREHOUSES. Mr. BAINE S begged to ask the Right Hon the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, whether it was his intention to proceed with his Bill for the establishment of Bonded Ware houses in some of the principal manufacturing towns. Per haps it would be scarcely possible for him to do it this session, but he wished to know whether he would proceed with it at any future session ? Mr. P. THOMPSON replied that since he had first intro duced his bill he had found considerable satisfaction ex pressed by some of the towns who wanted a much more extended measure, which in justice to the ports he was not disposed to agree to. He felt it necessary, there fore, to wait until he could ascertain more fully the state of public opinion on a measure of this limited character, before he proceeded further. TITHES. Captain PE C HELL begged to ask the Attorney-General, whether it was his intention to introduce into the Eccle siastical Courts Bill a clause, providing that all suits for tithes under 10/. should be determined before two magistrates, because if he did, it would obviate the necessity of the Bill of which he (Captain Pechell) had given notice. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said afew words in reply, which were nearly inaudible, but he was understood to answer in the affirmative. ___ _ SHERIFFS' DECLARATION BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would more the Order of the Day for the second reading of this Bill, upon the under standing that no objection would be made to it. If it gave rise to a discussion he would postpone it. Mr. WILKS would not oppose the second reading, but he must say that since the 9th of Geo. IV. was under considera tion, he felt great disappointment that it was not altogether done away with. Mr. LAW did not object to this Bill on a formal decision, although his reason for not doing so was not as stated in the newspapers, because he gave a cordial assent to the principle of the Bill, but from the public inconvenience that would arise from the office of Sheriff being determined in % the middle of the year. He would not oppose the second reading of the Bill, but he wished to know whether the words of the clauses were intended to place the Sheriffs of cities and of counties upon a different footing. The Noble and Learned Member was proceeding to make some further observations, when Mr. DUNCOMBE rose to order. He did not see why Orders of the Day should have precedence of notices of motion. The SPEAKER thought the Hon. Member for Cambridge should proceed. Mr. MAXWELL could not allow the discussion to pro et-,ed ; if it did, he should consider it as a direct breach of an understanding. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the object of his Hon. Friend (the Member for Cambridge) was exactly that which he had in view, he wished to put the Sheriffs of Cities on the same footing as Sheriffs for counties. He hoped, there fore, after that statement, that he would postpone the further discussion, and allow the Bill to be read a second time. After some further discussion, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be printed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL trusted that Hon. Members would postpone the motions of which they had given notice, in order that the Irish Corporation Bill might be brought for ward. KINGSTON-UPON-HULL ELECTION. Mr. BANNERMAN brought up the Report of the Com. r=l , .. -* \ competition which had grown up in consequence of it; and the fifth was the low profits which rose out of increased cons- . • ti petition. Now, the remedy which the Committee propOsed J- 7 for the distress arising out of these five causes was the fixatioti . ...l , s: of a minimum of wages. Now, he would ask any of the H'onsXV Gentlemen who supported the motion of the Hon. Wilber - IV' for Lanarkshire, to point out to him how the establishnitnt of such a minimum could act upon any one of the five causes which he had just enumerated ?--( Hear, hear.) The object of the Bill which the Hon. Member asked leave to bring in was to carry into effect this nostrum of the Committee. Fix a minimum of wages Was it possible that any intelligent Government should ever sanction such an absurdity—that Go vernment should interfere at all to fix the rate of wages—that Government should propound the doctrine that labour should not be free—that Government should say that the capitalist should no longer be at liberty to make a bargain with the labourer respecting the remuneration which the one was to pay and the other to receive—that Government should com pel the master manufacturer to come to a board of trade in London, to ascertain, not what wages he could afford, but what wages he must pay—that Government should publish weekly, or monthly, or quarterly, a tariff of prices, which if the manufacturer declined to pay, the labourer could not be employed, and must therefore starve ? That would be a species of legislation which would neither reflect credit on those who were the authors of it, nor confer benefit on those who were intended to be relieved by it.—( Hear, hear.) Legislation like that would be a tyranny, which, if it were not for the benevo lent intentions of those who proposed it, would be sufficient to revolt those very people for whose advantage it was proposed, and to make them do that which their good conduct hitherto had shown that they were not inclined to do—he meant to break the law, and fly in the face of the constituted authorities of the country. Had the Hon. Member for Lanarkshire, he would ask, considered the effect of his own measure ? Had he considered, that if you established this minimum of wages in One branch of trade, you must be prepared to establish it in every other ? Now, if you are prepared to do that, you must also be prepared to do more. You must be prepared to regu late by Act of Parliament the price of every article that was sold in your markets.—(Mr. Maxwell said, " No, no.") Then, if you won't regulate the price of every article which your merchants and your traders have to sell, your present measure will be ten times more oppressive to the man who has labour to sell, than it will be to the capitalist who has labour to buy. Talk of this measure, indeed, as a measure of protection and philanthropy 1 It was no such thing, for its immediate ten dency was to rob the poor labourers not only of the reward of their industry, but also of the market for their industry. For instance, a certain sum is fixed as the minimum of wages. The manufacturer makes a calculation, and finds that he shall have no return for his capital if lie consents to give it. He makes in consequence a second calculation, and that calculcation is whether he shall lose more by discontinuing his works and allowing his capital to lay idle, or by paying his labourers the minimum of wages fixed by the board in London. If he discovers that he will lose more by the latter plan, he immediately discharges his work men, who, as they cannot work for less than the minimum of wages, although very well disposed to do so, are compelled to remain idle, and ultimately to throw themselves for support on their respective parishes. He had listened with great atten tion to the speeches of the two Hon. Members who preceded him, and lie was compelled to say, that he had not heard a single argument fall from their lips to prove that any good would be derived from passing this measure. Mr. GILL ON declared himself in favour of the Bill, and called upon the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade, if he would not grant it, to point out some remedy for the distress of these unfortunate handloom weavers which he would grant.—( Hear.) Would the Right Hon. Gentleman give them a grant of public money ? We had given 1,000,000/. to the relief of the clergy of the state church in Ireland. We had given 20,000,0001. to ameliorate the condition of the negro slaves in the West Indies. Would the Right Hon. Gentle man give nothing to ameliorate the condition of our fellow countrymen at home ?—( Hear.) He called upon the Right Hon. Gentleman to give these poor weavers 20,000,0001. as a means of support until they could turn to some better occupa tion. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would make such a propo sition—(Oh, oh I)—lie would gladly second it.—( Oh, oh !) This Bill was only intended as a palliative of the distresses which the handloom weavers now experienced. It could not prove an effective remedy for those distresses, for the causes of them lay too deep to be cured by any single measure. To ob tain a perfect cure, we must reduce our taxation and diminish the load of our debt. He supported the Bill because the ob ject of it was to take the power of fixing the rate of wages out of the hands of those who made no scruple to grind the face of the poor, and to place it in the hands of those who, ac knowledging the labourer to be worthy of his hire, were in clined to pay a more liberal and at the same time a more rea sonable rat* of wages. The Hon. Member then proceeded to contend that the House was bound to pass this Bill as a pro tection for the poor weavers, and to remind Hon. Members that if Government would not extend protection to so large a class of the population, it must not be surprised if on some future occasion allegiance was withheld from it in consequence of protection being denied. Mr. CLAY opposed the Bill on the ground that there was a palpable absurdity in calling upon the House, as this mea sure did, to protect men against themselves. The distress of the handloom weavers arose out of circumstances over which the House could exercise no control. Dr. B 0 WRING would oppose the motion, because he be lieved that the interests of the working classes would be in jured instead of being benefitted by the Bill ; because he thought the community generally would suffer, and that the great trading and commercial interests of the country would be materially hijured by the adoption of the principle which it involved. The distresses of the handloom weavers, which he regretted, had been attributed to competition—a matter that it was impossible to prevent—to the introduction of ma chinery, which this Bill did not attempt, and which it was impossible, to regulate. On the contrary, the effect of the measure must be to turn the application of capital from hand-loom to power-loom weaving even more than at present, with a consequent addition to the distress of the weavers. It was impossible for the hand-loom to compete with the power-loom—that must be admitted. Foreign com petition necessarily depressed the wages of all artisans, in ad dition to which, in the case of hand loom weavers, there ex isted peculiar causes of distress, for theirs, was a trade easily learned, and exposed to the competition arising from an influx • of Irish labour. He was firmly of opinion that legislation on this subject would be either pernicious or useless, and it was because he wished well to the labouring classes that he must decline lending himself to a delusion, the result of which would be to work incalculable evil. He was desirous of see ing the labouring classes better taught and instructed, with a view to their being enabled to manufacture more perfect com modities and obtain a higher price for their labour. He was also favourable to the circulation of tables of prices of labour, which might show the workman where he could obtain the best wages; and desired to see every possible means adopted to raise the industrious classes from a state of want and degra dation to comfort and respectability. Mr. RICIIA RD S thought that Government had on this occasion taken that line of policy which wisdom, justice, and humanity called upon them to adopt. The speech of the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade was perfectly satisfactory : his reasons were fortified by experience, and based on the most indisputable principles of political economy. With respect to the motion, he thought it delusive and mis chievous, and, therefore, sincerely hoped that the Hon. Member for Lanarkshire would not press it to a division. Mr. H. FLEETWOOD supported the motion, because he considered that the Legislature was called on to place the humbler classes on the same footing of protection as the other interests of society. He asked with what justice could the House refuse to allow the introduction of a measure which had received the approbation of a majority of the Com mittee appointed to investigate the subject with which it dealt? If this were his last vote in the House, he should give it, not only on the principle of benevolence, but of equal justice, in favour of the Bill. Mr. W. WILLIAM S said he should vote in favour of the introduction of the Bill ; and he thought that the House was called on to adopt some measure for the relief of the large class of hand-loom weavers, who both in their petitions and in their evidence before the Committee complained that they were suffering under severe distress. Mr. L ABOUC HE RE thought that when any class of in dividuals were induced, either by ignorance or distress, to press upon the Legislature the adoption of measures which were not conducive to their permanent interests, it became the duty of an honest Minister and an honest Member of Parliament manfully and boldly to resist those ill-advised measures, and solely to consult the true interests of the people. He believed that the existence of severe distress among the hand-loom weavers was denied by no one, and that it was lamented by all ; but, in his opinion, the very introduction of the proposed Bill would, by exciting delusive hopes, aggravate rather than dimi nish the severity of that distress. He should therefore oppose the motion, and he was the more induced to do so, because he though that the indirect object of the Bill was to establish a minimum of wages, than which nothing could be more per- nicious. Mr. E. TENNE NT could not but regret the course which the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade had adopted upon this occasion, regretting altogether the introduction of this Bill. Although he (Mr. Tennent) could not agree in all. their extent with the opinions expressed by . the Hon. Member for Lanark, he felt it his bounden duty to give him his support to the introduction of this Bill. He could bear testimony to the fact, that the picture drawn by the Hon. Member for La nark of the existing distress among the handloom weavers was even below the reality.—( Hear, hear.) He could well re member the once flourishing condition of this most extensive class in the town and district which he had the honour to re present (Belfast,) where their number amounted to somo thousands. lie remembered when the quarter they inhabited was remarkable for its neatness and order; he remembered their whitewashed houses and their littlo flower gardens, and the decent appearance they made with their families at markets or at public worship. Those houses were now a mass of filth and misery, and their families, clad in rags, were ashamed to appear in public. At the time of which he spoke a weaver in Belfast could earn from 15s. to 255. a week by eight or ten /ours' labour, but they could now barely earn from 3s. 10d to Gs. by the work of a whole family from 14 to 16 hours a day. —( Hear.) But although they had seen ruin progressively gathering round them, their conduct had been peaceable, sub missive, and resigned ; and in 1826 several hundreds of them, fathers of families, had actually submitted to break stones for the public roads at 10d. a day. The only question for the House was, this evil being provod to exist in all its frightful enormities, whether it was prepared to try this or any other remedy for their relief? He wished the question to have fair discussion, as well with the hope of discovering a case for en the ot a e rr. x i i s s e t i i i ng in d v is a t i r n es a distress Lshegowislathtuerewfeoarvietzuthirayt their cry had n . M HUME said that heentirely concurred in the opinions -t s he to L i ;' A a