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11 ER MAJESTY'S THEATR hi THALBERG has the honour to announce that CONCERT will take place on MONDAY, July 17. A Programme of the arrangements will be shortly announced. HEE MAJESTY'S THEATRE. By Special Desire. TO-MORROW EVENING will be performed Donizetti's Opera of L'ELISIR Adina, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Nemorino, Signor Gardoni ; Beloore, Signor Belipttl ; and Dr. Dulcanaara, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the highly successful New and Original Ballet vertisaement, by 31. Perrot, the Music by Sig. Pugni, entitled, LES QUATRE SAISONS. Summer, Mdlle, Carlotta Grisi ; Autumn, Mille. Carolina Rosati Winter, Mille. Marie Taglioni; Spring, Mdille. Cerito. PAS.—Regne du Printemps, du Printemps, Regne de l'Ete, de l'Ete, Regne de l'Automme, de l'Automme, Regne de de I'Hiver, du l'Union des Saisons. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-effice of the Theatre. Doors open at half-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. u n l er the management of Mr. B. WebstQr. Role Lessee. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING Wil be performed the Comedy of MONEY. After which a new piece called the PAS DE FASCINATION ; or, Catching a Governor. Michael Browsky, Mr. Keeley ; Katherine Kloper, Mrs. Keeley. TO conoude with the Farce of SPRING GARDENS. Lord Court- Ington, Mr. A. Wigan ; Scoreup, Mr. Keeley ; La.ly Clarissa, Mrs. Seymour ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. rbta3e Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, 55..; Pit, 3e. ; Galle r y, 2 5. ; U pper Gallery, Is. Doors von at alf-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Wlll be perfbrmed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST ROME. Principal charactors by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bcdfbrd, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. After which a new Farce, called GOING TO THE DERBY THE DERBY DAY. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright; Mr. John James Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Chucks. Mrs. Matthews ; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. I .)ors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. itoYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. After which, THE BEEIGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. F. Matthews ; Polly, Miss Kath leen Fltzwilliam ; Lucy, Madame Vestris ; Jenny Diver, Z 133 Jane Coleman. To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Characters by Messrs. Harley, C. Mathews, Homier; Mrs. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Marshall. Dress Boxes, Is. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Fit, us. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The :New 140 x-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. PAINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland-place. THIS EVENING, Will bo performed THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. After which THE SPIRIT OF GOLD. Dres,i Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. THIS EVENING The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock, when Will be performed LE MAJOR CB.AVACHON. Le Major Crave ellen, M. Lemenil ; Dervieres, M. Berger; Olympe, Mdlle. Juliette; Arnelle, Mdlle. A. Duval. After which L'ALMANACH DES 25,000 ADRESSES. To conclude with L'OMELETTE FANTASTIQUE. t.oxes, bs.; Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2 1 Boxes and Stalls may be o bt a i ne d a t M r. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIIT coininues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness his extraordinary and original SOIREES PANTASTIQUES, which he will repeat TO-MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, comm enc i n at Half-past Eight. In consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his VAT IN EE S FA_NTASTIQUES on WEDNESDAY MoityLN G next, July 3. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Loyal Library, 23, Old Lond-atrcet. ROYAL SUIIRL'Y THEATRE---. Engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING. WM be performed TIIE CHATEAU VIP. After which, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with BART RATTLER. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Pairbrether. ASTLEYS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pitaball's new gorgeous Chivalrous Spectacl pre-eminently success ful.—Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR XION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field. To be followed by the inimitable EXERCISES OF THE EWES TREAN TROUPE. To conclude with VOL AU TENT. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement of Miss HUDDART. Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson. Superb and - Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, conducted by Mons. J EMMEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Ciotti, Collinet, Koenig, Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg, &C.—Two Solos each Evening. —?•idlle. Lovarny will sing two fa vourite Songs, Miss Huddart will sing a favourite Song, and with Madlle. Lovarny will execute an admired Duet. —Also to be seen, during the day. the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's liouse--The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola during yhe Rely Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten A.m., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission. as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication caa be attended to unless autheati cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JUNE 30. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest, 67; Noon, 6 BAROMETER, 29.68.—Wpw S.S. W.; showery. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. b 7 rain. after 12 Evening .. 26 min. alter 1 4,,t , 1 ... 4_,, t , o , e' , . ~,, , s ,I . C1 , J1,, 0 1' --` ...)- AZ ...' \ , A - - - - i• . .-___ 011111iir C Mt LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1843. /Alter a discussion which lasted no less than six en tire evenings, the House of Commons has at length divided on the West India question, and the Minis terial proposition has been carried by a majority of fifteen only in a House of 50 , 5, the numbers being— for going into Cornrnitte, 260, against it, 245. The minority consisted of persons wholly opposed to each other in political opinions, who appeared to be in fluenced by the most conflicting and opposite reasons for the votes which th ey gave. There were th e ultra-Protectionists, who desired that a high differen tial duty, amounting to a practical monopoly, should be perma n ently maintained, and wh o were utterly careless of the burden imposed on the working men of this c oun try by an increased price for an article o f the first necessity—of daily consumption even in the humblest dwellin gs, provided thei r d arling principle sh ou ld b e th e reby sustained, and the full development o f an unres t r icted trade and commerce retarded. Arrayed in the same ranks were to b e found others, actuated by a conscientious abhorrence of the atrocious traffic in human flesh, and who would gladly submit to any loss rather than that which might appear to be an encouragement of the unholy slave trade should be recognised or sanctioned Others, like the Hon. Member for Birmingham, op posed going into Committee, simply with the inten tion of getting rid of the Government measure alto , gether, of preventing any change, and abiding by the settlement of the question adopted in 1846, while the Right Hon. Members for the Universities of Ox• ford and Cumbridge desired something intermediate between the protection recommended by the casting vote of the Noble Chairman of the Committee on West India Distress, and that proposed by the Go vernment ; and, although:their views might properly have been submitted in Committee as a modification of the proposed plan, they still opposed the Speaker leaving the chair, because they did not in every re spect agree with Ministers. Many Irish Members also recorded their opposition, merely because the distillers of their country might possibly be injured by the reduction of the differential duties on Colonial and British spirits from 9d. to 4d., which they conceived not equivalent for the disadvantages sustained by the home manufacturer in con sequence of the stringency of the excise regu lations to which he is exposed. When the heterogeneous composition of the minority, consisting as it did of persons who may never again walk into the same lobby upon a division, is taken into account, it will not be surprising that the majority was so narrow, although it may seem strange that any persons could have supported the amendment ofthe Hon. Member for Droitwich, except those who de sired that a protecting duty of 10s. per cent. should be maintained for six years, if not for a longer period, The Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tam worth most ably refuted the arguments advanced in favour of the protecting duty of 105. He showed that it would not at all meet the alleged exigencies of the case. The West India body is distressed in consequence of the supply of labour not being adequate to the wants of the planters. That, at least, is the only ~tangible ground on which they E. could demand, as a matter of right and justice, his the suspension in their favour of the doctrines that have received the sanction of the great majority of the Legislature and of the community in general. As a remedy for this deficiency they ask for protection for colonial produce generally. Not merely for that of the West India colonies, where this want is felt, but also of the East Indies and the Mauritius, in both of which there is an ample supply of labour. Production will of course be stimulated in these latter settlements as well as in the West Indies, and the competition thus occasioned will, in a pecuniary point of view, be as injurious as that of foreign countries. It would lead also to a constant struggle to get rid of the obnoxious impost, which would, in all proba bility, be successful, or if not, would keep the West India body in a most difficult position, and would retard the other measures of legislation that are so urgently required. It would also decide the ques tion as to the rate of wages in favour of the indolent negro, who stands out for extravagant remuneration for his services, in order that the greater portion of his time may be spent in total idleness, and who is the real cause of West Indian distress, from his re fusal to render " a fair day's work for a fair day's wages." If the black population in the West India Islands could be induced to exert themselves as English labourers are compelled to do, in order to obtain a coarse and humble provision for their fami lies, there would be no want of labour to execute every operation incidental to the growth or the manu facture of the sugar-cane, and the cause of slavery would not be sustained by the argument which avaricious men are enabled to use, that the negro will not work unless actually corn. pelled to do so by the most stringent re gulations, and that, consequently, free labour can not compete with slave labour in a tropical climate, in which European workmen cannot be procured. The great points, required by the West Indians are an improved method of cultivation and manu facture, by which the utmost produce may be obtained from the lands, and the placing of the relations be tween the employers and the employed upon a proper footing. These great desiderata, which are wholly within the power of the planters themselves, would only be retarded by the protection of 10 5 . p e r hun dred for six years, which would induce them rather to rely thereon, and to make new appeals for its con tinuance when the period for which it was granted was coming to a close, than to make those efforts for a f ree an d unrestr i cted competition which can alone prove effectual and lay the foundation of a permanent prosperity. The Government resolutions propose to give a pre sent protection of 7s. for one description of sugar, which will be gradually diminished, accompanied also by such a reduction of duty as may fairly be expected to occasion a great increase of consumption, and thus afford the required assistance in the most beneficial manner. The House will go into Committee this evening, when we hope effectual progress may be made, so that the resolutions may be fully sanctioned before the sth of July, from which day the contemplated changes are to take place. We last week alluded to the meagre and unsatis 'actory character of the report recently published by ,he Committee appointed to inquire into the causes of the commercial distress during the past year. Al though that Committee was so constituted that on the very day when its members were nominated it was well ; known that the result of their deliberations would be to recommend a strict adherence to the provisions of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, it was supposed that they would, at least, have entered into some ex planations stating the grounds on which they had ar rived at such a decision, and defending the Act, to the policy of which a positive majority had been actually pledged before the commencement of their labours. Indeed the community had a just right to expect at their hands a positive state ment, as to " how far the distress had been affected by the laws for regulating the issue of bank-notes payable on demand." It was the very issue that they were empanelled to try, and they were bound to return a distinct answer to the question so asked. The Hon. Member for Westbury, in bringing for ward his amendments, stated " that his object was to obtain the sanction of the House that the inqui ries of the Committee should be more confined," and added, that " as the motion then stood, it would allow to the consideration of the Committee any subject which any Honourable Member might conceive to have been the cause of the re cent commercial crisis. Now, if he under stood the object of the Government, and the desire of the country, the object they had in this inquiry should be confined to the one question of banking and currency." And although that amend ment was withdrawn, it was perfectly understood, that if not the sole it was at least the chief topic for discussion, on which an unequivocal verdict should be pronounced. The Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, in moving for the Committee, said, " lam not ignorant, however, that many persons of great autho rity—of great experience --and of great practical acquaintance with business, differ from the views I have ventured to state to the House, and that they differ also in no inconsiderable degree amongst them selves on this subject. And it is, therefore, most desirable that the opinions of all those gentlemen dif fering as they do from one another on a point of vital importance to the country should be well and care fully considered. * * I think few can say that we have not learned something in the experience of the last 18 months, and for my own part I think it most desirable that a Committee consisting of persons of various opinions, taking very different views of this subject, should inquire into the matter, and by the collision of their opinions, and the result of the evi dence that may be laid before them, they may be able to throw additional light on this most complicated and difficult question." Such was the language used 14y the Right Honourable Baronet on that memorable occasion, and surely it could scarcely be conceived that tlse report drawn up by himself and adopted by the obedient majority would have been utterly silent on the subject. The value of the report would altogether depend on the validity of the reasoning, the soundness of the arguments by which it was sustained. The country did not require that the semblance of an investigation should be carried, or that they might know that Sir R. PEEL and three subordi na t e mem b ers of his Administration, and Lord d . RUSSEL L an d a s i milar number of his associates that the B an k Ch arter A ct should be sus.: esired tallied, in all its stringency, without alteration or mo dification of any descripti on. I t h ad too painful ex perience on the subject. The arguments of those persons might, h owever, have hadsome effect in changing the general that opinion,a a n t d hadh vindicating the . existing law from the censure versally cast upon it. "T hey in ee t n he s o words of Sir CHARLES WOOD, " have been able to throw ad ditional light on this most co olplieated an d di f f icult question." - No such elucidation has, however, b een vouchsafed to us—the Committee have wholly shr un k fr om the responsibility of g iving any response to the interro gatory exhibited to them. True it is they st ate, that Ll after a careful review of all the evidence, they are of opinion that it is not expedient to make any alter a _ tion in the Bank Act of 1844." But they do not venture to declare that the intensity of the crisis was not seriously aggravated by the operation of that Act ; that the mercantile distress, the panic, and want of confidence that prevailed throughout the entire country, and the fearful extent of losses in- curred by commercial houses, were not greatly en hanced in consequence of the existence of that law, the mere temporary suspension of which, accompanied as it was by conditions that almost neutralised the good effects of that suspension, had so immediate and so magical an effect in assuaging that pain, and restoring a certain degree of confidence, where all before had been gloom and despair. They simply state, that " the evidence which had been given as to the effects of the Act of 1844, has been contradic tory ; its beneficial effects, as regards the issue of the country banks, have been admitted by many of the witnesses, and although some have suggested an alteration of its provisions, very few have contested the general principles on which it is founded." This is, indeed, blinking the question ; they are asked to say how far the distress has been occasioned by those laws, and they tell us, in answer, forsooth, that the witnesses differ in opinion, but do not at all attempt to decide which of these witnesses are right and E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY which are wrong. What would be said if a jury to whom an issue of fact had been sent, merely stated that there was conflicting evidence ? or if a court of law, to whom a:disputed point had been referred, answered that skilful barristers entertained oppo• site views ? The parties who brought the case for ward were already perfectly aware of these disputes and differences, and it was to obtain a solution thereof that they had recourse to the judgment of another tribunal, and if the judgment was so vague and equivocal they would most probably conceive that much time had been misspent, and expense very uselessly incurred for such a result. So the Legislature and the country, who awaited a distinct answer to a plain and simple ques• tion, will conceive that they are very little wiser or better informed on the point than they were when the Committee commenced their labours, and that Parliament had indeed been most unnecessarily called together at an inconvenient period of the year, if all that was obtained in return therefor was the informa tion that " the evidence as to the effects of the Act of 1844 " was contradictory, and that the members of the late and of the present Cabinets were of opinion " that it is not expedient to make any alteration in the Bank Charter Act of 1844." Verily— " Parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE NEW MINISTRY. We yesterday announced that General CAVAIGNAC had been elected President of the Council, with power to appoint his own Ministry. The General at once proceeded to exercise the power thus conferred on him, and during the sitting of the Assembly on Wed nesday evening he presented the following as the list of his new Ministry : Senard Bastide Goudchaux Bethmont Lamoriciere Carnot Thouret Recurt Admiral Leblanc .. Marine. These names were well received, with the ex. ception of those of M. CARNOT and Admiral LE. BLANC. M. CARNOT, it will be recollected, was the Minister of Public Instruction under the Provisional Government, and emulated M. LEDRU ROLLIN in the ultra character of his circulars. lie probably owes his appointment to the respect in which General CAVAIGNAC, in common with every iniltary man, holds the memory of his father. His name was received with a burst of disapprobation by the Assembly. An attempt was made to oppose the appointment of Admiral LEBLANC, on the ground that he was not a Member of the Assembly, but it was over-ruled. The character of the Ministry is altogether one of moderation, and the appointment of General LAMORICIERE, the brother-in-law of M. TRIERS, would seem to indicate that it would receive the support of that gentlemen and his friends. It was to Gen. LAMORICIERE that ABD-EL-KADER surrendered. Gen. LAMORICIERE pledged his honour to ABD-EL-FADER that the terms of the surrender should be observed, and that the Arab Chief should be permitted to retire either to Syria or to Egypt, that word of honour so pledged was violated by the perfidy of GUIZOT, who disavowed General LAMORI CIERE, and on that pretence kept ABD-EL•KADER in France. General LamoafcrEEE is now himself Minister, and one of his first acts will no doubt be to permit the ex-Emir to transport himself either to Syria or to Egypt, as he had pledged himself to do at the time of the capitulation. Less cannot be expected from a brave soldier and a man of honour, such as LAMORICIERE has proved himself to be. Great allowance must be made for the extraordinary position in which General CAVAIGNAC is placed, but we must confess that we do not altogether like the composition of the new Ministry. It is too hetero geneous in its character to work well. How, for instance, can any united action take place in a Cabinet in which are M. CARNOT, the ultra-Republican, and friend of LEDRU ROLLIN, and General LAMORICIERE, the brother-in-law of TIIIERS, and the friend of the Due D'AIJMALE, whose Orleanist predilections are all but openly avowed. Nevertheless it must be ad mitted that it is a vast improvement upon the former Ministry, and the appointment of M. GOUDCHAUX as Finance Minister cannot but tend greatly to the revival of public credit. The appointment of M. SENARD to the Ministry of the Interior creates a vacancy in the Presidency of the Assembly. It is generally supposed that M. Du- FAURE will be the new President. It was during the course of the sitting of Wednesday that the election of General CAVAIGNAC to the office of President took place. At the commencement of the sitting the PRE SIDENT proposed the following proclamation, which was voted with acclamation : " TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE. " Frenchmen 1 Anarchy is conquered,—Paris is still standing, and justice shall be done ! Honour to the courage and patriotism of the National Guards of Paris and the departments ! Honour to our brave and ever glorious army ! to our young and intrepid Mobile Guard ! to our schools ; to the Republican Guard ; and to so many generous volunteers who have ascended the breach for the defence of order and liberty l All, with a con tempt of life, and with superhuman courage, have driven back from barricade to barricade, and pursued, to their last dens, those monsters who, without principles, without colours, seemed to have armed themselves for massacre and pillage alone.--(" Very well.") Family, institutions, liberty, country, all was struck at the heart, and beneath the strokes of the new barbarians, the civilization of the 19th century was doomed to perish. But no! civiliza tion cannot perish ! No ! the Republic—that work of God—the living law of humanity —the Republic cannot perish. We swear it by France herself; who rejects with horror these savage doctrines, in which family is but a name, and property but a theft. We swear it by the blood of so many noble victims, who have fallen beneath their fratricidal balls. All the enemies of the Republic had leagued against her in a violent and des perate effort. They are vanquished, and henceforth none of them can attempt again to cast us into such bloody collisions. That sublime enthusiasm, That from all parts of France has precipitated on Paris the thousands of soldier-citizens, whose loyalty has affected us all, does it not proclaim that, with universal suffrage, the grea t est cr i me i s to rise against the sovereignty of the people? Are not the decrees of the National Assembly there to confound the miserable calumnies, to proclaim that its our republic there are no classes, no privileges possible; that the ouvriers are our brothers; that their interests have always been with us the most sacred; and that, after having energetically established order, and assured severe justice, we will open our hearts and arms to all who labour and suffer amongst us? Frenchmen— unite in the holy love of country. Blot out the last traces of civil discord; maintain firmly all the conquests of liberty and democracy; let nothing cause us to swerve from the principles of our revolution; but let us not forget that society must be ordered; that equality and fraternity can only be developed in concord and peace; that liberty needs order to establish it, and to defend it from its own excesses. It is thus that we will consolidate our young Republic, and that in the future we shall see it from day to day become greater and more prosperous. May it acquire new power, and a new pledge of duration, from the trials which it has now un dergone." ... Interior. ... Foreign Affairs. ... finance. ... Justice. .. War. .. Public Instruction, .. Commerce. .. Public Works. When the President concluded, General Cavaignac addressed the Assembly, and declared that he desired to restore to it the extraordinary powers which it had con ferred upon him. He observed that the state of siege which exists did not necessarily infer the existence of a dictatorship, and that the latter was now unnecessary, and ought not to b e a ll owe d to cont i nue; b ut that the state of siege ought no t yet to b e removed. He con cluded by announc i ng t h at the Ministers had authorised Cavaig nac . him to give th e i r co ll ect i ve res i gnation. After a few w or d s from M. Flocon, The th an k s of the Assembly were then voted to Ge neraleral Cavaignac p ro p ose d t h at t h e Army, the Na tional Guard, and Garde Mobile should be included in this vote, Which was agreed to. A similar vote was passed to the President of the Assembly, and a tribute was offered to the memory of the o w Archbishop de fafPar Strasbourg) M. rn rreGteiin —( e;al Cavaignac, then prop ose d th e follow ing The As sembly confers the executive p with th e t i t l e o f the Pre. d3eoicaf:e sidentthe of the Council of M in i sters, with authority to ap point Cabinet." M. Portalis observed, that the General was in some measure a stranger to public affairs, and suggested that the Assembly appoint itself the Ministers, as otherwise it would have no chance of duration. Some Members having demanded that the two para graphs of the decree proposed by M. Martin (de Stras bourg) be put separately from the chair, a most con fused discussion ensued, amidst the greatest tumult. When silence was restored, M. Dufaure contended that the division was indis pensable in the interest of the liberty of all opinions, some Members being desirous to vote for the first para graph who would not give their approbation to the second. General Cavaignac next, demanded, as representative of the people, the division of the decree. This course being agreed to, The President read separately the different para graphs of the decree, sEVENING, JUNE 3O, 1848. " 1. The National Assembly confers the executive power on General Caysignac." This paragraph was unanimously adopted by the As sembly, and the whole House and the National Guards, who constituted exclusively the auditory in the public galleries, joined in the cries of " Vice la Rerpubligue " Vive le General Cavaignac .' " 2. The General shall assume the title of President of the Council." l'his paragraph was carried with the same unanimity. " 3. He will name his own Ministry." A Member asked that he should propose his Minis try, but the .Assembly voted the p aragrap h w i t h out heeding the objection, and not more than 30 rose against it. The entire decree was then adopted, the opposing Members not exceeding 20. The Assembly afterwards adjourned. On the sitting being resumed, at four o'clock, the Pre sident announced that M. Dornes, wounded at the bar ricade of St. Denis, was fast recovering. He then in vited the Members, in the interest of the wounded, to visit them only at the hours fixed by the administra tion of the hospitals, between seven and ten o'clock in the morning. The President next read to the Assembly the draft of the special decree relative to the Archbishop of Paris. It was thus worded:— " The National Assembly regards as a duty to pro claim the sentiment of religio us gra ti tu d e an d pro f oun d sorrow which all hearts felt for the devotion and saintly heroical death of the Archbishop of Paris." M. de liemilly then proposed to the Assembly to in vite its War Committee to prepare-Ist, A decree against secret societies ; 2d, Another relating to the clubs ; 3d, A third against the construction of barri cades ; 4th, A fourth regulating the posting of bills and the sale of political journals in the streets ; and, a fifth, relative to the caution-money and police of the press. He, moreover, dem an d e d t h at the Committee of the Interior be directed to prepare a decree on the dissolu tion of the national workhouses of Paris ; and a second on the non -armament of citizens who do not form part of the National Guard ; and, finally, to order the Mi nister of War to assemble a camp in the neighbourhood of Paris, or in the Champ de Mars. The Assembly afterwards adjourned. In the evening sitting, General CAVAIGNAC, as we have already stated, announced the formation of the new Ministry. General CHANGARNIER arrived on Wed nesday evening from Algeria, and immediately waited on General CAVAIGNAC, who had just received informa tion that an emeute had broken out at Courbevoie. General CAVAIGNAC requested the Governor of Algeria, if he did not feel too much f a ti gue d, t o l ose no time in prooceeding to Courbevoie. General CHANGARNIER immediately mounted his horse, and proceeded at once to Courbevoie. On his arrival there he found that it was a false alarm. General CHANGARNIER has been, it is said, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the National Guards. General BEDEAU, who has been obliged to undergo the operation of amputation of the leg in con sequence of the wound which he received on Saturday, will be appointed Governor of Paris. The insurgents although conquered are by no means subdued, and it is not improbable but that they may attempt to renew the struggle. At present, however, they confine their attempts to poisoning, and secret assassinations. Great emotion was excited on Wednesday at the corner of the Rue du Temple. The apothecary's shop at the corner of that street was surrounded by Gardes Mobile. A soldier of that guard had been taken to the apothecary's, in the hope of saving him from being poi soned. Notice was soon sent to all the chiefs of the Mobile, to put them on their guard against similar occurrences. These attempts to poison the troops have excited the utmost indignation and horror. Many of the principal thoroughfares and squares are converted into camps, where the troops bivouac. The inhabitants frequently send wine and provisions to those in their immediate neighbourhood. The late insurgents, who still prowl in large numbers about the town, and are well supplied with money, pretend, it is said, to sympathise in the general gratitude towards the troops who hare delivered the capital, and offer them wine, which, in some cases, has been incautiously accepted and found to be poisoned. Fears are entertained that these atrocious attempts are not unfrequent. On the same evening an officer was assassinated in the court of the Tuileries. The assassin was immediately arrested and shot. Two of the Gardes Mobiles were on the same evening assassinated in the Avenue of Mariguay, in the Champs Ely.!6os, and four soldiers who had entered a house in the Faubourg St. Antoine, which had capitulated early i❑ the morning of Tuesday, leaving two of their compa nions as sentinels at the door, were found in the house with their throats cut. The assassins had escaped through the roof. The following proclamation was posted in Paris on Tuesday afternoon : The representative of the people, Mayor of Paris, ,o the Mayors of the twelve arrondissements:— " Paris, Juno 27. " Citizens,—l have this instant received the following dispatch from the Executive Power:-- " Monsieur le Maire de Paris,—l request you will immediately re-establish order and free passage through Paris, and to adopt for this purpose all the measures which you may judge proper. The same order is ad dressed to the Generals who have the military occupa tion of Paris. " The Chief of the Executive Power, " CAVAIGNAC." "In consequence of this order, you will give instruc tions to the colonels of your legions to withdraw the consigne, the necessary severity of which had been in• creased in the execution by a zeal the good intentions of which at least I am glad to commend. This state of things must cease this day. The inhabitants of Paris must be informed that they have perfect liberty in their relations and their affairs. The state of siege, even if the Assembly should judge fit to prolong it, has nothing offensive for any peaceful citizen. I request you to neglect nothing to enable Paris to resume at once its usual aspect. were in possession of the insurgents being destined to be used in this frightful carnage." The Memorial de Rouen says, "Yesterday morning, when the roll of the liberated convicts en surveillance at Rouen was called over, it was found that 800 were absent. This is a very significant fact." The Constitutionnel has the following on the present state of Paris :—" The combat i s over, but the elements of disorder which the preceding administration had so imprudently allowed to accumulate have not disappeared. A rigid surveillance can alone prevent fresh calamities. The insurrection, though conquered, is still dangerous. After the fighting in the streets may commence the era of revenge and.assassination. The Government will be very guilty towards the noble and heroic population of Paris, who has so valiantly defended it ; towards the army, the Garde Mobile, and the Garde Republicaine, who have shed their purest blood in the cause of order, if by all their efforts they cannot defeat the designs of those eternal enemies of society and civilization. " We have already pointed out the peril to be feared from the incessantly increasing number of forfats liberes. Our prognostications have been but too well justified. They have been seen at work in every quarter of Paris. The Garde Mobile, those courageous and loyal youth, have been the victims of the most unheard-of cruelties. Brave soldiers who have gone as flags of truce have been cruelly massacred. Pillage and violation have been organized, and this impious war has everywhere assumed a character which reminds us of the exploits of cannibals. "Is the lesson complete enough ? Will the necessity be sufficiently understood of removing from Paris those wretches branded by the hand of justice, and whose only object is to overthrow social order ? " We have called on the Prefect of Police to put in force all the ordonnances relative to lodging-houses. The events which have occurred prove what assistance those houses have afforded to the insurgents. They have there concocted their schemes of conspiracy, and established their head-quarters during the struggle. The murderous fire which has decimated the National Guard and the army came for the most part from those houses and from the wine shops, and it is in those haunts that the defenders of order, in their subsequent search, have found great quantities of arms, and a mass of incendiary substances. "It is therefore necessary that establishments of this kind should be submitted to the strictest examination and surveillance. The security of Paris demands it, and the sad results of a long-continued toleration should serve as a lesson. "It is indispensable to cause to be returned into the arsenals of the State all the arms which have been re moved from them, and the legitimate use of which is not clearly shown. It is well known with what deplor able facility muskets were distributed after the last revo lution of February, for the re-organization of the Na tional Guards. Many men had three, and even four muskets delivered to them. A good address was all that was necessary to obtain one. The 15th of May showed us how the assistant police, as they were called, who had established themselves in the Rue de Rivoli, obtained arms and ammunition. More than once we have asked what had become of the barrels of powder given to the old Garde Republicaine. We now know too well. The detention of arms and ammunition is punishable by the penal code. It is for the Government to carry the law into strict execution. "Again, the attention of the police has been more than once called to the signals by means of which the conspirators communicate with each other. A num ber of the inhabitants of Paris have frequently witnessed lights moving about at night on different prominent parts of Paris, and on the roofs of houses, and which have been answered by other similar move ments in other quarters. These facts have been more than once denounced. Nevertheless, on the very day of eombat those signals still existed, and have powerfully contributed to the temporary success of the insurrection. At the moment when the Faubourg St. Antoine was taken private signals of this kind were observed to be at work, and only last night. they were seen from the top of a house in the Rue St. Honore. Is it necessary for us any longer to insist on the immediate and prompt attention of the Government to these facts, and to these guilty marceuvres? We sin cerely hope that M. TROUVE CILUTVEL will:adopt ener getic measures to protect the interests confided to his care. The honour of his administration is connected with it." The Menden?. du Soir gives an official contradiction to the report which had been extensively circulated in Paris, that several of the insurgents had been tried by court-martial and shot. " These reports," says the Moniteur, " are entirely false." The payment of the dividends on the Consolidated Funds, which became due on the 22d of this month, commenced on Tuesday, to be continued till the sth July. An apothecary at the Barriere de Fontainebleau charged with having manufactured gunpowder for the insurgents, stabbed himself to the heart when the National Guards came to arrest him. During the search made on Wednesday in the Fau bourg St. Antoine, the National Guards discovered thirty-seven armed men concealed in the cellar of the house No. 200. They had in their possesion 167 loaded muskets and all the necessary utensils for manufacturing bullets. They surrendered without resistance. The accounts from the departments continue favour able, and there had been no renewal of the disorders at Marseilles. M. OLLITIER, the Prefect, who, before his appointment, was clerk to LEDRU Rommr, is accused of having encouraged the insurrection. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JuNz 29. Namur and Liege, 2—Northe r n o f France, VA—Paris and Rouen, 16—Sambre and Meuse, 2%. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, and heard lunatic petitions and appeal motions of no general interest. VICE - CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor of ENGLAND.) His Honour was occupied the whole morning with the hearing of unopposed cause petitions, short causes, and causes petitions, of which there were nearly 140 in his paper, but none of which were of the least importance, except to the parties concerned. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Honour was occupied the whole morning with cause petitions. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) ,BEECH V. FORD.—JUDGMENT. His HONOUR gave judgment upon the question of costs in this case, directing the costs in equity to follow those at law. MILES V. LAWRENCE.—JUDGMENT. His HONOUR also gave judgment in this case, which came before him a short time since upon a motion for a receiver. His Honour dismissed the motion with costs. STAMPS V. THE BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND STOUR VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. This case was spoken to this morning, after which the Court took time to consider its judgment. The case came before his Honour a short time since upon a mo tion to dissolve an injunction granted during the long vacation of last year. The object of the injunction was to restrain the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company from " proceeding to construct a tunnel under the plain tiff's houses, situate in Paradise-row, Birmingham. so as to destroy or damage the messuage and premises thereon, or the foundations thereof, and from doing any act whereby the messuage and premises might be in jured, until the company should have put in their answer to the bill, or until the further order of the Court." It appeared that in the original operations of the company it was proposed to carry a tunnel beneath the plaintiff's houses, but in such a manner as in no respect to endanger them. The company accordingly served the plaintiff simply with the notice calling upon him to fix a value upon the land through which the line would pass. The engineers finding, however, that the surface might possibly be endangered, in consequence of the blasting of the rock, which formed the substratum of the plaintiff's foundations, it was deemed advisable to serve a second notice applicable to the plaintiff's surface rights. The plaintiff did not attend to this notice until the time for claiming compensation given by the 18th section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act had expired. The company, under the powers given by the 85th section of the Act, proceeded to obtain a valuation of the property, and entered into the usual bond. They bad also put in their answer to the bill, and they now sought to dissolve the injunction, and to have the bill dismissed on pay ment of costs. In support of the injunction it was argued that the Act of the company did not empower them to interfere, for mere tunnelling purposes, with the surface rights of the proprietors of lands; that the com pany were bound by the first notice, which related merely to the land which would be removed for the pur pose of the tunnel, and that the 85th section restricted the company to one notice alone; and that if neither of these points were tenable, the bond was not formal, being made voidable, in the alternative, upon payment " or' on deposit of the money in the bank for the benefit of the party entitled. The Vice-Chancellor, at the conclusion of the reply of the Solicitor-General the other day, stated that with respect to the point that a railway company had given notice of taking a portion of the land of a pro prietor had exhausted their powers, and could not by a further notice acquire a right to take a larger portion of the same, he should have had no doubt that the com pany, acting bond fide, and not capriciously, mi g ht within their powers give a second notice for a larger quantity of the land which they had originally been authorised to take ; but the Vice-Chan cellor of England, in the case of the Lancaster and Carlisle Rnilway, appeared to have expressed an opinion that the company were not empowered to act upon a second notice, after having proceeded upon a prior notice. It had been a common occurrence, that after having taken land for a cutting, on be ginning the works it was found that, from the softness of the earth or other causes, it had been neces sary to incline backwards to a further point and thereby obtain a greater breadth ; and the companies in such cases had been obliged to proceed a second time under their powers to take a further portion of land. That had been done and sanctioned by the Court in the case of " Webb v. Manchester and Leeds Railway Company." In this case the company found that they could not con struct the tunnel without blasting, and they had deter mined to take the surface also. It might be impossible to complete the railway unless the company were enabled to act under their powers as the necessity arose. Upon the other point, whether there was sufficient evidence of the company having proceeded under the Land Clauses Consolidation Act to give the bond thereby required, he would peruse the affidavits and reserve his judg ment. Upon these instructions from his Honour tho case was set down to be spoken to to day, when it was contended, on behalf of that company, that they had complied with all the con ditions imposed upon them, and were entitled to have the injunction dissolved. The VICE-CHANCELLOR took time to consider his judgment. ELLIS V. COWNE. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied to day in this case, and His HONOUR deferred giving judgment. EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY.) (Before the CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) ALBANO V. SIR JAMES DUKE. This action was brought by the plaintiff, a civil en gineer and surveyor, against Sir James Duke, in his character as a provisional director of the Oxford, Whit ney, and Cheltenham Independent Railway Company, for 3,3211. 15s. 9d., alleged to be due for work and labour done. The Court was occupied nearly the whole of yester day in hearing the case on either side, and this morning, when the Court called upon the defendant's counsel to proceed, - Mr. MARTIN said, that since yesterday his client, the defendant, had received a communication from some other members of the provisional committee, and he was now prepared, if the other side would consent, to allow a verdict to be taken for the plaintiff for 500/. In mak ing that offer, however, he was not to be understood as admitting the defendant's liability for the claim urged by the plaintiff. After a short consultation between the parties, a ver. dict was taken by consent for 5001. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) CASH AND OTHERS V. WARING. This was an action upon a mortgage for 500 L The mortgage was executed in May 1847, for payment of the amount in November following. The covenant having been broken, the plaintiffs adopted the present pro oeedings. The Learned SECONDARY said the deed itself was con clusive, for if the defendant had any good grounds to "liege, ho ought to have pleaded them; but by allowing judgment to go by default, he could not reduce the amount below what was stated on the record. The jury gave a verdict for 500 L, and la 7s. 6d for interest. " The Mayor of Paris, " A. MARRAST." General CAVAIGNAC has given orders for the imme diate disarmament of the Bth, 9th, and 12th Legions of the National Guard. The Bth comprises the Marais, the 9th the Faubourg St. Antoine, the 12th the Fau bourg St. Marceau (the Garden of Plants, the Gobelins, &e.) Tho 12th Legion had elected BARBES as its Co lonel, and, during the attack on the Pantheon, joined the insurgents. lie has also ordered the disarmament of the National Guards of Belleville and " the Courtille," and after the Legions were disarmed they were dis solved, and an order is issued to disarm every man who had not been fighting against the insurgents. General Cavaignac will follow up this course until he has placed Paris in perfect safety. Orders have been given to disarm the inhabitants of Montmartre, and to effect another search in the quarries. A battalion of National Guards of every legion of Paris was to proceed on the expedition. On Wednesday twenty-six carriages of all kinds wer e sent from the interior of th e capital to Vincennes, con taining about 30,000 muskets taken from the insurgents. The escort, composed of dragoons and cuirassiers, reached from the bridge of the Tuileries to Pont Neuf. Amongst the arms are a number of air-guns, which, it is supposed, were used for assassination from windows. Gun-cotton was found in immense quantities. The judicial inquiry, relative to the individuals incar cerated during the insurrection, is continued. The evidence already obtained shows that, on the morning of the 23d, chests of arms and ammunition were sent to a waggon-office at La Villette, and that 1,500 guns were distributed to the insurgents. It has been ascertained that active preparations were made by all the leaders for four days before the out break; places were assigned at which the various batta lions were to assemble, depots of arms and ammunition were regularly provided, posts were assigned to the several commanders, and councils of war were held daily. Among the chiefs were the commanders arid brigadiers of :the Atelier Nationaux, the officers of the late Re publican Guard, whose character and antecedents caused them to be rejected on its reorganization, the privates who had been expelled from this guard, the late guard of the mountaineers, some few deserters and officers of the Garde Mobile, the heads of the most violent clubs, the editors of the most furious journals, and those of the liberated convicts who had exhibited most capacity. The insurgents must have had upwards of 40,000 men under arms. But this was not all, they were aided by the treachery of some of the subordinate persons employed by the Executive Government. One of the National Guards who was at the attack on the Clos St. Lazare kept one of the cartridges which had been served out to them. It was found to contain saw dust instead of powder. This cartridge is now in th e hands of the officers who commanded. The paper of which it is made is the same as that used by the Govern ment for making their cartridges. M. LALANNE, who was appointed as the successor to M. EMILE THOMAS as director of the Ateliers Nation aux, has been arrested on a charge of having sent money to the men engaged in the insurrection in the Rue St. Antoine. The friend and associate of SOBRIERhas been arrested. On him were found orders to the emissaries of the in sinbdyicahtiisnglofty styl e o f s p ea ki ng , observables in surrection, r recti o a in nd th p e ap cl e u r b s aides and the names of the chiefs.theThis n man, sf t h who b rwasri now appears much disconcerted. When interrogated he shed tears. Among the chiefs of the insurrection who have been arrested are NAPOLEON LEBON and KERSAUSIE. M. VATRIN, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 6th Legion, has been arrested, by order of General LAMORICIERE. After having been admitted to the conference on the plan of the attack, be was taken in the ranks of the insurgents. The military committee at the Palace of the Tuileries has already examined upwards of 300 prisoners; almost all of them were in possession of pieces of gold; some of them had even five louis. "We saw," says the " a box full of money, which had been taken from the insurgents." Several of the prisoners, when asked by the judges why they did not surrender before, replied, "We had to earn the money which had been given to us." None of them have as yet betrayed the names of their instigators. On one of the insurgents wAs found the following draft of a decree written in pencil:—Art. 1. All the citizens who pay more than 200 f. in taxes are deprived of their civil and political rights fur 10 years. Art. 2. All the property, both real and personal, belonging to citizens who have exercised public functions of any na ture since 1815, is confiscated. Art. 3. The constitution of France is that of 1793. Art. 4. The army is dis banded. The Journal du Havre says—"lt appears certain that the banquet at 5 sous was nothing less than one vast conspiracy, in which all the guests invited—and they would have been very numerous—were to be massacred under the pretext of fraternization; alt the arms which MARKET NEWS.-(IRIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. A very moderate supply of Wheat of home produce has been received up to our market this week, coastwise as well as by land carriage. To-day the show of samples of that grain was small in the extreme. Selected qua lities of both red and white moved off steadily at, in some instances, an advance in the prices of Monday of is per quarter. All other kinds were firm, and quite as dear. Scarcely any foreign Wheat has come in since our last report. Rather large quantities wore disposed of to country dealers at extreme rates of currency. Bonded parcels were quite as dear, notwithstanding the advance in the duty to 103 per quarter. Barley was a slow in quiry; but, as the imports are not so large this week, holders would not submit to any further reduction in value. The Malt trade was very dull and late rates were with difficulty supported. Oats, Beans, Peas, and all other articles moved off slowly at late rates. 'ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour 2 , 930 qrs. 80 qrs. 1,490 qrs. 1,890 s k s . 1,850 12.170 -- English ...... 1ri5h......... Foreign ...... 5,420 Malt, 910 qrs. S MITE/I'IEIAL The supply of Beasts at to-day's market was by no means so large as that exhibited on this day se'nnight: nevertheless, it was quite equal to the wants of the butchers. Comparatively speaking, the Beef trade was firm, and, in some instances, the quotations had an up ward tendency. However, the highest general figure for the best Scots did not exceed 4s per 81bs. With foreign Beasts ,we were scantily supplied ; but from Scotland, we received 350 Scots. The numbers of Sheep were tolerably good. All breeds moved off steadily, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, Monday's prices. For Lambs we have to report a very inactive demand, at, in some instances, a decline in value of 2d per 81bs. From the Isle of Wight, 150 came fresh to hand. There was rather more doing in Calves, at the late de cline in price. Pigs moved off heavily, at our quota tions. Mulch Cows were very dull, at from 151 to 181 each, including their small Calf. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. to 8. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 5 0 3 2 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 Second quality -•• • 3 2 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime large Oxen— 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 410 5 0 Prime Scots .. .••• 3 10 4 0 Ditto out oftho wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs ...... 310 4 2 Prime small ditto .. 4 0 4 2 Small Porkers ••• • 4 4 4 6 Suckling Calves •• 17 0 25 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 22 0 Inferior Sheep .. •3 10 4 2 Lambs •• ••••• • • • 4 8 410 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. f 10.400 622 320 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pigs. 72 110 242 NEWGATE AND LEADENRALL . These markets were tolerably steady to-day, at full prices. Beasts. 849 At per stone by the Carcase. s. A. to s. d. R. d. to s. d. 2 6 2 8 Mutton, Inferior .. 3 4 3 6 '2 1 0 3 0 --- middling.. 3 8 4 4 3 2 3 4 ---- prime .... 4 6 4 8 3 4 3 c. Pork, 1arge........ 3 8 4 2 3 4 4 2 --- 5ma11........ 4 4 4 8 Lamb. 4s 8d to 5s 10d. Bee f,inferlor...... - middling ...• - prime large .• - prime small . • Vea1.. nortouGa RoP mAREET. An excessively heavy demand continues to be ex perienced for all kinds of Hops, the show of which is seasonably extensive, and prices have further declined 2s per cwt. The plantation accounts are favourable, and the duty is called from 190,0004 to 200,0001. Sussex pockets, 21 14s to 31 2s per cwt; Weald of Re ditto, 21 185 to 3! 3s per cwt; Mid an d East Kent ditl 3/ 5s to 5/ 6s per cwt. Rum.—The inquiry has been limited. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 44s 6d to 45s per cwt.' SALTPETRE. — CaIcutta has been taken in rather abov l the value. MR. HUME and the NEW REFORM MOVEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - SIR,—I have been greatly disappointed at being corn" pelled to consent to the postponement of the resu med debate, whi c h stoo d for to-morrow, on Parliament s *: Reform, to Thu rs d a y next , t h e 6 t h of July. But I bac ! no power of preventing it, as the Government, pressed by the accumulation of public business, were unwilling to surrender their right of precedence to-morrow -4° arrangement to which Lord John Russell had given * provisional consent. As I stipulated for a Governmen6 day, in order to secure the continuance of the discussion of this important question, I can only regret a delay which has been forced upon me; and I entertain ne doubt that the promi se o f the Government will be faith fully kept, and that the debate will be proceeded with on Thursday, the 6th of July, as now fixed. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOSEPH HUMS. House of Commons, June 29. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 29.—Sir Charles has returned to this port and re-hoisted his flag on board the St. Vincen t ships and vessels will sail, in pursuance of orders a; present in force, on the 10th of July, under the Gallant Admiral's command. There is now no doubt but tba s Sir Charles has :been selected to succeed Sir Liam Parker, in the Mediterranean command. TO Caledonia, 120, will be the flag-ship of Sir Charles il l the Mediterranean. The Gleaner, steam-vessel, acting-master Cora' wander Ballaston, arrived last night from Bermud,i a ' She came into harbo ur this afternoon and w i ll be 10' up for the present. Twenty seamen from the St. Vincent, and a liir ° number from the Prince Regent, were brought in frail Spithead early this morning by the Lightning steamer; to be employed in assisting the crews of the Medusa an Merlin mail steam-pack e t s t o expe di te t h e fi tt i n gs °` those vessels for sea, both being wanted to go to the Me" diterranean immediately. There has been a fresh gale varying from S.W. by to W. to-day, but it lulled about 2.30, P.M, Wind W' fresh breezes, and cloudy weather.—Five, rat. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, APRIL 21. The Presidents 50, Captain Stanley, bea r i ng th e flag of Vice-Admir t ! Dacres, the Commander-in-Chi e f, sa il e d f rom Simon , Bay on the 15th for the Mauritius, taking the Rosemont! steam-sloop, Commander Foote, with him part of lh° way. The Rosamond was t o go to M ozam bi q ue wit h dispatches, and then on to the Mauritius to meet the Admiral there. The G e y ser s t eam - s l oop , Command e r Brown, left this on the 18th, ca lli ng o f Buffalo Bit e r to land Colonel Hare, an d th en goes on to t h e Mauritiu s to join the Admiral ; an d th en t h ey a ll go to Tamaut s v to make a treaty with th e Q ueen o f M a d agasca r. i rm ° Brilliant, 26, Captain Watson, left this about a m on , since for Mauritius, and remains there until the Au' miral's arrival, and then she would go to Talhat a r, l , with him. The Eurydi ce , 26, Captain Anson, is come here to refit ; an d the Nimrod, Commander Belgrave, on the Eurydice's arrival, w ill take th ° Bishop of the Cape t o S t . H elena on a visit. T t. b „ e Admiral still feels th e l oss o f hi s son most acutely. T'" Mariner, 12, Co mman d er Mathison arrived here on tb 15th, the d a y th e Ad m i ral left; s h e was 17 days fro' frool Rio, and left at anchor there the Meander, 44, Captai n the Hon. H. Keppel; the Inconstant, 36, Captain Sher . pard; the Acheron steam surveying ship, Captain Stokes; and the Hyd ra s t eam s l oop, C om mander Skip' with ;—all from Engl an d. The Mmander and Acheron are expected here hourly, as they were to leave thre: days after the Mariner, which has been here nearly. week. The latter leaves this on the 25th for India. . 111 ,, is quiet and going on prosperously in the colony. Thy have had a severe hurricane at the Mauritius; the _ da mage done is considerable. The Fox, 42, Commodo: Sir Henry Blackwood, is expected here every day fro , India, homeward bound; also the Albatross, 14, Can to wander Farquhar, from the coast of Africa, en route e _ for service on this station. he Seringapatam store -s India. Th e D evastat i on s team-sloop, Comman der Michell, T Michell, is al so d a il y expected here from the coast r Master-Commanding Russell, is in Simon's Bay. de SOUTHAMPT O N, T HURSD AY.—The English o ar q - i John King, with 1,000 boxes of sugar, i n twenty - eig h days from Havannah ; the American ship Captain Crosby, with 2,950 boxes of sugar, in swentlY; eight days from Havannah ; the American hall o Amos Patten, Captain Foster, with sugar, twen t .V ] ii s . days from Havannah; and the American brig oar,ott bury, Captain Pilsbury, with 2,740 boxes of ves fifty-two days from Matanzas, have arrived 0- ° for orders. - L -,„,„, /) On STAMPS AND TAXES BENEVOLENT -v '•n to Wednesday a select party of the gentlemen belong' City Monter'', the Stamp and Tax O ffi ce visited Sheerness in the_ t. 9 of Canterbury steam. boat. After having visited 1 1 flag-ship they were received on board the Benbow, hu to the Wellingt on d epot s hi p , comma nded by Captain fo r Superintendant D av id P r i ce. D anc i n g w" kept up t a h fee Trafalgar, hours, a n l d 2o t h g e n v n i s e , w a b o n f u the b being g ps of ductive of the hig he s t Me Taylor , th e gratification. -• erf commanding o ffi cer, Mr. Huggins pa master and purs Drs. Galvin and Hunter, and 'Mr.YWood contribute' their best assistance to the entertainment of the day _ NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. An entire alteration war, includinn..; takes place in the time table on this line of railway paid off, was p t r o: morrow, in consequence of the directors having orderett an acceleration of the express trains. WC CHANNEL ISLANDS.-- The Postmaster ha s ' " issued an order, setting forth that on and after th P July, the steam-packets conveying the Channel Is is° andwill leave Southampton on Tuesdays, ThursdaY,s, d i Saturdays, upon the arrival at that town of the nig h train from London of Monday, Wednesday', a n Friday, and will be dispatched from Jersey, on t he re d ° turn to Southampton, on Monday s, Wednesdays, °- Fridays, at eight o'clock, A.M. BTh?HB. On the 25th inst., at Q ueen ' s - crescen t, Glasgow, Ors' A. Scott, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at St. Paul's-road, Camden-villas, the wife of F. R. Cox, Esq., of a son. le On the 26th inst., Mrs. Legg, of York-place, Camber / New-road, of a daughter. John On the 28th inst., at the G rove , Cl a pham-road, grs• Montetiore, jun., of a daughter. DIED. On the 23d inst., at James-street, St. James's-park , Mrg i John Stanford, wife of J. St an f or d, E sq ., of Dublin, an d only daughter of Sir Andrew and Lady GreEn, aged 19 .;, , On the 23d inst., aged 53, a t D e bd en P ar sonage, x's s ' — ' Frances Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev. W. J. Totton. On the 24th inst., at the Vicarage, Little Marlow, Bucks' the Rev. S. birch, D.D., 42 years rector of the united parisbel of St. Mary Woolnoth, and - St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, and also vicar of Little Marlow, aged 67. On the 27th inst., in London, C a p ta i n F. W em yss, Bombaf Engineers, aged 36. London : Printed and Published by MURDOYOUNG,B,2! No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er at Th e S un Offi ee , No. 11 c 'Strand, in the Precin c t o f t h e S avoy, i n t h e COUnq o f Middlesex, Friday, June 30, 1848. COLONIAL. SuGAL—There has been a steady market for Britisk Plantation, but not much activity. The holders doll press sal es . Good yellow Trinidad, 39s 6d to 40s 6d; a nd fine brown, 375. Refined standard lumps 55s 6d pee cist'i EAST INDlA.—Bengal 8,230 bags sold at full rat' s.l Behares low whit e , 40s to 40s 6 , 1 ; fine and good soft yell low, 38s 6d to 39s 6d. MAuritius 6,308 bags 104 tierces only partly sold ; fins, and good yellow, 40s 6d to 43s 6d ; and goo d an d fine brown, 36s to 375. Cbiai 6,964 bags went at 28s to 308 for low and very low brown . FOREIGN. --Cuba has been taken in at 39s to 41s 6 3 1 for low and mid yellow. COFFEE.—Jamaica has been sold at 475 to 70s 6d for, low mid and mid, a t 36 s to 46s for f i ne an d fi ne ord, at 32s to 34s for good ord. Ceylon has been rat her cheaper. Good mid 80 s to 833, mid 53s to 635; and fine' ord to low mid 37s to 50.; per cwt. Mocha has de' clined. Good y e ll ow clean garbled 52s 6d to 5 3 s 6a .:1 bee and low mid 46s t o 47 5. P a d ang goo d or d b a s ." taken in at 275. Cocoe.—Trinidad has been taken in at 365 to 425. RICE.—The market is not so high. Madras bas bees' taken in at 8s to 9s, an d B enga l has realised 9s to 125 per' cwt ; Java ord white Is 6d to Ils per cwt. SPlCES.—Pimento has been sold at 33-d to 30 Pe rlb i and low mid at 31d. S umatra pepper has b een at pre - vious rates. TEA.—The market is steady, except for Twanksif which has been cheaper. -- PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY NIGHT.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Puc ht ' Captain Olive, has just arrived h ere f ro m the Modite r ' ranean. Her dates are Genoa, June 17 ; Leghorn, 16; Civita Vecchia, 15 ; Gibraltar, 22. The Pacha brings 42 passengers, and the followiri on freight :—Nine b oxes pomegranates, fif ty - s ix bale silk, forty packag es pi ctures and works of art , o ne 10 " ne - dred and thirty boxes Italian oil, seven p i pes a, fi,fIYI packages wearin g a p pare l , n i ne casks skins. and fiiSt packages sundries. On the 28th, off Ushant, the Pacha spoke the re,e ill ; :. sular steamer Sult an , an d on the 21st p asse d the 0.11 Thomas Metmalf, going to the westward. The political advic es f rom I ta l y b y this arr i val ar e anticipated. Commerce in all the Italian ports wa s , almost at a stand still, ar i s i ng f rom the uncerta i n ties °` public affairs. From Gibraltar we have three days later news tbsu f brought by the Hi n d ostan. H er Majesty's stesme o Poi) phemus had returned to the bay—thirteen days fro Port Vendre, and eight from Barcelona. Don Jose Portal, the ex-leader of the Seville in' surgents, was at Gibraltar, to which place he had b een conveyed, unde r an assume d name by t h e steam er Madrid, from Li s b on , d ur i ng h e r last o utward voyage. In commercial matters at Gibraltar there was Yer l little change. The Commissary-General of the garriso, had published p ar ti cu l ars o f a contract f or t h e supply . CI 1,208,0001 b. of beef, for the use of the troops. Irish pork sales 18 dolls. to 20 dolls. per barrel; Irish beet in demand at 14 dolls. 3c. to l 6 dolls. per barrel; Aa 3 e:l rican beef 11 dolls. 6c. to 12 dolls. ; American pork , 14 dolls.; flour, 6 d o ll s . 6c. • sr. Exchange on L on d on , 90 days, 48i; on Paris , , 30c.; Mars e ill es , sf. 3 2c.; Genoa, sf. 32c.; at eight da y , on Madrid, 4 di scount; C a di z, -Idiscount; Malaga, w discount; Seville, s to discount; Alicante and Va t : lencia, discount; Barcelona, discount; Spanis h Pillared Dollars, 2 per cent premium. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 24th have arrived. CHRISTINA is, it is said, about to proceed to Seville, to be present at the accouchement of the Duchess of MONTPENSIER. Rumours of a Ministerial crisis were rife. The Bolsa was closed on the 24th. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Archduke Jonx was expected to arrive in 'Vienna on the 24th, to undertake the conduct of all the affairs of this Government, as delegate of the EM PEROR. Baron Von WEssENnEtto was also expected. It is asserted that he has resigned the portfolio of the Interior into the hands of his MAJESTY, and intends quitting the Ministry. From intelligence received from Venice it appears that a deputation has been sent to the head-quarters at Verona, for the purpose of concluding the negotiations with Austria. According to appearances, however, the unconditional subjection of Venice must imme diately ensue, as the corps of Field-Marshal WEL DEN may be said to be actually facing the city, and all the other Venetian cities have hoisted the Aus trian eagle. The trial by court-martial of Count ZICRY, the late Commandant of the city and fortress of Venice, is now over. Count ZICHY has been convicted and sentenced to death. The Minister of War has urged the E➢tPERoR to confirm the sentence. Count PALEY, the late Governor of Venice, has been dismissed without a pension. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Cologne Gazette has a letter from Altona of the 25th inst., stating that the preliminaries to a treaty of peace are already signed. It is asserted that the basis of this peace is the political separation of the duchies from Denmark, and the acknowledgment of the right of succession of the Agnates. Prince FERDINAND, the King's uncle, is to act as Governor, with the present Provisional Government as his Mi nistry. LOMBARDY. The troops of CHARLES ALBERT Occupy Cerano. The Finance Minister of Piedmont has proposed to contract for a loan of 12 millions of livres. GREECE. Accounts from Athens of the 28th May state that the rebellion has been completely suppressed. POSTPONEMENT OF THE OPENING OF THE YORK` ROAD EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY (THIS Des.)—The York-road Extension of the South- Western Railway was to have been opened for passen gers to-day, but the unfinished state of the station in Waterloo-road, and the discovery last night that the triangular bridge across Griffin-street, York-road, which has only been erected within the last fortnight, is not yet sufficiently consolidated, have induced the directors to postpone the opening for a few days. DEATH OF TEM WIDOW OF THOMAS Trrom.—We are sorry to have to record the death of Mrs. Thom, the widow of the bard of Inverury, which took place on the 17th instant, at Inverury, whither she had returned after the death of her husband. A cold which she had caaght on her journey homewards resulted in typhus fever of the most malignant sort. Her three young children are now orphans indeed, and are cast upon the world at the helpless ages of eight months and two and four years. The Queen has given a donation of 101. to the fund for behoof of the orphans, and the total sum raised by the joint efforts of the general committee in Dundee, and the auxiliary committee in London, already somewhat exceeds 2501.—Dundee Advertiser. VAUXHALL-GaanEris.—The following distin guished members of the &tut ton ♦isited the " Royal Property" last evening: ---Duke and Duchess of Buc cleuch, Viscount Emlyn, Earl and Countess of Bruce, Earl of Shelburne, Countess of Dunmore, Count de Neuskell, the Hon. George and Lady Caroline Dun combe, the Hon. Thomas and Lady Emma Vesey, Sir Edward and Lady Butler, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Tre lawney, Hon. Charles Butler and family, Hon. John Buller, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Munster, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Wrottesley. THE RUMOURED RETIREMENT OF DR. CHAMBERS. —We have authority to state that Dr. Chambers is suf fering from a temporary indisposition, but is expected to return to practice in the autumn. ;. !! 1 r c 7". I ~ 7