The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

[6% 19% 25% 65s 12 1 4 154 28% ion; 8 1 / 4 69 1 / 4 lok 6 4 1 4i fitly shore gale k tb• boot ivied The is put land , ; so d as to OVP DO aliC h e , Cl hire l d Of CO' i nt ; COFFEE is quiet; 200 bags - oid Demilgo bold private.% 11 ' 265. Rum. —The quantity landed last wee': at the E: st and West India Docks was 1,021 puns 105 bluls thcie w , •re taken for home consumption 374 puns 27 hhds and ex ported 201 puns 403 hhds. The stock in the same places is 19,026 puns 3,307 hhds. BALTPETIM —2,200 bags Bengal were all realised at aril after the sales, in some instances at rather easier rates; to 2 per cent, refraction at 25s 3d to 26s 6d ; good East India refined brought 275. SPicss.-1,450 bags Black Pepper at auction sold steadily, Ord grey to good black Sumatra at 2*d to 21 per lb. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 44s per cwt on the spot, and Toar 46s 6d. Tsw•—The market is steady, and the consumption good. COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Dean's Primrose ...... 13s Od Belmont lGs 3d Hasting's Hartley lss Od Braddyll's Hetton !Gs Gd Holywell Main ........ 14s 6d Bell New Tanfield l3s Qd Hetton . l7s 0, Newcastle Hartley .. 14s OdLambton Ord'a Redheugh South Peareth Tanfield Moor ......... 13s 6d Cassop. ... .. Townley l3s 6d Kelloe l6s Ot' Wall's End, &c. South Durham lss G 6 Medley Hilda lss 3d Coke Washington Eden Main l6s Od Ships at market...s9. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman FARNCOMB.) CASE OF POISONING.—Upon the application of Mr. CLARK- S", Who appeared for Mary Spry and Mary Ann Dore, who stand charged with the murder of an infant child, the former 'ling the grandmother and the latter the mother of the _ z ii l(l , it was considered by the Court that the body should be placed in the hands of Mr. Taylor, the eminent chemist at Gay's Hospital, for the purpose of having the contents of the stomach analysed. The two prisoners, who occupy a respectable position in society. were charged upon a coroner's Inquisition, and serious doubts have since been entertained 118 to the truth of the statement that the death of the child W as caused by the administration of poison. 41bert Brown, cabinet-maker, aged 21, was indicted with ste aling, in the dwelling-house of Charles Wyeth. one watch and chain, value 14/., the property of William Vaughan. William Vaughan deposed that the prisoner lived in the same house with him, and that he quitted suddenly on the nth of July without giving any notice. On the same day he missed the watch and chain. He received a letter from t he prisoner a few days afterwards, stating that the watch p as at Chatham, and the chain in a pawnbroker's shop in the Westminster-road. Upon making inquiries, he found out the prisoner, and he then admitted that he had taken the property in question. Mr. Attenborough, of the Western-road, pawnbroker, proved that the chain was pledged with him by the prisoner. A person of the name of Nathan stated that the prisoner asd offered the watch to him for sale. The prisoner's employer gave him a good character. ' The RECORDER having summed up, The jury found a verdict of Guilty, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for six calendar months, in the House of Correction, with hard labour. n George Lewis was indicted with defrauding William urst out of the sum of two guineas, upon the representation that it was due as a fee to the district surveyor. ; The prosecutor stated that he was the owner o f a beer-sho p 41 oboe-lane, and that he placed the prisoner, who was his S ervant and assistant, in the shop for the purpose of carrying 00 the business. In May last certain repairs were going on at the shop, and on the :'Bth he gave two guineas to the pri setler, who stated that it had been claimed by the district s urveyor, as his fee for superintending the alterations under the Building Act. The prisdner told him that in the first instance the surveyor claimed 54 but ultimately he had got it reduced to two guineas. In the beginning of June he dis covered that the proper fee was only 30s. Mr. Kemp, clerk to the district surveyor , Mr. Stevens , said be called upon the prisoner on the 28th of May, and handed 14 ° 1 a paper with a fee of 305. marked upon it. The prisoner told him to call again in the course of the day, which he did, When he paid him 11., and promised to pay the remainder if Jae cam e again during the week. He never made a demand of 51 . or of 21. on a ny occasion. Mr. Hurst, the prosecutor, paid nitn the remaining les. on the discovery of the fraud. Mr. Bond, an accountant, stated that the prisoner had given credit to the prosecutor for two guineas in his books, and had inserted the amount as a payment to the district sur veyor. In the course of Mr. Ballantyne's speech for the defence, the prisoner was seized with a kind of hysterical fit, and the business of the Court had to be suspended while he was being removed. The RECORDER having addressed the Jury, The Jury found a verdict of Guilty, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned for three calendar months, with hard labour. THE CHARTISTS. In the course of the day the grand jury returned true bills against James Maxwell Bryson, George Shell, John James Bezer, John Shaw, and John Wilson, for misdemeanours, in littering seditious language on the 28th ult.; the first two at the Chartist Hall, Webber-street, Blackfriars-road ; the last three at the Milton-street Theatre, Cripplegate. Mr. Hayward, clerk to the solicitor of the Treasury, was in attendance upon the jury, as were also the Government short -hand writers, Messrs. Bond Hughes and James White, who read the speeches that were delivered from their short hand notes. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT, Mr. Alderman FARE - BROTHER, and Mr. Sheriff HILL.) tearyMinton, 42, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with stealing one shirt, one shift, one table-cloth, a hand kerchief, Bc., of the value of 4s. 6d., the property of Robert Hawes, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and 'laid labour. ~John Logle, an old offender, although only eighteen years °` age, pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a bird-cage, the property of Peter Gully, within the of the Tower of London, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. pleadedi Symons Babbage, 25, a respectable-looking man, e tablecovers. o f t h e value of Si. 10s„ the property o f W m . White and others, his masters, and was sentenced to nine and n 1.2 months' imprisonment a John V ennell, 15, hard labour. . rigible young rogues,le gward W oo d ate 11, two incori gloves, value 6s. lOd., Pleaded ed Guilty to stealin , five pairs of transportation. Sarah were sentenced to seven v Sarah Harris, 29, was convictie years' of Richard ' Smith, and vasue of 51., te property of Arthur stealing Al3 a watch, of the from his person, and was sentenced to fourramhaomnthis"irkm impri sonment and hard labour. The remainder of the morning was occupied with Mint cases, none of which presented features calling for a parti cular report. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The August Adjourned Sessions were opened this morning at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, by the Assistant Judge and County Magistrates. The Learned JUDGB having addressed the usual charge to the Jury, Joh» Donelly, aged 26, was indicted for picking the pocket of a Miss Jane Dawson of a purse containing 7i. 15s. 6d. The prosecutrix stated that on the afternoon of the sth of August she was passing through Southampton - row , Russell-square ; sh e f e lt a pull at her pocket, and missed her purse. A little girl, who was standing near, pointed to the prisoner, who was running, and said, " That is the luau who stole your purse." The prisoner was taken to the station-house, and identified by the little girl. The purse was not found on him. A. third third witness swore that she observed the prisoner Put his hand to Miss Dawson's pocket. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the transaction The jury having deliberated a considerable time, expressed a wish to retire. The Learned JUDGE, wbo appeared to be surprised at this i ntimation, ordered the officer of the Court to be sworn in the usual manner; but before the oath was gone through, the foreman said that they had agreed to a verdict of Not Guilty. The JUDGE then said to the prisoner, " Get away with you—it will not be three months until we have you here again ;" and to the jury," Gentlemen , there is no doubt at that he stole the purse." STATUE TO THE LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TIN -12,'.11-A—On Saturday last a public meeting of the i nha b itants Chelmsford was held at the Shire-hall, for the purpose of "'Lag measures for carrying out the project of erecting a s tattie to the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in this his native town ; and when we state that nearly lOU was sub !cribed i n a few minutes by about twenty individuals, it will be seen that this first step in the work is an encouraging °ll e- The idea of the statue was first started by the bar, til _an appropriate tribute to the profound legal knowledge, i t : sound judgment, and the upright mind, which re ajatedl so much honour on their high profession ; and, t i a„allated by hints from that quarter, the genius of 4 11 7, as is already known, has produced a design th e a statue of the deceased judge, which, if hi m object now in band be accomplished , will p ro.. fr a „/ be adopted and placed o n the s p ace in liutef the Shire-hall. Bfore, however, that can be carried are the hundreds must be s welled into thousands ; but we th :Juduced to believe, that as the purpose becomes known, e t ; Publk generally will come to the aid of local effort. In ehnsford, where, as the birthplace of the great man, a m ingles of h onest p r ide and respect for his private virtues with admiration of his judicial character, the cause, h e ;. t 'ire sure, will be taken up, and carried forward by no piii i h at _l,ng or niggard hands. But Chelmsford cannot accom gra„,".ll- And we not only look to the magistracy who, as learned judge and otherwise, were so often associated with the entry judge in the dispensing of public justice, but to the E e gal rY and inhabitants of the county, to all classes of the n atio rofession—in fact, to the nation—for the object is a pelf b al one—to aid in rendering the testimonial one that perpetuates. p er ean honour to the arts, and worthy of the memory it The meeting on Saturday was attended by TY of the leading inhabitants and tradesmen of the town. ,; ; L.C. "Ara d . tart n 4 8 CHARTIST PLOT.—Amongst the fire - ballg , Of thl seized by the police at the lodgings of some Chartists lately arrested, are some missiles of a diabo in'alcharacter.. They consist of a packet, somewhat square pion'es' _!..covered with brown paper, and filled with nails , fus ee o r Iron, and coarse gunpowder. Attached to each is a thi „c.,,eotton, which leads to the powder. When ignited ou t 4l - "et would in half a minute explode, and kill or seri -were.' toinjure any one near. These missiles, it is supposed, nighth e a i ve been thrown into the windows of houses the Lin, u r s, ' T ag y leaders were apprehended. uerstand op CHARTIST PRISONERS.—We tin - tions, to fiberotr dee med it tb - o l the sheriff's officials of Renfrewshire have d .„..atY, after making the necessary investiga from the p r i son e 2nessrs. Burrell and Neilson, of Greenock, last three w eek "f Paisley, where they were confined for the tical offence. or Greenock, It on th e charge of having committed a poll- Messrs. Burrell and b ody in mentioned to us that the Chartist were cared for k ' al consideration of their respect for 91e -se m en Neilson, took care that the families of Jormer. in their absence.—Renfrewshil e Be- His grace the Duke of Northumberland is en joying th e sport of grouse shooting at his seat, Keilder Castle DEATH n_*. COLONE L G EORGE AM ORE .—Died, on the 29th ult., on board the Earl of Hardwiek, on his passage ;home from Calcutta, age engal P res id enc y, after forty-four d 58, Colo n el George Moore, of the 59 th Regiment NJI years of ard uous and unin terrupted service; commencing B ith the capt ure of the Cape of Good Hope under Sir David Baird ; continued throughout the Nepaulese and the Burmese wars warsith a succession of commands as Brigadier in the late ; and terminating with the command, of the Rajpootana Field Forces; which appointment be re signed for the object of returning to his native country. Colonel Moore's popularity among his brother officers, and Ills habitual consideration towards all around and under him, will secure to his memory the esteem of all who %mow him. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took tha chair at Twelve o'clock. SUGAR DUEIZS BILL. Mr. WILSON presented a petition trom the sugar refiners of London, praying that the Bill with respect to the Sugar duties, may be deferred until next session, in order that an acceptable measure may be diviced. On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Lord G. BENTINCK said, having been defeated on his former motion, he had felt it his duty to submit the following, in the hope that it would prove more acceptable to the House than its predecessor : " And whereas it is expedient to admit sugar, without payment of duty, to be refined for home consumption, under the lock of the Crown, be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for any person or persons who may he now, or who may be hereafter engaged, under the pro visions of the Acts of the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 61, and Bth and 9th Victoria, c. 91, in the trade 0' refining sugar in bond for exportation, to enter the products extracted from the same for home censurep don, anything in the aforesaid Act or Acts, or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding, at the rates of duties levied upon foreign sugar, as set forth in the third schedule of this Act, under the same regulations as are now or may hereafter be applied by her Majesty's officers of Customs to the exportation of such sugar ; provided always that such person or persons as aforesaid shall previously give bond to the satisfaction of her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs to use such sugar only as shall have been imported in ships privileged under the navigation-laws to import sugar tor entry to home consumption." tie said his object in proposing the amendment was to place the English sugar bonder on an equal footing with the sugar bonders of Holland, Belgium, and Hanover. At present the bonder was compelled to complete no less than twelve different papers in order to show that he intended to use the sugar in the way specified. Great inconvenience was the natural conse quence of the present state of things ; yet there had not been a single conviction for fraud. The refiners did not ask to be allowed to refine sugar in bond for home consumption, but for foreign, paying the foreign duty upon it which came into the country in foreign bottoms. They were ready to give up this privilege provided the others were conceded to them. He did not see the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in his place ; if he had been he should have liked to have asked him what he intended to do with the Dutch duty, if the plan of the Govern ment were carried out. If they did not give the re finers of England the privilege he sought for them, they would compel them to send their produce to foreign nations to get it naturalized. Surely they would not compel them to adopt so humiliating a course He asked them for fair play, and to encourage as they were bound to do the skill and enterprise of their coun trymen. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the clause. He admitted that there were great difficul ties in the way; and in consequence the Government had not yet clearly seen their way to the adoption of a a general system, for the refiners themselves said that whatever system was adopted must be universal. The attention of the Government would be earnestly directed to this matter during the recess, and no doubt next session they would be prepared with an acceptable plan. Why the refiners of Lon don, with trifling exceptions, opposed the principle sought to be established by the Noble Lord; it could therefore only emanate from one or two. They had stetted this to him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), stating at the same time that any measure, for this pur pose, must be an universal one. Dutch sugar would be expelled from this county; it would come in after pay ing the usual duty; Dutch raw sugar was not admis sible, but refined sugar was on the terms he had stated. He defended the plan of the Government, which he con tended did not interfere with the skill or industry of the country. Mr. BERNAL hoped that the time was not far dis tant when all sugars would be admitted into this country , on equal terms, for the benefit of all parties. He com plimented the Noble Lord (Lord George Bentinck) for his zeal, but imagined that he had been misinformed by those with whom he had been in communication as to the real wants of the refiners.- He wished to tell his Right Honourable Friend (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer) and the House that they had been playing in a cruel manner with important interests. By their vacillating discussions they had driven down sugar 3s. a cwt.—(Hear, hear.) The present price of sugar was altogether unremunerative.—(Hear, hear.) He im plored them to come to some defined conclusion with respect to these duties. Unless they did so, so help him God, they would not hold these colonies for three years longer. At any rate, if they dealt with them as at present,tiley would soon be beyond improvement. He assured them that the West Indian interests were no trifling body, and begged the House not to drive them to that point where they would be compelled to abandon the cultivation of their estates, in which case the colo nies would retrograde into a state of barbarism. Mr. GOUL BURN was in favour of a general mea sure, and advised the Government to postpone their measure till next session. He opposed the clause. Mr. HERMES said, no Government less deserved THE SUN, LONDON, ;he thanks of the house for their conduct with respect to the sugar duties than the present.—(llear, hear.) It was admitted on all hands, that the refiner in bond was mest unjustly used.—(Elear, hear.) Yet this being admitted, the Government declared that they were not wise enough to devise a remedy.—(llear, hear.) Their conduct with respect to the amendment of the Noble Lord was a fitting end to all they had done during the session. —(H ear , hear.) Every packet brought news which o ug ht to teach them tne danger of delay. And, really, the policy of the Government appeared to be to treat the colonies as of secondary importance,postpone all ameliorative measures until the), and to could u ld devise a general principle which to them it appeared advisable to apply —doubtless, some obnoxious principle of free trade. — (Hear.) With respect to these duties, the Government had been guilty of all kinds of inconsistency, since they had abandoned them from time to time without deserv ing the merit of having placed their duties upon a footing satisfactory to all parties. Ile attributed many of the difficulties with which they had now to grapple t o t h e Act of 1846, as, by it, they had gratified the cupidity o f same, and thereby endangered the possession of their colonies. He should support the clause, believing that it would accomplish much good. Mr. LABOUCHERE addressed himself to some of the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Government were fully alive to the condition of the West Indian colonies, and they were ready to devise all the remedies likely to remove the dis tress that prevailed; but when he looked to the sugar producing colonies of other countries, he found that they were not so flourishing as ours.—(Hear.) What other measure could they devise except one giving high pro tective duties, which would not, he need not add, be pala table; and it was not well for the colonists to be told, in the face of experience, that nothing but a high protec tive duty would retrieve them. To show that the price of sugar had not been reduced by the measure of the Go vernment. the Right Hon. Gentleman quoted an extract from the City article of the Times, to show that the prices were steady. Lord G. BENTINCK—Read on. If the Hon. Gen tleman will read on, he will find in the news from Ame rica, that the prices were high in consequence of a gene ral belief in the colony that the ruling Government were about to be turned out.—(Laughter.) Mr. HUME said he should support the clause because he believed it would prove advantageous to the con sumer. If the clause would effect the object which the Government professed to have in view, he saw no reason why it should not be adopted at once.—(Cheers.) The fact was the Government wished to keep up an expensive Custom-house, which stood in the way of the reduction of the price of sugar, and whom he blamed for not pro viding the facilities they were bound to do. Mr. BAILLIE said he should support the clause. Mr. MOFFATT considered that the Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he had mixed the great question with the main one of the Noble Lord—of refining in bond—there must be some mistake when it was said by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer that the plan of the Noble Lord would lead to contusion. If the case had been properly laid before Sir Thomas Freemantle, he was sure he would not have given such an opinion as the Right Hon. Baronet said he had. He should support the clause. Mr. MACGREGOR said, unless they had a general measure of regulation, the plan of the Noble Lord would be of no advantage. The Dutch colonies were in great distress. His opinion, therefore, was that no re-importation to these colonies, as stated by the Noble Lord, could take place. Lord J. RUSSELL explained that his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of . the Exchequer had stated that a measure likely to prove good and practicable would be considered in the recess, and that he had expressly stated that he would not pledge himself to bring forward such a measure, until he had had an opportunity of considering all the difficulties with which the question was surrounded. In respect to what was said by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Moffat) he had to state that the Chair man of the Customs had been repeatedly consulted on that matter, and he had given it as his opinion that the plan re commended was impracticable. The House would have an opportunity, in the course of a few days, of discussing the af fairs of the West Indies. He hoped, by that time, that they would be in possession of pleasing intelligence from those colonies. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON supported the clause, and contended that our own countrymen, living at our very doors, should be placed on a footing with the Dutch, the more especially as, by doing so, they not only conferred a benefit on the refiners but the public at large. He could not but think that there was some Dutch influence at work with the promoters of this Bill.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He should give his cordial support to the motion of the Noble Lord opposite (Lord G. Ben tinck.) Mr. WILSON said that the adoption of the clause would not be a further benefit to the public, but would be materially detrimental to the revenue. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the insertion of the clause 4O Against it Majority against the clause The clause was consequently lost. (LEFT SITTING.) A house was destroyed yesterday in Queen's place, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. A tall stack of chimneys was blOwn down, and falling upon the roof car ried it away, and forced down every floor, demolishing the whole of the furniture, and nearly killing a child, the only person in the house at the time. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.—There is no news of any kind but the gloomy intelligence regarding the effects of the heavy rains upon the crops of all kinds. After a compara tively fine day yesterday, the weather again became broken last night, and there has since been a deluge of rain. It it impossible to contemplate the prospects of the next twelve months without the most serious apprehension, if the rain should continue many more days. In the neighbourhood of Dublin many fields of wheat and oats have been reaped; but in the country generally the harvest has not yet commenced. In various places oats are yet green. The continued rain will not only delay the ripen ing of the grain, but expose it to the danger of sprouting anti rust. The reports from the country are most disheartening. The TV ealbrd Independent says : " Whilst we write the cataracts of heaven seem to have been opened on us as a scourge for our transgressions. The rain pours down in torrents, and very little hope now re mains for the poor man's staff of life—the potato. In the low lands they are melting away, and even in the more favoured soils the disease is being carried down from the stalk to the tuber with increased celerity, by reascu of the uninterrup;ed humidity of the atmosphere for the last three weeks." The floods are destructive in soma parts of the western proviece. The Ballinasloe Star says:— " During the past week the rains have been incessant, and the result is, that the callows are overflowing—from the room in which we write you can see the inundations like a vas' lake—the meadows are nearly all covered, in some parts the waters are at least two feet over the lands. This is, of course, occasioned by the obstructions oa the river, by the illegal stoppage of the waters." The Roscommon Journal says " We have had another week of incessant rain, which is calculated to do very serious injury to the crops. The people are so much alarmed about the potatoes that they are dig ging them out of the soil and disposing of them at very reduced prices. The wheat will be au average crop, but the oats and barley look beautiful, and promise to be abun dant." We mentioned last week that the Special Commission for the trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien and the other persons impli cated in the insurrectionary movement in Tipperary would take place at Nenagh, the assize town of the north riding of that county. The Freeman's Journal of this morning says We have reason to believe that a special commission for the trial of the persons now in custody, charged with of fences of a political character, and connected with late events in the south, will be immediately issued, and that its sittings will probably be held at Nenagh, commencing early in September." • Regarding the condition of trade, the Freeman's Journal says:— " We are still unable to communicate the appearance of the slightest gleam of improvement. Trade remains in the same deplorable prostrate condition, and the greatest alarm and apprehension increase as the fears of the crops daily become converted into the certainty of an extensive defi ciency. The consumption of almost every article is on the decrease, notwithstanding the moderate prices which rule." ANOTHER ARREST. At a late hour last night, a young gentleman named Mathews, son of W. P. Mathews, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Charitable Bequests, was arrested in the south suburbs of this city, on a warrant under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. This morning the prisoner was committed to Newgate. THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND. BAGENALSTOWN, AUGUST. 18.—Great fears are enter tained as to the wheat already cut, if the weather does not at once clear up. As to the late-sown potatoes, no one here entertains the slight hope of even a moiety being saved, the blight having appeared in every field. LimEnicK.—lt is useless to conceal the fact that much of the crops, if not at present irretrievably ruined, have been so damaged that it will be impossible they can be turned to any account. We may say of the potato crop it is the same as wholly gone, the late crop especially.—Limerick Reporter. KILKENNY.—Accounts from various parts of the county represent the disease in the potato crop as spreading. The wheat crop has been much injured by the heavy rains.— Kilkenny Journal. CARLOW.—The late heavy rains have been attended with serious injury to the potato crop. Of the early crop, which was never so abundant, or of finer quality, we find a propor tion tainted, but not to such an extent as to excite fear of a general failure—provided the weather prove favourable — and efforts made to prevent the spread of the disease to the sound tubers, by the removal of the diseased stalks, and by covering the drills with fresh earth, which, as a general rule, we believe to be the most advantageous.—Carlow Sentinel. _ _ BALLINA.—The potatoes, we fear, are seriously affected by the blight. Every field about this town exhibits evident marks of being diseased. Perhaps, however, the disease may not turn out as destructive as that of '46. We have been told by a gentleman, who resides within a mile and a halt of town, that his potatoes became infected on the 4th inst., and that the attack went on increasing until the 7th, when it stopped, and they are beginning to look well again. He also stated that all the potatoes in his neighbourhood were similarly circumstanced. In Erris the potatoes are in a most alarming state. Almost every field is blackening, and diseased tubers are now found numerously every day.— Tuam _Herald. UtsrEß.—We have travelled this week throughout the counties of Antrim, Down, Louth, Armagh, and Monaghan, and we did not see a single field where blight was not—an universal destruction seems to be sent upon the land. The wheat crop will not be near an average, the head is short, and the grain light.—Monaghan Standard. LoNsioNDEßE.r.—Oats, wheat, and barley are ripening re markably fast ; and, from every appearance, the sickle will be in active employment within less than a fortnight. With regard to the potatoes, it is now an undoubted fact, that the blight has fallen generally upon them, scarcely a field is to be seen without having the tops more or less blackened—the tubers, however, of the early kinds continue, for the most part, round, but serious fears are entertained respecting those of a late growth. Our market, during the week, was largely supplied with excellent potatoes, notwithstanding the blight. The current price on Thursday was from 3d. to 31d. per ston e. —.Londonderry Standard. SHOCKING BARBARITY. A correspondent at Miltown, Malbay, writes as follows to the Limerick Examiner : _ "A horrible case of death, arising from utter destitution, happened on Thursday last, in the parish of iiullagh, county Clare. A poor man, who was cut off the relief list, having no means of support, went into a potato garden at Moyglass. The son of the owner set a large dog at the poor man, which (horrible to relate) knocked him down, tore him open, and actually devoured a part of his entrails. The inhuman wretch who set on the dog looked carelessly on. I hope that he will receive the reward he deserves for such an act. A party of police from Miltown, Malby, were out hunting for him on Wednesday last, but returned without him." TUESDAY EVENING, 3- AUGUST 22, 1848. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAT.—The Thunder sailed last even ing for Sheerness, to be paid off. ordered to Woolwich, and will sail as soon as the The Sharpshooter, iron steamer , Lie utena nt - Commander Bayley, is weather moderates. Heavy gales have been blowing on this coast all morning, since daylight. All fares afloat are doubled, and so .violent struck schooner their touch at t a are the gale and the sea that the ordinary packets cannot topgallan the g nc , to sz r o ia pier. rrue D A u l k l e t o h f e yucht, Wyvern 200 tons, has put in dismasted, off the nab, and another yacht since. Marlborough'sshiphave Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., arrived at Cork from Kingstown, in the Stromboli steam. sloop, Com mander the Right Hon. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, on the 17th, and transferred his flag on the following morning from that vessel to the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Dacres, when the Pear-Admiral squadron, eHo h n a . d beenp. H. under Mackay, the changed temporary theiror order e r of which th en signs from red to white. The Lucifer steam-sloop, Lieutenant Lloyd, arrived at Cork from Kingstown on the 17th. Sir Charles Napier's squadron are under orders to leave Cork in a day or two to cruise off Cape Clear. ROYAL ISIARINIW. Captain and Brevet-Major John Harvey Stevens, of the Artillery Companies of the corps, is promoted to be Lieut.- Colonel, and appointed to those companies. a nd Captain and Brevet - Major John Buckley C as ti eau, of the Artillery Companies of Me corps, to b e supernumerary in thosevice s c t oe Stevens, p iesrOmoted.ap pointed Director of t h e Laboratory, DREADFUL HURRICANE ON THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. ABEEDEEN, SATURDAY EVENING. - Last night about 1,000 boats, each manned by five fishermen, left the various ports of the Fraserburgh,fcoorasttheohferSrcioogtlafinsdh,erbye.t.w x i t ieo S a to t ntehheao v ffing, a enand t about an average distance of 10 miles, and the nets down, the wind, which had co ntinued duri the y at south r a a n i d o. sou A th h - o w ut es l t 2 , sou,dedloecnklyitchholepr a d out ga ng le t , o t t h h e h e s da r o a u i t a h-e fa a l s i t io w g it io h torrents, and the night was so dark that none of the land lights could be seen. As soon as the gale came some of the thatfisfl e fishermen o began t fi o e h e a t u h l a d t h t e o i r r n o e n t s , o b r u t t h t e h e s h s o e r a e t r o a n e a s v o high elife. At Fraserburgh, the boats being to leeward of Kinnaird's head, which forms the entrance to the Murray-frith, were less exposed than the boats to the southward, and managed to get a landing without loss of life ; but at Peterhead, which is the eastermost point of the coast, and altogether exposed to an easterly gale, 70 out of the 400 boats that were fishing there are missing, and there is too much reason to fear that most if not all of them are wrecked or sunk. At daybreak this morning the scene that presented itself along the shore between the Buchanness lighthouse and the entrance to the south harbour, was of the most appalling description. The whole coast for a mile and a half was strewed with wrecks and the dead bodies of fishermen. Twenty-three corpses were carried into Peterhead before nine o'clock, and at the time the latest accounts left others were being constantly thrown ashore among the wreck on the sands or the rocks. Forty boats were wrecked within the circuit of half a mile, and so sudden and awful was the catastrophe that no means of succouring or saving the distressed and perishing fishermen could be devised. How many boats may have foundered at sea or gone to pieces among the precipitous cliffs of Buchan no one at present can tell. One thing appears certain, that the lowest estimate of the loss of lite and property by this gale exceeds that produced by any other hurricane hitherto recorded in the annals of the east coast of Scotland. It is calculated that along the coast not fewer than 109 lives are lost, and when it is consi dered that for the most part the deceased fishermen have left wives and families, it will be felt that the widowhood and orphanage of our seaport towns have received in one short night an unparalleled augmentation. In recording these melancholy facts the inquiry presents itself, " How does it happen that the boats engaged in the fisheries on the east coast of Scotland are constantly exposed to such terrible calamities, while the boats engaged on the east coast of England generally weather the storm?" The answer is simply this—the boats on the English coast are decked, while those on the Scotch coast are open. The former are in every respect fitted out for the deep sea fishery, and admirably adapted to withstand a gale; the latter, although manned by hardy and most adventurous fishermen, are adapted only for fair weather, constructed solely with the view of prosecuting one object—the herring fishery ; and while this system prevails here such terrible calamities as those we have just recorded may be expected to recur. HER MAJESTY'S ANNUAL MARINE E XCURSION .— On Wednesday last w e noticed the revival of a report which had reached us to the effect that the annual marine excur sion of her Majesty and Prince Albert would ext en d t o Scot land. We have now reaso n t o believe that the report is cor rect, and that the Queen will embark in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, either the last day of the present or the first of the next month, and will proceed to Dundee en route to the newly-acquired Royal Highland domain. It is not expected that her Majesty will return to Osborne after the prorogation of Parliament, but that the royal yacht will come to Woolwich, and will embark the Queen, the Prince, and Royal Family at that port.—Herald. THE VANCOUVER JOB. (From the Chronicle.) Notwithstanding the promised modifications in the grant to the Hudson's Bay Company, we fear we must regard it as a fixed thing that there is to be no British colony in Van couver's Island. For eleven years certain, and for so long afterwards as we may find it inconvenient to discharge a bill of costs that is run up against us in the meanwhile by an irresponsible corporation, this Britain of the North Pacific, with its harbours, its coal-fields, its timber, its fertile 8.0, and its genial climate, is to remain hermetically sealed against colonizing enterprise. Two years ago we were ready to go to war for our Vancouver's Island ; and now when the time appears to have almost arrived for our doing something really useful with it—when its mineral treasures, in parti• cular, offer the most natural source of supply to the new steam navigation between Panama and the Columbia River —our rulers tell us they can think of nothing better than 'o cede it, in fee simple, to a sort of corporate Nim rod, whose only known qualifications for the boon are, a ve hement antipathy to colonies and colonization, a very in diffei ent general repute, and a pending Government inquiry with respect to certain grave specific accusations. Apart from those special circumstances in the present position of the Hut son's Bay Company which give this transaction a peculiar character of shameless precipitancy, we cannot but pro nounce it one of the most unwarrantable proceedings which even the Colonial Office has been guilty of within our recol lection. We can most unaffectedly say, that we impute no unworthy motive in the matter to Earl Grev : for it passes our ingenuity to imagine any motive, good or bad, which can have prompted his Lordship to take this extraordinary freedom with public property; and certainly the distr,ss ligly feeble apologetic attempts of Mr. liawea and Mr. r.harles Buller, on Friday night last, do not afford us a par ticle of real explanation. We only look at the fact; and we say, without reserve, that the Colonial Secretary, by this monstrouscession, has put a noble island under lock and key, and effectually interdicted Englishmen from colonizing an English territory. There will never be a colony, worth call ing a colony, in Vancouver's Island, so long as the Hudson's Bay Company have the ownership of it. After Mr. Glad stone's powerful and crushing exposure of the character and history of these fur-trading monopolists, we defy the most sanguine of human beings to believe in the possibility of the island ever being colonized while they are the lords ofits soil. Of course they will take care, between now and this day five years, to found some sort of factory or settlement, whic - la shall be just enough to save their grant from for feiture. There will be no difficulty in getting together a little squad of company's servants, or retired servants, company's creatures, company's debtors, company's grantees and lessees, buying everything at the company's prices, holding everything on the company's terms, and liable to in stant loss of everything for breach of covenant; and with a free constitution, and an " extended suffrage," the whole thing will be as respectable-lookin g a sham as ever made a show on paper. But there will be no British colony. The youngest man alive will never live to see that grow up under the shadow of a gigantic and tyrannous monopolist corpora tion. Trading companies have never colonized well—this company will never colonize at all. A fur-trading corpora tion, simply because it is a fur-trading corporation is intrinsically anti-colonizing, in all its interests and ideas. A desert territory, inhabited only by scattered tribes of nomadic and unreclaimed barbarians, With just enough of civilization to be capable of feeling those wants which prompt men to encounter toil and hardship for the sake of luxuries and stimulants—such is the beau ideal of a fur country. Precisely in proportion as a land be• comes peopled, and cultivated, and civilized, does it become unfit for the fur-trader's uses. Spinning ennies and feudalism, railways and Colonel Sib thorp, high farming and game-preserving (which last, by the way, is exactly what our Hudson's Bay Company live by) are not more irreconcilably antagonistical than coloniza tion and fur-trading. The history of the Hudson's Bay Coin. pany completely bears us out in this. It is just what one might expect would be the history of an association deriving immense profits from a well-protected traffic in the skins of wild animals. During the century and a half, or there abouts, that these traders have held a virtually uncontrolled sway over a territory as large as the whole of Europe, they have never founded a colony. The only seeming exception is the Red River settlement, with its population of five thou sand—English, Indians, and half-breeds. Strictly speaking, however, the Red River settlement was not founded by the company at all, but toy an enterprising nobleman (Lord Sel kirk) who had bought an over-ruling proprietary influence in the company, at a time when its stock was at an un usually low price, and who had, consequently, a dominating voice in its councils. It was founded in direct opposi tion to the protest of all the independent shareholders, who memorialized the Government of the day (in 1811) to the effect that " it has been found that colonization is at all times unfavourable to the interests of the fur trade." This Red River settlement has, in fact, ever been an object of the Company's jealousy and dislike; and, at this moment, there are gentlemen in England, entrusted by the settlers with a petition to the Queen, signed by about a thousand names—nearly the whole adult population of the place—in which the Company are accused of gross and systematic op pression—fiscal, commercial, and judicial. Why, the very tenure on which these unhappy Red River settlers hold t heir lands —every grant including, as it does, a covenant to sub mit, under pain of forfeiture, to all the exclusive trading pri vileges of the Company, and to all its rules, regulations, and taxes, both in case and in posse—is enough to show us what sort of colonies and colonization may be looked for from Lord Grey's new friends. There is really no need, however, of arguing the question of the colonizing dispositions and purposes of the new proprietors of Vancouver's Island. It is quite sufficient to hear Mr. Hawes and Mr. Charles Buller. These gentlemen inform us, as plainly as men can speak, that it is a mere make-believe co lony that the company are now expected to found. Mr. Buller, in particular, is, we observe, entirely of our opinion on this point. We said, a month ago, that the intended grant was equivalent to " condemning the island to remain unpeopled for the next century;" and we gather from the explanation given by the enlightened and eloquent advocate of " systematic colonization," that this is precisely what the Government contemplate. It is a " great error," we are told, to "consider Vancouver's Island a noble field for colo nization ;" and, for his own part, Mr. Buller "does not wish to see such an experiment as the settlement of a laze body of Englishmen in that island." He cannot even imagine "what a great colony could do there;" and in his judgment people will do well to " consider whether they must not make up their minds that Vancouver's Island will remain with comparatively few inhabitants for the next fifty years." A few minutes afterwards, we find the " fifty years" grown into "fifty or a hundred years"— which was exactly our computation. We need not point out to the sagacious reader that all this is simply telling the company before hand to take it easily, since next to nothing is either expected or desired from them. Could there possibly be a pleasanter mutual understanding between two contract ing parties? The company want, not to colonize the island, but to prevent others from colonizing it; and they are so bent on this that they are even willing to go to some ex pense in making a little sham colony of their own, if that will answer the purpose. " Perfectly well," is the official reply; "no reasonable people will think of expecting more; and, in fact, for oar own parts, we do not wish more." We scarcely regret that we have left ourselves but little space for commenting on the indecent haste with which this business has been huddled up, at a moment when charges of the most serious character—charges which the Government pro fess to deem deserving of deliberate investigation—are pending against the favoured company. Mr. Hawes's tone on this subject cannot but be most offensive to honest and right-minded men. Rarely, we may add, has the commonsense of the public been insulted by such a hodge-podge of contra dictions as that amid which the Hon. Gentleman went foun dering on, when he came to this disgraceful topic. He tells i us, almost in one and the same breath, that " he is of opinion Ithat the defence already made on behalf of the company is a satisfactory one," and that " nevertheless he is willing to ad mit that it is desirable the whole matter should be carefully inquired into." The charges " are not, as it appears to him, viewed even in the most unfavourable light, of a very serious character" (they include nearly every imag inable form of ex to r ti ona te oppression and reckless indifference to the well- 1 being of a subject race) ; and yet they quite cal for "serious attention, " and "perfectly impartial inquiry. ', Such " impartial inquiry" will, the Honourable Gentleman conceives, be best conducted by the Governor of the Red nominee! We own we cannot understand the patty's own River settlement —that Governor being man state of mind which allows an able and well-intentioned . to sophisticate and boggle in this style. Altogether, this t. is a deeply-painful subject. One of the very few opportunities — perhaps, the ' MT e the accused com pany's a colony tho roughlyof things, England can now have of founding e than frit perhaps, Irterally, the last opportunity—which, in worthy of herself, is about to be IT great results ;" impressively suggests, " which may lead to g frit tered away. " Here is a small beginning," I shall be a bad and the Government have determined that 1 beginning. Once let that anti-colonizing, anti-commercial, as wo Nr. Gladstone and most un-English corporation lay i ts hands on Vancou ver's Island, and the colony is spoiled for colonizing and pur poses. The colony will take a wrong set infancy, in its will never grow straight again in our time. THE AUTHOR OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM (?) TO THE-EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN. Sin,—Your Exeter correspondent, in a somewhat peremp. tory tone, claims for Thomas Gray the title of "Author of the Railway System," which I, in a work published two years ago, applied to George Stephenson. The death of the idea, but George distinguished subject of my eulogium no doubt induced you to quote the passage in which I attempted to do justice t o greati idea, but he the first of our Railway Engineers. That I have done no more than justice to George Stephenson, I shall have no diffi culty in proving. The merits of Thomas Gray are undoubtedly great. It is much to be regretted, for the . credit . of the nation, that the y have not been acknowledged in a suitable manner,Live Liverpool ier and Government or the wealthier members of the railway public). the locomotive He planned and constructed the Stockton and Darlington, Thomastsutrer,ei)turned Stephenson Grayshoant iwas ea iwasnntootthaeognral ye u a t tt h hf o ae r cl o u f th a or great o a the first public railway, the Act for w was obtained i ß il lan i c B h 2 e l s . ter l , mechanical a perfect work—up to the present hour it remains a pattern railway. He applied been . constructed piy d pupils. did engine, and taking it up where Tre% ethic left it, turned what He powers e crhs planned caf mt he a e n f .N d o, emr c 3 o ,h n fil ssrt first order handsre (.:I d e r delito had previously been scarcely more than an ingenious experi ment into a practically useful machine, more economical than horse power. He did more, while constructing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway—he founded the modern school of . welt known to all railway engineers. Almost all the most remarkable railway works in the world have acquainted with the progress of our railway system. With such facts before my eyes, I think the great body of your These facts are matters of history, justice in terming George Stephenson the author of our rail way system.—l am, Bce, readers will admit that,so tar from exaggerating, Westminster, Aug. 22, 1848. S. SIDNEY. —,. L THE WEATHER.---14IYERP OO to the north-west, , MONDAY, HALF' PAST FOUR P.M.—Early this morning a gale commenced blowing from the south-east , acc om p anied with heavy showers oafndrahina.s Towards uaily noon d sl t i o if t a ed h u r r n; e n a d n e. We are happy g r adincrease i to state that as yet we have no disasters to record, the landing stage, to which large iron bridges have lately been added, although presenting an immense surface to the wind, outstanding the hurricane nobly. PRAYERS FOIL FINE W E ATHER . , —It was publicly notified from the pulpits of the var i ous Roman Catholic churches and chapels in the metropolitan district, on Sunday morning, that it was the desire of the bishop that each mem ber of the community should offer his individual prayers far more favourable weather for the harvest than has hitherto been experienced during the present season. STORM IN THE N OR TH.— 0n Frid a y n i g ht, and till four o'clock on Saturday morn in g last, the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland , especially the latter, were visited by a tremendous storm of wind and rain, which has done a great deal of damage. Numbers of large forest trees were torn up by the roots; the stooks of corn in the harvest fields were scattered far and wide, and considerably damaged ; and hundreds of bushels of apples and other fruit, which are not ripe, were scattered from the trees, many of which were blown down, while others were much shattered. All the rivers were much swollen. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. ) MONDAY, ALTO. 21. SUPPLY.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.) Motion msde, and Question proposed, "That a sum, not exceeding 9,827/., be granted to her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Government of Labuan, to the 31st day of March, 1819 :"—Afterwards Motion made, and Question put. " That a sum, not exceeding 3,0001., be granted to her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Government of Labuan, to the 31st day o 1 March, 1849." The Committee divided : MINORITY—AYES, 12. Kershaw, James ITrouliart, David Lushington, C. Williams, John Osborne, Ralph TELLEYS. Salwey, Colonel Hume, Joseph Thompson, Colonel Thompson, George Buxton, Sir E. Fox, W. J. Greene, John Gwyn, Bowel Ilardeastle, J. A. Adair, P.. Shafto Arm,trong, Sir A. Arundel, Earl of MAJORITY-NOES, 56. Hawes, B. Romilly, Sir John Hay, Lord John Russell, Lord J. Ilnyter, W. G. Scrape, G. P. . . Bellew, R. M. Ilotthouse, Sir John Shell, It. L. • Berkeley, Captain Hobhouse, T. B. Shelburne, Earl of Boyle, Colonel Howard, P. H. Smith, .1. A. Burrell, Sir C. Jeivis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W. Callagha,, D. Keogh, William Tenison, E. K. - Campbell, W. F. Labouchere, Henry 'llmornely, Thomas Clements, Charles Lascelles, NV. S. Vyse, It. IL I. H. Cowper, W. F. Lewis, G. C. Waddington, 11. S. Cubitt, William Lygon, General Walsh, Sir J. Divett, Edward Mackinnon, W. 'A. Watkins, Colonel Duncan, George M'Gregor, John Wilson, James Dundas, Admiral Morpeth, Viscount Wilson, Matthew Dunne, F. I'. Norreys, Sir D. Wood, Sir Charles Elliot, J. E. Pahnerston, Viscount Ferguson, Sir It. Parker, John Foley, John 11. Power, Dr. Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry TELLERS. Tuthell, Henry Craig, W. G. SUPPLY. Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair." Amendment proposed. to leave out from the word "That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct that such a modifi cation of the System of National Education in Ireland may be made, as may remove the conscientious objections which a very large proportion of the Clergy and Laity of the Es tablished Church entertain to that system as at present carried into operation; or otherwise, that means may be taken to enable those of the Clergy and Laity of the Estab lished Church who entertain such conscientious objections, to extend the blessings of Scriptural Education in Ireland," instead thereof:—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 118. MINORITY-NOES, 15. Burrell, Sir C. Dick. Quiatin Jones, Captain 3luDings, J. IL Verner, Sir W. Waddington, 11. S. Grogan - , E. Newdegitte, C. N. Walsh, Sir J. B. Gwyn, Bowel O'Brien, Sir Lucius TELLERS. Henley, J. W. Seymour, Sir H. Hamilton, G. A. Hood, Sir A. Spooner, Richard Napier, Joseph THE REVOLT IN MOULTAN. Since the publication of our Indian news yesterday we have received intelligence from India of a few hours' later date of the most gratifying character. _ _ _ Some short time back we published an account of the suc cess obtained by Lieutenant Edwardes over the forces of the rebel Molraj. We are now enabled to state that what was before a success is now a triumph. Lieutenant Edwardes succeeded in crossing the Indus and Chenab, and effecting a junction with the forces of the Raja of Bhawulpoor. On the 18th of June the united forces came into collision with the army of Molraj. They awaited his attack, and sustained a sanguinary conflict of nine hours' duration. The rebel army were completely defeated, and driven from the field with the loss of nearly all their artillery, six out of their ten guns re maining in the power of the British. The cause of Molraj is completely lost. Various conjec tures were afloat at the time of the departure of the courier as to the course he would pursue. The utmost he could expect was to regain his fort in safety, but there is a more probable and a more Oriental termination to such a career—either that the rebel chief will destroy himself or be put to death by his own people. The intelligence comes to us on good authority. If it be true, as we suppose, Lieutenant Edwardes will have earned for himself no mean place in Indian history.— Tines. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. The very unfavourable state of the weather this morning prevented her Majesty and his Royal Highness, or any of the Royal Family, from taking out-of-door exercise. His Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe Langen bourg, and Prince Victor Hohenlohe, took leave of her Ma jesty and the Prince, and left Osborne this morning. His Serene Highness returns immediately to Germany. The Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, and the Prin cesses Eliza, Adelaide, and Feodora, remain at Osborne, Captain Huish, of the London and North-Western Rail way Company, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. M. de heaumont, the French Minister, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and the Earl of Minto, dined with Lord and Lady John Russell on Saturday, at their residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Mr. TIM Pratt and Mr. James Higham had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada, and also from the Governors of the other North American Colonies. TATTE RSALL'S-MONDAY. KOOK HANDICAP. 5 to 2 agst Mr. J. Murphy's Dough—taken and after wards offered 6 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale—taken freely 7 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux 8 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Remembrance—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin—taken Dough and Ellerdale were the only horses in serious de mand, and the outlay on them was very moderate. Meaux was backed for a few small sums, but loOked particularly " un healthy." Maid of my Sold had no friends. Sir Martin is now in C. Peck's stable. _ CHESTERFIELD HANDICAP (YORK). 6 to 4 agst Mr. Crawfurd's The Cur GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES (YORK). 6 to 4 on Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—taken 4 to 1 agst his winning this and the St. Leger PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES (YORK). 3 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Farthingale—taken 5 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Ellen Middleton—taken ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—taken and after wards offered 7 to 2 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher—take 4 to 1 4 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Justice to Ireland—taken 11 to 2 agst Lord Clifden's Surplice—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Beverlac—taken and after wards offered 25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken and after wards offered 35 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Besborough—taken and after wards offered 1,000 to 300, 7 to 2 to 501., and 4 to 1 to several ponies, laid agst Justice to Ireland, and 400 to 100 agst Flatcatcher. Offers to take 6to 1 about Surplice. The Canezou, Beverlac, and Besborough bets were to a pony each. The odds were afterwards offered. No Derby betting. AQUATICS. PAUL'S WHARF REGATTA. This annual match came oft yesterday for a purse of sove reigns subscribed by the inhabitants of Castle Baynard, Queenhithe, and their vicinities. Owing to the very inaus picious state of the weather, the attendance was nothing to equal that of former occasions, and the rowing, which was very spirited, was rendered severe work. First Heat. G. Careless and J. Clarke ... (Light Blue) 1 R. Holloway and G. Ferguson .. (Dark Blue) 2 W. Norman and Edward Armstrong (Pink) The course was f rom Q ueenhithe up to the Temple and back, twice round, finishing at Paul's Wharf. A good start was succeeded by the winners taking the lead and keep ing it. Second Heat. T. Sheen and B. Coxlade (Gree n ) J. Bartlett and J. Bradcock (Red) 2 Q. Wheeler and W. B on d . .• ••• (Yellow) 0 - Distance as befor e . Won by a length and a half, the winners going away with a slight lead shortly after the start. Grand Heat. T. Sheen and 13. Coxlade ... ... (Green) 1 J. Bartlett and J. Bradcock (Red) 2 G. Careless and J. Clarke ... ... (Light Blue) () It. Holloway and G. Ferguson ... ... (Dark Blue) 0 It was a very spirited race. They all went off well, im mediately after which red took the lead, closely waited upon by green ; the latter then challenged red, and, after some sharp rowing, passed them. ROWING MATCH BETWEEN GOATLY AND COOMBES AND MILLS AND ROYAL. Several hundred persons assembled yesterday on Thames bank to witness a portion of the race between Goatly, a famous oarsman of bygone years, who is now verging on fifty years of age, and James Coombes, the brother of the champion, and Mills and Royal, of Thames-bank, for 101. aside. The race emanated from the contest this veer at the Horseferry for a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the residents of St. Margaret's and St. John's, West minster, which was won by Goatly and his partner, and the challenge of their opponents was imme diately accepted. The weather was extremely boisterous, and the water particularly rough in the course they had selected—from Vauxhall Bridge up round a boat off Mr. Lentell's, the Old Swan, Battersea, and back—so rough, indeed, that although the boats in which they rowed were covered in it was feared by the greater part of the specta tors that they would be unable to keep them afloat. They started at six o'clock, both getting away and well to work at the same moment, and continued scull and scull up to Ranelagh House, where, in order to avoid a barge in their course, Goatly and ;his partner went outside and began to make the shoot over to the Red House. Their adversaries who had continued on in their straight course, kept near the Middlesex shore, until off Royal's, the Thames-bank Pier, before they crossed. At the Red Mouse, Mills and his partner were three or four lengths ahead, and continued in advance until their arrival off Cremorne Gardens, when the wind blew in such terrible gusts that their boat was unable to live in the rough water and went down, the men sus taining no other harm than a ducking, and being imme diately taken into a cutter. Goatly and Coombes rowed the remainder of the distance, to claim at their leisure. [A D VERTISEMENT.] —A Clergyman of the Catholic Church and Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—A benevo lent pastor, residing in Belfast (whose name is withheld by his own desire), was applied to by a poor woman of his parish who had been afflicted for four years with an awfully bad leg with 16 wounds, and so extremely pain ful that she could not place her foot on the ground. Feeling for her poverty and sufferings, this humane gentleman presented her with a supply of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which soundly healed her leg in about five weeks althuugh she had been in the Dublin hospital for seven months, and had consulted several medical men in Ireland. Sold by all Druggists, aod at Professor liolloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. MILLBANK PRlSON.—Yesterday the Bill in the house of Commons for amending the Act regulating the prison at Milbank (6 and 7 Vic., cap. 2G), was printed. At , present the management of the prison is und er " inspectors,' but " visitors " are now to be appointed ; and on the passing of the Act the functions of the inspectors to cease and de termine. THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE. We continue Ike-publication of these interesting docu• rrionts;— DEPOSITION OF M. LEDRU-ROLLIN. MEMBER OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT (JULY 5). The attempt of the ;sth of May had several characters; I can only give general appreciations. I believe that the cruder number of those who invaded the Assembly had for their only object to carry there a petition, and to read it at the bar. They wished to carry it out by force, and were pro bably ignorant of the decree of the evening before, which forbade them to do it. The police was badly conducted I must confess. At the moment of the invasion, I came to the rails with M. de Lamartine, and used all my efforts to prevent the crowd from entering. Some one came to in form me that a considerable mass was proceeding to the other gate, by the Rue de Burgoyne, and that it was les defended than the one at which I was. I ran to that gate. I spoke to the insurgents, and forced them to retire; but they entered by the foot of the hall. Blanqui and R.' spail had certainly a pre-determined intention of pene trating into the interior of the Assembly_ Buries seemed to me to have been excited by degrees. He had been told that the e were 300,000 men in the manifestation ; that it was the people, the sovereign people. Barbei never saw anything beyond, The people was his idol. Then came Blatiqui, man who was excessively dangerous, a man of whom I have always said that his heart contained gall and bile instead of b'cod. Huber pronounced the dissolution. I think_ that Blanqui and Huber were agreed together for pronouncing the dissolution. As for me, I have been shamefully calumniated. I know nothing of these projects. My coo duct:diring the sitting is known by every one. I was be seeched to take the Presidency, but I refused, and my obsti nate resistance to the besettings of which I was the object, is well known. I descended into the court; I was then met and surrounded by men who wished to conduct me It the Hotel de Ville. I declared that they should not bri4 me there alive. I even took out a pistol to shoot myself with, if they did not cease their violence towards me. When the hall was closed, I got on horseback along with M. de Lamartine (I had not even my hat on). They wished to stop me, saying that there was fighting in that quarter of Paris. I should have felt it sweet to die for the Republic. I arrived. I took measures, and caused the arrest of the factious, who were deliberating very quietly. Caussidiere had given me his word of honour, and I trusted in his loyalty. I have seen Sobrier twice. Sobrier was one day presented to me. I did not know him more than many other men of the same kind. I isolated myself. I belonged to no society, secret or public, having always had for my principle to conspire only in the face of the sun. Sobrier came to the Ministry, and complained of being watched by my orders. He said that they committed a great mistake in not having confidence in him ; that he had all possible respect for the Assembly, and that if needful he would assassinate Blanqui, whose intentions were hostile. The ateliers nationaux were the subject that caused the gravest pre-occupation to the Government. Towards the 20th of May it was resolved to close them. All the measures that human prudence commanded were taken for that purpose, but all the orders given were not strictly executed. It bad been agreed, for example, not to admit any more into the ateliers. Two mayors of Paris, never theless, allowed themselves to inscribe new names, and their destitution was decreed. You know that the delegates sent a deputation to the Executive Commission, and what reply was made to them by M. Marie; it was then that we gave the order for arresting fifty-six delegates and Pujol. This order was not executed, and the Prefect of Police answered that he had not their address. As for the events of June 23, it has been said that the Executive Commission was wanting in foresight. I repel this reproach, and declare that all the measures of precaution had been taken. Our orders were formal, but they were not executed. Thus, we wished that the garrison of Paris, and of the Banneue, including the Uarde Mobile, the reinstated Garde Republicaine, and gar diens de Paris, should be raised to 60,000 men. As difficul ties were made, this number was reduced, first to 56,000, then to 50,000, and at last to 45,000 men. General Cavaignac said that he could not disgarnish the rest of the country. Twenty thousand men were at last agreed on for Paris, and 5,000 for 'Versailles, St. Denis, &c., in all 25,000 effective men. ;Besides, Lamartine proposed to bring up:20,000 men from the army of the Alps, which was done. I recollect that the anxiety of M. Lamartine about the strength of the troops was such, that he frequently demanded how our orders in that regard had been executed ? There will be a question some day ofknowing whether or not there were really 25,600 men in Paris in the month of June. As for me, I cannot be lieve it. From all points of Paris there were complaints on the 23d of not having enough of troops. We differed es sentially on the means of defence to adopt on the 23d of June. There were two opposing systems. General Cavaignac required that the army should be under his direction ; that it should be massed together, and then directed against the points allacked. The Commission :thought, on the contrary, that it was necessary to attack each barricade as soon as it should be raised, or even only commenced. It persisted for a long time in its opinion, and only yielded with regret in abandoning to General Cavaignac the conti nuation of the military operations, while it retired to the Presidency where it might co-operate with him. Towards half-past three o'clock General Cavaignac went out to see how things were going on ; he was to be absent but for one hour at most. He did not return till nearly nine o'clock at night, and I shall never be able to tell of the tortures 1 suffered during his absence. All the mayors of Paris sent to me to demand reinforcements; they all complained of not seeing any troops; the National Guard cried out treason, and I was there alone—alone at the Presidency, in mortal and indecisive anxiety. In the absence of my colleagues, I took upon myself to write to the Prefects to demand all the forces, without distinction, which were in the neigh bourhood of Paris. I dispatched orders to Admiral Casy for him to demand troops immediately from Brest and Cher bourg. At the return of General Cavaignac, I avow I showed great vivacity. From all I have said, I think I can conclude that there were not more than eight or ten thousand men engaged in Paris on the first day of the insurrec tion. It is at least certain that having asked General Cavaignac, towards two o'clock in the morning, how many troops there were in Paris, he answered me that he did not know. My advice was to recommence the attack at daybreak, and to send two battalions to General Demesne. General Cavaignac was not of the same opinion. They com menced to skirmish about three o'clock in the morning. The accusations brought against us, in consequence of the absence of troops, were such, that an officer came to tell that the com mission was loudly accused of treason, and that they must be shot. Events seemed to me so serious, that I was obliged to think of employing cannon. I ordered guns to be brought from Vincennes. The cavalry left at eleven o'clock to get them. By what fatality was it that they did not return till next morning near ten o'clock? In truth, it is difficult to understand how eleven hours were necessary to go to Yin cennes and to return. Colonel Martinprey was charged with this expedition, and.was to bring back with him two infantry regiments, which were at Vincennes. General Cavaignac said, " The honour of the army requires that I should persist in my system. If one only of my companies be disarmed, I shall shoot myself ; let the National Guard attack the barri cades ; if they are beaten, I would prefer to retire into the plain of Saint Denis, and there give battle to the emeete." Q. To what cause do you attribute the absence of the 20,000 men, on whose 'presence the Executive Commission thought they could count? A. I cannot say. I lived in the conviction that 20,000 men were in Paris. Q. What is your opinion on the situation of Paris, and on the attitude of that portion of the population which took part in the jnicute ? A. I think that if prompt measures be not taken, the contest will recommence. It is necessary to revive credit, labour, and industry. This opinion I held in the Provisional Government, where I was in a minority. Gamier-Pages has been an obstacle. He thought it neces sary to administer the finances of the Republic as in ordi nary times. (M. Ledru-Rollin enters here into detailed dis quisition on the finances. He cites the measures taken by the French Republic from 1790 to 1791. He says that it was then necessary to create 1,70(3,000,000 of paper money. He recalls the recollection of the creation of the territorial inun dates, which amounted to no less than two milliards, 700,000,000. The necessities of this epoch, regard being had to the actual value of money, will require a measure 01 the same nature, and on a much greater scale. According to him, paper money is the only means of saving the finances of the country.) DEPOSITION OF GENERAL CAVAIGNAC, PRESI DENT OF THE COUNCIL (JULY 11). General Cavaignac, President of the Council, declares, first of all, that he does not appear before the Commission to justify himself, even should that appear necessary in conse quence of certain depositions. He has, in truth, but little anxiety as far as he himself is concerned; but the dignity of his position would not allow him to accept of the debate on such a ground; and far from defending himself, he should not hesitate to cover with his own responsibility those who acted under his orders. The President immediately observed that the impressions of the President of the Council are in no manner biassed by the testimony already received. The wish of the Commission of Investigation is to receive from him such information as may enlighten it in its mission. After this explanation, the President of the Council gave some explanations. The figures given by the Minister of War were correct. There were about 30,000 men in Paris, or the immediate neighbourhood. The system of defence adopted by the General in the days of June, were based on the conviction that it would be dangerous to distribute the troops. The experience of July, 1830, and February, 1848, made him feel the necessity of not engaging the military in the streets, but to keep them tcgether in a body strong enough to enable them to make the insurgents give way before them. The slightest check to an army is fatal in cases of this descrip tion ; notwithstanding the most formal orders, a battalion was placed at great risk on the Place des Yosges, in a com promising position, which incurred a severe reprimand from the Minister of War, notwithstanding the incontestible bra very of the commander and men of that battalion. A second example occurred, which might have been attended with the most serious consequences : above all things, to insure the safety of the honour of the flag is the sure guarantee of defi nitive success. The result of the events confirmed this opinion. On the day of the 23d, added General Cavaignac, I was only then Minister of War, it was surely in my own option to court death if I thought fit ; I proceeded in the direction of the Faubourg du Temple, which was menaced: General La moriciere accompanied me. On a question put specially by the President, General Cavaignac replied that the regiment of engineers from Arras was only sent for during the last days of the struggle, and that there was no resistance mane, no delay iu the execution of the orders given. „ - TESTIMONY OF GENERAL LAMORICIERE (JULY 11). I have nothing particular to tell you respecting the causes of the attentats. If the insurrection had succeeded, it would have been the loss of a battle of society (bataille sociale), and the triumph of the programme of the 15th of May. 1 have no doubt whatever that in the ateliers nationaua' there was a culpable understanding with the insurrection. l am morally convinced of it. Moreover, at the barricades o St. Martin, I beheld some of the directors (centre maztres) of the ateliers nationaux. signed ‘. ',ALAN NE: have req_uested General , Manly saiawdipveidrmaaitiss o N, f ,e f r r e ee passage, arrested bearers of money and cartridgrihelse facts. shall send it d'Artois to draw up a report o to you. M. Flottard ordered two individuals of the Ecole Centrale to be set at liberty. They were bearers of money. I was afterwards informed that one of them changed his domicile secretly in the night. I was struck with the military skill which had been em ployed in the construction of the barricades; and I must say that, to suppress the insurrection, 1 was happy in finding the admirable devotion of the National Guard, the Guard Mobile, an d the army. The assistance of the pompi ers was of the greatest service to me. I may here mention an incidentconfi ioi gra that occ urred. A Lieutenant-Colonel of the National Guurd came a t t t i to me, demanding assistance to suppress a which pompiers, burst lsh o out behind outthefire; an the b ar r id a c ad s e st. I sent a b o dy of h e 3 returned the insurgents fired upon them, killi n g t wo , and woundin g three. I have heard many regrets expressed, that there were not more troops in Paris. It must be remembered that too large a display of troops in Paris at that moment would have raised a universal cry against the Government) that it would have been accused of p rovo ki ng th e people. What made the struggle se long wa sp thatmeasures were not resorted to on the very first day, as are usually adopted in a city taken by assault. From the moment that circum stances allowed it, and even rendered such steps necessary, the whole aspect of affairs was immediately changed. A great change, moreover, was visible when the represen tatives joined us. They kept up the moral courage in t lie ranks. We immediately regained the upper hand, and did not sustain much loss. We had abundance of ammunition. We fired about two million cartridges. • fmust explain why I complained of the want of mortars. I had batteries enough, but as each bat tery consists generally of two mortars and four guns, mortars were therefore expected, whilst each battery consisted of six guns without the mortars. It was Illontpensier who made this change, by suppressing 'the two mortars. General Cavaignac, not aware of this circumstance, could not account for my reiterated demands. STATE :OF :THE MANUFAC TURING DISTRICTS. ASHTON, MONDAY. —The authorities here have spent another anxious and harassing night. 'The military have been under arms, divi4ions of county police and special con -.tables have been held in readiness at the Town-hall, and armed patio!, both foot and mounted, have scoured the bo rough and its environs front hour to hour. The nature of intelligence in the hands of the magistrates, it is said, will justify the same precautions and the same harassing vigils again to-night. it is said that on Saturday night, after all are precautions taken, and all the watching, the Chartists or Confederates held a midnight meeting, but it was beyond the mere precincts of the town. According to the information received of it, the meeting took place near Droylsden, about three miles from Ashton, and the same distance from Man chester. Shots were heard from time to time in various di rections again last night, and it is conjectured that these, and rockets which are occasionally thrown up, are used by the parties as signals. The policemen who were bound over to give evidence against M'Douall, the Chartist leader, and against the four men in custody as implicated in the outrage of Monday night, the 14th instant, have received summonses to appear this afternoon before-the grand jury at Liverpool assizes, and their removal to Liverpool for a few days will take away from the sympathisers with M‘Douall the temp teflon to revenge, and their power to destroy the evidence, which was said to have been their incitement to the murder. At Manchester the Confederates continue to hold meet. ings, and at several of them the men apprehended on Tues day night, and liberated on bail, addressed the audience. At a meeting in the Heyrod-street Institution, a building of their own, on Sunday night, one of those parties, an Irish man, named Donovan, repeated a story he had very hu morously told several nights before, about his apprehension, and the collision between the police and his wife, which, he assured bis audience, was about the warmest engagement he had ever entertained any idea they should witness in their struggle for the charter. Thu police, he said, told him they wanted his arms. His reply was that he had a wife and family, and his arms were necessary to earn bread for them. They then explained that it was the fire-arms they wanted. " Oh, the fire-arms," was his rejoinder, "if it was thi tongs or poker they were after, they belonged to his wifi's department of the household' business," and sure enough the wife was not inclined to capitulate without making them rather hot to handle. Ile denied that either he or his associates were in any way implicated in or had any knowledge of what was going to take place at Ashton. They had not counselled physical force, nor been privy to its use. He did not deny that the parties to that affair were Chartists, and fools would always be found in any agitation. The Manchester authorities, however, had missed their way —there seemed to be a conspiracy amongst the magistrates and not amongst the Chartists, and it was a conspiracy against all the moral force men they could lay their bands upon. He assured his friends that so soon as Wednesday's examination before the magistrates was over, and they were set at liberty--as set at liberty they assuredly would be —not a moment's time would be lost in taking steps for an action against their prosecutors for false imprisonment.—Up to yes terday evening all was quiet in Manchester, nor was any dis turbance apprehended. COMMITTAL OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS AT LIVERPOOL. —Yesterday Murphy and O'Brien, who had been remanded on charges•of conspiracy, were brought up for re-examina tion. Against O'Brien further corroboratory evidence was adduced, and he was committed for taitil. The evidence against Murphy was strengthened by a person who' lived opposite to him swearing that he saw him, through his bed room window, examining a number of pikes. This and the other evidence having been gone over, Murphy was also committed for trial. CHARTISTS AND REPEALERS. Last night several meetings of the Chartists and Confede rates took place in the metropolis, and the greatest precau tions were taken by the police to rrreven t a public disturb ance at any of the places of meeting. At the South London Chartist Hall, a meeting took place at eight o'clock; but the speeches delivered were of a common-place character. At half-past ten the proceedings terminated, and the parties separated without coming into collision with the police. A meeting of Chartists and inhabitants of Clerkenwell and Islington, which was numerously attended, was held at the Literary Institution, Islington-green, for the purpose of promoting the extension of the principles of the Charter. Considerable alarm prevailed in the neighbourhood in consequence of the publicity given of the intended meeting. Upwards ofa dozen policemen, in full uniform, were placed on duty in the room, and a strong force was in the streets, and also at the station-house, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent Johnson, of the N division. This was the first meeting where the police have made their appearance in full uniform; the object being, that in the event of any trea sonable language being used, the speaker should be imme diately taken into custody. Mr. RICHARD MoonE was in the chair. He observed that it was in consequence of Louis Philippe's not having in time listened to the voice of the people for reform that he was not in possession of the French throne. They could net expect to gain the objects of the Charter by any violent means, and could only succeed in their objects by moral force—(Hear.) The members of that society were very desirous of obtaining the Charter, but the only course they would recommend for success was, to act consistently with the laws and constitu tion of the country. Several other speakers addressed the meeting, but they all seemed to admit that the progress of Chartism had been, re tarded by the recent attempts at physical force. The assemblage subsequently separated peaceably. IRISH DISTRESS. - - - The following letter from Sir George Grey has been receive , l by the Lord Primate of Ireland in acknowledg ment of the address of thanks for the relief affordtd to the poor of Ireland during the late famine:— " Whitehall, August 9. My Lord Arclibishop,--I have had the honour to lay be fore the Queen the loyal and dutiful address transmitted by your Grace for presentation from the proprietors and occu piers of land and residents in Ireland, of every class in society and of all religious persuasions, expressive of their gratitude to her Majesty the Queen, to their fellow-subjects in England and in the dependencies of Great Britain, and also to the benevolent persons in foreign countries who contri buted to the munificent subscriptions which were raised for the relief of the distressed poor in Ireland during the late famine. And I am commanded to inform your Grace, that her Majesty has received with much gratification the ex. pressions of grateful acknowledgment contained in this ad dress for the assistance rendered to the poor in Ireland at a time of peculiar suffering and distress. " I have the honour to be, my Lord Archbishop, your Grace's very obedient servant, " G. GREY." NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY.—The half yearly general meeting of this railway, for the purpose. of declaring a dividend, was held on Saturday in the board-room of the direction at the Bishopsgate-street Station. Richard Paterson, Esq., presided, and at his request the Secretary read the report, declaring the di vidend on the shares for the half-year ending the 30th of Jnne last, to be as follows :—" On shares guaranteed 5 per cent. per annum: 501. paid, 1/. ss. each : 231. paid. Its. 6d. each. On shares guaranteed 6 per cent. per an num : 501. paid, 11. 10s. each : 231. paid, 16s. 6d. each I and become payable on and after Saturday, the 2d the September, less property-tax. The dividend on n t xt, quarter shares, payable on the 30th of November e t wil i l u b m e , a o t r it 7 s s. p 6 re d s . en p t er The directors take this opportunity of reminding of guaranteed quarter a share ee less as 6 p p r e ? r pe cn y t : t e p thh e xe r an. of September next, and share becomes due on the 27t h payment of debentures as the money is required tor t he proprietors of new shares, that tan instalment ll/. per they urge upon the proprietors two the necessity o then falling ' from office by rotation are Ebenezer due, f ue Ptinctual payment. The direc tors retiring Fuller Maitland, Esq., and H. Lewis Smale, Esq., 'and the board recommend these gentlemen for re-election." The Chairman : I have nothing to say in addition to the report now read, but to move that it be adopted and agreed to. Mr. Kennard seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. The motion for the re-eleee tion as directors of Mr. E. F. Maitland and Mr. H. L. Smale was agreed to. After some formal proceedings the meeting broke up. PLUNDERING MAGISTRATES AND POLICE-OFFICERS. —Yesterday information was received at the Head pars Poliee ffi oce, Scotland-yard, th a t some f e llows were authorities by going a bout i plundering the provinci a l mag i s tracy and police utfo bv representing themsel ves as police-officers ina Mr. J. Jacombs deserters to head-quarters. On Sadtur by y Chartist delinquent, or a detachment en route to bring of Coventry was duped of 21. 12s. 6 a fellow who said from Weedon, u ddenly without funds, an d George Hussey Packs, Esq., justice•e of the peace for Linc o l n , Were dressed in the uniform of th e he was an inspector of police lfs in pursuit of a prisoner, and who found himself of 2/ , by three fellows who one actually having his wr ists in handcuffs to keep up the de ' c pt on. artillery, and pretended they w were carrying on a pris oner, T HE J UD GES.-- ST. GEORGE'S Cnuacti.--Yester day forenoon Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Cresswell, the Judges presiding e ver the assizes now being held in Liver- N o ' the Mavor, with several of the aldermen, cturi -1 attended Divine se r vice at St. George's Church. T. B. fiorsfall, Esq., of H as ig p h re s a h c e h r e i d ff. by thhee Rev. Rev./t,ir. Gentleman esk e tookt h , the his cillors, and public functionaries the borough, also attended state, with the regalia of the corporation. The church sivnascrowded in every part. Prayers having been read, a n the w test from the 39th Psalm, Ist verse, "I will take heed unto m y ways," on which he founded an artless and effective ex f hortation to a religious e b h ri a e l s a e i h i- m o o t life. The strength and efficiency of the choir was a general theme of comment and of admi ration. —Liverpool Albion. SUICIDE OF A CALUMNIATED WlFE.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Bear and Ragged Staff, Upper Ground-street, Blacktriars, before Mr. W. Carter, on the body of Sarah Burgess, aged "3, of No. 1, Hatfield-street, who committed suicide under very distressing circumstances- It appeared in evidence that the deceased was married about three years ago, and lived happily with her husband until a short time since, when a young man who had known her in the county came to London, and in the presence of her friends made certain reflections on her character. These were clearly proved to be false, and her husband told her not to care- about what was said, for he did not believe a word of it. After that, however, the deceased was nearly always in tears, and frequently told her friends (some of the witnesses) that she should never be happy again, that her peace of mind was ruined, and she should " do some harm to herself." On Friday night last, while her husband was asleep on a chair, she suddenly rushed to the window, opened it, and leaped out. She was picked up immediately, still breathing, but she died in a few minutes, her skull having been frightfully fractured by the fall. The jury returned a verdict" That th e deceased destroyed herself while in a state of unsound mind caused by slanderous imputations." IMPORTATION OF ASPHALTE.—A vessel arrived( from Philadelphia, United States, has brought thirty casks of asphaltum as a portion of her cargo. We have no recol— lection of a previous importation of asphaltum from the it place, and believe it has not hitherto been an article of supply from the United States of America.