The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 300 sous. each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b. each. (6 Subs.) Lord Exeter's Midia (Flatman) 1 Mr. R. H. Nevill's Letitia (Bartholomew) 2 Betting— 5 to 2 on Letitia, who was beaten cleverly by a length. Run in 2 min. 23 sec. The Goodwood Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, &c.; the winner of the Northumberland Plate, the Gloucestershire Stakes, or Liverpool Cup, to carry 51b; of any two of these stakes, 71b extra; the sxeond to receive 100 sous. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 15 sm. to the Judge. Two miles and a half. (115 Subs., 74 of whom declared). 31.,. J. Clarke's Maid of Lynne, 6 yrs, Est 131 b (Evans) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Van Diemen, sst 61b .I.(J. Osborne) 2 Mr. E. B. Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, Est 121 b (Dockeray) 3 Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 131 b (S. Rogers) 4 Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 81b ... (F. Butler) 0 Lord Clifden's Wane* 5 yrs, Bst 51b ... (Robinson) 0 Captain Wrather'S Maid of M asham, 4 yrs, 7st 91b... 0 Colonel Peel's The Admiral, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 0 Sir J. Hawley's The Tartar, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (S. Mann) 0 Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, aged, 7st 71b (Petit) 0 Mr. Death's Antagonist, 5 yrs, 7st 61b...(W. Abdale) 0 Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st 61b ... (J. Sharp) 0 Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, Gst 131 b (Kitchener) 0 Mr. Griffiths's Bagley, 4 yrs, Est 11lb (Milton) 0 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip, 5 yrs, 6st 91b (Charlton) 0 Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, Est 81b ...(E. Sharp) 0 Mr. W. S. Stanley's Fire-eater, 3 yrs, Est 3lb (Dean) 0 Mr. Dawson's Priestess, 3 yrs, sst 31b ...(Harwood) 0 Mr. Cuthbert's Emma Donna, 4st 131 b (E. Harrison) 0 Lord Clifden's Wallflower, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b, carried sst 0 Mr. Drinkald's Over-fork-over, 3 yrs, 4st 31b carries 4st 1 llb ...(Hiett) 0 Betting-6 to 1 agst Plaudit, 7to 1 agst Giselle, 10 to 1 agst Collingwood, 12 to 1 agst Van Diemen, 12 to 1 apt Maid of Lyme, 14 to 1 agst Wanota, 15 to 1 agst Tophana, 16 to 1 aget Over fork-over, 16 to 1 agst Clermont, and 25 to 1 agst any other. The front rank at starting was composed of Maid of Lyme, Over-fork over, Wanota, Plaudit, Chanticleer, Van Diemen, and Giselle; Over-fork-over and Maid of Lyme being in ad vance nearly abreast; the ruck was laid close. Coiling wood, Fire-eater, and the Tartar bringing up the rear. They ran in this way for about a distance. The lead was then taken by Wanota, who with Maid of Lyme, Plaudit, and Over-fork over in attendance, made strong running for rather more than half a mile; he was then passed by Maid of Lyme, who went on with a clear lead to the end, and won very easily by two lengths; Giselle took the second place at the last turn, but was caught by Van Diemen at the distance, and beaten for the second money by a length. Chanticleer laid for ward all the way, and was not beaten more than half a length from Giselle; Collingwood and Hornpipe were next. The race was run in 4 min. 52 secs. The Banney Stakes of 30 goys. each, 20 ft, for two yrs olds. Colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Half a mile (8 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Officious (Flatman) 1 Lord Strathmore's Hood (T. Williams) 2 Betting-15 to lon Officious. Won with thegreatest ease imaginable by a length. The Drawing Room Stakes of 25 soya. each, with a bonus by independent subscription of 10 soya each, for three yrs olds. Colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; winners extra. The second to receive 100 sous. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 25 soya. to the Judge. (24 Subs. to the Stakes and 22 to the Bonus.) Mr. Gordon's Borneo (F. Butler) 1 Lord, _Ew.gt?r'a Teatator.—., .. . ... s . s e.•*--s•?(Robinsoa) 2 COroiiiCT Pe el'l IA US (Flatmab) . Betting 7 to 2 on Bdrneo, who made nearly all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths, Testator beating Indus for the second money by half a length. Run in four minutes. The Stewards' Cup of 300 sous., added to a Handicap of 6 sous. each. T.Y.C. (41 Subs.) Lord Clifden's Cotton Lord, 3 yrs, Sat 121 b (car ried dst) (G. Brown) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Ferule, 3 yrs, sst 121b...(Hiett) 2 Mr. Payne's Farthingale, 3 yrs, 7st (Dockeray) 3 Mr. Drinkald's Thornhill, 3 yrs, Est 71b...(Rodney) 4 Duke of Rutland's the Fiddler, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (Robinson) 0 Mr. Herbert's Radulphus, G yrs, Bst 31b (Sly) 0 Mr. Ford's Teleeraph, 4 yrs, Bst (W. Howlet) 0 Mr. Beauclerc's Whitstone, 4 yrs, ist 131 b (J. Sharp) 0 Mr. Rolt's Besborough, 4 yrs, 7st 13Ib (Petitt) 0 Mr. Gully's Osterley, 3 yrs, ist 131 b (A. Day) 0 Sir G. Heathcote's Valentinia, 4 yrs, 7st 9lb (S. Mann) 0 Mr. William's Laundry Mai 1, 6 yrs, 7st 81b(Abrahams) 0 Mr. Burgess's f by Sir Hercules, out of Gift, 3 yrs, Tat 71b (Burn) 0 Mr. W. Sadler's Master Murray, aged, 7st 41b (Maton) 0 Mr. Frankum's Dolly Varden, 3 yrs, 7st...(Charlton) 0 Mr. Hobson's Passion Flower, 4 yrs, 6st 121b(Crouch) 0 Lord Glasgow's f by Lanercost, out of Canada, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Coates) 0 Mr. Gordon's First Chance, 3 yrs, Est 111 b (Kitchener) 0 Mr. B. Hunt's Chicaneur, 4 yrs, Est 71b ...(E. Sharp) 0 Lord Exeter's Midia, 3 yrs, bat 121 b (carried 6st) 0 Mr. Corrien's Nautch Girl, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Collins) 0 Colonel Peel's Taffrail, 4 yrs 7st 61b (Flatman) 0 Betting-3 to 1 agat Cotton Lord-7 to 2 agst Far• thingale-7 to 2 agst Nautch Girl-10 to 1 agst The Fiddler-12 to 1 each agst Taffrail and Midia—and 16 to 1 agst Radulphus. Farthingale and Ferule got off together, and made the running to the distance, where Ferule took it up. The latter was caught opposite the stand, and after a good race defeated by half a length; Farthingale a good third, and Thornhill close up. Run in 1 an. 20 sec. Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, with 50 added; for three yrs old Est 101 b, four Bst 31b, five Bst 121 b, six and aged 9st 21b; the winner to be sold for 300 soya., if demanded, &c., and allowances if to be sold for less ; winners once in the present week to carry 41b, twice 71b extra. Craven Course. (5 Subs.) Mr. Drinkald's Grief, 3 yrs, sst 61b .........(Rodney) 1 Duke of Richmond's Reflection, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b Lord Clifden's Fallow Deer, 4 yrs, Est 131b...(Pearl) 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Grief, and 2to agst Reflection. Won in a canter, by six lengths. Run in 2m. 17 sec. The winner claimed for 100 sous. Match, 100, h ft; last half mile—Duke of Richmond's Pouishboy, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (Flatman), beat Duke of Bed. ford's Scampa Via, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (E. Sharp), by a length. 6t04 on Ploughboy. Run in 53 sec. The Members' Plate of 50/., with 50/. added; with 10/. from the fund for the second horse ; three yrs old 7st 71b, four yrs Bst Sib, five yrs 9st, six yrs and aged, 9st 41b; the winner to be sold for 2502, &c. Once round. • Lord Exeter's Testator, 3 yrs (Flatman) 1 Captain Lowther's Watchdog, 5 yr5.........(5. Rogers) 2 Mr. Dawson's Priestess, 3 yrs (J. Prince) 3 Mr. Sait's Jonathan Wild, 6 yrs 5 to 4 as,st Testator, 5 to 2 agat Priestess, and 3 to 1 agat Watchdog.—Won by half a length, Priestess a bad third. Run in 4 min. 7 secs. • The racing this afternoon, if it lacked the rich Pro duce Stakes, which gave so much interest to the first day, offered counterbalancing attractions in the Good wood Stakes and Stewards' Cup, the fields for which were large, and the betting uncommonly spirited; the other events were of inferior importance. The sport, however, on the whole, was good, and its enjoyment by a large and fashionable company was enhanced by the extreme fineness of the weather. Time was ad mirably kept, and the racing finished at a few minutes before five. LATEST CEP BETTING. Even on Canezou, 5 to 1 agst the Hero, 6 to 1 sgst Tadmor. Tadmor's starting has been declared to be doubtful BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TIIESDAT . GOODWOOD STA&ES.-7 to 1 agst Clermont (t)-10 tol agst tho Maid of Lyme (t)-10 to 1 agst Collingwood (t')-10 to 1 agst Van Dieman (t)-12 to 1 agat Maid of ..Vlasham (0-15 to 1 agst Tophana (t)-16 to 1 agat Hornpipe (0-300 to 8 agst Fire-eater (t). G OODWOOD Cup.-6 to 4 agst Canezou (taken freely). ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday even ing with their presence, and occupied her Majesty's box. There were in attendance upon her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir G. Cowper, Bart. ; in attendance upon the Duchess of Cambridge were Lady Augusta Cadogan, and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay. Among the visitors were, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar, Prince Richard Metternich, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Russian Consul-General, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Douro, tho Countess of Glengall, the Countess of Westmoreland and the Ladies Butler, Earl Compton. the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Manvers, and the Honourable Sklar.), Pierrepoint, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Kenmare and Mr. Valentine Browne, the Countess de Flahault and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Countess of 31alincsbury, Countess Cadogan and the Hon. Captain Cadogan, Lady Georgina Grey, Lady Mary Bentinck Earl Bruce* the Earl of Wilton, le Co m t e and Comtesse de Nouailles, le Comte and Comtesse de Rossi, Viscount Duplin, Viscount Clifden, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Brown low Cecil, Baron Koller, Lord Alfrcd Paget, Lord Fo rester, Lord Elphinstone, Baron de Steinberg, L a d y Bateman, Lady Duff Gordon, the Hon. Miss Gordon, Hon. Julian Fane, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Hon. W. L. Powys, Hon. Ralph Neville, Hon. F. L. Gower, M.P., Chevalier and Aldine. du Horta, Hon. Mrs. Charles Cust and Miss Macdonald, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir Peregrine Acland, Bert., Sir Isaac Lyon, Lady and the Misses Goldsmidt, Sir William and Lady Clay, Sir Henry Paulet, Bart., Sir John Gibbons, Bart., Sir Thomas Mare, Bait, Sir William Abdy, Bart., Lady do Bathe and Miss do Bathe, Sir Henry Meux, Bart., Lady Antrobui, Lady Shelley, Lady Lawley, Lady Talbot and the Hon. 31r. Talb3t, Mr. Lushingtov, M.P., Mr. T. Baring, M.Y., Mr. C. P. Leslie, M.P., Mr. Denistoun, M.P., Mrs. Denistoun, Colonel North, apta . in Egerton, Captain W. Tiantins, Ca ptain Durham, Captain Hamil ton, Colonel Wingfield, Uaptain F. Seymour, Captain C. Ellison, Miss Burdett C ourts , Miss Temple Mowdoin, Miss Byrne, Miss Richards, &e. [ADVERTISEM2NT.]—A certified Cure of Scrofula by Holloway's Ointment and following certificate from Mr. Alcorn, of Jerry's Plains, New South Wales was forwarded to P ' chemist, rofessor Holloway by M r . Pinkey of the same place. " This is to certify that my daughter, aged se ven years, was afflic , ed with scrofula for three years, and that, after she bad been attended by several respectable practitioners, without success, I was induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which remedies in about three months completely cured her, and she is now in the best of health. 'this can be verified by various persons in this vicinity, where I have re.sided for twenty-two years. (Signed) R. Aleorn• ._l, 1819." Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establesh merit, 244, Strand, London. Thomas P'ticker, Esq., was on Friday elected to the coronership of North Lincolnshire, in the room of Mr. Masan, resigned. THE ARCHXOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. SALISBURY, TUESDAY.—The annual meeting of the institute concluded this day by an excursion to Sil bury-hill, to investigate the operations in progress there, under the auspices of the society, and to exa mine its contents, as well as those of other celebrated barrows in that neighbourhood. Dr. Merewether, Dean of Hereford, has taken great interest in the operations going on in this locality. He visited the spot last week to superintend the proceedings of the workmen engaged. He found the tunnel, which has been made by subscription, advanced about 32 yards into the hill, parallel with the surface of the soil. He had recommended the -workmen to stop at about two yards from the centre of the hill, where he expected to find some remains, a cist with bones and coins or other contents. Under the guidance of the Dean the party inspected the spot to-day, and were pleased with the proceedings. The day was remarkably favour able, and the fine bracing air of the Wiltshire Downs was' thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The meetings in this city have gone off well, not withstanding the meagreness of the attendance, a fact which may be accounted for by unfavourable weather at the commencement, and the state of dis ease in which the town has been during the meeting. The papers read at the meetings have been of more than ordinary excellence, and, if we may credit the assertions of some of these gentlemen, the members were highly pleased with their reception, and gratified by the results of their meeting. Great credit is due to the local authorities and local committee for the excellence of their arrangements and the zeal shown in providing the necessary accommodation. Nor should the hospitable manner in which the savans have been received by our local gentry be forgotten. On the whole, this visit has clearly shown that Salisbury possesses ample antiquarian resources for many such meetings as that which has just closed. CONGRESS OF THE BRITISH ARCHZE OLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. CHESTER, TUESDAY MORNlNG.—Yesterday even ing the congress opened with a promise of very great success. The trains during the day had brought numerous visitors from London and from various parts of the country, and at eight o'clock not less than 300, a considerable portion of whom were ladies, were assembled in the room of meeting—the Royal Assembly Room. The Noble President, Lord Albert Conyngham, took the chair, and was sup ported by the Bishop, the Dean, the Mayor, and a number of the leading members f the association. Lord Albert Conyngham was introduced to the mixed audience of citizens and visitors, in a brief, but very judicious, speech by the Bishop o f CEILDENT Chester. In a short opening address, the PR spoke of ad verted to thehi s importanceown recent and interest of h antiquarian visit to study s Grs; o ce i ofthe dpelesaesrureed the objects of the h he had himself archeology, anmidt, and described meeting. His observations were received with very strongly marked feelings of satisfaction. He then ' introduced to the meeting Mr. DILLON CHOKER, who read some remarks on the study of archaeology. He was followed by Mr. PLANCHE, who read a long paper on the seals Of the Earls of Chester, in which he attempted teclear up some obscurities in their armorial bearing,but the paper was of a character which would not admit of our giving an analysis in the space to which our report must naturally be restricted. He made some incidental remarks on the absurd conventional forms which had gradually been given to particular animals on the shields, and instanced especially that of the lion. At the conclusion of the paper, Sir W. BETHAM rose and made some observations on the latter point. He mentioned the instance of a heraldic painter, who had been for many years in the habit of painting such lions, and who bad never seen real lions until one day he was taken to the mena gerie in the Tower. When shown the lions he laughed at his conductor, imagining it was a joke, they were so totally dissimilar to the animals he had been so long accustomed to call by that name. Mr. WRIGHT next gave his paper on the ivory casket, which he stated, from the workmanship and costume, to be of the beginning of the fourteenth century. It was an attempt to give an accurate and rational explanation of pictorial representations, which had been hitherto spoken of in a very vague manner. Mr. Wright pointed out the value to the archaeologist and historian of such pictorial represen tations, and the use which had been made of the similar works of the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. He then gave a brief sketch of the origin and progress of the mediaeval romance, and described and explained the scenes represented on the coffer, in doing which he showed the influence of those romances on the manners and sentiments of the female sex in the middle ages, for whose use such articles were in tended. Thus the consideration of antiquities of this class illustrated the manners and history of the past, as well as the progress of the arts. A local antiquary, Mr. W. BEAsionx, then read a long paper on the origin, history, and existing re mains at Eddisbury, of which, nor of the paper, which concluded the evening, by Mr. Halliwell, on the cottage literature of the palatine counties, we will not attempt an abstract. Mr. Halliwell gave some curious notices of old printed tracts, relating chiefly to Chester, or printed in the palatine. The meeting broke up late, and evidently well satisfied with this first stage of the proceedings. This morning the archaeologists have been em ployed in wandering about the town, and they are now assembling in the Shire Hall to listen to Mr. Black's lecture on the records of the palatinate of Chester. Domestic affairs have suddenly called away Lord Albert Conyngham, who left Chester about ten o'clock this morning, very unexpectedly. The Bishop of Chester has taken the chair at the meeting in the Shire Hall. REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON. THE NOMINATION. BOSTON, WEDNESDAY.—MOre than usual interest was excited in the town this morning by the announce ment that Mr. Freshfield, the Conservative candidate, had withdrawn, from a sense of the i m p oss ibilit y o f obtaining a sufficient number of votes to give any hope of his being returned at this election. Mr. Freshfield, previous to his departure from the town, announced the difficulties under which he had entered the field at a late period. The nomination was fixed for ten o'clock. On reaching the hustings, Mr. W. Garfitt, banker, of Boston, nominated Captain Pelham. Alderman RawsoN seconded the nomination. Mr. SNAITH proposed Mr. D. W. Wire, and Mr. SLATzn, seconded the nomination. The candidates having addressed the electors, a show of hands was taken. It was, by an immense majority, in favour of Mr. Wire. Captain Pelham's friends demanded a poll, and the candidates then retired from the hustings. The town is in a state of great excitement, and business is entirely suspended. HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were present on Tuesday evening at her Majesty's Theatre, his Grace the Duke of Wellington and the Marchioness of Douro, the Duke and Duchess of Clevelend, and Lady Augusta Paulett, the Duke of Leeds, the Dowager Marchioness of Sligo, and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Clan ricarde, the Marquis of Headfort, Lady Young, and the Ladies Taylor, the Marquis Donegal, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Neapolitan Ambas sador, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van der Weyer, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, and Madame la Marquess do Lisboa, the Charg 6 d'Affaires of France and Madame de Montherot, his Excellency the Minister from the Argentine Republic, the Earl and Countess of Bective, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Bruce, the Earl and Ccuntess of Malmesbury, the Earl Alta mont, the Count de Berke, the Baron Koller, the Count and Countess do Miremont, the Viscount Somer ton, the Viscount Cantilupe, Lord George Gordon Lennox, Lord Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lord William Gordon Lennox, Lord and Lady Hallyburton, Lady Powlett and Miss Webb Cunningham, General the Hon. Arthur Upton, General the Hon. H.,,,Cavendish, Lady Seymour and Miss Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. Nor ton, the Baroness Noith, Lieutenant-General Sir Alex ander Woodford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Sir Cornwallis Rickets, Bart., the Baron de Gurlache, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., Lady and Miss lloward, Lady Susan Reeves, Sir Thomas Barratt Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barratt Lennard, Sir Philip Acland, Bart., General Sir F re d er i c k T renc h , B art., M.P., Mrs. Hen niker Wilso n , General Reeves Major Buckley, Mr. Henry and Mi ss Singleton, Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, Colonel L. Harvey and Miss Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Moore, Colonel Loekyer Freestun, M.P. and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Mr. Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Richard Vinar, Captain Smith, &c. OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Yester day an Act of Parliament, which received the Royal Assent on Saturday, came into force with respect to the payment of salaries of the officers of the House of Com mons. By the Act in question (12 and 13 Victoria, chap. 72) all moneys arising from the fees of the House of Commons are to be carried to the Consolidated Fund, and the salaries of the clerk, clerk's assistant, &c., are to be paid out of that fund. It is declared by the fifth clause, that so much of the Act 9 and 10 Victoria, chap. 77, as directs the Commissioners for regulating the offices of the House of Commons to appoint a pay master, and as regulates the said offices, shall, from and after the Ist of August, 1849, be repealed; and the salaries, allowances, superannuations, charges, and ex pen,.es of th e !l ouse o f Commons shall thenceforth be paid by the Paymaster-General in such manner and at sueh e tiene s as the Speaker of the House of Commons or the A c o e m o ns t N i s T s i s o n e u e r s of T u t h u e Treasury MUNICIPAL B o direct. Rou ENGLAND AND WALES. A chap. 104, and the Ist Vie liament, pursuant to theA r v i a a ;i c o h u a s p return presented to Par ctots. 6th and 7th Willi G a il m S lV O . F 9 gross total receipts of the municipal 7Bshow s t boroughshat t h the of England and Wales during the year ended the 31st of August, 1848, amounted to 1,195, 3 481., and th e t o t a l expenditure to 1,170,4411. CABTA.X.S. 1 1 ..) . ,Dividend g. ' Names of ~. Dividend , Names of ~ Companies. A 1 per . -Companies. A 1 per Price. Annum., V) it llEl. 1 ~--...- ........8 X I X Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 ` 1 21. 10s. - Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 1001 18 1. - 11rknk&Abrg 1501 5/. 185 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. - Birmingham 351 41. 83 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. - Coventry.. .• 100' 251. 210 Regent's •• .• 33 1/. 2s. 18 Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale...• S5l 41. 50% Ellsmre&Chs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71. 103. 130 Erewash • - 100 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 i 61. p. c. - GrandJunctn 100 , 51. 89 Stffrd &Wore 1 4 0 281. 310 Grand Surrey 100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 151 ' - Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stotutridge.. 145 201. 300 Grantham • • 150 - - Severn and i 3/. Os. - Kennt lc Avu 39 Is. 6d. 5% Wyeßail.S 26 Leeds& Livrp 100 301. 325 Warwick& 41. 5734 Leicester ...• 140 Si. 6334 Birming. J 100 Leicstr &Nth' 83 41. 45 Wanvick& } 100 31. 41 Loughborogb 142 701. 650 Napton.. Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &} 78 21. 41 Mntgemrysh 100 - - Birming. MoltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend ' Amount Name of Company. per of i Paid. Price, Annum. Share. X s. d. I .£ s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 204 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% Clydesdale Bank •••• • • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13 Commercial Bank ...• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 163 Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 7s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 3 4 Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 26% Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 1 55 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 1 78 27 21 2050 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1. 4 0 4 8 - NorthM 0 r t h ot British S c otl a ß n a d n ß k a n . . IL . 6 4 54 1. p p e e_ r r c c e e n n t t .. Western - Royal Unio n Ba Banknß Ban k of :o k i t S. Scotl a nd . co . In . n . d . 5 2 8 1 ( .. per p p e e rr cent . c c e e n n t t .. 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B A. b . A e r ee d e o e r n d F L ! r i f e e a n n li d d F L i l r f s e 'l3 61. p - r cent. cent 21 1 00 2 1 00 0 00 0 021 10 0 100 0 00 0 c 2 6 4 d B r itish Guarantee Ins. 41. per Caledonian Fire Insnr. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 71 Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 la% East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 95.0 d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 - Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Incur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Mercantile Life Assoc . ißritish r im rt i Life:oehfs I Scotland neiu.sr.c..it. 564554111...ippp. per rr r r ce c cee e enn n ntt t t.. . . 20: 1 000 0 0: 0 00 0 0 2010 1 1000 0 000 0 3818 1; 8: 6 d * . National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 , 1 0 0 20s. 6d S N'T c oo o rr t tt t hh i s h Life and timer. - 20 0 0 011 0 - Scot. hies. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 - Scottish Union Insrne 41. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s Standard Life United Dep. Assurance Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 146.6 MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- X. s. d. 4. s. d. Australian Agricultnri 11. 100 00130 0 0 164 Anglo-Mexican 3fint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, Half Shares.. - - t 210 0 ••••• Canada ............. U. per cent. 100 0 0132 10 0 - Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent. - - 70 City Navigation .... - - - 90 Comp.CpprMnrsEng. 51. percent . 100 0 0 1 70 0 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversionry sf. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 l 0 xd Gen.SteamNavigatlon 11.8 x. 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 - Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 3 Peninsh& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 89 Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0160 .0 0 - South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0, 25 0 0 16 Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 123 0 0 I I% TILE SHIPPING TRADE IN HULL.—The influx of ships into Hull, noticed in our last, has been succeeded by a great number of Baltic and American traders this week, and the docks and quays now appear as if trade were in a most flourishing condition. Labourers, who until the past few days were seen loitering about the docks in vain asking for work, are now nearly all in active employment ; and the staff of tide-waiters and other Customs' officers, whose frequent journeying to the Custom-house and water-side indicated a lack of business, are now stationed on board vessels and filling other posts; and to meet the exigency, several extra tide-waiters have, we under st.ind, been called into requisition. On Monday about 50 sail, most of them British ships, were reported at the Custom-house from foreign ports, and on the following days a proportionate number. Their cargoes were of a general description. Many from the Baltic aro loaded with wood, grain, iron, seed, Esc.; and those from the near North Sea ports are chiefly grain laden; and those from Canada—from which country some heavy ships have come to hand—with timber and deals. The ports of Goole and Gainsborough have also f. It the benefit of rather large arrivals from abroad. For the former place many grain- laden vessels from France, Belgium, and the Baltic have passed this port; while to Gainsborough some large consignments of seed, direct from the grow ing countries, have been made. This is very cheering, especially as the blockaded ports are likely to be opened for commerce on an early day. Every Sound List, too, which we continue to receive from Elsinore announces a large number of vessels from Hull and other ports in the Humber, as well as for various parts of the United Kingdom.—Hull Advertiser. THE LATE BALLOON DISASTER.—We are requested to state that the Mr. Crawsliay mentioned in the late accounts as having accompanied Mr. Green i in his balloon ascent, is not Mr. Crarishay the =meat ronnassta. PRICZS OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASS , URANCE, AND OTHER COM I'ANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED E VEXI TUESDAY AND FATDAT EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 31. aorsrm-sTocs. zaznits. Dividend 1 Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --.-.....-. _.................. - A s. d. A s. d. An-Itralaths •• •• •• •• • • W. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 2335 EritshNorth American 51. p,•,/ cent. I f,O 0 0 50 0 0 Ceyloa .. .. ~ . • .... • • 71. per cent. 23 0 0 23 0 0 - Commeralt.l or London Si. par cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Colonial.. •• M. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestrshire • . • • .. ,5/per cent.i - - - lonian ...... Si. per cent. 1 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminsii 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Ditto - - 13 0 0 - London-Joint-Stook ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16% Provinctiti of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 38% Ditto, New... ••• •• • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - NatiOrsal of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ....• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia ..... . . Si, per cent. - 22 10 0 - Union of Australia.... 6!. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Ditto - - .......... 6/. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1034 Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - INSITILANCJI COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. i Ann pe ana r • si lf ro. Paid. Price. .£ s. d. ' £ s. d. Albion .......• ••• • •• 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 151. &bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine. •• •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 5M Atlas ... . British Commercial •• 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 5% Clerici,Med.&Gen.Life spr M.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 65 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle ...... ••.-•• • • • 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5% Eng.& Scot. Law .••• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 - European Life - • • 4% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 15 FamilyEndowmnt Soc. 41. & be. 100 0 0 4 0 0 - Freemasons' ....- •• • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 - Gl)be •••- • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 122a.c1 Giartilan ...........• 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49 Imperial Fire --•• •• 121. per ccnt. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220 Imperial Lifb ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 Indemnity 31artme.. • • 11. sh. lk bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 210 0 23{ Law Life- ---•• .. 11.16 e. 100 0 0 10 0 0 4134 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 4% London Fire .. •• -.• 105. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16% London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16% Marine.. ........... 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 9% 5I Nationale d . In L i d e t a G F e n ii . n L d i . f . e 4 5 1 . 1 p. e p r e e l - . n c t t .. - 5 2 0 0 0 0 00 2 100 0 0 ..... 2 % gational Life •• • • - PAlladium Lite . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 210 a. Pelican • - - - - Pnomix - - 141 Pi otector _Life ••• . - ... 61. par cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - Provident Life •••• • . .. N. ss. eg bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26 ttock Life •••.•• • • • • • • ss. 5 0 0 010 0 5% Royal Exchange 6l. per coat. Stock. - 200% dun Fire . - - 203 v U i n I D a v o i t e r i t o r a s a l- i L I f i f e e Life !... .. ........ 1 5 0 1. % i p i. p er r 6s c c: i n t l . . 100 - 0 0 9 - 0 0 44 , - 4 0 0 4% DOCRB. Name of Coaapaay. Dividend per Amount of Share. Paid. Price. Annum. East and Walt India... East Country London . Ditto 80nd5........ St. Katharine ........ Ditto, Scrip...—. . Ditto 80nd5........ Southampton • • ...... Name of Company. Charing-cross .. .. .. .. Southwrk , Nw Sub.Ay. Ditto Nw of 73 p.c. Waterloo ............ Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 61. pr cent. 20s. per ale. 51. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent..., 4%1. pr cent. 21. per cent. BILIDG: Dividend per Annum. 355. per cent, IL 4s. Od. U. Is. Od. WATER-WOILIES. Name of Company. Dividend per Annum. East London.... •••••• I Si. Grand Junction •• •• •• 41. per cnt. Kent...• •• •• •• •• •• •• 31. 10s. Lambeth 51. per cnt. New Rivr Lndn Brdge 21. 10s. Vauxhall ...• •• •• 51. per cnt. West Middlesex . . . '61.05. pr cnt. GAS-LIGHT AND CO, Name of Company. British ...• • • .. •..... Ditto Provincial.... Bristol .............. Brighton .. • • .. • • • • •• City of London ...... Continental Consolidat. Equitab1e............ Imperial ............ Indesendent ....... •• L0nd0n.............. Ditto.... ...... .. .. Phcenix . ............ fiatcliff .. • .. • • • • • • United General .... .. Westminster Chartered Ditto. New ........ Dividend per Annum. 11. Bs. 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share 50s. pr share 61. per cent. I 61. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. 4 %I. pr cent. 31. 12$. Amount of Share. X a. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount of Share. X. s. d. 40 0 0 I 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 IWO 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50.0 0 50 0 0 A. a. d. 18 0 0 19 0 0 100 0 0 39 5 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 46 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 X o. d. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 Amount of Share. X. a. d. 632 12 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 4 i. d, 50 0 0 X. a. d. 25 0 0 co 00 40 0 0 raid. X 5. d. :P.A.NIES. Paid. I Price. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS 131 21 11114 Price, Price. 29 75 13 44 8% had had their annual treat in that Geld two days before, and so much had been provided that the remains were sufficient to satisfy the ten thousand men, women, and children who stumbled inadvertently on the very same field two days after. By the merest accident, too, his Lordship was there also. He ex plains how this happened. "He felt it was the duty of the gentry, whatever difficulty or danger there might be, to go with them to p reven t them from committing any indiscretion. He ac cordingly followed them." But ma rve l s i ncrease i n thi s fabulous region. Besides the stupendous vestiges of the school feast, the mountain of bread, cheese, and beer, "ho found a platform erected "—dropped from the skies, doubtless, like the chapel of Loretto. Nothing daunted by the prodigy, " he and several gentlemen ascended " the miraculous platform, and made a speech which very naturally derived a preternatural tone from the wonder ful incidents of the day. With " the thousands of loyal men he saw around him—the waving of banners of 50 ultahued should too gfroeragtQ forget tanyhe occasion o t n o rof our was o h r e iou impossibled s en a s n e niv m ersary," or the principles for which e o e r u a r n a g g e e na m e e n n t c s o „ n t t e h nd ey , h o a r d"thereceived heavy e iv e df r o blows m t and h e variousgre a t dis par ties who had ruled this country for the last 20 y« ars. But he said not a word about Dolly's Brae, or about keeping their powder dry, or anything of that sort. Such N f v ac h t e s n o f t h t e h e 2, c o a o s u e m as en f , a f r n a e s fu L d f o u r : d 3 11 00 od u e u n d e l r s a r are arms, concerned.thew i th plain an escort of mounted police, left the park, what with the beauty of the day, the strength of his Lordship's " small " beer, the magnificence of the scenery, " the mountains of Morn() echoing to their "shouts," and Slieve Donard, the mistress of them all, looking down on their proceedings, they took the turn to Dolly's Brae, and there found a strong muster of the enemy, whom they " used up " in no time—to Lord Roden's inexpressible concern. The difficulty of the case, it is obvious, arises from Lord Roden's entire innocence of the aff«ir. Our fear is that he may be equally innocent of future equally unpleasant results. His simplicity line, hitherto, been proof against circumstances that could not fail to sophisticate ordinary men. Here is a nobleman near 80 years of age, pos sessed of numerous estates, and said to manage his affairs with discretion, a custos rotulorum, and a large sinecurist, who does not know that an armed processiot. of 2,000 partisans through a country of hostile partisans is illegal or injudicious, or even offensive to the adverse faction. He feels no affront, and therefore sees none, in a volley fired over the gate of a hostile leader. He thought a twelvemonth after a rebellion, and a month after the ignominious banishment of its chiefs, the most harmless and appropriate moment for a tri umphant demonstration. fie conceived that he was doing his very utmost to prevent it when ho was ar• ranging with its leaders that it should only enter his park and march past his hall door. It was only by accident that it got to a field in his park, and found provision for ten thousand hungry men, women, and children. Ile , was unconscious of any connivance with the 300 muskets when he attended them through his park. Tie was guiltless of the platform which he found there erected. All the rest—the allusions to "our glorious day," the principles it was founded to support, and the discouragements received from the successive rulers of this empire, the cheers and the waving of banners with which his Lordship's address was hailed, were all harmless and customary things. As for the particular route taken by the host on leaving the park Lord Roden cannot be held responsible for that, even if ho had foreseen it. His Lordship then is perfectly clear. Not a child in arms—of whom we have no doubt there were many in the process i on—could know less uoei of its dang erous tendencies than he did. This, however, is the very thi ng which gives us the uneasiness we are forced rceen ee de tolns confess.gs,compatible appears,vfth the mostthat mischievousthe mos t pe conduct,r perfect in o and that a v enera b le peer and magistrate, in the face of a thousand. warnings, iray continue to sanction ill ega l p almost certain to terminate in bloodshed. Lord Roden, of course, must be acquitted of blame. He no more knew what he was about than the Theban hero did wh en be slew a contumacious traveller, and married the Queen of the country he had preserved. It only just occurs to the mind that there are questions of decency and of convenience as well as of justice. Lord Roden is at least a most unlucky man. We aro afraid of his fortunes, not of his faults. The undiscerning public, also, will infallibly associate his name with Dolly's Brae. So all things considered, we really think that Lord Roden would meet the proprieties and the convenienc es o f th e su bj ect by either resigning his com mission or pledging himself' never again to give the least countenance to an Orange procession. HERALD.—If an abettor of despotism on the Con tinent of Europe--or that beau ideal of despotism—the Emperor of Russia—were desirous of exhibiting to his people the futility of representative institutions, ho would perhaps exultingly point to the deliberations of the fifteenth session of the United Parliament, or the session three o'cl oc k theY seat if . of the 12th an d 13th Viet., which closed its sittings at a l p id eri c od em of fuo lu u l s l six months r o d u a s y e s afternoo n.both o f. Lords and have been constantly sitting, and though there has been an endless amount of speaking—very little good —a very FROM THE MORNING PAPEILS OF THIS DAY. TIMES,—Among the shocking and incredible dramas which appalled and amused the theatrical public of Athens, there was not a sadder or a stranger than (Edi pus at Colonos. A man of noble stature, more vener able for grief than for years, and blind by violence, not decay, appeared on the stage under the guidance of a child at a rural altar, whither he had come to claim the protection of the infernal deities. By virtue of curses uttered before he was born he had become the pollution of mankind. Most unwittingly he had murdered his father, and married his mother, and by the wrath of heaven on these crimes bad brought a pestilerre on his kingdom. When e knew what he had done there was no amount cl expiistion he rat not ready to under g o, aLd ateECZ ha hid for ever from his sight the earth an d t h e s ky h e f e lt himself no longer worthy to behold. A wanderer once more he sought from strangers a refuge from oppression, and an acquittal from slander. The House of Lords presented on T ues d ay a spectac l e not unlike, though nothing could be like, that monstrous conception. A venerable man suffering from recent illness, and still more from mental affliction, came before the senate to complain of an untoward fate and a calumnious age. In the simplicity of his heart he had deliberately invited and welcom e d to hi s res id ence thou sands of men in military proce ss i on , carr yi ng b anners , and a large portion of them ar ms . He had then and there refreshed their bodies, and animated their souls. He had done this on the anniversary of a bloody t r i um ph, a day loved by one faction and hated by another, and memorable in consequence for a thousand fatal collisions. The procession came under a class expressly forbidden by an Act just allowed to expire, and still contrary to the common law of the land. It i s unnecessary to say that the victorious faction vvero the objects of his Lord ship's well-meant hospitality. The triumphant caval cade provoked the same jealousy it had always done, and as usual there ensued a collision. At a pass where the factions had braved one another a hundred times before, they braved one another again. A fight ensued, as usual at that place and that day. His Lord ship's guests were well armed, well horsed, well fed, well refreshed, well escorted and guarded, and accord ingly they carried the day with considerable slaughter. It only remains to be told th at hi s L or d s hi p d i d hi s part of the affair in the utmost simplicity. He is an in nocent and calumniated man. It appears that Lord Roden had no more to do with the tragical result than Mr. Bright or Mr. Smith O'Brien. Individually he did all he could to prevent the collision, as everybody with i a spark of generosity in his bosom will confess when he hears his Lordships own account of the affair. Listen. It was only in 1845 or 1846, says his Lordship, that the Act against these processions was suffered to expire. The great mass of the humbler classes in Ireland were so bent upon them that it was difficult to suppress them, even when they were expressly forbidden by the law. Last year, such was the excited state of the country, there was a great rebellion, which the lord-Lieutenant put down, if not with difficulty, at least with consider able exertions. When the 12th of July 1848, "came round," and when the loyal men of all classes wished to take that opportunity of expressing their joy at the result, and the Orangemen of the north came to meet at that period, "he honestly confessed that he did not discourage or prevent their meeting." Last year, then, they met quietly enough, and passed some resolutions against repeal. But when the 12th of July was "coming round" this year, the Orangemen bethought themselves of an im provement on last year, and a return, in fact, to the pious usages of antiquity. They proposed a march across the country to Lord Roden's, and their leader conferred ii with his Lordship on the subject 'fortnight before. His Lordship hesitated; he was old; he could not stand noise; one of his family was in delicate health; so he would not promise to take them all in; but at the same time did not like to say no. The Orange ambassadors were dis appointed and unwilling to return with their errand fruitless, so they suggested an out of doors reception. His Lordship took two days to consider this; and at last confessed that he could not close his gates against loyal men—that if they must come, they must. So on the 12th of July " several thousand " of them, as Lord Roden said at the time, came with their wives and children, and three hundred stand of arms. They marched in capital order, and in such silence that the invalid indoors did not hear a word. His Lordship stood at the door, and they defiled before him. He was sorry to see so many in arms. "He confessed he sin cerely regretted to see it; he thought, however, that it could not be illegal, because on the 12th of July, 1848, there were many armed in those processions, and on the 17th of March last, when the procession of the Riband men took place on their great day, he saw many hun dreds who were armed, and, in face, they fired a volley over his gate, but he thought little of it." He measured the act by the standard of his own equanimity, and thought there could not possibly be danger or offence in firing a volley over the gate of a political antagonist. Nay, so struck was he with the harmlessness of the transaction, that, as he says, he was encouraged by what he saw to forgive his own friends marching across the country in arms. With all the innocence of childhood, Lord Roden said to himself, " Two can play at that game," and it Ribaudmen may amuse themselves with siege operations " on their great day," why may not Orange men do the same when their great day comes round? In all this we can only admire the unsuspecting naiveté of a nobleman who has lived through half a dozen re bellions and insurrections great and small, and yet can think no evil of those rival demonstrations. But to pro ceed with Lord Roden's own simple relation of the real facts of the case. The procession passed by, and went into a field at the end of his park. By the merest luck they found in the field bread and; cheese and beer suffi cient for 2,000 men, their wives and their children, and as they had marched a good distance, they could not re sist the opportunity of lunching at his Lordship's ex pense. The lunch was there by the merest accident, — such things are common in that land of plenty—but Lord Roden accounts for it thus:—His school children great deal bitter bad—and a vast portion most indiffer ent—yet in the way of useful legislation almost nothing has been done, and even the little effected is of question able utility, when not positively and unmistakeably mis chievous. But of " words, words, words," as Hamlet says, we have had bushels and tuns—a very wide waste of at best of times a most worthless and inexpensive com modity. " Words are like leaves, and where they most abound Small store of fruit beneath is rarely found." Some portion of this evil of wordiness is no doubt inci dent to and inseparable from a Reformed Parliament, in which every half-informed coxcomb or every dull ob rocure opsheathist and blockhead is desirous of being heard and reported. Bat a good deal of the evil ale() is I owing to the aste and poll:ilex; cf par ieo, tied to the attempt made by the Peelits—an attempt in which they signally failed—to erect themselves into the neutral ar bitrators and critics of a Government which they had the desire to supplant, but not the courage or the ho nesty to attack openly. On the part of the second and third-rate Peelites, there has been for the six months last past, both in the House and in the press, a great deal of wearisome snarling—witness the efforts of Mr. Gladstone and Lord Lincoln—which considerably rm. peded the flow of public business; and on the part of the Member for Tamworth there was that elaborate and pompous patronage which cer tainly did not tend to lubricate public affairs. Far three or four nights the Right Hon. Baronet occupied the Lower House with details relative to his tariff—with his views and opinions relative to the condition of Ireland— with Ms sham scheme of Connaught plantation—and with artful sad grossly-discoloured views of the opera tion of his measure, or rather, Cobdeu's measure, adopted by him at the twelfth hour, or free trade. ut, apart from these egotistical questions and considerations in which the personal pronoun was used many thousand times, we do not find that the "distinguished states man," as the Morning Chronicle fetidly loves to call him, contributed one new idea to legislation—that the " die. tinguished statesman" produced one new Bill—that the "distinguished statesman" said one brilliant, original, or witty thing (when did he ever do so from 1809 to the present day?), or did any one feat, or performed any one Parliamentary part or passage that could relieve him from the toilsome repute of being one of the most hard-working —one of the most painstaking—men of good faculties, to whom God has denied literary and political genius, poli tical courage, political honesty, and its general conco mitant, political wisdom. Independently of this position of the Peelites, the efforts of the Government have also been in some sort impeded by the Humeites and Cob denites, who, though occasionally speaking strongly against the Ministry, have, in general, when matters came to a pinch, voted with them. But a more formid able enemy to Ministers than the Peelites, Humeites, and Cobdeeites—a greater impediment to public busi ness than any opposition, open or covert, was their own rashness, ignorance, and incompetency. This is not the place—nor is to-day, perhaps, the occasion—to completely and systematically review their measures. But when they put into their Royal Mistress's mouth the as sertion that the state of the public business enables her to dispense with their attendance, they know ingly and wilfully utter the thing that is not. What question have they settled in domestic affairs? Do they fondly imagine that the Irish poor-law is set tled 7 that the rate in aid is settled ?—that the ques tion of Irish emigration is settled?—or even the working of their Encumbered Estates Bill, in which they have not yet filled up the names of the Commissioners? Far, indeed, from it. All these measures arc sure to come on us again and again in the next session, revealing sins of commission and omission, innumerable; showing that Ministers have . done what they - Ought to have 'omitted, and have omitted what they ought to have long since done. Even with respect to Irish landlords and tenants —even with respect to the power of Irish leasing— or to Irish public works—or to provisions, for another Irish famine (which God in his mercy avert !) Ministers have done little or nothing. and if the potato crop fail in the present year, we firmly be lieve we shall find these incapable men as unpro vided with a remedy—as unprovided with any " large and comprehensive measures"—to use their owu words—as they were in 1846, 1847, and 1848. How, then, can the men have face to :ay that the state of public business enables her Majesty to dispense with the attendance of her Parliament? Where is the country in Europe that is tranquil or at rest? Is France? Is Germany? Is Italy ? Is Switzerland? Is Hungary? Is Poland? Is Turkey? Is Wallachia? Is Greece? Is even Russia itself ? Alas! no. Though the preli minaries of peace, as is stated in the Speech, have been signed, under the mediation of her Majesty, between Prussia and Denmark, yet this convention may not prove the forerunner of a permanent or definitive treaty, and even though such treaty be signed within a week from this day, the position of the French in Italy, and of the Russians in Hungary, is such as to awaken the solici tude of the least apprehensive and the most hopeful among the sons of men. One hasty, one rash word—one imprudent act—on the part of any one of the powers, may light up a war in Europe, of which the youngest amongst grown men may not see the consequences or the termination. On the Russian interference in Hungary, on the French occupation of Rome, the Speech is alto gether silent. Is this silence wise or politic? Is it dealing fairly with the people to pass over, or, as certain newspapea writers say, to " ignore," these facts, inter fering with and greatly deranging the European balance? True, her Majesty states that her Majesty's efforts will continue to be directed to promote the restoration of peace in those parts of Europe in which it has been in terrupted. But for now near a twelvemonth a struggle has been going on in Hungary, and in Italy for more than a twelvemonth, and peace seems as far distant as ever. Venice still holds out—Garibaldi's band is not extinguished, but lives, moves, and has a being; and even Mazzini boldly proclaims that the Roman Republic is not dead, is not extinguished, but will yet arise again from its short sleep. how, then, we ask, can Ministers talk so confidently as to the future ? We are not told, as we usually are, that her Majesty continues to receive from all her allies assu rances of amity and friendship. All we are told in general, ambiguous, and most suspicious terms, is " that the friendly character of her relations with foreign powers affords her Majesty a jest confidence in the con tinuance of peace." This, in the present state of Europe, is, indeed, but a frail and feeble guarantee. Such are some only of the neutral and negative points (if we may so speak) of the Speech. If we look to the positive points—to the actual performances—all we find stated is that the Navigation Laws have been amended (query ?),in the full confidence that the enterprise, skill, and hardi hood, of the British people will assure to the traders of this country a full share in the commerce of the world. We trust it may be so, and that all our prognostications and previsions may be frus trated. But if so, such a result assuredly will be accomplished, not because, but in spite of the legislation of her Majesty's Ministers. In the congratulations ex pressed on the termination of the war in the Punjaub, we can cordially concur. We extend also a full measure of praise to the exertions made by the Government of India, and to the valour displayed by the British and native army. But apart from these topics we see nothing in the Speech that commands approval, and little that commands assent. It will be some compensa tion for what the Times in barbarous language would call the " short-comings" of a most barren session, if her Majesty is, by this early prorogation, thus enabled to see Ireland in person —to judge of the land and of the people—and, while making a just, laudable, and neces sary excursion, is all the while laying in a stock of health and information, calculated to enable the best of Sove reigns the more fully hereafter to perform her duties to ' a people who, though misled for a moment, have ever been loyal and well-disposed at heart. POST.—Upon the very interesting subject of mar riage the quarterly return of marriages, births, and deaths, published by the authority of the Registrar- General, gives the following information:— " Looking at the circumstances of the country, the general result of the return is favonrable. The mar riages continue steadily at the average, neither swelled by speculative expectations, nor depressed by idle doubts of the adequacy of the industry, science, and nature of the country to supply its wants, This is a gem in its way. It must be highly consola tory to the people of Great Britain that they have the privilege of paying not only for this kind of authorship, but also for its publication in blue books. The Registrar-General is, it seems, no vulgar recorder of facts—no mere arithmetical compiler, but a supplier of philosophy to her Majesty's public. He not only tells us what it is deemed necessary we should know, but the conclusions which we should draw from this knowledge. The general result of the return we are in structed to regard as favourable. But the most curious part of this Registrar's proclamation is the new view which he affords ,us of the phy losophy of motives lending to marriage. It used to be thought that people married because they liked each other, and because they expected or hoped to be able to keep house in their united state. But these enlightened times have got far beyond that. Marriages, it seems, are now "swelled by speculative expectations," or, on the other hand, they are " depressed by idle doubts of the adequacy of the industry, science, and nature of the country to supply its wants." We, in our simplicity, did not know before that when young couples thought the times were too bad to make it prudent for them to marry they had previously entered into a calcu lation, or at least a consideration, of the adequacy of the science of the country, together with industry and nature, to supply the wants of the country. There is an old-fashioned book called the Book of Common Prayer, which also enters briefly into the philosophy of marriage, but it is not half so scientific in its views as the publica tion of the Registrar-General. Itis laid down in that old fashioned book that marriage is the symbol or significa tion of a religious mystery, no less than the union of the Christian Church with its Divine head. It is described as an honourable estate, which is not to be taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, or viantonly; . but we do not find that any consideration of the scientific capabilities of the country is even mentioned as a desirable preli- minary. It is, indeed, admitted that population is one of the purposes of marriage, but it specially refers to the training of such population in the fear and nurture of the Lord—a point which is not touched upon in the Registrar-General's report. Moreover, the old-fashioned book represents marriage to have been ordained for a remedy against sin, and for the mutual society, help, and comfort that one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity; so that even speculativ e ex pectations of increased fortune, oridle doubts of the adequacy of science to supply the wants of the country, would not exactly . apply to the augmentation or diminution of matrimony when thus contemplated. It is worth while to mark the growth, i n t hi s our day, not only of statistical information, but of that re flective philosophy which so naturally accompanies sta tistical tables. As matters are proce e di ng , t h e wor ld will, no doubt, be, in a few years, wond rous w i se. Per haps we ought to ment ion that, accordi ng t o th e Regis trar-General, while marriages continue steadily at the average, influenced by the philosophical considerations already adverted to, the births are inbreasing, and the deaths also increase. It seems the exact sciences have not 3et touched the questions cf births and deaahs, - and these matters go on in unregulated independence of the enlightenment of the age. The mortality of towns is stated to bp less than it was, but we era authoritatively informed that in July, August, and September (the re turn is to the end of May) the general mortality will be increased. Since the Registrar-General so settled it at the end of - May, there is of course no doubt but that so it must be. CHRONICLE.—Two measures of projected legisla tion in referenca to railways have been this year brought forward only to be abandoned—the hurried close of the cession affording the real cr cstencible cause of their withdrawal. We refer to the Railwa7 Audit Bill and the E.,-;,:lvysy Abandonment Bill. Will regard to the first of these measures our opinion has been already expressed. We have a strong objection in principle to admitting Government interference and control over undertakings of a private and commercial nature. We can quite understand, indeed, the feeling under which people, who are smarting from the consequences of their own rashness and credulity are induced to ascribe their calamities to a defect in the law, and to believe that an Act of Parliament would be a sovereign specific for their grievances. Suffering a bitter retribution for the excesses of 1845, they are ready to believe that if a Government Audit had only existed before that time, there would have been no wild mania, no crushing re action, no George Hudson, no delusive premiuns, no cooking of accounts, no distress, exile, and beggary of deluded shareholders. But those persons can have read commercial history to little purpose who have not learned that in periods of high speculative ex citement, to which this country has at various times been subject, every barrier which can restrain the money getting frenzy is thrown down, and the most stringent laws have been found ineffectual to protect the sanguine and the credulous from being the dupes and victims of their own cupidity. It is not by Act of Parliament that you can make men temperate in their desire for wealth, discreet in the choice of their investments, or vigilant over those with whom they have entrusted their money. It is idle to suppose that any legal enactment can protect the grown-up public against the self-delusions of inordi nate avarice or the consequences of rash speculation. The mistakes which men commit, when left free to act under their own guidance and responsibility, are often disastrous to themselves and to their families ; but the spectacle of such retributions is not altogether unwhole some to the public ; and the remedy ,for the mischief is assuredly not to be found in destroying that free agency and immunity from State interference which is the essential condition of sound commercial enter prise. Where would have been the wealth and prosperity of this country, if all the magnificent undertakings which private capital has achieved had required to be dry-nursed in Downing. street, and if every project of public improvement had been condemned to stand still until it was warranted " free from risk" by an actuary of the Government? Tho practical objections which apply to such a Bill as Lord Mnnteagle's, in addition to that which lies in limine against the principle of State supervision have been evaded, but not answered, by its supporters. Nothing is easier than to declaim against the rascality of direc tors, or to appeal to the devastation produced by over speculation, and then quietly to assume that directors would be made honest, and ruined speculators be set upon their legs again, by the operation of a Railway Audit Act. But it is much less easy to disprove the assertion to which an overwhelming majority of the London and North-Western shareholders have pledged their assent, that without such a degree of meddling and vexatious interference as would embarrass the manage r:tient, neutralise the authority, arid almost 'Wholly destroy the responsibility of directors, the official audit would be a dead letter. Nor is it easy to show how the public would gain, if' the measure which is designed to control the dishonest should so disgust the honourable and high-minded as to render a seat at a railway board no longer tenable by men of eminent position or inde pendent spirit. It has been stated on official authority, that the revival in the next sessio❑ of the Bill lately withdrawn will be contingent on the spontaneous efforts of the companies to meet the public demand, by origi nating in the meanwhile a more satisfactory method of account keeping and a real and bond fide audit. We know of no difficulty which should prevent these bodies from fulfilling the required condition. The London and North-Western Company has, indeed, already set an example, by exhibiting in its half-yearly statement a conspectus of its financial position which leaves little to be desired in regard to perspicuity and fulness of detail. If other boards- of directors withhold a like plenitude of information, the fault will be in their own share holders alone ; nor is it very likely that any directors will be found so rash and short-sighted as wilfully to exhibit a false picture to their constituents, after the terrible exposures which have lately taken place, and the exemplary punishment that has overtaken official dishonesty. The additional security of an impartial audit, conducted by men wholly independent of boards or chairmen, possessing the confidence of the share holders but not imposed upon them, would be a tribute to public opinion which no directors should be unwill ing to pay, and which the Government ought to be well contented to accept. We hope that by a cordial co operation for the promotion of this object, the di rectors of the principal companies will, before Par liament meets again, evince the sincerity of the objec tions which they have urged against Lord Monteagle's Bill, and that they will thus deprive the Legislature of any plea for that intrusive espionage which the jealous spirit of commercial independence has in other cases re tused to tolerate. The other measure to which we have adverted—the Railways Abandonment Bill—is one which appeared to us to deserve a better fate than Ministerial dilatoriness condemned it to undergo. It passed the House of Commons, but was withdrawn on the show of opposition in the House of Lords, in that agony of preci pitate haste when the smallest discussion of a Bill was delay, and delay was defeat. It was impossible not to admit the hill force of the objections urged by Lord Stan ley and other Peers against being compelled to swallow undigested so sweeping and comprehensive a measure, involving the virtual repeal of numerous Acts of Parlia ment, annulling many solemn contracts, and unsettling divers complicated relations. The objection was good, but the Bill to which it was fatal might have proved, had time sufficed to discuss and consider it, a material alle viation to the embarrassments of the railway interest. It would have enabled a competent majority of share holders, without the expense and delay of an application to Parliament, to obtain power, by a reference to the Railway Commissioners, for abandoning either the whole or any portion of a line which financial or other reasons might make it inexpedient to complete. The power of sanctioning the suspension of railway works already exists, and has been largely exercised by the Railway Board. This measure would have carried their jurisdiction a step further, by authorising them to license a postponement sine die. The Bill contained provisions —which, if not adequate to their object, might easily have been made so—for compensating parties to whom the abandonment of inchoate works might have been in jurious, and for indemnifying landowners in case of loss or inconvenience arising from the annulment of their bargains with the companies. We regret that, owing to that lack of skill in the marshalling of business which has marred several useful Bills during the past session, a measure has been frustrated which would have afforded a locus penitenti a highly acceptable to shareholders at the present time, and have given a seasonable relief, by the liberation of capital, to other undertakings which it may be too lite or otherwise inexpedient to recede from NAVAL IN T_ELLIGEN CE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.---The Blenheim steam guard-ship, Captain Horatio Austen C. 8., was towed from her moorings up the harbour this morning to the side of the Victorieuse hulk, into which her officers and crew were discharged on account of the preva lence of malignant sickness on board. The Phcenix steam-sloop, Commander Wodehouse, went out of harbour yesterday afternoon, and sailed from Spithead at half-past four this morning for Devonport, where she will be paid advance prior to sailing on the 3d with the mail for the coast of Africa. Extract of a letter from Bombay, dated June 25 : " Her Majesty's ship Inflexible sailed from Hong- Kong at 2 P.M. on the 25th of May, and arrived at Singapore at half- post 9 A.M. on the Ist of June, and at Bombay on the 19th of June. Sir Francis Collier embarks in the Fury for Trincomalee, to look after the alterations intended for the dockyard there, and will afterwards visit Bombay. 'I he Cambrian, 40, Commodore Plutnridge, by the last Madras papers, was there ; she also will go afterwards to Trincoma lee. The Inflexible brought about 300,000 dollars on account of the merchants of Bombay, and will sail for England on the 2d of July." Woonwleff, Auo. I.—The Atholl troop-ship, Master-Commander Pearn, embarked the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners for the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius this morning, and, at eleven o'clock A.M., left for her destination. The detachment to fill up the company of artillery at the Cape of Good Hope embarked at four o'clock A.M., and Major Browne's company for the Mauritius, and part of Major Lethebridge's company, under Captain Romer, were played by the band, at eight A.M. from the garrison to the dockyard. The 15th company of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Captain Robertson, marched from these barracks at eight o'clock A.M. About five waggon loads of bag gage were taken back to the garrison after the departure of the Athol], her commander having ob jected to that extra quantity in proportion to the number of officers and men being taken on board. Major-General Pasley, R.E., visited Woolwich dock yard to-day to witness the embarkation of his son, Lieutenant Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, for the Cape of Good Hope. ESCAPE OF A CONVICT.--A convict named John Wood, alias Forbes, 31 years of age, escaped yesterday from Woolwich Dockyard, and is supposed to have gone out at the south-west gate while the men were at break fast. The whole of his clothing, with the exception of his stockings, were found concealed on the top of some timber in oue of the sheds, which renders it evident that he must have had accomplices to aid him in his escape. He is a native of Derby, and a bootmaker by trade, and was under sentence of transportation for ten years for burglary, and previous conviction, his trial having taken place at the Central Criminal Court. COLOSSEUM AND CYCLORAMA. —This exhibition has been crowded during the week. Among the numer ous visitors were the following distinguished pat ties:— Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Shelburne, Earl of Pembroke and party, Earl of Forteseue, Bishop of Gloucester and family, Lady Fitz-Wygram and party, Lady Louisa Parker, Lord de Ros and party, Lord Sudeley and party, Lady M'Donnell, Lady Guern sey, Sir H, and Lady Pakenham and party, Colonel Sir H. F. Davie and party, Lady Beresford, M r . C o bd en , M.P., 80. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 31.—At ctrmarket this morning the trade ruled exceedingly dull for all articles, there being scarcely any transactions to note. The little businesS done in wheat may be quoted at about the rates of Saturday. Barley, oats, an& other descriptions of grain at previous terms. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 31.—There were in the market to-day 87 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, whereof 64 sold thus: —32 at 1110 s, 12 at 119 s 6cl, 7 at 11 9s Od, 12 at 11 8s 6d, and 1 at 11 7s 6( 1 . Average price of the whole, 119 s 5d 8-I2ths. 4 sacks flour; whereof 2 sold at 335, and 2at 31s. 1 sack peasemeal, which sold at 20s. 31 sacks pot-barley, whereof 26 sold thus: -- lat 11 lOs Od, 3 at 1/ 91 Od, lat 11 Ss 6d, Lat 116 s Oa, 4at 115 s 6d, I at 115 s Od, 4 at 114 s 6d, 1 at lt 33 Od, 2at 112 a 6d, and 6 at 1/ 2s Cd. Z.; sac's broscmeal whereof 1 sold at 275. , EDINURGiI HAY AND ST:IAW MARI:ET, JULY 31.-- Supplies of all kinds small. Oat straw, from 6s 6d to 8s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 6s 61 to 7s 6d ; barley ditto, 6s 6d to 7s Od. Old hay from 7d to 94 new ditto, 6d to ed per stone. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JULY 31. —From Edin burgh and the north of Scotland we have received about 100 head of fat cattle. Generally speaking, the show is very in different both in respect of quantity and quality. The supply of sheep and lambs is again seasonably large, the former is in good, but the latter is in a very middling condition. The supply of beef is 386 head. The beef bade is tolerably active former rates are fully supported, and nearly all are disposed of. The number of sheep and lambs is about 6,500. The mutton trade has undergone an improvement, and few remain unsold ; while lamb is exceedingly active, and very little re mains unsold. Prices—Beasts, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per stone of 141bs ; sheep, 40 to is per head above ; lambs, 5d t o Sid per lb, sinking offal. Coax, JULY 30.—Flour—Firsts 14s to 15s Od; extra 15e 6d; seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s; thirds, 8s to 100 per cwt. Oatmeal 13s to Os; Indian meal 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; wheat meal, lOs Od to lls per cwt. Indian corn 71 Os to 715 s Od per ton. Bran 4/ to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay—Farmers 15s to 275; average 18s ; dealers 27s to 28s; averag e 00s0d per ton. Sti aw — F ar mers 20s Od to 36s Od ; average 32s ; dealers 40s Od to 45s 041; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 80; household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to, 9d per lb. Eggs —4s 2d to 4s 4d per hundred. Coals-- Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath . Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. Melt —Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 5d to bid; veal sid to 7d ; pork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. - Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8110 s; Valonia 14/ to 01; French 7110 a ; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone. Hemp 341 to 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to 18s ; red ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 12/ per ton. Timber—Memel, 851 per ton ; deals, first quality, 18 5 ; second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 108 to ltis ; salted 12s to 18s per cwt.; calf skins lid to 2id per lb. Potatoes, white 10d to 13d ; Minions 00d to 00d; Guano-- Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe 91 per ton; Tar—Archangels 19s per barrel. COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley... 15s Od Stewart's Buddle's W. Hartley.. 15s Od Whitwell .. East Adairs Main..... 12s 6d Kelloe l6s 6d Canfield Moor Canfield Moor Butes... 12s 6d Thornley - Walker's Primrose ... 12s 6d Whitworth l3s 64. West Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c iDenison Gosforth • Hedley _ lss 6diTees .......... ....... .... 17s 3d Lt - ' ...XI 9d. ..ambion Primrose l6s 3d Belmont l6s Pd Braddyll Hetton Haswell l7s 6d Lambton West Pease DerwentwaterHartley 15s Od Hartley 14s 6d Sidney's Hartle— 15s Od WhitworthCoke 193 Od Ships at market, 48. RAILWAY SHARu MARKETS. - BRISTOL, AUGUST 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were confined to Greet Western, Fifths, which were done at 15 3 4, LIVERPOOL, AUGUUST 1. STOCK ExcLUNGE.—There was but a moderate demand to-dal. The sates are—Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction), 663i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 3% p.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 4% die. —London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% p.—Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35—Midland, 64%—Ditto, Halves, 13g dis.—York and North Midland, 30%. MANCHESTER, AUGUST 1. _ STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions - to-day . were as follow Manchester and Leeds, Old, 17% dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4% Cs.-- Ditto, Preference (R.), 12 —Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 11-16—Belton and Bury, 18 dis.—Manchester and Sheffield (No. 1), 91,i dis—Man chester and Leeds, Fifths, 3 dis..- Ditto, 32i Shar s, 6% dis. —Man" chester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 3U p.—Sheffield and Lin coln, 16 dis.—Sheffield (No. 2), 8 1 ,4—West Riding Union, 4 5-16 WI, BIRMINGHAM, Accost 1. STOCK EXCEIANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follow:--• Shrewsbury and 'Birmingham (A), 61. Is. 9d. dis. —North Stafford shire, 5 dis.—London and North-Western, 133. YORK, JULY 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as fik low : —Great Northern, 9% ex in and ex new—Ditto Preference, lip 14s.—North British, Quarters, 3%—Ditto, Preference, 21. 1 is. 6d 1 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20%._ GLASGOW, JULY 31. • STOCK ExcnAtioz —The transactions to-day were as follow :-"" Aberdeen, Preference, 6% Glasgow and Greenock, Preference , 7%—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 2s. 6d. THE ARMY. LODGINGS FOR SOLDIERS. The following instructions have been received by the army, which we are glad to observe is another of the man): efforts 'of the present Secretary-at-War to ameliorate Ana improve the condition of the soldier:— " War-office, July 25. " Sir,—With reference to the allowance granted in the Queen's warrant of Ist of July, 1848, of ld. a dal each to soldiers permitted as an indulgence to find their own lodging when their corps is.in quarters, which allow' ante is issuable only to married soldiers, and to 1 10 greater number than tix for each troop or company, t!s. stated in Article 353 of the War-office Explanatory 1;" rections, I have the honour to acquaint you that her Majesty, in gracious consideration for the further coin" fort of the married soldier, and with a view to facilitat e the separation of the married from the single men barrack-rooms, has been pleased to command that a tilt© allowance of ld. a day shall also be granted in the cavalry and infantry of the line stationed in barracks, both at home and abroad, to such married soldiers, not exceeding three for every hundred men, including non commissioned officers and rank and file, as shall receive from the commanding officer similar permission. " All claims for this allowance at home, whether the corps be in quarters or in barracks, are to be prepared. and forwarded in the course presc r ib e d i n A rt i c l e 355 o f the War. office Explanatory Directions. " In stating the claims, the names of the men, and the period and amount of the claim for each, are to be speci fied, with a certificate from the commanding officer, that the men, being married, and having their wives or chil dren present with the regiment, were permitted by him to find their own lodgings, for the periods stated, and, in the case of a corps in barracks, a certificate from the barrackmaster, that the said men did not receive ac• commedation in barracks for the said periods, is also to be annexed to the claim." ALARMING FlRE.—Last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a fire, nearly attended with a fearful loss of life, broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. G. Camp bell, a grocer and tea-dealer, carrying on business at No. 8, Duke•street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The flames when first discovered were raging with great fury in the centre room, used as a sleeping apartment, on the ground floor. An immediate alarm was sounded by police. constable 104 F, and on the residents of the upper part of the premises becoming aware of their disaster they made for the staircase, but the smoke and heat were so intense that some of the parties were nearly suffocated. Phillips, the streetkeeper of St. Clement Danes, on seeing the imminent danger the occupants were in, rushed through the midst of the fire, and succeeded in rescuing several persons ; one was nearly suffocated, and had he remained there a few minutes longer he must have perished. A woman with her child at her breast was also rescued just in time to save her life. A man who lived in the upper floor, was so far overcome by the heat and smoke that he was obliged to make for the roof, over which he fortunately succeeded in making a safe retreat. The London Brigade and parish engines, and the Royal Society fire escape, from St. Clement's Church yard, promptly attended, and there being an abundant supply of water obtained, the Holborn Brigade set their engines to work, and succeeded eventually in getting the fire extinguished, but not until considerable damage was done. Mr. Campbell and his wife being at the theatre when the disaster commenced, it was impossible to ascer tain whether the loss was covered by insurance or not. Inspectors Black and Marsh, with a strong body of the F division of police, rendered essential service to the in habitants by keeping the immense crowd back. FIGHTFUL DlSCOVERY.—Considerable excitement was caused yesterday morning throughout the neigh bourhood of the New Cut, Lambeth, and the Waterloo road, in consequence of the following discovery; --It appears that during the last twelve months a married couple, of the name of Hoppey, had resided in the second flour back of the premises belonging to Mr. Maidens!), tea-dealer and grocer, No. 35, Lower Marsh. The two persons were last seen alive on Monday evening, but no tidings could be gleaned respecting them during Tuesday, and some of the other lodgers having made known their suspicions that something wrong had happened to Mr. Maidman, that party, between eight and nine_yesterday morning, went to Hoppey's room, with a policeman, the door of which they forced, when, to their astonishment, they found both husband and wife in bed quite dead. It is not known what was the cause of their deaths. What is Communism ?—Geese, donkeys, and wolves feeding off the same common .—Punch. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult., at Lowndes-square, the Countess of March, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Norwood, the wife of Henry Meyers, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Old Cliff, Scarborough, the wife of the Rev. G. E. Welby, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Melton Woodbridge, the lady of Joba R. Wood, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Northampton, the wife of John Becke, Esq., of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Devonshire-place, the lady of Philip A. Browne, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 26th ult., at Wanstead Church, Frederick Crossley Young, Esq , to Clari Mary, youngest daughter of the late It. P. Sayer, Esq., of the Temple. On the 31st ult., at Homerton, Mr. Matthias Gardner, of Coggeshall, Esq., to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. S. G. Underhill, of Chatham-place, Hackney. _ DIED. On the 27th ult., at Kingsland-green, Mr. Frederick Palmer, late a Purser in the Hon. East India Company's Service, aged 60. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Anastasia B. Hunt, of St. John's Wood-terrace. On the 30th ult., at Rose-hill, Dorking, Rowland, the eldest and surviving son of R. Yallop, Esq., of Furnival'l Inn, aged 23. On the 29th ult., aged 77, at Holt-house, Wilts, Sarah, relict of the late J. Phillpotts, Esq., formerly M.P. for Glo co ter. On the 31st ult., at Park-road, Stockwell, Martin Brook house, Esq. London: Printed and Published by KURD° YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sum Office, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cOnatr ° mi t i c ueg i ez, Thuriday t Auguxt 2, 1849, Paid. i