The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-27 00:00:00

the same ig to that evtite we, j e mpartY 4, I shall sts of the (Cheers.) iall never Isn't with )f them , r them rer asked hat in the .he Mem le of mY ury•door. that you years in of ore Sou Ace of he office, citizens f chief —having , 'ties that h charac' le no less era of the lave this n, I maY e all. 11l -showing ;nity you local In acter that d shown d amidst 5 g reeted is metro • ed meet ed upon n he did msidered city of in the one or ought :it d of the sates for e on that it James alike to L and do known MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool was very flat yester day; prices, however, were without a!teration. The sales were estimated at from 3,500 to 4,000 bales, 1,000 of which w ere ta k en f or export an d on speculation. Railway Shares were dull, and prices had a downward tendency. In the corn market to-day the arrivals are but limited, and comprise 8,210 quarters of wheat and 10,470 of oats. The businns done in the colonial produce mar kets this week has been rather smaller, and the arrivals are large from most quarters, but holders, ender circumstances, have been firm. This is especially the case with Ceylon coffee, Which has been higher this week, the ac counts from Colombo being favourable to a rise. The Wool sales have been progressing well again, but neither this article nor Cotton are quite so active as last week. This is natural after the extensive purchases recently Made. Indigo remains about the same as at the auctions. From Amsterdam we are advised that there was on Wednesday very little alteration in the value of the Dutch Funds, although the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Were rather animated. Spanish was offered at lower rates. Austrian and French Stocks were at about previous values, and Mexican and Peruvian better. At Frankfort on the 24th instant. Austrian Five per Cents, were quoted 77, and at Berlin on the 24th inst. the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. bonds were 83. A statement of the commerce of Belgium with fo reign countries during the six months ending the 30 th June gives the quantity of wheat at 41,296,938 killo grammes ; the number of pigs 51,124, sheep 8,882, calves 6,201, cows 3,402, and oxen 616. The quantity of flour was 1,508,423 killogrammes, and of potatoes 6 ,841,030 killogrammes. The view taken of foreign political affairs varies but little to what has prevailed for some days past. It is thought still that the Sardinian question will be amicably arranged, but in these cases there are frequently narrow prejudices that may tell well in connexion with money matters, but are neither philanthropic nor patriotic. Thus your speculator for the rise would care not a jot whether a country were sacrificed, pro vided peace were restored, and this is pretty much the case both in regard to Italy and Hungary. Happily the private views of interested parties do not go for much, and usually find a counter balance in those of antagonist operators. Thus the Bears exult in every Hungarian victory as much as the Bulls despair. The abundance of money is now in favour of every security that is of a valid character, and pre-eminently of Consols and Shares. One or two Foreign stocks may be worthy of attention also; but Without specifying them, we may observe that great dis crimination is advisable in touching them. Consols are 93 to for Transfer, and 93 to 4 for Time. Exchequer bills have been 475. to 50s. premium. India Stock is at 250 to 251. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 94 to 94. The Foreign S. curities have been very inactive. Spanish Three per Cents. are 344, Portuguese Four per Cents. 30i, Mexican 264 to to 27, Brazilian Small 83k, and Dutch Four per Cents. 801 to 81. In Railway Shares there is scarcely anything doing . Caledonian are flatter; and also North Stafford, Great I Northern, Brighton, and most others. York and North Midland are better. There have been several bargains in Joint Stock Bank Shares. ONE O'OCLC K. CLuSI NC. PHI , ES Or tiRITISH FUNDS PRICES Bank Stock — 199% 3 :Pnr Cent. Reduced Arms. ..... b per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 93 y s 93 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus.— . 93% 94 94 Long Anne Stoc k. to expire Jan.lB6o 251 8 250 15-16 250 9 India India Bonds, 1 1,000/. ....... ...... Ditto under ,000/.. ....... .— — 85 p Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. lid. & 2d. 1,0001. June 47 50 p 50 p 5001. June Small. June 47 50 p 50 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE OLOSIN O'CLOCK. PRICES. 85 834, Brazilian Bonds . . ..... .. Ditto, Small ................... E3% Mexican, 5 p er C ent. 1846, with Coupons -. Ditto, Ex Coupons - Ditto, Account 26% Peruvian Bond s , 6 per Cents Ditto, 4 per Cent. Active... 5l Portuguese 5 per Cents... Ditto, 4 per C en t 30% Russian B on d s ... ........ ....... - Spanish 5 p er Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passiv e Ditto, 3 per Cent D itto, Account . Dividends on the above payable in London. BBf French Rentes, 5 per Cent.., - Exchange2sf. 40c. D utch 2% p er C ent., 12 Guild -4 I 51% Ditto, 4 per C ent. Certificates 803 4 81 81 _ T , BUSINESS DONE CLOSING PRICES OF' RATLwAy SHARES. PAL- AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen . . ..... .... ... 50 13erks & Rant ... Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per et.) 6 Caledonian ..... . ... 50 DiDitM, Quarier Shares 12% ...... 6 1 / 4 tto, New 10 /.lPref... 10 _ Chester and Holyhead.- 50 127 t x.i Ditto, Preference .... 15 - Eastern Couaties... ..... 20 ...... - - SX De. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. - Eastern Union,. C sh ias.. a l i i 11% 1 2 0 5 ...... _11%%. ... DO . l t e i* E p . ( l3. 6 per cent.) 20 ...... 19 East Lincolnshire ...... 25 •..." 28Y % x i 28% x.i. Great Northern ......... 20 . 1 s - t & x new 93 4 'per Cent... 7% .. 1 4 ' ...,0,4A x in ,, 1,4 4 B 6 5% Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 5 ... 3 3 4 5 •8 • • - -3% Gres ., 5 ........ ...100 ....... - ......... .... itto, % Sha;es ...... 50 ..... 41% 40 . Ditto, 1,4 sh ares ...... 23 Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .. . 15%.. •••••••••-• LancashireH Do. 50 ..... - - Yorkshire 96 ...... - Leeds and • 8radf0rd..,,... 6 % .. 5 1 10 6 4 % - Leeds and Thirsk 0 - ...... 5 ...... - ... ..... Do., Pref., 6 per Cent. 3% - ........ ...... 3it London, Brighton, and South Coast... .. 4 D itto, New 5/ .. 50 , guar Londoner 6 p cent. . 132% 1331‘..... 13 3 % - Lead. & S. Western ..... 50 .. - Manchester, Sheffield, 86 and Lincolnshire...loo - - Do. New 1.01. Pref..... 10 ...... 6 1 6 1% .. 11 1 4 ki dland ...... ....... ....100 Do. Co nso l. B r i s t o l an d Do. Bi r m., and Derby 100 - . _ 42 Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 127% x.div.... 127% 3 %.d - N0 r0 rf 0 0 . 1k Ne .. w ... 2 . 01. .... .. ..... 1 100 5 3 3 North British ........... 25 .... . _ 2% ..... - Ditto Preference 2 l /2 21 '4 ••• •• ...... .•• North Staffordshire 1717e 1 _ 2 _ 1.4 % • ..... South Eastern Do., Scrip No 4 Guaranteed' ... .. ...... 50 - - Do. do. do. ... 25 Do do. do; ... 15 ..... - ..... 19% . York, Newcastle, and 20% .... B 3 rwick. .... ..... ....• 25 Do. G.N.E.P re f erance 8 , 33/4 x.i. •••••• •• 3 % x.i Y ork and North Midl an d 50 - 1%,6 31 31%... a FOREIGN RAILWAYS Central of France (Or- G reat lean I and Vierzon)... 20 n U.% ndia Peninsular 5 - x.i.... .... x.i Nam Do. Do. .......... 10 s . % " 11 1' and Liege ......, 20 ... - Northern of France. l3 ...... 9 %... . 914 2% x.i .trleans and Bordeaux.. 7 - rai ls and Strasbourg ... 10 - .... JOINT STOCK BANKS. .. 811••••••• 5 yeobalnercial of London 20 44ondon &Wt• te 20 2334 ex.div 233Ax." Pro • • 88 Mins r. ...... - Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Dittomovr ...... ....... 10 LIT OYD'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAY 4 • '1"130N. JULY 2 7.-Wind, this day at noon, S.W., Iglu breeze, and dull cloudy weather. B ritistp j ßr i l en3 : jetts 2 ras 6 . -- Wind S.W.. to W . . squally.-Arrd. s f r l d.nl26t thhe, Riper, Colonist, ,ii:Cl rawford, Miramichi. 25th, Arrd. Tho Green , ll L ea a cl w l s e , y, s H t. o K ba it r t t s T ;: ! W wn a , rr s io n r d , „?rafts, Jatnaica. 24th, Ski., and since put back, ,arailla, Canneg, Jamaica; Charles Walton, Baker, New .... 4°ll t, and sld. 26th. 26th, Rattler, Goldsmith, Hobart 41"1:4 Waterloo, Neatley, Port Philip; Guardian, Row, CNaps Coast Castle ; James Holmes, Head, Barbadoes; "anlibe Guardian " , Chaco, New York , Infanta, Pardy, Quebec ; f; . -my, Cape Coast Castle; Emerald, Smith, 411- gna. 26th, Arrd. from the River, and old. Horne, '4leLeod, Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 26.- gall_ rcl, Lund Wind S.W.-Arrd. Pug uft Rio Janeiro. Sld ; O wen Gl en d ower , pe of Good , HoPe and L on d on. ELF.isT, JuLY 24.-A brig, dismasted, with fiddle bead, painted light yellow, house on deck, painted black ak les, decks cleared, rudder gone, and a deal of drift timb er cleared, Was seen on the 15th inst. by the Agitator, arrived here. LIVERPOOL, JULY 26.-Wind, S.W.-Sld. 25th, the General Washington, Perry, for Welchpool, New Bruns stick. 2 Adam Lodge, Cook, Bombay ; Sapphire, Buenos Ayres ; Wataga, Philadelphia ; J. G., New York; Amelia, Dalhousie; The Duke, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ilaidee, Labrador, Off port, El Dorado; George, Glen; Plymouth Rock. CARDIFF, JULY 24.-Arrd. Gromsco Flaherty, Que. Quebee, Devon' t M‘Kenzie, bec; Eldon, Gillespie, por , Quebec. Skl. Oceans, Jones, Callao. BIDEFORD, JULY 25.-Arrd. Spark, Smith, Prince Edward's Island. DUNDEE, JULY 24.--Arrd. Earl p owl :s, M on t rea l . , - CORK, JULY 24.--Wind S.-A.rru. Flora ' N ew Y ork. JERSEY, JULY 22.-Sld, Wat`tins. Mazatlan 304 1135 1 111 1 4 3% 3 , 04 34,g, MARKET NEWS —(THIS DAN.) ............................ CORN -EXCHANGE—(FRIDAY. The arrivals of English Wheat for our market, coast- W s°, during th e p resent wee k , h ave amounted to 1,290 q u arters. T o d ay , t h e s h ow o f samples of both red and White was moderate. The supply left over from M on . da y Was cleared off at is per quarter under the prices current on Friday last. The fresh arrivals met a dull it 'clu'ry at that amount of depression, and at which the rn'rket Closed heavily. The imports of For.ign Wheat me llo 6 Rum Anted to 8,210 quarters. Fine dry qua:ities mostly held a t f ul l rates of currency. Th 44iddling and inferior kinds ruled heavy, at, in I ' 4 ' at instance s , is per quarter less money. W ith Barley we 'were but scantily supplied. Most kinJ, eqeciall ' • ' de ~ J grinding sorts, sold steadily at fully the late Statestate last week's currency. The supply amounted to " illtirters. For Oats there was an improved de- ,- day noc i ! sed th at m anner 'eery) • which thankt at W I 3011 test , d bs" , ure for r.) mayor, ,E. Oleli° :wagon while 'a CAI. )untrit itest--- stance , of cosrt which Tilt one ° I ted no w hilst derr 27% 27 25 116 .15 . 3 / 4 2% 12 1 , 21 1 % 7 Tun SIT N I 1, o - 19 po N rninAy EVENING, JULY 2wi, 1849. 'e no change to report. B.3ans, ?s, as un Monday. LS THIS WEEK. Barley. i Oats. I Fl Air 20 qrs. I 1,250 qrs. I 1,960 it:: ....._ ....___ 8,210 370 180 I 10,470 -- Malt, 3,020 qrs. SIEVIETEIFIEZaD. Our market to day was very moderately supplied with Beasts, the general quality of which was by no means prime. Most breeds moved off steadily at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday, and at which a good clearance was effected. The numbers of sheep were not to say extensive. Prime old Downs, which were scarce, sold freely at full rates of currency. Other wise the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at un altered currencies—the top figure was 4s per Blbs. There was a slight improvement in the sale for Lambs, but we have no advance to notice in value. Prime small Calves sold at full prices. In other qualities of Veal very little was doing. Pigs ruled heavy at our quota tions. Milch Cows sold at from 141 to 181 each, including their small calf. mand; in p: Peas, and all Hoes we have other article ARRIVA' Wheat. English •• •• •• Scotch .... • Irish. ........ Foreign •• •• •• 1,290 qrs. 1 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKLR took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. _ _ LORDS' AMENDMENTS. On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was resolved that the several amendments of the Lords upon public Bills should be taken to-morrow instead of to-day. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the amend ments of the Lords on the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Enlargement Bill were ordered to be taken to• morrow. Other Bills which bad been amended in the Lords were alio ordered to be taken tomorrow. ENGROSSING OF PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the douse pass the motion of which he had given notice, to read the re 'solutions of the House of the 12th day of February last, respecting the engrossing and c nrolling of Bills, and to move that the arrangement contained in the, said resolu tions (except so much thereof as relates to the expe diency of one printer printing the Bills fur both Houses) shall, ic( future sessions, apply to local, personal, and private, as well as to public Bills. That this resolution be communicated to the Lords. That no private Bill be sent to the Lords, until a certificate is endorsed upon the fair printed Bill, and signed by one or more of the proper officers for that purpose, declaring that such printed Bill has been examined, and agrees with the Bill as read a third time. In reply to Mr. BOUVERIE, Mr. W. PATTEN explained that the standing order of her Majesty respecting the engrossing of private Bills would expire at the end of this session, and his object was to have private Bills printed and distributed in the ' same way as public Bills. It: was, in fact, intended to do away with the engrossing of Bills altogether. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. BROTHERTON and Lord DUDLEY STUART pre. sented petitions from the inhabitants of New Zealand praying for a better provision for the emigrants to that colony. PROTECTION TO THE SUGAR PLANTERS. Lord I'ALMERSTON presented a petition from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, from people of all colours, stating that the admission of slave-grown sugar had been highly detrimental to their interests. and praying that the treaties which had been made with the colonies for a due protection of colonial produce should be observed. THE STATE OF HUNGARY To THE RIGUT HON. LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, M.P. My Lord,—lf I were cot fully sensible of the many responsibilities, and of the gravity of considerations at tached to the position of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, I should not venture to address your Lordship in that official character. I believe the way of access is ever open in your Lordship' s h eart, to convey any sen ti men t s or opinion which are advanced for the purposes of en lightened policy, or the extension of the interests of humanity. In no country is opinion so strong as in this, in no country' i it so free ; its light is the popular glory of Englishmen, and the beacon that illustrates the way of advancement to all the nations of the world. The sentiments of the people are at this moment awakening into a general life; the warmest aspirations of humanity are upon their lips, and they ask from your Lordship a passport to carry the triumphs of peaceful liberty to other lands. Your Lordship is looked up to with intense interest. Every word that is tinted with the hope of a liberal heart —every generous sentiment that falls from your Lordship's lips—falls es the dew of Hermon, re freshing and invigorating the enthusiasm that is spring. ing up in generous minds. Great an I free as opinion is —and opinion has its rights as free—it might be unwise for every one to trespass his opinions upon the members of a Government, burdened already , with c o nsiderations, and perplexed with heavy responsibilities. Willingly to perplex the members of a Government is wickedness ex treme when many may be sufferers; but it is a pardon able kindness to gently remind, when the nation may be thereby gladdened and thousands reap the advantages. Your Lordship has now the opportunity to live in the hearts of the people, and to earn for the name of Palmerston a palm of imperishable glory. Not that Fame should tempt, or hold any inducement, through the path of wrong; but it must be very pleasing when it is wrought by deeds of magnanimity reflecting the light of Liberty as it gladdens and dignifies hu manity. Tyranny and freedom are at war in the earth. Might has become the invader of right. The triumph must be either to truth or to darkness. Nations must be bound in arbitrary restrictions, or claim the happy interests of commercial freedom. The feud has commenced, where shall it end? The night will thicken or the day advance. The time of despotism is nearly over, or the reign of terror is coming on. The people must achieve the triumphs of intelligence, or be disciplined to obedience by the knout. In your Lordship's hands are the issues of life and death. Your Lordship is the dictator of peace or war. The legions of England watch the wave of your Lord ship's banner; they are spirits that love mercy, and their enthusiasm is, that peace and truth, and justice and righteousness should be secured to all nations. They see oppression at work, and they aspire to save the oppressed, or, to slay the oppressors. Listen, my Lord, to the people of England, for their voice is as of ono man. The fate of Hungary is in your Lordship's hands. There is a brave people nobly struggling for indefeasible rights. There too is an iron King—uncrowned—a po tentate that w ill not be their constitutional Sovereign, but their tyrant lord, violating their liberties with his usur pation, and desolating their country with his sword. lie even asks the barbarians to help him; for he finds it hard to fight against freedom. The barbarians are with the destroyer; should not the free nations be with the free? or shall the bear and the eagle treat as carrion all the sons and daughters of the fairest inheritances of the earth? Poland, and Gallicia, and Circassia are in death; and Hungary, and Italy, and Venice, and Sardinia are quivering with the touch of a coming desolation. The destroyer cannot do all at once; but the will is greater than the present power. Time will serve. My Lord, the salvation of Hungary is in your Lord ship's hands; and with it, too, the destinies of Europe. And the people of England are in your Lordship's hand also, to determine the balance. Now is the moment fur the true balance of power, while humanity, and justice, and light, and liberty will be as gold in the scale. Be ware, my Lord, or the beam will be broken, and the balance of power be lost for ever. I know that your Lordship's colleagues might deem the existence of Austria necessary as a first-rate power, to stand as a check against another. But does not Aus tria herself break the balance, and throw overboard the faith of other nations, if she weakens herself by her per fidy to her people—or becomes subsidiary to another power—or enters into secret compact with Russia— whereby the two great powers become bound together as one, without a corresponding amount of friendship, and faith, and intercourse with other surrounding nations? If Russia and Austria are as one—even against her own subjects—where is the balance of power? Nations that have not surrendered their privileges yet may reasonably expect to follow in the fate of Poland, and Gallicia, and Hungary. Shall the enlightened powers look tamely on the junction of these two darker powers, while they are making inroads with their pur poses of evil? Is policy blind? Is humanity dead? Surely both policy and humanity declare it is time to check the destructive or dangerous amalgamations of the two most despotic empires in the world, whereby treaties be come useless, adjustment a dead letter, and Russia and Austria (the Pluto and Proserpine) the twain in one of a hell-born incarnation. My Lord, the balance of power is broken—Austria is no longer a great power; she is not great enough to rule the kingdoms within her; she is not great as a Govern ment with her own people; she has created distrust in her own capital, and disarmed her own citizens. Her people have not the heart to subdue the noble Hun garians. What then is Austria as an ally? Who forms the ally if her people are against her Government and King? Now, Hungary by her victories might justly have become another Austria, and a wiser Cabinet might have blended the sovereignty of Vienna under the sove reignty of Pesth. For the Austro-Hungarian domina tion is an imperial imposture; while an Hungario Austrian empire might have sprung forth from the crum • bled state, and have risen to glory as a power, and have possessed almost matchless advantages to us as an ally. You cannot, my Lord, but be aware that there are many reasons, independent of considerations of humanity, why England should not be a silent spectator of the sacrifice of Hungary. Austria is dealing treacherously with Hungary, and seeking to subvert the guaranteed privileges of that kingdom. This is a violation of the faith of nations, a disturbance of the order of things. Austria calls in Russia to help her in such violation. What if William IV. had, or her Majesty Victoria had, seized upon Hanover to destroy its ancient privileges, and had been defeated by the Hanoverians, and then had called in the aid of France or Russia to destroy it as a kingdom; could England have done so without dishonour? Would France or Russia have lent aid without some secred ob ject? What is the object of Russia? Have we not a right to know? Have we not a right to thwart that unholy alliance which virtually destroys the balance of power in Europe? If it shall be found that Austria has surrendered her position either in arms or compact, have we not a right to accept a substitute from among the kingdoms of her people? We have, also, an undoubted right to know why Hungary is to be destroyed. We have a right to know why Russian armies are in Hun gary. We have a right to know what are the conditions under which Austria is bound to Russia for her expen sive aid. We have a right to prevent the two great powers from becoming intermutually one—acting in each other's dominions, and.perhaps soon elsewhere, without cause er reason to other powers assigned. My Lord, these considerations weigh heavily on the minds of tho people. They dread the dark alliance of two of the darkest powers. They pity, deeply pity, the Hungarians. They deprecate a war aroused by the unparalleled perfidy of Austria; a war against the best part of her own subjects; a war in which another power takes part in destroying the liberties and constitutional rights of a country allied to us, without any cause assigned to us, or even the formality of a declara tion of war to the Hungarians a war most infamous in its execution, not only a brutal sacrifice of life, in conflict, in shooting prisoners of war, and knouting of women, but a wanton destroying of the green fields of corn, and the homes and the dwellings of the children of men—a war which intimates a design of Austria and Russia, first, against their own people, and doubtless might, without much scruple, extend its curses where the balance of power is sufficiently broken, and become the destroyer of the liberty around. The people cannot, without casting off humanity and all Jove of liberty, refrain from feeling a groat sympathy for the people of Hungary; nor can they see how Eng land can remain a quiet and indifferent spectator without greatly compromising her dignity and sacrificing:her in terest, and lowering the character of the nation fur sympathy and the love of liberty. The fall of Hungary would be a cause of deep deploration, and it would awaken great fears of a Cossack progression, detrimental to the peace and interests of Europe. My Lord, the fate of Hungary is in your Lordship's hands. Thousands there are perishing, thousands here have sympathy, and aspire devoutly for the salvation of that great country from the power of the destroyer, and gladly would they see that bravo and noble nation be come our honoured ally in the place of a fallen Austria. The people of both countries look to you—your own free people, and the brave, who deserve to be free. The op portunity is glorious—the power is your own. My Lord, arouse the glory of Old England. Telegraph the following dispatch : " I DEMAND A SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES—tin Austria shall have justified her proceedings—till Russia shall jus tify her deeds and intentions—till England shall know the TERMS on which the Russo-Austrian Alliance has been effected—till it be seen if Austria has sold her position to Russia—till it be seen whether there is not a violation of the rights qf nations in the secret Austro-Russian league, and a necessity for remodelling the balance of power.'" This your Lordship can do, without any undue offence to any Power ; the right is in the nation to aid you to do so—policy and humanity imperatively dictate such a procedure. My Lord, stay the evils of war; fear not, your demand will succeed; the people will ensure its results. They will glory if the triumph be one of peace, and equitable adjustment; but they will not fail to arm your Lordship with the iron sinews if necessary; for they cannot but think that it is better to contend for justice and the rights of others, before liberty be do stroyed, than to wait for some fresh outrages to be car ried nearer to our own homes by the destroyers,—where silence could no longer be kept without shame, nor in difference be cherished without dishonour. My Lord, take courage; listen to the watchword of the peopIe— "DEMAND A SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES." I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's obedient servant, BELISARIUS. SINGULAR IfecT.—A pensioner named Haig, re siding in Jedburgh, recently received his P en i nsu l ar medal, with seven clasps. Haig received a musket ball in his thigh in 019 year 1812, and it is not a little re markable that eight days before receiving his medal the ball dropped out on the opposite side of the thigh, and a good way below where it entered, thus being in the limb for 37 years. The ball has been attached by Haig to his medal—Caleclonian Atercury. HUNGARIANS AT THE MANSION- HOUSE. The following speeches were delivered at the dinner given by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday to the Irish Members of the House of Commons, in reply to the Lord Mayor's proposal of the health of the foreigners who had honoured him with their presence. They were delivered after all the reporters had left the ball. Count TELEKI said—l have been much gratified to find since my arrival in this country that there is an al most universal sympathy for the cause of Hungary. This has not surprised me, for I was prepared to find that in this classic land of constitutional freedom an interest would be felt for the welfare of a nation which in many of its institutions possesses a great resemblance to your well-regulated monarchical government. Hungary is now engaged in a struggle for independence against an almost overwhelming coalition. I should be wanting in courtesy to the first Magistrate of London, whose posi tion imposes on him a strict neutrality in foreign and domestic politics, if I were to attempt to enter now upon the merits of this struggle. Suffice it to say, that my countrymen are contending only for the same temperate freedom which you possess in this country, and which you know so well how to enjoy. If we have been driven to a resort to arms in the maintenance of our rights, it has been only after every Effort on our part to avoid this terrible extremity had been tried and proved unsuccessful. Whatever may be the result of that struggle (and I pray God that he will give the victory to the side of right and justice), the kind sympathy you have expressed for my countrymen will sink deep in their hearts, and be recorded with gratitude in the annals of Hungary.—(Cheers.) M. Prrizar said —An Hungarian can meet the hospi tality and the generous feelings with which this great nation welcomes him with good conscience; for, while it is not easy to see how the interests of Hungary, if God give her strength to get through her present trial, could clash with those of England, there are a thou sand points, and all of vital importance, in which the interests of the two countries can only go hand in hand. England is a mighty maritime power, rich in mechanical skill, whose traders make tributary the globe; whose manufacturers anticipate the wishes, where they are allowed to exert their power. Hungary, .on the other side, rich in the produce of agriculture, with a teeming soil and a splendid climate, possesses every inducement to turn these resources to account, and to ex change, under the rule of free trade, the produce of its fields for the refinement of British industry. There has been in Hungary an instinctive attachment to England. We admire the firmness of character, the steadfastness of purpose, which Englishmen everywhere display. By all our reforms, both material and moral, the institutions of England were our Pole star; but few of us have bad the opportunity of judging of the warmth of English friendship and the heartiness of English hospitality. The day I trust is not far distant when more intimate relations than have as yet been practicable will unite Hungarians and Englishmen as friends and allies in the battle of civilization against barbarism—when the ties of interest to which trade invites shall be ennobled by those of mutual appreciation of merit, and Hungary shall pay her . debt of gratit u d e to E ng l and for encouragement held out in need, and for aid afforded in distress, with that fervid esteem and attachment which makes manly hearts beat in unison across dividing seas and scorching deserts.—(Cheers.) THE THUNDER STORM. Yesterday the metropolis was visited by a terrific storm, which lasted a considerable period, during which time the flashes of lightning and peals of thunder fol lowed in rapid succession. Shower upon shower of rain fell, completely washing the streets, and thoroughly cleansing the sewers. At one period a shower of hail occurred, and many of the bail-stones were of large di mensions. At the same time the wind blew a gale, and much damage was done to the shipping and small craft lying in the river. LAMBETH.—The storm in this part raged terrifically for upwards of an hour; and shortly before two o'clock the lightning descended the chimney of the house be longing to Mr. W. Tucker, No. 7, Duke-street, Stamford street, and tore away &portion of the parapet wall. The electric fluid then came in contact with the bell wire, along which it travelled like a sheet of flame. The occupants ran out into the street, crying out " The house is on firel" The lightning also passed down the chimney of the premises belonging to Mr. Joseph Shirley, eating house keeper, at a time when a number of persons were dining in the parlour, who rushed out en masse into the street, believing the building to be in flames. The engines of the West of England and London Brigade promptly attended, but fortunately their services were not required. It is most extraordinary that no one received the least personal injury. COMMERCIAL-ROAD EAST.—The lightning struck a stack of chimneys belonging to No. 13, Thomas-street, Commercial-road, in the tenure of Mrs. Ann Haines. The electric current then took a downward direction, ripping up the brickwork as far as the back kitchen. The building at the same time was shaken to its very foundation, and the inmates believing it to be on fire, ran into the street calling for the engines. Mr. Fogo and Mr. Mackay, immediately upon receipt of the infor mation, each started to the place with an engine, but fortunately the building had not become ignited. WHITECHAPEL.—The effects were terribly felt in West-street,. North-street, Whitechapel, where several houses were shattered, and nearly reduced to ruins. One fatal and melancholy case occurred in this street. About a quarter past two o'clock, Thomas Johnson, a cabinet-maker, 21 years of age, was talking at his own door with a young man named Callow, when both were struck down by the electric fluid. Callow crawled a little way from the spot, and contrived to gain his feet, but fell again with a sensation of numb ness all over his body, but particularly in his legs. An alarm being immediately given, Johnson's father hastened down, and found his son stretched a blackened corpse. The fluid struck him on the right side, tearing open the sleeve of his coat, and cutting his shirt as it with a shears. The scene, when visited by our reporter, was one of extreme desolation and wretchedness. On a rude stretcher, near the window, lay the lifeless remains, looking more like the corpse of a man of fifty than of twenty-one—so extraordinary was the change produced by the manner of death. His father, heart-broken, sat on the only chair in the miserable apartment, whilst the poor neighbours who came in with prompt humanity, knowing the wants of the poor family, dropped halfpence liberally into the old man's hat. The deceased had been for a long time out of employment, and both he and his young wife, who is now in the last stage of pregnancy, had to endure many privations. The inhabitants of the house No. 22, in the same street, had a most providential escape. The lightning struck the western gable, shaking the whole edifice, and riving the roof almost in two. At the same time a young woman, named Ellen Wells, who was sitting near the fire-place on the ground-floor was violently dashed into the passage, a distance of about seven yards, sustaining little or no injury, but what fright occasioned. She was, however, deluged before she re covered herself, the rain rushing in like a cataract from the severed roof. The house was struck in several places, one stream of the fluid tearing its way through the par lour wall, within a foot of the young woman's head. Those in the next house, No. 21, had also a fearful visi tation. Thomas Webb, a shoemaker, with his wife and three children, were sitting at their employment, when the electric matter dashed down the chimney, tearing away the fireplace, the floor, and ceiling, and escaping t the down hi ehe e h b ay soon pe i t , h e recovered, Mile li gh e tn n i d n : g b, u Stepney, was t t was conveyed at the window, without d o i ng th e s li g ht es t i n j ur y to life or limb; but, betw een th e fl oo di ng an d t h e d estruc ti on , the poor people h ave b een a l together ru i ne d . One man, housesfwrol l m o wh in eh, h however, u e ck w was i s to the London H osp i ta l i n a state of utter blindness, that the shock h a d d epr i ved h i m of reason. In several Tower Hamlets di s t r i cts , t h o d estruction of property i f and und was immense. The long drought had rendered the people negligent of the state of the roofs and gutters, the consequence of which was, that sudden and heavy lodgments of water broke in, in many in stances, through two and three floorings. The fluid played a curious but very alarming freak at the corner house, No. 17, New-street, back of St. Philip's Church, near the London Hospital. From all that can be ascertained, it would appear to have entered at the lower part of the house, where it roamed about ad libi. turn, taking it more leisurely than is its usual habit. It then visited every apartment in the house, running rapidly along the walls, and ringing the bells, until it finally escaped at the top window, which it shattered to atoms. Mrs. Malley, the lady of the house, though much alarmed, happily escaped unhurt. The police are momentarily reporting new casualties, the result of this terrible visitation. TUE BOROUGH.—WhiIst the storm was at its height, a loud noise was heard as of an explosion in the imme diate vicinity of the Borough-market, which was suc ceeded by a fall of some heavy substance upon the roof of St. Saviour's Church. The alarm was occasioned by the lightning striking the south-west pinnacle of the clock tower, dislodging a piece of stone near the base, about sixteen inches square, which was shivered into a thousand pieces, and sent flying in sundry directions. Those pieces which fell on the roof passed not merely through the slating, but also through the external ceiling. The churchwardens, who were at the time holding a meeting in the vestry-room, were somewhat alarmed, but upon making minute examination it was found that the damage done to the sacred edifice was not very extensive, but it is as yet impossible to tell whether the pinnacle will have to be taken down or not. No part of the inte - rior of the church or of the Lady() Chapel sustained the slightest injury. TUE STRAND.—At the time of ono of the heavy claps of thunder, a cry was raised that the electric fluid had set fire to the premises of Mr. Harland, a boot and shoe maker, No. 3, Holywell-street, Strand. The firemen, with their engines, soon attended, when they ascertained that a fire-ball had gone down the chimney, sending the soot out of window like a body of flame. The damage done to the premises was inconsiderable. A daughter of Mr. Hart, of No. 7 in the same street, was struck down by the lightning and severely shaken. THE PARKS.—The trees in the ornamental parks were many of them considerably damaged by the elec tricity, and some of the branches were shivered, but not were wholly destroyed. The state of the thermometer during the day was maximum 65, minimum 49; and at noon, about an hour before the storm set in, the quicksilver stood at 63. The barometer at the same period was 20.63., GUN AND PISTOL STOCKS.—A vessel arrived off the Tower from Rotterdam, has brought 13,150 gun stocks and 350 pistol-stocks, comprising the entire cargo, consigned to order. TEIG Nmounr. —On Tuesday evening, whilst a child about six years of age, named Evans, was playing on the beach, it got possession of a small flat fish, which it attempted to swallow, but in doing so was unfortunately suffocated before assistance could bo procured. c CommissloN OF SEWERS.—At a spe cial u yesterday, Mr. Woolrych , of the Inner Temple, was p po inted order clerk, is the room of za erotsrlett, h e ld re signed. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, THURSDAY. His Royal Highness Princa Albert, attended by Lleut.- Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting, and Lieut.-Col. Hon, C. B. Phipps, embarked at Osborne Pier yesterday at a quarter before eight, A.. 31., on board the Fairy, and was conveyed to Southampton Docks, where his Royal Highness was received by H. Compton, Esq., John Mills, Esq., Cornelius Stovin, Esq., and Gooch, Esq., the directors and authorities of the South-Western Rail way, by which his Royal Highness proceeded to Dor chester. The Mayor and Corporation of this town had the honour of presenting an address to his Royal High• ness at the railway station. The Prince was then escorted from Dorchester to Weymouth by the Dorset Yeomanry, under the com mand of the Earl of Ilchester, and after receiving an address from the Mayor and Corporation of Weymouth, his Royal Highness embarked in the Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, and landed at a temporary landing•place, erected upon the site of the intended breakwater at Portland Island, where he was received by Admiral Sir Bidden Capel, Lord Frederick Fitzclarenee, &c. His Royal Highness then laid the first stone of this national work, the details of which were explained by Mr. Ren dell, the Chief Engineer, and Mr. Coode, the Resident Engineer. The Prince was then conveyed in a carriage prepared . for the pu r p ose to the cnvict establishment, which his Royal Highness inspected very minutely. His Royal Highness was shor,n over the establishment by Colonel Jebb, Captain Whitty, and the other authorities of the establishment. His Royal Highness, after partaking of a luncheon at the house of the Governor, Captain Whitty, proceeded to the site of the Chapel intended for the use of the con victs, to which his Royal Highness waa pleased to pre sent a handsome Bible and Prayer-book. During his visit the Prince announced to one of the convicts at work, Gomer, that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to grant him a free pardon. At 4 P.M. his Royal Highness returned to Weymouth in the Victoria and Albert yacht, attended by George Bankes, Rig., the Hon. Frederick Villiers, and Colonel Freestun, the Members for Dorsetshire and the Borough of Weymouth, and from thence was escorted, as before, by the Yeomanry to Dorchester. After again proceed ing by railway through the New Forest to Southampton, his Royal Highness embarked in the Fairy, and arrived at Osborne at half-past 7 P.m. The Queen and Prince walked early this morning in Osborne Park. His Ho)al Highness the Prince of Wales and the younger members of the Royal Family walked and rodo as usual. Ilis Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen arrived at O. borne yesterday afternoon, and was included in the royal dinner party. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council sat an hour and a half. A deputation from Liverpool, including the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Rushton, and Mr. Ferguson, accompanied by Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., had an interview with Earl Granville yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their office in White hall-place. The Marquis of Lansdowne, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, returned to town yesterday from Wilton-house. The Marchioness of Lansdowne proceeded from Wilton•house yesterday to Bowood Park, Wilts. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRE LAND—THE ROYAL SQUADRON. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord A, Fitzclarence, G.C.H., with her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Court on board, attended by the steam squadron, will probably leave Cowes on Wednesday, the Ist of August, arrive at Cove on Friday, leave that anchorage on Saturday, and arrive in Dublin Bay on Sunday, her Majesty and the Court probably landing on Monday morning. After remaining about tour days at Dublin, the yacht and vessels will proceed on to Belfast, and thence to Greenock, when the Fairy's services will be again in requisition to tako the Queen and Court to Port Glasgow, 3.:c. It is also probable that the yacht squadron will then return to their respective ports, as it is conjectured the royal party will return to London by land. The Victoria and Albert has returned to Portsmouth to prepare for her cruise. She will not go down to Cowes until Monday next. Her Majesty's yacht steam•tender Fairy returned to Portsmouth yesterday morning, and coaled; and, under command of Mr. Welch, left in the evening, at four o'clock, for the Cove of Cork, where she will await the arrival of the royal yacht squadron, when she will be required to take her Majesty and Court up to Cork. Her Majesty's steam sloop Sphynx, Commander Hewlett, has returned to Portsmouth from Portland, to prepare for attending the royal yacht. Her Majesty's steam-tender Fire Queen, Master Commander Allen, returned from Portland yesterday afternoon, to prepare for the cruise to Ireland and Scotland. Her Majesty's steam-packet Vivid, Master Com mander Smithett, is ordered to proceed from Dover tt , Portsmouth on the 30th, to be in readiness to accompany the royal squadron. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Stromboli, 6, Commander Lord A. W. Beaucletk, is ordered to Portsmouth from Portland for the same purpose. Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Hogue, 60, Captain Macdougall, is ordcreld to proceed from the Nore to Cork, calling at Portsmouth on her way. Iler Majesty's steam-vessel Black Eagle (Admiralty yacht), Master Commander Couk, is ordered from Wool. with to Portsmouth to embark some persons of her Ma jesty's suite, to accompany the royal squadron. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY. With the exception of the Maid of Masbate, to whose retreat allusion was made in oar last, and Clermont and Fernhill, who were quoted at au improvement, the price:, on the Goodwood Stakes underwent no material change; business was miserably dull. The same remark ma) be applied to the other events to come off next week, thi investments generally being in small sums, and the alterations too insignificant to call for any notice. Per 81be. to sink the offal. a. d. to s. d. c d. to 5. d. Inferior Beasts..... 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 6 Second quality ••. . 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolledditto3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 310 4 0 Prime Scots ••....3 10 • 4 0 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs .. •.. . 3 2 3 6 ['rime small ditto .. 3 8 310 Small Porkers ••, • 3 8 4 0 'tickling Calves ..18 0 26 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0 Inferior Sheep • • . 3 0 3 2 Lambs .......... 4 0 6 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheet). Calves. I rigs. I I 10,020 295 210 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 700 180 1 SCOTCH. I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs 210 NEVJGATE AND LEADENIIALL. The supplies of Meat on offer were but moderate. Generally speaking, the demand ruled steady, at full prices. Beasts. 6SO Beasts. 60 Beasts. 190 At per stone by the Carcase. to s. d. I s. d. to s. d. Beef,inferior.... •. 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 3 0 3 2 --- middling •• •• 2 6 2 8 middling•. 3 4 3 6 - primelarge .. 210 3 2 prime 3 8 310 - prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, 1arge........ 3 2 3 ti veal • •.• . 3 0 3 8 - small ••••• • • • 3 8 4 0 Lamb. 48 Od to 58 Od. BOROUGH HOP IYLELILHET. The heavy rains of the present week having cleared the bine of a large portion of vermin, the plantation ac counts received to day are considered more favourable. Dealers, therefore, purchase with extreme caution, and the demand for all kinds of llops is in a sluggish state, at barely the late advance in the quotations. In some instances prices are nominal. The duty is mow called 60,0001 to 75,0001. The supply of Hops on offer is by no means large. Sussex pockets, 31 105 to 41 10s; Weald of Kent pockets, 31 12s to 41 10s; Mid and East Kent pockets, 414 s to 71 7s per cwt. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff POTTER.) HOOll. V. NEALE. This was an action to recover the sum of 171. 11:H. and interest on a bill of exchange, of which defendant was the acceptor. A plea of non-ac ceptance was put on the record, but there was no attempt to support it. A portion of the claim was 41. for interest. The Learned SECONDARY said that he did not take upon himself to compute the interest. The plaintiff's attorney said the calculation was under the mark, in order to save disputes and costs on taxation. A juror said he would compute the interest himself before he gave a verdict. The plaintiff's attorney said that he would take care not to ask for a verdict for more than was due. The jury thereupon gave a verdict for the amount claimed. SAME V. EDWARS. This action was against the defendant as indorser of the same bill. She had pleaded that she did not indorse, &c. A summons had been taken out, calling upon her to admit, before a Judge, that the indorsement was in her handwriting, but she abided by the pica, in support of which, however, no evidence was now offered. The plaintiff's attorney called his clerk to prove that he went to defendant, who said that the indorsement was in her handwriting, and she did not see how she could " back out of it." The SECONDARY asked whether the defendant was in formed of the object of the witness's calling. The witness said that he distinctly told her that he called to ask the question to save expense, and that her answer would be given in evidlce on the trial. The SECONDARY—When admissions of this kind are sought, the parties:ought always to be made aware of the object of the inquiry, or the evidence ought not to be received. Indeed, under some circumstances Ido not know that I should not refuse to receive it even then. The attorney said he could have had more evidence, but the object was to save expense; and he thought the course adopted was the most expedient. He could him self have given evidence, if at liberty to do so, of endea vours to settle the matter. The Learned SECONDARY said he did not doubt the testimony of the witness in this case; there was no rea son to disbelieve him; but he did not like to see a case depend so entirely on an admission. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-TWO OF NEWARK AND DISTRICT. A very strong team entered the field against England on Thursday last; at Newark, and the following is the result of the first day's play:— V. Tinley—c Mynn. b Clarke ... W. Foottit, Esq.—b Clarke ... Goodrich, Esq.,—s Box, b Hillyer J. F. Burbidge, Esq.—s Box, b 'Layer C. Tinley—c Parr, b Wisden J. B. Warwick, Esq.—b Wisden Da Crespigney, Esq.—b Hinkley F. Tinley—b Hinkley ... J. Hardy, Esq.—b Hinkley ... Luard, Esq.—c Felix, b Clarke Bachelor, Esq.—b Clarke ... Newcomb, Esq.—b Hillyer R. Sutton—c Felix, b Clarke ... Smith, lisq.—b Clarke „ Wilks—b Hillyer S. Noddall, Esq.—l b w, b Hillyer Perfect—c Hillyer, b Clarke ... Warren—run out ... Mills —not out ... Ragsdale —c Felix, b Clarke ... R. Hodgkinson, Esq.—b Clarke Bradley —c Felix, b Clarke B 5, w 0 . 37 Total ... 13 ...129 THE NEW COAL EXCHANGE. The Lord Mayor and several of the principal members of the Corporation went yesterday to view the new Coal Exchange in its progress to completion. This building, which will, it is believed, be finished in a month from the present date, has been erected by the Corporation of London, in order to facilitate the trans. action of the vast increase of business carried on by the coal trade of the city of London, the former building which stood on a portion of the new site having been found inconvenient and inadequate for the business of the market. The new building, which is entirely faced with Port land stone, being'situated at the corner of St. Mary-at hill and Lower Thames-street, presents two principal fronts in the Italian style of architecture; the main en trance forming a circular corner, above which is a tower of considerable height, also of stone, and in the same style of architecture, and containing the principal stair case leading to the several stories of the building, which is of considerable magnitude; the internal ar rangements, containing in the centre a circular area, sixty feet i❑ diameter, appropriated for the meeting of the merchants and factors, surmounted by a dome, and about 80 feet in height, formed with cast iron ribs, and covered with large plates of ground glass, the eye in the centre, which is 16 feet in diameter, supporting a cupola of lemon-coloured glass. The dome is erected entirely in cast iron, ornamented stanchions supporting pro jetting galleries, also of cast iron, on a level with the several stories of the building, and forming the accesses to the offices to be appropriated for the merchants and factors, and the various official departments connected with the business of the market. The floor of the circular area is composed of various coloured woods in the form of a mariner's compass, con taining in the centre a shield of the City arms, an anchor, and other embellishments, the whole encircled by a fret border, also in woods of various colours. A portion of the decorative part of this floor is formed with part of an oak tree which had been found imbedded in the river Tyne, and which had lain there evidently for several centuries. The lower part of the dome and other portions of the interior have been decorated by Mr. Sang with paintings in encaustic, arranged by Mr. Bunning, the architect of the building, and representing fossil remains of plants and other vegetation found in the substance of coal; also the various implements used by the miners, views of the various colleries, ;interspersed with other ornaments, which Mr. Sang and his assistants have executed in a very skilful and elegant manner. The remains of the Roman Bath, discovered in exca vating for the foundation of the building, have been en tirely preserved, and access provided to afford opportu nity for its inspection. The interior of the building contains several hundred tons of cast iron, ornamented with symbols of the coal trade. This handsome edifice has been erected, at a' cost of about 40,0001., from designs and under the superintend ence of Mr. Bunning, the architect to the Corporation, and is highly creditable to his taste and ingenuity from its originality and style of construction. Mr. W. Trego is the contractor for the building and Messrs. Dewer for the iron work. The ornamental floor of the merchants' area has been formed by Messrs. Davison and Lyming ton, and seasoned by their patent dessicating procei•s; and on the completion of the new building, also in course of erection by the Corporation, at Billingsgate-market, under the superintendence of Mr. Bunning, these two structures will rank amongst the leading features of the metropolis. THE POTATO CROP.—The accounts which we re ceive from all quarters, through private coinraithications as well as the press, are of a most cheering nature. The late soft rains have done wonders, we would almost say effected miracles. As an instance in point, we might mention the fact that several gardens in the immediate neighbourhood of this city, which last week exhibited every appearance of confirmed and even malignant disease, are now blooming and beautiful, new green sprouts having replaced black and rotten stalks. We have heard of cases where the disease appeared and dis appeared 0241:7 as three times.—Cork Examiur. POOR TENANT PROTECTION. Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition from four hundred poor persons in Sheffield, who were tenants of allotments of land, and who from-circumstances had been induced to cultivate their ground for their winter pro visions, although they had not paid their rents. They stated that, notwithstanding the encouragement which they had received, notices of ejectment had been served, which they were determined to resist to the utmost. The sheriff, to whom the return had been made, had suspended the processes, deeming the civil force insuf ficient to render them effective, but there was a proba bility that military assistance would be called for, and they therefore prayed the House for protection. AGRICULTURAL SUPERANNUATION FUND. Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from the Farmers Club in Buckinghamshire, most of the members of which wera guardians of several poor-law unions, and the object of it was to pray for the establishment of a fund for the support of persons who were become super annuated. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. In reply to a question put by Mr. MILNER GIBSON, asking whether the Medical Bill was to be abandoned, and if so, whether any attempt would be made for the improvement of the profession, Sir G. GREY replied that a Bill would be brought in early next session by the Lord Advocate, who was chairman for the Medical Committee, for the registration and better regulation of the profession. EMIGRATION. Mr. SCOTT rose to ask a question of the Under- Secretary fur the Colonies relative to the conduct of the surgeon on board of the emigrant ship the Inchinnan. Mr. HAWES said he was aware that the conduct of the surgeon had already been the subject of judicial in quiry abroad, but if his Hon. Friend would ask the question to-morrow, he should be able to state more ac curately what had been done. In answer to another luestion from Mr. SCOTT re lative to a dispatch of Sir G. Gipps, Mr. HA %V ES said that he had never heard of any such dispatch. In answer to a question from Mr. STAFFORD, Sir GEORGE GREY said that no Treasury minute had been issued in reference to the salaries of the clerks of the county courts. Captain•PhCHELL asked if anything had been done with respect to the salaries of high bailiffs? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that a Bill was in progress which would dispose of them. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. In answer to a question from Mr. BAILLIE, Lord PALMERSTON said that the British Govern- ment had now for twelve years taken possession of the Falkland Isles. In answer to another question from Mr. BALLIE, Lord PALMERSTON said that, some years ago, some unjust and illegal acts had been committed by the British cruisers on the interests of certain traders at Senegal, and the King of Prussia bad been appointed arbitrator, and the sum awarded by him had been con sidered us final; nor had any further sum for compensa tion been paid. BOMBARDMENT OF ROME. Mr. ANSTEY wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had any objection to produce a dispatch, or part of a dis patch, relative to the bombardment of Rome? Lord PALMERSTON said he would read the dis patch, and should probably have no objection to lay any such parts of it as related to facts before the House. ROMAN CATHOLIC JURORS. Mr. SAD LEIR rose to ask the Secretary for Ireland whether he had received any information of the names of eight Roman Catholic gentlemen having been struck off the list of a special jury in Ireland at a recent trial in Ireland, by Mr. Kemes, the Crown Solicitor, and whether the Government had made any inquiry into the circumstance? _ _ _ Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that he knew nothing of the facts of the case, and could therefore give the lion. Gentleman no information ou the subject. Mr. HORSMAN wished to know if the fact of eight Romaa Catholic gentlemen being struck off a jury-list on account of their religion was one which met with the approbation of the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the iron. Gentle man had put forward a supposition that these gentlemen had been struck off on account of their religion, which he could certainly not admit. Mr. SADLEIR wished to know if the Noble Lord would object to laying before the House the names of the forty-eight gentlemen originally on the list, distin guishing which were Protestant and which were Roman Cathblic; giving also the reasons why these eight gen tlemen had been struck off the list. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should certainly ob. ject to do any such thing. The matter then dropped. The Workhouse Loans (Ireland) Bill and Drainage of Lands Bill were read a third time and passed. SLAVE TRADE (PERSIAN GULF) BILL On the motion that this Bill be read a third time, Mr. ANSTEY opposed the second reading of this Bill. The Bill would certainly militate against our existing treaty with the powers in that quarter, as in the opinion of the Noble Lord this treaty was only valuable inasmuch as it was calculated to secure the obedience of the Arabian chiefs against whom it was directed to the Shah of Persia. It would appear by this that these chiefs were not independent, but that they were in some way or other under the surveillance of the Government of Persia. If such was really the case, he feared that the effect of this Bill would be to increase the difficulties in our intercourse with those chiefs, which at present was unsettled, and had not many years ago proved both disagreeable and expensive. He was not anxious to excite a vexata questio, but he could act help remembering that the officers of the navy, able as they had always proved themselves, were still only men, and he was the more induced to remember the fact, because he could not forget another, which was that there were innu merable complaints of the merchant service that these slave-trade treaties continually interfered with their commercial proceedings. After citing several instances, which, from their technicality would be unintelligible in a report, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said, that seeing the perfect inutility of the system which had been adopted on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, he deprecated above all things the carrying of that system to the eastern seas. They had a trade there which it was their indispensable duty not only to protect but to encourage, and feeling this he conceived it to be his duty to move that this Bill be read a third time this day six months. Sir ED WARD COLEBROOKE also deprecated this attempt to carry into the eastern seas a system which had so lamentably failed on the coast of Africa. It was likely to involve us in most unpleasant altercations in that quarter of the world. Then, if it was to be adopted, who was to pay the expense. He surely would not throw it upon the East India Company, who were quite incompetent to bear it; but expense there must be, and somebody must pay, and this, if not the other, was a matter which well deserved consideration. Colonel THOMPSON said that he, if any one, could throw light upon the subject, for he it was who had ne gotiated the treaty with the Arab chiefs, in which the slave trade was declared to be piracy. This was no new matter, for it had been known and considered as long since as the year 1820. Then, with regard to the cases of conscience, which the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Ur. Anstey) had made out, he assured him that be might make himself perfectly easy, for these Arab chiefs, of whom he was so much afraid, were not slave dealers at all. In negotiating with these chiefs he bad hinted to them with the greatest delicacy that it was the wish of the English Government that the slave. trade in the Gulf should be declared piracy. A ghastly laugh ran round the circle of diplomatists, and they all exclaimed, " Ca pital! capital!' and he soon discovered that they who never had been slave -traders considered it a capital joke that the favourite pursuit of an old ally of ours, of whom they were extremely jealous, should thus be declared piracy. He had the treaty in his pocket, and could produce it to the House if it were necessary. He should support the Bill. (LEFT SITTING.) - _ THE CHARTIST CONVICTS. —The Chartist prisoners Cuffy, Lacey, and the others. convicted at the recent session of the Central Criminal Court, were put on board the Adelaide transport on Tuesday evening, at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Roll's Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 81b—i 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, aged, 7st 71b 12 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme, 6 yrs, 6st 131 b 13 to 1 agst Mr. E. 11. Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, fist 121 b —taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st 61b—t 16 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill, 4 yrs, ist 1310 —taken 100 to 6 agst Lord Clifdeu's St. Antonio, 4 yrs, Est 711, —taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Van Diemen, 3 yrs, sst filb—t 20 to 1 agst Mr. Drinkald's Over-tork-over, 3 yrs, 4st 31b—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's The Tartar, 5 yrs, ist 711, 20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b 25 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 131 u 25 to 1 agst Lord Clitden's Surplice, 4 yrs, 9st llb 30 to 1 agst Lord Clitden's Wanota, 5 yrs, Bst 51b 30 to 1 agst Mr.iWrather's Maid of Masham, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—nominal TUJ GRATWICKE STAYES. 5 to 4 on Colonel Peel's Tadmor G to 1 agst Lord Egliuton's Belus—taken 8 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Vanguard GOODWOOD CLIP. 2 to 1 agst Lord Stanley';janezo , 4 yrs, Bst 111b— taken and offered 9 to 2 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—t 9 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Surplice, 4 yrs, 9st 31b—t 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Jelly Fish, 3 yrs, ist—taken The Hero was not mentioned. ST. LEGER. 6 to 5 on Lord Eglintou's Flying Dutchman 15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nanny kirk 18 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer 20 to 1 agst Captain Gambell's Volcano—taken Chatterer was backed for two or three hundred pound] at 25 and 20 to 1, the takers offering to go on. DERBY, ISSO. 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Penang—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Sweetheart—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Bolingbroke—taken 50 to 1 agst Captain Lawley's General Seydlitz—t. WESTBURY AND BRATTON RACES—TUESDAY The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added. twice round and a distance, 4 Subs., were won in three: well contested heats, by Mr. Smith's Miss Fanny, 6 yr: (Smith), beating Springy Jack and Lady Constant. The Westbury Stakes of 3 sovs, each, and 15 added, twice round and a distance, 6 Subs., were won in thret heats, easily by Mr. Rice's Red Robin, 4 yrs (owner), beating Mr. Parham's Jenny Lind, 5 yrs, Mr. T. Burrow's Beggar Girl, aged, Mr. Horlock's Lady Constant, 6 yrs. The Railway Stakes of 2 sovs, each, and 10 added, were won easily in two heats by Mr. Smith's Faith, aged (F. Dallimore) beating two others. BARNS I'APLE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Tra teamen's Cup was won by Mr. Davis'a 1-) ceiver beating three others. The Youlstou Stakes were won by Sir A. Chichester's Haphazard beating Jenny Lind. The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. C. Sweet's Jeannie Deans beating four others. The Yeomanry Cup was won by Mr. Goss's Fanny. The Ladies' Cup was won i n three . heats by Mr. J. Harris's Giraffe, beating Sir A. Chichester's Apple ' Daddy. The following now matches have been made for Good wood ncxt week: — FIRST DAY.—Mr. Payne's Crucible, Sat 71b, agst the Duke of Richmond's Buffalo Gal, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. LAST DAY.—Sir J. Hawley's Paultons aged, agst the Duke of Bedford's Maitnab ury, 4 yrs, Bst 41b each. Last gale, 50, h ft. ROYAL ARTILLERY • , WOOLWICH, THURSDAY.— Gunner Alillstead, who was struck yesterday afternoon by lightning, is recovering. On Laminin his more unf ortunate comrad e Gunner Queeny. who wa g s killed on the spot, his bayonet was found firmly soldered in its sheath, the electric fluid having left his side, passing down the centre of the head and along the blade until it came to the brass covering at the extremity of the sheath, which it melted and embedded a part near the point of the bayonet, and then passed out at the bottom of the brass covering of the sheath through a hole which it had made about the size of a pea. _ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Comm:Ander Welch, sailed at six this evening for Cork, as the avant courrier of the Royal squadren: The Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord Adolphus Fi tzela rence, is completing fuel and coaling 111 the voyage to Ireland. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Anaelins Beauclerk, arrived at Spithead to-day from Weymouth, and rem Wins there. The Sphynx ,steam-sloop, Commander Hewlett,• re turned to port to-day from Weymouth with the marines and marine artillery who formed the guard of honour at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Port land Breakwater by Prince Albert yesterday. The Vesuvius steam-sloop arrived to-day from the river to embark the marine detachments to relieve those serving at Pembroke. The Pantaloon, 8, Commander H. Parker, got under way from Spithead about two r 3r. this day, and sailed for Rio and the Cape, calling at Plymouth. The Ajax, GO, steam guard-ship, is taking in ballast alongside the dockyard jetty, prior to trial with all her weight aboard. The Myrtle steam-tender returned from Weymouth to-day. _ _ The Elfin dispatch yacht, Master Commander Billis ton, will embark her Riyal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Osborne on Saturday, and land her Highness at ihe Clarence yard, Goz•port, about one P en route to town. A guard of honour of the 77th Regiment is or dered for the occasion. Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent gunnery estab lishment, is on leave of absence, as is Captain Black ood, of the flag-ship; both officers are expected to re turn to their respective ships in a day or two. The Lightning, steam-tender to the Admiralty, is ex pected here from the river, to attend upon the Board during their approaching visit of inspection, and to carry them to the Channel islands. Trie frigate-built ship Owen Glendower, 1,000 tons, Captain Pare, one of Gree n ' s fleet, sailed from Spithead this afternoon, for the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay, full of passengers and merchandise. The merchant-brig Bolette Puggeard, Capt. P. Lund, arrived here this morning from Rio, which sbe left on the 2d ult. At that time as many as seven and eight vessels per day were arriving at Rio from various parts of the world, with emigrants and speculators for Cali fornia, but they were chapfallen on hearing at Rio that a decree had been promulgated from the Government of the United States, forbidding the privilege of " digging" except on the Government account. Immigrants would be received ad libitum, but they would be allowed work only as labourers, at so much per day, on behalf of the Government. When she sailed news had just arrived of an armistice having been completed by Roses. The Emperor of Brazil sailed 'eighteen days previously for Havre de Grace. The Termagant, 22, steam-frigate, is having her new bulwarks fitted alongside the jetty, for the better protec tion of the crew when at the guus, &c. The Cuckoo steam vessel, Commander Dumaresq, ar rived this afternoon from Jersey and Weymouth, and came into harbour. CHATHAM, JULY 26.—The La Hogue, screw, two decker, Captain M.`Dougall, having a complement of officers and men to the number of 500, was paid wages in advance this day at Sheerness. She will proceed without delay to Ireland, to attend her Majesty, with other vessels of war, on her visiting that part of her do minions. This ship is well fitted up, and in the engine room there is a commodious bath for the use of the en gineers and stokers of the ship. The Childers, 12• gun sloop, Commander J. C. Pitman, from the East Indies, and which arrived here on the 22d inst., will be paid off on Saturday next. WOOLWICH, JULY 26.—The Violet and Flamer steam-vessels were taken out of the basin yesterday, and the former will leave on Saturday next to resume her duties as a mail steam-packet on the Dover station. A young man named Joseph Green, who was employed on the Ann, dockyard lighter, with his father, who is the master of that vessel, at present lying near the stairs of the landing place at Woolwich Dockyard, came on shore and passed through the dockyard gate to his residence at seven, P.N., on Wednesday, quite well, and this morning at ten o'clock had ceased to exist, having been attacked with the cholera so severely that he died at the latter hour. The whole of the workmen in the dockyard wero mustered to-day before Commodore Superintendent Eden, at half-past eleven o'clock, A itt. COUNTY-COURT JUSTICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your columns being ever open for the exposure of public grievances, I beg to lay before you the follow ing specimen of judicial intolerance:— Having discharged ono of my men for misconduct, he claimed an exorbitant sum for some work he had com pleted. This I refused to pay, but tendered him the fair amount. He was exceedingly insolent; threatening, if I did not comply with his demand, to take out a summons; which he has since done, at the Westminster County Court. I accordingly sent one of my men to defend it, who was perfectly acquainted with the facts of the case. On the cause being called for hearing, the Judge (Mr. Nioylau) asked why defendant did not personally appear; sud, on my man telling him it was impossible—l could not do so, having several engagements, the Judge refused to hear the merits of the case, and, "Coming to a remote conclusion at a jump, Threw at his held conviction in the lump," Ind immediately gave a verdict fur plaintiff, stating that as defendant did not appear, he considered that a sutfi si proof it was a just debt. Now, Sir, if such a precedent is established, no trades ,nan is safe; as he has no alternative, but either submit o any overcharge that may be made, or waste his time bich to a tradesman is valuable) by waiting probably whole day in the precincts of a county court. His oaly motive, as far as I can imagine, is to compel the em dloyment of a solioitcr, thereby destroying the grand feature iu the county courts, cheap law. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, and CONSTANT READER. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. —At the Cambridge Borough Police -court, on Wednesday, the Rev. Lionel Buller, late Fellow of King's College, ippeared upon a warrant charging him with having, on the previous day, threatened to blow out the brains of George Smith, the porter of King's College. It would ippear that since Mr. Buller's deposition from his fel lowship (by the society), which took place some months ago, a reasonable time has been allowed him to remove his effects from the rooms he lately occupied. Instead of doing this, the Reverend Gentleman fastened down the windows of his room, and put padlocks on the doors. Eventually the college authorities took forcible posses sion and evicted the defendant's goods, at the same time desiring the officers not to admit Mr. Buller on the college premises. On Tuesday Mr. Buller made an entry by the front lodge, in a very excited state, and was making his way to his former rooms, when he was stopped by Smith, and requested to retire. He refused, and then the force suf f icient to ex pel him was called in requisition. In the course of his ejection the rev. defendant used the above threat to Smith, and assaulted the groom. He was then ejected, and Smith procured a peace warrant against him, which now came on for hearing. There was an assault war rant against Mr. Buller, at the instance of the groom, but this was postponed until the present case should be de cided. Smith's information having been read and sw)rn to by him, the Mayor informed Mr. Buller that he must find sureties for his good behaviour, himself in 1001. and two sureties of 501. each. Mr. Buller said ho had only 4s. Gd. in the world, and that had been taken away at he police station. The Mayor told Mr. Buller that the 4s. 6d would be returned to him at the gaol, or immedi ately, if he found sureties. The reverend defendant continued talking for some time in a very excited strain, and at the rising of the court, as sureties were not forth coming, he was conveyed to the borough gaol. SEDUCTION AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Ovum., at the Telegraph public-house, 11aidenstone-hill, Greenwich, on view of the body of Rebecca Harvey, a widow, aged 32 years, who, it was alleged, had met her death by means of poison. Mary Coxhead, an aged widow, said the deceased was ber daughter, and had been left a widow about - five years. The deceased was seven months gone in the family way by a clergyman, and ho had refused to do anything to assist her. Witness was in the country and received a letter from the deceased, saying she must go into the union if the reverend gentleman did not assist her, and the exposure preyed so heavily on her mind that she feared she should destroy herself. Mr. G. Hatch, surgeon, South. street, Greenwich, said he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and discovered a large quantity of oxalic acid in the stomach ; a cup was found in the room, containing a minute quantity of oxalic acid and gin, which. he had no doubt was the mixture taken by derease_an. Mrs. Coxhead being recalled, said deceased hkdrrLadlliin the service of a lady at whose house th n e_H a e t v. that . house, had been in the habit of lodging, d succeeded a in effect after many attempts, Witness had been to that gentleman . ing her ruin. Mr. Dellis h e n o gentleman cvr•esi resides Kensington, s l i i n e g n t s o i n n , g Kensington. woman, and must look . to her he refused any satisfaction, urging that husband. d d a s: married urD allin's sister in the drawing-room, who promised t l 1 when the chi ld was born that somethin g shoul d be done f o r her. Had bee n offer.al 51 to forego all further claim. DeceasedD ease d had complained c a of rudeness, and witness went to theehoiutsel ru. and llh remon strated ein t d, ;been an d after T edmarking that it wasea recapitulated ed the poison and admi n i stered by the deceased's hde,ebawn p h r o hci own hand, the j ury returned a verdict of " Temporary with insani tIIyki.")NGERS' AND POULTERERS' INSTITUTION.— Last night a special general meeting of th e d onors an d subscribers of this institution for ionw t a h s held at the London Coffee-hous e, L u d gate- hf the report of t h e committee for thee p p a uy y os e e ar of u r n e d ce t i o vi d n a .,! termine on tee number of inmates to be placed on the foundation of the asylum at Wood-green. Mr. Butcher in the chair. The report, which was read by the secre tary, stated that during the past year the committee had been enabled to impart casual relief to nineteen cases of a most distressing- character. The asylum at Wood green, which has been erected for the purpose of receiv ing twelve decayed members of the trades so soon as the society were in possession of sufficient funds, being near completion, it is expected that in two months it will be fit for occupation, and the committee recommend thetas SOon as it should be ready four persons should be elected, two from each trade. The financial state of the society had maintained its fair average of support. The amount of receipts from April, 1848, to July, 1849, including sub• scriptions and donations, 4331.. and other sources to 1,6241. 14s. 10d., and which, after payment of 1,0501., 0:1 account of the erection of the asylum, and other out goings, left a balance in hand of the treasurer of 2764 I is. ltd. The report was adopted. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated.