The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed heavily, and compared with Friday's rates, prices of all kinds were tending downwards, but the decline is barely Id. per lb. The sales were estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000 bales, and consisted of 120 Sea Islands at Is. to 2s. sd. per lb. The Railway Share Market was tolerably firm, and business more lively. The sum which foreign shipping contributed to- Wards our light and pilotage dues was, in 1853, 44,4781., and in 1854, 52,7911. The proportionate trade of the various ports of England is not generally known, and the compari son is in some respects curious. If tonnage were to decide the question London would stand above Liverpool, but when exports are brought under notice the latter stands almost doubly as high as th e former. The tonnage inwards, and the declared ' , Cue of British and Irish exports in 1854, was as follows : Tonnage. Exports. , London Liverpool 2,190 ; .404 ... 46,719,177 Hull 13ristol Newcastle Southampton 262,276 ... 2,334,141 Leith Glasgow 125,482 ... 4,905,557 Greenock Dublin Cork Belfast The extraordinary amount in favour of Liverpool lust arise mainly from its proximity to the textile b uzufacturing districts, and the great trade with the United States. Accounts from Russia state that one of the Im perial transports, the Wolga, on the 27th May, When on a voyage from Sweaborg between the islands of Kuorsalo and Stamoe, took the ground, a nd in spite of the strenuous exertions of the heel - Tier Nadjoschinij, on the 30th ult., she could 11°t be floated. A portion of t h e stores were trans ferred to the steamer, however, and the cannon W ere thrown overboard. As an Englis h gun tboat then ma d e her appearance and prepa red iti attack, the transport was set on fir e and shortl y aft erwards blew up. The private bankers are excessively a nno y ed at t he ;l disgraceful revelations in the ban kru p tc y of e "are. Strahan, and the frauds committed cite both their indignation and re g ret. alVily such cases are rare, but to p rove to their customers how entirely th e y desire 11r eserved intercourse and investigat ion, the y held a tt meeting yesterday afternoon at the Clearing -2,."5e and passed a resolution to the effect that the es was wrong in asserting that a bank er would feel offended if his customer asked to look at his ,sec urities. On the contrary, as the resolution de eia'ree, they consider such examination " a most v o i. Ver and business-like proceeding." This is a 2rotoon-sense view, for even as a check upon the numerous clerks occasional reference is desirable. h The Medway, from Port Philip, 91 days out, been spoken in the Channel. S he has on-- hard 2,0001., or, as some accounts state, 20,0001. gold. The Scinde Railway Bill was read a second time ll tile Lords last Monday night, and pa ssed throu g h e ci ratoittee yesterday mo rning. The Company is a t i ll receiving instalments in adva nce, bearing 5 per ,_ cent , interest from the I st of the month after V4 Yrnent. The English stock market has been exceedingly a-411 , and the quotations have remained almost evl'ecisely as they left off y es terday, Consols being I to 91i. The fact that money is worth 4 per cent. at Paris may have a little influence in conjunction With th e French loan. Tho New 3 per Cents. have b een 921 to 4, and the Reduced 92 k. Ba nk Stock t been firm at 211 i. Exchequer-bills have im proved ls., being 16s. to 20s. premium. There has been a bargain or two in Turkish ponds at the previous rates, 81/ to a transaction Sardinian at 86, being an advance of to 1, and k lbutch 2i per Cents. at 64i. The following are the nominal prices of foreign e 4 4.8 :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6t to 7; Mexi :l) 24 to 21/ ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; ditto Three k r Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., to 46 ; Russian Five per Cent s., 98 to 100 ; d itto Four-and-a-Half per Cen ts., 89 to 91 ; g Da o e , il leh New Deferred, 18 ± to 18 i ; Ditto 3 per 38i to 39 ; Ditto Certificates, 4 to 4± ; i r .'to Passive, 4 to 41. ae he Railway Share Market has be en ver y heav y r i n) and buyers mostly have the advantage. a e. ? North-Western, Midland, Sco ttish Central, treat Great W e stern have been chiefly d ealt in. th e Western of Canada shares are bu o y ant, and foreign lines are mostly steady. Il a The Foreign Mines are heavy. The Join t Stock h e :'Ke are in less request. Crystal Palace are 47 Y at the decline. 8141 I SR FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Ofiicial List.) tt: stock 211 i 101 4,,,Z ,Pent. R e d uce d A nn uitias......... 1 4 y per Cent. Annuities to.utuloittio .;',` Annuities, Expire Bth Jan.. 1860 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 164 15-16 i.. la for Account, 10th July 9l! 1 4 '"'ellequer Bills 24d. 2d. 1.(:) ° 0 . ' 19 NIL 20 14 17 .t5OO .. .... ..... . 14 17 . 1 ii 1.7 14„%taltil -euequer Bonds 1858,3. per Cent. lOl. 104 11 1)111 0E OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. rilian Bonds 5 per Cent. bathtto New, 1852, , q per Cent 936 a d Ph Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — , iy, o 5 per Cent 17,41inian Bonds, 5 per Cent. . B6 51 "Daliah Bonds, 3 per Cent 1,4)tt0 New Deferred, 3 per Cent. kish Bonds, 6 per cent Dividends on the above pi iyable in London. ti h te h Exchange , 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 641 `' it to 4 per Cent. Certifieatei i ..... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols .. bat() for the Account . 911 / d LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) BLOCKADE OF THE WHITE SEA. A letter received this monolog at -Lloyd's from Arch -34201, under date the 13th in st., states that the blockade of all ports, roads, and creeks in the White Sea has been 11 .otified by the Commander of her Brit a n n i c M a j e sty's forces in said sea. LONDON, June 27.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ; light airs and fine. The Medway, from Port Philip, with 17,000 oz. of gold dust, was spoken on the 22d inst. t PLYMOUTH, June 26.—Wind, N.N.W. Sailed—Ethi ope ‘L), for the West Coast of Atrica. pu I tELFAST June 25.—Wind, W. Arrived—Ohio, f rom . John's' ,_LIVERPOOL, Juno 26.—The Thomas Sharp, from here Calcutta, which put back yesterday, will discharge, and t° into the Graving Dock. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LlvEnrooL, Wednesday Morning. W ind, N.W. li- . (3 f 1 . - -John Barbour, and Miltiades, ail frog St. John's 13 .; James Foster, New York. QUEENSTOWN, June 25. Wind West. I Arrived —Eckford Webb, from Charleston ; Inco nstant, ""ag'ana. DUBLIN, June 26. mind W.N.W. t e &rrived.—Ad e line, from Cadiz ; Due Gebroders, Rot i r daln ; Fidanyante, Xarseilles. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9.41 Wind, R ; tide, 0, hour's flood, weather fine. NArrived, June 2 - 6 —Empress Eugenie, from Ceylo n ; 4, ll Pte, Alexandria ' • Corinna, Leghorn ; Fourteen, Be -e ;„ 411 0 Porto Rico John and Isabella, Konigsberg. sailed-Sea Queen, for Port Adelaide. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.20 a.m. passed calm, fine. June 26—John Freno; from Ne w cas t le, for gaii on. ' St. 10 St. 25 to 5 20 18 5 5 5 20 111 the course of the last meeting of the Asiatic So 6etY:, at Paris, M. Reinaud laid on the ta ble an Arabian 4 a niiscript treatise, just rebeived from Abd - el - Kader , 84451 written by that personage. The Emir has always l e l° Yed a high reputation among his countrymen for his ning a n d literaiy taste. of TATINEE MIISICALE.—The Marquis and Marchioness h -treadalbane have generously allowed the use of their t}, 3 .se in Prk-lane for a matinee musicale, to be held on F a riday, July 13, aid of the funds of the b b3 i!ary Association of the Friends of Poland, of which 1 , )rdship is president. ly, RMY PRIZE-MONEY.—Yesterday a Government bill ci: b . 0 House of Commons was printed, to repeal the Re -11 p duty on orders for army prize money. At pre " orders for army prize money are liable to a stamp sZ tY of is., and the object of the bill is to re pe al t he oft r4 e, and to g i ve th e benefit to all non-commissioned ••r 1 and soldiers. 25 St. 20 25 412 e St. Sll ARE MARKETS (THIS_CAY.) RAJILWL.YS. RAILWAY , . rosing Prices this day. Bus:ness dons this day. k1,0rdeen......_ „.... Ambg. liottng. Dos': and Eastn. Juliet_ Belfs,st & Ballymena. Birming. Well ;rh 4 Stour Valley Birk Aid. LancaL. di Cheshire Juliet Do. Cheth. & Biek., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20........... Blyth &Tyne origins' £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter , Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pas. Cornwall Or -ff Junction 'Dnolin&BelfastJunc (Dundee Perth dab.- deen Junction I Do. N .w East Alglian Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, A Stock .. ... Do., B. Stoe Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgov• Edinb. and Peebles. &lin. Prth & Dur de e "orth & Clyde Jrt .!, Furness . Do. Extension. Glasgow & S. Westeri ' /mat Northern IDo., A. Stock ; Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre. ~ Great Western D). Stour Val, Rai Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash.andYorkul Do. Wst. Riding Un Li v :Crsby.&Southpt , London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst Loud. and N. Westn Do. Fifths 0 o. T Oi. Sh. , M&B 0 Do. Sighths Lond on and S. West, Do., £5O. Do., .'C4O Lnilnd.-ry& Coleraine Lndndi Ty. & Enn'.,sk . Vanch.tThef.k Limb) Do. f Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un. )Midland .. ; )o. Birmng'. &Derby Midld. G. Wost. Om ) Do. Half Sh:tres Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. A Hrti Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrc upoint and Rostrevor. . Norfolk ... . Northn.Counties Tin. North British... North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred i Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwiel , Do. do. Extension .. Do. do. G.N. E. Purch Do. Leeds Do. York North London :610 v.&S.Wstrn.,Haml stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. North Western V. It S. Westrn. Jun , . Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, R, Wolverhan tpton Portsmouth. Ac...,ash Central „„. Seottishllidla nd Shropshire Un ion , South Devon . . South Eastern.. . South Wales Yrksh. do Riv. Dru Do.. Staines, Wok &Wok Stockton Darli Stockton & Ilrortlop' Taff Vale .. .. Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. Thames Haven Doel , nna Railway Ulverstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & KilkennN Waterforcl&Limeri , i West Cornwall West End of Loud( n and Cryst.9l Palace.. West London. Wimbledn & Croydon 23 - '5 43 - 81 -8/ 131 -- 121 151 -- 16, 84 -- 74 90 - 92 62i - 63 13i - 14 9 - 11 ... - ...d 141 - 15 12 - 12: 32 - 36 23 - 25 76i - 77 58 - 60 - 9. 19 - 20 ••• •, 70 - 72 92 - 93 75 - 77 '26 -!`S .90 - 102 674 • 67i 75 - 80 8 - 10 8 - 10 81i - 82 - 8 [OO - 102 1018 10111 - 83 - 84 8i • 70 7 i - 6,31 26i - 27 8 ,- 8 73,x- 71 43 - 45 9 - 7 li - 2 E 6 - 52 30 . .. 31 74 75 6i 64 3 St 13i 14} 50i 51 ?: 49 51 par Ad -- 5 6i 7 d ar 28 - 30 04 106 67 69 46 48 13i 14i 61 —6! 29 30 4 2 2d par 39 - 41 ..• "'"' 44 - 5 20 2 34 - 48 22 - 24 7 - 8 ... ••• FOREIGN. Antwerp aitott , roan Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to GraisEtessa. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India.Scrii , Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c. Do. Ey';ension Do. 4} p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd.Tkof CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence Ei Atlantic do. Do. Cort. of Deben., con. into Stk. till 4;3 Po. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent Do. New 5 per cent. Do. Extensions.... Do. d 0.... ........... Great Luxembon re Constituted Shares I Do. Obligations.— Gt.Westernof email Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 . Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent....... Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Lyons and Geneva Lyons do Mediterran Madras Do. New ................ Maria Antonia Do. do. Now ......... Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. Do .20 /. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & rod. at 221/. dui. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy.B.,Sz Ams. She. ' NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds ....... Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen.•• ParisCaen dL Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre..... Royal Danish ......... Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuso... Do. 5 p. cent. Pref Scinde Southern of Franoo St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STO Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company f iritiih N. America Clartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City t. C o l o nial .............. . Commercia l l of Loud , E n glish Scottish am Loud. Chart. Bk. Of Australia ...... Austraian Ditto New London and County London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. N ew National of Ireland,. New South W ales • Oriental Bank o f Corporation .. . Provincial of Ireland Do. New, Royal Anstraln;Bjq, & (kid Imp Co South Australia .... Union of Australia. Do. New Union 0 London 9h 24 14 24 - 2 2 - 2i 1 - 35, - 36 9 - 10 25i - 26 34 - 31; 51(1 171 - 18 65 - 67 94 - 96 4 - 5i - 6p * OP - - 6 4 - 4i 3t 3 g 221 - 23 100 - 102 106 - 109 110 -•- 115 104 106 22 -22 i 107 - 10) ai. 6 iP •• —•- - liP 2 3 / 4 3 p 5 7 2 -- 3 6i 6a ii : B'4 124 - 13 g -- 9• 29 - 46 - 48 45 - 47 ... - Pil' 25 26 21 - 22 ii - Is 4 gi -10 k 21 Zap ... pm .•. 3i 4 *gi 18 :: 19 BANKS. 84 -- 85 65i 66ixd id—/p . ..d i . A p 174-•182 19 20 d' 35 37 48 - 49 1•••• •• • •• 35 - 36 38 - 39 52 -- 54 ••• 'II' HI 41 -- 43 74 - 75 8 -- 9 *OO ...go 009 100 100 61s. TRB • SUN, LOWDON4 WEDNESDAY Ptifigll'lNG‘ JIY`Nr"E 27. 1855, LINES LBASED 1 1 MIXED RENTALS. RAILWAY.. Leasing Compans Closing Pricei , this day. Bedford and Blet3hley Buekghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. C. 6 pe Glas. Barr. & Yells. Direct Do. New Gistr.& Dn. Fr flrtlph Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft g►r. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. ' and Matlock Middleebro' & Redear. Midld.Bradfd ' Newmarket Bury Exton N.& Est.s p.c Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyre Do. A Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth and Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &Her S. Statlordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... *.irilts&gorrirst London & N. L. &N. W. :laded on_ E. Un. E. C Caldonian. Do Gt. Went Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NI& Do Do S. Eastern Peto & Ca Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midid. Stekton & Darling t. Midland En. Coun. E. Count I Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&lrk Do I Gt Northr Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassey M. =lea/. Stoat. & Darlingt Do ltWestn. 98 -- 100 100 - 102 135 -- 177 ii - 29 liii - 109 12i -- 13 23 -- 94 111 -12 i ••• - ••. 2i - 2i 94 - 56 $ - iP 58 - 60 fi3 = li 9 22 - 241 32 - 33 94 - 96 PREFERENCE SHARES. Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c Myth and Tyne 1 Opel c. pref. (issd. at 50/ , Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyheail Guar. 5? per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork drßandonsp.c Dun.Prth di Aber. J E. Anglian OP. A Sh. Do. do. Cis. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 r. e. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 ner cent. 98 - 100 6 -- 95 6 - ik 3 - 4 G - 64 1 - 14 131 - 14 Do. 101. DeLentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent Fast Lancash. 6 p.ct ~ E. &W. York. J. sths Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness 6 7. - - 63 Glas. &S. W. G. 5 p. c. Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom... Do. 4 p. e. Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red. .J 8 - 120 110 - 112 :04 106 at 5 p. c. pm... Gt. N .. of Scot. lst Pre+ Gt. S. do W. (Ireland) Do. 4per a. Pr:f. Gt. Westn. (Berke k Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... Do. eon. red. 42 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. a ii) 9 -- 9t 6 -- (1 99 -- 101 90 -- 142 92 -- 94 10 -- 11 17 -17 i 104 104 74 -- 76 194 -- 20} 9i -- 144 -15 i - 137 - 139 Dc,. irred. 4p.e. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Cnester 8 p. c.P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. & York. F. £2O, no. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. & MO. G. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent.. Lon.&N. W., Coy. d; Nuneaton 5 p. et.. Lon.& S. W. Con.3ds Londy. & Color. Sh. Lowly. & Ennis. Sh. Wan., Slid., & Lin New, £lO Do. a Nfarypt.& Carl. 4 p c Du. 4 per cent • • • so. ••• """ ••.. •• ••. 21 - 3i 13t - 14 § - iP Do \lid. Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol, Bristol 4 Birm. 6 per cent. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St 1)o. Pref. , per cep Do. 5/. Pr , f. 4 p. e. . Ditto Leict-ster am liitclien Pref. St... Norfolk Debenture . Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stoc Do. 5 . p.c. Est IS9 - 141 97 - 9 1 3 - ' - 4i 10. 5i per ct. pref... o. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British IN. E. Berm, 4 p.o. P ibl 103 95 -- 97 3i-- 4 Do. do. do - - Do Leeds 6 p.c ao.l Do. do. Quarters Do. York 1-1. & Fur. North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, (k Wnlverh . £l5. 6 p.c Do 11. Prof. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent., New Pre: South Devon Do. fixed, 4i per cent S. Eastern (ReadinE Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent S Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4i p. c.... i = 1a 105 - 107 131 - 14; id -- par 231 -' 234 99 - 101 S.iorksh. - 4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do Stock. & Danl. g. p, c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd. & Kilk. 6 pc 16 = fi' ••• ... • ••• 2 - 3p - ii-- lid MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold 10s. all Anglo Californian 20 6 Australian ll 1$ 1 all Australian Cordillera - 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd.D achy of) 50 all Bla3narvon Iron and Coal . , 20 14 British Iron 5 6 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Comes & Cuiab 24 31 20 15 Do, St. John Dal Rea A2B 30xd 1 4 Carson's Creak — 1 0 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica RP 40 all Cobra Copper 5B 60 60 5 1 Colonial Gold — St. all Copper Min. of Eng 25 .ill Do. Prof. 74 p. cone ••• IC Copiapo.... 2O 22 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg el- 1$ —l4 2 1 Fortuna —3 p 1 0 20 all General l5 —l7 1 all Gt.Nugi etVeinßeg 41 all Groat Polgooth. 1 —2a 2 1 all Liberty - 3 all Linares. 7 7 34 D B 2 24 5 1 Lusitanian ll 1 all Mariquita - 1 all New Granada I 1 all New Linares Miniik and Smelting Co 1 all Nouveau Monde ••• 20 all Pontgibaud Silva , Lead Min. & Smelt. 1G 17 1G 5 1 Port Philip 1 $ 1 all Quartz Rock 4 50 all Rhyrnney Iron l9 21 15 all Do. New 5 6 30 12$ Santiago de Cuba... 54 6 1 all South Australian 10 74 Tin Croft — 28i all United Mexican 34 41 4 1 all Waller — 1 all West Mariposa 4 $ ) 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Tuba — ••• MISCELLANEOUS. 25 174 Australian Agrinit. 29 31 10 I all Auslraln. Royal Mail 4 10 7 Berlin Water Works 24 2 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 57 60 574 7 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. ... 100 324 Canada 121 125 123 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. and July 114 115 1144 1 5 all Crystal Palace 24 34 2/ 3 5 5 Do. Preference.. 3 4 all Crystal Pal.of France 1 $ Duston Iron Ore 20 84 Eastern Steam — 25 23 Electric Telegraph l7 18 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 20 all General Screw Steam 16 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 10 9 Mexican&S.Amorien. 6 . 1 64 10 24 Do. New 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land l4 -- 21 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. . 1 all N. B. Australasian 4 1 20 15 Nrth. of EnropeSt aam .. 13 1 all Oriental Gas all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 23 - 24 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... elt 50 10 Do.. New 2l —24 p 2 all Portland Iron Co 1 1 6 1 4 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 72 74 1 All Scot. Mistral. Invest. 14 2 1 1 Ditto New I 25 all South Austral. Laud 374 —38 i 74 81 1 411 Submar. Tel. Scrip 1 1 all Do. Registered •-• 1 5 Trust& L.Co.II.Can ) VAR Dionzinen Land 124 -- 134 Eusir.ess this day. - 2Y: 01 V,P. 5 J - t rcr , 4 n NEWCASTLE RACES. (THIS DAY.) '(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) NORTITUAIBERLA 7 sTD PLATE. Whitelock Vindex.... Fifteen ran. STAND STAKES. Tilly Hebe Seven ran. FREE HANDICAP. Ellermire A ssa yer Fourteen ran gturtti iEtittton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the c h a i r a t 12 o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the Electric Telegraph Company Bill, and the International Life Assurance Society Bill were considered. The B'adford Corporation Water Bill, and the Liver pool Improvement Bill were read a third time and passed. The Airdrie Rural District Police (No. 2) Bill, and the Connaught Mining Company Bill were considered and ordered to be read a thi,•d time. CARNEGIE'S RESTITUTION BILL. On the motion of Viscount DUNCAN the following gentlemen were nominated as the select committee on the above bill ; —Viscount Duncan, Viscount Palmers ton, Lord John Russtli, Sir James Graham, Mr. Dis raeli, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Solicitor-General, the Judge Advocate, Sir Frederic The siger, Sir John Pakirgton, Mr. Horsinan, Mr. Brand, and Mr. Sotheron ; and all the members of this house who are of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun cil, and all the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. Five to be the quorum. That the committee have leave to sit and proceed and report forthwith. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Viscount Ebrington from St.Neotts, from Sh iffnal, and froin,Montgomery in favour of the Marriages Bill ; by Mr. Spooner, several petitions from different parts of the country against the Maynooth Grant. FORMATION, &c., OF PARISHES BILL. ... 2 On the order of the day for the second reading of the above bill, The Marquis of BLANDFORD said that, though the session was so far advanced, he felt bound to ask the house to consider its principle and agree to the second reading, evec though it should net pass into a law this session. The Church Building Commission had been founded some years ago, to dispose of a grant by Parliament el 1,500,0001. for the purpose of building churches in various districts. He should take the first descrip• tion of districts, called the district parish, in which churches were built by the commissioners, and powers granted to levy rates for the repayment of the original loan. The entire district was to be liable to Church-rates for twenty years. Thera were 79 of those districts ; but the commissioners found they were not sufficient, and they then formed 92 consolidated chapelries, in which services were allowed to be per formed immediately on their formation. The next description of districts were district chapel ries, amounting in number to 578, and they affected the largest portion of the country, and therefore the laws affecting them were of the greatest importance, and the noble lord averred that those laws were in a state of the greatest anomaly. The result of this variety of districts was a source of the greatest complexity, which would require almost a lifetime to unravel and de termine. With regard to the question of church rates, he believed the law must soon deal with it, and he was far from wishing the law should deal with that question in any niggard spirit. (Hear.) But there was one pecu liar grievance under the present system, where the pa rishioners saw the rates raised from themselves applied to churches in another parish, not in their own district, and with which they had nothing to do. Under the 6th and 7th Victoria, commonly called Peel's Act, 242 parishes had been created, in which 189 churches bad been built, and he controverted the simple working of that act with the cumbrous machinery of the Church Building Comtniesionere Act, which amounted to 18. By an act of last session, the duration of these com missions was limited to the 26th July, 1856, and attempts had been made to consolidate these acts and continue the powers of those commissioners, but instead of doing that, he thought it would be better for the house to repeal the 18 acts alluded to and the commis sion be allowed to terminate, and any property they may have vested in the Ecclesiastical Commission for Eng land, and extend the powers of Peel's Act as far as ne cessary to continue the subdivision of parishes to the ex tent required. It was all very well to make parishes and buiid churches, but it was also necessary they should be endowed. All churches, except those who were ap portioned tithes, and those erected under Peel's Act, were endowed by pew rents. He thought there were great evils atten ling such endowments, although from the state of the Church not permitting it, they could not he dispensed with. He did not see himself that objection to pew rents which some did ; but, at the same time, he did not consider that peg rents, looked at as an endow ment to a minister, was that provision he ought to have made for his maintenance, because it did not place him in that independent position with his parishioners he ought, to occupy. (Hear, hear.) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners stated there were 1,533 churches, re quiring 144,0001. to raise the incomes of the clergymen officiating in them to a certain extent. Of these, 856 had been so benefitted by an appropriation of 46,000/., leaving 98,0001. so to be applied. (Hear, hear.) In dealing with the great question in this bill, he proposed that the patronage of the church should be, with proper restrictions, placed in the hands of the persons who had built or endowed them, which was a principle that had been recognised by Parliament in the reign of George IV., William IV., and the present reign. By the Ist of William IV. the amount provided by private individuals for endowments and building of churches was 89,0001. ; and, under Peel's Act, there had been raised for endowments and the building of churches 158,0001.—(hear, hear)—so that nearly half a million of money had been raised by private liberality, by vest ing the patronage in their hands. With these facts be fore them he did not consider he was proceeding on a wrong principle in proposing what he had, with reference to patronage and endowments, and he was also of opi nion it might be further extended. There were a great many churches or incumbencies in the hands of the Mother Church which ought not to be the case, and he thought that, where it could be proved that the person so presenting had not been instrumental himself in building or causing them to be built, that the patronage should be vested in any person who had adequately en dowed them to the satisfaction of the commissioners, and where the incumbent had been instrumental in get ting the church erected, his interest should not be dis turbed during his incumbency. With regard to parishes under 2001. per annum, the commissioners had only in creased a few of them, by the appropriation of 46,000/. to that purpose ; and these livings, which were in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire, Deans and Chapters, and Cor porations, he proposed should, with the consent of the proper authorities, be transferred to those private in dividuals as would adequately endow therm (Hear.) By that means ho thought adequate endowment would be provided for many parishes that were at present lan guishing for want of propermaintenance—(hear)--or were placed in a difficult or invidious position. There were many cases' of public patronage where the parishes have overgrown themselves, and he proposed in such cases that the parishes should be divided, and the amount of tithes also, and where the patrons wore unwilling to do so he proposed the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should have power to do so, leaving the patronage untouched. (Hear.) He moved the second reading of the bill. Sir G. GREY said it was impossible to deny the im portance of the bill, and the value of many of the pro visions which it embodied. It was founded to a certain extent on the report .f a commission issued with refer ence to the subdivision of parishes, and who recom mended in their report many of the provisions of this bill. But the very importance of the subject, the com plexity of its details, and the variety and importance of the subject it professed to deal with, caused him to en tertain serious doubts whether it was wise at that period of the session, and the then state of the house, to assent to the second reading of the bill. The noble lord had stated it was not his intention to proceed further with the bill this session than with the second reading, which would, he (Sir G. Grey) thought, lead to no practical re sults. It would not advance the bill whilst it fettered the future discretion of Parliament on the question. (Hear.) It was difficult to say what was the principle of the bill. It stated it was to afford facilities for the sub-division of parishes (which was a principle he was willing to accede), but that could only be extracted from a great variety of details, all dealing with important subjects. The bill not only proposed to abolish the Church Build ing Commission, and to transfer their duties to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, giving them a large increase of powers, but also to deal with the law as re garded the formation of parishes, mortmain, patronage, and pew rents, all of which required mature considerau tion. He was hound to say he could not see what ad vantage the noble lord would gain by pledging the house to an opinion at that advanced stage of the ses sion, if no further progress was to be made with the bill, and the great number of acts of Parlia ment with which this bill dealt rendered it impossible for them to consider it in a committee of the whole house before it had been referred to a select committee. He should be sorry to throw any obstacle in the way of the progress of the bill, neither did he think he was doing so in asking the noble lord to withdraw the bill for this session, and to introduce it at an early period of the next session when progress might be made with it. (Hear.) He (Sir George Gray) believed an extension of the powers of Peel's act would be beneficial, and drew the noble lord's attention to his intention by his bill to repeal that clause in Peel's act, which made it compulsory before a parish was constituted, that an en dowment should first be made, which appeared contrary to the noble lord's views. With regard to adding fresh duties on the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, t he (Sir G. Grey) thought it could not be done without revising their pre sent duties, and strengthening their hands by the infu sion of new elements into their composition. He should offer no objection to the second reading of this bill pro vided the noble lord would refer the bill to a select com mittee, where all the details might be properly investi gated. Lord EBRINGTON considered it impossible for a bill of such importance to be carried that session, but was of opinion it should be read a snond time by the house, which would give it that sanction and weight in the country which would direct attention to it during the recess. Sir W. HEATHCOTE thought that the house would do well to consider the suggestion of the Home Secre tary upon this bill. He thought that nothing could be more fatal to any measure than to adopt it, unless the house had made up its mind upon it. (Hear.) Sir W. CLAY objected to sanctioning the principle of this bill by allowing it to pass a second reading. If the bill was passed it would give an entirely new princi ple with respect to Church rites. It did more than that: it gave another devotion to the property of the National Church. (Hear, hear.) By the provisions of the bill a Government officer could acquire land out of the revenue of the Church, and appropriate it to purposes totally at variance to the purposes for which it was originally in tended. No less than 38 Acts of Parliament would be affected by the present bill. Mr. G. BUTT thought the bill ought to be withdrawn, in order that the objects it had in view might be con sidered fully in committee. He hoped that the promo ters of the bill would fall into his suggestion, and with draw the bill. Mr. A. PELLATT proposed as an amendment that the bill should be read a second time that day three months. After some observations from Mr. Palk, Mr. R. Phil limore, Mr. Cowper, and Mr. V. Scully, The Marquis of BLANDFORD consented to withdraw the bill, upon the understanding that a bill similar in its details should be introduced in the next session. Mr. HADFIELD objected to any measure like the present being referred to a select co mm itt ee . It was a very well for the noble marquis at once to consent to withdrawal of the bill ; but, acting as the representative of his constituents, who he thought were far more nume rous than the noble lord's, he would never be a party to placing the extensive powers proposed to be given by this bill in the bands of the Government. Attar some further discussion the bill was withdrawn. THE MAYNOOTH ENDOWMENT. On the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on this question, Mr. MAGUIRE said the discussion of the Maynooth question from time to time had b,en forced upon the house by the hon. member for North Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner), who, when asked the other evening to with draw his proposed measure, declined to do su ; thereby signifying his intention of taking the opinion of the house by a division. He (Mr. Maguire) was not un anxious that the house should express its opinion in that manner; but in the meanwhile the matter involved was so important not only to the Roman Catholics in Ireland, but also to the welfare of the United Kingdom, that lie felt it to be a duty imposed upon him as a Roman Catholic member of that house to enter fully into the charges made against Maynooth, with a view to show that those charges were baseless and without foundation. Reverting to the period when the College of Maynooth was first esta blished, the hon. member observed that the Marquis of Camden, when he laid the foundation-stone of that edifice, said they had that day inaugurated the commencement of a wise institution for the education of the Roma❑ Catholic clergy at home; and a Protestant King, and Pro testant Ministers, a Protestant Perliarnent, a Pro testant Clergy, and a Protestant , people all at that time concurred in the wisdom, prudence, and policy of an establishment which had of late been the object of so much intolerant and unjustifiable abuse and misrepresentation. He contended that those persons who were the uncompromising advocates for the abolition of the grant were actuated by motives of pan dering to the very worst feelings of humanity and mor bid religious feeling ; and were, moreover, impelled iii the controversy by a mast unchrist an spirit. If all that had been stated against the doctrines inculcated at Maynooth were true, if it were true that her object was to prevent all oaths, compacts, and allegiances, then he would be the first to demand its extinct,on from exist ence ; but he called upon those by whom these charges were brought forward to prove them. (Hear, heer.) Before proceeding to the consideration of the charges, the hon. member adverted to the cry which was formerly made, by the hon. member for North Warwickshire and his supporters, for an inquiry into the Maynooth system. (Hear, hear.) Well, he proceeded, an inquiry took place, and the assertion these gentlemen now made was that the evidence, simply because a por tion of it had been sent to Rome three menthe after it had been printed in England, was garbled and unreliable. (Hear, hear.) At the same time this inquiry was con ducted by persons of the highest possible character and probity—men who had character to lose, and he felt bound to say, after a deliberate perusal of all the documents contained in that blue-book, that a more searching or complete investigation could not have been made. (Hear, hear) The hon. member then went on to notice the remarks which had been made re lative to the power of the Pope to absolve Roman Ca tholics from their oath of allegiance to the Sovereign, and quoted several Roman Catholic divines, amongst them Dr. Furlong and Dr. Moriarty, in order to show that allegiance to the Sovereign was held in the light of one of the first principles of morality, and that the Pope under no circumstances whatever had power to influence a Roman Catholic in violating his oath of allegiance. As to oaths and contracts in general, the hon. member cited the writings of Dr. Hanlon and Dr. Murray, in which it was laid down that an oath or contract with a heretic (so called, he observed, in a religiously technical sense), or any other person whether baptised or not, was of equal validity as if made with a Roman Catholic. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman next referred to a catechism, in which the principles of the Roman Catholic religion were inculcated amongst the children of persons of that persuasion in all classes of society, and pointed out, amongst other things, that the youth of that church were taught to love their Lerd above all, and their neighbour as themselves ; the latter term including all men alike, even their enemies, and those who differed from them in religion. (Cheers ) He afterwards dwelt in feeling terms upon the fidelity and loyalty of our Roma❑ Catholic soldiers, notwithstanding the baneful influence of Maynooth. Of the 29 archbishops and bishops in Ireland, 2 arch bishops and 22 bishops were educated at Maynooth. 1,222 priests had been educated there, and she sent about 60 missionaries annually to the colonies, and there were 24 missionaries in England educated at Maynooth. He contended, on account of the poverty of the clergy and people, nothing would be so unjust to the people of Ireland as the withdrawal of this grant. Ireland was sought to be treated in this question as if she were a prosperous country like England and Scotland, but hon. members appeared to forget that terrible social revolu tion that had taken place in Ireland, whereby 15 mil lions of property had been brought to the hammer, and 2i millions of people deprived of the soil they once pos sessed. Owing to the parsimony of the house and the Government Maynooth was in an incomplete state, and to that was to be attributed the condition of the library, and there being no catalogue of the books. The com missioners, in speaking of the results of the di.icipline at Maynooth, said there was no imputation against the moral character of the young men, and no reason to be lieve their general conduct was other than irreproach able. The honourable member proceeded to enforce the necessity of an additional grant, to place the college in an efficient state instead of the house attending to the miserable agitation going on out of doors for the with drawal of the present grant. He detailed at some length the dilapidated condition of the buildings, and dwelt on the qualifications of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy, who, he said, were eminently suited fur the scene of their labours in Ireland, and ❑one were more bold and conscientious in the discharge of their duties than they were. The friends of education in Ireland were the Roman Catholic clergy, whilst the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland were its opposers. (Hear, hear) He deprecated the taunts thrown out against theAßoman Catholics of Ireland, of their being disloyal, and reviling them in no measured terms, and asked had not the Roman Catholics of Ireland shown their bravery and loyalty in their recent engagements withthe enemy in the Crimea? As sure as they withdrew the grant to Maynooth and the reyinin donuin to the Presbyterians, the downfall of the Church of England would be certain. Captain STEWART entered into the origin of the grant, which he said was to assist the Irish in erecting this college, and not for an endowment. This college was under the direct control of the Pope, from which :missionaries were sent to erery part of the world ; so that the grant was not for the purpose of education, but propagating the Roman Catholic faith. They must guard against bequeathing this legacy to their chil dren, seeing it had increased of late pars. Mr. B. STANHOPE opposed the grant. If the house was prepared to carry out the freedom of election, he called upon them not to make a grant that would strike at the very vitas of so important an object. Mr. P. O'BRIEN supported the grant. The debate, it being a quarter to six o'clock, was then adjourned till to morrow. YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed afterisome observations from Mr. ADDERLEY, withdrawing the clause he had proposed. - . - COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND). The Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. UNION CHARGE ACT CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. DOWNING -STREET OFFICE EXTENSION. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER it was agreed that the house would upon Thursday resolve itself into a commit. tee to consider of authorising the exchange of any lands vested in the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works, under the Acts 14 and 15 Vic. c. 42, and 16 Vic. c. 18, for any lands of the Crown, required, to be taken for the p ur p ose of providing addition a l effices fur the public service in or near Downing street, and of making provision out of the Conso lidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or out of the Land Revenues of the Crown, for the payment of the difference in value (if any, as the case may be) of the lands of the crown and of the lands now vested in the Commissioners of Works iu trust for the Consolidated Fund. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock to-morrow, DEATH OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL ESTCOURT.—We re gret to announce the death, by ebolera, on the 23d, of Brigadier-General Estcourt, Adjutant-General of the Forces in the Crimea, after a short illness. LAW INTELLNICNCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Justice Campbell and a Special Jury.) VAN WAGENINGEN AND ANOTHER V. MARSI,IIRLE AND ANOTHER This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, ship owners of Holland, to recover damages from the de fendants, Australian agents of this city, for an alleged breach of charter party. It appeared that in March, 1854, the defendants' chartered the plaintiffs' ship, the Osiris, at 5. 7 . per ton for a voyage to Australia, she being at the time discharging her cargo at Dort. She was to be surveyed and got ready for sea with all possible despatch, coming to London to ship her pas sengers. She did not arrive at the London Docks until August, when the defendants refused to take her be cause, as they alleged, all possible despatch had not beer. used to get her ready. Freights having gone down the dtfendants, however, afterwards chartered her withont prejudice to the first charter, for which they gave 4/ per ton, instead of Si. The action was for the differeLce of amount. The case was proceeding when our report left. COMMON PLEA S. ` (Before Lord C. J. Jervis.) The court sat this morning at Guildhall, for the dis posal of common jury cases; but the whole list only occupied the attention of the learned judge for a short time, and the court rose at an early hour. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Guildhall before the Lord Chief Baron and Common Juries.) The Court sat this morning for the first time this term at Guildhall, and proceeded with the Common Jury list. Up to the time our report was despatched no case of any general interest bad been heard. BOW STREET-(THIS DAY). THE CASE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND CO. The excitement created by this case appears to in crease rather than diminish. This morning the ap proaches to the police court were densely crowded by a highly respectable body of persons, anxious to catch a glimpse of the prisoners, although it was understood that the proceedings would last but a few minutes, the remand being only a formal one, the power of the magis trate only enabling him to detain persons in custody fci a week. At five minutes past twelve the door of the court was opened for the admission of the public, and in about two minutes the body of the court was filled to suffoca- The three prisoners Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., Wil liam Strahan, and Robert Makin Bates having been placed at the bar, Mr. Humphries said that, as the attendance this morning was merely a matter of form, he should not address any observations to the worthy magistrate fur ther than to ask that the prisoners be again remanded till this day week. Mr. Parry said he appeared there on the part of Mr. Bates. He did not attend to make anyopposition to the proposition for a remand, but he thought it right to state publicly that when the proper time arrived he stould be able to show, that whatever fault had been committed, as far as regarded any offence against the criminal law, he (Mr. Bates) had committed no such offence. He felt it right to state this publicly, as the conduct of the de. fendants had been so freely commented on by the most influential portion of the press, even in their leading articles. Mr. Holt said, when the proper time arrived, be should be prepared with a proper answer to the charge on the part of the other two gentlemen'. Mr. Humphries said, as this was merely a formal proceeding, he did not think it necessary to answer the remarks made by Mr. Parry. Mr. Parry—For one of the best of reasons, you have no answer to it. Mr. Jardine asked Mr. Humphries if he would be prepared to proceed with the case on Wednesday next ? Mr. Humphries said he would. The magistrate then ordered the prisoners to be re manded till this day week. STRAHAN AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY. The following letter has been addressed to a contem porary : Sir,—The candour of these bankrupts in having come forward and volunteered a statement of the whole of their nefarious dealings with their creditors' securities at the meeting in the Bankruptcy Couit yesterday will be fully appreciated by reference to the 7th and Bth George IV., chap. 29, the 52d section of which declares that "no banker, merchant, broker, factor, attorney, or other agent as aforesaid shall be liable to be convicted byany evidence whatsoever as an offender against this act, in respect of any act done by him, if he shall, at any time previously to his being indicted for such offence, have disclosed such net on oath, in consequence of any compulsory process of any court of law or equity, in any action; suit, or pro ceeding which shall have been bona fide instituted by any party aggrieved, or if he shall have disclosed the same in any examination or deposition before any Com missioners of Bankruptcy." The bankrupts, having made " a clean (I) breast" of it, may now snap their fingers at poor Dr. Griffith and the rest of their victims ; but it is to be hoped that such an absurd " saving clause" will not be allowed to con tinue to disgrace the criminal law of this commercial country.—Your most obedient servant, Westminster, June 26. W. E. K. The illustrious maestro Meyerbeer was present at the seventh meeting of the Musical Union, yesterday, at Willis's-rooms, and on being introduced by the director was received with great applause by the distinguished members of that institution. A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels, says : —" The marriage of Col. Fleury, Aide•de-camp to the Emperor and Commandant of the Guides, with Mdlle. S ant Paul, is shortly to take place. A brother of M. de Valabregue, equerry to the Emperor, is about to spouse the niece of General Lawcestme." The Moniteur de l'Armee, of the 12th inst., says—The Russians are beginning to run short of cannon balls and grape shot. A recent order of the day of General Osten Sacken would at least seem to indicate it. To supply the deficiency they use fragments of our shells, which the enclose in canisters. The Germanic Diet held a sitting on the 21st, when it received a letter from the Senate of Hamburg, inform ing it of the rejection of the bill on the Constitution. The letter was referred to the Political Committee. The Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to consider Earl Shaftesbury's bill for the limitation of the hours of labour amongst needlewomen, report that it is inexpedient to proceed with the consideration of the measure. In consequence of so many invalids arriving from the Crimea, the accommodation i n th e O rdnance H osp i ta l at Woolwich has become too small. The Government have directed another building to be added to one of the wings of the hospital, to consist of six wards. In order to make room for this addition, a large room and some stables will have to be pulled down. Workmen are therefore employed in building stables in a large field outside and close adjoining the hospital gates. That part of the hospital formerly used as the " cadet's hospital," but now used as officers' quarters, is to be made into wards. Owing to the immense number of artillerymen who have left Woolwich garrison for the seat of war, the ar senal has become destitute of those valuable protectors of the ordnance stores, the consequence of which is that the metropolitan police have had to supply their place, and now occupy the different guard-rooms as barrack rooms, beds, &c., having been put into them for their accommodation. Likewise, from the same cause, the company of artillery stationed at Purfleet have been withdrawn, and a company,of the Royal Bucks Militia sent there in their place. The Guards belonging to the East Wharf, West Wharf, and Magazine are withdrawn, and only one guard from the militia mounts the main guard, under an officer. THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE FAlLlTRES.—Birming ham, Tuesday.—Private meetings, pursuant to adjourn ments, of the creditors of Messrs. Hickman, of Bilston, Messrs. Whitehouse and Jefferies, of the Phcenix Works, West Bromwich, and of Mr. Jefferies, of Hartshill, a'l ironmasters, were held in this town yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of hearing the statements made by the several firms, and of determining what course, under existing circumstance s , o u g ht t o b e adopted. The at tendance was numerous. The debts and liabilities of the Messrs. Hickman were stated to be 116,0001. and their stoppage was attributed to the refusal of their bankers to further extend their advances. A composition, payable at certain periods, was proposed, which led to considerable discussion; but ultimately it was pretty 'generally understood that the payment of 2s. 6d., at three, six, and nine months, and a further payment of 2s. 6d. within two years, would be accepted by the creditors. Nothing was, however, finally determined, and a committee was appointed to inquire into and report upon the affairs of the firm. The estate of Mr. Jefferies, of Hartshill, was represented as likely to realise ss. in the pound, ana a proposition to pay and secure that amount was proposed. That of Messrs. Whitehouse and Jefferies is likely to be less productive to the creditors. A composition of 2s. in the pound was offered, and a petition for a private ar rangement under the Bankruptcy Act to prevent an appearance in the Gazette was resolved upon, and will be presented immediately. The liabilities of the two firms amount to 100,0001. Committees of inspection were also appointed to investigate the state and pro:- pects of both the last-mentioned estates, but no day w as mentioned, as we understood, whrm a th e y ex pected to report th e cre di tors. would be 8t i 100. 1 101 i 21/ 1 831 3 74 3i i 501 30i 30 all 10.) 100 100 all 00 9 6 10 St. 20 50 St. St. St. St. 50 12 10 St. 16. 5 St. St. St. st. St. st. 17 20 12i 25 20 10 8A 25 10 1.0.6, 104 5 6 5 all all all all all 10i 100 100 I 100 100 [OO 100 00 100 18i 18 22 1 i i i 105 4i 22. pm Pm 13i IMPERIAL PARhilidviiSFE ROUSE OF LORDS:--(YEbV.RDAY.) The Royal assent was given by commission to the following hills viz. : Tne Consolidated Fund (10,000,0001.) Bill, Education of Poor Children, Insur ance on Lives, Abatement of Income Tax, Continuance of Ecclesiastical Courts, Stamp Duties, Repeal on Ma triculation and Degrees (Orford), Grants of Land, Public Libraries and Museums, Spirits of Wine, Water ford and Limerick Rlilway.: St. Helen's Improve ment, Cromft rd and High Peak Railway, Limerick and Castle Con nel Railway, Newcastle-under- Lyne Railway, Limerick and Foynes Railway, Mary port and Carlisle Railway, Newport Gas, Weston -super- Mare Gas, Alford and Boston Road, Wigan and Preston Roads North of Yarrow, Lands Improvement Com pany ;Charlbury, Witney, ~ Roads; Lyme Regis Roads, Newtown and Oswestry Rail wa.y,Dundalk and Bla e k roc k Railway, Gloucester Water and Local Board of Health, London and Black wall Railway ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Lincoln Branch) ; Notting ham and Newhaven Road ; Warrington Water ; Caledo niau Railway ; East Kent Railway ; Regent's Canal (Hertfordshire Canal) ; Glasgow and South-Western Railway ; Newton and Makerfield Improvement ; South Wales Railway Consolidation ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement. The Lords' Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and the Earl of Harrowby. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsaok at five o'clock. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented several peti tions in favou r of the abolition of Church Rates. In reply to Lord VIVIAN, Lord PANMURE expressed his regret at the delay which had taken place in tile distribution of the honours of the Bath amongst those officers who had oils ,tinguished themselv es in the military operations in the East. Th e delays, however, were unavoidable, it being nec essary to seek for precedents for such dis tribution for military operations. He trusted, however, that that delay would soon be put an end to. The noble lord then passed a high and glowing eulogium upon several gallant officers who had rendered valuable ser vice during the winter camp a i gn. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Bar hadoes praying their lordships to prohibit the importa tion of slave-grown produce, and dwelt at some length on the evils arising therefrom. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE the fallowing bills were read a second time :—Hartlepool Pier and Port ; Torquay Tor and St. Mary Church Gas, THIRD READINGS. On the motion of the same noble lord the following bills were severally read a third time and passed Cork and Youghal Railway ; Metropolitan Railway ; Gomersal and Dewsbury Road ; Basingstoke, Stock bridge, and Lobcomb Corner ; Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway, Lightfill and Birdlip Road, Peterborough and Wellingborough Road; Stroud, Cairncross, and Min'chin hampton Road ' • Stroud and Charlf or d R oa d , Rh ymney Railway, and Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. Lord PORTIVIAN moved that the house go into com mittee on this bill. The house having anne into committee, Lord RAVENSWORTII moved the omission of th• proviso in the Friendly Societies Bill which brought building societies under the operation of the Stamp Act. After a short conversation, in which Lord PORTMAN defended the proviso, the house divided, and the amend ment of Lord Ravensworth was carried by a majority of 4 The proviso was therefore struck out. The bill then passed through committee. The Union of Contiguous Benefices in Cities and Towns Bill was reported with amendments. The Accidents on Railways Bill was then read a second time. The National Gallery, tze. (Dublin), Bill was read a second time. Carnegie's Restitution Bill was read a third time and passed. - The Weights and Measures Bill was read a third time and passed. • iAUSTRIA AND THE WESTERN POWERS. Lord LYNDHURST then rose to call the attention of the house to the treaty of the 2d Dec., 1854, and the re cent conferences at Vienna, with reference to the position of Austria in her relations to the allied powere. He had been told than the question to which he desired to call the attention of their lordships was a very delicate one, and must be treated with great caution ; but as be in tended to confine himself to a mere statement of facts, he did not think that any inconvenience could result from the discussion. Every person conversant with pub lic affairs must be aware that both Prussia and Austria, but especially the latter, had a more deep and immediate interest in the result of the aggressions of Russia than either of the Western Powers. If Prussia and Austria had acted in concurrence with the Western Powers with energy and decision in the early period of the dispute, he believed the effect would have been to have restrained the proceedings of Russia, and we might not have been in volved in the present unhappy war. He confessed that he had no confidence that an active co-operation would take place on the part of Prussia. He knew well the history of the last war between Russia and Turkey. He observed the conduct of Prussia at that period. It was characterised by complete subserviency to Russia, and indeed Prussia could then scarcely be considered in the light of an independent power. But with respect to Austria he entertained different expectations. The fact that here was a great empire presided over by a young and high-spirited monarch, deeply impressed with the injustice of the proceedings of Russia, and fully con vinced of the deep i n t eres t s w hi c h he ad at stake, led him to hope that some active assistance and co-operation might proceed from that quarter. It appeared, however, that cautions and timid counsels had prevailed at Vienna, and he regretted to say that the actual position of Aus tria was in some degree one of humiliation. (Hear.) He had asked himself several times to what the inaction of Austria was to be attributed. He ascribed it, as every man who looked at the state of Europe must ascribe it, to her actual position, and he traced that po eitioe to one of the greatest political crimes committed in modern times—the partition of Poland, or rather the successive partitions of Poland, to which Austria was a party, and in the spoils of which she participated. (Hear, hear.) What had been the result of that pro heeding ? Three-fourths of the extensive territory of Poland, with its enormous population, had been incor porated into the Russian empire, and by the last acqui sition, that of the duchy of Warsaw, Russia extended her boundaries to an advanced position in Europe, pressing upon Central Germany, and dividing the domi nions of Prussia from those of Austria. She had pur sued her ordinary course of policy with respect to that territory, namely, constructing in an advanced position a series of the most formidable fortresses along the banks of the Vistula and at other points, not for purposes of defence, but with the view of availing herself of the first favourable opportunity of continuing her aggressions in that direction. Any person who looked at the map of Europe, and took into consideration the facts he bad stated, would agree with what was stated in another place by a noble lord— that the position of Russia might be considered one of menace to Germany, and in. parti cular to Austria, corresponding to her menacing position at Sebastopol with respect to the Turkish empire. (Hear, hear.) He admitted that Austria could not have taken an active part in military operations against Russia without considerable risk. But risk must be encountered where great interests were at stake and great objects were to be attained, and he did not believe that Austria, by her policy of delay aed postponement, had at all improved her position. On the contrary, he thought she never could have had.a better • opportunity of vindicating her rights, and encountering the dangers to which he had referred, than by an offensive and de fensive alliance with the Western Powers, which bad been open to her at any time sipce the commencement of the contest. (Hear.) He did not mean to say that we bad derived no advantage from the policy of Austria. The large armies which she had maintained in eGallicia, and at other parts of her frontier, had necessitateda corres ponding armament on the part of Russia. That was an advantage which we had felt duringethe whole of the con test. But he was sorry to say that there were at the pre sent moment symptoms and appearances which led him rito believe that this advantage would not be continued,and that at no distant period we should find a great diminution of the power of Austria upon her frontiers, allowing Russia to detach her forces and direct them against the allies. The moral support which we had received from Prussia and Austria had also been a great advantage. As far as Prussia was concerned, he believed that moral support was due entirely, not only to the disposition of the Prussian Government, but to the strong feeling of the people of that country, who were no supporters of the humiliating course which their rulers had pursued. With respect to Austria, on the contrary, he believed her support had been sincere, straightforward, and consis tent, arising from a deep sense of the injustice of the con duct of Russia, and from a strong feeling of the interest she had in restraining the ambition of Russia and check ing her aggressions. When he spoke of the moral sup port we had received, he referred to the protocols, begin ning as far back as December, 1853, extending down to May last year, stating in the strongest terms the injustice of the conduct and proceedings of Russia, and declaring in of ff the ee lforcible o m v i principa l i t ies, o a r n o n w e r aaso, t d b fi a rn t s et , t x ht to,e t object re oe the h t othhooev evacuation . dence of the Sultan and the integrity of his dominions. Those documents ended in May last year. About that time it would appear as if Austria had been conscious that she was not acting a very bold part, and she deter mined to take a step in advance. Towards the close of May, or early in June, she required Russia to evacuate the principalities. That demand was made in very strong terms, with spraething like an intimation that, if not complied with, Austria would resort to force, if neces sary, for that purpose. Now, we were not to suppose tohaaottitohuastodoeurarotte of demand was lialtogether a departure from the which Austria had pursued. At that time the Russian troops in the principalities had suffered greatly by disease ; they had been defeated in several encounters with the Turksl; and they were pres ping, not very successfully, the siege of Silistria. The allies had advanced to Varna, and a large force of French troops was at Adrianople. It was under these cir cumstances that Austria ventured, for the first time, t omake the demand to which he had referred, an d he thought, therefore, it could not be regarded as a depar t ture from the cautious and abstemious policy w hi c h she r had attempted to pursue. (Hear.) But what followed t l Russia refused to accede to the demand, not in distinct • terms, but in a counter-proposition amounting to a re fusal. 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