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t 1 .4) Balla llissur, sorely pressed by the other parties, who : A ppear to have combined against him ; he wrote on the Bth May to General Pollock describing his condition, and entreating him for assistance. Another report states that he has joined Mahomed Akbar—the occu =pants of Balla Hisser having at once succumbed to him without firing a shot, One rumour states that the Sir dar has now an army of 50,000 men waiting on his plea sure. A letter of the 26th, received just before going to press,. states that accounts of his having been entirely defeated at Caubul about the 20th had just reached Jel lalabad. The 'revolutionary war seems to rage with un abated ferocity around Caubul. We know nothing as to particulars. There appear, to have been three chil dren bornin captivity amongst the prisoners. The trea sure chest at Jellalabad for 12,000 men contained, on the 22d May, no more than 60,0001.—the pay of the army alone, irrespective of extraordinary expenses, amounted to 10,f110/. a week. There was a month's pay due, so that when this was expended, as it must be immediately, the treasure would be reduced to 20,000 L (Friuli the Bombay Times extra, June 18.) LATEST FROM JELLALABAD. Our .letters from Jellalabad extend to the 27th ult., and present anything but a cheerful view of the state of the army, and if the signs which are manifesting them selves are to be taken as genuine evidences of coming events, we strongly incline to the belief that a retrograde movement haS been finally determined upon, especially as our ailvices from Simlah state positively that ti d o march towards the provinces was to commence on the 4th instant—a pretty convincing proof, notwiaistanding all that his been hi n t e d a t i n certa i n hi g h quarters, that the Cotinuander-in-Chief made -no other mistake than that of allowing the determination of withdrawing the army to become more public thalt was intended. "Camp, Friday, May 27. "Further accounts have been received to-day from Caubul, stating that after Akbar's defeat and retreat fri3eirthe city he again came forward with guns, expect ing to inipire . his antagonists with fear ; but this was 'not the case, Futteh Jung sallied out, beat off Akbar Khan, and killed 150 of his followers. Report gives Out that Lady Sale has written, urging the necessity of our Moving forwards as the only means of saving the lives of the prisoners, and if this is not done she tears the worst consequences will ensue. The quarter-masters of corps attended the Assistant Quarter-master General .thus Morning to mark out the ground of encampment at Char 13agh, five miles from our present site, but up to fo3r ti. e. no, order has been issued for our march. thither - ; it is generally thought we are to move on Mon day next.., In tea, coffee, and sugar, we have enough in hand for about six wee k s , but as there is abundance of these kinds of stores at Peshawur (as also rum) our C.;,anmissariat may be considered to have a supply in hand for all the troops for nine months ; the grain will be ripe at Caubul . next month. Appearances indicate that at present everything is working together for our gef)d. - ti xi grant it may be so is the sincere wish of him whom you are pleased to call your indefatigable cor revondexit."—Delkt Gazette, June 8. We haVe letters from Dhakka up to the 26th May, which, We regret to say, give anything but a glowing pic ture of the state of the troops at that place. Epidemic bowel complaints prevailed throughout the camp, and fears were entertained that the freedom from mortality which they had hitherto enjoyed would not be of long continuance. Of course little or nothing relating to in tended movements had transpired there.—lbid. CANDAHAR. Mre have intelligence of the 25th from Candahar, and of the 22d from Kelat-i-Ghilzie. At the latter place a fight had occurred on the 2 lst.., The enemy advanced in two columns, each of about 2,000 strong. They were provided with scaling ladders to take the fortress -by storm or escalade. They succeeded in placing ono of their standards on the wall, and some of them actually tumbled over the parapet. They were, however, after a sharp action of two hours, everywhere driven back. Four ,standards were captured, and 104 men left dead upon the field ; our troops having sallied out, completed the rout. The prisoners, in attempting to escape, were all cut up by us. Our casualties amounted to one killed and three badly wounded. • Ca V Airy are very greatly wanted. The Candahar bri gade, v, inch left ~ .n1 the 20th, was expected to arrive on the 25th ; it was commanded by Col. Wymer, and not by General. Sat, as formerly stated. Suftex Jung was once more endeavouring to assemble an 'artily in the field. He had collected about 6,000, and intended to make an attack on Cadahar about the 29th. It was said that, should he carry this resolution into effect, General Nott proposed tO march out with three regiments and some . guns to attack him on his advance, while crossing the river on his way to the town. This arrangement looks still less like an advance beyond Kelat-i-Ghilzie than that adverted to when Gen. Nott was understood to take command, Gen. England remain ing behind.—Bernbly Times, June 18. CANDAHAR AND QUETTAH. The brigade of 2,700 men, under General England, with-3.500 camels and 100.0001. in treasure, besides am munition, medical and miscellaneous stores, which left Quettah on the 26th April, experienced no interruption after reaching the mouth of the.Kujjuck Pass. They were there joined by Colonel Wymer's brigade sent to meet, them, and reached Candahar on the 9th-May. The joint force amounted to about 10,000 men, including two Queen's regiments (40th and 44th, eac h 800 strong), with a p ar k of 22 guns besides mortars. Kelat-i-Ghilzie - -a fort about 80 miles to the westward, occupied by I, ton men with four guns, it s elf ver y s t rong an d we ll *upplied— , having been reported as beset by very superior' numbrrs of the enemy, Colonel Wymer was dispatched Le its' relief on the 20th of May. lie tool: Ivith him a detuliment about 5,500 strong, including her Majesty's 40th, and accompanied by six or eight guns. His ob lect is supposed : to be the relief of the tUrt, and with drawal of the garrison. The enemy having on the 21st Mae advanced, 4,000 strong, in two columns, on the g;c succeeded in reaching the walls and plant tug a banner on the parapet,' when they were beaten back with a loss of NO men and four standards, Colonel Stacy having been detached with a considerable force to attack a very numerous encampment under Junggoo Khan, dispersed the enemy everywhere. They fled before him, indeed, without so much as fighting. It is supposed that, after it is seen what can be done for the recovery of our prisoners and hostages by some manceuvring in the direction of Ghuznee—we - do not imagine the fortress itself will be Sought—the whole army will fall back on Quettah, and there remain till the approaching winter enables them to return through Scinde to India. Major Reid, with the 12th Native Infantry, and some irregulars, in charge of 4,000 camels. with ammunition, stores, and 100,0001. of treasure, reached Quettah on the 10th of May ; and there they fur the present continue. They were to move out on t:e 9th of June ; and after having delivered their stores to General Nott, take . up a position- at Killa Abdoolah—probably with a view of covering our re treat. The communication which for some time was entirelyinterruntted between Candahar and Quettah, has now been fairly opened up ; the Naibship of the Pi sheen Valley having been conferred on the chief; he takes charge of our letters and despatches. The works at Quettah continue to be strengthened, with a view, we presianc, of securing the commissariat and troops in ease. of sudden attack, as we can scarcely suppose that it is meant to be held throughout -the winter, if th e other posts to the westward be abandoned. Thus all returns to where it was before the war began—all, save the 40,000 lives, British and natives, which have been • sacrificed on both sides ; and the 17 millions of British treasure, which, according to Sir Robert Pcel, has been flung ;te - cy. Our latest dates from Quettah are to the 29th, Candahar 25tb, and Kelat-i-Ghilzie, 22d May. INDIA. (From the Bombay Times of June 23.) CALCUTTA. On the 3d of June a hurricane of fearful violence visited Calcutta, destroying and seriously injuring no fewer than forty vessels in the river, with a great loss of human life, It scarcely visited Bombay, but its vicinage was' manifested by the most extraordinary, and at the same time inexplicable, depression of all barometric in struinenti. At Bombay a couple of old East. India Com pany China ships have been burnt within a week of each ether when just ready for sea. The Vansittart was re duced' to ashes on the 3d, and the Cornwallis on the 10th of J one. The loss of property occasioned by these events amounts to above 100 ? 000/. The • fires are believed to hal a been the work of incendiary lascars (native sea men), and 50Ct. reward has been offered by the insurance offices for the detectiOn of the culprits. _ _ (From the Cakutta Englishman,- June 6.) • 1, ' 1,7 are grieved to find from the various reports that have reached us, that the d es t ruc ti on o f lif e an d pro hertY, th r o ug h he storm on F r id a y an d F r id ay n i g h t , ave been fearfully extensive. On tihOre scarcely a building has been left uninjured. scarcely a garden has escaped conversion into a wilderness. In every direction branches of trees lie scattered over the ground, and in many of the streets in Chowringhee, and along the Garden Reach-road, entire trunks have been prostrated, carrying with them the walls and railings which formed the ewlosures. The most exposed places have suffered the nt.ist., The Maidan and Esplanade row, for example from the fine old peepnl tree, 5 rt. n suree.;sion of wrecks, sit, the N:outhern extremity or the plot of ground, k nown us "the cocked hat," (which has • been torn up by the roots,) to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Stacy, where the roof of a verandah has been wrenched off, and the railing, in front of the house, uprooted. Another friend informs us that the Lord William Bcntinek and Gunduck, iron steamers, have sunk. Also the I)iana hulk, the Bhaugurattee accommodation flat, and the Soorma fiat, while the jellenghee flat has been severely damned and totally dismasted. Thc Lady Cliti:lr,) is ashore. The Resolution, Coringa packet., awl another, are locked together, &c., all damaged. The Elraern ,:ztqr says--" New arrived in the town on t! t u rflar venin , 27, of the Lord Western having gone ask:;r,, off. Mud Faint, with a detachment of troops on b:; rd which ‘vere returning from Arracan." v.i.th deep concern that we find the &mapAore arn:. , ar.._cs the loss of the Globe and Symmetry, both of which veszels, we are informed,.went down off Kedgeree. 7.ith the exception of five • persons, all perished on the wrecks. fialowing vessels are numbered amongst the un fortunate ernft. Canopus, ashore, much injured. Lord A lthorp, mizenmast gone, and other wise damaged. Agnes Ewing, severely injured. Resolution, nshore, much damaged. Norval, much damaged. Persia, bulwarks stove in, and otherwise damaged. Meg Meldon, ashore lying over, and severely damaged. SCINDE. Cholera, which appears to have ravaged th e villages— leaving some of' them, indeed, nearly half depopulated— bin Very much abated, Red will, in all probability, speedily tiir'r-ITPnr• The troops seem less sickly t h„ they , wer,..4....the hot season is set in with its usual intensity_ , and the Indus promises to afford a plentiful flood. Major Outram left Sukhur on June 1, with a view of proceed ing by Cameld a kh to Dadur, and thence by the Bolan Pass to Qu e tt a h, where his presence is demanded. Lieut. Hammersley has been removed from the politi cal charge at Shawl, in consequence, it is said, of the advice he gave for the sudden abandonment of Kiln, Ab doolah ; and the information he did not give on Gene ral England's first advance. To the want of this last the repulse of Hykulzie was in part ascribed. Lieute nant Hamtnersley is generally spoken of as a very de serving officer; and the representations to the Supreme Government are, it is said, likely to give rise to some curious inquiries —from which he has less cause to fear than his accusers. Lieut. Pontardent has also been re moved from political charge in Beloochistan ; no cause for this is assigned. Nusseer Khan has quitted Gun dava ; and along with Captain Pontardent retired to the cooler atmosphere of Kelat. A detachment of the 6th N. 1., under charge of Captain Carstairs, has been sent down to Beebee Narree to escort a convoy up from Dadur to Quettah, through the Bolan Pass. General Farquharson has returned from command at Kurrachee, and is succeeded by Brigadier Hughes ; the former has arrived at Bombay, the latter cannot get away from it, in consequence of the S.W. monsoon now blowing. BO ONDELK UN D. Two gallant actions, in both of which our arms were victorious, have been fought with the Boondela insur gents, in the vicinity of Saugur, and quiet has again been restored. The first engagement took place on the Bth of May, within about three marches from Saugur. The enemy, to the number of 400, were overtaken after a forced march of 400 miles, by a body of 240 troopers belonging to Scindeah's contingent, under the command of Major Minto, and immediately attacked with great spirit. The conflict lasted two hours, at the expiration of which period the rebels were utterly routed, leaving 40 of their number dead upon the field, and 19 prisoners in the hands of the foe. It would have terminated earlier, and been even more decisive, had not the nature of the ground where it was fought, the ravines of the Kreenab river, materially diminished the efficacy of our cavalry. The second engagement was of an equally successful kind. Lieutenant Ferguson, of the 36th Native Infantry, was the leader, and with a small detachment of the Bhopal contingent, succeeded in dispersing about 350 rebels, who had taken up their position on a. hill covered with jungle, and driving them in confusion into the plain, with a loss of a hundred killed. Our loss on these oc casions was about fourteen killed, and thirty wounded. Another conflict was expected to have taken place on the 12th,lbut we have not heard anything further respecting it. The rebels appear to be silently assembling in large numbers in different parts, so that, though the late measures have had the effect of restoring momentary tranquillity ; it will no doubt be necessary to strike a heavy and determined blow before the insurrection can be entirely quelled. All is now quiet, but, if we may believe the predictions of parties on the spot, it is but the calm which precedes the bursting of the storm. DUDE. The King of Oude—whose decease has been long ex pected—died at Lucknow on the 16th ultimo, and was quietly succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Sooryah Jab. Up to the very hour of his death, it was considered doubtful who would obtain the throne, and several parties supposed it :probable that Nuwaub Jaffer Alee Khan, whose succession was reported some two years ago to have been arranged by a Secret Committee at the India House, would turn out to be the fortunate indi vidual. Some disturbance was naturally enough ex pected, but from the judgment and prudence of the Re sident, who took the necessary precautions to secure tranquillity, none whatever took place. The new King was crowned on the 17th, with the usual demonstrations of joy. It is supposed that the Minister Sherf-Ood Owlah, to whose perfidious intrigues so much of the misery that has betallen this unhappy conntry is attri buted, will now resign his office ; and if the new Mo narch have sufficient firmness for the undertaking, it is to be hoped he will direct his best energies to the repa ration of his predecessor's errors, and the tranquillization of his distracted kingdom. BOMBAY. The new Governor of Bombay, Sir George Arthur, arrived with his family by the Zenubia steamer on the Bth of June. He is the first Governor who ever reached India overland. He held a levee on the 13th, and after wards a durbar for the reception of native gentlemen ; both of these were most numerously and respectably at tended, not only by the members of the Company's civil, military, and naval services, but by all the most eminent individuals in the Presidency. Jamsetiee Jeejeebhoy has bestowed the sum of 30,0001. on an endowment to be known by his name, for the pro motion of knowledge amongst the Parsees of the Pre sidency. The south-west monsoon has fairly set in at Bombay, but most moderately. We have had a great many squalls and heavy showers, but as yet no steady gales or settled fall of rain. Cholera, which a month since raged with so much vio. lence, has now almost entirely disappeared. SIR JAMSETJEE JEJEEBUIOI%—Sir Jamsetjee's patent Was presented to him by Mr. Anderson, the late Governor at Parell, on the 25th ult., in the presence of a v e ry bril liant party o f th e c hi e f European and native people of Bombay, who bad assembled to celebrate the anniversary of her Majeety's birthday. For the sayings and doings On this momentous occasion, as well as for the proceed ings at a meeting of natives held at his own house on tlw 15th instant, when addresses of congratulation were pre sented to him, I must refer you to the summaries, whi c h I contain several columns of detailS. I may mention, how ever, that a fund atnonnting to 1,5001. has been raised in honour of the new-made knight, and will be devoted to the.tranSlation into GUzeratke (the Parsee vernacular) of scientific, historical. and other useful works ; and that Sir Jamsetjee, determining to co-operate with the presentees in so good a cause, has set apart three lacks of rupees (30,0001.) for thepurpose of promoting the spread of education among his countrymen. This deed speaks for itself—it requires no eulogium ; and her Ma jesty will see, from the combination of goodness with greatness which has distinguished Sir Jamsetjee's con duct, that the honour she has • conferred upon him has been worthily, as well•as appropriately, bestowed. ADDRESS TO MR. MATHESON.—An address and testi monial have also been presented to Mr. Matheson, the China merchant. Caustm SUBSCRIPTION.—This fund now amounts to 48,531 rupees (4,8531. 165.) Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy has subscribed 1,000 rupees towards it, and his three sons another thousand. The Raja of Sattara's subscrip tion is 5,000 rupees. PERSIAN CONSUL.—Agra Mahomed Rahim, a Per sian merchant, has been appointed his Majesty the Shah of Persia's Consul at Bombay. Ile has had the title of " Khan" conferred upon him, and received a firman and several presents, all of which has been very pleasing to the spirit of Aga Mahomed Rahim Kflan. Cholera has almost entirely disappeared. This was to be expected on the commencement of the rains, which set in on the sth inst. Sir E.Gambior has been duly installed in his office as Chief Justice of Madras. This took place on May 28th. Major. General Home expired at Kampter on the 12th of May. Colonel M‘Leod succeeds to the command atilt. Nagpore subsidiary force, rendered vacant by the death of this officer. BOMBAV.-Sir G. Arthur, our new Governor, arrived on the Bth instant by the overland mail steamer. He held his first public levee on the 13th, and subsequently a durbar, at which the prin'cipal natives of the island at tended. They were much pleased with his civility anu condescensicin. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. SHIPPING 'PROSPECTS AT BOMBAY. We regret to state that since the departure of the last mail, shipping prospects at Bombay have materially al tered for the worst. The harbour continues crowded with shipping, and is every day receiving from some quarter or other an accession to its tonnage. Freight of Liverpool has been engaged at 14s. per ton, while to China, and other eastern ports, cargo can be procured scarcely on any terms. There is not, in fact, a sufficient quantity of produce in the place to till more than about one-half the ships in harbour, and as the monsoon has set in no further supplies can be received for some months. The consequence is, that many ships must either lay up here, proceed home in ballast, or to Cal cutta, or some of the other eastern ports in quest of em ployment; but the extreme difficulty experienced there by North American built ships in obtaining freight— from the refusal of the underwriters to effect insurances on them—may probably deter those of that build from proceeding thither. Nutnerotis vessels, too, are expected from England during the next two months, and altoge ther prospects are as bad as possible. THE BOMBAY 'MARKET. BomnAr, JUNE 18.—We have little change to note in the aspect of affairs here. Nothing can be more un favourable. Prices of all description of imports are miserably low ; while those of exports are by far too high—notwithstanding the low rates of freight —u, be safely shipped. The season is now over, and no business of consequence will be transacted till after the monsoon, without any prospect of improvement even then. COTTON.—There is now very little in the place, and that generally of inferior quality. Prices of Broach may be quoted at 105 rs. per candy, and other qualities pro portionably lower. The small quantity now here, and the immense quantity of shipping, render holders firm, notwithstandin g the unfavourable accounts of the hom‘ markets for the Bombay staple. Oetum.—The price is 700 rupees per chest. The fol lowing exhibits the stock in the place :—Passes granted up to date, 15,068 ; imported, 16,535 ; including 2,000 chests imported last year ; exported 9,2ss—leaving it stock in the place of 6,580 chests. FREIGUT.—A glance at the shipping list will show CO depressed state of freights at present. Many of the ships, unable to procure cargoes here, have proceeded, or are about to proceed to other ports, in quest of employ- ment. Tonnage to Liverpool has been let at 14s. per toll. ExCgANGE.—At present ranges between 2s. id. an 4 2s. 13-Id. per rupee, six months' sight, at both of which extreme, as well as at intermediate rates, transactions have been made. We are unable to ascertain at which of these rates the bulk of the remittances by the present mail have been made. TRIPOLI. JCLV 23.—The new Pacha has commen ce d we l l. first act was to free from their shackles, and open the dungeon-doors to from 300 to 400 of A skar Ali's un f or tunate captives, several of whom having reported tha they had been forcibly despoiled of their ptoperty b 1 this wretch, he has been compelled to make restitution and all have now returned to carry happiness and jo .) into the bosoms of their heart-broken families. Boatia the secretary of the late Ab-el-Gellel, will shortly re• turn to _Ferran, to proclaim in person to the Arab tribes the change of afairs, and influence the re-establish: ment of the °nee prosperous trade between the interior and Tripoli. The cold-blooded deeds of darkness (chiefly by cutting throats and strangulation) of the universally-detested Askar Ali are ascertained to have numbered as many us eighty victims--many of them innocent children—pri soners in the Castle. He has been called upon to render a full account of his administration in a financial point of view, since he has held the reins of Government, and also to pay twenty months of_arrears due to the troops. As the audit is a very rigorous one, and the Turks not over clever in these matters, he will scarcely get away for another two months. The Sheik Woomah, in the wes(, has sent in a courier with a communication to Mr. Consul Warrington, ex pressive of his desire to make peace with the new Pacha, which being made known to the latter, a reply has been sent, assuring him that he would be cordially received, and treated with due respect. Indeed, the Consul has volunteered to meet him, with Lieutenant Lunn, com manding the British war-steamer Locust, a few miles out of Tripoli. Much intrigue is going on in certain quarters to un dermine the influence which Colonel Wa:rington is know to possess with the new Pacha ; but for the sake of humanity, it is earnestly hoped that the Pacha will not allow himself to be misled. MALTA. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, JULY 24. SHIPS OF WAR IN PORT.—The Ceylon, receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis ; the Monarch, 84, refitting ; the L'Aigle, 24, also refitting ; the Snake, 16 ; the Devastation, war steamer, in qua rantine ; and the Polyphemus, steam-packet, awaiting the Overland India Mail from Alexandria, to convey the same to Marseilles. DISTRIBUTION OF THE REST OF THE FLEET.—The Queen, 110, bearing the flag of the Commander-in -Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. 11. Owen ; the Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Sir F. Mason, second in command; the Impregnable, 104; the Rodney, 92; the Indus, 78; and the Medea war-steamer, cruizing off Malta; the Formidale, 84, at Cadiz; Thunderer, 84; Belvidere, 38; Jaseur, 16, and Lizard steam-tender, all at Gibraltar; the Scout, 18, at Corfu ; the Beacon and Magpie, sur veying vessels, at Port; the Vanguard, 80; Cambridge, 78, and Phoenix, war steamer, at Bisika Bay, near the Dardanelles; the Stromboli, war-steamer, at Tophane, near Constantinople; the Inconstant, 86, Hecate and Vesuvius, war-steamers, at Beyrout ; the Vernon, 50, and Locust steamer, at Tripoli, in Barbary; the Magi cienne, 24, and Savage, 10, at Tuni s; and th e Cy c l o p s steam-frigate cruizing off Alexandria. The steam-packets Prometheus, on her way from Gibraltar, with the English mails, and. the Alecto on her way from Patras and the lonian 'lslands with the mails. MOVEMENTS SINCE THE 15TH INST.—Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, in the Queen, together with Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, in the Howe, with the Im- pregnable, Rodney, and Indus in company, were towed out of Malta harbour by the Devastation and Medea war steamers on the 15th instant. The Medea returned into port on the same evening, bringing in for surgical treat ment the gunner of the Rodney (with a broken leg), and some seamen of the same vessel, who had auffered inju ries by the breaking of the tow rope or hawser, and it was fortunate that so few men were standing by at the time, or the consequences might have been more serious. A man of the Medea got his hand also crushed in tow ing out one of the other ships. After getting the fleet clear of the port, the Devastation was sent away to Tripoly, to order the Snake and Vernon to Malta. She returned on the 18th, bringing some seamen of the Vernon and despatches announcing the arrival there from Constantinople of the new Pacha, the successor of the universally detested Askar Ali. 'With these despatches she was seat away on the 19th to seek the Admiral, and on the 22d returned with letters from the fleet to ride out her quarantine. On the 19th the Savage sailed from Malta harbour and com municated with the Admiral, who sent her on to Tri poly, and thence to Tunis, and a Tunesine schooner ' of war, which arrived from Tunis on the 23d, brought a report that a brie. of war, supposed to be English, had fallen in with, and captured se'eral piratical boats on the coast of Barbary, which may, perhaps, prove to be the Savage. A Greek merchant brig, the Presentazione della Maria Virgine, laden with wheat from the Black Sea, bound to Leghorn or Marseilles, put into Malta on the evening of the 12th, reporting that the current and continued calm had drifted her on a shoal, near the Chargeni Islands, on the coast of Barbary, when, hav ing asked assistance from a schooner cruizing therea bouts (no doubt a piratical craft), the master was recom mended to send a boat ashore. Having accordingly sent one with five hands, it did not return, but the vessel in the meanwhile had floated off and come to an anchor in deep water. That five days after, whilst awaiting the return of her boat, a boat of a large size was descried, which, on nearing the Greek vessel, dropped her sail in such a way as to cover the whole boat, not, however, before the brig's crew perceived that the boat had a numerous crew. This excited the Greek Captain's suspicions, and he immediately slipped his anchor and run for Malta, followed for some hours by the boat, and without having seen or heard anything further of his own, one of whose crew was the captain's father. As the Charchenis lay in the direct course of the Savage from Tripoly to Tunis, it is possible she may have fallen in with and taken the pirates. The Austrian Rear-Admiral Baron Bandiera who arrived at Malta in the Venere frigate,, from the Levant, on the 15th, was admitted to pratique on the 19th, and sailed again on the 22d for Tunis, intending, it is said, to visit the ruins of ancient Carthage before returning to Smyrna. The L'Aigle arrived from Smyrna, Athens. and Corfu, on the 19th, and the Snake from Tripoly on .he 21st, and on the 22d the Medea was sent out by the dear-Admiral Sir John Louis to the fleet, which con tinue in the offing, limiting their cruizing ground to be tween Malta and Cape Massaro, in Sicily. There appears to be no other object in this cruize than mere exercise of the crews, and trying rates of sailing ; but in this latter the weather has not favoured them, having been generally calm until the last 48 hours, when the Rodney has manifested a decided superiority even over the Queen. The Alecto left on the 15th with the mails for the lonian Isles and Patras, and the Prometheus on the 18th for Gibraltar, with those for England. The Polyphemus will convey to Marseilles the hourly expected India overland mail by the Tagus, from Alexandria. The Monarch was admitted to prati quo on the 19th. Several of the crew of this vessel have died, and nearly two-thirds are now in a most emaciated state from the effects of malaria fever, contracted on her late expedition to the river Xanthus, to remove the Lycian marbles collected by Mr. Fellowes. Much of this, and in fact all, is attributable to the indecision of the naval authorities at Malta ; for, notwithstanding Com mander Graves, of the Beacon, who had expressly sur veyed the ruins, made a full report to Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, as to the best means to be adopted for re moving the marbles, as far back as the 18th of March, pointing out the necessity of avoiding loss of time, to protect against the fever, which rages during the sum mer, the Medea did not leave Malta for this service intil the 28th of April, and even then went first to Athens to pick up the Monarch, whereby the work was not commenced until the 12th of May, when it might by that time have been com pleted. The arrival of • the new Commander-in- Chief, Sir E. W. C. It. Owen, does certainly, in some manner, relieve from blame Sir F. Mason, out of whose hands the matter of course p asse d. Th e late arrival of the expedition on the coast has brought about the sad results, which might have been avoided, had Commander Graves' report been earlier carried out, and we think it but due to that officer to make this remark. The Van guard, Cambridge. and Phoenix, after visiting Athens, Syria, and Port Tria (where they watered), reached finally Bisika Bay on the 13th, from whence Comman der Richardson of the Phoenix was sent away in the Austrian steam-packet, by Sir David Dunn of the Van e•uard, with despatches to Sir Stratford Canning at Constantinople, where the Stromboli arrived on the 29th of June, and immediately took up her station at Top hane. The Thunderer reached Gibraltar on the 28th of June, and the Formidable left Gibraltar for Cadiz on the sth July. The Cyclops steam frigate is cruizing off Alexandria. The Little Nile river boat, belonging to Lieutenant Waghorn, R.N., reached Malta this morning from England and Gibraltar. The repairs of the Iberia contract steamer will be completed by the 2d proximc to enable her to resume her voyage between Malta anti the lonian Islands and Patras. LATEST NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA. Julr 27.—Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, in the' Queen, 110, with the Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, the Impregnable, 104, the Rodney, 02, and the Indus, 78, stood close in on the 25th, and the weather being calm, they were severally towed into port by the DeVastation war steamer. They have been into no harbour since leaving Malta on the 15th inst. The good sailing qualities of the Rodney have been most conspicuous, and equally so the dull ones of the Howe, which was even beat by the slow Impreg nable. It is generally rumoured that, owing to the dis tressing state of health of Lady Owen, Sir Edward will give up this fine command, and Admiral lieppep is spoken of in naval circles as likely to be his successor. Captain Sir James Stirling of the Indus is also under the necessity of proceeding to England, and Captain Walpole, of the Vernon, has, it is said, been offered the vacancy. Her Majesty steamer Geyser, arrived from England and Gibraltar yesterday. It is said that on getting up her steam at this latter port, she caught fire through some neglect of not filling the boiler, and that some combustibles were thrown overboard as a matter of precaution. The Vernon, 50, arrived yester day from Tripoly, bringing accounts of the departure thence for Constantinople of Askar Ali in the same Ottoman frigate which brought his successor, Mehemet Paella. The Medea war-steamer was dispatched to Ancona by the Admiral on the 22d instant. The Alecto steatn-packet arrived with the mails from the lonian Islands and Patras yesterday, and early this mornir, the Tagus contract steam-packet, from Alexandria, with the mails from India, dispatched from Bombay the 19th ult. by the Cleopatra for Suez, where they arrived the !Bth inst. The Polyphemus leaves immediately for Marseilles with the overland mails for England, and the Tagus will continue her voyage to.:morrow morning. 'The Egyptian fleet is reported to be preparing for a cruise under the new Admiral Caid Pacha. A division of small vessels belonging to the Sultan are also going for a cruise in the Archipelago. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Jut 11.--Among the novelties of the last few days are two proclamations issued by the British Consulate, and published in Italian in the Alexandria Commercial Gazettes of the Ist inst. and this date, of which I annex translations. The first is founded on an ordinance of the Local Government as far back as No vember, 1835, which. I believe, has never until now been officially published by the British Consulate, and certainly during the last seven years has been so little acted upon, that it was unknown to or forgotten by every one here. Its revival is owing, probably, to its late application to some blalteEe, - who were punished appareutly for net. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1842 having complied with a regiilatien of which they never heard, or at least that reason is assigned as one of the motives for a very harsh sentence against them ; an other being that other Maltese have latterly disturbed the public peace, and the parties alluded to are thus made to pay for the sins of their countrymen, a distinction . which I presume would not be recognised in au English tribunal, which would only judge the case before it, with out reference to the country of the offender, or. to the fault of which his countrymen might have been guilty! It was only the other day we had an instance of a similar stretch of authority, in the case of an English man, who, for abusing a man for allowing his son to destroy and steal the plants from his garden, the person alluded to being on other grounds confessedly obnoxious t.) the British Consul, was obliged to find sureties in the sum of 1001. to keep the peace, and obliged alsolo make a degrading apology to the Austrian Consul-General, because the man he abused was in the Consul's employ ; while only a few days afterwards another Englishman, who more fortunately basked in the sunshine of consular favour, for beating a man, on less provocation, was ac quitted on payment of the fees of Court. Both instances without any form of trial, but in the first case many of the party's friends remonstrated on the subject, and were told by Colonel Barnett that he should either execute the sentence or leave the country in 24 hours. The India steamer arrived at Suez on the 25th ult., without, of course, by several days so late news from Calcutta as we received by the last Overland Mail. By this time she will have sailed again for Calcutta, being expected to leave about the 4th inst. Selim Pacha, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacha's army, died four days ago from a coup de sold!, and was buried here with military honours. _ _ _ The Cyclops v'eatner is cruising off the port under canvass only. The commercial news of the last ten days is of little interest. The cotton offered by the Govern ment for sale at 8:1 dolls. has not found purchasers, and an auction sale is advertised for the day after to-morrow, of 10,000 c., as also of linseed and sessamum seed. The Government has yet to consign 40,000 e. cotton still at the last four auctions, of which the want of water prevents the transport to Alexandria. The old crops of grain are all disposed of, and another month will probably bring the new crops to market. British shipping is much wanted, and freights will rule high. There is not a dis engaged English vessel in port. There are great com plaints from all the commercial agents dispatched into , the interior to effect purchases of produce, and they re port the country one entire chiflik, and that they can buy nothing. Said Pacha is daily expected here. Ibrahim Pacha is in Cairo at present. " We, John Lawrence Stoddart, her Britannic Ma jesty's Consul in Alexandria, in Egypt, " Instigated by the considerations on which were based the regulations of his Highness the Pacha of Egypt, in date of 9th of November, 1835, decree as follows : " 1. That any individual British subject who shall come to Egypt, with the intention of establishing him self, shall prove during the first day of his arrival his means of subsistence, and present to his Consulate a guarantee among the respectable inhabitants of the country, who shall answer for the integrity of his moral conduct. "2. Every individual, already establish e d i n E g ypt shall fulfil the prescribed conditions of the preceding article. " 3. Any captain, who shall have brought passengers incapable of procuring the prescribed qualifications, shall be obliged to take them back to Europe at his own risk and peril. (Signed) J. L. STODDART. " Alexandria June 30, 1842." " On behalf Of the British Consulate in Alexandria, the Maltese subjects of her Britannic Majesty and the lonian subjects resident in this country, are desired to present themselves at this office, to inscribe their names in the register of this office, and that within the period of the month of July, between the hours of nine A.M. and two P.m., and half-past four o'clock. It is also made known, that those who do- not conform to the above, must ascribe to themselves all the consequences which may result therefrom. • (Signed) "G. CITASSEAUD, Vice-Consul. " Alexandria, 30th June, 1842." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The course which the Times is pur suing on the subject of the decision of the Ipswich Election Committee is exciting considerable disgust. Principle and reason are alike disregarded by our Contemporary in his desire to aid the views of Mr. Walter at Nottingham. It is clear that the " friend of the people " rests all his hopes of suc cess on the corruption of the constituency ; and as the money to be expended on the other side is not large in amount, Mr. Walter had naturally supposed that Nottingham might he had cheap, if it were not for the resolutions of the Ipswich Com mittee, which will defeat the plan he had intended to act upon. As individual votes, from the ab sence of competition, cannot on the present oc casion command a very high price, it was anti cipated by Mr. Walter that he should some what compensate for the cost of the luxury he pur chased so dearly in the April of last year, by obtaining a seat on moderate terms. Ile is, thereore, sadly baffled by the decision of the Ipswich Com mittee. It has closed up the avenues through which he had expected to enter the House of Commons ; for it prohibits bribery even on a small scale, and it was on a small scale that he had hoped to practise it. It would be idle to argue with the Tiines on the effect of the views it advocates with reference to the present case; because it is quite evident that the personal interest of Mr. Walter is the object for the promotion of which common sense j and common honesty are alike disregarded by the journalist. We cannot suspect our Contemporary of the folly of being impressed with the idea that he sincerely entertains the opinions on the subject of bribery which he just now so pertinaciously advocates. He cannot in his heart believe that bribery to a small amount may be allowed ; and that a seat which may be had for little money may with propriety be purchased. Yet such is the conclusion to which the writer in the Times inevitably comes, when he complains that " Mr. Gladstone and Lord Desart spent only 2501. each, and yet they are unseated." If smallness of outlay i 3 an excuse for bribery, the most corrupt—that is to say, they who rate their consciences at the smallest pecuniary sum—the very meanest and vilest among the bribed—would be protected ; while others, whose scruples require much stronger temptation before they can be brought to give way, would be more severely dealt with. We perfectly agree with the de cision of the Ipswich Committee, in refusing to pass over as pardonable the payment of nominal services at a very exorbitant rate. STANDARD.—The House of Commons was oc cupied nearly the whole night with the Newfoundland Bill. The succession of speeches with which Messrs. C. Buller, P. Howard, Wyse, O'Connell, Hume, &c. &c., wearied the house, is absolutely unworthy of no tice. All were directed to perpetuate in unhappy Newfoundland that state of disorder which justified us in calling the colony, four or five years ago, by the name of a transatlantic Tipperary. This state of disorder compelled the late Government, however reluctant, to suspend the constitution ; and none of the opposition speakers last night were able to ad vance a single., argument against the suspension. That constitution is, therefore, confessedly insup portable, and it is impudent, as well as idle, to complain that another constitution is to be substi tuted, except upon the hypothesis, which we ourselves hold, that the circumstances of the island do not warrant the imposing upon it a representative system of government. Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Mr. Pakington, fully demonstrated that the proposed constitution is at least sufficiently popular ; but we fear that they would not be Ale to show that it is not a great deal too popular. The Opposition divided the House no less than six times upon different clauses of this trumpery Bill, but on each division they were beaten by a large majority— their greatest muster amounting to '2l, and gradually descending to a dozen. This is the way in which the public time is wasted on the 3d of August. The retailing of constitutions by Lord Grey's Govern ment was a folly, and a very mischievous folly too, and it is nothing to the purpose to tell us that some of the present Ministers were parties to the folly. The whole country knows that Lord Ripon, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham were members of Lord Grey's Cabinet—but the country knows also that these Ministers would not go the whole way with that Cabinet, and, therefore, abandoned it under cir cumstances that proved them honourable and con scientious men, because these circumstances were such as to preclude a suspicion that they were ac tuated by any personal motive, whether of ambition or resentment. But it is surely nothing new for able and good men to fall into active folly, when any cause connects them with bad men ; and in the case before US there is no reason to suspect the statesmen in ques tion of more than passive error—the not abandoning the Whig Ministry when it opened its chandler's shop of constitutions. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—AbOUt ten o'clock on Tuesday evening, a party of six persons, three young ladies and three gentlemen, named Sarah Ann Smith, Eliza Martin, Priscilla Williams, James Guildersleeve, William Guild, and another young man whose name we did not learn, started up the East river in a row boat. Having proceeded as far as the foot of Houston-street, being about fifty yards from shore, they saw one of the Williatnsburgh ferry boats, the Newton, within twenty yards of them. The tide at the time was setting bard up the river, and they found it impossible to get out of the way of the boat, as it was comimg directly on them. They hailed th e ferry-boat, but before it was stopped it came in collision with the row-boat, upset it, and the three females were drowned ; the men were saved—one of whtm clung to the ferry boat, and the other two to the small boat. Only one of the bodies have as yet been found, that of Sarah Ann Smith; upon which the Coroner yesterday held an inquest, and the Jury returned a ver diet—" Came to her death by being run over by the ferry boat Newton, while in a small boat in the East river, on the evening of the 12th instant, throUgh the carelessness of the pilot of said ferry boat." Jacob Cor son, the pilot, on hearing the verdict, voluntarily sur rendered himself, and gave: bail to answer any charge which might be preferred against him.—NewYcn. k Paper. How TO CARVE) MIITTON.-7" Shall I cut this loin of Mntton•Siddleiiiire said a gentleman. " No," said one his guests, "eat it bridlewisi, far thou I may chliteeip get a bit in my mouth." - - , • . ARRIVALS. DR. REID'S CON( LUDING LEC TURE ON THE VENTILATION OF SHIPS AND STEAM-BOATS. Dr. Reid delivered the concluding lecture of this course, which was commenced on the 9th of March last, at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday evening. Keep ing before the view of his audience the grand princi ple of ventilation, that of an exit being invariably required for impure or used air as well as an en trance for the pure, he proceeded to show that ships, steam-boats, and transports, owing to their necessary construction, were deficient in this most absolute demand. A ship, as diagrams of the lower deck demonstrated, had no exit for its once-admitted air, and the entire hold of the vessel below the water ' line, was exactly in the same position. On shore, the only buildings similarly situated were cellars— those subterranean cavities in which nothing of human shape ought ever to dwell, but the habitation of man on the ocean was remedilessly so. It was to this cause—that of sailors sleeping, close-packed in their hammocks on the second deck, at those seasons especially when the untowardness of the atmosphere excluded the ports from being open—that the lecturer attributed that intense perspiration and perpetually febrile state of body to which the sailor was nightly subjected, which often produced virulent fevers among the crews, and invariably was the cause of that premature old age which visited all classes of mariners. Various methods for the due ventilation of vessels were then dilated upon by Dr. Reid, and the uses of those ventilative in struments known as the carbonometer, the screw, and the fanner, practically illustrated. Dr. Reid has, we believe, been - now engaged up wards of twelve years in furthering the particular branch of scientific education which he professes, among the youth and children of the day. At Edin burgh, in the schools of art, Heriot's Hospital, and other places in that locale—at Dublin--at Manchester, and lastly in London, in various rooms, schools, and institutions, and finally at Exeter Hall, he has ad vocated the importance of the general introduc tion of the elementary lessons of science as a means of improving health, and widening that know ledge, which it is incumbent on every man to know as regards the materials, uses, and adapta tion of those instruments and purposes which oc cupy himself, in common with the great mass of mankind, either in agriculture, architecture, medi cine, engineering, manufactures, or that round of mul tifarious circumstance which encircles every indivi dual in his daily action, movement, and mode of life. Throughout that period, and in all those places, expe rience has, we fully believe, led him to find his system productive of the utmost practical good, a fact which every mind will be ready to confirm which has deli vered itself up with ordinary attention to the series just concluded. The course has been lucid and simple in the extreme—the experiments illustrative of the highest truths and chemical facts have all been such as could be performed with a few slips of glazier's glass, a phial or two of acid and alkali, with a small quantity of chemical preparations—and the elementary truths so ably and familiarly explained by Dr. Reid, as to leave nothing further to be desired. Dr. Reid's in crease of schools and pupils cannot, from the import. ance of this branch of education or from the excellent facility with which he conveys it, be larger than he deserves. Fit IIIONABLEiNTELLIGENC E The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, in Belgrave.square, from a Continental tour ; the Earl of Aberdeen, at Argyll House, accompanied by Lord Claude Hamilton, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, at the Priory, Starimore ; the Earl and Countess of Jersey. in Berkeley_ square, accompanied by Lady Clementine Villiers, from visit ing the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, at Mount Felix, Walton-on-Thames; Count Cesarowich, at Mivart's Hotel, from a tour of visits ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Brinsley Sheridan, at ditto, from their seat in Dorsetshire ; the Rev. IVIr. and Mrs. Lilleson, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel ; Lieutenant Alleyne, at ditto ; Mr. arid Mrs. W. F. Farrer, at Batt's Hotel, from Naples. DEPARTURES. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, from Lambeth Palace, for Essex ; Lord and Lady Bridport, and Honourable Misses Hood, from Wimpole-street, for Cricket Lodge, near Chard ; Lord and Lady Worsley and family, from Arlington street, for Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire ; Lord and Lady Colviile, from Portland-place, for a tour in Germans; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Buiteel, from Grafton-street, for their seat in Devonshire; Sir George Clerk, Bart., M.P., from Cavendish-square, for Scotland; Sir John Beckett, Bart., from Stratford-place, on a tour ; the Earl of Roseberry, from Pic cadilly, for his seat in Scotland ; the Duke de Stackpole and family, for his seat in Westmoreland ; Lord and Lady Stanley (of Alderley) and family, from Dover-street, for Alderley Park, near Knntsford, Cheshire; Dowager Lady De Clifford, from Carlton House-terrace, for King's Weston, near Bristol; the Earl of Selkirk, from Richmond-terrace, for St. Mary's Isle, Kircudbright ; Colonel and Lady Harriet Lane, for their seat in Yorkshire ; Lady Caroline Thynne, for Scotland ; Lady and Miss Trotter, from Grosvenor-square, for Brighton ; Colonel and Mrs. Colston, from their house in Berkeley-street, for Malvern Wells, Worcestershire ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Dunn, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, for Hungerford ; the Rev. Mr. and Miss Drake, from ditto. for Somerset ; H. Tuekfield, Esq., and Mrs. Tuck6eld, from ditto, for Devon ; Lady King, from ditto, for Winkfield ; = Cainpbefi, Esq., from ditto ; the Hon. Mr. Petre, from ditto ; H. Collingwood, Esq., and the Misses Collingwood, from ditto. • LLOYDS' SHIPPING LONDON, AUGUST 4.—Wind this day at noon N. DEAL, AUGUST 3.—Wind, N.N.E., moderate.—Sld. Ann, Mundill, Jamaica. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 2.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Trio, Hooper, Monte Video. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 2.—Wind E. light breezes.— Sld., Liverpool (steamer), Alexandria. PADSTOW, AUGUST I.—Sld. Clio, Quebec. STOCKTON, JULY 28.—51 d., Bamow, Quebec. BOMBAY, JUNE 18.—The Vansittart and Cornwallis, East Indianian, laden with cotton for China., have been totally destroyed by fire, the one on the 3d, and the other on the 10th instant. The Kate, coal laden, for Oden, took fire, but it was extinguished before much damage was done. CORN AVERA GE6,. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES Of BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended July 30, 1842, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and fawns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat......... 635. tad. I Oats Sayler 2Bi. Od , Rye 34s 9i , Pease.... ..... 335. 101 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SII WEEKS. WPek ending WHEAT. BARLEY.[ OATS. RYE. 1 BEANS. I PEASE 27 6 21 7 31 7 27 7 t.'2 4 32 3 27 5 22 2 29 5 27 4 22 t) 38 6 27 10 21 6 36 5 u 8 0 21 5 54 9 --- June 26 July 2 9 16 23 30 63 11 64 3 64 10 65 65 4 63 9 34 4 34 9 35 1 34 10 35 1 34 7 X 3 3 35 6 34 0 35 5 34 0 33 10 IMPERIAL. AGOREQATE AVERACEi OF THE SIX WEEKS 64 1 . 11. Oats 21s 104.1 Beans . 345. 9d Harley. 27s 9J. 1 Rye DUTIKS ON FORNIGN colut. Wheat Bi. Od. Oats Barley 9s. Od. l !lye GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending July 30, 1842 :- Passengers Merchandise 382 18 0 £1,305 5 6 Corresponding week last year ...X1,457 11 2 Darlington, Aug. 3. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. EXTRAORDINARY CA SE.—Wednesday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Rose, Snows-fields, Bermondsey, before Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of Charles Wilkins, 32 years of age, lately re siding at No. 38, Snows-fields, and following the occupation of a waterman, who committed suicide under the following circumstances :—lt appeared by the evidence of several witnesses that the deceased and his wife had latterly lived very uncomfortably together, frequently having quarrels in consequence of his suspecting her of carrying on an impro per intimacy with one of his brothers, and that he had repeatedly, in the presence of the witnesses, charged her with infidelity. -On the 26th ult. the wife went down to • Gravesend, ostensibly for the benefit of her health, accom panied by three children, her nephews, where she took lodgings. On Sunday last the deceased went down to see her, and on his return home, about ten o'clock at night, he appeared to be much distressed in his mind, and then stated to his landlord that he had been down to Gravesend and had discovered that his brother was staying with his wife, and that he was much disturbed at it; that he had twice thought he would throw himself from the steamer into the river on his way up to London. On Monday af ternoon, he came home to his dinner, and afterwards lay down on his bed, and requested his mother-in law to bring him his tea at five o ' c l oc k. O n h er going into his room at that hour for the purpose, she discovered him hanging from the top rail of his bedstead, suspended by a silk handkerchief. She im mediately gave an alarm, and assistance being pro cured, he was cut down, and medical aid from Guy's Hospital sent for ; but in vain, life being quite extinct. It appears that a fatality attaches to the deceased's fa mily, as not long since two of his brothers committed suicide, one by cutting his throat, and the other by drownin h fr himself. It was also stated that his wife had twice before been married, and that both of her former husbands had also destroyed themselvos. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTSO—SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST.—LERIVICK, JULY 11.—The boat Woodlark, of this place, laden with peats, On her return from the Island of Whalsay to the Island of Skerries, about forty miles to the northward, on the evening of the 9th instant, with eight men, two women, and a fish-curer, upset during a heavy squall, and the whole were unfor fortunately drowned. Five out of one family were lost, three brothers and two sons. The isltind of Skerries is almost depopulated. The following are the names of the unfortunate sufferers, as fur as we have been able to ascertain :—Arthur Sandison, William Anderson, John Anderson, Arthur Henderson, David Anderson, John. James Williamson, and an aged man of the name of Bain. On the evening of the 11th inst. a six-oared boat, belonging to Cunningsborough, about twelve miles south of this place, while returning from the ling fishing, was unfortunately lost, with six men, four of whom were brothers. All have left destitute families. The skipper of the boat had his eldest son along with him. Their names are John Macpherson, Robert Macpherson, sen., Laurence Macpherson, J. Macpherson, Robert Mac- pherson, Jun., and Laurence Jamieson.--Caledonian Mercury . . IMPERiAL PARLIAHENT. HOUSE OF Loki Any, 4 Their Lordships met at Five o'clock: Messengers from the Commons brought up seTtrai Bills. STAMPS DUTIES REGULATION BILL. The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of the Stamp Duties Regulation Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE pointed out an ambiguity in the wording of the Bill, which he said would con found the duties upon newspapers with those upon advertisements. The Earl of RIPON said it was not the intention of the Government to make any alteration in the duties either upon newspapers or advertisements. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from one, whom (he said) whatever might have been his faults, called upon their Lordships' sympathy for his misfortunes—the ex •Baja of Sattara. The petitioner complained of the unjust treatment he had suffered, and prayed for the generous interposition of their Lordships in his behalf. Lord FITZGERALD said that the subject was about to be brought forward in the other House to-night in a form which would lead to the production of papers such as would enable their Lordships to come to a judgment on the merits of the case. He would not go further into it than to say that no man could read the papers connected with this subject without being convinced that the Raja had been se riously compromised in the course of conduct which he had pursued. It was impossible not to see that if hard measures had been dealt to the Raja, he had, at all events, brought it on himself by his indiscretion. The subject was one too large and too complicated to be gone into on the presentation of a petition. Lord BEAUMONT said that it was his intention to make a formal motion on the subject, if some steps were not in the meantime taken to do the Raja justice. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM the conversation dropped. DRAINAGE OF TOWNS BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the inhabitants of Bunhill•row, city of London, in favour of this Bill. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. The NOBLE LORD moved the third reading of the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill, which, after some discussion, was agreed to, and the Bill read a third time, and passed. Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought up the Report of the Rivers (Ireland) Bill, which, after some conversation was agreed to, _ _ The — Ordnance Service Bill was read a third time, and passed. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved that the Report of the Colonial Passengers Bill be received. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM and Lord FITZGERALD, the Report was agreed to. CORN-LAWS. The Earl of RADNOR moved the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Corn Importation Act Repeal Bill. The Noble Lord said that in bringing for , ward this measure he was actuated by a sense of public duty. He thought that the repeal of the Corn-laws was due to the people, many hundred thousands of whom were anxious for such a measure. It was also due in an especial manner to them, from the severity of the sufferings to which they were expdsed. He therefore proposed in the second clause of his Bill to do away with so much of the Corn Importation Act as prohibited the importation of foreign corn, or imposed a duty on its importation. He apprehended that whatever loss might result from the repeal of the import duty on corn— whether it amounted to seven or eight hundred thousand pounds or not—that the advantages resulting from the repeal would be cheaply bought, even at that sacrifice. The lessening of the price of food would give a stimulus to manufactures and commerce, and give_ employment to many thousands of their countrymen, who were idle against their will, and famishing for want of the food .vhich the whole earth was ready to furnish to them. One argument in favour of the present system was that it made this country independent of foreign countries for a supply of food. But, in truth, that argument had been answered by the Noble Lord opposite (the President of the Board of Trade), who showed that we were so far from being independent of foreign countries that we imported annually upwards of a million of quarters of corn. 'But' the effect of the law was to discourage the production of corn in other countries, whereas if we had a fixed duty, or, what would be better, no duty at all, we should promote foreign industry, at the same time that we should provide for our own people both em ployment and food. If it were not for the sliding scale, which was, he feared. a fixed absurdity, all the corn would be• sold immediately upon its arrival, without. being locked up in bond to wait for the day of famine in the land. When that famine was at hand. and the bonded corn let in by the sliding scale, prices suddenly fell, and the consequence was that home pro duction was discouraged, so that in reality the sliding scale defeated the object which it was intended to effect. The scale not only failed in securing the prosperity of agriculture, or the regular supply of corn, but it had the most mischievous effects in deranging the currency of the country, and preventing the exc ange of our manu factures for the produce of other countries. The effect of the sliding scab-. Would always. be to produce a great alteration in the supply of com—a circumstance which was injurious to the people of this country, as well as to the foreigners importing into this country, in asmuch as it 'admitted of no means of forming any pre viou I accurate calculation of what the price might be at arty given period.—(Hear, hear.) He deprecated the alternate recurrence of the agricultural and commercial distress, at the end of every four or five years, which was the result of the Corn-laws, and he implored their Lord ships, by repealing these laws, to remove the cause of that distress. The Noble Earl concluded by moving the 1 second reading of the Corn Importation Act Repeal The Earl of RIPON gave credit to the Noble Earl for being actuated by no party feeling in bringing forward the present measure ; but, while he readily admitted that, he must say that that measure which the Noble Earl thought likely to prove so advantageous to the public, would, in his (the Earl of Ripon's) opinion, be attended with different, consequences ; dreading which consequences, be (the Earl of Ripon) could not consent to the Noble Lord's proposition. Th e p r i nc ip a l cause o f the fluctuation in prices was the variation of the seasons. In the thirteen weeks whi c h h a d p asse d s i nce t h e present law came into force there had b een a cons t an t, an d con• stantly increasing importation of corn, and, with the prospect of a plentiful harvest, there could be little doubt, if any, that the country would have an abundant supply of food at reduced prices. lie did not think that :he people of Er.gland would think that the House of Lords did them wrong by rejecting the proposition of the Noble Earl, and with that conviction he would move as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Lord KINNAIRD supported the second reading of the Bill. If the Noble Lord thought that the agitation (which had for its object the supply of the people with food at the cheapest price, and from any market which they might choose to go to,) would cease until the law which prevented the supply was repealed, he was mis taken. He (Lord Kinnaird) was a member of the League, and he could assure the Noble Earl that there was no possibility of the League abandoning its duty until the object for which it was constituted was fully at tained. The great evil of the sliding scale was that it prevented a steady and settled trade with foreign coun tries, and it had proved a failure in the protection of the class for whose benefit it was devised. He lived in the hope of seeing her Majesty's Government come down to the House and say that they had seen the errors of their ways, and that they were convinced of the policy of totally repealing the Corn-laws. The Earl of RADNOR replied, and the question hav ing been put, the amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this.day six months, was agreed to. The Bonded Corn Bill was read a third time and passed. The Court of Exchequer Bill was read a third time and passed. _ The other Bills on the table were advanced a stage, and the House adjourned at Nine o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aug. 4. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the Corporation of Bristol against the County Courts Bill. EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL. This Bill went through Committee—the Report to be received to-morrow. CONSOLIDATED FUNDS BILL. This Bill went through Committee—Report or dered to be received to-morrow. SLAVE-TRADE SUPPRESSION BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. CANADA LOAN BILL. The third reading of the Canada Loan Bill was postponed till to-morrow. COURT OF CHANCERY OFFICES BILL. Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of the Court of Chancery Offices Bill, which Bill was ordereeto be read a third time to-morrow. LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr., GREENE brought up the Report upon this Bill, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time and passed. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from New town, Connelly, arid Connaught, against the National System of Education in Ireland. Mr. DARBY presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of Gateshead, praying for the appointment of Chaplains in union workhouses. DIVIDENDS UPON STOCK. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a return, showing the total animal amount of dividends upon Stock and Annuities, from which the Property or Income-tax has been stopped or deducted at the Bank for the half- year ending sth of July last, distinguishing the total amount of such dividends payable upon individuals or separate accounts arising from dividen Is upon fifty shillings and under 150/. per annum, and also the number of such individuals.—Agreed to. INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL. The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. TOBACCO REGULATIONS BILL. The Tobacco Regulations Bill was read a third time and passed. _ _ MORNING SITTINGS. Sir R. PEEL moved ihtitiheHouse do meet .to morrow at twelve o'clock, and he would also s u ggest the propMy of comme , .cing the public business at four o'clock on those days on which the House _did not meet until that hour. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE feared that if the Right Hon. Baronet carried his motion now, there would be no House when his (Mr. T. Duncombe's) motion came on, He did not wish to throw any obstruction in the way t ,f public business, but if the Right Hon. Baronet carried his motion now, he felt assured that such would be the .case. Sir ROBERT PEEL did not imagine that ths lion, Member's motion would Act as a charm to clear the House. Mr. BROTHERTON hoped the Hon,lllembe r for Finsbury would not prevent the motion be►ng put for the House meeting at twelve to-morrow: T he motion was then agreed to. . MEDICAL PROFESSION. Mr. MANNERS SUTTON presented a petitions from certain medical practitioners, praying that Tic/ new charter might be granted to the College of Phvsi; cians until the state- of the medical profession had been investigated by.a Committee of that House. BRIBERY AT IPSWICH. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that to-morrow he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to incapa" citate Arthur Bott Cooke, Henry Bristow, and nine teen others, from voting at the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Ipswich. MILBANK PENITENTIARY. The HoN. MEMBER then moved that the petition of William Gellen (presented August 3), complaining of the treatment of prisoners, and the increase °I disease and death during the present year, in the Milbank Penitentiary, be printed with the Votes. Mr. GREENE requested the Hon. Member W postpone his motion, in consequence (as we under'', stood) of the absence from town of the physician 01 the Penitentiary. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said there had been an nu', precedented mortality in the Penitentiary since Ja' nuary last. There had been no less than fourteen deaths and six cases of insanity since that period. W . thought that these circumstances called for the invee tigation of the House. It was his intention to brinii it before the House to-morrow ; and he now move that the petition be printed, in order that the Hon' ‘ Members might be put in possession of the fact"' the case. HEALTH OF TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON, in rising to move the is reading of a Bill to improve the health of townsi by preventing interment of bodies within their Prr:. cincts, regretted that this subject had not bee ° taken up by her Majesty's Government. He oolY wished that the Bill should now be read a fir .t time in order that it might be well considered by the House, the clergy of the United Kingom, an the public at large. In the various clauses of tr. Bill he had endeavoured to preserve the property A individuals, and abate a nuisance that most important to consider. He did not deg_ pair of success, and he trusted that he . shou be supported by every Member in that IRO!: After the best consideration he had been able to o , ` the question of expense, and collecting the opio. decided' opinion various individuals, he had come to the deeia7 opinion that a small rate of one penny in the collected once in three or four years, would be quite „ sufficient for the purpose. This might appear but,T. small sum in small populations ; but then, in ST l3 °°, localities or ten or twenty thousand inhabitan ts ! land was not of a high value, nor were the fees of t he . clergy so expensive as they were in large towns sitc,:. as London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Manebestei, .; A rate of a penny in the pound, would be OW sufficient in large towns, to answer all the purpos e , required. Under these circumstances he trusted lie Majesty's Ministers would not oppose the Bill. felt satisfied the country required a change, and sooner it was made the better. Mr. COWPER seconded the motion. lie even if the Bill did not pass this session, yet as it Wt` of great importance, and involved many interes ts ' ci some good . would be done by having it printe d ' by that means some progress would be ma de. The worst effects followed from the present syste ms , The Miasma and pestilential exhalations which we,. 1 0. generated from those burial places were . t" causes of disease, and medical men attributed prevalence of typhus fever to the offelieLl ;I:roeoptolf condition of the atmosphere, caused •by burial-grounds. The clergyman who attended the dead remained at a considerable distance from th e opening of the tombs, and. those who dwelt in 117 vicinage of burial-places shut their windows, el:. consequence of the exhalations. Some legislative info,. sure was necessary, and public opinion Was fl ie your of it, as appeared from the extension of de cemeteries. He thought that the clergy' rived a considerable income in fees for burial , only persons who would use their influenee An i t il ,s c r o ' u id sition to such a measure, but arrangeln- --- to be made on that subject. Believing the s ubject , • be one of great importance, he had great pleasure D' seconding the motion. The question having been put. Sir R. 11. INGLIS said that the Committee, which he sat upon, on the subject before the House, had not come to a definite conclusion relative to the 0 5- tablishment of a Board of Health, and he did not wi 5 L l to be considered bound to the adoption of such 1 , 1 proposal. He approved of the principle of the 13111 : but he did not pledge himself to support its vari oll ',_ details, as stated by his Hon. Friend. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. 4 CAPTAIN WARNER'S NEW PROJECTILr'',I Sir F. BURDETT rose to move for a Select Coin'l mittee to inquire into the negotiations of the Govern' ment with Mr. Warner respecting his invention. Il e regretted that he had not been able to bring,f, the subject before the House at an e arlie.r. period, in consequence of the press of Pub l l,! business. The case, however, of Captain IVarn e a ., stood in his opinion in a very peculiar position, ,; was one of paramount importance for the consider v z tion of the House. He hoped that there would bel but one feeling prevailing among Hon. Members ° 11 ,: the subject, namely, an anxious desire to consid,e'. , l , fairly the claims of Capt. Warner, if now thougo'. 4 , probable that his invention possessed the e c: ".--) traordinary powers ascribed t o it. He ( 744 F. Burdett) thought he could not do better 0115 that occasion than to read the statement of Sir Georg” Murray in relation to that invention—a stateme°' which derived its value not only from the charaot e j of the person who made it, but from the great abilitY: with which it had been drawn up. The Hon. Baron" • then read the document referred to, Whichwas to the effect that there were three point' to be attended to in considering Captain Warner' discovery : first, its power ; secondly, the degree O ci safety and facility with which it could be employed for useful purposes; and, thirdly, the disadvantl.e which might result to this country from'all o wing tl4l-', discovery to be communicated to any other State' Captain Warner had become possessed of the disc o ., very at the expense of much bodily a n d men tal JP hour, and he set upon it a high value. There or. peared to be but two modes of treating Captain War: ner's invention, either to leave him at once to purso' his own course, or to appoint competent persons to, Y l ' spect the invention, with a view t o di scover i ng its fir plicability. Every security should be afforded 1° Mr. Warner against being deprived of the fair reviral';' s of his invention. There were other p ersons o f grea t" authority who entertained the same opi n i ons of tl m ' , importance of Mr. Warner's invention. Captai n Webster had stated his conviction of the immeol power and the manageableness of the discovery. -1 witness who had been engaged in a great Or of the late war stated that th ere was . I v / power whatever, either afloat or on s hore , which could resist Captain -Warner's 'statement The • Right Hon. Baronet then read a delivered to Lord Hardwicke by Captain Warner' but in so low a tone of voice, that it was impossibl e to hear a word. He could h a rdly conce i ve a in°re modest proposal than that of Captain Warner, and he could not conceive why any Government shoil'u f scruple to adopt it. On the 15th April last a meeting was held at the 4 - ; miralty in order t o ju d ge o f th e i nvent i on ; but Captain Wainer could not get them to enter into en}r agreement w ith hi m. Th ey di st i nct l y to l d h i m that they could no t sanc ti on any s ti pu l at i ons as to rewarci. He also, it appeared, offered to try his invention inn way that might be thought pr o per. N ow , w hy nn, that been refused ? There could have been no risk L l ' employing Captain Warner. Captain W arne r 'nig' , prove an impostor—(Hear, hear)—and in that cast'he would be exposed, and the country 'd be satisfied. Captain Warner made thi would dis eovery two years before the death of Sir Richard Keats, and if that worthy Admiral had been alive , he would have had his testimony to the ex cellence of the invention. Even the late King, himself 'thought the invention important, and on e that ought to be fully consider e d. the Honourable Gentleman then read a letter from Captain Warner , - stating that he offered to give up his invention for 400,0001. He thought that the Governmen t should possess themselves of such an invention, though it were only used for national Po poses in critical circumstances. Captain Warner had, procured a schooner at an ex p ense t o himself 0 1 13,000/. or 14,0001., for the purpose of exhibiting the effects of his invention, for which he had n°t received a farthing to this day.—(Hinr, hear.) Captain Warner's invention did not rest upon any theory, but was reduced to experime nt ' and he tliought the House would not do its duty if they did not grant an inquiry to con sider his invention. Captain Warner offered to destroy a line-of-battle ship at a range of six: miles. H e o ff ere d to disclose the nature of his invention in a confidential way to Sir G. NW ray and Si r R . P ee l . Th e e ffe ct o f his invention was. not denied, an d h e t rus t e d th a t the House would grant a Select Committee to inquire into the nego tiations of Government with. Captain Warner relative - to h by hi th e Petit. S jti to d hOq W a twtl