The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-02 00:00:00

t. George Duke of !e, on his Hon. Mr. . the Vice' ndal Stsll 25pector of Majesty's Sheriff of !s, Bart. r Alajestls ster Granvile Sir John by Sir C. he Earl of Lcliffe kdmiral Sir Frankfort , foreign g" Douglas . Weare Manners arham Sir Henri ;inters, bl his proteiv an ; Abjor' , r 1 : j r-Genets, feral C. L . nd ; Major' foreign ser• G. 'resnyl° , , Major "' .eturn from P. Hill, bi Land at IV ingin, Ho" hlridge, an Ming, Cat e jibe, on the! Morris, r' omotion a n d 3arnbier, Zommander° :err and ', by Lord C. and (colonel ion ; Car ta i i : pointment 3 .„ , nell, r' lurray. , ninations )t. F. 111 :e; by I F. Bark , 7,aptain J• ald on their tins Most ndilands, , on their iy and CI a ne, on I' ! and 0 service, foreign Rowley • from fon 1 from Chi.i mice, by by sir t and ret„ l4 T. d'SYP; am fool /2; ndonderrY r, Col.Wesl4, -Gen. Sir -Gen. Sir Hon. ll' I; J. Norreig bv tarus, as pointtnew , rland ieut_•Qesel eut.-ag° 01 nn Indio) iget Oil 4 r John . (f e i 10°. ssT`oeto-r a , a ea. by LB-------"r"---gradIdSintganwl as presented, on his arrive from Ja arl F • e) * city zha rdiege-Addresses of Congratulation from the ut Glouee s i Th o er, and Boroughs of Chel.en .am, Stroud, and e reit rn e l!irl• Earl Fitzhardinge was presented, on being Earl, by the Earl of Clarendon . 44 the Levee the Quen received on the Throne the joint Addr es sh e of Congratulation, on her recent happy escape, from .nouse s of Lords and Commons. e e Lord Chancellor, and the Peers, and the Speaker, ac c7nPnied by a numerous bod of Members of the House of % In a n P i ns,arrived at the Palac y e, and were conducted to the „rig Hanquettnie Room ner m • - --• 'Jesty tieing seated on the Throne, his Royal . Highness Ar.ae 'Allsert standing by her side, and the Royal Family, an the Lords and Officers of State being ranged on either side, h a, r !.. rsle and Commons were introduced. Eli, ne Lord Chancellor was accompanied by the Bishops of Ikeviorcester, Norwich, and Lincoln ; the Dukes of Devnn °it, Richmond, Sutherland, Roxburgh, Argyle; Marquises c F orty ' T ' homond Clanricarde, Ormonde, and Aber . Earls of Kinnoull, Radnor, Bruce, Eldon, Cowper tei t n e n 'aih, Morley, Verulam, Bandon, Manvers, Westmoreland ; . Pole "nts C anning, Hawarden, Lorton ; Lords Blayney, Red more, Lilford, Walsiegham, Braybrooke, Bay mug, st2,tusdale, Lowther, Feversham, Bolton. Lovat, Cottenham, Pradale, Willoughby de Broke, and Portman. L°td e i S ,P e aker of the House of Commons was attended by rs" n n Russell, Sir John Tyrell, Sir Frederick Pollock, J • B.,odrington, Mr. Sanderson, Mr. W. H. Bodkin, Licu h t : Mr, won . 4 14 3, R.N., Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Vernon s s mit c _Beckett, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Whitmore, C. C~tr 11 ; 7 ` Packe, Mr. Escott, Mr. J. Townely, Mr. B oot l e i tt urah ane , Sir T. Esm . onde, Mr. H. R. Yorke, Mr. S. Ogle, ti r. C 4, Lneoln,Mr. R. Godson, Mr B. Hughes, Sir J. Guest, R. 4 •eith, Mr. J. O'Brien, Capt. Polhill, Sir G. Cockburn, Li e r ut Innard Rulkeley Philipps, 111 r. T. Gill, Mr. Aldam, Ilr. ';;Colonel Hon. - George - nice Trevor, Hon. F. Scott, W -e ls ,, nr ge Ryng, Mr. Maunsell, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Tul l 'e -Llr • W. B. Wr i ghtson, ' Viscount' Northland, Mr. ber • 3ro ... at M. Ar c hd a ll, M r . A. Murray, Captain rple, viscount Alford, Hon. W. Begot, the Solicitoi , - 11, bL erai for Ireland. Viscount Acheson, Mr. Henley, Mr. E. tie r iT,' ll tson, Mr. Richard Hodgson, Mr. Ainsworth. Mr. He H inds Mr. C. Heathcote, Colonel Peel, Mr. Sidney , Ca r , e r ! , Hon. ' Robert Gore, H. T. Liddell, Hon. Captain t 'sri g' '' Right Honourable J. Nicholl, Lord Ife,einri, Jr. Peers Williams, Mr. E. Wodehouse, Mr. 4, 0 t 'g, Captain Plumridge, Mr. John Round Mr• R. J. 14 41 1 ;4E4r. B. ',errand, Mr. George Wm. Wood , , Mr.. W. J. 4nt j Jr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. D. Barclay, Sir Wil -od4'l„lff,e, Mr. East, Mr. Adderley, Captain Boldero, Mr. Smith' L i r. Edward Litton ,. Lieut.-Col. Acton, Mr. Abel w E. Grogan; Ffolliot, Mr. Busfield, Lord br'eaadril, Mr. J. IL Vivia n, Mr. Ireland Blackburne, Mr. H. Mr, e ) ', Rushbrooke, Mr. Myners Baskerville, ";• !ifundy, Mr. Daahwood, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Lord Si r G L : n eaget. Lord March. Hon. G. Cecil, W. Forestcs, Mr, C o me n Clerk, Sir R. H. Mr. Sturt, Mr. Dugdale, IPton, Mr. Corry Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. Tom tt•N k r *, W. Dawnay, ' Hon. W. Cowper, Captain A'Court, o" . " s 'r t . R. Mangles, Mr. Barneby,' Captain Layard, Hon. the i nlev, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. W. Collett, Sir W. ClaY, Sir A'ekatarsCeneral, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. Montague Gore, beit;.`"ur Linsley Brooke, Bart., Sir John Walsh, Mr. Joht rgan, Viscount Chelsea, Mr. F. Hodgsen,.Sir Seale],.. H. Stuart. Hon. Betel Fitzroy, Mr. E. Rice, Alsy"ni Bernard Mr. C Turnor, Mr. Bagge, the Lord ".: er nf Dublin , Mr. . :Maurice O'Connell, Mr. John 110.°.anell, Mr. Broilierton, Mr. Wilshere, Mr. Wodehouse, I ,Charle s Hope, Lord Duncan, Sir T. 8.. .Hepburn, N orr et h°l° 's Dile Acland, - Mr. Ge R. Philips; Lord Per2„-'2' Hamilton Lindsay, Mr. Shirley; Sir Robert s t i - ;. - ;:` )n r ; Captain Jones, Mr. Mines, Mr. Burroughes. Hon . Sir C: ‘-avendish, Mr. Greene, Lord Ebridgton, Mr. War d, _ ase rd , : e r tair Grey, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Viscount Duncan, I.sl.l::lnela: e s AT S .r t . u L ar f t,Captain Beetles, Q. O. R. S.Lapa t: R .N. ; Mr Robert Palmer, iscount Marsham, . M r. . Mr. Charles Cavendish, Mr. Will iam e ß r i ° c Y e ' Clayton, Mr. James Howard, Mr. Ro ' q u il „' Ormsby Gore Mi Vesey, Captain ROUE, Colonel Jorer'em, Viscount Gri mston, Lord Ashley, Viscount Margins of Granby, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Buck - H on. sto'nirt, C o l one l P owe ll , M r. B annerman, Mr. Lyall, J ohr haries Law, Sir W. James, Mr. Edward Buller, Mr. lit 'lb e Lord ar k' r , and Lord Granville Somerset. Chamberl a i n con d ucte d th e d e p uta ti ons f rom b o th 14st:,,t° the Roy a l presence, when the Lord Chancellor read 4,4l.iress of Congratulation, to which her Majeity was eie zre to r eturn a most gr ac i o u s answer . The Peers and °ns afterwards retired from the presence of the Queen. lin e d roftfaiesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms tietit„ge T hrone-room at the ceremony, commanded by their h s4 . l 'nti the Hon. Sir Edward Butler. lilili ta e ry Q o ueen held an levestiture of . the Most Honourable th e on., rder of the Bath. The Knights Grand Crosses and and Arers of th e O r d er having been robed by Mr. Hunt er, end l th e ' rde, in th e i r mant l es, t h e f ormer wearing the i r collars, atter their chains and badges, assembled in the_ Por- Add res `, 7 allery, rod after the receition of he le Pre,,,' tr am the Houses of Parliament were summoned to the e .,; ol her Majesty in the Throne Room. b e k " 0 311 Hight.ess Prince Albert, ids 11,iyal Highness the Bi g l iflea r)f - Sussex, Great Master of the Order, his Royal Ri ght s Tlight tim ale of Cambridge, Viscount Strangford, ilitrl• Sir George Murray, the Marquis of Anglesey, Ii ir d one Sir J ames K empt, t h e E ar l of Effingham, Lord afield , Lord St ra ff or d, Si r Robert Adair, Hon. Sir donkers'laal Lumley, Sir Willoughby Gordon, Viscount Pal 'o, Viscount Canterbury, Earl of Minto, Earl of Claren bil, Marquis of Londonderry, Right Hon. Sir George Cock to n, Lord Ilevtesbury, Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stop and other' 4er, an Knights Grand C rosses o f t h e Order were adtt erei Mr. ed YoUng, by Mr. York Astlerald. on Blount, Genealo g i s t o f t h e 13 eaY her Majesty's command, him Excellency uneral Cmut Anlorf was introduced, and conducted to the G right h an d o f Qoverrign when his Ex ce ll enc y was i nvested by the Queen t:th th e usual ceremonies, with the Eniigns of a Knight Grand Coss of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, , Majesty pla c i ng t h e r ib and and badge of the Order over "4 right shoulder of the new Knight Grand Cross. ji - le Knights having been called over, retired with the Ofli :ts of the Order from the presence of the Sovereign with the reverences. ,•;")„ e Sword of Stale was borne at the ceremony, by •‘..ir lam Martins, Gentleman Usher. ace s the Inv estiture, her Majesty and Prince Albert, at -1:(1hy the Royal Suite, left for Buckingham Palace. 4 ri, t he evening the following professors had the honour of 4 tri, log at Buckingham Palace before the Queen, and the 41‘17 CirOle—Mrs. Anderson, Mademoiselle Parini, Signor II: ;141T Staudigl, Miss Bassany, and Miss Towers. top'Meaty's Private Band was also in attendance during MAJESTY'STifEATRE. tt,`Z‘ v .e , k, \°}' ITER MAJEsTr.—The scene at this ho us e on inert interesting, and must have afforded t he dee p est her Majesty of the enthusiastic loyalty and devo ‘4oli'e,,44at mass of her subjects. The National Anthem had d At t t c ' 4 sung with loud acclamations , and the opera 1 1 ) 1 0 a x Pie atk4aineneed When her Majesty entered her ver . i 'fe le ' l lient one burst of applause was heard from e y 'raj i (14 ee lin ns • ha ts and handkerchiefs were seen waving I ..ons hort there was every possible demon 41(..stivt.he jo y at her Majesty's escape from the I attempt She stood at the front of her ikgk: r 'i the greatest presence of mind, though evidently te - "'Y , t !' o enthu s i asm o f thkaudience, and courtesied re ,,tll(q,''lle Prince Albert bowed in reply to the lend . con- The opera was not suffered to proceed ttll the t'll4ajre-S;k ?tit h e il t e n was : again *ling. Lablache and Persian ( %silo opera) ' joining the rest of the company. Her I° _; i h ' ;', 4ai ned gduring the anthem, and at the con ' N - ' 4 1 1 ,i, -I ""ste;e a r r y l ' i n ne there was a fresh burst of applause, tis f(siltt r eturned a fresh acknowledgment. The words, her 'er enemie s," in particular, called forth the most the.'lsj',,aoolamat,s When the anthem was concluded, rt - ;;;) took her seat in the corner of her box, while one t he r t'ad a was raised.'l 4 3 Ni l j nt es opera, called Elena dee Feltre, was the piece on thei'rfor4l' t h , • same which, under the title of Elena libel:a, ell ga , e " in an English dress at Covent-garden during ngl°ltie,'''lwnt, IF 'Adelaide Kemble, who personated the N_, • iss . (4 4"gi th.''Aithstanding Miss Kemble's brilliant acting arid 'ho l : P i ece hail no a m gret success ; but it was performed. I tiet s ` l ated g r i to tnake the usical portion of the public +ligl, ' gre wi th it. At Covent-garden it was represented a (:lalto dis advantag. s. Onee, and once only, was t h ere 8 t e b r alit at an incore, and , that was at a song of Ll . ,n „''illl -e is ' P eond act. Frezzolini sang with fine express . ion, 'f " e n usual boldness and truth of e . xecutio . n n ; would have created an impressu, thee o g it would have been her final _. It t n,li s p -n g 'with h - is ;anted evenness, judgmelit, and test!. /14, ' A ithdrew at the end of the opera, which . their iseas , I4 C:esses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess bot '4lk,,tied attended. The boxes were numerously tenanted, er a large proportion of beau mande. 'The pit was t4 ti r iee n wded at any part of the evening. Her Majesty and 4. l) 4, l N, s' l . Ainert w ere accompanied by Count Mender a dY Portman and Lord Rivers. In the Queen s ere theD ' uchess of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and ind'!_tell'aaeMeiningen, Prince George of Saxe Meiningen, qt t °Li L ady Sheffield, and the Hon. Mr. Ashley, the Duke 1`;t1)(1' e of r ," Cambr ' idge, Princess Augusta and Prince Ite4 C a of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, 0 1 . 410, 1 - Nelm s : o f Redford Duke of Brunsw ic k, Baron bt e dlet ti d iN x ;arquis of Abercorn , Marquis and Marchioness of ~I Q I F ll irj V as , Earl " • fCI • .arde Lady Fitzroy . Somerset, and a C nr o l Untes: Cardigan, Earl of Liver ; A I Less. Falm o uth, Earl of Home, Countess of Kinnoul, :11 4 ' Le sh .P r trill, rd Lowther, Lady Bowyer Smith, Lord ~rimlartilys, Lord Templetow, Lady Loftus Otway, , • "ton. Lady Catherine Bcre n sford, Eec. k tt., 1 1,44 0 -o tizmpic THEATRE. 'el '.ara,' • e ' took his benefit on Tuesday, it befit ti t c, 1 41 ( 4: 4 at this theatre for the season. I h g e th h e ou c s l e os w in a g s kti t ill,„ ; _„..` Jack in the Water seemed to retain his popu- ' il ' t he pretty views of Waterloo-bridge, byday-light to i %Ist, were much admired. At the conclusion vr of b t i l ( i ti e s 14. 0 ( .4r f ie e t:, the following address w ar delivered, tiq ... arnusement to the audience:- . b , i,ii - '. and Gentlemen,—Though it is my province . to INI - wi 4:T"i I PI Permit me for a moment to be serious. I , 'ttl4 i l l tnyself the pleasure of personally enrressingm . s o. i . .i the patronage I have enjoyed. Every veto oo t V ! here has been honoured by your approval. titl lit till sea ed on Michaeimas•day, goose kr i thettlilankt.lot:nn wi c trin m m ell y e walls. Without enumeratg ql,,,st l k . ii velties represented, let me declare that we received was ' tt e, i +ed tfi t from Bathing—that the Artful Dodge 44-Ih4treeessfully —whilst light piece respen.ting__L.u..e tsiteldie 4 Devil of a run. As to my pantomime. rightly i in aptiddi N tied h Th e Ree, I can only say the riddle was P ea '''Y: °u—that the Christmas folly attracted _ all ei•blit,s:lartlaller growth, and some of larger—that . Tom 4akitept,i'la successor of the clown, if he was not Grins all tf - P a. .4P 'Y Made you laugh at night. Robin Grusoe made e Vlrlt Ton.appy ; and Whittington's Cat, from the mus of Y 444 ter , r,.tained her faculty of aiding the fortunes ßderan , y,, 1 , •••' Sixteen Stringed Jack, by Leman e , V% i*o'Ceered nights • and the termination of the season l 4.. 14 ct, 1 .,_ n tS Jacn the Water enjoying the same porn arit . 4;tite t i d uoth ~,„J acks SMare — .7 turned up trumps ; and I must i . n it ill —are that the Two Lemons have sweetened, not act kalitaitj k b ° ,l l of happiness. To the ladies and gentemen iCtilts.,,%%_ ll _e company, and indeed every person connected 1tZt44%,--Plishment, I am indebted for cheerful and untiring 41;0 A4 4 - i - . .. 1 4 ) :::::ound to express my gratitude to the authors ,'" , :st , :I an,,ported the theatre by their pens ; and to the ho has adorned it with his pehcii. For the $. 1 4 1 : 1 4 t oll have lavished on me as an actor and manager, I 14:-.7korY heartfelt thanks, blended with sour promise that ow Int 4:1? . : Of the past shall stia - lulate me to greater Ter- I't au t 1 7 1 ture. Let me, in the company's name and my ct th, I L"eat season, bid you farewell, with the fervent hope, N froutPlAness you have brought to my heart may never be Ilili• u l Yout own." le Vh6„ , A da Claude Hamilton the Hon. Stuart 1;:t L',,, miral Noble, and several ' families of distinction, ilav t , rts tor the Continent this morning, by the General Il k a•vigation Company's mail packet, cean, for Rotter- Th • 4 4 s ' ll° 9 Al oft n• Lady Vaneek and: family, the..l-lon. ' 4 14,, h "gue and family, and the Count Garstoff, arrived 6,10 ) ",:f the Magnet. from Boulogne. Za ta rad: Eagle, iza.s been ordered tor Ostend, to . silk t o t ri ti?e King and Queen of the Belgians, and conve y 1 country on their annual visit to her Majesty, ~, ndon w,.by Ilyn to the bery Ls, by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. _ _ _ The Funds closed extremely firm, aid the final bargain in Consols for immediate transfer was made at 92a; the last quotation for the Account was 93i 93i, with a firm appear.. ante ; Bank Stock, 1671 168 ; India Stock, 250 •252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 41 44; Advertised, 36 38 prem. The books for transfer in Consols and most of the other Stocks are now closed preparatory to the payment of the July Dividends ; bargains for the future until the 15th of that month will only be for a time, transfera not being permitted, except by special permission of the Directors, and then only under particular circumstances. Eastern Counties, 9i 9i ; Northern and Eastern, 42 43 ; Blackwall, 11 1 ii; and tsr ghton, 35i 35i per Share. The Bonds were thus quoted—Colombian, 26 1 4 26k ; Peruvian. 18/ 1 19i t ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 37k ; the Three per Grits., 214 22%; Spanish Five per Cents., 22a 23i; and the Three per Cents., 234 24. It will be observed that Spanish Stock has rallied since the afternoon, and retiovered from the intelligence of Senor Hull's resignation) whether be or any one t Ise be Alinister, the position of the Bondholders cannot be altered, while the finances remain in the state they are. Foreign Securities were without particular business, and a'though money continues scarce in this market, prices are steady. Belgian Bonds were 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 523 53 ; the Five per Cents. lel 101 l ; Danish, 8014 81 1 4 ; and Brazilian, 67 68. The quotation ot Mexican h lower than yesterday, being 36i36. • The Share market was flat, and prices were not so good ; London and Birmingham, 178 180 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 50 52 ; Great Weste rn , 88 89 ; the Half Shares; 61i 62k; South Western. 62i ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33; South Eastern and Dover, 26 26i ex divi dend, and New Shares, the Scrip, 6i 64. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Very unusual for the day ow which the Bank books close previously to the dividend, but little business has been done in the English funds. The market is exceedingly firm, and prices generally are a shade higher than yesterday, with an appearance of further improvement. The run has been chiefly on the heavy stocks. Consols are 924 for Money, and 93i for the 15th July. Three per Cents. Reduced, 914 ; Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 99/ ; ditto Reduced, 1001; ditto New, 1018. Bank Stock, 1674 168; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 22 23 ; and Exchequer Bills, which are Is. higher, Old, 41 43 ; Advertised, 36 38 premium. Foreign Securities are all good, and the Dutch rather higher, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being 53h 54, and the Five per Cents. 101 101 i ; Belgian, 102 103 ; Danish, 80/ 1 ; and Brazilian, 67 68. Rather more inquiry has existed for Shares, but a trifling decline has occurred in prices ; the transactions are but limited, being confined to South Western, 62* 63 ; Great Western, 89 90 ; New, 614 61 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 70i; South Eastern, 26i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4i. The Bonds quoted to-day are Colombian, 261; Spanish Five per Cents., 22f 221, and the Three per Cents., 23f 231. It will be seen that the quotatio n f ur Sp an i s h has.materially declined. This is owing to the intelligence that Senor Rub, the Finance Minister, is no longer in office; but why this effect should have been produced by his dismission is not to be accounted for, since by his acts he completely belied his profes sions to the English creditors;and if anything is to be gained, it has long been evident that it must be from the opposition. Further accounts from S)dney, to the 2d February, have beer, received. The peculiar state in which that country is at present placed from the want of labourers to attend to that now important branch of its prosperity, wool growing, had at length began to excite attention. The unfitness of converted Europeans for shepherds had for some time been so apparent that the community in general refused to employ them as such, and the cultivation of sheep is stated tobe a losing occupation, if more than 151. to 201. per annum be paid for wages. These indi viduals benefited the colony for more by being employed in forming roads and suchlike internal improvements, for which they were well adapted, than in being forced into an occupation inwhich they could not succeed. The question of importing coolies had also been mooted, but decided in the negative' by all par ties, from the Governor downward , and the failure of the emigration fund had prevented any expectation of a supply by means of that source. It was intended under the circumstances to hold public meetings, in the expectation that some plan might be devised to remedy the evil. A kind of fete had been held to celebrate the fifty-fourth anniversary of the lauding of Governor Hunter at Sydney, then called Botany Bay. At the dinner which was given on the occasion some interesting accounts were stated of the progress made since, and however gloomy particular letters may be. no doubt can exist that, in a very short time. Australia must be come the most valuable of British derndencies. Some later intelligence from New Zealand is found in these papers., It appears that parties are being frequently sent out to explore the country and report fit locations for new settle ments; the information furnished by them leads to the conclusion that the fertility and capabilities of the island, and these stir.• rounding it, have not been so greatly exaggerated as has too frequently been the case with new colonies. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 31.—Prices remained perfectly steady, and 4,000 bales met with purchases at the previous quotations, of which 500 American were for ex portation. _ • LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 31.—Twotransactions were reported to-day, and the Market, generally, was dull. The sales were altogether confined to Eastern Counties Deben tures, 101. 16s. Bd., ditto ;New, 4/. 19s. 2d. ; North Midland Thirds, 21/. Bs. 4d.; South Eastern, New, 64. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 31.—We cannot report any improvement in our market. Our only quotations are—Bristol and Exeter, 43? t ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 36i, ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, si. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1674 ;India Stock 91i Ditto' Bonds 251 pm 3 per Cent. Red. 24 pm 3 per Ceut. Cons 924 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent. Red 100 i Ditto New Annuities... New 3 per Cent... loli Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 43 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001— ... 41 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 44 pm Jan. 1860 ......... 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1800 l2l 'Consols for Acct....... 9.3 i FOREIGN FUNDS. . • • —.-- Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ditto, New Ditto 374 Brazilian Bonds... 67 'Prussian, 5 per cent.., — Buenos A yres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . .... Colombian, 6 per cent —i Spanish, 5 per cent 224 Ditto, 1824 264 'Ditto, Deferred.... .. , 104 Danish, 3 per cent Bl4 French, 5 per cent. 120 f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 36a 'French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, per cent. 53 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 peret. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) .. 94 Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid.. Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) .., 354 L.itto Loan otes (74 paid) London and Birmingham (90) . .. . .. 178 London and South Western (431 15s odpd) 63 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. Ditto New Shares (30 pai.t ) North Midland Railway. (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) 33 Ditto Thirds ( paid) - 2l/ 3s 4d Paris and Rotten (16 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 26 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 924 CHURCH-ItATES-GLORIOUS VICTORY. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. _ . . - SlR,—This evening at 8 o'clock terminated a severe contest on a poll of four days for a Church-rate in this parish ( Port sea), which ha s terminated most triumphantly in favour of Civil and R eligious Liberty 1 The Vicar declared the statement of the poll to be— For the rate 768 Against the rate 1,318 Majority agaiti‘t the rate....... —550 I hasten to communicate this important intelligence, that your Anti-Church-rate readers may know the result as early as possible through the length and breadth of the, land, by means of your vast circulation.—l am, Sir, yours re!pectfully, WILLIAM BILTON, Chairman, Portsea Anti- Church-rate Committee. Portsea, May 31, 1842. DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, MAY 30.—His Majesty the King went yes terday afternoon to Soetadyk. It is believed that his Majesty is gone to the Loo to welcome his father, King William Fre derick, Count of Nassau, who was expected there yesterday evening. ROTTERDAM, MAY 25.—The „Giraffe, Capt. Stranack, ar rived here yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, with the Eng lish mail of the 27th, having performed the voyage is twenty two hours. This fine steamer leaves on Wednesday, at seven in the morning, with the passengers and mail. ST. PETERSUURGH, MAY 25.—The number of ships that had arrived at Cronstadt, up to the 18th in the evening, was 108. . . DUTCH FUN I.I3.—AIkIIiTEIWAM, MAT 30. Money. fli , g. Actual Drbt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. A toot t Svndic,4% per cent...." ..... Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 70% 77% Commercial Company, 4l< per cent 152 152% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 183 i, 5 per cent. SA% 92% Exchange on London, One month l2 12% Twomontha liamburgh, One month 25 87% Two months 35 L 0 Dutch Papers, May 31. Sir Henry Hardinge has announced, by a circular from the War Office, that the Government will not be respon sible for any losses sustained by paymasters of regiments, offi cers, or soldiers, from the failure of country banks, asjpay masters can have Bank of England notes at all times through the regimental agent. This order has been issued in conse quence of the losses of the Scots Greys by the failure of Wigney's Brighton Bank. Limerick Chronicle. The General Steam Navigation Company's Packet, Leith, that left Brown's Wharf on Saturday night, arrived at Edinburgh on Monday, after a most excellent passage of only forty-two hours. BOY DROWNED.—Tuesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, several lads, after the coal porters had ceased work ing, assembled on the barges of Under-the-Hill wharf, Strand, when unfortunately, one of the number, a lad about fourteen years of age, named Hunt, whose parents reside in Lumley-court, Strand, was drowned. The drags were instantly brought, and several of the Thames police also assisted in en deavouring to save the boy, but the wind and tide were so strong, that he soon disappeared. Men with torches were also engaged till daylight this morning, as the tide receded; in walking along the shore, to discover the body, hut unfortunately it could not be found. This is the seventh case of a similar nature that has occurred between Westminster and Illackfriars Bridges within the last fourteen days. NOVEL FREIGHT.—The Great Western took out for New York no less than a ton of quack pills on which the sum of seven guineas freight was paid. Alas ! poor Yankees, how they will work yon.— Liverpool Albion. Alexander Johnstone, Esq., formerly of this city, merchant, perpetrated suicide by cutting his throat, in Glas gow, on Thursday last. It is said that commercial reverses, caused by placing confidence in a house in that city, led to this disaster. —.Limerick Reporter. ------- - HAMBURGII, MAY 29.—The papers contains nu merous accounts of subscriptions and contributions for the sufferers by the fire. Among them are 20,000 dollars from the merchants at Magdeburg.—At the instance of Mr. George Delaval, the [loyal Hanoverian Custom-House at Stade has agreed to let all remittanc e o f money , tents, and blankets from ndon, far the sufferers at Harnburgh, pass free of duty...- We learn from St. Peter burgh (May 16th) that besides the 50,000 silver roubles sent by the Emperor, a collection made by the Duke of Leuchtenburg in the Imperial family, has pro duced 140,000 silver roubles, HIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1842. MAGAZINES-CON TINUED. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. There are some beautiful thoughts respecting the influence that mothers have on their children, their sons especially, as regards their after-destinies in life, thrown out in au article entitled, " A May Noon in a Parlour Window." The author instances several eminent individuals, the course of whose ambition has been shaped by their motheri; hut he makes no men tion of the most eminent of them all, who has left it on record, that it -was_to the .principles instilled into him, when a boy, by Madame Mere, that he owed his fixed resolution to win an undying reputation. Never did her exhortation to the reserved, thoughtful Cor sican lad,—" Be distinguished, my child !" pass from his mind. To his father he owed little, and remem bered little about him ; but he never forgot, when at school at Brienne, or, subsequently, when the leader of mighty armies, the apt and impressive maternal comments on Plutarch's Lives. In like manner, it was his mother's precepts and example that first implanted in Johnson's mind a love of reading and meditation, and laid the seeds of his subsequent literary celebrity. Hoaxing Histories" is a whimsical account of a hOax passed off by a wag on a party of Blues, who were anxious to become acquainted with the poet Pope, and were led to believe that he was that illus trious individual. - There is no great point or spirit in the narrative, which is carried on by means of dia logue; but, nevertheless, it is very passable reading. Mated and Checkmated" is a pleasing story, whose scene is laid. in the East. A young Prince of ,Persia falls in love with a beautiful girl, the daughter of a famous chess-player, wooes her in disguise, and not till he has achieved his conquest, informs his fair bride that her husband is of the Royal blood. This de nouement will remind the reader of " Lalla Roukh." In the remarks on the " Camden Society's recent Publication," the writer justly observes that " of all the distinguished personages of Queen Elizabeth's Court, the Earl of Leicester has, perhaps, most exer cised the speculations of posterity.' Little, indeed, is known of this once famous individual, an d hat little is not much to his credit, whether as a man, a statesman, Or , a soldier. One- thing is certain—namely, that he was most unscrupulous as to the means by which he acquired and maintained power, and did not:hesi tate to remove obnoxious personages by poison. " Flowers and Weeds from Olympus and Parnassus" is a string of critical notices of some recent poems; and among them is a review of Mr. Robert Mont gomery's " Luther," which is handled with very little ceremony. The " Poniatoswki Gems" is an elegant poem from the versatile pen of 1)r. Maginn. " My Life and Times, by Nimrod," furnishes us with a picturesque sketch of an old-fashioned Welsh squire, Mr. Corbett, who appears to have been a perfect specimen of a true gentleman in mind and feeling, if not in superficial polish of: manner. " Fitz-Boodle's Confessions" are amusing gossip, detailing, with infi nite unction the misfortunes of a young man who blighted all his prospects, matrimonial, military, and otherwise, by an inordinate love of smoking. Here is his account of his first military disaster : In the army my luck was much the same. I joined the —th Lancers, Lieut.-Col. Martingale, in the year 1817. I only did duty with the regiment for three months. We were quartered at Cork, where I found the Irish doodheen and tobacco the pleasantest smoking possible ; and was found by his Lordship one day upon stable duty, smoking the shortest, dearest, little, dumpy clay-pipe in the world. " Cornet Fitz-Boodle," said my Lord, in a towering passion, " from what blackguard did you get that pipe?" I omit the oaths which garnished invariably his Lord ship's conversation. • " I got it, my Lord," said I " from one Terrence Mul lins, a jingle-driver, with a packet of his peculiar to bacco. You sometimes smoke Turkish, I believe ; do try this. Isn't it good?" And in the simplest manner in the world I puffed a volume into his face. " I see you like it," said I so coolly, that the men, and I do be lieve the horses, burst out laughing, He started back—choking almost, and recovered him self only to vent 'such a storm of oaths and curses, that I was compelled to request Capt. Rawdon (the Captain on duty) to take note of his Lordship's words, and unluck ily could not help adding a question which settled my business. " You were good enough," I said " to ask Me, my Lord, from what blackguard I got my pipe ; might I ask from what blackguard you learned your language?" This was quite enough. Had I said " from what gentleman (lid your Lordship learn your language ?" the point would have been quite as good, and my Lord Mar tingale would have suffered in my place : as it was, I was so strongly recommended to sell out by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, that, being of a good natured disposition, never knowing how to refuse a friend, I at pnce threw up my hopes of military distinc tion, and retired into civil life. My Lord was kind enough to meet me afterwards, iu a field in the Glaumire Road, where he put a ball into my leg. This I returned to him some years later with about twenty-three others—black ones—when he came to be balloted for at a club of which I have the honour to be a member, Thus by the indulgence of a simple and harmless pro pensity—of a propensity which can inflict an injury upon no person or thing except the coat and the person of him who indulges in it—of a custom- honoured and observed in almost all the nations of the world—of a custom which, far from leading a man into any wickedness or dissipa tion to which youth is subject, but, on the contrary, be gets only benevolent silence and thoughtful good-hu moured observation, I found at the age of twenty all my prospects in life destroyed. I cared not for woman in those days ; the calm smoker has a sweet companion in his pipe I did not drink immoderately of wine ; for though a friend.to trifling potations, to excessively strong drinks tobacco is abhorrent ; I never thought of gamb ling, fir the lover of the pipe has no need of such excite ment ; but I was considered a monster of dissipation in my family, and bade fair. to .come to ruin. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Ainsworth heads the present Number with his tale of the " Miser's Daughter," wherein we find an animated account of the proceedings of a Jacobin Club, who are surprised in the midst of their discus sions, by the abrupt entrance of a party of Grenadiers, sent out to arrest them. The escape of the would-be conspirators over the roofs of the adjoining houses, is very spiritedly described ; and the conspirators them selves are well pourtraved, with the single exception of a formal, pedantic old Baronet, Sir Norfolk Sains bury, whose conversation, abounding to excess in hard, learned phrases, is most ridiculously caricatured. " Beauty and Time," is a fanciful little allegory from the pen of Miss Paldoe, whose powers of versification are by no means of an ordinary character. The " Russian Prince," is a passable story, whose scene is laid in Oxford. " Legends of the Monts-Dores," are by Miss Costello. They are told with much earnest ness and simplicity, and the descriptive touches inter spersed through them, greatly assist their effect. " The Murder Prevented," is a rhymed narrative, the lines of which halt a little in places. The serious por tions are by far the best, for the humour ap pears forced, and pumped up as if with pro digious effort. An " Exhibition Gossip," is a series of brief, off-hand critical notices of some of the more remarkable paintings in the present exhibition. Most- of the remarks are shrewd and pertinent, but Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh overrates, we think, the merits of 'Maclise's painting of Hamlet. It is clever, and the drawing is good ; but the countenance of Hamlet is absurdly exaggerated, and as for the King, he is a wretched failure, without expression, force, or dignity. We perfectly agree with the critic's strictures on Turner's pictures, whose: ge nius seems of late to have fallen into a state of torpor or dotage ; yet, because he is an R.A., his inexpli cable daubs are all hung in the most conspicuous places, while others of infinitely greater excellence are placed in such obscure positions that it is scarcely possible they can catch the spectator's eye. " People Who Haven't Time" is an ingenious little essay, containing several miniature sketches from life. here is one, the truth of which will be obyious to every reader who possesses the slightest facultiei of observation :—" Hairbrain is always in a hurry, and always too late. Ile has never yet found sufficient time to complete anything he undertook to do. Life is just long enough to allow of a beginning; and to break off in the middle is his destiny. He never seems to lose a minute ; he would turn every moment to account, yet he never has a single instant at his command. Life has no pauses for him ; he talks, reads in breathless haste, without the slightest reference to punctuation, and would not stay while he could count one, even at a full stop. He has no patience with the rests in music, and which have called out in the pit, to Garrick delivering the soliloquy, to 'get on.' He is the most honest fellow in the world, but he once borrowed fifty pounds, and has never had time to return it. Ex istence is too short, he argues, to allow any man to premise and to perform too." The " joiner and his Mates" is a translation from a German poem. We cannot vouch for its accuracy, being unacquainted with the original, but it reads off with spirit. " A Gossip about Edward Alleyn," is a short biographi cal sketch of the founder of Dulwich College, from which we select the following extract : The sources, then, of Alleyn's wealth were numerous, and like springs in the earth, from whence flow the fer tilizing streams, many of them lay out of sight, and were unknown to his contemporaries. He trafficked in dogs, and bulls, and bears, and kept itinerant showmen to traverse the provinces, and bring him in the profits of their exhibitions. He was himself an exhibitor, in like manner, at Paris Garden, and baited a lion before King James in the Tower, with three dogs. He lent out money by way of annuities, and upon interest. He specu lated to an unprecedented extent in theatres, possessed inns and houses in different parts of the town, and was an actor to boot, and a dealer in the literature of the drama (which he evidently followed as any equally literally-minded man would any common trade), in his manage rial capacity. Yet even all this fortunate com bination of speculations would scarcely have stood him in so much profit, if he had not had a peculiar genius for procreating money. He never lost an opportunity of turning the merest trifle to account. This sense of gain was perpetually present to hi m . knew that what wa,s saved was gamed; and he suffered nothing to go to waste. H o was always getting his theatrical dresses men ded, or his 1:105° dyed; and he used to write copies of his h tiers, or other privaie memoranda, on the backs of any scraps of pap,: that had already been um d to some other purpose, and that were thus 'made to do double duty. He had the keen and subtle instinct of all money-p. t ers, and did not suffer external appearanc3 'to keep pace with the progress of his fortune, but pru dently restrained himself all along within the same cautious and economical habits that marked his outset. The original nature of the grub still inspired him in that advanced state of being which the entomologists call the imago form. Ile never left the old house on the Bank side throughout his entire career, until he settled filially in the manor-house at Dulwich, where he died. He kept close on the one spot, where he made his money, still accumulating more sand more, until the time came for his avatar amongst the groves and gipsies of Norwood. Such a man was sure of distinguished honours in his parish. lie was rated to the poor at the highest rate that was paid by anybody in Southwark—namely, six pence per week; and he served the office of church warden. But it is a great comfort to know that Shak speare was also rated in the same place, at the same time, at the same amount, so that he had at least as good a house as Alleyn; although his poetical nature ren dered him so far anti-parochial, that it does not appear ho ever served the office of churchwarden. " There was no intercourse between Shakspeare and Alleyn. They lived near. each other, but were as far apart in spirit as summer and winter. All that is knOwn of private visiting between them or their families, is, that during Alleyn's absence in the country, immediately after his marriage, Shakspeare called upon Mrs. Alleyn to tell her that he was not zequainted with a certain Mr. Chaloner, who wanted to borrow 101. from her, and who was rogue enough to pretend that he was known to her husband and to Shakspeure. This was a simple act of neighbourly courtesy. Shakspeare had heard that the fellow was an impostor, and he said as much, and was glad Mrs. Alleyn did not lend the money. "Like almost all men who make fortunes as Alle3 n did, he was of a litigious disposition, and constantly in volved in disputes and law -suits. On such occasions, he generally contrived to throw the onus upon his oppo nents, so as to make it appear, if possible, that they broke the peace, and not he. He rarely commenced an action, but he reduced the circumstances at issue to such an extremity, that his opponent was compelled to begin, and to incur the initial expenses, or abandon his claims. Alleyn was on the 'vantage-ground of capital, and knew it. He could afford to wait, and starve the enemy into coinpliance. In all his money quarrels (and he does not appear to have had any other, for he was vulnerable only on the ono spot), hiS active subtlety was visible through every articulation of the argument. His guards and feints were full of inve.stions and adroitness. He always anticipdted the defence or assertions of his antagonists, which suggests an ill-natured suspicion as to how he came to know them so well beforehand. He always seemed to apprehend, when he was recovering a debt, that his opponent would plead having already paid it, but, thoughtlessly, without getting a receipt ; and when others were recovering debts from him, he p u t th em upon the proof of th obligation, anticipating, at the same time, that they might possibly allege that they had foolishly suffered the obligation to be incurred, without obtaining an acknowledgment in writing. Align was, in all human truth, what is called a hard, honest man ; but his honesty had a very ugly body -guard in his sharp practice."' METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. We are glad to meet with another of that intelli gent series of biographical and critical papers, the " Note-Book of an Irish Barrister," which form by far the most attractive features of this somewhat monotonous Magazine. The-subject of the present sketch is the Right Hon. David Pigot, one of the most eminent Irish lawyers of the day, of whose forensic oratory we are told, " the attributes of his style are eminently graceful. It has a winning har mony, a fascinating attractiveness, and now and then a spirit-stirring energy, but even then the trumpet has a silver sound, and the temporary excitement is not allowed to disturb the soft lineaments that are characteristic of his manner. We have, heard him address Juries with great effect. He always selects what is most fit to be urged, and by grouping it into such forms as may catch the attention, or impress them with peculiar force, and scattering over the whale such trains of argument,, or sarcasm, or rea sonings, as every one must feel to be natural, and own to be powerful, his success is great." " Savinclroog" is a tale written by one who is • evidently familiar with Oriental manners and localities, and who de scribes occasionally with infinite minuteness and energy. It is the cleverest tale in the Number. " Hymn to Venus" is a translation of one of Metas tasio's best lyrics. We subjoin a portion of it : Propitious in splendour Descend from above, O Venus delectable Mother of Love ! O beautiful Venus, Whose smiles have been given For bliss upon earth, And for rapture in heaven Thou whose eyes dancing, With light airy motion, Make joyous and fertile The land and the ocean ! Earth with the human race For thee is teeming, Under Sol's fruitful ray Fervidly beaming. Near to the laughing stars, Placidly shining, The clouds are all scatter'd, The winds are declining. The green sunny meadows • Around thee are flowering, Thou stillest the waves When the tempest is lowering. For thee the tremulous Splendours of heaven Shine forth, and. the curtain Of darkness is riven ; While o'er the firmament Wantonly straying, The light airy Zephyrs Of Spring time are playing. Inflamed by thine ardours The feather'd creation Pour forth in thy temple Their pure adoration. The dove and the maiden, Tho' timid, ne'er falter, . But brave ev'ry danger To rush to thine altar. THE ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL DINNER.—Monday evening, the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Naval School was celebrated at the London Tavern. The Earl of Badding ton, First Lord of the Admiralty. presided, and was supported by the Earl of Devon, Lord Prudhoe, Admiral the Right Hon. Sir R. Stopford, Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Admiral Sir E. T. Troubridge, Admiral Sir C. Malcolm, the Bishop of Chichester, &c. &c. About 200 gentlemen belonging to the naval service sat down to dinner. The usual loyal toasts haying been disposed of, the Chairman gave " The Royal Naval School, and prosperity to it." This excel nt institution had been established twenty years ago by a Gallant Officer of the navy holding the rank of Captain, and it now numbered 200 pupils, the entire amount which the pre sent building was capable of containing. lie had learned that there were many objects of distress in the naval service still improvided for, and the present building being found wholly inadequate to the wants, it was contemplated to extend its operations. 550 boys, sons of naval officers and mariners who had fought, bled. and died for their country, had received edu cation in the Royal Naval Schools, and it is an institution peculiarly deserving of suppsrt.—(Cheers.) The toast having been drank with great applause, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the President, returned thanks. The Noble Chairman then communicated to the meeting the attack made on her Ma• jesty. "In the early part of the evening," said his Lord ship, " I proposed the health of the Queen.—( Hear, hear. ) Little, however, did I think that her Majesty's health had been placed in imminent danger from the hand of the assassin (the greatest consternation here pervaded the whole assembly). tier Majesty hail been shot at on her return from a ride in the park, but I ant happy to say had escaped unhurt."—(Enthu• siastic cheering, and cries of " God save the Queen" resounded from all parts of the ream.) The National Anthem was again sung by the vocalists, and on Mr. Hobbs introducing the lines, " Front every latent foe—From the assassin's blow—God save the Queen," the whole company rose en masse, and cheered vociferously. The Noble Chairman left to attend a Cabinet Council, and the Earl of Devon filled his place until a late hour. New Ilortsies OF PA R LTA - Ail:N.Y.—The progress of this truly splendid pile of building has been very active, con sidering its immense length, since the panic caused by the late disagreements and misunderstandings among some of the mitded operatives. It is now arrived at the first tier of apartments, and the corbels for many of the windows alreapy display numbers of heater-shaped shields, charged with the Royal arms of England before and after the con quest, together with those of the Royal continental houses with which the present reigning family is intimately allied. Other sections of the edifice are also enriched with innu• rnerable escoeheons bearing the heraldic ensigns of illus.. trious ancestors who had fought in Palestine, bled on the fields of Arragon, or who once had aided the sturdy Barons who compelled John to sign our ever -memorable Charter. These exterior embellishments will sus t a i n painted windows, " casting a dim religious light—alight as not of d ay, ” over the interior of a finer structure, and one every way more conveni ent, considered as the two Houses of Parliament, or one more becoming the dignity of the nation, can scarcely be c once i ved. A remarkable passage in " the minutes of eviden ce (9 52) be fore the Select. Committee of the House of Commons," on the —• subject of Member's accommodation, runs thus ; The near approach to the library and a convenient smoking-room are now of inure importance than ever; in old times uch accommoda tions were It ss necessary, alembers carne and sat a few hours in their seats, heard the debates, voted, and went away in reasonable time, but now a Member of Parlariarnent who at tends his duty closely spends twelve hours a day in the Meuse, to say nothing of Committees. It, therefore, becomes im portant that he should have the c onvenience of a lib rary, and what is called a smoking-room." BRA circular has been issued from the Horse Guards, recommending that the mark jig of deserters shall hereafter be conducted on an uniform system throughout the army, and directing attention to an in strument recently invented. This instrument, which is of brass, is shaped at the end into the form of the latter D, from the outline of which is protruded, by means of a spring, a series of needle points, which are regulated by a screw at the end, and by turning which their length may be increased Or diminished. By palling back this nut, nfier the points are regulated, they recede into the box, when the iristru went nosy be considered charged. A slight pressure on a small brass lever delivers the needle points, inflicting,;Le a punc ture on the skin the exact shape of the instrument. These punctures, on being rubbed whh a marking fluid composed of a quarter of a pound of pulverised indigo, two sticks of Indian ink, arid enough water to render it liquid, leave an indelible D upon the arm or hand of the deserter. This punishment is only to be administered on parade in the presence of the men iii the cavalry by the trumpet-major, and in the infantry by the bugle-major, who are to be instructed by the medical offi cer how to apply the instrument. It is, moreover, only to he indicted in the presence of the surgeon. If marking deserters is considered ininspensable, there is no possibly mews by which it. can be accomplished with less pain aLcl more cerointv.— Uniifed Sutwice Gaza;rc. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MAY 31. THE PROPERTY TAX BILL. Motion made, and Question put, " That the Bill be now read the third time :"-The House divided:- 1%1 11 4081T Y—AYES, 255. Farnham, E. B. Mundy, E. Miller Fellowes, Edward Muntz, G. F. Ffolliott, Johl Murray, C. R. S. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Neeld, John Fuller, A. E. Neville, Ralph Gaskell, J. M. Newport, Vi count Gladstone, W. E. Newry, Viscount Glynne, Sir S. R. Nicholl, J Godson, Richard Norreys, Lord Gordon, Hon. W. O'Brie , A. Staftbrd Gore, Montague Ossulston, Lord Gore, W 0. Owen, Sir J. Goring, H. D. Paget, Lord W. Goulburn, H. Pakington, John S. Graham, Sir J. Palmer, R. Granby, Marquis Patten, John Wilson Grant, Sir A. C. Peel, Sir R. Greena 1, Peter Peel, Jonathan Greelie, T. G. Pemberton, T. Grogan, Edward Pigot, Sir R. Haltord, H. Plumptre, J. P. Hamilton, J. Hans Polhill, F. Hamilton. W. J. Polliiigton, Viscount Hampden, Renn Pollock, Sir F. Hanmer, Sir John Price, Richard Harcourt, G. G. Pringle, A. Hardinge, Sir H. Pusey, Philip Heathco.e, G. J. Rae, Sir William Henley, J. W. Rashleigh, 'William Hepburn, Sir T. B. Reade, W. M. Herbert, Hon. S. Reid, Sir J. -it. Hervey. Lord A. Repton, George J. Hillsborough, Earl of Richards, Richard Hinde, J. H. Rolleston, Colonel Hodgson, F. Wee, Sir. George Hodgson, R. Round, C. G. Holmes, W. A'Court Round, J. Hope, Charle- Rous, Hon. Captain Hope, Alexander Rushbrooke, - Colone Hornby, John Russell, J. D. W. Hughes, W. B. Ryder, G. O. Hussey, Thomas Sanderson, R. Inglis, Sir R. it. Sandon, Lord Jackson, J. D. Scott, Hon. F. Jermyn, Earl Seymour, Sir H. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Sheppard, Thomas Johnstone, Sir John Shirley, Evelyn J. Johnstone, Hope Shirley, E. P. Jolliffe, Sir W. , Smith, Abel Jones, T. I Smyth, Sir G. H . Kelburne, Lord Somerset, Lord G. Kemble, Henry Sotheron, T. H. Knatchbull, Sir E. Stanley, Lord Knight, Henry Gaily Stanley, I dward Lascelles, W. S. Stewart, John Law, Hon. C. E. Stuart, H. Lawson, Andrew Stint, H. C. Lefroy, Anthony Sutton, Henry M Legh, George C. Talbot, C. R. M. Liddell, H. 'l'. Tnompson, Ald. Lincoln, Earl of ~ Thornhill, George Lindsay, H. ! Tollemache, John Li. ton, E. i Toroline, eorge Lockhart, William . Trench, Sir Frederick Long, Walter i Trevor, Hon. G. R.- .• Lopes, Sir Ralph Trollope, Sir John ! Lowther, J. H. I Trotter, John Lowther, Colonel Tumor, Christopher Lyall, George Tyrrell, Sir J. Lygon. General Verner, W. Mackenzie, Thomas Vesey, Hen. T. Mackenzie, W. F. Vivian, John Ennis MacGeachy, F. A. Waddington, H. S. Mahon, Lord Walsh, Sir J. Mainwaring, T Welby, G. Fade . Manners, Lord C. Whitmore,. T. C. Manners, Lord J. Wilbraham, R. 13. March, Earl of Wodehouse, Edmond Marsham, Viscount Wood, Colonel Mediu,.C. W. • . Wood. Cob:lll4.T. . . Master, T. W. C. Wortley, J. Stuart Mas ennan, John Yorke, Hon. E. T. Meynell, H. Young, John Miles, W. TELLERS. Morgan, Octavius Fremantle, Sir T. Morgan, C. Baring, H B. .ickeri!, James I . kciand, T. U. A'Couri, Captain Acton, Colonel 'Adore, Lord Adderley, C. B. Allix, John Peter Antrobus, Edmund Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Arkwright, George Ashley, Lold Bagot, Hon. W. Bailey, J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Baillie, Colonel Baillie, H. J: Baird, William Baldwin, C. Barry Balfour, J. M. Bankes, George Baring, W. B. Barneliy, John Barrington, Lord Baskerville, T. B. M. , Beckett, William Bell, M. Beresford, Major Bernard, Viscount Blackburn, John 1. Blakemore, R. Bodkin, W. H. Holder°, Henry G. latfield, Beriah Bradshaw, James Sraniston, T. W. Broadley, Henry Brooke, Sir A. B. Bruce, Lord E. Buck, Lewis W. Buckley, Edmund Biller, Sir J. B. Y. Bunbury, Thomas Burrell, Sir C. M. Burroughes, N. N. Campbell, Sir H. Cardwell, Edward Carnegie, Captain Cnarteris, Hon. F. Chelsea, Viscount Chetwude, Sir John Cholmondeley, H. Christmas, William Chute, W. L. Clayton, R. R. Sir G. Cave, R. H. Cockburn, Sir G. • Codrington, C. W. Collett, W. ktickford Collins, W. , . Compton, H. Coot; Sir -C..H. ,Corry, H. L. Courlenay, Viscount Cre-sweli, Baker Cripiu, J. Dairiei, Hon. Dawson Darby, George Dawnay, Hon. W. Denison, E. Beckett Dickinson. F. H. D'lsraeli, Benjamin Douglas, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir C. E. Douglas, J. D. S. Duffield, Thomas Dugdale, W. S. DuTicoMbe, A. Duncombe, 0. East, Janar a ajuligr- Eastnor. Viscount Eaton, Richard J. Egerton, Lcrd Fran. Eliot, Lord nnlyii, Viscount Escott, Bichkam Agltonby, H. A. Ainsworth, Peter Aldam,William Anson, Hon. Colonel Bannerman, A. Barclay, David Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Bell, John " Berkeley, C. Berkeley, Captain Berkeley, H. F. Bernal, H. Bernal, Captain Blackstone, W. S. Blake, Mara Bodkin, J. J. Bowring, Dr. Bcocklehurst, J. Brotherton, J. Browne, R. D. Browne, W. Buller, C. Buller, E. Busfeild, W.; Byng, G. S. Callaghan, Daniel Carew, R. S. Cavendish, Hon. C. Cavendish, Hon. G. Chapman, Benjamin Cnristie, W. D. Clay, Sir W. Clements Lord Clive, E. B. Cobden, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Craig, W. Gibson Crawford, W. S. Curteis, H. B. Dalrymple, Captain Dawson, Hon. T. V. Max, S. W. E Duncan, Lord Duncan, George Duuconibe, T. S. Dundas, Admiral Dundss, David Ebrington, Viscount Evans, William Ferguson, Colonel NORITY—NOES, Fielden, J. }Barfly, Lord C. Forster, Matthew Gill, Thomas Gordon, Lord F. Granger, T. C. Grey, Sir G. Guest, J. Hall, Sir B. /lastly, A. Hay, Sir A. Hayter, W. G. Heathcoat, John Heneage, E. Heron, Sir R. Hoßond, Robert Horsman, E. Howard, C. W. G. Howard, J. K. Howard, Lord Hnwielc, Lord Jiume, Joseph Humphery, J. Hutt, W. James, W. Johnstone, Alex. Labouchere H. J Langston, J. H. Layard, Captain Leader, J. T. Leveson, Lord Macaulay, T. IL Mangles, 13. 0. Marjoribanks, S. Marsland. H. Martin, John Mitealfe, Henry Morris, David Morison, William Murphy, F. S. Murray, A. Napier, Sir Charles Norreys, Sir D. O'Brien, C. O'Connell, Maurice O'Connell, M. J. O'Connell, J. l)rd, W. Paget, Frederick Palmerston, Viscount Parker, John 149. Pechell, Captain Pendarves, E. W. Philips, G. R. Philips, Mark Phillpotts, John F. Plumridge, Captain Protheroe, E. Pryse, l'ryse Reddingten, T. N. Rice, E. B. Roche, E. B. humbold, C. E. Russell, Lord John Russell. Lord E. Scholefield, J. Seale, Sir J. Shell, R. L. Smith, Benjamin Smith, Vei Don Somers, J. P. Stanstield W. R. Stanton, W. H. Stewart, P. M. Strickland, Sir G. Strutt, Edward Stuart, Lord J. Stuart, W. Villiers Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Traill. George Troubridge, Sir T. Turner, E Villiers, Charles P. Vivian, J. H. Vivian Hen. Captain Wakley, Thomas Wall, B. Watson, W. H. Wawn, John T. Wemyss, Captain Williams, Vim. Winnington, Sir 1 Wood, Benjamin Wood, C. Wood, V. W. Woisley, Lord Wrightson, W. TELLERS. Hill, Lord Marcus TuincU, Henry DIVISION on MR. G. W. WOOD'S AMENDMENT to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S CLAUSE relating to Literary and Scientific Institutions:— MINORITY- AYES, 96. Aglionby, H. A.-Cockermoutis 'Layard, Captain - Carlow Co. Altlam, J. J.-Leeds ILeveson, Lora Barclay, D.-Sunderland IMangles, IL D.-Guildford Berkeley, Hon. C.-Cheltenhun Marjoribanks, S. -Hythe Bernal, R. jun.-Wycombe IFiarsland, Henry-Stockport Bernal, Ralph-Weyinouth Martin, John-Tewkesbury Bowring, Dr.-Bolton Mitcalfe, H.-Tynemourh Brotherton, J.-Salford Morris, D.-Carmarthen Browne, W. D.-Kerry Murray, Alex.-Kirkcudbright Busfeild, William-Bradford Napier, Sir Charles-Marylebene Callaghan, D.-Cork City O'Brien, Cornelius-Clare Cavendish, Hon, C. C.-YoughalLO'Connell, M. J.-Kerry Cavendish, Hon. G. H.-N. Derby' O'Connell, John-Kilkenny Chapman, 8.-Westmeatis l 'Paget , Frederick-Beaumaris Christie, Wm. D.-Weyrnouth Palmerston, Visceunt-Tiverton Cobden, R.-Stockport Parker, John-Sheffield Colborne, Hon. W.-Richmond Pechell, Captain-Brighton Colebrooke, Sir T. E.-Taunton Philips, G. R.-Poole Craig, %v. G.-Edinburgh Philips, Mark,Manchester Crawford, S.-Rochdale Plumridge, aptain-Penryn Curteis H. 8.-Rye Protheroe, Edward-Halifax Dalrymple, Capt.- Wigtonshire Pryse, Pryse-Cardigan Douglas, Sir IL-Liverpool ,Puisford, Robert-Hereford Duncan, Viscount-Bath ;Redington, T. N.-Dundalk Duncan, G. - Dundee !Ricardo, 1,.-Stoke-upon-Trent Duncombe, T. S --Finsbury j Russell, Lord John-London nuncios, Admiral-Greenwich Russell, Lord E.-Tavistock Dundas,Daid-Sutherlandshire :choletield, J.-Birmingham Ebrington, Lord-Plymouth Sheil, Richard Lalor-Dungarvan Evans, William-North Derby !Smith, J. A.-Chichester ridden, John-Oldham 'Smith, R. V.-Northampton Forster, M.-Berwick-onTweed Stewart, P. M.-Renfrewshire Gill, T.-Plymouth Strickland, Sir G.-Preston Gordon, Lord F.-Forfarshire Strutt, Edward-Derby Greenaway, Charles-Leominster Stuart, Lord J.-Ayr Grey, Sir George-Devonport Stuart, Villiers-WatertordCo. Hastie, Archibald-Paisley Thornely,Thos.-Wolverhampton Hayter, W. G.-Wells Henry-Devonport Heneage, Edward-Grimsby Vivian, John Henry-Swansea Hoßond, Robert-Hastings Wakley, Thomas-Finsbury Horsman,Edward-Cockermouth Watson, W. H.-Kinsale Howard, C. \V. G.-Cumberland Wawn, J. T.-South Shields Howard, Hon. J.-Malmsbury Wilahere, William-Yarrtdouth Howard, P. H.-Carlisle Wood, Benjamin-Southwark Hume, Joseph-Montrose, &c. I Worsley, Lord-Lincolnshire Hutt, W.-Gateshead Wrightson, W. 8.-Northallerton James, William-Cumberland Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry- Taunton Langston, J. H.-Oxford TELLERS. Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Wood, G. W.—Kendal MAJORITY- Acland, Sir T. D.—.N Devonshire &eland. I'. D.—West Somerset .'Court, Captain—Tam worth Acton, Colonel—Wicklow Co. Allis, J. P.—Cambridgeshire Antrobus, Edmund—Surrey Arbuthnot, General—Kincardine shire .NOES, 199. 'Hornby, J.—Blackburn Hughes, W. B —Carnarvon Hussey, Thomas Inglis, Sir R. H.—Ox. University Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Dublin 11n1 versa) , Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk .1 hnstone, Sir J.—Scarborough Johnstone, J. IT —Pvinfriesshire I Jolliffe, Sir W. G.—Peterstield Jones, T.—L.ndonderry Co. Kemble, H.—fast Surrey Knatchbull, Sir K—East Kent Knight, 11. G.—Nottinghamshire Lasceiles, Hon. W.—Wakefield Law, Hon. C. K— Cambridgcllniv. Lefroy, Anthony Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham Lincoln, Earl of—Northampton shire, South Lindsay, H. H.—Sandwich Litton, Edward—Coleraine Lockhart, Wiliam—Lanarkshire Long, W.—North Wiltshire Lopes, Sir IL—Westbury Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Lyall, G.—London Lygon, Major-Gen. lion. H. B.— Worcestershire West. Mackenzie, %V. F.—Peeblesshire M'Geachy, F.—Honiton Maher, John—Wexford Co. Mainwaring, T —Denbighshire lilanners,LordC.—N.Leicestersh. March, Earl of—West Sussex Marsham, Lord—West Kent 'Martin, W.—Nrwport, I. of Wight Master, Colonel—Cirencester Masterrnan, J.—London Meynell, Captain H.—Lisburne Morgan, o.—Monmoutbshire Morgan, C. M. R.—Brecon Mundy, E. M.—South Derbyshire Neeld, John—Cricklade Neville, It.—Windsor Newport, Viscount—Shropshire Nicholl, J.—Cardiff Northland,Viscount—Dungannon O'Brien,A,—N.Northamptonshire Owen, Sir John—Pembroke Paget, Lord \V.—Andover Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Peel, lit Hon. Sir IL—Tamwortis Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon Pigot, Sir Robert—Bridgnorth Plutnptre, John P.—East Kent Polhill, Frederick—Bedford : Pollington, Lord—Pontefract Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire Itashleigh, W.—East Cornwall I Reade, M.—Waterford City Repton, G. \V.—St. Alban's Richards, Itichard—literionethsh Rolleston, Col.—S. Nottingham Rose, Sir George—Christchurch Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. Round, John—Maldon Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk Ryder, Hon. D.—Hertfordshire Sanderson, Richard—Colchester Sandon lAN—Liverpool 'cott, lion. F.—Roxburghshire Sheppard, Thomas—Frome Shirley, E. J —Warwickshire Shirley. E.—Monaghan Somerset, Lord U.—Monsneuthsh Sotheron, 'F. H.—Devizes Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stewart, John—Lymiitgton Stuart, H —Bedford Arkwright, George—Leominster ) Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsbire Ballot, Hon. W. —Denbighshire Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Bailey, J.—Herefordshire Baillie, 11. D.—Honiton 'laird, W.—Falkirk, &c., Baldwin, Charles Barry—Totnes Bankes, G.—Dorsetshire Baring, W. B.—Thetford Barneby, Johu—Worcestershire Barrington, Lord—Berkshire Baskerville, T. B.—Herefordshire Beckett, -W.— Be estord, Captain—Athlone Bernard, Viso.—Bandon riridge 131ackburne,1 reland—Warrington dlakemore, Richard—Wells Bodkin, W. H.—Rochester Boldero, Henry G.—Chippenham Bottield, I3criah—Ludlow Bramston, T W.—Essex South Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire Brooke, Sir A. B.—Fermanagh Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Bu kley, E.—Newcastle..on-Tyre Buller, Sir .1. Yarde—Devonshire ltunbury, H. -Carlow Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham litirroughes, H. N.—East Norroliri Gunpbell, Sir H.—Berwickshite t'arnegie, Hon. Captain—Stafford Chelsea, Lord—Reading Chetwode, Sir J.—Buckingham Chute, W. 1.. W.—West Norfolk Clayton, R.—Aylesbury Clerk, Sir o.—Stamford Clive, it. H. South Shropshire Cochrane, A.—Bridport Cockburn, Sir G orge— Collett, W. IL—Lincoln Colville, C.—South Derby Compton, H. C.—S. Hampshire Curry, Hon. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Ceurtenay, Lord—S. Devonshire Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester I )arby, George—East Sussex Dawnay, Hon. H.—Rutland Denison, J. E.—Malton Dick, cluintin—Maldon Dickinson, J. H.—West Somerset Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Douglas, J. S —ltochestor Duffield, '1 hOmas Abingdon buncombe, Hon A.—East Retford Duncoinhe, lion. O.—Yorkshire East, James Buller— Winchester Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate Eaton, R. J.—Cambridgeshire Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Escoh, B. —IV ilichester Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershire' Fellowes, Edw.—Huntingdonshire Fuller, A. E.—East SLI[JCX (;askell, James Milnes—Wenlock Gladstone, W. E.—.N ewarK-on.l Trent Wynne, Sir S. K Godson, R.—Kidderminster Gordon, lion. W.—Abcideenshire Gore, Nl.—Barnstaple Gore, Ormsby—Salop Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham kioulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam bridge University Graham, Right lion. Sir J. it. 6 . • Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dorsetshire Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge Talbot, C. R. M.—Glamorgan,hire Thompson, Md.—Sunderland lomline, George—Shrewsbury Decor, Hon. 6.—Caermarthonstr Trollupe, Sir J.—S. Lincolnshire Trotter, John—West Surrey Tumor, C.—Scuth Lincolnshire Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Vesey, Hon. T —Queen's Co. Waddington, H. S.- —West Suffbli: Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgcnorth Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Lanca shire Williams, T. Peers—Marlow Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon Wortley, Hon. S.—W. Yorkshire Yorke, Hon. E. T.—Combrldgerl - . .Tohn..C.lvall Co. —Dorchester Greenall, P.—Wigan Greene, T. (i.—Lancashire Grimsditcl), T.—Macclesfield Grogan, Benny—Lcieestershire Hamilton, .i.—Dublin Co. Hamilton, \V.—Newport, Isle o: Wight Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone Harcourt, a a V —Oxfordshire kiardinge, Right Hon. Sir H.— Launceston Heatheote, Sir W.—Hampshire Henley, J. W.—Oxtordshire Ilepburn,Sir T. Haddingtonshirc Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wits Hervey, Lord Alfred—tie ighton Hillsborough, Earl of—Down Hinde, J. Hodzson—Newc.,,,tle upoII•TYTIC Hodgson, FreJoriek—Barnstapli .1t01$21:3; v; \Vista Fremantle, Sir T. —Buckingham D.,„ll4l;csoustl EXPORT DUTY ON COAL. The following Memorial has been signed by almost every shipowner of South Shields : "TO THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND FOREI G N PLANTA TIONS, &C. " The Memorial of the undersigned Shipowners resident in South Shields, " Showeth, That your Memorialists have heard with alarm, that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to levy a duty of four shillings a ton on all coals exported to foreign countries, without any regard to whether they are shipped in a British or foreign vessel. " That since the repeal of the export duty, in 1834, on all coals shipped by British, and vessels belonging to reciprocating countries, under their respective treaties, while a discriminat ing duty was continued to be levied on coals shipped by other foreign vessels, the export trade has gone on increasing, and has proved highly beneficial to the owners of coal mines in the north of England, and afforded a source of employment as out ward freight to Briting shipping. " That your memorialists are convinced that a duty levied indiscriminate) , in the way, and to the extent proposed by the new tariff, will have the effect of transferring to the other coal producing countries a very large proportion of the trade at present enjoyed by the coal owners of this district, and will not only deeply injure them, but will also, to the same extent, deprive your memorialists of the share they have had of the carrying trade of the goals, and thus aggravate the distress under Mich they are suffering. " Your memorialists, therefore, pray that the coal duties may not be altered, and that the discriminating duty on coals exported in a foreign ship may still be continued. " ABSTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A MERCHANT IN GHENT. " I have now the pleasure to inform you that I freighted a ves el yesterday of 220 tons for Alarseilles, at 11 francs per ton, equal to S. Bd. Take the keel at 21 tons, and it will be equal to 91. 2s. per keel. " I intend loading it with our best coals. That coal will cost on board here lf. 10c. per hectolitre. I find in my mile book a memorandum of the make out' of a vessel of 152 Newcastle chaldrons of English coal at Marseilles. It yielded 4,586 hectolitres, being at the rate of 241 hectolitres per keel ; 241 hectolitres at If. 10c. come to 265 f. 10c., or 10/. Bs. 9d. per keel, which, added to the freight of 9/. 25., makes a total of 191. 10s. 9d. per keel, or 18s. 70. per ton. Now English coal at 15s. per chaldron and 16/. freight, the rate frequently paid, will cost 221.. or 21s. per ton, which is a difference of 2/. 9s. 3d. per keel in favour of the coal from here, or 2a. 4d. per ton. Let them put the export duty of 4/. 4s. per keel on English coal, and the difference will become 6/. 13s. 3d. per keel, or 6s. 4d. per ton. • "The coal I am going to send to Marseilles can often be bad at 9d. per ton less than the price upon which I hate now cal culated its cost-'-the difference being in the freight from the mines to Ghent." o UTH-EASTERN RAILWAY... The half-yearly meeting of the South-Eastern Railvvay. Company was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern. The• Chair was taken at one o'clock by Joseph Baxendale, Esq. The usual notices of the meeting having been read, and the common seal affixed to the register of Pro prietors, The SECRETARY read the Report of the Company as follows : "At a Special General Meeting, held on the 28th April last, the half-yearly account was distributed, it is now annexed to this Report. The amount of calls then in arrear has been still further reduced, being at present '2,2641., which, with 8,181/., arrears due on Shares sur renderedlo tlIZ' COrtiffity, anctre-issued (for - which se curity is held), makes a total arrear of 10,4451. The whole of the new Shares, issued agreeably to the Reso lutions of the late meeting, have been taken, and the first instalment paid. Loans on Debentures continue to come in liberally, which, with the large amount paid upon the new Shares, has justified your Board of Directorsin giving the required legal notice of payment to the Brighton Railway Company for the portion of the litie between Croydon and Redhill, which this Company are entitled to pur chase. The notice will expire on the 19th of July next, from which date the portion of line in question will be transferred to this Company. From Redhill to Tunbridge the line of Railway was opened on the 26th instant, having - been previously inspected and approved by the officer of the Board of Trade. Your Directors have been engaged in an important negotia tion for the purchase of land, for forming an ap proach from the junction of the Greenwich and Croy don Railways, near Corbet's-lane, to a point near the Bricklayer's Arms, and have concurred with the Croy don Company in their application to Parliament for powers to carry it into effect. This measure is in every respect highly beneficial to the interests of the South Eastern Company, it may be carried out at a moderate expense—it will give ample space and accommodation (which at London Bridge cannot at any cost be had), and the works can be executed speedily ; it will com prise also the important feature of a terminus for the West-end traffic. The most economical system for • WUrking the Railway, has bad the earnest attention of the Board, they have entered into an agreement with the Croydon Company to make ajoint concern of the station, engine-house, and workshops, at New Cross, and also of locomotive engines, carriages, and materiel, the costs of the buildings being arranged in the shape of rent, and each Company paying rateably to a common fund for lo comotive power and carriages in proportion to the use made of them by each. It is believed that this arrange ment will effect a very important saving to both parties, and the Directors feel assured, that the Proprietors will see the advantages which must result from it. " The stations upon the Railway, viz.—Reigate, God stone, Edenbridge, Penshurst, and Tunbridge, have been erected at a moderate cost, leaving to a future period their enlargement and embellishment, should circumstances render it necessary, ample land having been secured for such purposes. "The works beyond Tunbridge are in a forward state, and the promises made of future openings of 15 miles to ileadcorn, and 11 miles further to Ashford, in the months of August and December next will be made good. " The opening to Headcorn will bring the Line at Staplehurst, within 7 miles of Maidstone, and 21 of Hastings and St. Leonard's, and on the opening to Ash ford, the traffic of Canterbury and Dover will come on the line. "From Ashford to Grove Bridge, 6 miles, will be com pleted early in the next spring, and from thence to Folkestone, 7 miles, in July 1843, leaving from thence to Dover to be completed before the end of the year. "It is very satisfactory to your Directors to report, that both public and private communications fully justify their previously expressed expectation, of Railways con necting Paris Belgium, and the Rhine, with the Channel, either by way of Calais or Boulogne. These projects which may be considered as in immediate connection with our own line, stand foremost in the great system of railways, which has received the sanction of the French Chambers and Government, and their execution is no longer a matter of question. " The communication by branch railways to Maid stone, Canterbury, and Ramsgate, is not forgotten, the Standing Orders of Parliament have been complied with, and in due course the sanction of the Proprietors will be asked. " The Directors who go out by, rotation, are Captain Tyndale, William Parry Richards, and Edward Suart, and being eligible for re-election, they offer themselves for that purpose." The statement of receipts . and expenditure was also read ; it exhibited receipts to the amount of 1,145,5971. 135., and an expenditure of 1,075,4681. ss. 4d., balance 62,4611. ss. Bd. The CHAIRMAN said before moving the resolution for receiving and printing the Report, he was prepared to give any explanation that might be required by the Pro prietors. Mr. PARSONS asked if there was any Report from their engineer ? Mr. CUBITT had not been able to furnish a detailed report, and must beg to offer an excuse for not having 'made one. But any verbal 'explanation that might be required he was most ready to give. His report, if he had made one, would have been very brief : it would simply state that the line had been opened, and from what he had seen, he believed that if the line were to ,sec s at Tunbridge, it would amply repay the money that had been laid out upon it to that distance. Mr. PARSONS regretted that there had not been a Re port, as it was desirable they should know what would be the ultimate cost to the Company. The present Re• port was very meagre in what it communicated. At the last meeting it was stated that the cost of the railway would be 30,000/. per mile, with 15 per cent. for con tingencies. Some shareholders went away with an im pression that the cost for their sixty-eight miles of the road would be only 28,0001. per mile. But the cost, with deductions for interest and other expenses, appeared to be 35,0001. per mile, within 2001., and in consequence they ought to have some statement to refer to hereafter, so as to check what they anticipated with the actual re sults. _ _ V ~The CHAIRMAN said he was prepared to gives state • ment which he believed was perfectly correct, and which corresponded with the statement he had made before. The sum in cash which they had the power of using for the purposes of the railroad, was 1,520,0001., and by a subsequent Act, they were empowered to raise 800,000/. Under the Lond o n Bridge StatiOn act, they 'could raise 120,000/. By the end of July he • trusted that the line from hence to Dover, would be entirely open, a distance of eighty-eight miles, of which 78 miles would be their own, at a cost of 30,0001. per mile, or .a total of 2,340,0002 The en gineer had stated, and they bad every reason to put the fullest confidence in his statement, that the amount of his portion would be 800,000/. ; that statement they had distinctly in his own writing. They supposed that the Brighton account would be 350,000/. ; land to be paid for, 25,0001. • the London Bridge station had cost 50,0001. ; the Neiv Cross station might amount to 30,6001. ; the Dover station was put down at 25,000/. ; the cost 'of the plant, carriages, waggons, Sze., was 100.0001. ; the total amount, therefore, which they thought hey should require from the 31st of March was 1,380,000/., leaving.a balance of 2.36,000/. for con tingencies. To this 'statement he still adhered ; the Directors had told them that the lire would be opened in the spring of the year, and it had been opened. They expected to open eleven miles far ther in August, and he had no doubt they should be able to do so ; they had told them that before Christmas, they should open another eleven miles, and he was satisfied that they should be able to carry it out. If he had the slightest doubt as to the correctness of the statement, or if he thought that the line would coat. anything Leyond the stun mentioned, he . would have distinctly told them so. Ire was sorry that any Proprietor. had been disappointed. in not having a report, but,.all the reports that hail been made were on. record and could be refyrred.to.. Mr. PARSONS had not meant to convey anything l i ke a censure; at the same time he thought it desirable that each railway should have a report given at its meetings. The statement made had not appeared officially, though, if given in the public prints, it could, no doubt,' be re ferred to. General HoinosoN observed that if the engineer had been employed in framing the Report, so as now 'seemed to bo 'required, the line could not have been opened according to pronnse on the lst of INS-. Mr. IV;sg_tve did not thi4 - , that tome of the facts stated in tliQ Repot' were sufficiatly ex lio wLitiod to ,19ipt e precise stem which the arrangement entered into betty. 'en this Company and the Brighton Company w as at the present time. No accounts had yet . been furnish. he believed, by that Company ; and he was desiroushof k ,ioW ing if the Brighton Company meant to afford then.. an explicit state of accounts, by which they might ascerta.'n what the sum to be paid to the Proprietors of the Brightoa' line was for the use whtch they (South Eastern Company) made of their line. Ile wished also to be made acquainted with the peculiar advantage relative to tolls to be derived from the extension of their line. Would the tolls be thereby decreased ? With regard to the financial state ment of the Report, he thought it fair and explicit. However, it appeared there had been two loans, amouht ing, together, to 73,41.51., and he saw charged for interest only a sum of 3671. 13s. 6d. On what sum was that amount charged as interest ? Certainly it was de sirable to know that. The CHAIRMAN said, that that was a sum due for interest up to January last,.but he could not then exactly state upon what particular sum it was charged as interest. Their fiinds had been not in the most flourishing state, and they had been obliged to borrow sums ' for small periods of time,—even for a few weeks. The Brighton Company had not yet furnished their account, but when they had, all doubt and difficulty on that point would he removed. With-respect to the tolls, those to Croydon were lid., and to Greenwich A desultory conversation between Mr. Wishaw and the Chairman here ensued, relative to the Grange ter minus and the London Bridge terminus, in the course of which the Chairman observed that the Grange-road terminus' would forthe present answer all the purposes of a West-end terminus, and that there was no intention of abandoning the London-Bridge terminus, as it was a station as necessary fur the City aa•the other one was for the West-end. - • Mr. WlsuAw expressed himself perfectly satisfied with what had Wien from the Chairman, and stated, while he considered it no-more than his duty to put those questions, his conviction that no Company in the Metropolis contained to a greater extent than the South Eastern the seeds of future prosperity and success. Mr. Pausoes thought that the Chairman was in error in supposing that the line from Croydon to the proposed terminus. at the Bricklayers' Arms would be twelve or thirteen miles. For his own part, lie did not think it would exceed nine miles. The railway to that terminus would have to be carried either by means of an embank ment, or arches. lie thought. they ought to have some details of the cost of such a hoe, and some statement with respect to the probable profits. They ought to : have some statement of that sort before they incurred an • outlay which would necessarily be costly, considering the property thiciugh which the line would have to run. • The CHAIRMAN said that, at. the last meeting, he had stated he should be greatly neglecting his duty if he did not hold out the opinion that they must have another station. his opinion remained unchanged, and be thought it would answer the purposes of the Company to make that station, even. if afterwards they had to abandon it, when a new line was. established, because be believed that no new line would be established in time fOr them. • He believed, if they depended on the station at London-bridge alone, hey would get into the greatest eon fusion. The Board were titianituvs in their opinion of the soundness of the station proposed. Mr. CUBITT had not made any estimate of the cost of carrying the terminus to the Bricklayers' Arms. Ile had formerly made an estimate of two termini—one at the Elephant and Castle, for Croydon, which he es timated at 650,0001., and another, from the Dartmouth Arms to the Obelisk in St. George's-fields, at 400,0001. ; but those estimates he was now convinced were in adequate. He believed that the cost from Croydon to the Bricklayers' Arms would be about 1,200,0001. He was of opinion that it was impossible to carry on three lines- at the London-bridge Station. He thought that the pro - posed terminus would be a great benefit. With respect to his not having made a detailed report, he begged to say that that would' be done when every item of expense was ready for posting. Mr. PARSONS admitted that the excess of the esti mates of Mr. Cubitt was not so great as in many other cases. The details that had already-been given were '-highly creditable to the engineer. Mr. CUBITT could assure the Proprietors that, as soon as the engineers could be taken from their different labours, every account that could be desired would be given. Mr. IIILLYARD expressed his full confidence in the measure of the Directors, as it had the full approbation of the' whole body. lie most willingly surrendered his judgment to their's, believing that, in so doing, he was best consulting his own interest. He thought they had showieit due regard to economy in all their proceedings. Alter a short discussion on the maximum toll, in which Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Persons joined, and in which the Grange-road Station was referred to, The CHAIRMAN said, that if they had waited to see how • the traffic would develope itself, they would never have had the station at all. Ile was so satisfied of the good policy of the measure, that be had offered his brother Directors to take it on his own responsibility. With regard to the Croydon Railway, he thought every transaction with that Company had been in perfect good faith, and very satisfactory. In answer to a question from Mr. TYRRELL, The CHAIRMAN explained that each Company paid fur six miles out of the twelve. In reply to another question, he stated his full and perfect confidence in the remune rative prospects of the Company. On the motion for receiving the Report being put, Mr. PansoNs asked, whether the adoption of the Report would pledge the Proprietary to the Grange road plan ? The CHAIRMAN assured the meeting that no attempt should be made to carry the plan by :a side-wind, but that a distinct resolution on the question shoul I be laid before them. This appeared to be 'Perfectly satisfac tory to the meeting. - The Report was then put and adopted. The CHAIRMAN proposed the following resolution :-- "That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to adopt such measures as they, in their judgment, shall think proper with reference to the Grange-road sp preach, mentioned in the Report this day submitted to the Proprietors." The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN seconded the resolution. Mr. RamoNs inquired to what that resolution pledged the Proprietors ? The CHAIRMAN said, that it would leave to the Pro prietors the power of making either a common road or a railroad, as they might deem best. Mr. PARSONS observed, that in that case he objeeted to the resolution. After a few words from Mr. Barnard, Mr. Salomans and Mr. Tyrrell, the Chairman again read the resolu• tion, when • A PROPRIETOR inquired if it would require any addi tion to the capital to make the am-Teich referred to. The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative. Whatever expense might be required for the Grange-rcOd proach they had sufficient funds to meet it. Mr. PARSONS suggested, that if they did anything in this matter, it should be merely to authorise the Directors to obtain possession of the land requisite for the ap proach, without empowering them to construct any thing on it, but a common road. SALOMANS thought, if the Directors would under lake to do nothing but purchase the bind for the ap proach, the resolution might be agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said, on behalf of his brother Directors and himself, he would give that undertaking. The resolution was then agreed to. The three Directors that went out by rotation were re-elected. r. PARSONS suggested that some alteration should be made in the mode of electing Directors, by which the Proprietors would have a greater voice in the election. He knew that, in Liverpool especially, the present mode of election had given great dissatisfaction. . The CHAIRMAN said that, to effect such an object, they must'repeal their Act of Parliament. On the question that the Bye -laws should be agreed to, A PROPRIETOR inquired, whether they intended to lock up the passengers ?—(Hear.) The CHAlRblAN—Certainly not.—(Cheers.) A PROPRIETOR wished to know why the Sunday trains had been. discontinued ? The CHAIRMAN said that, at his st :luestion, they had been discontinued, because he did not thuik - them necessary or beneficial to the Company. If, however, it was found necessary, the Sunday trains would be re-established, the same'as on other railways. Mr. lins.yean believed that the discontinuing the Sunday trains was not only calculated to give great dis satisfaction to the publie,iput great lose to the Company. He contended that running trains on Sunday was neces sary to give the public a just idea of their traffic. He hoped the Board would reconsider this question, and that they would establish a Sunday train to Tunbridge. The CRAIRMA.N was satisfiedwith the general feeling of the meeting, and at the next ]heard he would view the question in the manner they wished. In answer to a question from Mr. PARSONS, The CHAIRMAN • stated that such limits were pet to the free passes that no abuse could possiblyficcur. The Directors went free, but no friends of the Directors, not even the contractors' men, were allowed to pass free. Some conversation took place as to the manner in which the shares had beendisposed of during which the Chairman stated, that the Directors could not have arranged the matter in any other manner. Mr. SALOMANS thought that the Proprietors ouOtt not to let the present opportunity pass without toting them their thanks for the perseverance and ability they displayed in bringing the affairs of the Company to a state that enabled them to open the line on to Tunbridge. He would propose, then, that the thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Chairman and Directors, on the grounds which he had mentioned. Mr. PARSONS seconded Vie motion which was put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN, on the part of hiinself and coleagues, acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting separated. bet • ...ALAUMING triprning, etn two and three o'clock, a fire broke out at the dwelling-house of Nlr. Butler, flock-manufacturer, No. lb, Montagu-street. W h ited la pel . The fire was got under, but not before that portion of the house where the fire originated was much da inaged, and a great quantity of furniture destroyed. Mr. But ler if: nsured.—A bout half-past one o'clock on Monday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Kays, baker, 161, lligh-street, Ratcliffe. The fire was subdued, but not until a quantity of the furniture was totally consumed, and the lower of the premises much injured. Mr. Kays is unfortunat e ly not insured.—On Sunday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the residence of Mrs. Kingsley, a lady of property, nearly opposite the College at Dulwich. Furniture to the value of about 100/. was destroyed, and the handsome rooms w here the fire originated much injured. Mrs. Kingsley is insured. the number of ships of all nations that passed the Sound in the month of April was'—from the North Sea, 789; from the Baltic, 478—in all, 1,267 ; .of these there were 242 English, nairslY, front the North Sea, 216; from the Baltic, 26. PLTkOrTIT, 'regret to learn tbgt- General Murray. the Commander-in. Chief of the district, was taken ill at a private dinner party given byi.Aclrnisal air David Milne, and was obligeal to -leave it nine o'clock for bio ow4l ;psitiegcc, • .. ~.~,. .. .Iwq ~ •• rey. Syron